THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1934 i Li Y 1 i f V Y i v w v «.n :..-. .. ...... _ VEMBER 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 pubnshed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatchesae resrved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Thir'd 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, Anan Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street. New York, N.Y. - 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Il. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR.............WILLIAM G. 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Chaddock. *OMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Mary Bursley, Margaret Cowie, Marjorie Turner, betty Cavender, Betty Greve, Helen Shapland, Betty Simonds, Grace Snyder, Margarett 1Kohlig 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: JOHN J. FLAHERTY Institutionalization In Universities .. . NIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA students, enjoying an extended Thanksgiving holiday, will not go back to classes until Tuesday. Traditionally, the Monday after the big game with Cornell is a holiday if Penn wins. This year university authorities announced before the game that the vacation would be extended, win or lose. The ruling read in part: "During the trying period from the opening of college this year until the beginning of the Thanksgiving holiday the university has enjoyed the whole-hearted support of the undergraduate body in all activities. . . In appreciation of the splendid spirit thus displayed it has been decided to extend the Thanksgiving vacation to include Monday, Dec. 3. In making *.this decision the university . . . merely recognizes the helpfulness and cooperation which has been exhibited" For any college administration, all of which are commonly conceived to be per se as tyrannical and oppressive as their members can make them, this is indeed a noble and generous act. Few of them dare to risk the effect on student morale of such an unbending from established practice. Beyond such considerations, however, the nature of the reward is rather curious when given a little more critical thought. Undoubtedly, Penn students agreed to a man that no more fitting reward could have been presented them in recognition of their "loyal support." Mighty few college undergradu- ates would be apt to disagree with them in their belief that an extended holiday is the greatest possible favor within the gift of a university administration. It must be true, then, that in all our educational institutions, without known exception, the prime desire of most students is to get out of going to class and to get out of studying on every possible occasion. That's a fine attitude to nurture in an educational institution, but a lot of people are not moved to do anything about it because they don't think anything can be done about it anyway. Certainly, very little, if anything, is being done about it. You might argue that students arrive in the uni- versity fresh from a grammar school and high school tyranny that fits them for nothing better than institutional treatment, and you'd be partially right. It's a cinch that at the present rate they'll be just as needful of institutionalization when they go out. Somewhere you've got to help students make the transition from childhood to adulthood. The high schools may not fit vnn men nand Check And DoubleACheck . . AMERICA has been brought up on a philosophy of government known to the student of political science as the theory of checks and balances. When the United States first came into being, the people of the new re- public were obsessed by one idea, that being to stay as far away as possible from any complete grant of power to one individual or group of individuals. As a result of this fear, we have our three de- patments in the Federal government, the execu- tive, the legislative, and the judicial. All this happened in the 18th century. This is 1934, and we are pretty well tied down by ideals of political philosophy that are 150 years old. This governmental system of a separation of powers may have had some justification in our national government where the rights of indivi- dual states had to be protected. Its intrusion upon the government of the states, however, has never meant anything but grief. One of the rankest developments of a political theory is the bi-cameral legislature used by most of the states. Learned men in the field of govern- ment have realized for many years that such an organization is nothing but a duplication of governmental service, and that a two-chambered legislature tends to tie up constructive action. Such duplication of effort, as with all duplications in government, increases costs immensely. Iowa, realizing that the two bodies of her statp legislature last year cost more than $350,000, has given serious consideration to the uni-cameral legislature. Nebraska has already taken the pro- gressive step toward eliminating one house of her law-making body. It will only be a matter of time until states realize that aged political theories may sound fine, but decreased costs and increased efficiency de- serve more thought than they have been getting in the past. As Others See It Football Stars In Eclipse N THE LONG ROSTER of Notre Dame's great football players, the name of Frank Carideo is ,writen high, but as a coach he has made a sorry showing at the University of Missouri. His three-year reign at 'Columbia has been drab and dolorous, and the present waning season, it is predicted, will be his last. So, too, with Casey of Harvard, a flaming thunderbolt on the grid- iron, whose resignation as coach is reported after an autumn of uhbroken disaster that has reduced the Crimson to a deep funeral black. Other reversals have been recorded of coaches who have, in the past, directed dazzling teams but have drunk only the bitter waters in 1934. Howard Jones, at Southern California, on whom it seemed the mantle of Rockne had fallen, has anguished through abject afternoons, and the swelling wave of Michigan's invincibility which Kipke rode to glory is now a dim memory. Just what it takes to make a successful football coach is too elusive and intangible to be wrapped up in a definition and neatly and legibly labeled. The careers of Carideo and Casey would indicate that a star player is not necessarily a star pre- ceptor, but how is the drop from excellence to mediocrity of Jones and Kipke to be explained? In baseball, it is widely held that the team makes the manager. The same dogma may possibly apply to football, namely, the material makes the coach. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ivy Lee And Campus Publicists COLLEGIATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD This is an authentic story coming from the Cornell campus. Two co-eds of that intitution were arguing over the eligibility of the prospec- tive date of one of them. "I think Bill is swell," said one of them. "The only thing you can possibly question is his morals, but of course you can't expect him to have everything."