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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

FRIDAY, NOV





WASNGTON ENDOSES
"STAKES Of THE WR"
VAN TYNE DISAPPROVES AND
CHARGES THAT BOOK IS
PRO-GERMAN
The Daily publishes the two follow-
ing letters as a presentation of both
sides of the controversy over Stod-
dard and Frank's "Stakes of the War,"
now in use jn the engineering college.
Washington, D. C.
Nov. 18, 1918.
Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson,
927 Forest Avenue,
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dear Professor Nelson:
I received your letter inclosing
newspaper attack on Stoddard and
Frank and have just telegraphed as
you requested. I d not think you
need to be disturbed by the attack. I
am certainly willing to support you
in the use of the book.
I have always refrained from rec-
ommending any particular book for
use in the war issues course for the
reason that I wished to leave the col-
leges free to make their own choice.
I hold no particular brief for Stod-
dard and Frank. I am fully alive to
its faults and I realize also the ad-
vantages of its admirable arrangement.
Its principle merit lies precisely in
its attempt at a fair and dispassionate
treatment of the issues of the war,
stating the claim on both sides, and
giving reasons for them. If in this
attempt the authors sometimes lean
backwards, the fault, in my opinion,
is not so serious as to make it danger-
ous reading for the students' army
training corps. That any person
should .tend to become pro-German
or have his loyalty to the Allied cause
weakened by it is inconceivable. I
may say that while I take the full
responsibility for this opinion, it is
shared by a large number of eminent
historians who have acted as my ad-
visors.
Furthermore, I have insisted and
shall insist on the policy of leaving
instructors free within the largest
limits to select their books and or-
ganize the course on the issues of
the war in a way that seems to them
most jeffective. Any other policy
would' be unworthy of the character
which we have tried to give to the
course and would be an insult to the
character and scholarship of the men
who are giving it, who are not, like
German professors, to be stood up in
line and told what they should say or
what books they should use. Our ex-
perience has amply demonstrated that
the opposite method produces suspic-
ion rather than free conviction of the
justice of our cause. The case of the
United States and the Allies against
Germany is too strong to need such
methods and would only be degraded
by them.
Yours sincerely,
FRANK AYDELOTTE,
Director of War Issues Course.
Ann Arbor, Michigan,
Nov. 24, 1918.
Editor, The Michigan Daily:
Now that the decision of Mr. Ayde-
lotte has settled that Stoddard and
Frank's "Stakes of the War" is to be
used as a text-book by some 800 S.
A. T. C. men in the engineering col-

lege, it is only fair that those students
should know why the members of the
history department are united in op-
position to its use. Efforts have been
made to throw aspersions upon our
desire to have a fair treatment of the
war issues by saying sententiously
that the greatest merit of the book
was that it stated both sides of the
controversial matters, and left the
judicious reader to decide for himself.
But that is exactly what the book does
not do. It only pretends to offer alt-
ernate arguments and supporting
facts, but on examination one finds
that the alternate solutions are un-
fairly weighted on the German side. It
cleverly conceals facts when they
would add weight to the Allied claims
and gives undue prominence to facts
which support German claims. The
authors are chiefly concerned about
the interests of Germany. This is as
we would expect since the father of
one of the authors has staid In Ger-
many during the war, and therefrom
written rabid pro-German arguments,
while the author himself said to one
of the members of our faculty, "I
Could have no greater pleasure than
to see the German army march into
Paris." "Stakes of the War" prepares
the mind at every step to accept a
German peace. Even the Russian Bal-
tic provinces would go to Germany
if the reasoning of this book were fol-
lowed. It discusses all questions as
if the war had never happened and as
if Germany had done nothing since
1914 to change her right to considera-
tion. Neither moral factors nor the
ends of justice are pointed out. Even
when the facts are more or less true
they are placed in such a juxtaposi-
tion as to be favorable to Germany
and unfavorable to the Allies.
To give specific examples of these
faults; one would point out that in
treating Alsace-Lorraine, Professor
Hazen's book, the best in English, is
left out of the bibliography, and his
whole point of view is omitted. One
who had no historical background or
point of view, would surely come to
the conclusion that, Germany should
keep Alsace-Lorraine, or at least a
large part of it. Fortunately, that is
settled now, and France is in posses-
sion of her own-the "Stakes of the
War" to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing.
If Stoddard and Frank's reasoning
were followed the Czecho-Slovaks
would be deprived of their ambitions
because it would make Germany's
frontier unsafe. The Poles must not
realize their Maims, because it would
incur the lasting enmity of Germany.
The authors have no historical back
ground, but have looked up their
facts in encyclopedias and year-books,
showing no power whatever to digest
them or to see the moral questions in-
volved with them.
If students will use this text-book
with these facts in mind, much of the
harm that might come from its use
will be obviated.
C. H. VAN TYNE.
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Sighs Non 1W rave
Con templatively',
Never again to sweat over a dirty'
gun.
Never again to swim guard on a
muddy midnight.
Never again to have any particu-
lar use for the $7.50 Stetson, unless
one turnscowboy.
Never again to have a legit. excuse
for the wrist watch Mother sent.
Never again to be ordered to cover
the sweater SHE made with an is-
sued blouse.
Never again to stumble to attention
for a puny gold bar.
Never again to borrow the shoes
of the exempted cit. when stepping
out for the evening.
Never again to button the million
and one buttons on the overcoat.
Never again to nibble another
creamed codfish &r crunch on a Union
bean worm.
Never again to wiggle or squirm
in army heavies.
Never again to agonize over a sign-
ed permit for a haircut.
Never again to stagger in squads
to "Hunk-hunk-three-four" of a Swede
of a serg.
Never again to screech "Katie" with
hob-nails for traps.
Never again to cram the week's ra-
tions in eight minutes.
Never again to seek Morph with th
infants.
Never again to extend your mit for
$30 and get $1.17.
Never again.
RETURN OF SEMESTER SYSTEM
DISCUSSED BY PROFESSORS
(Continued from Page One)
the work done so far. I see no rea-
son for changing the whole plan.
Professor Jose M. Hernandez
There should be four terms of
equal length to every year. This
would facilitate matters for students
who leave school for a time and wish
to come back for a summer term, as
the summer term would then be
equal in length to any other. I do not
see why it would make it harder to
change this year than any other year
with the exception of a few cases.

