FouR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WP,,T3'.\'ESDAY, INTAY 9, 1928. Published every morning except Monday during the Universit year by the Board in Control of Student ublications. Member of Wettar Cnference Editorial Association- The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatchescredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- 'fihed herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- ilaster General. Subscription by carrier, $4.oo; by mail, t4. fices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- lard Street. 'Phones:.Editorial, 4925; Business 21214 EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4926 MANAGING EDITUR 10 H. CHAMBERLIN 4ditor ...Ellis I. Merry R',;mt Me'1,an Weekly Ch'rl- E. Rehvme News Editor................Philip C. Brooks ILJ . n .. iortin. L. Smith Women's Editor...,......Marian !. Welles S orts Editor. ...........Herbert E. 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George 1. Annable Jr. Advertising.., Richard A ey Advertising., ,a , .... Eward L. Hulse Advertising ...,...,., John W. Ruswincke Accounts Raymond Wachter Circulation........... Georg B. Ahn, Jr. Publication .....,.:., t_, arvey Tacott Assistants George Bradley Ray Hofelich Marie Brummeler Hal A. Jaehn NamesCarpente an cmsJordan Charles K. Correll Marion Kerr Barbara Cromell Thales N. Lenington Mary Dively Catherine McKinven Bessie V. Egeland Dorothy Lyons Oina Felker Alex K. Scherer Katherine Frohne George Spater Douglass Fuller Reth Thompson Beatrice Greenberg Herber, E. Varnum Helen Gross Lawrence Walkey E; J. Hammer Hannah Wallen Earl W. Hamnmer WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1928. Night Editor-GEORGE C. TILLEY VOTE TODAY Today the University student body, as a democratic assemblage, will go to the polls to choose the men who are to officiate and preside in the var- tous student enterprises of the cam- pus during the coming year. Members of a University community, benefitting as they do from the liberal subsidy which a democratic government pro- vides for their education, owe perhaps more. than any other class to the pop- ular ballot which provides these ad- vantages, and it is consequently only natural that these students should SWING OUT Aged in a tradition that reaches back beyond the scope of recollection for the present generation is Swing- Out, one of the most ancient of senior customs. Back in the days of point- a-minute teams, back when Joe Park- I er's and the Orient were campus in- stitutions, Swing-Out was already tra- ditional among senior activities. Wherever Michigan men go when they leave their alma mater, and wherever they have gone in the past, there has always gone with them rich among their memories the remembrance of their Swing-out ceremonies, and the recollection of the time when they, too, swung the length of the Diagonal in what was virtually their last class celebration. Yesterday saw another class pass the way of all Michigan men and wo- men. It was, in a way, a solemn occa- sion, but it was not a sad occasion, any more than past Swing-outs have been, for it marked merely the pass- ing of a generation, of a class from the fold of a University which will make room for countless other class- es, just as fine, in the future. From a large viewpoint the cere- mony represents, or represented, an achievement in the lives of the men and women who took part in it. It marks, to them, the opening of a fu- ture of possibly brilliant achievement with the same gesture which closes the door of their college careers be- hind them. Susseccful as they have been as college students, they move to a larger sphere, perhaps as cru- saders, perhaps far less dramatically but just as worthily as the integral part of the great organization of the nation which will some day fall into their hands. THE M. S. C. ALUMNI SPEAK . As the first step in the campaign to uphold the policies of Kenyon But- terfield, present president of Michigan State college, Jason Hammond, prom- inent alumnus of that institution, is now enlisting the alumni in the state to the president's banner. Hammond, in telegrams to alumni, stated that Butterfield does not intend to resign, and that he has been treated unfair- ly. Butterfield has now returned from his Holy Land trip, during which he received an unasked-for extension of leave of absence, which appeared strangely like a polite request to re- sign. During the same trip, two of his appointees were dismissed from the college. All in all, it appears that the State Board of Agriculture, in whose hands the management of State college remains, desires another man at the head of the school; which would make the fourth man to hold the place in the last ten years. The second largest educational in stitution of the state is far too close to politics for its best interests. Th welfare of thousands of students is supposed to be watched by these same men. Experience has proved 'thait very few politicians have ever been successful at education. Yet, Michi- gan