THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRDAY.-APRIL19,1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY r 1I Pubilsaled 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 Associatiob and the~ Big Ten News Service. MEMBER Associated olg te$ s -1934 [ 1935- - HAmNSO VSCONSIN 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 specialndis- patches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter.sSpecial 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: 2-1214. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y.- 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 7 on the campus to both teaching and research, and, .ioreover, he has won distinction in both fields. Holder of five degrees, he has also twice been appointed a National Research Fellow. Winning the Russel Award designates him as "that member of the University faculties of the rank of assistant prcfessor or instructor whose achievements in scholarly activities and whose promise for the future seems most to merit the appointment." Professor Smith's research work in the Univer- sity has dealt first with the action of the cyanides upon the body and with certain phases of the meta- bolism of calcium and, in particular, with the form in which calcium exists in the blood and the tissues. Extensive investigations upon the actions of the phenathrene compounds on muscle contraction, as well as upon the general subject of the relation of digitalis to the circulatory collapse occurring in diphtheria have also occupied his time. His detailed knowledge of the subject of phar- macology is shown by the fact that on 11 occasions his authoritative articles have appeared in tech- nical publications. Professor Smith is also a member of several distinguished societies, and in addition is an assistant editor of the publication "Biological Abstracts." The Russel Award well fulfills the need for some means of rewarding members of the faculty who are not of full professorial rank, and who, at the same time, have achieved distinction in scholarship or research. As Others See Itj EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR................WILLIAM G. FERRIS CITY EDITOR .............. JOHN HEALEY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR .......RALPH G. 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Clark, Robert J. Cooper, Richard L. Croushore, Herbert D. Fallender John T. Guernsey, Jack . Gustaf- son, Morton Jacobs, Ernest A. Jones, Marvin Kay, Henry J. Klose, Donald R. Knapp, William C. Knecht. R. A. Kronenberger, William D. Loose, William R. Mann, Lawrence Mayerfeld, John F. McLean, Jr., Lawrence M. Roth, Richard M. Samuels, John D. Staple, Lawrence A. Starsky, Nathan B. Steinberg. WOMEN'S BUSINESS STAFF: Betty Cavender, Margaret Cowie, Bernadine Field, Betty Greve, Mary Lou Hooker, Helen Shapland, Betty Simonds, Grace Snyder, Betsy Baxter, Margaret Bentley, Mary McCord. NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS H. KLEENE Howood Trends Are Revealed. W7HEN THE LAST few breathless dashers-uppers had rendered their manuscripts to the Hopwood Committee and their prayers to God, two f-acts of rather peculiar in- terest were revealed. It was apparent, first, that the number of con- testants was not only less than last year, but was approximately one-fourth of the number partici- pating in the first contest five years ago. While it would appear that the fame of this $320,000 be- quest would steadily widen through the literary activities of the previous prize winners and the pro- gram of national publicity and that with this spread of fame would come a corresponding in- crease in the number of contestants, actually the reverse has been the case. It is true that the awards have dwindled from an original $10,300 total award to the $6,100 of last year. Faculty men, however, ascribe the decline to a curious sort of defeatism that they find man- ifested among students. Aspiring authors, 'in awe of the distinguished names of the judges, feel a certain futility about submitting manuscripts they know to be unpolished. As a result of this literary self-consciousness, prizes have in a number of cases gone to manuscripts which have not had to meet worthy competition. It is a curious situation. The names of such men as Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound and John Erskine continue a long line of distinguished con- temporary men of letters who have lent their pres- tige to the Hopwood Contests, and yet the very fact of their prestige appears to be the instrument for the defeat of the intention of the committee. It is likely that were the prizes half as large and the judges faculty men, the number of contestants might be twice as great. The second observation of interest concerns the lature of the manuscripts submitted. Whereas in the first contests five years ago, students ap- peared absorbed in the cults of "unintelligibility, sex and psychology," manuscripts this year reveal an amazing' increase in documents of social and economic concern, This transition from papers of extreme self- absorption to an awakening social consciousness, together with a tendency to make more use of the local material in literary works, is accepted as a sign of a healthy maturity of the younger gen- eration. Consider The Senior (From The Purdue Exponent) IONSIDER THE SENIOR - he toileth for four years and knoweth not which end is up. He arriveth at the fair University confident in him- self and for one year all goeth well (if he lasts that long). During the second year, he wondereth if all the knowledge handed to him by venerable gray- beards is on the up and up and reasoneth that may- be he is wrong. In his junior year he arriveth at the conclusion that God's in his heaven and that everybody else is wrong. In his fourth and final year he sitteth around waiting for June to come so he can grad- uate and go to work. He goeth to bat and dribbleth a roller to the pitcher. He calleth for signals over and is tackled for a 20-yard loss. He runneth the 220 and stumbleth over the second co-ed from the left. About a month before graduation, he bestirreth himself to complete a semester's work. When no job comes in, he cometh to the conclusion that the world is a mean nut and that he left his nutcracker home. Finally the great day arriveth with much clatter and cheers. All the great and the near. great have come from miles around, in- cluding the fair damsel from Peoria. He dresseth up in black robes and breadbox on a hot June day, listeneth to much oratorical plau- dits and advice from the platform, and receiveth a highly valued certificate with the inscription "diploma." He is then launched into the world of affairs and men; including the problem of obtain- ing lucrative employment, and setteth sail for the nearest matrimonial altar. Yea, verily, consider the senior - he toileth but he reapeth a darn sight less than he expected to. Objective Examinations (From the Minnesota Daily) OBJECTIVE EXAMINATIONS are very much the vogue in educational circles. There is good reason