PAGE FOUR THE MICHICAN 0AILY TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 934' THE MICHIGAN DAILY Publir ed 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 wsoriattd olt iate ress AW93 4 g19 3 5- # 4A&SO)I WIScOnsJN VlEMBER 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. Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann 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 G. Macdonald. John M. O'Connell, Robert S. Ruwitch, Arthur M. Taub. SPORTS ASSISTANTS: Marjorie Western, Kenneth Par- ker, William Reed, Arthur Settle. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Barbara L. Bates, Dorothy Gies, Florence Harper, Eleanor Johnson, Josephine McLean, Margaret D. Phalan, Rosalie Resnick, Jane Schneider, Marie Murphy. REPORTERS: John H. Batdorff, Robert B. Brown, Clinton B. Conger, Sheldon M. Ellis, William H. Fleming, Rich- ard Hershey, Ralph W. Hurd, Fred W. -Neal, Robert Pulver, Lloyd S. Reich, Marshall Shulman, Donald Smith, Bernard Weissman, Jacob C. Seidel, Bernard Levick, George Andros, Fred Buesser, Robert Cummins, Fred DeLano, Robert J. Friedman, Raymond Goodman. Dorothy Briscoe, Maryanna Chockly, Florence Davies, Helen Diefendorf, Elaine Goldberg, Betty Goldstein, Olive Griffith, Harriet Hathaway, Marion Holden, Lois King, Selma Levin, Elizabeth Miller, Melba Morrison, Elsie Pierce, Charlotte Reuger, Dorothy Shappell, Molly Solomon, Laura Winograd, Jewel Wuerfel. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER..............RUSSELL B. READ CREDIT MANAGER................ROBERT S. WARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........JANE BASSETT DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, John Og- deni; Service Department, Bernard Rosenthal; Contracts, Joseph Rothbard: 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, 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: JOHN M. O'CONNELL as elsewhere in our modern world; but certain problems that arise every now and then are indi- cative of some misconceptions that have arisen as a consequence of the concentration require- ment. Indecisive freshmen sometimes bemoan the fact that choice is forced upon them. Perhaps there are some who are benefited by the fact that their vacillations are ironed out by the concentration program. And the operation of the program is sufficiently flexible so that this comment is di- rected less at the program than at the spirit of specialization that underlies it. Such specialization has in back of it the theory that the University's function is to prepare men and women for specific niches in society, in fields of learning as well as in vocations. What seems to have become forgotten is that the mere art of living requires a thorough educa- tional background that is defeated by narrow channeling of knowledge. When a man is truly educated - to culture, to understanding and wisdom-'the question of how he is going to earn his living fades into com- parative insignificance. The question of what he will be is settled. When we forget that toler- ance, wide knowledge and appreciation of art, literature and all the forces of life ought to be the possession of every man, we are allowing an industrial society to usurp man's enjoyment of his only certainty - the fact that happiness is his only real goal in a world lacking the absolute. It is true that this ephemeral Grail called social progress is better advanced by men who confine themselves as closely as do men in professional schools. And the drive toward progress and utili- tarianism has so blinded men that we frequently read that college is "too impractical" as it is. They are wrong. We must sweep aside the false values that have obscured our vision, confused our senses, and return to a sane appreciation of the permanent values of our transitory life. As Others See It COLLEGIlATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD During a politeness survey at the University of Illinois the question "Could you tell the correct time?" was asked of girls from various sororities. The following answers were re- ceived : Alpha Chi - "We're fresh out." A.D.Pi - "Time for you to hang up." Tri-delt- "What do you think this is, Bulova watch?" Alpha Phi - "Go jump in the lake." Kappa Alpha Theta - "All right, what's the gag?" Fifteen sororities gave the correct time. * * , , The head of the botany department at the Uni- versity of Western Ontario stated that the aver- age professor told from eight to 18 down-right lies per lecture and that most text books contain an average of 120 false statements oar mistakes. Then he claimed that the students were suckers or chumps for taking them all in. (What's the poor student to do?) Here's a statement coining from a dis- illusioned junior at Ohio State University; when a