T HE MICHIGAN DAILY TTTESDAY, NOV. 30, 1937 'HE MICHIGAN DAILY : .,, ) ,I Edited and managed by students of the University of 'ichigan under the authority of the Board in Control of tuent Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the niversity year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled t6 the e for republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All ghts of republication of all other matter herein also served. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as c=nd class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, 1.00; by mail, $4.50. (ember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL AO, NationalAdvertisingService, 0no. College Pul/ishrs Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO -BOSTON LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors ANAGING EDITOR ...............JOSEPH S. MATTES )ITORIAL DIRECTOR ............ TUURE TENANDER TY EDITOR ................... WILLIAM C. SPALLER 3WS EDITOR ....................ROBERT P. WEEKS OMEN'SEEDITOR ..................HELEN DOUGLAS .O.TS EDITOR . . . ...................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department JSINESS MANAGER............ERNEST A. JONES EDIT MANAGER..................DON WILSHER DVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBERG OMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........BETTY DAVY OMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES NIGHT EDITOR: EARL R. GILMAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Stg ress THE SPECIAL SESSION of Congress, which the President called for the ;urpose of speeding the enactment of reform egislation previously considered in regular ses- sion, appears to be turning into an instrument for the leverage of the reactionary bloc not only to halt the progressive advance but actually o turn it into a retreat by the repeal of laws already passed.' The question is not one of the relative worth of arguments for and against this or that particular piece of legislation so much as of the general attitude of the conservative members of Congress. The feeling among them seems to >e that the time has come for a Thermidor against reforms so far accomplished, and that he path from now on should be back to the old way, which they regard as the safe way, chiefly by virtue of its being the known way. This is a nanifestation of a well-known historical phe- aomenon, the incredulity of a part of the leaders of the old society in the reality of any change. 'he clock' must eventually be turned back once nore, tley feel. Thomas Carlyle expressed this in a passage n his History of the French Revolution, in which he said: "The Right Side, as we find, persists, with imperturbablest tenacity, in considering, md ever and anon shows that it still considers, all these so-called Decrees as mere temporary whims, which indeed stand on paper, but in prac- tice and fact cannot be." Joseph Gies. pear very likely but the possibility is most cer- tainly still therk. The ways out, if direct national prphibition of child labor (that is, labor for hire of those under 16 years old) cannot be accomplished, seem to be two. A prohibition of interstate commerce in products of child labor might be held to be within the present power of Congress, according to Miss Grace Abbott, former chief of the United States Children's Bureau. The second plan would follow the method util- ized for prison-made goods, i.e., the passage by Congress of a measure giving to the individual states the right to exclude from their territories goods made by child labor. Widely supported of late as the constitutional and, at the same time, most practical method of eliminating child labor, it has been particularly favored by those who have had experience in the administration of labor laws. Theoretically it seems sound and at least it would have little chance of being summarily declared unconstitutional as were the NRA and AAA, both of which included stipulations regulating child labor. And certainly it would fill a great gap-in the nation's social and economic structure. Stan Mitchell Swinton. The Price Of Milk,. . ANN ARBOR DAIRIES have just an- nounced an increase in milk prices of one cent a quart. This is explained from an increase in costs, which is causing a rise in milk prices in many parts of the country. As far as this is true, the increase is doubtless necessary, and consumers can make little complaint. , However, it is not altogether certain that an increase is justified at this time. While it must be conceded that cost of distributing necessitates a considerably higher price per quart for delivered . milk than is obtained by independent non-dis- tributing farmers, the discrepancy at present pre- vailing is rather a wide one. Dairy customers are paying 12 cents a quart, while farmers are selling directly to consumers at prices as low as 25 cents a gallon, hardly more than half as much. The question of milk prices is an involved one, and an adequate solution to it is not easy to find. A suggestion which might help would be a law requiring the printing on bottle caps of the share of the price which goes to the farmer. A public accounting of the income and profits not only of dairies but of other similar corpora- tions trading in staple products is becoming a more widely considered answer to the problem of fair market prices. Tuure Tenander. President' s Attitude Both home and foreign comment, on the sit- uation at Washington and on Wall Street, has stressed the fact that the obvious remedy forI existing financial troubles, removal of punitive taxation, is being resisted by certain factions in Congress, that the costly and highly contro- verted Administration plans are still pressed, and that the very recent indiscriminate denun- ciation of large business has been only partially abated. The attitude of an important part of House and Senate, to put aside the "must bills" and devote all energy to relief of business through remedying past mistakes, has been encouraging; but the consensus of intelligent judgment is that the President's message of Nov. 15 was extremelyj disappointing, and ill-adapted to restoration of financial confidence. President Roosevelt still has opportunity, in his message of this week, to grasp the situation, to set matters straight by postponing or abandon- ing further costly and controversial experiments, to recognize that the wise executive will adapt his policies and utterances to the circumstances which may have arisen. Theodore Roosevelt un- derstood this fact. He too had denounced and defied Big Business; he had coined the phrase "Malefactors of great wealth." Must Know When To Stopf But in April, 1906, wnen the disordered money market and rapidly falling prices for investment securities were plainly foreshadowing coming trouble, it was he who said, to a Congressional audience, that "the men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of so- ciety, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck." Except for the railroad law of 1906, his administration thenceforward applied itself to the relief of business-not always wisely, but always with the direct purpose of removing diffi- culties. He was fully aware of what happens to an administration, or its successor with the same party leadership, if industrial reaction goes beyond certain bounds. It is generally conceded that the present sit- uation has resulted from a financial reaction widely ascribed to increasing distrust of nu- merous past governmental policies. Ordinary political prudence should point the way to change in both respects such a situation. No President could have been more truculent than Andrew Jackson, in his attitude toward large bus- iness in his earlier messages. But in December, 1836, when the financial stormclouds were gath- ering, even the hot-tempered Jackson devoted his annual message to setting forth how the dan- gerous consequences of some hastily contrived policies of his Administration might be abated. Jackson Used 'Persuasion' Jackson was arbitrary, sometimes high-hand- ed in method; he had chafed repeatedly at the restraints imposed by the Supreme Court. In his Ii feeinr to Me Heywood Broun Walter Prichard Eaton used to say that his, mother always insisted on subscribing to thet Boston Transcript because "it sets so well on the pantry shelves." In the same sort of generous spirit I want to pay a tribute to the New York Herald Tribune. Of all the newspapers which I have tried it is far the best for starting a fire. I don't know why, but up to date I have used the Nashville Banner, the Daily Worker, the Stamford Advocate, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times. None of these compares with the Herald Tribune. It will do the trick even when there is little kindling and all the logs are wet and green. This may not seem im- portant to you city dwellers who can have your heat merely by turning a little+ knob on the wall. Here alongI the frontier we must learn how to get an open fire going, and how to get it quickly. Until the chill is off the room I cannot break the ice in the pitcher and get down to my daily ablutions. Both Tinder And True Of course, the entire credit does not belong to New York's most inflammable paper. To some extent I have improved my own technique of fire making through dint of necessity and experi- ence. A month ago I could hardly start a decent blaze with anything less than all the Sunday sections. Now simply by twisting the editorial page a little I can create a conflagration fit to set Nero to fiddling or East Indian widows toI jumping. However, it is more fun to use the entire paper, because the Herald Tribune burns much like a driftwood log. Your eye detects blue and purple flames, and even a hint of red upon occasions. Then will come a loud pop like the sound of a bandit's gun. This I explain upon the theory that one of the paper's many gifted columnists is exploding under fire. Of course, I will have to do a great deal more before I am prepared to hazard even a theory as to which of the features burns the fastest and the hottest. Visitors who sit about the open fireplace are inclined to say when some part of the kindling merely smoulders, "You've either struck a knothole or Walter Lippmann." That's not fair, and in my house I demand cricket on the hearth. Good To The Last Cinder Nor do I think that there is any evidence to prove that a flame which dances now this way and now that can certainly be identified as the combustion product of Dorothy Thompson's "Let There Be Light-Installment Ten." No ,it is my belief that the Herald Tribune burns as an entity and not primarily because of the carbon content of any of its individual contributors. Which is as it should be. Still, I will admit that in touching a match to the bait I generally try to ignite one corner of Mark Sullivan's alarm from Washington, asI this part of the paper actually seems to burn at a somewhat lower temperature than the rest. Before discarding the Times as useless, save as a journal of record, I shall have to give it one more chance. It might do ever so much better in a coal fire. Indeed, the Sunday Times is almost as good as a pine log once your blaze has begun. Isn't there a song some place which goes, "Throw another Sunday section on the fire"? Others may reserve their enthusiasm for such heady perfumes as "Kiss Me Quick" or "Cher-3 chez Moi," but for me there is no scent so pleas- ant as the burning leaves of an opposition paper. Oh, I forgot to add that the Nashville Banner is best for training the puppy. On Th Lve By WRAG The whole world has been wondering why the Chinese and Japs do not call the present con- flict between their two countries "war. Neither country can pronounce the situation as "war" for the simple reason that there is no "R" sound in either nation's system of phonetics. With this in mind, it is easy to see why China hasn't been able to effectively say "Scrrram"! to Japan and have it mean any- thing to the Japs. As far as the United States is concerned, China is the sentimental favorite. The Japs claim that this is due to the fact that there is a tremendous amount of "yellow journalism" in U.S. and it all favors China. A new humorous note has been inserted into the German situation. Last week Adolph Hitler officially took over the Arnold Bern- stein Steamship Line with Mr. Bernstein and his friends in a Berlin jail. The first thing that Hitler did was to change the name of the mutsic The same Fritz Kreisler who, for TUESDAY, NOV. 30, 1937 of the Graduate Faculty of the New nearly a half century has been thrill- VOL. XLVIII. No. 55 School for Social Research in New ing audiences the world over, re- York City will lecture on the "So- , turned to Ann Arbor last night and First Mortgage Loans: The Univer- ciology of Religion" on Friday, Dec. convinced all skeptics that there is sity has a limited amount of funds 3, at 4:15 p.m. in the Natural but one Kreisler. to loan on modern well-located Ann Science Auditorium under the aus- That warm and intensely personal Arbor residential property. Interest pices of the Department of Sociology. quality which one always associates at current rates. Apply Investment The public is cordially invited. with Mr. Kreisler's playing was in no Office, Room 100, South Wing, way lacking in last night's concert. University Hall. , Coming Lecture: Dr. Edward Scrib- The first half of the program ner Ames, Professor of the Philosophy which included the A minor Concer- Student Teas: President and Mrs. of Religion at the University of Chi- to of Bach, three movements from Ruthven will be at home to students cago, will speak on "The Will to Be- the Partita in B minor of Bach and Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. lieve" at the Natural Science Audi- the Conus Concerto in E minor was torium, Thursday, Dec. 2, at 4:15 p.m. much the more interesting: possibly Sophomore, Junior and Senior En- because it contained music of a more gineers: Mid-semester reports for University Lecture: Dr. Karl Paul substantial character. The Bach grades below C are now on file and Link of the University of Wisconsin Concerto was played with finesse and open to inspection in the office of the will give a public lecture on "Recent with a degree of emotional restraint Assistant Dean, Room 259, West En- Advances in th Chemistry and Bio- which seemed at all times in good gineering Building, chemistry of the Hexuronic Acids" in taste. The same can be said for the -- the Chemical Amphitheatre, Room numbers from the Bach Partita. It The Bureau has received notice of 165 Chemistry Building, at 4:15 p.m., mnust be admitted however, that in the folowing Civil Service Examina- Monday. December 6. The public the Conus Concerto, Kreisler found tions Iis cordially invited. material more completely in accord Associate Biochemist (Syphiis Re- with his own spirit and style. The scarch), $3,200 a year; U.S. PublicETo a Concerto itself is of considerable Health Service, Treasury Depart- vents greater worth than its reputation ment. University Broadcast: 3-3:30 p.m. would indicate. The wistful lyricism Principal Specialist in Maternal "Science Discovers Wood," William of the slow section brought Kreisler and Child Heath, $5,600 a year; Kynoch, Prof. of Wood Technology. to the foreground for really the first Senior Specialist in Maternal and time in the evening. Child Health, $4,600 a year; Freshman Luncheon Clubs: There The second half contained a group Specialist in Maternal and Child will be no meeting today, but both of numbers of a lighter and more Health, $3,800 a year; clubs will meet on Thursday, Dec. 2. sentimental character. Of these, the Associate in Maternal and Child Kreisler Romance in E-flat major Health, $3,200 a year; Children's Faculty Women's Club. The Play- and the Three Slavonic Dances of Bureau, Department of Labor. Reading Section will meet on Tuesday Dvorak (arranged by Kreisler) were Associate Entomologist (Taxon- aftrnoon, November 30, at 2:15, in outstanding both as to musical worth omy), $3,200 a year; Bureau of En- the Mary Henderson Room of the and performance. Certainly no one tomology and Plant Quarantine, De- Michigan League. can rival Fritz Kreisler when it comes partment of Agriculture. _ to the expression of the lyrical or Junior Construction Inspector, $1, Michigan Dames: The Child Study romantic in music. 860 per year, (For duration of Sew- Group will met Tuesday evening, Nov. At the conclusion of the recital age Disposal Project); Senior Con- 30, at 8 p.m. at the home of Dr. La- Mr. Kreisler responded to the en- struction Inspector (Heavy Construe- vinia MacKaye, 1715 S. University. thusiastic ovation accorded him byy tion), $2,460 per year; Assistant Art Mrs. F. W. Peterson will speak on playing three encores always asso- Curator (European), $2,640 per year; modern methods of story telling. ciated with a Kreisler concert. One City of Detroit, The Civil Service of these was his own composition the Commission. IInstrumental Group of Music See- Schoen-Rosmarin. For further information, please tion of the Faculty Women's Club In attempting to discuss the more call at the Office, 201 Mason Hall. will meet tonight at 8:15 p.m. at the technical aspects of Mr. Kreisler's Bureau of Appointments and home of Mrs. Lewis Simes, 1617 Mor- playing, one feels impelled to discard Occupational Information. ton Avenue. those standards by which most ar- tists are judged. There are few con- Biological Chemistry 121, Section The Interior Decorating Group of cert artists today whose technique A: Laboratory refunds may be ob- the Art Division of the Faculty Wo- cannot be isolated from those other tained from the storekeeper, Room man's Club will meet Wednesday, elements comprising style and judged 228 West Medical Building, from 1 Dec. 1, at 2:30 in the Michigan in itself. Kreisler's technique is to 5 p.m. daily, beginning Nov. 29. League. Mrs. Ralph Hammett will unique in that respect. His technical speak on "Principles of Interior Dec- virtuosity is an inextricable part of Seniors: Help make this year's En- oration." Mrs. 'M. W. Senstius is his justly famous style. sian your yearbook by having your leader of this group. own picture in it. _--:- Saturday, Dec. 4 is the deadline set The Romance Club will meet on make yours at once! Room 108, R.L. The program will be as follows: A teacher at the last Columbia Notice to Junior Chemistry and Professor Rovillain: "Lettres inedites University summer school performed Chemical Engineering Students: Phi de Beaumarchais." Professor Adams: an interes ng psychological experi- Lambda Upsilon, national honorary "Old French Mathematical Terminol- ment. He exhibited before a class chemistry society, awards each year ogy." Graduate students are invited. the historic news reel of the fight be- a prize to the junior chemist and tween pickets and police at a South chemical engineer with the high- Deutscher Verein: will meet Tues- Chicago steel mill last Memorial Day, est scholastic average. This prize day, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m. in Room 319 when 10 persons were killed. Ques- consists of a handbook or other bookl in the Michigan Union for a social tions were asked to check each be- pertaining to the field of the winner gathering. 'A program of entertain- holder's impressions, the results have and is given during the second sem- ment and refreshments is provided. now been published in Social Fron- ester. Everybody interested is welcome. tier.. Part of the questions and an- ---- - swers follow: Phi Lambda Upsilon: All members Union Coffee Hour: Mr. H. C. Did the police appear to be armed? of other chapters now enrolled at the Adams and L. A. Baier's freshmen f Yes, 98; no, 0: uncertain, 2. University are invited to registrtheir orientation groups No. 1 and No. 2 Did the pickets appear to be armed? names with the secretary of Deltarespectively are to be special guests Yes, 7: no, 80; uncertain 13. chate, . . ayor Room 4201,1at the Union Coffee Hour today Did the advancingtpicket line ap- ;EasEngineering Buildingfrom 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the small pear to threaten injury to the po-~~~- ballroom of the Union. As always all lice? Yes, 2: no, 88: uncertain, 10. Extension Courses: Imen students are welcome. Who appeared to start the fight? The following extension courses are Pickets. 1; police, 60; uncertain, 39. being offered by the Women's De~ The Washtenaw Historical Society Did the police appear to be brutal patment of Physical Education: and Ann Arbor chapter of the Sons in their attack on the pickets? Yes. : Monynde dn of the American Revolution will hold 96; no, 2; uncertain, 2.5l a joint meeting at Clements Library Did it appear necessary for the po- beginning November 29th. 16 les- at 8 o'clock, Tuesday, Nov. 30. Dr. lice to shoot into the picket line to sons for $6.00. Instructor--MrsAdams and Dr. Vander Velde will disperse the crowd? Yes, 2; no, 87;! Stewart Hanley; Miss Jean Kyer talk. uncertain, 11. (amateur) assisting.s_-__day._ A Chicago Coroner's jury has evening 8:30. Sarah Caswell An- Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- termed the killing of 10 workers in Hall Barbour Gymnasium ences: Those members planning to the Memorial day battle as "justifi- make the inspection trip to Wright able homicide." Do you consider this 8 lessons for $4.50. Instructor- Field and Waco Aircraft Corporation, a just verdict? Yes, 3; no,.91; un- Children's Rythms - SaturdayDec. 10 and 11, will please sign the list certain, 6. morning, ages 4 to 7-9:30 to posted on the Aeronautical Engineer- The virtual unanimity on most of 10:13; ages 8 to 12--1015 toImg Department Bulletin Board. All these questions is a surprising de- 11:00. Sarah Caswell Angell Hall, reservations must be made by Wed- velopment, considering the well- Barbour Gymnasium. 8 lessons nesday, Dec. 1, in order that plans known fallibility of human observa- for $3.00 Instructor-Ruth H. may be completed. tion. Far broader discrepancies Bloomer. among eye-witnesses are brought out ____ "The Radio Club will meet Tuesday, at almost every court trial or other U. S. Naval Reserve Flight Train- Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in room 1041 of proceeding. ing: Information is available in the the East Physics Building. Mr. James The conclusions to be drawn from office of the Department of Aero- L. Lawson will describe the cyclo- the observations of these presumably nautical Engineering, B-47 East En- tron." t:nbiased witnesses are the same as gineering Building, in regard to the - - those reached by the LaFollette com- course of flight training offered by Pi Lambda Theta: Program meet- m ittee, which used the news reel as a the Reserve Corps of the U.S. Navy. ing on Health, Tuesday, Nov. 30, at major source of evidence: that the This course is available to all qual- 7:30 p.m. at the University Elemen- police were guilty of an unprovoked fied students who have completed t &y Library. Hilda Burr, chairman. assault and inexcusable brutality. two years of their work at the Univer- The response to the last question sity and have fulfilled other neces- Pi Tau Sigma: Regular meeting to noted also confirms the view that the sary requirements. All those interest- be held this Tuesday, Nov. 30, at verdict of the Coroner's jury was a ed in this work may obtain a state- 7:30 p.m., in Room 301 of the En- contemptible piece of whitewashing. ment of requirements at the Aero- gineering Bldg. Annex. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch. nautical Engineering Office. The first Si ------------- class is scheduled to commence onp Sigma Rho Tau: Our annual post- r * May 15. 1938 and each succeeding prandial pranks feed will be held to- 'im 1 ir Sei month until October. It is important night 7:45 p.m., at the Varsity Grill, that those students who are interest- South University Ave. All members Pictres f B ed indicate their intentions at thelshould come to enjoy the fun and _________ earliest possible date.hfood. Coinued fromn Page 1) The Security Committee of the Lectures Progressive Club will meet Tuesday of the Far East to release pictures of evnig-t 8 o'clock at theUnin It their countries. He will bring an il Oratorical Association Lecture evenig a a e nion. thencoutiis. e wioim an1 -is important that the full member- lustrated story of the lives of the Course: Julien Bryan, Roving Report- Japanese as individuals and as citi- er for the March of Time, will appear ship be present. Plans for a book ini Hill Auditorium tomorrow night exchange will be discussed. zens of the state. in Hi s eturo nht He will show how the Japanese al-s at 8 :15 p.m. His lecture on "Japan" Attention, Students from Roches- tered and trained themselves for the r will be illustrated with unusual motionYs great test of strength which resulted, pictures. Tickets are now on sale at ;ter, N.Y, : All members' of the Genesee DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Pubclcation in the Bulletin is Co lruti1( n Iu 'o all memb r- of tIe University. Copy receivedl at the oilcc A ant to the Pesident until 3 :30: 11:00 a m. on Saturdlay By DON CASSEL Fritz Kr-eisler 4 Aitild Labor 1as Not Vanished... T HE PRESENT business slump, which has the possibility of becoming a ma- jor depression unless industry and government can ally and take firm steps to prevent such an eventuality, brings once more to the fore the ever- present problem of child labor. Unemployment statistics for the United States are unreliable. Until. the current unemployment census is completed there will be no official fig- ures, but estimates range all the way from 5,000,- 000 to double that number. It is here that pro- ponents of child labor laws find their strongest economic argument, for aside from the humani- tarian aspects of the matter the mere fact that 667,118 children were gainfully employed at the time of the last census, were holding jobs that adults could have held, is a potent point in favor of such legislation. To the sociologist there are other factors as important. Physical harm to immature bodies, limited possibilities for education, small oppor- tunities for activities which increase mental ma- turity; these things and a dozen more are be- moaned. Almost universally it is agreed that child labor has no place in the contemporary social system. Almost universally the general public remains apathetic when legislation to remedy present conditions is proposed or present- ed. In 1924 a Child Labor amendment giving to Congress the authority to legislate on the sub- ject was submitted to the several states. Widely opposed, it was ratified by only five states prior to 1930. Between that time and June of this year, 23 more passed favorably on. the matter. If under the pinch of the present slump enough