TWO THE WtcuitY A N 11 A rT.V FRIDAY-A [ GUT "11-I 1Ui'11 1%AN hI .l 1 r .ltnE.L a I r ti U l uvOW . d THE MICHIGAN DAILY Official Publication of the Summer Session I -"a.:, r / ;:: PU bil196d 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 Association and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER oci dted ,PAteiat ' s - 1934 0 eA t1935 ~ MANtSOE WISCONSIN 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 As'sistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $150. Duringnregular school year by carrier, $4.08; by mail, 4.50. Oiees: 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 BUSINESS MANAGER ................. RUSSELL READ ASSISTANT BUS. MGR..........BERNARD ROSENTHAL Circulation Manager ....................Clinton B. Conger BUISINESS ASSISTANTS: Charles E. Brush, Frederick E. Magel.' Ave Atque vale .. . T IS OUR SINCERE HOPE that this, the 42nd annual Summer eesion of the University, has been both profitable and enjoyable to you all. As your summer jour- nalists, it has been our privilege to have what amounted to a "bird's eye view" of all that was going on during your eight weeks' stay here, and it seemed to us that from all angles - education- al, social, and the purely recreational - this has been a Summer Session of Summer Sessions. Even the headache group of young men and women, who were forced to remain over to make up marks that didn't come up to the administra- tion's idea of all that is studious, probably had a good time. If you didn't like dancing, there was baseball; if you didn't like swimming, there wis Niagara Falls (no pun intended, at all); if you didn't like the trip to the Ford River Rouge Plant, there was the Observatory and the moon; if you didn't like studying, you have probably found out already that that was just too bad! Well, so long. We hope you are inured suf- ficiently to Ann Arbor's drinking water and Ann Arbor's weather so that we may meet you again. More Science Is The Buyer's Need.... reaus of Standards does not generally release its information to the public on the ground that such a proceedure might promote comemrcial injus- tice. A spirited demand by the taxpayers made in the name cf intelligent consumption should prove effective in influencing a government now too solicitous about the welfare of industry at the expense of public enlightenment. Standardization is another aid to scientific buy- ing. Its adoption in the intermediary industrial processes, the industries producing luxury goods are excepted, would mean the elimination of a great deal of complexity, confusion, and waste. Standards have been adopted successfully for such products as milk, electric wiring, electric light bulbs, airplane motors, and fire-fighting apparatus. It is evident that the national government, aside from certain information issued by the Bureau of Standards and the Department of Agriculture. has not done much towards helping the consumer to get his money's worth, thereby raising his standards of living. Neither has state nor muni- cipal legislation been particularly active in this direction. The consumer, if he Wishes to increase his effectiveness in the market, must take the initiative, both individually and as a member of a group. As an individual, he should avail himself of whatever material is now released to promote his interests; he should also develop and practice as- siduously a sales resistance that would eventually discourage the flamboyant advertisers. More ef- fective still will be his efforts exerted as a member of a consumers' group. AROUND THE12TOWN.. I' By RUSSELL F. ANDERSON Russ Anderson's mind having given away . under the strain of impending examinations . term papers . . . and that first four weeks' work in journalism .. . we're writing the column for him tonight in a sort of guest artist capacity. As such, it is only appropriate . . . that the first story be on Anderson . . . and his rivalry with "Portly Pat" Conger of the Free Press ... Conger, it seems, habitually uses two sheets of paper in the Western Union typewriters . . . and hits the keys with a hefty punch which leaves a well cut stencil on the second sheet . . . he had been in the habit of returning the second sheet . . . to the pile of press message forms ... where Anderson could read it ... and glean his news for the day. When Conger learned the source of the leak ... he planned his revenge . . . left a well cut stencil .. . telling of a prominent university official-. who had suffered a paralytic stroke on the Uni- versity golf course . . . was rushed to a hospital ... where he was given an even chance for recov- ery . . . but said to be permanently disabled .-. Anderson found the story . . . read it . . . the c,-ubby Hearstling stooge's usually pink face as- sumed a roseate crimson of excitement . . . he was about to call the hospital . . . and his office ... when he spotted an even better story below it William Randolph Hearst . . . was demanding the resignation of President Ruthven . . . for his harsh attitude toward student radicals . . . An- derson caught on. * * * * While sitting on the steps of Haven Hall .... between examinations ... we were amused by the girl who kept taunting her boy-friend . . . Who apparently was putting his tiny mustache on display for the first time . . . she said . . . "You look so silly runnig around in a mustache!" . . and that led us to wondering . . . personally .. . with all our clothing inhibitions . . . we'd also feel silly running around... in just a mustache! Remember our telling you about . .. the Inkster colored girl . . . who was arrested last week for shoplifting . . . by local officers . . . and how she pleaded with the judge that she was only stealing the clothes in order to go to the Louis-Levinsky fight? .....well . .. we looked up her record ... and don't think she was quite the fight fan she professed to be . .. we're inclined to believe she was a girl with a right story for every occasion . . .a month later . .- . it would have been the World Seris . . . her list of previous convictions . . . look like the Summer Directory . . . but to sum it all up . . she paid the court $122.15 ... n cash ... and yet she was stealing a dress to go to Chicago fight . . . but-- * * * * A NEW YORKER AT LARGE By JAMES B. PRESTON NEW YORK - After tugging at the ropes for . five wretched years, Thomas Wolfe, the novel- ist, has finally yanked his flag to the top of the mast. Now his latest book, Of Time And The River is roaring tnrough one edition after another, and it continues to do so for the next 20 years. I don't know who can lose as a result; certainly not Wolfe, nor Max Perkins - his publisher and best friend -nor his readers. But my desire to sell books for Thomas Wolfe and make him rich is no greater than Wolfe's de- sire to be rich and he has no desire for this. He is satisfied with his huge bare, untidy book- lined room. It is my desire, however, to say that in the life of the professional interviewer there are few Thomas Wolfes. * * * * HE IS A MAN of termendous physical and men- tal vitality. Standing over 6 feet 4 inches and weighing over 220 pounds, he "takes command of you with a shout." Without this vitality, he should never have been able to get through these past five years alive. For he has outraged the rules by which most humans live, working through the long black hours of the night, drinking one pot of coffee after another to keep his great frame moving, and then dropping his head on the table for an hour or so and starting in all over again. He writes these books, he says, to get rid of them, to get them out of his mind. He believes this is true of most writers and points to the dif- ference in this point of view and that of the read- er, who obviously reads books to remember them. And Thomas Wolfe does many things for cur- ious reasons. For example, when he does go to bed, often he canont sleep, so he dresses and starts walking. He manages somehow to end up at the waterfront, along which he may stroll for hours until fatigue overcomes him and drives him back to his room. Then he sometimes drifts out to Eb- by the Rhode Island result can not be doubted. It * * * * USUALLY, however, the hours not used in writ- ing are given to reading. He believes prose writers should read poetry, so he spends hours cn the poem sof John Donne, John Keats, Coler- idge and Browning. His own favorite books are Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and The World Almanac. The latter he reads by the hour, mem- orizing the population of the cities of the world and the batting averages of the Major Leaguers in the last World Series. These cold facts work against the imaginative world in which he spends most of his time. Now he is making his first tour of the west and learning how to use the typewriter. Though he has written approximately 2,000,000 words in the last five years, and has planned a series of six books which will include between 2,000 and 2,500 characters, he feels that he could do better were he able to get his ideas on paper faster. A Washington BYSTANDE:R By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON - There is one company of 'new dealers' to which Rhode Island's indicated de- fection is bound to bring immediate trouble. That is the firm of Ickes, Hopkins, Walker et al., dis- pensers of the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund. With the Rhode Island lesson so sharply before their eyes, it