The Weather Unsettled today with show- crs and probably local rains; to- morrow, showers. L lflfrigun I~Iaiti Editorials A Greeting To High School Visitors... Public Vigilance- The Highest Court .. . VOL. XLVII No. 150 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS Butler Chosen New President Of Educators Many Meetings Are Held As Schoolmasters' Club Convenes Yesterday To Hold Classroom Exhibitions Today Leslie A. Butler of the Michigan State Normal College was elected pre- sent of the Michigan Schoolmasters Club yesterday as the 51st annual ses- sion of the club held its second day's meeting. He succeeds Byron J. Rivett of Detroit. Other officers chosen were John E. Wellwood, pincipal of Flint Cen- tral high school, vice-president; and Hook, registrar of the Kalamazoo Western State Teachers' College, a member of the executive council. The adoption of House Bill 200 call- ing for partial final aid to the retire- nent fund was recommended to the group.. The conference will end today with classroom demonstrations in the ed- ucation school, a special conference and meetings of the business and music groups. Slosson Speaks Trends of our times are the grow- ing power of executive over legisla- tive government, socialistic, collec- tive and government control of in- dustry, intensification of nationalism, feminism, and scientific medicine, Prof. Preston Slosson of the history department told the opening session of the Club yesterday at the League. Commenting on the growing pow- er of the executive branch of gov- ernment, he stated, "As long as the press is free, opposition parties can "riticize, elections are held, and con- stitutional and legal precedent is fol- lowed, no dictatorship will take place even if all power goes to the executive. More Than 350 Attend More than 350 Schoolmasters, at- tending the annual reception and banquet at the Union last night, heard Dr. Frederick B. Fisher of the Methodist Episcopal Church of De- troit ask that the Americans be op- nmirided in dealing with Commun- ism, Fascism and all the other phil- osophies of -Europe "The present idea in America is that we defend ourselves from for- eign influence-we feel that we should save ourselves," he complained. "We should not have a defense against the philosophies of others. We must remember that we originally sprang from the stock of Europe." Education Nearly 700 high-school students from all over this section of the State will convene at 10 a.m. today at University High School to cooperate in 31 class demonstrations which are being sponsored by the Club "to show how the more outstanding teachers of the State conduct their classes," according to Prof. Raleigh Schorling; member of the School of Education and director of the demon- strations. "To my 1knowledge, no similar dem- onstrations have ever before been undertaken by any group," Profes- sor Schorling said. There will be no special prepara- (Continued on Page 2) 2 50 Delegates To Attend 10th Moel Lea ne More than 250 delegates repre- senting 20 colleges and universities in Michigan will attend the 10th an- nual Model Assembly of the League of Nations here May 7 and 8, it was announced yesterday by Gardner Ackley, Grad., Secretary-General 01 the Model Assembly. The Assembly will convene on Fri- day and Saturday, with the plenar3 sessions in the First Congregational Church and the committee meetings in the League. The First Congrega- tional Church has been selected for the Assembly, Ackley said, because its auditorium more closely resembles the one in which the League Assembly meets than any other in Ann Arbor, Due to the current interest in the labor situation, an innovation has been inaugurated in this year's Mode Assembly with the inclusion ofa Model Session of the Internationa Labor Conference, Ackley said. This will be the first of the series of gen- eral sessions and committee meet- ings which will begin at 11 a.m., May . S-_ Curtailment Of Neutral Rights Increases Duties, Says Preuss Enforcement O bligation Added To By Legislation, He Says In Washington WASHINGTON, April 30.-(Spe- :ial to The Daily)-Increased govern- nental responsibilities have been placed upon the United States by the 'urtailment of neutral rights, Prof.I awrence Preuss of the pclitical sci-! once department said here today. Professor Preuss, speaking before the 31st annual convention of the American Society of International Law, pointed out that the United States, by limiting its rights as neu- )ral to private trade with belligerents, also forced upon the government the necessity of taking greater precau- tions to see that the neutrality legis- lation is properly and impartially carried out. "This government is now com- mitted to a policy of self-limitation of neutral rights through a system of governmental control, over private trade and financial relations with belligerents," Professor Preuss said. "It is apparent that such govern- mental intervention has far-reaching effects u pon neutraltobligations," he continued, "and that the duties of impartiality and prevention are thereby extended to the fields of ac- tivity