PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUE SDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 19 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repulication 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 ganted by Third Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mal, $1.50. During regular school year by carrier $4.00; by mnail, $4.50. Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Representatives: National Advertising- Service, Inc. i West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. - 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR............WILLIAM G. FERRIS CITY EDITOR........................ JOHN HEALEY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ..........RALPH G. 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Allen Upson, Willis Tom- linson, Homier 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 fHamilton, Ruth Dicke, Paula Joerger, Mary Lou Hooker, Jane Heath, Bernar- dine Field, Betty Bowman,HJuly Trosper. NIGHT EDITOR: DAVID G. MACDONALD Challenge To A Favored Group ... SLTUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY of Michigan are, generally speak- . ing, a favored group. The majority of them have their education either wholly or partially supplied for them. They do not realize, nor concern them- selves greatly about, the crisis that has been reached in the educational and employment facil- ities available for those less-fortunates who can neither secure a job nor afford to go to school. That such a crisis has been reached is evi- denced by the large proportion of our present crime wave attributable to youth, by the decrease in the percentage of boys and girls of school age who are now attending, and by the tendency on the part of business employers to eliminate youths under 21 from their establishments. Statistics reveal that out of 9,500,000 young peo- ple of high school age in this country, only 5,- 700,000, or 60 per cent, are at the present time attending school. Statistics also show that out of a group of 241,- 000 arrests studied 20 per cent were under 21, and three out of five were under 30. Crime cost us 15 billion dollars last year. The college student needs only to try to obtain a job to see for himself the meagre possibilities of employment for these 3,800,000 boys and girls of high school age, and to see for himself the casual relation between the youthful character of criminal statistics and the inadequate charac- ter of employment and educational opportunities. These problems concerning an unemployed and out-of-school youth are not entirely the concern of governmental relief work, nor are they solely the responsibility of community and civic leaders, although their assistance is vitally necessary. The youth problem is one for just such a favored body of young men and women as is found on the campus of the University of Michigan. Given the initiative, this group has the time, the finances\ the ability, and a'common bond with the more unfortunate youths of its own age to adequately cope with the situation. The report of the Conference on Youth Prob- lems called last June by the Commissioner of Edu- cation in Washington includes the statement that while the guidance of community and govern- mental activity in the solution of youth problems is necessary, "The spirit of self-help and youth responsibility should dominate all programs insti- tuted for youth." Thus it devolves upon this favored group first o-f all 1toh 1'a('Ci9)1V7 thetpn~t ~i-andpii v svir,, of tively devote their time to organizing and direct- ing both the remedial and preventive aspects of the youth problem. Whether such a program could arise from the "favored group" of the University of Michigan -from students who could live supremely un- aware and unconcerned about such a disturbing thing as "youth problems," if they chose, seems to us a conclusive test of the value attributable to higher education. Tears Fell On U.C.L.A... . T HE EXUBERANCE of youthful am- bition and enthusiasm has often carried youth away, causing it to act rashly on the basis of hastily-formed judgments. Recognizing, however, that college young peo- ple, rapidly gaining maturity, must be given in- creasing opportunities to manage their individual affairs and their collective student interests, college authorities have hopefully extended them certain freedoms and authority in school affairs. Students are always quick to seize upon any privileges extended to them, but are not so eager to accept the accompanying responsibility. It is when they go too far in their enthusiasm, forgetting the responsibility that should be theirs, that unfor- tunate occurrences follow, hurting both the student himself, and his elders as well. Disillusioning and disheartening in the extreme have been certain experiences lately at the Uni- versity of California at Los Angeles, where five students had to be expelled for their communist activities. The following passage from a recent news dis- patch is the crowning blow: "At the University of California at Los Angeles, Provost Ernest C. Moore charged, with tears coursing his cheeks, that a Communist 'cell of agitation' had been established on his caipus, under direct orders of the Moscow Third International." Ah, that such a scene should be brought about on an American campus! Is there nothing we can hold sacred? Campus Opinion Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daiy. 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. Uh-huh To the Editor: It is no longer a mark of the sophisticate to speak of the upward urge or the downward urge of the race, nor is there any longer a vigorous distinction between the meretricious and the good. Life's goal seems undefined, unreal, a post- ulate for human reasoning, a concept lost in the sure disillusionment of living. Life seems marching onward, in the past and in the future, to new meanings and only when the individual realizes that the laws of yesterday are for the furnitures of yesterday will he awaken to a true appreciation of his age. For a student of the sciences to witness the outburst of applause that came with the appear- ance of Lenin and the storming of the Winter Palace. at St. Petersburg after the showing of the Russian film "Mother" Thursday night was enough to juggle him out of the citadel of Meta- physics in which he had supposed himself to be safely placed and reflect upon the nature of hu- man actions and their background in the drama of history. He could not condemn nor look down from any higher place upon this demonstration of a feeling peasantry, nor could he raise his voice with theirs when he had seen the awful concom- mitants of such a stroke for freedom. Surely, no man can show a partial attitude in such a case except he is void of those keener sensitivities that make us glad that we are men and not as the beasts of the field. The most that may be done is to allow the negation of one's joys and tears to take the place of action, to preserve a quiet sobriety, sympathetic to the fullest degree, to recognize each seeming craziness as a necessity and, with Nietzsche, loving it, to halo one's con- ceit with understanding, encompassing the self with a tender native silence. It is this dumb lesson that philosophy would offer, to know that no concretion is so true but that life can turn its verity to a lie. --Richard Bennett. No Hollywood 'Mother't To the Editor: Seeing a film like "Mother" reminds a person that nowhere are poor pictures made as well as in the United States. Not that Hollywood is incapable of good pictures, but merely that all of the techni- cal facility of which American producers are masters is lavished on the inconsequential program picture more often than it is employed on some- thing of importance. In "Mother" (I have no idea of the film's age) there were cinematic ideas - some of them highly effective as used there -which certainly would have profited by the superior photography, light- ing, continuity and editing of the Hollywood crafts- men. The details of groups of people (feet, hands, etc.), the kaleidiscopic succession of shots in the fighting scenes, and the devices of enforcing the gathering force of the marching revolutionaries by the May Day views were all fine. And Hollywood has not missed the lesson of this and similar films. The overlapping dissolves used to show early morning in the factory have been copied in American pictures (in "An American Tragedy" if I remember rightly). Unfortunately Hollywood once possessed of an idea can scarce get rid of it; for instance, how many miles of film showing train wheels have been used in recent years to indicate the characters' travelling? COLLEGIATE OBSE RVE R By BUD BERNARD Here's a story coming from Dartmouth Col- lege. Last Spring Hanover, home of that insti- tution, required all eligible Dartmouth students to vote in order that it might collect a poll tax from them. In retaliation, the students attend- ed a town meeting, where they introduced and passed two bills proposing the building of a wall around the town eight feet high and the construction of a city hall one foot high and one mile long. Hanoverians had to take the affair to Washington to get out of building the two structures. A Fordham College publication suggests the following on how to act like a senior: 1. Remain cynically disinterested and if possible, a trifle bored in the face of all enthusiasm. 2. Wear your dress shirt at least six times before having it laundered. Thus you will succeed in avoiding that "starchy" uncomfortable appearance which is inevitably made by underclassmen. 3. Under no circumstances be seen in public with more than two textbooks. Besides being dis- tinctly "the wrong thing," it has a demoralizing effect on men in the lower classes. 4. Stop wearing white shoes at least before the end of January. 5. Treat juniors with disdain, the sophomores with condescension, and the freshmen with a boredom which will probably be mixed with envy. One of the less intelligent co-eds in a polit- ical science course at Ohio State University wanted to know if the Congressional Record was the record held by the most long-winded congressman. Blind date bureaus are old stuff, but inter- collegiate blind date bureaus are a new idea. University of California, Los Angeles, has re- cently organized such a business to facilitate dat- ing for post-grid games. This year the bureau furnishes a feminine companion and transporta- tion for California students going north, and next year the process will be reversed. They are talking about the co-ed at the University of Maryland who prayed that her professor would give her a passing glance. "Nickel Dances" are being sponsored at Oregon State College. Women are admitted free to this affair and men are charged five cents for every quarter-hour dance. Well, it looks like things are bad everywhere, A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON IN THE CLOSING HOURS of the campaign just over, Senator Barbour of New Jersey put into words a difficulty that his Republican colleagues throughout the country faced this year which will not confront them in 1936. "We are witnessing," he said to a Republican audience, "an extraordinary - and we believe an entirely new --national reaction in that the people still admire and like the President but have less and less use for the policies, agencies and agents of the administration.' Recognition quite generally by Republican cam- paigners of the continuing popularity of the President seriously impeded their effort. Add to that the factional splits within their own ranks in so many states, even in New York; the wider dis- agreement on party policy which forced the setting up of what can be regarded as only an ad interim national committee management, and the diffi- culties under which the G.O.P. labored are so obvious as to explain much of what happened. f/HATEVER discouragement party captains feel over the outcome of the battle must be tem- pered by these considerations. They must realize that with the President running for re-election in '36, the hampering necessity of drawing a distinc- tion between the man and his acts and policies tno longer will perplex them. It is the habit of American politics to personify issues in the men who lead and oppose such movements. To make an issue of the New Deal without personal criticism of its chief architect was a trying task. As an illustration of the special difficulties of Republican leaders in the recent campaign, a private letter from an eastern party captain whose official position might have made him a valuable campaigner outside his own state, is illu- minating. He had no fears of re-election himself, yet explained to a Washington friend that "a fac- tional fight that has split everything wide open, and with no outside help and no money" for campaign purposes, had made it necessary for him to stick close on the job at home instead of joining the party national campaign corps. AT A GUESS, a Republican effort to begin pick- ing up the pieces and moving toward a solidi- fied organization for the '36 campaign is to be ex- pected about the time the new Congress begins to gather in January. A decision as to its course in that campaign cannot long be delayed. There are intimations already that if Republican leadership swings too far from the party's old-time con- servatism, a move to recruit a third party of the right might materialize before 1936. To many, the Tihavtrr T aLizP 1hats such nss~ihiliies Do you .have typing to be done, or do you want typing to do. Or, have you, lost anything In any case, your best medium is The Michigan Daily Classified Column I 1. CASH RATES LINE i ic PEP (Short term charge advertisements accepted)' Place your ad now and your results will come .immediately A 1$ _______________________________________________ 1 SEN I Do not, wait until the. last week in. November to have Your pictures taken for the 4 Michiganensian. 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