I -I, TI n[ Mr- r '2Ur +r mr m UN rc__'Za*9Kyu, ed and managed by students of the University of gan under the authority of the Board in Control of nt Publications. dished every morning except Monday during the rsity year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the r republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All of republication of all other matters herein also ed. red at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as class mail matter. criptions during regular school year by carrier, by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVEk-,SNG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MIADISON4 AVE. NEW YORK, NQ. Y.' CHICAGO BOSTON ' Los ANGELES -SAN PRARCISCO ber, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff sen w ter (ior Flanagan . . . Canavan . cary . . berg . Business Stafff sManager. siness Mgr., Credit Manager s Business Manager s Advertising Manager ions Manager 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 IXT EDITOR: HOWARD A. GOLDMAN The editorials published in The Michigan aily are written by members of The Daily :aff and represent the views of the writers 'nly. ,newaI Of Japanese ade Agreement ** T HE UNITED STATES trade agree- met with Japan expires this th. The question of its renewal seems of mount importance to both countries-and cially important, at this time, to Japan. our State Department has been singularly t lately in providing public information nent to current negotiations. Why? any and more important problems underlie question of a trade agreement, problems bich the ordinary layman is totally unaware problems which he would be unable to with anyway; and until these are ironed our State Department wants to keep perti- factual information out of the headlines. regard to the trade pact itself, two general :ls-of thought exist in the United States. group favors a complete trade embargo ist Japan, hoping by this plan to force o to abandon its Chinese venture. The r group opposes such action for reasons ti seem sound and convincing. e pro-embargo forces offer this argument: United States recently has been selling n 55 p'er cent of all her munitions. From ther nation can Japan purchase iron, steel petroleum in such quantities as she hasl buying from us. dependent, indeed, has Japan become on country that the proposed embargo might cause economic collapse in that Far-Eastern re. The embargo proponents thus main- that through their pet measure Japan will rced to evacuate China.1 ti-embargoists reply along this line: Grant- at we can force Japan into economic col- , what lies beyond that? The immediate i would seem to be the emergence of Soviet La as the dominant power in the Far-East. this serious question can be raised: Does gtate Department want a powerful Russia e Far-East? - other question can be raised: Deprived of nited States as a source of raw materials war necessities, where could Japan go? e answer is the negotiation of a treaty with .a. In the light of recent events in Europe, a pact seems not at all impossible. e other possible answer has an even more rtant bearing on our interests in that re- Japan's other alternative would be to, southward. Between Japan and Australia he entire East Indian archipelago, rich in naterials, and especially productive in high- ized petroleum. The Dutch govern most is region, and have been supported in their by the French and British fleets. Now, ver, these warfleets are occupied in far-off pe, so Japan has an easy and tempting within her reach. is possibility seems even more "close-to- " when we remember that the Philippine ds are in this general region-closer to o, indeed, than most of the other East In- islands. >anese domination of southeastern Asia nts an even more serious problem to the 4d States. We are sorely dependent on that n as almost all of our rubber, tin, quinine, 'anese and Manila hemp comes from there. a more powerful Japan in the East Indies, .s a stronger Japanese influence on this ;ry. >-embargo enthusiasts counter with the i door" argument of the actual trade ques- Japan, they claim, has openly violated her pertinent fact can also be cited: that our trade with Japan is normally about three times the amount of our trade with China. The "invest- ments" argument can be almost brushed aside when it is realized that United States invest- ments in China constitute only a small fraction of similar British investments. Clfton M. Utley, writer on world affairs and president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Re- lations, points to the growing public support of the embargo plan as evidenced in recent Gallup polls, and expresses the opinion that this sentiment will keep growing. This may or may not be true. Meanwhile, the American public is being kept in ignorance of the real implications of the trade pact problem with Japan, and can not be ex- pected to render thoughtful judgment without adequate and official information. - oward A. Goldman. At The Ringside Of History . T HESE ARE DARK DAYS for the people who read newspapers. The Franco-British war against Hitler and the Rus- sian invasion of Finland make Mr. Average