THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY The Embarrassment Of Riches. 4- { --.X4. Pubihs~ed every morning except Monday during the University year and Siimmer Session by the Board in Con- trol of Student'Publlcations. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. _ 1, a et logi t grs r4 t 1935 ,4aDSON WvrSCOgSM 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 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: 21214. 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 .....................EL9|ANOR 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, RobertB. 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 Mrrison, Elsie Pierce, Charlotte Rueger, Dorothy Shappell, MollSolomon, Laura Wino- grad, Jewel Wuerfel. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER ...............RUSSELL B. READ CREDIT MANAER ...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 ASISTANTS: 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: COURTNEY A. EVANS Civil Service Hopes .. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM is just one of those things that everyone agrees is desirable but no one expects to see realized in his own lifetime. Meanwhile it is always a safe and convenient subject for editorial comment. Nevertheless, progress does come in civil service reform as in everything else. Constant reiterations of the need for better government servce seems to have produced a public consciousness that is bringing slow but certain change. Universities have done their part i recent years in starting the snowball for college-trained men in public service. Several of them have inau- gurated courses and schools devoted to training students specifically for government service, having in mind an American development somewhat on the British model. One of the most recent educational moves is the announcement by Rutgers University that a foir-year curriculum introductory to government service will be instituted in the liberal arts col- lege next September. It is designed for those under- graduates who desire to prepare themselves for1 public administration and business or for adminis- trative positions in the institutions and agencies concerned with public welfare. In making the announcement, the president said, "Able career men are especially important in a democratic form of government... Increasingly int America college men will enter the service of the state and find useful careers . . . More and more the government will encourage them to do so and will open the doors of promotion to them . . ." The novel thing is when government begins to show signs of 'encouragement at the same time.c Such a sign came last week when Secretary Roper strongly advocated a "citizen's civil service reserve corps" designed to bring better future government. Secretary Roper says his civil service "draft" is intended to encourage an intelligent interest in government on the part of students and graduates in all parts of the country, and to interest the best qualified of such tocompete in the examinations offered by the civil service commission. William B. Murro of the California Institute of Technology estimates that the 700,000 employees of the national government will be doubled in a very few years. The increase in numbers is not the only significant trend: If the Federal government is to continue to undertake such work as control and regulation of the highly complicated and technical processes of industry and supervision of thet nation's system of credit and banking it can- not get by without employing skilled persons of FROM MIDLAND, Mich., comes an Associated Press story to the effect that this oil center of Michigan has more revenue than it knows what to do with. Every day another $150 rolls into the Porter Township treasury, until the total surplus has mounted to $40,000.. Building a town meeting house some time ago didn't help much, and now the town fathers are planning to get together and find new ways out of their difficulties. One suggestion is that elec- tricity be made available to all the farms in the area. It is sad to learn that in only five short years Americans have forgotten how to spend. There would have been no trouble over $40,000 in 1929. But today Porter Township is stumped -or very nearly so - and deserves the sympathy of its un- embarrassed neighbors. We've rather forgotten what we'd do with $40,- 000 ourselves but think we could remember pretty quickly if asked tohelp get rid of it. As Others See It Freedom To Speak THE FOLLOWING lament for freedom of speech is from the Chicago Daily Drovers Journal, re- printed recently by the Chicago Tribune as the "Editorial of the Day." One of the most sacred right of the Consti- tution as we grew up with and under it was freedom of speech. Leaders of the administration meet with ridicule any suggestion of curbing the right of free speech. Yet let us see what is happening. At most, the people are hearing only one side of the story. This is accomplished through a denied but none the less effectual censor- ship in Washiigton that goes a long way to-I ward limiting news sources to the employedI and controlled press agents - what is favor- able comes out, what is unfavorable stays in.t It is accomplished, secondly, through widely publicized articles and books written by ad- ministration leaders, employing only the brightest colors in painting the picture. And it is accomplished, thirdly, through adminis- tratioqn speakers sent everywhere at the tax- payers' expense--in meetings and over the radio -telling only one side of the. story not so much as admitting that there could be any other side. Who is there left free to speak his mind? The banker has been shut up. He doesn't dare say what he thinks, at least not for publication. The business leaders, heads of large cor- porations have been shut up, with a sprinkling of notable exceptions. The land grant college people have been shut up, and in private some are free to admit that with appropriations at stake they don't dare say what they really think. Railway executives have been shut up. Dis- cretion demands that they be very circumspect in what they say for publication. And there are many farmers who feel that they must watch their step. We hear from them, and if they write in opposition to the Washington program it is not unusual for them to request that their names be withheld, fear- ing disciplinary