JR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MAY Z4, 1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY - - a c"" Pubxiiied 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 Association .r nd. the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER Assoidated Collegiate ress s -1934 £,',)I,,,1935 - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or t ot otherwise credited in this paper and te local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dis- patches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by W 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, Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, La Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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MARGARET COWIE, ELIZABETH SIMONDS DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local advertising, William Barndt; Service Department, Willis Tomlinson; Con- tracts, Stanley Joffe; Accounts, Edward Wohgemuth; * Circulation and National Advertising, John Park; Classified Advertising and Publications, Lyman Bit- man. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: Jerome I. Balas, Charles W. Barkdull, D. G. Bronson Lewis E. Bulkeley, John C. Clark, Robert J. Cooper, Richard L. Croushore, Herbert D. Fallender, JohnT.Guernsey, Jack R. Gustafson, * Morton Jacobs, Ernest A. Jones, Marvin Kay, Henry J. Klose, William C. Knecht, R. A. Kronenberger, Wil- 1iam R. Mann, John F. McLean Jr., Lawrence M. Roth, Richard M. Samuels, John D. Staple, Lawrence A. Star- sky, Norman B. Steinberg. WOMEN'S BUSINESS STAFF: Betty Cavender, Bernadine :: - Field, etty Greve, Mary Lou Hooker, Helen Shapland, Grace Snyder, Betsy Baxter, Margaret Bentley, Mary McCord, Adele Poler.- NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT B. BROWN Education In Government... . E PERIODICALLY, the thought has re- curred that the ends of democracy are best achieved where the public officials- are equipped with the technical backg-round as well as the good intentions to perform their duties. The efficient performance of government duties demands a man who, after he has demonstrated ~ his political ability by winning a post, need not re- sort to the same kind of ability to hold it. Specialization - in government even more so than in business - ought to require the same de- gree of trained personnel. This has been said so often, but so little has been done about it in this country. It might be pointed out that in England officers are held to some extent at least by "career men" whose training and education from youth is pat- terned after the needs of government service. Public offices in England, perhaps as a conse- quence, have an honorable cast that is noticeably absent here. Gestures in the direction of trained public serv- ants have from time to time made their appear- ance. The University of Texas, a noticeable ex- ample, has inaugurated a course of study leading to a Master's degree in Public Administration. Cynical Texas voters who have cast their ballots by the "tit-tat-toe" method, or feeling that polling is at best a matter of guesswork have not bothered to participate at all, will be given some measure of judgment for intelligently exercising their fran- chise, and perhaps in time the demands of the elec- torate for trained officials may be great enough to make such training -irtually mandatory. A more recent move, and one in which Michigan students may participate, is the establishment of interneships for undergraduate and graduate stu- dents throughout the country to provide them with a first-hand introduction to the Federal govern- ment. Through the agency of the American Uni- versity and the National Institution of Public Af- fairs at Washington, D.C., about 80 young students will be studying public affairs in Washington this summer and during the year. In addition to its primary function of enabling those who will in time be candidates for public offices to observe the congressional and executive officeholders in operation, the Institution is en- couraging others interested in journalistic, so- Dignity And The President. T IS VERY LIKELY that President Roosevelt's first term of office will be one of the most memorable in America's his- tory, for during it; more than once, he has made history. Wednesday, he delivered to the Congress his address explaining the veto of the Patman bonus bill, and was the first President of the United States to personally return to its source a vetoed bill. Earlier in his term of office, he be- came the first president to address by radio the people whom he governs. These acts may be of no great political significance, but they do serve to show with what spirit he faces his duties and responsibilities. President Roosevelt has demonstrated his sin- cerity and eagerness to cooperate with the people by his desire to come into closer contact with them than any one of his predecessors. By such acts as attempting to explain his reasons for veto- ing a bill he has demonstrated his willingness to cooperate with his associates. It is unfortunate that many with party differences, persist in the idea that the President is merely a politician, who has no desire to understand his people, and give them an opportunity to understand him, but is, rather, being a jolly good fellow, in the hope of getting more votes when the next election rolls around. This is the point of view of a crank, for who but a crank would insist that by explaining to the comparatively ignorant masses the intrica- cies of their government, and that by bringing that government within the scope of each indivi- duafl he is not doing a great service. Tradition has always dictated that the head of a government should remain aloof and distant, a symbol of the dignity of his office, and not a living example of the principles, for which it stands. President Roosevelt has himself enough of the dignity of his office, and enough of the character which his office represents to be able, quite safely, to come down from his lofty position, to make him- self, as far as his people are concerned, more of a part of the government, and less of a mere sym- bol of it. Dignity has often been called a mask for ignor- ance, this may not be entirely so, but it is re- freshing to find a man who is so sincere in his views that he is willing to divest himself of his dignity to expound them. As Others Se I Endowed Athletics (From the New York Herald Tribune) ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS perennially em- ployed by apologists for the overemphasis on football in college life has been the need of its gate receipts. Other sports fail to pay their way and must be supported by football, the lone money- maker. Hence, the importance of an eleven that will attract the public to its contests, the extra- ordinary value put on coaches who can turn out winning teams and the whole elaborate system of stadia, schedules, training and promotion which has transformed football from a game into a na- tional spectacle. The argument has weight, though there is some- thing about it that suggests the happy after- thought. The pressure for gate receipts is quite as much the result as the cause of the football mania. However, it has