State has not been divorced from its politicians. The alumni move may be the first step to be taken to support the presi- dents who are at the mercy of the state administration, and in the fu- ture, the system used in the Univer- sity may be instituted to clean up a' aid the next largest educational in- stitution of Michigan. FATHERS AND SONS One of the more pleasing customs which has grown up in recent years is that of holding an annual father and son week. As a distinct part of the local program for that week, the Union is planning its sixth annual Father and Son banquet for Satur- day night. Together with it, a full week end of events have also been planned beginning with Cap Night on Friday and including track and tennis meets on Saturday. Such a series of events appear on their face to be of especial value to the University. In the first place they are of such unusual and combined interest that they might well be expected to attract fathers of Michigan sons to Ann Arbor for the week end. In addition those of the fathers who are Michigan alum- ni will appreciate an opportunity to renew old acquaintances and old mem- ories while fathers who are not Mich- igan men or even college men are of- fered an opportunity to become ac- quainted with the alma mater of their sons and to more fully appreciate the life and problems of college men. To- ward this goal the Father and Son+ banquet presents itself as an insti- tution well worth perpetuating. WHO STUFFED THE BALLOT 1 JJ BOXES -r "NOT I," ANSWERED C. Cathcart Smutz with gusto: "and furthermore, every ballot that carries Jeb's name on it for president of the Union will be thrown out." * * * THAT'S REALLY SERIOUS, folks. The committee in charge threatens thus, and you know, after promising support to all the candidates for all the offices, it would be a little wrong to have your ballot thrown out. * * * ANYHOW WE PROVED that the handsome Jeb would have won the election if the damper hadn't been thrown on the proceedings. At that we can't see why they had to get so huffy about it. Didn't Jeb promise to be both Shot and Missin' after he was elected, just to show how useless the office really is? * * * BUT THE CARES OF the B. M. 0. C.'s must ruin whatever sense of hu- mor they ever possessed previously. Imagine, the student council actually decided among other things that fresh- men must wear their pots until Cap night! The councilmen are quite fa- cetious after all. There hasn't been a frosh seen on campus in about a week or so, that is, only a few of the great big ones who are quite willing to push their fists about at all times, council or no council. IT'S NO USE, IT SEEMS Note: Messrs. Shot and Missin' hir- ed this thug to do away with Jeb and Rolls' special photographer snapped the foreigner from Chicago just as he tried to commit his dastardly deed But Jeb's from Chicago, too. Now he's after 'em, but Smutz spoiled his plans for revenge by his announcement that votes for Jeb wouldn't be counted. * * * EVERYBODY'S W O N D E R I N G whether or not he was in the Swing- Out of yesterday or not, and whether he really got into the "spirit" of the thing. But he's really serious, and now the rest is up to you. About all you can do now is to scribble, "We would have voted for Jeb if Smutz hadn't told us not to." * * * SPEAKING ABOUT THE "spirit" of the thing reminds us that one of the cleverest contributions that we've ever received arrived from Bitters Ominick yesterday. We're going to print it tomorrow and there'll be no advanc in. price. * * * THERE'S ANOTHER THING about this election that's almost as fun as all this campaigning for Jeb. It this: Did you ever stop to think tha when "Anna Christie" and "Apollo Kern-ei" hook up against each other today in their fight to hold the office that C. Cathcart now holds, they'll be competing against each other for the proverbial humpteenth time. "Kern-el" and "Christie," products of the local high school right here in Ann Arbor town and classmates at the place for four years started their duel "way back when." Funny pa of it is that when they ran for presi- dent of their high school freshmai. class, another freshman who has ha pened to have been a freshman fo so long that he had won two places on the all-state football team polled more votes than the two of them, add- ed up. ONE OF THE SADDEST parts about the whole election is the vote for the S. C. A. boss next year. Remember. Ben Bolt? He was going to run for that post but that would have been sacreligious, and furthermore, C. Cathcart's order would have reduced the number of votes for that office to none if Bolt had run. You know, of course, that only those, interested inf the S. C. A. are expected to cast theirf ballots. AN ENGLISH LIT prof. (no girls, lie's not really as irrascible as his auburn locks would have you believe) upset one of the candidates for the Union presidency with this staggering question yesterday: * * * "WHAT DOES ONE mean when he uses the phrase. 