FOUR T HE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY Huey Long Defends His Policies R - -v , ^y . E : W. V I )f - orwKWHE R cW or1 MT I ~IPf T7l '.-W .WIsNe~ lw.ue Publis'ied 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. M EMBeER Wssotiated 6*11 egiatt ,Tess - 1934 JUgWD0f1935 .= P So" VASCONSIN )1EMBER 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 SPO TS 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 11. Batdorff. Robert B. 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WARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........JANE BASSETT DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, John Og- den; 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, MarjoriedTurner, 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 J. FLAHERTY Me EDITOR'S NOTE: The following telegram is the reply of Sen. Huey P. Long to a message sent hin Saturday on behalf of the newly-organized Big Ten Editorial Association by six of the ten members, not including The Daily. BIG TEN EDITORIAL CONFERENCE: Gentlemen: I note the copy of the telegram in the public press which the news reports say you have directed to me, charges collect. In that published telegram you are quoted as saying that I have censored an undergraduate publication and demagogically and politically meddled in purely educational affairs and that you protest the same. Before the days of Huey Long, the Louisiana State University would never have been heard of, much less to excite notice by such high and worthy surveillance as you give it. Prior to my advent in Louisiana affairs in 1928, it was a Class C rated institution and had about 1,500 studejts, some of whom took their academic class work in our fine new cattle barns. Since no one else would use more able talent to develop the institution, which they could have done without criticism from me, six years after we took to the work it attracts the notice of the nation. It has expanded in departments that chal- lenge the world and to say that all of its depart- ments have an A-plus rating and that its student body is more than 5,000 leaves untold the part which does us the greater credit. I stepped aside to battle the politicians and powers of this state to make Tulane, our State University's rival, into a first class medical school by. giving it facilities it had sought for years with- out success, for which I hold written proof and acknowledgement from that school. We started the work through Louisiana State University and the state public hospital now associated with it that has come nearer than all others to solving the problem in treating cancer, where thousands who otherwise would have died have been saved, and while we were doubling the capacity of that great hospital so as to better care for the afflicted and to also help university training for Tulane and Louisi- ana State University, we also reduced the death rate by one-third. I was the founder and builder I of the Louisiana State School of Medicine and Louisiana Medical Center. We erected it in one year, completing it in 1932. It already has the highest possible standing and rating to be afforded by the American Medical Association and ther Association of Universities for Medical Education. I further raised the money, wrote the law and gave free school books to all children in the state of Louisiana. I provided for transportation of every child in the rural sections to a high school, all of which immediately increased school enrollments by 20 per cent. We opened night schools for adults who were never sent to school when they were young, and practically eradicated illiteracy in Louisiana. During the depression. when the college enrollments showed a marked decrease, the in- crease in Louisiana State University was near to 100 per cent. Now, I have never censored or undertaken to censor anything published at L. S. U. In my early days as the head of the University, the faculty expelled my protege at the school for attacking au- thorities of the University less important than my- self in its affairs in a publication issued by my protege and 26 other students. He saved from expulsionl the 26 other students by taking the blow for them and declining to submit their names. I gave him his means of livelihood for years. When, in order to accomplish such work as we have done, the powers and entrenched forces theretofore ruling Louisiana had to be uprooted, the falsehoods to the people outside Louisiana be- came their only weapon for use. It cannot work here any longer. Only in uninformed minds is there room for such calumny. The students of the uni- versity resent it more than any other circle. Advantages for education at L.S.U. are prac- tically without cost to a Louisiana boy even through medical school. There are many hundreds we manage to help through college and we are trying to help more of them all the time. Surely those people helped by what has been done here deserve no such attack from sources that ought to encourage the work of their further opportunity and advantage. I never had the opportunity for college educa- tion which you have and which I have made available to thousands of others. Because I raised the money to turn over to the university authorities it has been charged as acts of political fraud and persons of your standing have been loaned to their devices. I have stood countless court pro- ceedings to carry forward such work. I believe every one of you would be ashamed of your action in lending your arm to such an effort if you understood the truth. Had I enjoyed the advantages at your disposal I might have made our work better understood and myself less bantered for the building of the state's institutions. Wishing you well in all matters. -Huey P. Long, U.S. Senator. Baton Rouge, La. SENIORS! Senior Picture Deadline has been extended until DECEMBER 21 Make your appointment NOW at one of the fol- lowing studios: RENTSCHLER DEY SPEDDI NG 1935 Mickiganensian 4 t i e A T r I. Ir Y When Sunday Really Counts . . THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY is no T dbubt pretty hard up financially these days, but we doubt if revenue from the five cents-a-day fines it imposes makes a very big dif- ference in the annual budget. We always thought library fines were assessed to interest people in bringing back borrowed books after they had been out for the duly-allotted length of time. The important thing is that books which are in demand should not be monopolized by one student at the expense of others who need or want them. A student, however, had drawn out several two- week books, which were due to be returned on a Saturday. He neglected to bring them in by the deadline that night, and the morrow being Sun- day, he recalled th4t the