I C.H1 ILY " - - t -- 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." COLLEGIATE -OBSERVER r By BUD BERNARD - - Published every mornin~g except . Monday during the University year and Sunmer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the West'ern, Conference Editorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER ,ssociattted 6 a iate rss 0,34'vu3xA M"wSINo ,JEMBER OF THE. 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Marian Donaldson, Elaine Golberg, Betty Goldstein, Olive Griffith, Harriet Ha haway, Ma- rion Holden, Lois King, Selma Levin,, Elizabeth Miller, Melba Morrison, Elsie Pierce, Charlotte Reuger, Dorothy Shappell, Molly Solomon, Dorothy Vale, Laura Wino- grad, Jewel Wuerfei. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUS SSANAGE...............RUS B. R WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........JANE BASSETT DEPARTMENTMA NAGERS: Local Advertising, John Og- den; Service Department, Bernard Rosenthal; Contracts, Joseph Rothbard; Accounts, Cameron Hal, Circulation and National Advertising, David Winkwmb'th; Classified Advertising and Publications, George Atherton. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: William Jackson, William .Barndt, Ted Wohlgemuith, Lyman Bittnian, Richard Hardenbrook, John Park, F. Allen Upson, Willis Tom- linson, Homer Lathrop, Tom Clarke, Gordon Cohn, Merrell Jordan, Stanley Joffe. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Mary. Bursley, Margaret Cowie, Marjorie Turner, Betty Cavender, Betty Greve, Helen apland, Btty SimonF sGrace Snyder, Margaretta Kohlig, Ruth Clarke, Eit Hamilton; Ruth Dicke, 2Paul, Joergeir, Mary Lo9u Hooker, Jane Heath, Bernar- dine Field, Betty Bowman, July Trosper. NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN J. FLAHERTY They always 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. * * * * 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. * * * * 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 miles west of Detrnit" Firthermore- Pnnc Citv ,, ._ , Subscribe NOW to The VI) LUJ w --) -J N N 7I) MICHIGAN DA lv' SELECT BEERS AMD WI NE Hear Ye! MICHIGANIS DINE and DANCE To Your Hearts Content In A Real College Atmosphere. -n 0: ',) i Si A ii,1 I',INC. ,. Off er fine quality Sheraton Bond Sta- tionery, edeh box coulsistixig of 60sfeets and 50 envelopes, regularly priced at 85 cents per box. Toay and Tomorrow only, we have specially priced this, sta- tionery at the atnatingly low price of 4 cents per box. 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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 to nav his arrears when he cnmes hack in the fall. at the Union are very popu- ar. during the Fall months. The gay informality and the smooth arrangements of Bob Steinle's Union band give you unforgettable entertainment, Friday 9-i and Saturday 9-12 MICHIGAN UNION BALLROOM U. I I