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Editorials
Rushing Violations; NRA
And Fraternity Help.
VOL. XLIV No. 8 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, OCT. 3, 1933
PRICE' FIVE CENTS
Fraternities And
Sororities May Be
Asked To Join NRA
Dishwashers' And Waiters'
Pay Will Be Probed By
N.S.L. Representatives
Added Employment
Of Students Sighted
Houses' Affiliation With
Restaurant Code Seen;
Expect Decision Today
By GUY M. WHIPPLE, JR.
A campaign to investigate labor
conditions in fraternities and sorori-
ties in order to determine whether
they are meeting obligations imposed
on them through possible inclusion in
the NRA restaurant code was insti-
tuted yesterday by officials of the
National Student League. The offi-
cials plan to accompany Cone W.
Lighthall, Ann Arbor Federal NRA
representative, to Detroit to seek an
interpretation of the complex ques-
tion.
The league's investigation will
center about the many waiters .and
dishwashers who are receiving their
board in return for approximately 21
hours work a week-a scheme which
is held to be a possible violation of
the NRA restaurant code which states
that these classes of labor must be
paid at the rate of 26 cents an hour,
or roughly $5.20 a week in the local
cases under scrutiny. Since the code
automatically evaluates a week's
board at $3, fraternities and sororities
appear to be underpaying their kit-
chen and dining room employees
abdut $2.20 weekly. It is this discrep-
ancy which the National Student
League proposes to investigate.
Fraternity Help Underpaid?
If the contention of the National
Student League-that fraternities
and sororities are underpaying their
help $2.20 a week-is supported by
Mr. Lighthall after he has conferred
in Detroit with A. J. Bainaud, Mich-
igan Federal NRA chieftain, the sub-
sequent shorter working hours ob-
tained through adjustment of the
error by progressive fraternities and
sororities wouldlargely alleviate the
pressing campus unemployment prob-
lem.
According to Edward Cheyfitz, '35,
president of the National Student
League, campus houses could take
their choice of paying employees
about $2.20 a week extra, or could
still conform to the NRA by using
their employees over a shorter hor
span. This last procedure would ne-
cessitate taking on new employees,
and a consequent absorption of many
campus unemployed would result.
Since the whole matter of sorority
and fraternity non-conformity to the
NRA has not been established be-
yond doubt, National Student League
representatives are anxious to ob-
tain today a conclusive summarizing
statement from Mr. Barnaud or Mr.
Lighthall. While the league officials'
belief that the restaurant code ap-
plies to fraternities and sororities as
well has been partially confirmed
through conversations with NRA men
here and in Detroit, no positive state-
ment had been secured last night.
Detroit Conference Today
The few fraternity leaders who
could be reached were unanimous in
their opinion that campus houses
would co-operate in adjusting the
kitchen-and-waiter labor problem if
it were conclusively established that
the NRA restaurant code applied to
their employees.
National Student League members
support their contentions with a sec-
tionj of the NRA restaurant code
which stipulates that "clubs and or-
ganizations run on a non-profit ba-
sis" are "restaurants" if they serve
meals to members.
All doubt concerning the applica-
bility of the NRA restaurant code
to fraternities and sororitieswill be
cleared up late today after the con-
ferences in Detroit, National Stu-
dent League officials hope, although
it is possible that a decision from
Washington may be necessary.
Professor Hackett Has
Leading Role In Festival
Prof. Arthur Hackett, head of the
voice department of the School o
Music, is a leading soloist at the
Business Tryouts To
Report At Daily Today
All first semester sophomores or
second semester freshmen who are
interested in newspaper business
training, may apply at the busi-
ness offices of The Daily in the
S t u d e n t Publications Building,
Maynard Street, according to W.
Grafton Sharp, '34, business man-
ager. Tryouts for both men's and
women's staffs should report pre-
ferably between 3 and 5 p. m. to-
day, but will be taken care of any
time this week.
George Reed's
Trial Begins
ThisMorning
Sched'uled To Come Up
Before Judge Sample
In Circuit Court
The trial of Georg4 D. Reed, con-
fessed murderer of his former wife,
will begin at 10 a. m. today in Cir-
cuit Court when the jury assembles
before Judge George W. Sample.
Reed will be defended by Mark How-
ard and Edward F. Conlon, Detroit
attorneys.
