FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936 _._._ -_..-....- _ _. _..._ -- -_ T _ THE MICHIGAN DAILY 1.. -a- power and made the formation of despotic govern- ments well nigh inevitable. Mussolini's latest action concerning the Cham- ber of Deputies is certainly proof to the world and to the few democratic countries of the world that representative government is on trial Whether the liberalism of John Stuart Mill Jeremy Bentham or Thomas Jefferson will with- stand the present pressure of intolerance, dicta- torship and suppression of freedom will be deter- mined within the next few years. The success or failure of liberalism may only be settled by a great war, with the resulting depression, chaos and possible decline of the West. .A [Te Conning Towerj THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYS Saturday, March 14 71 -- -,1 w 4,. , - , - . . .. .. .. , Publisned every morning except Monday during theo University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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This the Republicans shQuld realize, and probably do, but they evidently Co not see that protest propaganda must be pre- cented with as much finesse as anything calculated to win public sentiment. They, in other words, stick their necks out needlessly. A good example of this is Al Smith's Liberty League speech of not many weeks ago. As Arthui Krock. New York Times Washington correspon- dent, remarks "In a setting of vast wealth, men and women whose names -rightly or wrongly are synonymous in the public mind with sodal and. ecnomic privileges cheered Alfred E. Smith whom they had turned from as a radical in 1928, when this time he implied that Soviet philosophies, politics and fruitless waste were the chief aspects of the New Deal." It is true that more people than ever before feel there is something innately wrong in wealth. These people are hardly disposed to cheer along with multi-millionaires on political issues. Perhaps Roosevelt has built up this suspicion of wealth - perhaps it is an entirely unfounded suspicion, but it- exists and the Republicans were foolish in this case. Another fault in this very speech, very common ti speeches of the desperate party, is the red flag waving. To any intelligent person the Roosevel; Administration is nowhere near Communism - and some less intelligent people who hear that might think: "Well, then, Communism is a good thing." As the campaign wages there will be many more oppQrtunities for foolish mistakes. For example, some conservatives seem foolish enough to attac velief. A statement to this effect can do no good but tremendous harm. Protest propaganda, conducted wisely and run- bing against no grain of public sentiment, could; very possibly win the 1936 election for the Re- ^ublican party. 3ut they will have to overcome, some very serious tactical errors.- Democ racy's Crisis ...; T HE AEOLITION OF the Italiana Chamber of Deputies by MussoliniI marks one more step in what seems to be a' gradual decline of parliamentary government in Europe, although the change made by II Duce came as no surprise to those interested in ItalianI politics since the famous March on Rome in October, 1922. Sincera brief period after the World War when constitutions and parliamentary governments were being set up throughout the Continent, they have been steadily gainig disfavor. In Germany and Italy dictatorship has replaced parliamentary government, and in various other countries, such as France, grave doubts as to the practicality of the representative governments have arisen. Democraticgovernments in most cases have' fallen because they were powerless. Especially was this true of the Italian system prior to the time of Mussolini. The political leaders of Italy, formed coalitions, and these governments were short lived. Terrorism, which fostered Fascism, As Others SeeIt__ Why Congress Should Pass The Nye-Kvale Bill EDITOR'S NOTE: The following editorial by Roger E. Chase of Columbia University was award- ed first prize in the contest for an editorial on the above subject conducted by the Committee on Militarism in Education. "WE WON some things from the war, that were not on the program. For example, we had a complete demonstration of the fallacy of the old tradition that preparedness prevents war." - George H. Dern in an address at Riverside, Cali- fornia, December 1931. In December, 1935, Mr. Dern, as Secretary of War, is busy spending the largest peacetime mili- tary appropriation in the history of the United States, making capital of "the old tradition that preparedness prevents war" to hasten the drive toward a bigger and better war. The patrioteers - including, we trust, Mr. Dern - have not forgotten the institutions of higher learning. To dte more than two !hundred campuses have found a place for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Another hundred are expected to add military training to their curricula in the near future. In 118 institutions of learning drill is not only offered but required. Senator Nye of North Dakota and Representative Kvale of Minnesota have introduced a bill intended to eliminate conscription from