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CNICAGO - BOSTON - LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors M4ANAGING 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 WOMENS SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES NIGHT EDITOR: S. R. KLEIMAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff .and represent the views of the writers only. Andrew Jackson And The Merit System.. . LMOST 110 years after "King An- drew" Jackson spoke his fateful Words, "To the victors, belong the spoils," upon his victory in the bitter election of 1828 in which he vanquished the Republican John Quincy Adams, the United States, in an effort to curb the spoils system, is celebrating National Civil Service Week. Jackson has often been maligned by critics of his regime for this impetuous blast which was directed, not against the possibility of filling the offices with non-partisan and carefully trained employes, but rather against the office- holders which his hated rival, Adams, had in- serted. Therefore, those politicians who play for big stakes and want to fatten their chances for holding office by huge patronage lists, can- not fairly hold Jackson up as their leader. In back of the present celebration of the Na- tional Civil Service Week and helping to mini- inize the warped significance of Jackson's state- tnent is H. Eliot Kaplan, executive secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League. The increasing tendency of the state gov- ernments to adopt humane and intelligent meth- pds of getting the best men to fill non-policiy- forming positions and, what is more important, of protecting them from the spoils system, is 6f especial interest to the residents of this state. 'or Michigan is one of the latest recruits to the merit system along with Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut and Maine. According to the Reform peague report, not since 1920 had a state stepped in line with the civil service march until Ken- tucky joined the parade in 1936. Indications ire that probably half a dozen additional states spill fall into line in 1938. " One of the prime factors in furthering the progress of the merit system, according to Mr. Kaplan, has been the work of various organiza- tions in helping to educate the nation to the heed for a good civil service. Increasing in- terest in the system is being shown in high schools, colleges and universities, and was a feature of the 1937 record. More than 10,000 educational institutions asked for and received literature during the past year. Yet, despite the remarkably rapid growth of the civil service movement within the past year, pitfalls lie ahead, in Mr. Kaplan's opinion. He warns that since political organizations never regard civil service as permanent, only an alert citizenry can forestall a relapse to the spoils system. The two major goals now being sought by the Reform League are for an extension of the competitive service to the half of America's 3,500,000 government employes not so protected. and for the improvement of personnel in gov- ernment by raising the standards and making such employment definitely more attractive than it has been in the past. Four minor objectives are: 1. Reorganization of the Federal civil service along the lines suggested by the President's committee. 2. Installation of a real merit system among the nation's postmasters. 3. Assistance to states which show interest in adopting the merit system. 4. An increase in the practice of in-service training employed by various governmental de- partments. -Earl R. Gilman. Radio Education ... By 3. JOHN HOUDEK University Band Concert Sunday, January 23, 4:15 p.m. Overture to the Opera "Anacreon" ....Cherubini (1760-1842) The ballet-opera, "Anacreon ou l'Amour Fu- fitif,' was written and produced at Paris in 1803. Unfortunately, a weak text caused its downfall after but a few performances. So poor, indeed, was the text that the Parisians, even though able to tolerate many a dramatic impossibility, were convulsed with merriment at the utterly naive remarks of the hero, Anacreon. Cherubini was not the first composer to have been attracted to the adventures of Anacreon. Sartorio, an Italian, produced the first opera on the subject in 1678. Prelude to "Le Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge" (1842-1912)................Massenet Massenet rose rapidly to a prominent place among French opera composers of the day. In 1873, "Marie Magdeleine," an oratorio, or "Sacred Drama" as it was called, was produced at Paris. Its success led Massenet to compose two more works on the same model. "Eve," (1875), the first of these, met with as great a success as "Magdeleine," but the second, "La Vierge" (1880), failed. It is the latter work from which the prelude is drawn. Sailors' Dance from the Ballet "Pavot Rouge" (1875- ).................Gliere Gliere received his musical education at the Moscow Conservatory under two famous Rus- sian musicians, Taneiew and Ippolitow-Ivanow. Shortly before the revolution, he took up the di- rectorship of the Kiew Conservatory where, in spite of the war, he succeeded in setting up a flourishing and important institution. Gliere is now teacher of composition at Moscow University, "Pavot Rouge" ("The Red Poppy"), a