THE MICHIGAN DAILY _ . :; 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.. 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'MAD10N AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO OSTON ' 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 Editor , Women's Editor , Sports Editor .:'. Robert D. Mitchell. *rAlbert P. Maylo Horace W. Gilmrore Robert I. Fitzhenry S. S. Kleiman * Robert Perlman Earl Gilman * William Elvin *Joseph Freedman . Joseph Gies Dorothea Staebler Bud Benjamin Business Department Business Manager Credit Manager , Advertising Manager. Women's Business Manager Women's Service Manager Philip W. Buchen Leonard. P. Siegelman William L. Newnan . Helen Jean Dean . Marian A. Baxter NIGHT EDITOR: STAN M. SWINTON The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. The Case Against Fascism . . T IS DOUBTFUL if there has been in modern history a phenomenon of such great- consequence which has been as little comprehended as fascism. The reason for this is somewhat obscure, for abundant material exists from which to draw conclusions regarding the nature of fascism, and yet again and again we find writers treating it without even an attempted explanation. More common are those writers, and to include Father Coughlin we must add speakers, who glibly term fascism a "defense mechanism against communism." This theory is derived from a naive supposition of a casual relationship where a chronological relationship exists, 'and an acceptance at face value of the fascists' own defense of their move ment. The growth of the Communist Parties of Germany, Italy and Spain coincidentally with the outbreak of fascism in those countries, and the constant denunciations of the opposition as Marxist and Bolshevik by the fascist leaders and press are considered sufficient evidence for the assumption. Actually, the Communist Party of Germany was far from being strong enough to gain control of the government, either by parliamentary pro- cedure or by direct action in 1933. The Commun- ist Party of Italy was even weaker in 1919-23, when the fascist regime was instituted in that country, while in Spain the Communists were an insignificant group until the civil war actually broke out in. 1936. The fascists circumvent this argument, by proclaiming all radical and liberal parties communist or pro-communist and there- fore their enemies. In Spain the fascists have openly and repeatedly pronounced their aversion to democratic government itself. In America, it is worth noting, President Roosevelt and the New Deal have been the objects of the calumny of th Silver Shirts, the German-American Bund and other fascist organizations." The one thing that all the parties, groups and philosophies which the fascists have attacked have in common is the desire, in varying degrees and by various means, to reform the capitalist economic system in order to bring greater econ- omic and social benefits to the masses of the people. This fact, that fascism is an instrument for the defense of the economic status quo, has been lost sight of largely because of the pro- found changes fascism brings about in the poli- tical and social system. The explanation of these changes is simply that only by means of them can the economic status quo be maintained. It has also been pointed out that the economic system itself undergoes a rather considerable change un- der fascism, that industry is no longer allowed complete freedom of competitition. This is true, but the economic change under fascism is only a superficial one; the collectivism of the cor- porate state is by no means the same thing a the collectivism of the socialist state. The primary features of the capitalist economy, wage labor and private profit, are retained under fascism. while the principle of competition, by which these are justified, is so greatly modifiedand restricted as to be in effect nullified. If the foregoing is true, it is apparent that fascism is of benefit to only one group in society, namely the owners of large-scale industry. That is why great industrialists should prefer fascism to democratic capitalism. The answer, obviously, is that they do not. Fascism is accepted by them because a situation of threatening revolution has developed. This revolution, let it be observed, is not necessarily, and in fact is not likely to be, o a violent character, since in a democracy the people are able to bring about whatever changes they wish in the social or economic system with- out recourse to direct action. Spain is an excellent case in point: in Spain the people's government was in the midst of an immense work of social and economic reform when the rebellion broke out. Finally, in the same connection, why does a situation of threatening revolution develop, or of what does it consist? In a word, a reolution- ary situation occurs when the suffering of the people and their consciousness of the power to improve their condition join hands. The changes effected by the so-called Roosevelt revolution in America have not been wrought by the hand of either a benevolent despot or a demi-god; they have been the answers a democratic government has been able to provide to a people's demands. Precisely the same holds true of the Spanish Republic; the character of the government was not a mood into which the people fell nor a. tendency over which they exercised no control; it was and is the result of their attempt, by democratic means, to improve their lot. -Joseph Gies 'Them Days Is Gone Forever'... F VERYTHING'S BEEN DONE be- .1 fore . . . That was the way a popu- lar song