cif mi-Ol i:-A NAIL Trrp y , NOVEMBER 26, Tw TaE MICX11t~AN DAILY Tt~8D~4Y, NOVE3~ER '26. 1940 ______ I - ... o_ i - . . To The Editor MiuS ic 41 The Reply CbToulI by TOUCHSTONE 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 newpaper. 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. Subscriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTEDFOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING 87 National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YoRK. N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON . LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO - Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler . Alvin Sarasohn r. Paul .M. =Chandler Karl Kessler . Milton Orshefsky . Howard A. Goldman . . Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter . Esther Osser . Helen Corman . . Business Staff Business#Manager . Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Managing Editor Editorial Director AsCity Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor .Women's Editor Exchange Editor Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: S. R. WALLACE The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. - They Never Learn.. . FASCISM, strangely enough, still ap- peals to a number of British and American industrialists. In spite of every effort of Hitler to discourage their faith these men still believe that only under fascism can they hang on to their fortunes. Communism is elim- inated by its very nature, and democracy as worked in the United States seems unwilling to permit the whofesale fortune making of former years. So these men have turned to fascism as the only way to keep their money intact and keep the "masses" under control. Hitler came to power in Germany on the as- sumption of the industrialists that they would be safe with him in the driver's seat. Their early disillusionment caused only a slight tremor in the ironbound faith of certain British and Amer- ican moneyed men. Even after Munich they be- lieved that fascism was the one sure way to keep what they had. And today, they still be- lieve the same myth; fascism will save us from Communism and the robbing of our money. Today there is a bloc of men in England who want peace with Germany. They want peace for themselves, not for the soldiers, sailors, air- men and civilians. They believe that they would not be treated as the people of the continent were and are being treated They feel that under fascism they can continue living as they did before the war, and they feel that their interests will be safer under Hitler than the present governmental setup. What supreme egotism is it that makes these men think that fascism will respect their wishes and their interests? They have no basis for their suppositions; every move of Hitler has been in the opposite direction. Yet they go on blindly believing that fascism will respect their wishes. If England were to make a peace settlement with Germany today, these men would feel secure. They have faith in fascism. And they won't be convinced that they have been fooled until they see their last dollar taken by their "savior." Over here the situation is not much different. We have our little group who swear by fascism. They too believe that their money is safe with the fascists. This democracy is too liberal for them. They don't feel secure. There is too much social unrest. If we had the steadying in- fluence of fascism here, our troubles would be over. They just can't see that their troubles would just be beginning. And in their shortsighted way they are willing to throw democracy over- board and bring fascism in, still believing that they will be safe, - Eugene Mandeberg Cigar, Professor? . . It's not particularly unusual for a boy to be happy because of a girl. But it was at the Uni- versity of North Carolina one day recently. Walking into class several minutes late with a smile on his face and a cigar in his hand, one of Dr. E. E. Ericson's students startled the pro- fessor into stopping his lecture. "Have a cigar," he said. Dr. Ericson and the class raised eyebrows and stared. "I've just become the father of a baby girl, seven pounds, two ounces,"the late-comer ex- plained. "You're not going to give a quiz, are you?" And he took his seat. After the class recovered its noi th nro- In the Michigan Daily of November 19 a let- ter from the Men's Judiciary Council-a Univer- sity selected body of conservative students- attempted to defend President Ruthven's dismis- sal of some thirteen University of Michigan stu- dents. The basic argument of the letter was simply and directly stated; in dismissing these students from the University, President Ruthven had "to forego hgis personal belief in academic freedom" so that he could erase the undeserved reputation of the University with its financial support. HOSE OF US who have spoken in criticism of the Regents' and President Ruthven's actions in this case are in complete concurrence with the expressed opinion of the Judiciary Coun- cil that this is an issue