_ TIWMEH IliGAN ~ALYXI THE MICHIGAN DAILY LET'TERS . - 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 Associated 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. - Suberiptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00: by mail, $450. . EPRE:ENTE POR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Represetative 420 MAO160iN AVE. NEwYORK. N.Y.- CHICAGO * BOSTON . LoS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Member, Assoc acted CoUegiate Press, 1939.40 Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler . . Alvin Sarasohn .. Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler I Milton Orshefsk . Howard A. Goldman . . Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter . . Esther Osser . Helen Corman . business 3 Business Manager . Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager . Managing- Editor . Editorial Director City.. Editor . Associate Editor . Associate Editor . Associate Editor * Associate' 'Editor . Sports Editor . Women's Editor . Exchange Editor Staff Irving Outtman Robert (i1mour Helen Bohnsack .Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: ROSEBUD SCOTT The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Interstate Trade Barriers . . IF THERE IS NEED for further in- dictment of interstate trade bar- riers, it is furnished by the concern evidenced by the Federal government over the possible hin- drance of defense measures caused by such barriers. Virtually every state, many counties, and even individual towns and cities have set up regulations, inspections, licensing laws, and "quarantines," all of which obviously have and will work only to slow up the flow of trade and create economic provincialism. The Federal government cannot afford to tolerate any state or local law which interferes with the transportation of munitions, food, oil, or any other of the essential defense materials. To do so would allow the defense program to bog down hopelessly. For this reason, during the past two years the government has been con- ducting a campaign against the evil of econom- ic provincialism, and as a result such legisla- tion has been halted in most states. Soon, however, a new group of legislatures will be called into service, and the lobbies and pres- sure groups will again go into action. Trans- portation bodies, marketing associations, cham- bers of commerce all will be seeking new laws to promote their own particular interests. THE STATES should realize the problem before it is too late. Either they must reconcile their differences, and reach some sensible agree- ment on a general principle of regulation, or they may see the Federal government stepping into the situation. The efficiency of the defense program and of the country as a whole might be seriously impaired by interstate trade bar- riers. Before that happens, however, the gov- ernment will take the matter out of the hands of the states, through federal action based on the constitutional guarantee of free trade. - William Baker The Populace Denationalized .. HERE IS A TENDENCY here in the United States to denationalize the populace. Technically all those who are born or natural- ized in the United States are Americans. Yet people do not seem to realize that the word "American" signifies a nationality. Why is it that records and application blanks of all types must have information on one's "nationality?" "American" is not sufficient; are you TPolish; are you German; are you Chinese; are you Russian? It is as silly to say that I am Russian and Chinese; I am German and Brazilian; I am Spanish and Swedish. Isn't it ludicrous? Of course the same does not apply to race, an en- tirely different matter. Those who are of such stock that is not classified as "typical" American have undoubt- edly been asked time and again the very sweet question, "And what nationality are you?" Such questions as these have a great tendency to create a strong "un-American" feeling. This is subversive propaganda. AT A TIME LIKE THIS, such sentiment should TO T HE EDIT O R To the Editor: N ANSWER to the flood of appeals for unity and especially to Fred Niketh, I submit the following: I, as you may have already surmised, was a loyal supporter of candidate Wendell L. Willkie, and moreover, I am still a firm believer in the principles he crusaded for. Others may claim that Willkie's principles did not differ from President Roosevelt's, but a vote of twenty-one million people should give strong evidence to the fact that they did differ, and strongly so. To those Willkie supporters who now switch and pledge loyalty to President Roosevelt and his principles I can have nothing but contempt for theit insincerity. How can anyone fight for principles and then when the candidate who rep- resents these principles loses, turnabout and support the opposing side on the fictitious pseudo-patriotic plea that we are all Americans and must therefore support President Roosevelt in this time of crisis? Do clear thinking people