FOUR THE MICH!rxXN DUEY -Ir WII.'LI FIC DAY, MARCH 25,19M a~a " aNas 1.T"" ~WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25. 193G THE MICHIGAN DAILY Publisned every morning except Monday during the' University yearand 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 Madison Ave., New York City; 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Telephone 4925 BOARD OF EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR ..............THOMAS H. KLEENE ASSOCIATE EDITOR...............THOMAS E. GROEHN Dorothy S. Gies Josephine T. McLean William R. Reed DEPARTMENTAL BOARDS Publication Department: Thomas H. Kleene, Chairman; Clin ton B. Conger, Robert Cuimmins, Richard G.I, 11r- shey, Ralph W. Hurd, Fred Warner Neal. Reportorial Department: Thomas E. Groehn, Chairman; Elsie A. Pierce, Joseph S. Mattes. Editorial Department: Arnold S. Daniels, Marshall D>. Shulman. Sports Department: William R. Reed, Chairman; George Andros, Fred Btiesser, Raymond Goodman. Wumen 's Departmeu : Josephine T. McLean, Chairman; Josephine M. Cavanagh, loreJwe H. Davies, MarIon T. Holden, Charlotte D. Riteger, Jiewel W. Wuerfel. is a time in which cushion reserves do the economic order much good. When income is high, that in- come is going to be put into circulation whether passed on to the stockholders or not. And when income is low, the stockholder will be better off with lower prices and no dividends than with high prices and no dividends anyway. 'Only A l ttle ,iaP MERSON divided men into "know- ers, doers and sayers," but he never knew Toyohiko Kagawa. He never knew the man whose "knowing" has penetrated that most baffling of problems - the sociological and economic application of Christian ethics, whose "doing" in the slums of Kobe and the cooperative movements which embrace nearly half of the Japanese people has given crystallized expression to his "knowing," whose "saying" has produced more than 50 books of international cir- culation. This may seem extravagant praise to one who calls himself "only a little Jap," but The Daily invites an objective and personal "investigation" of that praise during the visits and lectures of Kagawa today, tomorrow and Friday in Ann Ar- bor. Also deserving of objective examination is Ka- gawa's criticism of our American institutions. Statements of his which express these views, such as: "I am surprised -you have as many as 260 de- nominations (religious). I am told that I pro- nounce this word to sound like 'damnations' and I am not sorry that I do." Cooperatives are the "base of a Christian eco- nomic order." 'Churches have reduced the Gosel to a dotine. 'o me it, is a life.' ---are perspectives which should not be ignored in viewing our economic and religious organizations.' Kagawa will present views in his lectures which may seem idealistic and not a little naive to sophis- ticated Americans, but The Daily asks those who hear him to bear in mind that following danger- ously close to sophistication in the alphabet of his- tory have been stagnation and sterility. Amaon uiy AndI Chil La>or . . NDUSTRY BELLOWS at the thought of government regulation and control. It is, it will have you know, capable of taking care of itself; and it is far better for America's 120,000,000 that it has always done so. Industry, if it is to have autonomy, must some day justify its ability to take care of itself. A good example is the shameless way it has handled child labor. The NRA, a horrible thing, they said, de- creased child labor considerably, but now that it has been annulled, to date there are 58 per cent more children 14 and 15 years of age working than during' the NRA. Surely, industry cannot point to this record as a reason that it should have the right of self-control. No doubt there are many manufacturers who hate the idea of employing child labor, but, they tell us, they have to because of their competitiors.. One way, then, is open to industry if they wish to prove that at least in this respect they are capable of caring for themselves. They can adoptN President Roosevelt's suggestion that they organize voluntarily and discriminate against employers of child labor. The opportunity will probably not long remain.d The child labor amendment to the Constitutionn has now been ratified by 24 states. Within two 1 years all state legislatures will have convened, anda if the drive to pass this amendment is continuedt with the enthusiasm that it now has, we will have a law agains child labor before industry can prove its right to take care of itself. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER. ....GEORGE H. ATHERTON CREDIT MANAGER. . .JOSEPH A. ROTHBARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ... .MARGARET COWIE WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ... ELIZABETH SIMONDS DEPARTMENTAL MANAGERS &ocal Advertising, William Barndt; Service Department, Willis Tomlinson; Contracts, Stanley Joffe; Accounts, Edward Wohigemuth; Circulation and National Adver- tising, John Park; Classified Advertising and Publica- tionIH, Lyman Bittinan. NIGHT EDITOR: ELSIE A. PIERCE Corporation Cushions . CARRYING the prosaic physical an- alogy of economic depressions and rises one step farther, the House sub-committee on taxation last week placed great stress upon "cushion" reserves as a palliative factor in the business cycle. Occasion for the concern over cushion reserves was the drafting of a tax on surplus corporation income in response to the President's suggestions on increasing the Fed- eral revenue. At present, after some two weeks of hearings and deliberation, the committee seems definitely to favor a measure which would impose a 15 per cent tax on the first 10 per cent of undistributed income and would graduate upwards to 55 per. cent on all surplus in excess of 30 per cent. In this scaling down of rates as the fraction of surplus retained decreases it is hoped that prosperous cor- porations will find some slight encouragement to build up or add to cash reserves put aside for hard times and low income. Apparently it has been the spectacle of large companies spreading out their stockholders' in- come into periods of depression that has instilled this tenderness of "cushions" into the representa- tives' minds. Also it is alleged that if corpora- tions were not allowed to keep a portion of their huge boom-time profits, distribution would have an unhealthy lengthening effect upon prices and speculative activity. Poor John Public, it is feared, would be just so much more badly shorn; but if U.S. Steel can keep some of its profits, he will be pleasantly surprised, come depression divi- dend time, by a respectable check. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way. It's all very fine for a corporation to pile up a nice cash surplus while business is booming; but when red ink begins to appear on the ledgers and trade journals editorially turn to Washington, then that same surplus goes first of all to pay defi- cits, secondly into contingency reserves, and third- ly for buying new equipment with which to reduce costs. Glance over any newspaper's financial page. Very few corporations are paying out in dividends more than present income; notable exceptions oc- cir chiefly among public utilities whose directors, by virtue of monopolistic control, feel quite cer- tain that earnings will sometime return to '28, levels. Railroads, heavy capital goods industries, building supply companies, farm machinery pur- veyors and others hit by the depression are con- spicuously absent today from the list of dividend payers, no matter how great or small boom-time, profits were. Nor would forced distribution of such profits while business was riding high necessarily accen-; tuate the crest of the wave. The corporate purse,1 no less than the individual's, is easily accessible1 when optimism is rampant. Such conservative companies as the Pennsylvania Railroad have, been known to lay out scores of millions of dollars from surplus not only on vast physical improve- ment projects but also for the somewhat more, speculative purpose of purchasing other railroads', stock. The fact that a tremendous portion of brokers' loans was financed from 1929 corporater surpluses may in part explain the acuteness of the stock market crisis; so great was the companies' desire to regain their cash that many marginal speculators were squeezed out. In the case of most manufacturing corporations, it would seem that the cushioning power of a large 1The Conning Tower~ MEDITATION IN LENT IN THIS meditative Season, Lord, preserve our native Reason. Round and round are whirled Our wits With the frantic world In fits. Here and there, and near And further, Revolutions, fear, And murther- - Look at the hu- Man race, Father, please excu- Se itsface. These are not the mobile Features Of Thine erstwhile noble Creatures. At times it is our hab- It to Go mad as the March rabb-. Its do; When battle, murder, sud- Den death Are rampant in our blood And breath And every man muii.>t don A crown To be a King upon His own-. If all beneath the sun Were kings, What would they use for un- Derlings? Unless lie ke t a ghoul Or elf Each king could only rule Himself . And we'd be as before We were Mad as a hatter or A hare. Lord, at this season and This time, Sustain our reason; and Our rhyme. Restore, O Lord, I pray, The sense Ofhono sometime sa- Piens. With all the human race At large, Please, God of Hosts, take us In charge! -G.A. Washington, D. C. The cessation of the elevator strike reminds us of what partisan politicians say on registration day. Both sides see victory in the figures. And now this settling of the strike is a triplicate vic- tory. The winners, according to the statements, are the Realty Board, the union, and, of course, the public. As some of us trudged up and down stairways during the past fortnight, we read Howell's "The Rise of Silas Lapham." And Paul H. Gehser sug- gests Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The Circular Staircase" and "Two Flights Up." Yesterday the New York Law Journal answered the question of the ownership of a fallen meteor. If last Saturday's had fallen on the ground, whom would it have belonged to? The Supreme Court of Iowa held that a meteorite falling on a person's property becomes affixed to the soil, and there- fore belongs to the owner of the land, that it was title by occupancy, or taking possession of some- thing that belonged to nobody. But that case in Iowa is an old case (Goddard vs. Winchell). Now whoever owns the property that a meteorite might fall on would have to pay a gift tax. So if the German delegates to London to discuss with the L. of N. France's charge that Germany violated the Locarno Treaty, this will probably be the result. Germany didn't violate the treaty; there was no treaty to violate, and, all right, she did violate it, and what of it? All this talk about "Class of '29"! That was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's class at Harvard, as it was that of S. F. Smith, author of "America." It was of him that Holmes wrote in "The Boys," "Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith." Books and plays have been written about Sher- nan and Barnum - now history has proved the correctness of the saying attributed to them. Maybe General Hagood is at work on a book to be called "John Howard Payne Was Right." The one-day rest, or strike, or whatever it may be called, of women workers is the notion of Miss Charl Ormond Williams. But it is old stuff. The Greeks had a play for it, called "Lysistrata." Our own Admiral Porter would say, if he thought of the peace-time appropriation for the Navy he would be ruler of, "My gallant $549,591,299 crew, good morning." BOOKS II.ALISM IN CONTELMPORAR XIIY WOMLN WIUTERS 13y 1)OROTJIY S. IES IDEALISM, that rara avis in the lit erary thickets of today, seems to find expression more frequently, fo one reason or another, in the work of women writers than of men. The three women who have won the Nobe award for literature, Selma Lagerlof Grazia Deledda and Sigrid Undset however widely variant their subjects and styles, betray all three an intran- sigent idealism and a tenacious at- tachment to stable values, Selma Lagerlof, growing up in the atmosphere of Ibsen and Strindberg remained utterly untouched by their bitter and brutal idealism. Ever the romanticist, she turns her artistry to the beautiful mystical legends of the Swedish province in which her child- hood was spent. With winning charm she recaptures that sense of the glam- orous past, half idyllic, half tragic, and always engrossing. But under- neath fancy and narrative runs in- variably a vein of stern idealism and faith in perpetual moral values. Even in her mad merry Story of Gosta Berling, that playboy of the northern world, half hero, half scamp, the note of redemption and atonement is struck in the end. In both her other great novels, Jerusalem and The Em- perer of Portugallia the deep spiri- tual motive is likewise established. The latter, a kind of Swedish Pere Goriot, strikes the redemption note even mon Pstrongly than her earlicr works. Grazia Deledda, unfortunately, is little known to English readers. Her novels of peasant life on the island of Sardinia, written with a wild, rugged. almost savage intensity, re- volve chiefly around one theme: the conflict of virtue and idealism against the harsh realities of life. The prim- itive characters take on a symbolic and cosmic significance in their struggle with universal passions. A masterpiece in its stark simplicity and fierce restraint is The Mother, the tragedy of an old peasant woman who has sacrificed everything to make her only son a priest, only to see him lost through an earthly attachment. The recurrent motif of sin and retri- bution and Mme. Deledda's ultimate faith in the good, the beautiful, the true, stamps her novels too as in- trinsically idealistic. Sigrid Undset, the most epic figure of the trio, is also the most uncom- promising moralist. She is more truly twentieth-century than either Lagerlof or Deledda, in considering sex the basic impulse and problem in life. But while all experience is con- ditioned by physical passion, and all her chief characters are victims of sensual love, her conception of mor- ality is nineteenth-century in its stringent unswerving rigidity. In both her greatest novels, Kristin La- ransdatter and The Master of Hest- viken, the violation of moral law is a crime only to be atoned through bitter repentant suffering. Hers is an or- thodox, even intolerant conception of good and evil, and the essential values she establishes are spiritual and religious, no doubt reflecting her own conversion to Roman Catholi- cism. It is interesting to note that in a materialist world, where the old moral order is apparently in chaos, in a world of Huxley and Pirandello and Hemingway and Gide, the foremost women writers remain almost unex- ceptionally idealistic and continue to declare for stable and timeless spir- itual values. Ten Years Aof From The Daily Files Of March 25, 1926 After hearing and discussing the report on engineering students at the time of entrance to college given yesterday afternoon by Prof. W. C. Hoad of the civil engineering depart- merit, the faculty of the engineering college agreed to take steps toward giving the high school students a more accurate view of the engineer- ing profession, and to modify the freshman assembly to obtain greater vocational and cultural advantages. Buying up hoarded gold in France is a pursuit that can be compared to the bootleggers' industry in America. It is not so wide-spread but it has corresponding results. How much gold is hidden away, nobody can say exactly, but it is generally placed at over one and under two billion gold francs. Germany will probably hold a na- tional plebiscite to decide whether the Reich and its component states shall confiscate without compensa- tion the property of the former rul- ing house. Belief that the grippe epidemic is now in its last stages was expressed yesterday at the Health Service. The problem of the World War's heritage of inter-allied debts was giv- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1936 Vol. XLVI No. 123 Notices r Senior Aeronautical E'ngineers There is an opening on the Aeronauti- cal Engineering staff of a mid-west. l ern university for an instructor' in thermodynamics and internal com- bustion engines. Students interestec in obtaining more information aboul the matter should see Prof. M. J Thompson, B-302, East Engineering Bldg. Senior Women may get tickets foi J.G.P. and Senior Supper in the Un- dergrduate Offices of the League or Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday an Thursday, from 3:30 to 5:30. The price is 65 cents, and includes dinnei and the play. Dormitories and sor- orities are urged to buy blocks of tickets. No reservations will be held longer than 24 hours. Senior Women: No one will be ad- mitted to the Senior Banquet and Play without cap and gown. There are still a few available at the League. They may be obtained from Miss Mc- Cormi ck- A adeimic Notices IHistory 12 (Lecture 1) Wednesday, March 25, at 8 p.m., Mr. Long's and Mr. Slosson's sections will meet in 1025 ATL and all other sections will meei i a N S. A d. Elconomics 52: lRooms for the blue- book on Thursday at 2 o'clock are as follows: N.A.Aud., Danhof and An- derson's sections. 25 A.H., Hebbard and Church's sections. 35 A.H., Mil- ler's sections. 231 A.11,, Wiers' see- ti ons Lectures University Lecture: Prof. Rudolf Carnap, of Prague, will lecture (in English) on "Philosophy and Logical Analysis," Thursday, April 2, at 4:15 p.m., in the Natural Science Audi- torium. The public is cordially in- vited. Chemistry Lecture: Dr. R. G. W. Norrish, F.R.S., of Cambridge Uni- versity will lecture on the topic: "Re- cent Studies in ,the Kinetics of the Combustion of Aldehydes and Hy- drocarbons" on Monday, March 30, 4:15 p.m., Room 303, Chemistry Bldg. The lecture, which is under the aus- pices of the University and the Ameri- can Chemical Society, is open to the public. French Lecture: Professor Marc Denkinger will give the last lecture on the Cercle Francais program: "Jules Romains et les Hommes de Bonne Volonte." Wednesday, March 25, 4:15 p.m., Room 103, Romance Language Building. Events Of Today Chemical and Metallurgical Engi- neering Seminar. Mr. J. A. Hannum will be the speaker at the Seminar for graduate students at 4 o'clock in Room 3201 E. Engineering Building on the subject, "The Photo-Catalytic Decomposition of Nitro-Cellolose Lac- quers." Student Branch-Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences: A business meeting will be held in Room 1042, East Engineering Bldg., at 7:30 p.m. Discussions, election of officers, and election of new members, will take place at this initial meeting. All Aeronautical Engineering students not already members of the Institute are urged to attend. Transportation Club meets in the Union at 7:45 p.m. Report of Chica- go trip and discussion of Ford trip. Alpha Nu meets at 7:30 p.m. in the chapter room. It is important that all members are present at this meet- ing. Visitors are welcome at this or any other meeting and there will be an opportunity for any who wish to give tryout speeches to do so. Kappa Tau Alpha: Important meeting, Room 213 Haven Hall, 4:30 p.m. The hold a ander p.m. Harris flall: Celebration of the Holy Communion at 7:30 a.m, in the Chapel at HTarris Hall. St. Andrew's Church: There will be a service of worship in the church this evening at 7:30. The Reverend Frederick W. Leech is in charge of the service. Coining Events Applied Mechanics Colloquium: Mr. D. K. Kazarinoff will speak on "Finite Differcnces and Numerical Summa- tion of Series." Review of Litera- ture. Meeting in Room 314 W. Engi- neering Annex on Thursday, March 26, 4:00 p.m. All interested are cor- dially invited to attend. Psychology Journal Club will meet on Thursday, March 26, 7:30 p.m., in Room 3126 N.S. Professor Maier will discuss Koffka's recent book on Ges- talt Psychology. Weekly Reading flour: Prof. Clar- ence D. Thorpe, of the English De- partment, will read from the poetry of ,JohnKeats at the Weekly Read- ing Hour on Thursday, March 26, at 4 o'clock, Room 205 Mason Hall. All persons interested are cordially invited to attend. Harris Hall: On Thursday there will be the Student Starvation Lun- cheon in Harris Hall from 12 noon to 1 o'clock. All students and their friends are cordially invited. The proceeds will