$ r-f1 =O , *Ti MTYAN D ft StTNDAY. "AUO. i$. iM, .. _ __ ." a Wa .,. 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- iioation of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Offics 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, 1942-03 Editorial Stafff Marion Ford . . . . Managing Editor Bud Brimmer . . Editorial Director Leon Gordenker . . . . . City Editor Harvey Frank . . . Sports Editor Mary Anne Olson . . . . . Women's Editor Ed Podliashuk . . . . . Columnist Business Staff aeanne Lovett . . Business-*nager Molly Ann Winokur . Associate Business Manager NIGHT EDITOR: MARGARET FRANK Editorials published in The Michigan Daily. are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Donilnie Says N HER SUPERB BOOK, "Reaching for the Stars," Nora Waln has the old professor ob- serve, "It is possible for, two incompatible ideas to slumber side by side in the subconscious reg- ions of the intellect." She illustrates it among the Germans. Here is the ground for a neurosis, the cure of which is a function of high religion. Smouldering. hatreds must be overcome by faith. It is the office of religious persons to bring faith to bear; faith that the love of nature on the part of the enemy may triumph over his hatred of other men,-that his kindness may come to frui- tion in spite of the seeming necessity of brutality in war,-that his regard for life may rebuke his cunning for death., The mystic holds that it is your office and mine, as religious persons, to lift toward the Deity in dedication, the souls of our own fight- ing men, in the firm faith that the good in them will triumph over the evil; that these men may believe more deeply in commonalty of men than in the surface diversions in social organization which force them to battle,-and that eventually righteousness willacover the earth as the waters cover the sea. As religious persons, it..isfor us to believe that truth crushed to earth shall rise again, that, "though the cause of evil prosper, yet 'tis truth alone is strong,"--that there are powers within beauty which can transcend ugliness so long as lovers of beauty persist,-that the very universe it- self, by the drive of growth in those Ukranian fields again devastated by armies, for example, builds the superior value; and that God's ben- evolent ways, whereby the rains fall alike on the just and the unjust, will guarantee peace for men true to His law. -Edward W. Blakeman, Counselor in Religious Education A' FOOLISH CONSISTENCY: Green, A. F. of L. Executive Council Vote To Maintain Tradition of Excluding Chinese MR. WILLIAM GREEN knows a Chinaman when he sees one. And Mr. Green also believes in tradition yes, even the good old racial tradition of pro- hibiting Chinese immigrants from becoming cit- izens of the United States. Of course, should the Asiatic exclusion act be modified-but it won't be if the executive council of the AFL has anything to say about -it-why then this "glorious land of op- portunity" would be overrun with Chinese; in fact, there might be as many as 150 enter- ing every year under the quota system. Oh, now it's not a question of excluding them from labor unions-because the Amerrican Fed- eration of Labor does have Chinese members. No, the real problem says President Green is a social one. You see, the Chinese just don't assimilate into our social life. When people from Europe come over here they become like the rest of us after three generations, but not a China- man-why he still has slant-eyes and yellow skin; he's still a Chinaman. Maybe he is Mr. Green, but that's not reason to assume that he cannot be an American. We would like to know what you mean by an "Amer- ican." S HE A white man with dark curly hair who earns $50 a week at an office or. &. factory? Is he the fellow who belongs to your Union? Is he the chap who goes to a movie on Saturday night or drops in at Joe's for a few beers? Tell us, Mr. Green, do social customs make an American an American? Does the good old game of follow the leader and .everybody's doing it decide irrefutably who shall be con- sidered an integral part of this nation? Or is it a man's attitude, his ideals, his ambi- tion that make him a citizen? Surely there is no people today who have sacrificed so much or en- PHILIPPINES: U. S. Action Points Way To Self-Determination THE FILIPINOS have been reassured by Roosevelt that the provisions of the Ty, dinds-McDuffie Act, giving the archipelago its complete independence by 1946, will be carried to realization before that date. It was in a recorded radio broadcast to the Philippines on the occasion of the 45th anni- versary of the American occupation of the is- lands, that the President stated bluntly that"the Republic of the Philippines will be established the moment the power of our Japanese enemies is destroyed." Although the speech was well-timed to counteract Premier Tojo's reported pledge to the Japanese-seized islands that they will be made an independent nation by the end of this year, the American statement has added