T H E' M IC I GA N D A I LY THURSlAY, APR TL 2,1,9I38 THE MICHIGAN DAILY -= 11 , 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 ThMember oft the Associated Press The 'Associated Press is excusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it 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 mall matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $400; by mal, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 RBPR6KNTO POW NATIONAL ADVERTINIG Y NationalAdvertisingService, Inc. Collage Publishers ReSresentative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CnCAo . OSTON - LOS ANGLEu - SA FRANCISCO Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR..............JOSEPH S. MATTES ASSOCIATE EDITOR ............TUURE' TENANDER ASSOCIATE EDITOR ...........IRVING SILVERMAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR...........WILLIAM C. SPALLER ASSOCIATE EDITOR............. ROBERT P. WEES WOMEN'S EDITOR............... HEELEN DOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR ..................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER ............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER .................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBRG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER.......BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER _ .MARGARET FERRIES 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 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. Preserve The Peace Committee ... 1TIS A COMMON CHARGE that peace groups expend more energy fighting each other than in fighting war. In order to escape this condition the United Peace Committee, a group broad enough to include all campus organizations interested in peace, was recently formed. The ideals of this group are admirable. Rep- resentatives from member organizations have expressed a willingness to support a general, comprehensive platform acceptable to all fac- tions in the peace movement. They planned to find points of agreement and to work to- gether with these as a common basis. The United Peace Committee was to be more than a federation; it was to be a Union. This Union, however, showed a tendency to totter when the Committee met Monday night. Voting on every question was by blocs-collective security advocates versus isolationists. Factions existed and it was impossible to ignore them. There is a grave possibility that the United Peace Committee will go the way of former peace councils, the way that commences with enthus- iasm, changes to indifference and ends with failure. Though a possibility, this is by no means a necessity. Tonight the United Peace Committee will meet to complete its plans for the Strike Against War to be held April 27. Upon the success of the strike depends the very life of this organization. If its members are sincerely interested in fur- thering peace work on this campus, personal differences must be submerged. There is no need for any one to sacrifice his principles. Through individual organizations it is possible to fight for the specific principles in which one believes. But to insure concerted peace work designed to appeal to the mass of the students, the United Peace Committee must be preserved. June Harris. Mr. Leacock's Model University. . . A CORRESPONDENT has drawn to our attention a rather inteersting and instructive paragraph from an article by Stephen Leacock, popular Canadian humorist, and incidentally a college professor, in the cur- rent issue of Harper's Magazine: "If I were founding a university-and I say this in all seriousness-I would found first a smoking room; then a dormitory. Students must live together in a rational and comfortable way. They must eat in a big hall, with oak beams across the ceiling and stained glass in the win- dows and a shield or tablet here and there upon the wall, to remind them of the men who went before them. Then, after the dormitories, when I had a little money in hand, I would establish a decent reading room and librapy. After that, if I still had some money I couldn't use, I would get some textbooks and hire a professor." We have certainly read of worse ways of going about founding a college. In fact some worse ones have been founded. Joseph Gies. The Editor Gets Tol..4 Concerning Whitney To the Editor: Your editorial concerning Whitney and Ma- honey was written no doubt to protest against what appeared to be a miscarriage of justice. Whitney embezzled some five million dollars and was committed to prison for a five to ten year sentence while Mahoney, caught in the act of stealing a paltry sum was tentensed for a term of 30-60 years. Your inference was obvious, that justice is tempered many times with qualities other than mercy. There is one fault, however, you lacked the complete set of facts. If the truth be known, this is the third time Mahoney has been convicted of attempted robbery at the point of a gun. He is what has been loosely termed, an habitual criminal. In case you are further in- terested, two of his girl friends who went along to participate actively in the fun were found guilty but given suspended sentences and ad- vised to be good little girls. In the future, before writing a defamatory article, it would be wise to check back upon all the facts.