THE MICHIGAN DAILY ATURDAY, MAR 2.17, 3fi3-i Readers Reply In Defense Of Andres And 'Jimo-Crow AS OTHERS SEE IT DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Ass)Atanit to thi PreeideM until 3.30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1937 edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 1tPblshed every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session " 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 ights 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. 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NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT WEEs Britai's Foreign Policy r RITAIN'S FOREIGN POLICY in the past 18 months rightly has been called indecisive, but it does not follow necessarily that the Baldwin government has been devoid of perception and acumen. Anti-fascists have been given cause for dis- pleasure with British policy, but they will get a ,more realistic equation if, instead of assaulting the intelligence of the British foreign office, they afempt to discover the principles which mark its course. During the past year and a half, Europe has had to deal with two major disturbances. The first was the Italian invasion of Ehiopia and the secoad the Spanish civil war and its complica- tions. The Italian imperialist excursion offered threats to British imperialist interests in Africa and the route to India. Those threats remain and injury was augmented by the loss of prestige rtain sustained in an unsuccessful effort to restrain Mussolini. If one can discover a logical season for Britain's acceptance of this blow, he jay, quite possibly, have a better understanding .of the fluctuating British policy in opposition to talan penetration of Spain, Morocco, and the Oalearic Islands. This penetration threatens the British domination of the Mediterranean, which is probably more essential to the strength of her empire than the walls which Italy breached by her Ethiopian conquest. 'British opposition to Italian intervention in ,Spain, up to this week, was only nominal. The **cent Loyalist victory on the Guadalajara front, ihwever, has emphasized the lack of success of the fascist campaign since November, and, be- cause few seem to doubt that it was an Italian jarmy upon whom the defeat was inflicted, Mus- .olini has "lost 'face." There is general appre- Llsion that Italy, in light of this, may con- ,tinue Eher intervention and, if necessary, carry It' beyond the point where assistance to the Span- ih fascists merges into active assumption of .responsibility for fascist victory. And so Britain now, in stern tones, has warned that she is ready, with France, to throw up a naval block- ade to keep Italian soldiers and guns out of Spain., The tenacity with which Britain will adhere to this new policy depends wholly upon the fu- ture course of events. The victory of Loyalist Spain seemingly would indicate an unequivocal working class-peasant government. Probably suIch a victory would bring repercussions in Italy severely weakening the authority of Mussolini. Britain could not fail to see a threat to her imperialist hegemony in those developments. The British government was willing to suffer losses as a result of the Ethiopian war to avoid the possibility of radical political reorientation Sheriff Andres: A Defense To the Editor: By the well-known process of imagination and multiplication of error, The Daily appears to have gotten the wrong slant on Sheriff Andres' Veteran Military Police reserve. In the first place, the Ann Arbor News, in making the announcement Friday afternoon, left out a part of Sheriff Andres' explanationwhich he feels to be highly iiportant, namely, that "it is not my desire to take part in any labor controversy That is no part of my duty, and I shall not be concerned in any issue other than protection of property and enforcement of law." (This is taken from the Ypsilanti Daily Press for Friday, March 19, part of a relatively complete account.) The Ann Arbor News indicated in its story that the reserve force would be available for emergency duty against dangerous mob violence, (remember the word violence) or against dis- obedience of court orders. The Daily, rewriting the story from the Ann Arbor paper, bridged the gap in one fell swoop in the Saturday morning issue, from the possible inference of the definite assertion, "Vigilantes!" as implied in the headline, "Sheriff Forms Spe- cial Police to Fight Strikes." The veteran's military police, as a matter of fact, is not being "formed"; it is being called back into service. A number of years ago, just after the famous "torch murders," Andres formed a unit of about 200 veterans to amplify the State Police net-work system for trapping criminals, with the intention of having a sufficient reserve to guard every cross-road on US-112 and every bridge over the Huron and Raisin Rivers, which would form an impassable barrier across Wash tenaw County. Oakland County followed the local sheriff's example, and the Michigan Sheriff's-'Association together with the State Police then decided to form similar reserve forces in every county of the state. After a period of a year or two, however, the other counties failed to follow suit, and the two