TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY ICHIGAN DAILY AS OTHERS jq SEE IT . . . 1' Jem. loe 1-leywood Broun William E. Borah of Idaho wrapped himself in the weight of his years and experience and drew around himself the cloak of wisdom at the be- ginning of the great debate. That he spoke QULLIVER'S CAVILS >By Young Gulliver, DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN YI 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, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATiONAU. ADVEN,.S1NG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AvE. NEW YORx, N. Y. CEICAGO ' BOSTON L LOSANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff Carl Petersen Elliott Maraniss Stan M. Swinton Morton L. Linder Norman A. Schorr Dennis Flanagan John N. Canavan Ann Vicary Mel Fineberg Managing Editor Editorial Director City, Editor . Associate Editor * Associate Editor . Associate Editor Associate Editor Women's Editor Sports Editor Business Staff usiness Manager st. Business Mgr., Credit Manager omen's Business Manager omen's Advertising Manager iblications Manager * Paul R. Park Ganson P. Taggart Zenovia Skoratko . Jane Mowers . Harriet S. Levy NIGHT EDITOR: ALVIN SARASOHN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Education For Living .. . HE GRADUAL collapse of certain - age-old taboos surrounding mar- riage and sex education has loosed an increas- ingly great pressure on educational institutions to alter their Victorian attitude. Every year in- roads are made into the antiquated conception that permits students to leave college, fairly well versed in science, in letters and perhaps in some profession; but with little more' than bull-sessional gleanings in sex, marriage and homemaking. A step toward a more practical view is now on the docket of the Student Senate. This is the "Education For Living" program of study planned by Mrs. Samuel T. Dana, wife of the forestry school's dean. It is not a seven-leagued step, yet a very sane one. Mrs. Dana, with the cooperation of three members of the faculty and three Ann Arbor women, has drawn up a list of courses offered in the various schools of the University that would be of practical benefit in successful home- making. Thus, from the architecture school are drawn courses in home and landscape design, from the business administration school a course in the economics of copsumption, from the psychology department courses in embryonic and child psy- chology, and so on. It is not intended that stu- dents should concentrate in homemaking, or even let it interfere with their field of major interest. But every one of these courses that the student takes will be another feather in his cap in "education for living." The only fear one can have in advocating such a plan is that it will prove a stopgap rather than a stepping-stone. It obviously is not the per- fect answer: there is only a smattering of prac- tical information in homemaking to be gained from many of the studies, and the composite knowledge of all the courses may avail little in meeting the problems of domestic life. But it is a step away from Babbittry and it deserves the interest and support of senators and students. -Hervie Haufler To the Editor: A strange cloud of fatalistic despair rests on the American people. Gallup polls and other surveys show that the majority of the nation wish to keep out of the present war, and also that a majority believe it impossible to do so, at least if the war lasts for any considerable num- ber of months. In other words, most of us expect to do what we do not want to do. Nor are the minorities any happier. Some, who are international idealists by nature, have become isolationists from sheer despair. They say that "at least" an island of democracy in a world of tyranny and dictatorship "may" be preserved in this country "if" we remain at peace. Apparently a second deluge is to over- whelm the world, but Noah and his sons may be saved in the ark; Sodom is doomed to fire from Heaven, but Lot may perhaps escape if he flees without looking back. Others are isola- tionists anyhow, who have always said "America first-and the rest nowhere!" They talk of big armies, of a navy "second to none" in both the Atlantic and Pacific, of a total cessation of foreign trade, of still more rigorous laws against immigrants and a rigid censorship of foreign isms," including internationalism and pacifism. At the opposite extreme, some say that we should enter this war, but they dare not hold out the old hopes, now so much the object of ridicule and contempt, of a "war to end war" or a "war to make the world safe for democracy." They merely offer the pleasant but negative prospect of "stopping Hitler" and restoring the frontiers of a year ago. Aqusiesce To The Whar Cycle Well, none of these is good enough! Worse than a thousand wars or tyrannies would be to become reconciled to war or tyranny. Granted that we failed to establish the basis of an en- during peace at Versailles and afterwards. Are