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MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR...........TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR..................IRVING SILVERMAN Wlliam Spaler Robert Weeks Irvin Lisagor Helen Douglas NIGHT EDITORS:Harold Garn, Joseph Gies, Earl R. Oilman, Horace Gilmore, S. R. Kleiman, Edward Mag- dol, Albert Mayio, Robert Mitchell, Robert Perlman and Roy Sizemore. SPORTS DEPARTMENT: Irvin Lisagor. chairman; Betsy Anderson, Art Baldauf, Bud Benjamin, Stewart Fitch, Roy Heath and Ben Moorstein. WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT: Helen Douglas, chairman, Betty Bonisteel, Ellen Cuthvert, Ruth Frank, JaneB. Boiden, Mary Alice MacKenzie, Phyllis Helen Miner, Barbara Paterson, Jenny Petersen, Harriet Pomeroy, Marian Smith, Dorothea Staebler and Virginia Voor- hees. 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 Departmental Managers Ed Macal, Accounts Manager; Leonard P. Siegelman, Local Advertising Manager: Philip Buchen, Contracts Manager; William Newnan, Service Manager; Mar- shall Sampson, Publications and Classified Advertis- lug Manager; Richard H. Know, National Advertising and Circulation Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: HORACE W. GILMORE The New York Election. . OjNE OF THE most intriguing as- pects of next Tuesday's series of city and state elections will be the inauguration of Proportional Representation in the election of members of the New York City Council. Be- cagse mayors of such cities as Detroit and New York are to be elected and because several states are electing state tickets on November second this new feature of New York's election system has been generally overlooked. Although "P.R." has been used for municipal elections in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and certain other cities in this country, it has never been subjected to the thorough test it will get in Tues- day's election. The system to be used in New York, a modification of the Hare plan, will pro- vide for councilmen to be elected at-large from the five boroughs into which New York City is divided. Under the new scheme, each borough will be entitled to one member of the City Coun- cil for each 75,000 votes cast at the city election, - thus getting away from many of the difficulties of electing individual members from single- member districts. Gerrymandering and under- representation of newer, heavily populated out- lying districts will be done away with in favor of a repesentative system guaranteeing mem- bership in the City Council in proportion to the total votes cast in each borough. In addition to fairly representing the boroughs, this new plan of election will fairly represent the various political opinions expressed within each borough. Political groups will have seats on the council in proportion to the votes they cast at the election. It will be impossible for a situation which is very common today, namely, the under- representation of the minority, to exist, for each political grouping will be represented in propor- tion to its political strength among the voters. The voter when he goes to the polls will be handed a paper ballot with a list of the candi- dates for Council, in the particular borough of which the voter is a resident. Once in the voting booth the elector will mark, instead of a cross after the candidate he wishes to see elected, the figure 1 after his first choice, the figure 2 after his second choice, and so on down the list, expressing as many choices as he sees fit. In the counting of the ballots, all first choices are grouped together and any candidate having, the quota of 75,000 votes when this first count is completed is automatically elected. If there are still places to be filled (for example, if 275,000 votes were cast in Queens Borough, then there would be five seats on the City Council from Queens) all candidates having less than two thousand votes is declared defeated and his ballots are transferred to tloe second choice in- dicated thereon. Then the lowest candidate is declared defeated and his ballots are transferred to their next choices. This process continues until the necessary number of candidates have received, through these transfers, the 75,000 votes necessary for election. While this system of voting seems over-com- plicated, it has proven to be the best plan of pro- portional representation used as yet. By giving the voter an opportunity to vote for individual vious. Not only is the majority assured a clear mandate of the people, but the minority is given its proper role in government and is represented in direct proportion to its numbers. The rights of the majority to rule are not in any way di- minished, but the power of the minority is not obliterated, as so often happens in this country under our present election system. Unfortunately the Board of Elections in New York, dominated by old-party elements, has not seen fit to try to work the system, and has in many ways sought to sabotage it. The Tam-. many and old-guard Republican politicians see the danger to themselves in permitting the voter to make a series of free choices, beyond the con- trol of the district leaders, of independent-mind- ed