THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1935 THE MICHIGAN DAILY A _ Publisned every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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 newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave., New York City; 400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Telephone 4925 BOARD OF EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR..............THOMAS H. KLEENE ASSOCIATE EDITOR.................JOHN J. FLAHERTY ASSOCIATE EDITOR .............. THOMAS E. GROEHN Dorothy S. Gies Josephine T. McLean William R. 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ROTHBARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ....MARGARETCOWIE WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ...ELIZABETH SIMONDS DEPARTMENTAL MANAGERS Local Advertising, William Barndt; Service Department, Willis Tomlinson; Contracts, Stanley Joffe; Accounts, Edward Wohgemuth; Circulation and National Adver- tising, John Park; Classified Advertising and Publica- tions, Lyman Bittman. NIGHT EDITOR: FRED WARNER NEAL Take Hypocrisy Out Of Football... T WOULD PROBABLY have oc- cured to few, before this week, to speak of the "enlightened South," but the recent action of most of the Southern schools which have football teams is certainly the most progressive in the country.. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Associa- tion first voted to give its athletes board, room, and tuition, and now the more important South- eastern Conference has voted for open financial aid through scholarships. The indignant, lily-white outcries of Notre Dame and Ohio State officials after the charges of sub- sidization made by George Owen, Sr., of the Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology, are ridiculous. Even the comparatively casual follower of inter- collegiate football is well aware of the bitter cat- and-dog battle that goes on between universities for the services of the best football players. It is true from coast to coast. Once in a while there is a school which does not follow this practice; for example, Swarthmore. But no one ever hears of Swarthmore's football teams, nor does its team make over $100,000 a year playing football. But if a school wants to make large sums at football, and thus provide for the rest of an ample athletic program and perhaps have some left over for other purposes, it is necessary to get out and fight militantly for players good enough to earn those sums. One notable charac- teristic of the plan of these Southern schools, then, is its abolition of hypocrisy. But furthermore, it is only fair that the Uni- versity should provide for the education of those men who earn for it tens of thousands of dollars a year. Authoritative figures indicate that 70 per cent of Big Ten athletes are working their way through school. It is asking too much to demand that an athlete practice daily, earn his board and room, and attend successfully to his scholastic work sim- ultaneously. Other students are not expected to do it, nor are other students attracting thousands to the stadium at from two to four dollars a head. In the interests of fair play and in opposition to hypocrisy we urge the adoption of the "South- ern plan" in the Big Ten and throughout the nation. To Be, Or Not To Be ... THE HOPE of indefinite prolonga- tion of life was held out to man- kind last week by Dr. Alexis Carrel, great research medical authority of the Rockefeller Institute. From Ann Arbor scientists, Dr. Carrel's predic- tions drew comments that were conflicting to say the least. However, one aspect of his address to the New York Medical Academy was especially interesting: that a great doctor is beginning to think in terms of prolonging life and is actually experimenting in that direction. We are inclined to agree with the University Hospital doctor who believes Dr. Carrel's remarks are "a little far fetched." But on the other hand, there is much truth in Dr. Carrel's state- ment that what seems fantastic today is very often the reality of tomorrow. Considering Dr. Carrel's famous reputation as a scientist, Dr. Ira Loree's remark - who are we to say he is not working on a real possibility? -is quite justified. Any medical man is wholly within his bounds in expressing an opinion on the subject. We would like to believe that Dr. Carrel has Socialized Medicine Is Workable.. . ALTHOUGH the University team lost the debate on the subject of so- cialized medicine, they did perform the service of bringing this question, which will soon have to be answered, before the public. There is a strong opposition to the plan of furnishing medical care to all at the expense of the state, especially among the medical profession itself, but it does seem that this is one phase of social inurance that is workable. If a movement like the Townsend Plan can gain such a strong support, it is almost certain that some forms of social insurance are going to be enacted. The question of whether socialized medicine will work can be answered in some measure by the example of the University Health Service. Each student pays a "tax" at the time he registers and in return receives any normal medical attention that is required during his residence. Next to subsistence, medical attention is one of the most important needs of mankind; improving business conditions are assuring us of the former, soclalized medicine could assure us of the latter. As Others See It The Old Jingoism (From the Chicago Tribune) PROBABLY most Americans who give any atten- tion to our foreign relations have by now come to realize that in one important direction changes have occurred which may compel a change in the nation's attitude and policy. The actual control of Japanese policy seems to have passed out of parliament and civil authority into the hands of a military and naval hierarchy. The civil leaders and officials with whom, under the popular con- stitutional forms, we have dealt have retreated into the background. We confront not the civilian but the soldier, not principles and modes of thought and interests familiar to and shared by us and all other nations enjoying civil constittional gov- ernment, but the ethics and objectives of military power and ambition. This is a phenomenon which places our rela- tions with Japan on a very different footing. It is of utmost moment to us that we understand it and its implications. We are aware, of course, of the more immediate and obvious objectives of Japanese policy under the existing regime. We know the conditions which influence forceable expansion, the need for resources of coal, iron, and food supply. There is a good deal of sympathy among practical Amer- icans for Japanese needs in this field. There is also recognition, among those who consider such matters, of defensive strategic considerations un- derlying Japanese policy. But the scope and pur- pose and ambition conceived in the imagination of the present masters of Japanese policy and action seem to be far wider than these allow- ances extend. Let us quote, for example, from a pronouncement by Maj. Gen. Hayao Tada, com- mander of the Japanese forces in northern China. The pronouncement cannot be dismissed as an ir- responsible utterance, for Gen. Tada is high in the hierarchy shaping Japanese policy and con- duct at this time, and no one can seriously think so significant an utterance was without authority. "Ever since the occidentals," writes Gen. Tada, "penetrated into the Orient the attitude of the powers toward China has been one aiming at her partition, or advocating international control, or attempting to enlarge their respective spheres of influence, or struggling for concessions and mar- kets. All these, even at the present time, present a lively aspect. It is true that such measures of aggression have changed with the times, as far as their contents are concerned, but fundamen- .tally, the policy of the powers has remained the same, always for promoting their own prosperity by exploiting China." The general truth of this survey will be acknowl- edged by most people in or outside of China, al- though there are important qualifications. But Gen. Tada proceeds: "Despite this fact our Jap- anese empire alone has, in pursuance of her national policy, consistently adopted the view of respecting the territorial integrity of China and maintained the principle of friendship and co- operation with China for the sake of co-existence and mutual prosperity between the two countries." This is the commander of the Japanese armies in North China speaking, and he goes on: "Let us observe the international situation that is changing before our eyes. The progressive change in the international situation may be regarded as a movement against the tyranny and high-handed- ness of the white people. It may be regarded as the beginning of a racial war for emancipating colored people, who form the greatest part of the human inhabitants of the world, from the en- slaving oppression of the whites and realizing equality and peace for all the human beings on earth. It may also be regarded as the beginning of a spiritual war for rectifying the material civ- ilization of the west by the moral civilization of the east." How this appeal may impress the Chinese we cannot say, though perhaps we may suspect. Our quotations are for Americans. They do not offer much hope that our nation can maintain rela- tions of understanding and cooperation with Japan under the present regime. The regime may not endure, but while it is master of Japanese policy and action the United States cannot afford to indulge its easy optimism, its repugnance to preparedness for defense, its delusive comfort in drift. With an intelligent organization of Amer- ican resources, material and moral, for both are essential, we need have no fear of disastrous developments in any collision with a militant re- gime in Japan or elsewhere. But the influences of pacifism and public indifference upon our policy are not friends of peace or safety. An America weak and indifferent will insure war. The Conning Tower] POCKET PIECE Once by that Oregon river You found me this black quartz head As clean as it came from the quiver And better than sword or lead. A sword lies broken and rusted, And lead goes flatter than foil; But the arrowhead unencrusted Is leaf of the stone and soil. You said it was too small to weather, Or never worked far from shore, As it and the memory together But sharpen each other the more. Pretty and proud from the maker, Hard as he meant to bite, It sang for the fletcher and flaker: To keep it was never quite right. I'll say for the pocket it's ruly- But locked in an old purse still, It shouldn't go Indian truly And suddenly maim or kill. -DAVID McCORD. A popular newspaper writer deprecates the cele- bration of Armistice Day because he believes that its total effect is martial. -From Christmas greet- ing card. Thanks for the ad. In yesterday's Times Mr. Chanan John Cham- berlain, one of many book reviewers who know a soaring hawk from a dull handsaw when the trade wind is southerly, wrote about the series that has been running in The Nation, "Our Critics, Right or Wr'ong." His piece concerns the