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in a system more fair to the organiza-
tions and to their prospective pledges,
and is cognizant of certain things es-
sential to its success. First, any ac-
tion on the matter should be initiated
by the fraternities themselves, most
of whom are now ready for a change
of some kind. In promoting .and or-F
ganizing such .a proposition the in-
terfraternity council would be given
a definite object which serve as a re-£
vivifying spark so necessary to its
future welfare. Second, the rules1
should not be so ridiculously strict
as to make their observance imprac-!
ticable. Third, the principle of de-
ferred pledging is the only one upon
which a workable plan can be built.
An examination of the situation in-
dicates that the best plan would be
one which would permit no pledging
unit the second semester, which
would regulate rushing in such a wa
that it would not make too large a
expense for the fraternities, and which
would have regulations and penalties
exercised by a central body such as
the interfraternity council. The Daily
advocates such a plan, but is princi-
pally anxious that some concerted ac-
tion be started immediately that will
lead to an improvement of the situa-
tion.
THE FLYERS COME HOME
When the three American around-
the-world fliers landed at Sand Point
field, Seattle, at 1:36 o'clock Sunday
afternoon, they completed the first
around-the-world flight ever attempt-
ed. Their achievement has no parallel
in history.
flight ever attempted. Their achieve-
ment has no p:arallel in history.
The history of their flight, almost
from the first, has been a story of
hardships endured, of almost insur-
mountable obstacles overcome. They
have dared blizzards of the frozen
north in their frail craft; they have
crossed treacherous tropical seas;
they have traversed vast deserts,
when some mechanical mishap must
have meant death; they have feared
to jump huge expanses of the ocean.
From the first day to the last, they
have been in constant danger.
The successful completion of their
flight is a tribute, first of all to the
bravery of the three aviators and their
mechanics, without whom, after all,
the epoch-making flight might never
have been accomplished. It is a tri-
bute, secondly, to American mechan-
ical genius-that planes have been
produced which can stand the intense
rigors or Artic cold and tropical heat.
It is a tribute, thirdly, to the govern-
ment which had the foresight to plan
and finance the trip, to sanction it
officially.
There is no doubt that within a
few years-no one can tell how many
-around-the-world flights will be not
at all uncommon. Progress is contin-
ually being made in the science of
aeronautics. It is entirely likely that
such flights may be undertaken on a
commercial scale within the next gen-
eration.
But the flight of these three men,
with their assistants, will long live
as the marking point of a new step
in the progress of transportation.
Long after around-the-world flights
are common the names of Lieutenants
Smith, Wade and Nelson will be linked
with thatofMagellan-trail blazers
all in the history of civization.
.Y, SEPTEMBER 30,
1924
ht Editor-THOS. P. HENRY, JR..
DEFERRED PLEDGING
here is no university in the coun-
without its rushing problem; in
at no institution of any size and
ortance can the question be said to
e been completely solved. Most
rersities of the country employ the
.e unorganized method in use here
Vichigan and in every case there
gitation for a change .These are
facts concerning that phase of
ernity life which is the basis of all
t is best and worst in the organiza-
s.
t Wisconsin where they have some
Bing rules there are constant vio-
ons, even as there are at Michi-
'Minnesotais attempting to solve
tangle by a recorse to deferred
Lging the trial still being in the
e of experiment. Cornell has or-
ized through its interfraternity
2cil a set of rules which regulate
once extent at least the time when
may be extended and the plan
worked with a degree of success.
tiouth, Yale, and Williams seem
e the only institutions of learning
ch have definitely sipeceded in
rcing rushing regulations and de-
ed pledging, and there is no doubt
this success is due largely to
r small size.
i the University there is an ex-
ile of regulated rushing which
ild serve as an example to fra-
ities. The sorority system is bet-
than that used by the men, but it
icking all of the essentials of suc-
It has passive sanction of the
pen, but it is admitted by all con-
ed that rules are broken when-
possible. One sorority on the,
pus has been given a severe pen.
by the Pan-Hellenic council for
ged violation of a rule, but this
e sorority declares that it could.
luce evidence which would incrim-
e anyone of the more prominent
sea. During this season, another
rity has been fined, at least two
been warned for violations, and
e is no organization that has not
its share of infringing on the
s. Such a system cannot be con-
rud a ccoss. Either the rules
impos ibly trict Or the persons'
i they in iohe do not consider
Sworth obeying.
