THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDA MICHIGAN DAILY. =: q AS OTHERS SEE IT . fr DAIC1e l Give Workers A Break= dited and managed by students of the University of higan under the authority of the Board in Control of dent Publications. ublisbed every morning except Monday during the versity 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. bts of republication of all other matters herein also erved. ;ntered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as ond class mail matter. ubscriptions during regular school year by carrier. O; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTEO FOR NATIONA). AYERiSING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MAD1soN AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO -OSTON - Los ANGELES - SAN FRANcIsco' ember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 7 Ia r To the Editor: May I bring to your attention a matter that has made me and a number of other people a little uneasy. The students who eat at the Wolverine are pretty proud of the place. For it serves fine meals, at a very low rate, and with cleanliness and service. We don't think you can match the Wolverine set-up anywhere on campus. What makes us uneasy, however, is the fact that, while the members get their money's worth, the fellows on the working force have been forced to work at wage rates lower than those prevailing last year. Specifically the hour rate has been reduced to but twenty-eight cents. An organization believing in and impressively prac- tising in most spheres a way of cooperation and fair play ought to take immediate steps to give the Wolverine workers the same break as we members so adequately receive. --A Wolveriner Fraternity Men Refute Article To the Editors: So Michigan men have nothing on the ball! Well, fraternity men are plenty keyed up by the H eywood Broun I am not a technician, but it seems to me that Colonel Lindbergh talks arrant nonsense when he endeavors to make a distinction between of- I Petersen ott Maraniss a M. Swinton -ton L. Linder man A..Schorr fnis Flanagan n N. Canavan a Vicary Fineberg Editorial Staff Business Staff Managing Editor Editorial Director . City Editor . Associate Editor Associate Editor . Associate Editor *Associate Editor . Women's Editor . Sports Editor ness Manager Business Mgr., Credit Manager hen's Business Manager nen's Advertising Manager lications Manager . Paul R. Park Ganson P. Taggart Zenovia Skoratko . Jane Mowers Harriet S. Levy NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT W. BOGLE The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. New Humanists ;And Fascism . . IN HIS provocative new book on forces tin American criticism, Bernard Smith raises an interesting point in regard to the theories promulgated early in this decade by the group called the "New Humanists," and ex- tended today by the Southern agrarians. After analyzing the literary creed of the two groups he declares that their principles stem from a position that regards social responsibility as the touchstone of value in literary criticism. With this criterion he has no argument: he in- sists however, that the nature of that responsi- bility, as defined by the New Humanist and Agrarian disciples, is one that not only prevents them from appreciating modern esthetic effort, but also places them in the camp of the social and political reactionaries. Are the New Humanists and the Agrarians fascists? Smith gives the benefit of the doubt. These American professors and writers who sound so bloodthirsty in print are really mind men, sincere in their pleas for decorum and self- control, who would shrink with horror from the fascist state. Their ventures into sociology, poli- tics, and their philosophy of science, Smith says, are the ventures of children. Now it is undoubtedly true that Messrs. More, Babbit, Foerster, Davidson, Tate, and all the little "humanists" and agrarians in American universities are fine, upstanding men, kind to animals and gentle to their wives. But if they are only children, in their ventures into soc- ogy and politics, they are children playing With fire. It is not very likely that the boys at Harvard and Princeton and Chicago and Van- derbilt will be "turned into Aristotles" by listen- ing to discourses on the lamentable consequences of democracy. They are being provided with a philosophy with which to rationalize their resist- ance to democratic progress. For the essence of their creed (More: Aristocracy and ustice, Bab- bit, Democracy and Leadership, Twelve South- erners, I'll Take My Stand) is opposition to the effort to achieve peace, freedom, security and happiness by organized democratic processes. Running through all the New Humanist and Agrarian writings, like a hymn of hate, are bitter attacks on all humanitarian and democratic doc- trines: they are against labor unions, popular education and universal franchise; they believe education and art should be privileges for the benefit of the leisure class. They are in fact, opposed to the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. They can't un- derstand how such things came about and they intend to remedy them. In short they are opposed to life and living. They are the apostles of feudalistic aristocracy, of classicism, of privilege. In the twentieth cen- tury a pre-occupation. for such principles can have only one practical result; If one is inter- ested in abolishing humanitarianism, or re- straining science from interfering with ethics, or curbing labor unions and pacificts, there is only one modern process capable of doing so; and that process is called fascism. -Elliott Maraniss Patronage Wins A Round The bill which woud insure a saving of $362,000 a year in the maintenance and janitorial depart- It is true that I fensive and defensive arma- ment. I am a respectable suburban householder, let ill say, and in the drawer of my desk I have a loaded .45 to repel marauders. That is a defensive weapon, and yet a burglar with the same gun could be singularly offensive if he blew my head off or held up a filling station. am talking academically, be- cause I haven't actually got a .45 or any other gun. I don't know how to shoot them, and I am not particularly anxious to have firearms around. There is an air pistol in some remote drawer, the property of my son, but it is my impression that it wouldn't hurt anybody very much, even though the slugs were in it. Just the same, it gives me a kind of confidence, because in fan- tasy I have seen myself saying, "Put 'em up or I'll plug you full of holes!" * * * Possessor's Peronality Count It must be a good trick if anybody can drive off desperate men with nothing more than a prop. And yet the thing has happened. I seem to remember a girl bandit who held up a lot of your neighborhood drug stores with nothing but a cap pistol. That brings me back to Colonel Lindbergh. It is not so much the character of the weapon as the personality of the possessor. When one is asking about a piece of defensive or offensive arma- ment he must cross-question the man who owns one. I cannot see how the distinction can reason- ably be made in any sort of coherent legislation. The rifle could be the arm of the settler defend- ing his family and friends from the hostile inva- sion of Indian raiders. It could also be the Krag with which an in- perialist force purposed to civilize the little brown brother of the Philippines. The hand grenade may enable you to keep the aggressor out of your own trench, but it could also be a very potent aid if you wished to capture his position and move more deeply across the fortifications of the Rhine. As I remember, Colonel Lindbergh mentioned anti-aircraft guns as a specific sort of defensive weapon. But even that will not stand up. The aggressor who moved deeply into the territory of the opponent would take those same guns along to prevent the resurgence of his opponent. And although Charles A. Lindbergh knows far far more about the airplane than I have any chance of ever comprehending, I still assume that under pressure even the machine designed for commercial purposes could be pressed into offensive effort. I would think that practically any plane at all might potentially carry a photog- rapher, and the pictures he brought back could be for the purpose of a planned defense or a mighty aggressive attack. * * * Answers Lies In Men Coast artillery, perhaps, could be cited as something obviously designed for home defense without any thought of pushing boundaries back- ward. And yet, even the biggest gun could be loaded on flat cars and carried forward to blast a foreign wall in favor of attack. It does not seem to me that the problem can be left wholly in the hands of technicians, however expert. The answer must lie in men and not in material. There are persons so intent upon spreading their sphere of influence that nothing metallic is safe in their hands. If anybody gave me a nail file for my birthday I think it would be a sort of reminder, too pointed perhaps, that I should get the Connecticut loam out of my fingers. But there are places where the self-same instrument article in yesterday's Daily by one Paul Chandler, who allegedly obtained some inside dope from the Alpha Phi girls and proceeded to publish an indictment against Michigan men in gen- eral. First and foremost, several boys here in our house insisted that they had seen a good-looking 'girl on camfpus last weekend. However, after sbme questioning, it turned out that she was a sophomore from Smith here for a visit. So Michigan still has the goon honors for women. As far as Michigan men lacking originality, the boys pointed out that every local Sorority Sue copies apparel of the eastern coeds. The boys wish to make it clear, before Michigan coeds get too much of a big head, that their apparent popularity is by no means due to their attractiveness or wit, but merely because there are three men to every girl here on campus. You have to go out with someone. The consensus seems to be that a Michigan coed couldn't get to first base in her home town, and that stacked up against practically any eastern girls' school you might name, local beau- ty wouldn't even get honorable mention. Moreover, the Alpha Phi must be slipping, if they never get invited, to any place but the Bell, the Union, or the Arboretum. Any freshman pledge knows darn well that there are scads of other places to go. Some of the boys even spend the evening at a sorority house, but maybe they can't stand it at the Alpha Phi house. --Bill Elmer -Bill Newton For Mayor City and county officeholders in Memphis, Tennessee, it is reported by the United Press, have been signing petitions nominating....... for Mayor. This, according to the same officeholders is an old political custom in the stronghold of the Edward H. Crump machine, and although they do not know who . . . . . will be, they are con- fident that he will be a good man, because he will have the endorsement of the organization, and may even be Mr. Crump himself. At any rate, with such ready-made support it should not be difficult to get some candidate to sign on the . . . . . Only one possible improvement comes. to mind. Ought not the machine to furnish the officeholders with rubber stamps with which to sign petitions? --Christian Science Monitor GULLIVERI'S CAVILS 'By Young Gulliver GULLIVER went into Detroit Monday night with Drama Critic Jim Green to see Whitford Kane in White Steed. On Tuesday Mr. Windt brought Kane into Ann Arbor to talk to the Play Production classes, and Y.G. had the pleas- ure of chatting with Kane for about an hour. We (Gulliver and Green) seated ourselves gingerly on Mr. Windt's sofa and told Kane that we wanted to talk to him, but we didn't know what to say. "Look," said Gulliver, "we could ask you a lot of silly questions about plays and acting and the thittah but there's not much point to that." That was all Mr. Kane wanted to know; and he proceeded to regale us with anecdotes about Ann Arbor, New York, and Whitford Kane. He is a little man in his late sixties, pudgy and very undistinguished looking. But once he begins to talk, you know that you are in the company of a very unusual man. For this reason: Whitford Kane is a simple man. It is the simplicity of an unspoiled, eternally young man. AFTER you have met a certain number of people whose names are in the headlines, the idea gradually begins to sink in that prominent people are pretty much like everybody else, and after a while (ask any metropolitan newspaper- man) you actually get to the point where meet- ing big shots becomes a bore. Maybe that's why Gulliver was so impressed by Whitford Kane. When he says he likes Ann Arbor, he means it. He isn't just being'nice. All the kids in Play Production here who have met Whitford and who go to New York will usually be found there hanging around his house. And he doesn't do that to be nice either. He is really and truly excited about what young people are doing. He thinks that the dramatic instruction here is the best of any university in the country, and that goes for the productions too. He thinks Play Production ought to have a Lab Theatre of its own. He thinks Eddie Jurist is a swell actor, and that he'll make the grade. The same goes for Art Miller, who incidentally has a play on the radio tonight. He is enjoying himself in White Steed, especial- ly since he was fired from the New York cast and rejoined the company in Ann Arbor ("be sure you print that," he said). But just the same, he's getting lonesome for his grave. Whit- ford has played the gravedigger for twenty-seven different Hamlets, and he'd kind of like to be back at it. "You know," he said, "I'm like the old lady in the poorhouse outside of Dublin-she said she could just smell a body dying anyplace in Dublin. And sure enough, every time she called it some- body died. Well, she couldn't sit still and she Robert S.Allen WASHINGTON-The sudden dis- aster which has befallen the British Navy, one-time proud ruler of thef seven seas, has had certain reverber- ations in the U.S. Navy. The drastic shake-up in the engi- neering bureaus of the Navy Depart- ment followed quite a little soul- searching as to whether some of the new U.S. naval vessels are worth all the millions lavished upon them. The old clique which has domin- ated the Bureau of Engineering and the Bureau of Construction and Re- pair has finally been swept out. How- ever, it took Roosevelt himself to move them. For months, others in the Navy had been worried over U.S. warship design and urging the White House to act. Finally, realization that the British Navy was by no means invincible and that the Germans had concocted some new torpedoes which could even sink battleships, helped to produce action. Cracked Ships It has long been no secret that there were serious defects in the new U.S. 10,000-ton cruisers of the Indianapolis class. Five of them suf- fered a cracked sternpost, which is one of the most important parts of any vessel, for on it hangs the rud- der. These posts had to be replaced at a cost of $30,000 each. This type of cruiser also suffered from rolling, but when rolling tanks were placed in their holds, with bilge keels along their bottoms, they rolled just as badly. Then it was found that the very latest type of cruiser shimmied. And so far the naval experts have not been able to eliminate the shimmy. On top of all this the crack new destroyers of the American class were built with too much weight above the waterline, so that they are inclined to be top-heavy. This was discovered only recently and it was too much for Roosevelt. He fin- ally decided to clean house. New executive in charge of the vital Bureau of Construction and Re- pair is Rear Admiral Alexander H. Van Keuren, who served as expert at the London Naval Conference of 1930 when the Admirals staged a knock- down drag-out fight over limiting cruiser construction. It was the theory of Secretary of State Stimson that cruisers should be built more slowly, giving time to test them out and ascertain defects. Ad- miral Hilary Jones disagreed with this so vigorouslythat he withdrew from the delegation. Some Navy men agreed with Stimson, however, one of them being Admiral Van Keuren, the new chief of construction. Merry-Go-Round More than 1,000,000 copies of the speech of Bishop Bernard Sheil en- dorsing the neutrality bill and de- nouncing Father Coughlin have been sent out by members of Congress .. . Senator Hiram Johnson has been selected by te isolationisist to make the concluding speech for their side . . Export-Import Bank will grant no credits to Mexico until the oil expropriation controversy is cleared up. Bolivia is blacklisted for the same reason, though less stringently . . . Arms Control Office in State Department has been working so hard enforcing the embargo that they put in 813 hours of overtime in Septem- ber alone. Fish For - - It's not supposed to leak out, but Congressman Ham Fish was all set to have himself launched as Repub- lican presidential candidate last week, and the launching was to have occurred in Dutchess County, New York, the home of F. D. Roosevelt. The boom had been prepared with elaborate care. Ham Fish is the President's vigorous critic, but also his own Congressman. And it was purposely arranged that the boom begin in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., just a few miles from Hyde Park. It was even to be held in the Nelson Hotel, which is used as the White House summer office. Theoccasion was a dinner staged: by Dutchess County Republicans. In advance of the dinner, Representative Fish called in newspapermen and gave them an advance copy of a resolution which the meeting was going to adopt demanding that Ham run for President. But the unforeseen happened. The chairman of the Dutchess Republi- cans spiked the resolution. He is Frederic H. Bontecou, handsome hus- band of Cornelia Metcalf, daughter of the wealthy former Senator from Rhode Island. Also Bontecou was the running-mate of Tom Dewey last year, and he flatly refused to let Ham Fish resolution be introduced.. place on two continents, and I'm not really hz nnv unless I'm diaine the DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2.) Charlu Boyd, William Breach, Ralph J. Brookner, Roy Buehler, Mae Bur-; ton, Jean Buhler, Bud Carpenter, Anna J. Carvec, N.R.L. Cleeton, Mary Crapo, Marie Christensen, W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, Hammon Dal- ton, Mary A. Delney, Dorothy Fried- man, Mrs. C. Gallon, Edward M. Glazek, Dr. G. Gorris, Mary Elliot Haferkamp, Francis Hamilton; Dorothy Hollman Mary Honecker, Mrs. E. E. Johnson, Julia Florence Jolliff, Raydelle Josephson, Arthur Lieberman, Sam Livingston, Isdor Lubin, Ellen Macdonald, Howard Mc- Lain, Ligia Marchand, Janet A. Mer- -er, Jean L. Misner, Myron Mittle- :nan, F. M. Modder, Kitty M. Morse, Harvey Moss, Maxine C. Nelson, I. G. Newfield, Teddy Nobbs, Walter Noon; Paul H. Oppman, Frank Perago, Jesse E. Phillips, Robert R. Rabalais, George Kevin Ray, Harvey Roten- streich, William Sanders, Marcella A. Schneider, Ralph Schwartzkopf, 7. Smiley, Harriet Smith, Gerrit J. Shipper, Dorothy Snyder, Laura 3tark, Paul Stoakes, Clevy. Strout, Zepporah Taylor, B. Thede, Charles 3. Wang, Dr. Dorothy Wa'd, Alberta Wood, Dr. Myer Zeitelbaum. Academic Notices English 102 and 143 make-up ex- aminations for last semester will be held in Room 3231 A.H. today, 7-10 German Make-Up Examinations: 'he make-up examinations for Ger- nan 1, 2 and 31 will be given on 3aturday, Oct. 21, from 9 to 12 a.m. n Room 306 U.H. No student will be allowed to take his examination unless he presents i written permit from his instructor at the time of the examination. Ch. E. 29, Section 1, will meet Fri- day, Oct. 20, at 1 p.m. E. S. Pettyjohn. Lectures American Chemical Society. Dr. G. 2. F. Lundell, Chief of the Chemistry Division, U.S. Bureau of Standards, vill lecture on "Chemical Analysis, ts Services to Science and Industry, .ts Problems, and its Role in the Fu- sure" at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon .n Room 303, Chemistry Building. the lecture is open to the public. Today's Events Choral Union Ushers: Will the fol- lowing men please report at Hill Au- ditorium today from 4:30 to 5:30 for second balcony assignments: Lee J. Anderson, Chas. Ballentine, J. Fred Bareis, Bruce Battey, Robert Benford,BRobert Brackstone, Henry Brown, Summer Cotton. James R. Davidson, Douglas Dehn, Bernard Dobber, James R. Edwards, Herman E. Erke, James Follette, Leonard Fox, J. R. Goodwin, Murray Gottleib;- Robert A. Gregg, Charles A. Hall, Robert F. Hay, Howard A. Ideson, James F. Jackson, Jens A. Jensen, Clayton H. Manry, Kenneth T. Mar- shall, Kenneth P. Mathews, Robert McFarland, Frederick N. McOmber, Maurice B. Miller, Woodrow L. Most, Harry E. Motley, Roy S. Neff, Jr.; Karl E. Olson, William F. Osborn, Seymour S. Pardell, Wm. D. Pen- hale, Harold Perkel, John Roe, Robert H. Porter, Donald W. Ramsdell, Rob- ert Ready, Frank A. Rideout, John M. Reeves, A. J. Sargent, Rufus C. Snook, Cornelius Skutt, Foss Bell Terry, Charles Townsend, Richard T. Waterman, H. F. Weidman, K. Je- i ome Wilkinson, Thomas B. Younge, T. M. Zurhorst. Quarterdeck Society: A meeting will be held today in Room 336, West En- gineering Bldg., at 7:30 p.m. All students in the Department'ofiNaval Architecture are cordially invited to attend and hear a paper read on "Yacht Forms." The Beta Chapter of Iota Alpha will hold its first meeting for the new school year this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the West Conference 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 Sci- ences: There will be a meeting of the Student Branch of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences tonight at 7:30 p.m., in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Bldg. A sound motion picture "The Amer- ican 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 Fnrinpeerine ldg. 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 today from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The Coffee Hour will be directed on an informal, open forum basis by Professor Mueschke (English) and Mr. Horner (Econon- 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. Phi Tau Alpha will have a meeting today at 4:15 p.m. in Room 308, Gen- eral Library. Officers will be elected and tentative plans for the year dis- cussed. All members are urged to attend. The League House Presidents will have a very important meeting this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the League. If unable to attend, please send a representative. The Theatre Arts Committee will have a meeting meting at 5 .m today in the League. A skit from this week's presentation, "The Tinder Box," will be presented, and all com- mittee heads will give their reports, Rover Crew will meet in the Union at 8 o'clock tonight. The Observatory Journal Club will meet at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon in the Observatory lecture room. Dr. Dean B. McLaughlin will speak on "Mars at the Opposition of 1939.'' Tea will be served at 4 p.m. Hillel Tryouts for one-act plays to be presented by the Hillel Players-are being held at the Foundation Thurs- day and Friday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. Hillel Players' Meeting: The first meeting of the Hillel Players is to be held tonight at 7:30 p m. at the Foun- dation. All Hillel members interested in any field of dramatics are welcome. Modern Dance Club: The Modern Dance Club will hold its regular meet- ing this evening at 7:15 in Barbour Gymnasium. Women's Archery Club: There will be a meeting of the Women's Arch- ery Club this afternoon at 4:15 on Palmer Field. All members and those:interested in this sport are urged to attend. Women's Fencing Club: The Wom en's Fencing Club meets every Thurs- day at 7:30 in the fencing room at Barbour Gymnasium. Equipment is avaable for a small rental fee. ° If you are out of practice, take ad- vantage of- this review period to get back in form before the official com- petitive season opens. Coming Events International Center: 1. Trip to Greenfield Village: For- eign students and their friends , are reminded that, if you wish to join the company going to Greenfield Village next Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m., they must make their reservations in the off ice of° the Center today before 5 o'clock. Transportation is by special bus; the cost of the trip is $1. 2. Chess Class: A chess class is to be organized at the Center this eve- ning, at 8 o'clock immediately fol- lowing the Speech Clinic. This is an unusual opportunity to learn chess or to improve one's game by instruc- tion from an expert player. The class is offered by Mr. Ivor Schilansky of Johannesburg, South Africa. Scavanger Hunt: All women on ' campus are invited to the Scavanger Hunt (to be held rain or shine) at the Women's Athletic Building on Friday, Oct. 20, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. This is sponsored by the Outdoor Sports Club. Refreshments after- wards, five cents. Please sign up at. Barbour Gymnasium or Women's Athletic Building, or call Jane Brich- an, 8891. Graduate students are invited to listen to a radio broadcast of the Michigan-Chicago football game on Saturday in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building. Graduate Outing Club will leave the northwest entrance of the Rack- ham Building at 230 p.m. Saturday for its annual outing at Camp Ta- coma on Clear Lake. Reservations must be made. Call 5572 between 8 and 10 p.m. Thursday or Friday. Swarthmore Club: Organization meeting of Swarthmore Club will be held on Friday, Oct. 20, in the Michi- gan League at 7:30 p.m. Chapel Service Club: All men mem- bers of St. Mary's Chapel who are in- terested in acting as ushers, servers or choir members are asked to attend a smoker in the Auditorium of the Chapel on Saturday afternoon, Oct. A 4.