E FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 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 creditedrto 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 eneral. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- aard Street.' Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business 21224. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR JO H. CHAMBERLIN Editor............Ellis B. ljerry Editor Michigan Weekly.. CharlesE.Behymer Staff Editor.........Philip C. Brooks City Editor...........Courtland C. Smith Women's Editor...........Marian L. Welles Sports Editor.............Herbert E. Vedder Theater, Books and Music.Vincent C. Wall, Jr. Assistant City Editor...'.Richard C. Kurvink Night Editors Robert E. Finch G. Thomas MeKean J. Stewart Hooker IKenneth G. Patrick Paul J. Kern t Nelson J. Smith, Jr. Milton Kirshbaum Reporters Esther Anderson Sally Knox Margaret Arthur Tohn H. Maloney Alex A. Bochnowski Marion McDonald {ean Campbell Charles S. Monroe essie Church Catherine Price Blanchard W. Cleland Harold L. Passman Clarence N. Edelson Morris W. Quinn Margaret Gross RitaRosenthal Valborg Egeland Pierce Rosenberg 'Marjorie Folliner Eleauor Scribner James B. Freeman Corinne Schwarz Robert3. Lessner Robert G. Silbar Elaine ECruber Howard F. Simon Alice Hagelshaw George I . Simons Joseph F. Howell Rowena Stillman J. Wallace Hushen Sylvia Stone Charles R. Kaufman George Tilley Williai- F. Kerby Bert. K. "Tritscheller Lawrence R. Klein Edward L. Warner, Jr. -Donald J. Kline Benjamin S. Washer 'ack L. Lait, Jr. Toseph Zwerdling BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM C. PUSCH assistant Manager...George H. Annable, Jr. kdvertisng.. Richard A.. Mey~.w kdvertising......Edward L. Hulse \dvertising.........John W. Ruswinckel kccounts.........Raymond Wachter Circulation.........George B. Alin, Jr. Publication... .....H.....r Iarvey Talcott Assistants the work, to be paid entirely by the federal government, with a commis- sion of three, one of them the chief of the army engineering corps, in charge of the work. The merits of the compromise as opposed to the two extreme measures are very apparent, and the immediate agreement to the measure by both partisan factions in thesrSenate is gratifying. Similar success probably awaits the introduction of the meas- ure in the House, though the Cool- idge faction is much more powerful there than in the upper branch, ad if finally passed, the bill will repre- sent a monument to the labors of the Senate flood control committee and to the compromising genius of Sen. Andrieus A. Jones of New Mexico who devised it. CHEERING SECTION Since it was inaugurated two years ago, the student cheering section at the fooball games, operated with a more or less indifferent degree of success, hasbeen a constant prob- lem-not only to the athletic author- ities themselves but to the students who have taken the responsibility for the enterprise through the Student council. Changes have steadily been made, and improvements have been worked out, nevertheless, notably the system whereby' students are not re- quired to sit in the section for all of the games if they sign up for it, and with the advent of another football season, with still further alterations, the cheering section should be ready to take its place beside the other permanent traditions of Michigan as a desirable phase of the football sea- son. It is encouraging to note that work toward the accomplishment of the section will start this spring, instead of being allowed to wait until next fall, when only a feverish campaign can "put the thing across" before the start of the football season. The plan to send literature to incoming freshmen with all of the other ad- vance notices of the University is a good one, and one which should save countless explanations and propagan- dizing next fall, and the proposed plan to canvass the present student body and build the nucleus' of the section before the football ticket ap- plications are even prepared, seems to be the soundest yet advanced. Cer- tain freak ideas, such as obtaining cooperation of the fraternities to force their freshmen to sit in the sec- tion, can be dismissed as impractical, though perhaps some of their good points can be finally incorporated to advantage. All in all, the early start which the Student council has made in al- ready having appointed the committee is encouraging in the extreme. The cheering section is a project poten- tially worthy of permanent develop- ment, and at least worth a fair trial. There is slight doubt but that the students desire the section, and if the means of obtaining support are made only reasonably efficient and reasonably sound, it is inevitable that the project will be carried to notable success. ITTSEEESATMUSIC HER' -TH'EABTERK IT SEEMS THAT the Engineers have lost their pet slide rule, and they-- George Bradley MarieBrummeler Tames Carpenter Charles K. Correll Barbara Cromel Mary Dively Bessie V. Egeland Ona Felker Katherine Frohne Douglass Fuller Beatrice Greenberg Helen Gross F. J. Hammer Carl W. Hammer Ray Hofelich Hal A. Jaehn ames Jordan Marion Kerr Thales N. Lenington Catherine McKinven Dorothy Lyons Alex K. Scherer George Spater Ruth Thompson Herbert E. Varnunm Lawrence Walkley