Conlon and Howard stated that
they could produce 25 witnesses for
the defense, and Prosecutor Albert
J. Rapp claimed he could produce
about the same number for the
State.
Reed was carefully examined at
fhe County Jail yesterday by Dr.
Theodore Klingman and Dr. Howard
Riggs. The result of the examination
was not made public.
Reed was captured by Sheriff Ja-
cob Andres May 5, about 24 hours
after farmers discovered the bullet-
riddled corpse of Reed's former wife
on a lonely stretch of the Dixboro
Road.
After 80 hours of questioning by
sheriff's officers Reed confessed, be-
cause, he claims, the officers prom-
ised him clemency. In Circuit Court
Judge George W. Sample sentenced
him to life in solitary confinement
and hard labor in Marquette Prison.
Reed appealed for a new trial on
the grounds that he was promised
clemency for his confession.
Strouse Is Named
New Drum-Major
Donald A. Strouse, '35, Grand Rap-
ids, is the new drum-major of the
Varsity Band, it was announced yes-
terday by Lieut. R. R. Coursey, drill-
master of the band. He was chosen
after tryouts last week, but an-
nouncement of his appointment was
withheld until yesterday, when the
final week of pre-season drills began.
Strouse, a former member of the
unit's clarinet section, is in his sec-
ond year on campus, having attended
Grand Rapids Junior College his
freshman year. He is a graduate of
Grand Rapids South High school.,
where he was drum-major of the
high school band, and led the Citizens
Military Training Camp band at Fort
Sheridan, Ill., in the summer of
1930.
The new drum-major, who will take
over his position formally before the
Michigan State game Saturday in the
stadium, succeeds rank . Riley,
'33E, Pontiac. Riley, drum-major for
three years, is now employed as a
draftsman in a Pontiac automobile
rplant-
Judge Payne Releases
Drug Weed Growers
Arrested Saturday for possessing
and raising marijuana weed, Fred
and Teofilo Schavez, R.F.D. Belleville,
were released from the County Jail
yesterday by order of Judge Jay H.
Payne.
The weed, a potent drug, was iden-
tified. by Sheriff Jacob Andres and
members of the University. Authori-
ties investigating the Schavez farm
Sdsvamred nearly two acres of the
Legionnaires'
Cheers Ring
For Roosevelt
President Explains Plans
WithDramatic Emphasis
On Outstanding Points
Reports Progress
In Recovery Effort
Government Aid Assured
For Veterans Who Were
Made Helpless By War
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.--(P)-President
Franklin D. Roosevelt got the cheers
of the men of the World War today
as he told the American Legion con-
vention in plain words, but with a
friendly smile, that the veterans must
serve on equal footing with other cit-
izens in obtaining Government re-
lief.
Facing the veterans of 1918 who
felt the swing of the Administration's
economy ax in the drive to assure na-
tional credit, the President drama-
tically pointed his finger at them and
backed up his program.
There were a couple of dramatic
hushes in the stadium as Mr. Roose-
velt drove home his points, but a
ripple of applause swelled into cheers
on each occasion.
The same generous reception'
awaited the smiling President at each
turn during his hurried hours in this
Midwest metropolis.
Goes to World's Fair
He motored through milling lanes
of citizens from the stadium to the
World's Fair for luncheon and again
in the bright sunshine out to the
grave of Anton Cermak, late Mayor
of Chicago and victim of an assas-
sin's bullet intended for the Presi-
dent in Miami last February.
Heavy details of secret service men
and police guided him back to the
La Salle Street Station late in the
afternoon for the return journey to
New York City.
Before detraining at noon Mr.
Roosevelt talked over the Cuban sit-
uation with Secretary Cordell Hull in
Washington. There was no comment
but his decision not to change plans
here indicated belief that things were
in hand.
Mr. Roosevelt, second in command
of the Navy during the World War
and member of the Legion, smiled
broadly as he walked amid waves of
applause to the speaker's stand.
Speaks With Conviction
He spoke with obvious feeling, but
nevertheless with firm conviction as
he told the vets that those who in-
curred disability after the war had
no more right to Government aid
than others.
But he assured them that if any
disabled veteran was unable to care
for himself the Government would
give him the necessary care just as it
would other citizens in the same posi-
tion.
Here is the Administration attitude
on its relations with the veterans as
outlined by Mr. Roosevelt:
1-The Government has a respon-
sibility for and towards those who
suffered injury or contracted disease
while serving in its defense.
