THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 192$ THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928 iblished every morning except Monday ng the University year by the Board i rol of Student Publications. ember of Western Conference Editorial ciation. ie Associated Press is exclusively en- d to the use for republication of all news atches credited to it or not otherwise ted in this paper and the local news pub- !d herein. ntered t.the postoffice at Ann Arbor, higan, as aecond class matter. Special rate ostage granted by Third Assistant Post- :er General. ibscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, ffces: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- IStree,.. nones: Editorial, 4925; Busuiess, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK U Editor..................Paul Kern City Editor.......Nelson J. Smith News Editor.... .......Richard C. Kurvink SportsEditor................Morris Quinn Women's Editor........... Sylvia S. Stone Cditor Michigan Weekly.. .J. Stewart Hooker Music and Drama............ R. L. Askren Assistant City Editor.. .Lawrence R. Klein Night Editors Clarence N. Edelson Charles S Monroe Joseph E. Howell Pierce Rocnberg Ionald J. Kline George R. Simons George C. Tilley Reporters Paul I. Adams Ruth Kelsey Morrns Alexander Donald M. Layman Esther Anderson C. A. Lewis C. A. Askren Leon Lyle Bertram Askwith Marian MacDonald Penelon Boesche Henry Merry Louise Behymer N. S. Pickard Arthur Bernstein William Post Isabel Charles Victor Rabinowitz L. R. Chubb Joahn T. Russ Laura Codling Harold Saperstein Frank 3~. Cooper Rachel Shearer Helen Domine Howard Simon Edward Efroymson Robert L. Sloss Douglas' Edwards Arthur R. Strubel Valborg Egeland Beth Valentine Robert J. Feldman Gurney Williams Marjorie Follmer Walter Wilds Oscar Fuss Edward Weinman WilliamuGentry Robert Woodroofe Tom Gillett Toseph A. Russell Lawrence Hartwig Cadwell Swanson Willis Jones A. Stewart Richard Jung Edward L. Warner Jr. Charles R. Kaufman Cleland Wyllie BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE Assistant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER Department Managers Advertising ................Alex K. Scherer Advertising......... ....A. James Jordan Advertising..............Carl W. Hammer Service...............Herbert E. Varnum Circulation........... .. George S. Bradley Accounts.............Lawrence E. Walkley Publications...............Ray M. Hofelich Assistants Irving Binzer George R. Hamilton Mary Chase Dix Humphrey Jenette Dale Bernard Larson Vernon Davis Leonard Littlejohn Helen Caeer Kasper Halverson T. Hollister Maiale. Carl Schemm i jack Horwitch Robert Scoville 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!" L 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 2:30-8:15 Mail Orders Room A-Memorial Hall Whitney Thea. ORDER YOUR SEATS NOW! ORDER OF THE STAR Public Meeting Thursday, Oct. 8 8 P. M. NITE 7-9:15 RAE Alice Day. Walter Heirs and Eddie Gribbon in "NIGHT LIFE" News Komedy I IT'S WORTH IT! Want Ads Pay ;.; 72--441 {U WATCH FOR OPENING of The "Chocolate Camp" 516 William Street by Birneys of Grand Rapids, Mich. Ono at 522 S. 4th Ave. We've been Talking 'iss Helen Stone, Flint, will speak on "By What Authority" We welcome you 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. .,. . University Students I find this training USEFUL NOW and INDISPENSABLE LATER. Enter anytime-why not TODAY? T Ei to f Co-eds but-Men Ought to Know ABOUT THESE SPECIALS! A Wide Choice of men's shirts, collar attached and neckband styles-in new jacquard and figured designs-plenty of white, too-and that long, pointed collar is being, stressed. Every shirt a, value at $1.95. Novel Ideas in muffilers, featuring squares of silk or challis, woven twills, plaid twills, crepe jacquard designs. Priced $2.00 to $6.50. Special Mention goes to our collection of superb neckwear, shown in rich and colorful designs. .. $1.00 or.$2.00. English Hose in fancy checks, stripes and zig-zag ideas-all wool and silk and wool-"Castle Gate Brand." Priced at $1 and $1.50. And More than these-just see our windows this week. (Men's Shop-Main Floor) Want Ads Pay f I.,U 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 0--- - - -o s s s "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 04' N. TWENTY.FVE THOUSAND STONE & WEBSTER MEN KNOW THAT TjiE GROWTH OF A PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY DEPENDS ON ITS SUCCESS IN SERVIN THE PUBLI. " HE storm broke early in the day, and by night our lines were in a state of chaos. I sat in the distribution office all through that night and watched the battle fought out. What kept those linemen on the job without food or sleep? 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