AE POUR THE MI CHIG-AN DAILY 1936 Member 1937 Issocided Coe6iae Press Distributors of oie6iate Di6est Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Associated Press The Assocated Press is exclusively entiled 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 other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mnail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by 'mal, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AvE. NEW YORK N.Y. CHICAGO - 13OSTON - SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES . PORTLAND - SEATTLE Board of Editors UtANAGING EDITOR......... ......ELSIE A. PIERCE ASSOCIATE EDITOR ........FRED WARNER NEAL ASSOCIATE EDITOR .......MARSHALL D. SHULMAN George Andros Jewel Wuerfel Richard Hershey Ralph W. Hurd Robert Cummins Departmental Bords 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 Buesser, associates, a mond Good- man, Carl Gerstacker, Clayton Hepler, Richard La- Marca. Women's Department: Jewel Wuerfel, Chairman: Eliza- beth M. Anderson, Elizabeth Bingham, een Douglas, Margaret Hamilton, Barbara J. Lovell, Katherine Moore, Betty Strickroot, 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; Richar Croushore. Na- tional Advertising and Circulation Manager; Don J. Wilsher, Contracts Manager; Ernest A. Jones, Local Advertising Manager; Norman Steinberg, Service Manager; Herbert Falender, Publications and Class- ified Advertising Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: I. S. SILVERMAN Join The Army And See The Worlds ... T HIS WEEK the campus is cele- brating Armistice Day in the fa- shion in which it should have been celebrated on November 11th. With Play Production doing the honors the noble business of war is being feted in the manner that it so obviously deserves. .ury the Dead is a "play about the war that is to begin tomorrow night." For by tomorrow nig~ht a new generation of youth shall have been weaned to the point of physical and intellectual mnaturity, and thus shall be well prepared to carry on the noblest tradition of civilization. Accordingly the pick of this new generation shall be transported to some foreign land, since travel is the final polishing of an education, where after engaging in a number of time-honored formal- ties, they will be thoroughly, or perhaps only incompletely, shot. Irwin Shaw, being one of these carefully nur- tured young men, has been struck by the inanity of the tradition, and moreover by its lack of nobility. And so, impertinently enough, he is bold enough to rebel against the whole affair. Not the least curious of this young man's ideas is that life here upon this not-too-perfect earth is somehow better and more desirable than life beneath it. To this end then he has written a play, for he is such a young man who feels things deeply and visions them artistically. Mcoe than that, he has a solution. Many have railed against war, but few know just what to do about it; or if they do offer a solution it is such a dreadfully complex one that many have great diiculty in following the logic. But Shaw's so- lotion is a delightfully simple one. Henceforth those who die shall not allow themselves to be Iuried. This plan has two obvious strengths: ,ne, the administrative officers in charge of the eecution of the tradition will become utterly confused and panic stricken, and two, the stench of the dead bodies will become so terrible that the living will have to call the whole affair off if for nothing else than to escape the smell. A novel, if nauseating idea, but it would work. May we suggest that you of the generation that is being prepared for the sacrificial tradition give Mr. Shaw your respectful attention this evening at the Lydia Mendelssohn while he explains his plan to you? ITHE FORUM Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked 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. Twice Discredited Yale To the Editor : The recent "dismissal" of Dr. Jerome Davis from Yale once again brings the inhabitants of the college world face to face with the fact that their society is and must be isolated from society at large. Every university has its record of black marks, its periods of fright and hysteria when the administration bows to the will of di- recto'rs and alumni. Yale's most recent case is no exception to the rule; it merely tests and illustrates the validity of this thesis: As opposi- tion to the status quo (we need not discuss the reasons for the opposition) increases, the de- fenders of the status quo cease to employ reason and resort to authority, coercion and "bogies." It is almost a truism that those methods have always been the prerogatives asserted by the, group that has been unseated but refuses to admit the unpleasant fact; it is also a truism that such methods are usually ineffectual. One becomes especially conscious of the pat- tern of reaction when one compares the rise of democracy in the 1790's with the rise of democ- racy in the 1930's. The "economic royalists" (Federalists) of that day found their power slip- ping; the dread French "republicanism" or "sans- culottism" had undermined the recently con- structed Federalist state. Hysterical, they sought to prevent the election of the "republican" Jef- ferson by a campaign of bogies. Infidelity and atheism were abroad in the land-the home, the family, the Bible, the church, the state were doomed. (Compare