mv Pa r19 TTWMICHIGAN flAITY S h\rAV. ATM. &2k. 141.1 .,F W Fifty-Third Year -.t. ~ T1 I 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 durkig 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 Editorial Marion Ford BudBriner Leon Gordenker Harvey Frank Mary Anne Olson Ed Podliashuk Staff Managing Editor . Editorial Director *. . City Editor. . . . Sports Editor Women's Editor Columnist . . Business Staff Ieanne Lovett . . . Business Manager Molly Ann Winokur Associate Business Manager NIGHT EDITOR: MARJ BORRADAILE Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. RUSSIA AGAIN: American Public Should Adopt Friendly Attitude RUSSIA again - editorial writers, columnists and cartoonists have all explored the misty realms of Russian feelings for the United Na- tions and the United Nations feelings for Russia. The question could be settled, they insist, if only the powers could get together for a discussion. The Soviet labor magazine "War and the Working Class" calls for a three-power confer- ence of Britain, Russia and the United States. Commentators have been loud in their condem- nation of the Quebec meeting saying that Russia should have had a gilt-edged engraved invita- tion. But, would a mere meeting suffice to settle the complicated feelings existing between- the Allied Nations and Russia? It would assuredly settle specific plans of war strategy, but what would happen if Joseph Stalin raised a cynical eye-brow and asks about popular sentiment toward his nation, or asks the Allied leaders to explain things like cartoons suggesting that we be even more suspicious of Russia than -we already are? WHAT would happen if he asked about the bit- ter criticism about "Mission to Moscow?" And what if he asks how we dare even think of send- ing Eden and Wells to discuss war aims, when Churchill and Roosevelt have been whipping across the world: "Casablanca, Washington and Quebec." Is this an admission that we fear our leaders wouldn't be safe going to Russia, or are they too busy to confer with our most powerful Ally. In either case as has been said countless times, we are in no possition to antagonize Russia. When their own publications recognize the need of such a meeting and the entire public wonders why we risk such a breach this time is certainly ripe for a trip to Stalin's headquarters to talk over the whole situation. Thuis far, the United Nations have done lit- tle to impress Russia. The North African cam- paign, and the march through Sicily weren't too ipportant as far as Russia's immediate war aims were concerned. "Action they de- mand instead of words," and they add we'd en- joy having some of the words exchanged with us directly. More important than words or actions will be a change of attitude on the part of every per- son.' One cannot ask complete suspension of suspicion about a people and country different than their own-but at least give them an op- portunity to explain themselves. -Margaret Frank 'HOME' FRONT: Antidote for Delinquency of Juveniles Pro posed THOSE WHOSE work brings them closest to the problem of Juvenile delinquency know that today, more than ever before, there is need for the right kind of adult companionship for thousands of boys and girls who have lost it be- cause of dislocations of the war. On of the greatest present steeds is foster homes for dependent, neglected, and delin- quent children and youngsters whose families are so busy in the war effort that proper sup- DREW C x PEARSON'S MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON, Aug. 22--While the U S.A. will be literally flooded with synthetic rubber next year, it remains a tragic fact that the Amer- ican public will still be in extremely bad shape for tires.' This is not only because we lack enough natural rubber to mix with the synthetic, but also because the Army and Navy with the War Production Board have been inexcusably slow in permitting the rubber factories to build facilities for manufacturing tires. After Pearl Harbor the big rubber companies converted their plants to making rubber boats, bullet-proof gasoline tanks, now have few tire manufacturing facilities. So last April various rubber companies approached the War Produc- tion Board for permission to build new plants to make tires. The matter went to the Industrial Facilities Committee. There the question of providing for civilian tire manufacture came to a dead stop. The Industrial Facilities Committee would not move. For months nothing happened. Rub- ber companies kept warning the admirals and generals on the Facilities Committee that they could not handle synthetic tire production without new plants and equipment. But noth- ing happened. Finally WPB vice-chairman Charles E. Wilson stepped into the picture. Also Donald Nelson roused himself. At long last, after nearly six months' delay, the rubber companies finally got the green light in August. However, it will now take time to build new factories and install new manufacturing equip- ment. The delay will mean that the huge quantity of snythetic rubber coming on the market next winter cannot be converted into tires as soon as expected., Note: Members of the molasses-moving Indus- trial Facilities Committee are: William B. Mur- phy, Chairman; Mahlon E. Simpson, vice-chair- man; Baltimore banker Howard Bruce for the Army Service Forces; Gen. F. M. Hopkins, Jr., for the Air Forces; Rear Admiral Claude A, Jones for Navy Procurement; Rear Admiral E.M. Pace for Naval Aeronautics; Fred Searles