THE MICHIGAN DAILY Firms Offer To Carry Airmail At Low Rates Senate Action On Stock Market Control Measure Pushed Forward WASHINGTON, April 20. - (AP)- Spectators whistled in surprise when Postmaster General Farley ripped open the envelopes and read the bids today for carrying airmail on the routes the government intends to place in private hands for at least the next three months. Some of the companies bid as low as 19 cents an airplane mile in of- fering to fly the mails. The maximum range stipulated in the specifications was from 41 to 45 cents per airmail mile, The small room where the bids were opened was jammed with postoffice and justice department officials and aviation men. Meantime, while the Senate was - getting ready to debate the airmail bill which would provide for a Con- gressional commission to study the whole aviation situation, Senator Black, (Dem., Ala.) announced that officers of the International Mercan- tile Marine corporation would be summoned soon for questioning by his investigating committee. "Influence Reported" Discussion of the International Ma- rine came up in the Senate after Rob- inson had read a newspaper clipping charging that Kermit Roosevelt, who was on the Astor yacht Nourmahal with President Roosevelt, recently. had received radiograms from the steamship company giving him in- structions as to what to tell the Pres- ident. Answering a question of Senator Robinson (Rep., Ind.), Black said he would be glad to call Kermit Roose- velt, vice president of the line, or Vin- cent Astor, whom Robinson called a large stockholder, and permit the In- diana senator to question them. Investigation into the affairs of the International . Mercantile Marine would-have already been under way, he added, if the course of the inquiry had not been "diverted." The stock market control bill, ap- proved by Ferdinand Pecora with the words "the teeth are there," was pushed toward Senate action today. The Senate banking committee, called to give the final vote that pro- pelled the measure into the chamber, approved the bill as a climax to a two-year inquiry into Wall Street practices. "It's a very fine bill," said the ag- gressive Pecora, committee counsel. Early Action Expected Pecora smiled with apparent sat- isfaction. The measure would ban many practices which Pecora brought to the committee's attention during its long investigation. The bill retains little of its original language, but Pecora maintained some of the changes had strengthened, rather than weakened, the regulatory proposal. Experienced Elmer Knows He Should Look B'efnre Eaing Poor, incautious Elmer is in dis- tress. More than that he is in im- minent danger of running afoul o the anti-hoArding law. Listen to the sad tale of Elmer, the University' pet crow. Iistead of flying to the Parro at the hour of 10 a. in. as many of the other B. B. O. C.'s (Big Birds, etc.) do, Elmer alights on the walk be- tween Angell Hall and South Wing to amuse the students with sage imi- tations. This morning he carried it too far. From somewhere Elmer secured a penny, and , holding it tightly in his bill, he proceeded to march up and down with true penny-pinching ex- actness. Nor would he allow any of the avaricious students to remove his prized possession. He resisted all attacks, subtle or bold, with flurries and jabs of his penny-filled beak. But Elmer met his match-in the form of a psychology student who tossed him another coin of the same denomination. Here indeed was a dilemma. But a bird who has spent as much time in a University as Elmer has iF not long to be baffled. "Hah", he crowed, and exultantly hopped for- ward. One penny he quickly seized in his beak and swallowed forthwith. The result was alarming. "Ulp !", gulped Elmer, followed by two more "ulps". Then he took off and sailed crazily about the enclos- ure, nearly coming to rest on several un-hatted heads. His surprise soon over, however, he did not forget his other coin, which he soon returned to secure. But no longer was Elmer his happy-go-lucky former self. Something had changed. Elmer had learned the bitterness of greed. Sociologist Selected To, Address Social Workers' Miss Mildred Valentine of the Six Witnesses Flatly Deny Dr. Wirt's Charges Road Construction Materials Are Tested In Engineering Building "Nearly 18 million dollars of stateN money are spent annually for road construction materials tested by the State Highway Testing Laboratory in the East Engineering Building." This statement was made by Prof. W. S. Housel, research consultant, in a recent interview. Prof. Housel went on to say that all of the materials used by the State Highway Depart- ment in the building of roads and in the construction of bridges must first undergo rigid tests to guarantee their conformity