PAGE FQUR THE MICHIGAN DA ILY WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14, 1976 A Vote For Thomas 1936 Member 1937 ssocided Cole6ide Press Distributors of Coe6idte D est Published every morning except Monday during the Universityy ear and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all ther matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Pos 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 Y'cork City; 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR .................ELSIE A. PIERCE ASSOCIATE VDIT~QA.... ...... FRED WARNER NEAL ASSOCIATE 9DITOR ... .M.ARSHALL D. SHULMAN George Andros Jewel Wuerfel Richard Hershey Ralph W. Hurd Robert Cummins Clinton B. Conger Departmental Boards Publication Department:Elsie A. Pierce, Chairman; James Boozer Arnold S. Daniels, Joseph Mattes, Tuure Tenande', Robert Weeks. Reportorial Department: Fred Warner Neal, Chairman; Edtriah Hurd, Wiliam E. Shackleton, William Spaller. Edtoial epartment: Marshall D. Shulman, Chairman; Robrt Cum'aahmins, William J. Lichtenwanger, Willard Myartnson,Chester M. Thalman, James V. Doll, MrySiage Mntaue. Wire Editors: Clinton B. Conger, Richard G. Hershey, assocates; I. S. Silverman. Sports Department: George J. Andros, Chairman; Fred DeLano and Fred Buesser, associates, Raymond Good- man Ca rlGerstacker, Clayton Hepler, Richard La- Marca. Women's Department: Jewel Wuerfel, Chairman: Eliza- j,,ith M'. Anderson, Elizabeth Bingham, Helen Douglas, argret Hamilton, Barbara J. Lovell,nKatherine coore, Betty Strickroot, Theresa Swab. Business Department BU~,SINESS MANAGER................JOHN R. PARK A8iC IATE BUSINESS MANAGER ! WILLIAM BARNDT WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER .......JEAN KEINATH Departmental Managers Jack Staple, Accounts Manager; Richard Croushore, Na- tional Advertising and Circulation Manager; Don J. Wilsher, Contracts Manager; Ernest A. Jones, Local -Advertising Manager; Norman Steinberg, Service anager; Herbert Falender, Publications and Class- I ed Advertising Manager. NIGHT EDITOR ARNOLD S. DANIELS 'llemma f The Left . . ONE OF THE interesting aspects of the national campaign is the di- :emma of the left-wing adherents. Should they coptinue in support of their own parties, they un the risk that Landon, whom they regard san extreme conservative, may be elected. §hpuld they support Roosevelt in order to avoid the election of Landon, they vote in direct con- tradition to their principles and for a man wio, if he does anything will make capitalism ynore habitable and postpone the time of any real reform. On this page today, we print Mr. Villard's answer to the problem. There is more- ?yer the question of the formation of a third arty calculated to give more adequate repre- snutation to the medium-liberals of this left wing. Will the election of Roosevelt hasten the forxmation of this Farmer-Labor party on a trong national basis, and, in fact, cause an timate re-alignment of the two major parties into, the opposing fields of conservatism and lib- eralism? We hope to deal with that problem in a future editorial, but, for the present, we wish to pomment on the position of the extreme left- wingers, the members of the Communist party. Before this year, the Communist campaign platforms repeated the call "Working men of the world, Unite!" It sang the Internationale and Dlenounced capitalism; its aims were largely douched in ultimate terms. Today, the Com- munist platform is specific and immediate, and, like the presentable Browder, more gently urges its persuasions. , Fllowing are some of the spe- cific planks in the platform of the American Communist party, as cQmpiled by Editorial Re- search Reports: Government operation of closed mines and factories where private ownership has failed to keep them open. National owner- ship pf the banking system. Nationalization of the munitions industry. Treasury revenues chiefly from steeply graduated taxes on inomes over $5,000 and gn cgrporate profits and surpluses. Aid to agriculture by cheap credit, end of foreclosures ,straight fixing of agricultural prices. Scientific soil conservation. Constitutional amendments to prevent the Supreme Court from invalidating legislation, to end child labor and to allow Federal control over the economic processes of the nation. Protection to trade unions, of civil rights and of Negroes. Federal anti-lynching law. Adequate unemployment insurance along the lines of the .Lundeen-Frazier bill.. Public housing at low rentals. Extensive program of public works. Cooperation with the League of Nations and with the Soviet Union in sanctions against Italy, Japan and Germany. Thr Amyrien