THfE MICHI G AN DI ILY THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932 0 a s_ . _ -- - - _ __ The Michigan Daily Establshed 1890 ist predecessors? Well, the United States attrib- uted to a change in) the French government its prolonged failure to pay France for financial aid , - v. a; _ -- ., .F + _ .-I -ms s .._._. F^ .?/ jH w i, l'KI; 7:"uNh4$pP ro« / .n sua+ ....t y Yt nrw . given in the American Revolution. And if the point still seems valid, is it clear that the soviet government is not proving irresponsible for its own obligations? Because Russia is "a country where the chil- dren are taught to hate God?" But when has a nation's religious attitudes involved its diploma- tic relations? Russian children are taught to hate, not God, but organized religion as their re- volting elders found it-a religion deserving much of the bitter attack it received in Russia. But they are also, taught to love their, fellow mtan, that the common cause of humanity, in Russia and in the world, is their cause. The real reason probably is the same as that responsible for the twisted meaning given the world Bolshevik: fear of communism. Seizure on obvious faults is incidental to the main objec- tion, which is to the principles of the Russian revolution, against private property, private pro- fit, private privilege, capitalism, organized reli- gion, and other less fundamental things that Western civilization holds dear. But withholding government recognition is a weak gesture as the machinery of American in- dustry ,feeds the five year plan and aids 4he growth of this alleged monster across the world. And the contrast with treatment of revolutionary France suggests that the United States is less liberal than when its Declaration of Independ- ence was fresher in the memories of its citizens. Particularly is this so when even the principle revolting political party does not dare to cham- pion the issue. 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Charles T. linke Assistant Business Manager....-,.......Norris P. Johnson Circulation Manager ..................Clinton B. Conger TEURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932 The Ottowia Conference And American Commerce / American producers, who have allways stood for high protective tariffs in the United States, will watch the Ottowa Conference, opening to- day, with great interest. For at this conference it is hoped to straighten out some of the trade difficulties between the various units of the jBritish Empire, to encourage production, relieve unemployment, and develop potential markets within the vast Empire.r 1Naturally, this effort is for the welfare of Em- pier production, employment and markets. For a long time, the United States has been jealously watched by European nations because of the large exxport market she enjoyed. The British dominions .constitute one of the largest markets for American exports, Canada taking as high as 60 per cent of her imports from' the United States. And what could be more stimulating to British commerce than to have the dominions, as well as Great Britain itself, take larger per- centages of their imports from fellow dominions. The enactment of the Hawley-Smoot tariff led to counter-barrages of tariff walls on the part of other countries. No longer are they content to le the United States levy high duties on for- eign goods and then attempt to expand foreign markets. Perhaps, before long, American protec- tionists will realize that high tariffs do as much harm to export business as no tariff at all. Should the Conference opening today agree on some solution for "freer" trade among the do- minions, that step may lead the way to "freer" trade among all nations. great Britain has been striving to open new and expand old markets for some time. While the United States has o such attractions as the Prince of Wales to carry good- will messages of its producers, a substantial tar- iff reduction might accomplish the same results. Editorial Comment RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA (Daily Illini) One omission President Robert Maynard Hut- thins of the University of Chicago found in the Democratic platform was failure to advocate re- cognition of the United Soviet Socialist Repub- lics. He had not even expected to find it in the naturally more conservative. "in" party's plat- form. x At the convention was one loyal Democrat fa- miliar with party history and recognized as an historian in that field-Claude G. Bowers. He could have remided them of Thomas Jefferson's parallel policy as he reviewed his researches for Jefferson and Hamilton. . Speaking of the Frencl revolutionary govern- ihient, the first and greatest United States sec- retary of state reminded the American minister in London that "we certainly cannot 'deny to other nations that principle whereon our govern- mnent is founded, that every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what form it pleases, and to change these forms at its own wil." It must be remembered that French revolution- aries were the "reds" of the early nineteenth cen- tWry. Even Edmund Burke, so liberal and far sighted where the English colonies were concern- ed, had scant tolerance of the French radicals. And the Hamiltonian faction in the United °tates showed as much antipathy toward the tramplers on tradition. French revolutionary violence was greater thanr Russian, Wholesale slaughtering by the guillo- tine, the "region of terror," pillaging of property everywhere and many other evils incidental to most revolutions, including the American, make that clear. The Russian changes gb deeper, changing life at its very core for one of the World's most important nations. THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT I (The Daily Iowan) If anybody had decided there should be a really thorough-going demand for economy in govern- ment, he could not have chosen a more effective means that the recent tax measures which are felt by nearly everybody. Whether the results will bear out the political axoim that every citizen ought to bear at least a small part of his country's tax burden, so that matters of taxation will be personal to him, 'there should develop stronger insistence on reduction in the expenditures which bring about increased taxes when they can be least afforded. Business in general has had to retrench and reduce its prices. But the business of national government has gone merrily forward, with sub- sidies right and left, and finally economies that were scarcely a drop in the ocean of federal ex- penditures. Meanwhile, extravagances of other years have caught up wtih the budget and passed it, so that more taxes are necessary to offset a deficit if further borrowing is not to be indulged in, One hope from the depression has been that its necessities would expose some of the places in government as well as in business where re- duction to bae essentials would produce a saving. That hope will not be realized in any program of raising the price of government-unless such : progran proves a boomerang. If taxes are to be lowered, as state and local experience proves, the reduction cannot go far before something will have to be given up. Rela- tively little can be saved by salary cuts. Taxes are, basically, payment for services. To reduce them means going without some of these services --going without new highways, going without some branches of education, going without some bureaus and boards and commissions. In a time of non-prosperity a business does not often balance its budget by increased income; more often balance is achieved by removing items from the other side of the scales. The same rule should be applied to government, the largest Single business in almost any nation. If more citizens could look at their government as the one true public service organziation with which they deal, could learn what are its sources of income and expenditure, the resulting informed intelligence would help toward putting the na- tion's most important business onmore of a business basis. THE UNIVERSITY'S EXAMPLE (Chicago Tribune) It is fitting but no less gratifying and com- mendable that the University of Illinois has set an example of sound fiscal policy to the public institutions, not only of Illinois, but of the na- tion. Its budget for the academic year 1932-'33 is reduced $649,000 below that of the previous year, in which half a million was saved, besides elimination of all capital expenditures. This probably means a total saving for the biennium of 22 per cent of the funds appropriat- ed to the university by the last general assembly. President Chase explains that "these savings have been made by the university in view of the difficult position in which the state has found itself as the result of decreased and delayed taxes." No doubt the highest standard of public ad- ministration may be expected from an institution maintained to instruct and to inspire. All the more iynportant is it, therefore, that Dr. Chase and the university have not failed to act faith- fully and thoroughly to meet the emergency and thus not only have accomplished material relief for state finances but set an example which other agencies of government cannot ignore. When better times return the record of the university will not be fogotten. Musc and Dr ama 0- PALMER CHRISTIAN (A Review by M. A. S.) Summer School students were given their first: opportunity to hear Palmer Christian in an or- gan recital Tuesday evening. Honegger's "Choral" was the outstanding num- ber on the program, and was gvien a musicianly interpretation by Mr. Christian. He had a bit of a task in its presentation as it immediately fol- lowed the Bach "Fantasie and Fugue in C Minor." However, he succeeded in creating a place for each with no reactionary feeling whatsoever to-: ward the Inodern. Marcello's "Psalm XIX" has in it a cultured refinement perfectly suited to Mr. Christian's playing. His tones were carefully and beautifully blended in it. The delicate "Menuetto e Gigue en Rendeau" of Rambeau was a definite contrast to the "Psalm XIX." Mr. Christian's rendition of the Bach was not on the same high level as his usual interpretation of this composer. Nor was the Franck "Fantasie in A Major" as colorful as it might have been. To an unbiased reader, Mr. Bridge's letter of Jul 20 appears to be one of the most direct admissions that the cause of Socialism is lost to America. "Champion any other cause except the established order and see where you land," he states, and then continues by claiming that Mr. Ford refuses to employ Ann Arbor residents in his factory because the board of schools gave the Ann Arbor branch of the Detroit Civil Lib- erties the high school auditorium for the meeting previous to the Ford riot. In the first place, it seems lamentable that such a staunch radical as Mr. Bridge would give up the fight upon so little pretext. Educated, legitimate opposition is the life of government. It is almost fantastic to imagine our government in a situation where there would be no opposition party, and further, such a situation would be grossly unhealthy. We welcome criticism and opposition, and profit by that type of opposition which results in construc- tive