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The editorials published in The Michigan
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jobs For
NYA Students
I T'S THE PEOPLE'S fault when
democracy doesn't democ, a politi-
cal scientist told his class recently. Even admit-
ting that obstacles are deliberately put in the
way of popular rule by those special interests
that would lose by an extension of democracy
to all phases of our national life, there is still
a great measure of truth in the professor's
statement.
The last few depression and recession years
have seen an encouraging increase in popular
interest in matters of government, but too many
people still take their politics as an amusing side
show-they fail to realize that in addition to an
occasional Gallup poll the people must let legis-
lators know what they want by direct means.
A plea for this type of real democracy was
voiced here Thursday night when two officials
of the National Youth Administration urged
NYA students and others to inform Congress-
men and Senators how important NYA is. These
men, the state administrator and the University
NYA director, said that, although the cut in
the Emergency Relief Bill will not immediately
affect NYA allotments at this University, stu-
dent apathy would be largely to blame for future
cuts in the federal aid to high school and col-
lege students.
As a matter of fact the NYA budget for the
University of Michigan has been cut consider-
aly in the past although the number of appli-
cants has doubled.
The importance of the federal aid program
to the 1,100 Michigan students who have NYA
Jobs. to the campus and the country as a whole
cannot be underestimated. Thousands of Ameri-
can students would find it difficult, and in many
cases impossible, to attend colleges and universi-
ties without NYA funds. The imlications are
clear: higher education in the United States
without NYA assistance would become more than
it is at present a luxury for sons and daughters
of wealthy and upper middle class families. The
economic bar would be pushed still higher and
upper income bracket families would have a
monopoly on college training.
.The proponents of democracy long ago suc-
ceded in making elementary school education the
prOperty of all, regardless of economic and
social status. High schools are now public and
t4ose students who do not have to drop out in
order to augment an inadequate family income
can complete high school. But the cost of at-
tending a state or private university precludes
thousands of young men and women. Those of
Woderate means who manage to enroll in uni-
versitIes often need the steady, though modest,
income from an NYA job.
.This brings us right back to the question of
democracy democing. First, if the very founda-
tions of democracy are not to be undermined,
young people from all classes must have access
t istitutions of higher learring. And second,
if. democratic government is to be representative
and responsive to the wishes and needs of the
American people, the men who make our laws
must be fully aware of the necessity for govern-
ment's assuming its responsibility in the educa-
tion of its citizens.
,The answer is simple. So simple that it is dis-
couraging that NYA officials should have to
Architect Clarifies Stand
To the Editor:
The writer of the letter to the Daily signed
"Architecture Students" wishes to explain his
position in view of a recent communication by
the chairman of the Architectural Council. The
letter was written by the undersigned at the re-
quest of members of the College of Architecture,
students in the class concerned, and represents
their viewpoint and not necesarily that of the
author alone. The letter was read and revised byb
members of the class before being submitted for
publication.
The writer regrets with the Architectural
Council that the matter was not taken directly
to the council instead of being handled as it was,
but apparently the students concerned, like
many others in the College, have not realized that
the council is empowered to act for them in
such matters, and, lacking this understanding,
took the best means they knew of presenting
their viewpoint. No attempt was made to infer
that the change in policy was not given due con-
sideration, or that the motives for the change
were vague; the students merely wished to point
out that, as the chairman of the council agrees,
the merits of the change do seem debatable.
The Architectural Council is to be congratu-
lated on its stand in the matter, and the writer
joins the student body in wishing the council
and the faculty success in ironing out whatever
difficulties are there. However, the use of the
words "outside criticism" and "not constructive"
are, we believe, unfortunate, inasmuch as the
letter attempted to make clear that the criticism
was neither personal, destructive, or disgruntled,
and represented not the viewpoint of the under-
signed alone, but of the students at whose re-
quest, and for whom, it was written.
-Richard V. Trusdell, Jr.
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IsSpa in Another
Zechoslovakic a ?
From the New York Herald Tribune
IN SEPTEMBER, the shamefaced democracies
laid the Czecho-Slovaks upon the altar of
totalitarian ambition and there peremptorily
commanded them to commit suicide. Now, in
January, the Spanish Republic, deserted byevery,
liberal Power to which it could appeal, finds the
totalitarian knife against its throat, while the
democratic statesmen, in varying attitudes of
futility or indifference, avert their eyes from what
promises to be a painful-anduntidily bloody-
spectacle.
