TH E MICHIGA N DALY THURSDAY, THE MICHIGAN DAILY NI --. .- ,,, up/ "7. ,t :I i SJoN. w M~Q~ iL- Such munitions are defined as machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, long-range tear gas and sickening gas missiles. The bill will act as a check not only on employ- ers engaging in unfair labor practices but also on the notorious strike-breaking and espionage agencies which have served them. Maximum pen- alties of a six months prison term or a $10,000 fine are provided. Enforcement would be through the Secretary of Labor, cooperating with the De- partment of Justice. According to a statement by the two senators on the bill, it "contains nothing that will cause concern to the great majority of business men, most of whom now conform to present enacted national policies." A powerful minority, it is asserted, have "fostered the oppressive practices banned in this bill and have developed their use to the point of constituting a menace to civil liberty generally." The statement also pointed out that many large automobile, radio, coal mining and steel firms have voluntarily discontinued the practices which the committee has been investigating. For those who persist, however, something stronger than an appeal to the big business conscience is neces- sary. Coercion, on certain occasions, is an essen- tial part of a peace program. Joseph Gies TODAY in WASHINGTON -by David Lawrence- WASHINGTON, March 28.-It was disclosed 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 Sumrd "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. 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Bud Benjamin the other day that 50 United States Senators had signed an informal circular advocating passage of a bill which would tax individual incomes up t-o 99 per cent in time of war, and that only about ten Senators had read the document carefully before signing. This particular proposal has turned out to be impractical, because whoever drafted it forgot that out of individual incomes there must be paid state and city taxes and that, if incomes are virtually confiscated when war begins, the whole structure of private credit might collapse and bring on a financial crisis at the very moment when national unity was most desired. Why, it will be asked, did 50 Senators sign such a preposterous proposal, and why didn't they read it carefully before giving even informal approval? The incident brings to the forefront of attention a problem on which relatively little has been said, but which is really at the root of our legislative situation, namely, the inability of members of Congress to give personal atten- tion to the thousand and one things that crowd before them, and the inadequacy of their office staffs to handle communications from constitu- ents and others. The way the Congress of the United States is forced to do its work is nothing short of a pub- lic scandal. Just at the time when the citizens are deeply interested in an important bill or the repeal of an existing law and the mails are flooded with letters and telegrams, the Senator or member of the House may be tied up with other matters which are his particular province of inquiry. He is importuned for answers to let- ters and he is asked for personal interviews. He really does not have either the time or the staff to handle effectively the duties of his office un- less out of his own pocket he is able to hire addi- tional staff. The entire cost of the salaries of the House and Senate members and their respective offices is about $8,500,000 a year, and yet this group of 531 men is expected to pass minutely on appro- priations totalling around $10,000,000,000 a year. It might be thought that the Congressional com- mittees have special staffs available, but they do not. Each committee has a clerk or secretary and occasionally an extra assistant is engaged, but, on the whole, the committees do not have any special staffs. Ir __ Business Department Business Manager . ., . Philip W. Buchen Credit Manager .Leonard P. Siegelman Advertising Manager . . . William L. Newnan Women's Business Manager . Helen Jean Dean Women's Service Manager . Marian A. Baxter NIGHT EDITOR: DENNIS FLANAGAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. United States Aid1 hnian Rights . . AS THE TOTALITARIAN states be- come stronger, the fascist leaders lash out their contempt for the democracies of the world. Mussolini last Sunday jeered at "brotherhood, sisterhood, cousins, and .,other such bastard relationships" between states. The increasing confidence on the part of the fascists is due largely to the apathy and indifference dis- played by the democratic peoples toward the fate of democracy elsewhere. We in America are particularly culpable. Americans are prodded into the strenuous action of slipping a vote into the ballot box every four years when there is a national election. We are galvanized into action on specific issues which affect immediately our daily life. But there is no widespread, sustained interest in the cause of democracy. When the Gallup poll published its findings on the Spanish war which showed the majority of Americans to favor the /Loyalist cause, letters should have streamed into Wash- ington petitioning Congress and the President to lift the embargo on Spain. Now, with