THE MICHIGAN DAILV O-UNDAY, JAN. IC 1940 THE aICHI AN A IT A . 1.. JDA JNYYe t4} 1CI THE MICHIGAN DAILY MUSIC + i I _ _ , ; -, OF ALL THINGS!.. By lorty-q. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN -"A. _IX N1 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 ADVER4.SING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representaive 420 MADISON Avg. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO *'BOSTON * LOS ANUELS SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff Carl Petersen Elliott Maraniss Stan Mv. Swinton Morton L. Linder Norman A. Schorr Dennis Flanagan John N.Canavan Ann Vicaryg, Mel Fineberg 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 Skoratka . Jane Mowers *Harriet S. Levy Business Staff Business Manager . . Asst. Business Mgr., Credit Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Publications Manager NIGHT EDITOR: MILTON ORSHEFSKY The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Racket-Busters And Political Opportunity AS THE JUDGE announced his con- viction, Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro, last of "The Gorilla Boys" and head of the$75,- 000,000-a-year fancy fur-dressing 'racket, cried, "They don't go after the little fellows-they go after the big shots like me." By "they" he meant New York's racket-bus- ters, Tom Dewey and Harlan Amen. These two had done little to affect the security of small fry. They had instead found, perhaps by ac- cident, that there was more to be gained from crucifying the big shots than by playing ball with them. Dewey's sleuthing brought the trial and conviction of Judge Martin T. Manton, who had apparently "sold" justice; Dewey put Tam- many bigwig James J. Hines behind the bars; his gangland victims included "Legs" Dimond, "Waxey" Gordon, "Dutch" Schultz (who was shot to death before he could be tried), "Lucky" Luciano and "Tootsie" Herbert. Over in Brook- lyn, Amen brought in 40 indictments in his first seven months. AS A RESULT of his zealous crusading, Tom Dewey has risen to a vantage point from which he has tossed his hat in the presidential ring. His reputation needed no political ma- chine's publicity, no coddling of convention dele- gates, no compromises with powerful bigshots. Instead, he executed a public office so efficiently and brilliantly that he made his own political capital. Since he has shown the way, racket-busters have sprung up like mushrooms all over the country. Gov. Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri teamed up with Attorney General Frank Murphy to send "Boss" Pendergast of Kansas City to prison. In Pennsylvania, former Gov. George H. Earle's machine was investigated. In Cleveland, Eliot Ness, city safety director, last year indicted 10 policemen and 23 "racketeer and muscle men." Newspapers have given banner headlines to this reform wave. America needs cleaning up. But what may be more important in the long run is that Tom Dewey has demonstrated a new formula for political success. He has shown that there is a legitimate, even a hyper-legiti- mate, way of claiming popular attention. WE KNOW that the most productive of our legislators today the Borahs, Norrises, Wagners-are above the hurly-burly elements of vote-getting. They have become so respected, their merits so recognized, that their constitu- ents will return them to office whether or not they look out for their locality. They can take a national view; they do not have to keep one eye fearfully intent upon the voters' desires. The American legislatures, state ar.d federal, have inevitably become too bound up in these lesser elements of democracy. If you are a public figure, you either spend most of your time appeasing the folks back home or you give up the political ghost. It is this flaw that has given democracy its seamy side-its pork-bar- reling, log-rolling, baby-kissing. Dewey's rise has pointed out one small way by which "politics" may be circumvented. In- stead of using his office for its immediate gravy, Dewey is looking ahead, is trying to make his present post a springboard to something higher. Re has, by his success as a racket-buster, reached much the same position in public life as Borah, Norris or Wagner: He has sufficient pres- tige that he can divorce himself from provincial interests. By RICHARD BENNETT M1ADAME FLAGSTAD'S Choral Union re- cital tomorrow evening may be her last in Ann Arbor, for it is rumored that after filling this year's concert and operatic engagements she will retire from public life. If it is a swan- program, we cannot deny its finality and im- pressiveness. Well balanced in both key and mood, it is comprised of the music the renowned soprano has revitalized for many a hardened critic. Madame Flagstad, accompanied by the con- ductor-composer-pianist, Mr. Edwin McArthur, will open her program with Schubert's Die All- macht and will close with Richard Strauss' Hie sollten wir geheim sie halten, thus bounding a program consisting wholly of music of the Ro- mantic School. Now one thing may be said for an all-romantic program that can be said neith- er for an all-classic nor all-modern one: it is rich in color and mood and its language is well- enough known not to demand too much from our powers of concentration. Therefore, what- ever is to be gained from such