which the government now for the first time undertakes to control." , Turkish Student Missing Si nc e pring VacatDio Landlady Says Sazi Left For Chicago, But Efforts To Find Him Are Futile Police authorities were asked yes- terday by University officials to aid in the search for Serdar Sazi, 33- year-old graduate student from Sivas, Turkey, who hasbeen missing from his rooming house at 311 Thompson St., since the beginning of Spring Vacation, April 9. Sazi told his landlady that he was going to Chhiago to spend the vaca- tion. He has not peen heard from since. Effori'ts"y Dean Joseph A. Bur- sley, Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson, coun- selor to foreign students, and the Turkish consulate in New York to locate him have proved unsuccessful. Sazi did not tell his landlady whom he planned to visit in'Chicago. He has not communicated .with anyone since his disappearance. It was be- lieved at first that he was delayed in his return. The offices of the Dean and the Counselor to Foreign Students have investigated numerous clues without success. Sazi, a student in the School of Education, came here last fall on a one-year scholarship of the Turkish government. He was a graduate of the training school for teachers at Ankora, Turkey, and was to return to Turkey at the end of the present se- mester to resume teaching duties. Despite the many arguments re- garding the neutrality policy of the United States, Professor Preuss said, the necessity for domestic legislation curtailing the right of American cit- izens to extend material aid to bel- ligerents is pretty well agreed upon. "This policy is basic in the legisla- tion of 1935, 1936 and 1937," he said. "The requirements of our neutrality laws are now well in advance of those of the international laws of neutral- ity," he added. Althoughdthere existed no inter- national obligation to enact such leg- islation, Professor Preuss said, once enacted, however, "it greatly en- larges the sphere of neutral duties. The prohibition of the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war from the United States to belligerent (Continued on Page 2) University Day To Attract High School Students 1,000 Will Attend First In Program To Acquaint Pupils WithUniversity More than 1,000 high school stu dents will get their first glimpse of the campus today when they assemble at the University's invitation in the first of what is expected to be an an- nual University Day. Special events have been planned for them during the entire day. There will be sports demonstrations, schol- arship conferences, science demon- strations and addresses by University notables. The _ event is not an attempt to publicizing the University to attract freshmen on campus, Ira M. Smith, registrar, explained yesterday. "It was planned by the Union Executive Council, and is being conducted by FErederick V. Geib, '33F&C, in con- junction with University officials," he said. Pupils, arriving in groups, are ex- pected from as far west as Grand Rapids, as far north as Port Huron 'and from Detroit. The women will assemble outside the League and the men at the Union at 9 a.m. There they will be assigned to student guides from the men's Independent society, the Woman's Assembly, the SCA, the Women's Athletic Associa- tion and the League. "We are attempting to create a more intimate relationship between the residents of the state and their state University. From telegrams which have been coming in during the last few days, I'm sure we will do this," the Registrar stated,! Among those who have consented to cooperate are Mr. Smith, Dean Al- fred H. Lovell of the Engineering Col- lege, Dean Henry M. Bates of the Law School, Prof. Clare E. Griffin, di- rector of the School of Business Ad- ministration, Dean James B. Edmon- son of the School of Education, Dean Albert C. Furstenberg of the School of Medicine. Others are Dr. Russel W. Bunting, chairman of the dental school, Prof. (Continued on Page 4) City Will Ring With Fraterniy S wingless S ing More than 700 fraternity men are expected to gather on the steps of the General Library Sunday night, May 16, to compete for three cups in the second annual Interfraternity Sing, according to George Cosper, '37, president of the Council. Bleachers will be erected in a semi- circle in front of the steps for the audience, Cosper said, and a public amplifying system will be installed. Each fraternity will be judged in the contest for one fraternity song and all of the houses will sing together four Michigan songs, he said. "It will be necessary," Cosper said, "for all houses intending to enter the Sing to know all the words to the four songs, "'Tis of Michigan We Sing," "Friar's Song," "Varsity" and the "Yellow and Blue." Thethree cups will be awarded. on the basis of excellence of singing and we expect to have three judges: one from De- troit, perhaps George Lawton, authoz of Varsity, one from the Schoiolf0 Music and Fred Alexander, leader of the Ypsilanti choir. All of the singing will be accom- panied by a piano, he said, and the singing by the whole group will bc State