really believe that our sincerity can last only during the campaign? First, I am a free man, second, an American, but never am I a supporter of the principles endorsed by President Roosevelt. Therefore, I sincerely believe that I can best serve the in- terest of democracy and freedom by opposing, not supporting, the principles of President Roosevelt. If this be petty partizanship, as Mr. Niketh may charge, I can only say that the principles of democracy and freedom must then also be petty principles n his unenlightened mind. -R. S. Kelley, '42 The Rep1y Churlish by TOUCHSTONE IT HAS FINALLY COME TO A HEAD. The meeting will be held today, win lose or draw. The trial of students asked not to return will take place on the baseball diamond at Island Lake Park. The meeting spot is on the wrong side of the tracks, for it is very tough to have a meeting these days, but the important thing is, here's how to get there. Glen Street runs into Huron right behind the Rackham Building. Glen Street also runs right into the park. Walk about a mile from the Administration Building, maybe occupying your time thinking about civil rghts, and the Constitution of the United States, and freedom of speech and press, and before you know it, having crossed the Rubicon over the bridge, and having renounced your right to be blind and dumb and deaf, you will be there, and you may hear some things that will start you thinking. It's very tough to buck against hidden influ-, ences. Two ladies came in yesterday and told me a little about the kind of hell it has been trying to get this meeting a place to meet. But it will meet. At one o'clock the trial starts. They tried to hold it in the Masonic Temple, and then in the Methodist Church, but refusal from those places was all right, for those are private properties, and it is the right of their directors to refuse for any reason they see fit to advance. Then the high school was refused by the pres- ident of the school board on the grounds that this was a political meeting. Then the County Building was refused by the board of supervisors on the grounds that the meeting was anti-Chris- tian. The Armory was also refused on several different scores. Finally the Park Commission recognized the remnants of the right of assembly, and perhaps their own consciences, and gave permission in writing to the committee of local citizens to hold the meeting without any interference save perhaps on the part of such shock troopers as the forces for reaction here are able to gather. Incidentally, the ladies tell me there will be a police protection, so let's not have any good clean American Ku Klux Klanners getting no- tionable. The committee is made up of townspeople. They are neither enrolled as students nor work- ing for the school. The ladies want it under- stood that they are only factually minded housewives, and may the good lord forgive me for ever having attacked their sex in my column. It isn't possible to swear hard enough or long enough to tell just how much a story like the one the ladies told me gripes my soul. That there should be such restriction of gatherings, such sheer out and out rotten dealing to keep a thing like this under cover makes me want to get myself a baseball bat and take out after the one prominent citizen who said that he had told the directors of the Masonic Temple that if they allowed such a meeting to take place, he would meet the blank blank blanks on the front steps with a club. Loud talkers like that need a good mouthful of knuckles to tone them down a little bit. Maybe it's about time the left got its own American Legion, just as a sort of chaser for the bitter drinks they continually are served. I don't know how effective this meeting will be. It may flop; it may be a hollow excuse to permit a lot of malcontents to treat the matter in their own one-sided way. Whatever you think of the meeting itself, I think you as an American should realize the right of this group to air their views. I think you should 1e opposed to any attempts to keep it from coming off. I don't give a tinker's dam if you're Repub- lican, Christian Socialist, Democrat, Farmer- Laborite or Townsendite, get to that meeting. You may not like what you hear, but if there is any rightness in this whole affair it is the right Post-Election UnityAnd Opposition. TWO DAYS AGO in a letter to The Daily, Mr. Niketh stated his view that, with the elec- tion over and the President re-elected, we should all now join together and support him through this crisis of democracy. Bygones should be bygones--it is now time to become unified in our support of the Administration so that we can make our nation totally invincible. Mr. Kelley, however, in his letter in the adjoining column, believes that he will best serve America by maintaining his opposition to the policies of the President-they are no more defensible now than they were before the election. Probably both are right and are being good democrats and good Americans-as far as