THE MICHIGAN DAILY - SUNDAY, MAY 5,1935 technical exhibits prepared by that school. The Family Banquet, with a prominent outside speaker, will be one of the features of Saturday's program. There will also be a program of University athletic events during the week-end. In addition to these events, guests will have an .excellent opportunity to ,attend the ,annual May Festival which is being presented in Hill Audito- rium at that time. Homecoming is one of the few traditions that has survived from the large number that was for- merly a part of University life. In the past few years, these occasions have drawn increasingly large groups of guests. There is little question but what the amount of effort which is entailed in the preparation of these programs is more than justified by the enthusiastic results. / As Others See It What Of The NRA? (From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) W E BELIEVE that the President is ill-advised in asking that the NRA act be rewritten before the moot questions raised by the present act are passed upon by the Supreme Court; even more, we believe that he errs in asking that the new leg- islation, going further than the old, shall set up what amounts to a supreme court in the troubled field of employer and labor relations. That is what the President calls for when he says that the new law should "safeguard, define and enforce col- lective bargaining." There can be, we believe, no valid objection to a restatement of labor's right to organize and bar- gain collectively. That is an inalienable right of labor, a right implicit in the Constitution and the whole American schen:e of things. Congress went as far as it should go when it affirmed this right in Section 7A of the present act. To go further would be to launch the government on a course that could lead only to compulsory arbitration, through labor courts - which is something against which Samuel Gompers warned labor in his annual presidential report to the A.F. of L. 35 years ago. It is true, as the President says, that no reason- able person wants to abandon the gains that the NRA has made in the direction of decent minimum wages, the prevention of excessive hours of labor, the protection of children against exploitation. There is, however, the grave question as to the ex- tent of Federal powers to impose wage and hour and other regulations on industry. Until the Supreme Court rules on this question, any rewrit- ing ofthe NRA by Congress will be a shot in the dark. We do not believe that the NRA should be incon- tinently scrapped; that would be to produce chaos in many lines of industry. Industry in general, though objecting on various grounds to the pres- ent law, favors the continuation of the NRA in some form. A referendum taken by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States a few months ago showed a vote of 1,508 to 420 in favor of such continuance. Senator Clark of Missouri has suggested that Congress should not attempt to revamp the re- covery law till after a decision of the Supreme Court on the constitutional points involved. He has proposed, therefore, that the present law be extended for nine months, with the provision that it shall not be interpreted by the NRA to permit price-fixing or to give jurisdiction over purely intrastate business. Meantime, the Schechter test case, which is expected to bring a clean-cut and controlling decision, will have gone through the Supreme Court. Congress would have three months after the beginning of the next session to work out a new law. We believe that the suggestion of the Missouri Senator is eminently sound and should be adopted. Either of the other courses open to Congress - revision of the law without the guidance of a Su- preme Court opinion or failure to enact any substi- tute - carries the danger of taking the country out of the frying pan into the fire. Fort Macon, which guarded the harbor at Beau- fort, N. C., during the Civil War, has been restored by the CCC. And the war between the states will probably be started again over the division of the work relief spoils.I -i COLLEGIATIE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD We refuse to vouch for the veracity of this incident. A circus recently visited a well-known Uni- versity town. The strong man connected with the show took a lemon and cut it in half. He took one half in his hands and squeezed out the juice, using all his strength. Then he said: "Anyone in the audience who can squeeze another drop of juice out of this half-lemon. gets $25.'' Several huskies walked up to the platform. They squeezed with all their power, but not a drop came out. Then a scrawny little man walked up. He took the lemon-rind in one hand, and, according to reports, about a pail- ful of juice came out. The strong man was astounded. "Who are you?" he asked. The little man looked up at him disdainfully. "I'm a buyer for the A. & P." The Alpha Phis at Ohio State University were put to no end of fluttering- and bother recently when a lighted cigarette, said to have blown into the dormitory, caused a roaring blaze which routed all the girls from their beds in the wee small hours. The cigarette absolutely must have blown into the dormitory, the girls say, for all other entrances were barred, and according to an Alpha Phi ruling, smoking is forbidden in the dormitory. Therefore, up pops the cigarette from nowhere, and floats through the air. Further interest was furnished to the affair by the gallant members of Phi Gamma Delta and Tau Kappa Epsilon who willingly, oh, so will- ingly, extinguished the blaze before tbh city fire- men arrived on the scene. The charter of Purdue University states that the University must have among the members of the Board of Regents the following: "One farmer, one woman, and one person of good moral character." I 1I .i1 Ii 1 i., q This interesting contribution comes M.N.O., '36: from QUERY I sometimes wonder what a Phi Bete Thinks of when he's on a date. Does he like them dumb and pretty? Does he like them plain but witty? I sometimes wonder if she's late - Does he mind the little wait? Does he like 'em small, his lasses? Does he like 'em tall with glasses? 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 'Unfortunate Accident' To the Editor: On the front page of your issue of May 4, ap- peared an article concerning a suit brought by Professor Brumm against the Y.W.C.A. and my daughter, Wilhelmine Carr. The second paragraph of that article contains an implication which might be construed as libel- ous. You say: "Professor Brumm charges that Miss Carr, while an instructor in archery at Y.W.- C.A. Camp Takona, in Jackson County, shot and pierced the right eye of his daughter, Ann Arbor school girl, causing her to lose its sight." In the interest of fairness to Professor -Brumm as well as to my daughter you will no doubt wish to correct the suggestion that the shooting might have been something other than an unfor- tunate accident. -Lowell Juilliard Carr. i Walker Drafted to Serve Again Man Who Dodges Titles Is Too Valuable For Roosevelt To Spare By FRANK I. WELLER (Associated Press Staff Writer) Ii Frank C. Walker, the Mon-: tana Irishman who became a millionaire New York attorney,' > : is said to have been offered everything in Washington ex- cept a cabinet portfolio. He has dodged most of the great titles offered him, but in the mean- time performed job after job for the New Deal and quietly slipped away. First, he put the entire bus- iness set-up of the adminis- tration down on paper through the Central Statistical Board.' Then he created the United States Information B u r e a uFRANK c through which any honest cit-. to be filed by states, counties and municipalities It is because Mr. Roosevelt has a personal pledge with Con- gress to supervise allotment of work-relief funds that Walker agreed to see and hear for him every application for -money, sort out spending plans and submit worthy ones to WAB, the new Work Allotment Board. In all probability there is not an- other man in the world who could have persuaded this "most reluctant of all public servants" to return to official life. Walker has proved there is no sacrifice he will not make for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The President, in turn, trusts him with a faith he has in none save his own faithful "Louie" -Col. Louis Howe. Walker's devotion to Mr. Roosevelt is at- WALKER tested by the fact that he ac- cepted his present duties over IL I ."