PAGE ' THE MICH4IGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MAYt12,1929 di. Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. {ember of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press, is exclusivelyen- titled to the use' for republication of all news Dispatches credited to . it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished herein. Entered at tke postoffice at Ana Arbor, Michigan, us second class matter. Special rate of postag' ngranted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subsr'iption by carrier, $4.oo; by mail, Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- sard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 0214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK Editor...................Nelson J. Smith City Editor..... .........Ir. Stewart Hooker News Editor.............Richard C. Kurvink Sports Editor ..............W. Morris Quinn Women's Editor..........Sylvia S. Stone Telegraph Editor..............George Staute: Music and Drama..............,. Askren Assistant City Editor.......... Robert Silbar NightI Jseph E. Howell t Donald J. Kline 1 Lawrence R. Klein e George Repo Paul L. Adams Morris Alexaadfl C. A. Aakren1 Bertram Askwit Lobuise Behymr Arthur ernste ' Seton C. Bove Isabel Charles L, R. Chubb Frank E. Cooper Relen Domine Margaret 1ickels Douglas .Edwards Valborg Egeland ! Robert J. Feldman Marjorie Folmer William Gentry Ruth Geddes+ David B. Hempstead Jr. Richard Jung Charles R.Kaufman Ruth Kelsey Editors Charles S. Monroe Pierce Rosenberg. GeorgeE4. Simons C. Tilley crters Donald E. Laymsa Charles A. Lewis Marian McDonald Henry Merry Elizabeth Quaife Victor Rabinowit Anne Schell l Rachel Shearer Howard Simon Robert L. Sloss Ruth Steadman A. Stewart Cadwell Swansca ane Thayer Edit h Thomas Beth Valentine Gurney Williams Welter Wilds George E. Wohlgemuth Edward L. 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COOPER TRUE HIGHER EDUCATION When President Little's footsteps, retreat from Ann Arbor next fall, no one will deny that Michigan is losing, whatever she may be gain- ing in peace and quiet, a man pro- lific in ideas. In the four years he headed this University he probably did more original thinking along educational lines than any man In the country. Some of his brain children, overdeveloped for their age, have been unable to survive the chilly campus environment into which they were born, but one now hovering between life and death should not be allowed to pass to its last resting place in that ex- clusive cemetery reserved for the ideas of men who see in advance of their times. For this particular brain child, called by its father the University college, is bound to be resurrected in one form or another by all uni- versities seeking an escape from mass-production education and standardization of thought. Bal- ancing the demand of' today for more college-bred men and women, the need of some device will be' recognized in the next 25 years to let the intellectual aristocracy, with powers of thought beyond those of the mob, develop- their in- dividualism in a collegiate sur- rounding. The literary colleges of today will have to be split some- where into one unit which will ap- ply cultural veneer and another which will liberate the minds of those who have good minds. When Michigan's next leader is picked by the Regents he will find the foundation already laid here; upon which to erect a system of true higher education. Let us; hope that he will, be progressive enough to realize his good fortune and diplomatic enough to realize on; it. TELL THE WORLD The Detroit city fathers are seri- ously considering the installation of radio broadcasting equipment in th2 council chambers of the city hall so that verbatim accounts of all meetings may be transmitted to the populace through that agency. The act would be not at all astounding nor would it be al startling innovation. It is merely infusing the "onen door" nrivilegel proval, would do no little good toward the elimination of crooked and dishonest dealings on the part of some of our notoriously wicked city governments. Once the coun- cilmen became acclimated to the strange atmosphere of uneasiness that a microphone is prone to in- spire, meetings would be carried on with accustomed ease and feasi- bility. And then, too, councilmer listening in will be ever so much more wary of what they say and knowing their constituency are do. The one rather humorous de- fect that might be an outgrowth of the plan would be the tendency toward lengthy and widened speeches, a defect that could be erradicated by a light cloture rul- ing. Should Detroit adopt the policy and "air" their meetings, they would be pioneering on a worthy trail. CLEARING THE PATH Although the sixth session of the Preparatory Commission on Dis- armament which met at Geneva came to a close without any defi- nite action on the proposed limi- tations of armaments, the session proved to- be highly successful. Paradoxical as this statement seems, its truth is evident to those who take into consideration the fact that he meeting has admirably cleared the path for a disarma- ment conference which will be more fruitful. The sole object of this gathering of representatives from many pow- ers was to exchange views and col- lect data which would lay the foundation for future action as well as establish closer relations between the nations of the world. As yet no agreement on this question has been reached. No basis of limitations or formulas have been approved. But a possi- ble method of determining what the strength of the respective ar- mies and navies should be has been found, and the conciliatory atti- tude of the United States has led to more openmindedness on the part of others regarding the prob- lem. If the conference did nothing more than bring about an accord that will hold in leash wastefulness and