sentenced to be hanged on Dec. 13,
for the deaths of ten persons killed
by a bomb explosion in San Francisco
during a preparedness parade in July,
1916, was commutted by W. D. Step-
hens tonight to imprisonment for life.
Camp Custer Men Visit Homes
Battle Creek. Nov. 28-Camp Cus-
ter was not entirely deserted today,
although thousands of the men who
have been training here with the
14th division spent the day at their
homes, under special permission
from the commandant, Major General
Hutcheson.
IJ-NOTICES
A Thanksgiving social will be
given for the "Stay-away-from-
homer" at 7:30 o'clock tonight
at the First Methodist church.
Six reels of motion pictures
followed by a social and eats
will be offered at 7:30 o'clock
Saturday .night.
An important meeting of the
Comedy club will be held at 4
o'clock this afternoon in
the south wing of University
hall. Officers will be elected
and plans for the year discuss-
ed.
Thanksgiving social will be
held at the Presbyterian church
at 7:30 o'clock Saturday eve-
ning. Plenty of eats and a good
time. Everybody welcome.
Prof. Robert T. Crane will ad-
dress the class of the Cosmopol-
itan club in international rela-
tions, at 7:30 o'clock this eve-
ning in room 205, University
hall.

MAJESTIC

Charles Ray has been seen in many
Paramount pictures produced by
Thomas H. Ince and in every case he
has given screen patrons signal satis-
faction. His next appearance will be
i1 "The Claws of the Hun" at the
Majestic theater which has announc-
ed the production for today-tomorrow.
This is a war picture but it is about
the happenings in our own country.
The plotters of the autocrat of Berlin
try to extend their machinations to a
great munitions plant and are thwart-
ed by a youth who has been called
a slacker because, to save his moth-
er fiom death, as he believes, he has
not answered the dictates of his con-
science and gone to the front.
The comedy on the program is real-
ly a feature in its self, one of those
famous Sunshine comedies entitled
"Wild Women and Tame Lions"

MICHIGANENSIAN NOTICE
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er organization copy will be ac-
cepted for the Michiganensian
after Dec. 1. Pages will be run
the same as last year unless the
copy is in by that time regard-
less of contracts. Senior pic-
tures must also be in Dec. 1.
Organizations which have not
yet made contracts must do so
this week or they will not be
Tpresented in the book. No
copy will be run for which there
is no contract. The Michigan-
ensian will be published in Jan-
uary, between three and four
months earlier than last year.
No subscriptions will be taken
after Dec. 5, at which time the
price will be raised.


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Retrial of Mooney Case Promised
(By Associated Press)
Sacramento.-Assurance that the
case of Thomas J. Mooney, sentenc-
ed to hang, wrould be given careful
consideration, was given today by
Governor William D. Stephens to
members of a committee of the San
Francisco labor council, who called
to ask the executive to open the way
for a retrial of the case.
Governor Stephens did not indicate
when he would act on Mooney's pe-
tition for a pardon, or what course
he would take. Mooney was sentenc-
ed to hang for murder for one of the
victims of the preparedness day bomb
explosion in San Francisco July 22,
1916.
The sentence of Thomas J. Mooney;

* AT THE THEATERS
* TODAY
* Detroit on the Campus, De-
* troit-"Seven Days Leave."
*
* Shubert - Garrick, Detroit -
* "Abe" Potash and "Mawruss"
* Perlmutter in "Business Before
* Pleasure.'
*
* Majestic-Charles Ray in "The
* Claws of the Hun."
*
* Arcade-Clara Kimball Young
* in "The Savage Woman" and
* Christie comedy, "This Way Out."
* Wuerth-R. A. Walsh (Drama)
* "The Prussian Cur," in 8 parts.
*
* Orpheum-Claire Anderson in
* "The Grey Parasol." Also 2-reel
* Comedy.
*
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