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VOL. XLV. No. 101 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1935

PRICE FIVE CENTS


Plan For
Budge t Is
In Senate
Proposal Provides F o r
Money To Be Taken Out
Of General Fund
Measure To Bring
increase Of $64,000
Senator Reid Introduces
Bill Asking .73 Mills Tax
For University
LANSING, Feb. 18. - (P) - A bill
sponsored by the Board of Regents,
levying the University appropriations
on a basis of .73 of a mill on each
dollar of the equalized value of a
property in the state, was introduced
into the State Legislature today.
The resolution would also provide
that the "measured" appropriation be
continuous with the money taken
from the general fund. The Univer-
sity, would obtain approximately
$4,064,000 under the proposal.
It was introduced by Sen.John W.
Reid (Rep., Highland Park).
This plan, which was presented last
week to Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald in
Lansing by President Alexander G.
Ruthven and a group of University
dignitaries, is designed to guarantee
the University financial "security."
Under this set-up, the University
would receive its annual appropria-
tion from the State sales tax. The
receipts from this plan, estimated at
$4,064,000 annually, would represent
an increase of $64,000 over the Uni-
versity's budget for the past few years.'
Assurance that Governor Fitzger-
ald will stand behind the proposed,
financial program was given last week
when President Ruthven was at Lan-
sing.
The purpose of the plan is to guar-
antee "security for the University,"l
resident Ruthven stated when the7
bill was first presented. "We desire
if possible a continuing assured source
of income in order to attract the best
minds of the educational world to the+
University"
It was pointed out that, of course,1
the total amount received annually,
by the University would be dependenti
upon the amount of tax collected by
the State, but it was believed that+
under the new plan the figure would1
probably normally be in the neighbor-1
hood of the sum estimated - $4,064,-1
000.
Girl Shot By
Father Is Still+
'Very Critical'
Doctors Hold Little Hope
For 14-Year-Old Sophia1
Hofhanesian1
Physicians expressed little hope last
night for the recovery of Sophia Hof-1
hanesian, the 14-year-old Pinckney
girl who was shot through the head
by her crazed father early Saturday
afternoon.
University hospital authorities who
removed the bllet from the girl's
brain stated that her condition was'
very critical. Sophia's brother, John,

eight years old, is also recovering from
a wounded arm suffered when his 60-;
year-old father opened fire on his
children with a volley of shots from
his revolver. Three other children
escaped injury by climbing through
a window.
Hofhanesian ended his period of
wild lunacy when he shot himself ac-
cidentally with his own pistol while
trying to escape from Detroit after
having shot and killed a Dearborn
baker, Abraham Arakelian, a n d
wounded Mrs. Arakelian, whom he
accused of hiding his estranged wife.
The series of shootings began early
Saturday when Hofhanesian returned
to his home near Pinckney, after be-
ing absent for four months, and
rounded up five children in the house,
telling them that they were living
their last day upon earth. He then
drew a gun, and shot Sophia and
John, the other children managing
to escape.
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Pollock Says Saar Plebiscite
Proves Usefulness Of League
By CLINTON B. CONGER "This human problem, I insist, is
The recent Saar plebiscite proves an extremely important one," Pro-
beyond all question the usefulness of fessor Pollock continued. "Even be-
the League of Nations, and is one of fore sovereignty has been permanent-
the greatest examples in recent years ly vested in Germany, agreements
of peaceful settlement of such a made before the plebiscite have been
problem by the cooperation and ac- flagrantly broken."
cord of all parties and nations con- Pointing out that police power in
cerned, Prof. James K. Pollock in- the Saar is at present completely in
formed a large audience Sunday night abeyance, he urged that the Saa-r send
in a lecture given at a banquet joint- a commissioner into the Saar with
ly sponsored by the American Asso- sufficient authority and support to
ciation of University Women, the provide adequate protection to per-
League of Women Voters, and the sons who are being menaced, and also
League of Nations Association. Pro- that some provision be made to re-
fessor Pollock's topic was "The Saar lieve France of the care of the refu-
Plebiscite and Its Aftermath." gees now streaming across her bord-
er.
Making his only public address oner "Matters of human right and sol-
the subject to be given in Ann Arbor, emn international import are at stake,
Professor Pollock outlined the prev- and involve the prestige and reputa-
ious history of the Saar, and the tion of the League of Nations," he
taking of the plebiscite itself, and stated. "The plebiscite has been man-
went on to state that the problem aged in a most creditablehfashion,
of that area, often called "the cock- and the whole machinery has func-
pit of Europe," is still far from set- tioned efficiently and quite faultlessly
tled. from beginning to end. Preparations
The questions which remain, he and precautions taken for the casting
said, are of two kinds. Those deal- of the vote were, as the Germans say,
ing with financial matters are now 'tadellos,' or beyond reproach."
well on their way to settlement, and Dealing with the question of the
include such clauses as payments to vote itself, he pointed out that there
France in both currency and coal. But were really only two sides to the elec-
there is a human equation yet to be tion, the Deutsche Front, favoring a
solved. (Continued on Page46)

