'AGE FOUR THE MICHICA DAILY SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1925 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 republication of all news dispatches credited to it or ot: otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished therein. Entered' at -the postoffice at Ann Arbor, 'ichigan, as second class matter. Special rate " of postage granted, by Third Assistant Post- anaster General.; ubscription by carrier. $3.5o; by .mail,1 Oflices: Ana «Arbor Press Building, May- pard Street. Phoses:.EBidtorIa1, lss; b asi es, 315s1. iNf ' C A k .6# t 5St i '1 i ¢r Vi 'V ,; a, ~DrTORTAL BTi1I kt lelphoue 4935 ?MANAGING EDITOR GEORGE W. DAVIS " Chairman. Editorial Board....Norman R. Thal City Editor..........Robert S. Mansfield News Editor..........Manning Houseworth WoUmen's dir.....Helen S. 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It calls for the abolition of regulations which are too -lenient, speed laws which Are more liberal than fifteen miles per hour in the residential cen- ters and thirty-five miles per hour in the open country, regulations which make it possible to obtain drivers' permits before having attained the age of 16 years, rules which allow a permit to be held longer than three years without renewal, an.d laws which sanction license plates following the car when it is sold. Demand is also made by the code for more drastic discipline of the class of motor offenders known as "repeat- ers," whose "mental and moral traits," according to the conference officials, "should exclude them from the high- ways." More adequate playgrounds in order to keep the children off the streets is another platform which is included in the model set of statutes. It is encouraging to know that ac- tion is at last being taken to halt the appalling loss of life and injury which has been Increasing every day. There is not an edition of a metro- politan newspaper that does not de- vote nearly a column to the terrible toll which motor accidents have taken. But until the meeting in Washington no national efforts which might result in far-reaching effects had been made to relieve the condition. A standard set of rules throughout the country would relieve the perilous traffic conditions, and the state legis- latures should cooperate with the movement by amending their statutes so that they may be consistent with the model code. IDEAL -RIVALS When Michigan's track team enters the packed gymnasium at Ithaca to- night to compete in the fifteenth an- nual dual indoor track meet with Cornell, there .will be retenated the keen, competitive struggle that has proved itself rich in tradition for a period of twenty-four years. Begin ning in 1902, track competition be- tween Michigan and Cornell has de- veloped until it is an illustration of an almost perfect form of athletic rivalry between the two universities. Coincident with this --development has been the observance of many customs in connection with the meet which have given'it an atmosphere of unusual interest. Whether the meet takes place at Cornell or at Michigan, the same conditions prevail. - One of these observances is the continual playing of the band while the races are run. Starting with the crack of the pistol and playing fast or slow tempo, as the length of the race suggests, the music turns the crowded gymnasium into bedlam at the finish of each contest. Another custom featured in the meet is the formal attire of all the officials. With the exception of the two coaches, who absolve themselves from this form of social proced&ire this prece- dent has never been violated. - -Im- mediately after the track meet, a banquet is given, at which the teams, officials, and alumni of both univer- sities a're present. It is significant that, regardless of the outcome of the rivalry each year, a strengthened good-fellowship is pre-eminent and dominates the rela- tions between the two teams. Michigan is eager to be able to en- gage in such competition with Cor- nell each year, and to play her part in fostering that spirit of sincere friendship which should be present in all forms of athletic rivalry. George 11. Annable, Jr. ),. sari Bauer. -jhn Ii. ]Lobrink Q' i-dy .Cocdington WV. -J,_. -GOT,--,.. -Marioin'A. Daniel Mary Flinterman ;Stan -Gilbert T.a Kenneth- Havei J1aiiAd Holmes Orrcar A. Jose Frank Mosher F. A. N4orquist LIoleta G. Parker f David Perrot Robert Prentiss Wmn. C. Plxsch Nance Solomont Thomas Sunderland Wn. J. Weinman' Margare Smith Sidney .Wilson '"' '' - m . u u L..,a.A a thorough investigation of the mat- ter, instead of making apriori gener- alizations, based upon prejudice or an D R A M A inadequate knowledge of herd psy- chology, will