PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY FirIDY, JUNE 26, 1942 I ................. _. 4r Aljr4igan Baity .1 The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN XA N1 I < -r Edited and managed by students of the University of. Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. " The Summer Daily is published every morning except Monday and Tuesday. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively 'entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited irf this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Epered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier $4.00, by mail $5.00. , ' REPREBRNTED FOR NATIONAL ADVBRTi8NQ BY National Advertisini Service, Inc * College PubishersRepresentative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YoRK, N.Y. CiiiCAGO ."ST60N . LoS AULE'S .SAN FSACiSCO Mmber, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 Editorial Staff Homer Swander . . . . Managing Editor WillSapp . . . . . City Editor 14 ann . . . . . . Sports Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hale Champion, John Erlewine, Leon Gordenker, Irving Jaffe, Robert Preiskel Business Staff 'WASHINGTON-Biggest undercover wire-" pulling in Washington, affecting millions of lit- tle business men, is in the selection of the five-man board to spend the $200,000,000 appro- priated for small business under the Murray bill. Big question is whether this new Small War Plants Corporation is to be administered by real friends of 4ittle business or by the same conserv- ative big: business men responsible for leaving little business out in the cold. This has been one of, the biggest botches of the defense p'ogram. In 'Gei'many every little garage has been given a war order, a small part of an airplane to put together and then send to the assembly line. In England, Beaverbrook licked the bottleneck on airplane production by distributing the business among a host of small factories. But in the United States, the big motor and munitions moguls insisted on taking the time and much needed steel to erect brand new plants covering acres ,of land, instead- of farming out production to smalj factories forced into idle- ness because;of lack of materials. Finally Congress, exploding over the plight of small business, enacted the bill for the Small War Plants Crporation under the leadership of,, Senators Jim Murray of Montana *nd Jim Reed of New York. Questionable Trio mph This was a great triumph over the $1-a-year men and their big-business-minded bureaucratic- pals. But now if certain of Nelson's $1-a-year generalissimos have their way, little business is apt to continue just ,s much out in the. cold as before. For the man stfongly urged on Nelson as head of the Small War Plants Corporation is Mark Brown, big shot Chicago banker. Leader of this- undercover drive for Brown is his close buddy, Sidney Weinberg, Wall Street banker and Nel- son's executive assistant. In inner WPB circles, Weinberg is credited with being largely respon- sible for the retention of so many business-as- usual minded $1-a-yearers in WPB. Meanwhile, other advisers are urging Nelson to appoint Louis Holland of Kansas City, who last year did an outstanding job of organizing small plants in his area into co-ops, which suc- ceeded in obtaining war orders. Holland inti- mately knows the problems of small business, is a ,forceful and able executive and would make an ace choice for head of SWPC. Another champion of little business urged for appointment to the board is Pete Nehemkis, who did an outstanding job on the investigation of monopolies two years ago, and who knows in- timately the problems of little business. Also proposed- for the board is Elizabeth Brandeis of the University of Wisconsin,o daughter of the famous Supreme Court justice who spent a life- time crusading for little business. (Note: Secretly, Nelson already has promised a place as board member on SWPC to Theodore Granik, New York-Washington lawyer with po- tent Tammany connections, and conductor of The American Forum of the Air.) I/cendiary Extinguisher If you have been worrying about a cheap and effective incendiary bomb extinguisher, the U.S. Geological Survey has the answer. It is aplite, a sqda-lime feldspar, mined in Virginia by the Dominion Minerals Co. Tests at the Edgewood Arsenal of the Army Chemical Warfare Service showed aplite to be far superior to salt, pitch, ashes and other extinguishers in combating incendiaries. Aplite. formed a, protective covering over the burning bombs so quickly that blocks of wood on which they were placed were barely charred. To protect the public from profiteering, the Interior and Justice departments have applied for government, patents for the use of aplite as an incendiary extinguisher. Under the patent the Interior Departmeht will make the use of the material available to any commercial con- cern that desires to marj t