of a few years back noted that there was nothing new under the sun. It would seem, however, according to the great- er percentage of the American press and to those people-not quite so liberal-that present government policies and various Rooseveltian measures are distinct exceptions to this maxim. Between mouthfuls of the Constitution and our forefathers and the glory of America, we can make out loud rantings about radical moves by the government and absolutely unheard-of-poli- Gies. Give us the good old days, they say. No New Deal. No worry about interference from the White House. No labor troubles. No radical ex- perimentation at the expense of the taxpayer. No Roosevelt to plague us. Yessir, they shout, those were the good old days. Wilfred J. Funk in his new book, "When The Merry-Go-Round Breaks Down," has made an attempt to analyze these "good old days." He has dug into old newspaper files and come up with some clippings indicating that all wasn't so serene and peaceful in the highly-touted "good old days." To quote a few: "For six years our country has been the theatre of experiments unprecedented in their character and extremely disastrous in their results."-Con- neticut Courant (Hartford), Aug. 5, 1837. "The old-fashioned rule of leaving men of business to regulate their affairs may at last be, found the only remedy."-Savannah Georgian. May 6, 1837 (quoting Charles Courier). -1 "Give the country a breathing spell."-New York World, Oct. 29, 1873. "It seems almost incredible that at a time troubled financially, as is the present one, work- ing-men should, in opposition to their own best interests, inaugurate strikes."-Rocky Mouhtain News (Denver, Colo.) Nov. 13. 1873. "The country is suffering from a lack of confi- dence caused by uncertainty as to the financial and economic policy of the present administra- tion. All that is needed is a restoration of confi- dence."-Indianapolis (nd.) Journal, June 26,. 1893 It would seem that the only change that can be noticed in the past 100 years is one of frank- ness. Whereas an 1837 newspaper came right out and said what it thought, our great organs of public sentiment today clothe their meanings in insidious and unhealthy insinuations and innuen- does. Ranting about "isms" and tagging public figures with meaningless categorical names, they are trying to say the same thing but are afraid to b* frank. To quote from Mr. Funk again: "There can be no return to prosperity until Roosevelt is retired to private life."-Wall Street Journal (New York) April 11, 1908. Yessir, give us the good old days. -Morton L. Linder The Editor Gets Told. Breaking The Boys In To the Editor: If ever a dictatorship should occur in our coun- try, excellent material for the party organization could be secured from the ranks of the Michigan alumni (ae) meekly existing throughout the land. By their docile submission to present and past University regulations, I earmark all students tainted by attendance at this institution as such. To the prosaic question, "are we men or mice?", there can be but one answer here. Governed by the motto, "it can't happen here," the ubiquitious watchdogs of student conduct are, very busy in the role of appointed bullies. Could we possibly have Thanksgiving Friday off? For shame that such a thought exists! We would all get bellyaches and miss some pedagogue's mono- logue on Saturday morning. We are permitted the luxuries of bicycles as long as we don't ride on the main campus, incidentally, the place where -by David Lawrence- WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-If the New Deal had started off with an inquiry into the fundamentals of the American economic system, such as now has been begun by the Temperorary National Economic Committee created by joint resolution of Congress, there might have been a different story to tell today. For what was Veralded as an "anti-monopoly" investigation has turned out to be the most thorough-going study of what is really happening in the business mechanism of the country that has been attempted since the days of the war, when America had her first introspective ap- praisal, industry by industry, through that effi- cient organization known as the War Industries Board, presided over by Bernard M. Baruch. How do certain industries relate to each other, what happens in one that affects the other, what pushes employment up and what keeps it down, what is the impact of intensive competition and what is the retarding process that monopoly breeds? Questions of this sort are so basic that one wonders how the economic system as a whole could ever without penetrating study have been subjected to the severely regulatory legislation which has been piled up in the last few years. There can be no doubt that abuses have occurred, such as in the sale of securities or in the exploitation of child labor or in the neglect of employers to pay subsistence wages, but, even conceding all these defects, the reason Why the New Deal has come a cropper is that it never tackled by scientific means the basic issues that make all the difference in the world between employment and unemployment, production and economic stagnation. Committee To Get Facts It is not necessary to consider the testimony of the first three days of the Temporary Nation- , al Economic Committee as conclusive. The "econ- omic prologue"-the material presented by Com- missioner Lubin of the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics, Willard Thorp, formerly of the Department of Commerce, and Leon Henderson, ace econom- ist of the Administration-was intended to lay a foundation-a broad base on which legislative discussion might be erected. Significantly, Sena- tor O'Mahoney, the committee chairman, said the other night on the radio that the word "monopoly" had hardly been mentioned in the first three days of the hearings, and he was em- phasizing this as proof that the purpose of the inquiry is to get the facts about business rather than to conduct a smearing inquisition.