____THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY ' , _ I I tUpWN'.F $F M- . tlu, -xaMK- - - - - - , I.n~d..'.oro Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Studer"* Publications. tuiPshed every morning except Mondsy 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. En' .red at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, r4.00 , by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-3 8 s, ! National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publi.hon Represenlative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO *.BOSTON - 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............... .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. Fascism For Rumania. . 11UMANIA, last stronghold of democ- racy in the Balkans, has fallen prey to a rapidly tightening fascist dictatorship. With Italian influence paramount in Jugoslavia and Hitler's allies in power in Rumania, two im- portant links have been severed from the French chain of post-war alliances, dealing a double blow at collective security in Europe. The Rumanian dictatorship has come in the ,wake of a national election 'in which, for the first time in the history of the country's parlia- ment, no party succeeded in gaining a majority. Ex-Premier Tatarescu's Liberal Party gained k' only a plurality of 142 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The fascist Iron Guard, long a minor disturbance in Rumania, gained overnight a strategic position in national politics by winning 62 Chamber seats, while the other fascist group, the National Christian Party, gained 38. The , anti-fascist opposition is limited almost solely to the National Peasants' Party, which holds 85 seats. Following the election and a vote of no confidence in the Tatarescu ministry, King Carol called Octavian Goga, leader of . the National Christian Party, to form a coalition cabinet comprising members of his own party and that of Tatarescu. In establishing the new govern- ment, Premier Goga has announced his inten- tion of carrying out in full his party program, which centers in four major points: 1. Close cooperation in foreign affairs with fascist nations. 2. Severance of relations with the Soviet of monopolies has been given by Harold Moulton, director of the Brookings Institution in the Nov. 1935, issue of Fortune magazine, writing to the effect that the trouble with capitalism lies with the capitalists. While we are not necessarily agreeing with-the main thesis of Mr. Moulton, his article is timely and highly provocative of some deep thought. He said in that article that the capitalists themselves by monopolies had gone against the very theory of capitalism. According to the competitive theory, he said, as industry becomes nore productive through technological improve- rhents, the cost of production should decline cor- respondingly. The benefits of the decreased costs should be conferred on all consumers by means of lower prices. What has happened in our own history, Moul- ton says, is that industry has made use of the technological improvement not by cutting prices but by maintaining them and pocketing the addi- tional profits which are the differences between the former costs of producing and the lower costs achieved. He cites for proof the story of the twenties when efficiency of the gainfully employed persons in all industry increased by about 18 per cent and in manufacturing alone where technological ad- vances were most rapid by more than 25 per cent. The wholesale price index fell from 96.7 to 95.3. Prices in the heavy industries for the nost part either increased or remained the same. Retail prices did not drop at all. The dif- ferences in costs of production through more efficiency were not all absorbed it is true by a swelling of the profits of producers, for a part was taken up by wage increases and distribution cost increases due toduplication of facilities and multiplication of services. But the most im- portant share did go to the producers whose rate of profit, Moulton says, increased at a 2.3 per cent rate annually between 1922 and 1929. To say it in other words, industry chose the most direct way of getting its profits, though that way meant less real income for the mass of consumers. It was enabled to take that path, maintaining prices when costs declined, because it was largely controlled by monopoly. Albert Mayio. THE CLOCK with DISRAELI- HULLY CHEE! Due to unforeseen exigencies, like a class, there was no opportunity to carry out that threat we made a couple of days ago. We mean the con- test mentioned at the bottom of Tuesday's col- umn. Without much more than six or seven inches preamble to this, our day's contribution to truth and light for all your minds to feed upon, we plan to launch into such a circulation measure that will cause you to hold your breath for all of a minute and a half-pearl divers can do it for three--and you will gasp with delight, thrill with horror, smile and cry in the same moment, twist in your seat-you're a squirmer and BVD's would help. You will throb with ecstasy and burn with the great zest of life's immortal flame. You will join us as we leap beyond the frontiers of imag- ination into the drama of the unknown. You will be spellbound, supercolossally, you will be en- tranced extra-stupendously, you will be pleased. You might even read this column-though we don't know why we're not allowed to use names in it. Do you want to have the blood pounding through