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RICHARD L. TOBIN
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pacing the streets to get out votes, and students
will still labor under the illusion that student gov-
ernment exists at Michigan.
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OUR FAILURES IN DISARMAMENT
To The Editor:;
FrankR. al rbreth
R~oland Good man.
Karl seiffer
NIGHT EDITO
J, Cullen Ker
Wilber J. Myers
Brian Joed
Stanley W. Arnheim
Laws on E. lBe(,h(r
Tihmnas Corinllanl
:aruel (K. ETlit
amueil L. Finkle
Louis B. (ascoigne
Dorothy lBrockmani
Miriam Carver
Beatrice Collins
Louise Crandall
Elsie Feldman
Prudence Foster
Sport Assistar
john W. Thomas
REPORTERS
Fred A. liuber
Normamn Kraft
Roland Martin
hecnry Moyer
Marion A. Milczew
Albert Ii. Newmar
E. Jerome Pettit
Georgia Geisman
Alice Gilbert
Martha Littleton
Mlizabeth Long
Frances Manihoeste
Elizabeth Mann
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nedy James Inglis
Jerry E. Rosenthal
George A. Stauter
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John S. Townsend
Charles A. Sanford
John W. Pritehard
Joseph Renihan
C. Hart 1Schaaf
Bra(-kiey Shaw
iski Parcr It. Snyder
n G. I. Winters
er
Margaret O'Brien
Hillary Rarden
Dorothy Rundell
lsa Wadsworth
Josephine Woodhams
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Ann Gallmeyer
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May Seefried
Minnie Seng
Helen Spencer
H~athryn Stork
Clare Unger
Mary Elizabeth Watts
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NIGHT EDITOR-GEORGE
A. STAUTER
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1931
Student Governhient
or Campus Polits?
A PPARENTLY our comments on local politics
have aroused no little comment among vari-
ous members of the two machines. We do not pre-
sume to lay down any hard and fast dogmas, but
rather to encourage student discussion on various
phases of college life, in this instance, and hence
believe our goal is, gradually being achieved.
Nevertheless, a few points which appear to have
been misunderstood remain to be explained.
In the first place, the criterion by which to'
judge an extra curricular activity should be the
mental, spiritual or physical development of the
student, or the assistance it will bring him in his
life after college. Under this standard, we can
hardly concede that campus politics are worth
while. To be sure, they afford a certain pleasure
to certain types of students, offer the intrigue and
mystery with which the politicians pretend to
shroud their activities, but the aim of the Univer-
sity is not to turn out ward-heelers or district
bosses. It is rather to attempt to educate.the stu-
dents to the duties they are to assume upon grad-
uation, of the obligations they must fulfill in later
life.
Some sort of change could be accomplished in
the campus political system to make it worth
while. It is not student government as it exists;
today, which after all is the fundamental question
at stake. The presidents of classes are mere figure-
heads. A very few elected officers really do any
work, such as the senior class treasurer and the
J-Hop committee. The others obtain a free pic-
ture in the 'Ensian from the' class funds, and' pro-
vide enough names to fill up a page in the 'Ensian
with their affiliated politicians. There is nothing
actually harmful in this system, except that it
takes too much time away from studies, time
which could be more profitably spent, not neces-
sarily on studies, and in that it pretends to offer
a student government system whereas it actually1
does not.
One proposal to better the system was made
at a recent Student Council meeting where Ed-
ward McCormick proposed to limit the number
of committees to those actually necessary to the'
function of the class. It was naturally turned
down from the very nature of most members of
the Council. Another proposal has been to adopt
platforms. "Since the officers have no functions,
they could not very well adopt platforms for elec-s
tion. The election of men qualified to hold office,i
rather than puppet: of the machine system, mightl
be far more influential in obtaining power for the
.tudent body than under the present ineffective
system. If classes zan show that they will elect
men who really deserve the positions, then the
authorities might be more disposed to grant them
power. At the University of Minnesota the Stu-
dent Council is composed of the officers of the;
various classes, there is an absolute minimum of
committee appointments, and statements b'y can-3
didates as to their views on student governmnt
are held to be more important than the machine
with which they are affiliated.
