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'CHICAGO - BOSTON -Los ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors Managing Editor . . . . Irving Silverman City Editor . . . . . Robert I. Fitzhenry Assistant Editors . . . . . . Mel Fineberg, Joseph Gies, Elliott Maraniss, Carl Petersen, Suzanne Potter, Harry Sonneborn, Business Department Business Manager . . . . Ernest A. Jones Credit Manager . . . . Norman Steinberg Ciiculation Manager . . . J. Cameron Hall Assistants . . Philip Buchen, Walter Stebens NIGHT EDITOR: JOSEPH GIES 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. I Alva Johnston And Jimmy Roosevelt . . THIS week's Saturday Evening Post carries an article by Alva Johnston, a writer who begame famous by collecting all the old Sam Goldwyn stories in a biography, which has been heralded as an expose of large- scale political graft on the part of President Roosevelt's son, Jimmy. All that the article seems to reveal, in actual statistical or factual mater- ial, is that Jimmy is in the insurance business, gets contracts from very large firms, and pro- bably draws a fairly large income. Mr. Johnston infers that Jimmy gets big con- tracts because he is the President's son, but pre- sents no evidence to show that Jimmy uses his political position to help his business. In one 'passage, which does less credit to Mr. John- ston's journalistic ethics than to Jimmy's busi- ness ethics, he suggests rather ponderously that some of Jimmy's corpoirate clients benefit poli- tically from their insurance, while some of those who have refused him have suffered political re- taliation. Specifically he mentions the National Distillers Products Corporation, which gave Jimmy a $70,000,000 policy in 1933, and short- ly afterward benefitted from a Congressional decision to tax liquor two dollars a gallon in- stead of three or four dollars, as -some people advocated. Naturally, every other distiller also benefitted from the decision, which came as a result of a long and intensive study of the pro- blem by Congressional committees. Mr. John- ston's implication that the whole business was the result of the National Distillers' contract with Jimmy-would be laughable were it not so insidious. His other example is even more humorous, however; he suggests that the recent Congress- ional investigation of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which resulted in an order for a. 25 per cent reduction on exorbitant long distance rates, came because A.T. & T. had turn- ed Jimmy down on an insurance bid. Mr. Johnston's thesis that being the son of the President of the United States does not do an insurance salesman any harm is hardly startling, and does not seem likely to arouse the reading public to a pitch of righteous indigna- tion. However, the carefully subtle suggestion, which Mr. Johnston is cautious and clever enough never actually to put in black and white, that Jimmy does political favors for the com- panies that buy his insurance, may be useful to New Deal opponents in the current primaries. Anything that will reflect any sort of discredit on Mr. Roosevelt, senior, is seized upon with glee by the hack writers of the tory press, starved for mud to sling at a liberal president. For that reason it would be pleasant if Jimmy would bring a suit for libel and increase his business income at the expense of Mr. Johnston and the Post. -Joseph Gies Housing Problem We must remember to go to the housing exhibit up at Bradley hall tonight. We want to find out all of the things that are wrong with the By ELLIOTT MARANISS "The fiIdles are tuning all over America ... a fresh and more sensitive emotion seems to be running up and down the old Yankee backbone that unblossoming stalk." Thus wrote Van Wyck Brooks in 1916 of the halcyon days of the New Freedom, before the war completely shatter- ed the Wilsonian-propagated illusions of the Millenium. At first glance it seems impossible for a Uni- versity student, born at the very moment that the earlier movement was dying, to recapture the mood of hopefulness and vitality that animated the intelligent men and women in the pre-war era. In the two-decade interim the country has waged a costly and destructive war, enjoyed a short, dizzy period of boom, and is now reeling precariously in the wake of the greatest indus- trial crisis in its history. Pessimism could very easily take hold of us as it did the generation preceding. We could, with easy justification, indulge in the same low-grade rationalizations of the F. Scott Fitzgeraldian youths who condemned the earth and man as insatiably malicious demons incapable of any- thing but bestiality, helplessness and greed, and then