I Pd O FOUR THE MICHIGAN D AI LY TUE DAY, JANUARY 15, 126 ______________________________________ _______ ______ ____ U ---1I. . " . _ _ _ . . _ _ _ . Published every morning except MAonday 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 crtldited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub' lished herein. Entered at the postofiice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, ;,s second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Thin- Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Orff ices:.Ann Arbor Press Building, May- ward Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH G. PATRICK Editor. .......... ..Nelson I. Smith City I:ditor............" .....tewart HIooker News Editor............Richard C. Kurvink Sports Editor..............W. Morris Quinn Women's Editor ......... .... Sylvia S. Stone Telegraph Editor. ... ..........George Stauter Music and Drama........R.E,. Askren Assistant City Editor -.......... Robert Silbar Night Editors L seph E. Howell onald j. Kline Lawrence R. Klein George Charles S. Monroe Pierce Rosenberg George E. Simons C. Tilley fraternity or secret societies" was omitted in. the 1927 amendment and add that in view of certain court decisions, it seems likely that college fraternity property is taxI exempt in Michigan now. The Board of Regents has asked the legislature for enormous sums of money to build dormitories for the housing of students. These buildings will naturally be tax ex- empt. Although the Governor ve- toed such appropriations, the Board' of Regents has resigned itself toj the building of dormitories. The fraternities and sororities on the campus house and feed at least 25 per cent of the student population., These buildings have been erected at no expense to the State, and are small university dormitories main- tained without profit and without commercial aspect of any kind. These organizations have paid taxes since 1845. If the University proposes tot build dormitories to house and feed the other 75 per cent of the Stu-; dent population, making these dor- mitories tax exempt, common fair- ness dictates that the fraternities, sororities, and other student or- ganizations which have built their own houses out of their own funds should also have their real estate and buildings tax exempt. Many other states exemnpt frater- nity and sorority property from taxation. The petition cites 123 states which by specific statutes, court decisions, common consent of the taxing officials, or by having the property deeded to the uni- versity authorities to be held in trust for the particular fraternities deeding the property, exempt frat- ernity and sorority property from taxation. It has been recommended that allE fraternities, sororities, or other student organizations which want their property exempted from tax, write or see the Governor in sup- port of the present petition. Surely the 25 per cent of the student body which has financed its own hous- ing should be on an equal footing with the 75 per cent which the Uni- versity proposes to house at public expense in tax exempt dormitories. There is certainly "a grim irony in taxing these college fraternity houses which are as much a means of education as are dormitories, for municipal and state uses, while I 1OASTED ROLL iMusic And Draia ANOTHER ROLAND HAYES COLUMN 1= 6 SOMEHOW Friday night of this week the Lark is on the rampage again famous negro tenor, Roland Hayes, and spent the entire afternoon yes- 1 will make his second appearance inf terday making faces at his type-Aln Arbor for the Choral Union writer. The Rolls Executive Board Anncro s r t CU is investigating his case and will Concert series. report soon. Hayes' career is an anple of *4' *the vivid sort of thing Americans "Temporary sanity" is his like to think of as characteristic; plea. of "God's Country," where a good 4' man simply cannot be kept down.! In the meantime we are forced He was born in the Southland, of to keep faith with his public; and a former slave mother whose pov-# in the event that Lark is found erty, when the more or less benevo- sane we may take over the column. lent paternalism of her master was What with approaching finals and removed, compelled her to bring? all, why we don't know, up the boy under dire circum- I stances. But with the optimism come from the assurance that he Strings . Supplies *. Repairs * for all Musical Instruments Schaeberle &Son of Michigan Tailors LADIES' COATS RELINED OUR SPECIALTY REASONABLE PRICE WORK GUARANTEED 625 E. Liberty St., Upstairs G M1 1 1\ I.l l l-\ \ _ 1 I s .