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PUSCH Assistant Manager....George H. Annable, Jr. Advertising............Richard A. Meya Advertising..............Edward L. Hulse Advertising.......... John W. Ruswinckel Accounts......... ......RaymondWachter Circulation............George B. Ahn, Jr. Publication...................Harvey Talcott Assistants George Bradley Ray Hofelich Marie Brummeler Hal A. Jaehn Tames Carpenter James Jordan Charles K. Correll Marion Kerr Barbara Cromell Thales N. Lenington Mary Dively Catherine McKinven Bessie V. Egeland Dorothy Lyons Ona Felker Alex K. Scherer Katherine Frohne George Spater Douglass Fuller Ruth Thompson Beatrice Greenberg HerbertE . Varnurm Helen Gross, Lawrence Walkley E. J. Hammer Hannak Wallen Carl W. Hammer TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928. Night Editor-CHARLES S. MONROE friendly city administration. One can not help but feel that the landladies charged with "excessive rents have been wrongly accused, and that 'no Ann Arbor resident could stand for such an outrage. One is surprised, in fact, at the generosity of the city which allows the students use of its city sidewalks free of charge (as it allows them the use of its parks); and one cannot help but feel that the present action of the city park com- mission has aided greatly in promot- ing the friendly spirit which should always exist between the townsfolk and the student body. Qualifications for the United States Marine Corps now include the re- quirement that the applicant be at least five feet, six inches tall. This figure is an inch higher than former-j ly. Evidently our armed forces are growing. One of, the more recent examples of enlightened vision on the part of our national legislators appeared the other day when a United States sen- ator expressed his belief that golf is being "taxed out of existence." Reports from Moscow say that the Soviet government has issued a decree abolishing all gambling resorts. Could it be that the Red governmet is plan- ning to reform from its wild manner of life? CAMPUS OPINION Annonymous communications will be disregarded. The names of communi. - cants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Letters pub. lished should not be construed as ex- pressing the editorial opinion of The * Daily. OASTEDROLL JEREMIAD JEERIN AT JUST ABOUT NOTHING To G. F. z When the regents paternal of this great college, Inthings automotive decided to boss us, From out of a famous comic strip Came Andy Gump to Emery's office. But ere we pipe to Gump this lay And give his deeds our immertal pen, 'Tis proper to tell of the auto-ban's czar, Assistant-to-the-dean of men. When cars were made illegal here A suitable man was sought To tell the students what uas what And who might drive and who get caught. The regents scoured far and wide For a man of the qualifications, They searched the English-speaking countries And visited foreign nations, They looked along the jungle rivers, The Amazon, Po, and Niger, But the man they sought was found at home- They selected the Princeton Tiger, To him were given manifold powers Of expulsion and probation- This Emery of the faculty Of physical education. And the tales that have come to the ears of this man. With cloven hoof and horns! The tales of business enterprises, Of broken legs and corns! Sing paeans to the hardy souls Who've told him their tales of woe, Sing of their tears and downcast looks As out of his office they go. Sing softly, muse, of departed ones Who ingenuity lacked To drive their cars and not get hook- ed On Emery's Auto Act. But this is not an elegy To those from hence departed- Turn we back to the lanky man With whom this poem started. To Andy Gump of cheerful mien, Our hero tall and thin, With sparkling eye, protruding teeth And retrogressive chin. The sorrowful tale of his earlier life Will not concern these rhymes, But Gump at twenty-one had had The seven years' itch three times. Till Lydia Pinkham's vegetable com- pound Drove Andy's itch away- And hence the smile of satisfactor That Andy wears today. 11 THE LAST OF IT To the editor: Sophomoritis should have reached its peak of existence with the termin- ation of the spring games, but I find the literary school is exempt from the general rule, if the literary school has more than one "S. T." To the engineer, S. T.'s comment arouses no resentment, we feel much the same way about people who attack the honor system without some thought, as we would seeing a man kick a dead dog with the thought of hurting the dog. To anyone reading his comment, "Everybody knows, I heard, They say, It isn't hard to be- lieve' explains the situation much bet- ter than I, or anyone else could. However, I do wish to point out, that should anyone ask an "honest" engi- neer his opinion of the honor system, and in reply he states that cribbing is going on under his eyes, he is not the type of engineer that the stu- dents or faculty want in the engineer- ing college. We do not want "honest" engineery, we want men in our col- lege, men who feel the responsibility THE CITY'S GRASS Two weeks ago the two underclass- es of the University held their annual" tug of war across the Huron river. In the course of the conflict, it seems, some turf was dug up on the east side of the river, and some curbstones broken. For these capital offenses the city of Ann Arbor, in its characteristic (" k r R THE LATE MAY FESTIVAL Now that spring is upon us and the time has come to go walking, smoke many cigarettes and talk about life, the heavens, always ironical, have decided that all pleasurable activities shall give way to final examinations and their preparations, and that these calm classical evenings shall not be devoted to the pursuit of the Seven Lively Arts, and the two unmention- able ones, but to the unstinted pro- duction of academic sweat. Conse- quently, with only studying being done in the University, there is nothing going to happen that can be bally- hooed or nothing happening to be re- viewed, and this column, in the short time that is left, will devote itself to rambling disquistitions upon the things that have happened during the year. The School of Music is to be congrat- ulated upon this May Festival just past for, although they had no sing- ers of the first rank except Margerete Matzenaur, their program as a whole was of a high and sustained quality. The "St. Francis of Assisi" of Pierne's that was presented this year was prob- ably more suited to the limitations of the Choral Union than Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" of last. Both of the Choral Union's performances were of good quality and it is a sad thing to remember that with the exception of their May Festival activities, the only public evidence they have given of their existence was a more or less furtive production of the oratorio "The Seven Last Words of Christ." There exists, a thing needless to point out, a vast chorale literature, some of it worth hearing many times, but in- stead of periodic; representations of this material, the Choral Union, early in September, like the players at Ober- ammergau, cuts downs on its rations and begins to train and strain for the next May Festival concert. Of Margerete Matzenaur very little need be said; both she, and the people who have heard her, have heard pane- gyrics enough. Of Leonora Corona, however, that towering and robust person, there is much. She sang well because she had been educated to sing well; she had stagey and sometimed amusing gestures because she had seen Mary Garden, but somebody should have told her that the little green deb's party gown that she had on was not quite the thing for her. Her voice showed the effects of her training, but, while it was pleasing, it lacked the streamlike fluidity of such a singer's as Boris or Raisa. Marion Telva, outside of that redoubtable person from Temesevar, proved to be quite the best woman singer of the Festival; her performance in Aida was brilliant, and added necessary grace and sparkle to an attempt that was more than humanly likely to need it. The performance of opera in the manner of an oratorio is, I suppose, too old and stubborn a tradition for anybody to be able to do anything t it, but there is always opera and the things that are not always which might well be substituted for such musical pabulum as Aida and Car- men are too numerous to mention. Be- sides there are enough selections from operas interspersed throughout the programs to compensate for the lack of any formal presentation of one of them. Frederick Stock and his Symphony Orchestra( to use the phraseology cur- rent in the jazz band business) set the high water mark for this year's musical attainments in his perform- ance of Tschaikowsky's Symphony No. 5. Only Ossip Gabrilowitsch with the playing of Cesar Franck's symphony last winter approached it in quali- ty. Tschaikowsky's symphony was projected with all the ; eloquence and sureness of accent that can char- acterize the presence of a master hand; with the exception of the time when the horn player's lip failed him in the enunciation of the first theme in the andante movement, there were no noticeabbi flaws, and who can cavil at thls in the face of such an otherwise good performance. Another one of Mr. Stock's acbieve- ments was the playing of the suite from Igor Stravinsky's "L'Oiseau de Feu." This was the only one of the orchestral numbers that even ap- proached modern times in thought and feeling, and it was very enthusiastic- ally received. Its reception proved that whenever a piece of music ap- pears that is immanent with the new idea, the new rhythm, people wrL can hear at all, even though not im- mersed in musical traditions, will get I .r spirit of sportmanship and benevo- lence, has now presented to the Stu- dent Council of the