admit readily, or reluc- j tantly, the entire correctness of my TODAY: The Junior Girls' play, statement, which I would make even "Becky Behave," in the Whitney more emphatic if I knew how. I have theatre at 2:15 and 8:15 o'clock. been more or less in touch with this * * * thing since the beginning, and if there "LE PAQUEBOT 'TENACITY'" is any exception to this rule I think A review, by Robert Henderson. I would have heard of it. "The Steamshp 'Tenacity'" by The foregoing is submitted not as a Charles Vildrac, which the Ypsilanti matter of opinion or Princeton loyal- Players are presenting this week as ty It is a matter of ascertainable the final bill of their eleventh season, fact, of record and of common knowl- formed the bulwark of Copeau's edge to all well-informed persons in I repertory during the last valiant years and out of academic circles. This of Le Theatre d Vieux Colombler, knowledge can so- easily be obtained and stands today almost alone through by those not well informed that I do the hysteric strain of post-war Paris not believe that a man of Prof. as the masthead of French genius. Cooley's eminence and accuracy was It is a quiet play, "Tenacity," filled guilty of making such a palpable with a serenity of a past that seems blunder. IHe was misunderstood and forever vanished, uninteresting to the unintentionally misquoted, and will present commercial audience and the therefore, I am sure, be glad to see appetite wetted only with saxophone this correction-for the sake not only successes. Pregnant with that in- of scientific accuracy, but of ordinary tensely shrewd and disillusioned op- human optimism. timism which is so essentially There are always people who de- French, its effects are both unstudied rive a perverse pleasure from believ- and untheatric; it is realism in its ing the worst of human nature., espe- best sense-a truthful, uncolored por- cially youthful human nature. (Prof. trait of life. Cooley is not that sort, and this con- Vildrac himself is an artist in life, firms my belief that he was mis- his reaction are as direct. le tells a quoted.) It annoys certain absurd story, with simple, moving dignity, of little pessimists to hear that the two brothers Bastien and Segard, younger generation occasionally be- as opposite as brothers always are haves itself pretty well without the and an earthly girl. Much like Gal- I compulsion and authority of their worthy in "The Pigeon" and "The) elders. But that precisely is why and First and Last" of Eugene O'Neill in the chief reason why the Honor Sys "Beyond the Horizon" he, treats of tem hvorks successfully everywhere. wistful, inarticulate figures. It has to be started and run by the The eldest brother, Bastien, more students themselves or it is likely not daring loud and shallow, has argued to ork at all. Segard into embarking for France. rof. Cooley was also represent-id, Waiting for their ship, the two rest a! or misrepresented, as saying that the week at an ocean-front inn. There attitude of the honest student toward they meet the girl Theresa-a bitter the cheater "is not severe enough." triangle-,and. Bastien carries her Wrong again. Exactly the opposite away: he who was so keen for ad- Is the truth. The only criticism of venture back to the country, while the the Honor System I have ever heard boy Segard sails unwillingly for a at Princeton was that the undergrad- new land. The curtain falls with the uates were too meticulously severe. victor undecided before the subtle The faculty has been known to beg irony of its conclusion. the student committee respectfully to I Elizabeth Strauss as the girl gave f reconsider acase. The committee re- a complete, exact performance. Her fused the faculty's re'quest. dharacter, which in the hands of an- -To make a go of the Honor System, other actress could be more sensual, it is not necessary to "change human presented a child-woman swayed un- nature,", as some think who haven't wittingly by the istinctive -passion thought enough. Not in the least. of th' peasant. nveneered by the All you have to do is to arrange some proscriptions of society, she is as of its stimuli and let human nature primitively sexed as Nature itself. take its course. Quay Beyer as Bastien equally en- I have cited the example of Prince- compassed his part, and Walker Ever- ton merely because I happen to know ett as the boY-in one of the most it best. That ancient and intention- subtly poetic roles of all literature- , ally small seat of learning and the touched ,again andagain, the deep venerable University of Virginia, fire of the character, especially in his which had the Honor System years sensitive scenes at 'the