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PAGE FOUR

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

TIIT ISD.\iy, APRIT., ". 192:.

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MANAGING EDITOR
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'Editor... ..........John G. Garliughouse
News Editor..........Robert G. Ramsay
City Editor.... .. ..Manning Houseworth
NgtEditors
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Thomas P. Ienry Fredk. K. Sparrow, Jr.
Kenneth C,. Keller Norman R. Thal
Edwin C. Mack
Sports Editor.....!...William H-. Stoneman
Sunday Editor........Robert S. Mansfield
Women's Editor.............Verena Moran
Telegraph Editor.William J. Walthour
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TTHE DARK AGES
One of the earliest forms of punish
ment instituted in American colonia
adays was the old whipping post an
the public stocks. With the avanc
in prison reforms and sociologica
theories as to the effect of vario
forms of penalty, both of these prac
tices were abandoned as useless bru
tality many years ago in -practicall
all of the states.
The passing of the Wood whippin
post bill, providing for the whippin
of male criminals convicted of robber
armed or of murder while attemptin
robbery armed with a maximum o
50 lashes, by the Michigan Senat
Tuesday afternoon may bring about
return to the long discredited prac
tice. In the words of one of its op
ponents, the bill would take Michiga
back to the dark ages.
Supporters of the measure argu
that it has become almost impossibl
to get anyone to take charge of
branch bank in any of the cities of th
state and Detroit in particular on ac
count of the great number of rob
beries. Senator Wood states: "All o
us have been young and we know tha
nothing subdues like a whipping. Th
thugs would rather have five years i
jdil than, one flogging."
The idea might be a good one fo
punishment in juvenile cases but it i
more or less absurd to believe tha
flogging will cause any great humilia
tion of hardened adult criminals. Th
experience of college fraternities i
the application of the traditiona
"paddle" has indicated that grow
men are but little affected by this soi
of thing. Largely because of this
rough initiations are being frowne
upon by fraternal leaders throughou
the country as undignified and useles
for disciplinary purposes.
A similar reaction will result if th
whipping post is reinstated as a form
of punishment. A few of those wh
would be subjugated to this penalt
might be humbled into obedience bu
it is more probable that the majorit
would be all the more obstinate an
rebellious.
Fortunately, the bill cannot be pass
ed during the present session of th
legislature unless the House rules ar
waived and it is brought to a vot
without the regular five-day period in
committee. If this does not kill th
measure, the representatives ought t
vote it down as unworthy of seriou
consideration.
CAMPUS OPINION-
Anonvmous communications will be
disregarded. The names of communi-
Iants will, however, be regarded as
confidential uoon request.
HINDENBURG ANI) STABILITY
To the Editor:
I wish to take exception to your
editorial of April 28th, entitled "Paul
in Power."
To anyone acquainted with the po-
litical and social troubles, of post-
war Germany Hindenburgs election
would-not be surprising. There are
at least a dozen essentially different
political factions in Germany. The
wranglings of these discordant ele-
ments are ever preventing a sane and
stable government. The Germans are
frankly disgusted with the ineffectual
squabbles occuring within the Reich-
stag. So surely the appointment of
the staid Hindenburg-or any other
representative of stability-is com-
patible with logical expectation.
Further than that, the Hindebgurg
administration should prove a relief
rather than an alarm to the allied
nations. In the first place, order will
result, and the establishment of unity
will not be followed , by absolute
monarchism, unless outside interefer-

ence incenses the Germans to rash
extremes. The fact is that the Ger-
mans hate the Kaiser and his kind as
much as we do. And don't think that
Hindenburg will cast aside the Dawes
plan and start another European con-
flict. He is a hard-boiled soldier,
brought up-as it were-on cold fact;
he realizes the asininity of pitting his
country against the world

other so-called "professors?" repre-
-_I sent:'the old fashion officers of the
lA aw.
Here is the difference between the
Aideal-modern "cop," and the old
e fashion one. The modern "cop" asks
LI for no bouquets, no tips, no thanks;
s he is always right there if you wantj

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NOW ON DISPLAY AT BOTH STORES

P. W. Arnold
W. F. Ardussi
1. M. Alving
M. C. Bauer
Irving Berman
Rudolph Bostelms
George.P. Bugbe
B. Caplan
H. F. Clark
T. C. Consroe
F. R. Dentz
George C. Johnso
0. A. Jose, Jr.
K. K. Klein
W. L. Mullins

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K. F. Mast
F. 'E. Mosher
H. L. Newmann
T. D. Olmstead
R. M. Prentiss
an W. C. Pusch
e F. J. Rauner
S. D. oRyan
M, E. Sandberg
F. K. Schoenfeld
R. A. Sorge
n A. S. Simons
M. M. Smith
I. J. Wineman