Hannah Wallen think tpe lawyers have it. * * * WE THINK IT would be a dirty trick for the lawyers to take it be- cause they wouldn't know what to do with it anyway. Rolls will offer a reward to anyone who returns the slide rule to the Engineers. * * * NOW IT REALLY seems mean to take the rule away because the En- gineers will not be able to add or sub-' tract or do any other kind of ma- nipulation of figures without it. They have forgotten how to use their heads. * *, * , A POLITICAL STORY IT REALLY ISN'T fair to our read- ers to tell stories we hear in class but our political science professor told a real one today so grin and bear it. * * * THE STORY GOES like this: It was back in the days when Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States and Marshall. was vice-presi- dent. The president went to a cer- tain show in Washington and during the course of it there was a scene in which the theater was almost dark, most of the lights being turned down. The Secret Service department had been careful and no one shot the president. After the show our pro- fessor, who was present, happened to meet a Democratic Congrcssman who was also present. They h'iscussed the play and the professor finally asked the Congressman what he thought of act when the lights were out. "I didn't see much of that act," the Congressman replied, "I was watching Woodrow Wilson, and I had my gun with me. If anyone had shot the president, I would have taken a shot at Marshall." WANT A JOB SEVERAL MEMBERS OF the fac-, ulty gave their opinions the other day on how college will aid in business. One said that personality helps in the bond business. It's not personality, but that certain power which enables a young man to walk into the office of some big executive, slap him on the back, show him how to run his busi- ness, and make him buy bonds. * * * ANOTHER SAID THAT accounting Will help in real estate. After taking a course in accounting we admit that the man who can learn that will be a successful bookkeeper. What debits and credits mean to real estate is beyond us. WHEN WE WERE in Chicago re- cently we went into the office of a prominent company and applied for a job. For some reason or other we got to speak to an officer of the con-' cern. When he asked us as to our qualifications we stated that we had! a college education. On hearing this he exploded, "No college man will' work for me." As we left the office we replied, "Who mentioned work?" 'S TOO BAD Mr. Rolls: Stuff and I went to a French class the other day. The prof. there, a Frenchman himself, remarked rather' dramatically that Frenchmen were the best lovers in the world. Just as every pretty girl in the class settled back with a sigh of relief, seeing herself being handed an "A" on a sil- ver platter, the prof. cruelly blasted all their hopes by adding, "But this Frenchman is married." And now even the pretty girls are doing their homework. Hot Stuff FRIADY, MARCH 30, 1928 Night Editor-J. STEWART HOOKER VISITORS' NIGHTS To possess scientific and mechani- cal equipment is an excellent thing for any university; to use this equip- ment intensely for the instruction of students is still more laudable: and to throw this equipment open to the student body in general for the cul- tural value it may have is a policy that deserves at least as much at- tention as it receives. Last week end the engineering col- lege staged an exhibit of popular in- terest which was an extremely line step; and it is similarly gratifying to learn that the astronomy depart- ment, with its excellent new equip- ment on the fifth floor of Angell hall, is planning a parallel enterprise to- night and tomorrow night when the student body in general will be allow- cd to use the telescope there. There is probably little of direct scientific value in such a visitors' night to the cause of astronomy; but to the broad view of general educa- tion, and to aid in rounding outdthat cultural viewpoint which should -be the portion of every college graduate, such non-scientific instruction is of high merit. To be a specialist in one field is valuable, but it is becoming generally recognized to a constantly greater degree that there is more than specialization in the most valuable of educational organizations.. To this end, and to the end of developing pub- lic interest, visitors' nights such as those arranged last week by the en- gineers and this week end by the astronomy, department are extremely worthwhile. The interest displayed by the student body generally in both affairs should encourage further en- terprises of the kind. UNANIMOUS The unanimous passage of the Jones compromise flood control bill' through the Senate Wednesday, be-' sides constituting almost a perfect model of legislative efficiency (the whole deliberation on the floor oc-' cupied only one hour and 26 min- utes), settles, at least as far as the Senate is concerned, one of the para- mount problems of the present ses-- sion.I The Jones bill does more than this, however, for besides assuring the Mississippi valley of federal aid in THIS AFTERNOON: Robert Frost will give a reading of his poems at 4:14 o'clock in Mimes theater. TONIGHT: The Ann Arbor High School operetta, "The Pir- ates of Penzance" in the Masonic Temple auditorium at 8 o'clock. TONIGHT: The Rockford Play- ers present "The Barker" at 8 o'clock in the Whitney theater. TONIGHT: The Mimes present "The Devil's Disciple" at 8:30 o'clock in the mimes theater. * ** "DON'T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS" A review, by VIneent Wall Mary Boland and new farce com- edy arrived simultaneously at the Cass theater this week. The play it- self is a rowdy caper, possessed of a certain sophomoric humor, but not promising to be a particularly sturdy vehicle for the Messrs. Harris and Short, who are doing the honors. How- ever, since Miss Boland is a bounc- ing comedienne, and since she bounces high and often, the script is enlivened sufficiently' to make sprightly enter- tainment. The authors of "Don't Count Your Chickens"-Robert Riskin and Edith Fitzgerald-have turned a broad smile on the bar sinister and con- cocted an occasionally witty comedy concerning the humors of very free love. A nice young lady finds her- self desiring marital connection with a poet who doesn't care to restrain his sex life within the barbarous con- vention of holy wedlock. At the sug- gestion of her very newly divorced and broad-minded mother, she inti- mates to her lover that there is to be a little stranger in the home (she doesn't resort to the crude device of sewing on a little garment, however) and overcome by his unexpected viril- ity, he falls into awed matrimony. When nature fails to take her course during the second act, there is trou- ble a-brewing, and the expected scurrying around to provide an off- spring. The Truth outs at an in- convenient time and it takes several very hasty play-saving devices to bring down a chaste curtain. Spotlessly acted by such capable Mimes as Sylvia Sidney, Miss Boland,' Charles Eaton,- Raymond Hackett, Maude Eburne, Anna Thomas, and Paul Hervey, there is considerable brazen and jaunty humor. Sylvia Sid- ney, having both beauty and talent utilizes both. And largely due to her efforts and those of Miss Boland, whom we consider the funniest lady clown on the legitimate, * * * "PIRATES OF PENZANCE" Tonight and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Masonic Temple the Ann Arbor High School Musical .or- ganizations will give the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Pirates of Pen- zance." The plot is based on the misunderstanding of a boy's mother, who, being partially deaf, mistook the word pirate for pilot and apprenticed him to a band of brigands. Having been born on the 29 of February, and because his contracts did not expire until his twenty-first birthday, his ap- prenticeship 'was to last for life. G. E. S. ROBERT FROST" Seldom is the campus given the opportunity to;hear and converse with some established gentleman of letters. Those that have graced the. portals of "the Athens of the West," have done so like Spring' days in March-beau- tifully but uickly. Alfred Noyes once stopped over long enough to read his poems in Hill auditorium.' Jessie Lynch Williams once occupied a room in the Michigan Union. And our own G. D. Eaton once stood be- hind the log table in Natural Science auditorium. But two years ago there appeared one, whom Professor Strauss has affectionately labeled as "our poet." He sat for a year in the sole literary chair of the University. That was two years ago, and since then poetic inspiration has declined, except for the Inlander. But now "our poet" has returned. And those of you who were unable to hear him lastj Wednesday, will have a final oppor- tunity this afternoon at 4:15 o'clock in the Mimes theater. And if you then miss him, henceforth and forever more hold your inspiration. "Old Favorites," that is, poems that have been read here frequently be- fore, composed the majority of Rob- ert Frost's selections. "Birches, " 1 ; k"X q h \ / h r" * _ 1 .1 r c, J i ',i : , 1 ; ,,/f /. - . + , . 1 r c , , , '' I I ; "- z . I Where have you' been all your life? ....Europe ? 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Letters pub. lished should not be construed as ex- pressing the editorial opinion of The Daily.- 11 CHINESE UNITY To the editor: I am sorry to say that what Pro- fessor Gale's statement in The Michi- gan Daily of March 28, "that China will be closely united is to be serious- ly doubted" is absolutely not well founded. During the last few years China cannot unify is partly due to militarists who fight for their self- interests and partly due to foreign imperialists standing at the back of them, and thus are the cause of the incessant civil war in China. At the present time these co-work- ers, militarists and imperialists, shall be perished; the chief obstacle of China'sl unification may be removed pretty soon. Furthermore, the Na- tionalist government is founded on the principles of the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, all armies within its juris- diction are undisputably loyal to and controlled by her. There is no more single militarisits who ventures to fight for egotistic purpose and places himself above his own party. Now the unification of China is be- come a popular demand, there is no force that can block this movement, so I dare say that China within a short period will ,reach this goal. 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