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THE "CLEA'N PR1ESS" BILL
During this season this department
has more or less subtly waged several
campaigns. Of these only one has
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Attempting to control the flood of jbeen entirely successfl.Aieas.
undesirable news flow disseminated in only one has made itself felt within
the competitive reporting of law court our life time. That is the one against
proceedings, the British House of local weather conditions. Apparently
Commons, by the overwhelming vote
of 222 to 3, has passed a "clean press,, mere mortals have turned us a deaf
bill, which was designed to strengthen ear, but gerat all-powerful Nature haq
the British law against reporting in heeded our harangues. No one can
newspapers morally objectionable ma- deny that since vacation the weather
trial arising in cases before the hereabouts has taken a noticeable
courts. turn for the better. No longer do the
The new bill provides for the pun-;t orsherbett e osnowthe
ishment of the editor and publishe clouds hurl countless feet of snow on
of the paper which is judged to have our fair city. No longer do chill
sary details" in reports of divorce winds sweep down upon us.
trials or other cases. The reporter Of course some skeptics will say
who writes the story is clearly not to that spring is come. That the natural'
be held responsible. Reports forbid- cycle of seasons, not our propaganda
den are those "calculated to injure has wrought this change. To them we
public morals," and the punishment say look up the records, weather bu-
includes imprisonment up to three reaus, astromers, astrologers, and
months and fines up to five hundred scientists in general united in the
pounds. prediction that there would be no
The -regulation of newspapers summer this year. Surely these learn-
through legal proceedure has never ed 'men make no mistakes. What
been successful, as the line of demar- then has caused the coming warm
cation between that which is objec- sunny days? The answer is obvious.
tionable and that which is real news We thank you.
is difficult to draw. Such a bill, * * *
passed in the United States, would We are requested by post-vacation
bring forth a hue and cry from almost bummers and student car owners to
every paper in the country that the thank (1) the owners of the cars for
"freedom of the press," that funda- lifting the bummers to their destina-
mental and zealously guarded Amern- tion, and (2) the said bums for the
can liberty, was being impaired. The gas they bought the car owners. Rep-
opposition to it in England is also resentatives of both groups also de-1
strong, despite the definite stand on sire us to remark that the state roads
the matter taken by the House of are exactly what they are cracked up
Commons. to be.
After all, is the prohibition of news * * *
that is not clean, and Which is pub- GRATUS VERSE
lished day after day by less ethical I.
newspapers, to be guarded by the old 'Twas but last month that I was
demand for the "freedom of the broke.
press?" Editors should not be allowed I had an awful time.
to continue to flood their communities It hardly could be called a jest
with such trash, and yet, since it I didn't have a nickel.
seems to be without doubt financially II.
profita'le to do so, the only method A friend of mine I chanced to meet,
of stopping the practice is by law. I tried to get some jack,
American journalists will watch "The system you can never lick,"
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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1926
Night Editor-LEONARD C. HALL
"I can't agree with gloomy per-
sons who are predicting that the
world is in a 'fearful state justj
because things are not done in
the old fashioned ways. I say
Ihat no race or land is doomed
,hen its people own their homes,
and the interest in home owner-
ship in America is not waning. I
have seen more than a million
and a half people, three-quarters
of them women, eagerly seek in-
formation on how home owner-
ship might be obtained."-Robert
H. Sexton, managing director of
the sixth annual "own your
home" exposition at Chicago.
THE MILLION DOLLAR CLUB
Studeutactivities at the University
shoiud entene around the Union,
Michigan s smillion dollar club for
ren." There is no reason why the
various departments of the building
should not opeitte at very near capa-
city hroughout the school year,and
-rhy the loungii rooms and lobbies
:hO ld not be, 1 scenes of. throngs,
alost, of students going there for
tut for recreation, and to meet
fri1s, Certainly such an institu-
ticjshould be at least so popular
{h At.ne could count it an even chance'
ti. if he were looking for any par-
tic lar student, le would be as likely
to ;foud at the Union as anywhere
Ai ld yet, it is sad but also true, the
nion atpresent enjoys no such pop-
ulariry. Students, many of them, visit
the nion only when some business
calls them there. For this it is difii-
tilt to find a satisfactory explanation.
Certain it is that the old Union, before
the days of its present imposing home,
enjoyed greater popularity among
students. It was then the center of
student activities. This position the
Union held for some time after mov-
ing into its new home; but since that
time it has steadily lost its place otI
favor-,a position which it should and
must- retain at all cost.
This year a new and vigorous effort
has been made to restore the Union
to that position. In this it has been
at least partiahy successful, for the
new pool, the various contests, Pen-
dleton library, and a vigorous ad-
with interest the results obtained by
the law in England. If it is success-
ful there, why not eliminate the pres-
ent distasteful and often crude re-
ports of scandal cases in the journals
of the United States through the same
methods?
RESPONSIBILITY
The cashing of bad checks by stu-
dents of the University has increased
to such an extent that the Student
council, hoping to decrease the prac-
tice by circulating the state law on
the subject, has authorized the dis-
tribution of placards containing copies
of the law and stating the punish-
ment. This action has been made
necessary by the deliberate breaking
of the law by many students.
