ie Weather ally fair, warmer Fri- turday cloudy, possibly )wers. L sir iga ait Editorials Disciplinary A c t i o n And Swingout; Departure Of Ma- jor Edwards. 4II No. 178 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS Student Qouncil Body is Organized Gilbert E. Bursley Elected As First President Of Undergraduate Council Aggressive Action Planned By Group All Officers Are Ex-Officio; Prominent Campus Or- ganizations Represented The Undergraduate Council, newly created student governing body, was organized last night at a joint meeting with the committee which drafted the constitution of the Coun- cil. Gilbert E. Bursley, '34, was elected president. James Cristy, '34, was the only other candidate. Bursley is the representative of Druids on the body, which is composed entirely of ex-of- ficio members, and Cristy represents Michigamua. Marian L. Giddings, '34, representative from Mortarboard, was elected secretary. Membership Listed Other members of the Council are the following: Charles R. Burgess, '34E, Vulcans; J. Carl Hilty, '35, Sphinx; Philip A. Singleton, '33E, Triangles; DeForest H. Eveland, '34E, Tau Beta Pi; Marian L. Giddings, '34, Mortarboard; Charlotte Johnson, Spec., Senior Society; Maxine E. Maynard, '35, Wyvern; Robert Saltz- stein, '34, the Union; Grace E. Mayer, '34Ed the League; Bethel B. Kelley, '34, the Interfraternity Council; M. Josephine McCausey, '34, the Panhel- lenic Association; Thomas K. Con- nellan, '3The Daily; Wilbur F. Bohnsack, , past president of Sphinx; Richard H. McManus, '34E, past president of Triangles; and Har- riet L. Jennings, '34, past president of wyvern. The president of the Engineering Council has not yet been elected for the coming year, but will automa- tically become a member of the body. A committee composed bf Saltz- stein, Singleton, and Miss Mayer was appointed to consider candidates for the one independent representative to be elected. Only one representa- tive will be chosen because the con- stitution states that there must be at least two non-fraternity men mem- bers at all times, and there is already one independent member on the Council. Pledge "Aggressive Action" The committee is to report its find- ings at the -first meeting or the Council in the fall. "Aggressive action on all matters which may come up" was stated by the new president as the program of the Council for next year. Edward S. McKay, '33, chairman of the committee which drew up the new constitution, speaking at a joint meeting of the committee and the newly created Council, explained some of the features of the new constitution, stressing the need for, continuity, which had been met by including the past presidents of Sphinx, Triangles, and Wyvern, and necessity for good attendance at meetings, which difficulty had been met by specifying that the president call meetings when necessary, and providing for at least one meeting every four weeks. Leon Gropper, Grad., who attended the meeting as a visitor, suggested several projects which the new Coun- cil might take up at the beginning of next year. Senate Repeals State Mill Tax Appropriations LANSING, June 1.-(P)-The Sen- ate today voted to repeal a method of financing the University of Michi- gan which has been a tradition for 60 years. Members by a vote of 25 to 5 passed and sent to the House the Palmer bills abolishing mill tax appropriations for the University and Michigan State College, The statute levying a mill tax oppropriation for the University was passed in 1873. Members abandoned the mill tax method in view of the elimination by the legislature of the state prop- erty tax. Direct appropriations will be made for the two institutions with a specific tax, probably the sales levy, providing the revenue. Remer Says World Economic Relations Cannot Be Avoided Criticising those who ask for and not the 10 per cent about which American economic self-sufficiency isolationists talk, foreign trade is and isolation, Prof. C. F. Remer of vital, he said. Many American in- the economics department declared dustries are in the same position, yesterday that "American participa- and even to those who sell only 10 tion in world economic relations is per cent of their output abroad, such unavoidable." trade is of great importance. So long as we cannot completely "Even the staunch isolationist has withdraw from world trade, we must about him a touch of mercantilism have financial relations with other and is likely to applaud American countries, he said, and such relations exports. He will probably have no demand that we face the problem of answer when asked whether the making them reasonable. United States ought to withdraw Of the World Economic Confer- completely from participation in the ence, opening June 12 in