PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATUTRDAY,/ FEBRUTARlY 11,I1928 U .U 0 4r jrbxjn n Dail such a campaign without the least show of interest would be an omirous commentary on the prospects of their Published every morning except Monda generation. To enter into the heatj during the University year by the Board inge Control of Student Publications. of the contest is of course impossible, Member of Western Conference Editorial but to take a real and vital interest Association. in the progress of events about them The Associated Press is exclusively en- -especially events of this paramount titled to the use for republication of all news significance-is requisite to any real dispatches credited to it or not otherwise. . credited in this paper and the local news pub- preparation for constructive citizen- lished herein. ship. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, INDIFFERENCE Michigan, as second class matter. 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Hulse Advertising.............John W. Ruswinckel Accounts................Raymond Wachter Circulation..............George B. Ahn, Jr. Publication..................arvey Talcott Assistants George Bradley Marie Brummeler James Carpenter Charles K. Correll Barbara Cromell Mary Dively Bessie V. Egeland Ona Felker Katherine Frohne Douglass Fuller Beatrice Greenberg Helen Gross E. J. Hammer Carl W. Hammer Ray Hofelich Hal A. Jachn James Jordan Marion Kerr Thales N. Lenington Catherine McKinven Dorothy Lyons Alex K. Scherer George Spater Ruth Thompson Herbert E. Varnum Lawrence' Walkley IHannah Wallen SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928 Night Editor-K. G. PATRICK THE AXE ON HONOR SOCIETIES Such finely named honor societies as Vikins, Silver Serpents, Iron Sphinx, Green Goblins, and Mystic Fish are facing abolition by the Uni- versity authorities at Nebraska fol- lowing a campaign by the Daily Ne- braskan, student, newspaper. The claim has been levied, apparently with justice, that the societies existed "solely because ambitions men and women students wished to have im- portant sounding club names in the records of achievement," and since the Daily Nebraskan did not consider this a legitimate cause for contin- uance, action has been taken. The whole affair is extremely in- teresting, for there are few college campuses that are not over-organized, and probably our own has been vic-: timized with the rest. Nevertheless the existence of powerful honor so- cieties, consisting of upperclassmen with constructive ideals of University service, is an excellent thing for any university, if the energy of the or- ganizations is properly directed. Nothing is more desultory to a virile college spirit than the existence of a fleck of defunct organizations. On the other hand, however, nothing is more conducive to vital and con- crete achievement than the existence of a number of powerful organizations which have the interests of the Uni- versity solely at heart. It has been demonstrated more often than is necessary for proof that strong honor societies can accomplish a tremendous amount of good when properly directed. On the whole it seems doubtful whether the Daily Nebraskan has done a better service by advocatingthe extinction of honor societies than it would have done by reawakening in them a consciousness of their true responsibility. INTEREST With the first month of the year 1928 past, and the nation rapidly ap- proaching the tense days of another presidential election, the responsi- bility on the voters of the nation be- comes increasingly poignant. Unlike a number of previous campaigns, the summer of 1928 promises to be re- nlete with the bitterest kind of po- litical controversy and the most vital of issues. The question of wet or dry, and possibly the religious prob-, aroused to the point which makes it unsafe for them to continue. Abuse of the public highways by large truck- ing companies is one of the common- est forms of effrontery of this kind- and at the same time one of the most inexcusable. Twice within the past months there have been serious accidents on the six mile stretch of highway between this city and Ypsilanti due directly to failure on the part of a truck own- er to comply with the law of the state. Two times within this brief period busses have crashed into the rear of trucks which carried no tail lights, and both times serious injuries have resulted to occupants of the bus. The last of these accidents was Tuesday night, in a heavy fog which made the lack of a tail light even the more inexcusable. Without a doubt it takes a severe jolt to awaken the public conscience to a public menace, but the criminal truck operators seem well in the way of accomplishing just that thing at the present time. CAMPUS