THE MICHIGAN DAILY Yan Daily ed 1890 ,r'r \"= : ai A Washington BYSTANDER By Kirke Simpson WASHINGTON, July 16.-(JP)-But for the in- tervention of William Gibbs McAdoo et al with the Garner ticket in the California democratic presidential primaries Governor Roosevelt prob- ably would have had that state in his Chicago" bandwagon fron) the start. ,. - ,« Ku ',:v roSG' nQa cc,. wo . r ",i^.n, ,.-r, Ll9 - NfYI! Ished every morning except Monday during the sity year and Summer Session by the Board in of of Student Publications. . nber of the Western Conference Editorial Associa- end the Big' Tea News Servicc. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use publication of all news dispatches credited to it or herwise credited in this paper and the local news ;ed herein. All rights of republication of special ches are reserved. red at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as i class matter. 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Conger SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1932" e Summer ctttre Series .. e Summer School lecture series, thanks to ngenuity of Mr. Carl Brandt, opened last with one of the most original attractions it has ever been the pleasure of an Ann r audience to witness. We refer to the Fish- khart debate on the recognition of Soviet a. Regardless of the individual viewpoint .e matter, the debate undoubtedly stimulated ssion of the subject in the minds of all who ded. e lecture series is a new attraction for Sum- Session students. Although the regular ses- has been privileged to hear noted authorities any fields for over twenty-five years under ;onsorship of the Oratorical association, this first year the feature has been offered dur- he summer months. As an experiment, from esults of the first program, it seems to have a success. sincerely hope that/attendance at these lec- will be such as to warrant making this iment a 'permanent feature of the Summer on. Hundreds of notables have stood on platform in previous years ano, addressed nt audiences, brought new problems to the and told thrilling tales of exploration and iture. Winston Churchill, Admiral Byrd, ,in Luckner, Gilbert Chesterton are but a f these. s summer's program, as an experiment, is ly ambitious. Senator Brookhart and Rep- tative Fish opened the series, and Com- er MacMillan and Captain. Carl von Hoff- will complete the, roster. We hope the series e regular summer feature from now on. There were several party factions in California prior to development of the three-way Roosevelt- Garner-Smith fight; but at one time all were rated as Roosevelt groups. With California in the Roosevelt bag, the whole course of the convention that finally nominated him under the impulse of California's switch, would have been different. The "Roosevelt-on- the-first-ballot" prediction of Jim Farley hinged on that California primary, it now seems. Where- fore it is fair enough t.hat California should ulti- mately have put the New Yorker over anyhow. * * * , WORRY FOR SHORTRIDGE But locally, out in California, events shaped themselves between those two happenings that must be causing "Sunny Sam" Shortridge, that great senatorial expounder of the excellencies of the golden state, profound concern. For out of these democratic presidential nomi- nation comings and goings, which made no ulti- mate difference to Roosevelt's success, emerged the tall figure of Mr. McAdoo as presumptive challenger of Mr. Shortridge for his senatorial toga. And Mr. Shortridge had plenty of trouble six years ago retaining that figurative garment against the clutch of John B. Elliott, now a sort of general manager of the McAdoo campaign. - A good many factors enter into the confidence with which Messrs. McAdoo and Elliott approach the preliminary primary phase of the battle. For one thing, the outcome at Chicago seems to have cleared McAdoo's road to the nomination in one respect. Justice Wardell of the northern end of the state apparently has thought better of making the ;ace. The unprecedented California democratic regi- stration of this year is a factor in McAdoo hopes, so far as election is concerned. The Secession Movement, by Dwight Dumond (MacMillan) In The Secession Movement, 1860-1861 (Mac- Millan, 1931), Professor Dwight .L.. Dumond of the Department of History, University of Michi- gan, haswritten an important analysis of the state of mind of the south at the moment of the great attempted revolution in American his- tory. It is a theme which has long called for an historian unattached to the sectional northern, specifically Republican, schobol which has led in the writing of Civil war history. Professor Dumond has produced an admirable book-objec- tive, but sympathetic towards southern views- which in many points of fact ,and of interpreta- tion challenges'accustomed formulas. It will not end controversy, but has redefined more afccurately several of the vital issues. For instance, it has cleared away a great deal of confusion regarding the position of the southern "Unionists." The union to which they were loyal was not, of course, the consolidated union of Lincoln's pro- gram, nor even the union as it then existed in their minds, perhaps in fact, with its threats tq the southern minority and to the safety of south- ern institutions. Again, the author has effectively disposed of the belief that the southern-rights democrats conspired to disrupt the Democratic party at Charleston in 1860. (In this revision Stephen A. Douglas fares rather badly.) He has also illuminated the story of the abortive efforts at compromise in the last months of Buchanan's administration. Here the onus of failure is thrown upon the Republicans; but it is candidly admitted that the proposed amendments to the constitution were also unacceptable to a large body of southern opinion. These episodes served (along with the affair of the southern forts, here reduced to its true significance) to advance the cause -of secession in its several stages, each of which is carefully defined. Nowhere else can one find in such compass so clear a definition of the competing political prin- ciples of this epoch regarding slavery and the constitution. Professor Dumond has no difficulty in demonstrating the superior logic and intel- lectual integrity of southern theory, once its premises were accepted. No doubt he would be the first to admit that behind the doctrines cur- rent in 1860 lies a whole long history of diverging social and economic development, north and south, and of sectional antagonisms on an emo- tional plane. But of necessity he begins his ac- count with a time when ideas were fast crystalliz- ing into irreconcilable dogmas; when, as in an earlier American revolution, ideas which had been in origin the rationalization of positions assumed for reasons of material interest and social policy, but now strongly colored by passion and rhetoric, became in themselves the instruments of revolu- tion. Indeed one appreciative reader has been so much impr'essed by the stress upon the clash of ideas in 1860-1861 that he finds it somewhat difficult to follow the author in rejecting "the tradition that the Civil war was irrepressible." One group of sources used in this scholarly study consists of editorials published in the southern newspapers during that period of high debate. Professor Dumond has performed an- other important service to ,Civil war scholarship in bringing together a large and judicious selec- tion of these documents in his Southern Edi- torials on Secession (Century, 1931), a volume issued under the auspices of the American His- torical association on the Albert J. Beveridge fund. Jury Ford .Riot, Finding taken from the Detroit Free Press, was very prejudiced, and .. ." Could anything be plainer. It was your comment upon the article you had taken from the Free Press. (For Mr. Bridge's edification, all matter reprinted unler the heading editorial comment is printed verbatim from the newspaper to which 'it is cred- ited, and does not in any manner represent the opinion of The Daily.-The Editors.) And my en- tire letter' had nothing in it about the Grand Jury Finding. I had nothing to say about that. What I said was directed to one point only: Com- munists are not cowards, but stand-patters are. - If it would appease your vanity in any way I do admire you as an editor more than I do the editor of the Free Press, although I've said noth- ing about the latter's intelligence or intrepidity. If you feel you print news which accords with what I would wish a newspaper to print you may I assure yourself you are a radical newspaper, yet I am sure you do not feel you are such, nor do I. Of course primary and secondary schools are peremptorily under the influence of money bar- ons, while Universities diverge from this absolute control according to the locality and the form of institution. Now mid-western state universities are nearer the helpless condition of primary and secondary schools than are other universities throughout the country; witness the case of for- mer President Little and Dean Cbot of the medical school in our 'wn backyard, as well as Professor Miller at Ohio State. At the same time read Ludwig Lewisohn's Upstream and learn something more about academic freedom in our mid-western state universities. (We have read it.) I will grant you the anamoly which radicals possess of dragging into any question they are discussing other questions along the same line. In order to emphasize the injustice done Tom Mooney it does not hurt to bring in -as many other cases of injustice as possible. If Mooney was the only case there would be less reason to inquire into the injustice done him, but there are myriads of other cases, and the Scottsboro case is indubiously a paragon of injustice which must be used to help Tom Mooney. Perhaps only one-fourth of the meeting was devoted to direct Tom Mooney facts, yet the tenor of the entire meeting was injustice, and to depict, as I have said above, how prevalent injustice is in the United States, is to help Tom Mooney. * 0. H. Bridge THE SOCIALISTS MADE A MISTAKE To The. Editor: It-was withra mind practically barren of in- formation concerning Mooney, Scottsborough, or the Socialist Club that I attended the Mooney case meeting Tuesday night. The mind is now in the same state as to information. Consequent- ly it was quite interesting to read the letters of Messers. Bridge, and Spencer in this morn- ing's Daily in which they repetitiously urged The Facing of Facts. It is true that Professor Carr did give quite some enlightenment as to why the Mooney case is controverted. But he failed utterly to elaborate on two very important matters: (1) the exact motive behnd such allegedly unfair prosecution of Mooney, (2) What Mooney testified to. I list- ened, in vain for those Facts. Then we come to Mr. Moore's oration, which, I am frank to say, was interesting and well given. I was one of the capacity audience. But I won- der if the possibility ever occurred to 'r. Bridge or Mr. Spencer that the audience didnot neces- sarily stay because it Believed. Haveii't we seen time and again capacity houses watching Thurs- ton the magician pull rabbits from a hat, Personally I was interested in Mr. Moore's speech because it was promising to break a world's record for Loose Talk. - Such phrases as "Santa Claus" yarns and "Legal Lynching," while clever and enormously funny, were meaningless. That is, to the intellect. They have, no doubt, a full emotional value. That is why I think the Socialist Club made a mistake in picking the locale of their meeting. To expect a University audience to be taken in by Mr. Moore's puerile propaganda is exhibiting an optimism which, frankly, I admire. But how Mr. Bridge and Mr. Spencer can talk about Facing the Facts after sponsoring Mr. Moore's rampage is something which, frankly, I marvel at. Overlooking the details of the principal ad- dress, I could have been moved had Mr. More offered a reasonable means of protecting Mooney and the Scottsborough boys from the verdicts of our inexorable legal "inquisitions." The only conclusion Ican draw from the program offered Tuesday night is that the Mass Mind is to de- termine the guilt or innocence of the Downtrod- den. That is, the Mass Mind inflamed by scratch- pan statements tossed out indiscriminately by the Mr. Mores. Supported, of course, by a'little lady in black who has nothing to say and whose ap- pearance is supposed to cause weeping and the wringing of hands. I submit that such an offer makes no ease for the substitution of the Mass Mind in place of our present courts. In conclusion I might suggest that it was more than impoliteness for Mr. Birdge to mention what the editor should read for his edification. I feel sure that 'the editor is finely enough educated to face any Facts that Mr. Bridge has to present, But I go the full way with him' in condemning last Tuesday evening's Radical Rumpus. MR. SPENCER COMMENDS To The Editor: The discussion which has taken place in your Campus Opinion column following upon your editorial on the recent Mooney meeting has been of great interest to me. I am glad to see that there are students on this campus who take this controversy seriously enough to write for the column. A liberal attitude on the part of The Daily calls for comment from persons of all shades of opinion. In a word, I wish to commend the view taken by The Daily of fostering an increased interest in discussion of problems which are in immediate need of solution. Several of your correspondents have deplored the fact that errors have been made in the word- ing of advertising material on recent talks spon- sored by the Socialist club and as a result were dissatisfied with what took place at these meet- ings. There is just ground for such criticism and I assure you that a serious attempt will be made for future meetings to avoid any errors of this nature. However. I do want to call the attention of your readers to the fact that the Socialist club is the only organization on the campus that is sponsoring a series of talks for the purpose of giving out information and providing for open discussion on subjects broad in scope and con- troversial in nature. Notice that the discussion of Economic Planning was given by a progressive Republican. This certainly would draw no fire from some ;of the liberal and conservative fellow- GOLDMAN I 4 BROS. 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At the same time, it was announced at the cabinet officers wotild accept salary re- etions of approximately 15 per cent, almost e maximum cut to be given under the recent deral legislation and considerably more than e amount which will be cut by compulsory fur- ighs for government employees. Although the salary of the President may seem 'ge at first thought, it must be remembered at his obligations, social and otherwise, require e expenditure of almost the entire amount of yea ly stipend. The reduction of this amount $15,000 will probably mean some considerable kite House economies. The cut is even more interesting when it is nembered that no power on the earth can cut salary of the President. Congress has been cifically prohibited this use of its legislative wers and there is no administrative officer who empowered to do this. As a matter of fact, cut can only be accomplished by the volun- y contribution of the President to the treasury the United States. Phis is, indeed, more than "painless" philan- opy and the action of the cabinet officers in enting to their salary reductions is of the same M Goldman Bros. Service has been outstandig for 21 PLAINCOATI years Miracleaned and Handfinished2- Cash and Carry- or Called for and Delivered for Cash- Special for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday C I I H NE 2I3. 214 S. State - 113 E. Liberty -703 Packard 705 S. State 1115 S. University Ave. Campus Opinion Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous communications will be disre- garded. The names of communicants will, how- ever, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, confining them- selves to less than 300 words if possible. Mok AM MERL m 0 mAr,4 IL"'ll, L 'T, 1621'L I MR. BRIDGE SEES A POINT AND I I fl fl