London, economic development of Canada Professor Remer said that "we may and South America. not get much from it, and we ought "Isolation means much more than not to hope for too much from it, the cutting off of a few items of but we ought surely to enter it with trade which the isolationist can dem- the cold and unromantic conviction onstrate to be relatively unimport- that international co-operation is an ant. It means more than the isola- unavoidable fact. tionist usually intends. So long as "There is no magic in the confer- we live in a world with countries in ence which will lift the world sud- different stages of economic develop- denly from depression to prosperity," ment and with a diversity of pro- he continued. "There is, however, ducts, it is unreal to think in terms the more important underlying prob- of economic isolation." lem as to whether the United States Too great an importance is given should pursue a policy of isolation to war debts in the field of interna- or one of co-operation. tional finance, Professor Remer said. "To say that foreign trade is, in He called them a "war problem" and general, unimportant doesnot meet said they should be so regarded. the problem of particular industries," Greater freedom of trade does not he said. To the Texas cotton farmer imply an intelligent economic plan who sells half of his product abroad for the whole world, he stated. U. S. Delegates Express Hope As They Sail Americans Expect Broad Agreement In Principle, But No Specific Treaties Find Morgan Is Dictator In His Company I 'Amm Named Secretary Four Men No Financier Control Had Absolute Over Partners, Investigation Shows Hull Gives First Interview On Board Place Partnership Papers On Record Varied Program Will Feature AlumniReunion President Ruthven To Be Speaker At Luncheon Of Group On June 16 Among the outstanding events to attract the attention of returning alumni during the annual reunions June 16 and 17 are the class ban- quets Friday night, June 16. Present plans of the Alumni Association, as announced by Frederick S. Randall, council secretary, call for general class meetings Saturday mprning, June 17, leaving Saturday afternoon free for the men and women to re- new old acquaintances and visit the campus. Saturday noon is the occasion of the annual alumni luncheon, the out- standing event of the reunion week- end. President Alexander G. Ruthven will deliver the address of the day. The Varsity Band will furnish music on this occasion, it is planned. Ad- mission is by ticket only, Mr. Randall stated. This year, contrary to custom, the luncheon will be held at the Union instead of in Waterman Gym- nasium. Other events of interest during the two days set aside for alumni gath- erings hre the Alumni Glee Club sing, held, as is the tradition, on the Li- brary steps, and the Emeritus Club reunion. Members of the glee club, it is planned, will spend the lunch hour and the afternoon at Joe Parker's in order to rehearse and eat in the old-time atmosphere with all the "legal trimmings." The Emeritus Club, organized for graduates who finished their Uni- versity careers more than 50 years ago, has received to date more than 25 reservations. It has been the cus- tom of the last two years for all members of classes beyond the 50- year mark to hold their reunion ac- tivities together. Originally this club was an organization for graduates of President Tappan's day. Since then it has been expanded to include more recent graduates, and in order to add to the tremendous Michigan tradition represented here, the men of the faculty who hold the title of professor emeritus have been in- cluded in membership." Union Names Committeemen For Next Year Rotation Of Committees Plan To Be Used; 35 Freshmen Are Chosen Thirty-five Union committeemen for 1933-34 were announced yester- day by Edward McCormick, '34, sec- retary. The men are divided into five groups of seven men each and in this order they will be rotated on the five Union committees, house, dance, publicity, reception, and co-operative, for periods of five or six weeks. It is believed that in this way they will become better acquainted with the workings of the organization as a whole than if they were kept on one committee throughout the entire year, McCormick said. The list of those appointed, all members of the class of 1936, is as follows: Morton Alshuler, William Dixon, Milton Kramer, Cedric Marsh, Horace Pinney, Lawrence Quinn, Howard Underwood, and George Wanty. Robert Atkins, Joseph Griswold, Robert H. Johnson, John Marks, Jack Neuman, William Reed, Nathan Wertheimer, James Cook, Edward Litchfield, Wendel Neumann, John Perkins, Irving Auslander, Wilson Trimmer, Robert Sobel, and Audie Vandenburg. Edward Begle, Edgar Davidson, Irving Levitt, John McCarthy, John O'Connell, Richard Quinn, David Winkworth, Innis Price, Robert S. Johnson, Benjamin Charin, Frederick Mitchell, Ralph Sidman, Dewitt Syn- der, Joseph Wagner, and Elwood Morgan. LITERARY COLLEGE SENIORS Seniors in the literary college will not be able to secure commencement invitations and announcements after today, it was announced yesterday by Edward S. McKay, chairman of invitations. Delivery of orders placed with the committee will be made from 1 to 5 p. m. at the Gargoyle office in the Student Publications Building. Any orders not called for at that time will be re-sold. Secretary Hopes Essentials Of Conference Will Be Treated At Once A B O A R D S. S. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, June 1.-(/P)-Hopes for day and night sessions, limitation of speeches, and absence of a petty trading spirit in London in the in- terests of quick, decisive action, were emphasized by Secretary of State Hull tonight in outlining aims of the American delegation to the World Economic Conference. In his first interview since sailing on the President Roosevelt yesterday, the secretary also expressed the view that the London conference will help disarmament efforts at Geneva. Commenting on reports that the World Disarmament Conference had recessed until after the meeting in London gets under way, Mr. Hull said two out of three wars owe their origin to economic rather than polit- ical difficulties, and, for this reason, the economic conference should be helpful to disarmament. The secretaryhasserted his faith that few great heads of nations are going to London with petty and sel- fish aims. The American delegates expect broad agreements in principle rather than specific treaties will emerge from the London discussions. They hope to reach early "gentlemen's agreements" for the conservation of gold and the co-ordination of inter- nal policies of the various nations. The policies would relate to capital expenditures for public works and re- vival of industry.{ Mr. Hull said the program contem- plates a co-ordinate attack on the problems of trade barriers and mone- tary stabilization. The secretary will urge that work of the conference be facilitated so that essentials can be decided in from six to eight weeks. Morgan Sits Quietly By As Evidence Is Recorded By Senate Committee WASHINGTON, June 1.--()-In the midst of their soundings of the extent of the Morgan enterprises, Senate investigators disclosed today that J. P. Morgan is the dictator who has. final decision in any dis- pute among the partners of his banking house over policies of the firm. The financier, who has sat silently by for the last several days of the banking committee's investigation of his business transactions was also empowered by the partnership agree- ment drawn on March 31, 1916, after his father's death to compel any of his partners to withdraw at any time and fix the amount of funds due him. Partners also were allowed to withdraw voluntarily. The long-guarded partnership pa- pers were placed into the record by Ferdinand Pecora, committee inves- tigator, over the protest of John W. Davis, Morgan counsel, after the committee members so deteimined in closed session. Original signers of the agreement, the capital contributed, and the di- vision of net profits and losses were omitted from the published docu- ment by the committee's decision. Just before the partnership arti- cles were made public, one of the partners - George Whitney - had agreed that on 1929 prices the bank- ing house could have sold its United Corp. holdings at a profit of $122,- 508,000. . smoked quietly nearby, Whitney said Morgan & Co. had participated to the extent of $48,000,000 in 1930 in $91,000,000 of unsecured loans ar- ranged by his firm for utility com- panies in the united holding group. These disclosures were brought out by Pecora in a way which added Harvey C. Couch, now a Reconstruc- tion Finance Corp. director, to the growing line of Morgan-selected cus- tomers. The day's testimony also brought out that the total income taxes for the Morgan partners from 1919 to 1929 inclusive was $51,538,000. Schedule Of Post Office Hours Not To Be Changed No change is to be made in the present schedule of closing hours for general windows at the Ann Arbor Post Office and its sub-stations, pos- tal officials announced yesterday. The postal savings window at the main office will close at 4 p. m. daily to avoid overtime work in checking up books. It was incorrectly an- nounced previously that all windows would close at 4 p. m. As has been customary, the postal money order windows at all offices will close at 5:30 p. m. to permit making out a daily report, but the parcel post and stamp windows will remain open until 6 p. m. daily. All departments close at noon Saturdays. .1 Marian L. Giddings, '34, president of Mortarboard, senior honorary so- ciety for women, was elected sezre- tary-treasurer of the Undergraduate Council last night. She is also the winner of a $250 Hopwood prize in the field of poetry for .her "Sonnet' Cycle." Eastman Attacks Modern Literary Trend In Talk Noted Author And Critic Gives Hopwood Lecture Before Large Group A scathing attack on the new hu- manist movement in poetry and the modernist poets was made yesterday by Max Eastman, noted literary critic and author, who delivered the an- nual Hopwood Lecture to a gathering of more than 200, comprising Hop- wood Award winners and others. "There has been a decrease in the range, volume, and definiteness of communication in the new poets," Mr. Eastman said, quoting from the works of T. S. Eliot, and others of the new poets. The new humanists have only one cause which holds them together, he declared, and that is the fight against the advance of science in the field of literature. "They are inter- ested in defending the right of the literary man to talk loosely and be believed seriously in an age of sci- ence," he said. Mr. Eastman read the steno-. graphic reports of the ravings of a lunatic in place of one of the works of Gertrude B. Stein, another of the modern group of poets. The audi- ence of English instructors and as- { piring authors did notnotice the diaf- erence, but listened quietly, laughing in an embarrassed fashion when the substitution had been made clear. Besides the "cult of unintelligibil- ity" which Mr. Eastman set forth as one of the results of the modern trend, the cult of pure poetry has grown up. He explained the term by telling of the mere calling of names which the ancient medicine-man of Indian tribes used to indulge in, "be- lieving that if they called rain by its right name, drops would begin to fall." 30 'ENSIANS FOR SALE Thirty copies of the 1933 Michi- ganensian remain for sale at $5 each, it was announced yesterday by John A. Carstens, '33, business manager. Distribution of the books already ordered will continue today from 9 a. m. to 12 noon and from 1 to 5 p. m. at the 'Ensian office in the Stu- dent Publications Building. Students Faculty Committee Acts As Result Of Intoxication At Annual Swingout Expect Ceremony Will Be Preserved Sophomore Woman Also Believed To Be Facing Disciplinary Action Four men students in the Univer- sity were suspended by the discip- linary committee yesterday as the re- sult of "public intoxication in con- nection with the Swingout cere- monies" held Tuesday, May 16. I Robert G. Petrie, '33, and Irving Klein,'33, were suspended from the University from June 1, 1933, to Oct. 1, 1933. Elbert W. King, '33, was sus- pended from June 1, 1933, to Jan. 1, 1934.,It was also stated that King's longer suspension was due to the fact that he has been brought be- fore the disciplinary committee in times past for other offenses. Allyn E. Weber, '36, was suspended indefinitely from the University. The decision in his case was reached be- cause Weber ignored the summons from Dean of Men J. A. Bursey and failed to appear before the discip- linary committee when he was sent for. He will be subject to re-admis- sion upon application to, and ap- proval by Dean Bursley and ean John R. Effinger of the literary col- lege. No other names were mentioned in the official statement, but it was learned that a sophomore woman who marched in the parade faces dis- ciplinary action by the Judiciary Committee of the Women's Self Gov- erning group. It is believed that her punishment will be similar to that which the men received. The possibility of Swingout being done away with was lessened as the committee made no mention of it in the official statement. It was learned from authoritative sources, however, that the day and time will probably be changed in order to lessen the possibility of a recurrence of the "disgraceful performance" of the past ceremonies. 1Commonwealth Will Hold Tagf D ay Tomorrow Work Of Starr Praised By Nelson; Institution Internationally Known The Starr Commonwealth for Bys will hold its annual tag day tomor- row. This institution, which is inter- nationally acclaimed, has been the model for similar rehabilitation proj- ects for boys not only in this coun- try but in England as well. According to Prof. J. Raleigh Nel- son, head of the department of Eng- lish in the engineering college, and chairman of a committee of local men sponsoring the interests of the Commonwealth, Mr. Starr is recog- nized as one of the greatest authori- ties on boy problems in this genera- tion. The tag day will for considerations of economy be conducted by local people interested in assisting with the social projects. Some ten