JAGE TWO TOTE ICHMAN DWIFY 4' '1 qvm-qn4v, "*Vn.v 1 14,11 TH1E.. 11 y.t 1aN 1 \ L L3"'t 1 'T I1AAal . l l I , 3EFt i , a/' Uli y 1, IN43 Fifty-Third Year Edited and managed by students of the University -of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning -except Monday during the regular University year, and every morning except Mon- day and Tuesday during the summer session. 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 in this newspaper. All rights of repub- lication of all other matters "herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year 'by car- rier $4.25, by mail $5.25. , Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1942-43 Marion Ford Bud Brimmer Leon Gordenker Harvey Frank Jeanne Lovett; Moly Winokur Editorial Staff . . . . Managing Editor . .Editorial Director . . . . . City :Editor Sports Editor Business Staff * . . . . Business Manager Associate Business Manager Telephone 2324-1r NIGHT EDITOR: JANE FARRANT Editorials pnblished in The Michigan Daily are writ/en by members of The Daily staff and represent the viles of the writers only. CONS( LATJ ON-:* Race Riot Casualties Did Not Die itt Vain DISGUSTING and disgraceful as the Detroit race riots were, they accomplished one worthwhile thing: they brought into sharp focus the crying need for immediate unprejudiced and intelligent action on a problem that can no longer be ignored and shuffled into the back- ground. Unfortunately, it took an uprising as violent as the riots to bring the issue the attention 'it deserves. But, in view of the apathy and shod- diness that has shrouded the consideration of the Negro situation since it first boiled over in the Sojourner Truth disturbance a year ago, a milder occurence would have been only a stepping stone to a more bloodthirsty and ruthless crises. The first week following the riots produced many theories as to the cause, many of them were claims of Communistic meetings among the Negroes, fifth-column activities by the Japs and Nazis and and influx of Southern Whites into Detroit. BUT TO LAY the responsibility and cause of the roits on any one group is to avoid square- ly facing the issue. The root of the problem lies in prejudice and discrimination. The Northerners who claim that the South- erns were responsible for the riots would do well to note that it is the Southerners who are going through with a practical and down-to- earth collaboration with the Negroes in a con- ference which is to be held next month in At- lanta. The solution of this problem, as this group has recognized, lies not in prison terms and martial law, but in searching analysis of the political and civil rights involved and in broadminded and intelligent action on the part of both the whites and the Negroes. -Claire Sherman TO FIGHT REDS: Polls Want Allied Help In Anti-Soviet Moves All is quiet on the Russian-Polish diplomatic front. After the break in diplomatic relations several months ago, both the Poles and the Sov- iet Union have decided to play a waiting game. The reactionary Poles, now in complete con- trol of the Government-in-Exile hope to employ the diplomatic and perhaps military aid of Britain and the U.S. in furthering their ambi- tions. They see the liberal forces in the two great political democracies on the wane and the star of a reaction closely akin to theirs in the ascendancy. They therefore have decided not to press Rus- sia now for the restoration of pre-war domina- tion over Russian territory, since at present the Allies are in too great a need of the services of the Red Army. Rather will they wait till Russia, weakened by her casualties, will be faced by her erstwhile Allies, controlled by reactionaries and imperialists, and threatened with military re- prisals unless it surrenders to the equally reac- tionary race prejudiced Polish government-in- exile territories where Soviet peoples are in the majority. The Soviet Government on the other hand feels that with the greatest land army among the Allies and with its close proximity to the Polish frontiers, it need not fear any Allied in- tervention such as in the last war. The outcome of this sit and wait .campaign will deend largelv on the course of the war and I'd Rather Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, July 1.- One of the theme songs of the Opposition is that we mustnot change anything on. the home front while the boys are away. A series of ads tells us that the soldier boys will be furious if anybody even so much as lays a hand on the corner drug store. =Who's bothering the corner drug store? It is the Farm Security Administration that the Con- gress tried to wrap up and throw away, though that meant a serious change on the home front. There might event be a soldier boy or two serving in the fond belief that there is an Office of War Information functioning back home, and he might be distressed to find that all that had been changed while he was away. One wonders whether Brother, in the services, is concerned about Sister's ability to buy ice cream down at the corner drug store nearly so much as he is concerned about Mother's ability to buy anything at all, what with rising 'food prices. THE BURDEN OF THEIR SONG But there is Senator George, and also Mr. Herbert