The Weather Cloudy and colder today, pos- sibly light rain; fair and warmer tomorrow. "I C" '' r A .-. AJW 46F Iatit Editorials England Struggles With Censorship... Plea For University Housing Movement... VOL. XLVIII. No. 120 Al7A ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS Wood Favors Room Petition But Declares Plea Stop-Gap Backs More Fundamental Approach To Question; Criticizes Present Set-Up Advocates Dorms And Tutor System By JACK DAVIS Conceding that the campus-spon- sored petition for housing reform now before the Board of Regents would increase student bargaining power and shop rents, Prof. Arthur E. Wood of the sociology department yesterday criticized the proposal as merely a make-shift reform. Supporting a more fundamentall approach, Professor Wood attacked the present set-up saying "when the University enforces contracts it sanc- tions bargains arrived at unfairly and approves a situation that is generally unsatisfactory. "The student not only faces the landlady in renting a room but also the might of the University." University Holds Key Subject to two assumptions, Pro- fessor Wood declared, the University can intensify competition among landladies and strengthen the stu- dent's bargaining power by refusing to give sanction to contracts signed by upper classroen. "The first, which I believe justifiable, is that there are sufficient excess rooms so that prices will drop under stricter competition. But it is essential also that the stu- dents take advantage of their new status and press for rent reductions. Along these lines student's actions are unpredictable, he said. But the real problem is not touched by attempts to make a stopgap work, Professor Wood said. He pointed to the house system introduced in many Easterh gollegs'as tfil"ieal fo'm of" student housing where environment conducive to intellectual gain could become a part of the student's life.1 Applied out here he said it wouldt mean construction by the University1 of low cost dormitories and the in- Cohens, Kellys Unite To Fete The Jolly 17th By LEONARD SCHLEIDER "Begorrah, it's a foine day when the Irish and the Hebrews can get together," said Maynard Cohen, '41, today as William Kelly, '40A, nodded his head. And from County Cork to Brooklyn, New York, their respective brethren agreed with them. The 17th of March is traditionally dedicated by all sons of Old Erin to the memory of Saint Patrick. But this year Patrick has a competitor--a woman -no less-and her name is Esther. According to the Book of Esther of the Old Testament, today is the He- brew holy day, Purim. Centuries ago the Jews were persecuted by a Persian nobleman named Haman. It is not definitely known whether Haman was the first of the persecuting paper- hangers. The king of Persia was Ahasuerus who allowed the Jews to worship freely and considered them entitled to life, liberty and the ptrsuit of happiness. He had just executed his queen and was in the bazaar looking for a new spouse. His talent scouts introduced him to a beautiful maiden, Esther, niece of Mordecai, a liberal politician. The monarch married Esther,iand Mor- decai became the grand vizier. Haman, leader of the opposition party, was jealous of Mordecai and persuaded Ahasuerus to order the, "alien" Hebrews from the country. Esther heard of this and implored her husband to spare her people. King Ahasuerus relented and Haman got the axe. Historians record that St. Patrick, (Continued on Page 6) Bud get Picture Is Briglitened ByTax Returns $170,000,000) Surplus In Federal Income Revenue Colleetions Is Foresen WASHINGTON, March 16.--0)-- Record-breaking income tax collec- tions brightened the Federal budget picture tonight. The treasury announced that the Site Is Chosen For Hospital's New Addition t$400,000 Wing Planned For Ncuro*sychiatric InstituteLaboratories Cy hildreii's I'stit(Iule tWill et New Home Sites for two buildings to be crected this year as additions to the Univer- sity's service program have been an- nounced by University authorities. The Neuropsychiatric Institute will be housed in a $400,000 wing to be added to the University Hospital, bids for which will be opened next week. A $95,000 structure for the Michigan Children's Institute, to be located on Washington Heights near the en- trance to Nichols Arboretum, also is to be constructed this year. Because of the