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shouldn't they also assume the responsibility of
making members liable for debts incurred? At the
present time houses have no definite "club" by
which they can force members to pay house bills,
so in view of the "New Deal" for fraternities
and sohorities, why doesn't the University withhold
the credits of any member of a house who has not
paid his bills?
If the payment of bills in houses is going to be
regarded in a cold business fashion as are,
Yibrary and laboratory arrears it would seem that
withholding of University credits would be a very
effective "club."
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Come Back ..
S OMEONE HAS REMARKED on the
peculiar American propensity for
getting together in annual conventions to be
talked at by men who are no more expert than'
one's self.
Much has also been done to satirize the less bus-
iness-like aspects of such gatherings, and one
might well wonder whether the duality of interests
should be made to compete against one another,
to the detriment of both.
Yet every indication is that the convention spirit
will become stronger rather than otherwise, and
the open season for this year is not long to be
awaited.
Though one invariably finishes the last conven-
tion worn out and disgruntled from sitting in hard.
chairs, inhaling too much smoke, listening to too
many dull speakers and abstruse papers, and won-
dering what it was all about, two months later
he eyes the prospect of another get-together with
probably more enthusiasm than ever before. And,
while newspaper reporters more than anyone else
purport to see the folly of the yearly huddle,
their editors are as rabid believers as any layman.
It all boils down to the fact that there must be
something in these conventions after all. They in-
troduction of paper and presses has made it pos-
sible that learned thoughts may be scattered broad-
cast without the, author having so much as an
idea who his audience is, but even that could not
stop us from going a long way to be talked at.
Whether. it's the human equation or other factors
not so apparent, we insist on getting togeter with
men after our own hearts. to hear men like our-
selves, who have, or think they have, something
to say.
The convention, with all of its crudities, will soon
be with us, again. The convention itself cannot be,
lightly dismissed; it will live on. The crudities
might pass from the scene in. shorter order if
they were more frequently recognized.
Fraternity And
Sorority Financ e..
D ESPITE indignant cries of "just
more University meddling" voiced
by many fraternity men concerning the recent, in-
stallation of a series of rules controlling fraternity
and sorority finance, we feel that with certain
ramifications and alterations, which experimen-
tation will prove necessary, the rules will provide
for a much more healthy financial condition in the
houses.
Briefly, the scope of the legislation is that if
fraternities or sororities have unpaid accounts re-
ceivable amounting to $200, or unpaid accounts
payable of $500 after July 1 of any year, they will
be unable to open the following, fall. Houses must
also appoint an Alumni Financial Adviser by Nov.
1, who will at various times make detailed reports
concerning the financial standing of his house,
to the dean of students.
The obvious result of this legislation, to go into
effect the fall of 1935, will be to weed out the
weaker fraternities and sororities, which have
proved only parasites to Ann Arbor merchants dur-
ing their existence.
However, the ruling concerning accounts receiv-
able will also affect the stronger houses. It can be
said without fear of contradiction that a quarter
of the fraternities on t'e campus have accounts re-
ceivable from last year's active members amounting.
to $200.
Campu6isOpiion__
Letters published in this column should not be
construed as. expressing the editQrial opinion of The
Daily. Anonymous contributions. will be disregarded.
The names of comrunicanats will, however, b, regarded
as confidential upon request. Contributors are.assked to
be brief, the, editor reserving the right. to condense
all letters of over 300 words.
Qse tion Of Tact
To the Editor
As yet there has been no official confirmation or
denial of the current rumor, "that Willis Ward
will be barresd from the Georgia Tech game because
of the fact that he is a negro." But it is very
likely that Ward will not play Oct. 20.
The National Student League has raised the
question in an open letter to Yost and Kipke .
The NS.L. stands firmly against any sort of racial
discrimination. They insist that Ward play. They
uphold the traditional cosmopolitan attitude of the
Michigan campus. They stand on the firm ground
of- the great and noble principle of equality. They
herald this opportunity as a challenge to do battle.
But, oh what a petty, childish figure they cut
with the proverbial chip on their shoulder; The
intelligentsia of the world will stand with them
for the principle, but without the chip ...
As a dyed-in-the-wool Yankee, but one who has
nevertheless tasted the dulcet drops of the julep,
I am compelled to answer the N.S.L. and other
radical crusaders.
Please inject a little tolerance into your stand-
pat attitude. The Negro doesn't appreciate your
interference. You really hurt him by rankling
the people with whom he must live. You, irritate
the Southerner needlessly because you strike him
in a spot where he is without the moraj armour
of first principles, yet he has sound justification
on the grounds of expediency. You injure your
cause by taking a stand which will not permit
mutual understandIing and gradual amelioration~
of conditions. Remember that antipathies thrive
on just such an unbending attitude.
Michigan can well afford to acquiesce to a cus-
tom, a prejudice if you wish, of her guest . . .
The custom of not accepting Negroess.ocially, is so
deeply rooted in the average Southerner that it
takes almost a religious aspect. It is older, than
the nation itself. You cannot expect to change
Tech's attitude on Oct. 20 when they meet Mich-
igan any more than you can expect a Catholic
to eat meat on Friday, or a Mohammedan to
drink wine, just because he is a guest in a home
with different customs from hi's own. . . . Therefore
in the name of hospitality, if not just common
decency, Michigan should respect the South's cus-
tom while Tech is here....
Don't you think it would be well to use a little
tact in the matter?
-L.E.T.