the annihilation of a once flourish - ing republic, Czechoslovakia, the defeat of the Loyalists in Spain, the need for determined lead- ership in the democracies becomes self-evident. In Britain and France, Chamberlain and Dala- dier play upon the people's fears of war to justify their betrayal of weaker nations to the fascists. Nor are these leaders the men to make a new stand against the fascists. The United States, the most powerful democ- racy in the Western hemisphere, can take the lead in preventing further outbreaks of lawless- ness and utter disregard for the rights of minor- ity peoples. Th' 25 per cent increase on German imports is a step forward. Laws placing econom- ic sanctions on aggressor nations should follow. -Adrienne Rauchwerger Uinamnericanism And Strike-Breaking .. . A POLL of the American Institute of Public Opinion recently revealed that about twice as many people have heard of the Dies Committee on unAmerican activities as have heard of the LaFolette Committee on Civil Lib- erties. Newspaper publishers may or may not, blush at this testimony on the manner in which .he wort of these two committees has been luindled: the LaFollette Committee has been in existence for a much longer time, and its findings have been much more carefully documented; while as for the relative newsworthiness of the activities of the two bodies, it is difficult to find anything in the testimony of the Dies experts to exceed in sensationalism the LaFollette disclos- ures concerning the far-flung industrial espion- age systems engaged in fighting the labor move- ment. In any case, the LaFollette Committee appar- ently has no intention of limiting itself to revela- tions, however sensational they may be. Senator LaFollette and his collaborator, Senator Thom- as, have just climaxed their two-and-a-half year investigation by the introduction of a bill de- signed to curb oppressive labor practices on the mr ofr Omnve.-The bi-antim a four evis. Patch-Work Or Change? To the Editor: On March 1st you printed an article quotin remarks of some of our Economics faculty com- menting on the recent speech of Secretary Hop- kins, holding out the peace pipe to business. It is interesting that both the "conserative and "liberal" economists used phraseology in- volving some reference to "business confidence." Apparently all we need do to regain happy days is to discover the nostrum which creates this state of mind in our capitalists, and then get them to swallow these innocuous pills. Unfor- tunately, however, no, mere goodwill speeches can extirpate, or even considerably mitigate our economic illness, i.e., cause our capitalist economy to expand rather than shrink. As capitalism totters, it resorts to a variety of pump-priming measures intended to facilitate mass coisumption of "surplus" commodities. When such measures fail of their mark, then capitalism resorts to other measures slightly less cloaked in their intent-to the smashing of unions, cutting down on WPA, thus leaving mil- lions the freedom of choice between starvation on a kind of dole or starvation on non-union wages. Whatever protection to its weak status labor found in the NLRB now threatens to be withdrawn by proponents of change in, or writ- ing-off of, the Wagner Act. When the scene, such as ours today, grows more confused by the recognition of many that reformist and progressive measures are not capable of leading us into our Promised Land of Abundant Life, then the stage is set. It is set for the conscious use of demagogs such as Father Coughlin and Gerald K. Smith who divert the people's eyes from the real villain, i.e., the in- herent and unavoidable contradiction of capital- ism, the economy of social production and private ownership. Instead, a people of a particular relig- ious and ethnic culture, the Jews, who themselves are diversified in social understanding and point of view, are said to be the cause of our troubles. Funny, were it not so tragic! Since the idea of "confidence" is fashionable today, might it not be questioned whether or not the masses of Americans, workers of one kind or another, should have confidence in business, in the kind of society which it has created. Perhaps they might realize after sufficient analysis that we can't muddle our way out of situations, and then we shall turn our energies from patchwork to genuine construction of a society that can have confidence in itself. -Leila Robinson Rings For Senior EngieerS .To the Editor: It has been the ambition of the present Senior Engineering class for the past three years to introduce an official class ring for the Senior graduates of the Engineering College. We believe that this may finally be accom- plished with your cooperation, if you will print the substance of this letter in the Michigan Daily. We request that all Senior Engineers, who are' definitely interested in such a ring, please call at the Burr, Patterson Jewelry Co., 603 Church St., as soon as possible. and ask to se the ring which will sell for $13.50. The ring will be designed distinctly for the University of Michigan Engineering School and will represent an individuality unknown to the other schools on the campus. It is the hope of the officers of the Senior Class, that this may be enthusiastically accepted as a tradition