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VOL. XLIII No. 56
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1932
PRICE FIVECl
Union Honors
Team Tonight
With Smoker
Williamson And Fay Will
Speak; Other Members
Of Team To Be Preseni
Two Detroit Alumni,
Yost, Kipke To Talk
Sound Pictures And Glee
Club Quartet Finish Oui
Evening's Program
Hundreds of loyal Michigan stu-
dents will flock to the Union tonight
for the smoker honoring Michigan's
conference championship football
team.
For the first time since the smok-
ers were abandoned in 1913 for the
more elaborate football banquets a
large part of the student body will
be given an opportunity to show their
appreciation of the team by crowding
into the Union ballroom to hear the
speakers provided by the Union.
Most of the members of the foot-
ball teams will be present at the
smoker, and Captain Ivan William-
son, '33, together with Captain-elect
Stanley Fay, '34, will address the
gathering.
Tickets on Sale Today
Tickets will be on sale throughout
the day on the campus, and while the
remainder of the tickets will be on
sale at the Union tonight, all those
who want to be sure of getting in
were advised by John W. Lederle, '33,
Union president, to purchase theirs
sometime during the day.,
Frederick Matthaei, '13, prominent
Detroit business man, who has been
sufficiently interested in the Mich-
igan team this year to come out from
Detroit to attend the regular week-
night "skull sessions," is to be one of
the principal speakers at the affair
tonight. Matthael is an authority on
football teehuique and alsuld, --ao-
cordlng..to'. Lederle; be an interest-
ing speaker.
Mr. Matthaei is the president of the
University of Michigan club of De-
troit and has kept in close touch
with the University since his grad-
uation. He is the president of the
American Metal Products Company.
A quartet from the Glee Club will
also be -at the meeting to lead the
singing of popular Michigan songs.
Watkins to Speak
Other speakers are to be James K.
Watkins, '09, Detroit police commis-
sioner, Fielding H. Yost, director of
intercollegiate athletics and Harry G.
Kipke, varsity football coach. More
than 40 minutes of sound pictures
of the Michigan team im action last
year and this year, together with
shots of the Olympic games and of
the Varsity Band will also be shown.
Tickets for the affair, which is
scheduled for 8 p. m., are set at 25
cents. Cider, doughnuts, and cigar-
ettes will be served to those attend-
ing the smoker.
Comedy Club
Elects Eight
New Members
More Than 60 Try Out;
To Give Next Play In
Second Semester
Comedy Club, student dramatic or-
ganization accepted eight new mem-
bers after the final tryouts yesterday
afternoon, Mary Pray, '34, president
of the club announced last night.
The new members voted into the
club on the basis of the showing
made in the tryouts yesterday after-
noon before the whole club are Bar-
bara Van Der Vort, '34, Grand Rap-
ids, Birney Van Benschoten, '34,
Flint, Virginia Frink, '35, Walker-
ville, Ont., Leonard Stocker, '33, Al-
ton, Ill., and Ann Edmunds, '33, Ann
Arbor.
Others are Elizabeth Griffith, '34,
Nanticoke, Penn., Uldean Hunt, '33,
Richmond, Ind., and Alfred Gold, '34,
Ann Arbor.
More than 60 candidates appeared
for preliminary tryouts held Monday
and Tuesday of last week, Miss Pray
said. Final tryouts for those who sur-
vived last week's elimination appear-
ed veterdav afternoon before Com-
Less Student Drinking Than
In Old Days,' Says Forsythe!
By CHARLES B. BROWNSON
"Drinking on the campus today is
not anywhere near as bad as it was
before prohibition," stated Dr. War-
ren E. Forsythe, Director of the Uni-
versity Health Service in a speech on
the liquor situation before the Adel-'
phi speech society, last night.
"However," he added, it is more
serious now than it was immediately
after the Prohibition law was passed
although better liquor with less wood
alcohol seems to be available."
"Personally, I can't see why stu-
dents drink alcoholic liquors; I can't
even tell the differnce between 'near
beer' and the real thing," he con-
tinued in showing whny even temper-
ate drinking was unnecessary but,
"not a very serious affair." The body
has a very good capacity for assimil-
ating and diluting the 50 per cent
alcohol which would coagulate the
blood stream if admitted in full
strength but, and Dr. Forsythe
chuckled, "It does take a while to
teach the body how to take it
though."