Hoover, and also Senator Taft, all argu- ing,in various guise, against food price control, and their voices really join, and the burden of fheir song is that food prices must rise. Won't a food price rise be a serious change on the home front? Doesn't it conflict with the Opposition promise not to change anything on the home front while the boys are away? The sentimental- izing about dear old Main Street, how it musn't be changed by the bureaucrats, is a kind of ob- scurantist cover for a legislative blitz which aims at much more serious changes. We are shipping the boys out right along now,and most of them are leaving under the impression that this country intends to con- trol-the cost of'living. Is all that going to stop while they are half-way overseas? FACE TO THE MOON I like those ads, about the Army flier flying along, his face to the moon, dreaming about the folks back home. I imagine he sees the folks back home, in these visions, sitting at table. Possibly, even, dining. I wonder if it would add to the accuracy of his flying, to catch a vagrom radio news bulletin telling him that Senator George has succeeded in having food prices hiked. The first step was to kill subsidies, which might have cut food prices back. But Con- gress can't stop there. What's the good of killing subsidies, if food prices remain where they were afterward? The second step is now under way. Senator George wants a "read- justment of ceilings" whiih will "equalize" prices, meaning raise them. Aren't higher prices a change on the home front? No, those you can change. That doesn't count, so long as you keep your hands off'n that old drug store o' mine. THE ROME FRONT COMMANDOS These sentimentalisms about not changing anything on the home front while the boys are away are merely a kind of camouflage. Con- gressional commandos wear. those phrases on their hats, like branches, as they move in for the kill, intending to bring about the most ser- ious of changes. If the boys abroad do not want anything changed, it is pretty clear whom they ought to be sending their V-mail to. The .Administration is, almost pathetically, trying to hold on, to keep things from chan- ging, While the would-be changers move in to alter everything, under the slogan that they are against change. They are against change, and, bang! there goes another agency, maybe the one which financed the purchase of ;the farm of the father of a soldier boy's aunt. It would seem like fairer ball to pause until the soldier boys come back before making these changes. It is grotesquely unfair to do all this while pretending merely to be waiting for a trol- ley car on dear old unchanged Main Street. (Copyright, 1943, NY. Post Syndicate) JESSE JONES: Oficials'Quarrel Over U.S. Economic Program IN A NEW clash between major administrative figures, Vice-President Wallace accused Secre- tary of Commerce Jones of "obstructionist tac- tics" and of harassing the Board of Economic Warfare (-BEW) in its "single-minded effort to help shorten this war by securing adequate stocks of strategic materials." Wallace hauled this long standing row into the open Tuesday with an obvious intention to force President Roosevelt to fire somebody. In a statement prepared for the Senate appropria- tions committee, Wallace, chairman of BEW, also stated that Jones, who heads the Recon- struction Finance Corp., which supplies funds for BEW buying of strategic materials, has cre- ated a "false impression" in testimony before the congressional economy committee headed by Senator Byrd. The President on April 13, 1942, transferred full control over the programming of imported strategic materials from the Reconstruction Finance Corp., to the Board of Economic Wel- fare, which ,operates under broad directives received from:.the War Production Board. Mr. Jones has never accepted that authority. AS EARLY AS December. 1941. BEW opened its attack upon Jones, alleging that he had been dilatory in building up reserves of. rubber, DREWT PLARSON MfERR1hG FRUND Interventionist Republicans ,Meanwhile the non-isolationist peace bloc in- side the Republican Party is growing. They be- lieve that the United States cannot possibly pull in its horns from world affairs after the war, and that it would be political suicide for the Repub- lican Party to take the lead in so doing. Typical of this new, more liberal wing is Mon- tana's GOP National Committeeman Dan Whet- stone, a member of the GOP advisory Commit- tee which will meet soon to formulate future foreign policy. Whetstone's peace proposals, briefly summar- ized are: "A world police force, under law, disarming of the Axis nations, punishment of the tyran- nical Nazi and Fascist leaders of Germany, anrd Italy and the arrogant war lords of Japan. "We must help the nations that have lost their sovereignty and have been reduced to slavery but should permit them to establish She form of government that to them seems best, encouraging the aspiration of democracy but not. insisting that any particular system of political or social life be adhered to; broadly we desire to realize human freedom, making' sure that at all times it is not of such pattern as to breed dictatorship and set up a mena- cing military 'achine to threaten