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CHICAGO BOSTON 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. Albert P. May10 . . Horace W. Gilmore . Robert I. Fitzhenry - . . S. R.. Kleiman Robert Perlman . . . .Earl Gilman * . . William Elvin . . Joseph Freedman . . . .Joseph Gies . . . Dorothea Staebler . . . Bud Benjamin the minority that their chief mission in life is to return North Slesvig to Germany and Dr. Goeb- bels' principle of repetitious propaganda is ex- tensively used in mass meetings, circulars, thea- tricals and motion picture. Other supplementary devices are being used to consolidate German influence in North Sles- vig. A credit organization to buy up as much land as is financially possible and turn it over to Germans is operating on a wide scale there. It also lends money to Danish farmers hopelessly in debt and forecloses to take their farms and turn them'over to some loyal party member. Violence ,thus far, has been in abeyance. Aside from a few well-poisonings, window break- ings and occasional beatings, the methods have been generally peaceful, for the time is not pro- pitious for Hitler to have a Scandinavian inci- dent on his hands. But when Hitler gets ready to direct an attack on Scandinavia, enoug, incidents can be created almost overnight to "justify" his intervention. Unarmed Denmark will then be the springboard to the rest of Scandinavia, whose supply of iron ore (in Sweden) would materially benefit Hitler's mili- taristic economy and whose bountiful crops of eggs, butter and fats are sorely needed by a country in which scientists are constantly experi- menting to find new synthetic foods. -Carl Petersen The Munich Pact And British Arms . . W HENEVER Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement is discussed, there is one argument which is always stressed by the intelligent supporters of the Munich sur- render. They point out that capitulation was the only course open to the English because of Ger- many's superiority in the air. Granted that England's air force was and is inferior to Germany's, as most authorities think, and granted that, consequently, Chamberlain is not to be blamed for not risking war, there is one factor yet in his statesmanship which calls for explanation. Why was Great Britain unprepared in the air? For the last few years we in this country have seen many newsreels, magazine illustrations, and newspaper photographs depicting the precaution- ary measures that were being taken for the in- evitable air raid. The English people were made extremely conscious of what an air attack would mean to the non-combatants. During the last six years the government spent $1,634,014,500 to im- prove the size and efficiency of her air weapons. Plans were revised several times since 1934, to increase production. Yet, in the recent crisis ex- perts state that the air corps was neither capable of defending the Britiseh Isles nor launching an effective counter attack against Germany. William Stoneham of the Chicago Daily News foreign staff, who has written a series of articles analyzing the preparedness of the major Euro- pean powers, last week disclosed the answer to this situation. He believes it is the result of three conditions none of which speak well for the Con- servative party. He shows that the bad organiza- tion of the air ministry, the unforgiveable delay in starting aircraft production, and finally, the selfishness of the English armament ring ex- plain why Chainberlain, even if he wanted to, could not depend on the war machine he was supposed to have built. Armament manufacturers have always been more or less the whipping boys of editorial writers. We do not -think we are go- ing out of our way in this discussion, however, if we state, for example, that the Hawkers con)' pany received an order for 600 Hurricante Fight- ers in 1936. By the end of March, 1938, only 30 planes were delivered. Historians will have to decide the important question of what Chamberlain would have dene if his air force had been ready. For the present it serves as a very convenient explanation for his bowing before Hitler. --Alvin Dann d TODAY in WASHINGTON -by David Lawrence---- / You of M By Sec Terry 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 -.6' NIGHT EDITOR: HARRY L. SONNEBORN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. A Welcome To The New Governor. . . T ONIGHT the Republicans of Ann T Arbor and vicinity wlll welcom le new governor of Michigan at a jubilee dinner in the Michigan Union. With Mr. Fitzgerald will come Mr. Luren Dickinson and other new mem- bers of the state administration. Senator George ' McCallum of Ann Arbor will be toastmaster for the program, which will draw prominent men from all over the state. Ann Arbor and the University are in the center of a region of strong Republican traditions. The party was founded only 40 miles from here and has had many years of association in the county, which is one of the oldest in the state. In the city and county the party has been associated with leadership and good government, so secure being its roots that in 1936 the phrase was coined, "Maine, Vermont and Washtenaw County!" Thus there will be real spirit and sincerity in the wel- come and celebration tonight. The Michigan Daily would like to add its words of welc6me to the