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Hofelich admirers have a grievance in the policy of a magazine that publishes malicious matter written in pique. 0 OUR HORRIBLE EXAMPLE The Mexican nation, damned and harrangued by more fortunate states for her evidently unstable and certainly unruly government,, has, paradoxically enough, profited' by errors of her most ardent moral, social, and political critic, the United States, Mexico, on the verge of instituting a form of legally en- forced temperance throughout the country, can profitably turn back to the sociology teacher that lies immediately to the north of her boundary and witness the manifes- tation of a legally enforced tem- perance which from its very incep- tion was mismanaged and male- volently pursued. Doubtless the Mexican move for prohibition will be effected. Doubt- less it will be enforced after a fashion. If it proves successful, if enforcement proves feasible, then the tables will be turned, and the acme of perfection will be exempli- fied in the pupil; it will remain for the teacher to learn from the pupil. The plan this wild and barbarous land has in holdings is one of toler- ance and deliberation. Belligerent and iresponsible Mexico will not im- pose a rigid and immediate law against the sale of alcoholic bever- ages. Possibly Mexico, even in hei primitive and immature manner of thinking, has realized that traits and customs, in-bred for genera- tions, cannot be obliterated by means of a wave of legal papyri Gestures of ethical modifications fashioned for permanence, are like bubbles blown through a pipe: very pretty, but hardly enduring. The fact is that the Mexican fia- tion has watched for ten years the effect of the prohibition laws clamp- ed rigorously on the United StateE by the American Prufrocks. It has observed the progression of years and the consequent, ever-increasing disrespect for the entire enact- ment. It realizes that if the similai law is to be written into the Mex- ican constitution a slower, calmer, less inclusive process must be fol- lowed. So it resolves to educate her people to a respect for the act before the act is introduced. And the education is to be rational and not antagonizing propaganda. Pos- sibly the next step will be for the Mexican nation to look still farther North for example, finding a solu- tion to the problem in the success- iful restriction plan of Ontario. os TED 0_ HIO FOR THE SLIFE OF AN ELEPHANT! Little Moe, the Sells-Floto ele- phant (net weight two tons), con- tracted influenza about two months ago, and when he failed to show signs of improvement, his owners petitioned Mr. Yellowley of the prohibition bureau (or whatever it's called) for three gallons of al- cohol to aid in the fight for life. that little Moe was waging. Little Moe was saved. Considering this episode, we never again can call elephantf' dumb brutes. They get what they need. The smart thing for people to do is to raise herds of elephants in 'their back yards. Sixty elephants and three gallons for each ele- phant would entitle the owner to one hundred and eighty gallons. And each elephant could be sick at least twice a year. That,'dou- bles the total. Gumley would probably say that each elephant would be entitled to a trunkful. Recent research has deter- mined the fact that the earth is 196,940,000 square miles in- stead of 196,042,000, as. was previously thought. Well, well, what a small p'aee the world is after all.! Tonight about one thousand freshmen will parade down to Sleepy Hollow, wearing their pots for the first time. It really will be a shame to burn all those practic- ally new pots. But along about this time of the year nothing will fit a freshman's head that is small- Mary Chase Jeanette Dale Vernor Davis Bessie Egeland Sally Faster Anna Goldberg Kasper Halverson Gorge Hamilton Ixack Horwich lix Huraiphrey Music And Drama i 'Amsr~anta Marion Kerr Lillian Kovinsky Bernard Larson Hollister Mabley 1. A. Newman Jack Rose Carl F. Schemm George Spater Sherwood Upton Marie Wellstead FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1929 Night Editor-WALTER WILDS MISINFORMATION IN GOBS Flirting with libel and dealing And-----,-----g----y--- An Mexico, drawing deeply .1011n out misinformation in generous the examples of her moral betters, gobs, that extraordinary, quasi- will avoid an inculcation of a na- private organ Plain Talk has just tional joke, a horrible distortion of published in its June issue an legal justice, a wretched stigma amazingly, though unintentional- of legalized murder, and will gain, ly humorous account, by a former I instead, perhaps even from her un- member of the faculty, of "Why I-fortunate adviser, a respect inspired President Little Quit" by a rational weighing of ethical Accepting