on the part of the students, and that, in the years following, the other classes will tend to follow the example of the class of '39E. Your consideration in this matter will be deeply appreciated. Richard R. Roemer, '39E Vice President The University of Chicago has become the cen- ter of the movement which protests the death of Czecho-Slovakia, for on its campus as a visiting lecturer is Dr. Eduard Benes, former president of the war-born republic. Just what Dr. Benes' TNE EATRE A Point Of Vew WE LEANED over a long mahogany table in the South lounge of the Union, thumbing wearily through a thick history text and tossing up ran- dom names for identification. The hour was late and our eyes burned from an evening of intensive study, but there was still much to be cata- logued. Across the table sat a dis- tinguished-looking old man-grey- haired, bespectacled and prosperously tailored-mumbling his reactions to something in Newsweek magazine and twitching nervously at the mouth as though he were afflicted with a mild aeurosis, Our discussion went on uninterrupt- ed until our companion mentioned the name, "Debs . . ." The old man looked up from his magazine and heard us say, "Socialist candidate for president in 1912." He tsk-tsk'ed us and said, almost plaintively, "Say more about him than that . . . Say that he was labor's first great humanitarian. Say that he established the first great railroad brotherhood and devoted his life to improving the lot of the work- ingman. 'Gene Debs was a real labor leader." 'Gene Debs! This man sounded like he knew the man personally. "Knew him? Of course I did. I was an active organizer of rail- road telegraphers when 'Gene Debs was jailed in Woodstock, Ill., as a result of Judge Gary's in- junction in the Pullman strike." This directly concerned our history course, and thinking to cultivate the gentleman's acquaintanceship, we prompted him to speak further of his -xperiences. But he required little coaxing, warming to a story he must have told a thousand times, a story is ruggedly individualistic as any- thing Horatio Alger ever conceived, a story of tough, meager beginnings as a telegrapher at 15, a newspaper re- porter in Albany (where "by organiz- ing the reporters who got only $6 a week, we went to the boss, demanded and got a $2 raise on the week"), a struggling undergraduate at Yale and a law graduate of DePaul University in Chicago. Now the lawyer for sev- eral railroad brotherhoods, his story1 was one essentially of a labor union. ist. He smoked cigarettes from a tin, and wore spats. As he recounted this "typically American" story, with an emotional mixture of delight and dis- appointment, chagrin and exultation, that properly accompany sharp mem- ories, we were reminded of a senior friend who thinks he'd like to join the labor movement as an organizer. "Labor leaders are born, not made," he thundered. "You've got to work up through the ranks, feel the sweat and grime of work. 'Gene Debs was a railroad man in Terre Haute, Ind., before he set out to organize the railroads. He felt the need for organization. The AFL is full of such men . . . men who starved and had to stay in their hotels in small towns un- til they got enough initiation fees to pay their bills. They made tre- mendous sacrifices, those men. Men like Charlie Moyer and Bill Haywood ..." What about the current split in labor's ranks, we ventured. The old gent scoffed. "It won't ever be solved. You can't have industrial unionism, and I'll tell you why. You've got to identify the workers. The metal trades union, the typographer's union, the carpen- ters' union-they fight their battles oujt together because they have iDenti- ty. How are you going to let a colored sweeper and a Hunky watchman to stand side by side? Give them a Union card, and what happens? They quit their jobs and go somewhere else, work at something else and where's your Union? A carpenter may quit his job, but he'll turn up somewhere else as a carpenter, proudly displaying his Union card. He'll fight you for that card. He's conceited, arrogant, smug with that card in his pocket-because he knows no employer can tell him how to vote or live his own life as long as he stands together with other carpenters . . . "As for John Lewis," the geitic- unan Conti ned, "b proves what the A1111,has ,stioul for, tat Yoi can't mix politis with unionism. I'll tell you what sort of a man John Lewis is. He rode on the back platform of a train with Harding; he did the same thing with Coolidge, and went all over the country the same way with Hoover, and when Hoover didn't make him Secretary of Labor he got resentful and fought lhn.," The old lawyer had other things to say about employers, automobile makers and nationalities. "Every gain the worker has made he fought for . . . When they invented the auto- matic coupler, do you think the rail- roads would put it in? Hell, no! They would let switchmen keep getting their fingers and hands cut off. We 1-i p4d 1 a iimakin them i:su= it Room 3089 N.S. from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily. George R. La Rue, Director. Ice Skating Classes, Women Stu- dents. The women's ice skating classes will meet at 3:20 on Wednes- day and Thursday, respectively, at Barbour Gymnasium dressed for bi- cycle riding instead of skating. 