THE MICHIGAN DAILY 'HIGAN DAILY tabUshed 1890 Music and Drama Joseph Brinkman, pianist, will present the fol- lowing program this afternoon at 4:15 p. m. in Hill Auditorium. Besides an extremely successful career as a teacher, Mr. Brinkman has become a -- ,1, " . r r.1 t 'N4 rf j1hC ,v iNC-4T O STUCNT P~U 1TIU'i ^!P !rv A'4A50O bn .peM Uww.,lln.-u rn ?ublished every morning except Monday during the iversity year and Summer Session by the Board in ntrol of 'Student Publications. dember of the Western Conference Editorial Associa- n and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 'he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use republication of all news dispatches credited to it or, t otherwise credited in this paper and the local news blished herein. All rights of republication of special patches are reserved. ntered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as ond cla3s matter. Special rate of postage granted by ird Assistant Postmaster-General. ubscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, 50. During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by el, $4.50'. )fices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, .n Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Representatives: College Publishers Representatives, 40 East Thirty-Fourth Street, New York City; 80l yrston Street, Boston; 612 North Michigan Avenue, .icago. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 NAGING EDITOR...........FRANK B. GILBRETH r'Y EDITOR. . .....................KARL. SEtPFERT ORTS EDITOR.....................JOHN W. THOMAS )MEN'S EDITOR.................MARGARET O'BRIRN SISTANT WOMEN'S EDITOR.......MIRIAM CARVER GHT EDITORS: Thomas Connellan, Norman F. Kraft, ohn W. Pritchard, C. Hart Schaaf,NBrackley Shaw, 3lenn R. Winters, 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. - 4 Camp us Opinion Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily.: Anonym'rous communcations will be disregard- ed. The names of communicants will, however, be re- gardedtas confidential upon .request. Contributorsare asked to be brief, connining tnemselves to less than 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. SPORTS ASSISTANTS: Fred A. Huber, Albert Newman. REPORTERS: Hyman J. Aronstam, A. Ellis Ball, Charles G. Barndt, James Bauchat, Donald R. Bird, Donald P. Blankertz, Charles B. Brownson, Albert L. Burrows, Arthur W. Carstens, Ralph G. Coulter, Robert Engel, 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. Eleanor B. Blum, Louise Crandall, Carol J. Hannan Frances Manchester, Marie J. Murphy, Margaret C. Phalan, Katherine Rucker, Marjorie Weston, Harriet Speiss. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER.............BYRON C. VEDDER CREDIT MANAGER....... ........HARRY BEGLEY WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........DONNA BECKER DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Advertising, Grafton Sharp; Advertising Contracts, OrvilAronson; Advertising Serv- ice, Noel Turner; Accounts, Bernard E. Schnacke; Cir- culation, Gilbert E. Blursley;, PubTlications, Robert E. 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 s 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.,, Faculty Member Called for and Delivered for Cash Miracleaned and Hand Finished A We sincerely hope that this very special one-week offer will induce EVERY WOMAN it Ann Arbor to try our exclusive Miraclean. 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