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VOL. XLV. No. 164 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1935

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Plan New

Tax cancellation Measure Is
Termed Unfair By Prof. Ford

Literar y
Pro gram
Will Offer Opportunity To
Study Progress Of U. S
Civilzation
To Be Included In
1935-36 Curricllum
Requires Minimum Of 15
Hours Be Completed In
Three Special Groups
A degree program in the develop-
ment of American culture, intended
to give students in the literary college
an opportunity to study the progress
of civilization in their own country,
will be presented as a part of the Uni-
versity curriculum next year.
The new program requires that a
minimum of 15 hours from each of
three special groups be completed,
making a total minimum of 45 hours.
In group I, designed to cover the his-
torical development of the United
States are: two anthropology courses,
a course in the cultural geography of
the United States, and five American
historycourses, allowing a total of 26!
hours for students to choose from in
this group.
Cultural Courses Offered
Group II consists of courses de-
signed to cover the cultural and in-
tellectual development of the United
States. In this group are four courses
completely covering the field of Amer-
ican literature, and couses in Amer-
ican fine art, philosophy, and jour-
nalism. The student must choose
15 hours from a total 24 in this group.
Courses designed to cover the politi-
cal, economic and social development
of the United States comprise Group
III. Five political science courses
dealing with American foreign policy,
political thought, and the various
forms of American government; two
courses in sociology, dealing with
modern social problems and American
sociology; two economics courses; and
a forestry course on the conservation
of natural resources are offered stu-
dents in this group.
Students entering upon this degree
program must have completed the us-
ual 60 hours of work with the proper
number of honor points. Included in
the necessary 60 hours are two pre-
requisites, History 47 and 48, the His-
tory of the United States since 1783
and Geography 110, the Geography
of North America.
Planned By Committee
The scheme of courses of the new
program was discussed at some length
by varying groups representing inter-
ested fields of knowledge. The for-
mal program was drawn up by a com-
mittee consisting of Prof. E. V. Moore
of the School of Music, Prof. D. L.
Dumond of the history department,
and Prof. Howard M. Jones of the
English department. The original
discussion group consisted of Profes-
sors Crane, James, Handman, Ben-
nett, Calderwood, Parker, Aiton,
Donaldson, and McKenzie.
Th administration of the program
will be in the hands of a committee
of five composed of Prof. Max Hand-
man of the economics department,
Prof. Carl E. Guthe, director of the
Anthropology Museum, Prof. R. D.
McKenzie of the sociology depart-
ment, Prof. Dumond, and Prof. Jones.
The committee stated that inas-
much as the prerequisites for some of
the courses named are arranged for
departmental needs only, students
entering upon the new program may,
upon the advice of the advisers, waive
such prerequisites.

To the present time four new
courses have been created for inclu-
sion in the new curriculum, a course
in the cultural geography of North
America, an American philosophy
course, one dealing with the history of
American music, and a course in
American sociology.
To Attend Lansing
Meeting Of A.S.C.E.
Five members of the faculty of
the College of Engineering and stu-
dents from the local chapter of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
will attend a joint meeting of the
Detroit, Michigan State and Univer-
sity of Michigan chapters to be held
tonight in the Union Memorial Build-
ing in East Lansing.
This is the first meeting of its kind
since 1930, and is designed to promote
better contacts among the members

By FRED WARNER NEAL
The Moore bill now before the Leg-
islature, calling for outright cancel-
lation of 280 million dollars in delin-
quent taxes provided current taxes
are paid up, was criticized as unfair
yesterday by Prof. Robert S. Ford,
taxation expert of the economics de-
partment.
Senator Moore, who is from Pon-
tiac, represents Ann Arbor in the}
upper chamber of the Legislature.
With a large number of others, he is a
staunch defender of the bill's merits,
and has been accused on various oc-
casions of sponsoring the bill out of
personal motives -in order to evade
tax paynents he owes on property
of which he is owner. The senator,
though he admits that he is delin-
quent in tax payments due on his
lands, sharply denied this charge and
has been backed up by large groups
of his friends.
As explained by Professor Ford, who
is research investigator in the Bu-
reau of Government here, the bill
contains the following provisions:
That upon payment of 1934 taxes,
sale of property for taxes of 1930