with the Bolshevism and Communism which Roosevelt's election would let loose upon the country with the same dire results.) The Illuminati-free-thinking societies for the propagation of the cult of reason-had formed a net-work over the land and were on the point of "exterminating Christianity, Na- tural Religion, the belief in God, of that immor- tality of the Soul and of Moral Obligation; for rooting out of the world civil and domestic gov- ernment, the right of property, marriage, natural affectation (sic), chastity and decency." At least the President of Yale College, Timothy Dwight, from whom this quotation was taken, thought so. (Compare with Mrs. Elizabeth Dill- ing's "The Red Network" so effectively quoted by Harry Jung, Chicago red-baiter at the open heating on the Dunckel-Baldwin Bill in the Michigan Legislature at Lansing in the spring of 1935. Mrs. Dilling herself appeared, some- what to her disadvantage, in the legislative in- vestigation of the University of Chicago. Ac- cording to Mrs. Dilling such eminent persons as Eleanor Roosevelt are part of the "red net- work." One hesitates to class President Angell of Yale with "Pope" Dwight of Yale; President Angell has not yet stooped to such folly. Both men, however, have used their positions in acoercive manner. Mr. Davis sought to bring to the Yale campus Senate investigator Ferdinand Pecora in 1933 and Senator Nye in 1936. On other occasions the Angell administration refused per- mission. In 1800, the year of Jefferson's elec- tion, Abraham Bishop, a Yale graduate and a "republican," was asked to deliver the annual oration for the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College. In those days the Phi Beta Kappa was almost synonymous with the faculty of the col- lege. Bishop prepared his oration and sub- mitted a copy of it to the secretary of the so- ciety. Immediately, the clique representing "order" within the chapter held a meeting, call- ing it a "regular meeting," and, without notify- ing Bishop, a member of the society, proceeded to rescind the invitation and to refuse him the use of any college building. Bishop procured a hall, however, men being made of sterner stuff in those days, and delivered a rousing pro-Jef- ferson speech. The sequels to these incidents are quickly told. Bishop's man, the "radical" Jefferson, was elect- ed. Davis, men, progressive supporters of "com- munist" Roosevelt, were vindicated. In both instances Yale stands forth as the discredited proponent of reactionary measures. -Eleanor Tugford. Cabaret Assessments To the Editor: In response to W.M.'s lusty wail anent Soph Cabaret assessments, I would like to make a few remarks. She erred first and foremostly in assuming that Soph Cabaret was a party for her more fortunate classmates. I know well enough that there are students here on campus who cannot afford to pay the $1 assessment. Such persons are not expected to contribute, and if -W. M. will recall, I withdrew my demand when she de- clared herself unable to pay. Furthermore, all girls, whether they can pay or not, are urged to come and serve on Cabaret committees. The purpose of the assesment is not to estab- lish a sinking fund in case we get into debt, but to furnish us with some working capital. A big project like Soph Cabaret cannot be under- taken without having some funds on which to draw, and as the League can't advance us money, the only alternative is to assess the sophomore women, who are the sponsors of the Cabaret. The aim of the Cabaret is not just to break even financially, but to make money-the process being turned over to the League Undergraduate 'PCic - n 1- -, +,,,4--+ BENEATH **** **** IT ALL ,Q -By Iouth Williams- L AST WEEK in a moment of utter weakness I made a feeble and satiric effort to ascer- tain just what it is that college women are look- ing for when, with powdered noses and sweet emiles, they step out of their nests and into the social whirl on the arm of some form of the male sex. Today I received this letter from one of the forms: Dear Bonth: It was fairly easy for the women to synthesize the ideal date and really concoct something to their fancy, but to impose such a problem on the male mind would be unfair. What man would have the courage to even stretch his imagination to the point of assuming that there is an ideal date even if it be a figment of the imagina- tion? But in pursuance of The Daily policy of pre- senting both sides of any question may I tell the result of a male symposium held in the Parrot soon after your column presented the female conception of the ideal date? We all agreed over our cokes, as I stated above, that it was audacious to even conjecture about an ideal date, but it wasn't long before we had "set out." Since one must fetch them, our jumping off place was her door step. We were all prepared for our initial thrust at the fem- inine body social at this point. The ideal date begins with "her" on time! (A purely hypothet- ical "her," you understand). Drinking, according to the sentiment ex- pressed, is part of the ideal date, but if she doesn't care to, and knows how to say she doesn't care to, without making you feel like a dipso- maniac, it's perfectly o.k. Dancing, after some discussion, was admitted as one of the ingredients in this "devoutly to be wished" ideal date. There were some restric- tions, however. Tiaras that