PAGE2 TWO THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1924 J 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 use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published here- in. Entered at the postoffice, Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Subscription by carrier or mail, $.5o; 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 communication will receive no con- sideation. 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 Editor.................Verena Moran Night Editor..t.......Frederick K. Sparrow Telegraph Editor.........Leslie S. Bennetts Womens' Editor.............Gwendolyn Dew STAFF MEMBERS Louise Barley Marian Kolb Rosalea Spauldig Wenley B. Krouser Marion Walker J. Albert Laansma Dwight Coursey Marion Meyer Marthat Chase Mary Margaret Miller Wray A. Donaldson Matilda Rosenfeld Geneva Ewing Dorothy Wall Maryland E. lartloff BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 960 BUSINESS MANAGER CLAYTON C. PURDY Advertising Manager......Hi M. Rockwell Copywriting Manager......Noble D. Travis Circulation Manager.......Lauren C. Haight Publication Manager....... C. Wells Christie Account Managerr.............Byron Parker STAFF MEMBERS Florence E. Morse Florence McComb Charles L. Lewis Maryellen Brown TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1924 Night Editor-ROBT. S. MANSFIELD "The pursuit of truth is chi- merical. That is why it is so hard to say what truth is. There is no permanent absolute truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas. We can neither refine what we mean by truth nor be in doubt as to our meaning. Andf this I suppose must be due to the antiquity of the instinct that, on the whole directs us toward truth. We cannot self-vivisect ourselves in respect of such a vital function, though we can discharge it normally and eas- ily enough so long as we do not think about it ..g. An absolute lie may live-for it is a true lie, and is saved by being flecked with a grain of its opposite. Not so absolute truth. Whenever we push truth hard she comes to earth in contradic- tion in terms, that is to say, is falsehood . . . . Truth generally is kindness but where the two diverge or collide, kindness should override truth." -SAMUEL BUTLER. PANNING THE ADMINISTRATION Echoes from other student newspa- pers in the Conference to which we daily leand ear, proclaim . the fact that the favorite pastime of panning the university administration does not abate even during the hot and weary Summer months. From the editorial columns of one publication comes the lament that the administration is to blame for the poor condition of the swimming beach in the vicinity of the campus. Again we hear that a history course is not taught in an intelligent fashion, and still a third publication offers an ex- planation for student failures in the theory that all professors are narrow and arrogant in their attitude toward students. When students learn that co-opera- tion and investigation with the fac- ulty of. their institutions rather than blind attack is the more facile and less rocky road to reform, the publica- tion vs. the faculty problem will have been solved. In administrative problems the ad- vice not the antagonism of the stu- dent is to be sought. The good old ,hip on the shoulder makes kindling wood for a big or little fire of animosi- ty between the publication and its in- stitution. EDITORIAL COMMENT __1 OASTED OLL MORE WEEKS And now for the answer: Not many Today's helpful hint: Buy a fan- Adv. Taman. Patronized Daily Advertisers. MENTAL OLYMPICS (The New York Times) It has been rumored that the com- mittee in charge of the Olympic Games thought of reviving one phase of the ancient Greek festival which has been neglected in the modern edition. Poets and orators did not take part in the regular events at old Olympia, but they were an important factor in the side-shows. They also made them- selves useful by celebrating the tri- umphs of the celebrateers, the sprint- ers and the wrestlers. This custom might have meant the presentation at the Theater Francais or the Odeon of plays by the dramatists of all nations, or the bestowal by an international jury of first, second and third prizes for philosophical lectures delivered by, let us say, an Englishman, an Italian and an American at the Sorbonne. The project, however, was apparently too ambitious, and little has been heard of it. In behalf of such an Olympic festiv- al of the mind ywould be the improved