TOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
23,
[CIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE
1NITERSITY OF MICRIGAXN
variably these organizations have had
*orthy aims and have, at least in the
earlier parts of their careers, done
some real good. But if their opera-
tions are kept completely secret, dis-
aster sooner or later overtakes them.
'uhlished every morning except Monday The Ku Klux Klan is, we believe
ing the University y.ar by the Board in
rttol of Student Publications. intended to be just such an institu-
tion as these former vigilantes, per-
6ricb'ers of Western Conference Editorial'
bociation. sE haps a little wider in scope and or-
"-inganization than any of its predeces-
he Associated Press is exclusi ely en- Isors. dt the secrety which has veil-
ed to the use for republication of all news sr.Btheeruywhchavel
atchest credited to it or not otherwise ed their acts as well as their motives
dited in this paper and the local news pub-
ed therein. has brought them into a disrepute
which makes them practically ruined
:ntere,! at the postoffce at Ann Arbor,
higan, as second class matter. Special rate as a law supporting factor in Amer-
postage granted by Third Assistant I'cstj can life. Recently efforts have been
ster <,eneral. di
ubscrietion by carrier, $3.50; by msii, iade to counteract these influences by
O Ann Arbor Presi Building, May- publishing their official code and by
Sws:et o ad 6M; Bosi- admitting, in certain cases, acts per-
s, 9.4. >_ - __- _ formed by their authorized agents
But this comes too late. Rumor has
ignedl comnmufications, niot exceedin 300
e willhe published in The Daily at alleged too many false and undesir-
oi,,retion of tc nEditor.swUil ruclre able motives to the Klan; suspicion
ded asconfidential. has credited to their name too many
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DEDICATED TO
E. REE
In the hour of our need, when we
have even given up reading our own
col at breakfast, comes this:
As was my old friend Omar
I'm addicted to the vine.
But I don not ask for Liquor-
Ivy's poems are my wine.
So let's have more of Poison,
For I like the way he howls.
There is only one who's better:
Mr. Jason K. K. Kowles.
The poor old sickly darling!
But he's clever with his pen-
Is he kidding Prohibition
Or the clever Harvard men?
The thing that makes them toasted
Is the fire of his wit.
But the thing that gives them fla-
vor
Is the mystery in it.
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Whose hair was brilliant blue;
And why she couldn't get a date
She never never knew.
That's the
Halitosis.
insidious thing about
Diaries and Desk Calendars
Mr. Jason Cowles.
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CAMPOS OPINION
CHOOSING THE OPERA BOOK j
To the Editor:
An article in the January 3 issue
of The Alumnus calling for the es-
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GRAH AM'S
BOTH ENDS OF THE DIAGONAL WALK
EDITORiAL STAFF
T'eliepbOnels, 2414 and 176-M
MANAGING EDITOR
HARRY D. HOEYI
ws itor................. Tiian E. NMs:k.
itori' Buard Chairman...: RC. Moriarty
r Editor.............. G. CGarlinghouse
Night Editors
H. Ailes A. ii. Connable
A. Billingron j. E. F'iskte
ry C Clark P. M. Wagner
ts Editor.........----.Ralph N. Iers
ltn sEdituf.... ..Winona Hibbard
egra h Editor............ . B. 'la r
day Magazire Editor......F. IA. Tilen
sic Editr.............Ruth A Howell
istant City Editor......Kenneth C. Kellar
E-lvtnri l Board
acts unwortny of tneir true mews.
The threatening letters received by
two students recently illustrate this
There seems to be little doubt but
that the Klan officially had nothing to
do with the sending of these churlish
notes. Yet the secrecy which they
maintain leaves the mind of every cit-
izen open to doubt. In short, the Klan
acts merely as a shield for unprin-
cipled persons to wreak their petty
vengeances. -As long as this condition
exists the Klan can be of no real ben-
efit to the community.;
REUNIONS
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ul Einstein Wn?ert Ramnsay.I' From the point of view of alumni
Andrew Propper R j organization, this year, and especially
Assistantst
G. Baeteke R. S. Mansfieldta ootball season hasbe a
N. Berkman E. C. M-(,k notable one so far. All of° the local
len Brown Verena Moran
rnalette Cte Regina RichmAnh organizations n have been working at
W. Dazis "I. It Stonemran full speed to bring ,about this desired
rold Ehrli'd' H. R. Stone
C. Fingerle K. ,. Styer result-The Alumnus, the Athletic as-
P. Henry N. 1 Thai bsociation, The Daily, and others-and
r Kugr W. J. Waitour have succeeded well.
izab-th Lieberman Probably never in the history of thel
SI S FUniversity has there been such a na-
BUSINESS STAFF tionwide support of an athletic team
Telephone 960 Associations held get-togethers from#
Spokane, Washington, to Los Angeles
So dedicate your columnI
To the K.K.K. no more
But to humor as presented
In dear Jason's comic lore.
