THE MICHIGAN DAILY i lichigan Daily Established 1890 !. , r~o A~O:*P.. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Associa- tion and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated 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 herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $1.50. During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by saa, $4.50. Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Representatives: Littell-Murray-Rutsky, Inc., 40 East Thirty-fourth Street, New York City; 80 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.; 612 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL STAFF Office Hours: 2-12 P.M. Editorial Director......................Beach Conger, Jr. City Editor...............................Carl S. Forsythe State Editor........... ............David 1. Nichol News Editor..............................Denton Nunxe Telegraph Editor....................Thomas Connellan Sports Editor ............ ............C. HI. Beukema Assistant City Editor.................Norman F. Kraft BUSINESS STAFF Office Hours: 9-12; 2-5 except Saturdays Business Manager...................Charles T. Kline Assistant Business Manager............Norris P. Johnson anyone around to tell us how rotten we are in our handling of the journalistic side of Illini life. h There is nothing that a staff appreciates more t than good criticism, but a great deal of the hot s air we listen to isn't that. We know there is un- c doubtedly something wrong with us, but why not tell us what it is instead of raving about the gen- o eral delinquency of existing conditions?Y Who started this line of griping anyway? Wek didn't mean to get off the subject like that, but a resume of the past few weeks naturally broughtc up the subject. We will drop it for our own sake9 and for your benefit and endeavor to recall a few more things that happened this summer. First came the tennis courts furore, which wasX settled to the benefit of all tennis enthusiasts int a few days. Then there was the branch library question, which has not been thrashed out en- tirely yet. We never did get full use of all the1 libraries, but it is doubtful that all of them would have been used anyway. It is nice to think that1 we didn't have to work hard enough to use all of them at least. To those of you who do not admiret our attitude on this question of work, we sincerelyl apologise, but it must be the weather. Our fam- ily always said we were very ambitious in our in- fancy. The first pre-prom mixer was quite an affair. No warmer brawl was ever held in Bradley hall, and a larger amalgamation of stags was never assembled in one place in our recollection. The idea caught on, and we now have a precedent set by the committee that will certainly be hard to follow for those who must have charge of such social affairs next year., Then there was the all-University golf cham- pionship (the finals of one flight were played at the Urbana Country club), the tennis tourna- ment, and the Central Illinois tennis champion- ship just finished and won by an Illini man. Of course the summer prom with all its lack of pomp and circumstance. Dancers in the moon- light on the roof, throwing away cares for the week-end and really starting out right. Come to think of it, there hasn't been much rain this summer. We will have to save the col- lected weather reports for those students who, in winter, spend the greater part of the time grip- ing about Champaign-Urbana weather. The final band concert a few days ago in which several stu- dent directors appeared before the public just about topped things off. We watch the summer school students getting ready to leave the campus and wish each one of a real vacation, and may you be back soon on the campus. The rally toward Mr. Hoover with respect to is prohibition statement is likewise a tribute o the man and to the general qualities of his statesmanship and character. The country ac- cepts his position because it believes in him. Deep down in the minds of the men and women of America there is a profound confidence in the honesty and sincerity of the President. People know that any utterance he makes and any promise he gives, whether of a political nature or not, is straight forward and without guile. They know that Mr. Hoover is incapable of doing anything in violation of his conscience or his pledges. If President Hoover has taken a certain position toward the prohibition question it is because he firmly believes it is the sound one to adopt; and he may be depended upon to stand by his guns regardless of personal consequences as long as he continues in this belief. This is the more evident because the qualities of steadfastness and sincerity resident in the President have in the last three years been tested out again and again in fields and areas of re- sponsibility that have nothing to do with the prohibition question, but which at the present moment are of much more importance than even the wet and dry issue. They have carried him to success in a long fight for America against the threat of destructive economic depression; they have enabled him to save the nation its institu- tions, and its confidence in itself at a time when almost all the outside world has been passing through the throes of major political, social and economic upheaval. EARLIEST AMERICAN ART (Detroit Times) Week after next the Indians on Walpole Island will hold their annual fair. This is an event worth visiting from historic motives as well as because of its picturesque aspect. The Indians, mostly Ojibways, Ottawas and Pottawatomies, live less than 60 miles distant. Their community on the island in the St. Clair river is the nearest Indian settlement to Detroit. A generation ago it was fairly familiar to De- troiters. Today it is singularly remote. That is a result of this motor age which has dimmed the pleasure of water travel between here and Lake Huron. You should know about those Walpole Indians. Their ancestors, or a majority of them, were Michigan Indians. In the early days of the last century they were accorded treaty rights to at- tractive land in central Michigan. The soil was rich, the hunting and fishing were good. They were happy. The sturdy church-going Christians from New England colonized this state. Thes Christian whites saw that the Indian land was valuable and that the Indians were not orthodox Christians in the New England sense of that word. So they plied the Indians with whisky and cheated themand drew up new treaties and even- tually ran them out of Michigan. The Canadian government gave them sanctu- ary, settled them at Walpole and has taken ex- cellent care of them since. By all means go to their fair if you have not already attended it. Go and see the Indian games and races, examine their handicraft. Visit and mingle with the descendants of people who lived here in Michigan before your great-grandparents ever had heard of it. ratoi S J °a. s a--Imda MIM "I , kk, ,-Ms -i-I -A ~2 le >1l °S 1932-1933 Season A ,Exce tional Series Qircu lation Manager ..................Cinton B. Conger TUESDAY, AUG. 16, 1932 End of Summer Session Nears... The Summer Session approaches the end. About '94 that intervenes now between the breaking up of the classes and groups that constituted the 1932 Summer Session of the University of Michi- gan are the blue books. Of course, to those who have made summer school merely the excuse for a s mer's loaf, they assume a little more import- Wce than might be conveyed from the preceding stene. They shouldn't be great stumbling blocks, however, for students who have realized what they were in school for. Very little review- ng wiU put them in excellent shape to pass any test. ° or those students who have been more dili- gent in attendance at picture shows, to swimming in the Huron, and to canoeing, there is still hope maing the coveted C or better. The final blue book counts considerably in most courses. A good mark on one with a reasonable attendance at classes almost insures a passing grade. It then behooves every man who is low in a course to do ome industrious studying during the next week. Don't try to discover a short cut to the knowl- edge. There aren't many, and more than likely if you rely on one you will find yourself later on staring at the blank page of a blue book with not an idea in your head. Attack the course intelli- gently. Try to get a general outline of it in your mind, so that you have the main points at your disposal. Then, if you have time, fill in with more .detailed matter. A knowledge of the essentials of the course, coupled with common sense, will often result in an intelligent answer where partic- ular knowledge is lacking. Don't put off reviewing any longer. Cramming is a poor -substitute for consistent studying. By starting now any student should be able to get his courses sufficiently well in hand that he can ap- proach his final blue books with confidence as to the result. And there is considerable satisfaction in that. A list of good grades would be a fitting climax for a very enjoyable summer. Editorial Comment ADIOS (Daily Illini) To those who didn't mind our ranting this sum- mer we bid a fond good-bye, to those who didn't "et themselves be irritaed we say adieu, to those (both o you) who really liked the drivel and slush from this typewriter we save our best and shiniest au revoir. And to the whole student body now so busily engaged in going places or doing things we give all three sweet smelling sentiments. No matter where or how you go and what you do -here's how! fleeting summer acquaintances, soft rustling leaves swaying in time with the monotony of an instructor's dry remarks, heat, humidity, swim- ming, dancing, shows, moonlight, cokes,'golf, ten- nis, with finals to top it all off-that's summer school. Think it over this last morning. Even though you do have one more or perhaps two more ex- ams. It has really been a fine summer. The poli- tical conventions started things off nice for us because listening to them on the radio made it seem cooler down here. Everyone you met was A DEPLORABLE SITUATION (Toledo News Bee) Gov. White, changing his mind overnight, re- fuses to accept the resignation of JohnW. Bricker from the public utilities commission of Ohio. Commissioner E. J. Hopple calls a meeting of the commission for Monday morning "with the understanding that we shall continue our study, discussion and consideration of this (the Colum- bus gas rate) case until such time as we can an- nounce a decision." This we see the exigencies of politics pressing for a speedy decision in a rate case, a deplorable situation, all because two members on the com- mission are candidates for elective office-Bricker is the Republican nominee for attorney general, and Commissioner Frank W. Geiger is a Republi- can candidate for supreme court. We hold no brief in this matter for Messrs. Bricker, Geiger or Hopple, or for Gov. White. It is deplorable that the public utilities commission has been involved in a political squabble that is bound to affect public confidence in the com- mission and its works. This squabble might have been avoided if Bricker and Geiger had resigned months ago when they became candidates for other offices. There has been much criticism of the delay of the commission in rendering decisions, particu- larly in the two matters Gov. White mentions: The Columbus gas rate case and the Bell tele- phone rate case which is now nine years old. The commission is charged with fixing reason- able rates, and in performing that duty speed is secondary to justice to all parties concerned. And speed forced by 'politics is disgraceful. The telephone case is now held up in the com- mission pending certain investigations by the at- torney general's office and, by the way, the at- torney general, Gilbert