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ments, the two are advocating cuts in armament
expenditure.
Laval's visit this fall was the second meeting
in which the President's foreign policy program
and financial difficulties were talked over. The
results of that conference cannot be known for
quite a while. And now Fascist Italy's foreign
minister, Mussolini's right hand man, will talk
over Italy's, and probably Germany's, difficulties
with the President.
What Hoover's position is in these conferences
is not clearly understood. It is not wholly likely
that these men trained in the finesse and intrigue
of European politics would come to an ex-engineer
for advice although that may be precisely the
reason. It is our opinion that the aid of the United
States is asked in every conference. Both France
and Italy want to have their war debts either!
reduced or suspended or even completely wiped
out. Great Britain wants to be able to count on
America's aid in her many internal and imperial
problems. These conferences, at least, can do no
harm.
They do mark, however, a departure from the
precedent set by Hoover's two predecessors. Both
Coolidge and Harding, although they were repre-
sented in armament conferences, did not appar-
ently take much of a part in our attitudes on
foreign affairs.
Now, however, the administration is decidedly.
active in them. The United States today is the
most powerful nation in the world and other na-
tions realize it. They look to America as her
leader for advice and progress and naturally ex-
pect aid. Hoover, experienced as he is, has real-
ized the position the United States is in and is
taking advantage of the fact. There ought not
to be any danger that he will overstep his bounds
-the President nows his politics.

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Moses Gomberg

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(Editor's Note-This is the second
of a series of articles on outstand-
ing members of the University fac-
ulty. Others will be published in
this column on Wednesday of each
week.)

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(For you)

By E. Jerome Pettit
Amid the test tubes, beakers, and
crucibles of Michigan's chemistry
department, dividing his time be-
tween teaching and research, dili-
gently labors one of the world's
foremost' chemists. Dr. Moses Gom-
berg, head of the department of
chemistry, h as for thirty-seven
years devoted his time to satisfy-
ing the desires of science by disre-
garding all monetary and mater-
ial personal gains to the end of
creating one of the leading de-
partments of chemistry in the
country.
First recognition \f this man's
extensive study of the science of
chemistry came when his position
was firmly established as the dis-

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likes a pipe.
That's one smoke that's still a man's
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NIGHT EDITOR-JAMES INGLIS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,,1931
Prohibition and
Liquor Consumption: IV
TEN YEARS of "prohibition" have had their
effect on the collective mind of the American
people.
No longer does one see a private citizen aroused
by the outrages perpetrated in the name 'of "tem-
perance" or by the violence done for the sake of
enforcement. People get used to things; the
American people are getting used to reading of
gang wars, of river piracy; they are becoming
accustomed to buying their liquor from smugglers
and drinking it behind locked doors.
And someone is profiting. Let the enforce-
ment crowd kill a few unfortunate 'leggers; let
the gangs wipe out each other; let poison liquor
flood the market; someone reaps the revenue.
Prohibition, dry authorities tell us, is a success.
Such men as Amos W. W. Woodcock, admin-
istrator of federal prohibition enforcement, and
the Rev. R. N. Holsaple, head of the Anti-saloon
league of Michigan, point to the fact that the old-
time saloon is gone and aver that liquor sales are
on the decrease.
Actual figures prove that this is untrue; on
the contrary several statisticians have noted a dis-
tinct increase. According to a statement of Col.
Ira L. Reeves, former administrator of the fourth
enforcement district, the nation's annual drink bill
has increased from $I,817,ooO,ooo in 1913 to $2,848,-
ooo,ooo in 1930. These figures represent the actual
cash cost of liquor sold in the United States.
From another reputable source we find that
New York City, at the time prohibition went into
effect, had a total of 16,ooo licensed saloons. In
1929 a survey was made'which revealed the aston-
ishing fact that these places had been replaced by
30,000 speakeasies, none, of course, licensed, and
none, obviously, paying federal taxes.
How, in the face of such facts, can anyone, as
ignorant as he may be of crime conditions, main-
Lain that liquor sales are on the decrease? Col.
Woodcock told Michigan students that he could
give no accurate figures on the subject because of
the fact that his department had never made a
survey of that type.
Is one to believe that a federal department em-
ploying thousands of men and spending millions of
dollars annually is ignorant of conditions of this
sort? Can it be possible that, after 13 years of
organization anh investigation, the federal enforce-
ment officers should remain innocent of knowledge
that might lead to the success of their - under-
taking?,
Or is one to arrive at the conclusion that the
result of the enforcement department is not really
enforcement after all, but the maintenance of a
highly-paid organization because of an unenforce-
able law?

Our Enlightened Era
ITHIN the past year, the number of murders
by very young children is difficult to take
into account. They are like an epidemic, breaking
out and spreading until a check can be made. The
check in these cases, however, seems to be 'a re-
birth of legal revenge, a thing which penolgists
hoped had long been turned aside.
It is difficult to ascertain why people act in
different ways; yet when the bounds are exceeded,
the penalty is exacted. Four instances of murders
by youths within the last several months hav
brought severe penalties. Russell Williams, 17,
his been sentenced to death in Illinois. Jesus
Borja, a i5-year-old orphan, must serve a life sen-
tence in California. Herbert Niccolls, only 12
years old, faces the remainder of his natural life
in prison darkness. The fourth youth, only 16,
awaits the electric chair in the death house at Sing
Sing prison.
The United States was one of the first countries
to bring about penal reform. One of the most
notable advances in this movement has been the
feature which distinguishes from minds which are
mature and those which are not; and, in the latter
case, seeking a remedy m reformatories and juven-
ile courts.
In its report on penal institutions, the Wicker-
sham commission recognized this distinction. It
urged the improvement of reformatories, juvenile
case work, probations, and paroles. To execute
minors or to cast them into prison for life is to
retrace the steps which led to twentieth century
Ienlightenment.

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To The Editor:

The radio review of campus news over station
WJR Sunday afternoon mentioned an interview with
Professor O. J. Campbell which appeared in the Daily.
It seems that Mr. Campbell voiced his ideas on the
college man's reading and expressed opinions to the
effect that college men never bought or read good
books.
If this is true, it strikes me that it is a severe
indictment of Professor Campbell himself and his
colleagues in the English departments of our colleges
and universities. If college men do not purchase and
read good books it must be because their college
English professors have failed to arouse in them a
desire to read good books.
Perhaps things have changed in the last six or,
seven years, but at the time that I took courses from
Professor Campbell and his associates in the English
department they were so busy craming a certain
prescribed amount of material down our throats that
if we ever did read books after graduation it was
in spite of their teachings and not because of it.
They taught us to hate and not to love books.
Perhaps Professor, Campbell would do better to
spend some of this time considering how to improve
the college man's reading and book purchasing habits
rather than criticizing them.
Sincerely yours,
An alumnus.,

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opened the way to our modern con-
ception of atomic structure.
Born in Russia, coming to Ameri-
ca, working his way from the posi-
tion of laborer in the Chicago -_--
stockyards to that of one of the
leading men in the field of chem-
istry, Doctor Gomberg has had one
of the most colorfulhcareers of
ing America educators.
He was born in the small town
of Elizabetgrad, Feb. 8, 1866, and
received his earlier education at
the gymnasium there. His father
was accused of being a political4
conspirator and his property be-
ing confiscated, he fled to the Unit-
ed States, settling in Louisiana.
The son followed three years later
when he was 18 years of age, and
through the aid of friends, came
to Chicago.
Lacking a knowledge of the Eng-
lish language, both father and son
were forced to make a living by
working at any thing they could
find. By attending night school the
younger Gomberg was able to re-
ceive his high school education and
also, following the death of his
father, support his mother and
younger sister, Sonia.
One of his instructors had a bro-
ther attending the University of
Michigan and, becoming interest-
ed in the perseverance and ambi-
tions of the yoing man, advised
him to take entrance examinations
for this institution. This Doctor
Gomberg did and he matriculated
as a freshman in 1886.
While attending the University
he became assistant to Prof. A. B.
Prescott, one of the American pio-
neers in organic chemistry. After
his graduation he remained as a
graduate student and received the
degrees of M.S. and Sc.D.
Two years after receiving the
latter degree he was given a leave
of absence and went to Europe for
further research activities. There
he spent two semesters in Baeyer's
laboratory at Munich and one se-
mester at Heidelberg under Victor
Meyer. He received much praise at
both these institutions for his suc-
cessful attempts to solve chemical
problems which had bothered stu-
dents of the science for some time.
Since 1904 he has been head of
Michigan's department of organic
chemistry and in that capacity has 2
received recognition as one of the
leading eminent chemists of the ,-.\
world.
He is one of Michigan's three
faculty men who are members of1

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