THE MICHIGAN DAILY
- THRSDAY, JULY 25, 1935
himself from religion and religious thoughts en-
tirely, or else he makes an effort to gain a new,
intelligent insight into the workings of the world,
and a keener perception of his own significance
in life.
The latter point of view is unquestionably the
most desirable, because it helps an individual to
find himself, as it were, and, after all, if life is to
possess any real meaning we must arrive at some
conclusion regarding our relation to that greater
meaning of things. This need not necessarily be
bound up with the church as an institution -
and it usually isn't - but is concerned with dis-
covering some faith whereby the student can try
to shape his life to give full expression to his own
individuality, and give some clue as to that indi-
v.dual's real significance.
If college can aid the student in arriving at
n some working philosophy of life, based on a healthy
faith -even at the comparatively small expense
of discrediting old church dogmas -then, and
only then does the college or university have rea-
son for existing. And if they do fulfill this very
real need of our youth - we might almost call it
a duty - then parents need not worry when a few
; insignificant provincial beliefs and doctrines are
I overthrown. Better that they be bared than con-
j tinue to hide the true purposes of life, and
s eclipse the finer and nobler philosophy found in
the church.
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A Washington
BYSTANDER
By KIRKE SIMPSON
\VASHINGTON - The Deen adjournment resolu-
tion gave Democratic leaders in the House a
chance to put on an impressive show of their capa-
city. One minute the House was cheering for
adjournment. The next it was voting down the
adjournment plan by crushing majorities.
As it turned out, administration insiders are in-
clined to thank the Georgia Democrat for his un-
intended help. They expect that vote to have im-
portant bearing not only on tax bill developments
but on what happens to other pending New Deal
measures as well.
DANGERS UNFORESEEN
JUST WHAT happened between times in the han-
dling of the adjournment resolution is not
fully disclosed. It is clear, however, that some im-
portant New Deal figures were inclined to let each
House member go it alone in deciding his atti-
tude; to declare the administration opposition to
adjournment but not to exert any other influence
to beat the plan. To such advisers, it seemed that
if Congress actually walked out on the White
House, leaving much of the New Deal program
hanging in air, Congress would have to shoulder
responsibility to the voters for that act.
There were others who saw a serious danger to
presidential prestige in even a strong adjourn-
ment minority vote in the House. They did not
anticipate Senate concurrence, necessary to end
the session abruptly within less than a week.
They did believe, however, that Roosevelt lead-
ership risked too much to take the chance.
That view prevailed. The strategy of expedit,
ing rather than attempting to stall off an ad-
journment vote was the result. Party leaders, once
the word was passed, realized that if the question
hung fire the adjournment sentiment would gair
strength day by day. There are plenty of House
members who would welcome an escape from
standing up and being counted on the tax votes
ahead on the eve of their re-nomination cam-
paigns. That feeling had a lot to do with the
cheering for the adjournment idea.
PRECIPITATING THE ISSUE
BUT THE LEADERSHIP whip was cracked
quickly and effectively. The adjournment
cheers became "aye" votes to table the adjourn-
ment resolution. What might have been the be-
ginning of a House.revolt was forced to an issue
before it could gain headway. As a result, the
White House and its legislative lieutenants can
point to that whopping majority against adjourn-
ment to justify pressing the "must" program.
Had Representative Deen allowed his resolution
to simmer on the fire longer, there is no telling
what might have happened. As it was, he pre-
cipitated the issue of adjournment prematurely and
New Deal House leadership, whether by White
House direction or on its own initiative, took im-
mediate advantage of the opportunity his move
presented.
a stout captain in the battle to defend freedom of
the press, spoke the other day before the conven-
tion of business and professional women at Seattle.
His criticism of the young-man-in-a-hurry tactics
of the brain trusters was particularly telling.
"Those whose object is a new social order based
on government control," said Dean Ackerman, "are
taking advantage of the overwhelming sentiment
of the American people for better social conditions
and an improvement in the economic welfare
of millions and are telling us that we must make
haste or that all willbe lost.
"This is not true. All will be lost if we make
haste. Haste precipitated the World War. Haste
made Communism, Fascism, and Naziism possible
i Russia, Italy, and Germany. Haste prolongs
a national crisis. It makes every emergency acute
because it chokes opinion, reason, justice, and
faith."
-The Chicago Daily Tribune.
AROUND
TH E TOWN ...
Last night our wanderings about town brought
us to the sheriff's office down on West Ann street
... and to our surprise ... and we imagine yours
es well . . . we found several of the deputies
taking turns reading a newspaper-bound copy of
Charles Dickens' "The Life of Jesus" . . . and
from all observations most of 'em can hardly wait
to see how the story, comes out.
