MICHIGA DAILY >perative Dormitories Solve Low Cost Housing Problem At Wisconsin ITH THE.ANNOUNCEMENT recently of more and more PWA grants, most of whose allotments are for dormitories, it begins to look as though th perennial housing ques- tion is well on the way to a satisfactory solution. But before we begin to feel that our housing worries are over, it would be well, perhaps, to raise a warning note concerning the whole dormi- tory program for the future. The essential need on this campus, as it is on most others, is not just adequate housing but low cost with the stress marks over low cost. It will not be enough if the dormitories to be built in the future are tomain- tain existing or higher rentals, nor will it be enough if these dormitories charge low rentals wich will be more than compensated for by compulsory rules to the effect that meals must be taken in the dormitory dining halls at high rates. Low cost housing means more than a cheap room; it means a cheap living cost. With the exception of Fletcher Hall, we believe that existing rentals, in the broad sense, in Uni- versity dormitories are too high; that is, too high to provide any adequate answer to the needs of the great numbers of students on campus who are earning their way through school in part or in full. We appreciate the fact that the existing rental rates are not by the ouija board-but on. economic facts of initial costs, upkeep and re- turns to bond-holders, which is as it should be. But in saying that, we have not said enough. Somehow these costs against which rentals are set must be reduced. If present dormitory buildings cost too much in their construction and upkeep, then we must build cheaper units, and not ata sacrifice of durability but of ornamentation, dis- pensing with all but strictly utilitarian and func- Stioal features. The University of Wisconsin shows that low- cost housing is feasible for university towns as well as model communities such as the Greenbelt town near Maryland. Under Wisconsin's /expan-. sion plans, three dormitory units dedicated t9 the principle of low-cost housing have already been opened this semester. The buildings are compact and with the excep- tion of the parlors are entirely given over to double rooms. The essential feature of the opera- tion of these units is the application of the co- operative principle in differing degrees, with the aim in mind to ascertain just how muh service the University management should provide and how much of the actual management should be carried out by the students themselves to attain the most satisfactory balance of good manage- 'ment,iadequate and comfortable housing and low living costs. Thus, Unit A of the Wisconsin plan is the old- type dormitory -with linen, blankets and daily maid and janitor service provided. Even under the old-type dormitory plan rents, with the ex-' ception of ten corner rooms at 106 dollars, are set at 96 dollars per year. Dormitory Unit B allows for students sharing in some measure with the university the main- tenance of the dormitories, but with the major part of the services such as linen, curtains, and janitor service once a week furnished by the university. Rentals here are $75 for all rooms except the corner rooms which rent at $85 a Year. Students under this plan do the work through committees. Unit C embodies the cooperative principle fully with the University supplying only linen anid curtains. All the work of maintenance is done by student committees. Rates here are ten- tatively set at $70 a year, but these rates will vary according to the actual costs of upkeep. THE MICHIGAN DAILY A House Fellow is appointed by the University Dormitory committee, and he heads Unit A, but in the other two units presidents are elected by the residents. Residents of Units A and B eat in the University dining hall at a cost of $245 a year, but those of Unit C may eat where they wish. Wisconsin's example should be the more force- ful to our planners here, because of the fact that is a state University with about the same size student body and with the same problem that is vexing us at present. Certainly Michigan should take the cue from a sister state University and embody in its dormitory expansion plans the principles of cooperative housing and student self government which Wisconsin is really taking the opportunity and time to test. Michigan can not afford to do less. -Albert Mayio Liquor, Rats And History ... T HE NEW YORK TIMES reports that the American Association For The Advancement of Science has appointed a Ret search Council to study the "Problems of Alco- hol." It is a noteworthy, yet not altogether sur- prising, fact that so eminent a body should con- sider the matter of the social usage of intoxicat-. ing beverages as worthy of its time and talents. The much-discussed question of when and how to drink has been one of the most bewildering f'actors in American social life for a number of years. Since earliest timesmen have wrestled with the liquor problem and attempted to evolve customs and regulations for controlling the usage of alco- holic drinks. During the last few centuries, how- ever, several causes have combined to shift in- toxication from the class of -an incidental and somewhat amusing matter for discussion, to a serious, much less humorous menace to other, more valued, social institutions. First, there is the wide usage of distilled spirits. Until the 13th century; when simple methods of distilling were invented, fermented liquors were the rule. Gradually these "quicker," more potent drinks'became more popular with the peoples who lived in the damp and bitter cold of northern Europe. Second, hard liquor, did not become really cheap and accessible until the early 18th century, when the home-made manufacture of gin was encouraged. It was only then that English bars could boast, "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for 2d, witha straw thrown in !"