i -I ..Frank Pennell ,r........ Karl Matthews -ama . ... Earl V. Moore News Harold G. M(i;Gee, .....Emmnett Taylor iltorlals. lmau Walle W. Mlerriti Maurice ;Ayer:; ard G. Kemp. Iglt Edltormi n1o Macki Ryan Dn Robert Gillett r C. Harold Iippler Reporters. Oscar Beckman r William Daugherty a ~ Fred D. Foullk dge H. Beach Carpenter ater, James D'Evelin .n Leonard M. Rieser ;baum J. V. Sweeney NESS S'TAFF. Lgr. ..Joseph Fouchar(d gr ... Elmer P. GriersoL [gr..E. Ray Johnscli Jr...,.Emerson SmIti' a .....W. T. Holland~ ,u. J. 1. Lippincott t%. P A11,1 had: - xii moth balls. But the poor malt wvho c.omes along, picks it up, and instead of finding something worth while finds only the stale, musty smell of last year's hand downs. The func- tion of an editorial is not to fill a col- umnn, but to praise, to blame and to suggest. As it is much more difficult to praise and suggest than it is to blame, an editor is therefore one of those men w ho spend most of their time looking for trouble. And he usually finds it. But there is nearly always something{ on which to write an editorial. If there is niot anything, then there is nothing, and that is what we have chosen to vrite today--nothing. "It is appalling to look at the num- ber of men in the University who do- nothing, Men who have ability, but, spend their days killing time, doing nothing. Men who seem to have no ideas of their own, who produce-nothing. Men who take things ready made * * * But men who give .the wvorld-nothing. "Look at them in any lecture hour. TFhey are either asleep or hunting ea-' erythrough the morning's 'Prince' for typographical errors. Look at them in their rooms, studying, maybe, but learning-nothing. Talking, perhaps, but saying--nothing. Day after day they shuffle through their bromidic ex- istence, they travel the easy road of ,inproductiveness which leads from No- where to Nothing * * * You can pick nifty men in each class who do practi- ~ally everything done by that class, and there are an equal number who do absolutely-nothing. What is their val- pie? Nothing. Yet, after all, they have their place in the system of things; ,hey aire the ninth term in a rapidly ,onverglng series." Eown Zaift Having surveyed the necktie that :auntie gave you and essayed to con- sume the seegars presented by sister aren't you in favor of devoting Christ- aias to children and the very poor? If the decrepit S. L. A. really wishes ~o c'.raw a crowd our notion of some- thing that we would bolt classes to see is w hat would happen if they woulid get LaFollette and our own C oy. Osborn together in one and thie ~' ering at one and the same time. Iit. would be worth viewing whether staged in University Hall or Waterman gym. Overheard in the Night Room. Ejaculation, repeated as each of the announcements of engagements went from the night editor to the copy boy: "WH IAT'. I-why that's a girl I fussed." office Offices Sl -everya 316 south state Sire et W Best PNa.tilrnm Poztralt. Portraits, J319 E. Huron Platinu r Portraits ISuits Cleaned and Press FULLER & C versity. R. zinagling - EIditor o0 p. mn.; Bus- 1-5 P. TIn.. e CIO ofz anc PhonE~3 $2.50. A OFFICES: Ann Arbor Press lBuildoig; Matynard Street,. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 19112. Mti!ht Editor-Robert 31. Gillett. IRA Nothing. FRA1NKe LETERETT'S FINDINGS University life is very muceh the, ~ .TV ACCEPTED THEORY same everywhere. We are reminded of - this anew by the following effiterial Di scuvrhxis that vitiate all the ac- eted m na's and textbooks and even which appeared some time ago inl the thie teachling of the geological depart- Daily Princetonlan and has been width- meuit with rc y