#AGE TWO. F mteul , A fs h A illy IMMAY, AUG. 14: 1934 n. nn ".. 1 TII14_ 1 \ph11 111 b 1 x svaaraa.a.?. sav an .. az r. .avvv V THE MICHIGAN DAILY Offcal Publication of the Summer Session. T H_____~~ Publishect 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 ublisahed herein. All rights of republication of special d ispatches are reserved. se:ntered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second cias matter. Special rate of postage granted by Tpird Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.50, by mail, $2.00. During regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. 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T HE NEW REPUBLIC has consis- tently maintained that President Roosevelt is the greatest friend of capitalism in the country, in that he is patching up the capitalistic system so that it will, at the very least, work. Ralph Thompson of the New York Times writes of the New Republic's supplement "A Balance Sheet of the New Deal": "Hardly a reform has been introduced (by the New Deal), the editors point out, that even so much as whispers socialism; the efforts of the administration have peen aevoeaL to ne rescue of capitalism. Yet these efforts have been re- 5isted by the capitalistic beneficiaries, and in al- most every instance successfully." Alice Duer Miller, in accepting the chairman- ship of the authors' committee for the re-election of President Roosevelt, made the following state- mient, one which corroborates in an interesting Way the paragraph above: "I am for Roosevelt because I approve of the continuance of the capitalistic system and it seems obvious that this system has a better chance of continuing if it is ameliorated and adapted to modern conditions along the lines initiated by the present Democratic administra- tion." If this be true, why is it that the left of the country is supporting Roosevelt while his most bitter opposition is coming from those who stand to benefit by the preservation of capitalism? There are several reasons. First, socialists, as Dorothy' Thompson says, "think that the quickest way to socialism is via President Roose- volt, although they know perfectly well that the President is not a socialist." That is, while the reforms of the New Deal may not whisper so- cialism in the sense that they have not before it an avowed ideal of common ownership, yet it is true that such reforms as social security, mini- mum wage and maximum hour laws, are among those immediate objectives that have been dear to the heart of Norman Thomas for years. Whe- ther or not it is true that they are intended to point in the direction of collectivization of in- 'dustry it is impossible to say, because President Roosevelt for reasons that are obviously tactical has not t'eclared himself. Second, capitalists know only that the re- election of Roosevelt means further curb on their 'rights of "free enterprise." If Roosevelt is elect- ed, they fear that he will impose new and drastic taxes, and all believe J. P. Morgan's observation -that no great American fortunes will be left in thirty-five years if Roosevelt is re-elected. "At recent money-raising lunches in New York," re- ports the New Republic, "normally rational bus- iness men are reported to have talked much as if they were French aristocrats of 1793 awaiting the tumbrils to carry them to the guillotine." In other words, they do not recognize that unless ,they submit now to moderate regulation that will guarantee a fair return to other factors of production than capital, conditions will grow in- ereasingly intolerable for the great majority of people and force will be applied to secure not only a just return, but complete control. Or, if the Chamber of Commerce should realize that changes are necessary in the way of regulation, they are faced with the same dilemma as labor: "How far does Roosevelt intend to go with his program of regulation? Will he stop short of ownership, or will he be able to if he wants to?" Most business men fail to be reassured by the change in Roosevelt's philosophy now as against three years ago, a change about which we have commented in previous editorials: whereas his 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 aregasked 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. Americanism To the Editor: The true American spirit-"Americanism"-is expressed in a determined and magnificent hu- man struggle to achieve democracy, justice and liberty. Democracy means an equality of opportunity. Justice means the equality of all before the law. Neither democracy nor justice is possible without liberty. Liberty demands freedom of speech because without freedom of speech there can be no search for the truth. Freedom of speech includes free- dom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and-most important-freedom of education. The freedom of teachers to teach facts without bias and of scholars to learn facts without bias must never cease. Never was it more necessary than now for all Americans to support their right to freedom of speech and freedom to listen and learn. Believing in freedom of speech, Americans practice tolerance. It is well for present-day Americans to remember that in America, as else- where in the world, some of the most sincere patriots have been abused by the intolerant of their own day who made no effort to understand them. Americans are not afraid of change. A society which does not permit change does not permit growth or improvement. It is dead.