PAGE FOU THE MICHMAN OXIIN .%AT' TT,*.IIA'V rbVV.VMUVIM 1 IOVA -- rs sa .~~~~'1u a~ia \t ii1T 1"S 11 L T'SiL 3YA1V sw~i -rt ; v.. ... : ..._ . . . . .._.t aA I . KUY ~II~A~ U1iU ;tlJSLI'1, .194 nI k i THE MICHIGAN DAILY so grave. It is that the evils of the present system have been so often evidenced that people have ceased to become excited over an "irremediable situation." This is indeed a pitiable attitude to adbpt. Two means of stopping the activities of these repeated offenders who return so easily to continue their depredations are at hand. One is a preventive, and the other a remedy. The latter method has been well illustrated by the activities of the Fed- eral secret service operatives in recent months. A criminal is never so harmless, they have shown, as when his body is riddled with slugs. This method is the only approach which the Federal authorities have to the problem of state-paroled or state-par- doned convicts. A preventive measure - one which would more surely reduce the crime and the danger of death to police officers - is to be found in a reform of the parole and pardon system. The legislators of this and other states should scarcely require any more urging before undertaking this important step. Campus Opinion .. r! COLLEGIATE OBSERVER ii_ Publis-hed 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 4ui the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER *Aszociated glUtiate $Press 191933 .41SSwmWS~~I '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 PostdOffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. 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A BUSINESS MAN was complaining to his friend: "The trouble with college graduates," he said, "is that they've got to unlearn a lot before they're of much service. They come out of school cocky and self-centered - they can't execute orders, and will not co- operate." An unfair generalization you might think-but then came a report from a prominent business firm which had written to the University to obtain six young men for jobs that promised to offer attractive futures. Within a short time, five of the six had to be let go, for the very reasons that our business friend outlined above. It would be little cause for concern if it meant only that college graduates evidenced little prac- tical business acumen, for the fundamental func- tion of a university is not, we hope, to increase the economic utility of its students. However, there is something much more sadly significant to be read in these incidents. It is pos- sible that we are clogging the cerebral pores of our students, so that instead of learning how to think, they find themselves merely applying neat platitudes to meet each situation? In teaching students literature, geology, or math- ematics, it is not that universities want them mere- ly to add to the actual knowledge of the sub- jects; but rather that, in growing to include these subjects, the minds of the students will learn how to grow - adapting themselves to new situations that present themselves in the flux of life. Flexibility, adaptability - these are the char- acteristics of an educated mind, and it bespeaks little credit for our educational system if men complain that college graduates are filled with only so much knowledge as rote memory will five them; if college graduates extract from their four years primarily a knowledge of how best to pass blue books with a minimum of preparation, how to acquire a savoir faire that makes the foot- man at the New Yorker look humble, and whether or not one wears his black bow tie inside or out- side of a wing collar. Perhaps The Answer Is Too Obvious. . A SHORT TIME AGO a man named Goodrich kidnaped, attacked, and killed the nine-year-old Gallaher girl. He had been released from an insane asylum over the protests N.S.L.: Students' Champion To the Editor: The N.S.L. wishes to bring to general campus opinion the lying editorial published in the Detroit Times Wednesday, Nov. 21, entitled "Punish Stu- dent Reds," written by Dr. F. B. Robinson, presi- dent of City College of New York. In the first place, it is an attempt to raise the "red scare," a tactic used so much by reaction- aries the world over, in strikes, in anti-war cam- paigns, in elections and now, it seems, on the campus. He is crying "Red" in an attempt to break the solid front of opposition to his dictatorial policies, a front of professors, students and the citizenry and newspapers of New York City which is calling for reinstatment of the banished students and dismissal of Robinson. Secondly, it is an attempt to extend the syndi- calist laws onto the campus, to put the words and deeds of the student under the constant super- vision of the faculty. It is an attempt to intro- duce Fascist measures of repression of democratic privileges into our free educational institutions. Thirdly, it is an attempt to confuse in students' minds the purpose and personnel of the N.S.L., making it out as Communistic, subversive, agi- tational, even criminal. The N.S.L. is definitely not a Communist, nor a Socialist, organization. It is not a political organization nor an adjunct of any political organization. The L.I.D. does receive guidance from the Socialist Party, to which it is responsible. There is no organization corresponding to the L.I.D. on this campus. The N.S.L. receives no guidance or control from tie Communist Party. The N.S.L. is made up of individuals of any and all political beliefs, who are united in mind and ac- tion on the N.S.L. program, which is not Com- munistic. The N.S.L. fights 1. Against retrenchment; for free educational facilities. 