Bailp ittanionVol. 38, No. 112 Z-149 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938 Price Five CentsGrocery Clerks’ Union PicketsConsumers Co-Operative StoreToday^s HeadlinesHyman traces history of LaFoliettenew party, page 1.Webbe calls meeting for Social C*Books, page 1.Tennis Team sweeps all weekendmatches, page 3.McGiffert tells story of Co-op picket¬ing, page 1.The NationalProgressivesBy SIDNEY HYMAN(This is the first of a series of fourarticles dealing with the NationalProgressive Party which vriU appearin future issues of the Daily Maroon.The author is a graduate student inPolitical Science.)The National Progressive Party ismore than a creation of the past fewmonths. It is more than a resurrec¬tion of the old Progressive Partywhich in 1924 was supported by over4,000,000 voters. The National Pro¬gressive Party both in its politicaltactics and in that part of its programwhich has been disclosed, is anothername for a method in politics datingback to the turn of the century when“Fighting Bob” LaFoliette emergedas governor of Wisconsin. Since mostjudgments on the future of the Na¬tional Progressive Party are merehypotheses, it may reduce the realm oferror in these hyptheses to inquireinto the traditional tactics of theLa Follette group. For if “the seedsof the present can be found in theroots of the past” the inquiry mayindicate what might be expected fromthose seeds.IRobert La Follette I emerged on thepolitical scene of Wisconsin when thelumber barons were ravaging thestate. Until his day, the orthodoxmethod for attacking abuses, whichboth Republicans and Democrats a-like overlooked, was to launch a“third” party. These “third” partiesrarely hoped for political dominance,but they could hope to educate thedominant political parties to incorpor-aie into their platforms certain “third”party demands. “Third” parties inAmerican politics, then,* were the tac¬tics of liberals. No conservative evermade any headway in forming a“third” party composed of men whofelt that the conservatives were notsufficiently conservative.* « «With the emergence of Robert LaFollette, a new strategy was pre¬sented for liberals. He appreciatedthe virtues of a political machine. Heappreciated the nature of tradition¬alism. Why not employ establishedmachines for liberal purposes? Withthis objective in mind, “Fighting Bob”sought and gained control of theRepublican Party in Wisconsin. Ofall reformers whose story LincolnSteffens relates, Robert La Follette issingled out for his admiration. LaFollette was not merely a reformer ofthe moment, reflecting a fleetingstroke of conscience of a politicallyaware electorate, yet whose reformswould be nullifled at a succeedingelection. “Fighting Bob’s” reformswere written into the statutes of theState of Wisconsin. They have notbeen nullifled. Additions have beenmade to them.For La Follette was a masterpolitician. His early preparations tobe an actor made him one of the mosteffective of speakers. His energymade him an effective campaigner. Heknew when to play the fox and whenthe lion with greater facility thaneven the conservatives. But while heappreciated the necessity of usingrhetoric for the purpose of persuasion,he appreciated much more the neces¬sity of having clearly defined objec¬tives toward which the rhetoric oropportunism of the moment could bedirected. Because of this, he sur¬rounded himself with one of the flrst“brain trusts" in American life. TheUniversity of Wisconsin became anappendage of the government of Wis¬consin, not to be exploited by politi¬cians, but as an institution whose bestthinking could be called on by politicalleaders. As Governor Phillip La Fol¬lette has said, “In Wisconsin, thebrain trust has always been on tapbut not on top.”The success of Robert LaFolietteI in liberalizing the Republican Partyin Wisconsin was so rignifleant, that,as the national elections of 1912drew close, the National ProgressiveRepublican League was formed to pro¬mote his presidential candidacy bythe Republican Party. The electionsof that year are known chiefly for(Continued on page 3) Int-Hoose StudentsPetition Council toProbe New RumorsDemand New Self-Govern¬ing Powers from HouseBoard.Dissension at International Housebecame apparent again yesterday asstudents circulated petitions askingthe Student Council to investigateundefined “rumors” and to reporttheir findings at a full meeting ofthe House. By yesterday noon 103persona had signed the petition, aninnocuously worded document but onewhich apparently is aiming at a fun¬damental issue of disagreement.Petition DemandsThe petition reads, “Whereas manyrumors are circulating in Internation¬al House and Whereas it is deemedadvisable to relate such rumors tothe actual facts involved, in order todispel the rumors if they provegroundless or to clarify the issues ifthey be substantiated. Now, We, theundersigned, hereby request the Stu¬dent Council to investi^te these ru¬mors and to make a full report onthem as soon as possible, at a Housemeeting.”The petition makes no mention ofwhat the rumors are, but it is prob¬able they express dissatisfactionwith the action of the Board of (gov¬ernors in merely reaffirming theirconfidence in Dr. Price when the pe¬tition of Benson and Titus was pre¬sented last winter. This new peti¬tion does not aim at the removal ofDr. Price, however. The basic issuethis time is a demand from the stu¬dents for more powers for the Stu¬dent Council.Concession MadeAfter the hearing before the Boardlast winter concerning the withdraw¬al of a scholarship from a student, aplan was set up whereby now a com¬mittee awards scholarships. This wasthe only concession which was madeto student demands.According to one of the studentspokesmen, the students at theHouse feel they are mature enoughto have more self-government thanat present and want official admini¬stration recognition of this fact. TheBoard of Governors has said it willrecognize no action not brought to itsattention through Price, so the resi¬dents of the House who are dissatis¬fied are using this petition as a meth¬od of getting action on their demands.Its signers include 93 resident mem¬bers, one non-resident member andnine alumni.Boynton, WoodwardSpeak at Banquetto Honor O’HaraFrederic Woodward, vice-presidentof the University, and Percy Boynton,professor of English, are listed on theroster of speakers at the DramaticAssociation spring initiation dinnerscheduled for Friday at 6:30 in theCoffee Shop.At that time the DA will also honorFrank O’Hara, retiring director ofthe organization.Paid-up members who have not asyet made reservations for the dinnerare asked to see Dorothy Cahill inthe Tower office before Friday. Mem¬bers who have participated in DAactivities but who have not paid theirinitiation fee are also requested tomake arrangements with her at oncePrice of the dinner for alumni is $1.Elect Paul BerkmanSociology Club HeadSociology club elections last Thurs¬day placed Paul Berkman in thepresident’s chair, made William Pro-cuniar vice-president, Dorothy Jaffesecretary, and William Hendersontreasurer. The new officers will beinstalled at the annual banquet ofthe club which is to be held May 26in Burton Court.Dr. Morris R. Cohen will be theguest speaker at the dinner, and Dr.Robert E. Clark, professor emeritusof Sociology, toastmaster. Price ofthe dinner, an annual spring event, isone dollar and is open to the public.The newly elected officers will not takeover their duties until next year. The picketing of the ConsumersCo-operative Store, 5635 Harper Av¬enue, by the Grocery Clerks’ Union,moved into its second week todaywith both sides standing pat. TheCo-op Store is headed by Arthur C.McGiffert, professor of ChristianTheology at the University.The Store has no objections to itsemployees joining a union, McGiffertdeclared yesterday, but absolutely re¬fused to coerce them into signingwith any union against their wishes.He said that all the members of theco-operative with whom he hadtalked, except one, approved thestand of the Board, and that businessduring the past week actually hadbeen heavier than usual.Employees LoyalMcGiffert also declared that thestore’s butcher, a member of anotherunion, was still working and that alltruck drivers but one were still de¬livering to the co-op. He interpretedthis as an indication of the regardin which other unions held the Gro¬cery Clerks’ organization.A different story was told by M.Economists PayTribute to H. A.Minis at BanquetA surprise banquet for ProfessorHarry A. Millis, chairman of the de¬partment of Economics, almost wentup in smoke last Saturday when Mil¬lis announced early in the day thatbecause of illness he might not at¬tend the meeting of the GraduateEconomics Club.He finally arrived, however, andconsternation in the Elconomics de¬partment subsided. Those in charge ofthe banquet now wonder if the guestof honor knew about the surprise allalong and was merely having a littlefun with them.Accorded TributeProfessor Millis, who retires fromthe chairmanship of the Departmentof Economics this year, received dis¬tinguished tribute when some of thecountry’s leading economists, includ¬ing Sumner Slichter of Harvard andLeverett Lyons of the Brookings In¬stitution, gave talks in his honor. Bothare former students of Millis.A fund of nearly $2000, contributedby Millis’ students and associates,will be known as the Harry A. MillisStudent Loan Fund. He was also pre¬sented with a leather traveling bagand a bound volume of the letters sentby those who contributed to the fund.Letters and telegrams of congratula¬tion were received from Brazil, Ger¬many, England and Canada as wellas the United States, including onefrom Frances Perkins.Approximately 250 persons at¬tended the banquet in Burton Court.Sweet, WilloughbySpeak at BanquetHonoring Dean CaseWilliam Warren Sweet, professorof History of American Christianity,and Harold Rideout Willoughby, as¬sociate professor of New TestamentLiterature, will be the speaker at abanquet in honor of Dean ShirleyJackson Case of the Divinity Schoolon occasion of his retirement thisJune.The banquet is to be held in theSun Parlour of Ida Noyes hall, andfaculty members of the DivinitySchool and the Chicago TheologicalSeminary will be present with theirwives.Dean Case is a scholar of the earlychurch period, being one of the firstto publish a life of Jesus using thehistorical method, and all the sourcesavailable. He has been a member ofthe faculty of the Divinity School formany years, and has been Dean forfive. This spring he reaches the re¬tiring age of 65, but he plans to re¬turn to the campus periodically, andmaintain scholarly work. His succes¬sor as Dean has not been announced.In addition to the dinner a Fest¬schrift written by former studentsunder Dean Case is in the course ofpublication, but vrill not be ready forseveral months, according to the com¬mittee in charge. Caldwell, business manager of theunion, which is affiliated with theAmerican, Chicago and Illinois Fed¬erations of Labor. He declared thatseveral of the Co-op’s clerks had ap¬plied for admission to the union andhad been admitted, although theywere now under suspension. The man¬agement of the store then forcedthem to drop from the union bythreatening to fire them, he reported.Life-Long Picket“We’re going to keep the picketthere for life if the Co-op doesn’tcome to terms,” Caldwell said yester¬day. He also revealed that RobertOverstreet, one of the members ofthe Co-op Board had joined the Gro¬cery Clerks’ Union in March but be¬cause of his attitude toward the pres¬ent dispute was also under suspen¬sion.The only apparent dissension with¬in the Co-operative itself was fur¬nished by two members, Mrs. GeorgeF. Mann, and I. Most, who wrote anopen letter criticizing the Board’sstand. The letter was printed anddistributed by the union. Mrs. Mannlater retracted her statements in theletter.Co-op RetaliatesA letter sent to Co-op members byMcGiffert, Overstreet and Emily TaftDouglas, wife of Professor Paul H.Douglas, stated that the employeesin question received better thanunion wages and worked less thanunion hours. The letter declared thattwo of the clerks had filled out appli¬cations of the Retail Clerks’ Unionbut had not paid initiation fees andhence were not yet members of theUnion. Later all the employers ofthe Store voted unanimously in secretballot not to join the labor organiza¬tion.Arrange Putschfor PU MeetingBy NED FRITZThe Stuffed-Shirted Storm Stoopswill hold their first beer-putsch oncampus Thursday night. Organized inthe throes of a great crisis, theBusiness School bachelors’ examsthis new gi'oup of patriotic youngfellows, will do homage to theirfuehrer, Herr Roosevelt, at the Politi¬cal Union meeting in Kent hall.They