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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935
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NIGHT EDITOR: ELSIE A. PIERCE
The NYA
age Cut..
T HE ACTION of the student em-
ployment relief committee in cut-
ting the wages of more than 300 National Youth
Administration workers on the campus was re-
grettable but, we feel, necessary.
When there are more than 50 students in the
University who stand to lose their education, it is
only proper that the burden should be distributed
among those fortunate enough to have obtained
employment through the NYA. The students
whose wages were reduced need have no great
cause for worry. The committee has indicated
that it will ease the wage reduction in cases where
it can be established that it will work no definite
hardship.
The whole trouble is that there is just not
enough money to go around. The frankness of
Professor Gram in laying his cards openly on the
table is admirable. We agree with him that it is
the best thing to do. and that the students will
cooperate. Surely here can be no student who
would accept money under such conditions if he
could possibly do without it when it would work
a much greater hardship upon another student
even to the extent of depriving that student of
his college education.
The committee believes that many NYA stu-
dents can well afford the cut because of improved
economic conditions over the country as a whole.
It is true that business conditions have definitely
improved, and that as a result many students are
now in a position to receive financial aid from
home which they could not have before.
In this regard, however, we feel that a word of
caution is necessary. Danger lies in the belief
that the average NYA student can receive any
great amount of financial assistance from his
family. The upturn in economic conditions has
not as yet affected the average family which
had the props knocked completely from beneath
it by the depression. And while in this case,
a $3 reduction is small, the tendency toward wage
reductions on this theory should be avoided.
In a statement published in The Daily, Mr.
Burke, attorney for the University, offers a set
of dogmatic propositions giving one side of the
expulsion case.
In the interest of fair play it seems useful to
present a different attitude.
Mr. Burke asks whether the University author-
ities shall be compelled to accept as a student
''one whose attitudes causes them to feel that his
attendance would not be for the welfare of the
University." He goes on to say "in matters of this
kind, the opinions of the officers of. the University
must govern."
This sounds reasonable. Then Mr. Burke says:
"the issue of freedom of speech or freedom of
legitimate action is not involved."
Well! This is precisely the question; it is be-
cause this issue does seem involved that many of
us feel that the opinions of the officers should
not govern in this case.
How can we believe that free speech and free
assembly are not concerned when we find that the
students who, during the last year, insisted most
strongly upon these rights were refused readmis-
sion? When, although Mr. Burke says they were
given "every opportunity to state their case" they
were firmly, repeatedly, and finally, refused a
hearing before a faculty committee? When, al-
though Mr. Burke charges that "their actions
and statements have made it clear that they have
no intention of conducting themselves as orderly
citizens" the Administration has been unwilling
or unable to tell anyone except private friends
what these actions and statements were?
How shall we regard these matters? And what
shall we think of Mr. Burke's remarks about "small
groups concerned with matters of personal vanity
and a desire to obtain some inexpensive pub-
licity"?
I think we must entertain a serious question
as to the sincerity of Mr. Burke and the excel-
lence of his cause. How, with such a question in
mind, we can refrain from further action, is some-
thing I should like to have explained by those who
entertain the question and do refrain.
-F. Brandeis, Grad.
Boy Answers Girl...
To the Editor:i
Below I have jotted down a few points in
answer to the letter in Wednesday's Daily, signed
"A Girl,"
1. In any community, its social pleasures con-
stitute an integral, and it is usually believed a vital
part of the activities of its inhabitants. The
student community in the Universiy is no excep-
tion to that'rule.
2. Newspapers are also integral and vital insti-
tutions in a community.
3. The newspaper exists for two reasons: to
educate, to inform, and equally important, to en-
tertain.
4. A society or women's page of a newspaper
is both informing and entertaining. Every reason
"A Girl" who scored The Daily's women's page
so roundly (referring to it as a "woman's page")
likes to see his or her name in print. If a news-
paper did not print names it would not only cease
to inform and entertain, but it would cease to
exist.
5. The Women's Page is a vital and a necessary
part of a newspaper. Until we condemn all social
entertainment, outlaw dances and ban afternoon
teas as "superficial and trivial" and unnecessary,
the society page serves its function.
