T MICHIGAN DAILY E ICHIGAN DAILY - .- I ,3 1 Ar , ,L;- 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 Uni'versity 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 it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of -republication of all other matters herein, also reserved. 'Entered-at "the Post Offide at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, :$4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPRESENTED POR NATIONAL ADVERTISING 9Y National AdvertisngService,inc. Colke'ePuhlishers RSAr Wtativ* 420 MADISON AvEr. NEW YORK N. Y. CIAO -*SON " - LOS ANELES - SA FAenciscO Board of Editors Managing Editor . . . .Robert D. Mitchell Editorial Director City Editor... . . Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor. Associate Editor Associate Editor.. Associate Editor Book Editor . . . . Women's Editor. . Sports Editor .,. . . Albert P. Mayio Horace W. Gilmore . Robert I. Fitzhenry . Saul R. Kleiman Robert Pernman .'. William Elvin Joseph Freedman . . . . Earl Gilman > Joseph Gies . . Dorothea Staebler . . . Baud Benjamin Business Department Business Manager . . . Philip W. Buchen Credit Manager . . . Leonard P. Siegelman Advertising s Manager . William L. Nenan " Women's Business Manager .. Helen Jean D7ean Women's Service Manager . Marian A. Baxter NIGHT EDITOR: DENNIS FLANAGAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily' staff and represent the views of the writers only.. 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. On Tear Gas Bombs And Things.. AE K AGO SUNDAY, some prac- ' at joker with a penchant for me- i chanical things and evidently a slight leaning backwards, politically speaking, left a present for one of our liberal organizations in the shape of a cute little gas bomb in the Unitarian Church. It wasn't a dangerous thing, for the gas fumes just made your eyes smart for a couple of days or so, but the type of philosophy which prompted the joker to play this kind of a game isn't exactly of the tit-tat-too kind. It isn't such a far step from playing with tear gas bombs to playing with real explosives, and the mentality of those who do the one is 'flexible enough to do the other. For in both instances the essential stimulus would seem to come from an inability to cope with ideas which differ from one's own. Like the bully who an- swers jibes with blows, because he is not capable of retaliating in kind, the joker in this instance took the most direct, cowardly and weakest action he was capable of performing. It must have been a disappointment to the joker to know that the Progressive Club had scheduled its picnic for the following Sunday, and that consequently only two or three people not connected with the Club suffered smarting eyes. Albert Mayio. Funds For The La Follette Committee . . WITH THE LA FOLLETTE third party movement in the headlines, it is easy to forget another matter with which Senator La- Follette is connected and which is of far more vital immediate importance to the nation than the new political bloc. The La Follette CivilLib- erties Committee of the Senate, which ha ac- complished so much in the way of exposing anti- democratic tendencies and practices-in the plants of our great industries in the past year, will be unable to continue its work unless it is gixen an appropriation of $60,000 before the end of the present Congressional session. The La Follette Committee's two most notable pieces of work are probably its revelations con- cerning the coal operators of Harlan County, Ky., and their fight against labor organization, and its investigation into the Meorial Day massacre at the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago last year. Republic Steel has since been enjoined by the Labor Relations Board to reinstate, with back pay, workers blacklisted after last summer's strike and to desist from its anti-union policies, while the Harlan mine owners are at present under The Editor ets Told Fafni Gets Told To the Editor: Dear "Fafni," you are probably one of the hopefuls at whom Sidney Howard aimed his "muddle on as best you can" philosophy in the much contested play of last week. I call you hopeful because you can so placidly use the word Jiberal as though every one knew what you meant. Your purpose of uniting these liberals in one active group is admirable, but not within the realm of human achievement. The term is too broad to ever include one group. You see no one is afraid to call himself a liberal-in fact it has a very nice educated tint. You say the Progressive Club is misnamed; that it is too radical. Do you know that at the beginning of this year the club went so far in its attempts to include even the meekest liberals that its membership drives came close to being ludicrous? And even after this attempt, the rad- ical students were left to do all the work-to carry on because the liberal students didn't respond. Do you know why you and I as liberal students didn't add our strength to the club? Because the term liberal includes an almost incomprehen- 'sible range of confused, unsure thinkers who prefer the easy way of bull-sessions and inter- esting table talk to any form of unity or action. At least in one mass group of socially conscious students the radicals will continue to do the work; they have the "guts." The group of lib- erals you propose would bejust as heterogeneous as the Progressive Club tried to be this year; therefore, you cannot condemn the existing or- ganization on that basis. Nor on any