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CHICAGO BOSTON LOS ANGELES SANFRANCISCO 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 .................HELEN DOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR ....................IRVIN LISAGOR 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 NIGHT EDITOR: ROiIERT D. MITCHELL 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 educational institu- tions in the best meaning 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. Education Thwarted . .. THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION has recently found a new way in which to spend part of its 150 million dollar endowment. Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Founda- tion, reported in his annual statement, that more than nine million dollars were spent in 1937 to assist in breaking down the boundaries of knowl- edge. According to Mr. Fosdick, the work of the Foundation is becoming more difficult because of the new international barriers raised against knowledge. Intellectual research cannot go forward in areas where trenches and truncheons hold sway. War may develop new poison gases but it also means the disintegration of creative scholarship. And war's little brother, the totalitarian state, with its attendant censorship and suppression means the corruption of intellectual liberty and its replacement with the ideas of the Leader. "Objective scholarship is possible only where thought is free," Mr. Fosdick continued, "and freedom can exist only where there is tolerance, only where there are no 'keep out' signs against the inquisitive and questioning mind." We wonder what Mr. Fosdick and the Rocke- feller Foundation think of the announcement, from Germany that the new university in Berlin will be named in honor of that great scholar, Adolf Hitler. Leonard Schleider Industrial Peace .. YOU HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE. All along the labor front they play the old game in the old way. Necessity-enforced ideals of collective bargaining disappear as pros- perity fades and, with the industrial disputes of 1937 barely over, the overture is being played to new industrial warfare. In 1938 the businessmen who last year acquiesced to collective bargain- ing but kept their corporate fingers crossed clench their fists and pronounce the truce with labor ended. From two key industries and from both coasts of the country come significant dispatches, threats that apply the law of force to labor dis- putes. The economy of the United States is pass- ing beyond such atavistic law; unless the spirit of collective security becomes a part of our indus- trial thinkiag, on both sides the government must step in to protect the nation. Business follows no such lines now. Walking warily, enjoined from pursuing the traditional union smashing tactics of firing and discrimina- tion, new methods are evolving. Corporations with many plants scattered throughout the country have a new weapon, the threat of re- moving production and creating unemployment unless demands for wage cuts are met. Akron, former capital of the rubber goods in j dustry whose payrolls have shrunk from 40,000 to 25,000 in the last two years has been one city to feel its force. Now it faces the loss of 5,000 more oh a the B F. Goodrich Co. threatens to move such pressure at this time. Akron is plastered with placards reading "Keep Goodrich in Akron." The union vote which was to have defied the com- pany's longer hours and lower pay proposals has been indefinitely postponed. This week the Akron Firestone plant is to hold an election to determine whether John L. Lewis' rubber workers union or the Firestone Employe's Protective As- sociation is to be the bargaining agent. Good- rich has announced that they will make no an- nouncement of policy until this election is over. The pressure is on. In Akron, as in Austria, they are holding a plebiscite and the results should run pretty nearly the same. But when business conditions improve, and from all over the nation is heard the deep baying of the industrialist in economic clover, then the results of such policies will be felt in industrial hatred. The Akron Rubber Workers will not forget the humiliation they are now going through, they will not forget being spiked on the ground. But let those who threaten see the conse- quences of their threats. The Wagner Act and collective bargaining is an integral part of the nation's thinking and continued irreconcilable feuding will mean government intervention: It was so in the case of the railroads and realism bids business read the handwriting. The Wagner Act cannot be knifed. The choice is clear- business must settle its labor problems under the new law or stand by and watch the government restore industrial peace. Jack Davis. Spain: On The Way Oui t . THE IMPORTANCE of American for- eign policy in indirectly determining the course of world events becomes more appar- ent almost from day to day. And the necessity for altering that policy to conform with the in- terests of the nation becomes correspondingly more imperative. America's primary interest in the field of for- eign affairs is in the maintenance of peace. Few will dispute the danger in which the peace of the world and of America rests while the open ag- gressions of Germany and Italy against weaker nations continue to provoke Europe. The two fascist nations are jrimarily engaged at