-From a booklet by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge for the use of the Americanism Committee of the New York County American Legion. P.S. Not approved by William Randolph Hearst. -Observer. War To the Editor: 1. No one has stated it more explicitly than the German philosopher Fichte who, having de- clared that in the relation of states, "there is neither law nor right, except the right of the stronger," then went on to say not only that de- ception "is the natural and necessary course of things," and that a government might well adopt the principle: "Promise peace that thou mayest begin war with advantage."-Hitler is a disciple of Fichte.-Walter Lippman. 2. "Tht war of 1914 was not imposed upon the (German) people but demanded by the whole nation."-Hitler: Mein Kampf, Edition 1933, pp. 176. 3. World War: The imperialist carnage left a mountain of bones on a hundred European battlefields.-The Nation, Dec. 7, 1932. 4. Universal conscription and modern science have made wars utterly destructive to all con- cerned including the civilian population. Europe lost some ten million men and suffered infinite material damage and moral deterioration through four years of conflict. It is now a truism that another such conflict would threaten the very basis of our entire civilization. -Frederic R. Cou- dert, in The Living Age. 5. War, commerce and piracy go indissolubly together.-Goethe: Faust. 6. The roots of war are almost invariably eco- nomic in nature.-Harold Laski. 7. Above all, Fascism proclaims the necessity and excellence of war. War and the preparation of war are- to become the most sacred duties of human life. Men must find in death and mu- tilation the true purpose of their lives, and women must rejoice to exhaust themselves in childberth that ever new generations of men may take their places upon the battlefield.-John #Strachey, The Menace of Fascism. 8. According to the New Leader (London), on an average of six men were killed every minute during the World War. -M. Levi. Philadelphia Racing Form (From the New Republic) STUDENTS of our society will find plenty to think about in the purchase of The Phila- delphia Inquirer by Mr. Moses L. Annenberg. The Inquirer, the oldest paper in Philadelphia, with a circulation weekdays of 275,000 and Sun- days of 600,000 now falls into the hands of a former Hearst circulation manager, who is chiefly known to fame as the publisher of Daily Racing Form, a racetrack tipsters' sheet which appears simultaneously in eight cities. He denies that he is buying the paper on behalf of Mr. Hearst, but in all publishing principles the two undoubtedly see eye to eye. Several hundred thousand Phila- delphia homes will henceforth view the world through the eyes of Mr. Annenberg, a man whose vision is bounded, if we may judge his future by his past, by more and bigger race tracks, black reaction in all political and social affairs, and a general level of intelligence substantially below that of a thirteen-year-old. Nobody can esti- mate the harm a man like Annenberg can do, year by year, to a city like Philadelphia. True, he is by no means the worst of American pub- lishers; and true, he bought the paper on the open market for a good round sum. We are not blam- ing Mr. Annenberg particularly; we are merely noticing the crazy civilization that puts such vast power into the hands of anybody who can get together enough money. From the long-time point of view, it would be far more sensible to give a machine gun to a child of six and encour- age him to turn loose with it at high noon, in a crowded street. The Summer Texan has its suggestions for re- vised definitions, according to a University of Texas columnist: "A good speaker is one who can spill the gab so eloquently that you begin to wish he was right even if you know he is wrong." "A so-and-so: A male gigolo who plucks his eyebrows and tries to grow the difference on his upper lip." "Parental backsliding: Reading questionable literature and then raising hail and more hail when they catch their children reading the same stuff." *..BOOKS .. "ALONG NEW ENGLAND SHORES," by A. Hyatt Verrill; (Putnam). IT WOULD be an A-class error to think of A. Hyatt Verrill's "Along New England Shores" as merely an- other travel book. Mr. Verrill does not write that sort of thing. He is not interested in how many miles it is from Salem to Portsmouth; he is interested in the saltier anecdotes of those two munici- palities. Some of the things he has learned about our Puritan forefathers will give pause to the recent movement to whitewash their sins. The pretty Indian custom of scalping is not, he declares, an Indian custom at all. The red men did not begin the habit until a bounty had been offered for scalps by the Puritans themselves! Most of the torture used by the New England Indian, he asserts, was learned at the same source. It was the Puritans who pressed old Giles Gory to death for refusing to plead one way or another to a charge of witchcraft. Giles' eyes "did popile from oute their sokettes," a literate observer writes, only to be "pressed back into place by ye Governor with his staffe." It also may amuse some to know that indirectly the Plymouth colony owed its survival to the fact that here had been an English settlement in Maine 14 years before the Pilgrims landed. So it goes with Mr. Verrill. He writes about the first submarine, built at Saybrook, Conn. And about the astonishing "republic" on Moncogus Island, off Maine, which maintained from 1860 to 1935 that it. was inde- pendent and did not belong to the United States; it capitulated in order to get a post office! And about No Man's Land, and the man who is paid to teach lobsters to dive, and so on through 298 delightful pages.