THE MICHIGAN D'A.I Y THURSDAY, OCT. U THE MICHIGAN DAIlY THURSI~AY. OCT. -- I I .., _va. -7 1' Ir -.r--.. - . . .. 'HE MICHIGAN DAILY I sd It mLIJnE M osr ffre HAN s 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 mal, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVEK', SING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO . BOSTON - Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Carl Petersen Elliott Maraniss- Stan M. Swinton- Morton L. Linder' Norman A. Schorr Dennis Flanagan John N. Canavan Ann Vicary Mel Fineberg Editorial Stafff . . 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 HJane Mowers *Harriet S. Levy NIGHT EDITOR: MILTON ORSHEFSKY The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and'repesent the views of the writers j S o*ly. College Students ndA War Call. NLESS you want to be called "sissies, tcollege men,.you had better be ready to announce to the world that you are prepared to trudge off to the battlefield whenever our government speaks the word. International warfare is still young in Europe, but-it has been" seething long. enough for some of the American "patriots" to swing into their 1917 strategy. These gentlemen have already assumed the burden of"educating" our people to the idea that our nation must be ready to join the wholesale slaughter overseas if anyone steps on the United States' economic toes. Take the words of James F., Ailshie, chief justice of the Idaho supreme court, for example. Speaking to a group of Idaho women this par- ticular patriot asked: "As mothers, would you warit to raise a son who would stand back and let a big bully inter- fere with his rights?" "Why, it made my blood boil when I read about some students at Cornell University who an- nounced they would not fight unless in a defen- sive war." "America has its rights on the high seas, and I believe we should continue to carry on our trade with neutral nations." "American colleges need more red-blooded young men instead of sissies." Such an address, highly seasoned with the strong spice of a plea for loyalty to our flag and government, would have been commonplace a couple decades ago when the propaganda dyna- mos were spinning more furiously. In 41939 such things are more rare. It is significant because it is typical of the kind of thinking which is being done by other people in our country while college students are tangled up in the thick of America's fight to stay out of war. Less veiled than most of the false propaganda which has been dropping from the newspaper skies, it gives young men and women an opportunity to see that the feeling which must be defeated in our generation is to be different and better than the one which steered us into the tragedy of 1917-1919. College men today in a large part know that being "red-blooded" is something different than cooperating in a program of murder in the trenches. They realize that the finest service they can render their country is to strive for a community that is a happy part of the inter- national world. College men and women have learned that if our country is to ever achieve culture and comfort it will be because the United States of America was wise enough to preserve ts democracy and culture while European coun- ;ries were doing their best to blast theirs to bits. Our generation has been taught that fighting a bloody war will never keep alive the things hat count in this world. Instead, American colleges now realize there re other' adjustments which the United States nust make because of the national problems which arise when part of the world goes to war. rhese adjustments may cause some suffering and sacrifice, but they are more welcome than bloodshed, destruction, and economic misery vhich war inevitably brings. America today is groping for the alternates to war-the adjust- nents which we should make-and college stu- ents are 'doing their part to assist. Yes, college students are accepting this new Drug Discovery Saves Lives . . AS THE AVERAGE American-eagerly scanned the war news late last week, he more than often glossed over an inconspicuous item about a new pneumonia drug that has for its purpose the saving of human life rather than its destruction. This new anti-pneumonia drug developed by the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh has already earned the commendation of medical men all over the nation who claim that for the first time in medical history our third leading public health enemy will be under control. Dr. Cyrus M. Sturgis, director of the Simpson Memorial Institute and chairman of the De- partment of Internal Medicine, believes that such a drug, if produced by the Mellon Institute is the product of "careful and conservative work" and should "be worthy of very careful consideration." The Institute's discovery ranks with sulfa- pyridine if the reports are any standard. In 500 cases of pneumonia, the new drug appeared far more effective than sulfapyridine and was not as upsetting in its effects. Sulfapyridine causes vomiting and other upsetting effects while the new drug had no such effect. The new drug can take its place now with the three other accepted methods of treating pneu- monia. Old standby of the general practitioner his been the use of serums and oxygen tents along with adequate nursing