PAGE FOtTR THE MICHIGAN DAILY 'WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1936 PAGE FO~3R WEI)NESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1936 THE MICHIGAN DAILY T1 E FORUM 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 news dispatches 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 Msdi-,on Ave., New York City; 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Telephone 4925 BOARD OF EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR.............THOMAS H. KLEENE ASSOCIATE EDITOR ................JOHN J. FLAHERTY ASSOCIATE EDITOR.............. THOMAS E. GROEHN Dorothy S. Gies Josephine T. McLean William R. Reed DEPARTMENTAL BOARDS tublication Department: ThomasGH. Kleene, Chairman; Clinton B. Conger, Richard G. Hershey, Ralph W. Hurd, Fred Warner Neal, Bernard Weissman. Reportorial Department: Thomas E. Groehn, Chairman; EIlsie A. Pierce, Guy M. Whipple, Jr. &ditoriai Department: John J. Flaherty, Chairman; Robert A. Cummins, Marshall D. Shulman. Sports Department: William R. Reed, Chairman; George Andros, Fred Buesser, Fred DeLano, Raymond Good- man. Women's Departmeno: Josephine T. McLean, Chairman; Dorothy ;Briscoe, Josephine M. Cavan gh, Florence H. Davies,Mario: T. Holden,;Charlotte D.;Rueger, Jewel W. Wuerfel. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Telephone 2-1214j BUSINESS MANAGER ..........GEQRGE H. ATHERTON CREDIT MANAGER ....... ....JOSEPH A. ROTHBARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER. MARGARET COWIE WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ...ELIZABETH SIMONDS DEPARTX[ENTAL MANAGERS Local Advertising, William -Bardt;Service Department, Willis Tomlinson; Contracts, Stanley Joffe; Accounts, Edward Wohlgemuth; Circulation and National Adver- tising, John Park; Classified Advertising and Publica- tions, Lyman Bittman. NIGHT EDITOR: BERNARD WEISS1AN It Is Time T M ve DESPITE the fact that the University has been crying "wolf, wolf" over the approaching crisis in the housing conditions, there is no basis for the assumption that the fears have been unfounded. The problem of securing suitable rooms for men students has been made acute by the concurrent increase in enrollment and decline in the number of rooms available, a process not peculiar to the present day alone ' The most striking cause for a decrease in hous- ing facilities has been the destruction of boarding houses to make way for new University additions. The 100 students who were affected recently by the condemnation of houses to secure a site for the new Graduate School are but a portion of the large group which has been deprived of rooms. The erection of the Law Club, new medical build- ing and the architecture school was made possible only by destroying rooming facilities for many students. Economic disturbances have played a more subtle role in contributing to the housing crisis. Stu- dents are unable to pay prices which are de- manded (justly no doubt) for many rooms. A doubling up of students in the lower, priced rooms is the inevitable result of this condition. Moreover, faced with a rapidly rising cost of living, many householders are unable to offer rooms properly re- furnished. That the University must build dormitories to ameliorate conditions is a truism. The need is obvious, but a solution is lacking. Next fall will undoubtedly bring an increased enrollment. To avoid making a critical situation more acute the University will be confronted with the advisability of asking for contributions, thus obsoleting a tra- ditional policy of the administration. Voluntary, unsolicited gifts are too uncertain; the need for immediate action is too great to wait and hope. Craft Unions Are Doomed . . RATHER SIGNIFICANT is the latest report from the front ranks of labor - the demand by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor that the committee for industrial unions cease their activities and dissolve immediately. The council stated that the work of the committee advocating the vertical organization of workers by industries, which is headed by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, is threatening the supremacy of the A. F. of L. and is also violating the policies which were drawn up at the last convention of the federa- tion. The answer by John Lewis to the demand of the executive council seems to hit the nail on the head. "The mountain has labored and brought out a mouse" was Lewis' comment. The A. F. of L. has been rapidly dwindling into a position of no real significance. The great number of workers in fac- tories and mills of various