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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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Publi ied every morning except Monday during the
University year and Summer Session by the Board in Con-
trol of Student Publications.
Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association
and the Big Ten News Service.
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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 dis-
patches 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: Courtney A. Evans, John J. Flaherty,
Thomas E. Groehn, Thomas H. Kleene, David G. Mac-
donald, John M. O'Connell, Arthur M. Taub.
SPORTS ASSISTANTS: Marjorie Western, Kenneth Parker,
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: Rex Lee Beach, Robert B. Brown, Clinton B.
Conger, Sheldon M. Ellis, William H. Fleming, Richard
G. Hershey, Ralph W. Hurd, Bernard Levick, Fred W.
Neal, Robert Pulver, Lloyd S.BReich. Jacob C. Seidel,
Marshall D. Shulman, Donald Smith, Wayne H. Stewart,
Bernard Weissman, George Andros, Fred Buesser, Rob-
ert Cummins, Fred DeLano, Robert J. Friedman, Ray-
mond Goodman, Keith H. Tustison, Joseph Yager.
Dorothy Briscoe, Florence Davies, Helen Diefendorf,
Elaine Goldberg, Betty Goldstein, Olive Griffith, Har-
riet Hathaway, Marion Holden, Lois King, Selma Levin,
Elizabeth Miller, Melba Morrison, Elsie Pierce, Charlotte
Rueger, Dorothy Shappell, Molly Solomon, Laura Wino-
grad, 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
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 tpson, Willis Tomlinson, Homer Lathrop, Tom
Clarke, Gordon Cohn, -Merrell Jordan, Stanley Joffe,
Richard E. Chaddock.
WOMEN'S ASSISTANTSC: Mary Bursley, Margaret Cowie,
Marjorie Turner, Betty Cavender, Betty Greve, Helen
Shapland, Betty Simonds, Grace Snyder, Margaretta
Kollig, Ruth Clarke, Edith Hamilton, Ruth Dicke,
Paula Joerger, Mary Lou Hooker, Jane Heath, Bernadine
Field, Betty Bowman, Judy Trosper, Marjorie Langen-
derfer, Geraldine Lehman, Betty Woodworth.

No Discrinination
Against Women. .
SOME COMMENT has been heard
during the past few days to the ef-
fect that the plans for a proposed change in stu-
dent government, submitted by groups of men
students on the campus, which contain provisions
excluding women students from participation in
their councils are unfair in this regard.
There is no deep-dyed plot to exclude from self-
government.
The formation of a council to be composed purely
of men was planned by groups submitting such
proposals not through any sense of discrimination
or forgetfulness but because women students, hav-
ing their own governmental bodies organized
through the League, have in the past adequately
handled their own affairs, making the power of
the Undergraduate Council over them more nom-
inal than actual.
It may very well be that, of the plans submitted,
some may be comprehensive enough to provide
for an "all-campus" government. Some may even
seek to establish a council whose jurisdiction
shall be superior to that of the present women's
governmental bodies. But it is important to remem-
ber that those plans which do not include juris-
diction over women's affairs omit it intentionally
because they are aiming to establish a government
for men.

NIGHT EDITOR: COURTNEY A. EVANS

The Townsend
Plan. ..