care. Objections to this treatment have been on the grounds of expense for serums and their failure to supply protection for certain pneumonia types. Vaccination, effective in its protection for approximately a year if preliminary experiments are any criterion, serves as the second method of protection. Its short period of effective pro- tection provides the only objection to this treat- ment. Sulfapyridine, romanticized so much in last year's headlines, is the third method of combat- ing the disease. This 'drug's protective action consists of stopping the pneumococcus germs from growing until the white blood cells of the body can overcome them. The last method is the new Mellon Institute drug which, if used in conjunction with all the other treatments, should cut the present pneu- monia death rate in half according to medical authorities. Full use of all these combat methods against pneumonia should result in wiping pneumonia from the land in much the same way as science has -made small pox and yellow fever practically non-existent. Americans should turn their attention some- times from European crises and take an active part in supporting and financing the men who are striving to bring better public health to the United States. -Richard Harmel New Recruiting Tricks For Future Wars . . B Y HIS RIDICULE. in yesterday's Daily, Young Gulliver inadvertently showed up probably the biggest problem our armed forces have to face, and that is to draw men into the service. The Army and Navy and the Marines use an approach that we consider essential to democ- racy, but one that has proved ineffective through- out the rest of the globe. Our services have to go on the market like any other corporation and persuade consumers by the strength of their advertising. The almost frantic appeals of the service propaganda (one enlistment in the army may add from three to five years to the life of the average young man) indicate strong sales re- sistance on the part of America's young men to the rigors of military life. As a consequence, the services have tried to make their routine as sugar-coated as possible. They offer retire- ment at an age when you are still young enough to enjoy life. They offer red-blooded adventure and travel. They will give you excellent training in some profession if you care to leave at the expirement of your service period. All these the services offer in an attempt to break through the American's ambition of leading his own life. And all these are strong selling points. But they do seem to be the basic reasons why men recruit. The services would probably be stating the facts more exactly if they appealed in this way: Do you who are roaming the streets look- ing for a job that is probably not there want three square meals a day? Do you want to escape the defeatist complex that dogs you? Do you who have a fair education, but not enough to impress employers, want to trade your fear of insecurity for a tailor-made life? Then join the service. There is still another possible campaign, whose potentialities were demonstrated by the queues that stood before recruitment agencies the first days of the war. It is: Do you who see war threatening want to learn the art of war slowly, painstakingly, thoroughly, instead of being jammed through on your way to trenches when the draft comes? Would you welcome the possibility of staying in America to teach the masses instead of going yourself? Then join the Army, or the Navy, or the Marines NOW. -Hervie Haufler Tribute Justly Deserved The Gold Medal of the Pan-American League presented to Secretary Hull for his contributions to the cause of Pan-Americanism is no empty honor. The work of the Secretary of State speaks for itself in the new era of friendship and cooperation in the Western Hemisphere. The citations accompanying the award-usually high' sounding and fulsome-are in this case Of ALL Things . .... Byl orty Q... . " AIN'T I seen you somewhere before?" "Well, it's very possible; I get around quite a bit," said the tall, well-groomed lady in answer to the taxi-driver's query. "Can you direct me to President Ruthven's home?" "Sure, lady, I'll even take you there." "No, thank you, I'd rather walk if you don't mind. Good exercise, you know." A short while later, the lady turned off State and down South U., stopping in front of the President's home. She walked up to the door and rang the bell or banged the knocker as thie case might have been. A white-jacketed gent opened with a polite smile and: "Whom would you like to see?" "I'm the President's wife," said the tall caller. "Is President Ruthven at home?" The gent in the white jacket had just left the President's wife in the living room and didn't see any reason why she'd go out the back way to come in the front door and, anyhow, even if she did, this wasn't her. So, the first thing he thought of was straight-jackets and nut-houses. But, he had to make sure, so: "I beg your par- don ma'am. Whom shall I say is calling?" "The President's wife." "But, ma'am, the President's wife is inside; she lives here. You must be mistaken. Maybe you're thinking of a different President. Why don't you try some other house?" The tall lady who thought she was the Presi- dent's wife looked at the white door in front of her with- a