original units lapsed from lack of necessity. At present the Washtenaw unit is being re- organized for a number of reasons. One of them is the recent failure of the state police blockade on a number of occasions to trap murderers and bank robbers, possibly because the by-roads could nct be guarded. The other, admittedly, is strikes, but not strikes of themselves, as The Daily inferred. Sheriff Andres expresses the sentiment of the majority of local workmen when he opposes the sit-down method, but even so, his reserve force will boi used against sit-downs in only two instances: first, illegal occupation of private property, de- termined by court order and not by the sher- iff, and second, actual, physical, mob violence. That is my reason for stressing, above, the word "violence." The only connection of the reserve force with labor troubles arises from the fact that in the current fad for the sit-down which has been sweeping the country, court orders have as a rul gone unenforced because the sheriff's forces have been too small to effect removal of the strikers. Knowing the writer of the particularly ob- jectionable editorial last Sunday, I can only be- lieve that either he is not very well acquainted with Sheriff Andres, or else 'did not mean his "Back Yard Mussolini" and other epithets he applied to be- construed as a personal attack on Andres, for example, when he classed "Andres' Vigilantes" with the Black Legion. Jake Andres is on the opposite side of the fence from "the rights of owners to their six per cent," except insofar as the courts will order him to defend that private property, to the extent, for example, of preventing the destruction, dam- age, or theft of linotype machines or typewriters, or any other kind of private property. His concern is not so much about what local workers and labor leaders, of whom he is one, may do on their own initiative, but rather about the possible results of what he calls the "radical political-gangster type" of labor organizers. After all Washtenaw County is neither Socialistic nor Communistic in their varying degrees, but still Republican, according to the latest election re- turns. --C.B.C. More About Sheriff Andres To the Editor: I have before me an editorial which appeared in the Sunday issue of the Michigan Daily. This editorial under the title of "Back Yard Mus- solini" fills me with the deepest disgust. Rather than criticize Sheriff Andres for his attempts to forestall any possibility of violence in a strike, I feel that his action deserves the greatest commendation. Even the so-called "Liberalists" if they think at all, will not admit that it is fitting and proper that any body of citizens should take possession of property that can in no way be conceived as belonging to them. That is precisely what the men and women who participate in "sit-down" strikes are doing. The courts of the state so far have been found helpless in the face of the present emergency, yet these courts are the only place that a citizen can appeal for protection for his home; his pro- perty, or his family. Yet when some person, with the courage to see that these property rights are respected, or- ganizes so that the affair will not be entirely one-sided, you meet his plan with destructive criticism. Perhaps you would rather see the Negroes: By A Southerner To the Editor: The Daily Northwestern takes exceptions to discrimination against the Negro at Northwest- ern University, saying that the fight for Negro rights is the fight of every person who believes in democracy and freedom. There are alway certain people who are trying to start trouble. The Negro question is usually a very good opening. When a "trouble maker" like William Bell, former Northwestern student, brings suit against the University for eviction from the campus beach last summer, there is an immediate opening for these people to start idealizing. At Northwestern University there are cer- tain restrictions in regard to the Negro. This is somewhat new in the North, but it only proves that certain parts of the North are beginning to come face to face with the great Negro prob- lem. The South has faced this for years, and, as a result, has laid down certain restrictions on the Negro which are absolutely necessary in order that the two races may live amicably to- gether. The "Jim Crow" laws are a very good example of these restrictions. The Negro pop- ulation in Chicago has grown into a problem that is becoming more and more apparent. The Negro in the South knows that he has to "know his place," and is satisfied to stay there. He doesn't try to get in places where he isn't wanted. If he does, the white people take action. The Negro in the South has his own "quarters" and places of amusement-and is by far happier than the Negro in the North who is always try- ing unsuccessfully to surmount the social bar- riers instinctively imposed-despite the moraliz- irng on Negro Rights. I do not blame the University in question in the least. I have lived in the South long enough to know what the people in Chicago and at Northwestern University are up against. They have to do something. With two or three ex- ceptions the Negroes are more than satisfied to live by themselves and to have their