THE MICHIGAN DAILY MICHIGAN DAILY 71 I _r/ JLl _ -r- s , -2 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 yeareand Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subs-riptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative. 420 MADISON AvE. NEW YoRK, N. Y. CHICAGOBOSTON ' LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1938-39 Board of Editors Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Book Editoror Women'sdEditor Sports Editor - Robert D. Mitchell. Albert PMay1o Horace W. Gilmore Robert I. Fitzhenry S. R. Kleiman Robert Perlman Earl Gilman S William Elvin Joseph Freedman Joseph Gies . Dorothea Staebler . Bud Benjamin Business Department Business Manager ,. Credit Manager. . . Advertising Manager-. Women's Business Manager Women's Servicq Manager . Philip W. Buchen Leonard P. Siegelman William L. Newnan Helen Jean Dean *Marian A. Baxter NIGHT EDITOR: CARL PETERSEN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Hitler's Marehe Militaire .., EORGI DIMITROFF, Secretary Gen- eral of the Communist Internation- ale, has arranged a gloomy program for Europe in his schedule of the moves he thinks Hitler will make in his Marche Militaire. After- the Anschluss Overture of Austria and the First Movement in Czechoslovakia, Dimi-. troff's program continues as follows: Hungary to be attacked in the spring of 1939; Poland in the fall, 1939; Yugoslavia in 1940; Rumania and Bulgaria in the autumn of 1940; France, Bel- gium, Holland, Denmark and Switzerland in the spring of 1941; completing the repertoire will be an attack on Russia in the autumn of 1941. Yet recent news dispatches seem to indi- cate that Germany will not rely entirely on force to expand to the Mediterranean. The Nazis-will use more subtle means to dominate many of the terrified states of central Europe. The remainder of Czechoslovakia will not be added to the Reich by force; it will be absorbed. Already the Nazis have established a customs union tying Czechoslovakia into the German economny. A railway pact between the two coun- tries permits passengers and freight from Aus- trian Germany to move across Czech territory without customs barriers. Slovak laws, at the insistence of the Nazis, have outlawed the Com- munist party. And a direct corridor to Rumania's oil fields has been opened by the grant of per- mission to Germany allowing troops to cross Czech lands. Czechoslovakia, turning from the Democratic allies who betrayed her, has become a vassal state to Germany. Other nations are flocking to climb aboard the Nazi Leviathan. Turkey, minus the guidance of Kamal Ataturk, hopes Hitler will prevent its again becoming the "sick man of Europe." The Turks have received extensive loans from Hitler and have recently placed a big order for rail- way equipment in the Reih. Lithuania has granted much greater autonomy to the German population of the city of Memel. Switzerland and Denmark have brought pressure to bear on anti- Nazi newspapers within their boundaries, Switz- erland suppressing the paper that has served as the spokesman of the League of Nations, Yugo- slavia has signed a new trade treaty with Berlin. Hitler will not have to conquer these states; they are already submissive. And still there is no end in sight to Nazi expansion. The stress at present is on expansion overseas, on the return of German colonies. Con- tinuing their "appeasement" policies, France and Great Britain are making plans to toss the colonies of Portugal to Hitler. The European democracies are no less frightened than Hitler's satellite states. Dimitroff paints a gloomy picture for Europe's future, but his views seem well-grounded in pres- ent facts. -Hervie Haufler The Woman Pays Mussolini's wife is said to be almost violent in her hatred of war. Her sons have been militarized over her outraged protest; the youngest boy, 11, is drilling and looking forward to a career in THE SCREEN By HARVEY SWADOS The Life Of Beethoven The Art Cinema League is showing The Life and Loves of Beethoven at the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre and I am forced to say that I think it is a very bad picture. The most irritating thing in Beethoven is the interpretation of his life. It would require the most arrant philistinism to say, Well, maybe that's not what Beethoven was like, but the pic- ture is good entertainment. From Hollywood one would expect to see Tyrone Power as a pretty genius, a chorus girl on each arm, listening to the Moonlight Sonata being played by 500, count 'em,-500 pianists. But from France we have the great Harry Baur portraying Beethoven as a man who went through life worrying whether he should marry Giulietta Guicciardi or Therese Brunswick. It seems that Beethoven was a poor boy who became a great composer. Then he fell in love with Giulietta (played by Jany Holt, whom you will remember as the Rabbi's wife in the Golem, and Who goes through this picture looking as though someone had daubed alum on her mouth), but this could never be. Just the same, she inspired him to write the Moonlight Sonata, the funeral march from the Eroica and many other great works of music. But this Therese, she was faithful to him and she helped him to write other great works of art. When Beethoven grew old, he was