THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, JUL 29, 1937 EE MICHIGAN DAILY Yieal Publication of the Summer Session 71 r'::. {. .; = ( -"" . -, ; q;. i Edited and mnaged by students of the University of ichigan under the authority of the Board-in Control fstudent Publications. ; ublished every morning except Monday during the riversity year and the Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the se for republication of all news dispatches credited to or not Otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights 'republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as ibdnd class mail matter. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, t.54. During regular school year, by carrier, $4.00; by loil, $4.50. fember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1936-37 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. A College Publishers Representative .: 42QM4PISON AYE. MEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO -NBOSTON - SAN FRANCISCO L-p ANGaLES - PORTLAND - SEATTLE EDITORIAL STAFF NAGING EDITOR..........RICHAR G. HERSHEY EDITOR..................JOSEPH S. MATTES ssociate Editors: Clinton B. Conger, Horace W. Gil- mnore, Charlotte D. Rueger. slistant Editors: James A. Boozer, Robert Ftzhenry, Joseph Gies, Clayton Hepler. BUSINESS STAFF UINESS MANAGER ..................JOHN R. PARK BSISTANT BUS. MGR. ......NORMAN B. STEINBERG ,BLICATIONS MANAGER ...........ROBERT LODGE ICULATION MANAGER .........J. CAMERON HALL VMFCE MANAGER.................RUTH MENEFEE r ens Business Managers ..Alice Bassett, Jean Drake NIGHT EDITOR: CLINTON B. CONGER Imbulance ~ervic. . N THIS same month last year, de- lay in obtaining ambulances at the cene of a crash at Webster Church and North 'erritorial roads, nine miles north of Ann Arbor, ras followed by the death of Mrs. Reba Brower f Detroit, while eight others were injured. Last Sunday, following a crash on the Webster hurch Road about a half mile from the scene f last year's crash, two ambulances required wo hours to remove the last of seven injured arties from the place of collision. A solution to the ambulance problem, and a urth-while solution, would be the purchase and riaintenalce. by the city of Ann Arbor and dashtenaw County of a four-place ambulancI o be run by members of the local fire de- 'artment. At the present time there are two ambulances Xi town available for emergency runs. One of hem, operated by the Staffan funeral home, an carry one iijured person on a light bed and second on a stretcher placed on the floor, #hile the second, operated by Red Top cab, an accommodate only one person. Four people njured means two round-trips. Doctors have repeatedly pointed out that all njured persons, no matter how minor their hurts nay appear, should be transported by ambu- ances and not in passenger cars because of the langer of spinal injuries or further damage to >roken bones. Both the city and the county would find an Imbulance a worthy addition to their equipment, ind the fire department, which has more men slways for duty, is the ideal organization to >perate such a vehicle. In the event of drown- ngs, for example, an ambulance, with its many ervices, would also be invaluable, especially for tperation of the pulmotor while transporting he victim to a hospital at the same time. In one drowning last summer after recovery of L man the pulmotor was used for some time on he shore of Whitmore Lake before a panel ruck could be commandeered to transport him o University hospital, where he was placed in It iron lung,. There appears to be little chance, however, that an ambulance will ever be added to the city- :ounty equipment. The sheriff's office, which =onstitutes the fire department for the entire ounty outside of various city and village limits, nust borrow its fire extinguishers from the local department each time they are needed, and the muditors, presumably believing that the dog war- ten should be able to lasso stray mutts, have wer a period of years seen no reason for buying 46n a net. In Washtenaw County necessity is he mother of nothing. Solution To Crime... FROM all appearances, the United States is participating in a per- nnial war against crime yet surprisingly little s accomplished of lasting value. The public is apathetic, always shocked by a few spectacular rimes which are particularly satisfying to a norbid curiosity, yet seldom is it realized that )rganized crime is the chief menace to society. Thomas E. Dewey, special prosecutor of New York City, said that "the, struggle between or- ganized society and organized crime is slowly eaching a crisis" for there is a steady growth if organized crime in this country and it is only a matter of time until society will take steps against it. The prevalence of racketeers is sim- lar to a malignant growth on society. Rackets victimize or affect a large proportion of the legiti- to