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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, 0O70lTOIER 1G. 1)25
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SI campus witnessed such efficiency and
precision in their control as was fx-
hibited at the junior literary class TED
Published every morning except Monday hbtda h uirltrr ls
during the University year by the Boid in elections Wednesday. The great ma-
Control of Student Publications. jority of the small minority that at- WELL
Members of Western Conference Editorial tended the election came with littleIJOE'S
Association, slips of paper, slips upon which were BACK
The Associated Press is exclusively en- written the names of the candidates
titled to the use for republication of all news Wel-osadIgrs sDco
dispatches credited to it or not otherwise of their machines. In this case there Well, boys and Igirls, as Doctor
credited in this paper and the local news pub- were only two such organizations,- Lovell always says, we have big news
fished therein. eeol w uc raiain,
Eeone an organized machine, the other this morning.
Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, First of all it seems to us that this
Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate a hurriedly organized group that was
of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- attempting to break the power of the campus is all struck of a heap. What
master General.
Subscription by carrier, $3.50; by mail, machine,-at work, and so well did with all this ineligibility scandal in
$4.00.
Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- they do their work that the nomina- the ranks of the Junior class and the
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were accepted by the chair. seems there are. no officers or chair-
EIOIAll the students present were al- men for anything around here. Of
EDITORIAL STAFF lowed to vote, of course, but with course it's a good thing in a way for
Telephone 4925 the small turnout, the election re- the class officers, because, from all
MANAGING EDITOR solved itself into a battle between we can gather, the only excitement
GEORGE W. DAVIS the two machines,-and every can- there is in any of these jobs is the
Caitlman, Editorial Board . . .Norman R. Thal didate of the winning machine was election. After that the hardest job
City Editor...........Robert S. Mansfield cted h nsis to remember what office it is you
News Edlitor......Manning Houseworthhodsoyulgeyurpcreite
Wonl'is Editor;.........Helen S. Ramsay But this was not the only election hold, so you'll get your picture in the
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Music aind Orana.... Robert B. Henderson cheap ward type. At the same time Some year there ought to be an-
Night Editors C Hall there were other elections going on; other election for those who didn't
1Willard . Crosby Thomas V. Koykka in some of these mere machine poli- go to the regular one, and have two
sobert T. ieVoren Calvin Patterson tics was not enough to satisy the par- sets of officers, then there would be
trwin OliaAs Frederik H. Shillito ticipants, underhanded tricks of the more men in the Ensian, and all the
aitargaret Parker lowest type were employed in en- political machines would be satisfied,
Louiis R. ivarkus Stanford N. Phelps deavoring to "get courtol of this" or if their candidate didn't make the first
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925
Night Editor - W. C. PATTERSON
CHEAP POLITICS
The universities, supposedly the in-
tellectual centers, are considered as
training grounds for " our future
citizenry; if we are to have an intel-
ligent, self-thinking body of voters,
we must naturally expect the leaders
of that body to come from our uni-
versities. The outside world ima-
gines that in the university there is
a self-contained Utopia, from a po-
litical standpoint.
And there is no reason why that
condition should not exist. In the
university, no matter how large it
may be, there are certain bouds and{
links of acquaintanceship that cannot
exist in the outside world. This is
especially true of the upper classes,
made up of students who have spent
two and three years together in
classes and on the campus. We can-
not expect every student to know
every other student, but it stands to
reason that the most outstanding, the
most active men and women in each
class should be known, by name at
least, to their fellow students.
Under such conditions, which seem
almost ideal from a democratic stand-
point, student political affairs may
well be expected to function in as
smooth and fair a manner possible,
and that toie'highest type of "govern-
ment of, by, and for the people" may
justly be expected. The university
student body, working under such a
favoiabte set of circumstances, is ex-
pected to set an example, to take the
lead, in the manner of conducting its
political affairs.
During the past two weeks a num-
ber of elections have been held on
the campus. Ten days ago the senior
class elections in all the schools and
colleges were held There was no spe-
cific charges of misconduct in
those elections,-but only thirty-
two per cent o the membership of
the classes attended the elections and
took a part in choosing their officers.
