PAGE FOUR THE MICHIAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY JJ 4 I When To Use, The Brakes . . . " 6 Published 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 and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER s5zoctediad eleiaft es 13 1gifeigt935 "'IEMBER 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 secondclass matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $1.50. $During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. . Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, gAnn 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 CITY EDITOR ...........................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 0. 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. Batdorff, Robert B. Brown, Richard Clark, Clinton B. Conger, Sheldon M. Ellis, William H. Fleming, Robert J. 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WARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER..........JANE BASSETT DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, John Og- den; Service Department, Bernard Rosenthal; Contracts, Joseph Rothbardi; 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: THOMAS E. GROEAN THE FACT that students are pro- hibited from driving cars is prob- ably an unrefined blessing for the traffic author- ities of Ann Arbor. The fact that students don't drive, however, should not 'give license to others to disregard all traffic laws in a mad' scramble to see who can get through this fair city in the shortest possible time. In recent years there has been little or no en- forcement of common traffic regulations, such as those governing speed and stops at through traffic intersections, especially in outlying sections. Many existing laws are ridiculous holdovers from the re- mote touring car era and others are discommodious, but some laws must be laid down and looked after if the streets are to be kept safe. Strangely enough, in view of the laxness of en- forcement. Ann Arbor has had very few traffic accidents. As long as that was the case, there was no need for further obnoxious rules and reg- ulations. Within the fast week two accidents have occurred at the intersection of Baldwin Avenue and Cam- bridge Road. The second, involving a city bus and a private car, caused the injury of eight persons - all, as it happened, students. Four were injured seriously and are now in the hospital. Four others received treatment and were released. Five more were lucky to get off with a shaking up. Consid- ering that there were almost a dozen persons in the overturned bus, the results might easily have been much more unfortunate. If the intersection of Baldwin and Cambridge is, as is indicated, an inherently dangerous cross- ing, it might be a good idea to do something about it before a more serious or fatal accident has to prove it. "Stop" or "slow" signs on one or both of the streets might be taken lightly, but prob- ably they would at least serve to slow up approach- ing cars sufficiently to avoid collisions. A policy alternating between militant enforce- ment campaigns and utter laxness is much more costly than steady watchfulness. When potatoes were first introduced in Europe by the Spanish conquerors, they were grown as flowering plants only. The Irish were the ones to establish them as an important source of food. There has been a movement on foot for almost a year to abolish football at the Baltimore insti- tution. 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. Too Much Emphasis To the Editor: When a member of your staff asked for my comment at the end of the interesting sessions of the University Press Club Saturday, I endeavored to make a mild statement in defense of newspapers. Our time was very short, and it is not sur- prising that the interview printed Sunday, while accurate in the main, was a bit over-emphatic in one detail. In referring to one of the principal addresses of Friday afternoon, I said: "In his fine talk on Ger- many, Professor Pollock stated that the German press is the mouthpiece of the government, as the American press is the mouthpiece of big business. While Professor Pollock probably did not mean that literally, the view is not uncommon in University circles." I do not recall saying "that view is erroneous" as I had no wish thus to challenge Professor Pol- lock's statement. Your reporter made a conscientious effort to report faithfully what I said. My present concern relates chiefly to the propriety of my speaking on the issue of the integrity of newspapers while a guest of the University. -V. V. McNitt. 'Dukes,' The Perfect Fraternity To the Editor: We would like to submit to your liberal columns an outline of our solution to the fraternity problem in the large American universities. We are a group of sincere, upright, fair-minded students gathered together under the fraternal name of "Dukes." The noble purpose of the Dukes is to lift fra- ternity life to a higher plane. We are not in sympathy with the critics of fraternities who attack from the outside with no constructive alter- native to offer. Sound building must alway be from within. With this in mind we have set out to build the perfect fraternity -with all the good advantages of houses now on campus and with all the disadvantages eliminated. Our present 22 members will go about their fra- ternal duties with hands on shoulder in solid phalanx, lifting their manly voices in joyful song. Glory to the D.K.U.! This is an example of bor- rowing a good idea. On the other hand we will abolish all dues and all paddling - both undignified and un-Michigan. We are sure this will appeal to hundreds of those now outside fraternities - and inside. We will have no borrowing of clothes or of dates. There are many other features to be added -we would like to take this opportunity through the columns of The Daily to invite suggestions of features to incorporate in this perfect fraternity - or of glaring faults now existant which we must COLLEGIATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD Enrollment at the University of Kansas this Year provided many a laugh to, those who are still in a good humor. One lovely co-ed after running the gauntlet of registrars was con- siderably worried. Rushing up to her faculty advisor, the youthful miss exclaimed: "Would you please look over my card? I'm afraid that I have too much religion." Professors at 4he University of Wisconsin are denying an assertion made by a member of the Daily Cardinal that "apple polishing was an effec- tive way of gaining grades." The article conveyed the impression that college professors are suscep- tible to the "cheapest and most obnoxious kind of flattery." The professor retorted that "students making periodic calls on their instructors with the intention of ingratiating themselves are simply regarded as nuisances." A professor of economics at Yale University made the following statement recently: "Many students are like coffee - 98 per cent of the active ingredient has been removed from the bean. WASTED TALENTS 1. The apple-polisher who goes to see his pro- fessor after the grades are in. 2. Kiss-proof rouge on a feminine Phi Bete. 3. When you took your lady friend to your dance and she forgot to take you to her's. 4. To make eyes at your fraternity brothers "heart." 5. For a tall boy to brush his lapel before going to a dance. "Pre.fessors," says a student at the Univer- Eity of Maryland, "sometimes get dizzy ideas in an effort to. make your grade curves come out properly." Freshmen at the University of Cincinnati are said to have gradually become taller and heavier. After graduating, however, seniors will continue to feel smaller and smaller. Here's a pet tongue twister from a speech class at the University of California. If a student gets through this one without biting his tongue he can qualify to take the course: "Theophilis Thistle, a successful thistle sifter, in siftigi a sievefil of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb; new, if Theophilis Thistle, a successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieveful of unsifted thistles thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou in sifting a sieveful of unsifted thistles thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb." CHRISTMAS is on the Way! It is time to leave your order for PERSONAL GR EETING CARDS Come in and make your selection while sample lines are unbroken- Special attention given to CHRISTMAS STATIONERY, ENGRAVING, DIE STAMPING, ETC., ETC. WAH' S BOO* KSTiORES I STATE STREET STUART CHASE LECTURE TICKETS READ THE MICHIGAN DAILY CLASSIFIEDS THE D f airwn - - -- n mrrrrr "The Horsemen of the Steppes," consisting of 36 former officers of the late Czar's Imperial Army, in a program of Soldier Songs, Church Songs, and National Airs. SERGE JAROFF l'i- A Washington BYSTANDER 11 Lament For Learning. DUSTY HALO still clings to the idea of "working one's way through college." A graduate of Michigan stopped by to visit the other day. He was bitter. "The finest four years of my life, those. . . All the memories I carry from my college days are those of rushing to classes unprepared and perspiring from standing over a hot sink, late hours cramming for exams, and a general feeling of fatigue and frustration. And now I've finished. I neither learned my academic work well, nor materially expanded myself." It's too bad, we thought. He has paid a high price for his education. And yet, our recent finan- cial squall and the Federal appropriations to stu- dents have resulted in over half of our student body working to support themselves either in whole or in part. Is it possible, we ask, that over half our students are of the same frame of mind - who feel that they are being deprived of the best part of their college life? No! cry the old guard. Working brings respon- sibility; it insures a proper perspective toward a life of reality that the students would overlook in the artificialities and theories of college life; it makes one realize the value of an education. Maybe so. Perhaps there are some among us who need to be taught the value of an education, some who need to know what it means to sweat eight hours a day at a laboring job. Maybe so, but college cannot presume to expand the intellectual life of its students who are weary, bitter, unreceptive. College is a full-time job. More than that, it is a life - a new way of living. For many it opens the joy of an intellectual life; for most, we admit, it is little but a social concourse. But to condemn those who want to walk with Plato to a fleeting and unsatisfactory glance at him because they have to spend half of their valuable time at labor is a tragedy. What remains then? Are we to subsidize brains? We do now, in a large measure. And surely those who find that they must work ought to step up to the job without any self-pity or wasted sympathy. But the old conception that it is glorified and hon- orable to work one's way through grows shabby in the living of it. Only two of the 158 graduates of the class of 1Q4 fAr~nn R ,f-T - -r -lpa. RA:-dgff By KIRKE SIMPSON IT DEVELOPED, even before election day, that the '34 congressional campaign was to be a record-breaker in a novel respect. It cost less. The indicated aggregate expenditures of both major parties were somewhere around one-half million dollars. Even in 1930, party campaign out- lays ran to nearly three times that figure. The last presidential campaign money output was five times as great; the '28 show cost $10,000,000, some of it still unpaid party debts. There is a lesson in enforced election economy. Will it lead to permanent low-cost campaigning? Probably hot. It probably will not even impel a reduction in the statutory permissible expenditures by Senate and House nominees for election pur- poses. HIS YEAR, as never before. it was "good poli- tics" for candidates to make campaign docu- ments out of their expenditures reports to Con- gress. With millions of folks on public relief rolls, a showing of great expenditures to obtain office would have provided opponents with a ready-made battle cry. Let normally good times return, how- ever, and the ready flow of campaign contributions probably will be resumed. Election costs can be expected to go bounding up. In a few cases, very wealthy men have won their w'ay into high office by refusing to back their own subsequent re-election campaigns with dol- lars of their own. Since the Senate particularly be- came aroused over campaign expenditures to the point of maintaining a virtual standing committee for investigation of that subject, every reason for men of wealth to avoid even the appearance of buying their way in has existed. Yet, even where the motive of abstaining from big personal con- tributions to their campaigns nas undoubtedly been wholly sincere, it sometimes has proved a dan- gerous procedure. There was one Senate case not long ago where that policy by an incumbent who refused to spend anything whatever on his re-election campaign, merely resulted in turning him out regardless of long public service in his state. pRELIMINARY REPORTS from congressional candidates this year showed a strong desire to exhibit expenditures well within the, totals, usually modest totals at that, of contributions received. Whether the final accounting, which' would come after the fact and when the gesture Get Europe with 8-Feature Instant Dialing! SHORT-LONG WAVE Yes! It's WORLD RANGE! 21 $3.00 down $5.00 month SAVE AT LEAST $15.00 and still get these important features: World-wide range- Airplane-type dial- Automatic volume control- Selective tone control- Super- heterodyne- Six tubes- Smart cabinet! Same set in handsome $ 4,95 51 f r_ IL 1 II ; .......... .......... i