THEMICHIGANDAILY -__-_ _--_ _-_..__-_____ ___ THE MICHIGAN DAILY 11, I -"a. ~ K_ 2:1I .-- Pubibdaed every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the BoardringCon- trol of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER ocisttd (attsiatt mrs wrisctmsrN ' 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 4923 MANAGING EDITOR.............WILLIAM G. FERRIS CITY EDITOR'.. ...............JOHN HEALEY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ............RALPH G. COULTER SPORTS EDITOR ....................ARTHUR CARSTENS WOMWEN'S EDITOR ......................EI!rANOR BLUM NIGHT EDITORS: Courtney A. Evans, John J. Flaherty, Thomas E. Groehn, Thomas Ft. 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, ',EPORTERS: Rex Lee Beach, Robert B. Brown, Clinton B. Conger, Sheldon M. Ellis, William H. Fleming, Richard 0. Hershey, Ralph W. Hurd, Bernard Levick, Fred W. Nealq, 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 Morrison, Elsie Pierce, Charlotte Rueger. Dorothy Shappell, Molly Solomon, Laura Wino- grad. Jewel-uerfel. 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, 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, Grace Snyder, Betty Woodworth, Betsy Baxter, Margaret Bentley, Anne Cox, Jane Evans, Ruth Field, Jean Guion, Mildred Haas, Ruth Lipkint, Mary McCord, Jane Wil- loughby. NIGHT EDITOR: COURTNEY A. EVANS ^ tion paid by outside organizations under the as- sumption that the students attend Michigan to agitate, they should be expelled. The University's reputation is too deeply engrained upon American tradition to be endangered by an insignificant group of trouble makers. But -_ and this is a very important but -every American citizen has the right to think and say what he pleases on any subject he desires, providing always that he does not create a public disturb- ance. This is fundamental Americanism; 100 per cent Americanism, in fact. Authority which pun- ishes the expression of opinion with which it does not agree is not American; it is Russian. It is important, therefore, that cases requiring discipline require it on overt acts damaging to the University and not on the mere expression of opin- ons which may be disagreeable to the majority of us. Student Government Finale: . . T HE NEW PLAN for a men's student government, as submitted by the Undergraduate Council and approved by the Uni- versity Committee on Student Affairs, is a good plan. It is the result of an extensive and impar- tial survey of student opinion conducted by the Council. It combines the system of democratic election with the present system of automatically appointed offices. It gives no one of the campus extra-curricular activities a disproportionate and comparatively unfair representation. And it places in the hands of no one group a possible power over other self-respecting campus organizations. It took a very long time to get this plan. The entire affair started at the beginning of the first semester, and it involved students, organizations, faculty men and members of the administration in a grand and sometimes highly hilarious scramble. The general student body will never know the amazing political crimes committed in its name, but those of us involved, day after day, week after week, month after month, will look back upon the merry farce with wonder and-now that spring is here - comradely amusement. What student government at Michigan needs is tradition, background. In order to have a respect- ed and effective government it is first necessary to have a stable government. A government which changes each year, whenever some small group becomes convinced that it sees a new mission in life, can be nothing but a weak government. If there is one thing we should have learned by now it is that student government should be given a chance to settle. The Daily hopes the new men's council will manage to get through a respectable number of years without someone endeavoring to revolutionize the world. 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 ai letters of over 300 words. COL LEG lATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD We clipped this from the columns of Editor and Publisher: GET THAT STORY Be accurate! was the City Editor's favorite maxim. So why should he have been so Unreasonably annoyed when the sob sister, Trying to obey his instructions, Wrote, in perfect truth: "Following their marriage ceremony, Performed today in Agues Caliente, Mr. and Mrs. Film Idol, The former Miss Maude Lynn, Will continue to make their home At his house in Beverly Hills Where they have been living For the past year." Stephen Leacock says that he took to teaching because it was "the only trade that neither needed experience or intellect." When he received his Ph.D. he said, "The meaning of this degree is that the recipient of instruction is examined for the last time in his life, and is pronounced completely full. After this no new ideas can be imparted to him." ORIGIN UNKNOWN, BUT WE LIKED THEM Hearst in war, Hearst in peace, Hearst in every news release. Spreads his hate and desolation To improve his circulation. * * * * The Oklahoma Daily O'Collegian suggests a few changes for our modern American universities. 