THE MICHIGAN DAILY - - --------------- lished every morning except Monday g the Universit year by the Board in ol of Student Publications. tber of Western Conference Editorial :iation. eAssociated Press is exclusively en- to the use for republication of all news :ches credited to it or not otherwise ed in this paper and the local news pub- herein. tered at the p"tofice at Ann Arbor, gan, as second class matter.' Special rate stage granted by Third Assistant Post- r General. >scription by carrier, $4.00; by mail,. ices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- Street. ones: Editorial, 4925; BusinesR, 2121.. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK )r........ Paul J. Kern Editor....... .. ..Nelson J. Smith Editor............Richard C. Kurvink is Editor.... .......Morris Quinn, en's Editor...........SylviaS. Stone r Michigan Weekly.. .J. Stewart Hooker Ic and Drama... ,... ....R. L. Askren tant City Editor......Lawrence R. Klein Night Editors nee N. Edelson Charles S. Monroe h E. Howell Pierce Roe'-berg id T. Klin George E. Simons George C. Tilley Reporters I tul T,. Adams orris Alexander ther Anderson A. Askren rtram Askwith )ise Behymer thur Bernstein ton C. Bovee" abel Charles R. Clubb -ank E.Cooper elen Domtine ouglas Edwards lborg Egeland obern J7.Feldman arorie.Fo lmer illiam Gentry awrence Hartwig ichard Jung Karles J. Kaufman uth ELsey onald E. Layman C. A. Lewis Marian MacDonald Henry Merry N:. S. Pickard Victor Rabinowitz Anne Schell Rachel Shearer Robert Silbar Howard Simon Robert L. Sloss Arthur R. Strubel Edith Thomas Beth Valentine Gurney Williams Walter Wilds George E. Wohlgemuth Robert Woodroofe Joseph A. Russell Cad well Swanson A. Stewart Edward L. Warner Jr. Cleland Wyllie and a famous son to Ann Arbor today. FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES The time of the year is near at hand when the men of Michigan's two youngest classes will be given the almost necessary opportunity that comes each fall of participa- tion in the class games. Coming as they do at the close of the foot- ball season, and just as winter is about to settle upon the campus, the class games are an event of more than passing interest and worth. Somehow it is always necessary that the members of the freshmen and sophomore classes be allowed an official means of locking horns in the fall and sprinig of each year. A growing spirit of class con- sciousness which might if given no expression, become quite somethingl else, seems to develop within the membership of the lower classes and demands urgent satisfaction. Mingled with the streaks and smears of green and red paint which are traditional in Class games year by year, this spirit, at once wholesome and dangerous, produces a scene picturesque and fascinating, and results in nothing harmful. It is, of course, good fun and results in improved and com- mendable class feeling. The morning of the Saturday of the Iowa game has been designated as the time for the contests this fall. No member of either class should miss the meetings which will be held during the coming week and all who can, should make every effort to joint the paint-smeared army of their classmates on that morning. With the ever present feeling for class pride and class recognition running at its highest peak, the desire for victory is bound to be an overpowering one. It may only be hoped that with the heat and ex- citement of the contests no mem- ber of either class will so forget himself as to commit any untoward act which he might later regret; but that each man will remember that he is participating in one of the oldest Michigan traditions and will do nothing to spoil its memory. o 0 About Book s 00 SOCK! AND THE SAILOR HIT THE CANVAS There's only one thing that any- one can say about "The Set-Up."* And that is that it's "great." When you get through with this power- ful picture of the rise and fall oft a negro ;prize fighter-a picture with action and thrills and people -you'll be all a-tingle for some ex- citement, and for some hand-to- hand action. The story gets under way and it makes you read it right through to the end. As we said before, it's "great." Anything fur- ther that can be said is a mere variation on this theme. And the variations will be simply for the purpose of inducing you to get ahold of this book somewhere, to enjoy the thrilling story, and to see what this quite startling young man, Mr. March, can do with the rhythms of the English language. C L l ii t j i o ol | Music And Drama BARRE HILL'S DEBUT Thursday evening, Barre Hill, for- mer Ann Arbor student, and nowj with the Chicago Civic opera, made his debut in "Pagliacci" in the role of Silvio with a success which should gladden his Ann Arbor friends and encourage other stu- dents in the School of Music here. In his role, which was a smalla one, Barre Hill was loudly applaud- ed during. the opera for his sing- ing and at its conclusion he was given curtain call after call, finally to appear alone before the foot- lights in answer to the demands of an enthusiastic audience. Such applause to one who is making his first appearance, is to say the leas unusual. and t + 2ies to Mr Ti]3 ability. Indirectly, his success i to the University S:ho,. .,, M for it was h r- tha M. Hri)l o tained the whole of his musical training. During his five years of study here, Mr. Hill's splendid bari- tone was developed through the aid of the school's faculty, and his own perseverance. 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HULSE sistant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER Department Managers sing.................Alex K. Scherer Avertising............... A. James Jordan dvertising...... ... Carl W. Hammer ervice............... Herbert E. Varnum irculation..............George 5. Bradley ccounts.............Lawrence E. Walkley >ublications.............Ray M Hofelich Assistants rving Binzer Jack Horwich onald Blackatone Dix Humphrey ary Chase Marion Kerr eanette Dale Lillian X~ovinsky 'ernor Davis Bernard Larson essie Egeland Leonard Littlejohn elen Geer Hollister Mabley nn Goldberg Jack Rose asper Halverson Carl F. Schenim eorge Hamilton. Sherwood Upton ,gnes Herwig Marie Wellstead Walter Yeagley SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1928 Night Editor-PIERCE ROSENBERG CONVOCATIONS With the opening of the fall series of stud'ent convocations tomorrow, Ann Arbor will again be afforded a Sabbath treat which past experi- ence has shown they enjoy and appreciate. There can be little question that the convocations have come to fill a worthy place in the life of the community. During the two years of their his- tory, the convocations have brought to Ann Arbor several men of tlae highest calibre whose sermons, par- taking somewhat of the nature of popular lectures, have left much worthwhile thought and inspiration with their audiences. To regular church-goers these speakers have afforded' a change of background and a welcome freshness of ideas. To students, whose privilege it is while away from home to neglect their church affiliations, th'e con- vocations offer a worthwhile Sun- day diversion with ecclesiastical ritual reduced to a minimum and emphasis placed on the less tedious forms of divine worship. Still the atmosphere and essence of worship are preserved, and a sense of com- munion with something fine and noble is carried away from Hill auditorium. Convocations may be rather flip- pantly described as a glorified form of non-compulsory chapel. The glory, perhaps, lies in the large and representative audiences that go once, and keep on going. Fresh- men, particularly, are urged to hear William Lyon Phelps tomorrow, and form their opinions of a Michigan custom that has hewn for itself a unique place in the life of a Uni- versity town. WELCOME, MICHIGAN STATE Today, the football teams repre- senting the University of Michigan and Michigan State college will clash in the new stadium. This game between the two leading, ed- ucational institutions of the state will mark the twenty-third meeting of the schools, and promises to be. another of the hard-fought battles which have always taken place. The University, it is true, has won the majority of the contests, but this has not lowered the respect in which State has always been MONKEYS IN ARKANSAS Refreshing and naive in this day, and age of reason is the effort of the citizens of Arkansas to save their offspring from a Fundamen- talists Hell. By their instigation and consent the sinful subject of evolution is to be relegated to that limbo of blasphemous causes where lie the bibles of John Wycliff and the thoughts and aims of the first. Protestants. It is not, however, the thought that religion is thus to be saved for, posterity that is disturbing. Posterity will know how to take care of itself. What disturbs is the thought that in a country that boasts of so high a state of civiliza- tion as the United States, there should be people who, while uphold- ing this claim, nevertheless, pro- claim their cultural deficiencies in so flagrant a manner. To . be cultured is to know the best that has been said and thought through- out the age. To this might be added that these thoughts and say- ings should be respected. While direct action has not yet been taken to enforce the law, it is not at all hard to see that the measure must needs influence Arkansan educational thought, and this in itself is perhaps more harmful than a jail sentence or other police court measures. It is only to be hoped that the citizens of the state may be able to realize soon that they cannot combat a suppositious bigotry of science with the m re fanatical bigotry of religion. Tle law is a ridiculous one; banning dictionnaries from Arkansas is like the efforts of the Watch and Ward association to keep immorality out of Boston. FLY, FLY, LITTLE EAGLE A Detroit philanthropist, seem- ingly hard-pressed to rid himself of $1,000, has at last settled his prob- lem. He has donated the sum to the Detroit zoo with which to build a cage large enough to let the eagles spread their wings and think "back-to-nature" thoughts. The zoo management has taken the money kindly, but as yet, are not so sure as to the feasibility of the idea. The philanthropist, no doubt, is inspired by the great American emblem, the American eagle. It pains him sorely to see the noble symbol of American liberty cooped in a barred pen. The recent po- litical situation, inspired by the people's champion, Al Smith, has The saga of Pansy Jones, negroc prize fighter, is told in rhythms1 that almost defy analysis. All one is conscious of in the reading is the fact that whatever the rhythms1 are, and however March ever de- vised them, they are