FACE FOUR THE MICHIGAN hXAItY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940 .. .. . . .- . . -- . . _ . .......... ..a THE MICHIGAN DAILY The Reply Churlish by TOUCHSTONE DRAMA two Can Play That Game! Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The 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. Subcriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.O: by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING DY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADIsoN AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON * LOS ANGEtES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated CoUegiate Press, 1939-40 Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler . Alvin Sarasohn . Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Corman . . . . Managing Editor . . . . Editorial Director City Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . . * Associate Editor . . Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor S . . . 'Women's Editor . . . . Exchange Editor 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: A. P. BLAUSTEIN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Mexico Grants Oil Land To Japan . 0 . N MANY WAYS Japan has cast its F ominous shadow over the Western Hemisphere. During the past few decades many Japanese have emigrated to parts of Latin Amer- ica, particularly Brazil and Peru. Coffee planters and managers of other industries imported Jap- anese in order to get laborers at a much lower wage. After penetrating South America merely as laborers, the Japanese turned to small farming, with success similar to that they enjoyed in Southern California, and in Peru there have been serious riots because of the taking over of large parts of that country by the Japanese. Several Latin American nations have followed the lead of the United States in adopting Japan- ese immigration exclusion acts. With a political foothold in South America gained through its emigrants, Japan has been trying to take over some of the markets lost there by European nations because of the war. This fact makes even more serious the unex- pected announcement by the Mexican govern- ment that 7,000 acres rich in oil near Vera Cruz have been granted to a Japanese company. THE GRANTING of this concession 'is in direct opposition to the policy which Mexico adopt- ed in expropriating British and American oil lands elsewhere in Mexico. The state depart- ment has every reason to look deeply into the reasons prompting this action on the part of the Mexican government. It may mean a depart- ure from the policy of expropriation and that Mexico intends to return to this nation and England the former oil grants under a new agreement. i However, until it is proved that this is the intention of the Mexican government-and sur- face conditions seem to point in another direc- tion- the Japanese grant must be taken at face value, as an award of privileges to Japan which is discriminatory toward this nation. Since Japan is a partner of the axis nations, it would seem that the oil concession is a victory for the dic- tators in this hemisphere. The United States is entitled to a clear and honest explanation from the government of Mexico as to its inten- tions and reasons for making the grant. - William Baker Last Sunset On New York Fair .. . HE WORLD OF TOMORROW is now a part of yesterday. Five hun- dred thousand jammed New York's World Fair last Sunday to catch one last glimpse of the Big Town's biggest show before the sound of taps officially closed it for all time. Notwithstanding the carnation-and-cane sales- manship, the raucous chants of the barkers, and the gilded commercial displays, the Fair was a living symbol of domestic and interna- tional cooperation. But even while immaculate Grover Whalen was throwing open the gates for the first time in 1939, there were rumblings of the forthcoming world upheaval. The empty foundations of the demolished Russian Pavilion in 1940, and the tomb-like atmosphere of the Czechoslovakian and Polish exhibits did not en- AT THE RISK of getting my head in a sling, I am here and now going on the record as a man inalterably opposed to clubwomen of all sorts, be they even one half as worthy as they seem to believe themselves. Almost since the beginning of school I have seen ladies with grim faces going here and going there to attend lec- tures or hold meetings or wear uniforms or put up flags along the fair streets of our city. They come here in cars, and anybody knows what a woman driver is like even under normal circum- stances to say nothing of when she is attending a convention, and they honk at students and turn corners and jam traffic and get cops mad and get themselves all pink and excited and flustered and get me mad, oh so very very mad. I cannot understand anyhow what the fascina- tion of a