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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 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 Tresper. Marjorie Langen- derfer, Geraldine Lehman, Betty Woodworth. NIGHT EDITOR : JOHN M, O'CONNELL distinct edge over a good many senators in knowl- edge of his subject. The survey revealed that the :ame senators who were taking up page after page of the Congressional Record (at $75 a page) with arguments against the United States joining the Court had not even bothered to read the Statute which establishes the Permanent Court of Inter- national Justice. Most of the arguments of the opposition center around the possibility of the United States being embroiled in the affairs of the League of Nations. These arguments are effectivey answered by the mere knowledge that this country would be a member of the Court under a treaty which would have the force of law and could not be changed except with the consent of the parties involved. A narrow spirit of nationalism might be ascribed as one of the motives of those who would keep the United States out of the Court, but Great Brit- ain, a country that has never been accused of laxity in safeguarding her own national interests, is a member of the Court and is one of the advocates of a plan to make World Court arbitration on in- ternational matters compulsory. Since, as Professor Preuss points out, this coun- try is a member of a court similar to, but not as efficient as the World Court, and since the cost of membership in. the latter is almost negligible; the advantages of membership in the Court would seem to be all on our side. I,1 COLLEGIATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD Here's an appropriate poem, sent in B.B.L.: I'd like Einstein to take my physics exam, Chevalier my course in French, I'd like Becker to take my History exam, While I watched them all from a bench. by I. fi ,1 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. Democratic Principles To the Editor: At the present time the subject of a new form of government is before Michigan students. Four new plans have been evolved after various campus organizations spent a good deal of time and energy on them .... ... The only method of procedure is clear. Why not have a referendum on this subject? Let the stu- dent body decide which plan it wants. This will be a step in the right direction -in the direction of campus-wide elections, instead of petty politics, Most of the proposed plans seem lacking in democratic principle. The present plan and the al- ternate plan are totally missing on this principle. The democracy of the Union's proposal is of the class election type. The plan presented bky the S.C.A. is a step in the right direction. Yet a coun- cil composed of nine ex-officio members and six elected officials is still not very democratic. The N.S.L. plan seems to hit the nail right on the head. Surely no plan could be more democratic - 25 dele- gates elected from all schools and colleges, propor- tional representation to insure all factions a voice in the Council, elections on platform basis, not dance c.ommittee positions. "The Michigan student is not interested in stu- dent government," people tell me. Why? Because there is no representative, active, student council. Give the student a chance with a real government. Another point. Because there happen to be two separate organizations on campus, the Union and the League, some people get the idea that we must have two separate governments, centering around these organizations - one for men and one for women. Nonsense! That sounds like grade school reasoning. Let's have an all-Michigan government. A final word. The plan for government is re- quired to be turned in on Feb. 1. Because of the serious nature of the situation, because of the con- fusion on account of final examinations and be- cause the students are not fully aware of the sit- uation, can't we manage to postpone this step until the early part of next semester? Let's look at this matter squarely and have a referendum the early part of next semester. How about real student government? -A.O. C t Einstein, I'm sure, would do fairly well, In French I'd get an "A" for my letter, And Becker would finish right up on the top, And I, on the bench, would feel better. One of the piofessors at the University of Mis- sissippi was writing on the board and talking to his class at the same time. He was proud of the fact that he could carry on these two activities at once and told the class : "See, I'm writing and talking at the same time. I don't see why you students can't keep up with me " From the rear of the room a witty student replied, "Yeah, but we've got to think." According to reports, the American students who are forced to salute Hitler's demonstra- tions often grin as they raise their hands and shout "Heel Hitler." * *. 0** The ranks of the legal profession, already greatly overcrowded, aren't going to be swelled unduly by graduates from the University of Minnesota. Out of 137 freshmen students this winter, 101 flunked their preliminary tests. But the dean merely remarked, "That is noth- ing unusual.' Walter Winchell and I. If he can receive parodies on the song hit "You're The Top," so can I. Here is one received from C.V.B., '37: You're the top, you're Alumni Hall, You're the top, you're the Senior Ball, You're Commencement Day, you're NRA, a comp, A Theta Tea, a J-Hop fee, a football romp, You're the top, you're a Phi Bete Key, You're the top, you're a Kappa rushee, You're a paper done, a Bernard pun, a Hop, Though the profs say you're the bottom, You're the top. A physics class at the University of Montana was being instructed in the laws of the solar sys- tem. A pendulum hanging from the ceiling was set to swinging and its path was marked on a flat table. After a few hours members of the class were shown that the angle of the pendulum to the marked course had changed, indicating the turn- ing of the earth. "Gosh?" a young freshman said as he made his way out of the room, "gosh but I felt insecure." Add this to your list of similies: As downcast as the'man who spent a whole year ridding himself of B.O. and then found out that people didn't like him anyway. --Minnesota Daily. 