kACR FOUR TIIF; T E 1I-II iA.ND A I L rTrmst:a/K Z';DCE IvTRTZ7R 1928 a a a ar AWL Ammusum"Mommmomom i i %- 1 A 1 A.1 X-1 1 'f 1.0 C-1 1 L4 i Published every morning eccept Monday lurng the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively en- stled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it nr not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- ished herein. Entered at the poistoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- wraster General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $48g0. ''ffices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May. Gard Street. Phones: editorial, 4925; ucmeq, 2121.,. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK Editor.......................Paul J. Kern City Editor............... Nelson J. Smith News editor..............Richard C. 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HOWELL A THANKSGIVING VACATION Now that classes have again re- sumed their normal routine, it; might be well to take cognizance, of the bolt-ridden audiences which unwillingly remain to hear equally unwilling instructors half-hearted- ly instruct on the Friday and Sat- urday following Thanksgiving. ! There honestly seems to be little reason why classes should not be s u s p e n d e d over Thanksgiving weekend. From every standpoint it would be advantageous both to the student body and the faculty. In the first place, so little of con- sequence is accomplished in the, classes that do meet that all con- cerned might just as well have! slept off the after-effects of turkey over-indulgence in bed instead of on a wooden bench. Instructors realize the low ebb of study over these two days by making assign- ments of practically no impor- tance. Secondly, the psychological ad- vantage of a vacation at such a time is clearly evident. Thanks- giving follows a gruelling period of mid-semester examinations for most students, and a study let-I down is bound; to, and always does result. The concentration of this state of mind during the vacation and the subsequent fresh start the following week would be the obvi- ous benefits of a weekend vacation. Moreover, it hardly seems pos- sible that so many of the Big Ten universities and neighboring col- leges would continue year after year to have a Thanksgiving week-' end vacation were it not of proven' advantage to both the students and faculty. Among the many schools with no classes from Wed- nesday noon before Thanksgiving to the Monday following are Indi- ana, Northwestern, Illinois, Ohio, State, Purdue, Michigan State, and even Detroit City College. The one really pertinent objec-j tion which has stood in the way1 of the Thanksgiving holidays has been a tendency on the part of many students to leave one, two, and three days ahead of the sched-t tiled date and to return sometimest as long after the resumption of classes.' That such a system cannot be enforced can hardly be urged witht Consideration of the entire sub- ject shows numerous reasons ir favor of the proposal and but one opposed and that one which can be remedied. Favorable action in the matter seems most deserved. VAGABONDING A practice not unknown to col- legians and college life but rela- tively unsanctioned in American universities is vagabonding. Vaga- bonding may be spoken of as the visiting of classes by students who are not regularly enrolled as mem- bers. Within the confines of even the smallest college, there are profes- sors and courses which are al- ways stimulating. At the larger universities, the extent of the pos- sibilities in this field is even greater, offering a wide variety of subject matter and many highly interesting and worthwhile pro- fessors. The inauguration and encour- agement of such an institution as vagabonding on the Michigan campus might well prove an achievement. It is true the exist- ence of a university at which the true purposes of liberal education were thus furthered would be a most decided novelty. Still the idea has much to commend it and there is every reason for its con- sideration. Vagabonding in practice is rep- resentative of an educational proc- ess which recognizes that there is much to education beside the prep- aration and recitation of certain stipulated assignments. In its .exe- cution it is a move which has as its purpose and result the inspira- tion of college students to do some work upon their own initiative in courses in which they are not en- rolled. The advantages of any practice which can by its inception induce any considerable portion of a stu- dent body to conduct studies and work upon problems which will have no influence upon the arbi- trary grades in certain specified courses or the hours credit in others can hardly be measured. As such, the practice of vagabonding may well be sugested to a student body as an educational device of no small value. THE FOURTH