-. In many respects, the committee is different from anything that has been seen here in recent years. It's a combination of the executive and legislative branches of the government as well as a combination of Senate and House representa- tives. Certainly, if the whole field of economic legislation is to be analyzed, it is a great step for- ward to find all the agencies of government which are primarily affected taking part in the study. Thus, we have the representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who look at business through the eyes of the financial process-the sale of securities to get working capital. Then there are the representatives of the Federal Trade Commission, which for years has been handling cases of unfair competition and trade practices generally. As for the anti-trust laws, the Department of Justice, which has the problem of enforcement, has its representatives on the committee, too. Over in the Department of Commerce, busi- ness has a thousand and one contacts, so Richard C. Patterson, the energetic assistant Secretary of Commerce, sits on the "TNEC"-the name by which the committee is going to be known. The Treasury Department dealing with taxation sends Herman Oliphant, general counsel, and finally the Department of Labor, with its valuable statis- tical data on retail and wholesale prices, costs of living and employment and unemployment figures, has a place at the committee table. , Study Before Acting So, with representatives of the important ex- ecutive agencies sitting alongside three Senators and three Representatives from congress, it can- not be said that every essential interest is not represented somewhere in the investigation. The representative character of the committee is worth noting because it is the first time any official committee around here has taken in all ends at the same time, thus making it possible to look at the governmental picture as' a whole. Likewise, as Senator O'Mahoney remarked in his radio speech, the governmental agencies them- selves are under scrutiny to determine what func- tions should be added or subtracted, changed or rearranged, to meet the new conditions which have arisen in our national economy. What the first few days of the hearings brought out was that, America has increased her popula- tion, production has not kept pace, and likewise there have ben severe fluctuations in the employ- ment curve. What shall be done about it? The 1933 idea was to legislate first and study after- wards. The 1938-39 idea is to study first before starting another series of legislative acts which affect the whole system of private competition. Constructive Start Business and labor will both have a chance to testify voluminously. The hearings ought to prove of incalculable aid to that school of thought in America which insists that what is needed is regulation of abuses rather than drastic prohibi- tions which impair incentive, stop capital flowj and tend to slow up the very economic system which, according to a few charts already dis= closed before the TNEC, requires increased in- stead of lessened production to absorb each year Maroons To Bears .. It may take more than a year, but eventually intercollegiate football will be abolished at the University. We can read it in the stars; college policies will become more frankly commer-' cial, the teams will be paid a decent cut of the profits they bring to Alma Mater, and will therefore improve. The University, realizing the profes- sional standings of the opposing teams. will be forced to confine its character-building activities to intra- mural touchball. Suppose the University decides to anticipate this sad sequence of events and lead the parade out of commer- cialized intercollegiate football. The fall of 1939 will dawn. and Stagg Field, after bravely carrying on all summer as a bowling green, will be relegated to the dust bin until ice skating livens the under-the stands scene again. The field is too good to waste in that calloused fashion. We suggest turning it over to the Chicago Bears. The Bears need a home.Profession- al football teams have been discuss- ing the housing problem this year, and are beginning to want fields of their own. We offer the Bears Stagg Field, complete with sentimental as- sociations, for a paltry ten per cent of the profits. With this retaining fee we can subsidize informal athletics and build up a program of lasting value to the participants. Stagg Field is easily disposed of,- all the more easily since we can offer a coach as an added attraction. The Bears have been using Shaughnessy's plays all year, and manager Halas reputedly wants him as coach. Shaughnessy probably won't want to devote all his efforts to pepping up intramura ls; therefore it would be only fair for us. to let him coach a. good professional team at least part of the year. But the sterling feature of the ur-j sine rule in Stagg Field will be the! new opportunities opened up for foot- ball players at the University. Gradu- , ate student Danny Fortman plays with the Bears today; if the Bears were our team he could be defending ' the glory of the University as well as paying