THE MIICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, FEBRtUAR~Y 13, 1935 - -- - - - - -- -- I f THE MICHIGAN DAILY bers of the less faithful headed for the exits, per- haps convinced with our expert friend that the exhibition was indeed disgusting. At this came 4 the loudest yelp of all. "Well, will you look at that?" demanded the gentleman of the old school. If anyone had walked out like that in the old days, the crowd would have made them stick. Well, that just shows you how spirit has t .-fchanged .." Faint I-umblmgs . . . t OME INDICATION that Michigan students are not completely leth- g "ar-ic is given ay the fact that to date they have U COL LEG IATE OBSERVER r '1 Pubiisried every mornjing 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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COULTER SPORTS EDITOR ...................A..RTHUR CARSTENS WOMEN'S EDITOR ...................EI.3ANOR BLUJM NIGHT EDITORS: Courtney A. Evans, John J. Flaherty, Thomas E. Groehn, Thomas H. Kleene, Iavid G. Mac- donald, John M. O'Connell, Arthur M. Taub. SPOR'1S ASSISTANTS: Marjorie Western, Kenneth Parker, William Reed, Arthur Settle. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Barbara L. Bates, Dorothy Gies, Florence Harper, Eleanor Johnson, Josephine McLean, Margaret 0. Phalan, Rosalie Resnick, Jane Schneider, Marie Mu: phy. REPORTERS: Rex Lee Beach, Robert B. Brown, Cl4nton B. Conger, Sheldon M. Ellis, William H. Fleming, Richard 0. 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 Weissmnan, 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, GordonCohn, 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, Margarette 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 returned more ballots than any other of all the 115 student bodies included in the Literary Digest peace poll -and this despite the fact that the University is considerably smaller than a good many of its rivals. Perhaps the answer is that Michigan students are interested in significant matters, but not in the petty collegiateisms of another day. Per- haps Michigan students are awaiting only devel- opment of institutions adequate to stimulate and express their real enthusiasms. Were this found to be true, it would be a most interesting discovery. The SO-AP 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. For The Flag To the Editor: I have read with considerable amusement the remarkably well written letter from William L. Fisch relative to militarism, the R.O.T.C., Fascism and imperialistic war which appeared in your issue of Jan. 26. Having served (in a mediocre way) overseas in 1917-19, I agree with Mr. Fisch that war as fought with our modern methods, machinery, money and means is one of the worst calamities that can fall to the lot of mankind. But at this point my agreement ceases. Mr. Fisch would abolish war by refusing to fight, by lying down, supinely, belly-up, in the face of an armed agression. Were all peoples, of all nations, of such a temperament, it is obvious that there would be no more wars because there would be no more troops. Unhappily for mankind, but fortunately for manhood, all men are not so con- stituted. In short, Mr. Fisch bases his strategy upon a set of facts that will never exist. Were America to follow his plan with any degree of unanimity, this country would be at the mercy of almost any minor power that chose to annex us. Theories are fine. Sophomores should be en- couraged to have them. They are inspiring at the time, but after disillusionment that comes later, they have a way of seeming a wee bit puerile, When I was overseas, Mr. Fisch was about two years old. His knowledge of war (so he says) was gained from motion pictures. It cannot be as clear, as stark, as horrible as the sort of knowl- edge that comes from seeing and experiencing. No one hates war more than the person who has been through it. But now is a time to be practical. Every major European power is armed to the teeth. Old jealousies have been revived. War debts have complicated matters. If one's potential enemies are so foolish as to arm themselves so efficiently and at such great expense, what would America do? Discard her own arms? Get ready to turn the other cheek? Only a dreamer would say "Yes." The R.O.T.C., by providing a large num- ber of well educated junior officers is fulfilling a function of major importance. It commends itself to virile young men who are constitutionally and temperamentally averse to taking a licking lying down. I believe that this nation is quite definitely com- mitted to the policy of engaging in no more wars save to defend our own borders. And should that time come (which God forbid it may not!), when an armed invader attacks us, Mr. Fisch and his Student League will fade into the background of forgotten theories as the manhood of this coun- try rises to defend its flag. "Flag?" Mr. Fisch may sneer. "Yes, 'flag'," we repeat. Far better men than Mr. Fisch or I have died for it before and will gladly do so again. -Philip C. Pack Captain, Infantry Asst. G-3, 32nd Division By BUD BERNAR.) When professors kiss co-eds outside of school, that isn't news; it's scandal. But when they do it openly in class - that is news. A professor of psychology at Syracuse Univer- sity suddenly bent over and kissed the beautiful co-ed who sat at the front of the room. And in spite of the fact that it was a psychology ex- periment to prove that a sudden emotion can be ,measured by the perspiration on the hands-in spite of that, the young lady had such a "sud- den emotion" that it was several minutes before the recording instrument regained its normal composure enough to continue with the experi- ment. Luckily for her, however, the instrument does not record whether her emotions were pleas- ant or unpleasant. According to reports Huey Long is only acting in self defense - professors are taking over politics . . . so he'll run Louisiana State University. The Daily Kansan comes to the fore with an editorial scoring the "colossal inconsistency of women." This same inconsistency says the Kansan, is nowhere more apparent than in the matter of dress. We quote: "on a frigid day one sees scores of women dressed in fur coats. But with these cozy garments they wear no hats, and they fail to button the coats. Girls with college intellect go without food to own a fur coat. They attach this garment to the person