as gospel some of the and moral values, and a resultant journalistic ingenuities that have judgment carried into effect sanely seeped from this peaceful commu- and without antagonism. nity, the author has composedi such laughable drivel as "At Mich- RIOTS AND GREEN TREES igan Under Little's rule, there was Student riots before or during erected at the entrance to the examination periods are not to be Boulevard, favorite walk and pet- severely criticised when they occur ting ground -of the students, a on such a campus as that of the great iron gate set in posts of University of Pennsylvania. Situat- massive concrete, to keep the boys ed as ittis almost in the center of a and girls off the paths after dark. dirty, noisy part of West Philadel- Guards also patrol the park. And phia and surrounded on all sides by under his rule students were for- clanging, roaring street cars and bidden to operate automobiles, but loose-jointed trucks, it is little he authorized special permits at a wonder that those who seek a dollar each which were not diffi- higher education within the con- cult to get." fines of the ancient buildings some- Another exaggeration, quite ob- times pop into a riot to let off viously designed to create a false steam. impression, is "His crusade against Fortunately, neurosis of this kindI drinking aroused national atten- does not show itself in Ann Arbor tion. Little has been known to Ito such a violent degree as was drink, but did not consider it right manifested Tuesday night in Phila- for the student body to do so." In delphia; principally, no doubt, be- the same peeved spirit, twisting cause our surroundings tend toward words and facts to blacken Presi- a more calm and reflective attitude dent Little's name, the author toward the pre-final grind. The touches on most of the President's campus is a quiet place shaded by projects which encountered opposi- green trees, and one can walk sev- tion, ending with the situation in eral miles in any direction without his own former department, that bumping into grimy steel factories, of zoology. traffic jams, long trains of jangling This last includes "He (President street cars, and rows of tenement Little) supplied the lesislature and dwellings. The roar of modern city the people of the state with mis- life that leaves the nerves ragged leading statements to gain his and the thinking mind in shambles point. Chief among these was the does not force itself upon the Mich- statement that the zoological mu- igan student and there is more than seum was primarily for teaching enough of - God's country to go purposes and that it had been around. forced to turn away many students At this time of year when finals for lack of room. This was abso- loom and we make a survey of the lutefy false." Those .acquainted work we haven't done but must dog with the campus need hardly to in two short weeks, the calmness have their attention called to the and serenity of Ann Arbor comes error in this statement. The pres- as a sort of blessing to those of us ent Romance Languages building, who stop to make comparisons. condemned as a fire-trap, formerly Pity the Pennsylvanians. served as a museum to house the invaluable and irreplacable zoo- Now that Governor Green has logical collections; many of the vetoed the death penalty bill, thus specimens were removed to a vault saving our murderers from the er than a sombrero. And tonight at the Cap Night ex- ercises you will have the opportun- ity to listen to all the old grads prattle about how they used to' raise hell here and what a swellj place it was then And then the Council members will get in a few! words about their pet peeve, tra- ditions. If you happen to miss it this year, don't bother about it, for they will be the same things and say the same things next year. That seems to be the Council's idea of a tradition. They are bringing a young gorita over with them on the Graf Zeppelin. They had bet- ter keep it out of the pilot's room if they want to come over in safety. You know, monkey with the controls. In Jackson an umpire had his! leg broken when the catcher, run- ner, and umpire all piled up at home plate in a cloud of dust. They at least might have waited for the decision. At the University of Illinois engineers have been at work in an abandoned house since 1918 to determine the efficiency point of the heating apparatus under different conditions. The landladies in Ann Arbor have found the minimum point of efficiency in heating apparat- us since 1837. ** * A wife of a policeman in Chicago is sueing for a divorce from her husband who is a policeman. He has, she contends, an insufferable pride in his complexion. He spends more than half his salary for cold cream, powder and perfume. That probably, is the reason