THE MICHIGAN DAILY WE~DNE~DAY, D~C~M'~EE 1~, 1928 _ _I I Published every morning except Monday Luring the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Asociation. The Associated Press is exclusively en- itled to the use for republication ofallynews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and te local news pub Ished herein. Entered at the pstoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. mSubscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, Ortffices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- hard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Busmes, I2I-. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK Editor........................Paul J. Kern City Editor..................Nelson J. Smith News ditor.............Richard C. Kurvink Sports Editor................. Morris Quinn Women's Editor.... ......... Sylvia S. 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Layman Cleland Wyllie BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE AMsistant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER AderisngDepartment 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 -Jack INorwich Donald Blackstone Dix Humphrey Mary Chase Marion Kerr Seanette Dale Lillian Kovinsky ernor Davis Bernard Larson Bessie Egeland Leonard Littlejohn Helen Geer - llollister Mabley Ann Goldberg Jack Rose y- Kasper Halverson Carl F. Schem George Hamilton Sherwood Uptn Agnes Herwig Marie Wellstead Walter Yeagley. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928 Night Editor-GEORGE E. SIMONS THE EPIDEMIC Reporting a continued decrease in the number of influenza cases and expressing the official belief that the local epidemic is well un- der control, statements from ad- ministrative officials and from the Health Service declare that there is absolutely no reason for closing the University before Friday. Flat denial of any official an- nouncement is seldom if ever to be desired or recommended. It must be. recognized, however, that the danger is by no means at an end. There are still many cases of a more serious nature while the number of hard colds and light at- tacks of the disease is far too large to be taken lightly. If in the opin- ion of the administrative heads, classes should be continued for the balance of the week, there seems no logical reason for active opposi- tion to that policy. Unnecessarily holding classes at such time, moreover, can hardly be viewed in any but an unfavorable light. Although it may be the opin- ion of the student body that the danger of contracting influenza is sufficient to warrant the closing of classes, failure to attend class room exercises and to prepare assign- ments can in no case be justified except when prevented by physical disability. That the attitude of the Univer- sity health officials is not entirely a correct one seems at this time# quite likely. In any case, however, the studen body can do no better than to accept the situation as it is, attend classes, and take every reasonable precaution to avoid a further spreading of the epidemic.1 Such an attitude, carried to its logical conclusion, cannot but re-f flect to the credit of the student, body and may even vindicate the present student attitude. - 0 note that he said, in substance, successful boys have spent as fast as they could for things to im- prove themselves. This seems in all liklhood to be the true aim of Mr. Ford's advice to youth. It compares most favor- abl? with the early life of Thomas Edison, whom Mr. Ford cites as an example, and it is indicative of advice that is both sound and wholesome. Men of business rec- ognition, today, have founded their own fortunes not by h)oarding their savings but by continually using them to the best advantage. This in no case implies wanton waste of money but it does imply spending. Perhaps it was because guns and bombs proved too discomforting that Bolivia and Paraguay resort- ed to a verbal battle. Campus Opinion Contributors are asked to he brief, confining themselvestoless than300 words i possible. Anonymous cor- munications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential, upon re- quest. Letters published should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of the Daily. * COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS To The Editor:- I have had an experience recent- ly that well illustrates the attit.ude of the typical college instructor. I was informed that no matter what I might do in a certain course, I could expect no grade but an E. This came directly from my in- structor in that course. He added that even if I were fiat on my back in bed, and were absent from class as much as I was, I could still ex- pect no better than an E. His argument was that by taking so many bolts, I had missed the essence of the course, his lectures. Now it happens that I was not sick in bed, so this letter is not to defend myself on that score. But, rather, it is to express the opinion of an ever-increasing number of intelligent s t u d e n t s who see through this shell of superficiality that the instructors, in general, have built up around classes. To these instructors a classroom is a place to show off their small mite of knowledge, to