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Overton Edward Lambrecht Sara Wailer H. U. Howlett BIJMSLS STAFF Telephone 960 s MANAGER............LEGRAND A. GAINES, JR. g .. .................. P. oye t+ . ."............S. Kunstader U.......................................-. .MK n el . ...................E. . Priehs ......... ..... .........-..V. F. HUillery Assistants ambrect Mlv. '. Moue H. . Hunt amel, r. N. W. Robertson M. S. Goldring' Elutieanson T hos. L. Rice H. W. Heidbreder *oss R G. Burchell W. Cooey .Davis A. J. Parker na wishing to secure information concerning news for any he Daily should we the night editor, who has fullcharge a to be printed that night. THURSDAY APgiL 7, 1921. Night Editor-J. E. McMANIS. SIZETIS 1 a new disease threatens mankind, science, with antidotes and antitoxins, quickly man. put the enemy to rout. Here at Michigan are being threatened with a disease, at mal- may "call "szetis". It" sets in when time- .customs and traditions, of a university are :o give way before the ever-increasing num- students who continue to pour in from all °the country. The best and probably the Fective prescription which can-be made for e is an application of the wise old maxim Leclares that "an ounce of prevention is pound of cure". In order that we may keep :rom gaining a foothold here, let us strike -oot of it all. If we can preserve our tra- with the same respect and reverence which ho have gone before us have, we shall suc- our task of defeating sizetis., as a nation respects its traditions, we at .n owe it as a duty to ourselves and to many ons of, alumni to uphold our established with the loyalty and devotion which they . What more inspiring sight is there than bration of Cap night, when all the classes e once each year in Sleepy Hollow. The nfire, the snake dance, the singing of 0 Where" by happy freshmen eagerly g their release from the bonds of sophomore t, and the solemn rendition of the senior song" are memories which will never be from the minds of those who have partici- n these glorious ceremonies. The annual for undergraduate supremacy between :n and sophomores, wearing of caps and and oaken canes by seniors, and even the ry donning of corduroy trousers, by engi- .re all traditions which have proved a great e in creating that democratic, fraternal spirit as ever characterized Michigan. Our alumni ft us these and many other traditions as a , and it is our duty and privilege to prove are worthy of the trust. Our duty is to halt before it infects the University and makes ns mere forms from whose empty husks the of Michigan spirit has died out. H EN NEWSPAPERS PLAY PARIS papers, to be successful, mus$ have the , of big advertising contracts. The big con- o to the papers of largest circulation. At the time various newspapers have adopted the of running beauty contests as a means of ng circulation. They all have the bug from > coast. Large and small sheets, metropoli-.' . otherwise, are plastering their rotogravure with girls' photos. Ion't in the least object to girls so long as the right girls, nor yet to photographs of al faces so long as the faces are really beau- d well reproduced, but there is a limit. Per- we hate to admit that our taste in feminine is rotten, 'but we fail to see a remote sem- of beauty in a large per cent of the pub- 'pics". Further than this we consider it minds of unsuspecting maidens. Think of the pos- sibilities of future eventualities which arise every time that a girl gets the beauty idea: dreams of such power as Helen of Troy wielded over the hearts and fortunes of men, high expectations, an insensible enlargement of the ego, and then - - tragedy when she realizes that she is a mistake in- stead of an Aphrodite. f The papers really should not do it. They should protect the ignorant from the fruits of their folly. Their moral culpability is immeasurable. Think of the enormity of their offense. They prove by visual evidence that the factory girl is more desirable than the society bud, that beauty is not the hallmark of blue blood. In short they breed disdntent all down the line and encourage the terrible threat of bolshe- vism. Finally and worst of all they force the infam- ously unpleasant adage of the great P. T. Barnum into the foreground - an uncomfortable place to have it. TO OPERA WRITERS Only two Union opera scenarios for next year have as yet come into the hands of Director E. Mor- timer Shuter. Neither of the two contains a single campus scene ; both are "foreign" operas. It is even probable, because of the great success enjoyed by "Top o' th' Mornin'', that students are being led to write this type in preference to a play in the least degree localized. There is none too much time left in which to get out an opera, nor even to write the book to the lim- 'ited extent required for submission. Two weeks of good hard effort will do it, and every student who has the least ambition along this line should get down to business at once and utilize spring vacation to the full. The play should be selected in May so that the composers can get to work on the music and in order that the lines and lyrics may be worked over in co-operation with the director. There is every chance in the world for a student who can write a good opera with some campus lo- cal color. Director Shuter wants one; the alumni in particular want one; and, no matter how ex- cellent the "Top o' th' Mornin'" sort may be for variety's sake at long intervals, the partially local type should certainly be the rule. The fact that no good local opera was turned in last spring was the reason for accepting a purely "foreign" book; offi- cials are prejudiced for, not against, the partially local kind, but they must necessarily accept the best. .There is no reason, Michigan cannot produce an- other excellent Ann Arbor opera - that is, local in one scene at least. , Most of the best plays in the past have had a strong Ann Arbor touch. The prin- cipal thing to remember is that alumni are not fa- miliar .with the ultra-new on the campus. The "Betsy Ros" joke in "George Did It", for exam- ple, didn't "get across" on the road because the alumni hadn't heard ofs the place; but"Joe's and the Orient", as ever, brought down the house. Who's to be the man to write an opera which will please Michigan and the alumni houses on the trip as well? Plenty of laurels await the playwright who turns the trick. TheTelescope H'all's Well! I read in a book of fiction Where curious stories dwell, + That in Westminster tower There hangs a much famed bell. The story tells many incidents, Most of which I 'diina ken' But the thing that caught my fancy Was, the bell was named "Big Ben". G DETROIT UNITED LINES In Effect Nov. 2, 1920 Between Detroit, Ann Arbor and Jackson (Eastern Standard Time) Limited and Express cars leave for Detroit at 6:05 a. in., 7:05 a. in., 8:10 a. in., and hourly to 9:10 p. m. Limiteds to Jackson at 8:48 a. in. and every two hours to 8:48 p. in. Ex- presses at 9:48 a. m. and eN ery two hours to 9:48 p. in. Locals to Detroit-5:55a.m., 7:00 a.m. and every two hours to 9:00 p. m., also 11:00 p. m. 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Adrian-Main Corners........7:oo made Clothing ,nd Shoes ial Reductions our Stock of om Clothing NEWPORT 220 BELLEVUE AVENUE TAILORED AT PFASHIOf PARK -bac '. '. 'rt Last night I dreamed of London, And I heard the old bell chime Its peals of stately beauty In a sort of martial time. But my dream was rudely broken, And from my life went all the zest, Big Ben in the Tower had stopped ringing But his grandson was doing his, best. Dear Noah: Can you give an example of where the mineral and vegetable kingdoms are blended to form a new com- pound. : 1G. Ologist. The best example of this is now extinct - Rock and Rye. A Crippled Squad? The last encounter between the two sections re- sulted in a decisive victory for the Westerners when Ohio was humbled 28 to o by the Californria eleven. It rests on 15 Michigan shoulders to even matters up. - from Sunday's Daily. 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