THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925 ----, Published every morning excet Monday durng the Unversi year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Members of Western Conference Editorial Association. The A'sociated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwse credite in this paper and the local news pub- lished therein. Entcred 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, 4.00. My Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May. nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 2414 and i6-M; busi- nes, 96. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephones 2414 and 176411 MANAGING EDITOR PHILIP M. WAGNER Editor .......... ....John G. Garlnghouse News Editor...........Robert G. Ramsay City Editor............Manning Houseworth Night Editors George W. Davis H[arold A. Moore Thomas P. Henry Fredk. K. Sparrow, Jr. Kenneth C. 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Winter Advertising....... ".....1. A. Marks Advertising..................B. W. Parker Accounts.............. ....H. M. Rockwell Circulation.....................John Conlin Publication ....................R. D. Martin Assistants P. W. Arnold K. F. Mast W. F. Ardussi F. E. Mosher L. M. Alving H. L. -Newmann W. C. Baer T. 1. Olmstead" Irving Berman R. M. Prentiss Rudolph Bostelman W. C. Pusch George P. Bugee F. 3. Rauner B. Caplan J&D. Ryan H'. F. pa Clark . E. Sandberg C. Consoe F. K. Schoenfeld . R. Dentz R. A. Sorge George C. Johnson A. S. Simons O. A. Jose, Jr. M. M. Smith K. K. Klein I. J. Wineman W L. Mullins1 THURSDAY, APIL 23, 1925 Night Editor-F. K. SPARROW, 3R1" EAT HEREI Williams college, one of the first eastern institutions to recognize fra- ternitie4 oi cially,: proposes to take another revolutionary step in this di- rection. A system now under con- I sideration would require that every1 freshman affiliate himself with a fra- 1 ternal organization and maittain thist connection -for at least two years ofs his college career. - In order that the emphasis upont fratetnities and -the social relation may be lessened and wider activity for larger numbers of men may bes provided, an undergraduate committees appointed to investigate the situation proposes to eliminate the Independent body, comprising 35 per cent of the student body, by dividing it into four campus clubs which will be supplied by the administration with clubhouses1 and facilities equal to those of fra- ternities. If the plan is approved by the trus- tees of the college at their next meet-l ing May 9, it will 'probobly apply tot freshmen next year. Under the scheme, the campus clubs would rush at the same time as other fraternities.t Each freshman not pledged by a reg-t ular fraternity during the regularI period would be sent a card on which1 lie would indicate both as to the mem-t bers of his class and to the club het prefers. Though prohibited from changing from one campus club to an- other, there is nothing to prevent a student from accepting a later bid to. a campus fraternity. The very fact that Williams college has become so perturbed over the fra- ternity situation indicates that theI problem of the independent body thereI is a real one. A rule of the college' prohibiting the formation of new fra- ternities has served to aggravate theI difficulties. The situation, however, is t hardly comparable to anything ini other institutions. Consequently, ther proposed system can hardly be ac-c corded the significance which has been placed upon it by students and facultyI at Williams who deem it "the mostt important and constructive proposalE ever made for the improvement of un- dergraduate conditions in Americanr colleges under the fraternity system."s The principal reason or reforms seems to have been to remove the in-t feriority complex which often resultst when freshmen fail- to make a fra-d ternity. Is it possible that the com-t mittee believes that if such a feelinga exists it will be removed by affiliationd with a body which is not selective?f Granting a douhtful noint-namelv I clubs willnever take on the character tanism of the organizations have made of fraternities. They will simply be them impotent in their influence, al- compulsory boarding houses. though they have been nursed care- It seems more than likely that the fully in their infancy by college ad- students and faculty have exaggerated ministrations. a minor problem in their attempt to Now comes the Williams' plan for find something new as a solution. Of four campus clubs, with one of which course the situation in a small college each non-fraternity man is required is bound to be different- than in the to associate. He may join a fraternity large university, but there are points later and so leave the club which he of similarity. It is not stretching the selects, but he is not allowed to trans- point to say that many of the inde- fer from one club to another. The! pendents are such because they wish students will eat at their clubs, which to be--either for financial or social will be established by the college and reasons. Certainly there are miany I maintained at a nominal expense to men at Williams as there are at Mich- the members. Rushing and pledging igan who do not wish to be fraternity will be carried on after the fraternity men and who would resent being rushing ends, bids being issued in forced to join a group made up pro- secret and club preferenc indicated miscously of the left-overs from rush- likewise by the rushees. ing. It is evident that there will still be A more sensible solution of the a differentiation " between fraternity trouble at Williamnstown would seem to and non-fraternity men, but it will be be the repeal of the ruling prohibit- greatly minimized, for the non-fra- ing the voluntary formation of new ternity men will be organized into fraternities. If such a- movement were homogeneous groups, which will en- encouraged the time would no doubt joy the same advantages of home and come when there wpuld be enough mutual support possessed by the fra- groups to care for all students . Fra- ternity groups. In time these clubs ternal life in its essence is voluntary may be expected to develop consider- on the part of the individuals. It is able strength in the control of campus also to a certain extent selective just affairs. The novelty of the plan may as are organizatiops outside of col- hide some important -defects; as al lege. These two basic elements will whole, its success must be determined be lacking in Williams' proposed cam- by trial. Nevertheless the Williams pus clubs. committee is to be congratulated for this intelligent and revolutionary at- TE REAL ESTATE MAN emt to solve a difficult, time-worn Along with the unprecedented campus problem. growth' of thousands of American WILLIAMS ORGANIZES HER cities has come what is termed an I)NFRATEINITY MEN evil by some people and a blessing by 1Th Dail Ill'n. those directly connected with it, Wl s l e asyacuti.s IWilliams college, MassachusettsIs' namely: the real estate man. In'; about to take the most important step sense he may be said to be a necessair' for the social betterment of the non- evil. Looked at from this angle it fraternity group that has been takcn might be argued that people must have by any college. This eastern college homes, there must be lots upon which has been seriously concerned with the to build these homes, and therefore, u a nierimus wy co mpore 35h per unorganized men who compose 35 per there must be somebody to furnish the lots upon which to build the homes In cent of the student body. As a re- suit of a report made last December which the people must live. by' President Garfield and a subse- There is, however, another vie -qifent study by a student committee, a point from which the real estate man distile'tl original plan has been can be viewed and that is the one evolved. which would place him in the same The proposal to eliminate this non- class as the life insurance salesman fraternity group divides the group or any other business man. It will bei into four campus clubs, to be supplied argued, especially by those who have by rthec d sttons with the ostdirct onnctin wth ealby- the college administration with the most direct connection with real clubhouses and facilities equal to estate, that their work should be call - those of fratenities. These four ed a profession and not a mere busi- campus clubs will rush at the same ness, because they are rendering a tine fraternities are entertaining. distinct service to those whom they' Membersbip policies will be deter- aidTis securing a hoe hymined by a campus club committee, This may be true enough but everyaniMtrf reh-r -Land after the rushinb_ Uo I _______________--- 1I i I MUSIC AND DR AMA SPECIAL SALE OF DOXED PAPER - -- ALL WEEK ---__ THE INTERPRETATION 'LASS The program for Mr. Maier's Inter- pretation Class to be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in. the Recital hall of the School of Music will be devoted almost exclusively to modern composers. Mrs. George B. Rhead will play a Scriabine Sonata, Mr. and Mrs. Maier works for two pianos by Saint-Saens, Poulene, Ravel and, Schutt, and Mr. Maier the Debussey ballet, recently presented in this coun- try by the Neighborhooid Playhouse and the Ballet Suedois, "La Boite a Joujoux." The concert will be