The Weather Cloudy, light snow, exce~t rain or snow in southeast, colder tonight. C, r ItA6igaix - -ommu iti.4 Editorials The Alumni Contribution ,. Still Firmly Tethered ... VOL. XLV. No. 72 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS Varsity Five Defeats State Team, 31=25 Gee's Play At Center Is Feature As Wolverines Lead Throughout In Which Gertrude Is Criticized, Capital Termed Nation s PrtispitI A ndl i, rson !TnftrrIioirWorst Bootlegging Spot Dr. Ward To Address t~ ! eUu l L .EUI .E..4UIuL V~l .'UW. B /EJ, EiUR1Ui'G/L4 By DOROTHY GIES Puck Team Loses In Overtime, 3-2 Early Lead Is Lost In Final Period; Captain Sherf Scores Twice By WILLIAM' R. REED With John Gee using his six feet eight inches of height to every advan- tage and displaying a floor game which supported Coach Franklin Cappon's experiments with the giant sophomore center, Michigan's Var- sity basketball team last night de- feated Michigan State, 31 to 25, in Yost Field House. Gee, with six field goals and a foul goal, not only led the Wolverines in scoring, but his work at the pivot position served to direct the Michigan attack. The entire Michigan team, how- ever, showed a distinct improvement over last week's meeting with Mich- igan State Normal, setting a defense which held the Spartans to three field goals in the first half, of which only one was within the foul circle. The Spartans, with their delayed offense, were unable to penetrate the Wolverine defense to any extent in the first half, getting but six shots from within the foul circle, and Bob Herrick's set shot from the side was the only close shot of the period to score for the State team. In the second period, however, the Spartans began to edge under the basket to make three goals. On defense Joslin, whose lapses in that department almost proved cost- ly to the Wolverines against M.S.N.C., was shifted to a guard by Coach Cap- pon, where he was assigned to Frizzo, and although the Spartan forward was able to connect for three field goals all three were on blocking plays well exected by the Spartan offense. State took the lead in the open- ig miinute when Mike Rouse scored a foul goal after being tripped by Jablonski as he cut for the basket, but the Wolverines came- back imme- diately to take a lead which was never again questioned. Gee broke into the scoring midway in the first period as he made a tip- in follow of Jablonski's long shot, and later in the period made the first of (Continued on Page 3) Strong Canadian Team Overcomes Hockey Six By ARTHUR W. CARSTENS Michigan's hockey sextet lost to the Chatham Maroons, 3 to 2, in an over- time game last night at the Coliseum. Sheer overwhelming manpower gave the Michigan-Ontario League leaders the decision. Coach Eddie Lowrey's squad of eight men, led by the bril- liant John Sherf, ran up a two-goal margin only to see it vanish before a desperate last period Chatham rally with Vic Heyliger in the penalty box, and lost the chance to hand the On- tario sextet its first defeat in 12 games when the Maroons tallied in the overtime period. Chatham was carrying the fight to the Wolverines from the outset, but neither team could break through for a score until late in the first period. Then, with a dog-fight around the Chatham goal, a Maroon defense man tried to pass from behind his net to the right wing, but Sherf intercepted the puck and slipped it past Goalie Peardon from five yards out. Michigan showed a fine defense as the Chatham drives became more nu- merous in the second period. With five minutes gone Red MacCollum was banished to the penalty box and five Maroons crossed Michigan's red line to bombard co-Captain John Jewell from close in but failed to score. Michigan had the game won, it ap- peared, when the hands of the elec- tric clock indicated only eight min-1 utes to play, but at that moment, Heyliger was penalized for tripping Burry. Five Maroons swooped into Michigan territory. At 12:41 Daw- son picked up a loose puck in front of Jewell and barely pushed it into the net. Thirty-four seconds later Sadlier drove a hard shot into the right hand corner. Not satisfied to go into over- time, the Maroons continued their forcing game, giving Sherf two op- (Continued on Page 3) Gertrude Stein, radical and icono- clastic writer, shed a few side-lights on her opinions and thought during an interview yesterday, at the con- clusion of her Ann Arbor visit. Discussing the influence of auto- matic writing on her work, Miss Stein declared that the idea of a connection between the two was ridiculous. Studying at John Hopkins University under William James, eminent psy- chologist, she carried on a number of experiments with automatic writ- ing. This type of psychological experi- ment consists in the subject's concen- trating on some matter being read or recited, at the same time allow- ing his pencil to record whatever comes into his head, the result on paper supposedly being a transla- tion of subconscious thought. Miss Stein's experiments indicated to her that there was no such thing as automatic writing among normal people.iHersconscious self was too much alive, she found, to allow any