GfAE TWO THE MICHIGAN lixit WETDfiI'EMAT. TTTLV 14_ VMA Tp 1M CITCf3 aN i1" LVW T ('11VIA ZOtQ-as. 3_i l a * tS.SS'. .s it. 71Yr 9ll'Zr$ J iLaI 1#.-i~S..! kai Fifty-Third Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control tf Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday and Tues- day during the regular University year, and eyery morn- ing except Monday 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 Off ie at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- der $4.25, by mail $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1942-43 Editorial Staff Marion Ford . . . Managing Editor Bud Brimer . . Editorial Director Leon Gordenker .. City Editor Harvey Frank . . . . . Sports Editor Ed Podliashuk Columnist Mary Anne Olson Women's Editor Business Staf Jeanne Lovett . . . Business Manager iioily Winokur . . Associate Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 NIGHT EDITOR: CLAIRE SHERMAN Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. THE BEGINNING: Lecture Turnout Shows Desire for Tolerance THE DETERMINATION of University students and faculty to get to the root of the racial conflict was borne out Monday night at Robert Hayden's lecture. Originally scheduled for the East Lecture Room in the Rackham Building, the overflowing crowd was' transferred to the Amphitheatre, where late-coming professors, soldiers and stu- dents sat on the steps. For the hour that Mr. Hayden spoke, the aud- ience sat attentively taking in every word that he said. Never has a University group given such courtesy to a speaker. The cosmopolitan audience that sat side by side in complete harmony is evidence that the recent riots throughout the country are un- necessary and the result of intolerance and prejudice. It is evidence that the students of the country are hungry for the knowledge that will bring the solution to the problem. They are, hungry for the true facts of the Negro peoples which have been so misunderstood and so mistreated, in the belief that these facts will bring out the truth about a race that has produced such great men as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglas. As Mr. Hayden said, a healthful psychological and social attitude toward the Negroes is impos- sible until the misunderstanding and misinfor- iiation that are prevalent today are cleared p. IN THE DISCUSSION PERIOD that was to be held after the lecture, very few people left. The rest had so much to ask that they didn't know where to start. They were literally sitting on the edge of their seats hoping that someone would start the ball rolling. Unfortunately, no one could phrase a question adequate for the occasion. They left reluctantly with a million new thoughts germinating in their minds. The task that Mr. Hayden has undertaken in attempting to portray the true Negro cul- ture and background is a stupendous one. He does not intend to do a halfway job. His carefully outlined series of talks began with the history of the culturp of the Negro race from the days of ancient Egypt and Ethiopia. In subsequent lectures he will bring the story up to the present time. Such a comprehensive series of lectures will do more than any idle half-hearted measures to clarify the need and possible means of collabora- tion between the Negroes and the whites. THIS NEED, which has become more and more self-evident in the past months fan no longer be ignored. This and similar projects which will lead to a mutual understanding and cooperation are the only permanent solution to the racial conflicts in this country. The Inter-Racial Association is to be com- mended for offering these lectures to the Uni- versity. It is one of their most important con- tributions toward the purpose to which they are dedicated. Since the formation of the Associa- tion a little over a year ago, its members have worked against great odds in attempting to overcome the deeply ingrained prejudices of the average American. But this is only the beginning. Now that the initial step has been taken, it is up to the faculty and students of this Uni- FROM THE SHOULD4ER By CHIPS N AMERICA we don't believe in race prejudice. Sure there are always a few people who hap- pen to be Americans who think race hatred is great. But they're the sort of people who were porn here by mistake. They ought to have been born in Germany. We've been brought up to believe that it's wrong to say or think that all Germans, all Ital- ians, all Japs are bad just because we've had trouble with one, or a group of them; and now that we're in a war against the Germans and Japs, some people are confused about whether our enemies are the people of Germany and Japan or their Nazi and warlord masters. Since most of us are not quite sure who our real enemies are, we're all in a daze as to what to do with them when we win. A lot of people have been saying a lot of things about what we should do with the Axis, especially the Germans. You hear the controversy going on in the homes, the barber shops and pool rooms of American towns and villages. You read about it in your newspapers and maga- zines. You hear about it in your hitora, eco- nomics, and political science classes. And the more you hear about it, the more confusing it gets. Every politician, professor and newspaper has his own pet solution and no two are exactly alike. T IS OUR JOB to get acquainted with as many of these proposed solutions as we can and pick out the good points of all of them, always re- membering that the peace of the world is at stake. Of our present Axis enemies the most brutal, the most intelligent, the most technically edu- cated, and the most powerful are the Germans. The primary difference between the Ger- mans and the Japanese is that while the in- human bestial German crimes were committed with the full understanding of their anti-social nature, with the full relish of intelligent and conscious sadism, the Japanese peasants for the most part, were too uneducated, too little acquainted with Western culture to under- stand in their own minds the horror that their outrages excited in the world at large. When I speak of crimes, I do not mean the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the air raids against fuel storage dumps in Manila, the devastating air assault on London and Coventry. 