THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1939 -- "iw THE MICHIGAN DAILY IEI - R 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 Oniversity year and Summi c 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. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publisbers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON ' Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1938-39 Editorial Staff A Dose Of Fascist Medicine .. . A T LAST the United States has decid- ed that the best cure for fascist expansion in South America is a heaping spoon- ful of the, fascists' own medicine. Germany has long realized that the way to a nation's heart is through its pocketbook. And that the second best way is through government heads who eagerly lap up any flattery tossed them by greater nations. Hitler used tactic number two last week in inviting Gen. Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian Chief of Staff, to visit Berlin where, among other honors, he would be allowed to re- view a crack regiment of the Fuhrer's Nazi troops. But, displaying diplomatic technique, incredible for a United States official, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles immediately parried by sending Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, soon to become United States Army Chief of Staff, to entice General Monteiro to return with him aboard the cruiser Nashville for a visit to the United States. Undoubtedly taken aback by so much atten- tion, the Brazilian general confessed his great desire to visit the States and added that he had never expected to be summoned by the United States Chief of Staff in person and transported on a United States battleship. It's the old game of two rival merchants trying to pull a poor cus- tomer into their respective stores, but Merchant Hitler hasn't a chance unless he uses a black- jack. In reaching Hitler's heart through the pocket- book the United States once again pours fascist castor oil down Hitler's throat. Both the United States and Germany exchange manufactured goods for Brazilian raw materials, but the United States can encourage trade with something Ger- many does not have-good, solid gold. In 1937, after cutting tariffs on Brazilian raw materials, the United States engineered a transaction that placed $60,000,000 worth of United States gold in Brazilian banks. This year a $50,000,000 loan hasm been made through the Export-Import Bank and a $20,000,000 short-term credit has been given. The use of gold as an incentive to trade leaves Germany standing out on the back porch as far as Brazilian trade is concerned. The march of trade competition goes on, both democrats and fascists knowing the inseparabil- ity of economic and political power. To the United States this competition is the peaceful enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine. To the fascists it is a peaceful battle for profitable colonies. Only by keeping a vigilant eye open and a big bottle of bitter fascist medicine handy can the United States make the Western Hemisphere safe for democracy-our democracy. --Enmle Gele THEFATREr 1 Ogi V J/ feemr lo Me Heywood Broun STAMFORD, Conn., May 29.-It'has long been my notion that when Nature puts on a smiling face it should be easy for all of us to snap into the same disposition. The theory advanced by some astronomer that wars and threats of wars are caused chiefly by sun spots seems to me a shade too dogmatic. I have small knowledge of the nature of sun spots or their effect upon our existence, save for the fact that they sometimes make it difficult Managing Editor City Editor Editorial Director Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor . Women's Editor Business Staff . Carl Petersen Stan M. Swinton. Elliott Maraniss . Jack Canavan Dennis Flanagan Morton Linder Norman Schorr Ethel Norberg . Mel Fineberg . Ann Vicary Paul R. Park Ganson Taggart Zenovia Skoratko Jane Mowers . Harriet Levy Business Manager Credits Manager . . Women's Business 'Manager Women's Advertising Manager. Publication Manager . . . . NIGHT EDITOR: HOWARD A. GOLDMAN The editorials published in The Michigan. Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Washington's Fight For Public Welfare.. .. W HEN political boss Thomas J. Pen- dergast stepped down from the throne of power in Kansas City last week to enter Leavenworth Penitentiary, the Federal Govern- ment had defined its position still more clearly as a crusader against crime and oppression. This governmental paternalism is something new for America. It would not have been possible a decade or so ago, when state governments were still militant about Federal encroachment on "states' rights." The depression, however, high- lighted the weaknesses of state government, forced the states to cling more closely to the financial apron-strings of Washington. With its increasing control over industry, commerce and agriculture, the Federal Govern- ment naturally began to be looked upon by the people as the agent to head them out of the wilderness of insecurity. The National Govern- ment took the attitude that if the states could not provide for the public welfare, then the Government must bridge the gap. The G-men early became Government crusad- ers. They were necessitated by the growth of crime from a local snatch-and-hide affair to a national business. The popular idolization they gained for tracking down "public enemies" stifled any objections the states raised against Federal incursions of power. Another big step was taken when the Govern- ment shipped Chicago's czar, Al Capone, off to Alcatraz. Chicago couldn't do it; Illinois couldn't do it; Washington succeeded. Capone was brought to earth by a new weapon of the Government-the income tax law. This is a fool-proof gadget that snares public privateers- men going or coming. If the crook reports all his income, the Government has a chance to con- vict him of racketeering; if he does not report his illegally obtained funds, he is, like Capone and Pendergast, sued for tax dodging. And what is the NLRB but a Government in- strument to bolster labor's resistance against capital? Believing that labor is the underdog of our economic system, Federal leaders have added their strength to make the struggle more equal. A concrete example was the Department of Jus- tice's attempt last summer to convict Harlan County coal operators for restricting their labor- ers' civil rights-more specifically, their rights to organize. Perhaps the biggest set-back to this growth of power was the Southern opposition to the Federal anti-lynching law. The measure had an excellent purpose; Northerners refused to see how South- erners could apologize their fight against it. But philanthropic or not, the law would have carried the Federal Government's powers into the states' backyards. Filibustering Southern Senators read recipes on home cooking to the Legislature until the measure was abandoned.-i For every defeat, however, the Federal Gov- ernment has won a score of victories. It has be- come the champion of the underdog, of humani- tarianism, of the oppressed and crime-ridden. The new role has not been assumed; it has largely been accepted as a necessity. Circumstances have caused us to embark willy-nilly on an era of benevolent centralization. -ervie Haufler Don't change horses in the middle of the By NORnAN KIELL O! Welcome Pegasus! THE WHITE STEED, by Paul Vincent Car- roll. Directed by Agnes Morgan; settings by Emiline Clark Roche. The third presenta- tion of the Ann Arbor Dramatic Season. At the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Canon Matt Lavelle........Whitford Kane Rosieanne ................ Ethel Morrison Father Shaugnessy .......... Philip Tonge Phelim Fintry ............. John Carmody Nora Fintry ................ Joanna Roos Patrick Hearty .............. Edgar Kent - Sarah Hearty ................ Mary Morris Bridgid Brodigan............Donna Earl Denis Dillon ................ Wesley Addy Inspector Toomey ...... Staats Coatsworth Meg Magee .............. Hathaway Kale Michael Shivers ............ Clancy Cooper -At long last, The Ann Arbor Dramatic Season is offering this week a play which we can recom- niend with full heart and soul, Paul Vincent Carroll's prize-winning "The White Steed," which opened Tuesday night at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. After sitting through two plays that were either badly written or badly produced, or both, "The White Steed" comes to us as welcome as Pegasus came to Bellerophon. It is a tale of the conflict between two men of God in an Irish village that Mr. Carroll is telling, of Father Shaugnessy who has the spirit of the Inquisition in him, and of paralytic Canon Lavelle who loves his God and his parishioners according to the spirit and not the letter. Mr. Carroll has pitted these two characters together superbly. Father Shaugnessy has taken over the duties of the crippled old canon in this seacoast town with the zeal of a clerical fascist, turning the village topsy-turvy with his fanatical moralism. He is a priest as cruel as Nero, a zealot who can not rest until his mathematical exacti- tudes are