LL G warmer today. Official Publication Of The Summer Session tIaitxj Editorial A Lesson For Education . No. 29 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1939 PRICE FIVE U o Lectures Remodeling Pan-American Union Is Requested By Professor Reeves 0> 7o First, Program.. Lin uists Visitors Hear Of Tian Study And ilms Of Larynx Papers By JACK CANAVAN Remodeling of the Pan-American Union into a permanent "clearing house of information" modeled after the League of Nations Secretariat was urged as "The Next Step In Pan Americanism" by Prof. Jesse S. Reeves of the political science department yesterday in an address in the Rack- ham Lecture Hall. Dealing with international confer- ences, particularly in relation to. the Western Hemisphere, Profes- sor Reeves stressed the need for de- veloping a "technique that will give concrete results, not mere sentimen- tal declarations, toward the pro- posed- solidarity of the western hemi- sphere." He also advocated the strengthening and simplificationof international law as a bulwark against imperialism. The Pan American Conferences have failed in their purpose: "the establishment oftpeace through jus- tice in the western hemisphere," be- School Bands Give Annual Joint Concerti bed by two invitation lec- vening, the two-day special ieeting of the Linguistic America convened yester- number of language schol- ng from eastern and middle .iversities. >re sessions, besides the and afternoon tea, are for 9:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. the Society's guest speak- Leonard Bloomfield, chair- linguistics department at sity of Chicago, presented the fourth of his weekly ectures dealing with the e study of the Algonkian guages. erivation in Algonkian," loonfield, "involves use of of suffixes roughly classi- bstract and concrete. Ab- ixes function primarily to the parts of speech, that un, the particle, and the ent kinds of verbs. higonklan Stems hypothetical parent stem o- lie or to fall) may be suffix "hshine" forming ;e intransitive verb, as in ninee "esehsen" (he lies or cause of faulty technique, he de- clared. Never have all of the 21 Pan- American republics ratified the con- clusions of the eight conferences which have been held over a span of 50 years, and many have signed cer- tain of the agreements only with res- ervations. Even though the conferences them- selves have not achieved much in the way of formal conclusions, the use of documentation and publication may serve as landmarks to point the way toward the successs of future conferences, Professor Reeves empha- sized., He cited the work of the League of Nations Secretariat in preparation, documentation and publication of in- ternational conferences as a model for the Pan-American Union. To be suc- cessful, the work must obviously be undertaken by # trained, permanent staff of experts, he pointed out. In the past, he declared, the only preparation for Pan-American con- ferences has been the issuance of an agenda in handbook form for dele- gates, while documentation and pub- lication of discussions and conclusions was left to the foreign office of the nation in which the conference was held. Professor Reeves minimized, how- ever, the need for strengthening the organization of the Pan-American Union to such an extent that a "Western League of Nations," mod- eled after the League Council would be built up. Dr. X. J. Mlayo, 'Clinic Founder, Dies Yesterday Three Guest C Lead Bands ProgramOf onductors I n Final Session' More than. 3,000 persons braved threatening weather last night to hear the combined Summer Session and High School Clinic Bands pre- sent their annual twilight concert at Ferry Field, before rain materialized during the last number and sent the crowd scurrying for shelter. The bands, directed by Prof. Wil- liam D. Revelli of the music school, were also conducted by Ralph E. Rush, of Cleveland Heights, O., guest Abdominal -nt Causes d Healing innesota Cowan Shows Movies Second on the evening program, Prof. J. Milton Cowan of the Univer- sity of Iowa discused his showing of the extraordinary moving pictures of the larnyx recently successfully tak- en by the Bell Telephone laboratories and loaned to him for exhibiting in Ann Arbor. These pictures, taken at the rate of 4,000 frames a second, so slow up the rate of observation that phoneticians have been able to learn many new impotrtant facts about the production of human speech. At the afternoon session, when the Linguistic Socety was welcomed to the University by Prof. L. A. Hop- kins, director of the Summer Ses- sion, five papers were presented. Voegelin Speaks Prof. Charles L. Voegelin of Del Pauw University summarized the re- sults of extensive research into the number and variety of American In- dian languages still spoken, declar- ing that there are now 137 mutually intelligible languages, which may be roughly placed in six groups'com- prising apout two dozen families. In Koasati, a Muskogean Indian language now spoken in Louisiana, certain archaic differences between men's and women's speech are still preserved, according to Dr. Mary R. Haas of the Yale University Insti- (Continued on Page 4) Women Strive For Fellowship Annual AAUW Graduate ScholarshipOffered The Mau Preston Slosson Fellow- ship of $500. to be awarded for gradu- ate study at the University, is now being offered by the American Asso- ciation of University Women. The fellowship is open to all women students. Applications may be ob- tained and filed at the office of the AAUW in the Rackham Building. The money for this fellowship was raised two years ago, partly by a series of lectures on current affairs given by Prof. Preston W. Slosson, of the history department, and partly by a contribution from his mother, Mrs. Mae Preston Slosson. Mrs. Albin Johnson, formerly a solo cor- netist with the United States Army Band, was presented in the role of soloist and composer when he played his composition, "King Sport," ac- companied by the Summer Session Band. "Mardi Gras," from Ferdi Grofe's "Mississippi Suite," was a featured number by the Clinic Band, which acquitted itsef very well. It was dif- ficult to note any difference in pre- cision between this group, made up of high school students from nearby states and Michigan, and the Sum- mer Session Band, which is com- posed of directors, teachers and band members from all over the country and which has had the entire term to work together. The Summer Ses- sion Chorus and soloists Mildred Ol- son and Donn Chown were featured with a medley from "Good News." Some numbers had to be omitted from the program because of the in- creasing darkness. Lohar's "Merry Widow," played as a concert march, and "Niobe," by De Robertis, were played by the combined bands be- fore the finale, Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever." ROCHESTER, Minn., July 28.-(P) -Dr. William James Mayo, world re- nowned surgeon and last of Roches- Je's two famous brothers, died at 4, a.m. today from a serious stomach. ailment for which he underwent an operation April 22. He was 78 years old. Son of a country doctor who trained him to become one of medical his- tory's greatest surgeons, Dr. "Will," as he was known to thousands of patients, died in his sleep. At the bedside were two daugh- ters and their husbands, Drs. D. C. Balfour, and Dr. Waltman Walters, both members of - the Mayor Clinic staff and H. J. Harwick, business manager of the clinic. Stricken shortly after he returned from a winter vacation at Tucson, Ariz., last spring, Dr. Will under- went an extensive stomach operation for a very serious condition at the famed clinic here founded by his father, his late brother, Dr. Charles H. Mayo and himself more than half a century ago. Death of Dr. Will brought to a close a medical career that paralleled that of his equally famous brother, who died in Chicago May 27 from pneumonia. His illness prevented Dr..Will from attending the funeral of his brother here., Britain Warns Japan She May Break Treaty England Pessimistic Abouta Chance For Permanent Accord WithNipponese Hitler, Ribbentrop Return To Berlin (By The Associated Press) Britain dropped a hint to Japan yesterday that she might follow the lead of the United States and abro- gate her trade treaty with Tokyo if current negotiations on British- Japanese differences fail.' An authoritative source said the two main points to be taken up Mon- day would be Japan's demands that Britain cooperate. in suppression of Chinese government currency in North China and that silver stocks belonging to the Chinese govern- ment held in banks in the blockaded British concession in Tientsin be turned over to the Japanese-dom- inated Peiping renime. Britain was understood to be pes- simistic about the chance of any permanent settlement coming out of the conversations, and informed London quarters regarded it high- ly probable-in view of the United States action-that the Tokyo talks would be broken off soon. Japanese still were asking why the Washington, move came so suddenly and right in the tniddle of the Brit- ish-Japanese negotiations. Adolf Hitler anlhis foreign minis- ter, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, re- turned to Berlin unexpectedly from holiday trips for a conference on what officials called "current affairs." Political observers believed they talked mainly aboit what Germany would do if England, France and Soviet Russia finally agreed on a mutual help program. Geran and Japan initialed a new economic agreement