The Weather Continued cold today; fair with moderate winds. L SirAdt D:aitlI Editorias Demcrracy Still Functions Well... An Uncomfortable International Scene ... VOL. XLVI No. 99 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS War Fear Is Voiced By Thomas Noted Socialist Believes Both Parties Fear To Face Basic Issues Cites Program Of 'Planned Economy' Credits Roosevelt With 'Personal Liberalism,' But Not Socialism An America headed straight for war and Fascism can only be saved by tossing capitalism out the window and substituting Socialism, Norman Thomas, twice a Socialist candidate for President, told more than 500 persons in Hill Auditorium last night. Both the New Dealers and the more conservative Democrats and Repub- licans are afraid to discuss the fun- damental issues, Mr. Thomas charged, and "neither the New nor Old Dealers are sure they dare touch the prosperity they say has returned, lest it disappear." In an address spiced by witty anecdotes and epi- grams, the Number One Socialist spoke on "A Program for Our Times," sponsored by the Faculty-Citizens Committee, and talked on two other occasions earlier in the day. A philosophy as well as a pro- gram is necessary, Mr. Thomas as- serted, outlining both from the So- cialist viewpoint. The philosophy, he said, is a "planned economy of abun- dance, resting on social ownership of the means of production, which is for use and not for profit." He em- phasized the need for working out immediate steps, "the dynamics of change," which he explained were involved in organization of three types: (1) An industrial or vertical or- ganization of workers, .including white collar workers. (2) Consumers cooperatives as a training schoolfor 'the ublic. (3) An active political party. Pointing to the unemployed and the inequality of income in America, Mr. Thomas held that the "present degree of recovery is ominous in two respects." First, he said, production is increasing in advance of employ- ment and money wages, "and this of itself dooms the present prosperity to impermanency." Secondly, he con- tinued, "the degrees of recovery is accompanied by a vast debt" which he believes is inflationary in its char- acter. The New Deal, he asserted em- phatically, is not Socialism. "It is a program of not soaking the rich but soaking the poor. It does not give security, but instead gives us a crazy kind of a bill wherein the govern- ment taxes payrolls. What Roose- velt did was to provide an ingenious scheme for subsidizing scarcity." Thomas Terms Fight Between Old Parties A 'ClassConflict' Famous Socialist, When Interviewed, Talks About Chances Of Radicals By FRED WARNER NEAL Norman Thomas will, if he is asked, be the Socialist candidate for Presi- dent next fall, and he hopes his op- ponents are Franklin D. Roosevelt and William A. Borah, but he prefers to be a Congressman from New York. Asserting the "necessity" for the Socialist party to put a candidate in the field, Mr. Thomas in an in- terview yesterday said he would again serve as his party's standard bearer if he was asked, but that he would greatly prefer not to do so. "If I do run," he declared, "I will get the most votes if the Republican candidate is Senator Borah." He argued the point on this theory: The left-wing laborers and farm- ers are now planning to vote for President Roosevelt not because they favor him, but because they fear any Republican candidate of "the Hoover type," and feel the Socialist party's chances are too slim. Sen- ator Borah, "while he is not really a liberal," is the only man in the field who would be at all acceptable to them, but if he should win the nomi- nation, the left-wingers would cast their voters for Thomas because they see little difference between either Borah and Roosevelt and regard neither of them as an "evil." No other candidate but Borah, Mr. Thomas declared, would have that effect. He believes President Roose- velt's chances of reelection "the best of anybody in the field," but held that it depends "very largely" on who the Republican candidate is. However, he warned that when and if Roosevelt is elected, "he will never serve another term under American customs." Despite the fact that Mr. Thomas views Fascism as "a great danger im- Tryouts Called For The Daily Report Monday Candidates Will Be Given 'Beats' And Instruction In News, Head Writing Eligible second-semester freshmen and sophomores who are interested in trying out for the editorial staff of The Michigan Daily are asked to report at 4:30 p.m. Monday at the Student Publications Building on Maynard Street. Tryouts for the sports staff and the women's staff will report at 4 p.m. Monday and 4 p.m. Tuesday, re- spectively, at the Students Publica- tion Building. To be eligible for work on The Daily, the tryout must be at least a second-semester freshman and have received at least one grade of "B" or minent in America today," he