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Baxter NIGHT EDITOR: ELLIOTT MARANIS The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. The Teaching Of Hatred . W ITII NAZI pogroms serving as a catalyst, the chemistry of race hatred gains increasing importance in the con- tenporary world. It distills from emotion and deep-seated bias an essence which rapidly pois- ons civilization. And its virulence, little hampered by national or ideological boundaries, is felt in unexpected places. Italy is traditionally a land of tolerance, the home of a friendly and gregarious people char- acterized by excitability and, humanly, a love of strong wine. Once one would have included a third trait, the .love of freedom which made Italians battle long and courageously for national unity. But since the black-shirted followers of Mussolini overthrew the weak republic and in- augurated a fascistic regime, freedom has rapidly disappeared in Italy.+ Yet, despite the fact that theirs was a totali- tarian government, despite the presence of thous- ands of exotically uniformed soldiers, despite the terror of secret police, the Italians remained a surprisingly tolerant people. Last summer, when Mussolini first ordered the press to start a campaign against the Jews, the world looked on in surprise. Why should Italy, with less than 80,000 Jews in the while peninsula follow such a course? Analysis seemed to show two causes- In the first place, persecution of the Jews would draw tighter the bonds encircling the Ber- lin-Rome axis. Frantic public demonstrations notwithstanding, Germany and Italy are natural enemies. There is the oppressed German minority in the Tyrol. There is the Italian fear of a strong neighbor beyond Brennero. There is the funda- mental clash of national personalities: the slow- moving Teuton opposing the volatile Latin. A commonmeeting-ground. anti-Semitism, would temporarily serve to bridge these rifts. Secondly, Mussolini is obsessed with dreams of recreating the Roman Empire. Outside the ruins of the Forum are three large maps, bril- liantly lighted by night. One shows the extent of the Roman Empire at its peak; a second the pre-Fascist Italian state; the third, the "New Rome" under Mussolini. It is the addition of the Arabian states to the Italian sphere at which, Mussolini now aims, Spain, of course, is another object. The ultimate goal, it would seem, is to make the Mediterranean again a "Roman lake." But, immediately, the Sawdust Caesar wishes to be known as the protector of the Mo-, hammedan faithful. If he succeeds, he will have Arabian support in case of war and the life-line of the British Empire will have been seriously frayed. Thus Mussolini presecutes the Jews to gain the good-will of the Arabs, for whom the Zionist movement is a nightmare and anti- Semitism almost a religion. These, then, are the factors motivating the an'ti-Jewish drive. But the reaction of the Italian people to the decrees was unexpected. To quote Frank Smothers, Rome correspondent for the Chicago Daily News until his expulsion last week, "When anti-Jewish measures began to be issued in September the Italian people were shocked. Few, if any, Fascistic domestic meas- ,,..l- auacAre t.o Aftntim irp,,. nr,. n,.n d, cne,, Rather unique in subject matter is the exhibit currently showing at the Rackham Graduate Building. The three galleries are hung with an impressive display of bird studies rendered in oil, water color, tempera, pencil, etching, and combination mediuns. Strictly speaking, the group of water colors is far too technical to be of artistic value. The birds are painstakingly rendered, their various markings so precise that there is almost nothing left to the imagination; the settings, as a rule, are very stereotyped and equally void of emotion. They are excellent from the standpoint of ac- curate reproduction for the purpose of reference, but creatively they have accomplished little. Among the few that did show creative trend was Carl Burger's Gulls. It is evident that hb makes a decided effort to organize his material into a composition which would result in an esthetic experience. The showing of oil paintings is on the whole very successful. Many of these are highly decora- tive, with a really fine sense of movement and pattern. Noteworthy in this group are three paintings by Francis L. Jaques: "Tropic Bird," "Green-Winged Teal," and "Egret." He works in a slick, fluid manner that covers all traces of brush strokes. His pleasant yet peculiar sense of color, combined with a trick of blending sky into water, has definite atmospheric values. Lynn Bogue Hunt, better known to some as a magazine cover painter, has several of his oils in the show. A rather large selection of etchings on bird life is offered in the third gallery, featuring a valu- able collection of Frank Benson. Included also are several interesting