THE MICHIGAN DAILY J I by students of the.University of hority of the Board in Control of anx ,rublcations. shed every morning except Monday during the ity year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated P ess Associated Press is exclusively entitled to 'the republication of all news dispatches credited to ot otherwise credited in this newspaper. All f republication of all other matters herein also i. ed at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as class mail matter. riptions during regular school year by carrier, y mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERISiNG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publshers Representative 420 MAoisoN AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO BOSTON . LoS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO er, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Peter Editorial Staff 1 -. . . . iss . aton . .. inder .. chorr .. agan ,.. avan .. Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor . Associate Editor Associate Editor Women's Editor Sports Editor Business Staff Business Manager . . . Paul R. Parr sst. Business Mgr., Credit Manager Ganson P. Taggart Women's Business Manager . Zenovia Skoratko Women's Advertising Manager . . Jane Mowers Publications Manager . . Harriet S. Levy NIGH'T EDITOR: LAURENCE MASCOTT The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Why Pick On Lindbergh?,/** HEN Colonel Lindbergh proposed, rW in his second radio speech on the neu- rality issue, that Canada divorce its interests ron those of Great Britain, he was immediately mbjected to an almost Byronesque condemna- ;on and derision. Ano'ther hero had stepped off :is pedestal and found himself lost. . Justification for the attack on Lindbergh is aard to find. His proposal was not especially sensational. It is not as though he were a fire- brand kindling rebellion--Canada is already quite free from England in nearly everything but tenuous historic ties, and the French-Cana- ans had advanced Lindbergh's thesis long be- ore the Colonel thought of it. Yet no. speech during the neutrality contro- Versy has received such wholesale censure. Sena- ors Pittman, Barkley and Connally led the at- ack in the Senate, calling the proposal a "gra- uitous insult" to Canada. Gene Tunney ginger- ystepped off his own pedestal to call the pro- 0osal "tops in impertinence." Stories of the lyer's acceptance of a Nazi swastika from Goer- ng were revived and embellished. The most virulent, pesistent scourgings, how- ver, came from the newspaper columnists, 'anked almost unanimously against the Colonel. Walter Lippiann, who insists that the seat of he British Empire will be moved to Canada, truck at Lindbergh in several columns, possibly in defense of his pet theory. Dorothy Thompson, iwho spews out anti-Nazi enmotionalism over the fearst chain, blasted Lindbergh as Hitler's com- >atriot. "And Mrs. Roosevelt, in her "My Day" olumn, supported Dorothy's stand. Now despite all these attacks it does not take i keen analyst to see that Lindbergh's utter- ,nces can be correlated with America's interests uite as easily as they can be dubbed pro-Nazi.' qs Hugh S. Johnson, almost single-handedly lefending Lindbergh, pointed out, Lindbergh was nerely asking Americans to think through the mossibilities of the Monroe Doctrine. The Gen- ral states: "We say we must and will defend the Vestern Hemisphere against any attack or en- roachment from the eastern half of the world -Europe or Asia. O.K. Ninety per cent of our eople are for that. We can control that so far ,s our own country is concerned. But suppose, ,s has now happened, one of our most powerful ;nd good neighbors attacks a country of the astern Hemisphere-what do we do when the ounter-attack comes?" What Miss Thompson and Mrs. Roosevelt and Ar. Lippmann et al do not choose to see is that he interests of England and France are not ecessarily the interests of the United States. Lindbergh is an American. He fias stated chat he believes to be the best course for America ,nd he may well be wrong. But to paint him as Nazi bedfellow because he does not follow the ro-British bandwagon is a gross exaggeration. The columnists wield a potentially great power, ower which they use very often to the benefit f the public. But they can hammer home their pinions day after day to nullify any potests me may make by the sheer weight, of repetition. They should realize that you or I or Charles A. indbergh, citizen, should have the right to ex- ress our views without being subject to their oncerted name-calling or their untenable emo- jonalism. They may refute our arguments, but o smear our names and our characters in addi- ion is beyond their province. -Hervie Haufler AS OTHERS SEE1ITo. To the Editor: There is one type of unfairness I have found deplorably prevalent in student discussions, newspaper editorials and Congressional debates, a curious and rather amusing one. That is whenever British and French statesmen make a peace, as at Munich, it is proof that they are in sympathy with Hitler and Fascism, while if they make a war in defense of Poland, it is proof that they are militarists and imperialists! Apparent- ly, as the old rime has it, "they are damned if they do, and damned if they don't." What's Right Is Right Now, if it would have been right in September 1938 to