ballet in three acts and a prologue, was published in 1930. The "Sailors' Dance,' a piece full of the real Russian element, is based on a twelve-bar theme in A minor given out by the basses. Succeeding variations are crescendo and accelerando until the closing measures are but a swirl of sound. Pantomime from the Opera "Il Cid" (1734-1786).......................Sacchini The later Neapolitan school which upheld the sensuous melodic style of southern Italy found one of its foremost representatives in Sacchini. He spread his influence throughout Europe, first to Munich and Stuttgardt, then to London, and finally to Paris where he settled under the patronage of Marie Antoinette. Sacchini, one among many who turned to the Spanish legend of "Il Cid" as a subject for an opera, produced his work at Fontainbleau in 1774. Song of the Bayou ....................Bloom The "Song of the Bayou," entered in a contest held by the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1928, won a $5,000 award for its composer, Rube Bloom, but more than that, it called at- tention to one of America's best composers in the modern syncopated idiom. This work comes near to being a classic in the field of spiritual composition as a picture of negro life in the deep South-the country of the bayous. The music carries a story of a group of negroes approaching their little church in a serene and worshipful attitude. A storm arises and char- acteristically the negroes pray, their music reach- ing a hysterical frenzy. Finally the rain stops. The storm is over and the music reverts to its original expression of calm. Frescoes (1882- ) ....................Wood Haydn Wood, English composer of many pop- ular ballads of the present century, is, perhaps, best known for his famous war-time song "Roses of Picardy." Many of his compositions, however, extend beyond the ballad and well into scope of higher forms, a tone poem, "Mannin Veen" hav- ing been heard here on several band concerts last year. "Frescoes," his latest work, was in- spired by a set of panels in the music salon of a London publisher. It bears three interesting and characteristic sub-titles; "Vienna, 1913," "Sea Shanties,' and "The Bandstand, Hyde Park." Overture to the Opera "The Maid of Asturia" (1831-1883) ................. Secchi Very little is known of Secchi's life and works. His compositions, beside but two operas, seem to be restricted to masses and church music in general. "The Maid of Asturia," produced about the middle of the last century, is about all there is left by which to remember Secchi. The over- ture is the common 'potpourri' type drawing its themes from opera itself. Calendar TODAY University of Michigan Concert Band, Prof. William D. Revelli conductor. 4:15 Hill Audi- torium. Radio City Music Hall, Erno Rappe cond. First Movement of Mozart A major Concerto with solo played by Corinne Frederick on clavi- chord. New York Philharmonic, Georges Enesco cond. McDowell's symphonic poem Launcelot and Elaine, Enesco's Suite for Orchestra No. 1 Op9, Fantastic Symphony of Hector Berlioz, one4of the historically most important but seldom played of symphonies. 3-5 CBS. MONDAY Coolidge String Quartet playing Beethoven's F minor, Op. 3-3:45, CBS. School of Music Graduation Recital, Tom Williams tenor. Songs of A. Scarlatti, Handel, Franck, Szulc, Debussy, Brahms, Wolf, Vaughan- Williams, Charles Griffes, and others. 8:15 p.m., School of Music Auditorium. Philadelphia Symphony, Eugene Ormandy cond. All-Wagner program of the usual excerpts, Hans Sachs from Die Meister singer. 9-10, NBC frfeeinio Me Heywood. Broun Frankenstein devised a monster which destroyed him. Sinclair Lewis invented a realtor named George F. Babbitt who has new devoured him with no salt at all and very little catsup. "The Prodigal Parents," by Sinclair Lewis, is a remark- able novel. There is nothing startling in the fact that authors of distinction have dull moments and write bad books. After all, since it is admitted that Homer nod- ded, Mr. Lewis has every right to ask for indulgence if he falls fiat on his face. The interesting and startling point is not the imperfections of the latest Lewis, work but the fact that it is a complete repudiation of almost everything he has written up till now. This is a betrayal of belief which should set the barnyard fowl to crowing, not thrice but continuously. When an established artist falters there is a grave temptation to say not only that he hasn't got much but also that he never had. Just the same, "Main Street" was an epoch-making book and "Arrowsmitb" came perilously close to being a great novel * * * A Change lin Slides ... In both "Main Street" and "Babbitt" Sinclair Lewis socked the smugness and self-sufficiency of the middle class. Like all propagandists, he was less than fair. The folk whom he flayed were not as dumb as he painted them. Even in the days when he was familiarly known as "Red" Lewis it was evident that the success of the writer's attack upon a specified group was some- what dependent upon the fact that he himself belonged to that crowd, both emotionally and by background. George F. Babbitt was a better person than Sinclair Lewis was ready to admit when he penned his biography. But truth is not served by the process of evening up in