easily can be imagined how local Democratic political captains will look longingly at the work-relief money chest for a bit of party campaign sustenance. That the work-relief ad- ministration will hear urgent pleas from sitting House and Senate Democrats rendered uneasy by the Rhode Island result canont be doubted. It was hearing plenty from state chairmen and the like already. Off the record, much is to be heard about that from the members of the firm men- tioned. * * * * NATURALLY NON-POLITICAL SECRETARY ICKES should be more or less used to the mixture of politics and government business. He has been mixing in the game of politics a long time. The other two, however, are naturally non-political. If either Harry Hopkins or Frank Walker ever entertained personal po- litical ambitions, nobody ever heard about it. There have been times when onlookers thought Ickes might be in process of grooming for high honors in a liberal party, whatever its actual label, to come out of the liberal-conservative realign- ment toward which Roosevelt policy was supposed to be working. Since the Roosevelt-Republican cabineteer got into the public works business not much has been heard of that idea. He has clashed too frequently with political heads in various states over public works policy to foster the Ickes-for- president-in-1940 talk. Walker once demonstrated his dislike for politi- cal life by escaping the Roosevelt spell for a matter of months. When the job of devising an organi- zation to spend the $4,000,000,000 came along, however, he was not proof against the persuasive voice of the President and was, most unwillingly, redrafted. * * * * WANTS PRIVATE CAREER THEN THERE IS HOPKINS. Close contact with political life in Washington clearly has not cul- tivated in him a taste for it. He is committed now to the program of getting 3,500,000 employables off relief and cn to work pay-rolls by November. When that is accomplished, without question he would Starts Film Career CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Place advertisements with Classified Advertising Department. Phone 2-1214. The classified columns close atfive o'clock previous to day of insertion. Box numbers may be secured at no Rxtra charge. Cash in advance 11c per reading line (on basis of five average words to line) for one or two Insertions. 1crper reading line for three or more insertions. Minimum 3 lines per insertion. Telephone rate - 15c per reading line fcr one or two insertions, 14c per reading line for three or more insertions. 10% discount if paid within ten days from the date of last insertion. Minimum three lines per insertion. 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Fires in the Absaroka Range, at Deer Lodge and on private lands of the Big Belt Range -- all in Montana - still defied the fighters who ap- parently have whipped down the flames of The Dalles, Ore., and in the Idaho National Forest. Sev/:al 'thousand workers remained at the fire lines, which now have swept almost 100,000 acres. There were 1,800 workers on duty in the Idaho National Forest alone. Three hundred fresh CCC workers were sentagainst the Absaroka fire after it ran wild last night. Forest officials said the fire was of incen- diary origin. CUMMINGS NAMES FIVE WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. - (1P) - Attorney General Cummings named five men today as candidates for the newly-created Federal judgeship in eastern Michigan. They are A. J. Murphy; Arthur Lederle, Detroit at- torney; Patrick H. O'Brien, former Michigan attorney geenral; Frank Picard, former chairman of the Mich- igan liquor control commission, and W. J. McKenzie. MAJESTIC MATINEES 25c Nights, Balcony 25c, M. Floor 35c 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. FOR SALE ORIGINAL ETCHING BY DUBAIN- NE-(FRENCH ARTIST) SCENE LUXEMBURG GARDENS - $10 FRAMED. U L R I C H'S BOOK- STORE, CORNER EAST AND SOUTH UNIVERSITY. FORsSALE: Antique jewelry, brace- lets, brooches, earrings, etc. Rea- sonable. Phone 8050. 2020 Dev- onshire Road. 5x LAUNDRY LAUNDRY. 2-1044. Sox darned. Careful work at low price. ix 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 Pedometer tests showed it required 14.1 miles of walking to visit all of the exhibits at the San Diego ex- position. Mrs. H. R, Latier of Mineral Wells, Tex., swallowed arpin 66 years ago. A doctor recently removed it from her right side. FOR RENT FOR RENT: Modern 6-room hou with sun porch and breakfast roo at 1225 White St. Inquire at 104 Packard. FOR RENT: Furnished apartmei with private bath and shower. Al large- double room with hot aI cold running water. Garage. Phor 8544. 