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CHICAGO * BOSTON *'Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 e i Harvard Action Called A Hack Upon Civil Liberties,_And A Step To War Carl Petersen Elliott Maraniss Stan M. Swinton Morton L. Linder' Norman A. Schorr Dennis Flanagan John N. Canavan Ann Vicary Mel Fineberg . Editorial Staff . . . .* . . . . Managing Edito Editorial Directo . City Edito Associate Edito . Associate Edito *Associate Editoz *Associate Editor Women's Edito * Sports Editoz . Paul R. Par Ganson P. Taggar Zenovia Skoratk . Jane Mowers *Harriet S. Levy OF ALL TH I NGS!.. gy Morty-Q. Business Staff Business Manager .. Asst. Business"Mgr., Credit Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Publications Manager . DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN r r )r r r r k t y :o NIGHT EDITOR: ELIZABETH M. SHAW The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. By ELLIOTT MARANISS Among all Americans who are interested in keeping America out of the war that is now en- gulfing Europe there is at least this fundamental point in common: that the first and most im- portant of all the safeguards of both our peace and our democracy is the vigilant defense of our civil liberties. In these days of unabated war hysteria, when supposedly responsible and rational organiza- tions, officials, magazines and newspapers are whipping the war fever to an almost unquench- able heat, when Martin Dies is carousing around the country with a big red paintbrush, it is necessary to do more than pay mere lip-service to the general concepts of civil liberties, of freedom of the press and speech, and of aca- demic freedom. What is at stake is nothing less than the preservation of our peace, the v, tention of our democratic processes, and our continued existence as a progressive people. These are things that require active, organized and coherent defense. Every effort to deprive any American individual or group of their basic rights must be answered by the American people with an overwhelming expression of dis- sent. Especially in the universities and colleges, the guardians of our democratic culture, must a militant effort be made to forestall any abridgement of the rights of students to obtain a comprehensive and reasoned view of the present world crisis. Once we are deprived of the right to hear all sides of the question, once we are told that there are limitations to what we can hear and think, we will be well on the road to war. In this regard, we think the action of the Administration of Harvard University in deny- ing the John Reed Society its right of hearing a speaker of its oxen choice, is a serious threat both to our democratic rights and to our security' from war. It is an action that one would ex- pect from Hitler, Chamberlain or Daladier, all of whom have a war on their hands that is exceedingly unpopular. In America, however, it is an action that must be answered strenu- ously by the students in every college in the country. The boys at Harvard are fighting the case, and we can help them by becoming clearly aware in our own minds as to what exactly is at stake, and by insisting that the Harvard admin- istration rescind its order. The facts in the case are worth repeating, not so much because of their importance as facts, but as an example of the "technicality tech- nique" being employed these days to stifle any expression of controversial opinion. The John Reed Society invited Mr. Earl Browder to speak at Harvard on "The World Crisis," because it felt that the students and faculty of the Uni- versity wanted to hear all sides of this important topic. Mr. Browder, of course, is the repre- sentative of a legitimate point of view, just as Lord Lothian, or Jean Giradoux, the French Minister of Information, or Dorothy Thomp- son, all of whom addressed the recent Herald- Tribune Forum, are also representatives of legi- timate points of view. When Mr. Browder was indicted on a techni- cal passport charge, Mr. Jerome D. Greene, Secre- tary of the Harvard Corporation, suggested that the meeting be abandoned, "lest questions of propriety be raised." The John Reed Society, of course, recognized the right of the Administra- tion to make such suggestions, but it also per- tinently indicated that the indictment imposes no civil disability on Mr. Browder, and that "questions of 'propriety' ought not to keep the students from hearing what he has to say." When permission was again requested for use of New Lecture Hall, Mr. Greene went beyond mere suggestion and definitely refused. The students at Harvard felt that this re- fusal was an invasion of the rights guaranteed to Harvard students by the tradition of the University. Further than that, it should be apparent to students all over the country, that in refusing the boys at Harvard the right to hear a speaker of their own choice, the Adminis- tration has done nothing less than to contribute to the undemocratic hysteria that is working for our participation in the war by curtailing the fundamental civil liberties of the American people. No other interpretation is possible. The entire incident must be placed in the context of the plans of the war forces ofthis country to pre- pare the way for our involvement by stifling public opinion, by attacking and smearing labor and peace groups, by annihilating all the pro- gressive advances so painfully acquired in the last few years, and by inculcating a totalitarian psychology in the minds of the American people. It is a tendency that must be fought with all the resources and strength at our command. Essentially the struggle on the part of the students at Harvard to retain their civil and academic rights is a fight against war. As such it should be actively supported by those who will be called upon to do the dirty work in this war. If the boys at Harvard lose, we'll be that much closer to a bloody death. If they win it will give added courage and hope to those who feel that a peaceful world is an ideal worth working for, and within the possibility of human achievement. Iifeems to -Me Heywood Broun There is nothing in the popular delusion that a war in Europe is a boom to newspapers in America. Circulation may go up, but not as A Coke Date Or Your Life? . . TWENTY-TWO years ago, 2,000 stu- dents and faculty members of this University left Ann Arbor to help "make the world safe for democracy." Three hundred of these people did not come back to Ann Arbor. They were killed on the battlefields of Europe. They died that democracy might live and democ- racy since then has evinced no great desire to take advantage of their blood and their lives. But that is not the point we want to make here. Yesterday, in Hill Auditorium, a Uni- versity Peace Service to honor these valiant dead was held. Tribute was paid to these men. Speeches were made and the roll call of the courageous was read. And the speakers told how little we can accomplish by entering the foreign fight and how imperative it was that we stay away, concentrating on straightening out our own country, fortifying our nation against the ravages of that tyranny that brought about the present embroglio. "That was all very well. A fine speaking program it was. The com mittee had received permission to use Hill Audi- torium so that all the thousands of young people who must be interested in preserving peace would have a chance to participate. All of the major organizations on campus endorsed and helped promote the meeting. It was announced in The Daily. It was announced on the bulletin boards. It was announced in fraternity houses and dormitories. Preparations were made to seat a capacity crowd, for surely in this huge university, at least four or five thousand people could take ten minutes or so off to declare them- selves on the side of peace and'true democracy. It was swell. That is, it was swell, except THAT ONLY ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE IN ATTEND- ANCE! If that isn't an endictment of our student body, then we have never seen one. Just imagine: 100 people, most of them friends and room- mates of the committeemen, found time to at- tend a meeting that was prepared solely for them, to help them, to warn them, to instruct them. This was not simply a meeting to com- memorate those who died in that treacherous, useless, costly, and brutal struggle. This was to be a demonstration meeting: students, who are supposed to want peace, were to demon- strate that they did not want to leave Ann Arbor to die on some foreign field that some gigantic empire might endure. They were supposed to demonstrate that they could not be lured once again by nationalistic propaganda, by cries of Americanism and Huns and Allies. They were supposed to demonstrate that they wanted a peaceful America, a free, humane, equal and tolerant America. And 100 of them showed upe Well, we might as well fit ourselves up for a khaki suit, for if the young people of the nation, the students, schooled in the real mo- tives behind such a war, cannot break away from their traditional apathetic stand to lend their voices in a cry for freedom and peace, then we might as well become resigned to what will come and get our guns in order. But we do not want to lie down and give up in this manner. Those 100 people who attended the meeting, who thought more of their lives than of a coke date or a radio program or even a book, did not go to Hill Auditorium simply TZ paustXs s aaoTISlu q em w Jequ a ax o years ago or that 300 students and faculty men I I Friendship With South America .. . ATTENDING a conference on Inter- American Relations in Washington this week are four members of the University's faculty. Summoned personally by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, they are: Prof. Arthur S. Aiton of the history department; Prof. Charles C. Fries of the English department; Prof. Pres- ton E. James of the geography department and Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson, Director of the Inter- national Center. The conferences, taking three days in all, will concentrate on something called "international education and cultural relations." Directed by Secretary Hull and attracting experts from all over the country who are interested in the educa- tion and cultural development of foreign stu- dents, the conferences are, admirably, directed toward the promotion of a better feeling be- tween the United States and the Latin American countries. These meetings surely can help to create a more satisfactory cooperation among the coun- tries of this side of the world. They show a new spirit of friendship and a desire to work out certain problems that the exchange of students between various countries causes. They show a serious attempt at dispelling the distrust felt for this country in many of the South American countries, a distrust arising from this country's attempts to control its business life. In the past few years, Germany has made great inroads on our trade with South America. German products are to be seen everyzhere, even though Germany has no money with which to trade and must rely on her barter system. South America has sought, in this manner, to escape what it felt was the attempt of American business to exert undue control over her. She has been afraid of the United States and has, consequently, turned to other countries. Mexico, in its attempts to throw off the bonds of Ameri- can business, has seen fit to "go the whole hog" and expropriate a great part of American oil holdings in her country. While the Lima Con- ference of last summer helped somewhat in bettering Inter-American relations, the recent Panama coniference showed the old distrust for "Yankee imperialism" is still present. The Lima conference pointed the way to co- operation between countries of the new world. It stressed friendship and cooperation, not the old "dollar diplomacy that has earned this country only enmity from nations whose friend- ship is vitally necessary to us. Now, Germany is at war and is unable to consolidate her gains in the goodwill of South America. We have a chance to step in and, if we are able to abandon our old selfish policies, can promote a real brotherhood of nations on these two continents. The meetings in Washington this week have as their purpose the cementing of a friendship through aiding in the solution. of some of the problems of South America. They are a good start toward peace and the extension of democ- racy in the new world. (Editor's Note: This is a university. One goes to classes (sometimes). In 'these classes, after several weeks, the professors conjure up what are known as bluebooks. Mr. Q. is a student in this university. He goes to classes (sometimes). He has a professor that '"has conjured up one of these BB. So he blows the dust off the books, locks himself in his room and goes to sleep. And Laurie Mascott, a junior night editor, carries on for today. -Mr Q. O'NE of the best lines we've heard it a long time has been evolved b a famed campus nature-lover an Ann Arbor historian. It seems tha this individual can find nothing bette: to do on 'a Sunday afternoon tha to take a young lady of his choice o a personal field trip through th Arboretum. But the Arboretum o a cold Sunday afternoon has muh in common with Little America an attempts, therefore, to "sell" the little woman on an expedition on such ax afternoon have, to be indeed convinc- ing. This particular male, however, i not only observant and ingenious, bu has a fairly good knowledge of An Arbor history. He had noticed, ever in his freshman year, that Ann Arbo and its surrounding hills have a grea resemblance to Germany's famec Rhineland and with his knowledge o: history he recalled the story of th German nobleman's son who was on of the early settlers of Ann Arbor According to the legend, this Rhinis prince, when coming to Ann Arbor had seen the resemblance and some- where in the brush and forest of An Arbor's hills had built a typically German windmill in tribute to some lost love back in Deutschland. What then, could be more romantic claimed the observant one to his Sunday afternoon date, than t search for this lost mill of love? Needless to say, the expedition was organized and they searched for the lost mill all last Sunday afternoon As yet we haven't found out wheth- er or not the mill was found, but we do know that another expeditior is planned for this Sunday evening not afternoon. It seems that this in- genious Joe has only recently found out that Ann Arbor's lovers' mill, losi for years in our Rhinish hills, car only be discovered by moonlight. * * * Conceived by a notorious campus paraphraser: MY LAST GOODBYE (Dedicated to the Big Ten Title and the Mythical National Cham- pionship) I smiled, so did you, (Before the season began) But last week we knew (Illinois, remember?) It was my last goodbye to you. Your cup so divine, Seemed almost mine, When I said goodbye to you. For, darling, though you are gone. The dream lingers on, Of days when we thought we'd get you. I smile through a tear, Today makes a year (Remember Minnesota last November) Since I said goodbye to you. AS OTHEIRS SEE IT 0 0 To the Editor: Alice in Wonderland sighed wear-' ily. "I think you might do some- thing better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers." Alice was annoyed with her world of little Mad Hatters andhtheir logic. Yet were Alice to visit this 20th century world of ours her annoyance with the mental processes of certain groups would be none the less For example: Alice might well try to digest the Young Communist League's statement to the effect that Russia is an important factor for world peace. After feeling the pains of indigestion she might ask, "Was not Hitler given the go light to throw Europe into war by Dictator Stalin's consent to participate in the spoils of Poland? Would Hitler have dared the invasion if Russia had not secretly given promise of aid?" As a question of interest Alice might won- der why "peaceful" Russia was w.g- ging a big stick at peace loving Fin- land, Estonia, Latvia, and Norway? Turning to the American Commun- ists naive Alice might ask why they favored lifting the embargo law dur- ing the recent Spanish Civil War and opposed it now? Why did they consider it the blackest day in modern history when England refused to assume its treaty obligations to the Czechs and today still contend it is a black day when England belatedly assumes her treaty obligations to Poland? Alice, I imagine you are quite dizzy now. But you needn't be. The foreign Isms and their American enunternarts do not have to he con- FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1939 VOL. L. No. 41 Notices Faculty, School of Education: The postponed meeting of the Faculty will, be held Monday noon, Nov. 13, at 12 o'clock at the Michigan Union. Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts : Midsemester reports are due not later than Saturday, Nov. 18. More cards, if needed, can be had at my office. These reports should name those students, freshman and upperclass, whose standing at midsemester time is D or E, not merely those who re- ceive D or E in so-called midsemes- ter examinations. Students electing 'our course, but registered in other schools or col- leges of the University, should be re- ported to the school or college in which they are registered. E. A. Walter, Assistant Dean, Extracurricular Medical School Lecture: A Medical School Lecture will be given Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The speaker will be Dr. Le- Moyne Snyder, State Police expert on medical legal advice, and his sub- ject will be "The Doctor and the Law." All Medical School classes will be dismissed at 4 p.m. in order that the students may attend. The public is invited. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information will hold a registration meeting in' the Natural Science Auditorium at 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14. This meeting will be conducted by Dr. Pur- dom, Director of the Bureau. It is open to all students, both seniors and graduate students, as well as staff members, and applies to people who will be seeking positions at any time within the next year. Only one reg- istration is held during the school year, and everyone who will be avail- able through next August should en- roll at this time. The Bureau has two placement div- isions: Teaching and General. The General Division registers people who are interested in any kind of work other than teaching. The University Bureau of Appoint- Suomi Club meetirg in the Upper ments and Occupational Information Room of Lane Hall tonight at 8:00- l , . i.. rapidly as costs, and the whole tendency of a period of conflict is a lowering of journalistic standards. It becomes even more difficult than usual to pin down the truth. Censorship caps a long list of hurdles which lie between the action and the printed story. War alter- nates between seeming to range: $150 to $190 per month, Nov. 17. Highway Engineering Draftsman AI, salary range: $140 to $160 per month, Nov. 17. Escheats Field Representative I, salary range: $150 to $190 per month, Nov. 19. Highway Landscape Engineer II, salary range: $200 to $240 per month, Nov. 19. Occupational Therapist A2, salary range: $115 to $135 per month, Nov. 19. Liquor Store Clerk CI, salary range: $95 to $110 per month, Nov. 17. Detroit : Power Plant Helper, salary: 'pre- vailing rate,' Nov. 11. Complete announcements on file at the University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Academic Notices Engineering Mechanics I: There will be a review in E.M. 1 for all classes from 7 to 9 tonight in Room 401 West Engineering Bldg. Concerts Choral Union Concert: Alexander Kipnis, Russian basso, with Fritz Kitzinger, accompanist, wlil give the third program in the Choral Union Concert Series Monday night, at 8:30 o'clock, in Hill Auditorium. Today's Events Students in the Division of Hygiene and Public Health: A special assembly for all students in this Division will be held this afternoon at 4 p.m. in Room 20 Waterman Gymnasium. 'Ihe speaker will be Miss Alma Haupt, Di- rector of the Nursing Bureau of !he Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,-New York City. Chicago Club will hold a smoker this evening at 8:00 in Room 319 of the Union. All alumni from Chicago who are in town are invited. Mr. William Bacon, Alumni Head, will be the chief speaker. Stalker Hall: Bible Class will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Methodist Church. Dr. Brashares is the leader. At 9 p.m. there will be a Folk Danc- ing party. offer too little news and too much for digestion. The present contest, in particular, has had such a slight amount of action that all the decks and all the front lines are cleared for rumor and for rival propaganda. But I have no desire to chime in with those who seem impatient at the fact that this has been to such a large extent a "phony" war. I have encountered people who act almost as if they were ringside ticket holders at a heavy- weight bout in which both fighters were stall- ing. Surely from every humane point of view the stalemate which goes on along the Western Front, at the time this is written, is preferable to the bloody sacrifices of 1917, when hundreds of thousands were sacrificed for salients which were of little moment. Moloch has known in all history no altar such as that of Verdun, where the youth of