The Weather Fair, not so cool today; to- morrow fair and warmer. a C, r litigai :43 attg Editorials A Loss To The World . . . The Matter Of Liberalism .. The Future Of Airplanes.. VOL. XLV. No. 172 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS i i ToInspect - a inances Of Houses Fraternities Told To File Reports Of Month At Office Of Dean Per mitted jToUnite May, June Aecounts Failure Will Mean Closing Of Chplters, Committee Declares A letter, acquainting all fraterni- ties with "certain facts" regarding their financial affairs was sent out yesterday by the Committee On Fra- ternity Financial Standard Excep- tions. The Committee stated in the letter, which was sent to each of the 69 general and professional fraternities on the campus, that "the failure to comply with the requirement that monthly financial reports be filed with the Office of the Dean of Stu- dents will be interpreted as an ad- mission by the fraternity involved that its financial affairs are not in an acceptable form. Such a fra- ternity may not be permitted to open in the fall of 1935." Can Combine Reports "If a fraternitycloses its records early in June," the letter stated, "itr willbe acceptable for that fratern- ity to combine the May and June! statements in a final report to be filed on or before June 15. The final report for the year, regardless of thec date it is filed, must include, in addi- tion to the usual schedules, a sched- ule of accounts payable and one of alumni accounts receivable." The members of the Committee ex-~ pressed the belief that each fratern- ity should operate without any fi-~ nancial loss to creditors. Any fra- ternity which, in the judgment of the Committee, is apt to cause financial loss to any creditor will be given a formal hearing during the summer. The time and place of each hearing will be sent to the recorded address of the treasurer, "financial adviser,c and national headquarters of the fra- ternity involved. To Require Audits< Each fraternity should file its final1 report and ascertain that it is accept-N able before its officers leave Ann Ar- bor," according to the Committee'sI letter, but they further stated thati the requirement of an annual auditI may be waived for the current schoolr year, since some fraternities haveI incomplete records prior to Feb. 1, 1933. "However, such audits will be1 required in future years and, where it can do so, each fraternity is urged to have an acceptable audit made oft its records for this year and to file a copy of the report in the Office off the Dean of Students." The members of the Standard Ex- ceptions Committee are Robert C. Briggs of the economicsrdepartment, Paul R. Kempf, and Prof. Leigh J. Young of the forestry school. Comstock Leads Meetings Takes O'Hara's Powers Ex-Official Denies That He Will Be Candidate For Governorship LANSING, May 22. -(A') - The Democratic state central committee rebelled today against its chairman, Elmer B. O'Hara, stripped him of all powers save those of a presiding officer at its meeting, and created the office of executive secretary which presumably wi'l carry many of the duties taken away from O'Hara. The job was not filled. Former-Governor William A. Com- stock personally piloted the resolu- tions through the rebel meetings. He took the floor repeatedly and invar- iably was given what he asked. Mr. Comstock after the meeting denied to newspaper reporters that he was using his influence to build - 44.-- L f ; , , o r~ e a r n Highlights Of Roosevelt's Veto Message Against Patman Bill To resort to the kind of financial practice provided in this bill would not improve the conditions necessary to expand those industries in which we have the greatest unemployment. * * * I hold that that able-bodied citizen should be accorded no treatment dif- ferent from that accorded to other citizens who did not wear a uniform during the World War. * *' * To meet a claim of one group by this deceptively easy method of pay- ment will raise similar demands for the payment of claims to other groups. * * * It invites an ultimate reckoning in uncontrollable prices and in the de- struction of the value of savings, that will strike most cruelly those like the veterans who seem to be tempor'arily benefited. Every country that has attempted the form of meeting its obligations which is here provided has suffered disastrous consequences. Arrangements For Swingout Are Announced Final Plans For Revival Of Tradition On May 28 Given By McCombs Final plans for this year's Swing- out, to be held on May 28, were an- nounced last night by Allen D. Mc- Combs, '35, retiring president of the Union and Swingout chairman. Included in the ceremonies will be{ the Senior Sing and the presentation of a cane by the president of the sen- ior class to the president of the jun- ior class, two traditions which have been dormant for several years. Swingout itself is being revived after a one-year lapse, having been abolished after four students were suspended for disorderly conduct in connection with the ceremonies in 1933. Seniors of the various schools will assemble at 4 p.m. at several points about the crossing of the diagonals,; and the parade will begin at 4:30 p.m. The marchers will proceed to the corner of State Street and North Uni- versity Avenue, circle the campus, and pass between the Natural Science and Chemistry Buildings back to the library steps, where the ceremonies will culminate with the Senior Sing. After the Glee Club renders a num- ber, the entire assemblage will join in singing several of the most popular Michigan songs. During the cere- mony, the cane presentation, which has traditionally been associated with the Sing, will be made by George Lawton, '35, senior president. The presentation will be the only speech of Swingout, the customary talk by President Alexander G. Ruth- ven in Hill Auditorium having been eliminated. The parade, which will be in double-column, will be led by Mc- Combs and Lawton. Following them will be the Honor Guard, composed of prominent members of the senior class to be designated by Lawton. Promises of cooperation by the va- rious honor societies in keeping Swingout orderly and a warning by the Judiciary Committee of the Un- dergraduate Council that it would recommend that all student offenders be expelled from the University have been made as preventative measures against repetition of the conduct that led to the abolition of the tradition two years ago. Sphinx Heads For Next Year Elected Sanford Ladd, '37, was named president of Sphinx, as the newly initiated members of the junior lit- erary college honorary society held Itheir first meeting yesterday noon in the Union. Richard G. Hershey, 37, was elected treasurer. Ladd is a member of the Michiganensian business staff and Hershey is an editorial assistant on The Daily. Both are members of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. William Dixon and Donald Miller are the retiring president and treas- urer respectively. Cooley Made Acting State PWA Director The statement . . . that payment will discharge and retire an acknowl- edged contract obligation of the gov- ernment is, I regret to say, not in ac- cordance with the fact. It wholly omits and disregards the fact that this contract obligation is due in 1945, and not today. * * * To argue for this bill as a relief measure is to indulge in the fallacy that the welfare of the country can be generally served by extending re- lief on some basis other than actual deserving need. * * * Today, the credit of the United States is safe, but it cannot ultimate- ly be safe if we engage in a policy of yiel ing to each and all of the groups hat are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special con- sideration. I believe the welfare of the nation, as well as the future welfare of the veterans, wholly justifies my disap- proval of this measure. Anti-Red Bill To e Voted On In House Today Another Measure To End Radical Activity G e t s Favorable Support LANSING, May 22.-(AP)-The controversial Baldwin-Dunckel bill, prescribing severe penalties for acts construed as inciting to revolution or the overthrow of government reached the floor of the House today. It was reported favorably by the judiciary committee. Known as an "anti-radical" bill, it provoked a storm of protest in the Senate and in a recent public hearing in the House. Representatives of the Amer- ican Legion spoke for the bill, claim- ing it is needed to stamp out radical- ism. Opponents claimed it would prohibit free speech and the right of assemblage. It would make the spreading of propaganda, or acts aimed at the overthrow of govern- ment a felony. A delegation of University students will attend the session of the House at Lansing today in order to protest against the passage of the Dunckel- Baldwin anti-red bill, it was an- nounced here last night. Third Book By SharfrmniiIs Now Complete Professor Working Under Auspices Of New York Commionwealth Fund The third of the five-volume series on "The Interstate Commerce Com- mission," by I. L, Sharfman, chair- man of the economics department, came off the press last week, it was announced yesterday. The third volume is the first of the two volumes that go to make up part three. Professor Sharfman, writing the works under the auspices of the Commonwealth Fund of New York City, has treated the Commis- sion