TWO THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1924 I OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN f SUMMER SESSION Published every morning except Monday during the sunmmier session. Member of the Associated Press. The As- sociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatchesj credited to it or not otherwise credited inl this paper and the local news publishedthere- in.f Eutered at the postoffice, Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter., Subscription by carrier or mail, $t.5 O. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building.' Communications, if signed as evidence oft good faith, will he published in The Summer1 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 24t4 and 176-M MANAGING EDITOR ROBERT G. RAMSAY News Editor.. ....Robert S. Mansfield Chairman of the Editorial Board. . ..........Andrew E. Propper City Editor.......... .......Verena Moran Night Editor..............John W. Conrad Night Editor...........Frederick K. Sparrow Telegraph Editor........... Leslie G. Bennets Womens' Editor........... Gwendolyn Dew STAFF MEMBERS Margaret Wrentmore Francis O'Melia Louise Barley Marion Walker Rosalea Spaulding Leonard A. Keller Virginia Bales Saul Hertz Hans Wickland David Bramble BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 96o BUSINESS MANAGER CLAYTON C. PURDY Advertising Manager... iel M. Rockwell Copywriting Manager.......Noble D. Travis Circulation Manager.......Lauren C. Haight Publication Manager........C. Wells Christie Account Manager..............Byron Parker TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1924 Night Editor-ROBT. S. MANSFIELD DO THE FITTEST SURVIVE T When Cecil.Rhodes after an event- ful life crowned with the achievements graduation from Columbia. To our mind there should have been no occa- sion for Dr. Pupin to do so. There should be a short and ready eat to get financial aid. In these days of co-operative ef- forts and foundations, there should be a way to bind these no matter how worthy and noble, none the less loose jointed and sporadic activities into a living, well functioning organization to accomplish the greatest good for the largest number at the least cost. As long as education in all its as- pects is not a governmental function- private endeavor should be co-ordin- ated and intelligently directed so as to avoid waste, duplication, surplus- age and at times misguided action. Who can vouch for the proper se- lection of the "exceptional student" by the institution which is to administer, the fund turned over to it by Dr. Pupin's admirer? Will he be selected as many similar decisions are reached in a casual, ill-considered way by a committee that is already overburden- ate tolerance for the Klan. The wet and dry question is a very touchy subject and hence it is not to be em- phasized. The League of Nations is a topic that must be hurried over. Cap- ital and Labor are two dangerous rocks through which the political pil- ot must steer a safe middle course. Better to be safe than sorry, rather victorious than vehement, seems to be the unwritten motto of political par- ties. have penned the above lines, and take them to heart as the first great lesson of a summer of good advice and bad judgment. Our brain is dead-you knew that long ago-(ha, ha, ha,-we beat you to that), and so we must close our re- marks, senseless as they may have seemed to you, with the pertinent re- mark: "Turn Down an Empty Glass." Taman. ! just closed, congress showed itself "greater and nobler than the execu- tive." The sensatorial old guard should hug themselves when they read that. But for one reson or another we all agree that congress is no longer to be treated as a joke. Some of its per- formances at the recent session were surely sobering, well calculated to persuade thoughtful people to take congress seriously. At any rate, there Is nothing to provoke merriment in a bad joke. NOTICE All tryouts for The Daily business staff will please re- port at the offices in the Press building on Monday, June 24. There will be some good posi- tions open. For information call 960 960 OSTED OLL SUMMNIER HAS COMtE HELP ASSISTANCE SUCCOR AID CONTRIBUTIONS 9 EDITORIAL COMMENT! a- ....w.._._, 6 f of an empire-builder of large vision and fervor-was desirous to round out a useful life with a "chef d' oevre"- he created a trust fund to provide an University education for those who although particularly fitted for it, are barred from being the recipients of one for lack of financial resources. If it is true as August Comte so aptly rema ld-*at 'knowledge is fore- sight, then it might be asserted with equal emphasis that one of the main purposes of education is the develop- ment of character. Loyalty to duty and a conscientious devotion to our respective tasks goes hand in hand with the awakening of our social con- science. To be useful, to serve and to