P'AGEl FOUR THE MICHIGANTDAIL Y FRIDAY, MARCH 9. 1928 1. 141AY.1L ARC'.TT ! .1 Al2 4V 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- ished herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan,eas 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- Gard Street. rhones: Editorial, 4925; Business 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 492 MANAGING EDITOR 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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FINCH TRADITIONS With the general breaking down of college spirit which has taken place throughout the country in the past few years coincident with the increase in enrollment, it is only natural that there should be a breaking down of respect for traditions. When the whole of a student body lived within a block of its University campus, the atmo- sphere breathed the essence of college spirit; but with the dissemination of a student body of more than ten thou- sand over several square miles of heterogeneous territory, the close knit eirit nf-o lPLe e unity is nuite natur- and Finland. The body hastened to sink the matter into the special com- mittee sessions principally because sparks flew as soon as it was broached in open session. The attitude of Hungary in the whole matter is rather shady to say the least. Indications are that the running of weapons from Italy in di- rect contradiction to the provisions of the covenant has been going on for some time previous to the discovery of the freight train at St. Gothard. Appearances were not assisted by the action of officials in first denying the act and then destroying the shipment before it could be investigated more closely. The complaint against Hun- gary is being brought by the little Entente of Rumania, Jugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. When the matter came up before the council General Tanczos, Hungarian representative declared that the action of the three nations in bringing the complaint was not of the sort to encourage relations between the countries. The whole affair will give the League an opportunity to test its powers of arbitration and execution. An apparent evasion of the pact by one of its members is rendered more ominous by the fact that the coun- tries involved hold the key to a po- tential powder box in the Balkans, the present danger spot of Europe. There can be no half-way action at the Sep- tember sessions, and if the smaller countries can flaunt their defiance successfully in the face of the League, it is truly nothing but a falling mask. ANOTHER LAST WARNING Dr. Albert M. Barrett, director of the psychopathic ward of the Univer- sity hospital, in his report submitted to the state welfare commission, has again sounded the warning note in re- gard to care for the insane of Mich- igan. It is almost common knowledge that the state facilities are totally inadequate in this regard, and Dr. Barrett has only given the solid sta- tistics to back up previous judgments. The seven state hospitals have long been overcrowded with patients. All moves for correction of the situation have been nipped in the beginning by the administration, with the excep- tion of a few enlargements of the present hospitals, and these can never work a change, Dr. Barrett contends. There has not even been a report on the hospitals since 1915. It is thought by officials that nothing less than the construction of entirely new units can cure the present ills. It has not been so long since the director of the Detroit welfare de- partment admitted that there were at least 500 persons loose in he city who should be confined to insane hospitals. Shortly after this there were in De- troit several instances of depradations directly traceable to characters of questionable mental ability. None of these have been particularly danger- ous so far, but there may come a time when the warnings of facts and fig- ures regarding the insane of Michigan will echo hollowly in the ears of the administration. I1 I II SlID ROLL THEENSIAN BELIEVE IT OR not, and we know it is hard to believe, but the sale of the 1928 version of the Michiganensian will end today. IT SEEMS THAT it is a great gag with the Ensian to say that the sale will end and then continue it for a month -or, so The thing is that they expect a big rush on the day that the sale is to end and it never happens. * * THIS TIME, HOWEVER, they are serious and if you haven't already purchased the book do it today for $5.50. The reason that they are end- ing the sale is so Ihat the senior class officers can take up worrying stu- dents for their dues. : * * VERY SHORTLY THE senior class will notice that the last day for pay- ing dues has come. Then they will -try and make you believe that they will not take your money after that date. When Girls Get To Be That Size Be Careful During Leap Year Mr. Rolls: The two of us, Hot and Stuff, were at the PENNY CARNIVAL the other night. While Stuff was playing with the bearded lady, I plunked out a nickle for a dance with one of the dames. I'm still trying to figure out whether I got my nickel's worth. I'll' know next week when I take her out. We were almost thrown out of Barbour gym last night when we started to crawl under one of the side- show tents without paying admission -and the doggone tent screamed and backed away. Now I ask you, what's a man going to do when girls get to be that size. Hot, Stuff. A SUGGESTION HAS been made that the traditional cap night be held in the arboretum. This is impossible because the gates will be closed at G3 o'clock and the students wouldn't be able to enter to throw away their pots. 1 __ _ _ _ _* THEATER BOOKS TONIGHT Tile Rockford Players present Barry Condor's "The Patsy" in the Whitney theater at 8 o'clock. * * d ,i j' r" iiii '_ *. I, ,peag ma Spring flowers are Plentiful. 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It all goes to prove one thing: that Ann Arbor audiences are low brows, Babbitts, barbarians-and all the nasty proletarian names I can think of. Ninety-five per cent of the theater- goers of this campus have no sense of values, or if they have, refuse to discriminate between Cohan and O'Neill. There hasn't been a drama which has been more than a succes d'estime since "Anna Christie." There have been some good comedies given well; a little melodrama that has been fair; and that is all. Moreover, if there had, there wouldn't have been anyone to go to it. The faculty and students who might like it don't go; and those who do' make up the audiences at the Mimes and the Whitney want to be amused by farces or something of like nature, that will act as a catharsis for their academic woes. For that reason lo- cal impressarios have fought shy of anything of this nature-and there has been a debacle of Kaufmann-Con- nelly, George Cohan, Austin Strong and the like. 