opening of the before Princeton dreamed of it, are play. His last act, however, lacked t,-not the only institutions where the the sure even tenor that can come System has met with more than "some only with gruelling work-the lesson t succes." Nor do they claim to have of absolutely certain effects which a different sand superior breed of the every actor finally learns. In Miss - human species. It is simply that the Horner as the Widow Cordier the di- students themselves, some of whom rector completed the picture with a used to cheat, boastfully and most in- perfect piece of type casting. geniously, when (and because) they For Paul Stephenson the produc- were under espionage, did not fancy tion comes as a high climax and con- the indignity of being watched and so clusion to his work as director of the! decided to capitalize their esprit de organization, and he is to be connect-! corps and turned their individual self- ed next season with Richard Bole- assertihn into a social asset instead slawsky at the Laboratory theatre, of a liability. New York. In a healthy atmosphere, Anyone who has the slightest prac- with grateful material, his extraordi- tical knowledge of the phenomena of nary talent should flower to the bloom human gregariousness can see how they call genius. simple and reasonable it all is by " E AV observing what happens at any pen- "EK EAE tlemen's club the world over when A review, by Kenneth Wickware. member is caught cheating at cards. It is gratifying to perceive that a He is hauled up before the board of theatrical production can be pleasing governors and kicked out. And that's to the eye without being what is- all there is to it. Every layman called a spectacle play. The Junior who knows the ways of the world Girls' play as presented at the Whit- knows that. I really can't see why it should be ney theater last night was in effect , sdlihfl nafir, as one could,1 so difficult or distasteful to believe as-delightful an affa-sne u ,that youth will not and cannot es- .hope to see. This has been acconp- ' tablish a similar code when given en- lished without an involved plot, be- co-ragemeit, instead of discourage- wildering scenery, or a dazzling ar- nent. Youth with its idealism, its yChicaogowns direct from Paris or enthusiastic respect for good sports- There are more pretty girls in the manship, its love of Alma Mater,-a play than one has proper time to look far more potent passion than the at, and the dramatic ability developed hard-boiled businessman's fondness is little short of startling. It is of for a mere club-prefers to be self- the highest credit to the girls them- respecting when it has a chance. Old selves, as well as to Miss Amy Loomis, dodos may keep on wagging their who directed the production, that the -action, dancing, and singing have al sceptical heads, if they enjoy doing so,acion ssand s nity havesa ( but meanwhile the Honor System in graciousness and spontaneity that is unsurpassed. examinations has worked, is now Minerva Miller was lovely as Becky, working, and will keep on working, the bookshop girl; and the colored f let pessimists say what they will, girl "Chloe" is played bewitchingly I understand it is working admira- by Emily Oppenheim. The men, bly here in the Engineering depart- Jerry and Bill, portrayed respectively menit, and as an outsider I cannot un- I by Margaret Sherman and Angeline ,derstand why it should'n't work equal- Wilson, are sensibly more competent and convincng thant such parts usual- ly as well in all other departments. yar which isan attart byuno -Jess Lynh Wi!ials are, which is an attainment by no means inconsiderable. Then there I was Mary, in the person -of Marian Fairy music is being heard in Ire- yLeland,, who was quite beautiful and land,,according to reports. One story, thoroughly personable. But one's claims that a tiny red figure, dressed store of adjectives can not keep pace in red and mounted on a horse, had with one's remembrance of the pretty been seen. The fairies left this coun- faces, of dances, and the haunting try with prohibition. songs. The company was excellent through- 4 # t PLEASE ON THE CAMPUS three years. Moreover, every doubting Thomas-and they bob up perennially --who has taken the trouhle to make ! 1,It f a ( music Good Hats That 4s What We Make. None Better There are any who sell good hats, but NONE BETTER [han we make.! Save a Dollar or More at the FACTORY HAT SrPTORE1 817 Packard Street,. Phone 7415.1 Let Kodak keep the story The stroll on Sunday, the 'game on Monday, the campus any day-they all offer chances for pictures you'll enjoy at once and prize always. 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