THE MICHiIG-A N D AIIY THE MICHIGAN DAILY An English View Of Roosevelt's Opening Message To Congress ' l . '' II 11L LPs pB}0w OFEdited and m anaged by students of the U niversity 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. Subscriptions 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 MA IBON Ave. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO BOSTON ' LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1938-39 Board of Editors Managing Editor . Robert D. Mitchell EditorialtDirector . .rAlbert P. May10 City Editor . . . . Horace W. Gilmore Associate Editor . Robert I. Fitzhenry Associate Editor S. R. Kleiman Associate Editor . Robert Penman Associate Editor . . . Earl Gilman Associate Editor . . , William Elvin Associate Editor ..Joseph Freedman Book Editor. . . . . . Joseph Gies Women's Editor . . . Dorothea Staebler Sports Editor- . -. . Bud Benjamin (From The Manchester Guardian) Most English men and women when they listened to President Roosevelt on Wednesday night must have wished sadly that it was the head of their own Government who was saying these things. They must have put beside the President's challenging denunciation of the dicta- torships and bold assertion of the beliefs of a free people their own Prime Minister's timid exercises in the same field. They must have re- called with a little shame Mr. Chamberlain's naive confession that, although Fascism may not do for us, he cannot get up "much excite- ment over different systems of government, apart from particular actions which may not necessarily be inherent in the system," and they must have regretted that it has been left to the American President to state the British (as it is also the American) way of life without apologiz- ing for it. The contrast is painful and need not be pursued. It can only be hoped that among the many effects of the President's speech in the world not the least will be that of recalling our own Government to the principles it has deserted. Those effects will be considerable. Al- though the President outlined no positive pro- posals except the revision of the Neutrality Law and the acceleration of American rearmament, the intimation of American hostility to the ,dicta- torships and their methods was much stronger and more sustained than anything that has come before from the head of the United States. It followed logically on the stiff Notes to Japan, on the recall of the Ambassador to Berlin, on the upholding of Secretary Ickes's rather violent speech, and on Secretary Hull's efforts at Lima to counter Fascist penetration. Mr. Roosevelt summed it all up in a Message that may be as important for the world as those of Wilson. And, controversial as were his domestic passages, on this broad question of democracy versus dictator- ship- he had his country behind him. The speech reflected to the full the disillusion- ment since Munich. War was then averted, but "it has become increasingly clear that world peace is not assured." Mr. Roosevelt did not (like Mr. Chamberlain) hark back to or take, pride in his own contribution to Munich, but built up the stark picture of a world living in war or under the threat of war, military and economic, a world in which are challenged the three funda- mentals of religion, democracy, and good faith among nations, and over much of which "strident ambitions and brute force" reign. But it is im- portant to recognise that though Mr. Roosevelt's phrases were sweeping there was nothing in them to suggest that American policy towards, association with Europe has seriously changed. The common American reaction after Munich was to keep clear of Europe, leave the half- hearted democracies to their fate (the United States could not save them anyhow), and make sure that the Western hemisphere at least is kept free. Mr. Roosevelt's speech does not con- flict with this mood. And while the revision of the absurdities and injustices of the Neutrality Law would clearly operate to the advantage of assailed democracies in Europe, the working rule of European policy must still be to exclude hope of active American intervention. All the same, this stiffening of the American attitude, this powerful rearmament, this readiness to give of- fence to powerful States and to risk the conse- quences (which, if the tension in relations with Japan and Germany continues may easily lead to economic rupture), means a great deal to the remaining democracies, even if its consequences are unforseeable, Politically the Message was extremely skill- ful. It called for national unity, and it made the New Deal the symbol and expression of that unity-democracy's answer in efficiency to the dictatorship's challenge. It told Congress that most of the New Deal programme has been met -in other words, the President is not going to try the digestion of his critics too severely in the rest of his term-except for another Re- organization Bill (perhaps less severe than that the last Congress threw out), transport legisla- tion, revised social-service measures dealing with pensions and medical care, and the amendment of the Labor Relations Act. He gave firm warning that if Congress aims to cut down Federal spend- ing (or as he preferred to call it "investment") the responsibility must be its own. When he con- trasted the two alternatives-a closely balanced Budget and a liberal development and spending policy-the Republicans and Conservative Demo- crats lustily cheered economy. But when provo- catively asked on what items they were to save their voices were silent, and so, w#hen it comes to the test, it will prove. On finance Congress is not heroic. Indeed, for the moment the President had the crushing last retort that when he stopped