FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY I I THE MICHIGAN DAILY 71 A . y Pubtisjed 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 Associatlov and the Big Ten: News Service. MEMBER 550dated Nl&4KNRSOat$tt 1934 elfoirXij11 1935 =- w AWSOt4 VAS'ON 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. EnteredratrthePost Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by T'hird Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, *150. During .egular 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, 111. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 49251 MANAGING EDITOR .............WILLIAM G. FERRIS ,,CITY EDITOR.............JOHN HEAL EY nITORIAL DIRECTOR..........RALPH G. COULTER PORTS EDITOR ....................ARTHUR CARSTENS WOMEN'S EDITOR ......................EIEANOR BLUM )RIGHT EDITORS: Courtney A. Evans, John J. Flaherty, Thomas E. Groehn, Thomas F. Kleene, David 0. Mac- donald, John M. O'Connell, Arthur M. Taub. *PORT1S ASSISTANTS: Marjorie Western, Kenneth Parker, William Reed, Arthur Settle. 9WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Barbara L. Bates, Dorothy Gies, < Florence 'Harper, Eleanor 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 p 0. Hershey, Ralph W. Hurd, Bernard Levick, Fred W. n Neal, Robert Pulver, Lloyd S. 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WOMEN'S BUSINESS STAFF: Betty Cavender, Margaret Cowie, Bernadine Field, Betty Greve, Mary Lou Hooker, Helen Shapland, Betty Simonds, Grace Snyder, Betsy 5 Baxter, Margaret Bentley, Mary McCord. 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 OBSERVER I 0 ta , NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS E. GROEHN .. 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.