1 MEAN THE TERRIBLE CRIMES such as: the selling in slave markets in German cities of Russian men and women, the use of rubber truncheons on inmates of concentration camps, the employment of the water and the castor oil "cure". I mean the countless unmentionable crimes that our Axis enemies, largely Germans, have committed in the past 10 years. There can be no doubt that if all the crimes were tabulated as of today, for the Germans alone, the number of outrages would run into , the tens of millions and the number of Ger- mans directly or indirectly involved would be at least 5,000,000. What German family indeed cannot boast of an "act of honor" performed by one of its mem- bers, a husband a father, a brother, or maybe a sweetheart, and many of these bestial crimes were performed, not on the direct orders of their superiors, but just for a little pleasant relaxation. We don't believe in condemning a race or nation for the acts of one or a group of its members, and I feel we should not condemn the whole German people but surely the 5,000,- 000 directly involved in the direction or execu- tion of these almost incomprehensible inhu- manities should be shot, machine-gunned by the thousands. For surely we cannot expect the people of the occupied countries and ter- ritories to be satisfied with the hanging or electrocution of the Nazi big shots. They know it wasn'tHitler or Goering who tortured their daughters, murdered their sons and husbands, it was Hans and Fritz and they saw him do it with relish. fully conscious of his crime. Yet if it were only to satisfy the vengeful feel- ings of the tortured and the oppressed millions, we might hesitate to condemn these Nazi or German murderers and terrorists to death. But can we .in our right minds allow these maniacs, the most highly educated people in the world, to go scot free and expect to pre- serve law and order? It would almost be like letting every murderer of English descent go scot free because we wanted to keep the good feeling of the'British people? If those 5,000,- 000 sadists, who murdered innocent hostages without so -much as blinking an eyelash, will not be sentenced to death by our courts, then we can expect the peoples of Europe to march in mass migrations, taking the law into their own hands, to wipe the German nation off the face of the earth. The execution of the murderers is necessary for the preservation of Germany as a nation. Yet Germany is a nation of 80,000,000 and this need not necessarily mean the extinction of the German national tradition. Of course it will mean hardships and privations, but compared to the suffering Germany has caused to the world, this is little enough. .Inflahion Is Here Already, With Still More To Come UDGING BY 1939 prices, the dollar today is worth only 75 cents. About a quarter of every greenback has been torn off. That is what people. 100% INCREASE: Juvenile Delinquency Is Menace To Be Stopped THE MENACE of juvenile delinquency is grow- ing more obviously dangerous every day. Through newspapers and magazines the public is learning about the all-time high which delin- quency among minors has reached in every war- boom town. Juvenile court records show an increase of over 100% since the beginning of the war. More startling than statistics are the actual cases recorded in every newspaper. The incred- ible story of the pre-teen-age boys who last week wantonly damaged the Cascades in Jack- son, Mich., .# a typical juvenile delinquent of- fense, characterized by lust for excitement and utter insensibility concerning the duties of a good citizen. Last Saturday in Windsor six high school boys wrecked a refreshment stand belonging to the son of the Chief of Police and threw the helpless owner into the Detroit River. This is another instance of juvenile disregard of fair play or possible consequences. , Five days ago in Olive Hill, Ky. a mob of 100I boys and young men stormed a county court house in protest against curfew hours for minors.I Mob rioting seems to be especially appealing to 'teen-age youth. JOHN BUGAS, head of the Detroit office of F.B.I., stated in a press interview Monday that, "Much of the violence in the race riots was the work of 'teen-age boys and girls" A rising tide of juvenile delinquency threatens to put law enforcement to one of its greatest tests in the near future," he continued. "If the present trend of many of the youth ofj this country is not restricted or reformed, the next 10 years will see an avalanche of youthful criminals upon the nation's safety that will be difficult if at all possible to stem." By restricted Mr. Bugas means that newcomers must be ,prevented from joining Athe ranks of juvenile delinquents, and by reform he means that the boys and girls who have already been found guilty of breaking the laws of society must be shown the right path and must be helped to stay on it. Every good American citizen must assume a share of the responsibility in the fight against delinquency. Church workers, social workers, school teachers, and .especially parents must make it their duty to see that the ideals of decency and respect for other people and other people's property are imbued in the hearts and minds of every American boy and girl. America's goal for the future is peace and free- dom. Millions of men are fighting to win this goal, but their efforts are futile if the people at home continue to nurture a generation of crim- inals. Delay in meeting the problem of juvenile delinquency may be fatal. The story of tomor- row is written today. - Mavis Kennedy I'd R~eather Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON WASHINGTON, July 14.