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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927
Night Editor-ELLIS B. MERRY
IN NORTHC HINA
With the nationalist troops advanc-
ing .toward- Pekin from the Yangtze
valley, foreign powers may soon find
themselves faced by the same condi
tions, .particularly as they regard the
welfare of their nationals, which they
have experienced with the Cantones
capture of Shanghai and the surround-
ing territory.
Though Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, the
Southern commander, has attempted
to oust the radicals from his forces,
any foreigners in the districts being
captured by the Cantonese will run
the risk of being mistreated by the
soldiers. The only safe, practical pre-
caution seems to .lie in evacuation
of the endangered area. Tientsin, a
coast port easily accessible to naval
craft, has alredy been suggeited as a
concentrating center similar to that
now maintained at Shanghai for the
central area.
If tire Cantonse troops continue to
advance, the 'United States should not
delay in giving its nationals proper
warning. If s 'advised, its citizens in
turn could do no better than profit by
the inconvenience and danger caused
by the delayed evacuation of Amer-
icans from the Yangze valley. j
CURRENT EVENTS
Michigan students are indeed for-
tunate in being eligible for competi-
tion in the Intercollegiate Current
Events contest, conducted by the New
York Times when it is considered that
Chicago is the only other university
not located in the East which is on the
Eccreited list of colleges and univer-
sities. The second annual contest will
be held in the near future preliminary
to the so-called national competition.
A torough knowledge of current
events is recognized t'oday as being
as valuable as that of any university
course. A precise reading of reput-
able newspapers each day is the only
preparation necessary. It is the aim
of the contest to bring forth intel-
ligent answers to questions concern-
ing the prominent events of the world
which have occurred during the past
year. It resolves itself into a test of
careful newspaper ,reading
Last year 28 students of the Uni-
versity entered the competition-a
small representation considering, the
number of students on the campus.
Wien t 1he i r~3PlintP~PCt in the~

LOST IDEALSz
Ten years ago yesterday the head-c
lines of every newspaper in the coun-a
try emlblazoned the news that the
United States had formally declaredc
war upon Germany. Preparations1
were gotten under way and the cam-
paign to end all wars, make the world
safe for democracy, and establish a
commonwealth of nations was en-
thusiastically begun. Everyone ral-I
lied to the cause.!
Today many of those ideals haveV
been scouted as impractical in thet
cynicism which naturally followsi
such a conflict. This has been espe-
cially true of the ideal of the Leaguef
of Nations in our own country. Thoser
who would particularly profit by itc
have declared themselves against thet
League and our Senate has backfired
on the World court. In the minds oft
a few, rtetrogression has taken the
place of progress in international
politics.t
It is true enough that the world
has not gone very far in this respect
since the great conflict, but some,
definite advances have been made.
. The present day cynicism will give
way eventually to enthusiasm and the
day will come when this country will,
inevitably "gravitate" into the Leqague
and the ideal of ten years ago will
eventually triumph.
J DETROIT-THE AIR CENTER
Commerical aviation on the conti-
nent has long been recognized as the
ultimate means of transportation, and
ten years of development have linked
together many of the larger cities in
a net work of privately operated air
transportation lines: Sky traffic in
Europe has become a systematised
reality and an integral part of every
day life ,but it has been left almost
wholly to European ingenuity to show
sleepy America the way to develop
her unquestionably greater resources
and facilities in this field.
America has finally begun to give
this matter a little attention and the
realization of the possibilities of
American commercial aviation has
centered itself around Detroit, which
is the logical geographic and econ-
omic location for its development on
a practical basis. Detroit, with more
than $5,000,000 invested in the manu-
facturing interests of its 36 aircraft
companies, has already assumed the
leadership in this inevitable change
in methods, of transportation, and
promises well to maintain its position
as the future center of commercial
and civil aviation in this country.
The recent craze for the saying
"ask me another" is nothing new.
Secretary Kellogg has been playing
that game with our f6reign relations
since the day of his appointment.
College students ar not as inter-
ested in how fast their car will go as
they are in getting it to go at all.
Pretty soon the "expenses" of the
)'Anti-Saloon league will exceed those
of the national government.
CAMPUS OPINION
Anonymous communications will be
disregarded. The names of communi-
cants will, however, be regarded as
confidential upon request.
THE SOLID SOUTH
I To The Editor
(As it would be written by an en-
thusiastic editorial writer who knew
nothing whatever of the facts or cir-
cumstances.)
Four years. ago this summer in a
certain Southern state, a trial ended
by giving the defendant, (a twenty-

