THE.M I 1H1IGJ AN1 D A I LY Published every morning except Monday duiing the University year by the Board in Control of Student- Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled tothe use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- fished herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, :s second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription. by carrier, $4.00; by mail, f4.5'. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- tawd Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK Editor ...................... Nelson J. Smith City editor...'..... J...'3. Stewart Hooker News Editor............Richard C. Kurvink Sports Editor............W. Morris Quinn Women's Editor............. Sylvia S. Stone! Tetegraph Editor..............George Stauter Music and Drama.............R. L. Askren Assistant City Editor...........Robert Silbar Night Editors Joseph E. Howell Charles S. Monroe Donald J. Kline Pierce Rosenberg Lawrence R. Klein George E. Simons George C. Tilley HOPE FOR THE COMICS Possibility that the Mid-West College comics association, of which Michigan Gargoyle is a member, may soon arrive at a sat- isfactory agreement of its differ- ences with College Humor does not sem at all unlikely when consider- ed in the light of concessions made by J. M. Lansinger, president and publisher of College Humor, to the Western Association of college comics. The Western association was th first of the college comic organiza- tions to break away from a working agreement with College Humor, reaching that decision at its meet- ing of a year ago. Similar ac- tion was taken by the Mid-west- ern organization at its meet- ing last fall and it was thought that a convention of the Eastern association this spring would wit- ness the same result. In answer to the ten objections to the College Humor policy ad- vanced by Western college repre- sentatives at their convention in Reno, Lansinger took definite ac- tion to improve relations and eight of the objections were thoroughly rectified. He also consented to fulfill many requests made by dele- gates concerning the two remain- ing objections, the competition in securing national advertising and full payment for exclusive reprint rights. Viewed in the light of the action taken by other college comic or- ganizations, Lansinger has appar- ently chosen the only course left open to him as College Humor has been and is dependent upon the college comic magazines for the reprint material which justifies its name. 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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929 Night Editor-DONALD J. KLINE LOOK LIVELY, STUDENT! When the Regents passed the auto ban on this, campus, they left the student body at the mercy of the Ann Arbor residents in just one more respect: that of living on in this world at the discretion of the Ann Arbor motoring public. Had the. University authorities been able, they might have gone one step farther in protecting students by regulatory measures upon the the grocery boys, the cleaners' and dyers' wagon drivers, and a good share of the sturdy father t.nd motherhood of this city. For ever since the howls of the Ann Arbor- ites concerning the student Fords and automobiles were silenced, the worms have turned and now the students are the hunted. In front of the Union where staid city fathers used to leap before flying Fords and at the intersec- tion near the Engineering arch where " pedestrians have forever been at the mercy of drivers unable to choose their direction until they got into the passing crowd, the tick operators and the good housewives now plow their way with no regard for the life and limb of their meal-tickets. Even eleven- and twelve-year children seem to have been taught that the best offense is to chase a student crossing the street, while at the wheel of, father's motor car. While state police have been patrolling the streets in search of wayward students and the Ann A r b o r police have been else- where but around, the Ann Arbor townspeople seem to have taken especial care to develop a hauteur combined with speed that commpletely cows any student so unfortunate as to attempt a street crossing with a half-mile. The ab- sence of students cars and conse- quently a basis for equality in the jolly brotherhood of the open road has left the student with nothing but a quick eye, a good pair of legs, and a prayer to save himself from being cut down 'by displays of the most careless driving ever seen in any city. State street. crowded as it is, is no deterrent to the delivery-wagon '1ivre h rrvin y imnortantlv n AN OPEN LETTER TO CORA Dear Cora, Perhaps you might better under- stand why the students seem so reluctant to accept the whole re- sponsibility for last Monday's fracas, and evince that acceptance by subscribing to the repayment fund, if you knew all of the story. A crowd, a large number of whom were expecting a free show, as announced at the field house, gathered in frpnt of the Michigan Theatre. Some even entered *'the lobby, and quietly left when told that the free movie was at Hill Auditorium. No doubt -the crowd was noisy, with cries of "Let's go in!", "Break down the doors!", "Open up!", and others; but