significance. It is another important mile- stone of the integrity of benevolent- American colonial policy in its sincere effort to make its dependencies politically self-sufficient. dured such trials as our Chinese allies.. And what people have as uncorrupted an ideal of freedom and democracy as these same Chinese? Sun Yat- Sen's democratic ideals are still China's The Chinese still believe in an equality of all races and peoples-which is more than you, Mr. Green, will agree to. They still hold that all people have -a right to a livelihood; they still maintain that initiative, referendum, election, and recall are the people's rights. Tell us, Mr. Green, are we to say to our Chinese friends in the post-war world, "Well you got us out of some tight spots a few years ago-yes, you did a good job an Japan, but we just can't have you coming over to America You'll upset our social order. You're not ab- sorbable?" Mr. Green, could you stand before real Ameri- cans and real Chinese who are citizens of the world and unashamedly, unblushingly utter those words s-V irginia Rock Ieterm to 14e c/jjiq0r 18-Year-Old Vote?.. . RECENTLY, The Daily has joined in the pop- , clamor for the lowering of the voting age to 18 years, and devoted much space to this issue. I should like to contribute my humble opinion to this discussion. The key slogan of the supporters of this measure seems, to be the argument to the effect that "if they're old enough to fight, they're old enough to vote." While the logic of this catchy phrase is somewhat dubious, one certainly can see the viewpoint of the 18-year-olds who #re serving their country in the armed services. They have been asked to make great sacrifices, and many will even give their lives. Therefore, it appears only fair and sensible to let these boys have an active and effective say as to the running of their country; they should be given the opportunity to elect. the men who will largely be responsible for the kind of world these fellows will be coming back to. For it is almost certain that the poli- ticians elected in the coming elections will bear the responsibility for a peace upon which imiuch is at stake. Yet I cannot help but wonder why this voting age lowering should cover all 18-year-olds. Or, for all practical aspects,. this matter,.is reduced. to the following question: Why should girls be- tween the ages of 18 and 21 be allowed to vote? With exceedingly few exceptions, girls of 18 do not know "beans" about politics. I believe that hardly anyone will contradict me on this point. Such girls would be the answer to a dem- agog's prayer, and their voting right would do more harm than good. Why not merely intro- ducing a legislature whereby the suffrage is extended to all men in the armed services who have reached their 18th birthday? A similar measure was adopted in England during the last war. In conclusion, I should like to emphasize (and anybody who knows me will back up this contention) that I am by no means a woman- hater. But I am terrified at the prospect of £tpaiqhAt FROM THE SHOULDER 61 hip4 PROGRESSIVE. ideas have been beaten time and time again. Reaction has triumphed in battle after battle all over the world. Yet if you ask progressive leaders for the reason for their defeats they will not stress the power of the forces of reaction but the passiveness of the liberal elements among the people. You have perhaps considered yourself-a Communist, fascist, liberal, progresse, reac- tionary, or radical-but if you have, not a- tively supported your ideals by use of the press, discussion, voting, and other means you have no right to call yourself anything but a conservative. For whatever your views are, they have had no influence in molding the pol- itics of your community, your state and your nation. They have served only to preserve the status-quo and enhance the powers of those already in office, inAdemocratic system of government is based on the will of the people, and that will is mold- ed by the most active and influential groups in the nation. It is therefore the duty of every per- son to fight for his views strongly and unrelent- ingly. If he, does not do this he gives away one of his most fundamental rights-the right to try to mold society in his image. There are many excuses you can give for inaction. You may say that your humble ef- forts would mean little, but in a democracy every voice, every letter, every vote counts. Your opinion, and yours and yours and that fellow you have just convinced on the corner are going to count. They will determine and change the views of your community. THERE ARE even more subtle and rational ex- cuses that have been worked out by intelli-~ gent people, in an effort to have a clear con- science and at the same time suppress their own freedom of expression. These excuses have been worked out because for many people their jobs, their homes, their very success would be menaced if they permitted themselves to think clearly and express their conclusions. Especially if these conclusions happened to disagree with those of the powers that be. One person l met a year ago was so far developed in his excuse theory-that every fact must be considered before any action is taken-that be was opposed to the removal of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in May of 1940-because he felt all the facts were not before the Members of Parliament when, after what I think was disastrous delay, they fin- ally kicked the umbrellaman out. That is why I think that it is far better if the youth of this country and the world had a little more confidence in their own ideas and theories, and a little more emotional fighting spirit to carry them out instead of dull dejected attitude of who-knows-what's-right-anyway, and what in blazes can a guy like me do? DREW cm PEARSON'S % > MERRYGO-RUND WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.--It is being hushed up backstage, but vigorous criticisms of govern- ment handling of the lumber industry has been seething inside the War Production Board and the Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service has just tipped its hand by issuing a report that with the nation des- perately hard up for lumber, 9,740 sawmills were idle in May, with worse conditions expected this summer. This is 27 percent of the nation's sawmills. Af terissuing this report, the Forest Service suddenly hushed it up, and today this data is supposed to be strictly confidential. Reason for the hush-hush is that serious charges have been made that big lumber deal- ers are throttling smaller mills, and that Gen. Eugene RIeybold, Chief of Army Engineers, has played into the big lumber dealers' hands. He has issued orders that Army purchases must come only from the lumber associations, which comprise the big mills. This leaves the little mills out in the cold and unable to sell lumber to the Army. In the South for instance, about 750 mills be- long to the Southern Pine Association, one of the most powerful of the lumber associations, while 15,000 small southern mills do not belong. The Southern Pine Association was prosecuted by the Justice Department for monopolistic practices and was forced to sign a consent de- cree. Nevertheless, Army engineers have ruled that Army lumber purchased in the South must come from the Southern Pine Association, thus leaving 15,000 smaller mills out in tne cold. This policy together with the "defeatist" and "go-slow" policy of various lumber officials has been under severe criticism by WBP official El- lory Foster, former director of the Minnesota Forest Service. Lumbermen Rebuked.,.. Foster has written a sizzling memorandum criticizing both the lumber industry itself and Santuel Grafton's I d Rather BeRight NEW YORK, Aug. 15-These are bad days for almost anyone who in- sists on having his own way to the bitter end. I am thinking of the Hearst editorials which denounced General de Gaulle as a Communist, or the stooge of -Communists. The Hearst press was for Giraud, instead. But, to and behold, Giraud has ac- cepted de Gaulle., By this act, General Giraud has stepped out of one camp and into another; he has left the camp of the irreconcilables and entered the family of man. It is a lusty, thriving family, too, gaining members right along. The real division in democratic politics today is not between left and right, but between the ir- reconcilables and the reconcilables. The New York Herald Tribune is right-wing on domestic issues. So is the Chicago Tribune. Yet there is sharp, diference between them. The Chicago Tribune is an ir- reconcilable, while the New York Herald Tribune has a suspicion that we are all going to have to live together for a long time to come. Thus it is somewhat more interest- ed in furthering a sound postwar plan than in throwing a convulsion because a ballet dancer has been dis- covered in a government post. If Henry Clay were to make a miraculous reappearance among us with a plan for composing differences between right and left so that we could get on with the war, the recon- cilables would cheer, while the ir- reconcilables would have him in- vestigated by the Dies Committee. They would probably leave Henry talking to an empty hall, anyway, while they went down the street to hear a thrilling speech on how when the soldiers come back home, they are going to be mean as dirt to the men who made the planes and tanks for them. The irreconcilables want what they want when they want it. At the pres- ent moment, they are talking again of an investigation of Hollywood. Just what sense an investigation of Hollywood would make at this par- ticular moment in the tragic epic of man is not clear. It doesn't seem to go with Sicily. But the irreconcilables ' were against Hollywood in 1941, and so they are still against it. Their comic opera probe of Hollywood as a war-monger collapsed in 1941. Now they want to try it again. Since 1941, war has come, wantonly made against us, and defeats have come too, and victories. Everything has changed, but the irreconcilables