for the Maritime Commission. * * * Army Red Tape... WASHINGTON, D.C., and Maryland manu- facturers were summoned to the War Depart- ment the other day for a series of lectures on plant security. The idea was to prevent accidents, fires and sabotage in war plants. Col. Carl G. Richmond of the Provost-Marsh- all's office gave an excellent talk on fire preven- tion; then Capt. John F. Kerkam talked on personal security, namely preventing sabotage or the employment of foreign agents. Captain Kerkam was extremely frank. "In one case," he 'frankly admitted, "a truck backed up to the War Department loaded with a ton of questionnaires from a large plant in Baltimore. We couldn't possibly handle them all, so we boxed them up and sent them back." Local manufacturers hope the Capt. Kerkam's refreshing frankness will mark an end, or at least a lessening of the ceaseless flow of govern- ment questionnaires which deluge war plants. After Kerham finished, one official of the Poto- mac Electric Co. remarked:. "Can you imagine the state of mind of plant executives who have spent $50,000 getting those questionnaires filled out, to have them all re- turned! " He related that it cost about $2 each to have a questionnaire filled out and that his com- pany had dutifully filled out more then 1,200 of them regarding its "key men" as requested ominie Says WITHIN OUR American life, there is a new and subtle skepticism. Bewildered by the complex nature of our civilization, unacquainted with the controls, skeptical as to the ability of man to agree, our people are weary. They try in vain to live in cities the simple life. Not a few dispair of social cohesion and, discrediting hu- man nature, question the democratic process. Others, pushed about from job to job without a ,part in the bargaining, caught up first with much goods but no income with which to buy; and then thrown down by much income but a scarcity of goods to purchase, are confused. Yet others, made dependent not on nature nor the self, find themselves responsible to a money"- making stranger and some remote management. Being taxed for dues and frozen to their jobs, they have taken refuge in fatalism. This retreat is similar to that of the Continental nihilists. Insofar as it distrusts man, God and the func- tions of consciousness, it has the effect of a neurosis. Men of our tradition, broadly considered, ac- cept three forces which plan upon each other and our civic life should keep- these three in full freedom. First there is that stream of ten- dency, the dynamic of existence by which life goes on and on with a sublime continuity and a reassuring certainty. Therein these herditary forces with such imponderables as birth, growth, energy, thought, social necessity, mating, death and memory, impinge on us. Second, there is that cross-section of life at any given time, whereby the objective world can register upon men's organism, mind and personality the cur- refit wisdom which society has achieved to date. It is commonly called environment. The third factor is referred to as personal response by the religious, but called "the creativity of man" by those who avoid religious implications. The society in which we find ourselves turns dramat- ically upon this third factor. To assume that no "wave of future" nor other unrelated power op- erates outside of nor in spite of these three fac- tors is to live the life of faith and courage. Institutions, movements, men and the very habits which seem fixed are interwovenand suf- fer interactions of far reaching significance. Even "the good" itself which men personalize as GOD does not set these forces aside nor become the determiner of our future. Much less can business acumen, political expedience, nation- al greatness nor any other device, plot, or scheme of man hope to reach control by a leap. The future will be what man, in cooperative under- standing, and that mutual support traditionally called Grace; can bring to pass. And, says religion, when the transaction cul- minates the stern justice of sheer goodness will be at its heart. Religion insists that certainty is assured or can be attained by men, because our universe has integrity and God cares. Only those who share in this adventure of faith at ascending levels of experience and can live as adventurers, choosing a goal and going persistently toward it, as whatever cost, will grow consistently in wis- dom or come to appreciate the spiritual values involved. To gain meaning thus and to live above the incidental results, whether they bring a cross or a crown, is victory. That is far different from leaping upon a trend just because it seems sure to win next week. This deep and eternal mutuality and its lessons may be said to consti- tute what the ethical'theist means by "being re- ligious." -Edward W. Blakeman Counselor in Religious Education by the War Department. Then the Army sent the forms back again, saying they wanted questionnaires filled out only for the top exec- utives. So perhaps Capt. Kerkam did a real favor to industry. (Copyright, 1943, United Features Syndicate) (Continued from Page 3) ports are due not later than Wednes- day, Aug. 25. Report cards are being distributed to all departmental offices. Green cards are being provided for fresh- man-reports; they should be returned to the office of the Academic Coun- selors, 108 Mason Hall. White cards, for reporting sophomores, juniors, and seniors should be returned to 1220 Angell Hall. Midsemester reports should name