poor and forgotten, but on his deathbed he heard that his Ninth Symphony was being received with acclamation. What a sad travesty on the life of.a genus! I make no bones of the fact that I don't know too much of Beethoven's life, but at least I know that he didn't become deaf in one day, that he wasn't in love with Giulietta all his life, that he didn't die as his Ninth was having its premiere. I quote from Robert Haven Schauffler's biogra- phy: "A great deal of mythological balderdash has been written about Beethoven's affairs of the heart. The plain fact is that these adventures never played any prominently important or long- continued role in his scheme of things." And the plain fact is that this film succeeds in tangling up Beethoven's life so badly that when the picture is over you are left with a completely confused impression of the genius' life and work. In addition to the little item of distorting and warping the life and philosophy of a great genius, Beethoven is for the most part crude and in bad taste. The inconsequential Turkish March is played, but there is not a whisper. of the chamber music or the two Masses. The first two bars of the Fifth are repeated a dozen times through the picture, and then broken off abruptly. Noth- ing is played in its entirety, and you are left with the feeling that someone has stuffed a handker- chief in your mouth just as you are starting to make a speech. The continuity is bad, and each shot is bitten off as though the film editor had done his job with his teeth instead of with his hands and his head. Still, there are enough good individual scenes to make it almost worthwhile. The death scene is not only faithful but magnificently cinematic. The storm scene, in which Beethoven plays. grinning like a madman with the return of his hearing, is superb. The music is fairly well con- ducted and recorded. But these immediate remin- iscences cannot obliterate the total impression. fir Tlhe rEditor Gets Told.,, Correction In answer to Mr. Muehl's letter which ap- peared in. the Daily of Nov. 17, the Daily wishes to correct the error that was made in the report of the two armistice day meetings. Due to a mistake in editing, a statement that was made by Mr. Louis Gouette was attributed to Dr. Poole. Mr. Gouette and not Dr. Poole said, "that the Munich Pact 'fiasco' could have been avoided if the democracies had 'united against Germany when she made her demands of Czecho- slovakia.' Concerted action does not mean war," he declared, "but is the only effective way to pre- vent hostility." -The Editors And Another To the Editor: Last Thursday's Daily carries a misleading re- port of the talk I delivered at a Lane Hall Fireside Discussion. My remarks that evening could not possibly be construed as meaning that Judaism itself is disintegrating. On the contrary, I tried to show that Judaism is decidedly not distinteg- rating; that, as has often occurred in the past, eternal symbols and folkways are giving way be-" fore the impact of new social, economic and political conditions; but that, given a 'period of comparative social stability, we shall see essential Judaism creating new symbols, developing new patterns, and emerging as a strengthened and quickened spiritual force in human life. Just ash in the past, Judaism has emerged from contact. with other cultures more vital and more capable of endurance, so, in my opinion, will it endure as a living, spiritual force beyond the chaos and confusion of the present period of transi-, tion. Sincerely yours, Issac Rabinowitz, Associate Director, Hillel Foundation Apdlause At Oraan Recitals Ji feeffif foc Heywood Broun Persons who like to indulge in the pleasant and harmless sport of making winter book on politi- cal futures will not find it necessary to change the odds very much in spite of the results of the last elec- tion. If somebody will lay you 2 to 1 I think you can win a wager by offering to bet that the Republican nominee in 1940 will be one of three names which you mention. When the terms are set say, "Dewey, Bar- ton or Taft." In spite of many other gains the Republicans gained little new Presidential timber. Among the crop of new Governors there are, of course, several of Vice Pesidential size, but that is about all. It is well to remember that Republican gains were largely in agricultural regions, and if the strategy of the next G.O.P. convention is sound the leaders will look to a man who has shown vote-getting appeal in the industrial areas. As a matter of fact, one such Republican did show up in the State contest in Rhode Island, which is preponderantly an industrial vote. But the State is small and the name is Vanderbilt, which might not be altogether an advantage. Still, note Gov. William H. Vanderbilt as a long shot possibility. Only A Sapling In Pennsylvania the Republicans gained a Governor, but hardly a Presidential possibility. Such comfort as the Democrats can find in the last election lies in the fact that they held power in three of the most populous States. It is almost essential for the Republicans to break into that trio of New -York, California and Illinois to capture the election in 1940. It would seem wise from apolitical point of view for them to center their attention on