by means of the sleeves and let the rest bellow out behind, a flag flaunted in the face on their non-fur-bearing "sisters." Stories about finals are again appearing. This incident took place in a math class at Corneri University about the week before fin- als. The instructor walked into the room and announced that he would give the class an idea of the material they would be responsible for on the final. "You will have to know," he began, "all the equations on page 10. Then, there are several good problems from pages 15 to 35 which are good examples of the type I expect to ask you. You might commit the formulas on page 50 to your memory, and if you know all these things and the basic principles of the course, you should have no trouble with the exam. Now are there any questions about the course?" A single student waved his hand frantically. "Yes, what is it?" asked the instructor. The student hung his head a bit and then questioned, "What text book are we using in this course?" 7' BOOKS TO BUY OR SELL? ROOMS TO RENT? DO YOU NEED A ROOM? DO YOU WISH YOUR CHANGE OF ADDRESS PUBLISHED,? One Answer. USE MICHIGAN DAILY CLASSIFIED AIDS Cash Rates lic Line (5 words) (or, roe for Three or More, Insertions) THE MICHIGAN DAILY 420 Maynard Street g& r:A l I e A Washington BYSTANDER a i br z { More Longiana . QUITE SOME TIME AGO The Daily called attention to the fact that Huey P. Long, oaf of the canebreaker, was a man to match in American public life. "It is high time that the intelligent section of the American people took Huey Long for the very real threat to American traditions and ideals that he really is," we said on that occasion. Since then Huey has gone on his unrestrained way; he has'made himself dictator of Louisiana; he has uncovered a plot against his life and thus squashed an anti-Long uprising; he was amazingly effective in arousing opinion against the World Court in the recent Senate vote; he has organized his campaign forthe 1936, and more likely the 1940, bid fo the presidency by establishing "Share-The-Wealth" Clubs throughout the nation. r r Everything that Huey does these days is done with the White House in mind. His belated "honeymoon" was a play for the love-and-kisses vote. "Love Is Sweeping the Country" sang the presidential candidate in "Of Thee I Sing." Huey took the satire and enacted it into life. After his fiasco in the washroom of the Sand's Point Yacht Club he gave up drinking and today is a teetotaler, completely and blatantly. That ought to be good for the hintherland vote. Huey may not have what it takes to make a great statesman; in fact he hasn't. But he cer- tainly has what it takes to make a genuine bid for the presidency during a time of economic distress. "He (Long)" says Paul Y. Anderson, "is a tough baby, a very tough baby. It will pay to watch him." It will also pay to stop him. l r By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, February 12 THE LATEST Democratic National Committee output is an attractively-typed little affair on blue paper headed "Thumbnail Sketches of Wom- men You Hear About in The New Deal." It con- tains about 50 names and it certainly emphasizes the Roosevelt administration flair for giving the ladies a.place in the political sunlight. The women's division of the national committee got out the who's who and who's what of the wom- en of the "New Deal." Its subjects range from Madam Secretary Perkins, Madam Senator Cara- way and Her Honor, Judge Florence E. Allen of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals - "just one step below the Supreme Court of the United States," as the committee commentator puts it, down through a wide range of big city postmistresses, women collectors of the port, state administrators of relief, housing and many other "New Deal" alphabetical activities. WHAT is coming, one might suppose, is a drive in '36 for the feminine vote on the basis of the Roosevelt administration's record of femin- ine appointees. The worried republicans may be planning new voter and "young Republican" ap- peals but genial Jim Farley's Democratic organi- zation already is well advanced on a program of enticing the ladies to the polls next time the "New Deal" goes to the election bat which the out-of-power party cannot hope to match. Throughout the thumbnail sketches runs the notation that this or that woman was "first" to pick off for her sex the particular political plum involved. Until you see it in black and white- or rather in the attractive two shades of blue used -it is hard to realize just how far the Roose- velt administration has been going in drawing women into party and official life. There are so many appointments of women "for the first time in history" that the sketch writer is moved to remark that it is "a phrase which President Roose- velt is rapidly making hackneyed." CASUAL SURVEY of the party activity back- grounds of the women named suggests an- other possible title. It could read "Party Politics Pays, Ladies." With rare exceptions the femin- ine "New Deal" office-holders attained their pres- ent proud status by service on the national com- mittee, on state committees or as delegates to national conventions, particularly the '32 conven- tion that put Mr. Roosevelt in the White House. The ladies have had a special place at the "New Deal" patronage pie counter. Madam Secretary Perkins is one of those ex- ceptions. Her sketch records no party worker activity at all. And another is the only woman I Akichigan 1. SUBSCRIPTIONS / / The Old School . SPEIL Daily Insatiable Botanist To the Editor: A Japanese Esperantist sent me a letter, a translation of which follows. Readers of this column who have the desired objects are requested to send them to Mr. Kangi Momoi. -Francis S. Onderdonk Dear and Honorable Friends: I am a botanist, and collect moss, and lichens (herpes). Do these plants interest you? I wish to collect specimens of these from all over the world. These can be gathered in fields, forests, and on mountains, trees, stones, and even on tombstones. Will you help me? I desire your help as far as you are able to give it. If you are agreeable please send me specimens of these plants. I enclose instructions for their prepara- tion. If possible the moss shall have a seed-pod, and the lichen an unbroken edge. Each speciment should be about,10 cm. by 15 cm. 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