?AGE FOUR? THE MICIlGAN DAILY JRDAY, OCT'Yt31iR:1I19, 303 I Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thie paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post. master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones:tEditorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 K'MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY City Editor Frank E. Cooper News Editor. ..........Gurney Williams Editorial Director........... Walter W. Wilds Sports Editor..............Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor...........Mary L. 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Vedder Erle Kightlinger Richard Stratemeier Abe Kirshenbaum Noel D. Turner Aubrey L. Swinton Wesley C. Geisler Alfred S. Remsen Laura Codling Ethel Constas Anna Goldberg en Virginia McComb Joan Wiese Mary Watts Marian Atran Sylvia Miller relative importance or place the liquor problem should have in its investigation, this decision of the commission is heartily to be wel- comed. ! The nature of the present agita- tion over the Eighteenth Amend- ment is such as would make im- perative the present plan of hold- ing secret session while the subject is under investigation. Neither political party at present could risk open testimony by any of their leaders. To some, who, we are in- clined to believe, have dry senti- ments, the current hat-waving about Prohibition is anathema, and without any real basis in the de- sires of the people or real political issues of the parties. This latter is somewhat true; each political in- terest dare not stand alone on either side of the question. Witness the present machinations of the New York political primaries and gubernatorial campaign. B o t h Roosevelt and Tuttle are nullifying any stand the other may take by adopting similar attitudes. Thus the issue is largely swept out as a campaign concern. But this does not imply that the liquor situation is dead; the problem is merely being mooted with circumspection. Meanwhile, the traffic progresses and is surreptitiously condoned. The real function of the Wicker- sham commission would ideally be to go to the heart of the entire problem from a factual point of view. With both sides, represented by Judge William S. Kenyon and Kenneth MacKintosh, insisting that there be no "pussyfooting," the forthcoming report cannot fail to contribute constructively toward an intelligent diagnosis of the prob- lem. So great have been this com- mission travails, however, that theirs is a Herculean job to produce a civilized and impartial prescrip- ton for the country's prohibi- tion act. It would seem that Cannons are still backfiring at the Methodists.I * * * No matter what the Wickersham committee reports next week, we doubt whether or not the corner saloon will ever return, what with the gas stations, peewee golf courses and'barbecue stands everywhere in the city. They might as well stay out beyond the twelve mile limit, so we will all have the same sense of insecurity as before. * * * And now, all other excuses fail- ing, Senator Gerald (Snoopy) Nye will probably try to keep Ruth Han- na McCormick out of the Senate on the charge that she knows how to operate a dial telephone. o 0 Editorial Comment TOO MUCH NAGGING (From the Yale Daily News) In his article published in the News yesterday, Allan V. Heely, 1919, acquaints us with the spirit of educational "laissez faire" preva- lent at Oxford. He has an interest- ing point to make regarding the charm and efficacy of this attitude of the English don, which should be carefully preserved with whatever of the tutorial system Yale intends to borrow. He argues against the American policy of making stud- ents work, and writes: "Somehow we must develop American dons, tell them to forget what 60 per cent means, and give them a free reign." This refrain is a familiar one. For many years the sound of it has wrought before our eyes a vision of the millennium, when we shall in- deed be learning under such a sys- tem. We advocate repeatedly, leni- ency in the matter of routine, hon- or lists, scope and freedom. And we hope we see a trend in that direc- tion. It is on the subject of forced work that we feel the greatest error of, our colleges exists. It is the rebel- lion, constant, chronic and so even- tually