men for the City Council, and are attempting to end that danger by making the system appear complex, time-wasting, and generally useless. Given any sort of decent opportunity, P.R. will demonstrate on Tuesday that it is deserving of serious consideration by all who seek improve- ment in our system of government. M k* k EDITOR'S NOTE: The explanation of proportional representation in this editorial , is necessarily simplified. Anyone having particular questions about this system is invited to address the Editorial Depart- ment of the Daily for further information. UNDER THE CLOCK with DISRAELI IF RACHMANINOFF had draped a sheet over the keys of his grand and played the Prelude in C Sharp Minor with his stocking feet we wouldn't have been troubled at all. When an artist has played a work a certain number of times there must be a point when he no longer thinks it necessary to ponder technique or further interpretation while playing and instead begins thinking about catching that midnight train. And if he is pressed to play beyond that point, he probably goes even further and wonders if there will be a good bartender bn the club car. With- out going too far into this. or knowing too much about it, we imagine that the first point is some- where around the five hundredth performance and the second not too far past that. That Rachmaninoff has played his Prelude something over a thousand times, might give an idea to the audience the other night-which probably knew it by heart, like "Sweet Adeline"-how he might have felt. It's just our guess, but for a minute there, when he came out for his fourth bow and met that steady beat of hands clapping in unison, it seemed as though he started to swing an arm, almost spit into one hand and wind up for the pitch. It was only after we whistled to an usher and found ourselves telling him to bring us an- other bag of peanuts that it dawned that we were not at a baseball game, but at one of the Choral Union's bargain basement sales. No Armenian rug peddler, no uncle on Mich- igan Avenue, no Vermont horse dealer, not even Jim Farley himself, a rascally fellow indeed, is a better hand at the subtle art of bargaining than an audience in Hill Auditorium. The finesse is that of the Ann Arbor police force and the spontaneity of a dress shirt the third night out. Some day someone in the audience will actually be so carried away and instead of swinging his heels and pounding their palms, then leaving because they were able to get only six encores at intermission and seven at the end, he will stand and shout "Bravo" or something Latin like that. Such action is not recommended however, the artistic temperament being what it is. A concert anytime is not quite like a series of request numbers at a dance where you do your trucking and shag and forget it. Some even remember it in more than moments of free association. Some might even want to think about it. And if anyone wants to think about the Flight of the Bumble Bee after what Jack Benny has done to it, not to say anything about all the marimba players in the world, let him. It's guys like that who 'turn pianists into piano players. We'll save our gasps of delight for that seventeenth time we see Shirley Temple in "Little Miss Marker." We noticed Mr. Wrag's little contribution yes- terday, don't think we didn't. Frankly, we're at a loss. A Winchell-Bernie feud would certainly be fine stuff, Wrag, old man-get you a few readers, probably. But do you really think it would be fair play. After all, Disraeli is only one against College Humor, Ballyhoo, six-year- old issues of Gargoyle, Fred Allen and your Poli. Sci. prof. On The Le--vel; Some of the campus honor societies, like the Triangles, have started on their Fall initiations, but others, like Druids are waiting until the snow falls so their ceremonies will be harder to go through, For those who don't know, an honor society is composed of a group of men or women who have done everything in college except study, and who take a terrific beating, make fools of themselves in public, and pay a good-sized fee for the privilege of having each others' company. After they have been duly initiated, these various groups have regular meetings in which ft feeiiur / Me [ILYWOOD ulBROUN When Woodrow Wilson was President he was under constant attack by the editorial page of the New York Tribune, and one morning the World commented, "Our neighbor appears to know all about running the government, but it can't seem to manage to keep its own clock going," I got somewhat the same feeling in listening to Her- bert Hoover over the air Tuesday night. Mr. -Hoover was voluble, though vague, in discussing the proper or- ganization on national af- fairs, but he was wholly inept in the handling of his own radio address. A full half hour had been allotted to him, andl yet he finished lamely in the middle of a sentence with his piece hardly more than outlined. On the whole, the better way in speaking is to get going with .the narrative right off rather than offering a lengthy preface. Herbert Hoover spent so much time in drawing up a blueprint of what he intended to discuss that his invisible audience never had a chance to hear him hammering brass