it. Note: Aplite normally is used in the manu- facture of glass'and ceramics. Sird Perlberg F e Vti, Ginsberg Mrrn Hunte Business Manager. . Associate, Business Manager - -Puliations Managrer . vounn umer r . . . u n a VLI1 NIGHT EDITOR: IRVING JAFFE , The editorials published in The Michigan, Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. L Wmericns People Wilt vefuse Socialism. . . O PTIMISTIC, far-fetched statements forecasting the certain advent of a socialistic economy in America finds little sup- port from the people of the, United States, ac- cording to the latest Fortune magazine poll. Many liberals and a few pessimistic conserva- tives look on this war as a people's revolution which must inevitably change our economy radi- cally. It. may be a people's war and a people's An Axe To Grin1d By TORQUEMADA DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1942 .VL.L1. No. 9-S All Notices for the Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the Summer Session before 3:30 p.m. of the day preceding its publication except on Saturday, when the notices should be submitted before 11:30 a.m. Summer Term Salary Payments: Salaries of those who teach the first half will be paid in full on August 7; for those who teach the second half payment will be made in full on September 25. Those who teach the entire term will receive one-half their salary on August 7 and the remain- der on September 26. The Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech offer their fourteenth season of six out- standing play, opening July 8. Sea- son tickets may be ordered now by mail or from the box office at the Mendelssohn Theatre. Counter sale of season tickets will open Monday at the box office which will be open daily (except Sunday) from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The Storehouse Building will ac as a receiving center for scrap rub- ber and also metals. Any depart- ment on the Campus having metals or rubber to dispose of for defense purposes, please call Ext. 337 or 317 and the materials will be picked up by the trucks which make regular campus deliveries. Service of the janitors is available to collect the materials from the various rooms in the buildings to be delivered to the receiving location. EE. C. Pardon "Emperor Jones" with Paul Robe- son will be presented by the Art Cinema League on Sunday night at 8:15 at the Rqckham Lecture Hall. Registration for Selective Service: 1. Date of Registration. June 30, one day only. 2. Who Shall Register. All male students born (1) on or after Janu- ary 1, 1922 and (2) on or before June 30, 1924. Anyone who fails to regis- ter, thust bear individually the full responsibility for this failure. Those who have registered for selective service at earlier registration dates should not register again. Foreign students must register and give the country of citizership. Those who have Alien Registration Cards must give tLe number of this card as part of the registration procedure. Those who have taken out first citi- zenship papers only, are not citizens of the United States. Members of the federally recog- nized active National Guard. Officer Reserve Corp; Regular Army Re- LETTERS To THE EDITOR To the Editor:° FOR A NUMBER of years Michigan men have taken great delight in repeating over and over, as if to make themselves believe it, "four out of five, four out of five." The result has been that some weird stories have been circuhating concerning Michi- gan women. Well, we're fed up with it and we don't mind telling yu so! While we admit that not every fe- male that walks across the Diagonal this summer is a Lana Turner (if she was she sure wouldn't be dating Michigan boys), not every girl is ex- actly repulsive either. At least we try to look and act friendly, which is more than most of the men do! If you don't believe me drop in at a certain hang-out some morning around 8:45. You'll see what I mean. THE FUNNY THING about it all is that the boys (medical students please note) who are so quick to tell how awful we are, for the most part aren't exactly an example of spark- ling personality themselves. Some of you boys (and I do mean boys) who fancy yourselves such judges of personality and beauty ought to take a gander at yourselves, especially when you stand around holding up the wall at League dances as you did last Saturday night.' You would see then that the picture isn't all our fault. Iimagine at this point some honor student will throw down the Daily, run his fingers through his shaggy mane, and scornfully condemn the consored brain of woman. If so, 'you're just the guy this is addressed to! You claim Michigan women are conceited, unattractive, dull, false, and bored with life. Having said this you wait for your room-mate to aR- plaud as you raise that one eye brow (yes, I know it takes practice, but even then, in your case, it is low) and look just too amused concern- ing those Michigan women. WELL, FRIENDS of a certain beer tavern I can't mention, there are only some 600 of us here this summer. That me us that you and your room-mates dren't going to be - - ~ A __ i rar -a.,rnr --A fa Az d eg, U ..Pa[. Off -All RI. _R.'