FOUR fifi. ie ° y^ HE MIC I A D-AIL 'T UIPSDA"Y, 1VIARCH 21, 1939 THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1989 THE MICHIGAN DAILY . . I r-- e I IErn. IWj MA I M I Gl 01orSyJN I, NN HHINN i'j'FOS1Y.6 ANA 7'MO? y /rp vo 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 Sumn r 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 matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, *4.00; by mail, $4.50. . ep4ESENTE FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING Y National Advertising Service, L:. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AvE. NEW YoRK, N. Y. 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American Fascism And Civil Liberty*.. . rT HE GROWING consciousness of the threat of American fascist move- ments has caused a dangerous line of thought to appear in the minds of many liberals. Those of us who hate and fear fascism are subject to attacks of an uncritical and emotional form of thinking which, if not checked, may serve to speed us toour destruction. The idea that fascism can be stopped by revo- cation of civil liberties for fascist groups is a badly mistaken theory. Once civil rights are denied Fritz Kuhn or Father Coughlin, the pre- cedent will be established 'for denying civil rights to labor. Ths will come about in the following way: a great hue and cry will be set up against "alien isms," in the manner of the Dies Commit- tee; restrictive legislation will be passed under the popular clamor, directed in the first instance against Nazi and Fascist groups and against the Communist Party. Since fascist organiza- tions are very hard to identify in many cases, the chief effect of the laws will be to ban the Communist Party. Next a drive will be conducted, again on the lines of the Dies Committee, against "secret" and "hidden" Communists. This will include various types and shades of radicals and liberals. The end will be the destruction of the labor' movement and of the liberal anti-fascist opposition. There are certain measures we can and should tak'e, it is true. The exercise of political rights cannot be allowed to take the form of armed and' uniformed storm troops. Such secret armed organizations as John L. Spivak has uncovered must and should be investigated. Civil liberties cannot be construed as including the right to use violence. Fascism, it must be remembered, doesn't need the name "fascist," or even any name at all. Fascism is essentially merely a system of eco- nomic planning, in which the government does the planning by force, for the benefit of a small property-owning class which controls the wealth but which has lost the power of making profits by free enterprise. When and if some form of economic planning becomes necessary, the only precaution that will prevent fascism will be the insistence upon democratic control of the plan- ning. Planning itself is not necessarily either dangerous or undesirable, but it must be carried ou by a democratic government subject to the will of the people. The only way the continuance of democratic government can be guaranteed is by the most unrelenting vigilance for civil liberty. It may be said that the Weimar Republic fell becfuse it failed to protect itself from National Soolalism, allowing the Hitler. movement to prdpagandize, riot and grow without opposition. That, however, is not a true story. The way was paved for the Hitler dictatorship immediately by1 the Bruening Centrist government and re- motely by the Social-Democratic government. The former initiated the restrictions on democ- racy which Hitler carried to a logical conclusion, while the latter failed to solve Germany's eco- notic problems. The same thing may be happening in France at this moment, as Daladier employs dictatorial decree powers. It may occur in Britain within a short time, Ten Succeseful Years President Hutchins did not say that "Ten years is long enough for anyone to be a uni- versity president," as has been rumored. How- ever, he has said that if a university president is going to accomplish anything he must do it within ten years. So, as the tenth year under Hutchins approach- es the end, the Maroon has written a history of his reign to show what he has accomplished and perhaps to hint at what may be expected in the future. President Hutchins is not the God that some of his admirers have made him out to be (as see the article, "Hutchins of Chicago," by Milton Mayer, in this month's Harper), and in any evaluation of his work it is, of course, proper to point out his faults. It is natural for the Maroon to do this for there has been no more faithful- and respectful-chastener of the President than his "Personal Organ." He deserves chastening for having stirred up much useless argument by expressing his views in language that few can understand. He de- serves chastening for his exclusiveness-if he associated with his faculty a little more, he'd learn that not all professors are concerned merely with gathering trivial facts in a highly specialized field, but that they are more inter- ested in "metaphysics" and the relations between the different fields of study than he realizes. He deserves chastening for carrying a sensible and valuable educational theory to an extreme by ignoring all but the intellectual aspects of education. But, despite the criticisms of alumni who don't understand him and of faculty members whose academic complacency he has disturbed, Presi- dent