just thet rhythms which move the story best. Sometimes there is the beat of the drum in the rhythms-at otheri times there is the dull monotony of, waiting-at 'othe , times there is the pulsing and the movement of a crowd, swaying, pushing, snort-; ing. For real action, for change of accurate colorful scenes, this book can't be beat. You'll be there right at the side of the ring when the announcer bellows "LA-A-DE-EES -AN' gents." And while Pansy is struggling on the canvas, trying to get up for just one more chance at Sailor Gray, with the referee counting off the seconds in a mechanical voice-well, if you don't sit right straight up in your chair and get yourself all worked into a knot, then you've got no business reading anything stronger than Grimm. Mr. March is following the ex- cellent job which he began with "The Wild Party," privately issued by Covici in Chicago. He makes word combinations and essential rhythms begin to mean things-he makes them part of the story and uses them to build up the back- ground of a picture whose truth there is no mistaking. And this "Set-Up" is an excellent example. It's as thrilling as anything we have ever read. As we said at the begin- ning, we have only one point to make-this is a "great" piece of work and you should read it. *by Joseph Moncure March. Covici, Friede New York. $2.oo * * * - "TURTH HIS DOD TILL HIS WIT BUTHTED" In the very first sentence of "Toilers of the Hills"* I bagged a round dozen of descriptive adjec- tives. My ardour somewhat dam- pened, I turned the page, only to discover that "Dock leaned out and squirted a stream of tobacco juice upon the gold of a torchweed. A narrow line of juice had dried on his lower lip and in the corners of his mouth were little chunks of tobacco." The first page was enough to prejudice me against the writer; the second was more than enough to put me. out of sympathy with the hero. And when the heroine saw fit to kiss her man, tobacco and all, the school of realism almost lost another admir- erer. For a good many pages, however, I struggled onward, through thou- sands of dusty words and arid sentences till I met a character whose language was so strange that a quotation therefrom is the only way of relaying it with any de- gree of justice to the reader. His name, as far as one can make out, is Joe, and this is what he says: "I thed you'd better not teal my bacon adin. I thed you're the turvieth dog ever tole a man's bacon right under hith eye. I thed you'd make a man turth hith Dod till hith wit buthted." Yes sir, that is just what he said, and no beating about the bush with Joe, either. Just plain, straightforward speech it was, from a man who hasn't time to bother with the nicer intricacies of the tongue.I What makes the book so good is that these lovable characters fol- n, f a i +it,11v.11thewnuvthn-mh ,i P. L. A. * * * REHEARSING "RAINBOW'S END" With the opening of the Union opera something like three weeks away, the announcement that Mor- timer E. Shuter had already put the first act of the opera together. was almost too good to be true; and this reviewer frankly did not be- lieve it until he followed the old adage "seeing is believing." Though by no means ready for the boards just yet, "Rainbow's End" is prgressing with surpris- ing rapidity and even now holds promise of b-ing not only. "the best Union Opera ever," but something unique in the field of men's drama- tic productions. During the rehearsal of the first act last evening, it was apparent that this year's opera will be great- ly improved by the presence of a real singer in the male lead. Wil- liam J. Brown, regardless of his ability as an actor, will be one of the big attractions of this year's production, because he has a fine, powerful voice which will be able to fill an ordinary theater, and which has been one of the greatest needs for a successful opera. Last evening, supported by the male chorus of especially chosen singer, Brown sang "The Song of the Cowboys," one of the feature numbers, in a manner which did full justice to this marching song which is one of the unconventional pieces of the show. To judge the dancing acts with the- performers scantily appareled in gym suits, is rather a difficult matter, but, if the costumes are as clever as the publicity would have us believe, they will be matched by dancing which has the charm of precision and perfect 'drilling. As to the play itself, it a farcical comedy, not making any pretense at seriousness, but almost sure to provide genuine, fresh entertain- ment full of the college spirit. The big item for Ann Arbor audiences as to this year's opera is that it will be really ready for the stage when it opens here December 10, and the audiences for the open- ing nights will not have to undergo the pangs of listening to perform- ances that are little better than dress rehearsals. P. L. A. * * * GRAND STREET FOLLIES For the first time in its history, The Grand Street Follies, that satiric revue which for the past six years has regaled New York the- atergoers, has gone on tour, and will open in Detroit at the Shubert Lafayette theater Sunday. The so-called Gala Edition which will play in Detroit includes the favorite numbers from other edi- tions of the Grand Street Follies, as well as the best numbers from the 1928 show. 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