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Hannan Frances Manchester, Marie J. Murphy, Margaret C. Phalan, Katherine Rucker, Marjorie Weston, Harriet' Speiss. BUSINESS STAFF - - Telephone 24214 BUSINESS MANAGER................BYRON C. VEDDER CREDIT MANAG..................HARRY BEGLEY WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER....... DONNA BECKER DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Advertising, Grafton Sharp; Advertising Contracts, Orvil Aronson; Advertising Serv- ice, Noel Turner; Accounts, Beriard E. Schnacke; Cir- culation, Gilbert E. Bursley; Publications, Robert E. Finn. SISTANTS: Theodore Barash, Jack Bellamy, Gordon Joy'lan,Charles Ebert, Jack Efroymson, Fred Hertrick, ner, JosephSudow and Robert Ward L S Betty Aigler, Doris Gimmy, Billie Griffiths, Dorothy Laylin, Helen Olson, Helen Schuine,' May Seefried, Kathryn. Stork. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16, 1932 Michigan-The Champions Of The West... ferent from any faced so far in the season. It may be a test of strength against versatility. A victory will entitle Michigan to an unchallenged title. The gridiron forecasters predict one of the hardest games of the year; but Michigan has a habit of coming through. So learn "The Victors." The Grand Old Party A Chronic Minority . N OW that the last echoes of the campaign have died away, it might be well to analyze the political situation as it stands today, in the light of the decision made by the American electorate. The Republican party is as demoralized at the present time as any major political party has been in our history. Not only have the Democrats elected a president by the largest electoral and popular majority ever accorded a party; not only have they been placed in control of both houses of Congress, one by a 3-1 majority and the other by nearly a 2-1 majority; but they have received 90 per cent of all the state offices in the country. No party has ever before done that. The Re- publican party, at the height of its power, never came close to achieving it. Four years ago, Republicanism seemed to be firmly entrenched. Today, it seems doomed. Of course, the popular tendency is to say that the Democrats were carried into office by a protest vote and that, when times improve, the nation will return to the Grand Old Party. At first glance, that .actually seems to be the situation. But a more careful examination of the facts will reveal that the Republican party is hopelessly disorganized. The Progressives have bolted the party turning to the camp of the enemy. The old guard has fallen in the onslaught so decisive- ly that its return seems improbable. At the very beginning of the campaign, all that really remained of the Republican party was the small group headed by President Hoover. That group, that leadership, has been overwhelmingly repudiated. Where then can Republicans turn for leadership? The suggestion has been .made that the young Republicans, headed by Ogden Mills and James Wadsworth might take over the reins. That seems to be the only feasible suggestion. Mills, however, has been too closely associated with the Hoover group to exert much irgsluence. Wadsworth, returned from retirement, would be a more likely choice. Republicanism, as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler suggests, must align itself with liberalism or go the way of the old Whig party. The old standpat policies of isolation, of protectionism, of "laissez- faire," of government by the few, have fallen into disgrace and oblivion. A new party must appear on the political horizon. Whether that party calls itself Republican or something else matters little. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democratic party have before them the greatest opportunity ever offered a political. party. The low point in the economic depression has been reached or is most certainly not far distant. The nation has given them complete control in the executive and legis- lative branches of the national government and in a large majority of the state governments. It is within the power of the new president to select the most illustrious and capable cabinet of recent years. Such great national figures as 14w- ton D. Baker, Owen D. Young, Alfred E. Smith, Carter Glass and Josephus Daniels are possibili- ties. If the Democrats make good, and they have every reason to do so, the country will not quickly turn from them. The victory of Nov. 8 is nothing temporary. It is a turning point in American history, apparently ending the period of Republi- can dominance. If the Republican party does continue to exist, in all probability, it will do so as a chronic minor- ity party, such as the Democrats have been in the past. The re-election of Roosevelt, with the probable return of better times and the prospect of a successful administration, seems inevitable in 1936. After that, the nation might well look to a Democratic rule of 20 years. But some unforseen event might happen which would upset this whole line of reasoning, some- thing which might result in the return of a re- vived Republicanism. Such an event might be the death of President Roosevelt and the