422 E. Washington. FOR RENT: MODERN APT. WIT LIVING-ROOM, BEDROOM, KII CHENETTE AND BATH. WEI FURNISHED, CON VENIENTL LOCATED AT 1106 WILLARI GROUND FLOOR. PRIVA'T ENTRANCE. AVAILABLE AFTE AUGUST 17 UNTILL SEPT. 24 C FOR WEEKENDS B E T W E E THOSE DATES. FOR INFORMi TION CALL 6539. TO RENT: Room with private bat Also three room apartment, tw beds. Frigidaire. Private bat Phone 8261. Recreational Plan Includes Yaclitin MADISON, Wis., Aug. 15.--(P) comprehensive program for develo ment of Madison's recreation f cilities has been incorporated in "five-year plan" prepared by a speci committee of Mayor James R. La Besides providing for a civic aud torium and swimming pool, the pr gram covers every phase of recre tion from development of vacant 1 playgrounds to organization of yacht club. "The commitete wishes to er phasize the universal increase leisure hours which demand that v supply our citizens with clean, healt: ful activities for that added freedo if we expect to help in reducii crime," says the report in support suggestions made. Sam Crawford, famous slugger Detroit Tiger teams of another pro perous era, is now an umpire in t Pacific Coast league. Classified Irectory Today - Saturday JAMES DUNN "GEO. WHITE'S SCANDALS" PAUL LUKAS "CASINO MURDER CASE" Sun. - Mon. - Tues. SHIRLEY TEMPLE IOUR LITTLE GIRL" plus - Winning Ticket" We P-oay N A DAY when nearly everything has been reduced to a scientific method, the process of consumption remains a haphazard, hit-and-miss affair. A prevailing notion is abroad that the female of the species, once married and in charge of the household spending money, becomes endowed with omniscient wisdom, so far as buying to get her money's worth in the market is concerned. If a husband were aware that his wife's much-vaunted astuteness in expending the family income is guided by nothing more than a touching faith in advertisements and a naive trust that high price is commensurate with high quality, he might be moved, as one who is earning the money where- with to play this game of buyers' blind-man's buff, to agitate for the innovation of more science and less chance into the system of buying. There was a time when masculine faith in feminine buying sagacity was justified. In the handicraft days, when most household necessi- ties were produced at home, women were keen judges of excellence. Even in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, when production was moving gradually from the home to the factory, output was still sufficiently small to enable women to be discriminating buyers. Nowadays, however, no matter how desirous the housewife may be of expending her allowance wisely, she is practically defenseless in the mar- ket. Contemporary mass-production methods have put before her such a number and variety of articles that she has neither the time nor the ability to exercise intelligent selection. She must inevitably fall back on advertising claims or on price for assurance of quality. What crimes are committeed in the name of both these standards is revealed by two pertinent facts: modern technical complexity in production, which lessens the consumer's chance of knowing the technical facts underlying a product, at the same time increases the ease with which its merits can be described by the advertiser; also high price is no assurance of value, since cheap mass produc- tion methods encourage manufacturers to add great margins to the original cost before the retail price is reached, thus depriving the consumer of the economies which he should rightfully enjoy.. Although the application of the scientific meth- od to consumption is yet in its infancy, there is a growing hope that the public, eventually ex- hausted by the exorbitant claims of the advertis- I ' _ . l :. :, ; -. . ; - _, , :. " ;, z 7';" 9: +' M. . "f ,. For in JACK LONDON'S BOOK Police are still trying to break the alibi of Detective harry Smith . . . who explains three rounds of perfect goose-eggs . . . in the monthly pistol contest Monday . . . by claiming that the boys slipped him blank cartridges . . . he even showed us a gun loaded with real bullets ... and a box of blanks . . .his best evidence . . . is the squib we columned about him yesterday . . . which he keeps posted . . . on the bulletin board ac police headquarters. As Others See It We Are Being Calm Quite naturally, it would happen in Hollywood. We refer to the project of the daring young doc who proposes to freeze alive a daring young volun- teer in the supposed interests of science. The doc has been doing this with monkeys and boasts a batting average of .500. That is, one monkey is suposed to have arisen triumphantly from the ice but the other gave up and died. A writer in the New York Times says that, if the first monkey did survive, it "is the most miraculous case of resusci- 1 1 l