Carelessness, it is true, is usually
responsible in the cases of checks
that are returned to obliging mer-
chants marked "Not sufficient funds."
However, when a man has advanced
to university standing, it is to be ex-
pected that he will be able to figure
up a bank balance accurately. Mis-
takes in addition and subtraction of-
fer no excuse for breaking the law,
the punishment for which, if invoked,
is heavy.
Such an action as that taken by the
council seems ridiculously out of
place in a university community. Now
that the state of affairs has been call-
ed to the attention of the students,
further publicity on the subject
should be unnecessary.
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Quoth lie, and I turned purple.
III.
Then asked I, growing much con-
fused,
"What system?" in vast rage,
(For I was irked to be turned down)
"This gambling," quoth the wise man.
IV.
The moral of this tale is plain
Don't spend your dough, but save;
Because (you see I'm growing crazy)
You'll need to pay for a haircut.
YIFNIF.
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SY'MBOLIS M
As we were saying in our last lec-
tune, we are about to discuss the ad-
vantages of the symbolic system of
playwriting. These are numerous.
First of all, since the author himself
does not know what the play means,
he can go to the theatre night after
night and enjoy himself immensely
trying to figure out what he meant.
If he ever does get it all straightened
out he can write in his memoirs,
make a lot of money out of them, and
die with a more or less clear con-
science.
Another added advantage to the
actors of the play is that, since there
is no particular meaning to the thing,
they can pact it anyway they chose.
No one can ever say that they gave
anything but a perfect interpretation.
They share this advantage with the
various Russian companies which
ravaged this continent a few seasons
ago. The difficulty there, however,
was that there was always the chance
that someone in the audience might
understand Russian. Then, too, there
were translations....
Besides this, of course, there comes
another God-send for the audience.
If anyone has a seat from which he
can't see or hear; if he comes late;
if he falls asleep; if he misses a whole
scene; he can enjoy the show just as
much as anyone else in the house. And
finally the producer can save thou-
sands of dollars on scenery and cost-j
umes. Anything will go.I
From these few remarks we hope
that the reader will see just why
symbolism has such a grip on the
New York stage today.
* * *
The S. C. A. is at last showing faint
but undeniable traces of a sense of
humor. As part of the festivitives on
Mothers' Day they have planned to
take the entire group of mothers and
children to the performance of
O'Neill's Glencairn cycle.
* * *
SPRING
This is the time of year when all
the cigar stores double their sale of
five cent fumigators to the campus(
"THE GREAT GOD BROWN'
A review, by Sir Toby Tiffin.
Since none of the outstanding
critics of the day have reviewed this
play successfully, we step forward to
do so without the slightest hesitat-
tion for, after all, one failure is as
good as another. Mr. O'Neill's play is
either fifty years ahead of its time
or the product of a mind that con-
ceived life in terms so complex and
enigmatic that it was unable to ex-
press it save chaotically.
If the former proves to be true,
"The Great God Brown" will go down
in Dramatic history as one of the
greatest plays of this century. If the
latter is the case it will at least be
recorded as a brave attempt at the
impossible.
At least he has contributed a for-
ward step in the theatre of the day.
He has brought the mask back to the
modern stage.
For O'Neill has used his masks
symbolically, and for the first three
scenes we saw the possibilities, of
moving sincere drama by their adop-
tion to show the real and the outward
personalities of the characters. The
mask is the man the world sees, un-
masked, he becomes his true self.
The possibilities seem unlimited.
Yet the author's conception was not
to base a well-made drama about this
idea. He seemed to be striving for
something more infinite, perhaps a
universal portrait of human existence.
Specifically the vagueness of his sym-
bolism comes when one character as-
sumes the other's mask, is believed to
be that person and yet keeps his own
identity. At the end the wife of the
man whose mask Brown assumed
sees only the mask and worship it as
her husband.
Thus far there is no one, save
O'Neill perhaps, who pretends to
fathom its meaning. Yet all is not be-
yond comprehension. The tragedy, as
in the playwright's previous plays,
lies not in the characters themselves
but in their inability to understand
each other. Only one person in the
play seems to see life and man in
their proper perspective. That is
Cybel, in realism a prostitute, symbol-
ically Mother Earth. There is a I
weird sort of beauty, moving yet puz-
zling, in the lines of the play. We
felt ourselves gripped by the tragedy,
even though we failed to comprehend
its meaning. The acting of William
Harrigan and Leona Hogarth was
outstanding, and, we suppose, authen-
tic characterizations.
Some of us may live long enough to
appreciate our laugh at "The Great
God Brown." Personally, it gives us
something to look forward to in our
declining years.
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THE MATINEE MUSICALE
A review, by Vincent Wall.
Tennyson never intended that his
Lady of Shalott, who was a perfect
lady, should ever be hashed over into
a cantata-and never for women's
voices; and if he had, Charles Ben-
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