bee stings you, it dies; but co-eds just try it again. Marriage is the most crowded profession in the world and the least prepared for, said a recent speaker at Miami College. If there were more preparation for it the results wouldn't be so crowded, we think. It's Christmas Time ats J A-, Jl ' J d EE the best assortment of PRACTICAL GIFT ITEMS in the city. Books for young and old, fountain pens and pen and pencil sets, quality stationery, collegiate felt goods, dozens of selections of appropriate leather goods, the finest selection of kiddies' books in the city and scores of other items too numerous to mention. A FINE BOOK is a gift which is universally appreciated and we present for your inspection a large selection of popular books and books for the most discriminating book lover. FINE QUALITY STATIONERY, for every purpose, can be purchased for as low as 50 cents per box. - - -if * * * Anyone Here Read Chinese? . . WE ARE IN RECEIPT of a postal card and a copy of a Chinese news- paper from Vice-President Shirley Smith, who is having a fine-time-wish-you-were-here in San Francisco, Calif. Mr. Smith has just four red marks around an article in the paper, which, he says, "comes as near solving the problems of the day as much of the matter I have seen in print." We got the card some few days before the paper. It is a very nice sense of humor indeed which Mr. Smith has, but, just for fun, we'd like to see what the marked columns say. There's just a rare possibility that we might turn the laugh back on Mr. Smith. So then, does anyone here read Chinese? If so, we'd like to get an interpretation. The paper is in The Daily office, and there is almost always someone here. And we're not fool- ing. Thanks And Turkeys WE THINK THAT: Mr. Rosevelt should be thankful for the American Bankers' Association, for the United States Chamber of Commerce, for his ambitious fellow-attaches in the Army and Navy Depart- ments, for William Green and John L. Lewis - all of whom have helped to cement friendly relations between government and business. He should also be thankful that the popular resentment over being unable to be thankful about anything has not attained more dangerous proportions than it has; and for the Democratic victory in the national elections, which guarantees that friendly rela- tions will exist for some time between the employees of Mr. J. P. M. of Wall Street and England and the representatives of the American people. Adolf Hitler should be thankful that Herr Thryssen still holds him in high regard, that what is left of his Storm Troopers are still loyal, and that the right arms of the German people have not yet become worn out by continuous saluting whenever a public officer is in sight. He should also be thankful that the nations of thE world have not disturbed him unduly, and that in America there are so many people willing to spread the good cheer which he brings toI mankind. Signor Mussolini should be thankful that his touring students did such a fine job in America, achieving the dismissal of many students in American colleges which they visited on their good will tour. He should be thankful that the great powers have not wished as yet to interfere with his grand schemes for recolonizing Africa at the expense of France, Egypt and Ethiopia; that Italian industry and culture have not be- come worse than they are at present, which is several degrees below the standard prevailing when the Fascist regime came in twelve years ago. Huey Long should be thankful. And finally, poultrymen throughout the United States should be thankful that the consumption of turkeys this year will not be less than half of the production. That leaves a good num6er of turkeys in the stocks which can reproduce their kind for next year; thus the production may be ex- pected to increase and increase until the turkey market becomes so glutted that the millions of unemployed will at least have clothes of turkey feathers when the squawking begins in the ranks of fowls and of men. -Columbia Daily Spectator. Campus Opinion Stein, Stein, Stein, Stein, Stein. To the Editor: After reading the Gertrude Stein story in The Daily Saturday morning, I reached for one of a popular brand in order to get a lift and consumed so many that I got a hoist instead. Then grabbing a blue pencil I allowed the Spirits to direct it over the front page of a recent issue of the paper. The stuff, which this method of literature detecting, selected was gosh awful and suggests neither poetry nor prayer. But please, Mr. Editor, think what it might suggest to a select reader audience of 500 only curious and senile admirers of "pure, straight English"-a mass production method for outsteining Stein. Here is the composition : that has her she raw materials feeling guppies Here's some advice coming from M.N.B. on HOW TO GET YOUR MAN To thee, you co-ed who thinks thyself wise, Who trods this campus in disguise, Take off thy disguise of paint and powder, And some some good old-fashioned water. .