to the specifications under which they were purchased. The quality and efficiency of ap- proximately 3-4 million barrels of ce- ment, 20,000 carloads of gravel, and numerous other materials used an- nually by the highway department are insured by the work done here at the University, Prof. Housel stated. This important function was in- stituted by the University as a part of the activities of the Department of Civil Engineering at the request of the Michigan State Highway Depart- ment and had its origin over 20 years ago. The demand for an efficient road service, which was just then be- ginning to be felt due to the inven- tion of the automobile, created the need for a laboratory that could test all the varied materials necessary for road construction, and whose ac- tivities would thus safeguard the state's interests. It was felt by state highway offi- cials that the University was in the best position to develop the service which the Department required, and accordingly a testing unit was estab- lished. The development of this lab- oratory kept pace with the rapid in- crease in highway construction, until in 1932 a payroll of nearly $60,000 was necessary to take care of its op- eration. A unique phase of the laboratory's work is found in the so-called "cold room" which is used for certain spe- cialized tests given to road materials. In temperatures of more than 30 de- grees below zero the behavior of con- crete, gravel, and the different types of soils which lie under the road beds are observed, and road construction methods have been adapted to the results obtained. The knowledge gained from this "cold room" has been particularly valuable in the prevention of frost heaves and the deterioration of road surfaces which accompany the spring break-up, Prof. Housel pointed out. Excessive 'Bolts' May Be Reported Although instructors are obliged to give "triple bolts" on the day be- fore and after holidays, they have the option of communicating with administrative officials when, in their opinion, a student's absence record is so poor as to make action by them necessary, Assistant Dean Wilbur R. Humphreys declared yesterday. The subject was brought to the fore when large numbers of students were noticed missing their classes on the day before and after Spring Va- cation. Mrs. Roosevelt Calls For Peace In D.A.R. Talk Only Scattering Applause Greets Speech Although Hall Is Filled WASHINGTON, April 20. - (A) - Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt made a plea for peace before the Daughters of the American Revolution today. "You are interested in prepared- ness," Mrs. Roosevelt said. "I agree that as long as the world can't dis- arm together, we must all continue to defend ourselves. "But I feel strongly and I feel many of you agree that we should leave no stone unturned to prepare everyone in our nation to live well. That is the only way we can advance the world to a place where we may wish to disarm together." Patriotic education toward "living" for one's countiy as well as being willing to die for one's country was Mrs. Roosevelt's theme throughout. Only a scattering of applause greet- ed Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks, although the huge D.A.R. hall was filled to its utmost. Mrs. Roosevelt made "Edu- cation in Our Mountain Schools," her announced topic, a springboard for a request for a breadth of education that would lead to such world knowl- edge and understanding that war would eventually end. "I feel we are living today in a world where we hear people con- stantly talking of war," she said. "The attitude the world over is that we can't end war. That is a defeatist at- titude." I -a sukaiate reenoto These companions of Dr. William A. Wirt at the now-famous Virginia dinner party appeared before a special House committee in Washington and flatly contradicted Dr. Wirt's testimony that they had talked of revolution. Left to right: David Coyle of the PWA; Miss Mary Taylor of the farm administration; Miss Alice Barrows, hostess at the dinner; Miss Hildegarde Kneeland, agriculture department economist; Rob- ert W. Bruere, chairman of the textile code advisory co mmittee under NRA; Laurence Todd, Washington correspondent of Tass, Soviet news agency. ABOUT BOOKS RECENT FLOTSAM; FORTHCOMING JETSAM By JOHN W. PRITCHARD Random House, New York, is today probably the most active publishing organization in America in the busi- ness of making brilliant'writers avail- able to the more finicky portion of the reading public. It does not insist on first editions: its only requirement is that the writer have modernity and substance. In its 95 cent and dollar editions under the trade-name "Mod- ern Library," and in the more deco- rative publications under its own name, Random House offers