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EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ............THOMAS E. GROEHN ASSOCIAIL EDITOR.............THOMAS H. KLEENE Editorial Director ...............Marshall D. Shulman Dramatic Critic ..............John W. Pritchard Assistant .Tditors: Clinton B. Conger, Ralph W. Hurd, Joseph b. Mattes, Elsie A. Pierce, Tuure Tenander, Jewel W. Wuerfel. Reporters: Eleanor Barc, Donal Burns, Mary Delnay, M. E. Graban, John Hlpert, Richard E. Lorch, Vincent Moore, Elsie Roxborough, William Sours, Dorothea Staebler, Betty Keenan. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER ........GEORGE H. ATHERTON CREDITS MANAGER...................JOHN S. PARK Circulation Manager................J. Cameron Hall Office Manager..........................Robert Lodge , * * * We Must Not Rest. . . N WASHINGTON, D.C., Mrs. Wil- liam A. Becker, president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, is- sued the following statement this past week: "No patriotic teacher should object to taking the oath of allegiance. It is an honor, not a reflection, upon character. It does not carry with it interference with the right of educators to determine courses of study. Courses of study will be safe in the hands of loyal teachers." "We are not trying to raise any 'Red Scare,' but do maintain our position is sound. Our one purpose in insisting on this pledge is to weed out, as far as possible, the un-American teacher engaged in planting subversive doctrines in the minds of future citizens." Enough has been written about teachers' oath laws so that there ought not be anyone on the campus who does not realize that they endanger academic freedom and civil liberties. The Amer- ican Legion, under Commander Murphy, has withdrawn its support of teacher's oaths, with a statement that it recognizes that true American- ism consists in something more than a hand raised to a flag. The D.A.R. has not as yet come to this realization. The statment printed above indicatds that Mrs. Becker has no idea of the meaning of academic freedom, no faith in the democratic process, and no appreciation of the potential danger of the measure she is supporting. We must not rest until this law is removed from the books of the State of Michigan. We dare not comment on academic freedom in Germany so long as our teachers are subject to such reg- ulations and our classrooms are to be super- vised by the D.A.R. NewSpapermen And The Labor Dispute.. T HE ACTION of the American Newspaper Guild in taking its charter from the American Federation of Labor this week should not be construed as a support of the Federation against the ten unions of the C.I.O., and it does not mean that the newspaper- mei of the country are thus inclined. First, the vote to join the Federation took place long before the Green-Lewis dispute. Sec- ond, Heywood Broun, president of the Guild, immediately after receiving the charter from Mr. Green at a dinner in New York, announced that he would resign as president of the Guild as a basis of an immediate test as to whether the Guild should join the cause of the C.I.O. He later was persuaded to reconsider his action, but asked for an immediate vote to indicate the Guild's stand on the type of unionism to be fol- lowed. An embarrassing situation is likely to develop if the Federation's newest member de- clares itself in favor of craft unionism, as it is likely to do. British Protest (From the New York Post) BRITISH military experts are deeply disturbed over complaints that the German dirigible Hindenburg soared over three British airports. According to a special cable to the New York Times, "it was still light enough on this summer .evening for its officers to have seen plenty of military secrets to take to their chiefs in Berlin." If British military secrets are kept so much in the open, we don't wonder at the sudden alarm. But what does stagger us is the fact that the What we most lack, the French have in abund- ance. That is, the French have mind. They think clearly. Twelve years under Republican rule- 1. Oil scandals. 2. Speculative orgy. 3. Hawley-Smoot tariff. 4. Stock market manipulation. 5. Wall-street dumping of foreign bonds. 6. Crash of 1929. 7. Bank failures. 8. Farm and home mortgages. 9. Bread lines. 10. Tax evasion. -From the Washington Daily News. * * * * "Free enterprise"; the "true American Way"; "liberty"-these and other slogans are nothing but camouflage to despoil and enslave the American people more than ever by the "interests." -Reader. Thank You To the Editor: Since the beginning of Summer School it has been my avowed intention to tell you what I think of your editorial policy. For many years (almost more than I care to admit) I have been reading college newspapers. Their chief charm has been their naivete, the sport news, and gos- sip columns. It is, then, I think, only fair and right and just to tell you that you are pro- ducing one of the finest papers it has ever been my privilege to read; your editorial policy is in- telligent, well-balanced, interesting, thought-pro- voking, keen, and shows a truly balanced picture of our national issues: religion, education, poli- tics, economics, etc.; the news items are well- written, informative, and unbiased; your fea- ture articles are cleverly chosen and excellently executed. Sports, society, and the miscellaneous items which go to make up the rest of your paper are done in the same uniformly good work- manship. Aside from the mechanical perfection of your paper, I think that the spirit which it gives forth is to be highly commended. There -is a place on the campus for such an organ. If the stu- dent body and others connected with this insti- tution would reflect the same high spirit of fairness, clear-thinking, and objective point of view which is demonstrated by the Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan would be a finer, greater institution. Again, please accept my sincere congratula- tions. You are doing a splendid piece of work. I sincerely hope that those of you who are now connected with The Michigan Daily will carry forward the rest of your lives the idealism, pro- gressiveness, and clear insight which you are now so capably demonstrating. -Reader. "The rich man is educated to his lot," reads an editorial. So is the poor man, though he is al- ways hoping to be graduated. -The Daily Iowan. Yawn Yawnson, local hired man, says: "Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today- put it off until day after tomorrow." -The Daily Iowan. Here's a new beauty fad, said to have been developed in New York: Girls dye their hair, one half blonde and one. half brunette, which is ex- pected to catch the fellows, no matter which they prefer. -Sioux City Journal. As Others SeeIt Labor At The Rubicon (From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) THE AMERICAN FEDERATION of Labor has handed down what history may account a Dred Scott decision. Through its Executive Council, it has voted to expel 10 of its constituent unions that comprise practically a third of its membership. The ultimatum has a qualifying clause. If the insurgents retract and abandon their plan to organize the mass-production in- dustries on an industrial basis and embrace once again the craft-union, or trades-unit oper- andum to which the federation is committed, the order of expulsion will be canceled, all will be forgiven and peace will again reign in the parent labor organization. There will be no retraction, competent observ- ers say. War has been declared. War it will be, for the survival of the fittest. The leaders of the opposing forces are William Green, president of the federation, and John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers. The element of personal ambition, of official rivalry, if present at all, is inconsequential. It is a struggle between two schools of philosophy, between the old order of trade unionism, as represented by Mr. Green, and the new order of which Mr. Lewis is the proponent. The trade union is as old, almost, as organized industry itself. It is the direct descendant of the Guild of the Middle Ages, when fellow craftsmen organized to advance their economic interests. They were motivated, too, by pride of craftsman- ship. Into its long history is woven the senti- ment of tradition. Whether the evolution of in- dustry as exemplified in the mass-production of today has rendered the craft-union obsolete, or an agency incapable of bargaining, is the point at issue between the philosophies of Mr. Green and Mr. Lewis. That pride of craftsmanship, as it once existed, has all but disappeared cannot be questioned. It has disappeared because crafts- manship has all but disappeared. As ah anti-traditionalist, as a realist, governed solely by things as they are, Mr. Lewis has im- pressive facts to support his position. The un- deniable fact is that the American Federation of Labor has not been able, by its craft-union meth- od, to organize American labor. Out of a possible total of say, 40.000,000, it has enrolled a maxi- mum of some 3,000,000 workers. The mass-pro- duction industries, such as steel and automobile manufacturing, have never been organized. Their organization, on a craft-union basis, is impos- sible, Mr. Lewis contends, for the reason that the machine and production processes have in effect eliminated craftsmanship. If the workers employed in those and other large-scale indus- tries are to be organized so as effectually to bar- .gain collectively and present grievances as to working conditions, they must be organizd as industries; not as separate groups, but as a whole. They must be organized as the mine workers have been, and as the other unions associated in the Lewis movement. The decree of banishment pronounced by the federation's Executive Council is the culmination of a long, acrimonious controversy between the Committee on Industrial Organization and the federation officers. Its pronouncement at this time has been precipitated by the C.I.O.'s decision to organize the steel workers industrially. That campaign has been launched by Mr. Lewis. The steel industry will fight it to a finish, with all its resources. The prospect is gravely disturbing. The spectacle of the American Federation of Labor as, in effect, an ally of the steel industry against a labor movement were inconceivable were it not a fact. If the issue cannot be determined by arbitration, if it can only be resolved by force, the experience will be costly and the con- sequences, in any event, far-reaching. That the American Federation of Labor can survive in anything like its present stature and influence seems impossible. It has, on the evi- dence and in plausible inference, pronounced its own death sentence. The genius of Samuel Gom- pers, that piloted it safely through so many storms, is gone. His wisdom, his prescience, his consummate statesmanship, which industry at last reluctantly recognized, were not bequeathed to his successor. How urgently they are needed in this critical hour. We notice that a "safety" car-one of those things in which a policeman talks through a loud-speaker-had an accident with a truck in Haverhill, Mass. We can imagine what the offi- cer said to the truck driver through the loud- speaker. Quest For Beauty--A Mosaic (Frem the Summ cir Nmthwestern) "PROSODY," says the dictionary, "is the science of poetic meters and of versification," "Prosody," says the members of the class designated in the Summer Ses- sion catalog as SD1O, "is far more than the science of versification. It involves interpretation not only of poetry, but of life; it develops in- sight, powers of observation and re- flection; it seeks to discover in the prose facts of daily life implications of beauty and significance; it tends to establish a philosophy which makes it possible to salvage some moments or hours of beauty from the most embittering, most discouraging day- in other words, to cultivate the aes- thetic attitude toward life." The difference between these two definitions is: Lew Sarett. Two hundred and ten members of his class in prosody and interpreta- tion may not always be able to dis- Criminate accurately between the Pindaric and the Horatian ode; ter- cets and triolets may become con- fused in their minds as the summer of 1936 recedes. But they will never forget how Professor Sarett set be- fore them the principles of the aes- thetic attitude, by precept, by illus- tration, by reading, by delving deep into the souls of human beings, until they grasped some of its possibilities and realized that here was an idea which, developed into a way of living, might serve to make all experience' rich and significant. I One day recently, he sent them forth on a quest of the beautiful and the significant. Notebook in hand, they were to record all the events of the day, all the prose facts they might encounter, which seemed to them to hold possibilities of insight, aspects of beauty, and significant im- plications. Then choosing the one, or the several, which they preferred, they were to indicate what association ideas, and values were suggested to them which might serve as the foun- dation for a piece of writing, a poem, an essay, or a novel. Here are a few paragraphs gleaned from the papers. On a Lake Michigan Pier On A Dark Night The fearfulness of being able to ap- proach so closely such power without being aware of its danger. The vast- ness of it. The sudden understanding of the phrase "without form and void." The relentlessness of the inces- sant slap of the waves, taking no cognizance of men who rule the world.- The eerie appearance of two lighted yachts on the horizon, like jewels on black velvet. Skeleton of a Sand-fly on the Screen A symbol of freedom, illusive, like the fire of a comet, the nether tip of the moon, the vanishing points of a star, the witch on her broom; like the song of a wi;en, the whispering hush of the trees, the lapping of the crest of a wave, the boom of a fog horn; like the vanishing fog on the hill-tops, the wake of a steamship, the song of a whippoorwill. The Smell of Frying Bacon All the goodamaterial things of earth; hunger and its satisfaction; wood fires beside the lake; fresh, chilly mornings; camping; northern lights ringing the entire lake, re-, flected in the black water. Mirages. Swimming before breakfast. The sound of the oars in the oarlocks; the pound of waves on the bottom of, the bow. Good, very good. An Old Scissors-Grinder's Wagon1 What lives has his sharp-nosed, ean-cheeked life touched? Because he passed by, stopped, plied his trade, and then went on, lawns are green pile velvet, hedges smoothly clipped. Meat is tenderer. Dispositions are sweeter. What a simple equation his life is! By putting edges on tools,1 he removes them from tongues. 1 Young Pine Cones! On a gnarled pine tree. Pine cones green. A new experience. I hadr thought, if I had thought at all, that pine cones were born hard and sere and brown. It would have kleen as strange to imagine their fresh, green youth as to see the cuddly pink-and- white warmth of a baby's body in the weather-beaten frame of an old sea- salt. Is it only Minerva who has sprung into life mature.? How terrible to have been born full-grown, armed, and to have had no ecstatic childhood to look back upon! The only time I had not envied wisdom. Mr. Sarett's Shadow His shadow moves when he moves; yet it is not part of him. How often do I mistake the dis- torted shadows of things for exact images of their originals? How dare I assume knowledge of religion? law? sobriety? logic? con- ceit? unselfishness? night? Have I ever really seen any of them? Which reminds me that I was once startled to learn that night is just the coneshaped shadow of the earth. That should teach me humility, be-, cause I had "known" night all my life and had regarded it as something quite different. In fact, I had not{ known night as a prose fact at all-a only its implications. The Faint Odor of Forest Fires In the Air The north country again. How it gets hold of you! Those are pines andt firs burning. Where? That odor has' traveled a long, long way. Autumn in the north... Dying beauty ... Love- lier now than in the luxuriant sum- leaps ahead of you, he says; it throws ip balls of fire that rush above the learings and start new fires be- yond. So it rings, you in. One man wouldn't leave his cabin. He thought he could save it. He burned to death. A cabin; two hundred dollars. A Sentence In a Letter From My Sister "We have spent the morning pre- serving plums and plum juice, and making jelly.". . . Were ever words more poignantly woman-like? There is something in women that will not al- low them to know the moment, eat the fruit, and then let both pass with the day and the season. They must, some way or other, manage to keep a part of the sweetness and the light and the color. They cannot let go the things that bring them ecstacy, even of pain. Even though in the process of preservation, the fruit must change its form, and the moment its meaning, women will always labor to keep about them an evidence of a day and a blooming. Women must preserve tanglible evidences-whether they be of fruits or of follies. aI do not know why; perhaps they need them to bear long, barren winters. A Dead Beetle, Found on the Shore Here is beauty of a rare kind. If it doubtful if man could conceive or even imitate his flashing mail, with its intricate symmetrical patterning . When you examine something made by man, the closer you look, the less satisfying it is, as a rule. Certainly most of our art would not improve under the miscroscope. But in nature, the more clearly you see it, the more you enlarge it, the more beauty, precision, and exquisite orna- ment you see. There must be a God, a mind and a power so much greater than ours that it is useless to try to comprehend all His purposes. The study of beetles is an inex- haustible one. Some of them, those that live below the ground and some of the fighting species, have lost their gossamer hind wings, and with them, the power of flight. The wind cov- erings of some of these have grown together to form a solid dorsal cover- ing, Here are implications! Perhaps that's what war does to us. Perhaps it's better to be vulnerable, to be stepped on, to be abused, to suffer and to die, than to lose our wings. Italy, Germany; what is their future? Are they losing their wings as they strengthen their fighting power and perfect their armor? The Egyptians worshipped beetles as a symbol of eternal life, I can't remember their reasoning. But this beetle is dead; his little day of con- quest is over. He is known as the Searcher. Has he finished his quest? Has he .reached his Mecca? Is the golden chalice his at last? "Dressmaking" Just a sign in the window of a shabby duplex. But the disappoint- ment of a life looks out through tired eyes. A widow has cut and treadled and stitched her life into the educa- tion of her son. At last he is to grad- uate from high school. An honor to be a member of a class of fifteen hundred, and his mother looks for- ward with a consuming pride to see- ing him graduate. The gray caps and gowns are dis- tributed, and the boy comes home wearing his, as proud as a soldied in a new uniform. There will be no other boy marching in the procession so handsome as her son. The greatunight arrives, and she is seated far up in the vast coliseum. Below her an undulating sea of youth, poured forth through the races of a great educational mill. The program is over and it is time for the granting of diplomas. He has told her his number and where to ex- pect him in the line. The band eases into the recessional. On the plat- form the powers stand, flanked with stacks of folders. The gray sea comes alive. Boys and girls pass down the aisles of the huge auditorium four abreast, cross the platform, receive their diplomas, shift the tassels on , their caps, come down, and blend again with the gray waves. Hun- dreds. More hundreds. Where is he? There he should be. Where is he? Where? He is lost, without ever hav- ing been found. Once more she climbs the worn gray steps of her home. "Dressmaking." Her symbol of devotion is blurring to a futile badge of slavery, when the boy rushes in. "Wasn't it great, mother! Did you see me, mother?" "It was great. You were handsome, son." Internationalism (From the London Spectator) NE YEAR AGO, the visitors to a German factory established in, Switzerland could see the completion, by German, Swiss and Austrian labor of a war seaplane. This beautiful machine, built to the order of the Yugoslav Government, was fitted with Swedish machine guns and the most recent and powerful French motor. But it was still waiting for a propeller to be manufactured in Great Britain under American license. HOOVER PASSES BIRTHDAY UESDAY, AUG. 11, 193 Clippings Art And War (From The New York Times) THOSE modernist sculptors have queer notions; not in sculpture, which one would expect, but in pub- lic affairs. Port Chester, N. Y., has a minor Diego Rivera case on its hands. It involves the statue of a soldier in a contemplated Spanish-American War memorial. The figure, according to The Times account, is nearly 10 feet high and shows an exhausted soldier in tattered uniform, his legs spread wide apart, a rifle under his arm, and one hand pressed against his abdomen. Some observers think the facial expresion is brutish. Among them is the Mayor of Port Chester, and he is extremely unhappy about it. But the artist and his supporters say the statue is not ugly and it is an effective argument against war. * * ** VHAT was the weakness of Diego Rivera's position in the famous Rockefeller Center murals. It is quite in order for the Mexican sculptor to worship Lenin as the builder of a new society on the ruins of our capitalist system. It is quite out of place to glorify Lenin on the walls of so con- spicuous a monument of the capitalist system as Rockefeller Center. One would think an artist might be the first to feel the incongruity. This leaves aside the even bigger question of the exact nature of anti- war feeling today. Children used to ask, Who dragged whom around the walls of what? So it is in order to ask today, Who opposes war with whom about what? Spain is, in the grip of war at this moment. Is it wrong for the Madrid government to send out young boys to their death against the army insurgents? To say that in Spain it is a case of legitimate defense means nothing. When has war ever been anything else but legitimate and purely defen- sive? It is interesting to read Japan- ese accounts of how in September, 1931, the ancient Spirit of Japan ex- perienced a rebirth and leaped to the defense of the nation's imperilled existence-in Manchuria! Protean Roosevelt (From the Baltimore Evening Sun) IN THE COURSE of the last week, President Roosevelt has been com- pared to Stalin. He has been com- pared to Hitler. He has been com- pared to Jefferson. He has been compared to Jackson. But that is not enough for the Hon. Robert S. Bright, retired attorney and farmer of Frederick County, who has leaped into the day's news by con- tributing $500 to the G.O.P. cam- paign fund, at the same time assert- ing he has been a Democrat for 40 years. Roosevelt, says Mr. Bright, is a man who by "a Rasputin hypnotism" has persuaded "John Garner, a Demo- crat with principles, to run with him." And so we now have the President likened to the mad monk of Russia! At the rate the comparisons are in- creasing, Mr. Roosevelt makes that classical quick-change artist, Proteus, look like a back number. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN VOL. XLV No. 36 TUESDAY, AUG. 11, 1936 The Music Of 'The Pir ates Is judged To Be Typically Sullivan By WILLIAM J. LICHTENWANGER DURING the Spanish War, when Sir Arthur Sullivan's comic opera ditties were rated among the popular tunes of the day, a young American naval officer viewed from the deck of his ship a launch approaching through the water. Appropriating a familiar air from The Pirates of Penzance, he chanted to his fellows, "Here comes the Commodore." Came fhe answering phrase, un-Gilbertian in form but not in spirit, "What the hell do we care!" Thus, from such an origin, by way of political conventions, temperance meet- ings, and doughboy bivouacs, has come our rous- ing chorus, "Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here!" It can hardly be said of The Pirates that it contains Sullivan's best work as a composer of comic opera, Its music has neither the lurical sparkle of The Gondoliers, the winsome charm of The Mikado, nor the sheer beauty and ex- hilarating twang of Pinafore. The work was erly as Gilbert satirizes such British institutions as Law and Duty. The vigorous strain to which we sing "Hail, Hail" is, in the opera, suspiciously reminiscent of Verdi's "Anvil Chorus"; and the "innocent fiction" by which the Major-General plucks the pirates' heartstrings, with his tale of lonely (save for his twenty-odd daughters!) or- phanhood, fairly reeks, musically, with the sen- timentality of pre-Verdian Italian Opera. But there is a great deal of attractiveness about the music in addition to its wit and humor. Mabel's "Poor wandering one," in which she prof- fers her love to lonely Frederick, is easily Sul- livan's most popular waltz-a waltz, however, not in the Viennese style, which had too much of voluptuous abandon to please the Victorian composer of Onward Christian Soldiers, but a waltz possessed of a refined, lyric piquancy. The Major-General's autobiographical "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" is Notices The Michigan Dahes will hold their family picnic Tuesday evening, Aug. 11, at the Ann Arbor Island. Each family is asked to bring its own pic- nic supper and dishes. Drinks and ice cream will be sold on the grounds. All married students and internes and their wives and children are in- vited to attend this picnic. There will be a soft ball game for the men, and games for the children. Ball games will begin at 5 p.m. and supper will be served at 6 p.m. Come as early as you wish. Attention students in -Golf Course: A best-ball match has been arranged for today, Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 3:30 p.m. at the University Golf Course. Students who cannot arrange to at- tend at 3:30 may join the group at the second nine at 4:30 p.m. Johnny Malloy, pro at the Ann Arbor Golf Course and former State champion, and his brother Woody Malloy, mem- ber of this year's Varsity team, will play Coach Courtright and Cal Mark- ham, former city champion and mem- ber of the Varsity team. Excursion No. 11, Wednesday af- ternoon, Aug. 12. Inspection of the new Ann Arbor Daily News Bldg. Make reservation at Officeof the Summer Session. Meet in front of Dress Building at 2 p.m. There is no charge for this trip. The Summer Book Group of the Michigan Dames will meet Wednes- day, 7:30 p.m., Aug. 12 with Mrs. Robert French at 1028 Martin Place. On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., there