0 PAGE Ft THE MI C.HIG AN DAILY, SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 1937 IU THE MICHIGAN DAILY 1!96 Member 1937 $ssociated C Iedde Press Disributors of Colle6dae DU&4s Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Smmer 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 Ofice at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4 00; by mail, $4.56. REPRESENTED Ro NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Ic. olege Pblisers Retresenaiv 40 MADISON AVE. Nw YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON SAN FRANCISCO LoS ANGELES 'PORTLAND - SEATTLE Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR ..............ELSZE A. PIEoE ASSOCIATE EDITOR .........FRED WARNER NEAL ASSOCIATE EDITOR ......MARSHALL D. SHULMAN George Andros Jewel Wuerfel Richard Hershey Ralph W. Hurd Robert Cummins Departmental Boards Publication Department: ElsieA. .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 Shuman, Chairman; Robert Cummins, Mary Sage Montague. 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: Elza- beth M. Anderson, Elizabeth Bingham,. Helen 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 Business Assistants: Robert Martin, Ed Macal, Phil Bu- chen, Tracy Buckwalter, Marshall Sampson, Newton Ketcham, Robert Lodge, Ralph Shelton, Bill New- nan, Leonard Seigelman, Richard Inowe, Charles Coleman, W. Layhe, J. D. Haas, Russ Cole. Women's Business Assistants: Margaret Ferries, Jane Steiner, Nancy Cassidy, Stepanie Parfet, Marion Baxter, L. Adasko, G. Lehman, Betsy Crawford, Betty Davy, Helen Purdy. Martha Hankey, Betsy Baxter, Jean Rheinfrank, Dodie Day, Florence Levy, Florence Michlinski, Evalyn Tripp. Departmental Manaers Jack Staple. Accounts Manager; Richard Croushore. Na- tional Advertising and Circulation Manager; Don J. Wilsher, Contracts Manager: Ernest &. Jones, Local Advertising Manager; Norman Steinberg, Service Manager; Herbert Falender, Publications and Class- ifled Advertising Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: IRVING S. SILVERMAN End Of The TVA Power-Pool Project.. . N CONNECTION with the Presi- dent's announcement of the term- ination of the joint "power pool" in the Ten- nessee Valley project, it is interesting to review some aspects of the TVA problem with an eye toward measuring the significance of the an- nouncement. The constitutional purposes of the TVA, ac- cording to Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the board of directors of the TVA and president of Antioch College for 11 years, are: "first, the development of interestate commerce through the improvement of navigation, including flood control; second, the promotion Qf national de- fense through the administration of govern- ment wartime properties at Muscle Shoals; and third, the generally recognized right of govern- ment to inquire, demonstrate and report on matters affecting the public interest. It is this last purpose with which we are now concerned. "Public int'erest" in this connec- tion means of course "public utilities," and "to inquire, demonstrate and report" has generally meant the setting up of a "yardstick" to deter- mine whether utilities are exploiting the public. But this competition between the government and utilities in the distribution and sale of power might be interpreted on several planes. The two extremes are stated by Mr. Morgan as follows: " . . . At one extreme the policy might be adopted that within the proper limits of the sta- tute the private power companies might be looked upon as the normal agencies for distribut- ing power, and that, while furnishing power to any municipalities which could explicitly demand it, the TVA in the main should plan to sell its power wholesale to the private utilities and leave the distribution to them. That this is the soly- .tion the private utilities would prefer. In its manner of selling public power to private util- ities, an administration inclined to do so might almost contribute to the exploitation of the region by utility companies at public expense. "The other extreme might be stated as follows. The private utilities through gross abuses have lost all claim to consideration; partly in retalia- tion for past abuses, partly to destroy their power to do wrong in the future, the powerful position of the TVA should be used to dismember the large private utilities in its region; where- upon the fragments could be acquired at bar- gain prices by public organizations. According to that extreme attitude, the process is essen- tially a war of social revolution and must result in the subjugation and surrender of one party. All is fair in war, and in that process damage could be carried to successful conclusion, but at great social and economic cost." Moving somewhere between these two ex- tremes, President Roosevelt made two sugges- tions. One of these was for the organization of a power transmission pool which would make TVA power equally available to public and pri- vate distributors over both public and private transmission lines. The other was for the definition of a national power policy through act of Congress to be administered by some na- tional body, such as the Federal Power Commis- sion. In the course of the recent