PAGE TWO THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1924 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SUMMER SESSION Published every morning except Monday during the summer session. Member of the Associated Press. The As- sociated Press is exclusively entitled to the %se for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwisecredited in this paper and the local news published here- im Entered at the postoffice, Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Subscription by carrier or mail, $t.o. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building. Communications, if signed as evidence of good faith, will be published in The Summer Daily at the discretion of the Editor. Un- signed' communications will receive no con- sideration. The signature may be omitted in publication if desired by the writer. The Summer Daily does not necessarily endorse the sentiments expressed in the communica- tions. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephones 2414 and 176M MANAGING EDITOR ROBERT G. RAMSAY News Editor...........Robert S. Mansfield Chairman of the Editorial Board...... ............... .Andrew E. Propper City Edito;r............Verena Moran Night Editor..t.......Frederick K. Sparrow Telegraph Editor......... Leslie S. Bennetts Womens' Editor.............Gwendolyn Dew STAFF MEMBERS Louise Barley Marian Kolb Rosalea Spaulding Wexley B. Krouser Marion Walker J. Albert Laansma Dwight Coursey Marion Meyer Marthat Chase Mary Margaret Miller Wray A. Donaldson Matilda Rosenfeld G;.eneva Ewing Dorothy Wall Maryland E. Ilartloff. BUSINESS STAFF . Telephone 960 BUSINESS MANAGER CLAYTON C. PURDY Advertising Manager....... Hil M. Rockwell Copywriting Manager....Noble D. Travis Circulation Manager.......Lauren C. Haight Publication Manager........ C. Wells Christie Account Manager.............Byron Parker STAFF MEMBERS Florence E. Morse Florence McComb Charles L. Lewis Maryellen Brown SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1924 Night Editor-ROBT. S. MANSFIELD "When I was young I had need of frequent self-solicitations and admonitions to keep me to my duty; gayety and health, it is said, do not so well agree with those grave and serious medita- tions; I am at present in an- other condition; indispositions of age do but too much adver- tise and preach to me. From the the excess of sprightliness I am fallen into that gravity, which is ; more troublesome; and for that reason purposely suffer myself to run into some little liberties and sometimes unbend my mind with youthful and foolish thoughts, in which to divert it- ; self. I am grown now but too full, too 'heavy, and too ripe; my years read every day new lec- tures to me of coldness and temperance. . . . Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. There- l fore, lest I should wither, dry up, and overcharge myself with prudence, in the intervals and truces which my infirmities al- low, I gently decline it, and turn away my eyes from the stormy and frowning sky I have before me, and amuse myself in the re- miembrance of my past youth. Let fancy look forward and age backward: Is not this the significance of Janus' double face? Let years haul me along if they will, but it shall be back ward- MICHAEL MONTAIGNE. THE ECONOMIC MAN The Economic Man is a creature of the imagination. It was probably be- cause of him that Carlyle called econ- omics the "dismal" science. There was a time when economists flattered them- selves that they had solved the whole problem of existence. They studied the material life of man and observed the rules that governed it; they ob- served the working of money, the functions of labor, the uses of land, and the advantages of capital; they formulated weighty laws regarding the advantages of large scale production, specialization, and free trade; and their conversation was full of jaw- breaking phrases such as "diminish- ing returns," "comparative costs" and other ystic balderdash. Then, having discovered the rules of material existence, economists pro- ceeded to build up an abstraction which they called the Economic Man. This was a being motivated solely by the desire for food, clothing, and shelter. He calculated his every move wholly in monetary terms, carefully distinguishing "effective" and "gen- eric" importance, never working too far down on the scale of diminishing xeturns, fully aware Qf the advaut- ages of co-operation and specializa- tion in his family life. To economists, man had ceased to be a creature of fears, loves, emotions, .prejudices, passions, hopes, ambitions, and aspirations. He became an ani- mated machine and they talked about him as though he were really a ma- chine whose whole course of exist- ence might be charted and his happi- ness assured simply by the applica- tion of their laws. Nowadays we study economics but no wise economists will attempt to