year old member of that down trod-
den race, which must always be suf-
fering under the harshness of the rule
of the prejufliced "Solid South" a
sentence of 'guilty', bearing with it
five years of*imprisonment. That night
the "jail" was dismembered and the
sentenced man was "lead to an out
of the way place" and hanged. This
villainous proceeding and miscarry-
ing of legal justice was due to strong.
prejudice that is common in the
South. Law is forgotten. Hooded
mobs, lynchings, and race riots, have
disgraced the law abiding citizens."
Will the day never come when the
South will forget its prejudices and
become civilized?
THE SOLID SOUTH
(As it would be written by a mem-
her of that "prejudiced Solid South,"
but one who hal some essential facts'
to call upon and not merely a fertile
editorial imagination.)
Due to constitutional limitations
and legal precedent, the inadequacy
of legal justice in the South quite
frequently leads to direct administra-
 tion of the law by the hands of the
people, for on occasions in this way
and this way only can the law be exe-
cuted.j
Four years ago this summer aE
negro of about twenty-four years of

were quite perturbed because the
court made the sentence the limit, for
all the sentenced man had done was
to take a young girl of twelve years
of age from the school yard to a near-
by swamp and there ravish, her. Soon
after she was found she died of her
injuries.
That night the sentenced man was
taken from the "kind custody" of thel
law and justice was dealt him . The
same order that had apprehended him
after the legal authorities had proved
they could not, took the reins- of rule
in its hands and dealt the justice that
the statutes, prescribe for such of-
fences. The execution was carried out
not by a wild frenzied mob ,but by a
quiet organized group which realized
that while the procedure was not of
Lhe best, yet it was better than the
technical farce that was being render-
ed under the name of legal justice.
NOTE-Is it not peculiar how dif-
ferent the tone of such an account
sounds when it is written by one who
fairly well understands the conditions
and knows the circumstances, and
when it is written by one who is
blessed with a fertile imagination, but
who is in blissful ignorance of all the
conditions and circumstances???
--SIC.
A PROTEST AGAINST WAR
To The Editor:1
Recently I received a letter from
an interesting young native of Mex-
ico,- member ,of a very distinguished
family there, and one who our law
school is proud to claim as a recent
graduate. This keen observer of
events in his country and the world
writes, "I am sure you have been fol-
lowing by the press the terrible mess
in which our respective countries
have gotten. I do not believe that
there can be any fair minded person
who can approve of the attitude taken
by the U. S. You well know my way of
thinking has always been against the
Calles administration, but in the
present case dam with it with all my
heart. I have a deep affection to-
wards the American people, but I be-
lieve that your government is follow-
ing a policy unworthy of that people.
If you people up there knew of the
activities of the oil companies in Mex-
ico, I know you would not side with
them. They are hated by the whole
country, and the stand taken by Calles
against them has rallied around him
even his former enemies."
The events that are rapidly taking
place in the Far East have apparently
eclipsed the trying issues presenting
I themslves between the United States
and Mexico.
This. letter and the problem it sug-
gests bting to mind the great problem
of war and jeace and the vast re-
sponsibility that rests with our gen-
eration. Too many useless wars have
been fought in the world already.
Thanks to history, we have learned
much, but we are still human beings
and our apathetic nature has always
refused to keep time with the lessons
and examples that have been set be-
fore us.
Peace is' one of the noblest and
most gracious of the dreams which
haunt the spirits of men. Slowly, yes
very slowly, nations have been pre-
paring for the great step-jin fact
Tennyson's vision of a "Parliament of
Man, the Federation of the World"
has' at times seemed near fulfillment.
Mpre especially it seemed quite near
at the close of the international catas-
trophe in 1918. At that time an op-
px:tunity which may be longer in
coming again, lay at America's door,
to throw her weight on the side of

common service to mankind, but our
ward politicians, irreconcilables, cyn-
ics, workers, all, sank into unspeak-
able opposition and threw out the
very man whd was their only hope
and salvation-thus ended the career
of Woodrow Wilson and a chance for
a permanent peace in the world.
Today, as in every opportunity in
history, men blunder and betray this
destiny to man. Today we face a
great . crisis with Mexico, chaos and
destructive upheaval in China, Near
East 'intrigues and the old Western
strpggle fpr power of French ambi-
tion, English suspicion and German
revenge. Everywhere these vast po-
tentialities of war are fuming and
growing. Today we face the ghastly
reality of modern warfare.
One of the greatest- fundamentals
which nations, which are menaced.
with formidable conflict, need to heed
and appreciate, may be best be de-
scribed in the admonition which con-
fronted the pilgrim of old who went
to Delphi to inquire of the oracle con-
cerning things of the future-"Know
Thyself."
Nations mst be cautions and not fall#
into the fallacy which considers that
blated national pride and over-prais-
ed integrity has been dishonored be-
cause of this diplomatic note or that
incident- abroad which are often, I

BAND CONCERT .
A rev iew, by Joe Bates Smith.
It is difficult to tell which the audi-
ence at Hill auditorium last night en-
joyed most, the band concert itself
or" the fussing about of the band mem-I
bers accompanied by the squeaking
of their chairs in an attempt to clear
the stage for the special numbers.]
The waits between the selections
rivaled those experienced between
acts at the Mimes productions .
It seems that the band, in this con-
cert has. suffered from a poor selec-
tion of pieces. "The Glow Worm"
which was never meant to be a band

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Lorain Norton, baritone.
number, sounded mechanical, no fault
of the band it is true but because the
selection itself was unsuited to that
type of arrangement. T~re "Bridal
Rose Overture" pleased particularly
as well as the two old favorites, "El
Capitan March" and "American pa-
trol." A cornet solo by Marshall
'Byrne revealed the rare skill of this
musician in running scales and as-
cending the heights usually shunned
by the cornetist. The Trombone
Quartet was less fortunate in that
both their number and the encore
were lacking in melody. The audi-
ence in fact became quite restless be-
fore the selection was over.
The audience appreciated most the
three vocal numbers by Mr. B. Lorain
Norton, z,"Trade Winds", "Hear Me,
Ye Winds and Waves", and "Ship
Mates O' Mine.", Mr. Norton has a
rich bass voice, the type that is al-
ways appealing to the majority of
people. His low tones in "Trade
Winds" were clear and musical prom-
ising a-19reat treat in the two more
selections to follow.
* * *
"THE CREATION
A reotw, by Robert GessIner.
Frame 'Joseph Haydn's "The Crea-
tion" is an oratorio of rare power
baset upon a mighty theme and as
such Ait was intelligently presented
yesteo.iday afternoon by Earl Moore's
students in Choral Literature. "The
Creatioih" constitutes an extremely
difficult rogram but its heaviness was
carrid uccessfully and effectively
through .an interpretation imbued
with idealism.
'the combined work of the class, in-
cluding the trios and the quartet be-
sides, the chorus, did the best singing
of the twilight recital. This was due,
perhaps, to the fact that in the chorus
one can not so easily distinguish the
faults' of the individuals with the
ease with which they can be so read-
ily detected in solo work. For the
individual singing, as a whole, was
characterized by a lack of cultiva-
tion.
Ottis Patton produced the most
pleasing selections from among the
tenors. His voice is rich and at times
is as brillint as the purest diamond.
Otto Brown, a bass, appeared fre-
quently to be slightly crude in his
execution, all of which showed a lack
of deep cultivation. But of the so-
pranos, Marjorie Chavenelle secured
a delightful impression through a
mezza voice that was appealingly soft
I and caressing. Next was Phillip Cuk-
kin whose deeper baritonic tones were
also uncultivated in the richness that
they deserved.
Mrs. Frederick Hull, a guest so-
prano,,elevated the program more
than any other soloist through her
individual presentation. She has a
voice of breadth and length with a
I flexible range that is large and am-
ple. She was the only singer on the
I prograim to catch the mood of her
song. And she took advantage of this
ability through a tonality that was
incisveand clean-cut. A youthful
exuberance characterized the power
of her siging ability, which the audi-
ence was not slow to realize. Royden
ISussumago lacked the necessary'
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FESTIVAL


What They S ay:
MUSICAL AMERICA
E~ dit orhal, Itarch , 12, 27.
ANN ARBOR FESTIVAL

From the School of Music of the University of Michigan comes the
announcement of the thirty-fourth annual May Festival in Ann Arbor.
During the four days from May 18 to 21, inclusive, six concerts --ly- he
given. The principal works in preparation are Beethoven's "Missa S$1em-
nis and Seventh Symphony, "Carmen" in concert form, two mne ients
from Gustav Holst's "Choral Symphony," Dvorak's Second Symphony,
Deems Taylor's "Through the Looking Glass" and *Ercsz Hutchescn's
Fantasy for two pianos and orchestra.

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The musical organizations which will participate are the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra,' under the direction of Frederick Stock; the Uhiv-er-
sity Choral Union of 300 voices, Earl V. Moore, conductor; and" 'the
Children's Festival Chorus of 400 voices, Joseph E. Maddy, conductor.
The soloists engaged are Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Rosa Ponselle, Sophie -
Braslau, Arthur Hackett, Lawrence Tibbett, Lea Luboshutz, Ernest Hutch-
eson, Betsy Lane Shepherd, Elsie Baker, William Simmons, Lois Johnston,
Armand Tokatyan and James Wolfe.
The Ann Arbor festival has long since taken its assured place as one
of the important annual events in the United States. Its rank has been '
attained through the high standard of the programs, the competence of the
organizations employed and the choice of assisting artists. In addition to

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