expensive competition in building armaments, even though it failed to effect a final settle- ment, its work should not be re- garded as another fiasco, but as an outstanding success. BRAZILIAN FORESTS The projected cooperation of the University and the Tropical Plant Research foundation of Washing- ton, D. C., with the government of Brazil to build up a forest serv- ice for that country constitutes a move both of local and interna- tional significance. The University in general and the School of For- estry and Conservation in partic- ular deserve our commendation. Brazil is reported to have over a billion acres of timber land, and the Amazon valley is said to con- tain the greatest solid body of timber in the world. This acreage includes 3,000 distinct kinds of timber trees, a more limited num- ber of which constitute the bulk of the forests. The more important of these timbers will be tested at the new Wood Utilization labora- tory of the forestry school here, and when their properties are known through this experimenta- tion, they will be of great value and utility. This new source of timber will be manna and a salvation to the various wood-product manufactur- ers of the country and particularly of Michigan, which with its furni- ture and automobile industries stands head and shoulders above the other wood-utilizing states. Al- ready the hardwood manufacturers have been clamoring for some re- lief before they are left high and dry in an abandoned industry. The opening up of this vast re- serve has come none too soon. The University will further strengthen the economic tie that binds between the two nations. Brazil is important to the United States as a source of raw mate- rials as well as an export market. Our importation of raw materials is bound to increase, while at the same time the solution of Brazil's forestry problem at the request of that government will materially strengthen our beneficent attitude, the altruism of which attitude seems to be greatly in question of late. Further, their sending of students to our schools and our placing of graduates in the field will put the University, and espe- cially the forestry school, in a po-, I TOATED ROLL ROLLS WILL MPROVE inU~~(ADVT.)ma.M I Music And Drama 'I Apologia The editor, who thinks lie knows humorous things when he sees them (we never notice that which we are closest to, Mr. editor), told us that our column was not "up- roariously funny" yesterday morn- ing. To our disappointed sub- scription we say that we are sorry that we broke our trust, and offer the following alibi, to wit: It's no easy job to bang out twenty inches of humor every day the paper comes out for a solid year, and along about this time of the year, when the days become sticky and ideas become just as sticky, it is ever so much more dif- ficult. And this particular day, being a Saturday and especially sticky, will produce a column that much worse. It must be lots more fun writing a music and drama column; you can write a bum col- umn every day and no one cares because that is just what every one expects. But when we are drained of ideas, we have to run a big splurge like this and crave your indulgence. If any one thinks that writing this stuff is a cinch, he's crazy. It doesn't pay much of a salary, either, and we have to starve in an attic, as do all genuises, between pay checks. It's a bum job; in fact it's the bummest job in the world, and we're glad for your sake that no one of the tryouts was good enough to get the job for next year. We'll have to do it against next year, but maybe we'll get an idea during the summer re- cess. Today was one of the worst we ever have had since they begged us to take this job. The first thing that happened was when the edi- tor, who is probably our worst con- tributor, bawled us out and told us that yesterday's column wasn't worth setting in type and that if we couldn't improve, we could walk right down to the Washtenaw Tribune and get ourselves a new job. But he was just fooling there, because after you take out the headlines in the Washtenaw Trib- une, what room is there anywhere in the paper for a column? And then our dearest friend and severest critic told us that we had better "lay off this Mary Gold stuff" because it was stale and no- body gave a damn about her any- way. Some people never have any respect for the dead. Our mental capacity today is absolutely nil. We asked Gumley for an idea, but all he could offer was a joke we couldn't print. It wasn't funny anyway. The Wash- tenaw Tribune doesn't come out .until Tuesday, and so one more sure-fire resource was missing. We looked in all the good papers, but we guess headline writers aren't wha they used to be. There wasn't anything wrong with any of them. We looked over our cuts and there wasn't anything "uproariously fun- ny" in any of them. There was nothing in The Daily this morning that was worth writing about, un- less it was the fact that three sophomores were hurt in class games. But what's funny about three sophomores, sick or well? But are we going, to lie down on the job, just because the editor thinks he knows good humor? No. We'll keep slaving away to satisfy our patrons. And so, bracing ourself the best we can and consoling ourself with visions of running a knife under the fourth rib of the editor, we place below the Rolls column for tomorrow morning's edition. * * * The educational plant here at the University or the past year has been valued at $32,302,776.76. We presume that the $.76 covers the valuation of the Romance lan- guage building. N. B.: Not "uproariously funny.") * * * E. Haldeman Julirs, purveyor of the Little Blue Books, has changed the titles of some of Shakespeare's plays to improve sales. "Macbeth, we suppose, became "The Murder Racket" and "Romeo and Juliet," "Passion's Storm." (N. B.: Not' "uproariously fun- ny.") Two Cambridge University stu- dents recently paraded the streets of Cambridge in a car, drenching THE INLANDER Reviewed By R. Leslie Askrn There is a double pleasure in re- viewing the work of a friend. To the pleasure of recognizing a friend's efforts is added the satis- faction of discovering it well done. Paul Adams' story in the latest is- sue of Inlander is the source of this pleasure for me, and his suc- cess with his theme of "They Cele- brated Christmas" permits me to recommend it to those who have followed his articles in this column in the hope that they will draw the same pleasure. The story is a study' in the 1 drama that lies behind the gifts that greet the family on Christmas morning. It is told in episodic form and catches very sympathet- ically the lives of a family of four people, hot brilliant but very real. He has built his story simply, out of straightforward sentences that drive cleanly to the point of char- acter, and his analysis of char- acter is sound, though it does oc- casionally lack brilliancy of in- sight. In other directions, too, immaturity of attack is evident, but the general success of his at- tempt overbalances any flaws. In the course of his story a num- ber of things come out to stimulate a little reflection. Adams has chosen the abominable table man- ners of the father as a symbol for the lack of intercourse between him and the rest of his family. The ill manners have been made almost unpleasantly real, and their sig- nificance is sound. But the re- lection comes that table manners in this country actually have de- teriorated to the point of being a source for drama. There would seem to be some sort of fallacy in falling back on such apparent trivialities as manners for char- acter motivation, but the appalling ubiquity of minor unpleasance makes me wonder why others have not hit on it before. Another point'is in the way Ad- ams has brought out the fact that the father was sufficienly impor- tant in his community to be elect- ed mayor. That information comes only casually, half way through the story. At the end of the tale the old man, hurt, wonders "Was it a game of politics, even with one's family?" But the story car- ries on,,tb another paragraph; which suggests i that Adams has only partially realized himself, as well as iri-his character, the deli- cate interplay of relationships in famili life, and the need, or per- haps the obligation, that love im- poses to "play the part" in human intercourse. The cynical conclus- ion to this suggestion is that a character, half mountebank, makes the best friend dii lover. Two other stories, "Busy" by Ben Wells and "Winter Afternoons" by Frank Roellinger, are up to the high standard which Inlander has set for itself this year. But the wonder comes, just gen- erally, if the conception behind these efforts does not assert the truth of the criticism recen ly lev- elled against the short story, that it is a trick form and its virtue is in the trick. Wells has not sur- passed O. Henry; but he could learn from Sherwood Anderson, or fron3 Tchekof. GRAF IN RECITAL Otto Graf, a junior on the cam- pus, occupied the outstanding po- sition in a recital given Friday night in Detroit by artist students of the Detroit Institute of Musi- cal Art. Some five hundred of the Institute's friends, attending by invitation, enjoyed a rich musi- cal evening; given by the most ad- vanved pupils, assisted by the De- troit Ensemble tinder William Graffing King. Mr. Graf is carry- ing his musical studies with Mr. Boughton of the Institute in addi- tion to his work in the literary col- lege here. He has previously ap- peared in recital in Indianapolis and last fall rendered the difficult Palmgren Concerto with fifty mem- bers of the Detroit Symphony or- chestra. The Friday night concert, how- ever, demanded even a more solid proof of his artistry as the compo- sition he offered was the Liszt So- nata in B Minor. By clever ma- nipulation of thematic material, Liszt arranged this sonata into one continuous movement, thirty-five minutes in the playing. It is one of his most mature and serious works, containing much of genu- inely original impulse and a suave tenderness in the slow section not ordinarily associated with the fiery 1% I 41 1I -11 15% DISCOUNT ON LAUNDRY "CASH & CARRY" White Swan LAUNDRY COMPANY Across from The Majestic I New York Listed Stocks Private wires to all Markets Conservative margin accounts solicited Telephone 22541 Brown-Cress & Co., Inc. Investment Securities 7th Floor First Nat'l Bank Bldg. FINE TAILORED CLOTHES 11 "BEGO RD HOSEA 51 .. The Comedy Hit by Kaufman & Connelly presented by PLAY PRODUCTION are the one thing that appeals to every Well Dressed Man. These features a r e found in every garment Wed., Thurs., Fri.,I Sat. made by us. at 8:15 WOMEN'LEAGUE AUDITORIUM Our Imported and Domestic Fabrics are ready for your inspection. FRANK J. RYAN BurchfieldTailoring FRITZ BLDG. 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MOORE Musical Director FREDERICK STOCK Orchestral Conductor ERIC DELAMARTER Guest Conductor JUVA HIGBEE Children's Conductor Edith Mason Soprano Chicago Civic Opera Company Jeannette Vreeland Soprano Distinguished American Artist Sophie Braslau Contralto Metropolitan Opera Company Marion Telva Contralto Metropolitan Opera Company Richard Crooks Tenor Premier American Concert Artist Paul Althouse Te or Metropolitan Opera Company Lawrence Tibbett Baritone Metropolitan Opera Company Richard Bonelli Baritone Chicago Civic Opera Company Barre Hill Baritone Chicago Civic Opera Company William Gustafson Bass Metropolitan Opera Company Josef Hofmann Pianist Polish Virtuoso Efrem Zimlaist Violinist Hungarian Master The Chicago Symphony Orchestra The University Choral Union Children's Festival Chorus Samson and Delilah Saint Saens The New Life Wolf-Ferrari The Requiem Brahms The Hunting of the Snark (Children) Boyd i 1 I ,10 , S.