solve life on the basis of materialism. He realizes that man is a curious crea- ture who possesses something vague -a soul, or call it what you will. He takes into consideration the fact that man will not always act for his own comfort, and even go hungry; that he is often extraordinarilv tenacious of his beliefs and prejudices; in brief, that man cannot be set in motion like a mechanism and told to run. But the non-economic man is a far more interesting creature. Fortun- ately for the human race, the Econ- omic Man did not last long. BUY A TAG On Tuesday,bthesSummer School students will be asked to contribute to the fund for the maintenance of the boys' summer fresh air camp, conducted at Patterson lake under the direction of the Student Christian as- sociation. Three hundred dollars are hoped for as a result of the sale of the tags. This sum is necessary if the camp is to be continued. The slogan of the day will be "Send a kid to camp!" The Fresh Air camp conducted by the University of Mich- igan is an institution worthy of the support of students. The gift of busi- ness men friends, it affords an oppor- tunity for boys.of the poor classes of Detroit, juvenile court cases, to spend a few days vacation where they oth- erwise would have none, and to come in contact with University men, a fact which may be measured ultimate- ly in the result of many of them ac- quiring the desire for a University education that may bring them to the institutions of higher learning. EDITORIA LCOMMENT I SO THIS IS GOVERNMENT (Baltimore Evening Sun) Government, the word, the idea, the abstraction which embodies ideals of law and order, safety, prosperity and swift punishment visited upon those who would destroy it, is one thing. Government in practical operation, alas! is another. Little Americans, from the time that they rare able to lisp the word until they are old enough to have doubts, are taught that gov- ernment is the bulwark of their libert- ies, the rock upon which our present well-being and future hopes are build- ed. Older Americans observe the ef- fort of government to function, and find there is as much difference be- tween the theory of government and actual government as there is between the automobile catalogue and the auto- mobile. Naturally these sentiments are based on something. Two somethings, in fact. They were picked casually, as it were, from one ptage of The Sun of even date. In the one instance it appears that the Congress of the United States in the fullness of its wisdom passed an immigration law which it is now the duty of the Department of Labor to enforce. But it also appears that no- body in the Department of Labor or the State Department or any other de- partment knows what the darned thing means, and won't until Congress in the fullness of its wisdom passes another law explaining it. In the other instance it appears that the Tariff Commission has been torn asunder over the ethics of members sitting in on cases in which the deci- sion will affect their pecuniary inter- ests. To settle that vexed question Congress in the fullness of its wisdom nassed a special act, definitive and ex- planatory. And now the Tariff Com- mission has not only the ethical ques- tion but the act of Congress to un- tangle, a problem further complicated to a condition of hopelessness by an opinion of the Comptroller-General. Such is government in action. To hold it in contemplation for long at a time would be enough to shake the faith of the fathers who created it.. Unless something is done to prevent those of this day and generation from gazing at the thing long and earnestly, it is going to be hard to make them swallow even the theory of govern- ment. Perhaps we will have to admin- ister it to the young mixed in an ice- cream soda, or at least coax little Johnny to shut his eyes and hold his nose. CAMPUS OPINION A CO-EDS DREAM To the Editor: The co-ed that wentto Michigant had two dreams-one a nightmare and one a dream of peace. Looking back, and attempting to analyse these dreams all authorities agreed that the time spent in Michigan, both (luring the regular year, and during the Sum- mer Session, had effected the sub- conscious mind of the girl, and she lived again in the time she had spent in the great institution which pro- duces wisdom. The nightmare had a bad effect on the co-ed. It made her snobbish, and rather cynical. The story of the nightmare seemed to stretch over about eight months, from September to June. During that time the word "co-ed" became an anathema. It's used implied a girl without brains who came to Ann Arbor to snare the un- watchful male. It made certain groups of men bar her from their company7, the same men who at home were her friends. Friendships of long standing were broken because she chose Mich- igan as her Alma Mater. Her girl friends who went to western schools were imported for parties, and were praised as being wise enough to stay away from Michigan. Of course she made many friends among the male students-those who realized that the day when men and women may meet on equal grounds on the educational field, and who re- spected her wisdom in selecting Mich- igan as the place to form a foundation for her life. The attitude of the Pres- ident of the University was one pro- ductive of good results among many of the students. On the other hand there were certain professors who forwarded the attitude of ridicule to- ward womanhood. 