or twelve organizations, including some of the sociology classes and student fellowship groups, will be organized to provide an opportunity for anyone wishing to contribute to the fund to do so at 30 or more corners in the city. There is no other place in the State, according to the local com- mittee,to which a juvenile court judge can commit a boy under 12 years of age except to the Commonwealth. Therefore the committee claims that this work is of unparalleled import- ance. Several of the alumni of the Commonwealth are at present en- rolled in the University and six local boys are members of the Common- wealth at the present time. The local committee sponsoring Mr. Starr's work includes besides Professor Nelson as chairman, Prof. Britain Silent Debt Date As Nears LONDON, June 1.-01)-Although Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, declined again today to give the British House of Com- mons any inkling of the govern- ment's policy upon the American war debts, it was learned authorita- tively that cabinet ministers expect a debt pronouncement from Presi- dent Roosevelt before the next pay- ment is due June 15. This hopeful view is held by cer- tain members despite the character of news reports from Washington, indicating there is little basis for it. Mr. Chamberlain's reticence has strengthened parliamentary opinion that he and his colleagues of the cabinet are still expecting some move for solution of the question from the American capital before the World Economic Conference opens June 12. 1934 'Ensian Appointments Are Announced Calls League Yea r Successful As Business, Social Enterprise Jane Cowl Revealed As Woman Of Many And Varied Talents Joan Barnette Named Be Women's Editor; Editor Is Raeuber To Art Jane Cowl, in addition to having earned the reputation of "first lady of the theatre" is a playwright of no mean talents, a fact that is not generally known since most of her plays have been billed under a pseu- donym. She is the author, for in- stance, of "Smilin' Through," "Lilac Time," and "Jealous Moon," a play which ran for a year in New York with Miss Cowl as the star. In all she is the author of five plays and is at the present working on another, but in an interview last night she declined to comment on it. "I am a little superstitious about having the Jester come out between scenes and turn the leaves of the book, it is unnecessary to bring down the curtain except at the ends of the acts." Another of Miss Cowl's activities which has been occupying much of her time during the past year is the Stage Fund-a charity organization for talented actors who are at the present time without work. "More than nine-tenths of the actors in New York are now unemployed," Miss Cowl said, "and have been for three years. This organization pro- vides clothes, rent and pays doctor's Appointments to the editorial staff of the 1934 Michiganensian were an- nounced yesterday by Wallace Gra- ham, '34, managing editor. Joan Barnette, '34, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., is to be women's editor. Miss Barnette is a member of Wy- vern, junior women's honor society, and she also served on the commit- tees for the Junior Girls Play and the Sophomore Cabaret. She is a member of Alpha Omega Pi sorority. Helmus Raeuber, of Wauwatosa, Wis., special student in the architec- ture school, is to be art editor for the coming year. Women's junior editors appointed By ELEANOR BLUM There will be no major changes next year in the system under which women may work in the League, ac- cording to Miss Alta B. Atkinson, business manager of the League. The plan has worked out to the satis- faction of both the League and the women who are working there, she said. "The only change will be that I will not allow women to work for both board and room," Miss Atkin- son said. "They are physically in- capable of doing that and at the same time carrying a full academic program." "With the end of the year ap- proaching, it is apparent that the new plans carried out by the League have been successful," according to "The increase in the number of ap- plications for next year would seem to denote complete satisfaction on the part of the women themselves," she said. This plan, under which women have replaced all but a few of the men employees in the League, is not the only change that the League has undergone this year. Financially, it has done remarkably well for the times, Miss Atkinson said. The Student Art Exchange, where graduate students may bring their work, has itself brought in over $350, according to Dorothy White, who is in charge of the shop. The dress de- signing department, started under the auspices of the exchange, now has three assistants working under Frances Young, who is the head of