Communists in 1936 nn- allow them to vote for Mr. Roosevelt because he represents a compromise between inflexible cap- italism and their social measures, even' though they may be costing Mr. R6osevelt many a.con- servative vote by announcing their Democratic preferences. This dilemma has reduced the left-wing votes, within their own parties, considerably. Norman Thomas polled less in 1932 than in 1928. Wil- liam Foster, Communist candidate, polled 103,000 votes, one-fourth of one per cent of all votes cast and almost 90 per cent less than the Social- ist vote. Michigan contributed 9,000 of those votes. Probably the same division will continue to reduce left wing party votes in this election, but we must remember that, if this prediction be realized, it will be because Socialists and Com- munists voted with their eyes on 1940, and a new alignment of parties in America. THEFORUMj Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily Anonymous contributions will bedisregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors aregasked to be brief, the editors reserving the right to condense all letters of more than 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Interest In Public Affairs To the Editor: May I congratulate whoever wrote the leading editorial in Sunday's Daily on that statement. To my way of thinking our chief hope for the survival of democracy is to be found in a sincere and intelligent interest in public affairs on the part of university and high school students. The writer of that editorial is to be commend- ed for the courage and sincerity of his (or her) convictions as well as for the dignity and force of that statment. BENEATH * + ** ~#~IT ALL ' - - ---ly lBonth Williams eA D ICK HERSHEY came in with a story yester- day about a guy whom he discovered living on the third floor of the Alpha Ielt house- a sort of stowaway effect. Apparently Alexander Woolcott started something when he dedicated one chapter of his Reader 'To Alpha Delta Phi.' According to Hersh this gent came in late and left at his own convenience, but finally a reck- oning day arrived. The fellow then calmly an- nounced that he had made up his mind. He told Dick to send him the steward and he'd come to an agreement about the house bill. "Convenient place here," he said. "I'll join. You take care of the voting and red tape." I was telling this story to Chuck Kennedy last night, when he interrupted with: "Why, I'll be -- that's the same guy that was at our house, the guy who asked if he could sleep there one night before school opened. He stayed almost a week, and then said he'd like to join even though he was going to school in Detroit. "And say, if it is the same guy, then he's the one who went up to the Sorosis house the day of their formal last spring and asked the house mother if there were any of the girls who didn't have dates. When she politely replied in the negative, he asked her if it would be all right if he just came and listened to the music." Mr. Bonth Williams, o Michigan Daily. Dear Mr. Williams: Will you accept orchids and my favorite gardenias for that letter in your column Oct. 9th? Maybe a man columnist hates a woman gossip, but me, oh my, how that malicious gossip invites the hatred of her own sex! Thanks a million. Please keep your col- umn out of the "Flash! Hollywood, Calif." category. Sincerely yours, Eva Ciulina ('39) 520 Forest Ave. * " ' * * BENEATH IT ALL: The bangtails have started to run at Sportsmans Park again-the place where they have all those classy platers running around and around a made over dog track for purses that often run as high as $800 ... Bob Henoch, the law school's premier handicapper, caught a couple of them Monday for a substan- tial killing . . . Bob was hot enough to elicit Leo's, "Say, you get behind here and let me play 'em .. .and speaking of Leo's, have you seen the big cage like rat trap stuck in the corner, prob- ably to prevent the ambitious rhodents from chewing up the cash customers overcoats . . . Add Beneath It All: The Varsity band will have a new drum major the next time it goes into action, according to Mgr. Jones. The versa- tile Bob Fox one of the best baton twirlers in these parts, was hit over the head by the eligi- bility jinx, and Director Revelli and his cohorts are trying to uncover a competent successor .. . a prominent campus sorority has moved its rush- ing meeting to the dining room where the chairs are stiff and uncomfortable. The girls all went to sleep in -the parlor. .. W. Grafton Sharpe has gone into the contracting business, and has been awarded the title Of 'Master Dog House Builder.' His assistant is a Mr. Fred (Dangler) George. Louisiana State University is adding 100 new courses to the curriculum for the 1936-37 session. Coming To Detroit--0. G. Villard Explains His Support Of The Socialist 0TIS SKINNER, one of the most (From The Nation) erred completely in not realizing that distinguished actors of the Amer-. he must break with the great capital- ican theatre, has not been able to AS USUALLY happens about this ists entirely if he would achieve his find a play this season that suits time in a Presidential campaign, program, that no compromise with him. And just as the late E. H. I am receiving inquiries about how I, them was possible. The .very, title of Sothern did when he was in a sim- personally, am going to vote. It is Mr. Lindley's book is the most dam- ilar predicament, Mr. Skinner will quite usual, too, to meet people who aging indictment of the Roosevelt "Wrpear kneielthe aomtIdoptlkew regime-it has been "halfway" at ,all make a lecture tour. Under the say, "Well, there is a lot I don't like times. But to this my inquisitors will title Footlights and Spotlights, he about Roosevelt and his Administra- reply: "Better halfway than none of will discuss and read lines from tion, but the all-important thing this the way.", some of the 330 plays he has acted year is to keep Landon out. Don't you during the last 58 years. It was also think so?" That has a most familiar what hope is there that the Demo- the title of his autobiography pub- sound, for in every election there are cratic Party will continue liberal and lished in 1924. The book will repay multitudes who vote with an eye to progressive after Mr. Roosevelt re- looking up as it gives a good picture the immediate peril and without at- of the theatre of his day, contacts tention to the longer vision. It is tires? I will insult no ones intelli- with its greatest names, as well as partly because of this that the two old gene by commenting on the foolish Mr. Skinner's delightful and rich corrupt and reactionary patries have rumors spread by crazy men and personality. He will be in Detroit held together as long as they have. women that the President will ro- under the auspices of the Detroit Tiyerheaploelct claim martial law and call off this Town Hall Series at 11 a.m. today at This year the appeal to reelect year's elections, or that he will de- the Fisher Theatre. Roosevelt meets with much liberal re- mand athird term in 1940. I left the sponse because there is no question Democratic Party years ago because STEVEDORE will be the first pro- that the sins of the Administration it was obvious that there could be no duction this season of the New and its lamentable administrative hope of its becoming a genuine re- Theatre Union at the Art Institute failures are in considerable degree form party when it was composed in Auditorium, October 15 to 17 with a offset by the liberal orientation of the part of the reactionary Southern pol- matinee the 17th. It deals with government as a whole. No one can iticians, in part of the corrupt Noth- Negro and white workers in a recent deny that though there has been ern municipal machines. If Roose- longshoremen's strike in New Or- maddening abuse of the appointive velt's successor should prove a real leans and was the first hit of the power purely for spoils purposes, an and not a halfway reformer, we Theatre Union at the Civic Reper- exceptionally fine body of mn has should see the party disintegrate rap- tory Theatre in New York. been drawn into the government serv- idly. ice. No one can question the great While I admit that the decision is }MULATTO, by the Negro poet and service rendered to the country in not an easy one I shall not cast my dramatist, Langston Hughes, will committing it-if haltingly and in- vote for Mr. Roosevelt, much as I open the season at the Cass The- adequately-to the principles of social ersonally like him and rateful as I atre next Sunday, October 18. James security and the right of every citizen am for the orientation of his adminis- Kirkwood who played in these pa to a job, and to a humane relief pol- tration. My reason is not merely my last season in Tobacco Road, will icy; no President hereafter will ever distrust of the party behind him or have the part of a white planter. It seek to do away with social insurance, my feeling that it is absolutely neces- is booked for one week. Innumerable social workers and sary to encourage a third-party move- ON OCTOBER 25 Lady Precious friends of labor are also ready to ment. I could not conscientiously Stream, from the repertory of forgive the President for all his short- vote for an administration which has Mei Lan-fang and with costumes