With a pink carnation in his buttonhole, Mr.
Chamberlain came home from the Rome con-
ference last month to the tepid cheers of a baffled
crowd; a few hours earlier, Franco's columns
were pouring down the abandoned streets of
Tarragona, long since pouded systematically to
bits by Italian aviation, to which it could make
no reply, on their way to what looks like final
victory; while in the same afternoon, the Italian
Foreign Office was making it quite clear that
no one would be permitted to interfere with the
totalitarian kill.
Now that it is presumably too late, the French
are making motions, but they are only motions.
The bastion at one end of Europe was given
away; what might have been an equally power-
ful bastion at the other is being allowed to go
by default.
The war may not yet be over. The Republic has
stemmed seemingly certain defeat too often in
the past; Barcelona may yet repeat the resistance
of Madrid, while an army and a people which
can sustain two and a half years of war against
superior force and generalship, without a single
offensive victory to feed their fortitude, are not
beaten until they are destroyed.
But the sands, which were low at Madrid, are
much lower now; the agony may be indefinitely
'Prolonged, but surely it is to look for miracles
to look for any other than the indicated end
Into the merits of Spain's domestic struggle
it is as idle to examine at this late datehas it
woud be to argue the exact extent of Czech tyr-
anny over the Sudetens or of Henlein's treason
to Czecho-Slovakia. The Spanish struggle has
stirred an astonishing bitterness of partisanship
in this country, in which judgment has been all
but suspended.
There is no way to weight the propagandist
mendacities of one side against those of the
other; there is no way in which to measure the
fault of a weak civil government against the
fault of a rebelling officer corps; there is no way
to assess the burning of churches or assassina
tion of priests against the slaughter ,of workers
or ruthless bombing of open towns.
How, in the service of freedom, prosperity and
humanity, the Spaniards themselves might best
have met the old, deep-seated diseases of their
own society is an issue over which philosophers
may dispute. But how, on the nervous stage of
European politics, the Spanish problem was
actually met is another matter.
It was met by an active Nazi-Fascist interven-
tion to promote a totalitarian General, aiming
to establish a corporative state, to power over
a nation in which democracy was at least strug-
gling to establish itself. This intervention from
Germany and Italy was matched by an inter-
vention from Communist Russia, followed in
tui'n by the fluttering appearance of the two
great Western . European democracies bearing
"non-intervention" in their hands.
Incapable of making up their minds between
the risk of Communist influence in Spain and
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(Editor's Note: Back-room politics took on a bit of
personal dramatics at the Republican nominating
convention in Flint this week, when Ralph Heik-
kinen, Micigan's Al-American football player,
opposed his former coach, Harry Kipke. Kipke filally
snagged the nomination for the regency, but not
until Heik had asserted his militant advocacy of a
rival candidate. Stanley Mitchell Swinton, the
Daily's busybee political investigator, watched the
drama unfold and has agreed to permit invalid Terry
another few days to rout those flu germs by relating
the inside story of the convention.-S.T.)
THE unpublicized high-spot of a Republican
convention whose destiny was decided in
smoky conference rooms, far from fiery oratory,
multi-colored signs and official formality was
the moment Wednesday when Michigan's All-
American guard and long-time acquaintance of
Harry Kipke walked into his former coach's
hotel room to explain his whole-hearted fight
against Kip and the Barnard-McKay-McKeigh-
an machine.
False rumors originating from an undiscovered
source had been rife in the Hotel Durant, con-
vention headquarters, concerning a charge Heik-
kinen had supposedly made against Kip. The
rumor, utterly untrue, reached the ears of Kipke
supporters. They contacted Heik.
What happened in the conference which fol-
lowed is unknown. Reliable reports had it that
Heikkinen told his former mentor that he was
opposing him, failed to see his" qualifications
and would continue to lack an understanding of
just what these qualifications were no 'matter
what the convention did insofar as the nomina-
tion was concerned.
Kipke, the report runs, told Heikkinen that
he felt hurt personally because a student com-
mittee headed by the All-American had ardent-
ly opposed him. They parted on friendly terms
with the understanding that no out-of-place
statements had been made or would be made,
Their personal relationship remained amicable.