'In one class the professor daily scorned women in his lectures. Men sat laughing at jokes that held up in no way the ideal to which educated men should cling, regarding the wo- men who occupy a place in the world they were working towards. The whole attitude of the Universi- ty was one of "rassing the co-ed." Men that approached here were suppos- ed at once to turn into tea-hounds, and no longer be manly products of a great University. The girl who was undergoing the nightmare came to have less and less respect, both for womanhood which she represented, and the intelligence of manhood which was demonstrated to her daily. She became cynical, and scornful o attaining friendships among men about her. The school year passed, and in- terest in her studies became mixed with attempts to gain an acquaintance with and try to get the viewpoint of, the men in her school. Then in June the girl dreamed a dream that changed her ideals. She came to the Summer Session of the University. The place was not the same. The co-ed was accepted on equal terms. Every place was open to her. A saner view of life and re- lationships between man and woman became realized. In the classroom, and on the cam- pus the "co-ed" was not scorned. She was a part of the life that was live about her. She regained confidence in herself and in men's intelligence. She gained a view of what Univer- sity life can be like when men lose the prejudices of former years, an forget the traditions that were es- tablished 50 years ago, and should have been discarded 25 years ago. The question which now arises is whether the co-ed will be able to retain this new view when she returns to school next year? Will the night- mare continue or will there be a change toward the co-ed's dream? Will the University ever become a place where normal relations be- tween men and women will be up- held, and a striving towards the ideals of the best in womanhood be observ- ed? Where bide-bound prejudices are broken, and old-time traditions be allowed to go by the ways? G. D.I Let us learn to see, but without looking too closely at things and men; they look better from a distance. Women do not mind ill-usage se much, because the strongest position for a womai is that of a victim. The reputation of a thousand years can be determined by the conduct of bne hour. A sorrow is an itching place that is made worse by scratching. Perhaps the trouble with old age is that few persons know how to be old. Read the Want Ads I, - 1 Text Books and Supplies GRAHAM'S Both Stores " DRUGS KODAKS Colgate's Watchcase Compact Compact, Powder and Rouge SEE THIS THE LAST WORD IN COMPACTS Calkin s Fletcher Drug Company THREE DEPENDABLE STORES 324 S. State. CANDY Corner E. and S. University Aves. Corner S. State and Packard Sts. SODA WATER r 44 rf i h- , I 6 IRVING WARMOITS, D. S. C. Chiropodist and Orthopedist 707 N. University. Phone 2652 P , A' i r Thermos Jugs and Bottles Have added wonders to the out-of-doors picnic If you do not know the beauties of the hills around Ann Arbor, you are mis- sing a treat only a poet can describe. I Buy a bottle. Use it. Enjoy may. Nature while you An electric hair dry- er gives a current of warm or cold air, as desired, drying the hair quickly. Royal make, $20. Curling one's hair electricallynis easy. Aluminum comb is a convenient hair dry- er. Curling irons, $4 to $5. Ask us at at HEALTH SERVICE OPEN The privilege of the University Health service will be extended to all students of the University Summer session. The Health service is located at the corners of Washtenaw and Volland ave- nues and will be open from 9 to 12 o'clock daily except Sundays and from 2 to 5 o'clock, Satur- days and Sundays excepted. All students who care to take ad- vantage of it are given free med- ical service. Physicians are available at all times by calling the Health ser- vice infirmary, University 186-M. G. Claude Drake's Drug and Prescription Store Cor. North Univ. Ave. and State St. Phone 838 "The Quarry" AFTER SWIMMING USE THESE AIDS You'll enjoy swimming a whole lot more this summer if you have these electric servants to relieve you of the difficulties usually attendant upon drying and curling your hair. Constructed to last for years. Cost little to operate. The Detroit Edison Co. Main at William Telephone 2300 11 pp