the manner of an inefficient um- pire. The man who has missed a strike is doubly wrong if he gives the pitcher the benefit of an imaginary corner on the next delivery. The creative artist may, if he chooses, point out the inner tragedy of the clown who laughs, but it is not possible to take a man in grease paint and push him forward as an authentic hero. At the very least there should be a pause in which the make-up is washed off. * * * Losing His Stuff ... The disintegration of Sinclair Lewis as a top flight writer goes even beyond fundamentals. He has lost his knack for surface detail. Every- body agreed a few years ago that the author of "Main Street"-applaud or deplore him- possessed an acute ear for the American lan- guage. He was chosen as a charter member along with Ring Lardner and Damon Runyon as a precisionist in catching the nice shading of common speech. But listen to this:-Mr. Lewis is setting down a conversation between Gene Silga, a radical agitator, and a savage dog. Silga, says, according to Mr. Lewis: "Why, Towser, I'm tho ashamed of you! Don't oo remember oo'ssold friend Gene, oo sweet dirty son of a so and so, darling?" The question of literary excellence is often debatable, and when the discussion arises I could hardly complain if I were not included in the program. But I submit that the passage which I have quoted is bad reporting. Leaving politics and economics out if it entirely, I insist that no radical of my acquaintance or yours ever talked anything like that." It is generally recognized on newspapers that the man who fails to keep in touch with his sources will grow stale and unprofitable. I suspect that the same thing is true of artists. Nobody can write a story "out of his own head." The territory is too tiny and the air is too stuffy. On The Leve Th Editor Gets Told. Exams Are Not Getting All the Attention- The Progressives ..*- To the Editor: When I saw Hinckley's article in the Daily, I was chiefly amused but at the same time glad. For three years I have waited for conservative students to get down to brass tacks, cut out the comics, and present the kernel of their thoughts. And when a man like Hinckley comes out and says that Ford's conduct is justified because" so would you and I guard something which is our own-our possesion- gained through our labor, or the ap- plication of our talents," he at least is passing beyond the stage of the conservative who snickers and boos in a dark movie house. Hinckley '38 has thonght his case and he wants us to know it. He probably spent four years amassing knowledge to support this final mature reflection. But then came Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy. To be brief, he was a terrible let-down. Hera I thought conservatives had mended their ways when along comes Armstrong to smirk at us "Progressive Club Consociates." I am sure he is one of those who boo Mr. Roosevelt from their obscure seats in the movie houses. But what pained me most of all was to see the All- American Boy having become a cyni- :al observer of the American scene. On the same day when three different headlines in the Daily tell us that the world is getting ready for the next slaughter, Jack writes in his pretty lines to knock us poor "undaunted progressive youth.' If I may borrow Jack's expression, phooey on this kind of Americanism. George G. Mutnick '39 ... Seem Angry SUNDAY, JAN. 23, 1938 t VOL. XLVIII No 188 Student Loans: All requests for new loans for the second semester should be filed in the Office of the Dean of Students on or before Jan. 25. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 1 Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all inerb-rs of the University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Registration Material: School of Forestry and Conservation. Regis- tration material should be called for beginning today at Room,2048 Natur- al Science Bldg. S. T. Dana, Dean. School of Music Freshmen: Fresh- Final Examination Schedule, First Semester, 1937-38: College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts, Graduate School, School of Education, School of Forestry. Exam. Time Group of Letter Exercise A Mon. at 8 B Mon. at 9 C Mon. at 10 D Mon. at 11 E Mon. at 1 F Mon. at 2 G Mon. at 3 H Tues. at 8 I Tues. at 9 J Tues. at 10 K Tues. at 11 L Tues. at 1 M Tues. at 2 N Tues. at 3 0 Special P Special Q -Special R Special Time of Examination First Semester Second Semester Mon., Feb. Fri., Feb. Wed., Feb. Mon., Jan. Tues., Feb. Mon., Jan. Tues., Feb. Mon., Feb. Tues., Feb. Wed., Feb. Tues., Feb. Wed., Feb. Fri., Feb. Thurs., Feb. Sat., Feb. Sat., Feb. Sat., Jan. Thurs., Feb. 7, 4, 2, 31, 8, 31, 8, 7, 1, 2, 1, 9' 4, 3, 5, 5 29, 3, 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 9-12 9-12 2- 5 9,12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 Wed., Mon., Tues., Mon., Mon., Sat., Thurs., Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Tues., Fri., Sat., Wed., Sat., Tues., Sat., June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June 8, 6 , 7, 6, 13, 4, 9, 13, 7, 9, 10, 14, 10, 11, 8, 11, 14, 4, 9-12 2- 5 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 9-12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 Any deviation from the above schedule may be made onlyl by mutual