THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY Published every morning except Monday during the University Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publica- tions. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished herein. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, ostoflice as second class matter. Subscription by carrier, $i.5o; by mail, $2.00. Offices: Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR PHILIP C. BROOKS Editorial Director.....Paul J. Kern City Editor..Joseph E. Brunswick Feature Editor.....Marian L. Welles Night Editors Carlton G. ChampeH. K. Oakes, Jr. John E. Davis Orville Dowzer T. E. Sunderland Reporters E. M. Hyman Miriam Mitchell Robert E. Carson atrty PLver Wm. K. Lomason Louis R. Markus I BUSINESS STAFF Telephone ;21214 BUSINESS MANAGER LAURANCE J. VAN TUYL Advertising............. Ray Wachter Accounts.. .....John Ruswinckel Assistants C. T. Antonopulos S. S. Berar G. W. Platt and Senator Moses. If Hoover should clearly announce his intentions of running, or should Coolidge for a moment give intimation that he might retire, the boom for the secre- tary o fcommerce would assume se- rious proportions indeed; and per- haps it would be interesting to have an engineer in the Wite House. THE LAW AGAINST DIGGING WORMS Glen Cove, Long Island, has passed a municipal ordinance against the digging of worms within the bound- aries of the town by anyone except residents of Glen Cove. The meas- ure is passed to protect the city from a possible serious worm shortage, and to safeguard the lucrative business of selling worms to fihermen. Municipal legisation has reached ridiculous lengths before, but never has anything like this been done. Such humane consideration of the worms is almost too inspiring to be true, and the national humane society will undoubtedly, dispatch forthwith a word of congratulation. Broad minded as the act may seem on the surface, however, it is not without its political significance, for it is very plain that the city of Glen Cove is trying to pacify the worm vote, and possibly to influence the Worms' National Convention to choose that town as its convention city. The increased safety which members of the race would have at Glen Cove ought to be an influential factor. Perhaps an old age pension for the worms will be the next step in line with the humnane policy of the city administration there. A child labor act for worms, and maybe even a pro- hibition act, protecting them from use in salt water, will be in order. If the city would furnish at cost div- ers' costumes for all the worms, they could be used as bait with consider- ably less danger of drowning, and that would require also the installa- tion of air pump apparatus on all fish- ing boats. The thoughtfulness of the Glen Cove council has passed all bounds. Of course, underground policemen will be appointed immediately to take roll of the worms each morning, to see that the ordinance has not been violated, and foreign worms seen en- ticing fish near Glen Cove will prob- ably be required to carry passports with them, proving their legitimate business. In this age of unhuman actions by all mankind, it is certainly delightful and gratifying that one city, at least, has gone so far as to think of the wel- fare of its worms. If only the feder- al government could take a lesson from this humane action, and pass some national law protecting worms and the citizens of Nicaragua. Night Editor-PAUL J. KERN SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1927 HERBERT HOOVER Apparently President Coolidge i not going to have the clear sailin for the Republican nmination in 192 that once seemed to lie before hi Smouldering embers of disconten throughout the nation, waiting the op portunity to be fanned into flam must cause the cowboy president a least a small measure of anxiety, f' he has decided to run in 1928, an not the least of these movements i' the growing sentiment in favor of Her bert Hoover, secretary of commerce. When one looks the facts in th face he cannot help but be impresses with the idea that perhaps Hoove would make a good president. He i not spectacular, to be sure, nor an ex ceptionally good politician (or h would have had the Republican nomi nation before), but he has showed i his cabinet post that he is a mai of tireless energy, of . quiet ac complishment, and a man with tre mendous facilities for grappling wit difficult problems and solving'them. The injection of Hoover into th national spotlight introduces a iie type of man into American public life for Hoover is neither a lawyer nor a professional politician ,as -Americani presidents have usually been, he is an engineer. He is a man who has completed a career in business; and who was out of touch with the United States and its conditions for almost half of his life. Since his return from London, home of his consulting engineering firm, he has held suc- cessively and successfully two high offices of public trust, being national food administrator in 1917 to 1919 and holding the position of secretary of commerce since 1921. As secretary of commerce he has left what is undeniably an enviable record, and a successful one. Ile has raised that department from the min- or position which it occupied to the front rank of government agencies. He has taken over radio control, and his work in city zoning, foreign trade, aviation, and patent reform is sig- nificant indeed. Hhe has been one of the leading advocates, throughout, of the St. Lawrence to the sea water- way, and came into even greater prominence recently with the Missis- sippi filood, during which he declared himself flatly for a comprehensive federal program of protection. A break between him and the presi- dent