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CHICAGO *-BOSTON'- Ls ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors NA'AGING EDITOR.............JOSEPH S. MATTES DITORIAL DIRECTOR......... TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR..................WILLIAM C. SPALLER =NEWS EDITOR ...................ROBERT P WEES WOMEN'S. EDITOR.................HELEN DOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR .....................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER..............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER ..................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES NIGHT EDITOR: S. R. KLEIMAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers x only. The State Of Frank (JC.) Haue I N JERSEY CITY the municipal three :,ring circus continues unabated, with rIvayor Frank Hague ably imersonating a ring- master. "I am the law," shouts Hague, mouthing insults and vituperation at any hapless liberal that attempts to rock his corrupt ship of state. But so strongly is Hague entrenched in New ".ersey, as well as the city under his immediate control, that all efforts to dislodge him meet failure. Public pressure has forced the State legislature, many of its members pro-Hague, to investigate the recent election. When the legislative committee's investigators gen t. to Jersey City, the election officials there refl sed to show them books and records. These official were appointed . during the regime of Fr nk Hiague Frustrated, the committee turned to Gov. A. Harry Moore, a "victor" in the very election under investigation, who refused to help them other than suggesting that they appeal to the courts. Governor Moore was also elected under the incredible Hague. When the committee turns to the courts it will find further obstacles in that many of the judges were appointed by Governor Moore in former terms of office, and others by other governors, among them Republican Harold Hoffman, with the advice and consent of Hague.; Thus oPerates democracy in New Jersey. Even the sovereign legislature is refused the permis- sion to examine the election records. The vote is announced, with no concrete corroboration. So well does Frank Hague have the state of New Jersey under his personal control that it seems that the only effective action to depose him must begin outside. The New Deal could assist greatly by ousting the Jersey City Fuehrer .from his position as vice-chairman of the Democratic National committee. Dennis Flanagan-. overt and underground spheres of diplomacy, to- ward Austria. Theneteffect of the coup will dcubtless be a tig teninx 'of Jiscipline in the fascist triple al- liance At the same time, however, the event may be taken as an indication, f6ther with the Catholic-baiting and the trial of the Protestant minister Niemoller, of the far-reaching discon- tent within Germany after five years of National I Socialism under Hitler. Joseph Gies. The Editor Gets Od.,. Billions For Bombs To the Editor: Indeed! It is a most fortunate situation that a member of the Daily editorial board has un- veiled the armament question in the President's message to Congress. At the present moment the U.S. has no fear of invasion since it already possesses one of the largest navies in the world. In addition, our geographical position is of a nature which would warrant imperalistic powers to refrain con- templating such notions. Billions on a bigger and better navy would only be an economic and a social loss since methods in the art of war change so rapidly that dread- naught "P.Q.R." would be rendered useless in a few years. But if that money was spent for edu- cation, think of how many times a human life would outlive .a dreadnaught sending out cheer- fullness, happiness and peace instead of horror, disaster and bullets. By education, Japan or powers of like nature, would learn our methods of peace instead of reenacting America's imperialistic history. C.T.P.I French Newspapers To the Editor: We have read much of French politics and political parties in the American newspapers of late. Yet none of the French newspapers taken by the University Library are representative of the viewpoints of any of the three majority French parties. Since all French newspapers are frankly par- tisan, they make no pretence of giving the op- posing view. The French newspapers in the li- brary at the present time give a distorted view of French politics because they represent minority parties and minority groups. There are several excellent newspapers of the various dominate French leftist parties, such as l'Humanite and le Populaire. I believe that the considerable number of French-reading students who are interested in French politics warrants their inclusion among the rest. -J.P. On Spain's Food To the Editor: On Feb. 13 the New York Times published an article by Mr. Ellery Sedgwick entitled "Life Found Normal in Insurgent Spain," which ap- pears to be a cheap piece of propaganda to ap- peal to the gustatory senses. (Food seems a ma- jor concern with him). It is evident that Mr. Sedgwick knows nothing of the deplorable conditions of the Spanish pea- sants, particularly before the civil war, and the privations that they have faced for centuries. Now, in