THE MICHIGAN DAILY i . AN DAILY 'va orSTK OrlIN i S o , U~ and managed by students of the University of under the authority of the Board in Control of Publications. hea every morning except Monday during the y' year and Sunmmer Session. Member of the Associated Press sociated Press is exclusively entitled to the epublication of all news dispatches credited to totherwise credited in this newspaper. All republication of all other matters herein also lat the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as lass mail matter. iptions during regular school year by carrier, r mail. $4.50. -, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38t EPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 120 MADisoN AvE. NEw YORK. N. Y. HICAGO BOSTON - Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors g Editor Robert D. Mitchell 1 Director..... . Albert P. Mayio tor. ..Horace W. Gilmore e Editor Robert I. Fitzhenry e Editor........S. R. Kleiman e Editor . .. Robert Perman e Editor.... . . . William Elvin e Editor . . . . Joseph Freedman e Editor.. . ... Earl Gilman itor . ... .... Joseph Gies s Editor . . . . Dorothea Staebler ditor Bud Benjamin Business Department > Manager . . . Philip W. Buchen [anager . . . Leonard P. Siegelman ing Manager . . William L, Newnan s Business Manager . . Helen Jean Dean s ,Service Manager . . Marian A. Baxter HT EDITOR: NORMAN A. SCHORR editorials published in The Michigan are written by members of the Daily' and represent the views of the writers present moment when a gubernatorial campaign i4 Michigan promises to be an important factor in the national political scene. It has branded the sit-down strikes of 1936-7, which represented Michigan's automobile workers' efforts to secure the constitutional right of collective bargaining,, a right guaranteed in the Wagner Act passed in 1935, as a communist plot. The committee, ac- cording to a Detroit newspaper, is planning to subpoena Governor Murphy, in the midst of a campaign, to testify in Washington that the sit- downs were part of a Moscow plot to hasten the revolution. Not only has the Dies investigation been ex- ploited for political purposes, but it has in effect approached a violation of the treasured civil rights of the American People. The Bill of Rights guaranteeing in essence fieedom of thought and conscience is truly in serious jeopardy when citizens are told that their humanitarian efforts to provide medical aid to the Spanish people are of a subversive character. Minority parties, whose right to exist has long been a cardinal principle of American govern- ment, (and who are pledged to conform to strin- gent regulations) are threatened with extinction. It might be more to the point for the Dies Committee to eschew the purely negative and destructive. Perhaps the Committee could be positive and constructive and tell us what true Americanism is. -S. R. Kleiman Birthday Greetings To The Health Service .. . THE DAILY takes this opportunity to congratulate the Health Service on its twenty-fifth anniversary. A pioneer among col- lege health service units throughout the nation, the Michigan Health Service has led the way in providing student medical care at as low a rate as $15 annually. Its program of preventive medi- cine, exemplified in the thoroughgoing physical examination of entering students, has prevented many a breakdown in later life. Thus Presirent Ruthven's announcement of a new modern Health Service Center with its resulting possibilities of increased medical service is welcome news. A more fitting gift than this proposed $213,000 building would be hard to imagine. Handicapped since birth by a small staff and cramped quar- ters, the Health Service, under the guidance of Dr. Warren E. Forsythe, has managed to trans- cend these handicaps. This service to the, stu- dents of the University, reflected in part by a fall of almost 50% in the student death rate since its inception in 1913, has earned the thanks of students, alumni, and parents everywhere. The free treatment of illness, advice to stu- dents, and inspection of campus eating and hous- ing conditions, p ovided by the Health Service, makes the campus a healthier place than it would otherwise be for 12,000 students, and assures parents at home of their children's welfare. The Daily hopes with President Ruthven that the Health Service's new quarters will enable it to extend its benefits to include yearly physical examination of all students and like privileges for the faculty. -John Canavan