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MATTES ASSOCIATE EDITOR .............TUURE ENANDER 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. ONES OiREDIT MANAGER ................DON WILSHER ADVERTISINGMANAGER....NORMANB.STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ..:...'..BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT PERLMAN 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. Are You Satisfied.. . IF THE SAMPLING of campus opinion taken in preparation for the Spring Parley this week end be correct, and all previous experience with the method used indicates that the error is small, 41.1 per cent of the students. at the University are dissatisfied with the edu- cation they are getting from their courses. The{ challenge to the University system in general and to the faculty in particular is obvious. Volunteer workers, under the direction of the Student Religious Association and the Spring Parley committee, interviewed 539 students-a five per cent cross section of the campus - in obtaining these results. The students were chosen at random but in proportign to the en- rollment of both sexes in the various schools and colleges of the University. The method is that used by Dr. George Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion. Why does this dissatisfaction exist? The answer to this question we shall not know accur- ately until a new and detailed sampling of opin- ion is taken on this problem alone. But this afternoon at the Union in the vicinity of five hundred students will gather to discuss what they have found unsatisfactory in the University set-up. And if the attendance is similar to that at last year's Spring Parley these five hundred will be among the most in- tellectually alive on the campus. Is it a reading period the forty per cent de- sire? Do they want to "liquidate" the lecture system, compulsory class attendance, examina- tions? Do they want a common two years for all students, saving specialization for the junior year? Do they feel that the classics are being neglected, that learning is restricted too much to text books, or that the sciences are being taught for specialists and that the relation to other studies is not made clear? Here then, at the Parley, is an opportunity for facuty mien to learn what the students really think of the instruction they have been handing out. Today at the Parley there will be an oppor- tunity for the students in some degree to mould the type of education they get. Almost eighty per cent of the student body believe there is a need for more opportunities for friendly relations with the faculty, if the poll be accurate. The Parley will provide a fine opportunity for informal faculty-student relations. S. R. Kleiman. both to prosper within its walls, it injects into higher learning an imperative enzyme. The masses and the leaders may both be educated and without detriment to either. By instituting dif- ferent speeds in our educational bandwagon the gifted can slip into high gear and virtually edu- cate themselves. And the rest of us at least will be exposed to whatever we can soak up from regular class work. From this system, we contend, there will de- velop leaders. From this system will come men of men, leaders with active, well-ordered and so- cially invaluable intellects. As the physicist studies his subject with the singular purpose of application, so will the political sciefitist appraise and consider each thought in his researches with a constant eye to its possible use to the state. Liberty and equality, it is true, must be the alpha and omega of our order but leadership suffers no humiliation in the name of these terms. By equality, we understand, equality of opportunity not equality of function! Leaders must necessarily arise and it is the university, we submit, that shall take these leaders-leaders of thought, not finance-these men peculiarly fitted to avail themselves of intellectual oppor- tunity and present them to society as the most perfectly fitted to guide our destiny. Modern students oft-times arrive at no goals because their quest is purposeless. Study hours, oft-times have been wholly wasted except for their display value. But waste alone does not render the commentary so sad; there is more. An intellect, which has read, thought and watched, traces even now the faintest cracks in our mansion, the faintest-underground rumbling,. the faintest ripples of discontent. Indistinct, yes, but all come in crescendo. The cracks grow to gaping faults, the rumblings to social earth- quakes and the ripples to a cascade of blood. Italy lost a mere 10,000 healthy lives when its present glorified Boy Scout Movement fought to the controls, but Russia fared less happily and sacrificed Millions on the altars of violence, mil- lions who might have lived had they learned, but, unfortunately, would not have learned had they lived. Leftists delineate society as a device for in- suring class dictatorship, as an exploitive weapon wielded by the capitalists to temper the returns of the proletariat. With hegemony of resources, they argue, class war, violence and bloodshed are inevitable. But the word "inevitable" is espe- cially distasteful in this connection. To say an event is inevitable is to tarnish it with fatalism and edge out intelligence. Nothing is inevitable, we contend, where