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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, DEAMBER 10, 1 22 SUNDAY; DECEMBER 10 1922
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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e viewof Whimsies
(Delbert Clark) lgood as many that are appearing re-
I was told recently by a membergularly in magazines which pay for-
of the staff of a campus publication contributions. I have a feeling that
that only by giving a favorable review I know what I prefer to read, and I
could I hope to secure review copies , am sure I would rather read a few
of that publication. This gives m: Ilines from Swinburne than the wholeI
occasion to state what may be ex { of T. S. Eliot's lengthy jumble in the
pected from The Sunday Magazine ; November Dial. And somehow I like;
the way of criticism. metrical poetry better than free verse.
There is a widespread but sadly Five lines in Eloise Street's "Autumn'
mistaken impression on the campus Song" express my blasphemous atti-
that every publication should be a sort Iude toward much of the modern
of publicity medium for every other, " poetsy:
that if unfavorable comment is deserv- I have a song in my heart for
ed it should never be made, but that you;
medicreor dwnrght ad ffors iBut the lines will not be held in I
miediocre or downright bad efforts1 thrall
should be falsely praised in an effort B trlm
to "boost" the publication. In short, By meter or rhyme. y
we are all banded together for the They go their own ay,n.
purpose-of selling our efforts, and evena Unfettered, into the Infinite."
thoughi they may be unsalable, if we IlieLwnc Cords hrt
dougotcrte w e cansahoodik our'story, "The Light". It is. I believe,
dQ not criticise we can hoodwink our Ithe best of his that I have read. For
patrons into buying. a while I was deceived into thinking
Now this is entirely the wrong con- it was going to be a conventiona-
ception of what is to be expected from story, where the villain reforms and
The Sunday Magazine. Criticism pub- strweetevili eom n
lished in its columns is writsmand joins the church and all is well, but
printed in all sincerity, and with ta ithe dn'tvome out that way, and the
conviction that, so far as the critic working out of the plot, though not az
is able to judge, it is essentially true. new idea, is well handled. If there
Our writers are not infallible, anti' any fault to n hee, i wldbe
they are not experienced professionalw ntns I ,
critics. They do not presume to set ll conc nt i rris,
up their opinions as norms for all little too much of a surprise.
) Robert Bartron did well with his
men to comply with. But they are; ories ofavignettes picturing the life
more or less normal beings, and they,
do feel that a normal disinterested in-
divldual is more competent to pass .unrealied desires, unsatisfied1
upon the merits of a piece of work longings. They are vivid, sincere, and
than is its author. do pretty well what they set out to (10
It is natural for an outraged writer1 The theme is, of course, world-o:.I
to fume when fault is found in ! but always new when presented with
work, but it not a healthy attitude zo varitios
take until quiet judgment has been? The editors of Whimsies may feel
pake un the wort o a e - that they have made a good start
is. God work, as it appears to thte toward a successful year. The qua-
critic, will always receive its mee lity of the magazine should natural-
of nraise in The Sunday Magazine, but ly imrove with succeeding issues. buy
at the same time bad work, shiftless thee shnot ing in this mer a tow4
work, or hypocritical work will away;'da sae f n hr r w
be as free'y condemne. We are noz or three things which show real pro
engaged in the business of publicity. mise. But the best of it all is, that
Now that we understand each othe, the work presented in this first issue
let us look at the first issue of Whim is for the most part expressive of
this year. sincerity and a real desire to ge!
aorssomewhere, rather than of a Phari-
promising -- nothing tartling, but saical complacency. And that is worth'
theremisna sincerity of purpose ana much.