frown. She was sure this was the house. She knocked (or rang) again. ". now look, lady, we're very busy here today, and Iecan't be bothered with you. Go 'way like a nice little girl and make believe you're Napoleon or Cleopatra or somebody. Anybody but President Ruthven's wife. Now, please, don't bother me anymore." THE puzzled lady turned her back to the door and walked down the pavement. She shook her head slightly and ran her hand lightly across her forehead. She turned and walked toward the Union then back down State St. where she stopped at a drugstore and a phone-booth. "I'd like to be connected with the President's home," she told the operator. "Hello, President Ruthven's residence." "Hello, this is the President's wife speaking. "Listen, lady, I just told you that we were ousy. Now if you don't stop bothering me, I'm going to call the wagon. You're not the Presi- dent's wife; you must be Joan of Arc. Why don't you lie down and rest for a while?" The lady looked at the black receiver in her hand and then at the black mouthpiece of the phone. She heard her nickel tinkle down into the box. She stopped at the fountain for a cup of coffee (perhaps if she tried his office?). She hurried out of the drugstore, iquired as to the location of President Ruthven's office, then crossed the street toward the large building that had ben pointed out to her. She entered the office and went up to the desk where a pleasant' woman asked what she could do for her.. "I'd like to see President Ruthven. I'm the President's wife." The woman at the desk looked at her for a moment, smiled tolerantly, and asked wouldn't she please be seated. The tall lady who thought she was the President's wife thanked her and satdown while the pleasant woman went into the next office. ". . . hello, hello," she said softly into the phone, watching the tall lady through the half- open doorway, "this is the President's office. There's a woman here who claims she is Mr. Ruthvens wife. What'. .. "What!" bellowed the white jacket at the other end of the wire, "is that pest still around? She's nuts, I think. She was here bothering me, too. Tell her to be nice and quiet and go away." HE pleasant woman hung up the phone, went back into the other room and smiled at the tall lady. She walked over and sat down beside her. "Are you sure you are the President's wife? You know we have had a new President here for several years. Maybe you were the wife of the last President." "Oh, no. That's silly. I'm President R . . "Yes, yes, just be quiet and you'll be all right. President Ruthven is out now and I don't know when he'll be back, but, if you'd like to wait ..." The tall lady said no, she would look around a little, thanked the pleasant woman and walked out. SHE went back to State St., wandered around to a few of the shops, had dinner and walked around some more. By the time she had seen all she wanted, it was almost eight, so she joined the crowds drifting toward Hill Auditor- ium for the Oratorical Lecture. She bought a ticket at the box, went in and sat down far in the rear. "What! You again!" This from the seat to her right, the white-jacketed gent who had traded his afternoon ensemble for a darker one. She smiled at him courteously and watched the people rapidly filling the Auditorium. "Quite a crowd, isn't there?" she ventured. "Yeah, Cleopatra," came the reply. The tall lady watched the people some more until a man in a tuxedo walked out on the plat- form and said that the first speaker in the Oratorical Series was to be Mrs. Roosevelt. So then the tall lady who thought she was the wife of the President got up, smiled at the white- jacketed gent in black, walked to the stage and gave her lecture. Student government is an experiment. No one can deny tha ht T' it isan av'nvimnt'hnw- GULLIVER'S CAVILS By Young Gulliver IN his conversations with the best people this week, Gulliver ha noted a distinct feeling that the Art Cinema League's offering this week- end, To The Victor, will lay an egg Gulliver doesn't want to see this hap- pen and so he is going to put in a plug for the movie. It so happens that To The Victor, through some chance of fate and th Butterfield theatres, ran at the Wuerth last year for a couple days Y.G. is one of the five people in Ann Arbor who went down to the WuertL to take a gander at it. Frankly, out- side of Juarez, To The Victor is th best picture that ever played there. To The Victor is a better film than either Ballerina or Nevsky, the twc previous Cinema League showings. It is a quiet little picture, not in the least epical or terrific. The romance team, pretty Margaret Lockwood and handsome John Loder, have been like C. Aubrey Smith, in every British picture that Gulliver ever saw. BUT the really big stuff in To The Victor is Will Fyffe. Gulliver never saw him before, and he is will- ing to lay odds that nobody else in Ann Arbor ever did either. The point of all this ballyhoo is that you should. Will Fyffe sinks his teeth into his role with the gusto of a Whitford Kane or a Charles Laughton. In this picture he has the kind of a role that Laughton would no doubt give anything to play; and it is Gulliver's opinion that Fyffe does it far better than Laughton ever could. As the boys in the trade say, you owe it to yourself to see