TvWO SUl1+IMER MI( IIGAN DAILY TIiURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931 TWO HE SMMERMICHGAN AIL THUSDAY JUL 16,193 Pubaishe very morning except Monday durizg the university Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the usee for republication of all .news dire- patdes credited to it or not otherwisecredited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights oarepublication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, post- ofice as second class matter. Subscription by carrier, $1.50; by mail, $176. ,Offices: Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann_ Arbor, Michigan. Telephones:" EdItorial, 4925; Business 2.1214. EDITORIAL STAFF MANAGING EDITOR HAROLD O. WARREN, JR. Editorial Director .......... Gurney Williams ASSOCIATE EDITORS C. W. Carpenter Carl Meloy L. R. Ghubb Sher M. Quraishi Barbara Hafl Fleanor Rairdon Charles C. Irwin Edgar Racine Susan Manchester Marion Thornton P. Cutler Showers BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM R. WORBOYS Assistant Business Manager .. Vernon Bishop Contracts Manager............ ..Carl Marty A dvertising Manager.......... Jack Bunting Accounts. Circulationk.........Thomas Muir THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931 Night Editor-C. W. CARPENTER FINANCIAL INFECTION It must be disagreeable to Presi- dent Hoover to learn that the mora- torium plan proposed by him as a life-saving measure for Germany and hence a life preserver for the rest of the world, has not been b itself sufficient to pull Germany ou of her financial slough; but it mus be a source of satisfaction for hin to realize that his bold step ha thoroughly' awakened the economi world to the necessity of pullin Germany back onto comparatively safe ground. Activities during the past fe days have been fast and furious Bank runs developed in Germany hundreds of millions of dollars wer transferred and bartered abou with bewildering rapidity, and th danger of a fatal world-wide finan cial infection appeared imminen The result is that Germany ha been extended credit and a gen eral panic has been averted. "It must be realized that th generosity on the part of Unite States and foreign banks is some thing mre than altruistic, for i is an obvious fact that to save the Reischbank and associate institu tions is to confine financial rui to a limited area; nevertheless it i gratifying to know that internat Tonal red tape is being torn up ir. the present feverish spasm of co operation. UNSATISFACTORY GOLF BALL The present agitation in favor o repealing the new golf ball come out of something more than th disgruntled murmurings of habit bound sportsmen unwilling to mak a change. From every nook an cranny of the country, whereve golfers waggle clubs over the "bal loon" ball, the increasingly insis tent demand for a change back t the old ball is remarkably consis. tent in its objections. The new ball, decreed by the Uni- ted States Golf Asociation, ha proved to be a nuisance from tee t green; it is short on the drive, er- ratic in any sort of wind, scarcel ever .straight n short pitch shots and a devilishly maddening, frog- hopping pest on the putting green Perhaps the U.S.G.A. was justified in forcing the general adoption o the new ball on the grounds thai game was "too easy" but in th light of the current storm of dis- approval it is difficult to under- stand why the Association does not admit its error and give up the bal- loon ball as a bad job. GET ACQUAINTED Monday night a Daily reporter came upon a Scotish female dele- gate of the British and American Students Conference endeavoring to post a letter in what appeared to her to be a perfectly air tight mail box. The reporter laughed with her, not at her, and the communi- cation was posted satisfactorily after the intricacies of the Ameri- can Postal system had been ex- plained. ,That incident alone suggests that Summer Session students are of- fered an unusual opportunity this week to meet and talk to the visit- ing group of British students, many of whom are visiting the United States for the first time. A half hour talk with one of them will prove more interesting than a doz- What Others Say EXTRAORDINARY1 PALOOKAS1 (The Detroit Saturday Night) , Are you interested in "Mosaic' Diseases of the Bean?" If you are' not, put yourself down as a garden variety moron unable to appreciate the artistic beauties of higher edu- cation. For at the University of Michigan a learned gentleman has just spent several years preparing a thesis on the subject, and has been awarded his "doctor's" degree for the same. Perhaps you are not stupid but only narrow, however. Maybe you would prefer to read something on "The Effect of the Oral Adminis- tration of Bromobenzene to the Dog . . .", or "The Habitat, Distri- bution, and Life Histories of the Crane Flies of Northern Florida." You will probably laugh and say that nothing but a lunatic would be interested in the life history of a crane fly. That will just stamp you further as a member of the intel- lectual proletarist, for a doctor's degree was awarded on that score also. Don't confuse these doctor's de- grees with the ordinary knife and pill variety of doctor. The gents that go in for crane flies and beans are not ordinary palookas in the educational world like the strugg- ling