PAGE TWO THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1926 r +. w.w.. wr .. w s w. aa.aa f a f~Y4 s'a tiPL ii f i/L ii LJ .. . ... . ... e... x .. .,. v v . .. .v.. V U h? uutm1Vt OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SUMMER SESSION Published every morning except Monday 1 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, Michozan, postotice as second class matter. Subscription by carrier, $r.so; by mail,] $2.00. Offices: Press Building, Mlaynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan.1 Commuications, if signed as evidence of good faith, will be published in The Summer aily at the discretion of the Editor. Jn- signed communications will receive rno con- sideration. The signature may be omitted in publication if desired by the writer, The bummer Daily does not necessarily e..dorse the sentiments expressed in the communica- tions. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 492 MANAGING EDITOR MANNING HOUSEWORTH Chairman, Editorial Board.....Eugene H. Gutekunst City Editor..............William R. Breyer 1Vusic and Drama.........William C. Lucas oman's Editor.........,Julia Ruth Brown Night Editors William Stockwell Theodore Hornberger Paul J. Kern Frederick Shillito Douglas Doubleday I session program of lectures, recitals, trips, plays, etc., will assuredly back up praise given in this direction. Ann Arbor at its best is not the most lively of towns and especially during the Summer session is it {rath- er phlegmatic. With but one excep- tion the nucleus of recreational activ- Ities around the town centers on the two sumptious picture houses on the campus. The intellectually stimulat- ing pictures found therein constitutes with this one exception-the emo- tional and thoughtful phase of univer- sity recreation. The one exception is this weekly program organized by the Summer session office under Dean Kraus. Sev-1 en weeks of copious and varied enter- tainments has been given to interest-, ed students and townsmen through the work of this office. True, all the speeches did not attract every type of student. An engineer, for in- stance, would not be interested in "The Creative Spirit and the Americ- an public," the physicist might not be interested in "Private Life in Graeco- Roman Egypt." The chances are that the literary student would find a dis- cussion of "Bird Life in the Canal Zone," rather sterile. However, thisl very heterogeneity of subjects wes one of the most valuable attributes of the series; there was something of in- terest to everyone on the campus nol (natter what might be his particularl hobby. As a corollary to the regular lec- tures the series of health talks ar- 'ranged by the Students' Public Health department was especially valuable. A word should be said in regard to the trips arranged under University supervision. The places visited were' chosen because of general interest and value to the members. From the Jack- son prison excursion to the Put-in- Bay trip they were well patronized and entire satisfaction was express-I ed by all who attended. It is through such features of Un- iversity life as these lectures, recit- als and plays that the more lasting values of a higher education are ab- sorbed. The Summer session clos- ing has been a profitable one from this standpoint at least and not a lit-I tle of the credit is due to this enter- tainment series. The shadow of the Union Jack still lingers in the corner of the flag where, now is the spangle of stars." --Professor Phillips. "Oratory is the art of making deep f !fm / TED . OL GREATER MOVIE SEASON We confess to a grave doubt as to the value of the regular August cam- paign on the part of Monsieur Hays and his boys to put over a greater movie season, with the accompanying cut-puzzle contests and the blue and red pennants. Our doubt arises from the fact that as far as we can see attendance at the films has just about reached the point of saturation. Movies are at least as good as they were seven years ago when we first started tak- ing an interest in them, and the pub- lic has awakened to that fact, with the looked-for result to the box-office. But the Paratnount (not an adver- tisement) Question is: can it contin- ue? or rather, will the pennants and radio prizes stimulate any further at- tendance at the cinema? Because people by now are used to the movies. They have become accustomed to set- ting aside a certain portion of their incomes to be handed over at stated intervals to the pretty ticket-seller at the New Pantheon Theatre, and ob- viously, the gross earnings of the Am- crican populace is not going to increase automatically with the first day of every August. So we wonder - Still, it is a good idea. So much more grandiose, more sweeping, than the commonplace "Boost Memphis" phrase. And it might be well applied to other fields of endeavor. Say on the first of December somebody might institute a "Greater-Christmas-Trees- for-the-Widows-and-Orphans Season," Or the rivals of Morris Gest could, on the first of September, start a Greater-and-Deadlier-Drama.s Season with something like "Surpass 'The Miracle'!" for a slogan. We recommend the idea to Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis for his con- sideration. He could begin on April 1, a few weeks before the baseball season starts, a campaign for More and Bigger Professional Baseball Lea- gues. Then he could get a commis- sion from the sporting-goods manu- facturers........ T LTRAI, EFFECTS OF THE THE ATRE GRAHIAM'S Special Tables of Books of Interest' to Educators GRAHAMS At Both Ends of the Diagonal IL s s s s s s s s H s s I, MICHIGAN PINS FOUNTAIN PENS ALARM CLOCKS HALLER' S STATE STREET JEWELERS " 1 I -of M..r.. The most refreshing news on this page J' ' -1 ,_.,... - t I0ce k-coeam4 0 ax .- Dona Boyle William Finlay Frances Gusten Lawrence Hyman Assistants Nita Kelley Mary MacDonald george T. McKean Margaret Ward BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER PAUL W. ARNOLD Circulation-.................Kenneth Haven Advertising ................Francis Norquist Assistants Mabel Chambers Laurence VanTuyl William F. Cook Mildred Williams Edward Solomon SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1926 Night Editor-PAUL J. KERN "My skepticism about schools extends to universities, and par- ticularly to what one might call the universities for juveniles like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale, the annual cricket, boat race, baseball, and football univer- sities, where every sort of intellec- tual activity is subordinated to a main business of attracting, boarding, and amusing our adol- escents."-H. G. Wells. THE SOUTH NIGHT BREAK If the Democratic convention should abolish the two-thirds rule, Al Smith, governor of New York state and idol of the great unwashed, would be nom- inated on the first ballot only to crash to the ground at the polls because of his religion, in the opinion of Senator Caraway of Arknasas. Mr. Caraway's idea is that we must maintain the sol- id South and the veto power it has exercised over nominations for many decades, and that any move to elim- inate this condition will be opposed by the South. Mr. Caraway does not make it clear whether he thinks the South will de- feat Governor Smith for religious rea- son or whether he thinks Northern Democrats will turn on him for the same reason. One can easily under- stand why the wet-drinking dry South should oppose the liberal ideas of Governor Smith, but it seems strange that the line should not be drawn there. It would be better if the Solid South would break away from some Demo- cratic candidate, not for party reason, not because of religion, not because of the Volstead travesty, but because any section so narrow that it places its votes solidly on party labels is a thing foreign to good republican government, for it does not develop a t true party pposition andl too fre- quently sacrifices the best interests of the country and of its own section for traditional superstition or idiotic belief that any one party will 'ruin it. Al Smith, we need you for a martyr to the holy cause of good democracy. A MATTER OF PRAISE Criticism is of two general colors, praise and censure. Editorial columns when written in a sincere and inter-' esting fashion more often employ the second of the colors than the first. For there is a kind of unholy glee in soundly "panning" some odious indi- vidual or project. It is human na- ture. The vituperative phrase is ever more trenchant, more of a gleaming sword in the hands of its users than is the paragraph of commendation. Whereas blame is actuated by speci- fic, clean-cut instance, praise is often perfunctory, emanating too often from a sense of duty or tradition. A matter on this campus during the current Summer session, however, de- mands a sincere type of commenda- tion. The hundreds, the thousands, Ll F RE EM AN'S Dining Room 809 East Washington Street {One Block from Hill Auditorium) A-13 -a rich ripened blend of real Jamaica Ginger and pure fruit juices - is a superb VENUS out-rivals all for perfect pencil work. 17 black degrees-3 copying. A ra ead -y penil c ilit. t wn : FR the tdn rpo. h ' suerb EU utrvl all or prfet pecil ork i beverage that mixes well under all conditions. "When good fellows get together" enjoy one of - these delightful combi- nations - Ginger Tea Shandy Gaff Ice Tea and A-B Budweiser and Ginger Ala. heMl Ginger Ale. hair Ancn half. and half. Horse's Neck made by adding lemon rind and crack.ed ice to A"B Ginger Ale. ANHEUSER-BUSCH ST. LOUIS rt ," A 1 .. ..u. c ...5! J.i .4ifa3t+f iir' '; ', _ TG-203 I As doted in two sweet young things: sounds from the chest seem like im- "Isn't the leading man just too ad- portant messages from the brain."