** * *
And incidentally . . . while looking over the jail
register we noted that the officers are holding a
Chinese graduate student . . on a charge of which
he claims he's innocent . . . he doesn't speak the
English language well and has difficulty in making
himself understood . . . nobody'll go his bond
. they've held him two weeks and he's going to
miss all his summer school work. . . and yet nobody
seems to care . . . the only person we know that
has bothered to take an interest in him is Dr.
Chapman of the local Baptist church . . . wonder
what we'd think if we were accorded the same
treatment in a Chinese bastille . . . I bet we'd
holler like hell!
In our wanderings we learned that Edward B.
Frensdorf ... (who.. . in case you don't know ...
is outstanding in national Democratic circles
having run for Congress and the governorship of
Michigan) . . . is very ill in St. Joseph's Mercy
Hospital . . . visitors (and especially reporters)
are not allowed to see him . . . nevertheless a
very prominent Detroit newspaper has been quot-
ing him every other day on current local Demo-
cratic affairs . . . which leads us to wonder about
the press.
By the by ... did we ever tell you how the local
police had their squad car stolen from their own
back yard several months ago? . . . it was a good
story ... and they're still smarting under the cha-
grin of having outside police officers return it.
SCREEN
Four stars --shouldn't miss; three stars -
very good; two stars - an average picture; one
star - poor; no star - don't go.
AT THE MAJESTIC
Double Feature
"BLACK FURY"
A warner Brothers picture starring Paul Muni
with Karen Morley, Barton MacLane, and others.
The plot of "Black Fury" is a lie from beginning
to end - so palpably false that any freshman, if
he reads even the newspapers, can detect the ridic-
ulous misrepresentations - but the picture is still
the most important of the year, for it shows and
discusses things that have been quite beyond Holly-
wood's attentions before.
While the ostensible reason the producers offer
for the strike of Coaltown miners is the product
of a feeble and barren imagination, the real rea-
sons are at the same time graphically and forcibly
made clear in "Black Fury." It's photography, dia-
logue, and acting give the lie to its plot.
Joe Radek (Paul Muni), while drunk, sways the
miners to vote for a strike. Labor racketeers were
the real force behind his action however, an evil
agitator urging him to incite the laborers who
should have been content to work under a satis-
factory capital-labor agreement, which the solici-
tous white-collar union leaders had negotiated.
Scabs and gunmen come in, and the strikers
repudiate Joe Radek. Only his heroism saves the
strike, and the happy but improbable conclusion
sees him receiving the plaudits of the public, while
the head of the "special deputies" is led away
in chains.
Scenes of miserable living conditions, barren,
work-ridden lives, and the brutality of hired strike-
breakers make tensely realistic the powerful story.
Paul Muni forgets to act again, and lives his
role. Karen Morley is very good, and Barton
MacLane is tougher than ever.
Amusing scene: The coal tycoon (who was sur-
prised to find out that there are professional
strike-breaking outfits) warning the racketeer
that, "I will countenance no violence whatsoever."
The cinema has made a powerful invasion of a
rich field. So powerful in many ways that one
fears it may have frightened itself.
Weeks late in arriving in Ann Arbor, "Black
Fury" has been deemed appropriate for No. 2 posi-.
tion on a middle-of-the-week double bill by the
Majestic management. -R.A.C.
Fire Destroys Hiram Walker Distillery
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Call for and deliver. Phone 5594.
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STUDENT Hand Laundry. Prices rea-
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LOST AND FOUND
LOST: Diamond wedding ring near
University Hospital. Finder please
call 2-3872 or 822 Oakland. Re-
ward.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE: 1934 Chevrolet Standard
coupe. Might accept car in trade.
Can arrange terms if necessary.
Edward Lauth, 520 Thompson St.
Phone 7758. 43
ORIGINAL ETCHING BY DUBAIN-
NE-(FRENCH ARTIST) SCENE
LUXEMBURG GARDENS - $10
FRAMED. U L R I C H'S BOOK-
STORE, CORNER EAST AND
SOUTH UNIVERSITY.
WANTED
WOULD COOK and plan for a small
fraternity. Next semester. Can
supply references, white. Dial 7723.
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-Associated Press Photo.
A dozen men were injured and another was believed to have lost his
life whon fire, following a terrific explosion, swept the huge Hiram
Walker distillery at Peoria, Ill., causing a loss estimated by officials at
$2,700,000. Picture shows blaze at his height as greenish-yellow flames
lighted the sky, fed by 6,000,000 gallons of whisky.
Brackley Shaw To Accompany
Travel Writer On Next Trip
EAST AURORA, N. Y., July 23. -
(Special) - Brackley Shaw, '34, '37L,
will accompany Beach Conger, '32,
travel writer, on his forthcoming trip
for World Letters, Incorporated, to
Mexico, Central and South America,
and the West Indies.
Shaw and Conger will leave Ann
Arbor for Monterey, Mexico, Aug. 30,
and will begin the work of writing and.
printing travel letters for 500,000,
school children from the latter point.
They will return to Ann Arbor in
June, 1935, having covered Central
America, gone down the west coast
and up the east coast of South Amer-
ica and through the West Indies, the
last stop being Santiago de Cuba.
Shaw was prominent in class ac-
tivities while an undergraduate here,
Local Scouts
To Attend Big
National Meet
A delegation of nineteen leaders
and scouts from the Washenaw-Liv-
ingston council will attend the na-
tional Scout Jamboree in Washington
during the last ten days in August,
according to an announcement made
yesterday by Fielding H. Yost, Scout
Commissioner. Six other Scouts may
still qualify for attendance, but the
group of nineteen have already filed
their registrations with the National
Jamboree committee.
Newton Squires of troop 1, Milan,
Eldridge Brian and Leo Gannon of
troop 1 Hartland, Giles Fox of troop
4, Ypsilanti and Robert Horton of
troop 2 Ypsilanti, Thomas Colvin and
John Childs of troop 10, Ann Arbor,
Ted McOmber, Clark Hubbs and Hal
Whittemore of troop 7, Ann Arbor,
Roger Wiselogle of troop 14, Ann
Arbor, David Kahn of troop 16, Ann
Arbor, Warren Crandell of troop 4,
Ann Arbor, John Sivers of troop 11,
Ann Arbor, and Donald Martin of
troop 104, Ann Arbor, will make up
the delegation of scouts going under
the leadership of Scoutmaster T.
Bruce Bider and assistant scoutmast-
ers, Ivan Parker of Dixboro, and Don-
ald Palmer of troop 22 of Ann Arbor.
Good Crop Weather
Reported By Bureau
EAST LANSING, July 24. - (IP) -
The United States weather bureau to-
day told of excellent growing weather
for all crops, save in the northern
part of the Lower Peninsula, where
rain is needed.
"Corn made great improvement and
some is tasseling in southern coun-
ties," the bureau's crop summary for
the week ended Tuesday-said. "Beans
also improved. Wheat is mostly cut
in the southern part of the state and
some has been threshed. The straw is
heavy but the yield of grain rather
disappointing.
"Some barley has been cut and oats
are nearly ripe in the south section.
Both crops are generally good. The
second crop of alfalfa is about ready
to cut.
"Early potatoes are yielding well.
"The cherry harvest continues with
a yield very good in some localities,
but poor in others due to damage by
leaf. diseases." .
having been a member of Sphinx, jun-
ior honorary society in the literary
college, and city editor of both the
regular and Summer Session Daily's
in 1933-34. After this trip he will
return to Law School to finish his
course there.
Shaw will assist Conger in getting
out a weekly letter on each step of
the itinerary. The two will carry
printing and addressing machines
with them for this purpose.
Search Distillery
Ruins For Body
PEORIA, Ill., July 24. -(03) - The
ruins cooled, workmen sought today
to extricate the body of John Bar-
don, 38, the single victim of an ex-
plosion and fire at the Hiram Walker
distillery here.
Officials of the company and public
authorities continued investigation as
to the cause of the fire which caused
$2,700,000 damage in buildings and
whisky destroyed.
Four of those injured in the con-
flagration were still in hospitals.
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1935--'36 a suite of sitting-room
with fireplace, piano, built in book-
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The total number of books in the
Harvard University (Cambridge,
Mass.) library is now 3,602,000 -the
largest university library in the world.
Exactly 126,935 books and pamphlets
were added to its shelves in 1933-34.
Terrace Garden
Dancing Studio
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AND
An Indicator Mussolini Overlooked
rHE BELIEF that Mussolini's assault on Ethi-
opia is a ruse to distract the world's attention
from the fact that all is not well, economically,
within the Italian corporative state is substan-
tiated by the unfavorable position of the lira in
foreign exchange. For the value of the lira has
not only receded, reflecting internal strain in Italy;
the New York exchange has seen the listing of quo-
tations for "blocked" lire -lire owned by others
than Italians which Fascist authorities will not
allow to be transferred into the currencies of
other countries and so must be spent, if spent
,t all, only in Italy.
If this blocking of a portion of the Italian cur-
rency means what the blocking of Central Euro-
pean and Latin American currencies has meant
in recent years - and dealers in international
exchange say it can have only that meaning -
then Italy is in sore straits financially and guard-
ing its resources with utmost care. With such an
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"CAPTAIN HURRICANE"
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