?TH E M IC H IGCAN DAILY TUESDAY, Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press ' is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished herein. " Entered at the postoflice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, Ofices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925. MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK tures of its type that are certain to be erected. Already the new build- ing has caused considerable com- ment among the leaders of intra- mural athletics in the schools of the country, and they are advocat- ing the erection of similar build- ings in their respective institutions. Michigan has definitely showed itself to be a leader in developing a broad athletic program, that will allow all a chance for recrea- tion. It has refuted, most strong- ly, all charges that University ath- letics are "narrow and commercial- ized." CAMPUS OPINION To the Editor: As students of the University, we have all been informed through the medium of The! Michigan Daily, that the admin- istrative authorities desire to asK the Treasury department to send one or more Federal agents to Ann Arbor to investigate the "liquor situation." It is not at all clear whether Editor........... .........Paul J. Kern City Editor...............Nelson J. Smith News ditor .....Richard C. Rurvin $narta Editor...... ....Morris QQuinn Women's ditor .......Sylvia S. Stone Zditor Michifgan WUVeekly..:J. Stewart Hook er Music and Drama............R. L. Askren Assistant City Editor...Lawrence R. Klein Night Editors Clarence N. Edelson Charles S. Monroe oseph E. Howell Pierce Rosenberg onald 3. Kline. George E..Simons George C. Tilley A Reporters 'Paul 7~' Adas Ruth Relsey' Morris Alexander Donald >:Layman Esther Anderson C. A. Lewis - C. A. Asken Leon Lyle Bertram Askwith Marian MacDonald Feneln Boesche Henry Merry Loise *ehymer N. S. Pickard Arthur Berntein . William Post Isabel Charles VictorR abnowit T. "R. , Chubb 'oin'T. Russ Laura Codlbng Harold uaperstein rank E.: Cooper Rachel Shearer , Helen Domine Hloward Simon - Edward Efroymsoin' Robert L. Sloss Douglas Edwards Arthur R.eStrubel Valborg Egeland Beth Valentine Robert .:Feldman Gurney williams Marouie Pollmer Walter wilds Oscar Fuss Edward Weinman Willamn Gentry Robert Woodofe.. tomGniett ±;., oseph''A. Russell Lawrence Hartwig Cadwel Swanson Wilis Jones A. .Stewart Richard Jung Edward L. Warner Jr. Charles R. Taufman Cleland Wyllie ,J -BUSINESS STAFF T elepone 1214' BSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE Assistant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER Department ;Managers ' Advertising.........,..Alex K. Scherer Advertising. ........A. James Jordan Advtsng........Carl' W. Hammer Service.. - ..:Herbert E. Varnume Circulation..............George S. Bradley Accounts...... .....Lawrence E. Walkley Puibliations........Ray M. Hofelich Assistants Irving Binzer George R Hamilton 3ary Chase Dix Humphrey eantte Dale Bernard Larson llrnor Davis - Leonard Littlejon HTelen Ger TI-oir fla~v', Kasper GHalverson CT. hemm Ag4nes lkcv" iCalchm ack Horwitch Robert Scoville TUESDAY, OCT. 2, 1928 Night Editor-CHAS. S. MONROE INTRAMURAL SPORTS PROGRAM To all, charges that athletics in universities and colleges today are both narrow in their scope and hiighly "commercialized" the Mich- igan Athletic association has answered in a definite manner. While Michigan has been reap- ing huge profits from its highly successful football teams, it has spent this money wisely, by secur- ing equipment for an athletic pro- gram that will include every male student on the campus. We refer to the Intramural Building, most of which is ready for use by the Intramural depart- menb today for the first time. This structure is an addition to the ath- letic plant that makes Michigan stand above any other college or university in the country, not only in the possession of physical equipment butt in attainment of a program of athletic participation for all. With the opening of the new building, the ;men students at the University will have at their serv- ice the best in apparatus for any sport they may select. There is sufficient space to provide lockers and playing room to accomodate every man desiring athletic activ- ity. This added equipment will allow the carrying out of a two-year physical education requirement for the University students. While the freshmen Wrill 'continue to use Waterman gymnasium for their gymnasium work, the sophomores will have access to the new struc- ture. The second year gym work, which has already received the sanction of the regents, will be conducted on a different plan than the first year work. Sophomores will be allowed to select any sport for their athletic activity, and will work cut only in this field. Free instruction will be given these men.. This greater freedom has been al- lowed the second year men because of the large facilities in the new building. Michigan's new Intramural building, the first of its type in the country, 'and the prograim of athletic participation for all, is. an accomplishment, typical of the Athletic association. They show CAMPUS OPINION Annonymous communications will be disregarded. The names of communi- cants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon requtest. Letters pub- lished should notbe construed as ex- pressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. To the Editor: I have been interested in the dis- plays of youthful logic have been found place in the columns of Campus Opinion during the past two days. I must confess that I was somewhat ashamed when I read Miss R. P.'s contribution, for' little had+ I thought that I was a member of a University whose co-eds had sucr a warped con- ception of personal liberty. I was further surprised when I read