PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1936 THE MICHIGAN DAILY -, - - - 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. Reed DEPARTMENTAL BOARDS Publication Department: Thomas H. Kleene, Chairman; Clinton B. Conger, Richard G. Hershey, Ralph W. Hurd, Fred Warner Neal, Bernard Weissman. Reportorial Department: Thomas E. Groehn, Chairman; Elsie A. Pierce, Guy M. Whipple, Jr. Editorial Department: John J. Flaherty, Chairman; Robert A. Cummins, Marshall D. Shulman. Sports Department: William R. Reed, Chairman; George Andros, Fred Buesser, Fred DeLano, Raymond Good- man. Women's Departmeu1: Josephine T. McLean, Chairman; Dorothy Briscoe, Josephine M. Cavanagh, Florence H. Davies, Mario- T. Holden, Charlotte D. Rueger, Jewel W. Wuerfel. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Telephone 2-1214 BUSINSS MANAGER ..........GEORGE H. ATHERTON CREDIT MANAGER ............JOSEPH A. ROTHARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ....MARGARET COWIE WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ...ELIZABETH SIMONDS DEPARTMENTAL MANAGERS Local Advertising, William Barndt; Service Department, Willis Tomlinson; Contracts, Stanley Joffe; Accounts, Edward Wohlgemuth; Circulation and National Adver- tising, John Park; Classified Advertising and Publica- tions, Lyman Bittman. NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT CUMMINS Here And There*. . W E EXTEND our congratulations to the Yale Literary Magazine, which this week celebrates the hundredth anniversary of its founding. In the course of these hundred years, which mark it not only as the oldest student publica- tion but also as the oldest monthly magazine in this country, the "Lit" numbers among its past editors and contributors men distinguished in letters and public service. If there is a wistful touch about our felicita- tions, it might be because our own school has a scarred record of publications blazing into exist- ence like rocket flares - and dying in the night just as inauspiciously. There has been little change in the "Lit" since its founding in the year the State of Michigan came into existence. The force of tradition has carried it through three wars in which editors left college to enlist, and has preserved the same pattern and cover color -although in 1932, the editors sought to change from brown to blue, but had to change back in the face of a storm of protest. There has been, however, a significant change of policy. Originally, the purpose of the "Lit" was to foster a literary spirit and to furnish a medium for its exercise, to rescue from utter waste the many thoughts and musings of students' leisure hours, and to afford some opportunity to train ourselves for the strife and collision of mind which we must expect in after life - such and similar motives have urged us to this undertaking." Thirteen years after its establishment, the edi- tors announced a significant change of policy. Instead of a literary magazine, the board of editors decided that "the magazine should be a mirror of college life . . . its pages should clearly reflect the capacity, the training and the whole char- acter of the student. It should be marked with vigor and liveliness, rather than by elegance of expression - by ingenious and pertinent, rather than deep thought-by an earnest, sincere, yet joyous tone of feeling." This change is one which we strongly recom- mend to the editors of "Contemporary." Perhaps the secret of continued existence and interest of the "Lit" has been its willingness to recognize that the number of people interested in an exclu- sively literary or philosophical approach is small compared with those who prefer that which serves to focus a depth of background upon problems of1 pertinent and moderately general interest. "The policy of 'Contemporary,'" the editors have stated, "is to reflect all serious student attempts to cope with significant problems of modern life."7 The policy is commendable, but in practice, the magazine has, as a rule, presented articles of esoteric appeal, characterized by an "elegance of1 expression" and has, as a consequence, had a lim- ited response.c It is because we are in sympathy with the efforts of the editors that we suggest this method of meet-1 ing a wider campus 'interest. We furthermore suggest that the best editorial board in the country could not publish a creditable magazine without more support in the form of manuscripts contrib- uted than the "Contemporary" has received fromc the student body. nn .f a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, or any church, becomes the ringmaster he should be re- buked by church authorities. Beause Represen- tative O'Connor is t member of the Catholic Church as well as a prominent figure in public affairs he is logically the person to lead the attack on the Detroit "radio priest." He is immune from the cries of "Catholic hater" that might greet a Protestant-led attack on Father Coughlin. One of the greatest dangers in Father Coughlin's demagogic utterances is that they will be accepted by non-Catholics as the official attitude of the Church or of its members. We do not believe that a majority of Catholic laymen or clergymen are in sympathy with the tom tom beating that emanates from Royal Oak every Sunday after- noon. The Catholic priesthood is reputedly one of the best-educated classes in the world and their opin- ions in both temporal and spiritual affairs are received with respect. The Church, however, should be their primary field of operation and their office should be discharged with a dignity sadly lacking in the conduct of Father Coughlin. As Others See It Enough Journalism Schools (From the Decatur Herald) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, receiving a large be- quest from the publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, has wisely announced that the money will not be used to set up another school of jour- nalism. An admirable idea when the first journalism school of the country was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, this particular experiment in education has since been exploited beyond all reasonable lim- its. The number of young men and women now enrolled in schools of journalism in this country -and presumably hopeful of finding newspaper jobs when they get out - would demand a doub- ling of the country's newspaper staffs to accom- modate them. Obviously, the great majority will not find employment in the field for which they are training. There is yet another consideration that may have been weighed by the Harvard administration. If the supply of potential newspaper workers were not running to its present surplus, still there is doubt whether editors of the country's papers would want to fill their staffs entirely with school of journalism graduates. Much as the fact may be regretted, newspaper work is not actually a profession. It must cross the fields of too many professions to be that. Its most useful workers are not the thorough-going specialists, who know everything about some lim- ited field of human knowledge, but the men and women of widely diverse interests who know some- thing about the fundamentals of a dozen different fields. It is their business, not to stand as author- ities upon history, finance, arts, or politics, but to possess enough elementary knowledge in all these fields to understand, and interpret, the real authorities who have something to say. This being the case, the best of all training for prospective journalists is not an intensive drill in some specialty of their craft but the broadest of liberal education. The best schools of journalism today, recognizing this fact, demand of their pupils more study of economics and history than of "Headline writing l." Another Teapot Tempest (From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) 'fHE AMERICAN LIBERTY LEAGUE, on advice of counsel, has challenged the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee's authority to question the league's members as to their contributions to the organization. The advice may be legally sound. Politically it is, we believe, unwise. Everybody knows that a number of very rich men belong to the Liberty League. Certainly the du Ponts are rich. So is Mr. Raskob. And rumor has it that Al Smith is on his way back to fortune after having come a financial cropper, as so many others did, in the protracted melancholy days fol- lowing the market crash. It is generally under- stood that the league's executive secretary, Jouett Shouse, has a well-paid job. On the evidence of the newspapers, it has a first-class publicity bur- eau. As a propaganda agency, the league is, we should say, just about "tops." In a way, the Liberty League is something new under our political sun. It has no official creden- tials. It disavows any and all party affiliation, or partisan purpose. That disavowal may or may not be Pickwickian. Obviously, the league is actively engaged in the business of censoring the Roosevelt administration's policies, pointing out what it conceives the mistakes and dangers of those policies, chapter and verse. Extraordinary as the whole procedure may be, it does not seem to us that there is anything illegal about it or that it has any connection with lobby- ing in the accepted meaning of that term. We do not see, therefore, why the league members should be reluctant to tell what they are subscribing to the cause. That the information can imagin- ably assist the Lobby Investigating Committee in drafting remedial