has been immient since Mr. Coolidge, some weeks ago, petulant- ly and needlessly remarked that if Secretary Kellogg resigned Herbert Hgooer would not be considered for secretary of state. Though the state- ment was withdrawn later, and though the president has attempted to demonstrate since then that he is not the least bit jealous, even to the point of driving 16 miles to meet Hoover at the -Black Hills reilroad station, the rupture between the com- paratively unimpressive chief and his- able and impressive lieutenant is only a matter of time. Recently the Hoover boom has been given added impetus by the deflection of Will H. Hays, former postmaster general and chairman of the Repub- lican National committee, ex-Gover- nor James Goordich of Indiana, Bas- com Slemp, former secretary of the president, Nathan Miller of New York, STED ROLL SIDEWALKS TORN UP . . University authorities have decid- ed to renew all sidewalks on the campus, laying them on a twenty. five foot foundation, it was announc- ed at the office of the buildings and grounds. and sidewalks. department yesterday. The change is in antici- pation of the heavy wear they will receive next winter from roller skates. The old walks are already being torn up. ROLLS MOVIE SCENARIO WRITING CONTEST ENDS AGAIN This is positively the last time that the Rolls scenario writing contest will end, it has been announced from official quarters. The task of sorting and judging the manuscripts will be- gin immediately. ROLLS WILL HAVE CORONATION As long as it seems to be fashion- able to have coronations, Rolls has decided to hold one also. The victim has not been selected; but whoever it is he wil have more power than the king of Roumania. We will feed our king adequately and promptly. NO MORE EXCURSIONS NOTED No more excursions have been held recently, since most of the excur- sion-going public has not yet recov- ered fro mthe trip to Niagara. In place of excursions, however, the de- bate class is providing free enter- tainment on the fourth floor of An- gell hall. Friday night they decided the question of whether the Repub- lican party should be returned to power at Washington. No clear definition was established, however, and the negative could not tell whether the Republican party necessarily included all cowboys or not. No admission was charged to this debate, but it is rumored that the audience failed to get its money's worth. MICHIGAN LANDS CITIZEN IN WHITE HOUSE The state of Michigan is to have a member of the White House family, Rolls learned today, with the appoint- ment of a Michigan collie to the post of official presidential dog. A giant reception is planned for the Michigan pup when he reaches the Black Hills. He will be the victim of Mrs. Cool- idge's blue and pink ribbons until he succumbs as his predecessor, Prudence Prim, did. It could not be learned at a late hour yesterday whether the new dog is a Puritan like Prudence or not, It is known that the official family is broad minded, on religious matters, however, and it is said that the ani- mal has been trained to drive all members of women's parties away from the premises. He has also been trained to disre- gard grotesque sights, so that the sight of the president in a ten gal- lon hat will not ,give him a convul- sion. NO OTHER MICHIGAN CITIZEN IN WHITE HOUSE Because Michigan has been short of representation in the White House family, it is probable that the Michi- gan Mice Hunting Expedition, when it returns, will give the president a pure white mouse. Mice, it is said, look even prettier than dogs with pink ribbons around their necks. NOTHING HEARD FROM THE NORTHLAND Greenland, where the University's militaristic expedition is holding forth, has not issued a single state- ment. Several inactive volcanoes have become quite animated, how- ever, and the wind poles of the earth have shown considerable life since being informed of the price of paci- fism. It is hoped that all of Michigan's expeditions, including this one, will return safely. I THE REWARD OF REPUBLICAN REGULARITY. Michigan has achieved an enviable reputation as a regular Republican state. So secure are we regarded by > the leaders of that great national po- litical party that the Michigan elec- toral votes are counted in before the election, just as those from Missis- sippi and the unenlightened states of the south are counted for the Demo- crats, and nothing but a miracle or national cataclysm could possibly budge our fair commonwealth from these columns. The state has never asked for any 'reward politically for this regularity, and generally no reward has been given. There is no use distributing patronage to one's friends, when one can inollify enemies with the same pat'onage. Edwin Denby was made secretary of the navy, to be sure, but then the more astute and less upright Republicans proceeded to use him as a cat's paw and a blind for a colossal graft, and that ended his service to the Republican party. Then Charles Beecher Warren was mentioned for attorney general, but the Republican Senate, always a bul- wark of meticulous honesty and pro- priety, refused to ratify his appoint- ment, and again the state was left without a representative in, the high- er posts of the government-and still the Republican party, which Michi- gan so nobly helped to keep in office, remained in power and distributed its patronage with a reckless hand. Now the state is finally to be re- warded, however, and though we have had to wait a long time the end was worth waiting for. We may not have a member of the cabinet, or a high government official, but we shall have a representative outranking any of these-we shall have the White House dog. 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