reaction to subconscious tests. No living writer has influenced her, Miss Stein says. "I had to proceed alone. The most immediate influence on my work was Flaubert, and after him, Trollope and Swift." She has translated some of Flaubert's works from the French. (Continued on Page 8) "A terrible bore." Succinctly, brief- ly, Prof. O. J. Campbell of the Eng- lish department characterized Ger- trude Stein's lecture here Friday. "She had about one, or perhaps two, ideas," said Professor Campbell, "which were familiar to everyone in the audience. She then proceeded to give an ex- position of them by a process which she informed us was not repetition but insistence. Her efforts to illus- trate these ideas seemed to me abor- tive. "The whole explanation of her work," he concluded, "lies in the fact that early she found she could do automatic writing, and she has never ceased doing it. One day she found she could sell it and called it poetry." Prof. Erich Walter, also of the Eng- lish department, believes it was "all very intelligible." The psychologist's viewpoint was offered by Dr. Theophile Raphael, who declared the lecture was "very, very interesting, and very stimulating. She has an amazingly keen mind," said Dr. Raphael. Prof. Roy W. Cowden, chairman of the Hopwood committee which brought Miss Stein to Ann Arbor, called the lecture "intensely inter- esting." Pointing out where the diffi- culty in comprehension of her work lies, Professor Cowden said, "It is a (Continued on Page 8) WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.- (P) - Washington was termed the country's "worst" bootlegging "spot" tonight by Ammon McClellan, executive director of the League of Distilled Spirits Rec- tifiers. Before the Federation of Citizens Associations, McClellan said "the 'man in the green hat'- yes, and men in gray, round and black and even derbies are peddling liquor down the corridors of the Senate and House office buildings and even in the Cap- itol building proper." The "man in the green hat" was a bootlegger who operated around the Capitol during prohibition days. The eventual police disclosure of his mys- terious activities caught wide pop- ular fancy. Dig 2 More Bodies Out Of Hotel Ruins * LANSING, Dec. 15. - (R) - The! fire-blackened ruins of the Hotel Kerns Saturday gave up two more of its dead, bringing to 30 the known total of fatalities. Searchers feared an unexplored section of the debris may conceal the fate of still others. In addition to the 17 known tohave died in the inferno of the blazing hostelry, 13 succumbed to injuries re- ceived in leaping to the street or were drowned in Grand River., The bodies of two other fire victims were identified in the temporary morgue late today. One had been re- moved from the ruins only this after- noon. These additions to the known dead were Edward J. Booth, 29, Grand Rapids, and H. S. Millard, 45-year- old South, Norwalk, Conn., hat sales- man. States Urged To Enact New De al Statutes State Concluding Session -- New 'Technic' Makes Editorial f Policy Change Articles Are To Be Less Technical, With Special; Features Increased I Opera Star Put On Spot ; Fate Leads Him To Water Cup The cast and stage hands of the Union Opera, "Give Us Rhythm," car- ried out the "last night" tradition of operas in the final performance of the show last night much to the dis- comfort of David Zimmerman, '35, 1li r di n in thenn ffn Many Resolutions Passed In Five Sessions Held Yesterday Radical Tendencies Seen In Proposals Propose Heavy Taxes On Non-Taxable Bonds To Aid Education Of Youth Congress 'Contemporary' Contest Winner Is Announced Jean Keller, '35, Awarded First Prize; Magazine To Appear Tomorrow Jean Keller, '35, was announced last night as' the winner of the short story contest conducted by "Con- temporary," student literature maga- zine which will appear for the first time on campus tomorrow. The contest prize, $10 worth of books, will be awarded Miss Keller for her story entitled "Pidracs." Honorable mention was 'awarded to Margaret Mary Cobb, '35, Dorothy Gies, '36, and Willard H. Temple, '36. The winning story, in addition to those of Miss Cobb and Temple, will be included in the first issue to- morrow, while Miss Gies' story will be reserved for later publicgtion. Judges in the contest were Prof. Roy W. Cowden and Arno L. Bad- er of the English department, and Prof. Carl Dahlstrom, a member of the Engineering College English de- partment. In addition to the short stories mentioned above, Contemporary's first issue will include a discussion of Gertrude Stein, written by Mr. Bader; an essay on Michael Gold, by Morris Greenhut, winner of a major award in last year's Hopwood contest; and short stories, poetry, and reviews by various students and facul- ty members. Subscriptions for the year are 70 cents, and individual copies will sell for 20 cents, officials of the publica- tion have announced. POLLOCK TO TALK ON SAAR Prof. James K. Pollock of the politi- cal science department, who has been appointed president of a district elec- tion board for the Saar Plebiscite, will discuss the problem and the coming election of the Sgar in a radio ad- dress over WJR at 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20. War Debt To U.S. Is Ignored By Esthonia WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -(A)--- Little Esthonia failed today to give the United States even a "no," much less the $1,843,185 due. Other European debtor nations -save Finland - also failed to pay but they delivered notes at the State Department in reply to this country's "please remit." Lund Is Named 'Most Valuable' Big Ten Player CHICAGO, Dec. 15.