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NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT S. RUWITCH
Football On
TheAir...
STUDENT FOOTBALL fans whose
unjust fate it is to have to remain
bshind when the team goes to far-off fields will
have a little more idea what is happening this year
than they had last.
Radio Station WWJ, which followed the team
in years gone by, but did not do so last year, will
be back with broadcasts of all games at home and
abroad this season. Ty Tyson, popular sports
announcer who has had a long acquaintance with
Michigan teams, will be at the microphone.
If Messrs. Quin Ryan and Pat Flanagan are
working at Stagg Field today they are welcome
to any listeners they may attract, but as for us,
we had much too much of them last year when
Michigan's schedule happened to call for three out-
of-town games to be played in the state of Illinois.
Partiality toward the home state teams or lack
of it toward the Wolyerines was not our com-
plaint, although probably like anyone else we are
more interested in our team than the opposition.
But in the cases of both Chicago gentlemen the
indictment was for presenting supremely listless
and drab accounts, even in the face of the tense-
ness of the Illinois battle, the fierceness of the
Northwestern game, and the big opening splurge
against Chicago. We have heard both of these
men give very creditable broadcasts in football as
well as other sports, but last year marital diffi-
culties or overdue payments on the radio set must
have had them down.
Today's game may be more to the stay at homes
than a long-drawn out play-by-play account.
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By BUD BERNARD
Merit System In
Class Projects ...
A"NEW DEAL" in campus politics
and the apportioning of offices for
women is promised in the drastic step announced
last week by the League Council. Hereafter candi-
dates for offices in class projects, such as the
Sophomore Cabaret, must file petitions with the
Judiciary Council, and the final appointments will
be made by the League after careful investigation
' of each petition.
Even to the most casual observer the tremendous
improvement of the new system over the hit-or-
miss method of general elections must be imme-
diately evident. In the first place it puts the class
project on a business-like basis. As in applying for
a job, the primary consideration will be not pop-
ularity and social standing but efficiency, experi-
ence, and general qualifications.
In the second place, every woman interested has
a better chance of securing the work she desires.
If she is not placed as a chairman, she will have
the opportunity of working on a committee, where-
as in the old system personal friendship with the
chairman was the primary consideration.
Independent women will have better prospects
than ever before of winning offices. The merit
system aims a death-blow at inter-sorority caucus-
ing, and the non-affiliated woman will receive
exactly the same consideration as the one belong-
ing to a sorority. Moreover, in abolishing cau-
cusing, the system will represent all sororities,
instead of merely those belonging to the winning
party.
Chief among indignant protests to the merit
system is that upperclass women choose officers
for underclass projects. However, the members of
the League Council working from a purely dis-
interested standpoint are far less likely to be preju-
diced than the women of one class, meeting in a
general election. Objection has been made to the
possible uncongeniality of a committee, appointed
at large, rather than by one chairman, but cer-
tainly one of the essential qualifications for lead-
ership is the talent for getting along with, others.
This quality will doubtless receive due considera-
tion in the appointments finally made.
The Union has employed the merit system with
complete success. The League is taking a long step
toward sounder, more efficient organization in
adopting it,
Campus Opinion
Letters published in this column should not be
construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The
Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded.
The names of communicants will, however, be regarded
as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to
be brief, the editor reserving the right to condense
all letters of over 300 words.
Pro, Con, And Finis
To the Editor:
The case of Willis Ward versus Georgia Tech
has now passed out of the realm of inter-collegiate
athletics and has become a matter of racial atti-
tude to those who are talking about the issue .. .
Those in control may be playing for time . . . a
good football tactic. If Ward is badly injured in the
Chicago game, the issue is settled. If the Georgia
Tech players take the initiative and insist that he
play (students in the South are broadening) our
officials will be spared further embarrassment .
It is clear that the time has passed when proven
athletes may be benched because of their race and
hereafter intersectional games will be scheduled
only after this matter has been squarely faced. The
feelings of Georgia Tech are important, but so are
the feelings of the Negro students on the campuses
of Eig Ten universities.
Someone has said that this issue is similar to the
matter of a Catholic's abstinance from meat on
Friday. One difference is that the meat has no
feelings and no psychological problem is involved
when two or more people agree to go without. The
question of Ward playing football is not just an
arrangement between two coaches. It involves the
feelings of a young man who has given his best
to uphold the honor of his school on the athletic
field.
