THE MICHIAN ADAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Publisned every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Con- trol of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER satitd folleatt rsg -"4 giafl 19 35 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news publshed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as seond class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $1150. During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. 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ROTHBARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ....MARGARET COWIE WOMEN'S ADVERTISING SERVICE MANAGER ,ELIZABETH SIMONDS DEPARTMENTAL MANAGERS: Local advertising, William Barndt; Service Department, Willis Tomlinson; Con- tracts, Stanley Joffe; Accounts, Edward Wohlgemuth; Circulation and National Advertising, John Park; Classified Advertising and Publications, Lyman Bitt- man. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: Charles W. Barkdull, D. G. Bron- son, Lewis E. Bulkeley, Richard L. Croushore, Herbert D.- Falender, Jack R. Gustafson, Ernest A. Jones, William C. Knecht, William C. McHenry, John F. McLean, Jr., Law-.. rence A. Roth, John D. Staple, Lawrence A. Starsky, - Norman B. Steinberg, Donald Wilsher. WOMEN'S BUSINESS STAFF: Betsy Baxter, Margaret Bentley, Adelaine Callery, Elizabeth Davy, Catherine Fecheimer, Vera Gray, Martha Hanky, Mary McCord, Helen Neberle, Dorothy Novy Adele Polier, Helen Purdy, Virginia Snell. WOMEN'S ADVERTISING SERVICE STAFF: Ellen Brown, Sheila Burgher, Nancy Cassidy, Ruth Clark, Phyllis Eiseman, Jean Keinath, Dorothy Ray, Alice Stebbins, Peg Lou White. NIGHT EDITOR: RICHARD G. HERSHEY A Respected Opponent.. . N OT ONLY BECAUSE it promises to be one of the most interesting1 games of the year for the Michigan team and, supporters, but because it also brings once more to Ann Arbor a football opponent which is as respected and welcome as any other in the coun-, try, this Saturday's battle with Pennsylvania is a fitting one for Homecoming. Almost 20 years ago, when Michigan temporar- ily left the Western Conference, the Wolverines turned to the East for opponents and there began' a series of games with Pennsylvania. Immediately the Penn game became the most important one, of the year for Michigan, and, more often than not, for Penn, although the Quakers did play the powers in their own sector. At times this game was fought with the national championship at stake. Saturday will see a renewal of this relationship -one of the most satisfying in the athletic his- tories of both schools. There will be alumni in the stands whose memory of great games of their undergraduate days will again become a reality. Because of this, Homecoming in the Sta- dium can hardly fall short of success. Progress For The Negro ....- T HE THREE-DAY economic confer- ence on the Negro in Michigan, held in Detroit Oct. 21-23 under the auspices of the Detroit Civic Rights Committee, was a fine achievement, and as a preparation for the national conference, scheduled for February in Chicago, should prove most valuable. The conference brought to the front many problems which are confronting the Negro people of Detroit, as well as the whole country. We find only one per cent of those with regular municipal jobs! This situation, it was pointed out, makes it clear that the Negro cannot hope for better- ment of his condition through any alliance with politicians. Amid proposals that Negro action should take the form of unity at the polls as a bargaining im- plement, or that Negroes should patronize only Negro shops and hire only Negro workers, came a much saner plan - let the Negro cooperate with the white person who is facing the same problems of injustice and economic insecurity. Through such cooperation greater strength will come to both in their efforts, and in thei united activity they will find a basis for the extermination of race prejudice. Whatever the shortcomings of the Detroit conference may have been, it set an admirable precedent for similar conferences in other cities, and furnished many valuable lessons and sug- gestions for the national conference in February. It is an important step in the awakening of the American Negro and in his determination to secure for himself a more happy life than he has had in the past. THE FORUM Letters published in this' column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserving the right to condense all letters of over 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Ridicule Effective To the Editor: Undoubtedly Professor O. J. Campbell was right when he concluded his speech at the Panhellenic Banquet with the statement that he could prob- ably return twenty years from now and make the same speech with exactly the same applica- tion and as much effect. If sororities exist on this campus twenty years from now, their in- tellectual standards and aims will probably be just as trivial as they are today. Still, if there is anything capable of changing the goal of the sorority women (in general) from social sophis- tication to intellectual sophistication, it is cer- tainly keen and capably handled ridicule. Professor Campbell chose his weapon well and used it skillfully. Perhaps if others follow his lead, some mutation may ensue. At any rate, Pro- fessor Campbell deserves a medal for having said what he did. -H.J.H. As Others See It That AAA Election (From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) THAT BIG ELECTION came off Saturday, and the corn-hog farmers voted overwhelmingly against assassinating Santa Claus. In other words, they are highly in favor of continuing not to raise Poland Chinas, Duroc Jerseys, to say nothing of just plain razorbacks, as long as the government's checks rain down like the gentle dew from heaven. Not that anyone anticipated a close election, with check decliners and check re- ceivers going neck and neck down the stretch. Who wouldn't rather sit on a fence, chaw tobacco and whittle, the approved technique, we suppose, in the business of not raising hogs, than to look after the pesky critters? If Dr. Henry Wallace and Dr. Chester Davis denounce this comment as being .hopelessly flip- pant, the obvious retort is that to hold an election under the circumstances and conditions surround- ing that of last Saturday is to engage in a form of opera bouffe. The only possible significance is that some 50,000 farmers, whether because they are not getting theirs or because they oppose AAA policies from conviction, voted "No." If any real plebiscite were held, to include all those who pay the processing taxes and like to eat pork chops the result would be worth something. Meanwhile, the AAA reduction policies, designed as an emergency measure, go on and on. And not the least disconcerting thing about it is that the Republicans, who are highly vocal on all other phases of the administration, are strangely reticent about this. Witness the proceedings at the Grass Roots conference, where the G.O.P. leaders approached the subject with the cautious and ingratiating manner of a tramp wooing a Great Dane. Witness Senator Capper's letter to the "Lion of Idaho," pointing out the need of drawing up a farm plan for the next G.O.P. plat- form. In substance, Senator Borah replied: "You' do it, Arthur." Edson Blair in Barron's, talking about Senator Vandenberg's aspirations for the presidency, says: If Van went out now and started sounding of f, he almost certainly would stick his foot into it. Someone would ask him about AAA. Is he for it? Fine position for the G.O.P. champion. Is he against it? There goes the Farm Belt! The best defense of the AAA reduction policies is that they tend to equalize the prices of what the farmers sell with the prices of the things they buy, and that, since the latter are determined in large degree by the country's high protective tariff, benefits to farmers are only a necessary, corollary. To put it more brutally, one subsidy is' necessary to offset another. Through the tariff, we pay, in effect, a huge yearly bonus to our man- ufacturers and, through the AAA, we match that. with a bonus to the farmers. Who, the pork-chop eater may ask, is going to pay a bonus to me? Who is going to subsidize my meal ticket? The subsidy is an evil that grows by what The Conning Tower TOWN-FEVER (With apologies to the poet laureate) I must go into town again, to a penthouse under the sky, All I ask is a moving van and a coon to steer her by. For the year's gone and summer's done and the bright leaves are falling, And the high price of a rustic life seems perfectly appalling. I must go into town again, for the call of the five and ten Is a wild call and a clear call that gets me now and then; And all I ask is a pleasant day, and plenty of room in the van For the four-post bed and Dante's head, and the step-on garbage can. I must go into town again to the hectic city life- With the dish pan and the sink pan and the stainless carving knife- And all I ask is an elegant coon who's a good piano mover, And quiet sleep and sheets on the bed when the long trek's over. -E.F.M. In Philadelphia, on Sunday night, the orchestra gave a concert for the benefit of its pension fund. Mr. Stokowski, the story says, asked the audience to join in boisterously. So they sang during the playing of the "Marseillaise," "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," and Schubert's "Serenade." Our guess is that they all sang "La la la," or were pro- vided with programs containing the words. Of these the most familiar to any American public would be "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." And ask the first person you meet to tell you offhand what precedes "The Army and Navy forever, Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue." That reminds us that Nurblieh, despite the re- sults of the Pennsylvania and Michigan games, still, a loyal Columbia grad., shouts, "Three cheers for the dead white and blue." One day Michael was hurrying along the cor- ridor to meet his group in the playground. In passing he brushed none too gently against his teacher, who was standing in the way. "You unqualified pig," she hissed. - Angelo Puite in the Post. Teach us to hiss, Teacher. Professional Bow by String Quartet.-Times headline. You don't mean four bows, do you? Mr. Joseph Kraus, advertising manager of the Paris Garter Company, told the Association of National Advertisers that the nation's newspapers offer the advertiser a most, powerful, effective, and economic medium for reaching the families of millions of buyers. Well, Col. McCormick, and you other boys talking about the freedom of the press, don't you think the papers will print that? But the censored radio? Nope. SYMPOSIUM NIGHT IN HANCOCK COUNTY THE SYMPOSIUM, a club composed of ladies and gentlemen, met Monday nights. That old Symposium, you disrespectfully called it, which sentiments were voicelessly shared by father and the dog. You disliked it first because it droned on after a dull paper written by some exceedingly learned lawyer or school teacher or "literary woman" into an equally dull discussion. Second, because they were not prettily dressed card-playing people. Third, there never was a grand supper, only coffee and doughnuts, which you loathed. Fourth, you never knew when some of these literary people would bring their children. What mad elfin prank ever induced Mrs. Emma Dreitzler to name her two little daughters Donna and Bernita was one of the minor mysteries of Hancock County. Donna and Bernita always came Symposium Nights. Metta De Wolfe, large and affable and Very Bright, also came with her mother. There was a suspicion that her mother did not Believe in God in which iconoclastic doubts Metta might conceivably share. Very smugly you pondered on your own thorough belief in God and you disliked Metta, not only for being Bright but for doubting the existence of your Most Intimate Friend. You sat disconsolately in the chair, landing and stared at Donna and Bernita and Metta. What to do with them? You wished you could get up and slap them. They were so polite and inoffensive and sat waiting for entertainment. Entertainment, you thought with cold fury, when nobody had invited them to come! However often he was put out, some of the arriving Symposium always let the dog in so after awhile he was allowed to remain. He was so big he occupied most of the stair landing and sat down on everybody's feet. Once, he made the Symposium night a memorable and delightful occasion. For some reason, Mrs. Beecher W. Wal- termire was to sing a solo. She loved to get a good loud note and hold it, hold it long, 1-o-n-n-n-g-g-. This night the dog sat up suddenly, raised his beautiful long nose and let out a far, far better and far, far louder note than Mrs. Beecher W. Waltermire had ever heard before. There was a terrible second of shock and then Donna and Ber- nita and Metta went into fits of stifled laughter. After he was quieted, you looked more kindly at Donna and Bernita and Metta. Deeply and surely you realized that they, too, in spite of their care- ful manners, thoroughly hated Symposium Nights. -B. ROSS. A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. - Back in those far-off times of May, 1933, President Roosevelt signed the farm bill with this statement to Congress: "I tell you frankly it is a new and untrod path; but I tell you with equal frankness that an unprecedented' condition calls for the trial of new means to rescue agriculture. "If a fair administrative trial of it is made and it does not produce the hoped-for results, I shall be the first to acknowledge it and advise you." Seventeen months later, in a 'state- ment' to the country, Mr. Roosevelt, speaking of this same act, advised: "The adjustment act has served the national welfare." To that, he added notice that it was the intention of the framers of' the act -"as it is mine -to pass from the purely emergency phases necessitated by a grave national crisis to a long time, more permanent plan1 for American agriculture." *.1. * * Ready To Fight It Out THAT declaration was made in the face of impending high court de- cisions that might cut at the finan- cial heart of the AAA -the proces- sing tax. It was made regardless of the attempt of Governor Talmadge of Georgia to exercise the sover- eignty of his state and challenge the, constitutionality of the act through- out. It indicates that Mr. Roosevelt stands ready to fight it out politically on the AAA line at the polls next year, regardless of what the court might do. No doubt the presidential state- ment so vigorously endorsing after trial the AAA method, was timed for such effect as it might have on the corn-hog referendum, voted on by some millions of corn or hog raisers the following day. The administra- tion was leading its ace of trumps. Yet, both in the statement and in his earlier western tour speech deal- ing with AAA and the processing tax suits, Mr. Roosevelt clearly indi- cated his purpose to press on with the agricultural program relentlessly. If that should mean seeking constitu- tional warrant for it via an amend- ment, it is to be deduced that Mr. Roosevelt might be much more in the mood to make that his major campaign issue next year than he ever has been toward a similar at- tempt to pave the way constitution- ally for revival of NRA. Real Issue For 1936 C0 here begins development of a very real issue for 1936, whether it is to go to the extent of a consti- tutional amendment battle or not. President Roosevelt has now mapped his agricultural plank for next year, a permanent, bigger, if simplified, better AAA,geared to boost as well as to cut production when the situation warrants. Former President Hoover is repre- sented as having a farm plan up his sleeve to be revealed after the Su- preme Court shall have acted in AAA test cases. Almost everyone men- tioned for the Republican nomination has flirted with farm schemes to re- place AAA. Even General Johnson has taken something of a crack at the business in recent "friendly" criti- cisms of the "new deal" and almost all "new dealers" except the Presi- dent. ITHE SCREEN AT THE MAJESTIC Double Feature "THE VIiyGINIA JUDGE" PLUS The show is concerned only with the Solomon-like wisdom which is exercised by the judge (Walter Kelly) in administering the small affairs of a small southern town. Since there is very little to it, there is an equal amount that can be said about it. The judge takes his part well but really doesn't have much of a story with which to work. It opens with the judge's stepson depicted as a worthless, spoiled boy who is angry because his mother married again and won't have anything to do with his father. He and the rich boy of the neigh- borhood are both in love with the same 'irl, and their rivalry reaches its height when the judge's son shoots the other, accidentally. All is for- given in the end, and the boy becomes a good son. Stepin Fetchit is the best part of the show. "HOT TIP" *PLUS Zazu Pitts and Jimmy Gleason in a typical race track story, so stereo- typed that it even contains the old gag about the fellow having a winner all picked that he doesn't bet on because of gossip he hears just as he is about to place his bet, and so loses the hard-earned cash. The show is saved from complete oblivion by some good lines that Zazu and THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1935 VOL. XLVI No. 26 Notices Faculty Meeting, College of Litera- ture, Science and Arts: The regular November meeting of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall Monday, November 4, beginning at 4:10 o'clock. Agenda: Report of Executive Committee, Remer. Report of University Council, Sellars. Report of Dean's Confer- ence, Kraus. Report of Committee on Class Schedules, LaRue. An- nouncements. Presidents of Fraternities and Sor- orities are reminded that membership lists and chaperon lists should be re- turned to the Office of the Dean of Students by November 1. Oratorical Association Ushers: Re- port to Hill Auditorium at 7:45 p.m. tonight for the first lecture. Bowling: The bowling alleys at the Women's Athletic Buildings are open every afternoon, except Saturday, from 4 to 5 (Saturday 3 to 5) and in the evening from 7 to 9. Men ac- companied by women may bowl dur- ing these hours. Reservation of the alleys by groups may be made by calling Barbour Gymnasium (Extension 721) a day in advance. Academic Notices Geology II: Bluebook this Friday at 9:00. A.L. (inclusive) please go to the Science Auditorium, M-Z to the West Gallery of Alumni Memorial Hall. Please take alternate seats. Economics 51: Rooms for examina- tion Thursday, October 31, as fol- lows: 25 A.H., Miller's and Hebbard's sections. 251 A.H., Anderson's sec- tions. 1035 A.H., Wier's sections. 103 R.L., Church's sections. N.S. Aud., French's and Danhof's sections. Class in Esperanto meets every Fri- day at 4 p.m., room 1020 A.H. All interested are cordially invited. Bus. Ad. 209 Tabulating Practice: A talk will be given on "The History of Tabulating Machines" by Mr. Floyd Findley, Detroit Manager of the International Business Machines Corporation, in Room 209, Angell Hall, at 2:00 p.m. today. Lecture Oratorical Association Lecture Course: The 1935-36 Lecture Course will open tonight at 8:15 p.m. when the Hon. William R. Castle speaks in Hill Auditorium on the subject "Our Relations with Other Nations." The Hill Auditorium box office will be open from 10-12 and from 2-8:15. Patrons are urged to secure their tickets early and avoid a last minute rush at the box office. Events Of Today Applied Mechanics Colloquium will be held at 4:00 p.m., Room 310 West Engineering Annex. Professor R. H. Sherlock will give a talk on "Recent Studies of Wind-Gust in Relation to Strength of Structures." There will also be a discussion of recent litera- ture. All interested are cordially in- vited to attend. Law School Case Clubs: Freshmen cases will be heard at 4:10 p.m. in the following rooms in Hutchins Hall: Cooley Club, Judge Quealy, Room 218. Holmes Club, Judge Yoder, 116. Kent Club, Judge Kightlinger, 150. Mar- shall Club, Judge Barnako, 120. Story Club, Judge Quaife, 220. The case is a civil action for assault and bat- tery. Students from all department of the University are invited to attend. Other announcements will appear from time to time in the Daily Of- ficial Bulletin relative to the case club docket. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Scabbard and Blade: Rushing Smoker in Rooms 319-325 Michigan Union, Uniforms required. Active dues must be paid to be eligible to vote. Contemporary: Meeting of the business staff at 4:00 p.m., Studnet Publications Building. Tea for graduate students in Math- ematics, 4 p.m., 3201 A. H. Freshmen Girls: Mrs. F. W. Peter- son will speak to a meeting of Fresh- men girls at Lane Hall, at 4 p.m. She will describe her recent travels. This is the first of a series of discuson meetings which have been planned. Interested upper-class women will al- so be welcome. Coming Events At Stalker Hall, Friday, November 1, there will be a Hallowe'en party for Methodist students and their friends, Square dancing will be featured. Al- so there will be games and refresh- ments. A small charge will be made to cover the cost of the refreshments. Billiard Exhibition: Erwin Ru- dolph, World's Pocket Billiard Cham- pion, will give two exhibitions at the Michigan Union, Monday, November 4, from 3:00 to 5:00 in the after- noon and from 8:00 to 10:00in the evening. Admission free. All Freshmen Men Phi Eta Sigma will give a smoker for all freshmen men Monday, November 4, at 7:30, Union ballroom. President Ruthven will speak as the principal event. He will be introduced by Dean Bursley. Refreshments will be served and a good time is planned. All freshmen men are urged to attend. The Youth Movement In Italy By JONATHAN B. BINGHAM This is the first in a series of articles on Youth Movements in Europe writ- ten particularly for The Daily and the Associated Collegiate Press by Jona- than B. Bingham, chairman of the Yale Daily News, who has just returned from an extensive tour of the Con- tinent on an assignment from the New York Herald-Tribune. The Italian youth has but two ideas in mind, to become a soldier and to follow Mussolini. At least that is the case with five million boys and girls who belong to the great Fascist youth movement, the National Balilla In- stitution, for their mo{to is "Today Balillas, tomorrow soldiers, always Fascists." And there is ample evi- dence that they believe heart and soul in that motto. There is nothing spontaneous about the Italian youth movement, entire- ly imposed from above as it is, and with every other organization sup- pressed. The control is in Rome, ostensibly in an executive commit- tee, but actually in the hands of one Renato Ricci, a young man himself, who is responsible only to Mussolini. Regional and local committees carry the orders down to the individual groups of boys and girls, these being organized into boys from ten to four- teen and from fourteen to eighteen, and girls of the same ages. Although membership is not com- pulsory, the privileges which accrue to members and the social pressure brought to bear on non-members and their parents has made the growth of the organization prodigious, a mil- lion and a half in the last two years to a total of over half the youth of the country.. The Fascists claim a unit in every village, no matter how small, throughout Italy. While the girls in the movement are proud to consider themselves as mothers of future soldiers, militarism is already a reality to the boys. As the visitor is shown through a "Balilla House," or movement club-house, his youthful guides will display the great- est pride in the arsenal, a formidable array of rifles and machineguns that ment, as an essential, accepted part of his existence without which life would hardly be conceivable. The teaching of discipline and unquest- ioning obediences are an expressed purpose of the Balilla organization and contribute largely to this result. However, it cannot be denied that the young Fascists are offered num- erous advantages. Besides the li- braries and radios and occasional movies in their clubhouses, every ef- fort is made to provide equipment for sports, even in the smallest towns, where there is likely to be a combi- nation club-room and gymnasium, and some sort of athletic field. The acme of this type of develop- ment is found in the Foro Mussolini, on the banks of the Tiber near Rome, where three or four marble-lined stadia, a similar number of huge swimming pools, and gymnasiums and tennis courts galore attract hun- dreds of boys and girls every after- noon. One receives the impression, however here as in the camp present- ly to be described, that too much ef- fort was expended on the spectacular and too little on the practical, there being space for little but mass forma- tion athletics. Adjacent to the Foro Mussolini is the Accademia Fascista, the training school for leaders of the movement, organizers of sport, and camp offic- ers. They learn not only physical training and drill, but the best ways to instill the spirit of Fascism into their charges, the latter being ad- mittedly considered the most im- portant of all. Nearly all Balillas have the oppor- tunity to attend a camp for a month or so during the summer. Many of these are not dissimilar to our simple boys' camps, but the ideal towards which the state is striving is totally different. One of the best examples of this type is to be found at Ostia, where a magnificent, modernistic building, with a stream-lined tower and much chromium plate, is the "camp."