two nations spent itself fruitlessly. Out of stalemate peace can come. Huge casualty lists may leave both sides stand- ing precisely where they are at present. And I am not at all sure that a more inspired sort of journalism could not find a greater oppor- tunity for expression than it has yet manifested in the very fact of inaction. With all deference to tradition, I do not think that news, either in peace or war, is limit- ed to the recital of overt acts. True reporting should be a great deal more than a recital of oddities. It should go deeper into the common- place and ordinary. Journalism at its best is current history, and in the long run history is compounded out of things which may seem trivial at the moment. There ought to be an eye for acorns as well as oaks. All too frequently a daily paper takes on the form of cataloguing the folk in a sideshow. The silliest sort of playboy can earn himself headlines by semi-insane antics. Lunatic acts and kindred deeds are overplayed, in my opinion. There is no poorer rule for the approximation of news than the familiar adage about dogs and men. Unless there is some special setting for the Pvent T rlenv +he PaakfinPofn+ e ir has received notice of the following Civil Service examinations. The last date for filing application is noted in each case: United States: Senior Procurement Inspector, sal- ary: $2,600, Dec. 4. Procurement Inspector, salary: $2,- 300, Dec. 4. Assistant Procurement Inspector, salary: $2,000, Dec. 4. Junior Procurement Inspector, sal- ary: $1,600, Dec. 4. Assistant Inspector of Hulls, salary: $3,200, Dec. 27. Assistant Inspector of Boilers, sal- ary: $3,200, Dec. 27. Special Agent, Trade and Indus- trial Education, salary: $3,800, Dec. 4. Chief Accountant (Transportation Statistics), salary: $4,600, Dec. 4. Assistant Chief Accountant (Trans- portation Statistics), salary, $3,800, Dec. 4. Senior Accountant (Transportation Statistics), salary: $3,500, Dec. 4. Accountant (Transportation Sta- tistics) ,salary: $3,200 ,Dec. 4. Junior Officer, Mechanic, salary: $1,860, Dec. 4. Michigan: Public Health Sanitarian I, salary Ship Owners Propose Sales Warring Nations May Get Aging Merchant Craft WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-OP)--The question whether the Government shoud permit the sale of aging American merchant vessels to Eur- ope's warring nations was raised to- night by a proposal to sell five old trawlers to the French Line. An application for approval of the sale was received by a Federal Mari- time Commission from the Portland Trawling Company, a subsidiary of the Atlantic Coast Fisheries Com- pany of New York. The Maritime Commission an-r nounced receipt of the application while still wrestling with the ques- tion of permitting the United States Lines to transfer eight of its ships to the flag of Panama so that they o might visit belligerent ports closed to r American flag ships by the new neu-I trality act.p t adequacies but we also are not blind i to the even greater inadequacies of F Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. We t do not want our unborn children to o grow up in a world dominated by the n dogma of Nazism or Communism. We wish the cultural andn1litica1 'vahi Mr. M. Lappinen of Ypsilanti will discuss Finnish Music. Dance Class Committee: There will be no meeting of the Dancing Class committee today at 4 p.m. There will also be a meeting of this com- mittee on Monday at 4 p.m. at the League in the Undergraduate offices. Conservative Services will be held at Hillel Foundation tonight at 7:30 p.m. Prof. John Shepard of the psychology Department, will lead the Fireside Discussion at 8 p.m. on the subject, "Men or Books Which Have Influ- enced My Thinking." A social hour will follow. Hillel Yiddish class will meet at the Foundation this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Coming Events Try-Outs: Play Production and the School of Music will give Mozart's "Il Seraglio" the latter part of Jan- uary. Vocal tryouts will be held in Room 406, Burton Memorial Tower, Sunday, Nov. 12, at 2:30 p.m. Contes- tants are requested to bring suitable music which they are prepared to sing. Freshman Round Table: Professor Samuel A. Goudsmit, of the Physics Department, will discuss the topic, "Is Religion Compatible with Modern Science?" at the Freshman Round Table, Lane Hall, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Tta Kappa Nu meeting in the Michi- gan Union on Sunday, Nov. 12, at 4 p.m. Junior Mathematical Society meet- ing on Monday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. i&the Michigan League. Mr. Chester Weger will speak on "Three Problems of Antiquity." The Art Cinema League presents "The History of Animation" as the second in the series of "Most Prom- nent American Films," on Sunday, Nov. 12, at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Matinee, 3:15 p.m. Eve- ning, 8:15. The Graduate Outing Club will go on a hike. Sunday, Nov. 12, at 2:30 p.m. Mr. John Wilson of the Geology Department will point out various points of geologic interest. Upon re- urning to the Club Room, Prof. S. W. Allen will show slides of the Wilder- iess Trip through the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. If you intend o stay for supper, sign list on door f1. the Club Room before Saturday oon. Reseantions for the dinner +o ha I - -Alvin Sarasohn