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Editorial
The Economist
Vs. The Businessman
Official Publication Of The Summer Session
VOL. XLIX. No. 3 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1939
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Regents Pass
'39-40 Budoet
For University
And Hospital
$6,591,945 Is Granted
Slashed By $94,000 As
HospitalWins Raise
Thirty-two Faculty
Men Are Promoted
The Board of Regents yesterday
announced it had approved 1939-40
budget for the University and Uni-
versity hospital totaling more than
$9,000,000 at a special meeting Mon-
day.
The allotment showed a slash of
|94,000 in University funds with the
hospital budgeted $63,000 higher
than last year. The University got
$6,591,945 while the hospital will
spend $2,519,945.
Officials said the lower University
figure could be attributed principally
to a decreased state appropriation.
A pension plan which was to have
been put in effect for non-academic
employees was shelved in the econ-
omy drive necessitated, they declar-
ed.
The hospital is self-supporting,
Most of the University's funds - $4,-
Dr. Ruthven Leaves
President Ruthven left yester-
day morning for a three month
vacation at his summer home in
Frankfort. Budgetary matters and
commencement out of the way,
the President will spend much of
his time in riding, his favorite
sport, while he prepares for his
eleventh year at the University's
helm.
475,000 next year-come from the
sta with student fees and tuition
contributing $1,500,000.
The regents promoted 32 faculty
members at the same meeting. The
promotions':
Literary College
From associate professor to full
professor: Werner E. Bachmann,
chemistry; Dwight L. Dumond, his-
tory.
From assistant professor to asso-
ciate professor: Ralph L. Balknap
and Armand J. Eardley, geology;
Harold M. Dorr, political science;
Norman R.. F. Maier and Burton D.
Thuma, psychology; Albert H. Marck-
wardt, English; Chester B. Slawson,
mineralogy.
From instructor to assistant pro-
fessor: Nelson W. Eddy, Spanish;
Charles E. Koella, French; Lemuel
L. Laing and Edward C. Simmons,
(Continued on Page 2) /
Michigan Gets
Three Players
In Collegiates
Wolverines Finish Eighth
In Team Standings;
Black AndEmery Lead
(Special to The Daily)
DES MOINES, Ia., June 27 -
Blazing rounds by three University
of Michigan golfers today won them
the right to take part in match play
in the National Collegiate Tourna-
ment tomorrow.
William F. Black and John R. Em-
ery led the Wolverine qualifiers when
they toured the difficult Wakonda
course in 153's despite the winding
fairways and tricky greens. Lynn
Reiss came in with a steady 157 to
complete the trio.
Captain Bob Palmer put together
an 85 and an 86 for a 171, 12 strokes
more than it took to qualify. E. H.
Hoagland, with an 85-79: 164 was
also out of the running, as was Ken
Johnson with an 82-81:163.
Bill Black showed masterful skill
and coolness as he put together an
out round of 77 with an four-over-
par 76, on the 18. Emery had an
outstanding 75 out but took three
more strokes on the way back for
his 153. Reiss, who only recently re-
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S peas On Asia
-Daily Photo by Bredhoft
SENATOR ELBERT THOMAS
* * *A
Utah's Senator
To Probe U.S.
Role In Orient
Thomas To Give Second
Lecture On Far East
At 8 P.M. This Evening
Sen. Elbert D. Thomas of Utah
will deliver the second of his three
lectures. "The Far East and The
World" at 8 p.m. today in the lecture
hall of the Rackham Building.
Thursday he will continue his dis-
cussion of the place of Asia in the
modern social, political, economic and
educational scene with a talk entitled
"America and the Far East."
Senator Thomas draws his obser-
vations from a vast background of
study and experience. Former head of
the political science department of
the University of Utah, he has spent
years in the Orient as missionary and
student of Eastern customs, philoso-
phy,.language, + and °institutions. He
is the author of several volumes deal-
ing with politics in the Orient, some
of them in Japanese.
Now chairman of the Senate Labor
and Education Committee, he has
achieved national recognition as the
key member of the important Foreign
Relations Committee.
Senator Thomas spoke yesterday
on "The Rule of Asia in the Ameri-
can University Curriculum."
First Journalist
Institute Opens
Advisors of Prep Papers
Meet Here Today
Opening, at 8 p.m. today with a
session in the Rackham School, the
First Institute on Secondary School
Journalism, sponsored by the journ-
alism department and the National
Association of Journalism Directors,
will continue to meet through Satur-
day.
Participants will fegister in the
journalism offices in Haven Hall
between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Today's session will be presided over
by Miss Thelma McAndless, English
critic teacher of Roosevelt High
School, Michigan State NormalCol-
lege, Ypsilanti. Prof. John L. Brumm
of the journalism department will
deliver an address of welcome.
Talks will be given by Miss Hilde-
garde Stolteben, head of the English
department of the Dubuque, a.,
Senior High School, on "The His-
tory and Progress of the National
Association of Journalism Directors;"
by William E. Blake, head of the Eng-
lish department of Hartford Public
High School, Hartford, Conn., and
president of the N.A.J.D., on "State
Press Association and Suggestions
for Affiliations with National Asso-
ciation of Journalism Directors;" and
by S. S. Fishbaine, head of the Eng-
lish department of Central High
School, Detroit, on "The Contribu-
tions of the Columbia Press Associ-
ation and the National Scholastic
Press Association."
U. Of M. Graduate,
Army Man, Retires
Brigadier General Olivier Lyman
Spaulding, chief of the historical
section of the Army War College and
a University of Michigan graduate,
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Border Crisis
Called Grave
ByDaladier
Concentration Of Troops
On Frontiers Alarms
Premier Of France
Parliament Closes
In Sudden Uproar
PARIS, June 27 -OP)- Blunt-
spoken Premier Edouard Daladier
adjourned the French Parliament for
its summer vacation tonight with the
warning that the gravest interna-
tional crisis "in twenty years" faced
France with 3,000,000 soldiers across
her frontiers.
He said the troop concentrations
were "more important than ever be-
fore" and did not count "semi-mili--
tary units."
The Premier apparently 'referred
to the troops of Germany, Italy and
Spain and by "semi-military units"
meant the German S.S. and S.A. or-
ganizations and the Fascist Militia
of Italy.
Deputies In Uproar
The sudden adjournment, which
took most Deputies by surprise, cre-
ated an uproar in the chamber which
had expected the session to continue
through this week and possibly next
since several important questions
were pending.
" Deputies who had received their
gas masks just before reading of the
closing decree expressed amazement
at the extreme pessimism of the Pre-.
mier's speech delivered in a heavy,
measured tone.
At the Senate, where Daladier
later read the same decree, he was
equally grave and was heard by the
Senators in dead silence.
"We are in the hands of events and
it is possible that the Parliamentary
vacation will be more brief than
those who are protesting against
closing the session think," he said.
Some deputies said this referred to
the Constitutional requirement that
Parliament must act on any declar-
ation of war.
Ask Freedom
"What we ask you," he said, "is to
leave the government the liberty of
movement that is essential at the
present moment."
The Premier painted a gloomy pic-
ture of dangers surrounding France
in reply to a series of questions posed
by Louis Frossard on the use the
Government planned to make of its
decree powers during the summer re-
cess.
Intense foreign propaganda is be-
ing waged "to separate frenchmen
and disrupt the French and British
solidarity so indispensable to the
peace of the world."
LONDON, June 27.-(P)-An Ex-
change Telegraph Dispatch from
Warsaw today said Polish artillery
brought down a German military
plane which disregarded warning
shots while flying over Hel Penin-
sula.
The peninsula closes Danzig Bay
opposite the Polish port of Gydnia
where a Polish naval base is located.
The dispatch said the second round
fired by the Polish guns hit the plane
which fell into the sea. A passing
German ship picked up the crew.
Suniner Play
Series Opens
HereTonight
'Michael And Mary,' Play
.By Mile Inaugerates
Summer Repertory Bill
Starts At 8:30 P.M.;
To Run Four Days
With "Michael And Mary," A. A.
Milne's beloved domestic comedy,
The Michigan Repertory Players will
open their eleventh summer season
at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre.
Playing the tite roles will be Karl
Klauser and Mary Jordan. Others
in the cast will be Charles McGraw,
Nathan Gitlin, Duane Nelson, Robert
Cunningham, Richard Slade, June
Madison, Catherine Steiner, Leah
Dodley and Nancy Schaeffer.
The director of the play is Prof.
Valentine B. Windt of the speech
department, assisted by 'Whitford
Kane, eminent stage actor, as guest
director. Frederick O. Crandall and
Claribel Baird, both of the speech
department, complete the directing
staff. Prof. William Halstead of
the speech department is technical
director. W. Oren Parker has de-
signed the four sets and Lucy Barton,
distinguished costumer and author
is in charge of costuming.
Tells Of Couple
The story tells of a young couple,
who marry despite the fact that one
of them is already married. They rear
their son in these unconventional
circumstances and in the face of a
threat of danger that may at any
moment bring disaster to themselves
and their home.
"Michael and Mary" was first pro-
duced in New York on Dec. 10, 1929
and ran for 232 performances. Leads
were played by Henry Hull and Edith
Barrett who will be remembered for
her pat in the Dramatic Season here
several years ago. .'
Alan Alexander ,Milne is a play-
wright familiar to American audi-
ences. Of Scottish descent, a graduate
of Trinity College, Cambridge, he
began writing plays in 1918. His
"Belinda" was at one time in the
repertoire of Ethel Barrymore; his
"Mr. Pim Passes By" ran for almost
a season in New York; his "Dover
Road," "The Truth About Blayds,"
and "The Ivory Door" are well known
to theatre goers. Milne was for many
years editor of Punch Magazine and
has written numerous novels, the
best known of which are famous
children's stories of Winnie The Pooh
and "Christopher Robin."
Windsor's Return
Predicted By Paper
LONDON, June 27. -(P)- An
autumn homecoming for the Duke of
Windsor and his American-born
duchess was confidently predicted to-
night in large black type by the Eve-
ning Standard.
The Standard devoted the entire
top half of its front page to the story
that the Duke of Windsor, having
abandoned his demand that his
Duchess be made "Her Royal High-
ness"-the title given royal duchess-
es-would take up residence with her
here in October.___ ______
Still Missing
Dr. James Monroe Smith is still
the object of police search after
he resigned aspresident of Louisi-
ana State University and disap-
peared with what officials now
believe is $500,000.
Governor Long
Promises State
A Square Deal
Louisiana Hears University
Ex-prexy Bilked Banks
Of Over Half Millioni
BATON ROUGE, La., June 27-()
-While new Governor Earl Long}
pledged a "square deal," news-groggy
Louisiana was told tonight the fugi-
tive former president of its State
University had bilked three big banks
of $500,000.
Since 51-year-old Dr. James Mon-
roe Smith dropped from sight Sun-
day night just after resigning, de-
tails of his ' supposed wrong-doing
had been as mysterious as his where-
abouts but late today Attorney Gen-
eral David M. Ellison announced
Smith had obtained a half million
dollars through invalid University
notes.
Ellison asserted any loss must be
borne by the banks and not by the;
University. He explained the money
had been obtained on notes which
had been accepted by the banks with-,
out required authority of the State,
Bond and Tax Board and therefore
the loans were between the banks
and Smith.
"State Police Superintendent Louis
F..Guerre said it was learned defin-
itely tonight that Dr. Smith had been;
in Memphis, Tenn., but could noti
now be located there.
"Guerre said J. Emory Adams,
Smith's wife's nephew, admitted driv-
ing the fleeing L.S.U. prexy there
after Smith resigned.
"The officer said Smith was not
now in Memphis but a nationwide
dragnet was being tightened in an
effort to capture the educator."
Student Parley
Leaders Pick
Debate Theme
Faculty, Students To Sift
'Which Way Progress'
In Two-Day Session
The theme of the first Summer
Parley, to be held Thursday and Fri-
day, July 6 and 7 in the Union, will
be 'Which Way Progress: Social
Responsibility or Individualism," ac-
cording to James Dusenberry, Grad.,
chairman of the Parley.
Featuring the two-day student-
faculty conference will be the open-
ing meeting at which "keynote" talks
will be given by three prominent
faculty men from widely different
points of view. A number of faculty
specialists from varying fields will
complete the panel.
The four individual panel topics
which will receive consideration at
subsequent sessions are: "How Much
Government Do We Need?," "What's
Wrong with Our Schools?," "Can
We Have Peace in Industry?," and
"Whither World?" The panels, which
meet' concurrently, will be presided
over by student chairmen, and will
be opened with short talks by a facul-
ty speaker, who will review pertinent
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Siegel, Siegel,
Now Where's
TheSiegel??
(Special to The Daily)
By STAN M. SWINTON
ARENA GARDENS OUTDOOR
BOWL, Detroit, June 27.-Even the
State police were trying to get Don
Siegel, Michigan's all-conference
football star who's now making a
living on the bashed nose and cauli-
flower ear circuit, into the ring to-
night.
Informed in the middle of the
afternoon that George Cerosky, his
opponent in a four-round prelimi-
nary bout of the Johnny Whiters-
Steve Dudas card, had been injured
in an automobile accident outside
Barberton, O., while driving up for
the fight, Siegel took off his gloves
and went home to Ann Arbor.
That seemed OK -- until State
Boxing Commissioner John Hettche1
stepped in.
"Siegel was advertised as an at-
traction and fight or no fight he's
got to show up," the pug czar de-
clared.
"How can we get hold of him?"
his managers inquired frantically.
Doug Mode, the commission's sec-
retary, took things into hand by1
phoning the state police and having
Don ordered back to Detroit.
In the meantime the cynical com-
mission did a little more phone work,
asking the Ohio State Police to find
out whether the convenient acci-
dent at Barbertown really occurred.
The Siegel incident proved just1
about twice as interesting as the
main go, which saw Whiters, a 198-
pound Pontiac Negro veteran, skid
through to a split decision over New
Jersey's Steve Dudas, a 194 pounder
who was quite a fighter a long time
ago-a very long time ago.
Dancing Heads
League's Social
ProgramToday
Tea Dance Will Be Held
At 3:30 P.M.; Classi
To Be 'aught Tonightj
Dancing will be the tune of the
day with a tea dance this afternoon
and dancing lessons tonight.
The rhythms of Earl Stevens' or-
chestra will open the first of a seriesj
of tea dances at 3:30 p.m. in the
League balroom. The dances are free
of charge to both men and women
and refreshments will be served. k
The tea dances, to be held weekly
throughout the Summer Session, are1
a part of the League social program
for the enjoyment of summer school
students, according to Miss Ethel
McCormick, social director of the
League. They have proved very pop-
ular in previous Summer Sessions
and during the year.
Miss McCormick will teach dacing
to advanced students at 7:30 p.m.
tonight in the League ballroom. Fee
for the Summer Session is $1.50.
Only tickets for the complete series
of six lessons may be purchased.
Beginners' lessons in dancing are
taught Tuesday evenings by Miss
McCormick. At 7:45 p.m. every Mon-
day, lessons in square and country
dancing are offered free of charge.
These dances are taught by Benjamin
Lovett, teacher of Henry Ford. Stu-
dents intending to take lessons in
square and country dancing are urged
to come on time as many late-comers
had to be turned away Monday be-
cause of lack of space.
Dr. Carrothers
LecturesToday
Reveal 6-Year Curriculum
Study Results at 5 P.M.
Results of an important six-year
study of secondary school curricula
will be explained at 5 p.m. today in
the Rackham Auditorium by Prof.
George E. Carrothers of the Educa-
tion School. Professor Carrothers is
to talk on "Criteria for the Appraisal
of Educational Institutions."
Professor Carrothers will explain
some of the new criteria for evalu-
ating school programs that were de-
veloped as a result of the Coopera-
tion Study of Secondary School
Standards, of which he was general
chairman. This study, made possible
by a grant of $225,000 from the Gen-
eral Education Board of the Rocke-
feller Foundation, was carried out by
Regaining
HYDE PARK, N.Y., June 27.--P)
President Roosevelt told Congress
today it would undermine national
defense and. return control over
money toWall Street and interna-
tional bankers if it refused to con-
tinue his power to devalue the dollar.
He pictured for reporters a possible
return to the times when he said in-
ternational currencies were jumping
up and down like a Jack-in-the-box,
the internal economies of all na-
tions were disrupted and only specu-
lators and international bankers were
the beneficiaries.;
The devaluation power will expire
at midnight Friday unless Congress
drives a monetary bill to speedy final
enactment. A Senate vote yesterday
to strip from the measure a section
extending the devaluation authority
raised doubts over the possibility of
that action.
Ready For Press
Mr. Roosevelt anticipated a request
for comment on that vote at his press
conference. He was ready.
The loss of his power to reduce the
gold content of the dollar again would
strike a definite blow at national de-
fense, he said, since a nation was
weakened if its foreign trade was
weakened.
Administration officials have con-
tended that the fact that the United
States could meet devaluation with
devaluation had tended to discour-
age other nations from entertaining
any idea of tampering with their
currencies to obtain a competitive
advantage in foreign trade.
More than the defense angle, the
President stressed the prospects that
control over -money might be taken
from the Treasury and handed over
to Wall Street, speculators and in-
ternational bankers.
Not Been Used
For 5% years, he said, we have
had the right to devalue the dollar
from 59 to 50 percent of its former
gold content. We haven't used it, he
said, and we have had no intention
of using it unless other principal na-
tions started taking cracks at us as
they did.in 1930 and 1931-when it
took us three years to recover.
As long as we have the right to
devalue another 18 per cent, he con-
tinued, the chances are 10 to 1 we
won't have to use it.
Taking away that right, he said,
meant a possible return to conditions
that existed in 1930 and 1931-giving
international speculators an oppor-
tunity to sell the pound short this
month, the franc next month and the
belga the month following.
Senators Reply
WASHINGTON, June 27.--P)-A
few barbed remarks from Hyde Park
stirred up anger in the Senate wing
of the Capitol today as worried Ad-
ministration leaders struggled to push
major legislation through Congress
by midnight Friday, 'the close of the
fiscal year.
The hard money Republicans from
the East and the "Silver Senators"
and currency expansionists of the
West who engineered the pooling of
votes which brought these things
about promptly made a series of
wrathful retorts. Privately, their
language was even more sulphurous.
Some old-timers at the Capitol,
summing the situation up, felt that
the development had served chiefly
to harden attitudes to a point which
any compromise arrangement could
be reached only with extreme diffi-
culty. And the Monetary Bill still
had a tortuous path to follow before
it could reach the White House.
Tours Of Campus
To Be Tomorrow
First of the Summer Session excur-
sions, a tour of the campus, will be
conducted tomorrow from the lobby
of Angell Hall.
Groups ;will leave at ten minute
intervals between 2 p.m. and 2:30
p.m. The tour is intended to ac-
quaint those new to the University
with se nf the mast intt4n4t-
Roosevelt Hits
Senate Action
OnDollarVote
As Dangerous
Tells Congress National
Defense Will Suffer;
Speculation Run Rife
Sees Wall Street
Power
I
Senator Thomas Asks Return
To Universal' Economic Laws
By JACK CANAVAN
Blaming the plight of the world
today on economic nationalism and
the desruction of free enterprise,
United . States Senator Elbert D.
Thomas voiced a plea for the appli-
cation of "universal concepts" of
Asiatic study to the University cur-
riculum before a lecture audience
last night.
"Conditions today," he declared,
"are due primarily to the fact that
leaders of states and leaders of schools
of economics have been attempting
to run contrary to the world wide
economic habits of all time."
The history of the Far East dem-
onstrates that China's teeming mil-
lions have been the determining fac-
tor in world prosperity, he said. Since
Roman times they have absorbed the
"surplus" of the world, presenting an
inexhaustible market for the goods
of producer nations.
UWhen war hnro enut in the Orient
idle factories in the world today.
"Restore peace in the Far East for
just one season and give the Chinese
worker the chance to buy," he de-
clared, "and the cotton surplus pro-
blem of the United States will be
solved."
Drawing a moral for America and
the rest of the world from the history
of Asia, Senator Thomas hit at the
"planned economies" and authoritar-
ian regimes of today with the ring-
ing phrase: "You can't have political
democracy long in America unless
you have economic democracy with
it." And you can't have economic
democracy, he pointed out, without
free enterprise-the "freedom to
come and go and buy and sell as you
please."
The growing philosophy of eco-
nomic self sufficiency of totalitarian
regimes has dangerous implications
for the United States, he indicated.
"Accept the German theory of organ-
igino- a naonnac an connomin uni+t