spending recession came and when he resumed the curve turned again. The defence programme will be expounded in another Message. It in itself will have an important economic bearing, for, as in all other countries 'with heavy un- employment, rearmament will be treated as a recovery measure and come to be valued for its own wasteful sake. The programme will be criticised in detail, for there is far from being agreement on the kind of defence policy the United States needs, and by long tradition the service departments are apt to get too much of their own way without the civilian checks and coordination which this country has developed. But that the United States will arm and arm handsomely is certain. And after Mr. Roosevelt's Message she arms with her eyes open and for good ends. Business D BuiesManager . . Credit Manager Advertising Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Service Manager . Department .Philip W. Buchen Leonard P. Siegelman William L. Newnan . Helen Jean Dean . . Marian A. Baxter The Press (Editor's Note: This is the first of three articles on the press. Following this installment, which presents a general statement on the role of news- papers in modern society, there will be two articles dealing specifically with the part played by weekly and daily papers in Michigan during the Nov. 1938 elections. Mr. Edward Magdol, '39 has collaborated with the writer in the preparation of this series.) By ROBERT PERLMAN The election and activities of the 76th Congress, the swiftly shifting in- ternational scene, the progress of a growing labor movement-and a thousand other particular economic, social and political problems vitally concern everyone today in a democra- cy. But the functioning of real demo- cracy requires that accurate and wide- spread information on these ques- tions be in the hands of the people, for men and women must be acquaint- ed with facts and must be aware of the clash of theory and opinion before they can make the intelligent decisi- sions upon which our form of govern- ment is based. The newspaper is the maid channel for the dissemination of this informa- tion-in fact that places a tremend- ous social responsibility upon the press. If newspapers allow their special interests to interfere with the presentation of news, important for the reading and voting public, then they constitute a serious threat to democracy. An understanding of the role of the press in modern society must be based on a knowledge of the characteristics of newspaper publishing, which is a business run for profit. As a Big Busi- ness, it places the publisher in the position of an entrepreneur, investor and employer of labor. This often brings him into conflict with labor and consumer groups. More import- ant, in determining the publisher's point of view, the newspaper depends on the good will of advertisers, whose interests many times run counter to those of the worker and the consum- er. There is a complicating factor, how- ever. In order to obtain lucrative advertising contracts, newspapers must build their circulation, which depends on pleasing the readers. And in the final analysis, the readers are by and large workers and consumers. The publisher, then, has a difficult problem-he cannot afford to antag- onize readers by working against their interests and at the same time he must protect the immediate finan- cial welfare of his own business and that of his advertisers. One feasible solution to the problem{ lies in the establishment of a labor and consumer press, dedicated to counter-acting the influence of the equally class-conscious large pub- lishers. But many of the existing evils of suppression, distortion and outright propaganda in news columns may arise in labor and consumer papers, much to the disadvantage of minorities within those groups. Another solution that must supple- ment special interest newspapers is an idealistic one-honest handling of the news. One hundred per cent objec- tivity is impossible to achieve: sel- dom do two reporters see the same facts in a situation and even more sel- dom de they interpret the facts the same way. But within the limits of individual differences and of time and space, good newspapermen like the late Paul Y. Anderson. have been able to write completeand truthful reports and then arrange them in the paper with a decent regard for the relative importance of various articles from a social point of view. A much-harassed democracy de- mands the realization of these two objectives: the appeararnce of a press for the great mass of the reading pub- lic and honest handling of the news by all papers so that people will have the information on which to think and act for their own good and for the general welfare. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the =--iversity. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the Preside- util 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Satwrday. Exhibition of Chinese Photography: Exhibition of Chinese photographic Freshmen Glee Ctb iThere will be studies by Cheng Chao-Min will be a meeting at 4:15 today in the Michi- presented in the Galleries of the gan Union. Rackham Building from Monday, Jan. ,16, to Saturday. Jan. 21. This All Mechanical Engineers are in- showing is sponsored by the Inter- vited to attend the next regular meet- national Center and is the last in a ing of the A.S.M.E. this evening series presented for this semester. at 7:30 p.m. in the Union. This will be a combined meeting with the NIGHT EDITOR: MORTON C. JAMPE The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and reresent the views of the writers only. Arms For Democracy.. . MICHIGAN was announced yesterday as one of the 13 schools in the