6. The "discussion of present day problems"
is a topic adequately handled in two places in The
Daily-on its editorial page and in its Forum.
A serious and intelligent presentation of the day's
news may be found elsewhere in The Daily.
a. Maybe "A Girl' felt a little slighted at
not seeing her name on the "woman's page."
-A Boy.
Neutrality,. .
To the Editor:
According to a communication in The Daily
of Dec. 8, 1935, our not putting an embargo on
oil constitutes neutrality.
As I understand it, strict neutrality means that
we furnish no commodities of any kind to either
belligerent. If, however, for some reason or other,
our government should decide to supply both bel-
ligerets with such commodities, the result would
be decidedly in favor of Italy since that country
possesses tanks and aeroplanes from which oil is
indispensable, whereas Ethiopia has neither aero-
planes nor tanks. By furnishing oil to Italy we
would play into the hands of the war profiteers;
we would also prolong the war and we would prac-
tically help Mussolini win his shameful war. As
was stated somewhere we would be in the unen-
viable position of being responsible for supplying
Mussolini's aeroplanes and tanks with fuel for
the bombardment of Ethiopian villages, killing
civilians, men, women, and children.
What the writer says about England is true.
However, it happens that England's action, even
if selfish, coincides with an attempt of some 50
nations (members of the League of Nations) to
curb an aggressor by means of sanctions. Con-
sidered in this light, it seems to me that England
is rendering a great service to the world. As for
the United States, the best way to avoid entangle-
ment with the European muddle is to be strictly
It seems to us that it is the business of the
sport pages to discuss the Hoeppel case. It is
charged that Representative John W. Hoeppel,
of California and his son, Charles J. Hoeppel,
conspired to offer James W. Ives an appointment
to the United States Military Academy for $1,000.
Ives was a football player, and the idea, accord-
ing to Major General Samuel T. Ansell (ret.),
was that he was going to West Point to help
out the team. Though the stories don't say
whether he got the appointment, our inference
is that he did not, because the alleged transac-
tion was allegedly made last month, allegedly
known as November. (Thirty-two years on a
tight-rope over a volcano, gentlemen, and never
a libel suit.) What interests us is the question
of whether he would have gone to the Point
and receiving the appointment, whether he'd
have made the team.
The Hoeppel's attorney, General Ansell, said
that his client had been in the regular army for
more than thirty years, was acquainted with
army officers who desired the appointment of
Ives and had indorsed the appointment for that
reason. Well, we'd like to see some of those army
officers on the witness stand, and tell why they
should be different from the alumni of other in-
stitutions who cajole, one way or another, boys
of physical prowess to attend the college that
nourished aforesaid alumni.
A boz on the bean for that King of all Yaps:
The guy that invented the way they fold maps.
BARON IRELAND
Perhaps Mr. Lawrence Gilman should dine and
dance at the Special Holland Inn, 202 Ninth
Avenue, where, according to the announcement,
"even the musicians play the most wonderful
music."
BOOK REVIEW
Take the word of the undersigned mick,
"Mrs. Astor's Horse" packs quite a kick.
FRANK SULLIVAN
It is Harry Hopkins boast that he
has brought new hope to New York's
Greenwich Village. - Greensboro,
N. C., Daily News.
Wish he'd tear down the Sixth Avenue etaoin-
shrdlu.
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH
The cloth of courage is the coat of war,
Bright armor buckled, the lace that cannot fall,
The unforgiving sword, the fist of mail,
Head of Napoleon, heart of Louis dor.
So rides the knight without reproach, and pure,
Crying his ensign in the thickest hail,
Trooping with banners home, to grace the tale
Of mellowed sage and ancient troubador.
By what name then is courage called, whose dress
Is but a silly girdle for the loins,
Defies Goliath to his own distress,
And fights when death is feeding at his groins;
A wounded David with defeated sling
Returned to tend his gentle flocks, and sing!
G.A
There was organized in 1870 the Pleasant Val-
ley Horse Thieves Association, formed for the
prosecution of horse thieves. And a week ago
Monday night it disbanded. There are, obviously,
no more horse thieves. "A few years ago,' says
the Hudson N.Y., Dispatch, "it stepped beyond
the scope implied by its name and recovered a
stolen automobile."