own places of amusement. The system used i, the South has turned out very satisfactorily, and the system used in the North has been very successful also up till a few years ago when the North started to have a Negro popula- tion. Lately there has been a great change in the conditions, and with it, there vwill have to be a change in the system. There must be cer- tain restrictions on the Negro. -W.B.O. Raise Mii init inWage To the Editor: We Michigan students are not alone in realiz- ing that the cost of living has risen, but most of us are doing nothing about it. What are others accomplishing: "A five cent an hour wage increase to several hundred students employed on the Michigan State College campus was announced today by the State Board of Agriculture. The Board said the increase was granted to enable students to meet higher living costs." We do not know how much the cost of living at Lansing has risen, but judging from the 20% increase here, it is reasonable to suspect that the board was justified. Are we going to let the Farmers get ahead of us like that? It would look as if we were the farmers. Let's see what can be done about rais- ing the University minimum wage. -Just Woke Up. j Saving The League~:k Spain Holds The Answer (From the New York Herald-Tribune) IN THE LAST FEW DAYS the intricate inter- national situation has been moving with a swiftness only equaled by the utter obscurity sur - rounding it. It is reasonably evident that Mu.s_ solini, already himself a prisoner perhaps of that policy of force upon which he has deliberately founded his state, is prepared to shoot his way out of the Spanish entanglement, as he bombed his way through the Ethiopian crisis. It is clear that the French have been alarmed into at least a first gesture toward meeting the challenge with a real naval blockade of the Spanish coasts. But as to Great Britain, it is clear only that as yet nothing is clear in, the confused and divided counsels at Whitehall. Apparently afraid either to yield for a second time to Italian arrogance or accept the war risk involved in any direct issue with Italy, the British seem still to hope that by diplomacy and conciliation the Italians can be brought within the limitations of a real non- intervention agreement. But there is nothing in Mussolini's method to suggest that either diplomacy or conciliation is likely to be of much effect. If the British fail, what then? It may be argued that the more deeply Mussolini involves himself in Spain, the more vulnerable will he become and the more easily can he be halted later. But something of the kind used to be said about the Ethiopian crisis, and the results of that episode speak poorly for the validity of the reasoning. It is hard to escape the conclusion that the issue is forcing -itself here and now. Either the democratic powers will have to assert themselves, at the risk of a general war and in collaboration with Com- munist Russia, or else the dictatorial techniqi . will have to be accorded another sensational suc- cess. From that hard dilemma there seems only one possibility of escape-through the blood of the No Brown-Shirt Armies V OL. XLVII No.128 (From The Nation) Notices It was no accident tiat news of the formation of a uniformed army Smoking in University Buildings. of Nazi Americans came immediately Attention is called to the general rule after the attack of the Hitler press that smoking is prohibited in Uni- upon the American Jews. There is a versity buildings except in private of- connection between the two. Hitler's fices and assigned smoking rooms program in, every country has been where precautions can be taken and to stir up anti-Semitic feeling at control exercised. This is neither a every opportunity, and meanwhile to 'mere arbitrary regulation nor an at- use a private army of storm troops as tempt .to meddle with anyone's per- a nucleus around which terrorist ac- sonal habits. It is established and tivities can be organized. Fritz Kuhn, enforced solely with the purpose of the leader of the American storm preventing fires. In the last five years, troops, has had himself photographed 15 of the total of 50 fires reported, or with his aides in their shiny new uni- 30 per cent, were caused by cigarettes forms, and an order has gone out that or lighted matches. To be ef- every member of the organization fective, the rule must necessarily ap- must outfit himself in the same uni- ply to bringing lighted tobacco into form, equipped in every detail down or through University buildings and to a Sam Browne belt and a swastika to the lighting of cigars, cigarettes, emblem. Although he has chosen as and pipes within buildings-Includ- uniform something other than the ing such lighting just previous to go- German brown shirt, the fact re- ing outdoors. Within the last few mains that this is a brown-shirt years a serious fire was started at army, with the same purposes as the the exit from 'the Pharmacology German Brown Shirts, subservient building by the throwing of a still tA the same Fuhrer, aiming at the lighted match into refuse waiting same totalitarian state. removal at the doorway. If the rule There is of course the danger of is to be enforced at all its enforce- overestimating the strength