P'AGE FOURt THE MICHIGAN DAILY FTRSDAY, FEB11TrAI r 17 , 1927 Published every morning except Monday'l during the University year by the Boad in Control of Student Publications. Members of Western Conference Editorial, Association.1 The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news' " dispatches credited to it or not otherwise creditd in this paper and the local news pub-1 lished therein Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, jMichigan, as second class matter. Special rate , o postage granted by Third Assistant Post-1 master General. Subsc'liptiori by carrier, $.7; by mail, $4.00. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Fiusines 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephoe 495 MANAGING EDITOR i SMITH Hi. CADY, JR. Edtr1. W. Calvin Patterson 'City' Editor............... Irwin A. Olian' IFredczick Silijtit" SNews Editors............ Philip C. rook' V Women's Editor ........ ......Marion Kubik Sports Editor............ 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Anale, Jr. Nersg.........urence J. Van FulI Circulation ... ....T. Kenneth Haven ' Publication.... ...John Ill. obrnl; ...................FanisA. Norquist f Melvia H. Baer J B. Wood a D. M. Brown Esther Booze Florence Cooper IiKilda Binzer Daniel Finley Mrion A. Daniel A. M. Hinkley Beatrice Greenberg E. L. H-fulse Slma M. Janson t; R. A. Meyer Marion Kerr Harvey losenbun i M ;ni I_. heading t° William F Spencer l17i et .C Smith S1Arvev Taiott Nanc Soomon Harold Utley Emu nene Wilmaier THURSDAY, FEURARY 17, 192 'Ngitl Editor TAMrES T. HIEALI) - t' ii a bl~ a "t ift"i c'.easngl - a:'lttt. tr ~Witliiiz lesl t;w t OP {]Yuen "reas "YK. t-I~vh 1a y'.3 ,> t di alowed lit craiJi advanced cou rss to undergraduates, it notablyljit, Those of two hours. A checkup of opnion shows that stu dents invariable maintain that as It lnmuch work is dlone in .most two hou courses- as in three. Many of these l are among the finest .in the Univer it, t especially the advanced course i+. rl the English, Socioic:y, and Political N Science departments ut the work re 4i cquired is often what might reasonably be expected in a three or even four Iour course. Consequently when a 1l student carries 1 or 14 hours of other difficult courses he hesitates to tak 13 a course which he would like but which would require more peaa prpr-tion than he could reasonably handle. I So often he takes the easier course I and lets it go at that. :..r This is a problem which concerns p upperclassmen much more than un- derclassmen. The time of the junir- y or senior is limited. He can enroll in only a certain number of course:- r before graduation and is often furtherl t restricted by degree requirements. A serious handicap is thus put upon the student -who desires to do more ad- vanced work in certain departments rather than get a smattering of every- thing. So, many of these advanced courses are of but two hours credit. 1He does not receive adequate credit for work done. It does not matter much to the graduate student exactly how much credit lie gets; his effort is --of a different kind. But the upper- classman faces a different probler., He must have group requirements met 5- 'and 120 hours and points to graduate. He is likely to pass up a stiff two hour course, no matter how good a student hie is, for th:: course of thi~k same amount of work and more credit That is only human nature. By ey.- panding many of these two hoar' courses to three hours the way woulOt be made easier, no more effort would he required, and credit would go. where credit is due. With France definitely opposing any separate disarmament conference not connected with the League of Na- tions, the prospects for the Coolidge proposal to the "Fig Five" are not at 9.nromisino*ralthougi~h the situantion, the diminution of land and air forces. As Secretary of State Kellogg co- mented on the French note, there seenm to be several points in it which [must have been caused by a misun- derstanding of the true purpose of the American proosal. If France ap- lreciates that the proposel conference would work, in effet, as a subcom- mittee of the preparatory commission of the League, except that it would be less bulky, it is difficult to see how they can~ conscientiously reject the plan. From their statement that they wish any disarmament agreement to concern all forces of warfare, it ap- pears that the French are too loath to make reductions in any depart- ment without assurance that some other naions will be better equipped relatively after the final cuts are made. With the background of war and hate that has marked European politics for centuries, it is possible, of course, to understand the reason for such an attitude if it really exists. However, there seems little justifica- tion for delaying reduction of naval forces "into the indefinite future" on such grounds. As has been intimated in some quarters, the French refusal may lead to a four power parley involving this country with England, Japa, and Italy which are all expected to favor the project. While any definite action would be hampered by the absence of France, much benefit would undoubt- edly come from the discussion, and even France might be suffcietnly im- pressed by the sincerity of the other powers to join finally in some reduc- tion. C4?AVITY Newtcn discovered the law of gravi- tation. It took a Michigan professor of history to apply it to international politics some several centuries later. Prof. reston Slosson declares that "America will be drawn into the League of Nations by the force of gravitation." At rare intervals professors seem t ~et sensible ideas, and this is un- goubtedly one of them. To suppoe that the united States could, if it would, keep out of the League of Na tions indefinitely is almost absurd That any nation which pretends t love peace should deliberately scor membership in a world organi~atio &r, tIhe enforcement of peace iis nn- h4lievable. Perhalps the proponets of th jits'a#ae o too far when they say tha ?S can =tc p wx'-as i rely. But. woul ,k ,tm? ^n snai' 5Stop)in tlat Air c oI, din r l~lif: :aved or ove ill p ;i jag of 'a