_ _i M t1 2A DIO . IN- l ,k* M eM[ Sc arD s mL VS N,..4..J O. Idited and managed by students of the University of chigan uhder the authority of the Board in Control of ident Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the iversity year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press [he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the for republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All kts of repu.bication of all other matters herein also at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as $ubscriptiohs durinig regular school yea by carrier, $4.d; by mail, $4.50. RCPllEENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVE*ii'iNG mY Naionhl Advertising Service, Inc. ICollege Publisbers Rejresentalive 42 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. ' CHICAGO .'OSTON - LOS ANGELES SAN RA1CISCO Member, Associated-Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff stan M. winton Morton L. Lder" Norman A. Schorr Dennis Fflaagan John N. Canavan , nnVicar . Mel'Fineberg i _. Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor 'Associate Editor Women's Editor Sports Editor Business Staff Business Manager . . Asst. Business Mgr., Credit Manager Women's Bu~sinessa Manager . Women's Advertising Manager Publications Manager . Paul R. Park Ganson P. Taggart Zenovia koatko . Jane Mower *Harriet S. Levy NIGHT EITOR: HOWARD A. GOLDMAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily stff and represent the views of the writers New Wolf n Sheep's Clothing ... T HE DIES Committee, that self-ap- pointed scrutinizer of all that is un-American, subversive and alien, is at last itself being questioned by a skeptical public. The latest committee report, which is surprising- ly conservative, is indicative that Martin Dies is finding that the American public is not as gullible as he supposed. By its openly biased and ruthless tactics, the Committee has been dubbed by many as the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing. The purpose of the committee as originally defined by the House resolution introduced by Representative Dies is to examine the extent and character of un-American and subversive propagnda in the United States. But by em- ploying such relative and misleading terms as "un-American," "subversive activities" and that worn-out hering "Communism" it has assumed mnanyundelegated powers and broadened its scope ,to suh an extent that constitutionally guaraniteed civil liberties are threatened. IN A REPORT issued last month, the American Civil Liberties Union charged: "In its efforts (i.e. the Dies Committee) to expose the enemies of democracy it has frequently resorted to meth- ods which endanger the democratic process. These views include the belief that any organ- ization containing Communists is ipso facto sub- versive and un-American. "the public has been confused and led to believe that many worthy, important and even vital liberal and progressive movements, organ- izations and individuals should be suspected. The result has been incalculable harm to the d ,e ly liberal and progressive developments of the democratic process which is so vitally nec- essary to the maintenance of the free and lib- eral traditions of our democracy." Thus far the Dies investigations have been largely confined to a probe of alien opinion and thought circulating in this country rather than to any tangible evidence of overt acts committed against the United States by so-called un-Anier- ican irganizatios. Freedom of thought an opinion is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and is one of the most cherished prerogatives of the Anerican people. The Dies Committee by openly defying this constitutional right s de- feating its purpose. . 'T HAS long'been known that the Dies commit- tee is being used as a political football by employing its wide powers in discrediting the Roosevelt administration and linking high gov- ernment officials with Communistic organiza- tions. However, as proved in the last meeting, evidence to back these contentions is conspic- uously absent. Perhaps the crowning blunder of the commit- tee was the "smear campaign" conducted during the gubernatorial elections of October, 1938, when Murphy of Michigan, Benson of Minne- sota and Olsen of California were put under the Dies fire, resulting in no incriminating evidence but much unfavorable publicity. These were obvious attempts to defeat New Deal candidates, and they manifested a gross misuse of power. In a recent speech Chairman Dies "cheerfully predicted" the deportation of some 7,000,000 aliens. Paradoxically