PA2 E FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH 22. 112"t , f Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Members of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republicatio'a of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherw,se credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished therein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $3.50; by mail, 1 $4.60, Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 2414 and 176-M; busi- ness, g6o. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephones 2414 "nd 176-3[ MANAGING EDITOR PHILIP M. WAGNER Editor... ....... .. "John G. Garlinghouse News Editor............Robert G. Ramsay City editor...........Manning Houseworth Might Editors feorge W. Davis Harold A. Moore Thomas P. Henry Fredk. K. Sparrow, Jrn Kenneth C.iKeller Norman R. Thal Sports Editor......... William H. Stoneman Sunday Editor..........Rouert S. Mansfield, Women's hditor..............Vernea Moran Telegraph kditor....William . Walthour Assistants Louise Barle~y Ilelen S. Ramsay Marion Barlow Regina Reichmann Leslie S. Bonnets Marie Reed Smith Cady Jr. Edmarie Schrauder Willard B. Crosby Frederick H. Shillito Valentine L. Davies C. Arthur Stevens J~ ames W. F ernamberg Marjory Sweet oseph 0. Gartner Herman Wise aaninr Houseworth Eugene H. Gutekunst Elizabe A S. Kennedy Robert T. DeVore out before reaching the end of such a lengthy name.I "UP Y, E Al)1" 1.The story of the relation of Alsace- Lorraine to France is one of the most dramatic in the world's history. For many decades there has been an ar- dent loyalty to the mother ccuntry, and nearly lifty years of German domination failed to stifle tha devotion to French ideals so characteristic of the people. Innumerable instancesI are related of sacrifice to the cause. of union. A Catholic clergy was un- tiring in its efforts to kep alive in the masses the spark of hope for a re- newal of intimate contact between the two peoples. With the conclusion of the Great War came the realization of all these hopes and the opening of the golden chapter in the life of the Alsaciens- Lorrains. An amalgamation almost without parallel was brought about.) In the months immediately following the reunion, there were unavoidablel misunderstandings, both because of the long separation and the lack of easy means of 'communication with the French capital, but at no time was there any serious friction. Mutual concessions resulted in the passage I of many laws without preliminary public discussion. Indeed it is said by competent judges that the single parliament of 1919-24 accomplished, under conditions sometimes extremely Elizabesh Liebermanu itanley C. Crihton Winfield R. Line Leonad C.H al difficult, a legislative and administ'ra Carl E. Ohlmacher Thomas V Koykka tive assimilation of a scolpe probably Wiliam C. Patterson Lillias K. Wagner without parallel in parliamentary an- BUSINESS STAFF nals. Telephone 960 Into the very vitals of this union, the Herriot government hurled a min- BUSINESS MANAGER isterial missive which threatens to undo all that has been accomplished Adverting....................1C. . Winter As a mayor, who was among the most AdvertisigH.................... A. Marks ardent od French patriots during the Advertising.........B. W. Parker Accomts... ...1. M. Rockwell war, recently declared: "France is 'iculationJohn Conlin committingSuicide in Alsace!" The P'ublication .....................R. D. Martin cmitn u(iei lae Assistants trouble began last June when the WP. WArdW K . ullint ministry, throwing tact to the winds, I. M .Alving H. L. Newmann announced the rapid and total linifi- ruoph Bsteman R. M. Prntesad cation of all laws and institutions. 11.. r. Clark W. C. Pusch T C. Consroe . D. Ryan The resentment aroused by this . R. cntre N. Rosezweig declaration has been aggravated, by .e C.leJhnson IE. a berg the recent suppression of the French 0. A. Jose, Jr. F. K. Schoenfeld embassy to the Vatican, literally di~ K. K. Klein I. J. Winemane viding the nation into two districts. The people of Alsace and Lorraine, reiterrating their loyalty to France, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1925 have in enormous public demonstra- tions announced their firm resolve to Night lditor-HAROLD A. MOORE resist measures designed to interefere with their religious and political free- A INE W 3IUTHPIECEdom as citizens of the Republic. Rep- It has been announced that the resentative of the feeling against the Journalism department will publish, present regime and the proposed for the remainder of the school year, changes is 'a protest issued by the a weekly devoted to editorials and General Council of that portion of feature material. The weekly, which Alsace which was occupied by French is rianed "The Michigan Journalist," soldiers from August. 