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1925
Night Editor-GEORGE W. DAVIS
UNIVERSITY LOYALTY
The resolution of the Michigan
alumni of the fourth district of the
general alumni association to enlarge
the scope of their activities to include
the fostering of the ideals of higher
education in their commonwealths and,
an assumption of an active interest1
in the progress of local state and
private institutions as well as in that
of their alma mater is a significant
contribution to what is generally de-
signed as "college loyalty." It is
wider and better interpretation of the
duty of the college or university grad-
uate to the system which gave him his
education.
As a general thing alumni of our
various educational institutions are
prone to miss the real significance of
their position as men and women who
have had the advantages of so-called
high learning. They confine their la-
bors and thought for education to a
somewhat clannish loyalty to the
school from which they have been
graduated and display it by attending
numerous banquets and football
games, by doing much yelling and
singing and hurrahing about the old
times when they were young-and stu-
dents.
All of this rather perfunctory dem-
onstration is likely to submerge the
better sensibilities of college men. If
the individual happens to be an east-
ern college man in the West he is in-
clined to discount the value of anyl
educational institutions of his local-
ity-even to scorn them. If he is the
product of a western state or private
institution living in the East he more{
than likely will confine his activities to'
proving to his compatriots the relative!
superiority of the new educational
systems over the old. In either case,
most alumni are inclined to overlook
their real responsibility-the encour-,
agement of the means of education
wherever they may be.
It is, this which the Michigan
alumniof the fourth district 'propose1
to emphasize. In the words of the!
resolution: "-one of the prime pur-
poses of the members of the associa-
tion shall always be an interest in the
educational problems and institutions
of their~ respective communities and
states, as well as those of the Uni- I(
versity of Michigan." College grad- I
uates the nation over will do.well to!
emulate such a snirit 'The eai.q l If

- him. He holds his position, not MR, SELDES AND "THE LAST
- through."pull," but because he can LAUGH"
y deliver the goods. His is the task to Gilbert Seldes of "The Seven Lively
make the wheels go round. Arts" printed the following review in
g The "cop" of a few years ago was the April, 1925, issue of The Dial on
g a shiftless individual; and this type
y still'' persists in certain sequestered "The Last Laugh," to be presented in
g localities such as Ann Arbor; in fact Hill Auditorium Tuesday and Wednes-
f any ignorant, lazy loafer was good day evenings, May 5 and 6:
e enough for a policeman. This type of "A matter of great importance is
a !officer was always out after his per- "The Last Laugh," Ufa's picture with
- sonal enemies. His business was Emil Jannings. This is a moving pic-
- largely to inform people to be "law ture made not by pretentious titles,
n 'biding citizens" when he was pres- elaborate 'presentation,' false philoso-
ent. His chief task was to "run in" phy, and personal chatter, but by the
e I bad boys who used his form as a tar- camera. The director, (the name
e get. seemed to be Mornau as it 'flashed on
a Sir Robert-I call him Sir Robert the screen), has made a correct as-
e because he is a jolly good sir-also sumption: that in the motion picture
- has the faculty of saying the same old the camera must do all the work, and
- thing in a different way. His classes when, let us say, a sound or an emo-
f are over crowded with eager follow- tion passes, the only way you can in-
ti ers because students seem to realize form the spectator is by showing its
e that if they question him more than result as that result can, be recorded
n once, he will not sting them with a by the camera. Thus when a trombone
I nightstick, but give some kind of an is played so that it nearly deafens the'
r answer, listener, the mouth of the instrument
s From the speaker's platform, the grows suddenly so large that it seems
t student sees Professor Wenley, PhD, to engulf the tortured man.
- ScD, LittD, LL.D, DCL, but at his "So when a face terrifies a man you
e home or even in consultation-away see the face distorted as the man sees
n from the lecture notes, that same stu- it. So instead of a long subtitle tell-
I dent sees just Mr. Wenley-ing you that good old Gaffer Gaffkins
n -J. S. S. was. the little adored deity of the
t tenement, you see the old man coming
o THE RUSTIC ASPIRATION, home and, as soon as he is in, the
d To the Editor: concierge puts out all the lights.
It is difficult to understand how any he fantasy in this film is not of
lonewith the least aspiration to cul- the 'Caligari' type: indeed I should
oe say that 'The Last Laugh' should have 1
e ture could have written so senseless come five years .before 'Caligari,' and
an article against Robert Henderson prepared the way for it. The head
0 as appears in today's Daily. Whether porter of the Atlantic Hotel sees in
y Mr. Henderson Imitated New York his dream one superb moment when
t critics, or whether one agrees with his the revolving doors are a hundred
y ideas is of slight consequence. Suffice feet high and a dominates them. For
d it that he. wrote unusual reviews of the most part, however, it is not fan-
some important plays-unusual when tasy, but downright good camera work
- it is remembered that young man is I that distinguishes this picture.
e an undergraduate. Why should such "And good camera work also makes
e reviews not find a place in The Daily?I it tremendously interesting. It forti-
re e oi as, sports and the fie me in my propaganda-that the
rest of the humbug more important in American producers of films are en-
e a University paper than things which tirely on the wrong track, that they
o pertain to the mind or is the Univer- are using unsuitable materials and are
s sity to become more and more what forcing the camera to do things it
some rustics asretor ake it? cannot do because they (10 not know
ruotcs sru ,akeoi goo are the things it can do"
I Yors tulyM. Lvi.* *
M. LeviTHE ORGAN RECITAL f
review, by Robert Henderson.
Not too many people attend Mr.t
EDITORIAL COMMENT Christian's recitals; they are profes-~
'ssors, nuns, maiden ladies, odd stu-
dents for the most part. They sit very
GERMANY AT THE POLLS quietly very near the back of the
-New York Times. auditorium, arriving late and leaving
Sunday's election in Germany early. It is all as it should be, nothing
brought out 3,500,000 more votes than efficient or highly organized. There
were cast in the preliminary election is no constraint, everything is casual,
a month ago. Of the new votes five soothing and almost church-wise with
out of every six were cast for Hin- a man playing a program of some
denburg. To the managers of the Na- pretty pieces-far too many of these
tionalist campaign is due credit for chants and amours by Stoddard and
exceptional astuteness and courage. Stojowski and Stoughton-balanced
They dared to swap horses in the mid- by a magnificent Bach or Rimsky-
die of the stream by abandoning their Korsakoff.
original candidate, Dr. Jaryes. The About in February, Mr. Christian
figures in the March election showed announced the Stravinsky Wedding
plainly that the Republican bloc was March from "L'Oiseau de Feu," but
ahead. If the campaign was to be something happened and the concert
saved, it must be done by appealing was postponed-this lyric rhapsody by
not to issues but to a name. The re- music's greatest modern prophet and
sults ,on Sunday more than justified mountebeank somehow has never been
this strategy. Millions of voters in re-included in his program. It is un-I
the agrarian districts were roused fortunate, wrong: Mr. Christian could
from their indifference to politics by easily with his select, constant audi-
the miagic name of the hero of Tan- ence be experimental and original; he
nenberg. The people of East Prussia could and should be the first to intro-
whom he rescued from the Russian duce these compositions that the Fes-
invaders rose up for him like a tide. tival dare not include in its reper-
Part of the explanation of the Hin- toire to the few of the town willing to
denburg victory must be sought else- listen.
where than among the German peas- Such pieces-the "Sheherazade," for
antry. Reaction against communism instance-make a concert an adven-
is plainly read in the returns from the ture, be it ridiculous or thrilling, a
I Saxon urban centers, and to some ex- new experience that is dramatic and