2. For academic freedom for students and pro- fessors. 3. For abolition of R.O.T.C.; against Fascism. 4. Against discrimination against minorities on the campus. 5. For improved student conditions generally. 6. For an extended intramural program of ath- letics instead of the star system. These easily. understood principles can be the rallying point of all students. The N.S.L., in fight- ing for the adoption of its program, uses various methods, educational, but most commonly mass pressure of student opinion. The program of the N.S.L. can hardly be called subversive or dangerous to authority. If our schools have the interests of students sincerely at heart, the N.S.L. which is the leader of the fight to advance those interests in reality would co-operate with the authorities in promoting the interests of the sudents. It is only when the au- thorities are acting directly against the interests of the sudents, as President Robinson is doing by welcoming Fascist students and applying Fascist repression, that the administrators could claim subversion, and this happens only when the uni- versity authorities forget their true task, of aiding and abetting the student in every phase of his life, By BUD BERNARD At the University of Minnesota a well-known sorority had been complaining that the fra- ternity boys next door never drew their shades in the windows of the shower room, which was a continual embarrassment to the young ladies. So the dean of women came to the sorority house to take the matter in charge. The girls pointed out the window from which the unshaded window next door was visible. "Why, I can't even see out of this window," the dean said. "Oh," they answered in chorus, "you have to stand on a chair." * ,' 'I A professor of Neuropsychiatry at the University of California says that kings are more apt to be insane than are politicians, the simple reason being that a politician who becomes insane doesn't re- main a politician very long, while a crazy king may have a regency. According to many people -The average college man is too honest to steal, too proud to beg, to lazy to work, and too poor to pay cah.i That's why we have to give him credit. Back in 1897, Butler University co-edswwere not allowed to belong to secret societies with young men, because it was suspected that one of the in- itiation rites was a kiss. "Dear Bud," writes H.J.K., "one could hardly call the drinking of beer just an old belchin custom." Sad is the case of a student at the University of Minnesota whose age is only 14. Every time he went out at night to eat a hamburger a burly cop would remind him of the curfew hours for kiddie and tell him to get along home. In desperation the student went to the chief of police and got a letter testifying that "although only 14 years old he may disregard the curfew law in pursuit of his work as a student at the University of Minnesota." But even this didn't stop the youngster's official nemesis, who caught him again the very next night, and looking over the letter, sneeringly asked him under what part of the curriculum eating hamburgers came. The greatest problem confronting college boys today, says a senior at the University of Colorado, is being seen at a dance with the kind of a girl they would want to see home afterwards. Plaudits to the Boston University News for the criticism of the Louisiana Huey, who handed out cold cash to Louisiana State students so that they might attend a football game in Tenessee. He was spicily nominated for the position of chief clown under the editorial titled "Shakespeare Was Right," in saying "All the World's a Stage." Here's a squib coming from G.R.: Girls are like final examinations - they keep a fellow up all night worrying about them, and then ask the most foolish questions. This school has quite a late start. Now that all the schools are clamoring to do away with the R.O.T.C., plans are being made to make military training compulsory at Kansas State. A collegiate humorist has suggested that the modern co-ed has been tried and found wanting -everything under the sun. from cafeteria prices to the possibilities of war and fascism in this country. If some N.S.L. chapters have been rather un- successful in completely winning every demand, it i is not because the N.S.L. is an agitation society, having no real interest in solving the student's problems, but because of its present rather small numbers. The N.S.L., we feel sure, will grow in numbers and influence, in spite of efforts of reac- tionaries like Robinson to stop its growth. -L.S.L., National Student League. POOR NEAR SIGHTED "V&atch your child reading a book: Does he hold the book much closer than 14 inches from his eyes? If he