ESTABLISHED EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN VOL. XLI. No. 121 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESSj PRICE FIVE CENTS .w TH [E4UTH~ RTII~VE T ER ANS' LOAN TO SPEAK TONIGHT' ON UNEMPLOYMENT Murphy, M'Broom, Dexter Will Talk at Mass Meeting in Hill Auditorium. GOORICH IS CHAIRMAN Conference to be Sponsored by Ann Arbor Ministerial Association. Attention of both students and members of the community will be focused on the national problem of unemployment through addresses by three leaders in as many differ- ent fields at a mass meeting to be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Hill auditorium under the auspices of the Ann Arbor Ministerial associa- tion., The gathering, which has as its general theme, "What Shall Be Done About Unemployment?" will be addressed by Mayor Frank Mur- phy of Detroit, Dr. Robert Dexter of Boston, and F. M. McBroom, di- rector of the Lansing community fund. Murphy will descibe "What the Community Can Do," while Mc- Broom will tell "What Industry Is Doing," describing some of the means of unemployment insurance' that have been inaugurated by large firms. Boston Man to Speak. Dr. Dexter, whose topic is "Some- thing Must Be Done," will bring to the discussion the attitude of all I organized religion. He was a dele- gate to a non-sectarian conferencef on unemployment, which was held in Washington in January, and which was attended by protestantas, Jews, and Catholics alike. Prof. Carter Goodrich of the economies department will act as chairman at the meeting. The mass meeting grew out of I two recommendations made to the i Ann Arbor Ministerial association1 at their February meeting by a special committee of six ministers,t which had been previously appoint- ed by the association to consider7 unemployment. Lewis Directs Study. The committee suggested first( that an unemployment survey be made of the outlying districts ofl Ann Arbor, a work which has sub - sequently been put under the gen- eral supervision of Rev. Henry Lew- is, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, and secondly that a public1 meeting be called for the purpose of educating the public on unem- ployment. Rev. H. P. Marley, pas- tor of the Unitarian church was placed in general charge of plan- ning the gathering, assisted by Rev.t Allison Ray Heaps, pastor of the Congregational c h u r c h, and by Rabbi Bernard Heller, director of the Hillel foundation. A supper for members of the ministerial committee, the speakers, and prominent Ann Arbor smcial workers will be held preceding te meeting at the League. Discussing the meeting yesterday,] Rev. Marley pointed out that "though Ann Arbor, not being an industrial town, is inclined to be rather smug on the unemployment crisis, she must soon begin to think about it, for it will eventually af- fect even the University. State Bulletins (By Associated Press) Thursday, March 19, 1931 1 LANSING - Governor Wilber M. Brucker, G. C. Dillman, state high-j way commissioner, and other state officials, were speakers at a ban- quet held here tonight by the Mich- igan Road Builders association. William M. Connelly, president, acted as toastmaster. The subjects dealt with the county unit system1 of road maintenance and'improve-; ment, state Eighway building, high-1 way finance and allied matters. JACKSON-The Michigan state prison here was inspected today by Alexander Paterson, superintendent of prisons in England and Wales. The inspection was part of a tour. Mr. Paterson is making of all im- portant American penal institu- DEBATERS 0DEFEAT WISCONSIN IN BIG bTEIN MATCH HERE. Affirmative Trio Wins at Home; Negative Squad Victorious Over Northwestern. SCOTT GIVES DECISION Team Contends Present Amateur Rule Prohibits Practices Not Undesirable. Michigan's Varsity debating teams gained two victories last night in the second semester conference de- bates, the affirmative squad defeat- ing Wisconsin at home, and the negative team conquering North- western at Evanston. This makes a total of three wins against one loss in the conference debates for the. year, as Ohio was defeated by the affirmative team, while the negative was losing to Indiana last semester. Basing their case on the conten- tions that the present athletic sit- uation leads to a hypocritical atti- tude, that it prohibits practices not inherently undesirable, and that the abolition of distinctions would result in a better situation in inter- collegiate athletics, the affirmative team gained the decision of the single critic judge, Prof. Preston Scott, of the College of the City of Detroit. The University affirmative team included John W. Lederle, '33, Leon- ard L. Kimball, '33, and Howard Simon, '32L. Wisconsin was rep- resented by Theophil C. Kamm- fholz, Otto S. Zerwick, and Aaron Levine. Prof. Louis Eich, of the speech department, presided. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Senator from Michigan, who, in a statement yesterday, defended the Veterans' Loan Bill from the im- plication that it has helped to in- crease the treasury deficit. INCOME :TAX FAILS5 TO HELPTREASUR-Y Increase of Receipts Over Same Period Last Year Still Leaves Deficit. WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.-(P)- The treasury pendulum swung still farther into the debit side of the, are today despite the tugging of the increased tax receipts. Income tax receipts for last Tues, BAICHEN TO LEAD0 RELIEF MEASURES FOR0IING'S MEN Noted Aviator, Explorer to Fly Large Amphibian Plane Over White Bay. CONDUCTS TEST FLIGHT Installation of Gasoline Tanks, Adverse Weather May Hinder Hop. BOSTON Mar. 19.-(P')-Grease- smeared mechanics labored tonight preparing a relief plane to go to the aid of the Viking disaster's sur- vivors. Bernt Balchen, hero of the Byrd Antarctic and the trans-Atlantic flights, who had been chosen as its pilot, inspected the large am- phibian, took it for a test flight, and predicted the expedition would be prepared to hop off before 2 o'clock tomorrow morning. He had spent the day sleeping at a local hotel, conserving his strength for the hazardous 1,000-mile flight. Plane Is "O. K." Balchen found the big plane was "0. K." to use his own expression1 when, after a 20-minute test flight, he brought the craft to earth. The gas tanks, which still remained to be installed, were worrying him, he admitted, and so were adverse I weather reports fromthenorth. When asked if the weather might not make the flight tonight "doubt- ful" he said, "Yes." No changes in plans were made, however. Meanwhile, Merion Cooper, who was organizing the expedition, con- ferred with Army and Navy offi- cials and with representatives of the local chapter of the Red Cross arranging for the delivery of sup- plies to be brought into the frozen wastes of northern Newfoundland. It was hoped that the plane might thus be able to render succor to whoever among the survivors might yet be lying among the ice floes of White Bay since the sealing ship Viking was blasted from under them last Sunday night. Cooper Is Explorer. The expedition was being organ- ized huriedly by Cooper at the re- quest of Dr. Lewis Frissell, of New York, father of Varick Frissell, who was a member of a motion picture group, was aboard the Viking and who has been missing since the explosion. Cooper is a noted ex- plorer and moving picture photo-' grapher. Late today it had not been de- cided definitely who would com- prise the party, but it was believed that, in addition to Balchen, it would include Cooper and eithr Roy Gates, New York, or Randy Enslow, of New York, regarded as one of the most experienced night pilots in the country, or both. Food Landed on Horse Island for Survivors ST. JOHNS, N. F., Mar. 19.-(I)- Food and medical assistance today were landed on Horse Island, where more than 100 survivors of the wrecked sealing steamer V i k i n g were sheltered, radio advices re- ceived here reported. The landing was effected by the united efforts of the crews of seven sealing ships, which for many hours had been pounding the ice in an effort to make way for the rescue ship Sagona. + 1 _1 WILL LECTURE I ON EXPEDITIONI Princeton Biologist Points Theories of Fitness, Adaptation. Out day, the latest date reported, were E (Special o The Daihe $16,00,00 reaer hanforthe EVANSTON, Mar. 19.