present in a drive to annihilate the resistance of Loyalist Spain. If they are permitted to succeed in erect- ing a satellite state in Spain they will move on to new conquests with renewed prestige and con- tempt for the decadent democracies. The hands of France will be effectively tied, Great Britain's attitude will be rendered more indecisive than ever, and the U.S.S.R. will be forced to prepare to defend itself. The people of Spain are near the end of their capabilities. They have succumbed to the su- periority of machinery over men which is the characteristic of modern war, and which gives the control of states or continents, as Capt. Lid- dell Hart has said, "to any gang of physical or moral degenerates' 'who become possesed of the necessary weapons. The nation most immediately threatened by the imminent Loyalist collapse is France. France, with a Socialist Premier and a Popular Front government, needs only to open her frontiers to the prompt shipment of airplanes and artillery in order to restore the balance of the war. But Franco has thus far found herself unable to take decisive action because of the fear that the temporary depletion of French arsenals which would result from sending reinforcements of ma- terial to Spain might leave France in a weakened condition if a general war should break out, a consideration always foremost in the minds of the French general staff and government. If France were assured of a source of arma- ments with which to quickly replenish her mili- tary stores, there is little doubt that the assist- ance Spain desperately requires would be forth- coming. An important force that is holding France back is the American Neutrality Act, which for- bids shipment of munitions to nations at war, but which permits Germany and Italy to buy bombs in the United States for Barcelona and Madrid. If the Neutrality Act were repealed, it would not only give Loyalist Spain access to American munitions which are now used exclusively by the Rebels, but it would open the way for the im- mediate French aid which has now become essen- tial to the salvation of the Spanish Republic. Joseph Gies. T h e Edit Gets Told... OK; Let's Begin To the Editor: The Daily Editor said in an article on educa- tion, "There is nothing so damning to American education as our docile acceptance of it." There seems to me little doubt that much of our world today turns out to be this Michigan campus; and that there is much evidence of docile acceptance. OK, let's begin. As astounding as it may seem I and a lot of others survived the courses Economics 51 and 52. They were pitifully weak in inspiration, utterly lacking in fertile ideas and what is more tragic, they were as blinding and'illusionary as a Lon- don fog. ,These words are not at all bold. I've heard many insist the same in much bolder terms. In the first place we were trapped. The courses are mis-named the "Principles of Eco- nomics" which is a sloppy way of saying "Prin- ciples of Economic Theory." We don't want theory as much as we want and need to see our economic habitat-the place in which we will have to live after the four year inoculation. Certainly it is paradoxical that we had to put Iifecim'to Me Heywood Broun Jonah keeps coming up. Of all the prophets he appears to be the most popular. It could be pointed out that 1937 was certainly Jonah's year and he may win 1938 as well. The strength of this seafaring man lies in the fact that, even in the case of the whale, rejec- tion implied no lack of merit. Only the other day Jonah made the headlines through the efforts of a local preach- er. The clergyman in ques- tion undertook to prove the authenticity of the great ad- venture. And in reading the report of the Jonah sermon I was reminded that Clar- ence Darrow used the story of this stowaway to break the heart of William Jennings Bryan. Under a pitiless cross-exami- nation the commoner was compelled to admit that maybe it was not a whale. Still Mr. Bryan did hold put for a big fish, and in this respect he could not be moved or shaken. The preacher, who has just brought up the name of Jonah, undertook to win his case the hard way. Not only did he maintain the literal fidelity of the Old Testament tale, but he quoted from the Literary Digest to prove that one Bart- lett, an Australian, had gone through a similar experience within the last decade. Unfortunately I did not catch this account of Bartlett and the belly of the whale in the Digest. Possibly it was obscured by the poll which dem- onstrated that Landon would win by a landslide. * * * * . The One And Only Jonah Yet, in any case, I doubt the wisdom of the parson's tactic. As a Jonah fan I am jealous of his fame. Any good, clean fundamentalist can swallow Jonah whole, but it is too much to add Bartlett, the Australian, as an entree. One should get up from the table of miracles still feeling a little hungry. I respect His Majesty's colonials, and I have every faith that a functioning whale could keep an Australian on his stomach. And Jonah is quite secure in the minds of men, for the skeptics accept him readily enough by sprinkling a few grains of symbolism on his story. The Freudians have an extremely pat inter- pretation of the entire business. At the moment I forget the precise details, but I assume that the whale, for a time at least, was decidedly in- hibited. * * *I * His 4'Iodrn Application Every age and, indeed, every year has its place