necessity of keeping within the $400,000 appropriated by the State Legislature last year, defi- nite plans cannot be announced until it is determined whether any con- tractor's bid comes close to that fig- ure, Dr. Raymond W. Waggoner, di- rector ofthe psychiatric unit, said. Projected plans, however, call for a five-story building, 210 by 37 feet, with pavilions 52 feet wide at' cach end. Situated north of the present surgery unit, it will be joined to the rest of the hospital by connecting corridors, Dr. Waggoner said. The building will house 80 to 85, patients, office and laboratory space for the staff, a gymnasium, class- rooms, combined recreation rooms and sun porches and indoor and out- door play spaces for the observation of children's play activities. In ad- dition there is planned a 'europath- ological laboratory including a pho- tographic unit with provision for microscopic and macroscopic repro- ductions he said. The institute will cut clown the cost of state care in other mental insti- tutions through the development of improved methods of treatment, Dr. Waggoner said and it will also be used to traiil doctors and nurses in the field of psychiatry. The functions of the institute will include research work in the causes of mental diseases as well as caring for and treating patients, Dr. Wag- goner said. The neuropathological ----< Prof. Dorr Sees Internal TVA Strife Retardintg Conservation Feels New Deal Enemies Will Attempt To Take Issue Wit I 'Planning' By S. R. KLEIMAN Not only the Tennessee Valley proj- ect, but Ml large scale economic plan- ning and the entire program to con- serve and develop natural resources has been sadly retarded by the pres- ent strife within the TVA, in the opin- ion of Prof. Harold Dorr of the polit- ical science department. Regardless of the outcome of the controversy between Chairman Ar- thur E. Morgan on the one hand and Harcourt Morgan and David Lilien- thal on the other, Professor Dorr be- lieves that "the political enemies of the President will join with the utili- ties in an attempt to make a major issue of the principle of regional planning." "Hopes that Congress, in the pres- Annual Meet Of Educators A 33 Opens,.Today Se nce, Arts And Letters Coiventiont Will Meet in Tl Science Bailding The 43rd annual convention of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters will open with a meet- ing of the council at 2:30 p.m. today in Room 4065, Natural Science Build- ing. More than 400 educators are ex- pected to attend the convention, ac- troduction of a form of house tutor, unprecedented sum of $615,947,718 laboratory will be used as the central cording to Prof, Leigh J. Young, of Quarters Arc Important was collected in the first, 15 days of laboratory for the state hospitals for the forestry school, secretary for the "The quarters in which students March. an increase of 18 per cent mental diseascs. Academy. live have a large share in shaping over the similar period last year The general opening session will b l college experiences and therefore are If this rate of payment is main- ' reeptin :fora ltoday. Tmember annual one very important factor determin- taned to the end of the fiscal year, Arcaemy, cadi member - of the ing the kind of a job the student the treasury will wind up with about W I S) k H e Academy, candidates for member- will do while be is here. $170,000,000 more income tax money ' Asserting that under the ire ent than was predicted in President M today at the University Museum. ostingctdt nderm heny esent ;Roorev'lt's January estimates. This Ir. Michael 1cidelbergr of Colum- Symposiums and speeches will be housing onditicns many studentsssWd a surplus would provide, officials inti- bia University will speak before the given on almost every branch of aca- lived as oitcaSts, Professor Wood em- mated, a badly needed offset against medical science session of the Michi- decmic endeavor during the three day phiasiged that only in adequate sur- the probable failure of excise taxes gan Academy of Science, Arts, and convention: today, tomorrow and Sat- roudgsculd amaure ntele.tSul and customs duties to meet estimtes. Letters at 8 p.m. tomorrow in IoomI urday, The various sections are: an- and social attitude be developed. Such s ucwome tax collections this month 1528 East Medical Building in a lec- thropology, botany, economics and