THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JULY 12, U I THE MICHIGAN DAILY f Edited and managed by students of the University of ichigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published. every morning except Monday 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. All 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 REPREOUNTED POR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Retresentative 420 MADISON AvE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CNICAO - BOSTON LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors Managing Editor . . . . Irving Silverman City Editor ..... . . Robert I. Fitzhenry Assistant Editors . . . Mel Fineberg, Joseph Gies, Elliot Maraniss, Ben M. Marino, Carl Petersen, Suzanne Potter, Harry L. Sonneborn. Business Department Business Manager . . . Ernest A. Jones Credit Manager . . . Norman Steinberg Circulation 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. Justiee Cardozo: Philosophic Liberal . . IT HAS BEEN the practice lately to Idesignate the justices of the Supreme Court as being either liberal or conservative. Yet to say that Jusict Cardozo was a liberal is not enough. The word liberal itself is meaningless, a giereric nothingness when used abstractly. There have been two kinds of liberalism on the Supreme Court Bench, as Max Lerner has indi- cated. Oliver Wendell Holmes was a philosophic liberal; in the midst of social tensions he could carry on the judical process as if from Olympus. t;ouis Brandeis is an economic liberal, the cham- pion of economic primitivism, of small business, small competitive units; his liberalism is the em- bodiment of Jeffersonianism, the essence of the spirit of reform. w The liberalism of Cardozo was a unique, inde- finable substance. It defied easy classification, dogmatic summation. Like Holmes he could keep himself above the conflicting doctrines and theories of the immediate social scene and deliver sage-like opinions that concerned themselves with universals. "The great ideals of liberty and equality," he wrote, "are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroach- ments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles, by enshrin- ing them in constitutions." Yet he was also the white hope of those who looked to the bench for creative judicial states- nmanship. He was enough of a pragmatist to see the value of the Brandeis method of judging every case in the context of the social conditions that gave rise to it. "The concept of the general welfare is not static. Needs that were narrow or parochial a generation ago may be interwoven ,iour day with the well-being of the nation. What is critical or urgent changes with the times." Of the origin and nature of law, he said; "Life casts the mold of conduct which will some day become fixed as law. Law preserves the molds which have taken form and shape from life. Few rules are so well-established that they shall not be called upon to justify their existence." The "master-faculty", then, of this man, the theme of his twenty-three years in the judiciaries of New York State and the nation, was this blending of the philosophic and the practical. "I have made myself the self-appointed spokesman and defender of the philosopher in the field of law. I am not, however, concerned to vindicate philosophy, either in jurisprudence or outside of it, as an inquiry of cultural value or of speculative interest. My concern is with the relationship of philosophy to life. You may think perhaps of philosophy as dwelling in the clouds. 1[hope you may see that she is able to descend to the earth." Graham Wallas once wrote that in some of the judges of the Supreme Court there should be a touch ofthe qualities which make the poet. ~*n the hands of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo philosopher, scholar, jurist, the inanimate scrip- tures of the law achieved the rank of vibrant, living literature; he was an artist in the most fundamental sense. New Deal candidates, in the current primaries and the fall elections. We have received a letter from a local WPA official pointing out that Harry L. Hopkins, head of WPA, has released a signed statement to "all project workers, fore- men, supervisors, and the administrative staff of Work Progress Administration," in which the following notification is given: "It has been my desire that everyone con- nected with WPA should know and under- stand the rules under which we work. This is especially true of any question involving per- sonal rights. "For this reason, I want to repeat once more our rules about elections so that there can be absolutely no misunderstanding. Every person who works for the WPA, whatever his job, has the right to vote in any election for any candi- date he chooses. Moreover, no WPA worker is required to contribute to any political party or any campaign fund in order to hold his job. No supervisor or administrative person may at- tempt to influence the vote of any worker or §olicit contributions to campaign funds from the people who work under him. Anyone who uses his position with the WPA in any way to in- fluence the vote of others by threat or intimida- tion will be dismissed. "No one will lose his WPA job because of his vote in any election or his failure to contribute to any campaign