- (W) -Francis. (Pug) Lund, of Rice Lake, Wis., cap- tain and All-American back of Minne- sota's Big Ten championship foot-j ball team, tonight was announced as the winner of the Chicago Tribune trophy for the "most valuable player" in the conference. Lund is the second Minnesota star to win the trophy. Clarence Munn, a great lineman, having been honored in 1931. Lund was elected by a com- mittee of 23, over 9 other aces, repre- sentative of each of the other Big Ten institutions. The choice was not unanimous, but Lund finished far ahead in the voting. His chief opposition came from Les Lindberg of Illinois, Duane Purvis of Purdue, and Ellmore Patterson of Chicago. Dick Crayne, Iowa fullback, also placed among the first five. Previous winners of the trophy, an actual size silver football mounted on an ebony base were: 1924, Red Grange, Illinois; 1925, Ken Lowry, Northwestern; 1926, Bennie Fried- man, Michigan; 1927, Ken Rouse, Chicago; 1928, Chuck Bennett, In- diana; 1929; Willie Glassgow, Iowa; 1930, Wesley Fesler, Ohio State; 1931, Clarence Munn, Minnesota; 1932, Harry Newman, Michigan; 1933, Joe Laws, Iowa. Administration Pressure To Legislatures Bringing Bear On WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.- (P) - The Administration was shown today to be using the prestige demonstrated at the November election in an un- precedented effort to influence the states to enact laws reinforcing sev- eral phases of the New Deal. With 42 legislatures meeting next month, President Roosevelt himself and prominent members of his offi- cial advisory family have been urging state legislation to facilitate NRA code enforcement, provide for unem- ployment insurance, maximum hours and minimum wages, and to make the PWA and housing programs more effective. Mr. Roosevelt interested himself di- rectly and emphatically only yester- day with the housing program. He wrote letters to the governors of vir-' tually all the states asking laws that would permit larger loans for home, construction and repair, to be insured by Federal money. His action was taken upon the suggestion of James A. Moffett, hous- ing administrator, who explained that, in numerous states loans on mort- gages are limited to 50 per cent of value. His own belief was that with Federal insurance behind such loans a maximum of 80 per cent would not be too much. 'Co-op' Eating Place ToI Refund Members' Dues The Michigan Wolverine, coopera- tive eating house formerly known as the "Co-op," will fulfill its obliga- tion to last year's members by re- funding to them more than $100 in membership dues, George J. Varga,1 '36, treasurer of the organization, said last night. Reaffirming the non-political as- pect of the Wolverine, Edward A. Stone, '36, general manager, stated that a new policy enables students to eat for a week at the club as mem- bers without fulfilling membership obligations. Taggart Will Speak Before Bank Officials Prof. Herbert F. Taggart of the School of Business Administration will speak tomorrow before a group of senior executives of banks in Detroit. His subject will be "Financial Risks and Cost Accounting." Professor Taggart, head of the cost accounting department of the NRA, will give this speech as one of the series of talks presented on different economic phases to be delivered by various University professors. As spe- cial advisor for the NRA he has made five trips to Washington since Octo- eag man in te prouction. Drastic changes in the editorial A plot had been arranged in which policy of the Michigan Technic, Zimmerman, in the scene in which planned to result in a partial aban- he drained the imaginary contents of donment of the publication of tech- a loving cup including an imaginary nical engineering articles, to "give guppy, was faced with the alterna- the magazine back to the students," tives of drinking from one of the will be instituted in the December five cups on the mantel, either water, issue which will go on sale Tuesday. whiskey, or two real guppies in water. Featured among the new depart- The hand of fate, luckily for the ments in accord with the new policy star, led him to the cup on the ex- is one entitled "May We Present," in treme end of the lineup - a cup con- which two outstanding members of taining merely water - but a long the senior engineering class are hon- draft of it at that, Zimmerman, to ored. The senior students presented keep the scene realistic, downed it to in this issue are Philip A. Singleton; the last drop. and Henry W. Felker. Prominent members of the lower classes are also 1 cited in this department. M ichigan Host "From Other Publications" is ao second department which will make T t e iW om en' its debut in the December issue. In-Il.0 2 5~en s cluded in the section are reviews of Ta articles appearing in current techni- Debate Teams cal magazines. Following the new plan, an article by H. Warren Underwood, '36E, re- lating the development of the Trans- Several Methods Used As portation Library under the guidance' Three Schools Discuss of Prof. John S. Worley, head of the .e .o department of transportation engi- Munitions Question neering, is presented in this month's issue. Several debate methods were com- Introducing the article, Underwood' bined to form a unique debating ser- says, "There is only one of its kind I ies yesterday when women's varsity in existence, true enough - but then debate squads from Albion College, again, there is only one John S. Wor- Wayne University, and Michigan me ley in existence - and without. the to discuss the munitions question. one, it would be impossible to have i Eacss the ninseaes the other:'" Each of the nine speakers gave a Another student paper has been short discussion which was followed written for the Technic by F. Wil- by a cross-examination. The subject, writenfo th Tehnc b F.Wi~ frmalystated, read: "Rsolved, liam Donovan, '37E, entitled "March- fThatthe se d, nad: sold ing ith he ightn Hndre" Tat te sveral nations should de- ing Witexhaustive amounting of work which clare a monopoly of the sale and man- m ufacture of arms, munitions, and must be done during the weeks to other instruments of war." Affirma- have the band in perfect formationI tive speakers were heard in the morn- for the Saturday football games is ig atakwereerinhand rn- described by Donovan in this article. ng at a two hour meeting, and the descibe by Donon t hnegative team presented its side of Of especial interest to job-seeking the question and was quizzed in the engineers is a paper by Dr. T. Luth- afenon er Purdom, director of the bureau of afternoon. appointment and occupational in- Michigan women who spoke were, formation. Evelyn Ehrlichman, '37, Katherine Stoll, '37L, and Eleanor Blum, '35, for the affirmative; and Barbara Lutts, Church Will Present '36, Mary Esther Burns, '36, and Christmas Musical Betty Smith, '35Ed for the negative. The Congregational Student Club Dual debates will be held with will present a Christmas musicale at I these same teams on Jan. 15 and 17 7:30 p.m. today in the Congregational when Albion and Wayne send their Church. Thor Johnson has charge of teams here for a formal debate meet- the music, and is assisted by Ruth ing. Pfohl, Thelma Lewis and George Conference debates, the only de- O'Daye. cision debates of the year, will be held The church will be entirely in can- with Northwestern University and dle lights, and the music has been so Ohio State University in .the latter arranged that it will come from all part of February, according to Floyd parts of the room. Included in the K. Riley, women's debate coach. At program will be organ music, a brass that time, Northwestern will send its choir, harp music, and the children's same negative team here, and Mich- choir. igan's negative debaters will meet Well known Christmas carols will Ohio State at Columbus. be included in the program for the evening, such as "O Come All Ye SPECIAL SESSION CALLED Faithful," "Lo E're the Blooming BATON ROUGE, Dec. 15 -(R')- At Rose" by Praetorius, "Come Unto Senator Huey Long's request, Gov. O. Him" from "The Messiah" by Handel, K. Allen today issued a call for the "Hosanna" from the Moravian Litur- Louisiana Legislature to meet in spe- gy, and "Joy to the World." cial session Sunday night. A ; Youth Congress Membership Is Composed Of Varied Groups 1 1' f 3 f l 11 I The three-day meeting of the Mich- igan Youth Congress will come to a climax here today with an address by Dr. Harry F. Ward of the Union Theological Seminary of New York on "Youth and Breakdown of the So- cial Order," at 9:30 a.m. in Hill Au- ditorium. Dr. Ward, who also holds positions as secretary of the Methodist League for Social Service and as chairman of the League Against War and Fas- cism, spoke in Ann Arbor last year, when he showed that it is consistent for a minister to "follow the path of social and economic reform" in a so- ciety "that is beginning to show the effects of decadence in most of its institutions." The congress, meeting in the First Methodist Church last night, listened to the contradictory policies advo- cated by representatives of four ma- jor parties. Mayor Robert Campbell of Ann Arbor spoke for the Repub- licans; the Rev. F. Larson, former candidate for governor, for the So- cialists, William F. Dorn, assistant at- torney-general, for the Democrats, and William Weinstein, secretary of the Michigan Communist Party, for the Communists. Mayor Campbell Criticized The statements of the different speakers .were contradictory and re- sulted in refuting statements from succeeding speakers, The solution of the present depression was especially a subject for discussion, and when Mayor Campbell declared that "the avior of the people will be the people ,hemselves," and that to get out .f present difficulties