PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY I !, 1 -'i7S, f"' _r " l Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the -Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER M0oiated foUtegiate 'lm I934 f c+uj 1935 - MADON WSCONSN 7/EMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is enclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second classmatter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster-General, Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $1.50. During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices : Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Representatives: College Publications Representatives, Inc., 40 East Thirty-Fourth Street, New York City: 80 Boylson Street, Boston; 612 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ..............WILLIAM G. FERRIS CITY EDITOR..........................JOHN HEALEY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ............RALPH G. COULTER SPORTS EDITOR ...................ARTHUR CARSTENS WOMEN'S EDITOR .....................ELEANOR BLUM NIGHT EDITORS: Paul J.qElliott, John J. Flaherty, Thomas E. Groehn, Thomas H. Kleene, David G. Macdonald, John M. O'Connell, Robert S. Ruwitch, Arthur M. Taub. SPORTS ASSISTANTS: Marjorie Western, Joel Newman, Kenneth Parker, William Reed, Arthur Settle. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Barbara L. Bates, Dorothy Gies, Florence Harper, Eleanor Johnson, Ruth Loebs, Jo- sephine McLean, Margaret D. Phalan, Rosalie Resnick, Jane Schneider, Marie Murphy. REPORTERS: J6hn H. Batdorff, Robert B. Brown, Richard Clark, Clinton B. Conger, Sheldon M. 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PRINCETON PLANS a new library. p The initial unit of the magnificent Gothic pile will have a capacity of some two mil- lion books, with eventual expansion making pos- sible a total of five million volumes. While detailed plans for this cathedral of learn- ing have not been officially announced, reports are that two richly-furnished lounges will be pro- vided, each equipped with kitchenette for tea and refreshments. Four-fifths of all the students in the sccial sciences and humanities will have individual desks and lockers. Also under consideration are movable parti- tions, designed to provide private alcoves for small groups of students and take away from the institutional atmosphere customary to such buildings. No philanthropist has come forward to supply the money with which to erect this sumptuous pal- ace. On the contrary, a committee has been ap- pointed to pass the hat among Princeton alumni. Of course, there is no assurance that Princeton alumni will subscribe with alacrity to such a cause, but Princeton is going ahead with plans to ask them. Northwestern has a new library of which it is proud. Expense was not considered in furnishing it in the most modern Gothic manner; costly pictures hang on its walls; 250,000 valuable books are on its shelves. But Northwestern has a grievance. Stu- dents want to know why their library, equipped with beautiful paintings, priceless first editions, and the best library fixtures, cannot be kept open seven days of the week so that the present generation of undergraduates may have an oppor- tunity to benefit by the facilities at hand. They have been told that nothing can be done about the situation before April. Michigan's library is probably much less preten- tious than that of either of the other two schools. Its lines are severe and there is nothing fussy about its interior decorations. Michigan students would never complain about that -provided its services were adequate. But many of them, too, are wonder- ing why their library can't be kept open on Sun- days. COLLEGIATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD A number of the 600 freshmen at Princeton started right out letting the world know they were freshmen on registration day. One of the men asked in a questionnaire to give the number of his roommates, said there were 211. An official asked him about it and he said he was certain because he had counted every one in the registration room. One refused to let his nickname be published in the Freshman Herald, because he didn't want his mother to know what he was. It turned out "Boozer." Another when asked whether he was going to work for a bachelor of arts or a bachelor of science degree asked the registrar which was the easier to get. At the end of the day the registration force wiped its brows and put the Princeton Class of '38 down as the greenest on record. There is an art in everything, says a junior at the University of Wisconsin. Some girls say "no" as if they were ladies while others say it as if you were a gentleman. Here's a sign on a store window on the University of Indiana campus: "The World Is coming to an end PLEASE PAY NOW So we won't have to Chase all over hell !" At the University of Maryland the fraternities have organized a Better Relations Club. It seems as though for the last few years there has been much back-slitting and throat-cutting between the Greek houses. NRA Coming Or Goin Philosophy Of A University . IT WOULD SEEM, from observation of current undergraduates, that there are two distinct motives instrumental in at- tracting them to seek a university training. Most are apparently here in order to expand their economic potentialities; they seek prepara- tion for professional or other specialized busi- ness activities. Others, and they are few, want the University to help them to learn to live the "Good Life"; they want to widen, to broaden their appreciation of life, to expand their capacity for a more intense, rounded existence. The classification is not as distinct as it would appear on paper; students are generally and admittedly here to enable themselves to earn money more easily, apd, incidentally, to absorb some of this "culture."' Dogmatic though it may seem, we cannot help decrying the wasted opportunities that exist here at Michigan among those who close their eyes to an existence of infinitely more possibilities than a mere preparation for a means to earn a living. If perhaps we seem to exalt this approach, it is because within the years of our experience, we have witnessed too many high-school students coming to learn a trade. They learn it, graduate and settle into a rutted, narrow-visioned existence that has never seen the beauty and grandeur that is within their power to enjoy. They are, in a word, moles that have sweated and died, and never seen the light. University has done nothing, really, for them. Money cannot of coqrse be ignored. The pursuit of it, however, seems to have absorbed us beyond its due proportions, and the general philosophy that pervades the country is thus evidenced in our universities. Is it not time, perhaps, that we as a growing country, settled down to the science of living the life that we have been so busy earning for the last 158 years? We cannot help mourning the passing of the