THE MICHIGAN DAILY __ _________________________________________________________________ W JMICHIGAN DAILY AS OTHERS SEE IT Lu lited and managed by students of the University of :igan under the authority of the Board in Control of dent Publications. blished eveiy 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 r not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All ts of republication of all other matters herein 'also :rved. atered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as ad class mail matter. ibscriptions during regular school year by carrier, 0; by mail, $4.50. R)PR;SyNTD FOR NATIONAl. ADVERiSENG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON ' LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO -mber, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Petersen t Maraniss M. Swinton on L. Linder' .an A. Schorr is Flanagan N. Canavan Vicary . Editorial Stafff . ff Business Staff 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 . HJane Mowers Harriet S. Levy ss Manager 3usiness Mgr., Credit Manager is Business Manager 's Advertising Manager . ations Manager NIGHT EDITOR:'HOWARD A. GOLDMAN The editorials published in The Michigan 4Daily are written by members of The Paily staff and 'represent the views of the writers The Challenge To Civilization ... N AN EDITORIAL recapitulation of ' tendencies of American thought ex-, pressed at its recently concluded Forum, the theme of which was "The Challenge to Civiliza- tion," the New York Herald-Tribune advances the carefully considered opinion that the Ameri- can mind has become "remarkably aware of the widely-diffused effects of a world war upon the nation,." . Whether the topic was education, or science, or the cost of government, or economics in gen- eral, or the practical problems of business in particular, the Herald-Tribune sagely observes no speech could escape the impact of the com- bat upon American affairs. Omnipresent in the sessions, it was found, was the resolve of the country to maintain neutrality and remain at peace. What most warmed the expansive hearts of the editors of the Herald-Tribune, however, was the "recognition" by most of the speakers of a profound spiritual bond with the democratic nations." Sixty full pages of its Sunday edition wer devoted by the editors to reprinting in full the Foruim speeches:. interspersed in. this .encyclo- pedic manifestation of service to the embattled forces of humanity were occasional full-page advertisements by United States Steel, General Motors, Du Pont, the National Association of Manufacturers, and other groups interested in defending civilization "as we know it" from per- ishing from the earth. The most striking impression to be gathered from the recorded speeches is the unanimity of feeling that, despite our profound desire for peace, sooner or later, and the sooner the better, we had better throw all our natural and human resources on the side of the Allies. To hear such exhortations from the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, or Lord Lothian, or Jean Giradoux, French Commissioner of Information, or Count Jerzy Potocki, is only to be expected. And it is not all surprising to find Dorothy Thompson, the one-woman gang, or Colonel Louis A. John- son, the author of the Mobilization Day Plan, a shining exemplification of the work of "free men," or General Robert E. Wood, of the War Resources Board urging us to prepare for our divine mission. But it is a signal for great alarm to find most of our elected representatives, in- eluding the President, preparing the /way for our - eventual involvement by repeating the emotion-laden platitudes so assiduously being propagated by the war-mongers. No clearer indication of the attitude toward war and peace that the Herald-Tribune was try- ing to solicit can be found than in the speeches of the men who were asked to interpret the domestic scene. These men were charged with the delicate and disgusting task of preparing the proper psychology for war. Stanley High ur- banely condones the Dies Committee; Sidney Hook piously invokes the Bill of Rights to cover a vicious attack on the Cotmittee for Intellec- tual Freedom; Benjamin Stolberg and Matthew Woll hasten to assure Mr. Chamberlain that, except for a couple of million recalcitrants, American labor is ready to give its last drop of blood in defense of the British Empire; Hamil- ton Fish Armstrong wails that if we don't hurry up and defend Western civilization we won't be able to read Chaucer much longer. The challenge to American civilization, as wp Browder And The YCL To the Editor: On the editorial page of the October twenty- seventh issue of The Daily, there appears a lette signed by the Executive Committee of the Young Communist League. The authors charge that the arrest of Earl Browder, the general secretary of the Communist Party of America, on charges of violation of the passport laws is "an act of political persecution." They further quote from a statement of Browder himself to the effect that the use of assumed names on passports has been, and probably still is, a practice which, although contrary to law, has been resorted to by many persons against whom the government has never thought of bringing charges. I regret that a man who has been shown to be a servant of a foreign government bent on destroying our form of government