fund. This has always been an absolute rule of the WPA, and it is my responsi- bility and yours to see that there are no excep- tions. What is more, I want you to let me know if anyone tries to tell you anything different." We accept Mr. Hopkins' statement in com- plete faith, and consider that his honesty and energy in dealing wtih electioneering and cor- ruption in the WPA have been proven by his convincing rebuttal of the recent "investigation" of the WPA in Kentucky conducted by a feature writer of the anti-Administration Scripps-How- ard newspapers. Mr. Hopkins' administration of the WPA for the past several years has been admirable, in fact, as demonstrated by the in- ability of a hostile and active press to discredit it. But at the same time we do not consider the sin of Mr. Williams a very grave one. Men on the public relief rolls should be conscious of the significance of national political life. And, exactly like all other citizens, they should vote in accordance with intelligent self-interest. That is one of the first principles of democracy. -Joseph Gies The 'Onesidedness' Of The NLRB ... J. WARREN MADDEN, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, has reopened discussion on the alleged onesided- ness of the Board in an article in "The Demo- cratic Digest" published by the Democratic Na- tional Committee. In the Congress before adjournment Senators Burke, Byrd, and Vandenberg were leading a militant attack against the NLRB. With an al- most planetary regularity these battling bul- warks of babbling babbitry have been oppos- ing labor at every turn. Principally their barrage of criticism has harped on two strings; first the NLRB has been grossly "unfair" to employers; second, the National Labor Relations Act, since its inception in 1935, has increased the numbers of labor disputes instead of decreasing them. The effectiveness of this attack, greatly encouraged by 85% of the newspapers of the country, which are Anti-New Deal, is indicated by two important events: (1) The Little Business Convention meet- ing at Washington earlier this year advocated wholesale modification if not the entire scrap- ping of the Act. (2) President Roosevelt recently appointed a commission to study the labor sit- uation in England with the implicit objective of securing recommendation for the alteration of the Wagner Act. Yet what are the facts? Has the National La- bor Relations Board been unfair and has it in- creased the number of labor disputes? Before the Act or the Board can be denounced as unfair, its purpose must first be ascertained. Section 7 of the act reads "Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively, through representatives of their own choosing, and to en- gage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining, or for mutual aid or pro- tection." Then the act proceeds to define unfair labor practices. "It shall be an unfair labor prac- tice for an employer (1) to interfere with, re- strain, or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights (rights as quoted above in Sec. 7); (2) to dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of any labor organization or contribute financial or other support; (3) to dis- criminate in regard to hiring or tenure of em- ployment or any term or condition of employ- ment, to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization; (4) to discharge or other- wise discriminate against an employee because he has given testimony under this act; (5) to re- fuse to bargain collectively with the representa- tives of his employee." Hence, since "The Board is empowered to prevent any person .from engag- ing in any unfair labor practice," is it no wonder that certain interests have been yelping "unfair." Those who oppose the Board oppose the enforce- ment of the rights guaranteed in the act, rights sanctioned by the Supreme Court. To those who say that the purpose of the act is all right but the procedure of the Board is unfair, Chairman Madden's statement might be quoted: "The board's procedure in twelve cases has been passed upon favorably by the Supreme Court." Not only has this "unfair" argument been founded on a profound misconception of the purpose of the Act but it has been maintained that the Board has encouraged labor disputes, an argument that ill considers the facts. On May 1, 1938, the New York Times published the fi- gures announced in a yearly report by the NLRB. Out of the 13,381 cases docketed since the Board's inception 9,856 have been closed. Of these 9,856 closed, in 55 per cent of the cases affecting 1,200. 000 workers, the disputes ended in voluntary Jfeems to Me Heywood Broun Lucius Beebe relates in high glee some recent goings-on at Groton. Mr. Beebe sponsors a col- umn called "This New York," but he can best be identified as practically the only male society reporter who does not turn out to be pen name for Cholly Knickerbocker. I also understand that Mr. Beebe coined right out of his own head the phrase "cafe so- ciety." He recounts that at Gro- ton, "the lads in the upper forms have their own debat- ing teams, pick their own subjects and conduct their oratorial tournaments without let or hinderance from their instructors." Mr, Beebe adds that this year the head master, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, "descended with out- raged screams and howls upon the entire pro- gram, called everything off and retired to his study mopping his clerical brow over the narrow- est call of his career." It seems the manly ittle lads had chosen as their subject:-"Which of its graduates, Richard Whitney or Franklin D. Roosevelt, has brought more discredit to Gro- ton?" * * ,* It's Not Funny Now that is not funny. It shows to what a great extent the swanky schools of America are inculcating class consciousness and teaching class consciousness and teaching class hatred. In fashionable academies the I. Q., quite possibly lags behind that which obtains in more demo- cratic dormitories, but, after all, these were the Juniors and Seniors of Groton, many of whom had attained a mental age of 10 or 11. Of course, some Grotonians go on beyond this. I know a dear old alumnus who reached his 17th birthday day and his majority simultaneously. It may be held that Dr. Peabody was at fault in merely stopping the debate and not correcting the conditions in the school which made such an attitude possible. In all fairness to the reputa- tion of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of prob- lem children. The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys. The lads are largely overnourished, overclad and burdened with the handicap of both town and country houses. During the vacation periods when they mingle with their' elders the little fellows a'e thrown in- to the company of sub-debs and Wall Street weepers. The average Groton undergraduate was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and moreover the spoon was filled with mush. There is little in the social life or the curriculum of the school calculated to remove either. Indeed, Gro- ton is just a cog in a select chain of factories dedicated to the preservation and production of snobs. - . .X In a democratic country it is the privilege of little groups to gather under a high hat and to entertain each 'other with tournaments designed to pick out the one who can raise his or her eye- brows in the most regal fashion. Huteur in the court is tradional. But these people should know their place.' They are off the reservation when they invade public forums to weep like crocodiles about liberty and freedom. That's not sporting. The schools which the members of the upper crust delight to support and honor are exclusive which means that they apply social, religious and ,racial tests. People who deny the usages of de- mocracy at the very source are in no position to write passionate letters to the papers protest- ing their devotion to American institutions. That's not cricket. They should stay home and play it on the hearth. And the pity of it is that many of the boys who are put through the mill could be useful citizens if only given half a chance. It isn't their fault, but the fault of a system if they are doomed to be snobs. The parents, themselves, ought to be sufficiently wise in their generation to call a halt to the turning out of tumbril fodder. The Library Lift To The Editor: Would you be so kind as to wield your pen adroitly and say a few words apropos the repair of the lift in the library. For several weeks now the words "Out of Order" have greeted all pro- spective passengers. I know that more than one student is ruining his heart by going up and down the stairs. As a graduate student I have to go here and there in the building. One book that I want is in Graduate Reading Room No. 2; then I find that I need a book that is in the base- ment study hall; a few minutes later I have to go to the reference room. My heart pounds pretty hard ere I get to the mesne of some of the stair- cases; I have seen others stopping to pant as they climb between study halls. I am no weakling. I went out for track in high school. I can endure almost anything but the strenuous task of going from floor to floor unassisted by the lift. Can't you say something that will inspire the Univer- sity repairmen to put the lift in running order? I might start you off with this information; the lift saves one about eighty steps between the first and second stories. -Graduate Student Editor's Note: You have competently weilded the pen for us. Reports from the Library are that all of the parts necessary for the reassembling of the elevator have arrived and the elevator will be put into use as soon as the assembling can be completed. No more definite information was given. and 556 threatened strikes involving 141,238 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 until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1938 VOL. XLVIII. No. 13 Faculty Concert. The second faculty concert in the summer series will be given Tuesday evening. July 12. 8:30 o'clock in Hill Auditorium, wtih the following faculty members partici- pating: Wassily Besekirsky, violinist; Marshall Bidwell. organist: Joseph Brinkman, pianist; Hanns Pick, vio- loncellist; and Hardin Van Deursen, baritone; Ava Comin Case, accom-' panist, and also an accompaniment by the Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Thor Johnson. Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. "The Shoemakers' Holiday," opening on Wednesday at 8:30, with Whitford Kane and Hiram Sherman in their original roles. Box office open from 10 to; 6, phone 6300. American Student Union: The American Student Union will hold its second summer membership meeting on Tuesday, July 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Michigan League. All those in-, terested are invited to attend. Linguistic Institute Luncheon Con- ference, 12:10 p.m. today, in the third-floor assembly room of The Horace H. Rackham School of Grad- uate Studies. Dr. Chauncey Finch of St. Louis University will discuss the topic, "What are the causes of metathesis?" Persons unable to at- tend the luncheon may come for the discussion only, beginning at 1 p.m. Wives of Students and Internes. On Tuesday, July 12, from 3:30 to 5:30 the Michigan Dames, an or- ganization of student wives and wives of internes, will hold a tea at the League. A cordial invitation is ex- tended to all student wives of the University to be present. Please re- member the time as no individual invitations will be given. Summer School Chorus: A recrea- tional hour open to all summer school students without fee. 7 to 8 p.m. Morris Hall (Broadcasting Sta- tion), State Street, every Tuesday night. Dr. Amry Vandenbosch will speak on "Dutch Economic and Commercial Policy in the East Indies" at 3 :15 p.m. today in the Main Auditorium of the Rackham Building. Lectures in Protein Chemistry: Dr. Wm. C. Rose, Professor of Biochem- istry at the University of Illinois, will lecture at 2 p.m., July 11-14 inclusive, in the Amphitheatre of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Stu- dies. The subject of his lectures is "The Nutritive Significance of the Amino Acids. The Essential Natures of Certain Amino Acids."t Professor John Sundwall will speak at 4:05 today in the University Highs School Auditorium. His subject is "Modern Trends in the School Health Problems." Phi Delta Kappa Luncheon: Michi- gan Union. 12:15 p.m. Dr. Verne C. Fryklund, Supervisor of Vocational[ Education, Wayne University will bel the speaker. Dr. Herbert W. Emerson, Director of the Pasteur Institute, will ive an illustrated lecture on "Rabies" todayl at 4:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building. Excursion No. 5: The Ford Plant. Inspection of the various Ford indus- tries at River Rouge. Round trip by special bus. Trip starts at 12:45 p.m.. Wednesday, July 13; ends at 5:30 p.m. Reservation's may be made in the Summer Session Office. Tea for Faculty Wives and Women Faculty Members: Faculty wives and women faculty members are invited by the Summer Session and Faculty Womens' Club to a tea on Wednesday afternoon, July 13 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the garden of the Michigan League, honoring wives of visiting staff members. Pi Lambda Theta will have a tea Wednesday, July 13 at 4:30 at the University Elementary School Li- brary. Wives of Students and Internes. The Michigan Dames will hold the first of a series of bridge parties, Wednes- day, July 13, at 2 p.m. at the Michi- gan League. All student wives are invited. Prizes will be awarded. Mrs. Gardner Ackley and Mrs. Werner Striedieck. the co-chairmen, request Lhat each person bring 10 cents to de- fray expenses. Seminar on the Bible, 12:15, Michi- gan Union. Tuesday, July 12, Dean Luther Weigel of Yale University speaking upon "This New Transla- tion of the Bible." Wednesday, July 13. Prof. William A. Irwin. University of Chicago will speak upon "The Influence of Tran- sitional Usage on Modern Versions." Thursday, July 14, Prof. Henry A. Sanders, University of Michigan "Re- cent Studies in the Sinotic Manu- scripts." Friday, July 15, Prof. James Moffat, Union Theological Seminary "Eng- lish Translation of the Bible." Conference on Religion 3 p.m. For- ums, July 12-15. Tuesday, "Inter-Faith Problems." Mr. Kenneth W. Morgan and others. Wednesday, "Religion and Mental Hygiene," Dr. John M. Dorsey and others. Thursday, "When is Behavior Re- ligious?" Prof. David Trout and oth- ers. Friday, "The Church as a Com- munity Agent," The Rev. Edwin Wil- son and others. Chemistry Lecturc. The thir-1 in the series of chemistry lectures vAl be given by Professor H. H. Willard on Wednesday, July 13 at 4:15 p.m. in the amphitheatre of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies (not the Chemistry Building as pre- viously stated). Subject: "Fluoresc- ence and its application to analytical chemistry." This lecture will be ac- companied by experiments and all interested are invited. Summer Education Conference, Re- vision of Program: Professor A. B. Moehlman will discuss the report of President Roosevelt's Advisory Com- mittee' on Education, on Thursday, July 14, at 1:15 p.m., University High School auditorium. Summer Session French Club: The (Continued on Page 3) 'N Classified Directory N SILVER LAUNDRY-We call for and deliver. Bundles individually done, no markings. All work guaranteed. Phone 5594, 607 E. Hoover. 3x DRESS MAKING and Alterations. Mrs. Walling. 118 E. Catherine. Phone 4726. 34x COMPLETELY furnished apartment with private bath and shower. Al- so large double room. Garage avail- able. Phone 8544. 422 E Washington. 28x TYPING: Neatly and accurately done. Mrs. Howard, 613 Hill St. Dial 5244. 2R LAUNDRY: 2-1044. Sox darned. Careful work at low price. x ANTIQUES bought and sold. Open evenings. 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