the source, for the successful racketeers appear in the best circles, not as gun-toting crooks, but as successful business men at the head of a highly organized, carefully administered organ- ization whose activities by their nature are anti- social. As yet, the fight against racketeers has been ineffective for they appear to be an established group in society and the mere killing of a few gangsters only makes place for their more am- bitious and dangerous successors. In fact, elim- inating one crop of criminals, resembles the pro- cess of pruning the trees occasionally so that they may thrive all the better in the long run, by being fewer in number, but more powerful and influential in effect. Until we follow a wise suggestion of Mr. Dewey and encourage the formation of citizen's groups, the function of which is to provide the necessary leadership of public opinion, combined with hard-working day-to-day detailed study of law enforcement as it actually operates, there is little hope that organized society will put up a winning fight against crime. SDRAMA "Pride and Prejudice," a dramatization by Helen Jerome of the novel by Jane Austen. Presented by the Michigan Repertory Players in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. By JOSEPH GIES Helen Jerome has succeeded in translating the most popular work of the most precocious and witty woman novelist in English literature into one of the best costume comedies of recent years in 'this adaptation of the celebrated Austen story of manners and morals of 1815. The outstanding comedy acting of several members of the cast, notably Nancy Bowman, Truman Smith and Ralph Bell, matches the good performances of both Virginia Frink Harrell and Charles McGaw in the leads. Mr. McGaw par- ticularly, as the handsome but haughty Darcy, carries off his role with elan. Mr. Bell and Miss Bowman, as Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, the former gruff and dryly humorous, the latter cheerful, flighty and anxious for her unmarried daughters, prove excellent foils. Mr. Smith, playing the chirpily smug Rev. Collins, made a hit with both his lines and gestures, which were just sufficiently exaggerated to be funny without falling into actual buffoonery. Sarah Pierce scored her usual success as the raucously aristocratic Lady Catherine de Bourgh, a tough old female grenadier whose tilt with Elizabeth, played with polish by Mrs. Harrell furnishes one of the best bits of restrained comedy of the play. Mary Pray and Miriam Brous, as the antithet- ical sisters Bennet, are pleasantly wistful and amusingly flighty respectively. An outstanding feature of the play is the pic- turesque costume-designing and beautiful scen- ery, IAs. Others See It The Housing Bill MR. LONGDON POST the other day discerned in the revised Wagner-Steagall housing bill the one number on the bob-tailed Congressional program enjoying "universal support." Senator Wagner has claimed an "almost unanimous agreement" by all parties that it represents "the one practical method of clearing slums." The second statement is perhaps more precise than the first. There are not a few, particularly among realty men, who still look dubiously upon Federal subsidized housing of any sort. One of them was recently citing the melancholy example of Vienna, where "the public stood the cost, but when the rents wee lowered to 60 cents a room a month, the taxpayers rebelled and destroyed the housing, including some of its occupants." But one cannot quite picture heavy artillery ever battering its way through, say, the new Williams- burg buildings; while it is true that if there is to be Federally subsidized housing at all, the Wagner-Steagall bill represents the soundest method yet advanced for providing it. It devolves initiative and primary responsibility upon local authorities. The Federal government offers them the use of its cheap credit; it offers them in addition an annual rent subsidy to en- able them further to reduce the rents into the genuinely low-cost field below $6 a room, but only under a contract which will require the local au- thorities to observe Federal standards. Beyond this, it's up to the local authorities, who are left with the responsibility of deciding most of the many controversial. questions raised by any sub- sidized housing project. The main issue for the Federal government is that of cost. The original bill authorized the outlay of $1,- 000,000,000 in credit over four years (at no cost to the taxpayer, since it would be fully secured), which has been reduced in the revised bill to $700,000,000 over three years. The end of the four-year period in the original bill would have left Congress obligated to provide $20,000,000 a year in subsidies over sixty years; the revised ver- sion apparently contemplates a continuing ob- ligation of only about $11,000,000 a year, subject to revision or cancellation after twenty years. Instead of the 375,000 units envisioned by the original bill, it is estimated that the revised pro- gram could produce only 175,000, and a limita- tion has been added requiring the demolition or renovation of an equal number of slum-dwelling units. A charge of $11,000,000 a year is too small, in these days, for serious objection; but by the same token it is likewise too small to accomplish a great deal. There are 500,000 families living in old-law tenements in New York City alone. Hope for real improvement in American housing must On The Level By WRAG WE SAW MIKE MARTIN the other day and just the sight of him brought back a flood of laughs. Mike has perhaps had more unusual experiences jammed into his 22 years than any other fellow we have ever known. So let us reminisce a bit ... About the time Mike was coming back from the Detroit Yacht Club and bet us that he could walk across the railing on the Belle Isle Bridge. We took him up, so he climbed up onto the stone railing and started his precarious amble toward the Detroit end of the span. He got along amaz- ingly well until he was about a hundred yards from the end, when he lost his balance and toppled over into the ice-cold Detroit River. We ran for the life-preservers that are boxed along the railing at intervals, grabbed one, and tossed it over the side to Mike. But the life- preserver had an unfortunately short rope at- tached to it, and it merely dangled down about ten feet while Mike was in the water some fifty feet below. We had nothing to cut the rope with, so all we could do was watch Mike flounder around in the water until a police cruiser pulled up alongside and hauled him aboard. He spent a couple of days in the jug and emerged on crutches from that escapade. Then there was the time we were up at Hig- gens Lake. Dressed immaculately in white suits, we were backing away bidding the girls adieu when Mike backed into one of the many garbage pits that are to be found in that section. The pits are dug into the ground, and the one that Mike ended up in was some eight feet deep. Once again he was floundering around below us until we got a ladder for him after having a hearty laugh first. Another time Mike was working for a well- known refrigerator concern, and had an all- white sautomobile with an all-white trailer for advertising purposes. The trailer was filled with display articles and a radio amplifier blasted forth music as an added attraction. While driving this contraption around the streets of Detroit one day last year, Mike turned onto John R. and right into the middle of a Negro funeral procession with the radio blatting out "Lulu's Back in Town." Before he realized what he had done, a copper stopped him and planted a fine of ten dollars on Mike for disturbing the peace. * * * * i t j ____ All graduate students who expect Prof. Rene Talamon will give an to complete the requirements for a illustrated lecture on "Paris" in Na- degree at the close of the Summer tural. Science Auditorium at 5 p.m. Session have not already filed the di- today. ploma application should call at the -----office of the Graduate School, 1006 "Psychological Factors Underlying Angell Hall, to check their records Homeroom Activities," is the topic of and to secure the proper blank to be the lecture by Prof. William Clark used in making application for the Trow to be given at 4:05 p.m. today degree. This application must be DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Summer Session, Room 1213 A. H. until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. All students expecting to receive changed its meeting date from Mon- the Master's Degree in Sociology at day to Tuesday, Aug. 3 so that allI the end of the Summer Session are men wishing to attend the Cabaret requested to see the secretary at the Dinner sponsored by the Women's' Sociology Office, 115 Haven Hall, im- Education Club may be free to go. mediately. in University High School Audi-f torium. Cercle Francais: Meeting will be1 held tonight at 8 p.m. at the Foyer Francais. Speaker: Prof. Charles A. Knudson. Refreshments Stalker Hall: Swimming party andl picnic today. Meet at Stalker Hall at 5 p.m. Small charge for supper. Reservation, call 6881. If you have ay car and can bring it, will you let us know? Summer Session students and their friends welcome. Notice to All Staff Members: In view of the fact that July 31 falls on Saturday, pay checks for the month of July will be ready for distribution on the morning of Friday, July 30. S. W. Smith. Phi Delta Kappa will hold its sum- mer initiation in the Michigan Union today at 4:15 p.m. The initiation will be in charge of Ralph Frostic and Clyde Vroman. Following the initiation, a banquet will be held honoring the neophytes at 6:30 p.m. Public Evenings at Angell Hall Ob- servatory: The 10-inch refractor and the 15-inch reflector, located on the fifth floor of Angell Hall, will be availabe for Summer Session students from 8 to 10 p.m. on Friday, July 30. Michigan Dames Family Picnic Fri- day afternoon at Loch Alpine. Group leaving Michigan League at 5:15 p.m. There will be swimming and baseball. Bring food for your own group. Excursion to the Cranbrook Schools will take place Saturday, July 10. Meet in front of Angell Hall at 8 a.m. Round trip by special bus. Trip in- cludes inspection of the five schools of the Cranbrook Foundation, Bloom- field Hills, Christ Church, and the Carillon. Reservations should be made in the Summer Session office, 1213 Angell Hall, by 4:30 p.m. Friday. filed this month. C. S. Yoakum, Dean. I Comprehensive Examination in Ed-1 ucation: All candidates for the Teacher's Certificate (except grad- uate students) are required to pass at Comprehensive Professional Examin-i ation covering the Education courses, prescribed for the certificate. The next examination will be given in1 1022 U.H.S., Saturday, Aug. 7, at 9 a.m. The examination will cover Ed- ucation A10, C1 special methods, and1 directed teaching. (This notice does not include School of Music students). English Country Dancing will be taught on Thursday evening from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Barbour Gymna- sium for men and women students attending the Summer Session. Professional Students in Hygiene and Public Health: A supper for all professional students in Hygiene andl Public Health attending the Summer Session is scheduled for Sunday eve- ning, Aug. 1, Michigan League, 6 p.m. The price for this supper is 40 cents. All students are urged to attend. Tickets may be .purchased in Room'2, Tokyo Is Quiet As Nipponese Troops March (Continued from Page 1) Japanese conversations in London looking to the promotion of interests of both governments in China, as well as at home, foreign minister Koki Hirota said it is apparent that no Anglo-Japanese agreement regard- ing assistance to China would be of any practical value in view of the present disturbed situation. In spite of large scale fighting in North China and the enormous cost involved, the Japanese nation re- mainedcalm and seemingly almost indifferent. The only outward sign of war were the crowds of people outside the news- paper offices. Commenting on the extraordinary coolness shown by semi-official and unofficial quarters respecting the ex- isting conflict in North Chihja, the Asahi newspaper says: "The attitude of the members of the lower house are exactly the same as in ordinary times and do not re- flect the gravity of the existing situa- tion." The Asahi's nationwide drive for funds to build more army airplanes reached two million yen (the yen is about 28 cents) today. Waterman Gym before Friday noon, July 30. Teacher's Certificate Candidates: Any students in the School of Edu- cation, College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts, and Graduate School who wish to be candidates for the teacher's certificate at the close of the Summer Session and whose names do not appear on the list post- ed in 1431 U.E.S. should report to the Recorder of the School of Edu- cation, 1437 U.E.S. ____.___l'____d___ ____ ________- We read a story about "The inanity" that was torn down in day to provide scrap for the battleships. 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Last week he called up Anwar Has- ani, who has come all the way from Bagdad, Iraq. On getting the number he called, Bill asked for Mr. Anwar Hasani, and the voice answering the phone said, "Just a minute please-Hey, Butch! Phone!" The Men's Education Club hasI !i tGhe MICHIGAN ALUMNUS ,; THE FORUM I 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, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserving the right to condense all letters of more than 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Another Forgotten Woman To the Editor: The letter pertaining to 1932's forgotten class has struck a much too familiar note. I also as one of the virtually unemployed of that group. 1932 was a rotten year-a perfectly logical and acceptable alibi. But with the upward trend in 1937, there are jobs! When is the Bureau of Ap- pointments going to get wind of that fact? Why have a Bureau anyway? If the large staff of that office were in propor- tion to the number of placements, practically no graduate should be on their ever-increasing wait- ing list. The cost of maintaining such a "service" could be put to a much more worthwhile use. The mere fact that smaller educational institutions throughout the state place most of their grad- uates (while we are gloating over our superior training) leaves much opportunity for introspec- tion concerning the apparent neglect of this "palace of learning." Many recent criticisms of the Bureau come cropping into my mind: 1. Records poorly.kept and not up-to-date. 2. 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