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CHICAGO ' BOSTON * LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1938-39 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 Board of Editors . . . . Rot . . . . .O] Rot . . . . .1 bert D, Mitchell, Albert P. Mayio race W. Gilmore bert I. Fitzhenry S. R. Kleiman Robert Perlman Earl Gilman William Elvin Joseph Freedman . Joseph Gies Dorothea Staebler Bud Benjamin " Y Business Department Business Manager . . . . Philip W. Buchen Credit Manager . . . . Leonard P. Siegelman Advertising Manager . . . William L. Newnan Women's Business Manager . Helen Jean Dean Women's Service Manager. . 'Marian A. Baxter NIGHT EDITOR: JTNE HARRIS The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only, 'Chamberlain Offensive' .. . NEVER was a military movement so aptly named as the "Chamberlain Offensive" in Spain now in process of staging another step in the greatest international black- mail game the world has ever known. Chamberlain left Rome Jan. 15 after a few days conference with Herr Mussolini with nothing more accomplished than a polite consummation of the intimate relationship already existing be- tween the Chamberlain government and Hitler's Gaul, formerly known as Italy. Oh, there was a slight change. For two and a half years the Baldwin-Chamberlain ministries mildly spoke of non-intervention in Spain as they looked hopefully at Italy and Germany -a non-intervention which would mean the quiet withdrawal of all foreign troops while the world with hands folded behind its back would close its eyes temporarily, whistle to itself and forgive. But* the market on bluff rose, and so when Chamberlain left Rome to the tune of "Giovenezza" and "God Save the King (Hitler?) ," his terms of non-intervention now were that after the rebels had won, Italy would please to kindly remove its troops from Spain so that their shadow might fall no longer across a hitherto sun-swept Gibraltar. While he was toasting Mus- solini, Mussolini's troops were taking part in one of the greatest drives of the whole Civil War. But that didn't bother Brittania's prime minister. If, he said in effect, Mussolini carries out his part of the, bargain after the rebels win, and packs his troops home again, he, Chamberlain, would see that Italy gets a nice fat loan, a few colonial concessions and British development of Ethiopian water-power. At least these were some of the trading-points of the Anglo-Italian treaty which Chamberlain wished to make opera- tive during his visit to Rome. But, what, in heaven's name, will guarantee that Mussolini wiJ be pleased to remove his troops from Spain, if, when, and after the rebels win? And France, "democratic France" which re- fused to aid in any way the Spanish government, what assurance does it have that Mussolini will .ot insist on staying in Spain until concessions of French colonial territory are made to him? What guarantee does it have that the blackmail stakes will not rise higher and higher? When Major Clement Richard Atlee, Labor part leader, asked Chamberlain Wednesday to lift the embargo on shipments of arms and muni- tions to the Barcelona government to help it push back Franco's offensive, the Prime Minister re- plied such action would enlarge the Spanish Civil War. Told of a famine which is threatening Republican Spain, and asked to have his govern- ment cooperate with other countries on a large scale to alleviate the plight of the civilian popu- lation, Mr. Chamberlain answered such action would be impossible, but, he said, his government would back unofficial relief work conducted by private organizations. Earlier the same day his government had de- manded from the French that they refuse to give any aid to the Loyalists. Perhaps there is a grave danger of a world war immediately if France and England give supplies to Spain. The danger would come from Ger- tion by force and war is a question. So far his policy seems to be one of alliance with France and England or at least neutralization when thc. time comes to strike at the Ukraine. Against the risk of war at present, France, if the rebels win, will be trapped on three sides by Fascist forces. She will then have to take either of two alternatives: (1) war with the fascist powers, or (2) peace at the price of internal fascism and armed neutrality. If she chooses the first she will have three frontiers to guard and defend, if she chooses the second, as she now seems to be doing, she must, as the blackmail victim always does, pay higher and higher tributes, ultimately, perhaps, her whole colonial empire. Yet she is ready and willing to fight now for her colonies, as Premier Daladier's recent utterances and defiant trip aboard a French warship to Tunisia and Corsica prove. Consequently, unless France decides to give up her empire, which is improbable, she will have to fight and fight under more disadvantag- eous conditions than she faces at present. Thus the second alternative fuses into and is insepar- able with the first. If she is willing to fight for her colonial territory now, if she is willing to risk international war for a single square inch of her empire, as she says, it seems as suicidal as it is inconsistent for her not to run the lesser risk to retain a crucial frontier, a frontier which also practically guarantees the intactness of her communications to the source of her