. the Lord Chancellor in 'The Gondoliers.'-
Samuel Chotzinoff in the Stage.
And, oh, what fun it is to scoff
At a far from infallible Chotzinoff!
Or:
I wept a Grand Inquisitor's tear -
That Chotzinoff had perished.
The disbanding of the association should have
cosmic significance. If there were no greed and
no intolerance, known in some sections as pa-
triotism, there would have to be disbanded the
Land and Water Thieves Association, known in
some narts of the world a armiesannd avie.
The Conning Tower
Night Over the Hospital
Within four walls of room
The night comes dark enough;
But candles will not snuff :
They light the outer gloom.
Beside, the day is gone,
As thought succeeded sight;
But there's the river bright
Until tomorrow's dawn.
Lights up, my soul! This play
Of medicine on mind,
On body well confined,
Has something still to say:
Star leads to other star,
Man's flight on earth is fast;
His future tames the past,
Peace links him war to war.
How like a star himself:
His candle-powered suns
And he burn all at once!
But slide him on the shelf,
Unscrew his works, and then,
His mind at last relaxed,
His body undertaxed,
Time stands nor tells him when.
DAVID McCORD
A Washington
BYSTANDER
By KIRKE SIMPSON
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 12. - Within
recent memory, proposing to take
a Democratic national convention to
Philadelphia would have sounded as
utterly foolish in political ears as
would Republican selection of Atlanta
or Memphis or Richmond or any
other city of the solid south for sim-
ilar honors. That Senator Joe Guf-
fey's Philadelphia proposal now
should tinkle pleasantly in some Dem-
ocratic ears is a sign of the strange
political times.
Yet, something akin to the Phila-
delphia idea was circulating among
Democratic national headquarters at-
taches long before the last elections
so sharply emphasized party possibili-
ties for '36 in the big city vote in the
east. To many such, Atlantic City
loomed as a convenient 1936 conven-
tion center. Whatever effect in the
way of stimulating nearby party ac-
tivity a national convention has,
would eddy from the boardwalk not
into the city alone, but throughout
the whole mass population area of the
eastern seaboard - the New York-
New Jersey-Pennsylvania triangle.
Almost a fifth of the total electoral
vote is cast by those states.
* * * *
THE idea, as these Democratic ex-'
pressed it, was that the New York
and New Jersey big-city vote -Phil-
adelphia had not yet entered the
equation - was worth driving for
even if the main battle ground of the
election was to be in the midwest.
The showing made by the party in the
election last November in all of these
big city areas including Philadelphia
has served to increase that feeling at
party headquarters.
Thus, the Guffey idea of going
whole-hog about the business of raid-
ing Republican eastern preserves and
taking the convention itself to that
heretofore impregnable Republican
stronghold, the city of brotherly love,
fell on receptive ears.
THE whisper that lent wings to the
rumor of a Democratic convention
migration to Philadelphia, however,
was that President Roosevelt himself
had harkened receptively to the sug-
gestion. Short of insurmountable
financial obstacles for the party, his
will in the matter of selecting the
convention city next month would no,
doubt have its way.
Exactly what is in the President's
mind on the point still is unknown.
In view of the nature of his Atlanta
speech, however, it is a reasonable
guess that he was in a mood to look
with favor on anything savoring of
an offensive move against his ultra-
conservative critics in the east. Car-
rying the war right to their front
door by staging hishown renomina-
tion convention right in their own
yard would have that look to it. And
the presidential crack about well-
warmed gentlemen in well-stocked
clubs displays that mood.
There is another side to it. A Dem-
ocratic attack in the east probably
would mean a Republican election ex-
penditures concentration there to
meet it. If the Democrats are as sure
of the west as they profess to be, that
might be good strategy.
THE SCREEN
AT THE MICHIGAN
"SHOW THEM NO MERCY"
A 20th Century Production starring
Rochelle Hudson, with Cesar Romero,
Bruce Cabot, Edward Iorris, Warren
Hymer, and Edward Brophy.
The G-men are back again in an-
other good show and this time they
have a posse of 500 men with them to
round up the "snatchers" who
achieved the perfect crime - almost.
Rochelle Hudson, as the wife of Ed-
ward Norris, gives a fine performance
that further bears out her early
promise as one of the A-1 actresses
to be. Her baby also is quite a show-
man and, to borrow a phrase from
Jack Benny, Bruce Cabot, in his
gangster part, is such a big rat he
could wear a saddle.
The story opens just as $200,000
ransom is being paid to four gang-
sters, headed by Chief Cesar Romero,
for the return of a child they have
kidnaped. The crooks hurry to their
hideout, where they find Hudson,
Norris, and child have taken refuge
from a storm. And, since they im-
mediately guess the truth, they are
held prisoner while Norris is forced
to cash some of the money to see if,
it's marked. At first they thinkall
is well, but it turns out that the G-
men have fixed the serial numbers
and so the tension grows.
As they become more jittery, all the
kidnapers execpt Romero try to leave
the country, but two are killed and
the third, Cabot, drags himself back
to the hideout. There he shoots
Romero and is about todo the same
to the innocent couple when they turn
the tables on him, as well as a sub-
machine gun. The latter shot is one
FRIDAY, DEC. 13, 1935
VOL. XLVI No. 62
Notices
Hillel Foundation: Dr. Heller will
conduct Traditional' Friday night
Services. Dr. Heller will speak on
"When Jew Met Greek" continuing
his fifth lecture in the series "Dra-
matic Moments in the History of
Judaism."
To Students Having Library Books
1. Students having in their pos-
session books drawn from the Uni-
versity Library are notified that such
books are due Monday, Dec. 16, be-
fore the impending Christmas vaca-
tion, in pursuance of the University
regulation:
"Students who leave Ann Arbor for
more than a week must first return
all borrowed books."
Books needed between Dec. 16 and
the beginning of vacation may be re-
tained upon application at the charg-
ing desk.
2. Failure to return books before
the, vacation will render the student
liable to an extra fine.
3. Students remaining in town may
charge and renew books for seven-
day periods beginning Dec. 16.
4. Students leaving town who have
urgent need for books during the va-
cation period will be given permission
to take such books with them, pro-
vided they are not in general de-
mand, on application at the office of
the Superintendent of Circulation.
Wm. W. Bishop, Librarian.
Badminton: The draw of the lad-
der tournament has been posted on
the Barbour Gymnasium board. Play-
ers are asked to arrange their matches
as soon as possible. A medical cer-l
tificate for 1935 is essential.
The University Bureau of Appoint-
[ . : ART. j
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.
"Battle of
laration of
Bunker Hill" and "Dec-
Independence," painted
1
by John Trumbull, were discussed
recently in a continuation of thea
Art series being conducted over the
University Broadcast Service
Briefly summarizing the life of theI
Revolutionary artist, Adele Adams
and Marie Abbot, '35, referred to him
as an infant prodigy of learning, who
was qualified to enter college at
12. Although he always wanted
to be a painter his father, the gover-
nor of Connecticut, opposed this
strenuously. After graduating from
Harvard in 1773, John Trumbull took
first a position as a schoolmaster, butK
when war was declared, he joined.
Having attained the rank of colonel,
Trumbull, because of a slight error
in the date of his commission, dis-
played his customary irritability and
resigned.
"He followed his real desire which
was to study painting," Miss Adams
commented, but his paintings were
not accepted until he took them to
Paris, where he was widely acclaimed.
From there he traveled to England,
where he remained for some time, re-
turning later in his life to the liber-
ated colonies, where he remained.
"Trumbull developed an original
style early in his career. Instead of
using the large canvases generally
adopted for historical subjects, he
worked on a small scale which de-
manded different technique," Miss
Adams commented. The execution
had a miniature-like delicacy and
brilliance. In composition, drawing
and color they are equally excellent.1
"The Battle of Bunker Hill" repre-
sents the moment when the British
had completely overcome the Ameri-
cans -the very last moment when
General Warren fell with a musket-
ball in his brain. Although Trum-
bull was not present at the battle, he
visited the battlefield afterwards and
made sketches of it, Miss Adams con-
tinued. The setting, as well as the
various uniforms and accessories, are
drawn accurately.