of the ment must begin at the building en- organization. It claims 200,000 mem- trance. Further, it is impossible that bers, whereas one-half of that num- the rule should be enforced with one ber would probably be a better ap- class of persons if another class of proximation. It is, moreover, torn by persons disregards it. It is a dis- internal strife, as is pointed out by agreeable and thankless task to "en- the excellent new American-German force" almost any rule. This rule weekly, the Deutsches Volksecho, against the use of tobacco within the which is rallying all Germans in buildings is perhaps the most thankc- SAmerica who feel that there is a dif- le:s and difficult of all, unless it ;has ference between the Hitler regime the winning support of everyone con- and the best traditions of Grman cerned. An appeal is made to all per- culture. There have been internal sons using the University buildings- party purges in the new Nazi organ- staff members, students and others- ization, and charges and counter- to contribute individual cooperation charges of treason and misappropr- to this effort to protect University ation of funds. We agree also with building.9 against fires. the fine editorial in the New York Tlis statement is inserted at the Herald Tribune, which points out request of the Conference of Deans how thoroughly ridiculous the whole I Shirley W. Smith. mumbo-jumbo of uniforms and swa- stikas must seem to a rational mind. No Ininediate Danger But this is exactly the rub. The building of terrorist private armies takes its sustenance from every ir- rational growth in a society, and1 seeks always to add to the sum ofi the irrational. We do not foresee any immediate danger in this coun-; try. But everything we have learned from the recent history of Europe shows that unless these cancerous growths within a society are excised, at the very start they can eventually, destroy the organism. Today these American Nazis, in a spirit of broth- erly love, are decorating Jewish places of worship with warning swa- stikas. Tomorrow, as in London's Whitechapel a few months ago, they! will be marching in formation through the East Side, seeking to stir I up a riot. The day after tomorrow] there will be bloody clashes and race hatred. The thing we are in danger of for- getting is that such a sequence is an integral part of the logic of the Nazi movement through the world. The Hitler regime in Germany maintains a brave front, but a silent process of disintegration is eating away at it internally. Its only chance for pur-1 suing its mad career successfully is to neutralize and paralyze those dem- ocratic countries that stand in its path. Hence the Nazi moyements in France, England, America, aimed to split each country by labeling every democratic force either radical or, Jewish. We feel that the common man .in America has too canny a sense of so- cial reality to be deluded thus. But we' cannot afford to take any risks. Con- gress must not let this session end without taking measures to ban uni- formed organizations of any sort aiming to foment social hatred. Choral Union Members: Pass tick- ets for the concert by Marian An- derson, who is appearing instead of Nelson Eddy, Monday evening, March 29, will be given out to all members who call in person, and whose records are clear; Monday, between 9 and 12, and 1 and 4 p.m. After this hour no tickets will be given out. Seniors of the School of Education: Class dues can be paid to Dean Rea's secretary in Room 4, University Hall. Dues must be paid for inclusion in the class announcement, Concerts Choral Union Concert: Marian An- derson, sensational Negro contralto, will give a concert in the Choral Union Series, Monday evening, March 29, in Hill Auditorium, taking the place' of Nelson Eddy, who was obliged to cancel his concert on ac- count of illness. Concert goers are requested to present their "Eddy" ticket coupons, number 10, for admission. Harp Recital: A recital by mem- bers of the Harp Department of the School of Music under the direction of Mary Jane Clark, will be given in the School of Music Auditorium on Maynard St., Tuesday, March 30, at 8:15 p.m., to which the general public, with the exception of small children, is invited. Lectures Uiversity Lecture: Prof. C. U. Ar- iens Kappers, Director of the Central Institute of Brain Research, Am- sterdam, and Professor of Compara- tive Neurology in the University of Amsterdam, will lecture on "Vegeta- Iive Centers in the Brain" on Mon- day. March 29 at 4:15 p.m., in Na- tural Science Audit ium. The lec- ture wil be illustrated with lantern slides. The public is -codially invited. University Lecture: Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will lecture on "The Utility of Art," Tuesday, March 30, at 4:15 p.m. in the Natural Sci- ence Auditorium.' The public is cor- dially invited. Idxh ibi ion4 An Exhibition of Chinese Art, in- cluding ancient bronzes, pottery and peasant paintings, sponsored by the Institute of Fine Arts, at the Archi- tectural Bldg. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p. m. except Sunday through the months of February and March. The public is cordially invited. Exhibitions, College of Architec- ture: An exhibition of the architec- tural competition drawings for the New York World's Fair of 1939 and a collection of photographs of work from the Alumni Association of the American Academy in Rome are now being shown in the third floor exhibi- tion room of the Architectural Bldg. Open daily 9 to 5 through March 27. The public is cordially invited. Events Today The U. of M. Outdoor Club will have a hike this afternoon, March 27, leaving Lane Hall at 2 p.m. and re- turning at 5 p.m. All interested students are invited to attend. Coining Events Luncheon for Graduate Students on Wednesday, March 31, at 12 o'clock in the Russian Tea Room of the Michigan League Building. Dr. John W. Riegel, Associate Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the 'Bureau of Industrial Rela- tions, will speak informally on "Pub- lic Policy toward Strikes." Faculty, College of Engineering: i There will be a meeting of the Fac-{ ulty of this College on Monday, March 29, at 4:15 p.m., in Roon 311, West Engineering Building. The top- ics for consideration are: Absences Near Vacations; Report from Execu- tive Committee; Report from Council Representative; Plans for Summer Sessidn. 1lronson-Thomas Prize in Germaw: Value about $30)--open to all Un- dergraduate students in German of distinctly American training. Will be awarded on the results of a three- hour essay competition to be held under departmental supervision on March 31, at 2 p.m., 204 University H Fail. Contestants must satisfy. the department that they have done the necessary reading in German. The essay may be written in English or German. Each contestant will be free to choose his own subject from a list of at least 10 offered. The list will cover five chapters in the development of German literature from 1750 to 1900, each of which will be represented by at least two sub- jects. Students who wish to compete and who have not yet handed in their applications should do so im- mediately and obtain final directions.. Students in the College of Litera- ture, Science and the Arts: A meet- ing will be held on Tuesday, March 30, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 1025 An- gell Hall for students in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts and others interested in future work in forestry. The meeting will be addressed by Dean S. T. Dana of the School of Forestry. The next meeting in the vocational series, to be held on April 1, will be addresser. by Prof. H. B. Lewis of the College of Pharmacy. America is capable of taking care of Biological Station: Application for itself without the unsolicited aid of admission for the coming Summer private armies. Session should be in my hands before April 15 when all applications will be considered. An announcement de- u re Court i scribing courses offered can be ob- tained at the office of the Summer Idea Advanced Session or from the director. Appli- cations should be made on forms In Amendment twhich can be secured at Room 1119 Na.Sci. from 10:30-11:30 or at Room 3089 Nat. Sci. from 8-4 daily. WASHINGTON, March 26.-(P)- George R. LaRue, Director. Senator Connally (Dem.-Tex.), an Fellowships: The Bureau has re-] opponent of the Roosevelt court leg- ceived announcement of Research islation, produced a new constitu- Fellowships in Coal and Non-Metal- tional amendment idea tonight with lies at the College of Mines, Univer- the explanation that it "just so hap- sity of Washington, and the North- pens" it would carry out the wishes west Experiment Station, U. S. Bu- of the president. reau of Mines, Seattle, for 1937-1938. His suggestion was that the size of Open to graduates. For further in- the supreme court be fixed at nine, format: on, kindly call at the Bureau with retirement of justices made vol 201 Mason Hall. untarily at 70 years of age and com- University Bureau of Appoint- pulsory at 75. The amendment would ments and Occupational In- remove five present members of the formation.- court immediately upon ratification. "The only thing I am hesitant; Cadetships: The United States Economics Club: The meeting an- nounced for Monday, March 29, has been postponed to Monday, April 5, at 7:45 p.m. in the Union. Miss Flor- ence Till will speak on the subject, "Waste Paper: Research Methods and Results." Graduate students and staff members in Economics" and Business Administration are cordial- ly invited. German Table for Faculty Mem- bers: The regular luncheon meeting will be held Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the Founders' Room of the Michigan Union. All faculty members interest- ed in speaking German are cordially invited. There will be an informal 10-minute talk by Prof. M. Aga-Oglu on the San Francisco Exhibition of Islamic Art. I kng t enry e"x-n gj,,,u : ay: .-y ro duction will present this Shakespear- can play next Wednesday through Saturday evenings with a matinee on Saturday at the Mendelssohn Theatre. Box office open today and Saturday from two to five. Phone 6300. about," he told reporters clustered about him, "Is that someone would say I am weakening in my opposition' Ito the President's bill. I am not. at Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn., announces that an officer will be on the campus during the spring to interview students who may be