lacerate a man's chin, corsages worn so that they tickle his nose, and over-long skirts that trip him or occupy on of his partner's hands were to be as studiously avoided, all the men agreed, as the girl who likes to ride in taxicabs. Another ban was the one that all of us imposed, not without imprecations, on valise-like evening bags. There are few things as disconcerting as dancing with ballast that bulges your pocket in the form of an evening bag that contains everything short of a hot water bottle. Another point of concurrence was that the ideal date should be characterized by an all- pervading congeniality, but the line was drawn at humming'in the helpless male's ear while clutch- ing him in a fox-trot. This came under the gen- eral topic that might be compared to the wom- en's "rdles and regulations." Another taboo, we all agreed was put on the discussion of other dates, past or future. Not only because it makes you feel inadequate, we observed, but because it's invariably boring. A further note of condemnation was sounded in regard to the promiscuous application of cos- metics. One meticulous male raised a cry against girls who get lip stick smeared on their teeth giving them a most unbecoming cannibalistic appearance. Our cokes consumed and our nerves frayed by the "sound and fury" that goes with playing the role of 'the misogynist, we eagerly lapsed back to our normal selves and started out in a fervant debate on just how one manages to snag a date for the Pan-Hell Ball; proving, I'm afraid, Bonth, that all this "signifies nothing." -Mr. Dogood. BURY THE DEAD: A Review By LEON OVSIEW In the "war that is to begin tomorrow night" six dead soldiers suddenly refuse to allow them- selves to be buried. This outrageously radical idea confounds the army officialdom, panics the businessmen, and confuses the propaganda- stuffed sufferers at home. The situation be- comes an increasingly anxious one as these dead men continue in their obduracy. The generals try gentle reason, then angry bluster; but the dead are unimpressed. The captain tries the solace of a negativistic philosophy, but the dead have truth on their side and the captain retires defeated. As a final resort, the "conservative women" of the dead try sentiment. But the sol- diers are strong and send them home. For' these dead, these young who had not yet lived their Bible-pr9mised three score and ten, these six symbols of a generation which has not yet tasted of the beauty of living, have learned much from death. They have learned the hor- ribly corrupt cheating thing which war is. They recognized their roles as pawns in a game played for the prize of mere real estate. And they have recognized that this real estate operation is no concern of theirs. They have learned too that their business is life, to live as they wish. These men know that they have risen from the grave in order that their fellow beings might know. Carried by the spiritual strength of the idea of. Life they are able to negate the mere physical fact of their bodily death. They have a message for their generation and they mean to deliver it in person. Such is the theme of the nlav that wa npo- THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 1936: VOL. XLVII No. 52 Notices The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received announcement of Unit- ed States Civil Service Examinations for Supervising Inspector of Cloth- ing Factories, Federal Prison Indus- tries, Incorporated, salary, $4,600; Lithographic Stone Grinder and Polisher, Weather Bureau, Depart- ment of Agriculture (For appoint- ment in Washington, D. C. only): and Junior Custodial Officer, Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice. salary, $1,860. These examinationsI do not require a college degree. ForI further information concerning them, call at 201 Mason Hall, office hours, 9 to 12 and 2 to 4 p.m. General Library: The main reading room and the periodical room of the General Library will be open today from 2 to 9 p.m. Bowling: The bowling alleys at the Women's Athletic Bldg will be closed today (afternoon and evening) ex- cept for reservations. Choral Union Members: Pass tick- ets for the Heifetz concert Monday night- will be given out to all mem- bers of the Choral Union who call in person, and whose records are clear, Monday, Nov. 30, from 10 to 12 and 1 to 5 p.m. at the Recorder's office, lobby of the School of Music. Academic Notices English 197: Professor Bredvold will meet the English Honors Course on Friday, Nov. 27, 3-5 p.m. W. G. Rice. Concerts Choral Union Concert: Jascha Heifetz, violinist, will give the fourth program in the Choral Union con- cert series, Hill Auditorium, Monday evening, Nov. 30, at 8:15 p.m. The public is requested to be seated on time as the doors will be closed dur- ing numbers. Lecture 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. Oratorical Association L e c t u r e Course: Alexander Woollcott will ap- pear in Hill Auditorium on Sunday, Nov. 29, at 8:15 p.m. He will replace Bertrand Russell, whose lecture has been cancelled because of illness. Tickets for the Woollcott lecture are 1 available at Wahr's State Street bookstore. 