and prior years will be deferred. Upon
payment of 1935 taxes, sale for pay-
ment of 1931 and 1932 taxes will be
deferred. And upon payment of 1936
taxes, these unpaid taxes, and those
for all other years, including 1933,
will be cancelled.
Professor Ford called attention to
the fact that at the.present there
is in effect the Holbeck bill, passed
in the extra session of 1932, which
cancels all penalties, fees, and inter-
est in taxes delinquent for 1929, 1930,
and 1931 provided other taxes are
paid up to date.
Also, Sept. 1 of this year, the amor-
tization 10-year moratorium plan be-
comes effective. This measure pro-
vides for payment of taxes, with the
exception of special assessments, for
the years 1930 to 1935, inclusive, to be
spread over a ten-year period, one
tenth to be paid every year with
four per cent interest on the remain-
ing principal.
Proponents of the Moore bill, ex-
plained Professor Ford, argue as fol-
lows:
During the depression many well-
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Michigan Law
Review To Be
Out Tomorrow
Leading Articles Of April
Number Are Written By
Tilley, Prof. Dawson
The April number of the Mich-
igan Law Review will appear tomor-
row, Dr. Egbert M. Isbell, associate
editor, announced yesterday.
The main articles this month are.
written by George Tilley, son of Prof.
Morris P. Tilley of the English de-
partment and a prominent Detroit
lawyer, and by Prof. John P. Daw-
son of the Law School. Both were
one-time editors of The Daily.
Mr. Tilley's article, a problem in
torts, is entitled "The English Rule
as to Liability for Unintended Con-
sequences." He wrote it last sum-
xier while attending Oxford Univer-
sity.
Writes Of Inflation
The article written by Professor
Dawson is the concluding one of a
series dealing with "The Effects of
Inflation on Private Contracts." The
first, which appeared in the February
issue of the Review, was especiallyt
concerned with over-expansion of the
currency in Germany during the years
1914-1924. The second article, in the,
March edition, dealt with inflation,
in the United States during the years
1861-1879, with particular bearing
on the Confederacy, and the present
writing treats inflation in the north-
ern states during the Civil War and,
reconstruction period.1
Mr. Tilley explains rule for han-
dling liability for unintended con-
sequences, entirely from the British;
standpoint, using the case of collidingr
ships as an example.
Professor Dawson, in drawing his
general conclusions on the effect of
inflation on private contracts, points;
out that the courts should "be pre-
pared to face the broader questions of
policy that are inevitably involved"
in deciding on legal problems raised
by over-expansion.
Broader Questions Involved
"Whether they decided to assume
the initiative in restoring a disturbed
equilibrium or to insist instead on
literal enforcement of all money con-
tracts," he declares, these problems
will face them. As some of the "fac-
tors of policy which might present
obstacles to the development of ju-
dicial remedies," he discusses the
legal-tender quality of money; the
public interest in preserving the pur-
chasing power of money; policies as
to the relief of debtors; policies in-
volved in the allocation of risk; the
public interest in the security of
transactions; and the choice between
legislative and judicial remedies.
Professor Dawson's article begins
on page 852 of the monthly publica-
tion and Mr. Tilley's on page 829.
Thet Law Review, Dr. Isbell ex-
plained, has 12,000 subscribers located
all over the United States and in
addition goes to all members of the
Michigan Bar under the name of
the Michigan State Bar Journal. The
Rieview sells for 80 cents.
Free Shows Scheduled
By Butterfield Houses
Free shows will be given at both
the campus theaters, the Michigan
and the Majestic, at 11 p.m. Friday
to which students may secure ad-
mission by presentation of their cou-

