THE NICHIGAN DAILY THURSAY, MAR , 1938 Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR.............JOSEPII S. MATTES ASSQCIATE EDITOR ................TUURE TENANDER .SSOCIATE EDITOR ..............IRVING SILVERMAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR.............WILLIAM C, SPALLER ASSOCIATE EDITOR ...............ROBERT P. WEEKS WOMEN'S EDITOR...................HELEN DOUGLAS SPOR~TS EDITOR .....................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUSINSS MANAGER ...........ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT' MANAGER....................DON- WILSER ADVERTISING MANAGER ... NORMAN B. STEINBERG WO ~ N'S.BW$INESS MANAGER.:....-....BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FRRIES NIGHT EDITOR: JACK DAVIS 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- ast Your ote omorrow . . TOMORROW the student body will have its first real opportunity in some years to make its opinions felt with regard to the national and international problems vexing America at this time. Sixty-four students have filed for positions as members of Michigan's new Student Senate, a body set up by an All-Univer- sity Committee to discuss these problems, to rep- resent student opinion upon them, and to serve as an educational medium through which the problems of contemporary America may be more eftectively presented to the members of the Uni- versity community. The election system of the Student Senate will itself be an example of the educational function it hopes, to perform, for Michigan students, ac- customed through class elections to the use of the voting machine, are to try another experi- ment by using Proportional Representation to elect their thirty-two Senators. It is anticipated that this new system, involving the use of choice marks-the figures one, two, three and so forth- rather than the traditional crosses of the Amer- ican ballot, will lead to the representation of every substantial stream of thoAght on the campus and will provide the Senate with that cross-section of opinion without which it cannot succeed. For the Senate to obtain a cross-section of stu- dent opinion, it is essential for as many of the student body to vote as possible. There are no restrictions as to the franchise-any student, undergraduate or graduate, full- or part-time, men and women-all may vote. The Daily urges you to take this opportunity of exercising a voice in forming a student opinion by casting your bal- lot at one of the four polling booths provided. The polls will be open until 7:30 in the evening, and you need only your identification card to participate in this first election of the University of Michigan Student Senate. Joseph S. Mattes. Careerism In Politics .. . HE FARMER-LABOR movement of Minnesota is today facing a problem, the implications of which should be considered by any person who feels that only through a National Farmer-Labor party can the economic, social, and political aims of the farmer and indus- trial worker be adequately realized.' This problem is that which almost inevitably faces a successful liberal or radical movement-personal ambition and careerism. When Governor Floyd Bjornsterne Olson, Min- nesota's first Farmer-Labor chief executive, suc- cumbed to cancer in the summer of 1936, Lieu- tenant-Governor Hialmar Petersen was elevated to the office of Governor. Previous to his election in 1934 as Olson's running mate, Petersen had been a member of the lower house of the State Legislature, much of his influence coming through his editorship of the "Askov Amer- ican," a small town weekyl in Northern Minne- sota with a considerable circulation among Farm- time of Olson's death the party candidate for the Governorship, was strongly opposed by Petersen, who sought to have the nominations-so shifted about that he, Petersen, would continue as Gov- ernor, and Benson would run again for the Sen- ate. However, the party leaders, anticipating Olson's wish to go to the Senate in 1936, had spent nearly two years in building up Benson as a candidate for the Governorship, and Benson had been Ol- son's personal choice as his successor. For these and other reasons Peterson was shunted off to the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, as the Farmer-Labor nominee for a post on that body. With the Roosevelt sweep of 1936 contributing significantly in the way of votes, the Farmer- Labor ticket was carried into office and Elmer Benson