PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1926 e Published every morning except Monday dur ,ing the University year by the Board in, Zuonrol of Student Publications. Members of Western Conference Editorial Associaton. The Associated Press is exclusively en- tit'd to the use for republication of all news diQpatIchcis credited to it or not ettierwise C:cicited in this paper and the local news pub- lis;e4 therein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, 1<1+ ugSstsecond class matter. Special rate t i posta1,e granted-by .Third Assistant Post- i+,astcen;ieral. S. isciiption by carrier, $3.5o; by mail, ()filces- Ann Arbor Press Building, May- ard steet. P4iones z EditorIal, "495;business, 1214. Sa 2', try JDITOUIAL STAFF. 7elephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR GEORGE W. DAVIS Chairman, Editorial Board...Norman R. rhal C;ity Editor............ Robert S. Mansfield News Editor............Manning Houseworth Woiren's Editor............Helen S. Ramsay ports Editor................Joseph Kruger Telegraph Editor..........William Walthour Music and Drama......Robert B. Henderson Night Editors - Smith H. Cady Leonard C. Hall Willard B. Crosby Thomas V. Koykki Robert T. DeVore W. Calvin Patteirsesa Assistaut City Editors Erwin Olian Frederick H. Shllit6 Assistants rather the fickleness and instabilityf of Fortune. May she hear our pray-3 ers and favor our cause, our taste ofc her capriciousness has been full andc bitter.1 INTESTIGATING INVESTIGATIONS The average citizen, though gener- ally more interested in his home and business than in the political affairs of Washington, will approve whole- heartedly of the proposed plan pf the Senate to limit investgations. Here- tofore, it has been the custom in that body for a few of the Senators, when "viewing with alarm," to call for an investigation into the supposedly sinister activities of this or that po- litical or commercial group. And thel1 Senate obligingly votes the investiga- tion, whose committee usually fails to do even ;perfunctory service, but succeeds gloriously in spending the public's money. The results of the investigations are generally disregarded, and only furnish political ammunition for the publicity seekers. True, some inves- tigations, such as that of the oil scandal, are entirely justified, but most of them are not. Public welfare and public policy ought to determine whether or not an investigation is necessary. The Senate should then consider with greatest care the amount of money to be spent on it. The proposed plan of the Senate is to have the suggested invesigation re- ferred to'the committe which already deals with them, and then have the Committee on Audit and Control pass on whether or not the investigation is justified and worth the necessary funds. The method will thus help to eliminate useless expenditures. On the other hand, it might be said that the Republicans wish to stifle the results, that such searches might bring forth. However, there is little justification for this criticism in the present administration. If the Senate can put a curb on the unwarranted spending of the public's money, \it will have the support of those who feel that they cannot afford to pay for the political fireworks of the senators -all the time. A ,gang of bandits in New York had to "pull" -four "hauls" before they could scrape together the negative sum of $66,000. Maybe that will re- form them? Children born in the territories ceded by Austria to Italy after the World War must be given Italian names, according to a, court ruling. And must they cry-in Italian? Gertrude E. Bailey William T. Barbour Charles Behymer Xihiam']reyer hip C. Brooks I...Backinghum S-tra.tton Buck 3. 'A Burger -d rCarter Io-pli Chamberlain 'yer (Cohen Crlc ton Chamrpe gsn . Cuteyunst N i Dunnigan dn~rew Goodman a mes T. 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Weinman O3car A. lose Margaret Smith prank Mosher Sidney Wilson ITnT~AV 'BRTARV 29 1926 erred to the balalaika pertormance, when in fact that instrument was confined to the program, which the ritic must have read closely; the layer was unable to be at hand, and a mandolin was used by a substitute. While speaking of criticism-I am un- able to speak for the Club here, but only as one of the producers-it is my earnest wish that the dramatic I editor and his critics will refrain froma criticising the performance this year. They know practically nothing of theQ work of the Cosmopolitan Club and0 probably have no sympathy for it. They certainly know little or nothingb at first hand about the machinery,I methods and intent back of Interna- tional Night programs, and that which hey do not understand, they are very likely to misinterpret. They can, if history is repeated, do us no good, andf they might do injury. I should pre-g fer to let the Ann Arbor Times News t do whatever criticising there is to do.- The two thousand people who sawt last years production will agree withd this, I am sure.a Again, although it may do no good,t I will say that so long as the DramaI Column is conducted by people active-s ly taking part in some dramatic pro-I ductions, it is unlikely that other pro- ductions will ever get anything like a square deal. It is only fair to askf that the Drama editor should here- after serve notice in advance as to which productions will receive plenty of free advertising, and which will not. The ones so favored can then shape their advertising budgets ac-t cordingly, and can lay out a plan fort publicity far enough ahead of the event to insure that those interestedE will at least know the date. Friends of the Cosmopolitan Club who may not have seen the three stories in The Daily may be interested in knowing that the Third Interna-1 tional Night is scheduled for Tuesday1 night, March 2nd, in Hill Auditorium. -Prof. A. D. Moore. WHO IS ON T IALT To the Editor: Your columns recently announced that the Faculty of the Law School had decided not to take the record of attendance in their classes this se- mester. An optimistic editorial com- ment followed the announcement. Some of your readers may be under the impression that the Law School Faculty have recognized that they are dealing with students who have sense enough to know why they are here. This would involve recognition of certain facts, viz: that attending class is within the discretion of the stu- dent; that he will be free not to at- tend classes which are a waste of time; that he will be free to be ab- sent when his health demands it, without bringing a note from some- one to vouch for his illness; that he will be a free judge of the relative value of classwork and other inter- ests which he may have;-in a word, that he be treated as Oxford has treated her students and not coddled as though he were a high school pupil.1 Is this the plan contemplated? IT IS NOT! The plan was announce as a trial. Of what? It soon be- came evident. One professor remark- ed to one of his classes last week that the new attendance system was just a trial and that roll would be taken from time to time-and proceeded to take the roll. Shall we not conclude that the new system is to be tried on the basis of attendance maintained under its operation and not on the far reaching results of the freedom given the student? As a matter of fact no real freedom is given the student-he is coerced into attendance by being called upon to recite when absent and credited with not having recited. Last week a professor in one class called on (at a guess) six or eight absentees and not receiving a recitation made a notation of it each time. The fact! that he called on three of these ab- sentees consecutively, scarcely wait- ing for a reply, together with the fact that there was neither an arrange- ment of seats nor alphabetical se- quence of names to explain the acci- dent (?) of their being called upon consecutively makes it clear what his purpose was. To my personal knowl- edge four other professors have done the same thing to a less noticeable' extent. Their purpose is to penalize the absentee without consideration of the reasons for his absence ,which is even worse than the old system. Another professor on one occasion kept all late coners out of his class by locking the door (at five minutes after the hour, I am told, after the preceding professor had held the sec- tion two minutes over time). Even if it isn't a technical violation of fire ordinances, to lock over a hundred people in a room in that building is a greater risk than any man, regard-j less of his supposed authority, should be allowed to create. MUSIC AND DRAMA THIS AFTERNOON: Comedy Club tryouts in Newberry hall from 3 to 5:30 o'clock. TONIGHT: The London String Quartet in Hill auditorium at 8 o'clock. TONIGHT: The Mimes present hlol- berg's "Beggarman .translated by Prof. 0. J. Campbell, in the Mimes theatre at 8:30 o'clock. THE STOCK IDEA The Mimes are announcing the fourth and final performance of "Beg- garman" this evening, although, as in the case of "Great Catherine," the de- mand for seats would easily warrant two, three, or even four additional pro- ductions. It seems unfortunate, again as in the case of "Great Catherine," that after so much elaborate and painstaking preparation a success such as "Beggarman" should be stop- ped just at the high tide of its pop- ularity . The difficulty, obviously, arises from the fact that all the players are in a university rather than a stock- company. Miss Loomis is bound by contract to her work with the Junior Girls' play, other members of the cast are in the midst of fraternity initia- tions, and the sheer physical demands of Jeppe's role preclude a week's run.' The response to "Beggarman," how- ever, has been significant in more ways than one. Probably the play does not sparkle as did the infernaL' wit of "Great Catherine"; its hu- mor is more highly mixed with pathos and a rough tragedy. It is, perhaps, a more complex thing than "Catherine," and perhaps its charm grows more subtly and slowly. But even with the occasional offense in its lines, it is the bigger play, the more difficult surely; it is the finer experi-1 ment. "BfEGG.ARIAN" A review, by Robert Ramsay. Holberg's "Beggarman" is neither so screaming nor so dirty as its ad- vertisements would lead one to hope. Its audience is neither smeared with a mire of coarseness which a happier frame of mind would call frankness, nor does it retire to nurse the wounds consequent upon tumultuous merri- men t. Intother words, Mimes latest ven- ture, while it is very good, cannot measure up "to its predecessors, the "Great , Catherine" from Shaw's sprightly pen, and "Engaged." Which carries the obvious implication that Holberg is not Shaw, and that Pa- tiomkin is a far more delightful crea- tion if you will, than Jeppe of the Hills. Patiomkin was sonething new, equalled only by the Queen in the Opera; Jeppe is a little of Patiomkin a little of the queen, and a little of Belinda Treherne; and then, for- tunately-something else. The wist- ful, winsome simplicity of the peasant who know nothing better than the dung hill and brandy, swept to a par- adise of port wine, which apparently had the requisite amount of "meat" in it, was delightful, but carried to a point just the other side of convinc- ing. The third act, the dining hall of the castle in which Jeppe, duped in his simplicity by the lords, and perhaps not a little befuddled by the. hitherto unknown excellence of the potions he tossed off in vast quanti- ties, abandons himself to the enjoy- ment of his new felt power, and en- ters upon an orgy of execution that would have done credit to the Com- mittee of Safety, was the best. Jeppe on the gallows was a poet; Jeppe in the first act was a poet, not it is sure by