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EDITORIAL. STAFF
. MANAINO EDITOR
HAROL .0. WARRENi, JR.
swla Uiseste, . . . ... Gmr 'William
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
LV tSher U. Qureluhi
~ Eleanor Rairdon
Marion Thornton
P. cutler Showers
EUSIN1ES STAFF
SUSINESS MANAGER
WILLIAM R. WORBOYS
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. Cirlation ........Tomas Muir
Night Editor-Sher M. Quraishi
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1931
What Others Says
THE
HONKER
(Detroit Saturday Night)
He is a species of wild goose. He
can't fly, but he can ride-like John
Gilpin. He drives most of the time
with his horn. He will pass you
on a road where there may be 30
feet clearance for him, but he will
toot his horn. He will be a block
away when he sees you coming in-
to a stop street, but he will take the
right of way and toot his horn.
He will catch you behind a street
car with a blockade of traffic on
your right; you can't move but he
will toot his horn. He will get into
a line of cars that are moving 30
miles an hour on a city thorough-
fare, but he is not satisfied with
that; he will cut out and in, and
as he goes he will toot his horn.
He will not hesitate at dangerous
intersections where there is no stop
sign, but tears right through and
toots his horn.
Sometimes he is an impulsive
youth with a new high-speed car.
Sometimes he is a grocery boy rattl-
ing truck. Sometimes, sad to re-
late, he is a mature man who is
old enough to know better. He may
be nervous, or nutty, or both. He
may have the gift of courtesy, but
he conceals it as successfully as a
Missouri mule. He may be good
to his mother, but he never gives
his neighbors a break on the road.
Dr. E. B. Skaggs of the psychologi-
cal department of the College of the
City of Detroit says of the honker:
"The horn is just a distended
mouth. The driver who constantly
uses his hoirn to wdrk his way
along has a superiority complex.
He loves to show off his own im-
portance. The horn is an index of
his character. It certainly shows
he is not a rational being. When
a man blows his horn in a traffic
tie-up he indicates his mental in-
feriority."
NEW
PROJECT
AWN ARBOR stepped
news again on Friday
announcement of plans
into the
with the
for the
productions here, by the Interna-
tional Radio corporation, of a mid-
get long and short wave radio set.
This means not only that the fame
of Ann Arbor will reach out fur-
ther but, what is more important,
it means that the manufacture of
the new product will necessitate the
hiring of many of the local unem-
ployed.
This city often figures in the
national news because it is the
home of a great educational in- More and more frequently we'
stitution; Ann Arbor, means the hear the suggestion that all horns
University of Michigan and vice be abolished as a public nuisance.
'h aThat cannot be safely done. There
versa, ho matter where the names are times when a horn is needed.
are mentioned. Scarcely less im- But it would be a great help if the
portant, however, is the fact that honker could be compelled to put
other plants-large manufacturers his horn some place where it would
of nationally advertised products- not be so near his hand.
are located here. Notably among
these are the Hoover Steel Ball and DISARMING
Economy Baler companies, whose EUROPEN
names may not be closely linked ERP
with Ann Arbor in the minds of
those who buy the products, but (Chicago Tribune)
whose existence help make Ann Mr. Newton Baker, opening the
Arbor an ideally progressive com- eleventh annual conference on pol-
munity. itics at Williamston, said that thea
At any rate the city, though com- hope of the coming conference on
paratively small, should prove a disarmament will "lie not in thej
splendid example for other com- statesmen of the world but in the
munities that have been ponder- peoples of the world, and the]
ing President Hoover's r e en t strength of the peoples of the world
statement that the unemployment at the conference depends not uponr
situation will be relieved only when the knowledge or good will of a fewi
individual communities get down elect and thoughtful spirits but on
to work without waitng for that the extent to which popular knowl-
doubtful cures-all term "Federal edge is thorough and deep, and so
aid;" The government obviously fortifies the representatives of the
will never be able to straighten out people with the support of an in-
individual communities in the mat- formed and resolute public opinion."
