THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17, 19 THE MICHIGAN DAILY {= ,,.;-/ 3-1I 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 not 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 tiecond class mail "matter, Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mall, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVL.i -- .. National Advertising Service,lic. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO .-BOSTOn . LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors ,JANAGING EDITOR .............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR...........TUURE TENANDER William Spaller Robert Weeks Irvin Lisagor Helen Douglas NIGHT EDITORS:Harold Garn, Joseph Gies, Earl R. Gilman, Horace Gilmore, S. R. Kleiman, Edward Mag- dol, Albert May10, 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.j 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.r 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- ing Manager; Richard H. Knowe, National Advertising and Circulation Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT I. FITZHENRY The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. When The Bulls} ished so that they may enjoy the fruits of these operations without paying taxes on them." It is conceivable that the clamor on Wall Street is a result of motivation for personal profit rather than of a patriotic desire to save the nation from disaster. And as Flynn concludes, it might be wise to warn our federal adminis- trators, who are disturbed by the ruckus from men in morning-dress clothes, that they would do well to go slowly about the capital-gains tax at least. "It will not be easy to explain to poor old George W. Public why his income derived from his work is taxed while the income of his cor- poration friends derived from their stock gambling is not taxed." S. R. Kleiman. Ito-Hum No.2. SINCERITY of purpose, it seems, can- not be taken as an indication of success. On the eve of the senior class elections. the one real party with a real platform has been formed to break camp because support has not been forthcoming from an apathetic student body, Campus politics have long been a subject of joking and scorn. That all the ridicule aimed at the institution in the past has been justified we do not deny. But things could have been differ- ent now. Here we had a sincere effort on the part of the Washtenaw Swing Party to do something constructive for the students. Who can deny that Benny Goodman would have lent prestige to the J-Hop? Who can deny that Duke Elling- ton would have been a welcome addition to the Swing-Out Production? And the Messrs. Good- man and Ellington would probably lop off a few hundred from their respective fees if they knew that they were performing for the best truckers in the country-for an electorate that had chosen for its leaders people capable of Suzi-Q'ing either to the left or right. But the students, displaying their usual leth- argy and lack of interest in matters that are of primary importance to them, didn't care enough to back the movement, causing the pre- mature death of another noble cause. We urge both of those students who were planning to vote today to stay away from the polls and show that we resent this apathetic attitude on the part of the University's body politic, Tuure Tenander. UNDER THE CLOCK with DISRAELI . THE AMERICAN SCENE Amateur Hour (1939) In the control room at the studio, the tech- nicians fidgeted with their dials, waved hand- kerchiefs at the production men and punched little red and black buttons. There were whis- pered orders and hoarse directions muttered into the field mike over on the White House lawn. Engineers busily and silently tramped over the lawn and into the diplomatic reception room bearing coils and transmission instruments. Rugs were swept aside from floors on which Litvinoff had stood, where Lindbergh had fussed. Chairs were pushed back and a microphone placed in the center of the room. Floodlights poured onto the glittering chrome-plated instrument which the President's secretary wheeled in and left before the mike. There was finally over all the busy preparation, a hush. Signals were exchanged. The White House was onthe air. Over to New York goes the announcer's voice, down to Florida, far beyond to the distant Keys in the Gulf, on to the haciendas of lower Cali- fornia, flung to the varicolored badlands of the Dakotas, to a Sioux Indian reservation, intruding on the revels in some Malibu "cottage," to the very threshold of Dean Bates' home-but no far- ther, mind you. He talks softly into the mike. Someone has stepped into the next room. "We are ready Mr. President." The President fingered his two little sticks nervously, took his place before the instruments in the reception room. The announcer was concluding his introduction. "And now," he was saying, "we bring to you this evening the President of the United States who will play for you a marimba solo of his own com- position." Our favorite floosey. Dame Rumor, was in again today and she claims that forty-five mem- bers of the Mah Jong squad-which drew a rec- ord crowd for the State encounter, by the way- are