ichigan fraternities could not
ider such a plan because rushing
ng such a shcrt period would fail
accomplish anything more than
er existing conditions. The ex-
e to which sororities recourse to
le prospective pledges is an added
ire which places rushing on a
e of formal artificiality and en-,
a heavy financial obligation on
part of members. Fraternities
d not give formal dances and
EDITORIAL COMMET
OUR OWN RUSH
Once more the Latin quarter has
gone through a hectic period of hectic
rushing. It appears that every organi-
zation has emerged from it success-
fully from their own standpoints; it!
also appears that practically no or-
ganization has emerged successfully
from the standpoint of the university
and fair rushing.
Last fall a serious charge was
brought against fraternities by the
National Inter-fraternal council which
accused fraternities b of injuring stu-
dent life and of providing no ecuse for
their existence. Its charge was an-
swered and answered well. This year
no similar accusation .has been
launched. Nationally the answer
seems to have satisfactory.
Locally, however, another charge
may be made and it is doubtful wheth-
er it can be answered. Practically
every fraternity man who is frank
with himself must acknowledge that
every rushing brule was disobeyed
grossly duringthe ,recentrseason.
Fireshmen were lodged in fraternity
houses, freshmen were pledged before
-and frequently long before -they
registered. It might be expected that
members of honorary societies-Iron
Cross, for instane--would be the
kind of men that would be bound to
abide by rushing rules. But it appears
that they are not, and It seems only
too evident that if they will not obey
the rules no one else will.
hat Is the matter? Obviously
something is radically wrong. If ev-
ery rushing rule is discarded by gen-
eral consent of the fraternities, where
is the sense of having such rules?
But some rules must exist, some regu
14tons to control rushing. Otherwise
the system will become even more
cut-throat than it is at present. Fra-
ternities will end by putting buttons
on new-born babies if things continue
as they are'.
Last spring, a week before the close
of the semester, a group of students
interested in improving rushing con-
ditions met together. The upshot of it
all was that a letter was sent out
to every fraternity, asking if it would
join a gentleman's agreement not to
practice hot-boxing, station rushing
or boarding trains outside of the city
in order to meet rushees, providing
that 80 percent of the organization
agreed. Favorable replies were received
from 33 fraternities, only a little more
than 50 percent and the matter went
by the board, for then it was too late
to make another move.
But the move was a step in the right
direction and should lead to more ac-
a tion this year. The Inter-fraternity
council on the campus is dead, defunct,
quite forgotten. It has been for several
years and operated only a few years
after it was founded way hack in
1908. Something must take its place or
the situation will go beyond the power
of recovery. It might be rebuilt on
firmer soil.
In fact, the entire rushing system
might well be rebuilt. This year Min-
nesota established a deferred rushing
system whereby no freshman can be
pledged until the end of the first
quarter. It still remains to be seen
how successful Minnesota will be. But
it is beyond a shadow of .a doubt that
other institutions, Yale -and Dart-
mouth and many others, find the de-
ferred system profitable in every
way.
What; of the deferred system? Sup-
pose fraternities here, had a gentle-
man's agreement that no freshman
should be pledged until the end of the
first semester. Then they would have
an apportunity to make sure of the
type of men they were pledging, Aud
the freshmen would have four months
to look over the organizations on the
campus and make up their minds.
Obviously written university rules.
are useless and absurd on the face of
them. Wisconsin men are gentlemen
it must be granted, and therefore the
university written rules might be
supplanted with student-made unwrit-
ten gentlemen's agreements to ad-
vantage., Obviously man's power of siz-
ing up fellew beings is not great
enough to enable fraternities to chose
their rushees or rushees to chose their
fraternities infallibly. For the sake
of the freshmen as well as the rushees
the deferred rushing system ought to
be established.
But some fast rushing will have to
be done if the changes-are to be made
and made successfully in order that
it can be put into operation for next
year before conditions become more
stinking than they have been this
year,
-Daily Cardinal.
