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SRepresentatives: College Publishers Representatives, Inc., 40 East Thirty-Fourth Street, New York City; 80 Dd lstn Street, ostn; 612 North' Michigan Avenue, Chicago. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING. EDITOR.......FRANK B. GILBRETH C r EYDTO ..................KARL SEFFRT SPORTS.EDITOR................JOHN W. THOMAS WOIMEN S EDITOR................MARGARET O'BRIEN ASSISTANT .WOMEN'S EDITOR.........Miriam Carver NiGiT EDITORS: Thomas Connelan, Norman F. Kraft, Jehn W. Pritchard, C. Hart Schaaf, Brackley Shaw, Glenn R. Winters. BOwRTS ASSISTANTS: Fred A. Huber, Albert Newman. RPORTERS: Hyman J. Aronstam, A. Ellis Ball, Charles .G. Barndt, James Bauchat, Donad R. Bird, Donald F. 01fanbertz, Charles B. Brownson, Arthur W. Carstens, ton11 d Eder, Robert Engel~ Eric H11, John C. Healey, obrt B. Hewett, George Van Veck, Guy M. Whippe, Jr., W. Stoddard White, Leonard A. Rosenberg. Eleanor B. Blum, Louise Crandall, Carol J. Hannan, )rances.:Manchester, Marie J. Murphy, Margaret C. Ialan Katherine Rucker, Marjorie Western and Har- riet Speiss.r BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 B XN ks MANAGER. ....BYRON C. VEDDER C '~GE......... .. r .... HARRY BEGLEY W 'a BUSINESS MANAGER.......DONNA BECKER DiRTMENT MANAGERS: Advertising, Grafton'Sharp. lvertisng Contracts, Orvil Aronson; Advertising Serv- S No!Qel Turner; .Accounts, Bernard E. Schnacke; Cir- ton, Glbert E. Bursley; Publications, Robert E. ASS "JANTS: Theodore Barash, Jack Bellany Gordont Charles 'Ebert, Jack Efroymson, Fred Hertrick, J Oer JHuni,'Alen Knusi, RuselR ead, Lester .Skin-, n~r 'Joseph Sudow and Robert Ward. Bey Agler, Doris Gimmy, Billie Griffiths, Dorothy n Heln Olson, Helen Schume, May Seefried, Teathryn Stork. SATURDAY, OCT. 22, 1932 Tax Ainendnents InVolve Questons.. IT IS not always true that matters of great importance are decided in elections. When voters go to the polls to choose a candidate or a policy, it frequently occurs that nothing affecting them directly or vitally is de- cided. This is not true of the coming election in Michigan. Two proposed amendments to the state constitution are to be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection, and the outcome will affect everyone in the state. These proposed changes in the state constitution ai known as the "Fifteen Mill Limitation Amend- nient" and the "Homestead Exemption Amend- meit." : The first proposes to limit the property tax, which is far and away the chief source of state revenue at present, to $15 per thousand of assessed valuation. The second would exempt from the property tax all properties assessed at less than $3000, and would exempt the first three thousand dollars' worth of property worth more than $3,000 ,provided in each case that the owner of the p r o p e r t y in question occupies it. The amendments provide for a few exceptions in their application,but in the main they would operate as we outline them. The proponents of the amendments are able to a d v a n c e some amazingly effective arguments. Their plea is directed to the small taxpayer, and is in the nature of a promise to free him from a Targe part of the burden he now bears. As is fre- quently the case, however,it is doubtful whether the arguments are basisically valid. We do not set ourselves up as experts in the science of taxation. Determining how the revenues of this state are to be raised is not and never will be our business. We believe, however, that some of the questions that have been raised anent these amendments are reasonable, and we urge the voters concerned to consider them. We have set forth below some of these ques- tions. The list could be much longer; short as it is, it furishes food for thought. Since the l i m i t a t i o n proposed in the first nrnrlvinisfn all sesfi which Lgovern- Supreme Court interpretation that they would throw the taxing machinery of the state into chaos." We have advised the voters to think before casting their ballots in November. We again urge that they heed this counsel. "Political" Ecno7y With A Vengean.ee. EDITOR'S NOTE: Following in the last install- ment of an essay on economic issues in the coming presidential campaign, written for The Daily by Kamil Toonian, senior in the School of Business Administration. FOR the sake of not more than 100,000 beet sugar producers who forced congress to raise the duty to 2c per pound the entire population was forced to bear the expense. For whereas the total amount of sugar produced in this country is about one million tons, the people consume annually a total of 62 million tons. Evidentally the people are being forced to subsidize a small industry for the benefit of a few. But that is not all for, ac- cording to the Business Week, Cuba raised its duties in retaliation from 50% to 300% affecting $30,000,006 of American exports and practically cutting off "a well developed market near home for 30 million dollars of farm products". Among the principal agricultural imports of Cuba from the U. S. are pork, beef, lard, bacon, ham, fresh eggs, butter and powdered milk. Likewise the tariff on unmanufactured wool does benefit few hundred farmers who were strong enough to force their demand down the throat of the congressmen who disgorged it in Congress and (after lots of bargaining) had it finally digested in the tariffhact. But what a burden it has been on all the nation, and how disastrous have been the tariffs on chemical pro- ducts, leather goods, watches, shoes, straw hats, oils, iron and, steel products, zinc aluminum and copper all of which have been in effect subsidized at the expense of the people. Out of the first twenty most important markets, the exports from the U. S. to them bear close re- lationship to the imports (65% of) from, those markets. Hence the new tariff rates of England, Canada France, Japan, and Germany affect the export business of the U. S. materially and other nations listed above. Canadian retaliation above is supposed to affect the exports of the U. S. by 200 million dollars, American exports to the Br. empire wil be further reduced as result of the Empire Conference agreements. Moreover, if we take into account the principal exports of the U. S. we find that cotton ranks first and automobiles second, while auto parts, electrical supplies, type- writers, motorcycles, machinery and wheat are among the important export items. Does this suggest who is going to suffer because of foreign retaliation? To the people of Detroit, Flint, and other manufacturing cities of Michigan the Re- publican tariff has been a curse rather than a blessing because directly and indirectly it has led to curtailment of production and an increasein unemployment. Didn't anybody forsee the tragic consequences of a such detrimental measure as the Hawley- Smoot tariff? Yes the thinking people predicted the harmful effects of the tariff but nobody paid attention to them. At least not the President for more than 1000 economists members of the American Economic Association representing 179 collegesand universities including Michigan, pro- tested against the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Bill. These economists were not only professors but also advisers engaged by business and banking houses. They represent the best brains on eco- nomic issues in the U. S. who should be the real leaders of the economic life of America. But un- fortunately these expert men don't control the reins of government which seemingly thinks to be too good to listen to these theories. But mind you we are all getting a licking, and a tough one too, because governmental politics are not in the hands of such men who refuse to impar their self re- spect by going into politics. It is only when such men become the bosses that the U. S. can expect an efficient governmental machinery. What Others Sa A POOR OUTLOOK FOR THE COLLEGIAN? The outlook for the collegian is poorer than that for the non-collegian according to William McAndrew, f o r m e r superintendent of Chicago schools. Only a small number of colleges in the country can benefit any person, and these are al- ready crowded to the limits he says. Other College CAMPUSES By WOOD CONWAY " EER College", formally known as the Wahl- Henius Institute of Fermentation, opened re- cently for its first, sesion of school since 1915. The college is located in Chicago and at present has an enrollment of 19. Max Henius, president of the institute, stated in his opening ,ddress that the revival of the brewing industry in this country necessitated the reopening of the school. Courses in chemistry, physics, bacteriology, yeast culture, refrigeration, and botany are offered in the cur- riculum. SIGNS telling students to "Please Walk On The Grass" have replaced the customary "Keep Off" placards on the campus of Washington and Jef- ferson College. President Ralph C. Hutchinson explained that he himself enjoyed walking on the grass and that he was "more interested in the stu- dents than the lawn." TWO professors at Boston Tech have invented a machine which will shuffle and deal out four bridge hands in four seconds. CO-EDS at the University of California are al- lowed to stay out until 2:15 a. m. every night of the year, with the exception of "Big Game" night (the night before the Stanford - U. of C. game) wh'en no rules at all are followed. AT Southern California, a group of co-eds have agreed to pay the full cost of dates providing that their escorts can measure up to their stand- ard of "the perfect man". This super man is judged according to a system of percentages that go something like this: Intelligence, 20 per cent; Cultural Background, 15 per cent; Courtesy, 10 per cent; Physical Fitness, 5 per cent; clear un- derstanding of the meaning of the word "no", 5 per cent; Social Poise, 5 per cent; Dancing Abili- ty, 5 per cent. SYRACUSE University has this year the "most energetic" group of Freshmen they have ever housed. During a recent football game, the class of '36 amused the fans by bombarding the sopho- more class with rotten eggs and soft tomatoes. Even though school officials asked the police .to prevent a repetition of such a riot, recent reports are to the effect that the frosh are storing and collecting "ammunition" for another battle with the sophomores. A Washington BYSTNDER STUDENTS! ,--I ~eel Tre'at Complete CHICKEN, DUCK, or FROG iLEG DINNER 50c PREETE"S SUGAR BOWL 109 S. Main Drugs . Stationery . Cosmentics Sheaffer Pens Fountain Service ANN STREET DRUG CO. 1117 East Ann Street WE DELIVER -Phone 7850 Two Blocks West of U. Hospital We appreciate your patronage I Oratorcal Association [.ecture Course William Butler Yeats Lowell Thomas Frederic William Wile Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars Dr. Will Durant Carveth Wells By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON - Surveying the a t t i t u d e in this presidential campaign of the senators seated >n the republican side of the chamber but gen- erally referred to as liberals--when not being cal- led hard names by party qld guardsmen -one finds an un- r °"' paralled situation. At mid-campaign, ten of the 48 senators on that side of the center aisle are hostile to the national ticket or still silent. They represent more than a fifth of total party strength in the ' senate. Their states cast an aggregate of more than 90 electoral votes. There is no recordcin modern times certainly, of another such intra-party sena- torial clevage during a presidential year. The degree of disaffection varies from the out- right campaigning program of Norris of Nebraska for the democratic ticket through the range of flirting with the democrats by Johnson of Cal- ifornia and Cutting of New Mexico, to the dec- laration of Frazier of North Dakota against both presidential candidates, and finally, to the pro- longed silence of Couzens of Michigan. Somewhere in between are LaFollette and Blame of Wisconsin, Brookhart of Iowa, Borah of Idaho and the lone senate farmer-laborite, Shipstead of Minnesota. No man reaches the senate these days without an important following in his state. No man serves six years in the senate without having influence' upon the votes of a substantial number of his constituents. What share the attitude of these senators is to have in determining the outcome of the election would be hard to calculate in advance. * * * A 20-YEAR-AGO 'IF' The senatorial situation suggests the thought, however, that had the Roosevelt-Johnson Bull Moose ticket of 1912 been benefited by anything like the amount of active or negative assistance the 1932 democratic appear to be deriving from the liberal republicans of the senate, the whole course of American political history of the last two decades might have been different. President Wilson that year, in a three-way bat. tle, carried many states by margins so narrow that it would not have taken much to have given Theodore Roosevelt these electoral votes. Democratic disaffection to the extent of from 10,000 to 25,000 votes in any one of a number of Season Tickets: Prices (Six Lectures) $3.00, $2.75, $2.50 'Counter Sl t ARSToda Oct. 29- LOWELL THOMAS, "From Singapore to Mandalay" (Motion Pictures) - ReligiusActivities, FIRST METHODIST WESLEY HALL EPISCOPAL E. W. Blakeman, Director H ILLEL CHURCH 9:30 A.M. - Classes, Freshmen on FOU NDAT ION "European and American Christi- State and Washington Streets anity." Prof. del Toro. Cor. E. Univ. Ave. and Oakland Dr. Bernard Heller, Director Ministers Upperclassmen. "Personality and nis ersReligion." Dr. Blakeman Frederick B. Fisher Regular Sunday Services at the Peter F. Stair 3:30 P.M.-Oriental-American Forum. Women's League Chapel 11:00 AM. Mr. J. Kiang Dunn is leader. Rabbi Heller will speak. 10:45-Morning Worship Subject: "RELIGION AND JOY" 6:30 P.M-Graduate Forum. "CONQUERING FEAR" Dr. Fisher Dr. Fisher will speak on "Essen- :30 -- Evening worship tials and Non-Essentials of Chris- Sunday Evening-Open forum. Evenig Woshiptianity."° "YOUTH IN THE MAKING Theme of discussion, Internation- OF A NEW WORLD" :30 P.M.-Student Guild. Prof. G. E. al anti-war movement. Eugene N. Professor S. L. Joshi of Dartmouth Carrothers will speak on the "Peril Shafarman. College of Uselessness." THE FIRST FIRST BAPTIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ~ CHURCH NEast Huron, West of State Huron and Division Streets DO OT R. Edward Sayles, Minister Merle H. Anderson, Minister Howard R. Chapman. University Alfred Lee Klaer, Associate Minister NEGLECT Pastor YOUR D 10:45 A.M. - Mr. Raymond Currier. 9:30 A.M. - Student Classes at the Y R formerly of Rangoon College. now Church House, 1432 Washtenaw Editor FAR HORIZONS, will speak. Avenue. 10:45 A.M. -Morning Worship. 12:00 Noon -Students at Ouild Sermon: "Optimism-the Spiritual House for forty minutes. Mr. Sunshine of Life" ACT IV T I ESChapman on "Building a Home" 5:30 P.M. Social Hlour for- Young People 6:00 P.M.--Students at Guild House. Mr. John Khalaf, president of Cos- 6:30 P.M.-Young People's Meeting "Mohmman Club, will seak o Speaker: Raymond Courrie, w"oh "eas ." S r iw. "Weavers of a New World." with "eats" will follow. t ST. PAUL ZIONLUTHERAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH EVAGELCAL (Missouri Synod) Washington St. at 5th Ave. Third and West Liberty pastor (Evangelical Synod) EC.StelihornpSouth Fourth Avenue C. A. Brauer, Pastor October 16 Theodore Schmale, Pastor 9 A.M.-Bible School. Lesson Topie: "The Problems of the Home" f 9:30 A.M.-Church School 9:00 A.M.-Bible School In- ')fnA 1V. -. , irPwih sermonl by I I 1 Ii z amendment is for an purpo s, WHICLI gttvb" ' mental units will have priority of levy? Cities and This statement was made in answer to a ques- villages usually make their levies first in order-of tion placed before the readers of the "Journal of. time, but assuming that the state as a superior Education," a Boston publication. The query, power makes its levy first, in what order will previously made by the London "Evening Stand- other units make their levies? Further thanthis, ard," concerned the advisability of sending to col- who will have power to decide this question? If lege the son or daughter of a widow of limited the legislature is granted the power of allotment, means. Both were of average intellectual ability how can it opperate efficiently and fairly9 or better, but the mother could afford to send onlyd lx7;#l, t#. n h-,-,,,.fAY in rjv fnnurnishing one. witn the propery Lax no wgull -11 them with the present amount of revenue, could municipalities borrow needed funds in the future? Would the tax burden, under the second pro- posed amendment, be fairly distributed? Is it desirable to grant the wealthy home-owner an exemption and simultaneously to increase the' load carried by the middle class renter? Are not the two amendments, considered to- gether, inconsistent in that the second could function only with the aid of the property tax At the present time the outlook for a college trained person may be as dismal as that for the untrained, however, more prosperous times will undoubtedly increase the demand f or college graduates. Expanding commerce. industry, social and political life demand the services of the well- trained over the poorly-trained. Whether or not a definite call comes for college men and women, such persons will be able to anticipate the needs of society and, with their better intellectual back-