FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1934 . ,a . .. . THE MICHIGAN DAILY i F ._... .. .. - fi 4 Ni Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session - by the Board in Controli"of 'St~udent Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER Associated ( Ifginte MS55 1934 1 4nigg j 35 AxsN ASCOP9Ss --EMBER, 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. During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. 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WARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........JANE BASSETT EPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, John Og- )Ien; Service Department, Bernard Rosenthal; Contracts, Joseph Rothbard; Accounts, Cameron Hall; Circulation and National Advertising, David Winkworth; Classified Advertising and Publications, George Atherton. "USINESS ASSISTANTS: William Jackson. William Barndt, Ted Wohigemuith, Lyman Bittman, John Park, F. Allen Upson, Willis Tomlinson, Homer Lathrop, Tom Clarke, Gordon Cohn Merrell Jordan, Stanley Joffe, > Richard E. Chaddock. 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, Marjorie Langenderfer, Geraldine Lehman, Betty Woodworth. NIGHT EDITOR: PAUL J. ELLIOTT Purpose Of Presidential Fetes ... P ,ESIDENT ROOSEVELT recently P announced his willingness to again permit his birthday next January to be observed nationally by birthday balls throughout the coun- try for the purpose of raising funds to provide aid for victims of infantile paralysis. The work being carried on by committees spon- soring this drive is a great one and deserves nothing but commendation. Any movement to aid in the conquering of disease is meritorious. However, by using the power and prestige of his office, coupled with his tremendous personal pop- ularity, the President has laid himself open to crit- icism because, by allowing his birthday to be used in one cause, he has, in a manner obscured equally meritorious projects for the care and cure of other important diseases. It was probably perfectly all right, for the pro- ceeds of last year's birthday balls to be used solely for =the setting up of foundations for infantile paralysis cure. However, if the balls are going to be continued this year and for the remaining years of the present administration, it would seem more in keeping with the usual broad-minded and far- seeing policy of the President, to apportion out the money collected among the two or three other major diseases, for research and direct relief purposes. Over a million dollars was gathered from these balls last year and it all went for the aid of infantile paralysis. Every public mali should know that no distinc- tion can be made between his acts as an official and those as a private citizen. This has always been unfortunate but true. President Roosevelt's birthday is no longer a private event, and he should avoid using it as a means to further any single cause in which he is personally interested, however worthy that cause may be. As Others See It College Impressions ROUGH WEAVE SUITS of bath mat material . . . . underslung pipes and oil-skin pouches ... yellowish stripes of new sprung grass healing scuffed scars of spring's footpaths . . . flagless bent pole arching toward heavy cloud blankets . . squashed, tobacco-spewing cigarets on white tile wash room floors . . . "the best ideas a teacher gets are those coming from his students" . . . deep slumbrous comfort of the auditorium depths .. ."our entrance into the war to make the World safe for democracy indicated that democracy is not yet safe for the world" . .,. "The University must not be made a political football" ... profes- sorial collar points upcurled over blue ties with large knots . . . generalizing instructor, body weight on tabled finger tips, Phi Beta Kappa key swinging free of abdomen . . . "this university is money minded" .. . "Yes, but he's so-so-practical" . . . Varsity ath- letes engaged in self-conscious sidewalk horse-play ... red-haired girls with orange rouge and orange fingernails. . . . "None of the ideas expressed on this program are to be construed as official state- ments of the University" . . . co-eds limping over lost heel . .. jacketed freshmen in yellow corduroy carrying lunches in brown wrapping paper...,well- brushed fraternity head slumped with sleep on arm of green leather divan . . . blackboard chalk screeches and dimpled face whitens . . . bare branches rub shadowless against rough-cut build- ing stone ... dormitory men, near nudeness, study- ing by green, goose-neck study lamps .. . "You can not divorce pleasure from the esthetic point of view" . . . earnest, radical female students seeking signatures for petition in protest of com- munist book store raid . . . "lemme have your notes for Friday" . . . "what's her girl friend look like?" . . . child laborers