New York and nominate a candidate from that State. But at the moment they do not possess a local winner. I am omitting the name of La Guardia, who is not spiritually a Republican in the eyes of the party leaders, and perhaps not technically, either, since joining the American Labor Party. I think that La Guardia could win easily for the Republicans in 1940. I also think he could win for the Democrats, but he stands in the curious position of being an enor- mously popular leader who could capture the popular vote but seems to have no chance to get by the convention of either major party. He is the only man, by the widest stretch of the imagi- nation a Republican, with a distinct appeal to the urban areas. The question of a third term for Mr. Roose- velt becomes more complicated. Until now people have asked as to whether he would be willing to run. At the moment it seems to me debatable as to whether he could capture the party nomina- tion if he desired it. Once the name of Roose- velt is removed the Democrats are in utter con- fusion as to a candidate with any chance of suc- cess., Tydings won in Maryland by a big vote, but he wouldn't get to first base in a single Northern city. Jim Farley probably could carry New York, but he would be badly cut by preju- dice in the Middle West. Bennet Champ Clark's appeal is local. The farm vote killed all chance for Wallace, and Harry Hopkins lacks political prestige.'Illinois and California may furnish candidates, but the Democratic voters in the last election lack national prominence as yet. A Possible Third Party Existing third-party movements have been badly shattered, but it still would be possible to get one together if both the major parties nomi- nate men well to the conservative side. That is possible. Accordingly, I am going to ask the privilege of making my 1940 prediction a double- barreled one. My first prediction is that the voter will be asked to choose between-the two major party candidates-Roosevelt and Dewey. My alternate prophecy carries a little weasel- ing. If the first prediction does not come through I think that Dewey, the Republican, and Clark, the Democrat, will face a third ticket, called the Progressive party on which La Guardia will be running for President with the active support of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Roosevelt with the active support of Fiorello H. La Guardia. Of course, 1940 is a long way off, and I could be wrong. But I am still betting on the Progres- sives, no matter what the label may be. every moment of the recitals. And then, to have the audience applaud between each number dis- turbs me greatly, and I am sure it disturbs many others also. My suggestion is that in future recitals that the School of Music ask that no applause be made during the program. I am sure that our presence and unceasing attention shows that we appreciate the genius of Palmer Christian. -Harold L. Patton, 1940 In Pictures The old magazine Life crusaded editorially against the practice of vivisection-animal ex- perimentation. Apparently the policy of the new Life is exactly opposite, and it ventures to put its opinions into pictures. That at least is one's impression from a series of photographs of indi- viduals and experiments in the issue of Oct. 24. This display does not add to Life's reputation for fair and considered presentation of current questions. It opens with two full pages of photo- The FLYING TRAPEZE By Roy Heath Here's Us Again Perhaps you have noticed, the dis- cerning readers among you, that The Trapeze has not been happening for several weeks. In case anyone is in- terested, I will explain that I 'was, during that time, slightly at odds with The Front Office over a little mat- ter-of scholastic negligence which oc- cured last year. It seems that I held with that large school of thought which maintains there is more edu- cation in a Bull Session than there is in a class room. While the Univer- sity did not go so far as to contra- dict me, they did point out that the erudition which I claimed to have acquired in those pleasant mid-night seminars, unfortunately did not show in my Economics 52 grades. They were very sorry, but I would have to obtain special permission, a sort of a Papal Dispensation which sometimes forgives scholastic heretics their sins and allows them to dabble further in whatever it is that keeps them from being Phi Beta Kappas. After considerable investigation of my thoroughly wretched case, a process which has taken the better part of two weeks, it was decided that I had already been living on borrowed time and if any action should be taken at all, it would take the form of send- ing me back to Salina High School. Naturally I felt that such a thing would be unjust. I had enough trouble getting out the last time with- out going back again. During all that time, I was cooling my heels in the office of Assist. Dean Erich Wal- ter. Not that he wanted me to wait, in fact he even sent out some subtle hints that I would be better off some place else. I stayed there because he has some good magazines in his ante-room. I read the New Yorkers, The Forums, The Scribners and then started a serial in the Saturday Eve- ning Post. Meanwhile his secretary began opening all the