-J PAGE TWO THE SUMMER MICHIAN DAILY FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1926 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY 01F MICHIGAN SUMMER SESSION Published every morning except Monday l during the University Summer Session by! the Board in Control of Student Publica- tions. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all newst dispatches credited to it or not othewise c:redited in this paper and the local neves~ pub-; lished herein. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michirzan, postoffice as second class matter. Subscription by carrier, $1.50; by mail, Offices: Press Building, Maynard Street,. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Communications, if signed as eviaence of good faith, will be published in The Summer Daily at the discretion of the Editor. Jn- signed communications will receive no con- sideration. The signature may be omitted in publication if desired by the writer. The Summer Daily does not necessarily endorse the sentiments expressed in the communica-1 tions. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 490-. - MANAGING EDITOR MANNING HOUSEWORTHf Chairman, Editorial Board......Eugene H. Gutekunst City Editor...............William R. Breyer Music and Drama.........William C. Lucasj Night Editors Wilton A. Simpson Theodore Hornberger Paul J. Kern Miles Kimballl Douglas Doubleday Assistants Gail Lyons Thaddeus Wasielewski George T. McKean Morris Zwerdling BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER PAUL W. ARNOLD Circulation---------------Kenneth Haven Advertising----------------Francis Norquist Assistants Edward Solomon William F. Cook FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1926 "The decision of war lies in the hands of young men. If you feel that you are hazardng much in surrendering something of your liberty to the unknown demands of your Nation, what shall we say of the hazard of the Nation in placing Its destiny in no small degree in your hands? Have you done anything which justifies the Government in this expression of its great confidence? In a great battle Joffre and Foch, Luden- dorf and von Hindengurg, may control the organizaton and direct great strategy, but in the main, whether we will or not, our des- tiny must be confided to young men in war when old men fail in the councils of peace."-Message of Secretary Wilbur to the grad- uating class at the Naval Acad- emy. THE END'S BEGINNING Today marks the beginning of the four day whirl of events which leads to the end of four or more glorious years of college life for over a thous- and of Michigan's sons and daughters. The next four days are filled with festivities and fun and the supreme joy of at last shaking free the shackles of college-to plunge into an icy world and struggle for oneself. Yet, throughout all of it, there must be interwoven a thread of sadness. For college, no matter what life may have been there, is the place where fond memories start. For the alumni the next few days mean quite a different thing. It means to them a time of joyous re- unions, the revival of dormant mem- ories, and a rebirth, after a fashion, of undergraduate days. For the alumni it means the remaking of old ac- quaintances while for the graduate it means the breaking off with things familiar and beginning of a new life. This morning the classes meet to review their splendid history. And it has been splendid, indeed, for the class of 1926 is one of the greatest classes ever to be graduated from the University. Many new things have happened on the campus since this class first entered, many new build- ings have been erected, changes have been made in educational policies, a large memorial fund has been estab- lished, many athletic championships have ben won, and so on. Although the class graduating Monday did not have a direct hand in all of these things, it was through its loyal co- operation that they have been made possible and through is efforts that many of them have been started. Atheletically, spiritually, and scholas- tically, the class of 1926 ha. had a history that will long be remdmbered by succeeding generations of Michi- gan students. Commencement means the end of a sheltered academic life and the be- ginning of a new life in a world that cares little how a man looks or acts as long as he can command respect for his personality or his abilities. This class which has worked and played 1: gOther for so long will now be scattered to the four corners of the I world-in places where commercial- OASTEDROLL ism is rampant. It is there that the graduate will miss cultural and intel- / lectual environment of Ann Arbor.'IW T There is a big disappointment coming to the student who expects to find his GRA1ATE future life merely a continuation of Well, commencement has coimmenc- his life at college. That is the sad ed. Everybody will now naturally | part of graduation. For above the gravitate toward Ferry field( or Uni- 6 pain at separation from familiar versity Hall auditorium in case of campus life, above the sorrow at rain) fpr reunions and whatnot. breaking off old friendships, there is Everybody but us, however. While a sadder revelation that comes to the the rest of Ann Arbor is merrily graduate wlin he finds things away sweltering in the sun, listening to the from college crude, dingy, and prosaic pearls of wisdom dripping from the to a la-rge extent, lacking the glamour, lips of the Commencement speaker- culture and ease of college life. whoever he may be-, we will be equally sweltering in the Press Build- Wearing a derby never made any jng, bravely bearing aloft (good line, man or his head hard. that) the standards of Journalism. At present we are very busy editing, writing and proof-reading the Com- S EDITORIAL COMMENT mencement issues of the Summer Daily. Any defects, therefore, in the humor of these columns, must be NOT SCORNED OR BRUSHED ASIDE borne with patience. We have grave (The Daily Illini) problems to surmount, my public. Some proof, perhaps, that the "aver- * * * age" college man is not being scorn- We happened to mention the most ed or contemptuously brushed aside fundamental of these problems to a by the business world, but that on the pal of ours yesterday, the question of contrary he is being welcomed by em- getting copy for the front page. With ployers in industry and the profes- the serene confidence of one who has sions, may be offered by this year's never worked on a student newspaper experience at Columbia University. he offered the following: More jobs-not positions, but jobs- "Why dontcha go out on State Street are awaiting 1926 graduates of Col-' and count the drunks?", sezzee, "You umbia University than at any previous oughta be able to get a pretty snappy graduation. This is not an idle haz- little feature on that." "Why don't ard, set forth to elevate commerce you do that?" we shot back, heerfully schools to any position of sanctity but socking him over the bean with a it is the official statement made by ten pound collection of Elizabethian Nicholas nM. McKnight, head of the dramas. "You could sell it to the Appointment Office of Columbia. Mr. . Whaddya think The McKnight controls the employment Daily is, anyway? A tabloid?" And agency of this largest school in the that closed the incident. United States, and despite any ten- I* * * dency he might have to set Columbia i Referring, as we ought to be doing forth in appearances of glory, his for 'the next three days, to the im- statement in this regard has consid- pending festivities, we realize now erable significance. why everybody gets pathetic when The Appointment Office's experi- Diploma Day comes round. We feel ence, moreover, discloses the fact that that way too. This is our fourth the jobs .are not open because of any year on the campus and we still lack increased number of applications on the requisite hours for a sheepskin. I I the part of the graduates-to-be, but So when all our buddies march up on, largely because of the fact that con- the platform for their rolls of blank cerns are coming to stress the activity I paper tied with maize and blue.rib- of recruiting college graduates in bon we won't be among them. competition with other employers to In a way, though, it has its ad- a groater extent than ever before. vantages. While our classmates are Business men, it seems, are actually choking back (maybe) the lumps in vying with one another in the attempt their throats at leaving the dear old to get the men who are most com- place, we with the knowledge of eight petently trained to enter the so-called more weeks-and maybe more-in practical side of all kinds of indus- Ann Arbor, can watch them with un- trial organizations. sympathetic joy. "The real meaning of the recruiting * * * is that the companies want to make In the second item above, note sure of the quality of the material the blank space after the words "sell they are going to consider," Mr. Mc- it to the". The space was originally Knight said in explaining the situa- filled with the name of a well-known tion which is but a natural outgrowth g-roup of sheets which likes that sort of the development of commerce col- of news. But Washington barged in loges, and suggested that it be left open for The real meaning of this tendency, the reader to supply his own pet hate furthermore, is not alone the cer-