your veins and your heart go flipper- flapper? Of course not, there's time enough for I that. But you must come and leave this hum- drum world behind you as we attempt to do something that we don't think anyone in this whole great nation-fraught though it be with originality-has attempted! Here's the dope! Rumor has it-but don't you spread it around even to your favorite radio comedian-that out in Hollywood they are mak- ing a moving picture. Yeah, they make them sometimes. And the one they're working on is based on the book, "Gone With the Wind." You must have heard something about the book, anyway. Well, there's a character in there named Scarlett O'Hara and she's all right too but they're having trouble, real trouble finding an actress . . . now wait, not just an actress, you know, but one who can live and rave like a real Scarlett. You see what we're going to do now, don't you? Start thinking about it and soon we will pub- lish ballots for you to vote for someone on the campus who you believe could best fill the role with the maximum of double 'umph. And in addition that she may have a consort, look about you for a Rhett Butler-you never can tell, you know. And also the two gentlemen of the old South who were Scarlett's first and second hus- bands. For the time you just look around for those four and as soon as we can we might add a couple of others from the book, depending on how much trouble those poor people in Hollywood are, having. You know, you've got to lend a helping hand to some people or they'll never get anywhere. What those fellows out in Hollywood need is a little publicity and we'll bet that if we give it to them they'll find someone in no time. But we want some one from Michigan of course. So, start thinking it over and for a day or two we're going to await further de- velopments. * We met a freshman friend the other day, and it was the first time we had ever seen him in his little soldier suit since he first got it last fall. When we last saw him it was pretty big on him, drooped at the shoulders and he had a couple of half-hitches in his belt. There used to be a slumpy sort of walk about him too, but that's gone. He's broader in the shoulders, and he's got a healthier look to his chest. The suit's filling out very well, and it certainly seems to us that he's a much better target than just a few months ago. Before the year's over, let us tell I feemdod Me H-eywood Broun I liked the speech of Secretary Ickes. It was a fighting speech. Those who believe in the de- velopment of industrial democracy will have to fight. And they will have to protect themselves at all times, for in this bout the rule about breaking clean has never been respected. By this time, I hope, the administration has learned that whenever it puts out a glove to shake hands it is go- ing to geta sock in the jaw. If I am asked whether the Secretary of the Interior or Mr. Jackson was 100 per cent tair in every phrase I would have to answer, "Probably not." But I think the main drive of each speech was fun- damentally sound. And I re- sent the fairy tale which maintains that indus- trial leaders have been eager to cooperate with the government, only to be snubbed by the Pres- ident when they made the timid proffer of a poisoned olive leaf. Even when the captains of finance were in the quicksand up to their eyebrows they manifested a keen desire to bite the hand which pulled them out. Over a period of years the spokesmen of large-scale industry have called Franklin D. Roosevelt everything from madman to dictator, and now they plaintively cry out that the country is suffering from a lack of confidence. Indeed, during the diplomatic exchanges with Japan one New York paper went to the length of advising the Tokyo government that Mr. Roosevelt was an executive entirely discredited at home, and that no serious attention should be paid to his com- munications. C * Peace At A Price The Manufacturers' Assn. in its recent conven- tion sugar-coated some of its phrases, but its message was plain enough. It offered co-opera- tion with the purposes of the New Deal, but only on the basis that the New Deal should surrender every one of its objectives. Henry Ford has open- ly announced that laws which may go for other people do not apply to him. In such a situation it seems to me farcical for big business to whim- per that the boys in Washington are using rude words. Secretary Ickes took Ferdinand Lundberg's book, "America's 60 Families," as his text. He argued that the control of America's economic resources lies in the hands of a small group. This has already aroused great resentment. And yet when James Gerard a few years ago made up a list of the fifty-nine rulers of America the gentlemen who made the grade were rather smugly satisfied and pleased with their nomina- tions. Incidentally, James Henle, president of the Vanguard Press which published Lungberg's book, has just been notified that "The Censorship De- partment of the Herald Tribune has decided that they will take no more advertising copy on the book 'America's 60 Families.'" * * *. * Give Competition A hnce Naturally I am not challenging the right of any newspaper to reject advertising. Indeed, I think it is a right which might be exercised even more freely, particularly in regard tofoods and drugs. Nevertheless, I think the incident is interesting. I believe in Socialism, but I am unwilling to accept the slogan of "We can't do nothing till Martin comes," under which