excep't Y t e AOigan snow" MurrIss L. No. 83 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JAN. 18, 1940 a I U I I t iscist Party ficial, Muti, ints OfItaly's itering War etary Tells Party Heads' hat 'Present Situation on't Last Forever' Indication Given Rome's 'Enemy' RICIARD G. MASSOCK ME, Jan. 17.--VP)-The new sec- of the Fascist Party, Ettore told Italians today that "Italy ace the necessity and duty at foment of picking up arms." ere is no need," Muti told a ence of provincial party lead- o lull oneself with the illusion Italy's present situation with I to war may last forever."" U1 did not indicate whom Italy have to fight and this left nged the general impression in n circles that she would remain f the war as long as possible. ver, one passage of iis speech' iterpreted as a rebuff to British 'rench gestures of conciliation, as frequent press commenda- of Italy's remaining on the side- r stating that Italy might have at "at any moment," Muti con- must therefore be prepared in sources and above all in its It is well to add that it is d and dangerous to derive too satisfaction from the recent istrations of international sym- which are without justification undation and not even in har- with the true sentiment of the a people, which has learned not rget the history which it has lramatically, especially in these War To Explode Soon, Knickerbocker Claims Conflict Should Change World Society; Hitler Is Cause, Corrsponedent Says By LEONARD 9CHLEIDER H. R. Knickerbocker, the foreign correspondent who has lived "at the ringside of history," last night reiter- ated his belief that the European war will not end soon, but will explode in the immediate future into a real world conflict destined to change the social structure of Western civiliza- tion. In the fifth lecture of the Univer- sity's Oratorical Series, Mr. Knicker- bocker declared that his sympathies lie with the Allied cause, that the war will last at least another eight years and that Adolf Hitler is chiefly to blame for the present state of in- ternational affairs. He. failed to mention the possibilities of Ameri- can involvement. "We are now passing through the birth pains of a new society which will gradually bring about a world- state," Mr. Knickerbocker said. "We must look forward to a long period of warfare. It would surprise me if we in this room ever saw more than short intervals of peace in our life- times," he went on. Mr. Knickerbocker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished for- eign correspondence in 1930, based his conclusion on four factors-the New 1Teaching a 3 ; Class -Planned Next Semester 4 forces, which he said, will make this war change our society. They are, in his opinion: (1) Hitler and his Germany wishing and attempting to dom- inate the world. (2) Stalin and his Russia at- tempting to "communize" the world. (3) Imperial Japan wanting to dominate, the Far East. (4) Great Britain and France attempting to prevent accom- plishment of the others' aims. Mr. Knickerbocker said he opposes those who call this "just another im- perialist war between imperialist France and Britain on one hand and imperialist National Socialist Ger- many on the other." The Allied Pow- ers, he claimed, allowed Hitler to succeed at first only because they wanted peace, but Poland was the last straw.. He compared the probable results of a German victory with those of an Allied one. The Allies would, he pre- dicted, be willing to remedy the mis- takes of Versailles, but would divide into two camps-"one willing to be kind to Germany; the other desiring to prevent Germany ever to wage war again." German victory, he as- serted, would mean "a repetition of Poland"-complete subjugation of the conquered peoples and assimilation into the Reich. It is scarcely possible, Mr. Knick- erbocker recalled, to name a single nation in the world today which hasn't been, violently imperialistic in the past. Mr. Knickerbocker told of his meetings with Hitler and described the German leader's dynamic per- sonality. He is a man of force, lim- itless energy and ascetic habits whose sole source of strength is personal contact with his people, the trouble- shooting newspaperman said, adding that "in years to come, this will be known as the Hitler Era." Extra-Curricular Instruction To By. Education Activity Be Given School : there was no changej issolini's "anti-demo- )ishevik, anti bour- Words which authori- interpreted as mean- follow her own course of other powers. pt. Bartlett Po Talk Here Realizing the need for beginning teachers to have some knowledge of extra-curricular activities, the School of Education will inaugurate