THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOV.20,1936 Letters Covering Variety Of Subjects Overflow The Editor's Mail Basket REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 42 MADISON AE. NEW YORK N.Y. CHICAGO BOSTON - SAN FRANCISCO LOs ANGELES - PORTLAND - SEATTLE Board of Editors K 4AGING EDITOR .. ........ELSIE A. PIERCE &SSOCIATE EDITOR..".......FRED WARNER NEAL ASSOCIATE EDITOR.........MARSHALL D. SHULMAN George Andros Jewel WuerfeleRichard Hershey Ralph W. Hurd ___obert Cummins Departmental Boards Publication Department:Elsie A. Pierce, Chairman; James Boozer, Arnold S. Daniels, Joseph Mattes, Tuure Tenander, Robert Weeks. Reportorial Department: Fred Warner Neal, Chairman; Ralph Hurd, William E. Shackleton, Irving S. Silver- man, William Spaller, Richard G. Hershey. Editorial Department: Marshall D. Shulman, Chairman; Robert Cummins, Mary Sage Montague. Sports Department: George J. Andros, Chairman; Fred DeLano and Fred Ruesser, associates, Raymond Good- Sman,Carl Gerstacker, Clayton Hepler, Richard La- Marca. Women's Department: Jewel Wuerfel, Chairman: Eliza- beth M. Anderson, Elizabeth Bingham, Helen Douglas, Margaret Hamilton, Barbara J. Lovell, Katherine Moore, Betty Strckroot, Theresa Swab. Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER................JOHN R. PARK ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGER . WILLIAM BARNDT WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER .......JEAN KEINATH Departmental Managers Jack Staple, Accounts Manager; Richard Croushore. Na- tional Advertising and Circuation Manager; Don J. Wilsher, Contrats Manager; Ernest A. Jones, Local Advertising Manager; Norman Steinberg, Service Manager; Herbert Falender Publications and Class- fied Advertising Manager. vsG NIGHT EDITOR: JAMES A. BOOZER An Effect 4k The Corporate Tax Law.. A MONG the substantial benefits re- cently accruing to labor are the bonuses and pay increases which have been granted to employes of the Chrysler and General Motors corporations. Congratulations are due the workers fortunately affected, and credit should be extended to the companies who have made the beneficient decisions. In an attempt to analyze the forces which have caused Chrysler and General Motors to act as they have, we think, must be listed as a promi- nent factor the New Deal Corporate Surplus Profit tax, passed last winter. Under this law it is necessary for companies with large surpluses to pay to the national gov- ernment a large tax. Rather than pay the tax these two prominent corporations-and it is to be hoped that others will follow their lead-have decided to reduce their surpluses by granting larger returns to their stockholders and increas- ing salaries and wages. Critics of the bill hold that any undue deple- tion of reserves built up from surplus profits will weaken business in times of depression. Per, haps, however, the indirect effect of the tax which we now see is to induce business to ,pay higher dividends and more wages and hence to create and augment demand, will serve as a depression preventative. If it be true that one of the inherent faults of the capitalistic system is that it tends to build up surplus profits at the expense of consumer purchasing power, and hence tends automatically to produce at periodic intervals a condition where this reduction of' demand becomes critical, this tax bill will have the incidental effect of reducing the disparity and hence of reducing one of the major objec- tions to capitalism. If the effect of the bill be to reduce this dis parity between production and ability to buy, and it seems obvious that this will be the effect of the payment of larger dividends and higher wages, then the condition in which these sur- pluses may be necessary to the normal conduct of businesses may be removed at least in part. Whether or not the next tax law has this long run effect remains to be seen. But the present benefit to labor, which is undeniably an effect of the law, apart from its government income effect, is to be applauded. The law was passed for a number of theoretical reasons. Stimulation of higher wages was not prominently among these, but it is no criticism of the bill to say that in practice it is putting more money in the working man's pay envelope. Library's French .apers To the Editor: More On Stubbes To the Editor: Philip Stubbes, who wrote What the Colleges Are Doing in the Contemporary magazine, evi- dently doesn't seem to realize-that not everybody has a lifetime to spend at college. Sad as it may be, most of us have to earn a living, and our fathers, if they do pay for our education, are not willing to have that expense go on indefi- nitely. So it is all very well to say that college students ought to learn less, but learn it more thoroughly, but the student who can afford to spend only a few years at college is liable to find himself with a thorough knowledge of one narrow field and nothing more. No one would claim, that "a well-rounded smattering" is the best thing. But it is at least something. And, though Mr. Stubbes thinks differently, it seems to me that the person who has a general knowl- edge over a wide field will find, it easier to continue educating himself after he graduates than the one who knows only one narrow, spe- specialized field. Gabriel Harvey, in his letter in yesterday's "Daily," makes much of