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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1935
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NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS H. KLEENE
Could The University
Do More. ..
SW HAT KIND of namby-pamby sissies
are we, anyhow?
There was a time when Michigan men had hair
on their chests and were tough; when Hell Week
had a casualty list as long as that of the Spanish-
American War; when nothing less than a frac-
tured skull was sufficient reason for taking a
football player out of the game, and athletes
trained on hard likker.
No mauve decade, that. But today - we don't
drive cars, or stay out late nights. We live in
double-checked residences, have our courses, our
amusements and our thinking nicely taken care
of, and though we every now and then utter little
peeps about "paternalism," we seem to be secretly
tickled to death over the trouble we're saved.
No one wishes for a return to the days of the
two-fisted playboys, but when we hear of a group
of graduates wanting to shove all the responsibility
for their own thinking off onto somebody else, we
rather wish that the old era had not taken all
of its spunk along.
Graduates of the School of ducation, in an-
swering a questionnaire, expressed dsires that
more advice of one sort or another had been given
them - advice on vocational guidance, personal
problems and course selection particularly. A large
proportion of them regretted that they had not
been taken in hand, told what it was all about,
and what business to go into.
Vocational guidance tests may be of use in in-
dicating to the individual in what specific function
he excells or is deficient, but no preacher or engi-
neer ever amounted to anything who let someone
else tell him what he was fitted for.
It's a rather big job for two-cylinder minds to
cope with, but no one else can do it for them.
Pitifully immature freshmen (and others) wail,
"What'll I be?" What do they expect the University
to do - decide that for them too?
We had hoped that in the vicissitudes of the
past several years had been forged an under-
graduate breed that would exhibit a little indepen-
dent thinking. The change has not yet registered.
If the nation is looking to its youth for succor,
it might as well, not.
Just as great asource of disturbance to pro-
fessors is the student who knows what he wants
to be and does not care to know about another
thing, but that is something else again'..
No Caressing
It impairs clear vision, and is a hazard for driving,
n which the students of the University are not
passively concerned, not being allowed to drive,
but still permitted to cross the street.
Perhaps one of the most unpleasant attendants
on a fall of the "soft, caressing blanketing from
the sky" is the snowball, at least from the point
of view of the recipient. Students walking home
from classes are waylaid at numerous corners by
hordes of playful youngsters, who creep up on
their victims, openly exhibiting the missiles in
their hands. When they come into a range at
which it is impossible to miss, they let fly, and
usually score a direct hit.
What are we to do? To say the least, it would
be undignified to run after them. It would be un-
sportsmanlike to kick them in the teeth, which
they deserve. It would not be according to the
Golden Rule to heave one back at them from
the same distance.
Animal trainers say one can tame a beast by
steady glares. Try to tame a snowball thrower with
a look and see how far you get.
So what are we to do to protect ourselves against
the little friends? Precisely nothing: We just have
to take it and like it. The little darlings have us
behind the snow-ball and they know it.
[TheSOAPBOX]
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all letters of over 300 words.
Time To Think Of Huey
To the Editor:
I think it is appropriate at this time of the
year when we are celebrating the birthdays of
two great . Americans, Abraham Lincoln and
George Washington, that we stop and pay notice
to that living American who is attempting to break
down those democratic principles which Lincoln
and Washington so deeply believed in. The man
to whom I refer is Huey Long, the'Kingfish from
Louisiana.
Huey Long has completely destroyed democracy
in his state, and is now attempting to get control1
of the Federal government, and institute the same
dictatorial policies in the Federal government. TheI
Kingfish has stopped at no atrocity to enforce1
his iron rule on the people of Louisiana, and'we
can be sure that his policy will not change if his
power is extended over all the states.
The best way to celebrate the birthdays of
Lincoln and Washington is to oppose Long's at-_
tempts to subject the people of the United States
to his dictatorial rule.
-Alvin Schottenfeld, '37.
Soviet Student Governmeent
To the Editor:
In connection with the current campaign for
student government it might be of interest and
example to consider some aspects of the problem
as it is handled in other schools and other lands.
It may be particularly in point to see something
of the nature of student government in a land
where, in the words of Professor Counts of Colum-
bia University, "The educational achievements to
date are stupendous," the Soviet Union. The
following is an extract from a letter I received
recently from a friend, an American student, now
attending a university in Russia.
"The first year class is divided into a number
of groups called seminars, having '20 to 25
members. In each group a triangle' is formed
consisting of the seminar-organizer, the Cm-
munist Party organizer and the komsomol (Young
Communist League) organizer. The students al-
ways elect their own seminar-organizer. He is
very often the oldest of the group, though not
always, and his job is to see that order is kept,
that supplies and books are there and distributed,
that the students have their bread and product
cards, diner cards, that notices are read, an-
nouncements made and he represents the class to
the teacher. If the seminar wants to make a com-
plaint to the teacher, or suggest some other wy
of teaching, some other hour, or whatever they
want, the seminar-organizer is empowered to settle
the problem with the teacher. He also takes at-
tendance and records the marks of the students.
His work is social work, unpaid, of course, and
for the benefit of the class.
"The party organizer is responsible for the polit-
ical education of the class, arranges political
circles which discuss current events, and spon-
sors work for the Red Aid, the Society for Avia-
tion and Chemistry, and in general sees to it
that things are in order. The komsomol organizer's
work is similar.
"The seminar is organized. Each student is
given social work, either what he asks for or if
he has no preference, whatever he can do. Some
are given the job of sanitary inspector in certain
factories, but most do their work within the sem-
inar. One student goes regularly to collect the
theatre tickets alloted to the seminar at very
low price; another takes care of half price tickets
for the street cars; another has charge of ordering'
books from the library, thus saving the other
student time and work. I have offered to help
some students a few hours a week with German,
those who have trouble with it. Nobody makes
you do anything, but the students are used to
doing social work from their school or factory or
farm and fall right into it at the university. Some
in our seminar can't do social work because of
lack of time, and nothing is forced on them. If the
student has much trouble with his studies and
needs all his spare time for that, he need not do
social work. But of course there is a pressure with-
out words - everybody does social work, how
about you? This is how new students begin to feel
their responsibilities in the collective and to begin
COLL EGIATE
OBSERVER
By BUD BERNARD
"Dear Bud"; writes N.B.M. "Those couples
who dance along complacently and then sud-
denly split like pea pods and saunter down
the floor side by side remind us of a couple
cf drunks trying to walk the same line to prove
that both are sober."
A Columbia University columnist reports that
the statisticians claim nine out of ten co-eds are
knock-kneed -and then he falls to wondering
how statisticians find out such things.
A small frightened little mouse caused the en-
tire Theta house considerable embarrassment the
other day because he stupidly wandered into a trap
about 4 o'oclock in the morning. The consequent
violent struggles of the innocent beast attracted
the attention of one of the juniors who com-
menced to scream in the time honored fashion
of the weaker sex. A sleepy and disgusted room-
mate threw both the mouse and trap down the
drain without opening her eyes and returned to
Morpheus in peace.
The following Sunday the departed rodent arose
from the dead to haunt his murderers and did
so with a horrible vengeance. The entire Theta
plumbing system was thrown out of joint. Cooks,
etc., were forced to carry on their duties garbed
in rubbers and the perplexed sisters were obliged
to use the lavatory facilities of the neighboring
Delta Gams. The Psi U's, true to their chivalric
reputation, also proferred their house's plumbing
to the distressed maidens. According to the latest
reports, the niouse has spent his wrath and all
has subsided to the regular routine.
Optimism: Both James and Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Jr., filled in blanks on their Harvard
matriculation record this year and for "per-
manent address" wrote in the "White House,
Washington."
Again the psychologists make news, this time
they have invented a new gadget at Ohio State
University for sparing professors the tedium of
grading papers. Some psychologist at Columbus
has concocted a grading machine, the real "Mc-
Coy" and guaranteed to be proof against all "phe-
nagling."
The procedure is rather simple. The student
merely punches out his answers on a score card
which is sent through a machine. The machine
scores each page of a test in less than a second,
prints on the card the number of mistakes, marks
each error, and makes a record of the number
of students who missed each question.
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By KIRKE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18
WHEN THE SUPREME COURT broke with its
traditions of aloof dignity sufficiently to coun-
tenance an advance announcement that no de-
cision on the gold cases would be handed down
on a certain day, it opened a door that may lead
almost anywhere.
The reason given for the announcement was
merely a desire to free the courtroom of the throng
which certainly would have crowded it otherwise.
'Ihat Washington officialdom was pulling strings
to obtain reserved seats is an open secret. That
alone was a troublesome matter to court func-
tionaries.
THE JUSTICES themselves were said to be in-
sistent that the full text of the tersely
worded announcement be carried by the press in
order to make that explanation clear.
They need not have worried. No word or punc-
tuation mark of that particular bit of obiter dicta
would have been deleted on any news desk. Not
the least among its news values was the intima-
tion read into it that the court in fact was not
solely concerned about the mere matter of phys-
ical protection of its dignity; but recognized public
tension over the issue involved.
And there are other cases ahead for the court
to decide where popular tension is likely to be even
greater than in the matter of the gold clause can-
cellation. Before the social security plans of the
Roosevelt administration had even come out of
committee in either house, the seeds for litigation
leading to the highest court for decision had
been sown. The same was true of the work relief
bill.
Millions of persons will be directly and intimately
affected by those judgments. And it is vitally im-
portant to the American theory of government
that the general public shall have continued con-
fidence in the court.
I HERE LONG HAS BEEN a feeling, notably in
press circles in Washington, that it might be
helpful if the Supreme Court to a degree followed
the precedent of every executive or legislative ac-
tivity and added a public relations officer to its
staff. The court soon will transfer to the stately
white palace of justice that has been built for it
over the east plaza from the Capitol. That move as
well as the New Deal constitutionality cases clus-
teringtahead for decision will serve to focus public
attention on the highest tribunal as perhaps
never before.
If a closer relation with the public is possible,
and if a better understanding of the court's vital
function in the governmental scheme of things
by the public is desirable, the time to move for
that result would seem to be at hand.
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