the future j eae (f the world" 0c) Survey Office of Civilian Defense has made a house- to-house survey of U.S. cities, gathering -info- mation on individual families and their readi- ness to meet an emergency. Block leaders in some of the poorer sections have done an ab- breviated, unique job of reporting. Samples: "Man hit by automobile-speaks broken Eng- lish." "This woman isill. The gas has been turned off." "Sophie is married to a sailor, and her where- abouts are unknown. "Woman and house neat but bare." "Couple breaking up home; friends helping." "Milk needed for the baby, and father unable to supply it." "Woman is willing to struggle if given an op- portunity." "Applicant and wife are illegally separated." "These people are extremely cultured. Some- thing should be done about their condition." "Until a year ago, this applicant delivered ice, and was a man of affairs." Navy Notes on Knox Secretary of Navy Knox now saves time by lunching in his office instead of going out. A special kitchen has been rigged up next to his office, and the mess boys serve Knox in a pri- vate anteroom . . . He always invites other offi- cials to lunch, talks business . . . He eats no des- sert, takes no siesta . . . Knox's day begins with a 9:30 meeting with Admiral King and other Admirals, discussing war developments of the previous 24 hours. Admiral Train, Chief of Nav- al Intelligence, gives 'them the latest news For a conference with Secretary of War Stim- son, Knox generally goes to Stimson's office across the river, since Stimson outranks him ... But if several Admirals are to be involved in the conference, Knox telephones to Stimson and says, "Harry, can you come over to see us?" .. . Knox goes to church every Sunday-when his wife is in town . . . One of his best friends in Washington is John Sullivan, Assistant Secre- tary of Treasury. Both men come from the same home town-Manchester, N.H.... Though a Republican in a Democratic cabinet, Knox is credited with playing no politics. Ch urchill the Prophet Students of air power have dug uu an old statement of Winston Churchill's, written in 1917, which reveals an amazing foresight in the possibilities and limitations of aerial bombing. As everybody knows, the Nazi blitz against England, intended to terrorize the pe'ople, failed in its objective. On the other hand, the more scientific bombing of the continent by the RAF and AAF-strategic bombing---is now expected to bring Hitler to his knees. Churchill seemed to foresee both of these developments when he said in a paper on Air Power, written in 1917, that nothing we know about warfare can lead us to believe that bombing for terror alone can cause such a morale collapse as to force a major nation to sue for peace. Churchill emphasized that air power must single out and attack transportation, factories, and other enemy installations, upon which the enemy war-making ability depends. England's survival of the blitz gives dramatic support to the first part of that statement, and Allied air power is now proving the second part. (Copyright, 1943, United Features Syndicate) and in the planting of cryptostegia for natural rubber in the Caribbean." Again he related at great length how Jones has delayed planting in Costa Rica of Chicona seed, for the production of quinine. When Jesse put Will Clayton in to act for him on foreign matters in the RFC, he knew he had a man who shared his antiquated eco- nomic ideals. The Rubber Reserve Corpora- tion has shown practically no understanding of the rubber-supply problem, and after long months of delay the BEW and the State De- partment demanded that a buying staff be set up to purchase Latin American wild rub- ber and arrange to get it out of the jungles. WHEN THE HOUSE refused to ap- propriate funds for the Domestic Branch of the Office of War Infor- mation much more was involved than a personal attack on Elmer Davis. He is widely liked, and all ex- cept a few congressional disciples of The Chicago Tribune admit that he has acted with notable tact and mod- eration. It is ridiculous to compare him with Dr. Goebbels or Virginia Gayda; he hasn't even, attempted to do what the Creel Committee did successfully in the last war. Any other man in the same position, whatever his ability, his character or his political record, would be subject to the same congressional abuse. It cannot be saidthat the attack was really directed at the policies of the OWl. No matter what poli-- cies it followed-no matter wheth- er it issued :propaganda 'for home consumption or the unadorned facts, or nothing but news bulle- tinsfor the' daily press; no matter whether it favored labor or man- agement, or neither; farmers or city consumers, or neither: Russia or Poland, or neither; no matter whether it called for a tough war or tried to make the public believe that this could still be an easy war; no matter whether its top of- ficials were New Dealers or conser- vative Democrats or Republicans- it would still 'be slandered and abused. The truth is that its policies have been cautious and reasonable to a fault. It has never tried to lead the public by the nose, or to make news- papers echo the views of the Admin- istration, or to whip up anger against the Axis by