'rationalizing; a de- THEATER OOKS MUSIC TONIGHT: Concerto Recital in Hill auditorium, 8 o'clock. The Sociedad Hispanica, pre- sents three one act plays: "El Enamorado," "El Milagro," "La Plancha de la Marquesa" in Sarah Caswell Angell hall at 8 o'clock. Play Production class presents Frenec Molnar's "The Play's The Thing" in )Lumes Theater at 8:15 ' o'clock. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST It has been said that it is the poli- cy of this column to hold collegiate performances up to the professional mirror in criticizing them, in that these performances are not reviewed in the spirit in which they are given. This may be true-Let us suppose for a minute that it is true. But if this is so then the question still remains open as to the fairness of this method. If the various organizations on the campus are going to claim immunity from adverse criticism on the grounds of youth and undeveloped ability they are placing themselves in the posi- tion of those young people in our high schools, who, through parental and faculty persuasion, are brought on the stage in their class play, or some- thing of that ilk, and whose highest compliment is "Oh! aren't they cute," or in the position of those who enter k into activities in order to lengthen their list in the 'Ensian or to find enough occupation to give them the feel of being busy without having to show anything except the most per- functory interest. If this then is the way that these people want to be regarded, the re- viewer has no function-the reporter is enough. But this is not the case: most people do not want to be so re- garded, nor are college achievements always inferior to professional- wit- ness the University of Illinois Band, which is one of the three best bands in the country, the dramatic organiza- tion at the University of Colombia, which riot only produces plays well, but produces those plays written by their members, and the famous drama classes of Professor Baker at Harv- ard. The fact is that not only may college performances be as good, but they can be, and in a great many in- stances are, better than professional performances. The attitude of this column, how- ever, is not to expect virtuoso smooth- ness in campus productions, but to stress, as the felicitous title phrase filched from that brilliant causeur and amateur satanist, Oscar Wilde, sug- gests, the importance of being ear- nest-the importance of enthusiasm and appreciation for the thing en- gaged in. It is through lack of this quality that the local campus finds itself in the anomalous position of having a creditable number of good actors, but no drama. Most of the plays produced this year have been produced with an eye to the box office and even then with not more than luke warm interest. These are our halcyon days, the one period in our lives that we may use to make as many and as lofty gestures as we please; there is no reason why we should waste them on such things as "Meet the Wife" and others of the same stamp. The real dramatic achievements during this past year have, with one or two exceptions, been the work of people not in connection with student affairs-The Rockford Players and 'the Harris Players. It would take only one ounce of the spirit that animated Eleonora Duse to make the local dramatic horizons break into flame, but as long as the local organizations present such has- tily gotten together things as the per- formance "On Approval" or such sen- timental bilge as "Seventh Heaven" campus dramatics will find themselvesI in the attitude of that famous King of France, who marched up the hill. Harold May UNIVERSITY GIRLS' GLEE CLUB ! CONCERT Appearing in Ann Arbor for the first time this year, the University Girls' Glee club will give its annual concert on Saturday at 8 o'clock in the Masonic Temple. Besides the reg- u' l Van(rorm oi +he L mn~ca v.1,evh a RIBBONS AND SUPPLUS for all makes of TYPEWRITERS Rapid turnover, fresh stock insures best quality at a moderate price. 0. D. MORRILL 17 Nickels Arcade. Phone 6615. 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Student government, as far as it exists at all, can only exist in proportion to the amount of student interest which it arouses and student support it received. The Uni- versity and its organizations of a self- governing nature, stand high among similar enterprises in the nation's ed- ucational institutions, and this stand- ard has only been attained by the interest of more than a generation of Michigan men and women in their self-government. The men running for the various offices today are without exception qualified for the positions which they seek. That there are degrees in this qualification is doubtless true and in- evitable, and it should be the respon- sibility of the student voters to weigh these qualifications very thoroughly. The Daily, through a special page published during the past two years, has endeavored to present the records of the various vandidates for major offices in a fair and complete manner. 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