Mr. J. A. A.'s discussion of the matter, for he showed as bad a misunder-. standing of the prohibition ques- tion as the lady whom he so childishly criticised. First, I wish to very briefly say that Miss R. P. attacked the mat-. ter from what seems to me a pure- ly personal and prejudiced atti- tude. She had much to say re-I garding the loss of her personal liberties, and for want of better argument resorted to uncalled for sarcasm. She automatically brand- ed herself as an immature person, incapable of grasping the large. significance of University or na- tional problems. She went on to. infer that governmental authori- ties should not bother with the drinking problem in the University, but go out to the citizenry of 'the nation and begin there to enforce the law. With all due respects to Miss R. P., and I must say that we have come to a sorry pass indeed if our University students, the cream of the country's;. 'intelligence and breeding, are so incapable of the responsibilities of citizenship as her letter indicates. The men and women (not children) who consti- tute this University's population should be the first to realize the necessity of respecting the laws of our commonwealth. If we aren't good enough citizens to have that respect, God help the future of this nation. Now as to J. A. A.s statements, he seems to have a decided opin- ion that Miss R. P.'s letter is a typical example of the attitude of the whole body of feminine stu- dents at the University. I can't these investigators will be agents' of the Federal government alone, or whether they will be agents such as the state police in Ann Arbor who enforce the automobile regulation. Our President in his' letter to Dean J. 4. Bursley says, "In my opinion the Univer- sity is not the agent to conduct such an ,investigation, although for the protection'of the .frater- nities as well as itself, it should, in my opinion, see that such an investigation is made." Without question, every student of the University should agree that such an investigation, or permanent scrutinizing. by agents of the Federal government alone, is, if it be conducted as it would be conducted for any group pio citizens in the country, not only entirely fair but even necessary to preserve the good name at' Michigan and its students. During the past few years it has become evident that the at- titude of the administration to- ward the student is paternalistic. This is exceedingly unfortunate. It is this attitude which the stu- dents regret, and which we real- ize will not make us stronger. The student who enters the Uni- versity from high school often has too much freedom thrust up- on him at once, with the net re- sult that it goes to his head. After he has been here for a year or two and become accustomed to living under his own direction. there is no reason why he should be treated as a child any longer. The average upperclass- man is mature enough to look out for himself and should be treated as any other person in the United States. of .his own age. If he dis- obeys a federal law and is ap- prehended he should be punished for himself and should be treated just as any other citizen. The reasons for such an all in- clusive automobile regulation are not clear. It is true that many students have abused their privi- lege as citizens to drive cars, It i probably also true that they have violated state and local laws, and in a few cases have encian- gered the life and property of other citizens. This should not be al- Music And Drama PLAY PRODUCTION One of the more striking anom- alies incidental to the necessity of keeping an organization abreast of expansion and innumerable desires is the inclusion of Play Production courses under the Department of Speech. No one can belittle the importance of a public speaking department in this day of Kiwanis and Radio broadcasting but affili- ating with it a dramatic depart- ment like Play Production, which requires'far more than mere elocu- tionary skill, suggests nothing more sensible than lazy bureaucracy. The result of ;such a situation is inevitably overorganization and misdirection of effort. There are three oganizations on the campus given over at least in part to the antics of the political- ly minded and those activities en- thusiasts whose summum bonum in life is the inclusion of their name in a printed program to the glory of God and the fame of some com- bination of Greek letters. Inci- dentally from the. organization point of view, these societies do a fair measure of educational work. ,From a practical point of view they do an unexpectedly large share. But where organization is con- cerned, and that seems overwhelm- ingly important in this part of the country so long as Henry Ford lives nearby as a shining example, no one really has a right to ask any more of such societies than that their capers in pursuit of collegiate cutlery be mildly amusing. It seems rather a glaring anomaly, then, that the elocution depart- ment should have control of the only organized means for dramatic education. Ideally the department might be visualized as an independent body, subsidized by the surplus funds of those recognizing the importance of its work, controlled by an ex- perienced faculty, motivated by enthusiastic students--and there really seem to be such, working in its own plant, and offering bills of high class amusement and worth- while entertainment. Actually the situation is for the most part re- versed. Endowment there is none except' what can be wrung from the box office after tribute has been paid to Mimes, cats-paw o1 the Union, and the plant is the rather sad affair which, in spite of age old condemnation warnings by the fire department, passes fo University Hall auditorium. Stu- dent enthusiasm, however, exists and with it experienced