THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1935
but fair taskmaster who will brook no funny bus-
iness but even so he loves his laborers.
Evil agitators now and then enter the Orphan
Annie strip. They are heavily mustached and
bearded, and say things like "Curses! We are
leaders with no one to lead!" or "There should be
a law against industrial guards! Now we can't
bomb Warbuck's plant!" Then there are sundry
political agitators like Claude Claptrap (apparently
Upton Sinclair), Ronald Renegade (apparently
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.) and others with cog-
nomens like Byron Bunkum, etc. They are all in
the employ of (note) an evil capitalist named J.
Mortimer Slugg, who is built like a mountain and
uses gangster methods in the conduct of his nefari-
ous enterprises.
As far as we can see, Orphan Annie is by all
odds the least important character in "Little Or-
L phan Annie."
n The idea of this strip, in sum, is to discredit any
attempt to alter the status quo. And what a
laugh that attempt is!
Some time, if you have the proper newspaper
at hand, after thumbing th'ough the Italo-Ethi-
opian situation, the import-export market, the
e account of the St. Louis bull-pen pitchers in their
s efforts to stop the Tigers, and the race results,
you might turn to the comic strips and get the
s latest low-down on the class struggle.
'y You'll be seeing Reds in your dreams.
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IMore On The Student And Reigion
L To the Editor:
r I am grateful to you for the clear analysis of
. The Student and Religion in a recent editorial.
- You state that it is one of the chief duties of the
University to help the student gain "a new intel-
ligent insight into the workings of the world,
and a keener perception of his own significance
in life." Do you not neglect, however, to show
that the church, which is responsible for religious
indoctrination in the first place, should also help
in this process? Perhaps some churches are mere-
ly serving up to students the old dogmas in mod-
Sern dress, but not all are guilty.
The enclosed Humanist Manifesto is an effort of
some religious leaders (professors, editors, min-
isters and others) to state religion in terms which
will be agreeable to the modern mind and in
s line with scientific discovery. You will be inter-
ested to know that Roy Wood Sellars, one of the
signers, wrote the first draft of the Manifesto,
some of which you may care to print with this
letter.
d-H. P. Marley.
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Today man's larger understanding of the uni-
s verse, his scientific achievements, and his deeper
appreciation of brotherhood, have created a sit-
uation which requires a new statement of the
means and purposes of religion. Such a vital,
fearless, and frank religion capable of furnishing
adequate social goals and personal satisfactions
h ay appear to many people as a complete break
with the past. While this age does owe a vast
debt to the traditional religions, it is none the less
obvious that any religion that can hope to be a
synthesizing and dynamic force for today must
t be shaped for the needs of this age. To establish
such a religion is a major necessity of the present.
It is a responsibility which rests upon this genera-
tion. We therefore affirm the following:
0
r Humanism asserts that the nature of the uni-
e verse depicted by modern science makes unaccept-
f able any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of
a human values. Obviously humanism does not deny
the possibility of realities as yet undiscovered,
but it does insist that the way to determine the
existence and value of any and all realities is by
means of intelligent inquiry and by the assess-
ment of their relation to human needs. Religion
must formulate its hopes and plans in the light
of the scientific spirit and method.V
We are convinced that the time has passed for
theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties
of "new thought."
Religion consists of those actions, purposes, and
experiences which are humanly significant. Noth-
, ing human is alien to the religious. It includes
labor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship,
recreation - all that is in its degree expressive
of intelligently satisfying human living. The dis-
tinction between the sacred and the secular can
no longer be maintained.
In place of the old attitudes involved in worship
t and prayer the humanist finds his religious emo-
tions expressed in a heightened sense of personal
life and a cooperative effort to promote social well-
being.
It follows that there will be no uniquely religious
emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto asso-
ciated with belief in the supernatural..
Man will learn to face the crises of life in terms
u of his knowledge of their naturalness and proba-
bility. Reasonable and manly attitudes will be
fostered by education and supported by custom.
We assume that humanism will take the path of
social and mental hygiene and discourage senti-
mental and unreal hopes and wishful thinking.
The humanists are firmly convinced that exist-
ing acquisitive and profit-motivated society has
shown itself to be inadequate and that a radical
r change in methods controls, and motives must
e be instituted. A socialized and cooperative eco-
nomic order must be established to the end that
; the equitable distribution of the means of life be
possible. The goal of humanism is a free and uni-
versal society in which people voluntarily and in-
telligently cooperate for the common good. Hu-
ma - 4--. rAmn rl . A ni, ,'Arprlfeia_4-. chl.n rrl w,.rl.1
AROUND
THE T*OWN*.*
By RUSSELL F. ANDERSON
Good morning!