Then Heik went back to work for Connable.
During the night the dozens of conferences,
secret meetings, attempts to overthrow the group
which indisputably held the convention in the
palm of' its hand-all the corollaries ,of the
story-book political conclave took place. Cigar
smoke filled the halls and rooms; bottled good
feeling was available in every room, But under
it all was an undercurrent of' excitement. Would
a revolt against the machine break out on the
floor? The wise Lansing political observers said
"NO." Their sentiment was upheld when an at-
tempt to organize anti-Barnard feeling proved
abortive.
But the pro-Kipke delegates still feared what
Heikkinen might say. Attempts to get Alfred
Connable to withdraw proved futile when the
young banker decided to buck the machine and
fight things out to the end despite the certainty
of defeat. Heik was to make Connable's nominat-
ing speech. What would he say?
Thursday noon when the bombastic orations
and other ureliminaries had finally ended, a
Wayne County delegate nominated Kipke. Then
Clark McKenzie, Kalamazoo leader, spoke for
Connable. In the tense moment which followed
Ralph Heikkinen, short, stocky, shoulders erect,
was recognized and walked out up to the micro-
phone. Four thousand eyes were upon him. Ed-
ward Barnard, dictator of Wayne's 407 votes,
looked anxiously toward the presiding officer.
MacKay, Kent County leaer, had just finished
urging a Connable withdrawal, He, too, was
worried.
One of the loudest, unplanned rounds of ap-
plause of the day greeted Heik. Then he began
to speak. Once he stumbled over a word but,
gaining confidence, he went on. Never did he
mention Kipke. Declaring that in' his opinion
the student body and alumni wished Coniable's
election, he upheld the Ann Arbor man. His talk
was brief
TODAY in
WASHINGTON
-by David Lawree-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-Apropos
of a recent comment that members
of Congress are still debating among
themselves what the elections of
1938 meant, the suggestion is being
made in various quarters that the
best way to find out what they meant
s to examine the so-called tradition
that "the party which wins the
House of Representatives in midterm
elections wins the presidential elec-
tion two years later.
The important inference that can
be drawn from the figure is that
Congress has been deeply impressed
by the tradition, and there is a pecul-
iar panicky condition among the
Democrats in Congress that the Re-
publicans may win in 1940. Try as
they may to overcome this apprehen-
sion, the Democrats are unquestion-
ably fearful of the outcome in 1940.
What makes matters worse from
the Democrats' standpoint is that,
for the first time in six years, they
are up against a real minority. This,
is by no means a reflection on the
quality of the minority in other years.
But it is a fact that the Republicans,,
with their 169 votes in the House, can
exercise greater influence than they'
have at any time within the last
six years with a relatively small
number.rThe same thing is true in the
Senate, where the Republican minor-
ity counts for more than it did be-,
fore.,
Democrats Uneasy
There is no denying, moreover, thatr
the Democrats are uneasy about thea
way Representative Joseph Martin,,
Republican leader in the House, has
organized the minority members. He
seems to have persuaded them that
their main chance for victory lies in
cohesion and following a leader. In
most every vote this session, the Re-
publicans have stuck together, pre-
senti'ng a solid bloc, and this means
something because the majority will
every now and then swing over
enough votes from its own ranks to
give the minority an actual control
of the situation on particular meas-
ures.
The so-called conservative Demo-
crats are pointing to the series of
appointments made by the President
as a sign he does not mean to vary
his point of view toward the middle-
of-the-roaders in the party and that
he will insist upon maintaining the
same line of policy as he has the last
six years.
The President, on the other hand; is
anxious not to lose the "objectives"
of the New Deal by making surren-
der of any important principle. To
him, the fight for liberalism admits
of no compromise, even though it
will probably be conceded at the
executive end of the avenue that a
re-examination of methods of devel-
aping the legislative program would
be constructively helpful.
Majority Can Hold Power
To understand the importance of
this, the effectiveness of a minority
is not always measured by numbers,
but by the influence exerted upon the
majority, where there is usually a
notable awareness of just what are
the underlying trends that are giving
political sustenance to the minority
in winning elections for them.
