THE MICHIGAN DAILY Academy Sessions Open To PuLie . T HE MICHIGAN ACADEMY of Sci- ence, Arts and Letters convenes here today for its 40th annual session. Its meetings will be attended by scholars from virtually every major field of study. Its scope and organization have won it recognition as probably the leading gathering of its kind in the state each year. The Academy has not achieved great popular favor. In large part ttis is due to the extremely technical nature of many of its talks. It is also true that the Academy has not made particular ef- forts at publicity, and that the nature of its meet- ings does not lend itself to adequate coverage in he press. " The fact remains that the Academy sessions are open to the public, and that they afford an added educational advantage made available annually to the University community. The program af- fords sufficient variety so that somewhere there should be an appeal to everyone. Some of the dis- cussions, such as those on unemployment relief, ztate fiscal and welfare policies in the economics and sociology section, are of general interest and vital concern. The presidential lecture by P. S. Lovejoy and the address by Dr. Sapir of Yale are other features designed to interest the Academy membership as a whole and the public in general. A careful perusal of the Academy program will show the possibilities of this educational week-end. COL LEG IATE OBSERVER The SOAP BX Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonygous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as conidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editor reserving the right to condense all letters of over 300 words. Warnin' T' 'Callers' Dear Mr. Editor: Some o' the boys was pulled back from the dinner table and had lit up their pipes, and turned on that thar radio. Some right purty music kept a comin' in at different times which was made up by two fellers by the names of Shubert and Handel, but evely 10 seconds 'r so, when the playin' would lull a piece, that there "caller" what talks over the radio would begin to talk about some fellers who are a tryin' to get a judge's job at a 'lection which is comin', or be past. Wa'al, me and Zeke, bein' sort of full of grub and enjoyin' our pipes would get right peaceful as that soft sort of playin' kept a-comin' over ihe radio. Then we begin to get kinder aggravated when this here caller kept up tellin' us about who to vote for when the 'lection day come round; Ind all the time he was a buttin' in on this hyar peaceful music. We recollects that he musta been doing this cllin' fer our own well-and-good 'cause he kept a-saying that if we wuz to vote fer so-and-so we would be a votin' fer th' good of what he called citizenship, and not on account of any polytics. This hyar party polytics business, he kept a tellin', didt really make no difference as lng as we voted fer what would do> best fer citizenship. 'Course this f,ller said something about this pertickler lawyer he was a boostin' being a member of the Republican bunch, but like as not it didn't matter as this lawyer feller didn't have nothin' but good citizenship at heart That bein' the most of whut this caller was ravin' about and all the time the orchestry gettin' more and more cut off, why Zeke jest reached up and throwed a book, a-lyin' beside him, plumb into thet radio, and busted it up considerable like. Makin' things worse, Mariah come in frum the kithen and started a lookin' fer her Bible, to get some thoughts fer meeting that night, which she finally found layin' aslant that thar radio whar Zeke had throwed it. And were she mad! Me and Zeke had to clear out frum the house and amble down to the corner machine shop which Lemuel Smithers kept open on Sunday afternoons fer jest fellers like me and Zeke who couldn't get no peace at the house. Me bein' the writin' feller of us two, I figured to ask a sort of favor of the Michigan Daily news- paper to print this here stuff so that these radio man at the University, Prof. Abbott, might see fit to tell them caller fellers jist how much aggravatin' they be makin' fer me and Zeke and some of the other boys down here at Vine Center. I reckon that even some of them college boys could git along without too much talkin' over the radio when the music is a tryin' to git heard. -Lum Tinker. As Others See It California Comes To Missouri AN ITEM of news has appeared in the papers which we purpose to discuss with restraint, but also with the candor its significance demands. We refer to the fact that the Oakland (Calif.) base- ball team will do its spring training in Joplin, Mo. That the Oakland team has chosen well may be, and hereby is, stated unreservedly. No happier de- cision could have been made. March will have passed its meridian, let us assume, when the Cali- fornia boys arrive in the Ozarks, and April will be plumed with lilacs when they turn their faces to the West, enriched forever by their beauty-drenched experience. They will see, in their brief sojourn, gray hills burst into a glowing green. They will see stark trees burgeon into the rapturous confusion of bud and blossom. It will be their privilege to catch the flash of a scarlet tanager in the leafy emerald and to hear the bright chatter of the orioles swankily gowned in sable and gold. They will see vast, sprawling mounds of granulated rock - the By BUD BERNARD This story seems old to me but a columnist at Cornell University claims that it really hap- pened at that university. On. of the freshmen at a well-known fra- ternity house failed to close the door as he came in. A sophomore was right there and yelled, "Hey