t' PAGID FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, Fl :[))N'CARY 17, 192. . ....... - -- ----- Published every morning except Monday duringsthe Universit 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 for not otherwise credited in this papertand the local news pub- ished 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, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- tiard Street. Phones:.Editorial, 4925; Business 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITUR JO H. CHAMBERLIN Editor... ......Ellis B. Merry Editor Michigan Weekly.. Charles E. Behymer Staff Editor............... Philip C. Brooks City Editor............Courtland C. Smith Women's Editor..........Marian L. 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Lait, Jr. Joseph Zwerdling John H. Maloney BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM C. PUSCH Assistant Manager... George H. Annable, Jr. S -- Advertising..............Richard A. Meyer Advertising..............Arthur M. Hinkley Advertising.............Edward L. Hulse Advertising...... ....... John WV. Ruswinckel Accounts ................Raymond Wachter Circulation..............George B. Alin, Jr. Publication...............Harvey 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 . J. Hammer Carl W. IHammer IRay Hofelich Hal A. Jaehn James Jordan Marion Kerr Thales N. Lenington Catherine McKinven Dorothy Lyons Alex K. Scherer George Spater Ruth Thompson Herbert E. Varnum Lawrence Walkley Hannah Wallen FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928 Night Editor-PAUL J. KERN STUDENT DORMITORIES Acting quite naturally in self inter- est, Ann Arbor landladies have looked with disfavor on any comprehensive plans for the erection of student dor- mitories. Behaving like any other business in the United States, they could not help but oppose any plan which would- offer competition to their product; which would increase the supply of rooming facilities and thereby reduce the sale price. Yet, from the standpoint of most students, the ,dormitory is far su- perior to the rooming house. For rent approximately the same, it pro- vides individual quarters better pre- pared and maintained;_ as well as greater recreational and social oppor- tunities and facilities. At the present time, of the 2,000. students who enter Michigan every year, more than one-half fail to gain the personal .and social contacts which would benefit them. Through the remainder of their college career, many of them do little more than re- ceive The required university training in preparation for the life and citizen- ship to be followed after graduation. If executed, the proposed Angell housing plan for students would do much to remedy. thissituation. It would require all freshmen to take rooms in the University dormitories. Social opportunities abundant for all would be given to each student. Liv- ing quarters would be of the best; and recreational facilities would be more nearly 'adequate than they 'are now at Michigan. Provision of defi- nite rooming facilities for each and every freshman would be a great aid in the orientation of the entering stu- dent. For the other students, the plan provides that sophomores and upper- classmen may continue in the dormi- tories; obtain a room outside; or live in a fraternity or sorority house. In- cidentally,' the increased supply of rooming facilities caused by the erec- tion of the dormitories would lower the price of rooms in private homes to the level prevalent in many other college towns. As an improved system of housing, the dormitory system strongly advo- cated by President Little would bring with it the greatest single advance ing hours or signing out slips for men's dormitories; faculty proctors; and the promotion of definite "inter- ests" by reuired participation should certainly be avoided. Students, of course, may be well encouraged to additional pursuits; but each one with his own initiative should be allowed room to develop. The aim should be to turn out self reliant individuals who will be able to solve later problems by their own ability. It may seem silly to raise such ob- jections; but, while Michigan desires improved housing as represented in a dormitory system, it does not want to degenerate into a boarding school. LORD ASQUITH With the World War already a de- cade in the past, and with the memory of that conflict slowly fading from the minds of men, the curtain is gradually drawing closer and closer on the careers of those who towered at the helm of nations through the crisis-. and this week has seen the passing of one of the mightiest of all these fig- ures-Lord Asquith. To further praise a man who so defies eulogy could, be at best only a hollow echo of the isorxlow which transcends the boundaries of nations. To recount the record of achievement of this man whose courage dominated the counsels of the Allies in the dark days of 1914 is useless to a generation which lived through the conflict. And the record so rilliant in war is even as brilliant through the preceding years, when Asquith served his coun- try as prime minister and as chancel- lor of the exchequer. A career of more than 50Y years in the service of his country, and in the service of humanity has been brought to a close. Lord Asquith, great in peace and i,ndomitable in war, has passed from the counsels of man t1 the immortality which he so justly deserves. ENGINEERS' OWN