T VEN IHI N D T-I GAN Pl _ILY 71 Of Coughluin "Sp"eeces'. . T HE PROMPT re;,ctiou on tb~c partof numerous Catholic .laymen and c:lergy during the past month ag ,ainst the widely - dliscussed radio broadcasts of Father Coughlin . . .. TOAYii WASHINGTON a YouofM BY, See 'Terry DAILY OFFICIAL -BU LLETIN u1bilicat oion I ut ulletiiix!i m.rirti, r cnoic'rto all iuemberg of tile 17niversity, ('rCop rec dAt. the f fi3c of thie Amistant itobtle President until 3;30; 11 .00 ay.oi 3atu dlay. --Illy ,4 , Nov. 20 and 27 was particularly welcome in view pl:z; .. l ,Rdited andimanaged 1byvstudentb of the Uniivcrsity of Mfrehlin undter the autthorit~y r1,the1 Boaryd. ill Control of Stutdent Publications. Published ever'y mnzilii cEpt Mouday dutrinth11 University-year and Summr tSessionJ. Member of the Associated Press 'I'icAssociated Press is exclusively entitled to the uise for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwisec credited in this newspaper. 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Sletlinan ditising Manager . William L. Newnan Wcnenx's B3usiness Manager Helen Jean Dean =Ien's Service Manager. Marian A. Paxter ,,NIGHT EDITOR: MORTON L. LINDER The editorials published in The Michian j;Daily are written by members of the Dily staff and represent the views of the writers only. A New Era I n TrP J s - i ca'I A PPO IN tXM EN T of ~or H r Go v. u.."" . xPrankeMurphy to ;the offie of SAttorniey, General QO ns as a lifitti9 tribte to a man who, for his honesty, idealism and com- vpetency. deserves the very best from the nation lie has served so well. Such a man is needed in public life perhaps in nio position as much as in the Department. of Jus- tice. For this department of the cabinet, in the function of "trust-busting," has assumed a task the outcome of which will be Wore thank mean- ingful as to the very nature of our economy The poblem which it has set itself to answer is, simply put, "is it possible to achieve a competi- tive economy, to, break up mnenopoly, to-make 4fexible a rigid Price structure- so that America's productiye ctlpacity Gan be fully utilized.?" T "oo many of uts have been prone to raise our oeye-brows when we argue the efficacy of trust- busting, Its failures from Theodore Roosevelt's :timge to the present are held self-evident truths, ~We have been too ready to look at the inflexible -prices, the unused capacity, and Lthe oipiation -of industry by big semi -monlopolist c corpora- lions as prima fadie evidence that "trust-busting" 'is doomed, now and fmever, to silent and pre- destined failures as a method of reform. But perhaps it would be better to listen oice again. to a "trust-buster," Thurmani Arnold, aissistant attorney-general. In his report included in the annual report of the Attorney-General to Congress, released Dec. 31, Arnold ealiestly urges that "trust-busting" has never been really tried, that, the, failure of anti-trust prosecution and legal administration in the peast has not been -due to the weakness ocf trust-busting in itself; iibut to the lack of -personnel and funds to carry it on thoroughly and effectively. One need only read that the Department of -Justice must handle legal proceedings connected " ith more than 30 major acts of Congress, that it has 9'7 lawyers to carry on ts .work which con- ~cerns every industry in the country as compared for example to -a, personnel, of over 1,200 in th $ecurities and Exchange GCommission and 1 t30 in the Civil Aeronautics Authority, to realize that 'there must be somte weight to Arnold's argument. 'T'he total appropriation of the Art-Tmst divi- ;sion is $780,060 out of which sums it is now ,.arrying ivfive majranP-ritist ces, concud- ing two others and preparing to institute at least four new ones besides enforcing 30 oather acts What is- more startling -is Aold's explanation for the failure of trust-busting 'in the first iRoosevlt's term of office, Five lawyers and four "stenographers conducted tihat anti-trust crusade! :7rhis was the entire personnel of the Anti-Trust Division. If trust-busting-is to su.cceed~ if it i to make effective the rules of theeompetitive game which shave been justified, apologized for, worshipped its inviolable, and violated as impractical and dangerous, then it must have the right men to Ydirect it, enough men to carry it and enough money to finance it. Thie capable dlirectors we -have in Attorney-General Murphy and Thurman Arnold, but they will be powerless, ,ad "trust- busting" will be written off ;as- an ignominious arid dubious asset of this Administration, unless rol , *c *~v , 'r~ w* rz 41101' xIc~ I of the increasing tendency of many of the Royal Oak priest's listeners to regard his expressions of opinion, as those of the Catholic Church, The most imiportant source of direct denial of church sanction for the Couglin broadcasts was Card- inal Mundelein of Chicago, recently retuned from a visit to the Vatican, while the most pi'olninent Catholic layman to protest the talks was Frank Hogan, president of the American Bar Association. Perhaps the mnost Ithoroug-' going refutation, however, was ,contained in an article by John A. Ryan in the Dec. 30 issue of the Catholic publication CominonweaL Ini this article Mr. Ryan begins by tracing the statistics Father Couglin employed in attempt- inag to establish a connection between te Con- munist International and" world Jewry to their originlal source. Father Coughlin had quoted a book by the Reverend Denis Fahey entitled "The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern -World." Father Fahey had drawn upon an anti-Semitic London weekly, "The Patriot," which in turn had quoted a French periodical, "Documentation Catholique," (nrot a church publication) of March 68, 920. This obscure journal had given as its own source a report of the Anerican Secret Service to a French government official which, it asserted, contained the statistics in question, to the effect that 24 out of 25 high Bolshevik leaders in 1917 had been Jews. Chief Wilson, head of the U.S. Secret Service, has denied tie exist-. ence of such document, and said that it is quite certain no such report was ever made. Father Coughlin's other source for the figure, the "British White Paper," did not include such a statem ent, according to the British Library of Information in New York. Mr. Ryan, found that the other figure used by Father Coughlin, that of 56 of 59 members of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1933 were Jews, had event less basis. The priest had given as reference page 90 of the Vaey book, but the statement was not to be found on page 90 or any other page. Other fabrications and distortions of fact which Mr,- Ryan found in his examination in- eluded the assertion that American Jewish bank- ers financed the Russian Revolution. As a mat- ter of fact, Mr. Ryan found that the bankers in question lent money to the Kerensky republican government, which supplanted the regime of the Czar and was itself ovrthown by the Bolshevik revolution in October of 1917. A deliberate mis- quotation of a, editorial i "The Americai Hebrew" which the t)Aiest(1ot'd as refrrmug to "Thle RussianJewih Revoluloi" was, in M'. 1"lyaifs piolLtie wrt offences, - (On Dec. 4 FatherCoghn declared -a.state=~ nment made to the press by Henry Ford deploring the persecutions grad been inadequately reported, and asserted that Ford .had said there was "little or no persecution in Germany." Harry Bennett, Ford's personnel director and right-hand man, immediately went on the air to deny the priest's allegation and confirm, the original report of Ford's statenment-- "Why did Father Coughlin think it necessary to drag into his address of Dec. 4 the Ford statement?" Mr. Ryan asks. "The only adequate answer is that Father Coughlin s,eager,. or at least willing, to promote ati-Semitism. in the United Sates. Thle same inference reasonably emerges from the other two addresses.. '11t has been urged -that Catholics hi partiular ought to refrain fromr encouraging this cam- paign of an-ti-Semitism from fear that the same methods and the saie psychology will be used against thenm when the next anti-Catholic move- ment gets under way," Anti-Semitism is undoubtedly the most im- portant- and overt manifestation of fascism in note-fascist countries and par ticularly the United States. S. K. Padover in the January Forum C"Unsex' Amerika") states that 98 per cent of all Nazi propaganda in tile United States is anti- Semitic, and quotes Coinfloss, chief of foreign propaganda for Hitler, as saying that "anti- Semitism in America is a vital necessity for WASHINGTON, Dec. 21--Boti Seato- Wheeler:and Neville Miller, head of the National Association of Broadcasters, are right-thai is, each is .talking.,about different aspec.ts of the #same problem-when they discuss the latest con- troversy over censorship of radio stations which permit speeches inciting raca or