they go. The best position is perhaps one lying some- where between the viewpoints presented by the two writers. Wholehearted support of the Pres- ident's program, or of any program, is un- healthy-but, unity is needed at a time when the ability of democracies to function with the same efficiency as authoritarian states is being seriously doubted. On the other hand opposi- tion may become harping and stop all construc-, tive work-but, it's very necessary to keep it alive in this country, for it has been extinguished almost everywhere else, and, with its abandon- ment, comes dictatorship, repression and suf- fering. We believe that the views of both writers are necessary in a degree to the preservation of democracy in America. Opposition must be maintained at all times-to guard against ex- cesses by the Administration, to point our dif- ferent and better methods of defense, to promote efficiency in government by keeping the party in power on its toes (there's always the next election to watch out for), and, last and most important, to keep alive that main principle .: our American democracy: the right of minoritie to be heard. Tke opposition must keep shouting loud and long-except that now that oppositioh should be exercised with a view toward helping America, even though some may not like the person elected by the majority to head the nation. The only unity we need is the unity wherein we are all pitching to make the United States the "best ole country" in the world and a de- fended one. The campaign just past was a need- lessly dirty one. It was cheap and did little in itself to make this a better nation. For the most part, it was childishly conducted by both sides. Maybe that was a necessary part of modern elections, but the fact remains that no matter what names both sides called each oth- er; we must now work, and work hard, to make our country prosper. The only solidarity we need is that of all working for America-Repub- licans and Democrats and everybody else. If eachman is sure in his heart that he is doing what is right for himself and America, then that is all the unity we need-unity of purpose. Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate who never has a chance but who, nevertheless, will never, in true democratic style, give up the fight, spoke on election night over the radio. He spoke after all the politicians had finally stopped, he spoke after all the smoke and rub- bish of the campaign had been cleared away. He spoke after all the generalities and nonsense had been finally uttered. And he spoke words of wisdom. Norman Thomas, an American, said that this has been a dirty campaign and that a lot of nonsense had been tossed around. He said, the election is over; NOW LET'S GET TO WORK AND GET THE JOB DONE. - Alvin Sarasohn "+ I The Ann Arbor Art Association opens its first exhibition of the sea- son with a show in Alumni Memorial Hall of thirty-five paintings by the French artist, Amedee Ozenfant. For two reasons it is a more than usually stimulating exhibition. First, it pro- vides a review of the technic and manners of French painting, of the past quarter-century, and, further it illuminates the colossal difficulty of the painter in this generation. Amedee Ozenfant has acquired the reputation of being one of the most eminent teachers and art critics of this day. That reputation is justly deserved, and his schools, first in Paris, then in London, and now in New York, have had more than or- dinary influence. In his painting, Ozenfant still maintains the attitude of the theorist, essentially intellec- tual. Accordingly, it is a 'difficuit' kind of picture-making to the lay- man. This man's appeal is to the mind, and to the technically trained one, at that. Here, almost no appeal at all is made to the emotions. Ozen- fant's problem, which has cut deep in his consciousness, is one which exists in the mind of all modern painters. It is the now old question of acclimating one's self to an envi- ronment to produce a truly personal reaction to experience and inter- pretation of it. Ozenfant has arrived at a personal expression by way of continuing ex- periment. He started as a conserva- tive landscapist. The View of Per- onne, dated 1906, is completely in the old French tradition, markedly after the influence of Corot. In its way, it is one of the most satisfying of the exhibits. From 1911 till 1915, the painter was working figure pieces and landscapes which foreshadow the later Derain and recall the ear- lier Picasso, as in Nos. 4-7. In 1917 and 1918 Ozenfant hit his first real style and made his first important contribution to the theory of modern painting. This work (Nos. 10-17) was frankly derived from Picasso's synthetic cubism; it is a decorative style, dubbed 'Purism,' which he and the architect, Le Corbusier, evolved. It is admirable architec- tonic and mural-like, with sober but most elegant color. Nos. 18 and 19 are highlights in the exhibition, with Ann Arbor' By JOhN MAXON their pe While