so- training is one f the vital services represent full payments by some per- ture sponsored jointly by thel Univer- ciology, forestry, geography, geology college can perform; yet at the pres- sons and a quarter's installments by sity and the Michigan Departu nt of and mineralogy, history and political ctitue many students cannot take otle ~s on their 1.9,3' income. T1he i Public Health. iclee, landscape arch~itecture, Ian- advantage of it. I do not believe tem- .icrea refilects, officials said, the Ie will speak on "lreut (Cmiclica guage and literature, mathematics, porary reform can accomplish much vigor of business in the first eight Theories of Immune Reactions and philosophy, psychology, sanitary and to relieve the most vital aspect of the months of last year. Some lines were Some Practical Applications." This medical sciences and zoology. housing problem" not scriousy affected by the recession will deal with studies he has made in Other highlights in the meeting, Contracts Necessary until as late as November. the chemistry of antigenes and anti- besides the various speeches and sym- In dihcussing the provisions of the Although New York City taxpayers bodies, substances used in combattin posiums which will be held by the petition, Professor Wood insisted that contributed the largest dollar amount disease. Knowledge of the cheiiicl various sections, are: the biologists' contracts would be necessary to se- toward the increased collections, the basis for the reactions of these bodies and section luncheons at 12:15 p.m I cure a measure of stability, but de- bigge;t percentage gains were made in immunization is expected to hell tomorrow; the general lecture onl Glared that the problem ought to be by the Gulf States, particularly Flor- out work in this eld to a large de- FPull Recovery or Stagnation" by Dr. settled between the landlady and the ida and Alabama. gre. Alvin H. Hansen at 4:15 p.m. student. " - _-----_ - He added that it seemed likely tha~t iEr pa , M otro sw ud b etd u o a ac foe moos d ecitdkl tlsBa lance Qf European Military Power contract basis but that reductions in the rent upon the part of the land -, -t lady would -be necessary. J iI ent session, would pass comprehensiv regional planning legislation are al- ready blasted. It is reported that the President has rewritten his 'Sever TVA's' Act, eliminating much of th original economic plan." Professor Dorr explained that the dispute between the two factions orig- inated over the matter of distribu- tion of "surplus" power produced at the dams built by the TVA. The issue of government generation and sale o power was settled in the Wilson Dam case, when the Supreme Court ruled in February, 1936, that the TVA could dispose of surplus power. In the disposition of TVA-produced power, Professor Dorr pointed out that "Arthur Morgan is reported to favor cooperation with the utilities, while Lilienthal and Harcourt Mor- gan are said to favor further acquisi- tion of transmission lines and direct competition with the private utili- ties." He said that the idea of a govern- nent "yardstick" to measure the cost of power production and distribution and thus to prevent excessive profits by the utilities is not a matter of great concern, since Lilienthal goes much beyond that point. Lilienthal, he believes, favors government owner- ship of the electric utilities and feels that if the private companies cannot compete with the government they should sell out. At the present time the TVA is dis- tributing power to 17 municipalities and 14 rural cooperatives. A nun- ber of new dams are in construction or definitely projected which would bring the total of power generating dams up to eight. The dispute, Pro- fessor Dorr said comes to this: should the TVA sell its power to private com- panies for sale and distribution to consumers, or should it handle the transmission and sale to the con- sumer itself? Arthur E. Morgan favors the first; Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan favor the second, However, Professor Dorr indicated that the present split is not entirely (Continued on Page 6) 'Fast Supper' Sale To Open An1bulanec IDrive Begius With Supper Sunday Tickets for Sunday's Fast Sup- per, at the Unitarian Church, open- ing feature in the Progressive Club drive to raise $250 for an ambulance for Spain, will be sold today in