NVOW WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE.
N This time it is known as the Town-
send plan and is advanced by a Dr. John Town-
send who until his economic inspiration was an
obscure practitioner in gout, rheumatism, hook-
worm, and headache in Southern California. The
essensce of this particular ecstasy is: every per-
son over 60 shall receive a pension of $200 a month
from the national government on condition that
he or she spends the money within that month. A
nation-wide sales tax will, Dr. Townsend hope-
fully insists, raise the money for the adventure. The
plan is substantially supported by the moronic
underworld, which has organized into Townsend
Clubs in all sections of the country, and the Con-
gress is being bombarded by barrages of petitions
and letters from nitwits bent on the new salvation.
The economic arguments against the plan are
obvious. It would cost 20 billion dollars a year. It
would put an outrageous tax on foodstuffs and
other necessities of life. Carried to its logical, if ab-
surd, conclusion it means that the more money you
give people the more prosperity you generate, some-
what like a perpetual motion machine. If $200 a
month to people over 60 will bring back prosperity,
let's go further. Let's make sure of it. Let's give
$300 to peopleeover 50 or $400 to people over 40
or $700 to people over 20. If the theory of the
Townsend plan is correct, then the more money you
give to the more people the richer everyone is.
Except, alas, that it all has to be paid for!
But the real annoyance in the doctor's scheme
is the supposition that any lazy old grouch over 60
sitting 'round the stove and spitting tobacco juice
on the floor is somehow an object of respect, ven-
eration, admiration, and compulsory philanthropy.
That is not true. At 60 a man has either secured
a respectable position in the community by hard
work and the accepted amount of thievery or he
has sloughed off into dependence by, more often
than not, his own laziness. There are exceptions,
in which hard luck plays an important role, but
these are a ntinority. Most old tramps headed
straight for their fate. Why the remainder of us are
under an humanitarian compulsion to provide
them with a beautiful salary every month is hard
to ascertain.
Dr. Townsend goes further. Not only will these
old people get money, but, as a leisure class, they
will - so he insists - be the guardians of the na-
tion's culture and mores. The possibility here is
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[The SOAP BOX4
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.
For N.S.L. Plan
To the Editor:
May the National Student League take a few
lines in order to briefly explain some of the salient
points in its plan for a new student government,
which appears in today's Daily?
1. The proposed constitution provides for a high
degree of democracy. It makes possible student
government by the elected representatives of the
student body, instead of by a group of quasi-Tam-
many politicians.
(a) Election of 25 members of the student
council according to a system of proportional rep-
resentation, unique in that it will ensure represen-
tation for all colleges (including the Graduate
School) and simultaneously for all points of view.
This is accomplished through the designation of
Specific College candidates and General University
candidates by each party.
(b) Minimization of ex-officio members of the
Council to four. The preponderance of these ex-
officio Council members in the other plans which
have been submitted constitutes their principal
weakness. It makes impossible a democratic student
government representative of the will and needs
of the general student body. It ignores the prime
weakness of the present plan, now in operation.
(c) Initiative and referendum by means of the
petition and campus ballot.
2. It answers the desperate need on this campus
for student elections on the basis of a real student
program, rather than on the basis of a social
connection.
(a) Each slate must publish its program in The
Daily a week before the election.
(b) The emphasis on program is increased by
means of the list system of proportional represen-
tation, providing for the electors choice of one
slate on the ballot. However, some measure of
individual choice still remains through the use
of preference votes within the slate; this will de-
termine which members of the slate will fill a
party's quota.
We urge all campus organizations to give this
plan careful consideration. Their endorsement will
aid greatly in bringing about its final adoption.
Committee on Student Government.
-The National Student League
'Stopping Thought' In Russia
To the Editor:
... I would like to bring up some small indica-
tion that the Soviet Union is not intellectually
sterile.
Whether books and schools flourish is some in-
dication of whether intellectual activity flourishes
in a given locality. A recent statement of the
United States Commissioner of Education revealed
the following facts about schools in America, a
country presumably outside Professor Slosson's
classification: 2,280,000 children of school age are
not in school. 16 colleges and 1,500 commercial
schools have closed. School terms in nearly every
large city are one or two months shorter than
they were 70 to 100 years ago. 900,000 children in
18,000 rural schools were going to school for less
than six months in 1934.
Contrast this with what is taking place in the
Soviet Union in the same field: more than 80,-
000,000 people, half the total population, are en-
rolled in Soviet schools; more than 26,000,000 chil-
dren were regularly going to school in 1934; from
1927 to 1932 the number of children in primary
schools doubled; the number in seven-year schools
tripled, and the number in factory and shop schools
increased 11 times. Illiteracy has been reduced from
70 per cent to some 7 per cent. Professor Counts of
Columbia University reported in his article "The
Soviet Challenge to America, "The educational
achievements to date are stupendous."
In the current issue of the magazine "Soviet
Russia Today," there is an article by Prof. J. W.
McBain of Stanford University, commenting on
his visit to the Soviet Union last September, and
bearing on this same charge . . .
'I had an exceptional opportunity of seeing uni-
versities and scientific institutions from the inside

. . . There is evidence of rapid progress ...
"As an educator I have been impressed by the
way in which everyone is encouraged to learn and