2-The fact of wearing a uniform
does not mean that the veteran can
demand and receive from his Gov-
ernment a benefit which no other cit-
izen receives.
3- If the veteran has not the
wherewithal to take care of himself,
it is the duty of his community to
take care of him and next the duty
of his State. Only if under these cir-
cumstances his own community and
his own State are unable, then should
the Federal Government offer him
hospitalization and care.
As for those men who were in-
jured or diseased during actual war
service and their dependen~s, the
President said herhoped to increase
their benefits.
He reported progress in the Na-
tional Recovery effort, but warned
that it could not be fulfilled within
six months. He said that agriculture
and industry had picked up but still
must go farther.
Former Daily Men Get
New York, Detroit Jobs
Frank B. Gilbreth, managing editor
of both The Daily and The Summer
Daily last year, is now being em-
ployed by the New York Herald
Tribune as a reporter.
While on the campus, aside from
his activities in publications, Mr. Gil-
breth was a member of Alpha Delta
's 'Phi a n P.Ci hnnnr.r.v
Court Ruling
Kills Campus
Sale Of Beer
Supreme Court Agrees
With Sample; No Beer
East Of Division
Possible To Rehear
Case, Lawyer Says
Decision Is First C o ur t
Has Made On 3.2 Beer
Sales Legislation
The Michigan Supreme Court yes-
terday upheld Circuit Court Judge
George W. Sample's decision refusing
to grant a writ of mandamus to
Ralph T. and Winifred Monk, pro-
prietors of the New Grenada Res-
taurant, 313 South State Street.
The decision means that no beer
may be sold east of Division Street,
except in drug stores.
"The authorities of the city of Ann1
Arbor," the report, written by Jus-
tice Thomas A. E. Weadock, says,
"have protected the many students
of that great institution from dan-;
gerous surroundings, and should
continue to do so."
The Court's decision practically
ends the beer dispute, which has
been raging ever since Michigan
started selling beer, although it is
still possible to ask for a rehearing
on the case. J. Edgar Dwyer, at-
torney for the Monk brothers, last
night said he did not know whether1
such a rehearing would be asked. He
refused to make any comment on
the court's ruling until he had re-1
ceived a complete copy of the report.
In standing by Judge Sample, the
court opposes an early interpretation
of the State Beer Law, made by at-
torney-general Patrick O'Brien, who
wrote a letter to the Ann Arbor
Common Council saying that in his
opinion the city charter provision
prohibiting beer sales in the campus
area was overruled by the State act.-
The opinion was the first issued byR
the Supreme Court~ involving the 3.2
beer act. It appears to make all
applica&tions for retailers' beer li-
censes, except those originating in
Wayne County, subject to approval
by the local legislative body.
Downtown restaurants and cafes,
which have been making a good deal
of money from student and trans-
ient trade which formerly went to
campus restaurants, were jubilant
over the decision last night. Many
of them had built additions to their
stores, and a large number of new
cafes had opened, simply on the
anticipation of student beer trade.
If the court had allowed the sale of
beer east of Division Street, many of
these restaurants would have faced
failure.
As it is, the campus group of res-
taurants stand to lose considerable
trade. Drys on the Common Coun-
cil claim, however, that when these
stores opened up in the campus area
they knew that the sale of alcoholic
beverages near the University had
always been prohibited and they
therefore could not rightfully expect
beer licenses.
The decision is a victory for the
dry members of the council, and par-
ticularly for Aldermen William Pa-
ton and Walter Sadler, both profes-
sors in the University, who lead the
dry fight. Their victory in the coun-
cil was won by the slim margin of
one vote, 8 to 7, the council presi-
dent, E. E. Lucas, casting the decid-
ing dry vote each time.
Judiciary Committee Called
Into Session As House Is
Accused Of Illegal Rushing
Organ Recitals
Will Begin In
Hill Tomorrow
Palmer Christian, Noted
Soloist, To Give Weekly
Concerts Wednesdays
Prof. Palmer Christian's Twilight
Organ Recitals, presented at 4:15 p.
m. each Wednesday afternoon during
the scholastic year, will be inaugu-
rated for the season in Hill Audito-
rium. The recitals are open to the
public, with the exception of small
children, without admission charge.
