PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1924 04-e ities said their investigation showed e 12 C '9% that the Inside of the hail where the n dance was held was wrecked, that the Published every morning exept Mond janitor's private vmg quarter: were juring the Universiy year by the Board mI aio' rvt iigqatrswr Control of Student Publications. broken into by couples, , and that Members of Western Conference Editorial broken whiskey bottles were found Association. all over the place. An analogy might be drawn bAtween The Associated Press is exclusively en- this and those college pat'e titled to the use for republication of all news anhhs oleepn dis tches credited to it or not otherwise which have so recently become the credited in tiis paper and the local news pub- t lished thercin. butt of criticism, just as an analogy may be drawn between high school Entered at the posofice at Ann ?arbor, cleefaentisIntelt Micl iian, astsecond class matter. Specialrate and college fraternities. In the lat- of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- ter, only the worst features are ccpicd master General. . Subscription by carrier, $3.50; by mail, -the silly mock initiations and the $4-Sices. Ann Arbor Press Building, May- use of violence, often with unhappy nard Street. results. Just so with college Phones: Editorial, 2414 and 176-M, busireut. Js so wh cleg seas, 960. "brawls." It may seem puritanical to warn students against setting a bad EDITORIAL STAFF example. That is, nevertheless, just1 Telephones 2414 and 176.M exactly what they are doing. j STD RLL musIC //- AND BLOWWINDS AND CRACKI DRAMA Y TUR CHEEKS! Forecast from the department of1 .eTHIS AFTERNOON: The organ Re- A g: culture of the United States of . -a a :5o'lc n iladioim Ameica fc Loer ichgan cital at 4 :15 o'clock in Hill auditoriuli. .America, for Lower Michigan. SNOW TONIGHT AND SUNDAY TO-MORROW IGHT: The Detroit MUCH COLDER COLD WAVE Symphony orchestra at 8 o'clock it NORTH AND EAST PORTIONS TO- Hill auditorium. NIGHT WITH MINIMUM TEN ABOVE OR LOWER STRONG; "TICKLED TO DEATH" NORTHWEST WINDS A review, by Robert Ramsay. Those who yearn most longingly for I spos you've all seen cold waves, the Opera of college life where boys haven't you? Well, there's a cold are boys, those who cry out most in- cold wave coming. The tall heckler e y o r ot msi in Row H who asks how cold is a cold sistently for a return to the musical wave is the boy who wins today's comedy where choruses naively mis- 1;,rteske. step, leads slip their cues, and cam- * * * pus satire is such as to call only for Mluch against our will, we are drawn' a faint titter from the simpering anew into the :Opera controversy. At dowagers, have their fondest hopes least the public will admit that from realized in "Tickled to Death." 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WE HAVE ALWAYS PLEASED TUTTLE'S LUNCH ROOM 338 Maynard 1 1 s p Read the Want Ads p To the Editor: now on it is a purely academic cus It is my policy to refrain from any cussion on our part, as we are neither has departed from the run they have (ha ha) detracting from the opera run, in giving, year after year, revues controversial communication to The sales, nor boosting them in the way elaborate in costume, gorgeous in Daily, buc when you permit an Indian that "A Cast Member" finds so objec- scenery, and all the million dollar student to use your column for so tionable. splendor that silver cloth and gilt4 shameful a perversion of the truth as The series of jolly fellows who sign headdress can assemble, to return to the statement by Pritam Singh in this their initials to one of the letters in the typical college play and musical morning's paper I feel compelled by Saturday's paper maintain (a) that comedy for which the alumni cry, the 'plot is unique and therefore in- with such good results as to lead one terestnga to pray fervently that the next will my protest. I took great pains while They maintain (b) that Mansfield's recall some of the old glory it is a in India to visit the courts, high and review was a vehicle 'for weak and mere copy of the Follies. Better to low, and to know first hand, not by amateurish sarcasm punctuated with imitate a peacock than to live in hearsay, the practices there. I was a few personal slams.' If Mansfield's truth, the life of a marsh hen!' review was sarcasm I am a banana Those jealous for the good name amazed at the great pains t:ikcn by salesman by birth and training. of the University, fearful of the prob- the British government to see that They further set forth the view that able effect of the Opera upon the Indians poor or rich should get a (c) 'Tu Yung, Marceline, and Nyan- moral tone of the audiences yet to see IH square deal. As to iequality of te Toy are the best parts acted. . .' its wonders, may still those vague and races before the courts, due to the They say in addition that (d)The;troubled