presidential campaign, Mr. Roosevelt called a conference on the power-pool project, and authorized studies to be made. The opinion that this move had political motivation has been strengthened by the President's discontinuance of these studies this week. They have been discontinued because the President feels that the utilities have been guilty of bad faith in continuing injunction suits during the time these studies of a power- pool were being made. Arthur Krock has shown, however, that these suits were begun before the conference, and that they were continued with the full knowledge of the Presi- dent. The utilities, according to Mr. Krock, in formed the members of the conference that the suits would not be dropped except in return for a promise from TVA for a suspension of its duplication program, which was not granted. What is the significance then of the termina- tion of the power-pool project? It seems likely that we may expect movement of the TVA in the direction of war with the utilities rather than cooperation, but in the flux it seems as if the "yardstick" idea has been lost, for the con- ditions essential to a scientific measurement of utility costs have not been kept. "What is the present situation in the Ten- nessee Valley area?" asks the New York Times. "A great Federally owned and municipally owned power system is being developed with the aid of Government subsidies and Government exemption from taxation. Not only has it these arbitrarily assumed advantages as a potential competitor of the privately owned sytems in the same area. In addition, the very uncertainty of its policies, and the doubts created by lack of knowledge a to the extent of its future compe- tition in the distribution of electric power, give it a further adventitious advantage over the pri- vate companies. For, in the face of what has become an obvious threat to their solvency, the private systems cannot refund outstanding ob- ligations at lower interest rates, despite the pre- vailing ease of the money market, and they are thus prevented from passing on to the consum- ers of electric power the benefit of a substantial saving," The result of such a policy will be public ownership of utilities, which is not necessarily to be avoided ultimately, but at least ought not to be regarded as the function of the TVA until the "yardstick" measurement has been made. fI TE 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. What Elle Betine Is Seeking To the Editor: In answer to the letter of Ella Benne in the Forum of Thursday, Jan. 28th may I mention that The Student Christian Ass'n. sponsors, and has been for the last segester sponsoring at Lane Hall, informal dances and get-togethers. These are open to the general student body, and are especially designed for those who feel that the cost of the other functions on the campus is too great a burden on their personal budget. The next dance will be held on February 20th. The cost is 25 cents per person or couple. Music by Jacob's Wolverines. Refreshments will be served. On the week-end of Feb. 12th, (J-Hop Week- end), the SCA will sponsor a retreat to the Fresh- Air camp on Patterson Lake. There will be danc- ing, hiking, bull-sessioning, and winter sports if weather permits. The cost will be reasonable, and there is a place for all who are interested in coming. -Ralph Segalman. Remedy For Basketball Smoking To the Editor: Most of us cinemaddicts would doubtless object violently if we had to peer through a cigaretz smoke screen every time we went to see Gable's or Harlow's latest heart-thriller, but yet down at the basketball games in Yost Field House there seems to be quite a number of people who don't seem to care whether the air gets hazy or not, to say nothing of their regard for the comfort of those about them. The situation at football games is slightly different, since there the ven- tilation is somewhat better. However, indoors, there is not much that one can do but sit and take it, and certainly everyone has a right to clean air just as much as he likes to expect clean food. Evidence that a number smoke for lack of something better to do is indicated by the fact that immediately at the end of the first half, matches begin to flash here and there through- out the crowd as cigarets are being lit. To this someone will probably loudly claim, and per- haps with some justification, that it tends to relieve the severe nervous strain that develops while watching an exciting game, but, be that as it may, one good remedy for both complaints, and one that would be agreeable to all, would be to 'u invv m farm ofnf f e* rvnrr -fr +'fn inmyrnf. BENEATH **** ****** IT ALL o---By Bonth Williams THE BEAVER, like Mark Twain, was highly amused at the reports of his death. Vic Heyliger, Wolverine hockey captain, al- most swallowed his tooth-brush when we told him yesterday afternoon that the Detroit papers had been calling to confirm the report of his death, and then announced that he was going to haunt the University of Western Ontario in the pucksters' next game Feb. 15 at London, Ont. That's how dead the Beaver is. The official 'report is that he will probably leave the hospital in a day or so, but whether in the future he will be