11 i FA I 'Make This Thy Dwelling 'Place' ... SOMEWHAT AKIN to the saddened exiles of Europe's dictatorship-rid- den fatherlands are the seven former Louisiana State students who have gone "north" to enroll on the bleak University of Missouri campus for the second semester of the school year. The seven, victims of their ill-advised attempt to print a comment in the university paper against Dictator Long, accepted dismissal rather than sub- mit to an iron-bound censorship. The price they have paid may be more than the satisfaction of standing their ground was worth. But for the present, at least, they remain heroes whose com- ings and goings are chronicled to what might be the embarrassment of anyone less thick-skinned than the Louisiana senator. Soon after the Louisiana incident last fall, Mis- souri's president figuratively hung out that famous old sign over the university portals: "Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place." In this case it meant something, and Louisiana's outcasts became Missouri's future hopes. Why Missouri should go out of its way to invite "a bunch of trouble makers" to matriculate there would be incomprehensible to men of the type of mind who see red at the sight of a college campus. Such an act would also be incomprehensible to many a well-intentioned citizen whose philosophy for attacking problems is to- refuse to recognize them. In these parlous times, with hints of un-Amer- ican tendencies coming uncomfortably near to the time for legislative appropriations, few state schools are in a position to risk a "safe" reputation for a more progressive one. That Missouri is in a posi- tion to do so is a cheerful sign that state educa- tion need not be hampered by interference on the part of persons who do not understand the under- lying principles behind higher study. We cannot help thinking that back of democracy - back of civil liberties and higher education- lies a fundamental skepticism that makes the pro- motion of free trade in ideas vital to the solution of our present problems. We suppose that is why Missouri invited the dissenters into her midst - because they give promise of contributing some- thing to the intellectual life of that school and ofI taking away something more than rote knowledge. Answering World Court Opponents . .. O PPONENTS of the entrance of the United States into the World Court A Washington BYSTANDER As Others See It The Reviving Wildcat LAST WEEK'S editorial on hell week brought a great deal of divided comment down upon our heads. We were gratified to find that the cam- pus is devoting some attention to something and especially to this question. We have.taken the stand that traditions are an asset to a college, and that they are worth re- taining and building. We did not say that they are all-important; we said that they definitely add to the appeal of a campus, and to the mem- ories which graduates hold of their college days. Too high a degree of sophistication can be as harmful as too much "rah rah." The survey of house leaders conducted last Fri- day proved that the fraternities are overwhelm- ingly in favor of continuing the custom. This in itself is the most powerful argument that can be produced, If any action is taken to abolish the last of our customs, it will be against the will of every one concerned. In addition, a survey has been taken to determine the freshman attitude on the subject. A vote taken of the fraternity pledges at a meeting of the fresh- man commission last Friday was 14 to 3 in favor of continuing hell week. Further interviews have proved that the pledges are almost unanimously in favor of it. With this the case, there seems to be a reaction against the "abolish everything" epidemic. We are not for a return to the turtleneck sweater days when the student who could knock out the campus cop was the most popular man on campus, and the townspeople were in constant fear of their lives. We are not in favor of all this, but we would like to see a general revival of the more virile days, when campus life revolved around something slightly more exciting than open houses and for- mals. -The Daily Northwestern. By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 IT SEEMS a fair inference from General Hugh Johnson's post-NRA writings that what he and Donald Richberg split about was whether 1935 called for New Deal coercive or persuasive tactics to induce complete recovery. There may be, probably is, a more intimate and personal side to that clash which had little if anything to do with questions of New Deal 1935 policy. Richberg's warning of possible libel pro- ceedings in advance of the Johnson publications and the general's caustic reply about "ants of con- science" did not appear to have much to do with the government policy difference of view the gen- eral reveals. But they do imply that the Richberg theory of the new four-billion-dollar government employ- ment plan is to Johnson's mind a club over the head of business and timid capital; that if private en- terprise fails to take over and complete the recov- ery task, the government will move in a far more radical fashion than it yet has done. To Johnson any idea of government employment for the whole 10,000,000 out of work -and he uses that figure -is simply absurd. The most the gov- ernment could do, he contends, is to employ 3,000,- 000 by spending $3,000,000,000. That was written, necessarily, many weeks, per- haps months ago. Obviously the project of spend- ing four billions to employ 3,500,000, since unfolded to Congress by President Roosevelt, was in at least tentative shape during those Roosevelt-Richberg- Johnson discussions which preceded Johnson's re- tirement. Johnson hardly could have hit so close to the actual proposal by chance. ** * * Johnson's counter idea is that completion of the recovery effort requires first of all the building up of justified confidence among business men and investors. His whole argument is pitched to that tune. Curiously enough, most of the New Deal 1935 program thus far mapped is out of harmony badly with the Johnson theories. Even the consolidation of all recovery into a single emergency budget item had his approval. But he would do it all to promote conservative confidence while he pictures Richberg as doing it by threat. What is President Roosevelt's own view of his program? His clashing advisers seem to have been agreed even at that early stage in shaping 1935 I plans that one more big shove would do the recov- ery trick. The four-billion-dollar job-maker con-