THE 'MICHIGAN DAILY WEDN lished every morning except Monday the University year by the Board in 1 of Student Publications. nber of Western Conference Editorial ation. Associated Press is exclusively en- to the use for republication of all news :hes credited to it or not otherwise d in this paper and the local news pub- herein. red at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, an, as second class matter. Special rate tge granted by Third Assistant Post- scription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, es: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- Stree_. nes: Editorial, 4925; Business, 2t214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK .. ... ....... Paul J. Kern ditor...............Nelson J Smith Editor ... .....Richard C. Kurvink s Editor................ Morris Quinn !s Editor...........Sylvia S. Stone Michigan Weekly.... J. Stewart Hooker and Drama............R. L. Askren mt City Editor.. ..Lawrence R. Klein Night 'Editors lce N. Edelson Charles S. Monroe E. Howell Pierce Rop-nberg d J. Kline George R. Simons George C. Tilley Reporters I. Adams Ruth Kelsey s Alexander Donald E. Layman' rAnderson C. A. Lewis Askren Leon Lyle im Askwith Marian MacDonald n B roesche Henry Merry e Behymer N. S. Pickard x Bernstein William Post Charles Victor Rabinowitz Chubb John T. Russ Codling Harold Saperstein E. Cooper Rachel Shearer Domine Howard Simon d Efroymson Robert L. Sloss as Edwards Arthur R. Strubel erg Egeland Beth Valentine -t . Feldman Gurney Williams ne Vollmer Walter Wilds Fuss Edward Weinman im Gentry Robert Woodroofe :Gillett Toseph A. Russell nce Hartwig Cadwell Swanson Jones A. Stewart d Jung Edward L. Warner Jr. s R. Kaufman Cleland Wyllie student body was scarcely men- tioned at the fraternity meeting. All of which goes to show, more or less, that the fraternity alumni of Detroit know very little of the situation and probably do not grasp the problem. If their obstruc- tion is allowed to stand in the way, at least as presented at the present time, it will be blocking the meas- ure on no adequate grounds. 1 The motives of the alumni should not be questioned, but their con- clusions seem to be rather the con- clusions of a body which is not en- tirely familiar with the facts. To let their opposition stand in the way of the proposed investigation would, to say the least, be stupid. possibility of having any injurious effect. Nobody is going to die wearing one black shoe and one tan shoe, sitting at a table with the back of his chair against the dining board, or being compelled for a week to eat all food with a knife. It is perfectly proper to put in college institutions a purely playful ele- ment, but when a fraternity bunch exhibit such cruel mental imbecili- ty as to electrify bed springs for the premediated purpose of putting them in contact with human flesh, that fraternity should feel the sting of an outraged public opinion. If Dean V. I. Moore condones it, as he is reported to have done, he should be fired as an unfit. THE MICHIGAN DAiLY NITE.MAT Music And Drama 7:00 RAE MA00 Last Times Today IBANEZ TONIGHT: Choral Union "TORRENT" Semi-Centenary Inaugural, by Comedy and Travel Drama Rosa Ponselle, in Hill Audi- Tomorrow torium, at 8:15 o'clock MARIE PREVOST, CLARA BOW and MONTIE BLUE I in THE SEMI-CENTENARY "KISS ME AGAIN" Foi fifty years the Choral Union has been sponsoring a yearly series ,If ll fIlii;IUlgIihitllgI of exceptionally good musical pro-c A grams with thepurpose of stimula- 11A D E14 ting appreciation for good music in - Ann Arbor as a city and of educat- P TODAY ONLY ing the student body to a realiza- Pauline Frederick tion of what is finest and best in "THE the musical world. With the in- NES auguration of the series tonight, 'ae of a woman who used 1c surgery to outwit and the Union establishes a landmark mp the Broadway gold- in a history of really sincere servi~y rs. Added and sets a standard for program T "The Iron Derby" Metro News ; excellence which it will be as diffi-i= Exclusively ours: t cult in the future to surpass as it Matinees Evenings_ . 10c, 20c 10c, 20c, 30c has been in the past to equal. Here Tomorrow Rosa Ponselle as an artist has un- JACQUELINE LOGAN doubtedly just reached the full in maturity of her powers. For a a "BROADWAY DADDIES" number of years Ann Arbor has Highly complimented by watched her development with in- New York Critics terest and growing appreciation in elliiii11111111lItjtltoillill her appearances during the May Festival and on the concert series. ~111111liiiII r11111111111111 r1111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I A Substantial Luncheon 11:30 to 1:30-60c Try it _ Also our Dinner is 85c, 5:30 to 7:30 Chicken Dinner Sunday 12 to 2-$1.25 - THE TEA CUP INN 308 Thompson St Near East Liberty :i1111111111111111111111111lr1111111111111111111111111liiiI111111111111111111111 111111111111111111 1 ,; Illllllllllliill1111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 IJ. FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES GIVE US A TRIAL ON ALL YOUR PRINTING NEEDS Printing That Pleases "YourdfJbetter trp~pressions" - 711 N.4Univ Ave. Phone 8805 (Over Geo. Moe's) 11r11111111111r91U111111111 l1[1111111111llllII II IN II II ll ll l llll lll llll l r111 ris er ra se ui AN ACCOMPLISHMENT The Board of Regents of the Uni- A sellout of the 2,000 seats, con- versity of Texas should be quick stituting the entire section re- to make an object lesson of this served for the Oratorical associa- performance of brutal stupidity by tion lecture series season ticket- suspending the group for at least holders, has been announced by of- , four-year period. Those boys are ficials in charge. That such an not even bright. They are too event should occur on a campus as stupid to play college games. Let large as that of the University of the University get rid of them. The Michigan is in itself of little more object lesson will do the rest of than passing interest. But that it the student body good. They need should be an event of such rarity the lesson more than that of any that its announcement is news of classroom. the first rank makes the occasion Only a few years ago this frater- worthy of marked comment. nity at Kenyon college, Ohio, "pre- Although there are plenty of tended" to tie a freshman to a single admission seats which will railroad track. They played the be available for each lecture, a sell- part so well that the freshman was out of the reserved seat section is: thoroughly convinced that he was especially significant in that it actually tied. A train came along Subscribe to The Michigan Daily e cr e . I BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE istant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER Department Managers ertising.... ....Alex . Scherer ertising..............A. James Jordan ertising............. Carl W. Hammer vice..... .... . .Herbert n. Varnum cuation..............George S. Bradley ounts.........Lawrence E. Walkly blicatons............Ray . Hofelich Assistants ring Binzer George R. Hamilton ry= Chase Dix Humphrey niette Dale Bernard Larson mor DaviseerLeonard Littlejohn len Geer per. Halverson T. Hollister aiiey npq 1H r Carl Schemm k Horwitch Robert Scoville EDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1928 ght Editor-GEORGE C. TILLEY DETROIT ALUMNI AGAIN Mfonday night President Clarence ok Little went to Detroit to esefit his plan of prohibition en- rcement to the fraternity alum- of that city. After the plan had en presented, and after a dis- ssion which at times waxed rm and bitter, the fraternity oup appointed a committee to nrer with University authorities rther concerning the matter. There is no use veiling the facts, wever, and it may as well be ad- tted that the sense of that meet- ' was opposed to the federal in- stigation. Many of the objections re exceedingly puny, such as the a presented that all federal ohibition agents are notorious )oks and grafters. Many of the jections savored only of the e're afraid of the truth" idea, rich contributed even more to eir discredit. Any university president can ake mistakes; that goes without ying; and our own is not infall- e. One can scarcely sympathise wever, with the attitude regis- ed at this alumni meeting which s on the surface an attitude sed neither on a grasp of the uation not a sound basis of rea- n. Several of the substitute pro- sals of the organization dis- ayed this fact. Chief and most ardently present- of these proposals was an in- stigation of fraternity chapter uses by their alumni. Outside of e ridiculous face which this oposition presents, it is curious note that the man most valiant- behind it appeared to know next nothing about his own frater- ty, and claimed to know mnuch. .declared on the floor of the seting, for instance, that at a rtain party at his local chapter use practically all the the drink- g was by outsiders who forced eir way in. It is a matter of com- n local knowledge that at the rty to which he referred there re not enough sober alumni to 1 whether anyone had forced his ty in or had flown in through an stairs window. Such was the sound basis of owledge upon which that propo- 1 was promoted. Other equally liculous ideas brought forward re a nronosal to investigate by asures the Oratorical association first of all that the student body is willing to accept and support well' a carefully chosen and worthwhile Oratorical series. The quality of the series planned for this year has been especially marked. Included in the list of names which speak for themselves are Stephen Leacock and Graham McNamee, neither of whom needs an introduction to a college audi- ence. Then there is Madam Sun Yat-Sen, widow of one of the most outstanding figures in modern Chinese history. Add to this group the colorful figure of Von Luckner and dramatic personages such asj Phidelah Rice and Peggy Wood andI one finds a half dozen high lights without mentioning all of those' who are to appear in Hill auditor- ium during the year. Recognition of the group which had the courage and foresight to schedule such a series of lecturers and dramatists is most certainly due. At the same time, mention! may well be made that the Michi- gan student body has demonstrated again that it will back, and back strongly, any effort which has as its purpose the bringing of what are really the best things to its campus life. ATHLETICS FOR ALL The new Intramural building, being used for the first time this week, constitutes a challenge to the men students of Michigan, a! challenge to participate daily in an adequate amount of physical ac- tivity. In the breadth of this country, there is not another university that has given to its students the ap- paratus that the University of Michigan, through the athletic and killed him. "Was he tied or not tied?" That was the question that went to court. In attempting to establish their innocence that fraternity conten- ded that the boy was not actually tied, that he was merely told that he was tied. But there was rope and wire there. What rope and wire? Defending itself the declared that the rope were part of a standard nalia that the boys took all initiation escapades. about the fraternity and wire parapher- around on Since then the other fraternities at Kenyon college, to perpetuate the exoneration, alway carry rope and wire through all initiation ceremonies that the evidence on "paraphernalia" once established, may never be torn down. It is time coarse college youths began to feel public sentiment in the matter of their blundering cruelties. It is time that campus sentiment became sufficiently re- 1 fined to register effective protest. The only way that protest will be felt by youths so dull is to ostracise them. The regents of Texas are totally derelict to their duty in this case if they do not impose a pen- alty of at least four years of com- plete denial of the right to initiate to this criminally careless fratern- ity. That is the language these of- fenders will understand. It is the lesson that other fraternities will learn. And it is the only way. There is altogether too much of this brutal.spirit entering into col- lege pranks. We have it evidenced year after year in our own Uni- versity at, Norman where the fresh- men are put through the paddle lane. There is nothing funny in this hurtful paddling except to the boys who are by nature course and crude. No fellow of refinement and So that, tonight, Hill Auditorium will undoubtably be filled to capa- city to hear her in what promises to be one of the finest concerts of the season. It is particularly fit- ting that Rosa Ponsella should open the Semi-centenary inaugural of Choral Union. The program is an exceptionally well selected one, ranging from Verdi to Frank La Forge; and pa- trons will be delighted with the in- clusion of the perennial favorite "Cavatina" from II Trovatore. The other aria "Suicido, in questi fieri momenti," Ponchielli's famous work from La Gioconda is well cal- culated to exhibit the range, power, and dramatic abilities of Miss Ponselle. The other groups on the program are well selected, lighter works from such composers as Schumann, Fourdrain, Sadero, Chopin and others. P. L. A. * * * THE PRICE OF EGGS Someone seems to have been suggestig tb Earl Carroll that he' shoots "crap" to determine