35 cents will cover the cost of riding for two hours. Preliminary Examinations for the Doctorate in English will be given this spring as follows: April 26, 2-5 p.m. American Lit- erature with Continental Back- grounds. April 29, 9-12 a.m. English Litera- ture 1700-1900. May 3, 2-5 p.m. English Litera- ture 1550-1700. May 6, 9-12 a.m. English Litera- ture, Beginnings to 1550. All those intending to take the ex- aminations should communicate with me by April 15. N. E. Nelson, Secre- tary, Committee on Graduate Work. Concerts (Continued from Page 2) Organ Recital. Thomas Lyles, 'eJo1UUof5, aniriam Bon- Spartanburg, South Carolina, pupil ner. of Palmer Christian, University or- The Observatory Journal Club will ganist, will give an organ recital in meet in the lecture room of the Ob- Hill Auditorium, Thursday afternoon, servatory today at 4:15 p.m. Miss March 30, at 4:15 o'clock, in partial Marjorie Williams will review "Va- fulfillment of the requirements for riable Stars" by Gaposchkin. Tea will the Master of Music degree. The be served at 4 p.m. All interested, are general public is invited to attend. cordially invited to attend. Glee Club Concert. The University of Michigan Glee Club, under the di- The Graduate History Club will rection of Professor David Mattern, meet at 8 p.m. tonight in the East will present an interesting and va- Conference Room of the Rackham vied program of music in Hill Au- Building. Mr. Kooker will speak on ditorium, Thursday evening, March "The National Archives." Refresh- 30, at 8:30 o'clock. The general ments. public, with the exception of small children, is invited to attend. "Nursing as a Profession" will be discussed by Miss Marian Duxell Exhibitions today at a tea at 4:30 p.m. at Couzens Hall. Individual questions Exhibition, College of Architecture: will be answered following the talk, The premiated drawings submitted after which conducted tours will take in the national competition for the interested persons through the facili- Wheaton College Art Center are be- ties of University Hospital. ing shown in the third floor Exhibi- tion Room, College of Architecture. University Girls' Glee Club: No re- Open daily, 9 to 5, except Sundays, hearsal tonight. All girls who have through April 4. The public is cor- not had eligibility cards signed, please dill nvte.leave your cards on the board in the day. This lecture, sponsored by La Sociedad Hispanica, will be in Eng- lish. Events Today Mr. Louis Untermeyer. Schedule for week of March 27-April 3. Thursday, March 30. 4 p.m. Cof- fee hour. Room 308 Michigan Union. Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences: There will be a meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Room 1024 East Engineering Building. Professor M. J. Thompson will present a summary of papers given at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences, held in New York. These pa- pers deal with -airplane structures, instruments, areonautical symposium, power plants, meteorology, air trans- port, aerodynamics, and airplane de- sign. The Psychological Journal Club will meet tonight at 8 o'clock p.m. in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Bldg. Recent studies of Lateral dominance in behavior will be reviewed by Sidney G. Armitage, 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. By NORMAN KIELL '.Tw oentlemen Of Verona' Although dressed up in James Doll's most gorgeous costumes and stunning hand-painted curtains, and although performed by some of the best acting seen on the Lydia Mendelssohn stage, and although directed with a nimble and flowing hand, one could not overcome the feel- ing when the curtain fell for the last time last night that "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," while one of Shakespeare's most charming early comedies, is still a minor one. Let this be our premise then: it is a weak play, but within the limits of the play, it is superbly done. And being so well done, it is virtually a duty for every student of literature to pay a visit to the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. There he can see that from this first or second comedy, the master's deft hand built from the court comedy of Lyly to the definite romantic comedy of his later creations. "The Two Gentlemen Of Verona" finds Shake- speare still in affinity wjh Italianated coloring and its use of the interrelations of love and friendship as a theme; the Comedia del Arte pro- vided the Bard with tricky and farcical action such as befalls Launce and his dog; further, the pairing off of lovers and the unwelcome suitor were prominent figures in the Italian Popular Comedy. These are all here. But Mr. Windt has racy actors who dive head over heels into comedy with infectious enthusiasm. And Mr. Windt's ideas are fresh; he has kept with tradition and emerged with a show. "The Two Gentlemen" is presented with but one break which gives the satisfied theatre-goers a chance to stretch. The scenes flow into one another by the dexterous use of the previously mentioned three beautiful cur- tains, which differentiate the various locales. Incidental music by the Little Symphony Orches- tra, two vocal solos, and a charming dance, directed by Ruth Bloomer of the Department of Physical Educaton, to close the festivities, con- bined