PAG*E-FOUR T'H E M I C H IGA"N DAILY TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939 __________________________________________________________ I U THE MICHIGAN DAILY TODAY '. WASHINGTON -by David Lawrence- =- " . sA , .. i ' 4 /{1 l MUSIC Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every mornin except Mouday during the University year and Summ r Session. Member of the Associated Press ','he 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 Oft ice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second. class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRBPENTSD FO R NATIONAL AOVEMlTIBING BY National AdvertisingS rvice, Inc. College P'blishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO 'BOSTON LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1938-39 EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editor City Editor Editorial Director Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor. Women's Editor . Carl Petersen Stan M. Swinton Elliott Maraniss - Jack Canavan Dennis Flanagan Morton Linder Norman Schorr . Ethel Norberg . Mel Fineberg *Ann Vicary BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Credits Manager . Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager. Publications Manager Paul R. Park Ganson Taggart Zenovia Skoratko l rane Mowers *Harriet Levy NIGHT EDITOR: HARRY M. KELSEY The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only.I Preface To A New Year . THE MICHIGAN DAILY is the news- paper of the students of the Univer- sity of Michigan. It is with this basic thought in mind that we look toward the coming year and discuss the part that the Daily should ideally play In the life of the student. First and most obvious of all, The Daily will constitute the main channel of in- formation dealing with campus, national and in- ternational affairs for the student body. As such, it must meet two primary requisites: it must be accurate and objective in reporting of news. It must be accurate to deserve the name of a news- paper. It must be objective for objectivity is but the search after truth. It is the sincere intention of the editors to keep these all-important criteria of a newspaper uppermost in mind during the coming year. But these considerations, important as they are, are hardly sufficient in analyzing the rela- tion of a modern student newspaper to its readers. For the student of today is faced with problems peculiar to today. Looking out from the comparative shelter of ivy-covered walls, if he chooses to look out, he sees a world in turmoil, a world in which the principles of humanity, freedom and democracy are being sacrificed in many places to the belief that force should be the dominant factor in shaping men's lives. The student sees a world in which the barbaric bru- tality of man turned beast has made a proud people dependent upon the grudging charity of those who would rather forget that there is such a thing as "the brotherhood of man." He sees a world in which the family of nations talks long- ingly of peace, yet, blinded by age-old prejudice and greed, moves inexorably toward wa'r-war which will take its greatest toll in defenseless non-combatants, women and children far behind the battle-line who die at far less expense and danger to their killers than do the men at th front. In short, he looks out upon a world in whIchW "man's inhumanity to man" threatens to erase completely from the minds' of youth the ideals of democracy and humanity. This fact and many .others canlot be ignored by the youth of the world. It is not only the youth of this generation who face the unhappy prospect of war in the all-too-near future. It is also the youth of the future, their children and their children's children, who' may face a world in which human freedom is sacrificed to force. It is this manifestation of barbaric tendencies in. man which demands that the student of today be awake to the import of what is happening outside the ivory tower. It is in this, then, that a supplementary yet decisive part of The Daily's service to the student lies. If it can help awaken the student .to the implications of war and human degradation in the world today, as well as serve him faithfully in its primary purpose of informing accurately. we will feel that The Daily has fulfilled com- pletely its responsibility to the campus. -Carl Petersen Learning To Read T IS A KNOWN fact that many fail- ures in the Arts school are due to the inability to comprehend quickly the large WASHINGTON - President Roosevelt now has appointed four out of the nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Fate may give him another appointment before this second presidential term is over, thus rendering strangely superfluous the controversy which took up so much time in the 1937 session of Congres and started the Democratic Party on its present era of division. If, one counts Justice Harlan Stone as a consistent "liberal," there now are at least five justies who favor a "liberal" interpre- tation of the Constitution. The latest appointee, William O: Douglas, carries out one objective of Mr. Roosevelt's 1937 effort to reorganize the Supreme Court by add- ing more justices-youth on the bench-even more than do the three other Justices selected by PresidentRoosevelt. The other objective-a "liberal outlook" with respect to the interpretation of the constitution -can certainly be assured through Mr. Douglas, just as it was achieved with the appointment of