PA nFOB TH . EMP,141CN DA!EY ,: Published every morning except Monday diing the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- 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 the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, re second class matter. Special rate of posta granted by Third Assistant Post- wzaster ,General. Subsc7iption by sarer, $4.0O; by mail, $4(gfces: Ann Arbor Press Building, May, sand Street. Phone: Editorial, 426; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAF I Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR, KENNETH f. PATRICK 3ditor.............. ..-..Nelson J. Smith City Editor. ..... ...... Stewart Hooker News Editor.............Richard C. Kurvink Sports Editor..............W. Morris Quinn Womten's ditor.........S.ylvia S. Stone Telegraph Editor....... ...George Stautet Music and Drama............R. 14. Atkren Assistant City Editor.......... Robert Silbar Night Editorsj oseph E. Howell Charles S. Monroe i Donald J. Oline Pierce Rosenberg I Lawrence R. KI-in George E. Simons George C. Gilley Wieman was given opportunity to resign and did not take it is not 1L known, but we feel sure that Yost gave the opportunity., If this explanation is plausible, OUR OWN then it should explain the over- PICTORIAL REVIEW publicized fiasco last fall. In all OF LATE EVENTS events it does and should absolve Director Yost from the charge of LINDY TIES THE KNOT; BALL deliberately "firing" Mr. Wieman AND CHAIN FIRMLY ATTACHED b ms hp, did not like him That _r -0 r --. -. c a Music And Drama 0 0 TODAY: Matinee and evening performances of "Nightstick" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, curtains at 2:30 and 8:30. * * * ec ulr 11 l 1Gir,111. lll charge will bo made but will prove uvntenable. E 0 PLEDGE BUTTONS - Paul L. 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Bradley Accounts............Lawrence E. Wal0icy Publications........ ..... Ray M. Hofelich Mary Chase Jeanette Dale Vernor Davis Bessie Egeand pally Faster Anna Goldberg Kasper Halverson George.Hamilton Irak Horwich Vix Huraphrey rsiastalS Marion Kerr. Lillian KovivskY Bernard Larson Hollister Mabley 1. A. Newman Jack Rose Carl r-. Schemul George Spater Sherwood Upton Marie Wellstead. Night Editor-WALTER WILDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1929 NOT THAT HE LOVED CAESAR LESS The dismissal of Coach Elton E. Wieman from the coaching staff by the Board in Control of Athletics is blighted with unfortunate an- tecedents. The general public will connect it directly with the'inde- cision coicerning the identity of the head coach of the Michigan football team last fall, blowing in- to the affair the smoke of personal strife between, Director Yost and Coach Wieman. In reality, the Alphonse and Gaston comedy of last year is only remotely a factor in the decision of the Board to dis- pense with Mr. Wieman'srservices as a member of the Michigan coaching staff. The fact that Mr. Wieman was dismissed and did not resign is another corollary to the hypothesis that the release was at the personal instigation of Di- rector Yost and that objectively the matter was one of spite or at the least of whim. "Hurry Up" Yost's fidelity to Michigan is well known, but it will always justify repetition. Such a man would never fire a fellow coach because of personal indiffer- ences. His blood is so enriched with Michigan spirit that he would not allow it to be diluted with the ennervating influx of personal likes and dislikes. It was not that he loved Wieman less but that he loved Michigan more. The relationship between Direc- tor and Coach began as a master and pupil affair when Wieman played on the Varsity football team. Director Yosts' regard for his pupil must have been high or the pupil would never have been appointed to the coaching staff when he was. But what obviously occurred was the realization on the part of the master that the pupil did not pos- sess certain characteristics neces- sary in a man who would assume the responibilities not only as a technician and analyst (in which capacity Mr. Wieman is excellent beyond reproach) but also as an administrator and a leader. These qualities Mr. Wieman regrettably lacks in a sufficiency that would allow him to succeed in entirety a man who possessed them to the de- gree that Director Yost did. The sit- uation was sad but Director Yost was placed in one even more sad. His loyalty to Michigan told him that Wieman was noti the man for A proposal to defer the display of >ledge buttons, at least for the luration of Freshman week next all, was definitely opposed by the [nterfraternity council yesterday. Prof. Philip E. Bursley, who