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THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1924
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SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1924
Night Editor-FRED K. SPARROW
THE SMUG CITIZENS
Friday the nation celebrated Inde-
pendence Day. Several hundred
thousand Star Spangled banners were
taken out of their camphor bags and
hung out of second story windows.
Tons of fancy fire-works were explod-
ed; a few hundred fingers were burn-
ed and mutilated; the national anthem
was sung at least 5,000 times, with 500
variations; the Delaration of Inde-
pendence was reprinted in about 100
newspapers; and at least 1000 inacur-
ate versions of early American history
were related.
This morning several million cit-
izens will wake up with a headache,
a brown taste and weary smile, con-
vinced that their duty to country has
been fulfilled and patriotism estab-
lished. And during the remainer of
the year, a vast number of smug and
self-satisfied citizens will forget all
about their country. They will allow
a few politicians to lead them hither
and thither by the nose o hood-
wink them;! to laugh at them; and to
make them dig down into pockets for
more and more. But at least 50 mil-
lion people are perfectly satisfied that
they have discharged their duty as
citizens for the coming year. All's
well.
NOT TOO COSTLY AT ANY PRICE
Is education too costly? This is a
question that more and more is be-
coming a bugbear of discussion and
comment among city and state gov-
ernments that are obliged to main-
tain schools on a progressive basis.
This is a time when cities and
states, as well as individuals, feel eco-
nomic pressure and financial stress.
It is a time when everybody preach-
es and few practice economy. At
such a time it is but natural that the
question is raised as to whether too
much public money is going for educa-'
tional innovations, for fads and frills
and non-essentials. Such charges
must be first of all faced by school
authorities themselves; they must be
able to justify every expenditure.
Extravagance, waste, and graft
should not be tolerated at any time,
and least of all during hard times.
But it is safe to say that the funds
for education are the most conscien-
tiously administered of all those rais-
ed by public taxations.
And yet there always are, and there
always will be a few critics who raise
the cry that schools cost too much.
These critics are apt to forget that
the price of everything else we have
has increased proportionately. Foc ,
clothes, light, land, rent, transporta-
tion, and salaries have become Tore
expensive during the last decade; and
the cost of school buildings, school
equipment, janitors' services, and ev-
erything else that must be provided
for in connection with an education-
al institution has more or less obey-
ed the same law.
But what of the charge that educa-
tion is too expensive for the state to
afford? The only answer is that edu-
cation cannot cost too much. The
only reply is that education at any
price, as an ysane-minded and right
thinking person will realize, is much
less expensive than ignorance and her
inevitable playmates, immorality and
crime. Our Government is founded
upon the principle of intelligent and
virtuous citizenship. And the only
means of insuring intelligent and vir-
tuous citizenship is by education -
education at any price.
THE MONOPOLIST
Yesterday, a young man in a cer-
tain class opened upon his profes-
sor a volley of questions which hum-
med angrily across the short space
of the room with machine like inces-
sance for a period of twenty min-
uites.
The young student was undoubtedly
a soul-hungry individual, earnest in
his search for learning but so filled
with potential questioning that he
has become a walking interrogation
mark. Some of his questions were
intelligent others were non-essntial
and all were uttered with a vehem-
ence and argumentative stolidity that
bespoke a selfish mind. Twenty-five
fellow students sat through this twen-
ty minutes of monopoly silently indig-
ant.
This sort of monopolist should have
been the sole pupil of a tutor, cer-
tainly not a ,student in a University
calss.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RECOGN
TION
It has been pointed out in these col-
umns that university life develops in
the student confidence and self-assur-
ance. What brings about this self-as-
surance? Is it the kicks he gets from
upper classmen, the humiliation grow-
ing out of his failures in recitations,
or is it the result of a gradual series
of successes accompanied by tacit ap-
proval or loud applause?
"Nothing succeeds like success," has
been answered by saying that noth-
ing succeeds like failure, meaning that
over-confidence is cured by disap-
pointment. This seems to be the
principle that guides the fraternity
in its treatment of the pledge, and
it seems to work out well in practice,
though the pledge may be also playing
a game so that his normal sensitive-
ness is not touched.
