THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 29,1935 ___ _ _ - _ _ , THE MICHIGAN DAILY N .-,-v. "' -z l .:, MI I a comprehensive and educational feature of the library's service to the students. The opportunity that is afforded for observa- tion and appreciation is unique because of the comparative infrequency with which an institu- tion possessing the resources of the library is avail- able for display. Within the last few months exhibits varying from the finest examples of the modern printer-craftsman's art to one of the first copies ever made of the Koran have been shown here. Each of these displays is the record of the in- creasing prestige and success of the University li- brary. Starting with a few specimens in restricted fields, the cards accompanying each of the chang- ing exhibitions show the rapid steps forward made during recent years. Today the collections housed in the rare book room bring students from through- out the country to study irreplacable and prac- tically unduplicateable volumes and manuscripts. Much of the credit for these arrangements goes to Miss Ella M. Hymans, curator of rare books, who Pubied 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 Associated 90 ^1 ~it $rts * -1934 Ou dfOji 1935e- FIAOISot si5COS N 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, During -egular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, 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, Ill. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ................THOMAS H. KLEENE ASSOCIATE EDITOR ..............THOMAS E. GROEHN ASSOCIATE EDITOR ...............JOHN J. FLAHERTY SPORTS EDITOR .................... WILLIAM R. REED WOMEN'S EDITOR ..............JOSEPHINE T. McLEAN EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Robert B. Brown, Clinton B. Conger, Richard G. Hershey, Ralph W. Hurd, Fred W. Neal, Elsie Pierce, Robert Pulver, Marshall D. Shulman, Bernard Weissman. SPORTS ASSISTANTS: George Andros, Fred Buesser, Rob- et C~mmins, Fred Delano, Robert J. Friedman, Ray- mond Goodman. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS Dorothy A. 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PULVER The Supreme Court Decision. . . A JOYFUL REQUIEM greets the death of the NRA. Notwithstanding a certain sympathy for the objectives sought by the measure, and full appre- ciation for the sincerity of the administration, we believe there is justification for the joy. Two principles have been established as truths: First, the United States is not going the way of Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, Spain, Mexico, Turkey, or any other of the countries on the ever- increasing list of dictatorships. We are, and are thankfully, still a democratic republic. Second, the government of the United States is still a Federal government. The application of the principleof nationalistic concentration of sov- ereign power whether good or not has been halted. These truths are not new, but are reestablished in the face of their renunciation elsewhere. But though their reestablishment was at the expense of immediate expediency, we believe hopefully we have not catapulted into chaos. The statement of William Green of the A.F. of L. is significant. Does it signify a period of indus- trial strikes and acute conflict between the forces of labor and capital? If }t does, thinks Dean Henry M. Bates of the La School, iti an indi- cation of progress, signifying an approach to a more natural adjustment of the distribution of the rewards of production to its various factors. Will" the administration attempt to substitute a voluntary NRA? Can such be established with- out further adjustmentyof anti-trustlegislation? We believe niot. Voluntary codes will. lead inev- itably to chamber of commerce-ism; a growth of monopolies uninhibited. The reforms, the recovery hoped for through the NRA will follow, but more slowly and through,1less dangerous means. And if the functional imbal- ance of the economic system slowly swings its heavy weight upon the upward path before it crumbles beneath a press of impatience, the truths of a democratic government will have established themselves as permanent. Exhibits Of The Lbrary.. . N OPPORTUNITY that is peculiar to this campus and yet one which fashions and prepares the many casional few minutes spent in would well repay almost anyone amount of time involved. displays. An oc- examining these for the negligible [The SOAP BOX I Letters published in this column should not be construedsas expressing theseditorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, beregarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editor reserving the right to condense all letters of over 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Musical Vigilantes To the Editor: This evening I inadvertently tuned in on a studio from which a currently-famous waltz specialist was broadcasting and, hearing what I took to be the the strains of Wagner's "Liebestod," left the dial at that number and settled back for what I hoped would be a few moments' respite from the bombardments of middle-class cacophonies which habitually befoul the Sunday evening air. To my surprise and disgust I soon realized that this immortal melody had been paraphrased into one of the saccharine and odious waltzes with which it is the pleasure of the above-mentioned popular band to vilify the air. I was surprised at this temerity in musical prostitution, even though designed for the canaille who have the bad taste to comprise his audience. Let him besoil, if he must, the ether with his cloying and emasculated versions of "I Love You Truly" and "The Kiss Waltz," but his greatest usefulness to humanity will lie in steering clear of the compositions of true artists. If there are any who feel, with me, that there is no excuse or justification for such an exhibition of poor taste I would be interested in hearing from them with the purpose of forming a Musical Vig- ilante Society to aid in preventing further abom- inations of this type. I feel confident that your staff, with its nice appreciation of the Arts as evi- denced by your splendid Sunday Supplements, will be sympathetic toward this movement. -A Music Lover. As Others See It Collegiate Prisoners (From the Daily Trojan) A MERICA is fast becoming a land of prisons and colleges. To some this statement may sound ridiculous, and admittedly it is a little far-fetched. - Never- theless, it cannot be denied that our prisons are becoming more and more crowded, and at the same time college classes are crammed with more and more students. The idealist may reason that some day the ad- vancing college enrollment may bring about a con- siderable decrease in prison inmates. That is the result to be eagerly awaited. A recent prison survey revealed that the in- mates were chiefly interested in current