library was not open be- cause of lack of finances (his and other students' fines notwithstanding). Consequently, he took the books back on Monday morning, expecting to pay one day's fine on each of them. Instead he was charged for two days, for the day on which the library was open and that on which it was closed alike. Apparently this is accepted practice, for the stu- dent in question, raising a mild furor upon discov- ering his predicament, was referred to the Regents as the final authority on five-cent library fines, and that pretty well settled our individual student, who decided it wasn't worth going to any higher court for his 15 or 20 cent dapages. Unless there is some particular virtue in having the books resting upon their proper shelves of a Sunday, we don't see how that day can be counted as a library day as long as the library is not open. A book that can't be taken out Saturday can't be taken out Sunday either. The whole thing seems pretty silly unless you've been mulcted of some of your hard-earned money, but don't look at us. Address all comments to the Regents. Give A Thought To The Kiddies ... ESPONSE WAS GOOD yesterday to n the Galens Medical Society's Christmas drive for funds. Today is the second and last day of the annual drive that means so much to a bunch of unfortunate kiddies. The fund collected is used to support the Galens to expand the shop's equipment to include work in elementary electricity and metal-working. No expansion will be possible, however, without the support of everyone of us. There are still some coats on campus' that are not flying the green Galens tag. Let's make it a unanimous support by tonight. Wednesday Tea Parties . . E VERY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON members of the physics faculty meet and drink tea together. A rather insipid thing for "hard-boiled" physics professors to do, you say? Well, perhaps, but it has much to recommend it to other men of schol- arly inclination. In the sciences, as perhaps in no other field, lies the danger of getting left hopelessly behind as new developments transpire every hour of the day in all corners of the earth. And unless scientjists get together and discuss trends in their particular field, as the physicists do here, their ideas and their methods will soon become obsolete. Not only do these physics department Wednes- day afternoon tea parties furnish a weekly collo- quium, but they offer the faculty members a cb'nce to keep in touch with each other as human beings. It is through this personal "give and take" in the exchange of ideas, that scientific advance can often be made much more readily and to a different ex- tent than by means of written exchange. Important as has been the printing press 'in speeding the understanding and adoption of scientific ideas, it is a mistake to think that it could ever completely supplant the verbal "talking over" process. The physics group is not the only one which meets to drink tea or exchange ideas in similar ways, but it is safe to say that there could be more of them than there are. As Others See It Not For Children A DOWNTOWN newspaper columnist pauses to remark that students should attend to their "reading~ writing, and arithmetic, and let others adjust the affairs of the worid." The way out of our economic difficulties is "not likely to be found by college boys and girls," he declares. "Who is to find the way out?" it might be perti- nent to ask. Will it be American industry? Little guiding genius has been displayed by this group in the past. It showed no grasp of economic trends and was helpless to prevent a complete economic slump, yet its spokesmen disdain the help of "college boys and girls" and warn them to keep to their books. This belittlement of the student has become familiar among writers who would defend the stage-coach economic faith. "Depressions can only be overcome by the work of experienced men of A professor at the University of Nebraska offered a double-deck sandwich as a reward to a student who could name three ambassadors of the United States in his political science class. The class pondered hungrily, but no one could take up the offer. The professor announced that only once in his past experience was the reward won. Here's a poem coming from S. M. E.: Almost upsetting international peace, By hunting Insull in Turkey and Greece, Our courts announce to a doubting nation Another monopolist's insulation. A student at the University of Illinois spent half the night preparing a "pony" for a quiz. When he arrived in class, he found that he had lost it on the way. Desperately he tackled his questions. When the papers were returned, he found that the excessive work he had done on the "pony" fixed the material in his mind so thoroughly that he had made a high mark in the test. Has it come to the place where sin pays. An eminent professor at the University of Washington was slowly being disturbed by the fact that co-eds in his class had the habit of continually powdering and rouging during his lectures. So, one day he got into a huddle with a male student in the front row. Next day this man came to class, sat down, pulled out a razor and shaving mug and slowly pro- ceeded to lather up before the constricted audience. The trustees of the University of North Dakota allow the student publications to run advertise- ments for pipe tobacco and cigars, but not for a cigarette company. Christopher Morley is of the opinion that the so-called extra-curricular activities, should be done away with. In fact he gave a smoth- ered yelp of delight at a luncheon at the University of Minnesota the other day when a professor described the difference between a university and an insane asylum. "You have to show improvement to get out of an asylum," said the professor. More news on how to choose a husband comes from the University of Oklahoma. A professor at that institution presented a questionnaire to the co-eds on what she deems the modern and ideal husband. Few co-eds wanted to marry rich men's wealth and social position. Most of them preferred to be a helpmate to their husbands, working with them, helping them long the way to success. They made it evident that they didn't mind if their mates were to possess any of the minor ,incoc, 14-rnochPin~o - sweino a bit acnd vlras. By BUD BERNARD SCOLLEGIATE OBSERVER * ESQUIRE subscription pamphlets have been circulated around the campus. We would like to remind you that the GARGOYLE offers the exact rates quoted. Give ESQUIRE for a Christmas gift but at the same time support your student publica- tin * SUBSCRIPTIONS may be obtained all day Thursday on the campus and every other day until vacation at the GARGOYLE OFFICE from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M