a THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDI,i)A1. DC. 9, 1937 THE MICHIGAN DAILY .- TI 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. J'cSubscriptions during regular school year by carrier .00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 193738 RKPREOENTE 0 P u ,..e National AdvertisingService it. College Publi4 -s Representativ, 420 MADISON AVE NEW YORK, N. Y.. CHICAGO BOSTON LOS aGLES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR ...............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR.......... ITUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR.................WILLIAM C. SPALLER NEWS EDITOR.................ROBERT P. WEEKS WOMEJ'S EDITOR...............HELEN DOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR ...................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: JOSEPH N. FREEDMAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Roosevelt: Still At The Crossroads ... THE COUNTRY is in the midst of an industrial and business recession, and anxious eyes are once again turned to Washing- ton. When Congress convened in special session last month high hopes were raised in the Bat- tery end of Manhattan. Despite the fact that the legislators were brought back to the Capitol to pass social legislation which had been blocked in the closing days of the last session, it was felt that the sudden decline in the industrial world and its repercussions in Washington would demand concentration on business recovery in- stead. The Administration itself helped in rais- ing these hopes. Secretary Morgenthau told the Academy of Political Science and the nation that retrenchment would be the order of the budgetary day and that the Administration's aim now was to "foster the full application of the driving force of private enterprise." The President himself promised the gas and electrical utilities that, if they agreed to a reasonable revaluation of their nominal capital for the pur- pose of fixing their charges to consumers, there would be a more conciliatory attitude on the part of the government and possibly a halt in the extension of competitive Federal power enter- prises. Wall Street had expected too much before the President's speech. Its expectations outran rea- son. The industrialists had expected Mr. Roose- velt's message to be an acquiescence to their demands; instead they got a temporization. Yet if they had looked at the situation realistically they would have realized that it is only a matter of time before they will get what they want. In his message opening the special session, the President found it convenient to minimize the 'extent of actual and probable business reces- sion." He insisted that underlying conditions are favorable and that the present industrial de- cline need not be severe or prolonged. Only indirectly did he refer to the bugaboo of taxes on undivided profits and capital gains. Modifi- cation there might be, he said, in the tax struc- ture, but removal of unjust provisions must not lead to the creation of new injustices. Tax priv- ileges, he emphasized, must not be accorded to those whose intent was speculative profit rather than the actual development of productive en- terprise; above all, the scales must not be weighted against small business or in favor of that "growing concentration of economic control and resultant monopolistic practices which per- sist today." In any event, he concluded, the im- mediate business before Congress would be to consider bills to regulate farm production, to maintain national purchasing power by enact- ment of minimum wage standards and to reor- ganize the Federal machinery in the interests of greater efficiency. The wide publicity given these most recent ex- pressions by governmental and business leaders which have confused the long-run issue of social and economic reform and the immediate and urgent problem of recovery, has produced a cur- rent of opinion emphasizing the need for decisive and immediate formulation of future administra- tive policy by the President. Past achievement and past policy are thrown into sharp relief and must necessarily be reviewed in order to clarify existing issues. The President salvaged a "shipwrecked finan- cial and banking system" in 1932-33 and at- tempted to keep the country rolling on the path of recovery by prodigious expenditures from the further expansion of banking credit. Having set the machinery going the President looked for a natural growth of momentum-only to find that his "governmental outlays had masked the absence of private investment in housing, fac- tories and plant; that business, antagonized by the social reforms, competitive Federal enter- prises, progressive taxation and anti-speculation enactments of the New Deal had gone quietly on strike," as the Annalist pointed out. It has been a strong talking point of Roosevelt supporters that the Administration has brought the nation out of the low economic state of 1932- 33, and the President has illustrated his desire for such approval as was accorded Coolidge and other presidents of prosperity. But having accepted credit for the business revival, the President, now, with the appare' failure of his previous efforts to mechanically produce a continuous period of prosperity, is forced to bear the burden of criticism of both conservative capital, which has always opposed his rigid