Reader's job a difficult one. It is more than a problem of censorship and propaganda. Both can be recognized and, if some amount of concentration is employed, one will not be harmed by them. The main problem these days is to get the proper long-distance view of the news we read. The English ship which was torpedoed in the morning edition docks at a neutral port in time for the evening papers. Troops mass for battle over the wires of a reliable press service, but the battle never comes off. A Russian army is wiped out in the Detroit Times and resurrected the following day in the Daily Worker. Revolutions which seem world-shaking on Monday turn out to be street-fights on Thursday. And Mr. A. Citizen becomes increaingly be-- wildered. So he turns to the comic strips, and to the Broadway and Hollywood gossip columns where everything is easier to understand and a man can decipher logically the "inside story." If the blood-business pauses for one day, he says that this is a "phoney" war, not realizing that the histories of past wars cover many years. Misled once, he condemns all newspapers as propaganda, finds censorship in the most harm- iless of dispatches and resolves to get his news from the radio commentators hereafter. Publishers have offered the weekly news maga- zines, newspaper "review" sections and syndi- cated .interpretive" columns as helpmeets for obtaining the objective view. Announcement was made yesterday in New York City of the estab- lishment of a new evening newspaper-tabloid in size, with departmentalized news columns and articles containing, in addition to last-minute news, background material and non-political interpretation by experts. This may be the newspaper of tomorrow, or it may be only a tem- porary innovation until the ideal format for the day's news is invented. We cannot be certain. But we are certain of one fact. The amazing errors in reporting the news in 1914 must not occur again. For example: "When the fall of Antwerp became known, the church bells were rung throughout Germany." - Koenische Zeitung "A cording to the, Koelnische Zeitung, the clerg of Antwerp were compelled to ring the church bells when the city was taken." -Le Matin "According to what Le Matin has heard from Cologne, the Belgian priests who refused to ring the church bells when Antwerp was taken haveP been driven away from their places." -London Times "According to what the London Times has heard from Cologne via Paris, the unfortunate Belgian priests who refused to ring the church bells when Antwerp was taken have been sen- tenced to hard labor." - Corriere della Sera "According to information to the Corriere della Sera from Cologne via London, it is confirmed that the barbaric conquerors of Antwerp pun- ished the unfortunate Belgian priests for their heroic refusal to ring the church bells by hang- ing them as living clappers to the bells with their heads down." -Le Matin It is hard to believe in these enlightened days that the above tales, like those about Belgian babies with bayoneted hands and German sol- diers shackled to/machine-guns, were once pub- lished as genuine news. Yet they were-but the newspapers shouldn't get all the blame. Some of it should be directed toward Mr. Average Reader himself who forgets that three cents worth of newsprint doesn't include the ability to evaluate events calmly. - Leonard Schleider. Of ALL Things.., ...norty .... AWYERS ARE FUNNY PEOPLE. Not all lawyers, of course, but most of them. Mr. Q. has wondered for a long time what made .them so funny--or perhaps, he should say peculiar rather than funny. Anyhow, sometimes he thought it must be the fact that they were al- ways talking and not only just plain talking. but talking confidentially. You know, on the side. And then, at other times, he thought it must be the fact that they are always involved in argu- ments so that they never know just where any- thing stands. Or maybe because they were al- ways objecting and getting themselves over- ruled or sustained. Or again perhaps because they were always appealing. But no, not this, because Mr. Q.' can think of quite, a few who aren't very appealing. Then what is the trouble? Why are all lawyers funny-r peculiar? Well, it's because at one time or another they were law students and law students are ex- ceedingly peculiar. Exceedingly. For one thing, they are always "briefing" something or other. No matter when you see them or where, they're always either on their way to or from "briefing" something. Now it has -always been a constant source of amazement and no end of mystery as to whatinhell this briefing business is. At least to Mr. Q. there has. So yesterday he determined to find out once and for all and'thereby perhaps discover why law students are peculiar. So he went over to the Law Quad 'and stood in the center, waiting for a likely subject for investi- gation. Finally one shrewd-looking chap came along and he was patted on the shoulder, gently. "I beg your pardon, but ... "What's your trouble, bud, what's your trouble?"I "Well, I have no real trouble, it's just that I am a little puzzled and . . "Oh, you want to know about some