will also celebrate the con¬clusion of their four years of collegegoose-stepping or side-stepping underCorporal Hutchins, another aspiringdictator.Heil RooseveltThe policy of the embryonic body,is as yet incomplete, except for faith¬ful allegiance to Herr Roosevelt andstrong moral and vocal support ofEdward Chayes, Republican candidatefor Municipal Judge, in his allega¬tions before the Political Union thatthere is fascism in the New Deal.Benjamin Adamowski, Democraticfioorleader of the state legislature andstrong New Deal proponent, and BobMerriam, Liberal speaker of the Un¬ion, will have difficulty proving thatRoosevelt is not a dictator, becausethe Storm Stoops threaten to goose-step up and down the aisles whilesuch unpopular statements are beingmade about their powerful and be¬loved leader.It is not known who is the organizerof the Stuffed-Shirt Brigade, but it isrumored that a German, or Jap, orItalian named Leo Von O’Neillini hasa part. Selection of a secret passwordand other important rituals and sym¬bols will be postponed until Wednes¬day noon at Hanley’s. The bachelor’sexams in Business end Wednesdaymorning, by the way.Film Society ScreensEpic, *Birth of Nation’“The Birth of a Nation,” America’sfirst motion picture epic produced in1915, comes to the InternationalHouse screen today when Film So¬ciety presents the fourth program inits final film revival series. Show¬ings are at 3:30 and 8:30.“Intolerance,” produced in 1916 byD. W. Griffith, concludes the revivalseries on May 24. Griffith was alsoproducer as well as director of “TheBirth of a Nation,” story of Ameri¬ca’s carpet-bagging days. Bill Webbe CallsMeeting AboutSocial C-BookBelieve Plan Will Stimu¬late Social Life on Cam¬pus.Bill Webbe, head of the StudentSocial Committee, meets campusleaders tomorrow afternoon to dis¬cuss plans for Social C-Books andpromotion of book sales. The meet¬ing will be held in Cobb 316 at 3:30.The books, which will include tick¬ets for four fall quarter dances, willsell for one dollar. The dances aredesigned to stimulate social activityon campus during the fall quarter,and to serve as a factor toward in¬tegrating the campus community.Leaders AttendThe campus leaders who will attendthe meeting Wednesday are: HartPerry, ASU; Hugh Impey, head of theBusiness School Council; Jack Con¬way, Chapel Union; Hugh Camp¬bell, Dramatic Association; FrancesProtheroe, Ida Noyes Council; Mar¬garet Merrifield, Settlement Board;Laura Bergquist, Interclub Council;John Van de Water, Iron Mask; BobMerriam, Leaders organization; Ken-ath Sponsel, Skull and Crescent;Philip Rothberg, Lambda Gamma Phi,Business School fraternity; HarrietNelson, Federation; Margaret Ewald,WAA; Audrey Neff, YWCA.Others include Edward Ftitz, Po¬litical Union; Paul Goodman, DebateUnion; Emmett Deadman, Daily Ma¬roon; Bob Mohlman, Band; MartinMiller, Freshman Men orientation;Jane Kinder, woman’s transfer orien¬tation; Bill Young, Men’s transferorientation; Betty Jane Watson, Fos¬ter Hall organization.Harold Miles will head the ticketsalesmen for the books, which willbe distributed largely through theorientation groups. James Goldsmithand Roger Ochs will be in charge ofpublicity for the Social C-Books. Thefree dance, open to C-Book owners,will be held after the first footballgame of the season, and the otherdances will be held on successiveweekends.Congress GroupPresents HutchinsWith ResolutionsBob Merriam, chairman of theCampus Congress committee, pre¬sented the resolutions of the CampusCongress to President Hutchins lastFriday as the first move toward put¬ting the resolutions into effect.In addition to the presentation toPresident Hutchins, the resolutionsare being mimeographed and will bedistributed to all the heads of de¬partments and officers of the ad¬ministration. President Hutchins alsoundertook to distribute the relevantportions of the resolutions to the of¬ficers of the administration andmembers of the faculty.Next Year’s PlansOther plans of the Committee aremostly aimed at next year. This yearEmmett Deadman will interview thenew head of the Board of VocationalGuidance and Placement, Lowell Cal¬vin, in order to convey to him theshortcomings of the Board as reportedat the Congress.The major activity of the commit¬tee is to help in the agitation for theadmission of Kappa Alpha Psi, Ne¬gro fraternity, to the InterfraternityCouncil, a question which the com¬mittee hopes to bring to a vote to¬morrow.Members of the delegation who pre¬sented the resolutions to the presi¬dent were Hart Perry and EmmettDeadman from the Committee andGeorge Halcrow and William McNeillfrom the committee in charge of theCongress from which the resolutionsissued.The President read them over,asked for clarification on a number ofpoints, finished with a curt “Verygood. I’ll send them to the dean.”Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1988PLATFORM1. Creation oi a vigorous campus commxmity.2. Abolition of intercollegiate athletics.3. Progressive politics.4. Revision of the College Plan.5. A chastened president.Honor Among FreshmenThere were no ordinary freshmen among the 27 whocircled the C-bench and the University seal two weeksago, pacing out their initiation ritual of acting asguards for these sacred campus traditions. They weresupposedly the ultimate in freshmen, the 27 selectedas the leaders of their class, promising in activities,more than acceptable in scholarship, and, of course,noble in character. And, having been duly elected andinitiated, they were allowed to record their names onthe membership scroll of Skull and Crescent, sopho¬more honorary society.There is no discredit attached to being a memberof Skull and Crescent, nor is there any reason for criti¬cizing the work that the organization does. PresidentKenath Sponsel, working long and hard to find somefunction for the group besides its time-honored sponsor¬ship of the Victory Vanities, has discovered that Skulland Crescent members do well as entertainers of Settle¬ment children and prospective freshmen. These are allworthy duties; the only question is whether they arethe proper duties of a sophomore honor society. A col¬lege honor society should be one of three things; itshould be so strictly an honor that its members are al¬lowed to relax untoiling in the warmth of their glory,or so frankly social and pseudo-honor that it need spon¬sor nothing but