governmental regulation, and a despair- ing liberal opinion which had regarded this new democratic leadership as a continuation of the social and economic programs of the early 20th century progressives. It was felt that with the advent of the New Deal in 1932 that the Democratic party would repre- sent a flowering of the old liberalisms of the pre- war decade. Those early progressives, Bryan, La Follette, and Wilson had hoped by "reform" to return to the methods and possibilities of a more primitive capitalism. As early as 1933, however, John Chamberlain, in his book Fare- well To Reform pointed out that the Roosevelt reforms would not help to maintain freedom of contract, freedom from monopoly and freedom of competition which, he said, are the funda- mental bases of reform in a capitalistic de- mocracy. In making this point Mr. Chamberlain stood with both Ralph West Robey, the conserv- ative financial adviser and editor, and with John Strachey, the English Marxist critic. In other words both conservatives and radicals know how capitalistic reform works; it is only the liberal, who has mistaken an "adjective for a credo," who is deluded. Mr. Roosevelt's empirical liberalism has proved itself of unenduring stuff. "What we have creat- ed," said George Soule, "is not a reformed in- dustrial capitalist system, but a mixture in which problems will be precipitated with greater clarity, an arena in which sides may be chosen and sig- nificant conflicts waged." And one of these issues which is manifest today is that Mr. Roose- velt must move unequivocally and immediately in one direction or the other. Economists continue to point out that the slump is continuing, and that neither Mr. Roosevelt nor the nation can afford to watch passively the development of another major economic crisis. Mr. Roosevelt is beginning to realize, as have the earlier philo- sophical liberals before him, that if capitalism is to work the capitalists must be allowed to make their own rules. Mr. Roosevelt now finds him- self at the crossroads-either he must move to give business a free hand and repeal all anti- speculation taxes and shut down on TVA expan- sion and the like, or he must move on to a planned social state. Elliott Maraniss. U NDERD THE CLOCK with DISRAELTI- -- HUSSY!' That snowman up on Washtenaw the other day was not really a snow man at all. Chi Phi conceived and bore the monster on their lawn, but the night found marauding pixies giving the coldfooted lad a going-over. At any rate, the following morning found the snowman - whose name we will leave out for fear we endanger his good name on the campus -had changed sex. Neighbors had applied paint to his surface and, probably from the trophy room of their own house, had taken a neat pair of step-ins which the snowman-woman (cross out one) wore daintily. Banner line on Detroit Times: DUPONT PREDICTS BIG BOOM * * * * Did oo faw down, Mr. DuPont? Or, are you letting TNT go at bargain rates, especially for Christmas. * * * * A COMMUNICATION Dear Mr. Disraeli: My professor is an awful rotter. He sits all day and plays with a blotter. - Caligula. * * * * -Mr. Disraeli. RADIO By THOMAS McCANN It's certainly a shock when someone says that Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet playerj the world has ever known, but it's a direct slap at your intelligence when somebody else puts Bunny Berigan in the same category. (We'll let poor old Clyde McCoy and his equally in- famous colleague, Henry Busse, rest in regard to this question.) We always understood, and we thought everyone else did too, that there never has been anyone quite the equal of Loring "Red" Nichols and the late Bix Beiderbecke. ft kefHto Me H-eywood B rou n In a depression or world series it is customary to pick a goat, such as Snodgrass or Hoover. Generally, it is a little unfair to put the blame for losses entirely upon a single pair of shoulders. Nevertheless, the custom continues. The Roosevelt recession" has already been tagged and labeled. But it is my notion that if a lone whipping boy is to be selected to take the blame for the present slump search should not be made in Wash- ington but in Ohio. In my opinion a very con- siderable share of the re- sponsibility lies at the door of a Buckeye Tree Surgeon. When Governor Davey broke the strike in Little Steel he also began the drive which has curtailed mass purchasing power. To be sure, friends of the Cedar sawbones may rush to Davey's defense and insist, with some logic, that the Maple Munyon is a slight and timid man who would not so much as raise his hand against a weeping willow unless he had his gang with him. But his gang was with him. Weir and Girdler pulled the strings. Davey danced. If labor organization had won, as it might well have done but for the calling of the troops, wage levels would have been stabilized in all the mass production industries. The war be- tween the CIO and the AFL would now be over, since the balance in favor of industrial unionism could hardly have failed to force a settlement. *' * * * White Collar Groups Checked Most injurious of all to national prosperity was the check placed against the rapid growth of organization in white collar groups. If the United States had ten million men and-women organized in efficient and co-operative trade unions there would be a brisk demand for the goods which now remain in the shop and on the