THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1936 .1 "-'. Distributors of CoI~e6iae iest 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 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 other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Chicago, Ill. Madison Ave., New York City; 400 N. Michigan Ave., Board of Editors MANAGING 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 Clinton B. Conger Departmental Boards Publication Department: Elsie A. Pierce, Chairman; Tuure Tenander, Robert Weeks. Reportorial Department: Fred Warner Neal, Chairman; Ralph Hurd, William E. Shackleton, William Spaller. Editorial Department: Marshall D. Shulman, Chairman; Robert Cummins, Arnold S. Daniels, Joseph S. Mattes, Mary Sage Montague. Wire Editors: Clinton B. Conger, Richard G. Hershey, associates; I. S. Silverman. Sports Department: George J. Andros, Chairman; Fred DeLano and Fred Buesser, associates, Raymond Good- man, 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 Strickroot, Theresa Swab. Business Department I3PSINESS 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 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: ROBERT WEEKS AsOters See It The Way Of Norman Thomas (From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) REGULARLY as presidential campaign years roll around, Norman Thomas is chosen by the Socialists as their candidate, and faith- fully he gives everything he has to the task. Readers of the Post-Dispatch were enabled vi- cariously to follow him through a day in Ohio. Even in print the pace was exhausting. Arriving in Cincinnati in the early morning, he was met by a friendly, but impatient and un- expected host, who grudgingly yielded a few min- utes for a hurried breakfast. A dizzy motor trip half-way across the State, a waiting audience, a speech, again the automobile, a more leisurely driver this time, another meeting, another speech, the whole program in impromptu violation of the prearranged schedule, then back to Cincin- nati, aboard the train, the nightly climb into an upper berth, Washington, a speech, then to New York for a day at home, after a journey of 4,000 miles, and again to the road on a swing to the Pacific coast. So it goes. Speeches, speeches, speeches, some of them prepared, many of them extemporane- ous, every minute packed to the full, endless traveling, with none of the luxurious appoint- ments of special trains and completely equipped private cars of the major-party nominees. Some- how, a voluminous correspondence is carried on, and, as was remarked in these columns a week or so ago, time was wrenched from amazed clocks to complete a book. Yes, the volume was largely a compilation of the author's addresses, but even so, it was a prodigious feat. And through it all, Mr. Thomas, serene, urbane, punctiliously observing the proprieties of polite discussion, an occasional facetious commentary, a flare of righteous indignation at instances of economic injustice, is a truly happy toiler in the vineyard of his choice. No faintest hope of victory to sustain him, his only reward is the belief he is sowing the seeds of the harvest to be reaped in some far-off and, he is persuaded, much fairer tomorrow. Accept or reject his philosophy, his strenuous unreserved devotion to the cause is admirable beyond expression. "Sincerity," said Confucious, "is the way of heaven; the attainment of sincerity is the way of man." Norman Thomas, untrammeled by expediency, wholly free to speak the truth, ac- cording to his lights, is a sincere superior citizen. Homer Croy, novelist and screen writer, was the first journalism student in the first journal- ism class of the first journalism school in the United States-but he never was able to get a newspaper job! An Analysis Of The DigestPoll ON THE FACE of the returns in the second week of the Literary Digest poll, Gov. Lan- don is leading President Roosevelt by a vote of 61,190 to 33,423, or close to 2 to 1. An analysis of the vote shows, however, that is is as yet dan- gerous to draw a definite conclusion from the magazine's poll. Of those who have thus far participated, a total of 50,916 voted the Republican ticket in 1932 as against 34,668 who voted the Democratic ticket in that year. That is, a majority of the persons shown voted for Hoover in the last pres- idential election. The Digest poll, it seems to us. will only become significant when it shows a total of persons participating whose vote in 1932 fa- vored the Democratic candidate. That, of course, is what happened. Little, moreover, can be deduced from an an- alysis of the switching of voters from one party to another, though Landon at the present time has a slight edge. The Digest figures show that Landon's total vote includes a percentage of 17.3 persons who voted for Roosevelt in 1932. Roose- velt's total vote includes a percentage of only 16.8 persons who voted for Hoover in 1932. Thus Roosevelt is getting smaller support from per- sons who supported Hoover than Landon is get- ting from persons who supported Roosevelt. There are certain "X" factors which make a complete analysis impossible, namely, those who did not indicate how they voted in 1932 and those who did not vote at all in that year. As expected, the Digest poll shows Candidate Lemke receiving far more votes from persons who voted for Roosevelt in 1932 than from persons who voted for Hoover. The figures are 2,918 to 671. In some quarters, the Digest is being criticized for printing its first returns from Republican strongholds. We do not profess to know the me- chanics of the Digest's procedure, or to be able to say whether it is yielding to the desire of se- lecting for its first publications votes which su- perficially indicate Landon's victory. If the lat- ter is the case, close analysis, as we have shown, offsets the purported indication. In any case, the Digest itself warns its readers that the re- turns are far from inconclusive. The case for the Digest poll rests on the final result, not on piecemeal publications in Septem- ber. Upon that, it will stand or fall. "For years to come, you will be working for J. P. Morgan and Barney Baruch" - Father Coughlin. There's the first promise of steady work in the campaign.