PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1934 THE MICHIGAN DAILY e . - 3%ii4 I Publiz ed 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 ¢nd the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER sociated 'ogietatt rss wsunrrars or d e -31934(Alnn Iez 95 ,ADOM r" JWEVSCONS$ -AEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively 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 class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $1.50. Duing regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. - 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR..............WILLIAM G. FERRIS EITOREIALORECTR.........JOHN HEALEY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR .............RALPH G. COULTER SPORTS EDITOR ...................ARTHUR CARSTENS WOMEN'S EDITOR .....................ELEANOR BLUM NIGHT EDITORS: Paul J. Elliott, 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: John H. 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WARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........JANE BASSETT DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, John Og- den; Service Department, Bernard Rosenthal; Contracts, Joseph Rothbard; Accounts, Cameron Hall; Circulation and National Advertising, David Winkworth; Classified Advertising and Publications, George Atherton. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: William Jackson, William Barndt, Ted Wohlgemuith, Lyman Bittman, 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 Shapland, Betty Simonds, Grace Snyder, Margaretta Kohlig, Ruth Clarke, Edith Hamilton, Ruth Dicke, Paula Joerger, Mary Lou Hooker, Jane Heath, Bernar- dine Field, Betty Bowman, July Trosper. NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT S. RUWITCH Occasion For Spirit. THE OLD GRADS will be back this T week-end to observe the annual homecoming. Students will join them in a pep meeting tonight. Freshmen and sophomores will meet on the field of battle tomorrow. Fraternities will be decorated. The big home football game of the year comes tomorrow afternoon. Officially, the Michigan Alumni Association knows no fall homecoming. Few of the returning alumni will be signed up, none will be trotted around for any sort of program. All class reunions,. all alumni programs sponsored by the organization come in June, when educational events and at- tractions other than football are the drawing cards. The Undergraduate Council, without any sup- port or action of the alumni, has inherited the job of naming the date for homecoming. Around the date several functions have grown up that are now traditional and much more respected than they would be if any sort of official promotion were needed. Official or unofficial, homecoming week-end brings back more alumni than any other occasion except the June meetings. They look forward to a rallying point and the mere designation of a homecoming game is all that is necessary to start things moving. From the alumni standpoint, the week-end is always a success. The alumni, many of them veterans of the days when college men gave freely of their blood in combat with the forces of law and order and went into a frenzy over football games and rallies, will go to the pep meeting tonight to yell as hard as they ever did in their prime. They are not ashamed of their loyalty to Michigan, and they still believe th;at support is something a team needs in order to do its best. Pep meetings were not intended for the old grads alone. In fact, once they were so strenuous that none but the youngest and strongest males dared go. Years of plenty have made students apathetic toward their team-win or lose. The value of rallies seemed about as indirect as-that of prayer. Someone has suggested that the gatherings of the last year or two be called "discussions," not rallies. Michigan's gridiron position changed so un- expectedly this year that many persons aren't sure yet what happened. Neither do they know just what's coming next, but most of them have a sort 'Dat Ole Debbul'... IT'S A LOT EASIER to do battle with a personal devil than with an abstruse social, economic, or political issue. Con- sequently, when things go wrong, it only remains for the aggrieved parties to set up some individual or some definite group as the cause of it all and batter it down by name-calling. Secretary Wallace discusses this quaint custom at some length in his recent book, "New Frontiers." "Changing the rules of the economic game is usually accompanied by the exorcising of personal devils," he says. "Sometimes people become so fas- cinated by their devils that they forget they set out to change the rules." There is no more vicious devil-chaser in exist- ence than the Chicago Tribune, which has centered its attack on the New Deal in the highly-amusing but not always strictly veracious cartoons by Mr. Orr. Thanks to Mr. Orr, a considerable portion of the country's population now knows that the New Deal is personified by a despicable little college professor with Communistic beliefs and that his sole aim is to kill every last one of the American ideals and turn the country over to Russia. While devil-baiting may be an effective form of attack in a semi-literate society such as our own, it is none the less despicable. And while, the Chi- cago Tribune may be a brilliant example of the practice, it is not alone in it by any means. Devil-shouting helps, among other things, to gain votes, tighten the hold of leaders on their follow- ings, and increase newspaper circulation. It looks like fine stuff on the outside. Actually, it arouses human passions and prevents thinking. It does nothing to clean up the mess. That in our past which many have called prog- ress has often been nothing more than a series of violent swings from the camp of one attractive banner to that of another. Those mass movements were vivid and dramatic; they were not always so very vital. And for exactly that reason some of us will realize that devil-chasing will never perma- nently solve some of the very essential problems that are cropping out these days. IAs Others See It Should FERA Subsidize? T HE LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration last week announced a ruling which makes new stu- dents who pledge to fraternities and sororities in- eligible for FERA part-time employment on the Hill. The Inter-fraternity Council and the Women's Pan-Hellenic Council immediately entered protests, charging discrimination against the Greek-letter organizations. Perhaps the Inter-fraternity Council and the Women's Pan-Hellenic Council would do well to spend a few minutes in more careful reconnais- sance before advancing further. They might save themselves a considerable amount of trouble and embarrassment if they look before they leap. It is evident from their charges of discrimination that they do not understand the purpose of the FERA employment program. The purpose of the program of part-time employment for college stu- dents, as set forth in the instructions from Wash- ington, is to dovetail with the broader program of relief and re-employment by bringing to college many young people who would otherwise be on the labor market. It does not demand a great degree of intelligence to perceive that the use of this relief money to pay fraternity and sorority dues is not consistent with the purpose for which the employment was created. A person who is finan- cially able to join a fraternity with an FERA in- come of $15 per month can remain in school with- out it, for his dues and initiation fee would con- sume most of his yearly income from FERA. Thus the relief money used in this way would not in- crease the enrollment of the University no de- crease the excess of supply over demand in the labor market by bringing men and women to the University who could not possibly come otherwise. The board, although the members with a single exception, are members of fraternities, has decided that it is more just and more desirable to have both John Brown and John Smith in the University even though neither can belong to a fraternity. We con- gratulate the board on its excellent decision and feel that had it not passed the rule in question, the Federal Relief Administration would have sound and sufficient reason for discontinuing its appro- priation to the University of Tennessee. --Orange and White (U. of Tennessee). Students As Social Insurance T HE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, through the Federal relief administration, will dispense more than 13 million dollars among needy college men and women this fall. These funds will be al- lotted through the state temporary relief adminis- trations to non-profit making institutions. Although essentially a plan to lessen unemploy- ment this winter the consequences of the govern- ment's program must be measured from a long- time viewpoint rather than any viewpoint of im- mediacy of benefit. Over 75,000 students will be able to continue their advanced education because of this FERA plan. The ultimate benefit to the nation accruing from so many technically trained citizens cannot be estimated; but that such citizenry is an asset to the country cannot be denied. During their educational periods, furthermore, the Federal students will not be solely recipients of aid, but will virtually "earn their way" by working part-time on socially desirable projects including clerical, library, and research jobs. Other of these students will teach adult extension classes, thereby passing on their cultural and technical information COLLEGIATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD Here is the latest news concerning the rule that there should be no "dating" during the week nights at the University of Oklahoma. The president of the university walked into a campus "hot spot" where 300 "dates" were dining and enjoying a good orchestra. He ordered the boys and girls to go home at once, but now there is a walkout in 16 fraternities because of the attempted enforce- ment of the ruling. I dedicate this poem to MY FRATERNITY BROTHERS There is nothing that gets me, nor makes me more sore, Aftcr I've slaved on this column an hour or more Than for my dear fraternity brother to pop up and say, "Oh, that isn't funny -I've heard it before!" A hundred freshmen started a revolt against the sophomores at the University of Maryland recently, and as a result were unceremoniously dumped into the chill waters of a nearby creek. During the course of the proceedings the president of the soph- omore class was immersed three times, and sundry other casualties were suffered by the "disciplinary committee." B.B.L. nominates these for extermination: People who mourn in scornful fun, Whenever anyone springs a pun. (Editor's note: We'd like to sprng upon them without mercy). The guy whose kiss is passionless; The gal whose kiss is a sacred mess. Couples that walk at evening time, And mumble platitudes sublime. +/ .- .s.s Homecoming. ''''Ii'' ______________ ______________________________________________________________ is the climax of the football season. Plan to attend the Union dances of this event. in celebration You will enjoy dancing to the Union band. Friday 9-1 $1 Sa turday 9-12 Michigan Union Ballroom A III""' I, Miami University is boasting of a student makes the comic strip figure Wimpy look an amateur in comparison. He recently set a record when he ate 20 hamburgs at one sitting. who like new Subscribe NOW to The MICH IGAN When a sorority girl plays with fire it gen- erally ends up with her sorority sisters raking her over the coals. About a week previous to the Colgate-Ohio State game, played last Saturday, Ted Husing, sports an- nouncer, in his radio talk picked Ohio State to win. An hour later a rhymed telegram appeared from Colgate reading this way: "My Dear Ted Husing As to Your Choosing that Colgate will be Losing We Have One Hundred Dollars We Are Not Using and if You Surmise Your Prediction is Wise Fork Up Your Hundred and We'll Take Youse Guys." (Signed) The Beta House, Colgate University. Husing wired back this jingle: "As To Your Pleading That Colgate Will Be Leading I Have a Hundred I'm Not Needing. I Fear That the Betas Will Soon Lose Their Status as Prognosticatahs. Please Let Me Know And I Will Forward the Dough." (Signed) Ted Husing. "Hundred Coming, Keep Wires Humming With Disastrous News Ohio's Succumbing," taunted Col- gate. Husing wiring the money advised: "I Tell You This to Bring You Pain, the Beta's Bet will be Husing's Gain. I'm Sorry My Football Eudition Will Cost You Most of Next Term's Tuition." The game was played on Saturday. As we all know Colgate lost 10 to 7. A few minutes later Husing received this gay surrender: "Congratulations, You Broke The Bank As Prognosticatahs We Are Rank." (Signed) The Betas. A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON ENERAL DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR, chief of staff, United States Army, put in an uncom- fortable time just prior to expiration of his term in that four-star military job. He seemed to be the victim of his own charm and capacity to im- press laymen with an appreciation of his profes- sional attainments and executive talent. That he possesses both in an exceptional degree his brilliant war record as godfather and leading spirit of the famous Rainbow Division, sufficiently proves. That was MacArthur's own idea. No A.E.F. man except General Pershing cap- tured more non-service official fancy at home than MacArthur. He greatly impressed Secretary Baker even before America's entry into the war, when he was just an engineer major of general staff duty. He was the youngest major general when he reached that rank, is the youngest man to have become chief of staff. He is the only man ever to have held that job to be seriously considered for reappointment. It always has been a one-term, rotative post. MAC ARTHUR became chief of staff, stepping over older heads, on the personal urgency of Secretary Pat Hurley which outweighed with Pres- ident Hoover even a counter-nomination presented by General Pershing. Now his reappointment for a second term, in the face of service tradition, is strongly urged by Secretary Dern a Democrat. Whatever happens, that in itself is an added feather for the jauntily worn MacArthur cap. This upshot is all the more surprising to the 4q~ DAILY IJ__ Announcing The 1934-3 5 STU DElNT D IRECTORY 7.5c CAMPUS SALE TO DAY N 'I