contribute a creative effort to so- ciety is the present day privilege of the University men who in the Army of Humanity have to assume a.command- ing position. To help others in getting a college training, to be useful to themselves as well as to the social fabric,-is one of our privileges and responsibilities. Student loan-funds, scholarships are means and. avenues toward this end. These scattered efforts should be combined and co-ordinated, however, to accomlish the greatest amount of good in an intelligent manner. The newspapers published a rather interesting story just a little while ago. It seems that a business man of considerable means indulged in the nowadays somewhat rare extravag- ance of reading a good book. He pro- bably was not a tired busifiess man. At zany) rate the autobiography of Michael Pupin, the inventor and phys- icist of Columbia university seemed to have started his process of think- ing. He realized no doubt, that Pro- fessor Pupin's youth was crowded with hardships, some of which might have been easily avoided and that there are no doubt hundreds of em- bryo Pupins whose ambitions are crushed due to these hardships, that their exceptional talents are a part- ial and at times a total social loss as. a result of this handicap. Our friend saw the light and donated a substan- tial sum of money to the financing of an "exceptional student" to relieve him of the necessity of waiting on tables, cutting grass, tending furnaces or what not. He no doubt thought that it is far more profitable in the long run if the boy devoted his en- tire itme to his books and laboratory work. So the autobiography of Dr. Pupin ("From Immigrant to Invent- or") served more than the recording of a fascinating story of life, it prompted a good man to act in the right direction. It is obvious that one who receives aid at a critical period of his life is only too happy to extend help when occasion presents itself. Dr. Pupin dug into his own pocket to enable one of his exceptional students, who is now a world known scientist, to pur- ed by many other tasks, or in a pains- taking manner? Will the personal equation contibute largely to the making of the selection or will the decision be made impartially based on pure merit? However this may be, it seems to be a fact that we must put a greater premium on ability than on personality. The argument that the fittest sur- vives in the struggle for life, may pro- perly apply to animals, but hardly to a human being with a complicated mental process and a soul. For excel- lence in one direction carries with it the penalty of shortcomings in an- other. Artists, physicians, writers are notoriously poor business men, and this is true of teachers and sci- entists also. They may enter into the struggle with a decided handicap right from the very beginning and should be assisted to overcome this so as to give us the best that is in them with- out being burdened by cares and worries. The same is true of the "exceptional student" who is a candi- date for our research laboratories. Hence, an agency which devotes a great deal of time to the discovery or selection of them, is highly desirable in place of the haphazard selection made by alumni committees, etc. It is a job that requires not only par- ticular fitness and training, but what more: intuition and vision. So we have a two-fold problem: the unification of scholarship activit- ies on the one hand and on the other, the selection of the most promising material that-is likely to be of the greatest service to society. A consol- idation, a unification of all efforts in charge of a trained psychologist- seems to be the proper solution of our problem. We have a good deal to learn in this field. Directors of personnel in universities, executives of wide ex- perience can offer us many useful hints and advice. The process of na- tural selection of human beings is one of individualism- not of gener- alization. THE UNWRITTEN MOTTO With the opening of the Democratic national convention, the resolutions committee of that party seeks boldly to draft a complete platform of prin- ciples designed to drive home in sim- ple language the outstanding purposes of the party. With a big noise and many flourishes the Democrats her- ald the coming of a political Messiah whose name as yet is in doubt, and in the meantime the delicate task of con- structing the party platform occupies the convention spotlight. The Democrats begin with the his- toric assertion for opposition parties. namely, that the American people are "profoundly shocked and deeply griev- ed at the utter lack of public decency and respect for law as has been man- ifested by this Republican administra- tion." This, of course, sounds good, but it is not true; the American peo- ple are neither grieved nor shocked at any lack of public decency and re- Lspect for law. History has taught them to expect just that, and time has made them well nigh indifferent to the open ravages of the political bull in the government china shop. Having relieved themselves of this platitude, the voice of the party goes on to say: "There will be two par- amount issues in the coming cam- paign. They are clearly defined and well understood: Do you desire an efficient government? Do you want a corrupt or an honest government?" And these, we are told, will be the paramount issues. Both questions are foolish questions to even ask. Every citizen will ans- wer Yes-BUT HOW? Political par- ties always seem to neglect details. No mention of big issues seem to be forthcoming from either camp. It would be rather ghastly proceeding to make even an indirect pronouncement Having started off the summer right with an ardent plea for help, we feel it our duty to welcome everybody to the great University which is ours for the summer. Consider yourselves welcomed, one and all, and such oth- ers as may be here. Right now we want to say that these here nowrolls are going to be a rather spasmodic af- fair this summer, and that we are not going to conduct them any lonr than is absolutely necessary to fill up the edit page. We are most emphatically not a humorist - even Cowles, our great predecessor, has said that we are not, and he should know. One of the summer school aggrega- tion asked us if we were going to run his picture in the Summer Daily this year, and we said yes in a decided tone of voice. The picture appears below, and was taken when he was attending the summer school at Nome Univer- sity, Alaska, last year. While there, he played a sterling game at the left wing post on the varsity hockey team. The picture shows him in fighting togs. wearing that grim fighting face which so terriorized his opponents. Adolph Percival Smytthe POEM Canto 1. Spring has came and summer too, The season's greetings, sir, to you; And if you find it hot down here, Come 'round and have a glass of- (deleted by censor). Canto 2. No poet do we claim to be Nor wit, as you may plainly see. It is our hope, our humble aim To fill up space and take the blame. OUR ONE CONTRIBUTION Dear Taman: Susan Snibbles sat next to me at the last baseball game. She thought the man who knocked the ball clear out of sight was exceedingly naughty an ought to be fired. The man who stole a base she thought was wicked- and by the way--after the first, sec- ond and third base, was that the so- prano in the middle? Li'l Gwennie. THE DAILY DISSERTATION The topic for today's dissertation is "Pull, its place on the Campus and the Evils Resulting From its Use." Pull is a great evil, but without it we would get nowhere on this cam- pus. Pull put us where we are today and so you can see how great a evil it really is. Just think, without pull, a man would not be writing thes rolls,--maybe there wouldn't be any at all. Still, pull can be a very goo thing. A good pull with the facult can make a Phi Bete of a dumb-bell Not that such a thing (a pull with th faculty), is possible, but just think- if it were! Some people call pull "drag." Thi is a very crude term, and really shou never be employed. Drag means some thing entirely different- being mos frequently employed to describe a hasty puff at a cigarette, which ha: an effect quite the opposite from mak ing a dumb-bell a Phi Bete. All in all, this pull is the bunk, and the less of it we have the better fo all concerned, but if you really want to get along in the University, trot out new, and establish a lot. * * * Gaylord is out of town, so the above dissertation will undoubtedly bet intc the sheet. Please realize with whai A CONTRITE EDITOR, (The Providence (R. I.) Journal) "Let us never make the mistake again of treating congress as a joke," the editor of the New Mexico Tri- bune, published at Albuquerque, ad- monishes the people at large. He never will. It seems it has been his frequent practice to write flippantly of congress. In his confession of sin, fortunately not unpardonable, he ob- serves that it used to be "the fashion to speak lightly of congress - we among others did it." He recalls with pain that "we proposed saving the ex- pense of heating the capitol by utiliz- ing the oratory and made other poor remarks." Now, in penitenial spirit, he declares, "We take it all back." What has come over him? A "great change" in congress is noted. Thus "the growth of the progressive move- ment, breaking down party lines, old prejudices and self-interest has digni- fied congress." So, it seems, the little bunch of progressives, like a tooting ferry boat continually crossing from one side to the other, has uplifted congress. Moreover, in the session lii, C H U B B will be open as usual thruout the Summer School WHO ARE YOUR ASSOCIATES? That is a question that means much socially. It means a deal more in business and finance. 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