you must pull yourself out by your own boot-straps," he became the target of the more radical speakers present. Mr. Larson attacked the mayor's -tatement in his address; He said, "the previous speaker said that no arty can do anything to better con- litions, but we, the people, have to -ull ourselves up by our own boot- straps. I have never seen this done." Five different meetings were held iy the congress yesterday afternoon n overflowing auditoriums all over ;he campus. Tulane Student Leads Discussion A spirit of resentful defiance against )resent conditions of youth in rural ind urban sections of Michigan dom- .nated the discussions and resolu- tions of the meeting of the group :onsidering the, subject, "Unemploy-. mentn and Social Insurance." This group met in the Union under the leadership of Richard Babb Whit- ten of Tulane University, who is na- tional chairman of the Student League of Industrial Democracy. Resolutions passed at the meeting included endorsement of the Lundeen Bill for unemployment insurance, support of measures for relief of youth and general unemployment, condemnation of the Civilian Conser- vation Corps, and backing for all un- amployed in their "daily fight for an mproved standard of living." In a flurry of resolutions, some 100 ,o 125 delegates of the education sec- ion of the Youth Congress advo- :ated drastic changes in education. Pass Seven Resolutions Among the seven resolutions passed,. was one denouncing the sales tax as a means of subsidizing schools, and suggesting that the source of income for the schools be a progressive state income tax affecting incomes of $5,- 000 a year; a "stiff" inheritance tax levied by the state; a heavy tax on large gifts; and, most radical, a heavy tax on non-taxable bonds, suggested by Merlin Bishop of the Teachers Federation in East Dearborn. Under the leadership of Robert Na- gel, delegate from the F.E.R.A. Col- lege in Detroit, the meeting resolved to stand back of all students and teachers ejected from schools and universities for the expression of lib- eral opinions. The first resolution . ,.se9 Amnhatn ta. el-An I Shoplifting Listed By Managers Of Stores As Student 'Activity' By JOSEPHINE McLEAN Shoplifting is an all too popular extra-curricular activity of the Uni- versity student, according to the State Street store managers. So prevalent is this abuse that definite protective measures have been taken by the book and drug stores while the cloth- ing stores, gift shops and beauty salons banish temptations by keeping their easily removable stock in cases and drawers. Nor is this practice something new and unpredictable. Slaters, the Col- lege Book Shop, and Wahrs prepare for the increased amount of shop- lifting during the rush season at the beginning of each semester by posting detectives. The technique employed in "lifting" books depends on personality. The di- rect mind merely walks out with sev- eral volumes while sending the clerk for other texts. The conniver pur- chase sAnd in severa1 different de- previous to Christmas vacation at which time clerks are instructed to keep special watch of the open dis- plays. .. Perfume disappears in spite of the ogling of clerks. Three women posing as students, but now thought to be professionals, are responsible for tak- ing $60 worth of perfume from the Quarry. An entire stand of perfume bottles priced at $24 was dislodged from the counters at Calkins and Fletcher and although the guilty per- son has never been found, a student is suspected. Whereas the professional shoplifter is careful to select only popular makes ,of perfume, the student shoplifter is more discriminating. The woman will take only the scent recommended by her beauty specialist while the man will choose that certain make of Jas- min worn by his "steady." Swifts is less bothered by the "lift- ing" of nerfnme -theirs unly is in- By FRED WARNER NEAL ers report that parliamentary pro- ucedure was' "murdered," conducted Communists, Fascists, Republicans, themselves in an orderly fashion. Democrats, clergymen and athe- The discussion in nearly every ists: all went to make up the conglom- conference raged between Commun- eration of races, creeds, and colors ism and Fascism. In the group on in- of the nearly 800 delegates here for; iternational relations, after the Fascist the Michigan Youth Congress. point of view had been severely criti- At least 300 of the delegates are cized, a delegate asked if there was from Detroit, and the trade schools, no one to defend that belief. A long high schoools, unions and other or- silence ended' when a well dressed ganizations from that city predom- University sophomore arose and inated all the round table discussions. created a furor by approving Hit- Ann Arbor came a close second, ler's tactics in Germany. however, contributing more than 250 Congress officials admitted that young men and women from almost certain organizations sent represen- every sort of a group imaginable. tatives to the conferences to try to Two delegates were from the Sunrise inject their views. At the gession on, Colony, radical farm near Saginaw. industry, a representative of -the ,,