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NRA Outlook
Encouraging . f .
N EWS comes from Washington that a
press service poll of the Senate re-
veals a large majority favoring extension of the
NRA.
For weeks the finance committee of the Senate
has been holding an investigation of the NRA,
and a general cross-section of American business
and industry has delivered its verdict. While
there were many criticisms, particularly of admin-
istration, it is significant that such social pro-
visions as minimum hour, maximum wage and
child labor are now almost universally accepted.
The Senate committee is working on a rough
draft of a new bill to continue the NRA, which
expires on June 16.
In its two years trial the NRA has met dith diffi-
culties. In the rush of the first days of the new ad-
ministration, many mistakes were made. Unforseen
difficulties, such as the different standards of liv-
ing of the North and South and conflicts between
big and little businesses, have led to criticism and
resentment.
However, such things were to be expected from a
measure having such widespread effect, making
revolutionary changes in trade practice and bus-
iness generally.
The result of the Senate poll is encouraging.
There is probably no reason why the foibles of
the NRA, discovered through two years experience,
cannot be corrected in the new measure. The
beginnings of success of the social provisions of
the bill alone have been worth the trial. Re-
drafted, the NRA should be able to prove of
economic as well as social benefit.
~As Others See It
Look, Listen, Learn
(From the Washington State Evergreen)
THIS MORNING witnessed the arrival of around
400 leading high school students throughout
the state who are convening here on matters of
considerable preparatory importance and to whom
the state college and its students and organizations
are playing hosts over the week-end.
To the visitors themselves, we wish it to be known
as a fact that all the welcomes and greetings
tendered outwardly to you are manifestations of
genuine inward feeling of hospitality and friendly
feelings. If the impressions and ideas you take
back with you as benefits of your visit here are
of the nature that they can be of help to you,
personally, and to your fellow students, the col-
lege will feel well rewarded for the effort that it
takes pleasure in exerting for the cause. If you
carry away with you an evaluation of desirability
of college and university education, you will have
acquired more good for yourselves and those with
whom you come in contact than any other idea
you can formulate at this stage of life. Decisions
you make at your age will directly and vitally af-
fect your entire life. In short, you desire power
in any walk of life you choose; education is power.
Yours is the privilege at this stage of life, and al-
most restricted entirely to this once, to take best
advantage of the chance to improve yourself and
also be a factor in benefiting your high school col-
leagues.
Whether or not you feel inclined to accept the
general views above, do at least one thing -eval-
uate what you observe about an institution of
higher learning.
Professors: A Test Case
(From the Columbia Missourian)
STUDENTS ROARED with glee, probably because
misery loves company, and teachers thought
anew of a liberal education when the results of an
intelligence test were reported.
Last week 25 Princeton professors took an in-
telligence test composed of questions submitted by
each department of that University. The con-
clusion forcefully arrived at was that one pro-
fessor might know his own subject but he may also
know very little of unrelated matters.
The test was in the form of true and false state-
ments. One point was given for each correct an-
swer and two points were subtracted for each er-
ror. The professors were not allowed to guess. The
highest score was 19 out of a possible 41 -not
even 50 per cent.
An example such as the preceding case reminds
us of Newman's "Idea of a University." He so
strongly advocates a liberal education, a full well-
rounded background in a variety of subjects to
prepare for the further perusal of one interest.
How far are we carrying out his ideas today?
The average University student goes through
two years of arts and science courses before he
enters a particular field. Too often, he regards
the time and effort as wasted, as an obstacle placed
in his path to thwart his "getting down to real
business." He takes "pipe" courses, if possible, at
convenient hours so as not to interfere with his so-
cial activities and, in so far as he is able, takes
subjects taught in an easily accessible building.
He does not realize that these courses are a foun-
dation without which he cannot build securely.
This is an age of specialization - each year it
grows more so. Economists advocate it, but to what
extent should universities? The world is abundant
with the accumulated knowledge and learning of
centuries. It is there for those who would see
it. We need not limit our interests to one field
entirely. Wouldn't our goal better be to branch
out, study a variety of subjects, assimilate a vast
store of knowledge so that when we pick up a par-
ticular bit of information we can place it in its
proper niche and not forget it because it is isolated?
Perhaps we are being unnecessarily brutal in our
attitude toward the Princeton professors. They
eally did not display the lack of intelligence that
we seem to have indicated, considering the test
which they were given. After all it is hardly fair
By BUD BERNARD
EVOLUTION
Freshman: "Boy oh boy - what this world needs
is brilliant men who know their stuff. People are
right about the younger generation, they're really
a bright crowd. When I get through I'm going to
do a few things that'll straighten out this little
old world!"
Sophomore: "Politics stink to high heaven! Well
the time is coming when the wheels of progress will
roll again, and this lad is going to be on the ground
floor with a few of his ideas."
Junior: "Got to keep plugging. Things are worse
than I thought they were. Mustn't get discour
aged though."
Senior: "All I want to do is get a job and live
quietly."
A professor at the University of Tennessee
was having some difficulty in getting the at-
tention of his class. He said, "I will not begin
today's lecture until the room settles down."
Came a voice from the rear of the room:
"Go home and sleep it off, old man."
