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Finn' James Lowe 1 yn Bayle s Ann Gallmeyer Heien Olsen as Becker 1 Ann Hrarsha Marjorie Rough vieve Field ~ Kathryn Jackson Mary E. Watts ne Fischgrund Dorothy Laylin )e] ne i NIGHT EDITOR-JERRY E. ROSENTHAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931. y Not Use titification Cards?. HIS YEAR'S SENIOR ELECTION promises to be one of the bitterest fought in many years on the campus. The State Street ticket has not won a single elecion yet; the Washtenaw faction will be trying hard to keep its record clean. Be- tween the two groups, no effort will be spared 'to put the most votes into the box, At the Student Council .meeting Wednesday night, little was said about precautions against illegal voting in elections. If our memory serves us right, identificaton cards were not in the hands of the students at the time of the senior elections last year. What is to prevent the student council from asking for identification cards this year at the polling place after first notifying the student body? Formerly, it was the custom to have all eligible voters listed on paper; a student gave his name, and if it was on the list, the student received a ballot.t Th'ere is nothing to. prevent illegal voting un- der this system. If the person with the right to vote comes along, the vote may already have been cast, and there is no remedy. The use of identifi- cation cards would eliminate any such practice. The combination of the lists of eligible voters and the cards should prove to be foolproof. There may or may not be any cheating next Monday. But in previous elections there have been charges of stuffed ballot boxes, "lost ballots," recounts and re-recounts. And, although we look upon the present campus political system as not being in harmony with the general character of a Large University, nevertheless, it is necessary to take all precautions. With a bitter struggle be- tween the two parties coning on, there may be bitter feeling following the election on the part of the loser. Why not put identification cards to some use? Campus politics, by virtu of the manner in which they have been conducted, have become petty and insignificant. A noted British writer last summer accused American university students of lacking any interest whatsoever in contempo- rary political problems. The present campus poli- tics could certainly do nothing toward developing civic-minded citizens. Two tickets are always pre- sented. Fraternity and sorority students vote the :icket according to what is promised them. Can- lidates are mere puppets. If the independent stu- dents could be persuaded to take an interest in elections, if some sort of platform could be adopt- ed by candidates, the campus politics might in some degree help future citizens and voters to take an active interest in national, state and city elec- :ions, give them a better basis on which to judge :andidates and parties. But to return to the origi- nal point of our ramblings, why not put the identi- ication cards to some use, after proper notification :o the campus? The Recent [nterfraternty Ruling rOMPLETE REMOVAL of the Union Upper unteers from the junior and senior classes. Their duty is to help the freshmen become adjusted to University life and to instill in them class spirit and unity. They were to call at the homes of the five or six freshmen, to whom they had been assigned, once every two or three weeks. It was taken for granted by the Union, since no objection was made, that the judiciary committee would exclude them from their ruling which prohibits fraternity men to call at the homes of freshmen. When the Upper Class Advisory system was discussed at an open board of directors meeting last spring, Dean Bursley said that some sort of an understanding would be worked out with the judiciary committee. According to committeemen, the reason for the ruling of the Interfraternity group, was that if the Union was allowed to send advisors to the homes of the freshmen, they would also have to allow churches and similar organizations to send upper classmen, who were fraternity men, to the rooms of the first-year men. The judiciary committee ruled that an advisor could meet the freshmen as a group in the rooms of one of the freshmen or in his own room. This would, however, completely defeat the purpose of the system which was the personal advice given by an upper classman to a freshman. Germany And An Economic Crisis ECONOMIC CRISES in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries usually brought about by lack of foresight on the part of governments, resulted in revolutions overthrowing monarchical systems and establishing republican governments instead. Today, in the twentieth