-J. S. Lincoln Steffens... . . "YOU'RE printing a rotten maga- zine," said S. S. McClure to his youthful managing editor. "Get away from the office, go out and get acqauinted with the people, see what's happening, and theni come back and tell them." Lincoln Steffens went out. He toured the country. Hhe mantle of a magazine editor's dignity dropped from his shoulders. It was never re- sumed. He was back in journalism, where he had first made a name, where he always belonged, where he always after remained, whether as lecturer, publicist, autobiographer, or mellowed watcher of events from his scholarly retirement at Carmel, where his death has occurred. With the peremptory blessing of his veteran publisher, Steffens exposed municipal corruption in a series of burning articles subsequently collect- ed in book form as "The Shame of the Cities." The disclosures rocked the nation. They were factual report- ing. They told what was being done and who were doing it. No one was spared. Never a punch was pulled. The cirmucstances of corruption, in all their ramifications and connec- tions, were spread in blasting detail. The philosophy of bossism was com- pressed in a phrase: "Addition, divi- sion, silence." The unholy alliance of business and politics was terrify- ingly pictured, functioning in various ways as varrying conditions and tem- peraments demanded, but everywhere performing the same vicious job of betraying the public. Thus was founded the school of militant periodical journalism to whose activities Theodore Roosevelt applied derogatively the term "muck- raking." Eminent names were en- rolled. Ida Tarbell matriculated. So did Ray Stannard Baker. The school grew. It set a fashion. Magaznies were launched in frank imitation of the McClure's leadership. The search- ing inquiry, the high purpose, the in- tellectual integrity of the Steffens- Tarbell-Baker group were wanting in, most of the camp followers. The era of indictment passed. But the school of which Steffens might, perhaps, be called the headmaster, was an insti- tutional contribution to the arduous cause of reform. St. Louis was the first city Steffens visited on his historical tour of ex- ploration. St. Louis was merely typ- ical. Corruption was rampant in all the larger cities. The final degree was conferred on Philadelphia- "Corrupt and contented." Always there was the boss-boss- ism, bribery, boodling. Boosism, as Steffens showed, is niisgovernment' for graft, by graft. That was true in Steffens' time, and it is true today. "The Shame of the Cities" is a monulment to its author "more last- ing than bronze." As a text-book it implants the lesson of "lest we for- get." Flyer Flouts Jinx, Almost Loses Life MT. PLEASANT. Aug. 13-()- S PRESIDENT of the Carnegie En- dowment for International Peace, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler has just made a report to the trustees of that organization on the state of the na- tions. It is a disturbing message, de-'i Glaring in effect that the world stands' on the brink of another war and that collective action is imperative to pre- vent the worst effects of another eco- nomic collapse. Dr. Butler recom- mends that the United States take the; initiative in calling an international economfic conference in an effort to avert the threatening catastrophe. Dr. Butler does not exaggerate the critical situation, and his diagnosis is undoubtedly correct. At bottom, the world's troubles are economic. Un- derneath all the political turmoil is the distress of masses of peoples and the precarious financial condition of the various governments. All nations have about reached the limit of bor- rowing to stave off disorder, made in-' evitable by disruption of international trade and normal activities. But when Dr. Butler proposes an international economic conference, to be initiated by the United States, he seems to be getting away from realities. He is asking a Democratic administration to make a gesture in the field of international affairs that would be politically dangerous and might do more harm than good under existing conditions. The present administration is now under fire because it has made a first step in the direction of reviving inter- national trade through reciprocal trade pacts. The Presiden and Sec- retary Hull have literally aken their political lives in their hands to ad- vance this cause, which the Repub- lican platform is pledged-to reverse. It should be apparent by now that a complete new start must be made in dealing with the international problem. As Dr. Butler suggests, there must be a new approach, and it should be along economic lines. From all accounts, the statesmen of Europe realize this, and the more responsible leaders are seeking a new way out of the morass. This has been forced upon them by conditions which are constantly growing worse. We are not much better off, al- though we are enjoying recovery of a kind. None of the major problems facing the country has been solved by President Roosevelt and will not be solved by anything he has so far proposed. This is true of the Repub- lican party and of Gov. Landon. If Gov. Landonshould be elected and carry out the platform adopted at Cleveland, we would soon be worse off than we are today. The reason is simply that, in this interdependent world, no nation can have lasting prosperity or be secure from the danger of another war so long as the world at large is suffering from grave economic and political disturbances. * * * The United States, because of its prestige, its