P'AGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1934 s THE MICHIGAN DAILY '1 r -7,4. X: ". LI regular University classes, may elect delegates. Arthur Clifford, secretary of the provisional committee of the Youth Congress, said yesterday that "the credentials that have come into this office to date show a surprisingly enthusiastic response on the part of youth organizations in all parts of the state. Strangely enough the outstand- ing exception is the University of Michigan campus where we would naturally expect the most com- plete representation." A few of the groups that will be represented may be cited, if only to allay the fears of some people that the Congress will be dominated by radicals, although it must be noted that the latter will be" present in significant numbers. Some of the groups outside of Ann Arbor are the Young People's Pres- byterian Church, the American Youth, Hillsdale Y.M.C.A., the Boy Scouts, the Jewish Youth Work- ers, the Farmers League, the Anti-War United Front. The Young Democrat Clubs alone have sig- nified their intention of sending down more than 100 delegates.; If stuJdents at Michigan are content to sit back while a conference of this type is going on under their very noses and is being attended by almost all the youth groups in the state, it will show rather clearly to what a low level the Harvard .of the West has been reduced. Published 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 Fund the Big Ten News Service. 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WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Mary Bursley, Margaret Cowie, Marjorie Turnir, 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: RO4FRT S. RUWITCH The Moral At Lansin... . T HE RUINS OF THE Hotel Kerns in Lansing had hardly begun to cool before state officials began an investigation. They set out to determine the cause of the blaze that took more than two score lives at the state capital. The very next day, Nate S. Shapero, president of the Detroit Board of Fire Comrissions, took action to inspect the, smaller hotels in that city. Similar action will undoubtedly follow in other com- munities. - It's an old, old tale, repeated again and again in our history. It takes such a tragic affair with its toll of human life and intensity of public opinion to awaken public officials to the task of perform- ing the duties which they have been trusted to carry out. To make any real progress in removing ineffi- ciency from the ranks of our minor governmental departments, there has always been requied a great sacrifice upon the part of certain individuals. It took the assassination of President McKinley to awaken the American public to the necessity for the Civil Service. The recent Morro Castle dis- aster was a notable example of the flagrant dis- regard of the shipping laws that has undoubtedly been prevalent in our merchant marine. Nothing can make the Lansing catastrophe less unfortunate. If, however, there can come from it any lasting reform in the enforcement of our safe- ty laws, society can in some small way be comforted by the thought that future lives may be spared from a like fate. Is It Ignorance Or Lack Of Interest? T HUS FAR not one group on the campus, except for a few radical or- ganizations, have signified their intention to at- tend and participate in the Michigan Youth Con- ference which will meet in Ann Arbor this week. More than 20 delegates will attend from the Uni- versity of Detroit, and it is expected that Michigan State and Michigan Normal will both send an equally large number. It is wondered whether this inactivity on the part of the students of the University is caused by the fact that students here are not aware of the existence of the congress, or whether they f r f Campus Opinion i COLLEGIATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD ODE TO A TYQEWRITER Why do we press thq keys we wqnt And never hiy thq keys we press? , Why is thqt we fight for myre Qnd always end theq fight with less? Why do we aim fqr "P's" and "Q's" Qnd counter only "A's" and "B's"? Whw must wq walk along the road When we woulud wander whqre we please? Why can't we tyqp a word like this Without a hundreqdd foqol mistakes? Why does an hour nevffr pass Without its share of roooqn breaks? Whq is it thqt this life is just Ax futile quest of haqppiness? Why do we preff thq keys we wqnt And never hit thq keys we press? If a boy at Northwestern University sees a beau- tiful girl and decides that he would like to become better acquainted he can save himself a lot of time if he investigates first to see if she wears a little yellow ribbon pinned to her dress. That ribbon signifies that she is a member of the cloister club, an organization of girls whose boy friends are not on the campus and that she does not desire the at- tentions of other men. The Columbia Spectator really gave the under- graduates a break last week when their entire in- side page was blank. Anyway, the students could at least use it for scratch paper which indeed was very generous of the editorial board. Here's a contribution coming from H. G. T.: EVOLUTION OF A PHILOSOPHY Frosh: To hell with sleep. Soph: To hell with study. Junior: To hell with women. Senior: To hell with everything. Fraternities at Ohio Wesleyan University have been proffered Federal aid from the Federal Better Housing Administration in repairing houses dam- aged during homecoming demonstrations. ALL HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES ina VERY' TIMELY SALE! DRESSES SUITABLE N NEW SPRING STYLES MATELASSE CREPES PEACOCK, RASPBERRY, GRAY, BLACK-WITH-WHITE TOUCHES You'll feel brighter-more like Christ- mas - with a Gay, New, Spring Frock. for dress, afternoon wear - and we have lots of thein Ot~utstanding Values! rr, MARILYN SHOPPE FOR 1', . Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editor reserving the right to condense all letters of over 300 words, We Scarce Dared Hope To the Editor: Will the editors please see that no more lengthy criticisms get into the Campus Opinion about the famous Page 5 unless they are from the opposite sex or from some one who knows what it is all about? I seldom read Page 5 but think it is prob- ably just as important as any other page. Simply because most of the male students don"t read a certain part of The Daily is no reason for them to question its value. I am surprised that none of the weaker sex has yet answered some of the nonsense expressed in the Campus Opinion. Their first crit- icisms would probably be to do away with Page 3, since it is my guess that most of the co-eds don't even look at it. This will start things going, and in a short while someone will suggest, "Why have a Daily?" Taking everything into consideration, I think The Daily editors are putting out a good paper. If our lawyer friends read The Daily carefully they will see that there is no reason for their criticism. No paper in the world can ever hope to please all of its readers, and if one remembers this, there will be less unjustifiable criticism hurled at the editors. -Henry Y. Kasabach, '37M.j And Now The Women To the Editor: This column has carried just about enough hazing of the female population of this campus for one paper. For three days I've sat and writhed at the taunting remarks hurled at us by stupid males who have not gone to the trouble to find out if their accusations are correct. That is, to find out if the co-eds are really more interested in reading about what other co-eds wear than they are in information that is perhaps more constructive. I also believe that The Daily is mak-. ing a mistake in printing so much news that is skipped over by the average reader (including co-eds). I for one don't give a darn what Miss So-and-So is wearing; generally it is something I have seen before, or at least something that has been written up before. The system wasn't so bad when it started. Then you wrote up only six or eight women, women who were really promi- nent on campus, women whom the majority knew. Then it meant something to "crash into print." Now The Daily writes up everyone and anyone, and all the better features of the idea are lost, leaving only the dullness that results from a system that has outgrown its usefulness. I would not "claw" (as it was so happily put by Sunday's writer) at this one mistake in an other- wise good paper, if I did not have some other plan to offer. A plan which, I hope, will be more definite than that of R.K.C., who suggeststhat The Daily "dig out actual reflections of this Uni- versity's place in society and of what it means to the state whose educational head it is." Now just what does that mean? Why don't you try, as an experiment lasting over a definite period of time, the system of printing the name of a woman's escort instead of the shade of her lipstick. And if you find that this leaves big holes in your page, include the names of prominent men and the women they are taking. Apparently some men are already in- terested in the social column on Page 5. Play up to their vanity and give more men a reason for reading it. This should make Page 5 the most popular on the whole campus. Ask for opinions of the experiment, and see if you don't discover that co-eds are not "breathlessly enamored" of news about other co-eds' dresses, but that on the contrary, the escort is just as anxious to see his name in print as is the escorted. -A Co-ed. Obsolete, Not Modest To the Editor: In connection with your criticism of the use of the word "presumptious" in a communication to The Daily published Wednesday as a "modest im- provement of the English language," I should like to point out that the word is included in the Ox- 95 ho e s29-53i E. Laberty 5t Mchigan Theatre Bldg. *tq~ A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-American newspaper men in London, handling the naval conver- sations story, enjoyed a novel experience. They were the recipients, via Ambassador-at-Large Nor- man H. Dav.is, of the first formal expression of the views of the American government as to grave ccnsequences which might flow out of Japan's impending denunciation of the Washington naval treaty. Usually diplomats' speeches at press dinners are vague generalizations unless "off the record" and not for publication. Diplomats often resort to plati- tudes when they are to be quoted. Not so Mr. Davis. Not only was his address a terse and mo- mentous warning, but it went back and forth between London and Washington by cable sev- eral times before it was perfected. It may and probably did pass between the State Department and the "little White House" at Warm Springs as well. It cannot be viewed as any less important than a presidential message. T HE AMERICAN thesis expressed by Davis is that the naval treaty and its ratios were possible only because "political questions" in the Pacific were dealt with simultaneously. That means that in the American view the whole group of Washington treaties provide that "equality of security" rather than of armaments at which "the Washington treaty system" aimed. Abandonment of "the prin- ciples" of that treaty system, Mr. Davis warned, "would lead to conditions of insecurity, of interna- tional suspicion, and of costly competition, with no real advantage to any nation." Can that statement, surrounded by knowledge of! the care with which it was formulated, be taken as an expression of Washington administration intention to embark on a policy of competitive naval building if the treaty falls? It is so read in Tokyo apparently. Ambassador Saito thinks, however, that no new race of armaments can be launched "at least until 1942." Japan has no intention of starting a naval race, he says, and the United States will not reach even full treaty strength before then. Meantime, some new pact might be evolved. It is hardly as simple as that for the adminis- tration. Quite likely the Japanese declaration of purpose to denounce the naval treaty already has deeply touched policy-making steps in Wash- ington in no way restricted by the Pacific pacts. A T THIS MOMENT a presidential commission is studying to recommend a national aviation policy. It seems impossible that its deliberations could escape being influenced by any impending change in that "equality of security" of which Mr. Davis spoke. The military aspects of aviation are its major concern. Even as to making policy for commercial avia- tion expansion, however, the security matter en- ters. Projecting overseas air routes of such scope as now is possible due to swiftly moving develop- ment in the conquest of the air, cannot be wholly in Michiganaily A N EW F EAT UR E hook pg lncluding a full page of Book "crews by prominent professors and students. "Challenge to Liberty" Reviewed by PROFESSOR E. S. BROWN Of the Political Science Dept, "Experiment in Autobiography" Reviewed by PROFESSOR SLOSSON I