should have to be brought into court on what is obviously a "fixed charge." The episode reminds one of the sending of Alphonse Capone to prison for income tax evasion. The Executive Committee proceeds, however, to a blast at the attack on Communism which, were it not amusing for its evidence of what we may charitably term naiveness, would be just a disgusting example of the rotten hypocrisy of the whole communist movement in America to- day. I quote from their letter, "It is precisely because the Communist Party of all countries are the only ones who are consistently working for peace that the Fascist dictatorship in Germany had to out- law the Communist Party and imprison and execute its leaders before they could carry out their war plans." Was the Communist despotism in Russia work- ing for "peace" when it made the pact with Nazi Germany which gave Hitler the confidence to launch his campaign of frightful death and de-. struction on Poland? For what "peace" was the Communist oligarchy of Russia working when it obtained military and naval- bases from Lat- via, Estonia, and Lithuania upon the threats of force? For what "peace" is the Communist dic- tator of Russia striving today as he rattles the sword in the direction of Finland-a' country which is a democracy in contrast to the Soviet despotism? Soviet Russia, having taken half of Poland, offers the typically Nazi justification of the "liberation of an oppressed people." Since Stalin and his fellow nationalist thugs have de- cided to join with the Nazis in a -world-wide at- tack on liberty and democracy, it is only natural, I suppose, that they should adopt Nazi hypocrisy. I am not one of those who advocate the denial of the rights of free speech, free press, and free assembly to the American Communists. I be- lieve that the denial of these fundamental demo- cratic rights to any group would be a dangerous precedent for our government to set. Once these rights are denied to the Communists or the pro- Nazi groups, the enemies of the democratic way would soon be pressing for the denial of them to other groups, perhaps labor unions. I believe that the American people can best combat the menace of Stalinist imperialism by giving the servants of that cause in America a free hand to expose themselves. An enemy in plain view is less dangerous than one fighting under cover. I believe-and I sincerely hope-that many of our "young Communists" will, as they leave col- lege and become free of the constant pressure of Soviet propaganda with which they are now de- luged, realize also, that, if they choose to become tools of Stalin's American lieutenants, they are committed to the perpetration of any act of out- right treason against our government which their superiors see fit to command of them. They may never be called upon to stir up insurrection in the armed forces of the nation or to sabotage a factory under government supervision, but they had better ask themselves now whether or not they would be willing to go the whole way for the achievement of Soviet Russia's aims. -Edward L. Anderson, Grad. An Apology To The British? London, England Oct. 1, 1939 Sir, I have seen an issue of your paper with an article entitled, "British Hollow Guarantees," based on the fallacy, common among Americans, that His Majesty's Government had some com- mitment to the late Government of Czechoslo- vakia of which the Munich agreement was a violation. The British had no such commitment. If they had obligation, it was of the sort shared by all nations, including the United States, and any censure they incurred was incurred equally by all the world. Having published such a writing, based as it was on prejudice and ignorance, you may see fit to publish one based in the main on facts that have been demonstrated in the last three weeks. The first fact is that you owe Mr. Neville Chamberlain and the Britishpeople an apology. The second refers to that great political entity which I have seen referred to in America as "That Empire upon which the sun appears to be about to set!" Far from this being so, the out- break of the war has shown that it is stronger than it ever was. Soon after the last war, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were released from every tie to England save the common crown. They are free from British rule as is the U.S.A. Yet six days after England made war on the Nazis they had all declared support. There is a further, sister, body, that great spread of territories, creeds and races, ruled from London, called the British Empire and chronic malcontents and haters to which the name of the writer of your article would indi- cate that he belongs. The third fact is that, of the world of free men, England is still the heart and life. For all its vast potential strength, the U.S.A. politically is too amorphous and myopic to assume that lead without which it grows clear aggression must devour the world. At once, when England yielded up her leader- ship in favour of the League of Nations, tyranny began to spread, and it went on until the English once more took the lead. The day began the series of increasing checks that culminated in the present war. The fourth fact is that of the hypocricies of which America has throughout the years accused the British, none has been greater than the one inherent in the attitude of the U.S.A. toward this