many that Governor Fitzgerald and his staff will receive and to wish them a suc- cessful and constructive administration. -Robert Mitchell The Nazi Menace And Scandinavia.:. OR 75 YEARS Denmark has been at peace with the rest of the world. While other countries have waged war Denmark -has worked to strengthen her cooperative econo- my, profiting by war through the sale of huge export crops of dairy and meat products. Today,1 the possibility that the three-quarter century vista of peace will be rudely shattered and that the oldest kingdom in Europe will be forced to bow to totalitarian might is a near-reality. The menace of Hitler to Denmark is especially great for history has given him a potent pretext. upon which to base a campaign of Nazification. The plebiscite of 1919 whichreturned to Denmark a part of the duchy of Slesvig which she had held for centuries until Germqny took it from her in 186> could not eliminate 30,000 Germans who' today live within the Danish boundary. This represents only one per cent of the population, but it is an unreconciled minority for the two peoples have been at odds ever since their first dispute in 900 A.D. The German minority in Denmark is, never- theless, probably the best treated in Europe for Danish law is so liberal on the subject as to be almost naive. It is this liberal attitude on the part of the Danish government which allows the situation to exist. Danish education laws stipulate that a German public school must be provided by the state if 20 per cent ,of the voters in a school district, representing at least ten children, demand it, and that anyone is free to set up a private school with partial state support provid- ing. a minimum educational standard is met. There are today in North Slesvig 91 public and private German schools for a minority which in- cludes only 3,000 children. Danish farmers are coerced by the determined minority into sendin . fi WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-The latest case to beI decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the National Labor Relations Act shows rather conspicuously a defect in the law which has for some time been discussed but never so pointedly brought out before. Here was an instance in which a union affiliat- ed with the A.F. of L. undertook to make a con- tract on behalf of its members, and yet nobody -neither the company nor the A.F. of L. unionI nor the rival CIO union nor the Labor Board it- self-ever found out which unit actually repre- sented a majority of the employees at the time the contract was consummated. In the steel strike, which cst not only millions of dollars but several lives in Ohio a year ago, the labor unions did not petition for an election and the employer spokesmen said it was because the CIO union didn't have a majority. The Labor Board'took no part in the controversy and did not order an election, although it had the power to do so. So far as the general public is concerned, it has a right to insist that these collective bargain- ing disputes shall be reduced to the minimum and that neither employee organizations nor employ- ers shall be permitted to jockey with the law so as to consummate contracts only at times favorable to their respective causes. Thus, labor unions frequently -do not present a petition to determine the collective bargaining agency because they frankly say their union organizers haven't had enough time to line up sufficient members to make a majority. Sometimes a strike is forced in order to develop union members and senti- ment for a particular cause. Board 'May' Investigate The simple remedy is an amendment to the Wagner Act which shall make the certification of the bargaining agency or the holding of an. election to determine the bargaining agency a compulsory obligation for the Labor Board itself. The present law reads as follows: "Whenever a question affecting commerce arises concerning the representation of em- ployees, the Board may investigate such contro- versy and certify to the parties, in writing, the name or names of the representatives that have been designated or selected. In any such investi- gation, the board shall provide for a'n appropri- ate hearing upon due notice, either in conjunc- tion with a proceeding under section 10 or other- wise, and may take a secret ballot of employees, or utilize any other suitable method to ascertain such representation," The only difficulty with the foregoing section in actual practice is the word "may," The unions object to the use of this discretionary power by the Labor Board and so it is rarely used. But if the Board were freed of such criticism by being compelled to follow the specific mandate of the law, if it read "shall" instead of "may," there could be no valid objection to what a Board did when required by the statute. In the New York State Labor Relations Act, a curious contradiction occurs, the word "may" being employed with respect to the holding of an election when an employer asks the question about the true collective bargaining agency and the word ""shall" being used when an employee organization raises the question and wants an' election. One is a mandatory investigation and election and the other is a discretionary power. Elections Prevent Coercion Yet, from this very weakness of the law, strikes and threats of