college town is for all these groups of assorted earnest people who go to conventions. The ladies, God bless them, evidently hold to the theory that there is culture to be picked up off the streets of any place where a professor holds forth. Which may be so, but the ladies, God bless them, are never looking nearly so hard for culture as for someone to tell them that they are already cultured, someone to tell them they are the mainstays (whalebone) of the community, the citadels of all that is fine in America today. Th ladies, God bless them, and by this time you will have gathered that when I say "bless" it is only a manner of speaking and nothing more, like to go to dinners, wearing their dowdy dresses or their Queen Mary hats, and at the dinners they like to sit and see who can talk louder than who, and then they like their self- conscious chairmen to stand up and rap on a glass with a fork and say "Girls -." AND they like for some fairly good looking, or at least sort of interesting looking don't you know what I mean, man to get up and say "I am reminded of a story" which makes them laugh two or three minutes after he has finished the story, and then they like him to clear his throat as though we are all intelligent people here and there are serous matters to be settled before the world goes on any longer without the benefits of whatever it is that the club ladies purport to do, and they like him to talk to them, tell them new things that they can puzzle over for a long time after they get home and their poor tired husbands begin to bore them. The best man I ever heard talk turkey to a bunch of ladies was a prof in the education school, but maybe I'd better not tell his name, he will know who I mean, and know that I have always admired him for his guts, and that's all that counts. He got up over at the Rackham Building one afternoon when I was a kid re- porter, which I am not now, and he said, "The trouble with all you ladies is that you don't ever do anything. You come to these meetings and think you're doing good just by hearing about what should be done, and then you go back home and never think about the problems we talk about here until it's time to come back here again." And how they hated it. They got up and gave him particular hell, and they were offended at his lack of tact, and they stayed after to tell him in more detail just what sort of a low monster he was. And I smiled and went' over to the office and wrote my story, and wished there were more men in the world like that one. THE ADVANTAGE the ladies, God bless them, have over the rest of us is that they can be just as rude as they want and still manage in all sincerity to be very miffed when someone asks them to take off their large hats or please not to step into line ahead of some poor patient male. I don't need to write the whole thing, there is a good treatment of this in Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt." The scene at the movie house. Yes, there are times when it seems to be a woman's world, but by the lord Harry, if ever it gets to a point where it really is, where by the influence of the mother the male animal is so reduced as to entirely acquiesce in anything proposed by womankind, heaven help us all, for there will be no more crude men to do the new and vulgar and radical things, and no swearing or spitting or propagation except by special permit, and what in hell will that leave for the ladies to concern themselves over except their own empty lives,. the realization that they are no longer women or mothers or wives, but only delegates. the carnation and cane). The Fair proved itself a barometer of America's thoughts and tastes when it discarded its apostle of pre-1929 ticker tape parades and open Packard touring cars. Under the shadow of the Trylon and Peri- sphere you heard the twang of New England, the sugary slur of the South, the hard hitting consonants of the Mid-West, and dialects from every point of the compass. The world had met in the greatest and perhaps the last of the in- ternational expositions. Today, as the demolition crews start their work on Flushing Meadows, we wonder if the "Dawn of a New Day" was only a colorful sun- set preceding the long night. -- Dan Behrman Worth Fighting For WHEN H. G. WELLS arrived in this country three weeks ago he de- scribed Lord Halifax, the British Foreign Secre- tary, as "the quintessence of all that patriotic, English-speaking men should be afraid of." He added that his visit was made possible by the very government which he so vehemently criti- cized. "That," he pointed, "is democracy. That's what we're fighting for." -New York Times By MILTON ORSHEKSKY Professor Windt, director of Play Productiol, gave as his reason for the selection of "Three Men On A Horse" as the group's first offering the belief that "with the