OFFENSE "Murder, manslaughter, bomb- ing, and highway robbery and other crimes of violence generally are cheaper in Michigan than having liquor in one's possession," says a feature article carried by the Chieago Tribune recently. This, the article contends, is true because of Michigan's bone ;ry law, which makes posession of liquor a felony, and the habitual criminal law of the state, which makes it mandatory for a judge to assess a life sentence upon the fourth conviction of a felony. As a matter of fact, the situation is not so nearly to be deplored as the writer of the Tribune story would make it seem, nor is the code of penalties nearly so unjust as it might appear. Punishment for the continued repetition of crimes of violence is in no degree less than that for re- peated violation of the liquor laws. It is only that the punishment for violation of the state prohibition acts has been made comparable to that for any other crime. Experience in other states, parti- cularly *ew York, has shown thatC habitual criminal acts have exerted an easily distinguishable influence in lessening crime. That there are those who still oppose and openly violate the dry laws of Michigan! as well as of other states cannot be doubted. It must be recognized, moreover, that these same violators have no respect for law nor gov- ernmental organization. Their opposition of itself is no justification for sympathy nor evi- dencethat there is weakness or fallacy in the present law. On the other hand only by such laws ade- quately and firmly enforced can it ever be hoped to secure confidence in and respect for the government and its representatives. Michigan has taken an excellent step in making liquor violation a felony in the eyes of the law, and in the firm enforcement of its habitual criminal act. This is no Lime to deviate from the path. If further changes must be contem- plated, let them be additional steps in the same direction, not steps in retrogression. Deliberate violation of the laws should never be excusable, nor deliberate viola- tors benefited by sympathetic pun- ishment. 0 It appears from press dispatches that a King nowadays has to be at TED RO TO THE ' WASHINGTON BLONDE An Open Letter! (By Cablegram to The Daily) TRISTAN DE CHUNA, Dec. 3.-- Music And Drama TONIGHT: The H a b in a Ii Players in Dance and Song Recital in Sarah Caswell An- gell Hlall, at 8:15 o'clock. JOHN FERGUSON Reviewed by I. Leslie cskr;e P For the final bill of a SpleOiid It was only today that I learned of series of repertory, The New Yor, this vile, salacious, and surreptiti- Theatre Guild's oilering of Sti ous attempt to defame my name by John Ervine's "JohnI Ferguson" created a dramatic sensat, 1that.f not only directed hint but also by maed a fitting ento thafi c a c p ca made a fitting end to the fort- altothefel ctrthauamin, 1 night's run. Containing more all . to th effect tht Ieamilft sincere drama than the teeter- ated to iertia with the wiles of totter "Ned McCobb's Daughter," some dizzy blonde from Washing it was a play that moved on the shoulders of its marvelous char- Now I have been to Washington acterd to as stirring a conclusion as 'frequently enough to linow the the local boards have offered in a calibre of their women, let alone long while. their blondes, and I have come to , The play needs no defense from the conclusion that the only the charge of over-writing. Cer- worthwhile things in Washington tainly the first act was lengthy are way down at one end of D and undramatic, and forhthe con- street; when they padlock that,! tinuation of the play there were there will be nothing remaining to long moments which a theatrical-! the town that will off-set the 1 y minded producer would have double scourge of the capitol andcl Wahntnwmn cut unhesitatngly, but Ervine s i Washigton women, keen sense of the actual drama in And just in passmny I might his characters-as contrasted with: justify my removal to Tristan De the sense of theatre demanded by Chuna, which, as you probably his audience-made these long, know, is the most remote place inmI thin moments, slices of undramatic the world, being some two thou- but essentially real life as they sand miles from the nearest land. were, inevitable in his development I am not using the island as a re- of his story of cowardice. The obvi- cluse. I am here on an expedition ous minded perhaps saw only the to get some bigger and better mice cowardice, pitiably comical, of for President Little's collection. It Jimmy Caesar, the craven grocer, is due to my enforced absence in but Ervine's story had its over- the pursuit of labors done for the tones of this note, in the more sheer love of my president that I ironic cowardice of Andrew Fergu- am here. It is due, also, to my son, the brother of the injured girl enforced absence that the dastard- and it is as this weakness finali ly attacks upon me were made pos- works itself out in the face of the sible. bitter irony of the delayed letter-I .