Today's HeadlinesHutchins’ speech to trustees, page 1.Discover largest star yet known atYerkes, page 1.\nnounce Fiske and McLaughlinprizes, page 1.Tarpon announces swimming meet,page 4. gPbe Battp iHonionVol. 38 Z-149 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938 Price Five CentsHarper says treason, conspiracy liein back of Soviet purge, page 3.Campus NewsreelPresents DoubleFeature TonightOpens Winter Quarter Pro¬gram with Two ComedyHits.With the presentation of a doublefeature bill, “Cohens and Kellys inParis” and Charlie Chaplin's ear.iestcomedy hit “The Rink,” CampusNewsreel will inaugurate its newpolicy of weekly programs. For thestandard price of 15 cents both after¬noon and evenings, popular movies of“bygone days” will be revived andpresented to University audiencesevery Thursday afternoon at 3:30 inMandel hall and every Thursdayevening at 8 in Ida Noyes theater.This week a special Friday eveningshowing is being offered for the bene¬fit of those who are not able to at¬tend on Thursday.Expected to be one of the mostpopular presentations of the term,next week’s production, Lon Chaney’sgreatest vehicle “The Phantom of theOpera” coupled with the pictorialfilm “The mystery of Mt. Everest,”will also be offered for two days.Map Out ProgramRevealing that the schedule for theorganization’s weekly programs hasbeen mapped out for the four comingweeks, Paul Wagner, director, saidtoday that the staff is now devotingit.s time to the major Newsreel proj¬ect of the quarter, that of “catchingin film” all social and athletic eventstaking place on the campus duringthese next two months. This filmwill be completed and presented to aUniversity audience near the end ofthe winter quarter.University Gets$35,000 FromAlfred P. SloanThe Alfred P. Sloan Foundationhas made a grant of between $35,000and $40,000 to the University to:nake studies in the general field ofeconomics and to do exploratory workleading toward the broadcasting ofeconomic information, Pre.sident Rob¬ert M. Hutchins announced yester¬day.On December 12, Alfred P. Sloan,Jr., Chairman of the Board of theGeneral Motors Corporation, and oneof the country’s foremost industrial¬ists, gave the foundation an endow¬ment of $10,000,000 in securities.Sloan ExplainsIn making the endowment Sloanstated that the organization proposesto concentrate on “the promotion ofa wider knowledge of basic economictruths generally accepted as such byauthorities of recognized .standing andas demonstrated by experience, asWill as a better understanding ofeconomic problems in which we aretoday so greatly involved and as towhich we are so importantly con¬cerned.”The Sloan Foundation expresslystipulated in making the gift thatthe University was to have entireControl over its expenditure. Deci¬sions as to the kind of economic in¬formation and the means of its dis¬semination will rest completely withthe University.Rushing InfractionAlthough it is not an infraction ofthe letter of law, we feel that in is¬suing pledge buttons to rushees PhiKappa Psi has so seriously brokenthe spirit of fair play and ethics inrushing that the first two penaltiesfor illegal rushing should be in¬flicted. Such activity indicates PhiPsi’s lack of confidence in their abil¬ity to attract and hold their freshmen.Therefore, Phi Psi will not be al¬lowed to hold Open House for rush¬ing on Sunday, January 23 when allother houses will begin their inten¬sive rush week.The Interfratemity Committee. Moody LectureSeries PresentsCol. RooseveltCol. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., form¬er governor of Porto Rico and sonof the late President, will open theWilliam Vaughn Moody Foundationlecture series for this year, speakingon “Colonial Policies of the UnitedStates” at 8:30 Friday, January 21,in Mandel Hall.The second lecture in the serieswill feature Grant Wood, distin¬guished Iowa artist and founder ofthe Regional Artists movement andwill be given on the following Friday,James M. Stifier, secretary of theUniversity announced yesterday.W’ood will speak on “Regional Art.”Colonel Roosevelt is an editor ofthe Doubleday-Doran Company. Tick¬ets for this lecture may be obtainedwithout charge at the informationoffice of the University on and afterJanuary 18. Tickets for the secondtalk will be available after January25.Grant Wood five years ago startedthe Regional Artists movement in anabandoned quarry town in Iowa whenhe organized the Stone City artschool and colony. He now has an artschool at the University of Iowa andhis students are engaged in paintingthe walls of the drama school build¬ing with frescoes symbolic of the 37basic plots, a project that will takemore than ten years to complete. Private and State Universities{This is the complete speech President Robert Maynard Hutchins de¬livered last night at the annual Trustees’ dinner for the faculty.)On December 31 I completed fifteen years in university administration.I should like to report tonight on the most striking development of theperiod. It is the change in the relative position and outlook of the endowedand the public universities.We used to think of the state universities as large-scale housing ven¬tures, afflicted with the political difficulties that such ventures customarilyentail. Now they do all the things that universities do; and some of themare in the front rank. They are engaged in research of the purest variety;they are producing Ph.D.’s by the same methods that w’e employ; they areembarking on new projects in education; they are paying their professorssalaries equivalent to ours; they are selecting them with equal care; theyare maintaining academic freedom with about the same degree of firmnessor weakne.ss as the endowed universities.The state universities rest on the almost fanatical devotion to educationthat characterizes the American people. Though they may be from timeto time the victims of political intrigue, they will always rise again, becausethe