THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1937 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authoity of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the Uiniversity 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 ili ~or not otherwise credited In this newspaper.. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Suscrlptions during regular school year by carrier, X4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1936-37 REPRESENTED POR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADASON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO E BOSTONT. AN FRANCISCO Loa ANGEL96 -PORTLAND -SEATrL M Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR ..............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ............TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR..................IRVING SILVERMAN William Spaller Robert Weeks Irvin Lisagor Helen Douglas NIGHT EDITORS: Harold Garn, Joseph Gies, Earl R. Gilman, Horace Gilmore, Saul Kleiman, Edward Mag- dol, Albert Maylo, Robert Mitchell, Robert Perlman and Roy Sizemore. SPORTS DEPARTMENT: Irvin Lisagor, chairman; Betsey Anderson, Art Baldauf, Bud Benjamin, Stewart Fitch, Roy Heath and -Ben Moorstein. WOMEN'S, DEPARTMENT: Helen Douglas, chairman; Betty Bonisteel, Ellen Cuthbert, Ruth Frank, Jane B. Holden, Betty Lauer, Mary Alice MacKenzie, Phyllis Helen Miner, Barbara Paterson, Jenny Petersen, Har- riet Pomeroy, Marian Smith, Dorothea Staebler and Virginia Voorhees. Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER .............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER..................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER .... NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES Departmental Managers Ed Macal, Accounts Manager; Leonard P. Siegelman, Na- ;tional Advertising and Circulation Manager; Philip Buchen, Contracts Manager; Robert Lodge, Local Advertising Manager; William Newnan, Service Man- ager; Marshall Samipson, Publications and Classified Advertisng Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: ALBERT P. MAYIO Harvard's Return .. . ETERNAL VIGILANCE is still the price of liberty, events at Harvard this past week have shown. Public indignation and repeated objections have finally forced the appointment of a special committee, composed of nine Harvard professors, to investigate the dis- missal of the two economic instructors who were active in organizing a teachers' union. Accord- ing to the news dispatches the committee is to report its findings by the middle of the next academic year. The case of Drs. J. Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy, who were given concluding appoint- ments of two years last month, has aroused wide- spread criticism among liberals. Dr. Walsh, not only was active in the formation of the teachers union but sometime ago said that he was ashamed "to my feet" of Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president-emeritus of Harvard, who opposed the Child Labor amendment. The Harvard economics department had fre- quently extolled the ability of these two young economists. The University's scholarship awards had shown them to be brilliant and promising scholars. It seemed suspiciouslyas though in addition to brilliance a certain discretion in re- gard to open sympathy with labor was required by Harvard of its teachers. It was certain that their dismissal was an arbitrary one. Yet it took almost two months of protest both from within and outside of Harvard to bring President Conant to order the investigation that should have preceded the dismissal rather than have followed it. Even now it can hardly be said that he has "ordered" an inquiry. A petition by 131 junior teachers of the University to the nine professors named asking them to investigate the case can be said to have forced his hand. Only after these professors suggested that it would be better to have an official committee make the inquiry did President Conant put his approval upon the group. But there are many hopeful signs in this latest development. First, the nine professors on the committee were selected by the 131 petitioners. In addition, President Conant has offered to make available any information the University can and the head of the economics department has stated that he welcomes the inqu-y. Finally, regardless, of the outcome of the in- vestigation, the fact that the university author- ities have admitted the possibility of error ancf a liberal willingness to reconsider is indeed en- couraging. Harvard has returned from Heidelburg-at least temporarily. An Obituary For Henry. . HENRY FORD is approaching the remains to be seen but certainly the old Ford of years ago will be changed to a considerable degree. With this passing of one of the old guard, we feel it fitting that we glance over a few of the leading episodes of the life of what hero-worshippers love to call "a great man." One of the best-remembered incidents of the entire career of the auto magnate occurred a little more than twenty years ago. Europe was at war, and Henry Ford, a genuine pacifist, de- sired to end the war for the sake of humanity, an unquestionably noble motive. Unfortunately, his enthusiasm somewhat outdistanced his esti- mate of the difficulties involved in the problem. His idea was that if some good, honest, healthy Americans went over on a boat and pointed out to the statesmen of Europe that they were really making a mistake in not settling their differences in a more tranquil manner, the statesmen