greatest strength her colonies. Needless to point out, France could concentrate more men and muni- tions at her two other frontiers than if she had three sides to worry about. The French seem to understand this, for it was evidently only under tremendous pressure from Chamberlain's government that they bowed once more and refused to open their frontiers. They bowed because Mr. Chamberlain's words left no ambiguity: if France opened her frontiers, she could not count on England a minute longer. On Neville Chamberlain depend the plight of Spain and France, if not Britain. That 'he is determined the Rebels shall win can be no ques- tion. Unless he falls, there can be but one answer' in the notebook of history which begins: "1900--". a few jagged blood-smeared edges marking where the scissors of appeasement wielded by an Eng- lishman who betrayed his countryand the world clipped 'off the pages titled "Democracy ." -Albert Mayio THEATRE By NORMAN T. KIELL Notes: Local And Abroad Ellen Rothblatt and James Barton took over the two leading roles of Gabby and Alan in the Thursday evening performance of "The Petrified Forest," now the current Play Poduction vehicle at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. They are al- ternating with Nancy Schaeffer and Karl Klaus- er. Mr. Barton lived up to only fifty per cent of the acting tradition of the famous name he bears. He caught moments of the life of the intellectual hitch-hiker who was seeking some- thing to believe; those moments were fleeting but when he had them, he held us in the palm of his hand. Appealing, by all means yes, but it was not a sustained performance; Mr. Barton needs an assurance that will come with experi- ence. As Gabby, the girl who "gets the stink of the gas and the lunchroom" out of her by reading poetry, Ellen Rothblatt gave the best perform- ance of her acting career. She has a buoyancy and flippant charm that integrated well with the unimaginable beauties she dreams as Gabby. It was:a good mixture of that "part' of her which is French (and practical) and the other part, American (and imaginative.)" * k Robert Henderson, theatrical entrepeneur of Ann Arbor and the middle west, opened in New York City with a revival of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," starring Estelle Winwood, Clifton Webb and Hope Williams. It re- ceived "mixed" notices at the hands of the re- viewers, Brooks Atkinson claiming, sarcastically, that the author showed great promise, and ,hop- ing for "better things to come" . . . The last we heard of Norman Rosten and Art Miller, both former Hopwood winners, was that they were collaborating on a musical comedy which they hope to complete very soon. Rosten has had several plays given over the air, via the Columbia Workshop . . . As a shot in the dark, it is our guess that one of the plays the Ann Arbor Dram- atic Season will bring here this spring will be Elmer Ricers "American Landscape" Whit- ford Kane, after playing one of the leading roles during the Philadelphia engagement of Paul Vin- cent Carroll's latest smash hit, "The White Steed," left that company and resumed his duties as First Gravedigger in Maurice Evans' produc- tion of "Hamlet." The latter show closes tonight, incidentally . . . Random House is coming out next week with a new play anthology entitled, "The Best Short Plays of the Social Theatre." The book will contain the complete text -of ten plays, including "Waiting for Lefty," "Bury the Dead," "The Cradle Will Rock," "The Dog Be- neath the Skin," and "Hymn to the Rising Sun" . . Next Tuesday brings to campus the Yale Pupeteers in their production of "It's a Small World." Theplace is, of course, the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. The resources of Columbia University and its affiliated institutions are now estimated at $158,868,638. Its budget for the last fiscal year was $15,756,444. The man who continues the strenuous activity of stealing 2OO-h manholpcoverns, in (hiran r Jife einr lo. Heywood Broun During the primary battles between liberal and conservative Democrats, somebody took up the word "purge" and pinned it on the President. As a satirical use of that term it was legitimate enough and it proved highly effective politically. And yet some damage is done to clear thinking when words are twisted out of their usual JY meaning. When a true call comes for them they have been strained to such an ex- ...tent that they have lost their savor. For instance, at this very moment many hun- dreds of thousands of Americans are literally in danger of being purged. In their case "purge" is not just a convenience for headline writers but a threat as grim as a summons to stand before a firing squad. To be sure, the punishment which Congress purposes to mete out to them is slower than that contained in a rattle of musketry, but for that very reason, more cruel., The slash of $150,000,000 by the House in the relief deficiency bill is supported by its propon-I ents as a drive for economy. They say it is a first step toward a ,balanced budget. But in a sense the cut is a purchase rather than a deposit. The conservatives in both camps are minded to take a flier in human misery. Didends In Privation Balance is to be achieved by throwing into one side of the scales the body and bones and blood of jobless men and women. It would be.foolish to deny that the investment will