traditional universities of the type of Heidel- burg and Leipzig. They held a secret that we have never known. Can we but dream of a university where we would go to studies in the morning, to sit with inspiring men who inflame us with a pas- sion for knowledge; to set out in the afternoons through the fields, or sit by the side of a stream experiencing a profound response within ourselves to the grandeur of our universe; to argue passion- New Course Of The NRA (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) THE EXPECTATION that reorganization of the NRA and the retirement of General Johnson would result in sharp alteration of NRA policies has already been justified. Both as to price-fixing and labor, NRA under Donald Richberg, its new chief, is showing it is responsive to widespread criticism. Last week Mr. Richberg intimated that, to achieve the objectives of NRA, the government will henceforth rely on such provisions of the codes as minimum wages and maximum hours to prevent sweatshops and cut-throat competition. The pur- pose is to get away from price-fixing and other monopolistic practices and to place business on a sound competitive basis. The storm against price-fixing has been brewing for a long time, particularly since the publication of the Darrow report last spring. Though intem- perately phrased, the report made an impregnable case against the NRA on the ground that it favored monopoly at the expense of small business and the consumer. Last July, in an editorial en- titled "The Future of the NRA," we called atten- tion to Section 3A of the National Industrial Re- covery Act, which seemed to have been overlooked in the mad rush of codification which took place last fall. Section 3A says that "such code or codesa shall not permit monopolies or monopolistic prac- tices." Over 100 codes have a monopolistic tinge. In fairness to General Johnson, it must be said that he was not blind to the dangers of price-fixing in the monopolistic provisions. Several months ago, price provisions of national codes governing eight local service industries were nullified and the attempt to codify 53 others was abandoned. Permitting firms bidding on government contracts to quote prices 15 per cent below the code figures, the government itself engaged in evasion of the NRA. In various other respects, the NRA has recognized the undesirability and unworkability of monopolistic code provisions. Now, the work of rewriting the codes in this regard is apparently to go on until they have been thoroughly purged. As to the NRA policy toward labor, Mr. Richberg sought to clarify the National Labor Relations Board's recent ruling on collective bargaining. The construction generally placed upon this ruling is that the majority of the workers in a plant are en- titled to speak, through their representatives, for all the workers. Mr. Richberg gave the inter- pretation that if an individual does not care to participate in an election held by a group of work- ers, he is not bound by its result.. Declaring that individual bargaining is a mock- ery in large industrial establishments where the mere matter of convenience dictates the selection of delegates to present grievances, Mr. Richberg - pointed out that there are thousands of businesses employing five, ten, or fifteen men in which indi- vidual bargaining may be a very real right. This construction is wholly within the language of Sec- tion 7A. In discussing future NRA policy on Sept. 27. we expressed the view that certain things are funda- mental, namely: 1. Price-fixing devices must be abandoned. 2. In the field of normally competitive in- dustry, the anti-trust laws should be restored. 3. Labor and capital should be left free to settle their differences without governmegital NRA - Confusion Worse Confounded (Chicago Daily Tribune) TRA WITH JOHNSON out is supposed to be something that it wasn't with him in, but what that new thing is to be is not clearly revealed. People affected by it may find it now wholly am- biguous and uncertain. Under General Johnson it was monopolistic, price-fixing, and a labor dis- turber. Section 7A, the proposed Magna Charta of labor, seemed in its simplest essence to provide that no one should be subject to prejudice or penalties in promoting the organization of workers for collec- tive bargaining, and that employers should receive representatives of such organizations and reach agreements with them. A.F. of L. officials supposed that this was the road to the closed shop in all industries, assuming that their organizers with the law behind them could win the support of a majority of the workers, if not all, in all the great industries. This result has not followed. Organized labor accuses many employers of defeating the purpose of the act by counterfeiting true labor organizations in their company unions and punishing the men who try to affiliate with the A. F. of L. The present administration of the NRA no doubt would be relieved if it could find clear cut cases showing that in all disputes there was a majority anxious to be represented in collective bargaining by A. F. of L. unions. It could then rest upon the decision in the Houde case that the minority in a shop was bound by the agreements made by a majority of the employes. Mr. Richberg, taking General Johnson's place as the mouthpiece of the NRA, has thus far only added to the confusion in which administrative purpose and programs are involved. He has mad, some speeches and statements which have been construed three and four days. He seemed to yield to the consumer's protests voiced in Congress and in public speeches by Senator Borah attacking the monopoly purposes of the recovery act, and he was quoted in an intelligent decision against price. fix- ing which he appears now to discount without clearing it up. If any employer or any labor representative knows what 7A means from any statement Mr. Richberg has made he is either a genius at pene- trating a fog or he has hit upon one of the three or four conflicting interpretations which could be construed as containing the true meaning. One guess is that majority organizations may reach agreements, but that minorities are to be protected as individuals. That says something but doesn't mean anything. Neither employers nor workmen would stand for discriminatory agreements, -and at present they're not to be blamed if they do not know what agreements they can make. If Mr. Richberg knows what he means it might be worth his while to set it carefully down in a considered statement. The NRA has provoked and irritated labor; it has worked shocking injustice in numerous cases of small men in business; it has caused spreading industrial unrest; it has given American laws some amazing victims whose treatment will forever stand as strange and outrageous incidents in Amer- ican annals, and it has pleased only some indus- trialists who thought that it would bring down anti-trust laws in its own eollanse .Rut it has I r. 1 I a