for Jonah. To me he seems much more an historical figure. To the very life he is the mod- ern liberal. And surely he stands first and fore- most among all those who have endeavored to bore from within. Moreover, Jonah was and is faithful to the technique of the isolationists if I understand their point of view. As far as I can gather, this sect contends that if you wish to demolish a mon- ster you must, without struggle or protest, per- mit him to swallow you. Indeed, some of the more passionate isolationists insist upon jump- ing down the throat of the whale. It is their notion that, like an army, liberalism must travel on its belly. And yet I wonder whether they do not betray the tradition of the prophet. It is recorded in the second chapter of the Book of Jonah that he was by no means dormant while within the whale. He was no neutral. On the contrary he protested and prayed "valiantly. He shouted aloud and said, "Yet I will look again." And eventually Jonah came to dry land, but not until he had cried with a mighty, though slightly muffled voice, "They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy." a pin factory to take the place of men. The cost of making pins is lowered. Presently com- petition (a sacred God) lowers the price of pins as the machine is generally adopted. Therefore house wives have more money to spend for silk stockings. Factories making stockings employ more help and no unemployment results." Q.E .: And all this was what? It was mis-direction of a criminal sort. It was saying to us, and it was said in effect many times, "--don't look at the ten million unemployed but look at what might happen if men were "Economic Men," (in the land of fancy!), and in the long run--Supply and Demand were equal and prices would repre- sent true value of the goods and the law of one price prevailed-etc.-etc.-etc." It was not only economics in reverse, but edu- cation hind-end first. And it still is. If educa- tors cannot seethrough to men standing in the bread line--and talk from the ground "up" (if they must go up), then do not let them hang out their shingle as educators.. In Economics 51 and 52 we were not told that the competitive system was not self corrective; that there was such a thing as over-production and under-consumption; that when prices are "too high" consumers have not the information to discriminate. We were not told that the pro- duction of automobiles fell 80 per cent while their price fell only 18 per cent. ,We were not told that 75 per cent of the 48 million gainful workers were dependent on someone else to give them a job. We were not told that unemployment meas- ured the ever-increasing maladjustment in our system. We were not shown that labor was us- ually given the commodity approach, rather than the human approach, nor that because labor can organize and complain, business wants as little of labor as possible. We were not shown that it may be profitable for employers to fire laborers, and cut off their income. No one told us how MUSIC By WILLIAM J. LICHTENWANGER University Symphony Thor Johnson, Conductor Joseph Brinkman, Pianist Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. Bach .......Prelude and Fugue in E minor (Transcribed by T. Steunenberg). Beethoven ....Concerto for Piano No. 4 in G major. Brahms......Symphony No. 2 in D major. As a iule, when we have discussed programskto be heard, our comments have taken the form of detached "notes" on each of the individual items on the program. This approach to writing "program notes" is at once the easiest and most obvious, because it requires no extended, uni fled treatment of material. It is al- ways easier to assemble a few facts concerning a given composition and characterize it with a few over-bur- dened adjectives and adverbs than to treat that composition as an or- ganic part of the program in its en- tirety-even though there is still a great range here for the proper se- lection of pertinent points, a selec- tion in which must be kept in mind the specific group for which one is writing as well as the subject of the notes. We have always tried to pre- sent our ideas in readable form and as free as possible from an over- abundance of confusing technical data, but we do not believe that it is possible to serve our artistic aims and at the same time pamper the musical indolence of a large, general public; therefore we have addressed ourselves to the interested and in- telligent few, musically speaking, rather than to the indifferent or mildly interested many. But there is a more unavoidable reason why the item-by-item method of program annotating is regularly used by all commentators: often it is the only possible approach. Why? Because so many programs in them- selves constitute not a unified, or- ganic whole, but a mere assemblage and juxtaposition of diverse musical works. Observe the programs of most singers, who, through a downright lack of taste or through a perverted notion of "pleasing the public," must sing' something from every musical period, every nationality, every school of composition-this regardless of whether or not certain compositions are suitable to their vocal abilities, personalities, a n d interpretative styles, and regardless of whether or not there is a sense of relationship and cohesion between the various numbers. DIFFERENCE IS SUPERFICIAL Too, we sometimes have programs in which the individual items may differ superficially