religiou hatrecds. The Montana Senator doesn't ant aybody to .st hi mself up a, a censor for any group of radio stations,, and Mr. Miller would 1e the last, Ino doubt, to ecssay such a role, What the National Association of Broadasters did in their recent meeting was to discuss ways and means o' avoidilng seehes that icite rlig- ious and, racial hatreds. Associations of editors often discuss what they think is good or .bad for newspapers. They have at times discussed wheth- cir crime news: is a help or hindrance to social progress. They; have discussed what to do about news of commercial sports and thc like. No t egd Censorhip So now, when the Trade Association of Broad- casters-takes up what to do about speeches that promote religious or racial hatreds, it doesn't mean that radio has imposed a legal censorship It means that each and every radio staton niay do as it pleases, but that customs will arise among- radio stations, just as they do among newspapers, to avoid issues that tend to involve thetain unnecessary controversies and sometimes in litigation. Radio stations, like newspapers, do not like to spend their time and energies answering com- plaints and engaging in lawsuits and, if some of the radio stations, ating individually, decide that some - addresses end to abuse freedom of speechl, they will-withhold them, .just as do news- papers, which exercise their own judgme ti what they publish or omit. The important thing from a legal standpoint is that the National Association of :Broadcasters does not have any authority to promulgate rules for its members and that its recommendations can at best be only advisory. Any tendency to conspire together- to prevent any .particular group from using the air would probably cause the radio .stations to run afoul of federal or state statutes. Yert, back in the days of the World Wr, a general conspiracy of silent tretmernt was be- hoeved to have been invokd by someit of IiheIress with respcet to the ant i-1.V' spfNclW5 Inte late Senator La Follette of Wtisconsie- Public Opinion Will Guide The fact that radio stations get their :licnses from the Government is of ten cited as a rea sn for urging Federal Governent .supervision of °what is or is-not contained in radio, progras. There is, however, no basis in constitutioal law for the assumption of such a power. The1 Federal Government's power to issue licenses ielates sole- ly to the mechranical allocation- of-wave lengths. It has to do with theproper distribution of facili- ties and not to -what s said on the air. The phrase, "the public interest, convenience and necessity', has in- recent years been defined by various -would-be censors in- Government as giv- ing -Congress the right to order supervision of Programs by the Federal Communcatiois Coi- mission1 but the Supreme Court of the United States has never passed on that partiular rioit; indeed, orne decision, rather points :to the use of that; gutted clause- , dfining the duty of Con- gress solely with reference to the-alloation~ of ph ysicat facilities. Riadio is developing, like tie press, into an ineedn nttuin elu o its editing privile s and alert to pr vent any contingency which=,wll reriin4 thwgovernment to say what can or cannot be spoken on the air. you may write iW hieroglyphic, WEDNE SDAY; JAN14. 4, 19:,9 icMr Weavr on or before .Jan, 9. talk of mnany things terrific, VOL1. Xl'1X. No, 71 01Cc _iphoursm: IO-t1. MWF, 2213 A. storm nthe orient-al plainis NwithglenI i Memb's of the 1UniversityN- h i kh raro: lean er unciil: Ther-e will be a meetid i 1ebl-uaI.yCandidate~;fi' thMe Teach- hitch o r sar. Inale aldel, cr" 'ti :tiiacS thes le Mdi to-i-i'il Ja'J1 ald" c"v'- the Atlanitic .:[et Ui ,e Ei:twa) ce " poi s race aacross the counlcil chambers with blueprint-s for a neCw generation. If. these things worry you unduly, forget it! Lloyd's of Loidon (not 'to be confused withT7yrone Powe) kae quoted 32 to one odds that Chanber. lain diplomacy will avoid war in 1939. HOW they decided upon such ai bi- trafy ratio as 32 to one is a dainty mystery which surely would spoil in the telling. Maybe (just as a hint, mind you-) they consulted the oracles in Whitehall and found just how far the British will go; or still in the coa-. jectural vein, maybe they searl ed the heavens and caught Mars wink- ing. At any r'ata*, Lloyd's have spoke. And there won't be any war, So t here! No better epitaph for 1938 could have been written, we believe, than the last w ords of ,"Arseic Ana Marie Hahn, who was recently elc- trocuted for doing away with several gentleman friends. She wrote in her cn lfess clt:: "1 low ndvw that when I put that- Poison io the iystrs 7 w asn1't/b),my 'nofrmtal ntIihid; no one could do a ting ike ~btm " FROM the Chicago 'ribuie "Voice ofthe People"" column of Dc. 20, postmlar'ked Ann Aibor, Mich. Dc. 15-- "S01e in of Our schools ught to form a Blass of' the truth in world affairs ;fnd "hlistory and oo ttpi'l alla editors and editorial Wities to atte~d it, A shlar likec Father Cougtlhflin shoo be ap- pointed, to give the lac ures. 