The Health Service is not able to
give definite statistics on any student
mis-demeanors for no written records
or memoranda are ever made or per-
emitted on such social cases as ven-
ereal diseases, alcoholism or child-
birth to protect the individuals con-
cerned. "We have had, however, at
least one case of severe alcoholism or
delerium tremens this semester," he
stated in pointing out how the al-
coholic disintegration of the central
nervous system inevitably produced a
temporary or permanant form of in-
sanity.
Alcohol does not produce a single
beneficial effect on the human body
but rather is harmfulutodsome de-
gree every time it is used, Dr. For-
sythe said. The belief that the drink-
ing of beer added weight was explod-
ed because the beverage does not
contain an appreciable amount of
food and acts only to remove all
worry and whet the appetite, ac-
cording to actual physiology.
"My entire sympathy is with the
W.C.T.U. and the work that they are
doing. They deserve a tolerant atti-
tude on our part because they have
seen the actual disgusting details of
the saloon and know what they are
fighting against." He concluded that
the prohibition amendment tried to
accomplish too great a reform all at
once and that the cessation of all
educational efforts in the last decade
was the fatal error on the part of the
prohibitionists.
Student Council
To Investigate
Honor System
Committee Appointed To
Make Survey Of Other
universities
Feeling that the proctor system of
examining students at the University
retards development of character, the
Student Council last night appointed
a committee to investigate the prac-
ticablity of inaugurating the honor
system of examination in the liter-
ary college.
GOorge-Lambre :ht;harles Racine,
and Cecil Cantrill were appointed to1
make - a survey of the universities
now using the honor system and re-
port to the next meeting of the Coun-
cil.
"The honor system works in the
engineering college because it is in-
stilled in the students during the
first year," said Charles Burgess, "and
the student take the responsibility of
seeing that it works out. Further-
more," he stated, "the small num-
ber of students makes it possible to
work out such a system, whereas, it
could not be worked' out in a larger
department, such as the literary col-
lege.
Cecil Cantrill, one of the newly
elected members of the Council, said
that the honor system does not work
so efficiently in the larger classes in
the engineering college.
"The student comes to the Univer-
sity to build up his character," said
Lambrecht, "and the honor system
would help on this matter. The lit-
erary college students are just as
honorable as the engineering college
students and if it works in one col-
lege, it ought to work in another."
The subject has been brought up in
the past but has failed each time be-
cause of opposition from the Univer-
sity authorities.
The plan proposing a new form
of student government which was
presented to the University authori-
ties last spring was refused last week
with the recommendation that a
more specific set-up be made. The
Council will take the matter up at
the next meeting.
Hawley Egleston, William Elliott,
and Cecil Catrill, newly elected
members of the Council, took 'the
oath of office at the meeting last
nght.
Ann Arbor Community
Fund Reaches $42,000
Slowly, but steadily, the Ann Arbor
community fund is rising to its goal
with a total of $42,264 recorded late
yesterday afternoon at the fund
headquarters.
"The workers have been working
steadily and conscientiously in an ef-
fort to bring in the remaining $20,-
000 before the end of the first ex-
tension period of 10 days which ends
next Saturday," Rabbi Bernard Hel-
ler, director of the campaigning, said
last night. He also pointed out that
the solicitors in many cases have;
found it difficult to get in contact
French Refusal
To Pay Debts
Thought Likely
Herriot Attempts To Stall
Off Debate; Reproached
By Deputy Bouillon
PARIS, Nov. 29.--(P)-A consider-
able section of the Chamber of Dep-
uties today strongly advocated an
immediate declaration that it is im-
possible to pay the debts due the+
United States because such payments
necessarily are linked with repara-
tions.
Premier Eduoard Herriott, promis-
ing that the government would not
make any decision regarding the debt
problem without informing the
Chamber beforehand, did his utmost
to -stave off general debate on the
question at this time.
It appeared tonight, however, that
such a debate would develop Thurs-
day, although there were reports that
M. Herriott was prepared to pose a
question of confidence if the Cham-
ber insisted on it.
In the lobbies of the Chamber
there were numerous and lively pri-
vate discussions of the debt issue.
Surrounded by about 100 deputies,
Henry Franklin Bouillon, left radical,
reproached Premier Herriot for his
policy on the debts. It was M. Boul-
lon's contention that France has been
scandalously timid. in dealing with
this question.
Ford Reported Making
'Remarkable Progress'
DETROIT, Nov. 29.-VP)-Henry
Ford, a source close to his family
said, was making "remarkable prog-
ress" tonight as he lay in his hospital
bed convalescing from the emergency
operation Saturday that brought him
the first serious illness of his 69
years.