prof- ered this suggestion to the coun- A11, feels that the wearing of pledge auttons creates ill feeling among the new students and proves a tumbling-block to cooperation of the leaders of the various groups with their members. By the proposed plan, rushing and pledging would proceed as for- merly, but no buttons would be worn on the campus. It is un- doubtedly felt that this would keep from the freshmen who were not taken into fraternities the realiza- tion that any distinction had been made in favor of their fellows and would effectually guard them from any feeling of inferiority. However, with rushing in its present highly-competitive condi- tion, any scheme which would make it more complex should be definitely rejected. Cut-throat tac- tics have characterized rushing methods for so long that it is a shortsighted policy which would substitute easier button-lifting greater uncertainty about just what is going on, and hardship in the long run for both freshmen and fraternities. The deferred wearing of pledge buttons, more- over, would simply defer one week the arrival of the inferiority com- plex and the realization on the part of independents that they had failed of fraternity recognition. If Professor Bursley's idea is the abolition of social distinctions among freshmen, he would do bet- ter to abrogate fraternities than to do away with pledge buttons. PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES No one will dispute that the fac- ulty committee of the Big Ten act- ed in pursuit of a correct principle when they voted to. oust Iowa from the conference for hiring athletes. Professionalism should not taint intercollegiate athletics, and we may assume that before casting their bomlbshell the committee weighed carefully the evidence of professionalism that came into their hands. It would seem, how- ever, that before taking drastic ac- tion against one university, the committee might first have re- viewed the whole conference sit- uation and drawn a warning line. It is no secret that athletes are being subsidized through college. First a promising football player has his way paid through college by his father; no rats are smelled. Another high school star may be financed by his uncle, and the cloak of consanguinity completely hides any incipient professionalism. Then a next-door neighbor, who happens to be a loyal alumnus, sends a quarterback down to his Alma Mater. Subsequently a fel- low townsman, who does not know the boy except by reputation, will forward him prepaid to the old col- lege for athletic purposes. Still, in the technical sense, there is no pro- fessionalism here. A more dubious case arises when fraternity alumni pool funds to bolster the prestige of their house with ,prominent athletes, financed sub rose, no matter where they come from. This practice is gen- erally; frowned on but not -penal- ized. And then there are the uni- versity athletic associations that find, or make, for good athletes snap jobs which carry stipends all out of proportion to the work done. Here is a method of keeping good material off yet on the payroll which is employed commonly by Big Ten universities and surely de- serves investigation quite as much as Iowa's infraction in the next degree. It seems unduly harsh that Iowa should be expelled for simply being less euphemistic about pro- fessionalism. We cannot feel that Iowa is permanently out, or that the Big Ten is on the verge of a break-up. Their expulsion is too obviously an effort to make an example of one offender to be a permanent and blackening blot on the Iowa ath- letic escutcheon. II Well, Charlie and Anne certainly scooped the boys! None of the newspapers even got in on the big news, except The Daily, which pro- cured a snapshot of the Lindberghsl setting out on their honeymoon.1 Mr. Lindbergh is the smiling gen- tleman in the center. ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF FLIER IN TEN MORE YEARS rd The headline on a story about the Lindbergh marriage yesterday morning tells us that the loving couple "roared secretly away." The Mrs. will do all of her roar- ing openly on mornings such as the, above, when she's trying to get Charlie up for a trip to China some day. "LOTT WILL JOIN CUP . ..... TEAM FOR RESEARCH" i "NIGHTSTICK" A Review By William J. Gorman A large cast under the direction of Reynolds Evans labored last night with some success to prove, with a melodrama as a vehicle, a sociological thesis dedicated to the police department: ' "after all, a crook's not a hero but a crook." The usual number of thrills, large- ly gained in the usual way by mo- ments of suspense ending in pistol shots, were dealt the audience during the process of the proof. Though an ordinary one, the climax, the villain trembling at the point of the hero's gun, was re- freshing to those who had expect- ed the fadeout to picture the rep- entant heroine in the arms of the detective who had saved her from the murr-rderer. In spite of prev- ious statements to the contrary, the play is not wholly electric and finely constructed. The first act notably and parts of the third act have ruts, moments of delay and weak dialogue, which no perform- ance could smooth. The production had a balance that the previous two did not at- tain. It has no strikingly bad spots and a few very successful ones. In those aspects of the melodrama, like the speed of Act II, where interpretation was pos- sible, the conceptions of the Di- rector seemed intelligent. Reynolds Evans, though he was probably slightly miscast, gave a workman- like performance modulating his voice and movements quite subtly into his two roles as lover and de- tective; everything in his technique even when used as in this play in I bad lines .end situations shows care. Robert Henderson rendered well a difficult few minutes which re- quired him in rapid succession to wabble and jabber as an inebriate to hold three crooks at bay, and to die dramatically. Thomas Den- ton offered a highly amusing bit as the boob criminal-the only ,part with ,any really original writ- ing in it. Arthur Kohl and Suz- anne Freeman are still unsatisfac- tory;, they, both adopt at their first appearance on the stage man- nerisms of technique (the one a long stricng gait and the other an innocent, pathetic shade, in the voice) which they think fit the part, and, then they remain con- tent with these mannerisms through parts of the drama that clearly require complete disappear- ance of them Undoubtedly neither of them has a very flexible voice but indifference to the possibilities of variety that lines afford accent- uates their limitations. Though the play provides enter- tainment, its choice is none too flattering to campus taste. * * * i I- I P, i c I P. Of course, every good pictorial section must have its sports events. Here are ours. The headline is not, however. It ran on the sports page yesterday to let everyone know that Georgie really is not particularly interested in tennis, but he plays it so he can psychoanalyze his op- ponents. Or maybe he wants to study geological conditions as rep- resented by various kinds of clay and grass courts. PROBES IOWA MATTER 7t This is the office cynic. He wanted to find out if all this stufl about Iowa playing ringers was true so he looked up their footbal: record of the past season. He simply cannot understand yet hows they could have used any ringers and played that kind of ball. The doctor has hope for his recovery. BIG SHOOTING PLANNED BY EMINENT DETROITERS + A- 55 ~ "Heflin to be slain, letter to solor says"-headline in one of our con- temporary publications. "Detroit- ers on way to Capital to do job, ant the police yawn." What's unusual about that? , This is merely an at- tempt ,to obtain as much fame foi Detroit *as Chicago now claims. OUR WEATHER MAN *n Ji I, 1 S. THE GLEE CLUB CONCERT In response to requests from various sources, the Glee Club un- der the direction of Theodore Har- rison has prepared a concert for this evening to be given in Hill Au- ditorium at 7:30. The program is popular in nature containing in addition to several groups of num- bers by the Glee Club featured nov- elties by Sidney Straight and . George Johnson and a group of tenor solos by Odra Patton., The program, affording an hour and a half of entertainment, is as fol- lows: Laudes 'Atque Carmina, ;Stanley) The Victors (Elbel) and Varsity (Moore, '12) by the Glee Club; The Musical Cigar Box by Sidney Straight; Where'er You Walk, (Handel) and Now Let Every Tongue (Bach) by ' the Glee Club; Tenor Solos: Elucevan le Stella (Puccini). Where My Dear Lady Sleeps (Breville-Smith) Lift Thine Eyes (Logan) by Odra O. Patton; Ole Gray Robe (Huntley) Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Huntley) and Promis' Lan' (Burleigh) by the Glee Clul5; selections by the Mid- night Son's Quartet composed of Catchpole, Straight, Brown, and Peterson, The Cossack (Monuiszko- MacDowell) and Morning (Speakes) by the Glee Club; Monolog by George Johnson; 'Tis of Michigan We Sing (Arr. by Moore '12) I Want To Go Back to Michigan (Arr. by Moore, '12) and Friars Song (Dykema) solo by Otto Brown, with Glee Club; and The Yellow and Blue (Balfe.) ORGAN RECITAL Walter B. Angell, pupil of Pal- mer Christian, will give the follow- ing program this afternoon in Hill auditorium beginning at 4:15.