a program will be gotten from the artist's newness of interpre- tation. Where there is a relative absence of mood and color, as in the Classic School, the interpreter is more or less subordinate to the objective statement of the composer's original idea. And the more clear, concise and exact this statement is, the more unencumbered by subjective considerations-moods, visions, fan- tasies--just that much more "musical" will be his understanding of the classic ideal. This is not to say that temperament .and feel- ing for color, etc., do not enter into the rendi- tion of Haydn or Gluck. Not at all. But sure- ly the interpreter's emphasis is not upon these qualities as such, but upon the contrapuntal pattern and the "orderly movement of parts." When a romantic composer, such as Brahms, becomes partially classic in structure, then the " he Drew Pearson Robert S. Allen" WASHINGTON-With all the talk of budget pruning, it is interesting to note that two agencies which did not get slashed are the Unit- ed States Senate and the Executive Offices of the White House. Apparently neither the leg- islators nor the President relished curtailing their own expense allowances. Equally interesting is the fact that the Ex- ecutive Office budget this year has jumped to $3,573,700, which is just a nose from the amount to be spent by the Senate, namely $3,865,624. Senate moguls cite this with mingled glee and alarm, pointing out that the United States, un- der Roosevelt, is approaching a dictatorship, and that the expense of running the ;residetial offices now comes close to the cost df running the entire United States Senate-including the salaries of 96 Senators, plus clerks, mineral water, barbers, and railroad travel. Real fact, however, is that the Executive Of- fice budget was increased this year by the trans- fer of the Budget Bureau, the National Emer- gency Council, and other agencies to the White House. This was one result of the government reorganization bill. Aside from this, however, the Senators are right that the cost of maintaing the Executive Office, taken separately, has increased. In 1939 it was $2,370,877, while in 1940 it will be $2,972,100. This includes the salary of the President, also of Vice-President Garner, the salaries of White House clerks, and maintenance of buildings. The Senate budget, which is given in the most meticulous detail, includes: "For folding speeches and pamphlets $18,000. For packing boxes, $970. Laborer in charge of senate toilet rooms in the old library space, $1,200. Twenty- one pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $4 a day each ..." Note-The Senate budget scheduled for 1941 is about $173,000 greater than for 1940. Mr. L. W. (Chip) Robert, vivacious secretary of the Democratic National Committee, came back to his apartment in the Mayflower un- expectedly the other afternoon to find his wife, the glamorous Evie, decked out in an apron and mixing cocktails for a bridge party across the hall. Hostess at the bridge party was Mrs. Gary Grayson, whose late husband was aide to Wood- row Wilson. Guests at the party included Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Jesse Jones, wife of the New Deal loan czar. This information, however, Mr. Robert gleaned from the maid. He did not see the ladies, nor did they see him. Instead he picked up the telephone and called Mrs. Grayson. "Mrs. Grayson," he said, "this is the manage- ment of the Mayflower. I'm terribly sorry to disturb you, but you know we hve a lot of trouble with the unions, and I understand you are em- ploying a scab waitress this afternoon. "You know, the regulations of the hotel are that all liquor served in our guests' rooms must be served by a hotel waiter. Otherwise we're likely to have another strike around here." "Oh, dear me!" exclaimed Mrs. Grayson. "Am I in wrong with the union? What had I better do?" performer will find himself obliged to exert a greater degree of exactness for the composer's composition rather than for his, the singer's, pianist's or violinist's, feeling about that com- position. The Modern School, of course, offers plenty of room for color, mood and even elaboration; but the message itself is so new and generally startling (if truly modern) that the "interpreter" finds little time for expressing himself at all. Here his business is almost the same as that in performing works of the classic school, al- though for a very different reason: viz, to pre- sent the composer's work as simply and exactly as the composer means it. Since romantic music is a music born of blood and feeling (Norwegian and northern), the artist is allowed greater scope for making apparent his message of farewell. Perhaps that is one reasn why Madame Flagstad has chosen an all- romantic program. The Norwegian, Eyvind Alnaes, was born in the last century and died eight years ago. He held various posts in Drammen and Christiania (Oslo) as organist, choirmaster and conductor. As a composer he became known by his Sym- phony in C minor and soon after by his Sym- phonic Variations. "His works show solid con- struction, capable treatment of counterpoint and effective instrumentation." His use of rhythms is both powerful and varied. But it is as a.lyric composer that Alnaes became inter- nationally known. His songs rank among the best productions of his native Norway. They are nationalistic in character, while of simple and natural construction. Recently, singers such as Flagstad, Wettergren, Thorborg and others, have brought them into prominence in America. It.is a long program, running as follows: Die Allmacht, Fruhlingsglaube, Ungeduld, all by Schubert; O wusst' ich doch den Weg zuruck, Meine Liebe ist grun, by Brahms; then in Nor- wegian: Fra mdnte Pineo (Mount Pinci). Med en vandlilje (A Waterlily), Et Haab (My Hope), all by Grieg; Lykken mellem to mrnnesker (Our Happiness), and Varlengsler (Spring Yearnings), by Alnaes; the "Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tris- tan and Isolde"; Song for Lovers, by Deems Taylor; Spring Came.' by Edwin McArthur; When I have Sung my Songs, by Ernest Charles; Sea Moods, by Mildred Tyson; and closing with the three Richard' Strauss songs: efreit, Di muines her'ec Krouelein, and Wie solten wir geheim sie halten THE EDITOR GSETS TOLD .. To the Editor: In his defense of the American Student Union, which appeared on the editorinl page of Thurs- day's Daily, Gulliver showed a certain philo- sophic detachment and sense of historical per- spective which, as a rule, has been entirely lack- ing in the pronouncements of his more emotion- al and dogmatic colleagues on the editoril staff. Nevertheless he has failed utterly in his futile attempt to apologize for the obvious hypocrisy of the ASU. That organization has for several years been pretending to serve the' interests of "peace and democracy," and has regularly de- nied that its main purpose was to promote the growth in this country of a more friendly atti- tude towards the Soviet Union, and to inculcate in the American people the false belief that the latter country was a "democracy." As a matter of fct the ASU is thoroughly dominated by persons of Marxist ideology. Its membership may be divided into two classes: Communists, who do the work, and fools, who do the talking and write the pamphlets. History has not moved too fast for the ASU. The truth is that history, in its recent chapters, has shown that the economic and political world is more complicated than the dupes of Marxism have assumed. Their philosophy is too narrow; their childish categories do not ex- haust the political universe. The people of the world cannot be classed only as good democrats and bad fascists. To be more specific, these foolish young radi- cals have not realized in the past what is so fearfully apparent now, namely that there are certain elements in Soviet Communism which are just as antagonistic to real democracy as are the doctrines of fascism. Hence their con- sternation to the natural and inevitable alli- ance of Germany and Russia, and their failure to regard realisticly the coming world struggle between communism and democracy which seems as sacriligeous to them as a rebellion of the Virgin Mary against God would seem to the Catholics). They have not yet realized that fascism is nothing more than the natural re- action against socialism, merely a more ad- vanced stage of the same social disease. Nor can we take seriously the excuse offered by Gulliver that the situation with respect to Finland is materially different than the Span- ish, Ethiopian, or Chinese situations. It is in- deed true that in order to give even moral en- couragement to the Finns, we would have to join hands temporarily with England and Her- bert Hoover, but since when has this been a disgrace to the ASU? Did it not urged us to join with England to help Leftist Spain? Who dares to be so unrealistic as not to ad- mit the true reason why all the dupes of the ASU and similar radical movements) regard the Russo-Finnish War as unique? The real reason is, of course, that it is the Soviet Union, the land which they love the most, upon which IN THE CELLAR of this building there is a madman. It really can't be called a cellar because ther are no rats. Except Lou, who is als the madman. And Lou can't reall be called a madman except in th sense that he makes lots of othe: people mad. At him. He doesn't loo much like a madman except that h doesn't have much hair which make him very mad. Lou's face isn't muc to look at-just one of these goo solid homely faces-and it is alway. dirty, very dirty, which makes th Board in Control of Publication mad because he has to use so muc soap. All in all, there is a lot of ma created by this guy Lou. Lou works in the cellar here. Hi is called a makeup man, that is, h takes care of making up the page This very line you are reading wa put into the Page by Lou, the mad man. Which brings Mr. Q. to th reason why he too is mad at Lou The other day, Of All Things ... carried a story on some of the screw tales that always come up aroun J-Hcp time. Any of you who by som unavoidable chance happened to miss that column may have one o request. Just submit one copy o each of Mr. Q.'s approaching final or reasonable facsimiles of the same Anyhow. Lou the madman cut th column short, as a result leaving of the best nutty story of all. In a effort to placate Mr. Q.'s wrath an force him to let go of his two re maining hairs, Lou protested tha lack of space was the cause. This i a poor excuse since he could wel have made the page a little longe only he's too darn mean. W ELL, ANYHOW, here's the stor y and if Lou cuts it out again, M Q. wil report him to some nearb civil liberties committee for suppres sing a free press. Come to think o it, Mr. Q. can see no good reason wh the Free Press shouldn't be sup pressed. During the recent holiday recess one young gent who lives in Montana thought it would be a good chance to put the bee on the paternal min 'or some J-Hop funds. So he ap proached the animated check-book inquired after his health, and ther told him he was joining the calvary unit of the ROTC and would nee some dough for a horse; about $150 he thought, ought to get him a-pretty fine animal. The financing Mathe: saw visions of his boy leading a cal. vary troop in a parade,-made a crack about how he thought a pair of ski would be more useful, then assure his chiseling child that everything would be taken care ofr. So the lad came backhto schoo and awaited mail from home. One day last week at dinner, the phone rang and he was called. He picked up the receiver, said, yes that was he, what was it? And the voice o the express man boomed over the wire: "Well, when in hell are y comin' to pack up this horse?" UST TO GET this business of J Hop tales out of the way once and for all, here's one that happened a the Union while the ticket sale was in progress. One group of lads stood in line all day and when they got to the ticket window, it closed for the day. So they decided to park in the lobby all night. But the Union said no to that. So what do the boys do but chip in, rent a room in the Union and take turns sitting up in line all night. Ironical thought: these are prob- ably the same guys who will get so damn drunk they will never know whether they were to the Hop or an Armory dance. *L*:* * THIS IS SUPPOSED to be a Leap Year when all the gals are sup- posed to race around like crazy for a man. Maybe the gals around here are too bashful or maybe they are just plain afraid. Or maybe they are just plain. At any rate, a want- ad in yesterday's Daily seems to indi- cate that either the women aren't taking advantage of the goodness of the calendar or else the men are getting sick and tired of waiting: WANTED: Michigan Dame preferably with car, for part- timeecompanion work. Telephone 9551. Any of you dames who are interest- ed, don't forget to tell him ycu saw, it in The Daily. * * * * AS ANYONE figured out yet what W. H. Auden said in Rackham Auditorium Friday? He was sup- posed to talk on "A Sense of One's Age" and he made most of the au- dience who filled the amphitheatre sense they were about age eight mentally. There is no question that Auden is a great modern poet; no one can deny that he is superbly well- informed and has a fine grasp of in- tellectual problems, but the deep, highly philosophical, and meta- physical talk he gave was not suited for a lecture of that sort. It was the kind of thing a small group sits (Continued from Page 2) as soon as we know the number of men we can take into the house. Academic Notices Math. 6, 4 o'clock section. There will be no examination on Tuesday, Jan. 16; Thursday's assignment will be taken up instead. There will be an examination Thursday, Jan. 18, on Chapter IV. Aero. 15, Theoretical Aerodynam- ics class will not meet on Monday, Jan. 15. i Concerts Choral Union Concert: Kirsten Flagstad, assisted by Edwin Mc- Arthur, pianist, will give the seventh program in the Choral Union Con- cert Series, Monday evening, Jan. 15, at 8:30 o'clock, in Hill Auditorium. Band Concert: The University Band with Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman as Guest Conductor, will give a concert this afternoon, at 4:15 o'clock in Hill Auditorium, to which the general public is invited without admission charge. The concert is given under the auspices of the Michigan Band and Orchestra Association and the University School of Music. Exhibitions Exhibits of the University's Arch- eological Research in the Philippines, Great Lakes Region, Ceramic Types of the Eastern United States and of Ceramic Technology and Ethnobo- tany are being shown in the Mezza- nine floor Exhibit rooms of the Rackham Building. Also exhibited are antiquities from the University excavations at Seleucia-on-Tigris and from Karanis. Open daily from 2:30 to 5:30 and from 7:30 to 9:30, ex- cept Sunday. Exhibition, paintings by John Pap-. pas and a collection of German prints from the Detroit Art Institute, Alum- ni Memorial Hall; 2 to 5 p.m. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Oliver Kamm, Scientific Director of the Research Laboratory of Parke, Davis & Company in Detroit, will lecture on "Vitamin K" under the auspices of the College of Pharmacy at 4:15 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 15, in Room 165, Chemistry Building. The public is cordially invited. Today's Events Varsity Glee Club. Meeting of all committee chairmen in Glee Club rooms today at 3:30 p.m. Sing at the Wolverine Open House at 9:15 p.m.. Sunday, for all who signed for it. A.S.M.Es members. The A.S.M.E. group picture will be taken at Rent- schler's' Studios at 319 E. Huron today, promptly at 2:30 p.m. Sigma Eta Chi meeting scheduled for tonight at 8:30 is postponed. Eta Kappa Nu meeting in Michigan Union tonight at 7:00. Those wishing to eat in a group will meet in the usual place at 6:30 p.m. New Michigan Wolverine, 209 S. State Street, is having Open House today from 6:00 to 12:00 p.m. Re- freshments. International Center: Prof. Harley H. Bartlett will speak on "The Ma- layan People" at 7 o'clock following the regular Sunday night supper at the Center. Michigan Anti-War Committee will meet today at 3:00 p.m. at the Michi- gan Union. Delegates will report on the National Youth Anti-War Con- gress. Movies on Cooperatives in Michi- gan will be shown today at 3 p.m. in Room 318 Michigan Union. The Inter-cooperative Council cordially invites all those interested in cooper- atives to attend. Graduate Outing Club meeting to- day at 2:30 p.m. in rear of Rack- ham Building for program of outdoort sports, including tobogganing, skat- ing and sliding. Supper in club roomsf if desired. Graduate students and faculty invited. Dr. Abram Sachar, due to illness, will be unable to attend the events planned for him at the Hillel Foun- dation. The Saturday evening recep- tion is canceled, but the luncheon and all other events announced for the weekend will be held. Hillel Council Meeting will be held at the Foundation at 12 o'clock to- day. The Lutheran Student Club will meet this evening with fellowship hour at 5:30, dinner at 6:00 o'clock, and discussion following the dinner. Coming Events German Table for Faculty Mem- bers: The regular luncheon meeting will be held Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the Founders' Room of the Michigan Union. All faculty members interest- ed in speaking German are cordially invited. There will be a brief infor- mal talk by Dr. K. Scharenberg on, "Krankheiten grosser Maenner." The Romance Language Journal Club will hold a meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 4:10 p.m., in Room 408 RL. Program: Abraham Herman: "Editors and Their Sins." Newton S. Bement: "Report of the Foreign Language Study Committee." Gradu- ate students in Romance languages are invited. Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet in Room 319 West Medical Building, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 16. Subject: "Vitamins A-Chemistry and Physiology." All interested are in- vited. add Botanical Seminar will meet Wed- nesday, Jan. 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 1139 N.S. Bldg. Paper by B. M. Davis, "An amphidiploid from a cross in Oenothera, its cytology and its pro- geny." Junior Mathematics Society will meet Monday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in 3201 A.H. Dr. Eilenberg will speak on "The Concept of Dimension." Re freshments. U.S. Naval Reserve: Lieutenant Forrest A. Roby, of the United States Naval Reserve Aviation Base at Grosse Ile, Michigan, will talk to students interested in flight training, Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 1042 East Engineering Build- ing. Tau Beta Pi regular dinner meet- ing Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 6:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Professor Heber D. Curtis of the Astronomy department will speak. Zeta Phi Eta will meet at 4:45 p.m. Monday at Dey's Studio to have, the Ensian picture taken. 1940 Mechanical Engineers: Mr. J. H. Dillon of the Ingersoll-Rand Com- pany will be in Room 221 West En- gineering Building on Wednesday, Jan. 17, to interview men interested in possible employment with this com- pany. Make an appointment Mon- day. 1940 Mechanical Engineers: Repre- sentatives of the Babcock and Wilcox Company will be here on Friday, Jan. 19, for interviews. For further infor- mation, see bulletin board. Physical Education for Women: Individual skill tests will be given in the following activites: Badmnton: Friday, Pan. 20, 4:00 to 6:00, Barbour Gymnasium. Ice Skating: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Jan. 15, 16, 17, 18, 3:30 to 4:30, University Coli- seum. Fencing: Wednesday, Thursday, Jan. 17, 18, 2:30 to 4:10, Barbour Swimming: Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Jan. 16, 18, 7:30 to 8:30, Union Pool This notice is particularly impor- tant for those women with incom- pletes in physical education. International Center: Prof. Harley H. Bartlett will show his films on "Sumatra" at 7 o'clock, Monday eve- ning, at the International Center. The Bookshelf and Stage Section of the Faculty Women's Club will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 2:45 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Wm. Randolph Tay- lor, 2007 Washtenaw Avenue. Bibliophiles will be entertained on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 2:30 p.m. at Mrs. Earl D. Rainville's home, 1459 Rose- wood Street. Churches Unitarian Church: 11 a.m. "The Eyes of the Blind Shall See," second talk on worldly affairs taken from Handel's "Messiah." 7:30. Round Table Discussion on "Inhibitions in Modern Education," led by Prof. A. R. Morris of the Dept. of English. were the surroundings and how com- fortable the seats, Auden said it re- minded him of the professor who talked in other people's sleep. Com- menting on the average Britisher's notion of the United States, he said they picture New York on one coast, Hollywood on the other, and Mark Twain somewhere in between. They also consider , the U.S. to be a "checkered apron around the ample waist of Canada."