PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DATT.V ''TURSDAY. AUGUSTT 15. 192 - - .'.. .'.A UN. X1 .Li.1. LN.Y . (] C11.71.1r U 1 A 3y leY.S.7; THE MICHIGAN DAILY Huey P. Long Is Just The Official Publication of the Summer Session Life Of Every 'Party' ... .........._._.. . t Pub11shied every morning except Monday during the University yearand Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference ditorial Association and the Big Ten News Service. MSiMBER msciatet oltgiate $r¢s -sI934 I0~ok~sll35 e- DSmON WSCONSIN 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 mail, 4.50. Offices: Student Publications Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Phone: 2-1214. Representatives: National Advertising Service, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y.--400 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill, EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR......... JOHN C. HEALEY ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR ..ROBERT S. RUWITCH ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Thomas E. Groehn, Thomas H. Kleene, William Reed, Guy M. Whipple, Jr. ASSISTANT EDITORS: Robert Cummins, Joseph Mattes, Elsie Pierce, Charlotte Rueger. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 BUSINESP MANAGER.................RUSSELL READ ASSISTANT BUS. MGR. ........:.BERNARD ROSENTHAL Circulation Manager...................Clinton B. Conger BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: Charles E. Brush, Frederick E. Magel. W E NOTE WITH GLEE that Dictator Huey Long of Louisiana has tossed his crown into the presidential ring for the next ballyhoo season, and if past performances along the latter line mean anything he should win in a walk. It has often appeared that the best way to win offices is to put on the best show, and there's very little doubt in our minds but what Huey is capable of that, if nothing else. Only a few days ago we gazed upon his beaming countenance in a newsreel, as he showed us how the Long ancestors mixed a Ramos Fizz which, in- cidentally, they also invented. Of course this was later contradicted, but it was fun while it lasted. Anyhow, by this time another newsreel had shown us our Huey breaking a violin over the head of an orchestra leader -also all in fun. Maybe if Huey can make us laugh all the time we'll get so dizzy that we'll vote for him, and if he can keep us laughing that'll be more than any- one else has been able to do for a long (no pun) time. However, if he should lose out by some strange vagary of fate, we might be able to cook up a job for him here, as persident of the student council or publicity director of athletic teams. Peace-Loving Ethiopians Facing Failure . . THE TRI-POWER African confer- ence opens with the disheartening expectation of complete failure facing Ethiopia and all lovers of peace, but even more discourag- ing is the fresh evidence that not one of these powers cares for the true welfare of Ethiopia. Britain and France may hope for amicable settlement of the dispute - because war in Africa is to their detriment, and not because it may bring the Emperor and his people under the control of Mussolinimand Fascist Italy. They will urge peace because the post-war set-up, favorable to them, may be disturbed by war -not because of respect and solicitude for the years of freedom and the fionorable history of Ethiopia. Britain is ready to propose to the other powers that the African kingdom be opened up to Fascist exploitation. So is France. Both insult Haile Selassie by presuming that their offers of "nom- inal" independence would be acceptable. There is Japan, too, so anxious to protect the integrity of Ethiopia - but probably only so long as there are no African "bandits." Emperor Haile Selassie is earning the respect of people if not governments in his proud and courageous refusal to agree that might makes right. AROUND THETON. By C. BARTON KANE Yesterday . . . we had a rollicking good time ... ;itting in tne court-room watching the divorce cases run thi ough the mill . . . we couldn't help but smile at the small . . . pathetic looking little gent . . . who was attempting to get a divorce from his rvther comely, yet wild-looking wife. as part of the testimony . .. he stated . .. "that since our marriage I know she has been kissed by at least two parties" . . . we looked at her-- and concluded . . . that it must be the Democratic and Republican. * * * * We're rather elated today . . . we got five dollars' for our last story ... from the post-office, . ,. they lost it! Last night . . . we were talking with one of the professors of the psychology department . who wandered in . . . just as we were beginning to work . . . he told us this . . . about the last ex- cursion that the department took . . . to the in- sane asylum . .. near Ypsilanti .. . it seemed that one of the inmates was apparently fishing over a flower-bed ... when one of the student members of the party . . . wishing to be affable . . . ap- proached and remarked . . . "How many have you caught? . .. "You're the ninth" was the reply. State Plans To Electrify Many Rural Sections Plblic Trust Commission Surveys Michigan For' Aid Of Utilities Classiuied Directory Fn -Uh r lone 6 Arw V 'U £JK KENUII~AN. R T M rn 6FORS ALE RENT: Modern 6-room house ORIGINAL ETCHING BY DUBAIN- * * * LANSING, Aug. 14.