change. However, any crank can tear down, but the general public is attracted only when a man is sincerely interested both in tearing down a system and- in putting something better in its place. Were Mr. Bridge or any of his contem- poraries able to convince the American public that the system they advocate would be an im- provement over the present government, I have no fear that they would be lowered into such depths of despondency and gloom as they must now be from the tenor of Mr. Bridge's latest letter, Concerning the above-mentioned Ford claims, I would like to point out that the facts in the case refuse to bear out Mr. Bridge in his as- sumptions. Since 1929, Mr. Ford has beel°put- ting down on the number of out-of-town em- ployees in his factories in and around Detroit for the reason that he considered it a better policy to give workers around Detroit employment rather than take those from points as far away as Ann Arbor. As Mr. Bridge will probably recall, the Ford Motor company issued a statement a little over a year and a half ago that in its Dearborn plant it would henceforth employ Dearborn men as far as was possible, and since then has prac- tically eliminated unemployment among the bona fide residents of Dearborn. Needles to say the company has followed this saiie policy in its other plants as well. Mr. Bridge has made a serious error in his explanation of the employ- ment in the Ford factories which might even be explained by inferring his ignorance of the facts of the case. In conclusion, I would like to urge Mr. Bridge to continue his brilliant defense of his social creed, and his cherished search for the truth. Harold H. Emmons, Jr. A Washington BYSTANDE R By Kirke Simpson WASHINGTON, July 20.-(AP)-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is a man of very consider- able political experience. Yet it must be with a flickering smile that he now 'is able to discover his own state safe for Frank Roosevelt in November and to plan Roose- velt rallies when so short a time ago he was say- ing Roosevelt could not carry any state east of the Mississippi and very few west of it. At the time Mr. Hague was broadcasting as floor manager in the Chicago convention for Al Smith's presidential candidacy. That statement, issued on the afternoon of June 23, four days before the convention opened, was the first act of Mayor Hague in that capa- city. And it set off fireworks. Mr. Hague listed the names pefore the con- vention for the nomination, beginning with Ritchie and winding up with Senator Lewis, who had already pulled out, to find that any one of them "meets the situation better than the gover- nor of New York." He tactfully omitted his own candidate, Mr. Smith. Political Spark Plug That statement was the spark plug that fired the Roosevelters to assault on the two-thirds rule. There was a pep meeting in Roosevelt headquarters within an hour or two at which Josephus Daniels of North Carolina, once Roose- velt's chief in the navy department, grew so wrathful you could hear the roar of his resent- ment in the hall. When "Big Jim" Farley reported by telephone to Roosevelt at Albany, he told the governor, who was a bit dubious about the wisdom of open at tack on the two-thirds rule, that there was no holding the Roosevelt men. They were "rarin" to go, he said. And, they did go, until Roosevelt personally called them off a few days later. At the time The Bystander had an impression that Farley, getting his first national convention baptism of fire, welcomed the issue because it served to key up the Roosevelt forces to fighting edge. 'Firing Up' The Army There were enough signs of lukewarm support among Roosevelt delegations to make him yearn for something that would make his shock troops mad. The Hague statement did it. Whether the Roosevelters could have downed the two-thirds rule will never be known. They still insist, the insiders, that they had the votes. The evidence of the Walsh-Shouse vote and the three ballot stand which preceded Roosevelt's nomination rather tends to support that claim. But the real nubbin of a lot that happened in Chicago was that "anybody-but-Roosevelt" state- ment by Mayor Hague, now so happily changed to a "win-with-Roosevelt" slogan from the same hand. Still Vitzl Cogs The thing that flashed through The Bystand- er's mind was how lightly time had touched that circle of major figures of that dramatic convention of eight years ago. The voices of three, Walsh, Smith and Davis, ye: CG fg The Michiigan Dai SC'rudtD' and R te The circulation of The Michigan Daily in Ann Arbor by carriers is in excess of 4090 at 'the present time. This does not juclufle A Plain Statement of Facts concern- - 9 subscriptions outside the city. That is Aver ~1 three times as large a circulation as any pre- viouS Michigan Daily of the Sumer Session has had. It covers every student and faculty member attending the University of Michigau And residing in Ann Arbor. Conseqienly, there is every justifRiation for raising display advertising rates, yet, this has not been orie. We are now offering you triple the circula- Lion at the same old rates ... as great a 1932 bargain as any. Complete Loverage The duty of The Michigan Daily to its adver- user-s is to cople tely cover the students and faculty of the University. This has been ac- coMplished. It is now up to you to take advantage of the facjlities offered. I you are interested in getting your share of the tre- mendous amount of student and faculty business, The Michigan Daily is the one logi- cal Medium through which you can accomp- lish this. )i "I 17ihe Michigan 11 aily 0 U