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CHICAGO ' BOSTON * Los ANGELES - SAN F)ANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1938-39 Managing Edit'or EditorialDirector City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Book Editor Women's Editor Sports Editor Board of Editors . . . Robert D. Mitchell. . . . . -Albert P. May10 Horace' W: Gilmore Robert I. Fitzhenry . S. R. Kleiman * . . . Robert Perlman s Earl Gilman William Elvin . . . . . Joseph Freedman * . . .. Joseph Gies . . Dorothea Staebler Bud Benjamin Business Department Business Manager . . Ph Credit Manager . . . Leonari Advertising Manager . . . . W Women's Business Manager . . He Women's Service Manager . . Ms ilip W. Buchen d P. Siegelman lam L. Newnan len Jean Dean arian A. Baxter NIGHT EDITOR: MORTON' C. JAMPEL The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only., The Beginning Of Federalized Medicine... THE PLIGHT of unfortunate millions unable to pay for medical care has gone beyond the control of local public health agencies and independent doctors. It has be- come of national importance, and national meas- ures are being planned to meet it. High on the calendar of bills for the next ses- sion of Congress will be a gigantic new '!public health" program designed to solve the existing weaknesses of medical care. The extent of the problem can be realized by the fact that 70 million persons in the United States are sick each year. They, lose more than one billion days from work and pay doctor bills amounting to 850 million dollars. Under the program, govern- mental health services would have to treat six million persons every winter day. Realizing the hugeness of the task, the Admin- istration is laying careful plans. The program drafted by the Technical Committee on Medical Care from the findings of a four-year study by medical experts will be aimed at specific needs of medical aid. The chief need stressed by the committee is proper medical care of the twenty million per- sons on relief and twenty million more in families whose annual income is $800 or less. These people are ill or incapacitated more days per year than any other group; yet they receive less medical attention. The public health program, through grants-in-aid to the states, would place more doctors on the public pay roll to care for the needy. Illness prevention will be a second basic objec- tive of the program. The experts found that maternal care is inadequate and that efforts to conserve child health fall far short of what needs to be done. As a consequence, it is planned that Congress shall appropriate $365,000,000 a year to enable government health services to under- take extensive medical research. Striking at the need of sufficient hospital facilities and local public health organizations, a third provision would provide federal aid to the states for the improvement of existing hos- pitals, the construction and maintenance of facil- ities for 360,000 more beds and the building of 500 health centers in areas unable tosupport hospitals. These are the plans. Payment of America's doctor bill by the government, however, means a radical change in our economic philosophy and will arouse strong opposition. The American Medical Association has fought the change and, although endorsing the program in part, is still hostile. Other groups are certain to carry on the fight in Congress this winter. And yet, probably because the cooperative medical groups, municipal health associations and employes' societies have met the local needs of medical care so adequately, popular approval is backing a nation-wide program. The Seventy- Sixth Congress will make at least a start toward federalized medicine. -Hervie Haufler THe FORUMI in which war is imminent. The letter from Germany by a Nazi student-soldier acquires its interest both for what it contains and still more for what it does not contain. It is filled with joy over the "conquest" of Austria and the Sudeten German area of Czechoslovakia-it glorifies "conquest" and above all, it glorifies Hitler! Let us consider why the German student-soldier rejoices. He rejoices over a most dishonorable act-the seizure of the republic of Austria by Hitler. Austria was not a part of Germany to be reclaimed or "saved" and the Fuehrer had no more right to seize it than I have to take possessionhof my neighbor's house or other property he may own. Moreover, the rape of Austria is doubly criminal from the fact that Hitler violated his solemn pledge given on July 10, 1936, to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, guar- anteeing the independence of Austria. To