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Main, near Washington Washington, near Main R& R0 fl OF COURSE THE traditional fire e * * could be arranged in such a manner "Hedda Gabler" next week may ef- as to take care of the gates and then face the blot on the 'scutcheon, and the cap night would be a general benefit to all students including theI freshmen. splru of uige U11y iquieIU ally scattered to the four winds. EDITORIAL COMMENT Through the East this tendency of disorganization has gained a powerful MARKS AND THE COLLEGE MAN grip within the past decade, and the (Cornell Daily Sun.) great universities of the Middle West Chief Justice Taft recently com- are quite in line with the same event. mented on the modern trend in edu- Early evidences of disorganization have cation as rewarding irregular genius been apparent here for several years "while solid qualities developed by past, and the most conclusive example intellectual discipline are thought thus far presented is the present dis- hum-drum." He believes that more regard for the-tradition of the fresh- men of worth in a community come man pot, which has so very obviously from the ranks of the valedictorians seized upon our own campus in the and salutatorians, than from the past year. ranks of the athletes, the managers, Any tradition to justify its exist- and the editors. It would seem that ence, must be a good tradition, for the the Justice misunderstands the sit- present generation of college students uation. is not one to take its course of action In the first place marks do not ade- on sheer, good faith. The question quately determine a student's scholas- raised as to whether the tradition of tic ability. Any normal person who the pot is worth preserving is a legi- does not go out for extra-curricular timate question; but it is one which activities, by applying himself to his deserves to be answered definitely studies, can receive good grades. No onq way or another, for even an icon- inherent brilliancy, intelligence, or oclast could not wish any revered genius is required to receive an A in custom the lingering death which most courses as the grading system is seems to have become the doom of the now conducted. The student knows pot. the syllabus for each subject, and his If we are to denote our freshman grade is merely the result of how well class by the grey pots which have he has chosen to learn it. The whole denoted gene-ations of Michigan thing is determined by the inclination{ freshmen in the past, it is time action to study and the amount of leisure was taken to preserve the custom. that each student has. If the tradition, on the other hand, I If the extra-curricular man re- is not worth preservation it at least ceives low grades, usually it is not deserves the grade of a formal aboli- because he is of inferior mentality or tion, by dlefinite action of the proper less intelligent than the Phi Beta' authorities. It is a question for the Kappa man. More often he has decid- student body to answer, and it is a ed that three hours a day on the cin- question not without its enigmatical der path or in the shell is of more ramifications. The pot is going, never- value to him than that time spent in theless, and going fast. If it is to be perfectly memorizing the written page preserved or respectfully buried the and the stereotyped assignment. He time is ripe for action, is contented with the substance of a THEN AGAIN THE event could be held in the afternoon so that the stu- dents could get inside the arborteum. Another good suggestion is that the traditional event be held in the middle of the campus or thereabouts. S* * * THIS SUGGESTION WAS made with the Economics building in mind. It seems that there would be plenty of material for the fire if it were held on the campus proper. The Economics' building has often been taken for a pile of wood, and several new B andj G boys had to be restrained fromj moving it to the dump heap the other day. * * * THE STU;DENT COUNCIL at the same meeting wherein they talked about cap night also spoke of the naming of the new Stadium. My, have they forgotten, that it is known as Lake Tillotson. * * * IT SEEMS THAT a better name is wanted and we suggest for their ap- proval, BENNIE'S BOWL. It really was the two Bens who had the most to do with the building of the stadium. A certain game, 54-0 with the Navy, and a few other feats made the Mich- igan teams even more famous than they had been and millions of persons wanted to see them play. ** * NEXT YEAR IT will be different without either Ben, but then the sta- dium is there and those (including students) who sat in Ypsilanti, Jack- son and other convenient places last season will have the opportunity of getting good seats this year to see where their heroes of old trod. ** * LITERARY BODY DEFERS ACTION -Yesterday's Daily. From this it would seem that some of our faculty members are thinking of running for Congress and are get-E ting in practice according to the time honored custom of our National leg- islature. I ;Jeib. least, that extra-curricular activitiesj do not attract as many students as they formerly did. And at the same restore my faith in human nature. And "The Devil's Disciple" and "The Beggar on Horseback" may do more. All this has been rankling and or- roding in my typewriter for so long that it demanded expression. At present we can do little more than pray for the future; after all, "Clar- ence" and "One of the Family" were fiascos. Ibsen and Shaw may hold the field after all. * * * EDEN a novel by Murray Sheehan. E. 1E. Dutton and Co. $2.00. . (Courtesy of the Westwind Lending Library.) The triangle, if not eternal in real life, is at least eternal in fiction. Mur- ray Sheehan has in this novel, taken the old situation of Adam, Eve, and Lilith in Eden, which has been han- died by every generation since the be- ginning of time, and made it into a servant girl romance with heroic set- tings. His version of the triangle story compares with, say, Thackeray's as an early medieval drama compares with Moliere. It is an attempt to take advantage of the interest that has been reawakened in the creation story by Shaw, Erskine, and Cabell, and by injecting a suitable love in- terest into it, to make it into a pop- ular novel. The writer of this book says that God is eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, but in the story He appears as a tired old man anxious to help out the young folks. It is all very simple and very soothing: God has made man in his own image, He has appointed him supreme being cn earth, and is at his elbow with an indulgent smile every time he gets into trouble. Even in the good old days when evil spirits lurk- ed in rocks and trees, and when every minute this palpable world seemed ready to dissolve into a host of good and evil sprites, it was not so, people weren't so condescending to the deity. Only a novelist who needed His inter- vention to help solve the situation in his story would dare to be so patron- izing toward Him. 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