Four T HE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1937 FOUR W~f. ...... .MAY...,.193 THE MICHIGAN DAILY icies during his stay in the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer. A strong free trade man, the tariff question was destined to loom large in his later political life. Snowden was one of Labor's leaders, along with Ramsay MacDonald and J. H. Thomas, who bclted the party in 1931 in order to join the National Government cabinet. For this action the Labor Party could never forgive Snowden. It considered him a "traitor," just as it considered MacDonald and Thomas "traitors." For Snow- den, however, it n-#st be said that he he at least had the courage to get out of the National cab- inet when he saw that he and his comrades were becoming nothing more than dummies for the Conseivatives who dominated the cabinet. Snow,. den saw that the whole business was a sham and he resigned rather than support the tariff pol- icies of the Conservatives, charging that support of any policy in contradiction with the policy of the individual's own party was not to be ex- pected in view of the understanding reached at the time of the National cabinet's formation. From the moment of his retirement until his death, Snowden was a vigorous critic of the ex- Labor men who remained in the National cabinet and it was later learned that he had been crit- ical during his days in the cabinet. Snowden at least realized his mistake and did not continue the farce supported by MacDonald, who com- promised most of his ideals to remain in the government. Egypt Grows Up EGYPT had a high degree of civilization and culture 50 centuries ago, when the territories of the present world powers were neopled only by barbarians. For almost 2,000 years, the an- cient land lived under the yoke of what any Egyptian with a historical sense must view as upstart nations. Only last year did the latest suzerain, Great Britain, grant a substantial measure of independence, and only within the last few days has the end of a symbol of sub- servience, the so-called "capitulations," been ne- gotiated. Originating in the days of Turkish rule, these treaties granted foreigners immunity from trial in Egyptian courts, exempted their property from taxation and granted numerous other privileges. A strong nationalistic movement has been rising in Egypt, to the great embarrassment of British administrators, and the capitulations could no longer be tolerated. The method Egypt chose to get rid of them offers evidence of her right to sovereignty. She took the peaceful course of negotiation, and an agreement just reached at Monteaux, Switzerland, provides for gradually abolishing the restrictions over a 12-year period and supplanting the foreign Judges who now sit in cases involving non-Egyptians. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authoity of the Board in Control of Studet Publications. ubshed every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th~ use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.. All righteof repubicat n 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, 14.0; by mail, $4.50. ' Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1936-37 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING lY National Advertising Service, inc. College Publishers Representatl 420 MADISONAVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. cICAGD . BOSTON - SAN FItANCIScO LOSANGELES *PORTLAND - SEATTLE Board of Editors MANAGIING EDITOR:. ...........JOSEH S. MATTES George Andros Jewel Wuerfel Richard Tershey Ralph W. Hurd Robert Cummins NIGHT EDITORS: Joseph Mattes. William E. Shackleton, rvng Silverman, William Spaller, Tuure Tenander, bt Weeks. SPORTS DEPARTMENT: George J. Andros, chairman; Pred DeLano, Fred 3uesser, Raymond Goodman, Carl -Gerstacker. WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT: Jewel Wuerfel chairman; Elizabeth M. Anderson, Elizabeth Bingham, Helen Douglas, Barbara J. Lovell, Katherine Moore, Betty Strickroot. Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER..........ERNEST A. JONES BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: Ed Macal, PhilBiuchen, Tracy Buckwalter, Marshall Sampson, Robert Lodge, Bill Newnan, Leonard Seigelman, Richard Knowe, Charles Coleman, W. Layne, Russ Cole, Henry Homes, Women'sBusiness Assistants: Margaret Ferries, Jane 'Steiner, Nan~cy Cassidy Stephanie Parfet Marion Baxter, L. Adasko, G. Lehman, Betsy Crowford Betty Davy, Helen Purdy, Martha Hankey, Betsy Baxter, Jean Rheifrank, Dodie Day, Florence Levy, Florence Michinski, Evlyn Tripp. Departmental Managers J. Cameron Hall, Accounts Manager; Richard Croushore, National Advertising and Circulation Manager; Don J. Wisher Contracts Manager; Ernest A. Jones, Local Advertising Manager; Norman Steinberg, Service Manager; Herbert - Falender, Publications and Class- ifled Advertising Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: HORACE W. GILMORE Put The CCC Where It Belongs... T HE ONE.PROJECT of the Roose- velt administration that has met with almost universal approval is the Civilian Conservation Corps. With nearly 300,000 young men, war veterans and Indians receiving needed relief and employed in useful outdoor work, th camps have been popularly acclaimed and liked throughout the land, and deservedly so. President Roosevelt now asks that the corps be estab'lished upon a permanent basis. Fears that the corps woul become a private army that need 6641y exchange shovels for guns to become a foriidable for1e&in support of despotism have been largely allayed. Before whole-hearted support can-be accorded to the project however, there are two issues of a fundamental nature that must be thrashed out. The first is the extent to which the organization has come under control and supervision of the ary. "Obviously the army has played a vital part in making the CCC so great a success. It built and equipped the barracks, fed, clothed and housed the men. Its work in that direction is now finished. The camps are now operating efficiently and the economies which an army administration is able to maintain can be car- riej; out, we believe, as competently by civilians. Arguments now proposed for continuing the co peration with the army are that it can man- age the problem of physical safety better than any other agency, that the discipline imposed by army officers is more desired than any other kind. To the great credit of the army, the disciplinary problem of the camps has been admnirably handled. It has been proven that the discipline imposed is not of a military nature. It has been well or badly enforced according to the individuality of officers, with much more of it good than bad. But if it is merely a matter of personality, it is apparent that non- army men can handle the job equally as well. Thus it appears evident that neither argument for continued army control, efficient organiza- tion nor effective discipline, is valid any longer, and Congress could definitely settle the issue by severing completely all connections between the CCC and the War Department. Still another question is the purpose of so large a permanent non-military organization. If the primary purpose of the CCC after it is made permanent, is not relief but conservation, then there can be no question as to who should have full responsibility for it. It belongs in the Forest Service. Labor Again Loses Snowden. HE WEEK-END SAW, in the death of Philip Snowden, Vis- count of Ickornshaw, the passing of one of the great leaders in the history of the British Labor Editor's Madbag Is Still Filled Our Page Is Obscure To the Editor: How you could put a letter such as Mr. Ros- ten's "Letter to the Dead" above such inane facetiousness as 'Tossing the Gauntlet," is more than I can see. Why you didn't give Mr. Rosten's letter greater prominence than the obscure fourth page, is still more than I can see. I guess it was in your "letter department," so it was automatically put in with "Letters." To me Mr. Rosten's "letter" was more important front page news than the fact that the Regents gave so-and- so much to such-and-such a department. For if the majority of students (who are after all the backbone of tomorrow's civilization) don't wake up from the kind of "laissez-faire" atti- tude Mr. Rosten so rightly condemns, then there will be no University to which the Regents can donate their money. In fact there will be no Regents. For in a Fascist state only the dictator "has the say." In a Fascist state a "state uni- versity" would not mean a place for those whq want a richer intellectual and social life to have freedom in libraries, laboratories, classroom, or extra-curricular activities, to have a chance to have a comparatively unbiased view of the world about them. A State University would be in- stead a place where one man's (the dictator's) opinions would be drummed into the senseless heads of those Mr. Rosten terms "dead." There would be no case of "Who For Whom" or "Whom for Who." It would be "All for One," the dicta- tor. Anyone who did not agree to this and dared to voice his opinion would find himself in a concentration camp, or in prison or in the electric chair. This is not an exaggeration; in fact it is a great understatement of what is being done in Fas- cist countries today. For this reason I do wish you'd reprint Mr. Rosten's article, for he ex presses so well in so few words the meaning of Fascism. There would be one great difference, however, if Fascism came to America. Such men as Ein- stein, Thomas Mann, or Bruno Walter and the millions of others who have in a lesser way helped to make the world a place where life is worth the living, were not entirely lost; for they found there was still a place in the world where humans lived. This place was and is America. After the heart-breaking drama they witnessed in the moral destruction of their own country they at least found a temporary refuge in Amer- ica where they are not treated like hunted an- imals. But if Fascism came to America, where would those who dare to express their opinions go? This is the thing that makes the idea of Fas- cism in America even more terrible than is the nightmare of Germany, Italy and Spain today. It is the type of student who "doesn't give a damn" and thinks all discussions relating to the horror or meaning of Fascism "highbrow an beyond him" who is a potential dictator's best friend. Hitler never could have gained a strong- hold in Germany if the people hadn't become so oppressed that they were passive and voiced almost no objections. The same applies to Italy. The people didn't quite know what they wanted and Mussolini did. The people as a whole thought politics was "highbrow." Again I urge you to reprint Mr. Roste's letter for he explains this so well and so suc- cinctly that I do not see how anyone can fail to be moved by it. He realizes, as so few do, that the problem is not "highbrow" or political. It is a problem that each person in the United States will have to face sooner or later, and the sooner each person realizes the meaning of the horror that is Fascism, the less chance there is of that horror becoming reality. -M.L. A New Protest To the Editor: Well, things have been running along smoothly for most of us of '39 since last fall when the Economics Department so honorably read our protests concerning the first blue book in Ec. 51, and then gave us reasonable exams thereafter. Although I am getting away from the topic of the moment, I do want to let that department know that most of us appreciated it and that we are quite happy in Ec. 52. But we are experiencing difficulty in another fact the course would be enjoyed if it were not for the incomprehensible manner in which our blue books are corrected. All that we of '39 desire is that we shall have some sort of understanding between ourselves and our guides in this great endeavor to obtain a worthwhile education. Such as does not now exist in this particular course, but such that does exist between the student and the Eco- nomics Department, and I do not believe that this latter type does exemplify the general pol- icy of our University. I hope that others, too, will express their views, so that this letter will not be considered a case of "sour grapes."s-Sophomore. Spanish Democracy? To the Editor: There has been a great deal of talk about the defending of the Spanish democracy, endanger- ed by a possible Fascist dictator if the Rebels come to power after the civil war. The problem is a very noble one to talk about, but Spain, un- fortunately, never had democracy, except for a brief period during the early days of the Re- public, when a group of liberal intellectuals knew exactly what democracy was and meant to bring it as a substitute for a long corrupted Bour-~ bonic type of monarchy. In 1931 when the Republic established her- self, Senor Azana and a group of intellectuals, greatly influenced by Anglo-American liberal ideology, brought into Spain a type of democ- racy never known before by the Spaniards. Al- though it was accepted without hesitation by nearly everybody, excluding the nobles, the army, and few capitalists, each of the prevalent political groups show an opportunity to use democracy as an instrument for self-advance. For the Anarchists, Communists, Socialists and Syndicalists democracy meant a way through which they could safely advance; similarly, the group opposing radicalism had an ample oppor- tunity to incubate opposite ideas under the safe banner of democracy, bringing to light a real Fascist party and a more self-conscious military group, defending the landed class and the pres- tige of the army respectively. The ideas of the Republic, a liberal product, felt not in liberal ground, but in a Spain divided and subdivided in classes, political groups, and regional differences. Nobody did see Spain in toto, except few idealistic liberals of which Una- muno, Gasset, and Azana are illustrious ex- amples. The atomic state of Spain and the lack of articulation between the numerous groups destroyed both democracy in its pure impulse and the Republic. Last year, just before the revolution, anyone could predict that the active Imoving toward radicalism, represented only by a minority in power, was accelerating a revolt. Friction was created with every opposite group, and the liberal themselves, who made possible their radical progress, were finally repudiated. The liberal Azana became a toy of Communism. Unfortunately the "democrats" of our Campus indicate to be ignorant of Spain pre-revolution. They probably were in those days influenced by the popular idea that Spain was a country of romance, with no possibility for a real tragedy. Democracy was, so to say, a fertilizer in the political soil, and instead of curing the national disease of disintegration, it multiplied the cases ad infinitum! Democracy died with the second coming of Azana, and dead is now in Largo Cab- allero. The future hardly promises the rosy color of democracy as some naive minds seem to think in our campus. We must remember that the Spanish civil war is not exhausted by the over- worked and simple formula of "Rebel vs. Loyal- ist." . The loyalist can justly claim representa- tivesc of every possible political theory, and the same is true of the rebels. This superficial co- operation is only apparent. We have indications of tendencies, particularly among the Anarch- ists, to pull away from Largo Caballero; they find his government too conservative and anti- anarchist. The sad fact is that Spain is breaking in small parts. And this is, in my opinion, the real obstacle to introduce democracy in Spain. The present war will close with a rebel or loyalist victory. But the victor will face not only a war enemy, Trade Policy -Economic A ppeasement- (Fitcm The lHcraid Tribune) WXHEN Mr. Norman H. Davis sailed for Europe in the latter part of March, the air was filled with rumors (of a great gesture toward peace and a disarmament conference, with per- haps something in the economic line on the side. When he got back on Saturday, the disarmament idea if it had ever been seriously enter- tained) was pretty well dead and buried under the hard rocks of real- ity, but the notion of economic ap- peasenient had moved prominently into the foreground. Even Mr. Davis spoke guardedly of the "pressure to give more freedom to economic forces"; and though few today would care to suggest another general con- ference settlement, like that attempt- ed in the Geological Museum in Lon- don in 1933, the possibility-indeed. the need-for action on several local fronts is rapidly becoming apparent. Beginning at home, Secretary Hull's policy of reciprocal trade treaties is running into statistics indicating that it may be increasing American im- ports much more rapidly than ex- ports. The statistics are by no means conclusive, but they are formidable enough, to suggest that if the policy is to be maintained as a beacon in a tariff-darkened world the rest of the voild will have to give us some more active co-operation. Because the British are still leading exponents of the world market and because two- fifths of American trade is with the British Empire, this has focused at- tention on the empire preferential system and the possibility that the imperial conference now sitting in London may reconsider its rigidities. But if revision of the imperial pref- erence system could do much to in-' crease trade among the sterling coun- tries and the United States, the co- operation of both American and British commercial policy with the small states of southeastern Europe could do much to promote the move- ment to the recreation of a DanubianI customs area, by allowing a Danubian preference system to operate outside; the limits of the most-favored-nation clause. There could hardly be a more salutary development, not only forI international economics, but for in- ternational lolitics, than the appear- ance of such a Danubian bloc, eco- nomically and therefore politically, more nearly able to stand indepen- dent of the rival great powers now struggling for control in the Balkans. With an amelioration of trade rela- tions between the United States and the British Empire, followed by an economic strengthening of the Dan- ubian area, the way would be open for a more hopeful beginning on the trade relations between Germany and° Italy, the two great autarchies, and the outside world. It is true that Mussolini has just vigorously reded- icated himself to the autarchic prin- ciple, and that the German exten- sions of the-economic olive branch have been highly tentative in charac- ter; but it is also true that the rise of world prices has put an increas- ingly heavy pressure on both coun- tries, and that the tendency of all the vast effort at rearmament to .un into only military deadlock leaves them little alternative save to seek co-operation in the economic field. Throughout the depression year the cry was for political peace and disarmament in order to lighten the economic burdens; but ironically enough it is today actually the growth of the great armaments into a fairly effective balance which is supplying a basis for economic appeasement. "They are," Mr. Davis reports of the Europeans in general, "afraid of wai now," but there is a "growing realiza- tion" that they must do something tc open the stifled channels of trade. In the London imperial conference we shall perhaps read the first sigm showing whether the time has come for an attack in detail upon the blockade ,or whether the nascent hope is to prove another .illusion. Hatchet Man (Fronj the Herald Tribune) 0 UR CHINESE fellow New Yorker: are noted for their composure ir difficult circumstances and their adaptibility to change. While their philosophy has its roots in a time fai beyond the beginnings of the Chris- tian era, it has proved sufficiently flexible to fit modern conditions, and even to deal with the contemporary racketeer problem. "They must often change whe would be constant in happiness and wisdom," wrote Confucius, and with this maxim of the ancient wisdom in mind, the Chinese Laundry Alliance dealt with members of a rival or- ganization whom they described as hatchet men and who sought to take over their membership. Instead of the former method used in Chinese business disputes, in which there was sniping from doorways in Mott, Pell and Doyers Streets, with numerous casualties-although out of all pro- portion to the ammunition expended -the Laundry Alliance took their grievance to court. There, after nine months of hearings before Referee Thomas C. T. Crain, they won their suit and their assailants were de- feated. Incidentally, as a guide to other industrial disputes, it is note- worthy that hundreds of ballots were taken of the membership of both 'peaniztinzto ,determine to wuhic-h Notice to Seniors, June Graduates and Graduate Students: Today is the last day upon which you will have the opportunity to apply for any degree or certificate with definite assurance that subject to academic qualification it will be awarded to you at com- mencement. There is still a fairly large group who have not yet attend- ed to this who should do so at once if they want to be certain that their degrees or certificates will be award- ed at commencement. Shirley W. Smith. Student Accounts: Your attention c DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of th. Waiversity. Copy received at the Mos oat the Assistant to the Presidm uWt 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1937 Swingojit: Seniors in all colleges VOL. XLVII No. 165 are urged to order their caps and l gowns without delay for Senior t; ot S Swingout on Sunday, May 23. They are available at Moe's Sport Shop on To Department Heads and Others North University, Van Bovens, and Concerned: All time slips must be in Rogers' on South University at only the Business Office May 21 to be m- 25 cents in addition to the rental fee cluded in the May payroll. for commencement. Your early co- Edna G. Miller, operation will assist the committee Payroll Clerk. in planning the event, and will as- sure you of the proper garb for Swing- May Salary Checks: In view of the out. fact that the regular payday for May, May 31, is a holiday and Saturday, June Graduates: The University the 29th, is a half-day, May salary sends interesting and instructive bul- checks will be ready for distribution letins periodically to all graduates on Friday, May 28. Shirley W. Smith and former students. In order that you may receive these, please keep the Alumni Catalog Office informed at all times regarding your correct address. Lunette Hadley, Director. Lectures University Lectite: Dr. D. Donald Hudson, Land Classification Section, Land Planning and Housing Division, Tennessee Valley Authority, will lec- ture on "A Geographer's Contribution to the T.V.A." in Natural Science Au- ditoritim on Wednesday, May 19, at 4:15 p.m. The lecture will be il- lustrated. The public is cordially in- vited. is called to the following rules passed ______ by the Regents at their meeting of Feb. 28, 1936: Exhibition "Students shall pay all accounts due the University not later than the There will be an exhibition of last day of classes of each semester paintings by the National Member- or Summer Session. Student loans ship of the American Artists' Con- which fall due during any semester gress sponsored by its Michigan or Summer Session which are not Branch in Alumni Memorial Hall paid or renewed are subject to this through May 21, afternoons from 2 regulation; however, student loans to 5 p.m. not yet due are exempt. Any unpaid accounts at the close of business on the last day of classes will be report- o ed to the Cashier of the University, c and "(a) All academic credits will be o withheld, the grades for the semes- ter or Summer Session just completed will not be released, and no tran script of credits will be issued. "(b) All students owing such ac- counts will not be allowed to register h in any subsequent semester or Sum- n mer Session until payment has been made." S. W. Smith, Vice-President and Secretary, c The Bureau of Appointment and c Occupational Information has re- ceived notification of the following vacancies: Qualified Chinese students for d 1. Education. To experiment in l the teaching of English in middlea schools, to prepare readers that willk give a cultural and linguistic train-c ing required for the study of science; may be a science man not necessarilyP 3 specialist or trained in educationalF philosophy but competent to handlea science phase of his work.e 2. General Education. 3. Curriculum making.x American student for: 1. Commercial position in a Pres- byterian mission school in Alexan-.. dria, Egypt. Candidates must be qualified to teach shorthand, type- writing, and bookkeeping. Salary $450e per year plus room, board, and trav-1 sling expenses. Students desiring to make appli- ^ation for these positions or wishingr further information, please call at the office of the Bureau of Appoint-1 ments, 201 Mason Hall.t Foreign Students Attention: For- ign Students who have not already r reported to the Counselor to Foreign1 Students their plans for next year,1 must do so before May 28. This in-c formation is required by the U. S. De-1 9artment of Immigratiorf. Students may report during the following lours: Mon., Tues., and Fri., 4 to 6c p.m.; Saturday morning, 10 to 12.' First Mortgage L o a n s: The UJniversity has a limited amount of funds to loan on modern well-located Ann Arbor property. Interest at °urrent rates. Apply Investment Of- fice, Room 100, South Wing, Univer- sity Hall. Freshman, Sophomores and Jun- iors in L.S.&A., Architecture, Educa- tion, Forestry and Music: Save your- self one dollar by leaving at Regis- trar's Office your address for July 1 to July 15, if this has changed since February registration. Your blue print, giving your full record, will be mailed shortly after commencement. This print must be shown your ad- viser before you register next fall. Blue prints to replace those lost dur- ing the summer will cost one dollar each. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar. Choral Union Members: Members of the Choral Union are reminded to return their May Festival music books at once; in any case not later than 12 o'clock, Friday, May 21, and to receive their refunds. After noon on Friday, no refunds will be made. Exhibition of Sculpture by students f Prof. Avard Fairbanks in the Con- ourse of the Michigan League. Some work by Professor Fairbanks is also n exhibit. Events Today The meeting of the Progressive Club originally scheduled for today has been postponed to Thursday .eve- ning, May 20. The Peace Council will meet in the Michigan Union, this evening at 1:30 p.m. Plans for Memorial Day will be completed, and a program for the oming year will be considered. Dr. E. W. Blakeman will be guest speaker. Research Club will meet Wednes- day, May 19, at 8 p.m. in the Histo- ogical Laboratory of the East Medic- al Building. The following papers will be presented: Prof. Clark Hop- kiis, "The Michigan Excavations at Seleucia on the Tigris"; Professor- Emeritus W. H. Hobbs, "An Optical Phenomenon of the Polar Regions and its Relations to the Localization of Discovered Land." The Council will meet in the same room at 7:30 p.m. Interfraternity Council: Meeting to be held on Wednesday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Council offices, Room 306 of the Union. Election of offic- ers; all house presidents urged to be present. Annual Phi Sigma Banquet: Wed- nesday, May 19, at 6:30 p.m., Michi- gan League. Address, "The Green Folk," by Prof. Carl D. LaRue of the Botany Department. Athena: There will be a short busi- ness meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the Portia room of Angell Hall. All mem- bers are required to be present. Those desiring to leave early for "Bartered Bride" practice may do so. Scabbard and Blade: Last meeting of year in Michigan Union tonight at 7 p.m. New officers will be installed Uniform required. Room posted.a Coming Events A.S.M.E. McVnbers: All members who signed up for the Detroit trip, whether riding in the bus or in pri- vate cars, should be at the Engineer- ing Arch at 12:20 p.m. Thursday, May 20. This is important! There is to be only one inspection trip, all members going to the Dodge Body Plant. Tickets for the dinner will be given out at the Hotel Statler after the in- spection trip. English Journal Club meets Friday, May 21, at 4 p.m. in the Union. Elec- tion of officers is the important item of business. The program, open to the public at 4:20 p.m., will be a col- loquium on the subject, "Recent Con- tributions to the Theory of Criticism." Mn. Baum will discuss Adler's "Art and Prudence." Mr. Luyckx will review Bateson's "Poetry and Lan- guage." Engineering Council: There will be an important Engineering Council meeting Thursday, May 20, at 7:15 p.m., in the Computing Room. All active and newiv 1ip ep~a momh r t