de- comings out of gratitude to him for so militarized the country, and given signed by him, will open at the writing upon our statute books the us for military and naval purposes a Cass. It was translated and directed principle of collective bargaining budget for this fiscal year of about by Dr. Shih I. Hsiung, ran a year through representatives of labor's own $1,200,000,000. I agree with Secretary in London, several months in New choosing. Still other liberals will Hull that war is "a cruel mill," whose York. In his introduction to the vote for the President because of grist is "death to youth, death to version published by Methuen in their belief that the election of Lan- hope, death to civilization." Each one London and by Liveright in New don would mean a step toward fas- of us has his paramount issue. Mine York, Dr. Hsiung says: "In this play cism. is this question of war and peace and I have not attempted in the least to These are all, save the last, sound the savig of civilization. I feel that alter anything. The following pages arguments, with which I cannot Mr. Roosevelt, unwittingly, if you present a typical play exactly as quarrel if the satisfy those who ad- please, despite his great peace speech produced on a Chinese stage. It is vance them. But I feel that it is not at Chautauqua, has set us on the road every inch a Chinese play except true that the election of Landon to war and to the "death of civiliza- the language." According to Brooks would do more to advance fascism tion." As I thus feel, so must I vote. Atkinson, of the New York Times, "It than would that of Roosevelt. If If I am charged with thereby helping is told with half-hidden humors and Roosevelt is elected and continues to instal reaction in Washington, I decorous sentiments; the narrative his reforms, the embattled masters of can only cite once more my most accent is supple and dainty." capital will be much more ready to threadare but my dearest quota- Ann Arbor will remember The undermine our institutions than if tion. It was Wendell Phillips who Chalk Circle, the Chinese play which they find a fairly obedient servant in said that he stood at all costs for was so much liked when Thomas Mr. Landon. Moreover, Mr. Roose- human liberty and left the working Wood Stevens directed it for the velt's rapid militarization of the coun- out of the details to "Almighty God." Michigan Repertory Players in 1932. try has created just the weapon for So I shall vote for Norman Thomas. CALL IT A DAY is the comedy bfascists to use if they should come to Not as a member of the Socialist D ALL miTtAhDAYiwthounercmed power. Look at Spain and cry, Absit Party, for that I have never been, but DodieSmith who under her re- omen! The power of the army and because I think Norman Thomasthe cently abandoned pseudonym C. L. navy lobby in Washington can hardly most civilized and the most enlight- will oen wrote Autumn Crocusmb. It be exaggerated. Again Mr. Roose- lightened of the candidates, and the will open at the Cass November 3 velt's challenging of big business and soundest on the issue that concerns with the same cast that played it in then seeking to compromise with it me most. Of course if anybody should is headed by Gladys Cooper, l I and to woo it to his standard has put a pistol to my head and bid me made her first appearance in this weakened his position. As Ernest choose between Landon and Roose country a couple of seasons ago in Lindley has pointed out in his "Half elt, I should vote for the President The Shining Hour, and by Philip Way with Roosevelt," the President without a second's hesitation. Merivale, who is perhaps best re- membered for Death Takes a Holiday. THE GREAT WALTZ is touring D AIY OFFICIAL BULLETIN again this season and will stop at the Masonic Auditorium for six Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the days beginning November 3. Guy University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President Robertson who played the younger until :30; a:m:oSAturday. Strauss in New York but not on last1 season's tour is back in the part WEDNESDAY, PCT. 14, 1936 Field Hockey for Women Students: again this season. VOL. XLVII No. 15 Interclass hockey practices will be TI EATRE t -Edgar G. Johnston. Principal, University High School. A Goad Trick To the Editor : BOMBS STOP SHOW NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-(/P)-More than a thou- sand patrons were driven from the Times Square Theatre (215 West 42nd St.) tonight by fumes from a mustard tear gas bomb, believed hurled from the balcony among the orchestra seats. ** * * From Sunday's Daily, page 1, col. 4 bottoms A darn good trick