THE MICHIGAN DAILY ithvens Plan ' Visit Clubs In Southwest,.. 'Bombs Bursting In Air'- German Version DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN dent And Wife Leave lay; Accept Invitation Prominent Alumni SUNDAY, NOV. 12, 1939 VOL. L. No. 43 President and Mrs. Ruthven leave today to visit clubs in the seventh alumni district in a trip which will carry them through at least five states. The trip is being made in re- sponse to an invitation issued two years ago by the seventh district and the clubs of that district. The Ruth- ireins have never visited alumni in that region: Oklahoma and Texas. Alumni groups at each scheduled stop will give a banquet in honor of the Ruthvens, Vernon F. Hillery, '23L, president of the University of Michigan Club of Fort Worth, is in charge of arrangements for the trip. He will accompany the Ruthvens during their stay in Texas. Alumni dinners will be given Tues- day at Tulsa; Wednesday at Okla- homa,. City, Saturday at Fort Worth; 19inday, Nov. 19, in Dallas; Wednes- day, Nov. 22, in San\NAntonio; and Fridy, Nov. 24, in Houston. Debate Team CallsTryouts Women's Varsity Plans Trip To Ohio State Tryouts for the women's varsity debate team which will travel to Ohio State University for a round- table discussion on the suppression of anti-democratic organizations will be held at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in Room 3209 A.H.L, Mrs. Frederic 0. Crandall, women's debate coach, an- nounced yesterday. Anyone may try out for the team at that time, whether they attended the first ,meeting last week or not, Mrs. Crandall said. Requirement for the tryout is the delivery of a seven minute speech defining the terms in the question, "Should Anti- DemOratic Organizations Be Sup- pressed in the United States," defin- ing the issues in terms of the defi-. litions given, and then presenting a Notices To the Members of the University Council: The November meeting of the University Council wlll be omit- ted. Louis A. Hopkins, Sec'y. 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. of Professors Denkinger and Koella should be changed from 406 to 407. 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. Pre-Mvedical Students. The Medical Aptitude Test of the Association of American Medical Colleges will be given at the University of Mehigan on Tuesday, Nov. 2B. Since the test is a normal requirement for admis- sion to: practically all medical schools, all students who are planniing to en- ter a medical school by the fall of 1940 shbuld take the exainantion. This will be the only time that the test will be given before next fall. It is not necessary that all pre-medical (Continued on Page 3) .~ ~..-. ........ -, .. . This striking photo, according to British-approved caption, shows attack of a German bomber (upper left) on warships at the Firth of Forth Oct. 16. In the attack, theBritish admitted, the raiders scored a hit on cruiser Southampton and that bomb fragments caused seven casualties aboard cruiser Edinburgh (above). Bursts of anti-aircraft fire from the Edinburgh can be seen around bomber. Bomb which went wide of mark has just hit water at left.. Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: Midsemester reports are due not later than Saturday, Nov. 18. More l 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. Preshmeny. College of Literature, Science, and The Arts: Freshmen may not drop courses without E grade after Saturday, November 18. In ad- ministering . this rule, students with less than 24 hours of credit are con- sidered freshmen. Exceptions may be. made in extraordinary circum- stances, such as severe. or long con- tinued illness. E. A. Walter, Assistant Dean School of Education, School of Mu- sic:. Midsemester reports- indicating students enrolled in these units doing unsatisfactory work in any unit of the University are due in the office of the school, Saturday, Nov. 18. Report' blanks for this purpose may be se- cured from the office of the school or from Room 4, U.H. Choral Union Members in good standing. who call in person, will be issued pass., tickets for the Kipnis concert Monday, Nov. 13, between the hours of 9 and 12, and 1 and 4. After four o'clock no tickets will be issued. Note that the telephone number THE ORATORICAL Has the onor to pres#eit ASSOCIATION Germans Are Not Subservient ByNature, Weeler Declares 0> History Professor Believes Democracy Could Exist In Prosperous Germany The much repeated accusation that it is innate in the German people to seek a leader whom they might blind-. ly follow and that they themselves' have neither the desire nor the emo- tional constitution necessary to a people who may live under a demo- cratic government has no basis in fact or history and certainly cannot be used to explain Hitler's. rise to power, Prof. Benjamin Wheeler of the history department declared in an interview yesterday. That absurd definition of the Ger- the second successive year len's varsity de1ate teams 1 Ten have participated in ee Directory man character, Professor Wheelerl said, arose in the post-war Wimarl republic as an argment for the old monarchists who sought a return to the monarchical government. It was not, however, he pointed out, an ar- gument used to defend the present National Socialist regime until recent- Professor Wheeler emphasized that the failure of the German republic cannot be used as an argument by those who believe the Germans are not capable of democratic govern- ment. "If the republic government in Germany has been instituted in a period of economic prosperity and had been treated with respect by the for- mer enemies of Germany-it might well have survived," Professor Wheeler claimed. As circumstances came about, he added, the situation both economical and political arising from the World War served to prevent the democratic: constitution from having a fair chance. To provide an historical basis for his contentions, Professor Wheeer pointed out that in pre-war Germany there was an ever present trend to- ward democratic procedure which could be. detected both in the na- tional Reichstag and in the smaller state governments. A more demo- cratic form of government was urged by popular opinion, he declared, and the right of free speech was taken almost for granted.? If the war had not come, he suggested, there is no reason to disbelieve that a democracy similar. to that which exists in Eng- land might have evolved in Germany. The German has never had an op- portunity to work under favorable conditions either political or econom- ic, . Professor Wheeler maintained. Lewisoln To Speak On Jewish Question (Continued from Page 1) the United' States. His books have been translated into French, Dutch; German, Swedish and Danish as well as Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Rou- manian and Hebrew. Among the better known books Lewisohn has written is his auto- biography, "Upstream," "The Island Within," "Adam" and "Stephen Es- cott." .Lewisohn will spend the entire day today in Ann Arbor, Martin Dworkis, '40, chairman of the Hillel Forum j Committee announced to The Daily last night, and will be feted at a din- ner at 6:30 p.m. at the Union. General conditions resulting from the humiliating Varsailles treaty tended to render the German people dis- gusted with democratic government, he said, and it was this dissatisfac- tion on which the National Socialist party throve rather than the inability of the German people to preserve the republic. While in 10 years de- mocracy was able to accomplish scarcely nothing in restoring Ger- many to its former position of hon- or and power, Professor Wheeler re- called, the National Socialist party, with its vaguely promising program, soon refortified the nation, stabilized the German economic system, and created a condition resembling pros- perity even if it may not be perm- anent. If education can be taken as a necessary foundation to democracy, Professor Wheeler concluded, that state of government might well thrive in Germany. For, he asserted, the literacy of the German people, the censorious methods employed by fascism notwithstanding, is as high as that of any people in the world. His Imperial HighIless ARCHDUKE FELIX OF AUSTRIA Who Will Speak on "THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CENTRAL EUROPE" SHOWS TODAY AT 1. -7 ADULTS 35c ALL DAY TUESDAY, NOV. 14th AT 8:15 P.M. 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