the committee has found, and . Dies has admitted, that not more than 1, WO0 people in the United States are af- fected by alleged subversive and un-American Campus Firetraps ... ONE OF the things that I have pondered over most is the apparent helter-skelter method of the choice of university buildings. It seems to be that those who pass judgment upon what buildings are needed have a decided lack of per- ception. When a new building is to be erected, they consider not the need but what will be beautiful to look at and what will be more ap- pealing to visitors. Perhaps the classic example of that is the Horace H. Rackham Building. It is inexplicable why millions were spent on that one structure while Mason Hall was permitted to serve as a class-room building. True, it is a most pleasant sensation to sit in the seats in the amphitheatre or to loaf in the lounges, but I wonder if there weren't more important things than soft seats to be taken into consideration. From ease and beauty, there is the other ex- treme of danger and unsightliness on the cam- pus. The classic example here is Mason Hall and South Wing. Those structures are probably the best firetraps to be found anywhere. The wooden stairways, walls and floors are enough to make any spark into a holocaust. The crown- ing wonders are, however, the stairways, so narrow that two people cannot easily pass each other. Now imagine those same stairs when crowded with students attempting to escape e fire. Another thing to be noticed is the front of University Hall where great pieces of masonry and brick have fallen. The danger of falling objects is not ignored completely by university authorities, either - or why the steel net stretched between U and Angell Halls? FROM the Rackham and I-M Buildings into Mason Hall, South Wing and Romance Lan- guages, there is a great and terrible transition. Students like to sit in easy chairs in the Rack- ham and they like to play basketball and swim in the I-M, but I feel sure that they would much rather have foregone those pleasures for the security offered by a safe building. I suppose that we will shave to wait for some "public-minded" citizen (who wants his name over the door of a new building) to build a new series of classrooms. The least that can be done is to erect an Administration Building and in so doing release an entire floor of AngellI HalL for classroom space. Many other solutions to the problem suggest themselves, but what is important now is to make people realize that one-hundred-year-old structures are no longer adaptable to college use. The sooner that they realize that Mason Hall fnd South Wing are too dangerous to be used as public buildings, the sooner that problem can be solved. - Eugene SInger, '43 SomnethingSips In Mutual Aid Pal t . . HEN the Russo-German pact was signed last year, the world was shocked at the mutual aid agreeient of two allegedly opposite ideologies. But the after-shock was the belief that the cooperation between an industrial nation and a country of illimitable potential raw materials would likely prove dis- astrous to their respective enemies. This belief pertained especially to Germany when the war began. Since the historicl wea- pon of Great Britain has been the blockade, unrestricted German access to Russian raw materials was supposed to be a staggering blow to the democratic nations. This theory has been weakened by more phenomena than the Fin- nish war. A Russian statistician named M. Iougov has compiled in paris during the past five y ars sets of figures on economic conditions in der- many and Russia that he claims can be sup- ported by sources in these countries. His statis- tics disclose that in 1930, the most favorable trade year, the Russian part of Germany's for- eign trade amounted to six percent of the total. In 1938 it was less than one percent. Two thirds of the wheat, half of the oats, and four fifths of the corn and rice imported by Germany normally passes through zones now patrolled by British gunboats; the remainder comes from Europe, a negligible portion of this from Russia. Of Germany's estimated need of one million tons of wheat per year, Russia could only supply 600,000 tons by exporting to no other market. Russia exports only half the amount of oats consumed by Germany and has no corn or rice. Of the fundamentals of war industry-cop- per, nickel, lead, tungsten, rubber, tin, man- ganese and phosphates-Russia has developed only the last two to a degree that would permit exportation. Although a tenth of Germany's consumed phosphates came fron France and America, Russia is well