Johnson Asks
Unconditional
Debt Payment
Administration Waits For
Next Move From Abroad
Without Comment
California Senator
Cites Opposition
If Europe Won't Pay, Our
Taxpayers M u s t Bear
The Burden, He Says
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-(P)-
While administration officials re-
mained uncommunicative waiting the
next war debt postponement move
from abroad, Sen. Hiram Johnson,
of California, pointed out congres-
sional opposition today with a forc-
ible assertion against any "tinker-
ing" with the debts.
Leader last year of the campaign
waged against President Hoover's
one-year moratorium, and die-hard
anti-cancellationist, Johnson said:
"There is just one thing to the
whole debt problem. That is whether
the European nations shall pay our
government what they owe us, or
shall the American taxpayers pay
what the European nations owe us.
"It is utterly nonsense to say that
France and Italy can't pay. It might
strain Great Britain some, but that
is no reason why we should put this
burden on the backs of the tax-
payers."
While these words were being ut-
tered Secretary Mills was saying for
the administration that "we are as
^ompletely in the dark now as we
were yesterday. The next move must
come from abroad."
He and others were reluctant even
to mention the debt subject, but the
rapid spread of rumor did cause the
secretary of the treasury to say there
had been no official discussion of the
possibilitythat Great Britain would
make only the interest payment of
$65,000,000 due on Dec. 15, postpon-
ing the $30,000,000 principal pay-
ment.
Mills maintained the question had
not been mentioned in his talk yes-
terday with Sir Roland Lindsay, the
British ambassador.
Delay in her payment of $30,000,-
000 on principal could be arranged
under existing agreements by consent
of the secretary of the treasury with-.
out congressional action.
But any further concession to
Great Britain, such as the right to
pay in its own money and not make
the transfer of gold, would require
congressional action.
Ticket Sale For Russian
Film Doubled In A Day
Rising from 400 to 800 within a
day, the ticket sale for the presenta-
tion of the new Art Cinema League's
first film presentation, "Ten Days
That Shook the World," assures the
success of the project, members of
the executive board said last night.
The program will take place at the
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Dec. 1
and 2. In addition to the feature
film, a short will be shown, entitled,
"Morosko," also a Russian film, deal-
ing with an old legend of the prov-
inces.
House Ready
To Decide On
Repeal Issue
100 Republicans Expected
To Join Democrats In
Support Of Garner Bill
Vote To Be Monday;
Opposition F a d e s
Members Of Both Parties
Anxious To Dispose Of
Question At Once
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-(P)-
Ooposition to a House vote on pro-
hibition repeal Monday apparently
reached a new peak today and then
quickly diminished, as both Demo-
cratic and Republican members be-
gan conceding that the quicker the
question is disposed of the better.
Encouraged by reports that more
than 100 Republicans would vote for
his flat repeal and State convention
proposal, Speaker John N. Garner
said late today that it was his inten-
tion to carry out his plan for action
almost as soon as Congress convenes.
In addition a large group of South-
ern Democrats, who had registered
opposition to the proposal, told the
Vice-President Elect that they had
decided the issue should come to a
vote Monday to clear the way for
consideration of other pressing legis-
lation.
A division of opinion over the form
the resolution should take appeared
for a time to imperil possible action
Monday. Some members favored
submitting the proposition to Legis-
latures for ratification and others de-
clared for provisions to outlaw the
saloon and guarantee Federal protec-
tion to dry states.;
Jewett Names
ommta teemen
To RunJ-Hop
Huling Will Be Chairman
Of Music Section; More
Appointments To Come
J-Hop committee appointments
were announced yesterday by Charles
W. Jewett, '34, general chairman.
Cyrus Huling was appointed chair-
man of the music committee with
Harry Kraff, '34M, as assistant chair-
man and Harry Hattenback, Robert
Moreland, and Richard Briggs as
sub-committeemeni. Wallace G r a-
ham was chosen to head the favors
committee with Isabelle Bonicave as
assistant chairman and Julian Me-
serve, Carol Hanan, and Virginia
Thomas as committee members.
The decorations committee is un-
der the direction of Francis Palms,
'34A, chairman, and Ellen Jane Coo-
ley, assistant chairman, with Jacque-
line Navran, Edward Woodruff, Hy-
man Maas, and Mary Fitzpatrick as
committeemen.