tacks. In fact, as far as a radio listener could tell, the one statement which wowed his audience was "Let me :repeat once again that any public office." At, this point enthusiasm. the statement, I do not want there was true Off/ In His Timing Obviously Mr. Hoover has no natural gift for the radio, but he has worked hard in an effort to better himself. Unfortunately, he has mani- fested his old failing of choosing bad advisers. The keynote of his delivery ought to be rugged individualism and simplicity. Whoever told him that he should emulate Bergen's manner with Charlie McCarthy certainly did the great en- gineer no good service. Herbert Hoover unveiled his new style at the Cleveland convention in 1936, and on the whole the criticism was unfavorable. As far as I can remember, that was the first time he had ever used jokes or the rhetorical question. Some of Mr. Hoover's wisecracks look well enough in print, but he reads them all wrong. It is a question of timing. Herbert Hoover ought to set at the feet of other California entertainers and learn shading. I do not suggest a complete imitation, but I think there ought to be just a dash of Butterworth. To be specific, let us take just one line from the Boston address. Speaking of the potential cultural wealth of America, the ex-President said: -"There are newspapers, colleges, libraries, or- chestras, bands, radios and other noises." Charlie could have done something with that-not a great deal, of course, but still something. Herbert didn't. He failed to make that necessary split second pause before he introduced the cracker. But the major part of Hoover's failure lay in his indifferent use of the Bergen technique of question and answer. To be sure, the former President was using the audience as the dummy, but he never had it quite sitting on his knee. Q. And A. Stuff Misses "Let me ask you a few questions," said the or- ator of the evening, and then inquired, "Can your government broadcast half truths and expect the citizens to tell the whole truth?" Obviously there was need of a studio rehearsal, for the pause was too long before the audience shouted, "No!" During the next six or seven inquiries the audi- ence played ball and even got the "No" in occa- sionally before the question was finished. But then Mr. Hoover made his fatal error. "What happens to the morals of a people when the federal government connives at lawlessness?" He waited and waited for his response, forgetting that he had framed his query incorrectly. At length three listeners took him out of his misery. Two shouted, "Yes!" and one said, "No!" After all, there are national problems which are not to be solved simply by "Aye" or "Nay." Perhaps the trouble with football is that they are all good. Anyhow, they can't keep Harold Upset off the All-American. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. One little Dionne wielding a hammer while four stand by and hand her nails is a picture with all the earmarks of a project. -Chicago Daily News. Students who boast that they never open a textbook for an entire semester certainly were put to shame the other day when someone dis- covered a book in the Library that hadn't been taken out for 39 years. -Indiana Daily Student. Dora wants to know if a machine in gear is anything like a submarine incog. -Chicago Daily News. a gent named Farbstick, 15E, who once guzzled a jug of hard cider while standing on his head. Farbstick claimed it was easy after a while because his head kept getting bigger and bigger. The women's societies. such as Mortarboard Road To War Senator Johnson of California now warns that America's delegation en route to the Nine-Power conference may be on "the road to war." Many other Americans, noticing that their envoys are dispatched "without com- mitments" despite the already re- corded State Department denuncia- tion of Japan as a treaty-breaker,t are more afraid that Norman Davis and his aides have taken the road to another orgy of note-writing. Certainly they are unlikely to en- counter war before they reach Brus- sels-unless it be some offshoot of the piratical guerrilla struggle in Spain. And unless procedure att Brussels gets down to something more definite than the vital but still imponderable defense of law and order urged by the President's speechj at Chicago, there should be little cause for Mr. Johnson to take down his fowling piece. Whether the conference reachesf any useful destination depends on the road adopted at Brussels. Called under the Nine-Power Treaty, the delegates already have certain terms of reference. The most widely known sections of that treaty deal with pledges to respect the "sovereignty, the independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of China," and to provide the "fullestj opportunity to China to develop and maintain for herself an effective and stable . government." ARE MOTIVES PURELY UNSELFISH These provisions almost appear to have foreseen what Japan would bez tempted to do. And they seem tol have no purpose but an unselfish ef- fort to protect China. Yet the his- tory of the powers' treatment of China hardly supports the view. Their actions, as contrasted with their words, would lead an unbiased ob- server to