- () - Imme- diate construction of 2,000 to 3,000 miles of extensions to rural electric lines is the goal today of the state's rural electrification committee. Emerson R. Boyles, a member of the state public trust commission which met here yesterday, said com- mittee members, made up of repre- sentatives of farm organizations, util- ity interests, and the commission, will ,onduct a state-wide survey of rural electrical needs. Plans call for com- pletion of the survey in 20 days. The survey will determine the thin- ly populated areas of the state into which utilities may extend their power lines at a profit. Boyles esti- mates power companies can build extensions wherever they can find five steady subscribers to each mile. He declares funds will be sought from the rural electrification administra- tion at Washington to further the program. H.. L. Gallagher, assistant profes- sor of agricultural engineering at Michigan State college, utility com- pany officials, and representatives of the state grange and the state farm bureau will attempt to measure the demand for extension of rural lines. Boyles said the committee will co- ordinate the efforts of the various groups to arrive at a uniform fi- nancing plan for extensions. M. L. Cook, national administrator of rural electrification projects, will be consulted by Boyles, who declares Michigan should be the first state to submit a rural electrification pro- gram for Federal financing. The utilities commission, Boyles said, will act as an arbitrator in cases where companies ask exorbitant rates for service extensions. Humane Group Talks Of Island 'Hack Horses' with sun porch and breakfast room at 1225 White St. Inquire at 1000 Packard. FOR RENT: MODERN APT. WITH LIVING-ROOM, BEDROOM, KIT- CHENETTE AND BATH. WELL FURNISHED, CONVENIENTLY LOCATED AT 1106 WILLARD. GROUND F L O OR. PRIVATE ENTRANCE. AVAILABLE AFTER AUGUST 17 UNTILL SEPT. 24 OR FOR WEEKENDS B E T W E E N THOSE DATES. FOR INFORMA- TION CALL 6539. TO RENT: Room with private Also three room apartment, beds. Frigidaire. Private Phone 8261. bath. twin bath. NOTICE WANTED: for rest of summer, stu- dent to earn room and breakfasts for part time driving. Call Mrs. Frank E. Jones, 721 Tappan. -6105. .I Sag Of Cotton And Rise Of Silk May Aid Japanese-U.S. Relations NE-(FRENCH ARTIST) SCENE LUXEMBURG GARDENS - $10 FRAMED. U L R I C H'S BOOK- STORE, CORNER EAST AND SOUTH UNIVERSITY. FOR SALE: Antique jewelry, brace- lets, brooches, earrings, etc., Rea- sonable. Phone 8050. 2020 Dev- onshire Road. 5 LAUNDRY LAUNDRY. 2-1044. Sox darned Careful work at low price. 1x PERSONAL laundry service. We take individual interest in the laundry problems of our customers. Girls' silks, wools, and fine fabrics guar- anteed. Men's shirts our specialty. Call for and deliver. Phone 5594. 611 E. Hoover. 3x STUDENT Hand Laundry. PrIces rea- sonable. Free delivery. Phone 3006. . 4x * A Word Picture Of Michigan . . . T HE MICHIGAN DAILY herewith presents to you, whom we hope to welcome on Tuesday, Sept. 24 as incoming stu- dents. a composite and somewhat detailed picture of life in Ann Arbor at the University of Mich- igan. Naturally we editors of The Daily, most of whom have been here for four years, consider this University just about "tops." Naturally, too, we think Ann Arbor's a pretty fine city. We have found our instructors and our fellow students to be the best any one could ask, and, all in all, our years here have been a wonderful experi- ence. It is our earnest hope that this special issue of The Summer Michigan Daily may bring these things to you a little more clearly, and perhaps may make a Michigan man of you too. See you in September! 'Shedding Chastity;' Detective Story Style ... Speaking of excursions ... we were on a geology field trip . . . not so very long ago . . . and while we were all standing around a farm-house await- ing the arrival of our bus . .. one of the students . . . inquired of the farmer . . . "Do insects ever get into your corn out here?" . . . we chuckled .. when the old master of the soil responded ... "Yeh, but we fish 'em out and drink it anyway." We like to know intimate details about great men . . . but when our own library announces that they now have a book on their shelves . . . en- titled . .. "Tolstoy as His Wife Saw Him ... we're inclined to think that is going just . .. just a little too far. A NEW YORK ER AT LARGE By JAMES B. PRESTON T ODAY IN THE MAILS we receive( a blurb from a lurid crime magazine The "release" was to inform us tlat in the curren issue of the publication there is an article entitle( "fighting the Red Terror in our Schools," which among other nice things, would divulge that: "Girls in American high schools and college: are being taught to shed chastity as easily a: they kick off slippers. Boys are instructed tc sneer at the American government and. not tc fight for it under any consideration. Student; listen in to classroom lectures that marriage is outmoded, that religion is a capitalistic myth; and that Lenin should be substituted for God." Then, sententiously proceeds the publicity item "according to a nationwide research undertaker in the last few months, "Red" instructors in the pay of Moscow and 'pink' publicity-seeking pro- fessors are polluting schoolrooms in even our leading universities with the teaching of Com- munism, Atheism, and Free-Love." Such a trashy, falsely American, and utterly untrue statement should not go unanswered. Students in college classrooms today are NO'I being taught these things. One has only to GO to college to learn that these things are untrue. It is not the professors who are "publicity-seek- ing." Rather it is magazines which as this and newspapers which play upon the fears of the public concerning "scares" to swell their circula- tions. "Shedding chastity" indeed! Such bunk! justice That Becomes A Tradition ... MICHIGAN'S famous justice that is fast becoming a tradition is again shown to the people of the nation in the verdict that a Detroit jury rendered yesterday in the case of the murder of Howard Carter Dickinson. For some time there has been a growing feeling throughout the United States that, even though Michigan does not have the extreme penalty for murdler cases, it is nevertheless a state in which justice is swift and sure; a state which the crim- inal might do well to cross off his list of future location. The repeated example is surely a vital factor in the decrease of crime in the state. When efficient police forces, such as our state and metropolitan groups, are ready to bring crim- inals to justice; when honest and competent judges preside in the courts; and when it is possible to get a jury that is able to face the facts, residents The SOAP BOX 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 conimunic~nts will, however,: be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors ar4 asked to be brief, the editor reserving the right to condense all letters of over 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Bring Back The Bonnet For Me My Dear Mr. Editor:. Kindly allow an old, old alumnus whose college I days are long past reminisce for just a moment. While going through some old things I had packed away in the attic I came across a small grey cap with a blue button on top. My pot. What memories it brought back. To me and to every other Michigan man a pot is not a head covering. Rather it is a symbol of the best in college life. A symbol of loyalty, brother- hood, unity and class spirit. Class spirit is no idle word we read in books about college. It is a real tangible thing inval- uable to every Michigan man. The memory of a true class devotion, the fierce rivalry, and the close union resulting thereof is something that never leaves us. I am not much for writing as you see so it is difficult for me to express my feeling I had when I discovered my pot, the symbol of my freshman year. I relived that year when a small sturdy group of freshmen outnumbered by 250 sopho- mores bravely battled through them to climb their sacred pole and bring down their much coveted flag and march triumphantly home by torchlight. The members of the class of '39 can make their first year as joyous and as glorious as was mine. I am coming back this Fall to see the boys wear their pots and to see them bring down the sopho- more flag. -Class of '39. BOOKS NEW YORK -Glances At The Nameless: An aged man standing on a stepladder at 41st and Fifth Avenue, preaching communism, which could not possibly come during his lifetime. Still he spoke eagerly, relating eloquently the sad story of his life to a great crowd which circled around him and blocked the Fifth Avenue pave- ment. * * * * Driven by the heat into the open, the town's stragglers lying in the filthy niches between the buildings or on the grass of the parkway in the center of Park Avenue. Dust whirling house-high through the streets, covering them; and occasion- ally the profane sound of a policeman's whistle cutting through the night and rousing them from their poor corners. * * * * A POLICEMAN, stationed at an uptown Man- hattan corner, sitting in the partol car waiting for orders from headquarters and reading a "true story" magazine. * * * * In a decorative fountain in Washington Square in the shadow of the great arch "to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington," scores of squealing young- sters in bathing suits begging passerby: "Toss a penny in the water, mister?" Two veteran character actors standing in the lobby of the famous Lambs Club on 44th street. 