PAGI. POUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 20, 192)G + a au tiaava aa ~ .Y. 4&A 161 1 &-/t X i.. i THF. MTCIITCAN DAT! V THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1O2~ Published every morning except Monaay uring the University year by the Boar in Control of Student Publications. Members of Western Conterence Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited t4 it or not otherwise credited in this paper nd the local news pub- lished therein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $3.44; by mail, Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- lard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4lti R siess, *lsz. D'TORiAL ITAFY- elephone 4131 IANAGING EbITOR GEORGE W. DAVIS Chairman, Editorial Board.. .Norman R. Thal News Editor ........... Manning Housewortb Women's Editor............Helen S. 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Olmsted, Jr. Circulation................James R. DePuy Publication..............Frank R. Dentz, Jr. Accounts.................PaulW. Arnold Assistants George H. Annable, Jr. Frank Mosher W. Carl Bauer F. A. Norqulst J ohn H. Bobrink Loleta G. Parker tanley S. Coddington David Perrot W. J. Cox Robert Prentiss Marion A. Daniel Wm. C. Pusch Mary Flinterman Nance Solomon Stan Qilbert Thomas Sunderland .T. Kenneth Haves Wm. J. Weinman hlarold Holmes Nlargaret Smith Oscar A. Jose Sidney Wilson TI-IURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926 Night Editor-CHAS. E. BERYMER "T. found the officers of the TJtnied Sta es under Major Hatch are exceedingly popular, both with students, faculty and townspeo- ple. found the institution saturated with the spirit of self Government. I found the officers proud of their men and the show- ing they make. I found the equip- ment clean and usable."-O. El- lery Edwards, a-graduate of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, writing to Secretary Davis of the War Department to repudiate charges that the Department, through military training in schools, is "Prussianizing Ameri- can youth." CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT By the inclusion of more technical courses in their curricula in recent years, engineering colleges through- out the country have subjected them- selves to charges that their training lacked the cultural value necessary to give their graduates a broad out- look of life. Realization of this de- ficiency has lead to several investi- gations of the entire field of engineer- ing education, including one of na- tional sec pe which was started three years ag under a grant from the Carnegie tfoundation. In cooperation with, the latter movement, the faculty of the Colleges of Engineering and Architecture has taken the lead among' American technical institu- tions in investigating local conditions. Culminating three years of study on the various phases of the subject the faculty committee has drafted definite resolutions recommending both new nd revised methods. In general, their execution would increase the non-technical portion of the engineer- ing curricula, provide better instruc- tion, and furnish vocational guidance t prospective engineering student As indicative of these probable changes, these drafts mark a signi- floant step in the improvement of rngineering education. Furthermore, the resolutions are notable in view of their priority of definite expression. By their zeal and progress in the investigation, the local committees have outdistanced even the national organization, which gvill not meet fcr final compilation of COLLEGIATE Our yllegiate career dates back to the time when Hill street was un- paved. We remember the paving of that street, and the great number of red lanterns that were necessarily scattered about the construction work. We also remember that it was con- sidered quite collegiate to have one of those red lanterns to heighten the atmosphere of the "truly collegiate" room. That is, it was collegiate as far as various poor, misguided freshmen were concerned. Things are ever thus. The fresh- man, away from home for the first time, considers anything unusual, anything that he may do at college that he did not, for one reason or another, do at home, as collegiate. Little does he realize that, in the final analysis, the collegiate way of doing things, if there is any such way, is usually the most conservative way available. Thus we are informed that the city of Ann Arbor is forced to set aside flve hundred dollars annually to re- place street signs torn down by stu- dents. Perhaps there is not better analysis of this situation than that contained in a letter which we re- cently received from a prominent, and, incidentally, popular, faculty man: "Not only is this expense unneces- sary, but there is always a delay be- tween the time that the sign is torn from its post and the time a new one can be installed. In these days of universal travel, strangers are in our city at all times, and street signs are one of the greatest conveniences tha we can provide." Street signs are really petty things, but the treatment they receive often serves to point out petty minds. We