facult3 control. Last year Play Productior did George Kaufman's satire "Dulcy," and' a play of behind-the- scenes life, "The Play's the Thing.' These under Earle Fleishman. Thi year a somewhat similar program is planned, under a new man, Val- entine B. Windt. Last year's pro- ductions reached a high standard The same is expected of this sea- son's offerings. But in both cases the box office is the importan thing. The guidance of Mr. Windt ma: forecast unusual developments i the department. Enthusiastic an eager, he seems not yet to have fal len victims to the dulling effect of routine and bureaucratic emas culation and his training is idea for the sort of thing he will have t+ tackle. He received his A. B. fron Cornell, following it with an A. NVJ in Princeton in dramatic literature The Princeton Theatre Intime wa then in its very pink cheeke+ youth. Then followed a number o years with the Carnegie Tec2 Drama school where he bot] taught and worked as a studeni and formed a friendship wit] Chester Wallace, a born troupe and now the director o the school. For cwo more years h was connected with the Universit; of Iowa in Iowa City, where h worked under E. C. Mabie, an ex cellent director and stage technic ian. Last year Windt was with th American Laboratory Theatre ii New York, working under Richar< Boleslavsky, and frequently work ing with local community theatre -principal among these Haze Hoyt's Panel Play House Puppet: The range of experience this train ing implies would indicate tha nothing much in the way of dram atic surprises could arrive whic] would stupnp him in his effort t make Play Production take it place as a respectable departmen in an' educational system. One of the changes which sug gests itself in the present regime i the coordination of the playwritin - OPTICAL DEPARTMENT = SLenses and Frames made- To Order -I Optical Prescriptrons Filled - HALLERS? State St. Jewelers _= - ' l illll iiI ilmE11 il illllm l Let us do your c I- Shoe Repairing ' Highest quality = Sof work _ - _ _. .T. COO QCry - flCid - - 109 So. Univ. 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Yet with all these refine- r instance - the back ments, Corona costs only $60 er and margin release are for either the black or colored t on the keyboard within finishes. Easy monthly terms. 0 .D. Morril_ 17 NICKELS ARCADE T.ypenriters of all Mak es Bought, Sold, Exchanged, Rented. p . r a REAL ESTATE Insurance Mortgage Loans Property Management (complete rental service) Fraternity and Sorority Property for Sale Charles L. Brooks. Real Estate Exchange Brooks Building Tel. 22571 'I I U U .9. believe that this is a true condi- tion. Mr. J. A. A. would have done better to confine his criticism to Miss R. P.'s statements alone. I agree with him that students should not come to a University with the idea that their rights should be allowed to run rampant. Every right must necessarily in- clide the obligation and responsi- bility of being worthy of it. When a person thinks so indignantly as Miss R. P. seems to regarding the loss of rights, that person usually has a poor conception of the rights of others. I must disagree with the gentleman, however, in his confi- dence that the Eighteenth amend- ment is the best law that this country has ever had. I think it is one of the poorest makeshifts we have ever had. But that doesn't alterdthe fact, Miss R. P., that it is the duty of every responsible citi- zen to respect the law of the land as long as it is the law. The evi- dences of the failure of the Vol- stead act are to be seen on every side. It seems to me that one of the greatest needs of the nation is a more sane control of the liquor problem-but an even greater and more fundamental need is a more healthy mental attitude toward the responsibilities of citizenship than Miss R. P. has evidenced. President Little realizes the broad issues of the problems that affect the University better than any student or groups of students can. He has shown this by his in- telligent attitude in wishing the federal authorities to investigate conditions here. He has seen the lowed, but in its enforcement the students should be 'treated ;'ex- actly as any other citizen. The University should not interfere in any way with the course of jus- tice, and the student should not be allowed to "get away" with things because he is just a stu- dent. On the contrary, if he is allowed freedom as any other citizen, he must accept it previ- ously and be subjected to the same restraints which are placed upon other ctiziens. . The recent news regarding pro- hibition enforcement in Ann Arbor, is we hope, an indication that there is an opportunity for the student to be treated as a man, not "molly coddled" at times and whipped at other times by the University authorities, as a small boy would be treated. The student must grow into his free- dom, however, and should not be allowed to sink or swim until he had been shown how to act in order that he may keep afloat. In the same way the student should be allowed greater freedom in his studies as an upperclassman Mentally, he should be capable of individual thought and his studies should bear evidence of this. There will be some for whom Lhe liberty will be too much, and they will sink, most probably in their studies as very few are law viola- tors. Thy senior should not be pushed through to graduation be- cause he is a senior and every- one hates to hold him up. IHe should be' graduated as evidence that, under his own management, he has been able to accomplish things and has conducted him- self as becomes a citizen. These arguments which have been applied to upperclassmen, should apply even more strongly to graduate students and members of the professional schools. 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