Chicago policemen cope so readily with the gunmen. At last we have found a ra- tionalization of the theory that the good die young. Theodore Bunte, famous candy king, has compiled statistics proving a woman eats twelve times her weight in candy before she dies. A woman reported to the police that her husband burned all her clothes to prevent her from going out nights. That, we believe, 'wouldn't stop a modern woman. * * * , A city ordinance in Ceylon has been passed, forcing all ele- phants to wear both head and tail lights after dark. Pretty soon, we suppose the police in TONIGHT: Play Production present the Kaufman-Con- nelly extravaganza, "The Beggar On Horseback," in Lydia Mendep sohn Theater, beginning at 8:15, curtain at 8:30 o'clock. "THE BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK" Reviewed By Lee Blaser Play Production gave the "Beg- gar" a terrific ride last evening. And the Kaufman-Connelly riot, to be done at all, must be done well: hilarity, logic, syncopation,' all pile one upon the other in a chaos of satiric laughter. The whole essence of success in an en- tirely different type of comedy is in entering wholly into tie spirit of the thing, in catching the rhythm and the glittering satire. Play Production didall these things I and turned in oner of the most en- joyable evenings of the year. The play is highly interesting in itself, it is the foremost of a rising field in tonedy. Curious indeed is the history of the thing; it was written in answer to a challenge, by two critics who had been deplor- ing American comedy-this was their answer. They received the Pulitzer prize for the year, started a new technique in satirical fan- tasy, and-they have been trying to equal it ever since. A hurried procession of silhouetted treat- ments scintilates in chaotic detail.' The transitions from logic and tragic-comedy to the main body of the play, the dream scenes, with all staccato din which marks it, are handled with such adroitness as to emphasize the values of both. The logic is so cold it hurts, pre- sentation of the very real stifling of artistic genius by forcing it to fit into the machine age, to do hack-work to live and dream of the foregone masterpiece. The cruel truth is so brilliantly veiled by comedy that one is tempted to disregard the fact thatj the Widget art factory is a very real thing. American civilization, with all its foibles, frantic systematic mad- houses of industry, hysteric leisure, standardized living and conver tion-nothing escapes flashing blade of the author's caricature. The ingenuity of adapting the jazz rhythm to express a jazz age is the making of the play. Producing tl this rot is one of the most difficult bits of modernj staging. Director Windt has done a very creditable piece of work In its presentation, everything is schyronized, and the rapidity of movement leaves no room for hap- hazard directing. He has missed some of the minor touches which the professional productions of this same play have grasped to heighten the incongruity, on the other hand he has added some subtleties, and taken advantage of student fresh- ness for the enthusiasm. The sets are, with the exception of the pantomime scene, well de- signed. The silhouetting in the art' factory scene is the outstanding bit, and despite baby spots and borders which refuse to focus prop- erly the full lighted scenes are good. Whimsical treatment has been given full reign. Arthur Hinkley as the furious- ly businesslike Mr. Cady was esily outstanding in the cast. He was a perfect type for the part-only an occasional lapse in tempo marked his performance. As a struggling and impractical young artist, Charles Silky was unconvincingly suave and self confident. Lillian Stetchel played the hysterical debutante in the required noisy I manner, Kenneth White, as a doc- tor who takes his patient's pulse with his thumb and forgets such rudiments as the traditional face front, is a bit flat. Edna Mower nearly equalled the performance of Katherine Wick Kelly in the Playhouse production. And as us- ual, the O'Neill twins were a huge success at the oft appearing butlers and what-have-you's. This reviewer has seen this same play 1. four different productions and although better productions in part were noted, this one easily ranks with the best of them. ANN ARBOR ALUMNAE PRESENT Robert Henderson directing and playing in four shows. Program- med: FIRST WEEK Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday matinee and night, Friday-"The Green Goddess." Thursday matinee and night, Saturday matinee and night-"You Never Can Tell." Sw eetland The Home of Quality for all kinds of REFRESHMENTS Hot Waffles and Sandwiches Home-made Candy 212 So. Main St. OSCAR O. M. 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