THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MA RO ;, 193$ THE MICHIGAN DAILY ] im. i - A 71 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of 'Studen*" Publications. Pubshed every morning except Mondy during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use fo)r:republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Eern ved at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class man matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 193738 REPRESENTED POR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY NationalAdvertisingService, Inc College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CICAGO BOSTON LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR.............JOSEPH S. MATTES ASSOCIATE EDITOR.............TUURE TENANDER ASSOCIATE EDITOR............IRVING SILVERMAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR ............ WILLIAM C SPALLER ASSOCIATE EDITOR.............ROBERT P. WEEKS WOMEN'S EDITOR................HELENDOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR .............. ....... IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER ................ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER ....................DON WILSHER ADVERTISINGMANAGER .... NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER.........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES - -- - - . - I' NIGHT EDITOR: WILLIAM J. ELVIN It is important for society to avoid the neglect of adults, but positively dangerous for it to thwart the ambition of youth to reform the world. Only the schools which act on this belief are ed-. ucational institutions in the best mean- ing of the term. Alexander G. Ruthven. The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. - Seattle Election .. . T HE CITIZENS of Seattle will elect a non-partisan mayor today, but re- gardless of their choice it is safe to predict that factional domination, party loyalty and partisan prejudices will continue to prostrate the mu- nicipal government. In the two decades before the accession to power of Dave Beck, Seattle was in the vanguard of the great reformist and progressive move- ments that swept out of the American North- west. It was the drive for efficient, honest municipal government in Toledo, Cleveland, and Seattle that led American reformers at the turn of the century to designate the city as the hope of democracy. In the twenties the reformers crawled into their doghouses, pessi- mistically certain that nothing could save democracy any longer, and although the majority of American cities reverted to their pre-muck- raking status, Seattle persisted in maintaining its well-balanced operation of city affairs. Beck's rise to power through his control of the powerful Teamster's 'Union changed that, of course, and the city was treated to the unusual sight of a labor rule that was fully as boss-ridden and domineering as the best efforts of the liagues, Pendergasts and Tammany Hall. Oppression and mismanagement brings its own reaction, and in Seattle the vigilante Order of Cincinnatus has taken full advantage of the community's impatience with Beck to present its candidate as the very apostle of progressivism, non-partisanship and good government. That Arthur B. Langlie, the Order's candidate, will mark no improvement over Boss Beck's gang is evident from his unswerving, almost pas- sionate, support of every reactionary proposal in the City Council. But most ludicrous of all, was the action by the CIO. Presented with an unparalleled opportunity to prove to the city that it could replace reaction, whether of the Beck-AFL, or Langlie-Chamber of Commerce variety, it nominated for the mayor- alty a band-leader politician, who conducted swingeroos in the street cars and kissed every baby in Seattle in the primary campaign. If labor intends to enter direct politics it will have to present men of higher caliber than Dave Beck or Vic Meyers. At any rate, whichever of three are successful, the tired reformers will yip exultantly from their doghouses, their skepti- cism or the value of any reform forcibly streng- thened today by the completed capitulation to reaction of another American city. Elliott Maraniss. Three Stories About Education . .. o N FEB. 22 the Daily published figures announcing that enrollment had in- creased for the current semester making the number of undergraduates well over 10,000; on March 3 the Daily published figures announcing that 600 students had been put on probation and that 173 students in the literary college had been second item manifests a tendency among state universities to introduce a cathartic when a diet would be much healthier. Students of obviously mediocre ability are permitted to enter the University, slow its operations down to their speed, and then have themselves cast out in- juring themselves after already having harmed the University. This view is likewise not new and received this criticism in the Daily more than five years ago, "Between the lazy prodigals and the indigent imbeciles, so much deadwood is carried along in the class rooms that the truly able and faithful student is largely cheated of his chance to get ahead . . . We would rather see a few students graduating with a lot of edu- cation, than a lot with a little." Students who have shown themselves inept at living the ac- ademic life should be removed, but this removal process should only be regarded as a secondary measure after the introduction of higher entrance requirements. This, we believe, would be of uni- versal benefit: it would permit the faculty to serve more effectively, it would mean better