but are essentially so much alike as to produce mon- otony. Where one or two extended, grandly developed compositions are concerned it is not hard to endure one prevailing style through a whole program, but with a variety of short- er works, causing a constant rise and fall-in interest and emotional inten- sity, there is a much greater need for more frequent variety of style. Pro- grams of the latter type can, of course, be discussed in almost any fashion, preferably en bloc. But those of the other, the over-varied type, cannot. And, as the latter is by far the more frequent, owing to the pre- vailing conception among so many artists that variety is the spice of art (which they forget is not show- manship), then often there is not much for the annotator to do but to fall back on the "This undelightful tuba septet was composed in 1891 when Bach was a cigar-maker in Singapore" sort of thing. So at last, after the manner of British wrtiers, we come to the point. Fortunately there are some programs heard occasionally that achieve that rara avis in art-the "happy medium" -in this case between the two ex- treme styles outlined before. Today we have as the text for our medita- tions one of these programs, de- scribed above, and one which to our mind comes as near being the per- feet program of its type as any we have seen. WORKS ARE ORIGINAL To be more specific, the program comprises compositions by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, the three men whom von Bulow grouped to- gether in a trite but significant phrase as the "three B's of classic- ism." Each work is the product of an original, powerful, and distinct musical genius, yet all three exempli- fy the same creative approach-an approach serious but not solemn; in- tense but not romantically passion- ate; light-hearted, optimistic at times, but never frivolous, dramatic without being theatrical, observing the loftiest ideals of pure, un-pro- grammatic music. All three are wrought with a similar degree of technical mastery, and have in com- mon a certain terseness of expres- sion and compactness of form. All three are inherently classical rather than romantic, are definite links in the continuous chain of music's de- velopment, but each possesses certain elements of freedom and uniqueness that proclaims it romantic and mod- ern in the freest sense. Exemplifica- tion would be easy, did space permit DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication 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. ii 1 (Continued from age 2)Y requirements as to traveling or loca- tion. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information, 2011 Mason Hall. Office Hours: 9-12t and 2-4. Students of the College of Litera- ture, Science and the Arts: A meet- ing will be held on Wednesday, March 30, at 4:15 p.m. in 255 W. Engineer- ing Bldg. for students in the Colleget of Literature, Science, and the Arts and others interested in future work in engineering. There will be an in- formal discussion of the profession with Dean H. C. Anderson of the Col- lege of Engineering as chairman. l Biological Station: Application forY admission for the coming summer session should be in my office before April 15 when all applications will be reviewed. An announcement describ- ing courses offered can be obtained atf the Office of the Summer Session or1 from the Director. ApplicationsC should be made on forms which can be secured at Room 1119 Nat. Sci. from 4 to 6 p.m. daily, or at Roomt 3089 Nat. Sci. from 8 to 4 daily. George R. LaRue, Director. Students of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts: A meet- ing will be held on Thursday, Marcht 31, at 4:15 p.m. in the University High School Auditorium for studentsP of thme College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and others interested in future work in the profession of teaching. The meeting will be addressed by Dean J. B. Edmonson of the School1 of Education. The next talk in this1 vocational series willbe given by Miss Marian Durell of the School of Nurs- ing on Tuesday, April 5.k Academic Notices Economics 173: Due to Chemical Engineering field trip, the sections will not meet on Friday, April 1. Bring practice sets to first meeting of class in the following week. R. P. Briggs.- English 2 and English 32 Assistant Professor Kenneth Rowe will not meef his classes today. Political Science 68. The class will not meet .today, but will mneet on Fri- day for lecture instead of discussion. Political Science 166 will not meet today. Concerts1 University Symphony Orchestra Concert: The University Symphonyt Orchestra, Thor Johnson, conductor,4 with. Joseph Brinkman, pianist, as soioist, will give a concert under thec auspices of the University School of Music Wednesday evening, March 30,1 at 8:30, in Hill: Auditorium, to which the general public is invited without admission char.ge. For obvious rea- sons small children will not be ad- mitted; and the public is requested to be seated on time. Exhibitions Exhibition, College of Architecture: Examples of engraving, typography,' printing. in black-and-white and color, details in the manufacturing of a book, and details in the design and make-up of a magazine. Shown thro', ghthe courtesy of The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Com- pany, Chicago. Ground floor cases, Architectural Building. Open daily 9 to 5, through April 7. The public is cordially