which Berlin sources said would provide for in- creased trade through credits ad- vanced to" Japan. Extensive changes in personnel of the Russian foreign office since Pre- mier-Foreign Commissar Vyaches- laff Molotoff displaced Maxim Litvin- off led Moscow observers to wonder whether important shifts in the So- viet diplomatic service were impend- ing. Several Russian ambassadors are absent from key posts. The French cabinet approved a de- cree extending the present parlia- ment two years beyond the normal election time next year, but Premier Daadier was reported to have told coleagues he would invoke it only if the international situation took a serious turn. In effect it would pro- long his present dictatorial powers two years. Durf ee To End Services Here Will Direct Health Service At Teachers' College Terminating three years of service as a staff member of the University Health Service, Dr. Max L. Durfee will assume the duties of the Director of the health service at the Iowa State Teachers' College, Cedar Rap- ids, on Sept. 1, according to an an- nouncement today by Dr. Warren E. Forsythe, director of the University Health Service. The Iowa institution is the only teacher's college in the state and has a maximum enrollment of approxi- mately 3,000. Associated with Dr. Durfee at his new post will be a staff of three physicians and four nurses. Previous to his joining the Univer- sity Health Service in July, 1936, Dr. Durfee maintained a general prac- tice in Dexter. Dr. Durfee was graduated from the Ann Arbor High -School in 1923. He attended the literary college of the University and was graduated from the Medical Schoolsin 1930. Art Exhibit Starts Here Tomorrow Oil paintings, prints, easel paint- ings and works of sculpture gathered from all parts of Michigan will be shown at a WPA Arts Projects exhi- f bition to be held for two weeks be- ginning Sunday in the Rackham Galleries. Vocal-Chord-Less Talk To Be Demonstrated Choir singing, sub-bass and ultra soprano singing and avocal-cord- less speech will be presented by Prof. Floyd A. Firestone of the physics de- partment at 1:15 p.m. today in the Lecture Hall, of the R~ackham Build- ing. Scheduled under the unique title "A Demonstration of How One Per- son Can Give A Public Speech or Sing a Quartet Without Using His Vocal Cords," the demonstration will pre- sent an unusual one-man show. The operation of the "vocal cord substitute" is relatively simple. The vibrations are lead into the mouth through a tube from a small loud speaker. This speaker, in turn, is ex- cited by either an oscillator for speech, or an electric organ for musical pre- senation. Lewis' Attacks Against Garner Cause Reaction Lending Bill Amendnent Proposed By Tydings To Ban Unspecified Gifts WASHINGTON, July 28. -(A)-- Repercussions from John L. Lewis' denunciation of Vice-President Gar- ner as a "labor-baiting, poker-play- ing, whisky-drinking, evil old man" sounded all around the Capitol to- day. Senator Tydings (Dem.-Md.) pro- posed to amend the Administration's lending bill to prohibit any organi- zation from making a political con- tribution of any money not col- lected specifically for that purpose. He said it would "cover the case where the Democratic party borrowed a half million dollars," apparently referring tothe loan of $470,000 made to the Party by Lewis' United Mine Workers for the 1936 campaign. Senator McCarran (Dem.-Nev.), sponsoring an amendment to restore prevailing wage rates on WPA pro- jects, said his cause had been "great- ly impaired" and expressed regret "that a .certain expression was.madel yesterday by an outstanding man who has been in the past apparently a great champion of labor." The Sen- ate subsequently rejected his amend- ment. On the House floor Representative Gross (Rep.-Pa.) criticized Chairman Norton (Dem.-N.J.) of the Labor Committee, before which Lewis was testifying at the time he attacked the Vice-President, for thanking the CIO chief "for his fine contribution to the Committee after he had made his vicious and uncalled-for assault on that courageous American, Jack Garner." Graduate Club Will Visit Saline Farms The Graduate Outing Club will have its weekly picnic at Saline Val- ley Cooperative Farms on Sunday. The party will leave from the front of the Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m. There will be swimming, hik- ing, volley ball and baseball. There will be a camp fire and a treasure hunt after supper. Bob and Gerry McMaster are in charge of the affair. There will be a charge of 35c which will include supper and transportation. Over $850,000,00( Slashed By Senat From Lending Bil Biology Camp Science Center For Weekend The eyes of the world of science are on the University Biological Sta- tion for two days this weekend, as the Douglas Lake Academy plays host to the first perennial meeting of the Disassociation for the Retardment of Science. More than 100 persons, all students at the Station who have no other place within 10 miles to eat, atended the opening banquet at 6:15 p.m. last night. Guests $f honor included Dr. W. W. Cort, Dr. 0. S. Pettengill, Dr. C. Gates, Dr. C. D. LaRue and Dr. F. K. Sparrow. No verbal contri- butions were asked from these guests. The general meeting of the learned gathering will be held at 8 p.m. to- dgy in the Douglas Lake Academy Auditorium. Speakers will be Dr. Bjornstjerne Bporgoffson (C1 i f f Berg), professor of systematic botany from Oslo University, noted for his ability to collect plants from solid rock; Dr. S. K. Bubble (Kate Beh- rens), professor demeritus of iethy- ology, of the Beach View Institute. Miss Duna Sands (Ruth Schorling), l assistant associate professor of ecol- ogy at the Hat Island School for Su- perprivileged Scientists; and A. Tae- nia Saginata, Curator of the par- sitology museum of the University of the State of Collapse. Ample sleeping accommodations are available, it has been announced. Lake. Superior .r Level, Is Rising (By The Associated Press) With two spectacular victories, the Senate economy bloc tonight ripped $850,000,000 from the Administration lending program. First it slashed out $500,000,000 for public road building and improve- ments, and then second it spurned a project, close to the hearts of inner circle New Dealers, which would have had the government devote $350,000,- 000 for buying railroad equipment to be leased to the carriers. The vote on the latter was 45-32. The economy bloc, a jubilant group of Republicans and anti-Administra- tion Democrats, gleeful at what they considered their first real victories since the Roosevelt Administration begin, were nevertheless wary of ef- forts by the Administration to reverse the decision on roads. Administra- tion leaders said they were planning to resubmit the proposition in a dif- ferent form and, if so, a filibuster was threatened. Amendment Rejected In an exciting session the Senate also rejected an amendment to the bill sponsored by Senator McCarran (Dem., Nev.) which would restore the prevailing wage rates on WPA proj- ects. The vote was 40-38. Members of the economy bloc were laying plans for an effort to kill the bill in its entirety by a motion to relegate it to a banking committee pigeon- hole. In the House, hard-pressed Admin- Jatration supporters, dismayed- by the debacle in the Senate, were drawing their lines far an effort to stern what all now consider an anti-New Deal revolt in both branches of Congress. At a caucus of Democrats last night a resolution was adopted expressing "support of and devotion to" the Roosevelt economic program but only after a pledge to support specific legislation had been eliminated. Road Loan Slashed The vote in the Senate to slash the loan for road building reversed a de- cision made by the Senate Thursday. Senator Byrd, (Dem., Va.), however, scanning the voting list, quickly not- ed several absentees who would favor the reduction. Working with Senator Garry (Dem., R.I.), they persuaded Senator Van Nuys . (Dem., Ind.) to offer a motion for reconsideration. It carried, and then the Senate im- mediately adopted the reduction pro- posal, 42-38. Night Session Economy Bloc Is Ju After What Is T4 Session's Major V Rider To Rest< WPA Rate Reje Threatens Grain Elevators Located At Lake Head SAULTE STE. MARIE, July 28.- (I)-The water level of Laice Superior is still rising, despite the fact that almost every available sluice-way and water dam here has been opened to permit the water to spill down the St. Marys River and into Lake Huron. Isaac Deyoung, General Superin- tendent of St. Marys Falls Canal, said today 126,000 cubic feet or more of Lake Superior water was. being discharged each second through the various water outlets here. Today the level is 603.4 feet above sea level, a level which threatens to cause trouble at the. grain loading elevators at the head of the lakes. Nearly as much water was being: discharged a year ago but now there is no letup in the rise of the lake level. All 16 gates of the compensating- dam at the head of the rapids are now open. They have been since early in the season. The Edison Sault Power Company's -plants sluice gates are now open. Telephone Official To Speak On 'Cargoes Of Speech And Music' 1 r 1 1 i Conference On Landed Tenure, Lauded As ALong-Felt Need Using a loud speaker weighing a quarter of a ton in the form of a cube five feet square, Dr. J. 0.GPer- rine, assistant vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraphl Company of New York, will present' a lecture-demonstration on "Cargoes of Speech and Music" at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9, in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham School. Dr. Perrine's talk is to be spon- sored by the Men's Education Club of the School of Education. Using a stage full of equipment, Dr. Perrine willy explain and show how the human voice and music are converted into electrical energy which, over wires and through the air, can be sent all over the world. The talk, although concerned with complex scientific subjects, will be given in interesting .and understand- able language not requiring tech- nical knowledge for enjoyment, ac- cording to Prof. George E. Carroth- ers of the School of Education, facul- ty adviser of the Men's Education Club. recognized as an outstanding author- ity on scientific fields related to com- munication. Included in Dr. Perrine's demon- stration equipment will be the giant high fidelity loud speaker, having four separate "throats" especially constructed for his use by the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. This speaker will reproduce sounds in the range from 50 cycles per sec- ond to 14,000 cycles per second. An- other of his demonstrations involves two telephone circuits of 2,000 miles each, extending from Ann Arbor through the mid-west and east. Us- ing these circuits, Dr. Perrine will demonstrate electrical "echo" and will send a snap of his finger around and around the 2,000 mile circuit un- til it dies out, the snap being audible in the auditorium each time it com- pletes the circuit. Other features of the lecture-dem- onstration, according to Professor Carrothers, will be the actual use of a working model of Alexander Gra- ham Bell's first telephone, the con-' Lauding the progress made at thet Conferences on Land Tenure and Research Materials sponsored earlier in the week by the Institute of Lat- in American Studies, Prof. Preston E. James of the geography depart- ment, director of the Institute, de-+ clared the conferences fulfilled a+ long-felt need broadening and co- ordinating the knowledge of special- ists in the field.+ Due to the interchange of infor- mation between geographers, =cono- mists, historians, anthropologists, lawyers and other specialists, the delegates to the Conference on Land{ Tenure departed with a new en- lightenment and broader outlook on the subject of tenures, he said. In discussing the hacienda, for in- stance, the historian told the story of its origin and importation from Spain, the anthropologist traced it in terms of the relations of man to his environment and the economist on Economic Relations with Latin- America. - This Conference on Economic Re- lations with Latin America is de- signed to bring before the advancedI students attending theInstitute aI number of outstanding points of view on economic and financial inter- course between this country and its' neighbors to the south, thus promot- ing understanding and appreciation of comon problems. The first day of the Conference will be devoted to discussions of the future of foreign investments in Lat- in America. The general chairman of the Conference and leader for the. first day's sessions will be William S. Culbertson, formerly a member of the United States Tariff Commission, Minister to Rumania, Ambassador to Chile, and author of numerous pub- lications on international economic relations. Measures for facilitating trade be- tween the Americas will be the main In a nerve-racking night session, Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.) was the leader of the fight to slash the additional $350,000,000 for buying railroad equipment. The Montanan thundered his denunciation of a pro- vision under which the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation could buy equipment and lease it to the rail- roads for 40 years. "At the end of that time the equip- ment would be absolutely worthless," he said. "The government would nev- er get its money back." He shouted that the RFC had already lost mil- lions of dollars. Earlier the Senate had stampeded to the support of an amendment by Senator Wheeler and Senator La- Follette (Prog., Wis.) to liberalize the terms under which the govern- ment does not come to the aid of mortgage-harassed farmers. Pollock T'o Talk On Radio Sunday Prof. James K. Pollock of the poli- tical science department will be feat- ured on the University of Chicago Round Table broadcast over the Col- umbia broadcasting system tomorrow afternoon. Appearing with Professor Pollock will be Drew Pearson, Washington columnist. The topic to be discussed is "1940 Lines Up." The program, which starts at 1:30 p,m., will not be broadcast over any Detroit station but will be carried by WBBM, Chicago.