THE MICHIGAN
DAILY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 192$
THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928'
Night Editor-DONALD J. KLINE
prized. It also has been observed
that sometimes even football games
have been won because of the
strength of spirit and support that
stood behind a mediocre team.
Tonight at 9:09 o'clock, (city
time), the Varsity squad and
coaches will leave the Michigan
Central station for Columbus and
the annual gridiron battlq with
Ohio State. Many Michigan stu-
dents and alumni will see the game
there and indicate by their pres-
ence in the stadium their desire to
back the team.
No better opportunity however,
for the entire Michigan student
body to show its interests in and
loyalty to the team will be presen-
ted this year than the opportunity
to give the team a real send-off at
the station. Incidentally there has
been no occasion within recent
years when more than a pitiful
handful of curious students has
been present at a send-off for any
team.
A little less criticism and a lit-
tle more enthusiastic support of
the men who makeup the team
would mean a great deal to Michi-
gan and might well lead to a bet-
ter and more wholesome student
spirit, a spirit that is loyal even in
defeat. It might even be worth-
while to suggest that more pep
meetings be planned this year, per-
haps one before each remaining
game of the season. Undoubted
enthusiasm expressed in this form,
though for what may prove to be
a losing cause, is not to be over-
looked. It is rather to be recognized
and encouraged.
It has been announced that the
Graf Zeppelin will return to Ger-
many after an injured fin has been
repaired. If this is found to be too
difficult, there is always the alter-
native of providing the passengers
with paper bags.
OAi'EDioLL
LET THIS
BE
A LESSON
This message is addressed in the
main to the freshmen and others
on the campus for the first time:
There descended on the campus
yesterday that lunar monstrosity,
The Inlander. The Inlander, boys
and girls, is that horrible example
of what the "A" rhetoric student
can write.
S* *
During our freshman year
here we were struck by the fact
that The Inlander appeared
with every full moon, but after
even a casual reading of the
magazine's contents we under-
stood.
* * *
The Inlander this month is
featured by a poem of Katherine
D. Little, head of a family very
prominent in Ann Arbor. Do you
think, boys and girls, that it is a
very significant fact that her
poem was entitled "To A Little
Hut?"
* * *
Now to us the thought never
has occurred that the execu-
tive mansion on South U could
be termed a hut.
We bet that it is all propa-
ganda on the part of Mrs.
Little toward getting a new
house.
* * *
We can just imagine her saying
at the breakfast table, "Clarence,
we simply must get the house re-
decorated of move!"
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Music And Drama
TONIGHT: In Hill Auditorium
Vachel Lindsay will recite
his own poetry, beginning at
8:00 o'clock
* * *
THE RHYMING-VAGABOND
Following a custom of several!
years' standing, The Inlander
magazine presents Vachel Lindsay
in a program made up of his own
verse in Hill Auditorium tonight.
Like a regular Tommy Tucker, he
will rhyme for his supper through
a program of considerable variety,
including ragtime creations, min-
strel and missionary verse. and
other selections from th "hgher
vaudeville" which have made him
at once the most enigmatic and yet
transparent of living Amrian
poets.
Lindsay followed at the firs4, -,
conventional path of a studn nh
graduated from Springfield high
school, in Illinois, and the New
York School of Art. Then for two
years he lectured and produced
designs in Springfield. At the end
of this period he broke away from
this settled path, and tramped into
the South. During several of these
long trips he acted a dual role. He
preached the "gospel of beauty,"
and attempted to reach the people!
with a verse that struck a racy
note blended with rhymes, ragtime
and religion.
He paid for his meals with a
song, recitation, or a' pamphlet:
"Rhymes to be Traded for Bread."
His purpose was to stimulate the
half-hearted dreams that were
born and lost in the small villages
and towns of America. He taught
that all towns should be centers of
beauty, and all its citizens, artists
-an acknowledgedly unusual con-
ception.
By 1924 his poetry was recognized
by the public, and his reknown
spread. He lectured and recited
before large audiences.