It is still more significant. Willis Ward could
easily overcome his feelings, but can the Negro
student in the north, and members of this race
in Michigan? The issue is not one of fish on
Friday, but the integrity of a people struggling to
live down a powerful prejudice. Will the athletic
department of Michigan help them?
-Rev. H. P. Marley.
To the Editor:
There is an insidious rumor going about to the
effect that one Harry Kipke and not the National
Student League is coaching the Michigan team this
fall. Of course, this ridiculous rumor must be false
for the National Student has decided that either
Ward will play or Michigan won't.
Wednesday, The Daily concisely stated its beliefs
in this matter. With these beliefs, I wholeheartedly
agree. I might only add however these points:
1. That this has been the custom of southern
schools for a long time and that is why no Western
Conference or eastern team has ever made a similar
request.
2. That the meddlesome, publicity-loving Na-
tional Student League have probably made this
affair an embarrassing matter for Ward, while if
they had not made any fuss about it, it would
have passed over unnoticed.
Just why the league should try to take over the
duties of coaching the football team has not been
explained. This campaign may all be in vain any-
way, for "Coach" Kipke has never said that Ward
would not play, according to a local sports writer.
-J.S.R.
To the Editor:
Wednesday's editorial remarks regarding the
Ward issue show clearly the usual superficiality
and stupidity with which The Michigan Daily edi-
tors react to all significant situations.
1. Rather than seriously reprimanding the ath-
letic board for scheduling the Georgia Tech game,
they merely pass it off with a satirical sentence,
climaxing their supreme chastisement with the
word "stupid."
2. Granted that the line-up is the coach's busi-
ness, it is also the business of that same man, as a
leader in American sportsmanship to see that
Ward does play, simply because he is a Negro.
How would this campus have felt two years ago
if a Hitlerite team was scheduled to play here and
asked us to keep Newman off the team?
3. I am not a member of the National Student
League, but even to me the "fate of Ward" is sym-
Nothing is certain, says a senior at the University
of Oklahoma except death and taxes and in-
firmary, final exams, 8 o'clocks, pop fizzes, high-
priced textbooks, week-end splurges, professors who
tell stale jokes, banquet menues of green peas and
mashed potatoes, and my column 'deadline. True,
brother, true!'
Here's a contrib. coming from Pat, a sophomore:
Dear Bud:
Let's Crucify the varlet
Who approves fingernails of scarlet.
Those rainbow digits are encouraged
By him who likes to see them flourished.
Let's list all cuticles of coral
As nauseating and immoral.
The worst that I have ever seen
Are tinted shades of sickening green
And from most men a dismal burp'll
Come forth at sight of those of purple.
While even worse are shades of rose
Which peep forth from my lady's toes.
Let co-ed fair tattoo their lips -
For all I care, tattoo their hips,
But what this country needs is jails
For gals who paint their fingernails.
A battle of the sexes wages at Temple University.
A male critic charges that co-eds are inconsistent
husband hunters; also they fawn and gush. Men
students are key hunters, fops and ill-mannered
a co-ed retorts.
Many a romantic suit, says a co-ed at In-
diana University, is pressed under the cloak of
night.
According to the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal
we learn that professors at that institution have
added materially to their income during the last
year by writing over 20 textbooks that are now
being used by students at that university. Many
of the books are merely altered editions of old texts.
That's not news to us.
Add this to your list of definitions: A skele-
ton, says a medical student at the University of
Missouri, is a stack of bones with all the people
scraped off.
The campus of St. Mary College is no place for a
nudist. The officials of that institution issued this
warning as a battle cry of a crusade against the
latest outbreak - the recent habit of. students ap-
pearing in and near the campus in an unclothed
condition.
Here are some history boners from that depart-
ment at the University of Kansas:
St. Bartholomew's Day - A massacre in which
many Christians were killed by Catholics.
Predestination--was what was going to happen
to you after death, by Calvin.,
Lindbergh was met with coursity in Paris.
A Washington
BYSTANDER
By KIRKE SIMPSON
THE MULTIPLE-CORNERED race -for speaker
among House Democrats would be a joke in or-
dinary times but for the serious problems that
face party leaders in Congress next winter. The
spectacle of a half dozen announced candidates, as
many more potential rivals and probably another
half dozen merely talked-about possibilities, does
not promise a strong, tactful House management
the 'New Deal" administration is going to need.
Intimations that Democratic forecasters really
anticipate expanded majorities in both houses do
not help at all. If Chairman Farley's calculations
of a Republican minority shrunken to the size of
pre-Civil War times should be realized, it will vastly
complicate the situation for the White House.
IT IS A REASONABLE GUESS that none of the
House veterans among speakership rivals dis-
agree with Vice-President Garner's theory that a
House party majority of 50 votes or so makes for
the best legislation. Most of them are willing to
say so privately if not publicly. Those who played
any important part in leadership conferences in the
last two sessions know that the big Democratic ma-
jority was almost out of control time and again.
At least two matters of gravest import for the
administration are taking shape for reintroduction
under such auspices this winter as to cause concern
to Presidential advisers. The 30-hour week and the
bonus, neither of which has much connection with
New Dealism, seem bound to enlist big majorities
in both houses through election commitments.
President Roosevelt did not find them so press-
ing in the last Congress due to his personal prestige
and in part to the dismay occasioned by the bank-
ing crisis. The supposedly staid Senate slapped
the Black 30-hour bill through and it was all set
for House ratification. No one doubted that a ma-
jority of substantial proportions would be recorded
if it came to a vote. Now it is coming back sup-
ported by an American Federation of Labor de-
mand for action and presumably, implemented by
the Federation's questionnaire to Congressional
candidates.
Prof. George D. Strayer of Columbia University
advocates the creation of a Federal department of
education with a subsidy of $500,000,000.
COLLEGIATE
OBSERVER
The Fellowship of
Liberal Religion
(UNITARIAN)
State and Huron Streets
5 O'clock Candle-light Service--
Mr. Marley will speak on
"THE LITTLE GRAND-
MOTHER OF THE RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION"
7:30 - Liberal Students Union.
Dean S. T. Dana,
"Values in conservation"
First Methodist
Episcopal Church
State and Washington
Charles W. Brashares, Minister
10:45 Morning worship. Dr. Brashares
has chosen as a sub iect
dBREAD AND CAKE"
in 'a series entitled at We
Want."
3:00 -Students interested in the
International Student Forum will
meet for an informal group dis-
cussion on thesimilarities todbe
found .in different peoples.
3:30 to 5:30-Kappa Phi invites to tea
all Methodist women students, or
those of Methodist preference.
3:00 -Wesleyan Guild worship serv-
ice. A series of discussions, led by
outstanding speakers, on "The
Place of Religion in Modern Soci-
ety," will begin this evening. Mr.
Ralph Segalman, student speaker,
will talk on "Why I do not, Believe
in Organized Religion." Supper
and fellowship hour follow.
Hillel Foundation
C oinerl.ast Ui versity ind Oakland
Dr. Bernard Heller, Director
October 14,.1934
11:15 A.M .- Sermon at the Women's
League Chapel by Dr. Bernard
Heller-
Religious Activities
October 14, 1934
"FACING LiFE
AS A JEW"
rhursday, Oct. 8-A tea will be given
by the Pt Lambda Phi fraternity.
9:00 A.M.-Bible School; lesson topic:
"The Christian's Standard of Life"
10:30 A.M .-Service with sermon on-
"FLOODING Ti IE EARTH
WITH SAVING TRUTH"
4:00 P.M -The Student Club will
assemble at the Parish Hall to
leave for an ouL-door meeting.
7:30 P.M.- Holy Communion service
in the German language.
St. Paul's Lutheran
(Missouri Synod)
West Liberty and Third Sts.
Rev. C. A. Brauer, Pastor
October 14, 1934
9:30 A.M.--Sunday School
9:30 A.M -The Service in German.
10:45 A.M.-The Morning Worship-
Sermons by the Rev. Alfred O.
Meyer, Grand Haven, Michigan:
"OUR MISSIONARY
PRAYER"
3:00 P.M.--The Vesper Service-
Sermon by the Rev. Herbert Muel-
ler, St. Clair Shores, Michigan.
7:30 P.M. -- Illustrated Mission Lec-
ture on "SOUTH AMERICA" by a
former missionary, the Rev. Alfred
0. Meyer.
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