legislation, which is its reason for being, may genuinely be doubted. We question, too, whether any disclosure as to who are furnish- ing the money and in what amounts, would occa- sion more than a glittering ripple on the surface of the day's news. The Liberty League, as we see it, has gone out of its way to pick a quarrel, and in doing so may create the impression it has dark secrets it desires to conceal. That is funny. The Liberty League, in its important identity and honston nommu- The ConningTower HISTORY Red fires once from Murray Hill Work Morningside to fight; Now after sundown roads between Flare with a bitter light. And Paddy's green potato run Or patriot's modest place{ Is asphalt where they war upont Our ancient earthron race. There's many a soldier's son Comes boldly to New York;1 Stands where his namesman made them run From inlet to the fork. But if he walks with head too high, Before he's one day older Some cop will make him see the sky,l Flat on his crown or shoulder. JOHN MALTA Indignation is felt in England because Maxim Litvinoff, the Soviet Foreign Commissioner, said of King Edward that he was "a mediocre young Englishman, who reads no more than one news- paper a day." That probably would be the Lon- don Times, though it might be -we hope that it is - the Manchester Guardian. But mediocrity in a ruler is something that endears him to the people, to whom mediocrity would be a promo- tion. And as for reading one newspaper a day, most of us don't do even that. We read a good many headlines, and one or two other things, in one newspaper a day. We are not certain that the more newspapers one reads, the more mediocre one becomes; or maybe the more one approaches mediocrity, the more newspapers one reads. We know how it is; we read all the papers every day. This habit has gone on so long that our mind has been a pulp, convinced of everything and credulous of nothing. The average taxi driver, it seems to us, is like the average voter; conditions usually are wrong. Every weather prospect displeases, and only the non-passenger is vile. "How is hacking?" you ask. "Terrible," he says. "It's so cold that every- body stays at home, or doesn't want to ride on these icy streets." And when things are fair and warmer, "It's such nice weather that people'd rather walk than ride in cabs." But our favorite is the driver who said, "I can complain, but I don't, especially out loud. Don't do no good, and makes the passenger feel it's his fault. Jingle, Hancock County Bells! Up and down Sandusky Street, they went, Mr. Ransome Dunn and the Oil Man in their sleighs, racing every afternoon. Joe, with Schwartz's Grocery Delivery Wagon mounted on runners in- stead of wheels, and Gusty with Dennison, Karg & Schlee's meat delivery chariot likewise equipped, modestly took to the side streets. Sandusky Street sat behind its lace curtains watching the racing, deploring the questionable sport of "fast horses" but, true to its pioneer heritage, glorying in them just the same. Mr. Ransome Dunn was a taciturn man, all of whose stored up inhibitions seemed to have been let down in his racing activities, his two glorious bays symbolizing all his riotous freedom. The Oil Man drove two sorrels. He, too, was a silent individual, rich in unknown wealth as all the Oil Men were. His sleigh was all curves, painted in curly designs, but Mr. Ransome Dunn's cutter, glossy black, was built on more modern stragiht lines. The Oil Man's sleigh bells encircled his horses' middles, but Mr. Dunn's bells tinkled on the shafts. Hancock County, averse to innova- tions, leaned toward girdles. From the railroad tracks to Main Street and back they raced. There were anxious moments at either end of the course when the sleighs were carefully turned round, the horses got under way, the reins letting out more and more, the hooves sending up sprays of snow as they gained momen- tum, until all four horses were going full speed, manes flying, bells ringing, velvety noses smoking. Business was practically suspended at Main Street and humbler but none the less interested workers huddled down near the railroad tracks. Everybody but the two drivers themselves gave outward and visible signs of acute excitement. But there were furious waves of feeling traveling along those tightly held reins. They were curious and rather pathetic, those two men, so long fettered emotionally. Didn't they enjoy it all, thought unimaginative Sandusky Street? Ah - didn't they! If we could have seen, the flaming banners those two souls flaunted. All the pent up years of their lives, years of hard1 work, years of sacrifice, of repression, of youth bent to service instead of flung gaily to living- all these had contrived to stifle them. And they could not laugh not cheer nor shout nor sing. But their horses, ther beautiful fleet horses, brought a belated joy to them. Hancock County Tad its moments. B. ROSS The Preislied contest multiply. Mrs. Cyrus Marshall, president of the National Life Conser- vation Society, announces a poetic battle to com- memorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. "Since the Statue of Liberty is a monument dedicated to international friendship, By KIRKh SIMPSON W ASHINGTON, Feb. 18.- The big political parade of 1936 is off to such a flying start, with only a month of the year gone, as to bring amaze- ment to those with memories of pre- vious presidential campaign prelim- inaries. Search the files for decades back and nothing like it at so early a stage of the quadrennial battle is to be discovered. Even that frantic political year of 1912 affords no real parallel, for all the similarities otherwise to be found between 1912 and 1936 aside from the name Roosevelt. Actually, Theodore Roosevelt did not pitch his hat into the Republican presidential nomina- tion ring against President Taft un- til late in February, 1912. It was much later, during the Republican primaries, before the real fireworks,' leading up to the progressive bolt, began their preliminary sputtering. * * * i IN JANUARY, 1936, however, 'the biggest political figures are march- ing and counter marching before the radio mikes. Another Roosevelt has already delivered a two-chapter in- stalment of the reelection campaign he is expected to wage as his own chief spokesman. The whole galaxy of Republican nomination possibili- ties, from former President Hoover down, elbow each other for room "on the air." They jostle with Demo- crats who are disgruntled with the New Deal for time and space. The air will not have more of the hum of politics next October than it had in January, and it bids fair to be al- most continuous from now to election day. Is the political situation of today actually more tense than it was in 1912, or does it merely seem so, due to radio's place in the 1936 show? The nearest thing to an actual con- servative vs. liberal political realign- ment the country has known in any modern times was that 1912 Repub- lican clash of which the Democrats were for eight years political bene- ficiaries. Old party labels proved too strong then; they are still strong. What might have been the differ- ence in 1912 if radio had then sup- plemented the press in circulating the clamors of embattled political rivals? It is a fascinating thought. What might a nation-wide addition of tele- vision to other means of instant dis- tribution of news and views do to some future presidential campaign? ** * * rTHIS year there are still but dim- ly visible possibilities of actual rifts in both party lutes on the con- servative-liberal political fault line. Yet there is this new factor about the situation now as compared to 1912 and quite aside from any influ- ence radio and a quicker press dis- tribution of political news may have on the matter. This time the conservatives are not holding the fort of control of government. It flies a liberal flag. A dominant party bolt this year of ma- jor significance would be to the right, not the left as in 1912. That makes a lot of difference. As yet, however, even if both par- ties split, there is little to suggest an amalgamation of the factions across old party lines. What seemspmore probable is a variety of temporary blocs each retaining in some way the same old party labels. A Washington SBYSTANDER I WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, 1936 VOL. XLVI No. 94 Notices Life Annuities: 1. Life annuities or life insurance either or both may be purchased by members of the faculties from the Teachers Insur- ance and Annuity Association of America and premiums for either life Annuity or life Insurance, or both, may be deducted at the written re- quest of the policy-holder from the monthly pay roll of the University, and in such cases will be remitted directly to the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association by the Uni- versity. Or premiums may be re- mitted directly to the policy-holder, on the monthly, quarterly, semi-an- nual, or annual basis. The Secre- tary's office has on file blank ap- plications for Annuity policies, or life Insurance policies, rate books, annual reports, and specimen poli- cies, all for the convenience of mem- bers of the University staff desiring to make use of them. 2. 