Cagers Drop
26-16 Game
To Wildcats
Last Half Spurt Wins Dull
Tilt For Northwestern;
Teams In Ninth Place
Purple Overtakes
Wolverines' Lead
'Patanelli Heads Michigan'
Scorers With 7 Points;
Vance Leads Purple
EVANSTON, Ill., Feb. 18. - ()-
Northwestern squared its basketball
account with Michigan here tonight,
defeating the Wolverines, 26-16, in a
listless, ragged game.
What little entertainment provided
for the spectators came in the last
twelve minutes when the Wildcats
staged a wild spurt to score 13 points
while holding Michigan to three.
After the first 13 minutes of play in
the first half Michigan led, 3 to 1. At
seventeen minutes Northwestern had
a 6 to 5 edge, and the half ended
with the Wildcats leading Michigan
8 to 6.
Michigan tied the score early in
the second period at 11-all, and again
at 13-13, before Northwestern put on
its drive.
The outcome left the teams tied
for ninth place in the Conference
standings at two victories and six de-

New Deal Victorious In
Gold Clause Decision As

Market Climbs

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Resolution For
ShiftingWards
Is Voted Down
Council Argues City Has
Been Run Well; Sees No
Need For Change
The proposed amendment for re-
districting the city wards in order to
even the voting power in each was
voted down last night by Ann Arbor's
City councilmen, who claimed that
such a proposal was unnecessary, be-
cause Ann Arbor's city government
has been run well, and there is no
need to disturb it.
The measure, which was submitted
by Prof. Leigh J. Young of the for-
estry'school, alderman from the sev-
enth ward, was designed to correct
the inequality of numbers of eligible
voters in the various wards. Accord-
ing to Professor Young, ward seven
in which most of the University stu-
dents and faculty are located has nine
times the number of registered voters
that the fifth ward has, yet each has
two aldermen in the City Council.
An objection which was raised by
some of the aldermen was that such a
proposal was meant "to give the Uni-
versity faculty located in the sixth
and seventh wards more voting pow-
er." The objectors also said that the
City Council had done a good job,
even though the representation has
been unequal.
Professor Young supported his
measure by saying that the faculty
and their wives total less than a sixth
of the number of registered voters in
the disputed seven ward, and less
than a quarter in ward six.
Prof. W. A. Paton of the business
administration school, alderman from
the sixth ward, supported the bill by
saying that the faculty would never
vote the same anyway. He further
stated this proposed amendment is
the best of its kind to have been sub-
mitted, because it changed few bound-
aries and rearranged the wards so
that each ward, which is allowed two
representatives in the City Council,
has approximately the same number
of eligible voters.