OPINION Annonymous communications will be disregarded. The names 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. DORMITORY ADVANTAGES To the Editor: "It was with a feeling of intense indignation" that we read the very decided letter of a "Student's Mother." This question of Dormitory versus League House is one which has been with us a subject of consideration and discussion. As students who lived their first year in a League House and now are happy in their honor and privilege of living two years in one of our college dormitories we feel we havesindeed seen both sides of the quiestion. It does not need only the living in a League House to provide us with a contrast in their facilities and those had in a Dormitory. If one has had the opportunity of visiting many League Huses to solicit or sell tickets, one at least gets an impression of their reception rooms. It may be bright and sunny on the outside but what a feeling of gloom pervades the atmosphere within. The old worn carpet which was never a thing of beauty, the old mutilated creaky chairs, the hard sofa with ghastly pil- lows, the pictures on the walls which include family portraits and glaring landscapes,-all these things scream at us and make us glad to escape out- side. Could we humanly desire that a freshman or even a new upper- classman arrive to start their college career in such an atmosphere? It may be fine for them in this business of learning how to live, to bump against such experiences but what a blow it is to their ideals of college. As for the question of room mates, as was brought out in yesterday's article, we doubt if there is any League House Mother who works over the question of placing girls together who are best suited, as is done in a Dormitory. There is chance working in either case but in the League House all is chance. My experience with a room mate in the League House is what I now can look back on as an experience, but which was at the time a cause for unhappiness which I would not care to ever go through again. We must admit that conditions in all League Houses are not the same. For this we can be thankful. We know there are houses in which the girls are happy together and happy in their pleasant surroundings. The tra-' gedy remains in the fact that there is no standard of uniformity and that there is left a chance that some new student is going to live in conditions very far from what could be desired. College life is an ideal which we bring with us and which we want to keep. In a place the size of Michigan true college life is often lost in the hugeness of it all. If through Dormi- tories, college ideals and college spirit may be radiated, it seems as if Dor- mitories are above all a worthy ob- ject. -L. B., '29. Hypnotism has been resotrted to in Germany as a means of crime detection. Murder will nrohahly he THEf THE UNION IS PROVIDING ath - letics for those who are not able to make the Varsity teams, or at least have no desire to try for them.' Their latest is the annual bridge tourna- ment. * . . THE PLAYERS ARE divided into teams and the best team work is sure to win the tournament. It might be noted that this team work includes co- operation below the table as well as above., * * * SCENE IN BRIDGE PLAY The aboie is a scene in the bridge tournament of last year. . The Rolls photographer snapped it just after a player had doubled aI one spade bid and Jib) partner had passed along with the opponents. The decision of the matchN was niever reorded,. * * * A SHORT PLAY Scene: Rae theater. Time: yes. First student: Who is that player? Could it be Wallace Beery? Second ditto: No, uh -- First same: Oh, it's his brother! * * * 1. F. D. * * * HISTORICAL ANN ARBOR (Editor's note: The following is the first, and perhaps the last of a series of articles on departments of the University.) BY J.0.Z. For many years the sight of a few B and G boys cutting campusngrass in the summer or shoveling snow in the winter has always been good for a few hearty guffaws (laughs). But according to an article in the B and G magazine, this gang, which is only department No. 5, a very small part of the whole department, has a pedi- gree dating way back to 1894. The University was in pretty poor shape at that time, and the depart- ment had to exist with just a few wheel-barrows and a two wheeled cart to do their hauling with. But finally things picked up a litttle (the B and G boys are always doing tht) and the campus authorities bought them a horse and two-wheeled dump cart. From then on the success of the department was assured. Grad- ually more horses and wagons were added and more equipment. Then they added one horse after another (had died) and finally put up a horse barn right on the campus. There really was no need for it be- cause UJ hall was there. But just when they had enough horses, horses went out of style and automobiles became popular. Accordingly the de- partment tore down the barn and built the Natural Science building there instead. WE THANK J. 0. Z. FOR his bril- liant recounting of the B and G his- tory and feel sure that public minded students will contribute stcoies of other campus institutions. * * * BUT TO EN,) IT ALL we hope that the cleaning establishment which is given the job of cleaning the muddy clothes of the enfo ,cement officer does a good job of -it. * * * WIY BEN WAS A GENTLEMIAN AND WE SHALL BE MUCH ROUGIER THIAN HE Dear Job: I think it is just horrid the way the past editor of Rills made light of the reforms instituted at Michigan, and I hope you will be more respectful to- wards the automobile ban, the ban against the dances after football games, and all the rest of the bans. I would suggest that Rolls institute a movement against the coming foot- ball game with Harvard next year, as by that time we will be much too gentlemanly to combat those ruffians from the East. Lilacs. * * * . WE THINK THAT IT would be use- less and a waste of time to call off that 'gaie with Harvard. The wear- ers of the Maize and Blue must have! a few practice games ane one mightl as well be with Harvard as with Chi- cago. TONIGHT: The Rockford Players present double bill of "Great Cath- erine," by George Bernard Shaw, and Barrie's "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," in the Whitney theater at 8 o'clock. TOIGIIT: Play Production .pre- sents "Sun-Up," by Lulu Vollmer in the Mimes theater at 8:30 o'clock. S * S MY PIOUS FRIENDS "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" is Barrie at his very interesting best -without doubt sentimental, but his portrait of Mrs. Dowey, a pathetic little London charwoman, is beauti- fully done. Moreover, there is a third act, entirely pantomime, without a spoken word, which is bound to loosenI the lachrymal glands of the most stony audience. Woodward, at Eliot B ON STELL E PLAYHOUSE NIGHTS, 75c, $1.50. Mats. Tues., Thurs. and Sat., 50c, 75c I Recommend "THE DEVIL IN THE CHEESE" By Tom Cushing THEATER BOOCKS MUSIC "'- . r r t' w. 0 ...................................................... Detroit Theaters . . - a. - - .... C AS S THEATRE LAST 2 WEEKS Wednesday Mat....$1.00 to $2.50 Eves. .............. $.00 to $3.50 More Appealing and Interesting the Oftener You See It SCHWAB & IANDEL'S "GOOD NEWS" .: 9wnmmwm"wm= Shubert-Lafayette SLAST WEEK JI e ... ... ... .. )0 ' to $2.-'3 Tlhurs. Ml.......... Oc i o $1.1)4) Sat. Ihat...........c to $2.00 BLANCHE YI'URKA in The SQUALL AN A'Tense EmotionalI rama of But preceding this, The Rockford the Sexes Players are going to revive that most inebriate skit of G. 13. S.-the fortunes and misfortunes of a lady with sev- eral prejudices-"Great Catherine." Russian nobility is stripped of every- DEPARTMENT thing but its ermine and purple--and in the case of Great Catherine her- Lenses and Frames made self, even that. And all of -that to ro Order make sport of one of his own silly Optical Prescriptions .. .. i6 6iE SCHULTZ GROCERY THE HOME OF PURE FOODS ass countrymen. * * * BARREN SOULS CELIBATE LIVES by George Moore. Boni & Liveright. New York, The subject of this collection of tales is the existence of human be- ings in a vitally interacting universe who do not possess, themselves, that indefinable spark or germ which makes Life. They exist in a general sense, but they have no vitality with which to react to the actions of the world upon them. They are barren, impotent nonentities; celibate lives, Moore calls them. To create and establish the imres- sion of lifelessness Moore has used every skill at his command. His style, lways a rich brocade of words, has e modulated in rhythm, and tone to he pessimistic subject he treats, and the other devicesincluding plot and ,,haracter drawing, to say nothing of glittering irony, have all been sub- dued, almost sternly it seems, to the particular purpose for which they are used. The result, naturally, is a masterly refinement of technique and imagination producing an artistic and genuine piece of work. Psychoanalytical as these studies are, Moore, in spite of his stylistic similarity to Hawthorne, has not fol- lowed him in the use of those symbols which Freud has developed. His man- ner, instead, is to dissect so thorough- ly in 'lay' terms that though proces- ses become a natural sequence of cause and effect which leave the im- pression of absolute clarity and sim- plicity. This is the dominant char- acteristic of the book, and the insight which it gives into barren souls is a -ympathetic and delicate criticism of life. -R. Leslie Askren. 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