substituted for the spiritual. He or- ganizes a vigilante committee which tries to take' over the civil as well as the spiritual authority of the village. The crochety canon, age-wise in the service of God and his flock, with the taste of the earth and human beings and good food ever with him, warns the Father not to become a clerical hound' But Father Shaugnessy almost succeeds in his machinations and almost causes blood to be shed until the old man rises from his wheel-chair and, in his vernacular, tells the intolerant Fathe where the blankety-blank to get off at, reassert- ing the benevolent authority of a shepherd who knows and truly loves his flock. And Mr. Carroll knows the people he is writing about and he gives them juicy things to say. His characters are full-bodied and full-born, uttering words that come direct from the heart and that sing with the pureness and the poetry that comes from an Irishman who has lived with and loved his people. He writes racily. humnr- to get Charlie McCarthy as clear as he should be. But there appears to be much testimony in sup- port of the hypothesis that humankind is meaner than usual in bleak or humid weather. The breakdown in the moral fiber of the missionary in "Rain" I always attributed to the heavy pre- cipitation rather than to the shallow allure of the character directly identified as the cause of his fall. Tempers grow shorter as the days move in the same direction, and groups snowed in get to snarling at each other. After every Polar expedition north or south the brave explorers come home not speaking to each other. Men, with a few shining exceptions, are not rejuvenated by any long stay on the ice but come back to civilization as forbidding and truculent as cold-storage eggs. But concerning yesterday there could be no complaint along this side road. A brisk breeze tempered the friendly sun. The pond was gay with ripples; flowers, the names of which escape me, were sticking their heads up all along the lanes and lawns. And we had three Young girls of high-school age as weekend guests. "It will be a pleasure," I thought, "to see these youngsters who have been immersed all week in their studies get out under the blue sky and frisk like lambs." I assumed that they would want to go over and feed the chickens or watch the ducks who swim constantly in flo- tilla. They could play tennis, or swim or weed the garden. But they did not care to do any of these things. No sooner were they greeted with the tang of country air than all three of then\ decided that they wanted to go to the movies. It seems there is a rival of a film called "Hot Lips' at one of the tenth-run houses in a neighborhood township. After several hours the young girls got back and the sun was still glorious, and so they came indoors to listen to the radio. As a parent I am on the easy-going side, and so I did not suggest to my daughter that she and her friends oight to have sense enough to go out in the rare atmos- phere. And presently I was overjoyed to find all three in country clothes, and seated on a mossy bank intent upon literature. These old eyes are not what they used to be at a hundred paces. I had no idea whether the little dears were brush- ing up on their homework or reading Dickens, Scott, Thackeray or some other improving author for the sheer fun of it. And so quietly, galumph! galumph! I stole up on them. "And what are you reading aloud to your dear little friends?" I asked the eldest girl, who was acting as interlocutor. She blushed prettily, and said, "It's a motion picture magazine." That should have been enough to warn me, but like any bullheaded inquiring reporter I persisted and said, "And may I ask the nature of the article or essay which holds your rapt attention?" "The thing I'm readin now, sir," she said, "is called, 'Has Shearer Grown Afraid of Love?' I've just finished, 'Hilarious Hollywood, or Fun at Parties'." There ought to be a law. Those Reticent British American reporters, used to wideopen publicity methods, have sometimes complained of the reticence of other nations, and particularly of the British. There has been a lot of this talk in Washington lately. Well, there's another side to this reticence, as was shown in a little Associated Press dispatch from London about the motor accident involving Queen Mary. The owner of the lorry which struck the royal car "refused to disclose the driver's name to newspaper men," and the man came into the news only when he appeared with a bouquet of flowers at the Queen's residence. In times of key-hole journalism, of "bus-driv- er's-own-story" exhibitionism, isn't it refreshing to find a driver, an employer, and a press which respects the individual's right to privacy, to per- sonal dignity, and to a useful future career? -Christian Science Monitor crackling humor. Mr. Kane revelled in the role and the audience enjoyed it with him. Philip Tonge, as the clerical dictator, was not upto Mr. Kane's winning performance. There were times when it was difficult to hear Mr. Tonge. How- ever, in an actor-proof part, he plays Father Shaugnessy with a clear-cut interpretation, though a bit weakly. The other people Mr. Carroll brings into the conflict kick up a grand row for him. Nora is a village girl who rebels against the tyranny of the priest; she has a hot temper and a bitter tongue and she speaks up when she finds her freedom shackled. Denis Dillon, the village schoolmaster, is a sniveling coward who needs some of Nora's courage and eventually asserts it when Father Shaugnessy tries to cow him. Joanna Roos as the rebellious firebrand drunk with dreams and Wesley Addy as the contemptible schoolmaster drunk with whiskey gave body and substance to their roles. Ethel Morrison, as the canon's house- keeper, was utterly satisfactory as was John Carmody's portrayal of Nora's father who knows the futility of arguing with the genre Shomnev Staats Coatsworth. who ha n- AS OTMRS Vandenberg Is Willing Senator Vandenberg's announce- ment that he is a receptive candidate for his party's Presidential nomina- tion in 1940 is something more than the routine statement which is often made on such occasions. It is particu- larly interesting for two reasons: for its emphasis, at this time, on what Mr. Vandenberg believes to be the desirability of electing "a pre-pledged, one-term President" and for its well- taken position that the Republican party ought first to decide what it really stands for, and then nominate a candidate to fit that choice. As Mr. Vandenberg's supporters see it, the argument to be made in be- half of the "pre-pledged, one-term" candidate is shaped by the exigencies of the present situation. The next President, even in the event of Mr. Roosevelt's renomination and reelec- tion, will have to undertake an enor- mous job of financial retrenchment in Washington, in order to bring the national budget into balance at long last. The next President, if he is a Republican, will have to work with a Senate which seems certain to re- main Democratic at least during his first two years in office. On both these grounds it can be argued that a "one-term" Republican President would have a better chance of success than a Republican President whose position on this point remained in doubt; that he could stand up with great strength against the demands of the insatiable "pressure groups" if he were not seeking reelection and, at the same time, having pledged himself to a single term, find it pos- sible to work more effectively with an adverse majority in the Senate. In any case, it is certainly desir- able for Mr. Vandenberg's party to act on the second part of his advice and to shape, if it can, those "clean- cut, constructive, courageous prin- ciples" whose adoption he believes should precede the choice of a candi- date. One thing is certain. If the next President is a Republican, he will have an unhappy time in office if he is elected on a platform so vaguely drawn, in the supposed interest of political expediency, that it means all things to all men. He will need all the help that he can get from the fact, if it proves to be a fact, that his party is committed to an honest and plain-spoken program. -New York Times Amending Neutrality Secretary Hull's recommendations to Congress in the matter of amend- ing the Neutrality Act constitute a late effort to salvage something of value from a situation which has reached a deadlock in both houses The recommendations which he has made are limited in scope. There is nothing in them which gives expres- sion to the belief inherent in the President's Chicago speech of 1937 and in his message to Congress in January of this year that the time has come when the United States, a a great world Power, must, in its own interest, take a more active part in the preservation of world peace Nevertheless, there is one importan point in Mr. Hull's proposals which could be expected to contribute to thi end, even though it is not adovcated as a measure to curb the aggresso nations. This is the recommendation for the repeal of the automatic em bargo now contained in Section 1 o the Neutrality Act on the export o: arms and munitions in time of