century, the trend seems to be the other way. When France's monetary system, several years ago, appeared to be headed for inflation, news- papers were full of rumors of royalist meetings, attempts to restore some member of the former royal families to the head of the government, and predictions as to' the possible success of such movements. When Austria and Germany were planning their customs union, which would have helped Austria to regain her feet financially, there were stories of French backing to put ex-empress Zita on the throne provided the proposed Union were dropped. The most recent scare is in Ger- many where Hitlerites and Nationalists agreed to combine their forces in an effort to oust Chancellor Bruenig. The Nationalists constituted the party that put Hindenburg into office; they were sorely disap- pointed when he failed to turn out to be a regular party man. Hitlerites are better known as the Fascists of Germany, although in 1920 they, too,' had dreams of seeing the Kaiser return to Berlin. Naturally, the French watch this union with no little fear, especially in view of the fact that they appear to have concluded satisfactory prelimi- naries with the Bruenig government toward co- operatiori in the economic crisis no'r prevailing in Germany. There should be, however, no doubt but that the movement took place in order to 'embarrass the present government, or to frighten several smaller groups in the Reichstag into joining them. The combined two groups have not more than 148 votes in a Reichstag of over So votes. Even count- ing the other opposition votes, which group is not in sympathy with the Hitler-Nationalist move- ment, the government seems to be able to stand the test when a vote of confidence comes up. Should the reactionaries in the Reichstag, how- ever, be able to muster enough votes to overthrow the Republican government, there is little fear of the Kaiser's return. France need not be over- perturbed at the Hitler threat, since the Germans are in too critical a situation to be able to afford the enmity of other leading nations. The con- servative center, the conservative bankers and merchants, know that Germany's salvation lies outside its boundaries, and that little, if anything, will come of the newest royalist revival meeting. Putting Professors on Trialm THE FACULTY of Columbia University, on talbefore the students for "murdering the English language," have entered a plea of "Not Guilty." The plaintiffs, the student publications, particularly The Spectator, the college daily, charge in the indictment that professors "hang participles with all the abandon of a buccaneer on. the Spanish main." As a result, more than a score of the faculty have been "blacklisted." Naturally enough, the professors have come out and denied any abuse of English, that gram- matical errors in conversation and lectures were "forgiveable." Students, they contend, are more conservative" and "hold out for correctness where the language has changed." No one will deny this. All trades, all businesses, all profes- sions have assembled jargons known only in their immediate circles. Variations from the standard are more the rule than the exception, a device for making more vividbthe thing to be said. But it is doubtful if the habit is widespread, such as The Spectator believes. Those who take lecturing seriously should be extremely careful in the use of English, even to the point of being over-cautious. To deliver a lec- ture is not as easy as some would have us believe. To listen to one may or may not .be as difficult- depending upon the lecturer. But no one is im- mune from making mistakes; they are the easiest of things to do. Not only is lecturing difficult, but writinr. too. has is coenomeatin+;of wn --c' x OASTED ROLL BAH BAH! Black sheep, have you any wool? And speaking of black, that's just the way things are looking now on this campus. The greatest question, n a y problem, yea question-the nays have it-it's a problem-the greatest problem that has arisen on the campus in three days faces us now. What (bf) shall the Daily attack next??? Any suggestion that you, Mr. Taxpayer, may have, should be mailed to the Rolls Con- test Editor. (there isn't any,) but there won't be any suggestions, either. If the Daily doesn't get anything to attack soon, it will be attacking itself, anon, and that would just be too terrible, wouldn't it? Who said "NO" there in the back row? We see you, you snark! FELLOW INMATES of this state institution! Oh dear, we forgot what we were going to say. Ah yes, one of Buzzard's little LES- SONS IN LIFE: Don't jump at any- thing, i n c l u d i n g automobiles, street-cars, concrete mixers, meat- grinders and CONCLUSIONS. We jumped at a conclusion a few nights ago and landed squarely on it. It was this way: the lamp in our atelier (Now don't be obtuse, atelier bears no relationship to C h e v a 1ie r)-anyway, the lamp wouldn't work, so we threw the bulb out the window with appro- priate remarks. Swiping a bulb out of an adjacent room, and coaxing it into the socket, we found that the plug of the lamp was discon- nected from the power outlet (I lave that phrase-power outlet). We spent the rest of the night out in the woodpile under the window looking for the bulb, and sure enough the filament was broken. So we were justified in throwing the bally thing out the window, after all, after all! What a tri- umph-just like Michigan's victory over Chicago. And in addition, we found in that woodpile-Item; One apple core, slightly discolored, and slightly use. Item: One gin-ha ha we fooled you-ginger ale bottle. Item: Three rusty razor blades, 1912 model-and- what we mean, we really found them too. Item: One petrified freshman, complete with pot, and bearing a Union but- ton with a 1925.date on it, thereby establishing his vintage as 1925. Item: One pair of Wolverine tracks, lined for use in cold weather, and Item: One colored gentleman (not less than one toa woodpile-that is, well regulated woodpile, and that's the only kind we talk about in this column). SO DON'T JUMP AT CONCLUSIONS! * * * THE CRUX OF THE MATTER is this: the horse is not, so far as we know, a motor vehicle; Ha, you see now, my dear Watson? Why not ride horses on the campus? That is the solution of the fiat- feet problem ina this city. And speaking of fliat-feet, the . Univer- sity cops will all be relegated to street-cleaners' jobs., Hooray! Hoo- ray! A group of co-eds have taken a step in the right direction in or- ganizing a riding-club. They call themselves the ZEPHYRS, or some other name taken originally from the old Sanskrit. What we need at this crucial time is enthusiasm. Let us see horses on the campus-- but not very close to, please! * * * Yes, the trouble with. the whole plan is thatrwedon'th ike horss, and this dislike, nay distrust, yea dislike- (the yeas have it this time-Yea dislike! Yea dislike! Yea dislike! Fight, fight, fight!), this -dislike comes from our first (and last) ride on one of the animals. He bounced. He reduced us to our lowest common denominator, and we were three inches shorter when we finally fell off the neck of the noble animal into a watering trough. His uphoastery was in very poor condition, and he had no shock absorbers, (the horse, of course). One could not shift gears on the beast, and he wouldn't steer right. Now, when you pull the steering wheel of a car to the right, it goes to the right,' and never says you neigh. (Accept our apologies). But a horse-there's a different matter! That animal would reach around and bite us in the leg on the side to which we pulled the reins. The only option we received in the whole matter was which Ieg we preferred to have bitten, and we are proud to say that even at that tender age we were absolutely impartial in the matter. Ah well! BUY SH OE S R IG HT N OW at a Big Saving See Page 2 SPECIAL BOXES of Preketes delicious CANDIES 1 Pound 75c 2 Pounds $1.50' Before and after the game Hot Lunches at P RE KETE S Sugar Bowl 109 South Main Street Free Delivery im 1 I _ - - s . - - College men who know what to wear and how to wear it choose Alligator "50"- the new College doublebreaste ra glan long full cut--roomy -full-belted, with big patch pockets, and a convertible collar that gives extra protection around the neck... Light in weight--semi-transparent-abso. luey yweathrprof Four rich, Blue,Black-and only $7.50!.. Other Alligator models from $5.00 to $25.00. THE ALLIGATOR CO. 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They are dedicating the technical experience gained in the General Electric Test De- partment to the practical service of under- graduate athletics-designing and instal- ling floodlighting equipment for virtually every sport-football, baseball, hockey, tennis, and track. Other college men in the General Electric organization have specialized in street- Nighr photograph of Temple Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, floodlighted with G-E projector. lighting and Floodlighting projects, or in the electrical equipment of industries and mines or of immense power stations; some are designing and applying electric apparatus to propel ocean liners and locomotives. All are engaged in the planning, production, or distribution{of j G-E products and so are performin a work of national betterment and creat- ing for themselves recognized spheres of personal influence. L You will be interested in Bulletin GEA-1206, "The Light that Started Sports at Night." Write for it to the