effort, a lack of hypocrisy perceptible,
which augurs well for the future of for
the modest little magazine. That is Education the
the trouble with too much of studentzL b
e'fort, has been the trouble with much
that has at times appeared in Whim- (Saul Carson)
sies itself: a tendency to play petty The anouncement by the newly or-1
tricks upon the reader, a hypocritical ganized Liberal club of the debatef
attitude which has no place in art. But on the open shop question which will
Whimsies has started the year fair- take place on Thursday evening, De-I
ly free from any such stigma, and it cember 14, contains the announcement
is well. I that the negative side (in favor of the
I couldn't get enthusiastic over any closed shop) will be argued by Paul
of the verse, and yet I could not con- Blanshard, '14, who is at present en-
demn any of it as actually bad. That gaged in educational work for the
is an awkward situation for the egots- Amalgamated Clothtig ~Workers c"
tic critic-it: leaves him nothing to America. It is a common thing to
say. Eloise W. Street has two pieces, hear of organizers and propagandists
"New Moon" and "Autumn Song", both in connection with labor unions, but
in free verse. In the first, a rather there are not many who know about
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one cannot refuse to admire such ar- the-head. The thene still remains a only deplore the whole episode. I; A LONELY ,ENIUS
dor as that rescribed by Corkery as struggle between people of opposite don't care what the man says about:
Se-presentatiy$- .of the Sinn' Feiner's philosophies of life. men. I ntefr even know him Off the Dca uaps r ing'tat olume of criti)
spiri. As I said, the ba.ttle is a draw. "You stage. But on it he is the greatest contains- 4_en u atn- eltzer
Ial3;trr s:a:teacherin a ndaned Jev" ~Cartain Dac rages.;artist ofnaisthem lluintnllsa.o
laniel orkry is at rm J CDg" "The Later Work o" D. If. Lawrence.
primary school, in. Cork-at. least that "You. damned h1ief," DeLevis return: - From ifar, Mary Gardenlhas long
is the latest news .I have heard con-. And so. the struggue. goes in, neither appeared to 'me a woman of the great ti. odi contemnique pIst-
cerning him., lie grbunded himself wide winning or Io0ing until the-very est Jintelligence and loftiest artistryrire o lew. cotemporary eite
thoroughly in Gaelic lore during his end, when Captain Dancy loses his rI would like to say' here that after mot ao ne fact that neist-
youth. 'Ie is an. amateur at art and case and is forced to commit suicide, having met her and talked with her tonexpmns ghimself n it
strivestoepe.. IfWihu
has written literairy criticism~ for the ;givirng a teehiiical victory to DeLevis. i my conception has not changed. maing th rfort tomsurr pu
Irish Review (of which Padraic Col- "A Family Man" is an admirable bit :making the oast eftrty to curry pub-
um is one of- the edttors.). In 1917'he of -work, though in a much lighter youagcurate " writes Mr. Goldring.
published a book of short @tQries-"A tein thLmn "Lovalties." It is a good EDITORIAL STA-FFyttG
Munster Twilight"'-upon -vhich Ed- study of modern 'life--the rebellion ' }has ever approached some of our
Delbert Clark, Editor lending novelists and quill-drivers in
ward -Brien conferred the title of of youth, and the failure of parents Donaer Coney, e dito teafrvg o their desirvto a
"best volume of short stories of,1917" to understand why this revolution has Donald Coney, Literary Editor a goo ron Among t eake
mengnthn rmuch,"a o eoencsay Leo L. Niiedzielslai, Dramatic !a good nimpr;ssiona. Among the e: cep-
-meaning nothing or uca-s you become necessary.-Editor tions the name of D. H. Lawrence
1lk . John Builder, a domineering male MW'x Ewing, Music Editor occurs immediately to mind. No fawn-
Corkery in khis choice of subject c~f the English middle-class society, at- William M. Randall, Exchange ings here, no parade of cheap attrac-
matter and treatment reminds me of tempts to force the members of his Editor . tions, no cadging from the crowd witi
some Russian authors, such as Gogol family to tread the straight and nar- Bethany Lovell, Staff Artist a display of grease and grins! How
and Dostoyevsky. There is the same row path. But his tactics are too se- James House, Jr., Caricaturist thankful we should be for the achieve-
acumen and restraint perceptible in vere, and one member of- the family Virginia Vaughn Tryon ment of his lonely genius! This
Corkery's "Cowards" as in the work after another breaks away. Builder's W. Bernard Butler paper was written before the publica-
of those Slavic writers. Corkery does political ambitions are ruined, and he C tion of "Fantasia of the Unconscious,"
not develop his dramatic incidents learns through bitter experience that John P. D<-wson the remarkable book in which D. IH.
