THE MICHIGAN -DAILY I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1938 HE MICHIGAN DAILY Fanny Kemble Biography Pictures Cross Section Of Victorian Period From THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE r 1:- Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Pun blisheaevery morning exceptMonday during the University year and Summer Session- Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Al rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 AUPRESENTE1 POW NATIONAL ADVERTISING Y National AdvertisingService, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420W AoION Ave. NW YORK. N. Y. CHICAO.* owen +*{.OS ANGELES "SAN FRtANCISCO I Board of Editors Managing Editor . . . . Irving Silverman City Editor... ..... .Robert I. Fitzhenry Assistant Editors . . . . . . Mel Fineberg, Joseph Gies, Elliott Maraniss, Carl Petersen, Harry Sonneborn, Dorothea Staebler. Business Department business Manager' . . . . Ernest A. Jones Credit Manager . . . . Norman Steinberg Assistants . . Philip Buchen, Walter Stebens NIGHT EDITOR: IRVING SILVERMAN~ The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. It is important for society to avoid the neglect of adults, but positively dangerous for it to thwart the ambition of youth to reform the world. Only the schools which act on this belief are educational institu- tions in the best meaning of the term: -Alexander G. Ruthven. "Fanny, why don't you pray to God to make you better?" a friend asked Mrs. Siddon's' little niece, sonewhat more than a century ago. "So I do," Fanny Kemble answered, "and He makes me worse and worse." Fanny Kemble "Fanny Kemble, a Passionate Victorian" (Macmillan, $3), Margaret Armstrong calls her book; it is the Book-of-the-Month Club's July selection. It is not only the portrait of a high- strung daughter of a family which, in its day, was to England what the Barrymores have been to our America; it is also a pageant of Victorian England and America. For Fanny Kemble grew up in days when it was 'considered wise punishment to take a naugh- ty little girl to see a criminal's head sliced off by the guillotine; she became the first actress of the London stage before she was twenty; she toured America in the 1830's and married the richest slaveholder in Georgia; she revolted at slavery and broke with her husband; she did her bit to convert England during our Civil War by publishing her diary of Georgia plantation days, and she lived, homesick in Italy, happy in Swit- zerland, to be one of Henry James's major in- spirations. She was born in 1809; she died in 1893. The Kembles were for more than a century the gods Qf the London stage; they defied conven- The Middle Of The Road.. . An increasing number of Americans are tak- ing the position advocated yesterday by Profes- sor Roy W. Sellars in his lecture on social phi- losophy-a middle-of-the-road position between "individualistic liberalism and collectivist so- cialism." They think that there is a great deal wrong in our present set-up but feel that these ills may be appreciably mitigated within the confines of the present capitalist structure and that if some measure of socialism is to be achieved it may be reached through appeals to conscience and intelligence and not through vio- lence. The middle of the roaders feel that the ends to be obtained are more equality, democra- cy, opportunity, security and the like, but are not agreed on or aware of the appropriate meth- ods to obtain these ends. The question of whether such a position is ten- able is one easily and peremptorily avoided. The adherents of this compromise position usually admit that they do not continue their thinking to the logical conclusion. In the consideration of the tenability of the position these important questions might be asked: 1. Does not the inertia of economic and 'historic forces render the position nugatory? The present administration has taken a long number of legislative and administrative "steps in the right direction." The whole host of alpha- betical organizations are familiar to most every- one. But each of these "steps in the right direc- tion" does not grapple with the roots of the problem. Our country has been the greatest country in the world for reform because it never has performed an effective surgical operation on the roots of our economic problems. The Se- curities and Exchange Commission cannot elimi- nate the disasters accompanying wholesale mis- calculation of risk by stock exchange operators. The Civilian Conservation Corps will not elimi- nate the problem of unemployed youth. Th'e Wagner Act, by enforcing the right of collective bargaining, cannot cope with causes of indus- trial unrest. The multifarious unemployment compensation acts make but weak attempts at the cure of unemployment. The problem is one of business cycle control, which demands some sort of planning, and which is as yet alien to the American business palate. The slum clear- ance projects can, according to Administrator Strauss, take care of only 10 per cent of those at the very bottom of the economic ladder who suffer from poor housing. Wielding a 1938 model of the "Big Stick" cannot restore free compe- tition, nor is free competition necessarily de- sirable; the problem is not one of regulation but of ownership and control. Similar statements can be made about each of the Roosevelt reforms. 'At best they are mere palliatives in a scheme of patchwork, but yet as patchwork they disturb the "confidence" of the business man. They do not deal with the root of the system, the price- profits-competition mechanism, whose malad- justments cannot be corrected without wholesale changes which are questionable. 2. Can the given ends of more equality, de- mocracy, security and opportunity be achieved. with half-hearted gradualness? AsOthers See It Mein Kampf! Louis took the offensive and missed two short lefts as Schmeling crouched cautiously. "Biologically, Hitlerism divides mankind into one superior race-the, Aryans-and the other degraded slave-races." -Stephen H. Roberts in "The House Hitler Built." Louis nailed Schmeling against the ropes and smashed Max with rights and vicious lefts.... "The Germans are a superior race and it is or- dained that this superior race shall conquer the earth." -Dorothy Thompson, paraphrasing Der Fuehrer, in "I Saw Hitler." Max shot over a short right that halted Louis' whirlwind drive. Louis shot over a short hard right that made Max grunt..-. . "In the nearer centuries, Aryan stock dom- inated the world to its everlasting good." -Kurt G. W. Ludecke in "I Knew Hitler." A hard right staggered Schmeling and Louis piled in as Max leaned against the ropes. Louis smashed Max at will and floored him for a count of three.... "It is hardly imaginable that anyone should think that a German could be made out of, say, a Negro or a Chinaman, because he has learned 'German and is ready to talk it for the rest of his life. . . . The process would mean a beginning of bastardization of our race." -Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf." The stunned, amazed Teuton arose, stretched against the ropes, only to be sent down almost instantly with another hard left and right. But he was up after a count of one, only to be sprawled again with a terrific right to the jaw-... "Perhaps the pacifist-humane idea is quite a good one in cases where the man at the top has first thoroughly conquered and subdued the world to the extent of making himself master of it." -Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf." As he lay almost in the center of the ring, half unconscious, with the count reaching eight, Schmeling's handler threw the towel into the ring and ended the fight. Gott im Himmel! -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. of an American Labor Party. The really great proposals of the Administration, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the idea of government ownership of the railroads have been presented to the public in such a distasteful lig±t that their constructiveness has been obscured. Aside from the open and flagrant opposition to the feeble Roosevelt measures there is the great American lethargy to combat. The lethargy may or may not be compulsory, according to how much in- fluence the business of getting a living impedes progressive thinking, but this lethargy inhibits the policy of gradualness at every turn. 3. May not the policy of evolution, or gradual- ness, lead as well to fascism as to the desired ends of increased democracy, security, equality and opportunity? In Germany the ideals of "a fair profit," "self- government in business," and "the business man" have been apotheosized. These ideals sound un- comfortably similar to those echoed at the time the Blue Eagle of the NRA winged America. The National Recovery Act, as pointed out by Robert Brady, professor of economic's at the University of California in his Spirit and Structure of Ger- man Fascism, was in philosophy and administra- tion markedly similar to the German business formula. The United States Chamber of Com- merce heartily approved of the NRA and had, in fact, drafted a plan of recovery closely re- sembling the plan adopted even before the Roose- velt inauguration. Prof. Oskar Lange, in the book, On the Eco- nomic Theory of Socialism, forcefully makes the point that the problems of achieving a greater degree of socialization in the United States is not chiefly economic but political and sociological. tions which ostracized stage folk from proper society. Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence felt honored to paint Fanny's Aunt Sara Sid- dons; her Uncle John smiled complacently when Byron called him "supernatural"; wits said of John that in his retirement in Switzerland he was jealous only of Mont Blanc. Apollo might have envied the looks of Fanny's father, Charles; her grandfather had rescued a king; her mother had been known as "the little French fairy," and known by royalty, before she married the Olym- pian Charles. A Star At 19 Fanny grew up "poor." Her father had in- herited the Covent Garden Theatre and its eternal debts, and Covent Garden weighed on the family for decades. It was partly in the hope of rescuing it that Charles put Fanny Kem- ble on as Juliet when she was only nineteen, and for a time she did bring back the old Kemble prosperity. It was typical of her that she could hardly be heard through the first act; she won all her plaudits in the last act. She never out- grew stage fright, and more than once, when a play ended in a scream, she could not stop screaming, and was carried off in hysterics. But she became the toast of England. New York In 1832 Fanny and her father determined to try their fortune in America. Their ship made a fast voy- age-five weeks to New York. They put up at New York's best hotel-the American, on Broad- way. But the washbasins crawled with red ants, one clothes closet was infested with moths, an- other with bugs. Fanny did not like the drink- ing water, brought to the hotel daily in big butts. (Conservative New Yorkers thought it unsafe to drink water that had run underground through metal pipes.). Fanny was impressed with the clean, comfortable hackney coaches; but thought the private carriages shabby, and was amazed that the mnen-servants were not in livery. The pigs rooting in the streets appalled her; but she thought American men exceptionally courteous, and was surprised to see no poor around. And she loved the trees on the Battery, and the fine forests across the river and up the island, beyond the Bowery. Washington And Philadelphia Dolly Madison and John Quincy Adams came to see Fanny in Washington; Chief Justice Mar- shall wept at her acting. She liked battered old President Jackson, but thought the White House, forlornly set in a withered-grass plot with palings in front and at the back a stretch of untidy waste land, "unfortunate." And wherever she went-and she went almost everywhere, even away out to Niagara Falls and up to Quebec-the swankiest young men in America danced atten- dance on her. Pierce Butler, of Philadelphia and Georgia, followed Fanny on tour, playing the flute in the orchestra in order to be near her, and in June, 1834, Fanny married Pierce and was somewhat dubiously admitted to Philadelphia society. She shocked Philadelphia by her open distaste for bores, even when of the best families; she spoke of an Edinburgh fish-wife as her friend; she invited actors to dine, which was a littl more than Pierce could stand. He could marry an actress, if she retired; he could not entertain mere stage folk. Fanny tended to agree with Mr. Emerson, who said that "If the world were all Philadelphia, although the poultry and dairy market would be admirable, I fear suicide would be exceedingly prevalent." Shipwrecked Marriage So Fanny followed her husband to his rice plantations on the Altamaha River, in Georgia, close to those marshes of Glynn which Stephen Lanier was one day to make immortal. Pierce Butler considered himself a model slaveholder. He had an infirmary; he flogged very little; he seldom broke up families. But Fanny was shocked by what she saw. The infirmary was filthy and dark; the cabins were filthier; when she com- plained to her husband that the women did not have time to keep their babies clean, the in- formers were flogged. The aristocracy of the South seemed to her merely pitiable; she tired of old men telling of the great days "before the wa"-before the Revolution. Pierce Butler told Fanny she was ruining his slaves with her mistaken tenderness; with the current price of cotton and rice he had enough on his mind without this everlasting fuss about sick babies and religion and flannel petticoats. He forbade her to bring him any more tales; when she said ,she would write books to earn money for her charities, he reminded her that by law a wife's earnings belonged to her husband. He forbade her to correspond with her Abolition- ist friends in the North. The quarrel went deeper than slavery; soon the couple had separated, Pierce forbidding the children to see their mother. Fanny returned to Europe; Pierce sued her for desertion. She re- turned to America, determined to fight. The court refused to admit her statements as evi- dence, but they appeared in the newspapers. Fan- ' y had to wait seven years to see her daughters- until they became of age. Sunset Back in England, Fanny was amply able to take care of herself. She was a Kemble. She became Macready's leading lady; she gave Shakespearean "readings," very popular in that day, both in England and in America. The Long- fellows and the Alcotts were her friends. But it was not until 1863, when she was shocked to dis- cover herEngland so friendly to the cause of the slavocracy, that, she finally published that 1836 FORUM To the Editor: Just a line to bring to your at- tention an error which has been committed twice to my knowledge. In two articles concerning visiting Judge Phillips, it has been said he is onc of ten similar ranking Federal Circuit Court judges. There are in fact from 3 to.5 such judges in each of the 10 circuits.I This is no aspersion on JudgeE Phillips whom I enjoy very much in class and who is a very able judge. But I am sure he would be the last, to disdain accuracy in reporting. Yours for an ever better Daily, Lynn H. Gressley The Passing Of A Poet,. . James Weldon Johnson, who was killed Sunday in a grade-crossing ac- cident in Maine, was, by whatever measure, an extraordinary man. It probably is not too much to say that he was the most distinguished Negro in the United States. A man ofvgreat personal dignity, he fought over the long years-never extravagantly but always with reasonableness-for the just recognition of the black race. He believed in the ability of the American Negro to produce genuinely original art and literature, and he wrote and spoke persuasively of the contributions of the black man, pa- ticularly in the fields of poetry and music. He was a shrewd politician, and rebelled at the idea that the Ne- gro should be used as the catspaw of any one political party. Negroes everywhere, as well as every white American. have every reason to be proud of this long and useful life. To be sure, he had unusual talents. He had many "firsts" to his credit- the first Negro college student to pitch a curve ball, the first Negro to be admitted to the Florida bar, the first Negro to gain a place on the faculty of New York University, and so on. He could write popular songs, but he also could write moving poetry and a clear and forceful prose, and he was the author of that hymn which has come to be known as the Negro national anthem, "Lift Ev'ry Voice." He and his highly gifted brother, Rosamond Johnson, were popular and familiar figures in Tin Pan Alley almost forty years ago. But Janies Weldon Johnson was much more than that. He had been editor, diplomatist, lecturer, educa- tor, reformer. There was nothing cringing or apologetic in his make- up; likewise, there was nothing brash. He was a scholarly gentleman whose name will be remembered as long as there are records of the romantic and always poignant story of the black man in America. He understood this story, this struggle, in all its sadness and all its bravery. -New York Herald Tribune. Sweden In America Americans feel at home in Sweden, and for more than three hundred years the descendants of the little band of Swedish pioneers, since mul- tiplied by hundreds of thousands of Swedish immigrants, have felt at home in the United States. In a very real sense they are bone and mar- row of this country. A fellowship of ideals, a genuine fusion of spirit and purpose, underly the extraordinary warmth with which we celebrate the tercentenary of the landing of the first Swedish settlers on these shores. The Swedish Mayflower, Kalmar Nyckel, or the Key of Kalmar, came from Gothenburg to the rocks at the mouth of the Delaware not long after the English Mayflower landed the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. A model of the little ship which bore the pioneers from Sweden and Finland, then a Swedish province, tops the tall, black granite shaft which the President accepted yesterday as a gift symbolizing three centuries of un- broken friendship between the two countries. More than most international sym- bols, this monument expresses a sen- timent as solid as the rocks on which it stands. The President personified the American people when he went to Wilmington to welcome the Kungsholm and the represen'tatives of the old Kingdom of Sweden and the new republic of Finland. His presence signified more than a desire to commemorate the tercentenary of a colony which, like many of the early settlements on this beckoning bul inhospitable continent, was small a'nd short-lived. It signified more than a gesture of amity to Sweden and Finland, nations we admire for their sturdy political democracy, their social enlightenment and the emphasis they place on individual liberty and equality. We welcome this opportunity to do honor to our own citizens of Swedish and Finnish stock and to pay tribute to the great contribution they have made to the material and spiritual upbuilding of America. The monu- ment at Christiana Park reminds us that we are New Sweden as well as New England or New Amsterdam. We have reason to congratulate ourselves as much as the royal delegates from Stockholm on the Northmen's vir- tues-independence, courage, indus- try, civic responsibility, love of free- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1938 + VOL. XLVIII, No. 3 Summer School Reception is to be held in the Horace Rackham School for Graduate Studies on July 1st at 8:30 p.m. The following rooms have been assigned to the various depart- ments: Administrative Receiving Line, As- sembly Room, 3rd floor, Professor Hopkins. Biological Chemistry, Blue Room, 3rd floor, Professor Lewis. Chemistry, Blue Room, 3rd floor, Professor Schoepfle. Hygiene and Public Health, Read- ing Room, 2nd floor, Dr. Sundwall. International Law, West Wing of5 Assembly Room, 3rd floor, Professor Reeves. Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Men's Lounge. 2nd floor, Professor Hall. Library Science, Women's Lounge. 2nd floor, Dr. Bishop. Linguistic Institute, Men's Lounge, 2nd floor, Professor Friese. Engineering Mechanics, East Coun- cil Room, 2nd floor, Professor Erick- son. Music, Women's Lounge, 2nd floor, Professor Moore. Physics, Blue Room, 3rd floor, Professor Randall. Renaissance Studies, East Confer- ence Room, 3rd floor, Professor Rice. School of Education, Reading Room, 2nd floor, Dean Edmonson. Speech and Play Production, Wom- en's Lounge, 2nd floor, Professor Sanders. English g211f, Proseminar in the Romantic Period, will meet on Mon- day and Wednesday instead of Tues- day and Thursday in 2231 A.H. Mathematics 327, Seminar in Sta- tistics. Preliminary meeting to ar- range hours, Wednesday, June 29, at 3 p.m., in Room 3020 Angell Hall., Economics 181: Will meet in Room E, Haven Hall. My writing course, English g297, will meet on TWThF at 8 o'clock in Room 3227 A.H. R. W. Cowden. Professor William Clark Trow will lecture today at 4 o'clock in the Auditorium of the University High School on Psychological Trends In- fluencing Educational Theory. High Tor opening tonight at 8:30. Michigan Repertory Players at Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. Box Office open all day, phone 6300. Last week to buy season tickets at $3.75, $3.25, $2.75. 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All students of the Summer Session who are interested are i: ted to attend. Graduate Students in ,ll depart- ments who wish to take the German examination required for the dc- torale during this summer session and those in the exact and natural sciences who will be ready to take both the French and the German examinations are requested to con- sult with Professor A. O. Lee as soon as possible any day except Saturday between 4 and 5 in room 120 Rackam building. (Ground floor east). C. S. Yoakum Summer Session Students are re- minded of the following regulation: At the beginning of each semester and SUMMER SESSION every stu- lent shall be conclusively presumed to be ineligible for any public ac- tivity until his eligibility is affirma- tively established by obtaining from the Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs, in the Office of the Dean of Students, a written Certifi- cate of Eligibility. A copy of last semester's report is essential to ob- tain such a Certificate. 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