Weather, Showers today; generally fair and cooler tomorrow. Y r e 'I ff AAP Ar tr4tgan Ar e t Editorial A Coke Date Or Your iWfe? . . VOL. L. No. 41 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1939 - g PRICE FIVE CENTS 20 Students Criticize High School System At Convention Poor Secondary Education Based On Low Salaries Is Consensus Of Opinion Dr. Ernest J. Chave Discusses Religion, Intellectual immaturity made them1 hopelessly unprepared for college, 201 students participating in the 10th An-1 nual Parent Education Institute's dinner meeting, complained/ yester- day.- Condemning "their fumbling and haphazard" high school educations, they attributed them to the com- munity's policy of low salaries for teachers. People of great ability, they reasoned, are not attracted and chil- dren must suffer instruction from second rate personalities. In depriving crippled children of hospitalization, they said, the com- munity is doing itself an injustice. Curb For Delinquencyr Delinquency can be curbed, they asserted, by a conscientious program of better moving pictures, better equipped libraries and social func- tions sponsored by church and PTA organizations. In the morning session's featured+ address, Dr. Ernest J. Chave of the Divinity School at Chicago, dis- cussed "The Function of Religion in Corhmunity Life." He pointed out1 that a church should never be anI exclusive group boasting of its ex-I clusiveness, They should forget their desire to secure some denomination-I al or local advantage, and bend their1 effort toward the good of the com-1 munity. . Dean W. W. Whitehouse of Wayne University also spoke in the morn- ing session: He declared that re- ligion, in providing a basis for life's activity, should be an essential in-I gredient in youth's education. Allen To Speak Jay Allen, noted war correspondent+ and roving reporter for the Chicago Tribune and London News Chronicle, will highlight the program at 2 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building today with an address "Propaganda In the News and How; To Spot." He will lead the forum immediately following entitled "When Instructer-When Propagandized." Barclay Acheson, associate editor on "Reader's Digest," will open the morning session's talks with a dis-1 cussion of "Freedom, the Mental Cli- mate for Progress," at 10 a.m. in the' Lecture Hall. His talk will be fol- lowed at 11 a.m. in the same place by Rev. Walton Cole, of the Uni- tarian Church in Toledo, who will speak on "Defending Ourselves Against Propaganda." More than' 1,500 people are ex- pected to register for the Institute. Already 1,150 have registered. This is the largest number in the Insti- tute's history. The Institute will conclude this year's session at 4:30 p.m. today. Prof. Shepard To TalkTodayE To Discuss Personal Ideas1 At Hillel Foundation Prof. John Shepard of the psychol- ogy department will talk on "Men and Books Which Have Influenced My Mind" at 8 p.m. today at the Hillel Foundation. In his speech Professor Shepard will discuss a bit of his personal his-I tory telling what influenced him to become a psychology instructor and then will speak on the fundamental changes in his thinking, relating to religion and political science. This is the fourth in a series of talks which are given at the same time on the same topic every Fri- day, by various members of~ the fac- ulty. Among those scheduled to speak in the near future are Prof. Roy Sel- lars of the philosophy department, Prof. John P. Dawson of the Law School and Prof. Mentor L. Williams of the English department. Last Sale Of Gargoyle Scheduled For Today The November issue of the Gar- University's War Dead Honored, At Armistice Day Peace Services Rev. Lewis, Carl Petersen And Robert Rosa, Warn Against Betraying Trust By ALVIN SARASOHN Our obligation to the University's 300 war dead is the preservation of the democracy they fought to save, three speakers told the Armistice Day Peace Memorial Service audience yes- terday in Hill Auditorium, as Michi- gan paid solemn tribute to those students and faculty members who' died on foreign soil in the World War. Speaking 21 years after the armis- tice was signed, keynoter Carl Peter- sen, '40, managing editor of The Daily, warned that we will betray the trust our dead placed in those left behind if we let democracy fail now. "Democracy's front line of defense is on Main Street, not the Rhine," he said. The Rev. Henry Lewis of St. An- Miss Ketchamn Opens Session Of Convention Therapeutic Association Begins State Meeting At University Hospital A welcoming address by Miss Dor- othy Ketcham, University Hospital Social