FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY sAxURDAY, DEC. 11, 1937 -I ________ IE MICHIGAN DAILY 1U- $I.,-',' Edited and managed by students of the University of Mlhigan under the authority of the Board in Control of 8tdent Publications. Publislied every morning except MonAy 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. Enteredat the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, 1400; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 RER E~SE a m n R A :41n . ._ .. . . . NationalAdvertisingSe rice, Inc. College Publish-s Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. ChiCAGO - BOSTON - Los AGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors MANAG1NG EDITOR ..............JOSEPH S. MATTES IDITORIAL DIRECTOR ............TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR....................WILLIAM C. SPALLER NEWS EDITOR...................ROBERT P WEEKS SOMEN'S EDITOR .. ... . ..........HELEN DOUGLAS PORTS EDITOR ........... ...IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department EUSINESS 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: ROBERT PERLMAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers Jonly. Scholarship Vs. Athletics?-. . STRANGE that in organizing the na- tion's labor the union big-wigs should have neglected a 69-year-old industry that grosses $40,000,000 in a season of nine weeks, kills 30 to 40 workers annually, injures 100,000 and re- munerates all with little or nothing. Time was when American football was played solely for the exhileration of the exercise. Time was when colossal stadia, $4.40 pasteboards. trans-continental jaunts, Saturday afternoon alunni and "killing" schedules were an un- anticipated development. And that was the time when American intercollegiate football was an amateur sport-quite the antithesis of the con- temporary professional mass spectacle. The cynics and "so-whatters" for eight years now have been blasting at collegiate football, its proselyting and "big-business" methods. The Calrnegie Foundation (in Bulletins 23, 25 and 26) has thundered against "taking the game away from the boys." "De-emphasis" has been bandied from coast to coast and the ugly head of pro- fessional athletics bared. But little has been accomplished. St. Marys College still travels 1,000 miles across the continent and back for a 60-minute game with Fordham University, Min- nesota of the supposed impeccable "Big Ten" took a week off last year for a tilt with Washington State University on the west coast, Georgia Tech will play a post season game with California on Christmas Day and the Denver University grid- ders will make their biennial pilgrimage to the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Everything but the wash bowl is now represented in the post season games that have sprung up like garden weeds throughout the country. .Exit Simon-Pure Athletics Actually it is a platitude that simon-pure ath- letics departed the American college scene with the disappearance of the Floradora girls and high water pants. The halcyon days of amateurism are 25 years past. Yet America in general and sports hacks in particular seem loath to admit the decadence of the old ideal of sport for sport's sake. The muckraker can rake, rant and write until it's June in January and one crisp October Saturday plus the strains of the varsity band will let him out the back door directly. Proselyting, professionalism or what have you be hanged, 70,- 000 rabid spectators are poised for the kick-off. To attempt to cancel this annual American mass spectacle, then, is perhaps a fight with windmills. From the spectator's point of view the game is the thing. But what about the athlete and his point of view. Is he still up on his pinnacle surveying the scene through rose glasses or are his pedals getting nearer the terra firma. He is not, per se, the tin god he formerly was on the campus. Certainly the undergrad- uates still flock to the stadium every Saturday to see him play, but it is the atmosphere now that quickens their blood, not the individual. Scant credit is given the footballer for the hun- dreds of hours he scrimmages en the gridiron- in games and in practice. Where is the percentage for the athlete, then, in this hurly-burly business of football? The per- centage, indeed, if there be any percentage at all, is painfully small, negligible, in fact, compared to the $40,000,000 annual gross which the grad- uate managers record in their books. The mod- like a Zulu's check for an hour's work in a dia- mond mine.' If the athlete was