A 'THE MICHT- aAN .DAILY 7 r :0 Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Mlernber of the Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- publication of all news dlspatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second lsts ntter.nSpecial rate of posta;e granted by Third Assistant P:.otronster (GeneraL. Subsc-ription by carrier, $ .0O; br mail, $4.50 Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Kichigan. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF. Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD L. TOBIN EditorilI Director ...............................Beach Conger, Jr. City Editor..................... .........Carl Forsythe News Ed'tor .............................David M. Nichol Sports Editor .............................Sheldon O. Fullerton Wornen's Editor............................Margaret M. Thompson Assistant Xews Editor ..........................Robert L. Pierce pacing the streets to get out votes, and students will still labor under the illusion that student gov- ernment exists at Michigan. tTDRL' (uCA]FP [1 PUR II Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous communications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon re- quest. Contributors are asked to be brief, con- fining themselves to less than 300 words if possible. 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 RS nedy James Inglis Jerry E. Rosenthal George A. Stauter rits 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 BUSINESS STAFF Tlepbohn~e221 CHAR'LES T. KLINE.... .................Business Manager NORRIS P. JOHNSON ........... ..........Assistant Manager Department Managers Advertising. ....................Vernon Bishop Advertising Contracts.................. ....Robert Callahan Advertising Service.............. ......... ... .Byron C. Vedder Publications...................................William T'. Brown irculation ...,................. ..arry R. Begley Accounts.. .. ............ .......Richard Slrateneir Women's BLIusiness Manager ........................Ann W. Verner Orvil Aropnson Gilbert E.ursiyle Allen Clark Robert F inn, Donna Becker Martha Jane Cissel= Genevieve Field Maxine Fischgrund Ann Gallmeyer Mary Harriman Assistants Jolhn Keyse Airthur F. Kohn umes Lowe Bernard B..Schnacke. Anne Harsha Katharine Jackson D~orothy Layin Virginia McComb Carolin Mosher lie tcSn Olseon H4elen Schmeede Grafton W. Sharp D011. ld Johnson D'onl Lyon Bernard H. Good May Seefried Minnie Seng Helen Spencer H~athryn Stork Clare Unger Mary Elizabeth Watts c. 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. I' f' i i i, i it *" To safeguard against any possible harm to the fabric Of your garmnts. the Varsity uses ivory soap ,xCudsive a.Harmful alkalis play no part' whatse er in the laundering process Y in- uise -at the Varsity, Phone 23123 For Call and Delivery Service F Fifth and Liberty ..._ . ._ _ _ _. 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 * * *~ III i I