about and town children played their adap- tat ion of "'The Princess and the Pea" to an audience of approximately 600 children in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre yesterday, adults in the au- ditorium took note of various lines in the script which gave the play an appeal beyond that seen by its more youthful patrons. Varying a great deal from the orig- inal Hans Christian Anderson fairy- tale, the play was set in the Dunkle Museum of Natural Art and Unnat- ural History, just the other day, from where it reverted to the Castle and the story of the princess and the pea. In the words of its transposer and director, Richard McKelvey, it was a real "screwball comedy." Waiters roller skated in to serve the king and queen, one bearing a live cat on a silver platter while varsity mega- phones enabled the diners to hear one another. The prince ran an ad in the paper in his quest for a genuine princess while pages were even sent into the audience in real "Hellzapop- pin" style to look for one. There were cracks on, for example, social secur- ity and the Unions, in every other line of script for the adults, and slap- stick comedy for the children. The nature of the play helped add to the ease and informality of the members of the cast so that ad libs were not infrequent even among the younger players. The cast was a well chosen one with each player quite at home in his role. The leads, Marguerite Mink, '41, as Queen Marie, and William Mills, '41, as King Henry, were both outstanding for their excellent speech and mannerisms. Best subordinate characters were Mary Ellen Wheeler, '41Ed, as the fake princess Rosita, and Nathalie Schurman, '41, as the fake Queen. - J. S. H. forms.P 1927, of a deep first hin rsuasive color and well-built No. 20, Mother and Child, of a wiry, calligraphic line on Indian red ground, is the it of Ozenf ant's most original DRAMA 30 University studentsI Opening Exhibit and mature paintings to come. the bas-reliefs in paint. The Four Races No. 23), La Belle Vie (No. 26), The Lovers (No. 30), and The Bathers' Grotto (No. 31). are the artist's most impressive productions. These pic- tures display the influence of the prehistoric; Ozenfant has been stir- red to his depths by the Venus of Willendorf. the earth-mother twen- ty-thousand years old, and by the primitive African murals published by Dr. Leo Frobenius. In this same vane is the finest picture of the show. No. 34, Sleepers, of 1930. It is hauntingly beautiful hieratic in character. In spite of the painter's debatable use of his medium, it is thoroughly distinguished in concep- tion and form. Ozenfant,, however, has had his unhappy moments in his pictures. Venus and Sunset, Nos. 2 and 3) are :ompletely banal. Nocturne (No. 22) Seems culled from the pages of a fan- tastic anthology for the very young. La Vie Biologique (No. 35), lent from the Luxembourg collection, is a huge composition of figures of crude colors in Meretricious taste. The most to be said for it is that it seems a mis- understanding of contemporary Mex- ican painting, especially that of Si- queiros. Ozenfant is a scholar in all his work, and he has faithfully mirrored or predicted all of the significant phases of recent painting in Europe. But one cannot help feeling that, in his work, he illuminates the pathetic inefficiency of the modern artist, who seeks only the solution of a per- ;onal problem, without ever occupy- ing a real place in modern society. Ozenfant represents the speculative amateur, who, by circumstance, is called professional. He stands apart from the painter's true function and craft. Technically, he is enormously interesting, full of richly suggestive ideas. As an answer to the ponder- ous problem of resetting the artist 'ack into a proper booth in civiliza- tion, Amedee Ozenfant is but one more painter who, painting for his own inner expression, lies without the threshold of significance. A word' must be added about the installation of the show. The hang- ing committee deserves considerable praise for the taste and ingenuity it employed in setting up the exhibition. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN CINEMA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1940 VOL. LI. No. 36 Publication in the Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices Choral Union Members: Members of the Choral Union in good standing who have not yet secured their copies of Brahms' Requiem are requested to call for them, before the next rehear- sal, in the offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower. Graduate Record Examination Re- sults are now available in the office of the Graduate School, Rackham Build- ing, and students desiring their scores may call for them. A careful read- ing of the instructions on the front and back ofsthersheet which each stu- dent will receive should make the meaning of the several scores clear. Senior Aeronautical Engineering Students: Students who expect to graduate in February, 1941, should call at the Department office at their earliest convenience for the purpose of filling out personnel record cards. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following Civil Service examinations. Last date for filing application is noted in each case: y ' By S. R. WALLACE 'Ithe photography was excellent. That, unfor- tunately, is the elegy of "Kreutzer Sonata," the French film that opened last night at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre under the auspices of the Art Cinema League. In spired by Tolstoy's novel and st to the immortal music of Beethoven, the picture is given also the advantages of superior acting, yet because of exceptionally poor transition the po- tentially great film is a series of disjointed, un- believable sequences. Essentially a 'heavy' drama, of the type that European tradition usually makes an intense, moving spectacle or a laugh provoking burlesque to American audiences, "Kreutzer Sonata" man- ages to strike the mean and emerges a strange potpourri of dramatic intensity and laughable theatrics. As previously noted, however, the photogra- phic effects are admirable. The French exhibit genius in creating atmospheric moods without resorting to the technical tricks of Hollywood. Pierre Renoir, Gaby Morlay and Jean Yonnel, the continental actors, do much to make the film at least an unusual experience by breath- ing realism into their characters. The story is based on the psychological study of a man whose tragic wastrel past forcibly injects tragedy into his life when it has already become, in peace, constructive. ing to permit the use of its facilities to the Civil Rights Federation and the Michigan Commttee for Academc Freedom, sponsoring the Mass Meeting on November 9th, reaffirm the policy adopted early in the depression that the church facilities be made available to any serious group for any lawful purpose which could not find suitable accommodations elsewhere. As to specific opinions expressed at any meet- ing, not held under the auspices of any of the church organizations, there is no necessary held in the Mezzanine Galleries of the Rackham Building until Novembert 18. The Exhibit is open daily fromt 10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: Drawings submitted by students in competition for the Ryer- son Travelling Fellowship offered by1 the Lake Forest Foundation for Arch-, itecture and Landscape Architecture are being shown through November 9 in the third floor exhibition room, Architecture Building. The competing; schools are Universities of Illinois,1 Cincinnati, Ohio State and Michigan,, Iowa State College, and Armour In- stitute. Open daily 9 to 5, except Sun- day. The public is invited. Exhibition: Paintings by Ozenfant and drawings by William Littlefield are now showing in Alumni Memorial Hall, afternoons 2:00-5:0 until Nov. 22. This is under the auspices of the Ann Arbor Art Association. Members and students are admitted free. .Lectures University Lecture: Amedee Ozen- fant, French Artist and Director of the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts, will lecture on the subject "Modern Art" (illustrated) under the aus- pices of the Department of Fine Arts at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, November 14, in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The public is cordially invited. Warden Lawes Lecture tickets will be placed on sale this morning and all day Monday at Hill Auditorium box office. Mr. Lawes, noted warden of Sing Sing prison, will speak at 1:15 Monday evening in Hill Audi- torium as the second number, of th Oratorical Association Lecture Series. Events Today International Center Round Table: This afternoon, 3:00-5:00, at the In- ternational Center the Saturday Afternoon Round Table will discuss "The Place of Democracy in the World Today." These discussions are giving unusual interest because of the repre- sentative character of the interna- tional group at the Center. Anyone interested is invited. Freshman Roundtable will be held tonight at 7:30 at Lane Hall. Mr. Kenneth Morgan will lead the dis- cussion on "Boy and Girl Rela- tions." Suomi Club meeting this evening at 8 o'clock in Rooms 316-320 at the Union. Physical Education, Women Stu- dents: Registration for the indoor season in physical education will be held today from 8:00 to 12:00 a.m. in Barbour Gymnasium. Informal Graduate Dance will be held tonight from 9-12 in the Assem- bly Hall of the Rackham Building. A stag dance, with unescorted women especially urged to attend. Admis- sion charge. Refreshments and bridge. Graduate students and facul- ty only. The Hillel Foundation will hold an open house this afternoon during (Continued on Page 6) UNITED STATES Junior Pharmacist, salary November 25, 1940. $2,000, m-Tr ()TTr~ Messenger, salary $900, November 9, 1940. Senior Technical Clerk, salary $1,860, November 15, 1940. Junior Accountant, salary $2,580, November 15, 1940. 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