edu- cation for the taxpayer's dollar, and it would make it less difficult for the student to obtain an education in Ann Arbor. The last item manifests a point of view that is capable of doing much for higher education. It stands somewhat in between the two previous items and points the via media that American education might well pursue. Scholarships, such as those made possible by the Rackham grant, will increase the enrollment, but they will raise the quality of the student body by adding to it students of "moral character and good cit- izenship . . . scholastic ability and intellectual capacity and achievement." The Daily would be pleased to be able to pub- lish an item on tomorrow's front page that would serve as a corrplary to the Rackham scholarship item. It would say that the University had raised the entrance requirements in an effort to keep out poor students many of whom would ultimately have had to leave anyway. If this move were stringent enough Michigan would be able to progres sand become more worthy of the task of serving as an educational institution. Robert Weeks. Joseph S. Mattes. - By WILLIAM J. LICHTENWANGER Little Symphony That there is an Ann Arbor musical audience other than the one that bombards visiting artists with bursts of coughing and ill-timed applause and that falls for shows of bombast and the- atricalism, was proven Sunday night when an eager public overflowed the Hussey Room and its adjoining corridors at the Michigan League to hear the season's second concert by the Uni- versity of Michigan Little Symphony. The pro- gram through which Thor Johnson led his symphony-in-miniature was of the highest in- terest both historically and for its intrinsic merit, making its appeal through the purest artistic channels, and was received with evident delight by an audience whose size necessitates larger ac- commodations for the Orchestra's future con- certs. Waiving the wasteful formality of a curtain- raiser, Mr. Johnson at once went about his bus- iness of bringing out unfamiliar but significant music with a penetrating transcription of an early classical trio sonata, No. 5 in C minor, by Jean Paptiste Loelliet. Thereafter appeared the first soloist of the evening, Andrew Ponder, playing a B minor Concerto for Viola and Orchestra as- cribed to Handel by its modern arranger, Henry Casadesus. Whatever the origin of this work, it is a beautiful piece of writing for a rarely-heard solo instrument, and Mr. Ponder realized all of its potentialities with a smooth and lovely tone, admirable control of technique, and satisfying musicianship. An intermission for the orchestra ensued while Alice Manderbach afforded a refreshing glimpse into the music of the past with harpsichord solos by the three great composers whose birth-year is 1685-Handel (Air Varie from the fifth clavecin suite), Bach (preludes in D and E-flat minor from the Well-Tempered Keyboard), and Do- menico Scarlatti (sonatas in A, D, and G minor). All of these works are a part of the modern piano repertoire, but they took on a new light through the soft twang of the older instrument and the skill and understanding with which they were played. The soulfully eloquent Adagio, Opus 3, of Lekeu and Schubert's Fifth Symphony in B- flat, a work expressly written for small orchestra and full of Schubertian melodiousness and charm, completed the program. By way of en- core was heard Chopin's "Minute" Waltz ar- ranged as a sort of Miniature flute concerto, with John Krell giving a brilliant rendition of the solo part, While the playing of the orchestra was not without occasional blemishes of precision and in- tonation, these were worth noticing in a semi- professional performance only because of the high standards which the Little Symphony main- tains, and certainly did not impair the beauty and excellence of the concert as a whole. As an ensemble, the group has never before performed with such consistency or entered more sympa- thetically into the conceptions of its leader. Without breaking our wrist to pat ourselves on the back, we cannot help pointing out Michigan's good fortune in possessing such an artist as Thor Johnson-who has not only the superior scholar- ship and taste to build programs both historically interesting and musically worth while, the unerr- ing musical instinct necessary to their proper interpretation, but also the technical ability as a conductor to secure such a high degree of per- fection from players of comparative inexperience, and to imbue them with his own enthusiasm and instinct for the music performed. 1-lf o eywood Broun WASHINGTON, March 7.-I want to take a chance and break an old personal tradition. I purpose making a dogmatic statement which is not wholly within the field of scientific research. All right? Well, then, in my opinion, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the best newspaperman who has ever been the President of the United States. Now, of course, I haven't een all the Presidents. Jef- ferson and Lincoln were be- fore my time, and Grant is only a dim memory. Warren Gamaliel Harding was him- self an editor of sorts, and Colonel Roosevelt ran a magazine. But I still think Franklin excels in news sense. I am moved to this opinion because I managed to get into the White House press conference yesterday disguised as a working newspaper man. Some two hundred reporters, feature writers, itin- erant novelists and busmen on a holiday were present. Four questions were asked, taking ap- proximately forty seconds, but the rest of the half hour was taken over by the President. Certainly no inquiring reporter would have been