His attempts to break down the
barriers betwen poetry and music
were successful experiments. The
form he adopted went back to the
old Greek type, where evrey line
was half sung. The novelty, the
speed, the syncopated sound of his
lines received the popular approval.
Lindsay lived sufficently near
the South to gain an appreciative
knowledge of the negro. In "The
Congd',' in "Simon Legree" he re-
produces in colorful words and
sounds the superstitions, the re-
ligious gusto, and the half-savage
Christianity of the Black man. His
insight and poetic abilities, his
vaudeville instinct and judgment
of sound create memorable lines
that ring in the memory long after
the ear has lost them.
A MUSICIAN IN HIS OWN
COUNTRY
A Review by Paul L. Adams
POR GY
The heart of a primitive
people chanted in the
rhythm of the negro race.
Tuesday. Oct. 30
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LET'S SETTLE THIS
Apparently the campus opinion
published in these columns Satur-
day morning on the subject of Al
Smith and his religion has caused
more than passing criticism and
comment. Numerous of these crit-
ics have written replies which are
utterly unfit for publication, and
some of them, a smaller and more
sensible) minority, have criticised
The Daily for giving currency toI
such rubbish.
But let us be clear now on this
subject of campus opinions. The
Daily assumes no responsibility as
SPONSOR of the opinions which
appear in these columns; it does
assume the responsibility for the
NATURE of them, necessarily. The
Daily editors feel that to refuse
voice to the bigots is the height of
bigotry, and that only the most
narrow persons resent freedom of
decent opinion. That this opinion
may give offense to some faction or
other is a thing with which the edi-
tors reckon.
This publication has no axe to
grind nor no politics to play. It has
neither religion nor political affilia-
tion. It has condemned in unqual-
ified terms through its official
columns that type of bigotry rep-
resented in the letter of R. L., and
does not for a moment condone
any phase of such opinion. It re-
grets very deeply that anything
printed in these columns may have
given offense to members of a par-
ticular religious sect. It does not
feel, however, that these colunms
should be closed to bigots merely
because the opposite side is too in-
tolerant to hear them.
BACK THE TEAM
The past two weeks have forced
upon the Michigan student body
the realization that this fall for the
first time in recent years Michigan
has a weak fotball team. Follow-
ing this realization a crop of criti-
cism has sprung up, emanating
largely from students and alumni,
as if it were one of the elements
of divine providence that this Uni-
versity should always produce win-
ning football teams.
It should be remembered, how-
ever, that other universities have
had .oo vlar n n t+he nriirn n nA
Campus Opinion
Contributors are asked to be brief,
confining themselves to less than 300
words i possible. Anonymous com-
munications will be disregarded. The
names of communicants will, however,
be rgearded as confidential, upon re-
quest. Letters published should not be
construed as expressing the editorial
opinion of the Daily.
ANOTHER REPLY
To the Editor:
Most of us who believe that Al
Smith possesses those qualities
which fit him for the presidency,
and that he has a program which
would prove beneficial to our
country, naturally resent the care-
less statements of R. L., Grad., in
his article captioned "Immaculate
Al."
Now, there are two kinds of po-
litical statements: those regarding
past activities which can be based
upon facts in so far as the facts
are ascertainable, and those re-
garding the future in which any
statement is a mere speculation.
As to past activities, R. L. says
that Governor Smith probably
failed to appoint Catholics because
there is a scarcity of educated
Catholics in New York. There are
between fifteen and twenty million
Catholics in this country, and New
York contains about 10 per cent of
our total population. On this
basis there are between one and
one-half and two million Catholics
in New York. It is a safe guess
that enough educated Catholics
can be found among this number to
fill the appointive offices of New
York. Yet Governor Smith ap-
pointed more Protestants than
Catholics.