Less than a third of the men and
women who have been on the campus
from four to eight years, and who
should be fairly well acquainted with
each other, were sufficiently interest-
ed in the selection of the men and
women who are to represent them in
the eyes of the outside world.
case over which there was a great
deal of argument, the ballots com-
pletely disappeared. Undoubtedly
some man who "had a candidate"
took them,-stole them.
But those ballots would not have
disappeared, the machines would not
have been allowed to vote their way
unmolested by other nominees, the
tricks that were employed would not
have been effective to the least ex-
tent, if the men whose duty it was
to guard against those things had
acted as they were elected to act.
One of the most important duties
of the Student council is the conduc-
tion of elections; it is the only body
that is vested with the power and au-
thority to handle these affairs. In
the handling of the elections Wednes-
day, the supposedly efficient system
that has been devised by the council
fell down miserably,-due to the fact
that the councilmen were not present
in sufficient numbers to enforce it.
At such elections, especially in the
light of what has occurred during the
past few years, councilmen, and not
friends of councilmen who are chosen
at random from the group present,
should distribute, count, and take
charge of all ballots. If that had
been done, the charges that have been
made that bundles of ballots were
given to certain individuals, that the
counting was unfair, and the disap-
[pearance of the ballots would be
charges against the elected repre-
sentatives of the student body. They
would be definite, and could be fol-
lowed by proof and action.
The elections Wednesday were as
childish and disgraceful as anything
that has ever occurred on this cam-
pus. The Student council is largely
responsible,-the student body, for
its lack of interest, even more so.
Elections will be held again next
week, and the week after,-and what
has happened must not happen again.
And it will not happen if the student
body will wake up and realize that
such affairs as these brand us, every
one, as cheap politicians and cheaters.
REPRESENTING MICHIGAN
Tonight Michigan students will be-
gin leaving for Madison in trains,
automobiles, old wrecks, on foot, and,
in fact, in any manner that promises
to get the travelers to the Badger
game. They are going to witness a
football game, and everyone will be
exhuberant,-and careless.
But each takes upon himself a re-
sponsibility that he cannot throw off.
If the team is the official represent-
ative of the University, the students
who accompany it are the unofficial
representatives. The school which
they represent will be judged by the
manner in which they comport them-
selves.
Upperclassmen will remember the
regrettable incidents, that happened
at this game two years ago The stu-
dents from Ann Arbor should do all
in their power to prevent a recur-
rence. They are the guests of the
University of Wisconsin, and they
should conduct themselves as such,-
in victory or defeat.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
THE IKITTEN'S PAJAMAS
(The Daily Iowan)
Every twice-in-a-while some flash
with an athletic frame and a leaning
mind lights in our unsuspecting
midst on the strength of the noise he
made in the little red high school
ond, and if he didn't make that, why
there'd probably be enough non-vot-
ers left in the class after the first two
elections, so that he could walk away
with the third The idea, of course is
to make everyone happy
They say it used to be fashionable
to attend these elections, but for
some reason they don't seem to draw
as well as lecture on Religion any
more
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ZILCH FOUND
TRAVELING
NEAR HOME
?3an Who Sold Needles To City
Seen At Distance By
Contrib.
Dear Toby,
I was riding in the same gondola
car with him, after we had just left
Tuska, Okla, or somesuchplace, and'
I noticed very particularily that he
sat on the very edge of the seat and
dangled his legs along the ties. He
was very long and sort of gangly; in
fact he was longer than he, was
broad. There was a very distinctl
strawberry mark on the elbow of his
left sleeve. . Brow, sloping; head,
small; ears, extremely large; collar,
none absolutely none; socks, none,
ibid.; shoes, traces.,
Of course, I did not have near
enough time to make a thorough in-
vestigation, as the man got off at a
water tank a little ways past Yuma,
Ariz. You know the saw about crim-
inals returning to their old haunts,-
well, I'll say what you've been ex-
pecting, viz.
Could this man have been Joel
Zilch. I did not think to ask what
his name was, but when I got to
Perique I went right up to a man who
said his name was Burns X. Pinker-
ton, and told him my whole story.
He only looked at me sort of suspi-
cious, so I came on home. But after
this I shall keep a sharp lookout.
Your friend,
Beaujolais.
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NOTICE-PRIZE CONTEST-
NOTICE
A copy of Harold Bell Wright's
"TREATSE ON CONCRETE REAL-!