This is the main reason why there
is dissension at the moment in the
Democratic party. It might better be
called a "wavering" as between points
of view. There are Democrats, for
instance, who felt sympathetic right
along for the New Deal objectives,
but were critical of the methods.
rhese Democrats are wondering just
now whether these objectives can be
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Boardman Robinson, shown under
the auspices of the Ann Arbor Art
Association. North and South Gal-
leries of Alumni Memorial Hall; daily
from 2 to 5 p.m.; Feb. 15 through
March 1.
Lectures
Capt. C.W.R. Knight. Motion Pic-
ture Lecture "The Leopard of the
Air," Tuesday, Feb. 28, 8:15 p.m.,
Hill Auditorium. A pictorial record
of the National Geographic African
Expedition with Capt. Knight's
crowned hawk eagle as a featured
attraction. Tickets at Wahr's. Ora-
torical Association Lecture Course.
Naval Architecture and Marine En-
gineering: Mr. P. W. Clark, Senior
Naval Architect with the U.S. Public
Health Service at Washington, D.C.,
will give two lectures on the Rat-
proofing of Ships.
The first lecture will be given at
4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28; and
the second on Wednesday, March 1 at
7:30 p.m. Both lectures will be given
in Room 348 West Engineering Bldg.
The public is invited.
Events Today
EoThe Angell Hall Observatory will be
open to the public from 7:30 to 10
this evening. The moon and some
stars will be shown through the tele-
scope. Children must be accom-
panied by adults.
Choir: The University Choir, which
has been rehearsing on Friday eve-
ning at Lane Hall, will meet on Sat-
urday evening at 7 o'clock here-
after. Following the rehearsal, mem-
bers of the choir and other interested
persons are invited to a recorded con-
cert of Gregorian Chants and reli-
gious music by Bach and Palestrina.
Open House, tonight, 8 p.m. Open
House all evening at Lane Hall for
faculty and students. Informal con-
versation, recreation and music.
Coming Events
German Table for Faculty Members:
The regular luncheon meeting will be
held Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the
Founders' Room of the Michigan
Union. All faculty members interest-
ed in speaking German are cordially
invited. There will be a brief infor-
mal talk by Prof. Walter A. Reichart
on, "Washington Irvings deutsche
Beziehungen."
International Center:
1. As President Dodge has had to
cancel his plans for remaining over
at the Center to speak on our Sunday
evening program, a very attractive
musical program will be presented at
7 o'clock following the usual supper.
2. The music hour, planned for 8
o'clock Monday night following the
movie, will this week be postponed to
Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. This will
avoid an unforseen conflict with the
Choral Union Concert. An unusually
beautiful program of classical records
will be played on our Victrola.
3. President Dodge will broadcast
over WJR at 5:45 today, Saturday. He
will speak on "American Education
in the Near East."
Eastern Engineering Trip. All those
planning on 'going on the Eastern
engineering trip April 9-16 must make
a five dollar deposit with Miss BaD-
'asch in Room 275 West Engineering
Bldg., by Monday, Feb. 27. If the
trip has to be called off due to an
insufficient number signed up the
money will of course be refunded.
Tau Beta Pi: ,Important dinner
meetingTuesday, Feb. 28, at 6:15 in
the Union. All members should be
present, even if unable to remain af-
tee' the dinner.
Graduate Student Council; All
members of the Graduate Student
Council are urged to be present at
the regular meeting in the Rackham
Building on Monday evening, Feb. 27,
at 7 o'clock.
A testimonial dinner in honor of
Dr. Bernard Heller will be held at
the Michigan Union at 6 p.m. on
March 7. Reservations may be made
by calling or writing the Hillel Foun-
dation office.
The University of Michigan Glider
Club will hold a meeting Monday,
Feb. 27, in Room 348 West Engineer-
ing Building. Members and all those
interested are invited to attend,
i.O.T.C. Nominating petitions for
freshman and sophomore members of
Military Ball Committee (two from
each class to be elected) must be
filed at ROTC Hqrs. not later than
12 noon Saturday, March 4. Peti-
tioner must have University Eligibili-
ty Card and his petition must bear
the signatures of twenty '(20) of his
ROTC classmates in good standing.
Women students and men guests of
women students are invited.
Christian Student Prayer Group.
