THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, NOVE1N I 1x... . , Friday's Messages On Armaments .. N LOI N FRIDAY, Winston Churchill, former chancellor of the exchequer, urged Great Britain to make herself without delay "the strongest air power in the European world." England, he declared, "lies inviting attacks from ambitious and hungry powers. As we go to and fro in thispeaceful country with its decent, orderly people, going about their business under free insti- tutions and with so much tolerance and fair play in their laws and customs, it is startling and fearful to realize that we are no longer safe in our island home.,, In Ann Arbor Friday, Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, author and lecturer, stated that "if I were in a posi- tion to dictate the policy of the United States, I would disarm calmly and completely." "We have nothing to fear from Europe or Jap- an," he continued. "Japan has her hands full with China, and it is foolish to think any European power would come across the Atlantic and attack us." Admittedly the positions of England and of the United States are not the same. England is much closer to the powder kegs of Europe and Asia. Eng- land depends for her very existence on uninter-' rupted trade with far portions of the world. Nevertheless, Friday's messages were only too typical of two widely divergent schools of thought that exist in both countries. Few will go as far as Dr. Sheldon, but constantly stronger are becom- ing the numbers that doubt the wisdom of ever greater armaments as a means of preventing future wars. They -see little prospect but that the old method will produce the old result. Between Mr. Churchill's inflammatory appeal and Dr. Sheldon's pacifistic hope, there appears to be little room for compromise, unless nations can learn to meet each other squarely and openly over the conference table. COLLEGlATE OBSERVER I By BUD BERNARD Who said that a good sports writer has to wait until the end of the season to pick an All- American team? We are presenting the team of teams with the aid of a columnist at Cornell University. Left end - Peggy Hopkins Joyce, for picking up everything that comes her way. Left Tackle - Samuel Insull, for throwing more than one sucker for a loss. Left Guard --President Roosevelt for his able work in trying to keep the wolf from the door. Center - George Nathan, for his ability at diagnosing plays. Right Guard - Babe Ruth, for excellency at holding out. Right Tackle - Huey Long, for his mar- velous adeptness in interfering. Right End- Jean Harlow, for marvelous. technique in receiving passes. Quarterback - Earl Carrel, for his ability at picking numbers. Left Halfback - Admiral Byrd, for reaching the end zone by means of an aerial attack. Right Halfback -Al Capone, for almost hav- ing the knack of evading the opponent's tacklers. Fullback - One-Eyed Cnnelly, for crashing through the guards. There it is folks. Take it or leave it! * * * * The Panhellenic Association at the University of Arizona passed a rule that first year women must refuse dates on the grounds that girls just enter- ing college are not sufficiently mature to go places at night with men. The freshmen co-eds were prob- ably too popular for the upperclass women. ** * "Dear Bud," writes a Kappa Delta pledge, "I don't claim to be a poetess, but I do havemy moments about things! Here's a rough idea of what I think of 'hours'." The closing hours are just a pest When with the guy I like the best. It seems to be a trick that's dirty To have to be home at one-thirty When dancing with a smoothie dancer, Or walking with a swell romancer; But what a blessing 'hours' can be When with a guy you just can't see. Twelve-thirty seems just awfully late While suffering on a lousy date. * * *' * A professor of the forestry department at the University of New Mexico offered prospective fire fighters this bit of sane advice: -"The main thing to remember in fighting a forest fire, is to keep cool." . t PERSONAL C H R ISTMAS CARDS PRINTED PROCESS PRINTED ENGRAVED In a Complete Range of Styles and Prices 50 CARDS & 50 ENVELOPES, printed with your name $1.00 ( 25 CARDS & 25 ENVELOPES, printed with your name 75c ( 157 Discount on all Personal Christmas Card orders placed before December 1. 0o.DMORRILL 314 South State Street 1 THE STATIONERY AND TYPEWRITER STORE Since 1908 If you write, we have it. Phone 6615 k.x M 1 .., , y ..: .. A Trust Fund is the safest means of preparing for the future. Let us show you what one can do-for you. Deposits in this bank are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the manner and to the extent provided under the terms of the Banking Act of 1933. Farmers& Mechanics Bank MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Main at Huron State at the Arcade r i . Emmommim I 11 1 VA Campus Opinion i' 1' Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contrilutions 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. Childish Average To the Editor: The interview published in last Tuesday's Daily quotes me as speaking of "the colossal ignorance of Americans." I think I was misunderstood on this point. We, like every other nation, have a majority who are lacking in education and a minority which is as well informed as the elite of any country. Yet the average American is less well informed than other people in history, geog- raphy, and concerning political movements. Three of our students claimed in a bluebook that Na- poleon and Joan of Arc were contemporaries? Recently the editor of a leading Scranton, Pa., newspaper wrote of the "balkan" countries as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (confusing the terms "Baltic" and "Balkan"). Our conservatives use the terms "pacifist" and "communist" as inter- changeable, ignoring the fact that more than 100 Tolstoyans were executed by the Bolsheviki for re- fusing to join the Red Army. Like children we take our games seriously - Huey Long even appointed a football star senator; while the U.S. Senate has kept 54 nations waiting for seven years for a reply to whether the com- promises on the World Court offered by them after conferences with E. Root are acceptable. Is such behavior on our part not the limit of national arrogance?' While Americans - 80,000 strong - cheer them- selves hoarse (incidentally killing annually 50 on the gridiron altar -some spectators dropping dead from excitement) about the way a small, unim- portant ball is thrown, devils play football with our globe It fs imperative that we join the League of Na- tions as quickly as possible. ENSIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS SINCE 1890 "The renCd is back to quality" Studio: 319 East Huron Dial 5541 A Washington BYSTANDER ', 114 II .. .: { '^ -F. S. Onderdonk. AsOthers See It Election Frauds NEED FOR A REVISION in the system used at the present time to select officers in the Stu- dent Government Association can clearly be seen by the results of the election for junior cheer- leaders held last Tuesday. The election was so filled with fraud that the entire affair had to be thrown out. Is there any use trying to elect student officers when the elections are so filled with fraud on every occasion? The same thing was charged in the election last spring. Why isn't something done about this sorry situation? Everyone knows that student officers shpuld be chosen because of their respective merits and ability to fill the office for which they are candi- dates. The faculty committee on student affairs could do away with student elections immediately. They would be firmly backed by practically every student leader who knows the true situation in campus politics today and- who wishes to work for the best interest of the University and the student body. The least that can be asked is an investiga- tion by the faculty of the way in which student politics are workng. We feel sure that if such an investigation were held, the faculty committee which is interested in forwarding the best interests of the University and of the students in their gov- ernient and activities, will immediately do away with the present form of student elections and in- stall a more fair and efficient method of conducting By KIRKE SIMPSON THE ROUNDEST "no" spoken by senators and representatives of the Congress-elect in answer to the Associated Press efforts to sound them out on a dozen prospective major legislative issues was on the proposition of immediately balancing the budget. Only 14 of the 91 checked could be set down as "yes* as against 51 noes and 35 non-committal. Offhand, that would seem to give decided point to gloomy Republican campaign predictions of a "spending Congress." Yet there is another way to look at it. On the same day that the Associated Press fig- ures were published, Secretary Ickes in a public works report and Relief Administrator Harry Hop- kins in a New York speech, were providing new estimates of the number of persons dependent upon these two major emergency spending agencies of the New Deal. Hopkins has raised his guess on relief benefi- ciaries to 18,000,000; Ickes put the total of public works job beneficiaries at 7,000,000. That gives a stunning grand total of 25,000,000 exclusive of the conservation corps and hold-over CWA made-work projects, for which extra-budgetary provision is being made. If the question of arbitrarily lopping off both activities for budgetary reasons were presented to Congress, would any one vote "Aye"? * * * APPREHENSIVE SHIVERS which ultra-conserv- atives may have experienced on reading the Associated Press congressional trends round-up in other respects, probably were partially cured by the fact that relatively the "no" on greenback in- flation was loudest, 9 to 47, with 44 non-committal. The most striking indication to be read into the figures generally, however, was the extent to which Roosevelt leadership in specific matters is being awaited. That is shown even more clearly in exam- ination of the attitude on specific issues than in the heavy majority shown for the New Deal in general. That an effort to line up with expected adminis- tration proposals is to be discerned in the affirma- tive replies as well as the negatives, with the single exception of the pay-the-bonus-now inquiry, is ob- vious. The variation of totals of non-committal answers may be even more significant. It seems to indicate that many a member of the new Con- gress is waiting for White House guidance. *~ * ** SINCE THOSE REPLIES were sent in, election day with its emphatic national endorsement of presidential leadership, that even party lines did not restrict, has immeasurably widened Roosevelt prestige. Based only on the aggregate of the Repub- lican congressional vote cast, there is justification for Republican Chairman Fletcher's position that the aono'raoata RP Pniharo y nnna.n , vtc r.mnrh it a. MICHIGAN GA'RGOYLE IS OFFERING AS A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: ESQUIRE.. , , s , LIFE 0 * * , S 0 * * GARGOYLE 0 0 0 0 All Three _ _ _ - - If you have a Gargoyle and Life Subscription now, we will add a year of Esquire. You can't find a Better or more Lasting Christmas Present. {