Hutchins' page in the University's ledger certainly has a strong credit balance. As president of the University, Hutchins has unquestionably been a success. He has been an efficient administrator; a good money-getter, considering that the country has been in a de- pression during the entire ten years; and an unparalleled publicist. He has defended the academic freedom of his faculty and students. These are the main duties of the average uni- versity president, and he has done them well. But Hutchins has been even a better educa- tor than a president. He pushed through the now famous but once bitterly criticized New Plan. His much publicized but little-understood views, whether right or wrong, are probably the most significant contribution to educational thought in several decades. Significant, in that they have made not only educators but also ordinary people realize that something is very wrong with our present school system. Signifi- cant, in that they have raised the fundamental but usually ignored, problem of the purposes of education. And significant, in that he has given to this problem and to the problem of how to achieve these purposes answers which hold out the possibility of our educational system and hence our society. It is, as a rule, easier and more profitable to criticize than to praise. Consequently, the Ma- roon has usually done the former with regard to President Hutchins. But we don't want it thought that the Maroon dislikes him, personally or intellectually. We think it altogether fitting that the country's most distinguished university should have the country's most distinguished president. --The Daily Maroon TH EATRE By NORMAN KELL The Junior Girls' Play It is a long cry from the first Junior Girls Play given twenty-four years ago in the tiny audi- torium of Barbour Gymnasium to "Pig in a Poke" which the girls of the Class of '40 are presenting this weekend at the Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theatre. Curiously enough, however, this year's presen- tation reverts back to those days once more, in- somuch as women only will participate. The junior girls are coming into their own again, outstripping the defunct men's theatrical organi- zation, Mimes. "Pig in a Poke" is the work of Richard McKel- vey; who is also directing the production. Mr. McKelvey has a long and distinguished record behind him for he was assistant director of last year's JGP, "The Mulberry Bush," winner of a major Hopwood award, and director of the Children's Theatre this year, for which he wrote many of the scripts. "Pig in a Poke" is a costume play of the 1800's. The poor but aristocratic southern colonel and his wife take their beautiful daughter "no'th" to snare a wealthy husband for her. How well they succeed we have yet to find out, but we could venture a guess. However, we shall wait until Wednesday evening before revealing all. Footnotes to Footlights: Since "Our Town," last year's Pulitzer Prize winner, has just been released by Samuel French, we can expect a pro- duction of it either by The Ann Arbor Dramatic Season or Play Production . . . Whitford Kane accepted Sawyer Falk's invitation to play Capt. Obediah Rich of "Excursion" fame at Syracuse University last weekend. Mr. Kane, if you remem- ber, did as much for U. of M. a year and a half ago. May 4th will mark the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The first offering was a dance recital by students of the Department of Physical Education under the direction of Miss White. A week later, Comedy Club presented "Granite," followed the next WASHINGTON, March 16.-Simply as an example of the new technique of conquest-by undermining a small country and stirring up sentiment for partition of territory-the events in central Europe in the last 24 hours have pre- sented to official groups here a realistic picture of modern dictatorships. To a government which is being importuned to "mind its own business" and close its eyes to what is happening abroad, the demolition of the Czecho-Slovakian state, after assurances had been given by the German leaders that its inde- pendence would be respected, is not a develop- ment easy to ignore. Nothing is said officially, of course, but dis- appointment and chagrin is evident on every side. The pronouncement by Prime Minister Chamberlain that the dismemberment of Czecho- Slovakia is "contrary to the spirit of the Munich agreement" affords small comfort here to those in the Department of State who have believed all along that the British policy of "appeasement" has been wrong. Being confronted with a series of accomplished facts, the diplomacy of the hour is to say nothing, but to strengthen the policy of armament building. The Administration will have a substantial majority in Congress for its national defense program, but this is not saying that persons whose views coincide with those of the fascist leaders would not like to undermine the American project. Thus, already one hears sniping here and there about "nobody ever attacking Ameri- ca," about air invasions being fantastic and the like. But Congressional committees have un- covered evidence that agents of foreign govern- ments seek in every way to distract the attention of the authorities from policies which may be unfavorable to foreign countries. One of the favorite forms of attack against governmental policies of national defense, an one in which innocent Americans are being