Just what is meant by the state-
ment that "Hoover has yet to
show, how the Teapot Dome fits
into his party'sdscheme of respon-
sibility" is hard to tell. If R. L.
is trying to say, in this statement
and what follows it, that the Re-
publican Party is not responsible
and that the Democratic Party is,
he is again flying in the face of
facts. The Senate investigation
developed that efforts to obtain
these leases in the Wilson regime
were unsuccessful but that they
were obtained in the incumbency
of Harding. Of course, such a thing
does not fit into the "scheme" of
responsibility of any party; but
there is no question, even in intel-
ligent Republican circles, as to the
responsibility of granting these
leases with their attendant fraud
and corruption. And intelligent
persons are not blaming Mr. Hoov-
er for this situation but rather the
party which is sponsoring his can-
didacy.
As to R. L.'s speculations that Al
would have an Italian boss, that he
would be the tool of forces too
great to withstand, etc., little need
haa rl Anv nacnn enn hmovAr
* * *
And all the doctor does is to
keep on reading the paper and
exclaim, "Ha, we caught an-
other auto ban violater today!"
* * *
But your manner of propaganda
is all wrong, Mrs. Little. No one
ever reads The Inlander.
* * *
And so, boys and girls, if you
want to please your rhetoric
professors, go to class with an
Inlander tucked under your
arm. You don't really have to
read it, you know.
* . *
Al Smith has vigorously asserted
that Cal is a spendthrift. Oh no,
Al, not that. Every time we have
seen Cal in the news reels he's been
wearing that same grey suit!
The investment men in' New
York have been asked to steady
the flow of money. Yes, men,
don't let us get it too fast, nor
yet again too slow. Just a nice,
even, steady flow!
* * *
Governor Al arrived in Chicago
last night. Gee, Governor, if you
get out of that place alive, you de-
serve to be elected.
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ST PLAIN LOVE OF THE GAME
I
s * *
Walter P. Chrysler, who
makes all our automobiles for
us, is planning a building in
New York that is to be 68
stories high.
We suppose it will be known
as the Chrysler "68."9
A deputy in the West refused to
grant a marriage license to a man
88 and his sweetheart 16. Aw, gee,
deputy, give the kids a chance.
o- -- - - -o
I
I And, Dean Bursley, this is
for you. 5,000 student tickets I
have been sold here at Michi-
I gan for the Ohio State game. [
C The specials will carry 800 of I
them. How will the other 1
E 4,200 get to Columbus? Ha,
f that is the question. How are
the other 4,200 students going
to get to Columbus? We know,
Dean Bursley, we know! I
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"MY HEART LEAPS UP
WHEN I BEHOLD-"
To M. R.
Optimism's in the air,
Here and there and everywhere:
Smith is spiking southern defection,
The council held a square election,
The Zeppelin's h-e-safely down,
And Vot is nomino hack to town.
Yesteraay afternoon, Palmer
Christian gave one of his Twilight
organ recitals before the usual
small crowd of devotees who are
not detered from attending by the
fact that Mr. Christian's name is
not blazoned in headlines each
time he appears.
The concert was ex-eptionally
fine, and left one asto',-ded at the
variety of moods through which
Mr. Christian had led the ,iudience
without the least apparent effort;
but with an unobtrusive - rtistry
which was nevertheless superb.
Opening with "Exerxes" from Han-
del; Mr. Christian then slipped
back to the Bach tradition in his
rendition of Krebs' light "Trio."
Gradually building up to the first
peak of the program, Mr. Christian
next played the "Lento" from
Gluck's "Orpheus" with an un-
usually fine poetic interpretation
of this delicate masterpiece. The
"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"
from Bach was exceptional both
from the point of view of its fine
interpretation by Mr. Christian and
because of its unusual dramatic
power for Bach. The piece, exhibi-
ting as it did the powers of the full
organ on the new Frieze instru-
ment, was a direct contrast in its
power to the "Lento" which pre-
ceded it, and to the Delamarter
selection which followed. .
The group entitled "A Chinese
Garden" was characteristic of the
most modern tendencies in music-
a peculiar combination of disson-
ance with a haunting melody
which almost jars the listener and
yet intrigues him. The "Marche
Champtre" was a lilting, fragile
thing beautifully interpretated.
The powerful "Finale" from Vier-
ne's first symphony was Wagnerian
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everyone knew where to find it, and went out
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