Service Director at a luncheon, a business meeting and a tour of the University Hospital will feature today's opening session of the Michi- gan Occupational Therapy Associa- tion's two-day convention. Following registration at 9 a.m. today on the ninth floor of the Hos- pital, Mrs. Barbara M. Strobel will preside at the business meeting. Other speakers at the luncheon be- side Miss Ketcham include Miss Ola Hylton, Assistant to Miss Ketcham, Dr. Henry Ransom, Department of Surgery, Mrs. Geraldine Notley, Ros- pital School and Mrs. Mildred Wal- ton, Special Activities Department. Rev. Harold P. Marley, Unitarian Church, Ann Arbor, will be guest speaker at the dinner, Friday eve- ning, in the Haunted Tavern. Last event of the day will be open house for all visiting occupational thera- pists at the homes of Ann Arbor+ members. The Michigan Occupational Ther- apy Association is a branch of the+ American Occupational Therapy Association and is the third largest state group in the country. Its mem- bership is drawn from Occupationa Therapy departments of Mental, Tuberculosis, General and Orthope- dic' Hospitals throughout Michigan. Peace Needed In Union Fiht Labor Rivalry Is Personal Conflict Says Seidman The primary need in labor today is peace between rival unions, Dr. Poel Seidman, field secretary and special lecturer for the League for Industrial Democracy, said yesterday afternoon at a luncheon sponsored by the Lib- eral Action Club. Dr. Seidman, whose topic was "Prospects for Peace," described the many plans put forward by those at- tempting to patch up the dispute be- tween the CIO and the AFL. It is especially unfortunate, declared the speaker, that these attempts at peace have failed, since it is obvious that until there is internal harmony among labor men, the unions cannot earn the trust of employers, the public, or non-union workers. Dr. Seidman sees the conflict be- tween the unions as a clash of per- sonalities, rather than principle. He said tlat there are prospects for peace, but not until there is a change of leaders. Dr. Seidman is the first in a pro- posed series of lecturers to be brought here by the Liberal Action Club. The next will be announced later. Guggeiiheim's Son Discovered Dead NEW YORK, Nov. 9.--(P)--George Denver Guggenheim, only son of Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist and former U. S. Senator from Colo- rado, was found dead tonight in his room at the Hotel Paramount, from a bullet wound in the head. A rifle drew's Episcopal Church pointed out that those who died had no animos- ity for the men they had to fight except when evil propaganda in- stilled it into them. They were too human, toonear the actual war to hate the enemy, he said. "When re- viled," he said, "they did not revile again." The men and women who died then, he stressed, would have wanted us to love in the same way and never yield to evil propaganda. War can only be abolished, he said, when we become better men and women and when we place love above hatred. That, he said, was the spirit of those that died in the war, and we can best honor them by living up to their spirit. Robert Rosa, Grad., president of the American Student Union, asked that we keep our solemn obligation to preserve our form of government and liberties. Interest in the present war in Europe, he warned, should not avert our attention from the vigil of keeping democracy alive at home. We must be sure, he said, that free discussion is maintained at all costs in America. Pointing out sev- eral cases in this country that could create here the spirit of war, Rosa decried the type of Congressional committee that allows cranks and chauvinists to blacken the reputa- tions of reputable people and thus create scares that are unfounded in fact. This type of accusation can lead to the "war temper" here, he said, and may bring about the suspen- sion of democracy here, as has been done in great measure in Great Bri- tain and France. Thus, he said, we would be breaking faith with our war dead. 200 To Hear Vernon Brown Address Group Accountants' Conference Features Lectures And Discussions Opening Day More than 200 members of the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants attending the 15th annual Michigan Accounting Conference are expected to hear an address by Vernon G. Brown, Attor- ney-General of Michigan at a lun- cheon meeting today in the League. The conference will open with two round table discussions, considering "Some Problems of Government Ac- counting" and "Practical Auditing Procedures for Inventories and Re- ceivables," at 9:30 a.m. in the west conference room