SUINDAY, 1NOVEM13ER 1,, 1929. e : li, PAG THEV .. . ...--TH-MC IG N DA m ::.::..: PAGE ~ ------4 - s.-- .... L~... -- ~ - ______ AR MAI SERVIC IN MICHIGAN BESTi Overnight Out-of-State Flights and Many Stops Are State Air Service Features. PACK APPROVES SERVICE New Postal Service on Parcels Will Speed Student Mail to Outlying States. Prominent Minister of France Has Task RUTHVEN LAUDS SELECTIVE ADMISSION SYSTEM 1 i i Library Given Rare GRMAN PRIMARIES Historical Volumes More than 70 rare volumes ofAY ;, t t Michigan has more air mail "stops" than any other state in the country, according to Mark E. Nevils, division traffic manager of the Thompson Aeronautical cor- poration, operators of the Michigan air mail system. Under government contract the company serves 13 cities in Mich- igan alone; and the service extends into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Following the recent improvements consideration of those about to be made at the local airport, and in made, the company has decided to add Ann Arbor to the list of stops.j This means that students with out- of-state correspondence may de--1 pend on overnight delivery to New York City, 24-hlour service to. the. Pacific coast, and proportionate speed to other cities of the coun- try, whether they are on the air mail lines or not.-i not only exclude the stupid, the measure up to University ideals or 11 f teradi ote chlroai i tstfalxt i;yImmoral, and the phychopathic, leave college, the general standard President Alexander Grant Ruthven over sta-! but also the indolent, the irre- of university work may be raised tion WJR. __sponsibie, and the socially unad- to the great benefit of the proper- "Earnest people have argued that justed youth. ly endowed students and to society. since the University belgngs to the Two Methods Jpun. "In voicing tnis attitude on the State every taxpayer may expect to "There are two methdds of select- desirability of and the justification have his boy or girl admitted to the ing students fitted to profit by for selecting the youth who are to University, particularly .if the youth higher education. Orne is to at- go to college one lays oneself open is scholastically prepared This is tempt to admit only those quali- to the acccusation of advocating one of those _halftruths, not rec- fled by innate endow:.-ents and a state institution for the favored ognized as such and so frequently previous training to make the most few. In a sense the charge is jus- discussed, which delights the of the opportunities provided by tified, but the fault is only an ap- critics of our educational system. the University to develop their parent one. Since we admit differ- SApparently logical, the argument is ability to make critical judgments ences in the natural and acquired reduced to an absurdity when cre- andtheir competency to act upon mental qualificationsdof therace deecisgientoth critiismtha their con 2 ;signs-in short, ony; ycraig schools and other in- ' :our graduates are untrained for those prepared to receive an edu- stitutions for the handicapped life and in other ways fail to justi- cation. New methods are raising child, why should we not recognizeI fy the cost of their education, the average of student performance .these variations by schools for the '"Se lf ted by excluding many applicants for youth who has, added to an alert our educational. . maladies usua admission who would otherwise be mind, the inspiratiqn and moral attribute fancied or real failure to doomed to fail either to complete insight needed in the leaders in our produce a properly trained student the undergraduate training or to society? If the University should to our faculties, to the fact that the graduate as a worthwhile -product. adopt the alternative policy of at- times are out of joint, and indeed I But no system of selecting pros- tempting to raise the general usually to anything else but neglect pective studen},s that has been de- standard of culture. by admitting Assctt a Pr I Photo to restrict admission and failure vised has been found to be infal- the maximum number of high Etienne Clementel to eliminate the ill-equipped stu- ! lible. school students the result would be Former finane inister who dent. That the end-product of any "The second method is to elimi- level of mediocrity and a sacrific- manufacturing process depends to nate the unfit as t.aey appear after a lowering of standards to the dull d a considerable extent upon the matriculation. Here again one can- ing of the best interests of the new French cabinet. quality