tent, from Bavaria...... That it was sen- unique. The other tendency, save for
timent, whether patriotism or fear, the fervor and ungodly genius of
rather than reasoned policy that 1Bach or a Brahms, so frequently ends
I swelled the Nationalist vote would be in the polite dullness of a facile clas-
indicated by the showing in the Rhine- sic technique.
land and in the Ruhr. These sections * * *
have felt the burden of foreign occu- TiIE FRE-NCH PLAY
pation and might have been expected "Blanchette," one of Eugene
to rally to Hindenburg; yet they went Brieux's earlier dramas, has been se-
heavily for Marx. Precisely because lected for the nineteenth annual
the people of these regions were face French play, to be presented Wednes-
to face with the realities of a lost war day evening, May 6, in Sarah Caswell
they swung to the candidate who stood Angell hall under the direction of Pro-!
for cociliation and peace.,1 fessor Finney. This year's produc-
The immediate effect of the Na- tion is in the nature of an experiment,
tionalist party on Germany's former standing as the first modern thesis
enemies obviously represents no gain drama in the repertory of the Cercle
for the cause of European appease- Firancais.
ment. At the best, the outside world The cast is as follows:
is bound to mark time in order to ap- Blanchette ......Marguerite Steinfeld
praise the full significance of Hinden- Madame Rousset ......Mary Loughin
burg's election. For the President- Lucie Galoux......... Germaine Baer
elect himself it should be said that his Rousset .............. Donald Snyder
pledge of loyalty to thetRepublic was Le Cantoumier .........Cecil Betron
undoubtedly sincere. At his age it isI Morillon ............Herbert Sewell
not likely that he will lend himself to Auguste Morillon.
any- desperate adventures. But it is...............Frederick McDonald
still to be seen whether the unrecon- M. Galoux .......... William Randall
ciled monarchist element will not read Georges Galoux ...... Emanuel Karav

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In the second place, this election
should avert the greatest danger of
all,-a coalition between Russia and
Germany. Some would-be authorities
are always scoffing at the possibility
of such a union. But there is a rea-
son for the tremendous Soviet Bureau
in Berlin; there is a reason for the
fact that Russian .commercial con-
cessions were given out to or through
German houses: I say, there is a rea-
son for all this, and it isn't Grape-
nuts either. But now all this sould
come to nought, because Soviet Rus-
sia isn't likely to coalize with a reac-
tionary government.
Surely the German election repre-
sents no menace to the Allies.
-D. W. F.
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