E. Ree.
F. R"e.
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SHORT STORY
Two fleas sat alone in a room. The
one, a young flea in the prime of life,
still handsome and slender; the oth-
er, aged a trifle, his hair graying over
the temples, his figure no longer slim.
The young flea looked out of the
window with a sigh. "Beastly day,"
he observed, turning to his compan-
ion.
The elder flea started, then, recol-
lecting himself, answered gravely, "Oh
yes, quite."
There was a tension in the room-
undefinable, impalpable-but it was
there. The young flea evidently want-
ed to say something to the other-but
he held himself in check.
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tablishment of a $250 prize for Union
opera writers in order to obtain bet- The D.ily rather than to The Alum- sum of 3 billion dollars." Gentlemen labor's espousal of the capital levy
ter books has come to my attention nus (in which the prize article ap- in Washington who want the United and nationalism. Ramsay McDonald's
As the contributor of a book of the rec- peared) because I feel that it applies States to "do something" for Europe wings will be clipped without cere-
ent past, I am distinctly in favor of more largely to the campus than tc should look over these calculations. mony, if he attempts to fly too far
the suggestion. the alumni body as a whole. * * * in the pursuance of his t poli
As Donal Hamilton Haines pointed The communication is not an apol- Now that labor i3 at last in the con-
out in the Alumnus article, student ogy for past opera writers. It is ra-
trol of things, and the excitement ov- iAlINANABRBSLN
publications recompense members of ther an explanation of their minorr ttt - AD N-ANN AR BO BUS
their staffs who hold responsible po- impotance in coenetin with the r the pending crisis has for a large Central Time (Slow Time)
sitions. Certainly the same reward Mimes production as now constituted part died away, we venture to guess Week Days Sundays
for effort should be extended to OP- As long as the book is secondary to that England will go on in the same ;:45 P. M.6:45 P .
era writers, whether the money come the review in the opera their position way and that few p0o1le will remember JAS. H. ELLIOTT, Proprietor
from alumni, who have already paid will remain the same. that Ramsay Mclonald is now prime Nhoae o- AdianE
Broadway prices to see the opera, or The suggestion in regard to the minister. There can be no sharp turn
whether it come from the Michigan choice of the manusdript, however, is about, for though I-aborites and Llb-
Union which receives the proceeds of one which can be acted upon. A def- erals are united for the present in P ANYWIIEItE, RUT
the production. inite understanding must be reached their opposition to protection, the eon -,E .A.EREX'S
I do not believe, however, that ma- with the Michigan Union as to what servatives and liberals are equally EAT 'AT REI
terial benefit will result from the is the agency for the selection of strong in their opposition to protec- THE CLUB;LUNCh
prize offer under the present condi-books submitted by students. tion. the conservatives and liberals are r 712 Arbor Street
tions governing the opera. My rea- Edwin R. Meiss, '23. equally strong in their opposition t- ea State and Packard Streets
sons for this belief are:
1. The production as at present
constituted requires limitations in!
setting and plot and alterations in YEST ERD A Y
completed books which make a sat-I
isfactory book practically impos- By SM1YTHIE
sible. ~ ~
2. If writers are to compete for a Cheerful Figures 1he e r1totfr
rize they must be assured that on M. Henri La Fontaine, Vice-Presi-
person or committee will -be the ul- detoLh ega Snt none
dent of the Belgian Senate announcest
timate judge of the manuscripts, chobs his own profit and loss account of
Ing according to the rules of the com- the World War. Counting every sol
petition. This Is not the case at pres dier killed, he told the Belgian Sen- }
ent. !ate the other day, as worth 100,000
Mr. Haines wrote the 1909 Mimes gold francs of capital destroyed, and
production, if-I am not mistaken. He each mutilated soldier at half that
knows that at that time, when finances Ium a dnsolia fas
were limited, the play depended upon aew debts and another 150 billion
comedy of plot and dialogue, togeth- francs for reparations, he estimates the
er with the effectiveness of songs,.for cost of the war to Great Britain
its success. But the day of finan- Fa c nIIay at 16 io
cial difficulties is past. There has France and Italy at 1065 billion
been no strong opera book since cos- ranes.