go to the Rector's Dis- cretionary Fund for students. Drama Section of the Michigan Dames regular monthly meeting Thursday, March 26, at 8 p.m. at the League. The play to be read is "First Lady" now playing on Broad- way starring Jane Cowles. Mrs. A. Sidney Hyde is in charge of the meet- i'g. Presbyterian students and their friends are invited to attend the Sylvan Estates party of the West- minster Guild Saturday afternoon and evening. The truck will leave from the Masonic Temple at 1:30 p.m. Football, baseball, monopoly or swim- ming will be the entertainment for the afternoon. There will be a spe- cially arranged dinner at about 6. Dancing will be enjoyed during the evening. Costs for transportation, dinner, and dancing will be about 85 cents. Make your reservations by Wednesday night by calling 6005 or 4329. Maj.-Gen. Smedley 1). Butler (U. S. Marines retired) will speak on "War is a Racket"; Thursday, March 26, 8:15 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Auspices, Student Alliance. Action of the Executive Commit- tee of the Interfraternity Council of the University of Michigan, Tuesday, DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication to the Aill tln i.s construtve notice to all memberstof the ~iflvcrr~lty. Copy tvct lvo l att(the uMlce of the Assistant o the Pre..dent aut.Li3.30; 1 ii;OU.111, on :utunlday. .'" Luncheon for Graduate Students at 12 o'clock in the Russian Tea Room of the Michigan League Bldg. Prof. Howard McClusky, of the School of Education, will speak informally on "Modifying Personality Through Cur- riculum." Varsity Glee Club: Full rehearsal at 7:15 p.m. No rehearsal Thursday. Contemporary: Luncheon meeting this noon at the Haunted Tavern. Board in Control of Student Pub- lications: There will be a meeting of the Board with the 'Ensian business and editorial staffs in the Union at 6 p.m. Hillel Players: Final tryouts for the program of one-act plays will be held at Hillel Foundatiop, from 3 to 5 and 7:30 to 9 p.m. Those who were not present at the tryouts last week are urged to come Wednesday. Student Alliance meets at 7:30 p.n., Room 306, Union. Members and friends are invited to attend. Faculty Women's Club will tea at the home of Mrs. Alex- Ruthven from 3:30 to 5:30 I TH lE 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 imuortance a ld interestL tho me campus. Floods To the Editor: The flood catastrophe has brought to mind my visit to the great spillway which protects the Pan- ama Canal from floods. The Spillway, located at the edge of Gatun Lake, drains the lake of high water in the rainy season. Gatun Lake is a part of the Panama Canal. The Spillway opens its great gates and takes the flood waters off in a diverting channel. The United States protects its investments from destructive ravages, not only for its own good but to satisfy the international bankers as it is banker- owned. The present flood in some parts of the East is compared to the flood of forty-seven years ago in that area. But the investments of the vic- tims of the present flood are much larger, due to the growth of the country. One report states out of five million dollars lost in one section there was only two hundred-fifty thousand dollars re- covered through insurance. It seems a coincidence as well as remarkable that we have a man as President of the United States who was interested in protecting the investments of the citizens from the destructive elements even before the major catastrophies of the 1934 drought and the 1936 flood. Before President Roosevelt came into office he was interested in improving the' conditions of the country west of the Mississippi and he has consistently applied this policy, not to any one section but to the country as a whole. -F.S.G., '00. d F 9 t: I: t 0 p I f; M v b ti d' cS 4 Stanley Chorus meets at the Union 'March 24, 1936. tonight. First sopranos and altos Because of certain Hell-week prac- meet at 7:15. Second sopranos meet tices at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at 8 o'clock. All members are urged which are contrary to the best in- to be prompt. terests of Michigan fraternities as a group, the Executive Committee of Pi Lambda Theta meeting in the the Interfraternity Council, a4 a League at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Bernadine meeting held Tuesday afternoon, Sether, a fashion artist, will speak. Continued on Pgge 6) Impression Off '38M Corrected L AST Tuesday, in a letter to the J editor concerning the anniversary celebration of the University of Heid- elberg, Mr. '38M made several errors which should be corrected. Firstly, June 27-30, 1936 is not the 550th anniversary of the German school, but rather (as we stated on the first page March 14) the 549th. The following is a quotation from! a jubilee--a custom of Hebrew origin -three choices were open. (a) Oc- tober 23, 1935, or near date, being the 550th anniversary of the issuing of the charter; (b) October 19, 1936, or near date, being the opening of the 550th academic year; (c) June, 1937, or near date, being the end of the session 1936-37, and the comple- tion of the 550th academic year. I