THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRUDAY MARUI' ;f 192~ Published every morning except Monday duing the University year by the Board in Control of Studnt Publications. Mvember of Western Conference EditorialV Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en-G titled tothe use for republication of allnews dispatches "credited to it or not otherwiset credited in this paper and the local news pub- lishied herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ana Arbor,1 Michigan, assecond class matter. Special rate of postagnegranted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4"So- offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May-; nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK Editor.............Nelson J. Smith CityEditor.............. Stewart Hooker News Editor............Richard C.rKurvink Sports Editor .........W. Morris Quinn Women's Editor......S.....ylvia S. Stone Telegraph Editor .....eorg... Stautei muuie and Vrama...............R. L,. Askren .ssistant City Editor...........Robert Silbar tion. He went on to say that peo-! ple who desired the repeal of the gag law were suffering from hal- lucinations. Perhaps Mr. Peterson would say that the framers of the Constitution of the United States were also suffering from hallucina- tions. This champion of reformers'; rights, along with his 85 cohorts, A have defied the Constitution and the principles on which this na- tion were founded, and they have joined with reform forces which, if given lee way, will not stop until, every semblance of personal free- dom is taken from Americans. Not only does such a bill regulate min- utely the actions of a certain group of men, but its ultimate aim is to control the pubic opinion of the people. Censorship of the press recalls tyranny which was supposed to have been abolished with the, com- ing of the republic democracy, or constitutional monarchy. It re- calls a policy which has been re- j ected by enlightened men for 300 years as being politically and morally unsound. It deprives the i people of the state of their right to know what actually happens and intimates that they are not intel- ligent enough to weigh facts and opinions as to their actual worth. As such, the law should be strenu- ously opposed by all intelligent citizens of the country. Night J~seph E. Howell Donald J. Kline Lawrence R. Klein George Editors Charles S. Monroe Pierce Rosenberg George E. Simons C. Tilley Reporters Paul L. Adams Donald E. Layman Morris Alexandra Charles A. Lewis C.r A. Askren arian McDonald Bertram Askwif'2 Henry Merry Louise Behyme-- Elizabeth Quaife Arthur Lernste u Victor Rabinowitz Reton C. Bove Joeph A. Russell Isabel Charles RAnnchellR hb V. R. Chubb Rachel Shearer Frank R. Cooper Howard Simon Helen Domine Robert L. Slos Margaret Eckels Ruth Steadman Douglas Edwards A. 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Schemmi George Hamilton George Spatert. jack Horwich Sherwood Upton 1ixiumphrey Marie Wellstead FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1929 Night Editor-DONALD J. KLINE ACTION VS. RESQLUTION We haye already spent some time in these columns discussing the action of the student council in taking steps to enforce the traditional wearing of pots by the freshmen. The announcement yesterday that . offenders will be dealt with in the near future and that first year men resisting the summons to appear before the council will be handled by Var- sity letter men employing strong- arm methods puts further proof of sincerity and determination in the action of the council. But we must still be the least bit sceptical. Time and time again, the various governing and admin- istrative bodies of the University have set forth resolutions and more resolutions with an apparently strong determination, but when the time came for action, there was nothing but idle talk. The actions of the student coun- cil certainly have the "ear-marks" of genuinely sincere plans and we are not trying to depracate the council, but it remains to be seen whether the latest plan will be forgotten within a few weeks or whether real action :kil take place. It is to be earnestly sought, of course, that the latter be the case E and that the fine tradition ofk freshman pots be kept from obli- vion by means of well-organized methods. To .the student council we say, "Go to it, boys." MINNESOTA TIGHTENS THE CLAMPS Adding insult to injury has been the latest accomplishment of the legislature of Minnesota. The house of representatives confirmed by a vote of 86-30 the narrow and ridi- culous policy of the committee in voting down the measure intro- duced to repeal the press gag law on the statute books of the north- ern state. Of 11,6 state representa- I FORESTS AND FLOODS The advent of spring again brings up the menace of floods, the most recent being the one in Flori- da. Moreover it again raises the question of flood prevention. The recommendation of the Federal Forest service seem the most prac- tical in more ways than one. Essentially what the forest serv- ice