PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, A^. 9, 1916 II IT SO HAPPENS...' * This Is A Tough Racket Life Since 1929 Dept. THIS COLUMN has been waiting for reper- cussions for months. Semi-frontal assaults on half the sacred cows in America had appar- ently spent themselves in what seemed to be a vacuum. Then suddenly burst upon us a number of Grade A cap pistol reports which can only be described as legion. First on the list is from the city of the over- sized sport shirts, Hollywood, California. Taking mild and conciliatory exception to the surmise that the advertising manager for David O. Selz- nick productions was a graduate of Pasadena Junior High, the publicity man in question points out that he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1929, and hopes that in the in- terests of accuracy we'll so inform our readers. Had he stopped there, we would have contented- ly held our peace-a skill highly developed during four years at war. But the man is apparently unable to recog- nize frank, outright hostility when it draws a .45, and consequently carries on for three pages in a letter whose inanity is equalled only by its length. The following passage is typical, "Please pretend you are I for a moment and try to understand what it is like to have lost touch with your campus for 17 pack-jammed years." We don't like the use of I' in this column, our imagination is not up to making a Selznick salary, and if jampacked was good enough for my father it's not too good for the Selznck lot. The rest of the letter is pack-jammed with references to a movie (which shall hencefor- NIGHT EDITOR: ANN KUTZ Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Educators Must Meet Challenge DEAN KENISTON told the Michigan College Association Monday that students must be encouraged to enter denominational schools, junior colleges, and other comparatively small institutions because the state's three large col- leges, the University, Michigan State College, and Wayne University, are already filled to capacity. The dean's statement has been paralleled re- cently in similar meetings aross the nation. Educators estimate that approximately 500,000 veterans will seek admission to colleges in 1946, and that total college applications for the coun- try will reach 2 million by 1950. Pre-war enroll- ment figures show that 1,500,000 was the top number of students registered in the nation's colleges at any one time. Even if we assume that our educational facilities have not yet been fully expanded, we can still expect to find a few hun- dred thousand prospective collegians shopping around next semester for a school which will take them. The gravest danger resulting from this un- fortunate shopping spree will be the growth of hastily set-up colleges offering an Inade- quate curriculum dispensed by incompetent instructors. Dr. Thomas N. Barrows, national director of the American Council of Educa- tion's accreditation committee told Kansas and Missouri officials last week that the problem was nation-wide in scope. These schools, he said, might profit from the fact that veterans would overflow the classroom capacities of the legitimate colleges, thus niaking many easy prey for speed-up courses and so-called refresher courses. Although the Association has taken a com- mendable step in discussing the redistribution of students, it should soon draw up some con- crete plan to find places in accredited colleges for those seeking higher education and safeguard the veteran from a fleecing in education by sat- isfactorily meeting the competition from these fly-by-night schools. -Aniette Shenker Ku Kiuxers N A NATION which has castigated such organ- izations as the Storm Troopers of Nazi Ger- many and the police organizations of Japan, it seems impossible that the Klu Klux Klan has managed to exist as long as it has. It is another example of ignoring trouble in your own back yard to look for trouble in another. The United States government has done noth- ing to interfere with KKK functions, and as a result it is again operating. There are still dis- tricts in the South where inquiries are made to discover the religion of a new resident, and where the new resident dares not admit he is a Catholic. There are still regions where a flaming cross can be seen burning at night. AT PRESENT New York state, fearing the KKK which has recently shown signs of emerging from- its 'underground hide-out, has taken definite steps to do away with the society. An order has been obtained by Attorney Gen- eral Nathaniel L. Goldstein from the Supreme Court which permits him to start action to va- cate the Klan's certificate of incorporation and annul the corporate existence of the organization. Because it will probably be impossible for him to find a person upon whom he can serve sum- vti oInn"Ina o ~iv nfin b Tnbliaon andri ward go unnamed in these columns) and this playful character's memories of the Michigan of '29. Noting with what we think a remarkably original touch that times have changed since he was here our friend recalls, "Back in the days when I was an undergraduate there, my fraternity had a ruling (quite silly, I think)"- that's our boy talking, not us-"that none of the member brothers should go out with coeds .. And now the boys and girls play soft-ball to- gether right out in the open. I tell you, it's really wonderful!