suc- cession of Garner to the presidential chair. And finally, that there will be a gradual shift to Socialistic principles is inevitable. Whether that will mean the elevation of the Socialist party is another thing. The showing made by that party in the last election was disappointing, to say the least. But from a union of the Socialist, Farmer-Labor, Progressive and Unionist groups may come a party that will not fail to exert a legislative action and eventually, come into con- trol. This might well be the substitute that time will offer for the repudiated Republican party. it is decimal, but the effort required to impose its use on a people accustomed to think in terms of feet and quarts is too great to undertake for mere symmetric considerations. And has Dr. On- derdonk thought of the billions of dollars invested in machines constructed to the inch scale, a length that is unfortunately not commensurate with the metric unit? The general use of the French system would make it necessary to scrap every locomotive, every motor, every sewing ma- chine, every milk bottle, every illicit still in the land. What this would mean for us may perhaps be realized by imagining that Austria should change its present official liter for an accurate one with the consequent discarding of all its pres- ent beer mugs. The statement that we have the metric system for our money is an amazing one. The American dollar, the unit of our coinage, is the continuation of the old Spanish dollar, which antedates the so-called metric system by a hundred years or more. As I cannot conceive that an engineer confuses metric and decimal I am forced to the conclusion that Dr. Onderdonk is guilty of an anachronism. As a good Yankee I am indignant that anyone suggests there is anything disgraceful in the so- called "colonial" relation to England. Is the writer so recent an arrival on our shores that he has not learned that the political activities about the year 1776 were a purely English family row? My an- cestors here parted political company with their brothers and cousins, who had not yet come over, and set up an essentially English system for themselves. They were as English as anybody in England and so they remained. We have kept .heir language and their laws in greater purity Shan has the present heterogenious population on the other side, and it is but natural that we have retained our racial heritage in the way of measurements as well. I am proud of my English blood, not ashamed of it, and I feel no inferiority to the "Yaws-quite" cockney because he too uses feet and quarts. In one thing, however, I heartily agree with Dr. Onderdonk. I too recommend that as many let- ters as possible be sent to Washington about the matter, the paper will be collected from the waste- baskets and baled, while each stamp purchased by the senders means three cents more for the depleted treasury. (Prof.) Norman L. Willey. Music Zand Drama PALMER CHRISTIAN Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C .......Bach Andante Cantabile (Sonata for Organ) James Two Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes ......... . ........ ....Williams (1) Bryn Calfaria (2) Rhosymedre Rhapsody ....................Saint-Saens Sportive Fauns..................d'Antalffy Berceuse--"'Oiseau de Feu" ....Strawinsky Finale Two of the most prominent modern com- posers, Vaughn Williams, and Strawinsky are presented' in today's organ recital, against an in- teresting relief of Bach, two contrasting French numbers, and the more conventional contempo- rary, James. The "Fire Bird" is an early work of Strawinsky, only mildly prophetic of what is to come, while the Williams preludes are the result of a moire mature period in their composer's life, but the two have many points of likeness. They are both higily individual, suave, and of a rugged clearness in outline, and yet the differences in style are so great that none of these qualities are presented at all similarly. These three works of Bach might be called a synopsis of the general character of all of his compositions grouping as they do the brilliant and fluid Toccata, the gay vitality of the Fugue, and the intense, while always restrained, emotional subtleties of the Adagio. With their emphasis upon the underlying idea they are an interesting contrast in expression to the moderns whose chief concern is the beauty of the physical medium, pointing towards opposite extremes in the un- answerable argument-content or form. -Kathleen Murphy Editorial Comment DON'T DEPEND ON A WHISPERING KEEP INFORMED on national, local and campus news th.rough the columns of The Daily.A Special leased Associated Press wire brings the latest news of importance care- fully selected to suit the interests "4 of the treaders of The Daily ,. 4 M ICHIGAN won a football game last Saturday. It was the seventh victory of the hardest sea- son Michigan has scheduled in several years. And it leaves only one obstacle between the Wolverine eleven and a Big Ten title-even a good claim to a national championship. The only team in the Conference that will con- test Michigan's claim to a title, if the Wolverines defeat Minnesota this week, is Purdue. The Boil- ermakers' right to share the honor rests on the fact that they are undefeated, though they were tied by Northwestern, 7 to 7. Michigan defeated Northwestern, 15 to 6. The only fair comparison of the two teams would rest on those two scores, since the Wolverines never attempt to run up a big score against other and weaker opponents. That comparison definitely places Michigan as the leader of the Conference. Nevertheless, the minor gridiron critics and sports writers are already ranking Purdue as Big Ten champion or co-champion. We have no argument with Purdue. Our dis- agreement is with the football writers who don't know football, who are incapable of distinguishing between spectacular play and winning play. The aim of each team in a football game, as outlined by the regulations, is to score more points than the opponent, it is not to make more yardage from the scrimmage line, nor to outscore the opponent by a great many points. Why the Michigan coaching staff choose to win and stop at that isn't important. Perhaps it saves plays and players for later games; perhaps it's more sporting than the Notre Dame idea of mak- ing the opponent look pitifully weak. But, as we have said, the reasons are beside the point. The only fact worthy of consideration is that the Wolverines win-and strangely enough, their manner of winning is pretty much in the wider Michigan tradition: intelligent and efficient, not spectacular. Our critics, however, can't quite understand; and they dislike Michigan. If Harry Newman, Michigan's quarterback finds that passes are the most effective weapon against a certain team, the writers tell us that Michigan's running game is lamentably weak. If the running game proves most useful, they declare loudly that the highly touted Wolverine passing attack was stopped cold. If a blocked punt leads to a score, then Michigan got "the breaks." Thus, the "experts," involved in their technicalities, totally oblivious to the super-evident fact that intelligence and versatility have raised the 1932 Wolverine eleven above sheer mechanical brilliance. Perhaps we grow too eloquent in our praise of Michigan's team. But it is only a reaction against the hostility of experts and superficial writers who damn the Wolverines with faint praise simply because intelligent football offers no tangible feature on which good stories can be built or star CAMPUS NEWS is covered by a large staff close to the news sources. You get the trth of what's what on the ichign ampus first in The Dail y . . BE SURE that you have sub- scribed yourself. ($3.75 delivered f the remnainder of the school year.) And then enter a subscrip- tiar for sonifriend of yours inter. ested in Michigan. ($4.00 Ma-ile, l~ any adiess. THE MC i D STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BUILDING . Campus Opinion Letters published in this column should not be, construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous comnuncatons will be disregard- ed. The names of co inunicants Will, however, be re- garded as confidential upon request. Contibttrs arc asked to be brief, conrining menselves to less than 1 300 words if possible. PROFESSOR WILLEY , IS SURPRISED AT DR. ONDERDONK'S ARtTICLE To The Editor: I am greatly surprised at Dr. Onderdonk's arti- cle advocating the adoption of the metric system, especially so at his supporting arguments. I doubt that every child in Europe knows the theory that a meter is theoretically (not prac- tically) the ten-millionth part of the distance from the pole to the equator and that a gram is theoretically (not practically) the weight of a CC of water, as Dr. Onderdonk implies. As a matter of fact the European thinks of the liter, the meter and the kilo as quite unrelated things MILLSTONES AT TIE POLLS While the defects of our national electorate sys- tem are bywords with government students, it is only right after election time that these flaws become glaring enough to catch the eye of the voter. The two major sore-spots in the system, of course, are the Lame Duck Session and the electoral college. Both once had a raison d'etre, but now have outlived it and exist only as hang- overs from a generation long since dead. Things are not quite as dreadful as many of the more Cassandra-like Republicans foretold they would be in the event of a Democratic victory at the polls. Even if you cup your hand to your ear and listen as hard as you can, you can't hear business inarking time any more pronouncedly than it has been for lo! these many months. Yet partisans of both sides must admit that it is rather senseless to have the four-month hiatus between election and inauguration. In the first place, historically this delayed reaction set-up has become a full-fledged archaism. It took Washing- ton time to bump over the cow paths all the way from Mount Vernon to New York City to take office. The post chaise has ceded place to the horse- less carriage, the Pullman car, and passenger plane. But the interlude between administrations haslingered on. It is devoutly to be hoped that the 29 legislatures that convene this January will rat- ify the Norris Amendment and so write finis to that hobgoblin.