lack of constructive work. Why don't you, Fafni, join the club and inject into its already useful work an element of "re- spectability?" For respectability is the outstand- ing characteristic of liberals, denied to the rad- icals. -Ea-. More On Falni To the Editor: Clifford Odets defines a liberal as a "man who has raised doubt and indecision to the level of a principle." Apparently the Mr. Fafni who wrote to the Daily suggesting a new liberal organization is a textbook example of such a liberal. First he doubts that the Progressive Club is an accurate index of liberal student opinion, and second he is undecided as to whether there are enough liberals to take up his idea and form an effec- tive organization. He argues further that the present liberal organization, the Progressive Club, has, proposed measures which are too radical, that they have antagonized the university offi- cials, and that by their strong inclinations they have forced some obvious "liberals" to the right. Let us see what validity these objections to the present Progressive Club have, first in regard to the radical measures. A brief sketch of the Pro- gressive Club activity during the current year includes (1) sponsoring a talk on Spain by Steve Daduk to about 750 people urging a support of the trade union movement and a favorable atti- tude toward the Spanish loyalists, (2) sponsoring a dance to gain funds for a Mid-West ambulance to send to Spain, (3) having an open forum discussion on the 4uestion of a program for peace with the views of isolation, neutrality and collec- tive security represented with the view of collec- tive security being adopted by a vote of 120 to 62, (4) combining with other groups on campus to sponsor a peace strike and have the Onderdonk films, (5) forming a picket line ;after an in- vestigation of the Ann Arbor Press strike, which disclosed several gross infractions of the Wagners Act, (6) sending delegates to the American Stu- dent Union Convention at Vassar who urged the boycott ,of Japanese goods, the continuation of the allotments to the National Youth Adminis- tration, etc. (7) sponsoring a forum on race prej- udice, and (8) working with the Student Senate and the Student Religious Organization for a stu- dent book exchange. As I said this is a mere sketch of the multifarious activities of the four point platform of peace, security, civil liberty, and academic freedom. The activity and the plat- form are not offensively stringent to true lib- erals. As for the second objection, the antagonism of university officials, Mr. Fafni's fears may be al- layed by two facts. Apparently President Ruth- ven's New York speech of which a paragraph ap- pears beneath the Daily masthead, has been adopted as a policy. This was revealed when the true facts of the Ann Arbor Press strike were ascertained by the Progressive Club, and it was found that the Wagner Act had been palpably flouted, the University threatened to withdraw its printed matter unless the situation was settled. The fact that the case has gone to Washing- ton testifies to the correctness of the University's action. Secondly, the fact that the University Board in Control-of Student Activity has sanc- tioned the Progressive Club's affiliation with the American Student Union after the club had ful- filled University requirements illustrates that we have not antagonized the authorities. Mr. Fafni's third objection is that the strong inclinations of the Progressive Club have forced would-be liberals to the right. I have shown that the program of the club has been comparatively mild. Those "liberals" who were scared by such a program did so because they were not liberals at all, and in doing so violated what liberals pride themselves for most-being open minded and looking for the true facts. The real fault is the tendency of timid uninformed people to think in terms of stereotypes which fact caused an un- Iifeemr lo Me Heywood Broun Success is such a heady wine to Republicans that the cup which cheers may also bring black remorse upon the morrow. One of the most interesting things which came to light in the re- cent inferno in the Keystone State is the indica- tion that Pennsylvania again has a lot of Re- publicans-and reactionary ones at that. For a time the species seemed to be extinct or, at any rate, under cover. Every now and then some woodsman would report that he saw a pair coming down to the waterhole just " before dawn. But such re- ports were often brushed aside as visionary. But now the bison of privilege have replenished themselves and the herd is on the rampage. As far as surface figures go, Pennsylvania is again rock- ribbed and Republican. Nor is there any comfort for the small progres- sive group in the primary figures. The old bosses of the machine are so confident just now that they may go back and pick that Chinaman of Mencken's. You may remember that the Balti- more strong boy was certain such a candidate would be elected in 1936. And perhaps he can in 1940. Provided, of course, that he is a conserva- tive Chinaman. * * * * Success Goes To The Herd On the other hand, there is the bare possibility that success will go to the head of the Old Guard, which has been on the rations of abstinence so. long. The bosses of Pennsylvania and other lead- ers of the ancient order may overplay their hand. A swing from the theories of the New Deal may not carry all the way back to the political habits of a' Harding. The Republicans in their 1940 convention might