PAGE FOUR T1HE MICHIGAN DAITLY .......... .. . . ... .......... . ... ......... . ....... .. - ...... ...... .. . ................... 4te AtdEtgitttComen Published every morning except Monda, ditorial comment during the University year by the Board in 4 Control of Student Publications. I-Uin , t*U ln . UUL.,trr About Books I r; ............ V Music And Drama Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press' is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not 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. nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. I EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editor. . ...........George C. Tilley City Editor.............. :Pierce Rosenberg News Editora...........GeorgeE Simons Sports Editor ........ Edward B. Warner, Jr. Women's Editor............Marjorie Follmer Telegraph Editor.......... George Stauter Music and Drama........William J. Gorman Literary Editor........Lawrence R. Klein Assistant City Editor. ... -Robert J. Feldman Night Editors ;Frank E. Cooper Robert L. Sloss William C. Gentry Gurney Williams, Jr Henry J. Merry Walter Wilds Charles R. Kaufman Reporters l i i DO NOT GO TO COLLEGE-SIHE OAC E- BLIGHTED ROMANCE UNLESS- Lanes Lead to Cities, (From the Christian Science I by Georgiana Garry Monitor) E. P. Dutton, Inc., N. Y. C. Price $2.50 4' Some boys should not go to col- In an earlier work Miss Garry lege. Why tell them that it "is the created with austere irony a much only correct place for a young better book than Lanes Lead to gentleman to go"? There is an Cities. It was Pigsties With Spires, important minority among us to and it recalled D. H. Lawrence's Anteros, of an earlier period. In whom we must look for many of her first book Miss Garry was the our greatest achievements, and for more careful artist. Her most re- whom four years in a liberal arts cent creation lacks its close-knit college is nothing short of a crush- unity and its sustained effort to keep a difficult theme above the ing imprisonment. Forced to fol- level of the commonplace. It sags low such a course, these young per- lamentably at crucial points. sons lock away their richest tal- Part I of the novel is an excel- ents, their most joyous interests, and lent- piece of craftsmanship. deli- undertake that which other peo- ' cately woven in a pleasing lyi ic ple have fastened upon them-"the style. In spots its emotional qual- convention of going to college." ities strike surely and ring with a Parents and others should with- true response. But this is the case draw all pressure toward a classical only in the first part. It would education when the careers of at seem that when Miss Garry leaves least three kinds of young persons a pastoral for a more urban set- are in question-the adventurers, ting she stumbles over foreign the artisans and the artists. This ground and falls full length over is the appeal not only of Wililam I. the hazards of banal platitudes of, Nichols in the current number of both form and diction far beneath the Atlantic Monthly, but of a the intellectual plane on which she growing group of college and pre- is capable of progressing.I paratory school executives. That is what happens in Part IIj "As long as any nonacademic in- of Lanes Lead to Cities, and her terest occupies first place in a boy's short-comings there are so marked scale of values, he should be given and stand out so clearly that the 'time out' to investigate it before fine effect of the better pai~t is he is sent to college," says Mr. quite deadened. Nichols, who was until recently one Part I tells of the beatific, near- of the assistant deans of Harvard perfect romance that comes to College. Even if a boy spends a George and Barbara. It is, in fact, whole year in such an experiment, so perfect that it escapes sloppy it is not a waste of time. Some of sentimentalism only by the proper- the experimenters will find after ly richened potion that constitutes all that straight college suits. But Miss Garry's dulcified prose style a lagre proportion will discover and imagery. that their golden opportunity lies! Part II has all to do with their in an art school, an agricultural married life and the temptress college, an aviation school, musici that comes between them. Mean- conservatory, or apprenticeship in while, Barbara learns to love the Charles A. Askren Helen Barc Louise Behymer Thomas M. Cooley W. H. Crane Ledru E, Davis Helen Domine Margaret Eckels Katherine Ferrin Carl Forsythe Sheldon C. Fullerton Ruth Geddes Ginevra Ginn ck Gol dmithai D. B.. Henmpstead, Jr. J~ames C. Hendley ichard T. Hurley Jean H. Levy Russell E. McCracken Lester M. May TONIGHT: Dalies Frantz, brilliant young pianist, will give a recital at the School of Music Hall on Maynard Street, to begin promptly at 8:15 o'- clock. ANNOUNCEMENT William Page Gustav R. Reich John D. Reindel Jeannie Roberts Joe Russell Joseph F. Ruwitch William P. Salzarulo George Staiter Cadwell Swanson Jane Thayer Margaret Thompson Richard L. Tobin Beth Valentine Harold 0. Warren Charles S. White G. Lionel Willens Lionel G. Willens . E. Willoughby arbara Wright Vivian Zimit Today o HUSTON BROS. Billiards for good- fellowship BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER A. J. JORDAN, JR. Assistant Manager ALEX K. SCHERER Department Managers AdvertisingH..............Hollister Mabl:y Advertising.........Kasper