does, the chances are his eyes are being strained. The remedy is eye glasses or better lighting or both. Very of ten, poor lighting in the home is doubly serious condition because parents do not realize that the lighting is inadequate - and consequently, they make no effort to correct it. Thus the poor lighting continues indefinitely, aggravating more and more whatever damage may already have been done to eyesight. There is no substitute for the services of an eyesight specialist, but good lighting protects eyes young and old. Good lighting is really a simple matter. It calls for proper size bulbs in your reading, writing, and study- ing lamps, and the correct type of fixtures in every room of your house. Adequate illumination to assure easy, comfortable seeing at all times and to safegaurd your family's vision costs very little more. It will pay .you to study your lighting and make suitable changes wherever necessary. Thfe DETROIT EDISON COMPANY LIGHTING may be making your child How To Deal. With. Student R~eds By DR. F. B. ROBINSON President of the City College of New York. (Reprinted from the Detroit Times) IT IS QUITE NATURAL for young men to be radical. The saying is true that an immature youngster who is not socialistically inclined has a hard heart, while the mature man who is, has a soft brain. Institutions of learning must not ex- pect youthful enthusiasts to be as conservative and well-balanced as seasoned veterans in the battle of life. Nor would one want to stifle curiosity nor curb appropriate discussion of various issues that come before the public, provided those dis- cussions are spontaneous and originate with the students themselves. But it is another matter when well organized, seditious forces take advantage of the impetuosity of youth and foment trouble among high school and college students. This very thing has been done by the Com- munists. It is from their headquarters that workers go into the high schools and secure recruits for the Young Communist League, and it is also from their headquarters that workers go to the colleges and establish branches of the National Student League, an organization definitely pledged to agi- tation and to the ultimate overthrow of our demo- in order to train students in the technique of organized protest, of disorder and of resistance to authority. They start agitations on all sorts of subjects, from the character of food in the cafeteria and prices in the co-operative store right up to the Scottsboro problem, elections in Nicaragua, Fas- cism in Italy, Hitlerism in Germany and various aspects of world peace. They pretend to support the cause of oppressed minorities in order to divide the college into quarreling factions. My suggestion is that some legal provision should be made defining subversive, organized activities introduced into the high schools and colleges against the wishes of those charged with the administration of their affairs as criminal and liable to punishment. It would seem to me that school authorities should have full jurisdiction over the activities going on within their buildings, and their decisions should stand unless reversed on appeal to the commissioners of education or some similar authority. Furthermore, I would suggest that faculties and other college and school authorities responsible for discipline should be very merciful and consid- erate when the first cases come up of breaches of discipline arising out of youthful radical en- READ THE DAILY CLASSIFIED ADS Religou s Activies The Fellowship ofH illel Foundation Zion Lutheran ' Liberal Religion Corner East University and Oakland C u rch (UNITARIAN) Dr. Bernard Heller, Director Washington at Fifth Avenue State and Huron Streets Deoembr 2, 1934 E. C. Stellhorn, Pastor D coniblr 2 1934 11:15 A.M.-Sermon at the Women's December 2, 1934 League Chapel by Dr. Bernard 5 o'clock Heller 9:00 A.M.-Bible School, lesson topic, "The Humanist and the "Hebraic Contributions to "Witnessing for Christ." Communist Manifestos the Pilgrims" 9:00r AM gAdvet service in the Compared't P mGerman An address by Mr. Marley on the 10:30 A.M.-Service with sermon on, question of whether the new social -The Class on Jewish Ethics led by "TEdrneselgn.YTHE KING WE NEED" order needs religion. ~Hirsch Hootkins will not meet this 7:30 o'clock week but will be continued next Text, Matthew 21, 1-9. Liberal Student's Union Sunday. 5:30 P.M. - Student fellowship and "Folk Dancing and Cor- --The Hillel Cabaret Dance will be supper. Fmun Rcreatn" , m- held on December 8. Bob Steinle 6:45 P.M.--Prof. Lawrence (Preuss) and the Michigan Union orchestra will address the student club on, A talk by virginia Peaseley followed will provide the entertainment. ThePresent Situation in Ger- by a dance demonstration,.ilpoieteetranet many." First Methodist St. Paul's Lutheran (Missouri Synod) Episcopa hurchWest Liberty and Third Sts. State and Washington ( Rev. C. A. Brauer, Pastor Charles W. Brashares, Minister DO NOTD ecember 2, 1934 December 2, 1934 NEGLECT 9:30 A.M.-Sunday School 9:45 -College Age Class for young 9:30 A.M.-The Service in German. men and women in the balcony of yA ID 10:45 A.M.-The Morning Wnhrh1n.