THE MICHIGXN DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 15 THE MICHIGAN DAILY to other colleges and universities to enlist their support. It is amazing that these students, who will, in the event of war be forced to leave their universities and suffer all the horrors of modern warfare, should be leaders in demanding war. In 1922, after the Versailles Treaty had taken Shantung province from Germany's control, stu- dent patriotic uprisings similar to the present ones took place when the Japanese attempted to take the province. As a result of the student move- ment, the allied powers acted to thwart the Jap- anese plans. Today a similar opportunity for united action by major powers to protect China's territorial integrity is open. The League's attitude toward the Italo-Ethiopian crisis has solidified and crys- alized its influence. The Japanese action, divorc- ing an integral portion of China from the cen- tral government's control, is unquestionably cen- surable. And, too, important financial interests of major powers are being menaced. It is a great' chance for the League to prove that its Italian action is not an isolated example of its might. r. . r: The Conning Tower I _ _I Publisned every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all newscdispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave., New York City; 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Telephone 4925 BOARD OF EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR..............THOMAS H. 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With the prospect of $200 a month it also becomes clear why anyone in the district over the age of 60 years, thinking only of himself, voted for Mr. Main in the primary and will vote for him on Dec. 17. The hope of the district and the state seems to lie in the fact that there are a great many more voters under the age of 60 years in the dis- trict than over. There also must be some in the three score category who realize the inevitable failure of the Townsend Plan. Although Repub- licans overwhelmingly outnumber Democrats in the district, it certainly will not harm the best Republican conscience to vote for Democrat Cav- anagh on Dec. 17. If the third district should send Mr. Main to Congress, no calamity will result, the Townsend Plan will not be adopted, but the State of Mich- igan will be deprived of one effective congressional representative. Our Disastrous Silver Policy. . . W HATEVER future action the gov- ernment may take (and any suc- cessful plan seems quite impossible of formation) it is putting it conservatively to say that the United States' silver-purchase policy has been disastrous. The government this week arrived at the point at which two courses were open to it: to allow the bottom to drop out of the artificial market it created and thus be left with huge quantities of silver which were purchased at the high arti- ficial prices and for which there is no market, or to buy all the silver on the market - an impos- sibility because of the huge amount being dumped the world over. The government decided upon the former, quite naturally, and as a result silver prices are falling precipitously and the London exchange is closed. The most serious harm the Silver Purchase Act has done has been in international fields. Chances for the stabilization of world currencies were dimmed as this Act drained foreign nations of gold, thus weakening their currency bases. Mexico was forced to declare an embargo on silver. China was driven from its silver standard. America's import trade in commodities has been stifled by the influx of silver and gold. Indubitably the act was passed as a piece of minority legislation. It was to boost the profits of Western silver miners. It may have succeeded in that, but it has also succeeded in making clear the dangers of minority legislation for political' reasons. A New Chance For The League . . LAST SPRING almost 150,000 stu- dents throughout the United States 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 importice and interest to the campus. Signs Of Age . . To the Editor: It is common knowledge that the English Uni- versities of Oxford and of Cambridge proudly trace their origins to the second decade of the thirteenth century. We of the University of Mich- igan, also, have in our institution some evidences of venerable age, running back to some hoary origin. I refer to the chairs in the carrells provided for Graduate students in research in the Main Library. Just why these ancient chairs are allowed to re- main in use, chairs so rickety, noisy and ill- shaped for the health and comfort of users, is a mystery -sometimes pious, more often risible or imprecational - to me. It would seem fitting carefully to remove them to a museum. Can it be that for the study of Plato and Saint Augus- tine these chairs, produced by their contemporaries in furniture making, are considered better? If so, the intent is lost on me and other graduate students I know. They do not help to imbue me with either the Platonic spirit or the spirit of the Confessions