fight to save the Czechoslovak republic from partition it must by the same token have been right to fight in September 1939 to save the Polish republic from similar partition. It is true that Czechoslovakia was, to some extent, better governed. But in both cases the aggressor is the same, his pretexts the same, his action the same, the danger to Europe the same. Moreover, 4 point often forgotten, a repeated outrage will often waken resistance that a first offense will iot. I believe that Poland would have been de- serted and told to hand over Danzig without a fuss, in exactly the same way that Czechoslovakia was told to hand over the Sudetenland without a fuss, if it had not been that the previous at- tempt at appeasement had failed; that Hitler followed up his seizure of a German-speaking district by taking the rest of Czechoslovakia. There is -a saying "If a man cheat you once shame on him; if he cheat you twice, shame on you!" I know for a fact, as being constantly in touch with Birtish opinion from September 1938 to August 1939, that at the former date many Britons sincerely believed in the possibility of appeasement, but that practically all had become disillusioned by the latter date. Is not this an adequate explanation as to why Britain and France yielded in one case and resisted a year later? They're Just Like Us In all this I am not discussing the question as to whether the British and Frenh ought to have fought a year ago, or are mistaken in fighting now. I am merely saying that their blunders, in either case, are not due to some sinister Fascist bias or obscure plutocratic motive but are capable of a much simpler and more obvious expana-. tion-fear of war in 1938, exasperation over- coming such fear in 1939. The British and French democracies are really very much like our own. They have the same alloy of idealism and self-interest, the same cold fits of isolation- ism, the same natural fear of war, the same national egotism and resentments against others that can be traced in the debates in our own Congress, or the editorials in The Daily. If you want to know what the British and French are really like-look in the nearest mirror! What Germany, Russia and Italy are really like cannot be told in the same way because, since they are autocracies and not democracies, they show to the mirror not faces but masks: th masks of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. When those masks are off at last the world can talk face to face again, and perhaps talk permanent peace. -reston Slosson J ifeinito Ak Heywood Broun The theatre is beginning to look alive after a somewhat punishing summer. Kaufman and Hart have a hit, and all the critics, except one, like Saroyan. Helen Hayes has folk standing in the back, even though the re- viewers were a little luke- warm. Everything improves along Broadway except the manners of firstnighters. Miss Hayes was particu- larly handicapped in her opening, because she is a very important actress and all the important people came to see her .do her stuff. She is a trouper and can take it, but during the first act latecomers looking for the seats all but drowned out the actors. There were a few who didn't show up until the second act, and it is those who come at the eleventh hour who have lost their stubs or come ambling down the wrong aisle. Reform should begin on the sidewalk, then ex- tend into the lobby and sweep all the way along to the apron of the theatre. The police should take the autograph hunters and the assorted kib- itzers away from the entrance. Boiling in oil may be a shade too severe, but, at least, there should be a reprimand or some punishing kind of homework. Some wise magistrate might take a tip from the penalties imposed in school upon the tardy. If a cop shows up with some full-grown youth who has been hanging around saying, "Could I have your autograph, please, mister?" the Magis- trate might pay him back in kind. I seem to see the Solomon of the bench sit back and ask, "So you like autographs?" The culprit, now, con- vinced of the enormity of his offense, hangs his head in shame. "I'm going to send you out into the world a free man," the judicial officer assures him, "but I will make one condition: You go home and write your own name one thousand times in a plain and legible hand. And bring it back to me tomorrow morning. I'll see'that you get your bellyful of autographs, and if I ever hear of you loafing around on public sidewalks Dry Nam*~g ad WASHINGTON-On the ship coming to the United States last summer, Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew concentrated on deck quoits and shuffleboard (which he played badly) in the daytime, and poker in the smoking room (which he played well) at night. Between times he read over the seven bound volumes of his typewritten diary telling of his seven years as Ambassador to Japan. No one would have suspected from observing Grew on that trip that he soon was to put across one of Roosevelt's most important foreign policies. Certainly the Japanese press did not realize it, for all of them wished him a pleasant vacation, a speedy return, and the official Domei News Agen- cy explained that he was going home to correct false American impressions regarding "the new order of things in East Asia." It is now no secret, of course, that Grew's recent warning to Japan, which