American educa- tion. The bill would amend the National Defense Act of 1916 with the stipulation that no R.O.T.C. unit be approved at any school or college "until such institution shall have satisfied the Secretary of War that enrollment in such unit (except in the case of essentially military schools) is elective and not compulsory." Mild as it may appear, consonant with the democratic idea as it is, the Nye-Kvale Bill is by no means assured of passage. No sooner did the campaign against militarism in education begin to assume formidable propor- tions than spokesmen for "national defense" rushed forward with euphemisms and counter- charges. The R.O.T.C. was a higher form of "physical education"; the goose-step was "char- acter education"; compulsory drill was "citizen- ship training", an antidote for the subversive agitation of students who felt, and said, that was unnecessary and futile and they would have nothing to do with it. It means little to the defenders of the R.O.T.C. that the best minds in the field of physical edu- cation have characterized as a hollow falsehood the claim that drill "builds men." It is irrelevant to the apostles of chauvinism that the kind of "character" developed by the corps is otherwise known as the "military mind" which -Professor Reinhold Niebuhr once stated - "makes unthinking obedience the summum bonum in the hierarchy of virtues." It is not at all alarming to the super-patriots that "citizenship" as promoted in the R.O.T.C. has meant the negation of science and democracy, that the training corps have been as culpable as any other group in the revival of American col- lege vigilantism. What that "citizenship" implies was once illus- trated in an official R.O.T.C. manual (withdrawn from circulation, thanks' to student protests, ten years ago.) One passage read: "This inherent desire to fight and kill must be carefully watched for and encouraged by the student . . . " And further: "To finish an opponent who hangs on or attempts to pull you to the ground, always try to break his hold by driving the knee or foot to his crotch and gouging his eyes with your thumbs." "Citizenship," indeed! As it becomes increasingly apparent that the nation's military machine is being geared to the inevitability if not the early desirability of another war, rstudent protests against militarism and thej society which breeds it will be increasingly vocal. At the same time, R.O.T.C. units will crop up on campuses which never had military training be- fore. The corps already established will emergel more clearly as storm-troops of bogus "American- ism," intolerance, anti-intellectualism. They are strongholds of reaction today; they may be the vanguards of fascism tomorrow.' Wide public support for the Nye-Kvale bill may not signify the beginning of the end for the R.O.T.C. But it will prevent further expulsions of students who, on religious or political grounds, refuse to submit to compulsory drill. More import- ant, it will attract public attention to what has long been an anti-social feature of our educational system and today is an incubator of forces which may some day destroy our civilization. The campaign should not be confined to those schools where compulsory R.O.T.C. exists. The menace of jingoism cannot be isolated. Every senator, representative in Congress should be no- tified, deluged with petitions, hounded until such time as he places his influence behind the bill. It is encouraging that the tremendous growth of the R.O.T.C: since the war has not occurred without artificial stimulation. Although the cav- alry went out of style and utiliti after Appomatox, thousands of horses have been provided as sugar- coating for the pill of compulsory training. For- tunes have been spent on flashy uniforms. Pretty girls have been recruited as "sponsors." The EARLY UP, and by train to the city, and fussing with my income tax, and fuming even more s than fussing: and so at some work. and Mr. B. K. Hart come to see from Providence, and tells me of matters on that highly prosperous newspaper, the Journal; and so at work some more, and thence to play pool with J. Kirkland, and T. Bamberger, and so had supper, and thence to play at cards, winning Ten and no 100 Dollars; and so to H. Miller's, hard by the East River, where I was lulled to wakefulness by the boats on dat ole debil, but fell asleep by dawn. Sunday, March 15 UP, AND after breakfast to the train, and so to the country for luncheon, and thenafter worked all afternoon; and to bed early after sup- per. Monday, March 16 BETIMES UP, and at work in the afternoon, putting in the morning at reading "The Great- est Pages of American Humor," by Stephen Lea- cock, which struck me as being a slipshod book, and to speak of "Mr. Dooley, mopping up the beer on the bar of his Archer Street Saloon," is wrong, forasumch as the Archery Road Mr. Dunne speaks of is not Archer Avenue; and Mr. Leacock speaks of "the law office of Harry D. Feldman" and "the Koshinko Bank," though Montague Glass wrote of Henry D. Feldman and the Kosciusko Bank; nor do I think that the selections are well made, for instead of printing Bret Harte's parody of J. Feni- more Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales, highly in- telligible as parody - and so hilarious that I read it before I tried to read "The Deerslayer" and "The Last of the Mohicans" and never was able to read them - he prints "Lothaw," which is a parody of Disraeli's novel "Lothair," which while humorous is still a poor selection, for I do not know anybody who hath read a Disraeli novel. So for a trip to the Horace Hurlbutt School, in Weston, and so home, and found that our dog Duke had been shot, and Mr. E. Atkins the veterinary come to take him away. to see whether his life might be saved; but we all mighty dejected over it. Tuesday, March 17 VERY EARLY up and to the city on business, and glad for my sake that the elevators were again being run by experienced men; and it seemed to me a Cock Robin affair: Who won the strike? "I," said Jim Bambrick, "Without throwing a damn brick. I won the strike." Who won the strike? "I," said the Board, "With my strikebreaking horde, I won the strike." So by early train to the wet country, and did some work, and in the evening read Rebecca West's "The Thinking Reed," mighty interesting, and the flavour that she gives of the fatuous wealthy people, who never did anything that they wanted to, I thought pathetic but very wittily done. And when she was describing Marc Sallafranque, thus: Social fictions deceived him completely. He placed credence in everything that anyone said to him, whether it was a servant telling him that his master was out, or a woman saying she had not been able to attend his mother's reception because she had had a headache. One serious consequence of this was that, when people said that they were pleased to see him, he really believed that at the sight of him they had been transfixed by an actual frisson of pleasure. I thought, Lord! how like me that is! For when I ask somebody to do this or that, and he, and especially she, says "I shall be delighted," it never occurs to me that the person may be saying only a tepid "Yes." I am so literal a man that I take others literally, which is one reason why the easy greeting of "Darling" between strangers never' will cease to make me wince. Wednesday, March 18 TP BY TIMES, of a raining morning, even the Saugatuck River being mighty swollen. I am not able to interpret what is occurring in Europe, not knowing whether any of the nations actually want war. To hear them tell it there never yet was a nation that was not forced into a war. And now there is a inquiry into the telegraph and telephone company; and I doubt that anything will come of it. But when they tell me that naught came of the Senate Munitions Committee's investigation, I do not agree. For what most per- sons believe and remember, is not the actual testi- mony, but a general idea, wrong or right, that the big financiers were the motive power for the war, and that the propaganda of munitions in- terests was strong and subtle. This business of having fifteen more letters in the alphabet is as great popycock as the idea that next season we shall all be wearing scarlet evening suits. So read most of the afternoon and evening by the fire, it being a chill and rainy day. Thursday, March 19 fO THE CITY with my boy Tim for his dentistry, and so he back alone on the 11 o'clock train, and I to the office and at work upon matters liter- ary and financial, which I do thank Heaven are not yet synonymous in my life's vocabulary. So late in the evening to H. Miller's and saw R. Crouse who tells me that hath been 27 hours on the train coming from Pittsburgh, owing to the flood, and a snowstorm in Buffalo. Saw too Dot Thompson, but not yet have I seen her there. So home and to bed. Friday March 20. I AY LONG of a warmish and sunny morning, and. for a million dollars I would not have risen at all, and for half that sum I would take a fort- night's holiday. So by train to the office, and sad- Washingon Off The Record By SIGRID ARNE COME WHAT MAY in the November- elections, Representative Dewey Short, of Missouri, has a job waiting for him. A letter was forwarded from his Galena home written by a Mis- sourian who said: "Dear Sir: There was a man here tonight said you worked for him and was a good worker. I have a cafe and a good business. I will try you out and if you are satisfactory pay you reasonable wages." Short answered on House of sentatives stationery: "Dear Sir: As you will observe by the letterhead, I am at present em- ployed. But this is election year so I am filing your offer." Marvin McIntyre and Stephen Early were being ragged about theis Jobs as secretaries to the President. They are known effi- cially as the "secretariat." Some question had arisen as to the or- igin of the word. "That's easy," said the wag, "it's because the President is al- ways shouting, 'Where's my sec- retary at?' REPRESENTATIVE JOHN M. COS TELLO of California has an ar- gument in favor of airplane travel. He took an air trip on congressional bus-, iness, and on the return the plane was wrecked. Costello and the pilot crawled out unharmed and took the train back to Washington. On arrival Costello started to walk' straight to the capital. After two' blocks he