( i I ++iiiiss '' MUSIC HOUSE 110 S. Main St. I I Read the Cla ssified Ads !'./ ,~/ MJ~i/ /w AM/~/I. .tMJ/"/ M" .n. . //'/.-= a e ,, S.srve/ 1 n Ppr"r a a/ . OPTICAL DEPARTMENT IN CHORAL UNION SERIES Lenses and Frames made * * 1 To Order t! Fridy Evening, Jan.18th Optical Prescriptions =1 Filled A Limited Number of Tickets Are HALLERS Available at $1.50. $2.00, and $3.00 State St. Jewelers at Wa"""""'n""t UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC Want Ads Pay Maynard Street Paul L. Adams 1 Morris Alexander C. A. Askren Bertram Askwith 1 Louise Behymer 7 Arthur Bernstein Seton C. Boyve Isabel Charles I,. R. Chubb1 PrankI,. Cooper Helen Domine Margaret Exckels 1 Douglas Ed wards Valborg Igeland Robert J, Feldman Marjorie Foilmer William Gentry Ruth Geddes+ David B. empstead Jr.' Richard Jung+ Charles R. Kaufman Ruth Kelsey orters fDonald E. Layman Charles A. Lewis Marian McDonald N eery AMerry Elizabeth Ouaife V'ictor Rabinowitz Joseph A. Russell Anne Schell Rachel Shearer Iloward Simon Robert I,. Sloss Ruth Steadman A. Stewart Cadwell Swanson Jane Thayer Edithrhomas Beth Valentine (;nrney NWilliams Walter Wilds George I;. Wohlgemuth Edward L. Warner Jr. Cleland Wyllie fW2FmV A TIONS I ir All Imiportanit I a. sand Ocean Lines "Tours, Cruiser Independent Travel E. G. Kuebler cen. steamship Agency 601 E. Huron Pb. 6412 ANN ARBOR This elegant gift will be awarded the person between the ages of 2 and 8 who will write the best letter telling why we should not have the job. Judges will be Lark, Andy Gump, and Doc Lovell. Let's have those letters. Winner will be an- nounced soon. Several college presidents and deans attended a convention of the Association of American Colleges in Chattanooga over the week-end and decided that the drinking habits of college students are much exag- gerated. "The average college student," they said, "drinks less and accom- plishes more than his father did 25 years ago." Of course. It takes only half as much of today's likker to make a student do four times as much as his father ever did. * 4' * Four drinks might have encour- aged his father to argue with a cop, but two drinks enable today's stu- dent to beat up four cops and an old apple woman without half try- ing. 1 { i } A i f t y 1 f j t F 3 I E t !I! S i i t ii i. it 1 , f f' ' i ' i I' i ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - . +. .+r r r r+.r +Y r w w r ra w. r+/w ~ .i BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER EDWARD L. HULSE Assistant Manager-)RAYMOND WACHTER Department Managers Ader: cig ............... Alex K. Scherer Advertising............ ....A.James Jordan Advertising................Carl W. Hammer Service ..................flerbert F. Varnum Circulation.......... ..eorge S. Bradley Accounts.............. Lawreuce E. Walkley Publicatiois ................R.ay. .ilofelich Mary Chase Jeanette iale ernor Davis Assistants Marion Kerr Lillian Kovinsky Bernard Larson t lierMablev Bessie r ItltCdfiU s'" " ' t e" Sally Faster . A Newmandormitories go tax exempt.* Aetna Goldberg Jack Rose ___________ Kasper Halverson Carl F. Schemm 0 - The dean of men at George GeorgeHamton George Spaherw pREAPPORTIONMENT Washington university is trying-to DXHumphrey IMarie Wellstead - After a seven-year battle to pass find out if the typical college man Night Editor-Lawrence R. Klein I a bill for the reapportionment of really bans garters and indulges in __________________________ Iseats, the house has at last sent necking. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1929 the Fenn bill to the senate. This*** planFo not providefoa en m First thing you know they'll -Fmediate redistribution, but sets in start an investigation of the motion machinery which would re- rumor that the sun comes up Idistrict after each census, in the every morning., Mevent that the house fails to act, i Newspapers within the last day j and will go into effect after the We swore that Mary Gold would have published the story that An- census-.of 1930. never again be mentioned in this drew Mellon and President-elect The fight for reapportionment, department, but then-look Hoover have come to the under- which has been led by Clarence J Oh, Gumley: standing that Mellon is to con- shod a g ictoryt f s a Bein' as how on accounta the ice