ter; it can merely coordinate the This may explain why intern;- c
efforts of all of them as a whole. tional conferences on armament arer
Perhaps Ann Arbor is more for- disappointing to Americans. OurE
tunate than other cities in being own representatives, at least in re-a
so well situated that manufactur- cent years, have seemed to be moreC
ers see in it an advantageous loca- guided by "a few elect and thought-x
tion for the establishment of fac- ful spirits" than the representatives
tories; perhaps we can attribute a of European nations, and doubtlessc
great deal of our civic fortune to a their failure to get results wouldc
stroke of geographical luck. be explained by Mr. Baker as the in-t
At d time like this, however, a evitable consequence of the lacka
great deal of natural luck can be of that thorough and deep populara
discounted, for the International knowledge which would fortifyt
Radio corporation is showing the European delegations in the effortI
sort of spirit that a great many to .disarm. Thorough and deepr
other manufacturers - even more knowledge upon the problems of1
advantageously located and with armament and disarmament wer
well-known products - are lacking must assume is lacking among Eu-r
in the face of the depression. The ropean peoples, or there would nots
manufacturers of the new radio are be such unwillingness of their rep-n
to be congratulated for contem- resentatives to accept the recom-i
plating a new business project at mendatons of the few elect and
a time when less farsighted and un- thoughtful spirits which Americana
reasonably conservative business diplomacy represents.
men are hiding their heads like os- The difficulty, we suspect, lies inp
triches in the sand, and losing the the stubborn belief of Europeann
benefits of constant plugging, and peoples and their representativesd
we see in their optimistic plans a that their knowledge of the prob-p
success that will come from catch- lems involved in armament ist
ing the public on the rebound, thorough and deep. If our few electt
with a product that everyone will and thoughtful spirits could onlyd
want. We sincerely trust that the persuade the Europeans that thish
new radio will warrant a constant is an error and that it is our few
increase in production, not only be- elect and thoughtful spirits whoe
cause it is backed by local business have the deep and thorough knowl-a
men but because it will help solve'edge of the problems of armamenta
the jobless problem and make Ann this would promptly bring about av
Arbor even more of a progressive general disarmament. But Euro-c
city than it is. pean nations insist upon thinkingr
that some thousands of years of i
experience with one another in Eu-
To sink shamelessly into the rope's crowded household has giv- t
stratum of Scotch jokes, we should en them a deep and thorough p
like to remark that the Scottish knowledge of their own conditions i
airman who cut two days off the and relations; in short, that they a
Australia-England flight time was know more about their own affairs N
merely living up to the reputation than our few elect and thoughtful P
of his feilowmen. spirits. This, no doubt, is a deplor- o
able fallacy, but until it can be dis-
posed of our efforts to induce Eu-
rope to beat the sword into the
plowshare are not likely to shine
so far as good deeds ought in a
naughty world.
PERRY OF
LAKE ERIE
(New York Times)
Perry's victory on Lake Erie was
one of those exploits that leave no
sting. The vanquished fought well,
and in the hour of triumph the
young American commander was
magnanimous. Thereafter along
the frontier of the lake peace pre-
vailed. To maintain it through
the years to come, the war being
over, the Rush-Bagot treaty im-
posed a limitation of armaments.
In his message, read at the dedi-
cation of the commemorative shaft
last Friday, President Hoover em-
phasized the victory of peace that
is "no less renowned than war."
Of the unveiling of a tablet on
which the actual words of the
agreement were inscribed, he said:
"It comes at a time when the na-
tions of the world are seeking so-
lution of their common problems
through cooperation and disarma-
ment."
Perry, like Farragut and Dewey,
had no passion for war. Duty was
his lodestar. He was a religious
man. His mother, whose five sons
served in the navy, impressed her
fine character upon all of them. So
well was this known that when the
news came of the battle of Lake
Erie the Rhode Island farmers de-
clared that it was "Mrs. Perry's vic-
tory." She trained her children
"with extraordinary care to high
ideals of duty." Her husband had
served in the United States Navy.
Two of her three daughters mar-
ried naval officers. When the War
of 1812 began, Oliver Hazard Perry
was regarded as one of the best or-
dnance officers. He was an able
mathematician and navigator. The
commander of the Newport flotil-
la of gunboats, he engaged fre-
quently in manoeuvers to test his
crews. There is no more impres-
sive example for naval officers than
the work of Perry in building ships
from the virgin forests of Lake Erie
to do battle with the British and
in arming and equipping them.
The story of the battle is a classic.