able to make up this deficiency, in addition to supplying a necessary 490,000 tons of manganese-if she withholds shipments from her other customers. But the world's largest air force, the blitzkrieg land troops, and the diesel-motored naval units have petroleum. Estimates of necessary amounts range from 11 million to 24 million tons per year, depending on the extensiveness of war activities. It is believed that the maximum quantity Germany could acquire in 1940 from Galicia, Rumania, and other reserves would be five million tons. Of 28 million tons produced in 1938, Russia exported one million, and since then the excursion into Finland has been under- taken. How Stalin could afford to supply com- rade Hitler with the minimum requirement of 6 million tons remains to be answered. The probable conclusion from these figures Remove This Menace.. .. THE RECENT anniversary of Washington's birth is an appropriate time to remind Amer- icans of the political significance of the Amer- ican Revolution. Hence I have chosen to pro- pose for the United States a new foreign policy, one which is designed neither to advance our economic interests nor (what would be even more selfish) to force our democratic systeLA of internal government upon peoples to whom it is unsuited at the present time, but rather to promote the cause of political liberty, for which principle our revolution against England was fought. Political liberty is the right of any people to detefmine by what form of government it shall be ruled. Any movement which attempts to re- strict the right of the people to choose its own government is a movement which threatens po- litical liberty. The German people have chosen to be ruled by the Nazis; the Russians, by Com- munists. Hence the war aims of England and France, which include the overthrow of the Nazi rule (and probably also that ofthe Com- munist rule in Russia), are directed against the political liberty of the German and Russian people. Although it is true that both Russia and Germany are now or have recently been engaged in movements directed against the po- litical liberties of other nations, notably Finland and Poland, it is nevertheless clear that they have been forced into this game by the monop- olistic imperialism of England and France. TODAY, just as in 1776, England is the world's greatest and most dangerous enemy of po- litical liberty. The partition of Ireland is still maintained, against the wishes of the people. England still holds Gibraltar, which, by every principle of geography and morality, is an in- separable part of Spain. But more important is the case of India. That nation is the second largest in the world, with a civilization cultur- ally and intellectually comparable to that of Europe. And yet England, by maintaining and protecting a corrupt lot of petty despotisms, holds that great nation in slavery. Why is there not more sympathy in the United States for the nationalists of India and their struggle, which is, more than any other issue in the world, like our own struggle before, 1776? The only possible answer is that the American peo- ple, unworthy of the truly noble principles for which this republic was established, are more loyal to their own race, color and creed than to their professed ideals. Aerican political thought has deserted Jefferson for Disraeli and Churchill. Today the chairs of history and po- litical science in our universities (including this one) are too frequently occupied by men who wish that there had been no American Revolu- tion at all. These are the people who love every- thing English, and who believe not in the equal- ity of men, but in the supremeidestiny of the Anglo-Saxon people. A second American Revolution is needed. This time it will have to be an intellectual revo- lution. It must remove the Anglophiles from the positions of influence which they now oc- cupy and use to make this republic in everything but name a dominion of the British Empire. But here is a new suggestion. This nation should not content itself with removing from its own domestic affairs the threat of British control. It should also take the initiative in removing this menace from the international scene. Why should not the United States form an alliance with Japan, Russia and Germany, and perhaps also Italy and Spain, for the pur- pose of breaking forever the arrogant power of this Insolent, overbearing little nation? - James H. Morrissey Rn Re 'Hail Michigan' .. . To The Editor: I was interested to hear a new song called "Hail Michigan" rendered between halves of the Michigan-Purdue basketball game, and in- terested also in the comments on the song quoted next day in The Daily. Like Mr. John Hildinger4 '42E, I have certainly heard that tune before, and I am not sure it was not at the battle of Chickamauga. I suspect some of the band mem- bers must have played this "new" song with their tongues in their cheeks, though this is difficult to do. I have punctured a good many ear-drums in my day from the vantage-point of a trombone, and the chorus-melody of this song, the backbone of the piece, was certainly on my reading list: I refer to the melody accompanying the first, and third lines of the chorus, with a progression up the scale in, say, C-major, followed by a descent in C-minor. I am not absolutely sure, for a leather-lung behind me was singing a personal version which ranged from two and a half to three and five-eighths tones away from what seemed to be the official band version. If the song is frankly an adaptation of new words to an old and tried melodic arrangement, nothing more of course need be said. Easily half the college songs in the country are simply injections of new soda-pop in old ham-skins. But if the music of the chorus of this song pur- ports to be new, I would suggest Mr. Donn Chown or the band librarian check up in the faded red march-book containing marches of the Under the Double Eagle and John Philip Sousa era. Again I am not sure, as Chickamauga was fought years ago, but I believe an opus called North Wind, which proceeds through some chromatic \ caterwaulings representing the north wind howl- ing around the village tavern, to a gentler third movement, may be the grandfather of the pres- ent "new" song. It is most certainly no original THEATRE By HER VIE IIAUl4ER There was a lot of laughter in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre last night when the Union Opera had its first premiere in five years. Everybody had a good time at "Four out of Five," from the wigged and painted cast to the Old Grad who came to see what kind of an Opera this generation could produce. Many of the laughs were for the wisecracks written into the script by Max Hodge, former editor of Gar- goyle. Some of them were for the merry burlesquing of the famous. A lot of them were for the dead-pan seriousness with which the boys on the stage went at this difficult work of being a girl. But there were laughs. And every laugh was a go-signal for the come- back of a Michigap tradition aband- oned since 1930. The hearty ap- plause, the good-natured chuckles, the exclamations of surprise-all con- tributed to the opinion that the Opera should not die again. It was the choruses that brought a major portion of the fun-making. In some lights, the handsomely cos- tumed "pony" line looked trim and lady-like-and there were incredulous smiles. Under other lights their beards showed through the makeup, and there were laughs at that. When they did their steps, the audience was pleased. And of course they drew their biggest laughs when they fal- tered. Second vote for effectiveness goes to the impersonators of the Roosevelt clan. Tall, ungainly, Jack Silcott burlesqued Mrs. Roosevelt so uproar- iously that the spectators began to chuckle whenever he appeared. Tom Harmon carried his role well as a harassed Jimmy Roosevelt. And Al Bentley, as the hen-pecked Chief Executive, was successful with his slapstick version. Undoubtedly the most difficult parts to play in this aura of farce and nonsense were the two "straight" leads-normal and typical college' students. Casey Carter achieved a very green, boyish freshman in his interpretation of "Lee Grant," and handled his singing parts well. Jack Rede was a likable coed in a role that might easily have become ane- mic against its background of exag- gerated characterizations. A final vote of approval goes to Roy Rector, whose swaying, sultry interpretation of "'Hedy LaTour" was in keeping with Hedy's lavish cos- tumes and coral fingernails.