- orable?" "Oh, I could love that man!" H. I. Phillips. "Doesn't he act his part just won- derful ?" "Did you notice his eye- Many a condemning (ad would be brows, Emma? ashamed to tell what he did at col- As noted in the spinsters, three lge-and without a car."--L.U. Dav-rows back: "So disgusting!" "That is. ___painted leading woman is absolutely! _ shameless." "Mrs. Macgruder, DID I she have any stockings on? I don't EDITORIAL COMMENT think she did!" _ . I __ As noted in two tired business men NITIMtIBATISMin the smoking room: "Say, Joe. I'll (The New Fork tim~e.,) lbet this show is grossing anyways two grand a week eh?" "Well, the aver ranker and deadlier grows the balcony's almost full, and seats on poison in what was always "pizen." the ground are four bucks a throw. The prohibition authorities have been I I'll say it is!" "And they say the telling us this for years. If some Gov- public don't like real art! "Ha ha ha." erment chemists have reported that I-a. As noted in the inconspicuous man such stuff as comes into their hands in the last gallery row: "Damn fools is not greatly different from the an- still pay to see rotten hams put on cient Demon, their analysis must have such trash. I guess I'll have to give been vitiated unconsciously by imper- up writing decent plays and spend i / a r 4 f t ' SE fect sympathy with "the cause." So! fifteen minutes on one of these honky- ruthlessly successful is enforcement i tonk bonanzas." that distillers for the bootleg trade are A. L Rose. forced to turn to the most sinister in- * * * gredients. The Chief Chemist of the The summer is over-there will be Bureau of Internal Revenue gives us F no more Toasted Rolls columns In some of their mixtures. Thessalian the 1926 Summer Michigan Daily-and witches would faint at the naming of still we have failed to keep our prom- such compositions. Our own favorite ise to our public. We said we would horror is benzol, creosote and primary run some Gross Exaggerations and we TNT; but there are others nearly aks have not done so. potent;-a combination of alcohol, gaso- Tamanm agred to write one for us, line and kerosene must be rich in to be sure, but shortly afterward Tam- motive power. am vanished from human ken and the In 20 per cent of the New York next time we saw him he was all THECLTHFROCK r3 JUST as Fall returns each year, brisk and golden, so too, returns its annual accom- paninient---the cloth street frock. Ultra chic, it is the sort one wears now on cool, coatless days, and just as smartly all through the win- ter. Of covert rep, in all of -- the Fall shades. Of char- meen, trimmed with a bright splash of color. Proud posses- sors of such new lines as the bloused back, the higher flare, the box-pleated trim and the new high collars. Priced $25.00 uP (Second Floor) q speak-easies, whose number is esti- mated at 15,000 by no less an author- ity than Prohibition Administrator Mills, the liquor vended is tinctured' with wood alcohol, ind sometimes with nitrotoluol, so that he who puts an enemy in his mouth may almost be said to put a torpedo therein. But most of us are unfortunate enough to know persons who, unabashed and ap- parently undamaged, continue to treat themselves to the forbidden fruit. It is getting worse and worse, but they don't know it. They are poisoning themselves every day, and yet to the! outward eye they look indecently heal- thy. Do any of our regrettable friends suffer from poisoning? They do not. 'Why? Because, as several learned physicians who scorn the use of liq- uor prescribtion blanks tell us, one of the products of prohibition has been the multitudinous extension of "Mith- ridatism." The victim has made him- enthusiasm about a short story he was writing. That didn't help the Rolls column very much. * * * And now a few words of well-meant counsel. We assume that readers of this column are lovers of humor. (Correct us if we're wrong,) Being lovers of humor, they will want to pursue their study of it further. To them we offer the following sugges- tions: 1. Read six days a week Timothy Hay's column in The Michigan Daily which will resume publication Sept. 28, 1926. 2. Read the monumental works of the nation's greatest humorists of the da, i.e., Robert Benchley, Frank Sul- livan, and F. P. A. To those who are not our readers w ecan merely say that we rate them below George Ade's Ernest who was kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the papers. YIFNIF,. "j I' J r- i of students and townspeople who at- self immune to poison by taking a 'tended one or more of the free en- slightly larger dose every time he tertainments proffered by the Summer -crooks his elbow.