came "right from the horse's mouth," was carefully prepared in Washington, and that this was the major reason for his return home. However, the chain of events which preceded the "horse's mouth" warning, and the general policy Roosevelt is driving at in the Far East have not yet reached the category of an open secret. British Plight . Inside fact is that at least .twice in the last two years, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has called in Ambassador Joe Kennedy and asked him what the United States was prepared to do about the Far East in case Great Britain got in- volved in war in Europe. Chamberlain explained that the British fleet could not be in two places at once, and wanted to know what help it could get from the American fleet in case Japan started to run berserk in the Pacific,-as she did in the last war. In each case, Kennedy (after consulting with Roosevelt) explained that the United States could give no pledge to Great Britain in' advance, that any pledge would be tantamount to a foreign entanglement, but that the United States always had had a vital interest in the Pacific and would act accordingly as events developed. Meanwhile Roosevelt, without any pledge to the British, began working out his own policy toward Japan. The President has been a student of naval strategy ever since he began to read Admiral Ma- han at the age of 14. And the strategy worked out for Ambassador Grew in Tokyo and for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific is almost entirely Roose- velt's own. Roosevelt Strategy In the first place, he figured that if war broke in Europe (and he was convinced all last sum- mer that it was coming), the Japanese would be free to take the Dutch East Indies, with their tremendous oil reserves, and perhaps later take French Indo-China, even Singapore. So last spring, when Hitler threatened Dan- zig, Roosevelt suddenly sent the entire U.S. fleet, then converging on the New York World's Fair, back to the Pacific. This was part of the strategy. Simultaneously, he .decided to bring Grew home -for special instructions. Four months later, just as Grew got back to Tokyo with his stiff warning that Japanese militarism was alienating the United States, Roosevelt began shifting the U.S. fleet farther out into the Pacific, this time Hawaii. It is too early yet to gauge the final results of the nianeuver, but so far it has worked even better than expected. The Japanese peace party has been strengthened, and the Japanese mili- tary, who understand only the threat of force, are worried. Joseph Clark Grew It was a typical Roosevelt paradox that to execute this delicate Far Eastern strategy he chose a man who stands for the things Roosevelt opposes. Joe Grew is .related to the J.P. Morgans, against whom the President recently cautioned the British. His motto in life is similar to that which hangs in Pullman cars: "Quiet is requested for the benefit of those who have retired," and he is a product of those halcyon days when the State Department was a rich man's club and no one was afraid to admit it. Grew also was the center of the career clique whose members promoted themselves to lush jobs back in the days of Calvin Coolidge and Frank B. Kellogg. He was Under Secretary of State at the time, and a miserable failure. As Ambassador to Turkey, however, the job to which he promoted himself, he was a brilliant success. Having spent his youth tiger-shooting and traveling, Grew lacked business experience and executive training. Charm alone will not run the intricate machinery of the State Department. Among 700 employees it is spread too thin. But with foreign ministers in Turkey and Japan, charm counts. With it, Grew couples a shrewd diplomatic head, a wealth of experience abroad, and an amazing ability to win friends and influence diplomats. Probably he was one of the most popular ambassadors ever stationed in Turkey, and in Japan last spring every Jap- anese newspaper paid him tribute when he left. Tragic Diplomatic Era In Japan, Grew makes a weird contrast to the man with whom he deals. About six feet six in height, his grizzled head towers over the diminutive Japanese like a grandfather over a I: MUSIC: DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN - By RICHARD BENNETT tr. Thor Johnson And The Symphony We welcome this opportunity of devoting a column to the work of Mr. Thor Johnson' as culminated. to date in the University Symphony Orches- tra's season's initial concert last Sun- day afternoon. At this concert Con- ductor Johnson showed us what can be .done with a group of amateur musicians whose respect he has won and in whom he has awakened a de- sire toward whatever kind of perfec- tion can be approximated while they are still in college. Mr. Johnson has afforded us performances of a high quality before, but last Sunday's per- formance struck us afresh with how much he has accomplished in the short time he has been with us. From what one can observe without being directly under his tutelage Mr. John- son's claims to acclamation seem to be of two sorts. First and foremost, he enjoys his work. That means a lot, because it is both a rarity and a necessity. The interpreter who does not enjoy the music he plays often misses those moments when the com- poser wants him to smile or bite his lip. Such individuals tend toward ponderosity