chances for the little nations. Fin- land is an extraordinary exception from which no general rule can be deduced. The little peoples as a whole have not made much of a showing since the first modern games at Athens twenty-eight years ago. They have done much better in the intellec- tual Olympics that go by the name of the Nobel Prize. Out of 115 Nobel Prizes distributed since 1901 in physics, chemistry, medicine, litera- ture and peace, the small mationalities have carried off 35, or nealy one- third. Almost exactly one-half the number have gone to Scandinavia, Little Switzerland has won 8 prizes, Holland 6, Belgium 4, Austria 4. Ben- gal, which can scarcely be imagined as carrying off any decisive honors in the stadium, scored one Nobel winner in the person of Tagore. The lift to the right kind of national pride given by this kind of victory, in a field where numbers do not weigh so heavily, is not to be underestimated. Norway, as the country of Ibsen, Bjornson and Hamsun, or Belgium, as the country of Maeterlinck, bull much more largely in the eyes of the r orld than their population statistics might seem to justify. Suggestion has been made for the erection of a broadcasting station ai the Peace Portal erected on the Unit- ed States-Canadian border for thb dissemination of peace messages. The crumbs are awfully dusty, we know, but we're getting fed up on this here now summer school. Honest, now, aren't you, too? It's too Da-mn hot to work-even the holls are burn- ed. * * * The Campus Opinion of Sunday has brought a burst of protest and admir- ation from various and sundry of our contribs-from men and women, re- spectively. We print them all: 1 CYANIDE IS CONSIDERI) GOOD Dear Taman: Who is G. D., and why? Undoubted- ly, 'tis a woman. No one but a wom- an could write such ineffable guff and expect those who have been on the campus more than a year to take it seriosuly. There was some good stuff in it, but, oh, Taman-to think that we must be lectured to on a subject of "hide-bound prejudices!" It cuts me to the quick. Please tell me the best and fastest way to shuck off this mortal coil. ALOYSUS. *t It * SHE THANKS YOU Dear Taman: If you know G. D., will you please convey to her my heartiest congratu- lations? At last someone has express- ed the cause of the poor benighted co- ed. More power to her Corona! I, too, have become a cynic over the brutal treatment offered us at this in- stitution. ALICIA. MAYBE THERE ISN'T ANY Taman; Dear sir: Apropos of the Campus Opinion printed in Sunday's Daily, I feel the urge to write and ask who did it. I foreswear all thoughts of murder, but it would interest me to know. It was a fine piece of editorializing, I must admit?. but why not the whole works? How about the other side of the ques- tion? Good stuff, at that, though, let's have some more. By the way, I'm in that class of the outbursts of which you speak. I sin- cerely hope she read the rolls after the last spasm. If it happens again, we shall leave together. iLLUI. NATURE S'TUDIES Af1 ,A- Corns and Blistered Feet Bring Comfort to so few people in these days of Hot Cement and Hard Floors, to say noth- ing of shoes, too large for the wearer, that we joined the ranks of the Comfort Seekers, Don't Wear. I'l GROOMES' BATHING BEACH Whitmore Lake Refrcshments Of All Kinds Take Your Airplane Ride Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Big three-passenger plane. Smooth, safe flying. No stunts. $5.00 Each Passenger. End of Packard Street Car Line. Daily Excursion to PUT-IN-BAY Sflc One Round Trip $ 425 Sundays Way (Return Same Day) Holidays Leaves Detroit Daily 9 a. m. (E. T.) The finest exclusive excursion steamer, the Put-in-Bay, noted for its large ballroom, makes this trip a memorable one. Orchestra and dancing aboard, without extra charge. Cafeteria aboard. Four hours crammed with outdoor pleasures at Put-in-Bay-bathing-dancing- groves for lunching and athletic fields. See the wonderful Caves, and Perry's historic monument. Connections at Put-in-Bay with steamers for Cleveland. Toledo and Lakeside. Daily to Sandusky The Put-in-Bay goes to Sandusky every day. Fare-$1.50 one way. Special Friday Excursions to Cedar Point (After July 4th) A special excursion is made every Friday to Cedar Point-the fresh water rival to Atlantic City-the finest bathing beach in the world-large summer hotels, groves, and all outdoor amusements. Four hours at Cedar Point and seven hours at Put-in-Bay! Leaving Cedar Point at 5 p m. and Put-in-Bay at 7 p. m.; arrive back in Detroit 10:30 p. m. Fare-Cedar Point, $1.75.round trip; Put-in- Bay, 80 cents. Dancing Moonlights Write for Map Folder Leaves Detroit 8:45 p. m. Ashley & Dustin Fare, Wed., Thurs. 