FOUR THE MICHI-GA N DAILY TUESDAY, DEC. Y, 1937 - z THE MICHIGAN DAILY 1 . -I m A Vr~..ctu rUUCtO4 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 second class mail matter. Subscrptions during regular school year by carrier,- '4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, .1937-38 REPRESL'NTED FOR NATIONAL AOv..,..... NationalAdvertisingSevice, Inc College Pu/lsh s X Represenajive 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO - B0S-rON - LOS ANGELEs - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR ... . .... . .,.....JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR..........TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR................. WILLIAM C. SPALLER NEWS EDITOR ....................ROBERT P WEEKS WOMEN'S EDITOR................HLEN DOUGLS SPORTS EDITORR. ...................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER ..............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER ....................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES NIGHT EDITOR: 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. Great Brita'In's Attitude .. THE LONG SERIES of capitulations to the power diplomacy of fascism on the part of those two tired old imperialistic democracies, England and France, continued in expected fashion this week with the agreement to hand over the question of withdrawal of Ital- ian troops from Spain to the non-intervention committee, Mussolini's dependable ally since the conflict began. So the conquest of Spain, temporarily threatened by the mildly adamant attitude briefly displayed by the western powers, is again given tacit sanction and a new life lease. How much longer the anomalous position of the democratic governments will be maintained is still impossible to say. It appears that fascist diplomatic gall is no more likely to stir them from their sluggish indifference to their own vital interests than fascist military barbarism. tnthony Eden warns for the hundredth time that Britain's patience is "well nigh exhausted." From concrete representations on the part of Mr. Eden's foreign office one would think he might more ac- curately have described the condition of his country's patience as well-night inexhaustible. The generally accredited reason for the chron- ically irresolute policy of the English government toward the threat of fascist domination of the Spanish peninsula is that favorite old bete noir of post-war conservative statesmen, the Red peril. The theoretical danger of the spread of a doctrine inimical to private property is placed'on a higher ground of practical consideration than the actual menace, as pointed out by British military experts, that a German or Italian dom- ination of Spain would have on the Imperial line of communications in the Mediterranean, through which artery flows the blood of the Empire. The policy of France, under a People's Front government, is even more difficult to fathom.! The switch of premiers from the Socialist leader Leon Blum to the Radical Socialist politician Ca- mille Chautemps, whose last tenure of office was terminated by the unsavory Stavisky episode, apparently a deadening of the already none-too- assertive French foreign office. The national interests of France are threatened even more deeply than those of England by the possibility of a new Fascist state across the Pyrenees, and by German and Italian naval and air bases in the western Mediterranean, capable of severing the Republic's communications with Morocco and Algeria, probably more important to France than those with India are to England. UNDER 4b THE CLOCK with DISRAELI ZOOKS! You think you see a monk? THERE IS A LITTLE glow of satisfaction in the Disraeli heart today. It was a fine coup, that top hat, and as we gaze at it gleaming dully on our desk we contemplate its possibilities. No glass case for that beaver, no little drawer for it to go into, only coming out on Saturday nights to show the kiddies that what is high and mighty one moment can go into milady's hip pocket the next. No, sir, think what return we'll make on it, offering it to the public at a rental of eighteen shillings and a tuppence for one night, or a guinc%) for the weekend. In a quarter we'd have enough to fill it with champagne. Zooks! ** * * T IS VERY KEEN of the Ford Motor Company to include a comedian with their dandy Sun- day Evening Hour. Sunday night when the Li- brary closed we hurried over to the Union to catch the concert because Lawrence Tibbett was sing- ing. It was fine, but the crowd was fairly small until W. J. Cameron cleared his throat to speak. Chairs scraped up closer to the radio and ex- pectant grins spread all over the place. Mr. Cam- eron had a laugh from his listeners almost as soon as he opened his mouth. He sure knows how to burlesque the grand old science of economics and he sure can toss a speculative wrench into political theories. Mostly what was funny was his question why legislators don't try laws out before they inflict H. Ford with them. Why don't they test them like H. Ford tests his self-starters in the factory? Each one has to meet certain specifications, the prime one being that it operate efficiently. And W. J. points to history as a device, by which legislators and idealists might possibly judge the merits of their own pet laws. We don't doubt W. J.s sincerity, nor do we mean directly to suggest that he is rapidly be- coming a serious competitor of Jack Benny, but we do wish he would try to acquire more knowl- edge of what he talks about. Perhaps, if he and his boss were to stop trying to translate laws into mechanics and terms of self-starters and automatic inspectors of self-starters--whether the inspectors be photoelectric cells or men- they might get somewhere. After all, laws are sort of human affairs. When H. Ford makes a self-starter he is rea- sonably sure that the man he sells his car to is going to press the starter button with his hand or his foot, depending upon where H. Ford in his whimsy has put it. And H. Ford usually puts it where he thinks it should conveniently be. We imagine that H. Ford would be reasonably surprised i'f any man should decide that H. is wrong and that a starter button is best pushed by the twenty-third eyelash from the right while standing on the head. H. Ford would be even peeved and hurt, and his reputation considerably damaged also, if a large number of the owners of his car utterly disdained H.'s placement of the starter and, instead, decided that 'cranking the car was the only way. H. Ford might be so irked he would start a campaign of education on the correct procedure-possibly with the as- sistance of the River Rouge Rough Riders or the Dearborn militia. Yet.the drivers of the cars would certainly be observing to the letter H. Ford's purpose in creating his car. They would be making the thing go-even though they choose the most in- convenient method. But they aren't observing H. Ford's decree that using the starter button is the best way of getting under way. And they could certainly make his car look bad -next to other cars by staying out of the spirit of the whole thing. And yet, H. Ford has done just about that same thing with F. D. Roosevelt and John L. Labor- also William G. Labor as well. There is ,the Wagner Act, which at River Rouge is observed to the letter-as far as we know. But we fear some- times that to H. Ford the spirit is always super- natural; and he doesn't believe in ghosts. His heart just isn't in it, that's all. When W. J. Cameron tested that self-starter-as I am sure he did in between huge mouthfuls of economics snatched between drinks on Saturday night-his photoelectric cell or whatever his tester was, was pretty much infallible. At any rate, it knew what was wanted, whether it was automatic foot or a man. And W. J. got results. That re- calcitrant starter that refused to conform to. standard was junked. The starter accepted its fate without quibbling and with extreme co- operation. In the Wagner Act's case, the tester-this time H. Ford himself-wasn't infallible. Maybe he didn't know--we're a charitable sort- what was expected of him. He got the job half done and since has demonstrated an pld axiom that a tech- nique of legislation inevitably brings forth a tech- nique of evasion. H. Ford without too much doubt perhaps observes the letter of the law but unlike his starter quibbles a great deal about the spirit. It's an old story and as you say, W. J., could have been avoided if legislators took history seriously. But they probably feel that since R. Ford doesn't give up and quit mak- ing starters just because he finds one that doesn't work. They see him go ahead with an- other plan, full of hope. These poor fellows keep maling laws, full of hope themselves, but not necessarily that they'll make a better law than anybody else, but that they may someday find an honest inspector of the law who for some reason foreign to modern morality believes in the free exercise of individual rights, even to the Iifecinr to Me Heywood Broun Grantland Rice, who used to be an old South- ern boy himself, tells me that the lot of the Negro in college football grows easier. He pointed to the success this season of Cornell's great end, Holland. In previous years there were teams well above the Mason and Dixon line which would complain severely about the makeup of a rival eleven and practically ask for a guest list before they would go through with a contract. And in cases where the home team refused to agree to have a Negro star sit out the en- gagement it was not un- known for the visitors to gang up on him right after the kick-off and make sure that he was injured. Cornell played some of the best teams in the East, and while Holland got his bumps, there is, no evidence that he was called upon to face any more severe treatment than goes in general with the game. Of course, he is a big fellow and can give as well as take. Clint Frank, of Yale, mentioned Holland as the best end he had seen all season, and it is likely that his name will appear on several All-Americas. * m* * * Nothing He Could Do About It This may raise a point which bobbed up some years ago in the semi-official selection of Walter Camp, or it may have been Rice's selection. I can't remember the name of the Negro who was chosen. I'm pretty sure it was after the playing days of Paul Robeson. At any rate, one of the fellow members of the All-America was a boy from an institution of learning in the deep South. This nominee for stellar honors promptly resigned on the round that he was unwilling to be on a football team with a Negro. To be sure, the embarrassed Nordic was in a somewhat ineffectual position. Since the All- America eleven is mythical and never meets either socially or on the gridiron, the declining halfback was in no position where he could really do much about it. His name and the name of the Negro player had been printed in the pages of a great national weekly, and about all the reluctant recruit could do was to fake a pass and fall on the ball. I am also interested to find out what Fordham will do about the fact that three of the Rams have been chosen on the All-New York eleven of the Daily Worker. Must these lads from the famous Catholic college put away the crown on the ground that they are wholly out of sympathy with the doctrines of Karl Marx? Grows Sillier And Sillier And again I wonder whether Commissioner Landis has been informed that "Red" Rolfe, of the Yankees, did an exclusive set of stories on the world series for the Communist newspaper. I asked the managing editor whether Rolfe had been engaged because he was a party sympathizer or wholly on the basis of the fact that he was called "Red" Rolfe. He told me'that there was nothing in either theory and that the third base- man was selected simply on the ground that he quoted the lowest price. This column was originally intended to be an argument for including Negro players in Big League baseball. I brought up the point several years ago at a dinner of the Baseball Writers' Association, where it met with no enthusiastic response. Nevertheless, that tacit ban grows sillier and sillier. I see no reason why the Giants and Yankees draw lines not drawn by Cornell and most other colleges. As a matter of fact, there have been Negroes in the Big League, but they were introduced as "Indians" or "Cubans." It would be good business to abolish the color line without criticism. If a man can hit a j longer home run or throw a faster curve I feely certain that the fans will beat a pathway to the turnstiles. Our national game certainly should not be one professional sport which insists on re- maining snooty. On The Level THEATRE By NORMAN T. KIELL Federal Theatre- Notes DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN- Publication in the Bulletin is construct h'e, notice to all memIbers of tits University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President until 3:3; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. The WPA Federal Theatre Project TUESDAY, DEC. 7, 1937 has announced plans for the presen- VOL. XLVIII. No. 61 tation of 10 productions calculated to re-establish the project as one of Student Teas: President and Mrs. New York's foremost theatrical pro- Ruthven will be at home to students ducers. Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. Heading the program is "The Com- mon Glory," an epic by Paul Green First Mortgage Loans: The Univer- and Kurt Weil, who collaborated last sity has a limited amount of funds season to give "Johnny Johnson." to loan on modern well-located Ann! The play is based on the Constitution, Arbor residential property. Interest and will be staged nationally with at current rates. Apply Investment simultaneous openings from coast to Office, Room 100, South Wing,! coast. The New York production University Hall. will have a cast of more than 300. Of equal importance is "On The Physics Placement Conference: All Rocks," a new play by George Ber- students, specializing in physics, both nard Shaw which will have its Ameri- undergraduate and graduates, who' can premiere under WPA auspices. wish aid in finding a position, to be- The Federal Theatre already has the gin at any time in 1938, are asked Irish dramatist's permission to stage to attend a brief meeting at 7 p.m. his older plays. sharp Tuesday evening, Dec. 7, in! Other highlights of the new pro- Room 1041 E. Physics. gram are "One Third of a Nation," O 0. S. Duffendack a Living Newspaper dramatization R. A. Sawyer of the national housing problems opening Dec. 25 at the Adelphi Choral Union Members: Pass tick- Theatre: "Prologue to Glory," by E. ets for the Boston Symphony Or- P. Conkle, dealing with Lincoln's chestra Wednesday evening, will bej early manhood and marriage; "The given out to all members of the Tailor Becomes a Storekeeper," a Choral Union in good standing who new Yiddish comedy by David Pin- call personally at the office Wednes- ski; two negro plays, "Haiti," by Wil- day, between the hours of 9 and 12, liam DuBois, and "St. Louis Women," and 1 and 4. After 4 o'clock no by Countee Cullen; a return engage- tickets will be given out. ment of the highly successful Chil- dren's Festival at the Maxine Elliot Concerts Theatre; where "Pierre Patelin" and Jack and the Beanstalk" will be pre-x sented; and a new dance bill by Ta- Choral Union Concert: The Bos- miris, "How Long, Brethren." ton Symphony Orchestra under thel There will be a special Christmas direction of Serge Koussevitzky, will week production, the story of the 1 give the fifth program in the Choral' Nativity staged in the manner of the i Union Concert Series, Wednesday old miracle plays, which will be per- evening, Dec. 8, at 8:30, in Hill Au- formed at first on the steps of Trin- ditorium. The public is respectfully; ity Church and then later five or six requested to be seated on time, as times daily, on cruising trucks by the doors will be closed during .num,1 two groups of actors (one Negro, the bers. other white) from Dec. 15 through Dec. 25. The project's city wide cir- Exhibitions cult is now showing Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience"; Ernest Tol- j Ann Arbor Art Association presents ler's satire against war. 'No More j a double exhibition: Prints - from Peace": Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Durer to Derain; and a Survey of the Mamlock"; and 'The Singing And Michigan Federal Arts Project-1 The Gold," by Howard Koch, to Drawings. Photographs and Sculp-1 neighborhood audiences throughout ture; in the small galleries of Alumni New York's five boroughs. Memorial Hall, Dec. 3 through 15; At the Maxine Elliot Theatre, John daily, including Sundays, 2 to 5 p.m. Howard Lawson's "Processional" isl playing. Called everything from a Lectures symphony in jazz time to a rhapsody in red, Brooks Atkinson says that OratoricalrAssociation Lecture "Processional" must have been a Course: Dr. Victor G. Heiser, noted good play in 1925, when it was first author of "An American Doctor's produced, "for it certainly is a good Odyssey," will deliver a lecture to- play in 1937, and the flaring, im-night at 8:15 in Hill Auditorium. The pudent, noisy style of showmanship subject of his lecture will be "More still suits this country well." Tickets of An American Doctor's Odyssey." range from 83 to 25 cents. The all- Tickets are available at Wahr's. Negro production of Eugene O'Neill's French Lecture: Prof. Marc Denk- this noon in Room 3201 E. Engin- eering Bldg. Professor James K. Pollock will address the group on 'the subject, "The Short Ballot." Zoology Students: A reel of motion pictures showing the development of the salamander, Amblystoma, will be 'shown in the Natural Science Audi- torium today at 4:15 o'clock by Mr. T. C. Kramer of the An- atomy Department. The time re- quired for showing the film is about twenty minutes. Zoology students and any others interested are cordially invited. Tau Beta Pi: Dinner meeting to- night at the Union at 6:15 p.m. Omega Upsilon: short meeting at 7:30 p.m. sharp in League, tonight. All pledges and members are asked to be present. Room on bulletin board in League. Sigma Rho Tau: Regular meeting tonight in the Union at 7:30. All members should attend. Those who desire to leave in time for the talk in Hill Auditorium may do so. The Hillel Players will meet on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Founda- tion. In addition to the presentation of Eugene O'Neill's "Off Nags Head" there will be improvisations and a business meeting. Christian Science Organization: 8:15 p.m., League Chapel. Students, alumni and faculty invited to attend the services. l , l ' r Lutheran Student Bible Study Group will meet tonight in the League. See bulletin board for an- nouncement of the room. four one act plays of the sea can be seen at the Lafayette Theatre on 131st St. The four are, "Moon of the Caribbees," 'Bound East for Cardiff," "'In the Zone," and "The Long Voy- age Home." It should be interesting to see what life a Negro cast canj give to O'Neill. Seats are from 25 toI 55 cents.1 IoI By THOMAS McCANN Our Benny Goodmans, our Tommy Dorseys and our Glen Grays will come and go, but there never will be another Paul Whiteman, "The King of Jazz," or'as he is sometimes known, "The Dean of American Popular inger will give the second lecture on the Cercle Francais program: "Les gens des montagnes et leur influence sur la vie francaise." Wednesday, De-' cember 8, at 4:15 o'clock, Room 103,I Romance Language Bulding. Tickets for the series of lectures may be pro- cured at the door. Public Lecture: Professor Paul Hanna of Stanford University will' give a public lecture on the topic, "The Community Challenges the High School Curriculum." The lec- ture will be given in the Auditoriuml of the University High School, Thursday afternoon, Dec. 9 at 3 o'clock. The public is cordially in- vited. No charge for admission. Events Today Union Coffee Hour: The following ri i niat in ar sc aa Coming Events Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122 Chemistry Build- ing on Wednesday, Dec 8 at 4:15 p.m. Dr. O. L. I. Brown will speak at 4:15 p.m. Dr. 0. L. I. Brown will speak on "The lambda point of liquid helium." Algebra Seminar: Preliminary m~eeting to distribute work for this seminar which will begin sometime in 1938, Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m., in Room 3201 Angell Hall. Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences: There will be a short busi- ness meeting of the University of 'Michigan Student Branch of the In- stitute of the Aeronautical. Sciences Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 1042 'East Engineering Build- ing. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss final plans for the in- spection trip to Wright Field and the Waco plant. All who intend going on the trip should be present at this meeting. A.I.Ch.E.: The December meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9 in 1042 East Engineering Building. Mr. Roderick of Michigan Alkali will speak upon the manu- facture of soda and unit operations involved therein. Refreshments will be served, and a large turnout is de- sired. S.A.E. Members: There will be a short get-together meeting , of the Society of Automotive Engineers at the Union 7:30 Wednesday evening, Dec. 8, in Room 304. All interested non-members are Musc."Ths gnia msican aspie business orientation groups are . Music." This genial musician has especially invited to attend the Cof- invited to attend this meeting. been the foremost figure on the fee Hour Tuesday, Dec. 7, at which American musical scence since the Dean Griffin will lead the discussion: Political Science Club: Members earliest days of the jazz era. Mr. G. R. Anderson's, Mr. H. B. Cal- are notified that the next meeting Whiteman has discovered more derwood's, Mr. P M. Cuncannon's of the Political Science Club will be stars of the radio, screen and mu- Mr. R. R. Hoer's, Mr. H. M. Ken- held Thursday, December 9, in the sical fields than any other orchestra dall's, Mr. L. L. Laing's, Mr. P. L. League. Professor Bromage will leader in the world. Bing Crosby,1 Schenk's, and Mr. Philip Diamond's. speak on the rise and fall of Tam- The Rhythm Boys, Ramona, Jack hk,.Ipi d many Hall. Fulton, Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Junior Research Club: December Benny Goodman, Roy Barge and meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 English Joutnal Club: Mr. Samuel Eddy Lang are oy the p.m., on the Third Floor of the Kliger will speak Friday, Dec. 10, at more successful graduates of the Michigan Union. 4:15, in the League, on the subject: Whiteman school and sometimes Dr. C. B. Peirce, Associate Profes- "Milton's Samson Agonistes: The these proteges eves become more sor of Roentgenlogy, will talk on Idea of Christian Tragedy. Mem- popularsthanftheirttecher. Pi'wi-llbaandon popular than their teacher. Prob- "X-Rays and Tuberculosis." In addi- bers and guests are cordially invited ably the most outstanding example t the w b th tiat f to attend. of this was when Bing Crosby re- new members, fwiollowede by a iniismoker. o Members are asked to attend the placed his former leader on the Kraft business meeting at 4 p.m. Music Hall hour. Whiteman, how- Graduate Luncheon for Chemical Following the discussion, there will ever, is used to these embarrassing and Metallurgical Engineers will be' be a dinner in the Union at 6 p.m. tricks of fate, and seems to have re- Mrs. Tenney will receive reserva- signed himself to playing the role of tions. thBack in 1923 at Aolian Hall in Father Co tohlin Faculty Women's Club: The Garden New York city, Whiteman realized Section will meet Wednesday, Decem- a dream which most musicians ofIToIeturnToAir ber 8, at 3:00 p.m., at the home of Ithe classical field considered a night- 11 Mrs. George Slocum, 328 East Huron mare; it was the premiere of the im- Street. mortal jazz creation, "Rhapsody in Original Political Talks Blue." For years Whiteman had Michigan Dames: The bridge group A strong stand in defense of legitimate eco- nomic and military interests, apart from all con- siderations of the moral aspect of the war in Spain, could have isolated the conflict at the very outset. Now, with. 150,000 Italian troops, hundreds of German and Italian airplanes, and countless munitions of war of every description pinning the fascist dictators to their adventure, hope of disentangling them steadily wanes. And yet, the rulers of the two democracies may still be enlightened to the danger which the working classes, with their instinctive distrust of authori- tarianism, have long felt, and the Entente Cdr- diale may assume the role which history at one time appeared to have forced on it, the defense of democracy and peace against the forces which so powerfully menace both. Joseph Gies. By WRAG This week's prize dip-wit award goes to a judy (best unnamed) who saw Garbo and Boyer in "Conquest" at the Michigan Theatre and when Greta called to "Alexander," her illegitimate child by Napoleon, said, "Alexander? Isn't he the one who later became Alexander the Great?" For the week's worst idea, the sorority girls at Oregon State College win the paraffin frying pan for their organization to go around teaching table manners to fraternity men. It's not a bad thought, but a woman's place is in her own house. * *: * 'i' Most useless investigation of the week goes to the Carnegie Tech professor who measured the decibels of sound in a men's dormitory and found that the average noise level between 5 and 12 p.m. was 112.1 decibels or "Equivalent to that Privan by two rivptina mmaehinpcs nr 2 fi> nip I r i C L t tried to bring jazz before the atten- w ere eC DU!e tion of serious musicians, and had E almost given up hope when he finally; DETROIT. Dec. 6. - (A') - Rev. inspired the ate George Gershwin Charles E. Coughlin, who abandoned tospried the akblecomposition. radio talks a few months ago sub- To it he aema abe ckmosthe sequent to differences with his Arch- Tod important contribution of bishop later climaxed by an indirect mstriamsortanth coribuon. oreproof from Rome, announced plans American music in the popular vein. tonight to return to the air. Bing Crosby has been probably the Presumably intending again to deal most important handicap in the re- with social and economic problems cent radio popularity of the White- such as he discussed in his original man organization, but after spending '"reform" addresses, Father Coughlin a little time in the background, Paul In 1 known npans to resmm the will meet Wednesday, 8 p.m. at the League. Scabbard and Blade: There will be a regular meeting of Scabbard and Blade Wednesday evening, Dec. 8, 1937. Major Hardy will speak. The Student Religious Association: There will be tryouts for the Admin- istrative and Activities committees on Wednesday, December 8, from 3:00 Ito 5:00 at Lane Hall. Freshmen and i