USIC To Town.. THE EIGHT University professors who were accused Thursday by the Dies nittee of being unknowing "dupes" of the nunist Party do not need our defense. The es are so preposterous that they answer selves and leave the Dies Committee, alone, ed. The willfull distortion of the report of ies Committee's investigator by one Detroit and the tenor of the replies by those ed of communist leanings, not only here a the Detroit school system, have tended, ver, to obscure the main issue behind this red search by this strange body for the e thing called "un-Americanism." e Dies Committee has splashed about in 'us abandon with the red paint and brush. nany of those who have been smeared, by own protestations, have furthered the pre- tion upon which the committee is acting: membership in the Communist Party, or sympathy with its aims, is un-American, and subversive. No democratic system of nment can deny the right of the people to about through the legal means of the ballot mendment to the constitution any reforms think necessary. The Hamilton Fish com- e that investigated communist propaganda the Communist Party in 1930 and 1931 d out that the Criminal Code of the United and the Imiigration act of Oct. 1918/June afford protection against the overthrow of >vernment by force; the aftermath of the igation, during which time the membership Communist Party was neither incarcerat- deported under these statutes, proved that time that there was nothing thought un- can in the activities of that party. ,t was in 1931. Since that time the tactics he philosophy of the Communist Party been so completely overhauled that any tial observer must admit that it is today ss radical than in 1931. And it has been zed for this in radical circles. In fact, the .unist Party, in opposition to the theory of action and violent revolution, has with- its candidates from local and state elec- n order to aid in the election of progressive :rats and Republicans pledged to clean lment and stronger social legislation. * * * y is the Dies Committee allowing its in- 3tors to publicize otherwise unsubstantiated nsational "discoveries," pinning the scar- mier and sickle of shame, indiscriminat- on numerous persons? Let us look at the Vashington and New York, the Dies Com- tried,. with the aid of eighty-five per cent press, to create the impression in the s mind that the Works Progress Adminis. t, Secretary Ickes, Administrator Hopkins, deral Theatre and the New Deal's amelior- nieasures in general were communistic and ry to true Americanism. The Committee's y-like the drive to defeat the Reorganiza- .11, the condemnation of Mr. Justice Black e howls about boondoggling and balancing tdget-provides means which have been Heywood Broun You might not mind so much if your sister mar-, ried one of them, and two or three asked in after dinner would not for a certainty spoil the party, but taken as a group the dramatic critics of New York are so much suet pudding. It really isn't safe to trust an art to the judgment of a body which every other year goes out and votes a prize to A Maxwell Anderson. This may be the bitterness of an old man who once was privileged to touch the hem of William Winter's mantle and to catch the epigrams of Alexander Woollcott as he delivered them in person. It is true, Your Worship, that I have seen better days, and did not always press my nose against the pane of passing limousines in an effort to find someone to buy my violence. Possibly the fault lies not with the present generation but with the very nature of the craft of criticism. Though you deal him from the top of the deck or the bottom, the critic remains a kibitzer. One need not be a hen to know good eggs from bad, but things enter into the philos- ophy of an'omelet which are never dreamt of by the man who downs it. Just Try It On Him The cry of the critic is that he wants novelty in the theater, but he will slap down any author who utters a sudden boo in his good ear. Look how little he did for "The Cradle Will Rock." The explanation lies somewhere within the works of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. I'm not sure which one of these sages said it, but no man can associate with stuffed shirts over a period of sea- sons without coming to take on something of the outward manifestations and the inner spirit of the species. I defy any stranger at a first night to distinguish the tired business men from the critics. During the first intermission of the first show of: the 'new theatrical year I ran into a reviewer. He yawned and said, "How I wish the season was over!" Anybody who knew the poor fellow's back- ground could not possibly blame him. He had just returned to town after a summer spent in lecturing to women's clubs on "The Development of the American Drama." There are those, I un- derstand, who find this column dull, but I only wish they could have caught a load of it in my chicken salad days when I, too, was engaged in carrying culture to Columbus. It embitters the mind. And it isn't the sleeper jumps so much as the old ladies who say, "Tell me honestly. What is Tallulah Bankhead like in private?" Also Soft-Hearted Not for a moment would I suggest that the! critics of today are cruel sophisticates. On the contrary, their approach to an art form has all the naive cheerfulness of Little Audrey. It was Little Audrey, wasn't it, who thought that Rex Beach was a summer resort? Well, I know a critic who thinks that. Clare Boothe is a drama- tist. Modern criticism is indulgent without being generous. It neither burns nor blesses. Indeed, most of the reviews are written in the mood which Percy Hammond once described as "prais- ing with faint damns." The theater can be killed by "yes-men" and maimed by those who must say "No." But the cruelest and most lingering death to which the stage can be exposed is to pinion it upon an ant heap and leave it to the attrition of "yes and no." The theater can give out emotion only when it faces those capable of receiving it or of chuck- ing it back. There should be a brick wall behind the stage and not in front of the footlights. Let the boys bring either bombs or bouquets. Not even a "Fabulous Invalid" can long survive the ministrations of the man with the feather duster. Dies Committee If the Dies Committee has any sense at all, it will include in its report to Congress something about the un-American activities of those wit- nesses who have convicted themselves out of their own mouths, by the testimony they have offered before it. The First Amendment to the Federal Constitu- tion, and similar provisions in the State Consti- tutions, forbids legislation abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peacably to assemble. It follows, then, that any- one who would deprive any citizen of those rights, or who protests against his exercise of those rights, or tries to make out before an investigat- ing committee that by exercising those rights a , citizen is engaging in un-American activites, is himself un-American. Note, now, a difference. If the police, and the spokesmen for various so-called patriotic socie- ties, and all the rest who object to free speech and the right to assembly for purposes which! they, the self-constituted guardians of the Na- tion, deplore, were themselves to hold meetings and make speeches for the abrogation of thet First Amendment and similar provisions in the State Constitutions, they would be completely . within their rights. If the American people can be induced to limit or abolish these freedoms, well and good. But when they appear before an investigating committee and brand as bad Americans citizens who choose to'make use of their constitutional1 freedom and privileges, they are themselves badt The Editor Gets Told... Hitlerismt To the Editor:c Although the newspapers have kept the people well informed regarding the nature of Hitlerism, there is mucht valuable material on the subject con- tained in books and pamphlets whichr seldom reach the general public but1 with which every freedom-loving American should be acquainted. Among such writings mention may be made of a pamphlet entitled "Hitler- ism and our Liberties" by Charles A. Beard, 'the well-known historian. The 1 pamphlet contains a striking passage depicting Hitlerism and the menace of Hitlerism to America: "It may be said," writes Professor Beard, "that such things, viz. the criminal prac-f ticesof Hitlerism) are done in Eu-1 rope and do not concern us in the1 United States. This is the most dan- f gerous delusion of our time. In ex-c alting brute -force, the founders of the new tyranny make a militaristic 1 organization of every phase of life-t with war as its climax, the supremeF end of life. Although Hitler now speaks gently as the dove on occasion, Hitlerism is sheer militarism and war later. The whole philosophy of the German government is summed up in the following passage from the tyrant that presides over it. Hitler' says on page 715 of Mein Kampf, in phrases expurgated from the; English: "Everything f r o m the; baby's first storybook to the last newspaper, theatre, cinema . . . will be put to this end . . . until the brain of the tiniest child is penetrated by the glowing prayer: Almighty God, bless our weapons againt .. bless our battle!''