70 I' THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JULY 34, 0 STUDA, JJL 3 t 4P g ummeIand to the other nations it will put America in the position of a black- ~t aguard unwilling to support disarma- __ment. Published every morning except Monday America, however, has been the during the" University Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publica- instigator of every great movement of tions. disarmament since the war. We have The Associated Press is exclusively en- scrapped millions of dollars worth of titled to the use for republication of all news l dispatches credited to it or not otherwise battleships, deliberatly sacrificingya credited in this paper and the local news pub- supremacy we held among the naval lished herein. powers of the world and relinquish- Enteredsatsthe Ann Arbor, Michigan, ing a supremacy that Great Britain, rostoffice as second class matter. Jn urmc htGetBian Subscription by carrier, $t.5o; by mail, with her inferior resources, could $2.00. Offices:, Press Building, Maynard Street, never have approached. We have been Ann Arbor, Michigan. willing to give the British a fair ex- EDITORIAL STAFF position in this conference; we have Telephone 4925 l criticised our own delegates for not MANAGING EDITOR going more than half way; but now, PHILIP C. BROOKS in the face of deliberate affront, we Editorial Director......Paul J. Kern cannot go further and we must con- City Editor.....Joseph E. Brunswick demn the narrow policy of self cent- F ntrr Edrifnr-- LM~inT Wallc~ -------. r eature zuiLS..... mari Ln. + ew es Night Editors John E. Davis H. K. Oakes, Jr. T. E. Sunderland Orville Dowzer { Reporters' Robert E. Carson Miriam Mitchell W i. K. Lomason Mary Lister Bert Heideman W. Harold May BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER' LAURANCE J. VAN TUYL Advertising............Ray Wachter erecd lust for power that characterizes the British policy. We are facing, of course, the worst and most bigotted thought of England when we negotiate with the government in power. If England is never to besincere, it is high time that we abolish naval limi- tations and achieved once and for all the clear superiority to which our re- sources entitle us. If England is sin- cere, she has had a chance to show it and has failed. We can not be patient r, rr .r,.r.r . rr r. ..r rr _ir f~iri l i l i nl i n irii nii «if i ii iiri ii ni i Ei t nr i rnr i r rilli ulilt_ -iii rni i uutljliiii _ BOOKS S Rate's by the Open till -lour, Day or Season Eleven Tonight ABOUT THE WIFE OF A GEI3IAN AUTHOR "It must be eonsidered the supreme stroke of luck," writes Bruno Frank = G O C AI N 0 E I N G O D A Y in describing the wife of Thomas Mann author of "The Magic Mountain," re- SAUNDERS CANOE LIVERY cently published by Alfred A. Knopf, Huron River at Cedar Street and now in its second large printing, _____________________________________________________ "for Thomas Mann to have found the one wife who, of all the 800,000,000 women on earth, is probably the best Last suited to him. Wives of German crea- OUrkChance tive writers are generally appalling -I know many of them-but this one makes up for all the others. She is a woman to marry whom eZs any man who has a glimmer of per- ception could do no less than crawl across Europe on his knees. She is a combination of spiritual freedom, in -r $40 $45 $ ward kindness, wit, and feminine {r 40$ 5$ ' charm; her very presence is an inspir-'- ation. And that Thomas Mann, to A D L E R win her, did not have to crawl across the continent on his knees, but as a young man met her quite simply in' Fa Su ts0 the Munich home of her parents-this!aSL was indeed luck at its most actual andBt geun. By special ar rangement with I_ genuie. the ADLER CO we are able to /___l offer 100 new fall suits at this A MENCKEN SCHIMPLEXICON lunheard of price. Alfred W. Knofp has in preparation Here are three hot specials Meneken Schimplexicon. It will be! fr 4u made up of extracts from all the vast abuse of Mr. Mencken that has been( $2.50 White Broadcloth printed in the United States during the Shirts 1 past ten years. Successive chapters will depict him as Patriot, as Critic,..$ ,b as Literary Artist, as Christian, as Democrat, as Husband and Father, etc. $1.00 Athletic Underwear Many eminent American publicists will 3 for be represented in the list of contribu- tors, including a number of ecclesias-. . . .__ tics of high rank. The sixth volume THE COCA-COLA CoMPANY. ATlANTA..Q. of Prejudices, by H. L. Mencken, will 75c Fancy Socks, 3 pairs be brought out in the autumn, for G lass BOOK MATERIAL IN THE FLOOD .00 * ioo* The ofFashi ox Langston Hughes is visiting the Mississippi flood states working as a1 look over the quality of our Fashions come and fashions laborer and collecting material for a merchandise, we will not urge new book of poems. Mr. Hughe's lat- you to buy. ,o but fiures prove that est book, Fine Clothes to the Jew, was recently published. Coca-Cola is still the m ost P. T. BARNUM HAS MORE THAN 30 popular of all beverages. EDITIONS OF HIS AUTOBI- 1 OGRAPHY. 