THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOV. 5, ___________________________________________________________________________________________ I on THE MICHIGAN DAILY ,' ;== j t ii vi _ - A 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 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 riot otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office 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 FOR NATIONAL ACV- ... NationalAdvertisingService, In,. Colle4e Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO - BQSTON - LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors wlANAGING EDITOR............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ..........TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR ................IRVING SILVERMAN William Spalier Robert Weeks Irvin Lisagor Helen Douglas NIGHT EDITORS :Harold Garn, Joseph Gies, Earl R. Gilman, Horace Gilmore, S. R. Kleiman, Edward Mag-. dol, Albert Mayio, Robert Mitchell, Robert Perlman and Roy Sizemore. EPORTS DEPARTMENT: Irvin' Lisagor. chairman; Betsy Aderson, Art Badauf, Bud BenJamin, Stewart Fitch, Roy Heath and Ben Moorstein. WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT, Helen Douglas, chairman, Betty Bonisteel, Ellen Cuthbert, Ruth Frank, Jane B. Holden, 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 New nan, Service Manager; Mar- shall Sampson, Publications and Classified Advertis- ing Manager; Richard H. Knowe, National Advertising and Circulation Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT E. FRYER The Governor Speaks. ... T HE CHAIRMAN of the meeting added a touch of solemnity to his voice. The audience stirred expectantly. "Ladies and gentlemen, the Governor of the State of Michigan." The Governor walked in from the left side of the room. He walked with a definite preciseness, slowly, his head held high. The applause sub- sided when he reached the speaker's table. Then he started to speak. There was quiet-a respect- ful, expectant quiet. The Governor spoke softly, a sincere, honest, softness. No blustering, no impassioned pleas, no hysterical shouting; just soft. Father Cough- lin would have warned and threatened; Jim Farley would have coaxed and cajoled; Mayor LaGuardia would have shouted and gesticulated. But the Governor spoke softly. Eager ears hun- grily swallowed eveiy gentle word. The audience applauded enthusiastically. nent English educator said recently: "I am dis- tinctly nervous of our tendency, at any rate in England, to take our boys and girls, as they come from the schools and go up to the uni- versities, and make them into inadequate, squint- ing little experts." He added that British educa- tors are trying to devise ways to check this in- creasing specialization. In phis country the professional schools, for whose supposed benefit many colleges are de- vising special curricula, are asking for a broader and less specialized undergraduate preparation. Dean William Furstenburg of the School of Med- icine here advises pre-medical students to ob- tain their science above the minimum require- ments when they get into the medical school. The Secretary of the Association of American Medical Colleges says that "So-called 'pre-med- ical' courses in arts colleges are not approved by this Association and the colleges have been no- tified of this fact. Too much science and spe- cially-arranged courses for medical students are not productive of the best training." The same attitude has been expressed by the Association of American Law -Schools which argues for "the inclusion of as much in the way of liberal education as possible." Engineers ask for "more than a training to perform certain operations"; they demand "an education that af- fords versatility in the face of changing economic and social conditions." They recognize that among other things, a liberal education de- velops a "flexibility of mind" that has a much wider adaptibility in the world than the spe- cialized mind that is obtained today. Under present conditions the early curriculum of rhetoric, dialectics, and philosophy would be hopelessly inadequate, even as a liberal educa- tion. But the neglect of materialistic speciali- zation then, presents a thought worth consid- ering in our high pressure education now. Obituary For The Ivory Tower... THE IVORY TOWER of academic isolation is crumbling. Vital social questions of local, national and world importance are steadily gaining their due attention in the minds of students. Today University of Michigan students have an opportunity to voice their opinions on some of these issues in the poll that the Progressive Club is conducting. Regardless of whether or not you agree with some of the points in the program of the Pro- grepsive Club, your vote will assure that campus feeling on questions that face us now and that will face us within a few. years is accurately mirrored. The Progressive Club's poll gives the campus a chance to lay the ghost of the Ivory Tower. UNDER4 THE CLOCK with DISRAELI .ESSAY On Kicking The Gong Around Upon returning to the house and doffing my outer garments, after my usual Friday afternoon sojourn at one of our more prominent beer em- poriums, I carefully wended my insecure way to one of our living rooms. Here