beer parties, or it should be a gather¬ing of BMOC's with a yen for political string pulling.Skull and Crescent is none of these, but instead across between an idealistic high school honor societyand an equally idealistic social service group, with adinner and a pin thrown in to give it status. In spiteof its good intentions, it fails from the start, since howis an idealistic honor society to be honest? It cannotdetermine its membership on the basis of scholarship,for grades are not yet known; it cannot determine it onthe basis of activities, for freshmen in activities arenotably an amorphous group, showing little individual¬ity or certain promise.Skull and Crescent settled its difficulties by deciding,two years ago, to change its method of election. In¬stead of having the outgoing group elect its quota offreshmen, each fraternity was to submit the names offive eligibles, in order of eligibility, a fact usually takeninto careful consideration during the voting. Everyhouse was guaranteed at least one member, and somerepresentation of independents was insured.And so the aspect of Skull and Crescent has changed.Instead of a group usually free of independents, withstrong representation of three or four prominent fra¬ternities, it now presents the spectacle of a sophomoreinterfraternity committee into which four independentshave somehow wandered, an interfraternity committeewhich by virtue of these four independents retains thetitle of “honor society.'’There are good reasons for the existence of a sopho¬more interfraternity committee; there are none for theexistence of a body like Skull and Crescent. No matterhow the initiates may try to convince themselves, thereis little honor attached to being one of an honor societywhose basis for membership requires that a man be se¬lected for scholarship out of a pledge class of one, orfor leadership out of a pledge class of two. It might beargued that a group like Skull and Crescent is “normal,”an adjunct of any well-ordered campus, and should bepreserved as a guardian of school spirit. But it is notfrom groups like Skull and Crescent that a renascenceof campus society will emerge, and the search for nor¬malcy will only push the renascence farther into thefuture.Skull and Crescent, restricted to its proper function,might well become a valuable addition to the campus.It would recognize the freshmen selected by their fra¬ternities as the leaders of their class, and it would rec¬ognize them on an honest basis. It would provide aworking group to unify sophomore fraternity membersfor action on whatever social services took their fancy,and would afford a greater degree of co-operationamong fraternities. True, it would eliminate indepen¬dents from the ranks of the honored freshmen frater¬ nity members, but they might be reconciled to thechange.If the University cannot exist without honor soci¬eties, then they are easily provided. Students for thenew society would be selected on one basis only, be¬cause it is the one basis that offers any means of com¬paring achievement, the one basis that is fundamentalto the University, and the one that is the most oftenneglected. The new group would be a scholastic honorsociety, made up of the members of the freshman honorrole.A scholastic honor group would have characteristicsnew to “normal” societies. For once an extreme varietyof students would be brought together, students fromtown, from campus, from activities, from library cor¬ners, students who would never otherwise meet. Securein the fact that their names had already been blazonedacross a commencement program, they would never feelobligated to do anything. They might, however, someday decide that it would be nice to sit down and talk,and in talking they might discover that for all theirdifferences they had two things in common, member¬ship in the University community and a never satisfiedinterest in the world around them.And if they found profit in meeting and talking anddisagreeing, they might form the opening wedge thatwould split the campus differences open and build themythical campus unity again. A. R.GUYSandGALSBy DONNA CULLITONMemorable as was the closing night of Blackfriars,the night of May 14 will go down into history as theI night of the Chi Psi party. Essentially it was BIG,! BAWDY and BIBULOUS. To us i^^ seemed a wonder-j ful party if for no other reason than that everyoneI was there. Reds mixed with rah-rah boys and bothj factions seemed to like it. Beer flowed freely all overj the place, and as everyone knows, beer is the Great' Leveler.i Five girls went stag, but who they were no one on' earth has any idea. Not that it makes much differenceI though; the lights were so dim you couldn’t tell who! was with whom, or even make out the face of your! dancing (?) partner. The signs, if not funny, were, sufficiently dirty, which was what the Chi Psi’s wantedi them to be.DAILY DOUBLE—Jean Fraine and Tom AlvesChet Murphy is not too busy playing tennis to pre-i vent his pitching in the Lorraine Koolman league forI all he’s worth.I Bill Kimball and Dick Saizman with the sole pur-I pose in mind of getting dates for the Psi U spring par-' ty. They got them, if not in the conventional manner.: Kimball found his in the form of brother Hugh Rendle-man’s date, Saizman had to go all the way to Hanley’s,I but emerged victorious with a date with Dotty Over-^ lock.We take this occasion to announce the advent of the, “B-Club." This sterling organization has a member-j ship of three, and since they have no objection to beingI named we add that the members are Hart Perry, BobMerriam, and Emmett Deadman. We can even tell youj how they got their name. Seems they all studied for anexam together, and as you might have inferred, theyall got B’s. They have provided one newsworthy es¬capade, which we shall tell you.Emmett was in Beloit and couldn’t get to the ChiPsi party on time. So he wired the other two B’s, say-i ing he would get there at 10. Well, he got there atI 3:30. The next day, the other two sent him a telegramj saying they were considering accepting his resignation.Emmett still got the last laugh, by sending Hart andBob each a bouquet of sweet peas on each of which waswritten the club motto, “You can’t buck social trends.”As a personal touch we just want to say this. In¬timidation of the press is not possible. Wet or dry, weprint