THE MICHIAN DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1935 U . Pubdsued every morning 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. M EMB4 S ER oae tgiaft ra - t934 ne~fii1,e f 1935 =- MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of al 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-Generalg Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, 1.50. During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, 14.50. Offices: Student Publications 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 IITORIAL DIRECTOR ............RALPh G. COULTER SPORTS EDITOR ....................ARTHUR CARSTENS WOWEN'S EDITOR ......................EINANOR BLUM NIGHT EDITORS: Courtney A. Evans, John J. 1laherty, Thomas E. Groehn, Thomas R. Kleene, DavidG. 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, 1leanor Johnson, 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- rond 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 Shappel, 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 Wohgemuith, Lyman Bittman, John Park, F. Allen Upson, Willis Tomlinson, Homer Lathrop, Tom Clarke, Gordon Cohn, Merrell Jordan, Stanley Joffe, Richard E. Chaddock. . WOMEN'S BUSINESS STAFF: Betty Cavender, Margaret Cowie, Bernadine Field, Betty ;Greve, Mary Lou Hooker, Heen Shapland, Betty Simonds, Marjorie Langenderfer,1 Grace Snyder, Betty Woodworth, Betsy Baxter, Margaret Bentley, Anne Cox, Jane Evans, Ruth Field, Jean Guin, Mildred Haas, Ruth Lipkint, Mary McCord, Jane Wil- loughby.1 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS H. KLEENE 'hat's Doing' Again .. (WTHAT'S DOING" has returned to the campus, and our opposition to it this tirhe is as strong as it was last. We don't like it because it is bad journalism, because it repro- duces Michigan life to the outsider in a bizarre mockery, because it glorifies a false and shallow standard of conduct, because it champions socialI idlers and notoriety seekers, and because it is a1 direct appeal to the cheap and indecent elements of human nature. .'What's Doing" isn't clever; it's dull. It lacks taste, culture, dignity. It is an indication of small-1 townness and its gossip is the gossip of Hick's gen- eral store at Four Corners.1 it is 'a pointed criticism of the Michigan. student body, of the shallowness of its background and1 the confusions of its judgment, that dirt sheets are popular and honest efforts to establish a cam- pus literary publication are greeted with the in- tellectual frigidity one normally associates with elevator boys, 10-cents-a-dance-belles, taxi danc- ers, and burlesque queenies. Debate On Topics OfThe Day.. .. URTHER evidence of an increasing undergraduate interest in current1 affairs may be seen in the attempt of a group of1 enterprising college students to promote the foun- dation of an organization embodying the functions of the old New England Town Hall, the farmers' forums which met and discussed the AAA refer- enda. The sponsors of the move hope to set up+ this organization, to be known as The Hall, in a number of universities and colleges this spring, and to work from that beginning out into small towns before the presidential race in 1936. This idea will be patterned as closely as possible after the famous Oxford Union, according to pre-+ liminary plans. The system is not entirely new in this country inasmuch as it has already been per-+ fected at Princeton, where a group of undergrad- uates have revived interest in the old Whig and Cliosophic Societies, the traditional debating clubs there. It has also been put into active operation at Yale, where the Yale Political Union is growing vigorously. Tf- . . ,1n.n~Atho*at 1 last rnnp a. anhcM ate vote on the World Court, the present impasse on the work-relief bill, or in cutting across artificial party lines and debating real issues in presi- dential campaigns. Considering its benefits from a local standpoint, such an organization would serve to increase the interest of the student body in current social, eco- nomic and political trends both at home and abroad. Furthermore, it would serve as a source of information to undergraduates on pertinent topics. There is considerable of merit in this plan and much that would justify its establishment on the Michigan campus. Increased enrollment in courses in the political science department indicates the development of student interest in subjects per- taining to politics and current events. This fact alone would seem favorable to the success of the project locally. TheSOAP 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 o1 over 300 words. Amazing Experience To the Editor: I had the most amazing experience of my life today. I asked the first 10 students I met - not one of whom I had ever seen before - if they thought the campus would support the April 4 anti- war strike here if a lot of other students did. It was incredible. Every single one of them said he would back to the limit this international and nation-wide strike by students of all political be- liefs, and they predicted that campus support would range from 50 to 90 per cent of the entire student body. More striking still was their out- spoken and vigorous determination to fight war through any and all means. And I, a member of the Student Committee Against War, had hardly dared to hope for more than a few scattered signs of support! One of them - a jolly yet somehow serious fra- ternity man - put it this way: "If you will em- phasize over and over again that this strike is not against the University administration in any sense of the word, but is a tremendous event which will unite hundreds of thousands of students on nearly every American campus and throughout the world against their common enemy -war, then you will get enthusiastic support." To some of my incredulous readers I can only repeat that I could scarcely believe my senses, and I invite them to try the experiment themselves. And a strike on the Michigan campus will have a triple significance: our strike will precede most of the others. A