time of war, this writer would have us be- lieve that everything is "normal," where nor- mality means, if we agree with him, a jump from starvation, by means of a war, to what he calls "normal." His associations in Spain were among the well- to-do, among those who can load their tables with the extravagant abundance which keeps the rest of Spain undernourished. "The Spaniards," he states, "are the most magnificent eaters in Europe," but his "Spaniards" are 15 per cent of 25 millions. The other 85 per cent work on the land and feed the industries to get scarce food for their children and themselves. The delicious sweets, fruits, and wines which our author talks' about are produced in Spain by the peasants, but are intended to satisfy the insatiable gluttony of the Spanish nobles, whom Mr. Sedgwick de- scribes so vividly. Any fool can deduce that the welfare of the nobles cannot be extended to the peasants and be called "normality," unless France has made more progress in solving the agrarian problem than on the battlefield. Spain has been in need of food (both physical and mental) for centuries and still needs it. My people present a good example of "human waste" for lack of agriculture and schools to develop the natural talents of a gifted race, who fight (per- haps blindly) to break the bonds of slavery. E. Gallo, Grad. "Six meadow mice in a year destroy as much grass as a cow could eat in a day. Therefore the mice cut down on the cow's food, its milk pro- duction and the farmer's milk check." E. L. Pal- mer, professor of rural education at Cornell University, suggests a mouse-hunting vogue to supplant the traditional fox hunt. ft feeinr toiMe Heywood Broun MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 14.-Floyd qibbons has just arrived down here in his yacht,ahd'when a re- porter buys a boat that's news l'aven't always thought so, but I guess it's good news. Certainly, as I eyed the trim craft from the far side of the canal there was no envy in my heart. The thought upon which I dwelt was, "Golly, a man must have to hit a typewriter a lot of times to get himself one of those." And there is a peculiar sort of fitness in Floyd's having a yacht dropped in his lap. After all, the beginning of his newspaper reputation was tied up with a ship. He went down into the sea when the Germans shot the Laconia from under him, and it was not mere luck which put him in this happy spot. When Floyd went to France he fig- ured that being torpedoed would make a fine story. Of course, it wasn't possible to arrange for such a thing in advance, but Gibbons selected the Laconia as a likely boat to take the rap. I've always maintained that the story which Floyd Gibbons wrote about the sinking of the Laconia stands out as the best piece of reporting done in our time. A Popular Story And I'm not alone in this opinion. As a matter of fact, Floyd has sold that particular piece four. or five times to the magazines and used it on six different radio programs. I remember very well some years ago Gibbons showed me an impressive check which he had re- ceived from a weekly magazine. "What did you sell them, Floyd?" I asked. "The sinking of the Laconia," said Gibbons. Naturally, T raised an eyebrow in astonishment. "But," I protested, "that's Captain Patterson's magazine, and originally you did it for his news- papers. I suppose you've rewritten the whole thing." "Sure," said Gibbons, "I put in ap. extra com- ma." But fearing that I might be perturbed by the suggestion that something was being put over on an editor, Gibbons added hastily, "The cap- tain knows it's the same story. HeIs buying the use of my name." Now, when a reporter gets to the point where he can let the "by-line" do the work the words which come after the signature may not be ar- ranged in such a manner as to constitute little masterpieces. Maybe there ought to be a law prohibiting any working newspaper man from signing his name in a paper. It might produce better copy. Even :he most notable journalists would'be compelled o dig in every day and make their stuff speak for them. Nobody could get by' me'ely through flying his kite and letting the labels lift him. Among The Great Reporters Gibbons has written much in the last few years which hardly matched hiis Lacoriia story. Indeed, some. of the reporters of the younger generation are inclined to thrust him into outer darkness. Only the other day I was sitting around with a bunch of freshmen who were debating which newspaper men should be classed among the great reporters. When I threw in the name of Floyd Gibbons they all laughed heartily. But, as a matter of fact, they had scoffed at all my other selections. In this new school of thought the impression seems to prevail that no one more than 26 years old has ever done anything of note in newspapers. And so I pounded my fist on the table and said: "You listen to your Uncle Heywood. Go and scrub your neck before you take on these high and mighty airs about'your elders. The sinking of the Laconia was a grand job, and Gibbons was helped a lot by the fact that he was in a hurry. When the trawler picked him up out of the ocean and took him to the nearest cable office he had to sit down and write ten or twelve columns of copy just as fast as his fingers could carry him. Beak In The Brine "He has no time to monkey with a fancy lead or throw in any literary lugs. Being under pres- sure, nothing could come out of him but the unvarnished truth. The salt water was still up his nose. "The worst thing anybody can say to a real re- porter is, 'Take your time.' Leisure is the death of journalistic literature. "And let me tell you young squirts that if Bleeck's was to blow up this very minute Gib- bons could get to his typewriter and outwrite any one of you if a deadline was hanging over his head." And so it is both fitting and fortunate that fabulous Floyd should be cruising around Miami in his own yacht. If anybody shoots this from under him he could once more. sit down and do another Laconia story. A cross-section of Hunter College students, in a voluntary peace poll sponsored by the World Youth Congress, revealed they believ that in case of armed conflict, the United .Sates should prohibit shipment of munitions to all countries at war. They were divided about half and half on the question of whether they would fight for De- mocracy against Fascism or fight only in case the country is invaded-. Uy IROBERTY FERL4AN~ It is far too seldom that the Luce trust, publishers of Time, Fortune and Life, acts for the greatest good for the greatest number of this coun-t try's population, but they have defi- nitely rendered the American people a1 public service by their presentation ofe the March of Time's "pictorial jour- nalism" feature, "Inside Nazi Ger- many," whichappeared at the Mich- igan Theatre this last week-end. The film merits praise and shouldf be seen, because it presents graphi- cally the life of men, women and chil- dren under Hitler's regime and thanks to the commentator, does so in a way that leaves little doubt about the desirability of fascism in the mind of one who believes in democracy and the dignity of man. Actually the picture is composed of shots that could be not only innocent but pro-Nazi, if the commentator had not dug beneath the surface and pointed out that the superficial con- tentment of a Berlin crowd does not show the constantly dropping stan- dard of living of the mass of German people and the headlong race toward war and destruction. "Eiery man who wants to work is given a job by Hitler," the commen- tator says, but hastens totadd that the worker will produce tools for spread- ing death, will be told when, where and how long to work (without the right to strike), will come home at night to butterless and meatless meals (because Germany must import iron for the artillery and not badly needed foodstuffs) and will be bom- barded over the radio and through the newspapers by Dr. Goebbels' propaganda about regaining Ger- iany's lost colonies and about the thousands who were killed in Com- munist riots in Detroit. Particular emphasis is placed on the process of Nazifying Germany, which is being accomplished by prop- aganda, medieval torture and ma- chine guns. Every minute of every (Continued from Page 2) student or students involved to par- ticipate, the names of all those who have presented Ceitificates of Eligi- bility, and a signed agreement to ex- clude all others from participation. The issuing of Certi'icates of Eli- gibility for the second semester will be greatly facilitated if each applicant brings with him or her a record of first semester grades. Second semester Certificates of El- igibility will be required after Mar. 1. Research grants from the Miclii- gan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters: The Committee on Promotion of Research of the Michigan Academy wishes to remind the members of the Academy that applications for grants in aid of research from the American Association for the Advancement of Science must be in the hands of the secretary of the Committee not later than Feb. 25, 1938, if they are to be considered for the 1938 award. The total amount9available for grants is usually between one hun- dred an dfifty ($150.00) and 'two hundred dollars ($200.00). A statement containing a detailed description of the problem, the pro- posed use of the sum requested, and of the probable length of time to complete the problem should accom- pany each application. At least two letters in support of each application are also requested, one of which must come from the head of the de- partment or the dean of the college. Textbook Lending Library: Stu- dents who would like to borrow books from the Textbook Lending Library at the Angell Hall Study Hall must be recommended for the privilege by Professor Arthur D. Moore, Dean Joseph A. Bursley, Dean Alice C'. Lloyd, or by any one of the academic Tuesday afternoon from 4:00 to 6:00 in Room 308 Library. R, W. Cowden. My section of English 298 will meet as usual on Wednesday evening at 7:30 in Room 406 Library. R. W. Cowden. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ;ifutication in the .ulletin is constructive notice to ial rmeznbrs of the University. Copy received at the office of the Asistant to the President untii 3:30; ii :00 a.m. on Saturday English 300E, Seminar in Criticism, will meat Thursday, 3 p.m., hours for the semester to be arranged then. Mathematics 120, Life Insurance Accounting. The first meeting of this course will be Tuesday, from 2-4 p.m., in 3201 A.H. Mathematics 248, Thory of Elas- ticity. For those who are interested in this course, there will be a meet- ing to arrange hours on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 3 o'clock in Room 20 East Hall. Mathematics 371, Seminar in Mod- ern Algebra. First- meeting will be held in Room 3001 A.H. Tuesday, Feb. 15, from 3-5. The program will be arranged and Mr. Ollmann will report on the Steinitz paper. M.E. 33 and 38: Students electing these courses will meet at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 16, in oom 209 West Engineering Annex. Laboratory schedules and all semester arrange- ments will be made at this time. Mechanical Engineering 36: Stu- dents electing this course should meet in Room 220 West Engineering Building Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 4:00 p.m. Naval Architecture 2. Will meet in Room 336, West Engineering Build- ing instead of Room 222 as given in the announcement. Philosophy 114. This course will meet in 206 S.W. day a relentless mental regimentation of the Germans is going on in the army, the churches and especially in the schools. Propagandists (and that term has in the past included many clergymen, teachers, and artiss) know that one ideological injection is far more effective at the age of seven than twenty such injections at the i'ge of 18 or older, and the commen- tator in "Inside Nazi Germany" makes it very clear that Goebbels is taking full advantage of his oppor- tunity to train the smallest children to think of themselves as future sol- diers and mothers of soldiers. We cannot criticize "Inside Nazi Germany," for failing to bring the lesson right into our backyard. That was not the purpose of this film; its purpose, which it very adequately achieved, was to give us a glimpse of Nazism. But the March of Time can render an even greater service to the American people by making a "pic- torial journalism" feature of the American variety of fascism. MUSIC Calendar TODAY School of Music Graduation Reci- tal, Sara Linton, pianist. Bach C minor Partita, Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9, Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 78, Chopin Fantasie, Op. 49. 8:15 p.m., School of Music Auditorium. THURSDAY Choral Union Concert, Roth String Quartet. Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 of Beethoven, Dohnanyi Quartet in D-flat major, No. 2, Quartet in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1 of Schumann. 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. SATURDAY Cincinnati Conservatory Symphony and Madrigal Singers, conducted by Alexander von Kreisler and John A. Hoffman. Beethoven's Fifth Sym- phony, Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture, madrigal group. 11-12 a.m., CBS. Metropolitan Opera Company in Wagner's Lohengrin. Flagstad, Mel- chior, Branzell, Hofmann, Huehn, conducted by de Abravanel. 1:40, NBC Blue. Indianapolis Symphony, Fabien Sevitzky, conductor, Albert Spaulding violin soloist. Handel "Water Music, Lalo Symphonie Espagnole, Bloch's American Epic Rhapsody. 9:15-10:45, MBS. NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini, conductor. Handel's Concerto Grosso No. 12 in B minor, Haydn's G minor Symphony (B & H No. 88), Roussel's The Feast of the Spider, Weber-Ber- lioz Invitation to the Dance, Taran- tell from Op. 44 of Martucci. 10-11:30 NBC. Union To Sponsor Activities Smoker Freshman and new students inter- ested in outside activities are invited co. an activities smoker to be spon- sored by the Union at 8 p.m. Thurs- day in the main ballroom. The meeting will be informal, and five minute talks will be given by Jack Thom, '38, president of the Union; Bob Williams, '38, head cheer counselors of ture, Science, the College of Litera- and the Arts. I Students may leave requests for books not now in the Textbook Lend- ing Library with Mr. Van Kersen, Assistant in Charge of the Angell .all Study Hall. Such requests will be printed in The Michigan Daily so that donors of books may have the opportunity of satisfying specific needs. The Bureau has received notice of the following United States Civil Service Examinations: Agronomist (Soil Conservation), $3,800 a year; Associate Agronomist (Soil Conservation), $3,200 a year Assistant Agronomist (Soil Conser- vation), $2,600 a year; Soil Conir- vation Service, Department of Agri- culture. Junior Scientific Aid ' (Parasitol- ogy), $1,440 a year; Bureau of Ani- mal Industry, Department of Agri- culture. Senior Scientific Aid (Preparator in Pathology), $2,000 a year; Army Medical Museum, War Department. Printer-Proofreader, $1.32 an hour (40 hour week); Government Print- ing Office. Physiotherapy Aide, $1,800 a year; U. S. Public Health Service (Treasury Department), and Veterans' Admin- istration. JuniorEngineer, $2,000 a year; Senior students may apply. Customs Examiner's Aid, $2,300 a year; U.S. Customs Service, Treasury Department. For further information, please call at the office, 201 Mason Hall. University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Infor- mation. Academic Notices Notice to Seniors: The examination in foreign languages (French, Span- ish, German) for the New York State teacher's license will be held Friday, Feb. 18, at 1:15 o'clock, in Room 100 R.L. Aeronautical Engineering Stu- dents: Students enrolled in Profes- sor Thompson's sections of Aeronau- tical Engineering 14, i15a 19, and 24 will meet to arrange hours in Room B-308 East Engineering Building to- day at 4:00 p.m. Students unable to be present at this time should leave a copy of their schedules in my office. Anthropology 32 will meet in Room 1025 Angell Hall instead of Room 231. Anthropology 152, The Mind of Primitive Man, wil meet in Room 1035, Angell Hall, nstead of Room 16. Economics 175 (First semester). The first semester final examination in Economics 175 will be reviewed at the first meeting of Economics 176, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 10 a.m. in 103 Ec. Bldg. All first semester 175 students are welcome. E. M. Hoover. English 190: The class will meet at 5 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2215 A.H. Any student unable to keep this ap- pointment will kindly report to the instructor. PsychOlogy 34L, 36, 38: All labora- tory sections of these courses will meet this week at 1 p.m. in Room 3126 N.S. on their respective days. Students who have not yet arranged laboratory sections and students in 34L who have not aj ranged their dis- cucsion section should do so at once in Room 2122 N.S. The regular place of meeting for 34L is Room 1139 N.S. on Wednesday at 1 and Satur- day at 11. Psychology 106 meets in W. Med. con TuTh at 10. PWychology 116 meets in W. Med. on MWF at 11. Psychology 166 meets in W. Med. on MWF at 2. Room 307, Room 307 Room 307 Wedding March... IN SPITE of attempts at camouflage, and conciliation, Hitler's piurge of the German army and diplomatic service has caused reasonably widespread alarm in European capitals. For the last likely brake on the Nazi military machine now appears to be off, with the rest of the route downhill. Gen. Werner von Fritsch, boss of the Reichs- wehr, and his most important supporters on the general staff and in the high posts of the army, have paid the penalty for opposition to German intervention in Spain by their dismissal, together with two conservative ambassadors and Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath. The fascist defeat at Teruel probably brought the feud to a crisis, but there is no doubt that dissension had long existed behind the Nazi facade. Von Fritsch is known to have quarrelled with Hitler on the rate of speed of the enlargement of the Reich military forces, urging that the foreign policy be kept within bounds until the army could be brought to a peak of numerical and mechanical strength, while on the other hand the Fuehrer insisted that the growth in military power keep pace with foreign affairs. Last year's scheduled increase did not materialize fully in spite of Hitler's expostulations and the tremen- dous concentration of the nation's productive forces on it. Von Ribbentrop, the new foreign .mibister, is one of Hitler's closest associates, a'kel',ble Party Psychology 176. Will the students who intend to work with Professor Adams pelase report in his office on Thursday, Feb. 17, either at 2 or 3 o'clock. Beginners' and Advanced Classes in Speech-reading are being formed for this second semester. Possible class hours are daily 9 or 3, with laboratory practice at 10 or 4. Bessie Whitaker. Concerts Graduation Recital: Sara Grace Linton, pianist, will appear in reci- talin partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the Master of Mu- sic degree, in the School of Music Auditorium, Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 8:15 o'clock. The public is invited. Choral Union Concert: The Roth String Quartet of Budapest, Feri Roth, First Violin; Jenor Antal, Sec- ond Violin; Ferenc Molnar, viola; and Janos Scholz, violoncellist; will give the ninth program in the Choral Union Concert Series, Thursday, Feb. 17, at 8:30 o'clock in Hill Audi- torium. Exhibitions An exhibition of paintings, draw- ings and drypoints by Umberto Ro- mano is offered by the Ann Arbor Art Association in the South gallery of Alumni Memorial Hall, and an exhibition of etchings by John Tay- lor Arms in the North Gallery, Feb. 14 through March 2. Open 2 to 5 p.m. daily including Sundays, admission free to members and to students% Lectures University Lecture: Professor Wil- liam A. Robson of the London School of Economics and Political Science will lecture on "Democracy in Eng- land Today" in the Natural Science Auditorium today at 4:15 p.m. under the auspices of the Department of Political Science. Chemistry Lecture: Dr. V. N. Ipa- tieff, of the Universal Oil Products Company, will speak on The Cata-- lytic Alkylation of Paraffins and Naphthenes in Room 165, Chemistry Building, at 4:15 p.m. today. This lecture is sponsored by the U. of X'. Section of the American Chemical J-Hop Bands Please Customers By TUURE TENANDER Both Jimmy Dorsey and Kay Kyser received a warm reception from the Hoppers Friday night although, as might have been expected, the latter probably drew a greater share of the plaudits clarinet. The alto still remains his best medium of expression. His band was well-balanced, the rhythm section performing very steadily, with McKinley setting an excellent example for the other members of the section to follow June