PA~ ftr THE MICHIAN DAILY -_ _ _ * - -- --;- P, hl ihed every mrn ig C pt - Monday wrn the unItersity year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. conscientiously The" law of the test is held in by an overwhelr k~ept from than.,I survival of the ft- artificial abeyance ming' fear' of physi- 41m.wo About Books SMuse And Drama _________- ____, - . I F-I ILI&LAS acczl Vl k.lily"I- -T--T Mmeof Western Conference Editorial 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 postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.0$; by mail, $4.0 OfficesrtAnn Arbor Press Building, May- nar~d Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 2214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone"4925 MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editorial Chairmian........ George C. Tilley City Editor... .........Pierce Ro nberg News Editor...............lonald J. KlineI Sports Editor........ Edward 1L. Warner, Jr. Women's Editor.. ........Marjorie Follmer Telegraph *Editor:........Cassam A. Wilson Music and Drama........William JGorman Literary Editor..........Lawrence R. Klein Assistant City Editor....Robert J. Feldrran Night Editors--f ditorial Board Members Frank E. Cooper Henry J. Merry William C. Gentry Robert L. Sloss Charles R. Kauffnian Walter W. Wilds Gurney Williams Reporters Bertram; Askwith Lester May Helen Bare David M. Nichol Maxwell B~auer William Page Dary L. Behymer Howard 11.gPeckham, Benjamin I. Berentsonllugh Pierce Allan H. Berkman Victor Rabinowitz Arthur J. Bernstein John D. Reindel .S. Beach Conger Jeannie Roberts 'Thomas M. Cooley *oseph A. Russell ohn TH. Denier Joseph R euwitcl Heen Domine William P. Salzarulo Margaret Eckel Charles R. Sprowl lKatliearine Ferrin Adsil: Stewart Sheldon C. ullerton S. Cadwell Swanson Muth Geddes Jane Thayer Ginevra Ginn M targaret TUhompson D k ,Goldsmith Richard L. Tobin orris Croverman Elizabeth Valentine Ross Gustin Tarold 0. Warren, Jr, Margaret Harris Charles Whihe lavid B. Hlempstead C., Lionel Willens G.iCllen Isennedy John C. Willoughby tean Levy Nathan WVise Russell E. McCracken Barbara Wright Dorothy Magee Vivian Zimit cal or moral mishap, and thus by AN ESSAY VLADIMIR HOROWITZ. paternalism our universities hopeI to grow a race free from everything ON HUMOR MAGAZINES Staid New York critics, always but the noblest minds, purest ideas,' wary of thgeir essential sanity and and loveliest motives. (Ed. Note: This is not to be construed as an I attack on Michigan's humor magazine: it is balance ,nd especially cool about It appears that this spineless rather meant to be a defense and commenda- pianists ;coming in through Ellis tranquillity is to be the fruit of our tion of its current Vanity Fair number, which A civilization. This decadence today !illusrates pretty well the objectives we have { Island with European reputations, -et i o uh mgzne n thi'aricle). stands virtually unopposed even in et up or suc magazines in ts arti. jhave plunged into Hunekerian pur- those places where the leaders of I have frequently challenged the pie about the young Russian pian- tomorrow are being trained: sub- editors of college humor magazines'ist who made his first American missively it is received from some- to justify the continuance of theirI tour last year. 4 slim frail youth where ab by all but a few radi- publications Their defense has cal flre-brahds who flame for a mo- of twenty-five years has been un- ment and then are quenched by a always been vigorous and dramatic, comprisingly labeled "Titan of the ~ soft-boiled public opinion. ; but seldom cogent or to the point. pianoforte," "a modern Michael of It is doubtful' if intellectual: The purpose, according to them, is the flamln the lamig sword," "a Caesar ofit VALENTINE'S DAY SEND A VALENTINE TO MOTHER -r ' I I !I i I Material and Cutouts Children for -for you Nut Cups and parties Novelties THE ART & GIFT SHOP 218 SOUTH STATE STREET PARTICULAR ALTERING and CAMET BROTHERS1" TAILORS STATE STREET OVER COLLEGE INN I vigor can long survive this soften-1 ing of the body and standardiza- tion of morality. We can look for- ward to a'nation of amoebic men. + ~0- BETTER THAN BOOKS. Classes and studies are, or should be, our major interest at Michigan. The mental exercise, the polish and culture we gain from our efforts cannot be valued too highly. Yet there must be something more. A college training cannot be called complete if we depart with only a rather superficial veneer glean- ed from textbooks, while the "A" grade is by no means the mark of the genius. When considered as such, it warps our perspective. The requisite addition, so vital to the well developed man, is to be j found in extra-curricular activi- ties; these form an integral part of college training, particularly when co-ordinated with classroom work. Debating, athletics, campus or- ganizations such as the Union and the S. C. A., and the various pub- lications are a few of the fields open to freshmen after they have completed one semester in the University. The Daily, probably the most to break through the aura of so- the piano." His enthusiastic recep- phistication that surrounds the un-' tion by the whole American conti- dergraduates and-so the argu- nent has been unparalleled since 3 ment runs-make him a boy again, the first dramatic appearances of just once a month. This, of course, Brailowsky some years ago. Ann illuminates a paradox. The argu- Arbor, which heard him in the ment contends that the college stu- Rachmaninoff Concerto last year, dent is fraught with over-sophisti- is fortunate enough this year toil cation and that he is becoming pre- get him in recital-a privilege that matured. The product of the edi- even Detroit has not yet enjoyed. tors, on the other hand, manifest The story of Horowitz's earlier in the magazine itself which pro- years is hardly as exciting as these fesses among other things to por- past two years. It is the story of tray the true collegiate spirit with I yd the element of sophistication a boy struggling toward that mas-l washed away, portrays an individ- tery of his medium which is so daz- ual, or rather a type, incapable of zling today. He was no prodigy, being sophisticated. I playing Hungarian Fantasies at the The point is that the college hu- ae of six. In fact, he was very mor magazine has no purpose other quietly buried in the conservatory Ju than the promulgation of buffoon- uid -teUosrvtr ery. It does not reach toward wit, of music in the small town of Kieff* Exai it does not ascend to satire, it is under the tutelage of Professorl not elevated to burlesque (unless Felix Brumenfeld until he was sev-: bool its grotesque caricature of college enteen years of age. His first pub-13 people is burlesque); it rather lic appearances were in the smaller t e stoops to the unintellectual, the cities of Russia. Two years aftert you sensual. Its success, after all, lies his graduation he made his first 3 in its appeal to the unguarded mo- appearance in Petrograd and was that ment, and hence its very success in (so wildly received that during the I--------- . ~A IEEI 4' it t 4 U j}4 jt) i 4 k. l - r -- :t BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER A. J. JORDAN, JR.E Assistant Manager ALEX K. SCHERERi Department Managers Advertising............... THollister Mabley Advertising............Kasper It. lialverson ing..........Serwood . Upton Setvice................ .....eorge A. Spater Circulation...............J. Vernor Davis Accounts.... ... .......john R. Rose Publications....... eorgeR . Hamilton Business Secretary-gMary Chase A~1s its $yrne 112,fBadenoch Marvin TKohacker ames E. Cartwright Lawrence Lucey Robert Crawford Thomas Muir Harry L3. Culver George R. Patterson Thomas M. Davis Charles Sanford Norman Eliezer Lee Slayton-' Jantes Hioffer Joseph, Van piper ois Johnson Robert Villiaison Charles Kline William R. Worboy Dorothy Bloomgardner Aice McCully1 Laura Codling Sylvia Miller, Agnes Davis fielen E. k usselwbite Bernice Glaser Eleannr Walkinshaw ! 