Norman Thomas operates. Indeed, I will go further and say that those who believe in the competitive cap- italist system ought to have a run for their alley. Some men of high competence are in key position but I will not be ready to admit that free and fair competition for industrial control exists until Barbara Hutton can pass an elementary exam- ination on the wages and working conditions in the Woolworth stores. On *TLhe Lveld ft Social Sciences The man who does work in the ex- act sciences is fortunate. There every- one wants the truth. No powerful interests seek to hush up the fact that two and two are four or that water is two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. A professor of physics need never fear that if he attacks the quantum theory Old Man Jenks, the! banker, Yarvard, '89, will cut the col- lege out of his will or make Prexy choose between an endowment and keeping that particular professor on the payroll. Those who teach the social sciences are less fortunate. The economist who says the gold standard isn't any better than it should be; the sociolo- gist who makes remarks about the connection between slums and land monopolies; the political scientist who casts reflections on the Supreme Court, is apt to be called into the Dean's Office for a little heart-to- heart talk. He is apt to be told that while he is a bright young man, this is a practical world, and if he insists on muddying future academic waters with the vulgar problems of the everyday world, he had better start looking for another job. POLITICAL SCIENTIST FACES REALITY Perhaps this explains why aca- demic economics, academic sociology, academic political science, have been so long held in contempt. We bring up these facts of life-of academic life-as a compliment to the Ameri- can Political Science Associatior4. For the second time in recent years one of its presidents has seized upon the occasion of his annual address to take our Constitutional law apart and throw the pieces at the Supreme Court. The first to do so was Professor Ed- win S. Corwin, of Princeton; the sec- ond, Professor Thomas Reed Powell, of Harvard. Professor Powell, one might almost say, has made it his life work to think of nasty remarks about the Supreme Court and his address in Philadelphia Monday night was no surprise to those who have been able to follow the series of witty and penetrating attacks he has contribut- ed to the law reviews during the past two decades. AT LEAST HE TOLD THEM There 'was nothing especially new in what he had to say. What is new is that one of our outstanding aca- demic iconoclasts was able to say to a gathering of political scientists, was able to tell them, what the man-in- the-street knows, that the ultimate power in this country lies in te hands of- the courts and that courts have abused their power. The secret of Professor Powell's ability to thumb his nose at the Su- preme Court all these years and get away with it is that he has done so in the pages of law reviews few people read and in language too difficult for most people to understand. His digs have been too subtle for the average trustee to digest on top of a hearty dinner and Scotch and soda. Yet the stff seeped down. Many of the President's chief supporters in his fight against the Supreme Court cut their intellectual eye-teeth on Professor Powell's articles. . They Professor Powell's articles. They translated them into plain English. They brought them home to the com- mon man. The common man un- derstands them so clearly now that it has even been safe for Professor Pow- ell to say them in a speech to fellow scientists. Thus progress marches on. PROFESSOR POWELL TEMPERS WORDS Professor Powell sweetened what he had to say about the autocracy and stupidity of Judges and the gains by the "chastisement" Mr. Roosevelt administered to the courts, by calling the President's own plan "ill-con- ceived, ill-sustained, and ill-man- aged from a political point of view it was. The party managers did not do their part toward keeping the Demo- cratic members of Congress in line But that it was "ill-conceived" may be merely the easily acquired insight of the post-mortem. Mr. Roosevelt did force the court to reverse itself. Mr Roosevelt did do more to educate the public on the Supreme Court issue than two carloads of political scien- tists afraid to mention the horrid word. We suspect - that Professor Powell has been attacking the Su- preme Court so long and having so much pleasure doing it, that the thought of its reform frightened him. ' And perhaps life for Professor Powell would have seemed empty without an ornery Supreme Court to poke fun at. (Reprinted from the Philadelphia Record). THURSDAY, JAN. 6, 1938 VOL. XLVIII. No. 73 To members of the University staff: Those who have not yet filled out and returned the confidential personnel blanks are urged to do so immediate- ly. The contemplated study must be started at once, and it is imperative that all blanks be returned before the work is started. It is hoped that those blanks not yet in our hands will be sent in at once. A. G .Ruthven. To Deans, Directors, Faculty Mem- bersdDormitory Heads, Dormitory Residents, The Student Body in Gen eral, and all Others Concerned: The cooperation of every one is urged especiany at this season of the year in the efforts of the Buildings and Grounds Department to avoid waste in the heating, lighting, and ventilating of all University buildings wherever located. The burning