make this highway robbery an occasion for joy on the part of the Nazi student, shows to what extent the Hitler gang has succeeded in undermining the sense of honor in the Nazi followers-young and old alike. With the Nazis dishonor has be- come honor, dishonesty honesty. This is too well- known to need further elucidation. Here are some things the letter from Germany does not men- tion: (a) that two-thirds of the Austrian people were opposed to Anschluss; (b) that Austria, since Hitler's "conquest" has become, like Ger- many, the graveyard of liberty; (c) that hun- dreds of Austrians have committed suicide to escape the terror of the Nazi mob, the mass loot- ing, and worse . . . The Nazi student-soldier calls the entry with his troops into Austria the "greatest time in his life." Nothing need be said here by way of com- ment, except that the Nazi student does not know the difference between right and wrong. As for the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, the Nazis, just as in the case of Austria, violated the solemn pledge given officially by Field Mar- shal Goering that "Czechoslovakia had nothing to fear because of the treaty of arbitration of 1925." In the light of this broken pledge, how "glorious" was the march into the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia? How much "heroism" and "honor" was there displayed? How many battles were fought before that "glorious" march took place? As for the charges by the German student against the Czechoslovakian government, they are without any foundation whatever. In this connection I refer the reader to one of our most distinguished and authoritative quarterlies, "Foreign Affairs." In the July, 1938, number there was published a long article, entitled "The Ger- mans in Czechoslovakia," by R. W. Seton-Wat- son. I quote the following passage from the article: "All the essential guarantees were freely granted and on the whole have been fulfilled. Anyone disposed to accept Nazi propagandist denunciations of Czechoslovakia for her "op- pression" of minorities might well compare the position of the Germans in Czechoslovakia with that of any other minority in Europe, and espec- ially of the German minorities in Italy, Poland, Hungary and Jugoslavia." The Sudeten Germans were not "plundered" or "massacred" nor were they deprived of "learning and speaking Ger- man." The "Foreign Affairs" quoted has almost an entire page devoted to the position of the Sudeten Germans as regards (a) proportional representation in Parliament; (b) on the educa- tional facilities in German-elementary; secon- dary, and university education; (c) on their cultural institutions; (d) on the right to use German. Let it be remembered that at first Henlein' the leader of the Sudeten Germans, demanded only autonomy. He did not regard Fascism or National Socialism as "transferable to our special circumstances." However, when Hitler be- came highly successful in overawing the Euro- pean democracies by means of bluff, Henlein was encouraged to ask for Anschluss with Nazi Ger- many. "He now openly played Berlin's game." What caps the climax in the Nazi student's letter is his "greatest desire" to see a "very close union between German and English-speaking peoples, because they are of the same race and have the same blood." Here we have once more the Nazi racial myth and their pride in blood. If the union so ardently desired by the student should be realized, it would be for no other pur- pose than to destroy what there is left of the world's democracies-the avowed aim of Herr Hitler. The greatest tragedy after Munich is that Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy have now be- come more powerful than ever and that they can build up their armaments on a scale never dreamt of in the history of the world, i.e., they are in a position to defy the world. That is the tragedy after Munich! -M. Levi Armistice Day Prayer To the Editor: "Oh Lord God of Hosts! Be with us yet; Be with us yet. Lest we forget; Lest we forget. Be with us 'yet; Be with us yet. Lest we forget; Lest we forget." Again we humble bow our head, Sacredly for our Soldier Dead, Again we faithfully stand and face west, Sound taps, silent to their Eternal Rest. O'er seas: The tramp, tramp, tramp of marching'feet; The roar, roar, roar of cruising fleet. O'er here: Reds lurk in our Halls of Learning; To poison our youths, their yearning. Ill fares the land that fails to prepare and defend, For their's will be History's bitter, bitter end. Our promise to our Soldier Dead: Never, never to lose our head. Yet to prepare and 'er defend, That far fewer shall Westward tend. Ji feemi lo Me H eywood ,Bro un In the next two years American voters are likely to be concerned with foreign as well as domestic issues. This is said partly in the belief that there may be happen- ings abroad calculated to raise great interest here. But watchful waiting is already under way. Newspapers print more foreign news than for- merly and the radio has developed a large audience for commentators speaking from distant lands. It may even be that the map of the world itself has grown a little smaller since two British bombers made a non-stop flight of more than 7,000 miles. Our own metropolitan areas are no longer safe against the possibility of being cities of the front ,But the city dwellers of America have always had more than a passing interest in happenings across the waters. It is in the Middle Western farm areas that there has been the greatest growth in world consciousness. The shot fired in Serbia in 1914 had almost no immediate repercussions here. And even in 1917 and 1918 there were many in the American army who had only the slightest notion of what all the shooting was about. They had reason for their uncertainty. Waiving the question of Wood- row Wilson's rightness or wrongness, the foreign policy of America was conducted almost in secret by the President and the State Department. That should not occur again. The American public of today is well informed. It has an opinion on the problem of Spain and China and the Mun- ich pact. In certain definite questions of the right of shipment, those issues raise specific ques- tions which we must answer. They should not be left wholly to Secretary Hull or to the State De- partment. No Foreign Policy At the nioment, we seem to be in an even worse position than that of having no foreign policy at all. We are operating under three or four policies which are mutually exclusive. Ambassa- dor Kennedy enunciated one suggestion on our attitude toward Munich and the President, in a broadcast a few days later, took precisely the opposite stand. I do not see how Mr. Kennedy can be anything but a liability from now on. I In his pre-election address, Mr. Roosevelt criticized the philosophies of both Fascism and Communism, but the State Department has put no barrier against the entrance of men known as Fascist propagandists while seeking out tech- nicalities to bar those whom it suspects of left wing tendencies. There is no logic in this prac- tice. John Strachey was detained at Ellis Island and his Fascist cousin was allowed to come in and lecture. Beaverbrook moves freely back and forth, carrying the gospel of the Cliveden set to Ameri- can publicists. Frankly, I am for no barriers at all against opinion but the next best thing would be some even-handed method of dealing in the same way with both messengers of the Left and Right. Often it is said that men running for Congress, should confine themselves wholly to domestic issues. Most of them are glad to take that advice because they haven't had time yet to figure out which way the vote will go in regard to foreign policies. -But even the most hard-shelled isola- tionist will have to admit that foreign affairs do come up before the House and the Senate and those men ought to know what the people expect of them. Protecting National Interests The 1938 election has offered little light along these lines and so there should be an effort upon the part of Americans, either singly or through group meetings, to keep their representatives in- formed as to the stand which they should take in protection of our national interests. It seems to me that the leadership of Hitler has already hurt America in a very tangible way. Fascist diplomatic triumphs abroad have opened the way to promote a rising tide of anti-Semit- ism in this country. This is a foreign product which we should shut out. Tell your Congressman about it. Insuring For Health Though nothing came of the recent conference in Washington between instructed delegates of the American Medical Association and the Gov- ernment's Interdepartmental Committee, it is plain that the issue of medical care turns largely on taxation, insurance or a combination of both. It is also plain that the cost of medical care for the needy must be spread without lowering medi- cal standards and efficiency. But how? Organized medicine advocates cash indemnity insurance, yet maintains that there is no such demand for medical care as the surveys show. If there is no demand, there is little reason to, suppose that cash benefits will be actually spent for medical service. But assuming that willing- ness to pay premiums is in itself evidence