.., .. , PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WTEDNESDAY, FEI3VRUARY 10, 192G Published every morning except Monday d ring the University year bysthe Bsoard in Control of Student Publications. Members of Western Corderence Editorial Association. i oe Associated Press is exclusively en- tit ld to th, use for republication of all news diap aches credited to it or not otherwise c. d in this paper andthe local news pub- l,;io,,,a oerin. red at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, J1 ,an, as second class matter. Special rate o ,tage granted by Third Assistant Post- Grenral. Subscription. by carrier, $3.50; by mail, eices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- Phones:eEditorial, 4925; business, 21214. some extent does, serve as a model for the states. A general cleaning at Washington would abolish a multitude of corrupt practices and endear to the American people the administration efficient enough to bring about a ?I IiF change for the better. ISM114L(IAN 3IEXICO( HAS RIGhTS! _______ MUSIC .D DRAMA GRAI I T + BOOKS JDITORLAL STAFF Telephone 4921 MANAGING EDITOR GEORGE W. DAVIS 4 ran, Editorial Board...Norman R. fhal Editor ,.... . Robert S. Mansfield e Editor ...........Manning Houseworth k" en's Editor...........Helen S Ramsay S rts Editor................Joseph Kruger ] degraph Editor......... William Walthour' ;c and Drama.....Robert B. IIenderson Night Editors Smith H. Cady Leonard C. Hall Willard B. Crosby Thomas V. Koykka Robert T. De ore W. Calvin Patterson Assistant City Editors Irwin Olian Frederick H. Shillito Assistants A A A Certrude ;. Bailey William T. Barbour Charles Behymer Wiiam Breyer ]Plilip C. Brooks L. Buckingham Stratton Buck . rl Burger 1E.lgar Carter 3 oscph Chamberlain Meyer Cohen Carleton Champe Etug ene H. Gutekunst Douglas Doubleday Mary Dunnigan Andrew Goodman ]ties T. Herald iles Kimball Marion Kubik Walter H. Mack Iouis R. Markus Ellis Merry Helen Morrow Margaret Parker Stanford N. Phelps Simon Rosenbaum 1uth Rosenthal Wilton A. Simpson Janet Sinclair Courtland C. Smith Stanley Steinko Louis Tendler Henry Thurnau David C. Vokes Cassam A. Wilson Thomas C. Winter Marguerite Zilske In a lengthy interview with the New York Times recently, President Calles, chief executive of the Mex- ican republic, clearly and for the firstI time stated the position of his gov- ernment as regards the constitutional regulations which are said to keenlyz affect the interests of American capi- tal in that country, particularly in the1 matter of oil and chicle timber. There can be no question as to the absolute right of Mexico, whom thisj country has recognized as a sovereign state, to enact regulatory measures restricting the extent to which ourI capital may be allowed to exploit within its boundaries. And it would seem that the same government would have more than a controversial right1 to repudiate any grants mnade to American capital bygformer govern- ments whose position was never se-, cure, and whose integrity and soy- ereignity was never universally or of- ficially recognized. The whole question is centered around, not the problem of the legal right or wrong of the action taken by the Mexican government, but whether or not the exercise, of these rights will be to the best advantages of the country. Has Mexico produced enough capital in the form of capital goods and money to carry on production to' the point of highest efficiency without the assistance of American financiers? This is the question which must be answered, and answered by Mexico I herself, uninfluenced by American interests with only the satisfactionI of their own desires in view. Nor should the answer to this ques- tion be reluctantly squeezed from theI Mexican government by official pres- sure exerted by her more powerful neighbor. It is not right, legally or morally, for our government to em- ploy threatening or coercive measures to gain the selfish ends of "big busi- ness." If it can be honestly shown that, at present, Mexico has not suffi- ciently developed to exploit her own resources then, and then only, Amer- ican capital should be given a free rein in that country, providing, of course, that both parties to the in- quiry reach a common understanding of this matter. Events of the past few years have not been of the sort to promote the best of feeling in this country for the' young republic. Affairs in Mexico the, concern us are always tainted with the unfavorable prejudice that arose from the highly painted escapades ofI several well known bandit leaders. Nor must we forget the rather shatd- owy part we took in the annexation of Texas. The dubious scruples of1 both countries upon certain occasions have left a mark which cannot be for- gotten. Since there are only two more months of winter weather, spring hats ought to be "in." BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER BYRON W. PARKER Advertising..................Joseph J. Finn Advertising..............T. D. Olmsted, Jr. Advertising..............Frank R. Dentz, Jr. Nivertising..................Wm. L. Mullin circulation..................H. L. Newman a'ubiication......... ......Rudolph Bostehnan .Counts.,................Paul W. Arnold Assistants A liew or used copy of the SECOND edition of the Daily's J-Hop extra. The one which contains the photo of the Hop. We will send twenty five (25) cents in stamps to anyone who will mail us a copy of this issue, care of this office. Copies of this issue are rather scarce and we ,desire one for purposes of rec- ord. This is written in all seri- ousness.' i ; f S v M. Alving 1ge H. Annable Jr. \. (arl Bauer I 1- 1. obtiuL 4. 3. Cox i~A.Danitl A. Rolland Damm 9ary Flinterman Stan Gilbert Haven R. Nelson F. A. Norquist Loleta G. Parker Julius C. Pliskow Robert Prentiss Wmn. C. Pusch' Franklin J. Rauner Joseph Ryan Margaret Smith Mance Solomon' Thomas Sunderland Eugene Weinberg Wmi. J. Weinman Sidn~ey Wilson * * * MAN AND THE MASSES teach day there are more young ladies at work or play in this office. It is rumored that tea will be served every afternoon at five, to which the more desireable of the few remaining men will be asked occasionally. (By a vote of six to one the staff when asked decided that that was the right way to spell it. We assume no re- sponsibility. Four to one on that word). Now that the place has been repainted and everything we are wait- ing fer the womanly touch to appear. Each day we enter with fear and tre- pidation. Will there or won't ther be cretonno about all the windows and bowls of roses on all the desks. We don't know exactly how many of the fairer and fewer sex there are enrolled on this campus, but it is our wager that no less than fifty per cent of them spend half the day helping to fill one page with news about what the other fifty per cent do . In a few days the same situation will exist among the men, however, and that will make things more or less even. Then this old office will be a seething mass of humanity, as the paragraph- ers are want to say. * * * IMIP SEE)S DRY FUTURE FOR UNiVERSIT'Y. SAYS NEW STA- DIITM WILL NEVER SEE LIQUOR Crew Cach 1eclares Bays of Dunks On College Canipus Is Over For Good. Ann Arbor, Mich.-Feb. 10th, 1926. On top of the stenuous campaign instigated by University authorities at Michigan to clean up the drinking sit- uation on that campus, E. Hamilton Mipp, noted crew coach, stated that he saw absolute success for the plan. "There will be no more drinking at Michigan from now on," he said, "for the students are too obedient to dis- obey the strict orders to ban all booze whitchI they have received. Although the new stadium plan which looks 1 pretty hopeful at present is seen by many as a new cause for orgies by undergraduates, I am convinced that this is impossible. On the contrary, I believe that the percentage of drink- ers at games in the new bowl will be much less, in spite of the suggestive- ness of that name. 1 believe this because I do not see how enough hootch can be brought from Canada to supply even a half of of the seventy thousan spectators. I As it is the bootleggers are forced to work hard all week long during the football season in order to get enough in for the week-ends, and these men are coming more and more to consider themselves as a leisure class. They resent having to work this hard. especially when they make enough money to supply their needs without doing so. Therefore it is quite obvious that there will be less drinking in the future, if for no other reason tha that there won't be enough to gc 'round." This was all he would say. . . * TONIG eT: Tile ,iiies Vaudeville in the Slimes theteire at S:15. "STOLEN FRUIT" A review, by Clarice Tapson. The play may be the thing, but it consistently holds that a fair play with a fine cast will win an audience far more easily than a fine play with a fair. cast. All of which introduces "Stolen Fruit," the play by an Italian new to us, Dario Niccodemi, which is occupying the stage of the Garrick theater this week. It will not set any houses on fire if you read it, but as it is played by Ann Harding Rollo Peters, Larry Beresford, and the rest, it fairly tears the audience down. The story con- cernisa little school teacher who serves a school in a small town in France to be near an unmarked grave that she believes that of her baby daughter, who was taken from her at birth. Eventually, through the aid of the mayor of the town, she finds that her daughter is not dead, but is one of the class of little girls whom she teaches. She is finally re-united with her child: the father who is legiti- mately tide to someone else, re- nounces his claims; and the school teacher, the mayor, and little Annette begin on their "happy-ever after" ex- istence. Not a marvelous play, you might say, and you would be right; but itf has some dramatic climaxes that are great theatre. Anybedy who can -re- main unmoved at the end of the sec- ond act when Ann Harding as the school teacher, searches the faces of the children in her class trying to de- cide which of them is hers, shouldl not pass a box-office. The actmg honors go, of course to Miss Harding; another of Miss B n- stelle's stars is rapidly approaching the peak of the theatrical heaven. In a role that could be easily over-acted to the point of being ridiculous, she uses just enough restraint. She is emotional, but intelligently, and just sufficiently. To the Detroit audience that awaited her with open arms Sun- day evening, with mingled memories of her earlier performances with the l3onstelle Players, she seemed about perfect, in spite of a cold. Rollo Peters as Count Philippe de I , 1. MkW$=MWMKW=VAMMWM :1 I PENS and INK EXCLUSIVELY 315 State St. SKILLED REPAIRING A LL AK E S AND SECOND HAND QUICK SERVICE F r, 6 ( iAKE SELL MANN'S e "A Wiser and Metter Place to Buy." Watch for Our New Spring Line. Hats Cleaned and Blocked. FACTORY HAT STORE 17 Packard Street. Phone 7415. Where 1). U. I. Stops at State St.) DON'T PAT H S EN T H E t Paths on snow fom ice and kill I all grass roots beneath. Please don't make or use such paths. I i. SDid you notice :how we Spell 2 ; 9 '5. HOW ABOUT THAT PLEDGE DANCE ? You want the best music possible, of course. It's JOE PARKER'S CF ORCHESTRA Give us a chance to prove it. Dial 6381 and ask for "Norm" Gilmore I GRANGER'S 8-10 TONIGHT' Our usual W E D N E S D A Y night dance. Dancing Wednesday Friday and Saturday Craham Book Stoares A Both Ens of the Diagonal Walk. Start. The Se ester IRloght, wit a IThe only Fountain .en which holds enough ink for Student Use. It's a Self-Starter anrd Steady Writer. No' 6V r" pen like it or equal to it. Made, Sold and Ser- viced right here in Ann Arbor. II ' AV EDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 19261 Night Editor-SMITH II. CADY, JR. "Great Britain, the master ship- per of the world before the war, is recovering and is fighting hard to regain her pre-war supremacy.. If we do not get behind our Mer- chant Marine and actively boost in every way we can, in another decade foreign ships will again be doing our carrying trade, for they are fighting hard for it. If our merchant marine is again swept from the seas and again foreign- ers do more than 90 per cent of our carrying trade, again shall we pay rates fixed in conferences where we have no voice and from the injustice of which we shall have no appeal."-Commissioner William S. Hill of United States Shipping Board before the Min-, nieapolis Traffic Club today. GOVERNMENTAL EFFICIENCY Teachers and students of political science, and others who theorize on the problems of government, may find food for thought in the charges of Representative Martin L. Davey, Democrat, of Ohio, who declares that the "average government clerk in Washington is a loafer, time-killer, and buck-passer." The only federal employees to escape his scathing de- nunciation are the letter carriers and others directly concerned with the handling of the mails. This is not the first time that the g neral loafing at Washington has been dragged into the limelight. It would seem that a democratic form of government means opportunity for wasting the tax-payers' money on sev- eral thousands of men and women w7ho obtain their positions largely Vhrough "pull," despite the civil serv- ice, and who continue to hold down desks in the government offices with- out doing any work. According to .Representative Davey, government clerks work, or pretend to work, a maximum of seven hours a day, with Saturday afternoons off in the sum- mer, thirty days of vacation, and thirty days sick leave, not counting Sundays and holidays. "The existing conditions -are a tragic perversion of the spirit of the government," he declared in a letter to the Ohio State Federation of La- b6r. "We should get rid of 100,000 .I- +to +Vm- n,d vnc. co- I Y ' . 1 t ' I r 4 ' l } r ( r r t r t , f f C! E f, I 1 F r 1 t t ii i _i i r n z I I EDITORIAL COMMENT] FRANCE IN TfE CRIC ET FIELD! (The Manchester Guardian Weekly) The possibility that French soldiers may be taught to play cricket is cer- tainly a little surprising, but the world's peoples and customs tend more and more towards overlapping, and perhaps it is, in the nature of things, improbable that cricket should remain for ever the province of Eng- lish-speaking peoples. If the news be accurate as well as surprising, it will be interesting to see what Frenchmen ,.kpo f thr La-mc, At Riby footbal l Verdois, the mayor, does his best in a not difficult role. No longer Romeo, but now a French country gentleman, he still retains a finish in his acting that is a comfort to behold. Harry. Beresford as the old janitor provides a fine amount of humor not unmixed with pathos, and Virginia Farmer in the role of another school teacher and Helen Strickland in that of the vin- dictive. principal, while from the American credo they seem to over-act, fitted well into the general French atmosphere . THE OtNGAN RECITAL The customary Organ Recital for this afternoon in Hill auditorium has I been omitted due to the absence of Palmer Christian from the city. * * * "WHY 'MARlR " Masques, the women's campus dra-I matic organization, has received per- mission from Jesse Lynch Williams, holder of the Fellowship in Creative Arts, to produce "Why Marry?", the first play ever to receive the annual Pulitzer Prize.1 In o rder to insure the best production possible, the tryouts are being opened to the entire campus, including both men and women. Mr. Williams has also offered to assist Phyllis Loughton, who will direct the performance, in the general interpre- tion as well as the casting. Th.e tryouts will be held in New- berry hall from three to six o'clock on Friday and nine to twelve o'clock on Saturday of this week. The play itself will be presented in the Mimes theatre Wednesday and Thursday, March 17 and 18. -V. D. * * * TIE FACULTY CONCER' The Fourth Faculty Concert of the year will be presented in Hill audi- toriuni Sunday afternoon, February 14, at four-fifteen o'clock. The solo- ists will include Nora Crane Hunt, contralto, Albert Lockwood, pianist, Marian St rubble-Freeman, violinist, and the School of Music Quartet made up of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Lock- wood, violins, Pauline Kaiser, viola, I and Ora Larthard, 'cello. The program has been selected as follows: Quartet, A minor, Op. 41, No. 1.................Schumann Introaduzione-Allegro; Schcrzo; Adagio; Presto Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood Miss Kaiser Miss Larthard An die Music.............Schubertj Mleine Liebe ist grun........Brahms U l E R liarmony Yes, Hf-monv is what r we provide for our pat- rons. Pleasant surround- ings, tasty food, and ser-qI vice that attracts and pleases. That is the secret of our success. Inar muny 508 East Williams I Iii I j i '1 ' i , a l a , 1 i_ Abler Va~ilp r.i rr tIle Tinst -of D1resi~rnWell' ._.... New Low Prices On Overcoats Go In Effect Today Less Than COST VALUES TO $60.00 If we could tell yen muthi davertisement what these overcoats commanded in theregular way there proably wouldn't lie eso.gh to go aroumnd at these prices. __,, 1 , 3~ 4 S LcN' T Q ll InO Ar -- - .1 New opring 1 ogs YAre r sere ma eo 0Weg 91U. tU UK.Yl~~ci they play uncommonly well; at lawn ODE tennis they nowadays terrorise us. I Both these games lend themselves I love my bottle, I love it brilliantly to the traditional Gallic I love the taste and I love t fervour, but whether three days on l ut I need a companion, I c the cricket field, on the lines of our Oh where the Hell is Mul county matches, will fit in quite so II well with that temperament remains 'Tis cold itnd glowery. 'Tis to be seen. One can very well imagine and drear a French demon bowler; one can also j Yet in this chamber have I see him being vigorously punished by I 'Tis an hour now since I be a French mighty swiper; but does the Oh, where the Hell is Mul Gallic stonewaller come so readily to 111 mind? Sonme, thinking of that difli- The clock strikes One culty, may become more interested afraid than ever in the thought of France Sonic fearsome Ghost inI and cricket-a teamn with no stonie- I strayed wallers in it would be a fine cat to set Once more I bellow the ol amnongst our cautious ('otiy pigeomis. Oh, w hemre thme Hlell is Mu But this would be all very much in IV the future, and if the game has to be- Alas, alack the bottom is 1 gin on the barrack-square in France it I groan with sorrow, I da will be some time before there is any- cry thing but the equivalent of the rough- May the devil take himn an est of "village green" cricket to con- clan sider. And if it has to begin on the Oh, where the Hell is Mul barrack-square it may, perhaps, end I V there-to tie the game up with mili- And now 'tis morn and nc tary service is not giving it the best him of allchan neso rnsurviving as a fea-' rlio kv i soumnbr aidg New Suits New Top Coats New Hats and Caps "Boy, What Hot Ties!" 213 East Liberty St. The Tarsity Laundry Is Opposite Us "Twenly-oie Years a Tailor-Nuff Said." well the smellJ all again [igan? glowery I cheer egan I ligan? and I'm here has d refrain bligan? high min near id all his ligan? o sign of grav and i +- --_ 1_a ..ed ,14 O.1\1 r 4t ; at CAMPUS BOOTERY TODAY AND TOMORROW W. I. BOGGS, Representatie i