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COLLEGIATE
OBSERVER
By BUD BERNARD
From a prominent southern university comes
news of an inebriated professor's weaving ar-
rival home in the wee small hours of the morn-
ing. Entering the house he encountered the
geldfish bowl which made a resounding crash
as it toppled to the floor. His better half yelled
down from the second floor, "What was that?"
The professor angrily voiced a bitter answer,
"I'll teach those darn goldfish to snap at me."
In a recent survey of the Northwestern Univer-
sity faculty on "what professors habitually dislike
about students," the following were listed:
1. Wears an old high school sweater, soiled shirt,
and no necktie.
2. Feels that he is misunderstood and perse-
cuted.
3. Enters an office with hat on. sits on the pro-
fessor's desk and lights a cigaret.
4. Finishes an examination last, especially when
the rest of the class has finished half an hour be-
fore.
5. Monopolizes a conference hour.
6. Maintains that since he is paying for the
course he can work or not, as he pleases.
7. Excuses poor work because of a party the
night before.
A professor who comes to a class ten min-
utes late is very rare, say a junior at the Uni-
versity of California. In fact he's in a class by,
himself.
S* *
Here's a tip for the Coliseum here in Ann Arbor.
The University of Toronto sponsors skating parties
for students to which the men and women come
without dates and are introduced and paired off
with the Gable or Garbo of their own choice
through the effective work of a committee made up
of B.M.O.C.'s, B.W.O.C.'s and faculty members. In-
troduction is free. Imagine the fun of gliding along
on that smoothy ice with that fascinating man or
girl you've been aching to meet.
With an epidemic of colds around, here is an
appropriate poem contributed by H.L.K.:
I'VE GOT A COLD IN MY NOSE
I sniffle, I sneeze, I blubber and wheeze,
I've lost all my repose,
For in spite of the fact that I'm known to have tact,
I've got a cold in the nose.
I feel in distress, I've no happiness;
How I suffer no one knows.
No one can assist me, my girl will not kiss me,
For I've got a cold in the nose.
I hope and I pray that I'll soon see the day
When gently my eyes I can close
And breathe in fresh air, without feeling despair-
And I won't have a cold in my nose.

The 1935 Michiganensian

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The deadline for Senior Pic-
tures will be January 26th.
This will be your LAST
opportunity to have your
picture in the 1935 'Ensian.
Make your Appointments
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By SIGRID ARNE
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16
THE NEW SPEAKER, Joe Byrns of Tennessee,
likes to tell stories about his state's first repre-
sentative, Andrew Jackson.
One concerns "Uncle" Alfred, one time personal
servant for Jackson and later, guide at the Her-
mitage, the Jackson home near Nashville.
"Uncle" Alfred would permit nothing but the
most worshipful approach to the collected memen-
toes of his "Gin'l." One day a visitor said:
"I believe what you say about your boss, Uncle,
but do you really reckon a fight'n, cuss'n man like
Andy ever got to heaven?"
"Uncle's" eyes popped in indignation:
"'Cose, he went to heaven!" he said. "Who in
heaven goin' to keep him out?"
The personal appearance of the President to
read his message on Capitol Hill is still some-
what of a novelty in Congressional history.
In the early days there were three creeks
which had to be forded between the White
House and the Capitol. In those days, the ex-
ecutives preferred to write out their remarks
and let a messenger on horse-back worry about
the mud.
It seemed such a good idea when the holiday
parties were being planned at the White House : the
girl guests could stay in the mansion, and the boys
in a hotel up the street.
The story is now that Mrs. Roosevelt is laughing
over her mistake.
The boys spent most of the time they were out-
side the mansion phoning it. Partly, they really
liked phoning the girls, but mostly, it was the White
House they were phoning. That will always be
something.
Tip to autograph collectors: Sir Ronald
Lindsay, ambassador from Great Britain, gave
up arguing about it long ago. He just signs the
book.
One reason was the college boy who wrote
regularly for three years asking if he could
come to Washington to see the British ambas-
sador. '
"But an ambassador is just another human
being," Lindsay wrote back. He finally gave in.
The boy got his appointment at the embassy,
and his 10 minutes with the ambassador.
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T O THE MERCHANTS of Ann Ar-
bor, the J-Hop is an OLD, OLD
STORY; completing their stock o ffor-
mal dress so that you might be in the
right attire for that gala occasion
which., by the way, is not terribly far
off, considering that examinations will
start soon and really, time does fly.
Now I'm going to let you in
on a little secret. Eve been doing a
little snooping around the stores and
found that, although they are not dis-
playing their formal wear in the win-
dows, they are all set to show you their
complete selection and would be more
than pleased to let you snoop through
their stock before the rush starts, the
same as I did,
It won't be long, now, either,
that you'll be seeing~ their ads in The
Daily, because, you know, we stop pub-
lishing in just a week and a half... so
if you're wise, you'll take this sugges-
tion seriously and stop in at your fav-

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