7, 1914, on: will be full newspaper size and four "Thousands of French soldiers pages. fell upon the battlefields of Al- If the venture is conducted proper- sace. Our people know full well ly, a permanent place among Mich- that these martyrs did not give lp igan publications should be found for their lives to permit a hand of it, because there is a decided need fanatics to violate our loyal and here at Michigan for a small sheet pious province. To the soldiers devoted entirely to comment. Its who died in Alsace and who sleep value to the Journalism students as a their last sleep in our plains and practical laboratory is undoubted; our mountains, we cry-')Up ye indeed, the chief drawback of the dead!' ". school as it is now conducted has been While it is difficult for Americans the lack of any such practice-ground. to understand completely the reasons Many doubt the value of a Journal- for M. Herriot's action, it must be ap- ism school, feeling that there is little parent at least that the step was un- about the "profession" which merits wise. The fact that Protestans, Jews, academic instruction; but, whether a and Catholics of the province are Journalism school is worth its salt or united in their determination and that not, it is a silly spectacle indeed if religious strife has been renewed it has no journal wherein to display should be sufficient causp for con- the results of its labors. It is like a demnation both of the new policy and horn without any mouthpiece, an or- of the abrupt termination of Papal gan without bellows, relations. As a general thing, the The arrival of the first issue of this acts of the present ministry have been new journalistic endeavor is awaited wise and have tended to promote the with interest by the campus at large, interests of local and world peac0. and with a feeling of mingled anxiety The move affecting Ahsace-Lorraine and eagerness (we suppose) by mem- is in direct contradiction to this. It bers of the 'journalisn faculty. The bears all the earmarks of an uncalled- subject which will be stressed in the for tyranny. first issue is "The University Health Service." If the Journalism students The real secret of the high scholar- can find anything stimulating to say ship records made during the summer about this important but rather color- session is the fact that the student less accessory to college life, we shall body is made up of two classes: those extend ourb hertiest congratulations. who have to go to sinlumer school to get a few credits and the school teach- IRKSOME AGRARIANIS N ers who are brushing up a bit on their An established tradition is a prize own initiative. forever. Especially is this true on We wonder what Dr. Lovell thinks the avere campus of the middle or of the Chimes effort to determine what far western college or university the policies of the new president of where the Coolidge economy program the University should be. has nothing on the tenacity with which the students cling to an old custom. In fact, many of these in- CAMPUS OPINION stitutions resort to thoroughly arbi A onvmnns enmmnications wil he Idirgarried. "rhe names of coniuni- tray mynethods and summarily declare ants will, however, be regarded as the establishment of some coveted confidential upon reuest. practice. Not so with otir co-students at xL To the Editor: A. C. where, instead of being proud lThe Daily of March 21 contains a of the distinction of being the first letter (Letter No. 2) by Professor F. agricultural college in the United W. Pawlowski, stating that "the Polish States, they are clamoring for a new and other European students are not name which would obliterate the in sympathy with the Friendship Fund agrarian touch now considered irk- Movement, which they regard as some cleverly veiled German-lolshevik Those who have been prophesying propoganda." its accept a nce failed to reckon with Judging by the tone of the letter, the state legislature which numbers Professor Pawlowski shares that opin- on its roll many farm-made men rep-|ion. Now in view of the fact that I. 0AL OLL P 20 DAYS (' G- 11. G. Wells, in his new book, "A Year of Prophesying," says that after writing a series of articles in a year, and having to turn them out when they were called for, he has acquired a great hatred of periodicity-and a coincident admiration of journalists. But let me tell you, gentle readers, that H. G. doesn't know the half of it. He wrote, I think, about seventeent articles in his "year of prophesying"-I and seventeen articles a year look likeI Heaven to a boy who knocks off threet columns a -week-or six, as last year.1 The difficulty of writing three col- umns a week is borne home to us par- ticnlarly hard this evening, because we have absolutely no idea where the next 17 inches are coming from. It is a good place to try the power of prayer. This