people, according to their lights, want them to be great and glorious, ifnot free. The endowed universities have benefited from the popular enthusi¬asm for education; but I now detect in some quarters a feeling that theyare not in the same degree the property of the people, that they minister toa limited group, and that the time may come to restrict their privileges.The record of the depression is suggestive. The income of the stateuniversities was reduced, though in general no more than ours. But whilethe endowed universities were stopping all expansion and even renewal ofplant and facilities the state universities were being practically rebuilt. Thebuilding boom in New York City in 1929 was nothing to what I saw duringthe darkest of recent years on the Chicago campus of the University ofIllinois, at the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa, the Univer¬sity of Virginia, and even the Oklahoma College of Agricultural andMechanic Arts. The P.W.A. and W.P.A. were out in what was for themfull vigor making the state universities bigger, and in some cases, brighterthan ever. While the endowed universities had paused or declined, the stateuniversities were being prepared for greater things.(Continued on page 3)Discover LargestStar Yet Known Schwartz OpensThomism TalksA double star, largest so far foundin the heavens, with one componentwhich has a temperature of onlyi1000 degrees Centigrade, the coolestof any 'star known, and a uniqueionized layer in its outer atmospheremuch more powerful than that of theearth’s comparable Heaviside layer,has been discovered by three astrono¬mers of the Yerkes Observatory ofthe University at Williams Bay, Wis¬consin.Inconceivably great in extent, thestar has a diameter 3,000 times largerthan that of the sun, or twenty timesthe distance between the earth andthe sun. The radius of the largercomponent of the binary star is al¬most two thousand million miles. Ifthe star would be placed in the cen¬ter of the solar system it would en¬gulf all the planets as far as Uranus,with only Neptune and Pluto outsideits area.Report of the discovery was madeby Dr. Otto Struv, Director of YerkesObservatory, and two members of theYerkes staff. Associate ProfessorsGerald P. Kuiper and Bengt Strom-gren, in the current issue of the As-trophysical Journal, published by theUniversity Press.Known as Epsilon Aurigae, thestar is of the order of about 3,000light years distant from the earth,close to the first magnitude star Ca-pella in the constellation Aurigae.The Yerkes observations show that itis really a close pair of giant suns,the larger one of which has the “cool”temperature and the ionized layer,never before found associated with astar’s atmosphere, and the smaller ofwhich has a much higher temperatureand produces most of the star’s visi¬ble light.From an astronomical viewpoint,the discovery of the outer layer ofionized gas is the most interestingphenomenon of the star. This gasbelongs gravitationally to the infra¬red star and revolves with it aroundits axis of rotation, much as the at¬mosphere of the earth rotates withthat planet.Benton BroadcastsOn Education AgainWilliam B. Benton, vice-presidentof the University will give two talkson “The Further Education of aBusiness Man,” over a nation-widechain of the Columbia BroadcastingSystem on January 21 and January28 from 9:45 to 10.In his first broadcast on November15, Vice-President Benton spoke on“The Education of a Business Man.”Because of numerous requests forreprints of the talk, the address willbe printed in Columbia’s quarterlypublication “Talk.” Dr. Herbert Schwartz, assistant, professor of Music in the UniversityI and authority on St, Thomas Aqui-I nas, will open a series of weeklyroundtkble discussions on ’‘Thomistirand Its Relation to Capitalism, Com¬munism, and Fa.scism” in Ida Noyeshall library at 4:30 this afternoon.These discussions, which offer an op¬portunity for study of the ThomistDoctrine and its application to pres¬ent day subjects, will continue weeklythroughout the quarter under thesponsorship of the Calvert Club.Dr. Schwartz is recognized as oneof the University authorities onThomist doctrines. He is a recentconvert to the Roman Catholic faith.The program of the club for thewinter quarter also includes Profes-.sor Mortimer J. Adler’s talk on“Catholicism and Communism,” ori¬ginally scheduled for the autumn(luarter, but deferred until February17 because of Adler’s illness.Arthur Holt to Speakon India, January 12With impressions of India still viv¬idly in mind, Arthur E. Holt, profes¬sor of the Social Ethics in the Theo¬logical Seminary, will speak on“Neighborhood Housing in Bombay”at the University Settlement’s an¬nual board dinner and meeting tobe held at 6:30 next Wednesday inthe girls’ gymnasium at the Settle¬ment.Professor Holt spent the early partof 1937 in Bombay, India as visitingprofessor in the newly opened SirDerabji Tata School of Social Service.Following Pi'ofessor Holt’s talk. MissM. K. Sylla, Head Resident of theSettlement House, will give the an¬nual report of the organization’sactivities for the year.During the dinner, members of theSettlement clubs will entertain guestswith a short program embracing avariety of local talent including TheSettlement Orchestra.Students can make reservations forvarietY~~oT local talent including theprice is 60 cents per person.Dodd Needs VacationWilliam E. Dodd, who recently re¬tired as ambassador to Germany,wired “I need a vacation” in reply tothe University’s invitation to resumethe teaching of History here nextsummer.Robert Redfield, dean of the divi¬sion of the Social Sciences, said hetook the message to mean that Doddwould not accept. The message camefrom Dodd’s farm in West Virginia. Open Competitionin Prose, PoetryThe English department yesterdayannounced that competition was openfor the annual David Blair McLaugh¬lin essay contest and the John Bill¬ings Fiske poetry prize. Contribu¬tions