David J. Burnette is the chairman
of the floor committee with Ran-
dolph Bradley as his assistant and
Lester Harrison, Thomas Connellan,
Frederick Harlow, and Albert New-
man as sub-committeemen. Invita-
tions are in the charge of Stuart
Smart with James Doty as assistant
and Burlin Ackles, Hugh Grove, and
Josephine McCausey as committee
members.
Nils Lundberg, '34B.Ad., is chair-
man of the booth committee with
William Currey as assistant and Ed-
ward McCormack, Bethel Kelly,
Lloyd Nyman,aMarian Stockbridge,
Jane Fauver and Betty Fetters as
committeemen.
Publicity is under the direction of
Brackley Shaw with John Howland
as assistant chairman, Grafton
Sharpe, Mary Jean White, and Na-
than Waring as committee members.
Robert Salzstein is in charge of the
ticket sales with Robert Haskins as
assistant chairman, and William Gie-
fel, Katherine McHenry, Charles De-
Baker, B.Ad., Carl Gladfelder, and
Donna Becker as committeemen.
Additional appointments will be
made, Jewett said, when all of the
classes have held their elections.
Soupalt, French Writer,
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First Ticket
For Rose
An order for a ticket to the Rose
Bowl game and a check for $10
to cover any possible admission
price that might be set were re-
ceived yesterday by the Michgan
Managers Club, according to .
Hawley Tapping, general secre-
tary of the Alumni Association
and a member of the cub.
The letter is from F. H. Lancan-
shire, '00, a former varsity man-
ager of the baseball team who at
present is residing in Naranjo,
Calif. In his letter Mr. Lancan-
shire says that the opinion of
west coast newspapers is definitely
that Michigan will be the one to
play in the annual game at Pas-
Jena on New Year's Day.
He further says that all the
Michigan alumni now residing in
that part of the country are hope-
ful that the invitation will come
to Michigan and predicts that, in
case it does, the game will be a
mreat colorful contest with a large
number of rooters present for his
old "Alma Mammy."
Seniors Begin
Classification
For '33 Term
Junior Class To Arrange
Schedules During Last
Half Of This Week
Taking advantage of their oppor-
tunity for first selection of 1933
classes, seniors in the literary, educa-
tion, and music schools yesterday
busied classification officers in Uni
versity Hall until late afternoon.
This year's regulations limit the
time for seniors to three days, and
members of the junior class may
begin to arrange their schedules to-
morrow. Plans of Prof. Daniel L.
Rich, director of classification, call
for the completion of clasifying by atll
classes before the Christmas holidays.,
This shorter period was inaugurat-
- d-Ti year-after a-four to -one vote.
in its favor was registered by the
University faculty. Faculty members
have been requested to be in their
offices this month during the posted
consultation hours for the conven-
ience of students who are arranging
schedules.
Students were cautioned yesterday
by Professor Rich to take care 'to
keep a copy of their next year's
~schedules in order to avoid the neces-
uity of asking classification clerks
about their classes next February.
Gabrilowitsch
To Come Here
With Symphony
Frantz Will Be Featured
With Detroit Orchestra
In Appearance Tonight
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, organizer an"
for years conductor of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, will be here
with that organization tonight in th
third concert of the Choral Unior
series for 1932-33.
As solo artist with the symphony
Dalies Frantz, graduate student in
the School of Music, will be at the
piano. Mr. Frantz early this year
made his New York debut, and was
accorded favorable and lengthy no-
tices by critics in several New York
newspapers.
Since the organization of the or-
chestra late in the last century, it has
grown to be an institution ranked
with the greatest orchestras in the
country. It has made frequent trips
to Ann .Arbor, having appeared in
almost all of the Choral Union sea-
sons that have been presented since
the orchestra's inception.
Previously soloists have not been
included, as a rule, in symphony con-
certs presented by the Choral Union
but this year an exception was made
in the case of Mr. Frantz. He is a
graduate of the music school, where
he is now studying for the degree of
Master of Music. He has studied or-
gan under Prof. Palmer Christian and
piano under Prof. Guy Maier.-
He will play the Liszt Concerto in
E Flat Major, consisting of four
movements which wil be played with-
out pause. In addition to this num-
ber the orchestra will offer the First
Symphony of Brahms in C Minor, Op.