proceeded to drink themselves merrily to hell. We, too could cry aloud with the tired re- formers, who, disillusioned by the pragmatic acquiesance of the New Freedom liberals to Wil- son's "humanitarian" war, and humiliated by the witch-hunting raids of the Department of Justice agents, lamented, that, while they still believed in reform they no longer believed in man. But strangely enough, having lived through the most trying period in American history, University students today are more realistic, more willing to face the facts, and more likely to achieve lasting results than the Bohemia- like, neo-progressivism of the 1900-1912 liber- als. However much the provocation, ours is not the neurotic revolt of the "lost generation" of the twenties; no generation is ever lost; it loses itself. Ours is, on the contrary, a powerful desire to affirm once more the intrinsic majesty of man, to refuse to shrink away in disgust and despair from the realities, confusion and squalor of the contemporary scene, to probe it, diagnose it, until we find the principles that are essential for the realization of the most humanly ethical ideal: the full development of the capacities of the individual. In our own rationalization of present-day American life, and iii our attempt to evolve a program of social change as a result of the adap- tation of certain universal social and economic principles to the peculiarities of America, we must of nesessity possess a thorough understand- ing of the history and heritage of the country. With that knowledge as a perennial reminder that ours is not the only generation that has felt the urge to set free the liberating forces re- sident in the country, we can proceed with a more profound awareness of the implications of the past upon the present and upon our en- visioned future. And in our search for a "us - able past we are fortunate in being able to lay claim to one of the great spiritual manifestoes -me Declaration of Independence. One need be no "noisy nativist" to feel a sense of gratiica- thon in the fact that the American people have lad as a usable guide to thinking and action that profoundly philosophical phrasing-"life, liberty and the .pursuit of happiness." Pioneer Spirit In iAmerica The American heritage is one that springs di- rectly from the land. Had Rousseau or Paine or the other philosophers of the eighteenth century enlightenment that formed the spiritual basis of the Declaration of Independence, been in the American West when the wagons and the prai- rie schooners were pushing their way across the continent, they would have rejoiced in the ap- parent realization of their contention that pio- neer conditions produce simple democracy. In Europe, first under the feudal yoke, and later under the equfally oppressive domination of the bourgeois aristocracy, society had become stag- nant and classified. America however was the land of the pioneers. This was the land of opportunity for all who had, the liberating virtues of courage and initiative. This was the country where the land was black and rich, the forests primeval, the expanse ap- parently endless. Courage, initiative and in- dividual resourcefulness had been real forces to the pioneer of the early American West, not mere phrases to which one paid lip-service and promptly forgot. Exaggeration of the prevalence of these virtues in the stories and legends that grew out of this trek there undoubtedly has been, but certainly, pioneer conditions much oftener than not, led to a wholesome democracy. It is to that stage of our national development that the romantic agrarians would revert. It is upon such a framework that the reformers of our economic system have proposed to build a more progressive capitalism. And, let us not deceive ourselves upon this point: it is from the frontier tradition that a.distinctive American version of capitalistic democracy has emerged. The effect of this tradition upon the psy- chology of the American citizen is of far-reach- ing and ultimate importance. Rampant, ruthless industrialists pounced upon these individualis- tic virtues of the early agrarian democrats and made them the bases of their own anti-social proceedings. The characteristic levelling process made every baby a potential president; office boys did manage to become directors of firms. The fact, then, that economic classes have taken shape in this country is of little or no impor- tance to the American who has been brought up in the only country which is philosophically, politically and psychologically classless. It is this tradition of a classless society, which has been so thoroughly bred into the psychological responses of the American that has been the tangible bequest of the pioneers. ner delivered his epochal paper before the Amef i- can Historical Association in 1893, it was evident that the simple democracy of the frontier days had given way before the onslaughts of oligar- chical monopoly. And, although the eminent his- torian had discovered that the frontier, probab- ly the most significant single factor in American history, had, to all intent and purposes been per- manently closed, there was no sociologist, or even novelist, to delineate the effects of such a condition upon a country which had regarded these lands as the safety-valve of its demo- cracy. "Smallness" had been the keynote of the early American democracy. The Jeffersonian idel of men "enjoying in ease and security the fruits of their own industry" was the economic guide of the country. The farm, the shop, the store-these were the basic factors in the American economy, and together with them went the political struc- ture of democracy, the natural rights of liberty and justice and the philosophical tradition of in- dividualism. The method of reform in America, then, was one that conformed almost entirely to the middle-class economy upon which the country was founded. It was one that resistef strenuously any attempt at concentration and monopolization. Because Americans felt psy- chologically classless, economic and political re- volt rarely took on the class aspect. Reforms, if they were necessary, were meant to reform the system, not change it; the primitive capitalism of the 1820's has been the utopia of American re- formers from Henry George to Franklin Roose- velt. The farmers in the eighties were suddenly aware that their period of self-sufficient isola- tion was at a permanent end. Railroads, banks, tarrifs, politics, were now as important in the life of the farmer as rain and sunshine. Agricul- tural production soared but the farmer's lot grey correspondingly worse. It was inevitable that, becoming conscious of the ills that beset them the farmers of the Middle West should record their discontent through political organ- ization. Yet bowed as they were in bitterness, beaten as they might be by the harshness of nature, the greed and unscrupulousness of the land speculators and mortgage-holders, their revolt never became fanatical, or violent. In- stead they formed popular political parties and demanded elemental financial reforms, income tax laws, postal savings banks, restriction of possession of land to producers and the public ownership of the means of transportation and communication. Thus Hamlin Garland, writ- ing of the tribulations of the middle-border far- mer, while in manifest sympathy with the re- volting agrarians, could with apparent consis- tency extoll the pioneer doctrines of individual- ism and success. Reformers of the industrial and political realms were animated by the same populist con- ception of the meaning and nature of reform: revision here, a patch there, a bit of oil for ac- celeration and then set the machinery going again. The particular bug-a-boo of the laborers and the small business men was the rapidly deve- loping tendency towards industrial concentra- tion. In politics Tom Johnson, Golden Rule Jones, Hazen Pingree, Brand Whitlock and other re- forming municipal officers strove earnestly to wipe out the "shameful" corruption and mis- government of American cities. Henry George, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette, Louis Bradeis-these were the men restive America turned to, not the D Leonites, the I.W.W. or the pre-war socialists. Farmers still cherished the idea of being able to retire in comfort to a town, workmen still vision- ed a reformed America in which they could enjoy security, a home, and education for their chilren; the demagogues and politicans who promised them these things more abundantly or immediately were the messiahs of progressive America. Out of these popular demands for the extension of democracy came such measures as the direct election of senators, an income tax, women's suffrage, the referendum, initiative and recall-important measures all-but in the final analysis, mere alterations of the system, minor restrictions to the inexorable concentrations of wealth and power. From the beginning then, the American scene has been a challenge to which men have reacted either by flight, acceptance or revolt. And it is pertinent to note that even in the periods of (Continued on Page 3) TIeIFFORUM1 To the Editor : The University appears to be making definite progress toward the attainment of a position of distinction as a center of intellectuality. The various institutes, the daily lectures, the em- phasis upon scholarship all are indicative of an awakened interest in study. Yet one does wonder after a 4:30 lecture at the Oriental Palace whether the campus might not benefit to a great- er degree from a more balanced program of lec- tures. Instead of the truly valuable academic discussions of the Renaissance and the Far East, it might be well to include talks and dis- cussions revolving about the nature of the broad social scene. Problems of vital significance war- rant such discussion, and it is rather obvious that the student body would appreciate such directive analysis. A. B. To The Editor: A sweet stench in the nostrils of public opin- ion was raised not so long ago by the Daily concerning the deplorable conditions of clean- liness. It is appropros that a word be said on the other side of the question-namely, the disgust- ing manners and conduct of the hungry student TH EATRE By JAMES DOLL 'Brothe ,Rat' (Editor's Note: We welcome hack Mr. Doll to the columns of The Daily. Mr. Doll was theatre editor of The Daily during the regular sessions of 1936-37 and was costume designer of Play Pro- duction. He is at present art director of the Detroit Federal Theatre. Mr. Doll will submit semi-weekly columns to The Daily, both on the current Mich- igan Repertory Players' series and on theatre news in general). CEORGE ABBOTT's production of this farce about a military school is one from his recent series of suc- cesses. Others with the Abbot label were Boy Meets Girl, Three Men On A Horse, Room Service and What a Life. They are the sort that London reviewers invariably describe as typi- cally American. And if they have a certain similarity of style it may be because in directing them Mr. Ab- bot adjusted them to his now fa- miliar pattern. It is said that Brother 1Rat was rewritten some- thing like 37 times before he would accept it for production. Of this list Brother Rat is prob- ably the most interesting to a univer- sity audience although it probably seems more typical to people who have never been on a college cam- pus. It is also the one most suited from an acting point of view, to the abilities of an organization like the Michigan Repertory Players because for once the younger members can play parts that approximate their own ages. The same season that it was pro- duced on Broadway there were two other plays about life in military schools. The reviewers agreed that Abbot's farcial verson was more sen- sible that the other dreary studies of boys who were made to do parade duty when they wanted to study the violin. No doubt Brother Rat will dupli- cate the box-office success it has had wherever it has been played. But you won't be able to tell what it's po- tential appeal here might be because four performances have been too few of any play produced last summer by the Players or so far this season. Something will have to be done to either enlarge the seating capacity or to make it possible to give more performancesiof each play. How this can be done without cutting down the number of rehearsals or the num- ber of plays is perhaps an insoluble problem. So it seems that the Rep- ertory Players' greatest stumbling block is success. The-Serpent By DR. YUEN-ZANG CHANG Dr. Hu Shih, Professor of Philos- ophy and Dean of the College -of Arts of the National University of Peking, China, will be the first-of a group of scholars brought to the Ann Arbor campus for a series of lectures by the Institute of Far Eastern Studies this summer. He will arrive at Ann Arbor on the fourth of July for about a week's stay, to deliver four lectures. Bqrn in the province ofAnhwei in 1891, Dr. Hu was brought up in a scholarly family and received a clas- sical education, before he was sent to complete his studies in this country. He received his A.B. from Cornell and his Ph.D. from Columbia, where he made a comparative study of western and Chinese philosophies. His first important work, The Devel- opment of Logical Method in Ancient China, was composed as a doctoral dissertation. While engaged in the study of philosophy, he conceived the idea of liberating Chinese poetry from the fetters of rhyme, meter, and poetic diction. Some of the poems which later appeared in his Chan- Shih-Chih were composed as experi- ments in this period. Upon his return to China, he kept up his interest in both fields-study- ing and teaching philosophy and writing free verse in colloquial Chi- nese. His philosophical studies re- sulted in the composition of a monu- mental work, The History of Chinese Philosophy, a standard reference book on the subject. But far greater was the influence upon contempor- ary Chinese thought exerted by his poetical works and his championship of free verse as a legitimate verse form and the language of the com- mon people as the language of liter- ature. The reform movement awak- ened by his "literary revolution" spread into other fields and resulted in a major cultural movement, known as the Chinese Renaissance. His publications of this period in- clude a collection of poems entitled Chan - Shih - Chih, a collection of prose essays, and a History' of Ver- nacular Literature. In 1931, Dr. Hu was chairman of the annual conference of the Insti- tute of Pacific Relations held in Shanghai. Next year he was elected a corresponding member of the Prus- sian Academy of Learning. An hon- orary LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Hongkong in 1935; in 1936, Harvard conferred a similar honor upon him on the ocas- ion of the Tercentenary celebration. Besides the Development of the Logi- cal Method in Ancient China, 1922, several other works of his have ap- Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Summer Session until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLET SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1938 I VOL. XLVIII No. 7 E Students, College Of Literaturet Science, And The Arts. No course may be elected for creditt after the end of the second week., Saturday, July 9th, is therefore the1 last date on which new elections may be approved. The willingness of anf individual instructor to admit a stu- dent later would not affect the oper- ation of this rule. Graduate Outing Club: There will be a meeting of the Graduate Outing Club at Lane Hall, Sunday, July 3 at 2:30. At this time an organization will be set up for the summer. All persons interested pleaser come out. Summer Session Chorus: Report at 7:15 p.m. Sunday, July 3, to Rack- ham Building, left side section near stage, for Vesper services.{ Excursion No. 3 will be to Green- field Village instead of to the Ford Plant, as originally scheduled for Wednesday. July 6. The trip to the Ford Plant has been postponed to Wednesday, July 13. The Intramural Sports Building will be closed all day Monday, July 4, 1938. Because of the Fourth of July holi- day the extension classes in golf and swimming will not meet on Monday. The class in swimming will be held on Tuesday evening, from 7 to' 8; and the class in golf will meet on Wednes- day at 5 p.m. Lectures in Protein Chemistry: Dr. Max Bergmann, Member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- search, will lecture at 2:00 p.m., July 5-8 inclusive, in Room 303 Chemistry Building. The subjects of the four lectures are as follows: July 5-Synthesis and Degrada- tion of Peptides. Chemical Analysis of Proteins (Method). July 6-Chemical Analysis of Pro- teins (Results). July 7-Fnzymatic Proteolysis. The Specificity of Proteinases. July 8-Synthetic Action of Pro- teolytic Enzymes. The Activation of Intracellular Proteinases. Faculty Concerts. Professor Joseph Brinkman, pianist, will be the soloist on the occasion of the first faculty concert in the summer series, Tues- day evening, July 5, 8:30 o'clock, in Hill Auditorium. Summer Session students, as well as the general pub- lie, are cordially invited to attend. Mr. George G. Wilson, professor of International Law, of Harvard Uni- versity, will speak on uesday at 8 o'clock p.m., July 5th, in the small lecture room, third floor of the Rack- ham Building. His subject will be War Declared and the Use of Force. This lecture is open to the public. Registration: A 'registration meet- ing for all students who wish to en- roll with the Bureau for positions, will be held by Dr. Purdom in Natural Science Auditorium at 4:15 on Tues- day, July 5th. The Bureau has both Teaching and General Placement Divisions, and this meeting includes people who wish to enroll in either department. This applies to new re- gistrants only and not to those who have been previously enrolled. University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational In- formation Phi Delta Kappa: The regular Tuesday luncheon of Phi Delta Kap- pa will be held in the Michigan Union July 5 at 12:15. Dr. Clifford Woody, Director of the Bureau of Educational Reference and Research, will be the speaker. Faculty and Student sf the Insti- tute of Far Eastern Studies: The faculty and students of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies are invited to meet the foreign students of the University, and the delegates to the Zen's Symposium on Chinese Culture, 1931, he contributed an article on "Literature." In 1934, Chicago Uni- versity Press published a series of lectures on The Chinese Renais- sance, delivered by Dr. Hu before the students of Chicago University. Dr. Hu is scheduled to give four lectures in the main auditorium of the Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies this week. On July 5 to 4:30 p.m., he will lecture on "Political Ideas in Ancient Chinese Thought." On .July 6 his subject will be "Political and Social Development in Modern China;" and on July 8 he will discuss "The Chinese Renais- sance in Literature and Education." I Rotary Conference on International Service at an informal reception in the -Michigan League, Wednesday evening, from 8to10. At 8 o'clock the Chinese students will present an in- teresting and unuual program of music and pantomine in the Ball Room of the League to be followed by a social hour at 9 o'clock in the Grand Rapids Room. Opening Wednesday: Brother Rat, presented by the luigigan Repertory Players at Mendels ohn theatre. Tickets now available at box office, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. Phone 6300 for reservations. Rotarians in Summer Sessiot: AU Rotarians enrolled in the Summer Session are invited to meet the mem- bers of the Ann Arbor Rotary Club at a Get-Tcgether and Smoker at the Michigan Union Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. They wle also urged to jiom the Ann Arbor Clu' in welcoming the delegates to the Co"rence on In- ternational Service at t'e noonday luncheon in the Ball Roc of the Michigan Union, Wednesday at 12:15 Michigan Union, Wednesday at 12:15. Their wives are also invited to coic and meet the wives of the Ann Arbor Rotarians. The address will be given by Prof. John B. Appleton of Pomona University, Claremont, California, on "Nationalism versus International- ism." In the evening, with their wives, they are cordially invited to attend the reception tendered the foreign students of the University, the delegates to the Conference and the students and faculty of the In- stitute of Far Eastern Studies at the Michigan League. At 8 o'clock, the Chinese students will present a pro- gram of music and pantomine in the Ball Room of the League, to be followed at 9:15 by an informal re- ception in the Grand Rapids Room. All Rotarians are urged to leave their names and addresses in Room 9, UnI- versity Hall. Summer Session French Club: The next meeting of the Club will take place Thursday, July 7, at 8:00 p.mi. at "Le Foyer Francais", 1414 Wash- tenaw. Mr. James O'Neill of the Romance Language Department will speak. The subject of his talk will be "Le theatre libre". Songs, games, refresh- ments. Membership in the Club is still open. Those interested please see Mr. Charles E. Koella, Room 200, Romance Language Building. Physical Education Luncheon: The second weekly luncheon of all persons interested in physical education, health education and athletics will be held in the' Michigan Union, Thursday, July 7 at 12:15 p.m. Dr. Warren E. Forsythe, Director of the University Health Service, will pre- sent the topic, "The 'Bunk' in Hy- giene." All interested are cordially invited to attend. Kindly make res- ervations early by calling 21939 be- tween 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Unitarian Church, E. Huron and State Streets. Sunday at 11 o'clock, E. H. Wilson of Chicago will speak on "A Declaration of Religious In- dependence." At 7:30 p.m. "When does Patrio- tism become Nationalism?"' Episcopal: Summer Student Group -Sunday night, the Episcopal Sum- mer Student Group will meet at St. Andrew's Church, Division and Cath- erine, at 5:30 p.m. where there will be cars to transport them to Camp Birkett, on Big Silver Lake for a picnic supper. Supper will be served at a cost of 25c. There is a baseball diamond and excellent swimming facilities at the Camp. All students .are cordially invited. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church-- The services of worship Sunday are: 8:00 a.m. oly Communion; 11:00 a.m. Holy Communion and Sermon by the Reverend Henry Lewis. First Baptist Church: Sunday, 10:45 a.m. Morning worship. Ser- mon by Rev. R. Edward Sayles, pas- tor, on "Some Things that Cannot be shaken." At 6:30 'p.m. University students will meet at the Guild House, 503 E. Huron St., and Rev. Roy E. Miller of the Saline Federated Church will speak on "An Outsider Looks in Upon the Northern Baptist Convention at Milwaukee." This meeting will close at 7:15, giving ample time for the group to attend the Vesper service of the University to be held in the Rackham School auditorium. 10:45 a.m., "The Beyond Within" is the subject of Dr. W. P. Lemon's sermon at the Morning Worship Ser- (Continued on Page 3) 40 4 Classified Directory ROOMS-1003 E. Huron, $2.50 week. Near campus and hospital. Show- ers. Water in every room. Boys and married couples preferred. 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