tinue as Secretary of the Treasury state Of the eleven states whose is so horrid an' all, I think it would during Mr. Hoover's term as Presi- representation will increase, only be sorta coy of me to suggest ways dent. Reliable Washington repor- one California will gain more and means for us co-eds to keep ters say that the story has comew members than will Michigan. offa it. I mean, so's we could make from an unquestioned authority, Two important difficulties have our 8 o'clocks without breaking our and this but confirms the idea that arisen in connection with the pas- necks or anything. has been prevalent since Mellon sage of any sort of bill whatever For instance-lookut: sag ofanysor o bil wateerA: Let the university rovide us ceased opposing Hoover at election ,for redistricting in the house. Fore- with tye.y pOeh?) time, and backed him as the better most of these is in the fact that iwith skis of a type. (Oh, yeah?) of two candidates. the present representatives, not withen es(ay woill The well-informed see this move wishing to force from their posi- aith gentlemen (Ha!) who will as a Hoover concession to "big tions any of the men now in the aid us gallantly to our feet, after business." Hoover and Mellon sinthe- a spill. often clashed over business ideas sider such proposals. Moreover, (A, in this case, could be elimi- while in the cabinet, and several the large number now sitting in the nated entirely.) times, the President-elect has house almost prohibits an increase C nLetthe B & G oys strew ashes stepped on the plans of some of in the membership -or anything-over the campus Mr. Mellon's dearest associates in The single logical act, thenand neighboring vicinities. (They business. The Hoover attitudes on would be to pass a bill which would are such a hand at strewig, debt cancellation, French loans, not affect the present representa- aren t they, Gumley?) and on the Jacksonville coal min- tives, and yet comply with thee- Being quite certa that at this ing wage agreement are examples mands of the Constitution. The point the entire student body is of the breaks between the two. But last reapportionment was made in abashed, I will close, merely men- in spite of the personal opposition last, reaothe wsmadin tioning a secrut which I know you in cabinet and campaign, Hoover quires1910, thatafter each ceonstitution re-ats will not breathe to a soul... is evidently doing the wise thing should be redistributed. Negligence I, myself, saw Mary Gold sitting in retaining Mellon. in this matter might well have lead on the ice, only yesterday Mellon loves his work; his social to disregard in matters of more and M * * ryG and daily life in Washington is a more importance, until finally the big improvement over that of Pitts- Constitution would be thrown en- And today, Mary Gold, are burgh; and his admirers have tirely into the discard. Though ! you sitting? called him "the greatest treasury long delayed, it is indeed fortunate Warmer weather was predicted secretary since Hamilton and Gal- that this new proposal for reap- Wfryet erdyan ogedifte latin." His presence will lend a portionment comes when it does. didn't have it. The mercury soare pacifying and experienced presence The step just taken by the house upntwlver12hde re to the cabinet of the former Secre- of representatives is timely and it up to well over 12 degrees. tary of Commerce. is greatly to be desired that the'g" _______ I Slowly rising temperature," said asenate, too, will consider the true the report. It sure was slow. TOWARD TAX EXEMPTION importance of this bill for reap- * * * Shelby B. Schurtz, '09L, a Grand portionment. Today's heighth-of-something- Rapids attorney and one of the or-other: Trying to talk to a principal leaders in the campaign A vacation story by one of the deaf girl in the library. to change the date of the founda- brilliant sport staff of the Chicago * * 4' tion of the University to the date Tribune mentioned all of the Con- Ad in the Daily: FOR RENT- of first incorporation, has submit- ference teams as pennant conten- Double front room for men; pri- ted a petition to Governor Green ders except Michigan. Maybe vate home; garage. and the Michigan legislature "to 3 they're mad about the Sphinx * * * encourage the means of education stories. The double room is nice, and by exempting from taxation the 0 the private home is great, but property of any fraternity, sorority, If the University