"The composition of the painting
is skillful, the lines sweeping across
the canvas in such a way that they
suggest the confusion and tumult of
battle," Miss Adams added. "The
color is good though probably time
has toned down the various hues."
Its historical accuracy is matched by
the technical skill of its execution,
and what is even more important, it
seems to be the impression of an eye
witness, she said.
"The Declaration of Independence"
has been critized, she asserted, be-
cause Trumbull has included men
who were not present on the occasion
of the signing of the bill and ex-
cluded others who were. Trumbull's
purpose, she explained, was to pre-
serve the resemblance only of the men
who were the authors of this mem-
orable act. Moreover, he excluded
those of whom he could not get por-
traits.
He has dressed 48 men who were
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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 fuither 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 for
Senior Chemist (Distillation), salary
$4,600 a year, Associate, Assistant,
and welding engineer, Navy Depart-
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.
The Varsity Band will play at the
football game between the Detroit
Lions and the N. Y. Giants Sunday
afternoon, Dec. 15. All members of
the marching band that have not reg-
istered call Mr. Reveili, 5097.
Lectures
Religion In A Changing World will
be the theme of a public lecture by
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Litt.D. of
Cleveland at the Michigan Union
Ballroom Sunday, 8 p.m. Auspices
of Religious Education Committee
and Hillel Foundation.
Events Of Today
English Journal Club meets at 4:00
in the League. The program, open
to the public at 4:15, will consist of
a paper by Jonathan H. Kistler on the
subject, "Recent Studies in the Ren-
aissance," to be followed by general
discussion.
Delta Epsilon Pi meeting at the
Michigan Union, 8 p.m. sharp. All
members are urged to be present.
Important meeting.
Michigan Dames Athletic Group
meeting at 8:30 in the basement of
the Women's Athletic Bldg. on For-
est Ave.
Westminster Guild will hold its
Christmas Party tonight at the Ma-
sonic Temple. There will be games
and other entertainment. The ad-
mission at the door will be 15c. All
Presbyterian students are invited to
attend. Time 9:00 p.m.
Stalker Hall: Christmas Party, 8:30
p.m. All Methodist students and
their friends are invited. Games and
singing will be featured. A small
charge will be made to cover the
cost of the refreshments.
Coming Events
Graduate Students in Education:
There will be a meeting of the Grad-
uate Education Club on Monday, Dec.
16, 4 p.m., Elementary School Li-
brary. Dr. Mowat G. Fraser will
speak on the subject, "My Interviews
with Propagandists."
Alpha Epsilon Mu regular monthly
meeting will be held at six o'clock
Sunday, Dec. 15, in the Russian Tea
Room, Michigan League. Will all
members please attend this meeting.
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.
Genesee Club meeting Sunday, 4:30,
at the Union.
Beta Kappa Rho: 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
or call Wayne Whitaker, phone 5745,
before Friday noon.
Lutheran Student Club will have
its Christmas party Sunday evening,
Dec. 15, in the parish hall of the Zion
Lutheran Church on East Washing-
ton Street. Supper will be served
at the usual hour of 6 o'clock and will
be followed by the entertainment up-
stairs.
There will be a reading of a Christ-
mas ofnrt n"A rmm c vonlh mnmhn
Give The Rest
Of The Speech
T HE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
MANUFACTURERS has declared
open warfare on the New Deal, and is leading
the united attack of business upon the Roosevelt
administration.
It has raised the same old cry of "Less govern-
ment in business, and more business in govern-
ment." The only new note is the one advanced
by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of the General
Motors Corporation. He says, simply, "Industry
must assume the role or enlightened industrial1
statesmanship."
The average intelligent listener immediately
thinks of one question which he would like Mr,
Sloan and the -manufacturers to answer: What
is the nature, what are the details of this "en-
lightened industrial statesmanship" to be?
If industry can not or will not answer this,
what reason is there to grant its wish and return
to the old system (the so-called American System)
which brought on the disaster of economic and
social chaos? For even if industry's absolute
freedom should hasten the return of prosperity,
business leaders have offered no guarantee what-
soever that the nation will not, in a few more
years, plunge into another depression.