One of the rare jokesters of the Penn State
College campus thought he would have a bit of
sport with a certain member of the faculty not so
long ago and came out second best.
It seems as though the professor was having
trouble with local rabbits who were wont to nibble
at the tender shoots of his upspringing rose bushes.
"Say," said the jokester, "I've a fine plan for
catching those little so-and-sos. Want to hear it?"
"Why yes," said the professor always ready for
this sort of badinage, in fact way ahead of his
protege.
"Well," said our friend, "you crouch down behind
a stone wall and make a noise like a turnip."
"That may be," said the professor, while his
ribber was chuckling in his beard, "But a better
way than that would be for you to come over and
sit quietly in my hot house of cabbage heads and
look natural."
Gather 'round all ye ordinary mortals and listen
to the story of the bloated plutocrat. This is the
case of money, listening instead of talking, and
concerns the great indolence and fortune of a
freshman at Loyola University at New Orleans.
This gent was unable to write as fast as his zoology
professor could talk, and not wishing to miss any
of the gems of wisdom which dropped from the
professor's lips, brought a stenographer to class and
sat back like a banker while the fair assistant took
notes in shorthand. 'Tis a fragrant idea - par-
ticularly if an attractive stenographer is available.
.A Washington
BYSTANDER
By KIRKE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON, April 26.
BY WAY of answer to Republican oratory which
synchronized with the second Hoover back-
from-Elba visit to the East, comes the decision of
the Democratic managers in the House to put the
"gag" rule in storage, at least temporarily.
The rousing majority worked up for the security
bill without benefit of the gag led to the decision.
That is the basis on which the plan to push along
with other highly controversial administration bills
with "wide open" rules is laid. Underneath it,
however, lies the team work that made it possible
for the administration leaders to know in advance
with remarkable accuracy what was going to hap-
pen on the security bill.
The significance of that check up by the Dem-
ocratic House whip, Pat Boland, and his lieutenants
who include one or two former House members,
by all accounts is that they gauged Republican
as well as Democratic House reaction equally close-
ly. And that preview, disclosing what it did as to
lack of Republican solidarity, very likely accounts
for President Roosevelt's notable disposition to
stay off the air.
A S AN ILLUSTRATION of the Republican thun-
ders stirred if not inspired by the Hoover visit,
it is recalled that at least two of the most talked
about Republican presidential possibilities for next
year were sounding off almost before he was back
in Palo Alto. Ogden Mills and Representative
Wadsworth both were heard from in sweeping gen-
eral terms. Then came Chairman Fletcher of the
Republican national committee. His theme was
much the same as that of the two New Yorkers.
The New Deal came in for blasting attack from all
three.
Senator Capper of Kansas was on the air about
the same time. His view of the New Deal was in
such complete disharmony with those of his New
York and Pennsylvania colleagues, however, that
what he said only served to increase the doubt
about the degree to which a reuniting of the East-
ern and Western Republican factions is yet pos-
sible. The vote on the security bill in the House
emphasized the difficulty of formulating a Repub-
lican get-together program. Not until the various
Midwestern party meetings are held will a clearer
picture be available.
REPRESENTATIVE WADSWORTH'S remarks
were made in connection with his vote against
the security bill. Some Wadsworth-in-'36 men
were regretful that he thought it necessary to
make a speech about it, even if he must vote against
the bill. They recalled that his long-ago opposi-
tion to women suffrage and his outspoken attitude
against constitutional prohibition. roved impedi-
COL LEGIATE
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Three And Three
ShouldMake One . .
L OCAL THEATRE managers and the
now-defunct Student Council, act-
ing for the undergraduate body, arrived at a
"gentlemen's agreement" several years ago, where-
by the local Butterfield theaters would play host
to the entire student body at a movie party every
time Michigan athletic teams won a "major"
Western Conference championship.
The agreement came as a climax to a long series
of very destructive riots, accompanied by police
tear gas, which occurred with increasing regular-
ity on almost every occasion that Michigan teams
won a victory in a Big Ten athletic contest. Un-
dergraduates were the recipients of minor injuries,
and the local cinema palaces were badly damaged
every time one of these onslaughts was launched.
After a minimum amount of bickering, represen-
tatives of the Council and the theaters met to
discuss ways and means of eliminating future
riots. The result was that students were made
the free movie offer. The Butterfield theaters
kept their half of the bargain, and thereafter the
students ceased theii riots.
A hitch in the agreement came about three years
ago when the Board in Control of Physical Edu-
cation abolished the distinction between "major"
and "minor" sports, leaving the theaters no crit-
erion for judging when the student body was de-
serving of a free movie. However, the Michigan
and Majestic Theaters continued to -entertain the
undergraduates whenever a championship was won
in either baseball, basketball, track or football.
The last free cinema was presented after the
championship football season in 1933. None of the
athletic teams participating in sports formerly
classified as "major" have thus far this year won
Big Ten titles.
It is our opinion that the student body is now
deserving of a free movie for the following rea-
sons: In the first place, University athletic teams
have this year won Western Conference cham-
pionships in hockey, swimming and indoor track.
The swimming team also won the national inter-
collegiate meet. And in the second place, although
the Varsity football team experienced the worst
season in history, the -entire student body gave
them its whole-hearted support throughout the
schedule.