PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MARC 31, 143S At THE MICHIGAN DAILY. N~ -y .j.{' *EIi . F G, - of. AJ1 dT UNA aNum-..v Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to 4it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $400 by mail, $450. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 R3RRNNTD PO!O NATIONAL ADVRTIING BY NationalAdvertisingService, Inc. Cllege Pulshers Rejrsentatie 420 MADISON AV. NEW YORK. N. Y. CNICAro . 1OTO- - LOS AeGELES- SAN FNA1CIC Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR .............JOSEPH S. MATTES ASSOCIATE EDITOR ............TUURE TENANDER ASSOCIATE EDITOR ............IRVING SILVERMAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR ...........WILLIAM C. SPALLER ASSOCIATE EDITORt.............ROBERT P. WEEKS WOMEN'S EDITOR...............HELEN DOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR ....................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER...........ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAER "..................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER .MARGARET FERRIES 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 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. In Answer To A Reader... A CONTRIBUTOR has written in to- day's Forum column that he is "as- tounded" at our "audacity" in not printing an earlier contribution of his to the Forum column. We willingly allow for his astonishment and proffer our apologies, but at the same time w7 assure our readers that this contributor's earlier complaint would have been printed sometime this week. His complaint was not printed immediate- ly upon its receipt simply because there were, in our opinion, more timely controversies at that moment. But we do not mean to allow all that he has said of the Daily. If he were to criticize us for negligence he would have been on firm ground, for we readily admit that at times we are careless. . Indeed every newspaper is guilty of carelessness, and if we are more liable than others it is because we are not professional news- papermen hired for full-time work. But he was seeing bogey men under the bed when he accused us of a "biased, partial, obscurantist pol- icy." Such a policy is not caused by carelessness but rather by unscrupulous editors, and it is a deliberate policy. We firmly deny that the Daily has purposely withheld any news which the editors thought should be property of the student body. And we are astonished that the news columns of the Daily should be compared to those of the Chicago Tribune. Finally, we come to the Catholic Church. Per haps we read thoughts into this letter that do not exist. That Catholic priests are sometimes criticized for supporting causes that we con- sider ill-advised does not mean that we are anti-Catholic. It simply means that we tread across religious lines without bias in the deter- mination of our policies. We think that is as it should be., Joseph S. Mattes. The President's Reorganization Bill .. . CLASSICS of newspaper propaganda have been written in the last few days against the Reorganization Bill. The prop- aganda ranges from the subtleties of re-writing Associated Press stories and using such phrases as putting the civil service administration "under the thumb of the President," to scarehead head- lines screaming "Dictator Bill Passed." Perhaps the most irritating of the finely drawn figures of speech currently being used is the simile of the Supreme Court proposal which in- ferentially or explicitly is being dragged in by the ears to show that reorganization is but an- other step of the Roosevelt administration toward dictatorship. a Whatever else the Supreme Court plan was, the reorganization bill is merely a measure to sim- plify the loosely thrown together structure of federal administration. results of his re-organization to Congress, which can veto the bill within a period of sixty days. Third, Congress could veto any provision of the bill effectively by its power to grant or refuse appropriations. Fourth, the President can not abolish an existing function of An agency though he may abolish the agency. On ,specific measures opposition to the bill has centered around the provisions abolishing the office of Comptroller General and incor- porating the functions of the Comptroller in the office of the Director of the Budget; and abolish- ing the present three-member Civil Service Com- mission in favor of a Civil Service Administration headed by one administrator who will be as- sisted by a seven-man civil service advisory board. As Prof. George C. S. Benson of the Bureau of Government pointed out in an article in Tues- day's Daily, the setting up of a Comptroller General with power to pass on all administrative expenditures was an infringement on executive responsibility in the first place and an infringe- ment which the theory of separation of powers could not justify. A Hybrid Amalgamation As it stands at present, the office of the Comp- troller General is a hybrid of legislative and executive functions. The comptroller performs the function of auditing and that of day-to-day control of administrative expenditures. As a con- sequence of the improper separation of duties, he could make an independent audit of his own executive orders. Under the.reorganization plan, the audit func- tion would be vested in the Auditor