should be turn^ in to the Eng¬lish office, Ingleside 304, not laterthan May 1.The David Blair McLaughlin prize,established in memory of David BlairMcLaughlin (1893-1914), a studentof the Class of 1916, is awarded toa student in the College who hasshown special skill and sense of formin the writing of English prose. Theaward is made on the basis of a criti¬cal essay of not more than 3,000 orless than 1,500 words on some subjectpertaining to the Humanities or So¬cial Sciences. The judges will bethree members of the Department ofEnglish. Although the prize wasoriginally $50, it was increa.sed to $60last year.Fiske PrizeStudents in any school or collegeof the University, graduates as wellas undergraduates, are eligible tocompete for the John Billings Fiskeprize in poetry, established by HoraceSpencer Fiske in 1919 as a memorialto his father. There is no limitationas to length, subject, or form. How¬ever, competition is not open to per¬sons who have previously won theprize. Only unpublished poems maybe submitted in the contest, and theUniversity reserves the right of firstpublication of the winning contribu¬tion. The prize was increased lastyear from $50 to $100. The commit¬tee of judges is composed of thechairman of the department of Eng¬lish, a leading American poet, anda leading American critic.Publish Essays inHonor of ThompsonA group of Historiographical Es¬says in honor of James WestfallThompson, for more than two-scoreyears distinguished professor o fMedieval History at the Universitiesof Chicago and California, has beenpublished by the University Press.Seventeen of Professor Thompson’sformer students contribute to thebook, including James Lea Cate, as¬sistant professor of History, EinarJoranson, associate professor of His¬tory, and John T. McNeill, professorof the History of Medieval Christian¬ity. Cate was co-editor of the volumewith Eugene M. Anderson of Amer¬ican University. PU Members,Spectators VoteApproval of CIOTwo Guest Speakers Sup¬port Industrial Unions;Students Divide.The Committee for Industrial Or¬ganization is not an undesirable ele¬ment in American society, membersof the Political Union decided attheir first meeting last night by avote of 29 to 16. The gallery agreedwith the decision by the one-sidedscore of 80 to 27. Officers and spec¬tators who left early did not vote.Introduced by President Ned Fritzas “the second most fiery CIO speak¬er, John L. Lewis being the first,”Nicholas Fantecchio, representing theSteel Workers’ Organizing Commit¬tee, began the meeting by voicing hisvoluminously oratorical approval ofthe CIO. In broken English he saidthat his organization was vital tothe preservation of the laboringclasses who form the bulk of ourcountry.Krueger SpeaksSecond to voice approval of theCIO, Maynard Krueger, assistantprofessor of Economics at the Uni¬versity, refused to give 100 per centsupport to the group until threethings were attempted. The CIO cando more to establish unity of laborthan has been done before by at¬tempting to coordinate itself with theA F of L; the CIO must demonstrateits independence of the New Deal andPresident Roosevelt; and it muststrive harder to retain the loyalty ofits members by promising them moredemocracy in the union, he said.The rest of the program was takenup by student speakers.Representing the Conservative at¬titude, Jack Allen opposed the CIO iWV-the grounds that it was impracticaland inefficient. He accused the or¬ganization of keeping no financial ac¬counts and using emotional appealsto sway the workers.Agreeing with Allen in oppositionto the labor union, but disagreeingon the reason, Emmett Deadman ofone Liberal faction viewed withalarm the tendency of the CIO to setup a monopoly in labor.The second Liberal bloc, repre-(Continued on page 3)AnthropologistsForm SeminarOn ArcheologyBecause students in the departmentof Anthropology found that Fay-Cooper Cole’s course in North Ameri¬can Archeology proved interestingbut gave insufficient time for discus¬sion of problems the material sug¬gested, they have innovated a semi-rar on American Archeology to sup¬plement the department’s annual sem¬inar.The first session, to be held thisafternoon, is entitled “The Aims ofClassification.” Guest speaker will beDr. W. C. McKern of the MilwaukeeState Museum, who, a few years ago,proposed the classification for Missi¬ssippi Valley archeology now beingapplied to all the archeological workin the Valley.Topics for the remainder of thequarter include “Ceramics in Archeo¬logical Investigation,” “Minnesota Ar¬cheology in Relation to MississippiValley Culture Types,” “Sites andCulture Types in the Lower Mississip¬pi Valley,” “The Relation of the Mog-ollon Culture to the Mississippi Val¬ley Culture Types,” “Comparison ofthe Ceramics of the Mississippi Val¬ley and Middle America,” and, to con¬clude the series, a general discussion.McKeon Attends MeetingRichard P. McKeon, Dean of thedivision of The Humanities, leavesChicago at the end of this week toattend a meeting of the committeeon Research and Teaching Personnel,a group which works in connectionwith the Committee of AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies. Thecommittee will gather in Washington,D. C. McKeon is attending the meet¬ing as a delegate of the MedievalAcademy.