THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, APRIL 2 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- lished 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, 14.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR JO H. CHAMBERLIN Editor...................Ellis B. Merry Editor Michigan Weekly.. Charles E. Behymer Staff editor.. .....Philip C. Brooks City Editor...... ...ourtland 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 McKean J. Stewart Hooker Kenneth G. Patrick Paul J. Kern Nelson J. Smith, Jr. Milton Kirshbaum Reporters Esther Anderson Sally Knox Margaret Arthur John H. Maloney Alex A. Bochnowski Marion McDonald Jean Campbell Charles S. Monroe essie Church Catherine Price Blanchard W. Cleland Harold L. Passman uia rence N. Eelseso Morris W. Quinn Margaret Gross Nita Rosenthal Valborg Egeland Pierce Rosenberg Marjorie Follmer Eleanor Scribner James B. Freeman Corinne Schwarz Robert J. 'Gessner Robert G. Silbar Elaine E. Gruber Howard F. Simon Alice Hagelshaw George E. Simons Joseph E. Howell Rowena Stillman J. Wallace Hushen Sylvia Stone Charles R. Kaufman George Tilley William F. Kerby Bert. K. Tritscheller Lawrence R. Klein Edward L. Warner, Jr. Donald J: Kline Benjamin S. Washer lack L. Lait, Jr. Joseph Zwerdling BUSINESS STAFF Teleph one 21214" BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM C. PUSCH Assistant Manager... George H. Annable, Jr. Advertising............Richard A. Meyew Advertising............ Edward L. Hulse Advertising ............ John W. Ruswinrckel Accounts.............. . .Raymond Wachter Circulation..............George B. Ahn, Jr. Publication...................Harvey Talcott Assistants George Bradley Ray Hofelich Marie Brummeler Hal A. Jaehn James Carpenter Jmes Jordan Charles K. Correll Marion Kerr Barbara Cromell Thales N. Lenington Mary Divery Catherine McKinven Bessie V. Egeland Dorothy Lyons Ona Felker Alex K. Scherer Katherine Frohne George Spater Douglass Fuller Ruth Thompson Beatrice Greenberg Herbert E: Varnum Helen Gross Lawrence Walkley E. . Hammer Hannah Wallen Car W. Hammer SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928. Night Editor-MILTON KIRSHBAUM the oldest and best-known' of the Uni- versity's activities. The publicity that the Opera annually brings to the Michigan campus is of undeniable advantage, whether the production be fair or better, for the show is in- variably a call to the alumni in the more scattered cities to gather around and renew a few memories and ac- quaintanceships. It is this renewal process that supplies the impetus for larger propects to the benefit of all. But there is another side to the Opera activity, one that is not so widely stressed, namely, the advan- tage to the participants themselves. The time spent by the choruses and committees is not so extensive after all, and the trip is well worth it. It presents an opportunity for traevl un- der the best of circumstances, for gaining valuable experience in the details of production-technical and dramatic-and for coming into contact with alumni. CAMPUS OPINION Annonymous communications will be disregarded. The names of communi- cants will, however, be regarded as Iconfidential uponnrequest. Letters pub- lished should not be construed as ex- pressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AGAIN For the sake of a better under- standing of the University College problem it seems desirable, if possi- ble, to find some fundamentals upon which there must be general agree- ment. The writer suggests the fol- lowing: 1. The real question involved is: How can the University, not the Lit- erary College or the Engineering Col- lege, best serve the students who come here as freshmen and sopho- mores? It is the University, not a particular college, which the public holdsresponsible for what happens to these students. 2. Whether or not the University College should be established is of vital concern to all faculties. This is true, (a) because work done later in all the schools and colleges de- pends upon what students do, what choices they make and what inter- ests, attitudes and habits of study they develop during the freshman and sophomoge years, and (b) because members of all faculties share, willy- nilly, in the credit or blame attach- ing to the results of an action which is so distinctively a University ac- tion. 3, While all are vitally concerned, no faculty nor all of them combined should settlethe matter of establish- ing the University College for the following reasons: (a) No faculty can be expected to decide, purely on its merits and free from college, department and personal interests and bias, a prop- osition which would reduce its num- ber of students by more than half and raise many questions as to what will happen to its various depart- ments and instructional staff. The College of Literature, Science, and Arts, that mother of schools and col- leges, has nearly always gone through a prolonged and painful period of labor whenever a new school or college was born. Some- times a Caesarian operation has been necessary. (l The fact that a man is a successful specialist in Geology, Min- eralogy, Spanish, Political Science, Latin, School Finance, Marketing, Electrical Engineering, Pathology, Law or Oral Hygiene does not make him an authority on the educational needs of freshmen, even though he teaches his specialty to freshmen, which many of us do not. We ROLL .'OW COMIES THE STUDENT COUNCIL has set the day of May 9, as the time when all promising local politicians will do their dirty work. As we remarked yesterday the University aims to pre-" pare all students for future activi- ties. THE WOMEN'S VOTE has always been a strong factor so we advise that every manager get at least one good looking candidate on his ticket. These may be hard to find, but found they must be. * * * AT THAT, IF the women could have voted for the president of the UnionI last year we think the result may have been different. Not that the, present president is to be slammed, but his opponent, oh, well-. PHI BETA KAPPA NOW THAT WE come to the end of the column we think it proper to pass a few remarks. In the first place a certain person was elected and did not know how to fill out an applica- tion for membership. Well, perhaps !he did get grades. * * * BESIDES THAT THE person who wrote this column yesterday was elec- ted and if any of you read that you have an idea what a Phi Bete is like. Deliver us, please. BUT THE INITIATION into thef order will make them smart. Espec- ially if paddles are used. NOW, WE DON'T KNOW f Dear Jeb: "The American girl," says Count Keyserling in an interview printed in The Daily of yesterday, "is the most original in the world. No other coun- try has anything like her." No, Count, no other nation has any-, thing remotely like her, and this fact constitutes our respect for foreign nations. Lark. . BUT, LARK, DO you think that the Count included the co-eds in this? * * * KENYON BUTTERFIELD EXPECTED TO RESIGN THEATER BOOKS MUSIC "PORGY" JDuBose Heyward i a white man- which is not particularly news. Other men have been white before him. But Heyward wrote a play about negroes in which the white man does not ap- pear, nor does the inter-racialnprob- lem. That has been news for the last six months in New York, and pre- sumably is still news in Detroit, for the play, "Porgy," opens Monday, April 30, with Rose McClendon as Serena, accompanied by the authentic Jenkins Orphanage Band. The Ma sonic Temple will house this pageant of negro life in Catfish Row. As a novel, "Porgy" was tremend- ausly popular when it came out about three years ago. So much so, in fact, that wise friends of author Heyward suggested transforming it into a play. Hesitation gave way to decision, and novelist Heyward invited better-half Mrs. Heyward to collaborate. The re- sult has been a tremendous success in New York when finally the Theater Guild sponsored its production after competing producting found it too dif- ficult. Feminists may argue for the play; both play and novel have been successful. More a pageant than a plotty sort of thing, "Porgy" rides on the back of soniextraordinary characters; steve- (lores, hot-babies, and one thing and another including a particulargmain- my who is "hipped and busted" ex- actly like white Mrs. Rutledge-an important consideration when Mrs. Rutledge gives her some old cloth- es. R. L. A. . * ZONA GALE Spring, instead of bringing poesies and poets, is bringing a "brilliant wo- man novelist"-Zona Gale of Portage, Wisconsin. She will be amongst us April 26, at Hill auditorium for the price of fifty cents under, the au- I spices of the American Association of 4 University Women and our own little Inlander. Miss Gale is not married; she is 54 years old. At the University of Wisconsin she earned her Bachelor degree in Letters, and later her Mas- ters. She then worked for several years in Milwaukee on newspaper staffs, but gave up the "beer village" for the Big City where she was af- filiated with the New York World. However, at. present, her residence is back in Pbrtage, the hamlet of her birth. Despite the fact that Miss Gale earn- ed her apprenticeship in the news- paper world and is a constant' con- tributor to current magazines and per- iodicals, she is primarily a novelist. In fact, she is known only as a novel- ist. Her first book was published in 1906, entitled "Romance Island." She became well known in her "Friend- ship Village Stories"-1909-and upon the success of these stories she later added editions called "Love" and "Peace," "Miss Lulu Bett," and other novels and plays. R.J.G. Whitney Theatre SAT.- NIGHT, APRIL 28 The Musical Romance a u i a e 1 -- - -- -- - ---- - - - - - - .. "The Pride of Ann Arbor" Wolverine Cafe Opposite Wuerth Theater i' 41 k lm mms By SIGMUND ROMBERG Composer of "Blossom Time" and "The Student Prince" Singing Company of 100 Rousing Male Chorus' Dixie Girl Chorus of 35 h . Just because you are not at home is no reason for you to go without good home cooking. Drop in here after the show or dance for French pastry and delicious sandwiches. Your appetite for chicken will be well satisfied Sunday. ddkBdbmb 3 Baggage Cars of Scenery Special Orchestra I ANOTHER MASSIVE SHUBERT PRODUCTION Music That Thrills Prices: Orch. 3.30; Balcony, 2.75 2,20, 1.65; Gal. 1.10 Radio Music Lunches Private Booths f ' I . tV QUALITY. a i i P 9 " 4 .4, QUALITY. Get Your Painting Out of the Way Early This Year EVERYTHING IN PAINT, VARNISHES, POL- ISHES, ETC. AT THIS STORE Rent the Electric Floor Polisher by the day $2.00 7''Wt i GARDEN TOOLS LAWN ROLLERS LAWN HOSE D. M. Ferry's Lawn Seed 45c per lb. oUALY. Jno. C. Fischer Co. lain, near Washington Washington, near Man RIO RI THE THINKER Meditative thought, for the sake of pure meditation and without any mon- etary remuneration as an inspiration, is a rare thing in America, and per- haps the situation is a fortunate one for the sake of our material progress. It is doubly interesting none the less, for an American audience to have an opportunity to hear one of the few remaining meditative personages of the old world, as an American aud- ience did Thursday night with the ap- pearance of Count Keyserling, and the Count's ideas concerning the mod- ern world carry a rather novel tinge to the staid academic atmosphere of an American university. Much of the material stated by the famous German is debatable, to be sure, and any allegation which asserts that we have not, as yet, begun to make spiritual progress is founded on rather dangerous ground. As an analyst of the commercial and indus- trial spirit of the age, however, Count Keyserling stands as one of the most interesting personalities of his genera- tion-a generation which he believes to be "fossilized." His rather cynical view of our own age, however, a view which sees us approaching the "crisis" and forget- ting our sympathy with nature, can hardly mean a great deal to the av- erage layman. As a means of ar- raigning decadent institutions, or of stimulating creative thought, the alarmist view is perhaps a good one, but to the average man, the man of common ideas, there can be no uni- versal conception. Taken in a single brpad sweep of imagination, the world situation is perhaps true as pictured by the Count. But the world situation can not be taken in such a single broad sweep, for world situations do not exist like that; and only by extracting grains from a myriad of complex situations can the ablest thinkers reach conclusions of a general nature. The average man is an individual, a unitary -conscious- ness, and he is a thinking man as a rule; but engaged as he is in material pursuits his conception of world cris- es founded on imaginative hypothesis is likely to be somewhat hazy. Thinkers who are purely meditative serve a purpose for mankind without a doubt, and when they reach the stage of constructive philosophy their! ideas can often be turned to practical "GOSH," senior, "M. breaks." -Yesterday's Daily- SAID A certain retiring S. C. gets all the good! * * * MICHIGAN MEMORIES "I'm glad this didn't happen three weeks ago," cried the puff- ing professor, as he chased his wind-tossed hat across the cam- pus. know our subjects and perhaps we know how to teach them effectively to graduate students, seniors, jun- iors and possibly sophomores and freshmen. But we are not familiar with the biological, psychological, social and educational considera- tions which should be taken into ac- count in determining what should be done for freshmen and how this can be done most effectively. 4. Final disposition of such a ques- tion must rest, subject to approval by the Board of Regents, with the President of the University whoj is responsible fors developing and carrying out the educational pol- icies of the University as a whole. Naturally, the President will avail himself, as he has in this case, of the best assistance that other of- ficero of the University can give him. He should seek, as he has done, the criticisms and objections, of the var- ious faculties. He may call to his aid the services of specialists in higher education who are not connected with the University. Possibly he should have a cabinet composed of a few of those individuals whose duties re- quire them to think in terms of edu- cational problems which affect the * C. * EXPEL TWO UNIVERSITY EDITORS CHARGING BAD TASTE IN POLICY -Yesterday's Daily. "Yes," remarked Benjamin Bolt, "a fellow has to be careful nowadays.' BUT THAT LEAVES HOBBS OUT Dearest Rolls: For months we have sympathetical- ly watched your unresting and untir- ing efforts aimed to the ultimate per- fection of a suffering humanity; and with these few feeble remarks we blushingly offer, through you, a new pastime to the world. This game is WEASEL. The players range in number from two to thirty-seven, blind persons be- ing automatically excluded. The ob- ject of the game is for the player to cause his opponents to score less points than he. Points are accrued as follows: On perceiving a gentleman ensconc- ed beneath one of those ecstatic der- bies, so favored by fashion of late,I the player, points excitedly with the1 left index finger at the offending per- soi and cries simultaneously, * * * "WEASEL! ? scoring three points for himself in a notebook carried in upper right vest pocket. A silk hat scores ten points for the first player to cry "Long Weasel!" and1 point. Special awards of points will be explained in tomorrow's column, or later. INhom D'Plumej MISS WYLIE IN PROSE "Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard," a novel by Elinor Wylie; New York: Alfred Knopf; $2.50. (Courtesy of the Print and Book Shop) This is Miss Wylie's third important venture in prose, although the criti- cal distinction between this and her poetry is still slight, She is gtill the exquisite lyricist, producing well turned and rhythmic sentences, and covering all with a delicate veil of sly humor. In "Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard," she has postulated another member of the Romantic Poets. Mr. Hazard is a composite a bit of Swinburne, a little Landor, a little Bryon, and a great deal of Shelley. He is, like that "orphan angel" flapping his wings ineffectually in the same luminous void. But although Mr. Hazard has dreamed of great achievement- of great blows for freedom, of great dramas and mighty epics- he has done nothing, and is scorned by his family and the public that knows him as an impractical radical. That is, until one summer when he is rusticating in a little town on the' Thames, with seven Hebrew gram- mars, his Milton and his Plato, and at- tempting to dramatize the Book of Job. There he meets Allegra, her sister, Penserosa, and her mother, Lady Clara Hunting. Although he is nearly fifty and she is barely fifteen, he basks in a romantic attachment the entire summer- the nature of which is rather difficult to analyze; Miss Wylie merely calls it an "elegiac r , - A Monument of Service Great cities today quite marvelously reveal what efforts Man ls making in the building of Monu- F ments to Industry. Feats of engineering..,. from massive- tunnels to still higher skyscrapers. / hee tofore believed mpsilaenow rate ~ y they speak well for heresolution, patience, and unity of their builders. i1 ~~JII~ The same spirit prevails in this Bank -. ~IJ1~ From the president down, all of our em- poyees are working together . .. di- gently, willingly ..,. to make this bank- I a Financial Service to every citizen 11 this Community. Ann Arbor Savings Bank 101 N. Main St. 707 Univ. Ave. 4 0b O~r C J ,' F k~. J /", * * * ALL THE RULES were not given ' today because it was thought that the students should be given an op-