medical students. They are the intellectual highbrows, the ne plus ultra of educational circles. They are the boys who will swarm out into the big colleges and uni- versities and teach freshmen rhe- toric. They are the elite of modern education-the survivors of seven or eight or more years of high pres- sure learning. Their degrees are "Ph.D." instead of mere "M.D.", You probably know all about mice. If you do not, and want to become educated, write for "A Comparative Life History Study of the Mice of the Genus Peromyscus." If frogs and worms are your spe- cialty ask for "Life History Studies on Two Frog Lung Flukes."' "Flukes," we understand, are some kind of parasitic worms that live inside of frog lungs. Be the life of the party; know about frog flukes. "Germ Cell Origin and Sex Dif- s ferentiation in the Common Musk 1 Turtle" is one of the more racy numbers published at the univer- sity. But for sheer scientific mas- Stery of a subject the palm goes t the man who wrote "The Loco- 1 motion of Snakes and Its Anatomi- s cal Basis." Now that the locomo- - tion is understood it should be a r simple matter to equip your snake with tire chains and take him out in all sorts of weather. Perhaps you go in for light read- ing. Well, let us recommend "The Polymerization of Asymmetrica f Diaryl and Arylalkylethylenes and Studies in the Quinoidation of Ary- lalkylchoromethanes." We recom- mend, also, the dissertation on "Symmetric Functions and Sym- metric Functions of Symetric Func- r tions." "A Comparative Study of the Transplantability of Eight Mam- mary Gland Tumors Arising in In- bred Mice" is another number which is sure to have widespread social consequences in dissuading mice from inbreeding. "The Life History of the Trematode" (trema- tode-flat worm) is a piece of bio- graphical work which will be to worms what Boswell's Life of John- son is to humanity. For reading in street cars and subways there are such delightful bits as "Chromolsome Studies in Nicandra Physaloides" and "Sporo- genesis in Begonia Schmidtiana Regel and the Determination of its Sex." There is a dissertation on "The Seasonal Migration of the Mule Deer," which will certainly fasci- nate all lovers of mule deer. Among the simpler titles which abound in the list is "Synthetic Laxatives," which won a Ph.D. for a student in chemistry. It must not be gathered that Michigan is the only university in- vestigating the higher realms of learning in this manner. A doc- tor's thesis was written several years ago at another great Ameri- can university on "The Evolution of the Hot Dog," and one is now in preparation at another campus on "corsets." Education is a wonder-+ ful thing. o-- infrequently forgotten by social, theorists. All too often, he said, scientific discoveries of great im- portance are made, published, re- jected or ignored by scientific con- temporaries and presently forgot- ten. Acceptance of Avogadro's law of the interactions of molecules thus was delayed for forty years. Everyone knows the story of Gregor Mendel's experiments on the laws of inheritance, also buried for a generation before their rediscovery made possible the modern science of heredity. A Russian named Lo- monossoff, who died in 1765, held modern theories, Professor Ban- croft said, of heat, of chemical oxi- dation and of the nature of light 'waves; all of them a half century or more too soon to gain scientific acceptance. These important ad- vances now stand credited to others, a fact now unimportant to Lomonossoff, but which indicates a faltering of progress by no means negligible to those who dream of speeding a scientific millennium. Professor Bancroft's suggested remedy is that great scientists must also be super-salesmen, able to make the world believe quickly in what they do. Undoubtedly this generation possesses several such men as Millikan, Jeans and Ein- stein to make science understand- able constitute, whether conscious- ly or accidentally, a "sales cam- paign" remarkably successful not only in the superficial aim of stim- ulating popular interest but in pro- viding increased social and finan- cial support for all kinds of scien- tific work. Yet it may be doubted if all this super-salesmanship in the world has hastened or could hasten the weaving of really new dis- coveries into the fabric of men's minds. There seems to be something like a speed limit to scientific progress and this, after all, need not be un- expected. People often think of scientific discovery as though it were a process outside of mankind, like an explorer advancing slowly over country which may have been uncharted but was always in exis- tence. This, philosophers insist, is a naive idea. What really happens is inside the human mind. Better and better pictures, or at least newer and newer ones, are painted there year by year to represent what we are pleased to call reality. ' When Lomonossoff discovered - something that his contemporaries would not accept, this was merely Y because the average mental canvas - of those contemporaries was not - yet ready for that particular pic- ° ture. This canvas seems to unrol at a nearly constant rate, like the - film of a motion picture camera If any procession of discovery a moves too fast for this film it sim- ° ply is not recorded until the facts come back to march