conclude that none haver shown much respect for China's ter- ritorial or administrative integrity in1 the scramble for influence and trade. And in the Nine-Power Treaty they were much less concerned with China than with insuring that no one na- tion would gain such exclusive pow- er there as to shut the Open Door on the others. The Nine-Power Treaty was much less an altruistic7 instrument for helping a weak China than it was a business agreement to divide China's trade. Other sections of the treaty make that clear. They are pledges to maintain "equal op-1 portunity for the commerce and in- dustry of all nations," and to refrain from "taking advantage of condi- tions in China in order to seek spe- 1 cial rights or privileges." TREATY VIOLATIONS SHOULD BE CHECKEDt This is not to say that the treaty should have been violated without1 attempt to modify it by consultation. It is not to say that the nations had1 no unselfish interest in its purpose. And surely they have an interest in general observance of treaties, in( the maintenance of what interna- tional law has been agreed upon. At Brussels they may be able to find ways to check the violation of this( treaty and so strengthen the gen-( eral case for law and order. But the most feasible procedure will be to talk less about it as a safeguard of China or as a great humanitarian, peace-making instrume't and pro- ceed to apply it as a business agree- ment which has been broken. If the nations wish to form a dip- lomatic front for a general. drive; against war it would be better to take the Pact of Paris and its require- ments for seeking adjustments only by peaceful means. But with that treaty-weapon not only Japan but the other warmakers would have to be brought to book. The simpler method is to take the tangible, plain infringements of the trade 'carteld called the Nine-Power Treaty and seek to get some kind of peaceable adjustment under it. Taking that road at Brussels need not involve anyone in war. -Christian Science Monitor. FORUM Thank You To the Editor: I wish to compliment you on your handling of the restaurant situation. You rendered a genuine service to Ann Arbor citizens as well as to the student body. Your recent editorial was especial- ly good. Respectfully, Theron S. Langford. Page Accepts Neutrality Rather Than Warfare' (Continued from Page 1) those materials upon which they de- pend to survive, gift, purchase and stealing. The first has been tried little, the second is impossible of working for the haves build high tariffs to keep the have-nots out and the only way by which the handicapped nations can purchase the goods it needs are" to sell the goods it produces. FRIDAY, OCT, 29, 1937 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETEN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of -%e li'versity. Copy received at the QeM at the AsItaat t the P1es~i uutE 2:30; 11:00 a.m. n Saturday. 44 FRIDAY, OCT. 29, 1937 VOL. XLVIII. No. 29 Pay Day: In view of the fact that the regular pay day for October, Oct. 31, is Sunday and Saturday, the 30th, is a half-day, October salary checks will be ready for distribution on Fri- day, Oct. 29. Shirley W. Smith. 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. Faculty of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts: The five-week freshman reports will be due October 30, Room 4, University Hall. E. A. Walter, Chairman, Academic Counselors. To The Members of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts: The second regular meeting of the faculty of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts for the academic session of 1937-38 will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall, Nov. 1, 1937, at 4:10 p.m. Edward H. Kraus. Agenda: 1. Adoption of the minutes of the meeting of Oct. 4. 1937, which have been distributed by campus mail (pages 363-376). 2. Reports. a. Executive Committee, by Prof. Arthur S. Aiton. 1. Consideration of recommended change in wording relative to fresh- man elections. See enclosure. b. University Council, by Prof. W. F. Hunt. c. Executive Board of the Graduate School, by Prof. N. H. Williams. d. Advisory Committee on Univer- sity Affairs, by Prof. Preston Slosson. e. Deans' Conference, by Dean E. H. Kraus. 3. The Honors Degree Program in Liberal Arts is a special order of busi- ness for this meeting. 4. Report on Karpinski resolution. Members of the faculty who have not received the October minutes through campus mail may secure them at 1204 Angell Hall. Extra copies of the Honos Degree Program in Liberal Arts are also available there. Phi Beta Kappa: The Michigan Chapter will be" glad to receive the addresses of members of ther Chap- ters who have recently come to Ann Arbor. Please send to the office of the Secretary, 3233 Angell Hall and give the name of the College from which you received election not that of the Chapter. Orma F. Butler, Secretary. Society of Sigma Xi: All members of the society who have recently be- come affiliated with the University should notify the secretary of their membership, so that a transfer to the local chapter may be arranged. J. S. Gault, Room 273, W. Engineering. Civil Engineers: All Civil Engineers who expect to receive degrees either from