rALrE FOURn 14TCHIC A rA T V, T 1 * a ! A SSta. t-2 i,. . T -T- C C T. 'C' ! K. F 1 I 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 entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches creditedtodit or nt otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the posto..ce 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, $4.50. Offices:.Ann Arbor Press Building, May- siard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 I v j MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editor................. George C. Tilley City Editor..............Pierce Rosenberg News Editor .... .. ,....George E. Simons Sports Editor........Edward B. 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Willoughby arbara Wright Vivian Zimit i BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER A. J. JORDAN, JR. Assistant Manager ALEX K. SCHERER fi -"Vr Y Department Managers Advertising................Hollister Mabl;y Advertisin'............Kasper H. Halverson Advertising ................ Sherwood Upton Service......................George Spater Circulation .................J. Vernor Davis Accounts.......... ..... ....Jack Rose Publications ................Gedrge Hamilton Assistants Raymond Campbell Lawrence Lucey James E.rCartwright Thomas Muir Robert Crawford George Patterson Harry B. Culver Charles Sanford Trhomas M. Davis Ibee Slayton Norman Eliezer Robert Sutton Donald Ewing Roger C. Thorpe Tames Hoff er Joseph Van Riper Norris Johnson Robert Williamson Charles Kline William R. Worboys Marvin Kobacker ful provisions were adopted to in- sure honest elections. Last Wed- nesday the council made it a point of pride to hold an unprotested and unprotestable election. The ballot boxes were kept in a public place until opened for counting by a bi- partisan board. One lone voice calling in the wilderness for a re- count was unanimously voted down. Best of all the council went on record as being opposed to seeking outside aid in settling election squabbles. At last, it seems, the council has awakened to a sense of its responsibilities and decided to stand on its own two feet. We re- joice in this decision and look for- ward to increased respect, increased prestige, and increased usefulness for this body which is in theory and should be in practice a legislative, judicial, and executive government for the students. 0 SPHINX The reinstatement of Sphinx as junior honorary society of the lit- erary school is a move which calls for a tribute to the perspicacity of the Senate committee on student affairs. Honor societies must exist at any large university. The natural ten- dency of the more progressive and public-spirited members of any he- terogeneous group of young persons to form select cliques among them- selves is to be recognized as a con- comitant part of college life. The traditions which arise with the long continuance of such an organization are to be accorded the respect w'rich always attaches it- self to old institutions. No less than the United States Constitution may be considered to have given ade- quate proof of its efficiency during the one hundred and thirty-odd years of its existence, may a society with the wealth of traditions which Sphinx boasts be considered an or- ganization soundly established and of value to its members. Had Sphinx not been reinstated this year, most of the last group to have been initiated to member- ship would have been graduated from the University with the or- ganization still suspended, and the society would have been in grave danger of simply dying out. But thanks to the liberality of the Senate committee, the Univer- sity has a well-known, thoroughly established junior honorary society I for the literary college. The one condition of the rein- statement of Sphinx, the clause providing that no public initiation to be held this fall, should be no cause for alarm. There are no strings tied to this condition, nor Idoes it signify anything of greater import than the bare factual stip- ulation. MEXICO'S EXAMPLE From Mexico-which has always been popularly conceived as a law- less country teeming with sporadic riots, revolutions and massacres- comes the unexpected news of the adoption by congress of a penal code that proposes to end execu- tions, attempts reconciliation in pending duels, makes the "unwrit- ten law" legal, sends habitual drunkards to sanitariums for cure, and abolishes the death penalty. - If President Portes Gil is able to make complete use of the powers thus granted him the eyes and ears of foreign lawmakers - notably those of our own-should be re- spectably and expectantly turned toward the reformed "bad boy" of the continent. While we experi- ence no difficulty in the matter of duels or revolutions we are sadly in need of some practical means for checking the social crimes against which Mexico has taken the big stick. Congratulations are in order but they may prove to be a bit pre- mature. Mexico, however, deserves credit for making a more determ- ined stride in the right direction than we have. - 0 Now is the time when a lot of people on the campus wish they had talked, acted, and voted dif- ferently. 