THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATiiRDAY JUNE 27, 1942 THE MICHGAN DAIL The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN - Editorial Staff .E #Quer Swander ... . anaging Editor Wi'llSapp . . . . . City Editor M Dann . T . Sports Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hale ChaMpion, John Eriewine, Leon Gordenker, Irving Jaffe, Robert Preiskel Business Staff Edward Perlberg . . Business Manager Fred M. Ginsberg . Associate Business Manager Morton unter . . Publications Manager NIGHT EDITOR: LEON QORDENKER The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only.,, r B Deserves All Criticismnjs i ts-M.Ore.. T.IS CERTAINLY GOOD to see that I Nelson and his War Production, Board are back under Fire from the press once mor'e. How easy it is for a deluded public to sop up the daily servings of tank and airplane pic-' tures entitled "More Bad News for the Axis," believing that all is well in the field of produc- tion. Just pick up your newspaper and read about the British rout in Libya, about German tank superiority in Russia. Read it and try to make it compatibile with those lingering optimistic pla- titudes of 1940. One day the papers say that "Detroit-made" tanks are holding up the Ger- man advance-outshooting, out-maneuvering the great Nazi "Mark 4's." But much to our dis- nay a very few days later, we find that British tank reser~ey are exhausted and that the Nazis are slashing forward almost unopposed. Is it possible that we can go on thinking=- rationalizing-that everything will turn out all right just because we, are Americans? Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the Nazis are going to win if they continue to have mechanized and air superiority over Allied forces throughout the war. ' IS WELL enough to rant and rave about such things, but something must be done and something can, be done. Our President can and must reorganize the production setup in the United States. Reorganize it in entirely diffe- ent patterns, with an entirely new attitude to- Wards the war and toward production, not mere- ly shake it up again, sending more dead weight to the top. Semi-loud voiced criticism broke out from the non-business controlled press earlier this spring, of the WPB practice of placing "dollar-' a-year" men in control of the same industries, from which they were taken. Such a practice entails consequences so evident that even a child could see them. Plant conversion has been seriously delayed ,and *the production of non- essential products has been continued in many fields. To expect such men to forget that they have money tied up in these industries, to forget old business friendshipsand connections is simp- ly asking too much. (The brass ring, good for one free ride on the WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND, is award- ed .today to Miles Sherover.) WASIINGTON--While the nation has been contributing garden hose, baby nipples and auto mats to the rubber salvage campaign, some Washington bureaucrats seem only half awake in trying to develop sources of new natural rb- ber. Six months nmw have passed since Pearl Har- bor, and priceless time has been frittered away in getting rubber workers started in the jungles of the Amazon. One of the Merry-Go-Rounders was in Rio de Janeiro during the Pan American Conference last January When U.S. experts dickered over prices but did almost nothing toward starting an army of rubber workers up the Amazon. And after the Rio conference, more precious time was wasted while the State Department and the Bureau of Economic Warfare haggled over who should handle the rubber program in South America, As a result of all these delays, coupled with Braziiiap ship sinkings, the unfortunate fact is tha t only 500 tons of rubber were imported from Brazil in April, and only 10,000 tons are expected during the whole of 1942. And the armed force', plus bare civilian needs, will re- quire around 800,000 tons. Finally, a hybrid working arrangement has. been patched up between Jesse Jones, the State Department and the BEW,, which still leaves Jlesse Jons.,' ubber Reserve, the oftfit which was so short-sigbted last year, virtually with final control. 1Rtsswa Rubber Manwihile, it has beeh revealed that experts of the Agriculture Department had been sitting on two kinds of natural rubber which can be grown in the southern United States and Mex- ico. Filed away among the learned tomes of the Department's scientists are reports on kok-sagyz and cryptostegia, both quick-growing rubber 'e, SUMMER SESSION officials are being pretty sly about PEM 31. Their approach is some- thing like this: "When do you want to take PEM?" The approached innocent, believing himself ,on the spot and unable to do anything about it, moans and consents to become a muscle man. Thus are hundreds of lambs led to the slaugh- ter. Little do they know and less will the afore- mentioned officials tell them about the .fact that PEM IS NOT REQUIRED OF SUM1MFR SES- SION STUDENTS. plants. But the Department of Agriculture sci- entistshad been doing very little about them. The man who finally blasted cryptostegia out into the open was Miles Sherover, assistant rub- ber chief of the Bureau of Economic Warfare, who had previously organized rubber factories in Chile and Venezuela. He pointed out that despite the billion dollars being spent by Jesse Jones on synthetic rubber, and despite all we could scrape together in the Amazon, the nation would be at least half a million tons short in 1943. He also argued that even if cryptostegia cost a dollar a pound to grow, it would be cheap at the price if our wheels of transportation could be kept turning. Finally, Sherover argued that cryptostegia was the fastest growing of all