PAGEFU E I..c Al. C ANY I1 A t L Y _..HEMICHGANDAILY TlHE MICHIGAN DAILY t' Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control o 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, r 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 9eeond class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mril, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVEft,.SING BY Nationl Advertising Service, Inc. College Pablishers Represenlative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO ' BOSTON' LOS ANGELES SAN FRA.CISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939=40 Carl Petersen B|hiott Maraniss Stan M. Swinton Morton L. Linder Nbrman A. Schorr Dennis 'Flanagan John N. Canavan Ann c.ary Uel Flneberg Editorial Staf .ses . Business Staff Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor SAssociate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor . Women's Editor Sports Editor . Paul H. Park Ganson P. Taggart Zenovia Skoratko . Jane MoWers Harriet S. Levy Business Manager Asst. Business Mgr., Credit Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Publications Manager 3 a s ±. 01 H Y, NIGHT EDITOR: LEONARD SCHLEIDER The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. American Seamen In Relief Drydock .. . THE GOVERNMENT said it would provide for them, and it tried. But last week there were still 750 of the 1,200 Ameri- can sailors, beached when the cash-and-carry law went into effect, among the missing, so far as government benefits were concerned. When the change in our neutrality policy put most of America's merchant marine in drydock, the Administration gave assurance that at least 1,000 of the jobless sailors would be placed in government naval schools and kept active until the seas were again free. Though admittedly not a solution to the problem, the relief program was the only feasible measure that Washington could offer. UP TO LAST WEEK, however, only 72 sailors had applied for service in these schools. Another 507 had applied for relief in New York City, and 372 had been accepted. The remain- der, about 750, have received no relief of any kind. Behind the seamen's disregard of the govern- ment's plan to have them enrolled in maritime schools, however, is a maze of petty bickering and mistrusts in which the entire relief pro- gram for the sailors has become obscured. The fight is between the C1 National Mari- time Union and the United States Maritime Commission. Point of the Union balkyness is that the Commission has taken sides with the ship-owners and will ultimately use the mari- time schools as spawning grounds for strike- breakers. As a consequence the CIO has dis- couraged most of the sailors from entering the schools. HE COMMISSION, on the other hand, admits that its sympathies lie with the ship-owners. Leading the Commission's attack against the Union is Admiral Henry A. Wiley, (U.S.N. re- tired), who has charged the Union's president, Joseph Curran, with conducting a campaign of "misrepresentation," of "capitalizing upon the misfortune of seamen," of being "motivated by powers outside yourself and the organization." In the meantime, while the Commission and the Union argue these points, 750 sailors ar jobless, and the Government, willing to provide relief funds, is stymied. Perhaps the Union and Commission have very real and very serious reasons for persisting in their struggle. The reasons they have expressed, however, seem based on mistrust and obstinacy too petty to be considered as obstacles blocking a program as needed as relief for the sailors. For here are men thrown out of their jobs so that the rest of America may feel safe against involvement in war. It is a time when the Mari- time Union and the Commission should seek to settle their differences rather than build new bases for conflict. -Hervie Haufler Now Is T-e Time- . . When you learned to typewrite--if you took a formal course-you at some time wrote over and over that famous line: "Now is the time for all good men to c6nie to the aid of their party." No more significance was ever attached to that phrase than is being attached today. Not so many months ago people were saying that the elephant was dead--the "Grand Old Party" had succumbed. THE EDITOR GETS TOLD In Re Zionism.. .. To the Editor: YOUR ISSUE of Sunday, Dec. 3, a leadin editorial by Robert Speckhard took issue with conclusions drawn by Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn at a recent address in Rackham Memorial Hall. Mr. Speckhard concludes his editorial thus: "The elimination of the stupid, exhausting and ever- lasting competition for existence in our capital- istic society and the evolution of a society in which an equitable and decent existence is a heritage of man and not the doubtful prize of bitter human struggle is the only permaned solution of the minority problem." A fine piece of Marxian dialectic! A sweeping statement and a sweeping solution for every- thing! Such simplicity! The ancient Messianic dream doctored up by Socialist theories with the spiritual coloring blacked out. It is so easy to accept an hypothesis and then to draw the most logical conclusions. The trouble with Mr. Speckhard's cure is that it is a quack cure. What sort of system will replace competition? Per- chance Mr. Speckhard would recommend Russia? No, we cannot eliminate the minority problem, and the Jewish problem in particular, by