war. America wants Hitler smashed, because she knows that, otherwise, she must soon chose between an economic retreat to within her bor- ders or a fight with him-alone. When the acceptance by the Allies of this struggle was in doubt, America was apprehensive, when it grew sure, she was relieved, and if the Allies made peace now the country would re- sound with censure couched in the highest moral tones. The current bother in the U.S.A. about 'neu- trality' provides the effort of a flustered and self- conscious people both from the world and from themselves to hide the plain fact that their motive is the selfish and material one. Desiring to see Hitler licked, they are concerned to do all possible toward that end without incurring cost or risk but the condition is most galling to their conscience and their self-respect. Their right to take their own stand no one here in England questions but the picture must evoke its thoughts, and British thoughts in- clude the following. Contrasting America's present tone with that of criticisms freely made of British policies from Manchukuo to Munich, they wonder how her people reconcile these opposites. They deplore as morbid a state of mind that, while holding virtuously aloof, permits the ex- ploitation of the agony of Europe in sadistic detail as a sort of circus by the radio and press. And experience assures them that, if the posi- tions were reversed, if they were in America's position and she in theirs, she would be calling them some nasty names. I am, sir, Yours faithfully, Allan Swinton Jt feemr to-Ae Heywod.Broun It seems to me that Pope Pius XII spoke elo- quently to men and women of many faiths in his encyclical. He spoke for peace, but in terms of security for all the world. Decidedly he gave no aid and comfort to the philosophy, "Let them stew their own juice." Nor did he condone the immorality of broken pledges and treaties swept aside by sudden force of arms. And yet the spiritual head of the Catholic Church was both forceful and crystal clear in dashing the hope that international brotherhood may be achieved through the triumph of arms. "To hope for a decisive change exclusively from the shock of war is idle," said the Pope, "as experience shows. The hour of victory is an hour of external triumph for the party to whom vic- tory falls, but it is, in equal measure, the hour of temptation. In this hour the angel of justice strives with the demons of violence: the heart of the victor all too suddenly is hardened; moder- ation and fair-seeing wisdom appear to him weakness; the excited passions of the people, often inflamed by the sacrifices and sufferings they have borne, obscure the vision of even re- sponsible persons and make them inattentive 4. the warning voice of humanity and equity which is drowned in the inhuman cry, 'Vae Victis-Woe to the conquered.' There is danger lest settle- ments and decisions borne in such conditions be nothing else than injustice under the cloak of justice." * * * The neutrals have nothing to gain by a con- tinuance of the war and everything to lose. Even any shabby hope of financial profit is illusory in the long run. It may be said that few of the nations which lie outside the whirl- pool are wholly neutral in their judgment. Even so, they are less wracked by passion than the countries which fight. And that tide of h among the combatants is certain to increase rather than diminish. And so it does not seem to me that the spokesmen for those lands be- yond the present area of dlaughter should wait for hints or official requests from the combatants before making precise, practical and immediate suggestions for a peace conference. There is, to be sure, the tragic contingency that a true will to peace may be lacking in some belligeren%# quarters. Obviously the early advantage lies with Hitler, and there has been small note of pacifism in his more recent addresses. Accordingly, I hope that the House will not delay long in lifting the arms embargo, for if it fails to do so there is the distinct chance that the Fuehrer may choose to press forward rather than listen to any voice of reason. When the conference comes it must be broad enough in its scope to mean that we are not going back to the Old World, and that all the nations will re- ° ,... ....,..-1 4-y.. 1-n crQ o " - -nv A c .- --r - THEATRE By JAMES E. GREEN Each generation is entitled to at least one great Shakespearean actor and from that actor one great Hamlet. It may be that our gener- ation has not yet produced that actor and that Hamlet but if he has not yet come he will have a high standard already set when he does by the Hamlet of Maurice Evans that opened at the Cass Theatre in Detroit Mon- day night. For the more than four hours that the uncut version ran Evans gave a consistent and masterful perform- ance. Blessed by a voice that is a magnificent thing in itself, he added to it an acting skill and a sensitive- ~ness of interpretation that gave to the near-capacity audience, not only the exploding beauty of great poetry, but a complete, and because it was complete, a deeply tragic Hamlet. There must be a temptation to all actors who play the part to "read down" the lines that are just lines so that the great and familiar speeches will seem masterpieces in virtuosity. Evans did not succumb to that temp- tation and what he may have lost in curtain