PAGE FOUR THE MICHTGAN DAILY THTJUSDA'Y: DEC. - 7:1939 aTas.vMsa aT as C vAY 1 fL 21.1 L 1Vrs~i'71~~ I Li iV/. i (it iiJV ,/)-J7 , Aa THE MICHIGAN DAILY Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 'Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVER.SING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO . BOS0TN - LoS ANGELES - $AN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff Carl Petersen . Elliott Mraniss . Stan M. Swinton. Morton L. Linder Norman A. Schorr Dennis Flanagan John N. Canavan . . Ann Vicary ., Mel Fineberg . Business Stafff 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 . Jane Mowers * Harriet S. Levy Business Manager Asst. Business Mgr., Credit Manager Women's Business Manager Women's AdvertisingrManager Publications Manager has seriously hampered not only interstate com- merce, but also our international trade policies. Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade agreements have, at various times, angered among others the corned-beef manufacturers, the cotton far- mers, the wheat growers and, at present, the oil men. The reasoning of these attacks has been each time: "It's all very well for the State Depart- ment to try to foster foreign trade. It would be nice to sell our products to Brazil or Venezuela or Japan. But you can't hurt us in doig it. As far as we're concerned, we're casting bread upon the waters and we see no possibility that we ourselves shall ever receive any returns. We're being sacrificed so that somebody else may profit." It comes down to this: We admit that both foreign and interstate trade is essential to our national well-being, but too few groups are will- ing to take the risk of trading beyond their immediate markets. In the meantime we plead expediency as an alibi for our economic provin- cialism. And yet it is apparent, though we refuse to recognize it, that the only final relief to this period of expediency is a return to freer com- merce. No state, including Michigan, one of the richest, can be even semi-autonomous in its economy. The circulation of money and the flow of commerce are not principles that can be confined to an economic text-book, for they are at the base of national wealth. Last week Harry L. Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, proposed an interdepartmental com- mittee to study the tariff wars between the states. Yet it is probable that the Federal Government will leave the mitigation of state rivalries up to commissions on voluntary in- terstate cooperation. What Washington can do, however, is to inform the people why the de- struction of these tariff walls is essential. Too many of us do not see that to "Buy Michigan Beer" is to proceed up a blind alley. -Hervie Haufler Those Bicycles Again . IT IS RATHER DIFFICULT to un- derstand the student attitude to- ward the regulation which forbids the riding of bicycles on the campus of the University. Last year, when the rule was put into effect, student opinion seemed to favor it. After all, it was rather nice to feel that one could walk across the diagonal walk without some intrepid cyclist forcing a poor pedestrian into a patch of mud which decorated the lawn near the walk. With the passage of the regulation, bicycle riding on the campus seemed to drop measur- ably. Students felt safe. The rule was re- spected, and little had to be done to enforce it. It was a success. This year, however, the aforementioned in- trepid cyclists seem to have taken matters into their own hands and to have becoine more in- trepid than ever. Once more it is a hazard to life and limb to go from building to building along a campus walk. With the regulation nominally in effect and signs prohibiting people from riding their bI- cycles on campus-the signs are battered almost to illegibility, of course-it is more of a hazard than ever before to be a pedestrian. One does not expect to have a two-wheeled vehicle smash into him, and he is naturally off his guard. Be- fore the rule was made, though, the pedestrian was on the lookout for "bikes" and was seldom caught unawares. The question is up to the students as much as it is to the University authorities-the regulation can be made to operate correctly. It can be respected, or it can be enforced. If it is neither enforced nor respected, it should be removed- reestablishing the old system of "do as you like, and every man on guard." -William Newton *1w"" i 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. Next One's On The House . . THE SIGN READ, "Drink Michigan- Produced Beer." It was a noble sentiment. Implicit/min its appeal was the argu- ment that if you drink Michigan beer, you'll help Michigan labor, Michigan farmers, Michi- g'an business men. After that barrage, if you're 'from Michigan you would feel like a traitor to drink Budweiser. brewed in Milwaukee. But also implicit in that signboard is the epitome of the reasoning that has built 48 .tariff walls in America where'none is supposed to exist. To reduce the reasoning to its lowest common denominator, what are Ohians going toa sy to your drink-Michigan-beer ideal, espe- cially when you protect Michigan beer behind a tariff wall? Their only come-back is recipro- city: drink Ohio beer, protect Ohio beer. 