THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1934 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 anid the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER xociat~d (aUt~iate dres - 1 9 3 4 1 9 3 5 - % 5 MasDSO?*WISCONSIN "MEMBER 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. ]ichigan 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 11. 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-. den; Service Department, Bernard Rosenthal; Contracts, Joseph Rothbard; Accounts, "Cameron Hall; Circulation anil 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. Doing The Impossible .. . H ARVARD PSYCHOLOGISTS re- cently reported that radio, as an instrument of education, was definitely inferior to the personal lecture or the printed page. Their re- port said, "Radio has a somewhat dulling effect on the higher mental processes of the listener. He is definitely less critical, less analytical, more pas- sively receptive when listening to the radio than when he is face-to-face with the speaker." The results obtained by Prof. Joseph E. Maddy of the music school, who teaches singing, stringed and woodwind instruments by radio, radically con- tradict this report. Professor Maddy broadcasts his lessons three times a week from the Morris Hall studies through Station WJR. He has regular classes in several grade and high schools of the state, as well as individuals who make a practice of listening in. He reports that in no case has he encountered a failure among his radio students, and believes that in many ways the radio method is superior to the personal lesson. Professor Maddy', students in the various schools range in age from 7 to 17. He also has several adults in private homes, however, and the success here has been just as marked as with the class lessons. Direct teaching by radio has been called impos- sile. If so, the impossible is being done here at the University. COL LEG IATE OBSERVE=R By BUD BERNARD They are still making drastic moves to crush the spirit of those students at the University of Okla- homa by enforcement of the university ruling which prohibits week night dating. Campus patrol- men have now been ordered to "pick up" all couples seen together on week nights. Library dates are included in those to be reported. The president of the institution says it is certain that the regulation will not be repealed, but we on other campuses with a little more liberal regulations will watch with interest this battle in the western school and place our sympathies where we will. Here is a poem coming from the Daily Illini: ADVANCED ZOOLOGY Darwin said that man and monkey Sprang from beings small; Or else the monkey slipped a bit, Or man sprang not at all. Man is like a little worm Who lives awhile and then, Before he learns the joy of life, Gets picked up by a hen. ee THE MICHIGANI DAILY * EXT EN DS SEASON'S GREETINGS r Similar success has crowned the efforts of Ohioj State University. Six radio courses were offered last fall and more than 1,000 persons enrolled. Regular Colorado University has finally captured their examinations are conducted by mail, and officials "phantom slugger" who has struck at least a dozen report that so far the radio students are progress- co-eds as they crossed the campus. The shamed ing rapidly. "slugger" is an 18-year-old high school boy who declared he hit the women because he liked to hear Radio will never entirely supplant the classroomr as an educational medium, but in the meantime it is serving the worthy purpose of taking an edu- cational opportunity to many who otherwise would have to remain without its benefits. In a time of financial stress, with many under-' staffed schools, it is particularly ftting that this effort should be made to extend the range of edu- cational facilities. Forge(tting -a T~ *. OW MANY PERSONS remember the number of lives lost in the ter- rible Bath disaster of several years ago? How many remember the awful total killdd by automobiles in 1933? How many remember even five occurrences in Michigan, happening within the last five years in which there has been wanton destruction of human life? We will venture to say that there are mighty few persons who can give positive answers to those and similar questions. And it is not unusual. Fires, shipwrecks, murders happen continually, with lightning-like rapidity - then pass into oblivion. The public's memory is weak indeed. The trail of fleeting time leaves many wounds to heal in its wake. Heal they do, and are forgotten. So, we are afraid, it may be with the death- dealing fire in the Hotel Kerns in Lansing. Already popular feeling for action to prevent a similar occurrence has waned. Will not fire traps be as numerous and as dangerous a year from now? Human life is cheap after all. The loss of it creates a momentary furor, to be sure, but it is quickly forgotten. The rest of the world goes about its ordinary business not even mindful that its own existence is threatened by factors which it dis- misses as not of immediate consequence to its little every day affairs. As Others See. it, Hard Luck Story HIGHEST CONGRATULATIONS TO Coach Thomas and the 1934 football team for win- ning its second consecutive Southeastern Confer- ence championship and a bid to the Rose Bowl. This year's team is one of the greatest in a long line of outstanding teams. Our hat is off to a great football team and its great coaches.I There is one thing that is brought to the at- tention of observers of college life, and it is that them scream and wanted to show them what a good boxer he was. This story sounds a little bit too far-fetched for the tiuth, but this is the story we are told: A University of Maryland student after several hours of arguing about resolutions at a peace mc-ting went to the bank to cash a check. They asked him to endorse it. In a mental fuzz, he wrote on the check, "I heartily endorse this cheek. We can't reveal the name of the college, but as you would guess, it's in New England, and is fairly snooty, to employ the vulgar phrase. Anyway the boys wanted to have a "hobo day." The dean of men stiffened his Puritan backbone for a while, then consented, if they would change the title to something like "transient day." The columnist on the Daily Illini tells this story. A professor of English at the University of Illi- nois, went into the main library and wandered into the bibliography section. While there he asked one of the librarians: "Can you tell me where the Readers' Digest is?" To which she retorted: "In the reference room." "And where," contifliued the professor, "is the reference room?" I WANT TO TAKE TIS OPPORTUNITY TO WISH MY SIX READERS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY EN- JOYABLE VACATION. WILL AGAIN TAKE UP THIS JOB JAN. 8, 1935. following a victorious football season a school is often flooded by a stream of undesirable students who enroll under the false belief that they are improving their social status. These students care nothing for the college, nor do they add any- thing to it by their presence. It is so easy for such a situation to develop in the modern Amer- ican college, because most of them are in a pre- carious situation financially; and the -influx of large numbers is more than welcome from the treasurer's point of view. But such a situation is in the long run dangerous, and should never be allowed to exist. As everyone realizes, there are more important values that must be taken into consideration than financial ones. 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