THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUES DAT, MAT 21, 1940 fT' 1\gTr/yT1-'llAX WT W-% T ^%T -- Campus Views On War Question DRAMA DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN w 5 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail, matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.0, 'y mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVEHI.,NGQ iY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Represent hive 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO ' BOSTON - LOS ANcELES - SAN FNANCISC' Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler Alvin Sarasohn Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman Ronald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Corman . . . Managing Editor . . . . Editorial Director . . . . . City Editor . . . . Associate "Editor . . . . Associate . Editor Associate Editor S . . . Sports Editor . . . . Women'sE ditor * . . .Exchange Editor Business Staff Business Manager . Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager . . Women's Advertising Manager Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack . Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: DAVE LACHENBRUCH The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. 1, Presidential campaign And War Emotionalism .. . THE ATMOSPHERE in Washington last week was unmistakably sur- charged with emotion and near-hysteria. The hoarse cries of militarism resounded in response to Pitsident Roosevelt's armaments message. Voices advocating the lifting of the ban on loans to the Allies were heard in the cloak-room and halls of Congress. The individual Congressmen were especially attentive to the cables from abroad and no less attentive to the reactions to those cables by their constituents at home. Tense and grim were the hasty and frequent conferences among the functionaries of the \ State Department. Obviously America was tak- ing several, inherently tragic steps toward the war "frame of mind." No political realist will deny the strong like- lihood of the swift passage of the increased arms program, as well as all the other mea- sures designed to "bolster the national de- fense." The opinions of those idealists who still hold the now antiquated belief that public monies should be exclusively devoted to con- structive projects will be almost entirely over- looked. The available evidence indicates that the so-called "defense" legislation will have priority rights in Congress, and that it will encounter comparatively little effective oppo- sition. WHILE the pressure of developments abroad no doubt lends considerable justification to the intensified concentration on defense mea- sures, this new trend in national policy towards a pronounced militarism is something less than completely desirable. It is a particularly un- fortunate trend in an election year, for it will tend to becloud important questions which the electorate should answer unhampered by the "crisis" atmosphere. It will tend to relegate domestic issues to a position in the campaign out of all proportion to their true importance. By general agreement widespread unemploy- ment is still considered the nation's Number One domestic problem. In the approaching campaign each political organization should carefully formulate its own solution for the alleviation of this problem. But the various po- litical chieftains will probably be deceived by the salutary, though temporary, effects on in- dustrial conditions of the expanded arms pro- gram, and thus ignore the pressing immediacy of the still-remaining problem of unemploy- ment. Assuming that the United States enters the present war, even after the war is completed unemployment will not have been miraculously cured. It will still be mute testimony of a par- tially diseased economy. Thus is it tragic that this important domestic issue will undoubtedly not receive the serious attention of political parties which it surely deserves. NOR IS unemployment the only domestic problem which will meet the probable fate of de-emphasis during the campaign of 1940. The need for improving the relations between capital and labor, the necessity of deciding upon a satisfactory public power policy, and the desirability of determining a civil liberties pro- gram capable of preserving internal democratic forms will perhaps also suffer neglect. The campaign of 1940 should also feature a scrunulouslv conducted examination of the To the many readers who have sent in letters on the current international situation go The Daily's thanks. Because of space limitations, it has been impossible to print all of them. We have been attempting to give all opinions ex- pressed adequate presentation. Writers are re- minded that letters should be no longer than 400 words at the most and that names must ac- company contributions Names will be withheld if requested. Letters should be typewritten, if possible. Campus Represent ation To the Editor: ON MAY 14, Professor Hyma made his now- famous attack on "potential traitors" on the Michigan campus at Adrian. On the same day that the first letters of protest appeared in The Daily, Don Slaiman, of the local Trot- skyite group, coincidentally challenged Profes- sor Slosson to debate a representative of the Workers Party on the topic of "Aid to Allies vs. Socialist Opposition to War." When Pro- fessor Slosson declined, Professor Hyma accept- ed the challenge. The Daily on the 18th quoted Professor Hyma as saying