Liberal Education
Is Ain Of Literary
College,_Rice Says
At least one faculty member on
the campus is ready with an explan-
ation of why students don't get as
much out of the University as they
expect to get when they come.
Prof. Warner G. Rice of the English
department, moved by the tales of
unfulfilled expectations expressed by
600 graduates in a story published
in a recent issue of The Daily, has
a word of advice to offer students con-
cerning their attitude toward the
University and especially toward the
literary college.
Too many students think that the
literary college should be placed in
the same class as the engineering
school and the various professional
schools on the campus, says Prof es-
sor Rice. The purpose of the literary
college, he explains, is to give the
student a liberal education in the hu-
manities. It should help them to en-
large their lives and increase their
capacities, rather than to train them
for some special field of work. The
literary college is doing more than
its obligation to the student requires,
the professor thinks, in establishing
and maintaining the Bureau of Oc-
cupational Information, although he
finds no fault with the bureau itself.
Professor Rice hails the idea of con-
centration programs as a means of
centering the attention of students
in a certain field in which they are
interested and directing their studies
to subjects which have some bearing
on their chosen field. It prepares the
student for an active continuation
of his intellectual life after he leaves
the University, Professor Rice says.
If students will only try to realize
the purpose of the literary college
and cooperate with the faculty in
their their efforts to give the stu-
dents a liberal education, they will
get more out of the University, Pro-
fessor Rice thinks.
TWO KILLED IN FIRE!
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 18--()- Two
persons lost their lives early Monday
in a fire at the fashionable Hotel
Astor, residential hotel and apart-
ment house near Juneau Park. The
dead: Oscar Teweles, sixty-six-year-
old deaf mute of Milwaukee and his
nurse, Ilsie Saxinger.

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Michigan (16)
Meyers, f ....
Joslin, f.
Tamagno, c .
Patanelli, g . .
Evans, g .... .
Plummer, g . .
Oliver, g.
Rudness, g.

OX SCORE

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5 6 16

Northwestern (26)
Blume, f ........
Fisher, f ........
Rosenfeld, f ......
McAnally, c ......
Bender, g.......

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Vance, g ...............2

Stock, Commodity Prices
Are Given Swift Boost
In Domestic Markets
New York Gains $1
To $4 Per Share
Gold Mining Stocks Are
Strong On Curb; Minor
Staples Show Rise
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 -()- Stock
and commodity prices were given a
swift boost in domestic markets to-
day by the Supreme Court's gold de-
cisions, which removed fears of a de-
flationary upset to New Deal mone-
tary policies.
The New York Stock Exchange
ended its session with numerous net
gains of $1 or more than $4 a share,
which was about half the extreme
gains registered in a flurry of buying
right after the gist of the decisions
was .flashed to Wall Street. Nearly
half the day's turnover of close to
2,000,000 shares was registered in the
hour between noon and 1 o'clock.
Markets generally quieted down af-
ter a one-hour flurry.
The Chicago Board of Trade and
other Northwestern grain markets
were the only markets to suspend
trading on news of the decisions.
Wheat was then up 1% cents a bushel
to 21/8 and corn up 2a to 3% cents.
Minor staples generally finished with
gains.
Lower-priced bonds, particularly
rails, rose sharply along with stocks.
High-priced gold bonds, including
Liberties, receded moderately as hopes
of collecting at the rate of the old
dollar were dashed. United States'
government bonds issued since April,
1933, which do not contain the gold
clause, rose moderately.
Closing prices of some of the more
active stocks follow: United States
Steel, $38, up $2.12; Union Pacific,
$102.25, up $3; Santa Fe, $47, up
$3.75; American Smelting, $37.50, up
$1.62; Chrysler, $41.12, up $2.
Gold mining stocks were strong in
the Curb Market.
In foreign exchange dealings, trad-
ers saw evidence that the treasury's
stabilization fund was at work. Eu-
ropean gold currencies rebounded to,
around parity. In the final dealings,
the French franc was quoted at 6.63
5/8 cents, up .03/2, and a trifle above
parity with the dollar.
LONDON - Announcement of the
decision created great excitement in
the financial district. Dealers in gold
shares cheered, and excited crowds
swept through Throgmorton St. The
first interpretation of the decision
caused a drop in the quotation of
United States dollars from 4.86 13/16
to the pound at the official close to
4.89 after trading hours.
Enrollment Jumps
6.2 Per Cent Here
There is a 6.2 per cent increase in
the number of students enrolled for
the present semester over the com-
plete number who enrolled for the
second semester of the 1933-34 school
year. University officials announced
that the present registration was
8,417.
The total enrollment for the second
semester of last year was 7,924. This
figure included those registered at the
Graduate Study Center in Detroit. No
report for the second semester from
the Center has been received, but 166
were enrolled there last year.
Officials voiced the opinion that
late registrations would probably be
few in comparison with those last year
because of the penalty for late regis-
tration which is now in force and
which was not imposed last year.