Debating, Championship Won By Toila Squad Holds Government Ownership Of Electric Utilities Impractical 4,500 Spectators See Flint Defeated; Ionia high school defeated Flint Northern in a heated debate last night to win the 20th annual state debate championship before an au- dience of 4,500 in Hill Auditorium. The question was: Resolved, That All Electrical Utilities Should Be Governmentally Owned and Operat- ed, .and Ionia upheld the negative. Basing their main argument on the impracticability of government own-, ership, the Ionia team of Laurence Read, Charles Wilder, and Paul Stew- art, Jr., emphasized again and again that government ownership would re- sult in an annual loss of 940 million dollars. Two To One Decision Keith Norwalk, Jane Read, and Charles Knutson of Flint Northern made little attempt to refute this negative charge placing their empha- sis upon the' argument that Federal ownership of the electric utilitiesI would eliminate an undesirable con-r centration of wealth and help to con- serve the nation's natti l resources. A two to one decision was returned by the judges in choosing Ionia as the victor. The judges were: Profs. G. E. Densmore and Carl G. Brandt of the University speech department and Prof. V. A, Ketcham, chairman of the speech department at Ohio State University. The debate marked the closing of True Learning Avoids Vanity, Reeves Asserts Convocation Speaker Says Sicholarship Like Virtue Is Own Reward 3,000 Hear Talk . In Hill Auditorium Freedom from vanity is necessary for the attainment of true learning, Prof. Jesse S. Reeves of the political science department told more than 3,000 persons including 800 honor stu- dents, at the 14th annual Honors Convocation yesterday in Hill Audi- torium. "The scholar is the thinking man who by truth is set free, free from unworthy ambition and popular prej- udice," Professor Reeves said. "And when free from vanity, he is truly free, because he is no longer an ob- stacle to himself." Professor Reeves, who spoke on "Scholarship - An Accomplishment and a Profession," said that the "con- cealment of our own, ignorance ac- companied by an ostentatious display of our own knowledge" has been vast- ly multiplied as an obstacle to learn- ing by means of our "modern ways." "Millions now derive their political convictions from a 'fireside chat' which is neither a chat nor by the fireside, but a new form of the thes- pian art," he stated. "Overnight there is such a demand for a period- ical with no reading and all pictures that great presses cannot supply it. The standard of enjoyment is this year's model. "When Bacon cautions us as to the concealment of our own ignor- ance accompanied by an ostentatious, display of our own knowledge, he hits (us in our tenderest part. We lovef Wake U pStudents! HIigh School 'Kids' Think You're Lazy' "I thought college was all work, but Michigan students don't seem to do anything except sit and smoke on the steps of Angell Hall and the Li- brary." That was the frank comment of a nigh school girl who visited the University for the first time yester- day with thousands of others for the annual High School Day. One high school boy described Michigan students as being "peppy" and another called them "congenial." One girl, commenting on women's clothes here said, "I'm wild about the color schemes." Another ex- pressed her admiration of the ankle socks and the comfortable white sport shoes worn by the majority of Mich- igan women. Some of the High School Day guests were fascinated by the stu- dent "atmosphere" at the Parrot. And others, of a more intellectual nature, were enthusiastic over the "Evolution of Man" in the Anthropology Mu-. seum. They applied the word "swell" to everything. C. W. Edrnds Chosen To Give History Made When Loyalist Airplane Sink Espana Taken Four Miles Off Coast; 700 Of Crew Are StillMIssing Fascists Attempted To Keep Out Food the Annual Forensic Day program at; f.hn TTh-4 . . ,i.A i a i-.h 1Q-. _ lO c a_ ne unzverstcy and the 936-37t sea- " ~u L J L U ~ I~ I ~ , y 4 1 1 U U I1 1 ~ U O ~p r a i s e ; "v a n i t y i s b son of the Michigan High School.pas;vntisb Forensic Association. The subject of of autobiography. the debate last night was used in is modest, for he over 1,000 high school debates in the -and vanity mal state this year. cult." Smtth a Is CharmanProfessor Reeves Aided by a double screen lined with pose of the origin statistics, which they wheeled around as one of "windin the platform to the evident amuse- (Contnued ment of the audience, the Ionia team maintained that the annual cost to Rege ts the government if it should operate the electric utilities would exceed the ('1 annual income of 700 million dollars. j. They argued that a further loss of 420 million dollars in taxes would result. Gift C Flint Northern proposed the build- _ ing of a coast to coast "super-power structure" which would end waste. Sabbditica1L They also argued that government' ownership would eliminate excessive To Facult capital charges. I ra M. Smith, registrar of the Will Succ University, who acted as chairman of More than $2,5 the debate presented both teams with 11an gtan 25 first place loving cups and the in- and gifts and 250 (continue' on Page cherry trees wer - -unP 4Board of Regents Michioan Nimie University when t terday afternoon. The trees are a Tri phs ve versity of Michiga 1 - and officials said ut the mainspring The true scholar must always learn' kes learning diffi-" describes the pur- nal honorary keysE g the watch of in- on Pagefi# Acept T rees, ~f $2,500 eaves Granted y Men; Ford eed Smith 00 in scholarships, flowering Japanese e accepted by the in behalf of the they met here yes- gift from the Uni- ,n alumni of Japan that they may be R.ussel Lecture~u ii e F'herapeuitics Head Will c Tell Of Diphtheria Toxin w Experinental Studies f a Dr. Charles W. Edmunds, chair- 9 nan of the department of materia nedica and therapeutics of the med- e cal school, will deliver the Henry w tussel Lecture Thursday, May 13, in B Jatural Science Auditorium, .it was a nnounced yesterday. a The recipient of the Henry Russel b ward, annually given to a member t f the faculty with no higher rankk s han an assistant professor, will beis nnounced at the lecture, it was also xplained. Dr. Edmunds will speak t n "Experimental Studies on Diph- t heria Toxin." l The two awards are based upon the z rant of Henry Russell, Detroit, who eft $10,000 to the University upon his death in 1920. His only stipulation Nas that the money be used to raise ;he salaries of faculty members. The Regents decided that one half f the award be given in the form of z lectureship for outstanding achieve- nent for that year to a senior mem- >er of the faculty and the other half to a younger member, inthe form >f an. award, for the most promising work of that year. The recipients are picked by the Jniversity Council of Research Clubs. Prof. Lawrence Preuss of the polit- ical science department was lastj year's winner of the Russel Award. 1 SWF Pickets Resume Places At BowlingHall Postp one Trial Of Downs1 Indefinitely As Neafus is Granted Appeal Picketing was resumed last night at the Ann Arbor Recreation Center, 605 E. Huron St., by the Student Workers Federation for the remainder of the: bowling season, while the trial of Tom Downs, '39, SWF president, one of the seven men charged with "loi- tering" on the scene df a strike there April 8, was indefinitely postponed. Downs will be the second of ,those to go on trial, Ralph Neafus, '36F&C, having been convicted on a charge of "loitering" in a trial that ended Thursday. Picketing was conducted from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. yesterday by three mem- bers of the SWF, all of whom carried placards. Neafus was granted appeal late yes- terday morning and Prof. John F. Shepard of the psychology depart- ment furnished bond of $200 for him. Postponement of Downs' trial was announced by Justice Jay H. Payne at about 3:30 p.m. yesterday after neither City Attorney William Laird or Arthur C. Lehman, attorney for the defense, had appeared. The trial I was to have begun at 2 p.m. it will probably begin in about a week it was believed. Picketing will be resumed at the Recreation Center Monday, it was understood last night. No police were present at last night's picketing. BILBAO, Spain, April 30.-(P)-- overnment warplanes today sank he Spanish Insurgent battleship Es- Cana with a possible loss of 700 lives, n history's first aerial destruction of ,major war vessel. The ship went down at 9:45 a.m., he Santander government an- iounced, four miles off Cape Mayor n the Bay of Biscay in 32 fathoms f water. Government trawlers and the In- urgent destroyer Velasco were be- ieved to have rescued most of the rew, normally 854 officers and men. One hundred and ten were picked tp by government fishing boats, and he Velasco was said to have picked p officers and some men who jumped nto the sea. There remained, how- ver, between 700 and 744 was spe- ifically accounted for if the Espana ere fully manned. Santander dispatches related that ive government bombers put out to id the British freighter Brora carry- ng food to Santander shortly before a.m. The 16,140 ton Espana with her ight 12-inch guns ready for action as set to aid the Velasco to keep the rora from entering port. The government bombers circled nd at 9 a.m. scored a direct hit midships. With a hole through her ottom, the Santander reports said, he Espana settled quickly by the tern, took a list to starboard and lipped under the sea 45 minutes ater. One Santander report related that he fatal aerial bomb burst through he Espana smoke stack, dropped be- ow deck and exploded her munitions nagazine. Phi Beta Kappa Lists Members At Convocation Honor Society Chooses 57 Students; Phi Kappa Phi Selects 114 Fifty-seven graduates, seniors and juniors have been elected to mem- bership in Phi Beta Kappa, it was announced yesterday at the Honors Convocation, and 114 seniors and graduate students have been chosen as members of Phi Kappa Phi, Prof. R. S. Swinton of the engineering col- lege said yester.day. Dr. Florence E. Allen, Columbus,., judge of the United States circuit court of appeals, will be the principal speaker at the annual Phi Beta Kap- pa banquet on May 8 at the League. Prof. Clark Hopkis of the class- ical languages department will be the speaker at initiation banquet of Phi Kappa Phi, to be held May 17 at the Union. He will speak on the Uni- versity excavations in Seleucia, Pro- essor Swinton said. The juniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa are: Charles S. Lurie and Donald Cur- tis May, Jr., Ann Arbor; Elliot B. Alpern, Detroit; John H. Pickering, Harrisburg, Ill.; Gardner Patterson, Burt, Iowa; Clifford E. Gressman, Fremont, 0.; and Frederick R. Jones, Washington, D.C. Graduate students elected are: Bernard W. Rottschaefer, Ann Ar- bor; Kenneth G. Hance, Albion; Wal- lace A. Bacon, Detroit; A. Alfred Erickson, Marquette; Clyde F. Kohn, Palmer; Gerald F. Tape, Ypsilanti; Margaret E. P. Baxter, Pasadena, Calif.; Hsi-yin Sheng, Shanghai, China; Marion C. Miller, Huntington, Ind.; and Robert M. Sherwood, Springfield, O. The seniors are: Margaret C. Behringer, Frances E. Carney, Geil H. Duffendack, Mar- (Continued on Faee- - 'G-Man' Will Speak On Crime Detection A special agent of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation Jay C. Newman, will speak on "Crime Investigation" Meeting Of Board Set For 8 A.M, May 1,} i The Board in Control of Student Publications will hold its meeting for the appointment of managing editor and business nmanager of The Mich- igan Daily, The Summer Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian, and the Gargoyle, and business manager of the Summer Directory, at 8 a.m. May t, 1937. Each applicant for a position is requested to file eight copies of his letter of application with the Audi- tor of Student Publications not later than May 8, 1937, for the use of the members of tle Board. Carbon copies,' if legible, will be satisfactory. Each letter should state facts as to the applicant's experience upon the pub- lication or elsewhere, so far as they may have any bearing upon his qualifications for the position sought, and other facts which the applicant may deem relevant. E. R. SUNDERLAND, Business Manager, Board In Control of Student Publi- cations. C onpany To Pipe Natural Gas Here The Washtenaw Gas Co. has signed contracts for natural gas for Ann Ar- bor, Charles R. Henderson, president and general manager of the company, announced late Thursday following non-committal action by the City By RAY GOODMAN Telw Michigan baseball team showed evidence yesterday of having snapped out of the lethargy ghat has marked its play for the last week when it took a rather weak Michi- gan State Normal nine into camp, 12 to 3, at Ferry Field. With Johnny Gee scattering four hits in six innings and Chuck Mc-' Hugh, making his debut on home grounds, allowing three hits in the same number of innings, the Wol- verines were never threatened by the punchless Hurons. On the other hand the two Ypsi pitchers issued eight hits, bunchedI in four innings, and eight walks, which along with five errors made it easy sailing for the Varsity. Michi- gan committed but one error. Thrkr Xtl 70,i d .nn cr4the cnrnin planted near the University Hospital From a botanical standpoint it is highly questionable whether they will M reach maturity in this climate if the meagre experience in the past with these trees is indicative of their abil- ity to live, according to Harley H. Bartlett, chairman of the depart- ment of botany. The trees will either be brought from Japan by Hanji Suma, who will I attend the centennial here in June, or else they will be bought in this country, according to Dr. Robert B. Hall of the geography department. Sabbatical leaves were granted to seven faculty members by the Re- gents. Dean Herbert C. Sadler of i the College of Engineering was grant- ed a six-months sabbatical leave be- cause of illness. Prof. Henry C. An- derson of the mechanical engineering department was appointed to replace Dean Sadler during his absence, on the executive council of the engineer- te wolverines openle ie s g t; in their half of the first'inning when ing college. a hit by Danny Smick chased Leo I Prof. Walter L. Badger of the Beebe, who reached first on a fumbled p'artment of chemical engine ball by the Huron second baseman, had liis resignation, effective a and Steve Uricek, who had walked (Continued on Page 2) home for two runs. In the second Fred Bailey, Normal TO Ch.1oose Parley e de- ering t the i nurie, allowed Gee a safety, nhitDon Brewer, and walked Walt Peckin- paugh, whereupon Beebe singled ac- cording for two mnor e runs. Bailey; was relieved by Burt Zacher who fin- ished the game,. Before he could end the inning, however, Zacher saw three more runs come across the plate as Uricek made first on an error and Merle Kremer pounded out a double. Kremer led the Varsity at bat with Section Chairmen I Student chairmen for ,the general sessions and section meetings of the Spring Parley will be chosen at a meeting of heads of campus organ- izations at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the League. 'The Parley will be held Friday, Qa.,>,"r1v ,nd u5Tnday. May 7. 8 and