of academic freedom and that the principles of academic freedom were foregone in this case. But we wish to quote President Ruthven on this point: 'No inquiry was made as to membership in organizations, or as to political, or economic beliefs'. The differ- ence in these two statements on the same side of the fence mirrors the necessity for what a growing number of- doubtful students would like to see to find out more, namely, 1) a statement of the specific charges-, 2) the opportunity for those students who wish to defend themselves to do so, and 3) the opportunity for the Univer- sity to refute the defense of the stude'nts. To state as the Council, does, that the Univer- sity is faced with the 'demands of three or four students' is an unforgivable understatement. There are the thirteen students who were sep- arated from their education, and a list of over 60 prominent Americans, who ardently desire the granting of an open hearing. The list in- cludes such persons as Franklin P. Adams, James Truslow Adams, Franz Beas, Dashiel Hammett, Rockwell Kent, Max Lerner, Robert S. Lynd, R. J. Thomas, and 52 more. And to state, as the Council does, that nine students asked for no further publicity must be denied in ' the light of the fact that thirteen students have indicated that they would defend themselves if charges were made. T HE MEN'S JUDICIARY COUNCIL further states 'that a person is entitled only to rights which do not work ill upon the majority'. From this premise the council and the University is unequivocally led to the dangerous doctrine that the interests of the majority are best served by the suppression of a minority. The University can have no objetive basis for the suppression of a political opinion in the interests of the ma- jority. The only objective basis for the deter- mination of what constitutes 'ill upon the ma- jority' are the laws of the state. A minority does not have the right to steal, slander, murder, but it has the right in an allegedly democratic so- ciety to think, act, and speak freely. In this case no law of the state has been violated, but the right of minority to exist has been. We con- tend that America has been founded on the rugged principle that the best interests of all the 100 percent, are best served by the complete freedom of all, that truth will emerge from the free market of opposing opinions, that suppres sion of opinion is the negation of true Amer, icanism for such suppression leads to violence. The 'ill upon the majority' in this instance, states the Council, is the tuition raise. They attribute the tuition raise to a state deficit and to the 'free tongue and free pen . . . which the Administration and the Council have permitted' (sic) ! IF THE TUITION RAISE was due to a deficit then it wasn't due to the exercise of free pen and speech. If the right of free speech was at fault then to be punished for the exercises of fundamental democratic rights is to deny that we have democracy at the University. Which we grant. But the tuition raise was not due to the deficit, which in turn is alleged to have caused smaller appropriations. The State Budget indicates that the U. of M. appropriation was decreased less than one percent. (State Budget, Fiscal Year, 1940-41, and Public Act. No. 325, 1939). And less than that one percent will be raised this year by the tuition rates in view of the present enrollment. This democratic action of the University hit the in-state and out-state students who are in the lower income brackets. Hence in order to suppress a minority political opinion the Administration raised the tuition thereby denying an education to hundreds, of prospective students. As for the deficit, it con- sists of the unsatisfied needs of the state's citizenry. WE DENY that the 'legislature' or the 'people' of the state effected the tuition raise and the expulsion of the Michigan students. We affirm that President Ruthven is not the person primarily responsible. We wish to point only to the make-up of the Board of Regents and let the implications speak for themselves. The University's Board of Regents contains, among its eight members, Michigan's former head foot- ball coach, Harry Kipke, who as a candidate for his post received the aid of Ford's anti-union personnel director, Harry Bennett. Since his election, Kipke has been given the luncheon con- cession at the River Rouge plant. Five of the Regents are corporation lawyers. One, a Dem- ocratic nation committeeman, was formerly legal counsel for Consumers Power, a subsidiary of Commonwealth and Southern. Another was chairman of a Garner-for-President Committee. The seventh is a retired banker. The eighth is the wife of a General Motors executive. (S. R. Kaye, The Nation, Sept. 14. 1940.) Moreover, it is ridiculous for the Men's Judi- ciary Council to place the issue as one between The World Needs Heroic Youth We cannot but feel concerned about the fate of our culture when we witness the crumbling down of those values which made it possible, and which make life seem worth living for us. Not a single one of those values, whether reli- gious, philosophic, scientific, social or political, was granted to mankind at ease; all were se- cured by pains and sufferings, and the greatest of them were bought by the blood of martyrdom. THESE HEROIC DEEDS of the past have es- tablished for us the very grounds of our civilized existence, which we have come to take for granted. We have received so much with passivity and indifference that we are endan- gering in our selves the sources from whence spring these values and these ideals. If we con- tinue to be passive and indifferent, we are going to loose the great heritage intrusted into our hands. Today there is a wave of violence which is smashing ruthlessly against our moral edifices. The depth on whose surfacethis wave is rolling, is full with false doctrines and deformed values. It rests on the view that man is a mere hedonis- tic animal, bound to follow the line of least re- sistence, which for him consists of that path of behavior leading to maximum pleasure and min- imum pain. As such, man can be intimidated through his own intrinsic fear, and all means which can effect this intimidation are sound political instruments. How can we save our culture? We can save our culture, as has always been done in his- tory, only through the heroic spirit. Heroism falsifies the principles on which rests the doc- trine of violence and intimidation, it asserts man's privilege to move against his line of least resistance, and to accept voluntary suffering for his ideals. Heroism cannot spring on all kinds of soil. It is only that deep conviction in the infinite worth of the human personality, that faith in an absolute moral order and that belief in a tran-' scendental truth judging us as individuals and nations, which can give rise to the heroic spirit. If we seriously mean to save our culture this is what we need: heroic youth. - Fakhri Maluf To define as 2 percent of the population-or even the campus those who are strong supporters of trade unions, the Wagner Act, the NYA, the TVA, the Wage and Hour Act, in short, those who are the real devotees of democracy, the real defenders of the bill of rights for everybody, is looking away from the strong approbation of such measures by a majority of the people of the state and country. AS TO THE CHARGES of radicalism we can better than quote what we prefer to believe is the real President Ruthven, who has said the following on notable occasions: "Far from being 'red' or even liberal, colleges are, on the whole, really the strongholds of con- servatism and important agencies in maintain- ing the status quo. MANIFESTATIONS of radicalism in our stu- dent body are a healthy sign that today's students are interested in the betterment of their world, and as long as I am President of the University of Michigan, I shall continue to open the eyes of our students to the great prob lems of civilization . . . It is positively dan- gerous for society to thwart the ambition of youth to reform the world." Most significant, however, was the Men's Ju- diciary Council's conclusion "that if we were an independent endowed university like Har- vard or Columbia, the situation would never have arisen". To those of us who are more aware of the actual developments in the current American scene, such a conclusion is naive, for the private universities have led the way in abrogation of academic freedom. THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE of the case of Michigan may be summarized in these words: In the name of national unity for war, all opposition to moves which mean involvement must be silenced. Hence there will be a number of college presidents who will deny the existence of academic freedom in order to goose-step the weak and timid into another war. They seek to inoculate students with the stereotypes argil superstitions of the dominant groups in control. They desire not free men but robots, weak and pitiful conformists clinging to the futile phobias of the past. They are the handmates of the interests that seek to break the backbone of labor, the CIO, emasculate the progressive mea- sures of 1933-38, strike fear and apathy into the little people' and then plunge our country into a conflict on two oceans and two continents. The political events of contemporary Europe have given the perfect title to the suicidal process of fearfully obeying the demand that democratic institutions be weakened and democratic rights abridged: appeasement. Those of us who are strongly intent upon the maintenance of Amer- ican democracy must realize that appeasement is more than a series of tragic European political maneuvers; appeasement is an intellectual phe- nomenon of this historical period of crisis. It is the delusion of those who lack faith in the extension of democracy. We have that faith. The expulsions will not be ignored. We will be heard. We offer to debate the Men's Judiciary Council on the question 'Resolved, That the Ex- pulsion of the Michigan Students was a Justifi- able Abridgment of