PAGE FOUR l"'"7""''T1 'R ,!' "JV'r i" !M f ' T T L 'Ir " - TiHE MCHIGAN DAILY TUEFSDAY, .JANUARY. U,1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 71 77 - 4 ... """ .:, I AL - y 1 ..we -- - amTuT auM~ m..UD--- Pubiis-ied every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Con- trol o1' Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. Nsoetilted ('allcgiastt rss -1034 j t1i$ 1935 v HALL" VAWSCONS04 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dfspatches 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. SOffices: Student PuDlications 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 ,Johnsorl, 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. Reich, 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 Upson, Willis Tomlinson, Homer Lathrop, Tom Clarke, Gordon Cohn, Merrell Jordan, Stanley Joffe, Richard E. Chaddock. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Mary Bursley, Margaret Cowie, MarjorieATurner, 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 Tresper. Marjorie Langen- derfer, Geraldine Lehman, Betty Woodworth. NIGHT EDITOR : THOMAS E. GROEHN animal at bay. He muttered a barely audible curse. The other six lashes descended in monoton- ous fashion while the deputy warden counted. At the count of ten Donovan was quickly unshackled and ran into the tunnel where a covering was put over his body. He then was taken to the hospital where his back was treated. Bedwell was second to be whipped. He also shivered from the intense cold and his facial expression showed that the lashes hurt. The last to feel the lash was Lightcap, whose father, John Lightcap, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for receiving part of the money stolen by his son. All three youths were in the prison hospital today. The three whippings took only about four minutes. The crowd then dispersed. Next Saturday Bernardo Fiorenti, convicted of breaking and entering, will be whipped. The SOAP BOX 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. Attention Of Mr. Hilty To the Editor: In connection with the poll on student govern- ment, now occurring, we should like to ask a few questions - all in the sincere desire for fair play. (1) Why is it that although both the N.S.L. plan and the S.C.A. plan were submitted on the same day, the latter plan was printed in the questionnaire, while the former plan was omitted? (2) Why is it that the inquiries in the ques- tionnaire deal only with the Michigan Union Plan and the Alternate Plan, omitting both the N.S.L. and S.C.A. plans? (3) Are we to understand that student opinion as to the plans submitted will be judged from the results of a poll which obviously does not give just consideration to the N.S.L. and S.C.A. plans? We are not charging that certain plans have been discriminated against; we are simply wonder- ing. -Russell Anderson, for the S.C.A. -Joseph Feldman, for the N.S.L. Referendum And Postponement To the Editor: The National Student League is one with Mr. Carl Hilty's wish to have the students themselves decide which form of council they prefer. We there- fore have proposed to the Senate Committee and to the Undergraduate Council that the best way to do this is to have the Undergraduate Council call an all-campus referendum in which the five pro- posals will be put before the students and they will be allowed to indicate their preference. Further- more, since the students cannot be sufficiently in- terested so close to examinations, we suggest that this referendum take place the second week of the new semester. This is the only way that students as a whole will become really interested in one of their vital problems, student government. But they will not become interested if they are not permitted in this way to indicate their preference for a government, and if final action on the council is taken While the students' interests are concerned with exam- inations. We therefore ask that the heads of all campus or- ganizations and all students press on the Under- graduate Council and the Senate Committee to al- low this referendum. -The National Student League Con- mittee on Student Government. How To Overcome Apathy To the Editor: Russell F. Anderson, president of the Student Christian Association, in his criticism of the Na- tional Student League plan of student government fails to appreciate one of the fundamental aims in the reorganization of the student governing body: the re-awakening of interest on the campus in self-government. Admittedly the student body is passive in its atti- tude at present, and is entirely justified, consid- ering the abysmal "self-government" it has had in the past. But this passivity furnishes no valid basis of objection to the N.S.L. plan. Instead it is a very strong argument for the adoption of this plan, which because it establishes a governing body that is highly representative, and because it places emphasis on program rather than personnel, is best designed to overcome apathy and to stimulate interest and participation in student government. -R.C. Open Letter To The Professor Ann Arbor, Jan. 19, 1935 Prof. Shorley Peterson, Department of Economics, University of Michigan , Dear Sir: I note with interest your comments on the Townsend Plan in this morning's Michigan Daily. For long time the organization known as Michigan Townsend Federal Old Age Revolving Pension Plan has been looking for an opponent to debate this question. You will doubtless be glad to supply this need. For this reason as state organizer of Town- send Clubs, I offer you an opportunity to present your side of the question in open debate at the Ma- sonic Temple in Ann Arbor, on the night of Thurs- day, Jan. 31, 1935. You may select any speaker you may choose; the speaker of the affirmative to be chosen by the state organization of Townsend Clubs. Yours very truly, (Signed) A. M. Wade. COL LEG IATE OBSERYE R By BUD BERNARD We've been waiting for this, and here's the letter we received today: Dear Bud: We remember seeing in your column last year a letter sent in by two students asking for J-Hop dates. We are in the same predica- ment. We are tired and boried with the girls (and incidentally mostly B.W.O.C.) that we have been dating and we desire girls who are not pseudo-sophisticates. We wish to seek aid through your column. We are well known persons on campus. Our reputations are spotless. We are, if we may throw away our modesty, gentlemen in every sense of the word. To show our good faith. we are sending you our names, which we hope you will not publish. Here