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Editorial
For The Knights
Of The Thumb ...
Official Publication Of The Summer Session
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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939
PVJCE 'L'YE
PXUCE FIVE
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Occidental Aid Eastern Cultures
Called Parallel By Sen. Thomas
Of 'Plunge
e Unknown'
lusive Club
Refutes Idea That Chinese
Have Given Nothing
To Western Civilization
Citing many similarities and con-
tacts of ideas between the Chinese'
and Western civilization, Sen. El-
bert D. Thomas (Utah-Dem.) speak-
ing in the second lecture of the Far
Eastern Institute series, traced the
parallel history of these two cul-
tures.
Refuting the Western notion that
Senator Thomas will conclude
his series of discussions of the
Far East at 8 p.m. today in the
Rackham Auditorium, speaking
on "America and the Far East."
Chinese culture had nothing to offer
civilization and culture, he said,
._ Chinese and Western culture, re-
presented by the Roman Empire,
Senator Thomas indicated, were in
close contact until the formation of
the Mohammedan wedge which
formed a barrier to exchange of ideas
and trade. This separation, he men-
tioned, was followed by the dark ages
both of Europe and China.
After the restlessness of the white
man later reestablished this contact,
the exchange of ideas between these
two cultures was evident in many in-
stances.
In political thought, Senator Thom-
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Brumm Opens
First Institute
Of Journalism,
of
icts A Crisis
Summer's End
'N, June 28-(/P)-Winston
one of the first British
d sound alarm over Ger-
ecret rearmament, today
a summer of tension and
Adolf Hitler to pause and
well before you take the
to the terrible unknown."
s wartime First Lord of the
echoed the grim forecast
nade' in Paris yesterday byj
our civilization, Senator Thomas
pointed out that this conclusion has
been based upon the fact that China
did not evolve an equivalent of our
scientific methods. Yet we refused
to employ those same scientific meth-
ods of deduction in evaluating Chinese
i
4
ition to know that a
vigilance is prescrib-'
>ur defense forces-
air defense forces,"
First Regular
Transatlantic
Plane Leaves
Conservative who
d the Chamberlain
ule it followed the
jolicy but now a sup-
ort to'build an alli-
e Rome-Berlin axis,
n a luncheon speech
Iarlton Club.
>le Conclusion
o consider," he said,
an preparations, the
overnment-controlled
eeches of their party
)uld be no conclusion
at the worst would
pen quite soon.
der - and I think
us consider - July,
ember as months in
tension will become
)
"I am in entire accord with the
French Prime Minister that we are
in a period of danger more acute and
more laden with ugly facts than any
which we have known in the hard,
disturbed period through which we
have lived our lives."
Tell Of Negotiations
At about the same time Prime
,Minister Chamberlain told the House
of Commons of Japan's agreement
to start negotiations for settling the
Tientsin dispute, which ha forced
the government to divide attention
between Europe and the Far East.
He said negotiations would start
imediately in Tokyo "to effect a
settlement of various conditions re-
lating to Tientsin." He said the Brit-
ish government assumed that inci-
dents involving Britons at Tientsin,
such as those he last week called
"intolerable insults," would cease.
Local Issues Covered
Chamberlain said the conversa-
tions "will relate to local issues and
will be designed to secure that while
the neutrality of the Concession shall
be maintained British authority in
the Concession shall be preserved in-
tact."
Still another speaker expressing
concern at the trend of events was
former Secretary Anthony Eden. He
advised a Shropshire audience that
"not only to be tough but to look
tough and to act tough is the best
contribution we as a people can make
to peace today."+
Education Club'
Elects Officers
Prof. Litzenberg Speaks'
On University's Growth
At a meeting of the Men's Educa-
tion Club in the Rackham Building
last night more than 150 were pres-
ent for the program and to elect offi-
cers for the Summer Session.
.Cleveland Rowe, superintendent of
Belleville public schools, Kenneth
Bordoine, superintendent of schools
at Marlette and H. 0. Johnson, super-
intendent of schools in Bessemer
Township, were elected to the general
committee of the club for the sum-
mer.
Those who attended the meetingl
were led in singing by Prof. Davidi
Mattern, accompanied by Prof. Mar-
shall Byrn on the trumpet, Prof.I
Warren Good at the piano and Ben-I
Dixie Clipper Takes Off
From New York City
With 22_Passengers
PORT, WASHINGTON, N.Y., June
28.-(1P)-The first paying passengers
ever to be flown by airplane across
the Atlantic stepped rather casually
aboard the big gray Dixie Clipper to-
day and a minute later were off for
Europe--scheduled to arrive at Hor-
ta, the Azores, by breakfast time to-
morrow.