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 Preid until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Exhibitions Exhibit of Color Reproductions of American Paintings comprising thej 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. Exhibition of Original Etchings and Lithographs from the Perman- ent Collection of the Fine Arts Study Room. Until Dec. 1, daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., South Gallery, Alumni Mem- orial Hall. Opening of an Exhibit of Photo- graphs of Persian-Islamic Architec- ture in the West Gallery of Alumni Memorial Hall on Friday, Nov. 27, under the auspices of the Research Seminary in Islamic Art, Institute of Fine Arts. Open to public from 9 to 5 p.m. Events Of Today University Broadcasting: 2 p.m. An, Art Pilgrimage to Famous Museums, No. 7, MissAdelaide Addams and Miss Marie Abbot. The Outdoor Club is sponsoring a supper hike this afternoon, leaving Lane Hall at 3 p.m. All interested- students are welcome. Play Production: Performances ofj Irwin Shaw's "Bury The Dead" will' be given tonight, Friday and Satur-l day evenings at 8:30 p.m. at the Mendelssohn Theatre. Box Office open daily from 10 a.m. Phone 6300. Student Christian Association: Re- ception at Dr. Blakeman's: Group will meet at Dr. Blakeman's house, 5 Harvard Place (off Geddes Ave.) at 4 p.m., for the after-turkey treasure hunt. Please be prompt. Coming Eventsa University Broadcasting, Friday, Nov. 27: 2:15 p.m. Interesting things about Switzerland, Prof. Hanns Pick. Fencing Tournament: The first round of the Intramural Hall Fenc- ing Tournament for Foil will beginf next Monday, Nov. 30. The tourna- ment will be a round-robin, two matches every Monday and Wednes- day for each contestant. The tourna- ment will take place in the small gymnasium from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on the days indicated. The tourna- ment is open to all fencers in the' University.- The Congregational Student Fel-9 lowship Supper Party will be held Saturday, Nov. 28. All will meet at Pilgrim Hall at 4:30 p.m. If you wish to go please make sure your name is on the list by Fri- day evening. The list may be foundj in the hall of Pilgrim Hall or you may call Miss Joyre Harrison or Bet- ty Ayres. T ;URDAY, NOV. 2, 1936 ~ART Old Trends, New Process By HARRY BETHKE IT HAS ALWAYS been difficult for the small gallery to secure good reproductions of great masterpieces in painting. Because they were un- able to reprint faithfully the subtle gradations of color tone, mechanical reproductions in the past have failed utterly td capture the spirit of great paintings. I recall having seen many reproductions of Van Gogh which appeared wretchedly ineffectual after having seen the originals. The ad- vent of the "collotype process" there- fore appears in response to a sore need. The first twelve examples of the new process, from the collection of American Art Portfolios, are now on exhibit in the north gallery of Alumni Memorial Hall. The exhibit is a scattered collec- tion of American landscapes, port- raits, and still life from several pe- riods, probably to demonstrate the potentialities of the process more than to present any coherent sort of showing. Perhaps the best of the collection is Ryder's well-known work, "Toilers of the Sea." It is dirty wea- ther. The dim sun hangs low above a black and angry sea, and a small. fishing boat scuds flat before the wind. The artist has avoided all detail in order to capture a com- pletely, unified effect. The subject is interpreted in dull, rough silhou- ette, a style well adapted to the gen- eral effect, in which one feels the sense of strain and wind. The exhibit illustrates well how completely American art, past and present, has been dominated by the influence of European movements. Pendergast's "Central Park," a color- ful watercolor of the Sunday fashion parade, reveals a decided influence of Impressionism. It presents very ef- fectively a brightly glittering pano- rama with no particular central point of interest. Ralph Earl's portrait in the late 18th century British manner has as little to recommend it as one might expect from that period. It is an excellent example of a bad kind of portraiture, trite, vapid, and stuffy. "Fur Traders Descending the Mis- souri," a stupidly affected neo-Ro- mantic conception by George Cales Bingham illustrates the heavy influ- ence of the Renaissance upon Amer- ican landscapes of the mid-19th cen- tury. Moving up to more recent times, there is the influence of Ex- pressionism in John Marin's water- color entitled "Maine Island." It is typical of the work of this contro- versial figure, a compelling pattern presented in broad sweeps of mildly interesting color. Beyond pattern and design there is nothing to say for it, but of course there was noth- ing more intended. Less delpendent upon European trends is John Sloan's "Wake of Ferry Boat," a woman looking over the stern of a shining wet deck at a gryco pletely regional, but it does manage to express something of America. An- other compelling watercolor is "Pro- menade," by Charles Burchfield. It presents a street full of those decay- ing architectural monstrosities of a entury ago. Once inhabited by the haute monde of their day, they are now degenerated into nothing but ghosts of their past glories. Every- thing about the scene is baroque, even to the frilly, writhing trees. The car tracks and the dump automobiles in -he foreground, already quite as out- worn as the houses, present an ams- ing yet befitting contrast. If you have an eye for Falstaffian humor, note the