Will Fyffe in To The Victor. It's a swell picture. Cihe Drew Pedrson .. °nd Robert $.AI1en WASHINGTON-A closely guard- ed secret of the Senate isolationists is- that-Ray Moley, one-time Roose- velt brain truster and recently his spill-the-beans biographer, is one of their principal master minds. Moley advises them on 'strategy and publicity, also supplies them with material for speeches and propa- ganda. He is in personal contact with the group practically every day, via long distance telephone conversations with Senator Bennett Clark of Mis- souri, their chief Democratic ad- herent. Moley often calls Clark off the Senate floor and confers with him' over one of the phones in the Democratic cloakroom. Secret aim of isolationist strategy is to stall Senate action until they have exhausted every means of pres- sure to line up House votes. They know they are licked in the Senate, but believe they have a good chance to win in the House. Privately, more than one Admin- istration leader agrees with them. A secret poll of Representatives last week showedra majority of less than fifteen for repeal of the embargo. This is too close a margin for safety on so important an issue, and among themselves the Administrationites are worried. At last Thursday's Cabinet meet- ing, Vice President Garner expressed the opinion that the Senate isola- tionists were conducting a secret fili- buster and urged that the whip be applied to speed up action. He warned that every day gained by the opposition gave them that much more time to put the heat on House mem- bers. Hull And The Press A press conference with the Presi- dent is likely to be boisterous, but across the street in the State De- partment, the conferences held daily by Secretary Hull are solemn affairs. Hull stands behind a high-backed chair at the end of a table, his long fingers hanging limply down, his head bowed and his eyes downcast. He has all the appearance of a pas- tor about to lead his flock in paryer. He is friendly and sweet-tempered, and his replies to questions, though. seldom newsworthy, are given with disarming courtesy. When a ques- tion is asked, he raises his blue eyes in a glance that is almost tender. Every newsman who attends these daily conferences likes "the old man," but everyone wishes he were less de- voted to the twin gods of caution and dignity. They all feel like the news photographer who cape to the Department recently to take Hull's picture. As the cameraman entered the room, he sighed longingly and' said under his breath, "Gosh, if there was only some way I could make the od man smile!" THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1939 VOL. L. No. 28 Notices Tickets for Testimonial Dinner can be secured by faculty and staff mem- bers at the Michigan Union desk. Laylin K. James. Facn!ty of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts: The five week freshman reports will be due Saturday, Oct. 28, in the Academic Counselors' Office, 108 Mason Hall. Arthur Van Duren, chairman, The University Lureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following Michigan Civil Service examinations: (Last date for filing application is noted in each case). Sanitary Engineer I, salary range: $150-190, Nov. 1. Sanitary Engineer II, salary range: $200-240, Nov. 1. Numeric Bookkeeping Machine Clerk C, salary range: $80-100, Nov. 4. Numeric Bookkeeping Machine Clerk B, salary range: $105-125, Nov. 4. Complete announcement'on file at the University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- tificate for February and June 1940 who have not filed an application in the office of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S., should do so at once. (This notice des not include School )f Music students). Women attending the Illinois Game: Women students wishing to attend the Illinois Michigan game are required to register in the Office of the Dean of Women. A letter of per- mission from parents must be in this office not later than Wednes- 'day, Nov. 1. If the student does not go by train, special permission for an- other mode of travel must be includ- ed in the parents' letter. Graduate women are invited to register in the office. A cademic Notices Oriental Languages 154: Students in the course are asked to leave at the office, 2021 Angell Hall, before Saturday, all written work now due. L. Waterman. Hillel Foundation: R'egistration is stili open for Hillel Classes. All stu- dents interested may contact the of- fice of the Foundation. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Maximo M. Kalaw, member of the Philippine Na- tional Assembly, will lecture on "American-Phillippine Relations and the Present Crisis" in the National Science Auditorium today at 4:15 p.mr Mr. Louis C. Fisk of the Hyatt Bear- ings Division of General Motors will speak at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon in the Rackham Amphitheatre on "Engineering Personnel and Busi- ness Relations" under the auspices of the Engineering Student-Faculty Committee on Professional Ethics. The public is invited. Today's Events Scabbard and Blade: F-4 will meet promptly at 5 o'clock this afternoon at headquarters for a saber drill in preparation for tomorrow's ceremony. All members should try to be present. No uniforms required, but bring