hawking popular mag- azines . . . long streams of inhaled smoke from co-ed nostrils envelop tea room salads . . . curved orange lips close daintily over messy chocolate sweetness . . . "this fraternity tries to stress schol- arship as well as activities" . . . "how the devil can he tell whether my answer to a philosophy problem is worth 13 or 14 points?" . . . crisp October leaves scuttering into soft wet mud . . . hair braids en- circling brown co-ed heads in halo fashion . . . "she ain't quite tall enough for me" ... lights go on in dim book-cluttering professors' offices . . . football men helmets in hands, limp toward lock- ers . . . student copyreaders bend coatless over yellow sheets. -The Minnesota Daily. COLLEGIATE OBSERVER =:I ' By BUD BERNARD Last summer the University of Kansas organized a bus-school to take students on an educational tour of the country. To keep students from wander- ing too far from their studies, they were required to take regular class-work en route. One of the students who believed in pleasure before study was threatened with a failure in American history if he didn't make up his back work before the class reached Winnemuca, Nevada. The case looked hopeless for a time but fortunately the bus burned out a bearing, and by the time they reached the deadline city he was well ahead of his work. A student by the name of Sherman Finger is making a name for himself at the University of Minnesota in the field of track. His fame has spread wide and far, and finally they heard all about him at Alabama Polytech, with the result that they invited him to become their football coach. "I would be dubious about my standing in the South with my name," was his refusal. "Mister," came the reply, "just march through Georgia, that's all we ask - just march through Georgia." (EDITOR'S NOTE: Alabama and Georgia are bitter football rivals). The history professors are up in arms again. They labored for a quarter-century to put the writing of history, especially Amercan history, on the basis of fact analysis, and now they find themselves being encroached upon by writers who cast their 'history inte literary molds. One of the protesting historians suggests a code of fair prac- tices for vendors of literary history. Campaigning for an NRA code for "thinking beautifully about America," he asserts: "Like canned ham, it should be labeled 'literature' and not 'history.'" It's old and it's trite, we will admit, but we still think it reads good: A college professor was addressing the student body at the opening convocation of the year. Said he: "I'm delighted to observe that the number of shining faces in front of me this fall is greater than last year." Continuing with a text from the Bible, he quoted: "Oh, how they increaseth, that trouble me!" * 'I, * You've read about them, you've listened to them, but you really have never been able to do much about them. The old jokes filed in the library-brain of the college professor we mean. But things have been done about them at the University of Wisconsin. The quips of one famous lecturer were repeated by him so many times that his library was no longer a private one. During one lecture, however, he forgot one of his quips - and the class woke up with a bang! After the class period closed, a committee of students waited upon the offenider and presented to him a memorandum which ran somewhat as follows: "We beg to inform you that you have committed a great error in omitting one of your prize jokes from your lecture this hour. The class is deeply hurt by your slighting them, and re- quests an apology." A philosophy professor at Ohio State Uni- versity yearly recreates his "regular" pun in this manner. After passing out the papers for his final examination, he sits back and slyly waits for some nervous co-ed to touch a powder puff to her nose. Then, all haughtiness, he arises, bends an accusing finger, and drily remarks: "Young woman, this is not a make-up exam- ination." * * * * Women students at Boston University have been requested to keep away from members of the school football team during the week by the football coach. He says that the players have enough to attend to practice sessions and classes without dating co-eds. Saturday night was made the one exception. i. 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Moffatt: He and She ............... Jeans: Through Space and Time..... Wells, Carveth: Exploring the World... 2.50 3.00 2.50 4.00 3.75 3.50 4.