PAGE TWO THE MICHM~'AN DAI LY FRIDAY, AUG. 7, 193a THE MICHIGAN DAILY Offic-- Publication of the summersession Published every morning except Monday during theI University year and Summer Session, by the Board, in Control 0of 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, $1.50, by mail, $200. During regular schoolryear by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50-. Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phone: 2-1214. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison, Ave., New York City.-400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR...........THOMAS E. GROEHN ASOCIA1L EDITOR ............THOMAS H. KLEENE Editorial Director ................Marshall D. Shulman Dramatic Critic ... .............John W. Pritchard Assistant .ditors: Clinton B. Conger, Ralph W. Hurd, Joseph h . Mattes, Elsie A. Pierce, Tuure Tenander, Jewel W. Wdiuerfel, Reporters: Eleanor Barc, Donal Burns, Mary Delnay, M. E. Graban, John Hilpert, Richard E. Larch, Vincent Moore, Elsie Roxborough, William Sours, Dorothea etaebler, Betty Keenan. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESS MANAGER.......GEORGE H. ATHERTON CREDITS MANAcIxER . ................JOHN S. PARK Circulation Manager...............J. Cameron Hall Office Manager........................Robert Lodge TH E FORUM Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief,'the editors reserving the right to condense all letters of more than 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Jefferson And The Constitution To the Editor: Jefferson wrote in 1816: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant-too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amend- ment." "I know that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the ex- perience of the present; and forty years of ex- perience in government is worth a century of book reading; and this they would say them- selves were they to rise from the dead." -A.D. 1936. Tennis Courts To the Editor: For several years now I have been trying to play a decent game of tennis down on the Ferry Field tennis courts. This, perhaps, has been the rub! I should have tried some other place. You can't play a decent game of tennis on a court that is more like a vegetable garden than a tennis court. I don't mean to be the least bit imperti- nent about the thing and hope you'll accept my remarks in the best of spirits, but I think that there are many who will agree with me in saying that the Ferry Field tennis courts are the worst courts in town available for students of the Uni- versity. Those over at Palmer Field, the Wom- en's Athletic Association courts, are far superior to the Ferry Field courts. I think it's time some- thing was done about it, if it is at all possible. I realize that perhaps the Athletic Association is pressed for funds and is unable to pay for the upkeep of the courts. I also realize that Michigan hasn't had a championship tennis team ever since I have followed the game, and that has been for the last eight years at least. Good ten- nis players are developed over the long summer months when there is opportunity and time to devote to the game. They are not, as a rule, de- veloped indoors during the winter and outside in the uncertain climate of Michigan in the spring. The deplorable state of the tennis courts during the summer months has over a period of eyars, I'm willing to wager, discouraged many players. Yet during the summer the "Varsity courts" are left idle. Nobody can play on them unless they have been on the squad at some time or other. This seems a bit silly, if not ridiculous. By leaving the courts idle and open to weather conditions they are only worse off than they would be if they had been played on every day. The feeling created by this stand will account for many a boy refusing to go out for the team. This sounds like stretching the point a bit, I imagine, but it's true. Recently I played in a tournament conducted by the Intramural Department. Time and again the ball would strike a soft spot and skid crazily to one side. It just isn't conducive to good tennis, As Others See It The Lights Of Manhattan (From the New York Times) O LOOK DOWN from a high window in the small hours at the spangled lights of Man- hattan is a little as if the firmament were upside down and one gazed down instead of up at the stars. This is the time the cleaners are at work in the office buildings and the midtown tow- ers blaze like pillars of light supporting an in- verted heaven. Streets, bridges and river banks are only the outlines of strange constellations. The park, its lamps veiled in mists from the lakes, is a trailing Milky Way. The head- lights of late-cruising motor cars flash through the blue-black lanes like