Disarmament is almost as Mark Twain said the
weather is. Everyone talks about it but few do any-
thing about it. Political leaders in every country have
called attention to the evils of increasing expendi-
tures for military purposes-and go on providing for
them. The state of world opinion is such that no
one dares to say that he favors war or armament as
such but we usually find leaders in countries which
would be affected by a disarmament program saying
that they "agree on principle but have difficulty in
working out the details." In 1922 Russia proposed a
general reduction to one-fourth of the existing forces
on land and sea and she was denounced for trying
to play a trick on the other nations. She was said
to beonly trying to weaken them in order that a
world revolution might be successful. There can be
no disarmament as long as this fear that other pe--
ples have sinister and covert motives exists, and if
this excuse is true and we need to arm against such
a peril there should be no talk of disarmament.
Instead we have half-hearted efforts at it by men
who are thinking and speaking in terms of "security"
and "parity." Thus the Geneva conference of 1925
was manned by Naval Officers who wished it to be a
failure and seized upon every excuse for disagree-
ment, and its failure was fore-doomed. This failure
was further aided by the fact that a paid lobbyist
for arms manufacturers was a confidential advisor
to the American delegates.
The London Conference could be called successful
only by apologists. The American delegates had no
adequate instructions about how to deal with the
situations which arose or even about the policy which
they were expected to maintain. This is evident
fron statements made by the delegates themselves.
When Great Britain proposed considering the ques-
tion of battleships they declined on the ground that
they wished to deal only with cruisers. This would
have prevented success even if there had not been4
the recalcitrant attitude of Italy and France.
If the coming disarmament conference is to be at
all successful its members must be backed by an alert,t
determined, and intelligent public opinion, which
knows the amount of progress for which it can hope,
will not be misled by the notion that a large navy{
is necessary for "safety." The only possible basis for
a warless civilization is a mutual respect among
nations which makes each believe in the honorable
intentions of the others and which makes each
nation feel that it has a responsibility to help other'
peoples as well as itself feel secure.
WAYNE ERICKSON, Spec.
To The Editor:-
In a recent editorial in this paper the efforts of
Sen. LaFollett toward creating a national Economic
Council were branded as being "rather hollow." To
be sure, the editor shows he is not very well informed
of existing economic conditions when he brandq any
efforts as hollow which tend -to help industry and
agriculture out of their present chaotic state and -
place them on a more stable basis. Not only haveI
many political and economic leaders such as Stewart
Chase, Charles Beard and Girard Swope advocated
that industry be more regulated in regards to bal-f
ancing production with consumption and curbingt
the over-expansion of certain industries in booma
times, but they have actually produced plans them-t
selves which have been seriously considered by the, b
Senate Interim Committee on industrial regulation.v
The mention that this bill will create just "an-e
other commission" for which the Progressives haver
so often criticized President Hoover is a mistatement b
showing lack of-knowledge of the proposed plan.
Hoover's commissions were of a temporary natureN
only; ceramiy a commission which tends to dealf
with the regulation of industry would necessarily bep
of a permanent type since this kind of a board wouldi
function much the same as the Federal Reservea
Board or the Inter-state Commerce Commission, thee
duties of which continue year in and year out. Anyu
plan which is proposed to help industry get out ofr
the 'straights in which it now finds itself and keepS
it permanently guided along the right paths is cer-
tainly a concrete objective, but our editor does notc
seem to think so.t
This "commission of commissions" would gatherc
the information made available from the reports of
other temporary investigating commissions, see to itn
that they are carefully considered and put into prac-t
tice instead of the present method of disposing oft
them on dusty shelves. Does this not seem to be ac
step in the direction toward remedying some of the1
faults which the Progressives have found in Presi-
dent Hoover's method of running things? The editor1
doesn't think so.f
As a'precedent for saying- that this plan will nota
work, our editor tells us of the German Economic
Council. Instead of dealing with the main issue ofI
industrial planning and control he brings up somes
petty grievance between employers and workers.
Why does he look so far afield for an "unsuccessful
(?) precedent when right here in our United Statesc
an industrial planning board functioned during thef
War? This council, called the War Industries Board,9
sought to speed up industry, move goods and gen-c
erally co-ordinate production and consumption. Itr
met with comparative success but was discontinued
at the close of the war.
With economists, business leaders and .govern-e
mental heads on every hand realizing the necessity
for the stabilization of industry and agriculture, we
are informed that any step In this direction is "a
rather hollow scheme,' and that those who propose
AMU
ABOUT
THINGS I1 I
To fill in that dreary interim be-
tween issues of Ballyhoo, (you know
the magazine with the perfectly
dilly tintypes), Toasted Rolls. pur-
suing it's policy of social service
(spelled with a capital I) will do-
nate a portion of it's column to
pressing campus problems. And in-
asrnuch as this is the fifth week
away from home, we will speak
from the harrowed depths of our
own experience and propose some
Advice for Homesick Freshmen.
l. In the first place, barge out
and hook on to that girl from home
for a date-(You remember the onei
with glasses and red hair who used
to uit right behind you in French
class)-because if she will remem-
b e r your name, she's probably
homesick too, and you can go out
to the Arboretum and have a good
cry together.
2. If that doesn't put you back
on your feet again, drag all those
letters from home out of the waste-
basket and read them; especially
the ones that tell about missing
y o u r services in cutting grass,
carrying out ashes, washing walls,
etc., etc. And if this doesn't buck
you right up, we can only conclude
that you are as lazy as hell and
your folks could never get you to
do any work and we hope y o u
pledge a fraternity with a great big
yard and lots of trees. (fraternities
note a sure fire way-to evade defer-
red rushing rules, reach our mil-
lions of readers through a paid ad-
vertisement in the Rolls column).
3. Remember that letter Uncle
Joe Bursley sent you this summer?
Well, drop in at room 2 U. Hall and
talk to the Great White Father of
the ' freshmen. He'll understand.
(Please try this, and send your im-
pressions to the Toasted R o 11 s
Agony Department.)
4. To be frank with you, we don't
think any of these suggestions are
any good, so inasmuch as we are
about to dash off and watch "the
"B" team play, we will suggest just
this-Take a week off and go home.
This will put you on your feet
again, and quite possibly will in-
duce this great impersonal univer-
sity to take a personal interest in
you.
5. If all this doesn't work, drop
around some morning before break-
fast, and confer with Sammy the
Singing Seal.
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Schedules
By
HARRY KIPKE
Advertising Manag er
Greene's Cleaners & Dyers
Dear Toasted Rolls:
The above is a clipping
from a blotter kindly left me by
Greene's Cleaners and Dyers. It is
a lovely thing, green in color. Get
that? Greene's Cleaners - g r e e n
blotter. Pretty clever of the boys,
wasn't it? No cobwebs on their
cerebellum (is that the place clever
notions originate? I must ask Adel-
bert.)
Well, all this is beside the point.
What we want you to notice is the
factual content of the above clip-
ping; i. e., id est, c'est a dire, that
is, Harry Kipke is advertising man-
ager to Greene's Cleaners and Dy-
ers, and that he is author of Sched-
ules; and to prove the excellence of
his product two (2) examples of
Schedules are printed on the here-
intofore-mentioned blotter. One is
called Football and - the o t h e r
Basketball. Artistically these Spe-
cimens are quite disappointing. It
is true that there is a beginning, a
middle and an end-which is some-
thing, of course-but on the whole
they are pretty sad as literary spe-
cimens. Perhaps, if one were kind-
ly disposed one might say that
Harr like many a youthful'author
is hard pressed to keep the wolf
from the door and that to eke out
an existence he is forced thus to
dissipate his best efforts. Poor lad!
In all probability he barely makes
sup icient to buy the daily chewing-
gum.
And this brings up an important
question. Can't we do something
for Coach Yost. After being "the
greatest moral force in the state
of Michigan for so many years,
'ight we not use our influence to
get Goldman'suto take him on in
a similar capacity. I for one will
contribute a cancelled "postage
due" stamp to the cause.
Don Quixote
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