justified in saying to the executive head of the nation, "So you won't talk!" * *' * The President Answers Himself And when the President was aone there were no further interrogations. He had anticipated all the pertinent queries and answered them himself. His role was that of both the hare and the hounds. It was a little like a severe cross-exam-f ination of Walter Winchell by Mr. Winchell. To be sure, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has some aces in the hole when he meets the press and pretends to let his hair down in the absence of any official record. He can't be heckled. That has long been the custom, and to me the tradi- tion seems sound enough. Even from a journalistic standpoint I think it would be improper for any correspondent to say, if only to a Republican President, "Now, don't try to equivocate or ride out on a wisecrack. An- swer my question 'Yes' or 'No,' and let's have no. more stalling." It isn't dne, but it has been tried during the life of the present administration. A girl from a radical newspaper tried on several occasions to dust off Mr. Roosevelt when he seemed intent on flying away from the specific subject. She was and is both intelligent and very personable, but the President in his very best early Dutch manner brushed her aside, and she has since been scrunched out of the picture. It is my impression that her own publication felt it might be better to sneak up on the Presi- dent of the United States rather than bait him. The rules as to what is for background and color and what is for quotation have always puzzled me. * * * Suggests A 'Lead-All' The line is sharply drawn. And so I hope that I am not leaving myself open to excommunica- tion by saying that the President began his con- ference by telling the assembled reporters the manner in which he would deal with the press conference story if he were covering it. My recol- lection is that he suggested that the fifteenth Psalm might well go in as "Lead al." He also made some fugitive inquiry as to the release date on that piece of enduring prose. Such a remark on my part is pure swank. I haven't the faintest idea of what is in the fifteenth Psalm. The only one I know is the1 twenty-third. But, in any case, I would not lead either with my chin or Scripture. Still, I must admit that Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave out what sounded to me like an excellent column. As to its news value, I woul not care to risk an opinion. I admired his per- formance, and yet it left me uneasy. If the man in the White House is capable of turning out such first-rate copy in impromptu discussion it may mean the end of jobs for columnists. Here Comas 1940 Launching a Presidential boom is a delicate business. Has it been timed right? Will it catch on? Will it displease some influential people and arouse opposition? Such questions as these are inevitably in the air as the backers of Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner to the Philippine Commonwealth and former governor of Indiana, hold forth with expansive hospitality in intro- ducing him to Washington. Starting two full years and more before the nominating convention that is to choose a Demo- cratic banner carrier for 1940 means a long time to sustain the campaign which Governor Mc- Nutt's friends hope will land him in the White House. Many a boom has been started too soon and so gone flat, though the pre-1932 activity of James A. Farley for then Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt is a precedent in favor of the long range strategy. A pre-eminent question now is how this same Mr. Roosevelt and his entourage will respond to aspirations of the handsome gentleman from the Pasig and the Wabash. They have already seemed to respond rather sharply by punitive transfer of a ranking Army Air Corps officer for flying Com- missioner McNutt from San Fancisco to Denver in order to catch up with his speaking schedule. Nor has the White House secretariat betrayed any tensely eager expectancy of the apparently vol- untary "report" which Commissioner McNutt in- tends to make to the Chief Executive on affairs in the Far East. All in all, one is moved to wonder a little un- comfortably if the apparent displeasure in Ad- THEATRE By NORMAN KIELL "Stage DMo' The "picketing" by two members of Play Production of the movie version of "Stage Door" is certainly a sign that the legitimate theatre is healthy and kicking, to say the least. For years, the iconoclasts have been say- ing that the theatre is dead and the little theatre of yesterday just ain't what it used to be. The feature part of the "picketing" was the spirit in which everything was carried along. The two pickets, ,artorially dressed in opera cloaks of 1890 vintage, rammed top-hats, pince-nez, and beards, and in con- trast to their ironic apparel, carry- ing placards bearing the hand-paint- ed inscriptions, "Movies Come in Cans-See the Real McCoy!" and "Unfair to the Legitimate Stage!"