PAGE MUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FIZIDAY', JANUARY 11, 1929 , PAGE F'OUR FRIDAY, JM~~UARy 11,1929' 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 fdr 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 mueter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4!50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; 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. Morris Quinn Women's Editor.............. Sylvia S. Ston§ Telegraph Editor..............George Stautef Music and Drama...............R. L. Askren Assistant City Editor...........Robert Silbar Night Editors oseph E. Howell Charles S. Monroe onald J. Kline Pierce Rosenberg Lawrence R. Klein George E. Simons. George C. Tilley Reporters Paul L. Adams Donald E. Layman Morris Alexander Charles A. Lewis C. A. Askren Marian McDonald Bertram Askwith H-enry Merry Louise Behymer Elizabeth Quaife Arthur Bernstein Victor Rabinowitz Seton C. Bovee Joseph A. Russell Isabel Charles Anne Schell L. R. Chubb Rachel Shearer Frank E. Cooper Howard Simon Helen Domine Robert L. Sloss Margaret Eckels Ruth Steadman Douglas Edwards A. Stewart Valborg Egeland Cadwell Swanson Robert J. Feldman Jane Thayer Marjorie Follmer Edith Thomas William Gentry Beth Valentine Ruth Geddes Gurney Williams David B. Hempstead Jr. Walter Wilds Richard Jung George E. Wohlgemuth Charles R. Kaufman Edward L. Warner Jr. Ruth Kelsey Cleland Wyllie BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE Assistant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER AdvertisingDepartment Managers Aderisng............... 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 best possible cooperation in many foreign lands, and expert naviga- tion and piloting. The flight will outlast the 150-hour record and will place a far greater strain on machinery and men. Such de- velopments seem as yet beyond the reach of a would-be around-the- world f.1er. Someday, the flight will be made. It is likely that there will be sor- row and death preceding the suc- cessful flight, but there will be nothing more to conquer afterward. The early attempts will fail; many lost their lives in the Atlantic until Lindbergh jumped in his plane and landed in Paris a day or so later. The Question Mark broke existing records with little trouble,band pointed the way. How long before Goebel or his successors will fulfill the greatest dream of science; sustained trip around the globe? WE, AN EXAMPLE On January 19, 40 students in- cluding 26 women and 14 men from' the universities located in the Union of South Africa will be guests of the students of the University for one day. These students are being brought to this country by the National Student Federation of America, and the tour lasts ap- proximately one month. During this time, students from a far distant country will be given an opportunity to study the educa- tional methods of a country, sup- posedly the most civilized in the world. Their trip includes a group of America's foremost universities. and it is significant of Michigan's place among educational institu- tions of the United States. This, we may say has been de served by the advances made by the University along the lines o f both academic and social activities. It is a true compliment to the Uni- versity and its students. We may take it as a final congratulation on progress, but this should not be the case. It should simply serve t spur us on to greater achievements, which can be made possible onl; by the student body and the faculty cooperating in the spirit of prog- ress. A one day visit will undoubtedly allow them to get a highly favor- able impression, but there is room for thought on what they might think if their visit were to last a year. A Rushvillle, Indiana, youth shot himself to death because he was expelled from school. If all stu- dents were as sensitive, the Michi- gan death rate would be greatly increased. 0- RED LLS WANT LARK- At a stormy session of the Rolls Executive Board yesterday after- noon Lark, Editor and General Manager, flatly refused to write to- day's column. *. * * M Ad vMusic And Drama ® ;+' The lttle Store of Big Values "I am putting out he asserted, "and choose to pun." this paper," I do not * * * It is earnestly hoped-chiefly by you, no doubt-that this is only a fit of temporary sanity. * * * Professor Cooley finds that we are living in a bad state of malad- justment. One thing he should consider in his report is the 8 o'clock class situation. Has any student ever really adjusted himself to that? And what about the second show crowds in the movie dispensaries? It is an outrageous condition and one that has been sadly overlooked by sociologists. They rave about crowded tenements and unhealthy conditions, but they wink slyly at a problem that has baffled the lay- man for years. We want more standing room! Headline in Michigan paper: DETECTIVE IS SLAYING VICTIM Mary Chase Jeanette Dale Vernor Davis Bessie Egelaid Sally Faster Anna Goldberg Kasper Halverson George Hamilton jack Horwich ~Dix Humphrey Assistants Marion Kerr Lillian Kovinsky B~ern ard Larson Hollister Mabley I. A. Newman l ack Rose Carl F. Schemm George Spater Sherwood Upton Marie Wellstead Night Editor-Lawrence R. Klein FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1929 SHADES OF SALEM The little community of York, Pa., hitherto an uneventful city of narrow streets. and minds and pious Quakers, overlooked by a world of bustling progressivism, has sudden- ly become the cynosure of the na- tion. Mr. John Blymyer, a citizen of York, murdered Nelson Reymeyer because he believed the latter had bewitched him and that the only alternative for him was to destroy the alleged witch. And this he did under the instigation of a Mrs. Emma Knopp, pow-wow doctor of Marietta. The entire affair is humorous in a ghastly fashion. Americans are ever prone to congratulate them- selves on their progressive natures and especially upon their steady surge of improved civilization since the eighteenth century. Yet here in almost the very stronghold of American culture out crops an event that rather sadly blights all optimism. A murder that was al- most maniacal in its intent has been committed by a man who ostensibly is sane and quite normal, except for his one queer obsession. He held a weird, superstitious be- lief in witchcraft that smacks of Cotton Mather and reflects the old Salem episodes. This fear of the super-natural gripped him witl such terror that he killed to rid himself of it. Perhaps American progress has not advanced to the sublime estate of perfection with which it is accredited. AROUND THE WORLD With the record of the Question Mark in the books for only a few days and with the account of the stories still fresh in the public mind, Art Goebel, famous flier and winner of the Dole prize, has come forth with the announcement that a sustained flight around the world is now within the scope of aviation. and that he will attempt it, pro- vided that he receives sufficient backing. Goebel's announcement crystallizes an idea that has long been in the minds of the air-mind- ed, and which remains as almost the last but the greatest feat fom aviators to accomplish. Goebel believes that with proper radio equipment, a specially built plane, refueling planes at intervals along the way, and a crew of four, he can make a sustained flight around the world. The record of the Question Mark has elicited this statement from Goebel, and it is probable that other aviators will Leaving three cousins tioned, a woman in Los left her entire fortune to "Dick," a Llewellyn setter. must long for a dog's life. unmen- Angeles her pet, The kin This beautiful machine will be given to the person handing in the best crack on that piece or news. * * * Henry Ford says the future ideal world is one in which no one will smoke or discuss prohibition, farm- ers will no longer farm, house- keepers will no longer keep, etc. * * * Does he mean, too, that stu- dents will no longer bolt, and Regents will no longer ban? * * * The dormitory plans have been halted by divine providence, ac- cording to the leader of the opposi- tion, and many who were on the verge of despair are now rejoicing. * * * Of course they're rejoicing. * * * "Now that our prayers have been answered," breathed Mrs. Olive S. Dough, landlady, "we can all go back to raking in the rent with renewed vigor." "If they can only pass a couple of petitions to drop the whole busi- ness," said Mrs. Geevem Nothing, "there'll be plenty of gold in them bills." * * * ENGLISH CRITIC, INTERPRETER Ernest Fowles, noted English lecturer and fellow in the Royal Academy of Music, London, who will speak tomorrow afternoon at 4:15 in Hill auditorium, is one of the foremost speakers on modern music, the topic foi his lecture tomorrow. The fact that he will go into the field of modern music and illus- trate his theories himself from the works of Elgar, Rabikoff, Scrabine, Bartok, Delius, Bax, Malipiero and other modern composers, should make his lecture especially fasci- nating. Mr. Fowles is very well. known in England and on the con- tinent, but this is the occasion of; his first tour of America. A FEW IMPRESSIONS OF ALEXANDER MOISSI Walter A. Reichart It was during the Festival season in Salzburg, Austria that I fre- quently saw Alexander Moissi, who was then playing the leading roles in Goethe's "Iphigenie," Schiller's "Raeuber," and Hoftmannsthal's "Jedermann." I was surprised, per- haps even a little disappointed, when I first saw him off stage. He is a man in the forties, rather young looking, but by no means of heroic mold. He is short and al- most frail with a wistful expression that depends upon his eyes for its charm. Moissi was returning to our hotel from the theater a block away and could easily have been taken for a young American tourist instead of a great German actor that night. Dressed in gray flannel trousers a la Oxford, a blue and white striped blazer coat, without a hat, he sauntered into the hotel whistling a Viennese air. Brushing his bushy, dark hair from his face, he glanced around the lobby, joined his wife, Johanna Terwin, and together they strolled to a nearby Cafe to meet their friends at supper. Moissi has the southern temperament and sparkle combined with the Viennese charm and polish. But he has more-he has a voice. He is not a mere actor, he. is really a great tenor. What will enthrall Ameri- can audiences even more than his acting will be his rih, beautiful voice. Hearing Moissi is really an experience. Alexander Moissi is an Austrian by birth, whose fathe'r was an Al- banian and whose mother was ari Italian. Educated in Durazzo and Trieste , he traveled to Vienna when 18 without the slightest knowledge of German. There he hoped to study music at the con- servatory in order t' become a tenor. With Italian lessons he tried - to earn a livelihood and soon signed up at the royal Burgtheater as a "supe," taking part in mob scenes. Once entrusted with an actual role, though it had no lines, Moissi tells in a little sketch of this momentous occasion, he was the servant to Tartuffe. Kainz, the leading actor at that time, saw him and en- couraged the young boy. Moissi now devoted himself to the study of German and in three months mastered the language (will our German students believe this?) and appeared in the theater at Prague. The following year he met Max Reinhardt, the famous impers- sario, in Berlin and was immedi- ately engaged. Since then his star rose rapidly. His repertoire em- braces the world drama: he has played the important classical roles E of Schiller and Goethe, he takes the lead in every important mod- ern German drama. He has play- ed Hamlet and Prince al, Jac- ques and Shylock, Othello and the fool in "Lear." One of his most famous creations has been Dubedat in "The Doctor's Dilemma." No less important is his Cyrano de Bergerac; but perhaps his greatest success is his portrayal of Fedja in Tolstoi's "Der lebende Leich- nam," in which Moissi has appeared in Germany and Austria, in Russia and the United States. * * "THE GREAT ADVENTURE" Charming an Ann Arbor audience for the third time in his career as a monactor, Phidelah Rice again proved the true insight in charac- ter interpretation by suggestion that has endeared him to Ann Ar- bor and the University when he presented Arnold Bennett's play, "The Great Adventure," last night in Hill auditorium as the fourth, speaker on the Oratorical Lecture I series. Mr. Rice apologized for the change he nade in his reading, and as the program progressed he proved that his choice was an ad- mirable one for the type of audi- ence he had to face. "The Great Adventure," based upon one of Arnold Bennett's earlier novels, I deals with the situation wherein a famous painter of an age ago switches character with his valet, dies and is buried in Westminster Abbey for the honor of British art. Several years later the hoax is dis- covered through the suppostitious valet's talent for painting. Reduced from our Regular $14.75, $16.75, 11 A CLOSE-OUT THAT IS UNEQUALLED FOR VALUE-QUALITY-STYLE "I IZm COATS GOING FAST ONLY 49 BEAUTIFUL DRESS AN .SOTwith silk linings and trimmed in genuine large furs warmly inter lined 529 E. Liberty St. SHOPP I' r v Buy Now for Next Year $19-$29-$39 Savings not found. elsewhere New Michigan Theatre . "Popular Prices Always" 75 BEAUTIFUL FROCKS $19.75 In "Dry's Mop Up Booze Flood," screams the banner headline in yesterday's Chicago Tribune. The Old Soak is at work again. Editorial Comment I THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTHI -FOR A JOURNALIST (The Chicago Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-(Special.) -They buried Tex Rickard today and it was such a funeral as New York had never seen before. From his palm banked bier in Madison Square Garden to his grave in Woodlawn cemetery the man of crowds belonged to the crowd. They piled into the Garden ten thousand strong and fifteen more filed past the great bronz coffin before Tex went to his last adven- ture. Thousands of others bowed a last farewell from housetops and office windows as the funeral cor- tege of the boxing promoter who lost his fight with appendicitis last Sunday morning in Florida moved through the streets. The ceremony itself in the Cath- edral of Sport was a solemn re- quiem in a bizarre setting. Around the flower banked dais 1,500 sports- men, celebrities, friends-"Tex's best people"--sat where hockey skates will ring tomorrow night. Their's will be $16.50 ringside seats within a week. Further back the great arena was filled to the top gallery where a fringe of faces peered over the rail- ing. Back there were the dented nosed pugilists alongside the busi- ness men, the chorus girls and housewives, the subway conductors and ticket speculators. It was a cosmopolitan crowd, such a gather- ing as only New York can produce. It probably was the greatest funeral crowd ever gathered with- in an enclosure. Certainly it was larger than the assemblage in the amphitheater at the burial of the unknown soldier in Washington,, for the seating capacity was many times greater. It was a master showman's funeral-the last of the crowd' man's great spectacles and it play-! ed to a full house for it was Tex, Finest clothing at The army plane Question left for Washington today. * * * Mark What do they want with any more ? ? ? ?'s in Washington? *** * They called a conference there to control influenza. * * * down reduced If they don't do better with the flu than the committee on flood control did with the Mis- sissippi, we'd all better keep on remembering the location of the Health Service. * * * COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT B'gosh Gumley: Ya, know, Ann Arbor sure is lucky so far that they don't have any talkies. Maybe it was a good sign when the Arc burned up. Do you know what's become of all those pests who used to break up a stage performance with fits of coughing? They're all attending the talkies now. Everybody who goes to these things seems to making croupee. I'll bet the writers of film stories will have to watch out now forj words of more than two syllables, or doubles will have to be used for some of the stars. prices Overcoats in the popular dark bluess and greys as low ais $32 Suits in both light and dark fabrics useabie for all-year idvtce ing o1r finest Jududd- H ickey- One Pie Face * * * Headlines in yesterday's Daily tell us that Professor Cooley read a paper at a Chicago meeting. * * * Students have tried that in Wen- ley's lectures and wished they, hadn't. * * * Unfortunately, the only picture in existence of a newspaper dead- line was misplaced and did not ap- pear in yesterday's column. It has Freeman garments. and two pants $32 up WXGIIEIshCOMPANY 4