of good intention, cash indemnity insurance is too expensive for fifty millions in families with in- comes of less than $1,000 a year-a class in which morbidity and mortality is especially high. We have, moreover, the experiences of the British Provident Association, a non-profit organization, which has recruited only 6,000 subscribers after seventeen years of effort, though it has the same sponsors as the London Hospital Saving Associa- tion, which has enrolled virtually all Londoners earning less than $30 a week in its hospital corkm THEATRE By NORMAN KIELL $ Rice's Melting Pot When the final curtain at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre went down last night on Play Production's initial ven- ture of the year, the audience reaction was "here's the best thing they've done since 'This Proud Pilgrimage' last semester." For Elmer Rice's "Counsellor-at- Law" is packed with the essence of life. Sympathetic character identifi- cation is simple, for in the drama you identify yourself but all too readily. Mr. Rice has peopled his play with characters ranging from a bootblack to a lawyer who lunches with United States Senators; there is the fleshy chorus girl, a fast-talking telephone operator and a faster-talking counsel- lor who is up for disbarment pro- ceedings. There is the good-for-noth- ing younger brother, a "Yiddishe" momma, a "Goyishe" society wife, and the good-natured counsellor, Georgie. There is the dependable priv- ate secretary, the loyal Irish process server, the fresh office boy and the commanding George Simon of the law firm of Simon and Tedesco, coun- sellors-at-law. From the fraction of characters given here and the hints of plot thrown off, it can be seen with what detail Mr. Rice has written his play. "Counsellor-at-Law" is so realistic as to be sluggish and burdensome af- ter a while. On the stage you will find virtually every form of human being that God created in His image and according to Mr. Rice's use. There is little discrimination in Mr. Rice's melting pot; but it is home bred and it is potent and convincing. The plot revolves, of course, around George Simon, a man who has risen from nothing to a state of great poverty; he is'a lost soul in a dehumanized society. There are few feople who love Simon; the majority are parasites on him, loving him only for what they can get out of him. Simon started out in life with noth- ing and the third act curtain shows him a lonely, hollow man with only his work to live for. Impeccably played by Edward Jurist, George Si- mon is realized to the uttermost. When Mr. Jurist was not on stage, there was an apparent lag and slow- Iing up of the action. Certainly he carried the greater part of the show on his shoulders. As Simon's blue-blooded, D.A.R. wife, Sarah Pierce committed herself to judicious overacting. Not so judi- cious was Miriam Brous' interpreta- tion of the telephone operator; grossly exaggerated, she played her- self out after the first few minutes of her characterization. But there were many juicy minor roles that were played to the hilt. Arthur Klein, playing a Union Square communist agitator, fully deserved the round of applause on his exit; his mother, p1layed by Justine Silverblatt, was the epitome of the sublimity of Jewish motherhood; Nathan Gitlin, as the loyal Irish process server, did so ex- cellent a job that we were near to murdering him until he got his story out that saved Simon from disgrace. But we cannot forget Mary Jordan who played the secretary, Rexy Gor- don. A newcomer, she performed like a veteran and it was her simplicity 1 of character ,standing out in such great contrast to Mr. Jurist's dynam- ic portrayal, that impressed us tre- mendously. Mr. Windt is to be congratulated for his direction. So is- Robert Mel- lencamp for his atmospheric set- tings. arguments. Dr. Hugh Cabot of Mayo Clinic told National Health Conference that it will "tend to fix the practice of medicine in its present unsatisfac- tory pattern." Since twenty million people who now receive public assist- ance and another twenty million who must somehow exist on a sub-stan- dard level will be unable to pay the dersigned if you have not complied with the specific requirements as Herbert G. Watkins, Asst Secy.