PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAV, FEBRARY 9, 1928 - - ------ ...... Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished herein. 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, $4.00; by mail, 84-iices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- fard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR JO H. CHAMBERLIN Editor.... Ellis B. Merry Editor Michigan Weekly..Charles E.iBehymer Staff Editor..............Philip C. Brooks City Editor.............Courtland C. Smith Women's Editor...........Marian L. 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Voedicke Jack L. Lait, Jr. Joseph Zwerdling John H. Maloney BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER} WILLIAM C. PUSCH Assistant Manager... George H. Annable, Jr. Advertising...............Richard A. Meyer Advertising.............Artbur M. Hinkley Advertising...............Edward L. Hulse Adver ising............John n . Rusxvincel Accounts ................ .Raymond XWachter Circulation..............George B. Ahn, Jr.! Publication.......Assi.s...tants ...arvey Talcott Asistns CAMPUS OPINION Annonymous communications will be disregarded. The namnes of communi- cants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Letters pub- lished should not be construed as ex- pressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. I i , LYUNION; RE1ORGi Z Es THE MICHIGAN UNION is again going to reorganize. As usual they are going to need a quorum of 600 male students to vote on the new amendments, and from past experi- ene xrn nrenudict , that aout 100 will THEATER BOOKS T1')Nl(tixT: Play Production pre- sents "hell Relit for Heaven" in the Mdimes theater at 8 o'clock. George Bradley Marie BrumIer Jamie$ 0. Brown James Carpenter James B. Cooper Charles K. Correll Barbara Cromell Mary Dively Bessie V. Egeland Ona Felker Katherine Frohne Douglass Fuller Beatrice Greenberg Helen Gross E. J. Hammer Carl e. ammer Ray Ilotelich Hal A. Jaehn James Jordan Marion Kerr Thlales N. Lenington Catherine McKinven W. A. MahaTfy Francis D. P~atrick George DT. Perrett Alex K. Scherer Frank Schuler George Spater Wilbert Stephenson Ruth Thompson Herbert E. Varnum Lawrence Walkley Hannah Wallen THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928 Night Editor-'-NELSON J. SMITH, Jr. THE UMION With the announcement yesterday that the balloting on the recently pro- posed changes in the organization oft the Union will take place February 28, there devolves upon the male stu- dents of the University a very real. responsibility. The changes proposed are on the whole obviously worth- while, and unless a quorum of 600 students is present at the meeting no action can be taken. To go over in detail the changes proposed would be to repeat an ex- planation already given; and may it suffice to say that the new proposals will greatly simplify and expedite thej work of the Union and its managers all the way through. If the men of the student body have sufficient in- terest in their all-campus organization to care for its future, they will turn out en masse when the opportunity to vote affords itself; and a group of 600 men cannot be gathered through two or three hours of strenuous cam- paigning. OPPOSITION Apparently the Hoover forces are about to pay the penalty of early or- ganization by arousing the inevitable opposition which is beginning to show) its head from time to time in various parts of the country. First New York and her politicians threatened to or- ganize against the Commerce secre- tary, and at the present time the fo I- lowers of Senator Willis in Ohio seem determined to gain the delegation of that state for their favorite son. Neither move, nevertheless, has as- sumed proportions as yet where it can be seriously considered as a po- tent factor. On the surface, also, it would seem that both efforts are doomed to in- evitable failure--for neither are-based on the sound premises of reason so much as on the mere perfunctory de- sire to oppose. Even Theodore Mur- ton, former senator from Ohio and powerful political figure in Cleveland, has cast his lot with Hoover, as have' numbers of other men who apparently sense the handwriting on the wall. After all, sheer merit is bound to count heavily in the long run, and RO oiI0 e HOUSES VS. DORMITORIES To the Editor: It is with feeling of intense indig- nation that Ann Arbor people were compelled last Tuesday at the Cham- her of Commerce dinner to listen to the insults Dr. Little has again felt it his supreme right to level on them. Laying the merits of the dormitory question aside, nothing can excuse the president of our state University supported in part by Ann Arbor resi- dents of his calling them inhuman-; placing them on the level and com- paring them with the most despicable people on the face of the earth-the advocates of child labor. All this was for no other reason than the fact that they room University students. In this day and age when so few people really think the truth of such statements out for themselves, the fact that it is "one of those in high position and a leader of men" (whom he so frankly advocates should be the chosen ones with rights for a college education) uttering them, makes the harm tenfold over what it would have been coming from an ignorant person. We challenge Dr. Little to find one person who is extorting money from University students through the price of rooms. Who are the people taking roomers? Almost wholly they are parents of University students who come to live at the state University while educat- ing their children, or others who are increasing their income while ac- compilshing a most worthy aim-at least our late beloved President Bur- ton would have called them worthy. One of the most outsanding mem- ories we have of President Burton was his inability to address a group, no matter how small, without urging the priceless gift of a college education. He never drew the line between those expecting to fill a president's chair and those who expected to work at a carpenter's bench. Of course those parents coming here (often at a great sacrifice) find no one to pay their high rent or taxes as well as the usual heat, gas, electric, and water bills with which Dr. Little is never annoyed, but of which we taxpayers relieve him. Most Ann Ar- bor people could well kfford to house the beloved sons and daughters of our Michigan residents free of charge if the taxpayers would be so kind as to pay these most necessary bills. His statement that our student body is of nonproductive age and that therefore all landlords charging them rent are in the same class with child labor violators is most misleading. If one would argue the case, he might point out that many students are em- ployed during the summer vacation even where there is no financial need to do so. Could all the comments by the stu- dents be condensed, it might prove that Dr. Little never received an "A" in sociology. Recently I listened to a young friend who has been attending a boys' prep school where all live in dormi- tories. He told of the gambling, drinking and smuggling in of girls all done in spite of the proctors on each floor. The latter were all men of high character who never dreamed how the boys were evading rules with their very efficient. guard system and signal code. I was reminded then of the horror with which I listened to the story by a friend from an Eastern college of exactly the same conditions that ex- isted in their university dormitories. He described things which could not possibly happen in a private home. An intimate friend of mine, from her story, will never forget her first term as a freshman in one of our dor- mitories on this campus. Coming from a home of good environment and high culture she was placed in a double room with a strange girl who proved to be her exact opposite. That girl, a lover of liquor and a cigaret addict, found her greatest delight in teaching every young freshman to smoke. She also possessed an inex- haustible fund of foul stories and vulgar jests which she found great sport in relating in my friend's hear- ing. The latter requested that her room be changed, saying that they were totally unsuited to one another; her request was refused. She told me, "I knew if I had told all the truth about her it would have utterly discredited that girl, and since I was only a freshman I would have been dismiss- ed from the dormitoi'y in seeming dis- grace. I did not dare tell my mother until ;he end of the term and then Union would be a reduction in the quorum to a number where they. could get enough out to vote. * * * CARRY ONE IN YOUR( TOOL CHEST r~. In case your automobile goes into the ditch it is often handy to have one of the above instruments in your tool case to get your Packard sedan out of the mud. * . IT SEEMS THAT THE administra- tion had the right idea in banning automobiles. When the enforcementf officer appears in the of fce of the Dean of the College of Literature' Science and the Arts, leaving tracks of mud wherever lie stops just. be- cause his automobile went into a ditch it is time the t some action be taken. t LRTO I TI: 'Fte Rockford Players show up. .4 so upf present "One of the Family" in the THE ONLY TIME IN THE history IWhitney theater at. S:l> o'clock. of the Union that a quorum was TrJONL IT: The Oratorical Associa- present for voting was last year when hoi presents Gay MiacLaren in a the directors decided to give some of rea(ding of her original play, "Father the tuition back to the students. and Dad," in Bill auditorium at S * * * O'IO('k. JUST ABOUT THE BEST amend- I ment that could be passed for the "SUN UP" A review, by Thomas J. Dougall "Sun Up" on the whole is a good play. Lulu Volmer knows her Caro- lina mountains and this knowledge has enabled her to draw her char- acters with a psychological accuracy. But it ts this only excellent character- ization that saves the play from mediocrity, for its later scenes are obvious attempts at hokum and the action itslef is slightly dated. A mountain mother, nice , alliteration that, loses her son in the war and then proceeds to spare the life of her bitterest enemy's son, because her loss has taught her the power of love. It really is not as bad as that sounds, though, for the sincerity of these mountain folk makes one almost react sympathetically to the poor situation. Not a little credit for this favorable ieaction is due to the work of the Play Production classes. This is probably the best thing they have done, with the possible exception of "le Who Gets. Slapped." And that, of course, did not have an all-student cast Sarah Bonine as Widow Cagle --_RAE_ __ 2|[, 4:0t, :0, 9:OI . M MARION NIXON "TAXI-TAXI" 1. G. -1. Comedy and News TW iad wlhi one atdm m ission-will -- A E }' x .. :!.d: For the "OE AND ONL Y" Delight her with a valentine from our gay assortment.. Mary Louise Shop NickelsArcde 4 e xi~ made right here in Ann Arbor, guaranteed and serviced by the makers without delay. It is a much better pen than you can buy else- where. You need the best in your school work, and it will last a lifetime. frL Now is the time to buy a Rider terpe WEuh'l'IIOUGI-T IT unnecessary to carried the show. Her work showed mention the .officer's name, because a smoothness and a restraint that mlade hBer performance outstanding. according to his own story every st u- t e . . . . . And she had less difficulty with te dent in the University has applied forAldseIhantermef bers ofhthe permission to drive a car. diake(t than any other members of the * *tdi cast with the possible exception of THEIY 'S' LI) VE PL IA) Alfred Foster as the half wit brother. A CHE'SS T~OURENTHe did not have a great deal to say, The genius of any department ofbut he certainly made the most of this institution which is even remote-thisi . Richard Woelihaf and Samuel onnell were also well ly connected with the B. and (. de- partment was again illustrated when tabel Baruch was decorative and the the courses in Botany i and Psv chohogy 42 were scheduled to meet