what we want. Any one who doesn’t like it willhave to wnrite a letter to the Maroon to get theirgrudges off their chest. We’re looking at you, Psi Up-silon, yes you!Letters to theEditorEditor,The Daily Maroon:It has been brought to my atten¬tion that The Maroon some days agopublished a report of the late exhibi¬tion of the Renaissance Society, whichto say the least was lacking in anyappreciation of what merit that exhi¬bition may have had. Irrespective ofthe question of merit, I write to saythat I am sure that the students asa whole have not the slightest ap¬preciation or knowledge (how canthey have?) of the difficulty of get¬ting exhibitions for the Society whichshall be of value to the University,or of the great amount of time,energy, patience, and physicalstrength, to say nothing of expertknowledge, which has been devoted tofinding and arranging these exhibi¬tions, during many years by a smallgroup of members.The dues of the Society have beenpurposely kept small ($3.00 annually)so that everyone interested might holdmembership. Of course these dues donot pay all expense of insurance, transportation and care of the val¬uable collections which have been andare being shown in the exhibitions.The balance has always been solicitedfrom and paid by friends of the So¬ciety, who are generous because theything it is very important to show tothe students and members of the So¬ciety the best available original worksof art.The Society has never asked finan¬cial co-operation from the students,although the exhibitions are expresslyplanned for the use and enjoyment ofstudents, and student members arewelcomed. Would it not seem, then,that the least that THE DAILY MA¬ROON can do is to treat the exhibi¬tions and the Society with the highestconsideration and courtesy? I thinkso.Agnes C. Gale,U. of C. Class of 1896.Today on theQuadranglesFilm Society— “Birth of a Nation.”International house at 3:30.Lecture. Edith Abbott. “What ShallWe Tell Our Clients? The Chicago Re¬ lief Crisis,” Theatre of Ida Noyes at8.Socialist club. Fourth International.“In Defense of Soviet Union.” LawNorth at 3:30.Dames. YWCA room of Ida Noyesat 10.YWCA cabinet. Room A of IdaNoyes at 12.School of Business Luncheon.Alumnae room of Ida Noyes at 12:30.Achoth. YWCA room of Ida Noyesat 3:30.Spanish class. WAA room of IdaNoyes at 7.SSA club. Theatre of Ida Noyes at7:30.Surgical Pathology conference. Sur¬gery 437 at 8.A.M.S. Public Lecture. “Social As¬pects of Heart Disease.” Dr. WalterHamburger. Medicine 137 at 7.Lecture. “Red Cross Disaster Re¬lief Procedures,” James T. Nicholson,Social Science 122 at 4:30.Phonograph concert. “Two Songs.”Richard Strauss, “Symphony No. 4 inB flat” Beethoven.Divinity Chapel. “The Hypothesisof Jesus.” A. T. DeGroot. Joseph Bondchapel at 11:55.Mathematics club. Eckhart 206 at4:30. Hold Finals in BibleReading Contest TomorrowAt the preliminary meeting of theMilo P. Jewett Contest in Bible Read¬ing, held last Wednesday in BondChapel, William Hawley, ThatcherJordan, Duncan Littlefair and PaulWassenich were chosen to compete inthe final reading scheduled for to¬morrow.Judges for the preliminaries wereE. C. Colwell, F. H. O’Hara andW. W. Sweet. A prize of $50 will beawarded to the student giving “Themost effective expression of themeaning and spirit of the text.”Saunders MacLane TalksAt Math Club Meeting given at 4:30 in Eckhart 206. ai.though the organization is comprisedfor the most part of faculty membersand graduate students, all interestedstudents are invited to attend.CLASSIFIED ADSU; furnished cotUge; available summerseason, Ashing. Call Plata 2487 eveningsWANTED--2 congenial girls to share apartment for summer quarter with two undergraduate girls. Midway 3365.individued HedrdressingShampoo and Wot* soMoaicuroEAMERIE BEAUTY SHOP1124 EAST STIh ST. HYDE PARK 7810Hrs. 9 A.M. to 9 P.M.Mon., Wed., Sat. to 6 P.M.Dr. Saunders MacLane, instructorin Mathematics, has been announcedas the speaker at today’s meeting ofthe Mathematics Club. His talk on“Towers of Modular Fields” will beLEARN TO DANCECORRECTLYTAKE PRIVATE LESSONSHYDE PARK 3080HOURS: 10 A.M. to 10 P.M.TERESA DOLAN1S4S E. nSO ST.OUTSTANDING j:NEW BOOKSI Crow—MASTER KUNG, the story of Confucius $3.50 1! Mumlord—THE CULTURE OF CITIES 5.00 j:: Ditmora—THE FIGHT TO LIVE 2.50 :•1 Einstein and Infeld—THE EVOLUTION OF1 PHYSICS 2.50 •;: Dos Poasos—JOURNEYS BETWEEN WARS.... 3.00 i;1 Maugham—THE SUMMING UP .. .. 2.50■ de Kniif—THE nGHT FOR LIFE 3.00 \i Menninger—MAN AGAINST HIMSELF 3.75 S1 Josephson—THE POLITICOS 4.50 1I U. oi C. BOOKSTORE 15802 ELLIS AVENUE 1HOW TOPASS COMPREHENSIVESIS SOMETHING YOU’LL HAVE TO FIND OUTOUT FOR YOURSELVES.BUT YOU CAN TAKE OUR WORD FOR ITTHAT THIS YEAR’S CAP and GOWN IS ABOOK YOU’LL BE PROUD TO ADD TO YOURLIBRARY. IT’LL BE WORTH MUCH MORETO YOU IN YEARS TO COME THAN THE$4.50 YOU PAY NOW.BE'TTER SUBSCRIBE TODAY AT THE INFOR¬MATION DESK OR AT THE OFFICE INLEXING'TON HALL.THECAP AND GOWN4 MONTH INTENSIVE COURSErOI COitlOl ITUDINTt AND OKAOUATItPkkNo 1. OctoPorl.obHgohottompkyod.moserlUSINESS COLLEGEMUl MOtIt. J.O. PH.S.MfomDo9ufMi ofiom to mom.TM t. Av*., OiteoDA, 4147Win Every Setin 3 MatchesOver WeekendTennis Team Beats Wis¬consin, Minnesota, Illi¬nois. THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY. MAY 17. 1938In spite of the absence of JohnShostrom, ailing number one man,the Maroon tennis team continued itsvictorious march by whitewashingthree more conference opponentswithout the loss of a set. Wisconsin,Minnesota, and Illinois, were deci¬sively defeated to complete the sea¬son, preparatory to the Big Ten meetat Northwestern this weekend, withnine wins and no losses.Wisconsin DefeatedWisconsin, the first of the threeweekend victims, was beaten on homecourts in the customary Maroon man¬ner, nine matches to none. Playingin the top position for the first timein his career, Chet Murphy defeatedBorchert 6-4, 7-5. Although Borcherthad set point on Murphy he was un¬able to spoil the Maroon victory bytaking a set.The other singles matches were allvery one-sided. Bill Murphy defeatedCoyle 6-1, 6-1, Art Jorgenson trouncedBatzle 6-1, 6-0, John Krietensteinwon from Kreuziger 6-0, 6-2, CharlesShostrom defeated Riley 6-0, 6-1, andJim Atkins, playing on the varsityduring the absence of John Shostrom,made a good showing in beating.Matchett 6-0, 6-3. Although thedoubles were not as decisive thesame six men played for each teamas the Maroon men won three match¬es in straight sets.After the meet in Madison theteam went farther north to Minneapolis to down another Conference op¬ponent with the customary facility.This nine to nothing victory was al¬so achieved without the loss of a set.Chet Wins .4gainNumber one man Chet Murphy easily beat the local hero, Petrich, 6-2,6-3, while his brother Bill took a 6-1,6-0 match from Rhodes. The closestmatch was between Art Jorgensonand Brain, Jorgenson finally winning8-6, 7-5. John Krietenstein almostblanked Huntley 6-1, 6-0, CharlesShostrom beat Levy 6-3, 6-2, and JimAtkins at last got going after a slowstart to beat Moore 7-5, 6-1. In thedoubles the Murphy brothers beatPetrich and Brain 6-3, 6-2, Krieten¬stein and C. Shostrom defeatedRhodes and Huntley 6-0, 6-3, and Jor¬genson and Atkins won from Mooreand Levy 6-2, 8-6.Chicago WinsYesterday on the varsity courtsChicago won its seventh conferencevictory but this time by a slightlydifferent score. The score was 7-0instead of 9-0 only because the Illinihave a five man team instead of six.The five men who had headed thesquad on the weekend trip againplayed successfully to win all sevenmatches easily.John Shcstrom’s ankle was wellenough for him to volley a little be¬fore the meet yesterday so there islittle doubt that he will be able toplay in the Conference meet atNorthwestern this weekend. mini Win fromBall Team 10-5;Face Iowa NextFive Illini runs in the second in¬ning were to great a handicap forthe Maroon diamond squad to over¬come in its game with the Urbanasquad last Friday at Greenwood Fieldand the invaders went home with a10-5 victory hanging from their belts.Rain the next day caused the game atUrbana to be cancelled so the Ma¬roons also lost their chance for re¬venge.Amundsen PitchesAmundsen was on the mound forthe Maroons until the seventh when,after having been hit for two homeruns, he gave way to Burke. Thehitting in the game was extremelyeffective. The Illini made 11 hits goodfor 10 runs and the Maroons neededonly seven^ hits to chalk up fivescores. None of the Maroon squad gotmore than one hit, however, as con¬trasted with the three, including ahomer, which Berner of the Illinismashed out.Yesterday afternoon Coach KyleAnderson gave the boys a stiff work¬out in preparation for a two gameseries at Iowa this weekend. Iowa hasone of the best teams in the confer¬ence and the University squad willhave to be at peak to win. Amundsenand Reynolds will probably get thestarting mound assignments andBurke will be taken along as reliefman. Page ThreeSSA Hitters ProveNon-Varsity CreamWhile I-M hitters contend forthe crown, firm in the belief thatthey represent the cream of thenon-varsity baseball players, adark horse team from the SSAschool has been batting its way toa recoi’d of two played, two won,none lost. Staying strictly withinthe realm of departmental teams,the social workers’ nine defeatedthe Psychology department squadon Sunday by a score of 3-5, andthe week before downed the Med¬ical, school 12-9.Intermittent rainy periods didnot stop the victorious drive ofSSA stars, pitcher Albert Gold¬stein and shortstop Bob Feldman.Further aided by a strong batteryled by Charles Olds and TonyDemarenis, and heckled by clown¬ing third basemen Dutch Kopple-man, the team anticipates no dif¬ficulty next Sunday when theymeet the hopes of the Physiologydepartment in Kenwood Field.Encouraged by the success ofthe men, women students of socialservice administration are plan¬ning to organize a team to seewhether the luck holds. Close I-M TrackEntries TomorrowEntries are coming in rapidly forthe intramural outdoor track and fieldmeet this Thursday and Friday. Allthese entries must be in the intra¬mural office by noon tomorrow so thateligibility can be fairly determinedbefore the meet.Everyone is eligible to participateexcept those who have won letters,those who have earned numerals, andthose who ai’e considered capable ofwinning numerals by freshman trackcoach Norm Root. Letter winners inelude those who have won either ma¬jor or minor letters at Chicago or atany other college.In addition to the fraternities therewill also be independent teams participating. Hitchcock is definitely get¬ting up a team and entries are ex¬pected from two or three other inde¬pendent organizations.Award ScholarshipCarolyn Victoria Swanson of LakeView High School is this year’s recip¬ient of a full tuition scholarship tothe University, given by the American‘Daughters of Sweden. The schol¬arship is for the academic year of1938-39.Maroon Thinclads DownNorthwestern in FirstOutdoor Track Meet Sidney Hyman Traces La FolletteDevelopment Toward New Party(Continued from page 1)Because Coach Ned Merriam de¬cided to take Ed Valorz to the North¬western track meet yesterday, theMaroon track squad hung up a close74 to 72 point victory over the Wild¬cats in their only out-door conferencetrack meet. Valorz had been throwingthe discus all morning and his armwas sore when Merriam told himabout the meet which had been post¬poned from Saturday, but he decidedto give it a try. He did, and won firstplace and five points for the Maroons.A summary of Maroon perfor¬mances follows:In the dashes, Davenport andHirsch took first and second in the100 yd. dash; and Davenport andHalcrow took second and third in the220. Captain Halcrow. also took firstin the 440 with Webster running thirdand Merriam*fourth. Webster won thehalf-mile run with Powell runningthird. Powell also came in third inthe mile as did Linden in the two-mile grind.Parsons and Brumbaugh ran secondand third in the high-hurdles andBrumbaugh and Kobak came in inthese positions in the low-hurdles. Inthe field event, Busby took third inthe javelin throw, Valorz and Lettsgarnered first and second in the discus,Kobak was first in the broad jump andDavenport placed for the third timewith a .second place in this event andTingley tied for first in the highjump.With this performance behind them,the Maroons can look forward withmore hope to the conference meet atColumbus this weekend. Their chances'of winning are almost nil, but none¬theless they are looking forward togarnering quite a few points.Few minutes drive from Lake Michigan, U. S. 12 Highwayand Bus. 35 Acres on River, nice Timber, Apple orchard,Grapes. 10-room, clean, comfortable house, furnace, elec,light. New barn. Garage and work shop. Price $4000.Terms.SEE BEACHWOOD on LAKE MICHIGAN Tracts withriparian rights, road, elec., beautiful trees. $1650. and$2250. Restricted. Terms.DAVID ANDREASONU. S. 12. SAWYER, MICHIGANKimbark Theatre6240 KIMBARK AVE.Tuesday - WednesdayAlexander Korda’s‘STORM IN A TEACUP”—PLUS—Evelyn Venable in“FEMALE FUGITIVE”PLUS AUDIOSCOPICS Lexington Theatre1162 EAST 63rd STREETTuesdayEdward G. Robinson“SLIGHT CASE OFMURDER”—PLUS—William Powell“BARONESS and theBUTLER” the Roosevelt-Taft split in the Re¬publican Party. What is not as wellknown is Theodore Roosevelt’s pre¬liminary knifing of La Follette. Forthe National Progressive RepublicanLeague was at first encouraged byRoosevelt up to the time when hedecided to throw his own “hat into thering.’’ With that action he not onlysplit the Republican party in two, buthe split in two the progressivismswithin the party. The ProgressiveRepublicans who had supported LaFollette secretly lined up behindRoosevelt and La Follette was left aleader without supporters.* * *The differences between the twomen, if not already evident, weremade clear in the years and monthsimmediately preceding America’s en¬try into the World War. Roosevelt,the Progressive, became a rabbleraiser urging America’s entry. LaFollette, the Progressive, invited anation’s abuse and endangered hislife by opposing our entry. Had LaFollette, for all his opportunism,made his means his ends, it wouldhave been a simple matter for him tohave followed the lead of the Euro¬pean liberals, many of whom soughtto save their domestic position byfalling in line with the masses whodemanded war. But opposition to ourentry was a matter of principle whichcould not be compromised by im¬mediate political necessities, and itseems to be mere cheap cynicism toattribute his opposition to the war tothe fact that he had a large Germanelectorate in Wisconsin.Only in the post war years—in 1924—when he felt that the Republicanswere beyond reform, did he abandonhis “infiltration’’ tactics, and form anew party. Despite the persistence ofTENNISRackets $1.50 to $17.50BoUi. Pr«H«s. and all accessoriesShorts. Sox. Shirts. Shoes, etc.Most complete stockWoodworth's1311 E. 57th St.Near Kimbark Ave. OPEN EVES.DORchester 4800FROLIC THEATRE951 EAST 55th STREETTuesdayRobert Taylor in“YANK AT OXFORD”with Maureen O’Sullivanand“THE LONE RANGER”Starting Sunday, June 12thFor 4 DaysWALT DISNEY’S“SNOW WHITE” the war year calumnies attached tohis name. La Follette as a presidentialcandidate polled one of the largest national votes of any “third’’ party inAmerican history—and lost his lifedoing it. While the National Progres¬sive Party operated on a nation-widescale, the La Follette’s kept theirhold on the Republican party organi¬zation within Wisconsin. And when“Fighting Bob’’ died after the 1924campaign, his sons, Phillip and Bob II,fell heir to the organization whichwas to send Bob II to the UnitedStates Senate and Phil to the gov¬ernorship of the state. With this Re¬publican identification. Bob II andPhil continued down to 1934 when forall their own liberalism, they foundthe identification “Republican’’ tooonerous, and by cutting across boththe Republican and Democratic par¬ties in the state they gathered aboutthem the liberal elements in bothparties to form the Progressive Partywhich has triumphed in the electionsit has had to face. Wisconsin politicsthen took the shape of a conserva¬tive Democratic and Republican co¬alition seeking to checkmate the lib¬eral Progressives. What should benoted about this development is theattachment of the La Follettes totraditional symbols in both state andnational politics until such a time asit becomes impossible to make anyheadway with the symbols. Whentraditionalism becomes burdensome,they will break with it.* * *Why this traditionalism? The an¬swer to this inquiry, based on the pastutterances of Phillip La Follette, of¬fers a partial explanation for thatpart of the program of the NationalProgressive Party which has beendisclosed, and a clue to what mightbe expected as further disclosures of(Continued on page 4)CollaborateursPRESENT ARHYTHMCONCERTcabaret stylefeaturingCHICAGO'S OUTSTANDINGSWING STARSin aJAMSunday afternoon.May 22nd. at theSkyline Athletic Club188 W. Randolph StreetTickets SI.00At the Concert $1.50SWING MUSICFor your affairsCollaborateursRm. 800. 20 E. JacksonPhone Harrison 7490 Hungarian Art AuthorityLectures in HumanitiesProfessor Moholy-Nagy of Hun¬gary is lecturing today to studentstaking the Humanities general course.Connected with the New Bauhaus, anexperimental art school in Chicagointegrating art, philosophy, and sci¬ence, Moholy-Nagy is lecturing on“Art Since Cezanne.”It has been the custom of the Hu¬manities survey to have authoritiesfrom outside the University deliveroccasional lectures on special topics.Vol. 38 MAY 17, 1938 No. 112Wi\e ^arooitFOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATEPRESSThe Daily Maroon is the official studentnewspaper of the University of Chicago,published mornings except Saturday, Sun¬day. and Monday during the Autumn,Winter and Spring quarters by The DailyMaroon Company, 6831 University avenue.Telephones: Local 357, and Hyde Park9221 and 9222.After 6:30 phone in stories to our print¬ers, The Chief Printing company. 1920Monterey Ave. Telephone Cedarcrest 8811.llie University of Chicago assumes noresponsibility for any statements appear¬ing in The Daily Maroon, or for any con-tract entered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reservesthe rights of publication of any materialappearing in this paper. 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WATSON55th & WoodlawnHYDE PARK 0773Page Four THE DAILY MAROON, TUESDAY, MAY 17. 