and an apsurd kind of sanctimoniousness. They become unctuous, making your skin crawl just a bit because you feel it incum- bent upon you to respect their feel- ings while knowing perfectly well their whole lives are a farce. Wiseacres Stopped And second, Conductor Johnson i somewhat of a megalomaniac. He actially asks that a mere amateur ensemble, a college ensemble, mind you, be good, be even a bit profes- sional sometimes,-a lo! it becomes just that. Into the teeth of all the wiseacres wiscracking about the tish- tosh of college musical activities (much of which wisecracking is cer- tainly deserved) he throws a perfor- mance such as last Sunday's, a per- formance which, if said wiseacres could have witnessed, would have put an end once and for all to their con- stant derogation of all attempts at musical achievement outside the pre- cincts of Carnegie Hall. So we credit Mr. Johnson with the proper respect for his art and a tech- nical insistence that that respect be not burlesqued into a sentimental well-meaning emotion that is as meaningless as it is deterrent. 'Unholy Tendenies' This is not to say that our con-' ductor has not certain unholy ten- dencies we should like to see avoided. For example, while we marvel at the arm measurements of his kettle- drummer, and while we are all for heavy tympani, yet with a relatively weak string section already often at a loss to compete with the brass the tympani should be moderated to con- form with the exigencies of the work as a whole. Then too, Mr. Johnson often displays an inclination for hurrying certain passages out of pro- portion to the march of the total composition. This was particularly true of the Rienzi Overture. Indeed, it seemed that the work from begin- ning to end was taken a shade too fast. Though a personal'dogmatism of ours, we should claim that the playing of operatic overtures at the opera and in the concert hall is not one and the same thing. The sensa- tional stir preluding a production at the theater sets a pace that often jars in the concert hall. However there was somewhat almost sensational in the conclusion of such a well-ren- dered program and perhaps Mr' Johnson's tempo was well taken. ] He Has 'The Stuff' The basic stuff we feel Mr. John- son has got and we are proud to have him' with us. Looking for a quarter? Oh, much more, Mr. Johnson. We are looking for still further improvement of your organization and yourself. And un- less your programs have been un-' alterably determined for the year we should like to hear in Ann Arborr some Hindemith, especially some of that composer's Kammermusik and his Mathias der Mahler. We have have heard you express your admira- heard-. you express your admira- his work performed in Prague; so we feel emboldened to ask that ours be the same pleasure in Ann Arbor that you received abroad. On Football Pools There are always, in any sport, a number of persons that capitalize on it and attempt to drag it down into the mud. Football is no exception. Any sporting event naturally attracts people who bet on the outcome and this has become an old American cus- tom. But when this betting begins to attract members of the under-l world and becomes a racket in itself, then it is time to" call a halt. We are referrirg to the practice of "football' pools." The manner in which the pools are worked is quite simple. Anyone who wishes to and knows the proper per- son, can wager any sum he wishes that he can pick the winner of the (Continued from Page 2) Lawyers Club Lawyers Liberal Club Les Voyageurs Men's Judiciary Counciln Metropolitan Clubs. Michigamua *Michigan Christian Fellowship *Mortarboard *Mu Phi Epsilon Newman Club Nippon Club Omega Psi Phi Omega Upsilon Outdoor Club Phi Delta Kappa *Phi Epsilon Kappa Phi Eta Sigmapp Phi Lambda Kappa Phi Lambda Upsilon Phi Sigma Philippine Michigan Club Philosophy Club Phi Tau Alpha *Physical Education Club (Men's) Pi Lambda Theta *Pi Tau Pi Sigma Polish Engineering Society Polonia Circle g y Quarterdeck Society Rho Chi Society Robert Owen Cooperative House Rochdale Cooperative House Roger Williams Guild Rover Crew Sailing .Club Scabbard and Blade Scalp and Blade Scandinavian Club Scimitar Scroll Senior Society; Sigma Alpha Iota Sigma Delta Chi * Sigma Eta Chi Sigma Gamma Epsilon Sigma Rho Tau Socialist House Society of Automotive Engineers Society of Industrial Lawyers Students Senate Suomi Club Tau Beta Pi Tau Epsilon Rho Tau Kappa Epsilon Tau Sigma Delta Theta Phi Alpha Theta Sigma Phi? Toastmasters Club *Transportation Club Varsity 'M' Club Vulcans Wesleyan Guild Westminster Guild Wolverine Student Coop. Women's Athletic Association Wyvern *Young People's Socialist League Zeta Phi Eta onernts Twilight Organ Recital: Tom Kin- read, instructor in organ, will inaugu- 'ate this season's series of organ xe- dtals, Wednesday afternocn, Nov. 1, 't 4:15 in Hill Auditorium. The gen- "ral public, with the exception of mall children, is invited without ad- nission charge, but is respectfully re- 'uested to be seated on time. Lecture's Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz, Director of Eiillel Foundation, will speak on "I Believe,"' the fourth in a series of lec- ',ures sponsored by the Student Reli- gious Association, in the Rackham Amphitheatre, tonight at 8 p.m. Todays Events 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 "Ascorbic Acid: Determination-Bio- logical Synthesis and Excretion-Hu- man Requirement." All interested are invited to attend. The Graduate History Club will hold its first meeting of the academic year this evening at 8 p.m., in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Professor How- ard M. Ehrmann will speak inform- ally on ''Studying -the Present War." Discussion and light refreshments will follow. All graduate students in history are invited. Electrical Engineers: The second meeting of the local branch of A.I.E.E. will be this evening at 7:30 in the Unior. Mr. George Opp of the Detroit Edison Comxpany will be the speaker. His topic will be "The Safety, Engineer". This meeting has many promises since the subject of safety Engineering, to our knowledge, is a brand new topic. Deutscher Verein: Will meet tonight in the League at 7:30. Arno Heyn will give an illustrated talk on, "Deutsche Landschaften." An in- formal get-together will follow the business meeting. Seminar in Continued Fractions. Will meet today at 4 p.m. in 3201 A.H. Mr. Rickart will speak on "Met- ric Theory of C.F." The Christian Science Organization will meet tonight at 8:15 in the Chapel of the Michigan League. There are urged to be present. Refresh- ments will'be served. The Scandinavian Club will hold a social hour this evening at 8 o'clock at theUnion. All students of Scan- dinavian descent are cordially invited. 'Michigan .DaMes: .Homemaking group meets today at eight Ql ck at the home of Mrs,. S T. Dana, 2031 Hill Street. The Michigan Christian Fellowship meets today in Lane Hall for Bible study from 5 'to 6 p.m. Dr. Goris is directing a study in the book of I Corinthians. Executive Committee of the Michi- gan Anti-War Committee will meet tonight in Lane Hall at 7:30. ' Hillel Class: The class in Jewish Ethics, under the direction of Dr. Hirsch Hootkins, will meet at the Hill- el Foundation tonight at 8 o'clock. The Pi Lambda Theta tea for initi- ates will be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Assembly Hall on the third floor of the Rackham Building. All amm- bers who have not contacted the so- rority this fall are cordially invited to attend. Coming Events Algebra Seminar: Will meet Wed- nesday at 4 p.m. in 3201 A.H. Mr. Komm will continue his talk on "Ideals in a Quadratic Field," and Miss Wolfe will speak on "Evaluation Theory.,' Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122 Chemistry Build- ing at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1. Professor Kasimir "Pajans will speak on "Molecular 'Refraction and Chemical Forces." House Heads, Dornmitory Directors, and Sorority Chaperons: Freshmen are invited to attend the Mu Phi Epsi- lon formal musical on Nov. 1. They may have 10:30 permission. Drum and Bugle Corps' Practice will take place Wednesday evening, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. All members, both new and old, are expected'to at- tend. Graduate Students are invited to listen to a broadcast of the Michigan- Illinois football game Saturday after- noon, Nov. 4, in the Men's Lounge of the Rackham Building. Cercle Francais: There will be a wienie roast on Wednesday, Nov. 1, at the Island. The group will meet at 6:30 p.m. in front of the Roniance Language Building. In case of rain, the meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in 408 R.L. The new members will be initiated. , The "Round Table Discussion" on "Light" to be held in connection with the Michigan-Life Conference on New Teclnology a n d Transportation, scheduled for the Michigan Union Friday morning, Nov. 3, will be held in the large auditorium of the Rack- ham Building in order to provide ade- quate facilities for the demonstrations of polarized light and of safety glass. It is therefore possible to extend an invitation to members of the faculty and students who may be interested in attending this meeting. Admission tickets may be obtained upon request from the Secretary of the Enginee- ing College in the West thgineerix g Building, Secretary of the Physics Department in the Physics Building, the Secretary of the Transportation Department, or of the Chemical En- gineering Department in the East En- gineering Building. The program, Nov. 3, Rackham Au- ditorium: 9:30 a.m. "Street and Highway Il- lumination," Kirk M. Reid, Illuminat- Ing Engineer, Nela Park Department, General Electric Company. 9:55 a.m. "Proper Illumination and Safety," Louis Schrenk, Chief En- gineer, Public Lighting Commission, Detroit, Michigan. 10:15 a.m. "Indirect Highway Lighting," G. Donald Kennedy, Depu- ty Commissioner, Michigan State Highway Department. 10:35 a.m. "Polarized Light" (dem- onstration) Edwin H. Land, Presi- dent and Chairman of the Board, Polaroid Corporation. 11:25 a.m. "Safety Glass" (demon- stration) Dr. Geo. B. Watkins, Direc- tor of Research, Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. Psychology Journal Club will meet on Wednesday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Professor Norman R. F. Maier is chairman of the meeting. Miss Barbara Sher- burne will report on her own Work on "reasoning" and Mr. James Klee will report some articles on "condi- tioning". Physical Education for Women: Registration for the indoor season in physical education will be held in Barbour Gymnasium at the following hours: Friday, November 3-8:30 to 12:00 ,I