Mr. Harold J DeVries, graduate of
Moody Bible Institute, will be present
at the regular meeting and will lead
a brief Bible study period. Note that
the time and place has been changed
to the Fireplace Room, Lane Hall and
4 p.m., Sunday. All students are in-
vited to attend, especially those who
were guests at the informal program
last Wednesday evening.
The Graduate Outing Club cordially
invites all graduate students .to open
house in the club room at 8 p.m. on
Saturday evening, Feb. 25. , There
will be dancing and games, and re-
freshments will be served. The club
room is in the northwest portion of
the Rackham Building on the base-
ment floor.
Sunday, Feb. 26, the club will leave
the northwest entrance of the Rack-
ham Building promptly at 3:15 p m.
for tobogganing, skating, and hiking
at Saline. The group will return to
the club room before 7:00 for refresh-
ments. Graduate students are cor-
dially invited. Transportation will
be provided.
JGP: All women wishing to partici-
pate in JGP must have their eligibil-
ity slips signed by Wednesday, March
1 or they will be automatically
dropped from cash or comittee. Pattie
Haislip will be in the League Under-
graduate Offices from 4:30 to 5:30
p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday.
Hillel Oratory Contest: Tomorrow,
Sunday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Hillel
Foundation the local preliminaries
of the National Hillel Oratory Con-
test will be held. This will take the
place of the customary Sunday eve-
ning forum. This contest is known
as the Nathan Metzger contest locally,
taking its name from the prize of $10
from the Nathan Metzger fund. The
winner of this contest will be sent
to Chicago to compete in the Na-
tional Contest to be held there on
April 30. The speeches will be all 10
minutes in length and on subjects of
general Jewish interest. The speak-
ers will be: Betty Steinhart, Norman
T. Kiell, Martin B. Dworkis, Harold
Ossepow, Ted Liebovitz, and Samuel
B. Grant. The judges will be Mrs.
William Haber, Kenneth Morgan, and
Dr. Edward Blakeman. All are in-
vited.
Churches
Disciples of Christ:
10:45 a.m., morning worship, Rev.
Frederick Cowin, minister.
5:30 p.m., Social hour and tea.
6:30 p.m., Mr. Kenneth Morgan Will
lead a discussion on Courtship and
answer questions submitted by mem-
bers of the Guild. This is the second
discussion in a seres on Courtship,
Marriage and Home-building. All
students are welcome.
First Baptist Church, Church School
9:30 a.m. The morning worship is
at 10:45 at which time Dr. John Ma-
son Wells will speak on the subject,
"Some Reasons for Faith in God."
Roger Williams Guild, Sunday,- 0,
p.m. "Are Our Civil Rights in Peril?"
This subject will be discussed byMr.
H. L. Pickerill, director of student
work at the Church of Christ, Dis-
ciples. Opportunity for questions and
disagreement will follow. The us-
ual friendship hour at the close.
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.
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service
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16, 17,
Church of Christ, Seientist,
Division St., Sunday morning
at 10:30. Subject: "Christ
Golden text: Colossians 3:
Sunday School at 11:45.
First Presbyterian Church, 1432
Washtcnaw Ave. 10:45 a.m., Morn-
ing worship service. "Can A Man
Rob God?" is the subject upon which
Dr. W. P. Lemon will preach.
6 p.m., The Westminster Guild,
student group, supper and fellowship
hour. At the meeting which .wili
follow the group will divide into sec-
tion: to con-ider the following topics:
Personality Adjustment; Group Wor-
slhp; Comlmunity Responsibility; Ra-
cial Relations, and The Evolution of
Religion.
8 p.m., The Sunday Evening Club
will meet in the Lewis Parlor.
Stalker hall. 9:45 a,.m. Student
Class. Dr. E'. W, Blakeman will'lead
tie discussion on "The Christian
Emphasis of John." 6 p.m. Wesleyan
Guild meeting at the church, This
will be the first meeting in a series
of discussion groups under the theme:
"The Church in. Conflict Areas."
These groups will be on the subjects
of: "Cooperatives," "Peace," "Labor,"
and "The Church and the Student."
Fellowship hour and supper follow-
ing the meeting.
SI, Andrew's Episcopal Church, Smi-
day: 8 a.m. Holy Comnunion; 9 aim.