r ;. SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1924 THE MICHIGAN DAILY' m "10; oil -, . l I' vo I, I 0, mml:---.7 o,--"-ft'-T" in"" V.- - - - , -.-- -10 - - .,... .. , u . . . k . ldfarb Says: *od dislikes sin why idIle the potentiality for it? Select a volume from the Loll t t~rv' -t l 'Whethier the gods created man or not it1czrtain that man created the gods. Is it fair that a Mexican bandit ' should look, upon fornication as a' pastime and apparently suffer no il effects from it, while an honest young bank clerk with but a single fall from grace chalked up against him should! spent the rest of his days in an agony of remorse. * * * Modern Library Series SUNDAY MAGAZINE ANN ARBOR, MICHIG A.N, SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1924 To Secure More Effective Prohibition Enforcem for your next book. HKI U N IV E R S I T Y BOOKSTORES Why on earth do German peasants 1 leave their quaint ancestral villages for America and straightway build abominable and hideous houses filled v4,th, ileograplls, art-calend.ors and red-plush furniture? * * * If I were a composer I should never allow my compositions to be played. * * * I like French, Gerpan, and Italian songs better than English because I can never understand the words. If Ludwig van Beethoven were per- mitted to revisit these scenes for the space of a day, I should hurry him off to hear a performance by the "Black and White Melody Boys" that he might return to Hell without pangs of re- gret.. * * * It seems to be the general imp-re- sion that most prostitutes are poor misguided wretches who have been decived by villians and would turn nuns if once given a fighting chance. My observation leads me to believe that most of them have followed a natural bent in the choosing of a pro- fession and have been quite free from external suggestion which as a rule points quite fixedly in the opposite direction. As there is no valid reason why they may not choose more de- corous trades I assume them to be quite satisfied with their choice. * * * The average man thinks there is a right way to do everything. He be- ieves firmly that one should eat rice with a fork rather than a knife, quite forgetting that there are many people V'ho prefer chop-sticks to both. Men do nt refrain from killing each other because they feel that it Is wick- ed to murder; it is because they dis- like the psibility of being illed. E'cannot believe that God was so poor a scientist as to have actually en- 0 sed the Old. Testament. ** War is quite a sport for those that 't kill*ed, May I formally propound a query? What becomes of the soul of an infant that sits soaking in a bottle on the Qelf labelled monsters in a medical nseunum? At just what point in the progress Of m n's evolutI2n from the lower aulmaja did rape become a sin? 9 * * If all men were to die tomorrow the sun wQuld continue to beam benefic- nay and to warm the earth and all . "'4 QZ'atur. strange that the most gorgeous of all flora existed in the Carboniferous Age when the only poets to admire their beauty were Dinosaurs. * *~ * I wonder if one may take a short leave of absence from Heaven if at- tade by ennui at the end of a million .1 - -. - t * - - , r-I I f a a 'HE return of the tailored vogue delights the hearts of College women for what could be more appropriate for campus wear than a ;boyish sui, imaulael talordsli, lenerand graceful? Relieved by a frilly collar it becomes appropriate for afternoon tea or calling. We present all the styles, one button jackets, two .or. three, varying in length enough tosuit individual needs, of the better materials, twills, hair lines, checks and novelty weaves, featured by exclusive custom tailors. $25..:,.$29.5 $35.00 sf We print below the essay which won for Mnilton Dreyfuss the fourth prize in a national essay contest of wilhch the Intercollegiate Prohibition Asso- ciation were the purveyors. If there are any on the campus who have opin- ions to offer on the opposite side of the question we shall be Interested. 1 What 'methods and policies shall- we who favor Prohibition adopt in order to bring about its better and more , vigorous enforcement? How may we most easily bring those now opposed to Prohibition over into our ranks, and what means shall be usedl to cause that part of the public who already favors the 18th Amendment to more actively demand and assist in its. enforcement? Such are the pri- mary questions the answers to which this paper attempts to sketch, with the. answers because of the prescribed word limit of this essay necessarily being only in broadest outline. In a democracy such as ours, a form of government that is responsive in a large degree to the wishes of its citizenry, the enforcement of any law depends largely upon the amount and the intensity of Public Opinion behindt it. , Ih all governments-but especially! in democratic countries-Public Opin- ion is the all-powerful but invisible sovereign. This responsivenese Nto Public Opinion in the United Statesf is brought out in the Report of the Committee of the Judiciary of the House, 65th Congress, (Dec. 14, 1917) which dealing then with the submis- sion of the proposed Prohibition amendment to the legislatures of the several states says, "Your committee feels it'incumbent upon Congress to I submit the (prohibition) issue to the states with the view of ratification thereof, since more than half the states in the Union have declared -in favor of Prohibition, since 85 per cent of the territory of the United States has outlawed the saloon, since approxi- mately 10,000,000 of our people resid- ing. in all sections of the Union have petitioned directly for its passage." In short, as Public Opinion was neces- sary -to secure the enactment of the Prohibition amendment, so is Public Opinion likewise necessary to secure the law's' enforcement. The enforce- ment