* .* *~ * Some (practical) joker placed a large canon firecracker under the hood of a North Carolina State professor's car, and connected it to the starter. When the savant stepped on the starter, the firecracker went off. According to reports. some choice, fancy and unadulterated language followed. Another Daily sophomore sends in the fol- lowing contribution: Although we pay to go to college, Bolts? Nuts! Ostensibly to gain more knowledge, Bolts? Nuts! When teachers gyp us lads and lasses, By drawing pay and skipping classes, Then we all yell like damn jackasses, Bolts? Nuts! WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU and your friends to come in and see these many fine Christmas selections which give every evidence of permanent value, and the majority can be purchased for as, little as $1.00. FREE MAILING SERVICE. Purchases wrapped as gifts A Small Deposit will hold your selection. I I. 1 A Washington BYSTANDER SLATE'osIteCaPORTED Opposite the Campus 1 .1 1 The Largest Selection of Cards for Everyone ALL REASONABLY PRICED ! By KIRKE SIMPSON Trivia On War** W AR, LIKE LIVING, is the ultimate result of a collection of inevitabil- ities. War changes everything and transforms noth- ing. War is the price a nation pays for brass bands, shiny uniforms, big ships, marching men. War reproduces war. War makes the souls of even little men play the living game at a high, grand, fierce, dreading pace. War is man's outlet for the rstraining steels of civilization and convention; the more civilized the nation, the rottener and dirtier it will fight. War indicates ,the insignificance of the indi- vidual man in the grand crescendo of marching time. War is a human emotion -like love, hate, anger, jealousy, lust - and men want to live through a war period just to see what it is like. War is hell. N SENATOR GEORGE NORRIS got back to Wash- ington showing an undiminished liking for tilting at windmills. He joined Senator Vanden- berg, that Michigan dark horse of Republican pol- itics, in trying to blast "Big Jim" Farley either out of the postmaster-generalcy or out of the Democratic national chairmanship. Farley will step out as chairman, probably fair- ly soon. But it certainly will not be as a result of anything Norris, Vandenberg or any other Re- publican of any sort has to say. They both know that. If the air mail contract cancellation row failed to make Farley a useful campaign issue, certainly his numerous official and unofficial party jobs will not afford anything for Congress to chew upon. Nor does the Norris contention that Roosevelt handling of the ticklish business of administra- tion support or non-support of various Roosevelt- Republican senatorial candidates seem to have much meat in it. There are a number of consid- erations which may have dictated White House policy which the Norris thesis that Cutting should have had White House backing quite overlooks. Mr. Farley could tell the senator a lot about that if he were so disposed. IN ANY EVENT, Senator Norris did not advance on his return to the Washington political broadcasting studio any such substance for future excursions and alarms as did his Idaho colleague, Senator Borah. The blast at alleged wasteful meth- ods and procedure of the Federal Relief admin- istration Borah let loose has started echoes that will be long subsiding. There is political value in that for the otherwise dispersed and seemingly discouraged Republicans. Borah has afforded them a rallying ground of which they will not be slow to take advantage. Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins apparently is in for a double attack this winter. That the Borah blast must of necessity bring on a Con- gressional inquiry into relief expenditures seems certain. The Administration itself may find it highly desirable to invite such action and also to seek a careful rewriting of the statutory authority for its vast relief activities in order to stop the leaks. BY THE SAME TOKEN, that program, whatever its proportions are to be in the next Roosevelt budget, is certain to be vigorously assailed as too modest by a considerable group in both parties I (:AIQ7YLE T H URVSDAY We don't have any Huey Long to harass our publication or do we have any Yale men to swipe our entire issue. But we still Telephone 3814 South State Street Values In Education... put out a real college magazine which doesn't insult the intelligence of Univer- sity students. W HIMSICAL STUDENTS, not so many years ago, were allowed to ramble unhampered through the fields of erudi- I I