S'AGE FOBm T THE M'ICHICAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1930 T 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 credited to it or not otherwise creditedI This acquisition constitutes, then, at once a splendid scholastic prize for the University and a monument to the high-mindedness of a man of means as well as sound histori- cal judgment. OPPORTUNITY MISSED. i 1 . in this paper and the local news published To keep its skirts unsollecib y a herein. sorbid debate on the merits of pro- 'Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, hbtoi vr ovrsLw Ei Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate hibition, Mr. Hoover's Law En- of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- forcement commission has an-} master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, nounced that it will tinker only $4.50.Wihteefreetmciry Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- with the enforcement machinery. nard Street. We had hopes when that able and Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214.n_ representative commission was ap- EDITORIAL STAFF pointed that at iast a body, which Telephone 4925 was supposed to be something of I MANAGING EDITOR an authority on enforcement, I{ ELLIS B. MERRY might pronounce on the enforce- Editorial Chairman..........George C. Tiley ability of prohibition instead of City Editor...............Pierce Rosenberg just recommending more ways in News Editor..........Donald J. Kline Sports Editor.....Edward L. Warner, Jr. which enforcement might be Women's Editor...........Marjorie Follmer tightened. Telegraph Editor......... Cassam A. Wilsonti Music and Drama.......William J. Gorman Those in charge of perpetuating Literary Editor.......... Lawrence R. Klein Assistant City Editor.... Robert J.RFeldman the "noble experiment" have care- Night Editors--EditorialBoard Members fully evaded the issue of its en- Frank E. Cooper Henry . Merryforceability, ting their defens William C. Gentry Robert L. Slossfocaitylmtng hetdfns Charls R. 1Ea"'tman Walter W. "Wilds Gurney Williams of prohibition either to the unten- Reporters able statement that present en- Bertram Askwith Lester May forcement is adequate or to a re- elen lBauer avilia Pa chol cital of the excellent results that Mary L. Behymer Howard H. Peckham prohibition has already accomp- Benjamin 7-f. Berentsonilugb Pierce lse.Te aecoe oinr Allan H. Berkman Victor Rabinowitz lished. They have chosen to ignore Ar-thur J. Bernstein John D. Reindel the expense, the toll of life, the S Beach Conger Jeannie Roberts Thomas M. Cooley oseph A. Russell hypocrisy, and the corruption that John H. Denier Joseph Ruwitch Helen Domine William P. Salzarulo prohibition has foisted on the body Margaret Eckels Charles R .Sprowl politic. Kathearine Ferrin S. Cadwell Swanson Sheldon C. Fullerton Jane Thayer The real issue is prohibition's en- Ruth Geddes Margaret Thompson forceability. Is it a law which Ginevra Ginn Richard L.. Tobin focaity IS ta lwwhh Jack.Goldsmith Elizabeth Valentine commands the respect and support Ross Gustin Charles White Jr. of public opinion? Those drys who Margaret Harris G. Lionel Willens I are not still hypnotized by the a vi B Hmvstead Tohn E.Willoughby_ 1 OASTED ROLL k WELCOME BACK AND NO WISECRACKS. Well, well, and did you have a nice vacation? I stayed right here to sort of watchover things,and kept in practice by writing a Rolls column every day. (Here, here; that'll never do-telling a lie in the first paragraph of 1930). No, I didn't write Rolls but I kept my eye on the Law building because I thought somebody might try to burn it down; but every night I went home just as disap- 1 pointed and discouraged as ever. They had two fires at the White House but not even any smoke on campus. No. I didn't do that, either. As a matter of fact I got stuck in a snow dri'ft on Dec. 20 and didn't thaw out until Sunday night. It was all very lonely and cold and I couldn't do anything but think; so I thought and thought-until I final-' ly thawed my way out. * * , Anyway, now that I'm back on rsolidground again-even if it is under several inches of water, slush, and ashes-I'm all set for a bigger and better Rolls column for 1930. Rolls New Year's resolutions stipulate that (1) No Scotch jokes mill bP dei rina 1414n (2) (See Music And Drama FORMER ROCKFORD PLAYER BECOMES ACTRESS. L I lip Ic IIn Frances Dade, Former member of Rockford I players who has signed a five-year contract with Sampel Goldman to become Ronald Coleman's leading lady. 0 "HOLIDAY." by an erstwhile college dramatist. A Review by William J. Gorman. For two years now (with Paris Bound and Holiday) Philip Barry has deserted the much bepraised "whimsy" of his earlier commer- cially unsuccessful plays for the more orthodox (and possibly more dificult) comedy of manners pro- cedure. The change is fortunate. I i i i i :: i I nm!'!fflP'lmmmmlP9f-fr".r" VIr-wr w- rwws..r- .......---------- - ..___- to do the utmost in laundry service. The growth in evidences the the 'number of VARSITY patrons appreciation of such a policy. I Last year's achievement was the introduction of the exclusive use of pure IVORY SOAP in every 11 It wrw~w~ c ~awaJ# Jw. J'JJ~'JziW~J~iju~ I laundering process. The result has been most grati- !11 fying. The increased life of garments and linens is = Another year and another opportunity to strive 1 apparent, and great savings have been made for our ;I patrons. And yet the cost to them is no more. If you have never experienced the being served by VARSITY we invite you ayi' let our driver explain its merits. Ph1one 4219 pleasure of to call 4219 . t. Cullen Kennedy Nathan Wise jean Levy Barbara Wright 'Russell E. McCracken Vivian Zimit' DorothyEMagee1 BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER A. J. JORDAN, JR. Assistant Manager ALEX K. SCHERER Department Managers' Advertising......f.......T. Hollister Mabley Advertising............Kasper H.. Halverson Advertising.............sherwood A. Upton Service...................George A. Spater. Circulation .................J. Vernor Davis Accounts.....................john R. Rose Publicaions............eorge R. Hamilton Business Secretary-Mary Chase Assistants 'Byrne M. Badenoch Marvin Kobacker James E. Cartwright Lawrence bucey Robert Crawford Thomas Muir Harry B. Culver ('=eorge R: Patterson Thomas M. Davis Charles Sanford Norman Eliezer Lee Slayton TamesaHoffer Joseph Van Riper ;orris Johnson R~obert Williamson Charles Kline William R. Worboy Laura Codling Sylvia Miller Agnes Davis Helen E. Musselwhite Bernice Glaser Eleanor Walkinshaw Hortense Gooding Dorothea Waterman Alice McCully Night Editor-GURNEY WILLIAMS1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1930 A SCHOLASTIC PRIZE. Exemplary and of prime aca- demic importance is Regent Wil- li'am L. Clements' gift to the Uni- versity of the Revolutionary papers of General Sir Thomas Gage, Brit- ish general and colonial governor during the period before the War of Independence. The acquisition of this collection, numbering some 20,000 items among which are in- cluded not only the official and privy correspondence of Britain's commander-in-chief but also maps showing important detais of strat- egy, marks a tremendous further- ance and in a sense the consum- mation of Regent Clements' effort to make available for historical scholarship every fundamental piece of evidence concerning Revo- lutionary America. To summarize, Regent Clements has constructed a colossal bulk of source material, making the it- brary which bears his name the fountainhead from which further factual data may be expected to issue at the expense of the rather tawdry and obvious myths about colonial America now in current circulation. Previously, Regent Clements had purchased the Sir' Henry Clinton papers consisting of records from the British head- quarters during the six years of the War; to supplant the material dealing with the American side of the movement, he acquired the Na- thaneal Greene papers, which were the correspondence of the man sec- ond to Washington in command. Two years ago, Mr. Clements bought the Lord George Germain papers, documents of the "man higher up" on the British side who was colonel secretary from 1775 un- til 1782, and also the political pa-I pers of Larl Shelburne, then the British prime minister, and the man who ended the War of Inde- pendence. Gage's correspondence not onlyI nicely complements these docu- thought of 100 per cent temper- '"I .LLIALJL5 I anceght have1ideeppettimqes- wNo. 1); and (3) D, ito .kv. F urtherThi's talented student of the Har- ance have sidestepped this ques- No. 1); and (3) Ditto . . . Further vard Workshop would have always tion and attempted to divert pub- than that I make no promises. been judged "charming" if he kept li& attention from it by attributing to his earlier manner. But he would the failure to dry up America to I The letters that flooded my desk have been sniffed at too. That was improper personnel, inadequate during vacation certainly gladden- Sir James Barrie's and Milne's fate; appropriations, or the somewhat and it's probably deserved. The vague "general disregard for law" them soon. No, come to think of truth probably runs: he who would that seems to be America's post- it, I'll print them now. Here's one: stamp the dramatic form too clear- war heritage. They do not seem * * ly with his own personal gifts phased by the fact that their ef- Editor of Toasted Rolls: should be sniffed at occasionally. forts have made cheerful felons of Litsten, Joe, do you remember Anyway, the American Barry has millions of respectable citizens, nor during the early part of the school been escaping the fate for the too the fact that practically every sin- year when Lark was editor-should tender and personal by writing gle one of these felons is at large, I say during the Larkan adminis- high comedy. menacing society. They talk of tration?-he suggested an Advice Two years ago in Paris Bound,I making every buyer equally guilty to the Lovelorn Column. And no- P hili'p Barry brought his critical with the seller, imagining that this body responded? Well, I think if spirit (the essence of the comedy! too could be crammed down the ! you reincarnated (its that the of manners attitude) to bear on} throats of a superbly moral, high- word?) the idea now you would j the sanctity of the marriage vow minded, self-sacrificing, and tem- get some answers. for physical honesty. It was good perant public. Yours for a lovelorn Column, sharp writing and the play was en- BEAM. thusiastically received. Last year's GOING TO SEED? play was "Holi'day," produced in Although it has lately been said ! Listen, Beam, what kind of New York by Artlnur Hopkins, and of Michigan (more or less covertlyI trouble are you trying to get me being produced this week and next of course) that the University is into? at the Detroit Civic in a really ex- going to seed because it is being Dcellent production which Detroit deprived of many important mem- Dear Joe: critics have called by far the best bers of the faculty by their depar- This will introduce to you the of Mass Bonstelle's this year. It ture or death, accomplishments original "Ho-Hum" club of Ameri- hasn't the thematic accentuation during the recent vacation period ca. Henceforth, I hope that this of Paris Bound. It doesn't project point in the 6ther direction. club will be put on equal rating a problem that we can consider Prof. Edson R.. Sunderland, of with the Elks, Ioof's (not Goofs), after performance, a handle to turn the Law school, was elected presi- Meece (plural for Moose), Horse- the play over for inspection. Its dent of the Association of Ameri- feathers, and that well known ' theme-about the way to live-is can Law Schools, a position which bricklayers organization, the Ma- implicit in the lives of the charac- Prof. Ralph Aigler held in 1926-7 sons. Instead of some unintelli-j ters, deriving more from them; and which Dean Henry M. Bates gible meeting sign, such as the! consequently the play is less a held in 1912-la. Professor Sunder- braying of animals, and slick I problem play and more of a come- land is also chairman of the com- movements of the hands, when a i dy. mittee to redraft the rules of Mich- brother Ho-Hummer meets an- Johnny Case, a young fellow who{ igan judicial procedure which are other Ho-Hummer he just says, had "worked his way up," gets in- being considered by the bar before "Ho-Hum." Here's the idea: volved in the rich but still money- being put into effect by a Supreme I gtudent: "Well, pal, did you see maki'ng Seton household through Court decree. that swell dame I had out last an engagement with one of daugh- Then Dr. Moses Gomberg, profes- night?" ters in house. His one dream is to sor of organic chemistry, was elect- Other Souse: "Yes, I did." I "live freely" - which the money- ed president of the American Chemi- Student: "What did you think of thinking Setons interpret as "loaf- cal society, and Prof. T. H. Hilde- of her?" I ing." Being perfectly frank, he in- brandt, of the mathematics de- O. S.: "Ho-Hum!" sists on clarifying his attitude. The partment, received the Chauvenent The possibilities are great, you girl to whom he is engaged is suffi- Prize in Mathematics at a meeting see. Another thing, never again ciently the daughter of her father of American Mathematicians, held will you have to be "imagine my j to (have security and well-to-doness in Des Moines, Ia. Dr. Frederick embarrassment" or "nonchalant." as her one real demand of her mar- M. Gaige, assistant director of the Just Ho-Hum the matter off. , rriage. Johnny gets tortured dur- LNDiy C Liberty at Fifth .j -------------- 1 Museum of Zoology, was selected toz head the biological and zoological phase of the excavating work now being done in the Mayan country of South America by the Carnegie foundation. Prof. Ralph Dens- more, of the speech department, was made assistant executive sec- retary of the National Association of Teachers of Speech.j In speaking of outstanding ex- ploits, we must not overlook the excellent work of Larry Gould, of the gealogy department who has been with the Byrd expedition in Antartica. Gould's discoveries are of great scientific importance and have been lauded by geologists all over the country. All of this activity should pro- vide a measure of reassurance for those who feel the University is "not what it used to be." It proves that there still remains a goodly supply of life blood coursing through Michigan's veins and that there are as many potential days of glory ahead as behind.I It is nevertheless true that the number of great educators whose names have been venerated here! t ALF AKS. Thanks, Alf, but I think I'd rather be embarrassed. I Ho-hum- med a guy once and afterward,, when people asked me where I gotj the purple eye, I again murmured "Ho-hum," and it didn't work worth a hoot. However, I wish you all success. The new girls' dormitory-or per-' haps I should say the girls' new dormitory - now under construc- tion up on Observatory street is coming along at a great rate. It is gradually cutting off the view of the University that I've had from my room window ever since I mov- ed up to that neighborhood last fall but they say that every an-I noyance is compensated for in this world. * * * 450 girls will move in there next fall. ing is engagement period, being dubbed thoroughly un-American. Meanwhile, thoroughly dominating the family scenes, is Linda, the younger daughter, really the sprit- ual duplicate, in the other sex, of Johnny. The story wells up be- tween the parental objection and Johnny's determination in his atti- tude until he finally realizes how impossible it is. After he leaves, Linda finds out her sister didn't really love Johnny. So she shrieks with joy and follows him to the boat, implying that a little while later the "Paris" would sail away, with two happy children of light who love life abroad. The little family world is seen with delicacy and exactness; never once vulgarized or pushed into the glare and obviousness of the usual, popular Ameri',an family comedy. Linda and Johnny are wits in the best sense of the word. But rich feeling is apparent through their Telephony knows no barriers Telephone lines must cross natural bar- riers. This means construction methods must be flexible, readily varied to peculiar local conditions. Special problems arise, too, in telephone laboratory, factory and central office. How to protect poles from insect attack? How to develop more compact equipment for use in manholes? How to assure a sufficient number of trained operators? How to build long distance business? It takes resourcefulness to find the answers, to surmount the barriers, There is no stereotyped way. $ banter and loquaciousness (Barry's Workmen pound and hammer up brilliant writing) - certainly the there day and night under dazzling traditional basis'for comedy of lights and I can truthfully say that manners as in Congreve's famous that dormitory has already caused couple Mirabel and Millamant.: R