Professor Christian has for many
years presented Ann Arbor recitals,
in addition to having offered pro-
grams in other leading musical cen-
ters of this country and Europe. In
the years that he has presented his
Wednesday afternoon recitals, Pro-
fessor Christian has given his au-
diences an opportunity to hear many
of ?the larger organ compositions as
well as the more famous short ones.
Tomorrow's inaugural program will
be as follows:
Largo (Concerto in D) ......Vivaldi
(1680-1743)
Minuet e Gigue en Rondeau . Rameau
(1683-1750)
Fantasia and Fugue in G
Minor (1685-1750) ........Bach
Symphony in G No. 6.........Widor
Allegro
Adagio
Intermezzo
Cantabile
Finale
Nocturne ...........Grieg-Christian
Tone Poem "Finlandia". ....Sibelius
Union Workers
Are Asked To
Avoid Striking
(By Associated Press)
Attempts to revise unsatisfactory
wage and working conditions provi-
sions of the NRA codes, with the
strike only as a last resort, were
urged on the American Federation of
Laborby William Green, president,
yesterday.
Nevertheless, n u m e r o u s strikes
continued to sputter throughout the
eastern part of the country.
The coal situation was the most
widespread and troublesome. A new
soft coal code went into effect today
and Gen. Hugh S. Johnson issued
an appeal that by the "authority of
the President," the United Mine
Workers accept it and return to
work. From Pittsburgh, however,
came the report that 75,000 miners
remained on strike demanding recog-
nition of their union. Ohio min-
ers also remained out, despite ap-
peals of union leaders.
The coal code involved a wage re-
duction at Peru, Ill., and another 250
miners walked out there. Twelve
hundred others in the Evansville,
Ind., area also remained idle.
Rotogravure Feature
Included In This Issue
Collegiate Digest, the new roto-
gravure feature to be circulated by
college papers throughout the
country, is appearing for the first
time in The Daily today. It will
be included in every Sunday edi-
tion hereafter at no extra charge
to subscribers.
Pictures from this campus will
be sent to the Digest and will ap-
pear from time to time throughout
the year. The Digest will give com-
plete coverage on college campus
activities from all parts of the
United States.
Indictment Signed Against
Fraternity For Pledging
Freshman Too Soon
Action Is Promised
By Head Of Council
Officers Warn All Groups
That Further Violations
Will Be Punished
League Hearsb
Depression Isb
Nearing Close
Official Report Declares l
Production Increasing,
Unemployment Waning"
GENEVA, Oct. .2.-()-A report p
hat the world depression is gradually
ifting and the economic situation,
specially in the United States, is im- r
.
roving steadily, was heard today by l
he Economic Commission of the i
League of Nations Assembly. I
t
The official report, read by Augus-t
;o Schmidt, Estonian minister toC
tome, declared that production was
increasing and unemloyment de-
reasing. The delegates expressed t
reat satisfaction at the reading of n
he statements.
Alexander Loveday, head of the'
inancial section of the League, later
ieclared:
"The rapid contraction of interna- c
Ional trade would appear to haves
seen checked, at any rate for the mo-p
nent." He added that a German sci-
,ntific institute had calculated that r
>etween June, 1932, and July, 1933,
he growth in world industrial pro-
luction, excluding Russia, had been t
more than 30 per cent.
The report said that the indus-
rial recovery in- the United States g
had been the most rapid of all na-
ions, placing the rise at 22 per cent
in France, 18 per cent in Germany 1
and Japan and 11 per cent in Can-
ada. p
The monthly trade figures during
July of 49 nations, Mr. Loveday said,
showed a greater value than the cor-
responding month a year ago.
A French delegate declared that it
was "imprudent and unwise" to dis-
cuss the developments still in prog-
ress in the United States. This com-
ment was made in discussing the
commission reporter's statement that
the abandonment of the gold stand-
ard by the United States was "bound
to affect international economic re-
lations." "
The Frenchman characterized the
changes in the United States as
"spasmodic."
Green Asks 30
Hour Week At
Labor Meeting
Urges Faith In Roosevelt;
Almost Certain To Lead.
Labor For Another Year
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2-(P)-Vir-
tually certain of re-election as La-
bor's chief spokesman for another
year, William Green tonight was
drawing his lines together to stand
off challenges from the less conser-
vative elements of the American
Federation of Labor.
While Green was opening the Na-
tional Convention of the Federation
with a demand for a 30 hour week
to take up the unemployment slack
and an appeal to delegates to have
faith in President Franklin D. Roose-
velt, a "rank and file" convention
was being organized a few blocks
away.
