WSO Ttitf MICH I AN DAILV WTEDNESDAY, AUG. Fifty-Third Year I'd Rather Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON HEADED FOR DISASTER: More Muddle on Russia 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 Offica at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as gecond-class mail matter. , Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier $4.25, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Editorial Staff Press, 1942-43 NEW YORK, Aug. 18.- Marshal Badoglio's foreign policy is a deliberate quest for ambiguity. He wants Italy's role to be uncertain; he is vague, but vague on purpose; he seeks to play a kind of out-of-focus part in the war. His goal is an Italy left alone, left out of the conflict by both sides. Badeglio's declaration that Rome is an open city is partial progress toward this aim. He seeks to make Rome a speck of neutrality in the heart of a belligerent Italy. He has tried to seize for Rome the immunity which he would like to obtain for all of Italy. And so he says, preposterously, that Rome is not de- fended. But Rome is defended. It is defended by the rest of Italy. It is defended by Italian and Ger- man armies. A city is usually declared to be an open city only in the final, desperate stages of land warfare; the customary purpose of such a declaration is to prevent the destruction of a city by abandoning its defense. The defense of Rome has not been abandoned. This, in little, is exactly what Badoglio is try- ing to obtain, in big, for all of Italy: defense against us, yet immunity from us; a dubious state of peace without surrender; security from the war without abandoning the war. I am for international law as much as the next man. But there is no reason why we should abanden common sense because a dic- tator has uttered the sacred words. We must remember that this same Badoglin. the Duke of Addis Ababa, who has now wrapped himself in the mantle of international law, once used mustard gas against naked Ethiopians. Now that legality serves his purpose, he is being as legal as he can be. His respect for interna- tional law is new. and convenient. One wonders what the Greeks will think of this sudden Italian respect for international law, and the Albanians also. There is an old axiom of Anglo-Saxon law to. the effect that he who asks equity must do equity. It would be inter- esting to play with the thought of asking Italy, through neutral negotiators on the question of Rome, to renounce all claim to Greece and Al- bania. We might ask that Italy order the imme- diate return of all Italian troops from both coun- tries where, in accordance with international law, they have no right to be. Otherwise; we are going to have Rome as an island of law in an ocean of lawlessness.. Italian soldiers will be helping to starve and execute patriotic Greeks in Athens, while enjoy- ing the benefits of more civilized conceptions of warfare back at home. The ultimate decision, must be left to Gen. Eisenhower. If he accents the declaration that Rome is an open city, that decision will be supported by good Americans in the name of international morality. But there is no reason why we should= not make the conditions as hard as possible. For example, we might include as one condition a requirement that Italy ship no more American prisoneV of war to Germany. We must seek fo'r conditions which will help to knock Italy out of the war. Badoglio is trying to separate the question of Rome from the question of the war; he is trying to make us think of Rome as an isolated prob- lem, a thing-in-itself. 1 Marion Ford tIud Brimmer Leon Gordenker Harvey Frank Mary Anne Olson . Ed Podliashuk B leanne Lovett Molly Ann Winokur . .f Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Sports Editor Women's Editor Columnist ss Staff Business Manager Associate Business Manager usine.: NIGHT EDITOR: VIRGINIA ROCK Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. SELF-DECEPTION: Stalin Should Have Been Invited to Conference TOE STALIN isn't necessary at the big-wig con- ference between Roosevelt and Churchill, presumably about the war in the Pacific, so he isn't asked to attend. Furthermore, the argument runs, he probably couldn't have come to Canada anyhow, and a representative would have little power without referring his decisions to his boss for approval, so why ask Russia to sit in and voice an opinion on the Far East? There are a number of good reasons why Russia should sit in, if possible, or should at least, have been asked to the party. The theory that Russia is concerned only with European aspects of the war is an oversight that could have very serious consequences for Eng- land and the United States. Russia may be fighting a war in the West, but what happens afterwards?4 The wind that blows from the Kremlin is a chill one right now. Russia knows what she , wants, and no considerations like cooperation with Britain and America are going to keep her from following her own path if the route of the United Nations looks a trifle rocky for the Sov- iets. Stalin proved that fact long ago when he made the famous non-aggression pact with Hit- ler that gave American and British leaders such a headache. As far as the war in the Pacific goes, Russia is strategically located in a better position to attack Japan than either the United States or Britain. Vladivostok is nearer to Japan proper and to Manchuria, Korea and the Jap holdings in China than either American or British pos- sessions are at present. AFTER EUROPE is mopped up, a three flank attack by England, America and Russia would give the Allies that much better chance of ending the Jap war short of the years that now seem inevitable. What is more to the point, is the fact that Stalin wouldn't kick at the prospect of taking over a slice of Manchuria. Unless he is