I was confusedly confronted by the drooling visage of one of the under-classmen, who saluted me rather enviously with a "Hiya, Clapper!" "And from what source, chum, comes the questionable epithet?," I exploded with ale-occa- sioned pompousness. With the logic of an in- furiated clam, he shot back the pointed reply, "Well, you're always in the Bell !" -Little Boy Brew. LEXICONIC IRONY O, Roney Morekale-a young sprout from Yale- Spoke tri-syllabled words grandiose; His talk supercilious made many men bilious, But panicked sweet things in silk hose. "Your effulgent eyes, your langorous sighs," To elegant ladies he'd chirp, "Spray my emotion with amorous lotion; Your rubicund lips taste of syrup." This macaronic mush made ogling fems flush; Grandiloquence to them was enthralling. But their reaction to Roney when he broached matrimony Was something again-and appalling. They would smile Oh so sweetly, and dismiss him discreetly: "Your lovemaking, dear, is divine"; Then turn 'round and wed a truckman who'd said: "Ya ain't nobody's baby, but mine!" -Ye Olde Asideliner. A friend of ours was being pursued recently by a damsel-varying reports concerning the fair- ness of such, but she is not a co-ed. She had fallen for him on short notice and had been telephoning him constantly, since the great event, writing mash notes heavily laden with good, old-fashioned mush. At first, the chap thought it might be a good idea, but when he saw that encouragement was all that was necessary to call forth violence, he decided to call it off. However, note followed note, and the house tel- ephone ran constantly. Finally, our friend took the matter up, parking his chubby carcass beside the phone. When it rang and a female's voice asked for the hidden Adonis he said, "He's just gone over to your apartment, Margaret." But it wasn't Margaret. "Oh, it isn't? Gee, I hope it I/ Seemsio Me H-eywood Broun After the votes have been counted the inter- preters will rush in, and it is quite 15ossible for any two persons to take precisely the same figures -and arrive at diametrically different explana- tions. Thus in the New York Sun of yesterday George Van Slyke declared that the re-election of LaGuardia was "a crushing defeat for both the city de- mocracy and the New Deal." But the leading editorial in the same paper said, "There may be some who take the rosy view that the defeat of the Democratic ticket is a defeat for the Roosevelt ad- ministration. Let them be not deceived. The deciding elements in yesterday's election were the same voters who gave much of the 1,375,000 plurality of the New Deal last year." t* * Labor Has Strategic Weapon It seems to me the editorial estimate is more accurate than that of the political reporter, but the situation is complicated by the vote of almost half a million run up by the American Labor Party. However, this may not mean the creation of an effective and a permanent Labor party. The balance can be a highly useful weapon, but those who wield it must be proficient in strategy. In Detroit labor was defeated, al- though it ran up a vote sufficient to indicate great potential strength. And it seems to me that present indications are that labor probably. will not be ready to put a third ticket of its own into the field in the national election of 1940. It must, for a time at least, continue to play one candidate against the other and throw its strength to the man and the party which are more helpful, even though neither the candidate nor the tradition of his party happens to be anything like ideal. Lewis Out Of The Running This is a step forward from the old trade union practice of rewarding your friends and defeating your enemies. The labor vote should not and will not, I hope, be merely poured into the Democratic or Republican totals. The party can keep its identity and have its vote counted separately. But for its present purposes it prob- ably will find it necessary to indorse one major party candidate or the other and not offer a third ticket. Those citizens who have been lying awake at night fearing that John L. Lewis was bending every effort to get himself elected President of the United States in 1940 can now rolover and sleep peacefully. I doubt very much that Mr. Lewis ever had any such intention, but in any case the figures from two large cities in 1937 show that such a movement would be doomed to fall into the futile field of just another minority party. As things stand, labor has shown President Roosevelt a solid vote which he can get in 1940. But that is also a vote he can lose. If the New Deal remains New, then the New York election shows great industrial support for Franklin D. Roosevelt or a successor of his type, in 1940. This doesn't go if the New Deal slows down. * * * * Must Reckon With Barton If Fiorello LaGuardia has Presidential aspira- tions-and I can hardly see how he can escape, them-he might readily take that same support with him even though he ran as a Republican. One other interesting element in the New York City election was the success of Bruce Barton in his race for Congress. Mr. Barton's name must go on the list as a 1940 dark horse, and in the next three years the Republican party must make up its mind whether it plans to play the progressive side of