1938Gilkey RepresentsU.S. at CelebrationDean Charles W. Gilkey for theUnited States, and Richard E. Elm-hirst for England are speakers, to¬morrow, in a Goodwill Day Celebra¬tion at the Fountain of Time. Erectedin commemoration of 100 years ofpeace between the two countries, thefountain stands at the west end of theMidway. Lorado Taft was the sculp¬tor.The Women’s International Leaguefor Peace and Freedom and other or¬ganizations have united to sponsor thecelebration.Aubrey SpeaksEdwin Ewart Aubrey, professor ofChristian Theology and Ethics, willdiscuss attitudes toward life in a se¬ries of talks over WIND from 8 to8:15 each morning this week.The subject of today’s lecture is“How to Find Meaning in Life.’’Other topics for this week include“How to Test Our Basis of Living,”“The Cynical View of Life,” “TheHopeful View of Life.”Re-electedHayward Keniston, professor ofSpanish, and Charles Breasted, as¬sistant director of the Oriental In¬stitute, were re-elected as represen¬tatives to the Senate Committee onUniversity Policy. The election tookplace at a brief meeting of thefaculty of the Humanities divisionthis weekend.Sidney Hyman Traces La FolletteDevelopment Toward New Party(Continued from page 3)policy are made. A leading conserva¬tive journalist has hailed the plat¬form of the National ProgressiveParty because he believes it meets thechallenge of liberalism’s identificationwith collectivism. For the first time,he says, the nation is confronted witha “liberal” program that is anti-col¬lective. Whatever truth there may bein this statement, this journalist couldhave discovered the semblance ofanti-collective yet “liberal” expres¬sions of attitude by Phillip La Fol¬lette years before last April 26 whenthe National Progressive Party wasannounced.In certain respects, the liberalismof the La Follettes has been the lib¬eralism of the neo-classical econo¬mists of the “free competitive mar¬ket.” This freedom of competitiondoes not mean anarchy in the market.It calls for specific government meas¬ures which insure that freedom ofcompetition continues to exist: hencethe attack on monopolies; hence thedemand for the nationalism of credit;hence other governmental controlsdesigned to insure “free” competition.Governor La Follette’s principalarticle of faith is that political liber¬alism is but a by-product of a per¬fectly functioning economic orderba.sed on abundance.He has viewed the emergence ofpolitical liberalism in the UnitedStates in terms of Professor Turner.The great liberal political changes inthis country have been brought aboutby the expansion of the Americanfrontier. Jefferson, Jackson and Lin¬coln all owed their election to the“new frontiersmen.” Bryan, as apopulist, failed because of the disap¬pearance of the frontier. Today, theproblem of liberalism becomes moreacute for the dispossessed within thecities or farms who have no new fron¬tiers toward which they can migratein times of stress or oppression.Shall these new frontiersmen urgecollectivism? Shall they be revolu¬tionary? Phillip La Follette seems tobelieve that they shall not. to go.There can be little doubt but thathis attitude on the political unattrac¬tiveness of socialism conditions hisattitude toward the principles onwhich it rests, for in this analysis ofthat content he has expressed him¬self as one of its opponents. At thesame time, Governor La Folletteseems to become involved in a para¬dox by his willingness to engage ingovernmental activities which thoughdirected toward insuring a free com¬petitive market, are either socialistor autarchic in nature. Max Lerner, one of the editors of the Nation, haspointed out that there exist avenuesin La Follette’s economic programwhich allow a maximum amount ofmovement in the direction of socialcontrol. W'hatever the basis for LaFollette’s verbal rejection of Social¬ism’s thesis, provincialism cannot becounted as one of its sources. Thereare few men in public life as widelyread or as widely traveled as Gov¬ernor La Follette. Most of this na¬tion’s liberal and intellectual leadei'shave been in constant communicationwith him. Because of this, it seemsreasonable to argue that his objec¬tions to Socialism as a political sys¬tem proceed on rational argumentswhich should be examined in terms oftheir reasonableness rather than interms of the neurosis they reflect. Houses Refuse KappaAlpha Psi RecognitionThe last chance of getting KappaAlpha Psi, Negro fi’aternity, into theInterfraternity Council this year van¬ished last night as three more housesvoted against admission. Complete,but unofficial tabulations revealedthat there are now ten houses whohave instructed their delegates tovote for admission of the fraternityand five who are opposed.Although this is a majority of theCouncil which favors admitting Kap¬pa Alpha Psi, they cannot be admittedunless thrae-fourths of the housesvote to amend the Constitution so asnot to require a fraternity toAs a politician his problems aretwo fold: what is the attractiveness jof socialism as a political slogan, and Iwhat are the merits of the principlesback of that slogan. His answer tothe first of these problems is basedon a conviction that the collectivismof Europe is a vestigal remainder offeudalism. Being extremely sensitiveto words and to their effect on people,he would object to the word “peasant”to describe an American “farmer”and he would revolt against the useof the word “proletarian” to describeeither farmers or workers within thecities. Because of the absence of afeudal tradition, because of the ab¬sence of a frame of mind which in¬vites collectivism in the Americanmasses. Socialism as a political sloganis unattractive to one, who like LaFollette, is reluctant to lead an elec¬torate any further than it is willing maintain a house on campus. Housinerestrictions prevent the members SKappa Alpha Psi from doing thisAlpha Delta Phi was the only oneof the larger houses which voted foradmission. Others who voted in favorof admitting the fraternity vvereAlpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta PiDelta Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, ZetaBeta Tau, Phi Sigma Delta, Pi Lamb¬da Phi, Phi Gamma Delta, and PhiBeta Delta.Those opposed to the admission ofthe fraternity were Delta Kappa Ep-silon. Phi Kappa Psi, Chi Psi, andSigma Chi. Phi Delta Theta and PhiKappa Sigma had not indicated whichway their delegates had been in-structed, but five fraternities op¬posed would be enough to block anymotion for amendment.FAUL WHITEMANDeems TaylorPaul DouglasCopyticht 1938, Licgbtt & Myms Tobacco Co.... giving MORE PLEASUREto a whole world of smokers.. the international codefor MORE SMOKINGPLEASURESmokers the world overknow that They Satisfy is the signalfor more smoking pleasure.Chesterfields are madeof mild ripe tobaccos —home-grownand aromatic Turkish—and pure ciga¬rette paper . . . the best ingredients acigarette can have.With Chesterfields you are alwayssure of refreshing mildness, morepleasing aroma and better taste.