'Then pe*rh aps.our lres, cud eaimh out of the gutter Of lies aid nsrepr- 1 entation they =are wallowing tin" Signed Walter Ruffig jAiui'r-a 'sca wontei'fiii ounm-y - Th. i"1la CUIf''l :A few per al lr-u iAcis --Grover iWaen, New Y'or's Worlds'Fai' director-, will vie, with l"J. a-,rnd fiuler for ua'litty of vubltcaty in the enuing n-onrtis - Mra Paul CuicannoD will reas- .sure Wastnesaw Republicas An English} celebrity will visit the U.S., be feted by thie gusinmg auxil- iarieS and them anniounce that what lie liked most illUotham was 'the plumnbing... Michigan's wayward troupe of tutors will be introduced to Michigan's football team . .- Hedy La marrs next picture will add- tenors to the Alimony Row choirs-- A Daily reporter will allude to hock beer~ and Arboretum swais w enI March makes her lambish exit -- "'Miss Hlallelulj ah Brown" will displace "Mr. F D.R. Jones" in the public's un- certain affections, and what the Gal- lup Poll will ascertain therefrom is beyond us at this point.,,. Strike Tis Up SiPPI"g Th'le Burteau of Appointments hias' received notice of the following Civil Service Examinations. Last date for filing application is given in each M4ichigan Civil Service. hExt elliion Librlarianr. SaIlatry range; $150-190, ,Jan. . iidenlfc in, Michigan not 1 rquired). Order and Cataf lo(g lie L ibrar lian.L!u Salary range $'200-20 a.20. ei- deuice in i tchligan no : ic1t required. Cooking classes,.x;1alary rax-ige.r$J)5- 160. Jan, 7. Ins-titutioui Maintclin 1cC E c~ ist, Salary range . $140-160. Jan.2 5. Omthopedic Public Hel~alth Nutrse. Salary range $250-210, Jan,_ 12. (Resi- dence in Michigan not required). Housemaid, Salary range $75-9N. Jan. 5. Detroit Civil Service. Junior . Transportation Schedule Maker. Salary $2,520,.TJan. 11. Junior Mat fron (House of Cuorle- tio t). Sala1ry $1100 and rkfull m-ini- tenance. Jan10 1. Openl to residetl f of Walyne (ioull- ty, Seior Bling Opera 1 ting F- giner. Slary~260. Jan13 Princiial BtnlIding Opera-t iwg Iun- Piano Accompianist emIdFr time, 2 to 5 periods ocr wekat.1 2 a period. Jan, 16. Ais~lta1if(nt Cie(f illCI Chargef Sam tary Inspection. (Legal re )idence in Milwaukee for 3 years required)i Sal- ary $2400, Jan. 5. Complete annlotuncements are on file at the Universi ty Bureau olfit)p- pointments AndI Ocupatifional~l In ' '- ruatioi, 201 Man Ha IDll;-IOffie ho sl~ ~9-12 : and2-4. Untiv(rsity Burevan oy Apoininien ts and Occupational Inform1ailo. A cademirn cNtis Anth ropology ,157:, "The Evu~ilta n of Culture". TBe pl-epared for J (11hZ Thursdaiy, Jan. 5. Eavg lh WQ, Jun ior loi ors- All: students wishin1g to electfor he u nlo~ HooIn tcornw. er s4a"ci U.S. D0kmai.L044a1i LIMA1, Per'u, . 13.-- 1(IPiI -nited ( Staltes dliplomiats inl six South Amerlri- cant countries Conferred todlayonl mneans of ,streng;thening " our diiplo_- at 1ic lines; of defense in Soul-h4tf AnieO ica through a discuss8ion of 1the' problems confronting uts."- Washing ton State Department'si Di- 1 vision of American Republics, said the."agenda includes everything con- cerning the political, economic and social phases of our relations wIth bhe -igious nesday Counici l of, the Studenit Re- Asociation will, meet Wed- eveinxg, 7:15, Lane Hall. !W 1, 1.4.: l ,ViiU.(''.A-U UUL ,tL (.(1 "j mutation checks issuecd at -Heacd-'4Freslnneni Girls Glee Club mneeting quarters Janz. 5 fr-om 1:30 to 4:30 at 7:15 t2onight - in the game room p~m.- of the Leag ue. Cla4sses at the Ilillel Founltdation:. The cClass in Current Jewish Prob- lems will tmeet at the roundation to- night, at 7:30 p~lm. The c;lass in ele- tuent-ary HIebr ew will meet on Thurs- oay at 4:15, The ,claiss iniadvanced Hebhrewv will not meet, this week. Sc" adiaian C lub. Scia 1llenin tonight:at(,Lane Hlall, 8 palm. All lnelllber-' andie studenlts _of Scandinlavian decen I~ are invited. Congres:"11'hrc will be a +combined niet~fi1? of the('F:-xecutilve Courncil and Vi ldistrict council todray at 8 pm in tie Congrs ss office. 