Messrs. Reed, Black and Frankfurter. Just what is a "liberal outlook" may take a little time to develop, perhaps until some con- crete cases arise involving clear issues as between the confiscation doctrine, often espoused by "radicals," and the idea of conservation of property for the indvidual, hitherto championed as true liberalism. But it would be wrong to give the impression that most cases that come before the Supreme Court of the United States contain constitution. al questions. Most of them concern the conflict of private rights, and that'is one reason why, in the past, corporation lawyers who have had a successful career in private practice have usually been picked for the Supreme Court. In this re- spect, the new appointees, with the possible ex- ception of Justice Reed, do not have much actual experience. Justice Black was in political life, and Professors Frankfurter and Douglas have been teaching law at Harvard and Yale, respectively, so' they have hardly had much contact with the actual operations of the many kinds of busi- nesses whose activities come into litigation of the kind that reaches the Supreme Court. A Man Of Experience Mr. Douglas, on the other hand, in the last few years has had experience of a rare sort, being chairman of the Securities and exchange Com- mission, where he has learned a great deal about investment banking, securities sales on the stock exchanges, and reorganization proceedings as they relate to the bankruptcy laws-an insight into corporation finance which should prove valuable to him on the bench. The principal objection which will be urged against Mr. Douglas is geographical, for western Senators have wanted a justice aplointed from the West. It is true Mr. Douglas has spent more years of his life in the Northwest than anywhere else, but the basic idea' in urging a Westerner has been the possible selection of someone actually engaged, in his adult life, in practicing law in the West. Just why this should be a requirement is not easy to explain, because it would naturally be assumed that an intelligent and capable jurist should be appointed irrespective of what section' of the country claims him. When it was Presi- dent Hoover's task to appoint a man to the Supreme Court and the West claimed thta par- ticular appointment as a matter of priority and tradition, he brushed aside geographical consid- erations to appoint the late Justice Cardozo, who hailed from New York. Whether Mr. Douglas, who was bern in the state of Minnesota and lived in the state of Washington, is a full-fledged representative of the Far West in a political sense is not so im- portant as whether he is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court for the many years ahead that his youthful age will permit. The reputation which Mr. Douglas has in the National Capital is this: he is in sympathy with the New Deal and yet he has won the confidence of many men in Wall Street because he has seemed to them to possess a sense of fairness. Opposite View Held There are undoubtedly men in Wall Street who hold an opposite impression, but it is always difficult for business interests to form an ap- praisal. of a public official who heads a regula- tory body and who has a statute to enforce which has in it noxious provisions. On the whole, it may be said that William Q. Douglas is fundamentally honest and sincere. If, when he ascends the bench, he persuades him- self to forget that he was appointed by a Presi- dent of the United States with a specific idea of how the Constitution shall be interpreted, and deals with each case on its merits and on the basis of the evidence presented and fairness in interpreting the law and the Constitution, he will make a good judge. If, as sometimes happens, judges do not per- mit themselves to forget they once were part of the world of poetical controversy, it takes a long time for the pubic to acquire confidence irr their fundamental sense of justice, and, after all, respect for the Supreme Court of the United States as an institution will rise or fall in the future, as in the past, in accordance as the indi- vidual Justices look at public controversies im- personally and without political or economic bias. Mr. Douglas will doubtless be confirmed, and, if predictions are in order, it may be assumed that Justice Douglas will forget political and economic prejudices so far as it is humanly pos- sible and will devote himself to the tenets of By WILLIAM J. LICHTENWANGER Notes On The Second Concert Three choral works by living composers, bal- anced by Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, make up the second Festi- val program. Of the choral works, the most pretentious and perhaps of the most interest to an American audience is the Symphony No. 3, for Orchestra, Chorus, and Soloist, of Harl Mc- Donald. Someone has said that "Harl McDonald is as American as Pike's Peak," and probably the' simile is a good one, for the 40-year-old com- poser passed his early life on his father's Colo- rado cattle ranch, dividing his time between music and horsemanship. Coming East, he de- voted himself for a time to academic studies un- til he obtained a degree, once in a while replen- ishing his pocketbook with money earned from professional boxing. He has since studied in Europe, and for a number of years now has con- ducted the chorus and taught composition at the University of Pennsylvania. Long a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, he has just recently been named its business manager, to succeed Alfred Reginald Allen. 