strikes develop. The objection of unions that they would find themselves confront- ed by contracts made by employers with hastily organized unions, of course, has much merit in it, but, on the other hand, elections and, for tha matter, contracts are for a period of one year, during which the organizers have ample oppor- tunity to seek to persuade the existing majority to select another bargaining agency. In the long run, the disadvantages of an occasional loss of an immediate chance for winning an exclusive bar- gaining agency woud be offset by the number of instances in which elections ordered by the board would result in a free choice without coercion from anybody. If coercion on the pat of the em- ployer did occur or any other undue influence were used, the employee units could still petition' to have the election set aside. While the Wagner Act requires collective bar- gaining, it does not insist upon it at the time when the issue really arises. and hence strikes occur as well as serious interruptions to the com- merce of the nation. To amend the Wagner La' so as really to assure immediate collective bar- gaining "whenever a question affecting commerce arises concerning the representation of em- ployees" is in line with the purpose of the act and cannot by the remotest stretch of the imagi- nation be anything but a gain for labor as well as management, and, quite incidentally, for the general public which suffers when strikes happen. with a quiet power and perfect feeling for its surprisingly chromatic songfulness, its humor and gusto, and yet with a tone that was never forced or strident. The Debussy La Mer to those sensitive to its peculiar idiom, must have been a vast and colorful painting of some inner ocean; to us it was a feast of sensuous and often exotic sound, of which the Orchestra was a miraculous chef. And the TchaikowsLy Symphony, that ordi- narily bores us with its theatrical fanfares and drum rolls, its long stretches of desert-like "pass- age work" between oases of luscious themes that only Tchaikowsky could produce. became sur- prisingly lor ;ical and legitimately dramatic under the magic of Koussevitzky's baton, its usual blat- 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. A JOHN GUNTHER, parts of whose book, "Inside Europe," is re- quired reading in certain Political!I Science courses,irecently returned from the Orient with data for his forthcoming book, "Outside Asia." A brilliant observer, Gunther writes of history, not in terms of events but of personalities and peoples. Paris to him, for instance, is Daladier, Blum. and a Rue de la Paix cabby; England is Eden, Chamberlain, and a stolid pub pal, not 10 Downing street. For private consumption, Gun- ther has revealed to friends a high regard for the Chinese, whom he de- scribes as humorous and charming, though almost wholly illiterate. The Japanese, he feels, are polite and ruthless, though almost wholly liter- ate. Gunther believes that one of the sharpest differences between the two Far Eastern combatants is that the Chinese have a sparrow's appetite for conquest, whereas the Japanese be- lieve they have been divinely assigned the mission to ruleandscivilize this planet, envisioning themselves, much as did Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914, as the custodian of our terrestrial destiny. Of course, the shortage of ample munitions in China as compared to Japan's devastating military machine may have something to do with the Nipponese viewpoint. As for the even- tual outcome of the conflict, Gunther believes that the Japanese are doomed for defeat, for the Chinese are uncon- querable, with a vast, limitless shell into which they can retreat. It may require centuries, however-in which case this observer shall withhold his own solution of the matter. D EAR SEC TERRY: Adequately to describe the subtle beauty of the formless ob- scurity of that poem by Cletus Hall demands the pen of a Lich- tenwanger. I haven't one, and say only that poems of that sort belong in your entertaining col- umn. Research might disclose that Hopwood prizes have been bestowed for compositions just as tuneful and logical. Be warned, however, that if you use many of them "Perspectives" may start action for trespass. Yours very truly, HiiBush Cranberry Dear Mr. Cranberry: That Hall's poem was a piece of what you call "formless obscurity" qualified it for this sometimes shape- less pillar. Lichtenwanger being un..- available, we sought the criticism of one Gertie Stein, but she'd have none of it; in fact, Gertie resented the intimation. As for Perspectives, they wouldn't dare! You may be in- terested in knowning that Miss Hall hails from Blissfield. THIS STORY was not inspired by the schizophrenic shakes, because John Wilson is a teetotaler. Besides, he has a pair of good shoes to prove his yarn. John was pounding his ear one night last week when a slight commotion awakened him with a start. His eyes half-closed in that moment of conflict between fear and bravado, he peered into the darkness and saw blurred outlines of a swaying figure, someone obviously drunk, clad conventionally from head to foot with the exception of his pants He had none on. Creeping cautiously along the wall, the anonymous inebriatae reached the edge of Wilson's bed, quietly re- moved his shoes and placed