wealth and remoteness geographically should today be pro- viding the leadership needed to bring about stabilization and order. What are the obstacles in the way? Why is it that the United States is unable to take her proper place in the world and by doing so help her own people? Because we have been misled and the relationship between this country and the world has been misrepresented ever since the World War. If the world is to be put to rights and another war averted, the United States must take the lead or at least co-operate wholeheartedly in any ef- fort that is made. But this entails a lot of work to change public senti- ment here. In plain words, this means combatting the propaganda of William Randolph Hearst and those who are day by day preaching the misleading doctrine of economic na- tionalism and isolation. * - * I Atythis time when the Republican party, as Dr. Butler recently said, has adopted the most reactionary platform in its history and all of civ- ilization faces a crisis that may bring another war, the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace might examine its own record and methods to see if it has been following the course best calculated to further the cause to which it is committed. As we see the problem, the policy of the United States is the most im- portant single factor in the world sit- uation. We have a President pledged to the policy of the "good neighbor" and a Secretary of State who has worked earnestly and courageously to promote peace and economic rehabili- tation. But neither the President nor Secretary Hull can move faster or go farther than public opinion will per- mit. It is all very well to say that they should boldly seek to lead the world aright; but Woodrow Wilson tried to do just this and failed trag- ically. The task ahead is to educate the American public to the point where it will support an enlightened foreign policy. This cannot be done by starting with campaigns forthe League of Nations and World Court or even for international stabilization of e>>rrAn ou Th ,-c mn a sociation" and "League of Nations As- sociation" and begin all over in a commonsense effort to show Amer- icans that it is to their interest to cooperate with the rest of the world in order to put men to- work in the United States. * * * We need to begin all over in our seaport cities, on our farms and in our industrial centers and attempt to show that the surest way to provide employment for Americans, to make subsidies unnecessary and avoid "reg- imeptation" in agriculture and indus- try is to go back to the normal ways of trade that have always served to advance the general welfare. This normal progress was assured through the building up of foreign trade for our surplus goods. This means na- turally that we must take foreign goods in return. It does not mean free trade or anything like it, but it does mean freer trade. In this work, the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace could perform a real sereice. The place to- work for peace is here in America, not in Europe. The way to do it is not by trying to entangle the American people in foreign politics but by ap- pealing to their self-interest. Few people understand the complications of economics or foreign exchange, but all mature Americans understand what is meant by trade. Before we have another economic conference, American public opinion should be mobilized behind the administration so that it could provide real leader- ship in such a gathering. Crooked Vote Methods (From The Chicago Daily News) PERMANENT registration, the new honest-vote law, is now formally in effect in Chicago and nine sub- urbs. Fortune magazine, in its current issue, lists 13 ways-apart from the bestowal of patronage privilege or immunities from the enforcement of the law-by which a political ma- chine may seek to control afi election dishonestly: 1. Intimidation and violence, ex- ercised upon voters and upon workers or watchers of the opposing party. 2. Buying the votes of legally reg- istered voters-"sometimes for cash; sometimes for a drink of rotgut, good brandy, or even a sandwich." 3. False registration. "Including the .voting of flophouse floaters who swear to false names or who adopt the names of registered dead men or of voters who have moved away. If a political worker doesn't trust his floaters he will steal a ballot early in the morning, fill it out for the or- ganization, hand it to the first "sting- er,' as a voting floater is called, tell the stinger to deposit it in the box. The stinger must bring back an un- marked ballot before he can collect his two-bits. And the unmarked ballot is then filled out for the or- ganization, and the process repeated, making up an endless chain. Sting- ers may obviously vote as repeaters by moving from precinct to precinct." 4. Voting the illiterates. That is, a judge gives "assistance" to a voter who claims he cannot read or under- stand the long ballot. 5. Manipulating the line. "The art of permitting only the right vot- ers to move up toward the polling booth." 6. Stuffing the box, "The method is arbitrarily to check off the names of voters and fill in the ballots for them. When the checked-off voter turns up later in the day he is told that he has already voted." 7. Weighing the box. Election of- ficials, in collusion, "simply decide, without opening the box, just who is to get what, and by what mar- gin." 8. Checking on the count. "Done by tearing and otherwise spoiling bal- lots." The short-pencil expert, with a pencil lead concealed in his hand as he manipulates the ballots in the count, "will mark an organization X at the top of a split ballot and sim- ply count that X." 9. Erasures. The ballots are al- tered by erasures before the count. 