kinds are afforded no type of organization under the present plan of craft unions, upon which the A. F. of L. smiles so benignly. If the federation can do nothing for these workers who really have no skilled craft, it can hardly expect these same workers to remain without organization of their own. The federation is acting in a somewhat childish manner when it demands that labor which cannot 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. God And The Constitution To the Editor: The following excerpt is from an editorial in the Detroit Free Press last Monday morning, comment- ing on Al Smith's Liberty League speech. "With clean hands he (Smith) could hold up to the judgment of the Nation the record of an administration., which has broken faith with the people by not carrying out the pledges upon which it was elected, and the record of a Chief Magistrate, who has broken faith with God by stabbing in the back the Constitution which he swore to uphold and protect, with his hand on the Holy Bible." "Against that record of infidelity to party, to the American people and to the Deity, Al Smith protests-and millions of his fellow- citizens will say "Amen." Insofar as the Free Press and Mr. Smith refer to the recent Supreme Court decision declaring the AAA unconstitutional, I wonder where that puts highly respected jurists Brandeis, Cardozo, and Stone? And if two of the six concurring Justices had decided' the other way, would that mean that Mr. Roosevelt and the House and Senate that passed the bill were right all along and the four remaining Justices, who would then be in the mi- nority, had broken their oaths of office by attempt- ing to declare unconstitutional, measures con- stitutional? It cannot be as simple as all that. Surely we do not break faith with God every time the Su- preme Court expands its concept of the Consti- tution, a thing which it has done innumerable times, in declaring Constitutional types of meas- ures which the framers of that Constituion, and for that matter previous benches, never dreamed legal. --S. L. Travis, '37L, J-Hop Tickets To the Editor: This year there has been no general sale of J-Hop tickets. Block sales have taken care of that. For more than a week I've beeen trying to locate a ticket in the well-known undercover manner, but all I've run into are bland apologies of those who are in charge, and some ugly rumors. For instance I have heard that certain organi- zations were allowed to buy, in blocks, two or three times as many tickets as their members could pos- sibly use. Furthermore I hear from a reliable' source that while juniors were allowed 250 tickets in the Saturday to Monday sale, 750 were lumped off to fraternity groups. Also it is bruited about that numbers of tickets have been furnished to Ohio State students, and others. If these charges are unfounded, I should like to' see them run down in The Daily. If not, it's not too early to take steps now to insure at least one day of general over-the-counter sales of tickets next year, so that what appears as discrimination this time will not reoccur. If you have eight or ten dollars, I hear you can' still find tickets for the J-Hop. Shades of Karl Marx! Can this be campus evi- dence of a sporulating Class Struggle? -L.G., '36. The Movies To the Editor: Realizing that as a newspaper, The Michigan Daily is bound by its editorial policy to conform to certain set standards which work for the so- called best- interests of the community it serves, we were inclined to ignore and pass without com- ment the recent editorial tirade relative to the "immature" members of the theatre audience . We are, however, interested to observe that a member of the student body, who, unlike a news- paper, is free to express his honest opinions without fear of retribution, takes the same censorious atti- tude. Your correspondent is evidently under the impression that there is but one type of humor which a person may audibly enjoy, probably the slap-stick, pie-throwing variety. He fails to take into consideration that perhaps the laughter was not wholly produced by the picture itself, but by the tearful outbursts apparent on all sides, which led us to suspect retarded emotional de- velopment. If the appearance of a big, husky, squat-necked individual moaning, groaning, and weeping copiously, like a virgin on her wedding night, is not cause for hearty laughter on the part of those members of the audience who have out- grown the emotional instability usually associated with childhood, what is? We agree that "A Tale of Two Cities" is an "above-the-average" movie. But is it necessary when attending an "above-the-average" produc- tion that one surrender to the obvious artifices employed by Hollywood's Gentlemen of Jerusalem to enmesh the sentimentalities of the gullible movie goer? We say NO ! ! ! We admit that the grievous plight of the little full-bosomed seamstress was worthy of a muted sigh, a sigh of regret for the contempt in which the movie-producers must hold the emotionalities of their patrons, in order to introduce such an obvious tear-jerker. We are firmly convinced that aside from our own, there was not a dry eye in the house. Isn't this deplorable? -George H. Barbour, '39. --Frederick Shroyer, '39. Women with vulgar and uncouth-sounding voices The Conning Tower] You're In The Army Now Like others young and roughly bred The funny stuff inside my head Brewed me a beer called ignorance And so I shouldered a gun for France. These days I sleep in flops and benches With little memory of French wenches. The army regulations said A gun would take small bits of lead And give my love to lads with lungs1 Like mine but speaking other tongues. 1 We are of all the tongues and strains Who lie in doorways while it rains.f JOHN MALTA1 A bill introduced in the New York State Sen- ate provides that drug stores shall have sodac fountains in rooms separate from those in which7 drugs are sold. While the introducer, George B. Kelly (Dem.), is about it he might insert aI clause providing that soda fountain checks be1 made out in ink that is strong enough forI legibility. And when is somebody going to introduce ai bill insisting that theaters print their addressest on tickets and ticket envelopes in as large type as they print their names? Inebriety TestI Though some buildings of elevators are bereft,t I laughed, for there's many a loft lift left.1 Commissioner Valentine says that crime costsI us $12,000,000 a year, exclusive of what womenY pay to buy seats at murder trials., Shoots From the Young Idea (By B.B., a six-year-old student at Fessenden School, West Newton, Mass.) The Earth Coming Off the Sun and the Other Sun1 When the earth came off the sun, it was fiery hot, and another sun came. They both started to pull each other.E It was no trees and no green grass, and it was no house. It were no flags, no schools and nor skating rink. And it was no boys or girls or slides or swings, no sand box. It were no jackets or no sweaters, and it was no boats, no watches,r no baseball. The first things that were living were littlei plants. And it rained so hard that it ought toi be ocean and mountains. - What the bonus beneficiaries would like to know is how much they are going to get for how many months' war service in the United States, and abroad; what is the earliest, after the bill becomes law, that they can get it; and what will be, if any, the red tape procedure. Society Can Be Too Exacting Say what you will, Delleville is different. People who visit here say they never have seen anythingI like it, especially those who get into Society, wherec they are rushed to parties from one strange house to another, not without a feeling of awe for thec relatives who have blossomed into social butter-t flies since living among us. There is a continuous round of activities1 throughout the year, with picnics in summer, at dance at Easter, and masquerade parties at Hallow E'en, which rises to a really feverish pitch around Christmas, beginning with McCaffreys' breakfast, where we drink vodka - "So foreign," Mrs. Heller says - and ending with the tea dance at the Odd Fellows' Hall. At first outsiders, not accustomed to the ways of society, arrived at the dances at 4:30 and remained until the end, but Mrs. Corbett soon set them right about that. "Don't you know you just drop in at a tea dance?" she asked, acidly, with the result that a more fashionable atmosphere has prevailed the past few years. (Mrs. Corbett is generally acknow- ledged as our Social Leader. For one thing, her father was a member of the Legislature, and] besides, she is our best bridge player, even to knowing the Honor Count by heart.) Every year there is a mid-winter dance, when the Fishers, Pursels, Russells and others "let down", and become as informal as the merest bank clerk, although we remain together in our own corner of the Odd Fellows' Hall between dances. There are other occasions when the bars are lowered slightly. For instance, at her Easter Mon- day party little Mrs. Fisher cancels the social obligations she has contracted at unguarded moments throughout the year. "Nancy Stuart had me for dinner last July