shrewd, which in the ma- jority of cases he was not, he bargained for a tuitional scholarship, perhaps free board and an occasional hand-out for pin money clandestinely given and guiltily accepted. If he went to school in the supposed impeccable "Big Ten" he officially receives-exactly nothing and the Uni- versity pockets the change, not to mention the gate receipts. Ironic that after months of honest sweating he should be made to feel ill-at-ease when he accepts the pittance the athletic author- ities dole out for remuneration: Pink Herring, Etc. It is high time this athletic sham was col- lapsed. Collegians today play professional ball. That fact is irrefutable, by the $20,000 weekly gate receipts, by the high-powered athletic plants and by the proselyting which is now taken for granted. As professionals, then, the athletes are entitled to a fair pei'centage of the gate receipts. The athletic "dollar-a-year" jobs have become a disgrace. "School spirit," and a chance for "All American" are pink herrings which the moguls of the athletic treasury have pulled across the trail too often. The herring are beginning to smell and even the athlete is holding his nose. American college authorities face a severe dilemma. The one-time enthusiastic alumni are beginning to appreciate the folly of their hand- some subscriptions to the building of the over- sized stadia. The "rah, rahs" in letters to the secretary of alumnirelations have been replaced by business-like dollars and cents signs. The stadia must be filled, chant the alumni in unison. The bonded interest must be met. To satisfy this demand the college must develop a whirlwind eleven and a killing schedule of feature attrac- tions weekly. Every source from the preparatory school football mill to the Pennsylvania coal mine must be scouted for material. But against such tactics the pedagogs 'lift their arms and declaim in academic horror. Not Enough To Go 'Round The problem of reconciliation is an especially sore one since there cannot be enotgh youths to go around of college age who are capable of com- bining the athletic and physical prowess de- manded by the two camps. Only one solution is practicable. Studies and intercollegiate athletics must be divorced from one another. History shows the two to be jealous mistresses. If football is a mass spectacle which the public can ill afford to do without let the colleges be represented by professional teams who are paid for their services from an athletic endowment. Let the students interested in athletic participation sat- isfy themselves with the, intramural program which is fast gaining ground throughout the country. As for the spirit of the thing, it would be of little moment to the crowds whether 23- year-old Tony Hamas from Alaquippa, Penn., represents the University because he is enrolled in Geology 12 or whether he represents the Univer- sity because he is a skilled athlete being paid for his services. Separated from the trammels of the Univer- sity, intercollegiate football might become a game of experts. Separated from the trammels of in- tercollegiate football, the University might be- come a community of students. Robert I. Fitzhenry. THEATRF By EDITH FOLKOFF I/ feeinr 10 Mc Heywood Broun I assume it is quite useless for me to express the timid hope that the last All-America football team for 1937 has been chosen. Probably it will be, necessary to wait until the Rose, Sugar and Citrus games are played so that somebody can compile an All-Bowl aggregation. I have nothing against football, and the way in which a sports writer in Manhattan can direct the genius of an Oregon end whom he has never seen is both amusing and amazing. Possibly there is something in mental telepathy, after all. But I think that Walter Camp's first pioneering into the "All" field was a kind of flying wedge which has cut deeply and injuriously into American psychology. When Camp in his modest way chose ten Yale players and a fellow from Princeton as the pick of the puppies he did not know that in a little while the entire nation would become list- conscious. and that capsule criticism would in- vade every field of art and endeavor. Indeed, I hold that Charles Eliot of Harvard was uncon- sciously a disciple of the Yale football mentor and that the five-foot shelf stemmed logically out of the five-man line. The end result of it all is Dale Carnegie, and I trust that there is some turning in the grave of Camp and that of Dr. Eliot. Compilation On Compilation Within a week I have seen compilations of the ten greatest books of all