Note From A 100% Ponca Cityite
To the Editor:
May I rob the campus Reds of a bit of their
accustomed space to unburden myself on one or
two minor points which are troubling me?
(1)About the Willis Ward question. I have a
friend who suggests that the National Student
League ought to form a "inited front" with the
Here's a letter I received this morning:
-ea -Bd ernard:
The more I see of college women the more
I am in. favor of separate schools for men
ar d wonien. After three years at Michigan,
I am convinced that the majority of women
come to school to find husbands. That they
can get good grades - some of them - can no
d;obt be attribut to the fact that they prac-
tice their wiles oh professors.
In all but one of my classes last year, the
first five minutes of every class period were
filled with not-so-subdued accounts of the
parties of the evening before. These accounts
were carried on even during class, especially
on Monday mornings.
To men who come to the University for
serious sty, women are a decided nuisance
and a definite handicap in the classroom.
--Annoyed Senior.
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An A; E. Phi at the University of Illinois
sugess t ra the New Deal clups organize a
ratita Lfrternit and.call it.lelt.a Nu.
The Yale Daily News magnaminously offers to
Eli freshmen "choice morsels from the ladder of
our experience."
1. Learn to distinguish between faculty mem-
bers, seniors and old clothes men; address them
respectively "Ulp, good morning sir, Mr. Gonnicle,
sir, ulp;" "Salutem, o thou ruler of the realm,
thou most diversified pipe-smoker holy terror;"
and "No."
2. Do not trip your landlady on the stairs; wait
until she is on a ladder washing windows. Better
still save your trips for Easter and other convenient
dates.
3. Do nqt throw biscuits in eating places. It is
better to have eaten and belched than never to
have hit a waiter, but that won't concern you
yet.
4. Find out the cost of your text books and give
the money to organized charity, such as the Society
for the Encouragement and Support of Those Who
Desire to Become Loathsome; do not be seen read-
ing a book; it is considered blather in some quar-
ters so to distort yourself.
A co-e&~ from Indiana University (Indiana
Daily Student columnist please note) says;
"Even if one has a simple Anglo-Saxon name,
professors calling the role for the first time
invariably pervert it to a form scarcely recog-
nizable.
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The heaviest enrollment in the history of the
institution was made this fall at the University
of Nebraska. Twenty three pounds of pennies,
3,600 of them, were offered by a student there for
his registration.
A sorority, womax, says a senior at the Uni-
versity of Missouri, has. two vew of asBret.
Either it-'s not worth keeping, or. it's too good
to keep.
A Washin-gton
By KIRKE SIMPSON
A "MARBLE HALL' environment in Washing-
ton must have a different effect on legislators
and executive officials. That, at least, must be
Senator Borah's opinion. He cracked down in al-
most Johnsonesque fashion on "officials" who sit
"in the marble hallsin Washington" in condemn-
ing the "New Deal" agricultural reduction pro-
gram.
In so doing, he probably forgot that the Senate
office building is still the most marble-halled gov-
ernment structure in the capital. It has so much
marble in the majority caucus room, alone, the
special pride of the designers, that they have to
cover most of it up with rugs for senators to
hear themselves talk.
Obviously the Borah shaft was aimed at Secre-
tary Wallace, Dr. Tugwell, et al. of the agricul-
tural wing of the "New Deal" bureaucracy. The
NRA bureaucracy is just as much under attack,
except that during the Johnson era of one-man
control the general drew to himself most of the
barbed darts. With a board taking over his duties
the bureaucracy, cry is certain to do a bit of cam-
paign welkin-ringing from now on.
POSSIBLY THAT WAS what Donald Richberg
had in mind in his press club remarks about
NRA, new or old. He brought out a point about
the origins of NRA code provisions which seemed
designed to steal the thunder of the anti-bureau-
cracy rage he anticipates.
Speaking of the non-success of price and produc-
tion control measures under the codes, gradual
elimination of which he forecast, Richberg said:
"These difficulties have come, not through the
application of some theory by some government
theorist, but because of the pressure of business
men themselves to experiment with devices that
they thought would do them good and which they
have found in many instances .are doing them
harm . . . I think some business men have been
dreaming, not realizing the type of social control
of which they were dreaming; and that they are
coming to realize that they had better come back
nearer to the sound competitive system on which
they were working."
know where that is." Sure. It's a few miles south
of the Kansas border in North Central Oklahoma,
in Kay County, and it's just as good a town as
is Ann Arbor, whose great boast is that it is "38
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However, when the new ruling goes into effect
this situation will undoubtedly be changed. Past
experiences have proved that, like doctor's bills,
fraternity and sorority arrears are the last to be
paid, but it is only logical to assume that, con-
scientious fraternity and sorority members would
not fall into arrears if they knew their house would
be endangered by it. However, if brothers and
sisters fail to adopt this. conscientious attitude,
managers will have to protect their houses by say-
ing "pay up. or move out."
This attitude may serve a landlord very ade-
quately but fraternities are not rooming houses.
Under the new rules the relationship will not be
brother to brother and sister to sister, but rather
landlord to tenant. Therefore, as an alteration in
the ruling, which we believe will be found necessary
to be made, we suggest that either the amount of
the accounts receivable be changed to a higher
figure or that the date when the money must be
paid be changed to a later date than July 1.
Many times a situation arises in which a frater-
nity or sorority member is financially embarrassed
temporarily, yet his credit for the past two years
has been good. This member says he will be able
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