and I just must pay her off," she explains, apologeti- cally, to Mrs. Corbett. The Stuart person is delighted to be invited, of course, and for weeks succeeds in working refer- ences to the party into conversations with her own intimates in the fond belief they will naturally suppose her to be quite friendly with the Fishers.. If the truth were admitted, some of our set go to Mrs. Willoughby's just for a thrill. At Mrs. Willoughby's the bars are let down completely, and last year it was whispered from one end of the packed house to the other those two girls in the kitchen who came with Mr. Forbes from Scranton were just plain - YOU know. The Evans never invite anybody outside the crowd to their party, which always is formal, the women wearing evening dresses, and the men, except those who have grown too stout, their Tuxedoes, for Mrs. Evans, who was secretary to the owner of the largest silk mill before her mar- riage, has rigid standards in social matters. "It's simply that I prefer the best people," she admits, frankly. REED McCARTY Merely as a professional wonderer we ask, who, do you suppose, got the job that John Jacob A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMISON WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-- To foul of the dwindled band of senators who marched again up the politically tough anti-bonus vote hill this elec- tion year, that action represented more than it did to the rest of the "no" voters. They are up for renom- ination soon, unless some of them have still undisclosed voluntary re- tirement plans. What they did on that vote might wreck their hopes to succeed themselves. That may be true, at least, as to Couzens of Michigan, Hastings of Delaware and Keyes of New Hamp- shire, the trio of Republican "no" voters whose terms run out next year. Glass of Virginia, alone among the 18 Democrats whose terms expire next year to join the forlorn hope "no" band, is in another category. He has been opposing bonus legislation all along --and being reelected with no evidence of veteran hostility be- cause of that. Glass has said the "soldier vote" does not mean anything in Virginia. It does not seem to - to him. BUT OF ALL tough "no" votes in that Senate nose count, Vanden- berg of Michigan certainly cast the toughest. He is not up for re-election to the Senate; but he is very much up for possible Republican nomina- tion for the presidency. To many po- litical dopesters he sticks up as the most probable "harmony" candidate at Cleveland if that is the way it goes. And like Harding in 1920, Van- denberg's availability might easily depend more in the judgment of the convention leaders, on negative cir- cumstances than on his affirmative position on issues. What helped Harding to the nom- ination and presidency was the few enemies, individually or in issue blocs, he had left behind in his political life. Senator Vandenberg's score in that respect will be closely scanned at Cleveland if he comes prominently into the nominations picture as so many believe he will. In those cir- cumstances, casting a vote that would invite veteran resentment took polit- ical courage, particularly when it could represent no more than a ges- ture of dissent anyhow. POLITICAL detractors are fond of picturing the Michigan senator as a trimmer, as intent on building a sort of middle-of-the-road path of his own between New Deal liberalism and eastern G.O.P. old guard conserva- tism. A glance at Vandenberg Senate votes on various so-called "critical" political measures does not bear that out, his "no" vote on the bonus being a striking example. His record in- cluded minority votes for adherence to the world court, for budget balancing taxes on middle as well as high bracket incomes, against the labr bill, for some New Deal enactments that were anathema to nearly all reg- ular Republican colleagues. Regents Laud Prof Gomberg In esolhtion The Board of Regents last week, accepting the retirement of Prof. Moses Gomberg, chairman of the chemistry department, because he will soon reach the age of 70, praised him highly in a set of formal res- olutions. The resolutions follow: "Whereas, Dr. Moses Gomberg, a distinguished alumnus of the Univer- sity of Michigan and a holder of three degrees from this institution (B.S., 1890; M.S., 1892; ScD.; 1894), mem- ber of the faculty since 1893, pro- fessor of organic chemistry since 1904, and chairman of the department of chemistry since 1927, will upon Feb- ruary 8, 1936, reach the age of seventy years, Which is prescribed by the By- Laws of the Regents as the time for retirement