}' . PACE F 6.un THE MICAIAAY DAILY TUESDAY, MAY 14, Published every morning except Monday duning the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. _. 1 become reasonable enough to elim- inate the necessity of a special dean and a squad of patrolmen. _ Member of Westers Conference Editorial "DON'T SEND MY BOY Association. TO HARVARD -" The Associated. Press is exclusively en- ilamJBnhmdr trof titled to the use fo republication of all news William J. Bingham, director of dispatches credited to it or not otherwise intercollegiate athletics at Harvard credited in this paper and the local news pub- university, has intimated that the fished ;herein. uiesthsitmtdta h Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, trend at Harvard is toward a di- Michigan, re second class matter. 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Hofelch Asistsnts MayChase Marion Kerr anette Dale Lillian Kovisky ernor Davis Bernard Larson Bessie Egeland Hollister Mabley Sally Faster I. A. Newman Anna Goldberg Jack Rose Kasper Halverson Carl F. Schemin George Hamilton George Spater jck Horwich Sherwood Upton ix Humphrey Marie Wellstead TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929 Night Editor-Gurney Williams, Jr. MODIFY THE AUTO BAN Itis not in a youthful spirit of outraged freedom or of antagon- ism to all control of students that The Daily again takes up its cud-, gels on behalf of a modified auto; ban.' It would be' absurd to pre- tend that in the two years it has; been operative the auto ban has, produced, along with the invective, heaped on its head, no praise-1 worthy results. On the contrary,; it has helped to make the campus more democratic, eliminated a moral temptation, and taken a dangerous plaything from the hands of a fe/ immature students. But along with these reforms1 has come hardship and injustice for a limited number whose ability to order their own lives wisely, with or without an automobile; cannot be questioned. They have had to be brought under the sweep- ing injunction in order to demon- strate its enforceability. Upon members of the professional schools and other graduate students this blow hasfallen most heavily. By this time, however, rigid and not too sympathetic enforcement has created a wholesome respect, if little sympathy, for the ban. The dean's office has demonstrat- ed effectively both .its willingness and its ability to enforce any sort of automobile regulation dictated by the President and Regents. It' would seem that enforcement against undergraduates could be successfully prosecuted on the strength of its reputation without continuing the hardship now be-' ing worked against members of the graduate schools. President Little at the time the absolute ban went into effect promised that a scheme of modifi- cation would be adopted as soon as feasible. To The Daily that feasi- bility seems now to be reasonably established. Enforcement has reached such a degree of efficiency that violations have come general- ly to be recognized as the shortest cut possible to meeting the deans professionally, and fear that a1 gradual relaxation would incite at- tempts at violation by those re- maining under the ban is ground- less. .The ultimate aim of this grad- ual modification policy should not h- t nvrmita ver oin rtodrive tion in athletics. And he has in-; timated still further that the ulti- mate outcome of the policy would be a severance of all athletic re- lations except those with Yale, a traditional rival whom she has met since the middle of the previous century. It is dangerous to say that the Harvard plan is an attempt to be British, an attempt to ape the Ox- ford-Cambridge program of vigor- ous intramural sports and one annual inter-varsity meet in each sport. It is dangerous be- cause it may not be true. And if Harvard were accused of some- thing that was not true, and ac- cused by a university they refer to as "one of our better provinces," the resultant reaction might be a race riot between Harvard stu- dents and the hinterland. In all events, Harvard, would be fortify- ing her athletic record, which of late has been none too rosy. But whether the Harvard plan is consciously British or not, the pro- cess of acclimating it to Americai custom and even to New England hauteur is not without anticipation of untold difficulty. In the matter of the British plan there was no tradition to buck. Oxford and Cambridge have concentrated their athletic relations to dual meets with each other ever since the inception of varsity athletics at the two universities. In the matter of the proposed Harvard plan there would be the necessary break-down of nearly a century of tradition. The Dartmouth and Holy Cross games have become a tradition strongly entrenched in the minds of Harvard men. And aside from the local tradition, there is the doubly strong national feel- ing for intercollegiate sport. Na- tional sentiment