able to lace a skate over the hole cut in his right ankle to clean out an infection is all up to him. Knowing the Beaver, it's our bet that with the help of Trainer Ray Roberts, who built a nose-guard for Johnny Gee and designed a special wrestling helmet, Vic will find some way of lacing that skate on before the all-important return games with Minnesota and Michigan Tech. While, we were checking around yesterday to see how dead the doctors thought the Beaver was, we called one University Hospital office on the phone only to have a sweet young voice at the other end say "What HO! HEL-LO!" Power of suggestion, no doubt, but it's bad business for a doctor's secretary. Practically scared us into being well and invigorated. Not that we're in the habit of reading Ruth Alden's column in the Free Press, but the other day, while looking for the state page, we spotted a headline we just couldn't help reading, ban- nered all the way across one of the four women's pages: "U. of M. Student Enters Discussion With His Own List of Requirements for Popularity," with a sub-head to this effect: "Manners Not Needed, University Man Says, But One Must Be Good Dancer, Have Sense of Humor, Young Guest Asserts." The letter beneath it was apparently in answer to one written earlier in the week by a student signing himself "Popular Cynic," taking the girls for a sleigh-ride on their technique in pursuit of the local B.M.O.C.'s. Punch line came with the paragraph, "The popular crowd today smokes, drinks, and gets darn "tight." I don't care what anyone says about this, it cannot be denied. The most pop- ular girls are often the most intoxicated on the floor; the same is true of the boys." Farther on down we find: "One thing a fel- low doesn't need to be popular is manners. The guy who "treats 'em rough and makes 'em like it" is usually popular. Why, I don't know. I, like a darn fool, hold a woman in high esteem, and respect her above all else." The letter was signed "U. of M. Student." Somewhere in this milling mob of 10,000 college students is a man who is still reading John Held literature about what a former Daily Editor used to call the "gin-crazed youth of a sex-mad age." We've never seen a popular girl jump to the top of a table and Charleston around in an alcoholic stupor, nor have we more than rarely seen any co-eds, popular or unpopular, pass out at a dance. The boys will have to take the rap for that offense. And then, on the other hand, we haven't seen any of our local Clark Gables or Robert Tay- lors go cave-man on us and swing into a sudden Apache dance. Miss Alden probably has the best answer to the letter: "Personally, may I inquire at which dances in- toxicated girls and boys are the most popular and with whom they are so considered? It would help me a great deal in my conclusions about U. of M. conditions if I knew your associates, your activities, your habits, your upbringing, your tastes, your personal notions of what a uni- versity student should desire in popularity, and the type of girls you prefer." Somewhere down South in the vicinity of our new inland sea is another Daily man beside Bonth Williams, Dick Tobin, who was manag- ing editor in 1932. Now with the New York Herald Tribune, he's in charge of his second flood for them. His first four stories, we hear, came from Cincinnati, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Memphis, in that order, which entails a lot of travelling. Ted Peck, local Associated Press snoop, is commuting these days to Flint and Sag- inaw on strike duty, taking the family car with him and leaving his wife stranded on the' icy local sidewalks, all because Ted claims he doesn't like to get out in the open ever since one of the strikers, taking him for a General Motors magnate, opened fire and just missed him with a three-pound car-door hinge nonchalantly hurled from the second-story window of a parts factory. Strike duty made poor Ted miss most of Betty Baker's trial earlier this month, which will leave him out of the discussion when the Ann Arbor Reporters Association convenes some time before the J-Hop to rehash the case at the annual meeting, Add interesting Michigan customs: The little letter which reads: January 28, 1937 "Dear Mr. Taylor: "This is to give you formal notice that the Ad- ministrative Board of this College has granted your petition for an extension of time to complete your work in Ceramics 157. You will have until Feb. 1." Especially when you get, in the same mail, a nrinpr.oAC"in unbi-',4n1- ec- THEATRE 'Dead End' Remains By JAMES DOLL DEAD END, Sidney Kingsley's play which has been running for more than a year in New York and which has had a touring company since last fall, will continue for a second week at the Cass in Detroit and add a per- formance this Sunday night as well. There was some doubt about what the company would do next week. The booking arranged for the week in Cincinnati was impossible on account of the flood. The Actors' Equity As- sociation gave Norman Bel Geddes, the producer, the right not to lay the company off for the week but after counting up the receipts Monday and Tuesday nights at the Cass, it was decided to stay right on in Detroit for the second week. According to Nick