-WG. Against Our Policy To the Editor: Some months ago the Board inControl of Pub- lications required a now-familiar box to be print- ed below the Daily mast-head. This box con- veyed the information to the reader that the editorials expressed the views of the writers only. Several Forum letters were printed at that time bemoaning the Board's action, saying that it stifled freedom of the Press and cheapened the value of the editorials. The recent tenor of Daily editorials has shown the action of the Board to have been well taken. In a number of instances the writers have failed to attain an objective attitude which is ordinarily supposed to be a mark of the good editorial. If the members of the editorial staff cannot inject a certain amount of objectiveness into their edi- torials but insist on allowing their personal feel- ings to run rampant, their opinions should be relegated to The Forum column, there to struggle catch-as-catch-can, with the biased opinions of the unenlightened hoi-polloi. -Justus N. Baird, Jr., '38E. White Ma'sCollege? To the Editor: Illustrative Anecdotes CVIIX: The other day a notice appealing for funds for the relief and maintenance of stricken Chi- nese students was posted on the bulletin board of one of the sections of the Lawyers Club. Twenty minutes later, the notice, crumpled and discarded into the waste basket, had been' replaced by a note saying, "This is a white man's college." Twenty minutes later, the notice, retrieved from the basket and smoothed out, was again perched on the board, with this remark on the bottom, "This is a 'white' man's college." -B.W-. Syncopation By THOMAS McCANN Even after listening very carefully to Kay Kyser's recent broadcasts from the Blackhawk, we're still convinced that we definitely do not like his style of music. We're going to maintain our "narrow minded" standard of contempt on this sway business until next infinity. It's simply a matter of personal tastes. Some people, it's true, enjoy the music of Jan Garber, Guy Lombardo, Shep Fields, Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, the gentleman in question, and then there are still others, who love little snacks of gin and hot fish sandwiches. We, however, do not claim membership to any of these happy little groups. One little piece of interesting evidence we have in our favor is a recorded burlesque of the romantic groups (rippling rhythm, sway, sweetest music this side of heaven, etc.) made by an unnamed band for Victor. Its title is "Are All My Favorite Bands Playing or Am I Dream- ing?" and Mr. Kyser's musical mannerisms play a notoriously conspicuous part in the satire. * *:* And so. adding another adjective to the fire, not very good, really, but we'll change this later) we are further impressed with sway as being effeminate. It's rather difficult to believe that this differ- ence of opinion has created any manifestation of feeling at all. But the other day, we were talk- ing to one of our colleagues, and in the course of the conversation we said that Kyser was prob- ably the least offender in the sway division. This description, as the fates had it, was misunder- stood, and now the story is being frisked about the campus that we have called Kay Kyser "of- fensive." This is close but not exactly true. San Diego State College has extension courses il navigation and nautical astronomy. Sailors ahoy ! Radio Comedienne Gracie Allen is offering a bearskin prize as an Award of Ingenuity to the man graduating from college with the lowest marks. H-eywood Broun The publishers of Jim Cain's new novel, "Sere- nade," are endeavoring to create a rift among the reviewers by advertising both the critics who praised and those who deplored the manner and content of the book. That is fair enough. The promotors of the tale take the attitude that it is not theirs to say whether this is literature or not. They only insist that the story has compelling reader in- terest. This assertion I must support. Recently I lent "Serenade" to a young woman in a hospital, and when she finished it she passed it up and down the corridor. It wa her testi- mnony that even the night nurses remained awake to see how it all turned out. But for the fact that the - patient was an old friend of mine I would hardly have dared to make the timid proffer of this book, since it contains more scandalous material than is com- mon even in the later moods of candor. Indeed, Mr. Cain has accomplished the surprising trick of presenting a hero who is sometimes as hirsute as any Hemingway and, again, as unvirile, if such a word exists, as a plucked poodle. The protag- onist of the tragedy is an operatic star who sings both high or low in compatability with his conduct. * * * * An Old Puritan Streak As a serious work of art I think "Serenade" is worthy of no consideration, but it may be that I am too austere in judgment, since I was among the many who galloped through the book at one sitting and growled at those who suggested that it was time for me to chop the wood, cook the dinner or turn out the lights. Many years ago Jim Cain was nothing but a newspaper editorial writer. They didn't even assign him to any of the serious subjects. He, wrote the short, light pieces on Santa Claus and Southern cooking and the New Haven Railroad. Two hundred words was the most he was per- mitted to do at any one sitting. In private life he seemed morose. After dash- ing off