what he apologetically ,alls "the finer things." But we live in an age where the mere struggle for economic security has become tremendously important, and no one who does not happen to be a millionaire's son can afford to ignore it. Whether he likes it or not, the college student must be concerned with fitting himself for earning a living, and for this reason practical courses are just as neces- sary as cultural courses. Mr. Harvey can starve on his "finer things" if he likes. The days when such courses as Latin and Greek were compul- sory are gone, and I see no reason to regret their passing. If the editors of Contemporary, by printing such articles as What the Colleges are Doing, choose to affect an airy indifference to the problems of the twentieth century, which are not the same as the problems ."of the Renais- sance, they will soon find themselves without an audience except for a few collegiate aesthetes. There are more important things to learn than how to understand Elizabethan sonnets, pretty as those sonnets may be. -Realist. Seeks Culprit To the Editor: When I returned home from Ann Arbor I in- tended writing you my appreciation of your ef- forts in my behalf to secure my Freshman Credits in the School of Literature, Science & the Arts for the academic year of 1908-09. But when I arrived, I discovered that I either lost-or my pockets were picked-of an envelope containing either $40 or $50-and an uncashed check for $25. The theft, or loss, occurred either while I was watching Professor Heber Curtis' pictures on the demonstrations on the sun-or while attending Prof. John Lewis Brumm's mystery play-But- ton, Button. I strongly suspect that Frederick 0. Crandall has the envelope-and I wish you would have a committee go up and search him at once. A cloud of suspicion also envelopes Mr. Lee White of the Detroit News, and I am having him shadowed. If neither Mr. White or Mr. Crandall is guilty, I will always believe the culprit is Morlye Baer, who played Emma. -Chet Shafer. cumstances. But here we cannot, because thej first statement completely commits itself to am- biguity. Certainly when it is stated that "hap- piness for the most people is founded on a sense of security, we cannot big-heartedly accept any other meaning except what the word there im- plies. This meaning implies a condition, whereas subsequent uses of the same word implies some- thing tangible. Naturally, with such false reasoning to start with, the whole editorial runs wild. We, the readers, find ourselves suddenly competing for "security"-and once again the word has as- sumed a different connotation. Might I add here that Miller did not once use this word, which is, at best, an ambiguous term anyhow. Finally, one of the conclusions arrived at is that "government interference or humanitarian activities may impede or further progress, and the validity of neither is subject to generaliza- tion." This mighty thought resulted from some preceding dissertation in which it was suggested that the poor were not competing for security, and that they were receiving security gratis- from the government. So we see that false reas- oning to start with, has produced a bi-fold con- clusion that should never have been reached. As for the last clause of the sentence: they are still teaching here at Michigan that once one has adequately proved a point, that proven point is a truism, and may be used in generaliza- tion as much as one pleases. I was taught this in the freshman composition course 2, and, as yet, no subsequent course has refuted the truth of it. -Fred A. Thomson, Jr. Proctors, Cont'd To the Editor: It is plain that the very witty (maybe her family thinks so) young Freshman who so ex- postulated concerning the proctor system, has been tied to the proverbial apron strings for a number of years. She is now revelling in the freedom of college life and definitely resents having her little fling harnessed by a nasty old proctor! Well, perhaps the system does repre- sent to her a terrifying abridgment of freedom. Be that as it may, the infantile manner of the article belies any intelligehce behind it. The author says "driving us to our books every evening will not make us more studious." It seems to me that if that is the object of the proc- tor system it should get under way before 11:15 p.m. You know there are some people who don't give a d n about studying and prefer bed be- fore 11:15. The ones who do study have cer- tainly hit the books before that hour. The little paragraph concerning "the privileges of the rich" is a laugh. Is money the discrimina- tion between dorm women and sorority women? It is evidently a case of "judging others by thyself" when our freshman expresses doubt as to whether even four girls out of 200 possess the qualities of "tact, confidence, and respect." Finally, it is surely a mark of ill-breeding to refer to the Dean of Women as merely "Lloyd." Even if Miss Lloyd does not command the respect of our little girl, she certainly must have done something to deserve the title of Dean and it would not have taken a great amount of effort on the writer's part to precede the name by those four little letters! Personally, I think the proctor system is just one of those less important idiosyncrasies of a} university official and should be taken less ser- iously than the "Mosher-Jordanite" and the "Angry Mosherites" have