pick a man who would'be too tough even for those voters who may be in revolt against the Roosevelt theories. That is the bright side of the picture. The gloomy side is that any split among the liberals will make it comparatively easy for the reaction- aries to walk in. Some have argued that it is unfair to say that a third party would split the forces of progressivism, since they are already far from being united. That is in a measure true, but there can be no question of the solidarity of the conservative groups at the moment. I have said before that Fiorello La Guardia is by all odds the most able candidate of those who have any claim at all to the Republican label. But some time ago I expressed grave doubts as to any dim possibility of his obtaining a Republican nomination for the Presidency. If the Pennsyl- vania results are any criterion he simply isn't in the picture. * * * * A Prophet Begins To Hedge Of late I have begun to weaken in my belief that Franklin D. Roosevelt will be a candidate to succeed himself. All the available evidence seems to point to the fact that he does not want to run again. Certainly he does not seem to be striving for the nomination. And this, I think, shortens the odds against Harry Hopkins in the winter books. In my opinion, Mr. Hopkins would make an excellent President. I am not so sure that he would make a strong candidate. But, at any rate, I hold strongly to the belief that moves for a third party at this time do threaten the success of present progressive lead- ership and serve to encourage the gathering and emboldening of reactionary forces. Incidentally, Ernest L. Meyer, in taking me to task for criticizing Phil La Follette, spoke of the efficient manner in which the Governor had succeeded in putting trough a reorganization bill in the state of Wi consin. He contrasted Phil's success and Roosevelt's failure. If Mr. Meyer had familiarized himself with tl vote in the House of Representatives he might be aware of the fact that La Follette's progressives joined hands with the forces of the right, the followers of Gannett and the legislators all bound up with telegraph wires. They voted against the federal reorganization bill. That was Phil's con- tribution to the maintenance of liberal leadership in Washington. just stigma of red to be affixed to the Progressive Club. There are no entrance requirements in the Progressive Club. The club is now both a carh- pus group and a segment of a greater liberal stu- dent movement. If Mr. Fafni or any other ear- nest liberal desired to enter the club and, fur- ther, tried to shape its policy, numbers and good argument are all that are needed. The club Chas a broad program. All are cordially in- vited. ---Harold Ossepow. Complaining About Heywood EDITOR'S NOTE': Because of an unfor- tunate accident Heywood Broun's column for Sunday was destroyed and could not be replaced in time for publication. To the Editor: Missed my Sunday tonic, Broun today. This can't go on! Must preserve student normalcy with Broun. -A.C. To the Editor: Missed Broun's column in the Daily today. Please don't let such errors happen again. I be- lieve that this column is one of the outstanding features of the Daily, and it is one of the reasons for my subscription. Looking forward to the col- ,>mnfrn nn , n Quid Pro Quo Diplomacy .04 As shrewd diplomacy will be re- quired to bring the Anglo-Italian agreement into operation as was need- ed to get it drafted. This is the portent of events the last few days. Whatever gratitude I Duce may feel toward Britain and France for their efforts on behalf of recognition for his African empire, is obviously of less importance than his determina- tion to have his own way also in Spain. Out of British anxiety to conclude an agreement with Italy, Premier Mussolini has been able to extract British support for two ventures con-' demned by world opinion, and not condoned by the British government itself. The Chamberlain policy has been based on the assumption that Anglo-Italian relations could develop along lines of mutual trust. But it also.has given serious attention to the Italian statement that no pact whichc did not become a part of a wide agreement could endure. Hence thel British pressure on France to reach1 terms with Italy, as the second step in a program which eventually shouldc arrive at four-power appeasement,c with Germany's signature also on the dotted line. Perhaps it was not foreseen that Ilt Duce could use this plan for his ownt ends more readily than Britain could use it to cement peace in Europe.a Or perhaps what was not foreseen wasf the tenacity of much French opinion t which is attached to the cause of thet Spanish Government because manyc Frenchmen see that cause as de-a mocracy's also. Hardly was it expect-t ed that Il Duce would state the case so bluntly as he did at Genoa whene he implied that a French-Italian un- derstanding could be purchased from Italy only at the price of French resig- nation to a fascistic gvernment right on France's Pyrenean border.n But it is the unforeseeable witht which any long-range program ofi peace by quid pro quo must be chieflyo concerned. I Duce appears to have1 avoided giving any real guarantees that he will do other than pursue hiso own interests regardless of the dif-o ficulties he may make for those who are trying to work with him. Will he be a more comfortable partner of Britain in the Mediterranean wpen -and if-an Insurgent victory in Spain gives him new strategic ad- vantages on this British Empire "life- line"? Christian Science Monitor.n 'i 'Tannenberg In referring to the battle for Su- chow as "the Tannenberg of the FarF East," the Japanese infer that theE hoped-for capture of this strategicC railway junction, since January the military capital of the defenders ofC East China, will be a decisive victory. Current news indicates that it may still be a long-delayed victory and that the expectant conquerors have again bogged down before Chinese resistance, with their main forcesE still many miles from the railway center. From this distance it looks as1 if Japan has already paid an exorbi- tant price for an advance that leaves3 her very little nearer the goal she aimed at when her armies started out jauntily last summer on a sortie of conquest. Suchow is not worth the four months' siege, the vast ex- penditure of lives, money and ma- terial it has already cost. Above all, it is not worth the pres- tige lost in the long-drawn-out battle. Something has happened to Japan during the fighting in South Shan-r tung. It is in this area that the Chinese first demonstrated a capacity for resistance that has caused mili- tary observers to reverse their earlier judgment as to the outcome of the1 war. When the struggle for Suchowx began, it was generally conceded that Japan would win. Now, as the result of the Chinese performance on this2 front, few doubt that ultimate vic- tory will be China's. It will take many successes to restore the reputation of the "invincible army." It will take more than Suchow to restore the su- preme confidence of the Japanese military machine in itself. But the worst thing that has hap- pened to Japan as the conflict has lengthened beyond her calculations' is that it has given time and oppor- tunity to other interested Powers to assess the strength of the combatants and to weigh their own interests in the results. If Japan had been able to wage a quick war, if she could have presented the world with a sudden fait accompli, the nations with a stake in the Far East would probably have accepted it as they have swallowed other bitter pills. Instead, they have had nearly a year to reflect and look ahead, with results that are plainly visible in the diplomatic moves in Europe. The British policy of appease- ment aims primarily to bring about a breathing spell on the European continent that will free England to look after her imperial interests. These interests center in the Orient, and they are directly affected by the threat of Japanese hegemony in Asia. It may turn out that Japan has' won a battle to lose a war. ___ t o nerV_ T m Faculty, College of Engineering: There will be a meeting of the Facultyt of this College on Thursday, May 26, at 4:15 P.M., in Room 348 West En- gineering Biulding. The program in- cludes: election of University Coun-f cil member; nomination of panel for ExecutivenCommittee; discussion ofk grades and scholarship, and regularE business. Smoking in University Buildings: Attention is called to the general rule that smoking is prohibited in Uni- versity buildings except in private of- fices and assigned smoking rooms4 where precautions can be taken and control exercised. This is neither ae mere arbitrary regulation nor an at-c tempt to meddle with anyone's per-I sonal habits. It is established andI enforced solely with the purpose of preventing fires. In the last five years, 15 of the total of 50 fires reported, or 30 per cent, were caused by cigarettest or lighted matches. To be effective,v the rule must necessarily apply to bringing lighted tobacco into or through University buildings and to the lighting of cigars, cigarettes, andp pipes within buildings-including such lighting just previous to going outdoors. Within the last few years a serious fire was started at the exit from the Pharmacology building by the throwing of a still lighted match into refuse waiting removal at thec doorway. If the rule is to be enforcedp at all its enforcement must begin att the building entrance. Further, it s is impossible that the rule should ber enforced with one class of persons ifc another class of persons disregards it. It is a disagreeable and thankless task to "enforce" almost any rule. This rule against the Use of tobacco within buildings is perhaps the mostS thankless and difficult of all, unlesst it has the winning support of every-h one concerned. An appeal is made to a11 persons using the University build- 1 ings-staff members, students andA others-to contribute individual co- operation to this effort to protect9 University buildings against fires. 7 This statement is inserted at the request of the Conference of Deans. Shirley W. Smith. Freshmen in the College of Lita-7 ture, Science and the Arts: Fresh- men are invited to discuss their aca-s demic programs for next year with i their counselors before June 1. To The Members of the Guard of Honor: A meeting for the purpose of instruction and drill of the Guard ofn Honor for the Commencement Day Exercises will be held at WatermanI Gymnasium Thursday, May 26, at 4 p.m., under the direction of Dr. . George A. May. L. M. Gram,t Chief Marshal. The Bureau has received notice of the following Cleveland Civil Service Examinations:q Play Director, Male and Female; I 19 years minimum age. Play Leader, Male and Female; 18 years minimum age. ' Applications must be on file by t Wednesday, June 15. For further information call at the Bureau of Appointments.7 Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information 201 Mason Hall Office Hours: 9-12 and 2-4 Summer Work: Dietitian-housea manager needed for camp runningt from June 20 through September 1. Duties: planning for 60 people, buy- ing day to day supplies, supervisings of dining room, kitchen, garden ands laundry. Salary: $5.00 a month and maintenance (board and room while at camp, transportation between Chi- cago and camp.) For further information call at 201t Mason Hall. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information 201 Mason Hall Office Hours 9-12 and 2-4 Rochdale CooperativeHouse: Appli- cations for admission to the Rochdale Cooperative House for the coming year, 1938-39, are now being accepted. A new prerequisite to consideration, which requires each applicant to write a 100-200 word essay on the Cooperative Movement, is now in ef- fect. Application blanks are avail- able in Dean Olmstead's Office, Room 2, University Hall, and at the Roch- dale House, 640 Oxford Road. All ap- plications must be in by Wednesday, May g5. Life Saving: Students who were members of the life saving class dur- ing the winter season may obtain their emblems at Office 15, Barbour Gymnasium. Michigan Wolverine Student Co- operative, ;inc.: The date for payment of members' notes has been set ahead to May 28, 1938, and members may obtain payment on that date or dur- ing the following two weeks. Since a deposit of $3 will hold a membership for next year, and since TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1938 VOL. XLVIH. No. 168 finding the membership closed wen they have returned to school, note holders who will return in Septem- ber aredurged to apply their notes to this deposit. The Wolverine will close on June 10, then open again June 24 and close on Aug. 19. Present memberships are applicable for use during the sum- mer period, and special summer mem- berships are available at $1 for any- one attending the University. Memberships for the school year 1938-1939 are now available. Academic Notices Engish Concentration Examination. A qualifying examination for students who plan to elect English as their field of concentration will be given Tues- day evening, May 24, in Room 2225 Angell Hall. Foreign language, 7-8; English 8-10. Metal Processing 4. Will those stu- dents in Mr. Colwell's section bring their textbooks for the Bluebook, which is to be given Tuesday morn- ing, May 24. Candidates for Master's Degree in Psychology: The comprehensive ex- amination will be given Saturday, May 28, 2-5, in 3126 Natural Science. Exhibitions Exhibition, College of Architecture: Student work from member shools of the Association of Collegiate Schools Hof Architecture is' being shown in the third floor exhibition room. Open daily, 9 to 5, except Sunday, until May 31. The public is cordially invited. Exhibition, College of Architecture. Drawings, photographs and maps of Soviet architecture and city construc- tion, also illustrations showing the historical development of Soviet ar- chitecture from 1918 to the present, loaned through the courtesy of the American Russian Institute. Third loor exhibition room. Open daily, 9 to 5, except Sunday, until May 24. The public is cordially invited. Events Today Botanical Journal Club, today at :30 p.m. Room N.S. 1139. Reports by Dorothy Novy. The species concept in Corticium, coron- ll e. Rosemary Biggs. Mye. 29:686. 1937. . Ralph Bennett. Papers concerning fungous growth substances. Josephine .Burkette. Some Hypho- mycetes that prey on free-living ter- ricolous nematodes. Chas. Drechsler. Myc. ,29:447. 1937. Behavior of Myxomycete-plasmo- dia. D.B.O. Savile. Recent researches in the life history of Allomyces. Chairmen: Professor L. E. Weh- meyer. Professor F. K. Sparrow. Michigan Dames: General meeting, Tuesday, 8:15 p.m. in the Grand tRap- ids Room of the League. Assembly Executive Council meet- ing in the council room in the League; today at 4 p.m. Attention International .Coiicil: The International Council meeting will be h1eld today at 5 o'clock in Room 9, University Hall. Christian Science Organization: 8:15 p.m. League Chapel Students alumni and faculty are invited to at- tend the services. For All Engineers: The AI.E.E. is sponsoring a Job Conference Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., to be held in Room 348 West Engineering Bldg. Prof. A. D. Moore will discuss the present em- ployment situation and the young engineer's job. The ivitation is vx- tended to any and all who might be interested. Archery Club will meet at the Women's Athletic Bldg. today at 4:30. There will be an indoor novelty shoot in case of rain. 1938 Dramatic Season opening to- night at 8:30. Tonio Selwart in "Liliom." A few tickets still avail- able at the box office, 'Mendelssohn Theatre, phone 6300. Matinee to- morrow and Saturday at 3:15. Coming}Events Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room. 122 Chemistry Build- ing on Wednesday, May 25 at 4:15 p.m. Mr. Wm. H. Sullivan will speak on "Chain Reactions in the Oxida- tion of Hydrocarbons." Psychological Journal Club will meet Thursday, May 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3126 N.S. Prof. John F. Shepard will discuss his recent ex- perimental work in comparative psy- chology. All those interested are cordially invited to attend. Inter-7Guild Worship Service will be held at the League Chapel Wednesday morning at 7:30. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN .1utflcation 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.