213 East Liberty The exact number of reprints and IT HAD TO BE GOOD TO GET WHERE IT iS --- 7 MILLION A DAY Accounts.........John Ruswinckel any longer. Assistants Some day, perhaps, there will be an C. T. Antonopulos S. S. Berar international disarmament conference G. W. Platt which all affected nations will enter with a sincere desire to limit arma- Night Editor-WM. K. LOMASON ments, and the outcome will be anI SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927 international commission to control the international navy which will amount to nothing more than an in- ~-ternational police force, and which will THEY CONTINUE TO FAIL save Great Britain the trouble of There seems to be little hope for maintaining endless cruisers for the the naval parley at Geneva. True it protection of her international trade is, of course, that the British have pre- lanes. Such a suggestion souds fan- sented a so-called compromise plan, tastic, at present, to be sure, but time which, as might be expected from has wrought many things, and though the British, is a compromise between it is a far cry from the theory to the the most extreme and the most mod- fact, who would have guessed that erate views of-the British. None of Great Britain would ever sit at an in- the nations, with the possible excep- ternational parley and even admit that tion of Japan, seems sincere, and und- naval parity might be good thing? All erlyigg the whole tone of the confer- we need is a small measure of sin- ence is a mutual suspicion so charac-f t 'riti 4finterna tiona snnfA,.nh., To sum the whole thing up, the ovuiser question was the first present- ed to the delegates. Immediately Great Britain proposed a limit so high that it really was no limit at all, but a target forbuilding, and the United States, supported by Japan, protested. Then Great Britain admitted that the United States was enitled to cruiser parity with them but that England would have to have more cruisers in order to protect her many trade lines. Then the delegates from our own country very pointedly suggested that if Great Britain musthave alarge number of cruisers they could be small cruisers, while the United States, with its naval bases far apart, would build a few large ones and the tonnage of the two countries would be the same. But this still did not satisfy Great Britain, for obviously she entered this conference with the idea of emerging queen of the seas, and the thought of admitting parity with the United States, other than in theory, was nat- urally abhorrent. Now, as the final step, the English have emerged with what they call a compromise plan, and this is the prize piece of bigotted nar-k rowness of the whole conference. I The British of course were handi-1 capped when their leading naval ex-I pert left the conference to referee a shooting match back hom in England, but even so it seems that they might have been honest enough not to call{ a one-sided proposal a compromisec plan. Their so-called compromise,4 subtly veiling British supremacy, is anA insult to the intelligence of the dele- gates with which they are dealing. In the first place the compromise would postpone definite action until1 1931, or beyond, but meanwhile it] would make England's cruiser suprem- acy so secure that any proposal to overthrow it in 1931 or beyond would1 be regarded by the folks back homef in the British Isles as a rank affront.N The British are perfectly aware, of course, that the heavy cruiser, whichf can travel a long ways between bases, is the only kind practicable for the. United States, while the light cruiser, which can be employed over a largeg number of shipping lanes and whichc can make use of England's thick c growth of naval bases, is more prac-n tical for the British. So the "com-t promise" very adroitly proposes a. def-a inite and low limit on the heavy cruis-A er, to hold the United States in a posi-e tion where it will not be dangerous, I and then proceeds to propose that light cruisers be allowed in any quan- tity, thereby providing what is in prac-a tice no limitation at all for the British. t If the London diplomats thought that a the Americans would not see through a this thin ruse they are mistaken, for 0 poor as our diplomats are, one can not t strike them in the face with a fact a and have them ignore it. So the f United States will defeat the "com- a promise," and to the press of the world A cerely to supplement the admission and, the day of an internationally se- cured peace is not so far distant after all. ItTHE MERCHANT MARINE It is far past the time for the United States to subsidize its war time fleets for the ships which would have