Approves Court Action

9 8 26;
Score at half: Michigan 6, North-
western 8.
Personal fouls: Patanelli 3, Joslin
2, Meyers 2, Tamagno 2, Rudness;
Bender 4, Vance 3, Rosenfeld 3, Blume1
3.
Free throws missed: Joslin, Tamag-r
no, Plummer, Oliver, Rudness 2;
Fisher, Bender 2, McAnally.
Austrian Tour
Described By
Burton Holmes'
Noted Lecturer Discusses
Travels In 'Land Where
Beauty Is Everywhere'
Austria, "the land where beauty is
everywhere and one has to seek ugli-
ness" was photographically and ver-
bally pictured by Burton Holmes,
noted travel-talker, last night in Hill
Auditorium.
Mr. Holmes, known as the dean of
all travelogue lecturers, and who is
celebrating his forty-second year on
the lecture platform this season,
started his audience on a tour of
Austria at Insbruck, took them
mountain climbing in the Alps, stop-
ping at quaint little villages occa-
sionally, gave them a boat trip on
the immortal "Blue Danube," and
finished with a sight-seeing trip
around Vienna.
Colored, still and motion pictures
were used to illustrate the serenity
of the agrarian life in the quaint
mountain villages in sharp contrast
to the gayety and glamour of Vienna.
The lecturer showed pictures of
Franz Lehar, directing his orchestra
at the Opera Comique in Vienna, the
theatre where the "Merry Widow"
was first presented, slides of St. Stev-
ens cathedral, great Gothic church
there, and a night at the Vienna
Opera House seeing part of a per-
formance of Wagner's "Der Meister-
singer."
Travelling down the Danube, he
pointed out the castle where Richard
Coeur de Lion had been imprisoned,
as well as other great castles where
Austrian nobility once lived.
Mr. Holmes, in comparing touring
through Austria to travelling through

DEAN HENRY M. BATES
Bates Praises
Court Decision
On Gold Clause
Upholds Constitution, Says
Law School Head As He
ExplainsCase
The "gold clause" decision of the
United States Supreme Court wac
praised by Dean Henry M. Bates of
the Law School last night as "up-
holding the Constitution."
"For the first time," Dean Bate
said, "the complete and comprehen-
sive power of Congress over the cur-
rency and all matters pertaining tc
it has been established." However, the
dean termed the highest tribunal':
differentiation between government
and corporation bonds as "peculiar."
In analyzing the decision, the noted
jurist explained that if two private
parties can enter into an agreement
definitely setting the value of money
that detracts from the power of Con-
gress to regulate money. "The consti-
tution is quite clear on that point," he
asserted, "and I have been saying that
all along."
McReynolds "Erroneous"
"The 'due process' clause did not
enter into the decision at all," Dean
Bates stated. He pointed out that that
famous clause is not for the purpose
of setting an exact line of justice, but
merely forbids the government from
acting unreasonably and arbitrarily.
"which it did not do in this case."
Asked about the statement of Jus-
tice James C. McReynolds, who dis-
sented, that "The Constitution is
gone," Dean Bates said he believed
that view "entirely erroneous."
He emphasized that "this impor-
tant decision makes certain what wac
never determined before and what
we could only interpret through con-
stitutional provisions, namely the
complete control and regulation of
Congress over the currency."
Cannot Sue Government
Continuing in his explanation of
the decision as read by Chief Justice
Hughes, Dean Bates pointed out that
the court said contracts between pri-
vate parties, as in the case of cor-
poration bonds, are subject to govern-
ment control and can be broken by
a governmental act, but the govern-
ment itself cannot break its promise
once given. Thus, he declared, the de-
cision takes away the right of indi-
viduals to sue the government in the
court of claims. "This," he continued,
"is in line with the Federal policy,
followed by most governments, of not
allowing itself to be sued without its
consent."
Dean Bates voiced his surprise that
the decision did not consider the
question of the constitutionality of
the delegation of powers.