would thank their saviors profusely, see their error and end the war. Europe has not yet quite gotten over the idea of American intellect conceived at that time. At about the same period occurred another equally revealing but less amusing episode, the famous or infamous Jewish madness which drove the great man to hiring an army of detectives to search out Jewish influence at Washington, to wholesale dismissals of Jews from his employe, and to other activities difficult to reconcile with democracy. At one time he denounced President Wilson on the charge of receiving advice from Justice Brandeis via a secret telephone line. The story had been made up for his consumption by some of the hired detectives anxious to give the great man some return for his money. Ford has never tolerated interference from any source in the operation of his plants. There have been three specific examples of this mde-' pendence in recent years. At the bottom of thet depression a group of Wall Street bankers made an attempt to "move in on" Ford, but were de- cisively repulsed by the shrewd Detroit manu- facturer who is perhaps the only large indus- trialist who finances his business entirely from his own capital. Again, when the Roosevelt ad- ministration initiated the NRA, the Ford Motor Co. simply refused to sign a code, would allow no intervention in its affairs by the government, and finished by successfully maintaining its po- sition end forcing the goverment to back down. The most notable and significant of all, how- ever, is the independence from labor unions which Ford has succeeded in maintaining. It is al- most inconceivable that any individual or com- pany should go to the extremes which the Ford Company has reached solely for the purpose of preventing organization on the part of employes. The River Rouge plant has been justly termed a small Fascist state. The workers are kept under constant supervision by a highly efficient organ- ization of systematic espionage. Every deviation from the stringent rules of discipline may result in instant dismissal. Men have been fired for talking to each other on company time or for taking a couple of minutes too long to eat lunch quite as well as for membership in a labor union. The plants are also miniature fortresses, with arsenals filled with the latest available weapons ready for use by Harry Bennett's hired thugs. Ford's theory of industrial democracy is that he should be in complete and direct control over every phase of production in his factories. He is the absolute master over his men, although he puts it himself, quaintly enough, "We are all workers together, the men and L" Whatever the true relations between the men and Ford, it is undeniable that a number of the former have been shot and beaten from time to time to main- tain this status quo. If deemed necessary, there will be more inci- dents like that of Wednesday afternoon. Ford intends to keep his independence, and is not likely to stop at threats in his fight to do so. For the plants at Dearborn and their workers, "there is no God but Ford, and Bennett is his prophet." THE FORUM Protests Policy To the Editor: For some years one of the larger departments of the University has sent to a number of cor- porations a list of graduating students in the order of their believed capabilities-all things considered but grades most weighty. On the face of it, this seems to be a good thing. It is a reward for the diligent scholar, and may encourage others to work hard. However, one of the smaller departments which graduates a highly specialized student, this year, for the first time, adopted a similar policy. Letters were sent to all of the firms which would enable the stu- dent to practice his profession. Naturally, these companies requested applications from the first five or six names on the list. All the others were checkmated. It sounds impossible, but 71 per cent of the students graduating in this group are completely barred from pursuing their work in first rate companies by a black list, in spite of the fact that the average class rating is quite high. At any rate, it leaves the uneffected commen- tator in an editorial mood, and makes him won- der if the department heads are not attempting to boost their own prestige at the students' ex- pense. Or has the University standard dropped so low that only a very small percentage of any class are deemed desirable. To me it seems that the initiators (and they are shallow pates) of these instruments have over-stepped their authority and are defeating the purposes for which this University was or- ganized. -R. James Dissatisfied Lawyer i I UNDER THE CLOCK f' with DISRAELI -! LAST NIGHT we ran into one of those chaps who happen in occasionally, sometimes by the hitchhike method, but mostly by freight train. It seems he came with the idea of tasting the flavor of a college town again. He often does that, he said, because he feels it bolsters his confidence when he gets down in the dumps about the road going to the dogs. With WPA jobs all over the place and relief, the boys are too much inclined to stay at home. But it always encourages him to be in a college town around June. He feels that there is such an abundance of young blood for the profession. ,We asked him how bumming was lately and about the railroad police in Ann Arbor, were they tough. But he bristled at the mention of bum- ming. He was not a bum, he said. We apolo- gized and asked him what then. He was a hobo it seemed. To our inquiry he went on to explain that he followed the seasonal