from active service by fac- ulty members and officers of the Uni- versity, and "Whereas, Professor Gomberg's scholarly genius has contributed fun- damentally to the advancement of science of chemistry; his services to this University, as administrator and as teacher and guide of hundreds of students have been of the highest im- portance; and his sanity, his wisdom, his loyalty, and his gentle spirit have endeared him to colleagues and stu- dents alike; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the Regents of the University of Michigan express to Professor Gomberg the highest ap- preciation of the service which he has rendered, and confer upon him the title "Professor Emeritus in Organic Chemistry," effective with the begin- ning of the second semester of the academic year 1935-36, and be it fur- ther "Resolved, That Dr. Gomberg be recommended to the Carnegie Foun- dation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive the appropriate retiring allowance, and be it further WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 1936 VOL. XLVI No. 88 Notices Attention of All Concerned: Name- ly faculty, administrative and clerical staff members and students, is re- spectfully caled to the following ac- tion by the Regents. Students shall pay in acceptable funds (which shall not include notes unless the same are bankable) all amounts due the University before they can be admitted to the final ex- aminations at the end of either se- mester or of the Summer Session. No office in the University is authorized to make any exception to this rule. Any specific questions that can be foreseen arising in this connection should be taken up with the proper authorities at the earliest possible moment. Shirley W. Smith. Sophomores, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Elections must be approved in Room 103 Romance Language Building in accordance with alphabetical divisions listed be- low. Failure to meet these appoint- ments will result in serious conges- tion during the registration period. Please bring with you the print of your record which you received last summer. Hours 10-12; 2-4 daily. DE, Wednesday, Jan. 29. FG, Thursday, Jan. 30. R. C. Hussey, J. H. Hodges, Sophomore Academic Counselors. Summer Session Abridged An- nouncement: Copies of the Campus Edition of the Abridged Announce- ment of the courses to be given dur- ing the summer of 1936 may now be obtained at the registration offices of the various schools and colleges. University Women who are attend- ing the President's Ball may apply for late permission at the Office of the Dean of Women. Academic Notices The College of Architecture an- nounces the two following courses for the second semester: Domestic Architecture and Hous- ing: (Architecture 11) For students of economics, sociology and city plan- ning as well as for students in archi- tecture. A survey of the trend in house design and in mass housing, prefabrication, and the use of syn- thetic materials. TuTh, 2, or as ar- ranged. Two hours credit. Associate Professor Wells Bennett. General Course in the History of Architecture: (Architecture 15) The aim of this course is to give students seeking a liberal culture a survey of the development of the art of build- ing. The temples, cathedrals, pal- aces, and other characteristic monu- ments of the ancient, medieval, ren- aissance, and modern styles, their design, sculpture, and painted dec- orations will be studied by means of lectures illustrated by the stereopti- con, and collateral reading. This course is open to all students in the University, but cannot be counted towards graduation in Architecture. TuThu, 9. Two hours credit. As- sociate Professor Ralph W. Ham- mett. Notice to Students Planning to do Directed Teaching: Students expect- ing to do directed teaching the second semester are urged to interview Dr Schorling on Thui'sday, January 30 in Room 2435 University Elementary School, according to the following schedule. 1:00 to 2:00 - Mathematics and Sci ence. 2:00 to 3:00 - Social Studies and Commercial Subjects. 3:00 to 4:00 -- Latin, French, and German. 