agree- ment between students and instructor and with the approval of the Examina- tion Schedule Committee. N.B. Within the past year, the time of exercise for several of the courses listed in the Literary Announcement has been changed, but due to an over- sight no corresponding change was made in the Examination Group Letter. In order to avoid conflicts in such cases, the time of exercise-rather than the Dear Editor: At long last it is thrilling to find Jack Armstrong, The All-Americar Boy, turning from adventure to crit- icism. It is refreshing to my harrowe heartto see that Jack joins the Avi Reader of All Collegiana, Mr. Joh P. Hinckley and the other members o1 our valiant little band of true-blu Americans in telling these confounded Progressives where to get off. Progressives are always bringing u one-sided evidence. They are eage to call attention to the 30,000 men discharged by General Motors; ye they ignore the counterbalancing in- stance of the real opportunity that ex- ists in our America when a poor im- migrant boy like Mr. Knudsen can work himself up to be president of the General Motors Corporation, which declared a $65,000,000 dividend last year. Progressives babble about the low wages and concentration camps that thesThyssens and Krupps have brought into Germany; and they babble about the blood that German and Italian legions are spilling in democratic Spain. But the Progres- sives fail to cite the established facts that the men representing the Ger- man and Italian monopolists are men who have risen from the ranks, a former housepainter named Hitler and a former schoolteacher named Mussolini. And in Germany and Italy they have a principle much better than our "apparently inefficacious one pertaining to individual civil liberty and property rights." That man Hague has the right idea, and other American mayors ought to copy his way of cracking down on the CIO and other red groups. The Progressives can get ex- cited if they want over Mr. Hague's claiming that he is the law, and over his promise of a $125,000 castle on a salary of less than $7,000 and over his interest in the Harborside shops that pay an average of ten cents an hour. What if Hague has made a couple of millions of dollars on the side by helping companies avoid union wages and avoid interference with their bus- iness? He has, after all, succeeded admirably in making Jersey City safe for profitable industry and the people who count. Though it costs Mr. Ford about $10,000,000 a year to maintain his service men, it's well worth the money because it shows laborers in America that they can either work on assembly lines for what their employers are gracious enough to give them, or lump it on a bread line. And, besides, Mr. Harry Bennett provides work for a great many men who would otherwise be forced into crime. The only way to treat these troublemakers who in- sist on passing out union cards and copies of the Bill of Rights right in front of a man's own property-is to treat them rough. Progressives cry about the need for an anti-lynching bill. Yet any sane man knows that industry in the South has got to be protected so it can pros- per and grow and complete that ex- pansion of our nation which is pic- tured so impressively in Mr. Rosten's drama about the building of a "three thousand mile machine." The South should be left to work out its own magnificence and salvation. There can Examination Group Letter-must be examination. Notice to Sophomores: Second- semester Sophomores who are plan- ning on concentrating in English should elect English 33 instead of English 32 in the second semester of this year. Revised schedules for this course may be found in the Regis- trar's Office, in the Office of the Sophomore Counselors, and in the English Office. I will be glad to con- fer with students who wish to make inquiries concerning English 33. Karl Litzenberg All Students in the Mechanical Engineering Department who entered the University in September 1937 with advanced standing please call at Room 339 WesteEngineering Bld., the afternoon of Feb. 9, or any time on Feb. 10, and get a classification num- ber. All Students: Registration for sec- ond semester. Each student should plan to register for himself during the appointed hours. Registrations by proxy will not be accepted. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar. Registration Material: Colleges of L.S.&A., Education, Music. Students should call for second semester regis- tration material at Room 4 University Hall as soon as possible. Please see your adviser and secure all necessary signatures. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar. Registration Material: College of Architecture. Students should call for 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. employed in determining the time of men Group 69A and B, will meet with their adviser Thursday, Jan. 27, at 4 p.m. in Room 205, School of Music Building. Extra-Curricular Activities: The attention of all students interested in extra-curricular activities is called to the change in procedure recently adopted by the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs with reference to the method to -be followed by the indi- vidual desiring to take part in extra- curricular activities and by the chair- man and managers of these activities. At the beginning of each semester and summer session every students shall be conclusively presumed to be ineligible for any public activity until his eligibility is affirmatively estab- lished (a) by obtaining from the Chairman of the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs, in the Office ofctheDean of Students, a written Certificate of Eligibility and (b)-by presenting the Certificate of Eligibility to the chair- man of manager of the student activ- ity in which he wishes to participate. The Chairman or Manager of any student activity shall file with the Chairman of the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs, before permitting the student or students involved to par- ticipate, the names of all those who have presented Certificates of Eligi- bility, and a signed agreement to ex- clude all others from participation. The issuing of Certificates of Eli- gibility will be greatly facilitated if each applicant brings with him or her a record of first semester grades. Second semester Certificates of El- igibility will be required after Mar. 1. The Burean has received notice of several graduate fellowships and scholarships open for the session of 1938-39 at Syracuse University in: Liberal Arts College Public Administration Political Science Social Psychology Education Advisers and Deans of Girls For further information call at the office, 201 Mason Hall. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Graduate School: All graduate stu- dents who expect to complete the re- quirements for a degree at the close of the present semester should call at the office of the Graduate School, 1006 Angell Hall, to check their re- cords and to secure the proper blank to be used in making application for the diploma. This application should be filed not later than the end of January. Registration forms for the second semester are available in the office. Graduate students are urged to fill out the forms in advance and to se- cure the necessary signatures. Reg- istration must be completed in Water- man Gymnasium, February 10, 11 and 12. The late registration fee will be charged beginning Monday, February 14. Ii By WRAG Best gag of the week happened at Northwest- ern. Last week seven girls were offended on cam- pus by some pervert, and each girl described their molester as wearing a gray overcoat, a brushed wool blue sweater, gray suede shaes, and carrying a book. Two days ago an ad appeared in North- western's daily offering for sale: One gray over- coat, one brushed wool blue sweater, a pair of gray suede shoes, and a book. The advertiser was nabbed in class the next morning and taken down to headquarters. The seven girls were brought in blushing and said that the student in jail was definitely not the man. It was all a gag, but the police weren't overlooking any clues. * * * * Since Michigan women have been panned by the bitter West Coaster and others, letters have come to the Daily from co-eds who want to extoll their virtues. Perhaps they are extolling the wrong thing from the man's point of view. berg. First movement from Mozart's D minor Concerto (K.466) for Piano and Orchestra, Mary K. Hamlin soloist. Recitative "Deeper and Deeper Still," and aria "Waft Her. Angels." from contented with its crust of bread. Phooey to the Progressives who are always taking sides. Hurray for Ford and Hague and Hitler. I'm with you Jack-when you stick to adventure. -'Frank Merewether.' 'At Least Two Sides' .. . To the Editor: Archy, the vers libre cockroach of the late Don Marquis, once observed that when a Negro is lynched in the South he should be thankful that he is being murdered in a land of free- dom and enlightenment, rather than in a dark European country where everyone is subject to "some old king's tyranny and constipation." This sen- timent seems especially apt today, in view of Mr. Hinckley's laudable letter which appeared in The Daily. How hard it is to sympathize with Mr. Frankensteen who can not apreci- ate the fact that he was severely beat- en and injured by Ford service men last May so that the "fundamental principles of our democracy" might be maintained. It is appalling to think of the ignorant Chinese masses who may dislike intensely Ford-financed Japanese war materials which bring to those they kill the compliments of "democratic institutions." Being composed of a group of intelligent and educated men, the National Labor Relations Board raises a good deal of amazement when it denies that Henry Ford is particularly strenghthening the "American (there's that word again) system of free private enter- prise upon which we have builded (hmm) our nation" by completely nul- lifying a law which was passed by the Congress, signed by the President, and ; New students, or students trans- ferring, should at an early date ask the Secretary of their School or Col- lege to prepare and send to the office of the Graduate School an official transcript of their undergraduate re- cords. New students are advised to apply for admission on advance of registration. C. S. Yoakum. Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences: Any members desiring mem- bership emblems who have not pre- viously signed or paid for these will please sign the list on the Aeronau-