While wandering around last night we found a
five-dollar bill in front of Hill Auditorium . . .
if the owner will please form a line in front of
the press building at seven this evening . . . we
will gladly return it.
classified iDxieetory
HURT ON TENNIS COURT
Kenneth Steen, Grad., who suffered
injuries last Friday, did not fall from
a tandom bicycle, as was previously
reported. The accident occurred oil
a tennis court.
The Cathedral of Poznan, dating
back to the tenth century, is the old-
est in Poland.
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After looking over the sheriff's blotter last night
. we discovered something that seems to hit a
new high in descriptive phraseology . . . according
to the blotter J. A. Rathbone . . . who lives at
Silver Hills, near Ann Arbor . . . reports the loss
of a 50-pound brown collie dog . . . described as
having a ROMAN NOSE ... we consider that one
for the books!
* *. * *
Two Detroiters, Sam Smith, 26, of 3380 Colling-
wood, and Alfred Smith, 26, of 2919 Sturtevant,
were arrested yesterday on charges of having gam-
bling devices in their possession . . . at the time
of their arrest they had 25 punch-boards and 25
clocks in their possession . . . well . . . it looks like
they'll no longer serve clocks ... but we're willing to
bet they'll continue to serve time.
On Sunday we ran out to the airport to watch
the antics at the American Legion Air Show ..
there must have been three or four thousand odd
people there (odd is right!) . .. while wandering
about we found something that made us grin ...
we pass it on . . . an elderly woman (we recog-
nized her as a grad student) . . . was awaiting
one of the one dollar air rides over Ann Arbor ...
before entering the plane she inquired of the
pilot .. . "You'll bring me back won't you?" .
our smiles began with the young man's response
.. "Yes, indeed, madam. I never left anybody
up there yet."
We can't help but note the perfectly asinine
squabble that is going on in The Daily ... as to
whether beer ads should appear on the front page
of the summer directory . . . why concentrate on
the poor little directory? . . . while in church
the other Sunday we noted a beer ad on the
front page of their religious folder.. but on sec-
od thought... maybe it was spelled "bier."
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LOST AND FOUND
LOST: Gray and black enameled
Evans cigarette lighter -in Women's
League Bldg7 on Thursday, July 25.
Reward, J. F. Bailey, 822 Oakland,
Phone 2-3872.
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FOR SALE: 1931 Ford de luxe road-
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By KIRkE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON - As an illustration of the wide
divergence between the cases of NRA and
AAA from the viewpoint of practical politics, the
Senate's final vote on the AAA amendments is
impressive. For all the cries of unconstitutionality
raised against AAA in its original or revised form
during Senaate debate, only a half dozen Repub-
lican votes were cast against the bill with three
more definitely paired against it. By contrast, a
dozen Republicans, all westerners except Austin
and Gibson of Vermont and White of Maine, voted
"aye."
The bulk of the opposition was supplied by Dem-
ocrats, nine votes. That made up the total of 15.
And of those 15, or call it 18 with the paired votes
added, only six were from the west. They were
Ashurst of Arizona and Bulkley and Donahey of
Ohio, Democrats; and Schall of Minnesota, Van-
denberg of Michigan, and Carey of Wyoming, Re-
publicans. The other opposition votes came from
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Maine and Delaware. Even those two
old-fashioned Democrats from Virginia, Glass and
Byrd, were paired for the bill.
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VANDENBERG'S "NO"
OF ALL 18 "no" positions recorded, probably
Vandenberg's is the most interesting. In view
of the accepted notion among his Senate col-
leagues that he is campaigning for a presidential
nomination next year, it is of special significance.
The first Vandenberg asset listed in the bill of
particulars compiled by political writers to support
his availability as Republican presidential timber
for next year, is geographical, He's a westerner.
The gossip barely below the surface of Washing-
ton off-stage political pow-wowing has decided
that the next Republican candidate must come
from the west.
But, being a westerner would seem to lose some
of its strategic advantages when there goes with
it the fact of being one of only six western sen-
ators to vote against a bill which all other western
Senators, Republican or Democrat, thought the
farmers wanted. How Senator Vandenberrg could
make a "farmer's friend" act out of that vote
under those circumstances is hard to see. Unless
the courts come to his rescue before campaign
time and confirm suspicions of unconstitutionality
cast upon AAA, lock, stock and barrel, the Mich-
igander may have cause to look back to that vote
many times.
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MANEUVERING IN EAST
NCIDENTALLY some Democratic political stra-
tegists are satisfied that the '36 campaign will
be fought primarily in the midwest and that their
party will have so much advantage there that it
can afford to do a bit of maneuvering in the
east. The idea grows out of Atlantic City's ten-
tative gestures to capture the Democratic national
convention for the big convention hall available
there.
As a usual thing, national committees attempt
to set the convention stage in the interior to aver-
age up transportation costs for delegates.
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