:: PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, FEDRUARY 25 192 PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1926 Published every morning except Monday diring the University year by the Board in C1oroo 0f Student Piljhications. Members of Western Conference Editorial Association, Fhe Associated Press is exclusively en- t"tid to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwse c edited ini this paper and the local news pub- ihea nerein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, s ichigan, as second glass matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- ~acr General. Soscriptirn by carrier, $3.50; by mnail, OfPces: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- :rd street. Phones Editorial, 4725; business, 2 214. r JCDITORLAL STAFF, Y Telephone 498411 MANAGING EDITOR GEORGE W. DAVIS (1'airman'Editorial Board...NormanaR.s hal (ai 1ditor -.......Robert S. Mansfield z" ".v.Editor..........Manning Houseworth Sne's Editor...........Helen S. 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Economy is a great thing, and his adherence of that policy has made Coolidge the most popular President of recent years, but economy should be limited, to some extent, to govern- mental departments and interior or- ganizations, and not to the air and naval defense of the nation. The navy should be immediately brought up to the 5-5-3 ratio, and, as soon as the smoke of the Mitchell battle clears away so that some decision can be reached on exactly what reorganiza- tion is to be preferred, the air service should be reorganized. THE VISITING PHYSICIANS Many prominent figures in the American medical world are guests of the University today. They are the members of the American Con- gress on Internal Medicine, who, after meeting in Detroit during the early part of the week for the tenth annual clinical session of the organization, come to Ann Arbor for further ses- sions at the "world famous labora- tories and clinics of the University of Michigan," as the Congress has called them. To them the University extends its greetings. This welcome, the University ex- tends with a feeling of pride, for it is welcoming men who stand on the frontier of medical research,-men whose energies are directed toward the alleviation of suffering and to- ward the discovery of phenomena which will make human life happier. These men the Universitywelcomes to its hospitals and laboratories,- institptions which the Congress has called "world famous," and of which the University and state are proud. Here the visitors will see taught and extended a living gospel of "healing." They will see their col- leagues at work in laboratories and clinics; they will see at first hand the work which the University is do- ing in its departments of medicine and allied subjects. This work the University believes to be truly great, believes it to be a real contribution to this age, and a prominent outpost on the frontier of science. And so the University welcomes to the city members of the American Congress on Internal Medicine, be- cause it is greeting men whose lives unselfishly are devoted to human ad- vancement, and because it feels that it also is doing ,a great work in this field, and is anxious to have those of the profession pass judgment on its efforts. CAMPUS OPINION Anonymous communications will be I rlregard. The neam of cnn un- S cants will, however, be regarded asI confidential upon request. PRO1111TION PIONEERS I To the Editor:- The staff correspondent of the De- troit News writes from Washington, D. C., that the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals has discovered the Michigan Daily and is distributing your recent editorial as good prohibition material for propa- ganda broadcasting Washington ought to know that the University of Michigan is not a stranger to prohibition loyalties in its student body. In that national capital city are the headquarters of the Intercollegiate Prohibition asso- ciation, representing hundreds of in- stitutions of higher learning; but its first national president and its first! national secretary back in 1892 were both University of Michigan men. pioneers in a national student reform movement which before had been only state wide.I By the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law, we have captured the Thermopylae of reform long held' by the organized liquor traffic in this country, and we will continue to hold that strategic position which we have won, without either defeat or retreat. The prohibition of the liquor traffic is not an end in itself, it is simply a path-finder. The pioneers of thirty! and thirty-five years ago have seen their student oninions written into the fundamental law of the land. But they were only trail-blazers for the present and succeeding generations of progressive college students who are now free to march to even greater victories that await them in the fruit- ful fields of reform that lie beyond. -Frederick M. White, '94. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1926 Night Editor-THOMAS V. KOYKKA "America has never yet hoisted the white flag and it will not hoist it in regard to prohibition en- for;ement. More than 38,000 bootleggers have answered the roll call in Federal courts this last year; over $7,000,000 was assessed in fines and over five thousand years of prison penal- tes imposed."-Wayne B. Wheel- cr. general counsel of the Anti- Saloon League of America. ECONOMY PLUS Ever since the death of President Harding placed Calvin Coolidge in the Presidency of the United States, the word Coolidge has been synon- omnous with ,economy. Any legisationI that requires the expenditure of the n ational funds is sure to find an en- ergetic opponent in the White House. In this light, it is strongly suspected r:i;mrnment circles that eceonomyI is the basic principle that underlies the President's recent attacks on an expansive .air program, and most cer- t- inly is responsible for his refusal to a prove the appropriations necessary bring the United States navy up to t' 5-5-3 ratio prescribed by the t i hington Armaments conference. While it is true that economy in the federal government is greatly to be desired, it does not follow that continued savings in the defense e~pnment of the nation is equally 1: d ble. While it is difficult for the} l v n to ascertain anything about the condition of the air service, due1 to the heated charges of Mr. Mitchell en ono hand and the equally emphatic t