'As a consequence, we have a maze of regula- tions and limitations on interstate trade--all designed to give local producers an advantage over imports from other states. There are dairy laws, oleomargerine laws, livestock, egg and general food laws, nursery stock laws, liquor laws, State use taxes and general preference laws. There are "ports of entry" that probably involve more red tape for truckers than the cus- toms stations between the United States and Canda. The nadir of it is that in some states even political subdivisions, such as counties or cities, are allowed to formulate their own means of protection. Sunday's New York Times contains an illus- tration of what truckers are up against. A five- ton truck traveling from Alabama to South Caro- lina has to pay a tax of $400 in Alabama, $400 in Georgia and $300 in South Carolina, $1,100 for the trip. In Arizona an itinerant or mer- chant trucker has to pay a license fee of $200 for each county in which he seeks to sell his wares. The Federal Government has been cognizant of the increasing intensity of these tariff wars during the last few years. A few months ago President Roosevelt said, in a letter to the Coun- cil of State Governments, that "damaging re- strictions have in the last few years hindered the free flow of Commerce within American bor- ders . . . Business, agriculture and labor have all suffered because of State and regional dis- criminatory measures adopted in vain hope of protecting local products from the hazards of economic fluctuations." He added that "Interstate trade barriers, if allowed to develop and multiply, will . . . con- stitute problems even more serious than inter- national tariffs." In trying to argue against this provincialism, little can be accomplished by pointing to the first article of the Constitution or to our stereo- types of "one nation indivisible." Interstate tariffs are built on bread-and-butter ideas of necessity, and idealistic theories will not under- mine them. For it is apparent that "Drink Michigan Beer" seems to Michigan to be an economic expedi-. ency. There is so little trade that the insuffi- cient amount which Michigan industries en- gender need to be carefully preserved and misered. If our trade runs across a state border it may help the other state more than it does ours. The trade may all go one way. Michigan money may help fill the coffers of Ohio. America is not in this case dealing with merely another miscarriage of the "state's DRAMA I By JAMES E. GREEN Play Production's second offering of the year, Arthur Arent's ". . . one third of a nation . . ." struck a note last night that is too seldom heard in these cloisters, the note of social protest in its demand for better housing. This play was the most successful of the "living newspaper" series presented by the Federal Theatre during its too-short existence and the version of it presented here by Director William Halstead was true to both the spirit and the letter of the original production. It must have struck many in the audience that there was a powerful irony in producing this play at a time when the government first took action to solve the problems that the play poses is doing its best to live that action down, at a time when the Federal Theatre that first produced the play has been destroyed for con- cerning itself with such "radical" matters and at a time when that government is rushing to- wards a war on which Mr. Roosevelt's sometime "one third of a nation" will march bravely out to die for Western "civilization." It is not, I suppose, the right of a reviewer to plead but in these four days that the play is appearing the best carpenters of two continents are helping a housepainter in Berlin put the finishing touch- es upon the flimsy structure that we are going to be. asked to defend. It may look like a new house but its the same damned tenement that has already taken millions of lives and, weak though the allegory may seem, its a death-trap beside which the worst of our slums is innocu- ous and ineffectual in its power to kill. Audi- ence and actors alike, last night, felt the power of Arent's protest against a society that cares so little for the lives of its members and I can only hope that that protest will carry for them, beyond the confines of the theatre and be- yond a single issue, to a protest against any of that society's efforts to destroy its people. . . one third of a nation . . " is effective both as protest and as "theatre" because it does not hesitate to use any method or means to make its message dramatically effective. Mov- ing pictures, the loud speaker, even the audi- ence itself move on to the stage as actors in a moving montage that never once slackens its swift pace. Its people, as individuals, are not important and for that reason no individual performance is allowed to stand out above any other. This is not to say that there were not some excellent pieces of characterization., But in the scenes that followed each other with such sharp rapidity the single and powerful effect was a product of group and not individual effort. The play had a point to make and it made it incisively. And it was able to do this without once moving from the stage to the pulpit or soap box. As social protest it may be some- times accused of pulling its punches but as drama it never does. Robert Mellencamp provided a set that was completely in the spirit of the play, al deserves equal credit with the play's director for provid- ing the mobility without which the play would have lost its effectiveness. This play answers one of the most widespread criticisms of Play Production; that too few people are given a chance to act. It uses a very large cast and uses it well to produce one of the best efforts that Ann Arbor has seen in a long time. -1crh Drew Pedrson and Robert.Allen WASHINGTON-While Roosevelt was invok- ing a moral embargo against shipment of air- craft to Russia, there were between 75 and 100 Russian-employed agents and inspectors in American factories which produce aircraft and defense equipment for the U.S. Army and Navy. Some are Russians, some are U.S. citizens work- ing for Russia. All are under the direct control of Amtorg, the Soviet purchasing agency in New York. The two companies which have the largest Russian orders at present are Radio Corporation of America, which is making radio sets for Rus-, sian ships and planes; and Wright Aeronautical Corporation, which is making planes for the Soviets. Amtorg agents are admitted daily to these plants, to inspect progress of the work on Soviet orders. War and Navy Departments are uneasy about this practice, and would prefer to exclude all foreigners from plants producing equipment for U.S. forces. But government policy thus far has made no discrimination betwen foreigners; a Russian or Japanese or German who applies through the State Department for a permit to visit or inspect a plant is given the same courtesy as a Briton or a Brazilian. Probability is that the question will come up in Congress at the next session, and an exclu- sion policy may be enacted into law. Meanwhile the Navy Department keeps a run- ning report on all foreign inspectors, to show and a dog twice the size of the sheep. In the background, on a fine road are racing cars, tank trucks and everything just as peachy as you please. Turning from here. I came to The Daily build- The Editor Gets Told.. Freedom Of The Press To the Editor: Finnish cities were bombed, burned and leveled, the dispatch said and then added, "in part." The dis- patches set the toll in thousands, then later toned it down to "an esti- mated 200." (more likely fifty). Four days later the dispatches re- ported that the cities hadn't been hurt very much due to the bad aim of Soviet fliers (Russian airmen were tops in Spain). However every Fin- nish soldier was still alive and fight- ing stubbornly, even victoriously, the dispatches went on, and far down the page grudgingly admitted occu- pation of certain strategic points by Russian troops. According to dis- patches the Soviets suffered heavy losses (in military lingo this means thousands) and then informed us that it was a whole company (three platoons of 32 men each). Airplanes. especially those piloted by "Amazons" (this should call up visions of wild- eyed, blood-thirsty and man-eating females) were machine-gunning ter- rified civilians, said the dispatch, then concealed as well as possible were the words "it was said." Reli- able authorities told of heavy Rus- sian losses from crashing through thin lake ice and from mines explod- ing as they advanced (I had no idea they were advancing,) and four days later reliable sources were still referring to the same thin ice as the result of "heavy Russian losses." (it would almost seem it was the cli- mate, not the Finns, inflicting the damage, but its difficult to believe that men keep falling through the same ice for three consecutive days.) At any rate opening our newspaper day after day, we could find little about the "war" that had not been disclosed by "unauthoritative re- ports" during the first two days. It sounded screwy till we remem- bered the German invasion of Po- land, which was quite recent. Indeed the dispatches held the Poles in- vincible (they had actually turned the tables on the Germans at first) and hundreds of thousands were bombed (Warsaw was the most beau- tiful city in the world, now it's Hel- sinki) by the Germans (certainly the total was fifty times over that which has occurred in Finnish cities). Then one day we discovered the war was over and had been for sometime. Everyone had given up, including the Polish staff a week or so earlier, ex- cept the American press. Helsinki the dispatches say "ac- cording to the new 'banker' govern- ment" is being rapidly evacuated. And as our atlas lists Helsinki with only 135,000 population it will be difficult for us to read of thousands nay tens of thousands, being bombed, in Helsinki. I suppose though that for the altruistic aims of the Finnish authorities most of the evacuated could be brought back for one or two good bombings. This, however, as one of my newspaper friends pointed out, would be quite unnecessary, the AP, UP and INS being on location. We are also interested in the whereabouts of the brave pre-war Finn government. I think some dis- patch said they were seen in Sweden or London. Having the "complete support" of the Finnish people, as the dispatches "confirmed" (really, an odd term these days), one ponders about their disappearance. Peculi- ar, these politicos. But then I suppose we shouldn't be too critical of foreign affairs. Mind your own business, as some- one told me. I tried to, but going through the newspapers on page fif- teen, embedded in ads and Holly- wood, I found a picture of some of the 12,000 Cleveland folk who were without food and shelter. And they tell me there are still 12,000,000 un- employed in this country. Frankly, during the last few days, I had thought Finland was our most urgent problem. Let's turn on the radio and listen to Finlandia, while awaiting further unconfirmed reports. Sincerely, R. Geoffrey McPhie DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1939 t VOL. L. No. 63 Notices' Members of the University Senate:1 The Senate Advisory Committee will9 meet today at 4:10 p.m. Members of the committee will welcome sugges- tion of matters for the committee's consideration. Open House in West Quadrangle: t The Board of Governors of Residence Halls, the staff, and the residents of the West Quadrangle of Men's Resi- dence Halls extend a cordial invita- tion to students, members of the faculty, and townspeople to attend the Open House this evening from 8 to 11 p.m. The eight buildings in the West Quadrangle will be open for inspection. Guests are asked to enter through the west gate of the Quadrangle on Thompson St. Charles L. Jamison, Acting Chairman, Board of Gover- nors of Residence Halls. Karl Litzenberg, Director of Residence Halls. Paul Oberst, Chairman, West Quadrangle Student Council. I The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following United States Civil Service examina- tions. The last date for filing appli- cation is noted in each case: Projectionist (The National Ar- chives), salary: $1,620, Jan. 2. Technical assistant to the chief of probation and parole, bureau of pris- ons, Dept. of Justice, salary: $3,800, Jan. 2. Assistant supervisor of classifica- tion, Bureau of Prisons, Dept. of Jus- tice, salary: $3,800, Jan. 2. Protozoologist, salary: $3,800, Jan. 2. Associate protozoologist, salary: $3,- 200, Jan. 2. Assistant protozoologist, salary: $2,- 600, Jan. 2. Junior medical officer (rotating interneship), salary: $2,000, Jan. 2. Junior medical officer (psychiatric resident), salary: $2,000 ,Jan. 2. Principal engineering draftsman (patents), salary: $2,300, Jan. 2. Principal engineering draftsman, salary: $2,300, Jan. 2. Senior engineering draftsman, sal- ary: $2,000, Jan. 2. Assistant engineering draftsman, salary: $1,620, Jan. 2. Junior engineering draftsman, sal- ary: $1,440, Jan. 2. Complete announcements on file at the University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Mimes: Meeting today at 5 p.m. at the Union. Academic Notices Bus. Ad. 103, Tabulating Practice: 2, 3 and 4 o'clock sections will meet at 4 p.m. Tabulating Room today. Exhibitions Paintings by William Gropper and print's 'by the Associated Aierican Artists shown in West Gallery, Al- umni Memorial Hall; daily, 2-5, until Dec. 15. Auspices of Ann Arbor Art Association. Exhibitions, College of Architecture and Design: Student work of member colleges of the Association of Colle- giate Schools of Architecture. Dec. 1 to 8. Photographs of tools, processes, and products representative of the Department of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute. Dec. 1 through 14. Open daily, except Sunday, 9 to 5, in Third Floor Exhibition Room, Architectural Building. Open to the public. The Ann Arbor Camera Club's Third Annual Exhibit of photog- raphy is being held in the Exhibit Galleries on the Mezzanine floor of the Rackham Building. Open daily, except Sunday, from 2 to 10 p.m. un- til Dec. 9. Lectures University Lecture: Frank A. Waugh, Professor Emeritus of Hor- ance, capture Helsinki, and end fur- ther fighting. However, the northern attack may be more significant. It is expected by Allied strategists that Russia will march straight across the northern tip of Finland, then on across northern Norway and Sweden to the Atlantic. This area, sparsely populated, should be easier to conquer than the south. These three countries-Finland, Sweden and Norway-are bunched. together in the north like three fin- gers joining a hand. Geographically the regions are a unit. Economically they are extremely wealthy. Nor- thern Finland contains the mines ofl the International Nickel Company. Northern Sweden contains the f am- ous Swedish iron mines, perhaps the finest in the world. And northern' Norway is the area of her best fish- eries. ticulture and Landscape Gardening of Massachusetts State College, will lecture on "Humanity Out of Doors," under the auspices of the School of Forestry, at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is cordially invited. Wild Land Utilization: Dr. Frank A. Waugh,, Professor Emeritus of Land- 'cape Architecture, Massachusetts State College, will give the following talks in the amphitheatre of the Rack- ham Building at the times indicated: Dec. 8, 9 a.m., "Administrative problems to be considered in the management of wild lands for hu- man use." These talks are intended primarily or students in the School of Forestry and Conservation, who are expected to attend, but all others interested are also cordially invited. Today's Events Political Science Round Table to- night at 7:30, East Conference Room, Rackham Building. Subject: The. Application of Scientific Methods to Political Science. Actuarial Students: Mr. Henry Hopper of the Maccabees, Detroit, will speak on "Selection of Risks" to- night at 8 p.m., West Lecture Room of the Rackham Building. All in- terested invited to attend. Graduate History Club meeting to- night at 8 in the West Conference Room, Rackham Building. Miss Ma- rion Siney will speak on "The Block- ade in the Present War." Election of officers. Refreshments. All Gradu- ate students in history are invited to attend. Association Forum: Professor Ar- thur E. Wood of the Sociology De- partment, will lead the Forum discus- sion on "Can a Religious Person Justi- fy Capital Punishment?" at Lane Hall tonight at 7:30. Assembly Board Meeting today at 4:15 p.m. in the League. All repre- sentatives from the dormitories, League houses, and the Ann Arbor Independent women are invited to attend for the discussion and to sign up for the Assembly Come Across Committees. Geological Journal Club will meet in Room 3065, Natural Science Bldg., at 7:30 tonight. Professor O. F. Evans will speak on "The Low and Ball of the Eastern Shore of Lake Michigan."~ Transportation Club will meet tonight in the Michigan Union at 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Prof. Baier of the Naval Architecture Department. Plans for the trip to Fort Wayne will be discussed. Phi Tau Alpha: Saturnalia will be celebrated this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Upper Room at Lane Hall, A discussion of the play will be held, so all members are urged to attend if possible. Refreshments. American Student Union forum on 'Soviet Russia, Finland, and Ameri- ca's Peace,"' today, Michigan Union, North Lounge, 3:30 p.m. All invited. Boolh and Exhibit Committee of Sophomore Cabaret: Package wrap- ping in Council Room all day. Finance Committee for Sophomore Cabaret meeting at 4 p.m. today at the League. Ticket Committee (Peggy Polum- baum's division) for Sophomore Cabaret meeting at 3 p.m. today at the League. Mass Meeting of all the girls who are to act as hostesses at Sophomore Cabaret, at 4 p.m. today in the League ballroom. Dance Club meeting in Barbour Gymnasium this evening at 7:45 p.m. Interior Decoration Section: "Prin- ciples of Interior Decoration" will be discussed by Mrs. Ralph W. Ham- mett at the meeting at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Michigan League. Michigan Dames: Click and Stitch group meets tonight at 8 o'clock in group meets Thursday at 8 o'clock in the home of Mrs. Ira Smith, 4 Geddes Heights. Coming Events Freshman Round Table: Mr. Ken- neth Morgan will lead the group, con- tinuing the discussion of the religious views offered by previous speakers, Lane Hall, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Re- freshments and a social hour will follow. Graduate Students are invited to listen to a broadcast of the opera "Boris Godounow" in the Ien's Lounge of the Rackham Building on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 1:30 p.m. Disciples Guild cinema party, Fri- GULLIVER'S CAVILS By YOUNG GULLIVER I (Editor's Note: Gulliver has been having trouble lately. Right now he is suffering from tonsillitis and Weitschmerz, so he has called on Perspectives Editor Jim Allen to take over for the day.) IT OCCURRED TO ME earlier in this greyish day that perhaps there was no point in get- ting up. , The subsequent happenings of the day have given substance to that impression. But it seems unfortunate that four thousand in- nocent students (sic) should become embroiled as a result of my error in judgment. It was a perfectly uneventful day. Well, the first thing in the morning (right after lunch) I strolled up to the campus and through the Arcade. There I encountered a rather wistful Jeep Mehaffey staring at a dis- play. "You know," he said, "it's a crime the way people dress. Why, this summer I was down at the airport in Pittsburgh and a guy climbs off the plane-you know how he was dressed?" I confessed I did not. "Well, he had on an orange sport coat and a red tie and a pair of purple slacks. My sister's boy friend looked at me and I looked at him and he said, 'Boy I could take the littlest kid in our neighborhood and just take that guy apart.' Jeez, the way peop dress is a crime." I agreed and he stared mood- ily into the window again, so I walked on quietly. DECIDED against going to the show, walked down Maynard to Williams instead. There I found the most engaging Christmas display in town-just west of the Dekes' foreboding chapel. It is I believe a pastoral Christmas motif. That is, I believe it is pastoral. I am whom they represent, what plants they visit and what they see from day to day. Capital Chaff The Jimmy Cromwells, recently voted the happiest married couple in society, will not fly to their Hawaii- an palace this winter . . . Gay Wash- ing social rendezvous this winter is the home of Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, widow of the late Phila- delphia financier. She has taken the palace which Ray Baker, former Director of the Mint, built shortly before he died . . . Construction of the palace caused one of Washing- ton's famous social feuds when dirt excavated from the Baker cellar was dumped upon the lawn of Mrs. Bor- den Harriman, now Minister to Nor- way . . . Ruth Wallace, daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture, has been in Helsinki. She is the wife of a young Swedish diplomat. ! a 4 7 . _.