past again this time more slowly. e o-- The Wickersham commission with surprising unanimity de- nounces "trial by press". We're glad they've found something nice and vague they can agree on. -- - "Arnold-Forster wants equality in disarmament," says a headline. The difficulty, as we see it, lies in r persuading various Chicago gang- sters to acquisce in a treaty on r such terms. -0-a-- Ii 'I Campus Opinion Contributors are asked to bebrief, confining themselves to less than 300 C words if possible, noymuscomn- muanications wrill be disregarded. The S mes of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential, upon re- quest. Letters pub"ished should not be construed as expressing the editorial 0,3iIuOn Of1The D1. ily. HELP BY SPENDING To the Editor: Having read the criticism of the "lavish display of feminine dress" as voiced in Tuesday's Daily, I do think that the writer has viewed the circumstances from but one an- gle. Does he consider that one of the many things which is keeping up the depression is that people are ceasing to buy as they did in bet- ter days, regardless of their extent of wealth? Everywhere shops are closing down and people are out of work because trade has been on a steady decline. I heartily approve the fact that the women take such pride in their personal appearance that they make Dossible the pur- chase of such things. If the money were not spent in this way it would most surely be placed in the bank and saved, thereby not helping any- one but the saver. It seems to me that the best way to help out is by; GROUCH C GRIPE NYAH There are certain elements in the life of the Summer Session student that make Ann Arbor existence far from ideal. One of the most prom- inent of thse is the University. * * * Ever since three weeks ago when we registered, we have been trying to get a permit to drive our car. After the first two days of filling out pink slips and white cards, we ran up against the Regents or somebody about as bad. They said we had to have insurance before we could drive our crate. We said we had to have a lot of assurance before we would drive the thing. * * * Day before yesterday what our insurance company wittily terms its "home office" woke up and sent us our policy. We dashed down to the Dean's office with a gleam in our eye. $15 that insurance had cost us, but it was worth that to be able to drive out for a swim in the afternoon. Then the girl told us we had to pay another dollar be- fore the University would permit- get that-PERMIT us to drive OUR OWN CAR. * * * And that dollar of ours will prob- ably go to pay another of those annoying administrative officials- probably the same one that first thought up this gag about charg- ing us a dollar for driving our car. * * * But we paid that dollar because we wanted to go swimming in the afternoon. And then we discovered that the moths had eaten up all the crucial places in our swimming suit. * * * About noon, however, we had full permission of President Ruthven the Board of Regents, the office of the Dean, the Building and Grounds department, and the graduate reading rooms of the General li- brary to not only own but operate our motor vehicle, and after asking for divine permission, we walked . out of U. hall with a new light in 1 our eye and started over to State Street to get a milk shake for lunch. And at that point we were stopped by fivesmall, vociferously importu- nate females who collectively and -plaintively demanded that we give 1 our last nickel to send a nameless little orphan boy who has half- . dead from tuberculosis and ade- noids and who had had rickets when a child and who had never seen the sun save through a cloud of nasty old factory smoke and who didn't know a glass of milk from a glass of milk off to a six day va- cation at a Fresh Air Camp where he would gain fifty pounds, grow - a foot, become a National diving champ, learn to box, wrestle, play ball, and become a good citizen with high ideals and a reclaimed human being. W E B O U G H T A T A That left us with no dinner. * * * To make the day perfect, we went to see Liliom. Now Liliom, as you must all know by this time, means tough in Hungarian. You'll get a better idea what it means in Chris- tian, however, if you go see the show for yourself. S* * One scene in particular we thought was pretty tough. A lot of people stood around looking at a young lady in a big skirt who was looking at a corpse. They kept whispering to her things we couldn't hear from where we sat. And she kept saying, "Yes, yes" to them, all of which got rather tiresome; so we went out for a malted milk (the check came in the afternoon mail) and when we came back, they were still at it-whispering and yessing one another. * * * Liliom is a nice show, though. We were rather interested in seeing it after reading yesterday's story in The Daily, where we were informed in a headline that "Windt Gives Di- rection." * * * We should like to call attention to the fact that MAIL IS BEING HELD in the Summer Session of- fice for a lot of people with fun- ny names. And we wish that af- ter Nellie Wee Wee and Mortimer Piddle and Thyroid Whishy do get their mail, they would come around here to the Daily office some after- noon. We would like to get a look at them. 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