THE MICHIGAN DAILY Si UNDJAY,-OCT. 8, If THE MICHIGAN DAILY Z7j N str . ° C Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan udder the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. . Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. fMember of the Associated Press TeAssociated Press is exclusively entitled to the us for republication ofall news dispatches credited to ' it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVEU,,SING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADisoN AYE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO BOsTO N LOS ANGLES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Carl :Petersen Elliott Maraniss Stan M. Swinton Morton L. Linder Norman A. Schorr Dennis Flanagan JohncN. Canavan Ann Vicary Mel Fineberg Editorial Staff 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 Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Publications Manager . Paul R. Park Ganson P. Taggart Zenovia Skoratko . Jane Mowers . Harriet S. Levy NIGHT EDITOR: HERVIE HAUFLER The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily .staff and represent the views of the writers only. RuShing Good Or Bad? * * i"S TOO BAD about Chollie Kicka- bouter, the Daily man who went out the other night to investigate rushing condi- tions in campus fraternities. Chollie should be ashaned for imposing himself on an already harassed set. of fraternity men, worn to a frazzle anyway trying to be pleasant to scores of visiting strangers. Aside from that, however, Chollie should be .censured for his inordinately exaggerated play- up of all the insignificant superficialities of fra- ternity rushing. It is difficult enough as it is to devise and run a system whereby a group of peo- ple unfamiliar to one another and to their hosts can meet with these latter in a way in which both can size the other up and yet be civilized about it without having the whole process dis- rupted by someone-no matter how funny-on the make for gags. The fraternities have been trying for so long and so earnestly to dispel the mistaken idea that they are, in general, a hypo- critical, immoral, wild group, that their argu- ments are perfect stooge material for anyone de- siring to take advantage of it. It is too bad that Chollie isn't a freshman, because in such an event, he could be excused on the grounds of being frightened and putting up a front. The references to excursions through the house, to songs at the table and conversa- tions, all of which sound highly superficial, in reality describe a part of rushing which is cold- bloodedly practical, an insight into the personal r' habits and mechanical facilities of that partic- ular house. Denied this, the rushee would pro- test violently. As a potential member of th4 fraternity, he deserves a right to see what it is like. The only -real objection to the Michigan fra- ternity system as it stands, is its lack of enough cooperative organization to squarely meet the frequent, and like this example, unreasonable at- tacks on an institution which has long played a large part in the lives of University men. -Robert Bogle War, And Its Expense ... F IGURES on governmental finance have become so inordinately large that they'are commonly avoided when presented in the raw form of U.S. Treasury reports and t statements. Such figures can, however, become both in- teresting and vital when given a practical mean- ing and interpretation in terms of current events. It is interesting to note, for instance, that national defense, generally known to be a large item of governmental expenditure, actually has consumed 80% of those expenditures during the period 1789-1920. In real terms, this amounts to 52.6 billions dollars out of a total governmen- tal outlay of 66.7 billion dollars during the per- iod.. In computing the cost of any war, it is not enough to add together the cost of army and naval armaments. Into the hopper must be thrown yearly pension payments, interest harges and the repudiated war debts owed by other countries. ,"- nc-n. a--m+P- b ff rAJ,.stismlnmfia Of ALL Things. EXCERPTS FROM the diary of a man who vowed he would never keep a diary: Thursday . . . to Room G in Haven Hall at 11 . . . for class in intellectual history of me- dieval Europe . . . readied paper and pen . not unduly surprised when new face started to lecture: perhaps Professor Throop was ill . sat there 10 minutes taking unfamiliar notes on Roman Spain before realizing it was the wrong class .. . must have shifted rooms Tuesday when I was absent... thought those things happened only to freshmen . . . to Ferry Field at 4:30 and the last Wolverine grid drill . .. boys looked anxious and sharp: as if they were eager to en- gage the Spatans in a pigskin-peloponnesia (see front page for details of the war) ... watching one of the squads romp up and down the field in signal drill... Harry Kohl calls the play... the shift . .. Herc Renda cuts to the right and Bill Luther to the left ... signals mixed . . . the crack of Herc's head on Bill's temple audible high in the grandstand .. . Bullet Bill stretched on the grass: out cold, cheekbone pushed in, eye closed . . . walks off in a daze . . . doc says a fracture: no action for three weeks . . . joined other newsmen to see if Coach Criser would make a prediction . . . no soap . . . said Fritz: they need a game, and they'll get it (see front page) . . . saw a familiar figure walking across the track . . . hurried over to say hello to Bill Watson, recently returned from the europeture filed 700-word wire advance on the game to Chicago . . . home to find out how Prof. Rowe wants me to write a play ... roommates Maraniss and Fineberg insist on settling the problem of economic fundamentalism . . oh, well, I'll write that play tomorrow .-. FRIDAY . . . baseball must be observing religious dietary laws: no Red meat today for those Yankee wolves . . . received very vivid idea of nerve-wracking welter of ad- ministration details as I tried to turn an election card in late . . . from registrar to dean to regis- trar to cashier to dean to registrar . . . the way everyone looked at me . . . except Dean Walter who is a grand guy . . . you'd think I had just blown up the Stadium or something ... for some swell heart-touching reading, pick up the scrap- book in Dean Walter's waiting-room sometime ... contains notes of "we are about to die," those pitiful people who sit, fidgeting, waiting their turn to learn if they are still Michiganders . interesting . . forgot to eat lunch . . . in: to see Domenic for a haircut . .. between clips, heard long history of four generations:of barbers in the Dascola family . . . he started to cut hair when he was 10 . . to the Union steps at 6:15 for a WJIM (Lansing) broadcast of game-opinion. 6:30: we're on the air .. Ted Spangler leads about 100 fellows grouped around in lusty cheer that the State people could hear without aid of the mike . . . Tom Adams, Mel Fineberg, Ann Vicary, Stan Swinton, Carl Petersen, Dye Hogan, and I take turns predicting a score: mine is 25-71 (see front page) . to Lydia Mendlssohn for Ballerina showing . .. fine film . . . foreign pic- tures do so much better a job with emotions and character than the frilled American super-pro- ductions . . . child portrayals are marvelous ... our child stars may be precocious and clever and all that, but none of them can touch the young girl's characterization of Rose Souris, the sad- faced apprentice ballerina . .. hamburgers and home ... QATURDAY . . . found my lost history course . . . hasty, nerVous lunch as excitement of approaching game crescendoes ... will always remember these spectacularly color- ful football Saturdays . . . to the Stadium and the press-box where a large number of scribes are already at work . . . it's quite amazing how dispassionately you can view the game from up here ... it becomes just a question of yards gain- ed, passes completed, and touchdowns made .. . beat Mel and Stan Swinton in a hot-dog race .. . they're free . . . the Stadium press-box, inciden- tally, is rated the finest in the country . . . back to write a few highlights of the game and then for a little maize-and-brewing . . . to bed, shak- ily.... R. Q.'s PRESS-criptions: . . . letter from Pete Lisagor a few days ago . . . Black Pete; conductor of last year's You of M column, former sports editor, and star second baseman, is now doing a swell job on the Chicago Daily News sports staff . . . was one of the most colorful and best-liked men ever to hit this town . besides being the best sports editor in Daily history . . . Joe Mattes, managing editor of two years ago, is- also on the Daily News staff-the city desk . . doing very well . . . also in Chicago are Mike Scammon, the gargantuan dilettante and bon vivant, who is running the University of Chicago Round-Table . . . and Bill Reed, former sports editor and athletic publicity department assistant, now in charge of press relations and publicity office of the Big Ten . . . Earl Luby, football man, and conductor of Under The Clock column two years back, now in the Chicago Times promotion department . . . who said this newspaper business was tough? NOMINATIONS DEPARTMENT:. .. for the smoothest-looking gent in the press-box yesterday: Clint Frank, Yale's great All-Ameri- can of two years back . . . here to scout for the Elis . . . really a handsome, classy boy . . . For "torn-between-two-loves" champ: Jerry Ford, one of Michigan's great centers, here to scout the Wolverines for Yale where he is an assistant coach . . . for the happiest men in the Stadium: Fritz Crisler and Archie Kodros . . for the best players on the field: One Man Gang Eva- shevski, Joe Savilla, and Bob Westfall . . . for the most amazed gent: Lynn Waldorf, North- western's coach, whose championship-touted Wildcats were licked, 23-0, by Oklahoma - . . 1leywood Broun, I wish to rise to a question of personal privi- lege, but in part the subject does lie in the do- main of public interest. Once upon a time it was a general newspaper prac- tice to give a man a chance to reply when some damag- ing charge was made against him. Now it seems increas- ingly customary to shoot the yarn out and let the injured party try to catch up under *his own' steam And once story has a start of twelve or twenty hours a denial has to be extremely agile ever to catch up with it.- On Saturday a man named Joseph Zack told the Dies committee that I had been a member of the Communist party for two years. He said I joined in 1938. Out goes the story over press association wires and into the columns of the newspapers by which I am directly employed. The New York Times was the only paper with sufficient courtesy and devotion to good journal- istic practices to call up and ask what I wanted to reply. I have never seen or heard of Zack to the best of my knowledge and belief, and I doubt whether he is familiar by name or reputation to any city editor or managing editor. No Communist On several occasions I have stated that I have never been a Communist. And something over a year ago I testified to this fact before the Dies Committee. Now I am neither a liar nor a perjurer. I have been in the newspaper business continuously for more than thirty-one years. And so it makes me good and sore when some uniden- tified stranger can get up and take a crack at me without any newspaper offering me a chance to reply before publication I realize that Stam- ford is a thirty cent phone call. It makes me particularly sore when the paper for which I work does a thing like that to me. And I also say it's bad newspaper work, because it is a matter of not particularly obscure record that during the time Zack assigns me to membership in the Communist party I ran for Congress on the Socialist ticket and took a pretty thorough shellacking in the columns of the Daily Worker which always referred to me as Hey Gin Broun. And the Worker also carried some excellent car- toons in which I appeared in a perambulator be- ing wheeled around by Norman Thomas. Argument Effects Public I am not arguing right now about political or economic interpretation of this or that. Or "radical" or "liberal." I simply state again for the tenth, and, I hope, the final time that I have never been a member of the Communist party for two years or two minutes. And that, I think, is enough or maybe too much of personal note. However, there is a public stake in such matters. A single item can do enormous damage to per- sons far more important and infinitely more vir- tuous than myself. I know enough of the time element in the making of a newspaper to realize that there are situations in which it is not pos- sible to get both sides of a story immediately. But even if the story can't wait there ought to be an obligation to set forth the fact that the .arty of the second part has not yet had a chance to say his say. It isn't a question of re- dress. It's a question of fair play at the begin- ning. Libel suits are no good in circumstances where they may seem to be warranted. That's a sucker's game in the first place, and the practice might be abused into constituting an actual threat of free press. There used to be a day when indignant citizens stormed into newspaper offices with horsewhips, but even up here in rural Connecticut it's years since I've seen a horsewhip. Additionally I might, on occasion, find myself on the wrong end of the whip. Drew Pearson Robert S.Allen WASHINGTON-The Senate doesl not know it yet, but President Roose-I velt has just violated a treaty with Great Britain which received the hard and fast ratification of the Senate. Probably the entire Senate would approve, however. The violation is an interesting illustration of the necessity of executive discretion in wartime. The treaty is the barter agreement between the United States and Great Britain whereby American cotton is traded for British rubber. The treaty, as ratified by the Senate, provides for a 50-50 division of shipping, Amer- ican vessels carrying one-half of the cotton to England and one-half of the rubber from Singapore. British vessels also carry half the cotton and half the rubber But when war broke, Ambassador Kennedy worked out a plan with the British whereby they would carry all of the cotton from the United States to England, while American vessels would carry all of the rubber from Singapore to the United States. The British proposed this with the idea of helping American vessels to avoid the risky waters of Europe, where British ships have naval con- voys but American ships do not. The waters of the Pacific between Singa- pore and the United States, on the other hand, are relatively safe Nevertheless the British proposal struck a snag in the State Depart- ment's legal division, which, pointed out that this division of shipping was in direct violation of the treaty. The law was the law, decreed the legalists, and American ships would have to take the risk of carrying cotton to Great Britain. Secretary Hull, however, decided to take the question across the street to the White House. There the President made an immediate de- cision. He threw the legal technicali- ties of the treaty out the window and ruled that American ships would keep clear of the war zone. Instead of carrying cotton to England they will carry all of the British rubber from Singapore. Word of this' decision was immedi- ately cabled to London and the British proposal was accepted. o B* * * * No iBoob McNutt (Continued from Page 3) f Seltzer, Gerrit J. Shipper, Paulinei Slavin, Lulu M. Smith, Robert Worth Smith, Noel Solman, J. Springer. Mrs. Genieve Stone, Prof. True, S. Wells Utley, Edwin P. Vary, Phoebea L. Weigh, M. Wendt, Prof. Maurice Whittinghill, S. A. Wideman Jr, Prof. G. C. Wilson, Abigail Wise, Dr. Henry Yee, Mrs. Floyd Wendell Yinger, Vir- gil Young. Students, College of Literature,, Science, and the Arts: . No course may be elected for credit after the end of the third week. Sat-j urday, October: 14, is therefore the1 last date on which new elections may be approved. The willingness of anx individual instructor to admit a stu- dent later does not affect the opera- tion of this rule. Psychology 31 Makeup Examina- tion for all lecture sections will bej held Thursday, October 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3126 Natural Science Building.- Aero. 6, Experimental Aerodynam- ics: Students in this course may re-j fer to the Aeronautical Engineering Bulletin Board for the revised ar- rangement of the laboratory sections. Squad A of each section will meet during the week of October 9, while Squad B of each section will resume work during the week of October 16. Lectures Lecture: Dr. Edwin.E. Aubrey of the Chicago'*Divinity School will speak on "The Church and the Social Crisis" at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, tonight, 8 p.m.,sponsored by the In- ter-Guild Council and the Student Religious Association. The lecture is open to the public. Extracurricular Medical School Lecture:,Dr..Thomas Parran, Sur- geon General of the United States Public Health Service, will deliver the first lecture of the series on Fri- day, October 13, 1939, at 4:15 p.m., in the Horace H. Rackham Lecture Elall. The title will be, "Medicine in a Changing World." All classes in the Medical School will be dismissed at 4:00 p.m. in or- der thats the students may attend this lecture. The meeting is open to the public. Today's Events Varsity Glee Club: The following men will report for rehearsal for the Flint concert, 3 p.m. today. Regu- lar rehearsal for all members at 4:30 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN R.O.T.. 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. 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. ,Michigan League. All students of German, faculty people, and others interested are invited. Social I I Exi SERIES of vitally interesting social £ experiments was conducted through- out the Eastern portion of the United States this summer by the American Friends Service Committee. The Friends, members of the Quaker religion, organized a dozen camps in -communities that badly needed social work and rehabilitation, invited college students to work' in each camp, and be- gan a program of rebuilding. Engineering stu- dents planned and built sewers, dams, homes, and other necessities. Girls sewed, showed mo- thers how to keep their homes and care for their children, and even performed manual work, shoulder to shoulder with the men. Every evening the student community would meet and discuss the findings of the day. Open forums were held, and people from the vicinity were invited to their sessions. Often an entire family would come; perhaps a communist or- ganizer one evening, or a mine owner, or a pri- soner from a nearby penitentiary. At. the end of the summer their findings and suggestions were combined and presented to the federal gov- ernment In Pennsylvania one of the projects was a mining community where the problems were ex- ceedingly complex. The students had to over- come the suspicions of the miners, and even more difficult, those of the mine owners. They taught the mothers and children to read and write, built homes, installed plumbing, and built play- grounds and recreation centers. As they gained the confidence of the miners their problems be- ramnrn. n , rnl fr the m -nr r a mra - Frank McHale, hefty voula-be Jim Farley of the McNutt-for-President campaign, had his wings clipped the other day-by McNutt. Back from a tour of the West, where he said he found much en- thusiastic McNutt sentiment, McHale announced he would embark shortly on a similar promotional junket in a half-dozen Southwestern States. The plan was short-lived. A few hours later McNutt arrived in town and had a little talk with Mc- Hale. What occurred between them is not known, but the next day Mc- Hale backtracked with this statement: "The tour will be postponed indefi- nitely, or at least until neutrality leg- islation is passed by Congress." Czar Carmody There have been many New Deal blasts against big business brutality in letting out employes, but seldom in private industry has there been any- thing to equal the manner in which John M. Carmody, Federal Works Ad- ministrator, is firing his staff. Carmody is going about the job with almost visible, delight, and ac- tually has promised a trip to Hawaii to the executive who will get rid of the largest number of workers He has also put himself in the hands of a little clique of Harding- Hoover holdovers now running his Public Works Administration, who de- rive particular glee from ousting friends of Ickes and Roosevelt, no matter what their seniority or effici- ency records. No civil service exists in PWA, and this little clique has rigged the effi- ciency records to suit themselves. Their chief criterion of efficiency is personal pleasure and past grudges. While a certain number of PWA workers must be dropped with the closing down of the PWA program, Ickes, when administrator, went at the 'problem systematically and fired single nen- first. Married men,' espe- cially those with children, were re- tained as long as possible. With Car- mody, however,sdependents make no difference. The situation got so bad that Harry Slattery, former Under Secretary of Interior and now Rural Electrifica- tion Administrator succeeding; Car- mody, telephoned to G. H. Butler, in charge of PWA investigations. He called his attention to an investigator who had several children and a wife in the hospital dying of cancer. p.m. Secrist Holt Heininger Pinney Peterson Tuttle Ossewaarde Stitt Schwarzwalder Langford Berger Whitney Nelson, A. Brown, C. Sorenson Gibson. Fennell MacIntosh Kelly Steere Vandenberg Levinson Hines Gell Morris Smith, R. Luxan Fromm Brown, G. Liimatainen Lusk George 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 p.m. Seminar in Bacteriology will meet in Room 1564 East Medical Building Monday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m. Subject: The Third International Congress for Microbiology held in New York, Sept. 2 to 9, 1939. All interested are invited. Hillel Registration: Registration for Hillel Classes is being held every af- ternoon from Oct. 8 to Oct. 14 at the Foundation. Socedad Hispanica' The first meeting of the Sociedad Hispanica will be held Wednesday evening, Oc- tober 11, at 7:30 in the Michigan League. All old members are urged to be present and anyone else inter- ested is cordially invited to attend the meeting. Mathematics Club will meet Tues- day evening, October 10, at 8 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Professor E. W. Miller will speak on 'Applications of Transfinite Processes." t Michigan Anti-War Comnmittee will hold its first open peace meeting at the Michigan League, Tuesday, October 10, at 8 .p.m. Professor T. S. Lovering will speak on "The Embar- go", and the problem of the United States keeping out of war will be presented. All students are cordially invited to attend. Botanical Journal Club will1meet on Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Room N.S. 1139, Reports on interesting ex- periences in recent travel and ex- ploration will be given by: Professor W. R. Taylor Linn Zwickey Stephen White LeRoy Harvey Volney Jones Elzada Clover Theatre Arts Production Ushers: All girls interested in ushering fo 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. University of Michigan Glider Club will hold its second meeting .Tues- day, Oct. 10, from 7-9 p.m. in Room 348 West Engineering Buiding. Movies of club activities will be shown. Dues will be payable' at that time. Lets have everyone interested in glid- ing out there. Biological Chemistry Seminar: The seminar in Biological Chemistry will meet in Room 319 West Medical Buiding, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 10. The subject to be discussed is "Beta-alanine, a Constituent of the Molecules of Pantothenic Acid and of Carnosine." All interested are in- vited to attend. Electrical Engineers: The Ameri- can Institute of Electrical. Engineers invites you to the first meeting on Wednesday, October 11, 8:00 p.m., at the Michigan Union. Dean A. H. Lovell, vice-president of the Great Lakes District of the Institute, will introduce the organization to new members.dCharles Forbes, magician, will provide an evening of fun. Re- freshments will be served. Phi Sigma business meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 11, at 8:00 p.m. in the Graduate Outing Club Room of the Horace Rackham Building. Scabbard and Blade: F Company, Fourth Regiment will hold its first meeting on Wednesday, Octber 11, ta 8 p.m. in the Union. Everyone is urged to come, since first plans for the fall initiation are being made. Uniforms are required. Bring dues. International Center: Next Sun- day, October 15, arrangements have been made to take a party of stu- dents from the Center to be present at the broadcasting of the Ford Sun- Varsity Glee Club: The following men will report for Glee Club rehear- sal, this afternoon, 4:30, Union. Dewey, Horace Rector, Roy Steere, R. Strickland, W. Holland, R. Tau Beta Pi dinner meeting to- night at 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. The Michigan Christian Fellowship will meet at its regular meeting in the fire-place room at Lane Hall. to- day at 4:30 p.m. University stu- dents are welcome to this one hour of Christian fellowship. The Graduate Outing Club will meet' at the northwest entrance of tk , Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m. to-' day. Those attending will .divide into groups for hiking, bicycling, 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. American Student Union: The executive committee of the American Student Union will meet today at 4:00 p.m., in the lounge of the Adams House. 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- C I I I