- the two pickets entertained the long queus waiting to see the movie. It was all good fun. They adver- tised Play Production's presentation of the show in its original form with such mad antics and pranks as would befit the Marx Brothers. For a time it looked as though the management of the theatre would put them on his pay-roll just to entertain his long line of standees regularly. Of course the whole thing was a swell publicity stunt cooked up by Play Production's publicity man. !Whether or not it did more business for the movie of the show remains yet to be seen. Certainly it did no harm. Perhaps the ubiquitous con- troversy of movie versus legitimate stage will be answered by this week's events. At any rate, by this time we all know that the movie is as different from the show as a C grade on a bluebook is to an A, respectively. What the screen writers did to Edna Ferber's and George Kaufman's or- iginal show was to keep the title, take the characters and plot, shake them up in a neat cocktail jar, add some sentimental truck, plus a stroke of genius in casting-Miss Hepburn and Miss Rogers, and there you are. We do not begrudge the movie their success. Far be it. More power to them to turn out really good cellu- loids, but at least if they are going to transcribe an original stage show to the sound tracks, let them keep four-fifths of the material intact. Calling a horse a cow is manifest mis- representation; calling a movie by the name of its first birth when it even- tually turns out to be illegitimate is likewise gross misrepresentation. This is our only argument. But then too, we can consider the ethical side of the question in regard to the Butterfield chain bringing the movie to Ann Arbor just prior to the stage showing. Of course, nothing can be done about it. It is just a prime ex- ample of our 20th century business tactics, and the Butterfield people are doing themselves proud by develop ing them in a proving ground such as1 Ann Arbor, where youth is supposedly TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1938 VOL. XLVIII. No. 112 Student Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to students Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. Notice Regarding Elevators in University Buildings: Any depart- ment receiving a request for data, concerning elevators to be filed with the State Labor and Industry De- partment will please refer the same to the Business Office. Shirley W. Smith. Exemptions from Saturday Classes: All students in the College of Litera- ture, Science and the Arts who were granted provisional exemption from Saturday classes, or those having changed their courses since registra- tion must file letters supporting their claims before Friday, March 11. Walter A. Reichart, chairman, 300 U.H. Students of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts: A meet- ing will be held on Tuesday, March 8,1 at 4:15 p.m. in Room 206 Dentistry Building for students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and others interested in future work in dentistry. Dean R. W. Bunting of the School of Dentistry will be avail- able for consultation, to give infor- mation concerning the nature of and preparation for the profession of den- istry. Seniors of the College of Engineer- ing: Call at Room 412 West Engineer- ing Building at once for your Draw- ing I, II and III Plates. First Mortgage Loans: The Univer- sity has a limited amount of funds to loan on modern well-located Ann Arbor residential prop rty. Interest at current rates. Apply Investment Office, Room 100; South Wing, University Hall. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive noti, to all memo'rs of the University. Copy received at the office of the Ass::jitant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, Science Auditorium. Some Post-War Economic Tendencies. Wednesday, March 9. 4:15 Room C, Haven Hall. Mercantilism: Theory and Practice, I. Thursday, March 10. 4:15 Room C, Haven -Hall. Mercantilism: Theory and Practice, II Friday, March 11. 4:15 Room C, Haven Hall. Economic History of Sweden, I. Monday, March 14. 4:15 Room C, Haven Hall. Economic History of Sweden, II. The public is cordially invited. Franch Lecture: Prof. Warner F. Patterson will give the sixth lecture on the Cercle Francais program "Vincent Voiture, poete precieux," Wednesday, March 9, at 4:15 p.m., Room 103, Romance Language Bldg. Tickets for the series of lectures may be procured at the door. Events Today Botanical Journal Club: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. 'Room N.S. 1139. Reports by: Eugene Atkinson Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest. Harmon Dunham: Principles and methods of tree ring analysis. Waldo S. Glock. Jean Bertram: American Creta- ceous ferns of the genus Tempskya. Brown and Read. Roy Chatters: Structure of secon- dary walls in woods. Chairman: Professor C. A. Arnold. Deutscher Verein: Meeting tonight at 8 p.m. in the Michigan League. Mr. Hanns Berg, exchange student from Munich will speak on: "Sport in Deutschland." Everybody in- terested is invited to attend. Graduate Education Club, March meeting will be held in the Univer- sity Elementary School Library at 4:30 p.m. today. The meeting will follow the Elementary School Staff Tuesday, 1:15-1:30' p.m. Detroiters meeting. "Reports from Atlantic at the University of Michigan (over City" will be made by Dr. Olson, WMBC). Johnston, Carrothers, Fraser and 3:00-3:30 p.m. Forestry and Land others. A large turn out is looked for. Utilization Series. Topic: Preparing Michigan Lands for Work and Play.j Lee R. Schoenmann, Charles Lath- rop Pack, Professor of Wild Land Utilization (WJR). Students of the College of Litera- ture, Science and the Arts: A meet- ing will be held on Thursday, March 10, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 313 W. Medical Building for students in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts and others interested in future work in pharmacy. Professor H. B. Lewis, Director of the College of Pharmacy, will be available for con- sultation, to give information con- cerning the nature of and prepara- tion for the profession. The next meeting in the vocational series will trained in the American Way. I be addressed by Dr. W. W. Bishop, But then again, perhaps we are get- Librarian of the University, on Tues- ting too serious about the whole day, March 15. affair. We should be truly grateful. It has prcvided one of the most stim- Academi Notices ulating theatrical weeks the Univer- sity has seen in years. When the De- Geography I. A siApplementary ex- troit Free Press comes to our fair amination for those students who town seeking the news, why then, why were absent from the final examina- then, Play Production's press agent tion in February will be held in Room certainly has attained his purpose. 