dogs on the sidewalk. % A very striking work is Charles Sheeler's crayon rendering, "Bucks County Barn." It is a straight geo- metric handling of an angular struc- ture rising in hard contrast over the soft snow, which is suggested by leav- ing the foreground blank. The fine arts department will add to the collection as new additions to the American Art Portfolio are is- sued. Some day it will undoubtedly amount to an imposing collection. Meanwhile, those now presented are interesting both to observe the past trends in American art and to dis- cover the value of the new process. A notation of the wall, explaining the tendencies binding American arl to Europe, is worth reading before 1 studying the pictures. -New Leadership Proposed By Party Veteran-- Sainuel Harde'n Church, President Carnegie Institute, in Carnegie Magazine of )RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S re- election by the largest majority ever recorded has been proclaimed as a signal to all who love their coun- try, whether they were for or against him, to give him their support to the very limit of good conscience. Among those of us who opposed him, none could picture in the most vivid imagination a victory so astounding. His many and serious mistakes were known and admitted by his best friends, and although most of the great leaders of his party refused to go along with him, a mighty host followed him trustingly to victory. On the Republican side, there was no definitetprogram which would counteract the plain purpose of the New Deal to spread prosperity like butter that would cover the whole i slice of bread. Moreover, since the retirement of Calvin Coolidge, the party had not developed a new leader whose mind had shown a capacity to promote the public welfare in the1 highest meaning of that term. For' at least eight years, the party of Lin- coln had suffered from intellectual and spiritual atrophy. Its defeat was, forecast at the very moment when a bewildered survey of its membership showed that it was destitute in the high ranks of command.. The nomination of Gov. Landon was a wise choice. He was the only man in the country who could fit into the imperative emergency, and he led a forlorn hope with splendid courage and audacity. President Roosevelt, in striving for' better things in the social order of the nation, is worthily accelerating that upward movement which has long been an active moral force in' this country. It is right that he, in who manage industry has made every step of the way a difficult progress; but as the loss of the 12-hour day did not destroy the mills, and as the ac- ceptance of the eight-hour day did not destroy the railroads, the vision of a six-hour day for manual labor is becoming more and more manifest on our national horizon. Right here is where the Republican party will find an opportunity for a healthful and patriotic opposition to paternalistic government. It must develop a new and fresh and prefer- ably a young leadership. The party must then choose an objective which, while conforming to its historic policy of individualistic progress, will carry it into new contacts with human wel- fare. But no party can expand its base operations unless it has the loyal support of its members, and that sup- port must come primarily from our captains of industry. The expansion of that base should be fixed upon a new and perhaps a startling principle of social adjustment, which I ven- who provide the labor. This plan will ture to formulate here. put 20,000,000 people on the income- It is this: the men whose genius has tax list instead of the 2,000,000 who built up and continues to build up are now paying the huge costs of gov- the American industrial system must ernment, it will do away with con- henceforth, in every field of activity, fiscatory taxes on estates, it will re- pay a just price for the chartered store the thrift from which we build privilege of exploiting the country's'up the savings and life insurance of resources. - our people. Let us take the case of a man whose The money for this new policy of confident and adventurous spirit sur- wages and hours will be paid by the veys a virgin tract of land and im- consumers in higher prices for the pels him to risk his money in taking product, and a Republican tariff that from the earth the coal, or gas, or oil, aims to protect American high wages or ore that would forever lie hidden 'against the world will do the rest. there but for him. It is right that We shall then buy everything at this pioneer, whether he explores the home that is made or grown at home in -always a Republican doctrine that ground or fabricate a its substance bringstprosperity to our country. In the shop, should ave a constant agriculture, the plan should look to margin of gain as his reward for de- t~onrhpo i amb vr veloping new sources of national farmer, and ake him maser f wealth. freadmk i h atro the soil. But he would be utterly helpless rn the meaime the nn-c 1rp an "Slippery slim slimp saplings" and "rubber buggy bumpers" are some of the tongue-tanglers that were given to Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- tute students who were trying to win a position on the announcing staff of a local radio station. Victor E. Albright, Wisconsin banker, donated $5,000to West Virginia University to establish a scholarship fund to help finance one graduate