'Lamentations Of Fu Hsuan' The third of the four symphonies that Mr. McDonald so far has to his credit was composed in 1935 and first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski early in 1936. Sub- titled "The Lamentations of Fu Hsuan," the "program" and vocal parts are based on trans- lations of the Chinese poet made by Huan Hsieh, a former Pennsylvania student. Says Mr. Mc- Donald: "I decided to eliminate all parts of the verses that were encumbered by too many sym- bolical phrases, and to reduce the text to its essential outlines. My object was to uncover in the poems four phases of tragedy that were un- limited by racial conventions or literary styles and to concentrate on the subject matter which seemed universal. . . In form, this composition makes many departures from the conventional symphonic structure. I have introduced thematic material of the whole composition in the first movement and thereafter varied it according to the needs of the various sections." The "four phases of tragedy" that underly the four symphonic movements might be de- scribed as a dirge-like, dolorous complaint in the first; a more subdued, plaintive lament in the second; a delirious, demoniacal frenzy in the third; and in the fourth a last, despairing wail that "a cloud of darkness covers the earth as death enfolds me." The combination of poetic idea, words, singers, and orchestra is rather similar to that used by Rachmaninoff in The Bells, heard last Festival. In Mr. McDonald's case the orchestra is perhaps even more important than in the Rachmanioff work, the voices being largely additional instruments in the orchestra, and the poetic idea being more important than the words themselves. The Hungarian Psalm Soloist, chorus, and orchestra are likewise used in the kPsalmus Hungaiaus, or "Hungarian Psalm," of Zoltan Kodaly. But in this case' the plan is that of a single cantata movement, in which the instrumental texture is equally im- portant with the vocal but kept distinct from it. The psalm is the 55th, translated with poetic freedom by the 16th century Hungarian preach- er-poet, Michael Veg (to be sung in retransla- tion into English.) David, weary and beset upon on all sides by friends as well as enemies, cries in anguish to the Lord for protection and the power of retribution. Peace is visited upon him by the answering Deity, and the Hungarian Psalm closes with a stern' admonition to Chris- tian righteouness. The musical score sets off witi exquisite beauty and dignity the dramatic text of the poem. Kodaly, at the age of 40, composed it for the 1923 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the joining of the twin towns, Buda and Pesth, into the present Hungarian capital. The music's racial, folky qualities, filtered through the modern, personal idiom of the composer, made it overnight a work of great national significance. Also of national significance, but for Finland rather than Hungary, is the short "choral pre- lude" by Sibelius to be sung in English under the title of "Onward, ye Peoples." Thj# chorus was composed some years ago to a poem by Rydberg and called the "Song of the Athenians." As such it became a, Finnish war song second only to Finlandia, the chorale section of which it closely resembles. The English adaptation of Rydberg's poem is by Marshall Kernochan, and Sibelius' music was arranged by Channing Lefe- bvre. A New Mother Brought to the attention of those Northwestern students and townspeople industrious enough to attend the lecture by Senor Anonio Ruiz Vila- plana recently was the very realistic threat of a new sort of Fascism to South America. If Franco wins in Spain-and this if may now al- most certainly be changed to when-there will be a definite attempt to revive Spanish allegiances in South America under the straight-arm form- ula prescribed by Mr. Hitler. How successful this will be is another matter. Certainly in a number of the smaller countries the German barter system of trade has proved popular and has partially squeezed out tlhC economic domination long held by Britain and America. Certainly German, Italian and Jap- o*.A NOW that the semester is nearly over, finals are approaching with their usual rapidity, and the Detroit Tigers have lost six straight and are down where we can forget them and concentrate on studying. We. were sitting quietly the other evening, just+ taking stock of our unfathomed men-1 tal resources, resting up before an- otherhattempt at the books, when the telephone rang. "Hello," we ventured. "What is the difference between a rabbit?" someone asked, in sepulchral+ tones, as if it were the riddle of the1 Sphinx. And as far as we were con-a cerned, it might well have been. We waited, breathless, for the answer. "One of its legs is both the same,"' it came, clear and bell-like in the still- ness. A FRESHMAN in the education! school who rooms with a friend of ours is having an awful time of it. The poor chap's health was failing, just after vacation, and he dropped in1 the Health Service to see Doc Brace, to find out just what was the matter. The doctor looked him over. He was a pretty sorry sight, skinny and wan and looking like he had crawled out of one of his own textbooks. He couldn't have tipped the scales ata more than 95 pounds. After a thorough examination, Dr. Brace gave his verdict. "General run- down condition," he said. "You'd bet- ter quit all drinking, start getting 10 hours of sleep every night, and fol- low this diet. You can only smoke1 five cigarettes a day. Come back inf a week and we'll see how you're look- ing." A week later, of course, the fresh- man dropped back to see Doc Brace. But instead of a picture of roseate health, the lad looked worse, if pos- sible, than he had before. "Good God, man!" Doc Brace splut- tered. "What have you been up to?t Didn't you follow that diet? Have you been hitting the bottle again?t Why in thetworld didn't you do whatc I told you to?" Embarrassed, the freshman hung his head. "It's those five cigarettesc a day, Doc. I never smoked before."t * * * J ITTER DAY at The Daily is gonet and today hands are being shaken,f congratulations are being given, and desks are being moved into. We havet never witnessed a happier appoint-c ment season at The Daily. Carl Pet- ersen, Stan Swinton and Elliot Ma-c raniss were logical choices and nextc year's Daily should be one of the best in its long history. Pete, Stan andY Ace, as they are known around thec Publications .uilding, have the un- questioned support of everyone con- nected with publications. It is really quite surprising to notice the absence of long faces and half-hearted con- gratulations on the part of those who have been left out. This same spirit carries over to the sports page' where Mel Fineberg prepares to take! over the reins from Bud (Mr. Average Man) Benjamin and on the woman's staff where Ann Vicary supplants Sis Staebler. -Morty Q. I deals And Occasionally the assiduous readerk of books encounters a passage written< by some man of wisdom which is be- yond forgetting. In Pierre Van Paas-' en's "Days of Our Years" appears the. following paragraph. In its lack ofs the time element, it becomes some-; what outside the realm of timely edi- torial comment. But in its truth and completeness, space cannot be denied. "It is true that the ideal is the ulti- mate in beauty and joy our imagina-; tion can produce. The ideal can never in its entirety be translated into real- ity. It always eludes our grasp, al- ways recedes into the future. And yet it must never be lost sight of. There may be a temporary compro- mise with the reality, but never at the cost of the ideal. 'The striving for it must never cease. Everything must be done to bring the ideal near- It takes no Delphian wisdom and foresight to reflect that perhaps the people of today either have no ideals, or have lost sight of those they claim to have. A nation which deals pri- marily with dollars and cents can easily lose sight of all but monetary values. Is there not another scale of worth than the one which says wealth is success and poverty failure? -Daily Californian. Methodist Delegates Elect New Council KANSAS CITY, May.8.--'P)-Dele- gates uniting this nation's three branches of Methodism elected the nine members of the judicial council or "supreme court" of their new 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. TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939 VOL. XLIX. No. 157 Notices Student Tea: President and Mrs.; Ruthven will be at home to students on Wednesday, May 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. Association of University and Col- lege Business Officers: The 2th an- nual meeting is being held in Ann Arbor May 14, 15, 16. At the annual dinner to be held in the ballroom of the Michigan Union Monday evening, May 15, the speakers will be Dr. Ed- wuard Benes, former President of the Czechoslovakian Republic. In view of the possibility that members of the University and other citizens may wish to hear this distinguished speak- er the Business Officers Association is pleased to issue a general invitation to the dinner so far as space will per- mit. Tickets at $1.25 each may be had' either at the Michigan Union or at the University Business Office up to noon of Monday, May 15. It will be impossible to make reservations after that time. Shirley W. Smith. 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 orI 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 cards at once at office of the secretary or recorder of 1 their own school or college (studentsY 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 blanks may be ob- tained and filed in the Registrar's Of- ice, 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 until the last day, as more than 2,500 diplomas and1 certificates must be lettered, signed, and sealed and we shall be greatlyI helped in this work by the early filng of applications and the resulting longer period for preparation. l The filing of these applications1 does not involve the payment of any fee whatsoever. Shirley W. Smith. First Mortgage Loans: The Univer- sity has a limited amount of funds to loan on modern well-located Ann Arbor residential property. Interest at current rates. F.H.A. terms avail- able. Apply Investment Office, Room 100; South Wing, University Hall. School of Education Convocation:; The fourth annual Convocation of undergraduate and graduate students who are candidates for the Teacher's; Certificate during the academic year will be held in the Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theatre this afternoon at 4:15 o'clock. This Convocation is spon- sored by the School of Education; and members of other faculties, stu- dents and the general public are cor- dially invited, Faculty members and students who are candidates for the Teacher's Certificate are requested to wear academic costume. President Ruthven will preside