rubber plants, maturing in about six months, therefore was the only possible means of filling in the year and a half before Jesse Jones' synthetic factories could get into large scale production. However, Sherover got nowhere with the lesser bureaucrats, finally proposed resigning from the government and offered to raise a million dol- lars from private business to finance the grow- ing of several hundredj thousand acres of cryp- tostegia. In the middle of these behind-the-scenes de- bates, a newspaper sent a reporter to Mexico to investigate the plant and he brought back a glowing account of its possibilities. This electri- fied the hitherto sleepy rubber experts, and on the same day the story was published they called a meeting to reconsider their previous lack of enthusiasm for cryptostegia, Urges Bold Policy At this meeting the experts largely reversed their negative report of last January. But even so, they still wanted to do what Jesse Jones at first did with synthetic rubber. Just as he con- tracted for "pilot" plants to test out the product, they wanted to plant only ten or fifteen acres of cryptostegia. Then after several months of ex- perimentation, they proposed planting more, Against this, Sherover urged planting about half a million acres. "Is there any one of you who won't admit we can get rubber?" Sherover asked. The answer was No. "Then," persisted Sherover, "it's chiefly a matter of price-whether we pay fifty cents a pound or one dollar. But I don't see that price is important when the economic life of the na- tion is at stake. I admit it's a gamble, but a gamble we can't afford not to take." Discussions are continuing. Apparently Sher- over has made a Clent. Mores far-sighted execu- tives of the Bureau of Economic Warfare are now supporting him, and believe that a large scale experiient in this new rubber weed must be undertaken-even if it is costly. So, quick-growing cryptostegia may yet help to fill the rubber vacuum otherwise bound to occur between the exhaustion of our present reserves and the time when Jesse Jones syn- thetic rubber will be on the market in 1944. Sawca'ud and 111A ILYOFFICIALI BULLETIN SATURLDAY, JUNE 27, 1942 VOL. LI. 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Avukah will hold another commun- al supper this Sunday evening at 6:00 o'clock at the Hillel Foundation, Communal singing and a short musi- cale of Jewish music will follow the suppev, clean-up. The program will finish before 8:30. Reservations may be made by calling Netta Siegel at 2-2686 or 3379. All are welcome. Professor Howard M. Ehrmann of the History Department will, begin a series of "Weekly Reviews of the War," Tuesday, June 30, 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is invited. The regular Tuesday Evening pro- gram of recorde4 music in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building at 8:00 p.m. will be as follows: - Brahms: Two Songs for Alto-Mar- ian Anderson, Contralto. Mendelssohn: Music to a Midsum- mer Night's Dream-Cleveland Or- chestra. Schubert: Rondo in B Minor (Op. 70) Hephzibah and Yehudi Menu- hin. Hanson: The Lament for Beowulf -Eastman - Rochester Symphony Orchestra and Eastman School Choir -Howard Hanson, conductor. 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Since 1918 it has been a condition of employment as a Faculty member of the Univer- sity of Michigan, except for instruc- tors of less than three years' stand-] ing for whom the provision is option- al, that such Faculty member shall purchase - an old age annuity from the Teachers Insurance and Annu- ity Associtiation. The object of this annuity is provision for the teacher after he shall have passed the re-1 tirement age. The annuity premi-! GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty S I By Lichty "Well, if that's all you've got-two tickets to Mt. Clemens!" * * * I DONALD NELSON, the one man in America who has all the facts in hand, yesterday placed his stamp of approval on materials for permanent housing for a proposed "bomber city" here in Washtenaw County. The Pen points today to a man named Ford who-because he and Harry Bennett decided the Government was making a mistake-set back this vital hous- ing project's progress; several days by pulling up carefully placed surveying stakes. As a matter of fact this remarkably childish old man is still fighting for what he--against all expert housing opinion-contends is an unnecessary move. Instead of meddling i* affairs about which he knows very little more than nothing, Sir Ford ought to do a little gumshoeing around his own plant. From what we've heard he'would probably discover things that would make his ears burn. "By every legal means" Ford has " been and is a production genius, but that cer- tainly has failed to qualify him in any field touching human relationships. In plain English, Ford as a social planner, has been and always will be a flop. -Associate Editor self, however, will contribute to the expense of such purchase of annui- ties only as stated in (1) above. 3. Life Insurance. 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Summer Tesrm 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. Landscape Architecture 151S is to be given at 8:00 o'clock instead of at 9:00 as announced. ing sophontores, juniors, and seniors to 1220 Angell Hall. Please'note especially the regula- tions concerning three-week ab- sences, and the time limits for drop- ping courses. The rules relating to absences are printed on the attend- ance cards. They may also be found on page 52 of the 1941-42 Announce- ment of our College. E. A. Walter, Assistant Dean "What Is Ahead in Education?" is the subject of the lecture given by J. B. Edmonson, Dean of the School of Education on Monday, June 29th at 4:05 in the University High School Auditorium. Psychology 42. Abnormal Psychol- ogy make-up examination will be given Thursday afternoon, July 2, Room 2125 Natural Science Building.