pencil sketches of birds under observation. Kerensky Replies Alexander Kerensky, former Russian premier, who took the leading part in the movement in March, 1917, that led to the overthrow of the Czarist regime, today described as a "mass of distortions and misinformation" Fr. Charles E. Coughlin's assertions over the radio that Jews fomented and financed the Russian Revolution and bolshevism. "Hitlerism is anti-Christ, just as bolshevism is. It is very strange to me that a priest should defend the ideas of Hitlerism for that is what Coughlin is doing." Kerensky, who fled his country after the Bol- shevik revolution, which over threw his govern- ment in November, 1917, and has been an un- compromising enemy of communism, expressed surprise that "any intelligent person can be so mis-informed as Coughlin appears to be." He dismissed as "fantastic" the assertions in the pamphlet of Dr. Denis Fahey, cited by Cough- lin in his radio addresses, in support of charges that Jews and Jewish banders abroad fomented and financed the Russian Revolution. Kerensky declared that, far from being a Jew- ish movement or a movement fomented and financed by Jews, the revolution of March, 1917, was a "revolt of the whole Russian people against the Czarist camarilla headed by Rasputin, which sought to betray Russia and the Allies into a separate peace with Germany." ,The revolt, he said, was supported by all parties, conservative and liberal, high officials, virtually all the grand dukes and all important army commanders, headed by the commander- in-chief, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayivitch. There was not a single Jew in the government established immediately after the revolution and headed by Prince Lvoff, Kerensky said. "The Jews occupied no more prominent part in the Russian liberation movement than did Russians, Letts, Poles, Estonians, Georgians, Ar- menians and other nationalities comprising the people of Russia.," Kerensky said. "Russian democracy never made a distinction between any of them. They were all regarded by us as citizens and their participation in the building of a free Russia was welcomed." The former premier termed "ridiculous" the suggestion that Jews financed the revolution, and said the revolutionary government obtained credits not throi.lh any bankers, Jewish -or Gentile, in America, but from the United States Government. The fact that a few Jews like Trotsky, Kam- eneff and Zinovieff took leading parts in the Bolshevik movement is no reflection upon the Jews as a whole, Kerensky declared. The few Jews who joined the Bolsheviks were apostate Jews, he said, adding that "the Jews have never en- joyed a privileged position under the Bolshe- viks, and have been made to suffer less than other nationalities from the oppression of the Communist dictatorship." "Jewish synagogs have been closed, violated and turned into museums no less than churches of Christian denominations," Kerensky said. Complete pacifists and confirmed militarists have a right to be heard, but I hope that discus- sion of national defense is not going to be re- stricted entirely to these groups. Both sides have ready access, to publicity, and they possess spokesmen who say the things which look well in print. But there are a number of technical problems to come up. Once I was on a steamer which was having a fight with a submarine, and it seemed to me that there were two types of passengers who were not par- ticularly helpful. One crowd raised a great com- motion and shouted that we were about to be sunk any second, and they were just about drowned out by a rival faction which kept up a loud yell. "There isn't any danger!" As things turned out, both sides were less than wholly accurate. So in the present jittery state of the world, I don't think that we ought to say, "Done and done," whenever any general or big scrapiron man announces that we must have the biggest army or navy in the world and that we should bend every effort to completing the program in the next few months. What Brand is He Selling? Even when the need of airplanes is brought to public attention I don't think it is unreason-, able for some inquiring reporter to try to ascer- tain whether the author of the remarks has some special brand of his own to sell. And yet I'would copper this position complete- ly with the expression of my own belief that much harm may be done by the sincere and pious whd think that no problem confronts us save the necessity of giving thanks for the existence (f a couple of oceans. It would help a great deal if everybody on both sides of the armament problem would cease calling names and trying to put adver- saries in a hole. Perhaps somebody is hiding up a tree who truly wants us to send an expedition- ary force abroad to die in foreign fields. But I have not met anyone who announces that as his intention._ Surely it is a good deal less than fair to say that the man who suggests greater strength in American anti-aircraft equipment is opening the door for the boys to go to France all over again. And it is unjust to hint that someone who speaks in very broad pacifist terms is secretly an agent of a foreign power. Politics And National Defense All this will be fought out in Congress during the next session. I wish I could express a sincere belief that our national legislators will restrain themselves from hysteria, headline words and phrases said wholly for gaining political advan- tage. It is a desperate and an evil thing to play with problems of such grave import purely for partisan purposes. But it has been done. There ought to be a gentlemen's agreement between Senators and members of the House that when anyone talks in supposedly factual terms about national defense no statistics should be introduced save those subject to reasonable check. This is a season in which all the wildest tales fly about, and it will be found that some rest on nothing more than the word of a woman who had a friend whose cousin knew a brother of a member of the War College. It is undoubtedly reasonable that certain mili- tary secrets should not be spread all over the face of the map. And yet there have been time' when I suspected brass hats of inventing barriers to reasonable publicity merely to achieve a sense of importance. If we are going to get to any wise decisions we can't afford to scream at anybody. This ought to go all the way down the line from Congressmen to humble' columnists. And so I hereby promise. Alabama Justice The long fight'for the ireedom of the Scotts- boro boys has met an unexpected and serious reverse. When charges were dropped against four of the boys last year it was confidently expected that pardons for the others would be promptly forthcoming. but Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama has disregarded the overwhelming weight of evidence as well as the urgent pleas of the civil- ized world. All judicial avenues of relief are ap- parently exha'usted; and while Governor Graves leaves office in January, his successor has thus far indicated no intention to act more humane- ly. Will.Alabama, like California, rob its victims of most of the years of their lives before rectify4 ing a wrong? --The Nation "Education is no substitute for experience. All college will give is a short cut to experience. As a corollary to that I might add that brilliance is no assurance of judgment. The power of arriving at wise decisions comes from experience." Harry L. Wells, Northwestern University's vice presi- dent, sticks a sharp pin the bubble of the grade- getters. headed by Gen. Ludendorff as chief of the Ger- man high command. "If Coughlin will consult Ludendorff's memoirs he will discover a frank admission of how the Kaiser's government, with Ludendorff's anroval, You of M By Sec Terry ALAVER of a largely, personal or- der: Anyone else might have written that blast against college football and come away with an un- scathed scalp, but Robert Maynard! Hutchins, the outspoken University of Chicago president who earns a part of his living by writing pieces for the nickel magazines, got it in the neck: (1) Chicago's football team hasebeen taking money under false pretenses and should have quit the Conference four years ago - after Beiwanger left-and (2) Mr. Hutch- ins has never had dealings with state legislatures ... His 10-cent football plan seems like the confession of a guilty conscience . . . He can't appre- ciate the second condition because, in his richly endowed quarters, he has never had to solicit appropriations froma group of politicos . . . There is more than a fancied connection be- tween triple-threat stars and new laboratories and dormitories, and we suspect the legislative wallet is more susceptible to the "touch" in the salad years . . . One guess: which is the most back- ward country in Europe? . . . Ameri- cans owe Hitler a rising vote of thanks for reviving democracy . Hans Fallada has written a fine novel, "Wolf Among Wolves," of which Ster- ling North writes: "A surprisingly intelligent novel has come to us from the forests of sadism and ignorance across the Rhine. A blossom of sur- passing beauty has flowered upon the dung heap. It is a miracle not to be taken lightly . . ." Most appro-I priate simile of the day, that of the Japanese statesman who said, "An attempt to build permanent peace upon the status quo of the world seems as futile as rearing a Tower of Babel on sand. . ." HERE AND THERE Notice how imperceptibly the flame of learning burns-just fourteen days till the vacation . . . Ben Moorstein overheard in the library: "I can't help it. My stockings won't stay up unless I wear a girdle." . . . Max Hodge, Gargoyle editor (not an advt.), tells us how American Folklore de- velops . . . In last issue of the humor[ magazine, a note was carried about the Chinese student at a Ruthven tea who bowed when presented with a cup and said, "Thank you sir or mad- am, whichever the case may be" . Last Sunday's New York Times car- ried the story, but made President Ruthven the object of the remark ... In a broadcast this - week, Lowell Thomas quoted from the Garg ver- batim, but much to Hodges conster- nation negected to credit his book with it . . . We'd IiW to wagr that this story will appear and re-appear from now on, always being credited to someone different . - - Gov. Murphy is seen at a New York night club with Doris Duke Cromwell, reputedly the world's richest gal, and immediately a Hearst sob sister prints an "unconfirmed" (the best dodge in journalism) report that the Golden Girl plans to back a third party with her millions . . . Anyone see the con- nection? . . . Add simile: as dull as an Ann Arbor diary . . . Quotation of the week-Henry Adams wrote it a quarter of a century ago: "I appre- hend for the next 100' years an ulti- mate, colossal, cosmic collapse, but not on any of our old lines. My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our prac- tically infinite energies come from or will bring us to." WHAT IS DEPARTMENT DEAR SIR: So many of my friends have tak- en delight in interpreting this little poem that I thought the Michigan Daily would be pleased to publish it. Woofed - The Letter That's to keep us for slipping,' OFireball. Sweet ashes, Toil burned to make. Sand wheel. Sand wheel. Sand wheel.- Crackling, sputtering, blue heat of now nothing, Cease speaking, you're growing cold. Ha! You're black, not white, Crumbly, light, and pinch to nothingness. -Cletus Hall Send five dollars in stamps and a return, self-addressed envelop for full particulars." iThe Editor Gets Told ,.. Plagiarism? ro the Editor: Tonight on the Philip Morris broad- east Russ Morgan played a number, the tune of which is the same as Michigan's alma mater song "The Yellow and Blue"-but the words ran something like this: "Hail to the colors Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. To The Members of.the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts:r The third regular meeting of the I faculty of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts for the aca- demic session ofh1938-39 will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall, Dec. 5, 1938, at 4:10 p.m. Agenda 1. Adoption of-the minutes, of the meeting of Nov. 7, 1938, which have' been distributed by campus mail (pages 473-476). .2. Discussion of reports submitted with this call to the meeting: a. Executive Committee, prepared by Professor Joseph R. Hayden. b. Executive Board of the Gradu- ate School, prepared by Professor A. E. Boak. c. Senate Committee on Universitya Affairs, prepared by Professor Ralph, A. Sawyer. d. Deans' Conference, prepared by Dean E. H. Kraus. First Mortgage Loans: The UmVer- 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. Married Students: Questionnaires' for the apartment survey are beingt distributed to married students. If you fail to receive form by Dec. 6, or if you have questions concerning items, call 2-3061 between seven and ten any evening. All forms should be completed and collected by Dec. 1 10. * Faculty, School of Education: The regular luncheon meeting of the Faculty will be held Monday noon, Dec. 5, at 12:15 o'clock, Michigan1 Union. The Medical Aptitude Test will be given at the University of Michigan t on Friday, Dec. 2, in the Natural Sci-' ence Aud. from 3 until 5 o'clock. Thei test is to be taken by students in- ;l tending to enter medical school inP the fall of 1939. A fee of one dollar is charged for the test for which there are still a few tickets available at the Cashier's Office. Be on time. Aeronautical Engineering Students:t Students obtaining either bachelors or masters degrees in Aeronautical, Engineering in February, June, or August, 1939, should fill out the De-I partment personnel records at thel earliest possible date. In the case ofs those graduating in February, per-a sonnel records should be handed in by Dec. 16. If a student is unable to ob- tain his photograph by this date he should turn in his record and supply the photograph later. Blanks for thisa purpose may be obtained in the De- partment office. It is essential thats personnel records on all students be on file in the office, in order to sup- ply the manufacturers with accuratef and complete unformation. A samplel form indicating the kind of informa-f tion desired is posted on the Aeronau-1 tical Engineering Bulletin Board. Academic Toti-es 'Geology 11. Make-up field trips., Please check lists on bulletin board1 opposite 2051 NS. Trip 3. Dexter. Friday, Dec. 2, 1t o'clock. Trip- 6. Whitmore Lake. Saturday, Dec. 3, 8 o'clock. Sociology 51: The mid-semester make-up examination will be given Tuesday, Dec. 