.- "-Eldon Nsys ?apa isn't going to sit up with us tonight-says we'll go out to a night club if I'll just be patient'" I revolution, but extreme leftist tendencies are decidedly lacking. PBLIC OPINION FIGURES show that only 5 percent of the nation favor socialism. Another 40.4 percent oppose it while the remain- ing 34.2 percent are undecided. There is no clear opposition majority but it may be assumed that of the undecided groufr enough will not be able to stomach the radical changes requisite for a. socialistic economy to give the opposition a decided majority. Without arguing the merits or demerits of a socialistic economy, it is certain that at this stage of the war America does nbt hope for so- cialism in the future. Liberals should clearly reale this sentiment in making their idealistic blueprints for the future. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty N .- : V ;f 3 . (((I .. .W ~ . .. A trR " . !a "ti i I.- A. ,.x . J EVEN with the tremendous government regu- lation of wartime, Americans have not rec- onciled themselves to complete economic con- trol necessary to the working of socialism. It is obvious that they must prefer capitalistic eco- nomic freedom. The\,capitalistic economy of the present has netted us many gains but still has failed to re- lieve the suffering of large groups of people. This failure is not necessarily an argument for complete radical reform but is rather an objec- tion to the present situation. Alterations in the basic" economy need to be made to relieve the suffering of impoverished groups, but they need. not necessarily be as com- piete as advocates of the socialistic system de. mand. Were they to change their sometimes irrational minds and help pick out faults for which remedial planning is necessary they might do America much more service. THE PEOPLE will support reforms to eliminate suffering, unemployment and poverty-the New Deal proved that. When the war is over Am7erica will need its machines re-oiled to civil- ian production and its economy readjusted to eliminate present injustice. Such adjustment is the problem upon which liberals might concentrate their planning endea- vors. Without complete majority support for socialism as the situation is now all reform must come within the broad framework of the capitalist economy.- Leon Gordenker Georgia Popper Pops Again Eugene Talmadge, Georgia's bang-browed cracker governor, cracked off again last week. The three-week-old news reached him that 30,000 hale, hearty and draftable Georgians had been rejected by the Army because ,they were illiterate. Quick as a gallus- snap, "furriner"- hating Gene up and said: New York is "the most. illiterate state in the union." He knew it, he THE OLD GAG is that summer school is the only time a professor can walk into his class and say good morning, and the class not only doesn't grumble, but writes it down in their notes.. Why it isn't hard to see; we were sitting on the steps of Barbour gym, for about an hour and a half yesterday, watching the school teach- ers go in to register. Of course it isn't fair to put people into types, people are different. But school teachers have a habit of putting themselves into types-at least the ones' up here do., There aren't many men, and they aren't ne- half so interesting. There are the big bald Bab- bitt type, probably superintendents and princi- ples, sort of intelligent looking, and all looking very incongruous with their cigarettes (nobody smokes cigars) so' dwarfed by their large bodies. They're well-dressed, and present a pretty busi- ness-like looking bunch, by far the least criti- cizable groups of all. THEN there are the younger ones, too mapy looking exactly like a Y.M.C.A. affiliate, Lots of spectacles on these, and they look so sweet and mild that you want to mother them-unless you're .like us, and want to jab a needle in their lethargic rears. Many of the young guys look religious, or rather like religious affiliates, but some are a lot grimmer than the others and look like mad fanatics who would unhesitatingly kill afly or a Now Is Time To End Over-Optimism... VER SINCE the' beginning of the war the American mind has been possessed by a peculiar belief in some inherent certainty of an ultinate Allied victory, regard- less of the number and severity of setbacks in- flicted by the Axis. A figment of pure fantasy, no more ground- less a belief could be found. It is almost incred- ible that as illogical-indeed; almost psycho- pathic-an attitude could, be possessed by so large a proportion of Americans. More signifi- cantly, it has been an extreme source of danger to the Allied cause, as overconfidence always is. The developments of