4:00 to 5:00 --English, Speech, and Fine Arts. It is of the utmost importance that seniors come to this conference, for everything else being equal, the op- portunities for directed teaching will be assigned in order of application. Any student who has a definite ap- pointment at the hour suggested should report for a conference at one of the other periods. Every effort will be made to meet his needs. Final Examination in Eng. 159, Sec. 2 (Tues., Thurs., Sat. at 10). The ex- amination schedule as listed in the Catalogue with the letter C is an error; the examination should be scheduled with the letter J and will be given Tuesday morning, Feb 4. Paul Mueschke College of Literature, Science and The Arts: Examinations in Mathe- matics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 will take place Saturday, Feb. 8, 9-12 a.m. accord- ing to the following schedule: Anning, 1025 A.H. Baxter, 25 A.H. Coe, 1035 A.H. Craig, 1025 A.H. Dwyer, 35 A.H. Elder, 25A.H. Ford, 1025 A.H. Menge, 3011 A.H. Nyswander, 1025 A.H. Railford, 35 A.H. West Lecture, Physics: Diamond, Graf, and Van Duren. 2003 Angell Hall: Scholl. Course 2: C Haven Hall: All Sec- tions. Course 31: 25 Angell Hall: Philipp- son, Striedieck, Van de Luyster, Van Duren. B Haven Hall: Reichart and Graf. 231 Angell Hall: Gaiss and Um- bach. 2003 Angell Hall: Scholl. 209 A.H.: Wahr. 201 University Hall: Hildner. Course 32: 35 Angell Hall: All sec- tions. Lectures French Lecture: Professor A. J. Jobin will give the fourth lecture on the Cercle Francais program: "Le Moyne d'Iberville, le Cid de la Nou- velle France." Wednesday, Jan. 29, 4:15 o'clock, room 103, Romance Language Building. Tickets for the series of lectures may be procured at the door. Sphinx, Junior Men's honorary so- ciety, will hold its last meeting for the semester at 12:15 p.m. today in the Union. Chemical and Metallurgical Engi- neering Seminar. Mr. Howard R. Wil- son will be the speaker at the Sem- inar at 4 p.m. in Room 3201 E. Eng. Bldg. on the subject, "Specific Heats and Heats of Dilution of 50-75 per cent Sodium Hydroxide Solutions." Forestry Club meeting in Room 2054, N. S. B., at 7:30 p.m. James H. Wood taxidermist and preparator at the Museum of Zoology will speak on the subject of Taxi- dermy. His lecture will be illustrated with motion pictures. Nelson Shapters, President of the U of M Glider Club will comment on Glider Club activities. Mr. Shapters talk will also be illustrated with motion pictures. These pictures will include actual flights that have been made by members. Phi Eta Sigma Picture-All active members of Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honorary fraternity, will have their picture taken at 5 p.m., Dey Studio on State Street. Please be on time. Wear a dark suit. Luncheon for Graduate Stdents: 12:00 noon in the Russian Tea Room of the Michigan League Building. Professor Burke Shartel of the Law School will speak informally on "The Supreme Court and Recent Legisla- tion." Stanley Chorus regular meeting at 7:30 at the Union. All members are urged to be present. Contemporary: Luncheon meeting this noon at the Haunted Tavern. Faculty-Alumni Dance: The third Faculty-Alumni Dance will be held at 9:30 p.m., in the Michigan Union. Coming Events Dame's Drama Seetion regular monthly meeting Thursday, Jan. 30, at eight o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Carl V. Weller, 1130 Fair Oaks Park- way. Members of the Dame's Club are invited to be present. All who have cars and all who desire trans- portation be at the League at :45. Education B124, Second Semester: Any student planning to elect Edu- cation B124, Administration of Sec- ondary Schools, on Friday, 3-5, should call at the office of the Dean of the School of Education for in- formation concerning a proposed change in the time of meeting of the course. Fine Arts 192 and 204: Mr. James Plumer will arrive from China to give these courses in Far Eastern Art the second semester as announced in the catalogue. Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- tificate: Blanks for the payment of the Teacher's ertificate fee may now be secured at the Recorder's Office of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S. All students who expect to be recommended for the Teacher's Certificate at the end of the present semester should pay this fee by Feb. 15. Applicants and Candidates for the Doctor's Degree in Chemistry: Qual- ifying and preliminary examinations for those specializing in chemistry will be held as follows: Analytical Chemistry, 1 p.m., Feb. 21, Room 122. Organic Chemistry, 1 p.m., Feb. 28, Room 122. Physical Chemistry, 1 p.m., March 6, Room 122. Those planning to take any one of these examinations are requested to see Professor Bartell not later than Feb. 12. R. 0. Morgan To Speak At Aihelic Banquet In Toledo Robert O. Morgan, '31, of the Alum- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is construci! untice to all members of the University. Copy received at the oflice of the Assistant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday.