THE MICHIGAN DAILY
'HIGAN DAILY
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Music and Drama
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Hill Auditorium. Besides an extremely successful
career as a teacher, Mr. Brinkman has become a
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widely popular soloist throughout the middle west.
Concerto in the Italian Style..............Bach
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Presto
Sonata, Op. 57 (Appasionata) ......... Beethoven
I. Assai allegro
II. Andante con moto
III. Allegro, ma non troppo
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Hendel,1
Op. 24 ................................Brahm s
Impromptu in F sharp ...................Chopin
Ballade in F major
Scherzo in C sharp minor.
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Camp us Opinion
Letters published in this column should not be
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Daily.: Anonym'rous communcations will be disregard-
ed. The names of communicants will, however, be re-
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300 words if possible.
AN ALUMNUS DOESN'T
LIKE OUR PEP!
To The Editor:
Ah!-Last night as an alumnus of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, I attended a so-called "Pep
Meeting" at Hill Auditorium. Was I disappointed
-- well, I should say so.
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William G. Ferris, Eric Hall, John C. Healey, Robert B.
Hewett, George M. Holmes, Walter E. Morrison, George
Van Veck, Guy M. Whipple, Jr., W. Stoddard White.
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First, the auditorium was only half full.
Second, among those present, there were a few
students. Children seemed to occupy most of the
seats -with a few elderly people here and there.
Third, the only real noise I heard was a baby
crying.
ASSISTANTS: Theodore Barash, Jack Bellamy, Gordon
Boylan, Charles Ebert, Jack Efroymson, Fred Hertrick,
.Joseph Hume, Allen Knuusi, Russell Read, Lester Skin-
ner, Joseph Sudow and Robert Ward.
Betty Aigler, Doris Gimmy, Billie- Griffiths, Dorothy
Laylin, Helen Olson, Helen Schume, May Seefried,
Kathryn Stork,
SUNDAY, NOV. 6, 1932
Intolerant Liberals
On The Campus.
A N EDITOR of The Daily received
a threatening note yesterday. It
was typewritten and unsigned. The note stated,
"Gilbreth, you have been riding the liberals on
this campus long enough. This isn't a request,
it's a warning. You lay off or you will get what
is coming to you."
The Daily realizes that this letter is probably
a hoax. If it is meant to be a joke, it is a poor
one as it does an injustice to the so called campus
"liberals."
If the letter was really written by a "liberal,"
we feel that he has greatly damaged his cause.:
Liberalism and attempted muzzling of the press
through intimidation are poor companions.
The Editors of The Daily do not feel that they
have been "riding the liberals." They will con-
tinue to present the news to the campus. They
will not be influenced by anonymous communi-
cations.
Something The Tax
Amendments Ignore . . 9
DURING the past month a leading
arguments of the proponents of
proposed amendments two and four to the state
constitution has been that their ratification is
necessary to force the legislature to devise a
more equitable taxation system.
Tle persons -who advance this argument admit
what is apparent to all economists and the State
Bar Association, that the $3,000 exemption
amendment would seriously cripple all govern-
mental units in the state. Their point is that
only in the face of the resulting dangerous in-
efficiency will the legislature consider a fair dis-
tribution of the tax burden. At present, they
point out, property pays about 80 per cent of the
taxes. Although beseiged with requests to remedy
this manifest unfairness, the legislature has per-
sistently refused to adopt either a sales tax or
an income tax, or both. Hence the proponents of
the amendments declare that the only practical
way to achieve equitable tax distribution will be
to set a constitutional limit beyond which prop-
erty may not be taxed, which will create a peril-
ous situation ot poverty in government and cause
the legislature to adopt additional means of rais-
ing revenue.
This argument is very effective, and comes
within an ace of being sound. It fails from the
fact it's promulgators apparently overlook a high-
ly significant fact. This fact is that so high a
per cent of the 1931 sales tax is delinquent that
the legislature will be unable to persist any longer
in its politic refusal to create new taxes. -
According to the most recent figures available,
which were released last -'Wednesday from the'
offices of the Auditor-General of the state, fully
35 per cent of last year's property tax can not
h' nn1,-f Tn nnaniAnmc COkland county, the
Of course there couldn't be any pep at the f
meeting because the student body was absent. In t
my days at the University, back in 1914, '15, '16,1
and '17, the boys, all attended the pep meeting. t
The auditorium was always crowded. Some differ- n
ence last night. h
The chairman of the meeting is no doubt a fine P
chap but woefully weak as far as his voice is con--
;erned. We were sitting halfway back from the a
platform and could hardly hear what he was v
talking about. Why not get some of the old boys i
back to lead the pep meeting? They certainly P
would be able to arouse some interest in the school o
and would help build up the school spirit which is s
lacking. t
I understand that Saturday the "sophs" failed a
to show up for their games with the freshmen. Of a
course, after what I had seen the night before, If
was not disappointed in this. t
Let us hope that something will be done to
remedy all this, and bring back the school spirit
of old. e
Irvin I. Cohn, '17L a
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ARGUMENTS AGAINST d
A HIGI TAIIFF e
To The Editor: c
In order to defend the Smoot-Hawley tariff,a
Secretary Mills, in his speech at Portland, madeU
use of a book: "The Forgotten Man", by William f
Graham Sumner, who, all his life, was opposed to I
a protective tariff. I hold the book in hand and a
beg to quote from it a few passages: "Protection-
e
ism," Sumner writes, "seems to me to deserve
only coitempt and scorn, satire and ridicule. It a
i such an arrant piece of economic quackery, ands
It masquerades under such an affection of learn-.c
ing and philosophy, that it ought to be treated as
other -quackeries are treated" (page 10). "Pro-
tetionism", he writes,"arouses my moral indigna-
tion. It is a 'subtle, cruel and 'unjust ivason of°s
one mals rights by another. It is done by forcei
and law. It is at the same time a social abuse, an x
ebonomic blunder, and a political evil" (pages 10
and l11.1
Again: "The biggest job of all is a protective_
taifif'. This devise consists in delivering every<
man ovyr to be plundered by his neighbor and in1
teaching him to believe that it is a good thing for1
him and his country because he may take his
turn at plundering therest" (page 489). (What
this last statement amounts to is that one Ameri-1
can levies a tax on another American).
The greater authority in this country on the
tariff is Prof. Taussig of Harvard. He has written
two books on the subject: "Some Aspects of the
Tariff Questions," 3rd ed., 1931, and "The Tariff
History of the U. S.," 8th ed., 1931. Both books
favor a low tariff.
In connection I call attention to a book recent-
ly published: "Facing the Facts", written by 12
specialists, and edited by J. G.- Smith (P. G. Put-.
aam's Sons, New York,;1932). Chapter III of this
book shows conclusively the absurdity of a high
protective tariff. The author of this chapter is F.
W. Fetter, professor of Economics in Princeton
University. In The New Republic of Nov. 2, ap-
pears an article by the same economist on the
tariff, in which he refers to an article by Senator
Smoot. Prof. Fetter describes Smoot's article as
economic nonsense "but a sort of nonsense that
has a strong appeal to the man in the street".
By way of further comment, Prof. Fetter shows
how Senator Smoot has perpetuated "statistical
atrocities" (a statistical joke) on an unsuspect-
ing public.
On the immorality and the political corrup-
tion connected with a high protective tariff, I re-
fer the reader to an article in The Nation of Nov.
2. nage 418: "The Pot and the Kettle", by Oswald
han the total war debt payments annually due
1e United States - a rather heavy tribute to pay
or the upkeep of our beet-sugar barons."
The final paragraph of the article reads as
ollows: "In sum, the tariff on sugar has com-
>letely failed in everything that it was intended to
lo. It is costing the consumer $300,000,000 a year
nd yet it failed to maintain sugar prices. It has
romoted overproduction. It has d e s t r o y e d a!
arge part and jeopardized the balance of our in-
restments in Cuba, totaling $1,550,000,000. It has
ractically wiped out our export trade with Cuba,
and has hurt the farmer and the manufacturer.
nstead of promoting employment at home, it has
ielped Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philiuuines,
nd has contributed to our own unemployment
>roblem by destroying our exports of products
nanufactured in America and of food products
aised in this country. It has not safeguarded the
>rofits of our sugar industry, but has merely post-
oned for a short period the ultimate decline of
hat industry. It has impoverished Cuba and hurt
he United States. And this is just a sample of
ariff schedule." M. Levi,
Professor Emeritus
FACULTY MEMBER'S
UBBISH ABOUT RUBBISH
Co The Editor:
I was disappointed to find The Daily again
rinting rubbish about German universities this
norning. I suppose the article entitled: "German
students Don't Shirk 8 O'clocks; It's 6 A.M.
Mhere," went in as a filler. And stuff our student
>ody it didl Excuse me if I take issue with most
f the article's salient points, which, I fear, were
:oncocted by a well-meaning and interested young
ournalist who some day would like to know some-
;hing about this subject.
Let us for a moment subject his headline to a
ritical test. It informs us that German students
ave 6 o'clocks to "make" or more accurately
>erhaps to shirk. Now if one should find that
here were 6 o'clock classes at those institutions
he evident exaggeration could be pardoned. A
atalogue, however, of the typical Teutonic uni-
rersity, which I have at hand lists but a paltry
ew 7 o'clocks --no 6 o'clocks. Then continuing
his line of thought our article informs us that
classes begin at 6 a.m. and extend straight
hrough the day until 8 p.m." This is still more
misleading. There are classes meeting at all these
ours, but few indeed are those between 1 and 3
.m. and 6 and 8 p.m. when practically no one
works. Then too, as a result of the financial situ-
tion there is no night-work in any of the uni-
ersity buildings after 8 o'clock. No doubt there
s here and there an exception to this where a
professor will be seen reading at his desk in an
therwise totally darkened building. The average
tudent starts work at 8 a.m., interspersing lec-
ures with reading or laboratory work until 1 p.m.,
when he goes to lunch where he sits comfortably
and chats an hour or more with friends. This he
ollows up, weather permitting, with a walk, re-
turning for work, refreshed, at 3 o'clock. Ordin-
arily he goes to dinner at 6:30 or 7:00.
Let us now return to the academic phase and
xamine further contributions offered to us on this
ngle: "Five years of work that is really work are
pent in order to obtain the desired 'Herr Doktor'
degree." This is not true. After the 8th semest-
r, i.e. the latter half of the fourth year, the
andidate undertakes to pass his comprehensives
and defend his thesis. The point I should like
articularly to emphasize here is that it is as-
amed, yes hoped, that the student will dabble the
irst and perhaps also the second of these 4 years.
Then too his corporation will expect him to be
active during this period which means in the
"Mensur" (fencing bout) and the various social
events of its calendar. I needn't lose myself here
n a discussion of the longer period before a Junior
at an- American university who will one day add
a Ph. D to his name. One statement of the arti-
cle with which I am in partial agreement is this:
"The university student of Germany has an edu-
cation equal to that of a Junior College graduate
when he enters the university" - so far fine, but
watch, "and he is more mature than the American
scholar both when he enters and when he gradu-
ates". This latter point is, I believe, based on at
natural misunderstanding. Brought up in quite a
different .environment, some of his interests are
naturally -unlike those of his American confrere.
His country is suffering severely from the after-
effects of a lost war which so acutely affects every I
one about him that he has heard a great many of
them since his earliest years. Therefore he is
politically-minded. If he be a Nazi he will very!
soberly waste at least a quarter off his time
spreading National-Socialist doctrines. In case he
belongs to any one of the 20 other parties he will
just as earnestly support it at all hours of the day
or night. His loyalty has a very real resemblance
to our football-- loyalty -particularly evident
when a cane fight breaks loose at a meeting.
When you first meet him he clicks his heels and
quite freezes you with his formality. This too is
a result of his training. A week later on an ex-
cursion to a neighboring mountain-top, he, you,t
and half a dozen friends put on a free-for-all
which materially modifies your original impression
of his maturity. Or perhaps you return a little
late one evening to your room (Bude) to find it
"sauber" or hopelessly topsy-turvy and know him
to be chief author.
In conclusion is to be said for German students
what they so often themselves declare with res-
pect to the present high-presure tendencies to-
ward overemphasizing the work side to the detri-
ment of the human-development side of universi-
ty life: "Zuerst wollen wir ja Menschen sein!"*
* Editor's Note: "First of all we want to be human
beings.,,
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