° Memorial Christian Church (Dis- ciples), Hill and Tappan Streets:. 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship. Dr. Perry E. Gresham of Fort Worth, Texas, will speak on "Let There Be Light." 6:30 p.m. Disciples Guild Sunday Evening Hour. The Guild will 'hold a vesper service of scripture,. poetry, and music. A social hour and re- freshments will follow the program. H. L. Pickerill, Pastor Methodist Students The Sunday morning student class will meet in the lounge at 9:30 a.m. Dr. Blake- man will continue his course on "Per- sonality and Religion" with a dis- cussion of the topic, "Personal and Social Norms of Religious Growth." All students cordially invited. Betty Rae WIemaon, . Wesley Foundation, Summer Director Methodist Studnts: The Wesley Foundation invites all students t& the first meeting of the 'eight-week summer session series Sunday eve- ning in the student lounge of the First Methodist Church, Supper and fellowshil hour at 6:00 p.m. At 6:45 representatives from the Dedrborn ashram will speak. Plans for three summer discussion groups will also be outlined. Especial welcome to all new students. Betty Rae Hileman Summer Director First Congregational Church, State arnd William Streets. Minister, Rev. Leonard A. Parr, D.D. Sunday morning service at 10:45. The subject of the sermon will be "The Lost Word." On Monday at 3:00 Dr. Parr will give his Monday Book Lecture in the assembly room. These lectures are without charge and the public is invited. Mail is being held in the Business Office, Room 1, University Hall, for the following people: Allen, Dr. D. L. Balkon, Stephen Bence, Dr. Alvara E. Boyd, Clark E. Bunn, Dr. Paul A. Bynum, Miss Lucy Cairns, Professor Calhoun, Mr. Jason Norwood Chambers, Miss Christine Crumholtz, Mr. Duemling, Dr. & Mrs. W. W. Eberhart, Junior E. Ellenberger, Miss Nellie Faxon, George N. Grossberg, Arnold L. Hall, Clark Hart, Professor William L. Herrick, Dr. C. Judson Hood, Mary Noka Howe', Mr. Huber, Dr. and Mrs. John F. Imlay, Dr. Ralph W. Miro, Miss Judith Morrison, Robert F. Jr. Ogle, Jack HIS MORNING I got a rejection slip. J1 - Just Back of all this can be seen that far reach- in giage of big-business, putting forward its own men to aid the war effort, lauding pro-t duction totals, and protecting its own inter- ests. Natural tendency of business men is to keep from converting profitable peacetime pro- duction lines for war uses. To have such an attitude, it is evident that these business in- terests either believe that the end of the war is near or that they don't give a damn how It comes out. i For awhile we could point to no definite results from this inefficiency and greed. We could only conjecture about future consequences as definite production quotas are not available. But now, the fortunes of the war show clearly what has happened. Our production has been slow, far too slow to allow optimism regarding victory in the near future.- Now that the Truman Committee has con- firmed the charges of the press against the WPB, we must not allow conditions to remain as they are. For a change we should be able to point to' battles the Allies won and others in the win- ning and say with justification- that this is reall" More had news to the Axis." Post-WarI (onicil Worthy Of Support. like that, there's nothing to it and I didn't weep or anything. I've seen. a lot like it before. It was rather an event that's all. I came down stairs and saw the mail and there was a letter for me-rejection slips keep you always in mail if nothing else. So I opened it and looked in and didn't even read the thing. That's because I've seen a lot like it= before. "Alas," ft starts out, "Alas, this is a rejection slip." It's one of those things like disappoint- ed "artists" write, red headed women who sit behind desks and draw salaries but have a cigar- ette holder in their handkerchief box. They say they've had rejection slips-"the editors have seen plenty of them themselves, heaven knows." It's from Story, maybe some of you recognize it, maybe you've had a few yourself. Maybe you've gotten them and won't admit it. I HAVEN'T GOT ANY pride or I wouldn't ad- mit it either. I pin them up on the wall and count them every morning like it was a stamp collection or something, I've got quite a variety= and when I get them with the morning mail, I hold them up and say, "look" because they're printed in red and black and look official and make me feel important. It's almost like a communication from your publishers. If some of you have got acceptance slips or what ever they send out in that event, I'd just like to see it some time. I wouldn't keep it or pin it on the wall or anything. I'd just like to see it so I'd know. They say that after you get some' sort of notice in the back offices, say you get an agent who walks in and puts your story on a vice- president's desk-or maybe it is some sort of . . T HAT COLLEGE YOUTH is not always the lethargic, indifferent person painted by assorted critics was amply dimon- strated Thursday night at the summer's first meeting of the Post-War Council. One hundred seventeen pepple packed a small room in the League to hear Prof. Howard M. Ehrmann discuss the Atlantic Charter. They were there because they were intensely inter- ested in what is going to happen to them when the war is over. A significant trend of thought is exhibited by the very existence of the Post-War Council as well as by the large attendance at its functions. Americans are thinking about the future, plan- ning for it, laying the foundations for a better world.