SE FOR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDA LY, NOVEMBER 15, 1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY - r - 1 -e. 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 Asodatetd (ollegiate * res _ -134( 'Ieejgt 1935e [t... . IA95W WN NtSN MEMBER OF THE~ ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press s 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 published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, 1.50. During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Represntatives: National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. - 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chiago, Ill. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR..............THOMAS H. KLEENE ASSOCIATE EDITOR .............. JOHN J. FLAHERTY ASSOCIATE EDITOR.............THOMAS E. GROEHN SPORTS EDITOR....................WILLIAM R. REED WOMEN'S EDITOR.............JOSEPHINE T. McLEAN MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDITORS. ..........DOROTHY S. GIES, JOHN C. HEALEY EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS NIGHT EDITORS: Clinton B. Conger, Richard G. Hershey, ",r a Ralph W. Hurd, Fred Warner Neal, Bernard Weissman, s Guy M. W.hipple, Jr. News Editor....... .....................Elsie A. Pierce Editorial Writers: Robert Cummins and Marshall D. Shul- man. SPORTS ASSISTANTS: George Andros, Fred Buesser, Fred Delano, Robert J. Friedman, Raymond Goodman. 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ROTHBARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ....MIARGARET COWIE WOMEN'S ADVERTISING SERVICE MANAGER . ELIZABETH SIMONDS DEPARTMENTAL MANAGERS: Local advertising, William Barndt; Service Department, Willis Tomlinson; Con- tracts, Stanley Joffe; Aceounts, 'Edward Woilgemuth; irculation and National Advertising, John Park; lassfied Advertising and Publications, Lyman Bitt- naan. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: Charles W. Barkdull, D. G. Bron- son, Lewis E. Bulkeley, Jr., Richard L. Croushore, Her- bert D. Falender, Jack R. Gustafson, Ernest A. Jones, William C. Knecht, William C. McHenry, John F. Mc- Lean. jr. Lawrence M. 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: CLINTON B. CONGER Frank J. Navin, An Appreciation..-. PERHAPS accurately or perhaps in- accurately the people who have known or have known of Frank J. Navin will re- member him primarily as a baseball man. His death has brought an end to a career which included many endeavors, yet in none did the peo- ple of Detroit and Michigan so intimately identify their hopes and interests with him as in baseball. His 30 years with the Detroit Tigers will not soon be forgotten for that reason, as well as for others. Although too wise to believe that baseball was not a business, throughout these 30 years he op- posed, more than anything else, the commercial- ization and cheapening of the game. He fought artificial and gaudy innovations. He and his players did not engage in noisy and much-pub- licized salary disputes. He was always concerned with making the Tigers a Detroit and Michigan team rather than a Navin team. It was a happy coincidence that his death did not come until after he had seen an enthusiastic fandom' applauding his first world championship club. It is superfluous to remark that both fan- dom and club, realize that they couldn't have lost a better baseball man. Heroic Words Are Uttered ... ONE OF THE MOST ACUTI$ obser- vations on social and political issues of modern times and the response of the public to those issues was made recently by Dr. Alfred Adler, noted Viennese psychologist. Commenting on the causes of war, he said, "Among the little things that start big wars are metaphors. People know more than they under- stand, and the leaders instinctively know how to arouse them. Metaphors are used to arouse. Heroic words are uttered." the day and such "ardent worshippers" of the metaphorical as Hugh Johnson and Father Cough- lin are constantly headlined in the newspapers of the nations. Father Coughlin "wins his spurs" as a "meta- phor-ist" with the phrase "money-changers in the high temples of finance." Johnson "hatches" as a champion of the metaphorical with his asso- ciations of the NRA with everything from eggs to "boondoggling" and "dead cats." And now the latest to join the "elite" of the metaphorical world is Dr. Park R. Kolbe, presi- dent of the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia, whose resolution against activities of student pacifists was recently rejected by a convention at Boston of the Association of College Deans and Presidents. Dr. Kolbe "revived" Johnson's "dead cats" and started them "pussyfooting." "We are pussy- footing," he charged in response to the defeat of his resolution, "and apparently are going to keep on pussyfooting and side-tracking this question by using questionable methods." Dr. Kolbe, in the word "pussyfoot," has given us a perfect illustration of the whole, glamorous, amusing, internally corrupt "reign" of the meta- phorical, or what Dr. Adler described as "heroic words." For what normal