duped, is that which accuses the Administration of wanting to go to war to assist oppressed per- sons abroad. These latter folks are pictured as "the scum of Europe," and there is a complete indifference even to the fact that intellectuals have been persecuted along with the others. So-called "patriotic societies" are being urged to fight a "letting down of immigration bars," when, in truth, back of such urging is an effort to develop nationalistic sentiment here coinci- dent with the type of thinking one encounters in the fascist state. Some of the same elements which would like to see union labor crushed and sub- jected to the fascist type of governmental regu- lation appear every now and then to be backin'i the propaganda which is being spread against the extension of American sympathies, for ex- ample, to unfortunate Czechs or other peoples who have come under the heel of the dictator- ship states. While it is true that emotionalism does not make and should not dominate foreign policy at any time, it is strange to read some of the propa- ganda against American interest in oppressed people which pours into the national Capital daily from those who profess to be interested only in America. The idea of humanitarian motives in a governmental policy seems to have been brushed aside by these critics as something not to be accepted any more, and as if it were only a relic of bygone days of mistaken senti- mentality. The notion that, nearly two thousand years ago, a great religion was founded on the principle of human brotherhood and of seeking to spread tolerance, kindliness, and considera- tion for one's fellowman, instead of hates and selfishness and indifference to human suffering, has been overlooked in the literature of race hatred emanating from so-called "patriotic" groups. It is as sure a way to divide Americans as the Germans used in Czecho-Slovakia. Military wars never settled anything satisfac- torily, to be sure, and there isn't in the national Capital any group which believes America must engage in a war with a European power in order to secure respect for her citizens or for her point of view. But it can hardly be denied that the im- portance of building up armaments now has been fully Kecognized as a means of preventing war. What is happening in central Europe will in- sure, if anything was needed to do it, the pass- age of the President's defense program, and it is assumed here it will speed up the British and French programs, too. For the foreign news carries with it the implication that no material change can be expected in the dictatorship poli- cies until the democracies show much more solidarity than they have to date. Harlemn, New York Unfortunately for the Negro and for the City as a whole, recommendations are worthless, unless backed by enabling legislation. And it is probable that Federal, State, and City action, though far better than no action at all, will not radically improve employment or living condi- tions in Harlem. The only answer seems to lie in the destruction of color barriers and in equal opportunity for Negro jobs in private employ- ment. Asked for their opinion on Harlem's single greatest need, many Negro leaders have answered that it is for the white man to become intelli- gently conscious of the Negro. James M. Hubert, executive director of the Urban League, a Negro social service unit that has probably done more for Harlem than any other single organization. TODAY in WASH INGTON -by David Lawrence- * t F Hercules Renda, the genial little halfback, begins to show a cynical disregard of his professed friends, we think we have the explanation. Stand- ing in a long line at a local theatre Sunday afternoon, Herc was ap- proached by at least ten back-slap- ping cronies who handed him an assortment of currency and small change and asked him to buy their tickets. "What about your change?" Hero inquired as confusion began to envelop him. "Oh, keep it," one appre- ciative fellow told him. That was mighty white of them, Herc must have thought, as he planked down the money at the ticket cage and asked for twelve tickets. Here passed out the ducats and watched hise"friends" hurry into the theatre. Then he looked gravely at fifteen cents he was still holding, did some silent calculating, after which the confusion left his face." Say," he said quietly, "I'm twenty cents short." A short pause ensued, during which his good nature overcame the angry imp within him clamoring for retri- bution, and Here went into the dark theatre shrugging his broad shoulders. WEEKEND thoughts and observa- tions: Those seniors, sobered by the sad prospect of finding jobs, shouldn't look so glum. They may yet be treated to a trip abroad and a romp among the poppies, expenses prepaid . . . Remember Dorothy Parker's comforting remark: "The only thing I learned in school was that by wetting a pencil eraser I found you could erase ink." . . . An- other year in school, free of extra- curricular attractions and with plenty of time to read, might compensate for the four quick years . . . Many parents will likely greet the graduat- ing sonnies with a surprised "So soon?" anyhow . . . A junior, who in a moment of academic despair, ob- serves: "This place ain't no magnifi- cent obsession; it's a hoodoo' house," ought to be reminded that there's always WPA . . . The D.A.R., unmindful of the hiss- ing provoked by mention of their name in an American history class