PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1940 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Slosson Demands Speculation On Prospect Of World War III 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.t Member of the Associated Press The Assolated 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. Bubcriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00; by mail, #4.50. REPRESENTEDF OR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO " BOSTON * LOS ARGELESS SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated CollegiateP ress, 193940 Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler . . . . . Managing Editor Alvin Sarasohn . . . . . Editorial Director Paul M. Chandler . City Editor Karl KesU5le Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman . Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter Esther Ossbr Helen Corman Associate Editor . Associate Editor . . . Associate Editor . . . Associate Editor . .Sports Editor . . . Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor In accordance with The Daily's desire to keep editorial columns open to all itshreaders and to present fairly, all opinions on the campus, the editors have invited Prof. Preston Slosson of the history department to present his views on the international outlook. Other faculty members and students will follow him in The Daily's columns, so that all groups on campus may have an adequate voice in expressing what .they believe to be the proper course for this country to pursue in these troublesome times. By PROF.PRESTON SLOSSON HAVE OFTEN DISCUSSED in the hospitable columns of The Daily the First and Second World Wars, and such morals as I drew from them as to our national perils and duties. Doubt- less I shall often do so in the future. But both are in a sense now beyond our will. The first has gone into the histories The second, the raging around us, is also in a sense history. We cannot now prevent it. I personally doubt if by any course, active or passive, neutral or unneu- tral, we can be sure to escape it. Luck as well as skill is needed to avert shipwreck when a great hurricane from the ends of the earth is roaring around the Ship of State. Naturally, and of course rightly, we are.chief- ly concerned with the immediate peril. Pres- ident Roosevelt, Mr. Willkie, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Browder and other political leaders; our popular journalists courageously charging at the head of their "columns"; every articulate one of us from Dorothy Thompson to Charles Lindbergh, Is giving advice on World War Number Two. Mr. Gallup feels our national pulse about once a week on the 'subject. Anyone who was not pri- marily concerned with our imminent danger would certainly be a most livid and lurid kind of fool. But is there not some danger that this exclusive preoccupation may shut our eyes to opportunities and perils which lie beyond the horizon of the present war? Just for the mo ment, before returning to the day's task, let us look at the more distant prospect. After all, in World War Number One many men dared to speculate about a future lasting and durable peace; and others should have done so. Perhaps if more thought had then been spent on it, World War First would have also been World War Last. THE REASON I am interested in World War Number Three is that I think we can and should prevent it. Sometime this present war will end and a peace of sorts be concluded. There, may even be a relatively long interval without important wars anywhere, like the years following Waterloo. During that lucid interval- or period of exhaustion anyhow!--mankind will either work out an international structure or system which will make war improbable or fail to do so. In the latter case war will certainly recur sooner or later. Our opportunity may come sooner than we now dare guess. It may come while the President to be chosen this November is still in the White House. Yet it is an issue which practically no one has mentioned or touched on during the whole campaign. Is there Business Staff Business Manager . Assistant Business Manager . Women's Business Manager . Women's Advertising Manager Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack . Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: GERALD E. BURNS The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Tribute To The 'Grand Old Man' .. . E JOIN the hundreds who attended the Testimonial Dinner last night and the thousands who listened on the air to adid these words in tribute to a truly "grand old man"-Fielding H. Yost. For forty years Coach Yost has dedicated his fife to Michigan athletics--to produce winning teams, to build an athletic plant better .than any other, to inspire other universities to follow his example, and, above all, to build men. Now, towards the close of his career as athletic direc- tor, the men for whom he did most-men in all walks of life-return to reminisce with Coach Yost. Like words on a screen familiar names and terms flash across the mind-"point a minute," 29 successive victories, first Rose Bowl game, Heston, Schultz, Fitzpatrick, Farrell, Hoyt, Mann, Kipke, "Athletics For All," $4,000,000 athletic plant- memories of a career greater than any other. At Michigan there are .no major or minor awards for participation in varsity competition. In the words of Coach Yost, any man who is good enough to represent the University of Michigan in any form of athletic competition, is worthy of an award; there is no need to dis- tinguish, by the size of the award, what sport he participated in. THE SPORTS BUILDING, whose facilities and opportunities for all students have constantly been praised in the past, cannot be over-empha- sized; students who are not capable of partici- pating in varsity competition, have an equal opportunity for earning athletic distinction by means of this well-rounded program. What Yost has -done, no one will forget; but the program must not stop there. Let us con- sider that what Yost has done will serve as a foundation for future construction of athletic facilities in all parts of the country; as the be- ginning of a program to help train the bodies and minds of the men and women of the country. COLLEGE YOUTH on our campus are grate- ful for the work Coach Yost has done for them; other colleges are not as fortunate. It is to be hoped that the achievement, the glory Yost has known till now, will be surpassed in the future when youthful athletes look upon him as the inspiration for a truly great American ath- letic program. -Bernard Dober to be a new League of Nations? How will it differ from the old one? Will we, as a nation, join it? What attitude are we to take toward the problems of international debt, immigra- tion, tariffs, currencies, trae rights, colonial developments, to ensure that no economic causes will again push the world towards war? How can minority rights be guaranteed? Will even peace bring disarmament? How can disarma- ment be made compatible with national securityj or continued armament with national solvency? Peace does not enforce itself; how can it be enforced? What national risks or sacrifices are we as a nation willing to undertake or enforce it hereafter? Can Europe, by itself, achieve peace if the United States offers no kind of help or encouragement? If Europe fails to do so, are we not again in danger? T WISH Messrs. Roosevelt, Willkie, Thomas and Browder would take just one day off to give us their answers. I wish all candidates for the Senate( which must ratify leagues and treaties) would do the same. Above all, I wish that uni- versity students, especially the students of liber- al or radical views who are so articulate about everything else, would take a hand in a crusade not merely to denounce the First World War or keep us out of the Second but to avert the Third. I confess here to a sense of disappoint- ment. Elderly men of letters like Mr. H. G. Wells are still occupied with the topic; not a few of us middle aged professors talk and write about it; but students as well as politicians seem mere- ly to ignore it. All last year, when pacifism was raging like a gale in the columns of The Daily, I do not recall a single editorial that was other than negative and isolationist on the subject of international construction. Nine-tenths of the speakers at student forums and parleys were the same way. We have a right to expect more than that from Educated Youth; it would be an insult not to expect more! In a university community of about ten thousand (in the long sessiong) I think there ought to be a League of Nations Associa- tion of about a thousand, a Union Now group of at least a thousand, a World State group of an- other thousand, a Continental Federation grouj, and so on. They should be furiously urging and debating their rival programs for saving the ,world. (I am not speaking ironically; the wore needs saving, and if it is ever saved, young edu- cated men and women will have to do most of it). [ PURPOSELY REFRAIN from saying which program I myself would favor. It is not the heretical doctrines of the student body that I deplore, but their lack of any doctrines on this, the most important matter in the world, the construction of a permanent peace. FIRE &WATGER by mascott THIS COLUMN may not be the best ever writ- ten (and that's a serious admission) but it certainly has staying power. Our first competi- tor was the Madhatter and his "These Foolish Things." Now we face Touchstone and his "Re- ply Churlish." This latter, we predict, will last until mid-semester. * * * For the present, however, our only answer to the "Reply Churlish" shall be the retort court- eous. We had a talk with Dr. Touchstone yester- day agreed that there shall be no columnists' feud in the pages of The Daily until both of us have run completely out of ideas and inspiration. * * *M Another slinky follow submitted this to us a few moments ago. We reprint,-why, we don't know: rTHIS is the story of an Essex Super Six, three Michigan men and a coed. We left New York for Ann Arbor at 3 p.m. in our brand new Essex Super Six (1931), every- thing making a noise but the horn. Things were working peachy until we reached a sizzling hot little town of Somerville, situated in the state of N.J., with the engine missing-- nobody stole it or anything, but it was just missing. Finally the old faithful Essex Super Six (which, in the future for simplicity's sake, I shall hereafter call alcibiades) stopped. Now, a normally functioning Essex Super Six (named alcibiades) should not, under any circumstances, back down and refuse to execute its normal function. Well, this one did. So, defty manipu- lating a rough pebble, I filed the ignition points (if you have no technical automotive knowledge, skip this). Our little safari trudged on until finally we passed a little town smuggling in the mount- ains of Penna. (There was a noticeable lack of revenuers). Old alcibiades puffed and snorted up the mountain. She couldn't make it in high. We put her in second and she failed in second. We put her into first but--she failed in first. So, we turned her around to put her in reverse. That was our big mistake. BUT we shouldn't have turned around on a curve and on a hill at one and the same time. But we did. When we got her jammed across'the road, I noticed that the floorboards were get- ting warm. Of course, I didn't say anything about cih Robet s.Ales ONE THING that is worrying the Administration is that the Jap- anese are now finding a way to get around last week's complete embargo on scrap iron. Furthermore, their loophole is a big handicap to the British. What the Japanese are doing is buying metal which already has been fabricated and therefore is not scrap. True, it costs them more, but appar- ently they are in such desperate need of iron that they will pay for it. This buying also runs up prices for the British. For they are the big- gest single customer, outside the U.S. Government, for all kinds of metals. And the more fabricated metal Japan buys, the more difficult it is for the British. WHETHER THIS LOOPHOLE can be blocked remains to be seen. The man who actually blocked scrap iron exports to Japan was Ed Stet- tinius, patriotic young Defense Com- missioner in charge of raw materials. Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau had been hammering at the State Department for weeks, trying to get the flow of scrap iron to Japan cut off, and finally asked Stettinius to make an investigation tosee whe- ther scrap should not be kept at home for the use of American steel in- dustry. Stettinius did so. But his chief assistant, William Batt, raised a howl. Batt is head of the SKF Swedish ball-bearing company, also a director of the Swedish Chamber of Com- merce, the American Bosch Corpora- tion and various other big concerns. He maintained that the sale of scrap to Japan should be continued. ""DRAMA *1 By Gerald Burns "T HE MAN Who Came To Dinner," the very successful Moss Hart- George Kaufman comedy that has kept two casts working every night between Chicago and New York will pass through Ann Arbor as quick as the last presidential candidate, stop- ping only for a single performance at the Michigan tomorrow night. Messrs. Hart and Kaufman wrote this play largely to take a few hearty cracks at Alexander Woollcott, who is no slouch himself in the matter of hurling verbal spitballs. The surpris- ing results for all concerned were that Woollcott professed himself to be "enchanted" with the play and even condescended to play the lead for a few nights in one of last sea- son's most successful comedies. T HOSE OF YOU who know any- thing about the play probably re- member Sheridan Whiteside's ("The Man") opening remark to his secre- tary in the first act, "I may vomit." Well, that sets the pace for the whole play. Not that you"ll vomit. You wor. t. But you'll follow the dialogue and action through every scene, because there's not much punch-pulling, }ot much you'll want to miss. The play centers around the ex- tended visit of a mainstem lecturer and writer to the home of a middle class family after the great man has broken his hip on the doorstep. Sher- idan Whiteside makes himself com- pletely at home, invites a half doz- en axe murderers to dinner, forbids the family to use the front door be- cause it annoys him, and, when af- ter many weeks he is well enough to leave, he falls again, rebreaking the hip. ot much of a plot, but that's not what makes it a good comedy, any- way. j DON'T