tumes and dancing became the pri- Perhaps some statesman will carry
mary' phases of the production.Pehpsoesasmnwlcry
The fact mut be aced that te book this farther. Assuming that the Un- Home
ited States gained something from the : We Specialze
while it requires sustained and tediouswaan wa evnpras aedPrriso Dstcio
e~f t se rsstn eo war and was even perhaps saved -
effort, is not longer, an important part fromdestrctionby is outome, ome
of the Mimes production. The Alum- from destruction by its outcome, some
nus itself, in a review of "Cotton one might suggest that a balance be
Stockings", said that the merits of struck between such estimate as that
Charles Sword's story may never be given above and the estimate of the
fully ascertained so deeply buried United States calculated on the same-
was it in a round of musical and re- basis. If this were done, as one writ- HONE-598121EWASNGTO
er suggests, "it would be found that
ew nmers the opera are told that this country owed Europe the tidy
the book is the peg on which to hang
musical numbers. A superior book
cannot exist under the circumstances.
Before it appears on the opening night
motivating scenes will have been
slashed to make room for review num-
bers. In one case the entire climax
was removed and replaced by a kiss
The author has often been more dis-
appointed than the audience.
This is not an adverse criticism ofa1
the present Mimes production. Its!y
popularity and success are its own
jsiiaina C t 's s e C l a
BUSINESS MANAGER
LAURENCE H. FAVROT
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Assistants
. W. Campbell I.dw. ID. Hoedemaker
aenne Caplan N. E. Holland
has. Champion M, L. Ireland
Ionn Conlin Harold A. Marks
ouis M. Dexter Myron Parke k
oseph J. FA i 11. M. Rockwell
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Lauren Haight A. J. Seidman
H. L.. Hale Will veise
K. E. Hawkinson f;. C. White
L. C. Winter;
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1924
Night Editor-PHILIP M. WAGNER.
California, to get the reports from
the big games last fall. In Chicago
Detroit, and a number of other cities
large gatherings witnessed gridgraph
or telegraph representations of all of
the conference contests of the season
In Chicago there is an alumni lunch-'
eon held every week throughout the
year. A number of California associ-
ations have been especially active dur-
ing the year.
Every game, whether in Ann Ar-
bor or away found hosts of loyal alum-
ni in the rooting sections. The re-
cent success of the Opera trip is an-
other witness to the interest which the
alumni throughout the east and west
are showing in their alma rhater. Re-
ports from Chicago indicate that the
large body of Michigan graduates in
the great western metropolis will turn
out generously in support of the Uni-
versity Glee club when it engages in
the annual intercollegiate competition
there soon.
Poem
I would not swear a faint oath,
I never use a quaint oath,
The one complaint against my oats
is that they blue the air.
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It's hard to demonstrate because y
can't print what I swear.
Arnould, Duke of Winterbottom
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GENTLE CRITICISM
While the editorial, "A Friendly
r_ ~tii4a -idl from The Yale
Cowles was razzed yesterday in
staff meeting for his bon bon on Flam-
ing Youth. It was vulgar, showed a
decided lack of taste, and was gen-
erally offensive. We weren't at the
meeting ourself, and no one else flew
to our defense, so we stand convicted
in the eyes of all our colleagues. We
feel utterly friendless and alone, and
here comes examinations. But we still
blow our nose bravely and face the
world with a cheery smile. . . .
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Boom11erang ppge L u . k
News and recently run in the col-
umns of The Daily, might easily pass
without comment as a piece of ignor-
ant, provincial bally-hooing, the com-!
ment that it has aroused on the Mich- +
igan campus seems to call for some
expression in the editorial columns.