open only to members of the class and invited suests-more's the pity! * * * "IS ZAT rSO, A review; by Jason Cowles. "Is Zat So?" by James Gleason and Richard Taber, the financial miracle of the present New York season, is the work of two very good observers and actors rather than of any very good playwright. It contains, however just the right proportion of good and bad elements to make a fairly meri- torious popular success. The authors start the play with a comic situation that should stand with the best. Two hard-boiled eggs, a prize-fighter and his manager, are brought into a swank Fifth Avenue house by the drunken brother of its mistress. He wants them to train him to be a boxer so he can beat up his brother-in-law. But in order for them to stay in the house, they have I to take the posts of butler and second man. But the Messrs. Gleason and Taber have so .enshrouded this simple situation with the tinsel intricacies of melodramja that nobody ever under- stands quite how the play comes out. THE ORGAN RECITAI Palmer Christian, assisted by the University Girls' Glee Club, will of- fer the following Organ Recital Sun- day afternoon at 4:15 o'clock in Hill auditorium: Concerto Overture in C major. .Hollins Intermezzo ..................lollins Mr. Christian Fly, .Singing Bird .............Elgar Violin Obligato by Jeanette Em- 11 Ul R A H A M'S I BOTH ENDS OF THE DIAGONAL WALK " '-----"----'* I /MAKEi 7>EL MANN'S c i ' We also do} High Class Work in Cleaning and Reblockingf HaftsI of all kinds FACTORY hAT STORE 617 Packard St. Phone 1792 (Where D. U. R. Stops ht State) ---- , ,'' , _r M. GREEN TREE INN Special Parties by Arrangement Luncheon, 12:00-1 :30 Afternoon Tea, 3:00-5 :00 Dinner, 5:30-7:00 205 South State Phone 1306-R -ood salesman today us es the same men who have failed to "make" a mons and Eunice Northrup tactics. His appeal to the people with fraternity will be given a preference Volga Boat Song (by request).. whom he is trying to make a deal is card by this committee. The fresh-. .. -.-....Russian Folk Song that he is rendering them a, real serv-man will express a preference as to Evening Prayer in Brittany.... . ce.' And so lie is, if he is an honest; e classmates and club. The final lot of. .........Cham. inade business man and is giving the People the freshman, however, rests with the Dorothy Cozad, soprano, and Eunice their money's worth in his comnmodity. club, and will be determined in secret Northrup; contralto-,soloists When seen front this angle, tie an- as in the fraternities. Girls' Glee Club jnojncement that a real estate course The Chrisan Science Monitor for Angel Scene (Haensel and will., be offered in the University be- April 18 which gives a full account of Gretel). .......... Humpertinek ginning next fall might be interpreted the proposed system, calls attention to Prelud o....................Corelli toe be somewhat ofemacadep rturetioomt Ito be somewhat of a departure fromn1 the evil of the fraternity system as im- Toccata in C .................. Bach the policy that has been followed in Mr. Christian the past of keeping out any purely on-fraternity men. Educator, who Goin' Home (from the New World salesmanship courses. At least this in. tle East have become vitally inter- Symphony).... .. ........vorak has been the argument used by, tle est d in the situation, say that the Virginia Hobbs, soprano-soloist officials of the School of Business Ad- failure to make a fraternity gives rise It was a Lover and his Lass ..Dunn ministration against the mnstitution of to discouragement, a lack of interest Girls' Glee Club a course in Life Insurance Salesman-In-college affairs, and a feeling of in- Marche Militaire, No 1 .... Schubert ship., It is their idea that salesman-feriority at the outset of the fresh- Gvwemndolyne Wilson-Accompanist ship has no place in a University cur- mCan's college career. Nora Crane Hunt-Director riculum, that life insurance is sales- Further expansion of fraternities at * * * manship, and that, because of this, sAND STIL ANOTHER CONCERT the college has been deemed inadvis- ND 1ILA1OHRCOC T it should not be offered by the Uni-a aleh by the administration. The re- Of-Michigan's hopes from the versity. port of the student committee points younger generation to fame--the If the same logic were to be appliedot.th4ilmtngpnsgeraon o 1t sthainlimiting fraternities the quietest and most talented was Max to the proposed Real Estate courso, a Tminration has "allowed to grow Ewing, who worshiped at the shrine there is little question but that Iu Nvt in itself a system which gives of the divine Mary, Carl Van Veebten would be barred for the samiie reason. ijmle