The independent group claimed to
hold memberships in the Federation
and wa cnnidering demanding of-
By GEORGE VAN VLECK
With one written accusation of il-
legal rushing lodged against a prom-
inent fraternity and reports of others
onfronting them, the judiciary com-
nittee of the Interfraternity Council
has called a special meeting for
Thursday night.
Positive action has been promised
y council officials on the indictment,
vhich charges that the house in ques
ion gave a freshman a pledge-button
n violation of the rushing rules.
"We are resolved not to allow vio-
ations of the rushing rules to go
unpunished," Bethel B. Kelley, '34,
ouncil° president, said last night,
'and we intend to make sure that no
pore violations will occur during the
eriod of silence beginning next
Thursday."
Other complaints which have been
eported to the council officials re-
ate to infractions of the rule prohib-
ting rushing after 8:30 p. m., illicit
ise of automobiles, and violation of
he period of silence during Orienta-
ion Week, according to Maxwell T.
nail, '34, secretary-treasurer.
Manyverbal complaints have been
urned in to Gail and Kelley, but so
ar no one has been willing to sign
nore than the one indictment, they
aid. Guilty consciences for their own
iolations were blamed for the un-
willingness of many fraternity men to
-ome out in the open with their accu-
ations.
Houses which have been com-
lained against as having violated the
ules, but against which there is no
igned indictment, have been warned,
by Gail and Kelley, and any further
violations will be cause for action by
;he judiciary committee. Four promi-
nent houses have been named in this
group, and it is understood that other
violations may'be reported in the fu-
ture.
Every effort will be made to keep
houses from breaking the rules dur-
ng the period of silence starting
Thursday, Kelley said, stressing the
mportance for the observance of the
rules if they are to obeyed at all.
Henry Donner
Returning Here
After Six Years
Worked At Observatory
Of University In South
Africa; Due In February
Henry F. Donner of the depart-
ment of astronomy is returning to
the United States after having spent
six years doing astronomical re-
search work at the Lamont-Hussey
Observatory, a branch of the Uni-
versity Observatory, at Bloemfontein,
South Africa, according to a dis-
patch received here yesterday. He
is accompanied by his wife.
Mr. Donner will return to the Uni-
versity for the second semester and
will enter the department of geology,
according to Prof. Heber D. Curtis,
director of the Observatory.
Traveling in a light sedan, Mr. and
Mrs. Donner left on their return trip
late this summer and expect to com-
plete the 10,000 mile journey by
Christmas. They are traveling over
land to the north coast of Africa
where they will crossby boat to Eur-
ope, and, after touring through sev-
eral European countries, embark for
the United States.
The automobile in which they are
traveling is especially prepared with
screened doors and windows, to keep
out insects; auxiliary gasoline and
water tanks; a supply of spare parts,
compass, charts, and a sextant for
use in the deserts; and special equip-
ment to pull the car out of mud
holes or deep sand.
Final Plans Are Formulated For
Frosh Round Table Discussions
At an informal meeting held last
night at President Alexander G.
Ruthven's home final plans for the
Freshman Round Table discussions
for the remainder of the month were
made.
Prof. R. D. McKenzie, chairman of
the sociology department, who de-
livered the principle address for this
month's Round Table discussions last
Sunday morning in the League, dis-
cussed with 40 selected upperclass-
men the general outline which they
as group leaders will follow for the
next three Sundays.
Eight students were selected as
group leaders. They were Morton
Wagner, Grad., Frank Wengren, '36L,
Kenneth Leisenring, Grad., Charles
Orr, Grad., Leonard Andrews, Grad.,
Jack Weisman. '34. Dorothy Leake,
with all the books found on it are
all on the shelves of the Old Law
building library.
"'The Changing World' is a world
of uniformities," stated Prof. R. D.;
McKenzie, chairman of the sociol-
ogy department in the inaugural ad-
dress of the Freshman Round Table
held last Sunday morning at the
League. He elucidated his point by
adding that in previous ages we have
been a world of drift with the belief
that God is at the helm and all's
right with the world. In the present
era of planning nothing is inevitable
in progress and we are at the helm."
Professor McKenzie explained to
the 150 freshmen who attended that
it was his belief that practically all
culture has been levelled. "The tend-
encv is toward natural industrial dis-