produce divi- dends. Indeed, winter is good growing weather for the crop which assuredly will be reaped. There will be a rich yield in privation, want and discontent. Even the most bitter foes of Fiorello La Guardia should admit that he is an expert witness on the affairs of the City of clew York. And the Mayor has gone to Washingeton to say, without qualifi- cation, that the cut will mean complete havoc in the life of the metropolis. Indeed, he added, "There is not a Mayor in the country who knows what he is going to do if this appropriation is cut below the President's estimate." It is the well-considered judgment of the Mayor that all the large cities have absorbed every- thing they can on direct relief. "They cannot ab- sorb more." To put it bluntly, this means that very many persons stand an excellent chance of starving before spring. It is barely possible, of course, that there are legislators who are willing to face this picture and reply, "So what?" but in that case they should be a little more logical. The same House of Representatives which has iicated a willingness to throw as many as a- million men and women into the streets also seems intent upon voting $150,000 to Martin Dies to investigate subversive activties. In other words, they seem to be saying, "We will furnish the stimulation for subversive activities and then we will give you the money to go out and investi- gate them." - x WThat Dies Can Investigate During one of the sessions of the committee a newspaper witness attempted to say that it was' a waste of time to study subversive activities without investigating the sources from which they sprang. Martin Dies shut him off, and he was re- buked editorially on the ground that there was no connection between the work which Dies was coing and the existence of poverty and want and privation. If there was no connection, then there will be now. It is said that the agents of discontent are eloquent and devilishly clever. But no multitude was ever moved by a speech or a booklet in the same manner that hunger and homelessness can move a mob. And so when the Dies committee begins to function again I make the wholly serious suggestion that it proceed to investigate the sub- versive activities of the economy group in the Seventy-Sixth Congress of the United States. ART By JOSEPH N. FREEDMAN An exhibition of Chinese photography by Cheng Chao-Min sponsored by the Interna- tional Center in the galleries of the Rackham Building closes Jan, 28. Mr. Cheng adequately dispels the bugaboo that one-man photographic exhibits must be monot- onous by his well-balanced, though not so well- selected display of photographs he took in China. The prints, classified as artistic and docu- mentary, ironically show China in a peace which no longer exists. Doubtless many of the Sixteenth Century statuary he displays have been bombed and the calm of the Pied Piper destroyed. For this reason the documentary photographs may be looked upon with interest; they are nearly all clear and accurately rendered, about all one can ask of work in this field. Of the artistic section, by far the best is A Sampan at Ease (No. 4). It is composed very simply about the masses of a boat and a dock and their vertical lines which meet a human figure at the center of interest. When you see the print, look carefully at the rhythmic place- ment of the oars inside the boat and notice the gradation of tones between the dark of the .Gh r ,inm in +he n t.ta + p -arp o h i-t. r -a THE EDITOR GE.TS TOLD Take The Consequences the WPA in the midst of bitter cold and suffering is the manifestation of To the Editor: an un-American philosophy. They Wintertime is cold and cruel. But have smuggled in a set of notions not more so than the Republican labeled "Made in Nazi Germany." Party bloc and Garnercrats in the If there is to be a measure of eco- United States Congress who would nomic recovery then certainly it will throw hundreds of thousands -of im- depend on the spending by industry poverished Americans out into the at large. By curbing the power of arms of that bitter winter. The op- monopolies, by exercising stricter position to the really human and controls on the stock exchange we1 practical New Deal provisions for re- shall be travelling toward a condition lief is trying to make it winter all of freer movement in the economy. year round for the unemployed. By cutting off the power of people What would the appropriation cut to buy. as the anti-WPA forces wish mean? The United States Conference to do, you do not promote recovery. of Mayors, headed by Mayor La Rather by removing from monopoly Guardia of New York, said the con- its vast and disproportionate aggrega- templated cuts would call for the fir- tions of the national wealth do you ing of 1,151,300 workers from relief stimulate recovery. By making the rolls. It would mean "reductions of necessary improvements in utilities, 1,000 workers in Nevada to a reduc- and railroads, by spending and in- tion of 97,000 in Pennsylvania and creasing employment, as the Federal 97,600 in Ohio." In Michigan it would Reserve Bulletin for November sug- mean cutting 54,400 workers from the gests, do you improve the lot of the rolls. And the families of these work- nation. ers? Where are they to find their That is what we ought to tell our daily bread and their homes? The Re- legislators. Let them know we want