threatening to strike and picket the Intra- mural Building. They claim that they are tired of subsidizing the University. -Mr. Disraeli. Doctor Kirk "The greatest living Missourian.' That was the high tribute which Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler once paid to Dr. John R. Kirk, president-emeri- tus of the Northeast Missouri State Teachers' College, who has died at Kirksville at the age of 86. The use of the superlative doubtless reflected the educator's special interest in the work of a fellow educator. Even so, it would be difficult to overstate the value of Dr. Kirk's contribution to education in his adopted state. When he assumed the presidency of his alma mater at the close of the last century, rural edu- cation in Missouri was in a sorry state indeed. Making its advancement one of his chief inter- I ests, he caused the erection of a model country school on the campus, and then continued to work for similar improvements over the State i1feemsf io ie Heywood Broun The hot news flash which I saw under a Lon- don date line read, "Among the stamp fans in Britain today must be numbered Princess Eliza- beth, now in her twelfth year and in direct suc- cession to the throne."1 There can be no great harm in that. A prin- cess must have something to do in her spare time, and after all, the grandfa- ther of little Elizabeth was a philatelist, and President Roosevelt has an album. They say that you learn a lot about geography by put- ting the various issues in their places. That I doubt. As a child I used to get stamps on com- mission, but since Dale Car- negie was not yet functioning I influenced few people and invariably ended up by buying in all the stock myself. Collecting of all kinds leaves me cold. Books are all right except that if you have a lot you can never find Sherlock Holmes when you want him. But why should one edition be more de- sirable than another? The words remain the same. Possibly I speak petulantly because, of seven or eight books I wrote, only one went beyond a first printing. And that one didn't get over the goal line by much. The name of my big five-thousand E copy smash hit was "The Boy Grew Older," and if memory serves me right, it was a lovely novel. Broun Contemplates His Novel This is not a sales talk. The book has been out of print for twenty years, and you can't buy it except maybe in a second-hand shop, where I believe it is quoted at a dime bid and twenty-five cents asked. I sometimes wonder what thez reader buys one-half so precious as the book he sells. But, of course, I could be wrong. I haven'tI read itasince I wrote it. There'shno sense in tak- ing chances. While I was in the throes of com- position I used to weep all over the manuscript. Now, looking at the work from a wholly impar- tial standpoint, I might be inclined to be over- critical. "The Boy Grew Older" would probably seem pretty sentimental to me, and as far as I can recollect, it is devoid of class consciousness. Well, there were a few cracks at a newspaper editor who happened to be my boss at the time. I don't know whether that counts. As a matter of fact, they were not very hostile, and just to make sure that my boss would realize that I was only kid- ding I dedicated the book to him. That was twenty years ago. Memories That Bless A newspaper friend of mine who happens to be in the same racket tells me that he gets a great thrill out of looking over his old columns. 1 "Believe it or not,' 'he told me, "I run across certain things which just knock me for a loop. I look at them and say to myself. 'Well, I was certainly swell when I wrote that. How did it happen?'" No, when I read for the fun of it I try to find something by Wodehouse or one of the adven- tures of Sherlock Holmes. I haven't been able to sleep well for a week on account of re-reading "The Speckled Band." In the middle of the night' I wake thinking that I have heard "a strange metallic clang." Somebody did a biography of Holmes, I believe, but there is a rich field for another enterprising author who wants to do "The Life of Dr. Wat- son." After all, the team has come to be more famous than Boswell and Johnson. I've often wondered whether Dr. Watson was much as a physician. His practice couldn't have been so big, because he was always tearing off to places with Sherlock Holmes. "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" is the only story in which Watson goes into any detail as to his clin- ical technique. But I insist he couldn't have been much of a doctor or he would have cured Sher- lock Holmes of saying, "Quick Watson, the needle." It is true that in his later adventures the great detective seems to have conquered the habit. His drug addiction is never mentioned. But the cure was not accomplished by Watson., The whole thing was done by suggestion-the suggestion of the managing editor of Collier's to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This started out to be a column about stamps. What happened to them? How on earth did we get around to Sherlock Holmes? Let's just drop the whole thing. On The Level By WRAG# Rumors have it pretty definite that when the campus groups head for the Stadium