his way through school. Per- haps sociology prof Herbert Blumer would be allowed back on a University professional team, and certainly there are excellent players among our grad- uates and alumni who should be glad for the chance at a professional job with University sanction. Average students who just like to play the, game could go back to the intramural berths they belong in, or could while away an empty afternoon competing with an amateur team from across the tracks. . As for the college spirit, and theI emotional release of unity that foot- ball brings,-they slide into the new scheme with only a gentle ripple. We increase the bonus-for ten per cent the Bears get not only an excellent coach and a well-kept field, they also get a student cheering section and the services of Joe Molkup. Students will still get C-books for a certain number of home games. Watching the Bears will enable them to develop that healthy outdoors glow that is one oft most publicized spectator benefits of football. They'll be able to watch good games well-played, will be able to sup-, port their own school, to sing, to; cheer; they will have every advantage1 of present competition with none of the evil effects. Even the University band will not be severed from Stagg Field;-we turn over the outfit com- plete. Do the Bears take up our generous offer? -The Daily Maroon (Editor's Note: The day after the above editorial appeared, George Haas, coach of the Chicago Bears, declined the offer of Stagg field as a home for his professional team.) Jacksonian Liberalism One restatement (of liberalism) clear and packed with common sense,: has come from Robert Jackson, the Solicitor General. Speaking to the Liberal Voters' League of Montgomery County, Mary- land, Jackson said that real liberals are branded by extreme left-wingers as conservatives. Hehaccepted the label, on the ground that "the liberal movement in America today is simply an intelligent and realistic conserva- tism." Real liberalism, he emphasized, stands for a system of honest capital- ism, free from abuses, and subject to the qualification that the interests of man and of society come first. "We have tried to preserve private enter- prise by destroying the abuses which prey upon it," Jackson said. Jackson cites, as a good working definition, that of Thomas Mann, who said: "We must define democracy as that form of government and of so- ciety which is inspired above every other with the feeling and conscious- ness of the dignity of man." This has been a timeless struggle, first around political rights, now now around economic rights. Jeffer-, son, fighting for political democracy. was scorned by many just as now Roosevelt is. When Andrew Jackson opposed imprisonment for debt, he was denounced as an enemy of prop- erty. Robert Jackson describes liberal- ism as democracy in flood tide and conservatism as democracy in ebb tide.-Raymond Clapper's Washing- (Continued from Page 2) ; Mason Hall. Office Hours: 9-12 and{ 2-4. Choral Union Members: Pass tick- ets for the Boston Symphony Or-1 chestra concert will be given out to Choral Union members in good standing who call in person at thel Recorder's Office, School of Music building, Wednesday, Dec. 7, between the hours of 10 and 12, and 1 and 4. After 4 o'clock no tickets will be given out. Congress Cooperative Housing: Ap- plication blanks for the new coopera- tive house are now available in the Dean of Students office, Room 2, University Hall, and in Room 306 Union. It is imperative for all men planning to apply for membership in the house to be present at the next' general meeting, Sun., Dec. 11. at 3 p.m. in Room 306 Union, at which time application blanks will be col- lected and a schedule of interviews' with the membership committee will be made. Men seeking positions of house manager, steward, purchasing agent, treasurer, or accountant are reminded that they are expected to spend some time this week with the" corresponding officers in the other houses. Academic Notices Geology 11 make-up field trip to Whitmore Lake (Ttip 6) will be held; on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 1 o'clock. This is in place of the trip announced for Saturday. Psychology 115: Instead of the us- ual hour this class will meet Wed- nesday from 4 to 6 in Room 2116 Natural Science. Elementary School Teaching: Stu-h dents who plan to apply for admis-1 sion to the undergraduate correlated course in elementary school teaching, which is now under consideration by the School fo Education, should return the application blanks im- mediately to the School of Educa- tion office, 1437 UES.1 Concerts Choral Union Concert. The Boston' Symphony Orchestra, Serge Kousse- vitzky, Conductor, will give a con-1 cert in the Choral Union Series Wed- nesday evening, Dec. 7, at 8:30 o'clock in Hill Auditorium. Concert-goers are respectfully re- minded to detach from their season1 ticket and present for admission cou- pon No. 5, reading "Boston Symphony' Orchestra." The public is also respectfully re- quested to be seated on time, as the doors will be closed during numbers., Exhibitions Museum of Classical Archaeology: Exhibits from Egypt-Dynastic, Grae- co-Roman, Coptic and Arabic periods -from Seleucia on the Tigris and from Roman Italy. In addition, a1 special exhibit has been arranged of a portion of a recent acquisition of Roman antiquities presented by Esth- er Boise Van Deman. Ann Arbor Artists' Mart: Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Art Association, al-C so an Exhibition of Prints from the' Chicago Artists Group. Alumni Mem- orial