became Governor, Halmar Petersen a member of the' Railroad and Warehouse Com- mission. By fortuitous circumstances, Petersen was able to appoint a political colleague to a va- cancy in this three-man body, thus giving him- self a majority on it. Through the patronage available and by alliances with certain elements opposed to Benson, Petersen began a campaign to obtain the nomination of the Farmer-Labor party for Governor in 1938. In January Petersen filed for the office of Gov- ernor as a Farmer-Laborite, seeking the nomina- tion of the Farmer-Labor party in the coming June primaries. On the day on which he filed, he made a state-wide radio address, the heart of which was a vicious red-baiting attack on the administration of Governor Benson. In this ad- dress Peterson addressed himself to "Fellow Farmer-Laborites" but evidently he was appeal- ing for conservative support, believing that the Republicans, having failed to defeat the Farmer- Laborites since 1930 by ordinary partisan tactics, might flock into the Farmer-Labor primary (a proscedure quite possible under Minnesota's open primary in which the voter receives the ballots of all parties and no one knows which ticket he finally chooses to be his own). A part of Petersen's attack on Benson was an attack on the Farmer-Labor Association, the rank-and-file, dues-paying membership organi- zation which supplies the campaign workers for the Farmer-Labor party and includes some 50,- 000 members. This organization, charged Peter- sen, was so dominated that it could not make a free choice of a candidate for Governor and that therefore he was not willing to have his name placed before the delegates at the March con- vention to endorse candidates for state offices. To support this charge, Petersen presented not one fact, but one statement. Shouting merely of "domination" by "Mexican generals," unwilling to stake his cause in a convention of delegates of the rank-and-file membership, Peterson's campaign note took on the aspect of an ego-sat- isfying emotional orgy to cover some of the rather questionable dealings involved in securing his own support. Though the Farmer-Labor party as a political organization and though the Farmer-Labor philosophy as a theory of government certainly has little in common with the leaders of the present economic system, Peterson made not one mention of the economic system, the shortcom- ings of which brought into life the very party whose leadership he now so violently attacks. The essence of this address was the rather mildewed chestnut of "Americanism vs. Communism." Ex- amples of the "Communism" of the present state administration in Minnesota are Benson's visit to California to see Tom Mooney and his refusal to call out troops during a lumberack's strike. Petersen as Petersen represents little, but Pe- tersen as careerism means a great deal. In France we have our Lavals and Doriots in almost countless number-men who, obtaining power as liberals and socialists, used that power to amass large private fortunes, in the one case, or to spring to Fascist leadership, in the other. France has had such common experience with the treachery of careerism that the proverb that the conservatives never develop leaders of their own but go only to the refuse heap of the proletariat for leadership has much truth in it. In Great Britain the lamented spectacle of Ramsay MacDonald is still fresh in our minds as an example of the effect of personalism over principle on the liberal and progressive move- ments of the world. In Minnesota the challenge of this personalist careerism, backed in this case by a violent red-baiting campaign and aided by a tacit endorsement of leading Republican news- papers, throws down a gauntlet to the Farmer- Labor Association which must be met if the idea of a national Farmer-Labor party is to have any reality in political America. There seems no doubt that the Association itself, aware of the dangers of the Petersen brand of Caesarism, will endorse Benson for another term as Gov- ernor, and will approve the liberalism and pro- gressivism of the Governor and his administra- tion. The issue is thus squarely up to the voters in the primary, and, if there is no Republican in- vasion of the Farmer-Labor primary, there is every reason to believe that Benson will win the nomination and that, in his victory, the principles of Farmer-Laborism will have triumphed over Petersen's careerism and the menace it