or of The City of God. And waste baskets in the carrells. Not half the carrells have receptacles for waste paper. I spoke to a janitor about it, and he said he had been asking for waste baskets these last six years. I do not want to be thought unappreciative of the library facilities - though, as the letter to the Daily the other day noted, some types of recent books are often not to be found listed in the card catalog. The Library is very good in the services given us by its working force and in its accommodations, with certain small exceptions such as I have noted. Indeed, it is partly be- cause in general it is so good that the rickety 'chairs and lack of waste baskets are anomalous features. Will not some good Rackham or Cook lend a considerate ear to this complaint? -Elmer Akers. Not So Quiet... To. the Editor: It must have been terribly discouraging to Dr. Onderdonk, as it was to a few persons who were present at the showing of "All Quiet on the West- ern Front," to observe the way in which the stu- dents behaved during the performance. Perhaps he has become used to the almost unbelievable discourtesy habitually displayed on such occasions, but he must have been disappointed to note that the audience apparently missed the whole idea of the movie. This movie was shown in order to portray clearly the horror and uselessness of war, and to enlist the services and feelings of those who saw it in the cause of peace. The students, however, behaved as if they were attending a free show after a football game. The most piteous and hor- rible scenes were greeted with laughter, cat calls, and the usual accompaniment of disgusting re- marks which were intended to be humorous. When Dr. Onderdonk spoke a few words in favor of the League of Nations, he was roundly booed and hissed. In these times of unrest, when another war seems imminent, it is shocking and deplorable to see the students at a so-called higher institution of learning treat such a grave problem so lightly. Moreover, it seems unbelievable that they cannot understand that in the very near future their own lives may be blasted by a war even more horrible than the last one. -Richard Corey. Personal Note My Dear Mr. Slipstick: Reading your letter in yesterday's Daily re- minded me that the world is still full of fault finders and introverts. Your letter shows a clear lack of understanding of the purpose of the Engineering Ball and a narrow viewpoint on life. The Engineering Ball was sponsored by the Engineering Council because they felt that there was a need for a social function in the fall, where the Engineers could go, dance in the company of class friends and have a good time as a group. If you could not afford a $1.50 dance, there is no reason why you should cry about it and feel sorry for yourself. There were about 300 who did go. and who did have a good time. Rime In Season I ADMONITION What bird would linger in the stricken wood, To know the weight of rime upon her wing, Remembering long how here the summer stood, A while ago, with much for cherishing - And sadden thus her heart with counting, now, The few last leaves until the last shall fall, And let the sky in between bough and bough, To find her there without a roof or wall? . Nay, let the heart be winter for a season, With no remembering bird to feel the cold Of rime or rain or the bleak face of treason . . The year is old, the heart and all are old - Expel the bird that bears within her breast The shivered dream that will not let you rest. II FLOWER OF WINTER Smoke on the field will be the wandering flower In this unfiowering season when all blooms Whose measure was the brightness of an hour Turn bck to earth's anonymous dusty dooms; And only this that has no certain root, Whose breath is acrid and whose end is air, Escapes the tarnished ruin and the boot Set carelessly down on what had wanted care. Beyond all harm that aught of earth could give, And never to be gathered in the hand, Here is a flower has found a way to live Beyond the ruinous season of this land - Above the frail bones strewn in mortal death, It wanders free in this re-flowering breath. III WINTER NIGHT Men lighting early fires against the chill, And listening, half-attentive, how the night Is alternately troubled and fallen still From a leaf shaken in the starry light, Will stare into their grates and see no flame, Will give remote replies when spoken to, Beng subject, now, to nothing they could name, In worlds that other lights are falling through - Being watchers by a wood or on a mound, With eyes for starshine in the shivered trees, And ears for something that is less than sound In the wide hush that holds such nights as these. Only the body settles in the chair And seems at home . . . the man is never there. DAVID MORTON It seems to us that Mr. Thomas Wolfe should take dialect lessons. He might read the works of the late Ring Lardner, who made no errors in transcribing the way his characters talked. He might take lessons from Ernest Hemingway and Arthur Kober, to name two excellent writers of speech. Mr. Wolfe writes "duh," which