op-; poses a completely united front of liberals and radicals working against it. "Specific united fronts," he fa- vors, and he sees a united farmer- labor party as the ultimate solution. He is against, however, a Farmer- Labor party in the 1936 election be- cause he thinks it would be as futile as "the Dutch capturing Holland." The opportune time for a nation- wide Farmer-Labor party to strike, Mr. Thomas asserted, is in 1940, and he thinks that that is the way So- cialism will come in America and the way Fascism will be prevented. If Fascism comes to the United States, Mr. Thomas advised, it will come as the result of "another ca- tastrophic depression or another great war.". As for the present campaign be- tween the Republicans and the Demo- crats, Mr. Thomas derided it as an "unreal, pseudo class conflict." Pres- ident Roosevelt, he thinks, "is doing (Continued on Page 2) House Passes Farm Bill By 267-97 Vote Dairy Bloc's Compromise Amendment Beaten By Strong Majority Conservation Bill Extended To 1937 $2,000,000 Appropriated For Use In Dust Storm Area Of Southwest 0 WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. -- (P) - The Administration's half-billion dol- lar farm bill was rolled out of the House by a 267 to 97 vote today and shuttled toward a conference with the Senate for agreement on amend- MissGoeels Condition h ockey T Reprte A.Unchanged Reports from authorities at the cerning the condition of Dorothy Goebel, '39, Detroit, who was in- jured in a head-on toboggan crash into a tree Wednesday afternoon, said that her condition was "unchanged." Miss Goebel had not yet regained consciousness according to the late report, and she was still termed "dan- gerously ill" by officials. Tobacco Is C use The two other students riding with Miss Goebel on the 11-foot toboggan Of One University were badly bruised and shaken up. Madaline Meyers, '39, Detroit, was Fire Despite Rule released from the hospital when her scalp laceration did not prove ser- eam Beats t InGreat Drive, 2-1 Wolverines Have Chance To Enter Into Tie For Big Ten Title I ious and the other occupant of the toboggan, Elizabeth Henderson, '38, was unhurt. Miss Goebel did show slight im- provement between the time of the accident and Thursday morning but since then there has been little change. ments. S premeouLeaders predicted quick work would i be made of sending the bill down to Will Be Bates' the White House for the President's signature. The measure, as passed by the Subject Sunday House, was little different from the Senate bill. In the last few hours of debate, the House twice beat down Inaugurates New Series attempts to insert a dairy protection Of Lectures Which Will amendment more strongly worded than desired by the majority lead-! Be GivenWeekly ers. Program Limited to 1937 The "Supreme Court and Uncon- The approval of one of the major stitutionality" will be the subject of administration measures of the ses- a speech to be given by Dean Henry sion came on schedule after the ma- M. Bates of the Law School at 4:151 p.m. tomorrow in the Union. A series of lectures to take place every Sunday afternoon and planned by Rush Bowman, '37, Union execu- tive council man will be inaugurated tomorrow by Dean Bates. Bowman said that the other lectures would be given by professors and other faculty jority had whipped down 144 to 111 attempts by the dairy bloc to write in a stipulation that lands taken out of production under the soil conser- vation-subsidy program not be used for crops competing with established dairying. A compromise amendmentf seeking to meet dairy bloc objections was adopted. I ,G t n 5 p s t r t la u i b r p c e i f s t e members and that those who are to The measure amends the 1935 soil talk will be announced every week. erosion law to set up a temporary "It is thought that the students program of benefit payments for soil and general public would probably conservation work by the farmer in welcome an opportunity to learn line with government plans. This about the special studies or hobbies pogr.am may not extend beyond Dec. of the various faculty members from 31,_1937. { time to time," Bowman stated, "and this series is sponsored with the pur- pose of acquainting students with the hobbies and studies of the men as 'well as with the professors them- selves." Dean Bates is a recognized author- The bill provides for payments after that date, or earlier if states can arrange to participate before- hand, in a permanent state coopera- tive program based on soil conser- vation as well as maintenance of stable agricultural supplies and farm- ers' purchasing power. Fight In Senate Looms In carrying out this goal, the See- Sretary may use the domestic allot- ment plan of paying producers boun- ity on knows of the services mission constitutional questions andc personally several members Supreme Bench through his on different Federal com- s and committees. I The critics of the New Deal, he better and no grade lower than "C" (Continued on Page 2) for his first semester. instruction in elemenitary news Day Indicted j1writing and head writing, and a "beat," a department of the Univer- ity or a campus activity which is a For 1M tirder Of regular source of news, will be given the tryout. Iticiard Loch> Af promoted to the rank of reporter e withthe appointment of a new man- aging editor in the spring, he will JOLIET, Ill., Feb. 21.- /0) - A ( compete with other staff members in grand jury investigation of two sensa- his sophomore year for junior ap- tional episodes at the Stateville Pen- pointments, all of which entail edit- itentiary culminated today in the in- ing The Daily. dictment of a convict for the razor- slaying of Richard Loeb and of a Union Tryouts former guard for aiding the escape nion pryoner of a prisoner. E3OI James Day, moody young robber or resh ene from Chicago, was charged with mur- dering Loeb in a prison bath room Jan. 28. T eM n a Homer Talley, ex-guard, was TM charged with abetting the flight of John Floss, Chicagoan, serving one A call to all freshmen interested in year to life for armed robbery. trying out for the student organiza- State's attorney W. R. McCabe said tion of the Union to "report at 4:15 that he was undecided whether to ask p.m. Monday in Room 302 of the the death penalty for Day. Union was issued last night by Wen- In a lengthy confession, made cel A. Neumann, '36, president. public by authorities immediately Second semester freshmen whc after the crime, Day contended that have met the scholastic requirements he had killed Loeb in self-defense are eligible to report and to tryout because Loeb had persisted in annoy- on one of the various committees of ing him with improper advances. the Union. Those reporting must Loeb, with Nathan Leopold, was in have at least a "C" average and one prison for the 1924 murder of Bobby grade of "B" or better. Franks of Chicago, Neumann and John C. McCarthy, Floss walked out of the peniten-'36, recording secretary, will address tiary Feb. 5. He was captured thethgruanexlitefncos next day in Chicago. The prisoner the group and explain the function told officials that he and Tally had of the Union and the work the try- han nn "n litfp drinking haul" and outs will be engaged in. The fresh- a T 1 5 e U S , >S tS t° There will be no admission charged ties on the domestically consumed for the lecture Sunday, and the stu- portion of their crops.C dents and general public are urged A Senate fight seemed certain on to attend. An announcement of the the amendment of Rep. John W.E room in which Dean Bates will speak McCormack (Dem., Mass.), designed z will be posted on the bulletin board. to protect consumers against too great x _- a price increase by directing that * 11production should not be discouragedT Rinor-Ben Chen to a point too low to supply con- il A sumer demands on the basis of the W il* S e l average 1920 to 1929 consumption. A similar amendment by Senators rc Robert F. Wagner (Dem., N. Y.), was BaptistCC rejected before the Senate voted thex form plan, 56 to 20. Slosson To Lectore O I PUBLICATION NOTICE W sintn There will be no Daily pub-I Waslon, ChampioiI sedSunday morning because of, Of Nationhood" the fact that today, Washington's Birthday, is a legal holiday. Pub- Among the featured speakers on lication will be resumed with the the programs of the local churches paper of Tuesday, Feb. 25. Sunday will be Ring-Ben Chen, Grad., who will speak on Buddhism at 6' p.m. during the meeting of the Roger Williams Guild of the Baptist Church.1 The morning worship service will be held at 10:45 a.m. with a sermon byj the Rev. Howard R. Chapman. Part Of Frat Dr. Brashares of the First Metho- dist Church will preach on "Gifts! from Luther" at 10:45 a.m. Sunday. By JOSEPH S. MATTES 1 George Abernathy, Grad., will be the That "Hell Week" is a definitely guest speaker at the Wesleyan Guild necessary phase of fraternity pro- meeting at 7 p.m. in Stalker Hall. cedure and that it is too firmly em- Dean Frederick C. Grant, D.D. of bedded in Michigan tradition to be' the Seabury-Western Theological wholly cast aside is the belief of Seminary will be the guest preacher Michigan's undergraduate fraterni- at the service of the St. Andrew's ties according to a survey conducted Episcopal Church at 11 a.m. He will during the past week by Robert E. also be the speaker at the regular " Merrill, '36F, chairman of the Inter- student meeting to be held at 7 p.m. i fternity Council committee on in Harris Hall.!"elW k. The service at the Congregational "el Week."... All but six of the 48 fraternities in- Church will begin at 10:30 a.m. Prof.luded in the survey will definitely Preston W. Slosson of the history eue ntesre ildfntl department will lecture on "Wash- have a "Hell Week," Three houses ington, Champion of Nationhood." have abandoned the procedure en- The subject for the Presbyteria i tirely while the remaining three have Church forum for Sunday will be old dec ded whether they will "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam vs. 1 one o the Hound of Heaven." Norman W. The old-time "Hell Week," which Kunkel will preside over the discus- brought many violations of unaffil- son, iated persons' privacy and the en- IS.C. Beaten By Wolverines In Track. Meet State Loses To Weakenedl Michigan Team; Stoller Does 60 In :06.2' A badly weakened Michigan track eam opened its indoor season last, ight in Yost Field House with a 9-36 win over Michigan State, dis- laying neither the strength neces- ary to a Conference champion nor he decapitated character which would put it completely out of the 'unning for a Big Ten title. As expected, the Wolverines showed glaring weakness in the pole vault with Dave Hunn declared ineligible, n the high jump, and in the shot put, ut strength in the dash, the mile un, the half-mile and sustaining points in every other event were en- ouraging to Michigan supporters. Both teams scored slams in one vent, Michigan in the opening mile and State in the shot, as the Wolver- nes took the relay. The Spartans were able to register but two other irsts outright, in the quarter-mile, in which Harvey Patton and Stan Birle- on of Michigan did not run, and in he high jump. Outstanding performances of the evening were turned in by Sam Stol- er in the 60-yard dash as he tied for the second time during the week the American and world's cinder track record of 6.2 seconds, and in the mile, as Clayton Brelsford, Michigan's Conference indoor champion, put on a last-quarter sprint which gave him a 35-yard advantage over his arch rival, Ray Fink, a Michigan sopho- more. Brelsford's time of 4:22.2 broke the Michigan dual meet record of 4:23.4, set last year by Moore of Ohio. Bob Osgood of Michigan, however, was the individual star of the meet by virtue of his double win in the high and low hurdles events. Osgood also ran anchor on the mile relay team with Steve Mason, Charles Miller and Ben Starr as it coasted to a win in 3:29.9. In the half-mile, featured event of the meet with the presence of Jim Wright, of State, who placed second in the I.C. 4-A meet last year, How- ard Davidson stepped ahead of Ben Starr, also of Michigan, as Wright ran third all the way. 4l Week' Vital ernity Tradition strenuous "work weeks." The aver- age "Hell Week" will last four days, he said. Paddling, long a controversial and much-criticized phase of "Hel. Week," will be continued in the large majority of houses, but more than half of these houses, Merrill added have indicated that it will be ad- ministered only mildly or under sup- ervision of alumni. The committee has formulated a set of recommendations, concluding their study of the attitudes of frater nities, and will present them to th council for regulatory action at it next meeting. Whether the council will act in ac cordance with the resolution of th National Interfraternity Conference last fall, to the effect that "an edu cational campaign among activ chapters for the elimination of 'Hel With all the protestations over the "No Smoking" rule in University buildings, according to the 1934-35 president's report such rule is justi- fled. In three years previous to 1935 there was a total of 32 fires, ten o which were caused by cigarettes or lighted matches, the report says. During the past school year four fires were reported as occuring on University property. Of this nump ber three occurred as the result of a mischances in the regular routine o fi work, and the other was caused by ni lighted tobacco.-m The approximate damage of all the o fires last year amounted to $360.15 t and payments by the insurance com- t pany for the loss amounted to $355.15. On May 2 at 6:30 p.m. the fire at- e tributed to smoking occurred. A jan- t itor's closet on the first floor of Uni- e. versity Hall caught fire when a pipe n which had some lighted tobacco in it ti was put into a coat pocket by the janitor. The damage resulting w amounted to $5. a g e Poster Contestm s Is Sponsored By a th Tower Officials B Burton Organization To Award $50 In Prizes t For Student Entries J A poster contest for all University s students is being sponsored by the l committee of the Burton Memorial m Tower Fund Organization. Prizes a amounting to $50 for the best posters S in the opinion of the judges will be w offered. g The rules of the contest state that c all posters are to visualize the Tower J and Carillon and what they will to b the campus and the community, and h the share of the community will have a in their erection. An individual pos- a ter may treat on any one of these g three points, of a phase of one of a them, or of all three together, ac- t cording to the picture that comes to t the mind of the artist. officials said. March 1 will be the deadline of all C entries, and posters should not be less than 20 by 24 inches in size anda in not more than three colors. t It is planned by the committee to N use all posters entered in the "Build-n ers of the Tower Movement," a pro-a ject sponsored by the local UniversityI club in which $25,000 is to be collect-, ed for the construction of the bellf chamber and the superstructure above the bell chamber. After being displayed and used inF the drive, the posters may be claimedh by the students submitting them.s Proofs of pictures of the Burton Memorial Tower together with infor-s mation about the Tower and Carillont will be made available in proof formc for the guidance of contestants at thei Alumni Association Office or Room 205 Mason Hall.I There will also oe a division of thec contest for school pupils of the city, public, parochial and private. In this division a separate-group of prizes,c amounting to $30, will be given to the winners. The M. L. Burton Tower will bef erected on the campus of the Uni- versity this spring and summer andf 1 will honor the memory of Marion Le-j roy Burton, president of the Uni- versity from 1920-25, and will house the $50,000_Baird Carillon. Cains Are Made In Ethiopia By Italians WITH THE NORTHERN ITALIAN ARMY IN ETHIOPIA, AT THE FRONT, Feb. 20.- (Delayed)-- (A) -Italy's northern army resumed the - offensive today and conquered im- e portant new territory without so e much as a shot being fired. - A force of 20,000 white troops e marched 12 miles, conquering 20 new 11 towns, to add new laurels following 3oth Counters Are Made By J. Fabello )espite Handicaps From Shortage Of Man Power, Squad Plays Hard By FRED BUESSER Seven valiant Michigan hockey layers transformed themselves into band of courageous, unconquerable ghters in the packed Coliseum last ight when for 70 minutes of the ost bruising kind of hockey, they t-battled a 14-man Minnesota eam for a brilliant 2-1 overtime vic- Dry. The game, one of the most brilliant ver to be staged in Ann Arbor, put he Wolverines back in the Confer- nce race, and they need only to- ight's tilt to tie for the Big Ten tle. Trailing, 1-0, in the third period ith less than four minutes to play as result of Bob Carlson's first stanza oal from the red line, Michigan vened up the count using a four- nan attack when Johnny Fabello, ophomore flanker, snagged a loose uck in the Gopher defense zone fter a pile-up, and skating across he mouth of the goal, flipped a back- and shot into the twine past Goalie ud Wilkinson. David, Simpson Star It was this same curly-headed Fa- ello who, with almost half the over- ime perio gone, rode in on Gib ames' rebound and poked in the inning tally. Even with the strong Minnesota quad making use of three forward ines and two sets of husky defense- nen, Michigan was never outplayed s Captain Larry David and Bob impson stopped the Gophers cold with hard and efficient body checking. impson, playing his initial year of ollegiate hockey, as also were Gib ames, Irwin Shalek and Johnny Fa- ello, won his spurs last night as e banged the. heavier Gophers all round the rink. Fabello, flashing 3, great stick handling and skating ame was all over the ice as he acted s the spearhead of the Wolverine at- ack throughout the later stages of he game. With the capacity crowd backing Coach Eddie Lowrey's little squad to the limit, the game started fast and furiously when first Ridgeway Baker and then Bill Bredeson were put off the ice in rapid succession to leave Minnesota with only four men. Low- rey put four forwards on the ice in an attempt to get off to an early lead, but the Gophers held as first James and then Heyliger 'missed from close in. Heyliger Put Off Heyliger was put off for spilling Bjorck and Larry Armstrong put on his second line in a futile attempt to score. Late in the period Bob Carlson, spare Minnesota defenseman brought the puck up the ice and let go a drive from the red line. Shalek misjudged the flying rubber and dropped to the ice a moment too late as the disc slithered into the cage. With the Michigan players openly grinning as the Gophers frantically called for offsides in order to replace one forward wall with another, Min- nesota kept up a concentrated of- fensive throughout the second pe- riod. As each of the three Gopher forward lines took turns filing in and out of the game, the Michigan forwards only tightened their grips on battered sticks and occasionally got a breathing space when Lowrey put in his lone relief man, Jack Merrill. With the rabid crowd begging for a score the Wolverines put on the power, and the Coliseum was turned into a roaring bedlam when the Scit- (Continued on Page 3 Farley Addresses Democrats At Rally ST. LOUIS, Feb. 21.- (P) - Post- master-general James A. Farley told a Democratic rally tonight the Roose- velt administration "has rescued business."