are heartily in favor of the upholding of those few traditions that are left and of class spirit, but we are unable to classify the destruction of street signs under either head. YOU'RE SPEEDING-NO FINE "An 'honor system' by which kind- ness instead of fear is employed in enforcing traffic regulations on Pueblo County (Colorado) highways has proved highly effective after three months' operation," declares a story in the Christian Science Monitor. There are still traffic officers, but in- stead of arresting speeders and other traffic law violators, they explain the law and the necessity of compliance for the mutual protection of all the parties concerned. It is an "honor system," and it works on the highways with people of all classes, from the dirt farmer on his way to market to the wealthy tourist on his way to warmer climes. The honor system works there, and yet there are those who maintain that it will not work in a university, in this University. The honor system works because it is based, not upon fear, but upon reason and respect for the rights of others. An honor system with the same basis would be successful at Michigan. EDITORIAL COMMENT f CO-ED CAP 'iI ROLLS Those lanterns, symbolizing the Sbrightness of college days, managed to glow in spite of the threatening rain, symbolizing the final exams. * * * The freshman pageant portrayed all the hopes, dreams, etc., that enter into the life of a college girl. For in- stance, we suppose the "Jestor" was Chimes, "mocking all." s * * * And then the "Dreams" ought to be represented by philosophy lectures. * * * The part of "Beauty" would be filled by The Blue Bird Shoppe. * * * "Doubt" could well be impersonated by a co-ed posing as a student. * * * Obviously, "Fear" would be repre- sented by a blue book. NOTICE TO THOSE THOUSANDS OF READERS WHO TELEGRAPHED IN PROTESTS REGARDING THE NON-APPEARANCE OF ROLLS YES- TERDAY: WE DENY ALL RUMORS TO THE EFFECT THAT THE PO- LICE SUPRESSED THE COLUMN. * * * And to President Coolidge: We promise not to disappoint you again. Now the journalists will be coming forth with jokes to the effect that, even though they are holding editing classes in the old Medical building, there will be no doctoring of news. Have you a little Indian in your houseT THE OLD DAYS Having thus rested for a few days, and knowing only too well the plight in which the esteemed Mr. Hay must find himself, we gallantly take pen in hand in his behalf. Just what there is to say, is a prob- lem since Mr. Hay seems to have cov- ered the ground pretty well. (Person- ally we call him Timothy but how should you know that?) Of course the proper thing to do is to remenisce (that isn't the right spelling, but the dictionary doesn't give it and who are we to set our- selves up a lexicographer) anyway the right thing to do is to remenisce (at least we are consistent) about the thrills and sorrows of the years gone by, and so forth and so on. We really should have done this before retir- ing, but what with one thing and an- other we never got to it. Well, anyway the most thrilling ex- perience we ,had during our term of office came with the first publication of the B. and G. News. When this first appeared we argued two days and three nights with the editor to allow us to print the entire paper un- der a big ROLLS head, but he refused and we had to publish all the meatier parts in two or three separate col- umns. This was, indeed, our first blow, We never quite recovered from it, and to this day whenever we see a copy of the B. and G. News we are liable to do anything from fainting away in the nearest person's arms to kissing the Dean of Women. Talking about B. and G. news puts us in mind of- well we could keep on like that for hours, but we wouldn't do Mr. Hay such a dirty trick. Sir Toby Tiffin. (Editor's Note: Sir Toby Tiffin, for- mer editor of this department, who recently retired in order to assume the editorship of the B. and G. News has kindly consented to our publish- ing some of his private documents, as above, most of which were found in the bottom of his desk in this office and consist of old envelopes and rot- ten articles by himself and others. Sir Toby Tiffin. * * * NO MUSIC but REAL DRAMA Fish Horns Without Harmony She was whamdoodle sweet, this Raga Carey, the wild-flower of the mountains, in that movie put on at the Goodwill meeting by the Tolstoy league. Everything happens in the little village which the beautiful sub-title said nestled in the southern hill. Uncle Sam was a big farmer. After the war is over, and because the United States doesn't join the Laague of Nations, old Uncle Sam kills himself. Sad, in- deed. -Count Asparagus. * * ** There's one thing about that Uncle Sam movie we can't understand: * * * Why didn't the Rae show it? Music- ANDI DRAMA TONIGHT : The University School of Music announces the second concert of the annual May Festival at 8 o'clock in Hill auditorium. MADAM HOMER A review, by Robert Ramsay. It was the type of concert that critics seek, perhaps in vain, to em- balm forever in the pale amber of their pagan prose. Here, memory must perform the office that faltering words cannot do. The Don Fatale aria was unforgettable. Homer has a voice like an archangel. If there is regeneration in music, it must come after hearing such women as Schu- mann-Heinck and Louise Homer. She has many virtues-her deep sincerity, her compelling sympathy, her majestic serenity; she has but one fault, it is her failure to articu- late her tonecarefully. She sings with a tone that splashes liberally over the entire landscape. Like all great singers, she paints every note of her voice. 