pernicious, against the both- ersome restrictions which produce in our midst the men in "scholastic difficulty." Consider the man who fails in his ten minute papers, and you will generally see one who simply fights a daily problem of routine boredom and loses every time. See the same man before ex- aminations and you will find him studying deeply for a week, the very picture of industry. The point then which we make is that good students lose interest be- cause of too much nagging, who un- der certain spells of industry be- come real drinkers of the wells of knowledge. To see kinetic energy of examination week, and to realize that it is all potential throughout the term, is to point out the error of our ways. A man willingly rises to crises at fair intervals, who ob- jects to maintainingr a required HUZZA Tomorrow and tomorrow and to- morrow . . . every little heart pal- pitating furiously in its patent pal- pitation with hope and fear of what the new day may bring! All loyal and true Michigan Men going to pep-meetings the night before and yelling themselves so hoarse that they are unable to attend the game. Peanut stands practicing up their whistles at the music school. All is in readiness for the great day. But up in a dark room, three flights up from an alley all is still. Seven ex- perts sit about with corrugated brows, thinking---thinking- think- ing. And for all I care they can sit there until they rot. I'm not even going to ask them what they're thinking about or make them take off their corrugating and reveal themselves. And that, as the Egyp- tians are wont to say in moments of stress, is that. * * * LOOK LOOK LOOK! A real contribution, and its worth printing, too! Such things don't often come the way of the righteous. And I practically never get them. Dear Dan: In my capacity of 1. f. -lousy frosh, if you insist -- I find that the sober (?) faculty is just a bunch of big playboys at heart. Their game of Alphabetical A r r a n g e m e n t, though fundamentally simple, is the source of much good vile sport. The game needs no explanation, but the scoring may not be so well known. The prof. conducting the game receives all points. Anyone gaining 50 in one class wins a parchment certificate permitting him to conduct no classes on Thanksgiving Day. For each student (huh) in pos- session of an aisle seat in last two rows--10. Each one seated between two good-looking co-eds - Game breaks up due to arrival of millennium. Seated between to ordinary co- eds, one with halitosis and buck teeth, other using large quantity of Eau de Kresge --25. Seated between a fat guy overlap- ping on you, and a left-handed writer with a sharp elbow, chewing and snapping gum -15. Seated next to someone who gets honors and has a custom-built shoulder to look over - 25. Of course, this merely scratches the surface. Still, 'scratch the sur- face and you scratch all.' The playee's only defense is a false beard and an alias. Since this will but recall the horrors of the Pit (familiarly know as Registra- tion), a faint moan swiftly followed by complete unconsciousness seems the only thing left. Very dully yours, Willie. Reply to "Three Co-eds" Sunday afternoon, 2:45, S. U. at Washtcnaw. Tom, Dick, and Barry. . * Galahad writes in to say that he is off of chivalry for life: He held the Library door open for a sweet young co-ed only to have her sweep by him and step on the Library Seal. * * * h And that isn't all. Theobaich, one of my most promisig chiv- alrousers, tells me that he too is all through with such stuff. Ile says he didn't mind when the first two women to whom he doffed his hat knocked it out of his hand, but when the third dropped her gum into it, he re- belled. He wouldn't have mind- ed so much, he says, but the cheapskate had chewed every vestige of flavor out of it be- fore she dropped it in. * * * Fellows, let's not forget about this chivalry hooie. How long is it since you have clinked glasses with a few boon companions and cried with sparkling eyes, "Here's to the ladies, ...... ...... 'em !" * * * The weather looked pretty good yesterday, but remember; it's always brightest just before the storm, absynthe makes the world go 'rounder, and an emp- ty barrell gathers no moss. About Books BOOKWAOIII'd'S- "X i" OF T~l 1lEIAlYSTE A. I ansen he hero of Tundra, the saa of the KMon- dike gold Northern Alaskaan which will be published late this month by Century, is now on his way to New York accompanied by an 80- pound Alaskan husky. hausen has wired his publishers that he is anxious to be present in New York this month "to celebr ate the birth of Tundra." The Edingtons, authors of Tun- dra, have based the book entirely on the personal reniniseences of Bert Hansen, who went t) Alaska before the Klondike gold rush and eventually became United States Deputy Marshal. With his cham- pion dog teams he "muriished" more than sixty thousand miles of Alas- kan territory, once even crossing the frozen tundra to the Arctic Ocean in the path of duty. Hansen has named husky Tundra in honor ingtons' book. He statc dog is one of the few specimens of the type that belonged to the teams of the gold rush his prize of the Ed- s that the re mainiiiig of hiski_'s c(rack (tog diavs. SHE DEALT A DEATH BLOW. ( / SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930 Night Editor-BEACH CONGER, Jr. SEARCHERS FOR TRUTH. President Ruthven's speech last night before the students of the Graduate school contained a piece of very pertinent advice to those who are in preparation for higher academic d e g r e e s, particularly those entailing some amount of extended research work. His chief aim was to urge these future doc- tors of philosophy to eschew the pitfall of extreme specialization which is to fail in evolving a usable basis of interrelated knowledge in a broader sense. Too often grad- uate students, in their pursuit of erudition in a narrow field of specilization "fail miserably to enjoy and succeed in life through a lack of knowledge of the nature of man and the way of the world." It would be hardly necessary to reintroduce at this point the old controversy about matters of re- search, the reductio ad absurdum of which is "to find out more and more about less and less." Obvious- ly, under the continual raillery of prominent educational experts dur- ing the past decade, such graduate pursuits as counting the commas of "Endymion" or comparing the use of the perephrastic in Homer and Aristophanes have fallen by the boards. But the pressure of the academic world is a paradox: it possesses a more practical and im- mediate need for an "impractical" education. To all those now engaged in the research activities of the Univer- sity, Dr. Ruthven's advice must represent the dictates of round common-sense, when he urges that they "not only assert their indi- viduality in the choice and pursuit of a profession, but also determine to satisfy the native urge of every intelligent human being to learn what he wants to know and should know, and to interrelate t h i s knowledge into a working concep- tion and philosophy of life." Allah must pity the poor student who, having found that he knows more ahout the entellus than any other I Rebecca West. The London letter which appear-, ed monthly in the Bookman, and indeed furnished the only readable matter in the journal, will appear no more, according to _Rebecca West, the scribe who contributed the feature. Wearily recognizing the crass sterility of the 'magazine in its stodgy support of the neo- humanist movement, Miss West has severed her connections with the periodical, and she brilliantly defends her viewp int in her final contribution in the August issue of the publication. Her decision is significant not only for the deri- sion her keen, well-trained, and brilliant mind throws upon this senile father of American critical journals but for the sounding of the death-knell of the entire Amer- ican Humanist Moveneit. AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU. Cyrus Hall MeCormnick, inventor of the reaper, is the subject of a biography by William T. Ifutchin- son of the University of Chicago, which will appear coincidently with the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the invention of the reaper. Professor Williamf F. aDodd has coit ributed a foreword to the volume, according to thlie pubhishers, The CenTury Co. IF YOUR LITTLE CHILI) U'EAS YOU. The Century ( . announces one of the strongest juvenle lists in itsj history for the plleaen season. In- cuded among the authors are such old fvorite as F B. and A. A. Knipe, Rupert Sargent Holland, Edith lal inger Price, Ellen C. Bab- bitt, Flora Wnrren leymour and Holen Coale Crew, while the le- brated artists, Ehnar and Berta Hiader, are represented on the Cen- tury list for he irs time. Among the books for b y aid girls to be issued before the first o Noveinber are The Treastue Hisuse hy thel Knipes; T he Daunt;less Coinpany by Holland; The Fork in the Road by Miss Price; Singing Seamen by Mrs. Crew; The Animals' Own Story Book by Miss Babbitt: A Good Lit- tle Dog by the H,-ders; The Sky I Girl by Dorothy Verrill; and French Heels to Spurs, by Loraine Horna- day Fielding, a story of Western dude-r nehing with an introduc- tion by Will James. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Cor. S. State and E. Washington Sts. Dr. Frederick B. Fisher, Minister 10:30 A. M.-Morning Worship. "FAITH AND REALITY." (Reception of members) 7:30 P .M.-Evening Wor-ship. "MAHATMA GANDHI'S LIFE." Dr. Fisher will preach at both services. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH E. Huron, below State R. Edward Sayles, Minister Howard R. Chapman, Minister of Students. 9:45 A. M.-Church School. Mr. Wallace Watt, Superintendent. 10:45 A. M.-Worship and Sermon by Mr. Sayles: Subject: "THROUGH JESUS TO GOD" 12:00 N.-University Student's Bible Class at Guild House. 5:30 P. M.-Students: Friendship Hour. 6:30 P. M.-Devotional Hour. Leader, Mr. Arthur Bernhart, Grad. (Students' Headquarters,, Guild House, 503 E. Huron). BETHLEHEM EVANGELICAL CHURCH (Evangelical Synod of N. A.) Fourth Ave. between Packard and William Rev. Theodore R. Schmale 9:00 A. M.-Bible School. 10:00 A. M.-Morning Worship. Sermon topic: "Why go to Church?" 11:00 A. M.-German Service. 7:00 P. M. - Young People's League. WESLEY HALL The Methodist Student Center Cor. State and East Huron Ralph Johnson, Director 12:00 N.-Class in "Comparative Re- ligions." Leader: Mrs. F. B. Fisher. 6:00 P. M.-Devotional Meeting. Speaker: Mrs. F. B. Fisher. Sub- ject: "A Modern Servant of Jesus." i ATTEND CHURCH REGULARLY FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH . Huron and Division Sts, Merle H. Anderson, Minister Alfred Lee Klaer, University Pastor Mrs. Nellie B. Cadwell, Counsellor of Women. 10:45 A. M.-Morning Worship. Sermon: "Saying Goodbye to God." 12:00 Noon-Student Classes in Religious Values. Prof. R. Hoekstra Ethical Issue in Current Events ...............Prof. Andrews Ancient Tradition in Light of New Knowledge. G. P. Brewington Introduction to the Bible ...... .. Rev. A. L. Klaer 5:30 P. M.-Social Hour for Young People. 6:30 P. M.-Young People's meet- ing. Leader: Prof. Raymond Hoekstra. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Allison Ray Heaps, Minister Sunday, October 5, 1930 10:45 A. M.-Morning Worship. Sermon topic: "What Place Has Faith in an Age of Science?" 9:30 A. M.-Church School. Mr. Joseph Akau with his steel guitar on "Religious Music of Hawaii." 5:30-6 P. M.-Student Fellowship. Social half hour. 6-6:30 P. M.--Fellowship Supper. 6:30 P. M.-Luther J. Purdom, Ph.D., speaker: "Opportunities for Personal Adjustment." ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Division and Catherine Streets Reverend Henry Lewis, Rector Reverend Duncan E. Mann, Assistant 8:00 A. M.-Holy Communion. 9:30 A. M.-Holy Communion. (Student Chapel in Harris Hall). 9:30 A. M.-Church School. (Kin- dergarten at 11 o'clcok). 11:00 A. M.-Morning Prayer: Ser- mon by Mr. Mann. 6:00 P. M.-Student Supper ini Harris Hall. Discussion Group led by Mr. Lewis. ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH (Missouri Synod) Third and West Liberty Sts, C. A. Brauer, Pastor 9:00 A. M.-German Service. BE CONSISTENT IN YOUR RELIGION a . I bi tl 1e is ta ti * * * I don't wish to lead anyone astray ut I have it on very good authority ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Washington St. at Fifth Ave. E. C. Stellihorn, Pastor 10:30 A. M.-Regular Morning Serv. ice. S e r m o n topic: "Church Peace." FIRST CHURCH CHRIST, SCIENTIST 409 S. Division St. 10:30 A. M.-Regular Morning Service. Sermon topic: "ARE SIN, DISEASE, AND DEATH REAL?" hat the front page of Ann Arbor's -- - - ading morning sheet for Friday ANOTHEIt worth reading carefully particu- IPRIZE NUMERP. rly in the lower left-center sec- The Antiumn number of The Yale on. Review, in which the announce-