- To Members of the University Council: The November meeting of the University Council will be omit- ted Louis A., Hopkins, Secretary. Women Students Attending the Ohio State game: Women students wishing to attend the Ohio State-. Michigan football game are required to register in the Office of the Dean of Women. A letter of permission from parents must be in this office not later than Wednesday, Nov. 16. If the student does not go by train, spe- cial permission for another mode of travel must be included in the par- ent's letter. Graduate women are invited to register in this office. First Mortgage Loans: The Univer-! sity has a limited amount of funds . to loan on modern well-located Ann Arbor residential property. Interest at current rates. Apply investment Office, Room 100, South Wing,' University Hall. Guide Service from the Union from 9:30 until 12:00 Saturday morning to University buildings on the cam- pus. Visitors are invited to avail themselves of this service. Albion College Alumni: Mrs. Alex- ander G. Ruthven will entertain all Albion College alumni and former students at an informal party at her home on South University Avenue Friday evening, Nov. 18, at 8:00. Husbands and wives of alumni and students are also invited. Last Day: Registration for Posi- tions-Teaching and General: Sen- iors, graduate students as well as staff members are reminded that to-' day, Friday, Nov. 11 is the last day for. registration. Blanks may be obtained at the office, 201 Mason Hall, hours 9-12 and 2-4. February, June and August gradu- ates are all urged to register at this time as this is the only general regis- tration to be held during this year., There is no charge for this service, but after today, Nov. 11, all students taking out blanks are subject to pay- ment of $1 late registration fee. University Bureau of Appomt- ments and Occupational Infor- mation. 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. University Students: Group work for rhythmic control of stuttering daily at 3 and Saturday at 9:30. A group in palatography will be ar- ranged at the same hour if there is sufficient interest in correcting ar- ticulatory difficulties. Speech Clinic, 1007 E. Huron. Concerts Chamber Music Series. A series of four chamber music concerts, made possible through the sponsorship of Mrs. R. B. Canfield, Mrs. H. B. Can- field, Mrs. H. B. Earhart and Mrs. James Inglis, will be given by the School of Music at 4:15 o'clock on Nov. 14, 17, 21 and 28, in Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. Admission will be by ticket. A limited number of tick- ets are still available and will be given out in the order of personal requests at the School of Music as long as they last. Exhibitions The Ann Arbor Art Association pre- sents two exhibitions, water colors by Jane Stanley, and Guatemalan tex- tiles, in the galleries of Alumni Mem- orial Hall. Nov. 9 through 23, daily, 2-5 p.m. Notice to Graduate Civil Engineers: Election of representatives to Gradu- ate Council to be held today in Room 227 West Engineering Bldg. All Graduate Civils who have not yet indicated their choice are requested to vote. Graduate Students in Oriental Lan- guages and Literature are requested to meet in Room 2029, Angell Hall, at 5 p.m. this afternoon for the purpose of electing representatives to the Graduate Student Council. Graduate Students in Speech and General Linguistics are requested to meet in Room 2029, Angell Hall, at 4 p.m. this afternoon for the pur- pose of electing representatives to the Graduate Student Council. Polonia Literary Circle will meet at the Michigan League tonight, Nov. 11, at 7:30. T'echnocracy, Inc. "America Must Show the Way" is the title of a talk to be given at the Union tonight at 8 p.m. by James L. VanVliet at a meeting sponsored by Technocracy, Inc. The public is invited to attend. Armistice Day Rally. "Keep Ameri- ca Out of War" will be the topic dis- cussed by Dr. Fred Poole, Superinten- dent of Religious Education of the Methodist Church of Michigan, and Francis A. Hensen, Administrative Secretary of the United Automobile Workers, in Natural Science Auditori- um this afternoon at 4 p.m., under the auspices of the Michigan Anti- War Committee. The Armistice Day Rally for Peace and Democracy will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Michigan League Ball- room. Mr. Lottis Goyette, Director of the American League for Peace and Democracy in the State of Michigan, will speak on "America's Task in the Struggle for Peace Today." Every- body is cordially invited to attend. The TGTS for Episcopal Students and their friends will meet today at Harris Hall from 3-6 p.m. Academic Notices Stalker Hall. Class in "Through the New Testament" led by Dr. Bra- shares at 7:30 p.m. At 9:00 the regular Friday night party. All Methodist students and their friend. are cordially invited to both the class and the party. Friday Services at the Hillel Foun- dation: 5:30, Orthodox services. 