the debate "will also include treat- ment of the question of the duties owed a gov- ernment by the people under it." In other words, the debate is not to be confined to the original proposition, but will be a means for Professor Hyma to amplify the remarks he made at Adrian. Although he may not have so in-, tended, a very great number of students who oppose war have been accused of treason. If he is going to continue in that vein, we should be represented on the platform. Is Max Schacht- man, national secretary of the Workers Party, the man we want to represent us? What conclusion will the State press, which widely published Professor Hyma's statement in an unfortunately brief form, draw from this debate? It will be none other than that the University of Michigan students, already prac- tically called "fifth columnists," have imported a revolutionist to answer Hyma. This ludicrous situation in which the non- radical, war-hating bulk of the campus finds itself "represented" by a man with whom it is as much out of sympathy as it is with Professor Hyma, should be cleared up. I suggest that the editor of The Daily-who is to be commended for his handling of the Hyma affair-select a faculty member or a student leader who will fairly represent the majority viewpoint, and proffer him as Professor Hyma's opponent in a debate, and that a new proposition be drawn up, so worded as to focus attention-on the real point of conflict. Naturally, if Professor Hyma chooses to hold a public argument with the Fourth Interna- tional, he has a right to do it, and it is none of our affair. But do we want these two view- points to be taken as representative of the alter- natives in the mind of the campus? - Robert Anderson Again Hyma I])ROFESSOR HYMA'S LETTER in Sunday's Daily is contrary to the principles enun- ciated by President Ruthven in his speech before the New York alumni on February 26, 1938. Surely if Mr. Hyma believes that students' views should be subject to a censorship im- posed by their professors, he should not think of opposing the views of his own superior! Let me refresh his memory with a few excerpts. "It should be apparent to any thoughfultper- son that no school is properly contributing to the education of its students if it insists on putting their minds in strait-jackets... . "A society which wishes to offer development to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues can- not succeed by the efficient, large-scale pro- duction of cowed, culturally adrift, factory- made minds, whose owners become slaves of tradition, cannon fodder for scared or selfish adults, and units resistant to progress for a better world... . "The college should be an agency to teach persons to think, and to seek enrichment, not to teach them what to believe and what not to believe. "The valuable assets of civilization can never be preserved by propaganda or force, not only by throwing open the books of society to the critical examination of each generation of youth." - Robert Rosa Answer To Morrissey To the Editor: HARDLY THINK that Mr. Morrissey's letter calls for an answer. If the recent events in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Nor- way and Denmark do not convince him that Hitlerism is a danger to the world, nothing but personal experience of a bomb or a concentra- tion camp ever will convince him. The ludi- crous spectacle of Mr. Morrissey weeping with one eye because Britain has a colonial empire, and with the other because Germany hasn't one, will not win him the favor of logicians, whether they be imperialists or anti-imperial- ists. But his letter raises issues vaster than itself. How far, and why, should the United States be sympathetic with Great Britain? Some would lay emphasis on ancestry, lan- guage and civilization. But our national an- cestry is very mixed, and admiration for a national culture need not extend to approval of its political policies. For instance, if Ger- many were now governed by Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kant, or in their spirit, there would be a very good case for giving to Germany the dominion of the whole world. But since, under the Nazi rule, Lessing would be shot for de- fending the Jews in his Nathan der Weise, to be the Reverend Mr. Marley's point, that our political sympathies should follow ideological rather than national lines. Now, the political record of Great Britain, though far from faultless, can be compared point by point with that of its totalitarian oppo- nents. Though British democracy, in the full sense of the word, dates back only to the Reform Acts of the nineteenth century, as early as the thirteenth century England enjoyed a far more liberal and representative government than any that exists today in Russia, Germany, Italy or the lands which they dominate. To the historian the very name England recalls Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights, Parlia- ment, juries, the common law, habeas corpus, colonial self-government, Milton's Areopagitica, Mill's Liberty, free speech in Hyde Park, a pow- erful press, trades unionism, the cooperative movement, the anti-slavery movement, the fQee trade movement, the thousand and one other charters, statutes or movements of liberalism and reform that make up so much of British history. WHILE the foreign record of Britain is mixed, like that of every other nation, even here the good seems to predominate. Surely it would not have been for the greater freedom of the world that Philip II of Spain, Louis XIV or Napoleon of France, Wilhelm II or Hitler, of Germany, should extend their own despotic sys- tems over the whole of Europe, and in each case Great Britain was the chief obstacle in the way. Britain was fighting in her own interests? Of course she was, but it is fortunate that in so many cases British welfare coincided with the welfare of other nations too. From Canning's time to our own the main protection of the Monroe Doctrine has been the British fleet. I need hardly say that my own pretty obviou; sympathies would be the same if the British Commonwealth were to disappear tomorrow. There would still be democratic and republican France, liberal Czechoslovakia, well-governed Holland, Switzerland and Scandinavia to con- trast with the totalitarian tyrannies as holding out, even in the chains that would bind them, an ideal of a better "way of life." There would still be the danger to our own liberal institu- tions (derived mostly, by the way, from British origins). Yes, I am Anglophile, but even if I were not I would still be no less Naziphobe! As to the frequent charge of being a "war- monger," I can testify that I have spent-liter- ally" most of my free time for twenty continuousI years writing and speaking for world peace, pointing out the danger of the very war that has come to the world, and urging timely coop- eration to prevent it. I was sure that our com- placent isolation was a fool's paradise, even in the golden 'twenties, and such it has proved to be. Those who have a better peace record than mine can throw the first stone; if others try, I will fling it back into the glass houses of their own inconsistency! Very sincerely, -Preston Slosson Cherished Ideals To the Editor: DURING the past week I have noticed in the columns of The Daily several statements by Professor Hyma which imply that he is will- ing-if not anxious-to have the United States become embroiled in the present war to save "cherished American ideals." Without going into the much discussed question as to whether this is truly a war for that purpose, I must make a serious objection to his letter to The Daily on Sunday. In it he states: "It is my opinion that in the very near future our faculty will be obliged before ad- mitting new students to our University to inquire into their political views as well as into their scholastic standings. The faculty is very willing to improve the reputation of our University. If Professor Hyma is so desirous of preserving our American concepts of freedom and liberty that he would have us go to war to save them, it appears paradoxical to me that he should be willing to undermine one of our basic tenets of democracy-freedom of political thought. Dr. Hyma does not bluntly state that he would restrict the admission of students of "differ- ent" political dogmas to this University, but he certainly implies that that would be his aim. State universities were founded with the pur- pose of giving education to all who were scholas- tically competent, regardless of race, religion, or political beliefs. If Professor Hyma considers the full implications of his statement, he will realize, I believe, that from his letter one might accuse him of being a "traitor" to American ideals. What would be the purpose of going to war to save these ideals over there, if we lose them in our own United States? Fulfillment of Dr. Hyma's statement could certainly go a long way towards the abolition of one of our cher- ished civil liberties - freedom of political thought. By doing this we certainly will not "improve the reputation of our University." Yours truly, - Robert Warner, '43 Roosevelt, Dewey Lead The box score of delegates chosen thus far to the Democratic and Republican conventions: Democratic, (1,094 votes)-Pledged to Pres- ident Roosevelt, 117; semi-pledged (by prefer- ential primary vote) to President Roosevelt, 230; pledged to James A. Farley, 381/2; pledged to William B. Bankhead, 22; pledged to John N. Garner, 5; unpledged, 6712. Rnihieann (1.000 votes)-Pledged to Thomas 'A Winter's Tale' JAMES E. GREEN THE SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY that the Drama Festival is of- fering as its second production has neither the profundity of Hamlet nor the richness of Romeo and Juliet but intelligently and imaginatively acted and produced it should have consid- erably more than antiquarian inter- est for Ann Arbor playgoers. Shakespeare's tragedies are great drama to the modern student and spectator because of the great poetic depth of the world that they por- tray, his comedies present a whole host of unforgetable characters who are the very incarnations of the uni- versal Comic Spirit; but is not nearly as easy to determine and isolate the appeal of the romantic comedies. Their scenes are laid in mythical and exotic kingdoms where all the miles are inches and all of the oceans kind but they might as well be laid in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. Their situations are improbable, the motivation of their characters absurd, their matter the matter of pure melodrama, but, despite all of this, they still have an ability to capture and hold the imag- ination of the theatergoer. And all of this that can be said about the whole group of plays can be said about "A Winter's Tale." It shows in small many of the characteristics that makes "The Tempest" one of Shakespeare's greatest triumphs. The "plot" of the play consists of two tales, not laid one upon the oth- er in familiar Shakespearian fash- ion, but rather presented one 'after the other, to be tied together in a miraculous last act. The first part gives us the unreasoning jealousy of Leontes with its seeming tragic consequences, the second the plea- sant love tale of Florizel and Perdita. The first is filled with tragic pas- sions and tragic deaths, the second with "noble" emotions and pastoral play. The recognition scene which ends the play and brings the two together somehow manages to keep the mood of both. Valentine Windt in cutting and arranging the play for modernspro duction has used the two part struc- ture as a basis for division rather than the customary division by acts. He has, according to word that has filtered out from the shadows of the theatre, preserved the charming ar- tificiality of the genre in acting and costuming. Brotherhood Of Man To the Editor: AGREE with J. B. Brandywine that peace movements should not be party movements. Nor can I, nor do I wish, to defend total- itarianism. I am a pacifist, and a firm be- liever that the state should exist for the individual, not the converse. Let's not speak of "fighting for de- mocracy" against anything else. Let's rather speak of individuals fighting for their own valued rights. Life and the pursuit of happiness are God-given; Liberty must be fought for. The prime instinct in man is self-preservation not state- preservation. The United States is not threatened with armed invasion, nor will it be likely. Therefore a great deal of natural justice is on the side of (B quote) 'selfish and non-thinking people.' Intelligent men have always rec- ognized the futility of war as final, or even temporary settlement of dis- putes. Basically we fight for our own lives. Let's put aside "totalitarian- ism, Fascism," etc., for the moment. many of us who are unwilling to] sacrifice our lives recognize no "Hereafter," many fear the lack of its existence. We, then, are thank- ful to the Creator for whatever span of life we may expect, and look on it as the most absurdly precious of our gifts, since we expect no more. What fools to throw away this gift without deep forethought! WE RECOGNIZE the brotherhood of man. That means we recog- nize kinship for the Germans as well. Can we possibly blame individuals as we are, under a more stringent system, for the crimes of a handful of leaders. Shall we kill these peo- ple to get at their leaders? No more can we blame the rifles in their hands. Europe can nearly be called a pack of mad dogs. With an ocean of pro- tection between, we need not attempt to shoot. Which would one shoot? Let's not be eager to add to the carnage and destruction of life by giving again the flower of our peo- ple. Killing has never been ade- quately judged or justified by fur- ther killing. -h Karl Vincent Karlstrom German Strategy Candidates for Master's Degrees, Tuesday, June 11, at 5:00 p.m. Can- didates for Doctor's Degrees; Wed- nesday, June 5, at 12:00 Noon. Office of the Dean of Students The list of students who have been admitted to the Degree Program for Honors in Liberal Arts for the com- ing academic year is given below. These students should make an ap- pointment to see Assistant Dean Lloyd S. Woodburne in 1208 Angell Hall on 'Tuesday of this week: Ralph W. Adams, Betty L. Altman, Elizabeth A. Burkheiser, Jack H, Co- hen, Yale Forman, Judy K. Gold, Theodore W. Hildebrandt, Elizabeth A. Howard, Doris J. Jones, Grace E. Miller, Ruth M. Parsons, Seymour E. Podolsky, Marvin B. Rodney, Harry Schagrin, II, Shirley R. Silver, Robert Solomon, Martin M. Spitz, Anthony. Stampoli s, Betty Jane Whitehead, Betty Ann Zunk. Academic Notices The Doctoral Examination of Lloyd Deacon Black will be held at 3:00 p.m. in 21 Angell Hall. Mr. Black's department of specializa- tion is Geography. The title of his thesis is "The Peopling of the Middle Willamette Valley, Oregon." Dr. R. B. Hall as chairman of the committee will conduct the examina- tion. By direction of the Executive Board, the chairman has the privi- lege of inviting members of the faculty and advanced doctoral candi- dates to attend the examination and to grant permission to others who might wish to be present.; C. S. Yoakum The Doctoral Examination of Irv- ing James Cantrall will be held ata 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, in 2047 Museum Bldg. Mr. Cantrall's, department of specialization is Zo- ology. The title of his thesis is "The Ecology of the Orthoptera and Der- maptera of the Edwin S. George Re- serve, Livingston County, Michigan with Notes on Habits and Life His- tories." Professor F. M. Gaige as chairman of the committee will conduct the examination. By direction of the Executive Board, the chairman has the privilege of inviting members of the faculty and advanced doctoral candidates to attend the examina- tion and to grant permission to others who might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakun The Doctoral Examination of Frank Raymond Blood will be held at 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, in 317 West Medical Building. Mr. Blood's department of specialization is Bi- ological Chemistry. The title of his thesis is "The Intermediary Metabo- lism of Some Sulfur-Containing Componds Related to Cystine." Dr. H. B. Lewis as chairman of the committee will conduct the examina- tion. By direction of the Executive Board, the chairman has the privilege of inviting members of