University a bill for $3.9, which will pay for the re- placement of the sod and the renew- ing of the curbstones at $1 per .stone. This, of course, is no more than the action which could be expected from a city government which apprec- iates its city's largest industry to the extent that the Ann Arbor govern- ment appreciates its University. Such a thing as friendly cooperation, and an appreciation of the youthful spirit which was responsible for the little pits dug on the east side of the river is entirely foreign to a city gov- ernment such as the one under which we exist. Such a thing as cheerful- ly replacing the bits of turf and buy- ing a few extra curbstones with a friendly feeling of good will is en- tirely beyond their ken. The student body must be grimly charged in dol- lars and cents for the few minor damages which they perform to the city's grass. It makes one wondar, rather, just how far the city of Ann Arbor can carry this avaricious viewpoint; and it makes one wonder whether the res- idents of Ann Arbor appreciate to any small degree the value of the student body which they so effectually charge for every bit of service. The student body itself, and the University author- ities, have consistently condemned and disciplined students for the wanton destruction of local property, and more than once such property has' been replaced; but when the motives' are so completely harmless as they1 were two weeks ago, and when the1 event itself is so steeped in tradition,1 it rather seems as though the thing can be carried too far.I For years and years the tug' of war< has been held on the same spot which1 witnessed it a fortnight ago. When1 the property was in private hands,1 there was never any protest as to its use, and never any bill for its mistreatment. Now, however, that the land has become public property, of their profession, and who would rather see the profession of engineer- ing become non-existent than to see men graduate after having completed four years of "cribbing." I do not criticize S. T-'s comment about it being difficult to install the honor system in the literary college; if -the literary college has, as I say, more than one like him, I dare say it is impossible altogether. We may all be idealistic and optimistic, but still we believe there are enough men being graduated from the high schools and junior colleges to enter our col- lege, even in the day of proctor ex- aminations. It is indeed a sad outlook to the business man of today, looking to the colleges for men to carry on his work, if he sees a large university of men and women who have to be watched for fear of their stealing knowledge which is not their own. P. E. MeC., Jr., '29E HONOR SOCIETIES-BLAH! To the editor: It is with great interest, and even greater wonder, that I take oppor- tunity to flay The Daily's editorial stand on the question of honor so- cieties. As an expression of imper- sonal sentiment, I fully expected to find this publication taking the view- point of an Institution on the issue, not the foolish child who smiles when mother pats his cheek. To attempt to speak of the honor societies and the University of Mich- igan in the same breath, a heresy which to me seems motivated only by the viewpoint of students who have deemed it expedient to blow their own horns. Honor societies may be fine things -they may have their place in such a place as this. But I shy at the thought that men who pretend to ex- press the "finer" opinions of the cam- pus, should seek to tout themselves- for, presumably, it is these same men who constitute the "B. M. O. C." class. The future of Michigan cannot in any sense be allied with that of the so- When Gump at last could stop scratching And his thanks had given to God, He studied to become a copper In the motorcycle squad. hi I Slowly he learned to ride, but well- Better than Withrow, e'en better than Hill-* As witness his long, unblemished rec- ord, Unbesmirched by crash or spill. So Andy won his job on the force By patience and persistence With the aid of a figure nobly shaped To cut down wind resistance. No, Andy never spills himself But he always spills his man, He 'spills at least the dope to Joe That gives that man the can. Our hero isn't a social climber, In appearance unpretentious, But when it comes to stopping cars He's daggone conscientious. Ah, Shakespeare had his Falstaff, Professor Hobbs his Sandy, Rhetoric profs their Peter Jack And students have their Andy. Let's eulogize our own black sheep, Let's try to bust a lung In praise of Officer Andy Gump, Alias Officer Young. A mug of beer to Officer Young! Comne gather round the pump, Come, bottlemen of Michigan, A health to Andy Gump! SOMEWHERE between your collar-button and the bottom of your plus-fours there's a smoke-spot--seeking "fill-fullment." The vast majority of jobbies who feel that in'ard hankerin' have discovered what to do about it. They