at the Convoca- tion and Professor Charles Scott Berry, of the Ohio State University, will give the address. The Engineering Caps and Gowns have been made available through the Engineering Council., The charges will consist of a $1.00 rental fee and a $2.00 deposit. Certificates will be sold in the Lobby of the East En- gineering Building from 10 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to 3 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, May 8 and 9, of next week. Fittings will be made from 2 to 5 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, May 15th and 16th, at the Michigan League. Certificates must be purchased and fittings must be made on the above dates. Certificates will be sold only to those men who have paid their class dues. Literary Commencement Announce-. ments will be on sale in Angell Hall Lobby at the following times: Saturday, May 6, 9 to 12 a.m. Monday, May 8, 9 to 12 a.m. 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, 9 to 12 a.m. 1 to 4 p.m. All seniors are strongly urged to get in their orders before the dead- line, Tuesday, May 9. Girls' Cooperative house: All girls day, May 9 at 3 p.m. in the East Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Mr. Dressel's field of specialization is Mathematics. The title of his thesis is "A Study of Statistical Seminvari- ants and their Estimates with Par- ticular emphasis on their Relation to Algebraic Seminvariants." Professor P. S. Dwyer, as chairman of the com- mittee, will conduct the examination. By direction of the Executive Board, the chairman has the privilege of inviting members of the faculty and advanced doctoral candidates to at- tend the examination and to grant permission to others who might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum. Reading Examinations In French: Candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in the departments listed below who wish to satisfy the requirement of a reading knowledge during the cur- rent academic year, 1938-39, are in- formed that examinations will be offered in Room 108, Romance Lan- guauges Building, from 2 to 5, on Saturday, May 20, and Aug. 12. It will be necessary to register at the office of the Department of Romance Languages (112 R.L.) at least one week in advance. Lists of books recommended by the various depart- ments are obtainable at this office. It is desirable that candidates for the doctorate prepare to satisfy this requirement atsthe earliest possible date. A brief statement of the na- ture of the requirement, which will be found helpful, mayebe obtained at the office of the Department, and further inquires may be addressed to Mr. L. F. Dow (100 R.L., Wednes- days and Saturdays at 10 and by appointment). This announcement applies only to candidates in the following depart- ments: Ancient and Modern Lan- guages and Literatures, History, Ec- onomics, Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Education, Speech, Jour- nalism, Fine Arts, Business Adinin- istration. Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122 Chemistry Build- ing at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10. Mr. William M. Spurgeon will speak on "Growth of Crystals." Concerts May Festival Concerts: The 46th Annual May Festival will be held in Hill Auditorium, May 10, 11, 12 and 13. The Philadelphia Orchestra will participate in all six concerts. The general programs are as follows: First Concert: Wednesday, May 10, 8:30. Gladys Swarthout, soprano, so- loist. Eugene Ormandy, Conductor. Second Concert: Thursday, May 11, 8:30. Selma Amansky, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; Rudolf Serkin, pi- anist, soloists; Palmer Christian, or- ganist; Earl V. Moore, Harl McDon- ald and Eugene Ormandy, Conduc- tors. Third Concert: Friday, May 12, 2:30. Ezio Pinza, bass, soloist; Young Peoples' Festival Chorus; Eugene Or- mandy and Juva Higbee, conductors. Fourth Concert: Friday, May 12, 8:30.. Marian Anderson, contralto, soloist; Men's Chorus; Eugene Or- mandy, Conductor. Fifth Concert: Saturday, May 13, 2:30. Georges Enesco, violinist, so- loist; Saul Caston and Georges Enes- co. Conductors. Sixth Concert: Saturday, May 13, 8:30. Verdi's "Otello." Helen Jep- son, Elizabeth Wysor, Giovanni Mar- tinelli, Giuseppe Cavadore, Arthur Hackett, Richard Bonelli, and Nor- man Cordon, soloists. Palmer Chris- tian, organist; the University Choral Union; Earl V. Moore, Conductor. Concerts will begin on time, and doors will be closed during numbers. Holders of season tickets are request- ed to present for admission only the coupon for each respective concert. 4 4 4 d Exhibitions Exhibition, College of Architecture: An exhibition of pottery and other work in ceramics by leading Michi- gan artists in that field is being shown in the ground floor cases, Architectural Building, through May 13. Open daily, 9 to 5, except Sun- day. The public is invited. Lectures Schuyler Marshall, publisher of the Clinton County Republican, will give the ninth lecture in the Journalism Supplementary Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 10, at 3 p.m. 'in Room E, Haven Hall. Mr. Marshall's subject will be "The Future of the Weekly Press." The public is invited. Deutscherr Vercin: The last in the series of lectures sponsored by the Deutscher Vercin wil Tbe given by Dr. Otto G. Graf of the German Depart- ment on Tuesday evening, May 9, at 8:15 in the Michigan League. The subject of Dr. Graf's lecture will be "Musikalische Reisc durch Deutsch-