repre- sents. Tuure Tenander. ITHE F0"'R UM Be Sure To Vote To the Editor: Rarely if ever does a student at the University get a chance to express his or her opinion on those national and international matters that have come to assume such an important part in our everyday life. However, through the new- ly-created all-campus Student Senate, that op- portunity arises. The importance of the Student Senate cannot, I believe, be overemphasized. Every student should take part in the voting which will take place Friday, March 11 so that the opinions expressed. I/1-l i eywood Broun There is less war talk in Washington than in New York. Of course, I have no notion of what may go on among small groups in high places. But the notion that America is being groomed for an immediate conflict is not voiced much by newspaper men. The general feeling seems to be that the tension between this country and Japan diminishes. Now, it may be that the correspondents are living in a fool's paradise. Several of them have spent a week-end from time to time in that delicious buti drawsy vacation land. Still I , .f.maintain that the composite front page of the American press is a pretty fair baro- meter of national emotional tides. And I think that even the most casual reader must have noticed that little has been written lately concern- ing fists across the sea. I'm well aware of the fact that pacifists inter- pret this condition as a plot. They fear that public opinion is being drugged to sleep. Al- though I would note a few exceptions, it should be admitted right off that many of the complete isolationists are men and women of unquestion- able sincerity. But I do question their judgment in several respects. To me it seems a fallacious theory to maintain that peace is served by meetings and statements in which the dogmatic declaration is made that the President of the United States is trying to rush us into a war with Japan. The Stab In The Back I am far from suggesting that Franklin Roose- velt, or any other Chief Executive, should have a completely free hand in diplomatic dealings. But there are points in which the President should not be sold down the river by his own countrymen. Specifically, I think of the situation in which publicists cry out for the world to hear that the President has secret plans for conflict and that his pledges of peace should be regarded with suspicion. If that policy is pursued here exten- sively by men who have access to print, it will do much to strengthen the hands of the war lords in the Fascist countries. Hitler or Mussolini and the Japanese naval ring will have good ammuni- tion to use in propaganda for their own people. "Look," they may cry, "at what was said in New York by Joe Doakes, well known as a liberal leader. The great Mr. Doakes, says that President Roosevelt is secretly plotting to send an army and a navy against us almost any minute now.' We must arm ourselves to the last tooth. And you will be wise to continue us in power since it is unwise to swap horses in the middle of the stream." However, I can think of a more homely an- alogy. Everybody remembers the little boy who was'taken to the doctor because he had stupk a small rock in his nose. And when the boy was asked why he had done such a silly thing he an- swered that he got the idea from having been told so many times, "Don't stick pebbles up your nose." While it would be silly not to admit that America, like every other nations, is subject to war hysteria, I do not think that placidity is promoted by dervishes who whirl around and cry out constantly, "We are going to be pushe into a fight before we know it." One excellent way to preserve peace is to talk of peace and not scream of war. On The 1H1me Front And in the domestic field I have great fear as to the end result of the philosophy of complete "isolation." To be sure, the word needs sharper definition. It means many different things to many people. But by the true hard-shelled ise- lationist the word is construed as suggesting that we should board up like dwellers in a town ex- pectant of a hurricane. The theory is that we should not even look out the window. "The rest of the world is comoletely mad, and the sooner it destroys itself the better it will be for patriotic Americans." Now, the natural consequence of this is a return of Know Nothingism. The stranger within our gates becomes suspect, because he, too, is "a dirty foreigner." We shall begin to grow