* * a letter which might have prevent- It is a well-known fact among ed everything-that the play my friends, in that group I can- mounts to its final, immensely not include Kernel, Eskimoe, and gripping climax of the justice de- Indigent Nell, that I have a pet manded by the old Mosaic law of, aversion to blondes. Chance has "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a enabled me at one time or an- toh.An tisem aizdb other to meet this alleged prize the momentary faltering of old beauty from the capitol. I must John Ferguson, who all his life had admit that she is no Roses of believed in and lived the command Picardy for me. She is just like " l y to "Love thy neighbor as thyself" twenty or thirty other blondes I The treatment which the Guild know a great deal better. company gave the play was truly Today I was informed that she marvelous. Working under a num- has addressed a message to me, a ber of handicaps, notably Eliza-! replica of whichmIsattach below, beth Risdon's touch of a cold, they the substance of which implies that gave it a sincerity of performance she is sorry, but even though it which drew it entirely out of the rend her heart asunder, she can somewhat artificial technique of no longer love me. "Ned McCobb's Daughter" into the Sister, you never had a chance! genuine, sometimes undramatic And so, little girl, you made a but always real, tissue of life gallant bid, but I was fooled by <,u which the author created. blonde once before; and she was Honors in a Guild cast are in- a bigger blonde than you are, variably misleading. Edwin Max- Gunga Din. well, once the sentimental "B. B." The policy of Rolls is and al- of the Shaw piece, gave an accu- ways shall be one of staunch I rate and effective interpretation of misogyny. And that blonde from the unflinching, whole-souled man Wasign oeAntaffct usn romof God, John Ferguson. Opposite Washington doesn't' affect us. Not him Miss Risdon gave an almost even the best looking blondes on racking performance of the love- the campus can. torn mother who cannot reconcile You know, Washington blonde,I, herself to her son's sacrifice. And couldn't blame you at all at first, !e~Etite ihtesml for I thought that you too were Peg Entwistle, with the simple merely a victim of the ignoble ef- austerity of her delineation of the forts of the pseudo-executive com- injured girl, made the sacrifice eminntlyjust. mittee of Rolls, but with your re- Robert Keith, as the son, gain- cent three communications to the ed tremendous effect through sim-- column, your thitherto inviolable pi noccsiog ws it plicity. Only occasionally was itj innocence was destroyed, and now b n marred by the flippancy that made I claim that it was all a scheme, his Dubedat so charming. In con- a trap, to win me, the unattainable. A srop, tonmethepublicI mwish trast Warburton Gamble perform- dAnd sto my publicIsh t ed an almost incredible volte-face cla ysefoftequestionablel charges that have been made in from the assured manner of Colen- the name of Rolls. I hate all wo- so Ridgeon to the cringing whine men, especially blondes. No blonde of cowardly James Caesar. He re- ever had a ghost of a show with yelled in his baseness, and his me, particularly the blonde from drawing of the character was mar- Washington. velous. Co-eds should have sense enough P. J. Kelley again gave a highly not to listen to the big bad boys stylized, but consequently more ef- from The Daily. They are all fective, interpretation of a char- jealous of the women I could get acter part. His "Clutie" carried a if I wanted them, weird mystery on the fae nf mm1 But at any rate, it is a nasty that made him ring thoroughly way to treat a guy and his columnt. when he is away in the service ofI MIMES AT IT AGAIN 1 his president. I might say that Mimes, by the Grace of God and the rats here aren't a bit better the funds of the Michigan Union, than those at Michigan. ithe all-male dramatic organization * * * of this Campus is again in the throes of production. As countless Darling Lark, inches of front-page space have1 I am sorely afraid that this let- indicated to an otherwise not over-i ter will have to be my last farewell ly stupid public, the occasion of all to you. I have tried to conceal the the travail is "Rainbow's End," the true state of my feelings, but annual operatic attempt. Locr knowing your senstive nature as I wits profess to find some intrigu- do, I will give you up forever, ing symbolism in the title. Obvi- rather than submit you to the ously it suggests more than a pot E pitiless glare of publicity which you of gold. It must mean that artis- have been undergoing the past few tic ideals at last find fulfillment. days. 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