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Paul, as you know, has something
tending to elephantitus; he is next
to tremendous. Paul in a bathing suit,
for instance, is hardly a sight for
the gods. His conducting has some-
thing of that casual,, sophisticated
nonchalance that made Balieff irre-
sistable. Outwardly there is nothing
to indicate rime, rythm, or reason,
about his leadership, ,and the only
possible clue is a slight Gild~a-Grey
titillation of the right calf, a silly
syncopated shiver in the outer leg.
It is the Jazz-mad symbol of his edu-
cated rag-time blues.
Mr. Whiteman does not burlesque
his modern music, but, like a ruth-
less rinmgmaster, he puts it through
every gruelling exercise known to the
most rigidly classical symphony or-
chestra. His players, in fact, are
nothing less than symphony ,artists,
technique and all, on a dry-drunk.
As you know, or should be ashamed
if you do not, he, Paul Whiteman that
is, himself and in person-some
people still doubt that it is the origi-
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A SOUTH AIMIERICAN FRIEND
"The United States has a great
friend in Argentina," was a state-
ment made recently by the president
of this South.American republic in an
interview with a correspondent of
The Christian Science Moniter. There
are few matters of American foreign
diplomacy which will be more remun-
erative commercially and economic-
ally to the United States than a re-
ciprocation of this friendly attitude.
The present policy of the United
States is to treat the satin Americanl
countries as a diplomatic unit, giving
to Argentina the same consideration
as to Haiti. While there is no official
objection to this . policy from our
South American neighbors, it is theii
constant hope that the United States
will see the desirability of more indi-
vidualistic relations with them, as a
first rate commercial power.
Argentina is today, next to Canada
and the United States, the leading na-
tion in the New World. What America
has gained in a commercial way
through amity with the Dominion can
be gained in similar fashion through
friendship with Argentina. During
the war, w i t h t h e closing of
European markets and the restric-
tion of European trade, intercommer-
cial activity between the two countries
gained a valuable impetus. Argentina
today offers our cheapest source of
numerous commodities, and is a con-
vienent market. As the Argentinian
president points out, the two great
commercial powers of the Americas
are now the nearest of neighbors, b -
cause of modern methods of transpor-
tation and communication. The future
of Argentina trade as a factor of
economic importance to the United
nal product who is to appear--with his
orchestra of twenty-five will play in
Hill Auditorium under the auspices
of the Ann Arbor branch of the Amer-
ican Association and so forth of Uni-
versity Women, Tuesday evening,
Ostober 7, at eight o'clock,
The house, of course, will be packed
-everybody admits that-and for tbo
excellent reason that the program
promises tor.be very genuinely inter-
esting. There'is only one Paul White--
man and there is only one Paul White-
man concert: it is sensational, but it.
is never pure jazz, tin-pan pande-
monium; it represents a definite,
progressive spirit in typical American
music, but it is anything rather than
the average sentimental, mush-mouth
sheet music. It is clashing, sour,
negroid, and above all contagiously
exciting.
Incidenlally, Paul Whiteman will
bring gall his scenic and lighting equip-
ment with him this time. There is a
rich; tapestried velvet cyclorama, each
Sindividual design being outlined in
rhinestones, and there is also a com-
plicated series of red and white, es-
pecially white *platforms, backed in
turn by three red and white flats rep-
resenting some species of convention-
al potted palm.
Possibly this, too, may or should
attract you.
COEDY CLUB
There will be a business meeting
of Comedy Club, the first of their
year, this evening in Sarah Caswell
Angell Hall, at seven-thirty o'clock.
All members, as. usual, are urged to
be present.
vancement, and forsaw new achieve-
ments in the near future.
P. R. dePont i announces that all
applicants for the Choral Union will
be examined by Prof. Stanley at the
school of music both morning and af-
ternoon. An unusual season is fore-
casted.
The best hat that can be bought
on the market is advertised at Wad-
hams for exactly three dollars.
Pink Bros. will open the University
IDancing Academy with a social hop
at Nickols Hall, 334 and 336 S. State
St. tomorrow evening. Dancing will be
from 8:30 until 11:30 with ladies
complimentary.
The Varsity will engage in battle
with Hillsdale on the morrow. This
is the opening game of the season,
and because of the fact that the team
has not had sufficient time to get into
real shape, they will find Hillsdale a
rather trying proposition. It will un-
doubtedly be a good game.
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