windows in thei room in the hope of driving me out. Some days when I would come in for an hour or so of light reading, I would find a group of obvious ruffians look- ing like they were going to smash me for trying to get in ahead of my turn. I could hear Walter asking wheth- er I had left yet so it would be safe for him to go to his class. Finally he found out that he could walk right past me and it didn't make any dif- ference. I had forgotten what I came for. He began to wonder if I had a home and once even offered to put me up at a good hotel if I was desti- tute. However, all good things must come to an end. Yesterday I went in and discovered that I had read everything in the place. When I walked in his office and asked him if he had any late Esquires, he turned a dull mahogany color but managed to keep control over his mixed emo- tions. He reached in his drawer and, drew out a special permission blank filled it out and handed it to me. ''This is what you originally came in here for isn't it?" he inquired. I wasn't sure but I said yes. "Then take it and get out before the authorities force me to adopt you." So The Trapeze comes to life again. Propaganda A movement, which started in Nor- way, for studying "the aims, methods, and results of modern propaganda" has produced"a new English word to describe the object of its research- "Purpo-publicity." It is not a happy effort. It is "jungle English"; and one can only hope that Mr. A. P. Herbert, that gallant "ranger sworn to keep the king's greenwood," will have a slash at this purpo-parasite before it becomes firmly rooted. It is understandable that there should be a desire to avoid the word "propaganda"; for this has. incurred some suspicion as an impostor, due to repeated failures to live up to the promise of an open countenance. Nor need one press the point that "purpo- publicity" has the suggestion of a "purple patch" in it, and hence of methods more showy than sober and convincing; and it may even be grant- ed that the word is intelligible. Yet it can only mean publicity for a pur- pose; and what publicity is devoid of purpose? It is not enough for words to be intelligible. "We may under- stand them," says Mr. Herbert, "as we may understand an algebraical equa- tion; but words should be something better than an algebraical equation, a gardener's label . . . or a drawing on the wall." -Christian Science Monitor. the names of the medical authorities who are opposed to vivisection, as, for instance, the well-known Dr. Wil- liam Howard Hay., The pictures of experiments may be representative, and we note that this time Life has edited out the agony. Yet it seems that somewhere there (Continued from Page 2) made in extraordinary circumstances, such as severe or long continued ill- ness, E. A. Walter, Assist. Dean. Students, College of Engineering: 'he final day for removal of incom- letes will be Saturday, Nov. 19. A. H. Lovell, Secretary.{ Students, School of Educaon: Courses dropped after Wednesday, Nov. 23, will be recorded with the grade of E except under extraordi- nary circumstances. No course is considered officially dropped unless it has been reported in the office of the Registrar, Room 4, University Hall. Bacteriology 111A (Laboratory Course) will meet Monday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. in Room 2552, East Medical Building. Each student should come provid- ed with a $5 Hygienic Laboratory Coupon procurable at the Treasurer's office. Biological Chemistry 121, Section B. The class will meet for the first time on Monday, Nov. 21, in Room 319 West Medical Building. All stu- dents who have been accepted for this course should provide themselves 1 with a $5 breakage ticket (Biological I Chemistry), obtainable at the Treas- urer's Office, and also with the Labor- atory Manual. Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts: Midsemester re- ports are due not later than Satur- day, Nov. 19. More cards if needed can be had at my office. These reports should name those students, freshman -and upperclass, whose standing at midsemester time is D or E, not merely those who re- ceive D or E in so-called midsemester examinations. Students electing our courses, but registered in other schools or col- leges of the University, should be re- ported to the school or college in which they are registered. E. A. Walter, Assist. Dean. School of Education, School of Mu- sic, College of Architecture: Midse- mester reports indicating studentsI enrolled in these units doing unsatis- factory work in any unit of the University are due in the office of the school, Nov. 19. Report blanks for this purpose may be secured from the office of the school or from RoomI 4 U.H. Robert L. Williams, Assist. Registrar. Graduate Students: Diploma ap- lications are due not later than Nov. 8. Any graduate student who is reasonably certain of completing de-' ree requirements by tl'e end of the1 irst semester, should file applica-' ion for the degree in the office of' he Graduate School.' C. S. Yoakum. Graduate Students. The general examination given this fall will be' repeated on Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Nov. 19, ground floor, Rack- ham Building, for those students reg- istering in the Graduate School for