magnify it, to hus- band it as if it really were impor- tant. He does not consider that there is a meaning in the small fact that he recognizes-a mean- ing and a significance that are the end, towards which the facts are but a means. He does not realize this, the typical instructor. He bur- dens us with dry fact after dry fact. Not that facts must be unimpor- tant, for that is false. It is this lack of purpose, this failure to stress that which should be stress- ed, that I refer to. Another point of attack is the fact that the instructor assumes that he can give the student what cannot be got from the material. That might be true, however, but only to a certain extent. Forthere are many who depend upon the summaries that the instructors makes, in order to pass the course. Their argument is: Why not take a correspondence school course, rather than come out to a univer- sity? And the answer to that ques- tion is: The university, with its fraternities, with its athletips, with its "atmosphere," with its instruc- tors who cater to the student, is much easier; for superficiality is the keynote of college life. Any- thing that digs down below this surface is either "silly," or '"ideal- istic," or, as a third alternative, "radical." In order to get anything out of college life, we must join a frater- nity, be an athlete, belong to a club, haze freshmen, invite our in- structors over to dinner, carry lanterns, listen to, and marvel at, a heap of bunk, bury ourselves in little things. We must go to classes every day, and assimilate as part of our systems the nicely sounding phrases of the "artistic" instructor, the empty facts which are blood- sucked to dry paper by the instruc- tor. We must listen to a continual one-hour blabber which includes a dissertation on a hypothetical table on the factors of produc- tion of a hypothetical farm, or a dissertation on what Emerson thought of religion, of God, or of the Phi Beta Kappa meeting injthe year ten million and a half B. C. Those are the important things that the# instructor can give us and that we # cannot get out of simply reading. The instructor is powerful. He can flunk us. He can pass us when I Music And Drama THE FLU ' THIS A-T&iFiN ON: In IHl Audi HAS torium, Palmer Christian in Or FLOWN gan Recital of Christmas musie, FLOWNstarting at 4:15 o'clock. But the University, boys and s * 4 girls, remains open. TONIGHT: Varsity Band and Girls' * * * Glee Club in Christmas concert The students should know that in Hill Auditorium, beginning at the RPp nt n pvpr tak an cri_ 8:00 o'clock. i WISH iNC YOU AflL A MERRY CHRISTMAS ALLMENDINGER MUSIC SHOP 305 Maynard St. 20to50% DIfSCO~UNT N on a CHRISTMAS GREETING CARDS One of the largest and finest stocks in Ann Arbor 17 Nickels Arcade The Stationery & Typewriter Store Open Evenings klltIUIIlE11E1111UlltlililillllllilllllII11lllllllllllltllllillt l111llllillillli ous sion Xwg. V S.,A. Y CuzkI y *lly .J 4 action while school is in ses- Reme'mber the auto ban? BAND GLEE CONCERT This evening Director Falconej * * * again has an opportunity to pre- The Daily Northwestern car- sent to the student body his inter- ries the picturesque account of pretation of the symphonic idea the student body dragging when applied to band instruments. their fever-ridden selves to A highly developed art in Italy,, classes to listen to dying pro- where Mr. Falcone studied its fessors gamely lecture though technique, the symphonic treat-, stricken with deadly cases of ment is not the traditional thing influenza. Northwestern would in this country where martial mu- have closed, but Chicago beat sic is the beau ideal of all bands. them to it. The program which has been ar- ranged contains little of the con- We suggest that Northwestern ventional band concert material, be dropped from the Conference and the symphonic numbers along with Michigan for failing should receive interesting treat- over a long period of years to put ment under Mr. Falcone's direc- I enough of the student body in the tion if his success along the same hospital during an epidemic to lines in the Easter program given necessitate the closing of school. last year. is to serve as an index. As an innovation, the Girls' Glee Club will appear on the pro- Poor old Northwestern had gram with a number of Christmas to face Notre Dame -last night Carols. with three regulars out with *y * * the flu. At last, North- A FIRST PERFORMANCE western, the perfect alibi. Ann Arbor will have the signall , * , opportunity of hearing, on the oc-' The trouble with the whispering casion of its first performance in campaign Monday night was that this country, "America," the new the students didn't make the most symphony of Ernest Block which of their opportunities. Make everyi has just been awarded the prize in cough count. Every sneeze a the Musical America Symphony! snowfall! contest. * * The symphony will be presented Sh," boys and girls, don't by an enlarged University School blame the administration for of Music Orchestra under the di- keeping school open. They're rection of Joseph E. Maddy at 4:15 all sick in bed with the flu. o'clock in Hill Auditorium. On the same evening, the symphony will * . * * be given a simultaneous first per- The