-Further com- plications arise in our, modern American society, whose god is efficiency; there is increasingly little patience with "hangovers." The Tesearch Council states, "If we are to find a way out (from the abuses of alcohol), it can be only through the development of a factual basis on which can be built some effective plan of action." No one questions the Council's ability to arrive eventually at a "factual basis;" whether it can achieve some "effective plan of action" and successfully carry it through is more doubtful. Neither moral suasion nor health fetishes have so far shown more than a transitory influence on American drinking habits. The insipid por- traiture of the drunkard's woebegone orphans and the pseudo-scientific pictures of degenerate rats, alike, have engendered an extreme distaste for reform in a sated public. However, one must admiresthe heroic proportions of the attempt; doubtless it is what might be termed "a noble experiment." Certainly it deserves our interested attention. -Jane Higbee TH EATRE At The Michigan WINTERSET The owl show at the Michigan was really some-j thing to see. The Michigan management certainly deserves our thanks for bringing back Winterset. Until the last five minutes (Hollywood movies always go blooey in the last five minutes) Winterset is just as good as any picture they have ever made. It is of course a romanticized version of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The photography is superb, the direction is good, the acting is consistently splendid: John Carradine as Sacco-Vanzetti, the dreamy radical, attains nobility in the court scene when he is condemned to death, Burgess Mere- dith is young and sincere as Mio, the son of the unjustly condemned man, Margo is completely right as Miriamne, the girl who falls in love with Mio, Paul Guilfoyle is magnificent as her brother Garth, who could clear Mio's father, Maurice Moscovitch is good as the broken father of Mri- amne and Garth, of course Eduardo Cianelli is swell as the dying gangster who has committed the crime of which Romagna was convicted, and Edward Ellis is convincing as the crazed judge who sentenced Romagana to the chair. Too many adjectives there, but the performances deserve them all. The dialogue in Winterset is like nothing that ever came out of Hollywood; it is free verse, and I have changed my mind about it since I first heard it a couple of years ago. At that time I was convinced that verse is a bad medium of expres- sion for the films: the feature which distinguishes the cinema from the stage is after all fluidity of motion, rapidity of action. I still believe this, but now I think that free verse has its place in the movies, when it har- monizes with the tempo of the camera, when it takes the place of realistic conversation: but ife ems toe Heywood Broun I think that all visiting British lecturers should get in or none at all. The second system would be simpler, and it would be far more fair than the present helter-skelter method of picking and choos- ing the favorites. Indeed, it seems so aimless that I sus- pect the State Dep'artment does it with a hatpin. At any rate, it has a habit of picking the wrong horses. There was a discussion of this very thing in the tap- room of the Nelson House in Poughkeepsie only the other day. It centered around the name and fame of young Randolph Churchill. A group of White House correspondents, who weren't cor- responding at the moment, recalled the night young Churchill nearly got his ears knocked back in the city of Worcester, Mass. I might explain that Randolph Churchill has attained his majority, but that there is some- thing about him which makes it inevitable that he will be called Young Churchill until his dying day. And this he has done all by himself without trading too much on his famous father. That Man On The Platform You ofM By Sec Terry W HEN Richard Michael (Falstaff) Scammon ushered his big frame into the Minnesota Union last Satur- day, wearing a button for Benson, we knew then that America was still safe for youthful liberalism, whatever that might be. Bulging with prosper- ity. Mike reported that he is employed as a .statistician, but almost before pleasantries were exchanged, he had edged into the conversation suchC phrases as "repudiated Republican," "stuffed mogul," and "one of the boys." We knew then that Scammon's perspective hadn't been altered by a steady job. Mike, who did graduate work here