intelligence and education are operative. But anything can be inevitable other- wise. For these, you will remember, are the happy days of low wages and high, dividends, of world peace and staggering armaments, of unemployed men and working children, of nationalism and Kellogg Pacts; of restricted crops and bread- lines, of industrial slavery ant the "pursuit of life, liberty and happiness," of marginal land retirement and Hoover dam ventures, of public utility pyramids and Tennessee Valley "yard- sticks," of gang wars and higher education. We must clean out these paradoxes. We will clean out these paradoxes by progressive edu- cation, not by violence. Violence, we think,{ will go out the back door when our leaders ac- quire a perspective and our masses become edu- cated above crack-pot hysteria. Plaudits for an educational plan that moves in this direction. May it prosper in the intellectual soil of Ann Arbor. Robert I. Fitzhenry. Pampering The Arts A refreshing plea for a return to rugged indi- vidualism in the arts is made by Booth Tar- kington, in a letter to Representative John M. Coffee of Washington, sponsor of a bill before the House of Representatives "to provide for a permanent Bureau of the Fine Arts." The bill, concerning itself with the theater, the dance, music, literature and architecture, as well as the graphic and plastic arts, such as painting ,and sculpture, seeks to take over bodily the pre- ent Works Progress Administration, as it con- cerns itself with the arts, and perpetuate it. The WPA spent $34,000,000 on the arts last year, and has little to show for it in the graphic arts ex- cept square miles of uninspired canvases and acres of walls that would look better without their "mural" adornments. Mr. Tarkington tells Mr. Coffee that the making permanent of the temporary art projects "would increase human suffering and decrease desirable human productivity." He cites his own boyish ambitions to be a painter, and says, had the projects been in exist- ence, he might have been supported through the years by the taxpayers pursuing his futility. "In all fields of art," he observes, "the aspirant who wishes to become a practitioner mistakes, 99 times out of 100, his wish for a talent." Suffering fellows-the suffering of the young man who mistakes his calling, and the suffering of the public who would have to look at a Tarkington mural and pay for it. "You cannot put art under political govern- ment without putting it into politics," he tells Mr. Coffee. "Somebody's cousin gets to do the murals in the courthouse." -Chicago Daily News Young Lardner James P. Lardner, son of the late Ring W. Lardner, has quit his job as a war corre- spondent in Barcelona to join an artillery unit in the Spanish Republican Army's Interna- tional Brigade. This brigade is composed of Americans, Englishmen, Italians, Germans and men of various other nationalities who have gone to Spain of their own volition to fight for a cause they believe to be just. It is nothing new for wars to attract adven- turous spirits or professional soldiers who enter wars as a means of -livelihood. There are of course. adventurers and soldiers Jfeeiny loe 1-eywood Broun It is a sound American tradition which holds that no Chief Executive of the nation should have a third consecutive term. And so it might be good strategy for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to announce that after his re- election in 1940 he will serve no more. To me it is unthinkable that he should not be a can- didate to succeed himself two years hence. There is no one else who can main- tain the gains which .pro- gressive government has made in the last few years. I thoroughly agree with many of the criticisms which have been directed against Mr. Roosevelt. It seems to me that he has proceeded with an excess of caution and that on all too many occasions he has held out an olive branch instead of a hickory stick. He has played with forces which have welcomed periods of truce only as opportunities to undermine and undercut all his liberal policies. And at times the technique of the man in the White House has been singularly inept judged by any political yardstick whatsoever. I refer to those occasions upon which Mr. Roosevelt has succeeded in alienating his supporters and mad- dening his foes with one and the same gesture. Try And Name Him But all this should be skipped by those who are interested in the forward march of liberal policies in America. This can be proved by a simple laboratory test. Let any progressive take. a pencil and a piece of paper and set down the names of those who are available to carry on New Deal policies. Nor can the worth and ability of the potential candidate be the sole consideration. The man to be named upon your trial balance sheet must also have some chance of nomiation and election. A smallugroup tried it the other night, and we ended up with Lehman, Minton, Swellenbach and Harry Hopkins. Most of the support among the members of this particular small cross-sec- tion went to Hopkins, butithere was no one who - seriously thought he could get by the Demo- cratic delegates, let alone the voters, in 1940.- La Guardia is a progressive but his only chance of a major party nomination lies with the Re-, publicans,, and that party most certainly is not going to choose a liberal as its standard bearer. At the moment the G.O.P. leaders feel that they are sitting pretty, and that they can win with anybody. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them pick Bruce Bartpn Bob Aid Phil Rock The Boat The La Follettes-Phil and Bob-are liberals and behaving very much like old-time liberals at the moment. There is a fatal tendency among men of that persuasion to step out apd strut; their stuff at the very moment when it will do the adversaries the most good. Now that the Governor and the Senator have indicated a breach with Roosevelt their Re- publican associates are beginning to kid them along and say that Bob and Phil are not such bad skates after all. If either La Follette run in 1940, he will have to do so on a third ticket, and it will be an adventure calculated to make the election safe for a Republican reactionary. Friends of the President seem to be of the opin- ion that he wants to get out at the end of his term. That's irrelevant. Mr. Roosevelt's wishes in the matter are not important. Progressives must draft him, and they must get behind him now. He is no longer an individual. He has be- come a symbol, and once that symbol has been pushed. aside the voter will find himself in: the hopeless spot of having to decide between Vandenberg or Byrd or make some other selection equally fruitless. MUSICH By WILLIAM J. LICHTENWANGER Hlaire Coci A recital of rare distinction was presented in Hill Auditorium Thursday evening by Claire Coci, organist. Although Miss Coci has been a student of Prof. Palmer Christian during the past year or so, her ability is of such a degree that the recital was far above the class of the ordinary, student recital and showed her to be a mature artist of the first rank. Not the least admirable feature of Miss Coci's performance was her program, well-proportioned and giving full expression to her tremendous technique. Representing varying aspects of Bach were the D Minor Toccata and Fugue, the Choral Prelude "0 Mensch bewein dein suende gross" and the fughetta from that on "Dies sind die heiligen zehn Gebot" while the modern French school presented the B Minor Chorale of Cesar Franck, a Vierne Scherzetto, a Fugue by Arthur Honegger, and the Toccata from Widor's Fifth Organ Symphony. After the intermission the program was given over to Liszt's Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam" from Meyerbeer's Le Prophete, a work of gigantic proportions and seldom played because of its vast demands upon the performer, yet with many passages that can be classed among Liszt's finest creative work. Manifestly, it was a program with emphasis upon the brilliant, from the dramatic D Minor of Bach to the "moto perpetuo" Toccata of Widor Sand the grandiose Tiszt. nnd Miss Coci's nerform- THEATRE By CLIFFORD H. PRATOR 'L'Avare' Goethe said he made it a rule to read a Moliere play each year, just as he contemplated regularly some painting of the great Italian masters. Moliere is possessed of a perennial freshness which became apparent again last night while L'Avare was being presented at the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. This is the thirty- second French language play given by the Cercle Francais of the Univer- sity, and the ninth time that a piece from Moliere's pen has been selected. The story of the father whose mis- erliness gradually makes of him the laughingstock of the community, and finally alienates the affections of even the members of his family, has a wide range of emotional appeal. There are generous elements of farce -ageless farce perhaps but none the' less elose kin to the slap-stick of movie comedies. To those who knew L'Avare only on the printed page, some of the stage business may have come as a surprise, certain comic ges- tures and attitudes, hardly indicated in the text, but which have been handed down orally from one genera- tion of actors to the next, and which last night's company reproduced re- markably well. At the other extreme of the emotional scale is the scene where the miser, Harpagon, is stunned by the loss of his treasure; its tragic overtones were emphasized by Pro- fessor Charles Koella of the French faculty who played the role. Minimum stagesets were effective- ly used; the scant light of two candle stubs was made to suggest the pre- vailing pinch-penny atmosphere. A certain slowness in the general move- ment of the piece might be regretted, though it is perhaps to be explained by the unusual care the actors had to take to make themselves under- stood. The other important roles were taken by members of the student body, except that of Valere, suitor for the hand of Harpagon's daughter, which was rendered by Mr. James O'Neill of the French faculty, who was called in at the last moment to replace John Stiles, '38, prevented by illness from playing the part. Ruth Koch, '39, and Jayne Roberts, '38, were charming in their respective portrayal of Elise, HaIpagon's daugh- ter, and Mariane, his sometime fi- ancee. Mary Allinson, '39, deserves special commendation for the gusto with which she represented Frosine, an intrigante. The role of Cleante, son of Harpagon, was fluently han- dled by Robert Power, Grad. The supporting cast included Marian Idd- ings, '40, as Dame Claude, 'Henry Schwartz, Grad. as Maitre Jacques, Robert Vandenberg, '40, as La Fleche, Hudson Tourtellot '38, as Anselmie, Walter