person can be expected to think of the terrible dangers involved in a measure which would prevent students from participating in movements for peace, who can be expected to realize that such a measure must be in effect a definite sanction of the slaughters and horrors of war --when he or she is presented with the idea of a group of dignified college presidents "pussyfooting" around an auditorium in Boston. To borrow from their own "weapons" we claim that such metaphor-izing, regardless of the worth of the issues involved, is no more nor less than a. nation-wide "bender." Everyone has a good time, but oh the headaches on the morrow. In The Name Of Art... B EAUTY OF FORM, beauty of color, beauty of line -these qualities have always been considered an important part of anything which can truly be called art. Any work which is so classified appeals to the senses, and is either sufficiently attractive or, in some few cases, repulsive, to create a lasting sensuous impression. It is difficult, then, to understand why the "im- pressionistic" paintings now being displayed in Alumni Memorial Hall by the Ann Arbor Art As- sociation are considered as even an extreme form of art. They are ugly, but not sufficiently re- pulsive to create any impression whatsoever ex- cept one of disinterest. None of the subjects treated seem to have been especially well adapted for studies of planes or masses. It is true that subject matter has been relegated to a secondary position, according to the dictates of the school, but the beauty of form which is supposed to shine through as a consequence seems to be lacking. Even the most casual observer is forced to admit that such works as Leger's "Composition With Leaf" have bright, rich colors, but the same ob- server is at a loss to see any value in the manner in which these colors have been applied. The study in its entity remains devoid of life and char- acter, and only the most affected learning will attempt to read any meaning or purpose into paintings like Picasso's "Composition." Taken as a whole, with the exception of a rather hazily-done pair of maidens by Laurencin, the paintings have no more beauty or meaning than a collection of absent-minded scribblings on a telephone pad. It is easy to fool people, easy to make them think that they are being very intelligent by appearing to understand such nonentities as impressionistic "art." But surely a moment's thought will serve to make it clear that it is not really art, that un- like the classic art so scorned by the modernists, it does not afford any pleasure to those who see it, and doing so is, after all, the basic purpose of all creative work. The Readers' Blue Pencil...0 S MOOTH FOL-DE-ROL is beginning to flow out of the pens of editorial writers with the beginning of the open season on buncombe and the national election in the offing. Leading many other newsorgans in editorial meaninglessness as in circulation is the Chicago Tribune, personal press-sheet of Col. Frank M. Knox, arch-Republican. Whistles the Chicago Tribune, in an editorial on the consequences of a recent political survey of the nation by one of their staff writers, the People of the United States are "in no mood to be regimeited politically under the influence of ancient party loyalties and time-worn slogans ... The individual is thinking as an American free man, conscious of his responsibility for the defense of his heritage and for the adoption of measures and policies conducive to the restoration of the nation's strength and progress." What clap-trap! If it were not for the insidious effect such pseudo-reasoning will have on our dear unthinking Americans, their ingenuous confusion would be funny! Continuing in the same strain (the strain is on the reader) the Tribune says that this power of independent reasoning "is a condition which every believer in our democratic society must welcome and on which the collective action of the Re- publican party must be firmly and faithfully built if it is not to insure its defeat and disintegration. The Republican convention must be composed of men who represent this spirit and will give it full play." How delightfully subtle! How very wrong, in- deed. If we are to preserve any effective individual The Conning Tower 1835 -FRESHMAN -1935 Great-grandpa came to college In eighteen thirty-five, He used a horse for haulage And tied it in the drive; There was no rush committeek Dispensing freshman caps, With "Welcome to Our City" Expressions on their maps; Alone he sought admission,t The President looked stern: "Had he enough ambition?" "Was he on fire to learn?" He'd had so few essentials- Some Tully and some Weems, But most of his credentials Were merely future dreams; A letter from his preacher Brought forth a friendly look: "This lad will make a teacher" ... He signed the college book, And paid his first tuition From hard-earned summer cash, So came the quick fruition A wish that once seemed rash; At last matriculated, Down steps he fairly ran, Picked up his trunk, elated, He was a college man! Great-grandson thumbs to college In nineteen thirty-five, But not for