-but really." Then to talk about an old buddy of his at Michigan who's pounding out smashes for, of all people, the Selznicks. One of said buddy's chief smashes is Tender Comrade, voted by PT Boat 342, the hammiest picture of the Southern Pacific year. Don't hold it against him, the kid has a good heart-he wishes us well in our campaign against publicity mongers. The whole thing sounds very impossible to us-like the Czar asking Lenin to step in for a drink some evening. * '* * * Indirect Information SECOND on our lengthless list is another show- man and a wired broadside from Chicago. This one is a topnotch Broadway producer whose show is still running despite what's happened to every other theater in the Loop as Chicago's brownout gets browner. Afraid that our fearless readers might hesi- tate in the face of John L. -Lewis and lack of a portable power unit, he wants us to know at press rates that intrepid travellers may still see his musical comedy. . We give the good word to you in mysterious, non-commercial fashion, adding only that our onceover of the show in question indicated that the brownout wouldn't hurt it very much. * * * * You Said It, Son WE'VE GOT LOCAL COMPLAINTS and re- quests too. A quixotic Engineering student indicates disapproval of our kitchen cynicism as it pertains to the Lawyers' Club, and uses poetry and Tin Pan Alley to chide us. Dear Sir: Are deserving targets for mud so scarce that "we" must aim at 77 cent dinners under the auspices of the "monastic four hundred" of the Lawyers' Club (you might, at least, have gotten the name right). Honestly, Sir, don't you think "we" could acquire some understanding with our wisdom- and, perhaps, even more wisdom ? -Surely "we" haven't forgotten that Patrick Henry, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln, dedi- cated part of their existence to Blackstone. Remarks such as yours do not make friends, nor do they accomplish anything worthwhile- Editorial Columns might offer wisdom, not sophomoric smartness-" We might remember that "Life is not easy as we know it on the earth," and, to the words of an old song, "Try a little tenderness"- -Franklyn Thomas I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: M Curious Hunger By SAMUEL GRAFTON IHAVE JUST DRIVEN about 400 miles, from Manteo, North Carolina, to New York; and roadside America, stretched out endwise in the sun, appears much as it did before the war. There are few servicemen, and these few no longer seem to expect lifts; they have become people beside the road. There is a good deal of roadbuilding; and many seaside cottages and other such flimsies are going up; but almost no houses are being built for people who merely want to stay in their own towns and live. It seems much easier to ob- tain facilities for a holiday than for routine life. Shortages are sporadic and inconsequential. The Cape Charles-to-Norfolk ferry steamer has no sugar on the way down, and no butter on the way back; but it has bacon and eggs and Smithfield ham and roast beef and milk. It also has fat for frying potatoes. The shortages at some roadside stops make no sense except on a profit basis, somewhere back down the line; there will be white, uncolored margarine in- stead of butter, and no cream, but there will be plenty of ice cream. The ice cream pipeline seems full on the American roadside. So is the fresh meat pipeline; a girl at a sandwich joint trims the fat from steaks for sandwiches, and the red, juicy pile on the table mounts above her elbows as she works. But suddenly the place runs out of charcoal, for cooking the meat. The effects of price control can be felt, but these, too, are spotty. In some establishments, drug stores, and filling stations the prices of common, small articles are about what they were before the war, and it is as if the war had not been. A fine, pleasant room at the Hotel Wicomio, in Salisbury, Maryland, comes to $2.50. But, later on, one finds oneself paying almost two-thirds of that amount for a good breakfast, and this ratio of breakfast price to room price seems curious, and wrong. But salesmanship is on the way up, and roadside coquetries have begun again, and men and women try to sell rabbitts, live for playing with, or dressed for eating; and peaches, and holly, and eggs, and oak-leaf mold. THERE IS A NOTE of crankiness in roadside and other casual conversations. Some of the talk is about jobs; it seems there is a shortage of good help for poor jobs, and of good jobs for good help. It is a distorted situation, almost as if there are more people ready to invest money in opening restaurants, than are willing to work in them as waiters or waitresses. At onerather good place two waitresses dance together to the juke box, while the patrons smile and wait; in a drug store a girl pulls sodas in a low-cut party dress, announcing to all present that her date is waiting. These are like the last fillips of the war-time extravangza; brave little repeats of a. wild song already ended. And the road unwinds, and the route markers gleam, and it is as if the people were settled down beside the highway for a kind of wait. One can almost feel the attention of America retreating from the far places, and concentrating again on the local half-acre; and it is will you buy my oak-leaf mold, sir?; and men are meeting in Paris on grave questions but this has become again a job for specialists, as remote from the highway stand as is the quartering moon. Last year this time there was a touch of the mirac- ulous in the air, of full employment and a magi- cal reconversion; but now it is, as I say, a kind of wait; a period in our affairs that is strangely fat, yet wears a curiously hungry look. (Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate) oiCetterJ 20o f/lw6Iditor Arab Viewpoint To the Editor:L IT WAS with great surprise that weC read Prof. Preston Slosson's viewsV regarding the question of "More JewsF to Palestine" in the Michigan Daily of May 4. It was our sincere hopea that the article was an unfortunate misinterpretation of Prof. Slosson'sp opinions, and we looked forward to 1 find a contradiction of that report by Prof.aSlosson himself. As Mr. Slos-s son, does not seem to have made any move to reject these views, we find it incumbent upon us to express our astonishment that a history pro- fessor of his caliber should allow such irresponsible judgments and unscien- tific conclusions to be attributed to himself. In particular do we wish to refer to the contentions that: "Al- though Arab prosperity has multi-_ plied considerably since the firstA Jewish entry into the state, Mohame-s dan fanaticism and Arabian chau-a vinism sets the Arabs against fur-t ther Jewish immigration." With regard to this statement weA beg to ask Prof. Slosson what ex-a actly he means by "Mohamedan fa- naticism and Arab chauvinism," and what scientific and historical criter- ia he has for so naming the Arab attitude of resenting any further im- migration of Jews or any other peo-h ples into his own homeland. Would t the professor also describe the Amer-i ican attitude of limiting Jewish orh any other immigration to the U.S.n as a form of chauvinism and fanatic-V ism, especially when America is theo richest country in the world while Palestine is, in the Prof.'s own words, "a country barely the size of Ver-t mont and equally as rocky"; and es- F pecially when American prosperity inc both industry and commerce has in-C creased so many times since the ad- vent of the few million Jews into it? Or does the professor mean bya Arab chauvinism that the Jews haved been maltreated by the Arabs soc-r ially and politically, previous to thisi new immigration of European Jewse since the Balfour declaration? If so,v we beg to remind the professor that8 the Arabs were almost the only peo-a ple in the world who treated "the wondering Jew" on an equality basis,s while America, for example, the sup-n posedly most liberal country, for- bids the Jews from joining many so many of their important institutions. Furthermore, it is extremely unfort- unate that our professor of historyn should contend that "the Arabs mustA be brought to reason," if they con-r sider their homeland as belonging1 to themselves and not to Hitler orc England or America.q -Monir Kashmiry fort The Arabian students of U. of M.- * * *t Football Tickets To the Editor: I BEG to differ with Mr. Crisler on his statement that an increaseA of 7,000 students means a loss ofs $100,000 for the coming football sea-. son. At most the loss can be only2 $28,000. I believe that $28,000 is a7 maximum figure for I am assuming a $4.00 fee for the Army game and also that all eligible students will make use of 'their athletic privileges.e Army vs. Michigan will probablyt be the only contest which will play to a capacity crowd and where 7,-t 000 tickets could be sold to outsid- ers. For all the other contests I am almost certain that there will be at least 7,000 seats available in our huge stadium and the tickets held by the student body would there-s fore not force the management to turn people away.t If you desire a price increase, Mr. Crisler, go ahead and do it, but don't blame it on the students; we have enough trouble already. On the other hand, we must always keep in mind that the games are played by students and for students primarily. -Donald F, Walker From A Purist To the Editor: MISERABLE SUPERLATIVES are out of order in my reaction to the glory of this year's May Festival. But I wonder if the spirits of Bach and Beethoven are not a bit piqued at not having been called on at all to enter into our joy. Do these mighty souls have contact with our mortal music? If so, are they capable of feeling a slight? On second thought, however, I feel confident their jealousy has not been aroused. If they are aware of what we do here, they would have noticed too the girl sitting near me who knit- ted through the entire Brahms con- cert. And who knows - probably there was someone with a vest-pocket radio' keeping in touch somewhat with the Tigers' game? -Clarence Boersma DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Margaret W. Andersen, Home Service Director, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company. 2 p.m. Conference Room, t West Lodge.I Friday, May 10: Leadership: Dr.C Fred G. Stevenson, Extension Staff "How to get democratic group action. and Parliamentary Procedures." 