General, directly responsible to. Congress. The day-by- day control of expenditures would be given to an executive office in the executive branch of the government where it properly belongs. The Civil Service change is opposed vehement- ly, because it means "too much centralization." This phrase has become a convenient shibboleth to brandish about in the last few years. What is usually meant by this phrase used in con- nection with the reorganization bill, we may infer, is that the President would wield a vast patronage power, and the spoils systems would flourish with renewed vigor. That, at least, is the impression which we believe opponents of the bill would wish to convey. Under the present set-up the President could wipe out all three members of the Civil Service Commission and appoint anybody he desires. These Commissioners serve only at the Presi- dent's pleasure. What greater power could the President or any other President ask for? Chosen By Examination The reorganization bill as it now stands would have the civil service administrator chosen by competitive examinations. His office would be purely administrative. Supposedly, he would be a man amply qualified for handling this highly specialized and technical task.. Another check would appear to exist in the advisory commission of seven members which would aid the administrator, but which would be empowered also to investigate and report on his policies. Professor Benson, in the Daily article prev- iously mentioned, pointed out that in the past the Commission has not performed its functions well. Its examinations were not up to the calibre of a dozen of the better personnel agencies in the country, he said; its classifications have been haphazard and allocation of specific positions to classes blindly carried out. In addition the very fact that the Commission has been-a full- time body with three members who divided up the work has precluded careful consideration of the Commission's policies as a whole. The present proposal, so bitterly being debated should do away with these faults. The clue to the opposition of politicians ,at least to this specific proposal, may be contained in the distinction between what impression they wish to convey by their opposition and what the real purpose of that opposition is. Would Reduce Patronage The easily inferred meaning is that the Pres- ident would wield extraordinary patronage pow- ers. The real meaning may be that civil service administration reform as embodied in the pres- ent bill will sound one of the first notes of doom to the spoils system in the federal govern- ment. ,The civil service administrator is authorized to develop, expand, and revamp the present civil service set-up. The President is also given the authority to extend the classified service. Be- cause of the power vested here, 200,000 employes not now in the civil service classified service would be placed therein. Furthermore, the President would receive the power to classify, ac- cording to civil service standards, positions which are not now classified by standards under the, classification act of 1923. This means that var- ious government corporations would thus be made subject to possible civil service laws and' the classification act, according to the semi- official summary of the Bill as it passed the Senate. How many employes would come under the classified service under this provision is hard to estimate, but the number is large when one takes into consideration the different kinds of government corporations which exist at the present time such as the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration, the Federal Savings and Loan Insur- ance Corporation, the Federal Farm Mortgage and Commodity Credit Corporations. Perhaps ii the opposition of some Democrats this fact that their own patronage will be measurably cut is not an unimportant factor determining their opposition. Albert Mayio. THE FORUM Here It Is To the Editor: What does it take to get a letter printed in your Forum? Whatever it takes, I obviously haven't got it. Perhaps the letter which I wrote you last week was too critical of your policies, too many worlds removed from your point of view to be worthy of notice. What I only suspected before has now been confirmed by your refusal to print my letter. For my criticism of your biased; partial, obscurantist policy evidently touched a very tender spot. Can it be that bigotry has raised its ugly head in of all places, the center of culture and enlightenment, the Michigan cam- pus? And in of all places on this campus, in the editorial office of the "liberal," "progressive" Daily. Perish the thought! Perhaps I am too harsh. Perhaps you have really had no room in your columns for my letter, on a subject of really no consequence anyway. Perhaps my letter was lost during the hurry and scurry of getting out the Daily, inadvertent- ly pushed off the desk by an editorial elbow into the editorial wastebasket. Or perhaps the post- man dropped it in the Maynard Street gutter on his way to the publications office. Or maybe the sorting-clerk downtown could not read my type- writing. Someone should speak to Jim Farley about the inefficiency of his postal civil-servants. If any of these possibilities is true, I humbly apologize for all the unkind things I have said, and for my nasty temper. But you can make amends partially