1st: Have you got a job in the summer theaters? 2nd: Yes. 1st: D'you get paid? 2nd: No. but the script calls for dinner to be served in the last act, so I don't mind so much. * * * * AND THIS reminds me that the actors have found a new way to make money during this time of the year when Broadway is just another street in town. They are working for manufactur- ing concerns and sales organizations, making com- mercial movies. The industries, it seems, have found many uses for the movies in the last few years and need ac- tors to play the parts. Most of these movies are made in the summer when the light is better and this coincides with the actor's plans, which are notoriously slim at this time of the year. Now, however, some of them make more money out of the commercials than they make on the stage and not a few of them have made their way into the movies through these skits. The players have adopted numerous ways of getting past the months of inactivity in the theat- er. Some have clubbed together and rented a cab- in somewhere along the Sound; many have van- ished west to their old homes and will reappear around the first of September, and not a few have taken to the department stores, where they work behind the counters until autumn. Problem Of Allowing Cars To Enter Mackinac Is Taken Up By Society MACKINAC ISLAND, Aug. 14. - P) - The hack horses of Mackinac Island, recently the subject of an in- vestigation by Gov. Frank D. Fitz- gerald to determine whether they should be augmented by automobiles, received the attention of the Mich- igan Humane society at the opening session of its annual meeting here to- day. The society, with its twelve affiliat- ed organizations, chose Mackinac Island for its meeting place this year so that it might study the condition of the hack horses in one of the few places in the United States where the automobile has not penetrated. Besides a review of proposed and existing legislation for the protection and humane treatment of all animal pets and beasts of burden the society also planned a campaign to set up af- filiated groups in every Michigan county. Mrs. Charles M. Kindel, of Grand Rapids, president of the society, asked that those interested in organizing local or county humane societies get in touch with her for further details. The society last year was active in securing Federal funds for feeding livestock in drought areas. The affiliated societies which sent representatives to the twoday annual meeting at the Grand Hotel included Lenawee County Humane Society, the Ann Arbor Humane Society, the Berrien County Society for Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals, the De- troit Humane Society, the Genesee County Humane Society, the Kent County Humane Society, the Jack- son County Humane Association, the Humane Society of Kalamazoo Coun- ty, the Mackinac Island Humane So- ciety,the Muskegon Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, the Oakland County Animal Welfare So- ciety, and the Saginaw County Hu- mane Society. 50 YEARS SERVICE Rev. W. M. Coile founded the Win- terville, Ga., Baptist church 50 years ago, and has been its only pastor. 'mi WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.- Current price trends of cotton and silk may help to maintain amiable trade re- lations between the United States and Japan. With cotton sagging and silk ris- ing from abnormally low levels, trade experts anticipate a reduction in Ja- pan's top-heavy excess of imports from the United States. Last year it amounted to $91,000,000. In the outcry last spring over im- ports of- Japanese textiles, Japan's spokesmen pointed out that the trade scales were heavily weighted in favor of the United States. Japan, they pointed out, would have to balance the scales in order to maintain its volume of purchases in this country, either by obtaining better prices or expanding the volume of its sales. The problem was left to a cabinet committee to solve after its inquiry into the textile situation. A report is expected soon. Some close followers of the textile investigation say the shift in price trends holding out promise of a better balance in trade payments between the two nations, should simplify the task of finding a formula acceptable to both. May Restrict Sales There have been rumors in textile quarters that Japan may undertake voluntarily to limit its cloth ship- ments to the