Officials1
California To Repr
West In Rose
Coast School Awv
Decision Of Big
Indicates Unofficial
Michigan Is Favc
Eastern Possibil
With Michigan favor
prospect for the Rose BoN
members of the squad ar
tarily remaining in trair
cording to Coach Waltei
LOS ANGELES, Calif.,
0p)-Officials of the Rose 1
ciation tonight extended tc
versity of Southern Califor
vitation to represent the V
next year in the 18th an
tournament football game
dena on Jan. 2. The TI
cepted.
It was the third time i:
dour years that Southern
has been chosen to repr
West in the game, which
referred to as the gridiron
the mythical national char
The Trojans appeared at
Bowl in 1930, and 1932 and
ly had played in 1923, win
game.
As acceptance of the
was announced, it was
Pacific Coast Alum
RegYet Hanley's
NA
Ordered
Bowl Game
M c gaPreferrel
By U.S9i
Choose Sout'.
Sincere regret for Coach Han-
ley's apparent opposition to Mich-
igan's chances to play in Pasa-
dena in the Iew Year's ty Rose
Bowl game was expressed by
Northwestern Alumni on the West
Coast last night by Robert J. Hil-
ler, president of the Big Ten club
in Los Angeles.
Coach Hanley is reported to
have said that he did not favor
the proposal that Michigan play
on the West Coast in communica-
tions between him and California:
The telegram reads: "Southern
California Northwestern Alumni
regret Coach Hanley's apparent
opposition to Michigan's playing
the Rose Bowl game. In fact his
reported attitude amazes them as
they as well as all other Big Ten
Alumni desire to see Michigan
participate.
Robert J. Hiller, President of the
Big Ten Alumni Association.
inofficially by Trojan leaders
:hat Southern California would pre-
er to play against Michigan, winner
if the Big Ten conference title.
':tichigan representatives have indi-
ated a desire to come to Pasadena
ut a conference rule prohibits post-
'eason games.
It was also indicated, unofficially,
hat Southern California would wait
.ntil Dec. 3 to learn whether the Big
an might suspend the ruling. Rules
yf the Tournament of Roses game
rovide that the vesterih team select
ts own eastern opponent and South-
}rn California, it was stated, will not
extend an invitation until it learns
whether Michigan would be able to
accept, if a bid were issued.
Colgate, Pittsburgh, and Alabama
Polytechnic are other likely candi-
dates, with Colgate unbeaten, untied
and unscored on, as runner-up to
Michigan.
U. S. Checker King Will
Meet All Comers Here
An exhibition of simultaneous
chess and checkers together with
blindfold checkers, will be included
in a novel program to be presented
by the Michigan Union at 7:30 p. m.
tomorrow, when Newell W. Banks,
United States match checker cham-
pion, will take on all devotees of the
game who wish to pit their skill
against him.
Mr. Banks is the recognized run-
ner-up for the world's championship,
having played Robert Stewart, of
Scotland, present king of the checker
world, a 40-game match only to lose
by the narrow margin of two to one.
The contestants drew on the other
37 occasions. Mr.. Stewart will op-
Americans Are 'Last Victims'
Of European Expansion-Fisher
By GEORGE M. HOLMES
"We are the last victims of 400
years of European expansion," said
Dr. Frederick B. Fisher yesterday
afternoon in his address at Natural
Science Auditorium on "Can Amer-
ica Maintain Her Standard of Liv-
in"g?
"Europe has milked other conti-
nents in order to raise herself to her
high position. She has acted as the
middle man. When Europe promised
to pay us after the World war, she
expected to procure her payments
from the vanquished and turn them
over to us, again playing the part of
the middle man.
War Ended European Era
"We came to the end of the Euro-
pean era in the World war," Dr.
Fisher said. "Germany came into the
struggle for expansion too late, and
hence her defeat in the war. The age
of - o rnn is "A+ t"A t,
"A survey was made in New York
City by 500 trained experts. They
did not limit their survey, but cov-
ered different parts of the city. In
that city, the financial center of the
richest nation in the world, over 5,-
000 of the 6,000 families investigated
were lacking in food. There were
other evils, for 88 per cent were in
arrears on their rent, 38 per cent
lacked winter clothing, 25 per cent
had sold or pawned their furniture
and personal belongings for food, and
25 per cent were short of fuel. And
this is 1932."
Should Not Emphasize Speed
Dr. Fisher does not believe that
our standards of living should neces-
sarily be based on the advantage of
speed. "Removal of our mechanical
advantages," he said, "would not
lower our cultural standard of liv-
ing."
A crowd of over 200 attended the