work- ing for a distant, unattainable solution which will destroy all of human liberty and ultimate progress. I suggest that Mr. Speekhard learn more about the brilliant experiment in human ad- justment-modern Palestine. Impractical! It is the only practical solution ever tried. Far more successful than the vain attempts of Jews to save the whole world-from Karl Marx down. What has the Jew wrought in Palestine? Learn about it, Mr. Speckhard and you will not talk so glibly about arid lands. Five hundred thous- and Jews have settled there in our time-Hebrew culture has been revived-a new cooperative society has been started-Jewish farmers, Jew- ish fishermen-these and much, much more have already come about in that "arid" country. A competitive wold economy will endure for long. Even now, most former sympathizers with Communism are stick at heart at the denouement of the Russian experiment. With- in the framework of modern society Jews will have to fit. The success of Palestine will tend to normalise Jewish life everywhere and eventually millions of Jews from strick and benighted areas will find a haven in the ancient home- land. All this ehvisages no early Utopia, but it is at least realistic. The only true evolution o human society will be based on the evolution of the human spirit. More and more. the events of these times bear witness thta external events alone do not change human character. -Avkah-Aineridan Student Zionist rganan The War At Mome To the Editor: THE MOST TRAGIC thing about this war, it seems to me, is that to millions of unem- ployed Americans it gives new hope for employ- ment, something they had almost given up h(- ing for in peace. Despite their horror and hate of mass muider, even when it is dressed up with the trappings of national honor and its other time-worn furbelows, the thought of their wives and children again living decently, and of them- selves being lifted out of the morass of idleness is naturally attractive to them. The pitiful thing is that they can see no other way of achieving the decency of employment than at the expense of the nillions who must die in Europe and Asia. Is there no other way to prosperity in America? Why should the farmers of America suddenly become prosperous for the first time since 1917 by providing food fo Europe when thousands in America suffer from malnutrition? Why should the energies of Americans be spent mak- ing munitions to destroy- the cities of Europe when thousands of Americans live in slums? In short, why build a prosperity on the war in Europe, which prosperity, incidentally, we know will collapse when the war ends, when there is more than enough work to be done in our own country? Every cent and every hour of work spent on War are taken from urgently needed rehabilita- tion work in our own country. Munitions are shortly blown off the face of the earth forever. Homes, forests, soil conservation, flood con- trol, schools, and hospitals, on the other hand, endure for decades, contributing to the immedi- ate welfare of human being, and producing healthy new generations to carry civilization forward. The building of America would take the com- bined efforts of every available man and woman, and all the available money and credit for years to come, and the product of this struggle would be a great America-not dead and crippled men and women, poverty and devastation, and mil- lions of dollars worth of uncolleetable war debts. -Alice Brower l". Wilkie Again PROFESSOR WATERMAN in his letter ap- pearing in Monday's Michigan baily implies my editorial on Wendell Willkie that the writer was making reflections on the personality of Mr. Willkie and specific charges against the Commonwealth & Southern corporation. It is unfortunate that the editorial was so in- terpreted, and I tale this opportunity to state tha no such implicaions were intended. It was the presentation rather than the intent that allowed the possibility of such an interpreta- tion, No doubt Mr; Willkie, himself, Is sncere- TH EATRE By FRANK G. RYDER Last night's marionette performance of "Dorn- roeschen"-the famous fairy-story of Sleeping Beauty-was an excellent example of enter- tainment in the unusual manner, arranged and presented entirely by a campus organization. The German Club deserves credit for an ambi- tious and successful undertaking. When the Yale Puppeteers came to Ann Arbor we had the opportunity to see their stringed actors in what would correspond to vaudeville sketches and short scenes. "Sleeping Beauty" involved the representation of a whole play, and it seems to me that this is a very difficult and exacting job for the puppets. Mo- tions must besmoothly and carefully executed to maintain a natural impression. Although the actions of the puppets in "Dornroeschen" lacked some of the professional smoothness of the Yale group. David Gibson, whose Scaletta Marionettes took over the boards of the Lydia Mendelssohn last night, and Alexander Miller who assisted in technical direction merit warm praise for a competent and extremely interesting piece of work. Mr. Gibson's puppets were carefully and in many cases elaborately outfitted. The King was especially ornamented and the evil witch was effective. Perhaps the most realistic of the cast of wooden Thespians was the Watchman (who looked like a monk to this reviewer), ex- cellently "voiced" by Edward Wetter. One of the few adverse criticisms which one might offer in the matter of the puppets themselves is that a marionette's "bare" legs are very unbecoming at best, and this rather spoiled the impression of the hunter who appeared slightly unstable and emaciated. , The play itself was adap'ted from the fairy story by Dr. Otto G. Graf and J. Stanhope Ed- wards of the German department and was well blanced and divided. The play followed the well known story closely enough to bring the difficulty of the language to a minimum. Dr. Graf, who guides the Verein's regular plays, has done an exceptionally capable job of direct- ing the speaking characters and organizing the whole. performance. He is to be compliment- ed for time and effort well expended. The speaking parts were uncommonly well done. The German diction of the characters was up to very high standards. This was par- ticularly apparent in several of the roleswhich called for "character" speaking, notably the in- toxicated Watchman, played by Mr. Wetter, the Witch, spoken by Kenneth Marble and the aged, and comically grave Chamberlain, read by Carl Petersen. Among the other characters who read parts the reviewer enjoyed especially the Prin- cess, spoken (and sarg)i by Ethel Winnai and the Queen of Fairies, performed by Lynda Nickl. The voices of the three fairies were taken by Dorothy Farmer, who was also the Page, Judith Frank, also the Lady-in-Waiting and Miss Winnai. Mr. Edwards doubled excellently in the roles of the Huntsman and the Prince and Dr. Graf also spoke the part of the Court Jester. Dominica3 Says By EDWARD W. BLAKEMAN III Christmas, Yes, the greatest of all our home celebrations, high day in the Christian calendar, is but thirteen days away. But how shall we approach the day when both Europe and Asia are drenched in blood and 2,000,000 members of the race to which Jesus' mother belonged, are being dispossessed, excluded from their native land and are ruthlessly settled in a buffer zone? How give gifts? How provide feasts? How re- joice with little children and sweet women of a world so cruel? One possible reply, namely- As a penitent person at prayer and a determined idealist in social struggle. Let us, in deference to the truths we have learned in Economics or the facts we have sur- veyed in Political Science, vow to God that by voice and vote the Bill of Rights in our land shall have our devotion. Let us as men of faith in ail age of force, profit and pressure-groups, loci, unto God, as did our Colonial fore-bearers, re- define liberty, dedicate ourselves to the Christian ideal and sing "Come, Desire of Nations, come Fix in us Thy humble home." agement. No such implication was intended. The Federal Trade Commission does not state nor does it deny that the C&S corporation has impaired the "vitality of free enterprise." In- disputably true, however, is the general state- ment of the Federal Trade Commission that an evil of private utility holding-companies is "pyr- amiding, enabling a few men to gain practical control of vast utilit yenterprises with a mini- mum of investment." The object of my editorial was not the per- sonality of Mr. Willkie, but the philosophy and viewpoint he expresses and represents in his article. Not only does Mr. Willkie represent the sentiments of the C&S corporation, but also the position and philosophy of private utility com- panies throughout the country, whose interests are the same as those of the Commonwealth & Southern corporation. Indicative of just this is the following quotation from the Nov. 26 nation- ally syndicated column of Pearson and Allen: "One of his strong supporters is Wendell Willkie, head of Commonwealth & Southern, and No. 1 foe of Rooseveltian power policies." (Last week Mr: Willkie gave an address, similar in expres- sion to his article, before the National Associa- tion of Manufacturer's convention.) The Federai Trade Commission's report of th GULLIVER'S CAVILS By Young Gulliver GULLIVER holds in his left hand, as he types away with his right forefinger, a glossy sheet of paper. On the top half is a lovely map of the United States, shot through by the rays of the sun. Underneath it are the words: GOD'S COUNTRY, embroidered with stars and stripes and so on. The bottom of the page goes some- thing like this: it starts with' "Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never .to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land?"-Scott. Then it says, "Sure we've taken it on the chin! Sure we've had our duststorms, droughts and depressions! So what? (Get it?) The gilt frame may have been broken, but the picture remains unchanged. "If you ever feel your knees get-* ting a little shaky, try this simple experiment . . . -repeat these words . . ., slowly: 'Before the world, I AM AN AMERICAN! I envy no man. I fear no man. No man has anything I covet. No man can take away from me anything I have." A couple more paragraphs and: "With its far-flung frontiers, mine is a land so broad, so rich in its hidden treasure, so vast in its re- sources, that, if we had to, we could build a fence around ourselves and live forever . . . alone. "Mine is a people of common sta- ture, uncursed by class . . . vaccin- ated against all isms, cults and im- ported crack-pot philosophers . noisy at a ball game, but dangerously silent in battle." This is the last paragraph: "But" most of all I give thanks for Ameri- can industry and for American busi- I ness brains that have found a way to pay better wages . . . to work shorter hours . . . to pay more for their raw stuff . . . and still, with' the help of mass production and mass distribution, give the people what they want at prices they can pay . . . Published in the belief that there is more to Business than just selling goods-LINK BELT COM- PANY, THE LEADING MANUFAC- TURER OF EQUIPMENT FOR HANDLING MATERIALS AND TRANSMITTING POWER. Repro- duced by the VALLEY CAMP COAL COMPANY, INCORPORATED." So when you are lolling around in the living room after Christmas Din- ner, be sure you give thanks for American Industry and American Business Brains, and have pity on the Poor Stooge who has to make a living by writing such drivel . . * * TALKING around town this week with a red face is John Malcolm Briminin, '41. It so happens that John is a poet. It also happens that he is the most promising young writer who has hit Ann Arbor in a long time. It also happens that he is one' of the outstanding young poets in the United States (recently he was awarded one of Poetry Magazine's annual prizes, truly national recog- nition). It also happens that he is one of the few writers in this coun- try who is going to make a name for himself on his own merits, without publicity or phoney buildups. The other day he received notice that a poem of his has been accepted for publication by Harper's Bazaar (that's right, girls, Harper's Bazaar). And as if that wasn't enough, accom- panying the letter came a check bearing the signature of Art Lover William Randolph Hearst, who, it seems, owns Harper's Bazaar. A MERRY CHRISTMAS to you, Gentle Reader, and a happy and peaceful New Year. See you on the Whiskey Special. It Seems TO Me By Heywood Broun A FEW WEEKS ago anybody who said "thirdterm" was frowned upon as if he rocked the boat, upset the applecart or uttered an uncouth phrase in front of the dean of wo- men. But now Mr. Roosevelt's chances for re-nomination and re- election are fit subjects for general conversation in mixed company. In- deed, presently the conversation may become so general that even the President will mention the matter. Th lid of national emergency now being lifted, this columnist would like to give once again a cry which international circumstances have long denied him. "Roosevelt for 1940" is the motto of It Seems to Me. In fact, I blame near crushed my thumb in nailing the banner to the masthead. And I think that support for Roosevelt should not be based on any silly adage about changing horses in midstream. Any time man can im- prove his mount he ought to do so, whether the track is fast or sloppy. * * 4. I THINK that Franklin Delano Roosevelt has handled our foreign affairs well, and will continue to do so. But in me there is one small THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1939 I VOL. L. No. 69 Notices Applications in Support of Research Projects: To give the Research Com- mittees and the Executive Board ade- quate time for study of all proposals, it is requested that faculty members having projects needing support dur- ing 1940-1941 file their proposals in the Office of the Graduate School by Jan. 12, 1940. Later request will, of course, be considered toward the close of the second semester. Those wish- ing to renew previous requests wheth- er now receiving support or not should so indicate. Application forms will be mailed or can be obtained at Sec- retary's Office, Room 1508 Rackham Building, Telephone 331. C. S. Yoakum. Seniors: College of L.S. and A., School of Education, School of For- estry and Conservation, and School of Music: Tentative lists of seniors have been posted on the bulletin board in Room 4, U. Hall. If your name does not ap- pear, or, if included there, it is not correctly spelled, please notify the counter clerk. Househeads, Dormitory Directors, and Sorority Chaperons: Closing hour for tonight is 11 o'clock. Jeannette Perry, Assistant Dean of Women. Directed Teaching, Qualifying Ex- amination: All students expecting to do directed teaching next semester are required to pass a qualifying ex- amination in the subject which they expect to teach. This examination will be held on Saturday, Jan. 6, at 1 p.m. Students will meet in the auditorium of the University High School. The examination will con- SOcial Service Unit Activities Are Descri be d Among the various agencies on the campus that are of special service to the Ann Arbor community is the Social Service Committee of the Lane Hall Council. This committee, Which is not entirely a new one, af- fords students who are interested in social work the opportunity of be- coming better acquainted with their friends, "and at the same time helps to intergrate the University with its surroundings. The Committee, composed of both freshmen and upperclassmen, num- bers its activities a toy-ending li- brary which it has establishied in two of the local schools. Toys are secured through the c-operation of studen ts and charitable organiza- tionsin Ann Arbor, and are lent out to children. Members of the Toy- Leniding Committee, headed by Fran- ces Johnson, '41, must continually fix broken toys as well as comply with sanitation requirements by cleaning all toys before redistrib- uting them. Volunteer Service Unit The Social Service Committee also provide for a Volunteer Service unit which works with such agencies in Ann Arbor as the Family Welfare and Community Fund. Students who wish to offer their services contact the committee and are notified whenf there is a call for them. This year the Social Sevice Com- mittee under the leadership of its chairman, Frances Blumenthal, 40, has initiated a new unit which is composed solely of Freshmen. In February, eligible :first-year students who are interested in the work of sume about four hours' time; prompt- nes is therefore essential. Senior Aeronautical Engineers: The Material Division of the U.S. Army Air Corps, at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, desires to obtain the names and qualifications of senior students in- terested in employment as civilian en- gineers. A limited number of appli- cation blanks may be secured in the office of the Department of Aero- nautical Engineernig. These should be filled out and sent to Mr. Earle C. Alley, Personnel Administrator, Ma- teriel Division, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Official announcement of a Civil Service examination for which February and June graduates would be eligible has not as yet been an- nounced, but the Materiel Division wishes to have on hand information pertaining to those men who may become qualified sometime within the coming year. February Candidates for the Teach- er's Certificate: The Comprehensive Examination in Education will be given on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 9 to 12 o'clock (and also from 2 to 5 o'clock) in the auditorium of the University High School. Students having Saturday morning classes may take the examination in the after- noon. Printed information regard- ing the examination may be secured in the School of Education office. Choral Union Members in good standing will be issued pass tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert tonight between the hours of 9 and 12 and 1 and 4. After 4 o'clock no tickets will be is- sued. Members are requested to re- turn copies of the "Messiah" when calling for tickets. Dictaphone Station will be open after 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 22, only to receive work, and will be closed on Saturday morning, Dec. 23, for office repairs. The Station will remain open on all other days during the University Christmas Vacation. It will be ap- preciated if those desiring work to be completed during the first week of the new year will leave their copy with instruction-s before Dec. 22. Concerts Choral Union Concert: The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Kousse- vitzky, Conductor, will give the sixth program in the Choral Union Concert Series this evening at 8:30 in Hill Auditorium. Exhibitions Paintings by William Gropper and prints by the Associated American 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: 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. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Veit 7alen- tin, Lecturer at University College, London, will lecture on "Austria and Germany" under the auspices of the Department of History at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Dr. Michael A. Heilperin, formerly of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, will lecture on "Liberal and Totalitarian Methods in Internatioi- al Economic Relations" under the auspices of the Department of Ec- onomics at 4:15 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 5, 1940, in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The public is cordially invited. Extracurricular Medical School Lec- ture: Dr. Clarence D. Selby, Medical Consultant of General Motors Corp., Will speak at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall on "The Rela- tionships of General and Special Practice to Industrial Medicine." "Medical School classes will be dismissed at 4 p.m. to permit all medi- cal students to attend. The public is cordially invited. Today's Events Perspectives: Meeting of the staff of editors and the advisory board at the Student Publications Bldg., today at 4 p.m. Finance Committee of JGP at 4:30 today in the League. All interested should attend or notify the chairman in advance. Phone 3718. Stalker Hall: Freiside discussion group meets from 4 to 5:30 this af- ternoon. Open to all Methodist stu- dents and their friends interested in DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ,1 the Committee different times Nursery, where keeping records taking notes on dents will also leaders. Trips will be assigned at to the Co-operative they will assist in of the children by behavior. Some stu- become Girl Scout through the social agencies of Ann Arbor and Detroit are being planned for this group in order to acquaint students with the work that is being carried on in these agencies. Ann Beseiner, '40, is Chairman of this committee. Work Holiday Plan Another feature which is looked on as a success by the Social Ser- vice Committee is the Work Holiday Plan. Each week some group on the 'campus undertakes a project which is designated by the Committee. At present many students are assisting the Family Welfare in preparing for its Christmas work. Executive any person who was wholly unfamiliar with foreign .affairs. But I don't believe in carrying the prin- ciple of specialization into the White House. Our leader should be a highly competent general practitioner. In the course of history we have chosen several incumbents Who were no more than nose and throat men. ¢z