time, the six best novels published so far in December, the nine most beautiful girls in Port Jervis, N.Y., "six things which must not be forgotten while doing the Big Apple," the twenty-one cardinal points of social etiquette, the eighty-eight Armenians who have done the most for their country and the twenty- .six articles of faith necessary for salvation. And so, from marketing in the morning until going to bed at night, the average American lives by one list or another. He counts his cal- ories and rotates his toothbrush in the manner prescribed in the drill manual. He sleeps on his right side, uses a pillow of standard size and sets the 'alarm clock for 7:30 so that he may catch the 8:15. Going in on the train he nods his head in approval as he reads the editorial which says that Americans never have and never will be regimented. No longer is our calendar divided into the months familiar to our ancestors. I wanted to make out a check and asked the date. A bystander informed me, "It's the last day of Cheese Week and the eve of Be Kind to Dumb Animals." Regimentation Vs. Regimentation There ought to be a revolution. One week of the year. should belong neither to cotton nor the improvement of English diction in the grammar schools of the United States. More than that. there should be one day set aside as a national holiday, and during those twenty-four hours everybody should read some book contained on nobody's list. He should see a show which re- ceived one-half a star from all the critics. In- stead of spinach, truffles might well adorn the groaning board. Since the old rhyme says "Beer and whisky, pretty risky," these mild stimulants should be attacked in just that order. Perhaps it is a mistake to suggest that some new holiday should be set. That would be at- tacking regimentation with regimentation. It is a long time to wait, but Columbus Day could be devoted to the breaking of fetters. After all, the great navigator sailed uncharted seas. When-he pointed his caravels toward the setting sun he had the courage of his own convictions but never a list in all his cargo. "This voyage is on me," said Christopher. Let's emulate him. On The Level By WRAG The dismissal of Harry Kipke is greatly remin- iscent of the intrigue in French courts prior to the Revolution of 1789, except for the fact that Louis and Antoinette were given a slight warning before they had their heads chopped off. All Kip got was a phone call from a reporter and a lot of sympathy after everything had hap- pened. However, the scores of the Minnesota and Ohio State games must have been something like the Fall of the Bastille as far as he was concerned. Few men have ever done more for Mich- igan football than Kip did, and the "Ward to the Wise" column in the Detroit Free Press paid him a grand tribute, Thursday. It was unfortunate that the paper had to give the column a final Rockwellian touch and carry over the last few inches to an ominous posi- tion beneath the obituary columns. The greatest optimist in the country couldn't have expected Kipke to win more than four games this year with the material he had, and just as Michigan was coming out of its slump without jeopardizing her simon-pure position, the man who had done most to pull her through the de- FINLAND Comes Through Again (From the Boston Globe) Finland goes on paying its war debt to the United States. It is the only one of 13 war debtors that has not defaulted. This week, also, Su-om - s t e F n s c l th i c u tr mi-as the Finns call their countr -celebrates the 20th anniversary of its independence from Russia. Suomi has plenty to celebrate. Not Rickert, Prof. of Diagnosis, Dental' perhaps what a good many Ameri- Therapeutics, and Radiology. cans would think sufficient cause:- size and wealth. The New England[ Angell Hall Observatory will be' States plus New York and Ohio are open to the public from 7:30 to 9:301 larger than the whole of Finland. tonight to observe the moon and the Helsingfors, the capital, is less than half the size of Boston without our planet Saturn. Children must be' suburbs, and situated in the same accompanied by adults. latitude as Labrador. Grand though Finnish scenery is, the land raises Beta Kappa Rho Christina1 Party, more rocks and trees than it does' Saturday, Dec. 11, 8:30 p.m. in the crops, though they do a thriving Mary B. Henderson Room of the trade in lumber and fisheries. But Michigan League. not until after you have told howI the Finns earn their livings does the* excitement beg in .s The Outdoor Club will meet at 1:30 Illiteracy is virtually nil. Next, p.m. Saturday at Lane Hall to go imagine a city no larger than Wor- skating on the river. Everybody in- cester, plus Portland, but supporting terested is invited to attend.; a resident opera company, two resi- dent repertory theatre companies, a' The Christmas party of the Ann notable conservatory of music, a Arbor Friends will be held tonight first-rate university, a library and at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold museum of fine arts, a park system Gray, 1416 Hill Street. Guests are which criss-crosses the city with invited to bring a ten cent gift for shaded avenues, architecture that is Santa's pack. Refreshment charge, noble, monumental public sculpture 20 cents. as dignified as any in Boston and far more frank, hotels with genuine at-! mosphere, a cafe hight life that knows how to be at once entertain- I German Table for Faculty Mem- ing and mentally alive and how to bers: The regular luncheon meeting' be amusing without being vulgar. will be held Monday at 12: 10 p.m. inI Here is a society of cultivated people the Founders' Room of the Michigan( who are "lovers of beauty without Union. All faculty members interest-I extravagance," who subsidize poets ed in speaking German are cordially; and musicians and support the most! invited. voluminous bookstore in Europe out- side of Paris. To The Faculty and Graduate Stu- At Helsinki ( which is what the l dents of Education: The December' Finns call their capital) one sails in- get-together of the Graduate Educa-j to a harbor which, instead of looking tion Club is to be held on Tuesday, like a rabbit-hutch of firetrap freight Dec. 14, at 4:30, in the University sheds, looks more like Copley sq-I Elementary School Library. Refresh- or would, if Copley sq were 20 times ments will be served. All Education large and more imposing than it is. Students are urged to attend. This harbor is fronted on three sides! by stately edifices: the President's The Music Section of the Faculty Palace and Government Building, Women's Club will meet Tuesday,I two domed churches, cathedral-size, Dec.14, at 8 p.m. at the home of set on hills, and by commercialstruc-i Mrs. E. B. Stason, 1719 Hermitage tres that are handsome. The quays -Rd. The program will be given by are stone. And at elbows with the School harbor starts the main boulevard, a of Music faculty and Mrs. Marian park-like thoroughfare where foun- Struble Freeman, violinist. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is conItrue no, ,i(< to mm all i 'r I the University. Copy received at the omice of the As'istant to the Pre .dent until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday (Continued from Page 2) Jack and Joan. Prof. Eich. University Broadcast: 5:45-6 p.m. "Dental Nostrums," Dr. U. Garfield! day. 5 p.m. at the Michigan League. Leslie D. Shaffer of Philadelphia, executive secretary of the Friends Fellowship Council, will speak on "Independent Meetings and the Friends Fellowship Council." Lutheran Student Club will hold it's annual Christmas program Sunday in Zion Parish Hall. There will be special music and speakers talking on Christmas in various foreign coun- tries. Students attending will please bring a 10 cent gift for an exchange. The student choir will meet at 4:00 p.m. as usual. Graduate Outing Club will meet at Lane Hall at 2:30 Sunday .afternoon for a trip to Camp Newkirk. Hikinig and supper. are welcome. All graduate students 'The Secret Garden' The newest presentation of the Children's The- atre is a thoroughly pleasing version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden." Richard McKelvey has put into his adaptation enough mystery and boisterous fun to engage completely the attention of a not over-tolerant type of audi- ence. The strange crying which convinces Mary, the little orphan girl who has come from India to the lonely house on the Yorkshire moor, that there is a mystery to be solved, was "spooky" enough to call forth the approval of the small boy who sat next to me. Nor does Mr. McKelvey commit the serious but easy error of indulging in the talking-down sort of whimsy that immediately betrays the heavy hand of the adult. The charm of the play is due in large measure to the direction of Sarah Pierce, who has given the production a proper broadness of outline without the omission of those details that height- en the excitement, an intensity of pitch, and rap- idity of tempo. Queer sounds, vigorous fits of hysterics, and a lively boxing-match follow each other in quick succession. The characters are played robustly by an