Hall, North and South Galleries; afternoons from 2 to 5; evenings 7 to] 10; Sundays, 2 to 5. Through Dec. 15. Lectres Daniel W. Mead, Consulting En-i gineer, Madison, Wis., former presi- dent of the American Association ofi Civil Engineers, will lecture in the1 Rackham Auditorium on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 4:15 p.m. His subject will be:, "Professional Ethics From The Standpoint of an Engineer." The public is cordially invited. American Chemical Society Lecture.! Dr. E. J. Miller will speak on "Chemi-$ cal Research in the Michigan Agri- cultural Experiment Station" in Room 303, Chemistry Building, at 4:15 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 7. The annual busi- ness meeting will be held immediately after the lecture. Events Today Junior Research Club: The Decem- ber meeting will behheld today at 7:30 p.m. in the ampithe- attre of the Rackham Building. Dr. Ralph G. Smith will speak on "Thio- cyanate Formation in. Cyanide Poi- soning," and Dr. Ernest F. Brater will speak on "Recent Developments in Flood Control." Also, initiation of new members. Botanical Journal Club, tonight at 7:30 p.m., Room N.S. 1139. Reports by Nancy Hollister, The effect of high temperatures on ure- dial development in cereal r,;sts. The origin of abnormal rust char- acteristics through the imbreeding of physiologic races of Puccinia gra- minis tritici. W. E. Manis: Variations in Fomes Santayana's "The Last Puritan" will be reviewed by Prof. Paul Henle at the meeting of the Association Book Group today, Lane Hall, 4 p.m. There will be a meeting of all fra- ternity presidents tonight at 7:15 in the Michigan Union. Christian Science Organization: 8:15 p.m. League Chapel. Students, alumni and faculty are invited to at- tend the services, Cooperative Housing for Women: There will be a meeting tonight at 8 p.m. in the League f'or all women interested in promoting and living in cooperative houses. Notice to Graduate Students: The second meetin of. the Romance Journal Club will take place today in Room 408. at 4:10 p.m. Program: Prof. E. E. Rovillain: "Une recherche aux archives de 1'Academie fran- case" Prof. W. F. Patterson: "Pierre de Deimier's Library." Faculty Women's Club: The play reading section will meet this after- noon at 2:15 p.m. in the Mary B. Henderson Room of the Michigan League. The Michigan Dames general meet- ing will be held at the League to- night at 8 p.m. Dean Alice Lloyd will speak. All Dames and their friends are invited. The Hillel Photography' Club will meet at the Foundation tonight at 8 p.m. Labor Committee of the A.S.U. will meet tonight at 8 p.m. in the Michi- gan Union to make plans for action on student working conditions, All interested are urged to attend. See Union bulletin board for location. Coming Events The English Journal Club will meet Thursday evening. Dec. 8, at 8 p.m., in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Mr. W. A. Ren- inger will discuss the relationship be- tween American criticism and the American novel. He will stress the methods of pursuing such a study, Graduate students and faculty mem- bers are invited to attend. La Sociedad Hispanica: Professor Julio del Toro will present the first lecture of the annual series spon- sored by La Sociedad Hispanica on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 4:15 p.m. in 231 Angell Hall. The subject of the lec- ture is "Cuba Independiente," and it will be illustrated with slides. Tik- ets for the series may be purchased from the secretary of the Romance Languages Department at 112 R.L. Members will 'receive their tickets prom Mr. Mercado, 302 R.L. The Psychological Journal Club will meet on Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. in the East Conference Room of the Rack- ham Building. Topic: Reports of re- search on color vision by Dr. Mar- garet Ives and Jack Gebhard; sum- mary by Prof. Carl Brown. The Cercle Francais invites every- one interested in joining a group which will sing French carols on Thursday evening, Dec. 17, to meet at 408 R.L. on Tuesday, Dec. 6 for practice. Graduate Luncheon, Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 12 noon, Russian Tea Room, Michigan League. Cafeteria style. Dr. Carl W. Rufus, of the Astrono- my Dpartment, will speak informally on "Some Recent Developments in the Far East." All graduate students invited. Notice: Engineers: Petitions must be filed with Dean Anderson for membership on the Engineering Council as Class Representatives by Dec. 7. Interviews will be taken by the Engineering Council on the eve- ning of Dec. 7, to nominate the can- didates. Election of candidates will take place Dec. 13 for all four classes, for the Council. It will be held in the West Engineering building. Chemical Engineers: The semi-an- nual banquet of the A.I.Ch.E. will be held Thursday, Dec. 8, at 6:30 p.m. in the Union. Professor Badger will be guest speaker.dAll Chemical En- gineers are invited. International Center: Tuesday, Dec. 6. 7 o'clock. Speech Clinic.' Correction of English Pro- nunciation. Wednesday, Dec. 7. The Interna- tional Center announces the second in its series of art exhibitions which will continue till Dec. 16: Miss Toyoko Nagashima will open an exhibition of rare Japanese prints in the West Gallery, 4431 of the Rackham Build- ing. The prints are representative of some of the greatest masters in this field. Three o'clock. List educational tour before Christmas holidays. Trip to the Clements Library. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Assfstant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday.