>AGE TWO THFE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY . WEDNDAYJUNE 25, 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- sociatedePress 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, $1.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building. Communications, if signed as evidence of good faith, will be published in The Sum er 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 176-M MANAGING EDITOR ROBERT G. RAMSAY News Editor........Robert S. Mansfield Chairman of the Editorial Board.....s ..............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 WrentAore Francis O'Melia Louise Barley Marion Walker Rosales Spaulding Leonard A. Kellet Virginia Bales Saul Hertz Hans Wickland David Bramble BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 960 BUSINESS MANAGER CLAYTON C. PURDY Advertising Manager.......Hiel M. Rockwell Copywriting Manager......Noble 1). Travis Circulation Manager...Lauren C. HIaight Publication Manager.......C. Wells Chrii tie Account Manager'.............Byron Parker suit, lounging at a pleasure resort or braving the waves at an ocean beach. THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY The Summer Daily is edited and published under the direction of stu- dents of the Summer session. Its staff membership is not restricted to a group of experienced newspapermen and women. It is rather a laboratory in which practical journalism is taught. The aim of the Daily is service to the students and faculty of the Sum- mer session. Every member of the Summer session student body is elig- ible to contribute to the columns of the Daily either as a staff member or through the news and editorial col- umns. The Campus Opinion column furnishes an outlet for student and faculty opinion. The humor column is also open to contributors. The ed- ner and constructive itorials attempt to deal in a sane and constructive manner with important. events of the time and also with prob- lems of the University. The news col- umns are the work of staff members -many of whom are beginning news- paper work this summer. The Summer Michigan Daily will attempt to furnish news of the cam- pus and of the world to its readers and in turn will welcome contribu- tions and communications for public- ation from them. In this country of magnificent dist- ances, of titanic industry, of abundant harvests and active people, it is in- conceivable that "divine afflatus" should be lacking. The wonder is that our "melting pot" has not yet produced more fine metal of brilliant and prismatic colors. Perhaps our trouble is too much sordid materialism; too much feverish search ,for amusement; too much wealth of substance and too much poverty of ideals. Perhaps it is too much conventionalism, too little in- dividualism. Perhaps we play too much at making money and work too little at making men. Perhaps our tiny act of trying to decide where to spend our evenings blinds us to the greater drama of the human soul. Perhaps-but we can only surmise. "Why," you say, "time is the only test of genius. Our present day au- thors are too close to us to judge them fairly. The decision must be left to posterity." We answer: Time is no test of gen- ius at all, nor even a purgative of genius. Posterity will undoubtedly decide what it shall read, and it may accept the Tarkingtons and Church- ills of today as good writers, which they are; but the genius that makes a "Faust" or a "Notre Dame" is as evid- ent on the day it is written as it is a century later. Genius is not analyze, it is felt. Perception does not wait upon opinion. There are, of course, degrees of genius. We speak only of the giants. There are always plenty of clever people. Great masters arrive but once in several generations. We are still hoping. b__ F-71 M m ®.rw.rrrvvrvr &.A L-El :02 GLEANINGS ~ Sy A. E. P. W% IY lLV I I +vr .rw ww rrr rr r . U 1Fl N\ ft^OM1 VwrVw rwVw. VWVwww w.v V r w+ UNDER THE BIG TOP e C WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1924 Night Editor-ROBT. S. MANSFIELD THE SUMME STUDENT AND THE SUMMER SESSION Those ,who have attended the reg- ular sessions of the University for several years and are now for the first time availing themselves of the opportunity to study at the Summer session are astounded by the possi- bilities for interesting work which are brought out through brilliant class room discussions. The discouraging indifference that frequently characterizes the average college student and his disdain for the man who intelligently argues with the professor for a moment after the hour is up are replaced by the active par- ticipation of mature individuals in the conduct of the class. and their reluct- ant cessation of queries and argu- ments when the close of the hour ap- proaches. Sincerity of purpose being more firmly instilled in those of greater years, we find that the contribution which some of the visiting educators, men and women who have seen sev- eral years of worldly life, is a tremen- dous influence upon the success of the professor himself. They have a pur- pose in mind-to learn something-. and are willing to exert themselves in the attempt. - "Pumping" the student is the prac- tice necessitated by the inactivity of many regular students, but in the presence of people of genuine ambi- tion, the professor is- the one most frequently subjected to "pumping." An exchange of ideas constitutes the great advantage of the latter method. The student freely expresses himself and awaits the judgment of the pro fessor on his remarks. In this man- ner, it is more possible to sonsider all sides of a question than if the "prof" merely handed out the facts and then had to try to entice his timid subject to repeat the information to him the following day. In recent years there has been com, ing more and more into prominence the realization of the value of attend- ing the summer courses offered by the larger universities in the coun- try. Students who have been forced to leave before their regular courses were completed utilize the summer school to regain lost credits. School teachers, principals and supervisors especially are coming to appreciate the great opportunities which are of- fered them in the Summer session For them the summer courses hold forth the advantage of securing de- grees by attendance at several ex- tra sessions, the majority of univer- sities today recognizing in full all credit earned during the summer.' These are but a few of the benefits: the others are too numerous to en- umerate, but none the less deserving of consideration. Here at Michigan the development of the Summer session has been one of phenomenal growth. It is an op- portunity well worth seizing-and hef who does so, steals a march on the! other fellow, laggard who prefers to spend is summers in some idle pur- 5 New York is host to a big circus- bigger than the one which Cleveland entertained a while ago. The crowd is assembled under the big top and the band is playing. Yesterday they played the Star Spangled Fanner-but they are afraid to denounce the Klan. Most people have an idea that there is some hint of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" in the national anthem. Perhaps politicians sing another song. The difference between. the Demo- crats and the Republicans today seems to be that the Repubicans knew whom they wanted to lead the fight but did not know what to fight for. The Democrats, on the- other hand, seem uncertain both as to what they want to fight for and whom they wish to place at the head of the party. It looks like a good field for dark horses. WEALTH JUST OUT OF REACH Men have tried for years to ireach the grave yards of the sea and re- trieve the treasures that lie within sunken hulks of oak or metal. The physical limitation of man's blood to stand high-pressure air still bars him from the wealth that lies in the strong boxes of some of the ships sunk dur- ing the late war. Vast fortunes have 'been spent to recover this sunken treasure. OTED RLL SLICED Of Standard Makes including cANTE L. C. Smith, Underwood, Royal, Remington, Woodstock, Hammond, Oliver; also Corona CNSUORemington, Underwood portables. Prices range from $20 up for visible machines. We CONTRIBUTIONcall for and deliver. Renting and repairing a specialty. 4 Mr. Toastmaster: Now that the Little Donkeys have taken to far green pastures for the summer, allow me to step boldly forth from my shelter half to tell you Happy New Year and put in my order for ROLLS-WELL. Only why not of- fer us something cool these warm mornings,-krumbles, for a change. (No, save the bran for the return of the above mentioned quadrupeds.) We'll have to admit being puzzled by your name-it is a complete and insoluble mystery to us. All we can think of is: "Try and Mutilate a Name." Please elucidate the illustri- ous pedigree from which sprang the cognomen "Taman." Yours with plenty of butter, The Kniskern. It does seem strange that a man, woman or child with an evident know- ledge of literature such as The KnisT kern must have should not catch thg very evident derivation of our name4 even after we ran the famous last line about the glass yesterday. Ta, man, dear old thing, is the last line, or the conclusion of that celebrate1 group of Persian quatrains by Omar Khayyam, better known as the Rubf aiat. Not knowing any Persian, we cannot be quite sure, but its position would indicate that the word mean'3 The End. Aprpos of names, ,where did you get that one? We crave td know.'e Also apropos of The Kniskern's con- trib, did you see the editorial "we* which he employed throughout? We claim that privilege ofr ourselves alone, hoping that our contributor swill have the personal courage of their convictions. Li'l Gwennie just barged in and afto er reading the plea for a new head ing on the col added her little saU Largest stock of Typewriters in Ann Arbor. Records of ships sunk have been kept for centuries, for various reas- . fons. The approximate spots of sink- F ing are known, and these locations are now verified by modern sweeping or dragging methods. Some of the val- pable cargo ships located are . the ,ilhelm der Zweite, with 3,700 bars of silver, off the African coast; the Florencian in the Bay of Tobermory, freland, with $10,000,000 in silver and gold; the Lizard, sunk near Cornwall with $50,000,0 aboard; the Thunder-, bolt, with $2,000,000; Harlem IT 1with a cargo of silver; the Merida, off the Virginia Capes, with $3,000,000; the General Grant, with '$1,000,000; wihile in a Greek port lie pirate boats mbAde of teakwood with cargoes estimated in . millions of pounds sterling. EDITORIAL COMMENT AMERICAN AUTHORS (The Birmingham Eccentric) In its century and a half of nation- al existence, the United States has produced but one' author of gigantic genius-Emerson. After him comes Whitman, Poe and two or three whoseI dames are not famous. The rest, of our celebrities are simply good writ- ers-and some not so good, at that. Among contemporary authors not a single instance of great genius is in evidence. This may be the fault of our magazine editors who strive to please their readers by printing senti- mental tommyrot, but we hardly think so. Genius invariably rises to the sur- face sometime, somewhere. It is ex- tremely difficult to keep a good man down. We must not despair. We shall yet have our Shakespeare, our Goe- the, our Dante and our Hugo. and proposed the motto which has app .peared between the crumbs of tlW rolls this morning. [ Cowles was around today, and he says, nasty-like: "He;y, Tammy, why run my name so mnuch as your great predecessor?" "All right," says we, "we won't do it any more." And so-Cowles, the bapf that use* to toast the rolls each morning, hst I promised' us a contribution a day, and thus :far he aint handed in a darh thing, and here we sit wonderingn where to ;,crape up the required inch- es. Some guys just don't know what' it means to get their copy in occas- ionally. BHe threats that he is ineli- gible, but that hasn't crippled his typewriter arm, we trust. * * * The Rolls' are done,--turn out the gas. 4 Taman. Little investment - big returns, the Datly C lassifieds.-Adv.