PAGE PiOtM 11 THE MTCHTCAN DAM Y T4M MAV fl' ( T1-LFLLBHfY 1L.V[-L \ 1'f 11La. 1a L'.A 4* *a.~ E~it . t ai U '.li '.1L Z I . ; Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Asso~ i.t ion. The Associated Pres* is exclusively en- vilcd to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise crditcd in this paper and the local news pub- lished herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate )t postage granted by Third Assistant Post- moster General. Suscription by carrier, $4,oo; by mail, $4.50. 1 Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones:.Editorial, 4925; Business 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR JO H. CHAMBERLIN Editor......................Ellis B. ierry Editor Michigan Weekly.. Charles E. Behymer Staff Editor...............Philip C. 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Scherer Ona Felker Frank Schuler Ben Fishman ernice Schook Katherine Frochne Mary Slate Douglass Fuller George Spater Beatrice Greenberg Wilbert Stephenson Helen Gross Ruth Thompson Herbert Goldberg Herbert E. Varnum E. J. HIlammer Lawrence Walkley Can W. Hammer Hannah Waller7 Ray Hotelich FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1927 Night Editor-J. STEWART HOOKERt loge thus far has been almost entirely by chance rather than logic, and the remarkable thing about it all is that our institutions of five and ten thou- sand students are able to fulfill their functions as well as they do. Mass education issues a challenge to. educators and practical men throughout the country. Mr. Work himself is probably wrong in suggest- ing that the cost of education should be raised to eliminate the unfit, for after all, there is very little relation between economic solvency and intel- lectual capability. Some rational so- lution is bound to come; and it is only through the application of sound thinking and analytical criticism, such as Mr. Work's, that this solution can be r ached at all. Obviously the ideal state is general education without mass education. It is plain that the University should al- low development of individual in- itiative and interests which is not possible under the present practice. It is plain that forcing the majority of responsible students to wait for the minority of irresponsible and un- intelligent students, as now practiced, is a poignant defect with present edu- cational methods and administrators. All these problems and more, must be solved if American education is to re- turn to the idealistic standard in which spirit it was founded. It is barely two hundred years since the first university was founded in the United States, and yet, at the present time, half of the college population of the world is enrolled in American schools. This condition has come about suddenly since the war. Ameri- can education has not had time to develop its methods to ,meet the in- coming tide, and the res/ult is large and glaring defects-defects of in- struction, policy, and student develop- ment. Michigan, by her proposed Univer- sity college, has taken the lead in at- tempting to solve these problems. Other universities are awake and ex- perimenting. Whatever the outcome of these various trials may be, they deserve the unqualified support of every person interested in the future of higher education, for through them, and through them, alone, can the American universities lose the defects of mass education. BEHIND TIlE LINES The sage of Philadelphia, H. L, Mencken has recently given his appro- bation of another war, to be fought as soon as it can be arranged, in order that his craving for excitement may be satisfied. Mr. Mencken can see no harm in great conflicts, says that the horrors of battle have been greatly exaggerated, that the music of guns is fpod and drink to the sol- dier, and that such a precipitation is* necessary to stir the world-of which he is a member-out of its stupid lethargy. The great following that has ac- crued to the critic through his courageous and scornful denunciation of dead fundamentalism is apt to be tardy in supporting him on such a de- mand. Most of his circus parade broadsides loosed at things and people1 that' the modern world has outgrown have seemed to have something of' sincerity behind them, and have heldl the field for that very reason. But even the most broad-minded of his readers must put his tongue in his cheek when he reads such a bulletin as this last. It can almost be billed as a public display of asininity wheni a man who is past the military age,+ with no war record, sits back in his; chair and calls for bloodshed on the grounds that soldiers are not happy without it and that he himself would rather see - from Philadelphia of course-any number of countries at each 'others throats than anly vision f industry and commerce working for world prosperity. PEACE IN RESERVE President Coolidge has remained non-committal on all plans of world peace that have been submitted to him so far, although he has recently dis- played interest in that one presented by Wickham Steed, an English editor. Ihe Steed idea called for an agree- ment on the part of the United States, not in conjunction with any other na- tion, to give no aid to a country in- rolving itself in a conflict through its >wn aggression. This would mean, of HTED ROLLEATER TIDDLEDYWINKS B 0 0 jI ATC I[ PLANNED M U S I C And now it appears that the under- classmen at least found gumption enough to paint up the sidewalks. The GUY MAIER AND LEE PATTISON fact that they raised the money to A review, by Philip C. Brooks I buy the paint is not half