one of his slight, frolicsome pieces he would come out to the city room and scowl at1 members of the working press who were engaged in setting down longer accounts of actual hap- penings. * * * * After Years Of Suppression Now it comes out that for years he lived under the strain of possessing a suppressed narrativet gift. Among youngish American authors (I; doubt that Cain is much over 5), he stands7 near the ton in the art of story telling. Somet day he may actually get hold of authentic material and be listed among important native writers. "Serenade" will bring him huge royalties, I am ce'rtain, but it would hardly be just to put a1 laurel wreath upon the package. The book re-t mains a shilling snocker, no matter how ex-t pertly it is put together.t Nevertheless, authors of more established im- portance should be humble enough to learn something from such a performance. Unfor- tunately, American literature, like the literature of all lands, is handicapped by the fact thatt writers who have something to say often don'tt say it very well, while others can start off with nothing more than an after-dinner storyf and knock your eye out by their skill in com- position. I want to be edified and instructed when I read, but I hate to pay the price of being bored at the same time. A serious theme can be done1 with all the pace of a pulp potboiler. It may even be that sooner or later Jim Cain himself will do it. Niemoller A ad The Nazis . . 7HE GERMAN JUDGES who recently tried Dr. Niemoller sentenced him to seven month's confinement in a fortress. It was taken that he had already served the period in the eight{ months' imprisonment before his trial and he was set free. The German secret police, not1 for the first time. were dissatisfied with Ger- man judges and immediately "adjusted" the verdict by rearresting the freed man on their own responsibility. They first said that this "protective custody"-against which there is no means of redress or repeal in Germany-was for the prisoner's own good. But the hollowness of that excuse is exposed by his being sent to Sachsenhausen, for it cannot be believed that the only place in Germany in which a man can be protected against fanatical assaults is a concen- tration camp. Dr. Niemoller left the court with honor unimpaired; he had been acquitted of the charge of "underhand attacks on state and party." That has not helped him. No doubt if he obeyed the promptings of his enemies he would promise to. speak no more, and after his release, retire into private life. It is not likely that he will agree to this. He does not share the Nazi theses that religious belief is a private matter or, in other words, that it should have no influence on public practice. The hardship he now endures, in defense of that religious toly eration which all believed Europe had won some centuries ago, must not be forgotten by the outside world. Sympathy for his lonely struggle need .ndt be expressed ineffectively in bitter at- tacks on a country which he served in war and FINLAND (From the Christian Science Monitor) As a boy I saw the Helsingfors of pre-war days, dominated culturally by Sweden and politically by Russia of which it was officially a Grand Duchy. In 1935 and again within the past few weeks I have seen this same city, now called by its ancient Finnish name, surging forward under its own power as the vigorous capital of a young republic which claims its full place in the sun, its full mem- I bership in the European family of nations. Helsinki is a splendid mod- ern city, a leader in democracy, a leader in education, a leader in ath- letic prowess, the capital of a coun- try which has been canny enough to pay its foreign debts and thus endear itself to a powerful fellow republic. A most impressive little city-little as capitals go-is this metropolis of the Finns. Entered by its Baltic door, by its airport, or by its world-famous railway station, masterpiece of Eliel Saarinen, an architect now well known in America, this "White City of the North" commands instant re- spect. One generally sees very dreary sections, if not downright slums, at the portals of any populous city, but Helsinki literally has no slums. The cooperative housing movement has been developed here with such amaz- ing success that the humblest work- er owns, in a sense, his abode, and consequently takes pride in its up- keep, a pride which is instinctive to the average Finn. '* 1 * Not Militant Helsinki is far less militant in its nationalism than many of Europe's new capitals and does not fling even its language, one of the most for- bidding in the world, into the faces of its guests, but it does grasp its destiny in both hands, without much shou~t- ing. The pace and vigor of this capital are stimulating. The double Esplanade, leading from the Market Square and harbor to the Swedish Opera House, is one of the half doz- en brightest avenues in Europe, but this brightness is not merely of laugh- ter, of well -orchestraed cafes and restaurants. It. is the brightness of hope and young ambition founded on education. Near the Esplanade are two of the greatest bookstores in Europe, for Finland, despite its small population, is keenly interested in books and what they contain. To wander through the Academy Book- store, with its 12 miles of shelves, is a revelation to the visitor. I think it