Pick Next Sunday
A s Swagger Day
For Class Of '35
Sunday, May 19, has been chosen as
the date of Cane Sunday, the day
upon which stick-wagging seniors will
appear on the campus and try to im-
press awe-stricken underclassmen
with their debonair attitudes. The an-
nouncement was made by George
Lawton, '35, president of the senior
class.
In connection with the event it is
expected that dinners to honor the
seniors will be held in fraternities,
sororities and dormitories. It is not
certain, however, whether the seniors
will take their new toys to bed with
them or not.
A final decision on the fate of
Swingout will probably be given at a
meeting of the Senate Committee of
Student Affairs today.,
R e dCharoes
Answered .By
Pres. Huttch ins
CHICAGO, May 13.- t/)--Charges
that some teaching methods at the
University of Chicago "evidenced a
subtle design to impress communistic
views on the student minds" were ad-
vanced and denied today at a spirited
hearing before a state senate inves-
tigating committee.
The statements of Charles R. Wal-
green, chain drug store executive
who appeared in the role of com-
plainant, were immediately branded
as false by Dr. Robert Maynard Hut-
chins, 36-year-old president of th(
school, two faculty members and a
trustee. They made the counter
charge that the quiz culminated "ef-
forts to break down and destroy one
of the greatest centers of civic in-
struction in America."
Walgreen, whose withdrawal from
the University of his 18-year-old
niece, Miss Lucille North of Seattle,'
precipitated the controversy, told the
the five-man committee:
"I could ascribe my niece's views
(on communism and capitalism) to
one cause only, the character of the
instruction given her."

Poland Waits
'Destiny' Will
of Piflf~udski
Believe L a t e Marshals
Testament Will Chart
Nation's Course
Frontier Difficulties
With Reich Feared
Permanent Eastern Peace
Pact Is Discussed By
Laval And Litvinoff
WARSAW, May 13. - (/) - Huge
groups of devoted Poles stood weeping
in rain and hail today, reading bul-
letins of the death of Marshal Josef
Pilsudski, while reports spread that
the dictator had left a political will
to guide the destiny of his nation.
Mine. Alexandra Pilsudski, the wife
and close collaborator of the dictator
since his early struggles against Rus-
sia, suffered a heart attack today
and her condition wasa"unsatisfac-
tory," physicians said. She had tired
herself out during Pilsudski's long
illness.
Whether or not the marshal actual-
ly left a testament for the direction
of Poland's affairs pr qbably will keep
the world guessing f r at least two
days and perhaps until after the
funeral at Cracow.
There has been a persistent rumor
that such a paper has been found,
but the government is concentrating
its energies on the funeral plans.
The fact' that Gen. Edward Rydz-.
Smigly, army leader, was summoned
to the death bed and remained there i
throughout Pilsudski's last hours with
the family, was taken to mean that
he was selected not only as the
military but as the political successor
of the marshal.
HITLER MAY MAKE DEMANDS
LONDON, May 13.-(IP)- The
death of Marshal Joseph Pilsudski
evoked fears in diplomatic quarters
today that new frontier difficulties
between Poland and Germany might
develop.
Some quarters saw the possibility
of a new political alignment in Eu-
rope, and that Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler might be less hesitant to put
forth demands on the question of Po-
morze (the Polish corridor) than
while the Marshal lived.
There were few diplomats who be-
lieved that the Warsaw government
would be able to balance friendships.
There also has been a conviction that
internal political rivalries may cause
complications.
DISCUSS PEACE PACT PLAN
MOSCOW, May 13.- () -Foreign
ministers of France and Russia today
studied ways to build some perma-
nent Eastern European peace struc-
ture upon the foundation laid with
the signing of the Franco-Russian
mutual-assistance pact.
A ninety-minute conference be-
tween Pierre Laval of France and
Maxim Litvinoff of Soviet Russia, each
accompanied by his staff of experts,
was devoted largely, reliable sources
said, to discussion of proposals to
supplement the pact with an Eastern
agreement for non-aggression, con-
sultation, and non-assistance to an
aggressor.
Arriving from Warsaw this morn-
ing, Laval received one of the most
enthusiastic welcomes ever given any
visiting statesman.