the street or the conservative. And the labor vote may be the vital factor in swinging the decision of either major party, or both. On The Level By WRAG Already Michigan sorority Judies have begun to ask their favorite men to the Pan-Hellenic Ball, which is to be held at the League on November 26. When he's asked, the man thinks he is getting a break, but he'll only end up broke. This is the time of the year when the tables are turned. Instead of wondering which guy to accept, the girl has to figure on which one to ask, and for once the men can do the refusing and accepting. * * * * It must be marvelous for a man to be able to say, "I'm awfully sorry, Gwendolyn, but I have a date for Friday. Oh, no, I couldn't possibly break it.. I'm not the type who breaks dates." And some of the decisions come hard. When a girl has been dating two men all year, she has to decide which one to ignore. Sometimes these girls take the easy way out and "have to go home for that week-end." But the men have a problem on their hands too, because acceptance of a Pan-Hell bid means some future retaliation such as asking the gal to .J-Hop. It is rather restraining to know who FORUM Wake Up And Think To the Editor: In these troublesome times a col- lege student cannot call himself in- telligent or wide-awake unless he is alive and active to modern social problems. And to my mind an ideal organizatioh for expressing one's self on these various issues is the Pro- gressive Club. This is an organiza- tion whose platform is broad enough to embrace the interests of almost any thinking individual. The club has a general five-point program. Acceptance of any one of these planks is all that is necessary to join. The club has done good work this year, and plans to do even more. Aside from an active education pro- gram, including lectures and discus- sion groups, it has petitioned Presi- dent Roosevelt on two occasions- first against the NYA cuts, and second congratulating him for his stand on collective peace action. Numerous other activities have been carried on as well, through the various commit- tees. For its next meeting, the Progres- sive Club has secured Joseph Lash as speaker. In the liberal student movement Joe Lash.stands as a lead- ing figure. He is national executive secretary of the American Student Union, and is associated with the "Student Advocate" its organ. Joint author of "War-Our Heritage," lec- turer, youth leader, he has cam- paigned the length of the land for the student movement. He has been in Spain twice since the war began. The first time he went there as a member of the United States Commis- sion. His last trip was made four months ago in an unofficial capacity, when he studied the system of educa- tion under the republic. He is a keen observer, a dynamic figure, a compe- tent critic-one who knows whereof he speaks. He is lecturing under the auspices of the Progressive Club, Monday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m., in the Union. Knowing who the man is and what he has done, I feel that atten- dance is a duty-a duty to one's self as a thinking individual. -R.W. ~ RADIO By JAMES MUDGE AIR LINES: Hal Kemp's band has served as a starting point for some big name leaders including the "white hope" of the trumpet, Bunny Berigan. Nye Mayhew and Johnny Trotter are also alumni of the Kemp organization .. . Edward G. Robinson not only acts in CBS's "Big Town" drama but he takes pen in hand and slips thru a line of script or so every once in a while . . . Kathryn Cravens, flying woman commentator, gets the key to Philadelphia from Mayor Wil- son soon . . . Claire Sherman, CBS songstress, is strictly nautical-she builds ocean liners in her spare time -miniature! ... An audience of 20,- 000 heard a personal appearance of Del Casino in New York recently-at a political rally for Mayor LaGuardia of the big city . . . Hollace Shaw, ti- tian-hqired network soprany, relaxes after her programs by taking the 25 minute ferry-boat ride to Staten Iland. she knows all the "cats" on the boats now .. . A FEW YEARS BACK, a young man with a Southern accent brought his unknown band into the Black- hawk in Chicago. Dame Fortune smiled when this unknown leader had the opportunity of. airing his band over WGN. It was a "different" type of band, new to the Midwest.' Not the usual blatty, loud ballroom style, but a soft, melodic type. In a few months this band was the talk of the Midwest-Hal Kemp was defi- nitely "on his way." Co-eds went slightly daffy when the Kemp band took to the air lanes, musicians mar- veled at the precision of the organiza- tion, and big night spot managers looked twice. Then came the pro- posed trip to New York and for a while those in the know shook their heads and said the band would go "panic" if it went to the Bright Lights. Well, Mr. Kemp and Company pinned New York's ears back from the be- ginning. The next big jump was to Film Land, and the Kemp popularity has increased a hundredfold in the movie colony. Now Hal has a ter- rific commercial show- It's music from Hollywood tonight at 8:30 via WJR." Three Bottle Man Every day in every way we are be- sought-to eat, drink, and use more of this or that commodity. Fish, beer,j bread,. fruit and potatoes have each had their campaign. At