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Warner Jr. RuthKelsey Cleland Wyllie BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE Assfstat Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER Department Managers Adertisng ...........Alex 3{. Scherer Advertising'....A. James Jordan Adertising "........... .... Carl W. Hammer Service. ..............Herbert E. Varnu Circulation..............George S. Bradley Accounts..............Lawrence E. Walkley Publications ...............Ray M. Hofelich Assistants Mary Chase Marion Kerr eaette Dale Lillian Kovisky Vernor Davis' Bernard Larson Bessie Egeland Hollister Mabley Sally Faster 1. A. Newman Anna Goldberg Jack Rose Kasper Halversoa Carl F. Schemm.. George Hamilton George Spater Jack Horwich Sherwood Upton ix Humphrey Marie Wellstead Night Editor-Charles S. Monroe WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1929 TUE LAST LAP-. Spring vacation being a thing of the past, the school year can prob- ably roll o without any lengthy official interruptions to a success- ful close marked by the graduation of a possible - majority of the class of 1929. The race for various goals has settled into the last lap, and, while work there must be, a dull grind is not anticipated. Pauses must come now and then for some function of the Senior elass or for the elections or ap- pointments which ought to put stu- dent organizations on a running basis for the coming year. Al'eady the campus politicans are gathered in little knots around the Univer- sity buildings trying to promote their pet schemes for attempts at student government. The call for athletes for coming seasons has been issued and the boys can work themselves into condition for a big summer in which to get out again. And then there are those who are sprinting along on typewriters and account books looking for the ap- pointments. Calling for effort of one kind or another are the courses which are 'the real excuse for being in col- lege. Something must be done about them if passing grades are to be forthcoming. Hard work may do the trick in most cases, and of course everyone will be hard at it. The lure of the Huron and the green canoes, as in years past, will probably take its toll, but we are safe from autos. With a few exceptions the seniors will hold the stage from now until the end of the year, the awe-strick- en underclassmer looking on at the results of four years of effort. But the four years of work are not quite complete, and the honor of it all is just beyond grasping finger-tips. Whether or not it will ever be within that grasp depends on the sprint in the last lap and the sort of sprinting that is done at Swing- Out. 0 FOLLOWING COOLIDGE Mr. Hoover's first state paper reads like a college text In eco- nomics interspersed with extrac- tions (translated into polysyllabics)I from the farm-relief doctrines of Alfred Emanuel Smith. That eva- sive epigram "Teach the farmer to our farmers" which sounds suspici- ously like the federal farm board advocated last fall by the Tam- many Tiger, with the important exception that the Tammany bally- hoo included the word "non-parti- san." Mr. Hoover would, however, "transfer the agricultural question from the field of polites into the realm of economics," though he mentions no guarantee that his great instrumentality will not be packed as was the Wilsonian tariff commission under Republican rule. In that part of his message de- voted to tariff revison, the President makes a guarded recognition, now that he is safely in for four years, that maybe som'e industries have not been quite so prosperous for several years as some of the other ones (page the pig-iron magnates) that figured more prominently in the campaign. He makes, however, a rather unRepublican suggestion the effect of which will be interest- ing to watch. "No discrimination against any foreign industry, is involved in 'equalizng the difference in costs of production at home and abroad, and thus taking from foreign pro- ducers the advantages they derive from paying lower wages to labor'" is the interesting excerpt with lots of emphasis -on the word "equaliz- ing." That word should test whether Mr. Hoover will have his way with Congress or whether in disagree- ment the executive and legislature will adopt obstructionist tactics to- ward one another, for if the tariff revison runs true to form every one will have his thumb in the pie hop- ing to pull out a nice, big protec- tion plum. And no one, least of all the New England Woolens whose recent la'ck of prosperity has been most notorious, will be satisfied with an effort merely to equalize the costs of foreign and domestic production. All in all Mr. Hoover's first mes- sage is no more startling than his cabinet selections. Again he has exploded the myth that as Presi- dent he will