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938PLATFORM1. Creation of a vigorous campus community.2. Abolition of intercollegiate athletics.3. Progessive politics.4. Revision of the College Plan.5. A chastened president.Japan and the WorldJapanese armies are marching in China to¬day, Japanese planes are dropping bombs, Jap¬anese cannon are roaring. The war is morethan the murder of a few hundred thousandChinese, more than another imperialistic war,more even than the end of the white man’ssupremacy in the Far East, although it meansall of these. The war signalizes the develop¬ment of something new under the sun, the de¬velopment of a new social orientation, a newform of state, the military state as typified byJapan.Professor Lasswell, just returned from theorient, so interprets the present war. Japanis ceasing to be a capitalist state in which peo¬ple look to wealth and the consumption ofgoods as the chief end of man, and is becominga garrison state in which military effectivenessis the supreme standard by which activity isjudged. The transformation is marked by therise of military men to control of the govern¬ment—an admiral was recently appointed min¬ister of the Interior—and the reduction of thegreat business men to a position of sufferance.Lasswell predicts that if Japan’s economy be¬comes more strained in the near future, themilitary men will turn on the private ownersas scapegoats, dispossess them and instituterigid control of the economy with an eye solelyto the efficiency of the military machine.The new Sparta which Japan so promises tobecome will be a new phenomenon in the worldof modern civilian states, a phenomenonbuilding upon the old traditions of Japan to besure, but a condition toward which the westernworld has been moving ever since the eight¬eenth century when war was a polite game be¬tween kings and hired armies from which thepopulation suffered occasionally, but in which itdid not take part. The French revolution markedone great step in this direction with its popularconscript armies and white hot patriotism; thetotalitarian states of Germany and Italy are asecond great step with their great emphasis onthe warlike virtues and war as the supreme.^est of a society and man. Japan is reachingthe logical extreme in which the military bu¬reaucracy controls the government and war effi¬ciency is the justification of nearly all socialactivity.The trouble with such a form of social or¬ganization is that self preservation forces otherstates to adopt similar organization. The onlyalternative is conquest by the military states,in which case military control is imposed froman alien group. This is the choice facing China,and more indirectly the entire world. Withthe help of a good imagination, one can see inthe war in China the end of the era of businessstates, and the appearance of its successor.The apparition bodes ill for the future ofVol. 38 JANUARY 13, 1938 No. 52®l|e ^aily j^larnonFOUNDED IN 1901.Member As.sociated Oollegiate PressThe Daily Maroon is the official student newspaper of the Uni*versity of Chicago, published mornings except Saturday, Sunday,and Monday during the Autumn, Winter, and Spring quarters byThe Daily Maroon Company. 5831 University avenue. Telephones;Local S57, and Hyde Park 9221 and 9222.After 6:30 phone in stories to our printers. The Chief PrintingCompany, 1920 Monterey Ave. Telephone Cedarcrest 3311.The University of Chicago assumes no responsibility for anystatements appearing in The Daily Maroon, or for any contractentereii into by The Daily Maroon. All opinions in The DailyMaroon are opinions of the Board of Control, and are not neces¬sarily the views of the University administration nor of a majorityof students.The Daily Maroon expressly reserves the rights of publicationof any material appearing in this paper. Subscription rates:$8.00 a year; $4 by mail. Single copies: five cents.Entered as second class matter March 18, 1903, at the post officeat Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.1937 Mcmocr 193®Pissocided GoUe6iale PressDistributor ofGolle6iate Di6es{BOARD OF CONTROLWILLIAM H. McNEILL Editor-in-chiefCHARLES E. HOY Business ManagerELROY D. GOLDING Managing EditorEDWARD C. FRITZ Associate EditorBETTY ROBBINS Associate EditorMARSHALL J. STONE Advertising ManagerEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESLaura Bergquist Rex HortonMaxine Biesenthal Seymour MillerEmmett Deadman Adele RoseBUSINESS ASSOCIATESEdwin BergmanMax Freeman Howard GreenleeAlan JohnstoneNight Editor; Seymour MillerAssistant: Robert Cohn intellectual and artistic activity, for their valueto a military state is negligible, and they areless likely to be tolerated as the excrescence onthe economy that they are at present whenevery man’s energy is required by the war ma¬chine to give the fatherland the margin ofstrength needed to win in war.SWEETNESS AND LIGHTBy LILUAN SCHOEN 5th RowCenter* * •By GORDON TIGERTo make Chicago’s latest theaternews Kaufman rides again, this timein collaboration with Edna Ferber in“Stage Door,” a comedy cynical andsentimental by turn, which providesa background for Joan Bennett’s per¬sonal appearance at the Grand.Aside from the novelty of present¬ing a movie star in a play whoseraison d’etre is a defense of motherstage with its only-too-gladly-bomehardships against the financial lure ofits inartistic offspring, the cinema,the play has only a slight amount ofMr. Kaufman’s usual appeal. MissBennett, by virtue of ancestry, wesuppose is, in the person of Terry'Randall the very embodiment of thisdefense. Living at the sordid Foot¬lights club, a New York home forstriving stage girls, whose inmatesform a back-drop for the whole play, [j Terry bears up valiantly for over two jj years of disheartening lack of success jland remains faithful to the stagej even in the face of the desertion to!i Hollywood and quick rise to fame ofher roommate and of love interestnumber 1, a leftist playwright whois quickly put on the “right” path bysuccessThe local chapter of Alpha Delta Phi discoveredvia one of their “sewed-up” freshmen that the localchapter of Phi Kappa Psi had presented three otherfreshmen with pledge pins. This stirred up Alpha Deltrage to an unprecedented level. After all, here wereall the fraternities trusting one another in this matterof fair play in freshmen rushing and the Alpha Deltsfind from one of their “sewed-up” men that anotherfraternity has gone them one better. A flagrant viola¬tion of faith, that’s what it was.The situation, to one divorced from it by inclinationand biology, is not one to arouse fury, but rather dis¬gust at the hypocrisy of the Inter-Fraternity Commit,tee, each member of which has as his prime functionthat of defending his owm fraternity from the conse¬quences of its misdeeds, and amusement at the wrathof the other fraternities because they didn’t dare first.Ralph Leach, who is president of the I-F Committeewhich makes and supposedly enforces the rushing rules,is also a member of the offending fraternity. Leach isa weather cock whose mind is made up by the last per¬son who advised him. When challenged by the Com¬mittee to explain his fraternity’s action, Leach inquired, I ^“What’s wrong with giving out pledge pins?” Deadman, j jerry’s glimmer of hope comes onlyPhi Psi rushing chairman and minister’s son, had done the end through the good officeshis work well in convincing the weak Leach that noth- | of love interest number 2, a reformeding was wrong. Of course, the only thing wrong was {movie magnate who buys a play inthat the entire legal fiction of rushing is directed j which to introduce her to Broadway,against the giving of pledge pins to freshmen because j « « «the pledge pin means joining the fraternity. It could j This action is interesting, but in'not be expected that Leach could comprehend this com- . a play that is too light to go in for Iplicated point and Deadman is a shrewd, if not inteili- ! much character development, it is,gent gentleman. The Committee explained the “wrong”to Mr. Leach and he saw it clearly.Phi Psi must be penalized. The question before theCommittee was—What penalty to impose? Was theoffense serious? This is w'hat the Committee pondered.Of course, the offense that the laws of rushing werecompletely violated but—was the offense serious? Mc¬Neill suggested that perhaps the prestige of the Com¬mittee was at stake. Yes, they thought it might wellbe. So they decided to publicize the action and to de¬prive Phi Psi of its first day of legal rushing becausethey can plant a pledge pin as easily one day as an¬other and they obviously do not recognize legal rush,ing anyway. You can’t take away that which is notpossessed.In a sense Phi Psi is to be congratulated for publicybreaking a law which, from its inception, has neverbeen observed—if they were really clever enough torealize the fact. Alpha Delta Phi, et al are to be sym¬pathized with because they didn’t think of it first. CLASSIFIED ADSHOUSE FOR RENT—10 rooms, 3 bath-i 67l~Blackstone. Oil heat. Near U. of C sn/iI-C. Will decorate. Available May iParker-Holsman Co., 1501 East 57thHYDe Park 2625. ^FOR SALE—Dress Suit A Tuxedo. Size 40Excellent condition. Both for 130 00Phone between 12-1 any day, Superiorhardly enough to keep the ball rollingj for three acts. This highly importantj function is assigned to quite a galaxyj of minor interests, including an in-I trusive electric sign just outside Ter-i ry’.s window, the sexual aberrations iof one of the Footlight club girls, the Isordid suicide of another, and neatlittle characterizations of about eightof the other girls. These concernsare, both in their nature, and in theirmanner of introduction, theatrical in! the less appealing aspect of the word.It TakesALL KINDS OF PEOPLEIt is sometimes impossible to believe that he is Dr.Ben Reitman’s son. It i.s sometimes overwhelmingobvious that he is. Quiet, ingratiating, hesitantly friend¬ly, Brutus is boisterous, offensive, and belligerentlyradical. He is Caspar Milquetoast waving a red flag.Innocuous is the word that perhaps describes himbest. His tolerance is passively all-embracing, un-fruitfully do you seek a subject on which he has a firmconviction. He is not a fixed point. He is aimlesslyoscillating.Organization disturbs him. Less lethargic Brutu.sesare anarchists, but he is characteristically content withinfrequent haircuts, dirty chemistry aprons, and .n fuz¬zy mind.His friends come from the North Shore and fromWest Madison street. And they will tell you of hisappeal: that he is just a little boy, a very dear littleboy, dreamily watching Romance forsake his proudwhite charger for a trip on a tramp .steamer and a ridebeneath the rails of a freight car.Fascinated by the abnormal and dazzled by thebizarre, he prides himself on his queer friends, mildlysneers at club girls and fraternity men as puppets ofsociety. An eager admirer of his father, colorful headof Chicago’s Hobo College and authority on venerealdiseases, he likes to think of “Dad” as a lovable cru¬sader, forging ahead through innumerable hostileforces, toward his goal of complete freedom for theindividual.Parades, crowds, street fights, fires, and BotanyPond tug-of-wars affect him peculiarly. They inflatehis ego. He is never happier, never more assured thanwhen he is part of a mass action. He is the perfectsatellite. It being probably safe to assume;that the collaborators have done afaithful job of reporting on the in-)stitution of the theatrical roominghouse. The part of “Stage Door"which deals with this institution andwith the girls as a group, is its mostvaluable and unique aspect, and i.s em¬bellished by much good, and a lesseramount of bad acting. Miss Bennett,in spite of a rather halting and un¬obtrusive stage technique, gives anattractive performance in the leadingpart, and will not disappoint hermany film admirers. Onslow Stevensshares the large acting honors asthe re.scuing hero.PLEDGINGPhi Beta Delta announces thepledging of Herman Dorfman andAbel Swirsky of Chicago and FrankGarron of Los Angeles, California. TIRESALE• • • • •TREMENDOUS TRADE INALLOWANCE ON NEWAtlas Tires• • • • •SMOOTH TIRES AREDANGEROUS AND COSTLY• • • • •Atlas Tires FullyGuaranteedBY STANDARD OIL CO.• • • • •BUY NOW« SAVE $ $ $• • • • •BROWN'SStandard Service1101 East 55th Street55th and GreenwoodTelephone MIDWAY 9092STANDARDSERVICESPECIAL!From Wednesday to FridayTRIPLE DIPPEDMALTED MILE and15c SANDWICH25cTHE MJUD.II1TE CHILL13091320 East 57th Sheet“WHERE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS MEET AND EAT’THE DAILY MAROON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13. 