of. Prohibition resolves itself to the~ winning of Public Opinion. Our endeavors to win this all-powerful *eapon will take us to fields appar- ently remote from the problem of ef- fective Prohibition enforcement, but a closer analysis of these fields will. reveal an actual relation between them and the successful solution of the problem confronting us. It :is generally admitted that the weak spots. in Prohibition enforce- ment; the places where enforcement is most difficult and organised at- tempts to evade the law most common,1 are our big cities. In this connection, the Literary Digest of January 14, 1922, says, "But it (the violation) is not-general. All this tremendous ma- chinery for making, smuggling, and1 MILTON DREYFUSS been proverbially hard upon the peo- government spy, the soldier's bayo- pile. To these foreigners upon our shores the term government brings to mihd not an institution created by so- ciety for its own good but rather brings to mind the policeman, the rc c' ;' net. Law evasion in their own coun- try was consequently not frowned down upon, instead the man who could successfully outwit the super- imposed government with. its super- T \ I imposed laws was natu more or less high reput ception of governmentt with them to this counti fastnesses of their colon toes" they retain these foreign view that law a and hence to be violat possible must be suppla idea that in democratic c ernment and law are me by society to promote fare and the welfare of members. These foreigi helped to realize that respective of their nal enforcement if a democr -to long survive. This re American viewpoint, ca culcated to these foreig what we now term as th zation movement. The si movement, broadly speal comes not only the duty cans, but especially at Prohibitionists. For w1 great foreign colonies are brought to the reali necessity and value of ment, then the Prohibil -a corporate part of Amer: be less and less violated. canization through its er the duties of the "goo among which is obedia will tend to bring about n Prohibition. In aiding t ization movement, Prohil be aiding their own cau ly, compulsory education be strongly backed by P for statistics show that th law violations of all sorts who possess the small education. It is an unfortunate .: sides these foreigners th tain percentage of the s tive" and "naturalized' who could likewise stan Americanization. Their zation can best come 1 press, pulpit, and scho the Houston (Texas) Chi cent date says, "It appear occurred to them that a: rests upon them as me body -social and. politi achieving the end (Prohil at. They seem to think they do not favor the pC by entirely constitutiona methods, in response toe fested popular sentimen1 that not only are they a any obligation to assist 1 example the eorcene9 --the will of the ieo e- far as is safe, they are at to evade it and to assist ion; that if they can make .without danger of detecti the right to do so;; that buy it from those who lawfully, if they can hel manufacture of the traf drink, they have the rig "Such a conception of and moral obligation is 1 viciously harmfully erro were sound, then the en every law would depend u every part of th pope No government, especia cratic-republican govern possibly exist effectivel conception found express ministration. If a man both the legal and mor to respect and obey the 1i enforcement of law is a ality. "Prohibition of the man sale of liquor is not the : (Continued on Pag lp s AC- a "M 1 Duse ROBERT . HENDERSON Eleanor Duse is now sixty years old, dren. . . Therefore, ladies and gentle- her face is deeply lined and her neck men, I again take great pleasure in paihfully corded, yet crities the world presenting Mr. Kenneth MacGowan over agree that even today she is the world's greatest artist. By a fortunate combination of circumstances she is able to play in Detroit for one evening, Monday, March 24, in "The Closed Door" by Marco Praga- delivering liquor exists onlyf few spots on the map:-New. San Francisco, Chicago, Boston,p like these. . . . The spirit of7 tion. which is so conspicuous int centres is absent from the. -.stretches of the country. ...' for a York,. places viola- a few great The outstanding reason, I believe, why our large cities constitute the breaks in our Prohibition dam is their large' percentage of foreign population. To the great mass of these newcomers to America, government has been synonymous with oppression,--for the. recent immigration has come mainly from Eastern and Southeastern Europe where the governments have It would be presumptous and im- pertinent on my part to write of such a brilliant personality without hav- ing witnessed her work, si I take' great pleasure-as the speakers say- in presenting the appreciation of a gentleman who, after all, is far more convincing than I am. The appear- ance of Duse is an opportunity that must not be missed, and to this end it is permissable to beg, borrow, or steal the. necessary funds to attend her performance. It is an occasion that, fifty years from now, you will be I telling your envious great-grandchil- and his article in the January number of the Theatre Arts Magazine: "Before the fifty-two weeks of 1923 are passed New York will have seen the art of the three most powerful figures of the European stage-Stan- islavsky, Duse, and Reinhardt. Two other modern women and one more woman share with them the crown of the modern theatre; Chaliapin and Isadora Duncan have been fre- quent visitors to the United States, while no stage has seen more of the Achillesian Craig than the American. Six great artists of the theatre leav- ing their impress upon our stage, and, of them all, none so impressive as the frail lady with the dun cheeks who makes us live with beauty. "Arthur Symons once spoke of Duse (Continued on Page Seven) { * * 9 Aackguards never question e origin?