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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, FEFBRUARY 21, 1928
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SouthAmericans and by large num-
bers of persons in our own country.
He has stood as the "bad boy" of the
conference throughout, but he has
also stood as a somewhat desirable
check cn the complete accord which
might have been vitiating.
The conference is not over, and
many things can happen in a week;
but on the whole it seems safe to pre-
dict that the articles of the Pan-
American Union, now under consid-
oration, will be adopted-spelling
final success to the efforts of the
delegates.
MEETING YALE
It is not only the followers of sport
who will hail with joy the announce-
ment that Michigan's national inter-
collegate champion swimming team
will meet Yale, champion of the east-
ern intercollegiate competition for 15
out of the past 16 years. To the nat
ural attraction of a contest between
champions, the meet adds the color
of an intersectional combat, and of-
fers the first opportunity which the
Maize and Blue has had in many
years to try its strength with a team
from Old Eli.
To attempt to predict the result of
the meet would be as precarious as it
would be out of place, for both teams
have exceptional competitive rec-
ords. Yale has been beaten once
since 1912, and Michigan, though sev-
oral times defeated by teams out of
its class, towered head and shoulders
above all teams entered in the na-
tional intercollegiate meet last spring.
The single comparative basis of the
two squads can be made from their
record against Syracuse, which Yale
defeated 43 to 19 and Michigan beat
by a score of 49 to 20.
Michigan is appreciative of the op-
portunity to meet rivals of such high
merit and respected reputation, and
whatever the outcome in points, the
meet is bound to promote the fine
spirit of sportsmanship which has al-
ways existed between the athletic
representatives of the two schools in
the past.
THE LABOR LEADER
It is with considerable gratification
and anticipation that the University
may greet the announcement that
William Green, president of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, will speak
here next week.
It is rare that a college community
has the opportunity of hearing at
first hand, from a man who stands a
the very head of organized labor, a
exposition of the position which the
unions take on the paramount issues
of the present day and an explana-
tion of the policies which will be fol-
lowed in regard to them. This fact,
if nothing more, should command the
interest of the student body in r
to the impending appearance of the
labor leader.
For still another reason, however
the visit of Green should arouse in
terest, for he, of all men prominent
in labor circles today, represents the
most ambitious ideals of the laboring
classes. Succeeding Samuel Gompers,
whose conservative influence domi-
nated the counsels of labor for nearly
40 years, Green has stirred the or-
ganization to a new consciousness of
its power, and has raised several ligh
storms which threatened to catapult
the American Federation of Labor
frankly into politics.
The appearance of such a figure
cannot help but promote a more com-
plete understanding of the labor prob-
lem about us-an understanding
which can prove of inestimable benefit
to a University community.
INSIDE THE LAW
Certain incongruities in the trial of
August Lottner, former federal cus-
toms inspector, for involuntary man-
slaughter under state laws, have be-
come increasingly evident as the ex-
amination has proceeded. Lotner,
PRE SIDENTIAL
POSSIBILITIES
IN SO FAR AS our only competitor
in the morning field, The Michigan
Daily, has been running interviews
with professors of note on various
presidential possibilities, R oI11 s
thought it no more than proper that
it should follow suit. We herewith
present interviews which make the
race for president simple.
* * *
REEVES GIVES BOLT A BREAK
"Ben Bolt, humorist and whatnot,
seems to me to be the likely choice
of the Rolls party for the coming
presidential nomination," said Prof.
Jesse S. Reeves, of the political sci-
ence department yesterday. He was
in my International Law class last
semester, and although I didn't proc-
tor the examination my assistant tells
me that Ben will be very adept at
stuffing ballot boxes."
"Of course," continued the profes-
sor, "if the Republicans put up a good
man the Rolls party may be forced to
reconsider and present a better can-
didate to the people. I think Small
of Illinois would be a likely choice."
* * *
SHULL FAVORS THOMPSON
"That William Hale Thompson of
Chicago will win the race for pres-
ident is certain," said Prof. A. Frank-
lin Shull of the zoology department,
in an interview yesterday. "You see.
Thompson has acquired all his badl
qualities, and the ten gallon hat.
These acquired characteristics are
never inherited, so if he is elected
president his children will not wear
ten gallon hats."
"Thompson graduated from Yale,
and that is the only outstanding fault
I find with the person. I would really
like to see him in the White House to
find out if it is possible to make any
more graft than the present adminis-
tration is making."