8E p.m. Conference Room. West Lodge.E Friday, May 10: May Dance, 8:30- t 11:30. Auditorium, West Lodge. f Saturday, May 11: Dancing Clas- t ses: Beginners, couples, 7 p.m.; Ad- vanced, couples, 8 p.m., Auditorium,g West Lodge.c Sunday, May 12: Classical Music, { records, 3 p.m. Office. E Lectures The Henry Russel Lecture. Dr. Elizabeth C. Crosby, Professor ofI Anatomy, will deliver the Henry Rus-1 sel Lecture for 1945-46. "The Neuro-t anatomical Patterns Involved in Cer- tain Eye Movements." at 4:15 p.m., today in the Rackham Amphitheatre.c Announcement of the Henry Russel1 Award for this year will also be made1 at this time. * Academic Notices Doctoral Preliminary Examinationst in Education: Anyone desiring tot take the Doctoral Preliminary Exam- inations in Education, which will be held on June 6, 7, and 8, shouldc notify the office of Dr. Clifford Woody, 4000 University High School, of their desires before May 15. Mathematics Orientation and His- tory Seminar, today at 3:00 p.m., Rm. 3001 AH. Mr. Keeler will con-, clude his discussion of Geometric Construction. Directed Teaching, Qualifying Ex- amination: All students expecting to do directed teaching next term are required to pass a qualifying exam-, [nation in the subject in which they expect to teach. This examination will be held on Saturday, May 11, at 8:30 a.m. Students will meet in the auditorium of the University High1 School. The examination will con- sume about four hours' time; prompt- ness is therefore essential. Concerts Student Recital: The Wind Instru- ments Department of the School of Music will present a program in Har- ris Hall at 1:00 p.m., Friday, Mayt 10. It will consist of bassoon, clarinet, cornet, and oboe solos, a woodwind quintet, and a brass choir. Under the direction of Professor Revelli, the recital will be open to students in, the University.- Exhibitions The 23rd Annual Exhibition for Artists of Ann Arbor and Vicinity, presented by the Ann Arbor Art As- sociation. The Rackham Galleries, daily except Sundays, through May 23; afternoons 2-5, evenings 7-10. The public is cordially invited. Michigan Historical Collections. "Public Schools in Michigan," special exhibit for the Michigan Schoolmas- ters Club. Hours: 8:00 to 12:00, 1:30 to 4:30 Monday through Friday; 8:00 to 12:00 Saturday Events Today All School of Music composition students will meet in Rm. 506 Burton Tower today from 10-12 a.m., instead of the usual time on Friday. They will be excused from all conflicting classes in the School of Music for this special meeting. Guest speakers will be Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, and Quincy Porter. Theory majors are invited to attend. Composition students will be permitted to bring one guest each. Attention men chemists and chem- ical engineers: Prof. H. B. Lewis will give an illustrated talk on "Hor- mones" at the spring Chem Club meeting, today in Rm. 303 Chem. Bldg., at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments. The Undergraduate Education Club will meet today at 4:00 p.m. in the Elementary School Library. Mr. Donald Edwards will lead a round-table discussion on the Eng- fish School-system. All students who are interested in education are invit- d. The Modern Poetry Club will meet tonight at 7:30 in Rm. 3231 Angell Hall. Professor Abel will lead the dis- cussion on Gerard Manley Hopkins. International Center: All inter- ested students. American and For- eign, are cordially invited to attend the informal tea in the International Center today at 4:30 p.m. The Egyp- tian students enrolled in the Univer- sity will be guests and a talk will be given by Mr. Abdellatif Ahmed Aly n theidisplay of Ancient Egypt and Christian era relics. Mr. Aly is an expert on Egyptian Papyri. Coming Events The Research Club will meet Wed- nesday, May 15, at 8:00 p.m., in the Rackham Amphitheatre. There will be the annual election of officers. The following papers will be present- ed: "The Development of the Use of Capital in France, 1815-48," by Professor A. L. Dunham, and "Some Physiological Aspects of the Resis- tance of the Respiratory Tract to In- fectious Disease," by Professor W. J. Nungester. The Geological Journal Club will meet in Rm. 4065, Nat. Si. Bldg. on Friday, May 10, at 12:15 p.m.. Program: John Bayless will discuss "Conference on aining in geology, G.S.A." All int ested are cordially invited to attend. University of Michigan Section of the American Chemical Society will meet Friday, May 10, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 151 Chem. Building. Dr. W. Conard Fernelius. professor of chemistry at Purdue University, will speak on "The Structure of Coordin- ation Compounds." The public is cordially invited. Members of the AIEE: The Univer- sity of Michigan Branch of the AIEE will hold a field trip to Sparks With- ington Co., Jackson, Michigan, May 10, for members only. Those plan- ning to attend should be in front of the Union on Friday at 12:30. The bus will leave at this time. The Graduate Outing Club is plan- ning an afternoon of outdoor sports on Sunday, May 12. Those interested should pay the supper fee at the checkroom desk in the Rackham Building before noon Saturday and should meet at 2:30 Sunday in the Outing Club rooms in the Rackham Building. Use northwest entrance. The Angell Hall Observatory will be open to visitors on Friday, May 10, from 8:30 to 10:30, if the sky is clear, to observe the Moon and Jupiter. If the sky is cloudy or nearly cloudy, the Observatory will not be open. Child- ren