world the way it is, people will want to go to the theatre to laugh." Whether or not we agree with the thesis, it must be said that last night's particular brand of escapism offered, at best, a dubious argument. For Play Production's performance of the Ab- bott-Holm farce at the Lydia Mendelssohn The- atre, although it tries very hard, never quite comes off. Partly because the comedy is slight stuff, partly because it depends for its success on a few farcical situations and gag lines that require the pacing and finesse of experienced performers, the production was a spotty, patently amateurishfaffair. The story concerns the ad- ventures of "Oiwin," who through 800 perform- ances on Broadway, in innumerable traveling companies, and as a motion picture hero, has become as great an American legend as Icha- bod Crane, and with half the effort. All "Oiwin" has to do is ride on a bus to Ozone Heights, pick out horses "like some people do cross-word puzzles," and those horses romp home in one- two-three order. Of course, "Oiwin," in real life a composer of greeting-card verses, never bets money, because "that would spoil it all." But some newly-found acquaintances in a bar- room have a more sophisticated attitude on pleasure. The result: "Oiwin" is "kidnapped" by them, persuaded - with the aid of a 10 per cent cut-that picking horses is much more satisfactory to mind and body than writing "mother's day" greetings, and set to work-bus and all. That is the framework, typically Abbott and it allows for a typically Abbott farce: a bed- room scene with a misunderstanding; blustering physical by-play by a variety of characters (in its first-night exuberance Play Production al- most lost a man by having him thrown against a wall); innuendos that are timed exactly or are nothing, etc. With such a burden, the cast and Director Windt struggle manfully. Donald Diamond, Adeline Gittlen, John Sinclair, Whitfield Con- ner, Jack Silcott and the rest were more or less adequate in-and-outers all evening. The audi- ence was sympathetic, too, but it was no go. It may be that there was something wrong with Professor Windt's thesis. C e D" Pecisc RobertS.Aflee MADISON, WIS.-For more than thirty years there has been a LaFollette in the Senate, but this year the famous crusading dynasty is in real danger of being unseated. "Young Bob" LaFollette, able, courageous, conscientious son of the late great Progressive, is fighting for his political life. In the past two weeks, Bob's prospects appear to have improved, but the final outcome of the close struggle is still doubtful. Bob's opponent is Fred H. Clausen, wealthy farm-implement merchant, and regular Repub- lican, who long has been a LaFollette foe. Clausen, however, is not the real source of Bob's difficulties, although he is their beneficiary. Bob's difficulties stem from various factors unrelated to Clausen. Chief of them are: (1) Deep-seated antipathy toward LaFollette's glib, ambitious, younger brother Phil, twice Gov- ernor of Wisconsin; and (2) A strong undercurrent of hostility toward Bob, because of his extreme isolationist stand, among the large Scandinavian population which has been the backbone of the Progressive move- ment in the state. This widespread feeling against Phil still is prevalent, and, curiously, is being taken out on Bob. Definitely abetting this is the known fact that Bob is swayed politically by his flashy younger brother. Privately, Bob did not approve of the National Progressive Party plan. But when Phil insisted on going through with it, Bob did not demur. Bob may yet skin through the election on November 5, but if he does he'll know he has been through the toughest fight of his fifteen- year senatorial career. The City Editor's SCRfITCH PRD UST ANOTHER WEEK and then the big elec- tion shebang. Meanwhile the mud flies. We wonder if FDR realizes the history he is making. Win, lose or draw now, he has tried something unique in the U.S.A. His name will be remembered, that's certain. * * * And in the state, perennial Gov. Dickin- son is spending a little of his time ducking Democratic punches. Not too oddly, the old crippled children issue is echoing around the capitol up at Lansing again. But loudly. A[R. GALLUP'S POLL has been bubbling ever -A DA ILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN -- i . Iajl I ' I' , 1 , '' _ I rl '' °'- . , r ; ; 1 : . _ 1 { t , ; : II II IIlI /j .: r :: 1 1 - : I IId I l II { I II t I III E - .. s - r . THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940 VOL. LI. No. 28. Pubilcation in the Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices To the Members of the Faculty, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: The second regular meet- ing of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the academic session of 1940-1941 