-The West- $16,000,000 greater than for the ern Conference debate between corresponding collection day last Michigan and Northwestern here year. This kindled no spark of'tonight was won by the former. The hope, however, that total receipts decision was given by Prof. R. F. for 1930 would be larger than the Mitchell, of Lawrence college. previous year. I Michigan's negative team was At the same time the daily treas- comrprised of Lawrence Hartwig, At he ametim th daly rea- ,1 Victor Rabinowitz, '31, and ury statement showed the govern-'1atoreyab hnowithwesten ment deficit on Tuesday was $735,- Nathan Levy, '31. The Northwestern 138,522, a gain of more than $300,- teamkincluded J. F. Conner, J. A. 000,000 over the previous day, due Blackmore, and Richard Peterson. to placing $326,000,000 in the public debt retirement fund. . Meanwhile, Senator Vandenberg, IIIIII'I Republican, Mich., issued a state- ment saying there was no basis for, nr any implication that loans to world war veterans were responsible forU or contributing toward the pros-I pective treasury deficit. Head of Joliet Prison Believes "Everybody knows by this time," Legislature Will Find His he added, "that the two things are unrelated. Every veterans loan is a Conduct justified. self-contained operation which in- volves no net addition to the public JOLIET, Ill., Mar. 19.-()-War- debt and not a penny of increased I den Henry C. Hill, white-haired taxation." arbiter of Illinois' revolt-racked [_________ twin penitentiaries, tonight await- ed the outcome of a legislative II F probe into his administration "with VKA wNOEN B L R C IdE complete confidence." Still ailing and weaKened by a' IBL protracted illness which kept him in bed for weeks, he looked back over a week of disorder and ex- pressed confidence that his iron- Rational Attitude in Business hand tactics in quelling mutiny Requested by Senator in would be upheld by the legislators. Grand Rapids Talk. "I believe my every act and those' G d R d T of my subordinates have been what the situation demanded," he said. GRAND RAPIDS, Mar. 19.(JP- "I am ready for the legislative com- A plea for "rational liberalism in mittee." That body arrived late to- politics and business" was made day. here tonight by Senator Arthur H. Looking from his office window Vandenberg in an address at a din- into the old state prison, Hill can ner given in honor of a new auto- see augmented guards on duty to mobile factory opening in Grand I keep the sullen convicts in order, Prof. Leroy Waterman, Leader of the University of Mich- igan-Toledo Museum expedition in Iraq, who is to speak tomorrow be- fore the assembled delegates of the Michigan Academy of Science at its thirty-sixth annual meeting here. Professor Waterman is a member of Semetics department faculty. THOMPSON COE Illinois Farmer, President of American Farm Federation, Named for Farm Board. I WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.-(P)-, Sam H. Thompson, who owns a 500-acre farm in Illinois, today was appointed a member of the farm board to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Alexander Legge. The appointment was announced by the White House upon receipt of a telegram of acceptance. Thompson's commission was signed by President Hoover before he left on his Caribbean cruise. Thompson has been an active farmer for years and has been identified with organizations seek- ing agricultural legislation. At the time of his appointment he was serving his third two-year term as president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The di- rectors of that organization, meet- ing today in Chicago, accepted his resignation to permit him to take the new post and elected Edward O'Neal of Montgomery, Ala., to I finish his unexpired term. For the last six years, ThompsonI has been one of the most active proponents of national farm legis- lation. He supported the old Mc- Nary-Haugen equalization fee bill. In the 1928 campaign he urged the election of President Hoover. DRO HYESCIE I SUBSTANTIATES DARWIN Expresses Profound Confidence in Basis of Psychic Processes. "No scientist believes in the su- pernatural creation of all species or their fitnesses," stated Prof. Ed- win G. Conklin, of the biology de- partment of Princeton university, in a lecture before the Michigan Academy of Sciences yesterday on "Fitness, the Great Problem of Bi- ology." "There are three theories as to the causes of fitness or adaptation," he stated. "The first is the super- natural. The second, the vitalistic theories, go back to philosophy and border on pure mysticism. But I have profound belief in the