Irie Craze "More mushrooms for moth-eaten Mongolians!" This slogan demands our simoleons. Why not. have a campaign For better champaign For the babies of cross-eyed Tyr- oleans? The Pig. * * * We have it from a young fellow whose honor we believe to be above reproach that there is a sign in a sorority house's kitchen giving direc- tions to the cook, and that the last direction is this: WASH DISHES EVERY OTHER{ ALAI .A * K * Considering that this is supposedl to be a modern university, and that deans of women are paid colossal sal- aries to see that the ginches do thus and so, and that a girl gets ten honor points toward her M by brushing her teeth in the morning, this rule appears to us kind of unsanitary. I suppose they don't get the dishes very dirty just eating breakfast and they may not mind eating out of them again at dinner but Gee! How do they get any pledges? They must be under an awful handicap in rushing, hey? If we had discussed that business in Light Verse, we would have had to end by saying that the cook refused to wash the dishes any oftener than twice a day,-thus bringing to the reader's attention the old cook-run- ning-the-household joke. But, as you have Observed, we did it in Prose. * * * Literary Note J. C.---Graham's, in their annual sale of their overstock of Corellis, Georgie Barr McCutcheons and the four 1924 novels of May Sinclair to the local Philistina, unwittingly placed a set l of Conrad on sale last Thursday. And need I add, that despite the re mark, "Oh, dear old Joseph Conrad, he has the cutest Van Dyke!" of one gynche, that Owen Meredith's 'Lucile' y and H. Bell Wright continue the best -or worse-sellers. Shadrach'. * * * The Boy Henderson, of the Drama MUSIC AND DRAMA TONIGHT: "Blossom Time" at S:1r o'clock in the Whitney theatre. * * * "CASTLES IN SPAIN" A reveiw by Robert Henderson. Some two days before "Castles In Spain" opened I received the follow- ing anonymous letter: "I am dying to see what you will have to say about the Junior Girls' so-called Play. The rehearsals shows that it is one of the poorest performances ever-in every way-especially the direction." Later it became obvious that the note had been sent, not by a jealous girl, but by a gentleman intimately connected with the production who should have been more discreet about his pen- manship. He was wrong: that should be de~i- nite and clear. The Junior Girls' Play is not a poor production, it is much better than "Thank You, Madame," and no doubt fully superior in every vital point to the Michigan Union Opera. You see, such amateur performances require abias; there are one hundred and fifty, two hundred girls, at least six of whom you know personally. There you are: six girls you know personally . . '. what difference if they are self-conscious or out of step or weighted down with patch-work make- up? Nevertheless. one point is positive. "Tickled To Death" may have been heavy, slow and cumbersome, but from actual experience I know that the- lines, stupid as they may have been, drew more laughs from the audience than those in the production Saturday afternoon. In all my at- tendance on the theatre I have never seen such an appaling quantity of lines fall so fiat. without even a saving snicker. The actual fact is that the book was anemic, artificial-with the important exception of the agent who was gen- uine and what is called comic-but the fault does not lie with the three authors credited on the program. Al- though it may be telling tales out of school, "Castles In Spain" in actual performance is really the work-"the revision," the. committee politely calls it-of a prominent member of the faculty, the creator of a charming French chef, but not and never a dramatist. Possibly his plots may be sallowly ingenious, but his dialogue with its interminable speeches which an experienced director would have ruthlessly pruned is utterly unfit for a musical comedy. There was, however, this much grandly to the play's credit: the dances in the final half were fast and without exception very well conceived. The Syncopated Soldiers were design- ed to be awkward-a convenient in- novation--tle principals in "Love Lives Only a Day" were charming, and the conventional Spanish dancers -Boleros, they called themselves-- were patly exotic according to the requisite musical comedy traditions. And certain of the actors were more than excellent: Lucy Domboorajian Mabel Crotty, Alberta Olsen in a per- fect bit as the Matador, above all the girl who played Bob. There must also be Mary Van Buren and Mary Lou Miller, Margaret Effinger and the di- rector. She was worth shooting all the fire-works for; to her I make a final, sweeping bow . . * * * 3IASQUTES For their first program of the se- mester Masques have announced Christopher Morley's "Rehearsals," Ernest Dowson's "Pierrot of the Min- ute," and Hortense Flexner's "Voices" for production Wednesday evening in Sarah Caswell Angell hall. "Re- hearsal" is a satire on campus dra- matics-that is sufficient-"The Pier- rot of the Minute" a poetic fantasy of an artist, the constant artist and his legend of eternity, while "Voices" tells of Jean d'Arc, her visions, and her modern challenge to . youth-at least, such an idealistic tendency. The hill is a difficult one, but cast with skill and. under coimpetent di- rectors. The seats are priced at fifty cents, and will be on sale at the door Wednesday evening. Easter Cards and Narcissus bulbs I U R A h A M WALK It BO'TH ENDS OF THE DIAGONAL I -. -7 WTE TMAKB'' T MANN'5S o z. isMA Look at Your Hat- Everyone Else Does We have the Latest Colors-Pearl, Silver, Radium, London Lavender, etc., etc. Save a Dollar or More at Our Store A Good Buy in Fraternity District, An excellent nine-room house in the best fraternity sorority vicinity in the city. Large lot (88x 145), well scaped, possessing beautiful shade trees and shrubs. It will be to your advantage to see this property. J. Karl Malcolm and land 'N- We also do high class work Cleaning and Reblocking hats of kinds. in all "YWhere a Little Buys a Lat." FACTORY HAT- STORE 617 Packard St. Phone 1792 (Where D. U. R. Stops at State) 1713-M 602 East Liberty St. 1. .Anticipate the most delightful sort of Sunday dinner, for that is exactly what youll get at the Arcade. Yet prices, remember, remain at their. usual low level Arcade Upstairs, Cafeteria Nic ke is Arcade t Fp h department, comes in with a most gloomy and shocking tale of the dou- ible-dealing Junior Girls. It was this way: IThe Boy Henderson arranged that the Girls should have the following publicity: A month and a half of ad- vance notices, a front page story every day during the week of the perform- ance, and a review of every perform- ance. In return for these. great fa- vor,. the Junior Girls offered The Daily Editorial staff eighteen passes. The Boy Henderson, realizing that the Junior Girls were not on the same, fianancial footing as the Opera, gal- lantly declined three of the passes, thinking that he would be able to get along all right on fifteen. Three days later he discovered that he would need two more. He asked the Junior Girls if he could have twoI m ilrore, and lie was told that he could have three if lie wanted them. At one-thirty p. m. yesterday he asked the Junior Girls once more for the extra passes, and was told that theyI would be at the box office whenever he wanted them. The Boy Henderson attended the matinee performance, and stopped after the show to get the tickets at the office. He was then told that he couldn't have them---that the Junior Girls did not propose to be dictated to by The Daily..He inquired if the house was sold out for Saturday night, and was told that it was "nowhere near." The hooker is that these jolly girls changed their minds after The Daily l it r i : :) The University of Hard Knocks The good old American institution "The University of Hard Knocks" is still functioning as it did back in the days that your father likes to talk about. Present educational advantages may have tended to reduce the number and strength of the "knocks" but they haven't reduced them to zero yet. So if life has been run- ning along smoothly for you, you may feel certain that just around the corner, after graduation, you are due for a new slant on life. In this school of Hard Knocks you learn things you never otherwise would learn. Ability to recognize and act upon, sound advice, a proper sense of values and plenty of good common sense will in a measure cut down the numler of bumps you get, but they will never relieve you from then entirely. You may think you can get through life without them. Discretion may keep you out of a great deal of difficulty, but it is just as impossible to get along without breathing as' to go through life without at least a few good substantial jolts to make you know you are alive. They are inevitable. So when yours comes, as they will come, meet them bravely. Don't become discouraged and give up the fight. Remember you are only getting what every other man that has ever lived has had to take. They are a part of life. Hold your temper. Keep your mouth closed. Hit things hard. Eventually you will come out on top. If you do, it will be your making. Remember, he who gives up is lost. --E. H. L. * * * "NOT SO LONG AGO" The Players Club has chosen as its annual public production Arthur Rich- man's three-act comedy, "Not So Long Ago." The piece was a marked suc- cess on Broadway two seasons ago, and should be a skilfull choice for theI present performance. The cast, while not finally selected, will include Dale Shafer, Phyllis Loughton, and June Kinsley Simpson, and the date has been placed during the first weeks of May.