-New York Sun. Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel were come- dians in the same touring company before either came to pictures. Having kept Maine in the Republican column, Jim Reed is reported ready and eager to attempt the same heroic feat in Vermont.-St. Louis Post- Dispatch. A Statement Of Policy. .. TIHIEATRE WPA Projects By JAMES DOLL MACBETH by William Shake- speare. Presented by the Negro Unit of the WPA. Arranged and staged by Orson Welles. Cos- tumes and settings by Nat Kar- son. Lighting by Feder. La- fayette Theatre, Detroit. Sept. 15 to 26. A MACBETH set in the tropics,. the witches' scenes made into a Con- go voodoo dances, the banquet scene a dance to a jazz orchestra, the cos- tumes military, renaissance, direct- oire exaggerated in line and color to suit the fancy of the designer, the actors all Negroes: this is Project 891 of the Federal Theatre. The question the production raises is whether the emotional idea of a great play can be presented to an audience better by. a literal produc- tion or one which departs from the exterior demands of the script in favor of action and setting that seem to the producer to convey better the effect the playwright wanted to achieve. Because of limitations in the execution the Harlem Macbeth cannot answer the question. It brings out superbly the barbarity and superstition back of the play, but be- cause of inadequate performances the play lacks the stature it should have. Maurice Ellis, for example, is unequal to the demands of the leading part except in physical appearance. He reads the lines in a routine sing-song fashion and except for a sense of fear conveys no meaning back of the words. Edna Thopas as Lady Mac- beth is more successful. She has dignity, understands the part better, and gives stature to the tragic queen. Her voice is unusually melodious and helped her sustain the part through- out the play. Macduff, Duncan, Ban- quo and the smaller parts were ade- quately played but cut to the barest minimum to keep the thread of plot. On the positive side were the color and movement, full value of sound effects and the contrast of light and shade inherent in Macbeth more than in any other of Shakespeare's plays. The witches' scenes were totally suc- cessful. A Congo witch doctor, large groups of dancers moving in a rhythmic monotone so well sustained that it grows in interest the longer it lasts. The last scene of the play combines the elementsof dance and music of the witches' scenes wtih the actual lines of the play to make a thrilling ending. It was the most successful scene in the play. It be- gan with moving crowds silhouetted against a gradually brightening sky smoke and cracking of flames from the burning castle, drumbeats and screams from the crowd. Yet with all this spectacle the scene itsel comes through because for once the leading actors were equal to the act- ing demands made upon them. The fight scene ends at the top of a tow. er high above the stage, Macbeth's head is thrown down raised high on a pike and with screams of triumph fortissimo the play ends. If the acting of the principal parts especially of Macbeth, had been bet. ter, the play less ruthlessly cut, thi would have been a supremely suc- cessful interpretation of the grea tragedy. But it is thrilling theatr anyway. * * * INJUNCTION GRANTED. Pre- sented by The Living Newspa- per, WPA Federal Theatre. Bilt- more Theatre, New York. IN ONE evening Injunction Grante shows in thirty episodes, a hun dred scenes or groupings of charac- ters the history of the labor move- ment in America from the days o indentured servants in the 17th cen- tury to the present day. The em- phasis is on the treatment of labo in 'the courts. This may sound dul enough but on the contrary is thrill. ing, amusing and bitter, fast mov- ing, applying the March of Time technique to the theatre. And throughout the action is commentec upon in pantomime by a clown. The action is stylized, accompanied by sound effects-music composed b3 Virgil Thompson who did the Ger- trude Stein Four Saints in Three Acts. Staged on an arrangement 0: steps and platforms, scene follow, scene with only a few words by the announcer in between. The Popular Price Theatre of the WPA Federal Theatre pre- sents Help Yourself, a farce adapted from the Viennese of Paul Volpius by John J. Cowan. Adelphi Theatre, New York. TN A FARCE adapted from the Viennese one would expect more routine theatre but the same kind of intelligence that seems to be back o the other WPA plays is evident here It is speedily played by Curt Boi, and a generally good cast. The set- tings are amusingly and substantiall' done and the production is on th( whole equal to all but the very best oi Broadway. * * * The WPA is active in the other arts as well as in the theatre. T( quote Lewis Mumford in the curren New Yorker concerning the WPA ex hibit called "New Horizons in Ameri can Art" which recently opened a, the Museum of Modern Art in Nev York: "No one could have imagine( in 1933 that the first attempts t( keep a few amiable souls from starv ing would broaden into a movemen as solid in achievement and as en, (Continued from Page 2) IDAILY OFFICIAL BULL,.ElTN !uhlcata e " tt.'