sabers. Ushers for Art Cinema Productions: All those girls who took the ushering test in the Lydia Mendelssohn the- atre are asked to see Professor Ken- yon in the League any day this week between 2 and 4 p.m., according toi Peggy Cornelius, chairman of ush- ering for Art Cinema Productions. Graduate Students and Honors Stu- dents in Philosophy are cordially in- vited to a reception given ; by the1 philosophy department in Rackham Bldg., West Conference Room today1 from 4 to 6 p.m. Women's Archery Club:, There will DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Modern Dance Club: Modern Dance Club will hold its regular meeting in Barbour Gymnasium this evening at 7:15 p.m. The Theatre Arts Committee will have a meeting for contacting schools and clubs, at 5 p.m. today at the League. Ushers for Ruthven Testimonial: There will be a meeting this af- ternoon at 4:15 p.m. in the Yost Field House. Anyone who will be unable to attend will be automatical- ly dropped from the committee. Please call Virginia Osgood, 7117, if you are unable to attend so that a substitute can be appointed. The committee consists of: Florence Brotherton, Doris Kim- ball, Betty Hine, Barbara Telling, Ruth 'Mary Smith, Ann Winters, Beth O'Roke, Barbara 'Brehm, Eliza-. beth Moe, Ann Vedder, Elizabeth Hegge, Elizabeth Titus, Edna Kear- ney, Betty Conn, Joan Outhwaite; Jane Krause, Helen Ralston, Jane Baits, Virginia Keilholtz, Belle Cal- kins, Martha McCrory, Betty Ship- man, Martha Cook, Marjory Strand, Betty Dickmeyer, Betty Asselin, Janet Homer, Betty Anne Chaufty, Claire Reed-Hill, Barbara Bassett, Barbary Fisher, Maxine Baribeau, Mary Frances Reek, Patty Matthews, Jane Pinkerton, Mary Johnson; Barbara McIntyre, Marjory Bishop, Edna Linsey, Dorothy Webster, Jean Baker, Zelda Davis, Mary Honecker, Ann Vicary, Betty Slee, Hope Hart- wig, Jane Mowers, Dorothy Shipman, Roberta Leete, Ella Stowe. Assembly Hostessess and Commit- tee Members: Will the following host- esses and committee members repre- senting Assembly at the P-A-C-I Tea Dance, meet in the ballroom at 3:15 p.m. today? 'Mary Lowery, Elinor Searls, Doris Barr, Esther Shaffer, Frances Nevin, Mary.Kasper, Mary Mustard, Betty Zunk, .Mary Jean O'Donnell, Sylvia orman; Carolyn Leahy, June Fred- eric and all other committee mem- bers. " All. Hillel Menibers interested in participating in the activities of the Social Welfare Committee are re- quested to come to the Foundation this afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. .a Coming Events Tree Planting: A burr oak will be planted by the Land Utilization Con- ference in honor of President James B. Angell between Alumni Memorial Hall and the Romance Language Building at 11:45 a.m., Friday, Oct. 27. The tree will be presented to the University by Sen. George P. McCallum and accepted in its behalf by President Alexander G. Ruthven. All interested are cordially invited to attend. Deutscher Verein: Will have a roast at the Island on Sunday, Oct. 29. The group will meet in front of the Rack- ham Building at 4:30. All who plan to attend please sign up on German Department Bulletin Board, Univer- sity Hall by Thursday. Outdoor Sports Club: ;Al women students are invited to the Bike Ride sponsored by the Outdoor Sports Club on Friday, Oct. 27, at 4:15 p.m. The group will meet at the Women's Athletic Building and go to a nearby shop where bikes will be rented. Maurice Evans in Hamlet: Arrange- ments have been made by the English Departmentto enable students to purchase tickets at reduced prices for Maurice Evans' Hamlet. A limit- ed number of tickets for the eve- ning performance, Monday, Oct. 30, will be sold at $1.10 (the regular price is $2.75).. Round-trip bus tickets may also be purchased at a reduced rate (probable price, $1.20) Theatre tickets ad bustces.ilb n;aei Room 3223 A.H., Friday, 9-12 and 2-5; and on Saturday, 9-12. Persons in- tending to take advantage of this of- fer who have not already signified their intention should leave their names in the English office today. be a meeting of the Women's. Club this afternoon at 4:15, mer Field. I I Archery on Pal- Schools And Democracy Though a part of government and rooted deep in the esteem of the citi- zens who support the government, the schools are in a sense outside the government. While the schools are subject to control by government -mainly local and state government -the people of all political parties need always to understand that in a democracy the schools must be free to educate. Any time that the schools, including the colleges and universities, feel restraint on their freedom exerted by the political lead- ers in power or by any pressure group, the torch which the schools are ex- ,j t c Suomi Club: There will be ing on Friday evening, Oct. o'clock in the :UppersRoom Hall. Come and enjoy folk and a Hallowe'en party. a meet- 27, at 8 of Lane dancing Disciples' Guild Hallowe'en Party and Hay Ride on Oct. 28. Hay riders meet at 438 Maynard Street at 8 p.m. Reservations must be made by this evening. Call 5838. Those not hayriding, meet at 438 Maynard Street by 9 p.m. All Guild- ers invited. Stalker Hall: Hayride leaving Stalk- er Hall at 8:30 p.m. Friday. For reservation, call 6881 before- Friday noon. All Methodist students and their friends are cordially invited.