this Sat- urday, they will find themselves= pestered by salesmen who will be barking about the latest abortion to hit the campus. It is a book that will be labelled, "Who's Who And So What?" The book supposedly contains the names and razzings of some 200 of the campus big-shots. It will sell for ten cents. This last fact will make the B.M. and W.O.C. at least pay to see their names in print. Such a book came out last year and sold FORUM Art At War To the Editor: Some few Michigan students took time off from their coca-colas and li-G brary dates yesterday to visit the first floor of the Romance Language building where as dynamic a set of posters as have ever been seen in Ann Arbor are on exhibit. Expressing a vitality which can be the result of nothing but a sincere and courageous belief in the Loyalist I cause, the painters responsible for these propaganda posters have with their brushes been able to drive home to the onlooker that theirs is a cause and an art made powerful through freedom. From the fascist side has, eventuated no such collection-per- haps for the reason that, as Thomas! Mann has said, no true artistic ex- pression is possible under a totalitar- ian state.I (Continued from Page 2) their cards and magazines early U'dte. Interior Decorating group of Jun- For A.A.U.W. will meet at 8 o'clock Phi Kappa Phi: Members of the', tonight in Architecture Auditorium, general honor society of Phi Kappa to hear Professor Hammett's illus- Phi from other chapters, who have trated talk on The Modern is a Logi- recently come to Ann Arbor or local cal Style. members who do not appear in the Student Directory, are asked to send The Forestry Club will meet to- their names to the secretary for in- night at 7:30 p.m., Room 2054 N.S. clusion in mailing lists. 308 En-; Bldg. Mr. Robert S. Ford of the Bu- gineering Annex or University phone reau of Government will speak on 649. "Tax Delinquency in Michigan." R. S. Swinton, Secretary. Important. The Cercle Francais Srorities: Will all the sororiti meeting which was scheduled for which contributed to the Burton tonight has been postponed for two Memorial Tower Fund notify Harriettg a e p d w Shackleton at once. k 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. Size in Hardenability of Gray Cast Iron." at an__ Besides furnishing a commentary; upon the true condition of affairs in Acad Spain these posters with their fas- demic Noaces cinating virility, their inexorable l Naval Arch: I shall not meet the truth, show how pathetic is American class in Naval Architecture 1 at 11 advertising. To the New York ad- o'clock on Tuesday and Thursday of vertising executive the ideal set of this week. posters would have featured either a Henry C. Adams, II. young lady of considerable beauty, scantily dressed or a pretty male or Ce female movie star. Comparing theseConcerts posters with the average American Carillon Recital: Wilmot F. Pratt, advertisement is like comparing H. University Carillonneur, will give a G. Wells to James Joyce. recital on the Charles Baird Carillon The poster exhibition, which is in the Burton Memorial Tower, part of Spanish week here, will con- Thursday evening, Nov. 18, at 7:30 tinue today. It deserves the atten- o'clock. tion of all sincere students at Michi- -- gan. -Stan Mitchell Exhibit The Ann Arbor Art Association ThreeR's For GOP presents an exhibition of modern American and German water colors from the collection of the Detroit There may be more serious thingsin e r wrong with the Grand Old Party Institute of Arts, in the North and than even its harshest critics have South Galleries of Alumni Memorial charged, to judge from a news item Hall, Nov. 11 to 24, inclusive. Open that has come along. The New York daily, including Sundays, from 2 to 5 Times has a long article describing p.m., always free to students. the prolonged process of counting votes for Gotham's new City Council Lectures under the proportional representO.-{ University Lecture: Mr. Frank Lion method, being used this year for j Lby rgt h itnuse rh the first time. The reporter was be- Gly Wright, the distinguished arch- tect, of "Taliesin," Spring Green, ing neither humorous nor censorious when he wrote this paragrhaph Wisconsin, will give a tpubli lecture whenhe wote his araghaph ; inder the auspices of the College of It was clifficult c obtain sufficient Architecture at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, canvassers. The Municipal Court November 18, in the Natural Science Service Commission held an examin- Auditorium. The public is cordially ation for the temporary posts. Only invited. high school graduates were eligible. Enough Democrats were found, but iChemistry Lecture. "Spectrograph- there was a shortage of sufficiently is Methods in Industry" is the title literate Republicans, which a second of the lecture to be given by Mr. examination did not fill. As a result, Charles C. Nitchie of the Bausch and it was necessary to fill the gaps with Lomb Co. at 4:15 p.m., Thursday Republicans of doubtful qualifica- Nov. 18. in Room 303, Chemistry tions. building. The lecture is sponsored by According to that, the crying need the local section of the