Holde, general manager for the Geddes office, the play opened on Monday night to $1,104, grossed $1,- 440 on Tuesday night and $1,385 at the Wednesday matinee and there was a $7,400 advance for the rest of the week. This is more than ordinarily good news because not every play so worthwhile (and interesting) as Dead End prospers so well in De- troit. Mr. Kingsley's play is laid in a dark street where new apartments are beginning to encroach on the slums. The principal characters are a group of children brought up in this de- pressing district and the play shows us, dramatically and without ever ob- viously pointing a moral, how these children become tomorrow's criminal class. Placed agaiuist these children is part of the group that were the previous generation of children. One of them is a notorious gangster who has come to see his mother. The high point of the play, to me, is the scene where his mother turns against him and goes back to her drudgery and poverty. The play is panoramic but man- ages to have an intimate quality ws well in its vivid portrayal of charac- ter. The setting (by Norman Bel Geddes) has received more comment than usual because of its scale but this seems to be one of the less im- portant things about the production. The play is an important and time- ly one with a problem discussed in human terms rather than as a prob- lem. Bellinis' Work Features Radio Art Discussion Marie Abbot Participates With Adelaide Adams In 'Art Pilgrimage' After portraying vividly quaint and picturesque Venice, "the most ro- mantic city in all lovely Italy," the 13th "Art Pilgrimage" presented on the University radio hour gradually evolved into a discussion between Marie Abbot and Adelaide Adams of the fine arts department concerning the paintingsd of the Bellini brothers -Gentile and Giovanni. Miss Abbot and Miss Adams, after guiding the radio listeners through an imaginary tour of Venice, finally "stopped" at the Academy, the fa- mous art museum where they dis- cussed the merits of Gentile Bellini's "Procession in Piazza San Marco," and the "Madonna of the Trees," by Giovanni Belini. Valuable Historical Document Regarding the "Procession in Piaz- za San Marco," Miss Adams said that the painting "is much more valuable as an historical document than for any story it contains. It is an exact reproduction of the great Piazza of St. Mark as itflooked inthe 15th century. The facade of St. Mar'k's Church is portrayed faithfully with all its exquisite sculptured orna-, ments." According to Miss Abbot Giovanni was even greater than Gentile in that he mastered not only all the tech- nical problems of his art, but also brought to it a graciousness and sense of beauty that Gentile never equalled. Miss Adams added that "those qual- ities we shall see in his lovely ma- donnas, for he set the Venetian Ma- donna type. She is a superb, mature woman, at once queenly and ma- ternal. Her stately charm suggests the grand style of the high renais- sance which reached its climax in the art of Titian, Ciovanni's most famous pupil." Points Out Features Miss Adams also pointed out the outstanding features of the "Madon- na of the Trees," showing the un- usual modelling of the Madonna's face and hands and the Child's soft! body. It is in a picture of this kind that Giovanni Bellini has contributed the greatest quality to art, she said. "He was able to combine those ele- ments-the human and the divine with great skill. "Art could hardly be less theolog- ical," said Miss Adams, "or more genuinely religious than in the "Ma- donna of the Trees." Without the aid of attendant saints or glowing clouds filled with angels, Giovanni SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 1936 VOL. XLVI No. 93 Notices President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to faculty members, towns- people, and their friends on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. Please note that this date has been changed from Feb. 7 to Feb. 14. To The Members of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts: The fourth regular meeting of the faculty of the College of Lit- erature, Science, and the Arts for the academic session of 1936-37 will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall, Feb. 1, 1937 at 4:10 p.m. . otoAgenda: 1. Adoption of the minutes of the meeting of Dec. 7, 1936, which have been distributed by campus mail (pages 307-313). 2. Resolution on retirement of Prof. T. R. Running. Committee: Prof. H. D. Curtis, chairman, T. H. Hilde- brandt. 3. Reports: a. Executive Committee by Prof. George La Rue. 1. Resolution concerning the granting of I's and X's dur- ing the last semester of the senior year. b. University Council by Prof. R. W. Sellars. c. Deans' Conference by Dean E. H. Kraus. 4. Resolution on non-academic employment presented by Prof. L. C. Karpinski at the December meeting. 5, Report on the resolution con- cerning Freshman English by Prof. L. I. Bredvold. 6 Report of the Committee on Emeritus Professors. Committee: Pi of. R. A. Sawyer, chairman, L. C. Karpinski, Henry A. Sanders. 