opportunities for social and and his cats, and who was a pianist While it is true that the real es.,tat(,- Wre esa tr-cprriculum activity of 65 per destined to genius. men are making a valiant effort < t.f the college body, while it arti- For two years he has been studying dignify their work by calling the bush-I ficially restricts the remaining 35 per with Siloti in New York, and next fall ness a "profession" and themselves cent. The college has placed itself in he goes to Paris-to return again, "Realtors" it will be a cold day before a position it cannot justify. perhaps, as az musical prodigy. This they will convince many people that 'It is practically saying that it will summer, during the latter weeks of they are any more than mner business take no action 'or expense calculated July, he is to give a program in 1ill men, and salesmen at that. Fortunate- to give the non-fraternity body facihi- auditorium as one of the soloists in ly for the sponsors of the new course s and opportunities enjoyed by the the Faculty Concert series. He has they sought out the College of Archi- jfraternity body; nor will it allow neu-, arranged for this recital four groups tecture and not the School of Business I I tral men to better their own position of such odd or modern compositions Administration to introduce the study, by setting up fraternities of their own The numbers have been tentatively initiative. We are agreed that it must arranged as follows: abandon this position: that it must I. EDITORIAL COMMENT either remove the ban on fraternities, Fantasia (C minor) ....Bach-Siloti or it must take action and expense Melodie............ Gluck-Sgambatti upon itself to better the condition of Sonate (A major)............Mozart COMPULSORY FllATE IRNl1l ES the non-fraternity body." iL -The Cornell Sun. f The Williams college plan is of lit- Rhapsodie (Opus 119, No. 4) . .Brahms After a five months study of the fra- 1 tie interest to us at Illionis except as Gavotte (Opus 49, No. 3) (19th ternity problem at Williams College a milestone in the evolution of the century ballet).......Glazounow a heterogeneous committee has re American college system and a sig- Fantasy (Opus 49),..........Chopin ported in favor of a plan which seems nificant step in the. development of . III. to savor of compulsory fraternity democracy on the campus. The sit- Pagodes .................... Debussy membership. Such -a plan is of course nation at Illinois would hardly war- I Jardins Sous la Olive ...... Debussy revolutionary in type from those meth- rant the establishment of this system Sometimes I Feel Like a Mother- ods of solving the fraternity problem of campus clubs for the non-fraternity less Child ........ Negro Spiritual which have been used in other col- body, even though it were possible. (Arranged by Coleridge-Taylor) leges; xyet it 6eems a plausible solu- We do not believe the non-fraternity "Times Square...........Whithorne tion, and distinctly ingenious in its men here have any feelings of In- IV.I aspects. feriority or discouragement that char- I Prelude .................. Prokofieff College administrations have long acterizes them at smaller colleges. Gavotte .................. Prokofieff realized the inferiority complex which I Many of them prefer to remain outside Movement Perpetuel ........ Poulene shades the non-fraternity world as of a fraternity, and we very often "Bereceuse" from "L'Oiseau deI soon as rushing ends, and have felt doubt that they can be blamed. Feu" ................ Stravinsky - that the condition was detrimental to However, there is on this campus, a "Danse Russe" from "Petrouchka" those who for one reason or another woeful lack of social co-operation I ."............... Stravinsky did not join fraternities, but they have amiong the unorganized men. We are been seemingly unable to provide an opposed to herding men into clubs and the Illinois Union. As a non-partizan adequate solution of the problem. The I houses and turning them out at the body it may be able to accomplish E desire of human beings to organize end of four years all wearing the this. As a lop-sided political organiza- for social purposes was too strong for same wide trousers, thinking along tion it can do little more than it is them to deny students the nr'vlpLv( lp pn n rnwmtr+,, an d n ars~ me r11--T,_ .,. a1 i *p Write for Special - Preference Card Famous- Popuar- ote 500 Rooms -500 Baths- oili C E\IENT to all amusements yoor vmmI t to Detroit will be douby enjoyed if spent as a guest at Hotel Wohierine-the headpiarters for Ilichigani stadenti ini Dotroit. As home-like and ivting~ as a fine new building and per sonaml tm uiiwgement (