point of law? Well, you've certainly come to the right man." And he drew back his coat, patted his lapels with both palms, hooking the fingers in- side Lincolnstyle. Mr. Q. for a moment feared there might be a fee involved. but he went ahead. "I was just wondering what you fellows mean when you say you are "briefing" a case or what- ever it is you brief. And why do you do it?" The hands dropped from the lapels and the boy-barrister gaped. That's just what he did:t gaped. He looked at Mr. Q. kind of funny-like and frowned. "Well, briefing a case means to nake sort of a synopsis of the thing putting down the important points. It's the outline of the case. That's all it is." "And why do you do it?" "Well, it's . . . well, you just . . . the professors . . . well, everybody does it. It's just gotta be done, that's all. It's part of the work."F "I know, but do you brief all of th;s time? Don't you ever do anything else?" I mean,Y like reading texts or going to class or writing papers or anything like that?"t "Sure, we do all that, and . . . say, is that the right time? Excuse me, I gotta go and dash off a brief for con law .., . Mr. Q. quizzed at least 20 fellows there, all fairly intelligent looking guys, except one chaps named Cohen or Quinn or something like thatr ' who looked as if he might be the object of the b law rather than an interpreter. And they alli were on their way to brief this or brief that. Mr. Q. still doesn't know why they do it, but he is stillv convinced they are very peculiar. For, though he would have found 'n it (at long last) a technique for Fighting the New Deal, it is a tech- nique which canot be applied by every Tom, Dick and Girdler. The Endicott-Johnson workers did, it is rue, vote 12,693 for no union at all, 1,612 for the AFL, 1,079 for the CIO. this, admittedly, was a vote of con- eidence in Mr. George F. Johnson, 'Zead of the shoe company. Mr. Tohnson obviously becomes the logi- ,al champion of the anti-New Deal 'orces. He proves he knows how to 'freak a . union organizer's heart. Those who are opposed to unions must at once accept the leadership -f Mr. George F. Johnson, for his .ay has worked. But the trouble is, -hey have to take all of him. Let us assume that Mr. George F. Tohnson, on the basis of his victory, gets up in business as the chief op- onent of the New Deal. He is nom- 'nated for President by the Republi- 'an Party. Here is his acceptance ,peech, which I have assembled from Zis ow nstatements, every word taken lirect from a recent Johnson quote: "Ladies and gentlemen: Any man vho dies rich, dies disgraced . . . I like the idea-of big inheritance taxes; t means that money is being turned "ack to the people who made it ... Most owners of wealth don't know what to do with their money outside )f spending it on'rthemselves. That's why I think it's a good idea for gov- rnment to take it away from them' 'n the form of taxes ... "The Government today has the enormous problem of giving employ- .nent to those who need work. Money will do it, and that money must come out of the pockets of those who have it .. "Labor conditions have improved. But they have not improved because )f the willingness of capital. Labor has had to fight and fight hard for ?werything it has secured. That is, the reason I am and always have been in sympathy with labor unions. rf it had not been for them I don't know where labor would be today. I have always believed in them where needed, and they have been needed almost everywhere . . . Even if I do not think that strikes can settle abor differences our position here is clear. We were offered an order not ong ago for shoes from a concern whose workers were on strike. We refused it. We will not take orders from any organization whose work- ers are not treated fairly and who are simply trying in their own way o get a square deal for themselves." I'd Rather Be RIGHT! - y Suel Grafton - "The New Deal has lost decisively," says a conservative newspaper, com- menting on the curious employe elec- tion in the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Corporation plant. The workers vot- ed against both labor federations, bringing a sad kind of unity to the labor movement at last. * * * * Since New Deal defeats are rather. scarce, it is natural for conservatives to hug this one to their bosoms. They had better go easy. This may turn out to be the fox that bites when it thaws. A really cagy reactionary might even be upset by the results of this particular labor board poll. (Continued from Page 2) Directed ,Teaching: Students expect- ing to do directed teaching the second semester are requested to secure assignments in Room 2442 University1 Elementary School on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 18 and 19, according to1 the following schedule: - Thursday, Jan. 18, at 8:00 a.m., English. Thursday, Jan. 18, at 1:30 p.m.,a So:ial Studies. Friday, Jan. 19, at 8:00 a.m. French1 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-f ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the announce- ment by Radcliffe College of two $600 fellowships for Graduate Train- ing in Personnel Administration for the year 1940-41. Any graduate wo- men or senior women interested may secure further information at the' Bureau, 201 Mason Hall, office hours:1 9-12 and 2-4.c The Robert Owen Cooperative House, 922 S. State Street, is accept- ing applications for boarding mem- berships, which may 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. Exhi bit otns 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 the1 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-f cept Sunday.