the faculty and advanced doctoral candidates to attend the examination and to grant permission to others who might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum The Doctoral Examination of Charles VanValkenburg Crittenden will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, in 21 Angell Hall. Mr. Crit- tenden's department of specialization is Geography. The title of his thesis is "Population Patterns of the South- ern Appalachian Mountains." Dr. P. E. James as chairman of the committee will conduct the examina- tion. By direction of the Executive Board, the chairman has the privi- lege of inviting members of the facul- ty and advanced doctoral candidates to attend the examination and to grant permission to others who might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum The Doctoral Examination of Israeli Albert Warheit will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, in 204 UH. Mr. Warheit's department of special- ization is Germanic Languages and Literatures. The title of his thesis is' "Jung-Wien as a Literary School, Schnitzler, Beer-Hofmann, Hofmann- sthal, 1890-1914." Professor H. W. Nordmeyer will conduct the examination. By direc- tion of the Executive Board, the chairman has the privilege of invit- ing members of the faculty and ad- vanced doctoral candidates to attend the examination and to grant per- mission to others who might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum The Doctoral Examination of Fran- cis Edward Throw will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, in the West Council Room, Rackham Build- ing. Mr. Throw's department of spe- cialization is Physics. The title of his (Continued from Page 2) Concerts Graduation Recital: Hubert Fitch, pianist, of St. Joseph, Missouri, will be heard in recital in partial fuilfill- ment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree, tonight at 8:15 o'clock in the School of Musc Auditorium. The public is Ivited to attend. Today's Events Botanical Journal Club will meet tonight, 7:30 in Room N.S. 1139. Re- ports by: Hugh Loveland, "Review: Manual of California Shrubs." Marvis Schwartz, "Anatomy in chaparral shrubs." "Review: Desert Wild Flowers." Ed Phillips, "Plants of Crater Lake National Park." LeRoy Harvey, "Literature of North American Graminae." Pharmaceutical Conference, College of Pharmacy: The annual Pharma- ceutical Conference, sponsored by the College of Pharmacy, will be held in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m. today. The guest speaker will be Dean B. V. Christensen of the College of Pharmacy of Ohio State Univer- sity, who will speak on "Recruiting for the Profession of Pharmacy." Mr. Arthur Secord of the Department of Speech will also discuss "Develop- ing an Effective Personality," and Dr. Arthur Curtis of the Department of Internal Medicine will speak on "Sulfapyridine and Anti-sera in the Treatment of Lobar Pneumonia." The evening meeting will be held at 7:45 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. Dr. Bradley M. Patten of the Medical School will present his "Micro-moving Pictures of Living Embryos at Various Stages in their Development." All interested are invited to attend both the after- noon and evening sessions. The Romnance Language Journal Club will meet today at 4:15 in RoOm 108 R.L. The following papers will be read: Charles A. Knudson: Stream-lined in English and French: Charles N. Staubach: Propaganda in General Language Tests. A chairman of the Club for next year will be elected at this meetiri. Graduate students are cordially fi- vited. Tan Beta Pi meeting for instalea- ti6n of officers tonight in the Mich- igan Union at 7:15. The Pre-Medical Society Will elect next year's officers tonipht at 8:00 in the East Am - theatre of the West Medical Bud- ing. All those interested in holi' office shouldscontact Leonard Knft, chairman of the elections commit as early as possible, since each can- didate must submit a petition for election by Monday, May 20. Sigma Rho Tan election of offics in University Club Dining Room in the Union at 7:30 tonight. Ann ul after dinner speech session. Please note change of room. Refreshments. Student Senate will present a sym- posium on the topic: "Can Anerica Stay Out of the War?" tonight at 7:30 in the Union. Speakers: Prof. Lawrence Preuss, Political Sciehce Dept., Prof. Arthur Smithies, E - nomics Dept., and Herbert Witt. Christian Science Organization will meet tonight at 8:15 p.m. in the chapel of the Michigan League. The Conversational Hebrew clas will meet at the Hillel Foundation tonight at 7:00 p.m. Coming Events Junior Mathematical Society will have a picnic at the Island on Wed- nesday, leaving from in front of An- gell Hall at 4 o'clock. All interested in going call Sally Lev or Ted Hilde- brandt. Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122 Chemistry Build- ing at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22. Mr. Amos S. Newton will speak on "Determination of crystal struc- ture by Fourier analysis of x-ray dif- fraction patterns." Machine Design Motion Economy: A 1600 foot movie on "Machine DI- sign and Motion Economy" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, in Room 348, West Engineering Building. This film was shown at the A.S.M.E. annual meeting last December. It is supplied through the courtesy of the General Motors Corporation, Saginaw Steering Gear Division. All interested are invited to attend. Varsity Glee Club: Installatidn