1938 Page ThreeGideonse Accuses Trade Unionsof Being “Conservative Forces”By ERNEST LEISERMaking the startling observation cipitated in the main by the use ofthat trade unions are necessarily a psychological factors, that the C.I.O.conservative force acting to retain | is represented by the vested intereststheir vested interests, and that they j of the newspapers as an insidioustoo often act as monopolies whose j dragon. However he also showed thatpurposes are to restrict production in I labor was not altogether blameless.1-1 xj jjg admitted that it uses racketeeringOlder to protect their laborers, Harry[). Gideonse, associate professor ofEconomics at the University, ad¬dressed an audience at the Men’s ClubFoi-um of K.A.M. Temple on thequestion “Will Labor Control Amer¬ica ? ’’His principal conclusion"was thatsince trade unions included onlyabout six million workers out of a methods, although no more so thanbusiness itself. It also uses termswith formidable psychological con¬notations, men who are “chiselers”and “scabs” being merely in Gid-eon.se’s opinion, “plumbers who willdo a job at a price that a professorcan pay.”He also said that fundamentallypopulation of 130 million people, j the C.I.O. was more defensible thanthere was little danger that theywould constitute a political or eco¬nomic force strong enough to control.\merican destinies.Labor Not UnderprivilegedGideonse further pointed out thatlabor was not an underprivilegedclass as it is so often pictured, andemphasized this statement by con¬tending that labor’s share of the na¬tional income is far greater thanthat of the farmers as a class oreven the “white-collar” workers asa group. He continued by deducingthat since labor was in reality aprivileged economic class, continua¬tion of monopolistic control by itwould have “dangerous potentiali¬ties,” more especially since the lab¬orers are largely foreign-bom, andthis would be a point of attack bythe exploited farmers and white-collar workers who are “second gen¬eration Americans.”He began his talk by maintaining the A. F. of L. because it had awider perspective. But he also ad¬mitted that the leadership of theC.I.O. was untrained and green, whilethe older organization had veteransat its head.His conclusion was that trade un¬ions are valuable in that they reducethe impersonality of the present eco¬nomic society, but insofar as theyrepresent vested interests and mono¬poly control, they are fully as bad asare the corporate monopolists.Political Union-(Continued from page 1)sented by George Halcrow’, favoredthe existense of the CIO in Americansociety. Halcrow refuted Deadman’sfear of the monopoly, illustrating hispoint with the case of the railroads’effective monopolistic unions.The last of the scheduled studentthat the growth of the trade union m i speakers, Alec Morin, expressed un-this country is a mushroom one, and J qualified support of the CIO. Speakingpredicted that the labor enrollment; for the Radical party he assertedwill drop down in the future. His next that the present gap between capitalpoint was that the fear of labor con- and labor could only be narrowed bytrol of our economic system is pre-' unionization.Private and State Universities(Continued.-Vs the Finance Committee latelyreported to the Board of Trustees,invested funds have a tendency todeteriorate. This important truthwas revealed to us with some forceduring the depression. In the pastwe have relied on new gifts to makegood the ravages of time. I believethat to some extent we can still hopeto do so. I believe that people aregoing to continue to make moneyand that they are going to continueto give it away. But I do not believethat in our lifetime they are goingto make it or give it away in any¬thing like the amounts that were com¬mon during the first thirty-five yearsof the University’s history.This University rose to eminencethrough the colos.sal benefactions ofa single individual. Neither to him,nor to his family, nor to the founda-tion.s he established can we look forsuch support as we have received inthe past. We must appeal to thegeneral public jjind to the local com¬munity, who may feel that their edu¬cational interest is already gratifiedby the taxes they are called upon topay for the maintenance and im¬provement of public institutions.The basis of our appeal must bethe ability and willingness of thisUniversity to do things that stateuniversities cannot do. We must bebetter than the state universities andwe must be different from them. Wemust raise our .salary scale; we mustbe unequivocal about academic free-flom; and we must be rigorous in theselection, promotion, and retention ofour staff. The curse of all universi¬ties is easy standards; we mustavoid it if we can. But these thingswill not suffice; for the state univer¬sities can do all of them if they will.One thing the state universities can¬not do. They cannot determine theireducational policy for themselves.They are under constant pressure.They can hardly escape conformingto the passing whims of the public.The real test of our superiority anddifference is whether we have thecourage to face down the clamors ofthe moment and to decide everyquestion in terms of what is best forthe University, for education, andfor the country. Having decided inthese terms, we should then turn theunusual talents of our public rela¬tions group to convincing the publicthat we are right.The endowed universities are freeand independent. If they follow thepassing whims of the public theyhave no claim, paradoxically enough,on the support of the public. When,therefore, an endowed university isformulating a policy, _^the only ques¬tion its members can ask is whetherthat policy is educationally sound. from page 1)The questions what will the publicthink, what will the alumni think,what will the students think, whatwill other institutions think, howwill this effect our income, are allirrelevant, if not positively subver¬sive. I repeat: we have no claim onthe public unless we know better thanit does how a university should beconducted. And this goes for thealumni, the students, and other insti¬tutions. As for our income, we shallhave less if our policy is determinedby our desire to have more.So when the question is whether weshall change our attitude towardathletics, or whether we shall makeit easier to get our degrees, or whatwe shall do about the problems raisedby having two medical schools, orwhether we shall abolish or relocatethe Bachelor’s degree, or whether weshall return to the credit system bydiscontinuing general examinations,or whether the number of our coursesshould be reduced and the characterof some of them altered, the onlyissue is the educational soundness ofthe proposal. No other considerationcan be permitted to enter into thediscussion.We like to describe the Universityof Chicago as a pioneering institu¬tion. But it is a sad, or at least anarresting thought that this descrip¬tion rests on things that were donebefore the University opened itsdoors. It rests on Mr. Harper’s plans.It is easy to be bold when you havenothing to lose. It is easy to be in¬dependent, too. So the medieval uni-wversity, which had no assets, wouldsimply leave town when it did notlike the attitude of the communityand would not return until the locallegislature had promised not to re¬peat its impertinence. When a uni¬versity acquires assets it acquirestimidity with them. We, for example,now have large properties and areanxious to protect and increase them.We are, therefore, keenly conscious ofthe danger of alienating prospectivedonors and prospective students.Brestige is equally blighting. Nowthat we have prestige we are likelyto feel, as a group, that there is noparticular need to bestir ourselves.We can give way to our natural desireto pursue our individual labors inpeace. But as Socrates remarked,“The unexamined life is no life atall.” It is, I assure you, no life foran endowed university in the UnitedStates today. We must perpetuallyexamine our work. We must perpet¬ually struggle to improve it, and wemust do so regardless of pressurewithout or reluctance within. Onlyby such efforts can we hope to pre¬serve the resources and the reputationwe have inherited. Today on theQuadranglesMEETINGSDames. South reception room ofIda Noyes from 2 to 5.Christian Youth League. Room Cof Ida Noyes from 7 to 9:30.Arrian. Alumni room of Ida Noyesfrom 12 to 1.Alpha Zeta Beta. WAA room ofIda Noyes from 7:30 to 10.U. of C. Camera Club. Room A ofReynolds club at 7:30.ASU Theatre Group. Room B ofReynolds club at 7.Kappa Alpha Fsi. Room D of Rey¬nolds club at 12:30.ASU Labor Committee. Room C ofIda Noyes at 3:30.SSA Delegates Council. SocialScience 107 at 7:45.Physics Club. Ryerson 32 at 4:30.Speaker is Robert S. Milliken on“Infra—Red Spectrum of Water Va¬por.”LECTURESCalvert Club. Library of Ida Noyesat 4:30.Divinity Chapel. Joseph BondChapel at 11:65. “The InternationalAssembly of Student Christian As¬sociations”. Mr. Alvin Pitcher.Social Science Lecture. SocialScience 12 2. “Language, SocialScience and Society. The LogicalStructure of Language”. ProfessorCarnap.MISCELLANEOUSCommunist Club Seminar. “Veb-len—American Marx?” Cobb 210 at3:30. Discussion to be led by NormanO. Brown.Campus Newsreel. “The Cohensand Kellys in Paris” and “The Rink.”Mandel hall at 3:30. Ida Noyestheatre at 8. Admission, 16 cents.U. of C. Concert Band. Rehearsalat 6:30: Tryouts from 4 to 5:30 at5625 Ellis Ave.Mortar Board. Party from 3 to 6in YWCA room of Ida Noyes.Phonograph Concert. “Der Rosen-kavalier” by R. Strauss. 12:25 to1:15 in Social Science Assembly hall.Physics Club. Tea at 4 in EckhartCommons room.Settlement League Drama Group.Rehearsal in Ida Noyes library at7:30.Christian Youth League. Dinnerfrom 5:30 to 8 in South receptionroom of Ida Noyes.WP.\ class. Alumni room of IdaNoyes from 7 to 10.Public Speaking Group. Class inYWCA room of Ida Noyes at 7:30.Student Group. Supper from 4 to 8in Room A of Ida Noyes. Harper Declares Treason and ConspiracyLay in Back of Present Soviet Union PurgeBy BURT MOYERAsserting that conspiracy andtreason are behind the scenes of thepresent Soviet Union Purge, SamuelN. Harper, professor of RussianLanguage and Institutions, gave hisopinions on the situation as he open¬ed a series of four lectures entitled“Sovietism After Twenty Years” inSocial Science assembly yesterday af¬ternoon.Harper named two causes for the“uprising”; first, the possibility of aweakness in the Soviet System andits Russian background, and, also,the tension created within the Unionbecause of the international alliancesbeing formed against it.Conspirators ClassifiedThe conspirators were given fiveclassifications: first, were the mentrying to save the Revolution as theysaw it; second, Russian nationalistsseizing an opportunity to overthrowthe Bolsheviki; then, pure power-seeking souls; next, remnants of theexterminated classes seeking revenge;and, last, those men who could notaccept the rigidity of the system. Harper repeatedly emphasized thatthe majority of those involved in thePurge were members of the Commu¬nist Party of Bolsheviks, men whoknew the rigid discipline of the partyand had exercised it themselves.For the exercise of this disciplinein the form of a drastic “bloodpurge” Harper suggests that it wasimpossible to pass off these men ofresponsibility into private business.MAKEThe BETTER’OLERestaurant1551 E. 57th (3 doors west of Stony Is.)YOUR MEETING PLACECLUB BREAKFASTS 15c—40cLUNCHEONS 25c—45cDINNERS 40c—70cWE WILL GIVE A DISCOUNT OF 10PER CENT TO ALL STUDENTS UNTILFURTHER NOTICETRY US!SPECIAL INTENSIVESHORTHANDfor COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATESStorta October 1. January 1.April 1. July 1.Arranged especially for the higher in¬telligence of the college graduate