8:Q p.m. Reform services. Sermon: "The Distinctiveness of Judaism" by Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz. 9:30, Social Hour. Hostess, Mrs. Samuel Bothman. German Table for Faculty Mem- bers: The regular luncheon meeting will be held Monday at 12:10 p m. in the Founders' Room of the Michi- gan Union. All faculty members in- terested in speaking German are cor- dially invited. There will be a brief informal talk by Dean Edward H. Kraus on "Die Schmucksteinschleifer von Idar-Oberstein," illustrated with lantern slides. Freshman Roundtable: Dean Alice Lloyd will discuss "The Potential Criminal-Whose Fault?" at Lane Hall, Sunday, 4 p.m. Inter-Guild Rally: Howard Thur- man of Howard University, Wash- ington, D.C., will speak on "Peace?" at the Congregational Church, State and Williams, Sunday, 7:30 p.m. International Relations Club: Meet- ing at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, in the Henderson Room of the League. Society of Automotive Engineers: Closed meeting in Detroit, Monday, 1 Nov. 14, 8 p.m. at the Statler Hotel. Plans are to attend the Auto Show in 'the afternoon and the meeting at night "What's Wrong with the 1939 Cars," open to S.A.E. members only. Membership blanks and guest tickets to the Auto Show available from 1Dave Smith, Room 325 West En-' gineering, Friday 2 to 4 or at the Auto Lab. Transportation to be arranged in private cars. 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: 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. (Continued from Page 2) of Palmyra" at 4:15 p.m. on Wednes- . day, Nov. 30, in the Rackham Amphi- ments with any insurance organiza- theatre under the auspices of the Mu- cion exc-,pt the Teachers Insurance seum of Classical Archaeology. The and Annuity Association of America public is cordially invited. and contributions will not be made by tihe University nor can premium pay- E e t ' ments be deducted except in the case Events T6day of annuity or insurance policies of Chinese Students Notice: A mass this association. meeting against aggressive war and 9. The general administration of fascism. sponsored by various campus the annuity and insurance business clubs will be held on Armistice Day has been placid in the hands of the at 4 p.m. in the Michigan League Secretary of the University by the Ball Room. All Chinese students are Regents. t urged to attend. Please communicate with the un- cost, we must present the surance to employers in in commerce. It follows that will have to set up elab keeping and tax-collectir and turn over the practice of medicine to a bureauq may easily fall under po trol. We need a much more r pro achto this problem car than has yet been sugg er by organized medicineo ernment, so far as insuran ation are concerned. For1 bill for in- idustry and the States orate book- ng systems and control racy which litical con- realistic ap- of medical gested eith- or the Gov- ce and tax- the Ameri- can Medical Association it must bel said that it has made some important Exhibition, College of Architecture: concessions particularly in at last Drawings made by groups of students approving Federal grants-in-aid; for j in Architecture and Landscape Design the Government that it has tried to at the University of Illinois, Ohio follow Professor inslow's doctrine State, Cincinnati, Michigan, Armour that "the physician exists for the Institute, Iowa State College, in com- patient, not the patient for the physi- petition for the Ryerson Scholarship cian." There remains the hope that which is offered annually for travel' out of hearings which must be held abroad by the Lake Forest Founda- when a medical care bill is introduced tion for Architecture and Landscape in the next Congress a formula will Architecture. Open daily except Sun- come which will be suitable for Ameri- day, 9 to 5, through Nov. 14; third can conidtions-a formula which will floor exhibition room, Architectural remove the restrictions under which Building. The public is invited. medical care may now be purchased, which will enable physicians to nrac- I , tice either as members of groups or of hospital staffs, and which will re- duce to a minimum the burden of: taxation that is sure to be imnposed. As yet no one has consulted the tax- payer, who will be asked to pay for t Lecurts Soph Cabaret: There will be a mass University, Lecture: Thomas Doe- meeting for all sophomore women in- sing, Director of the Pulklic Library terested in working on Soph Cabaret Administration of Denmark, will give Monday at 5 p.m. in the ballroom of a lecture on "Folk High Schools in the League. It is very important' Denmark" on Thursday, Nov. 17, at that all women who wish to work on