by print- ing this letter. I demand that you print it! I demand that you print it now, in toto, and in pristine condition. I demand my right as a Michigan student to have my opinion-that of a' large number of Michigan students, I am sure -published in the organ of the students, The Michigan Daily. It is the duty of all of us to see that our paper-if I may use that term -prints the truth, all of the news; and that our paper prints it fairly and objectively, whatever its editorial policy may be. Fortunately, I was careful enough to provide for the contingency which I never really thought would arise, by keeping a copy of my letter. My naive eyes have been opened to the actual con- dition which must exist in a great part of our national press, and I am astounded at your audacity. I never before realized how easy it is to miscolor and distort the news, not even when I have occasionally read the Chicago Tribune. Anyway, here is my letter of March 25, last Friday: "I was very much disappointed but not, I must confess, greatly surprised that not a word has appeared in the Daily concerning an important piece of international news this week (now last, week), a story which was featured both in radio newsbroadcasts and on the front pages of such papers as The New York Times and, Herald Tribune. (I might add now that the report was also carried by The Associated Press, The United Press, and The International News Service, and even by the lowly Detroit papers). I refer to the urgent plea issued by Pope Pius to General Fran- co to use moderation in air raids and to cease the useless slaughter of civilians. My disap- pointment was increased by the recollection that last fall the Daily had featured, with a picture of His Holiness, the erroneous Associated Press. story that missionaries in China had been or- dered to support the Japanese invasion. But my regret of The Daily's failure to present a true picture of the Church's position on international affairs was mitigated by the conviction that of course it was not intentional." Now you might do a little explaining. Why did you not print this story in the first place? And why did you ignore my letter? I am sure many of us are curious. I am anyway. -Robert G. Walker, Grad. THEATR E By EDITH FOLKOFF high Tor' "High Tor" is the third Broadway success which Play Production has enabled us to see this year. Anderson's play has the additional distinction of having won the Drama Ci'itics' Award, as well as being by far the most pre- tentious. One feels that the best things about it are those which the dramatist himself would con- sider the least important. The scenes of whim- sical humor arising from farcical situations are very pleasant. The satirical characterizations of the materialistic business men, and the lusty wraith of the Dutch sailor, are sharp and amus- ing. But, both as drama and as poetic drama, the play is decidedly inferior. What might have been a lively farce has been turned into one more item to support the widespread legend that Max- well Anderson is a dramatist worthy of respect. In the startling discovery that civilizations come and go, Mr. Anderson has found the ma- terial for a two-hour excursion into pseudo- philosophy, conveyed through dialogue which, by a consistent looseness of diction and a gen- eral wistfulness of tone, aspires to be poetry. Play Production has made the best of the bad bargain. Oren Parker's set succeeds admirably in creating the required atmosphere of mixed fact and fantasy on Mr. Anderson's symbolic mountain. Mr. Windt has given pace to what It Seems To Me By HEYWOOD BROUN Among recently proposed policies is the suggestion that the United States should turn its back on Europe, and that we should limit our international attention to Central and South America. I am against the first proposal, but that is a long argument which can be carried on later. I am wholly in favor of closer relations and a more intimate acquaintance with our neighbors. Secretary Hull and Presi- dent Roosevelt have done an excellent I job in the matter of reconciling the Latins of the local map who lie down under. But it seems to me that this should be supplemented by the news- papers of the United States. Traveling columnists quite fre- quently do pieces on the harbrr of Rio and the night life of Buenos Aires. And Mexico is not exactly neglected in our news columns. And yet it seems to me that we are insufficiently educated. Ecuador, for instance, is merely a green splotch in the atlas as far I'm concerned. Perhaps it's pink. The fault may well be my own. All I know is what I read in the maga- zine sections 'of the Saturday and Sunday newspapers. Bolivia and Paraguay waged a war, but for the life of me I could not tell the issue upon which the conflict hinged. Possibly neither Paraguay nor Bolivia could. Still, I would have appreciated having had a shot of it. The Itch For Wisdom The politics of the Southern Hem- isphere are undoubtedly complicated. They may be cross-hatched by as many lanes as intersect the New Deal. And even so, I think it is an error of newspaper judgment to have our own papers play up the backstairs gossip of Rumania and leave out all the top soil of Peru. As things stand now, many of the South American coun- tries feel a closer kinship with Ger- many or Italy than with the United States. It must be that we are stupid to allow our