coun- try which will train civilian air pilots as a pre- lirninary test of the President's plan to train 20,000 civilian aviators a year. From what we have been able to observe there seems to be little criticism of the plan, just as there is little ques- tioning of the whole defense program outlined by the President last Thursday. Certainly this announcement, if nothing else has succeeded in arousing interest in the foreign policy and the armament program of the govern- ment, should provoke all of us to a little thought. The training of students as air pilots and the whole armament program seems to us to be based on one premise: If war comes to Europe, the United States will enter it. It is an unlovely prem- ise to contemplate, especially if you are of college age. What is more unsavory than the premise is its unquestioned acceptance by the people of the country, and more terrifying, its acceptance by the students of the colleges and universities. If one doubts that the premise is correct let him look at the arguments for armament voiced by the President himself. They can be reduced to one essential argument: the United States shall not be caught unprepared again, as it was in the last war. It is true that the President in his message to Congress called it a defense program. It may well be, but not in the sense currently interpreted by the nation's press, which thinks in terms of physical invasion of the United States. That such an invasion is fantastic can, we think, be readily seen when one asks, "against whom are we de- fending ourselves?" A physical onslaught on this country is incredible, Europe and Asia being the armed camps they are, and South America, a congeries of countries, some democratic, others dictatorial, all of them with national interests that preclude any wholesale collaboration which could be dangerous to this country in a physical way. We are inclined to believe that the real reason for armament is a strengthening of our bargain- ing power on the international front. If it is, then it is only intelligent to recognize it and the implications involved. Against the possibility that we may never have to go to war, if France, Eng- land, Russia and this country stand united in the face of fascist aggression, must be counter- poised the much more imminent probability that Germany and Italy, already burdened with an armament structure too heavy to endure for many years of peace, will go to war rather than to suffer the exposure of their bluff. If we are to come out and favor the armament program of the present administration then, it must be with the full realization that each of us stands ready to go to war. But it is not enough to be willing to lose our lives for a principle. Before we can feetthat the principle which will be upheld by the sacrifice of our lives, each of us should demand of the present administration and Congress that they raise the embargo on Spain, and that they em- bargo all war materials to Japan, Germany and Italy and to other countries from which these goods can be re-shipped to the dictator nations. TODAY by David IN WASHINGTON Lawrence WASHINGTON, Jan. 16-The constructive and plainly helpful nature of the report just made by the Senate's special committee on unemployment and relief, headed by Senator Byrnes of South Carolina, is a sample of what Congressional mem- bers can do with a complicated and difficult problem when they put aside politics and take plenty of time to study a subject. Few persons who read the report will doubt the sincerity of the committee or its directness of purpose, though, indeed, there may be many who will have other plans to offer. Significant experi- ences are recited by the committee as to the con- fusion on the part of the applicant for unem- ployment compensation and the lack of coordin- ation between one office, where the government seeks to help a man find a job, and another office, where eligibility to unemployment compensatior is related to whether he has tried to get a job. What now is proposed is that payment of un- employment benefits be definitely related to the problem of finding employment for the recipient of relief. It is a simple start toward solution of what has been for several years now a central difficulty about the whole matter of federal aid to those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Excellent work has been done by the United States Employment Service offices throughout the country in recent years, but it is a fact that the states have unemployment offices too and that the whole problem of job-finding has not been1 tackled by the Federal Government on a scientific scale of determining the fitness of the individual to the particular job he or she can best do, or the matter of transferring the worker to other parts of the country where jobs become available. In a limited sense, both these functions are performed now, but the surface has only been scratched in the matter of providing funds for a comprehensive treatment of this particular aspect of job placement. Not long ago, the University of Minnesota, with the cooperation of the government of the State of Minnesota, conducted an experiment in job analysis with 100,000 unemployed cases. It was enemy on the eastern flank of Russia. If we are to be intelligent we must immediately erase the contradiction in our policy of arming to defend ourselves against fascist aggressors and at the same time arming them to fight us more effec- tively. These are the only conditions upon which we should accept the armament program. As the war-babies of 1917-18 'vho have grown of age to be trained as aviators, we should demand the fulfillment of these conditions before we assent found that, when