to give a lyrical touch that would have been otherwise impossible to create. Giving corporeal reality to this lovely back- ground, the two servants offer the greatest at- traction. James Moll, as Speed, relished his own humor, thereby adding to the zest of it. William Halstead played Launce uproariously; his first scene especially, where he is overwhelmed with grief at leaving his parents and with indigna- tion at the insensibility of his dog to his sorrow, was genuine comedy, as were the scenes where he describes his mistress and when he gets the beating instead of his dog. Marguerite Mink as Sylvia spoke and moved with imposing rhythmic grace. Betty Howard, the Julia of the show who roams the world looking for a lover who is not worthy of her, was sweet and simple. Edward Jurist's Valentine cut a commanding and graceful figure, charged with intelligentt feeling, Karl Klauser ' as Proteus Exhibition of Modern Book Art: Printing and Illustration, held under the sponsorship of the Ann Arbor Art Association. Rackham Building,1 third floor Exhibition Room; daily1 except Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; on, view through Saturday, April 1. Exhibition of Paintings by David Fredenthal and Helen May, shown under the auspices of the Ann Arbor Art Association. Alumni Memorial Hall, afternoons from 2 to 5, March 24 through April '7. . .. Lectures'I University Lectures: Professor Ken- neth J. Conant, of Harvard Univer- sity, will give illustrated lectures on "The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem" on Monday, April 3, and "The Mon-' astery of Cluny" ,on. Tuesday, April 4, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Lec- ture Hall under the auspices of the Institute of Fine Arts. University Lecture: Dr. Friedrich. Oehlkers, Visiting Professor at Co- lumbia University, will give an illus- trated lecture on "Cytoplasmic In- heritance" on Thursday, March 30, at 4:15 p.m. in Natural Science Au- ditorium under the auspices of the Departmnent of Botany. The public is cordially invited to attend University Lecture. Sir Raymond Unwin, Town Planning and Housing Advisor to the British Government, will discuss "Present Day Trends in Town Planning and Housing" at 4 p.m. today in the auditorium of the Architecture Building. This is open to all University students and the general public, and should be of especial interest to students in Land- scape Design, Architecture, Civil En- gineering, Political Science, Sociology and Economics and Geography. Harland Danner, Michigan athlete, will present a lecture on "Life with the Lacandones" at the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre, Wednesday, April 5, 'at 8:15 p.m. This lecture will be illustrated with motion pictures tak- en during Danner's recent visit among the primitive Lacandone In- dian tribe of southern Mexico. Tick- ets will be on reserve at the box of- fice Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- Anglo-Saxons, the Irish and Welsh- men are individualists and independ- ent. They don't want anyone telling them what to do, and how to do it We were getting sleepy, and the speaker was doing so well that we hesitated to interrupt him. But there was just one more observation we wanted to hear: What was his opin- ion of President Roosevelt. "Aell, Rofu'e1vet's doing some Undergraduate Office for Betty Sta- delman. French Lecture: The lecture on the Cercle Francais Program which was to be given by Professor Eugene Ro- villain this afternoon has been post- poned. On April 28 the annual French Play will take place in Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. The title of the play is: Ces Dames aux Chapeaux verts" by Acremant. Independent Men interested in as- sisting Congress in the Michigras, will meet today in Room 306 of the Michigan Union at 5 o'clock. New- comers are welcome. Sir Raymond Unwin will speak at 9 a.m. today' in Landscape Design 102, Room 231 Angell Hall, on the "Planning of Letchworth Garden City." Modern Dance Club: There will be a regular meeting of the Modern Dance Club tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Barbour Gymnasium. All members are urged to attend since the 'Ensian pictures will be taken. JGP Costumes will be sold this af- ternoon in Room 5 from 4 to 6 p.m. The Chars in Current Jewish Prob- lems will meet at the Foundation tonight at 8 p.m. Dr. Isaac Rabino- witz will speak on, "The Problem of the Refugees." Rover Crew meeting tonight at the Union at 8 o'clock. Coming Events Botanical Seminar will meet on Fri- day, March 31, at 4:30 p.m., Room 1139 N.S. Bldg. Paper by Dr. Fried- rich Oelkers "The Physiology of Meiosis." The Ammnuai Meeting of the Alpha Chapter of Michigan of Phi Beta Kappa will be held in Room 2116 Natural Science Building Friday eve- ning, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. All members are urged to attend this meeting. The Suomi Club will sponsor a so- cial evening at Lane Hall on Fri- day, March 31, at 8:00. All Finnish students are invited to attend. 4 Treasure Hunt: Saturday, meeting at 8:30 p.m. at the April 1, Congre- gational church. Open to all students, 30 cents a person, 35 gents a couple. For information call 2'4679. Ping Pong Tournament: Finals in the women's all-campus ping pong tournament will be held at 2:30 in