we therefore to acquiesce forever in a cycle of war-peace-preparedness-alliances-war? Or are we to make yet another effort, and as many more as may be needful, to put an end to war as an institution? That question is of infinitely more moment than our short-sighted debates as to neutrality, embargoes and national interests. It is even more important than the question of whether we suffer as a belligerent or suffer merely as a neutral from the present conflict, for suffer we shall in any event. Why not take our own destinies, and the world's destinies, boldly in our own hands and say "This time we shall not drift into war nor be trapped by secret treaties nor stung by submarine outrages into entering a conflict whose ends and aims we cannot foresee. Still less shall we set our names to a peace and then run away from its terms to nations weaker, more embittered or less impartial than our own. Least of all shall we take refuge in the pathetic belief that a world in flames will always spare our own rooftrees. We will offer Europe and the world peace, peace on our terms and a peace that will be enduring. And the acceptance of that peace will be the sole condition of our cooperation in the eco- nomic and, if need be, in the military effort, involved in establishing this peace." Why not? We have the wealth and the power. Have we' the will? The Bases Of Enduring Peace What are the bases of an enduring peace? They are not recondites; many have pointed them out during the armistice years of 1919 to 1939. The world knew, but it would not heed. In its present dire need, it may perhaps heed. At least we should make the effort, since it is our only hope. 1. As a gesture of good will, wipe the slate clean of both reparations and of international debts. Experience has shown that they will not be paid anyhow; so the creditor loses nothing except a barren legal title. 2. Place all, not merely some, tropical colonies and dependencies, under the mandate system, with equal trade rights to all nations. This will wipe out the chief economic cause of wars, the desire for. a "place in the sun." 3. Agree that all causes of international dispute, without exception, shall be peacefully settled. If ordinary diplomacy cannot solve these disputes give mandatory jurisdiction to the League of Nations, or whatever newer and stronger inter- national agency may come out of the war. '4. Agree to enforce the decisions of such an international tribunal, without exception, by the entire armed force of the law-abiding nations. How can there be peace in the world without law, or law without enforcement? This would not mean "sending our sons to Europe to fight her quarrels" as myopic politicians say. 4 It would mean rather stopping wars before they get started by such a show of determined force that force itself need be rarely if ever used., 5. Agree that all changes in the map must be preceded by a plebiscite of the area affected; a plebiscite conducted in the presence of an. armed police belonging to neither of the parties in dispute. The Saar election shows the method. If this principle were applied, Poland and Czechoslovakia could be reconstructed, but any genuinely Russian districts could become Russian. 6. Reduce armaments; but also, as a guarantee of good faith on the part of all, give the experts in the service of the League of Nations (or other international organization) the right to inspect all munitions factories, shipyards, forts and other places of military importance so that no secret armament can be prepared-or suspected. These should be the immediate terms which the United States and her allies should propose in the event of war. If accepted, they would put an end to the Second World war. If rejected by the aggressor governments, at least they would avert a Third World War by crowning is an aswer and there is a force which are power- jul enough to strip the cloak from off the shoul- ders of the old stalwart. Borah's original premise in his argument was against recorded history from the beginning of time. As a matter of fact, although he has added eloquence and -triumphs he is actually offer- ing once again Henry Ford's famous dictum, "History is the bunk." Now, while it is true that no age should con- tinue to be controlled by the dead hand of the past, there is no escaping the fact that the very spinal fluid of man's fate is a mixture of present aspirations and the hard clots of previous ex- perience. Mr. Borah hinself guessed badly at the close of the last war. He and his adherents, in all sincerity; chose to believe that if they could close the door of America to the rest of the world, never again would our country be disturbed by the tap, tap of some stranger at the gate. And there it is right now a-pounding. * * * And by the very fact that the gentleman from Idaho rises again to cry out "for isolation he testifies that there is no hermit cave into which this nation can retire and count Europe a lost and distant continent. Even the Senator can hardly believe that the history of the United States is a narration which can wholly exclude forces operative across the water. We won our freedom in a war in which Europe was vitally and actually present along our shores. Even after the establishment of our own nation the politics of America were gravely shaken by the French Revolution and its reper- cussions. Any good historian could take'a pencil and. show how our own map from Florida to Alaska has been altered by conditions abroad Waterloo was 'not fought in a pigeonhole, and Napoleon's adventures altered the life of every- one living here, although the ocean was much wider then than it is today. f Jim effectively cannot be denied, and only a fool would ques- tion the utter sincerity of the elder statesman.. It is quite probable that no other man in the upper house will be able to take him over the jumps, and tho final answer to his argument may not lie with Roosevelt. And still I believe that there TH'EATRE SATURDAY, OCT. 7, 1939 VOL. L. No. 12 1OB Rosa, who is not only one of the most able, but also one of the most well-liked gents on cam- pus, was elected President of the local chapter of the ASU the other, night. When a candidate was pro- posed for Vice-President, a lad in the back of the room mumbled, "I guess this guy'll be sub Rosa." Which should make the lad a like candidate for the Order of the Potted Palm. THE above leads Gulliver quite na- turally to the incident the other day in a history class which shall be unnamed: a young scholar arose to report that the Calvinists wanted to attain salvation through self-deprav- ity . . AT this point Gulliver paused, his wrists neatly arched over the typewriter. Shall I proceed now, he thought, to a violent attack on Morty Q? I could tell him; for instance, that there is a Burton Wheeler on campus, (which there is) and then challenge him to find a William Borah, under the heading GULLIVER HURLS DEFI. No, that sort of thing is wearing thin. Then shall I write something witty about the world of books: A NEW NOVEL OF POWER AND VIGOR, PLACE THIS ON YOUR MUST LIST, A TENDER STORY OF THWARTED LIVES, THE EPICAL SAGA OF EMPIRE BUILDERS, THE STORY OF A GREAT PASSION, I READ THIS 'BOOK TILL 3 A.M.???? Or shall I go to town on the cinema, he mused. ALL THE RESOURCES OF A MIGHTY. EMPIRE MAR- SHALLED TO PRODUCE THIS PICTURE, HERE AT LAST! A MOVIE TO REMEMBER FOR A LIFETIME, YOU.DARE NOT MISS THIIS SENSATIONAL EXPOSE OF 'PRISON LIFE, YOUTH, GIN, COM MUNISM, THE LEAGUE OF NA- TIONS. Nope. How' about a quick explanation of the European situation? Not today. So while he's thinking about what to say; Gulliver inserts the following letter: Dear Gulliver: Miss Harris's skill in the use of the apt and rhythmic phrase certain- ly helps to liven up a column. Please ask her to interpret for use in her own inimitable style the following from page 90 of the announcement of the school of education: 102 Child Hygiene. (2) Maternity and infant mortality; PRENATAL INSTRUC- TION and normal development of the child from birth to school age Something like this (only far bet- ter): Oh, infant immatriculate, You've got to learn to graduate. Before you ever use your eyes' Or learn your blood to oxidize Your fond mamma will enter you In Education 102. As soon as you can come alive You'll join the class of '65 And write "To hell with '64" Somewhere upon the nursery floor -Phil Ephemeros It looks as though June Harris has a worthy rival. AND now Gulliver would like to cal your attention to a fable in this week's Liberty Magazine entitled "The Communists Offered Me Free Love." The joe who wrote the piece doesn't say whether or not he accepted the offer, but still it makes damn good reading; and it's got a lot about that red, red organization, the NYA. Sample quote: "Some of my friends were discussing what we should do that night. Suddenly one spoke up with the air of one who had made a great discovery. 'Why, it's Friday!' he said. 'Let's go round to the Young Communist League tonight. I feel in the mood for some free love!' So .we spent the evening at the Young Communist League, and were not dis- appointed." Gulliver wants to wind up for to- day with a quotation from Vincent Sheean's Not Peace But A Sword; he recommends it for memorization. Sheehan was waiting in Prague a year ago for the bombs to fall, and then came Munich. He says: "On the night when we knew about Mun- ich (Sept. 29) I did not sleep at all, but lay looking at those dimmed funereal lights for hour after hour, reluctant to turn them off .since they seemed to be the permanent illumina- tion of Europe thereafter. The nights when we had expected the bombers seemed, in retrospect, nights of hope: for no material catastrophe could have destroyed the foundations of hope as Munich did. From that night on I knew that France and England would never fight for anything worth fighting for: that their resistance, when it came, would come for their moneybags or their empires, never for a principle of any consequence to the human race; that no pledged+ word, no law and no reason could ; To The Members of the Universityc Council: There will be a meeting of I the University Council at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, in Room 1009 A.H. Louis A. Hopkins, Secy. To Deans, Directors, Departmentp Heads and Others Responsible for Payrolls: - Payrolls for the first semester are$ ready for approval. This should ben done at the Business Office before Oct. 18 if checks are to be issued on Oct. 31. Deadline for change of elections,6 College of Literature, Science, and The Arts: No. course may be added after the end of the third week of the semester. This correct informa- tion conflicts with the statementf (page 37, Announcement, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts) which reads, "No student shall beZ admitted to a class after the end of the second week of a semester." The last day for adding courses is Satur- - day, Oct. 14, the end of the third week. The Congress Cooperative House is accepting applications for board. Ap- plication blanks may be obtained at the Congress Cooperative House, 909 E. University Ave. Mail for Students, Faculty, and temporary residents at the University: All students' and new members of the faculty should call at the U.S. Post Office and make out pink card, "Order to Change Address," Form 22, if they have not already done so. This applies also to temporarynresi- dents in Ann Arbor who may be do- ing reference or research work on the Campus. Unidentifiable mail is being held in Room 1, University Hall, for the fo- lowing addressees:' John Adair, George Wesley Allen, Dr. S. H. Allers, T. B. 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Academic Notices Preliminary Ph.D. Examinations in Economics: For persons qualified to write them, examinations will be heldI on Oct 30-Nov. 1. Please notify the Department office at once if you plan to write the examinations at this time. I. L. Sharfman. Preliminary Examinations for the doctor's degree in the School of Edu- cation will be held on Oct. 12, 13 and 14. Graduate students desiring to take : these examinations should notify my office, 4002 University High School, Building, at once, concerning their, desires. Clifford Woody.- Make-up Examinations in History: Make-up examinations in all history courses will be held in Room B, Haven Hall, from 3 to 6 p.m., on Friday, Oct.t 13. All students taking a make-up must see their instructor before Wed- nesday, Oct. 11, and must bring the instructor's written permission to take Notices Chicago Divinity School will speak on "The Church and the Social Crisis" at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Sunday, Oct. 8, 8 p.m., sponsored by the Inter-Guild Council and the Student Religious Association. The lecture is' open to the public. Toda ys Events Freshman Round Table: Dean Erich A. Walter will speak on the subject, "Sifting the Catalogue" at Lane Hall, tonight at 7:15 p.m. All freshmen men and women are welcome to take part in the discussion. Hillel Foundation: Open house will be held at the Foundation after the football game. All students and their guests are cordially invited. Coming Events Faculty, School of Education: The first monthly luncheon meeting of the Faculty will be held on Monday, Oct. 9, at 12 o'clock noon at the Michigan Union. German Table for Faculty Mem- bers: The first luncheon meeting will be held Monday, Oct. 9, at 12:10 p.m. in the Founder's Room of the Michi- gan Union. All faculty members interested in speaking German are cordially in- vited. There will be a brief informal talk by Prof. Henry W. Nordmeyer. Deutscher Verein: There will be a business meeting, reeption, and pro gram TUesday night at 7:45 in the Michigan League. All students of German, faculty people, and others interested are invited. Tau Beta Pi dinner meeting Sun- day, Oct. 8, 6:15 p.m., at the Michi- gan Union.Brief but important busi- ness will be discussed. All graduates and members new to the campus are welcome. Theatre Arts -Production Ushers: All girls interested in ushering 'for Theatre Arts Productions, who have not attended any previous meetings, are urged to meet in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre, Monday, Oct. 9; at 4:30 p.m. sharp. .The Graduate. Education Club: The Graduate Education Club will hold its first meeting Wednesday, Oct. 11, 4 p.m. in the Graduate Library' of 'the University Elementary School. Dean Edmonson will give a report of the Congress on Education for Democ- racy held recently in New York. All graduate students taking -work in the School of Education are welcome. Re- freshments served. Varsity Glee Club: The following men will report for rehearsal for the Flint concert, 3 p.m. Sunday. Regu- lar rehearsal.for all members at 4:30 p.m. Secrist Fennell Holt MacIntosh Heininger Kelly Pinney Steere Peterson Vandenberg Tuttle Levinson Ossewaarde Hines Stitt Gell Schwarzwalder Morris Langford Smith, R. Berger Luxan Whitney Fromm Nelson, A. Brown, G. Brown, C. Liimatainen Sorenson Lusk Gibson George International Center: Monday eve- ning at.7 p.m. "Wallie" Weber, Assis- tatit Football Coach, will give ",a talk, illustrated by moving pictures, on the American game of football. This is in response to the request for such a talk by a large number of foreign'stu- dents who will see their first football game today and want to have some instruction regarding the strategy of the game. This talk takes the place of the movie announced in the semes- ter program for next Monday. R.O.T.C. Signal Corps: The R.O.T.C. Signal Corps will hold a free class for all students wishing to practice the international Morse code in Room 301 Engineering Annex at the follow- ing times: Monday, 4 to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 4 to 5 p.m.; Friday 2 to 4 p.m. All University students are in- vited to attend. All League Houses are asked to send 'their Athletic Managers or a repre- sentative to a very important meet- ing at the Women's Athletic Build- ing on Monday, Oct. 9, at 4:15 g.m. The Graduate Outing Club will meet at the northwest entrance of the Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m. Sun- day, Oct. 8. Those attending will divide into groups for hiking, bicyc- ling, and canoeing, and will later re- turn to the Rackham Building for refreshments. All faculty members and graduate students are welcome. In case of rain, there will be an in- door meeting. The Michigan Christian Fellowship will meet at its regular meeting in the 'I By JOSEPH BERNSTEIN Ann Arbor is extremely fortunate in being able to see three movies that are among the best of their kind. The Women at the Majestic is one of the best drawing-room comedies this year; Golden Boy at the Michigan as a fast-moving picture with good dialogue; and Ballerina at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in the League, a moving and highly enjoyable portrayal of a young girl who wants to become a ballet dancer, or a ballerina. The story of Ballerina is quite simple: it treats with the ambition of a girl of about twelve to become a dancer. She causes an older ballet dancer to cripple herself and subsequently de- velops a sort of guilt-complex. This is suffi- cient for the r'eader to construct for himself the situations that are possible-the French (the movie is in French, but with adequate English sub-titles, and graphic enough to be understood even without them), to repeat, the French seem, to be unusually good in their handling of the delicate problems of adolescence. And if one phrase iiay serve to describe Ballerina, it is that the movie is delicately beautiful. The acting of the adults is rather poor, but this is overbalanced by the fresh and competent performances of the young ballerinas. (I under- stand that it is the first movie for many of them; and if this is the case, they and their director deserve a great deal of applause.) The film starts slowly, as was the case in Grand Illusion, but develops strongly. It may take a few min- utes for some to adapt themselves to a foreign tongue and screen technique, but this language and technical obstacle is soon removed. On tho whole Ballerina is staged, photographed and edited with Hollywood fineness, but fortunately without Hollywood's tinsel. Given the same theme they would hire Stokowsky, turn chorus girls into ballet dancers (or vice vers#), and have Shirley Temple do a dance called, On the Good Ship Lollypop. The French film Ballerina is much more sen- sible than that-it is told realistically and effec- tively and the result is more satisfying from any point of view. (Who can remember Hollywood's Midsummer Night's Dream without thinking of it as Ziegfield Follies in the Woods?) The music is from Chopin and Gounod and the dancing done by the Ballet of the National Opera: this in. itself makes the movie 'worth seeing more than once. We simply don't get a chance to see anything like it in Ann Arbor; the Art Cinema' League, which brought this film, is indispensable. In addition to Ballerina there is a Donald Duck (who outranks Mickey Mouse in popularity) and a March of Time describing the progress of mov- A Plan For Economy 0 0 C ONGRESS, independent men's or- ganization, deserves a vote of praise in its truly worthwhile move to save the Michi- gan student some money. And it's a well-known fact that the expenses of living here in Ann Arbor are not the lowest in the country. For this move is designed to effect savings of 30 per cent on cleaning and pressing charges over the current rate charged by members of the Ann Arbor Cleaning and Pressing Associa- tion. The plan also saves its participants 10 per cent on shoe repairs and 10 per cent on purchases of clothing and furnishings. Long have the complaints of Michigan stu- dents rung out against the seemingly high prices imposed upon them by the Ann Arbor trade associations, but not until this semester has anything been done about it on such a large scale. And it is fitting that the tas should be taken over by a campus organization. William Etnr