fifth and last of the series, in The Nation dated December 18, on sale yesterday. Why, incidentally, does The Nation date itself six days ahead? Is the same with intent to deceive? Not even the capitalistic press does that. The Nation's fifth article, by Marfy McCarthy and Margaret Marshall, treats of the daily reviewer, known to the trade as book columnists. Mr. Chamberlain calls them "two bright girls who have been conspicuously reverent even toward their own literary editor, Mr. Joseph Wood Krutch." Then Mr. Chamberlain says: "As F. P. A. might say: Oh, Mary McCarthy and Margaret Marshall Are two bright girls who are very impartial." We might; but we are capable of adding: For there isn't a reviewer they've forgotten To call incompetent, venal, and rotten. The girls remind us of what Old Hen Strauss used to say of some man whose name we forget: "He's the most even-tempered man in Chicago; always mad." It is true that most reviewers say Yes oftener than No about a book. It is also true that they select, as a rule - often wrongly, we think - the most prominent book published on the date of their review. The chances are good that many of these books are, if not cosmic, pretty good, one way or another. If a reviewer took the least promising book every day for a week, he might write an interesting column. For it is easier, and often makes more readable stuff, to say No, A Thousand Times No, than to say Yes. Dear! dear! It is said that a critic is a disap- pointed something-or-other. And here we are, criticizing those who criticize critics. CASUAL DISLIKES If I hear it again I warn that I may wire My congressman to abolish "haywire." -N. D. PLUME. They talk about the good old days of journal- ism; of great and powerful editors. In the Dana- Greeley-Watterson-Medill days editors rode on railroad passes. In the Topeka station the other day were the private cars of Editors Paul Block, Cissie Patterson, and -possibly W. R. Hearst. We hope that Mr. Alf Landon, if nominated, will come out for a five-cent fare on private cars. LITHPIN IN NUMBERTH I'm thweet thickthteen; I've been kithed only wunth, And the club I like betht Ith the book of the month. -H. B. FITHK. The Naval Conference rejected Japan's demand for equality in naval strength, so Japan will say "Well, if you don't want us to have parity, we'll give up requesting it. Didn't know you cared." And, as the late Ring Lardner said, "Maybe San Francisco Bay is made of grape juice." Perhaps inspired by the City Anthem contest, Borough President Samuel Levy has submitted to Commissioner Valentine some rhymes to be placed on signs with safety warnings. Some of them, for the benefit of those who failed to see them in yesterday's papers, follow: "When crossing streets 'Tis wise to pause- Obey our lights And traffic laws." "Cross at crossings. Cross with green lights, Cross carefully." These are not much good, Mr. Borough Pres- ident. Last year a boy seven years of age, on his way to school, extemporarized, to the air of "Au Clair de la Lune," the following, printed herein before: Cross at crossings only, When the light is green; Cross at crossings only, When the light is green. A Washington BYSTANDE R By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. - Inquir- ing minds have it figured that the fact committees during the last ses- sion of Congress had before them three score or more proposed changes in the constitution, is indicative of the restless political mood of the country, due to the depression and itsl aftermath. That the number of re- solutions proposing admendments will1 increase as soon as the next sessionf meets, hardly is to be doubted. Manyt of them already are drawn.f Yet, examination of those pending1 suggestions does not prove them all to be of a "liberalizing" persuasion., Some amendment authors, no less1 than Governor Hoffman, of New Jer- sey, with his suggestion that the Su- preme Court be required to pass on the constitutionality of all acts of Congress before they can become ef- fective, obviously are intended to peg' constitutional interpretation in a con- servative mold. IT would not take much stretch of the imagination to picture the re- cent business congress in New York adding some such tail to its "plat- form." The declarations of that doc- ument were so firmly pinned to the Liberty League's construction of the constitution as it bears on "new deal" measures, that this remarkable as- sertion is included in the platform: "Confidence cannot be restored or maintained when government officers and legislators, in spite of their oaths of office, endeavor to avoid by tech- nicalities the true intent of constitu- tional guarantees or deliberately leg- islate with respect to matters not delegated to them." That cap, presumably, would fit quite a number of Republicans in both house and senate. They voted for certain "new deal" ventures at times which other statements of the business platform now would seem to class as wholly outside the constitu- tional province of congress. * * * * T might prove highly embarrassing not only to the Liberty league legal talent, but to the lawyers who helped frame the business platform if, in the face of their attitude, the supreme court upheld some of the disputed "new deal" measures. They are far out on the limb. However that may turn out, it was made clear by lawyer-orators at the New York convention that the protec- tions of the constitution, even grant- ing that virtually all "new deal" moves yet to be tested were toppled over, were not enough. Such spokes- men held that the courts could not reach to protect from administrative "