- During his 17 years in Congress, veteran Representative Jed Johnson of Okla- homa has made a practice of calling on the incumbent President at the end of each session for a chat on legislative matters. A significant thing about these visits is that John- son usually found the chief executive in an unhappy mood about Congress. Coolidge always was glum and critical. He said he got no coopera- tion from the legislators. And when Johnson called on Hoover in early 1933, after his defeat, Hoover un- leashed a ripping tirade to the effect that Congress was responsible for all the economic evils of that period., President Roosevelt didn't en-I tirely upset this .tradition when Johnson visited him the day the 78th Congress recessed for the summer. Roosevelt also was irked about Congress's wishy-washy at- titude on inflation. However, Roosevelt was more philosophical than belligerent. The President said that too many Congressmen were concerned about the prosperity of their own districts, instead of looking at the whole pic- ture. This was true of both the farm and labor blocs in Congress, the President said, although the farm bloc was more strongly en- trenched. If pressure groups had their way, he added, we would have a repetition of conditions during the last war when corn rocketed to $1.44 a bushel and cotton sold for 40 cents a pound. Should the administration make a price concession on one com- modity, the President remarked,J there would be a stampede of de- mands for boosting price ceilings on all other commodities. This stampede would be difficult, if not impossible, to stop. "It's the old story about the camel The WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW. PEARSON GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty getting his nose under the tent, Jed," said the President. "Once he does it, the chances are he's going all the way in." Note: The current price ceiling on corn is $1.07 a bushel while cotton is selling for about 18 cents a pound. Gillette Boom Increases There is more than meets the eye behind the backstage grooming of Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa to be President of the United States. Despite the denials, Jim Farley let part of the cat out of the bag when he called an ultra secret luncheon of anti-Roosevelt Senators in the Cap- itol the other day to push Gillette's nomination. But there is a lot more than Jim Farley behind the plan. Real fact is that Gillette's candidacy was first inspired and privately pushed by a -group of wealthy Chicago businessmen who sponsored the America First Committee. Jim Farley wasn't in on the ground floor with Gillette at first. He leaned toward Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia as the ideal Democrat to pick up Republican votes and defeat Roosevelt. However, when he saw the Chicago support and money for Gillette he was glad to go along. The big money boys in Chicago who are pushing Gillette argue that food will be a tremendous political issue in the 1944 cam- paign, so a midwesterner would be a better candidate. They also point out that Gillette is on the Senate Agricultural Commit- tee where he has done a good job, and unquestionably showed the Ad- ministration some real pointers on synthetic rubber. Also the fact that Byrd is the big- gest apple grower in the world, and has followed a wage scale which endears him neither to farmers nor labor, would not help his candidacy in the crucial midwest. Strategy of the Chicago back- stage ,boys is that the only man who can defeat Roosevelt for a Fourth Term is a Democrat who must win the Solid South and also win Republican votes. They be- lieve Gillette can do both. Their plan is to nominate him on the Democratic ticket, then urge the Republicans to nominate him also. Note: This may be good strategy on paper, but whoever heard of the Republican Party nominating a Democrat when they could smell victory themselves. That's one reason the boys don't even warm up to Wilikie. ?.. r 0l 243, Ch~ago Times, inc. 'We always welcome employe suggestions to increase efficiency, Snod- grass, but eliminating blue Monday isn't feasible at this time.' 1 DAILY. OFFICIAL BULLETIN NEW YORK. July 14.- Great things do not happen merely because they are good ideas. They happen when they are unavoidable. Right now, greatness is unavoidable. Everybody tries to dodge greatness, but when the moment comes bc-you, it, they-cannot escape. The history of this century will be the story of how a whole planet tried to avoid being great, and how it did not succeed. We tried to be picayune. Oh, how we tried! So did every other country. But picayunishness turned out to be impractical. We find ourselves compelled to be big. In the heat of day it is hard to remember. A woman war worker, collapsed in sleep on the subway, misses her stop. The small baffling frustration is part of the war. She does not want greatness, she just wants to get off at the right station. And a hoodlum in a shipyard makes an anti-Negro joke. Somewhere someone steals a dollar. So. And an editor who has been wrong for twenty years says we must break off with Eng- land as soon as the war is over. Each man nurses his smallness. But it will not help him. For the future comes, and even the man glancing slyly over his shoulder as he raises the price of his artichokes a dime cannot stop it. He will get the dime and give his son. What! Will you lose heart then, because so many things about you seem so ordinary, in this extraordinary time? But I would not really prefer to live in the world of the movies, where no man has a pimple, and. no woman