H. Halverson Advertising..................herwood Upton Service...George Spater Circulation..............J. Vernor Davis Accounts..................... Jack Rose Publications ................George Hamilton Assistants Raymond Campbell J ames E. Cartwright Robert Crawford Harry B. Culver Thomas M. Davis Norman Eliezer Donald Ewing J ames Hoffer orris Johnson Charles Kline Marvin Kobacker Laura Codling Bernice Glaser Hortense Goodiig Anna Goldberg Lawrence Lucey Thomas Muir George Patterson Charles Sanford Lee Slayton Robert Sutton Roger C. Thorne Joseph Van Riper Robert Williamson William R. Worboys Alice McCully Sylvia Miller Helen E. Musselwhite Eleanor Walkinshaw Dorothea Waterman Night Editor-ROBERT L. SLOSS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 19291 BESPEAKING A CHAIR OF COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS Permanent convocations com- mittees, student forums on religi- ous subjects, and most church ac-- tivities now rampant in the full flush of the fall season may prin- cipally be construed as indicative of the undergraduate body's inter- est in religions. This judgment is not intended to ignore certain val- ues which such proceedings may have, but it merely employs them as a means of broaching a ques- tion long latent in the academic affairs of the University. For in spite of, evangelical eagerness, re- ligious matters, whether denomin- ational or not, remain by and large extra-mural affairs, lying without. theofficial academic do- main. In fine, while the Univer- sity maintains facilities for the furtherance of science, depart- ments of experimental research in, every sphere from gear-noises to job-hunting, it has no aggressive interest in the scholarly and hu- manized instruction in religions. The present pursuits of the Uni-, versity world are not to be thought of disparagingly, much less to be scoffed at, for we obviously con- duct our lives in a period of civili- zation when our energies are so completely directed at the solution of life's practical problems as to' neglect less mundane occupations. It is the old philosophical tenet that as science advances, religion recedes; we have less need for a religious pursuit of happiness when we find that it has been achieved in a practical sort of way. This is not an appeal to save our souls, neither is it an attempt to denounce the organized purloining of materialism as a dictum for the "good life." This is merely an ef- fort at equilibration: let science dominate our lives and imagina- tions, let our view of society be an affair of statistics and complexes, but at the same time, let these opinions be formed by the careful weighing of the human factor through the imagination and emo- tions as avenues toward a satisfy-, one of the highways of commerce. The boy's own individual pref- erences should be considered. He ought to be allowed to live his own life, with experienced and wholesome guidance placed at his free disposal. He cannot be or do everything, but he should be help- ed to do that for which he is most gifted. He should be helped to honor his talents, to respect those interests which contain his real promise. At the same time, be- cause a boy has a notion that he would like to be an artist, would be insufficient reason for not tak- ing a regular college course. There should be as thoroughgoing rea- son for staying away from college as there would be on the other hand for going. Parents owe a great deal to their children in this matter. They can- not show too much understanding, discernment and affection. Family vanities, such as insisting that since the father is a Yale man so must the son be, likewise the son's son, will have to give way to a purer concept of education. Such coercion can be as powerful and as mistaken as physical compulsion. No young man in college is real- izing his highest power or un- folding into his finest selfhood who explains, "I did it to please the family." Home and community are doing their best for the boy when he is able to say, "I feel that I am in my right place. It is the one above all others which I would have chosen. I could not imagine myself more happily fixed." 0 When the entire fraternity chap- ter climbs into a small coupe it helps you to understand how a French army was rushed to the front in just a few taxicabs. 0 The latest on the tariff is that it is the Senate's ball on fourth down, with 27 yards to go and Quarterback Smoot calling for a pass. Some of our football teams that started out the year like runaway sand trucks are beginning to feel like an uncompleted pass. 0 Fairy Story: "Fifty thousand persons arose en masse when the halfback shot off tackle for 21 yards. 