Council Will
Make Election
PlansToday
Definite Arrangements For
Choosing Men's Student
Group To Be Finished
Definite arrangements for the elec-
tion in which members for next year's
Men's Student Council will be chosen
will be completed at a meeting of the
Undergraduate Council to be held at
3 p.m. today in the Union.-
The new council, which was accept-
ed by the Senate Committee of Stu-
dent Affairs as a substitute for the
Undergraduate Council after a camp-
us-wide survey of the student govern-
ment question, will include eight elec-
tive and ten ex-officio members.
According to the constitution of the
new council its elective members shall
consist of three from the literary cola
lege, and one each from the engineer-
ing, business administration, forestry,
music and architecture colleges and
schools.
At least three of the ex-officio mem-
bers will, from the nature of their
positions, have to be engineering stu-
dents, two will have to be from the
literary college, and the other five
ex-officio positions may be filled from
any school or college.
The constitution provides that "the
elective members shall be chosen in
direct elections in each school each
male student being entitled to one
vote."
Thursday has been unofficially set
as the day upon which the elections
will be' held, and it is expected that
the council will issue a call for peti-
tions or names of candidates at the
meeting tomorrow.
Ju(iciary Maintains
NegroJury Right
WASHINGTON, May 13. - (P) -
The Supreme Court pounded home
anew today its fiat that negroes may
not be excluded from juries, but failed
to rule on two controverted laws -
NRA and the farm mortgage morato-
rium.
In a 20-minute session, the high
tribunal set aside a death sentence
imposed on Jess Hollins, Oklahoma
negro convicted of criminal assault
on a white woman.
The court announced it would de-
liver decisions on the next two Mon-
days of May and the first Monday
of June. On any of these days it
may determine the constitutionality
of the Frazier-Lemke farm mort-
gage law and rule on basic features
of NRA as challenged in the Schech-
ter Live Poultry case from Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
Chief Justice Hughes delivered the
blunt, 170-word unanimous decision
in the Hollins appeal.

New Union Officers

Neumann And McCarthy
Chosen As New-Heads Of

Union ForComing

Year

WENCEL A. NEUMANN, JR.


Questions Of New Polish Disturbance
Are Analyzed By Professor Slosson

JOHN C. McCARTHY
Wildcats Upset
Golfers, 1 5-8,
On Wet Course
Purples Crush Depleted
Wolverine Squad In A
Decisive Win
A strong Northwestern golf team
toppled the supposedly invinciblc
though depleted Michigan squad, 15'
to 8%, over the soggy and water-
soaked fairways of the Kildeer Coun-
try Club yesterday in one of the big-
gest upsets of the golfing season.
Northwestern, defeated by Illinois
in a one-sided match last week, dis-
played a complete reversal of form a
they subdued a Wolverine team whicl
had trampled Illinois Saturday, 18-6
It was the first defeat Michigan ha,
suffered in the last three years o1
dual competition.
Woody Malloy and Dana Seeley de-
feated Brown and Gookin, 2-1, whilt
Flyn and Saielli conquered Markham
and Saunders, 3-0, in the morning
best ball foursome matches. In the
morning singles match Larry Davic:
took two out of three points frorr
Graham of Northwestern to mak:
the score at noon Michigan 4, North-
western 6. Seeley had a 75, Malloy
76, David 77, Saunders 78, and Mark-
ham 82 as medal scores for the earlN
round.
The afternoon play saw Malloy
drop two points to Brown, Markhanr
three to Flynn, and David three tc
Graham before the Wolverines rallies
to preserve their dignity as defending
Big Ten Champions when Al Saunders
took all three points from Gookin of
the Wildcats, and Dana Seeley man-
aged to eke out a half a point from
Saielli of Northwastern.
Medal cards for the Wolverines ir,
their second round of the day were:
Malloy 75, Saunders 77, Markham 79,
Seeley 80, and David 80.
Vocational Series
To End This Week
The last of the current series of 13
vocational guidance lectures will be