them neatly under the bed. Then turned and minced out. Wilson hasn't seen his brief and uninvited visitor since, and would probably charge it off to something he ate, but for the shoes, which are still under the bed. If the pantless "ghost" wants his kicks, he may reclaim them from Wilson at 311 Thompson St. OFF THE CUFF: M.R. wants to know where one can purchase one of those sweaters Lynn Overman wore in "Men With Wings." . . It was a green slipova, and Overman affected it for 30 years in the picture . . They're reviving an old dodge on campus walks . . . Two men walk behind a co-ed, arguing in loud voice whether they "should tell her." . . . She's an odds-on cinch to turn into the first convenient doorway for an apparel check . . . If those of you from back East want to get in on a gay Xmas party, Bill Spitalny, Law Club habitue, is planning a royal Michigan get-together at the Cocoa- nut Grove of New York's Park Cen- tral Hotel, by reservation only . ----Be a Goodfellow Winners Are Announced In Union Bridge Meei Ying Chang, Grad., and Murlolh Woo, Grad., were announced yester- day as winners of Tuesday's weekly men's duplicate bridge tournament by Don Nixon, '40, Union publicity chairman. Another in the weekly series wil be held from 7:30 to 11 p.m. next Tuesday, Nixon said. There will be an entrance charge of 10 cents pei person, !!! F~r. lfn llnucv nn.. Repcrts from the following com- mittees: Freshman Scholastic Stand- ing (new); Freshman Assembly; Scholastic Standing; Routine Busi- ness will be the order. A. H. Lovell, Secretary. To The Householders: Many stu- dens will remain in Ann Arbor over the holidays and will need work to help maintain themselves during that time. If you need student help and will call Miss Elizabeth A. Smith, Ext. 2121, Student Employment Bureau, Dean of Students Office, she will be glad to send ,you a young man to as- sist in any kind of work. Please place your calls as early as possible. Sophomore Prom: Sophomore Prom tickets No. 117 and No. 208 have been lost and will not be honored at the door on Friday evening, Dec. 9, 1938. Applications for the Girls Coopera-. tive House for next semester are available at the deans of women's office and should be filled out im- mediately. Girls who have filled out application blanks previously must fill out new forms to be considered as applicants.. New Cooperative House for Women: All girls interested in working with Assembly in forming a new coopera- tive house for next year, should leave their names at the Dean of Women's office immediately. A meeting of all girls interested will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Michigan League. Bowling: Women students interest- ed in bowling instruction are asked to sign up at the Women's Athletic Building, or Barbour Gymnasium, Academic Notices English 47, Section 1, There will be no meeting today. Allan Seager. Biological Chemistry 120. For the mcidsemester examination on Friday, Dec. 9, the class will be divided into two sections. Students whose names begin with A to o inclusive will report in the West .Amphitheatre; P to Z inclusive, n the East Amphitheatre of the West Medical Building. Course on Marriage Relations: The final lecture of the series will be given by Dr. R. G. Foster at the Michigan League, 7:30 p.m. tonight. Exhibitions Exhibition, College of Architecture: A collection of etchings and litho- graphs by prominent American ar- tists, shown through the courtesy of Professor Walter J. Gores. Corridor cases, ground floor, Architecture Building. Open daily except Sunday through Jan. 2. The public is invit- ed. Ann Arbor Artists' Mart: Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Art Association, al- 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. Cheimical Engineers: Professor Badr will be guest speaker at the A.I.Ch.E. Banquet to be held this evening at 6:30 p.m. in the Union. Tickets may be obtained at the ban- quet. All chemical engineers are cor- Qially invited. Varsity Glee Club: Meet at the regular time, 7:30, to sing :for the banquet. Phi Kappa Phi will have its regular initiation and banquet in the Grand Rapids Room of the League at 6:30 p.m. this evening Professor Glenn D. McGeoch will give an illustrated ad- dress on music appreciation. Mem. bers may make reservations with the secretary by calling University ex- tension 649 before 2 p.m. Thursday. Ann Arbor Independent Women will have a social meeting this af- ternoon at 4 p.m. This is a get ac- quainted meeting, but all those who plan to attend the tea-dance will have plenty of time to do so. Stop in the Kalamazoo Room on the way to the dance. There will be a meeting of the Merit System committee of the League at 4 p.m. today in the undergraduate office. Congregational Student Fellowship. Please remember that the presents for the Christmas party for young boys should be brought in to Pilgrim Hall by Thursday. There will be a general membership meeting of the American Student Union, tonight at 8 p.m. at the Union, The purpose of this meeting will be discussion of the National Conven- tion of the ASU and the election of our delegates. The Book Group of the Michigan Dames will meet at the League to- day at 8 p.m. All those interested are invited to attend. Women's Fencing Club: The meet- ing previously scheduledfor tonight has been postponed