as surpris- ing as that they had enough interest Displaying a technique which is in the fall games, and not enough of brilliant without being ostentatious, the notorious "class spirit," to do the accurate but not showy, neither like work tho tri t Li -Ory o I'T ItO _+I 1 I Ii I. w oz . ** - e rickery of moriz nosentnai in * his earlier performances or like the Plans have not been made public exquisite sweetness of his latest ap- for any wholesale massacres, but from the rapidly decreasing life in the stu- pearances, Maier and Pattison are an dent body as a whole, we cannot de- admirable combination. Theirs is not ! rive much fear for the safety of any primarily an exhibition of the mastery of the members of either class, of machination,ibut a delightfully ap- preciative and sympathetic interpre- And another thing. These ambitio s youths must be possessed of infinite tation of a carefully selected reper- imagination if they have the nerve to toire. put the numbers "30," and "31" on the Guy Maier, evidently feeling in- 1 wvalks. To express a hope of being tensely the emotion of his vehicles, around until those distantly future years appears like the utmost of as- -achieesthet htul(i surance. cerity, achieves the most that could be asked in a well-balanced coopera- READ THE DIRECTORY tion with Lee Pattison, who appears These people that put out the Stu- the more serious of the two, earnest dent directory are perturbed over the and poised. publicity Rolls has been giving them. Their program in this concert was They don't appreciate the power of not a stupendous affair to go into Rolls, as shown by the fact that within ecstasies about, but an interesting ar- dasatrteclm stre saisaot u a neet r two days after the column started Iray of numbers, diversified and well discussing the matter, the directory balanced. finally appeared. Outstanding in effectiveness were the two Russian selections, Rach- And now it is proposed by them maninoff's "Tears," and the Corona- that as a sort of retribution, Rolls tion Scene from Moussorgsky's "Boris urge the seniors who haven't yet Godounoff." The former is intensely signed up for their pictures in the emotional, gripping in its sombre 'Ensian to do so at once. tone, developing through a mellifluous succcession of blending impressions, But it seems unreasonable to. ask to a grand climax which never comes. I that the column support such an ab- It dies away in an exquisite quiet solutely worthless cause. If anyone seemingly significant of all human could produce a reason why one disappointment in the oppressing should want a picture in the 'Ensian, ordinariness of a life which never sat- it would be different. ifies, never provides the momentous crisis which human imagination de- And furthermore. It would help if mands. someone could produce a photograph Maier and Pattison's presentation with which its subject was satisfied, adequately expressed the sternness of - the sustained emotion, typically Rus- sian, typically autocratic, in "Boris." Appreciation must be given to the artists' own arrangements, Mr. Maier's delightful combination of the Chopin "Black Key" and "Butterfly" - etudes played simultaneously, and' Senior Admiring Paoiograph Mr. Pattison's arrangement of the "'Boris" selection, as well as his ver- We ordered our 'Ensian photo long sion of the "Arkansas Traveler," ago. played as an encore. * * Mozart's delicate Sonata in D major, BLOOD AND SAND! with its sweet melodic Allegro inolto, And now come, as we go to press, its smooth flowing Andante, and its advance copies of the scurrillous. brilliant Allegro Vivace, added pleas-j literature published by the class of antly to the program, as did Liszt's '30, or some equally ignominious or- paraphrase on Mozart's opera "Don ganization. Giovanni," and the Chopin Rondo in * * * C major, full of infinitesimal touches, Reason is lacking why they should making up a delightfully delicate and revive a custom of more than ten colorful whole. years ago, when they can't claim a * * * quarter of the justification for their FOKINE AND FOKINA conceit which the rough and ready1 Vera and Mi T h lnirinn iry inf1 i I I _. .._ . i 1 - --" ai J ra Walk-Over C to / r . °I , --- - - A new design in BlueKid and Grey Snake Skin. A beautiful party pump- $ 1}.0- I,'T EVFRBO)Y 4,UT. Tonight in Hill auditoriun Michigan students will hold their second gigantic pep meting in preparation for the clash tomor- row afternoon between the Navy and the Wolverine elevens. Capa. ile speakers will .address the crowd, the band' will be present, the glee club will lead in the singing, the cheer leading squad will be on deck, and movies in- eluding those of former football gaines 'will be shown. Playing their first home game ill three weeks, against a very worthy opponent, the Varsity de. serves unlimited support by all Michigan backers. It is the duty of the student body to increase the attendaince and the enthusi- asi record tonight even beyond that of the first pep session. ONWA RI), EDUCATION! "The University of the future must leave the task of preparation to the high school and the college," Secre- tary Hubert Work, of the Department of the Interior d:eclared recently in a speech to the University of Pennsyl- vania alumni. "By this method 'it can riditself of the unWeildy masses of unfitted students and' perform its proper function in the fields of pro- fessional training and the discovery of new truths," lie continued. Thus the problem of mass educa- tion, ever growing in the outlying educational districts of the country, has come to the attegtion of the educational officials at Washington. Mr. Work assumes that this increase is due to the increase in prosperity, which is probably correct. Being es- sentially a practical nman, Mr. Workf also correctly concludes that the tre- riendous public sums spent on higher education should not be wasted. "Thie title has come when economic necessity as well as sound educa- tional procedure requires clear defi- nition of institutional..ftnctions. We can not afford to take long forward strides in our expansion of higher education until we can answer, more definitely than now seems possible, the question of the piace of the col- Meet every req uirement Modish Walk-Overs, with their clinging coin- fort, are neCessarily part of every woman s wardrobe. GENUINE ZIPPERS High and Low. Black, Tan, or Gray $3.00-$3.50--$4.00-$4.50-$5.00 1IOFFSTETTER'S WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP 115 So. Main St. A combination of Black Suede and Dull Mat Kid in a high Gore effect that really clings to the heel. A pretty style for Street or Dress. $10.00 I m I m i __ battlers of the class of, say '13 could. If they couldn't do anything else, which is probable, those ancients at least were successful in disregarding manners in interclass negotiations. * * * If there were any prospect of a good fight, we'd go Saturday morning. But under the circumstances, follow- ing the Student Council's appointment of all Honor Men to officiate at the games, we're glad we're not honor men. *.-* * THE HEADLESS HORSEMEN This issue of The Paily is being put out under difficulties. Not tech- nical problems, but a lack of inspira- tion. For an unkind fate, or some- thing equally difficult, has taken both the Managing Editor and Business Manager out of town at one time. * *- * Now it is generally accepted by all publications staff members with any perception atsall realize that due to the common uselessness of all busi- ness staffs, any loss on that side is not serious, but trying to function without the mental, moral, and spirit- ual leadership of a managing editor is indeed a difficult task. * * * The two dignitaries have gone all the way to Will Rogers' home state for an intercollegiate press conven- tion. Why, judging from the quality of the other college papers we see, such a convention has any excuse for being, is beyond comprehension. Most of these papers would fit better in a high school convention. * * * - For example, the publication might be cited which published a banner headline across the top of its front page, reporting the seizure of a still in a fraternity house, which was named, in another college in the same state. ScF a v(cel Fokine are in De-I troit tonight and tomorrow night in a dance recital. They are supposed to have an entirely new repertoire of ballet creations-something new and definitely divorced from the old con- ception of the Ballet Russe. It is rather disappointing to find-even after the Russian revolution had freed the ballet from the personal super- vision of the czar-that their was lit- tle change in the classic form. But now comes the announcement that the Fokine ballet has done this and created something more in the foot- steps of the "Petrouchska" and ""Coq d'Or" ballets of Diaglieff. * * * CHILDREN OF THE WIND: A Novel by Doris Peel; Houghton Miff- lin; 1927; 305 pages. Courtesy of the ( West Wind Lending Library. A review, by David Seheyer. Those who like their novels well ordered, ,rising to a thrilling climax on page 234, with all the characters named and numbered according to im- portance and with the family happily reunited in the last. chapter, will find I no appeal in "Children of the Wind." This novel is for you who delight in inconsequential incidents, charmingly told, who appreciate unimportant peo- ple aptly depicted, who think life is greater than plot in any book. The only unity is the all over- shadowing influence of Roger Blythe, ! the radical editor who never did any- thing little. In moments of stress his children, Justine and Bryce, always harked back to his brave smile and then laughed at fate and littleness. His fluttery wife, Nellie, although she never really knew him, remembered him as a sort of ideal, to be adored and unquestioned. Joan, too, felt his presence-Joan, the daughter of Mr. Blair, and the nicest person in the book, dreaming, running away, talk- ing strange child wisdom, always loyal, always unafraid. ORE SA a 4 Every Article Must Go I Only a few days until we close! _ .. - Come here where lowest prices prevail for FOLDING COTS and any kind of extra blankets you may need to acoorno- date your "WEEK-END GUESTS" Leather Coats and, Jackets, Suede and Wool 4 Blouses, Sweaters, Breeches and Corduroy Reefers course, both actual physical support' and that of the financial and commer- cial sort.- Mr. Coolidge objected mainly on the grounds that it might be difficult to pick the aggressor under certain cir- cumstances, and that it would always be difficult to control the commercial activities of the people of the United States who were but exercising their rights of trade. In these objections there is the note of conservatism and carefulness that has characterized the whole administration, and the stand would seem to be commendable for its freedom from any tendency toward i I l l l i tj31 j3,NX Tower's Slickers and Rain Coats For Ladies, Men, Boys and Girls Shirts, Underwear, Lumberjacks, Outing Goods, Alarm Clocks, etc. LANKETS and ROBES m A II T> " 7 P T- A T 7 heinadon on .tnn ............4 T.'i... f. AllXI K irIqc fr FI-'rv NP\I.,A -I