taken it. I doubt if being in one's own room for fifteen minutes is going to greatly impair the physical or mental capacities of Mrs. Ray's little family. It prob- ably isn't such bad work for four girls to earn NYA money, either. I suggest that Athena sponsor a debate on the subject between Dean Lloyd and the "Mosher- Jordanite" and send bids to those interested! -Jane Reinert, '39. ~THESOREENJ AT THE MICHIGAN THE MAN I MARRY If The Man I Marry had come out six years ago when audiences were sympathetic with the adjustment the picture industry was making, there would be some commendable things to say about it. Audiences realized in those days that recruits from the stage had to be introduced, and if the introductory vehicle weren't so good, better results were patiently hoped for from the next attempt. But when a new star is thrust upon a 1936 movie going public, not only that star must be good, but the picture must be above average to compete with those of popularly acclaimed fa- vorites. The Man I Marry has potentialities of high comedy. The situation is right, but the story development falls flat, and becomes increasingly slow in pace. It is about a girl running away from her about-to-be-groom (an unbelievably stupid millionaire) to a secluded, supposedly un- inhabited country estate. There she finds a playwright trying to write a play. She turns his stark tragedy of a racial problem into a breezy colored revue, and the playwright (who turns out to be another millionaire) marries her. Doris Nolan, from Broadway, is the runaway girl. She is an actress of the Tallulah Bankhead school, not unlike that lady in appearance. She does well enough with her large part of the picture, but I doubt if she will establish much of o r-ln n nr A ain v 71nunr T[ih.n 7(Tm m ART By HARRY BETHKE THOSE who understand more art mediums than the more colorful oil and water color paintings will be interested in the black and white prints now on exhibit at Alumni Memorial Hall. The bulk of the ex- hibit is from the permanent collec- tion of the Institute of Fine Arts, to- gether with a few prints from PWA projects, loaned to the university by the government. It is an excellent collection, ranging from 15th century Bible woodcuts to modern etchings, lithographs, and drypoints. The col- lection includes an imposing array of such famous names as Whistler, Cor- ot. Goya, Orozco, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh and George Grosz. The Whistler lithograph is cer- tainly among the best of the entire collection, a farmyard theme built into a superb composition. It is car- ried out with a minimum of detail, yet no essential is forgotten. Those of us who feel that contemporary art should keep in close touch with life's realities will find two other prints of espec{al interest. One is an etching by Peggy Bacon called "Dressmak- er," a simple genre subject carried out with extreme simplicity of line, a medium well suited to the subject. The other is a drypoint by Martin Lewis, a rural snow scene entitled "Grandpa Takes a Walk." The scene is so typically American, it might be set upon any midwestern farm. By no means the least valuable of the collection is a drypoint sea and landscape done by A. Mastro Valerio, who is well known to Ann Arbor au- diences. The subject is a rocky coastline jutting into the sea, tran- quil and dim in the distance. The picture is beautifully composed; and presented in a subtle contrast of dark and light. But by far the best and most in- teresting corner of the exhibit is one made of those prints lent from the PWA collection. The subjects are all close to the actualities of modern America, and crowded with life and vitality. "Quincy Mine" by G. Bak- her is a beautifully executed wood- cut in which the artist has taken full advantage of his medium, a sharp chequered effect of sunlight and deep shadows. Although the picture is realistic enough, it is executed in the sort of pattern a modern Cubist might strive for, and probably fail to achieve. In sharp contrast, there is a charming lithograph of a Staten Island convent by Mabel Dwight, carried out with a softness of tone which helps lend significance to the peacefully religious theme. Some of the PWA prints could hardly escape the odium of falling under the heading of "propaganda," which should prove once for all that propaganda can be decidedly great art. The Mexican Orozco is repre- sented by one of his characteristic macabre conceptions, a Negro lynch- ing. Of the same evident proletar- ian sympathy are Thomas Benton's "Mine Strike" and "The Hero" by Carl Grosz, one of those savagely scathing indictments which caused him to leave Nazi Germany. Among the others is Reginald Marsh's "Union Suare," which has been so often reproduced that it is super- fluous to describe it, and a clever satire by Adolph Dehn, called "The American Scene." Criticism of the exhibit is diffi- cult, almost unnecessary. It pre- sents a careful selection of the finest type of prints available to the public, prints that are certainly worth the trouble to see. THE ATRE. A Community Group The Hampstead Community Players of Ann Arbcr .present FRONTIERS. Book by Lowell Juilliard Carr, music by Heinrich Handorf. Directed by Peter Badger, scenery by Frank Wurtsmith, costumes supervised by Ann Withrow. At Pattengill Auditorium, Ann Arbor High School. By JAMES DOLL