almost uniformly good cast. Betty Spooner makes Mary Lennox, who has been well acquained with rajahs but knows nothing about skipping rope, a very real child-at first rather unattractively imperious to those whom she meets in the strange house, but quite lovable once she has made friends with her fellow-con- spirators, Martha, the maid, Martha's brother Dickon. and the robin who shows her the way to the secret garden. Ruth Menefee is a genial Martha, running about her errands in a rather jittery manner; Evelyn Smith is a sufficiently horrid Mrs. Medlock, frightening poor Martha almost to death. And Teddy Maier plays Colin Craven, the little invalid whose cure is brought about under Mary's high-spirited supervision, with a delightful unaffectedness and a poise that few children could achieve. Frederick James' sets are simple and effective; Mr. McKelvey's dialogue is swift, lively and witty. And the costumes contribute to the general spirit and color. Action is the most important element in any tains splash and casino orchestras'- _- play good mush,. Sasltwateflos Physics Colloquium: Professor R. in amongst the city streets and A Sawyer will speak on "Recent$ around its environs. The sea is a Worki on Doublet Spectra" at the main street. Domestically-that is, Physics Colloquium Monday, Dec. 131 in house interiors, manners, food and at 4:15 p.m. in Room 1041 E. Physicst drink-one feels half in a drama by Bldg. Ibsen and half in a novel by Tolstoy. Suomi Club Meeting: Dec. 12, 8 At the same time. Finland's mod-' u ElbMetn:Dc 2 ernistic architecture has the distine- p.m. Lane Hall. tion of preserving a tone of dignity and sincerity, which is more than1 Research Club Wednesday, Dec. 15, can be said for most of its equivalent at 8 p.m., in Room 2528 East Medical closer by. Building. Program: 1. Professor Suomi has done something else N.R.F. Maier: The effects of cortical that nobody bargained for. In the injury on the behavior of rats in com- one supreme art of modern times, the, plex test situations. II. French and orchestral symphony, a Finn hasI Provencal treatises on arithmetic be- walked off with the highest honor;, fore 1500. (a) Professor L. C. Kar- he has advanced the symphony be- pinski: Their place in the history of' yond where it was left by Beethoven mathematics; (b) Professor E. L., and Brahms. German noses are out Adams; The development of French of joint, for Germans think that no- arithmetical terminology. bodys can compose a symphony ex- S cept a German. The French nose is Sunday Forum: Professor Artl.ur S. likewise awry. But it is too late Afton will talk on the Spanish prob- They should have thought of this Ilem, Sunday, Dec. 12, at 4:15 p.m. in, before they dragooned their talented the small ballroom of the Union.I boys into killing one another. Finland There will be discussion, and coffee has the prize. His name is Sibelius, will be served. The public is cordial- and today is his 72nd birthday. iy invited. America is fortunate in Finland's Choral Union Rehearsal:Th human exports. They are the back- R he bone of our local cooperative move- Choral Union will hold a rehearsal: ment, a people who understand the on "The Creation" Sunday afternoonj basic art of social organization. in Hill Auditorium at 4:00 o'clock in- Thus one thinks of Finland as a stead of 2:30 as previously an- Nordic Hellas, with Russia as her nounced. All members are expected Persia, Germany as her Egypt and to be present. Scandinavia as her Rome. What is t respectfully commended to the at- IcIta Alpha: The Beta Chapter will tention of Americans is this spectacle I hold its regular monthly meeting for if how much can be achieved by a j December on Monday, Dec. 13 at nation young in years but ancient of 7:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room (Rm. race, poor in resources but rich in 3205) East Engineering Bldg. sagacity. small in size but great in The speaker will be Mr. H. R{ spirit. Crane, Department of Physics, whose! topic will be ''Recent Developments I in the Study of Atomic Nucleus." Every member is urged to be present. Ministerial' Students: All students interested in the ministry are invited - ° to a luncheon at Lane Hall Monday, By THOMAS McCANN Dec. 13. Reservations should be1 Have you ever gone berserk? Have made before 10 o'clock Mondayl you ever known anyone who went Morning.J that way? We haven't, but Cab Cal- I -n. loway has given us a reasonably ac- j Christian Student Prayer Group curate facsimile in the past fewj will hold its regular meeting at 5:30' months because, believe it or not, the p.m. Sunday in the Hostess Room of Cab has come out with a brand 1 the Michigan League. All Christian spanking new combination which, for students are invited. a change, has its merits. Churches Disciple Guild (Church of Christ): 10:45 a.m., Morning Worship, Rev. Fred Cowin, Minister. 12:00 noon, Students' Bible Class. H. L. Pickerill, Leader. 5:30 p.m., Social Hour and Tea. 6:30 p.m., Mrs. Grace Sloan Over- ton will speak on "Marriage in the Modern World." Mrs. Overton is an author of several important books and is a nationally known lecturer on marriage and the family. She has spoken in more than 40 colleges and universities during the last few months. A discussion period will follow the lecture in which Mrs. Overton will answer questions. All students are welcome. First Congregational Church: Cor- ner of State and William. 10:45 a.m. Service of worship. Dr. Leonard A. Parr will preach on "Preparing for the King." There will be special Christmas music fur- nished by the choir under the direc- tion of Mr. Henry Bruinsma. Choir selections include "Praise to the Lord the Almighty," by Strakund- Bach, "Sanctus et Benedictus" from Gounod's "St. Cecilia Mass," "Beau- tiful Saviour' by Christiansen, "Glor- ia" from Mozart's "Twelfth Mass"; Mis Lois Greig will sing the so- Drano solo "O Holy Night" by Adam; and Miss Mary Porter, organist, will play "Christmas" by Foote and "The Hallelujah Chorus" by Handel. 6:00 p.m., Professor L. M. Eich will present Dickens' "Christmas Carol" to the Congregational Student Fel- lowship at its supper Sunday eve- ning. There will be carol singing and special Christmas music. The meeting will let out in time to allow attendance at the Candlelight Serv- ice in the Church at 8:00. First Methodist Church:Morning Worship at 10:40 o'clock. Dr. C. W Brashares will preach on "To Be Taxed." Stalker Hall: 9:45 a.m. Student Class under the leadership of Mrs. Carrothers. 5:45 p.m. Wesleyan Guild Meet- ing. A Christmas program of music and readings has been planned. All Methodist students and their friends are cordially invited. This will be the last meeting before the Christmas Vacation. EtFirst Presbyterian Church meeting at the Masonic Temple: 10:45 a.m. Christmas Worship Service. Dr. W. P. Lemon will speak on the topic "The Childhood of God." Special Christmas music will be fur- nished by the Children's Choir and the Student Choir. The musical numbers will be as follows: Organ Prelude, "From Heaven on High" by Bach; Antiphonal Anthem, "While By My Sheep" (17th Century) arr. by Jungst; Solo, "Nazareth" by Guo- nod; Prayer Response, "Lead Me Lord" by Wesley, The Children's Choir: Anthem, "The Three Kings" by Willan, The Senior Choir. 5:30 p.m., The Westminster Guild will have a special Christmas sup- per and program of carols, readings, and pictures. It is hoped that all members and friends of the West- minister Guild will be present for this last meeting before Christmas vaca- tion. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church: The services of worship Sunday are: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion, 9:30 a.m. Church School, 11:00 a.m. Kin- dergarten, 11:00 a.m. Morning Pray- er and Sermon by The Reverend Henry Lewis. Harris Hall: "One Man's Answer to Carol Sing: Professor Mattern will the Problem of War" is th Right now Cab, Bill Robinson -/d lead a Carol Sing at Lane Hall Sun- of the address to be given the Calloway orchestra are the stars day evening at 8:15. All University evening by Mr. Harold Gra of the current show at the new students welcome. Episcopal Student Fellowsh downtown version of the Cotton Club. meeting will be at seven o'c But the most important thing about Scandinavian Club: The December refreshments will be ser this show is the music. The Cal- pen meeting will be held in Lane Episcopal students and thei loway orchestra has been such a Hall, Monday, Dec. 13 at 8:00 p.m. are cordially invited. The ne seedy organization for so many in the form of a Christmas party. ing will be on Jan. 9. 1938. moons that its present broadcasts Each person will please bring a small are really a pleasure. This newest toy or trinket for the "grab-bag."' St. Paul's Lutheran Church edition has a unity that is almost, These will later be sent to the chil- at Third. C. A. Brauer, Pa foreign to the Calloway musicians, dren's ward at University Hospital. "A Sermon in the Wildern and Cab himself has toned down a !__be the pastor's sermon topi e subject Sunday ay to the .ip. The lock and ved. All r friends ext meet- h. Liberty astor. ness" will ic in the