- Exhibition, paintings by John Pap-l pas and a collection of German prints from the Detroit Art Institute, Alum--l ni Memorial Hall, 2 to 5 p.m.t Sigma ,Eta Chi meeting tonight at 7:30 at the-home of Mrs. A. W. Smith, 1008 Oakland Ave. Election of offi- 1cers. JGP Central Committee Meeting at the League at 4:30 p.m. today. International Center Music Pro- gram this evening is as follows: (1) Mascagni-Intermezzo from Caval- leria Rusticana. (2) Schubert-Sym- phony No. 8 in B Minor ("Unfin- ished"). (3) Schumann-Concerto in A Minor. Hillel class in Jewish History Will meet this evening at 7:15 p.m. at the Foundation. Garden Section, Faculty Women's Club will meet at 2:30 today at the home of Mrs. E. L. Ericksen, 1221 Baldwin Ave. Michigan Dames: The Bridge Group will meet in the League to- night at 8:00. All Michigan Dames are invited. Coming Events Engineering Mechanics Colloquim on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 4:00 p.m. in 314 Engineering Annex. Refresh- ments will precede the talk by Mr. A. G. Standhagen on "A New Method for Treating the Buckling of Slender Columns." Economics Club: Dean C. E. Grif- fin will speak on "The Nature 'of Competition" in the East Lecture Room of the Rackham Building on Monday, Jan. 22, at 7:45 p.m. Staff members and graduate studentsin Economics and Business Administ'ra- tion are cordially invited. Psychological Journal Club will meet Thursday, Jan. 18, at: 7:30 p.m. in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Bldg. "A Review of 'Re- cent Research on the Analyses of the Effects of Practice on Standar'd Tests" will be discussed by H. Long, A. Muller, and E. B. Greene. Aero. Eng. 25, Advanced Airbane Performance: On Friday, Jan, 19, Mr. Ralph H. Upson will present a discussion of the relation between air- plane performance and design, in Room 1217 East Engineering Build- ing. All Aeronautical Engineering students are invited to attend these meetings. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETI students are invited to attend these meetings. Research Club will meet tonight at 8:00 in the Amphitheatre of the Rack- ham Building. Professor J. W. Eaton will speak on "Heine, Political Pro- phet," and Professor A. E. White on "Metals for High Temperature Serv- ice." We will vote on two candidates for membership. Council meeting in Assembly Hall at 7:30 p.m. Anatomy Research Club Meeting today at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2501 East Medical Building. Papers: "Trichi- nosis: Incidence, . Lesions and some Aspects of Resistance to Reinfesta- tion," by Dr. L. F. Catron. "A Basis for a Natural Classification of Fixing Fluids," by Dr. W. F. Dempster. Tea in Room 3502 at 4:00 p.m. All inter- ested are invited, Scabbard and Blade: F-4 meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Union, Certi- ficates for new members have arrived as well as the latest issue of the Jour- nal. Rifle match plans will be dis- cussed. All members come. NO UNIFORMS. * * * * J)NE THING he did get from his little inter- view was a story about a Mr. Dawson in the Law School. Now this Mr. Dawson seems to be a swell chap, at least all the "briefers" seemed to think so. And it seems that he is a card sharp or something because they all call him Blackjack Dawson. Anyhow, last week in one of his classes someone happened to mention that a proper place for a future meeting would be a beer joint, so this week he is convening the class "on the other side of the street." *. *: * * NOW THAT CLARK SHAUGHNESSY, erst- while Chicago football coach who was ma- rooned without a football team, has been ap- pointed head mentor at Stanford, someone wants to know if he will have to stop reading Milton to his boys between halves. * * * * ONE OF THE local sorority, houses is having no end of trouble. Not for the usual rea- sons either. But it seems that three of the gents who spend more time there than some of the sisters formed a men's auxiliary and could not decide which should be president. So they finally agreed it would be decided by the number of hours put in at the house. Latest reports have one of those peculiar lawyers leading; with a doctor and a columnist not far'-behind. 