Amateur musical and dramatic groups in Ann Arbor are under a dis- advantage. There are so many ac- tivities and the standard reached makes it difficult for new organiza- tions to get started. This is in a way unfortunate because there is a need for an active group of townspeople who have no other opportunities for this sort of work. However, the pres- ent group needs either strong rein- forcing or a great deal of additional training. The script of this musical was beyond their abilities and be- sides needs more careful thinking out. It is not satiric enough nor since much of its comedy depends on anachronisms aoes it go far enough in this direction either. The voices are the best asset of the group, both in the ensemble and in the solos of Carl Nelson, Ralph Clark, and Lois Grie 'Th emusic IU ID T" A v X7"17 n n z n 2 a t ? " 7 "f ( FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 1936 Aaei Nocs I~I~tJ1I, IUV. ~Academic Thotices VOL. XLVII No. 47 Bacteriology IIIA (Laboratory Notices Course) will meet Monday, Nov. 23 .at 1 p.m. in Room 2552, East Medical Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- Building. ence and the Arts: Midsemester re-!Bulig ports are due not later than Satur- I Each student should come provided day, Nov. 21. More cards if needed with a $5 Hygienic Laboratory Coup- can be had at my office. on procurable at the treasurer's of- These reports are understood as fice. naming those students, freshman and upperclass, whose standing at mid- Lectures caetr tim is D7nr E not merely sem1eser m11e 1 s U11~, 1VU lCy those who receive D or E in so-called midsemester examinations. Students electing our courses, but1 registered in other schools or col- leges of the University, should be reported to the school or college in which they are registered. W. R. Humphreys, Assistant Dean. College of Architecture, Midsemes- ter Reports: Instructors are request- ed to report any student whose work is unsatisfactory. Cards for this pur- pose have been distributed; theseI should be filled out and returned to1 the office of the College of Archi- tecture, 207 Arch, not later than Nov. 21. Additional cards may be secured from the office of the College of Architecture or from the Registrar's office, Room 4 U.H. School of Music, Midsemester Re- ports: Instructors are requested to report any student whose work is un- satisfactory. Cards for this purpose have been distributed, these should, be filled out and returned to the of- fice of the School of Music, 108 SM, not later than Nov. 21. Additional cards may be secured from the office of the School of Music or from the Registrar's Office, Room 4, U.H. 1 University Lecture: Mr. C. M. Bowra, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, will lecture on the subject "Hellenism and, Poetry" Monday, Nov. 30, at 4:15 p.m. in Natural Sci- ence Auditorium. The public is cor- dially invited. Astronomical Lecture and Films: Members of the faculty and students who have not had the opportunity of seeing the remarkable moving pic- tures of solar phenomena, etc., taken at the Lake Angelus Observatory of the University, may see them at a showing, planned primarily for mem- bers of the astronomy classes, but which others are welcome to attend, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, in Natural Science Auditorium. Oratorical Association Lecture Course: Alexander Woolcott will ap- pear in Hill Auditorium on Sunday night, Nov. 29, at 8:15 p.m. Tickets are now available at Wahr's State Street bookstore. This number re- places the Bertrand Russell lecture and tickets originally issued for that number will be honored on Nov. 29. Exhibitions Exhibit of Color Reproductions of American Paintings comprising the First Series of the American Art, Portfolios, recently acquired for the Institute of Fine Arts Study Room. On view daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Alumni Memorial Hall, North Gal- lery. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the Presldan until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. .School of Forestry and Conserva- tion, Midsemester Reports: Instruc- tors in divisions of the University other than the School of Forestry and Conservation are requested to report any Forestry student who is! doing unsatisfactory work. Cards for Exhibition of Original Etchings this purpose have been mailed out; and Lithographs from the Perman- these should be filled in and returned ent Collection of the Fine Arts Study to the office of the School of For- Room. Until Dec. 1, daily 9 a.m. to estry and Conservation, 2048 N.S., not 5 p.m., South Gallery, Alumni Mem- later than Nov. 21. Additional cards orial Hall. may be secured from the office of the School of Forestry and Conser- vation or from the Registrar's Of- Events Of Today Three Rivers, Mich. P.S.: And there's about this, either. no funny-doodle business Criticism To the Editor: May I never live to see another display of logic like the kind in yesterday's editorial-the one that was designed to "provoke thought" regard- ing Col. Henry Miller's "sage assertions" about governmental interference. What 'provoked' me, was not Colonel Miller's customary fanatic stand regarding matters of this sort, but the way in which the editorial strove to arrive at a paradox regarding humanitarianism by a kind of "flaw- less" reasoning. The editorial started with the