desires is an extensive foresta- tion of those waste areas compris- ing the headwaters of the large and dangerous rivers. Such estab- lishment of forests would give body to the soil so that the water might be absorbed more readily besides being conducive to forest growth. More soil and silt would be retained instead of being allowed to con- tribute to the destruction of the torrents of water at the mouth. This program is considered as be- ing capable of great effectiveness particularly in the Bad Lands of the Dakotas, where the land is barren and impassable due to constant erosion. But not only would control of floods be effected, but other bene- fits would also accrue indirectly. Such economic benefits of great significance are the creation of better timber supply, better soil conservation, improved agricultural conditions, betterment of the live- stock industry and protection of publicity owned grazing lands, pre- vention of stream pollution, and increasing opportunities for out- door recreation and the protection of game and fish. The foresters' plan's greatest vir- tue is that it gets at the source of the problem, where its existence as a problem is small; while the engi- neers want to deal with the prob- lem where it has grown to mon- strous size. Trouble is not so easy to deal with when all piled up, but definite steps should be taken at once in a positive direction. , __- _--_-- - Cal Coolidge seems to have liked the Red Grange tactics, and him- self is trying to take advantage of his name while it holds the pub- lic-witness his numerous articles in popular magazines. o LL OASTD ROLL ; ..NEXT TO THE I LAST HOBBY, HONEST EDITOR'S NOTE: With this is- sue Rolls presents the eleventh of a series of Interviews on the hobbies of the prominent students on the University campus. These inter- views will appear daily, and will they throw interesting sidelights on the intimate lives of prominent campus political puppets? Oh, my! Barry Balkley, Sheik Of Sheiks (Heh, Heh), Thinks He Can Get By On His Looks Mr. Balkey turned away from his mirror long enough to answer a Rolls reporter. "Yes,"< he sighed, "I spend my time ve trying to make people believe I am the best looking boy on the campus, or anywhere, but no one seems to beieve me. "Imagine my embarrassment when I discovered that the bal-. lots for the all-campus elec- tions last spring did not con- tain the pictures of the candi- dates. People have told me that is the reason I won, but I cannot harbour that thought; but then, I cannot justify my victory with any other reason, either. "Yes," he admitted, "my name is in the Washtenaw Machine Spoils System Year Book (1928- 29) too. All that I am today I owe to my party." Mr. Balkley, whose chief hobby in life is combing his hair and wearing flashy clothes, has an ambition to be a movie actor, but the advent of the talkies has ruined his aspirations. "I look just like John Gilbert," he asserted. le neglected toI state whether or not e looked 1like John Gilbert at the age of 12. Mr. Balkley, who is affection- ately called "Prtty Baby" by his pals, is very fussy and is continually preening himself. For three years he has labored ceaselessly to estab ish himself firmly in the hearts of the campus co-eds, but to no avail. Either his good looks are a myth or he needs to have his face lifted. And now since the theoretical check-up of freshman who refuse to wear pots is to be carried on by mythical committee of the in- nocuous Student Council, freshmen will probably be seen wearing little tags like the following: p -o POT APPLIED FOR- 0 Letter From Chamber Of Commerce, Burma Dear Lark: We read in the current num- ber of the Police Gazette that your annual Junior Girls' Play is contempating a road trip. In view of this fact, we are in- viting the entire cast to make a tour of Burma. We think the dry climate here would be just the thing for that type of show. Burma, you know, is pretty hard up for entertainment all the year round, and we should appreciate anything, whereas metropolises such as Detroit are used to really good shows. We feel that Burma is the one place-in fact the place of places-n the world to hold a Junior Girls' Play. The audi- ences . here can't understand humour very well, and as we understand that your produc- tion runs on and on and on without the faintest semblance of humour, we repeat, Burma is the place. We feel you are too broad- minded to keep such a perfor- mance as the annual Junior Girls' Play in Ann Arbor. We feel further that you really don't want it there and that you are more than willing to share it with the world. In fact, we feel certain that you would be more than willing to give the whole company to some other country. Trusting that you will sym- pathize with' our viewpoint and .realizing that a trip to Burma would be edifying if financially disastrous, we extend our in- vitation to you, not, you will understand, with a laugh up our s eeves, for there are no sleeves in Burma. More than sincerely, J. Caesar Vestpocket, Chairman Burma Chamber of Music And