those students, freshman and upper- class, whose standing at mid-semes- ter is D or E, not merely those who receive D or E in so-called mid-sem- ester examinations. Students electing our courses, but registered in other schools or col- legesof the University should be re- ported to the school or college in which they are registered. Additional cards may be had at 108 Mason Hall or at 1220 Angell Hall. -E. A. Walter Freshmen, Summer Term, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Freshmen may not drop courses 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 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 College of Literature, Science,. and the Arts, and Architecture; Schools of Education, Forestry, Music, and Public Health: Summer Session stu- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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 --- ______ College of Architecture and Design, School of Education, School of For- estry and Conservation, School of Music, School of Public Health: Mid- semester reports indicating students enrolled in these units doing unsatis- factory work in any unit of the Uni- versity are due in the Office of the school Aug. 25 at noon. Report blanks for this purpose nlay be se- cured from the office of the school or from Rm. 4 University Hall. -Robert L. Williams Assistant Registrar English 177: second 8 weeks of the Summer Term, will meet MTuWTh, 2. in 3010 A.H. -L. I. Bredvold English 107: second 8 weeks of the Summer Term, will meet in 301 U.H., MTuWTh, 1. -F. Fletcher Mr. Altan Baltacioglu, a graduate student in the University, of Istan- bul, Turkey; will speak on "Old Is- lamic Architecture" at 8 o'clock Thursday evening, Aug. 26. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Concerts Record Concert at Horace H. Rackham School: Another of the weekly concerts will be given Tues- day evening at 7:45 p.m. The pro- gram will consist of the following recordings: Corelli's Sonata in D Major; Haydn's Symphony No. 104 in D Major; Beethoven's Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor; Tschaikowski's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, and Strauss' Emperor Waltz. Servicemen are cordially ii- vited to join the Graduate Students at these concerts. Student Recital: Irene Bernstein, pianist, will present a recital for her Bachelor of Music degree at 8:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 23, in Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. Her program will consist of compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Tcherepnine and Brahms. The public is invited. Events Today International Center: An informal "American evening" for the purpose of welcoming the group of newly- arrived Latin - American graduate dental students will be held in the Center starting at 8 p.m. Refresh- ments will be served. All foreign stu- dents and i:terested Americans are invited to attend. The Lutheran student Association will meet at 5:30 o'clock. Lutheran students and servicemen are cordial- ly invited to this meeting whh will be at the home of Rev, and Mrs. Henry Yoder, 215 E. William Street. Coming Events Dr. Paul C. Hodges, Professor of Roentgenology 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 amphitheatrein the Horace H. Rackham Building. All interested persons are invited to attend. Churches v First Presbyterian Church: Morn- ing Worship-10:45 a.m. "God and the Unfulfilled," subject of sermon by Dr. Lemon. Nursery-10:45 a.m. (for children under six years of age). The First Baptist Church: 512 E. Huron St. The Rev. C. H. Loucks, minister. Mrs. Geil Orcutt, associate student counselor. Sunday, August 22: 10:00 a.m.- The Class for students will meet in the balcony of the Church to review the religious concepts of the letters of Paul. 11:00 a.m.-The Church at worship. The Rev. H. 0. Smith of Yonkers, N.Y. will preach on "Our Thoughts That No One Else Knows." 7:00 p.m.-At the meeting of the Roger Williams Guild at the Guild House, 502 E. Huron St., Miss Mary Ella Durigg will lead a discussion on "The Church." St. Andrew's Episcopal Church: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion; 11:00 a.m. Junior Church (Nursery--4th Grade), Tatlock Hall; 11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon by the Rev. Robert M. Muir, Student Chap- lain; 5:00 p.m. Canterbury Club for students and servicemen. Swiniming and picnic supper at the Moehlman Residence; Barton Hills. Please meet at Page Hall not later than 5p.m. for transportation. There will be a cele- bration of the Holy Communion in the church at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24, in commemoration of St. Bar- tholomew the Apostle. First Church of Christ, Scientist: 409 S. Division St., Wednesday eve- ning service at 8 p.m. Sunday morn- ing service at 10:30. Subject "MIND." Sunday School at 11:45. Free public Reading Room at 106 E. Washington St. open every day except Sunday and holidays from 11:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., Saturdays until 9 p.m. GRIN AND BEAR IT BY I 2/cvf Lichty i'j ,1 -- s "I thought that city helper would be wild about the smell of new-mown hay-but he just wants to stand and sniff at the gas tank on the tractor'" I'd Rather Be, Right BySAMUEL GRAFTON THE MICHIGAN DAILY SERVICE EDITION NEW YORK, Aug. 22-The new stage of war finds the Germans without a plan. They are en- gaged in a grotesque military enterprise, a war of attrition against superior forces. They kill and are