in four parts, the third alone having more than one volume. In this book, Professor Sharfman deals with the extent and diversity of the Commission's tasks, the valuation project, and the control of organi- zation and finance. It contains 684 pages. The second volume of part three, the fourth work of the entire series, deals with rate level and rate structure of the rate regulation prob- lem. In the volume just off the press, the Commissions regulatory activities are treated in their legal, economic and administrative ramifications as they have developed in more than two decades. The part on control of or- ganization and finance embraces ex- tensions and abandonments, coopera- tion and combination, and the issu- ance of securities and assumption of obligations. The treatment relates to regulatory experience along these lines to current difficulties of railroads and the general movement for public control of economic activity. The first volume, part one, was en- titled "The Legislative Basis of the Appointments For Summer DailyNamed Michiganensian Positions Are Given By Campbell; Junior Staff Announced Dannemiller To Be Editor Of Directory Groehn, Reed, Kleene And Whipple Are Selected As Associate Editors Appointments to the editorial and business staff of The Summer Daily and next year's Michiganensian were announced yesterday by John C. Heal- ey, '35, editor of The Summer Daily, and Foster Campbell, '36, editor of the 'Ensian.1 Robert S. Ruwitch, '36, of Chicago, was appointed city editor of the Sum- mer Daily. Ruwitch is a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, and is a former night editor of The Daily. Associate Editors Thomas B. Groehn, '36, Thomas H.E Kleene, '36, William Reed, '36, and Guy M. Whipple, Jr., were named associate editors. Kleene, a member1 of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, was recently appointed managing editor of The Daily, while Groehn, who is1 affiliated with Theta Delta Chi, is an associate editor. Both are members of Sphinx, Sigma Delta Chi, and1 Michigamua. Reed is sports editor of The Daily, and Whipple, a mem- ber of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and Sigma Delta Chi, served as a night editor last year. 1 Charlotte Rueger, '37, and Elsie A. Pierce, '37, were named society edi- tors, and Charles A. Baird, '35, andr Joseph Mattes, '38, reporters.- Russell B. Read, 35, business man- ager of The Summer Daily, named Bernard J. Rosenthal, '36, as his as- sistant. Rosenthal, who lives in Chi- cago, is affiliated with Phi Epsilon PiC fraternity, and has worked on The Daily business staff for several years. Choose Woman's Editor Campbell named Dorothy Roth, '36, woman's editor of the 1936 'Ensian. Miss Roth, who is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, is from Washing-f ton, D. C. She has been a member of the 'Ensian staff for several years, and was a member of the J-Hop com- mittee this year. The appointments to the junior staff of the 'Ensian are as follows: Franklin T. Dannemiller, '37, andI Martha Knox, '37, in charge of ath- letics; Thomas Ayers, '37, seniors; Louis Belden, '37, and Charlotte Ham- ilton, '37, activities; Walter Crow, '37, and Mae Herndon, features; Robert Ewell, '37, fraternities; Robert Murry, '37, administration; and Ruth Son- nanstine, '36, sororities. Dannemiller was also named editor of the Student Directory for next year. He lives in Canton, O., and is a member of Delta Tau Delta fratern- ity. He was recently elected to Sphinx, and served on the Frosh Frolic committee last year. Funeral Rites Of Jane Addams Will Be Today England Will Build Better Air Force S"onsors Bonus Bill S Great Britain Warns Europe That She MaintainParity Will Need More 4 All Will Bonus Bill Re pase Over Veto Representatives Overrule President, 322 To 98, In Swift Action Than 22,000 Men English Policy Will Not Allow Corps To Be Less Than Other Nations' LONDON, May 22. - OP) - Great Britain, traditional mistress of the seas, today warned Europe that she would let no neighboring power gain mastery of the air. Announced simultaneously in both houses of Parliament were plans to double Britain's air forces and treble her first-line home defense force with "all possible speed." A goal of 1,500 home-defense planes by March 31, 1937, was set. Lord Londonderry, secretary for air, who announced the eagerly await- ed air program to the House of Lords, said that Britain "under no circum- stances," would accept air inferiority to Germany. To Keep Air Parity Stanley Baldwin, lord president of the council, told the House of Com- mons that the government's aim was to attain and keep air parity with France and Germany. Promptly Laborites in the Com- mons, heretofore tacitly approving of the government's air-defense plans, announced that they would vote against the supplementary appropria- tions which Baldwin said would be needed. They also proposed that the government act upon the disarma- ment suggestions Adolf Hitler made before the German Reichstag last night. Need More Men Lord Londonderry told the Lords: "If the present program is insuffi- cient it will be increased, i'egardless of cost. "We shall require 2,500 more pilots and a total of nearly 22,500 additional personnel." (The present personnel of the Royal Air Force is about 33,000 men, including 3,000 pilots. The pres- ent home-defense first line strength is 580 planes). Baldwin, in the Commons, wel- comed Hitler's expressed willingness to enter an air limitations treaty and protect civilians against aerial bomb- ings, although he stressed the exist- ence of an "emergency" and termed the increase an "act of national de- fense which no responsible govern- ment . . . could leave undone." Italians Fear British ROME, May 22. -() -Giornale d'Italia, authoritative newspaper, to- day said that British troops have been concentrated on the Sudan- Ethiopian frontier and that England "has constituted small military or- I ganizations and armament bases on Ethiopian territory itself." In an apparently inspired article, the newspaper asked what these pre- arations meant. It said that'; the Ethiopian government feared a pos- sible British advance and also had concentrated troops on the frontier facing the Sudan. (A spokesman of the British War Office declared there was "no truth whatever" in the statements made by the Giornale d'Italia, branded them as "Italian propaganda," It was said at London that Britain has a small force in the Sudan "but there has not been any increase for more than a year, or since the be- ginning of the Italo-Ethiopian diffi- culties.") Detroit Group Ties Local Debate Club REP. WRIGHT PATMAN Michigamua Braves Scalp 22 In AnnualA Raid OnCampusF Listen to this tale of romance, q Tale of Indian warriors bold - P In the early moon of greenleaves' t Came they forth the stoic valiant; Forth they romped to paleface c wigwam, c Wigwam one of friend great chief, t Palef ace mighty among his kind; 0 Came he forth to take their token v Of the warpath they would tread, - Then to the mighty oak of Tappan h Dashed the screaming, yelling red- t men; To the tree of Indian legend f When the white man pale and o trembling Stood around the mighty oak; Warriors choice of paleface nation, e Choice of tribe to run the gaunt- f let. t Down the warriors, painted de- mons,c Swooped and caught their prey s like eagles, c Loud the war cry stirred the still- p ness, t As they seized their hapless cap-s tives,s Forth they bore them to their wig- wama There to torture at their pleasure. There they are around the glowing 1 bonfires b Heard the words of mighty wis- f dom,r Smoked the pipe of peace and t friendship.0 Thus there came to Michigamua: 1 Frank W. Aikens, George H. t Atherton, R. Foster Campbell, Jr.,I John A. Cawley, Lawrence J. Dav- I id, Nelson R. Droulard, Frank B. Fehsenfeld, Thomas E. Groehn,I Dan F. Hulgrave, Thomas H.9 Kleene, Charles Kocsis, Berger C.1 Larson, John C. McCarthy, Wencele A. Neumann, Harvey W. Patton, Paul W. Philips, William W. Ren- ner, Robert O. Thomas, Chelso I Tomagno, Norman Williamson,N Frederick C. Matthaei, Charles B. Hoyt.1 _-c Couliin Wl C uhi WilStay Aloof Of; Public Office Detroit Priest's Speech In Madison Square Garden' Is Greeted With Cheers NEW YORK, May 22. - ()- As- serting vigorously that he would "ever remain aloof from public office," the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin tonight brought the dicta of his national union for social justice before a gath- ering that packed Madison Square Garden. "I know," lie said, "that I am wel- comed not for what I am or what I may be, but for what I represent." An ovation lasting nearly seven minutes greeted his appearance on the flatfbrm after a pro-bonus au- dience had cheered James Van Zandt, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars/who attacked sharp- ly the President's veto of the Patman Bill. Father Coughlin, touching the background of Democracy by repre- sentation, said that "until a year ago there was no truly representative government in your nation." "Your congressmen," he declared, "were subjected to a barrage of prop- aganda." He flayed the nation's newspapers, but asserted the press did not "ma- liciously" subject itself to powerful in- terests. "The newspapers and their masters have been almost in complete con- $750 Termed As Veterans' Bonus Roosevelt Fails Ini Try To Dominate House In Personal Message WASHINGTON, May 22.- (.(P An irrepressible House majority to- ay swiftly repassed the Patman 3onus Bill over President Roosevelt's veto warnings of "disastrous conse- uences," only to send the new money lan to an almost certain death in he Senate. Scarcely had Mr. Roosevelt's voice eased echoing in the crowded House chamber, where he hammered objec- ion after objection into the $2,200- 00,000' bill, than the representatives voted 322 to 98 to override his veto - the first personally delivered in history. It was many more than the wo-thirds majority needed. The roll call showed a net gain of four in the number of representatives pposed to the Patman Bill. Senate Gains Delay Elmer Thomas, (Dem., Okla.), lead- er of the Senate Patman inflationary forces, gained the delay on grounds hat the message needed more study. Administration forces, expressing confidence that the bill could be stopped with the 35 votes which they claim have stood fast during terrific pressure of the past few weeks, agreed o the postponement with the under- standing that senators could 'not speak longer than 30 minutes. This, however, did not necessarily mean a vote tomorrow. : ighting desperately, but apparent- y topelessly, to gain a few votes after Mr. Roosevelt's blunt assertion that full cash payment of the bonus rep- resented "a new straight gratuity or bounty to the amount of $1,600,000,- 000," the Patman forces already were ooking ahead to a new drive for leg- slation after the final veto ballot. Roosevelt forces thought they saw a possible compromise loophole in the deadlock between Congress and the WhiteHouse in Mr. Roosevelt's sug- gestion that $750 was the outside limit of what now was owed the vet- erans. Message Not Hceded This approximated the figure pro- posed in the Harrison compromise which the Senate rejected in favor of full payment. But cash payment leaders gave little heed to this impli- cation in the message and it drew scant applause when read to the joint Senate-House assembly. Also jutting prominently from the carefully prepared Presidential veto were these words: "The complete failure of the Con- gress to provide additional taxes for an additional expenditure of this magnitude would in itself and by it- self alone warrant disapproval of this measure." Most comment on the President's message -Democratic and Repub- lican alike - was favorable, but held no sign of important vote shifts. The House ballot showed a net gain of four votes against the Patman bill, and Senate leaders questioned even this much change on their side. Discover Lake Of Underground Gas LOS ANGELES, May 22. -(A)- Hundreds of persons stampeded to the harbor district today after an underground lake, said by Fire Chief Ralph Scott to consist of pure gaso- line was discovered. The rush started when persons found that by digging shallow wells in the Wilmington district they could dip out gasoline in buckets. Council Elections To Be Held Monday Announcing that the election for positions on the Men's Council had been postponed until Monday, Carl Hilty, '35, president of the Council, reiterated the candidates may yet be 'nominated by present- People From All Walks Life Pay Respects Great Sociologist Of To CHICAGO, body of Jane at Hull House May 22.- (P)- The Addams lay in state today while hundreds of persons of many races and from all walks of life filed past the bier An intra-society debate between the to pay tribute to one of America's local chapter of Sigma Rho Tau and greatest women, the Detroit Institute of Technology Twelve boys she had led from the branch was the feature of the speech ctysteetsarriethesdlermlathegroup's final regular meeting in the city streets carried the silver plated Union last night. casket into Bowen Hall in the settle- The subject debated was: "Re- ment founded by Miss Addams half a solved, That the United States gov- century ago. A dozen girls she had ernment should continue to build sent to the healthful surroundings of rigid dirigibles''; and the visiting a country home banked the casket team composed of J. A. Line and R. with flowers and men, women and B. Kinkead, upheld the affirmative against a local negative team of John children who had known her as their F. Wisler, '38E, George W. Malone, benefactress and notables who had es- '37E, and William R. Hagen, '38E. teemed her as a sociologist and peace The outcome of the debate was apostle, passed by in solemn tribute. called a tie by the judges, Prof. R. Messages of regret from Mrs. J. Ruff and J. D. Russell of D.I.T., and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary Har- Prof. R. D. Brackett of the engineer-