Bettman, is the Republi- can candidate for United States senator. The Columbus gas rate case, as Gov. White points out, is "commonly supposed to be now ready for decision." From Columbus gas consumers comes no pres- sure for a speedy decision. They are paying 48 cents a thousand cubic feet, the lowest in the state, and they feel any change is more likely to mean more than less. The decision, when it does come, will act as a precedent in gas rate cases pending in other cities of the state. The political play is interesting. Bricker and Geiger on the Republican state ticket. Bricker prepares a report in the ,Columbus case. Hopple, a Democrat, and Geiger, a Republican, hold it up. Bricker to stay on the commission if he chooses Responsibility for filling the vacancy and, inci- dentally, for the rate decision, thrown into the lap of Gov. White. The governor passing the buck back to Bricker, whose move it now is, for we know of no way the governor can force Bicker to stay on the commission if he chooses to exercise his "constitutional right" and resign. The disgraceful thing is that all this political play is about a rate fixing commission, which has to do with the pocketbooks of rate payers and the fortunes of utilities, and which the law con- templates shall be entirely divorced from politi- cal considerations. The only possible good result of this affair is that it provides Ohio with an object lesson about how a public utilities commission should not oper- ate, and may prevent any future commissioner from running for elective office. LOWELL THOMAS - Famous Radio Annrouncer S ubjec1: Froim Manidaday to Singapore." Motion picture. CARVETH W ELLS-Famous Lecturer who makes the truth sound stranger than fiction. I x .I a 7 ' 7 I C S z 3 r S aZ A S r A Washington BYSTANDE.R By Kirke Simpson WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-(A)-That President Hoover regarded the occasion of his acceptance speech as the most critical moment of his poli- tical career, few who heard him deliver it could doubt. It was a new Hoover who faced a loyally noisy audience in Constitution Hall and the vast com- pany listening beyond the radio "mikes." It was a Hoover stirred to a fighting pitch rare- ly if ever exhibited before in his public addresses. It was noticeable in his manner of delivery, per- haps, even more than in the wording of the plat- form he built for himself. Mr. Hoover is hampered by lack of oratorical knack. He has nothing of gesture and little of changing inflections to give stress and emphasis to his words. SPURRED BY THE EVENT Yet, despite these limitations, the President managed to put a solemnity into his tones that spoke volumes for his own evaluation of the im- portance to his own hopes and aspirations of what he said. His rate of speaking was speeded up be- yond his normal pace. It almost seemed that he had much of what he read by heart. Watching the President among his guests on the White House lawn that afternoon, The By- stander thought he sensed something of the solemn mood that marked the acceptance speech a few hours later. Mr. Hoover played his role of host gracefully, smiling as he exchanged pleasantries with this or that purely social group. Yet his preference seemed to be for the un- smiling brief conferences he had with two or three at a time of the party key men from many states as he moved about. * * * CONTRASTS The Bystander felt then that Mr. Hoover's thoughts were almost exclusively with his coming acceptance speech, the answer he would make- perhaps the most boldly phrased of his career- to the challenge of his leadership that is the foundation stone of the Democratic campaign to drive him from the White House. As a study of the two major personalities of the campaign, President Hoover and Governor Roose- velt, the talking movie records of their acceptance speeches should be illuminating to political his- torians. They are as dissimilar as men could be. Where the one enters the lists ardently eager for the high adventure of the battle itself, the other faces, the onslaught solemnly, a heavy task laid upon him. Subject: "Noah's Home Town." Motion pictures. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS - Noted Irish Poet and Playwright. Subject: "The Irils Theater." DR. RAYMOND L. DITMARS- Curator of the New York Zo okoc4eaI Gardens- Autho r of many la-kttirebooks. Subject: "Snakes and Reptiles." Motion pictures. DR* I111 DURANT -Authorof the Story of Iu1fosophy and Other Subject: "l)emoeraey ;t the (Cros iRoads." And one tler number to be arranged. Prices and dates to be announced later. If you wish (1 circular "It#leis coursC please fll out the following Coupon. I OFFERS COMMON GROUND (Detroit Free Press) The swing of the wets on the one hand and of the moderate drys on the other toward approval of the position of President Hoover as he defined it in part of his speech of acceptance devoted to prohibition is a significant tribute to the sound- ness and practical character of the stand he has taken. The movement also is a striking indication that the President, in speaking his mind frankly and without guile, has largely nullified the effort of the Democratic platform architects in Chicago to make the eighteenth amendment a partisan issue in the national political campaign. Mr. Hoover relegated that question to the Senatorial and Congressional contests where it belongs, and in doing so has performed a real service for the ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION 3211 Angell Hall Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gentlemen: I Plesge send in your announceent 0fr the 1932,1933 Lecture ('ourse. One thing we get out of the new taxes is majestic term for chewing um. Henceforth shall be known as a masticatory preparation. a it Name . Street . ... # a a #* # a a e " a a " a # a.# # a # # # .. ."a # f s # # # s # , s a fs,# " #. Holding the breath is a beneficial exercise, a