. s - "This is the supreme fixed idea of the German government, and only; imbeciles will be deceived by profes- sions of peace. When this blood-lust has let loose the next war in Europe, then the fragile structure of inter- national relations will be broken and the United States will stand in moral1 peril of being drawn into another a universal conflagration. Even con- 4 sideredfrom the standpoint of sheer1 domestic policy, Hitlerism is a men- ace of the peace and security of America." That Hitler cannot stop his war machine is evident to those who have followed the madman's ventures from the beginning. And what would be- come of the more than a million men1 under arms and the thousands andF thousands of workers in the muni- tions factories and in the completingR and strengthening of fortification? - If all these activities were suddenlyr stopped there would result unemploy- ment on a big scale and, most likely, economic collapse and revolt. But apart from these considerations, Hitler is not inclined to stop for the1 reason that his highest ideal is warj for conquest and power. The whole spirit and structure of Nazism is based on war. M. Levi, Compliment To the Editor:# Though that task of dealing with his kind is one of man's most diffi- cult, those persons who have acquired the trait too often pass unnoticed and unappreciated. The University is fortunate in hav- ing both among its tutorial andr clerical forces and among its stu-| dent body, countless persons who have learned this appealing virtue. To understand--that is the world'sZ most acute need today. MichiganE students might well follow those ex-1 amples set by many of their class-z mates, their instructors, and their friends among the University busi- ness and administrative staff. C. Robert Copp. (Continued from Page 3) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the Vaiversity. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President util 3:30; 11:80 a.m. on Saturday. work is made up and reported to this mechanics tochemistry". All inter- office by Oct. 26. Students wishing ested are invited. an extension of time should file a petition addressed to the appropriate Biological Chemistry Seminar, Mon- official in their school with Room day, Oct. 17, 7-9 p.m., Room 313 West 4 U.H., where it will be transmitted. Medical Bldg. r German Make-up Examinations in German 1, 2 and 31 will be held in Room 306 U.H., Oct. 22 at 9 a.m. Other make-up examinations must be arranged for with the instructor con- cerned. No student will be permitted to take this examination without presenting written permission from his instructor which he should obtain as early as possible.' Psychology 34 Makeup Examination will be held on Saturday, October 22, at 9:30 A. M. in Room 2125 Natural "The Relation of Phosphoric Acid to the Metabolism of Carbohydrate. Phosphorylation in the Living Or- ganism" will be discussed. All in- terested are invited. Research Club. Will meet Wednes- day, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m., in the Amphi- theatre of the Rackham Building. Dr. Robert Gesell will speak on "The Story of Respiration" "Election of 1officers. The Council will meet at 7:15 p.m. in the West Conference Room., Science Building. Student Senate: There will be a meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Psychology 42 Makeup Examination Michigan League. The room will be will be held on Saturday, October 22, listed on the bulletin board. The at 9:30 A. M. in Room 2125 Natural pubic is cordially invited. Science Building. Calendar TODAY American Society of Ancient Instruments, Ben Stad director. 10:30-11 a.m., WWJ, WMAQ. Madrigal Singers, Yella Pessl. Madrigals and' harpsichord music. 11:30-12, WLW. Radio City Music Hall, Rosemarie, Brancato soprano, Jan Peerce tenor, Roert Weede baritone, Erno -Rapee conductor. Verdi's La Traviata (abbreviated concert version). 12-1, KDKA, WOWO. Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Howard Bar- low conductor. Five Tone Pictures (Carl Mathes), "Through the Looking Glass" Suite, (Deems Taylor). 3-4, WBBM. Bach Cantata Series, Alfred Wallenstein con-* ductor. Cantata No. 96, "Herr Christ,.der ein'ge Gottessohn". 8-8:30, CKLW.