for their use -if they are truly objective. Unfortunately, the term has come into extremely loose usage, with the result that a good many examinations on the campus are called objective, but are actually less so than some of the frankly subjective type. A fair sample of question in this type of exam- ination is this: Give five reasons for the present dust storm. The student has studied dust storms, heard comment on dust storms, takes notes on - and in - dust storms; he has ideas on the subject. He may have two, or five, or a dozen legitimate reasons to present. But if the reasons he offers are not those desired by the test-maker who for- mulated the question, he will not get credit for them. The question, in other words, is too vague to be considered a truly objective test: yet it is judged as though it were objective - as though its answers were absolute. If the question were set up objectively, it would read something like this: The present dust storm is due to: 1. lack of rain, 2. high wind, 3. the arrival of spring, 4. too few trees, 5. the wrath of God. The intelligent student would likely reason, cor- rectly, that both 1 and 2 are only part of the cause of the dust storm, so neither is right. Alternative 3 is merely a lure, and 4 is an attempt to confuse the answer with the government's reforestation program. Ipso facto, the correct answer is 5. The construction of good objective questions is an operation that takes time and ingenuity. But it is unquestionably worth while. Truly objective cxgminations are fair tests of knowledge; and, properly guarded, they may be used again and again with entire fairness to student and instruc- tor. But examinations should not be called objective, nor graded as if they were, unless they have the true character of the type, If, to any individual, education has meant mere- ly the acquiring of evidence in support of his own biased ideas and the ignoring of all evidence that might disprove that idea, to that individual edu- cation has been of no value. -,The Minnesota Daily. We believe that the majority of students are in college either to prepare themselves to get a good job and demand a sizeable salary or because it's "the thing to do." We do know that, on the whole, the American student is not a serious-minded, COLLEGIATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD TELEPHONE TECHNIQUES No. 3 "Hello, Mary? . . . How are you. "Don't you recognize the voice? ... "What you don't recognize the voice? . "Well, I'm not surprised; you see, you never heard it before . . . over the phone . . . "My name? Does it really make so much dif- ference? . . . I mean after all, what's in a name? ... "Now wait, you wouldn't really hang up, would you? .. . Don't you want to know why I called? .. . ''And you want the truth don't you? .. . "You don't want me to give you a line, do you? . "Well, it's this way. Recently I've heard so many things about you, that I could hardly believe them true of anyone . . . "Of course they were nice things. I wouldn't be calling if they weren't, would I? ... "Now you don't want me to give them away; after all, they told me these things in confi- dence .. . "Yeah, but as I was saying . . . I heard so many nice things about you that I just had to go about finding out just how many of them were true ... "Well, suppose you begin to describe yourself and I can check up on what I've heard ... "Well, suppose you start with.your heighth Weight? . "What's the color of your hair? . . . Eyes? ... How's your nose? ... "Oh, of course, I realize that you are being mod- est "How are you for company? . . . Mmmm . Do you dance well? ... "Well it sounds as if you'd pass in a crowd Aw, now you know I'm only joking,. "Now let's see what's next? . . . Hmmm . . . Where do you come from? . "You do? . . . That's nice . . . No, I don't, but my roommate once knew someone who came from there .;. "What else can I find out about you? . . . Do you drink? "What! Do you smoke? ... My gosh! "Do you neck? . . . I mean, you don't do you? . . "You are? The same League for Decency that Al Smith is president of? ... "Well, Mary, what I want to ask you is: Is your roommate in?" Here is a sad, sad case of a student at In- diana University who gave Iago's age as 48 in a recent exam on "Othello." When, informed, too late, that it really was 28 years, he was an- noyed, and it seemed, justly so. "Well," was his final remark, "all I can say is, that if tIago was that young, it was a dirty trick of Shakespeare to call him "The Ancient." A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, April 18. ADVOCATES of income tax publicity- and the republican or ex-Republican liberals in the Senate, Norris, La Follette, Couzens, Frazier, et al., are the moving force behind tax publicity - stepped on their own feet when they accepted the House com- promise that produced the "pink slip" issue this year. It :". ' ~ '"'' is obvious that the slips them- selves were the biggest propa- gandists for repeal. Once the current tax return forms started on their rounds to taxpayers accompanied by these slips, little taxpayers be- came tax publicity conscious. There it was in black and white -or black and pink, rather. cAMEs QOuzr They were to fill out the slips ' for the cusual scrutiny of neighbors. Had the act merely provided for exactly the same publicity, but with the treasury preparing the abstracts for publication, quite likely the repealer would have made slower progress, if any. The pink slips were an abject lesson. They afforded 2, slogan, reduced the thing to immediate, per- sonal application in the minds of the mass of small taxpayers. They were not slow to let Congress know how they felt about it. 'SHE CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE indicated an almost universal objection by government tax collector spokesmen to the publicity feature. The most novel objections came from an un- named collector cited by Senator McAdoo. He read a part of the collector's letter which alleged that his office was swamped with demands to in- spect income tax returns. "Many of them are widows seeking 'to find an eligible widower with a good income; many are widowers seeking the name and address of an elig- ible widow with a comfortable income," this collec- for said. "Others are plainly agents of matrimonial bureaus seeking information as to likely parties whom they can circularize in their business.. . The automobile agencies, stock salesmen and commer- cial salesmen of every kind and character swamp our office to get names and addresses." SENATOR MURPHY, who put in eight years as an Iowa internal revenue collector and 11 more as a private "income tax counselor" had figures to show that there is a suspicion of fraud in only one-tenth of one per cent of income tax returns. THREE :f discriminating pipe smokers have enjoy- ed WALNUT ... a choice tobaccos pro- ducing a mild, cool smoke, with a nat- ural aroma that is s, different! Try it andeendtyour search for the right tobacco. At 'Your . r . 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