shelves. People speak of depressions coming when busi- ness loses confidence. I think an even more fundamental cause of any slump is the fact that labor loses confidence. Hard times in recent years in America have not been caused by a lack of goods but by a lack of customers. Much use has been made of the phrase "The economy of scarcity," by New Deal critics, but it is well to remember that it is a relative term. Even under the most rigid crop control there has been ample to go around. *, * * * Toiler Needs Sense Of Security Many classes of goods in America are sold on the installment plan, and no man or woman will make commitments on a car, a radio or a refrig- erator if the job itself is precarious. The toiler naturally will buy nothing but bare necessities, save when he has some sense of security. And when layoffs come he cannot even buy those, and the whole stream of consumption is dried up. When Governor Davey came to New York re- cently to strut his stuff Tom Girdler sat at a nearby table and led the applause. The Tree Man boasted that he and his associates had saved the temple of American institutions. As a matter of fact, they pulled it down, and about the only satisfaction that the rest of the nation can get is that the sky began to rain beams and bricks. Some of them hit Davey and Girdler, too. Sam- son was a strong man, but he also happened to be stone blind. On The ;Leohvel By WRAG Scene: Fred Blass and Doug Larson sitting in Library across from a beautiful blonde. Action: the two spend an hour making out a question- naire asking when the blonde would like a date, what she'd like to do, and whether she goes steady, half steady, or dates at all. Cut: the blonde glances at the questionnaire, writes down "Mrs. Paul Smith" and underlines "Steady" three times. Anti-climax: Fred and Doug pick up books and leave library. Typographical error in The Michigan Alumnus. on Nov. 27: "On Saturday night officers of the Engineering class of '36 staged an informal fath- ering for the members of their class and friends who were in Philadelphia for the game." Prof. Anning sent in the following A.P. News story paragraph: "Four thousand years ago, naked Assyrian slaves toiled under a blazing tropical sun to build the world's first river tun- nel - under the muddy bed of the Euphrates, 3,0001feet, from the temple to the royal palace of Babylon." The Professor rather wonders how they can be out. in the sun and under the river at the same time. * ** * The above story also carries the headline: "Babylonians Did The Trick, 2,000 A.D." Along this same line, a New York paper can claim the typo prize of the year with the follow- ing sentence from a strike story: "Miss found 60 picketers in her bath as she tried to go to her work in the factory." music B.y WILLIAM J. LICHTENWANGER The Boston Symphony The Boston Symphony, that re- markable creature with the technical perfection of a machine, the heart of a romanticist, and the mind of a Koussevitzky, was in Ann Arbor again last night. Of all the concerts heard in Hill Auditorium in the course of a season, none ever surpass in perfec- tion of detail or in wealth and logic, of interpretative idea the now tradi- tional performances of the Boston group, when as last night, those vir-1 tues are lavished upon a program of matchless interest and power the' total effect is unsurpassable. The program, of the double-bar- relled-symphony variety which seems to be, gratefully enough, the prime favorite this season, opened with the G major Symphony of Haydn which is numbered 13 in the old Breitkoff edition. By turns lighthearted, lyri- cal, jocose, and with the merriest and most impelling of finales, the Symphony was played with all thel rhythmical verve of classic tradition, tall the sheer transparency of tone of the superb Boston strings, and yet with a vigor and warmth that belied the over-daintiness with whichl Haydn is often associated. A more modern, perhaps more con- scious, but nevertheless delightful good humor was fairly exuded from the novel "Lieutenant Kije" Suite which separated the symphonies. So far in America the Lieutenant has been treated rather condescendingly by the critics, with mumblings about "insubstantiality." But, film music is naturally descriptive rather than nar- rative, and the Lieutenant cannot be denied some pleasing tunes, infectious rhythms, and-most of all-a clever, colorful, astounding orchestration. The piece de resistance of the eve- ning was the Second Symphony in D major, of Jean Sibelius, who en- tered into his seventy-third year yes-' terday. The performance of the Sym- phony was a magnificent revelation: Full-blooded, intensely dramatic, de-I veloped now in broad upward sweeps, now in broken snatches of impas- sioned utterance, the work is still an enigma to our understanding. But its effect upon the senses is unmistak- able, and allrthe powertof the Boston Orchestra brought it to a climactic conclusion which left nothing more to be said-except bravo. THEATRE By NORMAN T. KIELL} Detroit Season THURSDAY, DEC. 9, 1937 - cial and willful disregard of the VOL. XLVIII. No. 63 safety of University property." Attention February Graduates and attThie regulations are caledor their Graduate Students: Prospective re- information and guidance. Any per- cipients of any degree or of a certifi-. son having any key or keys to Univer- cate in any special curriculum at the' sity buildings, doors, or other locks, close of the present semester should contrary to the provisions recited above, should promptly surrender the immediately file an application fort same to the Key Clerk at the office the degree or certificate desired,- of the Department of Buildings not later than Jan. 12 in any case. and Grounds. Shirley W. Smith. Applications must be on a special Student Loans: The Committee on blank. With the exceptions noted Student Loans will meet in Room 2, below application blank will be se-: University Hall on Monday after- cured and the application filed with noon, Dec. 13, to consider new loans the Recorder or Secretary of the for the second semester, as well as for I -hnnI r r~,. 11PQ'P in which the the balance of the present semester. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETrIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all wen-h rs rf ne University, Copy received at the office~ of the Assistant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. I dent concerned is enrolled. In the cases of the Colleges of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and of Archi- tecture, and the Schools of Music, of ! Education, and of Forestry and Con- *servation the blank is to be obtained i and the application filed at the of- fice of the Registrar, Room 4, Univer- sity Hall. Application blank for the Teacher's Certificate is to be ob- tained and filed at the Office of the School of Education. Your early cooperation will be Ih lll ih iia f+an~~in Appointments should be made at once for interviews at that time. Closing hour for girls attending the Sophomore Prom is 2:30 a.m. The Holder of Sophomore Prom Ticket No. 207 is urged to communi- cate promptly with the undersigned at Room 2 University Hall as this ticket will not be honored on the evening of the dance. W. B. Rea, Auditor of Student ("Or anizations. heipul. Th-e filing of the appiica..j cgaa ztmi. tion involves no fee whatever. Senior Aeronautical Engineers: Notice to all Members of the Blanks for preparing personnel rec- University: The following is an ex- ords of all senior students in the De- tract of a by-law of the Regents' partment of Aeronautical Engineer- (Chapter III-B, Sections 8 and 9) ing are now available in the Depart- which has been in effect since Sep- ment Office, Room B-47 East Engin- tember, 1926: eering Bldg. These forms should be "It will hereafter be regarded al secured and filled out by all seniors contrary to University policy for who expect to graduate in February, anyone to have in his or her posses- June, or August, 1938. In the case sion any key to University buildings of students who expect to graduate in or parts of buildings if such key is February, it is surgently requested not stamped as provided (i.e. by the that their records be handed in be- Buildings and Grounds Department). fore the beginning of Christmas va- If such unauthorized keys are found cation on Dec. 17. A sample form in- the case shall be referred to the Dean dicating the kind of information de- or other proper head of the Univer- sired is posted on the Aeronautical sity division involved for his action Engineering Bulletin Board. in accordance with this principle. Any watchman or other proper repre- Exhibitions sentative of the Buildings and Grounds Department, or any Dean,t Ann Arbor Art Association presents department head or. other proper l a double exhibition : Prints - from University official shall have the right Durer to Derain; and a Survey of the to inspect keys believed to open Michigan Federal Arts Project- University buildings, at any reason- Drawings, Photographs and Sculp- able time or place, ture; in the small galleries of Alumni ... For any individual to order, Memorial Hall, Dec. 3 through 15; have made, or permit to be ordered daily, including Sundays, 2 to 5 p.m. or made, any duplicate of his or her University key, through unauthorized Concerts channels, must be regarded as a spe- ., , !. / } + With the week of Dec. 13, theatre- wise Detroiters and suburbanites can perk up their collective heads and look ahead with a certain amount of assurance that they will have some fairly crowded hours of theatre en- tertainment in store for them. For on Dec. 13, Miss Helen Hayes comes to the Cass Theatre in a week's en- gagement of Laurence Housman's "Victoria Regina." When "Victoria Regina" first opened up in New York City, the drama critics, as if in one synchronous movement, all paid their respects to Miss Hayes. Brooks At- kinson: "She is magnificent. God save the Queen!" John Mason Brown: "A triumph ... an amazing performance ... an exceptional production." Rob-, ert Coleman: "She is nothing short of magnificent." And so it was on down the line. On Dec. 14 and 15, the Masonic Auditorium will house Col. W. de- Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The Ballet Russe is staged by Michel Fokine and has for its leading bal- lerina, Irina Baronova, who first'ap- peared with the Ballet five years ago at the age of 13. Paul Petroff, Da- vid Lichine, and Tamara Touma- nova add to the aggregation of some of the finest dancers in the world to- day. Tickets are from 83 cents to $2.75; - curtain is called for at 8:15.I "Yr. Obedient Husband," starring Frederic March and his wife, Flor- ence Eldridge, will come to the Cass for a week's .run beginning Sunday, Dec. 19. They come to Detroit via Pittsburgh