of the materials used is a not be sure of perfect results from gifted student. truism succinctly summed up in the the procedures in vogue, but if it Should Set High Standard. adage that 'One cannot make a is clearly kept on mind and rigidly "The best interests of education S RE ENpurse out of a sow's ar' This ob adhered to in practice, that, since in Michigan will be served if the vious conclusion applies 'to educa- it is not the business of the Uni- University is considered a detached REFLECTIONS tonal rc as el as to in- versity to reform the refractory educational unit designed to admit dustrial operations. I boy or girl the student must either and to train only those of our youth who have the habitudes for Melodrama Expe~rs Must Select Material. higher learning; its standards to* "Madame X', the current fea- : "Only, as a.,group do the citizens OVerning Board for be set and carefully maintained by ture at the Majestic, displays a of a. state own their institutions. Conference Proposed jthe faculty, without interference, touch of dramatic keenness and The paying of taxes does not imply - - and its students selected by the appreciation sorely needed by the individual ownership of state in- (By Associated .'ress) several schools and colleges and talking screen. And it may be pro- stitutions,. but it is rather to be CHICAGO, Nov. 2.-A general solely on the basis of innate qual- perly attributed to the unseen pres- compared with the payment of pre- governing body, designed to regu- fications nd training." ence, curiously enough, of a Barry- miums in a mutual company to be late the conduct of college athletes more behind the cameras rather operated under the direction of off the athletic field, was proposed than before them. experts constituting the staff. The today by Major John L. Griffith, A. A. U. Will Consider' Director Lionel Barrymore has claim that the University should ad- Athletic Commissioner of the West- 'Sm s n . Cla1m lost none of the dramatic intensi- mit any but'well qualified students ern conference. ImpSOi RC;rC ill ty. of Willard Mack's stage hit in is as unsound. as would be the Major Griffith said such a board- transforming it to the Vitaphone opinion that the state-supported if given proper authority should. (B Assoiated Press> medium. Further, he has so in- jail, hospital or asylum should in- be able to decide how much assis- NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The claims spired the cast that every role is carcerate any citizen upon his re- tance should be given the athlete! of George Simpson, Ohio State' lyefaultlessly by an amazingly quest. If the people ofuMichigan in return for the time he spends in University ~ompeent roup f acors.wish their colleges to succeed in, athletics. Uiest prnet eonto The story is one of a wife,_mom-rduc'ngt prdu rwh- as the "world's fastest human," ~ntril unaitfu towif, mm-producing the product for which____________'ste"olsfaethu n entarily unfaithful to her cold- they are designed, they must per-; The oldest microscope on record will be considered at the Amateur blooded husband, who runs away mit thei experts,.to. select the raw i is a plano-convex lens of quartz Athletic Union's annual meeting in ith another man and then pen- materials, and the selection should ound amid the ruins of Ninevah. St. Louis, November 17, 18 and 19. itently returns on discovering her economic history published dur- ing the century 1660-1760 have rc-; conLly been acquired by the Wil- liam L. Clements library, it is an- nounced These books provide material for studying the economic cause of the American Revolution. The re-h volt of the colonies is laid to the continued picctice of Parliament enforcing a protective tariff on the British Empire. In speaking of the' rooks ibrnrian fR. G. Adanami > rc- marked, "They are of pecull""r in- terest today because of the anzal- ogy they bear to the present discas- :cns of th, United States tariff." i i I (1)y A sso \',,oa 1ed P lres"') ' BERLIN, Nov. 2.