continually tap new reservoirs of extraordinary capacity for public service. Rather has he held admirably to his campaign promise to follow in the footsteps of President Coolidge. -n ! T ROLL "FORWARD MARCH" IS DISMISSED I' i 'I Musi And Drama I' _ n I Of course, any further comment anent the Junior Girls' Play would be a little stale, and hence should be relegated to the column next door, but we just can'ttresist stand- tip-toes, cupping our hands, and shouting to all confident sponsors' of the production of "Forward March" in Detroit, "WE TOLD YOU SO!" * * * And all that goes to dear sponsors, that you squeeze blood out of a beat. show, can't dead The st'eamship Leviathan will' carry a full supply of liquors from now on. Anti-Saloon League offi- cials state that the decision of the steamship company in this direc- tion will cause them to lose money. This is indeed a deplorable situa- tion, and we feel ever so strongly for the Leviathan and its impend- ing doom as a commercial enter- prise. In sympathy, then, we feel it only just to raise a fund of $.03 to de- fray any loss incurred by the Levi- athan liquor trips. please by reason of her carrying aboard on her trans-ocean Friends to the cause will respond. Ir Edit rial Conment I TO THEIR OWN DEVICES (The New York 'rimes) It is 'annouiced -that beginning with the next academic year at Dartmouth College a specially se- lected group of seniors-five in number, more or less-will be ap- pointed to the fellowships with privleges that must seem to.under- classmen beatific. They will not be required to attend classes; there will be no examination anid no tui- tion charge. They will be left as the announcement states, to work "according to their own devices." From the time of Jeremiah, the im- plication has been that those who walk after their own devices are liable to go the wrong way. The phrase of the Book of Common Prayer in which confession is made that "we have followed too much the desires of our own heart" sug- gests conscious abuse of freedom in making our selections in life. That' is a peril which must sooner or later be faced. While the freedom which is of- fered this little group would seem to enlarge their electives, it would no doubt serve evdry member of it to feel a greater responsibility for working out his own salvation. He has to observe no rules or regula- tions "except such general ones as are incidental to being a member of the college in good standing." But he has to live up to the estimate which the faculty has put upon his abilities and character. He has to make his calling and election sure -that is, to justify his being put among the elect; to go the heaven of his degree without further haz- ard of examination. Yet no pre- scription of hours of classroom at- tendance, or series of oral and writ- ten examinations, is likely to put the serious minded eager student under such heavy compulsion as this fiduciary freedom. This is still another phase of the policy, already adopted at John Hopkins and Harvard, to treat up- perclassmen and beginning gradu-j ates as young men who have come of age, intellectually and morally, and who are to be trusted with ideas, as out in the world of busi- ness their brothers in age are trusted in financial transactions. It is another hopeful indication that with the necessary lengthening of the period of education the period of irresponsibility is not to be A POISON PEN LETTER Ed. Note: This ominous mes- sage was awaiting us when we returned to the office at the close of the spring recess. Doubtless it is the work of a depraved mind, bat the author of its sententious phrases seems anxious above all things to see it printed; and admit- ting this passion for publicity, we suspect femininity.. The contrib. follows, verbatim. The young lady, it seems, is laughing ai us. WHILE CorA OpiNes LaRK pINes AnD the gOds LaUgH. Seriously speaking,: Lark, if you aren't-going to let me in Toasted Rolls any more, how can I laugh first thing in the{ morning, thus insuring agood day? Andl furthermore, must I break my long silence (see Art. V., 15th Amend. to the Const.) and vociferate an opinion to Campus 0? How would you like to see in great black let- ters right next to your erstwhile co..umn "Well, Lark, what ARE you going to do in the case of Mary Gold?" Oh, there are ways and ways and weighs, and as we remark- ed so assiduously before, there is always the Inlander. MARY GOLD. Ed. Note (2): We have cor- rected the spelling and punctu- ation. A prominent head of the rhetoric department blandly inquired today whether Babe Ruth was a baseball or football star. Neither, professor, neither. If you will read yester- day's Free Press, professor, you will discover that he runs second to Peggy Hopkins Joyce, nee a dozen' other names, as marathon matri- monial star.j "THE QUEEN HUSBAND" "This is the popular comedy which played a long run in Nev York and was subsequently taken around the country on a very suc- cessful tour. If you enjoy clever, witty, and sophisticated entertain- ment, don't miss 'The Queen's Hus- band'." So say we all. This drama situated in a "mythi- cal and anonymous kingdom on an island in the North Sea some- where between Denmark and Scot- land," is a rather clever satire on Queen Marie of 'Rumania. Pos- sessing all the excitement of revolu- tions, conflict between love and duty, and the poor pawn of a king sitting atop his throne and crucify- ing himself for his country, it has the suspicious smell of hookum; but nevertheless is very entertain- ing. Certainly the Mimes production, I with the cast which has been an- nounced, should make the play's run next week a thing to lighten the humdrum that usually follows vacation. Dick Kurvink, Eugenie Chapel, George Priehs, Josephine Rankin, and Kenneth S. White, to mention only a few of the players whose past work has proved their ability, could make a play much more poorly written and less humorous than "The Queen's Husband" a sucess. The way in which Director Shuter handles the stage effects will also be of interest, as the problem of giving the suggestion of a revolu- tion, even though off stage, is not a small one. -P. L. Adams. THE INLANDER REVIEWED Again, The Inlander. This time in red and carrying the fruit of the short story contest. A casual reviewer is tempted to give Mar- garet Gentz the major rewards of valorous achievement for her buoy- ant "Etching". With charming delicacy, this young lady has suc- ceeded in the subtle modelling that her literary colleagues tried for but did not quite attain. The judges of the story contestI Professors; C6wden, Thorpe and Slosson, 'iave ranked "Beads" by Vivian La Jeun4e e above a tie for second place between Sophie Kimels and l 4erle Elsworth. The latitude -.of literary criticism will forgive- at once disagreement with such keen and well balanced critics. In "Beads" Miss La Jeunesse las told the story of a pioneering family founded by Pete and Nettle and nurtured to independent maturity: The situation is Pete facing the vacuity of existence with the chil- dren gone and the symbol of his reaction is his determination to put to some useful function the beads with which he decorated the home- made baby buggy. The buggy had carried each in turn of his numer- ous brood. Now the beads might make a rosary, Miss La Jeunesse is dealing with sentiment; she is also handling a situation that is inherently static. What was required of her was re- strained, suggestive handling of the 'dramatic minutiae. Her treatment is sufficiently sure for the story to emerge as sentiment, not sentimen- tality, but the details lack the glit- tering suggestivity that would have made a commonplace situation po- ignantly dramatic. In contrast, .Miss Kimels, with "Jerry's Spanish Patio", has hand- led her details so well that she falls victim to the vice of extremes of this virtue. Her style shows very obviously an influence from Joyce, which, however, goes to seed a bit when the hero is discovered "waft- ing the .balls of his eyes in the di- rection of the lighted windows." But barring this physiological feat, the analysis of character through detail is brilliantly sure, and the statement of conflict that emerges from the characters is extraordi- narily satisfying. There is real satisfaction in recognizing a true conflict sincerely resolved, and by a clever and imaginative pen. Which rationalizes the choice of this story for first honors." "The Spider Dreams by Miss Elsworth, in the matter of sug- gestibility seems to have struck the "mean" between the obvious and the cryptic, but in this case a de- lightful style and a 'mature feeling for selectivity have been employed on an incident that ends a bit too incongruously to be considered as a genuine treatment of conflict and I amnninn rha PismPantof te 11 i I I I A man 110 years old placed under the control guardian the other day. glands will work wonders. was of a New Co-eds in Jacksonville, Florida, have been censured for wearing "sun-back" dresses and other im-' modest modes of attire. The co- eds here haven't even a good, warm sun for an alibi, but that doesn't stop them. In this day and age, when airplanes fall 2,000 feet onto pavements from all sides, the automobile driver will just have to think up some new scheme of harassing pedestrians. The renowned Chicago Tribune tells a breathless world via a snappy headline that Creditors' Cut Kaiser's Sister To Simple Fare. Oh, we see; she's intended to make just a little snack in between [meals, but how cannibalistic! And if we don't get some spring weather soon, what will happen to I the Inlander poetry contest? . LARK.I I I ;