careful attention was given to individual abilities, some strange results ensued. Thus, a woman who all her adult years had worked in a bookkeeping department with medi- ocre ability was found to have real mechanical talent, and, when given a position in a tool-mak- ing establishment, was able to command as a skilled worker much higher wages than ever before. The possibilities of analyzing human beings to find the right jobs have long been recognized by scientific men in the personnel field as logical and feasible, but government funds have not been available to train specialists in job analysis in the numbers needed to care for the millions who now are registered as unemployed. To organize this effectively, it would take only a small fraction of the whole relief appropriation. Industry has cooperated with efforts of this kind to the utmost, for there can be no doubt that, when properly qualified workers are furn- ished in the first instance, there is less turnover and waste. The ,foregoing is but one of the many phases of unemployment relief which are bound to com- mand attention when the whole problem is ap- proached on a non-political basis in an earne.: desire once and for all to do something for un- employment which is disconnected from politics or the emotional discussions thereof. The Senate Committee's report does not speci- fically touch on job analysis, but it does point to the need for coordination of Federal and state ?mployment agencies and social security pay- ments, which indicates that the broad subject, in all its ramifications, may have further consid- aration when specific legislative proposals are, ?rought forward to carry out the Committee's recommendations. The Committee's suggestion that a single gov- ernment department be created to coordinate public works construction and to handle such agencies as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration and the WPA is based on the idea that government has a distinct obligation to care for the unemployed and to furnish relief or work. While this principle has been getting acceptance through usage, it is a question whether the definition of function has been ciarly established. Certainly the tying together of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration with a view to vocational training or as a reservoir for gov- ernment or private job development is going to be widely supported in Congress, as are the reasons for including, in the same department with job finding, the disbursementsf +- (Continued from Page 2) textiles consisting of rugs, hangings, bedspreads and pillow cases, de- signed by Marianne Strengell, now on the staff of the Cranbrook Aca- demy of Art, is on display in the ground floor cases of the Architec- ture Building. Open daily, 9 to 5. ex- cept Sunday, through Jan. 25. The public is invited.- wear dark sweater or dark dress with pearls to insure uniformity. Rehearsal tonight at 7:15 in the Bell 'Tower. Please be prompt. Graduate Luncheon: 12 noon, Rus- sian Tea Room, Michigan League. Cafeteria style. Mr. Afan Tashpinar will speak in- formally on "Modern Turkey." All graduate students invited. Exbition of Chinese Amateur Pho- tograhy: Because of the interest in the exhibition of Chinese photog- raphy which it is sponsoring in the Rackham Galleries, the International Center has arranged to continue the exhibition through next week; it will close Sat Irday; Jan. 28. The display rooms are open all day and in the evening, except on Sunday. Mr. Cheng will be present most of the time to comment on his work. Lectures University Lecture: A.J.B. Wace, Laurence Professor of Classical Arch- aeology in Cambridge University, will give an illustrated lecture on "Sparta in the Light of the Excavations on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre under the auspices of the Department of Greek. The public is cordially invited. Lecture, College of Architecture: Mr. Alden B. Dow, Architect, of Mid- land, Michigan, will speak on "Mod- ern Architecture," accompanied by colored moving pictures. Ground Floor Lecture Room, Architecture Building, Thursday, Jan. ,19. 4:15. The public is invited. Events Today Research Club will meet tonight at, 8 p.m., in the Amphitheatre of thej Rackham Building. Prof. H. B. Lewis will speak on "Inborn Errors of Metabolism"; and Professor P. E. James, on "Changing Patterns of Population in Sao Paulo State, Brazil." The Council will meet in the Assembly Hall at 7:30 p.m. Cercle Francais: There will be a1 meeting tonight at 7:30 at the League. Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet. in Room 122 Chemistry Bldg. at 4:15 p.m. today. Mr. James K. Davis will speak on "Electron Micro- ; scope." Chemical and Metallurgical En- : gineering Seminar. Mr. Eugene Tsao; will be the speaker at the Seminar for graduate students today at 4 o'clock in Room 3201 E. Eng. Bldg. His subject is: "The Eqdilibrium Con- ditions in the Cd-Cu-Ag Ternary1 System." La Sociedad Hispanica will hold its last meeting of this semester at the Michigan League at 7:30 p.m. this evening. The program will. consist of a talk on Guatemala and songs by a Spanish-American duet. The date for the Michiganensian, picture will be decided then. Astronomy: Solar motion pictures made at the McMath-Hulbert Ob- servatory of the University of Mich- igan will be given this evening at 8 p.m. in the Natural Science Auditorium. The special film pre- sented at the September meeting of the American Astronomical Society will be included. The head of a prominence blown away from the sun with a record speed of 450 miles per second at a height of 600,000 miles is a special feature. Students of astronomy are urged to attend and a cordial invitation