-nun:n N co ruci'e n"ice to all membt-rs of the University. Copy receivedat the office of the Assistant to the President until 3.30; 11 :00 am, on Saturday. call for you, especiall at noon when a traffic both on wheels and on foot is s heavy, it is especially urged that the t car wait for you in the parking space a adjacent to the north door of Uni- n versity Hall. Waiting in the drive- a way blocks traffic and involves con- p fusion, inconvenience and danger, just as much when a person is sitting a in a car as the car is parked empty. C University Senate Committee On Parking. e t La Verne Noyes Scholarships: All t students who intend to apply for La o Verne Noyes Scholarships are urgedL to present their applications at once. l This applies also to those who wish to renew scholarships held last year. Application forms may be obtainedf from the undersigned at 1021 AngellE Hall. Only veterans of the World War and their blood descendants are eligible. Frank E. Robbins. The University Bureau of Appoint-t ments and Occupational Information has received announcement of United States Civil Service Examination for Research Associate in International Relations, Department of State, sal- ary, $3,200, requiring three years of college or university postgraduate ed- ucation in history or political science, or three years of responsible exper-I ience in the field of history or po- litical science, (or time-equivalent combination of both). For further1 information concerning this exam- ination call at 201 Mason Hall, office hours, 9 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. Students in Literature, Science and the Arts, Architecture, Education, Forestry and Music: Save your blue print for second semester registra- tion and save yourself the $1 fee for securing a new one. Assistant Registrar. Part-Time Students in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Permission to register on part time must first be secured either from the Dean (Room 1210 A.H.) or from the Assistant Dean (Room 1220 A.H.). Important Notice To New Grad- uate Students:. All students regis- tering in the Graduate School this semester for the first time are ur- gently requested to meet in Hill Auditorium, Oct. 3, at 8 a.m. The occasion will be a brief statement by the Dean of the School and a special' f form of a general examination. This is purely an experiment intended to aid the school in determining wheth- er or not it can by such means be of greater assistance to you in your s future plans. The examination itself is very gen- t eral and calls neither for special knowledge nor preliminary prepara- tion Those of you who have had experience with such examinations or s systematic forms of analysis will - know that one such is insufficient to t sample ability adequately. We do e not, therefore, expect it to do more than be an additional aid to your instructors in advising you. We invite your cooperation and in return will see that you are fully informed regarding any 'points of 3 significance. Such information will be given individually and kept as confidential and personal material. Two pencils will be all the equip- f ment needed. C. S. Yoakum, Dean. r Contemporary: Tryouts, for edi- l torial and business staff will be held - at 5 p.m. today in the Student - Publications Bldg. Second-semester e freshman, sophomores, and juniors I are eligible to attend. Reading Requirement in German or Ph. D. Candidates: Candidates in ll fields except those of the natural - ciences and mathematics must ob- nam the official certification of an dequate reading knowledge of Ger- nan by submitting to a written ex- mination given by the German De- artment. For the first semester this examin- tion will be given on Wednesday, )ct. 28, at 2 p.m., in Room 306 U.H. Students who intend to take the xamination are requested to register heir names at least one week before he date of the examination at the office of the German Department, 204 U.H., where information and reading ists are available. English 297: My section will meet from .7:30 to 9:30 this evening in Room 406 General Library. R. W. Cowden, English 230, Studies in Spencer, will meet in 2213 Angell Hall to- day, Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. to arrange time of class meeting. M. P. Tilley. English 293: Bibliography. The class will meet on Wednesdays from 4-6 in 2235 A.H. W. G. Rice. English 197-Honors Course: The first meeting of the class will be held at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, in the English Seminar Room, 3217 A.H. W. G. Rice English 159, Sec. 2, will meet in Room 231 A. H. instead of 1209 A.H., Thursday at 10 a.m. Paul Mueschke. Psychology 131 meets in Room 3056 Natural Science Bldg. Psychology 133 meets in Room 4014 Natural Science Bldg. Chemical and Metallurgical En- gineering Seminar. The first meeting of the Seminar will be held in Room 3201 today at 4 o'clock. The hour will bedevotedstodintroductions, and all graduate students in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering are invited to be present. Alfred H. White Aero 14, Experimental Research. Aero 19, Analytical Research. Students interested in research work on problems in aerodynamics should meet with Professor Thomp- son in his office, B-302 East Engin- eering Bldg. at 4 p.m. E.M. 16 C. E. 65a Seminar in the Advanced Theory of Structures. This seminar will meet in Room 307 West En- gineering Bldg. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m. The first meet- ing on Oct. 1 will be devoted to a discussion of program for the com- ing year. All students and faculty members are cordially invited to at- tend and participate in the discus- sion of current problems in me- chanics and structural engineering. Lecture University Lecture: Sir Joseph Bar- croft, Professor of Physiology in Cambridge University, England, will lecture on the subject "The Origin of Respiratory Movements in Foetal Life" on Thursday, Oct. 1, 1936, at 4:15 p.m. in the Natural Science Au- ditorium. The lecture will be il- lustrated with moving pictures. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: V. Gordon Childe, B.Litt., professor of Prehis- toric Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, will lecture on the subject "The Early Civiliza- tion of the Indus Valley" on Monday, Oct. 5, at 4:15 'p.m. in Room D, Al- umni Memorial Hall. The lecture will be illustrated with slides. The public is cordially invited. Events Of Today Freshman Glee Club: Tryouts and first rehearsal today, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Glee Club room, Michigan Union. N ORDER to prevent possible mis - f understanding, The Daily wishes to clarify its editorial policy with respect to the coming election. We start with no predisposition in any direc- tion, and we will endeavor to remain unbiased. Criticism or praise in the course of the day-to- day examination of campaign issues is not in- tended as part of a program of support for either candidate.' Correspondence from readers on political sub- jects will be welcomed. Letters should be made as concise and specific as possible. Through such correspondence, the various political attitudes represented on the campus may be made more apparent than is possible through the editorial columns of The Daily. A Liberal Drain Commissioner .. . THE, IMPORTANCE of state poli- tics and its dissimilarity to the national campaign has been repeatedly empha- sized here and elsewhere, and now, with the state conventions in Michigan just concluded, it is timely to mention the subject again. There is always the danger, in a presidential election year, that the vital problems confront- ing the nation, with their glamor and popular appeal, will detract attention from those almost equally important choices of candidates for state and local offices. Too often a Republican or a Democratic state administration is swept into power simply because of the popularity of a Republican or Democratic president. Too often we are confronted with the spectacle of govt' ernors and state representatives and sheriffs and drain commissioners winning election because of their stand on national relief, the tariff or. the League of Nations. Such things should not be, for it is imperative to good state and local government, so important in its effect on the individual citizen, that state. and national issues be examined separately. In Michigan we must choose Nov. 3 between Governor Fitzgerald, the Republican, and Frank Murphy, the Democrat, governor-general of the Philippine Islands. Both of these candidates are guilty of hiding behind the skirts of the na- tional campaign. Fitzgerald makes much of his Landon support and of his criticism of the New Deal. And Murphy seems tj rely most heavily on the fact that he is a friend and backer of President Roosevelt and that he be- lieves firmly in the New Deal. These are not the issues. Governor Fitzgerald more or less stands on his record, promising pri- marily passage of the Civil Service Act at the beginning of the legislature. Passage of such an act, although no governor can "promise' it, will be a cardinal step forward. Murphy's out- standing specific promise was to work for a unicatneral, or single-chambered, legislature. Al- tha-h many nnliticn lsientists favor such an Raw Materials In World Politics -A Discussion Of Paths To Freedom From Economic Discord- (John C. deWilde in Foreign Policy Reports) TENSION between the "haves" and the "have- nots" has increased and become one of the primary causes of international unrest. Those who count themselves among the "proletarian nations" have been advancing with ever greater forcefulness their claims to a larger share of the world's wealth. Japan has conquered Man- churia; Italy has annexed Ethiopia; Germany i demanding consideration of its colonial claims. Other countries, not strong enough to enforce consideration of theirdemands, may, onthe basis of equity, have the same or even a better claim to a fairer distribution of the world's wealth of primary products. Given the unequal distribution 'of raw ma- terials among the countries of the world, what measures can be taken either to remove these in- equalities or diminish their importance? The transfer of territory is the first remedy that suggests itself to countries with little na- tural wealth of their own. Obviously, there can be no question of realloting or transferring the territory of self-governing imperial units such as Canada and Australia. Only the transfer of de- pendent colonies and, in particular, of mandates is considered in this connection. Colonies produce few raw materials of major importance; rubber and tin are the conspicuous exceptions. All the mandates, including the former German colonies, are exceedingly poor in raw materials, so that returning them to their' former suzerains would bring little relief. Possession of even a small supply of colonial products might