are still left, well, irreconcilable. They want to win the war, sure enough, yet they show much livelier spasms of interest at a chance to win the argument. But, as I say, the family of man is growing. General Eisenhower calls on the people of Italy to rise, and de Gaulle does join with Giraud, and the leading Republican newspaper in New York does say that maybe we do need an Office of War Informa- tion to help us win. Mr. Thomas Lamont works for Russian War Re- lief, and the great majority of work- ing men and women do not strike. All. these, taken together, and many more, form the camp of recon- ciliation. (Copyright, 1943, N.Y. Post Syndicate) , (Continued from Page 2) in the Rackham Assembly Hall. The public is cordially invited. Dale Hallack, Tenor, will present a program of compositions by Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Carpenter and Campbell-Tipton at 8 :30: pan., Tues- day, Aug. 17, in the Rackham Assem- bly Hall. Mr. Hallack is a pupil of Arthur Hackett and is giving the recital as .a requirement for the de- gree of Master of Music. It will be open, to the public. Music of Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms will be heard in the second recital by students of the String Quartet Class conducted by Oliver Edel, .at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 19, The program will be given in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Buil- ding and will be open to. the public. Events Today The Michigan Christian Fellowship will offer its regular Sunday program this afternoon at 4:30 in the Fire- place Room of Lane Hall. All stu- dents are invited to .attend these meetings. Summer Student Convocation: Students and the public are.-cordially invited to attend the convocation this evening at 8 o'clock, Aug. 15, in Hill Auditorium. E. Blythe Stason, Provost of the University, will give the address. Music will be furnished by the Methodist Church Choir and Navy Unt Chorus, under the direc- tion of Prof. Hardin Van Deursen. Prof. Palmer Christian ant the organ. Graduate Outing Club: Members willneet at-the club quarters at 2:30 this afternoon, for a hike out Sunset Blvd. Bring your lunch The Lutheran Student Club, Gam- ma Delta will have a picnic supper this afternoon at 5:30 at the Big Fireplace at the Island. Lutheran students and servicemen are asked to meet at the, Rackham Building steps at 4:30, or if they preferJo go direct- ly to the Island. Return by 7. The Lutheran Student Association will meet at 4:30 o'clock. If the wea- ther permits the group will leave from the Zion Lutheran Parish Hall, 309 E. Washington St., for a picnic near the Island. Lutheran students and servicemen are welcome. A reception will be held at the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, 6-8 p.m., in honor of Company A, 3651st Service Unit of the United States Army. The evening will include a buffet supper.eServicemen, students and townspeople are welcome. Coming. Events Sound films from the Film Library of the University Extension Service will be shown Monday afternoon at 4:10 under the auspices of the School of Education: "Mexico Builds a Democracy" and "Colombia- Crossroads of America." The films will be shown free at the University High School auditorium. ;The pub- lic is invited. Churches First Presbyterian Church: Morn- ing Worship-I0:45a.m. .. "The Gos- pel of Integrity" subject of sermon by Dr. Lemon. Sunday Afternoon Forum- 4:00 p.m. "God and the Religions" will be conducted by Dr. Lemon. This will be the last of the Forums. Weath- er permitting, the supper will be held out of .doors at the Council Ring. First Congregational Church: 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship. There will be a special program of music by the choir under the direction of Wilson Sawyer. 4:30 p.m. Congregational students and their friends will meet at the Guild House, 438 Maynard Street, for a trip to Riverside Park for games, picnic supper and a vesper service. Students in service are especially in- vited. Memorial-Christian Church (Disei- ples): 14:45 Morning Worship. The Rev. Harold Hamlin of the Butler School of Religion, Indianapolis, Id., will be guest speaker. 4:30 p.m. Disciple students and their friends will meet at the Guild House, 438 Maynard Street, for a trip to Riverside Park for games, a picnic supper and a vesper service. Students in military service especially invited. Unitarian Church: State and Hur- on Streets, Edward H. Redman, Min- ister. 11:00 a.m. Service of Worship with Mr. Redman preaching on: Franz Werfel, Novelist of Crisis. 3:30 p.m. Student program with folk dancing. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church: 8:00 am. Holy Communion; 11:0 a.m. Junior Church (Nursery-4th Grade), Tatlock Hall; 11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon by the Rev. Henry Lewis, D.D.;. 5:00 p.m. Canterbury Club for Episcopal stu- dents and servicemen. Swimming, picnic supper and guest speaker at the Giefel Residence in Barton Hills. Miss Maxine Westphal, formerly a teacher in Zamboanga in the Philip- pine Islands, will speak on her ex- periences there and the conditions in the Islands just before the inva- sion by Japan. Please meet at Page Hall (Catherine and Division Streets) not later than 5 p.m. Transportation will lie provided. Note: The Wednes- day morning services of the Holy Communion will be discontinued for the next three weeks. First Church of Christ, Scientist: 409 S. Division St. Wednesday eve- ning service at 8:00. Sunday morning service at 10:30. Subject: "Soul." Sunday School at 1:45. Free public reading room at 106 E. Washington St., open every day except Sundays and holidays- from 11:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., Saturdays until 9 p.m. First Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation:Student Class with Dr. Blakeman on the subject "How the Personality Principle Aids Religion." Sunday Morning Worship Service. Dr. Charles W. Brashares will preach on "Cause and Effect." Wesleyan Guild meeting at 4:30 p.m. Topic for discussion "Housing in the Post- war World." Supper and fellowship hour following the meeting. Lutheran Student Chapel: Divine Service Sunday at 11 in Michigan League Chapel. Sermon by the Rev. Alfred Scheips, "The Christian Youth and His Church." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THE MICHIGAN DAILY SERVICE EDITION far . . . Elimination con- tests are coming up and the campus in general is still taking it easy, accord- ing to Doris Barr, League chairman for the Vanities. Time will tell whether the campus has given up to the energetic service groups or if it is still full of vim and vigor. THE SUMMER PROM, informal and packed to the rafters, went over like hot- cakes last night, as the first, last and only big dance of the summer, even if ik was geared to the war with, ordinary everyday dress the rule for all . . . Swinging out with his "new music," Shep Fields took the campus by storm on his first appearance here. * 4 * OTHER campus attrac- tion last night, Bill Sawyer held forth as usual at the League with the special at- traction of the All-Soldier Choir of Company A as guest stars for the evening. The proved abilities of Company A went over with their usual " ease as that nart of the c'ampus not at- versity Prof. Elmore S. Pettyjohn, now a Com- mander in charge of the repair and maintenance of landing barges for, the am- phibian forces of the, Navy at an advance South Pa- cific base, sent the piece along ,with a few others taken from a bomber shot down near his base . . Included in the collection of plastic glass wind- shields, metal gasoline tank covers and an emer- gency daylight bomb, was the twisted metal tail fin of a bomb dropped by the plane only 200 yards from Comm. Pettyjohn's base, according to the note past- ed on the fin. S * 4 * A NEW AND original helicopter, unique in its design, that really flies, has been turned out by two local engineers who have been working on the plane at the Ann. Arbor airport. Although neither .Corwin Denney, '43, nor Karl Schakel, '42. Purdue, had ever seen a helicopter, they went right ahead and built a plane from .theories and ra ci4ani.Q .,rh4 it'.T"n n a,,AP;. ters ever built . . . Less than half the horsepower of its single engine is nec- essary to lift it from the ground, and it is expected to have a cruising.speed of 100 miles per hour, 40 miles faster than the known speed of any other heli- copter . . . Bristling with unique features and safe- ty-angles, the exact new features of the plane are a military secret as the boys expect an Army Air Corps contract in the fu- ture. * * * FINAL PLAY Production offering of the season, the opera "Hansel and Gretel," was acclaimed by students and townspeople at its ini- tial performance last Wednesday, despite a blast- ing orchestra and fourteen angels with "rotating hips" who marred the otherwise excellent production. * * * AT LONG last Lutheran students of the Missouri Synod will have a building of - their own for worship and social activities when the Michigan district of the chuirch.'tas overn ,.the Blue are at present with- out a home opener on the fall schedule, due to MSC's recent cancellation of all games and ban on the pig- skin for the duration . The cancellation of the Sept. 25 game breaks a gridiron tradition which has lasted since the first Michigan - MSC game in 1898 . :. Juggling of foot- ball schedules is necessary for the fall now, to provide the team now shaping up under Coach Fritz Crisler's able direction with an op- ener ... Likely candidates for the vacancy are Great Lakes, Iowa Seahawks and Purdue, according to Coach Crisler, who expects to have a substituting .team on the docket shortly . . Although Great Lakes has the Sept. 25 slug already filled, the Great Lakes team looks the most prob- able choice, as Big Ten schools are committed to help service teams in mak- ing schedules whenever possible .. .Juggling would enable the opener to be played here and leave an opener for the second game, likewise broken by