until Saturday morning at 9:30. The Class in elementary Hebrew will meet at Hillel Foundation at 4:15 p.m. today. Tea Dance today from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. This dance, open to all, is sponsored by Assembly - Congress, Santa Claus will be there with favors for all. Come! Three tickets to League Silver Grill Dances given free. comning Events Movies of the Minnesota, Yale and Ohio State games will be shown by Coach Clarence Munn Sunday eve- ning at 7 p.m. in the Michigan Union. All students are invited, Alpha Lambda Delta Members: Don't forget we are going to have a luncheon get-together Saturday, Dec. 10 at 12 noon in the Russian tea room of the League. Please buy your luncheon in the grill and carry your tray into the tea room where we have tables reserved. We want to see you all there. The Suomi Club will have a Christ- THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1938 garet Ives and Jack Gebhard; sum- VOL. XLIX. No. 63 m mary by Prof. Carl Brown. * W. W. Bishop will give a vocational Notices talk on "Library Science" on- Thurs- Faculty, College of Engineering: day, Dec. 8, 1938 in the small ball- There will be a meeting of the Fac- room of the Michigan Union. ulty of this College on Monday, Dec.' University Girls' Glee Club: No 12, at 4:11- p.m., in Room 348 West'rhasltngt p "nrehearsal tonight. Engincering Building. MUSIC By WILLIAM T. LICHTENWANGER Boston Symphony The problems which confront the reviewer, in his thankless task of safeguarding the public morals musical, are many. In Ann Arbor the great problem of all problems comes once each year, when Dr. Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony plays in Hill Auditorium and leaves one with the inescapable conviction that any words he may use will be anticlimactical and powerless as far as conveying a true and vivid idea of the concert are concerned. The critical thermometer which registers dutifully for the ninety-nine ordinary performances is wholly dissolved in the white heat of Koussevitzky's transcendant prograis, his omniscient and omnipotent interprative genius, and the sublime perfection of his orches- tral instrument. Emotional rhapsody in reviewing we have always detested; though others may abandon themselves entirely to the torrent of the music, the reviewer must always keep his critical head above the water, so that lie not only feels but knows why and what he feels. And the reward for this critical reservation, which some souls more easily pleased would call cynicism and fault-finding, comes on those rare occasions, such as last night, when the music is so perfectly re-created that one is carried away not only emotionally but mentally and spiritually as well. The emotion of such an experience will fade with time, but the mental thrill will last as long as memory. To be more stuffily repertorial, let us record that the Boston Symphony, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, played in Hill Auditoriun last eve- ning a program comprising the B flat Symphony, No. 102, of Haydn, Debussy's La Mer, and the mas party, Friday, Dec. 9 at 8 o'clock Exhibition of Japanese Prints: The in the upper room Lane Hall. All exhibition of Japanese color prints Finnish students are invited. Each sponsored by the International Cen- person is asked to bring a. 10 cent ter in the West Gallery of the Rack-zgift. There will be a program and re- hasn Bldg. will be open from 9 a.m. to freshments. 12 a.m., 2 to 4 and 7 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 16. Miss Nagashima or The Michigan Dames Homemaking some of her Japanese friends will be Group will nmeet at the Washtenaw in charge in the afternoons this week. Gas Company for a demonstration of Christmas Cookies Friday evening. Events T d Those desiring transportation will voey meet at the League at 7:45. The English Journal Club will meet this evening at eight o'clock in The Outdoor Club will meet at Lane the West Conference Room of the Hall Saturday Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. for Rackham Building. Mr. W. A. Ren- a hike. Students interested are cor. inger will discuss the relationship be- dially invited to come. tween American criticism and the- American novel. He will stress -the Art Cinema League Film Series: methods of pursuing such a study. Anna Christie with Greta Garbo, the Graduate students and faculty mem- third program of the Film Series, will bers are invited to attend. be shown this Sunday at 3:15 and 8:15 p.m. The Psychological Journal Club will meet this evening at 8 p.m. in the The Graduate Outing Club will go East Conference Room of the Rack- for a hay ride Saturday, Dec. 10. They ham Building. Topic: Reports of re- will meet at 9:30 p.m. or immediately search on color vision by Dr. Mar- after the game, at the Rackham Bldg. Officials, Contest State Liquor Laws WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-(RI)-- Michigan and Missouri officials con- tended today before the Supreme For reservations call 4598. Sunday there will be a hike. The group will leave the Rackham build- ing at '3 p.m. and Will return there for supper. Rabbi Harry Kaplan, Director of the Hillel Foundation at Ohio State University and past president of the Jewish 'Thachers' Association of the f"tntit+f f {'toi 'z ci xzi n lin'r7 f hn "i rlil- 1-n 1