of lights when not needed, the opening of windows in rooms having thermo- static control, or in lieu of closing radiators in rooms lacking thermo- static control, are all wasteful' prac- tices and cause the expenditure for coal more than would otherwise be necessary, thus reducing funds avail- able for the proper work of the University. These statements apply to all buildings for which the University furishes heat, light, and power, in- cluding the Michigan Union and the Michigan League. Alexander G. Ruthven. The Bureau has received notice of the following Civil Service Examina- tions: Student Fingerprint Classifier, $1,- 440 a year; Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Senior Mathematical Statistical * Analyst, $4,600 a year; Mathematical Statistical Analyst, $3,800 a year; As- sociate Mathematical Statistical An- alyst, $3,200 a year; Assistant Mathe- matical Statistical Analyst, $2,600 a year; Soil Conservation Service, De- partment of Agriculture. Junior Tabulating Machine Op- erator, $1,440 a year; Alphabetic Ac- counting Machine Operator, $1,440 a year; Washington, D.C. Inspector of Railway Signaling and Train Control, $3,800 a year; Inter- state Commerce Commission. For further information, please call at the office, 201 Mason Hall. The Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Informatio All Students: Registration for sec- ond semester. Each student shoulc plan to register for himself during the appointed hours. Registrations by proxy will not be accepted. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar. Registration Material: Colleges o L.S.&A., Education, Music. Students should call for second semester regis- tration material at Room 4 University Hall as soon as possible. Please se your adviser and secure all necessar signatures. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar. Registration Material: College o Architecture. Students should call foi second semester material at Room 4 University Hall at once. The College of Architecture will post an an- nouncement in the near future giving time of conferences with your classi- fier. Please wait for this notice be- fore seeing your classifier. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar. Registration imaterial: School o Forestry and Conservation. Regis- tration material should be called foi beginning today at Room 2048 Natur- al Science Bldg. S. T. Dana, Dean. L.S.&A. Juniors - nd Seniors wish- ing to change their field of concen- tration for the second semester, please procure slips at Room 4 U.H. have them signed by the adviser in the new field, and return them tc Room 4, U.H. before Feb. 1, 1938. Robert L. Williams. Candidates for the Master's Degre( in Political Science. The examina- tions in French and German will be given Tuesday, Jan. 11, at 2:00, 2033 A.H. Candidates may bring their own dictionaries. Student Loans: There will be a meeting of the Committee on Stu- dent Loans held in Room 2,. Univer- sity Hall on Jan. 11 in the afternoon. All men students who have filed loar applications which have not yet beer acted upon should make appoint- ments to meet the Committee. Sophomores, College of L.S.&A. Elections of courses for the second semester must be approved during the period from Nov. 22 to Jan. 28 in Room 9, University Hall. To prevent congestion in the office of the coun- selors, individual post cards will be mailed daily to a small group of stu- dents. Each card will be dated seven days after the day of mailing. To be admitted to a conference with a counselor, a student must present his card not later than the date it bears. If he comes after this date an in- terview will be granted only if there are no others waiting at the office. In order to make an intelligent se- lection of courses each sophomore should give careful attention to his next semester elections before meet- ing with his counselor. J.H. Hodges, E. A. Walter, A. Van Duren. University Women: All women stu- dents who intend to change houses at at the end of this semester must ad- vise the househead of this intention before Saturday, Jan. 15. Accord- ing to contracts, no changes of resi- dence can be approved after that date. Juniors and seniors in the University dormitories may be re- leased from their contracts to live in sorority houses. Any student now in residence who will not be in college the second semester, whether because of gradua- tion or other reason, is requested to notify the director of her residence as soon as possible. Jeannette Perry, Assistant Dean of Women Seniors: Your senior pictures can still be taken up to Saturday, Jan. 8 at Dey's, Spedding's and Rent- schler's Studios. Academic Notices English 259 will not meet this Thursday or next Thursday. Meet- ings will be made up, if possible, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, and Saturday, Jan. 15. Students are requested to leave note at English Office indicating what hours are convenient for meet- ing Jan. 11. J. L. Davis. i i DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all memb-rs of the University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. . Union. 3. Adherence to the German-Italian-Japanese anti-Communist pact. k 4. Anti-Jewish measures, including acquisi- tion of all Jewish-owned land. x Since the Liberal Party, which forms - the greater portion of the parliamentary support of the new regime, does not formally endorse these f proposals, it appears highly probable that their execution will require the dissolution of parlia- ment in the near future. The Iron Guard, which does not participate in the government, none- theless strongly supports it, and can probably be counted upon to take care of the opposition outside the government in the accepted fascist manner should any develop. This organization has already earned a not inconsiderable reputa- tion as a terroristic group even for the Balkans, and its leader, the youthful Cornelius Codreanu, is known to be in close sympathy with, if not actually motivated from, Berlin. The reason for the elevation of Goga, rather than Codreanu, in spite of his smaller following, is said to lie in the desire of King Carol to keep the reins of government, in some measure, at least, in his own hands, as well as in the avowed hostility of the Iron Guard to the Rumanian. Theodora, the notorious Mme. Lupescu. But whether the dictatorship eventually becomes per-. sonified in Carol, Goga, Codreanu, or one of the influential army chiefs, is of relatively slight import. The effect, in any case, cannot fail to be unfortunate for Rumania and the world. Joseph Gies. Mud Pies On Monopoly. THE RECENT public speeches of Sec- Seretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Robert H. Jackson, the assistant attorney general, may be supposed to be the prelude to a concentrated attack on monopolies on the part >f the government. In a way these speeches have Concerts Graduation Recital: Robert Camp- bell, organist, will give a graduation recital Thursday, Jan. 6, at 4:15 o'clock in M-ill Auditorium. The general public is invited. * Lectures Public Lecture: "Parthian Art" by Prof. Clark Hopkins. Sponsored by the Research Seminary in Islamic Art. Monday, Jan. 10, 4:15 in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. Illustrated with slides. No admission charge. Professor Gerald B. Phelan, S.T.B., Ph.D. of the University of Toronto will lecture upon "Some Aspects of Scholastic Philosophy" in the Grand Rapids Room of the Michigan League, on Sunday and Monday, Jan. 9 and 10 at 4:15 p.m. each afternoon. The public is cordially invited. Events Today University Broadcast: 3-3:00 p.m. Amateur Theatre Series. Topic: "Affairs in the Theatre of the World," Preston W. Slosson, Prof. of History. The Observatory Journal Club will meet at 4:15 today in the Observa- tory lecture room. Dr. Robley C. Williams will speak on "Energy Dis- tribution in the Spectra of the Stars." Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Scimitar: There will be a Scimitar meeting tonight at 7:15 at the Union. A full attendance is desired. Michigan Dames: The Charm Group, will meet tonight at 8:15 at the Michigan League, the room will be announced on the bulletin board. Mrs. Albert Reeves and Miss Ethel McCormick will speak on etiquette. All Michigan Dames are cordially in- vited to attend. Michigan Transportation Club: There will be a meeting Thursday evening, Jan. 6, 1938, at the Union. Prof. W. C. Sadler will talk. All in- vited. Freshman Girl's Glee Club: There will be a meeting tonight in the League at 7:15 p.m. All members who have not yet brought their money please do so tonight. Women's= Fencing Club: Regular meeting today at 4:15 in Barbour Gymnasium. Place of meeting will be posted at matron's desk. Modern Dance Club: Important meeting on Thursday, Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m. Practice for "Judith" on Fri- day, Jan. 7 at 3:30 p.m. Congress: There will be a meeting of the Publicity- Committee tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Room 306 of the Union. Time reports should be ready at this meeting. Coming Events Junior Mathematics Club will meet Friday, Jan. 7, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 3201 A.H. Mr. Murray H. Protter will give a talk on Continuous Geometry. Refreshments will follow. Art Cinema League Members: "Mystery and Violence"-the fourth program of the D4emorable Film Se- ries will be shown Sunday, Jan. 9 at /' 4 i By WRAG On page 684 of Slichter's Modern Economic Society, the dry reading required in Ec. 51 and 52, there is a sentence which recently made the class smile like a tiger eating gum-drops. The sentence might well be reprinted in The New Yorker: "At an exceedingly low wage level, a large number of persons would probably become criminals or independent business men." New Yorker would probably add: "Aha! We always thought there was a tie-up between the two." Prof. C. A. Ruckmick of the University of Iowa has devised an "emotion meter" which, he main- tains, measures the capacity of one's mood for love by the perspiration in the palm of the hand. This machine certainly isn't fool-proof. 100% of the "M" students would rate as Casanovas if their palm perspiration were mheasured after a three-hour final. Glancing at "Dizzy's" column today, it would seem that the old boy finally succeeded in finishing "Gone With The Wind" during Christmas Vacation. * * * It is also to be assumed that the few who 3 r . { RADIO] By TOM McCANN There was a rumor being circulat- ed around the campus for the past few days that Stepin Fetchit, the lethargic star of the Harlem Uproar House Revue, would "slow down" the Interfraternity Ball when he brought his troupe of sepia entertainers to Ann Arbor the night of Jan. 14. (The wag who started this thing, by the way, is still in the back room, re- penting for being such a silly ass).' Needless to say, the rumor has been' quashed, and that, we hope, is that.j when we got the biggest kick from