FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, FIIIVAUY 20.1939ti __ . .... ,... w!i/[a; uYlV V[i1Vy NV 1 ]U J 9 THE MICHIGAN DAILY | Meet The Professor . . . 'tom- "v Nip ifl, ii f rt r i{ 3 I T r, , - _ - Pubiised 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 and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER c'ssetiated 6011egita grass S1034 1ij 935 I4AmSONVASCtSf N MANY A PROSPECTIVE University student comes here with the idea that he need have no false hopes of ever meetin= a professor face to face, for such a rare privilege cannot be expected in a place of this size. Ever3 jerkwater college teaches proudly - and probably cincerely-that it offers the tremendous advantage of more intimate contacts with faculty and fellow students. But, frankly we had no idea that students were actually graduating from the University of Mich- igan still obsessed by the idea that in a school of this size there was a lack of opportunity to meet their instructors personally. We thought growing proficiency in the art of apple-polishing had dispelled all notion that the " pedagog sat haughtily aloof, denying access to anyone so humble as a student. Yet some recent graduates of the School of Edu- cation felt distinctly the absence of contacts with faculty members outside the classroom, they re- vealed in a survey announced some days ago. Per- haps the added emphasis on this phase of Uni- versity life in the last few years has reminded many of the faults of which these graduates complain. There is no reason why any future graduates should bemoan their failure to become acquainted with their elders in the University community. The opportunity is theirs if they care to use it. Knowl- edge of the opportunity can scarcely fail to dawn upon them if they are sincerely interested in the problems at hand. Once made, professorial friends - yes, even at Michigan -are'known to sit long hours chewing over even some of the most in- consequential subjects - and liking it. The professors may not thank us for adding to the lines in their waiting rooms, gut, in justice to them, their splendid cooperative attitude should not go unheeded. 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. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $1.50. 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COL LEG IATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD Editor's Note: The article appearing in this column yesterday concerning the Theta house was supposed to have been the sorority at the University of Wisconsin and not the local chapter as the item erroneously implied. Wherever the girls at Skidmore College are skidding to, they aren't skidding to everlasting (lamnation. Eight per cent of them, according to a survey, still admit they've never been kissed. S ** * A college columnist defines a nudist: One who who goes coatless and vestless, and wears trousers to match. Everyone here is familiar with the rather famous ruling that students may leave classes if their professors do not put in an appearance within the first 12 minutes of the hour. This regulation, how- ever, proves to be a mythical and false belief if the student is unfortunate enough to obtain a certain type of instructor in his course. A slightly different touch was added recently to a similar understand- ing in existence at the University of Minnesota It seems that a certain professor who was a de- mon for promptness was in the habit of locking the doors a few minutes after the hour so that late arrivals would be forced to take a cut. The other day the tables were turned on him in such a way that the members of his class are still chortling with glee. Upon arriving 13 minutes late he found that the door was barred against him. His pupils had waited the traditional 12 minutes, locked the front door and whipped out of a back entrance. A certain student of dentistry from Indiana University has advanced the theory that by brush- ine one's tonsils morning and night one can avoid the necessity of having them removed. To back up his theory he has invented a set of ling brushes that will easily reach the offending appendages. The practicality of the scheme has not as yet been completely demonstrated. It is not always the student who knows all the answers. A professor at the University of Southern California recently gave an un- usually long assignment to his class. One of the students in a disguested voice said, "Who in- vented work anyway?" "You should worry, you'll never infringe on his patent," was th professor's retort. "What would you do if you were on guard duty and a battleship suddenly came across the parade ground in your direction?" This question was asked by a military arts class at Syracuse University by an officer who was de- sirous of finding out whether or not his class was thinking. Naturally enough his foolish question was productive of many foolish answers such as, "I'd take another drink." "I'd shoot it." and "I'd jump aboard." That type of query is one of the Army's stock questions. Only one in the class of 48 answered correctly with, "I'd report it to the captain of the guards." 1 S I I Will Make NEW SCENES FAMILIAR and FAMILIAR SCENES NEW CAMPUS SALE TODAY and TOMORROW Your 1935 Micliiganensian I I NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN J. FLAHERTY TeGold I.ecision . T HE SUPREME COURT of the Unit- ed States handed down its long- awaited gold clause decision Monday. "The gov- ernment," it ruled, "has to keep its promise, but it does not have to pay what it promised to pay," or so it must have seemed to more than one bewildered reader. And still the questions persist: What is the true meanihg of the court's decision? Does it nullify the sanctity of contracts? Is the Constitution, in the words of Justice McReynolds, "gone?" Or, on the other hand, was the decision a vic- tory for the Constitution? Is that document now more clearly defined than before? Is the decision a triumph for society over the claims of private in- dividuals? While we are inclined to agree with Dean Bates that the latter is the case, further developments alone will tell. It seems quite definite, at least, that a rather broad interpretation of the Constitution has always proved best in a changing society. Several things in connection with the decision are of sufficient certainty and importance to be pointed out. First, the decision is undoubtedly one of the most important in the annals of American his- tory. What a ruling adverse to the Administration would have meant, no one can tell. In all prob- ability, however, it would have seriously disrupted not only the New Deal financial policy, but the en- tire recovery program as well. As it is, the absolute power of Congress over the currency and all things pertaining to it, regardless of any other factors, has been asserted without a question. Second, the decision is plainly a case wherein the justices did consider factors other than the purely legal aspects. Chief Justice Hughes, in reading the statement of the court, explained clearly that the economic condition of the country was considered by those making the majority ruling. Never before has a chief justice been so outspoken concerning the court's consideration of extra-legal situations. Third, Chief Justice Hughes further showed himself a great jurist. Appointed as a conserva- tive, his opinions have defied classification under any label. As Emerson said, ."Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." "What great men do is wisdom," Socrates exclaimed, "lesser men make rules to justify." This speaks well for the present chief justice of the United States and for the prestige of the body over which he presides. ~ The SOAP BOX Letters published in this column should not be construed~ as expressing the editorial opinion of The Dairy. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names bf communicants will, however, be regarded1 as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief. the editor reserving the right to condense all letters of over 300 words. Unextended Insight To the Editor: 'l Permit me to congratulate you upon the in- sight in regard to the underlying forces in con- temporary society indicated by the review of "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" which appeared in last Tuesday's Daily. Is not the economic force making for imperialism the same which makes for glorification of it in the3 cinema? And the same, I suppose, goes for war. This one inconspicuous quarter-column is an encouraging indication of what the entire edi- torial page might be were the same keen analysis axtended to all contemporary. affairs. -Davis R. Hobbs. Tolstoy Eventst To the Editor: Tolstoy's novel, "Resurrection" has the unique distinction of having been filmed by four dif- ferent companies, starting with a silent film by a European producer. The latest version is now playing in Ann Arbor under the title, "We Live Again" with Frederic March and Anna Sten in the main roles. Tolstoy's masterpiece was honored by furnishing the theme for a modern opera which was played in Chicago a few years ago. The early part of the plot is based on an actual experience of Tolstoy's youth - just as in many other creations of Tolstoy autobiographical ma- terial is visible. Tolstoy wrote this novel under unique circum- stances, at a time when he had decided that hel must give his literary talents to mankind without remuneration; but the persecutions to which the Doukhobor sect in Russia was subjected by the1 Czar compelled Tolstoy to make an exception andl he agreed to accept payment for "Resurrection"; it appeared in installments and simultaneously in the leading languages of Europe. The enormous fees given Tolstoy were all turned over to the Doukhobors who were thus able to emigrate toa Canada on two specially chartered ships; thus L. N. Tolstoy played the role of a modest Moses who - while keeping in the background - enabledt the people of his heart to reach a land of promise where they could worship in freedom, no longer1 slaves to a military machine. (The faith of the' Doukhobors is based on the Sermon on the Mount and resembles that of the Quakers; they are also vegetarians). Dr. William Lewin, writing on "Motion Picture Appreciation in American High Schools," writes of "We Live Again": "Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, a meticulous cinema artist, this screen version of Tolstoy's fa- mous novel, "Resurrection," is one of the notable , photoplays of the 1934-35 season. Admirers of the, great Russian novelist will be pleased to find that the theme of the original story is faithfully re- tained - the conversion of a Don Juan into a Saint Francis. Mamoulian handles this great theme with the idealism and mysticism of the Russian. His condensation of the story is skillful, and throughout the film he has caught the atmosphere of the old Czarist days with fine imagination. The acting of Anna Sten, S. Goldwyn's new Slavic star, and our own Frederic March is convincing. All the, players seem to have been well cast. Pic- torially, the film is so beautiful that every angle in the cinematic procession seems perfectly chosen. Lighting and shading provide superb chromatic effects that delight the eye. . . . Teachers of the social sciences will find here a wealth of material for the discussion of life goals and of social U U Full Payment $4.50 I Part Payment $1.00 A Washington BYSTANDER Revive Your By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S address to the American Federation of Labor leaders who conferred with him is a remarkable document. It reveals him in a different role from that he estab- lished in the bombardment of brief, trenchant messages to Congress which started off the New Deal. Then the President compressed maters of vast meaning and significance into small wordage. His meeting to the A.F. of L. leaders took a good many words; but what did it say? FIRST IMPRESSIONS represented the White House meeting as signalizing a rapproche- inent between the President and the federation after the clash over the auto and tobacco codes, both in force over bitter federation protest. Sec- ond thoughts among Washington commentators Produced the reaction that the White House meet- ing had not changed anything. The federation was standing by its guns. So was the administration. There was an exchange of complimentary expressions; but nothing to indi- cate any relaxation of the White House policy of letting employes in the basic industries, such as the automotive, do their own picking of spokesmen for negotiations with employers. Certainly the rumbles of strike talk in federation circles which came with the extending of the auto code had died away. In the face of the President's direct assumption of responsibility for the decision to extend that code, there was no renewal-of the attack by federation leaders on Donald Richberg. HE FEDERATION men probably are well aware that short of an effort to set up a distinct labor party before 1936. an unlikely development, they may have small choice that year among pres- idential nominees. No rival to Roosevelt for federa- tion support is yet even vaguely showing in 19361 prevues. That rather cramps the style of federation spokesmen. There is no immediate point in an open break with the White House.I All of the questions in dispute are due for full congressional airing soon in any case. What is to be i done about NRA beyond its June expiration date must soon be decided. The political importance of the federation to members of both houses is I Memories of the 1936 J-I-o~p SPEC IAL PRICE ON GRAND MARCH PICTURE Ca ,A Limited Few To Be Sold At Less Than Cost. Also a INnn 1:vfr & in ieF