While 5,000 spectators waved, and
harbor craft saluted with whistles,
the $750,000 flying boat of Pan Amer-
ican Airways taxied smoothly over
Manhasset Bay-then upward and
out, opening a new era in aviation.
With the ship's departure at 2:12
p.m. (EST) on a 4,650-mile flight,
aviation's long-cherished dream of
regular Transatlantic passenger ser-
vice by plane became a reality.
Twenty-two passengers, some of
whom applied for passage as long as
eight years ago, and a crew of 11
were aboard the 41-ton flying boat
that started the schedule of twice
weekly clipper flights to Europe.
Twenty-five minutes after the
Dixie Clipper's, departureaanother
flight ended on the other side of the
Atlantic, when the Yankee Clipper
inaugurating regular mail service be-
tween the United States and England
via Newfoundland, arrived at South-
ampton.
Assembly Held
For Educators
Education Students Meet
At Graduate School
Sponsored by the School of Edu-
cation, an assembly of undergraduate
and graduate students interested in
education will be held at 3:15 p.m.
today in the Lecture Hall of the
Rackham School.
Dean J. B. Edmonson of the School
of Education will preside. Following
community singing led by Prof. Dav-
id Mattern o the School of Music,
Dr. Louis A. Hopkins, Director of the
Summer Session, will deliver an ad-
dress of welcome.
Several brief announcements will
be given, by Prof. George Carrothers
on the Men's Education Club; Prof.
Clifford Woody on the graduate pro-
grams; and Prof. C. O. Davis on the
undergraduate programs.
Following another group of songs
led by Professor Mattern, Dean C. S.,
Yoakum of the graduate school will
give a short address on "The Rack-
ham Building." The program will
close with the singing of "America
the Beautiful."
Revolt' To Be Started
By Walter B. Pitkin
ELYRIA, O., June 28-()-Schol-
arly Walter B. Pitkin, who said "Life
begins at 40," has turned "revolution-
ist" at 62.
In Elyria, a city of 25,000, the Col-
umbia University professor of jour-
nalism called a meeting for tomorrow
Urges Teachers Propose
Vital Changes They See
In Administration
Urging all journalism teachers to
propose to their school administra-
tions changes they think will be vital,
Prof. John L. Brumin of the journal-
ism department last night opened the
First Institute on Secondary School
Journalism with an address of wel-
comne to the delegates.
The Institute is sponsored by the
Journalism department and the Na-
tional Association of Journalism Di-
rectors and will continue to meet
through Saturday.
Other speakers on yesterday's pro-
gram were Miss Hildegarde Stolte-
ben, head of the English department
of the Dubuque, Ia., Senior High
School, who outlined the history of
the N.A.J.D.; William E. Blake, N.A.-
J.D. president, of Hartford, Conn.,
who spoke on state and. national
affiliation and other problems of the
N.A.J.D.; and S. S. Fishbaine, head
of the English department of Cen-
tral High School, Detroit, who told
of various journalistic associations
and conferences with suggestions for
iprovement. Miss Thelma MAnd-
leIs of the Michigan State Normal
College at Ypsilanti presided.
.Tday's sessions will all take place
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Poice Seeking
Missing Prexy
Around Detroit
Louisiana's Ex - President
May Have Lost Funds
In Stock Speculation
DETROIT, June 28.-(M-Police in
Detroit and in Windsor, Ont. across
the Detroit River, and Canadian im-
migration officials were on the look-
out today for Dr. James Monroe
Smith, missing Louisiana educator,
and Mrs. Smith.
The authorities were notified that
the Smiths purchased railroad tickets
for Detroit in Memphis and it was
considered likely that the former
president of Louisiana State Univer-
sity, accused of embezzling school
funds, might try to cross the border
into Canada.
In Louisiana it was learned late to-
day that although "financial irregu-
larities" at Louisiana State Universi-
ty, charged to its former president,
Dr. James Monroe Smith, involved
more than a million dollars, Smith
himself may have been rendered pen-
niless by market speculation before
he fled.
Developments included evidence
Smith, charged with embezzling $00,
000 of University funds, put up $375,-
000 of unauthorized University bonds
out of a $475,000 issue in his posses-
sion as collateral with brokers, and
when the bonds were questioned ad-
vanced $500,000 in cash to withdraw
the bonds. Unable to raise more
money, Smith was closed out in the
market shortly before the scandal
broke.
Plan Fast Carrier
For Lake Michigan
MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 28.-()
-Plans for construction of a high
speed, streamlined passenger and
automobile carrier for Lake Michi-i
gan service was announced today
by the Wisconsin-Michigan Steam-a
ship Co.
Compromise
On School Aid
Is Proposed
Acceptance Of Proposal
Will Balance Budget,
SpeakerNugent Claims
Senate Deadlock
May Be Broken
LANSING, June 28.-0P)-A special
legislative committee agreed tonight
to recommend appropriation of $39,-
000,000 for state school aid so that
Michigan can balance its budget dur-
ing each of the next two fiscal years.
Speaker Howard Nugent said the
group left over until tomorrow morn-
ing a decision on a method of distrib-
uting the school fund. The principal
point at issue was reported to be a
reduction in the equalization fund.'
The sum agreed upon by the six-
man committee is three-fourths of
a million dollars higher than that
contained in a House Bill which the
Senate rejected.
Nugent said the $39,000,000, if
finally approved by the Legislature,
would permit the state to balance its
budget but would leave nothing in
reserve.
The committee worked until nearly
midnight in arriving at a compro-
mise formula which would enable the
Legislature to complete its work this
week and avoid a special session dur-
ing the summer.
First Excursion
Today TJ o Tour
Campus Points
Groups Will Leave Angell
Hall At 2:30; To Go
At Ten Minute Intervals
The first of the series of Summer
Session excursions, a tour of the
campus, will be conducted at 2 p.m.
today,
Students taking the tour will meet
in the lobby of Angell Hall, from
whence groups will leave at ten min-
ute intervals until2:300 p.m. The en-
tire trip will take a little more than
two and a half hours to complete.
There is no charge.',
The tour is intended to acquaint
those new to the University with
some of the most interesting features
of the campus and to serve to some
extent in place of the orientation
week regularly given the entering
freshmen.
Included in the itinerary will be the
Law Quadrangle, the Union, the Cle-
ments Library, the General Library,
the Burton Memorial Tower and,
for those who wish, the Naval Experi-
mental Tank and the Aeronautical
Laboratory.
At the Union, the groups will visit
the tap room and view the city from
the tower. Dr. Randolph Adams,
director of the Clements Library, will
explain to the groups the character
and functions of that repository of
source material in American history.
Staff members of the General Library
will instruct the group in the usage
of the Library's various departments.
At the Burton Memorial Tower, Mr.
Sydney Giles, guest carillonneur from
Toronto, Ont., will play the Baird
Carillon.
French Circle
MeetsTonight
All Members Are Invited
To Dine At Foyer
The Summer Session French Club
will hold its first meeting at 8 p.m.
tonight in the Foyer Francais at
1414 Washtenaw Avenue.
Officers for the session will be
chosen at that time. Prof. Anthony
Jobin faculty adviser to the Club,
will give a brief account if his exper-
iences in France last year, and Prof.
Hugo P. Thieme, head of the depart-
ment of Romance Languages, will
welcome the members of the Club in
the name of the department.
Activities for the remainder of the
session will be planned and refresh-
ments will be served. Members at-
tending are invited to take their din-
ner at the table held in connection
with the French House. Reservations
may be made by calling Miss Diedre
McMullan at the Kappa Alpha Theta
-Courtesy Ann Arbor News.
* * *'
Louis Crushes
Two-Ton Tony'
In Four Rounds
Challenger Floors Rival
In Third; Slaughter Is
Stopped By Referee
YANKEE STADIUM, New York.,
June 28.-(P)-A wild assortment of
fistic bombs burst on this ball park
tonight, but as usual Joe Lous' were
the more explosive and the Brown
Bomber defended his world heavy-
weight championship by smashing
pudgy Tony Galento into bloody help-
lessness in four rounds.
Although floored himself in the
third round of this scheduled 15
rounder, after having put the roly-
poly pounder down in the second,
Louis came on with an amazing as-
sault of punching fury in the fourth.
Referee Arthur Donovan finally had
to stop the proceedings at 2:29 of
that heat.
He intervened as Galento, no
longer the shouting, boasting bar-
keeper, fell to his knees and wrapped
his arms around the referee's knees,
his face beaten to a pulp, with blood
streaming from eyes and mouth.
Tough Battle
But while it lasted, lii was one of
the wildest slugging and toughest
battles the champion has had since
he won the title from old Jim Brad-
dock two years ago this month. Un-
afraid of the vaunted dynamite
thrown by the dusky destroyer, the
short, squat Galento rushed in with
his tree-like left arm flailing, and
actually had the champion hanging
on from two fearful smashes to the
chin in the first round.
In the second, Louis, who seemed
to be extremely cautious of Galento's
famed portside fist in the early going,
opened up momentarily, and Galento
went down from a left and right, de-
livered as Galento charged.
But Tony turned the tables in the
third, charged in, and shot a short
right uppercut to the chin and a left
to the mid-section which suddenly
and amazingly dropped Louis to the
seat of his pants in mid-ring. The
champion got up and managed to
stave off the Galento rush the rest
of the round, and with that, Tony's
hopes came to an end.
Within One Punch
At that point, Galento was within
one punch of the world heavyweight
championship. Had he been able to
land one solid smash when the Tan
Terror came up off the floor had
he been able to charge in and con-
nect with Louis in his dazed condi-
tion, he would have climaxed one of
the most amazing rises Fistiana has
ever seen. But he just didn't have it.
"If they (his handlers) had let me
fight my own fight I never would
have been cut," he roared, but his
roar was somewhat weaker than the
"I'll moider dat bum" with which
he had shouted his defiance of Louis
during his training period.
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Women See Films
Of Campus Sports
Seventy-five women witnessed
movies of women's inramural athletics
and heard leaders of women's activi-
ties speak on various phases of cam-
pus life at a meeting of the Women's
Athletic Association last night.
After Assistant Dean Martha Ray
had welcomed the students to Ann
Arbor and the University, Mrs. Mac-
Intyre, Beth O'Roke, League presi-
dent, Betty Smith of Phi Lambda
Theta, Louise Paine, recreation lead-
er. and Mrs. Morton. drama leiar
Retains Title
Auto Accident
Death Record
Is Threatened
CHICAGO, June 28.-(W)-Ameri-
can motorists have followed the
straight line of improved driving for
19 consecutive months but show
signs of wavering.
The National Safety Council so
announced today in reporting the
decline in motor vehicle fatalities
which began in November, 1937, and
continued through May.
But the downward trend was nearly
broken in May, when, the Council
estimated, 2,330 lives were lost-just
50 fewer than in May, 1938.
The chief threat to the unbroken
record last month was a four per
cent increase in deaths on rural high-
ways in contrast to an 11 per cent
reduction in cities.
Nevertheless, the Nation showed
a seven per cent improvement dur-
ing the first five months of the cur-
rent year. Fatalities during the period
numbered 11,010 against 11,850 dur-
ing the same time last year.
The Council furnished this list of
the leading traffic safety cities and
their death rates per 100,000 popula-
tion during the first five months of
.1939:
Group one (over 500,000) Milwau-
kee 7.6; St. Louis, 8.4; Boston 8.8.
Group two (250,000-500,000): Pro-
vidence, R.I. 3.8; Kansas City, Mo.
8.7; Memphis, Tenn. 9.2. Group three
(100,000-250,000): Cambridge, Mass.
2.1; Worcester, Mass. 3.6; Wichita,
Kans. 4.1.
Pontiac and Bay City were among
important cities that had perfect
records through May.
James Opens
Latin.American
Program Today
Brazil's Foreign Colonies
Are Topic Of Address
To. Be Given Here
Prof. Preston E. James of thej
geography department will give the1
first in a series of public lectures
sponsored by the Institute of Latin-
American Studies when he speaks on
"The European Colonies of Brazil" at
5 p.m. today in the Rackham Audi-i
torium.
Professor James is an authorityI
on the geography of South America
and the author of a number of studies
on it. He is teaching a special course
in the continent's regional geography
this summer, discussing the problems,J
possibilities and contrasts of the
Latin-American nations.;
He is director of the Institute's
administrative committee and is par-
ticularly familiar with the geographi-
cal problems of Brazil, where he has
spent a good deal of time. He is an
expert on the nation's European col-
onies.
The second of the series of lectures
will be given by Prof. Robert C. Smith
of the University of Illinois when
he speaks on "Colonial Architecture
in Brazil" on July 7.
Michigan Golf.
Players Lose
y .e
Three Qualifiers Beaten
In Opening Matches
SPECIAL TO THE DAILY .... 6 Pts
DES MOINES, Ia. June 28-Bad
breaks and the strain of tournament
match play told today as the three
University of Michigan qualifiers in
the National Collegiate golf tourna-
ment were eliminated in the first'
match round.
Bill Black turned in the best per-
formance among the Wolverines but
was edged out by Lee Ramel of
Louisiana State, 2 up and 1 to go,
on the tough Wakona course.
Lynn Riess, high qualifier for
Michigan yesterday, was taken by
H. R. Merritt of Yale, 3 and 1. Cool
Jack Emery lost the touch which gave
him 153 in 36 holes of qualifying golf,
going down before the well-rounded
play of Texas' J. W. Fouts.,
Disappointed over their defeat, the
Michigan golfers had little to say.
"I guess they just played better
golf," one commented.
Medalist Sid Richardson, North-
western's tournament threat, went
down five and three in his first round
hattle with Art F1nherg n flnit as
Slim Chance
Still Remains
For Salvaging
Montay Bil
FDR Faction Keeps Hope
As Measure Goes To
Conference Co mittee
Senators Criticize
Relief Amendment
WASHINGTON, June 28-R?--Ad-
ministration leaders in Congress
watched their big monetary bill go
bouncing from one sad predicament
to another today, although they won
a fight in the House to send the bill
to a conference committee where the
President st< has an eleventh-hour
chance to retain his dollar-devalua-
tion powers.
Meanwhile Senators from the large
cities criticized the Senate amend-
ment to the Relief Bill which would
add hundreds of millions of dollars
of the relief burden on the cities and
states. The action came on an amend-.
ment by Sen. James F. Byrnes (Dem.-
S.C.) who protested that too many
communities were looking upon the
government as Santa Claus.
The proposal would- compel states
and, their subdivisions to put up 25
per cent of the cost of non-Federal
WPA projects in their localities.
However, Administration leaders
were not cheered by the good -pro-
gress this bill was making otherwise
through the Senate.
Farm-BillPassed
Nor were the leaders cheered by
the'fact that the $1,194,000,000 Farm
Appropriation Bill was finally cleared
through Congress and sent to the
White House and that other measures
less important but also labeled '"Fri-
day midnight at the latest," were at
last receiving quick action.
The Monetary Bill was the first
opject of their concern. In addition
to the powers for the President which
it involved, it also presented a chal-
lenge to their own leadership and
that of the Administration as well.
The bill, continuing the $2,000,000,-
000 International Exchange Stabili-
zation Fund and the President's power
to devalue the dollar further (both
otherwise scheduled to die at mid-
night Friday), was caught in one of
the most curious controversies to tie
When it came before the Senate
earlier in the week, the hard-money
Republicans in the East and the silver
Democrats of the West entered into
a voting alliance which startled vet-
erans of the Bryan days. The coali-
tion added amendments, stripping
the devaluation powers from the
measure, banning further purchases
of foreign silver by the Treasury, and
increasing the Treasury price for
domestic silver.
Threaten Delay
,Republican leaders in the EHouse
threatened to delay the next step of x
sending the bill to a Senate-House
conference, so Administration leaders
there beat them to the jump by ob-
taining a special rule from the Rules
Committee to bring that result about.
This rule was approved today after
a stormy debate, and two record votes,
both of which gave the Administra-
tion comfortable majorities. A vote of
216 to 164 ended debate, and a vote
of 209 to 161 sent the measure to
conference. The House silverites
threw their support to the Adminis-
tration, and all but a handful of
Democrats backed it as well.
Highly pleased at this result, the'
Administration leadership then found
that most of the five men appoint-
ed to represent the Senators were
tied up in the relief debate. More de-
lay was the result.
Result Unknown
What the conference result would
be was a subject of much specula-
tion. Chairman Somers (Dem.-N.Y.)
of the House Conference group was
emphatic in saying that the House
would not accept the Senate amend-
ments. Both the Republican anti-
devaluationists and the silver Demo-
crats were emphatic in saying that
there would be no legislation by the
Friday midnight deadline if the Sen-
ate amendments should be dropped.
President Roosevelt tonight headed
back to Washington and a closer con-
tact with problems arising from the
legislative log-jam.
To see what might be done about
breaking up the obstructions which
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