An- gell Hall and the Library. Soup and crackers, that have been donated, will be served at the Fast Supper and the revenue from the sale of tickets will go to the ambulance fund. A service at 6 p.m., which will include music and the reading of poems written in Spain, will be held in recognition of the contribution of Michigan students fighting in Spain for the Loyalist cause. Pencils issued by the North Ameri- can Committee to Aid Spanish De- mocracy, with the message, "Give That Spain's Children May Live," will be sold at the ticket table today in Angell Hall, The Progressive Club is a'mipaign- ing to raise $250 to pay for the engine of an ambulance that will be sent to the Loyalists through the joint con- tributions of organizations in 16 mid- west colleges and universities, Oratorical C O test To Be Hl T1oday The annual University Oratorical Contest preliminaries for sophomores, uniors, and seniors will be held at 4 p.m. today in Room 4003, Angell Hal. The finals will be held on March 24, BritainPledges France Naval Aid If Germany And Italy Threaten °jFrench African Communications had said that France would have no Europe At A Glance LONDON-Britain placed the issue of European peace before Hitler, calling upon Germany to respect Czechoslovakia if she de- sires "to .see peace maintained." Opposition a t t a c k e d Premier Chamberlain's foreign policy " in bitter Commons debate. PARIS-France promised to maintain a "hands off Spain" stand in return for a British pledge of naval aid in case Italian and German troops in Spain men- aced Mediterranean communica- tion lines. France delayed pres- sure for a Spanish truce. With Russia, she pledged to go to the aid of Czechoslovakia in case of German invasion. KAUNAS, Lithuania -'T in y Lithuania feared both Poland and Germany might pounce upon her. BERLIN-Hitler hurried home to a triumphant welcome, cancel- ling other engagements and flying to Berlin because of the grave Eu- ropean situation. The Lithuanian crisis at Germany's back door, Czech-German warnings to the Czech parliament, and the Span- ish War situation prompted his re- turn. ROME--Premier Mussolini ap- proved Hitler's Austrian coup, but warned that any invasion of Ital- ian frontiers would mean war. VIENNA--Nazi masters of Aus- tria wiped out last traces of Aus- trian independence; pressure on Jews increased, alternative" but to open her frontier to aid Spain's harassed government unless Britain joined her. In Rome, Premier Benito Musso- lini approved Adolf Hitler's absorp- ion of Austria, but warned that any invasion of Italian frontiers would mean ~iwar. Mussolini. defended Italy's acquies cence to the annexation of Austria as consistent with her past policy of de- fending Austria's independence. But, he declared, it would have been "an historical and political absurdity" for Austria, a German state, to have ex= isted independent and anti-German. Reports from Vienna last night stated that Austria's Nazi masters had swept away the last traces of her sovereignty with the efiicinc~ry of a iew 1 )rcit H FMajor Em'1il Fey, anti-Nazi and iron alan of the Dollfusu regime, was found dead in his home. Beside him were the bodies of his wife and 20-year=old son. TIn London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain admitted that Ger= many's seizure of Austria had shat-t tered completely his plans for deal- ing with Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler. He was bitterly attacked in the House of Commons. However, the .Prie France, Russia Reiterate Pledges To Aid Czechs If AttackedBy Hitler BERLIN, \Iarch 16.-M)-~Fears that Germany's next move in Central Europe would be aimed toward North- east were expressed in diplomatic circles here following a report from a Germany Army source that Reichs- fuehrer Hitler, who made a conquer- ing hero's return today, had hurried to Berlin because he had received word that Poland had ,presented an ultimatum to Lithuania, expiring late today. Warsaw flatly denied that an ulti- matdm had been presented but ad- mitted that "certain demands" had been made on the Kovno Govern- ment. German deputies in the Czechoslo- vakian Parliament have warned that Fountry to read the handwriting on the wall and grant the 3,500,000 Ger- mans some form of virtual indepen- dence before Hitler absorbs them as he did the Austrian Germans. France urged