'?°t- r 111'tTrt4Tr. AN T' A YT .V A'7 'RNA or r- MtTTANlTATV£a au.Jiv L .ri lcst-s~Lv E..i.' £ J - .I.AXWMAY 25 3, 1928 : _. Shed every morning except Monday the University year by the Board in of StudentPublications. .er of Westera Confereaes Editorial j. E The Associated Press is exclusvely en tied to the use for republication of all news spatches credited to it or not otherwise edited in this paper and the local news pub- shed herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, fichigan, as second class matter. Special rate : postage granted by Third Assistant Post- aster . General. Subscription by earrier. $4.oo; by mail, ffices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- ard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business 2r:24. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR I0 H. CHAMBERLIN 4ztor ....... . .Ellis P. Merry d- )r Michigan Weekly..Charles E. Behymer ews editor..........Philip C. Brooks ity i1citor........... Courtland C. Smith Vomen's Editor.........Marian L. 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Lait, Jr. Joseph Zwerdling BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM C. PUSCH ,sistant Manager...George H. Annable, ijr. pearednalmost invincible in its pro- portions, and while the Texas move was expected, and its influence reck- oned, it stands as one of the first ma- jor obstacles to the nomination of the New York governor. The convention, after all, will be held on Texas soil; and where wet Al Smith was on his home floor in Madison Square garden four years ago he will not receive such a cordial welcome in a state as dry and as Protestant as the Lone Star territory. Still substantially short of the two- thirds majority necessary for nom- ination, it scarcely seems probable that the selection of Smith as Demo- cratic candidate will take place on an early ballot-unless, of course, some overwhelming tide of support swifigs in his favor from an unexpected quar- ter. Far more likely the convention will resolve itself into a bitter battle,j whose full proportions can scarcely as yet be foreseen. True it is that the Democratic party numbers within its ranks no one else of the popular following of Smith, and Moody, apparently recognizing this fact, has made it plain that the Texas delegation will not stand as an ob- struction to party harmony. The Dem-" ocratic party, none the less, faces a not too enviable situation with the agricultural, dry, and protestant South and West arrayed against the indus- trial, wet, and largely Catholic East. The nomination of Smith certainly can not be taken as a foregone conclusion at this date. CAMPUS OPINION Annonymous communications will be disregarded. The names of comnmuni- cants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Letters pub- lishe( should not be construed as ex- pressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. A BLL OSTED ROLL MORE ABOUT THOSE SO-CALLED MOCK ELECTIONS THERE WASN'T QUITE enough front page space yesterday and we had to cramp our story within the confines of some measly few lines of type. BUT TODAY WE are out where there are wide open spaces for us to roam, and so here goes an unabridged account of just what actually hap- pened: SEVENTEEN WERE THERE; EIGHT WERE REPORTERS NOW FOR THE benefit of those about to graduate and who feel slight- ed at their not being selected, this ought to furnish solace. A block of 8 votes will usually swing an election on this campus, you know. * * * AND THOSE REPORTERS just howled and insisted on all the possible Detroiters as being the outstanding candidates. And there was a reporter of the paper owned by a notorious journalist-and he insisted on one with the "appeal," you know. AND IT WASN'T a long time until a certain chairman of the Senior Ball was elected class misogynist that he himself (he was there) realized that the elections were mock, you know. AND THEY ELECTED that fellow Emery the class oil-can, thinking too, of him as he who put them on their feet, you know. * * * OR DON'T YOU KNOW? DID YOU. NOTICE the story in yes- terday's Daily about something funny: "DOUGLAS FIGHTS SWING IN HOUSE" "Damn it all," one of them is re- ported to have said-"I won't stand for a new levee in Boulder canyon, dam it all!" IF YOU READ that colyum of book reviews that appeared yesterday in place of Rolls that are toasted, you must have thought that we were fun- nier than usual if you didn't realize that the stuff was supposed to be straight goods. ** * PHRASES LIKE THESE- "with more than feminine .perversity," "the triangle almost develops into a quad- rangle," "eerie cowardice," "between the steak and the shortcake," "in praise of practically nothing"-meet the Books editor. r * * * ROLLS WRITES A BOOK REVIEW "The Ten Commandments" by God via Moses. Just about B. C., on the Mount. By Rock, Chisel & Company. Price: Rubles aplenty. This book seems to be written in broken English. It seems to be the product of a negative mind. It is not worth keeping, except when examina- tions approach and you feel the need of supernatural aid. Here too, you'll get into difficulties if the proctors catch you receiving aid. Advertising..........Richar Advertising.............Edwa Advertising...........John W Accounts...............Raym Circulation...........George Publication.............Ha Assistants Geerge Bradley Ray Hotel Marie Brummeler Hal A. Ja James Carpenter James Jor C..arles K. Correll Ma- ion K Barbara Cromel Thales N. Mary Dively Catherine Bessie V. Egeland DorothyT Ona Felker Alex K. S Katherine Frohne George Sp Douglass Fuller Ruth Tho Beatrice Greenberg Herbert E Helen Gross Lawrence E. J. Hammer Hannah W Carl W. Hammer FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1 Night Editor-DONALD J ANOTHER CHANG Thanks' to the attitude o boai of agriculture, Keny terfield has resigned as pr Michigan State college ana stitution now has in the Dean R. B. Shaw its fourth within a period of seven ye are times, it must be conce changes are much to be des however, we must grant a to be good does not neces low. Rather it would seem many changes, as in the c S. C., are far more apt t( detriment than a benefit to tution affected. This, it appears, has been unfortunate fate of Michig A young college which is c growing, its chief need un is for a single leader and policy extending over aI years sufficient in number t tee constructive achievemen it has been the victim of changes of policy -as well a sonal bickerings and a lack ination which has resulted in down in the morale of both and faculty. Blame for such sa situation laid to the state board of a enjoying as it does, a capaci M. S. C. similar to that of t of Regents in respect to the ty. It has either been guilty ing poorly' in its selection dents or else has failed to g necessary elements of sup backing to the men whom i lected. In either event Michi has suffered. It might be well to repea S. C. needs and must have tinued guidance of a singleI Lacking that, it does not much of a presumption toI the next best 'solution of its would be a combination in would become a portion of versity. The situation, however, ca :inue as it is. The politicali and management of the sta )f agriculture create a proble nust be dealt with. Misguide are accomplishing anything good of the institution whi he board's function to f hange of policy looking tow )ility and continuity in off a faculty freed from tJle an Af political strife seems the o 'or Michigan State. d A. Meyw !rd L. $v a . Ruswinckel ABANDON TRADITIONS nd Wachter B. Ahn, Jr. To the editor: rvey Talcott A "senior sing" is in progress out ich side the library as this is written. I ehn. dan attendance are the Varsity band an err three or four hundred onlookers. O McKinven these, approximately one hundred ar L-yons . ... therer seniors in caps and gowns; and of thi ater hundred perhaps eighty-five are wo mpson . Varnum men. A senior sing, I am assured b: allen frequent reitrations in the Michigai Daily and elsewhere is an old Michi 928. gan tradition. This morning The Daily carried tw . KLINE items on its editorial page that fairl represent its consistent attitude oi the general subject of collegiate tra rE, ditions. One was to the effect tha f the state the cheering section for the 1928 foot on L. But- ball season will present a great oppor esident of tunity for the vocal expression o. d that in- "group loyalty. The other announc person of ed that the good old "fighting Michi- president gan band" is a last tearful relic o ars. There the formerly many loyal bodies that ded, when carried forward the name and glory o ired. That, our University. Ii changes With all respect for The Daily sarily fol- which is a remarkably sensible pub- that too lication in most ways, I wonder i ase of M. this "traditions complex"-if I may o prove a use the phrase-that has gripped it the insti- is entirely worthy either of the paper or the school? the rather Is any tradition worth its salt if it an State. requires nagging and argumentation ontinually to command even stingy support? The doubtedly freshmen do not wear their pots; a unified cap night has degenerated into an period of hour's exhortation to live up to the o guaran- good old days of '01 or '02; the sen- t. Instead, iors don't sing and the Swingout pro- continued cession no longer walks a straight nor s of per- narrow path. In spite of.the sweating of coord- efforts of The Daily and the campus a break- managers, the "traditions" are, admit- students tedly, in a bad way. Should we strug- gle to preserve them? . must be We should not. griculture In spite of recent regulations to the ty toward contrary, we students all. really be- he Board lieve that the clcik has been ticking Universi- for 30 years and that autos now run of choos- where horses walked before. We fur- of presi- ther believe that a few more boys and ive those girls come to college today than be- port and fore with a purpose to find life rather t has se- than to spend their time here build- gan State ing up pretty traditions that look well in a year-book. t that M. Is there any reason, good or bad, the con- why the raring. old days of '01 and president. '02 should exact even a surface trib- seem too ute from a college generation that has hold that left them behind with the turtle-neck problem sweater in the damp and musty days which it of Joe's and the Orient? Is there the Uni- any reason why the men and women of today who can sing "Victors" and nnot con- "Varsity" with the best of their pre- influence decessors should be herded onto the te board campus to work themselves into a em which sentiment over old and perhaps not d efforts masterful tunes from forgotten Union but the operas? To be good Michigan men ich it is and women must we ape the manners oster. A and mannerisms of those gay ones iard sta- who went well with the green plush Ice with sofas of their day but who would be imosities uneasy in the capacious davenports nly hope of 1928? Culture, it has been said, is the le- THEATER MUSIC RECRIMINATION The actor like the bell-boy, the por- ter, the truck driver, the factory sup- erintendent, always wears, so to speak, his job on his sleeve; if any- thing is said about the quality of his performance, or if any failing, how- ever minor, is pointed out, his reply is always "Just you come back stage and go through with what I have to go through with-then see if you will criticize. You just don't know-that's the size of it." In other words he is possessed by a sort of a devil's phil- osophy which makes him say that if every thing were understood, all would be pardoned. The producer of plays has much the same argument to offer wheni he is brought face to face with the feeble amount of qu ity in the plays that he produces; the only thing that keeps him from de- voting his theater to art is the pre- sence of a queer and noxious demon hight Audience. Thus if Mimes o Comedy club were asked the reason for the production of either "Seventl Heaven" or "Meet the Wife" they would reply that before they could attempt any of the "bigger or finer' things they first have to have mone so, this being their first thought, i will in all probability be their last. and we who are supposed at least to be of somewhat finer mental clay than the average office boy, are offered for our entertainment such silly sentimen tality as would make a longshoreman blush. There is, of course, no argu- ment against the necessity of having money - the question involved, is has any genuine effort been made to get money by really serious dramatic efforts. Have we not rather been treated to a swell spectacle of petty jealousies and personal animosities? Has not every one, with perhaps a few exceptions, connected with dra- matic activities during the past year been rather more concerned with the size of the houses for his own partic- ular show than with any achieve- ment of dramatic excellence? What Then- To the above questions, if any an- swer short of a mad bull rush to the authorities to make the reviewer keep has place, can be expected, the local theater people will probably point with pride to suh things as "You and I" and "The' Devil's Disciple." Let it not be forgotten that Shaw is almost as good box office as George M. Cohan, and that it is quite by accident, from the producer's standpoint, that he hap- pened to write good plays. Of Barry almost the same thing can be said; the spectacle of somebody sacrificing all'so that somebody else's dreams can come true will never lose its charm for a people who have been brought up to stomach the "Ladies Home Jour- nal" spiritual pabulum. The genuine artistry of both of these men was not the thing that the local dramatic Maecenases relied on to catch public eye. There is the same answer to the question of the popularization of sound drama as there is to the pop- ularization of music; the thing that h pregnant with the sorrows and joy of yesterday, and from which today's seem to derive, is the thing that even those who have not been educated in the traditions of the art will compre- hend and respond to. By a judicious interpolation of modern plays then the important plays of our English tra- dition may be made to go down and even liked- Do not the French wait for hours for gallery seats in the Comedie Francaise? And what of the Germans who thronged to the first nights of Gerhardt Hauptmann? - Anent Actors There is also a desire among the local actors for immediate popularity -stardom, and if this can be achieved by a part in such a God-forsaken play even as "Pigs," they welcome it with open arms. One of the first things for them to remember however is that if actingr is an art, as it so ardently claims that it is, then for its perfec- tion it relies not only on the native upspringing genius, but upon a long and arduous period of apprenticeship. Consequently people who have but a few years before put on long trous- ers and put off bloomers can not I expected to do more than sketch in the outlines of the parts they are supposed to play. The objection of course will immediately be raised that then plays that mean anything are too difficult for them to play, and the ac- tor's lack of ability will afford more a spectacle to be pitied than an en- tertainment to be enjoyed. 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