inventing atrocities. It has gone so far in the opposite direc- tion that the real atrocities of the Germans in this war have been ap- proached with diffidence, as if they were horrors that couldn't be dis- cussed in polite society. In general, and except for a brief periods when advertising mentried to get control of the agency, it has made its appeal to the common sense and patriotism of the public. It has issued no fervid exhorta- tions,furnished no four-minute speakers and organized no patri- otic rallies. It has never attempted to influence the public.,on the emo- tional level that leads directly to action. F ANYBODY thought that the function of the OWI was to im- prove morale and unify the country in the face of danger, he would be forced to conclude that its record is one of failure. It hasn't convinced the miners that they ought to dig coal that is necessary for war pro- duction instead of following John L. Lewis in his political adventures It hasn't created public feeling against those industrialists who, as shown in several confidential reports, are trying to provoke their own men into striking; they think that strikes at this time would weaken the labor unions. Undersecretary Patterson says that the production of supplies for the Army ground forces has declined since April. He thinks that part of the decline was caused by complacency and overconfidence on OWL CRISIS: War on Elmer Davis the part of both labor and manage- 'ment. The OWI has failed to change that state of mind. It has tried" hard to improve racialrelations, but it didn't suoe -ceed in preventing the riots in Los Angeles and Beaumont and Mobile, or the Klan-instigated strike in. Detroit against the hiring of Ne- groes as skilled workers. Any war is .likely to generate ll feeling on the home front. People are aver- worked and overwrought; they have have to stand in line; they can't go where they want 'to go' 'or buy what they want to buy: and these frustrations' produce a feel- ing of anger that ought to be di- rected against the enemy. Too.often in this war it has been directed against other Americans- against Jews, Negroes, Mexicans, union.labor, Congress or the Admin- istration. The country is full of in- ternal animosities that an Office of War Information might have helped to prevent, if it had been given authority to act. AND THERE are other examples of its failure in the field of public morale. There is, for example, the growth of the black markets, which might be prevented by public feeling against them-but the public is not helping much to stamp them out. There is the effort of farm organiza- tions to destroy price ceilings, even at the cost of inflation. Everywhere is the feeling that, as we have heard several people say, "I'm going toget mine while the getting is good." There are indications that this feel- ing is also widespread in the Army. One soldier wrote us from a Southern camp land we have seen other let- ters in the same vein): "Everybody seems busy getting his own little pro- motion and feathering his own little nest, oh, so damned carefully, be- cause nobody has been able to absorb a nobler philosophy. If there is one around, the old OWI story, it hasn't been put very convincingly-maybe it can't be, with Congress the way it is." Congress -has clearly indicated that it wants no efforts to improve the national morale. Accordingly the Domestic 'Branch of the OWI has confined itself to more modest but still'indispensable tasks. It has brought order and system into gov- 'ernment:publicity and 'has reduced the -number of government bulle- tins. It has.persuaded the Depart- ments of War and the Navy to be more communicative in their com- muniques. It has given sound ad- vice to magazine editors, book pub- lishers, radio announcers and mo- tion-picture producers who wanted to advance the national interests in wartime but didn't know how to go about it. In Washington, it has prevented many squabbles among government officials by reading their speeches and state- ments in advance. It has explained government policies and helped the public to understand what the gov- ernment agencies were doing. ESSENTIALLY it is because of these modest achievements that the OWI was attacked on the floor of the House. A bi-partisan majority in Congress hopes that the New Deal will be defeated in 1944. Some mem- bers of Congress are more interested in fighting Roosevelt than they are in fighting Hitler. These men reason bluntly that the vmore squabbles there are among government officials, and the less public understanding there is of government measures, the better chance their side will have of winning the next election. The policies they were condemning were not those of the OW, but those of the administration. Their at- tack on -Elmer Davis was directed against =the President. As we point out elsewhere, it is still uncertain what the Senate will do. It has shown a much greater sense of wartime responsibility than the House, but this time the Sena- tors will have to act quickly, and there is a chance that the Domestic Branch of the OWI will be sacrificed to its enemies in thefrush to pass appropriation bills before July 1. Even if its funds are restored, the struggle against the OWI will