0- In spite of the whole rhetoric de- partment, people still continue to read Edgar Guest. Several professors on the campus are wearing spats. Wonder how many of them are doing it in mem- ory of their first wives? And then there is the absent- minded humorist who wrote about the professor who wound the clock3 and put the cat out. According to trainer Bert Mun- hall, Carnegie Tech has one pound less than a ton of backfield mater- ial this year. If there are any coalI heavers on the team, there will be n lnt nec -In" -n --- ...-- __ TOASED ROLLS THIS NECESSARY? One of the projects included in the University's million dollar im- provement program, according to yesterday's Daily, is the building of G "tunnels to the women l dormi- tories." Oh-Oh! * * * Advance photo of Willie Waffle, arrested just as he was about to take a stroll through one of the University's proposed tunnels. He was whistling "I'm Just a Vaga- bond Lover," and was locked up without a hearing. The building program also calls for the installation of vacuum sys- tems in the Chemistry and West Medical buildings. We don't know the conditions existing in the Chem Bldg., but we're all for the West Med. system if it'll vacuum the ether, chloroform, and formalde- hyde fumes out of the journalism classes, and we don't mean may- be, ether. * '' Pep meeting tonight! Be there! Learn to yell in unison! A newspaper dispatch from Iowa City states that the Iowa co-eds smoke more cigarettes than the male students, the 800 girls con- suming 40,000 butts a week. "Now- adays they buy their cigarettes openly over the counter," the itam says, "instead of being secretive about it." Tissick, tissick-what utter depravity. THINGS WE'VE BEEN WONDER- ING ABOUT The color of the new student di- rectory. . ..dWhy the Inlander will be published. . . . What kind of tickets we'll get for the Harvard game. . . . What kind of a game we'll get for the tickets. . . How we're going to fill all the space from here down... . THINGS FOR YOU TO WORRY ABOUT The color of the new student di- rectory.. . . The Inlander. . . . What kind of tickets you'll get for the Harvard game. .* . What kind of a game you'll (but this is taking advantage of your good nature). * * In Buffalo, one Thomas Gial- lelli, twenty years of age, has been ordered by court to attend college. He preferred to work during the day, he said, and have his nights free, but his mother brought him into court as a wayward minor and the judge ordered him back to col- lege. * * * The boy is to be admired for wanting to work we think. * * * A prize will be offered, it is said, for the best decorated fraternity house during the week end of the Harvard game. This does not mean interior decorations we understand, such as brothers who have passed out, stiff alumni, etc., etc. * * * ARE YOU AN ARTIST? Laura Codling Bernice Glaser HortenseGooding Anna Goldberg O ^ Music And Drama 4 4 Alice McCully Sylvia Miller Helen E. Musselwhite Eleanor Walkinshaw Dorothea Waterman TONIGHT: Pay Production "The Truth About Blayds," A. A. Milne's drama about the last of the Victorians, a great char- latan, in the Lydia Mendels- sohn theatre beginning sharp- ly at 8:15 o'clock. Shubert-Lafayette: A. A. Mil- ne's thrilling murder play, "The Perfect Alibi." Olympia: The Gest-Rein- hardt production of "The Mir- acle." Detroit Civic: William A. Brady's production of John Lei- cester's "The Spongers." * * * MOVIES AT MENDELSSOHN Next week the Mendelssohn the- atre proposes to join the movement quite active in the last few years towards the respectabilization of the movie. Not so long ago there might have seemed some sort of fallacy in talking about the movie seriously. It w3 so consistently and satisfiedly mediocre and un- important with its wide appeal from farmhouse to apartment, so determined never to get away from stock situations easily grasped, that it deserved only sniffs from the in- telligentsia. The entrance of the talkie in a blaze of glowing predictions has worked a change. It has classi- cized the silent cinema. The in- telligentsia now sneer at the talkies and caress the silent screen. Lit- tle Theatres have been putting up eager, intelligent heads and there has been a gradual dissemination of ideas as to the true scope, aims, and capacities of the screen. Peo- ple are now taking the movie ser- iously and it is quite probable that! this dose of respect may be the panacea for its greatest ill-con- tented mediocrity. So Miss Loomis' announcement that the Mendelssohn theatre is going to attempt a policy of ser- ious, high-class silent pictures is more or less welcome. It is essen- tially an experiment. Foreign pic- tures, employing the particular ad- vantages of camera technique care- fully and intelligently for artistic effect, will be absolutely new to Ann Arbor, which doesn't even get to see the better American pictures. There will be no attempt at com- petition with local movie-houses which have the glamour of garish architecture and the noise of ex- pensive organs and do not object to moderate whistling or sibilation. This will try to be the theatre in- time showing art-pictures. The policy is .sound and interesting and probably deserves to discover