must be accompanied by adults. Wesleyan Guild and Westminister Guild will have a Box Social Friday night from 8:30 to 12:00 in the Guild Lounge of the Methodist Church. Boxes should contain food for two. There will be dancing later in the evening. Further information may be obtained by calling 6881. Insight Picnic: If you worked on Insight and have not made your res- ervation for the picnic Saturday, May 11, call Lane hall at once. The group will leave Lane Hall at 2:30 prompt- ly. Those on the SRA council are also invited to attend. International Center: All persons intending to attend the International Center's picnic Saturday, May 11, please sign up on the Center's Bullet- in Board. The picnic will start promptly at 2:00 p.m. from the Cent- er. All students, Foreign and Amer- ican, are cordially invited to attend. Further details may be obtained in the Center. International Center: The Puerto Ricans, their friends, and all inter- ested American students are cordial- ly invited to attend the "Puerto Rican Night", Sunday, May 12. The program will begin in Rooms 316-320 of the Michigan Union promptly at 7:30. Prof. Dow Baxter of the Forest Pathology Dept., will illustrate - his lecture with movies taken in Puerto Rico during his last visit to that country. The program will be con- cluded with refreshments and a Sing in the Center. by by (Items appearing in this column are written members of the Daily editorial staff and edited the Editorial Director.) WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Senators' Go By DREW PEARSON rTHE MOST EFFECTIVE LOBBYING done in Congress for many years is done by those two spokesmen of tfie so-called cotton bloc, Sena- tors John Bankhead of Alabama and Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, who, while vigorously opposing curbs on cotton, have been trading, either personally or through their families, on the cotton market. Senator Thomas' cotton trading has- been through Robert Harriss of Harriss and Vose, 60 Beaver Street, New York, with the account carried in the name of the senator's wife, Edith. Bob Harriss is an old and intimate friend of the senator's and of other senators in the cotton bloc. At one time, Harriss handled the cotton trading of Senator Bankhead of Alabama, and was also extremely close to the late Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina. THOMAS' RECENT COTTON speculations, however, are especially interesting and ap- pear to be closely related to his speeches on the Senate floor. Mr. Harriss, who handles the Harriss family's cotton-trading account, is in and out of the sen- ator's office every week or so. They are very warm friends. The Thomas purchases never go more than 5,000 bales, which is the legal limit for cotton, and usually the Thomas trading is through pools which generally run up to 20,000 bales. Investigation shows that the Harriss and Vose firm was trading in cotton-and very heavily- between the dates of March 4 and 7, between March 20 and April 4 and between April 8 and 12. Harriss and Vose trading at this time was largely for its customers and the firm was careful to break no market regulations. If you compare the dates of the Harriss and ottonInterests Vose' cotton-trading and the dates of speeches made by Senator Thomas, Senator Bankhead plus other members of the cotton bloc in Wash- ington, the similarity is significant. Heavy operations by Harriss and Vose were between March 29 and April 4. On March 28, cotton futures were selling for about 27.40 cents, at which time, according to the Wall Street Journal, "cotton futures rose $1.35 to $1.85 a bale on a late rush of buying orders stimulated by the possibility that the Pace Bill would be adopted by the Senate. The rally was touched off by the plea of Senator Thomas (Dem., Okla.) for high- er farm prices in supporting tacking on of the Pace measure to the Minimum Wage Bill. All futures made 22-year highs." The next Harriss and Vose operation was be- tween April 8 and 12. The date April 8 is signifi- cant, because, next day, Congressman Stephen Pace pressed for early action on his bill in the House of Representatives. The cotton market soared. Then on April 12, Congressman Pace announced that he would not attach his amend- ment to other legislation but that it must stand on its own merit. This meant, of course, that it would not pass; so the cotton market dropped. Simultaneously the Harriss and Vose operators got out of the market. While it is not illegal for a senator or his family to speculate on the cotton market or for him to give tips to his friends, it seems only fair that the public should have the right to know about his operations and be able to form its own judgment for or against price control or on any other subject. That is why Secretary of Agricul- ture Clinton P. Anderson is being urged to investigate the cotton futures market. (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc,) Fifty-Sixth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. BARNABY Can the police read an invisible letter, Mr. O'Malley? Written by an Invisible Leprechaun? Soitoinly. I climb in the ice box. The inside light goes out. Time passes. The , ,, - . , ... . By Crockett Johnson A formidable array of facts. But wait-Cushlamochree! 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