Academic Freedom.' - Harold Norris, Chairman. By KARL KARLSTROM We have heard the New York Phil- harmonic many times before, but never at the low ebb of last Sunday's concert. Rumor has it that the men in the orchestra carried some grudge against Barbirolli into the auditor- ium. We cannot vouch for that but we do know something was very wrong. It was a totally uninspired perfor- mance, and the "disinspiration" showed up "best of the worst" in the Sibelius. The Concerto Grosso by Handel was carried off with a fair degree of success, with one or two really nice passages. The "Italian" symphony of Mendelssohn was not so good. Men- delssohn's music is laid out to an ex- treme neatness of form, perceptible easily to the untrained ear. It is a striking characteristic of his com- positions, and was performed with great disspiritedness. The orchestra lacked in the clarity and precision necessary to bring out the beauty of this work. There were noticeable lacks of pre- cision in attack and continuity throughout, particularly apparent in the andante movement of the Handel, the andante of the Mendelssohn and the allegretto in the Sibelius second symphony. Once or twice the wood- winds gave out with a beautiful "bird" which was not calculated to add to the beauty of the performance. Many in the audience seemed to be waiting to see what would be done with the Sibelius Second in D major We believe that either Mr. Barbirolli's interpretation fell far below the stan- dard of - execution for this work, ox the orchestra was very much off. The huge, sometimes stark music of the Finnish composer can not be numbered among the more easily per- formed orchestral compositions. It requires clear, understanding execu- tion, fine phrasing, and excellent control of tempo, dynamics, and pre- cision if it is to be presented under- standably. Sunday's performance was vague, imitative, and thoroughly un- derdone. All the fine simplicity, the vastness and the often bleak strength of this piece were lost almost entirely. It was well-mishandled, entirely mis- interpreted. There was little coher- ency in the phrasing, climatic sec- tions were underdone, and the lack of precision was again felt strongly. The piece seems to us to be a com- bination of what might be Finnish folk tunes, Sibelius' own personality, and undeniably, the influence of Tschaikowsky. Particularly in the vi- vacissio movement is the presence of Peter Illyitch felt: in the climax One of the boys had received his letter saying please to show up for his physical ..examination in order that he might be drafted in the near future, and we were all trying to make him feel good, like telling about the patients in certain hospitals who are kept in dark rooms, who are at- tended by nurses and staff doctors who wear masks so they won't see the faces of these aforesaid men in dark rooms, and somebody added that many many doctors even refused to treat these patients, which cold- bloodedly is not so cold-blooded be- cause what good does it do a man to get well without a face. Then the soon-to-be-drafted piped up with "well they have made the packs lighter, cut 'em from 75 to 65 pounds so the boys can march 30 in- stead of 18 miles a day." That was nice. All of us nodded. Then the talk veered around to whether it was worthwhile being a conscientious ob- jector, and we said what the hell, aren't we all conscientious objectors? And again we nodded. But life in a jail was pretty bad. As soon as you got out of jail you had to regis- ter or else go back to jail. You did not pay for your crime with just one year in the pen. You paid part with a year of your life, and then the balance was extended in easy pay- ment plans, all you had to do was register and you 'would not have to pay any more, except possibly-and the guy who was going to be drafted got lower and lower. We are the happy people. We are the hopeful kids, the dreamers, the builders for the future. Whatever which builds into the popularly known theme. The theme and cli- mactic section could well have been conceived by Tschaikowsky. Its meth- od of building-up, and the "juicy" theme following are very like him. An immediate change comes after the theme has finished, but the Philhar- monic lost all coherency there, drop- ping the thread of continuity com- pletely.