irri- tates us almost as much as "sez" for "says." F.P.A. Praises Boillebaise Made This Way. - World-Telegram. But not spelled that way. The story says that our praise was given to Montague Glass's recipe for boullebaise, which he contributed to "The Stag Cook Book." It was bestowed for the end of his long recipe, which was "God, but I'm hungry!" ... the strange virgin queen, whom he thinks wasn't virginal. - Genet in the New Yorker. Whom is reading proof for the New Yorker? DELLEVILLE IS DIFFERENT DELLEVILLE could have a band, of course, like any other town, but that isn't Delleville's way. Instead,'we have a Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra plays three concerts in the Opera House every year. Some of the audience wear evening dress, just as in the big cities. The orches- tra, naturally, is in full evening dress. Mr. Russell, our leading clothier, is a strong rooter for the orchestra. He says he sells enough white neckties alone to repay his annual sub- scription several times over. The orchestra's conductor, our local music teacher, who once played in the Cincinnati Sym- phony Orchestra, knows Kreisler personally. He often tells his pupils, all of whom, of course, play in the orchestra, he never would have got any- where if it hadn't been for his friendship with Kreisler, or The Maestro, as he calls him. While the orchestra could give a complete pro- gram from its own repertory, including such diffi- cult works as "Pomp and Circumstance," "Gems from the Operas" and "Valse Triste," it usually is assisted by a guest artist from New York. These guest artists almost always declare our orchestra plays every bit as well as any in the big cities. The members practice twice a week in the Odd Fellows' Hall for three months preceding the con- certs. The High School senior girls conduct a campaign to sell tickets and the Opera House always is crowded. As Mr. Russell says, everybody feels he should support an organization which gives the community such fine advertising. While we all just love classical music, there is a universal buzz of approval and tapping of feet when the conductor, smiling indulgently, waves his baton and looses the orchestra upon a popular number like "Poor Butterfly." Everybody feels then the program is just nicely balanced between classical numbers for the high brows and popular selections for the average subscriber. We have a regular patron of the arts, too. Mr. Tyson always has a party in his huge Colonial house after the concerts. The conductor and all the musicians, and sometimes the visiting artists, are there. Of course, the parties are awfully Bohemian, and once the artist and the local pianist sat right on the floor in front of every- body, the way they do in Greenwich Village, and A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON- The industrialist author of the "Let's gang-up" cry against the New Deal may have thought better of it and retracted; but the National Association of Man- ufacturers, meeting in a "Congress of Business" in New York, certainly. sounded the same note. The speakers at that convention. were just as blunt, despite more po- lite language. Their demands ranged from complete "liquidation" of the New Deal proposed by Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, to the call for formation of a virtual big-business political party by President Clinton L. Bardo and others. "Whether we like it or not, in-I dustry, much against its will, has been forced in sheer self-defense to enter the political arena or be de- stroyed as a private enterprise," Bar- do said. - * "INDUSTRY has not entered par- tisan politics but it is attacking the issues presented by fantastic pol- icies threatening the American in- dustrial system," said Robert L. Lund, chairman of the association board. General Counsel James A. Emery referred sharply to "the alien and revolutionary theories lying at the foundation of the present and pro- posed policy of the administration." "It is our obligation to contribute to a clear understanding of the dead- ly nature of these enemies of our eco- nomic and political progress," he said. There seemed to be a sustained and cumulative anti-New Deal campaign. The speeches had been prepared in advance, which suggests a definite organizational move is in prospect. Published excerpts indicated a cam- paign of popular "education" against New Dealism in general. BRUCE BARTON stated the case concretely: "My suggestion is that we stay away from Washington and attend to our business,' he said. "Why should we bother so much about the servants of the people when we can talk to the people themselves?" All this in spite of Secretary Ro- per's unflagging efforts at business- New Deal conciliation. Not even his elaboration of the presidential "breathing spell" into a completion of the administration's reformr mea- sures seems to have won that much- sought "confidence" in Roosevelt pur- poses. Some hint that the President was irked by this attitude toward him and his policies in busines circles, was discernible in his Atlanta speech. His gibe about gentlemen in