Britain to join her in some action "before it is too late." The result was that Britain publicly ad- vised Hitler to keep his hands off Czechoslovakia.hIither was told to keep his implied promrise to respect Czechoslovakia's independence. The French government did the same by renewing her pledge to send armed aid to Czechoslovakia if Germany moved against her. The Soviets did likewise and thereby strengthened the pact that binds France and the So- viets to help each other if attacked by Germany. SRA To Hear Prof. Dunham Group Will Visit Detroit Agencies Saturday Prof. Arthur Dunham of the In- stitute of Public and Social Adminis- tration will lead a discussion pre- liminary to a reconciliation trip to Detroit Saturday to be sponsored by the Student Religious Association, at the Fireside Mecting at 8 p.m. today at Lane Hall. '- Professor Dunhaum will speak on "T'ahe -ckround of .;ocial Agen- cics" and will attempt to show how the work of the individual agencies to be visited on the trip relate to the community as a wl:Hole. Attendance at this meeting is compulsory for all those intending to make the trip, and reservations, which will be limited to 30, must be in before this time Brroughs To 'alk Blum Agrees To Maintain Policy Of Non - Intervention In Spain Austria Seen Completely Regimented By Nazi Masters While Disturbing Rumors Circulate In Vienna; Chamberlain Is Attacked In Commons PARIS, March 16.-(AP)--Great Britain promised France naval aid tonight if Italian and German forces in Spain menaced France's North African communications. In return, Premier Leon Blum told his cabinet France would maintain non-intervention in Spain. By this decision, France kept her border with Government Spain shut to men and munitions'and dropped her plans for an immediate effort with Britain to negotiate a Spanish truce. That the Spanish Government appeared to have stopped the Insur- gents' drive toward the Mediterranean, at least temporarily, also was cited by Blum as enabling France to keep her frontier shut. Preparations, nevertheless, went ahead to assure the security of France's Pyrenees border as well as the freedom of communication on the Medi- terranean, vital sea roadway of French and British empires. Chamberlain's answer to Blum's urgent appeal was taken to the - French foreign office by Sir Eric Poland Denies Phipps, the British ambassador, be- fore the Prime Minister announced to P~ai Of Commons that Britain would adhere senta Lon to Spanish neutrality. But, it was said, the armistice plan An UT i-nat ii was held in abeyance and might be made at any time. French officials h o G I April For 29 sd Auunul lay11 32nd Annum Play "The Miser," one of the best-known plays of Moliere. will be givell on April 29 in the Lydia Mendeilssolm Theatre as the 32nd French play, pre- sented each year under the auspices of the French department anl the Cerele Francais. , The play, which is one of the few works of the famous rench play- wright which is not written in verse, deals with a money-grasping father whose greed destroys the happiness of his family. When his projects seem certain to ruin the future hopes of his children, unforeseen circum- By JOSEPH GJI ;S A new generat war threatens Eu- role more strolmgly today than at arty ft me since 1918, in the opinion of mostj qualfied observers. lEvery general stafT on the colict inent is p)rear'ilr' for a possible eliiergen(cy, awaiting the pressing of the mobilization button which will once more set time armies ar rching, 'liee yes ofthr amiitiry a rid lipjlo- 1110tic world aire focussed on -rli, a ill dc pe'0te antic'ipation of' Iitler's next move. The descent on Czecho- slovakia by the new Austro-German tReichmiweIhr may take place in a week or a month. Sooncr or Ia er, barring an unforeseen check on ithe Hitler program, it ripmea s inevitable. An examination of the mniltit 'y and geographical situation in Europe demonstrates the excellent strategic position in which Hitler now finds himself. Gormanv's standing army, IOSt i tics, TI'llus Ihitlr'r IUas at his rlisjposaI a tota active first-line ar-my of 800'000, witli an active reserve force, corrl, .lset I of lfjn .rei l 'cI ' a. "' uw r service, of pe'lr a.ps (louble ha I number. In 3)1 fle German Army caught the French anod Belgian gen- eral staffs Ii mepar'e'Ifor the 5stare o oerat ioJ is on w icli the Marne ('