PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY ......... . Iftimm ol 0 ml*Otgau Batty }t_7 . The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON 7> I 1 I-, Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the aithority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. The Summer Daily is published every morning except Monday and Tuesday. Member of the Associated Press TeAssociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use forrepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Antered 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. 4EPRSNTFO FOR NATIONAL ADVERTS1NG O9V National Advertising Service, Inc 1 College Publisbers Representative 42o MADisoN AvE. New Yo1K. N. Y. CNICAso sosToN . Los ANGLS ' - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1941-42 Editorial Staff .* Managing Editor 01+"L. ~tIAL.. Romier svander Wi Mi 1i Sapp . . . . City E ke Dann . . . . . Sports Ed ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hale Champion, John Erlewline, Robert Mantho, Irving Jaffe, Robert Preiskel itor Ittor 0 Business Staff Edward Perlberg . . . . Business Manager Fred M. Ginsberg . Associate Business Manager Morton Hunter . . . Publications Manager NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT PREISKEL The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by niembers of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Castillo Moves Argentina Toward Axis . . W ITH commencement of actual hos- tilities between the United States and the Axis, the long-harbored fear of South America as a potential. inroad for the Nazis in their plans against this country has been more or less forgotten. fut the advent of Ramon S. Castillo to the presidency of Argentina offers a sudden and un- pleasant reminder of the danger which lies in even indirectly friendly gestures toward the Axis on the part of our southern neighbors. 9 Replacing the incapacitated Ortiz as chief e cutive of the important South America na- tion, Castillo has left no doubt as to where his siypathies lie in this globe-circling conflict. He has made it clear in speeches that he is not in sympathy with the United States or other democracies. More than that, he readily ex- pressed satisfaction with Germany's explana- tion of her sinking of an Argentine merchant ship. And his latest move has been to ban Ar- gentine merchant ships from the waters of the United States eastern coast. As acting head of Argentina before he offi- cially became president. Castillo took steps to deny the people of his nation the freedoms Which they had previously enjoyed. He forbade them to discuss foreign affairs. He stifled the press with censorship decrees. And his govern- ment has been lending its support to the ex- tremely reactionary and anti-Semitic magazine, the Clarinada. ALL OF WHICH spells Fascism just as clearly as it does in Germany or Italy. It is time we realized that no matter how successful we may eventually be on the battlefields and waters of Europe and Asia, our cause is all but lost if we find an enemy in our own back yard. At a time when actual danger is so great- almost overwhelming at present-we can af- ftrd to take no chance with potential danger. We cannot afford to dilly-dally with an Ar- kentina which is moving ever nearer the Axis ,ny more than we could afford to' do so with a Vichy government dominated by Hitler's satellite Pierre Laval. We cannot afford to appease any of our neighbors who show Fas- cistic leanings. If we do so, we may find our- selves fighting the Axis at home as well as abroad, an eventuality almost too dismal to conceive. IT IS POSSIBLE that Castillo's regime is des- tined to be a short-lived one. It is possible that a popular surge toward democracy will un- se&t the recently enthroned fuehrer. But we cannot act on possibilities. We are forced to face the immediate fact that the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis is passing danger- ously near Buenos Aires. We are compelled to realize that a continuance of our policy of appeasement may bring disaster upon us. We can hope there will be a change of govern- ment in Argentina. but in our present rela- tions with that nation we can only be suspi- elous, firm and uncompromising. - Irving Jaffe lubbper Producer WASHINGTON: Although the Navy reluc- tantly sidetracked construction of big battle- ships after the spectacular airplane victory in the battle of Midway, the Admirals still are slower than molasses in building small boats to patrol the Atlantic coast against submarines. Almost every important war strategist, the President and Winston Churchill down, has em- phasized the fact that the submarine menace was all-important, that we could not keep on losing merchant ships at the present rate. How- ever, the navy still sticks to old-fashioned meth- ods in building sub-chasers. The Navy's chief trouble seems to be the ordi- narily laudable, but now antiquated, idea that it is building small boats to last 25 years, when we are all hoping the war will be over in at least four years, and when these small craft may be sunk in four months. For instance, one firm building sub-chasers was unable to get bronze screws, and wanted to use brass screws instead. The Navy objected. And four precious days were lost while the brass-hats argued whether the sub-chasers should be built with brass screws. It is true that brass screws in the hull of a ship corrode in salt water and wear off in about five years. But the war should be over in that time. In another case, a naval inspector held up a sub-chaser because the inside cabins were not finished in the specified shade of grey. Soda Fountains For Warships' Details like this also cause delays in building larger ships. For instance, soda fountains and movie theatres are all carefully worked out for cruisers and battleships. In