events, economic problems, and politics. The college stu- dent can recognize a Fio-Rito recording from a Ray Noble rendition any minute, but fails to recog- nize the importance of the Stressa conference and does not know the meaning of the Wheeler-Ray- burn bill. Can it be that the college students, with their physical and so-called intellectual freedom, have allowed their minds to become more imprisoned than those of our convicts? The evidence points to that conclusion. Perhaps there is more truth than poetry to the saying, "Iron bars do not a prison make -" College Oddities (From the Minnesota Daily) WHETHER or not they actually do more queer things or whether it is just because more newspaper men are engaged to observe them, col- lege students and their teachers find themselves in the news more often than most people. And more than likely the things for which they break into print are their oddities. The general public looks on the college life as a little bit queer any- way, and what it reads supports that opinion. Out of Columbia comes the story of the stu- dent who is working his way through college by being the university's "waker-upper." For a con-I sideration, paid in advance, he makes the rounds, shaking out the sleepers in time for class. The height of the university's social season is also peak time for his unusual profession. At the University of California a zoology pro- fessor easily made the headlines by an appealing experiment. He announced a few days beforehand that he would graphically demonstrate to his class that microbes are transmitted by kissing. On the announced day he gave each student a nad of COL LEGIlATE OBSERVER By BUD BERNARD College life once had a tang that makes these days seem dull and academic, if we are to believe this story coming from Dartmouth College. The antics of the lads 50 years ago were allover- <,hadowed by an incident occurring at a chapel ceremony. As the solemn tones of the organ began their slow beat, a corpse back of the alter was seen to raise and lower its head in time with the music. What made it more awful was the fact that the corpse had been in life a notorious murderer, whose body had been shipped to the medical school laboratory. Ambitious students had kidnaped it and strung it on wires from the chapel ceiling. The average co-ed, says a student at the University of California, thinks a flat tire' all right if he has the jack. * * * * There has been a progress in progress at New York University, which many a college student, who thinks himself a potential author would have gladly entered. A scholarship was offered to the unpublished author who turned in the finest col- lection of rejection slips. , Some added points were given, we understand, for words of encouragement which accompanied the rejections. * * They are talking about the student at a nearby university who got kicked out of school for being accused of cheating in a Russian exam. He sneezed, and the professor insisted that he was conjugating a verb out loud. * * * * There is a refreshing note in the story of a sophomore at Birmingham-Southern College, who finished writing the last page of a tiresome his- tory examination, then wrote at the bottom: "If you have actually read this far, I will buy you a drink." When he got the paper back, the un- ruffled professor had written, "I prefer to confine myself to beer. * * * * SO THEY SAY "Examinations are as harmful to the intel- lect as liquor and women." ---Prof Welch, Bowdoin College. There will be no more knitting in Boston Uni- versity class rooms. After the professors complained that the knit- ting distracted students' attention from their lec- tures, a notice was posted reading "Absolutely no knitting will be permitted in class rooms." * * * * Ncminated for the worst quip of the week coming from the Daily Californian: "Cleopatra may not have made Phi Bete, but she certainly got Marc's." * * * * * Something we liked: Men are four: He who knows, and knows he knows, he is wise - follow him; he who knows, and knows not he knows, he is asleep - wake him; he who knows not, and knows not he knows not,hhe is a fool - shun him; he who knows not, and knows he knows not, he is a child - teach him. A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSQN WASHINGTON, May 28. WHETHER the Senate's support of the- bonus payment veto can be construed as shelving that issue for this session, is uncertain. The size of the margin, which bettered slightly the most op- timistic predictions of administration supporters, may suggest that it does. If it is so construed by the alliance of bonus payment and currency ex- pansion advocates, that 54-40 Senate vote may prove in the end to have paved the way for a much earlier adjournment of Congress than theretofore was expected. Had President Roosevelt succeeded in stemming the tide only by a vote or two, the situation would have been quite different. A bonus "rider?' on every available "must" bill remaining to be enacted could have been expected. * * * * THE SENATE debate made it quite clear that the question of inflation was the real issue to the minds of Senators; that they so interpreted the President's veto message. The theme of those of his supporters who joined in the war of words in that last Senate scene was pitched to backing ad- ministration fiscal policy in the "war on depres- sion." To the President and to big business and high finance, that must spell assurance against any mandatory currency inflation move, not in this session alone but by this Congress. In the bonus payment fight that issue has been met and de- feated on its strongest rallying ground. 'JHE VOTE was interesting from a party stand- point. The Republicans voting split 50-50, with one, Norbeck, not voting but announced as in favor of overriding the veto. Otherwise the party stand was 11 to 11. And of the 11 upholding the President's hand, seven come up next year for re- election. They took chances of veteran vengeance although the general views of most of them were too well known for that to be certain. A like number of Democrats up next year took the same chance as against 13 who voted to over- ride. And among the Democrats who stood by the administration was Chavez of New Mexico (in his first Senate vote), appointed to succeed the late Senator Cutting, an ardent bonus payment advo- cate. It was an especially grave decision for Cha- vez. For Better, Results .. . USE THE Daily Classified Aol Columns CASH RATES lic per line The Michigan Daily 420 Maynard Street Phone 2-1214 GARGOYLE OUT TODAY Rain or No Rain Get One of the Five Hundred Numbered Gargoyles Get a Year's Subscription to The Gargoyle. P.S. - This is no Chain Letter. Announcing-- Distribution of the 1935 MICH IGAN ENSIAN TODAY and FRIDAY at the Student Publications Building from 9:00--12:00 and 1:00 -- 5:00 A J*J*.I r..*: A N.LL I