to the judicious the most attractive literary fare to be had - and this, I assure you, is quite gratis advertising. . All of this is leading up to the fact that Erskine Caldwell, prominent in the public eye today because of the recent dramatization of "Tobacco Road," has earned himself a place in that unofficial hall of fame, The Modern Library, with his novel of last year, "God's Little Acre." This is probably a record-breaking per- formance; not every author is rec- ognized as solid meat in the course of a single year. The novel will be reviewed in this column in a week or so. Marcel Proust, whose name is a talisman on both sides of the Atlantic, has also been acquired in toto by Random House, which will publish his entire "Remembrance of Things Past" very shortly in a $2.50-per-volume edition. The' novels will appear one at a time for the nonce, but ulti- mately the house plans to produce a $10 four-volume set. Meanwhile, reverberations, direct- ed at James Joyce's "Ulysses," are yet thundering from the Philistine encampment. Martin Conboy, the Say Roosevelt Favors London ilver Formula Would Bring Fixed Ratio Between Silver And Gold Throughout World WASHINGTON, April 20.--( - it was made known today at the White House that President Roose- velt feels that the answer to the silver monetization problem lies in the formula presented at the London Eco- nomic Conference whereby all nations would fix definite reserves of silver in ratio to their gold supply. This would bring for the first time in history a fixed ratio between gold and silver throughout. the world. It was proposed at London that the na- tions establish silver reserves up to 25 per cent of their gold supply. As a result of this informal exposi- tion of the President's attitude, it was believed today that Mr. Roose- velt would stand pat against any man- datory legislation at this session re- garding silver. Co-Operation Needed' As explained at the White House, Mr. Roosevelt feels it is impossible for one nation to get anywhere in rehabilitating silver without the co- operation of all countries. One problem, it was said, is that there is an unknown quantity of sil- ver in the world - unlike gold, which can be figured to an almost exact total. How far negotiations for an inter- national agreement have progressed new Federal District Attorney at New York, the present offender, has ap- pealed Judge Woolsey's sane and significant decision allowing "Ulys- ses" to be published and sold in this country. The publishers (Random House again) are, of course, fighting the appeal; it is senseless and wholly deleterious to artistic standards, which thrive on freedom. Judge Woolsey's decision of last December included the following statements: ". . . reading 'Ulysses' in its entirety . . . -did not tend to ex- cite sexual impulses or lu s t f u thoughts, but . . . its net effect . was only that of a tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women . . . a sincere and serious attempt to devise a new literary method for the observationf and description of mankind."l Detroit No Longer On Accredited List CHICAGiD, April 20.-(')-Seven colleges including the University of Detroit, were dropped from the ac- credited list of the North Central Association of Colleges and Second- ary Schools today on recommenda- tion of its board of review. The association also delegated au- thority to the board tot reinspect Colorado College, the University of Denver, and Butler University, and to expel these from the accredited roster at its discretion. Meanwhile, however, they remain accredited. The board of review is to act be- fore June on the three placed on probation. The association took the punitive action against the University of De- troit because of faulty academic re- quirements, the athletic situation, and finances. I1.- The Twentieth Book in Harpers Monthly Pulpit CAN I KNOW GO D? by REV. FREDERICK B. FISHER WAHR'S BOOKSTORES 6 - Q out * i arettes rf tj As to the cigarette paper on Chesterfields H IS reel of cigarette paper is sufficient to make 42,000 Chesterfield Cigarettes. It is of the fin- est manufacture. In texture, in burning quality, in purity, it is as good as money can buy. Cut open a Chesterfield pigarette. Remove the to- bacco and hold the paper up to the light. If you know about paper, you will at once note the uniform tex- ture - no holes, no light and dark places. Note also its dead white color. If the paper is made right -that is, uniform- the cigarette will burn more evenly. If the paper is made right-there will be no taste to it and there will be no odor from the burning paper. Other manufacturers use good cigarette paper; but there is no better paper made than that used on Chesterfields. You can count on that! ml ~ U~d~~LJ " A , ' i ? "!