and from this proving ground will go to New York for final affirmation. "Yr. Obedient Hus- band" has the advantage of having John Cromwell direct it and Jo Mielziner design the stage settings for it. The former is from the movies, the latter a Broadway fixture, having done all the designing for Katherine Cornell and other stars. Supporting Mr. March and Miss Eldridge are Dame May Whitty, Martin Wolfson, land Brenda Forbes. If plans do not go awry, Detroit will have another play during the Christ-j mas season. Its name is "StageI Door," and its star, Joan Bennett. The theatre is again the Cass. This f is the piece that starred Margaret Sullivan last season on Broadway and will probably do much to rein- state Ginger Rogers and Katherine Hepburn as dramatic artists in the moving picture version soon to be re- leased. Then, on Jan. 3, the Cass Theatre will house what probably will be the highlight of the Detroit theatrical season: Maurice Evans is scheduled to annear in Shakespeare's "Richard I THE SCREEN ., ..., l ( i Carillon Recital: Wilmot F. Pratt, University Carillonneur, will give a recital on the Charles Baird Carillon in the Burton Memorial Tower, Thursday evening, from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock. ' - By ROBERT PERLMAN "One of the most unusual, absorb- ing and provocative pictures to come our way in years," are the words Frank S. Nugent, screen critic for the New York Times, used to de- scribe "The Eternal Mask," the story of the split personality of Dr. Dumar- tin, who became a man in search of himself before he was cured by mod- ern psychiatric methods. An epidemic of meningitis is sweeping the city where Mr. Dumar- tin is a member of a large hospital staff. He believes he has found al serum that will check the disease and injects it into a patient despite the prohibition of the head of the hospital. The patient, after a tem- porary recovery, dies and the hospital head and the patient's widow attack Dumatrin for insubordination and for injecting a "murder drug" into a pa- tient. Shaken by the terrible ending to his experiment, Dumartin goes mad. He imagines he is someone else whose task it is to find a certain "Dr. Du- martin" to accuse him of using a murder-serum. Members of the hospital staff dis- cover that the deceased patient was killed by a heart attack, but was greatly helped by the serum. Recog-! nizing Dumartin's genius, the head1 of the staff tries to restore the young doctor's mental balance by "old school" physical methods so that he' can produce the serum for which the formula is lost. His efforts fail. At this point a young colleague of Dumartin's receives permission to use modern psychoanalytical means to restore his friend's mind. Dumar- tin is taken to the room where the patient died. He sees his patient who tells him that he must face the con- sequences that come in the wake of his desire to benefit humanity. Du- martin's feverish brain grasps the thought; he realizes that the figure was only a figment of his imagination and that with its disappearance all I his madness is gone. He leaves the room a new man and takes up the work of preparing his serum that will eradicate te meningitis plague in the city. IV, Part 1." Since "Henry" is a se- quel to "Richard," Frederic Worlock will carry over into the play as the King, with Charles Dalton continuing as the Earl of Northumberland. Wes- ley Addy will play Hotspur; Winston O'Keefe, Prince . Hal, and Eleanor Phelps, Mistress Quickley. Margaret Wehter, who directed "Richard," is Lectures 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 Auditorium of the University High School, Thursday afternoon, Dec. 9 at 3 o'clock. The public is cordially in- vited. No charge for admission. Chemistry Lecture: Dr. Lars Thom- J assen, of the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering of this University; will speak on the topic "X-ray Investigations of Phase Equil- ibria in the Solid State" on Friday, Dec. 10, in Room 303 Chemistry Bldg. The lecture is sponsored by the Amer- ican Chemical Society and is open to the public. At the conclusion of the lecture the local section of the Society will hold its annual business meeting. Events Today University Broadcast: 3-3:30 p.m. "Play Reading," Prof. William P. Hal- stead's Class. Union Coffee Hour: All men students are cordially invited to attend the regular Union Coffee Hour from 4:30 to 5:30 in the small ballroom of the 'Union. Orientation groups No. 17 and 18 headed by Mr. D. E. Hobart and Mr. M. J. Thompson are special guests today. Faculty Women's Club: The Art Study Group will meet today at 2 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Louis Bred- vold, 2034 Norway Road. Michigan Dames: There will be a joint meeting of the book and drama groups Thursday, Dec. 9, at the League. The program will consist of a dramatization of the Birds' Christ- mas Carol by the drama group and the reading of Dickens' Christmas SCarolby the book group. All members of the Dames are invited. Students and faculty members of Physical Education: One of the rugby ''players from the city of Winnepeg will discuss rugby football as played in Canada and how it differs from the American game, for the History of Physical Education class, today at 11 o'clock in Room 4009 University High School. All physical education students, faculty members, and friends are cordially invited to at- +-tY