Into the winning of it went all
his training and his indomitable
character. By rules of the game
he was beaten when Barclay, who
had fought with Nelson, riddled the
American flagship Lawrence with
gunfire and made her deck a sham-
bles. But Petry, transferring Co the
Niagara, had only begun to fight.
When the British squadron finally
surrendered, the officers were al-
lowed to retain their side-arms, and
humane care was given to their
wounded. The American people
have delighted to honor Perry with
monuments. But it must always be
remembered that he took no delight
in war for its own sake.
ELECTRICAL
VOTING
(Chicago Tribune)
The French chamber of deputies
will do its voting hereafter by
means of an electric device. On
every member's desk will be a yes
and a no buton. When the time
comes to vote, the member will
press the desired button and his
doing so will deposit a small coin
on the speaker's platform. The tip
of the balance will indicate whether
the yeas or tjae noes prevailed. No
one knows how many weary hours
are devoted in all our legislatures
to the business of calling the roll.
To be sure, time spent in calling the
roll is not spent in passing other
laws, which is probably so much
net gain; but against this must be
reckoned the fact that the cumber-
some methods of doing business
now in vogue at Springfield, Wash-
ington and other capitals encourage
legislators in the belief that they
are in a world of their own.
Of course the use of coins to re-
present votes could not be per-
mitted in a nation of expert kid-
ders. The suggestion would be too
pointed. Also, this country con-
tains too many good amateur elec-
tricians to allow any such simple
device to be used as the French
have devised. What we need is
something which will print the roll
call automatically and make it
available for instant examination
and correction by members whose
votes may have been improperly re-
corded. Obviously, too, some means
must be devised for preventing vot-
ing by an absent member.
No doubt a fairly competent elec-
trical engineer could devise a fool-
roof and cheatproof electrical vot-
ng system in half a day. It is noI
accident that such devices have not
been adopted by our legislatures.1
Politics does not want to save time
or anything else, except face.
OASTED ROLL
MOTHER,
CHILD
DOING WELL
BULLETIN
Hwjrx Whoofie, campus dilletante
and lietratus, was reported better,
in spite of a slight temperature,
yesterday at University hospital,
where he underwent a nose opera-
tion Friday.
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IS IT HOT ENOUGH FOR
YOU DEPT.
Our typewriter keys stick to the
paper every time they hit it (one
of the two reasons that we can't
write a good column), and per-
spiration is standing out all over
the machine itself. Even the lead
slugs which enable you to read
this pretty page every morning are
beginning to look gooey. Ugh! In
no time at all, they will begin to
run
in
a
manner
a
bit
akin
to
this
all
down
the
nice
empty
column
that
we
ought
to
fll
with
words
drip
drip
drip
and gather in
a pool at the bottom, just like this.
Then we'll have to wait and wait
and wait and wait and wait until
it congeals berofe we go on. There..
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THE OVUM
(By Witheringham Bilgewater)
Little does an ovum know
Into what it's apt to grow,
Whether it will be an oaf
Or a mama's sugar loaf.
Little does an ovum think
That it's tumbling on the brink
Of a life of sin and shame
Sadly hampered by some name.
We were once an ovum too
So we know their point of
view.
. * .
UNDER THE SUN
A New Rolls Novelette
Out of the murk he came, and
his coming presaged a new era, a
better time on earth for all men
... out of the murk he came, but
he himself wondered from whence
he had sprung.
"Mother," he said (for in truth
he had a mother) "mother, from
where did I come?"
And his mother, like innumer-
able mothers since the days of Rob-
inson Crusoe, replied, "A stork
brought you." And he was satis-
fied ... . until later. Then he ap-
proached his mother and again
queried her, "And do all such as
I come from the murk and do all
such come by stork."
And his mother made answer:
"Yea, and verily."
And he wondered. This is a fun-
ny note he thought. And he made
question yet again: "Where do the
storks come from, mother?"
And his mother was silent, and
he knew that he had indeed sprung
from the murk and was apart from
all other men and that he presaged
a new era. And he did not like be-
ing apart from all mankind .. .
for there were women. Thus he
sang a song:
"Ah to sping in the spring ere
the singing string
Shall burst with a boom into
bifurcate bits."
Thus he was comforted. Forty
chuckers of polo. "And I a nine-
goal man," he boasted.
He was married to the wrong
girl. There had been no intimacy.
But he loved her, loved her. It
was immense.
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