calls he more than made up for in the deep appreciation of those for whom the character of Hamlet has become part of the intellectual "mores" of the modern world. The New York critics declared, after the Broadway performance that if there was a fault it lay in the over- 'vigorousness of Evan's characteriza- tion. Either Evans has corrected that fault if it were really there or else that whole body of critics had adopt- ed the "sentimental" view of Ham- let's character that was current among the less discerning nineteenth century critics. Hamlet's character as Evans interprets it is essentially that of an intellectual and sensitive - but physically vigorous man who, in the numbing sorrow and disillu- sionment at his father's death and his mother's hasty and . incestuous marriage, has become temporarily in- capable of action. He does not suc- ceed in making the assumption. of madness completely credible, as who could, but once in he wrings from it every bit of its dramatic effect. And for those of the Ann Arbor audience who needed such proof, he proved that the - Shakespeare of the stage and not the Shakespeare of "closet" scholarship is the real one. If there was a flaw in Evans' per- formance, it lay in his very versa- tility. The rapidity and intensity with which he shifted from mood to mood, from motionless sorrow to passionate conviction, is marvelously effective in making clear the succeeding con- trasts and conflicts within the mind of Prince Hamlet but that very rap- idity sometimes appears to obscure the deeper currents of tragedy in whose sweep he is caught. Insofa % as Hamlet is a tragedy of character (and it is mostly that) Evans inter- prets it perfectly. But when, as it sometimes does, it tragically tran- scends the character of its hero this Hamlet is something short of per- fection. The play as given is a com- plete one but it is not quite all of Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is a tribute to Margaret Web- ster's direction that there was never once a lag in the fine pace with which 'the play started. For audiences who are used to two hours of drama as a maximum dose the four hours of 'Hamlet could easily have been an ex- hausting experience had it not been so skillfully directed. David Ffolkes sets were no small - factor either in maintaining that pace. He combined a brilliance of color and line with a kind of thematic treatment that made his sets an almost integral part of the play's structure. Mady Chritsians, as the Queen, gave a very fine performance. She, like Evans, was able, with every line and gesture to depict the process of a tortured mind. Carmen Mathews as Ophelia was convincingly sweet and convincingly mad. Henry Ed- wards as Claudius declaimed rather' than spoke many of his lines and somehow fell short as a tragic antag- onist. George Graham in the part of Polonius should, I believe, pay more heed to Shakespeare's own lines on clowns: to set on some quantity of barren spectators though in the meantime some necessary matter of the play be then to 'be considered The rest of cast gave generally good performances. Take it for all in all, it was a play. Pan-American Athletics j If-as now seems probable-the European war will prevent the hold- ing of the 1940 Olympic Games in Helsingfors, the games will not be held elsewhere, it is announced. They will be canceled. In their stead, the American Olympic Committee is con- sidering holding a series of Pan- American games to bring representa- tive groups of North, South and Cen- tral American athletes into competi- tion. In view of the reawakened inter- est on both the North and South' American continents to the impor- tane of iner dinnmatic, nmmer- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 3), 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 ST'oastmasters 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 Academic Notices Department of Mathematics Staff Bleeting will be held Thursday at 4:15 p.m., in 3201 A.H. Preliminary Examination for the Ph.D. in English on American Litera- ture with Continental Backgrounds will be given today, 9-12 a.m., 3223 A.H. Concerts Twilight Organ Recital: Tom Kin- kead, instructor in organ, will inaugu- rate this season's series of organ re- citals, this afternoon at 4:15 p.m in Hill Auditorium. The gen- eral public, with the exception o small children, is invited without ad- mission charge, but is respectfully re- quested to be seated on time. Lectures The second lecture in the series on Marriage Relations will be given to night in the Rackham Lecture Hall Identification cards are necessary fo admission. Todays Events Future Teachers of America meet- ing: Those who have been contacte regarding this organization are aske( to meet at 4 p.m. today in the Gradu- ate Education Library of the Elemen- tary School. Zeta Phi Eta tryouts today will b held from 7-9:15 p.m. today in 402 Angell Hall. Prepare a two-minut speech of your own choice. Chemical Engineering Seminar: Mr D. J. Girardi will be the speaker a the Seminar for graduate students i Chemical and Metallurgical Engin eering today at 4 o'clock in Room 3201 E. Eng. Bldg. His subject i "Determination of the Equilibrium Constant for the Reaction Cu plu CO 2 equals Cu 2 0 plus CO." A.S.M.E.: There will be a meetin of the society at 7:30 tonght at th Union. Mr. John Airey, President o the King Seeley