the College of Engineering or Graduate School in February, June or August this year should report as soon as possible to Room 301, West Engineering Bldg., to fill out a per- sonnel record card. Each student must supply for this purpose a photo- graph, size 2'2x234 inches. Mechanical Engineers: Mr. George R. Beach, Jr., of the E. I. DuPont Co., will be here on Friday, Oct. 29, to interview any men interested in their company. He is, however, in- terested only in those men with a B average or considerable extra-cur- ricular activities. Please make an appointment in Room 221. Tickets For Excursion, Play Produc- tion presentation, with Whitford Kane in original leading role, are still available for tonight's opening, Fri- day and Saturday, at 8:30. Lydia Mendelssohn box office open all day. Phone 6300 for reservations. Sophomore Class Elections: Sopho- mores interested in class elections are reminded that their list of can- didates, with eligibility approved by the Dean's office, must be in the hands of Hugh Rader, 548 S. State, on or before ,Monday, Nov. 1. Concerts1 Orchestra Concert: The University Symphony Orchestra, Thor Johnson, conductor; HardinrA. Van Deursen, baritone, soloist; will give a concert Sunday afternoon, Oct. 31, at 4:15 p.m., in Hill Auditorium, to which the general public, with the excep- tion of small children, is invited without admission charge. The au- dience is requested to be seated on time as the doors will be closed dur- ing numbers. Lectures University Broadcast: 3-3:30 p.m. Olmstead, Professor of Oriental His- tory at the University of Chicago, will give an illustrated lecture on "Ancient History Warmed Over" in Natural Science Auditorium on Nov. 15 at 4:15 p.m. The public is cor- dially invited. Events Today University Broadcast: 3-3:30 p.m. "Medicinal Agents from Plant Sources," Prof. J. L. Powers. "Medicinal Agents from Animal Sources," Prof. C. H. Stocking. Junior Mathematical Club: 4:15 p.m., Room 3201 Angell Hall. Speak- er: Mr. Capilowish, "Paradoxes." All students interested are invited. Delta Epsilon Pi: Important meet- ing, 8 p.m. at the Union. All men students of Greek descent are cor- dially invited. Plans for the year will be discussed. RADIO By JAMES MUDGE Air-lines: Seymore Simons, new CBS conductor of "Romantic Rhy- thm" has written 2,000'tunes. Debut in Capitol Theatre, Detroit. Saw air service during the war. Fond of crowds and hates dreamy musicians. He's fatalistic-returned to radio af- ter quite an absence. Comaoin93A3 to New York every week from De- troit for a 30 minute broadcast . . Harry von Zell, CBS ace announcer leaves for the Coast soon to take over a full-hour show . . . Doris Fischer, warbler of the CBS net, gets a Warner Brothers screen test be- fore winter . . . Hal Kemp's great band hits the air lanes at 8:30 tonight via WJR. Love- ,ly Alice Faye will sing and Skinny Ennis will tear hearts out too . . From the campus of Temple Univer- sity comes the Varsity Show at 9 over the NBC-WJZ lines. . . Tommy Dorsey, his trombone, his band, and Edythe Wright are a 9:30 presenta- tion of WJZ, New York. Bits: Rockwell-O'Keefe have fin- ally given Sonny Dunham the busi- ness-and the Dunham band has tak- en a powder for the present at least. The knows say that Mr. Dunham will either go back with the Casa Loma crew or join the ranks of Benny Goodman. Glen Gray & Co. can use the trumpet of Dunham and Good- man has enough material-it re- mains to be seen . .. Bob Crosby and band are on the Coast in the film city . . . Clark Gable and Madeleine Carroll are on deck for some fu- Transportation Club: All Transpor- tation Club members and friends in- terested in going to Greenfield Vil- lage Friday, Oct. 29, meet in front of the Union at 1:15 o'clock. Hillel Foundation: Services at 8 p.m. Cantor: Al Finkelstein. Speak- er: Dr. Heller, "A Plan for Palestine." Hostess: Mrs. Goudsmit. Stalker Hall: 7:30 p.m. Dr. Bra- shares' class "Through the Old Testament." 8:30 p.m., a Hallowe'en party for Methodist students and friends. Disciples Guild: Hallowe'en party at the church, 8:30 p.m. All are wel- come. Small admission fee. Tour to Toledo Art Museum: Res- ervations for the tour to the Toledo Art Museum must be in Room 9, University Hall, by noon today. This tour, planned especially for foreign students, is open also to a limited number of American students. A special bus will leave Angell Hall at one o'clock Saturday, returning about 6:30. Fare, $1.25 round trip. Michigan Dames: Informal Hal- lowe'en Dance Saturday night, 9 to 12, at the Women's Athletic Build- ing. You may bring guests. Admis- sion is 50 cents a couple. Graduate Outing Club will meet at Lane Hall on Sunday, Oct. 31, at 2:30 p.m. instead of on Saturday night, for a trip to Camp Newkirk. Informal entertainment. Refresh- ments. All graduate students are cordially invited. Congregational Students Guild:' Hallowe'en party, Saturday, Oct. 30, beginning with Michigan - Illinois game over the radio, hike, dancing and supper. Call 21679 for supper reservations before Saturday noon. Regular party admission. All are welcome. - Westminster Guild: "Hallowe'en Hop." Saturday, Oct. 30 at Lane Hall. Costumes optional. 35 cents per person. (Inmu Vote Turn Down