PAGE FOUR THE MICIGAN DAlI. S ONTAY. JULY C x:943 .a. _.. ... -.. ..- ,. 1 11 L 1 1 1 V 11 l_ 1T L'1 S - L t'A 11L/ 1 -- alayawm. raa. eam. ius °a s.a' ffi Ma Fifty-Third Year The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON THE HUSH-HUSH METHOD: N ega ti ve Race 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 dr 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 Staff Marion Ford . . . . . . Managing Editor Bud Brimmer . . . . . Editorial Director Leon Gordenker . . . . . City Editor Harvey Frank . . . . . . Sports Editor Business Staff Jeanne Lovett . . . . . Business Manager kolly Winokur . . Associate Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: MARION FORD Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. ANTIRIOTS: New Cuban Race Laws Beat Nation to Punch CUBA HAS beaten us to the punch, Cuba has beaten its own race-hate mongers to the punch. Without waiting for the widespread riots which occurred in the United States to spread to Cuba, the Legislature passed a law making it a criminal offense to spread, encourageor practice racial discrimination and hatred. The legislature now has another bil advocating the severest penalties for such offenses.' Cuba has for long been called a dictatorship yet it saw this problem and squarely faced it. In a long-standing democracy like the United States, we certainly should have had a dozen such bills introduced in Congress after the De- troit riots. THE WAY to handle the riot situation is efin- itely not to say that riots just can't be helped, or that there is little that can be done about them. The way to handle race riots is by severe Federal penalties. It is shameful that Cuba has to show us the way, but it is always better late than never. The bill which would crack down on the advocates of all types of race, color, and creed haters ought to be introduced by a Con- gressman from Detroit to clear the name of that city. Let him come forward and prove to the people of Michigan and the country at large that the 34 riot casualties did not die in vain. -George Clark ANTI-SIKORSKY: Union of Polish Patriots Offers Plan for Poland THE POLISH territorial problem has at last been tackled by a Polish group and solved to at least that group's satisfaction. The solu- tion offered is that instead of forcing the Rus- sians to return Soviet populated Polish White Russia and the Polish Ukraine, the Poles ought to get complete control of Silesia and East Prus- sia. This seemingly original solution was offered at a recent meeting of the Union of Polish Patriots in the form of a resolution, which was adopted unanimously. Since the meeting was held in Moscow and since this group is head- ed by Wanda Wassilioska, noted pro-Soviet Polish leader, the resolution is undoubtedly acceptable to the Soviet Union. When Premier Stalin, several months ago said he wanted a strong Poland, he undoubtedly meant a Poland that would control East Prus- sia. Obviously a Poland of this sort would have to be on the best of terms with the Russians, or they could not permit it to exist. Now at last it is clear what Stalin meant. Russia will not give up the rightfully Soviet territories regained from Poland in 1939. How- ever in exchange it will allow Poland an access to the sea, making it a far greater world power than it ever was. And for slaves it offers them the German populace of East Prussia. THIS NEW TERRITORIAL development even if it is accepted by the Sikorski Govern- ment-in-Exile will not automatically reestablish Polish-Soviet diplomatic relations. The Rus- sians want a strong Poland, it is true, they want to give it East Prussia, but they do not want that Poland to be even under the remote control of the followers of the fascist Colonel Beck. The Sikorski Government in London is at least under the indirect control of the rabid anti-Soviet ele- ments. WASHINGTON, July 4-A battle royal is in the making over whether the new synthetic rub- ber now being produced in U. S. plants will stand up for use in automobile tires. There is no question about the quantity of synthetic rubber we are producing. There will be about twice as much synthetic next year as we normally require in a peactime year. But there is a question about the quality. Synthetic manufacturers say that when the motorist gets his first entirely synthetic tires, he will be unable to tell the difference between them and pre-war natural rubber tires. But Heiry Wallace and other champions of netural rubber flatly contradict this, declaring that syn- thetic rubber will have to be mixed with natural for a good tire of any wight, including light weight tires for passenger cars. Department of Agriculture's rubber expert, Dr. Elmer W. Brandes, Is' likewise skepticai. He brought back 'a piece of syntetic, rubler from Louisiana recently, found it hard and tough, lacking the elasticity of natural rib- her If'Wallace and Brandes prove to