virtue of the lines he created. but by his very nature which was ready to accept all the queer turns of fate which his honest sim- plicity could not fathom. His cour- age, which took the shape of brandy in more or less varying quantities, and for Jeppe, courage and brandy were synonimous, turned him into a braggard, a coarse lout, whose nature knew few restraints. Does a poet be- come a lout, or was Jeppe always a' lout? Withal, despite the slowness of the firsthact.tand the annoying pantomime of the street thief whose sole aim in life seemed to be to rob the loaf that sat without the door of the shewish Nille, despite the generally naive at- mosphere of the whole play, it cannot fail to entertain. The setting is ex- quisite. and even sumptuous, the act- ing in parts, excellent, the lines, often clever. It lacks, however, the reck- less swift motion of the Shaw comedy which still stands as the best thing Mimes have done. * * "THE STUDENT PRINCE" Mr. McIntyre has booked the De- troit company of "The Student Prince" for Monday and Tuesday evening in the Whitney theatre. The revue is too well known for more than a mere announcement-the revival of the men's chorus, the drinking songs, Large size Regular $5 one Irving Warneohs,D S C. CHIROPODIST AND ORTHOPEDIST 707 N. University Ave. Phone :'1212 MAN N S 1-- "A Wiser ad Better Plac to Biny" New Spring Hats Are Ready. Hats Clealled and Blocked. 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HALL 4 : A MICHIGAN TEAM In an age of scientific progress and in;lustrial development coupled with religious doubt and misgiving-the natural outgrowth of revolutionary ihought and materialism-there ex- isted a curious anomaly-the beauti- ful, inspiring, hopeful philosophy of Robert Browning. Success is to bej measured not by actual and felt gain, but rather by a certain ability to suc- ceed, conscious or unconscious, that has come from an inner and outward struggle to overcome many and u n- surmountable obstacles; surely such .n 6utlook must have been ,even more than bread, a veritable. "staff of life" to those who have slipped, fallen, and vere crushed where all about them they seemed to see a pushing, striv* ing.....attainment. r z After the first shock from the re- ports of the ineligibility of several of his mere valuable men had been shaken off, Coach Mather began to re- b)ild from the ground a team that had formerly been considered one of the leading contenders for the Con- ference championship. His early at- tempts seemed, by performances, to indicate failure. But by constant drilling, ever trying new combina-1 tions, and abetted by a fighting spirit that would not yield, a new and well oiled machine emerged. After several rather disappointing encounters, the defeat at Ohio by so close a margin to many was crushing. But it was at Columbus that the high calibre of the team was proven, here defeat and success were synonymous. Success in ' this connotation does not meanp ,hat danlable "moral victory" that' coaches and scribes so often employ to cheer the dejected fan, but triumphI over nhipediments physical and moral,, --this 'sort of success the outcome of t1he Ohio.gine clearly indicated. Then caine Wisconsin, and the sport world woke up. ' A team seemingly ruined by ineligibility and given up for lost, is once more looked upon as a serious impediment, at least, to the chances -of- some of the leaders. Whet her or not they win another amne, the 1926 Varsity basketball team will have been a success, not in the more common and superficial CAMPUS OPINION Anonymous communications will be disregarded. The names of communi- cants will, however, be regarded as { jconfidential upon request. - DRAMATIC PREJUDICEI ! To the Editor: About a year ago, in this column, Ii charged those responsible for the con- duct of the Music and Drama Column with being unfair and unsportsman- like. Instead of withdrawing the charge, I wish to repeat it. The oc- casion for these remarks is the fact that on Tuesday night, the Cosmo- politan Club will present its third In- ternational Night program, and the further fact that the Column has made insufficient mention of the per- formance. The Cosmopolitan Club's publicity chairman, Mr. Derrick van Osenbrug- gen, was informed by the officers of The Daily that in order to havej I notices printed, it would be necessary to.get the consent of the editor of the Drama Column. We have succeeded' in getting into The Daily a total of three tines, but into the Column only once. Whether the Column editor is opposed to writing anything (or to having his writers do it) about Inter- national Night, I do not know. The 1 fact is, that he cannot usually be found; he is too busy taking part in dramatics to give proper attention to anything but that , which interests him. At least, this is the only con- clusion left to make. For contrast, I take the case of Beggarman. Please understand, I have no quarrel with Beggarman. Undoubtedly the production has de- served all of the publicity which The Daily has so splendidly given it. It is interesting to note that the Music editor himself takes the lead in this production. In looking over The Daily from February 11 to the 25th, I find that eight issues gave space to "Beggarman; that the space is di- vided as follows: the Column, five times, half a column each time but one; two columns in Chimes; and two front page stories, each of about half a column in length. Contrasted with this record, Inter- national Night has been mentioned three times, only one mention being made in the Column itself.^ ldll }CRITERIONS HE college man has always been looked upon as acriterion in matters ofdress. An SaIszd ilsImote rod clotha sand b hihfie brod cloths are judged, has immeasurably add- Correct forsport or stretear. A your college haberdasher. SEA ISLAND MILLS, Inc. 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