andundergraduate.Regular day and evening classes startevery Monday.THE GREGG collegeHOME OF GREGG SHORTHAND6. N. Michigan Avenue. Chicago THURSDAY—JANUARY 13"THE PERFECT SPECIMEN"WITH ERROL FLYNNFEATURE NO. 2" THE BRIDE WORE RED "JOAN CRAWFORD—FRANCHOT TONEROBERT YOUNGFrolic Theatre55th and ELLISUSED BOOKSAmerica'ji Largest Educational Book HouseComplete Line oi Fiction. Non-Fiction, and Reference Books -WILCOX & FOLLETTJ. & C. RESTAURANT1527 East 55th StreetServing DailyLUNCH 30cEIGHT COURSE DINNER 50cALSO MIDNIGHT SPECIAL LUNCHEONWHOLESOME FOOD. SERVED AND COOKED RIGHTOpen 24 Hours a DayEdge WATER Beach Hotelpresents the second“CHICAGO NITE 99featuring in the campus floor showBOB FITZGERAID VIRGINIA SHILTONPHI PSI TRIO JOHNNY MeWHORTERROY SODERLIND TEX KASLEJACQUESORRIN TUCKER’S MUSICReservations and Half-Rate tickets may be obtained bycallins the Edgewater BeachHotel,or the Daily MaroonOfficePage Four THE DAILY MAROON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938S P On vp C! Intramural Cage MeetXl ^ O Resumes Play TonightPlan Telegraphic PoolMeet; Chicago WomenRegister For PracticeThe Telegraphic Swim Meet, bigevent of the quarter so far aswomen’s athletics are concerned, willbe held in the Ida Noyes pool Febru¬ary 15, Phyllis Greene, president ofTarpon, announced yesterday. Shesent out a call for all Universitywomen interested to compete.Any woman carrying a full schol¬astic program whose marks are“satisfactory” may enter the meet,provided that she spends 8 to 10hours preparation in supervisedswimming. She need not be a memberof Tarpon, but the regular weeklymeeting of the club, at 3:30 onThursdays, in the pool at Ida Noyeswill be devoted to preparation forthe meet, and all those who are in¬terested are invited to come at thattime, or at open hour swimming, ev¬ery day at 4:45. Those who wish toregister for participation may seeeither Edith Ballwebber, facultymember in charge, or Miss Greene.List of EventsThe events listed, and the approxi¬mate time required for good per¬formance in each, are breast stroke,40- or 100-yard—30 seconds for 40yards; front crawl, 40- or 100-yard—25 seconds for 40 yards; and backcrawl, 40- or 100-yard—28 secondsfor 40 yards. There will also be an80-yard medley, using alternatelyfront and back crawl, and a 60-yardcollegiate relay, using front and backcrawl and breast stroke.The meet, which is a national af¬fair, was won last year by North¬western. Wesleyan took second place,’♦nd Chicago, third.The public is invited to the meet,which will probably be held at noon. Water PoloistsPlay TomorrowEnthused over a narrow 6-5 victoryover Griffith Park, last Thursday,the Chicago water polo squad is nowlooking forward to another victorytomorrow night, when they meetRidge Park in the Bartlett Gym pool.“There is no admission charge forthis game,” announced Coach E. W.McGillivray, “and we’d like to havea crowd.”The official Big Ten season has notyet begun. However, McGillivray,with an eye toward competitive prac¬tice, has again entered the squad inthe Water Polo Tournament of theChicago Parks division.On the Ridge Park are severalIllinois grads.McGillivray Worries“After three years in college,” be¬gan Coach McGillivray as he settledinto his chair, “a sw’immer is justbeginning to get good in water polo.On the Parks’ teams are quite a fewcollege graduates with years of com¬petition behind them. Swimming a-gainst them is no snap.”Last year the University of Chi¬cago tied with the Jewish PeoplesInstitute for first place in the southsection. In the final playoff, however,the J.P.I. seven outswam the Maroon-ers with little trouble.The Chicago lineup for Friday’stilt will be:Players PositionDick Fergu.son (captain) .... GoaleeJack Homs ForwardCecil Both well ForwardBob Anderson GuardJim Anderson GuardMie McLaury GuardJohn Van de Water Guard or Forward Play in the fraternity division ofthe intramural league will be re-! sumed tonight at Bartlett Gym.I Twelve teams will compete, eight ofI which are “B” and “C” teams whichdid not see action in the play Tues¬day night; the remaining four “A”teams. Play will continue until aboutFebruary 8 in round-robin tourna¬ment style.I-M Games Tonight7:30 P. M.A. D. Phi “C” vs Psi U “C”Psi U “B” vs Phi Sig “B”Pi Lam “B” vs Phi Gam “B”8:15 P. M.Deke “C” vs Phi Sig “C”Alpha Delt vs Phi Kappa SigmaPhi Delt vs Kappa SigmaThe Intramural office also an¬nounced yesterday that all teamswhich hope to compete in the em¬ployees’ division of the basketballtournament must register at the I-Mbefore January 21. Games will beplayed at Bartlett in the evening.WAA Members ArrangeSledding Party at PalosProviding that the snow holds out,members of WAA will hold a tobog¬ganing party next Saturday morningat Palos Park. Those who wish to gowill meet in Ida Noyes hall at 10,Saturday morning.Dorothy Eshbaugh, outing chaii'-man of the organization, asks thatanyone interested in going sign upin Ida Noyes hall basement near thelocker room, indicating whether ornot she will have a car. Everyoneattending will bring her own lunch;frankfurters and marshmallows aresuggested. [ JU ORCHESTRAAND fl VARIETY REVUE★ PEPPING AND CAMILLEDance Stylists★ WES SUMMERFIELDTenor★ SIMPSON'S MARIONEmSMagic Puppets ★ DAWN ROLANDPetite Solo Dancer★ JACK MARSHALLBenny's Bad Boy★ FOUR VESPERSAcrobatsNO COVER-NO MINIMUMSATUBDAY LUNCHEON FASHION REVUEB.V.D. Corporation will present the latestmodes in swim suits and beach wear featur¬ing Nilah Brooks' models. Also dancing. De¬luxe luncheon beginning at 1:00 P. M., $1.50.Chicago's most beautiful models.CONGRESS HOTEL ^John Burke. MmmtgtrN«uoiial Hotel Menagement ComMM. Inc.Ralph Hia, PrtstJmt;}. E. Frawley, Exttmtt** Vte*-Pr*Mtm/ dKrnbuafter 31 YearsAs a Tobacco AuctioneerVeteran Jim Edwardstells why tobacco expertsprefer Luckies 2 to 1 •••'*! recently sold 489,000 poundsof tobacco in one hour day,”says Mr. J. N. Edwards of Farm*ville. 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