PAGE TWO THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1924 M ||||||||| || |R * r 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, $1.50. 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 Lditor. 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 te communica tions. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephones 2414 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..........Frederick K. Sparrow Telegraph Editor .......... Leslie G. Bennets Wonens' Editor.............Gwendolyn Dew STAFF MEMBERS 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.......Hiel M. Rockwell Copywriting Manager.......Noble D. Travis Circulation Manager.......Lauren C. Haight Publication Manager........C. Wells Christie Account Manager..............Byron Parker 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 ---- 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- ANN& an a IL MAL W-'jL 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 I 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. GRAHAM'S - - - - - - - Both Stores mwmmmmmmmm Rane's Quality Shoppe W HITMORE LAKE SPECIAL STEAK DINNERS Reasonable prices Lunchess Ice Cream Phone 18 i I SHORTHAND TYPEWRITING ENTER NOW ! BOOKKEEPING Hamilton Business College State at William Sts. Ann Arbor A STORE THAT IS DIFFERENT 1' - 1 --° Printing and Developing Our Developing and Printing depart- ment is especially well fitted to give you the best possible results from your pic- tures. Twenty-four hour serbice. 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