The editorial of The News was in-f
spired by a previous editorial ap-
pearing in The Chicago Tribune call-
ed "The Soft East", in which The,
Tribune writer attacked Walter
Camp's selection of an All-Americanl
football team using Yale and Mich-
igan for his comparisons. The writ-
er in The Yale News takes this op-j
portunity to hurl an insult at thel
University of Michigan, charging her
with roaring loudly "about a real orl
supposed injustice," and using manyI
other terms which, in spite of the
heading on the article, cannot be tak-,
en in a friendly way. '
Michigan has held her head high
.enough to keep from bickering with
any athletic writer, coach, or school;
over how good or how bad her ath-
letic teams are. Never has any criti-
cism of Mr. Camp's selections been
voiced publicly at Michigan and none
ever will. Michigan is satisfied with
the work of her football eleven dur-
ing the past season and doesn't care
who else is aatisfied or dissatisfied. If
Yale feels there was something'wrong
in Walter Camp's selections, then she
is certainly justified in shouting as
loudly as possible to cover up the
mistakes out, if her anger is arous-
ed simply by The Chicago Tribune ed-;
itorial, her response should be direct- k
ed to that paper and not to tho Uni-
versity of Michigan who had no more!
to do with the editorial in question!
than did Yale herself.
If Yale is "sitting back with her fin-
gers crossed," Michigan is sitting
back laughing. There is always some-
thing funny about crossed fingers:
~,,rh .. rn .Mr t hai +i-, nno.a in
Amherst boasts a record in the class
of 1884 which has held at least one'
meeting or dinner every year since
that date. With the system which is
now being used by the association
here and the continued cooperation of
our alumni body, Michigan will soon
have a number of records to equali
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From the files of the U. of M. Daily.,
Jan. 23, 1899.
The big University telescope has
been turned on Mars for the past few'
days and students and professors arc
busy watching the people up there dig!
canals. The planet is only about 60,-
000,000 miles from the earth.
The latest plans for the interior ar-
rangement of the recent addition tc
the library of the University divides
the upper floor of the book vault into
six compartments. Three of these will
contain respectively, the McMillan
Shakespeare library, the Concord col-
Yesterday afternoon, while we
should have been debating in our own
defense in staf meeting, we took in
the "current attraction" at the Ar-
cade theater-a fillum of the name of
"The Wanters". We spent the whole
time trying to figure out just what
was wanted, and decided at the end
that it was the book of etiquette.
The plot was a novel affair dealingI
with the troubles of a rich young so-
ciety dook that married a poor but
justification. Outside of actual bal-
let I have never seen better dancing
than that which took place in "Cot-
ton Stockings". Production also was
splendid, and action smooth. If this
type of play is most desirable, let us;
keep it. But then we must resign
ourselves to weaknesses of plot and
dialogue which come with it.
While many of the best writers of
the campus have not turned out for
opera competition during the past
some of them have. Their efforts
have met with no better success than
those of others. I recall one man in
particular-a successful writer for
professional magazines (he has since!
written a novel)-whose manuscript
failed to gain favor with the choosers
of the opera book. This brings me te
my second point.
Who chooses the book? Before of-
fering a prize it would be valuable to
ascertain this. Last year 25 try-outs
entered an "official" competition for
the opera book of 1923-4. They first
wrote plots, all but four of which
were cast out by a committee of
judges. Then, with the assurance that
the final book would be chosen from
a work built up on one of these four
plots, the 25 men began writing man-
uscripts based on these plots.
Without reflection upon the :ability
of this year's author, whose book I
believe o be very cieditable con-
sidering the limitations imposed upon
him, "Cotton Stockings" embodies one
of the plots originally eliminated from
the competition by the book commit-'
tee. Who chooses the book? Twen-
ty five writers, who wasted their time
in an emnty comntition n astillI
for luncheon and dinner
to-day. 35c.
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lection, and the Stearns collection of proud maid. His family, strangely
musical scores. One will be devot- enough, opposed the match, and when
ed to maps, another to photographs they were once married, started to
and engraving and a third to rare and discourage him in a most ingenious
valuable works which it is desirable way. (Try and guess it,) They threw
to withdraw from general circula- a formal party for the bride and
tion. the groom. Adn what do you think?
The just married maid started tc
When We Get It
We Get It, Out
A prominent member of the Law
faculty yesterday visited a clinic in
the Medical department, and modestly
took a seat near the back of the am-
phitheatre. After the operation had:
been in progress for some minutes
the law professor evidently un-accus-
tomed to such scenes fainted. One
of the feminine memher% of the elac
shake hands with someone that had
just been introduced to her. Her hus-
band threw her a disparaging glance
and she bawled and ran up stairs.
Then she left the house and caught
her ankle in the railroad track across
the street, after telling her husband'
that she was through d'ye understand
through And then the train stnrted
We realize that it is often necessary for a firm to get printing
done quickly. We do not believe that, in the case of the rush
order, it is necessary to sacrifice GOOD Printing for speed.
Considering the speed on this kind of jobs we have done, the
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