°"-F-__THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESD AY, MAY 17, 1932 ~T 4 Ir~i~igan ThI4Q Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitledttorthe use for re- pub'lication of all news dispatches credited to it or not othet*ise sredited in this paper and the local news published herein. E;ntered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50 Ofices: Ann Arbor Press 4luilding, MaynardStreet, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Lufriess. 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD L. TOBIN Editorial Director............................ Beach Conger, Jr. City Editor...................................... Carl Forsythe News Edsto. ................David M. Nichol Sports ,Fsditor.............................. Sheldon C. Fullerton Women's Editor ..........................Margaret M. Thompson Assistant News Editor ..........................Robert L. Pierce of drys at Wa sington who are "keeping" our repre- TOASTED ROLLS sentatives and senators from introducing legislation which they wish to enact. The purpose of this lobby The Editor is undoubtedly that which you have indicated, but it is impossible to believe that they can control the Sho OiF H M th actions of the large group of wet representatives and Oots OUt senators which, you claim, was elected to Congress In four years at the University in 1930. there are certain truths that one Regardless of the power which this dry lobby may learns which one cannot express or may not have, your criticism of it cannot be justi- until he has passed through and fled unless that you can prove that the wets are has had time to read, learn, and conducting their campaign for wet legislation in a thoroughly digress them. The Edi- legal and ethical manner. No one needs to tell you tor intends to speak his mind in that such is not the case and that, on the contrary, this, his last Rolls Column (he an equally powerful wet lobby has done everything hopes), say what he thinks about it probably could to bring about the repeal of the people and things at Michigan. No 18th amendment. one will agree with him, everyone Lobbying is one of the greatest evils in our polit- will disregard him entirely and why ical structure and it is pitiful that the will of the not; but he will speak, he will be people is often frustrated by such a corrupt practice. heard, and here it is: , ' NIGHT EDITORS Frank B. Gilhreth J. Cullen Kennedy Jamex Roland A. Goodman Jerry E. Rosenthal Karl Seiffert George A. Stautcr InglisI Brian W. Jones Stanley NV. Aruheim Donald I". lllankertz !?ward C. Campbell Thomas Connellan Robert S. pewtsch Fred A. Huber Sports Assistants John W. Thomas REPORTERS harold F. Klute lihn S. Marshall Roland Martin hIenry MNeyer Albert 13. Newman 1;. Terome Pettit Prudence Foster Alce GMube-i Frances Mnehester ilizabeth M a:,n -UsINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 Charles A. Sanford John W. Pritchard Joseph lteihan C. Hart Schaaf Brackley Shaw Parker Snyder Glenn R. Winters Margaret O'Briea Beverly Stark Alma Wadsworth Josephine Woodhams It is the lobby, as a political institution, which I think should have been attacked in your editorial and not one group within that institution. The dry lobby is merely trying to cope with the opposition of another group, equally potent and corrupt. The wets have constantly been seeking excuses for their failure to bring about the repeal of the 18th amendment. They have attacked every instrument of our political machinery on this basis, the lobby is only one. It is time for them to choose one of two courses of action. Either they should prove their strength by electing a sufficient number of wet repre- sentatives to Congress to consummate their will, or they should effect a revision of our political system which they so bitterly condemn. You say that the next Congress will be over- whelmingly wet. I say that the wets will not have sufficient strength to achieve any more success than they have during our present session of Congress; nor will they ever arrive at the goal they have set as long as the American people hold the interestsI of the group above the liberties of the individual and' refuse to hold a glass of beer so close to their eyes that they lose sight of the welfare of the nation. Hubert R. Horne. Miriam Carver Beatrice Collins Louise Crandall Elsie Feldman CHARLES T. KLINE........................Business Manager NORRIS P. JOHN$ON...................... Assistant Manage Department Maagers Advertising......................................Vernon Bisho1 Advertising Cot rcts..........................Ilarry R. Begley Advertising Service............................BIyron C. Veddey Publications ..................................William T. Browt, Accounts.................................Richard Straternci Women's Businesas Manager...................... Ann W. Verno, Orvil Aronson Gilbert E. Burialey Allen Clark Robert Finn Donna Becker Maxine Fischgrund Ann Gallmeyer Katherine Jackson Dorothy Laylin Assistants Arthur F. Kohn Bernard Schnacke Grafton W. Sharp Virginia McComb Caroline Mosher Heen Olson Ilelen Schmiude May Seefried Doiiald A. Johnson, 11 IDean Turner Don Lyon Bernard H. Good Helen Spencer Kathryn Spencer Kathryn Stork Clare Unger Mary Elizabeth Watta ho, I I I E¢IIIT 1IA1L COENT j NIGHT EDITOR-KARL SEIFFERT TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1932 wan Song UCH question has been raised in the stress of V the last year as to how to bring about better understanding between administrative officials and students, particularly student publications men. Before turning over our desks to the incoming staff, we would like to point out to editors and officials alike a manner in which this end may be accomplished. For two examples of misunderstanding be- tween these two groups, let us take up the cases of the Buildings and Grounds story last fall, and the Hopwood awards last spring. Had the proper officials seen fit to admit reporters to their confi- dence, much of the embarrassment which resulted might have been avoided. Confidence is the first prerequisite of under- standing in such cases. As long as administrative officials continue to regard the "inquiring re- porter" with suspicion, they can only expect him to regard motives for secrecy with like suspicion. Full admission into the complete facts of the par- ticular case, together with any circumstances which bear upon the subject, would bring about a whole-hearted co-operation from the reporter: and editors and would do much to relieve the continued embarrassment of persons in an official capacity. But as long as officials continue to deny knowl- edge of facts which are known to the reporter, the latter will naturally regard such denial as prima facie evidence of irregularities in the administra- tion of the University and its functions. We cannot but feel that it is to the best interests not only of the University but also to the official, concerned to take full note of this condition. Once editors are given full access to the desired information, officials will find them perfectly amenable to suggestions for co-operation and not completely lacking in ability to judge the best interests of Michigan. In addition they will find the students not totally ignorant of ways in which these may be best served. It has been tried on occasion by some few members of the University's administrative staff with admirable results. The same situation is repeated in the case of correspondents for out-of-town newspapers. Too often, however, these men, when admitted to the facts, insist upon cowardly and distasteful distor- tion of news. This would probably, however, be rectified by admission on all questions. At the present time, facts about certain departments are at a premium; any discoveries, no matter how sensational or how suitable to distortion, are re- garded as journalistic prizes. Often, too, tips to such discoveries are furnished by disgruntled stu- dents who have found themselves balked in an effort to-ascertain both sides of the question and were unable to secure the necessary information with the means at their disposal. We have personally suffered, more or less, from this lack of co-operation and confidence for three years. We can only hope that future editors may benefit in some small way by the efforts put forth during this year to attain fair treatment and administrative co-operation. EMPLOYMENT (Daily Northwestern) College graduate: If I had not gone to college and wasted four years I would have a job now. Unemployed man: If I had gone to college and had trained for some profession I would have a job now. Well, we have to blame the depression on some- thing and we might as well pick on the colleges. One university graduate who finished his schooling last year and is still looking for a job wrote about his situation in the present issue of Forum. He claims that there is something wrong somewhere with a society in which a man can spend four years study- ing and then get out of school and not even be able to get a job as a soda jerker. If he had started out in business four years ago, he would have had a job. He might have been fired from it, but at least, he would have had the experience of earning a living, of feeling that he was capable of earning a living. Opposed to this situation is the picture of the many men who are filling the night classes in our universities. Unable to understand just what has happened to the world, they are taking a few moreI courses in the hope of finding out. There is no real answer to our problem of whether we should have more education or less education. It is a strictly individual matter and one that each person must solve for himself. Surely, however, it is incongruous for a man to attribute his lack of a job toa college education. It is just as incongruous for a man to take extra courses with the hope that they alone will get a job for him. The Editor has discovered: That the University, situated in the conservative East, the liberal West, and the beautiful South is a muddled combination of all that is grotesque in Harvard, Stanford, Ohio Wesleyan and Loyola; That truth and beauty are little enough appreciated as it is, irre- spective that it is so much so; (what?). That too many people hear Palmer Christian on Wednesday afternoons; That Shirley Smith probably knows more about the University than anyone here except perhaps Bursley, Robbins, Louckes, Yost, Kipke, Ruth, Gehrig, Chapman, to mention only a few; That Ed McCormick knows some- thing that he won't tell; That Professor Reeves, even if he is in the Political Science Depart- ment, has a few ideas about things and would make a corking good President of the United States somewhere; That-the curriculum should be revised to eliminate about fifty per- cent of the present basic language, history, economics, science, and so- ciology courses; That the American League is twice as good as the National League and we, too, are sick of the Tigers; That the handling of the Univer- sity falls abysmally short of taking the students' viewpoint; That Dean Rea is the truest noblest prince on the campus; That the girls in your home town are more beautiful than the girls on the campus of the University of Michigan; That the valuations placed by the student body upon honesty, hard work, indifference to supercilious- ness and intellect are far too high; That Michigan has resultantly become a glorious high school with the invariably popular spoon fed courses, from which a great many graduate with little or no idea of how they did it; That the least appreciated man ever to be graduated from this school is Johnny Chuck, and he probably won't graduate when this is published; -- III I ~ j That there are a great many un- AFTER FOURG. YEALS appreciated men on the faculty too; (Daily Kansan) That the best lecturer in the Uni- versity is Dean John R. Effinger; We are now a senior. During our four years I That Miss Louckes sees more, training we have learned a lot of things. They are knows more, and cares more, about not what we expected to learn when we first enrolled the University than anyone else in the University, but we do not regret the time spent here, and that she, and she alone, here learning them. In a month we shall be a grad- knows the intimate problems of ev- uate of K.U. and have a degree which we shall never ery delinquent student on the cam- use except to try to get a job with it. pus, and a lot of others too; But of all the things learned, both good and bad, That the Women's page would be there is one thing which we regret most of all. We a lot better reading if the Staff have learned to bluff. In high school, we either knew would quit taking courses from the something or we didn't. We made no bones about woulit takin us f t it either way, but especially during the last year of English Department, but a lot less our University career we have bluffed a good deal of tmppsgdoI our way along. We have written exam answers for That campus politics and o)liti-t pages over subjects we had never studied. In the cians are undoubtedly our finest "shot guns" we have bulled along and we "got by.,,fallacies; We have bluffed professors into thinking we know That the curriculum should be their subject and we have got decent grades. It isn't revised to eliminate the other fifty that our conscience hurts us over the few good grades percent of the courses in the cat- we have received, but it has just occurred to us that alogue; something is wrong. Why do we need to bluff? That the Gargoyle is a swell Of course, we want to get along on as little work magazine and would be appreciat- as possible, but there have been times when we have ed a great deal more if everybody burned the midnight oil and still bluffed. Is it that would read it; we have too much work to do in too short a time? Is That the cinemas booked for this it that the impossible is expected of us and we merely i town are undoubtedly the worst get along the best we can? that Hollywood turns out; No, it is rather that we find that we can get awayI That it takes more than three with bluffing. During our first or second year we executives to run this University; tried it on something we had meant to study and didn't. We got by with it. The next time it was a That the B. and G. department little easier, and still no one found out about us. ought to take the fence out from And fin iten xut~rif c ~,vfil vnw +the iin-,,'between Angell Hall and the Ro- £AndL 3so itVY\'± went4 bAn . uniL now bY J theU timeJ~ we ar ait U senior, we can write whole book reviews over books we have never read; we can answer questions over unknown subjects and we have learned to recite in class for five minutes and never commit ourselves. Now we are getting to a point where we are bluffing ourselves. We are not sure whether we know something or whether it is just our "gift of gab." We are sure of one thing, that we skim along the surface and do very little real thinking. So it must be true here, as it is with so many American colleges and universities, that the student goes through a four- crna mpalia nnr ,ncc Allin~ -wrhi 4 Pima h 011 mance Language Building, a n d build a nice new sidewalk there; That we have too many law buildings, too many medical build- ings, too many chemistry and Nat- ural Science buildings, and too many buildings; That the Ann Arbor climate is the sloppiest, wettest, lousiest, and nastiest of any other in the coun- try; CA mIPUS OPNIION 1 11 Letters published in this column should not he construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daly. Anonymous com- munications will he disregarded. The names of conmnunicants I I E .