will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall, November 4th, 1940, at 4:10 p.m. The reports of the various com- mittees, instead of being read orally at the meeting, have been prepared in advance and are included with this call to the meeting. They should be retained in your files as part of the minutes of the November meeting. Edward H. Kraus AGENDA 1. Consideration of the minutes of the meeting of October 7th, 1940 (pp. 662-676), which were distributed by campus mail. 2. Consideration of the reports sub- mitted with this call to the meeting. a. Executive Committee, prepared by Professor R. C. Angell. b. Univer- sity Council, prepared by Professor W. H. Worrell. c. Executive Board of the Graduate School, prepared by Professor C. S. Schoepfle. d. Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, prepared by Professor C. F. Remer.ye. Deans' Conference, pre- pared by Dean E. H. Kraus. 3. Foreign books and periodicals: Librarian W. W. Bishop. 4. College Honors Program: Asso- ciate Professor B. D. Thuma. 5. Admission of students with ad- vanced standing: Assistant Professor C. M. Davis. 6. New business. 7. Announcements. .Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: The five-week freshman reports will be due Satur- day, November 2, in the Academic Counselors' Office, 108 Mason Hall. Bronson-Thomas Prize in German: Value $40. Open to all undergraduate students in German distinctly Ameri- can training. Will be awarded on the results of a three-hour essay compe- tition to be held under departmental supervision in the latter half of March, 1941 (exact date to be an- nounced two weeks in advance.) Con- testants must satisfy the Department that they have done their reading in German. The essay may be written in English or German. Each contest- ant will be free to choose his own sub- ject from a list of at least 30 offered. tions. The last date for filing appli- cation is November 25, 1940. Senior Specialist in Higher Educa- tion, salary $4,600. Superintendent of Clothing Fac- tory, class A, salary $3,800; class B, salary $3,200; class C, salary $2,600. Foreman Tailor, class A, salary $2,300; classB, salary $2,000; class C, salary $1,860. Complete announcement on file at the University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours 9-12 and 2-4. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information will be open to registration Thurs- day and Friday, October 31 and No- vember 1 and Monday through Wed- nesday, November 3-6 inclusive. Blanks may be obtained at the office, 201 Mason Hall, hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Both seniors and graduate students, as well as staff members, are eligible for the services of the Bureau, and may register in the Teaching Divi- sion, or in the General Division, which includes registration for all positions other than teaching. Feb- ruary, June and August graduates are urged to register now, as this is the only general registration to be held during the year and positions are already coming in for next year. After November 6, by the Ruling of the Regents, there will be a late registration fee of $1. Error in Student Directory: The telephone number of the Phi Delta Theta House, 1437 Washtenaw Ave., is 2-4551 and not 2-4451 as printed in the Directory. Applications for board are being ac- cepted at the Robert Owen Coopera- tive House, 922 S. State St. The Congress Co-operative }Iouse has one vacancy for room and board for this semester, and several vacan- cies for board alone. Any student in- terested phone 2-2143 or stop at the house, 816 Tappan. Alpha Lambda Delta: All money for pins and certificates must be given to Gertrude Inwood, 4515 Stockwell Hall, by Friday, Novem- ber 1. Academic Notices Pre-Medical Students: The Medi- cal Aptitude Test of the Association of American Medical Colleges will be given at the University of Michi- gan Friday, November 8. All stu- dents planning to enter a medical school in the fall of 1941 should take this test. The Medical School of the University of Michigan espe- cially urges all those who planto apply for admission in 1941 to write this examination. This examination must not be con- fused with the series of tests spon- sored by the Pre-Medical Society on this campus. The Association's test, given November 8, is used by admis- sion officers as one of the criteria in admitting students in practically all Class A medical schools, and is given but once a year. Further in- formation may be obtained in Room 4 University Hall and tickets should be purchased immediately at the Cashier's Office. All Students interested. in enroll- ing in a special course in the im- provement of reading, which is to be organized shortly, are invited to attend a general meeting at 4:00 o'clock today in Natural Science Aud- itorium. 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