war. Mr. Hull favors this repeal on th ground that it is no longer possibl to distinguish successfully betwee exports of arms and muntions an export sof other kinds of goods. "Mod- ern warfare is no longer warfare be tween armed forces only; it is war fare between nations in every phas( of their national life." Lists of con traband include every item useful ir the life of an enemy nation. A coun try at war is no less anxious to keel cotton and oil and copper, and indee every other useful product, fron reaching an enemy nation than it i to keep guns and airplanes fron reaching thatsenemy's armed forces The old distinction between differen categories of exports has disappeare under the conditions of modern war And since a complete embargo on al exports "would obviously be ruinou to our economic life," Mr. Hull there fore believes that we should have "n< general and automatic embargo in flexibly and rigidly imposed on an class or group of exports." His reasoning is sound and hi recommendations should be adopted The practical effect of this adoption in the circumstances which now pre vail, would be to make American arm and munitions available to Britaii and France in time of war, on a cast basis, since these nations would hay command of the high seas. Our in. fluence would thus be thrown agains the outbreak of a general war it Europe, since the assurance of Ameri can supplies for Britain and Franc would tend to create a still greate preponderance of strength on th part of those nations which wish t' keep the peace. -New York Times (Continued from Page 3) meeting of May 1, 1939, which have been distributed by campus mail. 2. Discussion of reports submitted with this call to the meeting. a. Executive Committee, prepared by Professor Joseph R. Hayden. b. University Council, prepared by Professor George R. La Rue. c. Executive Board of the Gradu- ate School, prepared by Professor Floyd E. Bartell. d. Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, to be presented orally by Professor Arthur S. Aiton. e. Deans' Conference, prepared by Dean Edward H. Kraus. 3. New Business. a. Election of five members of the University Council and two members of the Administrative Board. Nom- inating Committee: Professors Rob- ert C. Angell, Chairman, and Neil H. Williams, and Associate Professor James E. Dunlap. b. Recommendation on a Naval R.O.T.C.-Professor Joseph R. Hay- den. c. Recommendations of the Ad- minmistrative Board and of the Con- centration Advisors-Professor Jo- seph R. Hayden. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following United States Civil Service Examina- tions. Last date fo r filing applica- tion will be June 26, 1939. Horizontal Sorting Machine Opera- tor, Salary: $1,260. Associate Household Equipment Specialist, Salary: $3,200. (Bureau of Home Economics, Dept of Agriculture). Assistant Household Equipment Specialist, Salary: $2,600. (Bureau of Home Economics, Dept of Agriculture). Complete announcements are on file at the University Bureau of Ap- pointments and Occupational Infor- mation, 201 Mascn Hall; office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Teachers: I would like to meet al students who are receiving a teaching certificate either in June or August in Room 205 Mason Hall, today, a 4:15 p.m. T. Luther Purdom, Director University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Infor- mation. Life Membership in the Union: Lif memberships in the Union are avail able at the Business Office of th Union to men who have been enrolle in the University for eight semesters. All contestants for Hopwoo awards are requested to call for thei manuscripts at the Hopwood Room on Monday, June 5. The room wil be open from 8 to 12 and from 2 t 5:30. Copies of the judges' comment on individual manuscripts may be ob Stained at the desk. s All students who have competed i the Hopwood contests, includin those in the freshman contest, ar invited to the Grand Rapids Roo t of the League for an informal meet ing with Carl Van Doren at 8:15 pm Friday, June 2. r Senior Literary Commencemen 2 Announcements will be distribute - at Alumni Memorial Hall on Thurs f day, June 1, between the hours of: f and 5. e Education School Seniors: All Edu e cation Seniors who . ordered Com n mencement Announcements a r d asked to call for them on Thursda - from 7 to 4, or on Friday from 9 to 1 - on the first floor of University Hig - School. e Senior Engineers: Commencemen n Announcements will be distributed i - West Engineering Building (abov p arch) on Thursday and Friday, fro d 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Payments