first cousins to be cut away from us in that manner. The remedy lies with our press and radio rather than with our govern- ment. Specifically, I think that there should be something similar to the Rhodes Scholarship set up. And even more important there might well be, after the university precedent, an ex- change of newspaper men whereby American reporters would go rolling down to Rio, and Brazilian girls and boys would come here to cover our tall buildings, night clubs and Congress- men. Decidedly I nominate myself as one receptive candidate. Nothing would give me greater joy than to start columns beginning, "Lima," "Montivideo" or "Quito." Quite palp- ably I am not the type. Of Spanish I have none, and it is extremely doubtful whether I will ever learn any more than the minimum require- ment imposed by the United States Marines. Work In Other Lands According, to a sergeant from "the halls of Montezuma" all one needs on foreign service is an acquaintance with three phrases. He listed them as "How much?" "Give me a plate of ham and eggs" and 'Do you love me, kid?" I think I could get by with no more than two of the three essen- tials. The price of commodities has never seemed to me to be very im- portant. Nevethereless, when younger and better men are sent I will make no protest. I am arguing for a principle rathen than a cruise. The propagan- da of Mussolini and of Hitler already begins to ascend the Amazon. We have a good story to tell on our own account, and it should not go by de- fault. In fact, I am minded to make an extremely practical suggestion to the State Department in Washington. If the responsibility for closer South American relations were mine I would not name any of the brilliant career men in the government service. Nor would I pick a newspaper man. My choice as an itinerant ambas- sador of good will to Latin America would be Jack Dempsey. After all, Luis Firpo, of the Argentine, smashed him through the ropes and he even- tually knocked out the "Wild Bull of the Pampas." This should establish the beginning of wisdom and assure mutual respect and admiration. Judith, similarly exaggerated her de- livery. William Halstead and William Rice, as the two representatives of the civ- ilization next to fall to ruins, were very effective. The minor roles were consistently well-played. The one significant fact which has come out of Play Production's sea- son so far, is the unquestionable su- periority of Norman Rosten's "Thi Proud Pilgrimage," over the the- atrical hits imported from New York. The fact that Play Production i forced, by the conditions under which it now operates, to expend its talentt on guaranteed succ esses, no matter what their quality, akes the need private homes and wish to attend the d Installation Banquet at the League c must leave their names and the v amount for the ticket at the League Desk before Saturday. They will be included in the Ann Arbor Indepen- o dent group. 8 t Exhibitions 3 Exhibition, College of Architecture: m Examples of engraving, typography, T printing in black-and-white and w color, details in the manufactring b of a book, and details in the design and make-up of a magazine. Shown thro'igh the courtesy of The Lakeside P Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Com- E pany, Chicago. Ground floor cases, G Architectural Building. Open daily p 9 to 5, through April 7. The public b is cordially invited.-l E Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Knut Lund- m mark, Director of the Observatory of R the University, Lund, Sweden, t ill i give an illustrated lecture with lan- b tern slides on "Distance Indicators and the Scale of the External Uni- verse" on Thursday, March 31, at 8 a p.m. in Natural Science Auditorium under the auspices of the Depart- ment of Astronomy. The public is TI cordially invited. -w la Prof. Howard S. Ellis will give the fourth lecture of the series sponsoredM by the Deutscher Verein on Thurs- day afternoon at 4:15 p.m. in Room g 2003 Angell Hall. His topic is: "Erin- s nerungen an Wien." Everybody in- t terested is invited to attend. i v University Lecture: Gunnar As- plund, Professor of Architecture at the Stockholm Institute of Tchnol- 6 ogy, will give an illustrated lecture, with slides, on "Swedish Architecture wl Since 1920; Its Problems and Trends" e on Friday, April 1, at 4:15 p.m. ine Natural Science Auditorium under the auspices of the College of Archi- tecture. The public is cordially in- t vited. b U 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 m Hall on the subject, "New algorithms l in differential geometry of projective A curved spaces." f v Chemistry Lecture, Dr. E. Rabino- t witch, of University College, London, formerly of Gottingen, will present a lecture on "Kinetics of Some Photo- 2 chemical Reactions and the Photo- 1 chemistry of Chlorophyll," under the b auspices of the U. of M. Section of a the American Chemical Society, on Friday, April 1, at 4:15 p.m., in Roomi 303 Chemistry Building. S a University Lecture: Dr. Oskar Mor- 'l genstern, Professor of Economics, at the University of Vienna, will lecture on "Social Science in Europe" ont Monday, April 4, in Natural Science r Auditorium at 4:15 p.m., under the g' auspices of the Department of Ec- A onomics. The public is cordially in-- vited. University Lecture: Dr. Robert 1 Freiherr von Heine-Geldern, of the R University of Vienna, will give an il- d lustrated lecture on "The Pre-Budd- t histic Art of China and Indo-China p and its Influence in the Pacific," on Tuesday, April 5, in Natural Science Auditorium at 4:15 p.m., under the n auspices of the Institute of Fine Arts.b The public is cordially invited. c Public Lecture: "The Artistic Rela- tions Between China and Persia" byu Dr. M. Aga-Oglu. Illustrated with slides. Sponsored by the Researchc Seminary in Islamic Art. Monday, April 4, 4:15, in Room D, Alumnie Memorial Hall. Admission free. Events Today d University Broadcast, Thursday, 3- t 3:30 p.m. Amateur Theatre Series. r Topic: Problems of the High Schoola Stage. Frederic O. Crandall, Teach- ing Fellow in Speech and Generalt Linguistics. 