{ GULLIVER'S CAVILS 'By roung (qulliver CULLIVER wrote a column the other day about his overcoat and springtime. He said that he didn't know whether to get the sleeves stitched back on or not, because it looked like spring was coming. Yes- terday he got the following note from a local cleaning establishment: Dear Gulliver: We are greatly distressed by your plight but being natives of Ann Arbor we know the weather will be bad for some time and being assured that your credit will bee good for some time, we suggest that you let our eminent tailor unite, at least temporarily, in hole-y union, this coat and pair of sleeves of which you so sadly speak. Your faithful readers, etc. If any other cleaning and repairing firm wants to offer Gulliver its ser- vices, it may do so in writing, and if the letter is good enough, Gulliver will print it. HOW MANY of you know anything about the life of Charles A. Lind- bergh, Senior, father of the well known aviator? He was certainly one of the greatest and most cour- ageous men who has ever served the American people in Congress. If America needs heroes, why not' George Norris, or Charles A. Lind- bergh, Senior? It was Lindbergh who said a little more than twenty-five years ago, shortly after. the first World War broke out: "Yes, we are going in, as soon as the people of this country can be sufficiently propa- gandized by the war mania." For this and similar statements Lindbergh was stoned, egged and mobbed by the people who had elected him to Congress. Gulliver suggests that you commit that sentence to memory. History never repeats itself, but sometimes you get an awfully sus- picious resemblance ... Education should be liberalized by having the seven or eight year edu- cation of the professional man plan- ned as a unit. This is the proposal of Harvard University's Pres. James Bryant Co- nant as "an attempt to get away from the 'pre-professional' idea in college." Specifically, he asks that the med- ical schools adnmt men provisionally Notices To the Members of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: The fifth regular meet- ing of the Faculty of thetCollege of Literature, Science, and the Arts fo the academic session of 1939-40 will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall, March 4, 1940, at 4:10 p.m. The reports of several committees, instead of being read orally at the meeting, have been prepared in ad- vance and are included with this call to the meeting. They should be re- tained in your files as part of the minutes of the February meeting.' As the agenda includes items of importance to the faculty as a whole, it is hoped that there will be a good attendance. Edward H. Kraus AGENDA 1. Consideration of the minutes of the meeting of February 5,,1940 (pp. 600-605), which are distributed by campus mail. 2. Memorial to the late Professor Bruce M. Donaldson. Committee: Miss Adelaide A. Adams, ProfessorI Arthur L. Cross, and Dr. Frank E. Robbins, chairman. 3. Consideration of the reports sub- mitted with the call to the meeting: a) Executive Committee, prepared, by Professor H. H. Bartlett. b) Uni- versity Council, prepared by Professor W. G. Smeaton. c) Executive Board of the Graduate School, prepared1 by Professor C. S. Schoepfle. d) Sen- ate Advisory Committee on Universi- ty Affairs, prepared by Professor L.7 C. Karpinski. e) During the past month there has been no meeting of the Deans' Conference. 4. Recommendations of the Execu- tive Committee of the College on the Report on "The Evaluation of Faculty Services" (pp. 575-576).1 5. New business. Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Elections cards filed after the end of the first week of the semester may be accept- ed by the Registrar's Office only ift they are approved by Assistant Pean Wvalter. S9tudtents who fall tofile their election blanks by the close of the third week, even though they have registered and have attended celasses unofficially will forfeit their privilege of continuing in the Col- lege for the semester. If uch stu- dents have paid any tuition fees, Assistant Dean Walter will issue a withdrawal card for them. Aeronautical Engineering Students: There will be available in the Depart- ment of Aeronautical Engineering two1 Frank P. Sheehan Scholarships and probably three assistantships, for the year 1940-41. These scholarships and assistantships are, in general, re- stricted to upperclassmen and grad- uate students,, and the ,selection is made very largely on the basis ofI scholastic standing. Applications for these positions will be received up to March 15, 1940. Students wishing to make application should address them to Professor E. A. Stalker, B-47 East Engineering Building, and should give a brief statement of their qualifica- tions and experience in regard to their scholastic work and any outside experience they may have had. A statement should also be made giving their plans for further study in Aero- nautical Engineering. Applications may be made for both the scholar- ships and the assistantships. Senior Lit Students: Class dues are payable until Mar. 1. Academic Notices Make-up examinations in German: All students entitled to take them are requested to call at the office, 204 U.H., on or before February 29, for making necessary arrangements. Make-up