both blond and blind and stand in the market-place and thank God that we are not as other men. Making A Martyr Dr. Francis E. Townsend, author of the $200- a-month old-age pension plan, has decided to contest the court order by which he would now be starting to serve a thirty-day jail sentence in the District of Columbia for contempt of a congres- sional investigating committee. Of course, a congressional investigating com- mittee cannot well afford to permit a flouting of its powers without some action to uphold the authority of such committees in general. When Dr. Townsend walked out of the hearing in 1936 because he disliked the attitude of the committee, the act was technically comparable to the con- tempts for which Harry F. Sinclair went to jail after the Teapot Dome investigation and William P. McCracken after the airmail inquiry. But the setting of the case is substantially different. The chief figure here is already a martyr to his own zeal and to the cupidity of the promoters who flocked around him. The congressional investigation punctured the boom of his plan and in that it accomplished its pur- THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1938 VOL. XLVII. No. 114 Exemptions friom 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.I All students in the College of L.S.&A., and Schools of Education, Forestry, and Music receiving a grade of I (incomplete) ; X, (absent froml examination), or ( (no report), should make up all work by March 14 or the grade will autoriatically lapse to an E. Summer Work: Student residents in Chicago who are interested in hotel work during the summer are asked to call at 201 Mason Hall for further information. University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Infor- THEATRE.. By JEANNETTE FLEISHER 'Sige Door' Opens The Kaufman - Ferber comedy, Stage Door, which opened last night at the Lydia Mendelssohn, is thoroughly good theatrical entertain- ment. The satire on Hollywood's values-or lack of them-is neither profound nor penetrating, and its ex- altation of the legitimate stage is based on somewhat shallow grounds, and yet we swallow its thesis and agree wholeheartedly while the mood of the play is on us. The action of the play is laid in the Footlights Club, a theatrical boarding house for stage-struck females aspir- ing to crash the well-guarded gates of Broadway managers' offices. Oren Parker's set for the Club living room1 is an excellent background for that battalion of would-be Thespians, who seem to spend their time mainly in shooting verbal bullets at one another and at the world in general with 'the precision and deadliness of aim of a corps of master machine-gunners. But there is kindliness and camara- derie among them, and the barrage of wisecracks and flying brickbats keeps one from taking them or their problems very seriously, or for that matter, the' ostensible theme of the play-the defense of the 'legitimate' stage against its bastard child, the moving pictures. Finished acting is necessary for comedy of this sort; expert timing,1 sureness of touch, and finesse of handling are essential. And here Play Production's performance, as nn icb h n hi nlly t~n hn rdl; mation. 201 Mason Hall. The Bureau has received notice of the following Civil Service Examina- tions: Associate Agronomist and Superin- tendent, $3,200,a year; Assistant Ag- rrnomist (Sugar Beet Investigations), $2,600 a year; Assistant Plant Physi- ologist (Sugar Beet Investigations), $2,600 a year; Bureau of Plant In-C dustry, Department of Agriculture. Principal Marketing Specialist, $5,- 600 a year; Senior Marketing Spe- cialist, $4,600 a year; Marketing Spe- cialist, $3,800 a year; Associate Mar- keting Specialist, $3,200 a year; As- sistant Marketing Specialist, $2,600 a year; Bureau of Agricultural Ec- onomics, Department of Agriculture. Junior Veterinarian, $2.000 a year; Bureau of Animal Industry, Depart- ment of Agriculture. Attendant Nurse Classes, $40 to 65 per month and ,maintenance; Michi- gan State Civil Service. General Constr.uction Superinten- dent of Water Softening Plant; Flint Civil Service Exam. Detroit Civil Service Examinations: Student Social Worker, $1320 per year. Senior Civil Engineering Drafts- man, $2640 per year (For duration of Sewage Disposal Project). Forestry and Landscape Foreman, $36.92 per week (Seasonal Employ- ment). Associate Civil Engineer (Federal ProjectLiaison),'$4200 peyear, (For duration of Sewage