KNOW anything about the Chicago cast, because I haven't seen them go through the play. But Clif- ton Webb, who takes the lead, knows his business; and Doris Dalton, the love interest, is not strange to Ann Arbor audiences. As for the others, well, you'll have to take your chances on them. said to my passengers (who were still asleep in the back seat). Quote. The car is on fire. Walk, do not run to the nearest exit. Unquote. When everybody had run out of alcibiades and we stood there warming our hands on the fire, somebody yell- ed look out it's going to explode and we all ran back until somebody said save the luggage, which was all tied inside the car. If you've ever tried to untie a sheet bend knot under con- stant threat of explosion you'll know it ain't no pleasure. WHEN WE GOT the baggage off'n " the car, we carried all 10 tons of it- clowin +to theg neacefii lifttleftownof DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1940 f VOL. LI. NO. 18 s o Publication in the Daily Official 0 Bulletin is constructivernotice to all members of the University. ni C Notices0 To the Members of the University Senate: There will be a meeting of the University Senate on Monday, T October 21, at 4:15 p. m., in the Rack- w ham Lecture Hall.1 Louis A. Hopkins, Secretary S Senate Reception: Since no in- r dividual invitations are being sent, p this is a cordial invitation to all mem-a bers of the teaching staff and theirA wives to be present at the Senate Re- ception to new members of the facul- ties on Tuesday evening,- October 22, in the ballroom of the Michiganv Union at 8:30 p.m. The reception will take place from 8:30 to 10:00F o'clock, after which there will bet dancing from 10:00 to 12:00. It ise especially hoped that new teaching fellowsand instructors may be pres- ent and the chairmen of departments are asked to be of assistance in bring-n ing this about. Tickets for the Ann Arbor com-Q munty dinner to the members ofo Company K of the National Guardc may be had at the Business Office,I I University Hall, at $1.25. The din-Y ner will be at 6:30 p. m., Monday, October 21, at the Michigan Union. The sale of tickets will cover the dinner to the members of Company K and will also, it is hoped, provide a substantial sum for the Companyt mess fund when it departs next week for a year's training at Fort Bueaure- garde, Louisiana. Faculty, College of Engineering:1 There will be a meeting of the faculty of this College on Tuesday, October1 22 at 4:15 p.m., in Room 348, West Engineering Building. The order of the meeting will be: presentation ofI new officers and members of the en- gineering staff; a report on enroll- ment figures; changes in curriculum, and routine business. Mrs. C. B. Green, Asst. Secy. Student Organizations desiring of- fical recognition for the College Year '1940-41 should file a list of officers with the Dean of Students in Room 2, University Hall on or be- Coming Events MONDAY-University Senate meet- 'ing, 4:15 p.m. "The Man Who Came to Dinner," Michigan Theatre. TUESDAY-Mimes tryouts, 3-5 p.m.,; Union. Senate Reception, 8:30 p.m., Union. SRA lecture series, "The Nature of Man," Dr. Robert Calhoun, 8:15 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. WEDNESDAY-First Choral Union concert, Marian Anderson. * * * THURSDAY - Marriage Relations Lecture, Dr. Raymond Squier, 7:30 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. Student mixer, College of Archi- tecture and Design, 7:30 p.m., Union. Current Events Lecture. Prof. Slosson. 4:15 p.m. Rackham' Lecture Hall. * * * FRIDAY-Annual Tirmberland Own- ers and Wood Users Confer- ence. Yale Puppeteers, Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. * * * SATURDAY - Annual Timberland Owners and Wood Users Con- ference concluded. Yale Puppeteers, Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre, concluded. Institute on Problems of Taxa- tion. ore November 1. This Information hould be made out on forms to be btained at the Office of the Dean f Students and should include the ame, address and class of each offi- er. Early in November a list of all rganizations which have been given fficial recognition for the year will e published in the Michigan Daily. Choral Union Members: Beginning Tuesday. October 22, all rehearsals will be held at 7:00 o'clock in the School of Music Building on Maynard Street unless otherwise announced. Pass tickets for the Marian Ander- on concert will be given out to all members in good standing who call in person between the hours of 9 and 12, and 1 and 4, on Wednesday, October 23, at the Burton Memorial Tower. After that hour, tickets will not be given out. Code Practice: All students who wish to practice the International Morse Code are invited to use the R. O. T. C. Signal Corps code prac- tice equipment in Room 301, Engin- eering Annex. The room will be open week days from 4 to 5:30 p. M. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of VOGUE'S 6th PRIX DE PARIS Annual Contest For Senior Women. Entry blanks may be obtained at the University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Academic Notices Metal Processing 2, Laboratory sec- tions, will not meet Monday and Tues- day, October 21 and 22. Bacteriology Seminar, Monday, October 21, at 8:00 p.m., Room 1564 East Medical Building. Reports on meetings of the American Public Health Association recently held in Detroit. All interested are invited. Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet in Room 319, West Medical Building, at 4:00 p. m., on Tuesday, October 22. Subject: "Animal Poly- saccharides." All interested are in- vited. Polictical Science 67 (discussion) will meet Monday at 3:00 p. m. in room 212 Angell Hall. H. B. Calderwood Mathematics 370, Seminar will meet Tuesday at 4:00 p. m. in 3001 A. H. Professor Beckenbach will speak on "Isoperimetric Inequality." (Reference: Trans. of the Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 35,1933.) Botany I Make-Up Examination will \be given Wednesday, October 23; from 7-10 p.m. in Room 2033 N.S. Only students with excused ab- sences from the June final examina- tion will be permitted to take the make-up exam. Political Seience 52 make-up ex- amination (Mr. Heneman's sections) for those who did not tatke the final examination last June will be given at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 22, in room 2031 Angell Hall. H. J. Heneman Geology Make-up Final Examina- tions for geology courses given the second semester of last year will be held on Monday, October 21, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 2054 Natural Science Building. Economics 71 Examination on Mon- day, October 21, at 1:00 p.m., as fol- lows: A-G in Room 25 Angel Hall. H-O in Room 1025 Angell Hall. P-Z in Room 348 West Engineer- ing Bldg. Bring bluebook 8/2"x11". Psychology 31 makeup final ex- amination for all sections will be held Tuesday, October 22, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Room 1121 N.S. Psychology 34 and 42 makeup ex- aminations will be held on Monday, (Continued on Page 8) Bominie Says REPRESENTATIVES of Science, Philosophy and Religion had a Conference in New York this summer. Albert Einstein, now of Princeton, made a plea for an impersonal God. Jacques Maritain from the Institute Catholique, Paris, introduced us to levels of learning with Science in the basement and Religion on the top deck. Douglas C. MacIntosh of Yale suggested a meth- od to synthesize the several disciplines and re- vitalize our culture. It was a stimulating and challenging three-day session. Michigan was represented by DeWitt H. Parker of Philsophy. and Raphael Isaacs of Medicine. . This making of a synthesis of the several dis- ciplines is exactly what higher education aims to have every student learn to accomplish for himself. The student is making a personality by virtue of unifying the contributions from various disciplines and then using his newly ac- quired facts to improve his habits. How well it is being accomplished is the question. As for the contribution of various disciplines, it is the religious person who is supposed to understand and use most consistently the art of reflection and contemplation. Presumably the "religious" for that reason should surpass all others in strength of character, charm and growth. Is that true? (We doubt it. Why, will be discussed later on). HERE IS A PROBLEM worth solving. If organ- ized religion has become so conscious of structure or so given to activity that thought upon spiritual and ethical issues is smothered or evaded, then the current world revolution may have to do us a service by sweeping away our churches. However, if the religious fellow- ship, namely the church, which is always essen- tial to a sensitive growing person, can accept the social tensions of our epoch, resolve the fears which molest us and deepen the open in- quiry of our decade, we may feel compensated for tle pain and loss of the present remorse. Many attempts are being made to chart a course such as this conference has introduced. If the scientist, the philosopher and the reli- gionist can speedily learn to understand each other, the first step will have been accomplished. Any interested University student who likes to think on current social or cultural trends can Wage - Hour Ruling Is Welcomed By All ... - THE Wage-Hour Administrator's re-definition of the terms "executive," "administrative," "professional," used in the Wage-Hour law, will be welcomed not only by employers, but by many egnployes affected by the new ruling. The status of employes 'thus classified and receiving more thian $200 a month has caused much confusion.' 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