6. at 4 p.m., Room D, Haven Hall.c Exhibitions The Wilson Ornithological Club I and the Ann Arbor Art AssociationI present an exhibition of bird prints, I drawings, and paintings on the gal- leries of the Rackham building. Monday (Nov. 28) to Sa 1irday, {Dec. 3), 2-5. Ann Arbor Artists' [lart, sponsored by the Ann Arbor Art Association. Also an Exhibition of Prints from the Chicago Artists Group. Alumni Memorial Hall, North and South Gal- leries; afternoons from 2 to 5, Dec. 1 through Dec. 15. Lectures Dean A. C. Furstenberg of the School of Medicine will discuss medi- cine in a vocational talk at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the small 'ballroom of the Union. Dr. Sverre Norborg, lecturer in Phi- losophy at the University of Minne- sota, will lecture on Kierkegaard's Philosophy, 4:15 p.m., Friday, Dec. 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. FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1938 sign students interested in plastics VOL. XLIX. No. 58 are invited to a lecture on "Plastics in the' Lighting Industry," by Dr. M. Notices H. Bigelow, Technical Representa- Live of the Plaskon Co., on Feiday, Faculty Tea: President and Mrs. Dec. 2, at 4:10 p.m. in Room 246 West Ruthven will be at home to faculty Engineerin'g Building. members and residents of Ann Arbor Events Today A.S.C.E. Field trip through tunnel system of University. Meet in front of R.O.T.C. building, Friday at 3 p.m. Trip will take about two hours. Men's Glee Club: Meet at 7:15 p.m. tonight for short concert. White shirts required. University Chair: Rehearsals 7 to 8 o'clock. Friday evenings, Lane .Hall. Students and members of the faculty -are -welcome. The Choir is made up of those who wish to sing the best of old religious music, for their own pleasure. Episcopal Students are cordially invited'to drop in at Harris Hall at 4 o'clock, Friday afternoon for tea to meet the Rev. Bravid W. .Harris, Archdeacon of Colored Work in the .Dioceseof Southern Virginia. Friday Services at the Hillel Foun- dation: 5:30, Orthodox services. 8 p.m., Conservative services. Sermon, "Thorns in Little Flowers" by Dr. Bernard Heller. 8:45, 'Social hour. Phi Beta Delta, hosts. Advanced Hebrew class will meet at Hillel at 3:30 p.m. Friday. Dr. Rabinowitz will preside. Registra- tion still open. Coming Events The Angell Hall Observatory will be open to the public from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday evening, Dec. 3. The moon, Jupiter, and Saturn will be shown through the telescopes. Chil- dren must be accompanied by adults. 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. Theophil H. Hildebrandt on "Heiteres aus der Mathematik." Dutscher Verein: The Choral Club f the Deutscher Verein will meet Saturday at 1:30 p~m. in the 'Glee Club room of the Michigan Union. All those interested are very welcome. Otto G. Graf. Cooperative Housing for Women: There will be a meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. in the League for all women interested in promoting and living in cooperative houses. Phi Delta Kappa Initiation Ban- guet will be held in the Michigan Union Saturday, Dec. 3, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Fritz Redl will be the guest speaker. Roger Williams Guild, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. at Guild House, 503 E. Huron. The annual Christmas party for all members and friends. Mattie Krey, chairman. The Michigan College Chemistry Teachers .Association will meet in Room 303 Chemistry Building on Sat- urday, Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. Paper by Dr. L. O. Brockway, assistant profes- sor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, "Electron Diffraction Stu- dies of Chemical Bond Lengths and Their Relation to the Physical and Chemical Properties of Substances." Professor B. W. Peet, head of the chemistry department of Michigan State Normal College, "The Story of Glass." An exhibit will be shown in connection with this lecture. Afternoon session in conference room No. 1, Rackham Building at 1:30 p.m. Symposium on "Difficul- ties involved in the use of mathema- tics in the teaching of chemistry." Discussions will be prepared by the following: Prof. J. H. Hodges, University of Michigan, "Experiences in connection with the teachig of general chem- istry. Prof. B. A. Soule, University of Michigan, "Experiences in connection with the teaching of analytical chem- istry." Prof. J. 0. Halford, University of Michigan, "Experiences in connection with the teaching of organic chem- istry." A general discussion will follow. Graduate Council will meet Mon- day, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building. Future plans and policies will be dis- cussed. Council officers and chair- men of standing committees are re- quested to meet at 7:15 p.m. in Coun- cil Room 1, just previous to the regu- lar meeting.