discrimination. That fear is censorship. But the answer to the Journal's question seems so obvious. The Chicago Tribune, we would suggest,l is still free to speak its mind.I COL LEG IATE By BUD BERNARD CO-EDS ARE LIKE NEWSPAPERS FOR: They have forms. They are in bold type. They always have the last word. Back numbers are nt in demand. They have a lot of influence. They are well worth looking at. You can't believe everything they say. They carry the news wherever they go. If they know anything they usually tell it. They are never afraid to speak their own minds. They are much thinner than they used to be. EVERY MAN SHOULD HAVE HIS OWN AND NOT BORROW HIS NEIGHBOR'S. The editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian strikes the keynote of the recent determined opposition to the compulsory military training in the colleges and universities of the country. He says: "A new war would not be fought by those advocating mili- tary training, but would be fought by us. We resent the attempts of our elders to march us along a path which- hay brought thern and us so much misery." While on the subject we find that the Kansas legislature recently passed a bill making R.O.T.C. compulsory in the Kansas Agricultural College. They did this just after the student poll had dis- closed that an enormous majority of4the college students in Kansas were in favor of the discon- tinuance of military training, and they woul refuse to bear arms if the United States invaded another country. The bill was passed by men too old to fight. We sympathize with the engineer we saw this morning, who happened to have several drawing instruments in his hip pocket and slipped and fell on the icy sidewalks. A certain professor at the University of Mary- land received a call to attend a formal. The girl had obt'ained his name from the dating bureau. The professor accepted because he was a gentle- man. According to a recent survey at the Univer- sity of Mississippi, the students decided that lighter than air dirigibles should be banned. We suggest another plan. About the only gas bag that hasn't met disaster is Huey Long. We recommend that the Navy take over Louis- iana's gift to the Senate. When Joe Penner says "Wanna buy a duck?" - he really means it. The Harvard Crimson discloses that Penner has a 30-year contract with the Association of Poultry Fanciers, agreeing that he will sell all the ducks he can, and give the orders to them if they furnish him with ducks for his act. He usually sells about 20 ducks a night since he's been on the air. 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. Lectures Of The Year To the Editor: What is the Best Lecture of the Year? I would like to cast a vote for Onderdonk's lecture on Tolstoy, and for Capt. Freunchen's lecture on the Eskimos. They were really worthy of a great Uni- versity. -L '37. I-, What You Forget-- I THE 1935 ml CIGANENIAW 7 E WILL REMEMBER I. TODAY and TOMORROW $4.50 $1.00 Part Payment I1 Full Payment - L l -L 1% I Ifm 000 ,- .( -010MIMI" P ON 00pq0.- - --A 16-mmp 00Poo qo~fmv 44 a Federal Authority Reaches Out lroadened Government Power Seen As Vital To Roosevelt Program It CostsBut 10c for 3 or more insertions) To avail yourselves of the proven Results of Daily Classified Ads. Student Publications Building 420 Maynard Street or Phone 241214 By WILLIAM S. WHITE (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, March 4. THE NEW DEAL'S steady march toward a broadened government power over industry and agriculture continues as the Roosevelt admin- istration heads into the third year. The Federal authority has reached out, since inauguration day in 1933, into nearly all the major commercial affairs of the nation to guide, to re- strain and, in some instances, to control. And now, while the movement no longer is in the quickstep of its earlier days, it still is a vital factor in the Roosevelt program. Orders, and directions flow out of Washington in a great stream. Additional Sweeping Powers Sought To add to the manifold government powers al- ready granted, leaders seek or contemplate others of such sweeping nature as these: 1. Strict regulation for the avowed purpose of eventual dissolution of public utility holding companies. 2. Centralized control over all forms of transportation - land, sea, air. 3. More explicitly defined and broadened powers over agriculture - in some of its phases already under almost complete government direction - for the purpose, among others, of bringing recalcitrants into line. 4. A mechanism to curb or dissolve private profit from war. 5. A social security set-up compelling the individual states to follow Federal-approved plans or forfeit the privilege of sharing in the program. 6. Stricter control over national resources and ultimately centralized planning for them. Some of these projected new grants of authority Supervisory control over industry and bus- iness - including fixing of wages and hours of employes-through NRA under a far-flung system of codes. Control of restrictive power over agricultural production through a variety of integrated programs, most of them voluntary although buttressed by government bonuses but some compulsory. Far-widened restrictions upon banking through new regulations, through deposit in- surance and through the lending power of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and other agencies. Control over the securities exchanges. Consolidated regulation over all communica- tions systems. Broadened regulation of transportation sys- tems through a coordinator for all. An attack on assertedly excessive private power rates through government agencies gen- erating and selling power. Supervision over labor disputes through spe- cially constituted boards. Grants to the President of power to raise and lower tariffs and enter reciprocal trade pacts with foreign nations. Control over interstate movement of oil pro- duced in excess of state quotas, with authority to confiscate the oil. Government Takes On New Meaning This unprecedented movement of government into the affairs of citizens has been upheld by New Dealers on the claim the old economic struc- ture had becom3 so badly disjointed nothing less than a complete overhauling and a new balance was needed. It was accomplished amid cries of some that individualism was being destroyed - amid expressed fears that government regulation n,,Ar. nrin.1 0 ohiminc' , aoi ngh I-.1ifP l -fnor n n -,rm rTn rv