the first time this fall. This secondj date is to eable those students ex-I cused or unable to come previously to make up the examination. Other stu- dents in the Graduate School who would like to take the examination are invited to do so at this time. C. S. Yoakum. Senior Honors. Will all members ofI the class in Senior Honors meet with Mr. Weaver at 4 o'clock today atI 2218 A.H. who did not on Wednesday. Bennett Weaver. Students interested in preparing for elementary school teaching: The School of Education has under con- sideration the organization of a newf undergraduate correlated course to prepare students for teaching in ele- mentary schools. Information re- garding this program may be securedt from the office of the Recorder of the School of Education, 1437 Univer- sity Elementary School. Those in- terested are urged to secure this in- formation immediately. Exhibitions Ann Arbor Camera Club presents its Second Annual Salon of Photog- raphy, Room 3541, Rackham Build- ing. Open evenings 7:30-10 p.m. through Nov. 19. The public is in- vited. Exhibition, College of Architecture: An exhibition of hand-made Christ- mas cards from the collections of Professors J. P. Slusser and M. B. Chapin is now being shown in the corridor cases, ground floor, Archi- tecture Building. Open daily, 9 to 5, except Sunday, through Nov. 26. The public is invited. The Ann Arbor Art Association pre- sents two exhibitions, water colors by Jane Stanley, and Guatemalan tex- which is offered annually for travel abroad by the Lake Forest Founda- tion for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Open daily except Sun- day, 9 to 5, through Nov. 14; third floor exhibition room, Architectural 'Building. The public is invited. Exhibit of designs, paintings, and drawings by members of Alpha Alpha Gamma, National Honorary Archi- tectural Sorority, Horace H. Rack- ham Building exhibition room, mez- zanine floor, Nov. 16 to 26. Lectures Lecture: -Dr. Edwin E. Aubrey, Professor of Theology and Ethics, the University of Chicago, will speak on "History and Religion-Current Re- ligious Issues in the Light of Their Historical Sources" at Lane Hall, Monday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. University Lecture: Henri Feyrig, Director of the Department of An- tiquities in Syria, will give an il- lustrated lecture on "The Meeting of Greek and Iranian in the Civilization of Palmyra" at 4:15 p.m. on Wednes- day, Nov. 30, in the Rackham Amphi- theatre under the auspices of the Mu- seum of Classical Archaeology. The public is cordially invited. Events Today Junior Mathematics Club will meet today at 4:15 p.m. in 3201 An Sgell Hall. Mr. J. S. Dusenberry will speak on "A Bit of Pi." An informal discussion and refreshments will follow. Algebra Seminar will meet today from 4-6 in 3010 Angell Hall. Dr. Nesbitt will speak on "Representa- tion of Algebras." The Graduate duting Club will meet at the Power House at the Washington Street entrance at 2:30 p.m. today for a trip through the Power House and Tunnels. The trip will take approximately one hour and a half. University Choir: A University Choir is being formed for those peo- ple who wish to sing for their own pleasure'the best of the old religious music-Bach, Palestrina, Gregorian Chants. An organization meeting will be held at Lane Hall tonight at 7:15 to 8 p.m. Auditions will be held for individual acts to be presented at "A Night of Hillelarity," to be held on Dec. 3. These auditions will be held today from 2:30-5:00 p.m. at the Hillel Foundation. Anyone with any or- iginal ideas is urged to attend. The Scandinavian Club will have a social evening of folk dances with the Danish group from Detroit, this evening, 8 p.m., Lane Hall. All Scan- dinavian members and those of Scan- dinavian descent are invited. All members of Scimitar are urged to attend a short meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Michigan Union. Plans must be discussed concerning a tournament coming soon. Delta Epsilon Pi. There will be a meeting at the Union today at 7:30 p.m. Members and pledges please'at- tend. Stalker Hall. Friday at 7:30 p.m. the class in "Through the New Testa- ment" led by Dr. Brashares. At 9 p.m. the group will leave Stalker Hall for a Scavenger Hunt. All Methodist students and their friends are invited for both the Class and party afterwards. A Class in advanced modern He- brew will meet today at 3:30 at the Hillel Foundation. All are welcome to enroll. There will be a meeting of all who are interested in the make-up com- mittee of theatre-arts at 4 p.m. Fri- day in the League. Friday erv ces at the HillelFoun- dation : 5:30 p.m., Orthodox services. 8 p.m., Reform Services. Sermon: "Pity the Persecutor." Speaker: Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz. 9 p.m., Social. Hosts: Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity. Coming Events 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 Prof. Samuel A. Goudsmit on "Symmetrie in dekora- tiven Mustern." Freshman Round Table: Professor Arthur Wood, of the Sociology De- partment, will discuss "Prison Re- form-Should the Criminal BeTreat- ed as a Sick Person?" Lane Hall, Sunday, 4 p.m. 1 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: 1:00 a.m. on Saturday. I