Final Examinations for all courses in Geology will be given from 9-12 Saturday, March 2, in Room 2045 N.S. Make-up Final Examinations: Eco- nomics 51, 52, and t3 will be given on Friday, March 8, at 3:00 p.m. in Room 207 Ec. Bldg. Students planning to take any of these examinations must seek permission beforehand. Shorey Peterson Psychology 31 Makeup Examina- tion, all lecture sections, will be held Thursday, March 7, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in Room 3126 N.S. Psychology 33 Make-up Examina- tion on Friday, March 1, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 3126 N.S. Psychology 42: There will be a blue- book in Abnormal Psychology today. Anthropology 32: There will be a quiz Friday. M.E. 15a, 63 and 73: Special illus- trated lecture and discussion on the various design problems of aircraft concerts Graduation Recital: kathleen Rick, pianist, of Ann Arbor, will ap- pear in recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music, this evening at 8:15 o'clock, in the School of Music Auditorium on Maynard Street. The general public is invited without ad- mission charge. Exhibitions American Indian pa'ntig, south gallery, Alumni Memorial Hall, until March 1, 2 to 5 p.m. Auspices of Ann Arbor Art Association. Art and Industry, ground floor, Architectural Building, courtesy Col- lege of Archtecture and Design. Exhibition: The original painting by Dean Cornwell entitled "Beau- mont and St. Martin," owned by John Wyeth and Brother of Philadelphia, is being exhibited in the second floor obr'idor of the University hospital intil Marci 2. lectures University Lecture: Dr. Timon H. Fokker, member of the Dutch tistori- cal Institute, Rome, will lecture on "Hindu Art in Central Java" (illus- trated) under the auspices of the In- stitute of Fine Arts, at 4:15 p.m. to- day in the Amphitheatre of the Rack- ham Building. The public is co'dial- ly invited. University Lecture: Dr. Alfred Tar- ski will lecture Saturday, March 2, at 11:00 a.m. in 3011 A.H., on the sub- ject, "AAi Elementary Fited-Point Theorem and Some of Its Applica- tions." French Lecture: Professor Louis Allard, formerly of Harvard Univer- sity, Confrencier Officiel de l'Alli- ance Francaise, will give the third lecture on the Cercle Francais pro- cais: Gilbert de Pixerecourt," to- day at 4:15 p.m., room 103, Romance Language Bldg. Tickets for the series of lectures and play may be procured at the door at the time of the lecture. Slosson Lecture: Professor Preston W. Soson of the history department will review the current world situa- tion in a lecture on "This Mad World" under the auspices of Pi Lambda Theta tonight at 8:00 in the Amphi- theatre of the Rackhan Building, third floor. The public is invited. Dr. Walter M. Horton, of the Ober- lin Graduate School of Theology, will give the third lecture in the series on "The Existence and Nature of Re- ligion" at the Rackham Lecture Hall, 8:00 p.m., Saturday. Today's Evets Zoology Seminar: Mr. Adolph teb- ler will report on "Michigan's Native Wild Dogs" tonight at 7:30. in the Mineralogy Lecture Room, 2082 N.S. Bldg. Institute of the Aeronautical $- ences meeting tonight at 7:30 in Room 1042 East engineering Building. Dr. J. M. Gwinn, Chief Project Engineer of Bell Aircraft Corporation, -will speak on "Practical Airplane Design Problems." A discussion will be held on a proposed trip to the Stinson plant at Wayne, Mich., and the Wayne County Airport. Refreshments. Athena, honorary speech society, is holding tryouts tonight at 7:30 'n the League. Any three minute speech constitutes a tryout. Those unable to attend should contact Jane Sapp at 2-4561. Beta Chapter of Iota Alpha meet- ing in the West Lecture Room, Mez- zanine, Rackham Building, at 7:30 tonight. Lt. Col. L. A. Fox will address the group on "Graduate Study in Preven- tive Medicine" after which the meet- ing will be open for discussion. Alpha Phi Omega will meet in the Upper Room at Lane Hall tonig t at 8:00. Election of officers for second semester. Men's Physical Education Club meeting for all students and faculty of Department F tonight at 9:15 p.m. at the Michigan Union. Ticket Committee for the nillel Play will meet today at 4:00 p.m. at the League. Anyone interested in working on the committee is urged to attend. ' JGP Ticket Committee meeting to- day at 3:30 p.m. Attendance coMpul- sory. All health rechecks and eligi- bility cards must be signed today. Dr. Lewis Corey, second speaker of DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETII THURSDAY., VOL. L. FEB. 29, 1940 No. 106 Will meet three hours a week for five weeks.