I FAGE FOUR THE MICHICAN DAILY TITflSDTAY AP'RIL 22~, 1 92G ............ Published every morning except Mozv'ay during the Universityyear by the Boas in Control, of Studen tPublications. Memhb(-s of Western Conterence Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or Dot other wise Etedited in this paper and tke local news pub- Iished therein.l Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master Genera'l. Subscription by carrier. $3.50; by 'ail, $4.oo. Offices: Ana Arbor Press Buiding, May- Ward Street. Phonies: Editorial. 4#2g; LnsiN s, 5214. 1D9TMOIAL BTA T Telepbone 4928 MANAGING EDITOR GEORGE W. DAVIS Chairman, Editorial Board... .Norman R. Thal City Editor...........Robert S. Mansfield News Editor...........Manning Houseworth Women's Editor.........Helen S. Ramsay Sport's Editor...............Josoph Kruger 'telegraph Editor........... William Wathour Music and Drama.......Robert B. Henderson Night Editors Smith H. Cady Leonard C. Hall Robert T. DeVore Thomas V. Koykk 'W. Calvin Patterson Assistaat City Editors trwia Olian Frederick H. Shillito Assistants THE INEW "FiERY PETROL" 1 Loosing the most heated bombard- ment heard in Washington since Col. William Mitchell retired to the corn- parative obscurity of private life and! lecture tours, Senator Reed, the Dem-1 ocratic orator from Missouri, has been nobly upholding the cause of the wets against the united opposition of four dry senators on the committee investigating prohibition. Being con- tinually outvoted there, despite his oratory, the new "fiery petrol" took his troubles, via the underground tube, to the floor of the Senate, and promptly precipitated a small riot there. However little sympathy one may have with Senator Reed's plat- form, he is to be admired for his steadfast devotion to his cause. He is most certainly not "on the fence.' As for the investigating committee, except for the interesting exchange; of words between the two forces, I nothing/ seems to have been proved. Edwin A. Olson, district attorney of Chicago, unleashed a new flock of charges against the law enforcement officials of that city. All that he said had long been suspected by law-abid- inz residents of the city and has been TanR IQROLLS IUI ARRIVED AS PER WIRE Before going any further, after hav- ing read the pair of columns which1 EYifnif compiled in our absence, we want to apologize for returning. Were it not for the fact that our parents want us to finish our college educa- tion (this is repeated word for word, since neither of them, have graduated within the last decade or so) we would not have come and ended thej beginning of such an auspicious career. * * * We find that our far too worthyj substitute not only made public our telegram but promised an explanation. It is forthcoming. Because of the fact that we plan to cut this out and mail a copy to each member of the faculty on whose class we threw away $1.37 or whatever the amount was by bolt- ing, we have to word it rather .care- fully. It follows: Music AND D R AMA hL GRAHAPv1-. IS 'C 141 r M I A 0 0 I Gettrude Bailey Charles Behymer George Berneike William Breyer l'hilitC. Brooks Farnum Buckingham Stratton Buck. Carl Burger Edtgar Carter ]oseph Chamberlain Meyer Cohen Carleton (Champe [)ougias oubledAy Eugene II. Gutekunst Andrew 'Goodman JamesT. Herald, ssell itt Miles Kimball M4arion Kubik IarriettrLevy Ellis Merry Dorothy Morehouse Margaret Parker Stanford N. Phelps Archie Robinson Simon Rosenbaumn Wilton Simpson Janet Sinclair Courtland Smith Stanley Steinko Louis Tendkr Henry Thurnau David C. Vokes Marion XWells C'assam A. Wilson Thomas C. Winter Marguerite Zilske charged before. However, no reform is in sight, the recent primary elec- tion in Illinois having brought no out- j standing reform candidates to the front. Investigating committees are forming the habit of disturbing all the mud in the political waters, but quit- 1 ting before a good filtering process is installed1. And Senator Reed, the lonesome "wet" on the committee, might find it more to his advantage to use some of his time in preparing his speech on the Italian debt settlement, an im- BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER BYRON W. PARKER Advertising........-...Joseph J. Finn ,fd ertising.............RUlellah Advertising.. . ..W. L. Mullin Advertisin'......... Thomas D. Olmsted, Jr. Circulation.. ................ames It. DePuy Publication.............Frank R. Dent, Jr. Accounts...................Paul W. Arnold Assistants George H. Annable, Jr. Frank Mosher WV.Carl Bauer F. A. Norquist John H. Bobrink Loleta G. Parker 'anley S. Coddington David Perrot W. J. Cox Robert Prentiss :Marion A. Daniel Win. C. Pusch Mary Flinterman Nance Slomon Stan Gilbert Thomas Sunderland T. Kenneth Haven Wm. J. Weinman I larold Holmes 1MNargaret Smith Osrcar A. Jose Sidney Wilson THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1926 Nigl ' Editor-THOMAS V. KOYKKA - ARLY CLASSFICATON For decades it has been the prac- thie, ahmest 'a tradition, that students at the University should register for the next semester's courses during the week preceding the opening of the term. The result is unbelievable con- fusion. Classification committees and registration officials, faced with the task of classifying some 10,000 stu- dents within a week's time, are over- whelmed, and consequegtly, neither faculty advisors nor students are able to give to the task of making out pro- grams of studies the attention which it deserves. At several prominent institutions, notably Minnesota and Washington, a i practice has been adopted whereby students make their elections of courses and classify for the following. renester before the preceding term is fver. AttJhe first named institution, elections are being received this week for next semester's courses. In order to relieve the burden of classification, it has been provided further that stu- dents shall classify by groups, the seniors being assigned one week, the juniors another, and underclassmen s till other periods. Indeed, a step in the direction of allowing early elections and thus lesseninu the burden upon students,1 their advisors, and classification offi I vials was taken at the University last semester when, contrary to customary practice, elections for the second se- mester of the present school year 'ere received before the close of the fall term. It was a commendable step, but hardly sufficient to afford distinct relief. The plan might well be carried for- ward still another step this spring byl providing for election of next semes-1 ter's courses- sometime before thel June examinations. Students thus' would be given an opportunity to planI early for next semester's work; it1 would allow them considerable time to consult with the faculty members, about matters pertaining to elections; i and it would eliminate the need for the early return to the University in the fall which is now almost neces- sary to give the student time to ar-< mediate and vital question, rather than cross-examining the worried witnesses appearing before the Sen- ate's prohibition committee., "Costless energy" has been invent- ed, a Boston man claims. Perhaps at that price, some Frosh might be ih- duced to, work. Modernism: The Internation'al Electro-Technical commission is con- sidering the abolition of "horsepower" as a unit of measurement. EDITORIAL COMMENT CAUSES OF CRIME (The Philadelphia Public Ledger) Is there a "crime wave"? Or do we only think there is one because the facilities of news-gathering make it seem so? This is a moot point, upon which penologists and statisti- ciapns will dispute until the millenni- um. But there is no escape from thej fact that crime is widely prevalent in the United States and that in this re- spect the comparison with conditions across the border in Canada and in England is by no means creditable to this country. Dr. Bagley, of Columbia University, speaking to the schooolmen at the University last week, assumed the ex- istence of a crime wave and discussed the causes. These he summarized as follows: "A legal system that pro-I tects the criminal, laxity and leniencyf of law enforcement, material prosper- ity and the mobility of, population." We cannot hope, ought not to hope, to do away with material prosperity; and the mobility of population is a permanent factor which cannot be changed. But the other two causes are subject to remedial action, and it ought to be the first duty of the courts, the lawmakers and the people to find and apply them. There is nothing new, of course, in this definition of causes. But the serious thing about it is the apparent unwillingness to change a legal sys-1 tem that protects the criminal or to insist upon more rigid law enforce- ment. It will not do to seek to put the blame for -laxity and leniency upon the passing phase of liquor-law enforcement problems. The real trou- ble lies with the inefficiency of the legal machinery for the punishment of' crime. Lawyers and Judges recognize the evils, but nothing is done to era- dicate them. The truth, probably, isi that nothing short of a thoroughgoing and radical reorganization of our en- tire processes for the application and enforcement of criminal law will meet the difficulty. Such a reorganization would of TO PROF. Dear Sir: We have been absent from your class in -- this week. We feel that an explanation of some sort is due you. It follows. We spent our vaca- tion in New York City. As anyone knows who has been there recently* there is a great deal of building going on at present. Contractors and build- ers of every sort are completing one job after another. It amounts, in fact, to sort of a mania. This form of in- sanity extends even to dentists. This was the cause of our absence. It is our habit to visit the gentle- man, if we may call him that, regular- ly every six months, because, as every one knows, dentists too must live. It was this visit which made us late. Across the street from the office they are building a thirty-five story apart- ment house. Our dentist caught the mania from that. He too felt the urge to drill and hammer, put in re- enforcements and bridges and what not. We unfortunately became a vic- tim. The first few hours were spent in drilling foundations, the second and third day sessions to riveting and pounding. When we had recovered from this he proceeded to do the interior dec- orating. Gold and silver work. This obviously took considerable time. Finally when all was completed the final cleaning up took place, in fact, when all the work was done we came to regard our mouth as the north end of tihe great Houssac Tunnel during lconstruction. Haring read all this you will no doubt wonder that we were not more than one day late in returning, in fact that we returned at all, and we feel that further discussion is unneces- s ary, and it was perfectly all-right for you to mark us absent because how could you tell what happened to us. Sincerely, P.S.-In case you are interested in the construction job, we shall be glad to let you see it for twenty-five cents in quarters, or three bolts. Our phone number is: - - * * NOTES *Subtle flattery may be noticed here. to b filled in with proper information. * * * N. Y. Having already admitted where we spent the none too long vacation, it may be of interest to some of our readers to learn something of the current season in Drama, since such a vast amount of interest on the part of the student body has already been exhibited in their loyal support of campus dramatics. Well then let it be knewn that the chief type of drama which flourishes in the great metropolis this season is the mystery play. Not the old type so beautifully typified by "The Bat" and "The Cat and the Canary" but a brand new form. At present this form is known as "Symbolism" for want of a better name. The "Symbolistic" plays are much more subtle in their mystery than the earlier forms. There is no problem as simple as merely finding out who killed Cock Robin. The mystery in THE FIRST ANNUAL TOUR The tour of Bernard Shaw's "Great Catherine" throughout the state dur- ing the spring vacation closed Mon- cay, April 19, with a matinee and evening performance in the Central High School, Grand Rapids. The play received large houses for all of its engagements, including an audience of over fifteen hundred people in the SPECIAL Pease auditorium, Ypsilanti, over 'S nine hundred school children at the Each Tuesday and Wed- matinee in Grand Rapids, and a sold- nesday out house for the return engagement SHAMPOO, MARCEL in the Mimes theatre, (the tenth per-N formance in Ann Arbor). AND Excerpts from several of the re- BOB CURL views are as follows: $1.25 Detroit Times - "The University hILDA ARNST players bring to 'Great Catherine' all Bertine Beauty Shoppe the ardor of students and the finished 1111 South iver ty Ave. ability of professionals. Their record- Phone 383 breaking performance in Ann Arbor_- is a small indication of their ability." Toledo Blade-"One of Shaw's light- est, gayest and most sparkling farces, 'Great Catherine,' underwent a youth- ful and clever interpretation in the hands of players from the University WASH INGTON I of Miichigan. Pure mad wit, with the amazing Catherine II, Empress of CANDIES Russia, as the medium, furnished!D Shaw, his interpreters and his audi- ences with more fun than a barrel o monkeys." (Ding, dong, dung!) Fresh Every Friday Detroit News-"Players from the University of Michigan demonstrated what capital fun may be had from a, Shavian farce and they acted it in the; antic mood in which it was conceived. The play evidenced careful and intel- ligent direction and the production 709 North University was in nice taste." Kalamazoo Gazette-"The Players ' from the University of Michigan scor- ed another success Saturday night in -t their tour throughout the state when they appeared in George Bernard MAKE E Shaw's 'Great Catherine.' Such a gay, rollicking play it was! And dashed off with such a fresh, spirited air of! MANN' youthful enthusiasm." lMr Grand Rapids herald-"Those who enjoy Shavian humor yore given a(Good Hats treat last night when th Players pre-; sented the immortal George Bernard That Is IV at We Iakce. F Shaw's 'Great Catherine'; while those 1Bee who are no so strong for Shawl IN!fo e netter- found their enjoyment in the well! modulated voices, the excellent read- WE CLEAN A ABLOCK I1ATS. I Ing and the lovely costumes of the HAVE YOUR WOI{IR i)ONE AT OR production.", FACTORY. tHIGI CLASS WORK ONLY. Detroit Free Press--"The audience' was kept in a state of merriment fromFACTORY first to last. Each member of theFA T R HAT STORE, cast was excellently chosen, and ( 617 Packard Street. Phone 7115. 1 trained to a professional tempo, and Amy Loomis, especially, presented a beautiful portrait as the absurd, gig- gling empress." P L EA E "S. S. GLENCAIRN" Due to the difficulty of production DU N T and in order not to conflict with the Comedy Club production of "YouI Never Can Tell," the opening of Eu-! gene O'Neill's cycle of sea plays, "S. S. Glencairn," has been postponed to PA T HI b ) Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 4, 5 and 6, in the Mimes theatre. 0 N T E The cycle includes "The Moon bt I the Caribbees," "Bound East for Car- diff," and "In the Zone," and foretells the powerful springs of talent which have later developed O'Neill into our AT BOTH ENDS OF THE DIACONAL la SKILLED REPAIRING A Rider's n..-o -- ~ : ef It i, ti 315Stage t. Ann Arbor, Mich. REAL SERVICE qI { I a s' a , aobs ry3 b"r N ; I I gza2EMM : Read The Daily "Classified" Columns , r . t t ,j : i E : , . E I i first important dramatist. In these startling plays he succeeds in produc- ing life itself. This life may not al- ways be to the taste of the petty audi- ence, for it is not a sweet and pretty life-the life which a commercial audience cherishes across the foot-j lights-but life it is none the less. It pulses from the stage; it quivers from his adjectives and verbs. Many Amer-' ican plays have heart. It remained for Eugene O'Neill in his "S. S. Glen- cairn" to add the blood.r The cast, which is being trained j under the direction of Mr. E. Morti- mer Shuter, includes the following members: Seamen on the English tramp steam- er "S. S. Glencairn"- Yank ................... Burl Norton Driscoll .............. Donald Lyons Olson .................Richard LutesI Davis ................. Leonard Hall Cookey ..............Alfred Sacks Smitty...........Richard Woolhalf Old Tom, the donkeyman...... .... ............... Kenneth King Firemen on the "S. S. Glencairn"- Big Frank.............Carl Nelson Scotty.............William MacVay Paddy .............. 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You there must also be a clarification of can tell that right away because you the confusion in the public mind be- can't make any sense at all out of the tween the acts of the criminal himself stage action. So the mystery comes 'in and those social conditions which trying to find out just what the idea breed crime. back of the play means. So pewerful Philadelphia is supposed to have its are most of these running at present own movement for the reformation of that nobody has been able to grasp the machinery for the administration even a theory as to the meaning, not of criminal law, but its progress is even the. authors themselves. LOTS - LOTS Vinewood Blvd. 66 x 150-$2900 "Ives Woods" Large Lots $4,500 to $5,000 Norway Road 96 x 150-$5,500' Geddes Road RESIDENCES 1318 Granger Ave. Brick construction $18,000-Terms Geddes Ave. Section Eight rooms, garage $13,:00-Terms 907 Lincoln Ave hot 160x1i.2 1706 Cambridge Road Eleven rooms, large lot, four fireplaces. Location unsurpassed. 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