President Lowell has said: "A man
has not failed in life unless he be-
lieves he has failed, and sometimes
not even then." To this F. P. A. adds
a corollary: "A man has not neces-
sarily succeeded in life when he be-
lieves he has succeeded. Some of the
most pathetic failures believe they
are successes." And a further addi-
tion is made by Tantalus of the Chi-
cago Tribune: "No man is really a
success till he admits he is a fail-
ure."'
The school teacher is properly
warned of the dangers of sarcasm,
The psychoanayst points out the dang-
er of creating in some sensitive soul
the inferiority complex, for it is true
that the sensitive mind may acquire
that incubus through some apparently
trifling remark or circumstance and
go through life feeling the burden of
failure. will thus generate failure,
and the nervous system will lack the
stimulus to excel and the courage to
venture into new opportunities.
The universal craving for social rec-
ognition is a principle of psychology
useful to the salesman and the teach-
er, and we might sermonize here to
the upper classmen: "A boy would
rather be kicked than ignored," is an
expression attributed to President
King of Oberlin college. And now
we leave to the reader his choice in
giving and receiving a kick, a pat on
the head, or vacant indifference.
It is claimed that oil men are plan-
ning to shut down during the month
of August to "stabilize the industry."
Why doesn't someone suggest the
same thing to the farmers? They
ought to stop raising food until every-
body gets so hungry that they will pay
any price for it.
It cost the Spanish government a
little over $7,000 to have Columbus
discover America, according to recent
figures. It costs some Americans
more than that to discover Paris now-
adays.
It is doubtful whether the mind of
man has grown more friendly and lib-;
eral with his increasing facilities for
understanding his neighbors. -
. If a man works at his studies, he's
a grind; if he doesn't he's a loafer.
If a man's get's good grades, he's a
prig; If he doesn't he's a dub. Soj
what's a fellow going to do?
Headline-"Policemen Hails Light-
ning as Cure for Rheumatism,"- al
good dose is probably an effective cure
for all the other ills that "flesh is heir
to."
Watch Page Three for real values.
CAMPIJ
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JS OPINION
To the Editor:
I am attaching a marked copy of
Tuesday's Daily. As I looked it over,
I wondered whether there were no
proof-readers on the staff and why;
the Summer Daily should be put
out with so many obvious typograph-
ical errors.
I am interested also in the incon-
sistencies displayed in the matter of
capitalization, as evidenced on the
first page. Note the following: "Bio-
logical station" as compared with
"The Summer Choral Union"; "Sum-
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JENNIFER LORN.
By Elinor Wylie.I
Published by Dorian. $2.50.
(Reviewed by Dorothy Wall).
Jennifer Lorn is an extravagent
fantasy of the 18th century with var-
ious and delightful stage settings,'
Devonshire Bath, Persia, India. From
the first flowing sentences a unique
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mer Session' in the story at the hot- tempo is set. You are watching an
merSesion melfinoy a march- of miIsmermdnes
tom of the third column as compared n march1ofmidsummer madness.
with "summer session" in the story at The book is pure romance written
the bottom of the second column; just that exquisite realism of detail
and many others. I that makes is glow. The writer has
Even Markham's "he Man With managed to catch a bizaare poetic
The Hoe" is made to read: "The dream with a sufficiently genuine
Man of the Hoe"! touch. The atmosphere is built up
One expects The, Michigan Daily with a delicate and beautiful epicur-
to do better than this. eanism. One suspects the writer of
C. T., '09. losing herself in the exoticism of her
own fancy. She slides off into long
paragraphs of description and for a
while half forgets she is telling a
EDITORIAL COMMENT I'story. At no moment does the narra-
-- --- -- - -- tieinterest ijun uppermost. The
GOMPERS KNOWS book wanders lazily along, fascinated
by ever changing aspect of beauty,
(The Detroit Free Press) lingering at every lure.
If organized labor is shrewd it will
listen to Samuel Gompers as he warns
it against going to the support of
any third party in the coming presi-
dential election. For Mr. Gompers is
politically wise in his generation and e x t
he has had a long time in which to
study politicians and political parties
and their ways. He speaks cold
bloodedly as an experienced strateg-
ist rather than as a zealot when he
says:
1\Now, ast before, the ave xn rge~ re
Elinor Wylie begins with a careful
restraint, but as she goes on she is,
less vigilant, approaches more and
more to absolute excess.
Jennifor, created at first as an ex-
quisite porcelain nymph, with the
wistful appeal of a clid grows weari-
some after pages of thinking fits, hys-
terics and smelling salts. The chief
fault of the book is here the lack of
balance of moderation.
However, the magic of language re-
deems almost exerything. The pret-
ty marionettes have been made by a
picturesque play of words; words that
fairly have color and shape and form,
that dance and quiver upon the page.
The style, curiously and delicately
formal, heavy with images, wonder-
fully musical, is a triumph of extrav-
agant satire. Moreover Elinor Wyl-
ie's feminine wit never loses its fine
poise. The touch of humor, at once
wordly and innocent, hovers over the
book. It is the single unifying influ-
ence.
Gerald Poynard is drawn with a
matchless hand, such an aristocrat as
only the 18th century could breed.
Jennifer "The Wax Doll," surrounded
by "Phoenixes and Pomander Boxes,'
and swooning boy lovers, develops
subtly into pathos and charm. Only
a luminous imagination could have
'created her.
The tragic end is perhaps the motif
of the story. Jennifor Lorn has the
essence of a dream, and it is shatter-
ed by the touch of Life.
At irregular intervals campus pub-
lications are accused of "taking sides"
in one issue or another by casual
readers who apparently believe that
an editorial should contain explana-
tory matter but not conviction. Ar-
gumentation ana conviction pre inher-
ent qualities of editorial matter and
University publications do not make
any exception to this rule in their col-
umns. The publications do not use
the planks of any national or inter-
national program as paving blocks for
their own editorial highway - they
stay clear of propaganda. But opin-
ion is the same the world over and
the editorial writer must express
his convictions-he must take sides-
if his work is to be satisfactory.
We note with pleasure that Dr.
Schmack, a noted German scientist,
is experimenting with kisses.
looks and Supplies
Now, as before, the average re-
sult of so-called third party adven-
tures will be victory for reaction.
Practically this is what happens.
The third party draws from the
most progressive of the other can-
didates. The more conservative
candidate loses no votes to a third
party candidate. Thus the progres-
sive notes are divided. When pro-
gressives divide among themselves,
reaction wins.
Mr. Gompers may not be quite one
hundred per cent correct, but there
is at least a very great deal in what
he says. History proves that.
Indeed, affiliation between the Am-
erican Federation of Labor and any
political party, big or little, would be
a bad thing strategically for trade
unionism; and the evil of such an
alignment has always been a cardinal
doctrine of Mr. Gomper's political
philosophy. The careful abstention
from such alignment which the A. F.
of L. has practiced up to this time
has been a main reason for the big in-
fluence it has been able to wield in
Washington regardless of changes in
administration and party ascendancy.
The labor lobby has been powerful
because it has those who have favor-
ed it, and power to injure those who
have opposed it.
It would be a tactical error for or-
ganized labor to become either Re-
publican or Democratic as a unit; but
let it go into the LaFollette camp, and
deliberately tie itself to Wisconsin
Bob's bandwagon, to be dragged along
in his circus parade, so that neither of
the two big parties would expect any-
thing from it any more, but would
see it only as an open enemy, and
its condition would become doubly
sad. Its carefully built-up influence
in Washington ould vanish into thin
air. It ould find itself only a faction,
and possibly not even a dominating{
faction in a small third party, and the
slave of the most absolute dictator
American bossism ever developed.
There undoubtedly is still another
reason why Mr. Gompers is opposed
to confederation between the A. F.
of L. and the LaFollette crowd. It is
inconceivable that Gompers can trust
LaFollette. That person up to the very
recent past has flirted desperately
with arch enemies of trade unionism,
the Reds. If he has ended the alli-
ance, it is because he thinks that the
practical disadvantages of the connec-
tion for the moment outweigh the ad-
vantages. But what guarantee is there
that he will not return to his ogling
if it seems to be good polities to do so?
Indeed, there is some suspicion that
the liaison is not really at an end,
but is still being secretly continued.
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