one case there was delay because the rods supporting bunks on a cruiser were not made of chromium steel, which is hard to get. Probably Hitler would use plain iron with a covering of paint; but the Navy is building for 25 years hence, and still seeks praiseworthy but time-consuming perfection in every detail. Much more important than this, however, is lack of coordination in placing contracts for small anti-submarine boats. For instance, the Dodge Company before the war was making speedboats at the rate of 35 a day. But now, de- spite the urgent need of combating submarines, it is awarded contracts to build sub-phasers at! a fraction of that rate per year. On the other hand, if the Army and Navy pooled their orders they could have one boat company make all of one type of vessel, while another company made another. For instance the Elco 'company could make motor-torpedo, boats and nothing else. The Higgins company in New Orleans could make sub-chasers and £awclui and! THIS MORNING when I came home from the factory at about four o'clock I went for a ,long ride on my bicycle. I went straight down Packard, out past the new district, and down around the stadium. On up the other side where the little, bright bungalows, like newlyweds build are, and back to the wide, deserted road to De- troit. Probably there's a lot of you who have never seen Ann Arbor so early. Some of you are girls and have to come in. when the deans say, and I'm sure that the deans don't know about Ann Arbor at four in the morning. Even most of the boys are asleep. I can tell when I pass the dorms, there's hardly ever a light except for a long column'tat tells where the stairs or the lava- tories-I don't know which-are. So because lots of you have never seen it, and because it's different, different from the day, I thought I'd tell you about it now. SOMETIMES people ask me if I'm not fright- ened, with all the street lights out, but it's not so quiet as you'd think, there are nearly al- ways people on the street. There are night nurses with white uniforms that you can see a block away, and factory\ workers like myself who have cars or walk. Almost everyone you see smokes cigarettes. Women, even, on the streets. There's no one much to see, and after ten hours of factory work, or a shift in the hospital, maybe even Emily Post would excuse them. 'There are lonesome truck drivers who race their engines to greet you or pretend to run you down with three-trailer trucks that shake the black windows in the stores and rush straight down State Street like they would never do in the day. There are lights, too. In nearly every block there's a house with its windows lit. Sometimes the family's gone to bed and left the light on over the radio, but sometimes too, there's people awake. There are students still studying or workers, just gotten in, pulling down the shades. There's a Hill Billy downtown that's open all night and has a juke box that you can hear straight up East William and a bakery across the street where pies were burned last night and made a horrible smell-people were scraping the ovens when I went by. rVnW rr_,Tm f I ir m h .acf ,hiia .-am fh - n nothing else. And the Dodge company at New- port News could make mine-laying tugs and nothing else. Instead, the Dodge company got an order for a certain type of vessel. This came from the Army. Then when they had machine tools all ready for making these boats, and making them fast, their next order came from the Navy for another type of craft. Then, just to give variety to life, their next order was not for more of the second type, but for a third type of boat. Once the Navy gets these ships built they are beautiful vessels, beautifully operated. But it takes priceless, agonizing, inefficient months to get results with this haphazard building pro- gram. Little Business Wins The selection of Lou Holland, two-fisted Kan- sas City business man, as head of the WPB's newly-created Smaller War Plants Corporation, was welcome news to little business men. Holland is highly regarded by the White House, but the inside fact is that he was not the President's number one choice. Roosevelt's orig- inal candidate was his liberal friend, Robert W. Johnson, former head of the Johnson and John- son Pharmaceutical Company, now a colonel in the Army. Donald Nelson sounded out Johnson, at the President's suggestion, but got a refusal. "I have already offered my services to\Major General Campbell (chief of Army Ordnance) for the duration, and I wouldn't feel right leav- ing him to take something else," Johnson ex- plained. Nelson then proposed Holland as chief of the small business division, and the President gave his O.K. While the WPB boss was careful to get White House sanction for all his moves in setting up the Small War Plants Corporation, he was not so inclined toward Congress. Inside fact is, Nel- son turned a deaf ear to the recommendations of Senator James Murray of Montana and Rep- resentative Wright Patmon of Texas, co-authors of the Small Business Act, on other appoint- ments to the five-man board of little business directors. \ A ', P'in ted P~en DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1942 VOL. LIL ' No. 19-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. Notices The University Bureau of Appoint- ments has just received notice of a special meteorology program spon- sored by the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. The next group will start January 5, 1943. at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology and will lead to a commission in either the Army or the Navy. The course will last eight months. Applications should be submitted as soon as pos- sible because of the time required for applications to be acted upon, and must be in by September 1, 1942. Fur- ther information may be had from the notices which are on file at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall, Office hours 9-12 and 2-4. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information A Standard First Aid Course is be- ing held on Tuesdays and Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Michigan League. The first meeting of this class is July 9 at 7 p.m. Any one in- terested is invited to register. Tryouts for H.M.S. Pinafore-All singers on campus are invited to try out for this operetta to be presented jointly by the School 'of Music and the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech. Any selection may be presented but please bring music. Accompanists will be present. Try-outs will be held on Wednes- day evening, at 7:15, and Thurs- day afternon from 4:00 to 5:30 in Suite 2, Michigan League Building. To Department Heads, Clerks,' Stenographers, and Any Others Con- cerned: The University has received from Mr. Donald M. Nelson, Chair- man of the sWar Production Board, a very strong plea to sell to the United States Government all type- writers that can possibly be spared from our own operations. I hereby reuest any one having information that will be helpful under these cir- cumstances to the Government's war effort to communicate to me the following data with respect to the typewriters which it is thought the University could spare: make, seri- al number, whether standard or noiseless, and the carriage width, determined by the widest sheet of paper that can be inserted, unfolded, into the carriage. Also state the location by University department and room number. Also, privately owned machines which the ®wners are willing to sell to the Government will be equally acceptable. Shirley W. Smith, Vice-President and Secretary Squares Dancing. Students attend- ing the Square Dancing class that meets at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Michigan League, are requested to bring their dance manuals with them. Ethel McCormick A cademic Notices Teacher's Certificate Candidates who expect to be recommended by the Faculty of the School of Educa- tion at the close of the Summer Ses- Sion or the Summer Term should make application at this time at the office of the Recorder of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S. Margaret S. Whitesell, Recorder Students, Summer Session, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: No course may be elected for credit after today. E. A. Walter The German Department is spon- soring German language tables in the alcove of the Women's League cafeteria beginning June 29 for the1 duration of the Summer Session. Luncheon and dinner (cafeteria style) at 12:15 and 6:15 respectively. All students of German, faculty members and others interested in ac- quiring practice in spoken German , are cordially invited. The Summer Session Orchestra of the University of Michigan meets in Lane Hall Monday through Thurs- day each week at 2:30 p.m. All or- chestral players gre invited._. Women Students: New sections in Archery, Body Mechanics, Golf, Riding, Swimming, Tennis, Tap Dance will be started July 13. Regis- ter now at Barbour Gymnasium. Dept. of Phys. Educ. for Women. Students, Summer Session College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Except under extraordinary circum- stances courses dropped after the third week, Saturday, July 08, will be recorded with a grade of E. E. A. Walter, Assistant Dean a I, "I SOME PEOPLE try to tell you that highly edu- cated persons (like all of us at Michigan) do not make good soldiers and sailors, but a con- versation which took place recently at .the De- troit induction center proves that such an idea is entirely-well, almost entirely-false. A Ph.D. from the University was being ques- tioned by the officer in charge: "Would you be willing to take orders from someone who was intellectually your inferior?" "Why not?" the ,,Ph.p. answered laconically, "I've been doing it all my life." And that ended that. Milton Mayer, well-known free lance writer, is still wondering about Michigan coeds. He received a lot of fan mail-both pro and, con-after his last article in the Saturday Eve- ning Post, which was entitled "The Case Against the Jew." But the most interesting and strongest letter came from two University of Michigan girls. It was written in a beauti- ful, delicate hand-on toilet paper. Mayer did not say what sentiments ap- peared on this high quality stationery, but he is just wondering about Michigan coeds-and are they all like that? DON'T BLOW UP when you read about the new OPA ruling which allows -candidates for political office additional gasoline for use in their campaigns. At first glance it seems like a complete waste and, as such, a detriment to the war effort. But when you remember that the incumbent mem- bers of Congress are the proud possessors of "X" cards and combine that with the general incom- petency of such members, you begin to be thank- ful for anything which will help new-and we hope better-men take over the legislative jobs of the country. There aren't many things which would be of more help to the war effort. THINGS that depend on your point of view ... Prof. Edgar W. Knight from the University of North Carolina, speaking here Thursday, de- clared: "Educationally and culturally the South is one of the high hopes of the United States. The educational conservatism of the South, so often viewed by outsiders as a sign of back- wardness, is in reality one of the most vital and valid qualities of American civilization." Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia (which I believe is usually classed as a Southern state), told an audience a few days ago that: "Before God, friends, the Negroes will never rn to schnl with thn whites while I'm ( ove.