last semester, belonged to a fraterni- ty of Voltaires, which would gather in corners of the Publications Build- ing and dress down the tyrants. When he showed us the basement offices of the Minnesota Daily, which calls it- self "the largest college paper ing the world," there was a distinctly nostal- gic tone in his voice. But he was back on firm earth again when he told of efforts to fill the vacant chair of the University presidency with "one of the boys." The striking quality about Scammon is that his tenets aren't bathed in a static intellectualism. If convicted, he's militant. Scammon dropped out of an autumn sky in Detroit yesterday, hav- ing flown from Minneapolis to watch! from the sidelines the Student Senate' elections 'here Friday. One of the Senate's originators, he takes a pater- nal interest in it, and wants to ob- serve the trend of a second election. Also, he probably wants to return the dollar we lost as a result of a 2-1 wager on the outcome of the Michi- gan-Minnesota game. Remembering his dubious reputation as the Falstaff of a sports column called "Aside Lines" last year, we thought the Wol- verines a cinch when he offered to support the Gophers. We failed, how- ever, to reckon with the miraculous healing qualities of a kidney belong-t ing to a gent called by Minneapolis papers, "Harold Van Everything." * * * DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all mnemiers o fthe Umverstty. Copy received at the office o the Assistant to the Preside til 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. (Continued from Page 2) i . - -- His contact with the American press occurred in a diner on the Presidential train. Mr. Roose- velt was making a last-minute election swing through New England, and on the evening in question he had just completed his eleventh speech. It was very tough on the reporters. In- deed, one of them complained, "I wonder what that man thinks we're made of." And so a little group of weary men were seek- ing to revive themselves and eschew all talk of politics. As nearly as I can remember, the topics were, in their respective order, sex and college football. Everybody was against Yale. At this point who should bound in but Young Randolph Churchill, full of energy and ideas? He was representing one of the big English papers, and he had been in America precisely three days. Naturally, he knew all about the election. In fact, he showed us the cables which he had sent to his proprietor assuring him that Landon couldn't lose. But Young Churchill dwelt only for a little while on prognostication and began to talk about democracy in general, and "your so-called Ameri- can democracy" in particular. It all seemed to him very silly. "All this bally free press rot!" he explained. "Why should your American news- papers be so frightfully fair to Mr. Roosevelt when they know perfectly well that he's ruining your country?" The first impulse of the little group of serious thinkers was to ignore the gentleman from across the big pond. "Now, take Harvard," said a man from one of the wire service. "Don't tell me that Dick Harlowe won't have a good passing attack by the end of the season." *I * * A Truly Serious Thinker Young Randolph had not dropped in to talk about American football, and in a masterful voice he said, "Gentlemen, I have asked a ques- tion. Don't you think that the American news- papers are being much too fair to your President, Mr. Roosevelt." He addressea his query to a correspondent working for a bitterly anti-New Deal publication. "J don't think so," said the reporter, but another from the far side of the table was rising to give an even more emphatic answer. It may not generally be known, but I am a man of peace. "Don't take a poke at Young Churchill," I said. "I have known him for five years. In fact, ever since he was a baby. Do we believe in free speech or don't we?" By a strict party vote free speech won, and we all sneaked off into a drawing room where we could be alone without young Randolph. It's still. the better system. Until such time as the State Department can learn to pick a winner it will be much wiser for it to proceed upon the theory of "Come one, come all." And while it may not affect the general prin- ciple of the thing at all, it so happen that John Strachey is a nice fellow. Salute To Toscanin i A great artist and a great man comes back to his friends tonight, when Arturo Toscanini, "the first musician of the world," opens his new series of symphonic broadcasts. His eminence as a con- ductor grows from passionate devotion to music, inexorable will for perfection in its performance, the rare illumination he brings to its interpreta- tion. They are qualities akin to those which raise him to lofty stature as a world citizen. Radio has made music the most democratic of- all the arts. Where once only a few hundred per- sons gathered in a hall could share the beauty evoked by Toscanini, millions are his audience tonight. It is fitting that the central figure in this collective hour of respite from the world's turmoil should be an apostle of democracy, and at sacrificial cost to himself. Toscanini gave up the cherished music festival at Bayreuth, then at Salzburg, when tyranny marched in. His refusal to bend the knee in his native land is known to all. His journeys to far-off Palestine to direct a struggling orchestra, without fee, in that harassed community of exiles demonstrate his stalwart principle. The inspiration Toscanini's music brings is magnified by his devotion to the eternal verities of human freedom. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch .1 I ,f 3- AH, THE MYSTERY unfolds itself," and now the 'University pedantry, which may have had due reason for feeling offended at the sluggishness and general torpor of its clientele, can breathe a sigh of general relief. The Detroit Times unraveled the clue yesterday with blazoned headlines, "CHARGE U.M. DOPE RING; JAIL WOMEN AS LEADERS." A W. C. T. U. celebration was rum- ored to have followed the Daily! headline, "241 PLEDGES ARE TAK- EN BY 17 SORORITIES." That should be a sufficient quantity to assure the regenerative carrie na- tions that all is not yet lost. DEAR Sec : D Please accept the following paragraph for a "You of M" manual of style. SLesson I. And/or - "John and-solidus-or James" is un- pronounceable. "John vel' James" is correct but pedantic. The -equivalent "John or James or both" is good Eng- lish and consequently not offensive to the ear, the eye, or the tongue. Let us return "and/or" to the lawyers and/or logicians. Or, better yet, send the solidus back to England where it can get an honest job separating shill- ings from pence. On these shores it is non-quota immigrant. G. Watt Bliss Anything you say, Dr. Bliss. * * w IN THE MAIL: From Tuure Tenan- der, Goathland, Yorks, England:.. . "the war scare was plenty serious here. Three days ago things looked pretty black. I was supposed to sail on the Aquitania on Oct. 5th but the sailing was cancelled by governmental order and the Aquitania was forced into governmental service. Of course, everything is peaceful and quiet now, and it seems hard to believe that war was just around the corner a few days ago. However, I am still without pas- sage and so I'm not certain just when I'll get back . . . Eureka! I just saw the Paris edition of the Herald Tri- bune and learned that Michigan took ,over State 14-0. Boy, I bet Ann Arbor was a wild town that night. . . I wish you'd say hello for me to Heikkinen, Brennan and Janke." From Bob Cummins, Barcelona, Spain: " . . . We just came out of two months in action. And in action you don't feel much like writing, nor do you for a few days afterwards, so I've fallen behind. I suppose you've read about Negrin's speech at Geneva, and so I'll be coming home. That gives me a good excuse to write short let- ters . Michigan Student Freed After Capture In Spain A former Michigan student who volunteered for service with the Loy- alist forces in Spain, was captured by Insurgents and then released through the intervention of Ambassador Claude Bowers arrived in America yesterday. at 9:30 A. M. in Room 2125 Natural Science Building. 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 Dalyries of Alumni Memorial2Hall. Diy2-5 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 Lec- ture. Professor Grinnell Jones 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 Research Club: Will meet tonight at 8 p.m., in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. Dr. Robert Gessell will speak on "The Story of Respiration." Election of officers. The Council will meet at 7:15 p.m. in the West Conference Room., Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122 Chemistry Build- ing at 4:15 p.m. today. Dr. R. H. Gillette will speak on "Some appli- cations of statistical mechanics to chemistry." All interested are in- vited. The Inter-Guild Morning Watch will be held at the League Chapel, 7:30 a.m. today. Association Fireside: Professor Al- bert Hyma will speak on "Puritan- ism and Capitalism" at Lane Hall, tonight at eight o'clock. Chemical and Metallurgical En- gineering Seminar. Mr. Allen S. Smith will be the speaker at the Seminar for graduate students in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering today at 4 o'clock in Room 3201 E. Eng. Bldg. His subject will be "The Vis- cosity Function." Phi Lambda Upsilon important business meeting tonight at 7:30. Conference Room No. 1 in the Rack- ham Building. Refreshments. All members urged to attend. Members from otherchaptersdnew on the cam- pus cordially invited. Pi Lambda Theta: There will be a meeting in the University Elementary School at 5 p.m. today. All members are urged to attend as several officers will be elected. Scandinavian Club: Meeting to- night at Lane Hall at 8. A social open-house for new members and all Scandinavian students are invited. Anyone wishing further information should call Mary Domokos at Jordan Hall. Phi Sigma: Business meeting to be held today in the Graduate Outing Club room in the Rackham Build- ing. All members ,active and in- active, are invited to be present. All Mechanical Engineers are in- vited to join the student branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The next meeting is to- night at 7:30 o'clock in the Michigan Union. Dr. B. Curtis of the physics department wlil give an illustrated lecture