- The encore, Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner barely missed total mon- otony. It is fine when well-done, but it was very dead Sunday. We may say the same for the orchestra. it is. it is not going to happen to us. Even the guy who will be drafted felt that something would turn up. he would have TB or some social dis- ease or coronary thrombosis, but he and the rest of us knew he did not have any of these, he was in good enough shape for the armed forces, even though he is kind of thin, and it did not matter that like most of last year's seniors, his job is still enough in the formative stages so that it can easily be filled while he is gone and when he comes back, so that was nice too. We nodded. All of us. But it couldn't happen to the other three of us. It could happen to him, but that only meant there must be something the matter with him; it couldnt' happen to us. I said what were the chances for a return showing of All Quiet On the Western Front, and somebody laughed. We talked a little about the scene in the hospital where the boy with no foot says his foot hurts, and the dummkopf says "how can your foot hurt when you haven't got-" and there is a dead silence, broken by the boy with no foot. A very impressive scene, and so is the business of the boots, and there are the two scenes in the school- room, and the face of the teacher. But of course it isn't us. We are not like the kids in All Quiet On the Western Front, they are Germans, and even though we can feel a cer- tain pity for pre-World-War-I Ger- mans, it does not carry over to Ger- mans now. They are not kids. They are monsters, and teachers today are not like that teacher in the film, no, this is a new era. We could not feel really sorry for the guy with us who was going to be drafted. Just the same I would like to see that picture brought back here, and shown to special audiences, the draftees and the faculty. Maybe it would make things a little nicer. Maybe people would figure they had failed again, and be a little sweeter to each other to make up the deficit. Right now the books don't seem to balance. The youth side seems to be in red. There is a noticeable lack of con- vertible assets. Too bad. Too bad. But it can't happen to us; there must be something the matter with that guy, the one who is going to be drafted. So long until soon. 11 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ie £,cpatcA POO( AN ORDER by the Fascist party decrees that radio listeners'must stand while listening to broadcasts of Italian war communiques. Still, caution should be exercised. One of these times they'll turn around and find a Greek inhabiting the easy chair. It's not denied that when Il Duce himself makes a speech the Italios will have to walk up main streets on their hands, whistling in spa- ghetti and giving the Fascist salute. FOOTBALL'S OVER so maybe it's all right to talk about the Mar- jorie Weaver-Tom Harmon axis. A syndicated piece from Hollywood says that pretty Margie has talked to Darryl Zanuck about the possi- bility of a new football picture. The masculine hero? You guess. All of which explains a lot. It might not be so bad at that, though, seeing our Tom dash up to the bonfire in his University of Beulahville sweater and shout: "Come on gang, we've got to beat those guys tomorrow." Of course the coach would be sick in the hospital. And Margie would breathe : "Tom, you're wonderful. If you win tomorrow, you can tAke me to the marshmallow roast!" * ** That's our Tom. Speaking of movies, is there any- thing faster in the world than those newspaper photographers who drop from the chandeliers in cinematic night club brawls? Now you see 'em, now you don't. It's the thanksgiving season, and and all of us pay gratitude to the Michigan team for the sound- beating administered OSU. No team ever was more deserving of a licking. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1940 VOL. LI No. 49 Pubication in the Daily Official Bulletinis constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices Student Tea: President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to students Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 27, from 4 to 6 o'clock. First Mortgage Loans: The Univer- sity has a limited amount of funds to loan on modern, well-located, Ann Arbor residential property. Inter- est at current rates. F.H.A. terms availasle. Apply Investment Office, Room 100, South Wing, University Hall. Group Hospitalization and Group .Surgical Plan: Applications for en- rollment in either group hospitaliza- tion or the group surgical plan spon- sored by the Michigan Hospital Serv- ice will be accepted if received by the Business Office on or before No- vember 30, 1940. Those applications for group hospitalization will become effective December 5 with the first payroll deduction on Decezi~ber 31. If a sufficient number enroll for the surgical plan, the above dates also will apply to that service. Public Health Assembly: Dr. Rich- ard A. Bolt, Director of the Cleveland Child Health Association, will give an illustrated lecture on the "Interests and Activities of the Cleveland Child Health Association" at the Public Health Assembly this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of the W. K. Kellogg Institute, sional studentsein public expected to attend. Wanted: Boys for delivery work in Detroit during Christmas vacation with one of the best firms. Must have own car. Salary. Call at Bureau for further information; hours 9-12 and 2-4; 201 Mason Hall. University Bureau of Appointments Approved Organizations: Abe Lincoln Cooperative House Alpha Gamma Sigma Alpha Kappa Alpha Alpha Lambda Delta Alpha Nu Alpha Phi Alpha Alpha Phi Omega Al Thaqafa Am. 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