* * *
WENLEY SAYS A FEW WO1DS
When asked who would be the best
candidate for president by a Rolls
representative yesterday, Prof. Rob-
ert M. Wenley of the philosophy de-
partment replied: "Since I am not a
natural born citizen of the Unite
States (thank God) I find that the
politicians are having some difficu
in finding a suitable man to hold the
ffice of president."
"Any man who is chosen," he con-
tinued, "will find it advantageous to
call on me for help. However, if
certain men are in the race I think I
I shall take another two years leave
of absence."
* * *
VAN TYNE SUPPORTS HEARST
"I realize that the presidential
boom for William Randolph Hearst is
a thing of the past," said Prof. Claude
H. Van Tyne of the history depart-
ment to a Rolls representative yes-
terday, "but it is my opinion that he
will win the Democratic nomination
and the election.
"Mr. Hearst," said the professor,
"embodies everything that a good
American citizen and a chief execu-
tive should not have. That is the
main reason I think that he will win.
I personally shall do my utmost to
get him into office for I feel that he
has always been my friend, always
making my books sell by razzing
them. Aside from Hearst I think that
Thompson would make a good can-
(idate because of his pro-British
attitude."
* * *
HoBBS FAV ORS GREEN
"In a detective story thriller I was
reading the other day," said Prof.
William H. Hobbs of the geology de-
partment, to a Rolls representative
yesterday, "I learned of how great
small men can be and to what heights
they can arise on occasion. It is be-
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THEATER
BOOKS
MUSIC
TONIGHT: The Students' Recital in
the School of Music auditorium at 8
o'clock.
TONIGHT: The Rockford Players
present Booth Tarkington's "Clar-
ence" in the Whitney theater at 8:15
o'clock.
TONIGHT: The Mimes present
George M. Cohan's "The Home Town-
-1
ers" in their theater at 8:30 o'clock. i
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"CLARENCE" PORTABLE
A review, by Harold May. TYEWRITERS
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succession of risable theatrical tricks.
But it seems to the reviewer that the MICHIGAN PINS
character of Clarence deserves nmome
recognition than that. Clarence it FOUNTAIN PENS
strikes one is the one other person
beside Rudolph Valentino that is the i ALARM CLOCKS
ideal of American Womanhood---he
is the handy man around the house.
In the eyes of the American mafnle Ee
is also much more than that, he is a
sort of middle-class Paul Bunyan. STATE ST. JEWELRS
omniscient and almost unbeatable at
any game; well traveled, scholarly,
and yet still the same good fellow at 1
heart.
The ckiord Players' per-tnrmancO
of this so jubilant American play was
somewhat uneven principally -in the
second, ct when some of the business
didn't quite come off; the directori
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Music by
Watkins' Eleven Wolverines
BUD GOLDEN, DIRECTING
Also dancing this week
Wenesdaj, Friday, and Saturday
ranger s Academy
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
1 al A. Jaehn
James Jordan
Marion Kerr
Thales N. Lenington
Catherine BMcKinven
Dorothy Lyons
Alex K. Scherer
George Spater
Ruth Thompson
Herbert E. Varnum
Lawrence Walkley
Hannah Waller
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928
Night Editor-PAUL J. KERN
THE UNION
One week from today, on Tuesday
night, February 28, the membership
of the Union, including every male
student in the University, will be ask-
ed to vote on several proposed amend-
ments to the Union constitution. The
m'easures proposed will simplify the
organization tremendously, displacing
the two present boards with one
board of directors, and placing the
presently scattered authority over
financial and administrative matters
directly in the hands of one body.
Unless the men students of the Uni-
versity show interest in the project to
extent of having 600 at the meeting to
vote the measure cannot be passed-
for according to the Union constitu-
tion no less than 600 can constitute a
quorum. The doubt is not so much
whether or not the student body will
see fit to pass the, amendments when
they receive the chance to vote upon
them, as it is whether or not there
will be the requisite 600 at the meet-
ing.
The proposed reorganization of the
Union presents a very real responsi-
bility to the men students of the Uni-
versity. I
SIGNS OF SUCCESS
With less than a week of delibera-
tion remaining before them, and the
difficulties with Pueyrredon, head of
the Argentine delegation apparently
overcome, the delegates t the Pan-
American conference appalently face
a successful conclusion. The articles
of the Pan-American Union are well
on the road to adoption; the threaten-
ed difficulties over military interfer-
ence by the United States in Central
America seem to be avoided or at
least successfully tabled; and the
threatened row over the tariff pro-
posal appears to be settled with the
tacit withdrawal of Pueyrredon.
On the whole the conference has
been a rather signal success, in spite
of the rather tense atmosphere in'
which it was opened. Honorio Pueyr-
redon, to be sure, fiery Argentine)
statesman, has injected issues which
at times tended toward disruption and
has stood out alone against the final
pact for nearly a week, but Pueyr-
redon has apparently been big enough
to withdraw when his presence meant
failure for the conference, and has
night il stock, the Players gave the
iimpression of having- imagined their
parts well. Charles Warburton, in
spite of the fact that he is English by
birth and breeding, caught something
of the mid-western idea, and gave r
good portrayal of the whimsical yet
all pervading Clarence. The long,
lank, adolescent, hair-brained Bobby
Wheeler was played, and played with
real gusto and appreciation, by tob-
ert Henderson. Frances Dade turned
out to be the real success of the eve-
ning in her role of Cora Wheeler, the
young Bobbie's budding sister. She
managed without a single let down
to be successfully impish and hyster-
ical through all four of the giddy acts.
Mrs. Patton who never fade to get
the ultimate effect from every one of
her parts, did a very good Mrs.
Wheeler. The rest of the company
j did what they could to add coherency
and smoothness of running to the
play, which could have been improved
muchly if they had all known their
lines better.
"THE HOME TOWNERS"
The long deferred Cohan farce opens
tonight in the Mimes theater-with
the triplicate starring combination o'
Crane, Dougall and Kleutgen. Dou-
gall is doing the George M. Cohan
part, and incidentally is playing the
H. B. Warner lead in Comedy Club's
"You and I" next week.
THE CIIICAGO CIVIC OPERA
With four of the old favorites in the
billing--"Carmen," "La Gioconda,"
"Madamne Butterfly" and "Il Trova-
tore"--the Chicago Civic opera spent
a prosperous three days in Detroit
last week. The houses were good,
and the productions satisfying in the
I main. As usual a great deal of ham
acting was done on all sides and
about, but all four performances were
well staged and some excellent sing-
I ing was done by Mason, Garden,
Hackett, Lenska, Jackson, Formichi
and Sikes--to mention the most out-
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in the pursuance of his duty of de- cause of this that I think Gov. Fred s g s is-who substi-
;stamndingice.g ~ ia-h usi
tecting and apprehending rumrun- Green of Michigan is the most likely Itutd for Muzio en "Il Trovatore" as
ners in the Detroit river, crashed the candidate for nomination on the So- well as singing Gioccnda-was in
boat of a liquor law violator and as cialist ticket." very poo voice; and Garden on the
a result the latter and his daughter "Green would undoubtedy be a great other hand sang better than in years.
were drowned. Dismissal for the i president," the professor continued, Sikes, as far as vocal accomplish-
agent preceded the present trial. "for he would make wonderfuil ma- mernts went stole "La Gioconda" away
Perhaps there is some truth in the terial for novels on, the subject of from everyone.
charge that Lottner was operating his I greatness in small packages. I shall 'This organization has been in De-
boat in wanton and reckless fashion, throw the support of all Greenland to two seasons now, and it is
and in a certain measure disregardful the native of our great state."for hoped that Grace Denton will see fit
of public safety. But he was equally * * * to bring them on annually.
reckless with his own life, and was YOST LIKES BENNIE -T. J. R.
engaged in a pursuit that admittedly "Oosterbaan is the most outstand- * * *
requires strange methods. The ri- ing candidate for president that this THE STUDENTS' RECITAL
diculous part of the whole situation country has ever seen," declared A recital will be given in the School
is that almost all the men called as Coach Fielding H. Yost to a Rolls of Music auditorium this evening by
witnesses against the former agent representative yesterday, "I am sure Ruth Johnson, Elizabeth Schweir,
have admitted that they are regularl- that he would win the womn's vote j Mary Alice Case, Vera Johnson, Ber-
engaged in running contrabrand without a struggle." nard Dickstein, Madeline Holmes,
liquor contrary to federal and state "With Friedman as secretary of Louise Nelson and Marion Johnson.
laws. Here is presented the sorry state," continued the coach, "our na- The program will include a Beethoven
spectacle of a representative of the tion would have a combination, that "Romance," and a Sonata and the
government involved in serious charg- would not only baffle the Navy, but Quartet in C minor by the same com-
es through discharge of his assigned would strike terror in the hearts of poser.
task, and being publicly condemned all nations. Yes, Bennie is the only * * *
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THIs jobbie Diogenes was a Greek who left his fruit stand for the commend-
able purpose of questing for honesty by good old-fashioned lamp-light. And
now.; loud and ever clearer, rings the cry from the housetops: "Diogenes -
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