is strong not only for intercollegiate sport but also for inter-sectional competition. There is a word to be said for inter-varsity competition. It may not be British, but it is invigor- ating and manly. Annual big games are exciting and fun for both the spectator and participant. [They have become American in- stitutions. They are colorful, in- spiring, even cultur; they are colossal symbols of our national spirit. Harvard may change all this, for they clutch so closely to the skirts of mother England. But it is doubtful whether any of "the bet- ter provinces" ever will. They are a thousand fortunate miles farther west. EFFICIENCY PLUS One efficacious method of law enforcement has been discovered by the United States' competent crew of prohibition officers: the murder of the consumers. By this expedient the huge rings of boot- leggers which seemingly cannot be touched, will be cut off from their market. Of course, citizens of this coun- try may become outraged when murder of this type includes col- lege students with flasks in their hip-pockets, but a slight disturb- ance of this nature can easily be quelled by the use of political gags. That three persons, two of them "alleged bootleggers" and one a seventeen-year old freshman at a Virginia college, were killed within three weeks by dry officers should cause no particular dis- tress to our sense of justice, which is avowedly blind anway. The officers who killed this col- lege boy protested that they were aiming at the tires of the car hQ was driving, not shooting to' kill. Men who are unable to handle guns any more proficiently than this should either be put on a tar- get range or else relegated to the pop-gun squad. This boils down to the question: Is prohibition an enforceable law? From the appearance of the situa- tion and from the totals compiled after innumerable killings, both among gangsters themselves and' by our officers of the law, enforce- ment does not appear to be worth the expense and effortnecessary. And 'why support the bootleggers? Prohibition began as a farce, reached the more mature stage of infringing on personal and proper- ty rights, and now becomes nothing less than a legalized excuse for murder. This state of affairs can- impromptu little comedies, but these are rarely good for more than a local chuckle; it takes an old- fashioned, unadulterated funda- mentalist board' of Baptist trustees firing a modernist president and faculty to set the country laugh- mg. Some day, possibly, the Baptist die hards may be sufficiently im- pressed by modern science to for- sake their medievalisms. Along with modern doctrines of surgery physics, chemistry, and biology they may concede the modern doc- trine of evolution-and by admit- ting the monkeys to their family trees lose more and more of the ancestral resemblance. That many baptists are now "unsound" on the infallibility of Genesis the Des Moines fiasco shows; what is laughable is a board of university trustees quibbling over the point in all ea-nestness, meanwhile stop- ping the wheels of education lest some student escape their clutches tainted with the mire of modern- ism. John the Baptist must be turn- ing handspriings in his grave. Not only education, which did not much concern him, but the Christianity he taught is being held in abeyance while a board of trustees, stub- bornly. refusing to admit they live in the twentieth century, raise hob over a doctrinal issue of such little importance that the rest of the country laughs. HALF-BAKED GRADUATES From the Yale Daily News comes a warning against junior colleges to the effect that "here lies the danger of producing the half- baked college man with a general smattering of knowledge but without the more mature powers of analysis the university upper- classman is supposed to possess.' The point of view, however, which hits directly at the Univer- sity college projected for Michi- gan, neglects to consider the gross failure of the present system to produce anything more in four years than a "half-baxed college man with a general smattering of knowledge." In the interestsi of economy some system is needed to weed out at the half-way mark, with a minimum of hard feelings, the student who lacks inherently the "mature powers of analysis" postulated by the Daily News for upperclassmen. The need is em- phasized by simply looking at an average class of fourth-year grad- uates., 0- o0 j Musi And DramaI "THE BEGGAR ON hORSEBACK" The marvels that the undergrad- uate mind gives birth to will never cease. I suppose we can all thank God for that. At least one source of amusement remains as fresh and stimulating as the perennial "frosh." A series of amusements began with the advertising that ballyhoo-ed "Granite" to fame and fortune for Comedy Club. "Take Mamma and Pappa to the Drama" was the greeting that en- couraged a show-hungry populace. Various variations on the theme followed