- "Oh, I don't mind not having a vacation this summer-having a foreman show you how to operate a drill press is as much fun as having a lifeguard teach you to swim!" Doctoral Examination for Robert Goyer Walker; field: English Lan- guage and Literature; thesis: "Cen- sure of Majority Rule as a Theme in American Literature: 1787-1853," will be held on Monday, July 13, in West Council, Rackham Bldg., at 3:30 p.m. Chairman, M. L. Williams, By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend the ex- apination and he may grant per- mission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. ' C. S. Yoakum Preliminary Examinations for the Ph.D. degree in English will be given according to the following schedule from 9-12 a.m. in 3217 Angell Hall: American Literature With Conti- nental Backgrounds, July 22. English Literature 1700-1900, July 25. English Literature 1550-1700, July 29. English Literature, Beginnings to '1550, Aug. 1. All those intending to take the ex- aminations should notify Professor N. E. Nelson, 3223 Angell Hall, by July 15. Psychology 31. A make-up' final examination will be given Monday, July 13, from 7 to 9 in room 1121 N.S. B. D. Thuma lectures High Lights in the History of the University-a lecture by Dr. Calvin 0. Davis, Professor Emeritus of Edu- cation in the University High School Auditorium, Monday, July 13th at 4:05 p.m. Tuesday. July 14th at 4:05 Wm.-a lecture, "Michigan's Study of Its Youth Problem" by James D. Mac- Connell, Field Representative of the American Youth Commission (Uni- versity High School Auditorium.) Weekly Review of the War-a lec- ture by Professor Howard M. Ehr- mann, Professor in the Department of History. 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 14th in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. This is a regu- lar weekly feature. The public is invited. Why People Do Not Get Jobs: The second of a series of lectures on Guidance and Placement will be giv- en bon Tuesday. July 14 at 7:15 in the Rackham Lecture Hall. "Why People Do Not Get Jobs" will be an illustrated lecture with demonstra- tions by employers and applicants of the right and wrong ways to go about getting jobs. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Events Today The Rivals," initial production of of the Fourteenth Season of the Michigan Repertory Players, of the Department of Speech, will be pre- sented for the last performance to- ight at 8:30. Season tickets for the summer series of six plays, as well as single tickets for all individual performances, are on sale daily in the Box Office of the Mendelssohn Theatre. Graduate Mixer for Faculty mem- bers, Graduate students and their friends. Dancing, games, bingo, bridge, entertainment and refresh- ments. Admission charge. Third floor of Rackham Building. Satur- day, July 11, 9 p.m., 4 The Graduate Outing Club will meet behind the Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m., Sunday for the canoe trip to Barton Pond. The regular Tuesday Evening Re- corded Program in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building at 8 p.m. " is as follows: Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor. Hayden: Quartet in D Major, Roth String Quartet. Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major (Prague). Debussy: Suite Bergamasque, Wal- ter Gieseking. Mathematics Club will meet on Tuesday evening, July 14, at 8 o'clock in 3011 Angell Hall. Professor Cope- land will speak on "Capddeecronhsi" (codes and ciphers), and Professor Rainich will speak on "Mathematics and Meteorology." All those interest- ed are cordially invited to attend. Faculty Concert: Miss Julia Rebeil, pianist, will appear in a facility con- cert in Hill Auditorium at 8:30 Tues- day evening, July 14. Miss Rebell is head of'the piano department of the University of Arizona, and comes to Ann Arbor as a guest artist. Her program will include Brahms' Sonata in F. minor, Perpetual Motion by Weber-Ganz and Masques by De- bussy. Admission is pomplimentary. ' All students interested in Educa- tion are invited to attend the School of Education Frolic to be held at The Women's Athletic Building, July 15th, from 8-11 p.m. Come and bring your friends. Commercial Education Students. There will be a "Get Acquainted" meeting of all students in Commer- cial Education on the Campus Tues- day evening, July 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the East Conference room, Rackham Building. Alan D. Meacham will dis- cuss and demonstrate the Interna- tional Business Machines. J. M. Trytten Churches , Memorial Chriftian Church (DiB- ciples). 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship, Rev. Frederick Cowin, Minister. 5:00 p.m. The Disciples Guild will meet at the Guild House, 438 May- nard St. Transportation will be pro- vided to a picnic ground for games, a picnic supper and vesper service. In case of unfavorable weather the supper and program will be held at the Guild House at the same hour. Small charge. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion; 11:00 a.m. Kindergarten., Harris Hall; 11:00 a.m. Summer Church School; 11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon by the Reverend John G. Dahl; 5:00 p.m. Episcopal Student Guild Pic- nic at the home of Dr. Inez Wisdom, 2301 Packard Rd. The Rev. James G. Widdifield, Rector of St. Paul's Memorial Church, Detroit, will show colored slides on the life of St. Fran- cis, All Episcopal students and their friends are cordially invited. Cars will leave Harris Hall promptly at 5 o'clock. First Presbyterian Church: Sun- day Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. "'identification," subject of sermon by Rev. Willard V. Lampe, minister. Service of Holy Communion and re- ception of new members. Westminster Student Guild. 7:15 p.m. "Building a New"World" will be the topic for a new discussion series., Lew Hoskins, a member of the Soci- d J 4 4 I , 4