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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 Bursiey, Margaret Cowie, MarjorieTurner, 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; ROBERT S. RUWITCH 'There Are Still Giants In The Land' ... THE RETIREMENT of Dr. Frederick G. Novy from the faculty of the Medical School is undoubtedly the greatest loss the school has suffered in recenttyears. It goes without saying that it will be hard to find a man to take his place. For nearly 50 years Dr. Novy has worked with University medical students, giving them the benefit of his training and experience. But his work was not confined to the University alone. Public health agencies, recognizing his ability, drafted him for service on various health commissions and boards, among them a United States commission to investigate plague and the State Board of Health. In the University, Dr. Novy rose rapidly from the rank of assistant in organic chemistry to the position of professor of bacteriology and director of the hygenic laboratories, the office which he now holds. He established the first course in bac- teriology to be given in a medical school in the United States and was famed in the medical world for his achievements in isolating various bacilli that led to marked advances in the treatment of gangrenous infections and tropical diseases. It will probably be some time after his retire- ment next February that the full significance of Dr. Novy's resignation is realized, but the Medical School and the University must know now what a kindly friend and valuable adviser they are los- ing. It ays To Advertise. F ORGIVE THOSE who seem to sur- vey our democracy with cynicism. The ballot, protector of the hearth of freedom- loving Americans, is a farce. Step into a voting booth. Take a ballot. Look down the list of candidates - Smith, Jones, Brown -What factors will deternine your selection? Publicity, ballyhoo, advertising. You may have seen Smith posing in press pictures, awarding lov- ing cups at roller-skating contests to attractive chorines; or you've seen billboards saying; "Vote For Jones -Not a Politician, An Honest Business Man." Or you may have read Brown's attacks on the policies of the Washington administration, not- withstanding the fact that Brown is running for county road commissioner. At any rate, you've seen Jones' name more often than you've seen the others', so just "X" Jones into office. High-pressure advertisers are competing for your ballot even more keenly than they do for your dollar, and they use all the means at their disposal. In these days of fewer jobs, the list of candidates grows long. This is good for the newspaper bus- iness, too, for it means an increase in the best- paying advertising, and to the smaller and less scrupulous papers, an opportunity to sell their news columns as well at fancy prices. Then too, it's good for run-down ex-newspapermen, for they earn a few dollars pounding out page after page of stereo- typed ballyhoo for little candidates wh are willing to pay for a bit of publicity. Then there's the wholesale angle. Racial groups sometimes operate on a quantity basis, and political aspirants find it more convenient to deal with lead- ers who have behind them 5,000 franchised voters who will obey orders; leaders who will, for a con- sideration or for a promise of jobs, suggest strongly to their following that Brown is a "man of our people." This exploitation of ignorant groups by voters is the most rank of all the violations of the ideals of democracy. Workers in voting booths sometimes play a little game to amuse themselves when things are slow. If there is a vote for the state legislature, or some other office where the candidates are numerous, they sort out the ballots into four piles-one, where some sort of intelligent discrimination has evidently been practiced; and the other three, the ballots of those who have whimsically marked the first 10, the middle 10, or the last 10 the number depending, of course, upon the total number to be marked. If, perchance, you are a discriminating voter, on what criterion will you base your comparison of candidates? Whom may you trust? Which candi- date is your "friend of the people?" Graft in public offices is surprising only because it is less universal than it might be. As Others See It Where To Stagnate N A RECENT ISSUE of the Cornell Alumni News, E. B. White, '21, writes in an easily recog- nizable style a communication upon the question of whether there is more stagnation among pro- fessors or among citizens of the Outside World. The faculty, cloistered by university walls, he maintains, are far less stagnant than the people of Main Street or Bentley's Ruli. As against the sup- posed stagnant intellectuality of present-day uni- versity faculties, White champions the paralysis of a Literary Tea, or "one of our special Outside World 65-cent lunches with a classmate who is gradually leading up to an annuity." While this controversy can be restricted to the particular of Sabbatical leave, it is equally appli- cable to the universal of the ultimate values of education. The amount of worldliness that the fac- ulty may absorb upon their ventures afar from the halls of a university is so mixed with studies and academic pursuits in other fields that the merits of Sabbatical leave cannot be considered with the question of stagnation among the fac- ulty and the laity. But as for the measure of intellectual activity to be found within or without the university, we agree with Mr. White that the intellectual bog is .I COLLEGIATE OBSERVER EXPERT PRINTING LETrTERHEADS - ENVELOPES PROGRAMS - BIDS The ATHENS PRESS 206 N Main - Downtown (Next to Fostoffice) By BUD BERNARD Another victory was scored by the Oxford pledge, the document which binds its signers never to take part in another war of any description, when 98 delegates representing 3,000 students of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin signed it at the all-univer- sity conference held there recently. The signing of the pledge climaxed a series of conferences which took up nearly a week. During this time, a representative of the preparedness program for the solution of the war problem, a communist and a pacifist presented arguments and answered questions. The climax of the matter came with the circulation of the Oxford pledge and an alternative pledge calling for participation in war only in the event of an actual invasion. Only 19 delegates signed this pledge thus giving the paci- fists a large majority. This is the second annual conference on war which has been held on the Wisconsin campus, and it is planned to make this a yearly affair. A small boy was leading a jackass by the Delta Gamma house at the University of Illi- nois. One of the several actives wishing to have some innocent fun, called out: "Why are you holding your sister so tight?" "So she won't join your house," was the non- chalant comeback. A Wasington BYSTANDER ItF I,, S 3 S S 1 S S 1 4 A GIFT for the Family ~Y ~ \.. .. NM HAELIN, ~ ~ '' - Already 19,000 People Hav6 Bought This Radio: D$5 OWN $5.00 Monthly, Small Carrying Charge This one model! Proof of value, tone, superior foreign reception, -"-V quick easy tuning with 8-Feature Instant Dialing! 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Among the variety of things that Michigan youth saw fit to condemn were Fascism, fraternity influence in education, the R.O.T.C.,the C.M.T.C., the CCC, the Berlin Olympic Games, and the pres- ent relief wage Of course it is ridiculous to suppose that 511 youthful delegates could pass the number of resolu- tions they did and settle all the world's ills in one big moment. In attempting such a tremendous pro- gram they simply jeopardized their whole project and brought it into widespread disrepute. Impetu- ous youth! But youth - and old age as well - is still busy telling each other what's wrong with the world and then stopping just where, constructive activity should begin. Any child can say he doesn't want to fight, but it is quite another matter to discover how to avert a fight. To those who held high hopes for the Youth Congress, all this welter of talk and resolution has proved a disappointment. But perhaps there was too much expected of youth. We think -there was. Certainly old age has frequently been much less successful in its efforts to diagnose and cure its ills. The handicaps under which the Youth Congress labored are such as those which beset any group with. a similar purpose - chiefly un- wieldy machinery for chance and apathy. Just what Uhe campus at large expected from a convention in which it did not even have sufficient interest to participate is not exactly clear. The fact that the Congress's findings were radical in nature is a reflection not on those who partici- pated, not on all youth - but on those very ones who sat back and were content to criticize. The campus organizations which might have been represented are legion; those which were rep- resented were but a handful. Small wonder, then, that the Congress hardly did justice to youth. Whether there is any hope that such gatherings can ever enlist wholehearted support from vitally- concerned groups, whether there is any hope that By KIRKE SIMPSON (Associated Press Staff Writer) ASHINGTON, Dec. 18. - A long time ago some New Dealers foresaw difficulties in gettting adequate publication for the bewildering flow of orders, regulations and interpretations by the ad- ministration. They predicted the very complaint of legal confusion later voiced by a Bar Association committee and now reiterated by Liberty League- spokesmen and implied in Supreme Court proceed- ings in the "hot oil" case. What was then proposed by a group of younger New Deal lieutenants was publication by the gov- ernment of a Daily Gazette. In it would be run, under the plan, executive orders - the new quick method of law-making built up under powers dele- gated by Congress to the President - as well as the bewildering daily output of administrative reg- ulations and interpretations in which virtually all New Deal agencies share. The idea was to keep the publication down strictly to routine government business. The pro- posed gazette, it was argued, would provide means for quick widesprgad distribution of needed infor- mation in filable form, periodically indexed for ready reference. * *. * * If that project had succeeded, quite likely the rising chorus of protest over difficulties of obtain- ing authenticated copies of these decrees might never have arisen. The government might have been saved from sometimes laughable confusion into which its agencies have fallen through inabil- ity of officialdom itself to keep up with all of the swift movement. The President might have been saved the necessity of ordering a special study of ways and means of adequately publicizing his executive orders under implied supreme court crit- icism. But the gazette idea died a-borning. Too many administration aides recalled vividly the row in Congress after the war over departmental publica- tions and alleged press agent activities. The cer- tainty of the gazette being hailed by New Deal foes in Congress as an administration partisan propaganda sheet out-weighed the obvious ad- vantages of issuing such a publication. It was thumbs down on the gazette idea for that rea- son. With no election immediately impending, it looks as though the President's order for a study of means of advising the public adequately of what goes on officially in Washington will result in a revival of the gazette idea. An ample corps of newspaper-trained specialists to man such a pub- lication already is on Uncle Sam's vast payroll here. Every New Deal agency has its own publicity staff. That Donald Richberg as New Deal coordinator- in-chief will recommend some such method of meeting complaints about where to find official texts of not only presidential orders, but of all the mountain of regulatory details put out by NRA, AAA and all the rest of the alphabetical New Deal family, is to be expected. vocation for the advantages of the stimulation to be found in faculty and student associations, and they thus progress while at the university. Sinclair Lewis, on the other hand, has done well in presenting to Americans a characterization of their average selves, which includes university graduates. It seems to be generally true that most men retrogress after leaving college, and after a few years, benefit from Jittle else than the technical side of their education. Environment is daily becoming to be more ser- iously accepted as an important factor in the moulding of people's lives, and it cannot be doubted that the surroundings of a university are more conducive to intellectual activity than is the Bab- bittry of the Outside World. It is far better to be cloistered, out of touch with worldly conditions, and to think, than it is IL eTher you have dinner at 6:'I Sor di nner at 8 > I'LL COOK A DINNER at $3.50 FOR SIX while you're out for the afternoon!j" 4% " TCH , t;IOVER WAN& m DUTCH OVEN SUSAN, the Electric Cook, and I'll work won- ders for you in-the way of delicious meals. For $9.50, you can have my services for life - and enjoy electric cooking every day. You can go out every afternoon in the week, and I'll prepare dinner while you're away. When you conic home your meal will be waiting, perfectly cooked-piping hot and ready for the table. "Im not at all fussy about hours. , . . If you're late, it doesn't matter a bit. 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