and the assembly hall of the Rackham Building, re- spectively. Prof. F. H. Elwell, of the University of Wisconsin, will address the first of these meetings. George o. May, a New York City accountant, will address the assem- bled delegates on "Valuation or His- torical Costs; Some Recent Develop- ments" at 11 a.m. in the amphithe- atre. "The Auditor's Responsibility to the Investor" will be discussed by Carman G. Blough, of Chicago, at the as- sembly which will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. Harry M. Prevo, of Detroit, will address the same as- sembly on the subject of "Current Accounting Developments." Dr. Elzada Clover, of the botany de- partment, will show movies and lec- ture on "Shooting the Rapids of the Colorado River" at 4:30 p.m. in the amphitheatre. Chester H. Lang of Schenectady, N.Y., will be the principal speaker at a banquet which is to be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Union. His subject is to be "A Reformed Bookkeeper Takes A Look." Labor Peace Conferences AreDelayed AFL - CIO Heads Indicate Talks With Roosevelt Fail To Solve T6ruble Lewis Disinclined To Break Deadlock WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. -()-- A large question mark hung over the prospects for new AFL-CIO peace conferences tonight despite renewed efforts by President Roosevelt to re- store harmony in labor's ranks. After separate conferences with the Chief Executive, AFL President Wil- liam Green and CIO President John L. Lewis indicated that their talks1 had developed nothing which mightt break the present stalemate.i Green told reporters that there, were no hurdles in the way to newl peace conferences so far as the Fed-, eration was concerned. Lewis was noncommittal. He said labor peace, was one of several matters discussedt and refused to be drawn out on ques-t tions about possible labor unity. I The CIO leader, who is now con- cerned with expanding the member-, ship of his organization, is known, however, to be disinclined to partici-1 pate in any more peace conferences unless he feels certain they will pro- duce a satisfactory settlement. Federation leadership in the past has said that Lewis was the one to; fix the date for the renewal of con- ferences, since it was at his request, that the negotiations were recessed1 indefinitely last April.- In CIO quarters, it was said that Lewis probably would acquiese if Mr. Roosevelt directly requested a re-F sumption of the negotiations begun last winter under White House aus- pices. But there was no indication; that the President, when he called1 in the labor men unexpectedly to- day, had pressed Lewis to agree to further peace conferences. A few weeks ago, however, Mr. Roosevelt sent messages to the AFL and CIO conventions declaring that negotiations must be continued. Hey urged labor leadership to "put aside pride and self advantage as a patrio- tic service for national unity." 1 Churches Aid In Prevention Of Delinquency Institute Of Michigan Child Guidance Hears Speech By Dr. Carr, Director Focusing attention on the church's role in dealing with cases of juvenile delinquency, the Michigan Child Guidance Institute brought together religious leaders from several Michi- gan cities in meetings yesterday at the League. The problem inCMichigan,accord- ing to Dr. L. J. Carr, director of the institute, involves an average of 5,000 child delinquency cases per year, 2,500 adult cases, and a permanent body of 15,000 mental patients in state institutions each year. Skilled personnel in probation de- partments, together with a state-wide program of adult education in the treatment of potential child delin- quents were cited by Dr. Carr as the principle requisites to an effective state program. Possibilities of church work in dis- covering cases of delinquency in their early stages, and in assuming leader- ship in a concerted community drive to correct the conditions contribu- tory to the development of such cases were pointed out. Dutch Be Of Water din Inundation Defense Zones; Germans Probe Bombing Investigation Commission Announces No Charges After Making Arrests Ruthven Thanks Students Journalists Attack Jews And English By EDWIN SHANKE BERLIN, Nov. 9.-aP)-Authorities held a number of personsfor ques- tioning tonight as they pressed an investigation into the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life last night in the historic Buergerbrau Cellar in Mu- nich. Officials would not say how many were arrested but emphasized their detention did not mean necessarily that charges had been placed against them. A commission of criminologists in- vestigating the blast said late to- night that they had found evidence that a timing device set off the ex- plosion and that careful and exten- sive preparations had been made. Experts Arranged Plants They expressed the opinion that skilled experts had arranged the plant. They said no specific in- dividuals or groups were suspected, but that their inquiry had provided good tips. Nazis used the word "miracle" in commenting on the escape of Hitler and other government heads, point- ing out that the customary program for the observance of the unsuccess- ful 1923 Putsch was changed in order to enable the Fuehrer to return earl- ier to Berlin. The explosion occurred at 9:21 p.m., just 11 minutes after Hitler had left. it demolished the interior of the fa- mous Nazi rallying center in the early days of the Natiopal Socialist move- ment and tore off most of the roof. The original reward of 500,000 marks ($200,000) for information leading to seizure of the perpetrators was increased to 600,000 marks ($240,000) by an anonymous offer. Himmler Adds To Reward Henrich Himmler, head of all Nazi police forces, tonight offered an ad- ditional reward of 300,000 marks ($120,000) in foreign exchange to anyone abroad providing information leading to the arrest of the guilty person or persons. The entire press charged Jews and the British Secret Service were re- sponsible. Officials, however, declined to comment on whether there was a "Jewish angle" to the case, saying it would "prejudice" the investigation to surmise Jews were responsible. Realtors Meet For Discussion Lewis And Miss Sweet Will SpeakTo Group Seventy realtors and taxpayers at- tended a dinner meeting of the Ann Arbor Real Estate Board at 6:30 p.m. last night at the Union, at which Lewis Palmer, past president of the State Real Estate Board, and Carrol Sweet now executive secretary of the State Board spoke. Mr. Palmer, in his address en- titled "Communism Through Taxa- tion," discussed national and state taxation problems from the viewpoint of the property owner, stressing the inherent danger to the existing American system of government of the growing number of persons on government payrolls. Mr. Sweet described his efforts at the state capital as a lobbyist in be- half of the State Real Estate Board. State Senator McCallum of Ann Arbor and University Registrar Shirley Smith were also guests at the meeting. Play Production's 'Family Portrait' . Tickets Still Left Tickets are still available at the box office for "Family Portrait," Play Production's first play of this season, which closes with perform- * * * President Ruthven today issued a statement of thanks to University students who participated in the re- cent anniversary dinner given at the Yost Field House in his honor. Dr. Ruthven's message follows: "May I take this means of ex- pressing my deep appreciation of the work, ingenuity, and skill evi- denced in your exhibits. I can never forget the delightful mix- ture of humor and seriousness and, above all, the spirit of the pageant." Mimes' Fate To Be Decided By Committee Whether or not there will be a re- vival of the Union Opera depends upon the outcome of today's meeting of the Union Finance Committee. The Union Board of Directors ap- proved the Opera several weeks ago after a survey .had indicated suffi- cient amount of talent would be available for production. The' bud- get drawn up by the Directors will be considered by the Finance Com- mittee today. Members of the Finance Commit- tee include: Dean Joseph E. Bursley, Regent Franklin M. Cooke, Prof. Chester O. Wisler of the engineering college, Dr. Dean W. Meyers and Don Treadwell, '40, president of the Union. During the weeks since the Board of Directors approved the Opera, a budget committee under the direc- tion of James Halligan,''40&C' and Charles R. Mix, '40, has been work- ing to draft a suitable budget, which is now ready for consideration by the Finance Committee. If the budget is approved, the chairmen of the various committee will be selected from among the more than 250 students who registered dur- ing the talent survey and work will begin on the Opera immediately. ickinson Asks For Divine Help Governor Seeks Churches' Interest In Labor Dispute DETROIT, Nov. 9.-(AP)--Gov. Lur- en D. Dickinson announced today he would ask all churches in Michigan to implore divine intervention Sunday in the prolonged labor dispute which has paralyzed operations of Chrysler Corp. and allied industries. In a formal statement, the Gover- nor said a dispute between the cor- poration and the United Automobile Workers (CIO) was becoming "des- perately serious," although federal and state mediation agencies had F been doing "everything possible" in Detroit and Lansing conferences to bring about an agreement that would permit resumption of plant opera- * tions. Dickinson said the cessation of em- Belgian Forces Increased To 600,000 As States WitholdExplanations Trains Are Ready To Move Civilians By MAX HARRELSON AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9.--(A')-The Netherlands began inundation of her main water defense line through the center of the country tonight while Belgium boosted her mobilization to a near peak figure of 600,000. Official explanation of the extra- ordinary measures was lacking but informed sources stressed that the two lowland countries believed their neutrality would not be violated de- spite rumors of intensified German activity on the Western Front. A wide area was flooded through Utrecht Province as was an area reaching eastward between the Maas and Waal Rivers-the Netherlands' first line of defense. Civilians Removed Earlier Civilians earlier were removed from "water line" villages. Exact extent of the inundation and the number of persons removed were not disclosed. The inundated sections form a belt Protecting Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague and northwest industrial areas. This and other military moves in the two lowland countries were in terpreted as evidence of a determina- tion by them to be ready for any turn in the European conflict. Many trains were held in readi- ness in eastern centers for possible removal of the population westward behind .the water defense line in case; of a serious threat to the nation's neutrality. The greater part of rural Utrecht was inundated bu the provincial capi- tal of the same name was not affect- ed. In a speech to parliament Foreign Minister Eelco N. Van , Kleffens stressed the hearty relations of the Netherlands with Belgium. Respect Neutrality Of Lowlands He said the earnestness of the assurances given by the warring countries that the neutrality of the lowland states would be respected "can not be doubted." The precautionary flooding by the Netherlands followed a display of nevousness, attributed mainly to the reported massing of German troops on the nation's eastern frontier. A royal decree of Nov. 1 established martial law in key defense communi- ties, including 500 of the Nether- lands' 1,200 smaller , towns and vil- lages to bolster military preparations and curb espionage. Under the martial law order, the military is empowered to suspend all civil functions and forbid entrance to martial law areas. Dutch-Nazi Battle Occurs On Border By MAX HARRELSON AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9. -1}--(- A mysterious shooting incident on the Netherlands-Germa~n frontier in which two persons may have been killed and several abducted into Ger- many was reported tonight as the Netherlands began precautionary flooding of her vital "water line'" defenses. One report of the clash was that two persons were killed. Another authorized version said only one'per- son was injured. Both versions agreed several persons had been spirited across the border into Ger- many.- Witnesses to the clash at the Ven- loo customs post, on the Netherlands southeastern frontier, said the shoot- ing occurred on Netherlands soil after occupants of a German automobile alighted, crossed the frontier on foot and engaged occupants of a Nether- lands machine near the customs bar- rier. Victims Taken To Germany One of those said to have been killed was believed to be an occupant of the Netherlands car. The victims and several survivors from this vehicle were reported taken into Ger- Engineering Delegation Plans, Talent Searci In defiance of tradition and the ridicule of fellowmen, a delegation if husky engineers are reported to be conniving to "crash" the feminine sanctum of The Daily style show at the League today. After several-fruitless days of scan- ning the campus horizon in search of talent, members of the Engineers' Ball committee see in the style show a possible solution to their new des- perate problem: the slide-rule Cas- sanovas have become insistant, they hi AtStyle Show there were fair looking girls and again there were brilliant personali- ties, but each failed in some essential quality. With such a dearth of conclusive evidence before them, these resource- ful engineers then turned to extra- polation: where should the ideal date be found? Obviously, at a style show there must be models, and where there are models, there should, by all rights, be a model girl. Then too, under the soothing in- fluence of the soft music which tra-