a non- credit course next semester for sen- iors and graduate students which gives a survey of school activities. This unique course will feature in- struction by teachers of speech, jour- nalism, English and education. Open- ing the series of 10 meetings will be Prof. John L. Brumm of the journal- ism department discussing the prac- tical aspects of student publications. Visual aids will be 'illustrated by Mr. Joseph Park, instructor in the University High School. Mr. John Trytton, principal of the University High School will describe "The Home Room and Guidance" March 9. Prof. G. E. Densmore and mem- bers of the staff of the speech depart- ment will give the programs on school plays and other speech activities March 30 and May 4. Rounding out the course will be the talks by Edith :Hoyle 'and Hope Chipman, instructors in the High School on assembly programs and school social parties. Listed as Education D99 the course will not carry any credit for gradua- tion but will receive notification on the Teacher's Certificate. Explorer To Show Film On Arctic Tuesday Capt. Bob Bartlett, regular com- muter between America and the Arc- tic ice flows, will present "The Arctic in Color," a University lecture, at 81 p.m. Tuesday in Rackham Auditori- um. Dean , of Arctic explorers today,{ Captain Bartlett yearly heads his schooner, "Effie M. Morrissey," into Northern waters. He took his natural color movies during his polar jaunt last year. Captain Bartlett, born into one of the oldest seafaring families of New- foundland,. joined Admiral Peary at the age of 22 and stuck with him un- til, in 1909, Peary reached the North Pole. In 1926 Captain Bartlett began voyaging in the "Effie M. Morris- sey," which has, since then, borne northward some expedition each year. SQuiz Show Tickets Go On Sale Over Counter Counter-sale of tickets for the first off-the-air "Information, Please" program Saturday night in Hill Au- ditorium will begin at 10 a.m. today in the Auditorium box-office, Mrs. Walter Maddock, president of the Ann Arbor Alumnae Club which is sponsoring the show, announced yes- terday. Despite the heavy advance sale, choice .seats at 50, 75 cents and $1 may still be obtained, Mrs. Maddock said. The box-office will rerhain open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, tomor- row and Saturday. Paid reservations will not be mailed to those who made them in advance unless a stamped, self-addressed en- velope was enclosed in the original order, Mrs. Mvaddock emphasized. Those who failed to do so are asked to call for their tickets at the box- office. Prof. Besekirsky Soloist In Sunday Orchestra Concert Prof. Wassily Besekirsky, violinist of the School of Music, will be soloist' in the complimentary musical per-7 formance of the University Orchestra at 4:15 p.m. Sunday in Hill Auditori-. um. He will play the First Movement, from Tschaikowsky's Concerto in Dj major for Violin and Orchest'a. Educated at the Moscow Conserva- tory Professor Besekirsky has won the praise of music critics through- out Europe and America as a violin- ist of distinction. He made his de- but with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin and before coming to Amer- ica in 1913 was Professor of Violin at 'the Conservatory of Odessa. .Since he has been in this country Professor Besekirsky has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Russian Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Renaissance 4 In American Family Seen Prof. Fulsom Of Vassar ] Visions Shift Resulting From SocialLegislation Consumner Credit I Talks To Continue A renaissance of American family life in the comparatively near future t was forecast by Prof. Joseph Fulsom t of Vassar College at the initial ses- d sion of the three-day Invitational I Conference on Consumer Credit held d last night in the Union. ' f The four factors which will bring about this rebirth, according to Pro- b fessor Fulsom, are more production I through even distribution, thrift t through social security . and other a means of providing for old age and F unemployment, the encouragement of more employment by training so- e called "unemployables" and by in- r stituting a schedule of shorter hours c and longer vacations and by larger 1 consumption units through larger i families. One tendency working against the t possibility of a declining population c through a lowering birth rate out- n lined by Professor Fulsom was the U reaction against "super-urbanism" v and a movement toward rural homes. 1 Following Professor Fulsom's lec- t ture, Dr. Charles W. Coulter, of the University of New Hampshire, spoke t on "The Basis and Limits of the Use i of Credit by the Family." Wise use < of consumers' credit facilities to- t gether with efficiency in the person- t nel of consumers' credit agencies will1< do much to solve the problem of bud- get waste in the family's spending, s and will enable the family to buy r wisely, Dr. Coulter said. The old concept of thrift, Dr. Coulter emphae - sized, is "gone for good," and a new outlook toward borrowing is rapidly 1 taking its place. The Conference is scheduled to continue today with a discussion of "The Scope and Limitations of the Field of Consumer Credit" at 9 a.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Dr. R. M. Neifeld, of Newark, N.J.; John Ryan, of Detroit, and C. R. Orchard, of the U.S. Farm Credit Administra- tion, will speak on the sub-topic of "Cash Loans." Prof. Raleigh Schorling of the edu- cation school and Prof. Raymond Rodgers of New York University will be the speakers on "Relationship of Our Educational Institutions to the Field of Consumer Credit" at a lun- cheon meeting to be held at 12:15 p.m. in the Union. The fourth session of the Confer- (Continued on Page 2) Staffs Chosen For Residences Litzenberg Lists Personnel For Three Dormitories Personnel staff members of Mosher, Jordan and the new Madelon Louisa Stockwell residence halls for women, as appointed by the Board of Gover- nors of the Residence Halls for the second semester, were announced yesterday by Karl Litzenberg, director of residence halls. Mrs. Martha L. Rae, house director of Mosher-Jordan Hall, has been se- lected to act as house director of Stockwell Hall. She will belassisted by Miss Louise Larrabee, '37, of Chippeway Falls, Wis., who will act in the capacity of resident counsellor. Mrs. Ruth Wendt will reside in Stockwell Hall as a resident counsel- lor and will carry on her work with the language tables in both Stock- well and Mosher Halls. Miss Esther Colton, formerly social director of Jordan Hall has been ap- pointed to act as house director of Jordan Hall. Miss Hope Hartwig, present resident counsellor, of Jordan Hall will continue in that capacity. Miss Rosemary Neuhaus, formerly so- cial director of Mosher Hall, will act as house director of Mosher Hall. Her assistant will be Mrs. Cornelia Matthews of Kalamazoo. Speech Faculty To Honor Dr. William Foster Today Dr. William Trufant Foster, direc- tor of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, will be honored by the speech department at a lun- cheon at the Union today. I Finnish Loan Contrary To Spirit Of Neutrality Act, Preuss Holds, By EMILE GELE "Regardless of where American sym- pathies lie, the proposed loan to Fin- land leans decidedly away from the spirit of the Neutrality Act of 1939," Prof. Laurence Preuss of the political science department asserted in an interview yesterday. The Neut ality Act is based on the idea that the United States must avoid involvement in a foreign war re- gardless of what the result to foreign nations may be, he declared. "No matter what federal agency the loan might be made through, the govern- ment cannot cover its biased activi- ties with the veil of a corporation it operates and controls," Professor Preuss explained. The Administration, Professor Pre- uss observed, tends to throw the weight of support on the side of the victim of aggression in every possible method short of war. President Roose- velt disapproves neutral legislation that limits the use of presidential dis- cretion in war crises, and is reluctant to sign acts which might benefit an aggressor at the expense of the vic- the American public sympathizes with the Finnish cause. According to international law," Professor Preuss reminded, the United States can legally lend money to Fin- land as long as Congress or the Presi- dent does not recognize that a state of war exists between Russia and Finland. The Neutrality Act declares1 that a state of war exists only upon a proclamation of the President or by a concurrent resolution of both houses of Congress, he noted. If a state of war is declared ,it would be a violation of the Act for any Ameri- can citizen or group to lend any money to a foreign government at war. And under the same condition,, Professor Preuss affirmed, it would be a violation of international law for the United States government to lend money to a belligerent. Consequently, Professor Preuss said, the only legal method by which loans can be made to Finland by individuals or the government is by denying that a war exists. Under this arrange- ment, he observed, Russia could not protest the United States' partiality without admitting that a state of war exists, an admission which Iussia has