5* * * TODAY'S MAILBAG: MORTY, Morty, Reconsider. If you suppress Free Press you may cut off our supply of such gems as- "I've always had the feeling life is more than food and drink. In a great mysterious pattern each of us must be a chink," ... Someone writing in the current Harpers says. that, in seeking our poetic pasture, we of the great average range all the way from Edgar Guest with his utter clarity to intense young modern poets who carry the burden of all Chaos. Let us choose and take the consequences. That's what freedom is. Sincerely yours, J. Rutherford Ovoid. n t 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 the first floor exhibition cases, January 13 to January 27. Open daily, except Sunday, 9 to 5. The, public is invited.. At this point I begin to perspire and wonder how that radical got into this column. Mr. Roosevelt has never said: "Any man who dies rich, dies disgraced." George F. Johnson has given away $5,000,000 of his $7,000,- 000 fortune, paid the best wages in his industry, provided his workers with low-cost housing, given them bonuses of as much as $300 annually; taken complete care of their medical needs. There has been some bicker- ing about his paternalism and dis- content when in bad years wage cuts replaced bonuses. But he has - given his workers at least three days work per week, in a "sick" industry, dur- ing the worst of the depression. * * * * s It took an employer who is a freak of history to ,beat the New Deal idea of collective bargaining. A freak of history makes a piece of chifd com- fort. There is a profound meaning hidden in this employe vote. If only a freak of history can beat the New Deal idea, which side is all of history on? Labor Board Decision' Ours is a government, under the, federal Constitution, of separate and :limited powers. This means that the executive, legislative and judicial branches must each keep to its own field, without infringing on the oth- ers, but also without shifting its own responsibility to others. Under the New Deal, with its doc- trine of continuous emergency, there was grave danger, for a time, that Congress would. simply defer in all things to the President trusting thereafter to the upreme Court to make sure that the President would not go too far. Since the elections of 1938, the Congress itself has been trying to right the situation, and, in the session now opening, will doubt- less continue to do so. This is well. For in a series of notable decisions, of which thesone upholding the broad powers of the National Labor Relations Board is merely the latest, the Supremd Court i I Parking In The DarkI THE DECISION of Chief of Police Lyman L. Parks of Elizabeth, N.J., to permit parking on the dimly lighted road of Union County's parks appears deserving of more comment by the press than it has been given. Chief Parks has explained that his order, list- ing only three restrictions, was made in the interests of matrimony. The romantically in- clined must keep lights on, stay where daytime parking is permitted, and go home by 11 o'clock. "It seems that the only place left for court- ing is in a car," the police chief said. "Since courting is a natural prelude to marriage, night parking is permitted." No less than momentous is the decision. So- ciologically it is of immense significance in as much- as it is a frank recognition of the break- down of the family wherein courting once took place. Politically it is equally important be- cause it is a candid admission that the horse and buggy days have, after all, been superseded by 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 , vited. French Lecture: Mr. Clifford H. Prator will give the second lecture on the Cercle Francais program: "Quelques vedettes du music hall francais" (illustrated with popular records) today at 4:15 p.m., Room 103, Romance Languages Bldg. Tickets for the series of lectures and play may be procured at the door at the time of the lecture. Today's Events Botanical Seminar will meet to- day at 4:30 p.m. in Room 1139 N.S. Bldg. Paper by B. M. Davis: "An amphidiploid from a cross in Oeno- thera, its cytology and its progeny." Algebra Seminar today at 4 o'clock in 3201 A.H. Dr. Nesbitt will con- clude his talk on "Ideals in Alge- bras," and Dr. Thrall will speak on "Polynomial Ideals." Chemical and Metallurgical Engi- neering Seminar today at 4 o'clock in Room 3201 E. Eng. Bldg. Mr. C. F. Weinaug will talk on "Surface Ten- sion as a Criterion for Critical Tem- perature." Chemistry Colloquim today in Room 303 Chemistry Building at 4:15 p.m. Mr. Hale Cowling will speak on "The Dispersion of Cellulose in the U.S. Naval Reserve: Lieuterant 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. Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences: The group photograph for the Michiganensian will be taken Friday, Jan. 1.9, at 5:30 p.m. at Rentschler's Studio, 319 East Huron Street. All members are urged to be present. 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 Wdmen- Individual skill tests will be given in the following activites: Badminton: Friday, Jan. 20, 4:00 to 6:00, Barbour Gymnasium. Ice Skating: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Jan. 15, f6, 17, 18, 3:30 to 4:30, University Coli- seum. Fencing: Wednesday, Thursday, Jan. 17, 18, 2:30 to 4:10, Barbour Gym. Swimming: Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Jan. 16, 18, 7:30 to 8:30, Union Pool. This notice is particularly imiper- tant for those women with irceom- pletes in physical education. will be interesting to learn the results. Statistics should be kept for the information of more timid I