tiny comets shooting the wrong way. The city has only these little hours before the dawn to live a life of its own. Then it is un- crowded, unhurried, undistracted. It stretches while the population sleeps and traces in light a pattern as splendid and mysterious as the pattern of the midsummer sky. Venizelos once described New York to a group of Greek peasants in his native village of Halepa. He said that when he saw its incredible towers he was proud to be a man. New York, alone with itself, in the dead of night, its towers all alight, its arteries the golden streets of the immigrant's dream, looks proud to be a city, looks as if it knew the stars in their courses had never seen a spectacle like this. A Walk For Health To the Editor: All hail to the Constitutionals-the men of the hour in Detroit. They have come to save the country and the constitution from the Demo- crats. They are such great men, and so sincere that their names must be kept out of the public press. They work only in "sitting rooms." The Democratic party is not good enough for these Constitutionals, and they are too good for Alf. The dictionary says a "constitutional" is a walk for health-a walk for their health as well as the health of the country. --Observer. The universe is the only thing that cannot be reproduced accurately in a minature model-on any scale. This impossibility is shown by the fact that if the earth were reproduced in such a model by a one-inch half, the nearest star would have to be placed more than 40,000 miles away.--FreLng Foster, in Collir's. We don't exactly distrust Governor Landon, but when you see a lamb leading a pack of wolves, don't you sort of wonder what the wolves are doing there?-From a recent political address. that's all. You've got to beat Ferry Field be- fore you can begin to think about the man across the net. There is always that chance that the ball will bounce badly. It's a hard thing to over- come. This hasn't been written just to aid my own personal feelings as I am sincerely interested in seeing some good courts made available for the students of the University. I am certain that there are may who will back me up in this point and truly hope that something can be done to clear up the present situation. -For Better Tennis. Lovelock Sets New Record In Distance Event New Zealand Star Gains Decisive Victory Over Glenn Cunningham (Continued from Page 1) the outcome once Lovelock took com- mand on the back stretch of the last lap, but the stopwatch story was one of the most thrilling in foot-racing history, the New Zealander's perfectly run race a thing of sheerest beauty to watch. Following the pace alternately set by Germany's Friedrich Schaumberg, Cunningham and Sweden's Eric Ny, briefly Lovelock ran the last 800 me- ters in the amazing time of 1:57.6, including a 300-meter "kick" that none except Jack knew he possessed. Instead of waiting for the last 75 meters to unfurl his characteristic finish Lovelock poured it on most of the last lap and there was nothing the others could do but chase him home. Jack And Glenn Duel As it turned out, the race was strictly a challenge match between Jack and "Galloping Glenn." Cun- ningham had sampled Lovelock's speed at Princeton a year ago and found it not specially palatable and studiously prepared for a return race here. The American's legs may have been somewhat stiff and painfully sore as the result of unsatisfactory training weather but he never ran a better race and had no alibi for his beating under the circumstances. No apology was needed from a foot- racer who ran four-tenths of a sec- ond under the world record and yet failed in a supreme bid to capture a title which has eluded all of Amer- ica's best milers since 1908 when Mel Sheppard registered the last Amer- ican "metric mile" triumph. After touching off his own world record of 14.1 seconds in the semi- finals for the fifth time this year, the only question about the 110-meter hurdle final concerned Towns' ability to capitalize on the perfect conditions and do 14.0 flat. That apparently is within his grasp any day he really settles down to his hurdling work. Finns Lose Javelin The tension before his crowning test may have had something to do with it, but Towns needed his char- acteristic finishing rush to offset a slightly shaky start. 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Will sacrifice for quick sale. Also Deluxe Plymouth LAUNDRY 2-1044. Sox darned, coupe, '33, radio and heater. Box Careful work at low price. 1x 163. 24 Clippings in' ADire Pattern... WHEN WE CONDEMN Germany for its murder of academic freedom, let us remember our teacher's oatls. When we condemn Great Britain for vast gas preparations, air and navy appropriations, and the continental governments for their disproportionate expendi- tures on armaments, let us not forget that we ourselves are arming at a terrific clip. This past week, for example, the following news items seem to hinge together in a dire pat- tern on the editorial desk: First, the item that appeared on the editorial page itself several days ago, announcing that a closed meeting in the East Engineering Building would be addressed on the subject of "Planning for Manufacture of Munitions in Wartime." "The country is divided into. districts for purposes of civilian mobilization," said the story. "The address will analyze methods of training technical men, who, in time of war, will have to plan and provide for munitions." Second, the Associated Press story on Wednes- day which told of the farmers of Allegan County, Michigan, granting permission to the War De- partment to use more than 30,000 acres of their land during the war games in this area begin- ning tomorrow. Third, the declaration of theoretical ,war at midnight Wednesday between 22,000 soldiers, members of the opposing "Red" and "Blue" forces at Fort Knox, Ky. Each has blank ammunition, rations, water, hospital trucks, pup tents and full war regalia, new anti-aircraft guns, new and more powerful searchlights capable of pointing out enemy planes at altitudes of 12,000 to 13,000 yards. Fourth; there was the announcement by a naval attache that the United States is planning to build two new bigger and better battleships, so that it will not be left behind by Great Britain. On the feeble side of the picture, there is the story from South America which appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, indicating that the President's message, however it is interpreted here, is being accepted as more than a' pre-cam- paign gesture by South American countries, and that the Pan-American conference in the fall will be truly constructive. "What would you have us do," asks a militarist, "disarm in the face of turbulent world conditions and be caught flat-footed again? Not on your life. If there's going to be a war, the United States is going to be ready." No reasonable worker for peace asks that the United States disarm completely. Yet it does seem unreasonable that we, who are the least challenged of any of the world powers, should lead the world in an armament race, particularly when the higher we raise the scale of world armaments the more difficult it becomes to talk peace. Being somewhat realistic, we do not believe that the Locarno conference in the fall will ac- complish anything, except that representatives will talk instead of act for at least a few months. We agree that the threat of interference from the Continent in the Spanish revolution consti- tutes a very real possibility of war between the two great systems of government which divide Europe. We believe that the one country which should keep its head, firm in the belief that we have an interest not only in remaining out of a war, but in seeing that there is no war, is the United States. We are relatively free of border threats. We have a commendable friendship with the vast game. The winner's mark of 253 feet 3 13/32 inches was nearly five meters short of Jarvinen's world record of 251 feet 6 inches as well as under the Finnish ace's Olympic mark, but that didn't matter to the throng which acclaimed Germany's third champion in men's field events. Alton Terry, Hardin-Simmons Uni- versity student from Brady, Texas, placed sixth in the javelin throw with a heave of 67.15 meters, 220 feet 3 3/4 inches. Lee Bartlett, Union City, Mich., three-time Olympian, placed 15th with 61.15 meters, 200 feet 7 17/32 inches, while Malcolm Metcalfe of Los Angeles was 15th with 58.20, 190 feet 11 25/64 inches. Unless Great Britain's speedsters can stop them, Uncle Sam's dusky fliers, Jimmy Luvalle of Los Angeles and Archie Williams of Oakland, Calif. are likely to annex the sixth triumph for the American negro con- tingent tomorrow. They came through two trials to- gether with Harold Smallwood of Ventura, Calif. as a dozen sprinters qualified for the semi-finals. Lu- valle ran his quarter-final heat in 47.6 seconds-the best time of the trials. Tajima, the Japanese triple jumper, beat the Olympic record with 15.76, 51 feet 8 35/64 inches, before nego- tiating the new world record distance of 52 feet 5 15/16 inches during the final round. Another son of Nippon, Masao Ha- rada, overhauled Metcalfe while the American, RomerP, passed Kenkichi Oshima, the Japanese captain who had claimed the world mark with"51 feet 10 5/8 inches two years ago. The Louisianan made one of the best performances of his career to give the United States two unexpected points. In taking fifth place he leaped 15.08 meters, 49 feet 5 24/32 inches,ibne meter more than Oshima. Dudley Wilkins of Crowley, La., jumped 14.83 meters, 48 feet 8 7/8 inches for eighth place and Billy Brown, at 16 years the "baby" mem- ber of the American track and field team, finished 18th. The Baker, La. schoolboy did 47 feet 1 3/8 inches. Foreign Trade and Trade Pacts -How Much Credit Do The Reciprocal Treaties Deserve For Upturn?