but rather in a few words gives one's home ties should be garlands and not a A. Donahue Lawrence expresses his highly ndi-
imagination a push and sends it racing fetters. jne El'ngson vidualistic philosophy. Other papers
down hill at a. tremendous speed. I. L. N. M A. i3ver which compose "Reputations," deal
All of his stories are written in a -FTI'en &. Lynch with James Elroy Flecker, "Mr. Wells
style that has the Hibernian flavor. 3TARY GAREN DISCUSSES H-ortense 0. Miller and the War," the work of Compton
Something distinctly like the odor of HERSELF '-ian (t. Sayder I Mackenzie, Hugh Walpole and Gilberi
amp earth is exhaled from the p ynt. ~~~~-~ R a M nacffm reings will be Cannan, the author of "Tarr," etc., etc
has taken the language of the nPonle (Continued from Page One) lo'clock every Mon- -
lnae -a . ttenil anscpofal ag-
and moulded it to the purpose of liter- never told this to anyone else, b!t ontss Knut Hamostin's "Dreamers"will
soon be seen on the screentingAmes
ature, a task which has not as yet 0 not vet believe that he said them-.ative soon be seen on the screen in Ameri-
been done artistically in America- 1 cannot understand it, at 11. I cun -can moving picture theaters.
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sinless by zRobert IFriost.
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For the Folks Back Home
Now that the holiday season is upon us every
young woman is thinking of clothes for the
many parties that Christmas always brings.
It
is essential that every item of your wardrobe
be as pleasingly distinctive as possible. In the
matter of hats we can hep you. Our Holi-
day Offering contains many models of unusual
merit. We are displaying hats of all kinds,
in every conceivable material, and all so rea-
sonably priced as to take them out of the class
S~rnce t ., above ,vas con-1) etedl. *^m_ , 4.
Irish iree State has become a reality
with the contingent result that th
Sinn Fein wil disappear for lack of
motive. This, then will make Cork-
cry's book an historical document
of the highest order. Give to a G
chronicler psychological observation.
together with a poetically melanhoy t
attitude of fatalism, and ou will have
turned a machine into an instrument
that gives forth truth and beauty. For Christm as
LOYALTIES and THE FAMILY MAN,
y TonGalsworthy. Charles W V en you make a gift let it be such a giftthat wi
Scribner's Sons. 1922. $1.0 Cciahalet al re
In these two plays Galsworthy again uently refresh the memory of the receiver.
goes to society for his theme, andihe -
finds there the tragedy that arises be-
twen people who harbor widely differ-
ent philosophies of life, and who. be-
iug- obstinate in their beliefs, fight FOR MEN FOR BABY FOR LADIES
their battles to the bitter end, each
thinking that he is right. Instead of Rings R B
divulging his basic idea directly he RingBar Pins
juggles it around, permitting it to
stick its bald head up above the sur- Watches P. S Rings
face at various intervals. The readerPinSet
finds this very exasperating. ,amonds Diamonds
Like most of Galsworthy's play. Cups
"Loyalties" has no title-role, or rols. - Umbrellas
An equal favor is given each clharac- Cuff minks
ter. As for the idea. Galsworthy a Spoons
wToven a tense and skillful drama oit Umbrellas Small Finger
of the conscious struggle bwtween
Christian and Jew. seasoned in spots Rings
by the divers types of loyalty-to race Stick Pins Knife and Fork
--to club-to profession. The filet
two acts give one to believe that Gals-. Emblem Pins Set Emblem Pin
worthy has a pet peeve against theE l PSets
Semites, and all the epithets hurled Bracelets
at DeLevis give the play an anti-.lew- Waldemar Chain
ish tone. This notion is disp~elled as Y iver Plate ..
the play progresses. In the end Belt Buckl Lingerie Clasps
Levis is victor, and his antagoni-ts
are humbled. This is the main con -Bracelet
flict in the play, and the title, "Loyal- old nvesEarRing
ties." seems a misnomer.