United States to allay agitation for drastic restrictions on imports of Japanese goods. No con- firmation has been obtainable. At any rate, recent trade figures disclose a substantial reduction in Japan's import excess this year. Ex- ports to Japan in the first six months underwent little change compared with last year, totaling about $92,- 000,000 against about $90,000,000 in the first six months of 1934. But American imports expanded in value to approximately $70,000,000 from nearly $60,000,000 in the first half of last year. Silk contributed to the import gain, both in value and quantity. The current advance in the market for that fiber is expected to accelerate the trend, unless Japan offsets it with larger purchases in the United States. Trade between Japan and the Unit- ed States is unique in that two basic dominate it in a two-way exchange. To a large extent, it is cotton for silk. Silk in the first six months of this year accounted for nearly $40,000,000 of the $70,000,000 credited to Japan on sales in this country. Following the severe decline in Eu- ropean takings of cotton last sea- son and the expansion in textile man- ufacturing in the Far East, Japan became the largest market for the American staple, Cotton was the biggest factor in making Japan the third largest ex- port market in our foreign trade, sum- - E passed only by the United Kingdom and Canada. The heavy Japanese purchases of cotton the last few seasons' together with the rise in price, helped to turn what formerly was an export excess into a deficit in Japan's trade with the United States. Silk, without the benefit of AAA loans and depressed by an over- hanging surplus and competition of rayon, failed to share in the early recovery of domestic price levels to the extent other fibers did. Lately, a moderate expansion in consump- tion and reduction in supply have influenced an upturn. The value of exports to China in June made a sharp contract with fig- ures for the comparable 1934 month, before silver began to climb rapidly as the United States entered the worldmarket to buy the metal for its monetary reserves. June exports to China, according to Department of Commerce figures, totaled only $2,295,121 against $9,- 582,950 in June, 1934. For the first six months exports declined to $22,- 668,355 from $37,945,682 in the com- parable period last year. At the ame time imports from China jumped to $30,340,682 from $24,727,747. Critics of the administration's sil- ver policy pointed to the drop as a vindication of their argument higher silver prices would depress American sales in the Orient, rather than help them, as some silverites forecast. Trade experts, however, explained the decline in American exports to China consisted largely of raw ma- terials, mainly cotton, grains, tobac- co and lumber. Similar contraction in exports of raw materials has been recorded in trade with countries un- affected directly by the rise in silver they noted. Moreover, they said, China. was expanding its output of tobacco. More than $800,000 of the June drop in exports was accounted for by leaf tobacco. Nevertheless, it was conceded the decline in such exports as cotton and lumber probably could be attributed in part to the rise in silver and the deflationary effect it exerted upon, Chinese textile and building activ- ities. I - SWIM PICNIC NEWPORT BATHING BEACH PORTAGE LAKE Constantly Chagn ae By JOHN SELBY "A Daughter of the Medici," by Donn Byrne; (Appleton-Century). SEVEN YEARS after Donn Byrne's death, his short stories still are being collected. The lat- est volume is "A Daughter of the Medici," and just why the book should be given the title of one of the least worthy stories it contains is a question. For "A Daughter of the Medici" is the story of an Italian grand dame who (for no very plausible reason) married a bounder who left her and her money in Italy, came to New York to make his fortune, married a cheap and wholly appropriate girl without the formality of divorce, and finally was hoist by his own petard. Mr. Byrne was better closer home. Better, for example, in the grand story of old MICHIGAN Nights, Balc. 25c, Matinees 25c T onigh Main Floor 35c BIG AMAT EUR SHOW On Stage at 9 p.m. Cash Prizes SCREEN FRED MacMURRAY in the Paramount Thrill Hit " MEN WIT HOUT' Terrace Garden Dancing Studio Instructions i n' a 11l forms .Classical,nsocial, dancing. Ph. 9695. Wuerth Theatre Bldg. -AJ ESTC MATINEES 25c Nights, Balcony 25c, M. Floor 35c CLARK in JACK LONDON'S CALL.' ConstntlyChaningraie tkmL THESIS TYPING Prompt Service Guaranteed RIDERSr 302 South State Street I I to entertain his excellency and his lady. Patricl found out, took from its cabinet the old but well oiled weapcn which had accounted for one lord lieutenant -- and fell to his death down the stair. 4 "..: i U" IU 1.11 1 N - - -r.'* v-