Hahn, '38Ed as Le Commis- saire, Charles Wesley, '38, as Maitre Simon, Richard Harmel, '41, as Bril- davoine, and Malcolm Long, '40, as La Merluche. The play was directed by Profes- sor Rene Talamon. Senate Notes By POLITICUS Tuesday's meeting of the Student Senate out-stripped even the April 19th gathering in the speed with which the, evening's business was dispatched. For the first time since the formation of the Senate there was not' a single roll call save that opening the meeting and contentious debate was noticeable only by its absence. The Tuesday meeting was confined entirely to local matters and the long arguments which character- ized the evenings during which such matters as American foreign policy and Ralph Neafus -wee discussed were replaced by' a spirit of sweet co- operation. * * * The Senate spent its short hour of meeting time in setting up three new committees and listening to reports from its four old ones. In this mat- ter of comittees the Senate seems to have reached already a sort of gen- eral agreement in that the individual Senator moving for the establishment of an investigating committee is near- ly always made the chairman of it if his motion carries. Of the seven Senate committees now functioning, five are three-membered, two (Hous- ing and Student Politics) five-mem- bered, and one (the new Continua- tions committee set up Tuesday) seven-membered. In all cases the method of selection is simple. The Speaker requests the President (the leader of the Majority) for the names of two members, and the Vice-Presi- dent (the leader of the Minority) for the name of one, if the committee is to total three. The Speaker then formally appoints these three and they start to work. If the committee is of five, then the proportions are three and two, respectively. The one seven-membered committee includes only five Senators, divided on the three-two ratio, the other two mem- bers being the Speaker and the Clerk. There has fortunately been little petty partisanship in this matter of committees, and the terms "Majority" and "Minority" are loosely construed. The policy of naming the mover of a successful motion to set up an in- vestigating committee as the Chair- (Continued from Page 2) 30 to go canoeing on the Huron. All students who like to canoe are invited to join us. 1938 Ann Arbor Dramatic Season. Season tickets now on sale. Garden room, Michigan League Building op- en every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p in. Bicycling party this afternoon spoli- sored by the Westminster Guild of the First Presbyterian Church. Meet at the church's student center at 2 p.m.; tickets, 65 cents including bicycle all afternoon and lunch. All students welcome. Coming Events Junior Research Club May meeting will be held Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2083 Natural Science Building. Program: "The Oxidation of Steel at Elevated Temperatures," by Pro- fessort C. A. Siebert. and "The University of Michigan Explorations in the Mayan and Adjacent Areas" by Dr. N. E. Hartweg. English Journal Club,'Friday, May 6, at 4:15 p.m. in the League. Mr. Robert Warshaw will speak on "Some Approaches to Shakespeare" at the meeting. The faculty, members and guests are cordially invited to attend and to participate in the discussion fol- lowing the paper. Junior Mathematics Club. Will meet Monday, May 2, at 4:15 p.m., in Room 3201 Angell Hall. There will be a demonstration of harmonic an- alyzers, integraph, and planimeters. Biological Chemistry Seminar, Mon- day, May 2, 3:30 p.m., Room 313 West Medical Building. "The Chemistry. and Mode of Ac- tion of the Proteolytic Enzymes" will be discussed. All interested are in- vited. The Christian Student Prayer Group will hold its regular meeting in the Michigan League at 5 p.m. Sunday. The room will be announced on the Bulletin Board there. Christian stu- dents are urged to attend. International Council Supper: Professor Preston W. Slosson wili be the guest speaker at the regular Sunday night meeting of- the Inter- national Council group. A 25 cent buffet supper will be served at 6 o'clock. All foreign students and their American friends are invited to attend. Clifford E. Paine, '11E, will deliver a lecture at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May' 4, Room 311 West Engineering Building on the Golden Gate Bridge.1 The Golden Gate Bridge was opened to traffic on May 27, 1937 and with its span of 4,200 feet is the longest span bridge in the world. Mr. Paine is a member of the firm of Strauss and Paine who were consulting en- gineers for the bridge and was ac- tively in charge of the design and direction of this structure. The talk will be illustrated. Mr. Frank McCulloch of Chicago is to speak at a public meeting in the First Congregational Church Sun- day evening at 7:30. / Mr. McCulloch is a distinguished attorney, and now is devoting his en- tire time in the service of the Con- gregational National Council for So- cial Action. He has been traveling over the country visiting the various industrial centers studying ,abor con1ons and has a vivid and time- ly message. "The Church's Relationship to Labor" will be the subject of his talk. The meeting is open to the public. Gallery Talk in connection with the exhibition of photographs of "India, her Architecture and Sculp- ture" by Miss Frances Flaherty. Ex- hibition Room, School of Architec- ture, Wednesday, May 4, at 4 o'clock. Kappa Phi is holding a special pledging service, Sunday, May 1, at 9:30 a.m. in the Methodist church office. All members are urged to come. The Graduate Outing Club will meet at Lane Hall on Sunday at 2:45 for a trip to the Saline Valley Farms. There will be hiking and supper. All graduate students are welcome. Churches Ann Arbor Friends (Quakers) will hold their regular meeting for wor- ship Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Michi- brook, a Labor comittee headed by Sen. Robert M. Perlman, and a Con- tinuations committee, the purpose of which is to see that the proper steps are taken to reestablish the Senate next year, under the chairmanship of Sen. Martin Dworkis. rphpa of. h * * . woni. *n gan League. All who are interested are welcome. Disciples' Guild (Church of Christ) 10:45 an.m, Morning worship. Rev, Fred Cowin, Minister. 5:30 pm, Sn- cial hour and tea. 6:30 p.m., Doiscus-. sion (. n 'You and the Next War." After the presentation of points of view r'lating to the subject the Cuild wll be divided into small groups for discussion. First Baptist Church, 10:45 a.m. "Healthy Mindedness" will be the subject of the sermon by Rev. R. Ed- ward Sayles, at the morning worship, Church School meets at 9:30. The Junior High Group meets in the curch at 4:30, and the Senior High at 6:00. Roger Williams Guild. Noon class omitted for balance of year. 6:15 p.m. Four student speakers will dis- cuss Christian ideals as faced by campus atmosphere. The speakers will be Marvin Michael, Roberth Grifith, Miss Frances Burgess and Miss Ruth Enss. Friendly hour with refreshments. First Church of Christ, Scientist. 409 S. Division St. Sunday morning service at 10:30. Subject, "Everlasting Punishment." Golden Text, Ezekiel 18:23. Sunday School 11:45 after the morning servic'e First Congregational Church, Ann Arbor, Mich. Corner of State and William. 10:45 a.m., Service of Worship. Dr Leonard A. Parr will preach on "Shortsighted People." The music of the morning will irclude the organ number "Meditation" by Faulker; the soprano solo sung by Miss Lois Greig of "The Lord's Prayer" by Melotte; and the anthem "Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord" by Mendelssohn. 6:00 p.m. The Student Fellowship will meet for a six o'clock supper. At 7:30 in the church auditorium. 'Mr. Frank McCulloch, a distinguished Chicago attorney, will speak in a public meeting on "The Church's Re- lationship to Labor." First Methodist Church. Morning worship at 10:40 o'clock. Dr. Bra- shares will preach on "Divine Dis- content. cLa ker Hall. 9:45 am. Class under the leadership of Prof; Carrothers. 6 P.m. Wesleyan Guild meeting. There will be the following discussion groups Lind ir student leaders~p: The Fam- ilk, Adventures in eronal Religion, Tina Church and Modern Society, Recration, Vocations aid Profes- sions, Men-and Women ,elationships. 7 p.m. Fellowship Hour and sup- per. First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw Avenue. 10:45 a.m., "The World on May Morning" is the subject of Dr. W. P. Lemon's sermon at the Morning Wor- s iip Service. ThiQ student choir d- rected by Miss Claire Coci and the ch dildren's choir under the leadership o° Mrs. Fred Mo'ns will take part in the service. The musical numbers will include: Organ Prelude, "O Mensch, bewein dein' Sunde gross" by Bach; Anthem, "Incense and a Pure Offering" by Cameron Brock; solo, "Come Ye Blessed" by Scott, Burnette Bradley Staebler; Organ PcsIude, "Toc.cata and Fuge in D Minor' by Bach. . :30 p.m., The Westminster, x stu- dent group, supper and fellowship hour. Dr. W. P. Lemon will speak on the subject "Introducing John Doe fo Christianity" at the meeting at 6:30. Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church. Services of worship today are: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion, 9:30 a.m.. Chure-h School, 11:90 a.m. Kinder- garten, 11:00 a.m Holy Communion and Sermon by The Rev. Frederick W. Leech. Harris Halt The regular meeting of the Episcopal Student Fellowship will be held tonight at Harris .Hal at seven o'clock. Mr. A. K. Stevens of the University English Department will speak on the "History and De- velopment Qf the Cooperative Move- ment." Refresinmnts will be. served. All Episcopal students and their friends are cordially invited. Trinity Lutheran Church, corner 5th Avenue and Wiliams Street. Rev. H. 0. Y oder, pastor, "Building an Altar Unto the'Lord" will be the ser- mon. Services at 10:30 a.m. Lutheran Student Club iM meet sunday at 5:30 in Zion Parisi Hall. Speaker is Dr. Carrouthers of the Educa.,ion School. Every member is urged to be present due to the fact that e-ections for next year's officers will be held. Unitarian Church, State and Huron Streets. 11 a.m. There will be he's; the first We're On The Frontier .. 1 T HE UNIVERSITY SHOT into an un- doubted position on the forefront of American higher learning last week with the announcement of the proposed experimental tu- torial system. Eyes the country-wide will turn to Michigan as our alma mater becomes the first state-supported institution to break down class- room barriers, release its high-powered students from the trammels of a routine curriculum and give. up the silver spoon method of feeding for the more stalwart "come and get it" tactics.