is our plan. Let each applicant who wishes a J-Hop date send you her picture and qualifications. You- will send us the pictures with the letters for us to make our choice Hoping to see this in print we are "Two Anti-Pseudo Sophisticates." Well girls, what do you say? Address all ap- plications to BUD BERNARD, Michigan Daily. Attention you punsters! A Harvard University psychology professor in a thesis states that stu- dents who obtain high marks in college usually are not amused by puns, while students with lower ratings find them funny. He bases his theory on tests given to 100 Harvard students. Only a Harvard psychology professor could think up such an experiment, and we're surprised that anyone at Deah Old Haavahd would condescend to laugh at a pun - or even be able to understand one for that matter. * * * .o.r~ rrr * With finals approaching, this thought is in the minds of many PHI ETA SIGMA LAMENT Woe is me if I should "C" The shock would be too much for me. And that is why like Hamlet sore Distressed I mutter o'er and o'er Tube "B" or not Tube "B." Yes, "tube" means crib. Another item concerning finals. A freshmen at Purdue has invented something which he calls an electric brain. He maintains that it is foolproof. A student can turn it on the night before a final and then go out to a party. All we can say is "We're from Missouri." In a debate at the University of Manitoba on the question, "is an old maid more useful on a fari than a wheelbarrow?" the old maid lost by three votes. A game between two intramural elevens at Syra- cuse University was stopped before it was started because a keg of beer had been promised to the winning team. University authorities ruled that such a prize "was outside the pale" and prohibited the use of the athletic fields. A Washington BYSTANDER - Are they all rented for next semester. .? Or, if you are looking for rooms5 have you found any.o.? Renter or occupant, you will obtain the best results through use of Daily Classifieds. Cash Rates, lic per line (10c for three or more insertions) 1 YOUR D0OMS _ _iiiim m hI Whippings In Delawae... T HE DAILY publishes today a special news dispatch appearing in last Sunday's New York Herald Tribune. It is printed without comment, as a recording of the state of civilization in the exalted commonwealth of Dela- ware in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five. (Special to the Herald Tribune) WILMINGTON, Del., Jan, 19. - Stripped to the waist in below freezing temperature, three white youths each were whipped with 10 lashes at the whipping post in the small yard behind the boiler house of the New Castle County Workhouse this morning. While 75 men looked on, the lashes were ap- plied by Elmer J. Leach, who retires as warden of the workhouse on April 30. Women were barred as spectators. Red welts and blood blisters were raised on the backs of the three youths and after the whippings they were taken to the workhouse hospital for treatment of their backs and to guard against pneumonia. The youths are Walter L. Bedwell, 18 years old, and Hazel Donozan, 21, both of Smyrna, and John Lightcap, Jr., 23, of Townsend. Christmas Eve the three broke into the farm- house of Andrew E. Skaggs near Townsend, se- verely beat the farmer and robbed him of $105. Skaggs has not yet recovered from his injuries. In General Sessions Court a week ago they pleaded guilty to charges of breaking and en- tering. In addition to the whipping, the three each were sentenced to three years' imprison- ment. The temperature outside the window of the warden's office registered 20 degrees while the three were whipped. Warden Leach stood near the large whipping post with the cat-o'-nine tails in his hand. Harry Foreman, deputy warden, stood a few feet to one side of the post. The first prisoner walked hurriedly from the tunnel leading from the yard underground to the main prison Opilding. He was nude to the waist and shivering. In five seconds his wrists were shackled above his head to the post. "Hazel Donovan," read the warden from the court commitment, "you have been sentenced in the General Sessions Court of this county on Jan. 14 to be whipped with ten lashes on this day, Jan. 19, and to be imprisoned for three v.rc_' Attention! J-HOPERSd J-HOPPERS BE SURE AND SIGN. SIGN WHAT? By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 AT SOME POINT IN congressional handling of presidential recommendations as to the next steps of recovery, the White House estimate of only 5,000,000 unemployed on Federal relief rolls is going to come under highly critical examination. It strikes too sharply at the very foundations on which rest such drastic non-administration recov- ery proposals as the 30-hour week bill and the bonus payment, political headliner of the session, to escape challenge for long. The business congress at White Sulphur Springs was basing its volunteered recovery policy advice to the government on an estimate of 10,000,000 un- employed. It even definitely located six per cent of that unemployment, "more than 2,000,000," in the construction "segment" of the durable goods industries alone. Even that 10,000,000 estimate was a compromise between labor federation and national chamber of commerce high and low figures respectively. The low was 7,000,000. At no previous time in any au- thoritative public discussion of the relief and re- covery problem has an aggregate as low as the President's unexplained 5,000,000, including 1,500,- 000 unemployables, been advanced. Conceivably, the whole trend of action at this session of Congress can turn upon that point. Find- ing useful work at public cost for 3,500,000 unem- ployables in addition to those already on such pay- rolls is a big enough job uncomplicated by any uncertainty that the number to be provided for may be double that. Naturally, Mr. Roosevelt could not have risked such flat definition of the size of the employment operation he was proposing without having satis- fied himself first of all as to accuracy of the esti- mates of unemployment on which it was based. Yet it is going to be hard to satisfy those political or organizational interests demanding even more drastic governmental action, that the White House has not gravely under-estimated the job. In the circumstances, an escape for many ad- Why, Of Course, Sign the List pos that Super Special J-HOP E) Did you say Only 1Oc? or Mail Coupo 0 etmn DQocra, (TRA Yes, I said n Below. .for 1l0c, 44~ ). I1 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 420 MAYNARD STREET CITY Name Address __ I i