on "The Cyclotron." Registration at the Michigan Union tonight from 7 to 8 o'clock. This will make it possible for those who have afternoon classes to register. The Transportation Club will hold its first regular meeting of the school year tonight in the Union. After a short business meeting, the. club will have the unusual opportuni- ty of hearing Mr. A. H. Wait of Chi- cago, Regional Airport Engineer of the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority, who will speak on "Airport and Air- way Traffic Control." Old and new Transportation Club members and their friends are invited to attend. Intermediate Dance Class will hold its first meeting this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the League Ballroom. A series of eight lessons will be given for $3. Both men and women are cordially invited to these classes in p.m. today in the Undergraduate Office of the Michigan League. Congress District Presidents: The first meeting of the new Congress District Council will be held today at 8 p.m. in Room 306 of the Union. (Not 7:30 as previously announced). There will be a tea at the Hillel Foundation this afternoon at 3:30 Sp.m.All students are cordially in- vited. The Hillel Players will hold an open meeting at the Foundation tonight at 7:30 p.m. A scene from Mary of Scotland will be presented and plans for the coming year will be discussed. . Coming Events Forestry Assembly: There will be n assembly of the School of Forestry and Conservation at 11 a.m., Thurs- day, Oct. 20, in the Chemistry build- ing auditorium, at which Dr. Roland D. Craig, in charge of the division of conomics, Dominion of Canada For- est Service, will speak on "Forestry n Canada." All students in the School of Forestry and Conservation re expected to attend, and all others 5iterested are cordially invited to do so. German Journal Club will meet Thursday, Oct. 20 in Room 302 Michi- gan Union at 4:10 p.m. Professor Nor- man L. Willey will read a paper on, Sealsfield, the Louisiana Planter." ."Psychological Journal Club. There will 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, mfajors in psychology, and other interested persons are invited to take part in he discussion and to meet members f the staff both before and after the rodram. Luncheon Discussion: Dr. Abraham Cronbach, Professor of Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College, and noted as a pacifist and social reformer, will speak on "Judaism and World Peace" at the Union, Friday, 12:15 p.m. Reservations for the 35c luncheon may be made at Lane Hall. Those who do not wish to attend the luncheon are welcome for the talk at 12:45. Iota Alpha will hold its first meet- ing of the 1938-39 season on Thurs- day night, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the Rackham Building. All graduate students, in engineering are cordially invited to attend. The speaker for the evening will be Mr. W. L. Badger of the Dow Chemical Company. It is hoped that any members who cannot attend will send their present Ann Arbor address to the President, Mr. Alan S. Foust, 2028 East En- gineering Building. Uiyersity -Girls' Glee Club: There will be a meeting on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7:15 in the Game Room of the League. All members are requested to be present. Anyone interested in joining the Glee Club attend the meeting, as try-outs will be held im- mediately after the rehearsal. Freshman Girls' Glee Club: Try- outs will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 19 and Thursday, Oct. 20, from 4 un- til 5 p.m. in the League. All fresh- A man women are eligible for member- ship this semester. Members are automatically transferred into the University Glee Club at the begin- ning of next semester. Week-end Outing for Foreign Stu- dents: Foreign students wishing to join the week-end outing at Patter- son Lake, Friday and Saturday, .Oct. 21 and 22, must sign up on the bulle- tin board or in the office at the in- ternational Center before Thursday at 4 o'clock. Details of arrange- ments may be found on the bulletin board. Alpha Lambda Delta: Honor Soror- ty meeting Thursday, Oct. 20, at 5 p.m. in the League. Room will be posted on the bulletin board. Graduate Outing Club will have an over-night outing at Camp Tacoma on Clear Lake on Oct. 22-23. The, group will leave the northwest en- trance of the Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and will re- turn Sunday afternoon after dinner. Each person is requested to bring his own blankets. The approximate charge will be $1.25 per person. Res- ervations should be made by Wednes- day night if possible. Call 4598. A Hayride will be given by the Stu- dent Fellowship of the Congregational Church on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. There will be refreshments and danc- ing afterwards. Price 40 cents. Make reservations before Friday noon at Pilgrim Hall, or call 2-1679 between 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. Girls' Outdoor Club wienie roast has been postponed because of con- flirt with frr- - Ed l, .,- y..41 -§u M m - - - ~....--.- Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. 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