THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, AVOUST 1, 1935 __________________________________________________ t TIE MICHIGAN DAILY Oficial Publication of the Summer Session ii if I SCR EEN -c r.<_ r 1 U .. I i'; h. a 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 "BABY FACE HARRINGTON" ** III Pubiifled every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association and theBig Ten News Service. "I MEMBER zsoeiited 'alaiate ' rcz 1934 I93 ekg lss e ADI" COSIN MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Aisociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for 'republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication 'of special dispatches are reserved. 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Brush, Frederick E. M4ael. Starting On The Road Back... AMERICAN BUSINESS is definitely out of the slough of the depression today. The little :red lines of business indices, which no one quite understands, are going up, slowly of course, but going up. The man down the street has a job. It isn't much of a job - maybe packing beer bottles in a brewery - at eigh-. teen dollars a week, but it's better than going around to the welfare headquarters each week for his small stipend. Yes, America is definitely on the road back. The question now is how far we are going along that road.' Are we going all the way back to the uncon- trolled laissez faire of 1929, or will we take a branch road somewhere along the way? A road that will insure that there is no repetition of what we have just come through? Now is the time when the question must be decided. Today we all re- member the rigors of 1930 to '34, five years hence, on the crest of a wave of prosperity, the world will te as neglectful of social security as it was in '28 and '29. Now is the time when New Deal reforms must be re-cast into permanent forms, and the dross that is naturally inculcated in such hasty legis- lation must be separated from what is good. Old- age pensions and unemployment insurence are only two of the things we must have before the nation is called upon to face another depression. The ideal toward which we all look, of course, is a political-economic set-up which makes depres- sions impossible. Communists tell us that the only answer is socialization of all wealth and industry. That is a' question which need not be answered in discussing immediate plans for social security. Indeed, it should not be made a part of the issue, since division over political philos- ophies can only result in defeating any attempts to get such reform. The Communists must be content with what they consider to be only a tiny step in the right direction. The laissez faire individualist must realize that pure individualism no longer exists, and be prepared to make conces- sions in the direction of socialization if he does not want the whole capitalist structure to be wiped out. Economists generally agree that any distribution of the wealth to the less fortunate when it is taken from the incomes of the wealthy will help to lessen the severity of cyclical distributions of depression and prosperity. They say that there a'e no depressions except from natural causes, such as droughts, in Communistic countries. Any- thing that keeps men from piling up the factors of production past the limit of usability of the product will lessen the effects of depression. Therefore, in providing old-age pensions and unemployment insurance we are: 1. effecting the immediate purpose of providing protection for the weaker classes, and, 2. lessening the effects of the next depression. There isn't time to wait. Tag Day From The Boys' View..- T O MOST OF US the Tag Day to be held today for the benefit of the University Camp for Boys at Patterson Lake will be just another nuisance, and probably many of us will cross the street just to avoid the embarrass- ment of refusing to hand over some small change that will enable somne under-privileged boy to have a badly-needed vacation. To the boys who are anxiously waiting for news that enough money has been raised to send them to camp, it means quite a different thing. It means the fulfillment of a dream which he has had all year - days of healthy, carefree recreation and enjoyable, useful work. tmvhn - ra +P t a mof +ha Tm.Q- n. thrmiQn A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture with Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens, Eugene Pallette, and Nate Pendleton. Also a Hearst news- reel. Charles Butterworth, one of the screen's best comedians, has little chance in the lifeless sur- roundings of "Baby Face Harrington." Possessing a humor that doesn't lend itself to the belly-laugh merriment that might have come out of this plot, he also suffers from a paucity of the good lines so numerous in such pictures as "For- saking All Others." A timid, peace-loving citizen, apt to make a fool of himself at public gatherings and but recently fired from his job, Willie Harrington takes from another man, at the point of a gun, $2,000 which he believed had been stolen from him, When he is thrown in jail, a sensation-starved city editor chooses to play him up as a Jeckyll- Hyde character -quiet, home-loving by day, but by night a stalking tiger, "thirsting for blood." Best times are had when he does escape (through no fault of his own) and the story of his fierce personality gains universal credence, but the tale is none too funny. Crudely and laboriously acted, the story offers many chances for comedy that are overlooked or ignored in favor of obvious and old laugh-getters. Charles Butterworth is funny, but miscast. Una Merkel has learned to do her work well through years of effort in unrewarding roles. There are good laughs, but you shouldn't have to wait quite so long or often for them. -R.A.C. * * * * * "EVERGREEN" A British Gaumont picture starring Jssie Mat- thews, and a cast of unfamiliar British actors. "Evergreen" starts off like a Pete Smith goofy movie ("Where is the chee-ild? "In a place where you shall never get her!") and the story that sub- sequently unfolds, while not so funny, is equally improbable. It's the first British musical comedy and the English either haven't seen America's latest ef- forts or are still satisfied with the archaic devices of old musicals. Puzzling scene reflecting the Busby Berkely in- fluence: chorus girls stand dressed in flowing white robes while a huge bell-shaped machine is dropped over them. When it rises they are dressed in armor. Slim and slinky Jessie Matthews has a good claim to beauty, sings well, and dances better. She and some fine music are the only bright spots in an otherwise dull attempt at liveliness. -R.A.C. _STAGE As an amiable respite from the tedious "Othello," the Repertory Players turn their efforts this week to Moliere's sparkling two-act comedy, "The Doc- tor In Spite Of Himself" ("Le Medecin Malgre Lui"). In addition, Sir James Matthew Barrie's "Shall We Join the Ladies" is offered as a curtain raiser. Out of the former comes what is easily the finest individual performance of the current season. Charles T. Harrell as Sganarelle, the buffoonish faggot-gatherer who is forced to assume the role of a physician quite "in spite of himself," is gen- uinely humorous and it is largely through his ef- forts that this play is so thoroughly enjoyable. We have seen comic roles of authentic worth performed miserably several times in previous pieces this sum- mer and it is as much to Mr. Harrell's credit as to Moliere's droll genius that "The Doctor In Spite Of Himself" was so fully successful at Lydia Men- delssohn Theater last night. Felicia Shprtzer, who is seen as Sganarelle's nagging, irritable wife, is also deserving of praise for her work although the remainder of the cast is not above average. Why Mr. Oswald Marshall, who directed both of the plays, saw fit to present the Barrie drama at all remains an enigma of major proportions. "Shall We Join The Ladies" suffers from inescapably poor direction as well as thoroughly incompetent acting by all except Mr. Marshall himself. A one- act play designed to be a mystery, "Shall We Join The Ladies" seems but an obscure attempt at what proves to be anti-climax of a dubious nature. Play- goers who are acquainted with Frank Stockton's short story, "The Lady Or The Tiger?" will recog- nize the same technique, leaving the audience it- self to determine what solution it might. -R.S.R. As Others See It Victory For Free Speech The Chicago Park Board, in denying the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin the right to rent Soldier Field for a meeting, seemingly was moved by its mem- bers' opposition to the radio priest and his doc- trines. They have succeeded only in giving him valuable advertising and have failed to prevent the meeting, for a Superior Court order has now been issued granting him use of the field. So, unless the board continues its misguided fight and wins an appeal, Father Coughlin will speak in Chicago amid a fanfare of publicity such as he bias had nowhere else. Father Coughlin's doctrines were not properly the issue here, but his right - any citizen's right 4- rp1frP np anhofeat h c-np( The SOAP BOX Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, bearegarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editor reserving the right to condense all letters of over 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. The Enemies Of Germany The Nazis not satisfied with persecuting the iews are now attacking the Catholics and the ?rotestants. At first the Jews and the Com- :nunists were called the enemies of the Reich, glow the Catholics and the Protestants are made to share that honor. Let us look at what happened in Germany since Hitler's accession to power and then ask ourselves who are the greatest enemies of Ger- :nany - the Jews, the Catholics and the Pro- testants or the Nazis ruled over by a brutal tyrant, Adolph Hitler. This is what the Nazis have accomplished: 1. They have overthrown the Weimar Republic by fraud, force and violence and put a dicta- torship in its place. They hate democracy. 2. They have suppressed the labor unions, con- fiscated their properties and money. They are the worst and lowest enemy of the working class. 3. They have put political opponents into con- centration camps where the victims were beaten, tortured and many of them shot. The terror con- tinues to this day unabated. 4. They have reduced women to the role of breeders of cannon fodder. 5. They ordered the students in Berlin to burn 20,000 books, including those of the great Lessing. 6. They have turned the German universities into drill grounds for war. They do not want culture - brawn, not brains. 7. They have suppressed freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. 8. They have caused tens of thousands to flee from the Hitler terror. 9. They have unjustly accused the Communists of having set the Reichstag on fire. According to the "First and Second Brown Book of the Hitler Terror," the Nazi party itself appears to be plainly implicated in the crime. 10. On June 30, 1934 seventy-seven people ( ac- cording to later reports 1,186) were shot down without a trial - and this by order of Hitler. Among the victims were former Chancellor Von Schleicher and his wife. 11. They are trying to abolish religion and re- place it by a new heathenism. 12. They execute culprits - both men and wom- en-with an axe. 13. They are spying in every house. 14. They practie tyranny at home and aim at war abroad. The glorification of war always figures prominently in their daily propaganda. Hitler's peace talk is intended for foreign con- sumption. 15. They have enslaved the German people, body and soul. 16. They attack defenseless men and women and beat them up. The latest outrage of this kind occurred in Berlin on Monday, July 15, 1935. The world stands aghast at such barabarism. Who are the greatest enemies of Germany? (M. Levi.) Her Real Problem Not So IHilarious As Her Portrayals LOS ANGELES, July 31. -(A') - Mary Boland, whose screen portrayals of marital situations are usually aimed at hilarious effects, viewed with seri- ous eyes today the charge that she was a "home wrecker." The veteran comedienne of the stage and screen was faced with a $150,000 alienation of affections suit brought by her nephew's wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ross Kummer, who charged that Miss Boland was responsible for a rift between herself and her hus- band, George Bernard Kummer, movie studio employe. Miss Boland denied the charge. "Needless to say," she declared, "this suit has grieved me deeply. It is a masterpiece of ingratitude. I intend to fight it to the last ditch." From her home in Beverly Hills, Miss Boland said she brought her mother, Mrs. Mary Boland, out here from New York nearly two years ago, and asked her nephew and Mrs. Kum- mer to leave their home in Detroit to live here. She obtained a job for Kummer in her studio in Hollywood. Miss Boland is herself a native of Detroit. She was born there, the daughter of William Boland, a retired actor, and it was on the stage of the old Lyceum Theater in Detroit that she made her first professional ap- pearance. "Never have I had anything to do in the relations of Mr. and Mrs. Kum- mer, except at their direct request," the actress declared. Last March, she said, Mrs. Kum- mer left to visit her relatives in the east, and later her nephew disclosed they were having marital difficulties. "I paid no heed to the situation until some weeks later when he came to my home," she said. "My nephew told me he had written to his wife on several occasions asking her to be- come reconciled, but that she had re- fused. "I even paid for a long-distance telephone call for him to try and patch it up, but this also failed. The next thing I knew there came a letter from Mrs. Kummer advising me there would be legal proceedings." Mrs. Kummer charged the actress interfered with her home life, was dictatorial and sought to be "the ruler of the roost." Plans Tire Factory NANKING (-P)-Because China's growing network of motor highways has run her annual import tire bill up to more than $2,000,000, the min- istry of industry is planning to co- operate with private interests in es- tablishing a tire factory in the near future. Classified Direetory FOR SALE LAUNDRY FOR SALE: 1931 Ford de luxe road- LAUNDRY. 2-1044. Sox darned ster. Priced for quick sale. Inquire Careful work at low price. 1x R. 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Prices rea. sonable. Free delivery. Phone 3006. 4x LOST AND FOUND LOST: Gray and black enameled Evans cigarette lighter in Women's League Bldg. on Thursday, July 25. Reward, J. F. Bailey, 822 Oakland, Phone 2-3872. 49 Zoologists say fresh water shrimp have much economic. value because of the great they destroy. numbers of mosquitoes LEARN TO DANCE Social Dancing taughi daily. Terrace Garder Dancing. Studio. Wuerth Theatre Bldg. Ph. 9695 Lydia MENDELSSOHN Theatre P r r ne ToEnight - ~DOUBLE BILL y" Si r Jame MS. Bare s Mystery Sati re "Shall We Join"The Ladis? .,L Mo liere's Satire on the Medical Profession H I M, O S4 P"D "The Doctor Himself" T' Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Admission 75c, 50c, 35c Phone 6300 Next Week "TH E CHOCOLATE SOLD I ER" ,1 lilt A Washington BY STANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTQN - "Big Jim" Farley's summer vacation plans do not suggest much recreation. A tour of the political hinterland to discover just why a House expected to be full of "wild men" suddenly has gone more conservative than the Senate, or to survey alleged Roosevelt and New Deal "slipping" in popular prestige, does not sound like a restful business. As a matter of fact, some of Mr. Farley's na- tional committee aides and advertisers were eager to inaugurate such a survey even before the House revolt on the utility holding company "death sen- tence" or the constitutional overthrow of NRA accented the political picture. They had been hearing plenty about Roosevelt "slipping." What they had in mind, however, was an unostentatious, almost gum-shoe delving into the situation. EASING "SORE SPOTS" AT THAT TIME-in spring -the committee high command put the survey off indefinitely. It was held that not until Congress went home would it be desirable to look 'em over, to select intra- or inter-party "sore" spots, and set about doing what could be done before the primaries to straighten out party factional rows. That, more than any attempt at a general survey of popular opinion as to the President and his doings, looms as the real mission Farley is now undertaking. A careful check on his goings and comings would be quite likely to disclose exactly where those "sore spots" are in national committee judgment. A personal tour by the committee chief and manager-designate of the next Roosevelt presiden- tial campaign would have this distinct advantage over any other way of checking up in the states: Farley presumably could do something whereas a subordinate, even Emil Hurja, could only promise to recommend. S* * * * MORGENTHAU'S TACT ECRETARY MORGENTHAU'S appearance be- fore a House committee on the tax bill further indicated his noted ability to keep his - and the ar ministration's- couneil There has been noth- LAKEFw FRONTAGE r F OR SALE . For a li m ited time lots on Portage Lake Shores and Woodland Beach subdivi- sions at Portage Lake will be offered at sacrifice prices. Located only 15 miles north and west of Ann Arbor, these two subdivisions offer convenience and economy in summer residence. Well graded, well wooded, and provided with fine sand beches on an excellent lake. Prices range from $450.00. For addi- tional information write or call R. Read, -o - u w so 11 ii II 11