7. Announcements and new busi- ness. A full attendance at this meeting is particularly desired. Student Accounts: Your attention is called to the following rules passed by the Regents at their meeting of Feb. 28, 1936: "Students shall pay all accounts due the University not later than the last day of classes of each semester or Summer Session Student loans which fall due during any semester or Summer Session which are not paid or renewed are subject to this r'egulation; however student loans not yet due are exempt. Any unpaid accounts at the close of business on the last day of classes will be reported to the Cashier of the University, and "a) All academic credits will be withheld, the grades for the semester or Summer Session just completed will not be released, and no tran- script of credits willdbe issued. "(b) All students owing such ac- ccunts will not be allowed to register in any subsequent semester or Sum- mer Session until payment has been made.' S. W Smith, Vice-President and Secretary. Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts: It is requested by the Administrative Board that all in- structors who make reports of In- complete or Absent from examina- tion give also information showing the character of that part of the work which has been completed. This may be done by the use of the sym- bols,I (A), X (B), etc. Freshmen and Sophomores, College of L.S. & A.: Changes in second se- mester elections, especially if such changes are made necessary because of low grades which have been re- ceived during the first semester, may be made Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Feb. 10, 11 and12 from 9 to 12 a.m. and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.; for freshmen in Roomn 102 Mason Hall, and for sophomores in Room 9 University Hall. Saturday Class Committee: During the examination period this Commit- tee will not hold sessions. Following examinations the committee may be consulted on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 9- 12, 2-4, in Room 231 A.H., and throughout the classification period in the gymnasium. Varsity Glee Club: The following men have been selected to make the trip to Hamtramck on Feb. 11, 1937. Report in, front of the Union at 8 a.m. Wear dark suits and white shirts. Do not bring your dress clothes. If for any reason you can not be present call your manager. Miller Tyrrell Vandenberg Silfies Johnson Spencer Roberts R. Williams Epstein Collins Anderson Swann Koljonean Haapa 'Nffnn,' E.. H. Williams Hirshberg Pratt Lodge LaSalle Manley Wolf Goodrich Yergens Jensen Bunks Soldofsky Hunerjager Sinclair Varsity Glee Club: The following men have been chosen to usher at the Chrysler Choir Concert on Sun- day, Feb. 14, 1937 in Hill Auditorium. Report at the Auditorium at 2:15 p.m. in dark suits and white shirts. These same men will attend the ban- quet at the Union at 6 p.m. and be prepared to sing. Wear full dress to. the banquet and don't forget your ribbons. If these directions are not clear or if for any reason you can not be present be sure to call your manager so that an alternate may be selected: Burroughs Burstein Carrothers Clark Collins Czapkowski Draper Dunks Gardener Gillis Hall Hunerjager Jensen Kent Kinkead Kojonean LaSalle MacArthur Montgomery Moore W. E. Morris Pratt Rudness Silfies Sinclair Soldof sky Spencer Tyrrell Twyman Viehe Walter R. C. Williams Yergens Anderson Johnson Lodge, Metcalf Roberts Mason Wolf Harwood Swann Miller Bradford Epstein Tustison E. H. Williams Haapa Luskin Vandenberg. Social Directors, Chaperons, Househeads: . University Women: Girls may obtain out-of-town per- mission from their househeads when they have finished all their examilia- tions. Permission. to be absent from Ann Arbor between examinations should be obtained from the Office of the Dean of Women. University Women: Out of respect to those who are studying for exam- inations, all women students are re- quested not to move until Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, Feb. 11, 12, 13, or 14. Public ealeath Nursingg Certificate: Students expecting to receive the Certificate in Public Health Nursing at the close of the present semester should make application at the office of the Recorder of the School of Ed- ucation, 1437 U.E.S. The University' ureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information: The group meeting arranged for the representative of the Firestone Tire and RubberCompany which was to be held at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 1, will be held at 10 a.m., Monday. Will the men who are expected to attend the meeting at 9:30 a.m. and who cannot be present then, please notify the Bureau. The meeting on Tuesday will be held at 9 a.m. as scheduled. Notice to Presidents of Professional Fraternities and All Student Organi- zations: All page contracts and copy (names of officers and members), for space in the 1937 Michiganensian must be sent in immediately in order to meet 'Ensian deadlines. All group sittings and pictures, not yet taken, should be arranged for at once. The 1937 Michiganensian. History 47: Final examination, Wednesday, Feb. 3, p.1., sections 1, 2 and 3 will meet in Room C, Haven Hall; sections 4, 5 and 6 will meet in 101 Economics. Pcv Ti~iin aepni c P 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 President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday.