.Y MICHIGAN DAILY IDAILY .1 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Studer,' Publications. Piibushed every morning except Monlday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all othr matter herein also reserved. En aPred at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second g~.lass mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY - NationalAdvertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Reresetative_ 420 MADIsoN AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO B BOSTON - LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR............JOSEPH S. MATTES ASSOCIATE EDITOR.............TUURE TENANDER kSSOCIATE 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. JONES CREDIT MANAGER ....................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER.........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES NIGHT EDITOR: ROB1RT I. FITZHENRY The editorials pu Daily are written t staff and represent only. A Beacon Of Hope .. . ublished in The Michigan by members of the Dailyd t the views of the writers R ADICAL and progressive groups on the campus sat stunned over the week-endin the face of the most serious strategic error they have ever made in their battle to tear the "great unwashed" mass of Michigan students out of its apathy toward social problems. They have neglected one who could be their most potent ally. That ally is he, who, in a speech before the New York Alumni Friday night, said that it is "posi- tively dangerous for it (society) to thwart the am- bition of youth to reform the world." "Only the schools which act on this belief are educational institutions in the best meaning of the term." That ally is President Ruthven His natural preoccupation as a scientist, and his infrequent public utterances have created what now has been shown to be an erroneous impression. A campus liberal leader, when asked for tomment by the Daily yesterday, attempted to explain the situation by saying: "Perhaps the responsibility for this misconception lies with the conservatism of a number of faculty committees, appointed by the President, whose contact with the: student is more direct than is President Ruthven's." Another progressive theorized that "The belief that President Ruthven stood behind these com- mittees heretofore has eliminated the possibility of an appeal to the President from an arbitrary decision." President Ruthven's attitude has given new coiage to the Daily, which has fought con- tinuously for the principles to which he sub- scribes. We regret somewhat that his attitude was not made clear sooner. If it had, many ob- stacles which have impeded our efforts might not have been encountered. Lack of space prevents us from reprinting the President's address in its entirety. Nevertheless, we should like to quote the following extracts from his speech. "Of the depressingly numerous criticisms lev- eled at institutions of higher education in the United States some of the most sensational picture the schools as incubators of radical ideas, hotbeds for young extremists, and asylums for impractical iconoclastic professors. The faultfinding, direct- ed principally at teaching and discussion in the field of the social sciences, assumes that condi- tions should not be changed or altered except in particular directions and is incited mostly by fear, selfishness, or ignorance. It is thus essen- tialy stupid... Political science, economics, and sociology are straining at the bonds which con- servative interests would keep well knit..." " .nIt is probably the prevailing conservatism of our colleges and universities which is in large part responsible for the refutation for radicalism. Far from being 'red' or even liberal they are, on the whole, really the strongholds of conservatism and important. agencies in maintaining the status quo ... Thus any evidence of unorthodox think- ing, the slightest tinge of pink, becomes con- spiuous as a departure from the norm and causes a spasm of hysteria in timid souls who are fearful of being disturbed ... "'But it is this very conservatism, not depar- tures from it, which should give grave concern o every person interested in human welfare. As e have been warned many times: 'A conservative ung man has wound up his life before it was eled.-We expect old men to be conservative t when a nation's young are so, its funeral bell already tolled.' Youth is life's period of experi- entation ... " " .Specifically, the student is within his right to question the appropriateness of the halo of ethical sanctification over economic expediency or: to challenge the calculated and unrelenting pursuit of profit . . ." - Indeed in this direction lies disaster, for dicta- torial forms of government, disgraceful pheno mena in a supposedly civilized world, are encour- aged and made possible by regimented minds. Fascism is essentially the consequence of a wide- spread feeling of inferiority, induced by cramped thinking, and functions only because fearful, mentally warped individuals will trade self-re- spect for the spirit of the herd ... " Instead of ridiculing and criticizing stu- dents for daring to think outside of particular patterns, instead of insulting teachers by the passage of loyalty oaths, and instead of starving schools to make life more pleasant for an older generation it would be better if the faultfinders would encourage teachers and students with ex- pressions of hope, patience, and tolerance and would consider it a privilege rather than a burden to assist the schools in what is, after all, the most important responsibility of society." "Concisely, the matter comes to this: It is im- portant for society to avoid the neglect of adults, out positively dangerous for it to thwart the am- bition of youth to reform the word. Only the schools which act on this belief are educational institutions in the best meaning of the term. The light in the schoolhouse is not a danger signal, not the beginning of a disastrous con- flagration, but a beacon of hope for a distressed world." Joseph S. Mattes. Tuure Tenander. Irving S. Silverman. . l MUSIC A1 By WILLIAM J. LICHTENWANGER Guilla mre Leke it Whenever mention is made of musical geniuses who died young, it is usually Mozart and Schubert that are taken as examples. Yet Schubert was thirty-one at the time of his death and Mzart almost thirty-six - ages that appear ripe and hoary when compared with the meagre twenty- four years of two later composers of less renown but of infinite promise. The first of these was Julius Reubke (1834-1858), pianist and composer pupil of Liszt who is known chiefy for his pro- grammatic organ sonata The Ninety-fourth Psalm. The other was the Belgian Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894), whose best-known work is the Sonata in G major for Violin and Piano, to be splayed tonight by Georges Enesco and Sanford Schlussel. Carried off by typhoid fever the day after his twenty-fourth birthday, Lekeu had been engaged in composition for but three years, and in an at all serious study of music for but six. His prin- cipal teachers were Cesar Franck and Vincent d'Indy, but equal influence on his career was exerted by his fellow-countryman, the violinist Eugene Ysaye, for whom the G major Sonata was written and by whom it was made famous. As is the case with most young composers, Le- keu's first creative essays were in the realm of chamber music. Besides the violin sonata there are a cello sonata, piano trio, string quartet, and several unfinished works. His two most elaborate compositions are an Etude Symphonique on Ham- let and an Adagio for Fourteen Strings, the lat- ter to be played next Sunday by the University of Michigan Little Symphony. For all of these works the inspiration was the last quartets of Beetho- ven, but in their youthful, passionate romanti- cism and disregard of formal regularity they far exceed the limits of Beethoven's music. The Violin Sonata, like its companions, is a work of absolute music, conceived apart from all literary considerations, but a work overflowing with lyricism and emotion, reaching the heights of warmth and enthusiasm. Although nominally cast in the cyclic mold, the piece is rather in the form of a free phantasy, which, however, achieves a psychologic unity through the strength and assurance of its construction and by a return of themes which unites its three movements. In the breadth and clarity of its themes, the richness of its harmonies and the mastery of its inspiration it constitutes one of the pinnacles of romanticism in chamber music. Seattle's Election Seattle's primary election for Mayor might be cited by the CIO in reply to charges that it is a Communist organization. The CIO candidate in the primary was Lieutenant Governor Meyers, who used to be leader of a jazz band. Part of the time he campaigned in a Gandhi makeup ac- companied by a goat. He also promised the public to equip the trolley cars with good-looking host- esses. This sounds so authentically American frontier that it is hard to think of the CIO can- didate as an agent of Moscow. It is also authentically American that after years of violence and burlesque Seattle pulled herself together and gave the Citizens' candidate,. twice as many votes as the John L. Lewis-Gandhi candidate, with the prospect of a 3-to-1 victory in the run-off election. For that matter, the Pacific seaboard apparent- ly likes to mix music with its municipal politics. San Francisco over a period of many years had Mayon Schmitz, who used to be an orchestra leader and a stout labor union man. This seemed not altogether strange for the city on the Golden Gate with its old artist and bohemian tradition. San Francisco has been even credited with a touch of the Latin temperament. But it would be different in Seattle with a much smaller frac- tion of its foreign-born from Southern and East- ern Europe. . As a matter of fact, the Seattle music conductor who is Lieutenant Governor of his State and wants to be Mayor is not a prac- titioner of the classical music, one gathers. So it must be the proximity of the Pacific Ocean that accounts for music, heavenly maid, going hand in hand with rough labor politics which occasionally verge on homicide, and rough JItfeemr b te 1eywood Brown Eyebrows have been raised because "Jim" Far- ley is selling his autobiography to a magazine. But instead of censure there should be approval, since this excursion is actually an indication that "Jim" is a man whose personal integrity is above reproach. Few people turn to the arduous ordeal of literature until they need the money very badly. Belles- lettres is among the pressure groups. Mr. Farley is merely fol- lowing an old and undoubt- edly bad tradition that the Postmaster General should be the patronage dispenser in the cabinet of every admin- istration. And there can be no question that "Jim" has favored deserving Democrats, just as "Will" Hays gave jobs to re- sponsible Republicans. In all this there is no departure from established American practice. However, it probably is true that under the set- up of the New Deal "Jim" Farley has been in a spot to dispense greater federal patronage than has ever been known before. In his private capacity Farley has been, and perhaps still is, the president of a building supply company. And in such a situation cynics might well say, "He is sitting pretty, and Federal lous- ing projects won't do him any harm." The only trouble with this is the fact, known to most Washington newspaper men, that "Jim" is flat broke and that his business has gone into next to nothing. And so I wish him every success with his book. lHe Knows His Onionr The papers have reported that the magazine price is $125,000. Gravely do I suspect that there is a touch of ballyhoo in any such round number. Fifty thousands probably would be more accurate. But when the series is done it will be brought out in book form, and, for all I know, there may be motion picture rights. If Farley tells one-third of what he knows he should be able to produce a book of much more than passing interest. Of course, I have my doubts as to whether he will let his hair all the way down to the floor. For instance, his attitude toward Franklin Roose- velt is one of complete idolatry. If "Jim" has any material which would be harmful to his chief in any way no publisher will get it out of him with fat contracts-or thumbscrews, for that matter. They say that the relationship between the two men is less cordial than it used to be. Little has been heard lately of Farley's ambition to run for Governor of New York. Probably "Jim" would be a vulnerable candidate because of the legend which has been created as to his role as Santa Claus in the matter of distributing plums. But if he has been Saint Nick I think there ought to be a realization of the fact that he has kept nothing to put in the toe of his own stocking. Moreover, I listened to Robert H. Jackson's bac- calaureate at the Hotel Commodore, and while the potential Solicitor General seems an agreeable and able young man, he is very much less than a ball of fire on the rostrum. The Democrats are not well equipped with Gubernatorial material and I think that at the last minute they may still turn to Farley as their best bet. The Complete'Party Man Mr. Farley is and always has been an organiza- tion man, with the complete code which that role imposes. For instance, I see by the papers that he played golf with Hague in Florida. Many people wouldn't sit within brassie shot of Jersey City's Mayor. But Hague controls votes, and so, according to the code of politics, he is a man to be cultivated. And yet there is a difference. Hague isn't writ- ing.a book. He doesn't have to. I do not think that the Postmaster General of the United States should be the Lord Bountiful of every administration. I am not for the theory that to the victor belongs the spoils. But Farley didn't start it. And I am impressed with the fact that nothing has stuck to his own fingers. On behalf of Shakespeare, Milton and Cer- vantes I welcome "Jim" into the company of those ,vho set down one little word after another. I hope his book is a great success. Of course, he would be in a better spot if he were a Republican. There are more Democrats, but it must be dis- couraging to a budding author to realize that he is writing for a group which contains so many people who have not yet learned to read. As The Romans Did? Should one speak Latin like Queen Elizabeth or like Cicero? This is the problem to which Eng- land's learned men are now devoting their intel- lectual resources. Yet, on the face of it, the solution would seem to be simple enough. When talking the Roman language, ought one not to talk as the Romans did? Queen Elizabeth spoke English as her tutor, Roger Ascham, instructed her; and Ascham said that Latin should be pronounced as though it were English. For three centuries this was the manner in which Latin was taught and spoken in England, but during the reign of Victoria cer- tain scholars reverted (more or less) to the pro- riunciation used by the Romans themselves. This has led to great confusion among classical stu- dents. Most people going up to the universities use the Roman pronunciation, but some schools, including Eton, have gone back to the tradi- tional English style. The situation is neatly ex- emplified in an incident concerned with Mr. Lionel Curtis's book, "Civitas Dei." A bookseller rang Mr. Curtis up, and asked whether the title should be pronounced "Saevitas Deei," or "Kee- wee-tas Dayee." . Upholders of the Roman style assert that the English school is "hopelessly confused and incon- sistent," and that it "induces gross phonetic (Continued from Page 2) blanks. All information given will be held in strict confidence and will be communicated to the Emergency Committee in New York. 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(no report), should make up all work by March 14 or the DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to, the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, which new elections may be ap- proved. The willingness of an indi- vidual instructor to admit a student later would not affect the operation of this rule. Students, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: A meeting will be held on Thursday, March 3, at 4:15 'p.m. in Room 1025 Angell Hall for students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and others in- terested in future work in law. A talk on the profession will be given by Dean Henry M. Bates of the Law School. This will be the first meeting of the vocational series designed to give information concerning the na- ture of the preparation for the vari- ous professions. The second meet- ing, to be addressed by Dean R. W. Bunting of the School of Dentistry, will be held on Tuesday, March 8th. School of Education Students, Changes of Elections: No course may be elected for credit after Saturday, March 5. Students enrolled in this school must report all changes of elections at 'he Registrar's Office, Room 4, University Hall. Membership in a class does not cease nor begin until all changes have been thus officially registered. Arrange- ments made with the instructors are not official changes. Seniors School of Education: The final collection of Senior Class dues will be held on Monday, Feb: 28, and Tuesday, March 1, in the School of Education Office, University Ele- mentary School. Will you please pay your dues at this time so that your name may be immediately placed on the graduation announcement list of our class. L.S.&A., Seniors: Dues must be paid in lobby of Angell Hall by Thursday if you wish your name to be listed in the graduating announcement of the class. Any student who has put a lock on any locker in Rooms 323, 331, and 335 without having it assigned to him by a member of the Mechanical Engineering staff must remove it at once, or the Department will cut it off. If a locker is needed by any stu- dent not enrolled in one of the Mech- anical Engineering design courses this semester, he should make this request of Professor Frank A. Mickle. Any Junior Mechanical Engineers interested in the possibility of sum- mer employment during 1938 are re- quested to fill out a personnel record card in room 221 West Engineering Building at once. First Mortgage Loans: The Univer- sity has a limited amount of funds to loan on modern well-located Ann Arbor residential property. Interest at current rates. Apply Investment Office, Room 100, South Wing, University Hall. Choral Union Members. Members of the Choral Union whose records are clear will be issued pass tickets for the Georges Enesco concert Tues- day night, who call in person at the School of Music office between the hours of 9 and 12, and 1 and 4,Tues- day, March 1. After 4 p.m. no tickets will be issued. Academic Notices Sociology 51: Make-up final exam- ination will be given on Saturday, March 5, at 2 o'clock in Room D, Haven Hall. . Mr. Milburn's and Mr. Seager's group will not meet this semester. Concerts Choral Union Concerts: Georges Enesco, Roumanian Violinist, will give the tenth program in the Choral Union Concert Series, Tuesday eve- ning, March 1st, at 8:30, in Hill Auditorium. Organ Recital: Porter Heaps, guest organist, of Chicago, will provide a program of organ music Wednesday afternoon, March 2, in Hill Audi- torium, to which the general public is invited without admission charge, 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. Exhibition, College of Architecture: A showing of the Margaret Watson Parer collection of Pewabic pottery, the work of Mary Chase Stratton, is now on display in the central cases on the ground floor of the Architec- ture Building. Lectures University' Lecture: Professor Eu- ,. F Public Lecture. Colored motion pic- tures illustrating travels in the Cree Indian country of the Hudson Bay region will be shown by Mr. Ben East, Michigan outdoor writer, in his lec- ture, "The Land of the Midnight Twi- light," at 8:15 p.m., Wednesday, March 2, in Hill Auditorium. The lecture is under the auspices of the School of Forestry and Conservation. Students and faculty of the Univer- sity, and others interested are invited. to attend. There will be no admis sion charge norwill seats be reserved. University Lecture: Professor E. H. Carr, of the College of Wales, Univer- sity of Aberystwyth, will lecture on "Great Britain, Italy, and the Medi- terranean" on Thursday, March 3, at 4:15 p.m., in the Natural Science Auditorium, under the auspices of the Department of Political Science. Forestry Lecture: Mr. C. P. Cronk, M.S.F., 1912, of the West Coast Lum- bermen's Association, will speak at 11 a.m., Tuesday, March 1,. in Room C, Haven Hall, on industrial -foestry. All students in the School of Fores- try and Conservation are expected to attend, and any others interested are cordially invited. Mr. A. V. Karpov, Chairman of the Structural Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Hy- draulic Engineer for the Aluminum Company of America, will give two lectures on the "Fundamentals Con- trolling Structural Design" at 4 p.m., Room 445 West Engineering Bldg. March 1 and March 2. These lec- tures are sponsored by the Civil- En- gineering Department and all stu- dents and faculty members interest- ed are cordially invited to attend." La Sociedad Hispanica announces the third lecture of its series "Ensen- anza Universitaria en Hispano-Amer- ica" by Professor Julio del Tor con Wednesday, March 2 at 4:15 p.m. in Room 231 Angell Hall. This lecture will be illustrated with stereoptican views. All members are urged to be present. Events Today Junior Research Club. The March meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 2083 Natural Science Building. Mr. G. Hoyt Service will speak on. "High Gain Amplifiers for Physiolo- gical Research" and Dr. Charles M. Davis will talk on "Some Problems in the Classification and Appraisal of Submarginal Lands." The Association- Book Group will meet at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday in Lane Hall Library. Kenneth Morgan will review Aldous Huxley's "Ends and Means." The Play-Reading Section of the Faculty Womens Club 'will meet on Tuesday, March 1, at 2:15 in the Mary Henderson Room of the Michi- gan League. The Men's Physical Education Club will meet on Tuesday, March 1, at 9 p.m., in Room 304, Michigan Union. There will be a short but. very im- portant business meeting at this time. At the conclusion of the meeting Prof. E. D. Mitchell will show sound pic- tures of the last Olympic games. Students, coaches and faculty l mem- bers are urged to attend. Refresh- ments will be served. Chemical and Metallurgical En- gineering Seiinar for Graduate Stu- dents, Tuesday, March 1, 4:00 p.m., Room 3201, East Engineering Build- ing. Mr. Alan S. Foust will spealC on "Heat Transfer Coefficients in Bas- ket-.type Evaporator as a Function of Liquid Circulation." Quarterdeck Meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m., at the Union. Mr. Carl Essery, Adhiralty Lawyer, will speak. All those interested are cordially in- vited. Union Coffee Hour: Professor Pol- lock will lead a discussion today. at 4:30 p.m. in the small ballroom of the Union on "Government and Poli- tics As A Career." League House Presidents will have a meeting at the League today at 4:30 p.m. Tea will be served. Tryouts for French Play: Tryouts for French Play Tuesday, Wednesday' and Thursday this week from 3:00 to 5:00, Room 408, Romance Lan- guage Building. Open to all students interested. German Pl Tryouts: Tryouts for the, German Play will be held from 2-4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons in Room 300, South Wing4 ChristianeScience Organization: 8:15 p.m. League Chapel. Students, alumni and faculty invited to attend the services. Ann Arbor Independents: There will be an important special meeting at the League at 5:00, today, Junior Girls Play: A meeting of the