would stop reg- what will they do with that or organization of college students ulation of student committees and last item? which is connected with any col- take to regulating some of the * * * lege, university, or other institu- holdups practiced by Ann Arbor WARNING! tion of learning." merchants, they would have wider In the arguments for tax exemp- fields in which to work. tion, Mr. Schurtz goes back to the o_ - Ordinance of 1787 which stipulates i "Women'sDebate Team To Clash Roland Hayes Negro Tenor who will appear in the Choral Union Concert series on January 18. could fall no lower, in a sunshiny land, he kept his cheery spirits and gave them expression in carefree, if somewhat immature, song. A fortunate capacity for unworried perseverance in the job under hand carried him through boyhood into a college education. His develop ing talent for song at first in- trigued his aspiring college com- panions and then found training from his more visionary instruc- tors, with the result that his beau- tifully checkered career-a l'Amer- icane-brought him into contact with more and more discriminating musicians until he finally secured sponsorship for training both here and abroad. The amazing appeal of hisaf- fable personality, combined with his golden lyric voice have made him an outstanding figure on the concert stage, as loved as he is en- joyed. His concert Friday night will be before a welcoming audience,. which should prove a stimulus to his artistic effort and smooth his delivery of the lyric program. * * . ALEXANDER MOISSI A flood of publicity bears witness that Germany's foremost actor, Alexander Moissi, is in the vicinity, in process of, as he so naively re- marked when .he left the ship in New York harbor, conquering Amer- ica. This was Mr. Moissi's avowed intention when he first approached the steamship agent. In New York, where the hick' element is per- haps more pronounced than any- where else in the country, taking it I -the country, or the element-by and large, this confession militat- ed against his reception. New Yorkers refused to be told, and a gentler edition of the Oscar Wilde fiasco appeared. West of the Hud- son the publicity managers were more successful-or perhaps the population is less trucullently minded. At least the reception gen- erally was openly friendly and a feeling has grown that, New York and possibly Chicago notwith- standing, "the kid's good." Which, translated means that Moissi has been playing to small but very appreciative audiences of the high- brow type. ** PLAY CONTEST Aside from the announced re- sults of the preliminary judgment, the One Act Play contest brought out a number of encouraging symptoms of the state of the drama in this locality. The total number of plays sub- mitted came to 31. In a student body of the size apparent any day at noon on the diagonal this num- ber seems pitifully absurd. But of this number, more than half the contestants were without training from the play-writing courses. With the exception of Heyman, all the winners of the elimination were enrolled in the course, which itself totals some fifteen students. The ratio of 1 to 6 does not neces- sarily express the virtues of the course because Heyman has had experience with the Opera and has been enrolled with Play Produc- tion activities. In a sensehe may- be considered with the more favor- ed students of the play-writing course. In which case it appears that the course is of considerable Cold weather clothing bargains Fur coats overcoats and sheeplined coats at reduced prices. WAGIER&COMPANY JirrTen C 35sz}Sbice 1&4& - r.U t ----- iqts tiAt TlT theSkes with Commerce T ~HE air map of America is now in the making-on the ground. Ten years ago, there were 218 miles of air mail routes with two station stops; to-day, a network of sky roads bridges the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. A majority of the beacon lights used in airport and airway illumination have been designed and manu- Can you imagine this growth without electricity-without illuminated airports-without trunk lines studded with electric beacons? Men of vision are building for increasing traffic of the air. Soon, the skies will be filled with commerce. tn'at -tde mleans oU , tauUI.don sna With Indiana," says The Daily. forever be encouraged," and then Seems as if Tex Rickard has joined he quotes the Michigan Supreme Harry Houdini in the spirit realm. w~--- { I