what he would charge as a "Top" for admission to his "Vanities." Seven being what it is in that time honored game, cynics insinuate that the only reason that the only reason that the famous pro- ducer does not charge $7.77 is his fear that the boys in the box office would quit if they had to make three cents change on every ticket. Innocently-as they themselves describe it-The New York Times gave Mr. Carroll's charge of $7.70 a little publicity. It was all just in fun, so The Times claims-just a little squib, with good feelings on all sides. But Carroll, harrassed by the cares of what is a cruel enough world at best, refused to take it so. He marshalled his squadrons of accountants and de- liveered himself of a literal bar- rage. It follows: For one week, expenses: Men principals .......... $10,150.00 Women principals........5,500.00 Show girls .............. 1,600.00 Dancers ................ 2,700.00 Mediums (............ ...1,600.00 Wardrobe department ... 190.30 Orchestra...............3,500.00 Staff ..................... 1,450.00 Ushers................. 125.00 Cleaners.................109.00 Press department...... ..400.00 Electrical department ... 532.00 Property .................582.60 Carpenter department .. 1,373.25 Advertising.............1,550.00 Light...................250.00 Royalties ................750.00 Costume repairs... ......250.00 Shoe replacements ...... 150.00 Photos ...................75.00 Rent..................2,500.00 Electrical supplies ...... 150.00 Insurance.................50.00 Printing.................250.00 Tickets, etc.............175.00 Total .................$36,062.15 Weekly gross with $7.70 top standing room .. ..$40,700.00 association, now offers to the men decency who comes from a home enrolled here. Not only is the with background ever laughs at equipment for the development of that savage notion of fun. Intercollegiate teams, highly effi- Surely nobody is legally respon- cient, but there is now sufficient sible for this Texas U. accident. equipment to insure the carrying Any kind of an accident was most on of a complete schedule of ath- foreign to the minds of those letic participation for all-some- stupid boys. At heart they felt thing unique in the athletic de- utter good will and a spirit of fel- partments of the schools . of the lowship toward their victim. But country. when boys get to college they are The Athletic association acted supposed to be old enough to have wisely when it brought about the just a little common sense and erection of equipment necessary for some intelligence. Not much, but a universal sports program, for a little. These chaps at Texas U. there is little doubt that University evidenced none. They should pay students, on an average, do not the penalty imposed by a self-re- get a proper amount of physical specting campus opinion. Deny exercise, them the right to perpetuate their It is now up to the men students order for a term of four years and to show their appreciation of this perhaps they will then learn the opportunity. They should welcome lesson, and other fraternities will with open hearts the completion of learn it with them, which they all the new building, and should see should have learned in the Yale that the facilities are used to their and Kenyon misfortunes of many proper extent. years ago.k The editorial which appeared in Many of the leading fraternities the Daily recently deplored the long ago legislated definitely that lack of interest in debating and no chapter should be permitted to took the stand that the lack of in-e. terest was due to unpopular dis- engage in any kid of so-called cussion topics. The Daily sug- "horse-play," which would fright- gested that new types of subjects en, injure, publicly embarass or be selected for debate. humiliate a candidate. No frater- nity that respects itself wants to Editorial Comment torture the mind that it respects enough to take into fellowship, no fraternity that respects itself FIRE THE "FRAT" would want to publicly humiliate (From the Tulsa, Okla., Tribune) a member. The fraternity that A nineteen-year-old boy was does these things is composed of killed in an unwarranted accident men who have no conception of in a fraternity initiation at the the dignity which college fraterni- Weekly expense ........ $36,062.15 Profit ..................$ 4,637.85 Cost of production......$248,000.00 f III - -- - -- "-_.... * i i K1141J41). \.J i.41i,4J1.1 %.AU I