con- tinue. We suggest to Mr. Roosevelt that it is time for hm to go before the public-rot once, but preferably in a whole series of speeches-and defend his wartime aencies. For the last year, he has been devoting 'mostof his efforts to thetstruggle abroad, but the main outlines of military strategy have now been fixed. Meanwhile it is possible that we might 'lose the war as the result of developments on the home front. That is the scene of the crucial struggle at this moment. It is time to stop the people who have borrowed Lenin's slogan and applied it to in- ternational cartelism instead of in- ternational communism. It is time to keep them from turning the for- eign war into a civil war. -New Republic MALE WORM TURNS The meek male worm, who for generations has gone about all sum- mer clad in wool like a fuzzy cater- pillar, seems about to turn. The "Brotherhood of Sensible Men" has been organized in Washington. Doubtless, the comparatively few males that remain in the Nation's capital have been impressed by the diaphanous comfort of th women- folk with which the town i overrun. There has been some hot weather along the Potomac, you know-and doubtless will be more. Anyone who saw the rooftop sequence in the pic- ture called "The More the Merrier" probably understands. Anyhow, the Brotherhood has de- cided to go without coats and stiff collars in the thousands of Wash- ington offices this summer, despite tradition or stiff-backed rules. That takes courage. But what is more, they have determined to discard neckties. Casting off coats is a sensible move, and even the abandonment of neckties can be forgiven, provided shirt collars are not thrown open to expose hairy chests-if any .are left in Washington. -Chicago Daily News DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN All notices for The 'Daily Official Bulle- tin are to be sent to the Office of the Summer Session in typewritten form by 3:30 p.m. of the day preceding its publi- cation, except on Saturday when the no- tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943 Notices Literature, Science, and the Arts Juniors now eligible for Concentra- tion should get Admission to Con- centration blanks in Room 4, Uni- versity Hall, immediately. These blanks must be properly signed by the adviser and the original slip re- turne dto Room 4, University Hall, at once. Post-War Council: Any student interested in working on the Post- War Council is invited to attend the organization meeting at 7:15 pim. today in the Michigan Union. Season Tickets for the series of five plays to be presented by the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech are on sale daily at the box office, Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. Tickets for single performances will-go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. Plays to be given this, summer include "Ladies in Retire- ment", "Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire", "La- dvu =PreciousStream", "Patneia ThsAll" Academic Notices Anthropology 159s, Primitive Soci- ety will meet in Room 4025 Angell Hall. - -Leslie A. White Mathematics 327, Seminar in -Sta- tistics. Preliminary meeting to ar- range hours today at noon, 3020 An- gell Hall. -C. C. Craig FACULTY, COLLEGE OF LITER- ATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS: Attendance report cards are being distributed through the departmen- tal offices. Instructors are request- ed to report absences of freshmen on green cards, directly to the Office of the Academic Counselors, 108 Mason Hall. Buff cards should be used in reporting sophomores, juniors, and seniors to 1220 Angell Hall. Please note especially the regula- tions concerning three-week absen- ces, and 'the:'time limits for dropping courses. The rules relating to ab- senees are printed on the attendance cards. They may also be ,found on page 52 of-the 1941-42 ANNOUNCE- MENT of our College. --E. A. Walter Students, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Election cards filed after the end of the first week of the semester may be accepted by the Registrar's Office only if they are approved by Assistant Dean Walter. Students who fail to file Lectures .Biochemistry Lecture: Dr. John S. Buchanan of Harvard University will lecture on the use of the iso- topes of carbon in the study of inter- mediary carbohydrate metabolism at 2 p.m. today in the East Lecture Room of the Rackham Building. All interested are invited. Coming Events Pi TLanbda Theta: There will be an organization meeting in the West Conference Room of the Rackha' Building this evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Elinor Lincicome Dean, pian- ist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music at 8:30 o'clock this evening in the As- sembly Hall of the Rackham Build- ing. Mrs. Dean is a pupil of Pro- fessor Joseph rBrinkman. The pub- lic is cordially invited. Spanish Tea: Spanish Tea will be held at 3 this afternoon in the cafeteria of the Michigan League. If interested see Professor del Toro from 1:30 to 3 in Room 301 R.L. French Club: The first meeting of the Club will be held today at 8 o'clock in the Michigan League. Pro- gram: Election of officers. "L'Europe apres la guerre", an informal talk by i