Will Serve As President
And Recording Secretary
For 1935-36 Period
Both Prominent In
Campus Activities
Vice-Presidents Will Be
Selected In Election Set
For Thursday
Wencel A. Neumann, Jr., '36E, of
Royal Oak, and John C. McCarthy,
'36, of Chicago, will serve as president
and recording secretary, respectively,
of the Union for next year, it was an-
nounced yesterday following a meet-
ing of the electoral board of the Un-
ion,board of directors.
Neumann and McCarthy will offi-
2ially take office at next Monday's ini-
tiation banquet. The retiring execu-
tive officers of the Union will be Allen
D. McCombs, '35, president, and
Douglas R. Welch, '35, recording se-
retary.
Regent Edmund C. Shields, of Lan-
Sing, who is the representative of the
Board of Regents on the Union board
)f directors, will give the principal
speech at this banquet.
Elections On Thursday
Nominations for the vice-presidenc-
es of the Union from the various
schools and colleges were also an-
nounced. According to Neumann,
these elections will be held on Thurs-
day at times and places to be an-
nounced later in the week.
The new president, Neumann, is a
member of Delta Tau Delta fratern-
ity, Mimes, honorary campus dra-
matic society, and for the past year
!as been president of Druids, honor-
ary junior engineering college fra-
ternity. He has been a member of
the Union house committee, and in
that capacity has edited the Union
Daily Bulletin and has been active on
,he Union Opera production staff this
year.
McCarthy is president of Theta
Delta Chi fraternity and a member
of Sphinx, honorary literary college
organization. Two years ago he was
,hairman of the Frosh Frolic. As
a member of the Union executive
council this year, McCarthy has been
on the publicity committee and edited
the monthly review.
Nominations Announced
The members of the electoral board,
who were selected from the entire
membership of the Union board of
directors, were: Prof. Robert K. Rod-
key of the business administration
school, chairman; Prof. Leigh J.
Young of the School of Forestry and
Conservation, T. Hawley Tapping,
general secretary of Alumni Associa-
tion, and Dr. Dean W. Myers.
Student members, who are also on
the Union board, were: Lawrence G.
Clayton, '35, John E. Glavin, Jr., '35L,
and James C. Hills, '35BAd., vice-
presidents from the literary college,
Law School and combined schools, re-
spectively.
Nominations for the vice-presidenc-
ies for next year are as follows:
From the literary college, William
R. Dixon, '36, and Morton A. Alshuler,
'36; from the engineering college,
Howard W. Underwood, Jr., '36E, and
Elwood M. Morgan, '36E; from the
combined schools, O'Neil L. Dillon,
'36BAd., and William B. Davis, '36
BAd.
20O Signatures Required
From the Law School, John S.
Clark, '36L, and Robert F. Krause,
'36L; from the dental school, George
W. Oglestone, '36D, and Henry J.
Manwell, '36D; from the medical
school, Frank J. Shaffer, Jr., '36M,
and John T. Mason, '36M.
Neumann announced that any stu-
dent in any of the schools and col-
leges of the University is eligible to
run for election to the vice-presidency

from his particular school. Candi-
dates not already nominated,. how-
ever, must submit petitions signed
by not less than 200 students from
any school or college.
Medical, Dental, Druggist
Societies To Meet Today
A combined meeting of the Wash-
tenaw County Medical Society, Wash-

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By MARSHALL D. SHULMAN
Keep your eyes on two develop-
ments in Europe these next several
weeks, is the suggestion of Prof. Pres-
ton W. Slosson of the history depart-
ment - Hitler's attitude toward a
disturbed Poland; and the political
inclinations of the man who rises to
succeed Pilsudski as dictator.
"As is always the case with dicta-
torships, some strong personality
must emerge to take the place of the
last one, or the country will revert
to the state of anarchy which forced
Pilsudski to step forward out of re-
tirement into the role of virtual mili-
tary dictator almost a decade ago,"
said Professor Slosson.
"Just whom this new dictator will
be is an important question, for upon
him depends two questions: what will
happen to the new constitution and
the entire internal policy; and what
will be the policy of the country to-
wards France and Germany?

sudski had many bitter enemies,
though well-loved by the largest part
the situation?"
1More significant in international
affairs will be the policy which will
be taken in Polish foreign affairs,
thinks Professor Slosson. "Since
1918, Poland has been a diplomatic
agent of France, and was a part of
the French program to bottle up Ger-
many with pro-French nations on all
sides. Several years ago, Pilsudski,
anxious to stay out of war with Ger-
many and displeased with the Franco-
Russian agreement -P o 1 a n d is
strongly anti-Soviet - decided t o
agree to a 10-year non-aggression
peace pact with Germany. Whether
the new dictator will decide to hold
to this Germany pact, or veer again
to the French will be a significant
point.
"Feeling that the new dictator may
not support the Polish end of the 10-
year pact, Hitler may take advantage

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