industries: canning Michigan cherries in the fall, working in auto factories in the early winter, running hot dog stands on southern roadways in February, doing construction work on 'the coast or anywhere. To our inquiry he went on to explain that there are three classes of free and homeless gentry like himself. There is the hobo, who is an itin- erant worker, the tramp, who is just an itinerant, and finally the bum, who is neither an itinerant nor a worker! We were taken to task the other day for one of our usually sly remarks about the dried up spirit of formality we detect on this campus. Some sort of decorum has to come out of the Middle West we were told, some- thing has to soften the raw edge put on us by the drought and rocks and alfalfa fields. We said okay, so long as we don't get like that particularly sociable Harvard man who rowed in the crew. It seems he made the Varsity stroke oar when he was a sophomore and being an unusually good mixer actually got to know one or two of the men in the bow by the time he was a senior. ALTHOUGH we were warned the other day that we were not to go deeply into the pri- vate lives of persons on the campus and that scandal was not to be in our line, we do think that someone over at the Alpha Chi Omega house should know that Grant Barnes only a few year:t ago was wont to play on the Kappa Delt lawn and often no doubt had his rompers blistered for late hours in that section of town. We merely suggest that Grant might be a little happier over there at the A. Chi O. house if they'd just spread a little grass seed around and cultivate. Of late we have been b.esieged with in- quiries asking us if we would find out the name of that luscious red head with the streaming locks who dashes out of the Li- brary every day except Sundays at exactly four minutes past noon. It's not her gait or the regularity of her appearance that causes curiosity, but that a swain is waiting for her each day and she just rushes up and just flings her arms around him and off they go arm in armand hand in hand. Which reminds us that Dr. Losh was ex- plaining the force of gravity to her Astro- nomy 32 class yesterday. "Every body," said the cheery Doctor, "exerts an attraction on every opposite body inversely as the square of the distance between them." That's not gravity, Doc, that's the bees and the trees and stuff, not gravity, Doc; but we didn't know they had it down to a mathematical formula. Keep your distance, gal! SOME CALCULATING GENT on the campus had it all figured out yesterday that at least 133 pairs of pajamas went to waste during the honor societies' campaign for dues paying neo- phytes. Disgusted, a group who call themselves non- leaders have formed another secret honor so- ciety the name of which they refuse to reveal, nor the full roster of members. At any rate they will select no president because no one is a leader, only a vice-president because vice-presi- dent's don't do anything anyway. There will be no secretary because they will do nothing at meetings and they will have a treasurer only to collect funds to institute a cooperative pajama supply house for more fortunately endowed B.M. and W.O.C.s. acy formed at least some part of the policy of the staff. But accuracy seems to have become a thing of the past now. I would advise no one to rely too heavily upon anything they may see or read in that portion of the 'Ensian which has to do with the laws school senior class. It is shot through with error. Names are misspelled, activities are misrepre- sented, and the shining face of a freshman law student blossoms forth among the worry-laden countenances of the graduating class. I do not mean to imply that this result was designedly accomplished by the 'Ensian staff. I strongly suspect that it is simply the result of negligent editing. The purpose of this letter is simply to state the disappointment of the senior law class in the 'Ensian, and to warn the 'Ensian administration for next year that, at least from a lawyer's point of view, accuracy still retains a place in life.. -Kenneth K. Luce. Some snappy slams were exchanged by Justice IWageLevels (From The Christian Science Monitor) HISTORY will honor Franklin D. Roosevelt for turning the thought of Americans more positively toward action to extend the frontiers of so- cial progress." And without waitingf for history Americans generally will applaud the purposes of his latest message to Congress. They are de- termined to "work out in practice those labor standards which will per- mit the maximum but prudent em- ployment of our human resources to bring within the reach of the average man and woman a maximum of goods and of services conducive to the ful- fillment of the promise of American life." In the same spirit of reasonable- ness which the President displayed in his message, they are prepared to examine the means by which these general purposes can be achieved. Yet they are aware that the basic prob- lem is to take much-desired forward steps in social legislation without either freezing the national economy or destroying the delicate balance between state and federal powers. The revolutionary program for so- cial security first put forward by Mr. Roosevelt in June, 1934, has been put into operation and yesterday its con- stitutionality was upheld by the Su- preme Court. Yet its wisdom and workability have not been wholly proved and it must be amended. With that experience in mind, the American people will give careful study to the Black-Connery bill to 2arry out the President's program for labor. So far that measure leaves used during the summer months, please notify Mr. Bergman in the Business Office. A saving can be effected for a period of a minimum of three months. Commencement Tickets: Tickets for Commencement may be obtained on request after June 1, at the Busi- ness office, Room 1, University Hall. Commencement Week programs will also be ready on June 1 or soon thereafter. Inasmuch as only two Yost Field House tickets are available for each Senior, please present iden- tification card when applying for tickets. Herbert G. Watkins. Seniors: The firm which furnishes diplomas for the University has sent the following caution: "Please warn graduates not to store diplomas in cedar chests. There is enough of the moth-killing aromatic oil in the av- erage cedar chest to soften inks of any kind that might be stored inside them, resulting in seriously damaging the diplomas." Herbert G. Watkins. tural Science Auditorium, for the final examination, Tuesday, June 8, 2-5 p.m. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the WnIversity. Copy received at the ofk*eo the Asstant to the Presid4a* ust 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1937 6. Announcements and new busi- VOL. XLVII No. 174 ness. N c Edward H. Kraus. To All Members of the Faculty and history 12, Lee. II, Mr. Stanton's and Administrative Staff: If it seems cer- Mr. Slosson's sections in Room 103 tain that any telephones will not be Romance; all other sections in Na- the exact figures for maximum hours To All Students Having Library And minimum wages to be fixed by a Books: labor standards board. This is in 1. Students having in their posses- line with the President's statement sion books drawn from the Univer- that "there are geographical and in- sity are notified that such books are dustrial diversities which practical due Monday, May 31. statesmanship cannot wholly ignore." 2. The names of all students who Some floor under wages may be a have not cleared their records at the good thing, but there are many pit- Library by Tuesday, June 1, will be falls in the application of any min- sent to the Recorder's Office, where imum. Minimum wages can have their semester's credits will be held three bad effects: 1. Throw onto up until such time as said records charity workers who cannot or will are cleared, in compliance with the not produce enough to justify the regulations of the Regents. minimum wage; 2. Cause employers to make up the difference out of the The Following schedule will mark oetter paid; 3. Force employers out the lifting of the Automobile Regu- >f business, particularly the smaller, lation for students in the various col- possibly less efficient but also less leges and departments of the Univer- aonopolistic and often socially bene- sity. Exceptions will not be made for ficial employer. individuals who complete their work A federal ceiling over hours may in advance of the last day of class ex- also be necessary to curb abuses aminations and all students enrolled which the states have not reached. in the following departments will be But here too a rigid maximum is not required to adhere strictly to this enough for special employments. And schedule. there is always the danger of limiting College of Literature, Science and the production of that wealth without the Arts: All classes. June 12, 1937 at which no amount of legislation for 5 p.m. more equal distribution will avail College of Architecture: All classes. nuch. And in the control either of June 12, 1937 at 5 p.m. wages or hours there is the serious School of Business Administration: luestion of regimentation of the na- All classes. June 12, 1937 at 5 p.m. tional economy. This holds not only School of Education: All classes. a threat to liberty, but to the effective June 12, 1937 at 5 p.m. operation of the nation's business so School of Engineering: All classes. that it will give to every man and June 12, 1937 at 5 p.m. woman that very "maximum of goods School of Forestry: All classes. and services" of which the President June 12, 1937 at 5 p.m. spoke. School of Music: All classes. June On child labor, Mr. Roosevelt's pro- 12, 1937 at 5 p.m. posal seems eminently right andCollege of Pharmacy: All classes. tical. More than a month ago this June 11, 1937 at 12 noon. iewspaper pointed out that the mi- Jcnoolo1937tistry . nority view in the Hammer vs. Dag- School of Dentistry: enhart case would probably now be Fshmen, June 9, 1937 at12 noon. accepted by the Supreme Court and Sophomores, June 3, 1937 at 12 that the original method of proceed- noon. ing against child labor would now be Juniors, June 5, 1937 at 12 noon. effective. Seniors, June 4, 1937 at 5 p.m. Various parts of this program will Hygienists, June 7, 1937 at 5 p.m. be discussed as they develop. It de- Law School: serves open-minded consideration. Freshmen, June 7, 1937 at 5 p.m. English 32, Section 7. Review for Wednesday. The class will not be responsible for the "Tempest." G. D. Helm. Concerts Graduation Recital: Mary Kohl- haas, soprano, of Laurium, Mich., student of Prof. Arthur Hackett of the Voice Department of the School of Music, will appear in graduation recital, Tuesday, June 1, at 8:15 p.m. in the School of Music Audi- torium on Maynard Street. The gen- eral public, with the exception of small children, is invited. Coming Events RogereWilliams Guild: Annual Senior Meeting Sunday at the Ar- boretum. Meet at the Guild House at 5:30 p.m. A picnic lunch will be served. Dames: All the members of the Daimes who would like transportation to the annual picnic of the organ- ization to be held at the Island Mon- day afternoon are requested to meet in front of the League at 4 p.m. Hus- bands and children .are also invited, and each party is to bring its own lunch. Those members planning to take their cars to the picnic are re- quested to call Mrs. DeWeerd at 22403 before Monday. U. of M. Outdoor Club will have an all-day canoe trip as its last func- tion of the year on Monday, May 31, leaving Lane Hall at 9 a.m. The total charge per person will be $1.30. Make your reservation by paying a $.50 de- posit to Dorothy Shapland, in Room 2125 Natural Science Building (Tel. Ext. 594) by Saturday noon, May 29. All those interested are cordially in- vited to come. Churches Church of Christ (Disciples) Sun- day: 10:45 a.m., Morning worship. Rev. Fred Cowin, minister. 5 p.m., The Guild program will, be held at the top of the bluff, across the river northeast of the, city. There will be a recreational hour at 5:30 p.m., followed by a picnic supper and the program on plans for next year. Those desiring transportation should call 5838. Cars will leave the Guild House, 438 Maynard Street, at 5 p.m. In case of unfavorable weath- er, the social hour and program will be held at the church. First Church of Christ, Scientist, 409 South Division Street: Morning service, 10:30 a.m. Subject, "Ancient and Modern Ne- cromancy, Alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced." Golden Text: Jeremiah 15:20, 21. Responsive Reading: Ezekiel 13:1, 3-9. Sunday School, 11:45 a.m., after morning service. - A Proper Veto (From the St. Louis Post-Dspatch) PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is to be commended for his veto of a joint resolution of Congress authorizing a $5,000,000 appropriation for Federal participation in the World's Fair to be held two years hence in New York and cr'eating a Federal commission for the fair. The proposed appro- priation was, as the President said, excessive, and particularly so now that there is urgent need for a reduc- tion of Federal expenditures. A New Yorker himself, Mr. Roose- velt did not permit the fact that the veto affects a large-scale activ- ity of his State to influence him. If any occasion were needed, this fur- nishes an excellent opportunity to note that the President has rejected so many claims and demands upon the government for funds that he now ranks second only to Cleveland in the number of vetoes, and he still has nearly four years to serve to equal Cleveland's eight-year record. As for the New York fair, Federal participation on a morc moderate scale is in order for educational pur- poses and should be approved by Congress. 168 Inhabitants Die In Mexican Slide EL CRO, Mexico, May 28.-(P)- Pedro Juarez, mayor of avalanche- stricken Tlalpujahua, tonight esti- mated 168 inhabitants died in the Ridc'rrus~h o-f nmild and sazndthat Juniors, June 8, 1937 at 12 noon. Seniors, June 8, 1937 at 12 noon. Medical School: Freshmen, June:10, 1937 at 12 noon. Sophomores, June 12, '1937 at 12 noon. Juniors, June 12, 1937 at 12 noon. Seniors, June 7, 1937 at 12 noon. Graduate School: Candidates for Masters degrees, June 12, 1937 at 5 p.m. . Candidates for Doctors degrees, June 5, 1937 at 12 noon. Red Cross Life Saving Examiners: Pins and emblems for life saving may be obtained at the Red Cross office. Telephone the office before calling for pins and emblems. Academic Notices To The Members of the Faculty of The College of Literature, Science, and The Arts: The eighth regular meeting of the faculty of the Col- lege of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the academic session of 1936- 37 will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall, June 7, 1937, at 4:10 p.m. Agenda: 1.A doption of the minutes of the meeting of May 3, 1937, which. have been distributed by campus mail (pages 341-346). 2. Resolution on the retirement of Prof. S. Lawrence Bigelow. Commit- tee, Professors A. L. Cross, M. P. Tilley, and H. H. Willard, Chairman. 3. Election of five members to the University Council and two members to the Administrative Board for terms of three years. Nominating com- mittee, Professors Vernor W. Crane, C. A. Knudson, and D. L. Rich, chair- man. 4. Reports: F a First Congregational Church, Cor. William and State. 10:45 a.m., Service of worship. Rev. Howard R. Chapman will be guest pastor. Prof. Preston W. Slosson will give the lay-sermon. His subject will be "The History of Conscience." 9:30 a.m., Sunday morning in Pil- grim Hall the Adult group of the May Forum will have its fourth and final discussion meeting on the Ef- fective Church. This meeting will be of, vital interest to those who have previously attended these discussions. First Presbyterian Church, meeting at'the Masonic Temple. At 10:45 a.m., "Forgive Us Our Virtues" is the topic upon which Dr. Lemon will preach at the Morning Worship Service. A Memorial Day Service. Music by the student choir. At 5:30 p.m., the Westminster Guild, student group, will have an outdoor meeting at the home of Prof. O. S. Duffendack, 2107 Devonshire Road. Harris Hall: There will be no meet- ing at Harris Hall Sunday evening. The annual spring conference for Episcopal students is being held at Holiday House, Pine Lake this week- end. The final meeting at Harris Hall will be held next Sunday at which time The Rev. Hedley G. Sta- cey of Dearborn will be the speaker. Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church: The services of worship Sunday are: 8 a.m. holy communion; 9:30 a.m., Church School; 11, a.m., Kindergar- 4