Weather Partly Cloudy Today; Showers Tomorrow Yl r e IJfriau 4:A1ati Editorial The 'Nazi Way' In Action . I Official Publication Of The Summer Session VOL. L. No. 27 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS Power Plant Crane Hurled To Destruction By Windstorm Andrew Casterline Saved From Death By Severe Heat Wave Yesterday Two Are Injured In Auto Accident A severe' wind and rain storm, which lasted only 20 minutes, yester- day resulted in the destruction of the University's $50,000 overhead crane, caused an automobile accident in which two were injured, and blew down numerous trees and wires throughout the city. The 70-ton conveyor, which is used to lift coal to feed the boiles of the campus power plant, was hurled by the blast of wind along the length of the three-story high track parallel to the west edge of the plant where it broke through the "stop" at the end and crashed into the street at 5:40 p.m. Its fall was partially broken by the concrete bridge of the Univer- sity's electric coal supply railway in which a hole, five feet across and one foot deep, was dug under the impact. Andrew Casterline, 52, of 215 S. Fifth Ave., the crane's operator, was caved from deathby the extreme weather yesterday when the heat forced him to quit work earlier than usual. The cost of reproducing the crane, which was built in 1913, was esti- mated at somewhere betw~een $40,000 and $50,000 last night by Edward C. Pardon, superintendent of the Build- ing and Grounds Department, who stated that it wold take three months to replace. Asked as to the condition of the conveyor before the accident, Pardon reported that it was in perfect shape when Caster- line left work at 4 p.m. and that no force other than the weather had any effect upon the catastrophe. Injured while rushing to get out of the storm were Janet, 2 and Ethelyn Gloomer, 7, struck down by a car driven by G. P. Reith, 20, all of Ann Arbor., They were rushed to the St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital where it was learned that Ethelyn had suffered bruises about her head and right knee and that her sister had a possible abdominal injury. Trees were knocked down all over the campus and on S. South St., White St., Oakland Ave., Geddes Rd., N. Main St., and E. Jefferson by the wind. Damage to the University will amount to about $200 or $300, it was learned. City Soap Box Derby Racers Receive Shirts By A. P. BLAUSTEIN Official polo shirts, bearing the Soap Box Derby emblem. are being distributed today and tomorrow at the Ann Arbor News to all entrants in the city's fifth annual boys' race classic scheduled to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Broadway Hill. A group of from 25 to 50 boys are expected to enter the contest in com- petition for the M. E. Coyle trophy, given to the winner; gold, silver and bronze medals, for first, second and third place, and sports equipment, scout knives, skates and bicycles con- tributed by various localbmerchants. The boys, who must be between the ages of 11 and 15, will be divided in- to two groups with Group A con- sisting of those from 13 to 15 and Group B for those who are either 11 or 12. Contestants will go down the Broadway ramp two at a time with one being eliminated each time with a winner to be chosen in each class. The finals will consist of a race be- tween the two leaders. Ann Arbor's first' prize winner will be sent to Akron during the first week in August to compete with the indi- vidual champions of 120 other cities for the title of Soap Box champion of America. Prof. Hahn To Talk On Hittite Language Anti-FifthColumn Move Urged At Havana Meet Cuban Minister Proposes Collective Trusteeship Over European Possessions In Americas By J. C. STARK HAVANA, July 24. -(P)- Firm measures to stamp out "fifth col- umn" activities by foreign diplomatic agents or other persons and knit hemisphere defenses were urgently advanced tonight by foreign minis- ers of the -American republics. Proposals before the Peace Conser- vation Committee headed by Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull included an investigation of diplomatic and consular agents and possible limita- tion of their immunity privileges. Simultaneously Cuba went a step ahead of the United States proposal to establish a "collective trusteeship" over Western colonies by European nations in the event they are threat- ened with acquisition by another non-American state. Suggests Warning Cuba suggested that the Pan- American nations issue a declaration warning that "any Western Hemi- sphere territory offering peril" to any American nation may be occupied by armed American forces. The United States already has be- gun investigating foreign consular agents at home and warned the Ger- man Embassy in Washington in one case that its officials must refrain from public discussion or activity in domestic affairs or leave the country. Tighter immigration control and close surveillance of aliens within American nations along the lines taken recently in the United States also were believed under considera- tion. Means of establishing unified ac- tion among the 21 American repub- lics to resist any foreign efforts to influence American policies were studied. Busy Drafting Secretary Hull and other members of a sub-committee were busy draft- ing proposals dealing with European possessions in this hemisphere into one document. Those proposals were said to conform generally with Sec- retary Hull's idea of a collective trus- Gas Tank Fire Kills 2 Persons Benton Harbor Explosion Injures Six Others BENTON HARBOR, July 24.-(P) -An explosion of an underground gas storage tank in a farm resort to- day burned two persons fatally and one critically while six others suf- fered less serious burns. The dead: Miss Pauline Luban, about 50, Chi- cago, a cook. Henry Kading, 36, Cassopolis, driv- er of a service truck which was feed- ing gas into the tank. The blast, heard a mile around, took place at the Flo-Ruth farm re- sort two miles east of here, near US-12. Benton Harbor firemen said it apparently was caused when a flame of a lighted kitchen stove burner "backed up" through the feed pipe. Miss Luban died at 7 p.m. in Mer- cy Hospital. Kading died an hour later. Mrs. Clara Schwartz, wife of Joseph Schwartz, 52, the resort pro- prietor, suffered critical burns. CORDELL HULL teeship over any imperiled colony, but there were minor divergencies. Cuba proposed that any occupied colony should be given the ultimate choice of independence or annexa- tion to an American nation. Independence or restoration of a colony to its original sovereignity was declared a firm intention of. the proj- ected trusteeship but the proposal did not providefor a colony to be- come annexed by an American re- public. Conflicts With Hull" This apparently conflicted with Secretary Hull's declaration Monday that there was no thought of absor- ing any of these territories or of per- mitting any nation to acquire a "spe- cial interest" in them. Increased lending power and free- dom of action on loans, recom- mended for the import-export bank by President Roosevelt, was under- stood to figure largely in the United States plans for dealing with the export surpluses problem. Whether the cartel project an- nounced by the President some time ago entered directly into the econom- ic plans was uncertain. But if the cartel plan itself had been laid aside because of some objections that it was impractical, it was clear that United States experts were devising some method of relieving burdened countries of excess products. 97 Refugee Children Reach United States NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 24.-(P) -The first refugees to be .evacuated from England to America as a group -97 children and 23 mothers-ar- rived here tonight from Montreal, Canada, under the auspices of Yale University and Swarthmore College, for placement in private homes in the United States. Weary, but happy and in apparent high spirits, the youngsters, rang- ing in age from one month to 15 years, detrained at the New Haven railroad station and were loaded im- mediately into buses to be transport- ed to the Yale Divinity School and the local children's center-their temporary havens. Conscription Exemptees Are Named Shedd Assures Sparing Men With Dependents In Peacetime Work Religious Objectors Will Be Withheld WASHINGTON, July 24.-(P)- Men with dependents were assured today that they would not be drafted for military training in time of peace under the Army's conscription pro- gram, while the Senate Military Committee virtually decided to ex- emtp "conscientious objectors" from combat training. Thenassurance to men with de- pendents was given by Brig. Gen. William E. Shedd, Assistant Chief of State, while he was testifying be- fore the House Military Committee in support of the Burke-Wadsworth Compulsory Training Bill. This mea- sure was approved with revisions by the Senate Committee yesterday. Gen. Shedd also said that provi- sion had been made to place in a "deferred" classification all men "es- sential to industry." He Finds Objector Chairman Sheppard (Dem-Tex) of the Senate Committee, in talking to reporters, defined a "conscientious objector" as one who could prove that he was opposed to war on reli- gious grounds. Such exemptions dur- ing the World War, he said, were based upon memberships in churches whose creeds forbade military service rathervthan upon individual reli- gious views. Sheppard explained, however, that while "conscientious objectors" would not be required to take combat train- ing, they would be subject to other forms of defense service. Selections of drafters, Sheppard said, would be made on the basis of those who could "best afford to go." When a reporter asked if this might not resultin obtaining most of the trainees from the ranks of the poor and jobless, Sheppard re- plied that some of the "well-to-do" also were unemployed. Answers Question Gen. Shedd's observation on men- with dependents was in reply to a question on how the war department proposed to protect a married man, subject to a year of military train- ing, if he were making payments on a home or life insurance. After saying that "never in peace- time" would such persons be re- quired to serve, Shedd proposed that the legislation contain a declaration that employes drafted for the ser- vice be given their jobs back at the expiration of training. This prompt- ed Rep. Wadsworth (Rep-N.Y. to of- fer an amendment providing that drafteesibe issued certificates upon completion of service and declaring that men with such certificates "ought to be re-employed" unless the "employers' circumstances" had changed so that re-employment was impossible. Too Much History Threatens Individualism, Gauss Caims By HARRY M. KELSEY We have become too much histor- icized, too likely to assume that ever- ything happens under the irresistible impulsion of the forces of history, and we are told that, most of these forces are irrational, Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton University in- formed an audience of the Graduate Study Program in American Culture and Institutions last night in his lecture on "The Role of Individual- ism in American Life." "As we consider what has hap- pened in Europe, it is not for us to deny that men are often swayed by unreasoning and deadly prejudices," he said. "Vast groups in the total- itarian states have been indoctrined with the belief that the time is past for any individual freedom, that no man can be allowed to make his own history, that his Fuehrer or Duce Prof. Sharfman Will Consider Social Controls Transportation Authority To Weigh 'Laissez Faire' In Culture Study Series Concluding the week's lectures of the Graduate Study Programs in American Culture and Institutions, Prof. I. Leo Sharfman, chairman of. the economics department, will speak at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham School auditorium on "The Develop- ment of Social Control." A round table discussion headed by Professor Sharfman will consider "Laissez Faire and Public Control" a't 7:30 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Participating will be Professors Charles L. Jamison, Ar- thur Smithies, William A. Paton, William H. Wynne and Leonard L. Watkins of the economics depart- ment, and Prof. John P. Dawson of the law school. The round table will be open only to students enrolled in the Program and members of the faculty. Professor Sharfman s6rved as di- rector of investigation of anti-trust policy for the National Industrial Conference Board from 1923 to 1924. and was a member of the advisory committee on railroad employment to the Federal coordinator of Trans- portation from 1933 to 1935. A win- ner of the Ames Award, he was a referee for the National Railroad Adjustment Board from 1936 to 1937 and in 1937 was a member of the President's Emergency Board in the second New York Harbor dispute. will make it for him and that only the state is free. "If this doctrine prevails in our more closely knit world, this means the end of individualism and free enterprise everywhere. But I do nott believe that free men will allow thesea enslaving beliefs to prevail, to make history, as Hitler has said, 'for the next thousand years'.' In America, Dean Gauss stated, the demand for real freedom of en- terprise, the demand that men be allowed to make their own history, has come to be associated with the, idea of pioneering. The pioneer economy, he pointed out, was one of subsistence farming, highly individ- ualistic, in which each family pro- duced its own needs. Ownership of land, according to Dean Gauss, gave a living, economic independence and status, and there was enough free land for everyone. This, he maintained, is now no longer true, but rather land owner- ship in many cases has become a liability and the farmer, except for the unemployed, is the country's greatest economic problem. We might as well admit, he said, that the age of landlordism is dead and that when it died the age of our frontier type of pioneering and that form of indi- vidual enterprise was likewise dead. The freest field for individualism today lies in the possibilities of trans- forming nature and making it serve man's needs, the work of inventors and scientists, Dean Gauss asserted. Not only in science and technology but also in the shaping of political, instruments this individualism may be found, he claimed, and it is in this field that we have lagged. ' "No forward looking people can be content to live only off its past and in this field of political and social institutions we have not only failed to be creative, but we have gone backward," Dean Gauss warned. "The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were not na- tionalistic documents. The rights they insisted upon were the rights of all men everywhere,-and democracy as we initiated it was designed as a, liberating institution for all man- kind." Italian Officer Buried- With British Naval Honors ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July 24.- (IP)-Capt. Umberto Navaro, Com- mander of the Italian Cruiser Bar- tolomeo Colleoni which was sunk in battle last Friday, died of wounds today and was buried with British naval honors. officers of the Australian Cruiser Sydney. which sank the Italian. ship in a battle near Crete in the Medi- terranean, attended the funeral. inister Adrien Marquet Blasts Men Responsible For 'Plunging Into War' Grynszpan Taken In Paris Prison VICHY, France, July 24. -(P)- The authoritarian regime o con- luered France, in a dramatic state- nent declaring "on the day of their rial our dead will be present among he accusers," solemnly pledged pun- shment tonight ofr the traitors who 'plunged our country into war." Speaking in the name of the gov- rnment of Marshal Philippe Petain, linister of Interior Adrien Marquet lenounced in a nationwide broad- ast the men he termed responsible or declaring war against Germany and assured his hearers the guilty oon would be tried. His address came shortly after it vas revealed that former Premier Daladier and 16 other former govern- ment leaders or members of Parlia- ment were confined to Marseille. Dramatically the Minister ex- laimed: "In the name of justice those re- sponsible for so much political in eptneSs and mlitary ignorance will be punished." He described the men who must be punished as "those who plunged our country into war at a time when t was not prepared to fight." When the German army attacked, he said, "a spent political, economic and social organization collapsed over our heads. Nazi Foe Seized In French Capital By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, July 24.-(A-Herr Otto trasser, arch-foe of Nazism whom Heinrich Himmler has accused of organizing the Munich bomb plot against Adolf Hitler's life, and Her- schel Grynszpan, the young Ger- man-Polish Jew whose acts of assas- sination precipitated the November, 1938, anti-Semitic riots in Germany, have fallen into Nazi hands in Paris, a well-informed German told me today. Authorities declined cmment, but my informant was in France at the time the Germans took over. He said Grynszpan was found in La Sante prison, awaiting trial for killing Ernst Vom Rath, a German diplomat, in the latter's Paris office Nov. 7, 1938. He now isheld for trial by German authorities on a murder charge. Dr. I. A. Booker Scores Foibles Of Educators Pedagogy's Fatal Fallacies Pointed Out In Lecture Given Here Yesterday Characterizing the different schools of modern education as the crusading progressives, the educa- tional mugwumps, and the essential- ists, Dr. Ivan A. Booker of the re- search division of the National Edu- cation Association, pointed out the "Fantastic Foibles and Fatal Falla- cies of the Pneumatolytic Pedagogy" in his lecture on education yesterday. Between the essentialist and pro- gressive extremes, Dr. Booker cited four subdivisions of the mass of edu- cators who are being more and more attracted to the two opposing poles. Shallow imitators, chemeleons, band- wagon hypocrites, and sincere grop- ers are representative of the teach- ers who believe and practice the misconceptions that he listed. The belief that whatever is new is good and whatever is old is bait, and that change is progress, is one of the most widely fallacious tenets about which immediate curriculum changes without long range view have been proposed, the lecturer an- tim m-+ad 'hpnP.vt nnrAm fitar French Regime Pledges Penalties For Traitors; Strasser Seized By Nazis I S. L. A. Marshall Will Address Phi Delta Kappa Group Today S. L. A. Marshall, national and international news analyst of the Detroit News, whose topic is "Na- tional Defense," will be the princi- pal speaker at the summer initia- tion banquet of Phi Delta Kappa at 6 p.m. today at the Union. Forty graduate students, chosen for their professional achievement and prom- ise in the field of education, will be- come members of the national hon- orary fraternity at that time. Noted for his coverage and inter- pretation of domestic and foreign affairs, Mr. Marshall is a well-known world traveler. His study and com- mentaries on Latin America make him especially qualified to discuss the relationship of the United States to Pan-American republics in na- tional and hemisphere defense. With Prof. Harlan C. Koch of the Goldsmith's Play Is Being Presented With Sim pl e Props The Michigan Repertory Players' first production in which elaborate costumes and scenery are not needed is Clifford Goldsmith's "What a Life" which continues its run at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn The- atre. In all of the previous four plays this year a great many problems confronted both art director, Alex- ander Wyckoff, and costumier, Eve- lyn Cohen. In "What a Life," how- ever, only one scene is used, that of a principal's office, and the costumes are all everyday clothes worn by high school teachers and students. Miss Cohen was required to pro- cure costumes of the 16th and 18th century in England for "The Critic," costumes of the early 1900's for "The Star Wagon," a number of farmer's outfits for "Beyond the Horizon,' and clothes ranging from that of a Hindu to a debutante in "Two on ail Island." The task faced by Mr. Wyckoff was equally as difficult, as he had to pre- pare sets of country roads, a work- shop, the interior of a farm house, { r i , F i l i 9 3 9 9 1 S t , f More than 2,000 years before Stuart Chase, amazed at his discovery of semantics or the science of meaning, revealed his find to the American people in "The Tyranny of Words," Varro, distinguished grammarian of the Roman republic, had also made that discovery and had announced his results in his work, "De Lingua Latina." Prof. Roland G. Kent of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, who last evening told a Linguistic Institute audience about Varro's anticipation of Chase, pointed out in several ways how strikingly modern were some of Varro's statements of linguistic prin- ciple. Despite the handicap of lack of knowledge and of insufficient ma- terials, Varro succeeded in arrviing at many sound generalizations about language, Professor Kent said, al- though it is true that often these principles were wrongly applied. Professor Kent, who is the author of the.,' Fn, l-i h tranglation of out through disuse of their mean- ing, or through supplantation by foreign borrowing. He saw that a word's meaning can change through v*plication to new things or ideas. Word-derivation, to Varro, con- sisted of four categories. One was name-formation, in which a word is applied, with slightly altered form, to; a different thing or idea. Another was diminution, a third was aug- mentation or increase by adding vari- ous formative elements, and the fourth was alteration for case, that is, inflection. Especially did Varro concern him- self, said Professor Kent, with the great battle between the Analogists and the Anomalists. This conflict agitated Greek and Latin grammar- ians for three centuries and has ex- tended into modern times in the effort of the:linguists or present-day Anomalists to revise the familiar but artificial school-room grammar rules of the present-day Analogists. The Annmalists whose claims, according Prof. Roland C. Kent Discusses Linguistic Principles Of Varro WAI 011