THE M ICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936 THE MICHIGAN DAILY The Student And The Future .. . The Conning Tower THE STAGE I if p.- Publisned every morning except Monday during tho 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 ituor not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor. Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave., New York City; 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Telephone 4925' BOARD OF EDITORS ' MANAGING EDITOR ..............THOMAS H. KLEENE ASSOCIATE EDITOR...............THOMAS E. GROEHN Dorothy S. Gies Josephine T. McLean William R. Reed DEPARTMENTAL BOARDS Publication Department: Thomas H. Kleene, Chairman; Clinton B. Conger, Robert Cummins, Richard G. Her- shey, Ralph W. Hurd, Fred Warner Neal. Reportorial Department: Thomas E. Groehn, Chairman; Elsie A. Pierce, Joseph S. Mattes. Editorial Department: Arnold S. Daniels, Marsliall D. Shulman gports Department: William R. Reed, Chairman; George Andros, Fred Buesser, Raymond Goodman. Women's Departme1,: Josephine T. McLean, Chairman: Josephine M. Cavanag, Florence H. Davies, Marion T. Hoden, Charlotte D. Rueger, Jewel W. Wuerfel. 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 Local Advertising, William Barndt; 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: ELSIE A. PIERCE The Results Of The Peace Meet ... T HERE was cause for elation and dis- appintment in Michigan's Peace Meeting yesterd~ay, a prelude to the nation-wide student demonstration today. It was tremendously encouraging to find, de- spite inclement weather, more than double the number of people who attended both the convo- cation and strike of last year. It was encourag- ing to hear a variety of opinions presented and courteously received, to hear specific roads to action suggested instead of generalizations. Lastly, an indispensible tradition has been established. The meeting, we feel, accomplished a great deal. It made many Michigan students realize that the fight for peace is not radical, but must rest in the hands of all of us, and that pacifism has eminent respectability. Many of us were gratified that the University, which was an ardent militar- istic machine in the past war, was lending support and a measure of direction to the peace movement; we hope that the University and members of the faculty continue to maintain a sound perspective and a humanitarian philosophy in periods when the sanity of other educational institutions has been swept away. It was discouraging, however, to realize that four out of five people on the campus either are not interested in peace, or are too lethargic to be stirred to any action on its behalf. This realization will serve to strengthen our conviction that a very great deal remains to be done on this campus. What of the future? The Peace Council must continue to grow in usefulness, and must receive our support so that the energy aroused and con- solidated at the meeting may lead to effective action. It has announced a program of a cam- pus speakers' bureau. May we suggest too that it continue to serve as a fact-finding, information- disseminating body, operating without domina- tion by those of any one political allegiance. Such an aggressive organization will be useful because it will have the faith of the campus. The Daily pledges itself to assist the Peace Council in every way possible, so that in time, not only all of Mich- igan's students will be well informed of the nu- merous factors in war, but perhaps others through- out the country may be benefitted. Finally, there remains much that we as indi- vidual college students may do. The suggestions offered at the meeting were well made, and we think that the five-point program expounded by Professor Slosson will bear reiteration here: (1) Let us as voters, or future voters, deter- mine our ballots on the primary platform of peace. None other is more important. (2) Let us make our voices heard in Congress. Legislators who realize that a powerful constitu- ency exists which will support every peace move can help us effectively. (3) Let us each be the center for the dissem- ination of information about war and its causes. As college-bred men and women, our voices should be effective in our communities. (4) Let us support those newspapers and peri- odicals which promote international amity and eschew those which promote misunderstandings and ill-will. (5) Let us, in our contacts with foreigners as guests or hosts, conduct ourselves so as to further understanding and good feeling between our re- + spective countries. Let us not forget that the greatest enemies of peace are the defeatists -preparedness advocates and isolationists - for their arguments are based on fallacies and lead but to folded hands. T IS SELDOM that one can predict the future with any degree of cer- tainty. But today it is as safe as anything can be to prophesy the political issue that will face us for many years to come: Shall we maintain a largely spontaneous economic system, or shall we work for more governmental control and regula- tion? President Roosevelt was right when, in his speech before the opening session of Congress, lie said in effect that this would be the issue of the 1936 election. It will be, moreover, the fundamen- tal issue as long as your vote has a semblance of influence - for when your suffrage is gone the is- sue will have been decided. It is important to realize that Capitalism, as it exists in the United States today, cannot continue for many years. Whoever denies this is blind to the discontent, the ever-growing discontent, of the people of our country. They were discontented enough to follow Huey Long; millions today swear by Dr. Francis E. Townsend and Father Coughlin, both of whose ideas are unacceptable to well- informed people. There are many following Roose- velt - with a good majority of the nation's news- papers against him--merely because they fear going backward.- The depression, of course, has accentuated this discontent, but the depression, in truth, is only a minor factor. The roots lie far deeper than that; they are embedded in the very foundations of America's rugged individualism and are an in- evitable result of it. Rugged individualism has allowed tremendous fortunes to be acquired. Men with unusual ability, or with luck, have accumulated ponderous wealth, which itself has been used to acquire more wealth, until today the wealth of the United States is concentrated. The poorer men have been deprived of what little wealth they had. Some of the middle class have slipped into the lower levels - figures of the distribution of wealth since the World War indicate this. Someday, as the middle class becomes smaller and smaller, the United States will consist of two sharply defined classes - the peasants and the Bourbons, with the middle class non-existent. Such conditions, if allowed to develop in the United States, will lead inevitably to Revolution -just as they always have before. The middle class is absolutely essential to Capitalism, and the middle class is disappearing. Only a radical change in our concept of gov- ernment can restore the middle class to its former size and contentment, and consequently insure the continuation of Capitalism. The United States must realize that it is, in a day not far away, due for a radical change, whether it be sudden and violent, or slow and evolutionary. In which direction this inevitable change will take us is our concern. Will it, in the form of revolution, lead us to Communism or Fascism? Or will it, in the form of a changed concept of the function of government, make Capitalism accept- able to Americans? This problem is by no means simple. Approach- ing it without bias, no one will state that Capital- ism must be retained at all costs. Recall that the production of America has been far below its potential capacity at a time when millions have been without the food, clothing and shelter neces- sary for true happiness. Think of the accusa- tion that Capitalism leads to war. But then Cap- italism, others say, allows us to think, write and speak as we please- although there has been a tendency toward revoking these constitutional rights in the last few years. On the other hand, Communists, and all their literature, promise us that their would be the land of plenty, that production would be at full capacity and everyone would have all he needed at all times. They promise us eternal peace. But where - witness Russia - are individual liberties? Must we bind our thoughts to Communism and read nothing but canned news? Under Fascism we would worship an American Benito Mussolini, read only canned news, have knowledge interpreted in a perverted form - and youth would be made to learn that it is to its advantage to learn to kill people. Glorious war! It is not our intent to point out the way. But do not hasten to the conclusion that you must choose between planned economy and indi- vidual liberties. It must be that a balance of the best features of these governments would be the happiest solu- tion. Would not a government where we had free speech and press, sponsoring an industrial system which produced close to its potential capacity all the time, be better for all of us? Our problem, it would seem, is to reconcile personal liberties with an adequate control over production and distribu- tion - something no country has yet accomp- lished. That is where we, the college men and women of America, are needed. In a day not too far distant we will be the stable citizens of our com- munities. Some of us will be heading large busi- ness, from which vantage point we can play a more important role in politics. We can use our influence to turn away demogogues and see that men of ,integrity and judgment are elected to political offices. Some of us will be in political offices, where we can work toward the same ends. Some will be newspaper editors. They can en- deavor to educate and temper American opinion of these changes that must take place. Others will play their parts in local and state political parties. This crisis will be perpetual. From every indi- cation available today, the 1936 election will be President Roosevelt against a conservative. So to- day we should start thinking of this perpetual crisis and how we are going to meet it. We must lay a firm foundation on which to base our opinions, learn to divorce our intellects from our prejudices, and realize that each one of us will be vital to any movement that is for bettering America. ELEGY FOR A SCULPTRESS (Margaret Metzger Vandercook died April 5, 1936) She is dead. Let no bells ring, Nor shatter with loud weeping The gentleness of spring Where she lies sleeping. May no pretentious myrrht Nor garish wreath be strewed Upon the grave of her de Whose life was quietude.t Be stayed by her bequest To us, reft and alone-~ The fortitude to wrest1 Beauty from granite stone. --MARJORIE MARKS.- Secretary Eden has shown that Italy and Ethi- opia signed the 1925 International Conventiont which bound signatories not to use poison gas; that Italy is using, and has been using poison gas, against Ethiopia. Well, Sir Anthony may have documentary evidence against Italy, but Il Duce probably can show that This Is Different, thatf no poison gas was used, and that nobody is ac- tually at war with anybody else. "Were it not for the laureate," John Masefield is supposed to have said, "anthologists of bad verse would be hard put to it to fill their volumes." Oh, no they wouldn't. Anthologists of even good verse have no trouble filling their volumes. Few of them do any selecting, except from other an- thologies, such as "The Golden Treasury," "The Home Book of Verse," and "The Home Book of Modern Verse." If the person or persons whom we bet with when the news came out that the Hotel Brevoort was to be torn down, will send us the money, our belief in the honor system will be strengthened. The Department of Buildings has withdrawn plans to replace the Brevoort. UP SANDUSKY STREET A VERY personable postman indeed. Tall, grace- ful, blond curling hair, white teeth which showed when he was smiling (and he was always smiling), he came swaggering up Sandusky Street in his gray uniform as if even then he had an audience. He did. You sat on your front steps and waited, longing for a letter for your house, just so Guy Miller would stop and talk. Thus you, at the age of six. He was in ever.y "home talent" entertainment, and when he suddenly joined a traveling min- strel show nobody was surprised. How he swag- gered at the head of the parade in every small town visited by the itinerant company! Then we heard he had married a widow with three chil- dren. Stage people! Then he was appearing in "parks" with his little family as "A Bit of Dresden China, by Ruth, Gig and Claire." Then they were billed as the Five Columbians, for the bady had grown up enough to take the part of the animated doll instead of Claire. And Guy changed his name to --of all things - Caro! He brought his glamorous family back to Hancock County to visit his old mother. Everybody adored them, and Guy rose several points in Hancock County's estimation. Hancock County, always quick to love its children when they had made a success. The baby was wonderful, he told mother. She had learned to dance on her toes, she could play the piano, she could tap. Once we saw them all at Reeves Park. She was so little, but she could stand in front of the piano, play a tune, sing it, and dance to it, all at one and the same time. When she was old enough he got her on in New York at the Winter Garden. Here was something that made seedy, jaded old Broadway sit up in astonishment. They said she danced like the spirit of Youth, Joy, the Artlessness of Child- hood. They even said she brought tears to bleary old eyes. His adopted family loved Guy; and without him we wonder if they could have gone so far. He became one of Hancock County's Favorite Children, he and Ruth and Claire and - Marilyn. -B. ROSS. The sick room of W. T. Porter was all that re- mained today of his house in the Hannah com- munity, which was struck by a tornado last night. The remainder of the house was blown away, but Porter confined to his bed, was unhurt. - A.P. dis- patch from Gorda, Ala. Which suggests Flaxius J. Cook's definition of Transcendentalism: "Transcendentalism is two holes in a sand bank. A storm comes up and washes away the sand bank without disturbing the holes." It seems that Mr. Richard S. Reynolds has been calling upon a "group of newspaper and mag- azine writers, who were his guests, to glorify home ownership in poetry, song, and story." And Mr. Reynolds recited a few verses which he said that he had composed in collaboration with Miss Au- drey Wurdemann and Mr. Joseph Auslander. The first stanza was: Build me a home, I am lonely, Lonely for a chimney and cat. I've been about and I've found out Life's too big for a flat. Mr. Reynolds, it is gleaned, wrote that by him-j self. But Miss Wurdemann wrote the final stanza: Build me a home in the corner With my window flush with the lawn; Where life overflows on the heart of a rose, Where birds may wake me at dawn. The thing is too easy, though we hate to go into it until we learn the amount of the prize. Still: Build me a home in the country, With twenty-two rooms and a hall; Where never is heard an awakening bird, And the bank doesn't bother at all. "LIBEL" A REVIEW (Editor's Note: The following "e- ond review" of "Libel," which is to open the Ann Arbor Dramatic Season on May 18, was written last week by the distinguished New York dramatic critic, Robert Garland, and was first published in The New York world- TeTgran By ROBERT GARLAND THE NIGHT of December 21, back in 1935, witnessed the New York opening of one of Gilbert Miller's meticulous productions which is still] entertaining both the bus and car-1 riage trade at Henry Miller's digni- fied, and some say dingy, theatre. The play was - and is --"Libel." Every member of the New York Drama Critics' Circle your correspon- dent can call to mind sent it off with1 a warm start, patting it prettily on the back. "Good Grade A English1 melodrama" is what this department called it in a summary which was; notable for hat-tossing. Yet, without benefit of the usual Broadway ballyhoo or dancing in the streets by street-dancing review- ers, without battles over its signifi- cance or a glittering array of stars, "Libel" has turned into one of those rare theatrical things, one of those Broadway oddities, a "Constant" Suc- cess that the public itself has made. It goes on and on with little press fuss about it, because the audiences themselves advertise it. Seeing it again for the first time since its opening is a suave and sat- isfying expjerience. The part of the purple-faced, vitriolic lawyer for the defense still overshadows all others. The author, Edward Wooll, in this portrait of Thomas Foxley, K.C., has fashioned one of Times Square's can- niest characterizations of the sea- son. Three seasons back the same Henry Miller's theatre, the same Gilbert Miller, had another Constant Success on Broadway. You'll remember "The Late Christopher Bean." Like "Libel," the Sidney Howard adaptation of Rene Fauchois' "Prenez Garde a la Peinture" continued week after week to delight the customers and warm the Arctic hearts of boxoffice treas- urers. Now, behind the window in the lobby of Henry Miller's theatre, the beaming face of Willie Harris is eloquent testimony of "Libel's" status after more than 120 perform- ances. So this "Libel," this one-set, no- star importation from London, con- tinues. Eighty-five hundred dollars this week. Eighty-four hundred dol- lars last week. Eighty-six hundred next week. It continues because it is thoroughgoing theatre, with nothing to prove but that a good story is al- ways surefire. And "Libel" does tell a good story, a tale of peace and war, of love and hate, of understanding and mis- understanding. Edward Wooll wrote his narrative to be acted old-fash- ionedly on a stage rather than new- fashionedly on a soapbox. And there's a pay-as-it-enters public to express its appreciation at the boxoffice. Last night's numerous bus and carriage trade reacted tensely and wholeheartedly to Sir Mark Iodden's tragic predicament, taking sides throughout this session in a King's Bench Court as the sinister Thomas Foxley, K.C., counsel for the defen- dants, andsthe suave Sir Wilfred Kel- ling, counsel for Sir Mark, battled it out between them. The audience won! "Libel" has proved itself 100 per cent pure theatre. That's good enough for anybody, Ten Years Ago From The Daily Files April 22, 1926 /ICHIGANs Varsity baseball team opened the home season yester- day afternoon with a 6-1 victory over Michigan State College, the Wolver- ines experiencing little difficulty in downing the up-state team. * * ,* The two-billion dollar Italian war debt settlement was ratified today by the Senate, 54 to 32, but opponents served notice that they would move for reconsideration. * * * Terrific earthquakes shook the dis- trict of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii yesterday afternoon. The quakes, which took place on the 4,000 foot level of Muana Loa, caused enormous avalanches in Halemaumau, which is always active following an eruption on Muana Loa. Two sections of Michigan track men will leave this afternoon to com- pete in the Drake and Penn relay carnivals at Des Moines and Phila- delphia. Teams of seven men each will be sent to the two meets. In an effort to halt the practice of students cashing worthless checks at the stores of Ann Arbor merchants, the distribution of placards contain- ing the state law on the subject was authorized by the Sudent Council at its meeting last night in the Union. * * * WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936 c VOL. XLVI No. 139 Notices President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to the students on Wednes-f day, April 22, from 4 to 6 o'clock.- Notice To Seniors, Graduate Stu- dents: Diploma fees are payable now. Early settlement is necessary for thet preparation of diplomas. In no case will the University confer a degree at1 commencement upon any student who fails to pay fee before 4 p.m.- Monday, May 25. In case the Faculty does not recom- mend any paper, the fee will be re- funded on surrender of reeipt for payment. The above applies also to fees for all special certificates. Candidates for degrees or certifi- cates should at once fill out card at office of the Secretary of their own college or school, pay the cashier* of the University, have card receipted, and file indicated section of this re- ceipted card with the Secretary of their own school or college. (Stu- dents enrolled in the Literary Col- lege, College of Architecture, School of Music, School of Education, and School of Forestry and Conservation, please note that blank forms should be obtained and receipted cards filed in the Recorders' office, Room 4, Uni- versity Hall. Please do not delay until the last day, but attend to this matter at once. We must letter, sign, and seal approximately 2,000 diplomas and certificates, and we shall be greatly helped in this work by early payment of the fee and the resulting longer period for preparation. Shirley W. Smith, *-The Cashier's Office is closed on Saturday afternoons. Students of the College of Litera- ture, Science and the Arts: A meet- ing will be held on Thursday, April 23, 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 futurenwork in nursing. The meeting, one of the vocational series designed to give in- formation concerning the nature and preparation for the various profes- sions, will be addressed by Miss Mar- ian Durell, Director of Nursing, Uni- versity Hospital School of Nursing. Student Loans. There will be a meeting of the Loan Committee in Room 2, University Hall, Thursday afternoon, April 23. Students who have already filed applications for new loans with the Office of the Dean of Students should call there at once to make an appointment to meet the Committee. J. A. Bursley, Chairman Com- mittee on Student Loans. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received announcement of United States Civil Service Examinations for Junior and Senior stenographer, sal- ary, $1,440 to $1,620; Junior and Senior typist, salary, $1,260 to $1,440 for appointment in Washington, D. C., only; Junior cotton technologist. salary, $2,000; Senior Scientific Aid (color technology),nsalary, $2,000; and Junior Scientific Aid, salary, $1,- 440, Bureau of Agricultural Econom- ics, Department of Agriculture. For further information concerning these examinations call at 201 Mason Hall, office hours, 9 to 12 and 2 to 4 p.m. "Over the Counter Sale of Season May Festival Tickets: All remaining season tickets for the May Festival (six concerts) are now on public sale at the Business Office of the School of Music, Maynard Street, at $6.00, $7.00 and $8.00 each. (If Festival coupon from Choral Union course ticket is returned, the price is re- duced to $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00). All Women Students interested in the secretarial field as an approach to a later vocation are invited to hear Mrs. Katherine :Dunbar of the Kath- arine Gibbs Secretarial School dis- cuss Career Opportunities Through, Secretarial Positions. She will speak in the Michigan League at 4:15 today. There will be an opportunity to meet her personally and ask questions fol- lowing her speech. Inquiries may be made at the Office of the Dean of Women. Bureau Of Appointments and Occupational Information. Sophomore, Junior and Senior En- gineers: Mid-Semester reports for grades below C are now on file and open to inspection in the office of the Assistant Dean, Room 259 West En- gineering Building. Senior Engineers: Senior invita- tions for the engineering school will be on sale Wednesday, Thursday, Fri- day and Monday, April 22-27, from 9-11 and 2-4 p.m. on the second floor, corridor of the west Engineering Bldg. School of Education Students: Or- ders will be taken for commencement invitatinns Wednesdav and Thnrs- classes will meet hereafter on Wed- nesday and Friday at 4:00 p.m, in Room 1035 Angell Hall. Contcmporary: Manuscripts for the fourth issue should be left in the English office, 3221 Angell Hall, as sooi as possible. Crop and Saddle: Any woman stu- dent wishing to try out for this rid- ing club is asked to get in touch with Eleanor French, the club president, or leave her name at Barbour Gym- nasium, Room 15. The try outs will be held Friday, April 24, at 2 p.m. Transportation will be arranged. A cademic Notices Chemistry 17 and 36: Dr. McAlpine is unable to meet his classes this week. Lecture Public Lecture: "Islamic Decora- tive Arts" by Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu. Illustrated. Sponsored by the Re- search Seminary in Islamic Art. Mon- day, April 27, 4:15 p.m. in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. Admission free. Concert Graduation Recital: Mildred Bas- tian, of Albion, Mich., a member of the senior class of the School of Music, will appear in a graduation re- cital, Thursday evening, April 23, at 8:15 p.m. in the School of Music Aud- itorium, to which the general public is invited. Her program is as fol- lows: Sonata, Op. 53 (Waldstein) ...... ..Beethoven Allegro conl brio Adagio molto Rondo Nocturne, Op. 72, No. 1 ... . Chopin Mazurka, Op. 30, No. 4 .....Chopin Toccata, Op. 17.........Schumann Prelude, Op. 32, No. 5 .Rachmaninoff Etude, Op. 7 ............Stravinsky Theme and Variations, Op. 35 .... ...........Paganini-Brahms Events Of Today Research Club, Junior Research Club, Women's Research Club. The annual Memorial Meeting will be held at 8 p.m., in the ballroom of the Michigan League. Prof. G. Y. Rain- ich will speak on Joseph Louis La- grange, and Prof. A. H. White will speak on James Watt. Mechanical Engineers: The A. S. M. E. will hold its annual election o officers at 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. There will also be a report on the Chicago Conference by Wilfred Wil- liams, and a report by Larry Lentz on the requirements for becoming a state registered engineer. Plans for the Detroit dinner meeting will also be discussed. Phi Sigma Spring Initiation it 7:30 p.m., Room 3024 Museums Building. Dr. Reuben Kahn will speak on "Pa- rasitism Versus Tissue Immunity." Refreshments. Alpha Nu meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the chapter rooms on the fourth floor of Angell Hall. There will be a dis- cusion concerning the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations. All members are urged to attend and visitors will be welcome. Transportation Club annual ban- quet at 6:15 p.m., in the Union, with Mr. Otis, of the Chicago Rapid Trans- it Company, as guest speaker. There are but few tickets left at the Trans- portation Library. 75 cents. Interfraternity Council meeting at 7:30 p.m., Room 306 of the Union. All house presidents are requested to be present. Deutscher Zirkel: Meeting at 8 p.m., Michigan League. The Deut- scher Verein, as guest of the Zirkel, will present a program of German folk songs. Everybody interested is minvited to attend. Luncheon Meeting of Wyvern this noon in the Russian Tea Room of the League. All members please be pres- ent. Stanley Chorus: Important meeting at 7:15 p.m. All voices come. Please be prompt. Freshman Glee Club: All freshmen who at any time this year attended a Glee Club rehearsal and have in- tentions of trying out for Varsity Glee Club next year are requested to attend rehearsal this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Frosh members of Var- sity need not attend. Freshman Glee Club: Regular meeting Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. Any- one interested in trying out for the Minstrel Show please be present. Sphinx, Junior Men's Honorary So- ciety, will meet at 12:15 p.m. today DAILY OFFIC[AL BULLI T[N Publication ti, the Bulletin is contr ct l' rv tloe to all memb-rs of the Velversity. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President ustU 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday.