I'd Rather Be RIGHT! ,. 4 - _a. , . .. r . . 71 . ...> ; 71 111' MUSIC DAILY OFFICIAL BULLE I l :MI nanaged by students of the University of r the'authority of the Board In Control of cations. very morning except Monday during the x and Summer Session. ber of the Associated Press ted Press is exclusively entitled to the ication of all news dispatches credited to erwise credited in this newspaper. All >lication of all other matters herein also he Post Office at.Ann Arbor, Michigan, as nail matter. s during regular school year by carrier, $4.50. NTED FOR.NATIONAL ADVEfm.SING BY - nal Advertising Service, Inc. Ulege Publibers Representative AbISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. BOSTO, . LOS ANGELES -SAN FRANCISCO socated Collegiate Press, 1939.40, Editorial Staff aniss Anton Gander Scorr. Hagan . navan . a ' . . Managing Editor Editorial Director City'Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Women's Editor Sports Editor Business Staff r . . . . Paul R. Park gr., Credit Manager Ganson P. Taggart s Manager . Zenovia Skoratko ising Manager Jane Mowers lager . . . Harriet S. Levy NIGHT EDITOR: WILLIAM ELMER The editoials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. T eacker$ Are Citizens Too .. FITER TIREE YEARS of stormy dis- A cussion and heated debate, the As- sociation of American Colleges finally shook it- self last week and passed a resolution asserting its views on the positipn of the collee teacher as a private citizen. Long a question of great importance, the problem of the extent to which teachers should express their convictions public- ly and in the classroom has caused a great deal of controversy in the Association. This year's 'statement, passed by an overwhelming vote, is, in reality, the resolution that war advocated in -a majority report at the Association's meeting last year, but which was stymied at that time by a minority reponrtbrought In by a group headed Eby President William C. Dennis of Earlham College. In short, the resolution very properly asserts the inviolable right of the teacher to speak or write, free from institutional discipline or cen- sorship, since he is a citizen, no different from anyone else who may want to have his opinions aired. Certain .restrictions are placed on the teacher-he should exert restraint, be respect- fi.j of the opinions of others and should let others realize that he is not the spokesman of his institution. All these restraints are quite proper, as long as the teacher is not held down, for no reason other than that he is a teacher. It is necessary that he not be accepted as the mouthpiece of his college. Wrong impressions created by persons not qualified to speak for a school can create great havoc with that school. THE RESOLUTION is well done, as far as it goes. It is the part that was deleted from the majority report that causes doubt as to whether all the teachers at the meeting were as solicitous about the preservation of the liberty of opinion of their fellows as they might. Cut ont of the final statement was the sentence: "'he judgment of what constitutes fulfillment of these obligations (the restrictions) should rest with the individual." This statement, fought against by President Dennis and finally with- drawn, would seem, more than any other part, to preserve the freedom of the teacher, for the tribunal that President Dennis favors could very easily infringe upon the freedom of opinion of individuals. A tribunal, to judge opinions of teach- ers, something President Dennis thinks is quite possible, could be composed of jealous teachers and personal enemies of certain of their col- lhagues, who write and speak of ticklish doctrines leagues, who write and speak of ticklish doc- trines. More just is the realization that profes- sors and instructors are "members of a learned profession," men and women who have the in- telligence and training to understand judiciously the limits to which they can go in expressing their opinions. The whole point is that, in a time when aca- demic freedom is under a terrific bombardment from forces outside education, attacks on it from inside are apt to be disastrous. Dema- gogues ranting against the influence of teach- ers, who do not toe the line are very ably rein- fbrced in their fight against liberal education, when educators, themselves, admit that they do not trust their own. - Alvin Sarasoh. No matter in what direction a tax is hurled, it always hits the ultimate consumer. Prohahl the mnt Tfoisch thino- 0 ,man ever By SAMUEL GRAFTON T IS TIME for the liberal tolook into his heart - and decide what he really wants to see1 hap- pen in Europe. "Peace, if it came soon, would be a calamity," writes Miss Freda Kirchwey in the Nation, and Miss Kirchwey's liberalism is not open to doubt. The statement, taken out of con- text, is startling. It is the sort of remark which can haunt its maker for years to come. The context of Miss Kirchwey's comment is that peace would be an armistice condoning a bigger Munich, leaving Germany and the Soviet Union in possession of Poland, and ratifying, i advance, any further aggression upon which Herr Hitler might thing it fit to embark. That's bad. War's bad too. Which is worse? One needs very delicate scales for making a judg- ment of this kind. I must confess that mine are out of order; I can't quite get a reading. I hear a squeak in them which seems to say: "When in doubt be for peace," but that must be my imagination. That Moral Monster What! Be for peace and let that moral mon- ster, Hitler, get away with what he has done to the Czechs, the Poles, the Austrians, the Jews? (One tactfully mentions the Jews last, so as not to make it seem purely "a Jewish issue"; thus have the anti-Semites of America already scored a 'victory by senstiing us on; this point, as if the Jews were not human beings). To give Hitler his peace now is to pat him on the back as Mr. Chamberlain once did and applaud his crimes. That's bad. But regard the week's news dis- patches: the little war strains against its tight Maginot shackles and gives every sign of pre- paring to explode into war on world scale. Eng- lishmen openly discuss moving troops to Norway and Sweden. Italy agitatedly points to Turkey, Iran, India, Afghanistan, as good spots from which to attack the Soviet Union. The English, French and Italian Ambassadors have all left Moscow. Germany warns Sweden not to send arms to Finland, and the threat is of a German blitzkrieg against Denmark (it could be done in 10 minutes) followed by Nazi landing parties in Scandinavia. Holland apparently hears of a pending German invasion. She promises to re- sist. Then the great waters will pour through the broken dikes, but how that will help the Czechs, the Poles, the Austrians and the Jews the news ticker sayeth not. * * *~ * It will become a war to save civilization, with England, France and perhaps Italy against Ger- many, Russia, Japan, while the Balkan states are divided up according to which set of powers has most heavily greased the palms of their poli- ticians. I seem to remember that the Allies bought Rumania and Germany bought Bulgaria G3ULLIV ER'S CAVILS By YOUNG GULLIVER AN AMIABLE DRUNK is the only kind of in- dividual who doesn't resent being called a fool. Gulliver is stone sober and he resents be- ing called a fool. Even more than that does he resent having his words distorted and jumbled by Mr. Louis P. Nadeau (see last Sunday's Daily) in order to slander the American Student Union, the editors of The Daily and liberals at large. It woul take a lot of time and effort to answer in detail each of the 40 or 50 points which Mr. Nadeau raised in his letter, and' who knows whether it would be worth the effort? Suffice it is to say that Guliver's column of last Thurs- day was neither an apology for the ASU pro- grams (past and present) nor an attack on those programs-it was an attempt at a friendly criti- cism by one who has been a member of the ASU since its inception, a member who dislikes be- ing classified as either a fool, a dupe, or a com- munist. Mr. Nadeau's pronunciamento has not changed Gulliver's attitude towards recent events in Europe: he still believes that the~'En- gish-German war is an imperialist conflict from which the United States should remain aloof, and he still believes that recent developments point very strongly to a fairly speedy resolution of the imperialist conflict and a resultant com- bined attack by all the capitalist powers on the Soviet Union. You can furnish your own moral judgments . . = * * *-' THE SPEECH of Wystan Hugh Auden last Fri- day was a most disheartening affair. As far as °Gulliver is concerned, it acted as the worst sort of a depressant. There stood the man who has for the past 10 years been one of the dominant intellectual leaders of our time; there stood the Young Poet who had been acclaimed as the most spicy, the most witty, the most pungent critic of the status quo. He stood there and told us, very wearily, that it is the entire world which is lonely now, and that it is the poet's task to translate that loneliness into effective verse. That was all. There didn't seem to be any hope left, or any fun. He told us about lone- liness, and he quoted from Poe and Kaffka and Rilke-good quotations too. The rest of his speech was a jumble of half thought out ideas expressed in the cloudiest fashion. They were the sort of ideas which might get by as casual table talk, but they would certainly never bear ti ~ n V 0VaVmim0+n +nn a., 0fI' erntyrn.v r- ilncnr'h n the last time, which is one reason for the curious fact that (in spite of Mr. Wilson's "self-deter- mination of peoples") Rumania is now very big and Bulgaria is very small. We, of course, will be invited to do our part in saving civilization, and young Americans will be taken off the snowy campus of Dartmouth and the warm walks of Tulane to bring the eternal verities to Dobruja, a place whose name I defy them to spell without looking. To Save Civilization Perhaps peace would not be so great a calam- ity, after all. Perhaps. to be for peace now, this minute, is to.take the better of bad choices. Yet just as I reach this decision (trying not to feel like Mr. Chamberlain at Munich) I really get into trouble. How would the peace differ from the war that is now going on? There would be a few less casualties on the Westwall, and a few less sinkings in the North Sea. But the Hitler push would go on. The Russian push would go on. The French and British economic war would go on. The. armaments race would go on. The end of the far-from-phony war would be a phony peace. Peace Not A Calamity The great new fact in Europe is that the dis- tinction between peace and war has become blurred and purely technical. The forces have lined up. The world war is coming. It is late in the day for decisions. All we in this country can do is to hold on to our hats and try to keep out. A poor, inadequate conclusion, ducking a problem too hard to solve, and I give it to you without pride. ~ C16- Drew Perso~l Rbert S.AIle WASHINGTON-The big behind-the-scenes sensation in the battle over the anti-lynch- ing bill is inside word that Vice-President Jack Garner favors allowing the measure to come to a vote in the Senate. Inability to get a vote on the Senate floor is the only thing that has blocked enactment of this legislation for years. In the last big fight over anti-lynching in 1937, there was an over- welming majority in the Senate for the bill. But its sponsors were unable to force a vote. A de- termined Southern filibuster lasting nearly six weeks barred action, and in the end the bill was junked. Garner gave the filibusters potent undercover aid in the'1937 struggle. Throughout his long congressional career he has always been against anti-lynching legislation-and still is. He con- siders the bill now passed by the House to be unsound and impractical. But with his sombrero in the presidential ring, he has changed his tune to the extent of per- mitting a showdown vote. That's an important concession because only a vote is needed to put the measure on the statute books. However, there is no inside indication that Garner's stand will produce results. None of the other southern leaders has been won over. They areJust as adamant against a vote as inl the-past. Garner's fellow Texan, Senator Tom Connally, floor general of the 1937 battle, also is a candi- date this year-but not for the presidency. Tom is up for reelection and has his eye glued on Texas-not the nation. He is out to resist a showdown vote on anti-lynching just as ve- hemenitly as he did three years ago. Connally's vigorous Southern backing means that the bill hasn't' a chance. After a few weeks of filibuster it wilV again be pigeon-holed. Note:-Also doomed is Pat Harrison's resolu- tion, passed by the Senate, for a joint commit- tee to study government income and outgo in order to keep within the budget. House leaders view the proposal as a Senate attempt to rule the budget roost, will pigeon-hole it in' com- mittee. Things were going pleasantly at former At- torney General Homer Cummings'acocktail party until James V. Bennett suddenly announced that his overcoat was missing. Guests blinked in horror. The thought that someone would have the temerity to pinch the coat of so awesome an individual as the Chief of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons was hair-raising. A frantic search was begun for the vanished coat and the reckless culprit. Both were soon found. A young newsman, who had partaken too freely of'Cumming's potent hospitality, had mis- taken Bennett's coat for his own. He was non- chalantly wearing it as he made his adieus. Ap- prised of the situation, the reporter remarked, "I thought this one felt sort of warmer than mine. "Warm!" quipped Gordon Dean, ace lawyer of the Anti-Trust Division. "Boy, for a few min- utes you had on the 'hottest' overcoat in the country." By RICHARD BENNETT AFTER HEARING Madame Flag- stad's concert last evening, I feel this review might just as well have been written a week before the con- cert cameooff. For' there is something so peculiarly certain about the dis- tinguished prima donna's voice and way of approach to her art that one feels it is impossible she should ever' retrogress. Nor will she ever retro- gress. Oh, the voice will fade and the body lose its strength, but the kind of understanding that gave us that powerful rendition of Brahms' "O wusst' ich doch den Weg zuruck" will never die. It cannot. It is of the stuff art is made of. Which brings me to another point.' Why should an artist like Madame Flagstad think of leaving the concert stage at this time? Opera is another matter. It still beats me why artists as rich in divers abilities as Kirsten Flagstad should trouble their heads' about opera at all, at least the opera they are forced to sing at leading opera houses such as the Metropoli- tan. Madame Flagstad sings almost constantly the narrow and very un- subtle Wagnerian repertoire year in, year out, at that mouldy institution, with a very occasional break into{ classic or later operatic roles. In concert she not only reaches :a great- er public, but she is far less limited in repertoire and message. And you can take it from me: it takes a great-. er understanding of the real mean- ing of music and its relation to the word to sing one of the greater Hugo9 Wolf or later Brahms' songs with an awareness of the composer's inten- tion than to declaim half the "Ring" and the whole of the Italian Operatic School besides ! There are reasons, of course, for remaining in opera. The natural de- sire everyone has for acting, the sense of security, the permanence of, locale. But what is all this? Since when has a great artist's life become her own? My "radicalism" will be held against me, but I still hold to the odd notion that great artists be- long to the people. Which means, therefore, that Madame Flagstad has no legitimate excuse for remainingA longer at the Metropolitan (untilt that organization needs someone to introduce a new Hindemith or Har- ris or Krenek work) and certainly no] right to leave the concert stage! He who has had the stuff wherewith to serve a people is always proud andt joyous at last to say: "I have served my people well!", But to be able to; say that, he must give them his all,"t he must serve them as long and as faithfully as he can. They are the ones to say when he shall retire, not her. However, there is an objection or two to be offered. While realizing the need of an English group, I dof not think the very trite selectionst Madame Flagstad chose fell well be- tween the exhausting "Liebestod" and the Strauss numbers. Exceptl for the singer's superlative artistry, every one of them would.have sound ed trivial. Even the Charles songt (Continued from Page 2) Directed Teaching: Students expect- ing to do directed teaching the second semester are requested to secure assignments in Room 2442 University Elementary School on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 18 and 19, according to the following schedule: Thursday, Jan. 18, at 8:00 a.m., English. Thursday, Jan. 18, at 1:30 p.m., Scial Studies.-. Friday, Jan. 19, at 8:00 a.m. French and German; 9:00 a.m. Latin and mathematics; 10:00 a.m. Science; 11:00 a.m. Commercial, fine arts, speech. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following Civil Service examination. The last date for filing application is noted in each case: Michigan: Institution Psychologist A, salary range,,$130-150, Jan. 26. Institution Psychologist I, salary range, $150-190, Jan. 26. Machine Systems Accountant III, salary range, $250-310, Jan. 26. United §tates: Junior Professional Assistant (op- tional subjects), salary, $2,000, Feb. 5.\ Complete announcements on file at the University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. The Robert Owen Cooperative House, 922 S. State Street, is accept- ing applications for boarding mem- berships, which m y be obtained from the Dean of Students Office or at the House. Applications must be returned to the House by Thursday evening, Jan. 18. For information, call 7211. Academic Notices Psychology 103, Practice in Indi- vidual Testing: Applications for ad-' mission to this course for the second semester should be made before the close of the first semester. Botany 36 (Systematic Botany): Lectures in this course will be given on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 o'clock in Room 2042 NS instead of as now scheduled in the announce- ment of the College of Literature,; Science, and the Arts. The labora- tory and field work will follow imme- diately after the lecture, in Room 3004 NS, Exhibitions Exhibits of the University's Arch-1 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 ahd 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-j pas and a collection of German prints from the Detroit Art Institute, Alum- ni Memorial Hall, 2 to 5 p.m. Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: A series of 14 fine in- teriors rendered in color represent- ing work of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art is being shown' in th first floor exhibition cases,a January 13 to January 27. Open daily, except Sunday, 9 to 5. The public is invited. k Lectures University Lecture: Captain R. A. (Bob) Bartlett, Peary's great lieuten- ant and one of the most famous of arctic explorers, will lecture with colored moving pictures on "The Arc- tic in Color," under the auspices of the Department of Geology, at 8:00 p.m.. on Tuesday, January 23, in the Auditorium of the Rackham Build- ing. The public is cordially invited. French °Lecture: Mr. Clifford H. Prator will give the second lecture on the Cercle Fraricais program: "Quelques vedettes du music hall francais (illustrated with popular records) Wednesday, January 17, at 4:15 p.m., Room 103, Romance Lan- guages Bldg. Tickets for the series of lectures and play may be procured at the door' at the time of the lecture. Today's Events Continued Fractions Seminar will meet today at 4:00 p.m. in 3201 A.H. Professor Rainich will speak. Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet in Room 319 West Medical Building, at 7:00 tonight. Subject: "Vitamins A-Chemistry and Physi- ology." All interested are invited. The Romance Language Journal Club will hold a meeting today at 4-1n n m in PnRhm 4n D.T ROTC: Infantry Advanc d Corps: Short meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. for both Juniors and Seniors for elec- tion of Council members. Everyone requested to attend. 303 West En- gineering Annex. Merit System Committee of the League meeting today at 3:00 p.m. in the Undergraduate Office. Colored movies of "Birds of Prey" will be shown by Frank and ;John Craighead in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building toight, at 8 o'clock. JGP Dance Committee, Group I will meet today at 4:30 p.m. Group II will meet Thursday, Jan. 18, 'at 4:30 p.m. The groups are posted on the bulletin board in the Undergradu- ate Office of the League. No un- excused absences will be allowed, and only two excused absences will be permitted. All excuses mst be pre- sented, to Virginia Osgood before the meeting; telephone 7117. Tea Dance: The Junior ,Council of the Mihi gan Union presents its sev- enth coffee hour in the small ball- room of the Union between 4:30 and 5:30. The Christian Science Organization will meet tonight at 8:15 p.m. in the Chapel of the Michigan League. Rilel Class in Conversational He- brew will meet at the Foundation to- night at 7:00 p.m. Hillel Class in Jewish Ethics, Jed by Dr. Hirsch Hootkins, will meet at the Foundation tonight at 8:00 p.m. Michigan Dames meeting tonight in the Lounge of the Rackham Build- ing at 8:00. Dr. Claire Healy 'will speak on "Marital Relations." The Bookshelf and Stage Section of the Faculty Women's Club will meet today at 2:45 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Wm. Randolph Taylor, 2007 Washtenaw Avenue. Bibliophiles will be entertained to- day at 2:30 p.m. at Mrs. Earl D. Rainville's home, 1459 Rosewood Street. Coming Events Botanical Seminar will meet .Wed- nesday, Jan. 17, at 4:30 p.m. in oom 1139 N.S. Bldg. Paper by B, M. Davis, "An amphidiploid from a cross in Oenothera, its cytology and its pro- geny." Algebra Seminar will meet Wednes- day at 4 o'clock in 3201 A.H. Dr. Nesbitt will conclude his Atalk on "Ideals in Algebras," and Dr. rall will speak on "Polynomial -Ideals." Psychological Journal Club wil meet Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the East Copference Room of the Rackham Bldg. "A Review Qf Re- cent Research on the Analysesaof the Effects of Practice on Standard Tests" will be discussed by H. Long, A. Muller, and E. B. Greene. Chemistry Colloquim on Wednes- day, Jan. 17, in Room 303 Cherristry Building at 4:15 p.m. Mr. HIale Cowling will speak on "The Dlqper- sion of Cellulose in the Preparation of Viscose." Research Club will meet Wednes- day, Jan. 17, at 8:00 p.m. In the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Build- ing. Professor J. W. Eaton will speak on "Heine, Political Prophet," and Professor A. E. White on "Metals for High Tempertaure Service." We will vote on two candidates for mem- bership. Council meeting in Assem- bly Hall at 7:30 p.m. Scabbard and Blade: F-4 meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening in the Union. Certificates for new members have arrived as well as the latest issue of the Journal. Rifle match plans will be discussed. All members come. NO UNIFORMS. 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. 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 trainiing, Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 pim, in Room 1042 East Engineering Build- ing. Guest Night at the International Center: The series of Sunday evening programs will end next Sunday eve- ning with a concert by the Little Symphony Orchestra at 7 o'clock in of the speak. Astronomy department depended too much on the artist. HESCREEN During the writer took a winter vacation the moment off one eve- nmg to look at James Thurber's new, book. It tells the story of how hu- manity is annihilated and it tells it1 with the biting sketches and sharp humor characteristic of Thurber. It' tells how men, with their eternal,i meaningless wars finally destroy themselves, are reborn and then re- peat the original process. Currently showing at the Michigan theatre is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon on .a similar theme. It is called "Peace on Earth" and it is sur- prising. The film company which made it produced the worst movie' the writer ever saw. It has not been the same company since Irving Thalberg's genius was stilled by death. The Walter Wangers and Joe Pasternaks and others have taken, over and now produced the best of the commercial films. But this cartoon is different-dif- ferent and exciting. It has a simple. plot, almost exactly that of Thurber's story. A grandfather squirrel answers the query of two child squirrels as to "what were men?" He tells how man fought eternally, and lances the rea- sons for war. It tells of wars be- tween the meat-eaters and the vege- tarians. Finally, no men are left on earth. The animals come forth from, their hiding places, survey the shat- tered, shell-torn earth, and stumble upon a Bible. It opens upon the commandmentsdand the squirrels see the bitter words "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Then, on another page, in- structions "to rebuild the world." And that is what they do. From the viewpoint of technic, this cartoon marks a definite advance- ment. The war scenes are done real- istically-the clenched fist of the dying man, feet slogging through the brown mud, the corpse with the shin- ing bayonet through the back. This is a new cartoon technique, as far distantt'rom Diney's Dnald nnekr "For sale: Two vices."-Classified ad. can't get: rid of them that way, brother.. You If you can remember when second gear was referred to as "intermediate," you 'don't have to worry over the possibility of being blown into the army vby a war draft.