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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1927.
Night Editor-NELSON J. SMITH, JR.
DEFEAT OR VICTORY?
Last Saturday Michigan lost a foot-
ball game to the University of Illinois
at Urbana. Deprived of the services
of her backfield's main cog, Louis Gil-
bert, a Michigan team which did not
look at all like the Michigan team of
a week ago was defeated by the men
of Illinois._
To the outside world it ws a de-
feat for Michigan, and indeed in a
certain sense it was literally a defeat
for the team which had not been
scored ontis season. But if there is
anything higher in intercollegiate
athletics than physical victory, and if
there is anything at all to this talk of
"a spirit higher than defeat," then
Michigan did not lose Saturday, and
the hearts of all true Michigan men
and women should swell with pride at
the following editorial statements
from the Daily Illini, official newspa-
per of the University of Illinois, pub-
lished Sunday morning:
"We wish to pay our respects to theI
Michigan cheer leader who pumped
away so valiantly in the final quarter,
producing yells even in the face of al-
most certain defeat."
"We wish to pay our respects also
to Captain Oosterbaanl, whose play
stood out in defeat even as did that of
Captain Steger in that Ilenlorable 39-
16 battle of three years ago."
Michigan can well be proud of this
tribute which her generous hosts at
the University of Illinois have paid to
her. There is no higher praise which
they could have paid to an imdomitable
Michigan spirit than this recognition
that it was outstanding even in de-
feat. Eleven men on the Urbana field
defeated eleven men from Michigan, to
be sure, in a game of football, but
when we take the broader viewpoint,
and look not only at the game '>ut at
the spirit that lay behind it-the spiritf
behind all athletic relations between
Michigan and Illinois-we can not
help but wonder whether the game
Saturday at Urbana was actually a de-
feat, or whether it was a glorious vic-
tnrv?
great general strike. The first confer-
ence to accomplish this end was or-
ganized by the lord mayor of London,c
and it; led to a decision to consolidateJ
on certain results, principally high
wages, as more satisfying to the la-s
borer and provocative of a higher con-I
sumption. t
The League of Industrial Peace has
been designated as the form which thet
movement will take. The initiative ist
being taken by Lord Alfred Mond, one
of the greatest employers in the Brit-
ish isles, who has already put intoJ
practice in his chemical industries thet
platform of the League. Security oft
employment, status of the worker,t
participation in control and informa-F
tion, and in profits and success-these
are the additional points upon whichI
the League will be based. The planc
will be worked along the lines of a1
promotion to a higher class, when
the worker has attained certain quali-
fications. He will take part in coun-
cils, be given more privileges accord-
ing to the length of his employment,
and generally better himself and be-
comes a more integral part of t 3in-
dustry.1
The consideration of this plan sig-
nifies that British industry has at last
become converted to the American
doctrine of high wages and increasing
consumption. The rejection of this
principle in the past has been largely
responsible for the injury to British
industry, and this in turn has been;
largely actuated by resentment on the
part of the worker because of the low
wage doctrine.
THE ORATORICAL SERIES
Just how timely a course has been
arranged by the Oratorical Associa-
tion for the 1927-28 lecture series is
brought to light by some interesting
facts recently evidenced. Within the
last few months three of the best
known and esteemed publications,
have published articles by, or con-
cerning, three of the speakers on the
present series.
Scribner's published an article
"Ritchie of Maryland," on Governor
Albert E. Ritchie, who appears here
Feb. 15; a recent number of the Amer-
ican Magazine contained a story about
Will Durant, who will be in Ann Ar-
bor, Nov. 30; and the National Geo-
graphic magazine 'carried Commander
Richard E. Byrd's story of his Atlantic
flight.
It would seem that the foresight of
the Oratorical officials in arranging
this year's program is more than de-
serving of what is said to be the larg-
est reserved seat sale in the history of
the association. ,
GERMAN SOLVENCY
Much of the hard discipline of old
Germany has survived in the Repub-
lican Germany today, if one can judge
by the recent strides that that nation
has made toward paying her war debt.
Heavy though she was yoked 'with
payments under the Xawes plan of re-
parations, and though the burden of
reconstruction lay heavier still, she
has risen frdm the crushing weight of
the war debts; and today Germany is
solvent.
This situation is worthy of mention
for two reasons; first because it rep-
resents a remarkable display of na-
tional vitality and discipline, and sec-
ond because the exact condition of
Germany from a financial standpoint
has been consistently misunderstood.
In regard to the first pint nothing
need be added for it should suffice to
say that Germany is paying, according
to scheduled agreement, the cost of
the war not only to herself but in a
large measure the cost to other na-
tions.
The second point may require some
elaboration, however, since it is some-
what more complex. There has been a
wide belief that because Germany bor-
rowed large sums abroad with which
to make her payments under the
Dawes plan that shed was robbing
Peter to pay Paul, and that the net
result would be no diminution of her
debt. The impression was given fur-
ther currency by the statement of J.
M. Keynes, subordinate German min-
ister, to the effect that nearly all of
the reparations payments have been
made from foreign loans.
The statement of Mr. Keynes is lit-
erally true, but false in the cnnota-
tion it carries. This borrowing of
money abroad with which to poy her
reparati :nt does not mean tha,. Ger-
many herself has ut stood the actual
expense, for the loans contracted wereC
merely for the purpose of establishing
a credit abroad at the time the pay-I
ments came due: and tlermany is re-
paying regularly her share of both theE
principal and interest of these obliga-
tions.
In short, the German government,
through its able agent General Gilbert,
is financially sound. 1It is registering
an annual surplus above all of its ob-
ligations, and it is bringing GermanyI
THE OPEN DOOR
Speaking before the National Asso-j
ciation of Manufacturers recently, Dr.
Jeremiah W. Jenks, president of the
Alexander Hamilton Institute, and re-
search professor of government at
New York university, called the at-
tention of the men convened to the
fact that American business has been
too concerned with developments in
the West and has neglected the FarI
East.
In the Far East, according to Dr.
Jenks, the undeveloped trade is some-
thing which merits the immediate at-
tention of Americans. With a popula-
tion that is hundreds of times as large
as the population of the areas with
which the United States now deals,
the Far East is fast developing and is
on the verge of assuming vast im-
portance in the world of trade.
At the present time this is a mes-,
sage which merits the attention of
every American business man. The
cry of overproduction which has been
raised in all of the large industries,a
calls to our attention the fact that the
THEATER
B 0 0 K S
MUSIC
TONIGHT: The Persenger string
quartet in the first program of the
Matinee Musicale at 8 o'clock in the
1tinies theater. (Admittance by mem-
bershiip card only.)
"THE VAGABOND KING"
A review, by Vincent Wall
I always fear the worst when a road
company of any musical show is an-
nounced for the Whitney. It usually
transpires that a weary and bed-rid-
den cast of burlesque queens and ham
comedians from the three-a-day tor-
ture and rend with vulpine ferocity
what was once a first rate musical
comedy or revue.
This was not quite the case last
night, and "The Vagabond King" was
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Now on Display. Make your selections early.
Both Endsof
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markets are limited and that we must something better than the usual run
be seeking new areas to develop. The of such things. Edward Nell as the
Far East looks like the logical place epic Villon and a leather-lunged
for that expansion. chorus did right by "The Song of the
j Vagabonds. Will Philbrick, recruited
SELF-SUFFICIENCY from Keith time was competent as the
The railroads of the country, Indis-. slapstick Tabarie. H. Cooper Cliffe
pensable to modern communication 'was excellent as Louis XI, making the
and business have long been in a sorry most of a rather bad character part.
state. Required by the Interstate Cahrolyn Thompson made a rather
Commerce Commission to reduce their anaemic Catherine de Vaucelles, and
rates, and forced to account for every Myra Peache ruined the Hugette part.
raise in the fare and freight charges, In fact, there were two things that
they have been crying for years about really sold the show: the Friml music
the cost of doing business and about and one of the ladies in the ensemble
the small returns which were accru- without a line or a number-a red
ing as a result of the regulation. It head, with white shoulders, and a
was not so long ago that there was an dozen tricks of mad pantomine that
agitation for' the subsidation of some simply stole the show from everyone's
of the roads that they might be able to
continue in business as common car-
riers.
But now a change is coming about
in the industry. The men who are
vitally concerned with its growth are
taking a lesson from other large in-;
dustries and are planning to make
railroading more self-sufficient and
self-maintained. Observing Henry
,Ford and the General Motors Corpor-
ation as these great combines annex
industries which will supply all of
their needs, the railroads have come to
see that they too must brin; all of the
raw materials and all of the manu-
factured materials within their own
shops if they are to be able to main-
tain a great unit which will prosper
despite its size.
The two great railroads which are
making the experiment, the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
will no doubt find that they will en-
large and that they will be able to give
greater service at less cost under the
new plan. Since self-sufficiency and
self-maintainance are the present
order in American industry, and since
they seem specially applicable to the
problem of. the railroads, it would
seem that this is the logical step for
all of the roads which are large
enough to follow it.
FIGHT FILMS
America the home of Thomas Paine
and Anthony Comstock, the land of
jazz and of fundamentalism, is now in
the throes of a new paradoxical move-
ment, this time engineered by our wise
federal officials. In order that the
minds of our younger generation may
be kept from from the degrading in-
fluences of such a brut.al spectacle as
the Tunney-Dempsey fight when
shown on the hitherto lily white
movie screen ,these faithful guardians
are bending all efforts to prevent the
transportation of fight fims outside of
the state of Illinois.
One wonders just what harmful in-
fluence the sight of a fight film could
have on the minds of those whose
daily pastime it has been to revel in
i the sex play and similar dirt which
constitutes most of our films. Any
fight, however brutal must seem clean
land wholesome by comparison.
CAMPUS OPINION
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disregarded. The names of commnuni-
cants will, however, be regarded as
confidential upon request. Letters pub-
lished should not be construed as ex-
pressing the editorial opinion of The
Daily.
THE RAISA REVIEW
To The Editor:
It is strange, indeed, what magic
lies in a name! That the great Raisa
could do no wrong seems to have been
the primary assumption of your re-
viewer; with it as his starting point,
he runs blithely on to the end. Part
of the review by the Times-News' cir-
cumspicuous critic may be taken as
subtle satire; the saponaceous gran-
diloquence of your column admits of
no such charitable construction.
Would it not.have been possible to
suggest that Raisa's management of
her truly remarkable voice, while not
nose.
But no matter how it is done, "The
Vagabond King" remains about the
best of those florid, populous routine
musical adaptations, ained so directly
at the multitude which responded so
gratifyingly to "The Chocolate Soldier"
a decade ago. At present there are
no less than a dozen shows of 'this
nature rampant throughout the coun-
try-either on try-out or in New York.
And if anyone objects to making a
circus of "Barbara Frietchie," "A Con-
necticut Yankee" or "The Three Mus-
keteers," at least they may be thank-
ful for one thing. Neither the Shu-
berts nor Ziegfeld has tried to adapt
the Greek classics-such as doing
"Medea" or "Antigone" with clowns'
and Albertina Rasch girls swarming
over the Parthenon.
* * *
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Boston Symphony orchestra
under Serge Koussevitzky are pre-
senting a program tomorrow night in
the Masonic auditorium in Detroit.
They are only playing four numbers--
but they all mean something: The Han-
del Concerto Grosse; the Stravinsky
Suite from "Petrouchka;" fragments
from the Ravel "Daphne and Chloe;"
and the Tchaikovsky Symphony in F
minor. E. 3I. X,
* * *
LAST NIGHT ON THE RIALTO
The social and musical season at the
Metropolitan Opera house was in-
augurated last night with a perform-
ance of "Turandot" the posthumous
Puccini opus, which was given an
American premiere last year. Jeritza
sang the name part-which she cre-
ated last season, and incidentally will
also be presented next Saturday in the
first novelty matinee of the season-
the American premiere of Korngold's
Violanta.
The dramatic openings this week are
few-the most noteworthy being Glenn
Hunter in "Behold this Dreamer;" the
Actor's Theater production of Philip
Barry's long-waited "John-with Anna
.)uncan as Salome;" "Ink," a news-
paper play; Walker Whitesides in
"The Arabian" which he had on the
road all last season; and a musical
version of "A Connecticut Yankee."
"DULCY"
"Dulcy," Comedy Club's Fall produc-
tion, which opens next Wednesday at
Mimes Theater, relates the comic
woes of a hectic houseparty at the
home of Dulcinea Smith, the well-
meaning but nit-wit wife of a young
business man. The guests, a pictur-
esque assortment such as only a Dulcy
could, pick, include her husband's iras-
cible business rival; his susceptible
second wife; his romantic flapper
daughter; an affable millionaire; a
scenario-writer; a go-getting adver-
tising man; and a light-fingered but-
ler. Under the benificent ministra-
tions of Dulcy, archetype of moronic
but lovable woman familiar, to every
man, the party very nearly breaks up
in a riot-in spite of her frequent as-
sertions that everything will happen
for the best. And oddly enough, the
shop-worn clouds of Dulcy's proverbs
ultimately prove to have a silver lin-
ing. -R. IV
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