Wvgeather Fair and Slightly Warmer ig Official Publication Of The Summer Session 4Iait t Editorial Out With. Vice- Presidents?.. / VOL. L. No. 21 Z-3"Z ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940 Convention Drafts .D.R. n irst B PRICE FIVE CENTS allot Japanese --.8> Warn Of 'March To South Seas' Nomination Made -- Mob Demands That United States Marines Be Disarmed As An 'Apology' (1IOKYO, July 18.--(P)-The army and navy took a stronger grip than ever upon Japan today as Prince Fumimaro Konoye, advocate of totalitarian one-party principles, commissioned to form a new government, outlined plans for military-dictated policies which may include a "march to the, South Seas." The Premier-designate's first action after receiving the Imperial Com- mand from Emperor Hirohito was to announce that national policies would be formulated by himself, the War and Naval 'Ministers and the Foreign 'Minister. Political circles regarded it as a foregone conclusion that the Prince's choice for Foreign Minister would be Yosuke Matsuoka, former President of the South Manchurian Railway, whose bristling reply in 1933 to the League of Nations' censure of the Japanese seizure of Manchuokuo was a sensation. - The new policies are expected to pivot around Japan's moves in the South Seas, which the army is advo- cating as the future field of action. French Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies, British Burma and Siam may be concerned in these policies. Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai was forced to resign Tuesday by army leaders who regarded his for - eign policy as too cautious in the face of the French and Netherlands collapse in Europe. 3,000 Japanese Threaten Marines SHANGHAI, July 18.-4P)-Japan- ese-American difficulties over the arrest by United States Marines of Japanese gendarmes eleven days ago reached a dangerous deadlock today, after 3,000 Japanese demanded in a mass meeting here that the Marines apologize or be disarmed. Authoritative circles declared the case has far outgrown its original proportions now that the Japanese have invoked the honor of their army, and that the nation won't be satisfied with anything less than a United States apology. Colonel DeWitt Peck, Marine Com- mander, stuck firmly to his original stand that the Marines acted within their legal rights when they arrested the 14 Japanese plainclothes men in the United States defense area of the Shanghai International Set- tlement July 7. He was understood to be willing to listen, nevertheless, to any fu- ther evidencethat thetGendarmes were "brutally mistreated." A Japanese Embassy spokesman described as "unfortunate" the ac- tion of 100 prominent Americans in Manila, who sent messages here and toaWashington urging a firm United States stand. Art Director Will Lecture HereToday Daniel C. Rich To Speak In Rackham Building On American Painting Daniel Catton Rich, director of fine arts at the Art Institute of Chi- cago, will address students and guests of the Graduate Study Program in American Culture and Institutions at 4:15. p.m. today in the Rackham School Auditorium on "The Great American Loneliness: A'Study in the Psychology of Native Painting." The lecture will be illustrated by hand-painted slides of. American art. The public is invited to attend. Educated at the University of Chi- cago and at Harvard, Mr. Rish took a Ph.B. degree from the former in 1926. He has been associated with the Art Institute of Chicago since 1927, and has been director of fine arts there since 1938. Mr. Rich has been the chairman of the Illinois committee of the section of painting and sculpture in the Pro- renient Division of the Treasury Department, a member of the patron's committee of the Federal Art Pro- ject of Illinois, a member of the committee on art projects of the Illi- nois Emergency Relief Commission, a member of the jury to select murals for the Department of Interior Build- British Admit Steamer Sunk; Awaitn Nazis Agreement With Japanesej Revealed To Commons; Liberals Cry 'Munich' LONDON, July 18.-(P)-Britain announced today that Italian bombs damaged a cruiser with some casual-, ties in last week's Mediterranean seafight, added to her sea losses an Irish steamer flying the British flag, and weighed warnings that Germany is poised for one mighty air attack- then invasion. The Admiralty said the cruiser was attacked July 8, the day before the British-Italian naval action in mid-Mediterranean, and that "the damage, however, did not affect the ship's fighting efficiency and she, took her full part in the action against the Italian fleet July 9." 1 Limerick Sunk The Dublin steamer City of Limer- ick, 1,359 tons, was sunk in an air attack, off Cape Ouessant, France, last Monday while carrying fruitrto Liverpool.' All but two of the crew wee saved. While German bombers kept up sporadic flights over Southern Eng- land last night, King George in- spected munitions factories there. The announcement did not say whe- ther he was in any of the sections where bombs were falling. Also admitted lost was a naval auxiliary vessel, the 13,241-ton Van- Dyck, formerly a 400-passenger liner, which was sunk by bombs off the Norwegian coast June 10. The Ad- miralty announced seven officers1 and men were killed in the bombing apd 161 taken prisoner. , Invasion Certain' Meanwhile, Air Minister Sir Archi- bald Sinclair warned in a broadcast to the Empire that Britain is "cer- tain" to face an air attack "many times greater than any which the enemy has yet launched." A "great onslaught" of simultaneous air, sea and land attack may come "within the next month," he declared, but "it will fail." Geoffrey Shakespeare, Under-Sec- retary of the Dominions, said that Britain would accept any offer by the United States to send American ships for the children. The words "appeasement" and "Munich" with a reminder of the grim consequences associated with them were used by Geoffrey Mander, opposition Liberal Party member, after R. A. Butler, Under-secretary of the Foreign Office, told. Commons an agreement with Japan was im- pending. German Group To Hear Songs To Play 'Lieder' Records At MeetingToday A program of recordings of Ger- man folk songs will be presented by the Summer Session Deutscher Verein at 8 p.m. today at the Deutsches Haus, 1315 Hill St. Featured on the program will be Parley Topics Are Annotineed In 3 Agendas Elections Panel To Discuss New Armament Program And Standard Of Living The vital problems that will form a discussion nucleus for the two-day Summer Parley, which opens with keynote addresses at 4:15 p.m. to- morrow in the Union, were announc- ed last night for three of the four panels. Heading the National Election panel agenda under student chair- man Phil Westbrook is "Can the United States build an adequate de- fense system and maintain its pres- ent standard of living and its sys- tem of democracy?" Other questions will center on the threat of total- itarianism to this country, both ex- ternally and internally, and will in- clude considerations of Fifth Colum- nists, international trade, and vital- izing democracy. In the Civil liberties panel, headed by Joseph Fairman, the term civil liberties will be defined, and the re- lation of liberties to professions, workers, and industrialists will be considered. The panel agenda will also call for discussion of present tendencies in civil liberty restric- tions.i Government In Education The agenda questions outlined here are only a cursory presentation of some of the problems that will be presented with all aspects in- cluded. Among the issues for discussion by the Education group, headed by J. B. Geisel, are: "Will Federal par- ticipation in education grow?"- "Whatiof academic freedom? "-and "The International situation and in- doctrination." Agenda topics for the fourth panel, Religion, will be announced in to- morrow's Daily. Opens Tomorrow The Parley, sponsored jy the Stu- dent Senate, and honorary faculty Senators, opens tomorrow with key- noters Prof.-Emeritus William H. Hobbs, Prof. Lawrence Preuss, Pr.i; DeWitt Parker, and Kenneth Mor- gan, representative opinions on "This War We Live In." Panels convene at 3:15 p.m. Satur- day, and reconvene for the evening session at 7:45. Each panel will have its own faculty keynoter plus the agenda to act as intellectual stimuli for the participating audience. The panel student chairmen will pre- sent sumnations at the general clos- ing session at 9 p.m. Suspensions Theatened LANSING, July 17. -(?)- Seth Whitmore, State Softball Commis- sioner, said today he would recom- mend suspension of at least 10 teams as well as a number of parks at the Michigan Softball Association's Ex- ecutive Board meeting Saturday and Sunday at Traverse City. Conscripted For Service In One-Day Drive Len gtihv Platform. Promises Country Neutrality Unless We Are Attacked CHICAGO STADIUM, July 17.-OP)-The Democratic National Con- vention nominated President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the first ballot tonight for a tradition-smnashing third term campaign. The President had polled 800 votes--well over the required majority-at press time. The Convention took this action despite a statement from the Chief Executive which said he had "no desire or purpose' to run again, but did not state whether he would accept-renomination. None of Mr. Roosevelt's leading representatives here, however, enter- tained the slightest doubt that he would accept nomination to, be the 1940 standard-bearer. A report, given some credence, had it that the Chief Executive would -__ - ---.address the Convention by telephone or radio from Washington tomorrow Dr. IF'.IR ogers night. Obviously, the situation called for some word from him. His friends said definitely he would not come to Speaks B ef ore Chicago to accept in person. The nomination, voted a full day E oish Grown ahead of schedule, followed Conven- tion sessions which saw numerous speakers, from the very start deliver- 'Frequency Of Phonemes' ing what were virtually nominating speeches for the Chief Executive. Is Conference Subject It'all reached its first climax last Of Harvard Professor night, when-after the President's message that he was not a "candi- dateP"--ha h pn r b voA f Ln I45 Ul For Third Term American Aesthetics Termed Revolutionary By Prof. Parker By HARRY M. KELSEY Native American aesthetics, like native American art, is revolution- ary in character, Prof. DeWitt H. Parker of the philosophy department told students and guests of the Grad- bate Study Program in American Cul- ture and Institutions last night in his lecture entitled "Some Trends in American Aesthetics." Professor Parker pointed to the Conger 'Discovered' Crossing Germany Beach Conger, '32, European staff correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune, from whom no word had been received since he was stranded in Amsterdam during the German invasion of Holland, is now on his way to Budapest it was learned last night. In a cable to his mother, Mrs. Sey- mour Beach Conger of Rose Ave., Clinton B. Conger, '36, European correspondent for the United Press,. stationed in Zurich, Switzerland, said his brother had called him from Berlin writings of Santayana and Dewey as examples of the revolt against cer- tain traditional aesthetic theses and the formation of new theories such as the whole man being involved in aesthetic experiences, the tendency to think of art as based on life, to think of the useful as the beautiful and to look upon art museums as "a collection of fossils." These men believe, he said, that sickness of the arts is due to a sick- ness in society. They are departing, he asserted, from "the ivory tower way of thinking of art, and the art for art's sake attitude." Professor Parker indicated the, three most influential European ideas that have found their way into Amer- ican aesthetics to be the concept of formalism, the Crocean philosophy and the theory of dialectical materi- alism. The followers of formalism, a rela- tively small number in America at this time, consider form to be the es- sence of a work of art and separate form from content entirely, Professor Parker explained. The formalist theory, he maintained, is a refuge from the great complexity of art; form is a necessary aspect of art but not a nall-important one. Art, according to Benedetto Croce, is a form of language, an expression of feeling, the lecturer stated. The expression theory, Professor Parker told, would correlate all art with emo- tion. The strict Crocean theory con- siders the language of art a personal language, not to be communicated, which Professor aPrker believes to be a mistaken idea as the language pro- cess is essentially a social process. Theithird imported theory, thatof dialectical materialism, 'includes the Hegelian concept of art as the pro- duct of a culture and theamore spe- cific Marxian idea of art being the product of the culture's economic structure, Professor Parker pointed out. 'Two On An Island' Continnes Tonight That from the statistical analysis of thousands of instances of the sounds of language can be inferred1 the reason for the direction of lin-7 guistic change was theidea advanced to the Linguistic Institute last eve- ning- by Dr. Francis M.Rogers of Harvard University in his lecture, "The Relative Frequency of Pho- nemes and Variphones in the Ro- mance Languages."{ Dr. Rogers took the simple defini- tion of a phoneme as the smallest meaningfulunit of sound, and de- fined a variphone as a .phonetic variant within the limits of the pho- neme, like the Spanish "n" before the "k" sound in contrast to the ordinary "n". He then described the statistical approach to the problem of linguistic change as being a pro- cess of counting all the phonemes and significant variphones in a long text, containing perhaps 50,000 pho- nemes. This approach, which has been developed in this country chiefly by Professor George K. Zipf of Harvard University, has revealted, said Dr. Rogers, a remarkable regularity in the distribution of phonemes in the European languages. For instance, except for one explained deviation in Hungarian, the European lan- guages contain a higher proportion of voiceless stop consonants than of the corresponding voiced stops. That is, there are more "t" sounds than "d" sounds, "p" sounds than "b" sounds, and so on. The greater frequency of one sound in contrast to a correspond- ing sound is theoretically explained, said Dr. Rogers, by assuming that the more complex sounds are the les frequent. It is then reasoned that in any language there is a cer- tain "threshold of toleration," both upper and lower, for any given pho- neme. When for any external rea- son the frequency of a sound passes this threshold of toleration, then the tendency of the language to remain in phonemic equilibrium influences a sound change in order to re-estab- lish the balance. Summer Students To Make Excursion To Jackson Prison Jackson Prison will be the objective of the eighth Summer Session ex- cursion, to take place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Reservations for the trip must be made in the Summer Session office, Room 1213 Angell Hall, by 5 p.m. to- morrow. Expense will be $1.25 for round trip bus fare. ua~e -aa eenrelyed to the deie- gates by Senator Alben Barkley, the Convention saw a roaring fifty-imin- ute demonstration whose dominant theme was the repeated outcry: "We want Roosevelt." Convention Shouts Platform Approval CHICAGO STADIUM, July 17. (A')-The Democratic National Con- vention shouted quick approval to- night of a 1940 platform promising not to send the United States armed forces to fight in foreign' lands, out- side the Americas, "except in case of attack."{ Action came after Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, platform committee chairman, read the docu- ment amid frequent interruptions of cheering and applause. Just before the vote, Rep. Elmer J. Ryan of Minnesota,, offered an amendment to the platform declar- ing that no man shall be eligible for a third term for President. Boo Anti-Third Termer Booing drowned out the clerk's voice as he read the anti-third term proposal and then the delegates shouted it down vociferously by a voice vote. The 4,000 word document, com- pleted after hours of bickering in the Resolutions Committee had thrown the convention off. schedule, also promised that "all the material aid at our command, consistent with law and not inconsistent with the interests of our own national defense" would be extended to "the peace-lov- ing and liberty-loving peoples wan- tonly attacked by ruthless aggres- sors." Middle Road Some of its authors said the foreign policy plank would assure a "middle of the road" course in foreign af- fairs and Senator Wheeler of Mon- tana declared that if adhered to, it would thoroughly protect the. United States and guarantee that there would be "no intervention" in foreign wars. Before it was finally adopted, how- ever, Senator Pepper of Florida had led an unsuccessful fight of 'a plank pledging "full aid short of war" for the democracies and "a solemn pledge" that the United States would not extend the "hand of appease- ment" to dictatorships. Final adoption of the plank came after efforts by some members of the committee to strengthen the declaration. Local Boy Makes Good -In Small Sort Of Way r.~s rror __ _ n / v..G a. McClusky Will Lecture On Youth Guidance Will Give First Lecture Today In The University, High School Auditorium Prof. Howard Y. McClusky of the School of Education now acting as associate director of the American Youth Commission returns today to give the first of his two lectures, "A Community Program for the Guid- ance of Youth," at 10 a.m. in the University High School Auditorium for the sessions of the four confer- ences of Educational Conference Week convening here this week. Dr. Irving A. Booker of the re- search division of the National Edu- the Conference dinner at 6 p.m. in the Union. Ten roundtables will be held at 3 p.m. today as usual in the University Elementary and High Schools. Prof. Thomas Diamond of the School of' Education will open the first forum of the guidance conference on "What Can the School Do To Help Its Young People Who Are Not Going to Col- lege to Plan Their Occupational Fu- tures"; Dr. Fritz Redl, lecturer in education, "Technical Problems of the Interview with Parents"; Mr.' John Trytten, principal of the Uni- versity High School, "Problems of the Homeroom", Dr. Fred Stevenson "Correspondence Study"; and Mr.