60c. Sat., Steamer Line Sun. and Holidays, 75c. Foot of First Street Detroit, Mich. I ~ s orns Ask Us at G. Claude Drake's Drug and Prescription Store Cor. North Univ. Ave. and State St. Phone 308 "The Quarry" Read The Daily "Classified" Columns DETERMINATION There are some men whom nothing can stop. An East Prussian school teacher wanted to fly. But he didn't have any too much money and so he decided to make his own flying machine. He gathered together some poles and tin cans and made a blider-a home-made heavier than air product without a motor. When he had finished his ma- chine he tried to enter it in a big gliding contest in Germany. But the judges decided that his machine was unsafe and ruled him out of the con test. The following year, the East Pruss ian school teacher had another ma chine entered in the gliding contest It was very much like his first one bu he had given it a coat of paint and i passed the contest judges. In hi crude, home made glider the schoo teacher broke the world's record, re maining in the air over 42 minutes. A similar case took place in a smal Illinois town. Here a man wantedo piano but he could not spare the money to purchase one. So he buil his own, a baby grand. It took himn two years to shape and assemble the 5,000 separate pieces. Now he has fin ished it and experts declare that i looks and sounds like the finest fac tory-made instrument. One man builds his own flying-ma chine; another, his own piano. Handicaps and obstacles can be overcome; these and a hundred oth er cases prove it. l 1 t L ., s t e (Editor's Note-This is the first of a series of articles on Nature written by a prominent scientist especially for Rolls. We offer this as an added at- traction.) Today's subject-is: The Hen and the Worm. In the photograph used to illustrate the topic, the reader will have to take the word of the writer in regard to the .sex of the beast. From the coy pose of the hen, we are to infer the attacks of hunger upon her gizzard which impel her to gaze in a hungry manner upon the worm, which in this case is of a rare spe- cies: that which is call "oli galiphor- us" due to its habit of standing on its head. Careful reseach is necessary to determine that it is the head upon which the worm is standing. Now that all this hasbeen gone over carefully, we shall ask today's question: "Does the Hen Eat the Worm, and if so, Why?" MATHEMATICS IN THE HOME At the request of certain students of the Engineering college, we have worked out a problem which has long been troubling the minds of those connected with the teaching of cal- culus. The problem is: If the strain on a bridge equals 2, and the tensil strength equals 2, how many wagons can pass over it in a day? We proceeded to formulate the fol- lowing equation: X3bvd + 14SCW sq - 3789430zlp equals the answer. We solved the equasion after a long and tedious strain on the mind. We 1 T4 insert our photograph taken while hard at work just to prove that we did it in our own head. Arcade raneh Formerly Jane Singleton Shop 8 Nickel's Arcade CLEARAN...CE SALE TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY Two Days Only To make room for some slight alterations which are to be made, also for the new stocks which will soon arrive, we will put on sale practically the entire stock taken over from Miss Singleton consisting of HIGH GRADE BLOUSES-SWEATERS-SILK UNDERWEAR-HOISERY- AND NOVELTIES. A Few of the Specials Sweaters, Values up to $6.75 at. . ........$2.95 Blouses, Values to $5.95 at...............$2.95 Those marked to sell up to $3.50 at.....=.$1.95 Those marked to sell up to $6.50 at........$2.95 I L L. t t s l l a e it e it e KNOW YOUR CAMPUS The memorial of which we1 hear the most is Tappan Oak held in veneration by all senior classes. This rugged old tree was given its name by the class of 1858. The seniors of that year, in order to supply the need of trees for shade and ornament- al purposes set out 48 maples in concentric circles around a native oack, each member plant- ing a tree. Most of the maples are either used or cut down to make room for the Library building; but Tappan Oak, situated just east of the new Library, still survives as a memorial to Chancellor Henry F. Tappan, first president of the university, for whom it was named.