following pro- found observations of Colonel Miller: "that this modern governmental trend is opposed to evo- lutionary laws; that government interference in social and economic problems is producing a more dependent people, is saving the unfit, dis- couraging talent in business, and works against the necessary process of breeding resourceful and capable men." Then the treatise goes on to establish premises for some sort of argument- an argument which started, undoubtedly, from thought having been provoked. First the writer had us assume that "progress is the law of life," and that "progress" is meas- ured by happiness for the greatest number (I am sure that Jeremy Bentham, originator of this phraseology, would have shuddered at this wording, adulterated as it is in the foregoing). However, we could, without much hesitation accept it for the first premise. Now in the second premise watch how the word "security" rapidly undergoes a change in meaning. VAcknowledge' that happiness for the most people is founded on a sense of security, that consequently security is one of the most impor- tant of our goals, that the more prosperous one becomes, the more is involved in the term "se- curity," that consequently there never will be enough "security" to satisfy everyone, that con- sequently we compete for security and progress evolves from this competition, and finally that if we had all the "security" we desired there would be little else for which to strive and "., mn uit +wi mlthnrnrm,-P ctarna+nn 'Pa fice, Room 4, U.H. Students, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Except under extraordinary circumstances, courses dropped after. Wednesday, Nov. 25, v will be recorded with a grade of E. Students, School of Education: Courses dropped after Wednesday, Nov. 25, will be recorded with the grade of E except under extraordi- nary circumstances. No course is considered officially dropped unless it has been reported in the office of the Registrar, Room 4, University Hall. Students, College of Engineering:t The final day for removal of incom- pletes will be Saturday, Nov. 21. To Department Heads and Others# Concerned: All hourly time slips must be in the Business Office Nov. 21 to be included in the Nov. 30 pay- roll. Edna G. Miller, Payroll Clerk Notice: Attention of all concerned, and particularly of those having of- fices in Haven Hall, or the Western portion of the Natural Science Build- ing, to the fact that parking of cars in the driveway between these two buildings is at all times inconvenient, to other users of the drive and some times results in positive danger to other drivers and to pedestrians on the diagnoals and other walks. You are respectfully asked not to park there and if members of your family call for you, especially at noon when traffic both on wheels and on foot is heavy, it is especially urged that the car wait for you in the parking space adjacent to the north door of Uni- versity Hall. Waiting in the drive- way blocks traffic and involves con- fusion, inconvenience and danger, just as much when a person is sitting in a car as when the car is parked empty. University Senate Committee on Parking. Registration for June and Feb- ruaryagraduates, both teaching and general, is being held until Saturday noon, Nov. 21. Blanks may be ob- tained at the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall, hours 9-12 and- 2-4 p.m., and 9-12 only on Saturday. This is the only general registration held during the year, and there is no charge. After Saturday there is a hate regis- tration fee of $1. University Bureau of Appoint- ments. University Broadcasting: 2:15 p.m. The Professor Tours the World, Prof. Jean Hebrard. Esperanto: The Esperanto class will meet in Room 1035 Angell Hall from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. today. Stalker Hall: Autumn Dance, 9:30 to 12:30 p.m. tonight. Jimmy Fisch- er's "Sleepy Hollow Swing Band." Presbyterians: All members of the Westminster Guild and their friends Lre cordially invited to attend an informal. Thanksgiving dance-party at the MasocincN4 . ...... fi ..... at the Masonic Temple tonight from 8:30 to 12 p.m. There will be games dancing, special intermission attrac- tions, and refreshments. 6Recreation Night: All students re- gardless of religious affiliation are invited to the program of games sponsored by the Disciples' Guild at the Recreation Hall, Church of Christ, Hill and Tappan Streets, each Friday evening from 8 to 11 p.m. There will be a variety of games in- cluding table tennis, shuffle board, darts, quoits, quiet games, and a period of special music and group singing. No charge. Hillel Foundation: Abe Goldman will officiate as cantor at the Sabbath services held this evening at 8 p.m. A social hour will follow the service. The Foundation is located at the corners of East U. and Oakland. Faculty Women's Club: The New- comers Group will meet this after- noon at 3 p.m. at the home of Mrs. E. R. Sunderland, 1510 Cambridge Road. Coming Events Graduate Outing Club Overnite- The annual Thanksgiving Overnite of the GOC is to be held this week- end at the University Fresh Air Camp. We will leave Lane Hall Sat- urday at 2:30 p.m., returning Sun- day afternoon. Make your reserva- tions Thursday or Friday from 6-8 p.m. by calling 574. All graduate Students are cordially invited. Songs stories, stunts, hikes, eats and games. S