counted in with Roosevelt and Churchill as Allied bigwig number 3, he isn't going to let little 'considera- tions like who is his ally and who isn't keep him from taking over just what he wants. A Russia inimical to British and American interests would sound the death knell of Al- lied hones for a satisfactory post-war peace. And Stalin is no altruist. If his is left out in the cold now, we may expect to he left in the same situation later when Stalin decides on his own peace and peace settlements. Only self-deception can hold that we don't need Russia's help now and later. We need Russia beating Germany. Later we shall need 'Russian help against Japan.LAnd we shall need to cooperate with Russia now if we expect her to cooperate with us later in the final mopping up of Europe and the Far East. W HETHER OR NOT Russia could attend the Roosevelt-Churchill conference, the ges- ture of asking her was a vital one. Once Stalin feels that he is to have little voice in the fight- ing and the settling of the war he will follow his own oath toward the outlook of greatest benefit for Russia. Once before he did this, when the United Na- tions backed down and left Czechoslovakia to her fate The result was the Russo-German non-aggression pact in 1938. The results of this pact: the attack on Poland by the Reds, should be ample proof that Stalin is no man to try to hoodwink, now above all other times. Stalin is a realist, and Russia is his prime con- But Rome cannot be separated from the war. Badoglio cannot even sneeze without affecting the war, and his move in regard to Rome is full of meaning for the w r. It is designed, to keep northern Italy unrest from seeping southward. It is designed as the first move toward- a bizarre neutrality. It is de- signed to provide a safe, neutralized base in which the House of Savoy may luxuriate while trying to deal with both sides. So. since Badoglio has invented a new and unheard-of concept of the "open city," let us invent new and unheard-of conditions. Let us mix a little justice with our law. Let us set up conditions so hard that Badoglio cannot meet them without leaving the war. Let us make Rome safe by insisting on terms that will knock ! Italy out of the war and help make the whole world safe. (Copyright. 1943, N.Y. Post Syndicate) EVERYBODY says that, of course, E we've got to get along with the Russians, but the fact remains that our relations with Moscow today are steadily getting worse and there are no: signs whatever that either we or the Russians are doing anything about it. Take the latest little flare-up over whether Stalin was invited to attend the Churchill-Roosevelt conference in Quebec. The Soviet news agency, Tass, says Stalin was not invited. Both the White House and the State Dept. skate all around the subject, but never come clean as to whether he was or he wasn't. OnFriday there was no comment at the White House on the Tass story except a reference to FDR's press conference earlier in the week which had left the specific question hang- ing in the air. And Secretary Hull, with one of those involved answers that say nothing, told his press conference that he had not checked closely into the question because the Pres- ident usually gave personal atten- tion to such matters. He didn't seem the slightest bit aware that he was convicting himself of an extraordinary degree of ignorance in a matter which ought to be keeping any American Secretary of State awake half the night. But herdid say indclassic phrases that there was no doubt FDR and the heads of the other United Na- tions were keeping one another in- formed on all phases of their respec- tive situations and attitudes. To which the answer is nonsense, and why can't people say what they have to say without beating about 40 bushes in which to say it? MAYBE there was no reason to ask Stalin to this conference. May- be Churchill and FDR have enough problems of particular interest to the U.S.A. and Great Britain to warrant a wholly British-American meeting. But why let the entire business be- come clouded in a fuzzy, hair-split- ting contest in semantics that is simply one more useless hindrance to solution of a problem that is diffi- cult enough at best? And the problem seems no near- er solution than it did a year ago. sMilitarily, the Russians still are calling for a second front in Eur- ope. We say we've already opened a second front, that what the Rus- sians are talking about is a third front. More semantics, this time arithmetical. Perhaps we're doing the best we can. There is good reason to think that we are and that we'll soon be doing lots more. But we've failed to convince the Russians, and, when you argue with them, all they'll answer is: "We're fighting 200 German divi- sions, you're fighting two or three." Eventually, this military problem will solve itself as we really get roll- ing, but there still are vast political problems that are not being ap- proached by either side with the can- dor that is essential. The Russians start a free Germany movement about which we know nothing, de- spite Hull's assurances that both sides are keeping each other in- formed. And we follow a policy of. placating a Badoglio government in Italy that arouses a whole new train of Russian suspicions all over again. EVEN NOW the anti-Soviet, isola- tionist cress in the U.S.A. is in full cry 'against Russia with a boldness that its editors manfully curbed when they weren't quite so sure that we would win the war. In the last few weeks, we've had accusations that Russia is going to make a deal with Germany; that Russia wants to com- munize all of Europe; that Russia wants to keep us out of Europe, though God knows how this squares with the cordial invitations the Rus- sians have been giving us for the past year and a half to come in. Now the latest is that the Russians want to pull some kind of a deal in the Far East that .will squeeze us, the British and the Dutch out. It's silly to stop and argue now as to whose fault it is that neither we nor the Russians have been making any progress in getting to- gether. If FDR and Churchill and Stalin don't seem to be able to get together then, at least, some of the smaller fry ought to. Russia has had no ambassador in Washington since May 10; we have in Moscow, Adm. Standley, who, at best, is no heavyweight. The least we can do is get our respective ambassadorial relations on a sound basis. If there is any one job that FDR and Churchill need to tackle at Que- bec, it is the horrible mess into which our relations with Moscow are get- ting. Because if we don't solve it, we're headed for a first-class disas- ter. -PM GRIN AND BEAR IT i - The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON .1 .I WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.- Certain govern- ment officials who deal with the liquor industry strongly suspect that a multi-million dollar boot- leg operation has developed in the United States. They began to smell something when got the latest figures, which show that the amount of liquor being withdrawn from warehouses for sale to the public is only 55 percent of last year. And there is every evidence that actual consumption of liquor not only has not dropped to 55 percent, but is even greater than last year. America learned the tricks of bootlegging some years ago, when bootlegging was really beset with difficulties. It was illegal, during prohibi- tion days, to distill liquor, to bottle it, and to sell it. Today, however, none of these processes is in itself illegal. Temptation to carry on bootleg operations is very strong because of the vast quantities of alcohol available, and the tremendous profit in marketing this alcohol as a beverage. In- dustrial alcohol costs only 90 cents a gallon. Add five cents for "cleaning" the denatured alcohol, another five cents for bottling, and you have a 190-proof 7allon of "beverage" which, after adding water to reduce the "proof," is marketable at $38 a gallon. The difference between a cost price of $1 a gallon and the retail price of $38 is apparently more than some producers can resist. NOTE: Alcohol Tax Unit inspectors are as- signed to distilleries, but not to plants using industrial alcohol, as in the manufacture of paints or anti-freeze mixtures, More Meat A Washington housewife walked into a chain store market with 35 red points and a hunger for ham. She said to the butcher, "Could I get half a ham? I have only 35 points." The butcher produced a six-pound piece. The lady did a little mental arithmetic. Nine points a pound, times six pounds, equals 54 points. "But I don't have 54 points," she said. "That's all right. Lady," said the butcher. "You can take it anyway. We have more hams around here than we know what to do with." This is the first twitter of what will soon become a welcome chorus. Pork products are coming onto the market with a rush. In fact, marketings of both hogs and cattle are shoot- ing upward, and this trend will continue through the late summer and fall. Total U.S. meat production for 1943 is offi- cially estimated at 23% billion pounds-nearly two billion pounds more than 1942, and by far the largest meat production in the history of the United States. This staggering figure is so much greater than the 4.8 billion pounds required for the armed forces and Lend-Lease that there will be a com- fortable quantity left over for civilian consump- tion. Nevertheless, there is no plan to raise the -4- 11-.x. - .nvfa ncm t l i- a a it tioning-will produce more of the irregular marketing which the Washington housewife encountered at the local store. Rubber Deluge Officials in the office of the Rubber Adminis- trator are beginning to wonder what they can do with the hundreds of thousands of tons of synthetic rubber which will come from the new plants next year. It seems a little late, but they are now facing the elementary question of whe- ther or not the tire companies can handle the vast quantities of synthetic rubber. The greatest amount of rubber ever processed by the nation's rubber companies in one year was 540,000 tons. But next year we shall have nearly one million tons to deal with. Obviously, the present facilities will be inadequate. But the problem is aggravated by the fact that tire manufacturing machinery has been knocked down and stored away so that rubber companies could convert to production for the war. Instead of tires, they have been making rubber boats, balloons, tank treads, and life rafts. Thus we have the problem of finding new plant space in which to bring that machinery back into production, and the further problem of creating entirely new productive facilities to take care of the increased quantities of rubber which will be available for manufacture. Note: The problem of synthetic rubber tires, as previously noted in this column, is quality, not quantity. There will not be enough natural rubber to mix with synthetic to insure a high quality in heavy duty tires. Badoglio Stymied State Department officials believe that Badog- lio took office with the definite intention of getting Italy out of the war and that he cannot turn back from that purpose. But if he had proceeded directly, the Germans would have stepped in and Badoglio would have stepped out before he could catch his breath. It must be remembered that tht German force in Italy is not merely a, military force. German civilian officials are in control of practically all railroad, telegraph, and other communication facilities, as well as holding or supervising important municipal and provin- cial government posts. Thus it becomes im- possible for the Italian government to take any step without the Germans being fully aware. According to this view, the Badoglio "coopera- tion" with the Nazis is no indication of what he may hope to do, or try to do later. Likewise, the subsiding of civilian protests against the Badog- lio government should not be regarded as indi- cating that Badoglio has resorted to the same suppressive measures as Mussolini. State Department officials point out that liberal civilian elements have now shown their hand and thus become vulnerable to Nazi re- prisal. Thousands of men have signed mani- fncnu ln c-nr.- of piaal ri eters have "See? That's all the deduction you're allowed-presuming that you're single, of course!" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN - WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18, 1943 VOL. LIII, No. 37-S 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. Notices Change in University Year Salary Payments in 1943-1944: During the 'year 1943-1944 salai'ies for those on the academic or university year basis will be paid as follows: Summer Session Summer session staff will be paid in two equal installments on July 31 and Aug. 31, 1943. Summer Term (a) Those teaching the first half only will be paid in two equal install- ments on July 31 and Aug. 31, 1943. (b) Those teaching the second half only will be paid in two equal installments on Sept. 30 and Oct. 31, 1943. (c) Those teaching the entire term will be paid in four equal in- stallments on July 31, Aug. 31, Sept. 30, and Oct. 31, 1943. Fall and Spring Terms 1943-1944: Salaries will be paid in eight equal installments on Nov. 30, 1943 and on the last day of each succeeding month through June 30, 1944. Annuity and Insurance and Group Surgery and Hospitalization Deduc- tions: For those teaching through the fall and spring terms, whether during the summer or not, one- eighth of total annual requirements for annuity anti insurance premiums will be deducted from each of the eight checks received during the per- iod from November through. June. For group surgery and hospitaliza- tion, two monthly premiums will be deducted in November, one will be deducted from each payment from December through May, and four monthly premiums will be deducted from the June payment to cover the summer months. The above arrangements are for the year 1943-1944 only and are oc- casioned by the change in the aca- lowing Civil Service Examinations. The United States: Senior Horti- culturists with the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, place of duty- various Central American countries. The salaries are $4,600 per year plus overtime (approxi- mately $5,000). Further information may be had from the notice which is on file in' the office of the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 201 Mason Hall, office hours 9-12 and 2-4. -Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Lectures Prof. H. B. Calderwood will speak this afternoon at 4:15 o'clock on "Postwar International Organization -Global Aspects." The lecture will be in the Rackham Amphitheatre under the auspices of the program in Regional Administration and Con- struction. Dr. Clifford Woody of the School of Education will speak at 4:10 o'clock this afternoon in the Uni- versity High School Auditorium on "Achievements' in Arithmetic by High School Students." Academic Notices College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Architecture; Schools of Education, Forestry, Music, and Public Health: Summer Session stu- dents wishing a transcript of this summer's work only should file a re- quest in Room 4, U.H., several days before leaving Ann Arbor. Failure to file this request before the end of the session will result in a needless delay of several days. -Robert H. Williams Assistant Registrar Students, College of Engineering: The final day for DROPPING COURSES WITHOUT RECORD will be Saturday, Aug. 21. A course may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier, after conference with the instructor. Students, College' of Engineering: The final day for REMOVAL OF IN- without E grade after Saturday, Aug. 21. In administering this rule, stu- dents with less than 24 hours of credit are considered freshmen. Ex- ceptions may be made in extraordin- ary circumstances, such as severe or long-continued illness. -E. A. Walter Physical Education-Women Stu- dents: Registration for physical edu- cation classes for the last eight weeks will take place in Room 14, Barbour Gymnasium on Friday, Aug. 20. Seniors: August and October 1943: College of L. S. and A., Schools of Education, Music, and Public Health. Tentative lists of August and Octo- ber 1943 graduates have been posted in Rm. 4, U. Hall. Please check the list and notify the counter clerk of any discrepancies. -Robert L. Williams Assistant Registrar Faculty of College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; College of Architecture and Design; School of Education; School of Forestry and Conservation; School of Music; and School of Public Health: Class lists for use in reporting SUMMER SES- sion grades of undergraduate stu- dents enrolled in these units, and also graduate students in the Schools of Forestry and Conservation, Music, and Public Health, were mailed Mon- day, Aug. 16. Anyone failing to re- ceive their lists should notify the Registrar's Office, Miss Day, 'phone 582, and duplicates will be prepared for them. -Robert L. Williams Assistant Registrar English II Section 3: There will be a conference today. -Kenneth Rowe Dr. Paul C. Hodges, Professor of Rbentgenology at the University of Chicago, will give the annual Alpha Omega Alpha initiation lecture on "The Role of Radiography in Medi- cine" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31, in the third floor amphitheatre in the Horace H. Rackham Building. All interested persons are invited to atteni.