Highest Court Hands Down
5-4 Decision Upholding
Administration
Allows Congress To
NullifyGold Bonds
Supreme Tribunal Draws
Line Between Private
And U.S. Securities
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. - (P) -
The New Deal scored a sweeping
oractical victory in the all important
%old cases today and emerged success-
ful from its first major Supreme
Court test.
Dropped into another of its famous
five-to-four line-ups that caused
?resident Roosevelt and his aides
;leefully to scrap their elaborate
)ans for counter-action, the High
Tourt ruled:
1 -That Congress had power to
rullify promises to pay in gold con-
:ained in the bonds of private cor-
aorations.
2-That it had no such power
where the government's own bonds
were concerned, but that holders of
?ederal bonds had suffered no dam-
ige, and had no right at present to
)ther than a dollar for dollar re-
®iemption.
No Basis For Suit
3 -That a gold certificate is
worth only its face value in the pres-
snt devalued currency.
4- That Congress acted uncon-
stitutionally in abrogating the gold
Alause of the government's own
bonds;
5- That in the case brought to
,ourt the bond holder had not shown,
nor attempted to show that he had
suffered actual damage and that
therefore there was no basis for a
suit for recovery.
The court lined up for its decision
as follows:
Majority: Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes and Justices Harlan
Fiske Stone, Louis D. Brandeis, Owen
J. Roberts and Benjamin N. Car-
dozo.
Minority: Justices James C. Mc-
Reynolds, Willis Van t Devanter,
George Sutherland and Pierce Butler.
Abruptly, the announcement of the
decision broke the taut atmosphere
of anxiety and suspense in which it
was delivered. Departmental attaches
rushed to open telephones to inform
higher government officials.
Markets Go Up
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and
Henry Morgenthau of the Treasury,
Homer S. Cummings and Senator
Joseph H. Robinson, the Democratic
leader, at once gathered in the Pre-
ident's office. There was rejoicingras
plans for meeting an adverse decision
were torn up.
"The President is gratified," said
one of his secretaries.
"I am very much pleased," declared
Morgenthau.
So thorough-going did they con-
sider their victory, in fact, that they
quickly announced that the decision
necessitated no new legislation, and
no administrative action.
The markets, paralyzed by the un-
-ertainty for weeks, leaped into ac-
tivity. Prices soared on the surge of
a volume of buying orders. Later pro-
fit-taking reduced them but a little
and left the predominant sentiment
still bullish.
In the grain pits of Chicago, buying
became so feverish that officials of
the Board of Trade ordered the
market closed without saying for how
long. Brokers clustered about the
tickers eagerly reading the pro-
nouncement of the court.
Power To Abrogate Chief Point
Despite New Deal rejoicing and the
spurt of market activity, the word
of the Supreme Court dissenters were
stern.
"The Constitution is gone," de-
-lared Associate Justice McReynolds,

and added later:
"This is Nero at his worst."
Some immediately remarked that
it was McReynolds (attorney gen-
3ral under Woodrow Wilson in the
last previous Democratic administra-
tion), who delivered a barbed and em-
phatic-dissent.
The cases turned on the point of
whether Congress was justified in
abrogating the gold payment clauses
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Undergraduates Are Growing
Conservative, Survey Shows

By MARSHALL D. SHULMAN
Michigan undergraduates, 1935 edi-
tion, are growing more conservative,
all recent press ballyhoo notwith-
standing, and here's proof.
According to a survey of public
opinion on some religious and eco-
nomic issues designed by Prof. Good-
win B. Watson of Columbia Univer-
sity, administered yesterday by War-
ren Good of the School of Education
to a class of 34 mixed students in edu-
cational psychology, the revolt of
youth against religion and morals is
on the wane.
Those taking the examination were
given a list of words associated with
religious and economic issues, and
asked to indicate which of the words
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Opinions on moral issues proved
particularly illuminating. More than
52 per cent of the women students
and 31 per cent of the men thought
"divorce" was a horrid word. The
same number of students thought
that the word "damn" was not ac-
ceptable.
Just about 30 per cent of the stu-
dents two years ago deemed "birth
control" undesirable. This year how-
ever, only 12 per cent voted it down.
More surprising than this indication
of a trend of thought, is the fact
that 15 per cent of the men were op-
posed to the idea, and only 10 per
cent of the women.

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