founda- tion of psychic processes. They are processes of trial and error, or or- ganic memory; they are organized seekings, seekings of organisms. By the process of trial and error, we have got to the point ofcomfort by means of organized seeking. In plants, animals, everywhere, we find this condition. "The amoeba acts just as we do; it is seeking satisfaction and com- fort. The something furnishing the impetus or stimulus might be term- ed as vitalistic. Differential sensi- tivity and capacity to move and change until satisfaction is obtain- ed have not yet been explained. "The logic of Darwinism is irre- sistible," Professor Conklin contin- ued. "But it must be extended be- yond the range conceived by Dar- win, because, though it can explain inherited adaptation or fitness, it cannot explain acquired fitness. L we think Darwinism cares for the elimination of unfit movements, wE have an extension of the ides from the person to the reaction, and thi would account for acquired fitness "Directed thinking," he conclud- ed, "is hard work, eliminating the things that do not fit. That is th process of Darwinism-elimination, of the unfit. Organism is needed to judge the fit or the unfit." NOBILE'S RESCUER KILLED BY CRASH Umberto Maddalena Drowns a Plane Falls Into Sea. PISA, Italy, Mar. 19. --)-Col Umberto Maddalena, famous Italiar flier and finder of the dirigible Italia survivors, Lieut. Fausto Cec- coni and Mechanic-Sergt. Damonte were killed today when their sea. plane fell into the sea. Maddalena discovered Gen. Um- berto Nobile and a group of othei survivors of the Italia in 1928 neai Spitzbergen and droppednmedicine and supplies to them on the ic after the Italian airship had beer wrecked on its North Pole flight. He and Lieut. Cecconi formerly held world air records for distanc and duration flights and both ha recently returned from the Latin- American flight of Air Minister Italo Balbo, on which Maddalena was adjutant. Mimes Will Present Milne'Mystery Play "The Perfect Alibi," by A. A Milne, will be presented by Mimes in the Laboratory theatre the week of April 20, following spring vaca- tion, it was announced yesterday by James Yant, '31M, president of the organization. The production will be directed by Karl Litzenberg, of the English department. I Tryouts for all those interested in taking parts in the play will be held from 4 until 6 o'clock this afternoon in room 308 of the Union. Sales of Senior Canes Continue at Wagner'sl Orders for senior canes are still being taken at Wagner and com- CONKLIN DENIES SUPERNATURAL AT ACADEMY MEETING TONIGHT General Lecture Will Feature Second Day's Program of Meeting. PLAN ANNUAL DINNER Discussions Will be Presented by Scientists From Entire State. A general lecture, and meeting of all sections of the Michigan Acad- emy of Sciences will feature the second day's program of the thirty- sixth annual meeting of the organ- ization. Prof. Leroy Waterman, of the Semetics department, leader of the University of Michigan-Toledo Museum expedition in Iraq, will talk at 4:15 o'clock in the Natural Science auditorium on "The Fourth Season at Selucia on Tigris," in the second general lecture of the ses- sion. At 6:30 o'clock, the annual din- ner will be held in the League building, and will be followed by the presidential address,- "Folklore Heirlooms," by Prof. Eugene S. Mc- Carthy, of the Graduate school, president of the Academy. Open To Public. In' the various section meetings, 158 papers will be given by scientists from all over the state. These meet- ings are open to the "general public. Among some of the scheduled ad- dresses in the anthropology sec- Lion are: "Recent Excavations in Palestine," by Frederic S. Goodrich, and "The Mentality of Primates," by Prof. Leslie A. White. Gladys F. West, of the botany epartment. will give an .illustrated Lecture on "A Buried Forest in Michigan," in the meeting of the ootany section. In the meetings of she section of economics and sociol- >gy, Prof. Carter Goodrich will talk )n "An Analysis of American Plans :or State Unemployment Measures," Prof. William Haber, of Michigan State college will speak on "Sonic economic and Sociological Aspects A the Unemployment Situation in Detroit," and Prof. John B. Cond- life will deliver an address on "In- Jernational Trade under Falling ?rices." Professor Condliffe is visit- .ng professor in economics, and has >een appointed a member of the )ermanent secretariat of the League A4 Nations. Hobbs To Give Paper.' Other papers include "Explora- ion in Greenland, actual and pro- ected," by Prof. William H. Hobbs; *The Gem Stones of Isle Royale," y F. Dustin, and an illustrated talk m "Relation of Airplane Mapping o Geology," by Harold Underhill n the geology section; "County . overnment in Michigan," by Prof. \rthur Bromage, in the political science section; and "The Diction- iry Projects at the University of Vichigan," by Prof. C. C. Fries, in ,he language and literature section. BUCKLEYMINSS~ ON HUNGER STRIKE Tara, Jailed for Contempt of Court, Goes Without Food for 32 Hours. DETROIT, Mar. 19. -(IP)- Sent- mced to jail indefinitely yesterday because he would not .submit to cross-examination in the Gerald E. Buckley murder trial, Fred Tara, star state witness, was on a hunger strike tonight in the county jail. At 8 p. m. he had taken no food for 32 hours, although tempting dishes had been set before him. "They'll have to carry me out of this cell feet first," he told jailors and visitors, and added that he could be "just as stubborn as the judge." He was sentenced by Re- corders Judge Edward J. Jeffries, presiding at the trial of Ted Piz- zino, Angelo Livecchi, and Joe Bommarito for the murder of the crusading radio announcer in the LaSalle hotel on July 23. Eleven Jaianese Hurt Hospital Director Replies Allegations of Holbeck, Author of Bill. to Rapids. Senator Vandenberg said it would be far better for business to set its own house in order than for the government to be forced to do the job. Technological u n e m p 1 o y m e nt which has permanently displaced 2,000,000 workmen with machines was cited by the senator as one of the causes of over-production and under-consumption. He said the five-day week might be an as- set to this problem, but he urged that more voluntary experiments in industrial stabilization and in un- employment insurance be under- taken. He endorsed Senator Wag- ner's suggestion that such experi- ments should be encouraged by fed- eral tax-exemptions on any indus- trial reserve set aside for these pur- poses. I"The answer to irrational radi- LOCAL TAXICAB PROPRIETOR TAKESI STAND IN FAVOR OF METER RATES Harry McCain Believes Present! Cab Legislation to be Ineffective. Taking a decisive stand in favor of the enforced use of taximeters on all taxicabs in Ann Arbor in an interview yesterday, Harry A. McCain, proprietor of the Buick taxi service, stated that throughout the past three years he has made every effort to secure the passage of local legislation to insure equal- ized cab rates under the meter sys- tem. "Under the present system it is impossible for the cab operators to keep the good will of the passen- plied: "A taximeter costs $160. We can- not afford to undertake this addi- tional expense if other companies are operating free from it. I feel sure that the meter would have been made universal in Ann Arbor long ago had it not been for the opposition of Shirley Smith, vice- president and secretary of the Uni- versity, on the supposition that it would entail additional exoense for the students. Regarding the right to charge more than 35 cents for single fares and the use of speedometers to de- termine the length of trips, McCain said: "I feel confident that we could Contentions of RepresentativeI Fred C. Holbeck, of Long Lake, who, yesterday introduced in the legisla- ture a measure designed to limit University hospital charges for in- digent patients, were refuted last night by Dr. Harley A. Haynes, di- rector of the hospital. Denying Holbeck's statement that charges at University hospital are "at least 20 per cent higher than at other institutions," Dr. Haynes countered by saying that "the ques- tion is one of the amount of service rendered." "The service is on a par with, that of any hos- pital in the coun- try," he said. Representative Holbeck's bill sets the limit at $3.50' a day as a charge for any adult in- digent patient with the excep- tion of tubercu- lars, who arepro- vided for in an- other statute. Haynes "The present rates," Dr. Haynes expained, "are lower than Mr. Hol- beck specifies. The ward charge for indigent natients is $~3.25 a day.