be right, 'it is possible that synthetic rubber will be a drug on the market next year, for want of enough natural rubber to mix With it. * * * High Rent Lobby If you find your rents being increased a few months hence, look up the record of the Smith Committee investigating the Office of Price Ad- ministration. Part of the record is secret; and as far as wing-collared Congressman Howard Smith of Virginia is concerned, he probably wants to keep it so. For he has allowed his supposedly impartial committee, charged with workin for the en- tire public not one particular group, become the tool of a pressure lobby, the National Associa- tion of Real Estate Boards. The Real Estate'Bords. are out to raise rents, and the Office of Price Administration is the 'chief stumbling blck in their path. So now they are using Congressman Smith's smear campaign against the OPA for all they are worth. '' Smith's chief counsel in this OPA probe is Harold AIen, former deputy policeconmiissioner of New York, who reignedafter he had engaged in a row with a hat eheck,girl ina NewYork ho- tel Mr. Allen 'is now supposed to investigate gov- ernment abuses. . The real estate lobby actually has been called upon to helpwrite the Smith0ommittee's re- port At a secret meeting of real estate operators at the Mayflower Hotel recently, the lobby lead- ers reported: "Counsel for the Smith Committee is going right ahead and writing the report to be made to Congress ... The recommendations {in the report) will take the form of suggested legis- lation to correct the injustices of the OPA ad- niinstration and to further define the author- ity of the Administrator. 'We have been asked to submit our own views on these recommendations, which we intend' to do. We called on the Counsel (Allen) for the Smith Committee yesterday afternoon and went over the first portion of his report. He is cer- tainly preparing to make a forceful presenta- tion of the case to Congress." In contrast to this favoritism toward real estate operators, . Congressman Smith and Counsel Allen have treated OPA officials with inexplicable high-handedness, even refusing to hear the testimony of Ivan Carson, chief of OPA field operations, who was a successful real estate operator many years before coming to the OPA. * * * Navy in a Gray Mood A new mood has struck the Navy-and their wives. It is the mood of seamen who have 'been denied shore leave. It is a mood which calls forth the saltiest language the Navy can devise. The Navy is not in a blue funk; it is in a. gray funk-all over the new slate gray uni- forms which have now been officially ordered. This brings to five the number of uniform types in the Navy, and it also brings tempers and pocket books to the breaking point. Furthermore, it may bring clothes rationing to the rest of the country-and it all happened because Admiral King went to an English tailor in London. It is none other than Admiral Ernest King himself, Commander in Chief.of the U. S. Fleet, who is imposing the new gray uniform on 130,000 reluctant officers. When King came back from London some months ago, he walked into the White House dressed in a snappy green uniform, and the President told him he looked very dash- ing. IKing resolved to substitute this green uni- form for the khaki which the Navy wears in in summer, and which nobody loves. He got the support of Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, Chief of the Bureau of Personnel. But when tests were made on shipboard, the green was found to be discernible against the gray back- ground of the ships, and thus endangered the wearers. So King switched to "slate gray," still with Jacobs' support. Now the order has been issued and officers are supposed to switch from khaki to grey as soon as their khakis wear out-or sooner, if they like. Many an officer has just bought a new set of yet he will be forced to the grays to keep abreast of the times. * * * Clothes Rationing Possible Result is not only a strain on his pocketbook, but a far more serious strain on the country's supply of clothing materials. Each of the Navy's x30,000 officers will require three or four new uniforms, plus new shirts and shoes. The tan shirts and shoes of the present uniforms are unsuited to the new grey outfit. The strain on clothing materials may be enough to tip the scales in the direction of clothes rationing for civilians. What's more a further strain on materials will result from the Navy's new regulation regarding winter uniforms. Instead of wearing white shirts exclusively, Navy officers will wear gray shirts with work uniforms, and white shirts with dress uniforms. Actually, there is no difference in the work and the dress uniform, except the braid on the sleeve. For some strange reason, if the braid goes all the way around the sleeve, the uniform is "dress;" but if it goes only half-way round, it is "work." An officer will not be allowed