well-warmed and well-stocked clubs pointed that way. There seems little likelihood that the belligerent "anti-New Deal" tone of the business congress will change administration plans. Other rea- sons of a practical political nature urge toward a short routine session. ::MUSIC : By MARY JANE CLARK No matter what great artist in any field comes to Ann Arbor in the Choral Union Concert Series -and there are many -somehow or other that program given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra always seems to mark the climax of the season. Probably the eminence of this organi- zation can be traced to two causes: first, the age of the orchestra and the length of service of most of its mem- bers and, secondly, its very gifted and great conductor, Dr. Serge Kousse- vitzky. Last night's was a program of marked contrasts: the supreme class- icism of the Handel Concerto in F Major and the more dissonant work of the modern, Maurice Ravel. In all Handeliana there can be no more typical work of that composer than this Concerto. There is always a feeling of definite tonality and decid- ed cadences in this and his other works, and the unusual is obtained in the antiphonal use of the two oboes, the soli played so ably by Messrs. Gillet and Devergie. This month the great orchestras throughout the world are honoring the birthday of Jean Sibelius and this orchestra's tribute to the composer was the performance of his Pohjola's Daughter, another of the Sibelius works based on the Finnish epic poem, the Kalevala. It is an ex- quisite work from the point of view of orchestral colors: darkly colored instrtments plead the hero's cause which is mocked and taunted by woodwind badinage and the spar- kling, crystalline flux of the harps. Many programs have been con- ceived to fit Ravel's La Valse, but with any great or near great piece of pro- gramme music, the printed words neither help nor hinder it and not only one story will fit but as many stories as there are ears to hear the work. For this very reason, La Valse is extremely stimulating to the think- THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 1935 t VOL. XLVI No. 611 Notices Attention of All Concerned, and Particularly Those Having Offices in Haven Hall or the Western Portion of the Natural Science Building, is calledf to the fact that parking cars in the driveway between these two buildingsI is at all times inconvenient to other users of the drive and sometimes re- sults in positive danger to otherddri- vers and to pedestrians on the diag- onal and other walks. You are re- spectfully asked not to park there and of members of your family call for you, especially at noon when traffic both on wheels and on foot is heavy, it is especially urged that the car wait for you in the parking space adjacent to the north door of University Hall. Waiting in the drive- way blocks traffic and involves con- fusion, inconvenience, and actual danger just as much as when a person is sitting in a car as if the car is parked emptly. University Senate Committee On Parking. Intramural Basketball Games start this week. Games will be played at 4:20 and 5:00 in Barbour Gymnasium on Thursday and Friday. Come out and suport your house or zone. If you don't know which zone you are in, come out and we will tell you. Badminton, Women Students: The ladder tournament for women has been posted on the board at Barbour Gymnasium. Players are asked to play off the first match as soon as7 possible. A medical certificate for 1935 is essential. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received announcement of the Detroit Civil Service examinations for Senior Architectural Draftsman, esti- mated salary, $2640 per year; and Playleader (Male and Female), for summer employment only, estimated minimum salary, $4.20 per day. Ap- plicants must be residents of the City of Detroit. For further information concerning these examinations call at 201 Mason Hall, office hours 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 4:00. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received announcement of United States Civil Service Examinations fort Senior Chemist (Distillation), salary $4,600 a year, Associate, Assistant, and welding engineer, Navy Depart-'1 ment, salary $2,600 to $3,800, Senior Animal Husbandman (Genetics), Bu- reau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, salary $4,600, and So- cial worker (psychiatric) and Junior, social worker, United States Veter- ans' Administration, salary $1,800 to $2,000. For further information call at 201 Mason Hall, office hours 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 4:00. Academic Notices Economics 51: Rooms for the ex- amination on Thursday at 2 p.m. fol- lows: 25 A.H., Mrs. Miller's and Mr. Hebbard's sections. 1035 A.H., Mr. Wier's sections. 231 A.H., Mr. Anderson'ssections. 