must b n completed and receipts presented i s order to secure announcements. n Seniors: Official Senior Clas Commencement Booklets and Fol d Announcements are now on sale a Burr, Patterson and Aud Co., 6( .1 Church Street. s The Student Book Exchange will b o open to receive used textbooks fron all schools on June 7, in the Nort y Lounge of the Union. Students ca set their own prices on the book which will be re-sold at the Boc . Exchange next fall. - Academic Notices is Final doctoral examination of M n Rudolph H. Nichols, Jr., will be he: e on Thursday, June 1, at 2 p.m., i e the West Council Room, Rackha t Building. Mr. Nichols' field of spe n cialization is Physics. The titleo - his thesis is "An Investigation of Au e ditory Fatigue, with Special Refe r ence to Subjective Harmonics." e Prof. F. A. Firestone, as chai o man of the committee, will condu the examination. By direction of th Executive Board, the chairman ha bach's field of specialization is Po- litical Science. The title of his thes- is is "Federal Cooperation with the States under the Commerce Clause. Professor J. S. Reeves, as chair- man of the committee, 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 attend the examination and to grant permission to others who might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum. Final Doctoral Examination of James Raymond Lawson will be held on Thursday, June 1 at 3 p.m. in the East Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Mr. Lawson's field of specialization is Physics. The title of his thesis is "The Infrared Absorption Spectra of a Number of Heavy Tetrahedral Molecules with Substituted Groups and a Study of Hindered Rotation in Methyl Alcohol." Professor H. M. Randall, as chair- man of the committee, 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 attend the examination and to grant permission to others who might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakuni. Registration Material: Colleges of L.S.&A., and Architecture, Schools of Education, Forestry and Music: Summer Session registration ma- terial may be obtained in Room 4 U.H. Please see your adviser and secure all necessary signatres before June 24. Architect classifiers will post a not- ice when they are ready to confer. Robert L. Williams, Assistant Registrar All Students, Colleges of L.S.&A., Architecture; Schools of Education, Forestry and Music: File change of address card in Room 4 U.H. before June 1. Blue prints of records and other information will be sent im- j mediately after examinations to you g at the address given in February un- less change of address is filed. Failure t to receive your blue print because of faulty address will necessitate a charge of $1 for the second copy. R. L. Williams, Assistant Registrar. English II: Final Examination e Schedule, Tuesday, June 6, 2-5 p.m. Bader 6 A.H. e Baum 103 R.L. d Bertram 103 R.L. Cassidy 1020 A.H. d Chang 201 U.H. r Dean 205 M.H. Eisinger2205 M.H. 11 Ford 1209 A.H. o Green 229 A.H. Greenhut 35 A.H. s Haines 302 M.H. Hart 18 A.H. n Helm 16 A.H. g Helmers 35 A.H. e Knode W.Phys.Lect. m Martin 203 U.H. - McCormick 103 R.L. . Ogden 3209 A.H. O'Neill 202 W. Phys. Robertson W.Phys.Lect. t Schroder W.Phys.Lect. d Walker 2054 N.S. Weimer 202 W.Phys. 3 Weisinger W.Phys.Lect. Wells 3231 A.H. Williams 1018 A.H. - English 1: 1- Arthos 215 A.H. e Hathaway E H.H. Ly 2 Botany I, final examination Sat- h urday, June 10, 9-12 a.m. Room As- signment: A-L, Room 25, Angell Hall. M-Z, Room 1025 Angell Hall. in re Zoology I Final Examination: Sat- m urday, June 10, 9-12 a.m. Alpha- e betical group A to L, Room B, Haven n Hall. Alphabetical group M to Z, Room C, Haven Hall. Ss Sociology 51, Final Examination will Id be given Tuesday, June 6, 2-5 p.m. at Students will be divided alphabeti- cally, A through K meeting in 1025 Angell Hall; K through Z in Room e C, Haven Hall. n E.E. 7a, Building Illumination final h examination will be held on Thurs- n day, June 8, from 8 to 12, in Rooms ks 246 and 247 West Engineering Bldg., k the regular lecture room and the room across the corridor from it. Astronomy 32, Section III, Curtis. The final examination will be held in r. Room 35 Angell Hall, 9-12 a.m. Mon- Ld day, June 12. in m Final Examination in Aeronautical e- Engineering: of Aero. 1, General Aeronautics, Mon- 1- day, June 5, from 2-6, in Room 1042 r- East Engineering Building. Aero. 2, Sec. I, Theory of Aviation, r- Tuesday, June 6, from 8-12, in Room ct 2300 East Engineering Building. le Aero. 2, Sec. 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