classic remark about the flu formance in New York, Chicago, was the one the Health Service Philadelphia, and San Francisco doctor made to Barry Balkley, fa- by the respective symphony or- mous campus politician and vice- chestras of those cities under the president of the Oratoricial asso- leadership of Walter Damrosch, ciation when he complained of Frederick Stock, Ossip Gabrilo- the flu. witsch, and Alfred Hertz respec- "You haven't the flu," said the tively doctor, "just go home and wipe The fact that special permission I your nose!" was granted Mr. Maddy to give a * * * performance of "America" on the o- o same day it will be heard for the We can run no further re- first time in the music centers of I port of the case of poor little the United States, is a decided Mary Gold. She is sick in bed I tribute to the University School of with the flu. Music. The symphony is a mod- 0 o ern, and one of unusual difficulty. For its performance here, the uni- versity organ played by Palmer The number of lightning-rapid I Christian, and the School of Mu- recoveries from flu Friday night is sic chorus will be used as well as going to be something to marvel at. an enlarged symphony orchestra made up of students from the l Schoolof Music and the University. Dr. Forsythe of the Health The concert is open to the pub- Service has advised all the lit- and no admission will be tle girls in the public schools charged I at Shakespeare says about Coca-Cola Drink IDelicious and Refreshing ,.. .. -" f T;.. ;:. r f +y+y .:.; :ff ; r r :. r'% :jF ri' : s" ;, f.r,},y, y. r' f' 'j' .'. ^'.-f .. },,fl .y f:: t v; The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good" -- Obviously, the Duke meant the lady-not Coca-Cola. But why bring that up? Translate it into plain United States, and you get: IT HAD TO BE GOOD TO GET WHERE IT IS 8 million a day N MEASURE FOR MEASURE Act III, Scene I The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga. *-"CN r r .i ,, z, , . , , , . f i W We Cordially Invite You to .Come in to CRI P PEN'S SBA SANDWICH HOPPE Just Below Our Regular Campus Drug Store 723 North University Ave. And Enjoy Our Fine Meals and Refreshments A Varied Menu of Light Lunches and Regular Breakfasts, Luncheons, and Dinners UALIT Y SERVICE SATISFACTIO of Ann Arbor to dress warmlyr to avoid the flu. Yes, Dr. Forsythe, but what are we go-j ing to do with these co-eds? * * * Well, as the father of the family said when the chimney of the house broke on Christmas Eve,j "Santa Claus has come down with the flue." ORGAN RECITAL For the final recital before vaca- tion, Palmer Christianwillrpresent an unusually attractive program of Christmas music Wednesday afternoon in Hill Auditorium. Many of the numbers are based on traditional folk tunes, including several of the most familiar. Q ,N 4 11 Ad ik Doctor, oh doctor, d that influenza germ, it Lon Chaney. * * * What's the use of clos now? Most every one i now, anyway. * * * Doc' Sundwall advt students of this grand sity, through the orga Daily Official Bulleti they should forget thi enza scare and, settle a "week of good har But Doc, we've worked this week than ever1 to get out of school. Doc also states that s gans about the campus tated the rumor of an on't kill PLAY CONTEST may The Division of English, no doubt with its tongue in its cheek because of the notorious barren- ness of vacation efforts, suggests sing school nevertheless that students inter- s home by ested in play-writing take notice of the One-Act Play contest which closes January 11. ises the Professor Campbell, Professor univer- Rowe, and Director Windt have in of its been announced as the judges. in, that * * * te influ- CRITICAL POSTSCRIPT down to Lack of space unfortunately pre- d work." # vented fair criticism of Play Pro- d harder duction's efforts with "The Cas- before.-- silis Engagement" as produced Monday and Tuesday nights, and offered Thursday night. everal or- Lilian Setchell's performance as have agi- Ethel, the cockney sweetheart of epidemic landed-gentry Geoffrey, is the epidemc Ihigh-spot of the show. Miss Set- weret wo.chell has so often given splendid and ec ifluenza. hinterpretations that one expects no less of her whenever she appears. Again she fulfills expectations, one of with a song and dance in the third io think act which proves her extraordinary picnic to versatility. T when Thoma Sutton and Truesdale of 105. Mayers make an exceedingly fine pair as Mrs. and the Rev. Hilde- shall we brand Herries. Ecclesiastical dry- wid idflu- rot could have gone no farther- ng od. Our which is tribute to their abilities. Ben Washer as Major Warring- ton hs difficuiltyv iwith his enni- 11 I Yes, lungs Doe, the in each organs person, FORD AND THRIFT A great deal of discussion has been occasioned lately by the in- formation 'that Henry Ford ad- vises youth to work and spend. Among those who criticize the De- troit manufacturer's advice is James E. West, chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. lung just chock-full of in * * * The Doc must be these cheery birds wh it's more fun than a p work your head off you're running a fever O, Cora, by dear, wud do? We're cubing down enza, we just feel id cubi] dose id all sduffed ub. I I, 111