the other day, should be more con- cerned by the Gallup Poll's revela- tion that 67 per cent of the country approved Mrs. F.D.R.'s resignation because of their Nazi-like attitude to- ward artist Marian Anderson . . . Garner vs. Dewey for President is favored in the Spring book . . . Thatl accordina tune, "Beer Barrel," sounds like a calliope number and suggests a carnival to some people, but to us it has a trace of Strauss and whips up a terrific yen to travel.1 It used to be said that only twelve men understand Einstein's Theory of Relativity, but the great scientist himself, when asked for a simple defi- nition, said: "When a man sits witht a pretty girl for an hour, it seems to him only a minute. But let himt sit on a hot stove for only a minute -and it's longer than any hour.r That's 'Relativity'!" . . . Prof. Edu- ard Benes of the University of Chica- go, speaking on the radio of the dis- membered nation over which he for- merly presided, classified himself as I a divine optimist when he said his people's "spirit will prevail over the1 sword." . . ., Someone ought to tell Hitler those things... Stan' Kelley, limping about the1 campus after an unfortunate experi- ence at the Butler Relays, explains: "I ran second to an "I" beam." Roy Heath has transferred his allegi- ance to Gargoyle . . . off from the main stream of New York City life. A leading Negro complaint is that" the average American is inclined to1 dismiss as picturesque the conditions under which the Negro lives, but is shocked and worried when the white1 man lives under them. The Negro, it is frequently said, must convincex his white neighbors that he is not happy, content, and unthinking under inhuman conditions.-r Probably the single greatest gain in Harlem history occurred last year, when the Negro community, throughl its own efforts, forced through the Harlem Employment Agreement un- der the auspices of the Uptown Cham- ber of Commerce, acting for hundreds of retail stores, and the Greater New York Co-ordinating Committee for Employment, representing 200 Negro groups. The agreement stipulates that "att least one third of the White Collar jobs in Harlem stores will go to Ne-1 groes . . . No white employees willI be fired, the Negro quota will be built up. as white employees leave, etc." As an editorial in one New York paper put it, "This agreement means that Harlem takes a step toward becoming an integrated community, instead of an exploited colony within the city.". Thus Harlem has been alluded to as New York City's greatest challenge as well as its greatest problem. As a leader among American cities, New York, in finding a normal place for its Negroes, is faced with a problem ennvfrnfing - vynct la va-c, iv, e-lCt-vi 'l TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1939 VOL. XLIX. No. 123 Notices Note to Seniors, June Graduates, and Graduate Students: Please file application for degrees or any spe- cial certificates (i.e. Geology Certifi- cate, Journalism Certificate, etc.) at once if you expect to receive a de- gree or certificate at Commencement in June. We cannot guarantee that the University will confer a degree or ,certificate at Commencement upon any student who fails to file such application before the close of busi- ness on Wednesday, May 17. If ap- plication is received later than May 17, your degree or certificate may not be awarded until next fall. Candidates for degrees or certifi- cates may fill out card at once at office of the secretary or recorder of their own school or college (students enrolled in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, College of Architecture, School of Music, School of Education, and School of Fores- try and Conservation, please note that application blank may be ob- tained and filed in the Registrar's Of- fice, Room 4, University Hall). All applications for the Teacher's Cer- tificate should be made at the office of the School of Education. Please do not delay un the last day, as more than 2,500 diplomas and certificates must be lettered, signed, and sealed and we shall be greatly helped in this work by the early filing of applications and the resulting longer period for preparation. The filing of these applications does not involve the payment of any fee whatsoever. Shirley W. Smith. Women Students: Application blanks for the Lucy Elliott Fellow- ship of $500 and the Cleveland Mem- orial Scholarship of $100 are now available in the Alumnae Council Office and the Office of the Dean of' Women. All applications must be turned in before April 1. Winners will be announced following Spring Vacation. The Ann Arbor Branch of Ameri- can Association of University Women announces that it is receiving appli- cations for the AAUW May Preston, Slosson $500 gift fellowship for grad- uate study at the University of Mich- igan in the year 1939-1940. Appli- cations for this fellowship which isI available to any woman graduate student should be made before April 1, through the Graduate Office of the University. Bronson-Thomas Prize in German. Value $40.00. Open to all undergrad- uate students in German of distinctly American training. Wil be awarded on the results of a three-hour essay competition to be held under depart- mental supervision on Thursday, March 23, from 2-5 p.m., 201 U.H. Contestants must satisfy the Depart- ment that they have done the neces- sary reading in German. The essayl may be written in English or German. Each contestant