suddenly saw a huge, black object hurtle past his head. A man- hole cover had blown off and nar- rowly missed him. Habit played an amusing trickj on the House of Representatives en a recent day when the House was not in session.t Capitol electricians were test-1 ing bells which call members to the floor. On the first signal representatives automatically dropped work in their offices and dutifully trekked to the House chamber. REPRESENTATIVE D. J. Driscollt insists a vote is a vote, so he holds no resentment for the old German back home in St. Mary's, Pa. The old German passed Driscoll's1 headquarters with a friend during the last campaign, and Driscoll over heard them: "You going to vote for dis fel- low?" asked one.t "Yah,, "But you always don't like him." "Yah, but I vote for him. He go to Washington and we get rid of him." MEXICO furnished Representative Kent Keller of Illinois with an3 illustration for the theory of rela-i tivity. He spent 12 years below the Rioc Grande. Once he superintended thex building of a mine where he had to use untrained Mexicans. They had never seen a wheelbarrow, so Keller loaded one, rolled it and dumped it. "Now you do it," he or- dered and walked off. When he came back, the Mexicanst were doing just as they were toldt with one exception. After they hadc dumped their barrows they care-t fully carried them back in their armsf to the loading spot.9 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication In the Bulletin is co n~fruetlve notice to al emrs of the WJveraity. Copy received at the officc of the Assistant to the President mtfl 3:30; 12:00 a.m. an Saturday. THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936 VOL. XLVI No. 124 Notices Students of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts: A meet- ing will be held on Thursday, March 26, at 4:15 p.m., in Room 1025, Angell Hall for students in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts and others interested in future work in Library Science. The meeting, one of the vocational series designed to give information concerning the nature and preparation for the various pro- fessions, will be addressed by Dr. W. W. Bishop, Librarian of the Universi- ty and Chairman of the Department of Library Science. The next pro- fessional talk, -to be given by Prof. R. B. Rodkey of the School of Busi- ness Administration, will be given on Tuesday, March 31. All Students of the University who are Daughters or Sons of Rotarians are cordially invited to be the guests of the Ann Arbor Rotary Club for luncheon on Wednesday, April 8, at 12:15 o'clock at the Michigan Union. Please make reservations promptly in Room 107, Mason Hall. Students, College of Engineering: The final day for dropping a course without record will be Salturday, Differences and Numerical Summa- tion of Series." Review of Litera- ture. Meeting in Room 314 W. Engi- neering Annex, 4:00 p.m. All inter- ested are cordially invited to attend. Scabbard and Blade: Rushing Smoker at 7:30 p.m., Room 319-325 Michigan Union. Weekly Reading Hour; Prof. Clar- ence D. Thorpe, of the English De- partment, will read from the poetry of John Keats at the Weekly Read- ing Hour at 4 p.m., Room 205 Mason Hall. All persons interested are cor- dially invited to attend. Harris Hall: Today at 12 noon to 1 p.m. there will be the Student Star- vation Luncheon in Harris Hall. All students and their friends are cor- dially invited. The proceeds will go to the Rector's Discretionary Fund for students. Hillel Foundation: There will be a tea at 3:30 at the Foundation, spon- sored by the Hillel Foundation. All are welcome. Sigma Delta Chi: Regular dinner meeting for members, pledges and guests at 6:15 p.m. in the Union. Pledge speakers will be Mr. Arnold Daniels and Mr. Maynard Hicks. Maj.-Gen. Smedley D. Butler (U.S. Marines, retired), will speak on "War Is A Racket" at 8:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. The lecture is spon- sored by the Students' Alliance. Coming Events March 28. Courses may be dropped only with the permission of the clas- sifier after conference with the in- structor in the course. Senior Women may get tickets for J.G.P. and Senior Supper in the Un- dergraduate Offices of th eLeague on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 3:30 to 5:30. The price is 65 cents, and includes dinner 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- Cormick. Academic Notices From The Daily Files March 26, 1936 Prof. Thomas C. Trueblood of the public speaking department, who has been a member of the University faculty since 1889, presented his res- ignation to the Board of Regents Wednesday. Professor Tiueblood has for many years been the director of the University golf teams. He is the inventor of the famous Michigan yell. Captain Rene Fonek, France's pre- mier fighting aviator of the World War, today announced plans for an attempt to make a non-stop flight be- tween Paris and New York, but said he probably would not be ready for the adventure before next year. It is possible an American aviator may ac- company him as an aide. Five articles of the impeachment against Federal Judge George W. English of Illinois for "high misde- meanors in office" were laid before the House today by its judiciary com- mittee, and action on them will be taken next Thursday. Michigan's Varsity track team, ac- companied by Coaches Farrell and Hoyt, will leave Ann Arbor for Ithica at 3:28 o'clock this afternoon to com- pete in the 15th annual dual indoor track meet with Cornell. Michigan's first student interna- tional tribunal will assemble at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Lane Hall to dis- cuss world problems and their solu- tion. 3 i s k L e k t u r 0 0 r E { fc E a c n z ti a Economics 52: Rooms 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.H., Wiers' sec- tions. Lecture Presbyterian Lenten Lecture: The fifth in the series of Lenten Lectures at the Masonic Temple given by Dr. William P. Lemon will be offered to- night at 7 p.m. The subject will be Tennyson's "Idylls of the King." The dinner will be served promptly at 6 p.m. Students and faculty are in- vited. Exhibition Exhibition, Architectural Building: A collection of drawings representing the work of the schools affiliated with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is now on view in the third floor exhibition room of the Architectural Building. Open daily 9 to 5 except Sunday, through March 31. The public is cordially invited. Evets Of Today Psychology Journal Club meets at 7:30 p.m., in Room 3126 N.S. Profes- sor Maier will discuss Koffka's recent book on Gestalt Psychology. Applitd Mechanics Colloquium: Mr. D. K. Kazarinoff will speak on "Finite Eden Declares Italy's Answer Unsatisfactory LONDON, March 25. - (A') - For- eign Secretary Eden informed the House of Commons today that he had told Italy that Great Britain was unable to regard Italy's answer to rep- resentations made over the bombing of a British Red Cross unit in Ethi- opia "as in any way satisfactory." Eden's statement was a written reply to Lieut. Commander R.T.H. Fletcher, Labor Party member, who wanted to know the result of Great Britain's representations. Eden said that he still was awaiting further information by the officer in charge of the ambulance unit. (The British Red Cross unit in Ethiopia was bombed last month by an Italian airplane. The Italians claimed that the unit was carrying Munitions). ROME, March 25. - (A') - Marshal Pietro Badoglio, commander of the Italian forces in Ethiopia, reported today that a squadron of 80 Italian' airplanes had again bombed Jijiga, Delta Epsilon Pi: There will be a meeting at the Michigan Union, Fri- day, at 8 p.m. sharp. Officers for the year 1936-37 will be elected. All mem- bers are urged to be present. Graduate Outing Club: Second an- nual banquet of the Graduate Outing Club. Meet at Lane Hall Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Transportation will be provided to Wolverine Day Camp (scene of the event). Total expense 50 cents. Stalker Hall Dance: Jacob's Wol- verines, a six-piece orchestra, will play for a dance Friday, March 27. The charge for dancing and .refresh- ments will be 25 cents. All students are cordially invited. Congregational Student Fellowship Party in the Parlors of the Church, Friday, 8:30 to 12:00. All Congre- gational Students and their friends are cordially invited. Kagawa Gives First Lecture In Loud Series Great Japanese Answers Many Questions On Life, Work And Beliefs (Continued from Page 1) spirit of peace, recognition of labor, and a spirit of personal piety. In the first of the Martin Loud lec- tures, given yesterday afternoon in Hill Auditorium, Kagawa expressed the opinion that war was impossible to prevent by any means other than the securing of cooperation and feel- ing of good will between nations. The topic of the lecture was "Christian Cooperatives and World Peace." Five elements were mentioned by Kagawa as confronting the nations of the world and as being the causes of the economic and militaristic chaos existing today. These included the problems of over-population, the necessity for "aw materials, national loans, commercial policy and trans- portation policy. Kagawa stated that peace cannot be obtained until every one of the problems is solved. Finland and the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Denmark and Sweden were cited by Kagawa as an example of international cooperation. Each of these countries has a coopera- tive system of its own, Kagawa stated, but in addition these nations cooper- ate with each other in their com- mercial relations. These northern countries were characterized as bear- ers of international good will, and were contrasted with the other powers of Europe whose histories were "red with the blood of imperialistic wars." The Japanese cooperator deplored the fear that has developed among peoples by the rapid and scientific growth of the last few decades. He stated that psychological differences and fear of each other among various peoples of the earth have caused the present armament building programs. One solitary banking system for the entire world was advocated by Ka- gawa. With this device, he claimed, problems arising from international loans could be avoided. "During the war, we lent the allies money," K- gawa said. "Why can't we go a step