if there were such a thing ! -Ye Alchemist. They almost had to use a pulmotor on Don Watson, Pomona College sophomore, who tried to guzzle six malteds in 20 minutes. At fifth down and three-fourths to go, the malted halted Wat- son. More than a. million students entered insti- tutions of higher learning this fall. Thirty-three of each 100 of the 1936 high school graduates are now college freshmen. The Gamma Phi Betas at Oregon State Col- lege had to seat their "rushed ones" on planks stretched across saw horses because the house was being remodeled at the time. When football men at the U. of Mississippi go around "boo-ing" its not to razz. They voted Bing Crosby as their favorite radio star not long ago. In Defiance Of The Constitution? -A Clarifying Summary Of The-Post-Dispatch Anti-New Deal Stand- (From, the St. Louis Po.t-Dispatch) OME OF THE READERS of this newspaper, in commenting upon its editorial of last Sun- day, "For President, Not Mr. Roosevelt," are charging the Post-Dispatch with desertion of its old faith in favor of Toryism and reaction. One reader puts it as follows: You have served the cause of liberalism and humanitarianism well in the past, and they will suffer by your desertion at the present crisis. In the name of Jefferson, of freedom, of patriotism, of the Supreme Court, the Old Foe is fighting under Hearst and the Liberty League, and you have joined them. Another reader says that the Post-Dispatch has been replaced "by an insidious sheet, masked by the same name, that will prepare the minds of its readers for the jettisoning of democracy and the establishment of Landon Fascism." We realize how deeply men's passions are stirred in the heat of a political campaign and how ancient party loyalties pull at the heart. At such a time, men are often hypnotized by party labels, by personalities and by sentimental attachments. It is not easy to take an objective view of the issues to be decided in so momentous a presidential election as the coming one. We have striven to take such an objective view, and the result was fully stated in the editorial of last Sunday-a re-reading of which we suggest to those critics who are charging us with Tory- ism and reaction. We believe -that the Roosevelt administration has attempted to set up in the United States a government with vast and centralized authority over the economic life of the nation and that the guiding philosophy of the administration is in that direction. We know that such a government can only be set up in defiance of the American tradition of local self-government. We know that such a government would be in nplin defiance of the intent of the Constitu- vested Mr. Roosevelt with more and greater powers than have been possessed by any other peacetime President in our history. We know that for Congress thus to abdicate its function, placing huge legislative powers in the President's hands, is to destroy the system of checks and balances by which our forefathers wisely sought to protect us against the evils of dictatorship. We .know that the drift of Mr. Roosevelt's pol- icies is toward a different kind of government from the one we now have-a Federal empire ruled through the agency of a huge bureaucracy, under which local and state prerogatives would wither and die and the destiny of the people would be decided by remote control from Wash-' ington. We are opposed to these basic changes in the American form of government, particularly since they are being made so subtly and with such indirection that many people are not aware of what is happening. We do not believe that such changes can min- ister to the happiness or to the prosperity of the people. We do believe they can be brought to final ac- complishment only at the sacrifice of human liberties. If it be Toryism to regard with apprehension a subversion of the American system in favor of a new and untried system, we plead guilty. If it be reaction to oppose a centralized, one- man government, leading ultimately to dictator- ship, we are reactionary. If to be "liberal" and "humanitarian" means to follow a path destructive to America's funda- mental political institutions-tried in the cruc- ible of 150 years - we cannot wear those labels. For more than 50 years this newspaper has devoted itself to the ideal of democracy, believ- ing that its exercise is essential to the happiness, well-being and freedom of the people. It clings to that ideal today, and it opposes an aministration whose cnntinuance in offce AT 11 A.M. Friday, October 16 atl the Cass, Doris Kenyon, widowf of the late Milton Sills and herself a motion picture actress as well as an opera singer, will give a