10. Spilling the ballots. The lights go out conveniently, or a box is "ac- cidentally overturned, and in the mix- up other ballots are substituted for those originally in the box. 11. Substituting a new tally sheet. The correct tally is destroyed after the count, and a false tally is filed in its place. 12. Substituting a new ballot box. Before the count, the right box is stolen, and later destroyed. Another, loaded in advance with false ballots, is substituted. 13. Indirect methods. Under this heading, Fortune magazine lists "par- ty control of the county judge, who may be compliant in the selection of judges and clerks of election"; also, "the tacit or open bribery or com- pulsion of the police force to over- look election day irregularities." Ways Toward New And More EnlightenedForeign Policy (From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 4 t Summer Study And Winter Salary -Teachers Can Make Study Profitable In More Than One Way- (By Prof. Ernest H. Hahne, director of the Summer Session at Northwestern University) -Reprinted from The Summer Northwestern- VERY FEW public school teachers on the cam- pus this summer would freely admit that they were here.seeking promotional credit to hold their positions or to increase their salaries. Never- theless this is a very practical matter. School- board members would be disgruntled if their sav- ings, invested in stocks or bonds, did not return to them dividends of interest. But the summer session teacher is saving her time, and making her investment in education all too often without expecting any distinct or definite increase in win- ter salary. Summer study in a universty that is a member of the Association of American Univer- sities, where high stahdards are assured, is an investment, and the business man expects a re- turn upon sound investments.. Business men who are members -of school boards all too frequently fail to distinguish in sal- ary increase between the teachers who invest their summer in education and those teachers who take delightful trips to snowclad mountain peaks, or see the grandeur of national parks, or enjoy the breezy seashore, or rest in the wooded camps beside northland lakes. Are not these business men trying to get something for noth- ing, when they disregard the expenses and heavy outlays of the teachers in their school systems who undertake to combine pleasure and invest- ment in summer session work? * * -*- * That summer study would improve the teach- ing efficiency of their teachers these same business. men would be the first to admit, but they hesitate to compensate these same teachers- by imposing heavier school taxes on their neigh- bors. At the same time they ignore the indirect tax that falls upon the school teacher who ser- iously seeks to improve her teaching efficiency through summer study-because the expense of summer study is a sort of tax that a teacher imposes upon herself for the improvement of the school work in the particular community she serves. True indeed, it is voluntarily im- posed, but that does not relieve the community of the moral liability attaching to the community which obtains benefits for which it does not con- tribute. There are certain fnrces at mwr + itat +on rt growth of summer sessions. The country as a whole is getting more and more summer-session- conscious. The leading universities, which through summer study are improving the teaching tech- nique, educational materials and methods, the social outlook and educational philosophy of public school teachers, are gradually improving the school system in many communities. The longer this tendency continues, the greater will be the summer-session-consciousness of American people. Another force working in this same direction is the inter-community competition to improve schools. Through summer session attendance the more progressive school administrators and school boards will discover that higher salaries not only further improvements in school systems by enabling their teachers to pursue summer study, but -also that higher salaries will attract the better prepared teachers. The more progres- tive administrators are already recognizing that a salary increase is partial recoupment for the expense of summer study, a recognition of the expense of future summer study, a dividend pay- ment for the teachers' savings invested in the improvement of local school systems. One more factor that relates summer study to winter salary is the gradual recognition that the earlier the administration rewards summer study the better opportunity it will have to secure the better teachers. For the past few years we have heard much about the low sal- aries and the over-production of teachers. But no one has yet alleged that there is an overpro- duction of "godd" teachers. - No one will deny that summer study makes good teachers "better" teachers, and certainly progressive communities want the better teachers. To get them the policy of rewarding teachers for summer study must eventually be adopted. Promotional credits are now used in many cities, and during the depres- sion this system has more than proved its merit, and will probably spread as attempts are made to improve the teaching staff. * * * * In the meantime the rewards-for summer study consist in the intangibles of self-satisfaction, pleasant associations, profitable study with qual- ified instructors, contacts with eminent lecturers,