publicans and anti-New Deal Demo- no extension of human suffering as crats don't give a darn. By God that they propose shall be the state of the budget has got to be cut and it's going nation. Let them know we want the to be cut even if -we do throw hun- people to take the power from the dreds of thousands into starvation, monopolies and put the economic and these politicians say. They don't see political operation of our land in the beyond the decimal points, these hands of the people themselves. econo-mizers. That is DEMOCRACY as it should Instead of going forward with the be. WPA program to stimulate the idling --Edward Magdol, '39 parts of our economy this group of politicians turns its back on pro- Agiler's 'Sloppy Thinking' gress and trods back to the grim days of Hooverism-frightening breadlines To the Editor: and ramshackle Hoovervilles and the My boy friend says that some of the liberty for employers to cut wages athletes are mighty hot at Professor and speed-up labor. The Clare Hoff- Aigler's letter in The Daily against' mans, the Clifton A. Woodrums who subsidization. They say that he is do- are so ,active in the destruction of ing a lot of "sloppy thinking." the relief set-up speak glibly about If that is so, why don't the athletes budgets and economy but they dis- get up a petition protesting his dic- play a sadism, akin to the behavior tatorial ideas? Then he would be of fascists. They care little for human forced to put subsidiziation up to the lives. Their torture of the poorer plain proper authorities. folk of our nation with this threat to - - -G. W. Youof I By Sec Terry A CONCERT of inverted cheers- razzberries, to the bleacher trade -will greet him when he swoops onto Coliseum ice tonight. And through-s out the evening, the clientele will heap upon him contumely and vitriol no end. Glaring ominously through a swath of bandages. testifying to some recent collision, he is hockey's perfect villain, collegiana's 'Eddie Shore,' hell bent for destruction. His warring swagger, if a skater can swagger, somehow provokes mob wrath. Not a mild, momentary huff, but a violent, hot hate-the kind that impels men like the bespectacled gent sitting in the first row near the press box at Thursday night's brawl to reach out and threaten private assault after the game. Reference, of course, is to John Mariucci, Minnesota's reckless de- fenseman who is 'the Gopher hockey team.' But the story behind his ap- parently vicious character is simply that off the ice he's a gentleman, soft-spoken and so reserved as to in- vite the suspicion he's one of nature's little timidmen. His voice, high- pitched and hesitant, suggests one of momma's boys. Last year, he skated past Coach Eddie Lowrey's box and paused to say something, wagging his finger as he spoke. A salvo of boos accompanied the gesture, the crowd believing obviously that he was threat- ening the Wolverine coach. Actually, he was saying in his soprano voice, "Hey, Eddie, you'd better tell them to stop," and it sounded more like a plea than warning. But in hockey regalia he's the vil- lain, and it would be as hard for him to discard the impression as it would for Boris Karloff to play Daddy Long Legs. And as far as the verbal abuse visited upon him is concerned, he doesn't, by his own admission, hear a word of it. He's too busy playing hockey and provoking hostility. WEDNESDAY'S night performance of "The Petrified Forest" pleased' the assorted quintet-Reed, Cummins, Zeitlin, Fineberg and Kelley-which is as blanket a testimonial as we can at the moment imagine. And though we don't wish to take serious issues with "Tennessee" Kiell's hasty re- view, we must regret his error of omis- sion in the case of Gramp Maple, the role which a fellow named Bernard Benoway used to "steal the show," as they say back-stage. It's like re- viewing "Whiteoaks" without men- tioning Ethel Barrymore. Once, when Duke Mantee's gunman leveled off at Alan Squier, the "lost" aesthete, Gramps jumped up and cried, "D'ya mean yer gonna kill 'im?" There was a generation of anticipation, as well as nostalgia, in the old man's voice; remember, Gramps was prob- ,I h7 [rf1,- __I- mr s :,_ -- .. _ - DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Stalker Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. For further information and reservations call 6881 before noon today. The Outdoor Club will meet at Lane Hall at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon to go tobogganing. Any students in- terested are invited to attend. The Graduate Outing Club will meet tonight at 7:38 pA!f. 'at the Rackham Building and will go in a group to the Intramural Building for indoor sports and swimming. Sunday they will meet at the Club 'room at 2:30 p.m. and from there will go to the Saline Valley Farms for skating and taboggoning outdoors and games and dancing indoors. They will return to Ann Arbor after supper. All graduate students are invited.. Lutheran Student Club: A skiing and tobogganing party is being planned for all club members -,to- day in the Arboretum if the weather permits. Meet at the wom- en's Athletic Building at 2 p.m. sharp. Equipment will be provided at a slight cost. Let's have everyone out for an afternoon of fun'. With Dirty Faces," whose gats spat3 and smoked in a manner which we and the Dead End kids have come toI expect of our bad men.- OVERHEARD on the diagonal as the boy, strolling along between two girls, greeted pass-4 ers-by with a cosmopolitan cas- t ualness: "Gee, Morrie, you know t everybody. It must be wonderful f to wait table in a beer tavern." t ALTHOUGH we can't print it all for fear of revealing its author, this excerpt was found in an article" plucked from the copy basket on the night desk yesterday. It was a review1 of "Drums," the Alexander Korda production now showing at the Michi- gan. In part the article reads: "Your people's correspondent hfartily recommends it as the most overmanned, underacted picture of the year. The English have an equivalent of Shirley Temple in the Indian boy Sabu 1 who is as natural as our little Shirley in her films. In addition to this, our British cousins would like to convince the public (but your correspondent saw through it all, being the proud possessor of a distinct anti-British bias) that their colonial system is civil- ized and humanitarian. There- fore, all the Indians who oppose the British colonials are bad, wicked men and all those who acquiesce are good men. The sav- age Indians use machine guns; the civilized British usebbombers. You'd think the poor benighted Indian would appreciate British culture. "Drums" has some interesting photographic shots. The color contrast of Sabu and the Scotch dummer is effective. If you want to see the English die bravely (in formal clothes I believe); then by all means see little Sabu in "Drums" and a cast of 3000." OFF THE CUFF: Wednesday night a student identifying himself as John Ferdian, Jr.. rushed into Daily offices with the "exclusive story" of how Beniamino Gigli, the noted sing- er, accosted him in the Union and invited him in for a game of pocket billiards . . , Ferdian insisted he was no press agent and the story a legiti- mate one, and took extreme care to see that his name was spelled correct- ly . But the Daily in its desire to score a scoop on an artist's demo- cratic spirit lost the details . .. . But as far as the waiting public was con- cerned, Ferdian's experience did not go unrecorded, for he took the pre- caution of supplying the rival paper in town with the same facts .. . and Coming Events German Table for Faculty Members: The regular luncheon meeting willbe held Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the Founders' Room of the Michigan Union. . All faculty members interested in speaking German are cordially 'in- vited. Professor Hans Pick will con- inue his talk (with records) on "Ab- solute Musik urnd Programm Musik." La Sociedad Hispanica will pose for its Michiganensian picture at the Spedding Studio, 619 East Liberty St. on Sunday, Jan. 22 at 10 a.m. All members are urged to be on time. Physics Colloquium: Professor Otto Laporte will speak on the "EleMen- ary Particle of Spin Unity" at the Physics Colloquium on Monday, Jan 23 at 4:15 p.m. in Room 1041 East Physics Bldg. Geological Journal Club will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 7:15 p.m. in Room 3065 N.S. Kenneth Brill will speak on "The McCoy Formation." All interested are cordially invited to attend. Biological Chemistry Seminar, Mon- day, Jan. 23, 1939, 7-9 p.m., Room 319 West Medical Building. "The Chemistry of Hemoglobin and Its Derivatives-Heme Enzymes" will be discussed. All interested are iri- vited. Sigma Xi: The third chapter meet- ing of the year will be held Monday, Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the University Hospital, second floor rear. Dr. Franklin Johnston will speak on "The Electrocardiogram in Diagnosis of Heart Ailments." Druids supper meeting at the Union, Sunday, Jan. 22, at 5:45. Tau Beta Pi: There will be a regu- lar dinner meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 6:15 in the Union. Professor E. T. Vincent, of the Mechanical En- gineering Department, will speak. Pi Lambda Theta is sponsoring a lecture by Prof. McGeoch on "Music Appreciation" on Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Bell Tower. All mem- bers and their guests are welcome. Botanical Journal'Club, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Room N.S. 1139, Jan. 24, 1939. Reports by- Alice Kornat-Mitochondria in the life cycle of certain higher plants. James McCranie - Mitochondria and plastids in living cells of Allium cepa. Lois Jotter-Chromosome studies on Trillium Kamtschaticum. Douglas Savile-The cytology and development of Phyllactinia corylea Chairman: Professor B. M. Davis. Philosophy Club members and oth- er students interested in philosophi- cal discussion are invited to attend a meeting Monday, Jan. 23, at 4:15 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Beinard Friedman will read a paper on "The Status of Logical Principles" and dis- cussion will follow. Fraternity Presidents: House presi- dents are reminded of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Interfraternity Council on Wednes- day, Jan. 25. All petitions must be in before this date. Freshmen Glee Club: There will be a special meeting at 4:15 Monday in the Michigan Union. All memibers are urgently requested to attend. This will be the last meeting of the semes- ter. Congregational Student Fellowship Saturday afternoon at 2:30. - The time of our toboggan party has been changed to 2:30 Saturday afterno~on. The group will meet at Pilgrim Hall and go to the Arboretum. Sunday evening at 6:00. Regular supper meeting, after which Dr.