is extended to all. University Girls' Glee Club: Group picture for "Ensian" will be taken today at 4:30 at Dey's Studio. Please the fact that it is not overly compli- cated. It has a direct bearing on the resulting moods that he strives for, through arrangements of large simpli- fied areas of solid color. In the pro- cess of painting, he administers the low key first, apparently allows his pigments to stiffen, then overpaints his highlights in a very high key. There isda casual appearance about his handling which lends it a greatl stiength. He uses his palette knife to run the colors together on his por- trait heads for an appearance of flesh. In both the Portrait of a Colored Girl and his prize-winning Boy Read- ing a Bock, he shows a decided mas- tery of medium. For me, these proved to be the shining lights of the show. The large canvas dedicated to a base- ball player seems a bit disappointing, not in composition, which is indeed excellent, but in an overemphasis on simplicity. It begins to take on the Labor Committee of the A.S.U. will meet tonight at 8:15 in the Michi- igan Union, for the last time this semester. Plans will be discussed for next semester. All interested are in- vited. See Union bulletin board for place of meeting. The Phi Epsilon Kappa Fraternity will meet at the Union tonight at 18:30 p.m. Following this meet- -ing photos for the 'Ensian will be taken at Rentschler's Studios. The Child Study Group of the Mich- igan Dames will not meet tonight as previously planned. On Thursday, Jan. 26, the group will meet at the University Elementary School. The Michigan Dames Art Group will meet in the Rackham Building to- night at 8:15 p.m. with Mr. Hoff- man of the University Floral Shop giving a floral talk and demonsta- tion. Dr. Rabinowitz discussion group on current Jewish Problems will meet at the foundation at 7:30 p.m. Subject of meeting will be "Jewish Educa- tion." All are welcome! Hillel Players. Open meeting will be held this evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Hillel Foundation. An excellent program hts been ar- ranged, and the one-act play "The Pot Boilers" will be presented. All are cordially invited to attend. Scandinavian Club to meet tonight at Lane Hall (downstairs), 8 p.m. Dr. Carl Dahlstrom, Professor in the English Department, Will speak on August Strindberg, the Swedish novelist, dramatist, and publiciat. Since Dr. Dahlstrom has studied in Sweden and Germany for seveal years, his talk will contain interest- ing "first hand" information. Refreshments will be served. All Scandinavian Students and those interested are invited. Coming Events The Observatory Journal Club will meet at 4:15 Thursday afternodn, Jan. 19, in the Observatory lecture room. Dr. W. Carl Rufus will speak on "The Tektites, Celestial or Terres- trial." Dr. Rufus will exhibit some specimens of tektites brought from the Philippines. This meeting shold be of especial interest to the depart- ments of Geology and Mineralogy. Any one interested is cordially invit- ed. Tea will be served at 4:00. International Center: 1. Because of the approaching ex- aminations, it seems best ,to discon- tinue the Speech Clinics until the beginning of the second semester: 2. The Thursday teas will continue straight through examination weeks. The Center will be open at all times and it is hoped that it may afford a place for recreation and relief from the strain of these next hard weeks. 3. The next Sunday night supper and program will be on Feb. 12. 4. The programs for next semester will be mailed to all foreign students before the beginning of the next se- mester. Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences: There will be a meeting of the I.Ae.S. on Thursday evening, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 1042, East. En- gineering Building. Mr. Robert W. Middlewood, '30E, Chief Engineer of Stinson Aircraft, will talk on the practical aspects of aeronautical engineering, which talk will be followed by open discussion. Refreshments will be served. Architects and Engineers are invited to hear Design of Built-in Lighting treated in an illustrated lecture by Mr. Phelps Meaker of the General Electric Company, Nela Park En gineering Department, on Friday, Jan. 20 at 4:10 p.m. in Room 246 West En- gineering Building. SS.A.E. Mr. Kenneth A. Meade, per soAel director of the General eotors Research Laboratories, will present the subject "What does the Auto- motive Industry Look for in' Selet- mig Young Engineers?" is talk will be of general interest and not aply solely to automotive engineers By K. CONRAD AUGUST Sarkis Sarkisian Unfortunataely, there are still people who cock their heads quite artily to one side and gush such positive statements for the benefit of their neighbors as: Any fool could do that;" or "Why, I could do as well myself." The work of Sarkisian, who is currently exhibiting at Alumni Memorial Hall, is allergic to this type of criticism. May I impart to those people who have similar sentiments the friendly warning that there is no surer way of disclosing your own ig- norance in the matter. To make this bit of advice constructive, may I Ssuggest that when a painting recalls for you the days in childhood when your mother first revealed your artis- tic flare, and confidence of your own ability wells within you, please limit yourselves to a safe ummmm. The difference in opinion over Sar- kisian's things runs high. I find the show to be one of the great treats of the year. Those who agree with me have been extremely enthusiastic in their support, those who disagree just as emphatic in their denounciations. It seems to be a showing that must either be admired immensely or not at a11 with nn middP en,1 i