\ 'Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Richard Crooks tenor, Jose Iturbi conductor. Overture to Der Freischuetz (Weber), Procession del Rocio (Tur- ina), Hungarian Fantasie (Liszt), "Lohengrin's Farewell" from Lohengrin (Wagner), Schubert's Serenadd, "Ah, Moon of My Delight" (Liza Lehmann). 9-10, WJR. MONDAY Curtis Institute of Music, Florence Kirk sopra- no, Richard Purvis organist. Songs by Grieg, Brahms, Mascagni; Bach's G major Prelude and Fugue in, G major, Karg-Elert Chorale Prelude, Sortie (Vierne; songs by Wood, Thayer, Hage- mann.) 3-3:45, WBBM. Rochester Civic Orchestra, Guy Fraser Harr- son conductor. 3-3:30, WIBM. WOR Symphony, Eric DeLamarter conductor. Egmont Overture (Beethoven), First three move- ments of Schumann's Fourth Symphony, in D minor. 9:30-10, CKLW. San Francisco Opera Co., in lfascagni's Cav- alleria Rusticana. Stignani, Doe, Ziliani, Taglia- bue, Votipka, Gaetano Merola conductor. 11:00 p. m., WIBM.f TUESDAY Rochester Civic Orchestra, Guy Fraser Harri- son conductor. 1:30-2, WIBM. WOR Symphony, Alfred Wallenstein conduc- tor, Joseph Coleman violinist. Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, Bach Sicilienne, Kreisler transcrip- tions. 9:15-9:45, CKLW. THURSDAY Eastman School of Music Symphony, Howard Hanson conductor. American music. 8:30-9:15, WOWO, WXYZ. WOR Sinfonietta, Alfred Wallenstein. Michael Haydn's "Turkish Suite," Malaguena of Lecuona. 8:30-9, WON. dropped by students other bhan fresh- men will be recorded E if they are dropped after the sixth week. Erich A. Walter. College of Literature, Science and the Arts, School of Music, and School of Education. Students who received marks of I or X at the close of their last term of attendance (viz., semes- ter or Summer Session) will receive a grade of E in the course unless this min Wheeler on German-Czech rela- tions in the late Middle Ages. Botanical Seminar will meet Thurs- day, October 20, at 4:30, Room 1139 N. S. Bldg. Paper by Dr. Eileen E. Manfarlane "A free-lance biologost in India." Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122 Chemistry Build- ing at 4:15 p. m. on Wednesday, Oc- tober 19. Dr. R. H. Gillette will speak on "Some applications of statistical Exhibitions An Exhibition of Early Chinese Pottery: Originally held in conjunc- tion with the Summer Institute of Far Eastern Studies, now re-opened by special request with alterations and additions. Oct. 12-Nov. 5. At the College of Architecture. Daily (excepting Sundays) 9 to 5. Ann Arbor Artists' Exhibition: 16th Annual Ann Arbor Artists' Exhibi- tion, held under the auspices of the Ann Arbor Art Association, in the Galleries of Alumni Memorial Hall. Daily 2-5 p.m., through Oct. 26. (Lectures University Lecture: Mr. Roland D. Craig, Chief of the Division of Econ- omics, Department of Mines and Re- sources, Lands, Parks, and Forest Branch, Ottawa, Canada, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Use of Air Craft in Forestry" on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 4:15 p.m., in Rackham Auditorium, under the auspices of the School of Forestry and Conservation. The public is cordially invited. American Chemical Society Lee- ture. Professor Grinnel lones, of Har- vard University, will speak on "Solu- tions of Electrolytes with Special Re- ference to Viscosity and Surface Ten- tion" at 4:15 P. M., Thursday, Octo- ber 20, in Room 303 Chemistry Build- ing. Events Today Freshman Roundtable: C. A. Mead- er will discuss "Our Relations to Other People" at.Lane Hall today. Varsity Glee Club: Rehearsal today at 4:30. Vulcans: There will be a short meeting today at 6:00 o'clock in the Michigan Union. Pi'of.'Waldo Abbott, Director of the University's Broadcasting Service will speak at 7 o'clock before the Iinter- national Council group at the Inter- nnational Center on the subject "The Use of Radio in Education in Various Countries". A Book Fair, sponsored by the American Association of University Women, will be held in the Michigan League doday from 2 p. m. to 9 p. m. The Graduate Outing Club will meet at the northwest corner of the Rackham Building today at t3 p. m. The group will leave immediately for the Saline Valley Farms where theree will be hiking, games and supper. In case of rain, the group will meet in the Graduate Outing Club Room for an indoor program. program. Lutheran Student Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sunday for social hour and supper. Prof. James K. Pollock will speak at the discussion hour at 6:45 on the "Present Crisis in Europe." All Lutheran students