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.75 Faculty Members But Not Teachers... Special Price To Reading Clubs -at WAHRw"''S BOOKSTORES 410 *- STATE STREET MAIN STREET S IZING UP THE COLLEGE per- spective recently, the Duke Chron- icle arrived at the conclusion that faculty members in American schools are doing their work as well as men in most professions, if not better. That may all be very true and most gratifying, but before it produces an "all's right with the world" feeling with many people it ought to be looked into a little more critically. The world's work has long been done by spe- cialists, but certain fields have been far slower than . others to close their portals to persons who are not particularly qualified for service in them. Teaching has been one of the most conspicuous of the latter group. It is certainly not true that any dunderhead can become a teacher, for in all fairness, most teachers, especially in the higher education brackets, are unusually intelligent men. Almost without excep- tion they are unquestioned authorities in their re- spective lines of interest. Constant study and thorough devotion mark their entire lives. Usually they believe in and preach a fine idealism. All these sterling attributes are important to, but do not make, a good teacher. All the knowledge of the ages, all the idealism and devotion imag- inable are as nothing if they are not imparted to many of the 9,000 or more young men and women who come here each year to receive an education. And it is in sharing what they have to offer with the students who are anxious to receive it, that many of our faculty men fail miserably or succeed but poorly. A good football player does not always make a good coach. All teaching is the same. The coach has got to be able to size-up his squad, point out and help correct the weaknesses of individuals, even inspire the team to extra efforts for the sake of the game. The professor ought to be able to understand his class, know .ow to approach it and how to get his message across, even inspire its members to a love of learning when they are falter- ing. The professor who looks out over his lecture sec- tion and sees scattered precincts missing or unre- sponsiveness, attributes it to the rigors of under- graduate life, and decides that a new law will, have to be written against cutting class. He will be the last one to blame his own tedious speeches or the dull lethargy of the course for the empty seats. -rPAlh- cf i~nof-* vil rncme hre determined tn 1- I t For Example Washington Off The Record Heck Week WITH SOME OF THE fraternities becoming TV antagonistic toward Hell Week, and others vowing that they are going to materially modify the torture session, our suggestion is that the right wing change the name to Heck Week. The popular trend at present seems to be toward humanitarianism in the treatment of freshmen. Boys who come to school expecting to be made men, will now have to join the army. Good-inten- tioned young men who fall by the wayside will find only a harsh word and a stern glance awaiting them at the house. And withal, college has lost its last claim to a colorful life for a young adven- turer. But probably it is a good thing that Hell Week is going. Now that fraternities are submitting to rushing rules patterned after the sororities', they might just as well pattern their initiations after them, too. Perhaps it will be even more fun to send the freshmen to class in formal dresses and cotton stockings than it was to clothe them in sacks and beat them with barrel staves. As far as we can see, the only further reform that this campus and its fraternities need is late permission rules for men. When the day comes that brothers have to sign out to go to the library By SIGRID ARNE CARDINAL O'CONNELL of Boston was receiving at Catholic University here after accepting academic honors to commemorate his golden ju- bilee in the church. He saw Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrie coming down the line in a silver cloth dress. When she was opposite him, he frowned severely and whis- pered, "What's the idea of wearing a silver dress to my golden jubilee?" Looking very innocent, Mrs. Imbrie retorted, "You're a little behind the times, Your Excellency. All the rest of us have gone off the gold stand- ard." White-haired Representative Florence P. Kahn of California heard rumors during the campaign that her opponents were saying she was too old to return to Washington. She took the bull by the horns in a speech. "I hear some are saying I'm too old," she said. "I certainly hope that doesn't get back to my mother." Mrs. Kahn was re-elected. * * * SECRETARY PERKINS is one of the few Wash- ington lights with whom wiseacres exchange very few cracks. But one day she arrived at the White House LOST: Black ladies purse, containing about $40. Finder please call 2-12 14 or call at Michigan Daily office. Re- ward. Box A-17, Mich. Daily. 'ess thlian eight hours after the above ad first appeared the purse was re- turned to the owner. Thus, through timely use of The DAILY CLASSIFIED COLUMNS, she realized a profit of 10,000% over the 40c cost of the ad. ForQuickIes iits at ow Cost Use DAILY C LASSFIEDS__ 1^ A ORI A mpl" CI's A U * E"