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The inimitable John Barrett, whose name had not appeared on the front page for many moons, announced his tentative can- didacy for the Republican nomination for United States senator in Vermont, with the proviso, however, that if any man more loyal than he to President Coolidge should desire the same hon- or, he would retire. Along comes for- mer Governor William W. Stickney of Ludlow, law partner of Attorney Gen- eral Sargent, and the former minister to Siam makes good. "Placing gen- eral good before personal considera- tions," he says, "practising what I preach and wishing to avoid dissipa- tion of President Coolidge's strengthl in Vermont, as is being done by some other States by multiplicity of candi- dates," he unreservedly withdraws in favor of Governor Stickney. This is good sense, good politics and good fellowship. All of which is interesting but not overwhelmingly important. It is of moment, however, that Governor1 Stickney should have entered the con- test against Senator Dale, for he 4has done so as the avowed Coolidge can-j didate, if we may judge from his' an- nouncement, and the issue is 'clear cut. "I am in sympathy with the wise statesmanship of President Coolidge," he says, "and the same policies for which lie stands. Because I believe in Calvin Coolidge and in the great- ness of the work he is doing for goodj her pallette with the blues and silver grays of Velasquez, Homer turns to the midnight blue, the soft glowing red of Titian, and despite her failure to articulate the tone, it is so rich in color, so vibrant, so sensitive, and re- sponsive, that it cannot fail to move one to transrorts of delight. Margaret Matzenauer, with a passionate op- ulence that is alnost brutal, turns one inside out in excitement. Homer, with a calmness, and serenity, even an austerity that is almost Puritan, with a tenderness and majestic sym- pathy of love, can move one to tears. The Mozart aria displayed her to be a perfect mistress of elegant sing- ing, while in the Don Fatale, she sang with such intense dramatic ef- fect that the thunderous applause seemed too weak a response. Her voice is not powerful, one is not con- scious of immense reserve, unlimited power, she gives all she has, but it is of such intense beauty that an audi- ence is immediately won by its charm. The beauty of her singing was no where more apparent than in her last encore; her greatness never greate- than in the Don Fatale aria; her weakness, no where, more distressing than in the first number with the piano. Then there is Frederick Stock. Con- summate actor, wonderful musician- Caesar with a baton, Stock, with a bow that is worth the price of ad- mission to watch. He has the great est bow that is bowed before any audience in this generation, of such infinite elegance as one can only imagine if one has not seen it. No one is greater in Beethoven or Wagner- few orchestras equal to the Chicago group. * * * COMEDY CLUB The following officers were elected in the business meeting of Comedy Club which was held yesterday after- noon in University Hall: president, Valentine Davies, '27; vice-president, Phyllis Loughton, '28; secretary, Mi- nerva Miller, '27; treasurer, Dale. Shafer, '26. THE DUCHESS ANI) TIlE WAITER Quite happy, they say, is the Ann Harding-Rollo Peters combination at the Garrick in "The Grand Duchess and the WIaiter," the Arthur Richman translation of the French farce of waiters, bathtubs, of a pauper duch- ess and the Swiss republic. The play in itself is broad comedy with humor of situation as well as lines that strangely lose little in the translationI -lines that the Comedie Francaise is still snickering at-in a nice way! The story is of a Grand Duchess done in the grand manner by Miss Harding, the pretty waiter who spills butter down her neck and whom she attaches to her service to find that he is the son of the president of the i kk hen it's a rainy night-and with three.. crafty, bridge players your luck is running wiWd -have a Camrel! PLEASE DON'T MAKE PATHS ON THE _' \ 11 " " t s', J:~.. kv'>~ WHEN the dark skies are pouring rain outside. And fickle fate deals you hands at bridge that you play with consummate skill-have a Camel! For Camel is the silent partner that helps every deserving player win his game. Camels never hurt or tire the taste, never leave a trace of cigaretty after-taste. Regardless of the gold you spend, you'll never get choicer tobaccos than those rolled into Camels. So this evening as you ply your unerring skill, evoke then the mellow- est fragrance that ever came from a cigarette. Have a Camel! YK f1 i i. i L