'Barry's Here Come TheClwns' I s Thought-Provoking Dran' a By NORMAN KIELL - Philip Barry, in his "Here Conte The Clowns" playing at the St. James Theatre in New- York, has written a modlern morality play,,, a propa- ganda play -canll it tihiat you will, it is the most stimulatirwgiand tthwught''provokin c nteintlpol- anry drama iin town. Mr. Barry is in the ageless search for _l uth and Ultimate Good. If God is good, why is- there so much ev.il in the world- Why the persecu- tion? W4'hy the wars? - Clancy, former stage-hand at the old vaude- ville house and missing for two years, has: re- turned and interrupted a Saturday evening turn in the theatre. He is looking for Someone amid apparently expects to ,find Himt in the theatre. The performers lead him off and bring- him to t'he back room of Ma Speedy's cafe. There he meets his old vaudeville friends: Major Arm- strong, the midget; the ventriloquist and his lesbian wife; the caustic press agent; a,, dancing team (Cooper +& Farrel) ; and Prof. Max Pabst, Illusionist.. In this eerie back-room saloon, Pabst suggests that what Clancy is seeking is perhaps not God, but Tri,~th and that his quest is .ended for he, the Professor, Illusionist and not Magician, will show himi Truth. He calls on the various members of the troupe to reveal the truth of their lives an inordinlate lia'te for migt.PbtIllusion- ist, Truth seeker, God, Satan, forces the dancer and thelie midget to r'ecognize some relationsh-ip betwec ihni And (lA',cy, dazed, good -n ati red'. c lgiqu , Irish Cancy, Clancy who has had every lnnsfor_ tune conwcivable befallen on hin , Clancy who7 has had only one thing in life whom he could call hisi own?, is made to see that even that lhanii nesns did not rightfully belong to hini If, f.hecn, Truth is what Chancy is seeki g and did not _know, if Truth is the end-all, if things mzust be ;sthey are, then 'I'ruth is not the end- all andtAbe be-all of life. iMr. aRifry's people are all fundament.f'i1vhh (_0 i.u people atid Honest, as most men are. Why fthf must they endure evil over which they have no control? Why must there be evil, suffering, her~- secution? Mr. Barry does not answer it satisfac- torily f-or a twentieth-centtury audiience. He is too inmbedded in the philosophy ofth medieval- ists, inl (hf. self-salne attemlpt, to explain advei's- ity in a ulniverse ruled by a loving GOod. But Mr. B3arry heas wvrit ten a superb dra ia He knows- the craftsmanship of playwrighting and he builds- his plot to grand "heights. He knows what goes on inside his people, he looks deep and he reports with an -Inspired hand, And if Mir. Barrwrtites i ' a t11ir dhan) SA.E. Meieting tonight at the Union at 7:30. On this occasion'- Sound. Films will be shown thr t the courtesy of the F'ord Motor Comi- panry, This is an open meeting and everyone is ilivited to attend]. 1L The Mak .tug. ofr Safety Glass. Talisf ilm ,how 1-lihre completfe steps Ildx maiuftur .it'g modern safety 2. Yelo lotne Nationtal Park . lTeIHarve~st of the Years, This fAin hows how tHie new ears and trucks atre descigntel and devjeloped anl shouj~lld be of special inerest ;o all c~ { ci', - C"omi ngEvents- Zoology Seminru: There will be no iiieetiiig of the Zoology Seminar on T1 ur1sdaty-v enting, Janl, 5. Cerele Franc ais: Ihere will lbe a meec't ing of thle Cercle' Francais on Thu idi y, Jan). F5 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 408, Romance Languages Bldg. La Sociedtad Ilispanica: There will' be a mreeting Thutrsdaty evening at 7::i(1~m in t he League. Th'1e pro- grm ill con~tsit of" a{.shlort talk, poemsl ! , ,.game ai1l songsi. All mem-_ bJ(rs aeruetdto r attt. ln11-t 1i'iiintl (;Cj~etr:'I.f'esday, Jan. I hill_+1 y . n. 54 p in. Usual I' l I;ly{1" Janlt, 3.Rec reatlon Night. 7 i.n.1171u-trat d Italk by Prof. l mil L f_;;1(1of.the1ch lool of Archi*- teetre 0c11 "A1rchitet lure ill flteU.S. I andt its Soul-ce", ? 8 to) 8:30 p.m."Sn" Zeta Ph11ioEta: Memberws of Lambda chiap i' of Zeta Phi Eta are remind- ed~ of the firstreuametn of the yeair tomorrow, Jan. 5, at 7:15 'p-m. in ( the)Portia rooillonthe flc Ourti floor 01of Ail il Hall. It ,is imperative rhat tall c y - ledges, and alumnae plan on being,,precsenlt for this in- pecrtant meeting. Polish Engineering Society : There will be a 'very important meeting, 1:kn. (; ;0, 7-311t)mn. 0,I ho-u. Wfi,-.i,,