to wear his "half-stripe" work uniform with a white shirt, or his "full-stripe" uniform with' a grey shirt. He will have to have two or three "work" uni- forms, plus two or three "dress" uniforms, though there is no difference between them ex- cept the sleeve stripes. (Copyright, 1943, United Features syndicate) I'd Riather By SAMUEL GRAFTON I have a feeling that an increasing number of Frenchmen are beginning to side with de Gaulle, purely for the reason that he seems more French than Giraud; more French, in the sense that he has an independent policy, and is not an echo of America or England. Thus does our policy of favoring Giraud back- fire. I believe that Giraud's coming trip to Amer- ica, an ostentatious mark of our favor, will do a huge recruiting job for de Gaulle. Correspondents in Africa have, in some alarm, noticed what they call an emerging spirit of "French nationalism" around de Gaulle. They are surprised by this. They should be equally sur- irised by the fact that fire is hot or that water is almost always wet. HURRAH FOR SMITH, OR BROWN The French feel French. They do not feel American, they do not feel English; they feel French. As to their reaction to the de Gaulle- Giraud situation, ask yourself what the Ameri- can reaction would be if we, following a national misfortune, had two contenders for leadership, one of whom was favored by a brace of foreign countries. Take it even further: Suppose that one of these two would-be-fathers-of-their-country had fought the enemy every step of the way, had (.rganized the resistance against him, while the second had been picked out of a hat by two for- eign governments. Suppose that one of these men was well and favorably known to every enslaved patriot, while the second was hardly known at all. But suddenly it becomes a great big, burning issue that unity must be established with the second man. He is a man who, in the political sense, did not even exist eight months ago. This is a vital movement for unity with Smith, but it might just as easily have been a movement for unity with Jones, or Brown, if we had happened to pick Jones or Brown, instead of Smith. EVERY KNOCK A BOOST Under these circumstances, it is about as astonishing as sunrise that a French national movement should be developing about de Gaulle. In fact, the law of compensation is now hard at work. The more we snub de Gaulle, the more we convince Frenchmen that he is their leader. After three years of snubs, his prestige is at its zenith. The kinder we are to Giraud, the more partial- ity and preference we show for him, the more we persuade Frenchmen that Giraud is merely our man. It has been incredible innocence on the part of our State Department to invite Giraud to come to America, obviously on the theory that such a visit will help him. That may make Giraud look like a Churchill to us, but with de Gaulle left behind, it merely makes him look to Frenchmen like our white-haired boy. And the French are so tired of white-haired boys, select- ed wonders, picked leaders, careful arrange- ments, and behind-the-scenes conversations! THE FRENCH SPEAK FRENCH The people of France want to do; they are weary of being done to. We have waited three years for the voice of France to arise again.. Now that it is heard, we are childishly startled to find that it speaks French, and not English. At once we begin to mutter nonsense about the dangers of "French nationalism." We are surprised to find that the French have a will of their own. Maybe some of our agitated diplomats would like a tame, conservative French government, MAYOR EDWARD JEFFRIES of Detroit likes "to work in a quiet, unobtrusive way" to prevent' race riots-"on the theory that that's the best way." "Publicity," the mayor said, "would only aggravate the sit- uation and defeat the very thing we sought to accomplish." Throughout the history of Amer- ica's race problem there has existed a breed of weak and inadequate government officials who, like this mayor of Detroit, have fallen back upon the hush-hush method of dealing with the problem. Of all the alternative approaches to a dangerous situation, this approach is the one which requires abso- lutely no guts. It is the approach which inevitably fails. Here in Detroit Mr. Roosevelt may view the image of his own supremely negative policy toward the race cri- sis; and here in the tragedy of riot- ing and sullied national prestige he may witness a preview of the inevit- able failure of his policy. Mr. Presi- dent! It is time for you to say something and do something about this crisis. Throw off the negative advice of the hush-hush men about you and see this thing for the living open danger that it is. MSGR. HAAS' recent announce- ment that his FEPC committee would come to life and undertake an uncompromising investigation of Detroit discrimination was welcomed news, but it' was not enough. Educa- tional programs on race tolerance by committees, unions and other or- ganizations are not enough. The American Negro-maturing socially and politically; thru( up- ward through economic strata by the war economy; smarting at the mockery of a Four Freedoms war and a caste-ridden homefront-is challenging for a new social basis. This is one of those evolutionary currents of humanity, which no amount of high-flown white ora- tory will ever divert. And white America, North and South, driven by the subterranean fear and ig- norance in our culture, is beating back at the Negro with open vio- lence. No committee, no legion of committees, is going to be able to subdue this crisis through piece- meal efforts. As an emergency stop-gap mea- sure we need a great out-spoken speech by Mr. Roosevelt, discussing the race problem, pointing out its dangers to the war effort, appealing at last to the springs of simple ideal- ism which have all but dried up in our national life. And then, for the first time since 1876, we must tackle the race question with a broad na- tional policy. WE NEED a cabinet office for race relations, as Carey McWilliams suggests in his book "Brothers Under the Skin;" since this is a maximum and somewhat optimistic hope, we should at least expect to see created a powerful division for racial minor- ities within the Interior Department. We need a national fair racial practices act, patterned after the machinery of the Wagner act; the Administration at least should be- gin the fight to get it through. This Congress would almost certainly kill it, but the groundwork must be laid. We need strong Adminis- tration support of the anti-poll bill; not this contemptible hands- off policy. We need a propaganda technique by which the OWI can enter areas like Detroit and at- tempt to cut away the mounting tensions by open propaganda and educational campaigns. We need a program like the Farm Security Administration to lend Negro fam- ilies money to continue to leave the South in large numbers and to supervise their settlement in other areas. The concentration of the Negro population in the South has caused the caste system to develop a fiercely self - perpetuating tendency. The Southern poll tax cabal in Congress is one evidence. It seems to me that the long range solution of the race problem depends largely on . contin- ued migration of vast numbers of Southern Negroes. There are many, many things to be done. The mildest of them will meet with violent reaction from the South. But Mr. Roosevelt must accept that fact. The conditions which produced riots in Mobile, Beaumont, Los Angeles and Detroit continue to operate, and his pres- ent negative policy cannot possibly forestall other riots. Poisoned and festering situations like a race crisis don't solve themselves. May- or Jeffries can bear good witness to the fact. SOMETIMES late at night in the New York broadcasting area a Freedom House radio program signs off with a choral recording of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. "Mine eyes have seen the glory"-a stirring, nostalgic piece of America, reminis- cent always of Abraham Lincoln and his war. There is a rare quality that exists in thememoires of those times. Reading back over Lincoln's honest, open speeches on the race question, reading back over Whitman's on- rushing, eloquent democratic poetry, and the clean, high courage and morality that lived in Emerson's thoughts-I wonder, what is it that has gone out of American life, when we can sit by for three years and behold a mounting race crisis, with never a major protest by large num- bers of the Northern members of Congress, with never a bold and af- firmative act by the national gov- einment. -Thomas Sanction, PM I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1943 VOL. LII, No. 6-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 Students in Navy Training Pro- gram: All V-1 and V-7 students as- signed to University of Michigan should obtain orders for text books as follows: All Engineering from As- sistant Dean A. H. Lovell, 259 West Engineering Building; all others from Assistant Dean L. S. Wood- burne, 1208 Angell Hall. The General Library and all the Departmental Libraries will be closed Monday, July 5. Literature, Science and the Arts Juniors now eligible for Concentra- tion should get Admission to Con- centration blanks at Room 4 Uni- versity Hall, immediately. These blanks must be properly signed by the adviser and the original slip re- turned to Room 4, University Hall, at once. The Summer Chorus is being or- ganized under the direction of Rose Marie Grentzer of the School of Mu- sic -Faculty. Open to civilian and military students in any school or college. No registration or member- ship fee. Rehearsals 7:15-8:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Auditor- ium, School of Music. . The bell chamber of Burton Tower will be open to visitors interested in observing the playing of the caril- lon from 12 noon to 12:15 p.m. each Thursday until Aug. 19. Religious Counselor: At Room 215 Angell Hall, the Counselor in Reli- gious Education is available to all students from 11 to 12 and 3 to 4 daily.. Tickets for individual plays as well as season tickets for the series of 5 plays offered by the Michigan Rep- ertory Players will be placed on sale tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. in the box office, Lydia Mendelssohn The- ater. Productions to be presented include "Ladies in Retirement", "Al- ice Sit-by-the-fire", "Lady Precious Stream", "Papa Is All", and "Hansel and Gretel". The annual summer registration meeting of the University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational In- formation will be held Thursday, July 8, at 7:30 o'clock in Room 231 Angell Hall, for all people interested in securing new jobs or better jobs in all walks of life. There will also, be a short discussion of the present Academic Notices FACULTY, COLLEGE OF LITER- ATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ANTS: 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- sences, are printed on the attendance cards. They may also be found on page 52 of the 1941-42 ANNOUNCE- MENT of the 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 their election blanks by the close of the third week, even though they have registered and have attended classes unofficially will forfeit their privilege of continuing in the Col- lege. -E. A. Walter Medical Students: Any medical students on campus who 'made ap- plication for a room in Vaughan House for the summer or fall, 1943, should call at the Office of the Dean of Students to arrange for a refund of the ten dollar deposit. Elementary Radio, Electrical En- gineering 23n: The original plan to cancel EE 23n has been reconsidered and the course is to be given as scheduled. The first class will be held in Room 111 West Engineering Building, Tuesday afternoon, July 6, 2-5. Those who have inquired about the course and are interested in taking it, please attend. If fur- ther information isadesired please call the Electrical Engineering Of- fice, Extension 443. Graduate Students: Preliminary examinations in French and German for the doctorate will be held on Tuesday, July 6 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Dic- tionaries may be used. Coming Events The First Vesper Service will be held this evening at 7 p.m. in the First Congregational Church. The Michigan Christian Fellow- ship will offer its regular Sunday program this afternoon at 4:30 o'- clock in the Fireplace Room of Lane Hall. All students are invited to at- present a program of music for the piano by Chilean composers at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 6, in' the Assem- bly Hall of the Rackham Building. Admission by complimentary ticket obtainable Tuesday at the office of the School of Music. Record Hour: The first Record Hour of the Summer. Session will be held in the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies on Tues- day, July 6, at 7:45 p.m. The place- Men's Lounge on the second floor. All service men on the campus inter- ested in good music are cordially in- vited. Graduate Outing Club: Meets this afternoon at 2:30 in the club quar- ters in the Rackham Building for election of officers and choice of committee. To be followed by a hike along the Huron River. Post-War Council meeting has been changed to Wednesday evening at 7:15, Room 304, Union. Mass Meeting for University Wo- men Tuesday 7:30 p.m. in the Rack- ham Auditorium. Undergraduate wo- men are required to come and grad- uates are urged to come. The Lutheran Student Association will meet today at the Zion Lutheran Parish Hall, 309 E. Washington Street, at 4:30 and leave from there for a picnic. Lutheran Service men are cordially invited. Lutheran Student Chapel: Divine Service in Michigan League Chapel at 11 a.m. Sermon by the Reverend Mr. Alfred Scheips. "The Christian Youth and His Nation." Meeting of Gamma Delta Luther- an Student Club, at 1337 Wilmot for discussion and supper, at 4:30 this afternoon. Unitarian Church Service at 11 a.m. Sermon by Edward H. Red- man. FOR THESE WE FIGHT. First Methodist Church and Wes- ley Foundation. Class for students and service men at 9:30 a.m. Dr. E. W. Blakeman will lead discussion on "Personality and Religion". Wes- leyan Guild meeting, 3:30 p.m. Morning Worship Service at 10:40 a.m. Dr. C. W. Brashares will preach on "A Declaration of Dependence". First Congregational Church - Morning Worship-10:45. Sermon by Dr. Parr: "The Enemy Within Our Gates". Student Fellowship will have a buffet supper at 5:30 p.m. At 7 o'clock a Patriotic Vesper Service will be.held in the church. Lt. Col. Thomas W. Carter, Supervising Cha- plain of the Second District of the Army Air Forces Technical Train- ing Command, will be the guest speaker.