frosh, shut the door. Where do you think you are? Were you raised in a barn? The freshman breke into tears and the soph feeling that perhaps he had been too hard on the sensitive freshman came over to apologize. "Say old man. don't be like that. I know you weren't brought up in a barn." Then the surprising frosh answered, "That's just it. I was brought up in a barn, and I get homesick everytime I hear a donkey bray." About 3:00 a.m. of the day of the Minnesota- Wisconsin basketball game, five bleary-eyed Min- nesota students pulled into Fraternity Row at Mad- ison seeking the Alpha Delta Phi house. They walked up to a building that looked like the place, went in and settled themselves on the sofa and chairs for the rest of the night. About 6:30 they were roughly awakened, and shoved out, protesting, by an elderly house mother, who then slammed the door in their faces. Looking back as they moved slowly away, one brother saw above the door the emblems and initials of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority! * ** * There is a wrestler at the University of Min- nesota who is going to amount to something some day. He was assigned to the health service for measles about a week before a big meet. As the day grew near the boy grew more fidgity, afraid he would be in poor shape, even if he did get out in time. So one morning he locked the door of the ward, hauled other measle suf- ferers from bed, threw the mattress on the floor, and then got them to wrestle with him. He kept in shape all right and was released in time for the meet. But the other boys - well, all of them went back to bed with increased temperatures, and could not leave for a long time. * * * * A certain economics instructor at the University of Maryland was putting his class to sleep reg- ularly three times a week. The procedure was un- varied. He would drone on to the accompaniment of assorted snores. Every now and then he would stop to ask a question, but never got an answer except from one little brightie named Jones who was always there to save the day. After a month of this one-man monopoly, the instructor's patience snapped. He delivered a stinging lecture to his sec- tion and concluded by saying, "I don't quite see how this class would get along if it weren't for Jones and myself." There was a moment of dead silence. Then came a voice from the rear. It was Jones, "And I could probably do better without you." The )Advantageous Rewflts of Classified Advertising have been proven Cash Rates TIC a Line The Michigan Daily Maynard Street Read The DAILY -ADS The Daily maintains a Classified Directory for your convenience. Bell System engineers long ago began to work out a way to clear city streets of overhead wires. The first telephone cables were crude affairs-a few wires drawn through a pipe. 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ASSISTANT SECRETARY MoGRADY of the La- bor Relations Department, Madame Secretary Perkins' field contact man in most emergencies to date, takes a more optimistic view of the double constitutional unhorsing of Section 7a of the re- covery act than any legal spokesman of the admin- istration to date. He is quoted as having told a Boston labor audience: "We are to appeal these decisions to the highest court and will have them reversed." The legal New Dealers, from Attorney General Cummings down, would not go beyond the appeal mart of that. Too many Supreme Court rulings ":ending to sustain the constitutional outlawing of 7a so far as a Federal effort to intervene in reg- ulation of labor conditions in a manufacturing plant on the theory that manufacture is a part of interstate commerce were being dug up to make lawyers want to go out on a limb. N ANY CASE, filing of appeals in all of the cases challenging, constitutionality of the New Deal acts was the essential thing. That serves to stay proceedings. Presumably, except for the en- couragement to political opponents and the added uncertainties that might complicate the general recovery drive which the trio 'of New Deal court setbacks entailed. things were destined to go along as they were. At best, legal determination of such questions is a slow process. In perhaps a fourth of the states the NRA code program, including its 7a labor clause, goes march- ing on under state police power regardless of what ..ny Federal court, even the Supreme Court, has done or might do about it. Those states have "little NRA" acts of their own that do not rest on even state commerce control powers. How many more states with more than 40 legislatures sitting may be in process of such enactments, no one seems to know. A shift of organized labor influence to state capitals might expedite that movement to imple- °nent the national recovery act with closely paral- leling state legislation. ASSUMING that the states generally had such enactments, challenge of their exertion of po- lice power to regulate labor conditions in plants turning out goods of interstate commerce on the ground that Federal jurisdiction alone extended to WAHR S UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE 316 SOUTH STATE .. ... om® mam mow OPM ,a NI mm m........... l '.#. :::r ; . 1 : i : r ;. j 1.: N .S' " ' 1. . Ev ls 4 the w4 istheU4 Event . . .. of the wee s the UNION'S ANNUAL INFORMAL Spring BALLOON DANCE' to be held this Friday evening from rine until one. UNION BAND Of course the regular is furnishing the rhythm. There will be a regular Membership Dance Saturday from nine until twelve, as usual. $ 1.00 per couple, Five free tickets good for any future membcrship dance will be attached to the balloons. I I 11 l II U