a sat- isfactory audience willing to sup- port it. Certainly it will be much less damaging to campus organiza- tions from the point of view of I competition than would a policy of professional legitimate productions. Miss Loomis is getting her first program of pictures, which will run all next week, from The Film Guild, the most distinctive organization of the type in the country. The long picture is a film version of Knut Hamsun's amazing epic novel" "Growth of the Soil," produced abroad in the true setting under the personal direction of the au- thor. The short-subjects are a film version of one of Poe's mys- tery tales and a curious cubist film. Certainly the program is unusual; and for a while at least, that means interesting. MUSICAL EDUCATION Some few years ago men from several of the leading state uni- versities in the Middle West, men interested in the problem of musi- cal education, quietly corresponded and quietly formed the Association of Musical Executives of State Un- iversities. The organization, in spite of its pompous title, was formed in modesty, each official be- 1 ing quite willing to admit the pos- sibility of his own little school be- ing not yet ideal. Annually these men meet for informal discussion of their many problems-problems that sound pedantic and business- like but which have bearing on the somewhat large question of the thriving of the musical art in America. This year's meeting is being held at the University of Kansas the last two days of this week. The topics for conference are: Gradu- ate work, requirements, degrees, etc.; the ideal four-year course in Public School Music; the Indepen- dent School of Music and the State University. It is curious how es- pecially relevant these are to the administration here. The School of Music, after its recent amalgama- tion with the University, should have some interesin nio -a1-~via l IDLACOCIK 11 __ -t c , - The Perfect School Shoe $1000 A beautifully designed shoe of Calcutta lizard and calf in brown. A sturdy leather heel . . a shoe that is built well for any weather. i 11 IY 4 S in i e qofa Womeandos-has} "R° e 'Vtl L 'V~lu-1' .u;+ t. Y.i . . _. I 1 _ --___-__---- .._-- --_._ ... _... ..__._.s... Mezzanine 4 Goodyear's 124 South Main Street QrCX+ 7.w a° 0 1 K4 . rc a~s cs q ~ n t, 1 ,4 da A4. X 1' fG + //iy, t:3! ..J ° b x Want Ads Pay One ay Service Eastman Films Carried In Stock 1ts s rug Store 340 South StateStreet LET US DO YOUR Prn~tting and DJevel o0,pin cg I Rf i Night Editor-Gurney Williams FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1929 SUPPORT THEM Michigan's football team is ap- proaching a crucial moment. Sat- urday it will attempt to turn from the losing team it was a week ago to a winning eleven. The time is all the more significant because the Wolverines are seeking revenge for the defeat which their opponents of tomorrow, Ohio State, tradition- ally a bitter rival of the Maize and Blue,'handed them last year. Mich- igan can win, it is conceded, if it is in a hard fighting spirit. It is a fact, often questioned, but nevertheless a fact, that a football team adopts generally the same morale as the student body. The victory then rests largely with the students. Whether or not the un- dergraduate body is back of the team with plenty of fire will be settled at 7 o'clock tonight at the pep-meeting in Hill auditorium. Loyal Michigan students will make the answer decidedly affirmative for the Wolverines must win over Ohio State. 0 FAITH RESTORED Several things that did not hap- pen when the literary seniors elected their class officers last Wed- nesday have gone a long way to restore our faith in the Student council. Factional feeling ran high and the vote was close, but there was not a suspicion of crookedness, not a recount, not a petition for reelection,- and not a single frenz- ied trip to Dean Bursley's office for instructions how to proceed. It was scarcely two years ago that the council looked on unsee- ing while the same block of votes, cast in each class election by the{ same persons, swept the political puppets of a well-known machine into power.I It was scarcely a year ago thatt ballots changed their names after being cast, that recounts were granted in the face of huge ma- jorities, that an overrighteous Y stench pervaded the council when1 the chair cried "There never was a more sincere attempt to hold an 0I 1| I i r' The telephone T HE BELL SYSTEM has made many successful experiments in two-way plane to ground telephone communication. This new development illustrates how it marches a pace ahead of the new civilization. It i- now growing faster than ever before. New telephone buildings are going up this year in 200 cities. Many central offices are changing from manual to dial tele- yrows air-mnded phone's. A vast programli. of cable construe tion is gHIn On. This is the period of growth, improve- m n t and adventure in the telephone industry. Expenditures this year for new Sant .rnd serviCe improvements will total more than five hundred and fifty million dollars--one and one half times the entire cost of the Panima Canal. 4 BELL SYSTE M A notion-wide Systemi of intr-c 'nn ting t -prrr