a bad ankle. The future would be no better were we to wait for it wrapped in robes of white, sitting on a marble floor. Let it catch us as will judgment day itself, in the homely attitudes we know, collecting stamps and kiting checks. It is more human so, and richer too. There is something reassuring and familiar even in theft. Greatness has us by the ear, and it will not let us go. We are coming to glory because we have exhausted all the paths away from it. The world will be one, not because it wants to be, but because it hurts too much to be less than one. Well, that is surely a good reason. . istory calls on no man to be noble. If he has meanness, pttinesvs in him. it. invites him to bring- it oult WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1943 VOL. LIII, No. 12-S All notices for The Daily Official Bulle- tin are to be sent to the Office of the FSummer 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 College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Schools of Education, For- estry, Music, and Public Health: Students who received marks of I or X at the close of their last semester or summer session of attendance will receive a grade of E in the course or courses unless this work is made up by July 28. Students wishing an ex- tension of time beyond this date in orde to make up this work should file a petition addressed to the ap- propriate official in their school with Room 4 U.H., where it will be trans- mitted. Notice of Withholding Tax Deduc- tions: All persons upon the Univer- sity Payrolls for services rendered after June 30, 1943, are notified that under the federal' "Current Tax Pay- ment Act of 1943" there will be de- ducted from each salary payment made an amount equivalent to 20 per cent of such payment above legal exemptions to which any employee shall be entitled. The University has What! Can the men and women in this stewing street, filling their pock- ets, scratching their necks, runing to catch the subway that goes no- where, really be building a brave new. world? That is perhaps farthest of all from their thoughts. They are thinking of lunch, every one. It does not matter. They shall build it regardless. The tax collec- tor comes, though no one sent for him. And their sons fight. Great- ness has caught them in the atti- tudes of every day. They, we, everybody, tried every possible little thing and we find our- elected, under Federal authority, to base this deduction, after legal ex- emptions, upon 20 per cent of the salary payment to each individual calculated to the nearest dollar. Ev- ery employee of the University, in whatever capacity, should secure, at the Business Office, or at other of- fices at which they will be available, a copy of the Government withhold- ing exemption certificate, Form W-4, and should promptly fill out and mail or file this exemption certifi- cate at the Business Office at which the certificate was obtained. The burden of filling out and filing this form is under the law exclusively upon the employee and if it is not filed in time the deduction of 20 per cent must be taken upon the basis of the employee's entire earnings with- out benefit of the exemption to which the employee would be en- titled if he or she filed the certifi- cate. Vice-President and Secretary -Shirley W. Smith "Alice- Sit- by- the- Fire" comedy satire by J. M. Barrie, will open this evening at 8:30 o'clock at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, for four per- formances only. This play is the second in a series of five to be pre- sented this summer by the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech. Tickets are on sale daily at the theatre, box office, phone 6300. Campus Mail: To e xpedite deliv- ery should be addressed to the indi- vidual, his department, and the buil- ding. Room numbers not necessary. Seniors in Aeronautical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering: Mr. M. Nanson Whitehead, Vice-President and Director of Personnel of the Laister-Kauffmann Aircraft Corpora- tion, St. Louis, Missouri, will be in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, July 14 (and possibly Thursday, the 15th), to interview October and February Registration for students in both the Summer Session and the Sum- mer Term continues in the Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall, from 9-12 and 2-4. Those interested in enrolling for employment in teach- ing and in business or industrial jobs may pick up the registration mater- ial at this time. Those who already have checked out the material are reminded to return it within a week of the date it was checked out. Academic Notices Students, Summer Term, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: No course may be elected for credit after the end of the third week. July 17 is therefore the last date on which new elections may be approved. The willingness of an individual instruc- tor to admit a student later does not affect the operation of this rule. E. A. Walter School of Education Students: Courses dropped after Saturday, July 17, will be recorded with the grade of E except under extraordinary cir - cumstances. No course is considered officially dropped unless it has been reported in the Office of the Regis- trar, Room 4, University Hall. Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- tificate at the close of the Summer Session and Summer Term: A list of candidates has been posted on the Bulletin Board of the School of Edu- cation, Room 1431 U.E.S. Any pros- pective candidate whose name does not appear on this list should call at the office of the Recorder of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S. Events Today Luncheon for Women in Educa- tion: Russian Tea Room, Michigan League, 11:30 to 1:00. Dean Alice Lloyd will be guest speaker. Her topic will be "War Programs for College Women".