Drama 0 TONIGHT: Play Production pre- sent "Redemption" by Leo Tol- stoy in the University HaI The- - atre, beginning at 8:15 o'clock sharp. TONIGHT- Mimes present the Ford-Belmont thriller, "In The Next Room", in Mimes Theatre, beginning at 8:15 o'clock. THIS AFTERNOON: Palmer Chris- tian will give an organ program of Easter music in Hill Auditori- um, beginning at 4:15 o'clock. AMBITIOUS Play Production tonight are opening a run of six nights with Tolstoy's immense drama, "Re- demption". Those who saw Moissi in the Reinhardt version will understand what a tremendously ambitious undertaking the Univer- sity Hall group have on their hands. The original plan was to pro- duce the Barrymore version, in which the character Fedya is made out a swash-buckling trader in evil, but after a personal interview with Moissi on the occasion when the Play Production classes saw "Redemption" performed, Director Windt was persuaded to take on the more, difficult task of the Moissi character, a far more spirit- ual personality,nmuch nearer Tol- stoy's conception. The result is that Play Produc- tion have spent more effort on this show than any previous and their production should be a high mark in their season of produc- tions. OUR LITERARY MEDIUM, TIE INLANDER "Inlander", campus literary mag- azine which recently held a short story contest in an effort to in- terest both readers and writers in the magazine, should be given credit for its attempt to uphold a literary tradition on the campus. The present effort to increase the group of the magazine's readers, deservesto be commended, and, should meet with success if the staff itself makes the magazine one that combines the printing of material of a literary nature with that which is interesting to the. average college student. The weary editors of the Inland- er may be inclined to retort to this statement rather sharply with the remark that the average stu- 1 dent's taste never rises higher than i Gargoyle, Life, or Judge. Whether this be the case or not (we ar-e inclined to believe it is not) does not make a great deal of difference. No art has ever pros- pered without a public of some kind, and it is up to the Inlander to create its public by pleasing it. Of course, if the magazine desires to remain "select" and "literary", it must expect only a very small circle of readers. But on the other hand, it need not sacrifice its lit- erary standards to popularity. Be- cause a play is "good theatre" does not necessarily mean that it can- not also have permanent worth, and, because the average reader finds amusement and humor in a piece of writing does not mean that it is not also something of a dis- tinctly literary nature. It would seem that in the past the Inlander has been so anxious to print things which they have considered "delicate whimsy", "beautiful, flowing prose", "ex-! quisite characterization", or some other sort of twaddle that theyl have forgotten to print thingsI which are readable and capable of holding a reader's interest. Finally, one of the chief causes for the failure of "Inlander" is that it has never succeeded in reaching the whole of the rather large group of students who are interested in1 creative writing and who wouldj like to contribute to the magazine. It is true that the staff has rather dispiritedly mentioned in their edi- torials at different times that they want to get new contributors, andt would like to have people tryout( for the magazine, but the staff has failed to get in active touch with these people. If the work they contribute of their own ac- cord is not good, they are ignored. If they do not take the initiative and ask to attend group meetingsj of the staff, they are seldom in- vited. Why the magazine does not have a regular system of giving tryouts an opportunity to show what they can do on the magazine in a man- ner similar to that used by any of the other publications on the cam- pus such as The Daily or the Mich- iganensian, is not clear. Surely there are a large number of fresh- men on the campus who would be' interested in working on such a Eastervomm Sprng Vacation and New Clothes The satisfaction of being well dressed will I increased many times at a slight differencete ce cost by investing in the finest, HICKE' FREEMAN clothes. The ultimate choice the best dressed men. x$52-$65 ORDER SENIOR CANES AT ONCE be in Yf of Want Ads Pay G R AV E L O UR D RIV E' KILLINS GRAVEL COMPANY Telephone 7112 or 7075 4 I EuuuuuE..uW u. mum mm 0w a u uuum au-wiww w mum mummum ...u guwm... ------rn--rn ------- - -- - .... U - U - ..... MUM U NE ENEN U U ...... U! U EWE EWEE EKEE I i 1, ------------ w - - - -- ® ee i ® -- - - - --- -- - - - - - - nual I Editorial Comment NO MORE RAH-RAH BOYS? (New York Evening Post) Dean Gauss of Princeton hasI been saying some encouragingC things about the college under- graduate. Heq declares it is his firm belief, according to an inter- view at Princeton, that the era of rah-rah boys and coonskin coats. is on the wane. The collegiateism which Dean Gauss rebuked as "nonsense,, fid- dle-faddle, bumptious social im- maturity complicated sometimes though not always by acute class consciousness" is a passing phase, of youth. We are glad if it is dis- appearing. We believe that evi- dences of a new undergraduate at- titude could be found at other col- leges than Princeton. But we are not so much concerned over its (Programs subject to Change) FIRST MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT Wednesday, May 22, 8:15 p.m. Soloists SOPHIE BRASLAU, Contralto RICHARD CROOKS, Tenor THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FREDERICK STOCK, Conductor PROGRAM OVtRTURE RoM D MAJOR SUrrE....................Bach ARIA, "SOUND AN ALARM," FROM "JUDAS MAC- CABAEUS" ............... . ...............Handel RICHARD CRoOKs SUrT, Voa ORCEsTRA, "IBrRIA".................Debussy ARIA, "An Mio FERNANDO"......................Donizetti SOPImE BRASLAU INTERMISSION ARIAS (a) "PRIZE SoNG" PROM "MAESTERIs1NGER" Iagner (b) ".LORI NGRIN'S NARRATIV~E" IROMi LOHL NGRIN"........................Wagner MR. CROOKS SYMPHONIc POEM, "DoN JUAN"..................Strauss "GYPS'Y SONGS".......... . ...... ... .....Brahms Miss BRASI.AU CONIEIrT WALTZ IN ......... ........Gla--ounow SECOND MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT Thursday, May 23, 8:15 p.mf. Soloists JEANNETTE VREELAND, Soprano LAWRENCE TIBBETT, Baritone THE UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EARL4 V. MOORE,, Cota dor PALMER-CHRISTIAN, Organist PROGRAM "A ;-ERMAN REQUIEM"...........................Brahms SOLOISTS, CHORUS, ORCHESTRA, ORGAN INTERMISSION "iIa NEw Lt."......................Wolf-Verrai SoLoisTs, CHORUS, ORCHESTRA, ORGAN THIRD MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT Friday, May 24, 2:30 p.m. Soloists BARRE HILL, Baritone EFREM ZIMBALIST, Violinist CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL CHORUS ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT FREDERICK STOCK AND JUVA HIGBEE, Conductors PROGRAM OVERTURE, "MARRIAG9 o FIGARO"................. ..ozart "SPRING'S MESSENGER". ......................Sclimans& "Hi SHALL FEED His FLocK" R:)M "MESSIAH"... Handel CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL CHORUS ARIAS, (a) "ERI Tv" FROM "MASKED BA."........Verdi (b) "FoRD'S SONG," PROM "FALSTAPF"........Verdi BARRE HILL CANTATA, "THe HUNTING OF THE SNARK".......Boyd MR. ITALL, CHTIDRN'S CHORUS, ORCHESTRA INTERMISSION CoNCERro IN D, rOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA......Bralttms EFR41M- Z IMBALIST FOURTH MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT Friday, May 24, 8:15 p.m. Soloist EDITH MASON, Soprano CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION FREDERICK STOCK, Conductor PROGRAM OVERTURE 'SAKUNTALA".............. .......Goldmnark ARIAS. (a) "DEn VIENI NON TARDAR," FROM "MARRIAGE OF FIGARO".......................Mozart (b) "BATn, BA'rT;," FROM "DoN JUAN"....M ozart EDITH MASONk RHAPSODY, "AM RICA"...............................Bloch INTV'JiRMISSIOAT ARIA, "DEg'UIS L x JouR" ROM "Louis..". G...Charpen tier MISS MASON SYMPToNWc DANC9s FROM "DiEBASKISCHE VENUs" .........Wetster' ARIAS. (a) "ENTRANC8 SONG" fROM "MADAME BU'rTrRFLV"............................ Puccini B wTT aRtLy " ... , , . . . , ............Puccarsi MISS MASON SLAvoNIC DANex, A FLAT........................Dvorak FIFTH MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT Saturday, May 25, 2:15 p.m. Soloist IOSEF IIOVMANN. Pianist THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FREDERICK STOCK, Conductor SYMPHONY, IN U FLAT.. .....................Mor art CONCERTO UOR CELLO AND ORCHISTRA..............stock INVTERJMISSION CoNCERTO. IN D MINOR, FOR PIANO AND ORCHV: kyk .. ................ ..........Rub rnsscin JoSss I OFMANN SIXTH MAY FESTIVAL CONCERT Saturday, May 25, 8:15 p.m. Soloists -MARION TELVA, Contralto PAUL ALTHOUSE, Teror RICHARD BONELLI, Baritone WILLIAM GUSTAFSON, Bass THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TIIE UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION EARL V. MOORE, Conductor PROGRAM "SAMSON AND DZLILAHII," AN OPERA IN THREE ACTS.. ................................ .. Saint-Saens tives in Minnesota there are 30 in- manifestations as over the collegi- telligent men who can boast of, ateism which the dean admits is clear consciences. often found in alumni circles. The law which has been thus 1 If the loyalty to alma mater so sustained permits a' judge to arbit- carefully fostered by alumni as-' rarily enjoin the publication of a 'sociations meant an intelligent in- newspaper which regularly prints terest in the educational programs malicious, scandalous, and defam- which our universities face, it atory matter. No regulation is would be a grand thing. Too often made relative to the type of things its sole result is a rah-rah spirit* which may be taken under these which puts the undergraduates heads. An organ of public opin- themselves to shame. It cannot be SCHEDULE OF TICKETS Season tickets-$6.00, $7.00 and $8.00 each, except that if All seats in the Second Balcony (top Balcony) $b.00.