ITY" will be awarded for the best ex-
planation of the knob on the end of
the rectified diagonal.
Essays-typewritten, double spac-
ed, margin around edge-are due Oct.
31st. Ony those that are attractive
will be examined. Isn't it a fact?
In order to start the discussion
here are a few suggestions. Per-
haps the thing is:
1. A hop-scotch court for the
co-eds.
2. Parade ground for the lieu-
tenant-colonel of archery,
"Now this yere Evolution.."1
3 A theme by the class in land-
scape design
4. Parking space for the planes
of outlying fraternities.
5. Dam shame.
AND
DRAMA
HR. SIEPID A NDN MRS. FISKY1
By the weighty dictum of Mr. Clay-
ton Hamilton, the distinguished Amer-
ican dramatic critic, there are only
three comedies of eighteenth century
manners in England, out of all the
hundreds written, which have sur-
vived to this day for major produc-
tion along with the plays of William
Shakespeare. These are "The Rivals"
and "School for Scandal" by Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, and "She Stoops
to Conquer" by Oliver Goldsmith.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan may or
may not have been the most brilliant
Englishman of the eighteenth cent-
ury; certainly he was the cleverest
"The Rivals," his first play, was only
finished at the urgent request of a
certain theatrical manager, who lock-
ed Sheridan in a room and refused
to release him until he had completed
the comedy, for which the manager
had already contracted. The result
of this encouragement is one of the
most delightfully entertaining plays
of that or any other day.
"The Rivals" is the first play of the
Sheridan Festival series, which was
undertaken by a brilliant coterie of
players under the management of
George C. Tyler and Hugh Ford as
the contribution of the theatre to the
American Sesquicentennial ,year. The
I second play of the set ies is Sheridan's
"School for Scandal," which wil open
shortly in Philadelphia and will fol-
low the path of "The Rivals."
All of which is merely by way of
saying that "The Rivals" comncs to
the Whitney Theatre, Friday evening,
October 30, for a single performance.
The cast includes Minnie Maddern
Fiske, whom everyone should see as
many times as possible (uring one's
lifetime, Chauncey' Ocott, Thomas A.
Wise, James T. Powers, and others-
which, all things considered, is as re-
markable a cast as one is likely to see
in this city for some time. While all
of these actors are too well known
to require any explanation, it is per-
haps worth while to say that Mr.
Powers' portrayal of Bob Acres, that
redoubtable "country gentleman,"
with his "odds pistols and daggers"
and his tremendous courage, has few
equals in comic acting.
And let it be said that "The Rivals"
has just been taken from coast to
coast in the most successful dramatic
tour of the last thirty years. ..
-K. W.
THE NEW YORK SYMPHONY
A review, by Robert- Henderson.
There is about the New York Sym-
phony, as about their conductor a
mellowness and a traditioned depth.
1 Its ensemble represents the maturity
of decades and more; its interpreta-
tions become at once scholarly and
glowing. 'there is an easy informal-
ity in their work; and there is the
dignity and sudden passion that
comes with the vast system and age
of such an organization.
The Academic Festival Overture
was in the heroic, the noble mould
that is always Brahms; the Saint-
Saens C minor Symphony moved in
the majestic cycle of the elegy of its
theme. Mr. Damrosch himself con-
siders it one of the greatest master-
pieces of orchestral literature-not
only of this age, but in all ages. In-
questionably his conception of the
work made it grow and flower to al
magnificent climax, thrilling and
powerful in its brilliant fervor.
Guy Maier's "performance" of the
E flat Concerto, however--and of
course-lifted the audience to a tor-
rent of enthusiasm. The composition
itself-with the possible exception of
the scherzo-alternates between pure
bathos and pouffle, much of it run-
ning into as obvious movie music as
occasional passages in Beethoven.
But it is glorious bombast neverthe-
less, and Mr. Maier, after his Omnere
rank as an artist, clowned through
it with stunning abandon.
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* * * audience respond with him. All his
We'd like to be enrolled in a course recurring tricks of the exaggerated
given by the Professor who holds the stacatto, the exaggerated forte and
chair of Creative Arts. And get four piano only serve to make his every
hours credit. It seems traditional note as clear and brittle as crystal
bells. He is a mountebank, frankly
that this honored gentleman arrives and openly, but he carries off the af-
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