19, A.H. on Tuesday, March 8, at 2 p.m. Geology 11 and 12 make-up final FO R U M examinations will be given Friday, March 11 from 2 until 5 in 2054 N.S. They will be given at no other time. Atz Open Letter To the Editor: We are submitting for publication the enclosed letter addressed to President Roosevelt. We would like to have it printed, not because we think it is a good letter, although we do, but because it becomes pro- gressively clearer that for all our frantic attempts we as students and ordinary citizens cannot do much more than be each one voice of pub- lic opinion. Of course "the President will never see the letter." That is why we have sent it to the Daily. The President, or whoever matters in this case, will see the letter, if it comes not only from two of us but from two dozen or kwe don't expect it) two hundred, that is, if it expresses itself as public opinion, and that of a public that is sufficiently concerned to go to the1 trouble of writing about it. The Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; j Washington, D.C. Sir: As citizens of the United States we wish to enter our protest against the proposed expenditure for a great in- crease in the United States Navy. Were such an increase accompanied by a constructive program for inter- national cooperation for the preser- vation of peace, it might conceivab)? have some justification. But where there is no such concerted program in mind, it becomes sheer economic waste. In your now famous Chicago speech you indicated that you had some suchj international cooperation in view. Now, almost four months later, it is clear that these intentions will not German Make-up Examination: The departmental make-up exami- nations in German 1, 2, and 31 will be given on Friday, March 11, from 2-5:00 p.m. in Room 304 U.H. All students absent from the examina- tion in these courses must take- this make-up, as no other opportunity will be afforded. English 32, Mr. Litzenberg's sec- tions, assignment for Wednesday "Twelfth Night." Economics 53: Make-up final ex- amination: This exam will be given Friday, March 11, at 3 o'clock in Room 207 Ec. Please report to me be- fore this time to determine eligibility to take this exam. Shorey Peterson. Psychology 33 make-up will be held Thursday at 1:00 p.m., Room 3126, Natural Science Bldg. Chemistry 3, lecture section I, make-up final examination will be held in Room 464, Chemistry Build- ing, Wednesday, March 9, 1 to 4 p.m. Lectures University Lectures: Professor Eli Heckscher, President of the Econ- omics Institute of Sweden, will give a series of lectures on Economic His- tory under the joint auspices of the Departments of Economics and His- tory. The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, March 8. 4:15 Natural that war is inevitable, but also that our participation in it is inevitable. This we are not willing to admt. Nor aen we willin #n rhmi fnfli in German Club meeting at the Mich- igan League today at 8 p.m. All in- terested are invited to come. Mathematics Club will meet at 8 p:m. tonight in 3201 Angell Hall. Prof. Ben Dushnik will speak on "Continuous Linear Orders." The Book Shelf and Stage Section of the Faculty Women's Club will meet at the home of Mrs. R. K. Mc- Alpine, 926 Sylvan St., on Tuesday at 2:45 p.m. Mrs. L. R. Dice is as- sisting hostess. Bibliophiles: The Bibliophiles sec- tion of the Faculty Women's Club will meet today at 2:30 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Lars Thomassen, 2115 Wood- side Road. Chemical'and Metallurgical En- gineering Grad uate Luncheon will be held today at 12:15 in Room 3201 East Engineering Building. The speaker will be George P. McCallum. Michigan Dames style show tonight at 8:15, Grand Rapids Room at the League. Especially invited are the wives of students aid internes who are not already members. Initiation of new members will be March 22. Members may invite a guest and their husband. Junior Girls Play: There will be a meeting of the program committee at 4 p.m. today at the League. All members should attend. Wyvern: There will be a meeting at 5 p.m. today. It is important that all members attend. A new series of golf lessons will be started today. The class meets at 4:30 for a lecture. This series of les- sons extends for three weeks and is open to both students and faculty. Women's Swimming Class: The 7:30 p.m. swimming class for women will not meet on Tuesday evening, March 8. Women's Fencing Club: There will be a meeting'today at 4:15 in Barbour Gymnasium to practice for the com- ing tournament. Christian Science Organization: 8:15 p.m. League Chapel. Students, alumni and faculty invited to attend the services. Michiganensian Editorial and Busi- ness Staff Tryouts: All freshmen and sophomores are to be present at Dey's Studio on Tuesday, March 8, at 4:15 p.m., for the staff picture. Everyone please be prompt. The Michigan Anti-War Commit- tee will meet at Lane Hall at 7:30 Tuesday evening. All those who are interested are invited to attend. Plans for the remainder of the se- mester will be discussed. 1 '- m *- ~ - £