lack of knowledge - He's competent to drive; His advent is preceded By letters by the score, When one request is heeded, There come a dozen more For detailed information- Fill out this questionnaire About your father's station, The color of hi hair? His parents flee on binges, All creaky in the joints, On this admission hinges- Has he just fifteen points? Then come the "Welcome" letters, The Freshman Bible, too, From sophomoric betters- A most aggressive crew; A week in mid-September Is spent in varied tests: How much can he remember? Should dinner coats match vests? His I.Q., please? His mucles? His list of aptitudes? Admixed with sundry tussles With fellow-salesmen-studes; His paper-work completed, What's left is little joy, Though pretty much defeated, He is a college boy! H.A.L. The author of the preceding poem, a professor of philosophy at Union College, told college stu- dents recently that they ought to read at least one newspaper critically and thoroughly daily. "You will have to read something besides the sports pages and the movie magazines," he sad. He picked out a good day to advertise the Herald- Tribune, in whose name we thank him. Former President Hoover made an appeal to "the thinking citizens of the United States." It is a limited appeal, though there is hardly a citizen who doesn't say to himself that he is included in that select group. There are dreaming citizens, and hoping citizens, and despairing citizens; but the citizenry, the voting citizenry, cannot be ac- cused of thought. You can lead a citizen to water, but you can't make him think. There ought to be a constitutional amendment making it compulsory for a citizen to think. There should be annual inspections of every citizen's thinking engine. It would make voting simple; and thousands of unthinking citizens would get jobs as inspectors. An inspector would come to your house, say, and greet you with, "Well, what to you think, big boy?" If you couldn't tell him you'd lose the divine privilege of voting until the next inspection. The League for Less Noise is consistent, and our support now is unqualified. Its office is equipped with a Noiseless Typewriter. Doubtless the telephone bell is a necessary noise, but we wish that the League for L. N. would write a) play. In each scene there would be a telephone which never, during the course of the play, would be used. The New York Society Library, 109 University Place, lists in "New York in Fiction" George Ade's "Artie." This is as utterly Chicago as it can be, and we beseech the Library to delete it from the alleged stigma of having been written about New York. And while the Library is revising that list it should instruct its proofreader to remember that the author of "The Four Million" was not O'Henry. It is suggested by a Prudential policy holder that if the Italians seize Gibraltar a certain insurance company might have to acquire Plymouth Rock. There is one trouble about the 1939-40 World's Fair. It is likely to attract at least one of the na- tional conventions to this city. -F.P.A. Often heard around The Daily is the suggestion by faculty men that staff members some day re- turn to the University to get the education they are missing this time. Now comes the news that Mrs. Gracie Penrod Jansen, first editor of the West Texas State Teachers College newspaper A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-Pub- licity is the life-blood of politics; but too much of it at the wrong time is dangerous to those it would bene- fit. That is particularly true about aspirants for presidential nomina- tion. Unless they are prepared to launch formal campaigns, to go af- ter delegates in many states simul- taneously, a favorite son status and just enough publicity to keep them in the public eye, is the traditional strat- egy. Governor Landon of Kansas and his suporters for 1936 Republican nomination may be thinking along these lines right now. The Kansas budget-balancer has enjoyed an ex- traordinary degree of national pub- licity in the last few weeks. To the uninitiated it might appear that Washington political writers were all suddenly and simultaneously imbued with the Landon-in-'36 idea and went out to Kansas to see about it. THAT was not the case. Nothing particularly new had happened to draw so much political attention to the Kansas executive. What did happen was that a number of Wash- ington writers seized on President Roosevelt's western trip and subse- quent three weeks at sea to make political surveys. Few of them missed out on a Kansas port of call on the way back. Governor Landon met the visita- tion without falling into the tempta- tion of parading his paltform views extensively. He must have under-- stood the situation and clung to his concentration on state activities. It was quite a test for a man who prob- ably had not previously gone through any such experience. * * * * YET, any student of the Republican convention of 1920 might have forecast what Landon's attitude would be. That was the last time the party, out of power, set out to find a candidate without reference to the occupant of the White