the past week have a profound significance on this attitude. To- bruk has fallen; Sevastopol is being battered. mercilessly; Kharkov is under the control of the Axis; the Egyptian defenders are in dire straits-a'id all this is reflected in the British Parliament, where Prime Minister Churchill's opponents are howling for his skin. VOW-if never before-is the time for Ameri- cans to realize that no divine law exists making it impossible for the Allies to go down to defeat in this war. If such.events as those of the past week are not sufficient to demonstrate how very possible an Axis victory is, nothing ever i child or their grandmother in their unswerving application to tutorial duty. All the men have brief cases, and sport a pro- fusion of keys on their chests, very few of which are Phi Bete. But the women are killing. So many of the young ones look like most of the girls in the School of Education look-not ugly or deformed, or hideous, but just drab and unappetizing. Like in Purgatory, where the souls of the dead haven't the privilege of suffering, but just keep on being horribly, unendurably bored. OF COURSE some of the young ones are good- looking, and these are the ones who look very clean and Wholesome and serious about their teaching. The drabees look just serious, but it doesn't seem as if teaching was any differ- ent to them than taking a boring bath, or going to a boring bullfight or living a boring life. But as wesaid before, the worst thing is that they all look like most girls just a year out of the School of Education, than which there is noth- ing nothinger. These seem to run up to about 25, not more than a few years out of school, and from there on you notice a gap. 'We guess 25-35 in the age when they are confident that teaching is merely a stop-@ap, and that Mr. Right will be along any day now. In fact the whole woman setup in the teaching profession (or in any, for that matter) is probably determined by the attitude of the professioner toward marriage, Or then again maybe not. AFTFE THIRTY-FIVE the drab girls are still prominent, but there seems to be an infu- sion of new blood somewhere along the line, with real brisk, plum'p, matronly women dominating the scene. These all look very pleasant, and business-like too, and they all wear brisk and unforgiveable hats. Sort of the firm apple- dumpling types. The sour note in this case is that their cheeks are not as red as you would expect from women of this type. That far-up to about 45 or 50 years old- there seem to be coqnterparts, with drab young men, and drab young women, and brisk, middle- aged men and brisk, middle-aged women, and some decent-looking ones, too, but after that the women go one alone. These are the old, sweet ones, with sweet faces, and what must be very wizened bodies. They're very sweet, and smile nicely at all the young people. WE CAN REMEMBER a Latin teacher we had in high school who was like some of these. She used to go up to Michigan every summer for a long time, and whenever she came back she would talk about the two professors she took courses from, and with whom we were sure she was in love. Every day she would mention one or the other of the professors and speak rever- ently of something he had taught her the sui- mer before, or two summers before, or ten or twenty, The class started to keep score of the number of times she nentioned them, and in the end Prnfesn r won mot. And then we all felt serve; enlisted Reserve Corp; and members of the advanced Corps, Sen- ior Division, R.O.T.C., are exempt from registration. 3. Place of Registration. All Uni- versity students and employees in the age limit should register in the Arm- ory Building, 223 E. Ann Street. Stu- dents living in nearby communities, who travel back and forth each day are requested to register in their home community. 4. Time of Registration. The regis- tration office in the Armory will be open at 7 a.m. and will not close until 9 p.m. Since registration is being handled by voluntary workers who receive no pay; students are request- ed to register between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., in order that a minimum staff may take care of registration at other hours. Please register at the earliest possible mo- ment. 5. Registration certificate. Each registrant will be given a registration certificate which he should carry at all times, "as he may be required to show it from time to time." 6. Change, of Address after Regis- tration. Each student who changes his address at any time after regis- tration should address a cominunica- tion to the Selective Servic Board in his home'city, indicating his new ad- dress. This is the individual student's responsibility and cannot be born or shared by anyone, Robert L. Williams Women Students: The Women's Department of Physical Education offers class instruction as well as in- formal play in