HOUSE Out of the dull gray sky of late winter and coming as a bright spot in the prospect of the future comes the announcement by the engineering council that an open-house, to paral- lel the old exhibits which ceased 12 years ago, will be staged again on March 23 and 24. To the present generation of Michigan students, and to seve"al generations back, the an- nouncement eans little of its true significance; btl to the few souls still inhabiting the campus who re- member the tremendouly interesting and gloriously entertainitg exhibits of the engineers in years long past, the announcement marks thrills of expectancy. Some there will be, for instance, who will remember the miniature railroad running from morning to night which the engineers set up along the diagonal in those days, and still others will remember the minia- ture telegraphic and electrical ex- hibits, the exhibits of motion pictures while they were still jr. their early stages, the exhibits of metallurgical work, and the exhibits in the naval tank of marine accoutrements. There also may be a few still inhabiting the vicinity who remember the tremend- ous crowds that used to attend these exhibits, and the fun which was had from some of the devices of the more facetious engineers. With the added facilities of the Physics building and the East En- gineering building, both of which have come since the last exhibits; and with the added research materials and with the growth in architecture, the exhibit planned promises to trans- cend anything of previous years in intrest. Where there was one student to help in former years, moreover, there will be several students to help in the impending open-house. It is, in short, with extreme grati- fication and a sense of keen anticipa- tion that the student body can view the oncoming open house, for there are few more interesting spats on the campus than the buildings grouped around its southeast corner. The flashes of the engineering col- lege, for instance, in the University Moving picture are among the most interesting scenes of the whole film, and they show only a corner of the foundry. The engineers are to be highly con- gratulated on .the revival of the ex- hibit which was abandoned 12 years ago because of the war and the tre- mendous time involved in its prepara- tion. They can rest assured that if their open house in any way com- pares with the exhibits staged more than a decade ago, their work will not go unappreciated by the student body; the townspeople, and visitors from all corners of the state. Ten Nebraska farmers who have i BUT iiOT TODAY WITH THIS EDITION Rolls will endeavor to popularize an expression. It is an expression that carries a lot of significance and may be used in many circumstances. We know all the readers will be saying it, but not today. THEATER BOOKS TONIGHT: The Rockford Players present "Great Catherine" and "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" in the Whitney theater at 8 o'clock. Fnllir thei* ne lev of open- RAE_ LAST T as THE PHANTOM BUSTER THE WAY 01' AL L YA NT JUCHIGAN LOCALS SAT.-3l'NTE 10,14] in "HIO"AGN' S I$ i ItE This "Ad" with 10e admits you. Soon-"The B2 Parade" RAE -= ; A. M. 12 Noon 4 P.M. 8 P. M. Stop at Union 5 Minutes later THE BLUE BIRD Pl1one ,870, 8 A. M. 4 P.M. COACH LINE,, IN§. 118 Fourth St. / I. * * * V UJw ngWl lr p4 IyU THE SAYING ORIGINATED when ing Sunday night and running for a a certain young salesman , of the solid week with Wednesday and Sat- traveling variety, entered a shop with urday matinees, the Rockford Players his line. After a short time the own- announce Booth Tarkington's comedy, er said: "I like your line, you are a "Clarence" with the following cast: very nice boy, I'm going to buy a big MRS, MARTYN.........Gene Mangus order, but not today." MR. WHEELER ......Holman Faust MRS. WHEELER ............ "YOU MAY ALL drive automobiles.............Kate Holland Patton "YO MA AL drvBOBBYobiesHEELER...... around the town of Ann Arbor," said BOBBY W...... sn some official or other, "But not to-CE...............Robert Henderson day." CORA WHEELER.!.. Frances Dade VIOLET PINNEY .... Velma Roynton * * * CLARENCE .........Mr. Warburton YES, THIS EXPRESSION, "But not DELLA ................Gene Mangus today," is really a valuable set of DINWIDDIE ..........Robert Wetzel words to have on hand. It covers a HUBERT STEM ........Franz Rothe multitude of sins and anything else that needs covering. Next week will Incidentally, after having talked be offical "But not today," week so over everything from Ibsen's "Ghosts" that all students will be able to mas- to "Hamlet"-with Charles Warbur- ter the technique of saying the ex-I ton as Hamlet and Mrs. Mansfield as pression in the correct place. the Queen Mother-the bill for the * * week following "Clarence" will be BUT NOT TODAY 'Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound"--a NOT very good play, but a complete financial GWLr -fiasco when Comedy Club did it sev- s^o \\. feral years ago. . February 27 is the date of the only L~-appearance of Mrs. Fiske and Otis Skinner in their production of Shake- speare's comedy, "The Merry Wives If anyone has heard the lerdict 3 of Windsor" at the Whitney. Sup- given as above lie 1ows that the judge Porting Mrs. Fiske and Skinner are eided with, "but not today." a number of the younger group of * * * English actors who have received THEN THERE IS ALWAYS the their training at the famous Old Vic' stdry of the poor overworked fresh- theater in London, and the .general man: :fproduction seems to live up to a re- mark Dr. Furness. Shakespearian au- rthority, made-"This, I am sure, is wo .s-I the way ilI would like to have this wnQ t K ?comedy acted. I Rich, Creamy, Delicious I-onr Choolmtaeikt rO Nickels Arcade 1a1 1 - '0' QUALITY. 10 Alarm Clocks p .QUALITY. $7.00 I Priced at $1.50,$2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.25, $3.75, up to Warranted for 1 year DOG COLLARS AND HARNESSES Dog Colla's, Pad Locks, and Leads PAD LOCKS, combination and others CUTLERY Pocket, Paring, and Household Knives, Table Cutlery and Cerving Sets, Stainless and Carbon. Razors of all Kinds Also. Razor Blades, Strops and Hones. QUALITY. JfO. C Fischer C . QUALITeY.S aain, near Washington Washington, near Main 10 , inerWsiiitnna 4 SDELUXE MOTOR COACHES Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Toledo Terminals-Ann Arbor, City 'hnrmac Ypsilanti, uron hotel Toledo, Interurban Station $1.25 one way, $2.25 round trip Leave Ann Arbor Leave Toledo i. The person above is a little old for a freshman but lie will do. There is no doubt that after saying the above every freshman will gladly add, "butj not today." OF COURSE, IN the near future a huge sign may be hung out over the gates to the aboretum, to wit: THESE GATES WILL BE OPEN BUT NOT TODAY THE FIRST CANDIDATE Rolls Executive Board: I hereby nominate Ben Bolt forf president in Rolls own contest. The great boon he confered on the student body by resigning his job should win the unanimous support of all who ever read Rolls. His experience as a col- umn conductor will enable him to appreciate the work of his Diplomatic Appointees if they are as funny as most American Diplomats. His shy, modest and retiring nature will win the hearts and votes of the feminine element. All real humorists will unite under his banner. Should we find our task hopeless we could throw. our votes to Will Rogers without the loss of any prestige. Poison Ivy. NOW THAT BEN BOLT is placed before the Rolls party as a candidate all he has to do to become president is to win the nomination and then win the election. Personally, we feel that Ben would make a better pres- ident than most of the men who have been mentioned, but try and convince the public of that. GOVERNOR FRED GREEN of Michigan has decided to throw overI the Republican party and become a supporter of the Rolls party. He has said that he will not he a candidate for election this year, but if the pro-! ceeds seem promising tae will try later. * * * PIGSKIN SYMPHONY Arthur Honneger, one of the so- called French group of six apostles of modern music, has announced to a world palpitating for novelty that he will write a symphony containing all the rhythm, color, field strategy.and whatnot' of a football game anit-hat this, while not exactly descriptive ofI the noises of a football game, will be a tone picture of the sort of thing that the English sporting public spends its Saturday and Sunday after- noons watching. The title of the opus will be "Rugby." The experiment will be interesting as a study in musical ingenuity. But the man who so successfully drew a a musical picture of "Pacific 231" should have little trouble sketching a football player sliding ten yards on his neck through the mud, or any other of the little bizarrities of the game. R. L. A. A LITERARY PORTRAIT THE AMERICAN NOVEL TODAY: a Social and Psychological Study, by Regis Michaud. Little, Brown and ,Company; 1928; $2.50. In last Sunday's Detroit Times ap- peared the regular quarter-page re- ligious cartoon. This time it was that old virago, Sin, beating the dead-level heads of humanity with her angry bundle of switches. However ghastly this conception of life may be it is very typical of Michaud's ideas re- garding American literature. For Sin he substitutes Puritanism. The rest of the picture, humanity at a dead- level of misery, and the ideas of the scourge embodied in the bundle of switches, he keeps-and he defends himself by quotations from our lit- erary idols, Anderson, Dreiser, Lewis, and Wharton, not to mention a host of others. Perhaps this is putting the cart load of conclusions before the horse of criticism for the first two hundred1 pages are rigidly colorless criticism{ "Urd i ll fuly' Iin lnti- hi lajife' U cn o Lc 12 Noon 8 P. M. ., . 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He ROLLS IS MAKING plan, to scud sums it up in one sentence, "Ameri- can zpessimism is the ransom of an expedition to the Economics build- Puritanism," and behind that state- ing. The expedition will be headed ment lies an exceedingly fine process by some archeologist who will make of criticism. Michaud's viewpoint is efforts among other things to find the admirable for its impartiality. If last voter who supported the Demo- anything, he leans a little in our di- cratic ticket in the state of Michigan. yection, which is a miracle for a that setoa new standard in ao blalue For years, Chevrolet has pioneered into the low-price field the features of advanced design found on the world's finest automobiles. And never has this progressive policy been better exempli- fied than in the Bigger and Better Chevrolet-withits marvelous new Fisher bodies, its numerous notable me- chanical advancements, and its thrilling new performance. 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