-'oung -plan plebiscite registrations i distiricts recorded up to today reach~ed - a total of 10.16 per cent of the voting strength, or .16 per pent in excess of the number required to h ave,the reichstag consider a bill to refer the Young 'Plan and otler peace * treaty matters to a vote ef the Ger- man people. Some ret arns were still oustanding. The plebiscite has bseon sponsored by the German Nati..nalists and the Monarchist group, 'who have fought bitterly the Ye ung and Dawes plans and selections of the treaty of Versailles. i I I I t,; f a 11 "1 C, PEC,, LaI ( I' 11 Postmaster A. C. Pack states thatj 7,404 of Michigan's 11,490 students' are from outside the state and it, is believed that the resumption of air mail service directly to and! from Ann Arbor will prove popular. The service is expected to be in operation within a week or two, ac- oording to Mr. Nevils. GovernmentI officials inspected the airport last week and fourd it satisfactory butl approbation must be received from Washington before actual service can begin. According to a folder issued by the company any parcel up to 50 pounds in weight may be sent air mail but it must not be more than 84 inches in size which includes both length and girth. The closing hours for despatch will be 10:30{ o'clock in the morning for Detroit' and Pontiac and 4:15 o'clock in the afternoon for all parts of the United States, Canadarand Mexi- co. This will be a daily servi'ce with theexception of Sundays and holi- days. TEACHERS LEAVE ON LECTURE TOUR Two members of the Latin De-; partment have been- absent from the University for a few days in order to fill various lecture en-! gagements Prof. Jame's E. Dunlap spoke in Kalamazoo before the Michigan Educational Association on the; subject "'Around the Bay of Naples' With Virgil." In this talk Professor Dunlay attempted to study the Bay as described in the works of Virgil or as he must have known it. The address was a combination of travel talk and literary observa- tion wherein the influence of these surroundings on the great poet's wark was traced. Prof. Benjamin D. Meritt has been lecturing for the Archeologi- cal Institute of America in Akron, Springfield, and Oberlin, Ohio, and in Toronto, Ont. The subject of Professor Meritt's discourse has been "An Ancient Crossword Puzzle," During the past few days Professor Meritt has been considering for his audiences the Greek Inscriptions, the method for studying them, their construction, evaluation and interpretation as historical documents. Pollock Writes Paper for Historyaggazine Prof. James K. Pollock, Jr., of the political science department, is the author of an article entitled "A Comparison of the American and British Party Systems", which ap- pears in the November issue of the Journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Professor Pollock has written a number of other works, including a, widely used "Readings in American Government," and "Party Cam- paign Funds." c I IIi it c Ir t t It z, s c b ii baby boy is ill. The husband re- Juses her even a glimpse of the child, driving the mother to a life of sin. Rth Chatterton gives her best screen performance to date as the ill-fated Madame X, and Lewis 'Stone is convincing as the hus- band. f An unusual climax brought many handkerchiefs into play yesterday afternoon. You should enjoy this all-talking film if the usual inane minority of rude spectators remains half-way polite. The photography and lighting effects are unfortu- nately poor in several spots. Comedy Generally amusing, but nothing remarkable, best sums up Richard Dix's latest talking comedy, "The Love Doctor," which opens at the Michigan today. Here the star has the role of a young doctor, appar- ently immune to love, who gets that way over his new nurse, a leading lady of considerable charm and personality. Both players have agreeable voices, but Dix seems to be slipping fast as a talking star, although he is not badly suited to his current role. Several humorous situations1 sustain interest in "The Love Doc- tor," but the plot is not especially plausible. Farce "Sonny Boy" is a decidedly mis- leading title for the newest Vita- phone picture at the Wuerth.j There's none of the old hokum which so thoroughly saturated Da- vey Lee's previous picture with Al Jolson, but instead a sprightly clever farce of the most entertain- ing nature.. Although we saw it several months ago, the film and compagy are quite clear. Edward Everett Horton, one of the ablest of talking screen comedians, and winsome Betty Bronson support and even outshine Master Lee in the part of a small boy over whose custody his estranged parents are fighting. If you care for good comedy, don't miss this one. Comedy Drama Among the new films in Detroit is "Big Time" at the Fox, a com- posite of the usual back-stage ep- ics, but played and depicted .with a simplicity that is pleasingly en- tertaining. Lee Tracy of legitimate fame and Mae Clarke fill the fea- tured leads capably. B. J. A. What Are Your Troubles? 0 - S UITS O'MrceCoats iraClaned . 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