give this nation the greatest commercial fleet in the world have long since rot- ted at their piers, or been sold for junk. It is of some encouragement, however, to those who advocated gov- ernment aid at that time to learn that the fleet of the United States ship- ping board, operating some of the ves- sels left to the government through the war, has made a profit during the fiscal year just closed, and that the service on the lines has won high praise. After all, of ourse, shipping is only a business, and America, occupied as she is with every other kind of busi- ness under the sun, is perhaps not as fitted for competition in this field as some of the other nations. Our sea- men's laws, what is more, inflicting strict regulations on the employment of sailors, are too rigid to allow us to compete on an even basis with other countries, and then too, other coun- tries have long since subsidized their merchant marines in one way or an- other. The business of trans-oceanic ship- ping is a very vital one, however, and one which may have far more serious consequences than a mere inland ent- erprise. It inovlves in a very large sense the control of the arteries of traffic of the world, and the control of these arteries is an asset both in war and peace times. At one period late in the decade between 1840 and 1850 we had effectually subsidized our merchant marine, but the Civil war, with its attendant concentration on home projects for four years, put us far in the rear with a handicap from whih we never recovered. If the politicians of the nations re- fuse to allow a subsidy to shipping, however, the next best thing is govern- ment operation, as is being carried on. Of course the government can not be- gin to go into the shipping business on the scale that private interests could have done under a subsidy, but nevertheless it is encouraging indeed that the ships of the government are at last operating at a profit, and that America has some of the finest pass- enger steamers in the trans-Atlantic trade. Perhaps if the government operation continues to be successful, it will be an incentive for more private capital o go into the business of shipping; and even if it does not lead to greater chievements in the development of ur merchant marine, the fact that he government can efficiently operate great fleet should at least answer or all times those who would criticise ny government enterprise; and the lmerican merchant marine, while only , I new editions which P. T. Barum's autobigraphy went through is one of the things in literary history which will remain forever obscure. George S. Bryan, editor of Struggles and Tri- umphs, or The Life of P. T. Barnum, *written by himself, called by Keith 1 Preston "the source book of the Barnum saga," made active use of twelve editions of the autobiography. There are known to be in existence between 25 and 30 editions, and there are probably more. AMERICAN EDITIONS ASSIST IN GERMAN SALES. One of the cruious facts about book- selling is that an English translation of a foreign book gives impetus to the sale of the book in the original. After The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann was translated from the German and published in America recently, a large wholesale German bookseller reported that he had calls for 300 copies of the Mann novel in the original German. NII. BROOKS PREFERS CAMPS TO CITY COTTAGES. Walter R. Brooks, author of that en- chanting juvenile, "To and Again," has gone up to his log cabin in the Adiron- dacks, with Mrs. Brooks, to escape from the strain of being a landlord in New York ity. Mr. Brooks bought an old house not far from Washing- ton Square and remodelled it. That part of it was a joy. Then he ad- vertised for tenants, and his troubles began. Mr. Brooks says he could write a novel{ about it, but that no- body would believe him. DONALD OGDEN STEWART TO TRACE RUILORS OF SCOTCH WHISKEY Before sailing for Europe May 11th, Donald Ogden Stewart said: "I'm going to Scotland to trace down this rumor about Scotch whiskey I've heard so much about. I decided to see whether there is such a thing. I've been sent by the Authors' and Moving Picture Actors' Protective As- sociation of Southern California to trace it down and bring some samples back." Mr. Stewart was accompanied by his wife. While in Scotland, he will write his humorous novel, "An American Comedy," which Harpers will publish. a shadow of what is might be and what it was at the close of the war, is still a very imposing reality on the high seas under the operation of the United States government. FINAL CLEARANCE SALE' tI t Closing Out of Summer- Dresses $95^$ 75 D Lovely and expensive Frock reduced to these these prices. Hats 98C All straw models must be cleared away for fall. Coats $9.89 Dlack satin, White, sport styles. (Second Floor) At Coo, 222 S. Main Phone 4161 ,..