House. There were 15 candidates on the first ballot for a presidential nominee. It imediately developed that the group of "favorite sons" held a veto power over the leaders, General Wood, Low- den of Illinois and Hiram Johnson of California. It took 10 ballots and the immi- nence of a weekend recess that might have seen a great change in the per- sonnel of many delegations, to break that deadlock in favor of Harding, Ohio's favorite son. Present indica- tions are that an even wider distribu- tion of strength among a larger group of favorite sons may mark first bal- loting in the next Republican conven- tion. Landon strategy appears to be aimed at a favorite son role next year. At least, all the sudden interest in him as a potential presidential nomi- nee shown by the political writers has failed thus far to stir him out of that probable approach. There is plenty of time for a nomination drive later if the Landon idea takes hold. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1935 VOL. XLVI No. 39 Notices University Directories and Campus Telephone Directories: Copies of the University Directory have been mailed to the homes of faculty and staff members and copies of the Campus Telephone Directory have been delivered to campus offices in so far as possible. It should be under- stood that the material contained in these publications is identical. Any office or person missed in the dis- tribution may obtain their copies at the Business Office, Room 3, Uni- versity Hall. Freshmen in the College of Litera- ture, Science and the Arts who have not received their five-week progress reports may obtain them in Room 102, Mason Hall, from 8 to 12 and 1:30 to 4:30 according to the following sched- ule: Fantasie, Op. 49 Mrs. Rhead s t: t d t s Y C t Y C C Surnames beginning Monday, November 18. Surnames beginning Tuesday, November 19. Surnames beginning Wednesday, November 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. w Chopin A through G, H through 0, P 20. through Z,I THE SCREEN 1 AT THE MICHIGAN "SPECIAL AGENT" A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture star- ring Bette Davis, with George Brent, Ricardo Cortez, Jack LaRue, and Henry 0' Nell. (minus) The Davis-Brent team scores again in this, another in the series of G- man pictures which would certainly be very tiresome by now if it weren't that they haven't as yet reached the stereotyped stage. One of the things that is impres- sive is the excellent casting. Brent is very convincing as the undercover man for the department of justice who pretends to be a reporter. In this way he gains the confidence of Carston, (Cortez) who is the king of racketeers and public enemy number one. Bette Davis gets along well as the able-to-take-care-of-herself gal who has become Cartson's privatesecre- tary, though completely innocent of any crime herself. And Jack La- Rue, as one of Carston's lieutenants, does a great piece of acting when the heat is turned on him by the district attorney and the police commission- er. The former is Henry O'Neil, convincing as ever. The story opens with all the G-men being told to get Carston alive. The job is the particular assignment of Brandon (Brent) and he follows the trail through a number of unusually bloody killings, all of which are en- gineered by Carston. In between times we are shown some of the rackets which Carston heads, and also listen in on a few sessions at which he is totalling his prodigious income, on which he al- ways forgets to pay taxes. This lat- ter item irritates the treasury de- partment no end, but in the end they do the same to Carston and ship him off to Alcatraz for a 30-year vaca- tion in the Pacific. Physical Education for Women: Registration for the indoor season will take place at Barbour Gymna- sium on Friday, November 15 from 8-12 and 1-5; and Saturday, Novem- ber 16 from 8-12. Twelfth Night: There will be a spe- cial matinee performance this af- ternoon at 3:30 at the Mendelssohn Theatre at reduced prices. Perfor- mances also tonight and tomorrow night. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information re- minds all 1936 seniors, and graduate students who have not previously reg- istered, that Friday is the last day to obtain registration blanks from both teaching and general place- ment divisions. Academic Notices History 47: Midsemester, Thursday Nov. 21, 10 a.m., Sections 1 and 2, 1035, A. H.; sections 3, 4, and 5, C Haven Hall. English 89: Contrary to the an- nouncement made in class, English 89 will not meet today. Bring blue- books at the usual time Monday. J. R. Reinhard. Lectures Chemistry Lecture: Dr. L. P. Ky- rides, Director of Research at the Monsanto Chemical Company, will lecture on the topic: "Some Recent Trends in the Organic Chemical In- dustry," Friday, November 15. 4:15 p.m., Room 303 of the Chemistry Building. The lecture is under the auspices of the American Chemical Society and is open to the public. Admiral Byrd Lecture: The Story of the Second Antarctic Expedition will be presented in Hill Auditorium on Monday, at 8:15 p.m. Tickets are on sale at Wahr's State Street Book Store. Good seats are still available. Patrons are urged to secure tickets immediately and thereby avoid the usual last-minute rush. Hygiene Lectures for Women: The examination in the series of hygiene lectures for women will be given on Monday, November 18 at 4:30 p.m. The group will be divided and will re- port as follows: Students whose names begin with A through L, report to Natural Science Auditorium. Students whose names begin with M through Q, report to the East Am- phitheatre of the West Medical Build- ing. Students whose names begin with R through XYZ, report to the West Amphitheatre of the West Medical Building. A list of students who have been absent from one or more lectures is posted in Barbour Gymnasium. Since no cuts are allowed, all absences must be made up. Lecture: The Adventure of Death, by Bishop Charles Hampton, Friday, 8:00 p.m., Michigan League Chapel, under the auspices of the Ann Arbor Theosophical Society. The public is cordially invited. Concerts Faculty Concert Program. Arthur Hackett, tenor; Mabel Ross Rhead, pianist; and the School of Music Trio consisting of Wassily Besekirsky, violin; Hanns Bick, violoncello; and Joseph Brinkman, piano, will give the following program Sunday af- ternoon, November 17, at 4:15 o'clock in Hill Auditorium, to which the gen- eral public with the exception of small children, is invited without admission charge. Trio, Op. 1, No. 3 ........Beethoven Allegro con brio Andante con variazioni Menuetto Sonata in A for Violin and Piano ..Franck Allegretto ben moderato Allegro Recitativo-fantasia Allegretto poco mosso. Mr. Besekirsky and Mr. Brink- man. Exhibitions Exhibition - Architectural Build- ing; Studies and cartoons for the re- cently completed mural paintings in the central rotunda of the Los An- geles Public Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine at Redlands; the work of Dean Cornwell. Hung in the third floor exhibition room; open daily 9:00 to 5:00 except Sunday. The public is cordially invited. Exhibtion of Home Designs Archi- tectural Building: Thirty prize de- signs by American architects for homes, selected from the nation-wide competition recently conducted by the General Electric Company, are hung in the ground floor exhibition cases of the Architectural Building. Open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The public is cordially invited. Events Of Today Phi Delta Kappa meeting in Room 4007 UHS at 4:30. School of Music Seniors. The Sen- iors of the School of Music will meet for the purpose of electing officers and transacting such other business as may.be of interest at 4:00 o'clock in the School of Music Auditorium. All senior music students are urged to attend. This meeting is called in coopera- tion with the Student Council. Lutheran Student Club: The Luth- eran Student Club will have a party in Lane Hall this evening. The en- tertainment, planned by Miss Emma- Schmid, social chairman, and her committee, will begin at 9 o'clock. All Lutheran students are cordially invited. Admission 35 cents. Coming Events Graduate Outing Club will meet at Lane Hall Sunday, November 17, 12:30, for a hike to be followed by a steak dinner at the George Washing- ton Cabin. Games will be played in the afternoon. All Graduate stu- dents are cordially invited to attend. There will be a minimum charge of 35 cents for dinner. Elective Tap Dancing: A beginner's class in tap will be organized on Monday, November 18, 8 p.m., in Barbour Gymnasium. This class is open to both men and women. Lutheran Student Club: Sunday evening, November 17, Prof. Howard McClusky of the School of Educa- tion will speak to the Club. The so- cial half-hour at 5:30 will be followed by supper at 6 in the parish hall on Washington St. All Lutheran Students and their friends are invited. Dames Athletic Group meeting has been postponed fourth Friday, November 22. for a further announcement. regular to the Watch Billiard Exhibition: Ora C. Morn- ingstar, former world's champion at 18.2 Balkline Billiards will give two exhibitions at the Union next Mon- day, November 18, 3:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon and 8:00 to 10:00 in the evening. Hygiene 204: Class will meet Fri- day, 3-5 p.m. Hygiene 208: Class will meet Sat- urday 9-11 a.m. I-E Ten Years Ago From The Daily Files of November 15, 1925 Although unsuccessful in effecting her usual strong forward pass attack, Michigan battled her way to a 10-0 victory over the strong invading elev- en of Ohio State yesterday afternoon at Ferry Field. Riding, sponsored by the Women's league and the physical education department, received a stimulus this week when Guy L. Mullison, propriet- or of the riding stables on Ann Street and the fair grounds added seven horses to his sheds. The final count of a two day refer- endum by Yale undergraduates on the question of whether the existing com- pulsory attendance at university chapel should be retained or abolished showed 1,631 votes against compul- sory attendance and 241 in favor of it, a ratio of about seven to one. More than 100 guests were enter- tained at the lawyers' club over the week-end. i i