4:45-5 p.m. University Carillonk Concert, Wilmot Pratt, Carillonneur. The Psychological Journal Clubk will meet at '7:30 p.m. today in Room 1121 Natural Science Bldg. Dr. Ed- ward Raney of the Institute of Hu- man Adjustment will discuss Electro- encephalography. All those interest- ed are cordially invited to attend. The International Relations Clubk s oo Lecture Nets $250 For Chinese s Z .Proceeds from the lectureiby Dr. sT. Z. Koo totalled $250, leaving $750 r yet to be collected in the $1000 cam- d pus drive for funds to aid students in (Continued from Page 2) 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 0 ntii 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. 'ill meet on Thursday evening at :30 at the Michigan League. Stu- ents who are interested in discussing urrent international affairs are in- ited to be present. Scimitar: There will be a meeting f Scimitar in the Union tonight at- o'clock. All members are expected o be present. Cercle Francais:. There will be a eeting of the Cercle Francais 'hursday at 8 at the League. There rill be a musical program. All mem- ers are urged to attend. Engineering Mechanics Seminar: rofessor J. Ormondroyd, "Vibration ampers" with demonstration. Lloyd . Berryman, "Fatigue of Metals in ress-Fit Assemblies." Refreshments etween the papers. Meeting prompt- y at 4:15 p.m. today. Room 312West :ngineering Annex. Scabbard and Blade: Important neeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the .O.T.C. class room in the Engineer- ng Annex. All active members must e present. Crop and Saddle ride Today: Meet t 5 o'clock at Barbour Gym. Men's Glee Club: Regular rehearsal 'hursday evening, 7:30. The club ill sing for the Union Open House ater on in the evening. Radio Club will meet Thursday, Aarch 31, in Room 323 of the Michi- an Union. Stocker Sturgeon will de- cribe the Ann Arbor Police radio sys- em. After the meeting the club will nspect the station. Everyone is in- ited. "High Tor" Only a few seats still vailable at the box office. Phone 300. Play Production presents Max- tell Anderson's modern poetic com- dy tonight, Fridayeand Saturday venings at the Mendelssohn Theatre. Swimming, Women Students: Due o the Union Open House, there will e no swimming for women at the nion Pool on Thursday evening. Coming Events Mr. H. B. Allen will speak on "Se- mantics" at the meeting of the Eng- ish Journal Club, Friday afternoon, kpril 1, at 4 p.m., in the League. The aculty, guests, and members are in- ited to attend and to participate in he discussion. The Outdoor Club: Saturday, April Canoeing. Meet at Lane Hall at :45. All students and faculty mem- ers who like to canoe are invited to ttend. Sunday, April 3. Bicycle Breakfast n cooperation with the Campus Bike hop. Meet at the Campus Bike Shop t 8 a.m. Make reservations by Sat- irday noon by calling 3035. The Graduate Outing Club will go o Camp Newkirk on Sunday after- noon for hiking and supper. The roup will meet at Lane Hall at 2:45. Al1 graduate students are welcome. International Party: Foreign stu- ents are reminded that the second game party will be held at 8 p.m. in Room 316, Michigan Union, on F$- lay, April 1. American students in- erested in the International Council program are invited. Roger Williams Guild at 8 p.m. to- morrow will hold its last open house before Spring Vacation. Detective caps will be in order on April 22. Physical Education for Women: Registration for the outdoor season will take place on Friday, April 1 from 8 to 12 and 1:30 to 4:30, and Saturday, April 2 from 8 to 12. All students taking required physical education should register at this time. Badminton Test: Any woman stu- dent wishing to take the badminton test should report at. Barbour Gym- nasium on Friday, April 1 between 3 and 5:30 p.m. Riding Test: Students wishing to take the riding test should leave their name and telephone number at Bar- bour Gymnasium, Office 15, and be ready to ride at 4:15 on Monday, April 4. Riders should meet at Bar- bour Gymnasium (main entrance) and tests will be given even though the weather may be inclement. Congress. All Independent Men who wish to compete in the all-campus swim meet at the Intramural pool this evening at 7:30 p.m. may do so by registering during the day at con- gress' office in Room 306 of the Union from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. or by signing up at the bulletin board at the Intramural building. Each mem- ber of a winning district will receive an award as well as each individual winner. The events will include a 200 yard free style relay, 50 yard breast stroke, 50 yard free style, 220 yard free style, 50 yard back stroke,