1. Give academic freedom to students as well as professors. 2. Cut out ruthlessly the loafers from among the students and the faculty, even though some of them are sons of high-priced faculty. 3. Do away with the execrable injustice of out- grown marking systems and their regimentation of mediocrity. 4. Build buildings, that look more like work- shops and less like cathedrals, and put the money into faculty salaries. Cut out the monumental piles. The place for such is in the cemetery. 5. Take the Ph.D. degree off its pedestal. The lure of pure intellectualism is gone, and the col- leges may as well accept the fact. 6. Pay the faculty "big shots" what they are worth. Keep them on the campus at any cost. * ** A novel idea to prevent students from entering class late was evolved by a professor at N.Y.U. 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We handle all details of mailing and guarantee deliverg. OLD TIME + HOME MADE A N D I ES As Others See It Emotionalisn The Baldwin Bill 0 T HE BALDWIN BILL requiring all teachers in Michigan educational institutions to take an oath of allegiance to the national and state constitutions is amusing for aj number of reasons. First, it indicates that the Leg- islature honestly does believe there are anti-Amer- icans teaching in Michigan educational institu- tions. Secondly, it assumes that if there are men on these faculties interested' in overthrowing the United States government they will refuse to take the oath, get fired, and go to Russia. Third, it requires teachers to take an oath of allegiance to a state constitution which the legislators themselves persistently refuse to support. Article 5, Section 4 of the state constitution says At the session in 1913 and each tenth year thereafter, the Legislature shall by law rear- range the senatorial districts and apportion anew the representatives among the counties and districts according to the number of in- habitants, using as a basis for each appor- tionment the last preceding United States census of this state, Each apportionment so made, and the division of any county into rep- resentative districts by its board of supervisors, made thereunder, shall not be altered until the tenth year thereafter. The State Legislature has not reapportioned .its seats since. It should have had such a reap- portionment in 1933. For two years it has flag- rantly violated the constitution which it now in- sists teachers must swear allegiance to. 'We hope that in pointing this out to the Legislature we are not guilty of subversive propaganda. No American .objects to taking an oath of al- legiance to the American constitution. It is a good constitution. With those of England and France, it stands as a democratic bulwark of humanity against the desolate creeds of fascism and com- munism. The bill, therefore, will cause no em- barrassment to the Michigan faculty and if it is extended to students it will cause them no em- barrassment either... The services of this insti- tution and those who compose its faculty to the state are so very obvious that it is, we think, rather annoying- but nothing more than annoying - that the Legislature should believe such a bill desir- able or necessary. President Ruthven's tatpJnhnivu _ _ To the Editor: If the present social situation is perfect, it is unique in human experience. As long as crime, insecurity and poverty exist, there is a challenge to thinking people. The means for improvement is a matter of argument, and it is not my inten- tion to discuss the various theories. However, one aspect of social movement has lately come to my attention. I refer to the recent anti-pacifist dem- onstrations in Lansing. A characteristic of both uicidents was a mob-an emotionally charged crowd. In one instance they were moved to dump a speaker into a river, and in the other, they raised their right arms to pled'ge something which five years from now they may have no intention of keeping. Where there is emotion and excite- ment, sound reasoning is a stranger. There was a time when the ship of state was little more than a rowboat, and staunch active individuals were at a premium. Since that time our boat has become a mammoth ship. The ma- chinery is installed, and oarsmen are not needed so much as men with brains. The future of the nation depends on the educated people, people who are trained to think. It is a matter of common experience that deep thought is not born