costume recital. She calls it Lyric Impersona- tiens. ALSO ANNOUNCED for Detroit: Katherine Cornell in her produc- tion of Maxwell Anderson's The Wingless Victory-in December prior to the New York opening; Jane Cowl in her success of last season, First Lady, by George Kaufman and Kath- erine Dayton. It deals with farcical aspects of Washington society in' typically Kaufman fashion. [ICTORIA REGINA and Idiot's De- light were announced earlier but it seems that Victoria is doing such good business at the Broadhurst in New York that Helen Hayes does not plan to tour in it before the fall of 1937. Idiot's Delight has now ,been approved by the Lord Chamberlain for production in London-that is, if Robert Sherwood will change the lo- cale of his play from the Italian Tyrol to some unidentified part of Europe and make all the Italian uni- forms just uniforms. This will ap- parently be done and the Lunts after some uncertainty have decided to go to London with the play, After the New York run they will make a swift tour of the Theatre Guild subscrip- tion cities. Detroit is not one of these so will not see this particular production-according to present plans. Ethan Frome, the Davis' dra- matization of Edith Wharton's novel, is starting a road tour with Pauline Lord in her original part, Earl Lar- rimore in the title part-played by Raymond Massey in New York. It has not been specifically announced for Detroit but as it is making a rather long tour including part of the Mid-West, it will probably stop off at Detroit. Notices t To Deans, Directors, Department Heads and Others Responsible for Payrolls: Kindly call at the Business office to approve payrolls for Oct. 31. This should be done not later than Oct. 18. Edna Geiger Miller, Payroll Clerk.t College of Literature, Science and. the Arts, School of Music, and School of Education: All students, now inr residence, who received marks of In-. complete or X at the close of theirt last term of attendance, must coin-s plete work in such courses by. the end of the first month of the present semester, Oct. 28. Where illness orr other unavoidable circumstances make this impossible, a limited exten- sion of time may be granted by the Administrative Board of the Literary 1 College, the Administrative Commit-1 tee of the School of Education, or the Director of the School of Music, pro- vided a written request, with the{ ap oval and signature of the in- structor concerned is presented at the Registrar's office, Room 4, University Hall. In cases where no supplerpentaryj grade is received and no request for additional time has been filed, these marks shall lapse into E grades. School of Education, Changes of Elections: No course may be elected for credit after Saturday, Oct. 17. Students enrolled in this school must report all changes of elections at the, Registrar's office, Room 4, University Hall. Membership in a class does not cease nor begin until all changes have been thus officially registered. Ar- rangements made with instructors only are not official changes. held on Thursday, Oct. 15 from 4:15 o 5:30 p.m. on Palmer Field. All students wishing to play must have had a medical recheck this year. Women Students Attending the Minnesota-Michigan Football Game: Women students wishing to attend the Minnesota-Michigan football game are required to register in the Office of the Dean of Women. A letter of permission from parents must be received in this office ,.not ater than Thursday noon, Oct. 15. If a student wishes to go otherwise than by train, special permission for such mode of travel must be in- eluded in the parent's letter. Graduate women are invited to register in the office. Study Tour for Foreign Students: The trip to Battle Creek which had been planned for foreign students had to be cancelled as word has been received that the Kellogg factory is unexpectedly to be closed on Satur- day. A trip has been arranged to the Starr Commonwealth for Boys at Albion. This is one of the most im- portant institutions in this country for the underprivileged boys. It has been the model for similar institu- tions all over the world. The group will leave as planned at 8 o'clock and will have luncheon at the Common- wealth. Expenses will include $1.25 for bus fare and a small amount for luncheon. Because of this change in plans, reservations must be made be- fore Thursday noon Call at Room 9, University Hall or phone 303. Choral Union Ushers: The follow- ing applicants report at Hill Audi- torium between 4:30 and 5:30, p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, for main floor assignments. Rene C. Adlong, Jerry Arzouman- ian, Donna E. Basler, Melvin Beau-