103 R.L., Mr. Church's sections. N.S. Aud., Messrs. Donhof's and French's sections. Lectures Emil Ludwig Lecture: This lecture will be presented tonight at 8:15 in Hill Auditorium. Tickets will be on sale at Wahr's Book Store until 5:30 p.m. The Hill Auditorium box office will be open from 5:30 until the time of the lecture. Exhibitions Architectural Building Exhibition: A group of pencil drawings by David Fredenthal is now on view in the ground floor corridor of the Archi- tectural Building. Open daily from Chinese Graduates To Design Museu The College of Architecture has re- ceived word that three of its former students, Gin Djih Su, '30, Wai P. Lei, '32, and Jenken Yang, '32, are to design the Central Museum at Shanghai, it was announced by Prof. Emil Lorch, director. They were selected on the basis' of a competition among Chinese ar- chitects. The building is to cost one and one-half million dollars. Wing Gee Chan, '26, received honorable mention in the competition. "Chinese architecture is of par- ticular interest because it shows an old culture modifying its form of liv- ing, with an effort to retain some- thing of the old architectural tradi- tion while using new materials of con- struction and modern building equip- ment," Professor Lorch commented. the debut for the Hero and his Com- panion. Like another famous love duet, that of Tristan and Isolde, it 9:00 to 5:00 through Dec. 21. The public is cordially invited. Events Of Today Psychology Journal Club meets in Room 3126 N.S., 7:30 p.m. Recent re- search on differential test scores be- tween psychotic, feeble-minded, and normal subjects will be reviewed by Miss Horr, Miss Ban de Vort, Miss Fiske, and Mr. Alexander. Applied Mechanics Colloquium: Prof. W. E. Lay, "Some Questions in Automotive Engineering." Review of Literature. Meeting will be held in Room 314 West Engineering Annex at 4:00 p.m. All interested are cor- dially invited to attend. Junior Mathematical Society meets in Room 3202 A.H., 8 p.m. Mr. E. G. Begle will talk about "A Figure Con- gruent to a Part of Itself." Refresh- ments will be served. Engineering Council meeting at 8:00 p.m. in the M.E. computing room, West Eng. Bldg. All members please be present. Bocational Guidance Group meets at 7:15 p.m., Room 205 Mason Hall. Miss Muxen will be in charge. Varsity Glee Club: Important short rehearsal at 7 p.m. Cercle Francais: After a short busi- ness meeting, the Cercle will have its annual Christmas party, at 7:45 in the League. Weekly Reading Hour: Professor Louis M. Eich will read Henry van Dyke's "The Story of The Other Wise Man" at 4 o'clock, Room 205 Mason Hall. The public is cordially invited, Tea for graduate students in Math- ematics, 4 p.m., 3201 AH, Radio Club: Short meeting at 7:30 p.m., Room 304 Union. The club will visit the Detroit Edison 132,000 V. station and radio transmitter after the meeting. Contemporary: Important meeting of the entire business staff at 5:00 in the Student Publications Building. Assembly meeting at 4:15 in the League. The room will be posted. Advanced Fencers: Class with Dr. May at 4:15 prompt. Report prop- erly dressed in the basement room of Barbour Gym. An unexcused absence will mean you will be dropped from the class. Hillel Foundation: Dr. Hootkins' class in Jewish Ethics will meet at the Foundation on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. All interested are welcome. Hillel Foundation: Tea-Dance sponsored by the Hillel Student Coun- cil will be held this afternoon, 4-6. Michigan Dames Book Group meets at the League at 8 o'clock. Coming Events Aero Division of the A.S.M.E. will make an inspection trip to the Stin- son Airplane Co. on Saturday morn- ing, Dec. 14. Everyone must have a ticket which are available in the Aero Student Association office until Fri- day noon. English Journal Club will meet Fri- day, Dec. 13, at 4:00 in the League. The program, open to the public at 4:15, will consist of a paper by Jona- than H. Kistler on the subject, "Re cent Studies in the Renaissance," to be followed by general discussion. Phi Lambda Upsilon: The annual smoker will be held Friday evening at 7:30, in Room 3201 (Seminar Room) East Engineering Building. Phi Eta Sigma Initiates: Due to the fact that both previous notices were erroneously printed we now are ad- vising you that the initiation and dinner will definitely be held in the Union on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 5:30 p.m. Phi Kappa Phi: dinner meeting and initiation at the Michigan League at 6:30, on the evening of Monday, Dec. 16. Professor Aiton will speak on "Sidelights of Eighteenth Century Diplomacy." Members may secure reservations from the secretary, 308 Engineering Annex, phone Campus 649. Beta KappaRho: All members of Beta Kappa Rho are reminded of the Christmas Party Saturday, Dec. 14, at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Franklin Shull, 431 Highland Road. Graduate Outing Club will have its annual Christmas Party and Chick- en dinner, Saturday, Dec. 14, at Camp Newkirk near Dexter. Transporta- tion will be provided starting from Lane Hall at 3:00 Saturday. All Graduate students are cordially in- vited to attend. The cost of dinner and transportation will be approxi- mately .60 cents. If> possible please make reservations with a club officer 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. I