'Down in front!' shouted a small man in Row MM, and the crowd instantly subsided." We miss a lot of the important news. What became of the Den- ver primary candidate who put on his campaign card, "Is married and lives with his wife at 100 Blank street"? Mr. William Fox is working out husband of the temptress. He has been mutilated during the War and left impotent, and so their love never goes beyond an adoration of each other's mind and personality. The ending is tragic, since Ron- ald kills both himself and his wife and Barbara takes back her peni- tent husband. In reality she loves Ron's spirit and mind, but the ad- vent of her child forces her back to her husband, and she seeks, as is ever the case, surcease in her child, which ws to be, as Miss Garry expresses it, the "challenge to the tyranny of existence." L. R. K. MODERN LIBRARY NOTES The period from last August to next January will doubtless see Modern Library publish the finest additions to their lists since their founding. August brought, forth a volume of four Greek plays edited by Professor Paul Landis, of the University of Illinois. The plays selected were The Medea, by Euri- pides, The Oedipus Rex, by Sopho- cles, the Frogs, by Aristophanes, and The Agammemnon,. by Aes- chylus. Coupled with that was Smollett's Humphrey Clinker, in- troduced by Arthur Machen. September produced Havelock Ellis' much 'discussed and read Dance of Life, containing a new introduction by the author written purposely for the Library edition. The second publication of the month was an unabridged edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The edition used was that of Wal- ter Skeat with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer.. Publication from O c t o b e r through January will include an- other Sudermann play, and an- thology of Negro literature, Van Vechten's Peter Whiffle, Casano- va's Diary, Homer's Illiad and Ody- ssey, a volume of modern short stories, and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. CHASTEN THE RIBALD, CORRUPT THESERIOUS Morrow's Almanack and Every Day Book for 1930 Miliam Morrow and Co., N. Y. C. Price $2.50 Morrow's new Almanack, minus the Divine and Hallowed services of Burton Rascoe, last year's edi- tor, is just as incontrovertibly fun- ny under the new Philomenus, Thayer Hobsen. In addition to never-before published pieces of such recognized authors and poets as John Macy, Donald Ogden Ste- wart, Louis Untermeyer, John A. Weaver, George M. Cohan, not to mention Eddie Cantor and Milt Gross, the book provides Calendars, Forecasts, Weather Prophecies, Re- cipes, Epigrams, and choice selec- tions from the ancients, garnered with care to beguile the benevolent reader. As its handsome cover suggests, its purpose is "To CHASTEN the Ribald & CORRUPT the Serious, One-act Play Competition The Division of English is an- nouncing the one-act play contest for this year. Last year this con- test proved one of the most ef- fective means of bringing about practically that cooperation be- tween the several departments in- terested in the drama, necessary to the estblishment of a real dra- matic tradition at Michigan. So it has taken on the character of an annual event. There was no ques- tioning the fact that closer rela- tions between the departments of English, Rhetoric, and Speech, (re- spectively the study of the drama. the writing of the drama and the production of drama), were neces- sary to the realization of that glor- ious ideal, a University theatre here like that at Yale. The one- act play contest sponsored by the Division of English was the first result of this unification of ef- fort. It was extremely successful. Several people well-known in uni- versity dramatics in America were brought as judges of the produc- tion. And later in the year, under the editorship of Prof. Kenneth Rowe, the winning plays were pub- lished as Volume I of Michigan Plays, an event that had just enough of sentiment to it to add some much-needed glamour to the campus dramatic situation. The whole affair was soundedly con- ceived and carriedathrough. Sev- eral years of healthy projects like that one may bring the campus its ultimate reward. Of course, the contest has the more immediate aim of making available to the more talented of creative writers in the drama the support that production can give. IIn the accepted sense there is no prize. But for reward there is the gratification attending production and, more important, the advan- tages of"a self-criticism that the synthetic field of production can offer to the dramatist writing in the library and .inclined to forget the values of the theatre. It is hoped too that some of the plays will go into the publication of Vol- ume II. There is no need to urge student cooperation this year. The success of lt year's production will sweep away all creative mod- 1 esty. Competition should be wider and more keen. The rules of the competition are as follows: 1. The contest is open to all undergraduate students of the University and to any graduate student not teaching in the University. 2. The plays must be in one act. 3. The plays must be in the hands of one of the judges at 4:00 o'clock p. m., Monday, January 6. 4. The manuscripts must be typed. 5. The name of the author must not appear on the man- uscript but shall accomipany the manuscript in a sealed en- velope bearing the title of the play on the outside. 6. The judges who will con- stitute a committee on play competition throughw--it the year are Professor Oscar J. Campbell, Professor Peter M. Jack, and Mr. Valentine K. Windt. Let Us Do Your Shoe Repairing Higest Quality of Work A. T. COOCH &SON 1109 South University Half Block From Campus i, 1 t 1 .. . 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It very effec- tively makes use of black and white, shadow and dark to indi- cate the sense of emotion of Edgar Allan Poe's tale. The story wasj photographed from the point of view of the insane murderer; this attitude cannot be afforded by dra- ma and the fact offers argument for movie art. The main event of the program. ,fl I ~ HEAR T4E MEN YOI J FAARA ROI I- ! }!