each day. In defense of the advertiser it must be admitted that "Mumma" and "Puppa" were important factors at the box of- fice. The show played to many adults. Yesterday some bright mind in Play Production conceived the idea of promoting business for "The Beggar on 'Horseback" by sending just such a person around the campus on a horse. A tour of f the sidewalks ended downtown shortly after noon where compli- mentary tickets were presented to the Mayor of our fair city. In Detroit this advertising scheme might be more or less to the point. The I. Q. of Detroit population is undoubtedly lower than of Ann Arbor; they may conceivably need some startling symbol to awaken them to the realities of theatrical advertising. But locally there seems to be some protest against thi insult to the undergraduate intelligence. In fact, the protest took actual shape. Of course, it was among the younger, just-from-high-school element, the freshmen, but the eggs they threw were nione the less vigorous with protest. The diagonal still bears witness to the stains on the student 'scutcheon, and the manner in which the eggs were thrown was undeniably earn- est, even if the aim was bad-la- mentably bad. The only fact remains, that if theatrical advertisers sist on hoodlum methods of ballyhoo, they can only expect a similar re- action, unfortunate as that may be. R. J4. A. FINE ARTS FORECAST This month there appeared a magazine. "devoted to the art in- terests of Detroit" entitled the "Fine Arts. Forecast." The editor cites the aim of the magazine as being an accurate and critical re- port of the artistic events of each month. The book's structure is clear and logical and not to ambitious. it contains ,one feature article on "The International Exhibition of Ceramic Art" and a page each for Art, Music, The Theater, Editorial, and Books. In addition to these, probably standard pages, there is a full announcement of the pro- gram of the May Festival here, and a complete and accurate Calendar of Events. The articles in this is- sue are a little thin on the critical side, tending a little toward gossip, but improvement in this way is certain to come with later issues devoted to months in Detroit a lit- tle more rich artistically than this one. The mere publication of the book, as the editor states, assumes a wide and vital art life in De- troit. The value of the magazine for those people -who really pos- sess a keen and enthusiastic inter- est in art is evident; it provides them with some valuable and en- tertaining critical material and an accurate calendar of events. Edward Reinig, a new student on the campus, is associate editor of the magazine and writes the the- atrical page. For this reason and for' the definite hole in the art life of Detroit that it gives fair prom- ise of filling satisfactorily, the mag- azine deserves all the support that students can give it. W. J. 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Brooks Building LIBERTY AT FOURTH AVENUE Phone 22571 Read the C1assifile d A ds Campus Opinion" Contributors are -asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than Soo words it possible.e' Anonymous com- munications will be' disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential, upon re- quest. Letters published should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of the Daily. MUSICAL MEMORY CONTEST To the editor:J As a subscriber to the Choral Union Concert series and to the May festival I feel that. some pub- lic comment should be made with regard to the extraordinary amendments to the originally an- nounced May Festival program. " The most painful change, of course, is the substitution of the Rimsky Korsakoff "Scheherazade" for the Mozart Symphony in E Flat. In the original program, which, indeed contained enough commonly played music, the Mo- zart number stood out as a pros- pect of novelty and excellence. But now it appears we must listen to the overplayed and inferior Rus- sion work. To those who have been looking forward expectantly to the E. Flat Symphony, the Rimsky Korsakoff will seem sorry stuff in- deed. Then too, one wonders why it was necessary to replace thej "Prize Song" with the "Flower! Song" from Carmen. Certainly the Wagner song is superior musical-I ly, and one suspects that it would be as well received by a Festival audience. The Carmen number not only suffers in comparison with it, but has been further les- sened in interest by being bawled by vaudeville. "artists" until one is bored to death with it. If the program changers had felt that they must change something, they might have given Hofmann something worthier of his talentI than the, Rubinstein Concerto.1 While I have never heard this opus, I strongly suspect that if it adheres to Rubinstein's usual style it will turn out to be a showy, sen- timental, and basically empty piece of music. 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