Corporation, an former professor of the College o engineering, will speak on "An En gineering Education as a Preparatio for Manufacturing." All mechanica engineers are invited to attend. Sigma Eta Chi, regular meetin this evening. - A short busines meeting will be followed by a talk by Margaret Ayres on her camp exper iences of this last summer. All mem bers and pledges please be present as the usual hour of 8 p.m. B otanical Seminar will meet today at 4:30 p.m. in Room 1139, N.S. Bldg A paper will be given by Wm. Ran dolph Taylor: "The Allan Hancock Expedition of 1939 to Central America and the Southern Caribbean." . Cercle Francais: There will be - wienie roast today at the Island. Th group will meet at 6:30 p.m. in fron of the Romance Language Building In case of rain, the meeting will b held at 7:30 p.m. in 408 R.L. Th new mempbers will be initiated. Drum and Bugle Corps Practic will, take place this evening at 7:30 p.m. All members, both new and old are expected to attend. Algebra Seminar: Will meet toda at 4 p.m. in 3201 A.H. Mr. Komm will continue his talk on "Ideals ina Quadratic Field," and Miss Wolfe wil sneak onn "Evaluation Theory." together" meeting tonight at 7:30 on the fourth floor of Angell Hall in the Alpha Nu Room. A debate will be held on the current question: "Re- solved: That the Federal Government Should Take Over the Operations of the Railroad." All freshmen or up- perclassmen interested in joining Alpha Nu should endeavor to attend. Seminar in Physical Chemistry will meet in Room 122 Chemistry Build- ing at 4:15 p.m. today. Professor Kasimir Fajans will speak on "M- lecular Refraction and Chemical Forces." Assembly Banquet Central Commit- tee Meeting to be held at 4 p.m. to- day, in the Council Room of- the League.' The Peace Commissionof the American Student Union .will hold a meeting in the Union at 5 p.m. today, JGP Central Committee Meeting at 4 p.m. this afternoon at the League. Please bring Eligibility Cards. Michigan Dames: The Bridge group will meet at the League this evening at 8 o'clock. The room will be posted on the bulletin board. All Dames who play bridge or want to learn are welcome. All Forestry Club Members: There will be a Forestry Club meeting to- night at 7:30 p.m. Professor Bart- lett of the Botany"Dept. will speak on "A Trip Through Formosa." Pre- foresters are urged to come. The Lutheran Student Association Bible Hours will be held this evening at 7 p.m. in the Michigan League. The second hour will be held at 9p.m. in Couzens Hall. The Rev. Henry O. Yoder, pastor for Lutheran Students, is, in charge..- This Bible study is open to all students. Avukah will have its regular busi- ness meeting at 7:30 tonight at the Foundation. Coming Events , f Engineering Mechanics Colloquium: "Review of Literature" by L. C. Maugh. "Prediction of Ship Power from Model Tests," by L. A. Baier,. Meeting in Room 314 W. Engineering Annex on Thursday Nov- 2, at 4:15 p.m. Anyone interested is cordially ninvited to attend. . Political Science Round Table: The r first meeting will be held Thursday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m. at the Rackham Building. Upper Peninsula Students: You are - cordially invited, to attend the Upper d Peninsula Students' Mixer, sponsored d by the Hiawatha Club, which is to be - held on Thursday evening, Nov. 2, - from 8 to 10 o'clock, in the Michigan League Ballroom. The program, which includes dancing, refreshments, and e games, is free to women, and 25 cents 8 to men without membership cards, e which may be purchased at the door. Come up and meet your fellow-North- men! t The Theatre Arts dance committee n will have a meeting at 5:15 p.m., - Thursday, in the League. s Zoology Seminar: Mr. Alfred Perl- n mutter will report on "Variation of s American North Atlantic Marine Fishes Correlated with the Environ- ment" on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 g p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rack- e ham Bldg. f d The "Round Table Discussion" on f "Light" to be held in connection with - the Michigan-Life Conference on New n Technology a n d Transportation, a scheduled for the Michigan Union Friday morning, Nov. 3, will bb held in the large auditorium of the Rack- g ham Building in order to provide ade- s quate facilities for the demonstrations y of polarized light and of safety glass. - It .is therefore possible to extend an - invitation to members of the faculty a and students who may be interested in attending this meeting. Admission tickets may be obtained upon request y from the Secretary of the Engineer- . ng College in the West Engineering - Building, Secretary- of the Physics k Department in the Physics Building, a the Secretary of the Transportation Department, or of the Chemical En- ;ineering Department in the East En- a gineering Building. e The program, Nov. 3, Rackham Au- t ditorium: . 9:30 a.m. "Street and Highway Il- e 'umination"-Kirk M. Reid, Illuminat- e tng Engineer, Nela Park Department, General Electric Company. 9:55 a.m.'"Proper Illumination and e Safety," Louis Schrenk, Chief En- o gineer, Public, Lighting Commission, 1, Detroit, Michigan. 10:15 a.m. "Indirect Highway Lighting," G. Donald Kennedy, Depu- y ty Commissioner, Michigan State n Highway Department. a 10:35 a.m. "Polarized Light"' (dem- 1 onstration) Edwin H. Land, Presi- dent and Chairman of the Board,