successful strike here will en- courage every other body of students striking on April 12. Michigan showed the second largest anti-war sentiment in the Literary Digest poll. In addition Michigan is thought of as one of the half-dozen most influential universities in Amer- ica. All the student anti-war movements of the United States -of the world - will focus their attention on our campus April 4. If Michigan students are so sincere in their opposition to war that they will actually brave the denunciations and sneers of the press at this move that threat- ens the war-makers, if they are so courageous that they will defy a large section of the American press which brands opposition to war as "radical" and "subversive" (watch the metropolitan press this April 5), if thousands of students on this cam- pus will actively signify their unity against war by action instead or only listening passively to a peace address by a spokesman of the New Deal; (cf. the dangerous naval maneuvers to be held in June at the very door of Japan by our combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets and nearly 500 planes, the'hun- cireds of millions of dollars added to the appro- priations for an offensive navy, the proposed billion and a half "defense" appropriations - twice what we spent in 1933!) then the peace sentiment will have born fruit and we will have witnessed the beginning of an effective youth movement -a youth movement already far more powerful in other countries than our own - a youth movement not merely for peace, but against war. The leaders of last year's strike hardly dared hope for the support of 5,000 students. Instead 25,- 000 responded enthusiastically. Nearly every met- ropolitan paper in America and Europe carried the news in banner headlines, stirring the hopes, lterally, of millions of sympathizers. After that strike Mr. Hearst's sheets reversed their historic and implicit trust in our great free educational system, and now calls them "hotbeds of sedition." Why? Following that strike a three-day emer- gency R.O.T.C. conference met in Washington to discuss how the effects of the strike could be off- set. We are in earnest. We are "radical" if to oppose foreign wars and preparation for them is "radical." We know that pacifism has collapsed and will be no more potent in preventing war than the "peace sentiment" in 1914. We know the helplessness of the League, the rejection of the World Court, the failure of disarmament, and the farce of govern- ments (including our own) signing peace treaties with one hand and pursuing war with the other. See recent issues of the "New Republic," "The Nation," "The Christian Century" and others for details. We believe that the militant organization of youth and of labor in all nations against war (and we are far behind the rest of the world in this respect as Serril Gerber, United States delegate to the World Student Congress Against War, repeat- edly illustrated in his fine description of that con- gress) offers the last hope of avoiding legal butch- ery. The students of the world are eagerly looking to American students to demonstrate their oppo- sition to war. We must not fail them. -Member of the N.S.L. Toast by the Syracuse Daily Orange: "To the ladies, who are like watches - pretty enough to COLLEGIATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD Saturday's balmy breezes made unsophisti- cated youngsters again of a senior boy and girl who have reached that happy state where they completely understand each other's whims. They rushed downtown and bought a Mickey Mouse kite and assembled it with great care. Then they adjourned to a field on the out- skirts of Ann Arbor and proceeded to fly it merrily. Soon people driving by stopped their cars and began to give advice on the gentle art of kite-flying. While they were romping thus, the idyllic atmosphere was momentarily shattered by a little boy of ten, with HIS lady love. When within earshot, he turned to his girl friend, with a Steig-like look, "come up and see my etchings" smirk and said sar- donically, "And they think they know some- thing of life'" The University Daily Kansan has a member on the staff who used his spare time the other day to attempt to determine the cause of the dust 00' " h , T t } _ ~ +' Poi Goes j101jo I eNrt and so will hers when you ask for that date for next Tuesday night at 8. Benefit U. of M. Frcs, Air Cmp I' t 9i Tuesday, April 2 /-\ci . C Hill Auditorium U, storm. He announced his survey; Huey Long ..... General Johnson Airplanes. ... Radio......... Jack Rabbits Fan Dancers ..-. Congress....... Dust and wind. the following results from ...................230 ...................200 .185 ....172 ... . . . . . . . 154 ... . . .. . . . 100 99 ..2 "Dear Bud," writes D.L.O., "perhaps you'll like this story: "The young man was clearly beyond help when they dragged him out of the wreck. His two friends supported him tenderly on each side, and looked into his wan face. He was trying to say something -- desperately trying to say something and kept wetting his lips with his tongue as if they were really parched. "His friends bent a little closer to listen to his hoarse whisper: " I know I'm gone -- through. . but before ... I go.... I want you . . . er . . . to give Mary . . . this message ..Tell her I died . . . er . . . with . . . her on . . . my lips . . . I love . . . her . . . alone . . . always . . . no one . . else. Will . . . er . . will you . . . tell . . . her . . . will you? "He was gently reassured. "'And . . . er . . Betty . . . tell . .. er . . . the . . . same . er . . . thing.' " A Smith College lassie recently swallowed the gold crown from a tooth. She consulted a doctor of her chance of living through the disaster, and she was informed by the good physician that the crown wouldn't do her constitution any good, and then added, "But I can't get my clause on it." I about the good old days ... with a foam- ing glass of beer to refresh spirits and memories. Then is when they say "I GO for Pfeiffer's," and mean it! Pfeiffer s Tarn