* * Harvard students are offering their services as part time nursemaids and cooks to the busy housewives of Cambridge and Boston to help earn their college expenses. Is this the reason why Har- vard men are so popular with the women? * * * * "Dear Bud," writes J.K.M., "here's one of life's little ironies: Man spends half his time putting a woman on a pedestal and the other half tempting her off." * i Leaving students alone in an examination room with a book of answers left temptingly near on the desk, a professor at Bryn Mawr was enabled to observe personality 'differences of cribbers through a one way vision screen. He says: if you bite your fingernails, and tear your hair you're probably honest. If you pound the table, swear or walk up and down the room, it is doubtful. He also claims that Atudents who looked at the answers had been punished physically in their youth, but the others were those whose parents had selected punishments designed to make them feel "small" and socially disapproved. They are talking about the co-ed at the University of Louisiana who wanted to know what kind of powder was used in the May- flower compact ... and about the sweet young thing who thought a buttress is a female goat. A new post has been started at Johns Hopkins University by professors who are somehow af- fected by rows of serenely sleeping undergraduates. An official "waker-upper" now patrols through the aisles of the lecture rooms, prodding drowsy stu- dents in the ribs. Here's a squib coming from a junior, at the University of Alabama: A co-ed takes every- thing a man says with a grain of salt-in order to store it away and dream about them later. ** * * A professor at the University of California dis- cussing Lucretius' conception of matter and void, found the following note on the blackboard: "Can matter be considered a dirty void?" And the dear professor, ignorant of this par- ticular brand of collegiate humor, very earnestly devoted the hour to explaining this difficult prob- lem. NEW BO( The Best of This EDISON- his Life- his Work- his Genius by Wm. A. Simonds .................... $3.50 Victoria-the Widow and her Qon, by Bolithe . 5.00 Cromwell, by Hilaire Belloc ............... 4.00 Richard Wagner, by Ernest Newman ......5.00 My Cousin F. Marion Crawford, by Elliott.. 2.50 John R. 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New York's Finest Night Club! It soiuds like a Christmas present but it isxa't. It is merely shades of old Ben Franklin 10 NI speaking. k . "4. HERE'S HOW- '!% You have heard of government cutting its budget in half? Well, that's the idea. According to a survey conducted among University men, it was discovered that they send two suits to be cleaned and pressed once every three weeks - an annual bill of $20.00. They also send these two suits to be pressed once every week and a half - an annual bill of twenty dollars. By using Goldman's RE-TEXTURING process a suit only needs to be cleaned half as many times a year, and the same process makes a press last twice as long. Thus occa- sioning an annual saving of twenty dollars. May we suggest that you institute this econ- omy in your budget, and consequently in. crease your pleasure allowance. rTHE DEATH last week of Ivy Lee, richest pub- licist in the country, representative of the Rockefellers and other leading men, was of interest to everyone connected even indirectly with pub- licity work. Ivy Lee is largely responsible for "hu- manizing" supposedly impossible subjects and forI developing publicity to the extent that every or- ganization with four or more members now has a "director of publicity." It was his unquestioned boast that he never asked a newspaper editor to print anything and that he gave out information helpful to his clients and no more. We wish that more campus publicists realized the soundness of this principles. At least 10 times a day we interview people who not only ask, but demand that The Daily Maroon print several columns about the doings of the United Association for the Dissemination of Prop- aganda on the Siam Situation, to use a ridiculous example. And to add insult to injury these people insist on an editorial commending their group. Of course there is no question that The Daily Maroon gathers a good bit of its information from publicists. Obviously any group whose ac- tivities would be of interest to our readers receives consideration. But we prefer to judge for ourselves the news value of any particular press release. Much of the difficulty arises because the embry- onic press agents have had no newspaper experi- ence. If they had they would know what a paper wants and would understand the correct form of presentation. They would spend the time they usually devote to convincing us of the desirability of printing their material, to giving us live news written in an interesting fashion. No press agent existed who didn't think his stories were of the utmost importance to the read- ing public, but no good press agent ever tried to stuff utterly worthless material down the throats of newspaper men without at least making it ap- pear interesting. So, campus publicists, study the reasons for Ivy Lee's success, remember that we will help you all we can if you bring us news, and don't feel hurt if we do not give you the whole front page of The Washington Off The Record, By SIGRID ARNE MOMENTARILY, the officers in the Navy De- partment's press room were stunned by the recent visit of a 12-year-old school boy. He walked in and asked for all the information they had on the "munitions racket." Alice Roosevelt Longworth has set tongues wagging again by offering her Washington home for sale. Gossip says the move is pre- liminary to a campaign for a Congressional seat from her new home in Cincinnati. THE SIMPLE, austere outline of the Washing- ton Monument is encased with steel scaffold- ing while the shaft is being cleaned. The story is told that a small-time ward-heeler arrived here to demand patronage. Party subor- dinates solemnly told him they had run out of jobs, but he could have the Washington Monu- ment. The next day the ward-heeler ran into a friend from home. Round-eyed he told the story, ending: "And danged if they ain't got the thing crated already." Three arbiters of fashion in the capital have given up the scarlet-tinted fingernail polish without which they never appeared before. FEW SENATORIAL LOCKS get as frequent air- ings as those of Sen. J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. A recent stroll with a friend down Con- necticut avenue illustrates the point. A street car passed and Lewis raised his hat iI the car's direction. "Why did you do that?" asked the friend. In the ministerial voice for which he is famous, Lewis explained: "There might have been some one on there who knows me." The White House secret service is faced with a problem for which there is no precedent. Mrs. Roosevelt has issued party invitations for a masquerade party early in December. And the secret service men want to know how they are to tell who gets into the White House and who doesn't. i'EW TREASURED DOCUMENTS in the cap- 214 S. State 1115 S. University 703 Packard 113 E. Liberty 701 S. State Brothers Phone4213 II_ -- _________'___________ _ _ 'U I.. I SENIORS! Senior Picture Deadline has been extended until DECEMBER 21 Make your appointment NOW at one of the fol- lowing studios: RENTSCH LER DEY SPEDDI NG