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CHIcAG.O' BTQ" .LQ# AsGLS15 - SAN FRANCISCO er, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff, L , Business Staff sr r., Credit Manager s Manager lug Manager lager Managing Editor Editorial Director *City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor *Associate Editor Women's Editor Sports Editor Paul R. Park Ganson P. Taggart Zenovia Skoratko Jane Mowers Harriet S. Levy NIGHT EDITOR: ELIZABTH M. SHAW The editorials published, in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers Loehester's Plan or Orientation - - - HE {RESHMEN are led into the library. "You will now be shown w to obtain a book from the library stacks," s the adviser, who motions toward great inets with an astounding number of cards ed inside. The adviser writes some hiero- yphics on a paper he names a "call card." This library attendant takes and wads into a small ntainer that is chunked unconcernedly into a be and whisked away as if by magic. After a w moments, more or less, a book slides out of opening in the wall and plunks into a plush- ed box like an egg into a nest. The freshman is led through the Student Pub- ations Building, Waterman Gymnasium, the alth Service. He is told why he should have )TC training, how to study, how to classify. e impressions come in a never-ending flow , .e parts of an assembly line., By the end of the ek he has been introduced to so many places d people that his first view of college is apt to one of confusion rather than the orientation at is intended and, apparently, expected. Orientation Week is probably one of the most 'ing in a student's life. It is a time of revolu- nary upheaval, of change as complete as nsplantation into foreign soil. It is a time ien one seeks adjustment, and yet impressions ne so thickly that most of them bounce off ain like water off a duck's back. The student' thrust, usually poorly prepared, into a new rld and his only guides are a few inane Holly- od movies of college life, an unintelligible .lege bulletin and an orientation program that >ws him buildings, but answers few of his estions. Certainly in a university as large as Michigan is impossible to solve the problems of each in- 'idual freshman. But if the student is to complish the adjustment that Freshman Week supposed to aid, then the orientation program ist obviously provide more than tours of the npus. [t is'gratifying, then, to see any school make a ious attempt to improve, its orientation pro- un. In Sunday's New York Times there was- .nted a description of a new plan adopted by chester University. It is a plan based on the aclusion that much of the advice previously ren to freshmen at the opening of the year s meaningless because the freshman's experi- ee was not sufficient to permit him to digest i, >perly. Thus the university feels that advice on how study, how to budget time, how to use the rary, how to read effectively, is mere theory til the freshman has learned by actual experi- ce what college assignments, as contrasted th high school "home work," are really like; at the temptations of wasting time in idle mpus pursuits are; what adjustments are eded in finances and personal relationships; tat life on the campus, as contrasted with life home, calls for. Accordingly, lectures and discussions on these bjects will be offered simultaneously with the shman's own trial-and-error experiences. In dition, as the freshman progresses m adjust- s himself to college work, the university will adully give him detailed information about e major fields of knowledge-literature and ier arts, the social sciences, biological sciences, To the Editor: The Daily editorials this year on the subject of war and neutrality have the great merit of being provocative. This has been true, in fact, of Daily editorials for some years past. Even those who have been most provoked by them have been forced to concede the ability and force shown by their authors. If I join in the current debate on war and neutrality, it is only because The Daily uses a line of argument that has wide circulation elsewhere and that seems to me to involve a clear misreading of recent history. The argument is suggested by Mr. Maraniss' statements in Sunday's Daily that this i a "rob- bers' war" and that "this is no people's war and there is no opportunity for its becoming such 4 war." Such statements are commonly made these days, coming chiefly from the left. Th argument boils down to this-the Chamberlain government has shown by its abandonment of Spain and Czecho-Slovakia that it is concerned only with the immediate selfish interests of the British Empire and is therefore "imperialist;" when it enters into war for the defense of Po- land it can only be pursuing the same selfish in- terest; this is "a war between imperialisms," and the outcome is for us a matter of complete in- difference. It has already been pointed out in your columns that Britain and France are now doing precisely what they were criticized before for not doing, criticized especially by Americans who disclaimed any responsibility in world affairs and took none of the risks involved in a firm stand. If Britain and France should have gone to war to save Spain and Czecho-Slovakia from fascist invasion, it is still more obvious that they should go to war to save Poland. The Daily editorials give no answer to this argument. I do not believe that there is any answer. Leftist Pressure The main question seems to be this--how did it happen that the British and French govern- ments finally decided to resist further aggression by war? Where did the pressure come from, in both countries? Unless we have been completely misinformed, it came most strongly from the parties of the left, from the Labor and Liberal parties in England, from the Socialist and Com. miunist parties in France. Perhaps The Daily will say that these parties do not represent the "people." If so, who does; or are there no people in England and France who like ourselves pro- foundly desire peace and are willing to make sacrifices for it? Private letters from individuals confirm the reports in the newspapers and from all persons who have recently been in England: on the necessity for resisting Hitler there is something as close to complete unanimity as one will ever find in a democracy. Much as they hate it, the ordinary people of both countries are determined to see it through. My estimate of the situation would be this-even after the in- vasion of Czecho-Slovakia Chamberlain showed a willingness to pursue a policy of surrender, but neither the Chamberlain nor the Daladier gov- ernments could have survived the storm of popu- lar protest if they had pursued it further. Un- der the pressure of that protest they made mili- tary commitments in the east which were, as Lloyd George has said, extremely rash, since Russian support was not assured. Even so, they surely had no choice. Do The Daily editors think they had a choice, that Poland too should have been abandoned to Hitler at another Munich? A Chamberlain Peace There is still the further question-can the Chamberlain government be trusted to impose a just peace? I doubt it. I do not believe that the Tory clique around Chamberlain has learned enough to be trusted with their enormous re- sponsibility. But when one has said this, does it follow that a Chamberlain peace could be com- pared with the terms that Hitler (helped per- haps by Stalin) would impose on a prostrate Europe? Does anyone recognize Hitler in his newest transformation-the lover of peace, the advocate of international agreements and free trade? What hope is there for human freedom and decency, in Europe, Asia, or even South America, if Hitler and his murderous gang can clearly and decisively triumph? In terms of our own attitudes, I find it impossible to say that Englishmen and Frenchmen should cheerfully bleed themselves out on the western front and that it really doesn't matter. I would suggest that the moral influence of America should rath- er be thrown on the side of the British Labor Party, in their effort to secure a specific state- ment of war aims and to influence the final settlement. I say this particularly because I personally am convinced that we have an enor- mous stake in the outcome; that the refusal to admit this merely involves another form that short-sighted . view of self-interest that led to Munich. I can understand the reasoning of most of our isolationists, though I cannot agree with it. Their attitude seems to me to come to this. The over- whelming majority of Americans have a profound sympathy for England and France and a pro- found dislike of Hitlerism. We should not pub- licly acknowledge this, however, because we are an emotional people, and we cannot trust our- selves to express that sympathy through modifi- cation of the embargo without being immediately swept, against our will, into war on the western front. That does not seem to me to be an adult attitude, nor does it assume any capacity in our people for free decision. However that may be, it is surely unnecessary to reinforce }the argument by attributing motives to Englishmen. and Frenchmen that most of them do npt possess. We cannot remain indifferent to the great tragedy that is about to be enacted, though we may rightly decide to stay out because for the time being our own skins appear to be safe. Ann Arbor audiences are once again enjoying the art of Jascha Heifetz, violinist par excellence, now playing at the Majestic theatre in the film They ShWl Have Music. The recording is ex- ceptionally clear, and the solos are worked into the picture with a minimum of disjunction. One may wax eloquent over the virtuosity and musical refinement of this distinguished artist. But the very name Heifetz already implies all that. One characteristic, however, that may still bear comment is the almost sacred respect he has. for the music he finds worthy of his labor. His choice of repertoire, his unerring devotion to the music alone, his consistent denial of unwar- ranted subjectivity or egocentricity (the usual musical histrionism),-these are the qualities which place Mr. Heifetz in the rank of the truly great. It is because of the intense respect he' holds for the composer's conception that he never commits that worst but most common of all errors, confusing the attitude (style) of one com- poser with that of another. Just how much of this is "intuitive" and how much -scholastic is a problem more pertinent to the psychologist than the layman. The major concern of the artist is: have I made of my anal- ysis a living thing, or has the act of persistent re- flection dimmed the inner fire? For when this occurs pedantry is the result. The artist is said to be cognant, but cold and vapid. Far better that he be unbridled passion than an academic corpse. The happy norm is that state wherein the turbulent will and the logical self complement one another in a just proportion. That is the new attitude, the new ideal. And it has no greater exponent than Jascha Heifetz. Violin Recital By RICHARD BENNETT c~he Drew Pemsoa RobertS.Aer WASHINGTON-One of the most significant events at the Army's spectacular ordnance exhi- bition at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Grounds didn't get reported at all. This was a secret round-table session on "Industrial Prepared- ness" conducted by Brigadier General C. T. Har- ris, salty Assistant Chief of Ordnance, and at- tended by 450 select business leaders. After giving a general outline of the Army's plans for industrial mobilization, General Harris observed, "You gentlemen probably will not like some of the compulsions that would be imposed on you. But, as I am sure I need not remind you, war enforces distasteful compulsions on every- body involved. Which gives point to the moral, 'Don't get into war if you can help it.'" Another moral Harris pointedly tossed at his business listeners was to go easy on price boost- ing. "Don't run wild on prices," he warned quietly. "You can't afford to get out of hand on that. The public would resent it and you'll run head-on into trouble. We want you to make money; we are not against that. We're all for it. But there is a difference between making a legitimate and reasonable profit and profiteering." Legitimate Profit This thrust brought a chorus of questions as to what was considered a legitimate and reason- able profit. "Well, I can't talk for the government," said Harris with a twinkle in his eye, "but personally I look at it this way: I had some secuirties a few years back that paid me six per cent dividend. Now I considered that a very good return on my money-and I think the same now." None in the audience openly challenged this contention but from sotto voce remarks it was apparent that more than one business man vig- orously disagreed with Harris. Note: The veteran officer scored a big hit per- sonally with the business men by his deft, effi- cient handling of the meeting. He met an hour's barrage of questions with unfailing tact and good humor; courteously brushing aside silly ones and adroitly side-stepping inquiries he didn't want to answer. For two years, beginning with the 1937 Supreme Court battle, the GOP delightedly sunned them- selves in the glow of the hot factional warring among the Democrats. But now the tables are turned. Harmonious for the moment, the Democrats are revelling in the rare pleasure of watching the Republicans scrap heatedly among themselves over the neutrality issue. Knox Knocks Vandenberg Still kept undercover, thanks chiefly to the firm hand of brainy Senate Floor Leader Charley McNary, this rowing has resulted in several acri- monious personal clashes between top-rung party chiefs. The bitterest was between Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Col. Frank Knox. Old friends, dating back to when they both were cub reporters on a Grand Rapids, Mich., paper, they are on opposite sides on lifting the embargo. Knox stands with the President on the question; Vandenberg is opposed. But this dif- ference'was not the cause of their set-to. What touched them off was Knox's objections to Vandenberg taking a leading role in the isola- tionists' fight. Knox contended that by sticking G ULLIVER'S CAVILS 'y Young G ulliver THREE things prompt Gulliver to sit down and knock off an anal- ysis of the European situation. One is Alexander Nevsky, the Soviet film which appeared humorous to many because of its anti-German bias, an- other is Elliott (the Ace) Maraniss' editorial in Sunday's Daily, and the last is Professor Dawson's letter on today's editorial page. 'Gulliver feels that there are a number of very prevalent miscon- ceptions which should not be preva- lent. First is that Adolf Hitler and Joe Stalin are now buddies, having sworn oaths of undying fealty. Grant- ed that there were good grounds for such a supposition in the days im- mediately following the Soviet-Ger- man pact, the Soviet moves of the past few weeks should prove that Joe Stalin isn't wasting any time forti- fying Russia against his new friend. Unless you think that Uncle Joe has been putting the screws on the Ba- tic states in order to defend himself against Madagascar., Stalin Analyzed The question then arises as to why J. Stalin has been putting on the palsy walsy act with A. Hitler. This one is easy for Gulliver too. Stalin knows that the British Empire is on the skids, and now is his big chance to grease the skids carefully enough to insure Britain's fall (Hitler is of course the greasing agent). There- fore the anti-German stuff in Nevsky was on the up and up. The big wind- up speech of Nevsky's might just as well have been Joe Stalin's warning of a few years back to the effect that foreign pigs had better keep their snouts out of the Soviet garden. Just to make sure, Joe is building a nice wall around the garden. EXT misconception which puzzles Gulliver is is the one that Cham- berlain, having seen the error of his ways, is now determined to make mincemeat out of A. Hitler, Hitlerism, and fascism. The people who hold to this point out that Chamberlain finally went to war for Poland, after welshing on half the countries of Europe. But again, this conduct of the war-itself by Britain has proved that Chamberlain never had any in- tention of helping Poland. Of course, Britain couldn't have sent her army over to Warsaw, but the Poles could have used some English planes which they never got. If Chamberlain didn't sell out the Poles as well as the Spaniards, the Czechs, and the Austrians, what in the name of Smigly-Rydz did he do? Dawson Analyzed A variant of this argument is that although we detest Chamberlain, at least he is doing the job of getting rid of Hitler for us, and therefore we ought to support the British and Frch. Such is the substance of Prof. Dawson's letter. The argument is given added punch by the undeni- able fact that the British and French people sincerly want to get rid of Hitlerism (see the recent election in England, in which a Labor Party man from.Glasgow was elected on a prose- cute the war platform.) However, if there is any truth proven by history, it is the one that wars are planned and executed not by the soldiery, but. by the generals and "statesmen." The British Tommy and the French poilu want to fight to defeat fascism, but Generals Gamelin and Ironside, and their bosses Daladier and Chamber- lain, evidently have different aims in mind. FOR if there is anything which troubles the dreams of these; gentlemen, it is the spectre of q' Europe bolshevized up to the Maginot line. And the spectre of communism is haunting Europe more surely than it ever has since 1848, when Marx and Engels first wrote the death sen- tence for European capitalism. It. follows that Chamberlain cannot af- ford to defeat Hitler so decisively that the German working class will revolt and set up a soviet with the aid of the menacingly neighboring Red Army. What Chamberlain would pre- fer is to beat Hitler just badly enough so that a new dictatorship of the right would be set up which would be amenable to Franco-British imperial- ism. Lippmann' s int There have been a few indications already that such is the case. One{ is the British conduct of the war to date. Another is the hint of Walter Lippmann's, in a column he wrote a, while back, that German big business men have been conferring with lead- ers of the German army as to the possibility of establishing a military- business dictatorship after Hitler, goes. Following upon this was the unusual death in Poland of Gen. von Fritsch, who was looked upon as the; likeliest leader of a non-Nazi dicta- torship in Germany., SO FAR it would seem that Gulliver1 is in agreement with Ace Mar- aniss. Which is so. He does, how-' ever, disagree sharply with the Ace' on the question of America's mediat- (Continued from Page- 2) ture" at 4:15 P.M. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in Room 303, Chemistry Building. The lecture is open to the public. The Rev. Mr. Marley of the First Unitarian Church, will lecture on "I Believe" in the East Lecture Hall, Rackham Building on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 8 p.m. This lecture was or- iginally scheduled for this evening. Today's Events Tau Beta Pi dinner meeting this evening at 5:45 p.m., Michigan Union. Come on time and be through for the Varsity Show. Biological Chemistry Seminar: The seminar in Biological Chemistry will meet in Room 319 West Medical Building, at 7 p.m., this evening. The subject to be discussed is "Arginine and Arginine Derivatives." All interested are invited to attend. Sigma Rho Tau will hold its or- ganization meeting tonight in the Union from 7 to 8 p.m.. Promptness is important ,so that members may attend the Varsity Show. University Girls' Glee Club: Try- outs will be held today from 2-4 pm. in the Game Room of the League. All persons interested in joining the University Glee Club, and all fresh- men interested in joining the Fresh- man Girls' Glee Club, are urged to, try out at this time. Anyone who can- not come at this time should call Betty Stadelman at 2-3159. Freshmen Glee Club: Rehearsal at 4:15 p.m. today at Michigan Union. Reserve Men's Glee Club: 3rd floor, Michigan Union. 4:15 today. Open to upperclassmen. Math. 370, Seminar in Continued Fractions, will meet this afternoon at 4 p.m., in Room 3201 A. H. Dr. J. Koehler of the Physics Departmentj will speak on the "Application of con- tinued fractions to differential equa- tions."7 The Social Committee of the League will hold a meeting this afternoon at 4:30 in the League for the benefit of those persons who were unable to attend the first meeting.1 Phi Lambda Upsilon: The firstS meeting of the society will be held in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building tnight at 7:30r P.m.. All me.inbers who are affiliated with the University of Michigan for the first time this fall are cordially in- vited to attend.9 American Social Customs Class: This evening, the second of the series of discussions and demonstrations of American social customs will be pre- sented at the Center. These ses- sions are open not only to foreignc students but to their American friends, many of whom have ex- pressed their wish to attend. Hillel Classes: First meetings of the following classes are being held to- day: Elementary Hebrew, led by Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz, at 4:30 p.m Conversational Hebrew, led by Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz, at 7 p.m. Jewish Ethics, led by Dr. Hirsch Hootkins, at 8 p.m. The Peace Commission of the American Student Union will hold at meeting at 7:30 p.m. today at the Union. All those interested are in- vited. Coming Events ; Freshmen and Transfer Engineering Students: The date of the smoker for freshmen and transfer engineering students has been changed from Wednesday, Oct. 18, to Wednesday, Oct. 25. 1 18, at the League. The room ium- ber will be posted on the bulletin board, E glish Journal Club: First meet- ing of the year. Professor C. D. Thorpe will talk on, "Some Aspeets of Thomas Hobbes' Aestl etic Theory," on Monday evening, Oct. 23, at 8 o'clock in the Men's lounge, Rack- ham Buildin. The pm lic Is ivited to this opening eeting. Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122, ChemIstry Bldg. at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18. Professor G. E. Uhlenbeck will speak on "The Heavy Electron (Mesotron) ." Scabbard and Blade: Important meeting of F Company, Fourth Regi- ment, at 7:30 p.M, Wednesday, Oct. 18, in the Union. All members are urged to come, as voting on initiates will take place. The support of every- one is needed. Uniforms are required.' The Beta Chapter of Iota Alpha will hold its first meetirig for the new school year on Thursday evening, Oct. 19, at 7:30 in the West Confer- ence Room on the third floor of the Rackham Building. Prof. N. L. Willey will be the speak- er of the evening whose address will be based on "Early Norse Discoveries of America." Every member of the Beta Chap- ter who is on campus this year is urged to attend. An interesting eve- ning is promised. " Institute of the Aeronautical Si- enees: There will be a meeting of the Student Branch of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences on Thurs- day, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m., in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Bldg. A sound motion picture "The Ameri- can Way" will be shown. Mr. Frank M. Burg of American Airlines, Inc., will be present to introduce the film and to answer any questions. The public is invited. Owing to the lim- ited number of seats, admission passes are required. These may be obtained, ,free of charge, in Room B-47 East Engineering Bldg. Trip to Greenfleld Village: A trip to Greenfield Village, Mr. Ford's recon- .structed early American' village and his museum of early American his- tory, has been arranged for next Sat- urday, A special bus will leave the Center at 1 p.m. sharp and return at 5 p.m. Reservations, at $1, must be made in the office of the Center by Thursday at 5 p.m. Research Club will meet on Wed- nesday, Oct. 18, at 8 \p.m., In the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Build- ing. Election of officers. Professor C. F. Remer will speak on "Interns- tional Research in a Year of Ten- sion." The Council will meet in the Assembly Hall at 7:15 p.m. All-those intereste4 in trying, out for sophomore track managers' positions, come to a meeting at 5 p.m. on Wed- nesday, Oct. 18, in the Coaches' Room at Yost Field House. Cerele Francais:'There will be a meeting for the old members on Wed- nesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. In Room 408 R.L. bues will be payable. Alpha Kappa Delta, national hon- orary sociological fraternity, will hold its first meeting at the. home of Dr. A. E. Wood, 3 Harvard Place, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 'at 7:30 p.m. important meeting. Members may se- cure transportation in front of Ha- ven Hall at 7:15 p.m. Members are urged to attend. Social Committee of the League will hold a meeting on Thumrsday, Oct. I, at 4:30 p.m. in the Under- graduate Office for those interested in working on the Etiquette Booklet. All Faculty Members and Students are cordially invited to attend the first of the Coffee Hours to be spon- sored by the Michigan Wolverine Student Cooperative, Inc. in its build- ing opposite Lane. Hall. The time is Thursday, Oct. 19, from 3 to 4:30 in the afternoon. The Coffee Hour will be directed on an informal, open forum basis by Professor Mueschke (English) and Mr. Horner (Econom- ics). This is an excellent oppor- tunity for men and women students to become better acquainted as well as discuss academic, political, and economic, problems, etc. with their professors. Sigma Eta Chi will have a regular meeting Wednesday evening, Oct. 18. All old members please be present for a business meeting at 7:30. Pledg- ing of new members will be at 8 p.m. Anatomy Research Club Meeting: The first monthly meeting of the Anatomy Research Club of the cur- rent school year will be held on Wed- nesday, Oct. 18, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2501 East Medical Building. Dr. J. H. Ferguson will present a paper entitled: "A Review of the Cur- r r I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETI 1, The Student Chapter of the ASCE will meet on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Michigan Union. Professor Wisler will speak, and sound pictures of the Bouder Dam will be shown. Assembly and Congress: Congress and Assembly are jointly holding a radio "Open House" from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday in the League Grill Room for the Chicago football game. There will be dancing and card games when the game is not on. Everybody is invited to come. Upper Peninsula Men: The Hiawa- tha Club cordially invites you to the first club activity of the year, the annual- U.P. Men's Smoker. This will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, in Room 319 of the Union. A splendid program has been planned including movies of the Michigan State game and a lunch of cider and doughnuts. Come up and get ac- quainted!