is'fair to say that this store, though rivalled by a neighbor store almost as impressive, is approximately the equal in stock of Brentano's in New York, yet Helsinki claims only 290,- 000 population, nearly all of which speaks Finnish as its native tongue. It reads Swedish, English, French, German and perhaps other languages and the bookstore's international character is not the least of its won- ders. Helsinki boasts one structure, a hotel, of 14 stories, which it adver- tises lustily as a "skyscrapa" and there, on recent occasions, I have made my Finland headquarters. It is called "Torn," which means The Tower and its two top stories are a glass-enclosed restaurant and an open-air cafe. Being on a hill to start with this Tower commands a magnificent view of the capital. One may "eat around the compass," fac- ing a different quarter of the city for each meal. And what a city. Circled by the sea on three sides, abounding with fine buildings and impressive churches, two of the most conspicu- ous being of domed Russian design though one of them is now Lutheran, lightened by much granite, pink and gray, and much soft-hued stucco, it makes a sight to warm one's spirit as one wades into the delicious intrica- cies of the Torni's smorgasbord, a Swedish influence which independent Finland has done well to retain. Ote 'Skyscrapa' The Finnish Diet Building, con- spicuous in a northern quarter of the city, is quite the equal of Cuba's Capitolio in Havana, which means that no parliamentary building in the world can surpass it in grandeur. Sometimes a great building is com- paratively empty of achievement but this is not so in the case of Finland's vast granite house of legislation. The Big Session Hall furnishes many a scene of purposeful striving toward Finland's destiny. Behind the two speakers' tribunes is a curious gilded statue, heroic size, of a mother with a babe in her arms. The mother presents her back to the diet mem- bers and she is obviously walking away from them. She, we are told, is; symbolical of the past, the babe be- ing a symbol of the future, At their desks, ranged in tiers above a circular table in the center of the hall, the legislators, eight of whom speak Fin- nish to one who speaks Swedish, are seated ready to vote by electricity on measures under debate. The speeches. must be in Finnish. They may also be in Swedish. Two buttons are at each desk before a tiny electric lamp. One is marked Jaa (Yes) the other Ei (No). Despite two languages- and seven parties, of which SociallDemocrats and Agrarians ar~e usually the most (Continued Irom Page 2) Legal Investigator (Male), $2,400 a year; Experience required. Cable Splicer Apprentice, Salary at 'Prevailing Rate'; Seasonal Employ- ment. For further information, please call at the office, 201 Mason Hall. University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Infor- mation. Academic Notices Sociology 51, make-up midsemester examination, Saturday, April 23, at1 2 p.m., Room D, Haven Hall. Sociology 163, make-up hour ex- amination, Saturday, Aprl 23, at 2 p.m., Room D, Haven Hall. Summer Session, College of Archi- tecture: The following architectural courses will be offered during the coming summer session: Arch. 2, 5, and 6; Assistant Profes- sor Brigham. Arch. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 105; Asso- ciat Professor Troedsson Decorative Design courses will be offered as follows: D.D.1; Assistant Professor Brig- ham. D.D.2, 4, 5, and 31; Assistant Pro- fessor Fowler. D.D. 37; Associate Professor Troed- sson. Courses in Outdoor Drawing and 'Painting, Draw. 24s and 30s, will be given by Associate Professor Slus- ser Professors Brigham, Fowler, and Slusser may be consulted at their offices in the Architectural Building. Those interested in Professor Troed- sson's courses may inquire at the of- fice of the College, Room 207. Concerts Graduation Recital. Jane Vaugan Schwab, pianist, from Holland, New] York, student of Professor Joseph] Brinkman, will give a graduation re- cital Friday evening, April 22, at] 8:15 o'clock in the School of Music Auditorium on Maynard Street, to which the general public is invited. Exhibition An Exhibition of paintings by Er- nest Harrison Barnes and of paint- ings and pastels by Frederick H. Ald- rich, Jr., both of the faculty of the College of Architecture, is presented by the Ann Arbor Art Association in the North and South Galleries of Alumni Memorial Hall, April 18F through May 1. Open daily includ- ing Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m., ad- missin free to students and mem- bers. Exhibition, College of Architecture: Drawings submitted by students in painting, sculpture, architecture and landscape design, working in colla- boration, in competition for prize awarded by the Association of the Alumni of the American Academy in Rome. Third floor exhibition room. Open daily 9 to 5, through Friday, April 22. The public is cordially in- vited. Lecture University Lecture: Miss Marjorie, Daunt, Reader in English Language,1 University of London, and Visiting Lecturer, Smith College, will lecture "The English Accent-What Is It?E How Is It?" on Thursday, April 28, at 4:15 p.m. in Natural Science Audi-] torium under the auspices of the Department of English. The public is cordially invited. Lecture, College of Architecture: Mr. William A. Kittredge, of Thei Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley . Sons Company, Chicago, will give a talk, illustrated with slides, on print- ing. This is in connection with the Company's exhibit shown in the ground floor corridor cases. Ground floor lecture room, Architectural Building. Friday, April 22, at 3:00. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Professor Bar- ker Fairley of the University of Tor- onto will give a lecture in English on "Goethe and Frau von Stein," on .Wednesday, May 4, at 4:15 Natural Science. The public is cordially in- vited. Geology Lecture. Dr. W. E. Powers, Department of Geology 4nd Geog-, raphy of Northwestern University, will speak on "Physiography of South l Park, Colorado" today at 4 p.m. in 2054 Natural Science. Wildlife Lecture: Mr. Stanley P. Young, Chief of the Division of Pre- dator and Rodent Control, U.S. Bu- reau of Biological Survey, will give an illustrated lecture on the cougar in northern Mexico at 10 a.m., Mon- day, April 25, in the Natural Science Auditorium. All students in the School of Forestry and Conservation: are expected to attend, and any others interested are cordially invited. - T;_ -.&-t-- I _- . lumination on reproduction in Pero- myscus leucopus noveboracensis" to- night at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2116 N.S. Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences: There will be a meeting of the University of Michigan Student [Branch of the Institute of the Aero- nautical Sciences tonight at 7:30 { p.m. in Natural Science Auditorium. A moving picture entitled "A Visit to Langley Field" will be shown, giv- ing a pictorial description of the aeronautical research activities of the United States government. All those interested in aeronautics are cordial- ly invited to attend. Engineering Open House: All men meet your department heads at 7:30 p.m. tonight. See Professor Emswil- er's Bulletin Board for assigned meeting rooms. Women's Debate Tournament: The first debates of the tournament are scheduled for 4:15 p.m. today. All debates are on the question of the advisability of the proposed United States military preparedness pro- gram. The public is invited. Room 1035 A.H. Alpha Chi Omega, Aff. Delta Gamma, Neg. Room 2014 A.H. Delta Delta Del- ta, Aff. Alpha Xi Delta, Neg. Room 1209 A.H. League House In- dependents, Aff. Delta Gamma, Neg. Room 1025 A.H. Mosher, Aff. Jor- dan, Neg. Room 2013 A.H. Kappa Kappa Gamma, Aff. League House Inde- pendents, Neg. Room 2029 A.H. Collegiate Sorosis, Aff. Chi Omega, Neg. Room 2016 AH. Alpha Epsilon Phi, Aff. Ann Arbor Independents, Neg. The International Relations Club will meet this evening at 7:30 pm. at the Michigan League. Dr. M. Goldhaber of the Cavendish Laboratory, England will speak on Recent Work in the Cavendish Lab- oratory, at 4:15 in Room 1041 East Physics Building today. All members of the Freshman Glee Club are asked to report to the reu- lar Varsity rehearsal, Thursday at 7:30. Congress: There will be a meeting of the Executive Council tonight at 7 p.m. in Room 306 of the Union. Coming Events Graduate History Club: Meeting Sunday, April 24, 4-6 p.m. at the Michigan League. Mrs. Adams will speak on "Ma- terials and Research in Michigan History." Constitution to be amend- ed. Refreshments. Free to members. Deutscher Verein: Meeting Thurs- day, April 28 at 4:15 in Room 2003 Angell Hall. Professor Harold A. Basilius of Wayne University will speak on "Die Deutschen im Staate Michigan." Everybody interested is invited to attend. The students and faculty of the University are invited to attend the sessions of the Educational Confer- ence on the Real Estate Market to be held Friday, April 22, in the morning, afternoon, ad evening, at the Michi- gan Union. Speakers of national prominence will discuss various aspects of the real estate market. The conference is sponsored jointly by the Michigan Real Estate Association and the School of Business Administration. The registration fee will be waived for faculty and students of the Uni-. versity, although they are requested to register as a matter of recod. Copies of the program are available in Room 208, Tappan Hall. Foreign Student Tour: Due to the fact that the Detroit Zoological Park does not open until May 30, the trip scheduled by the International Coiin- cil for Saturday, April 23, has been cancelled. German Play: The Deutscher Vere- in of the University of Michigan pre- sents Hermann Bahr's "Das Kon- zert," Monday, April 25 at 8:30 pm. at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Tickets are available at the German Department Office and at the theatre box office. A.S.M.E. Members: All members of the A.S.M.E. are urged to ielp the committee in charge of the Open House. If you have any free time at all Saturday, April 30, please sign immediately the list on the bulletin board near the Mechanical Engineer- ing Office, Room 221, W. Eng. Bldg. The Graduate Outing Club will meet at Lane Hall at 2:45 Sunday and will go for a hike. All graduate students are welcome. The Girls' Cooperative House at 517 East Ann, will hold an open house Sunday, April 24, from 4 to 6. All those interested in living in the house next year are cordially invited. 4 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulictin is c'onstructive not Ice 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. A 4