undoubtedly become a major obstacle to football deflation and is evi- dently so considered by President Conant of Har- vard. "To get away as soon as possible from the vicious connection between football gate receipts and expenditures for the athletic program," Dr. Conant said, would put Harvard athletics on an en- dowment basis like the other activities of the university. "The president and fellows," he told the Associated Harvard Clubs at their annual dinner, "have agreed that they will endeavor to build up during the coming years an endowment fund for athletics - a capital fund, the income of which will eventually become the support of in- tercollegiate and intramural sports." An entirely logical remedy, and probably a prac- tical one for Harvard, though even Harvard, we believe, will find it a bit slow. As for the great majority of her sister institutions, one hopes that their preoccupations with football will not now find a new excuse in their inability to follow Har- vard's example. Spring And A Black Eye (From the Chicago Tribune) THIS IS THE SEASON when sap and the saps . circulate most exuberantly on the campuses. In the happy days of the Siwash period it would have been the occasion for some spirited battles between town and gown. But the moden collegian reaches the limit of his devilishness when he holds a pajama parade and attempts to climb in a sorority house window. Police took a hand in the proceedings (at Minne- sota), but their intervention apparently was un- necessary. The fellows they seized were in full retreat, bearing scars of chair legs and high heeled slippers wielded by indignant daughters of the vikings. The baldish alumni who are beginning to be a bit careful of what they drink will recall a lustier tradition. In the, days when the University of Illi- nois could dispute only half-heartedly the epithet of cow college there were the perennial attempts to steal the cadet corps' brass cannon, housed in the old armory. The rules of chivalry were followed strictly. A sporting notice of the plot was always given. Since the university boiler house crew which rallied to the defense was limited in number, it was un- sporting to assault any but the main door. There were occasional untoward instances, as when the hoi1r hnuse boss tanged a football nlaver on the COL LEG IATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD AM I RIGHT? There comes a time when twice a year You'll find that we all shed a tear And in the blood of all our cronies Comes a siege of playing horses - uh, "ponies" Finals! And oh how we will all regret The lecture notes we didn't get The papers we forgot to write Which means no sleep for us these nites - Finals! Now's the time when we all mourn; "Oh Lord! why was I ever born?" And the proverbial Aloysius McNutt Says "That's what you gt 'cause you've cut"- Finals! Well this is just to remind youse folks That these here - now exams aren't jokes As history again repeats its annuals By those lovely, regretful, delicious, obnoxious Finals. The German custom of duelling was almost revived in this country when a German student at Eastern College took offense at the way a fellow student portrayed Adolf Hitler in a bur- lesque skit. The offended one slapped the actor and challenged him to a duel. The matter was finally cleared up in the. dean's office. Theme song for final exams - "It's so Hard to Remember but Easy to Forget." From the deep South we learn of a profes- sor who finally achieved a really brilliant ef- fort under a moment of stress. Originally no mere classroom gag, this will undoubtedly be incorporated into the professorial archives within short order, to create chuckles for future generations of students. This learned gentleman, on being informed of the fact that he was the father of triplets, was so overjoyed by the news that he rushed immediately to the hospital where his wife and newly acquired family were, and dashed pell-mell into the room. The nurse in charge of the situation, being out at the time, was irritated upon her re- turn to find the proud father present, and chastised him in no uncertain terms. "Don't you know better than to come in here with germ-filled clothes? Why, you're not sterile!'" she exclaimed. Our friend the professor looked at the sweet young thing in white and then said: "Lady, are you telling me?" A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, May 23. THE CHARTED COURSE for initiating projects under the work-relief scheme looks like an old fashioned mystic maze. As diagramed by Director Walker's division of applications and information, it looks as though there might be a lot of places in the "procedure governing filing and routing of applications" where they might meet themselves coming back. To the various state "ambassadors" .sent to Washington by governors, to the mayors staking their political hopes on getting a bite or two of that upward of four billions for home consump- tion, this must be quite apparent from examina- tion of the Walker chart; the Walker division is not the starting point. It is no mere case of filing an application there to get it started through the work-relief machine. ONLY two sources for receiving either Federal or non-Federal projects at the applications office are shown. Purely Federal works must originate in the government department or agency chiefly involved; non-Federal with PWA. That strongly suggests that Secretary Ickes first as PWA head and again later as director of the allotments com- mittee which is fed by the applications division, is going to have much to say about what goes on. That outline does not cheer project sponsors who heretofore have encountered Mr. Ickes as to PWA enterprises. He has proved himself a "tough" administrator. There is bitter complaint among lads who thought they had political inside tracks at Washington, due to campaign services rendered or whatnot, that such things have failed to count with the interior secretary. It is an indoor sport among them trying to figure out ways and means of getting around, over or under Ickes. As an off-set to the strong Ickes flavor to the mechanism set up for non-Federal projects both as to originating applications and as to allottments, the chart shows Harry Hopkins' "works progress administration" begins to function even before a project is accepted and an allotment made. It gets a shot at every proposal before it even reaches the allotment stage. That is where the clash of social purpose and purely utilitarian aspects of a job is likely to come, * * * * UP TO NOW in New Deal relief and recovery operations there has been'no particular reason for an Ickes-Hopkins collision. They have worked in widely separated fields. Hopkins has been con- fined to purely relief work and mastership in his own house. He retains that duty in the new or- ganization. His office both originates its own re- lief pronosals for virtual direct submission to the Announcing-- Distribution of the 1935 MICH IGAN ENSIAN TODAY at the Student Publications Building f rom 9:00--12:0O and 1:00 -- 5:00 Additional Copies Available at $5.00 Each The Union Presents Bob Stelinle and the Union Band at the Regular Member- ip Danes... Friday, 9 till 1 and Saturday, 9 till 12 x'1.O0 per Couple I