will be free to choose his own subject from a list of 30 of- fered. The list will cover six chap- ters in the development of German literature from 1750 to 1900, each of which will be represented by five subjets. Students who wish to, compete and who have not yet hand- ed in their applications should do so immediately and obtain final direc- tions. Kothe-Hildner Prize in German:7 Two prizes, of $30 and $20 respec- tively will be awarded to studentsr taking German 32 in a translation competition (German-English and English-German) to be held March 23, from 2-5 p.m., Room 201 U.H. Students who wish to compete and who have not yet handed in their applications should do so immediately and obtain final directions.1 Mail ior Students, Faculty and tem- porary residents, at the. University: All students and hew members of the faculty should call at the U. S. Post Office and make out pink card, "Order to Change Address," Form 22, if they have not already done so. This applies also to temporary resi- dents in Ann Arbor who may be do- ing reference or research work on the campus. Unidentifiable mail is being held in Room 1, University Hall, for the fol- lowing addresses: Dr. H. J. Akorma Wesley Allen John W. Barker Antoinette Bielkie J. Leonard Buardt Dr. B. E. Bunnell Leonard Casman Dr. Marie Dye David E. Eldredge Ada Lou Hall Arthur Hauser James Layton John Edwin McGhee Pnf Willnm X a ivyv -_- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President until 3:30 P.M.; 11:00 A.M. on Saturday. Betty Wagonhals Arthur Wolff ( or Walff) Lorraine Tommerson Academic Notices Students, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: Courses dropped after Saturday, March 25, by students other than freshmen will be recorded E. Freshmen (students with less than 24 hours of credit) may drop courses without penalty through the eighth week. Exception may be made in extraordinary circumstances, such as severe or long continued illness. E. A. Walter, Asst. Dean. English 154: I shall be unable to meet my class this evening. A. L. Bader. Marriage Relations Course: The last lecture in the series will be given by Dr. Mary Shattuck Fisher in the Rackham Lecture Hall, this evening, 7:30 p.m. Concerts Organ Recital. Palmer Christian, University organist, will give a re- cital in Hill Auditorium, Wednesday afternoon, March 22, at 4:15 o'clock, to which the general public is in- vited. On this occasion Mr. Chris- tian will be assisted by the Choir of the First Presbyterian Church. The general public is cordially invited to attend without admission charge. Exhibitions Exhibition of Modern Book Art: Printing and Illustration, held under the sponsorship of the Ann Arbor Art Association. Rackham Building, third floor Exhibition Room; daily except Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; through March 25. Exhibition of Prints rrom the Col- lection of Mrs. William A. Comstock and Water Colors by Eliot O'Hara, presented by the Ann Arbor Art As- sociation. Rackham Building, third floor Exhibition Rooms, daily except Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m., March 7 through March 21. Botanical Photographic Exhibit: An exhibit of photographs of botani- cal subjects will be on display in the West Exhibit Room of the Rackham Building. Because of interest in the photo- graphs of botanical subjects the ex- hibit will continue to be on display daily except Sunday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Exhibition, College of Architecture: The premiated drawings submitted in the national competition for the Wheaton College Art Center are be- ing, shown in the third floor Exhibi- tion Room, College of Architecture. Open daily, 9 to 5, except Sundays, through April-4. The public is cor- dially invited. Museum of Classical Archaeology: Special exhibit of terracotta figurines, baskets, harness and rope from the University of Michigan Excavations in Egypt. Lectures Henry Russel Lecture for 1938-39 Professor CampbellBonner, Chair- man of the Department of Greek, will deliver the Henry Russel Lecture for 1938-39, on the subject, "Sophocles, Aristotle, and the Tired- Business Man," at 4:15 p.m., Wednesday, . March 22, in the Rackham Amphithe- atre. The announcement of the Henry Russel Award for 1938-39 will be made at this time. The public is cordially invited. Lecture on "Cosmic Rays and New Elementary Particles of Matter," Sat- urday, March 25 at 8 p.m. in the large auditorium of the Rackham Building, by Prof. Carl D. Anderson, Physics Dept. of California Institute of Technology, wnner of Nobel Prize in 1936 and various other awards for his research work. The lecture is arranged by the Society of Sigma Xi and will be open to the public. A. E. Miller, editor and publisher of the Battle Creek Enquirer and News, will give the fifth of the Jour- nalism Supplementary Lectures, Wed- nesday, at 3 o'clock in Room E, Haven Hall, speaking on "The Editorial Page of Tomorrow." The public is invited. Events Today. Anatomy Research Club Meeting: The March meeting of the Anatomy Research Club will be held today at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2501 East Medical Building. Dr. Martin Batts will report on "The Development of the. Primary Ossification Centers of the Lumbar Spine and its Clinical Significance- A Study of Two Hundred Foetuses," and Dr. Henry S. Emerson will speak on "Embryonic Induction in Regen- erating Tissue." Both papers will be 4 I 4