where there is shouting and waving of arms. The situation that faces us now is a matter that calls for firm convictions, not hastily made pledges or threats that take the form of throwing a parson into the stream. The common criticism of Long, Hearst, Hitler, Coughlin, and others is that they yell names, and make an appeal to the emotions. It is easily shown that they seldom make a hard reasoned point. Those who are the first to join demonstrations are generally the first to follow the biggest band, and cheer lynchings and other mob actions. It is necessary that people should gather and talk things over, but emotionalism of all sorts should be discouraged on the ground that it is not conducive to reflection. -Ralph A. Hall. What Kind Of Parents? (From The Syracuse Daily Orange) COLLEGE WOMEN in socially restrictive insti- tutions, such as Syracuse, are on their own so seldom that they make the most of every oppor- tunity. This observation was made by a woman who has been associated with several campuses, most recently Syracuse. The "meddling paternal- ism" of most of our American colleges "implies that the parents are doing an exceedingly poor job at home." College administrators in answer to that last re- mark, probably will say -parents are doing a bad job. To which our reply is - you're educating the parents of tomorrow. What kind of a job are you doing? To over-simplify the matter, let's say that college students have three kinds of parents: 1. Wise ones, who have inculcated in their chil- dren standards of good taste and criteria of sanity with little or no restriction in their daily living. 2. Foolish ones who have allowed their chil- dren to have everything they want and to do anything they like, without giving them the sense of values which would allow them to use their privileges wisely. 3. Foolish ones, who have so guided, or mis- guided, the steps of their children that they are un- able to walk alone; who have limited, restricted, and "held down" their children until they inevi- tably "break loose" at the first opportunity. Students from the first group of homes do not need to be told when to come in at night; students from the second group being presented suddenly with restrictions which they have never experi- enced, and being without the standards of values which might enable them to accept the situation or to oppose it intelligently and openly, resort to underhand methods of evading the rules or ruin their college life in maladjustment to its social set-up; students from the third group being un- ,ble to walk alone, perhaps need to be educated in adulthood. Syracuse University stands "in loco parentis" to the students who matriculate here. Quite arbi- trarily, university officials have chosen the thirdj type of parent as their model. They have chosen to exercise a control from which their children are wont to "break loose" at the first opportunity. Restricted as they are, the women students in a college with compulsory curfew graduate without having an opportunity to develop the maturity of judgment which their later life will require. The women whom Syracuse is so carefully nur- turing will in a few years be bringing up the next' generation of college students. What kind of par- ents will they make? 108 E. Washington St. State & Liberty Sts. 1 I At11AfO II IIIy1 / M Y'r111 d" ' ' " c } 5 ,.t' % 9 v +};: t '. .. x . .. F . : J(r W'. . W tL t,aUfl .' ~It C 4wc What the Governor means is that crossing on a German Linergives an opportunity for first-hand observation on what he terms "combin- ing the Science of Navigation with the Art of Fine Living. ' Questions OMETHING like orchestral playing is this running of ships across the ocean-a special aptitude for ensemble work required of all members ... You find it on German Ships: Every steward, seaman, officer born to a part, f ; trained by years in working in unison. Ships and equipment as fine as can be made, kept in perfect order. And a tradition that has its hand on every shoulder, day and night. Fastest Way to France, England, Germany- To the Editor: In view of the intense pacifist activities, I should like to ask its proponents a few questions. 1. What do you think of Russia's army of nearly 1,000,000 soldiers? 2. What do you think would happen to you if you staged a demonstration in Moscow in which you declared that under no conditions would you support the soviet government in any war? 3. What would yob do if this nation were at- tacked by a foreign enemy with your family and friends and yourself open to the attacks of an army set upon murder and less delicate things? '9 A' B~remen Europa The de luxe (olumbus leaves June 29 - the , Special Student Sailing-for Ireland, Eng- / land, France, Germany, and every Wednesday Midnight a sailing of the "Famous Four" flw Uorh . . Doutschlan