simi- lar cries have issued from the queues at the field house, and the field house has never been rushed. The crowd was a good-natured and friendly one, although noisy, and there is no reason to expect that the Michigan Theatre would have been subjected to any more of an attack than was the Majestic, where the crowd also stopped, had not an apprehensive and frighten- ed policeman fired a tear gas cart- ridge into the faces of the crowd. Mob psychology is peculiar, and the actions of an excited crowd are seldom rational. The leaders, who are supposed to be more nearly ra- tional than the followers, in all statute and common law are held more strictly accountable for their actions than the others. Doers of overt acts that at other times would matter little are treated se- verely because of the effect of their actions upon others. The first overt act is considered a most serious one. While this does not justify the subsequent actions of the stu- dents it does give them more rea- son than mere malicious destruc- tion of property. Another reason for the rapidly diminishing rate of contribution to The Daily fund might be found in the transpiration of information regarding the treatment accorded the prisoners taken by the police. Two of the five studens-arrested at the Michigan Theatre were struck after having been taken into custody. One of the two was so severely beaten in the face by, two policemen and an employe of the theatre that now, a week later, the marks are plainly visible. These facts, denied by the police, may be substantiated by the evidence of the injured men, a Daily reporter, and the two students who were first arrested. This is not written with the in- tention of giving the student a 0 00 0 SA bo ut B o oks' | Music And Drama o - -:; o READ THIS BUT DON'T WEEP TONIGHT: Play Production pre- You cannot after all disparage sents a bill of four original one- entirely the all-too-romantic novel. act plays by student authors, be- The intellect tires from the on- ginning at 8:15 o'clock in the slaught of moral purpose and so- University Hall Theatre. cial problems and desires to be * * * soothed with a gentle tickling. It I DETROIT SYMPHONY CONCERT wearies of books with pessimistic A Review, by Herbert S. Schwartz out-looks, with hidden meanings, with wrestling matches betwen the The concert last night was re- involved and intricate problems of markable for its enthusiasm: con- character and life. It seeks recess I ductor, orchestra, and audience from the turmoil of'philosophical were alive to what was happening ponderings by means of books such -and this, for itself, is an achieve- as "Goose Fair"* which furnishes ment. Of course it might be said just that sort of outlet. If more that enthusiasm was a rather sim- people read more books like "Goose ple order with the program such Fair", fewer people would be driven as it was. Tchaikocsky's "Pathe- insane thinking about things. tique" is almost always sure fire There really is nothing precious no matter how it is played; so is in the writings of Cecil Roberts, Mendelssohn's Scherzo from Mid- the author. And doubtless this can summer Night's Dream, and so is ,be said of most of his other novels, the Rienzi Overture. But I think which include "Scissors", "Sails of it was more than the music this Sunset", and "The Love Rack." Of time. Mr. Hertz did not merely ex- all these novels can be spoken a ploit its emotive possibilities. There common fault and a common vir- was acute sensitiveness to the form tue. They err from excellent novels of each phrase besides insistence in that they are far too simple and on the broader rhythmical move- too shallowly worded. They ap- ment, there was delicate sympathy proach excellency in their con- for the composer's experience, and nected and speedy pldt, which runs respect. pell-mell forward with "nary" a. Mr. Hertz is a lovable personality deviation. Then, too, they please who apparently depends upon the in a quieting and rather soporific sympathy of his men for his effects. manner. There is no tyranny here such as In the particular case of "Goose one associates with conductors like Fair" the author has fashioned a Mengelberg, Toscanini and Stokow- delectable little love phantasy, the ski. The musicians are not afraid virtue of which lies in its very im- 'Mr. Hertz, although they obviously possibility and highly romantic follow him and they follow him scale. The book has previously ap- with gusto. Thus their music is peared in an English edition under thoroughly ;enjoyable but in this the title of "David and Diana", the easy effectiveness, one suspects, lie motivating characters of the story. the limitations of this conductor's Everything happens to them. They ability. Perhaps it is unfair to meet on page two, they part on judge a conductor by his perform- page six, they fall in love on page ance with a relatively strange or- fifty-six, they are separated by chestra. Nevertheless certain ten- three thousand miles on page one dencies displayed last night might hundred, they quarrel on page two well characterize all his work. Like hundred, and it all ends happily on many admirable conductors, not- page three hundred. But for all its ably the younger Goosens, this adherence to the form adapted by one is satisfied to let his men make every-correct-sentimental-novel, it the music with him. He gives them pleases. That's all it can do; that their cues--and the rest depends is all it aims to do. It has lords on sympathy. Within certain lim- and ladies and authors in disguise its this is very desirable and I think and poor working girls and pitiful some performances of Mengelberg, blind war heroes and misunder- for example, fail just because of standings and awkward situations. failure in this respect. But as an It is P. G. Wodehouse without the exclusive practise this method is sparkling grace of style and with- perhaps more undesirable than the out the wit and bad-boyish senti- other extreme. The musicians of ment. any orchestra are not to be com- pelham smilch, harvard '30. pletely trusted. In a sense they *-By Cecil Roberts. Frederick Stokes and Co. must be whipped before they are New York City. $zoo indulged. There was too much A DANDY STUDY easy indulgence in last night's per- Wh draD lt y, formance. The training of the When Peder was a little boy, he men had stopped with the attain- and God were on good terms with ment of relative precision; what each other. But God was a queer was lacking there might easily be fellow. Peder had to be careful attributed to the necessarily lim- not tu talk too loud nor steal lumps ited number of rehearsals. Pos- of sugar from the cupboard be- sibly the"sympathetic" method was cause God might not like it; but Mr. Hertz's way out of a difficult Peder was sure that it was mighty situation, but the general attitude pleasant to have his Friend at his of the man makes this doubtful. sideAt any rate, with the exception of The spring that Father was occasional phrases, especially in found dead on the prairie marked the Mendelssohn Scherzo, the men the end of the intimate comrade- were feeling the conductor's inten- ship betwen God and Peder. God tions rather than knowing them. I suddenly became a pitiless tyrant. insist, that they should do both and God knew that they couldn't get the absence of either element can along without Father; atd Father never result in a wholly satisfac- was the finest manl that ever lived, tory' performance. Yes, God certainly was a bad fel- Mr. Hertz was exceptionally well low.....--.. received and, judging by the re- Rolvaag reveals the brain wrang- sponse of the audience, this con- lings and personal stresses of Peder cert, despite its meager heralding, Victorious*, son of Beret and Per was the most successful of the Hansa, with remarkable psycholog- Choral Union Series. ical insight and vivid imagination. * * He depicts minutely every internal SYMIIPIONIC CONCERT and external influence in Peder's Sunday afternoon the Varsity mental, spiritual, and physical de- Band gave the second of its series velopment. In so dealing with of symphonic concerts in ull Au- hereditary and environmental ditorium and proved again the causes and their subsequent re- theory that it is possible for a sults, he portrays a panorama of group made up almost wholely of characters, immigrant pioneer wind instruments to give a sym- types, imbued with peculiar per- phonic program with delightful sonal traits and intrinsic charm melodic line and considerable in- so that they are fascinating for all terpretive exactness. Mr. Falcone their stereotypedness. has not yet been put in a position Peder is the central character, ,where he can command the serv- typifying the spirit of the New ices of his players sufficiently to Age. Beret has all the sympathy make them a thoroughly inte- and understanding of a mother, grated unit for musical interpreta- but because of inbred concepts and tion, but he has done so thorough- sweet memories which haunt her, ly well with the material that the she cannot help but be an inher- 1 concerts are well worth encourag- ent part of the conservative, Old ing as'well as enjoying. Age. Proceding from a state of Mr. MLeonard Falcone succeeded mental unrest, Beret becomes mor- very well with the Boccalari Fan- bid and dejected and finally goes tasia in playing a clarinet solo on insane. Reverend Gabrielson, the the euphonium. He had a fine minister, Miss Mahon, the school command of tone over a wide teacher, Tambur-Ola, the mysteri- range. Mr. Patton, in a tenor se- ous one, Oline, the adulteress, all lection from Tosca was less sue- are living, flesh and blood perso- cessful, not in his own right be- nalities which go to make up a cause he has a lovely voice of con- complethor stylecomprises atu siderable power, but his accomnpaan- .'oiment tended to overpower him charming and powerful combina-3 particularly in the early, pianis- tion of attributes. He employs the steno passage. subject matter of a Hamlin Gar- MI, A. .sub .of a ' .. . t. A, New York Listed Stocks Private wires to all Markets Conservative margin adcounts solicited Brown-Cress & Co., Inc. Investment Securities Telephone 22541 7th Floor First Nat'l Bank Bldg. March 22 - - Tickets at the Union ' i f r t i t a i R ) I . : 1 i f 1 S f I _ a , ., . am I TOPCOATS i in the popular new rough tweeds, forty-eight and fifty inch lengths - - $30 -- $35 II .a *1 ',1 I 71 Freshmen! 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