THE MICHIGAN DAILY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPEB OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Published every morning except Monday' ing tke University year by the Board in ntrol of Student Publications. Uember of Western Conference Editorial sociation., the Associated Press is exclusively en- ed to the use for republication of all1 ws dispatches credited to it or not other- Be credited in this paper and the local vs published therein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, chigan, as second class matter. Subscription by carrier or mail, $3.50. )filces: Ann Arbor Pi ss Building, May- A Street. Phones : ditorial, 2414 and 176-M; Busi- s. oho.4 national stage be if only those offer- ings attracting the greatest lumber were put forth? A conglomeration of cheap .burlesque, risque musical shows, inartistic melodramas, and! nonsensical comedies; a disgrace to the mentality of a civilized nationl I , i. i l , t DASTED.LL TO HER All alone I washed the dishes Leaning Pisas stacked around me- Scrubbing, rubbing, making wishes They would fall and cease to hound I would result. OOur movies are largely a disgrace to national intelligence.. Fine novels; have been stripped of all their good qualities in the hands of the motion picture director. Others have had so much overemphasis put upon scenic effect that the stories themselves fadej into insignificance. The true art of the balanced drama has been lost amidst the desires to please the whole' and receive the greatest profit. CAMPUS OPINION I Editor, The Michigan Daily: After many winter months during which one needed to either splash as through a morass or slip as though on a mer-de-glace in order to navi- gate the fair thoroughfares of this good community of lazy citizens, blind- ly rushing students, and lawless Ford drivers-which we know as Ann Ar- bor, I have finally had the ill-fortune ICICG AN SONG BOOK LAST EDITION OF 0 :AT THEAMS BOTH STORES met 't While I labored, growing angry, Came a fairy princess smiling- Smiling with her eyes upon me, Eyes that shone with light beguil- ing. Communications net to exceed soo words signed, the signature not necessarily to >pear in print, but as an evidence of faith, nd notices of events will be published in he Daily at the discretion of the Editor, if ft at or mailed to The Daily oflice. Un- gned communications will receive no con- ideratian. No manuscript will be returned tless the writer encloses postage. The Daily oes nothnecessarily endorse the sentiments xpressed in the communications. EDITORIAL1 STAFF Telephones 2414 And 176-M RANAGING EDITOR MARION B. STAHL ews E ditor...................Paul Watzel ity 1dittr. ......James B. Young ssistatr C(ity l;ditor----------J, A. Bacon cIrtoialI Board Chairman.....E. R. Meiss ight 1,ditors- Ralph Byers Harry 1e1 1. . 1ershdorfer R. C Moriarty 1. A. Donahue J. E. Mack oris PWditor............Vallace F. F'liott 'omen's 1?ditor..............Marion Koch mday lagazine Iditor......H. A. Douaiiue ictorial Editor................Robert Tarr usic Editor.....................E. H. Ailes, Editorial Board . well Kerr Maurice Berman Eugene Carmichael Assistants ABSTRACTS "Love, religion, politics-these are the important things of life, and they are all abstract ideas; things that you can't put your hand upon, that you cannot measure," averred ProfessorI Robert M. Wenley in a recent'lecture to a class in philosophy. This thought so violently clashe Bobbed hair gave nodded greeting, Asked to share my task unvaunted; Straightway anger left me fleeting- Dishes then I longed for, wanted. ZEKE. * * * Watch the frosh As he slips and sloshes 'to fall twice within the shadow of the Engineering Arch-once upon oneI end of my vertebral column and the; other time-for variety's sake, upon the other end. I should have used my alpenstock, I imagine. Many modern villages have ordi- nances which are enforced, providing for the cleaning of walks, draining off of water and roughening icy sur- faces and the like. Would that it. were so here. The building and grounds department should at least employ some shovelographers tot r. ake the campus walks safe for civ- ilization,-thus setting an example for the lazy Ann Arborites who neverthe- less would probably continue as they have done all winter-to wait, wait' and wait for nature to do the work. Nothing could perhaps arouse in them a sense of civic pride. i RP L. R., '24M.j DETROIT UNITED LINE$ Ann Arbor and Jackson TIME TABLE (Eastern Standard Time) Detroit Limited and Express Cars-- 6:zoo am., 7:00 a.mi., 8:zoo a.mn., 9 :o5 a.ni. and hourly to 9 :o5 p.m. Jackson Express Cars (lo(al stops west of Ann Arbor)-9:47 a.m.,and every two hours to 9 :47 p.m. Local Cars East Bounnd-7:oo a.n. and every two hours to 9:oo p.. m., ii :oo p.m. To Ypsilanti only--t1:40 p.m., i1:15 .a.m. To Saline-Change at Ypsilanti. Local Cars West Bound-7:5o a.m., 12:10 p.m. To Jackson and Kalamazoo-Lim- ited cars 8:47, 10:47 a.m., 12:47, 2:47, 4:47 p.m. To Jackson and Lansing--Limited at 8:47' p.m. , elma Andrews a:ilcy i1. Armstrong anley M. Baxter arothy Bennett* dney fielfield A. Billington clew Brown C. Clark B. Connable Ronald Halgrisr Fanklin D .Hepburn Winona A. libgard Edward J. Higgms 1enrnth C. Keliar Elizabeth Liebermann j ohn McGinnis ainuel Moore M. H. Pryor WI3_ Raffert r i a with the generally accepted valuation Aross the campus of the things of the universe that it * * merits a more than casual considera- In his goolashes. tion. * * The average citizen believes that he One thing ,ice about this town is thinks in concrete terms. Such ex- that the streets here are the same a - pressions as, "Put it in black and the ones in Venice. . white", "Get down to brass taclrs", * * and, "Be definite", are continually re- 5pRI7 IS hERE curring fragments of, modern day E Not only does the spring thaw show conversation. And in actuality, the average citizen follows the concrete that the season of spring has arrived, closely in his train of thought. but Jimmie the ad taker has placed Love! To the average citizen this his bit of evidence before the public. LThe ad in T. D. thought links itself with a black-orb- LOST-N .Fireplace on Toule- ed demoiselle or a gray-haired matron, L varying accordin* to the citizen-hut vard, gold, octagonal, Bristol-make a very specific item, amenable to;wist watch, initials M. F. on hack. measurement and, on occasion, to Please call M. K. F. 2676. Reward. squeezing.EE Religion! Does this not mean vest- OWED TO TElE WAr1IFOV menus, ceremony, and a whole set of Heaven above you outward manifestations? One faith. Clear and blue; Christian Science-and this said with Co-ed a-coming all due respect-devotes itself whol- Your heart a-strumming ly to the spirituutl realm, yet its serv, Somehow you know ices are held in solid, brick-and-mor- You'll be her beau tar churches, attended by people who BUT- come in very substantial looking mo- You stub your toe tor cars. Seek an ice floe Politics! Does this not suggest Miss the gang plank LaFollette, the Ship Subsidy Bill, the Park your left flank G. O. P. elephant, or the Demoeratic Across the bay; donkey? Quietly pray It may be true that abstract ideas God'll skip a day are most, important1 but Man thus far Till your poor clay has not yet learned to do without the Can sprout green grass concrete symbols. So she can pass. POP. -1 ._... 1923 4 :f 1s3 : 12 1.) 2)) 7 FEBRUARY 1 6 7 8 13 14 15 21) 21 22 27 28 2 9 16 23 1923 3 10 17 24 . { t i !" t k _I i ] i EDITORIAL COMMENT ("()LLE~x'FE'EITORS AND) CO-EDbS (Univ. of Washington Daily) Throughout t h e intercollegiate world the tendency upon the part of Evelyn I. Coughlin- Robert G. Ramsay Josep h Epstein Campbell Robertson T. .F'iske . J. ,W. Ruwitch John Garlinghouse Soli J. Schnitz Walter S. Gopdspeed Frederic G. Telmos Portia ( niiddr 1hili MC Wavnrn'. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 960 BUSINESS MANAGER ALBERT J. PARKER Advertising............ohn J. Hamel, Jr. Advertising..............alter K. Scherer Advertising...........,awrence i.1. Favrot 'ucation...............Edward 1. Conlie: (7onywriting............David . M. Park Circuation..............Tow send 'll. Wolfe Accounts............... L. eaumont arks Kenneth Seick s Aan S. Morton George Rockwood James A. Dryer embryonic editors has been to treat education as a peculiar situation in society to be dealt with analytically and precisely as one would diosect a grapefruit. The resulting editorials have been startling. and their, prolix- ity has worked alike to the embarrass- ment of their readers and the pulp manufacturers. The latest subject of ejitorial corki- ment which has been handed about from college to college is the matter of coeducation. Bearded youths have plied frantic pens from Maine to Cal- ifornia denouncing and upbraiding the more deadly partner in this fearsome, world. Coeducation is ruining the young manhood of the country. No more Daniel Websters now. Who shall man the