killed, but on the pages of this bloody ledg- er, the Allied balance grows and rust continue to grow. Each day that the German people prolong the war, or allow it to be prolonged, worsens their position. We are now able to say to them, unsentimentally, and without any need to pose as their friends, that continuation of the war means extension of the process of exchanging the lives of their sons for the reluctant services of enslaved Russian housemaids and Polish factory workers. The best the Germans can hope for now is to save their skins, to save their physical existences, their lives. But this is exactly what the war will not let them do. The war is worse than any peace which could be imposed upon 'them. It is unthinkable that any terms of peace would call for killing up to 5,000 Germans a day, and the daily shipment into Germany of 5,000 foreigners to take the places of the German dead. No government in the world would impose so criminal and deadly a program on Germany: Yet that is Hitler's program. He has no other. If it were the Allied aim deliberately to de- If the Allies wanted to destroy Germany, they would be compelled to want the war to continue, to hope that it might not end too soon. It would be hard to obliterate a German port by a clause in a treaty, but we do it now in ten nights. It is inconceivable that a condition of the peace should be the obliteration of Hamburg, but the obliteration of Hamburg is a mere inci- deut in the war. The frustration of the German summer of- fensive in Russia is part of the same picture of meaningless attrition. Here is what the Rus- sian General Rokossovsky now says about the German army: "I have fought against the fathers. Now I'm fighting the sons .. . I do, honestly think the fathers were the better soldiers. Hitler has ruined the German army. The German army is not a real army. It is an ersatz army." In other words, if it were out plan that Germany should have no army after the war, then Hitler is the best agent for that plan. Here is what Colonel Fred M. Dean of the United States' Army Air Forces says: "The enemy pilots we met in the last months no longer had the same fight, the same skill, the same-train- ing they showed when I first met them. They had p. few good leaders left and the rest seemed of education during and after the war . . . At the invitation of the British government, he will spend several weeks investigating war education and the adult education system used by the British army and to be used for educa- tion of returning service- men . . . This is a step in coordinating and develop- ing an international un- derstanding in educational problems, he said. 550 SUMMER SESSION students were given ad- vanced degrees and a mighty sendoff last week- end when the Navy- Marine -Chorus and First Methodist Choir were on deck and on hand to fur- nish special music . The 80-voice Navy-Marine Chorus composed of 71 sailors and 8 leathernecks in melodious fashion ren- dered the Navy hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" . . and the First T/'infiim.+hr n Addndto Arbor to attend the gradu- ation ceremonies of the 1st Officer Candidate Class of the Judge Advocate Gen- eral's School . . . Major General Myron C. Cramer, Brigadier General Thomas H. Green, Major General Blanton Winship, and Brigadier General Law- rence H. Hendrick will do the honors as approxi- mately 80 enlisted men re- ceive commissions as sec- ond lieutenants. THE 'OPEN DOOR POLICY' may work for China butmembers of three campus fraternities aren't so sure it is just the thing for Greek letter men. They have changed their mind since a thief or thieves lifted $232.50 from the Zeta Psi, 'Alpha Tau Omega, and Alpha Chi Sigma houses at the break of dawn this last week .. Inherent believers of the open door rule, house man- agers said thieves could have entered through ranks of an engineering honor society this week as Tau Beta Pi pledged Wil- liam Chapin, John DeBoer, Jack Elanbass, Alten Gileo, Lowell Hasel, Frank Lane, Dan Ling, John Linker, Robert Miller, Tom Muel- ler, Edward Orent, Henry Schmidt, Pete Smith, Ray- ,mond Tate, Paul Teeter, James Tootle, and Don Kurst. * * * ANN ARBOR, long with- out MP's, will have its share of them tomorrow as an 800-man battalion ar- rives for a one-day. show including a military pa- rade, sham battle, and camp life exhibition . Complete with tanks, jeeps, and guns, the battalion will salute local industry, labor, and agriculture . . . Led by a spirited 40-piece band, campus soldiers will fall in accompanied by the Air Corps Band, 240 men from Company A, Com- pany A's 3651st S. U. Bag- pipers and 400 men from the ROTC : .A con- . . . 95 volunteer women, including wives of Army and Navy officers, towns- people, and students, have worked 277 service hours . . . Top honors go to Mrs. Sione Grosjean, wife of an Ary officer, who has contributed 24 and one half hours in the last six weeks. * * * IF COACH "Fritz" Cris- ler were to name his Wol- verine football lineup right now; the Marines, though outnumbered by Navy trainees four to one, would have the.situation well in hand .. . After four weeks of summer practice, "the Maize and Blue coach has a reasonably good'idea who will carry the ball for Michigan this fall, and by the time regular autumn practice starts Aug. 30, just 20 days before the season opener, the mystery of the starting lineup for the Camp Grantgame will probably be out. . . During the, series of scrimmages iniries handicannnd snme ,,