American of the hour for the party is not a Chemical Society, and is open to the mid-term convention or a new plat- public. form or younger biood or better lead- ership. Will Messrs. Hoover, Landon French Lecture: Professor George and Hamilton meet the challenge by Lafourcade of the University of Gre- enrolling their followers for a little noble will give the first lecture on the intensive study in readin', writin' and Cercle Francais program, Friday, 'rithmetic? Nov, 19, at 4:15 p.m., Room 103, Ro- --The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. mance Language Building, on "Quel- ques maitres du Roman-Fleuve: Martin du Gard, Lacretelle, Du- 3 hamel, Romains." RA D IO Tickets for the series of lectures may be procured from the Secretary i of the Department of Romance Lan- By JAMES MUDGE guages (112 RL) or at the door at A IR LINES: Rudy Vallee has bid the time of the lecture. Quadrangle: Tonight at 8:15 p.m. Offerings in Poetry and Prose - Some Humorous, None Sad. A. D. Moore. Fraternity Presidents: There will be a meeting of the Interfraternity Council tonight at 7:15. All house presidents are urged to attend. Room 306 Michigan Union. League Social Committee: There will be a very important meeting to- day, at 4:15 in the League. Those unable to attend must be excused. University Girls' Glee Club: There will be a meeting tonight at the League at 7:15. All members please be present. Bring your dues. Alpha Kappa Delta: Meeting at the home of Prof. Richard Fuller, 2201 Brockman Drive, tonight at 7:45 p.m. Transportation provided at campus entrance to Haven Hall. Drtwids: Important membership meeting in the Druids Room tonight at 10:15 p.m. Sphinx: Meeting at noon today in the Union. David Laing will speak on "Oh, Ensian, My Ensian." Scandinavian Student Club: No- vember open meeting tonight at Lane Hall at State and Washington, 8 p.m. Hillel Players will meet at the Foundation at 7:30 this evening. Business meeting will follow presen- tation of two one-act plays. Stalker Hall: Open House and Student Tea from 3:30 to 5:30. All Methodist Students and their friends are cordially invited. Crop and Saddle: The regular ride will be held today at 5 p.m. Meet at Barbour Gymnasium. Those wish- ing to go will please call 7418. All riders must have had a medical re- check this semester. Coming Events Michigan Dames: The initial meet- ing of the Child Study Group has been postponed from Nov. 18 to Nov. 30. A.I.E.E.: Meeting Thursday night, 7:15 p.m. at Morris Hall. Prof. S. A. Goudsmit of the Univer- ! sity Physics Department will speak And Bears Weep . . . HEN STOCK MARKETS tumble, the panic of the exchange hits the nation and administrators in high places succumb to fears of an approaching depression. It is a moot question as to whether we have really pulled our- selves by the pump-handle out of the last eco- nomic disaster. Nevertheless, the distinct fall in production in the last six months added to the excitement over Wall Street has led to the pessi- mistic proposition that we have sacrificed what measure of recovery had been achieved and now ride the punishing path to hitherto unprece- dented depths of economic depression. All of which sounds perfectly damnable and in support of the thesis that the New Deal has frightened private enterprise and that the tax' on undistributed corporations' profits caused the fall in production by discouraging the reinvest- ment of capital in productive enterprise. The bulls and bears on Wall Street lay the market slump at the feet of the Security and Exchange Commission and its restrictive rulings. They point at the new requirements demanding high margin and limiting the tradings of execu- tives and take morbid delight in saying, "I told you so." The picture looks black. But John T. Flynn in the New Republic raises some doubt as to whether these "obvious" causes of the present economic decline are the vital determinants. And he indi- cates another basis for the wild clamor that has arisen in Wall Street against the high margin requirements, the limitations on the trading of insiders (executives), the capital-gains tax and the corporate-surplus tax. "It must be remembered that practically all of the Wall Street fortunes are made with three implements-the opportunity for insiders to trade in their own shares, the gain in capital values and the ease with which the public that pays the bills may be lured into the stock market with low margin money. "Few of these Wall Street promoters or bank- ers or brokers get rich by creating wealth." How are financial fortunes amassed? Flynn tells us that they come f-rom the process of capital gain, capital increment-and an un- earned increment at that-captured largely through market trades. "Mr. X is the president of a large corporation. He knows its innermost secrets. What is more his intimates are also corporation executives. They sit perhaps on one another's boards of di- rectors., They know better than the man in the street when good news is going to push its shares and when bad news is going to press them down in the market. Mr. X is therefore in an excellent position to make a great deal of money trading in the shares of his own corporation and in those of his friends. "Of course he will not make so much this way goodbye to the "Gold Diggers" Warner Brothers' cast - aforemen- tioned, he was to be a ballet dawncerr in one bit and he of the curly-locks decidedhhe was anbit too masculine for such go'ins on . . . Hal Kemp and band will get, plenty of film Illustrated Lecture: SIlluminating Engineer, tric Co., will speak on of the Garden" Friday *Room 231 Angell Hal 'Public invited. I - - ^- G.n1.eraLLer' on "Artificial Radioactivity." Re- General Elec- freshments. "Illumination at 11 a.m. in Graduate Engineering Students: 1. Illustrated. Iota Alpha meeting on Thursday night, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3205, WM P ttd' .d r space in RKO's "Radio Revels" and' -"ast Engineering Building. Skinny Ennis will sing songs in "Col- Events Today The meeting is open to all grad- lege Swing." Kemp cleans up his University Broadcast: 3-3:30 p.m. uate students in engineering. Profes- Chesterfield work come December 24 Class in Diction and Pronunciation, sor Avard Fairbanks, of the Institute and will head back Eastward where of. G. E. Densmore. of' Fine Arts is the speaker of the andf willhea.bakeEatwadrwereevening and will illustrate his talk night spot managers pay off. Paul wi ngs ndlp ure iemustratios.ak Whiteman may replace the Kemp Michigan Dames: Drama Group with sculpture demonstrations; ciew on the weed affair and will have 17:45 Wednesday night, Michigan Institut of the Aeronautical Sci- his work cut out for him . . The League. Reading of the play "You Ie big radio names that get billing all Can't Take It With You." Faculty ences: There will be a meeting of over the country-side get fat pay Advisor is Mrs. Carl Weller. Chair- the Umversity of Michigan Student checks for their efforts. There has man is Mrs. Sidney M. Quigley. Branch of the Institute of the Aero- been so much said about the big wads nautical Sciences on Thursday, Nov. of mazooma the stars get that radio Faculty Women's Club: 'Song re- 18, at 7:30 p.m., in Natural Science has become a Midas. Behind the cital by Hardin Van Duersen in the Auditorium. scenes the picture is just a leetle bit Michigan League Ballroom, Wednes- { Motion pictures on airflow, as of a different color. The pluggers of day, Nov. 17, at 3:15 p.m. taken by the Army Air Corps, will be a shw, those that read short com- shown. All interested are invited to mercial announcements get $15 per Research Club: Tonight at 8 p.m. attend. week-and those are of the big air- in Room 2528 East Medical Building.' ings like the Lux Theatre and Kraft Prof. Preston W. Slosson:, "The Omega Upsilon, national honorary Music Hall. Name bands get a lot People's Choice in England and radio sorority, invites all women in- of money when they play for a America." Prof. Kasimir Fajans: terested in radio to try out for mem- dawnce in A2 but the 10 or 12 men "Some theoretical and experimental bership at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at who do the tootin get a very small. investigations in the field of strong Morris Hall. Bring your own script. slice of the check-inequality peeps electrolytes.". from the bushes. . . The Fox theatre The council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Men's Physical Education Clu~b in Detroit has an iron-bound con- on Thursday evening, Aug. 18 at i Luncheon for Graduate Students o'clock in Room 323 in the Men's tract what say that Mr. B. Good- today at 12 o'clock in the Russian Union. Brief business meeting with man of the ciarinet must do ahturn Tea Room of the Michigan League important matters up for discussion. on the stage of the big opery house 1IBuilding. Cafeteria service. All Physical Education students are 'before he can fill any other engage- Brn;ryars h al rf ment in the Motor Town . . Bring tray across the hall, Prof. urged to attend. Charles F. Remer of the Economics UMOR HAS IT-Air will come to Department will speak informally on Observatory Journal Club will meet ! college! WXYZ of the huge Mich- "Economic Aspects of the Far East- at 4:15 Thursday afternoon, Nov. 18, igan Radio Network will be the outlet ern Situation." in the Observatory lecture room. for Bob Steinle and his orchestree_ Dr. W. Carl Rufus will speak on from a local spot in town on week- ! Botanical Seminar meets Wednes- "Recently Discovered Original Notes, ends. It's about time that someone day. Nov. 17, at 4:30 p.m., Room 1139, Computations, Correspondence, etc., put a line in these parts even if it's N.S. Bldg. Paper by E. B. Mains by James Craig Watson." Tea will only WXYZ. Radio has long been "Studies on disease resistance of or- be served at 4:00. recognized as the greatest of adver- namental plants." tising mediums and because of an Scimitar: There will be a meeting air outlet a lot can happen, even to a Seminar in Physical Chemistry will of Scimitar Thursday evening, Nov. mediocre band. The commercial meet in Room 122 Chemistry Bldg. 18, 7:30 p.m. at the Union. All mem- angle is good for local broadcasting today at 4:15 p.m. Mr. W. H. Sul- bers are requested to be present. -the folks at home will want to at, livan will speak on "The use of the