helm of the ship of state? It is our opinion that education is life itself and whoever would rule out the co-ed might with fqual idiocy rule the fair sex off the planet. If the l women are capable, let them run the ship of state and leave us to our golf -SPRING OIrc I HATS K~~ ~ E ADY Our $3.00 and $3.50 Hats GUARANTEED We Save You a Dollar or More on a Hat We do all kinds of Meaning I and Reblocking of hats at low prices for HIGH CLASS WORK. FACTORY HAT. STORE 617 Packard Street Phone 1792 Where D ' R Stops at State ~t11Ellililil1 l111111 fti11111 111 lilfill !lltli11111 1 #!i illll 1 tlitlialilt i' "An ounce of prebention is i&ortl a pound of curk" TAKE THIS TO HEART AND Phone 525 FOR Expert Plumbers W M. HoCHR EIN 211 South Fourth -!!!1!l111111! 11 !1 111 1111111111111111111111 l111111111111 111ii 1t' C J 11 BY YOUR PENS OF DE R.'S EN' SH P Pen Specialists OUx SKILLED SERVICE COES WITH EVERY PEN WE CARRY PARTS FOR AND REPAIR AND MAAKES OF PENS 24 HOUR SKVICE -4 '1 I ' :' Y1:.,.. . t ' ' 0 4 RIDER'S PEN SHOP The fountain of pen satis- faction. I iI r ow Perry M. Hayden Wn. G. Good Eugene L. Dunne Clyde L. Hagerman LITERATURE OF DESPAIR Win. Graulich, Jr. Henry Freud John C. laskin Herbert P. Bostick When Mr. Glenn Frank, editor of, E. D. Arntrout Clayt Prcdy the Century Magazine, recently stated Herbert W. Cooper ,T. B. Sanzenbacher . that the world could not combat social Wallace Flower Clifford Mitts a . William I r: Reid. Jr. Ralph Lewright and industrial disitegration by flarold L. Ihale Philip Newall blindly chanting, "Day by day, in Win.1D. Roesser every way, the world is growing bet- ter and better," he most assuredly told the truth. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1923 It is extremely doubtful, lowever, if Dr. Cone ever . intended that his fight r- LH .YER little "day iby day" formula should be considered a cure-all for worldly po-; wlUNS INE IN THE OVIES !litical and social evils. lie wouldj Of the hundreds of motion picture probably claim no more for it, even 1 productions presented before the j today, than that it is helpful for a' American public every .year, just how certain class of individuals whose ills are largely mental. many ha'e had the sem~blance ofa Mr. Frank says that the evils of the tragedy 'until the last few moments world are pointed out in the "litera- and then unexpectedly concluded with ture, of despair", in which five fears an absurd "happy ending" which ruin- are to be found, and he adds that this ed the effect of the entire film? It "literature of despair" should not be tdisregarded. i impossible to answer this question Here again, is good advice. This; i numlbcrs, but safe to say that pr^ac- so-called "literature of despair" cer-j tically every film which had the pos- tainly serves a purpose, for to a cer4 sibilities of tragic development was tain number of readers it is produc- closed with the standard perfect end- tive of deep and stimulating thought. ing which has dominated American This type of literature is of its na, filmmdom since its origin. The tragic ture pessimistic. To the young, un- * * * I went to a party with a Jane, And met with an awful mishap For I awkwardly emptied a cupful Qf tea right into her lap. y ___.. I , But Jane was cool, tho' "it" wasn't For none as tactful as she And smiling with sweet composure She said, "the drinks are on me."' POISON IVY. in peace. No man ever guided the ship of state while ranting at our fair sisters. Anyway its a matter of self protection. Maybe they'll rule us off if we don'tlook out. * * * CONF'I)ENTIALLY SPEAKING Those at the formals with COTP)REINSIVE EXAMiNATIONS (The Princetonian) whoop skirts certainly ought to wheel about easily.' * * * Harvard some years ago inaugurated a system of comprehensive examina- tions ii certain of its departments I JoKr.. with excellent results and we see no IL inovie is something unknown to; American audiepices. The precise reason for this state of affairs in the realm of filmdom isE quite evident. It is altogether rea- sonable to suppose that no producing company is willing to sacrifice mate- rial profits for the attailtment of a higher goal in artistic development, for up to the present time no picture has been made without the predom- inant idea of an appeal to the massI es, On the basis of this assumption we can trace the existence of the present conditionrdirectly to the pro- ducers whlo so readily sacrifice dra- mnatic effect for the ready approval of the greatest number--those only! satisfied with the proverbial "happy ending". No one will deny the right of each producer to develop his pictures as he personally 'chooses, but for the; benefit of these who would see the silent drrna grow along the same lines as the older form of ;spoken drama some effort should be made to produce a finer motion picture, one; which will make as great an appeal to the cultural individual as a stagef play. Certainly it would entail a de- crease in profits, but the millionairef movie magnates must stop. occasion- ally to offer the more intelligent! classes of the populace something in which they are interested if they de- seasoned reader, it may do more harm than good, for this type of read- er may leave the "despairing" litera- ture feeling that the world is all{ wrong, and that fate has been par- ticularly unkind to him. But to the thinker, the man accustomed toI weighing both sides of a question be- fore making any conclusions, "liter- ature of despair" is valuable. It will stimulate the thinking man to thoughts which a blindly optimistic book might never inspire. The result of such thinking may be constructive advice which society can adopt to ad- vantage. The "literature of despair" must not be rejected as entirely de- structive merely because of its pessi- n'iistic tone. Spring and summer are approach- ing. Soon there will be little need of coat-hooks in class rooms. And next year there may be only six months of winter in which to neglect to pro- vide for the hanging up of garments.. Football games are to start ear- lier this fall, so as to preclude all! possibility of playing a game in darkness, or having some player hide the #ball in the "blackness of the eve- ning" Althoug i the unfinished Union, swimming pool has been found to bej [OVIE OF A FROSH MAKING HIS FIRST DATE Show comes to town, Decides to take girl. Decides not to. Changes mind. Changes mind again. Looks up girl's phone number. Decides not to. Calls girl. Grows nervous waiting. ' Decides not to. Doesnt. Still waits. Girl answers. Frosh feels funny. Frosh feels funnier. Cannot speak. Girl answers again. Frosh finally speaks. Stutters. Feels hot. Feels cold. Doesn't feel. Comments on weather. Finally decides to ask her. Decides not to. Does. Giil thinks it over. Frosh grows hot again. Frosh grows cold again. Afraid she'll refuse. Certain she'll accept. She accepts. OH! BOY, "AI N'T LOVE GRAND." TEARABLE. reason why such a plat should not be adopted in Princeton. One of the greatest draw-backs of modern curri- cula is that the student is graduated with a great number of courses to his credit abut little real knowledge. Too much stress is laid on electives and the like and not enough on fun- damental education. The comprehen- sive examination equalizes the stress for many fields of study. In the department of history at Harvard an examination is given to all students in that department which must be passed successfully befoie graduation. The advantage of this one examination, given in addition to the regular term tests, is that it re- quires of a student a thorough knowl- edge, not only of the several courses, which he has taken, but also of the whole field of hi;story, with the re- sult that he appreciates his subject and understands the relation of the different histories to one another. The History Department would probably be the easiest in which to try out the scheme of comprehensive examinations in Princeton, but the plan would be beneficial in other de- partments. Princeton, standing for a cultural education, should also advo- cate by its example a well-rounded knowledge by the student of the study of his choice. The graduate would then have a true understand- ing of his particular field, embellished by an appreciation of. other subjects,I instead of a topsy-turvey mass of dis- connected facts and isolated opinions. Prize Offered for Best Poem Southern Methodist university at Dallas, Texas, has offered a prize of $100 for the best poem submitted by any undergraduate college student in American colleges and universities. The last date upon which entries for the prize will be accepted is March 15. , I a _'' - ~ ".~ g~f~",r Ii Cr \ _ .X. 1 , _ .A . .. ... -o 0 New suits for spring are here Norfolks, 3 and 4 button sacks. Fabrics are finer, more colorful than eVer; values are greater $39 $45 Extra trousers,$6 to $8.50 The Reule Conlin Contributions contributions. "A new shipment of Scotch receiv- ed". Don't get thirsty -- they are i Company