help a country whose foreign exchange position is very tight, although a more permanent and a sounder remedy would obvious- ly lie in the expansion of international trade. On the whole, the transfer of colonies and mandates, even on a considerable scale, would constitute only a partial and inadequate solu- tion of the problem. In theory, a balance of resources might be achieved by permitting people to move freely to the sources of raw materials, there to exploit and utilize them without restriction. In this way, the movement of populations might ulti- mately compensate for differences in natural wealth and standards of living between countries. Artificial barriers to immigration, however, have been erected by many states. But without these barriers, there probably would have been no large migratory movement in recent years, for widespread unemployment even in less thickly populated countries has made emigration unat- tractive. Relaxation of emigration restrictions and revival of migration must therefore await the elimination of unemployment. The latter, in abolition of export duties which some nations need for revenue or the conservation of natural wealth. An international agreement might pro- vide, however, that such duties should in no case discriminate according to destination of the ex- ports, and that, wherever such export levies are exacted, equivalent excise charges should be im- posed on internal consumption. The League of Nations has worked in the past, but not very successfully, for the removal of export restric- tions. The most efficacious remedialmeasures that could be devised are those. which would bring about a revival of international trade on a sound economic basis. No country will experi- ence difficulty in procuring essential raw ma- terials when opportunities of international ex- change are ample. The community of nations must therefore address itself to the task of re- moving or reducing the many impediments to the flow of world trade. In theory, there are two ways of accomplish- ing this. One is to bring about conditions of free trade by the gradual abolition of existing restrictions; the other, to discard the old prin- ciples of economic liberalism and set about plan- ning and organizing the exchange of goods. The first has hitherto been the recognized method of procedure. Under present circumstances, this method would imply the restoration of the gold stand- ard by an international agreement realigning and stabilizing world currencies and providing, perhaps, for loans to countries with depleted gold reserves. It would necessitate simultane- ously the removal of foreign exchange restric- tions and quotas, and the reduction of tariffs. Trade treaties would be concluded under the un- conditional most-favored-nation principle. The implications of the second method are less clear, because the world has never yet engaged in any real planning of international commerce. That it is being considered today is due to a growing conviction among economists that the principles of laissez-faire are no more applicable to international economic. relations than to na- tional economic life. Many of the present trade restrictions have been the inevitable accompani- ment of growing governmental control over eco- nomic life. In order not to impair the success of efforts to put their domestic economy in order, countries have sought to protect themselves against the repercussions of uncontrollable forces abroad. This protection, in the absence of international machinery to regulate and control foreign trade, has unavoidably taken the form of import re- strictions. If the future is to witness a further Student Mail: StudentsE mail addressed in care of versity should call at the Office, Room 1, University expecting the Uni- Business Hall. Hillel Foundation: Students de- siring to affiliate with Hillel may do so at the Foundation, corner East University and Oakland, from 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 every day. Membership in Hillel entitles you to all religious, social and educational privileges, including admission to Yom Kippur services. Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles): Services will be held this evening at 7:45 in the chapel of the Hillel Foun- dation. The Festival will takes place on Thursday and Friday of this week and the final two days will take place on the same days of the following week.- The services will be conducted by a student leader and will also be featured by group participation and singing. All newand old students are cordially invited. Academic Notices Romance Philology 205, (Proven- cal): The first meeting will be to- day at 9 a.m. in Room 200 R.L. in- stead of in Room 207 R.L. French 193: Prof. E. Rovillain's class in French 193 will meet on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 4 p.m., Room 308, R.L. Scabbard; night, 8:00, posted. and Blade meeting to- Michigan Union. Room Weekly Reading Hour: The Week- ly Reading Hour for the present se mester will be held on Thursday :af- ternoons at 4 o'clock in Room 205 Mason Hall. For the program on Oct. 1, Professor Hollister will read from Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur," and from Tennyson's "The Passing of Arthur." All per- sons interested are cordially invited to these weekly reading programs. Women's Field Hockey: For all students who wish to play elective hockey, open practices will be held on Tuesday and Thursday from 4:15 to 5:30 on Palmer Field during the two weeks of rushing. First practice starts this afternoon. Varsity Glee Club: First rehearsal I I