and their friends are invited, The Christian Students' Prayer Group will hold its regular meeting at 5 p. in. today in the Michigan League. Please consult the bulletin board there for the room. Attention of this group and of other nterested students is called to special ervices being held at the Masonic remple, 327 South Fourth Avenue, rom Monday to Saturday. Messages If particular interest to students are o be given by Dr. Zoller of Detroit nd by Dr. Pease of Jackson "Psychological Journal Club. There twill be a meeting in the West Con- ference Room of the Rackham Grad- uate School on Thursday, October 20th, at 8:00 p.m. Professors W. B. Pillsbury, Heinz Werner, and N. R. F. Maier will discuss the Criteria of Ab- straction. Graduate students, majors in psychology, and other interested persons are invited to take part in the discussion both before' and after the program. All ROTC students interested in the rifle team report to the ROTC Headquarters *Monday, October 17, I at 4:00 p.m. Forestry Club: First meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p. in., 2054 N. S. Prof. D. M. Matthews will speak on "Tropical Exepriences and Tropical vs. Domestic Employment." All foresters and pre-foresters are cor- dially invited to attend.' Perspectives. There will be a meet- ing of the Book Review Committee Monday at 4 p.im. Geology, Surveying Field Station Reunion: Students attending the field stations at State Bridg, Colo., and Camp Davis, Wyo., in 1938 and pre- vious years will meet at the Saline Valley Farms at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 19. Group will leave Natural Science -Building at 5:30 p.m. Picnic supper (small charge), movie and dancing. Please bring photog aphs taken in camp areas. Geology st- dents, planning to attend should notify Miss Calwell, 2051 Natural Sci- ence Building. Surveying students notify Professor Bouchard, 207 West Engineering. A week-end outing at the University Fresh Air Camp at Patterson Lake has been planned by the Internation- al Center for Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22. One group 'will leave at 1 o'clockand another at 4 o'clock, Friday afternoon. They will return after luncheon Saturday un- less they have Saturday classes, in which case special plans are made to bring the students back early Sat- urday morning. Transportation will be provided by the International Ser- vice Committee of the Rotary Club. The entire expense for the outing is $1.25 per person. Those interested should sign up at once on the bulle- tin board at the Center. All wives of students and internes of the University are invited to at- tend an informal tea sponsored by the Michigan Dames Oct. 18, from 3:30 td 5:30 at the home of Mrs. Alexan- der G. Ruthven, 815 S. University Ave. Special effort is being made to contact all newcomers and they are requested to call Mrs. Raskin, 6388 in the evening. The first regular meeting will be held Thursday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. Please note the change from the regu- lar; meeting time. Petitioning for Chairmanships and membership of committees for the Assembly Banquet will be held Mon- day, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the League Undergraduate Office. Every- one must bring their eligibility cards. [nterviewing for the Chairmanship jobs will be held on Wednesday and Thursday form 3:30 to 5:30. The Hiawatha Club will hold a smoker at 8. o'clock Monday evening in the Union. All upper Michigan men are cordially invited. Dormitory Board Meeting. Monday at 5:00 in the League. Oratorical Association L e t a r e r ,! Chaz Chase To Appear In Union Formal Show i I--- ' i Ii An Earl Carroll Vanities star will be one of the feature performers among the 12 acts that have been chosen for the Union Formal, Friday, Oct, 21, the committee in charge announced yesterday. Lest men stu- dents be unduly shocked the Commit- tee announces the star is a male pan- tonine comedian, Chaz Chase, who co-starred with Jimmy Durante in "Start Cheering" and recently re- turned from Europe. A team known as Spec and Spot, and described as "unicycle artists ex- traordinary," will also grace the pro- gram of celebrities being imported for the entertainment of Michigan stu- dents. In answer to many requests, the committee decided that only commit- teemen's guests may sport corsages. Loyalists Repulse Insurgent Attacks HENDAYE, France (At the Spanish Frontier), Oct. 15 -(P)- Spanish Government dispatches said today a I r t i t s s t a I I