Disposal Project). Posting Machine Operator (Type- writer-Multiplying) (Female), $1560 per. year (Seasonal Employment). For further information, please call at the office, 201 Mason Hall. Bureau ofnAppointments and Occupational Information. and 'Mr. Robert Edmonds, cello. Faculty Women's Club: The Art Study Group will meet today at 2 o'clock at the Michigan League. Mrs. Mischa Titiev will act as hostess. A.I.Ch.E. There will be a meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. in 1042 E. Eng. Dr. E. H. Potthoff of White Star Refining Co. will speak on petroleum refining. Refreshments. Engineering Mechanics Seminar. Marvin G. Harrison, '38E, "Stability of Floating Bodies" with demonstra- tion. M. F. Spdtts, "Review of Thin Shell Analysis." An informal meet- ing today at 4:15 p.m. in Room 314 West Engineering Annex. University Oratorical Contest: Pre- liminaries for the University Ora- torical Contest will be held this af- ternoon at 4 p.m., 4003 Angell Hall. A copy of the oration is to be handed in at that time. A five minute talk given. Register in Speech Office, Room 3211 Angell Hall. "Stage Door" Tonight at 8:30 p.m. Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. .Also Friday and Saturday evenings. A few tickets still available at box o- fice. Phone 6300. Students interested in religious work are invited to meet at Lane Hall for lunch on Thursday. Kenneth Morgan will speak. Call Lane Hall for reservations. Women's Intercollegiate Debate. The University of Michigan Women's debate team will meet the University of Ohio Women's debate team in a regular Conference Debate on the subject of uniform marriage laws in DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN pihilention in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University, Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. the Ballroom of the Women's League --~~at 4 p.m. today. The debate is open Academic Notices to the public. Geology 11 and 12 make-up final Scimitar: Special meeting at the examinations will be given Friday, Unio tat 7:30 tonight. All members March 11 from 2 until 5 in 2054 N.S. please attend as it is very important. They will be given at no other time. Political Science.1. Make-up exam- ination for students who were unable' to take the regularly scheduled final1 examination for the 'first semester, 1937-37, Friday March 11, 3-6' p.m., Room 2037 A.H. Psychology 33 make-up will be held Thursday at 1:00 p.m., Room 3126, Natural Science Bldg. Exhibitions The Department of Fine Arts an- nounces an exhibition of photographs of China in the north and south gal- leries of Alumni Memorial Hall. Open daily through Saturday, March 12. U rLectures Association Fireside: Dr. John F. Shepard will speak on "Forgotten War Issues" tonight at 8 o'clock, Lane Hall. Dr. O. R. Yoder, of the Ypsilanti State Hospital, will speak on Mental Hygiene at the Women's League to- night at 8 p.m. German Journal Club. There will be a meeting today at 4 p.m., 302 Michi- gan Union. Junior Girls Play: The properties committee will meet at 4 p.m. today at'the League. The ticket committee will hold a meeting at 4:15 p.m. today. The publicity committee will meet at 5 p.m. today at the League. Druids will hold a luncheon meet- i one mlgnt naturany expect, nar y A l!tyDc ope:r essor.'.11 ing at noon today at the Union. All 'equals the skilled performances of Heckscher, President of the Econ- nembers are urged to attend. Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, omics Institute of Sweden, will give and their fellow Hollywoodians. a series of lectures on Economic His- Phi Epsilon Kappa Fraternity: shrieking in what seemed to degener- tory under the joint auspices of the Meeting of the National Honorary ae eery nowandhenintoasororty Departments of Eonomics and His- Physical Education Fraternity, Phi atmvruornahe noasrrt elatnnso cnoic n i-Eslo Kappa tonight at the Intra- mob scene. But many of the in- tory. The schedule is as follows: Epsilon Kuppg ighedately Intra- diviualperormaceswer exel- h dmurl wilding, immediately follow- dividual performances were excel- HThursday, March 10. 4:15 Room C, ing the basketball game for the lent. Ellen Rothblatt as Terry Ran-' Haven Hall. Mercantilism: Theory championship of the Professional dal, the faithful vestal tending the and Practice, II. raritnsion t ere- altar flame and keeping amigh't thei true faith of the legitimate theatre Friday, March 11. 4:15 Room C, quested to attend. Time: 9 o'clock. r Haven Hall. Economic History of had fire and viality. Mary Brous, Sweden, I. Crop and Saddle: Ride Thursday at Broadway gone Hollywood personi- fiedwa gtntically amusn Monday, March 14. 4:15 Room C 5. Meet at Barbour Gymnasium. All fled, was authentically amusing; and 1aven Hall. Economic History of those wishing to go, please call Dor- cynica as of expandedeld,goesth Sweden, II. othy White at 2-2591 before Thurs- exyractedeeryaton of huanded e The public is cordially invited, day noon. role offered her without overplayin University Lecture: Dr. Michael Congress: Administration commit- it. Margery Soenksen, as the "house Heidelberger, Associate Professor of tee meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in mother" of this extraordinary me Biological Chemistry, Columbia Uni- Room 306 of the Union. nage. may awaken reminiscences versity College of Physicians and Sur- among dormitory inmates. Marie geons, will lecture on "Recent Chemi- Congress: There will be a 'meeting Sawyer was extremely well cast as cal Theories of Immune Reactions of the Publicity Committee tonight Linda Shaw, the family black sheep. and Some Practical Applications," on at 7:30 p.m. in Room 306 of the Over-acting, unfortunately, was more Friday, March 18, in Room 1528 East Union. frequently the rule than the excep- Medical Building at 8 p.m., under the tion in most of the minor feminine auspices of the University and the roles, though the men, perhaps be- Michigan Department of Health. The Cg ing Events cause their voices are not so high- public is cordially invited. Junior Mathematical Club. Will pitched, got their comedy ' effects' - meet Friday, March 11, at'4:15 p.m, without seeming to strain for them. University Lecture: M. Jean Hostie, in Room 3201 Angell Hall. Mr. Phil- Edward Jurist was as suave as ever of Belgium, an international jurist, lips will speak on "Linear Operators." and Morlye Baer effectively boyish. will lecture on "The International Refreshments will be served following The play provides a thoroughly en- Law of Radio" in Natural Science the talk. joyable evening in the theatre and j Auditorium at 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, ought to be on everybody's "must" March 22, under the auspices of the Student Senate: The general elec- list for the season. Department of Political Science. The tion of members of the Student Sen- -- {public is cordially invited. ate will be held Friday in the Union, Ronald F e the League, Angell Hall, and the Main d 3 t' _ Even ts TCLibrary from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tl"' Y. Any student of the University is eli- s- ' on ji The Observatory Journal Club will gible to vote upon presentation of his meet at 4:15 p.m. today in the Obser- or her identification card. Ronald Freedman, '38, speaking on vatory lecture room. The votes will be counted in Room "Moses Mendelssohn, and Jewish Dr: Hazel M. Losh will re- 302, Union, beginning at 8 p.m. Fri- Freedom" was awarded the Nathan view "Sunspots and Their Effects" by day evening and the count will be G. Metzger Award of $10 in the an- Stetson. Tea will be served at 4:00. open to the public. l nual Hillel oratory contest held Sun- day night at the Hillel Foundation. In addition to this award, Freed- man will be given a trip to Chicago to compete in the inter-Hillel contest to be held April 10. Other contest- ants were Leonard Kasle, '38, speak- ing on "A Student Looks at Reli- gion," and Julius Epstein, '38, whose subject was "Awake, Jewish Youth." BUCKS ELECT HULL COLUMBUS, March 9.-'!-Jim- my Hull, of Greenfield, Ohio, junior wh fi'O' C 5 1 uc' faicnn~l'f i nrii crir..,..'. Cercle Francais: The meeting of the The Outdoor Club will go on a two- Cercle Francais which was formerly hour bike-hike Saturday afternoon, scheduled for 8:00 Thursday at the leaving Lane Hall at 1:45. Refresh- League has been changed to 8:30. ments will be served at Lane Hall Refreshments will be served. All afterwards. In case of inclement members must inform the secretary weather the group will go to the of their intention to attend before Women's Athletic Bldg. for ping- Wednesday noon.' pong, shuffle-board, golf-driving, and bowling. Any student interested is The Michigan Dames Book Group invited to go along. will have a pot luck supper tonight at 6:30 at Pilgrim Hall, 808 E. Wil- Suomi Club: Meeting Friday night, iam St. March 11, at 8 o'clock in t.he Upper