invited. ,I Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Knut Lund-1 mark, Director of the Observatory of the University, Lund, Sweden, will give an illustrated lecture with lan- tern slides on "Distance Indicators and the Scale of, the External Uni- verse" on Thursday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Natural Science Auditorium under the auspices of the Depart- ment of Astronomy. The public is' cordially invited.' Prof. Howard S. Ellis will give the fourth lecture of the series sponsored by the Deutscher Verein on Thurs- day afternoon at 4:15 p.m. in Room 2003 Angell Hall. His topic is: "Erin- of Beethoven and the full-blooded, mellow - Brahmsian depth of expres- sion. Between the hint of pathetic struggle in the Bach and the gay vivacity of the Beethoven Finale, the vernal optimism of Brahms' Allegret- to. Perhaps. some would argue that this is not variety enough, that all three of the works are too "heavy,, and important to be included togeth- er as one program. Deems Taylor, speaking during the Philharmonic broadcastseveraltSundays agorcom- tpared the perfect musical program with the perfect meal-with its ap- petizers, salads, and desserts as well as the piece de resistance. It is a very - neat comnaison .and :mmrfie.fn11 nerungen an Wien." Everybody in- terested is invited to attend. University Lecture: Gunnar As- plunt, Professor of Architecture at the Stockholm Institute of Tachnol- ogy, will give an illustrated lecture, with slides, on "Swedish Architecture Since 1920; Its Problems and Trends" on Friday, April 1, at 4:15 p.m. in Natural Science Auditorium under the auspices of the College of Archi- tecture. The public is cordially in- vited. University Lecture: Professor Va- clav Hlavaty of the Karl University, Prague, will lecture on Friday, April 1, at 4:15 p.m., in Room 3011 Angell Hall on the subject, "New algorithms in differential geometry of projective curved spaces." Chemistry Lecture, Dr. E. Rabino- witch, of University College, London, formerly of Gottingen, will present a lecture on "Kinetics of Some Photo- chemical Reactions and the Photo- chemistry of Chlorophyll," under the auspices of the U. of M. Section of the American Chemical Society, on Friday, April 1, at 4:15 p.m., in Room 303' Chemistry Building. University Lecture: Dr. Oskar Mor- genstern, Professor of Economics, at the University of Vienna, will lecture on "Social Science in Europe" on Monday, April 4, in Natural Science Auditorium at 4:15 p.m., under the auspices of the Department of Ec- onomics. The public is cordially in- vited. University Lecture: Dr. Robert Freiherr ,on Heine-Geldern, of the University of Vienna, will give an il- lustrated lecture on "The Pre-Budd- histic Art of China and Indo-China and its Influence in the Pacific," on Tuesday, April 5, in Natural Science Auditorium at 4:15 p.m., under the auspices of the Division of Fine Arts. The public is cordially invited. Public Lecture: "The Artistic Rela- tions Between China and Persia" by Dr. M. Aga-Oglu. Illustrated with slides. Sponsored by the Research Seminary in Islamic Art. Monday, April 4, 4:15, in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hal. Admission free. Events Today University Broadast, Wednesday, 3-3:30 p.m. Class in Stage and Radio Diction, taught by G. E. Densnore, Associate Professor of Speech. . La Sociedad Hispanica will present the fifth lecture in its series today at 4:15 p.m. in 1025 Angell Hall. Pro- fessor Arthur S. Aiton will lecture (in English) on "The Spanish Con- quistador." Admission by ticket on- ly. All members are urged to attend. Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122 Chemistry Build- ing today at 4:15 p.m. Mr. Norman Bauer will speak on "Magnetochem- istry." Luncheon for Graduate Students today at 12 o'clock in the Russian Tea Room of the Michigan Leagu. Cafeteria service. Miss Sarah Chakko, graduate of the University of Madras, India, will speak informally on "The Present Political Situation in India." Botanical Seminar meets today at 4:30 p.m., Room 1139, N.S. Bldg. Paper by C. A. Arnold, "Studies of the Devonian flora of Northern Penn- sylvania and Southern New York." A.S.C.E. The annual spring initia- tion banquet and joint meeting with the Detroit Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers will be held tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Michigan Union. Capt. W. H. Adams from Detroit will be the principle speaker. The Freshmen Glee Club will meet Wednesday at 4:30. The Varsity Glee Club has invited the Freshmen Club to its rehearsal Thursday evening at 7:45. Important business will be dis- cussed at the time. University Girls' Glee Club: There will be a regular meeting tonight at the League at 7:15. All members must be present. Harris Hall: There wlil be a cele- bration of the Holy Communion at 7:15 a.m. this morning in the chppel. The Student Starvation Luncheon will be held at noon. All Episcopal students and their friends - are . cor- dially invited. "Sorrow:" Tennyson's "In Memor- iam" is to be the subject of Dr. W. P. Lemon's fifth Lenten lecture on "Moods of the Soul" at 7 o'clock at the First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw Avenue. .At .the supper, which precedes the lecture at 6up.m., recognition will be made of the splen- did work of the members of the choir and of Prof. E. W. Doty, (Director, who will be guests of honor. Phi Epsilon Kappa Frateriity: ...1 U