Were every line dealing with loyalvPearl eads
to this or that blue-penciled from the Smoking Set Locket and
script, the play would still be as in- Silver Vase
telligible and sound, and every bz Shaving Set Chain
as reasonable and whole as it is with Gold Pens
these lines left in. It is not loyaltyM
to race that causes Galsworthy's JewM tary SetGold Pencil
to resent the direct and the shadowed Bib Holders
criticism of him. It is the resentment Cigar Cutters Tea Ball
that DeLevis would feel if hP w
Baptist, or what-not, if his "friends" Cigarette Case Ivory Hair Brush IvoryToilet
were to act toward him as they do. Ity
is not loyalty to club that causes Gen Pencil Napkin Rings Sets
eral Canynge, Lord St. Erth and their
fellow members to act as they do. It_____
is merely that they are dealing with ?
a man so offensive and ill-mannered
to them, that no other course of action
can be justified. It is not loyalty 1.y
profession that causes the lawyer to
drop Captain Dancy's case when be
learns that Dancy has lied to Wim. ,
The lawyer knew that the case for - AST 3ERTYSTREET
the defense had lost its bottom, and .i
that it was useless to continue. And
so with the petty senses of loyalty '
which permeate the theme-they ,ll -
_ seem to be dragged in by the lair-if-
d picture of a new moon is marred
,me by the pathetic closing line.
Whose finger 'to you wait, O
Moonring?"
he thought is so obviously absura
t it weakens an otherwise fairly
d stanza. I like, "Autumn Song-
;er. It has some good lines.
hen Ruth Lechlitner has two
the splendid work of a highly educa-
tional character that is being done by
some of the more advanced labor
unions in this country.
Paul Blanshard directs the Amal-
gamated's educational work in Roch-
ester (N.Y.) where that organization!
has a membership of fifteen thousand,
active workers, composed of about a:
o fuxuries.
We specialize in dress trimmings
Emma B..Jogerty 's
s, both of which I would like<
y well-unusual, for Ruth and It
of agree so much-if she did not+
off another child in one of them,
ilia and I". Now I like my in-
side in very raill dose:, and in
ral I do object to it for mere<
cal effect. Nearly every time
gets me all enthusiastic over1
sweet cherub, she cold-bloodedly+
. the child in the last few lines.1
love children, and unless they1
.roublesome, I'd rather let them
and be happy.+
C., in the other poem, "Contuma-
flirts with Death a little too free-l
r me. I object siore to the sub-
matter than to the lines them-
s, which could be much wprse.
of us here in college when we
poetry either rhapsodise over
>eauties of Nature, or else hold4
er palaver with Death; But I
say little about poetry these days.1
nk the pieces in Whimsies are as
dozen different nationalities. One of
the hardest tasks for an organization
of this kind is to find a medium of
expression which these people speak-
ing so many languages may all under-
stand and use. For this reason, and
also in order to make them the better
acquainted with American modes of
living, the Amalgamated conducts
classes in which English is taught to
the foreign members of the organiza-
tion.
At Rochester, Paul Blanshard also
conducts classes in which the workers
are taught public speaking, social'
problems and the principles of trade
unionism. Under his direction and
inspiration, the Rochester Labor Col-
lege was organized about a year ago.
This college is conducted by repre-
sentatives of several of the more pro-
gressive labor unions in the city, and
its aim is to provide education for
the wnrkers not only on strictly eco-
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