the end of it all we learn from the Minister of Health that there is nothing so pop- ular as a doctor's prescription. The nation runs to the chemist for its bottle asnever before. Is this cause and effect? I have always wondered what would become of the really obedient citizenI The Curtain All the editorial paeans of victory and all the battered tigers of the cartoonists put together wrote no such poignant period to a famous chapter of our history as did the single photo- graph of the new Tammany Hall on Election Night, resplendent in its tesselated floor and modern fixtures, draped with flags-and all but desert- ed. What wraiths from the old Four- teenth s t r e e t Wigwam drifted through that elegant emptiness! It was charged with memories of that roaring nightina1903 when a new boss named Charles F. Murphy sat, "smiling and happy," in a downstairs room amid the wreckage of an earlier experiment in Fusion, while overhead a certain Thomas C. T. Crain shouted the first returns to a howling mob, and John L. Sullivan struggled for- ward as he did so to make a speech, which was totally inaudible in the din. Fourteenth Street was jammed by hornblowing crowds waiting to give the new king a "mighty demonstra- tion" as he emerged; while another crowd, surging up the Bowery, was cheerfully consigning a Fusion banner at Bleecker Street-"Keep the Graft- ers Out!" it said; "Save Your Homes from Indecency!"-to the flames. At that moment, as it happened, a cur- ious little revolution was breaking out at Panama, and Theodore Roose- velt was preparing to dig the long- planned interoceanic canal. It meant little to the uproarious Wigwam. But it mean that history was on the, march. WHAT A NIGHT THAT WAS!c There was that other night, tenI years later, when Fusion swept the city, when the cheers were few andI soon over; but when the Hall was still packed with a great crowd and Fu-I sionists still dared only to ask them-I selves whether it might not be possiblef that one day Tammany could be "for-s ever disorganized, broken up and de-! stroyed." Perhaps; but not then. It{ was a clear, warmish e.vening when,{ four years later, an older but a onceI more smiling Murphy sat behind an improvised railing in the speakers' bureau receiving the returns and thet homage of his higher barons, while the crowds again tramped the stairs7 outside or emitted, whenever the guard opened the sanctum door to some new leader, a deep-throated roar of "'Ray! Murphy, Murphy, Murphy!" The bands played and the mob surged around one arriving figure, "Sheriff Al Smith, newly elected Pres- ident of the Board of Aldermen, the1 popular idol of the braves. His voiceI hoarse, his hair rumpled, the Sheriffa found himself at once the center of a7 handshaking, back-slapping crowd," while one, lanky but anonymous statesman raised a mighty "three cheers for the next Governor of New! York!" said the boomlet ran like fire through the throng. But history was; still marching; even as the backs were slapped an exhausted handful of Canadians were standing at last in the mired ruins of Passchendaele, to bring that terrible offensive to its bloody end, while Italian armies were streaming .down the long road from Caporetto before Austro - German hosts, and a lot of the Tammany yoters were already in khaki. BIRTH OF A 'NEW TAMMANY' Murphy had but seven years to live; the age which made him was dead already. Other victory nights were to come later, there was to be a "new Tammany" and a new Tammany Hall, but through those gaudy times of tickertape prosperity and Sidney Sol- omon's Casino things were not the same. And now at last we again reach the end of a Fusion term only to find it the beginning of another, and to find Tammany Hall emptied of every- thing save the ghosts of its celebrated past. There will be other political machines in New York, of course- and, alas! other wars-but different forces and different men will make them; and it is doubtful whether they will even try to conserve the name, for curtains once rung down so defi- nitely by history seldom rise again. --New York Herald. Tribune. DAILY OFFICIAL I BULLETIN FRIDAY, NOV. 5, 1937 VOL. XLVIII No, 35 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. Students, College of Engineering: Saturday, Nov. 6 will be the final day for dropping a course without record Courses may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier after conference with the instructor in the course. Registration for Employment: A meeting will be held in Natural Sci- ence Auditorium at 4:5 p.m. on Mon- day, Nov. 8, by Dr. Purdom, director of the Bureau, for all senior and grad- uate students who will be seeking positions in February, June, or August, This applies to students who intend to register in either the Teaching Division or the General Division (which is for students from all schools). The meeting at this time is for new registrants only, and does not apply to people who have pre- viously enrolled with the Bureau. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational 'Information. Bronson-Thomas Prize in German Value $35)-Open to all undergrad- uate students in German of distinctly American training. Will be awarded on the results of a three-hour essay competition to be held under depart- mental supervision about April 1, 1938 (exact date to be announced two weeks in advance). Contestants must satisfy the de- partment that they have done the necessary reading in German. The essay may be written in English or German. Each contestant will be free to choose his own subject from a list of at least 10 offered. The list will cover five chapters in the develop- ment of German literature from 1750 to 1900, each of which will be rep- resented by at least two subjects. Stu- dents who wish to compete should register and obtain directions and a reading list as soon as possible at the office of the German department, 204 University Hall. Academic Noticies Aeronautical Engineering Students: All students who plan to elect Aero. 6, experimental aerodynamics, or any advanced work in the wind tunnel laboratory during the second semes- ter, should leave their names im- mediately with Prof. M. J, Thompson, Room B-47 East Engineering Bldg. Sociology 51: Mid-semester exam- inations will be held during each lec- ture period on Tuesday and Wednes- day, Nov. 9 and 10. Students whose seat numbers are 1-135 will go to the regular lecture rooms; all others o to Room B, Haven Hall. Exhibitions Exhibition, Architectural Building: In collaboration with the School of Business Administration, a collection of European posters loaned by the McCandlish Lithograph Corporation and including some of their posters done in modern style, also a large 24- sheet poster lithographed b them for the Ford Motor Co. and winner of the Kerwin H. Fulton Award for the best poster design of- the year. Ground floor exhibition cases and third floor exhibition room, Architectural Bldg. Open daily, 9 to 5 except Sunday, un- til further notice. The public is in- vited. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Albert T. Olmstead, Professor of Oriental His- tory at the University of Chicago, will give an illustrated lecture on "Ancient History Warmed Over" in Natural Science AuditoriumonNov. 5 at 4:15 p.m. The public is cordially invited. Events Tody School of Music Seniors: The mem- hr of thozairrcoffckChn I When his speech was through, the Governor walked out of the room. In the corridor, he exchanged greetings with a few friends and walked on, stopping to talk to a student. He looked tired and worn. There were no hand-shaking henchmen; there were no flattering friends; there was no thick cigar smoke. Just a polite and honest, "Hello, Governor," He walked downstairs. . . quite alone, and got his coat* from the check-room. Exchanging a few pleasant words with the attendant, he walked away. As he passed us, whom he had never seen before, he dropped a cheery, "Hello." Then the Governor of the State of Michigan walked out, slowly, deliberately. He had made his speech. The Liberal Edueation . S PECIALIZATION in industry has long been recognized as one of the fundamental factors in the development of mass production. Along with its successful applica- tion in industry, specialization has invaded nu- merous other fields of activity, not the least of which is education. At one time the University catalogue described the curriculum leading to the first degree in the arts in one sentence: "The first year shall teach Rhetoric, second and third years Dialec- tics, and the fourth year shall add Philosophy." Nor was this a unique case, for at Harvard in those days there was no work in the foreign languages, either ancient or modern, no litera- ture as such, no history, ne government and no economics. Mathematics, the sciences, music and the arts in general were entirely omitted there. Such curricula could hardly be called voca- tional. The inclusion of many schools and col- leges, the gradual "enrichment" of the educa- tional program and the offering of elective courses mark the slow evolution of the American University. Fifty years ago the elective system ours, uite senior class of the 6chooi of Music will meet for the purpose of . Phi Ea S na electing officers Friday, Nov. 5, at 4 o'clock in the School of Music Audi- At long last, the Northwestern com- torium muter has been handed something more for his three hundred dollar University Broadcast: 3-3:30 p.m. tuitiion check than homework, epi- Highway Traffic Safety-Roger L. thets, and abject pity. For today, Morrison, professor of highway en- Phi Eta Sigipa is posting its tutorial gineering and highway transport. schedule which is aimed directly at furnishing the freshman commuting Independent Women Living in Pri- man and woman with scholastic clar- vate Homes: There will be a meeting ification and enlightenment, at 5 p.m. today at the Michigan Over fifteen members of this na- League. Election of officers. tional freshman honorary are con- -g. et __ s tributing an hour or two a week of Baptist Guild Open huse, starting their time to the student body. All at 7:30p.m. Members urged to bring freshman subjects are covered, and.hrin. the freshmen who take advantage of ei fiends. these tutors will find that they are being aided by men who have made Hillel Foundation: Services at 8:00. superior grades in their respective Cantor: Bernard S. Rubiner. Address: subjects just one year before. Their Wilford J. Smith "Jews in China." contemporaneousness compensates Social hour and refreshments.