.. PACE MM THE MICHIGAN DAILY TITUFtcT)AY, JAIMA T 101 lko PAEFU HU DY AUAY1,12 Publihld every morning eept Monday {luring thieIt1~iveSi<" year by th4 Board in foritrol 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 postoff'ice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master Gem irLd Subscript i~ by carrier, $I. o; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May-, nard Street. Phones- Editorial, 4()25; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK Editor---------------------Nelson J Smith City Editor---------------J. Stewart Hooker News Editor..---------Richard C. Kurvink Sports Editor--------------..W. 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Varner Jr. Ruth Kelsey Clend Wvllie BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE Assistant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER AdvrtiingDepartment Managers Advertising...............Alex K. Scherer Advertising................A. James Jordan Advertising----------------Carl W. Hammer Service------------------Herbert E. Varnm Circulation.................eorge S. Bradley Accounts..............Lawrence E. Walkley Publications----------------.Ray i1. Hofelich for freshmen-facilities which would constitute a crushing over- head should! freshmen be taken from them for even one semester. And for this opportunity to shape character and remain financially solvent deferred rushing would ex- change, among other things, con- stant back-biting and recrimina- tions among fraternities for real and alleged violations of any "hold-off" regulations that might be enacted. The proposed exchange seems hardly worth the candle. 0- OKLAHOMA AGAIN Out in Democratic Oklahoma, which now has two Republican senators and gave its ten electoral votes to the Republican candidate for President last November, the state legislature, convening in its biennial session, is taking steps to impeach Governor Henry S. John- son. Anti-administration forces after seeking to secure the removal of the Oklahoma governor for more than a year, have finally gained control of both houses, of the state legislature and it now seems scarcely more than a matter of time until Oklahoma shall have impeached her third governor in a brief life of 21 years. Vigorous attempts to secure the impeachment of Governor Johnson were made towards the close of 1927 and actual impeachment charges were preferred by the state house of representatives, meeting on its own initiative. State sena- tors, however, refused to act upon the charges, holding them to be unconstitutional, as it is impossible for the legilature to meet in Oklahoma at other than specified times except at the call of the gov- ernor. Governor Johnson, a Democrat, was hardly guilty of sufficient mis- ment on the original charges, at- demeanors to justify his impeach- tempts to secure his impeachment at that time being due primarily to ill feeling which grew up be- tween the state govermental units after the supreme court had placed a heavy fine and a prison term on a member of the state legislature for contempt of court. The governor supported the court in the contro- versy. When the house members sought to hold an extra-legal session to bring impeachment charges against the governor, Johnson called out the state militia to prevent their meeting in the state house. This use of state troops served to create a great deal of ill feeling against the governor, as a result of which there is every reason to believe that he will be impeached. The events in the case, however, are of relatively minor importance. The significant fact, deplorable as it is, is that there are some places in the United States where the people are still incapable of run- ning a democratic government suc- cessfully, or else there are some portions of the United States where the people insist upon ex- ercising all of their government prerogatives. Whatever the cause, the result has certainly been most unfortunate. 0 With the passing last Sunday ir Miami of George L. (Tex) Rickard noted sports promoter and the mar who elevated Jack Dempsey an' Gene Tunney to the position millionaires, the world has lost one{ of the greatest showman of a time. He will go down in histor along with such men as Ringli and Barnum. -01I WANT TO FLY? There's no rest for the weary. No sooner has the flu epidemic trampled through town and de-' parted, leaving the Health Service officials gasping, when along comes Michigan's first glider for the boys to play with. ** * * Now they really will go up in the air. * * * Most of the students, fortunately, will prefer to do their gliding on a nice, slippery sidewalk where the most you can get is a broken hip or a compound fracture of the leg. * * * Being air-minded is a great thing, but there's nothing like the roar of an engine to give you con- fidence. * * * Just think how horrible it would be to get up 1,310 feet in the air and hear a couple of pins drop out of a wing or something. * * * : We see by the papers that the administration in Bulgaria has discovered the theft of an entire railroad-tracks and all.I * * * 0 , - Music And Drama ri , I '5 -0i Maybe somebody windows somewhere them opened. * * * took the to have Mary Chase Jeanette Dale ernorDavis ]Bessie Egeland Sally Faster Anna Goldberg Kasper 1 alverson George Hamiton Tacki Forwich Dix H-umphrey Assistants Marion Kerr Lillian Kovinsky Bernard Larson Hollister Mabley 1. A. lNewman ;ack Rose Carl F. Schemn George Spater Sherwood Upton Marie Wellstead Night Editor-DONALD J. KLINE THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929 NEEDLESS AND HEEDLESS After a filibuster of .several months that has revealed a de- termined opposition to deferred rushing, the Senate committee on student affairs has approved the thesis of deferred rushing and ap- pointed a sub-committee to formu- late a plan whfch will probably be enforced a year from next fall. While this step may be defended as the effort of a kindly and pa- ternal administration to help the fraternities solve their problems, it is resented by most of the older and more representative fraternities as a blow at their autonomy, as a menace to the traditions by which they perpetuate their individuality, and as a monkey-wrench thrown heedlessly into their economic machinery. Under the present system of fraternity rushing, unhampered by dean's office dicta and generally described as "cut-throat," ' the fraternities on the campus- have existed since their establishment and have thrived, if we may judge by their present importance in campus life and their growing numbers. Strong bodies of inter- ested alumni attest the fact that these groups have lived happily and profitably together and its at- tendant danger of pledging misfits in the haste of rushing week. "Closed bids," customarily used to break down the sales resistance of rushees, have disappointed a few who held out for something better, but these bids, in not a few in- stances, have been re-opened to men believed exceptionally desir- able. The unwary freshman, also, who is carried off his feet by the first bidder, has never been denied his right to break a pledge either in favor of independence or of an- other fraternity. The rough-and-ready justice de- veloped among fraternities by cus- tom and necessity has heretofore been sufficient to secure a felici- tous distribution of freshmen and a happy minimum of hard feelings. "Cut-throat" rushing has served to impress on rushees and fraternity men alike that this University is essentially an institution of men whose judgment is taken for granted, and of whom intelligent and fearless decisions are expected. Deferred rushing smacks of molly- coddling and adolescence. We believe it a defensible conten- tion that the few hardships and injustices created by the present rushing system do not warrant a sacrifice of the benefits it confers and the new dangers deferred rushing would create. By pledging during the first week of college, fraternities are enabled to impress their ideals 'upon their freshmen A.lin f*h l. n 5 1 t. n 4- + n nc l. im ' nf nc. At any rate, it must have been an awful strain on the family ties. The only thing left for the owners were tender memories. Whatever crazy motive the thief had could aptly be called-and in fact will be called-loco motives; and what's more they couldn't catch the scoundrel because he left no tracks. Speaking of scoundrels reminds us that Professor Wenley says "We are all hogs, scoundrels, and sots." That word scoundrel is pretty strong, Professor. * * * A large western university is of- fering a course in cartooning and showcard writing. Perhaps the slickers will look better from now on ha ha ha ha ha ha. * * * Now that you are in a good mood, buy a copy of the January Garg. It's a burlesque of Collier's and seems to be a wow. (Advt.) * * * (Paid for by A Friend.) * * * Communication Department Mr. Rolls: Mirable Dictu! A member of our noble Rhetoric department has been found guilty of a most per- nicious crime: He made a gram- matical error in an anouncement in yesterday's Officia'l Bulletin! He goes down in history as the first member of the faculty to be the butt of student jest regarding ar announcement of a bolt. Can you imagine his chagrin when "any- one wants their play read"? Busy Bobby * * * Dr. Oliver Kamm, a former Uni- versity instructor, has been award- ed a thousand dollar prize for iso- lating the hormones. Now if he can succeed in isolat- ing the harmonica players, the saxaphonists, and the two-finger piano pounders he will further his fame 100%. * '* * According to the advertisements, clothing around town is about half off. "Men's clothing may be half off," muses Cynical Sid, "but wimmin's clothing is oney half on." * * * But that is entirely too much talk about nothing. Consider the case of the New York university student who was given $1,000 by his father for passing up smoking for a year. The thousand was immediately in- vested in American Tobbacco Co. stock. * * * One Daily-nearly new-will be given to the person who makes the best height-of-something-or-other out of this. * * * What would YOU do in the case of Mary Gold? If we were Mary Gold we'd marry gold, and that's positively the last time this will be mentioned in this department, even if we have to stand around down- 1t.r ,.- .~ . WHAT THE PAPERS SAID Now that all the publicity on the twenty-third Union opera, has blown over and is being fortunate- ly forgotten, it is interesting to survey the comments made by leading newspapers on "Rainbow's End." As a general rule, these re- views have been heartily favorable, and because of the interesting slants given on the opera, they are being quoted in part here. For instance, the New York City Telegraph has this to say: "The managers must be complimented on casting their production with more of an eye on histrionic abil- ity than on broken field running. Most college shows draft the back- field of their football team into the pony ballet and while the effect is not without its comedy, it soon becomes irksome watching 200- pound linesmen indulging in high kicking." And again from the same review: "The production suf- fered greatly from unintelligible lines and a mystery theme which was without much meaning." Here is the comment o tu e ew York Times: "The Mimes are men, but that did not prevent many of them from impersonating with an amazing degree of success, the in- evitable heroines, leading women, and chorus girls. Illusion was jeopardized chiefly by the voices." The wearied tone of this reviewer is perhaps prophetic of a change from "the inevitable heroines, leading women and chorus girls" which is becoming increasingly necessary in musical comedies if for no more artistic reason than to give a jaded public something new. Here are a few remarks from the Buffalo papers. The News has this to say: "A breath of naivette, a comical troupe of collegiate cow- boys, somber but grinning Indians, and "girls" with husky baritone voices, a dashing Spanish don, a western ranch represented in na- tural colors on the settings and the painted mesa, were some of the high lights of the show. The play was distinctly collegiate, with the members of the cast enjoying the action." "The 'girls' played their parts with considerable neatness, al- though they were handicapped by the fact that they tried to act a trifle too refined," is the interest- ing slant given by the Buffalo Daily Times. The Buffalo Courier-Express was highly lauditory in its review. It may be summed up from this com- ment: "These young men from Ann Arbor presented to a critical Buffalo audience a real show and to each one of the large cast, de- served credit must be given." The Philadelphia Record reports that "Last night's performance was staged with the elaborateness and brilliancy that characterize the legitimate rather than the amateur stage." A comment on the opera's run in Michigan is this one from the Lan- sing State Journal: "From start to finish, the show proved as re- freshing, entertaining, and above all, as professional as any the Uni- versity Mimes have ever produced before a Lansing audience." All in all, it would seem that this year's Mimes production has been well recognized as a finished and entertaining play of the musical comedy type. It is noteworthy that none of the reviewers take a seri- ous attitude toward the opera, and it might pertinently be asked, now that the ballyhoo of publicity has been stilled till another year and "Rainbow's End" is fast headed to oblivion, was it all worth while? P. L. A. PLAY CONTEST REGULATIONS Manuscripts entered for competi- tion in the One Act Play contest sponsored by the Division of Eng- lish are subject to the following regulations: Any student in the Univer- sity is eligible to submit Mss. Any desired number of plays from one author may be en- tered. Mss. should be typewritten, on one side only of each sheet of paper. Mss. should be bound, for the . convenience of the reader. Mss. should be enclosed in a large manila envelope, with a smaller envelope enclosed, bearing on the outside the author's pseudonym, on the in- side, under seal, his real name and address. Mss. should be submitted not1 later than 12 o'clock noon, Fri- day, January 11, at the offices of any on the three judges- Prof. O. J. Campbell, Prof. Kenneth Rowe, and Director Windt. In connection with the perform- ance of "Redemption" in Detroit next week, which will feature the great European actor, Alexander Moissi, the Ann Arbor Tolstoi Y- - --1- -A^-----n- ___4" i I I 4 4-..a.. 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STONE &IC Cm " STA T E INCORPORATED - . _* 4i a I Editorial Comment i TUT, TUT, MR. BROWN (From The Washtenaw Tribune) "I call it providential," said Ed- win N. Brown, leader of the opposi- tion to dormitories, in speaking of the halt in the University housing program.- "It certainly is a gracious answer to a host of prayers, and rejoices the hearts of many who were on the verge of dispair," he added. "The state," said Mr. Brown, "has; now been granted at least some time and opportunity to inquire! into the need and wisdom of such an unusual proceeding, and we be- licve the more it is examined the less it will be approved. "The prayer of the petitioners before the Board of Regents De- cember 21," he said, "was expressed in this one line: 'We plead in be- half of the state for more time in which to investigate the necessity and wisdom of such an unusual plan.' Within a few hours, this little request .was denied by the Board of Regents, and now within ten days by some strange fate, it, has been granted by the Guardian Trust," said Mr. Brown. "For some miraculous reason," he added, "the designs of the BoardI of Regents have been overruled, and our exact request has been granted. Call it superstition, if you like. I call it providence. I believe the dormitories never will be elec- ted as planned; and if so, a curse / Mould the man first, then the metal C ARNEGIE developed the steel in- dustry by first developing his men. The Bell System is growing faster than ever before in its history and this growth, like the steel growth, is based on the development of men. Today, in the telephone industry, men in supervisory positions must co- ordinate many and varied factors. For example, before locating a new central office, population trends are studied. While it is being built, telephone appa- ratus is planned, made, delivered and installed on orderly schedule. But more basic than all this, the executive shows leadership by his in- sight into the human equation and by the sympathy and understanding with which he adapts individual to job, moulding his men first.