- Iii (From the Washington Post) THE UPTURN in our foreign trade, which began about the middle of 1933 and is still con- tinuing, is due primarily to a world-wide improve- ment in economic conditions. Since the United States started rather belatedly to participate in this recovery movement, the gains in both the export and import trade have continued with few interruptions of the upward trend. As a result, exports for the first five months of the current year reached a level not far short of that attained during the corresponding period in 1931 and were 14 per cent higher than a year ago. Imports, which have been increasing at a more rapid rate than exports of late, slightly ex- ceeded the totals reported for the first five months of 1931 and were 16 per cent above the figures of 1935. Although the value of our foreign trade is still far below the level of the years preceding the collapse of 1929, the gains are pronounced and the outlook is encouraging. Indeed, there is per- ceptible danger that supporters .of the adminis- tration may try to make political capital out of the foreign trade showing by attributing recent gains to the liberalizing effects of the reciprocal trade treaties. On the other hand, criticism of the admin- istration is at least as likely to muddy the waters of debate by citing the expansion of the import trade as evidence that tariff bargaining is placing domestic industry at the mercy of foreign competitors. * * * * Such arguments betray either ignorance of the facts or a deliberate distortion of their mean- ing. The course of our foreign trade has so far been affected but slightly by the conclusion of reciprocal trade agreements. Only a few of the trade treaties have been operative long enough to test their efficacy, and even in those few cases, changes in the value and volume of trade can- not be attributed exclusively to the agreements. Undoubtedly, recent pronounced increases in our commerce with Cuba are due largely to the treatment accorded her products in this market, and her inclusion in the sugar control plan. Imports from Belgium, which have likewise risen markedly as compared with a year ago, are partly due to the concessions granted under the trade treaty concluded with that country. How- ever, Belgium's total sales abroad expanded greatly following devaluation of her currency, and it is impossible to tell what proportion of the increase in shipments to the Unted States is due to that factor alone. In any case, the amount involved is a small sum compared with total in- creases in our foreign trade. It is also worth noting that the percentage rise in our exports to Canada during the present year is no greater than the average rate of in- crease in all exports and less than the percentage gains reported in our exports to Great Britain. While Canadian imports have risen at a some- what more rapid rate than all imports, they, too, have been outstripped by the gains in imports from Great Britain, a country with which we have made no reciprocal trade agreement. In short, any objective survey of the trade sta- tistics shows that gains in both our export and import trade have been widely distributed and have been due to innumerable causes uncon- nected with the agreements. The State Department's efforts to expand our foreign trade by eliminating hampering barriers to an exchange of goods is a laudable undertak- ing. It would, however, be a grave mistake to ex- aggerate the actual extent of the gains already achieved or in prospect. They are not attribu- table to any single cause and they are certainly not a product of policy. * * * 'i The tendency of imports to increase more rap- idly than exports is likewise due to causes un- connected with trade treaties, although tariff concessions, of course, increase our imports to certain articles. The trend toward a better bal- ance between our merchandise exports and im- ports has been in evidence for some time. It is the outgrowth of inescapable readjustments forced upon us by our own position as a creditor Saturday Specials SUMMER DRESSES, $5090 White and Pastel Crepes, Light Prints, Knits; also a group of darker prints. Val- ues to $12.95. Sizes 12 to 46. R EDUCTIONS of ONE-HALF and More on all White and Pastel SUMMER DRESSES, COATS and SUITS - from One-Fourth to One- Half on oal darker MID-SEASON DRESSES. 1. SQNS 0' GUNS JOAN, BMNX L 9