Archery, Badminton, Golf, Tennis, Swimming, Dancing, Outing, Riding, Recreational Leader- ship, Life Saving and Body Condi- tioning. Register in Room 15, Bar- bour Gymnasium. Dept. of Physical Education for Women. . Protection of University Prperty Against Theft: Whenever it becomes known that property has been stolen or is missing, notice should be given with utmost promptness at the Busi- ness Office, Room 1, University Hall. This applies to articles owned by the institution hi owned privately. For the protection of property it is important that doors and windows be locked, inside doors as well as out- ,side doors, when rooms are to be left unoccupied even for a brief period. The building custodians cannot be responsible for conditions after 'the hours when they are on duty or when persons with keys to buildings un- lock doors and leave them unlocked. It is desirable that department heads make a careful check two or three times a year of all keys to quarters under their charge, to make sure that keys have not been lost and are not in the hands of persons no longer re- quiring their use. It is strictly con- trary to University rules to have duplicate keys made or to lend keys issued for personal use. A reward of $50 is offered to any person for information that directly or indirectly leads to the apprehen- sion of thieves on University prem- ises. Shirley W. Smith Psychology 31-quiz section-Fri- day at 11:00 o'oclock will not meet. Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: Attendance re- port cards are being distributed through the departmental offices. Instructors are requested to report absences of freshmen on green cards, directly to the Office of the Aca- demic Counselors, 108 Mason Hall. Buff cards should be used in report- ing sophomores, juniors, and seniors to 1220 Angell Hall. Please note especially the regula- tions concerning three-week ab- sences, and the time limits for drop- ninc nannrec 'rh ra 1C rain+inat + tioned office. Articles found on the campus and in University buildings should be turned over immediately. Those articles not called for within 60 days will be surrendered to the finder. Shlirley W. Smith. Landscape Architecture 1518 is to be given at 8:00 o'clock instead of at 9:00 as announced. Army Air Force Aviation Cadet Program Deferred Plan. Students interested in this program are ap- prised of the following change in reg- ulations: "The applicant's status as a stu- dent must be certified by the proper official of his college, and he must at all times maintain a satisfactory scholastic standing. In his second year he will be required to take the qualifying examination given to all members of the Army Enlisted Re- serve, of which the Air Corps Enlited Reserve Corps is a part, Failure to this. examination will end the de- ferred status and niake the student subject to immediate call to duty. Students on temporary leave of ab- sence may be certified. B. D. Thumia Avukah announces the formation of Modern Hebrew Study Grouks which will meet Saturday afternoons at 2:00 o'clock. The first meeting of the groups will take place this Saturday at the Hilel Foundation from which the groups will proceed to Burns Park. All interested are welcome. Avukah wil hold another commun- al supper this Sunday evening at 6:00 o'clock at the Hillel Foundation. Communal singing and a short mqi- cale of Jewish music will follow the supper clean-up. The program will finish before 8:30. Reservations may be made by calling Netta Siegel at t2-2686 or 3379. All are welcome. Westminster Student Guild: Social evening in the Social Hall of the Church. There will be activities from 8:30-12:00 p.m. All students are cor- dially invited. The Church of Christ will meet for Bible study Sunday at 10:00 a.m. in the Y.M.C.A. Morning worship: 11:00 Sermon theme, "My Heart Is Fixed, O God." Evening service: 8.00. Ser- mon topic; "The Upbuilding Powerof God's Word." Bible study, Wednes- day, 8:00 p.m. The public is cordial- ly invited. Methodist Students: Reservations for the wienie roast tonight will be accepted until 1:00 today. Meet at the Wesley Foundation lounge by 8:30. Cost 15 cents. Phone the stu- dent office, 6881, for your reserva- tion. All students and friends in- vited. Btty Rae Ilileman, Zion rLutheran Church: Church Worship Services will be held at 10:30, Sunday, Vicar C. Shoemaker speaking on a text from Acts 8: 26-9. The theme of his sermon is "Follow- ing God's Guidance." Trinity Lutheran Church: Wor- ship Service will be held on Sun- day, 10:30 a.m., The Reverend Henry 0. Yoder, the pastor, speaking on "Reserving Judgment." Lutheran Student Association; Ev- eryone meet at the Zion Lutheran Parish Hall at 4:00 p.m. to go to Bill Lambert's cottage for an afternoon of swimming and an evening's pro- gram. Foyer Francais: Please note new location, 849 .Tappan Avenue. Stu- dents desiring to ma'ke arrangemepts for breakfast and dinner at the ,ran ,"n'h a mn rollni , rUinar £ . 4. 1.