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For further information concern- ing these examinations call at 201, Mason Hall, office hours, 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 4:00. To Department Heads and Others Concerned: All time slips must be in the Business Office Feb. 21 to be in- cluded in the Feb. 29 payroll. Edna G. Miller, Payroll Clerk. All Students registered with the Employment Bureau, in both the gen- eral and the NYA divisions, are re- quested to bring their records up to date by adding their second semester schedules, and also any changes of address. This is important. J. A. Bursley, Dean of Students. J-Hop Attendants: All those who attended the J-Hop and wish to ob- tain their tickets may do so by call- ing at Room 2 University Hall any time after Wednesday, Feb. 19. Class of 1939, Literary: Freshmen dues will be payable Wednesday, Feb. 19. Representatives will be around to the various houses to collect. Phi Eta Sigma: All members in the group picture for the Ensian are re- quested to place their name under their picture, which will be at the Union Desk. Do this immediately. Badminton for Women Students: The doubles tournament for begin- ning students will start Friday, Feb. 21, and the women's singles on Wed- nesday, Feb. 24. Students sign on the board in Barbour Gymnasium until the draw is posted. Ice Hockey: All girls who are in- terested in playing ice hockey, please report with skates to the Coliseum on Tuesday and Thursday from 1:30 to 2:30. No admission fee charged. The New Gulliver: An unusually high interest in this picture forces us to remind our patrons to order their tickets early. The box office will be open Wednesday from 12:00-6:00 p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Academic Notices Chemistry 67E will meet in Room 300, Chemistry Building, M.W.F. at 11. Make-up examination for English 1 will be held Thursday night, 7-10, in 2225 Angell Hall. E. A. Walter. English 190. Honors Course for Juniors. Brief meetingsfor establish- ing schedule, 12 o'clock, Feb. 19, 2218 Angell Hall. Bennett Weaver. English 160, Sec. 2, will meet in 2003 Angell Hall instead of 1209 An- gell Hall, at 10 o'clock Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Paul Mueschke. Section 1 of English 154, Creative Writing, meets Tuesday and Thurs- day at 10 in Room 406 Library. English 140, Diction and Usage, meets in Room 2225 Angell Hall. R. W. Cowden. English 232, Studies in Elizabethan Literature, will meet for organization Wednesday at 4 o'clock in 2213 An- gell Hall. Ten Years Ago From The Daily Files Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1926 Stimulation of interest in the Bur- ton Memorial Campanile will be the purpose of a series of lectures plan- ned by the student council, the first of which will be given March 12 by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic ex- plorer and lecturer. Bingham, Utah - Workers con- tinued digging tonight in the debris resulting from the snow-slide in Sap Gulch, near here yesterday, despite the abandonment of hope that any of the entombed persons might yet be alive. 38 dead have been recovered, and 30 persons are still missing. Michigan's Varsity hockey team will face the Minnesota puck chasers in the third Conference game of the season at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Coliseum. Another game will be played with the Gophers tomorrow night at the same time and place. After several unsuccessful attempts to secure the services of Waldo Frank, famous American critic and novelist, English 298: Wednesday at Angell Hall. Morris P. Tilley. My section meets 7:30 in Room 3216 E. A. Walter. English 32, 72, 148: On account of illness Prof. P. L. Schenk will not meet his classes until Monday, Feb. 24. History 92: This course will meet in West Physics lecture during the sec- ond semester. Political Science 182, Recent Po- litical Thought. . This class will meet in Room 35 A.H., M.W.F. 8, and not in Room 2215 A.H. as announced, ; Political Science 52, Section 1. This class will meet in Room 35 A.H., M. W. F. 9, and not in Room 2215 A.H. as announced. Political Science 118 will meet in Room 2215 A.H., M.W.F. 9, and not in Room 35 A.H. as announced. Political Science 252: Political In- stitutions of Continental Europe. Mr. Heneman will meet students in this course Thursday at 1:30 in Room 2037 A. H. All students electing Sociology 201, Field Work, will please report to Room B, Haven Hall at five o'clock. any one, regardless of country, is welcome to Prof. O. J. Campbell of the English enter the contest, provided the poem is written department announced yesterday in English." The first prize is $50, the second, $20, that Mr. Frank will speak at 4:15 and the third, $10. It doesn't seem like much o'clock today in University Hall on and he hir, $0. t dosn' sem lke uch"The Revolution in Art and Litera- money to write a good poem about Liberty, TreR when defintions of that elastic word never were ture._ so stretchable. There is the liberty of the Liberty A group of prominent House Re-