dreams, for there is nothing tried by a jury of Indians, there was jokes that are brought in are skill- C in the whole production that would fully woven into the fabric of the shock anyone; its vulgarities are not every effort made to avoid it, and a whole.' so much crudities as lack of good commission sitting on the subject somcIrdte slc fgo whmiIo w s n therearrived ata jetho1 And that (e) 'only a weak and evil taste; its risque humor only such as to ws eed toamh mind could find anything obscene in wring tears of genuine' pity from one 1 of procedure which s tMr. satisfy this year's opera.' The Managing habitually as immovable as the tra- he a. Editor, happily, has prdclaimed us ditional sphinx. It is the kind of a A silly statement that if an indian kills normal morally, whatever that means; show that will please the alumni (God an Englishmen he is hung, but if an but if these six guys didn't see any- bless them) the kind of a show they SEnglishman kils an Indian he is onlyuthing dirty in the opera they had bet- have been begging for; in its itinerary i r_ 1 a, n __ --- .. ., _4.b+..havebee begin ; n is itner ry' DECEMBER, 1924 S M T W T F S . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 .. Notice To Students going home for the iolidays. i, . I iw HAT SALE We are closing out all Fall Hats which we have left at the following rices: ll" $3.30 Hats now .............$3.00 All $4.04 Hats now .............$3.50 All $1.50 Hats now............$3.75 i 1 i SAMUEL GOMPERS- The personification of the spirit of { American labor has passed with Sam- uel Gomners. He was practically the founder of its federation, its leader for more than forty years, and its in- spration for all time. It was Samuel Gompers who made possible the pres"- ent general understanding of labor conditions, it was he who worked un- ceasingly to keep the organization; free from the trammels of Bolshevisticj influence.1 There is much romance in the career of America's great labor leader. Born in England on January 27, 1850, he came to America when still a boy. T-.e did not, wait until maturity to be- frned$100 or given a monhsinm- ter start in reading What Every Young prisonment there is no truth in it. Man Should Know, or else have a good When Mr. Singh says that the British long talk with their mothers about ' are operating liquor houses against Things when they go home at Yule- the wishes of the natives, the only tide. truth in the assertion is that when fellows conclude their The six jolly floscnld hi followers of Gandhi gather about a letter with this (f):'All in all, an rum shop, run legally by an Indian evening at the opera is an evening native and try to drive away Indian well spent. Having seen the opera in' customers with staves, a riot ensues Ann Arbor, we miean to take the folks_ between Indians and the British gov- and our "best girls" to see it in Do-! ernment steps in and restores order, troit.' driving away the illegal picketeers. They'll probably enjoy it too. The3 If the provincial legislature in which two-thirds of the members are electedq by Indians chose .to make liquor sell- ing illegal the British government 'A Cast Member' is another one of would enforce the law. As to the these boys that bolted all his freshman absurd statement of your Indian health lectures, and consequently,' propagandist that groups of more than after working in the opera for two five students are not permitted to talk months, is still of the opinion that the politics, I have myself repeatedly sat jokes are based on material to be in the midst of groups of fifteen or found in Mother Goose and The; twenty Indian students, and heard Youth's Companion. According to thisj them arraign the British government astute laddie, the opera 'stands on its about the neighboring cities it should meet with much approval for it pic- tures the type of people which the alumni fondly imagine themselves to have been back in the halcyon (lays' of the glory of Jo's'; they will Lail it as delightfully college in atmosphere, naive in presentation; that will be their judgment looking back upon the span of years and coloring their life here with a golden hue, while we as contemporaries see only the silly humor, the poorly trained choruses, and it all reminds us unaccountably of our senior play in the high school. Well, they have it. Their prayer has been answered as suddenly and effectually as Nyan Toy's, and unless we mistake there will be a reversion next year to the old type of billionj dollar fashiontarray. There can be no great play of college life, we are too near it to see any of the golden haze that surrounds it in the alumnus { -7....,. 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It was with this in Nothing could be more untrue, and it 'i1d thst be insisted on conservatism, any fair-minded person has a doubt, o paseK vioa t f a< .i rts, jot hi rego tn the eCneral Thrc h re, as , me a ser , opp