1iortense Gooding i3orothea Waterman Night Editor-WM. C. GENTRY THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1930 bef ms kS a Ipti will out ies ore those re surely .ng and also find r Sand are too. h. Formal 11. Our Nonchalant tuxedo A complete line new derbys $38 I A NATION OF AMOEBAS It is a serious question whetherj this country is not becoming too civilized. With the advent during the past three or four decades of considerable excess wealth and a' corresponding anfount of leisure, our national life has lost most of Its rigorous, gritty character and developed a passion for luxury, softness, ,and ease. Everything seamy, sordid, or sorrowful has been swooped upon by some, sort of a reformer or ministering angel. War has been outlawed, and the open saloon with its attendant evils abolished. Myri'ad welfare organizations have sprung to the relief of poverty, and the inherent kindness of man, given leisure for expression, has founded the flour- ishing Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Unfortunately, however, this movement has outgrown the nat- ural desire to alleviate physical distress, and more recently has be- come characterized by fanaticism. Not only was the saloon abolished, but the law attempted to do away with all alcoholic drinks. Prison reformers have preached the cod- dling of criminals. Organizations have sprung up such as the Watch and Ward society and the Metho- dist Board of Prohibition, Temper- ance, and Public Morals. Meas- ures for purging society such as birth control and the sterilization of criminals and mental defectives have been violently opposed by people too full of the milk of hu- man kindness to be practical. Our jury system has been endangered by mushy sentiment in the mouths of sobbing lawyers; insanity has been increasingly accepted as an excuse for murder; and the death penalty has repeatedly met legisla- tive defeat as too harsh a measure. Efforts of a few progressive physi- cians to shorten the agony of death from incurable diseases or to let hopelessly deformed babies die at birth have met legal and spiritual condemnation. importantigentite nisensory appeal is momentary. one season he played twenty-three important single unit in the Uni-ms, versity for shaping campus opin- e **time ion, has much to offer tryouts. The The following year occurred his newspaper experience that each The humor publication cries loud tour of Europe that may very pos- member of the staff obtains is of' and is heard often on the campus, sibly go down in history. From great practical value. Although but it is the shout of the dying con- Berlin to Barcelona, from Paris to many have questioned the success sciousness of the small boy wrapped Rome, from Leningrad to London; of the college paper as a journal- within the man. Most of the last- he traveled, eliciting purple criti- ism laboratory, one night spent ing enjoyment of the work must cism everywhere, astounding all writing headlines or reading proof, be subjective, the satisfaction of an critics by the richness of his reper- slug by slug, will afford sufficient inner urge on the part of the edi- tory as well as by the excellence of evidence to destroy all skepticism! tors who have not yet learned, or his rendition of it. The Berlin on this score. cared to learn, the quite manful I critics hailed him as the successor' The chief advantage to be de- process of checking that inner of Busoni, the Moscow critics as the rived from work on The Daily, urge. Allowing one's purely sen- son of Rubinstein. Without the!, however, is found in the numerous sual desire for banal amusement go help-of-eadventitious publicity (he! associations that are made. Inter- rampant is not a healthful being qute daring in attempting' views with well known faculty men 1 catharsis; surely it is a cure for such a complete European tour and visiting lecturers important in nothing, not even the sin of over- while still unknown) he established$ ndr variousl fiesundoubtedlytof-sophistication and the resulting himself as one of the most inter- fer opportunity for forming con-in mental and spiritual old age! The esting performers of the day. His tacts otherwise impossible, there- reason for the continued appear- American reception has quite suc- by broadening the student immea- ance of the humor publication Is, cessfully strengthened his position. surably. Associations with other I suppose, due to an intellectual I, a members of the staff often develop shyness that besets a certain group, into close friendship, which is, af- generation after generation and on All in all, it is a romantic career; ter all, perhaps the most valuable nearly every campus. And it is a romantic external career, for a hIined shyness rather than inability. The pianist who, in performance is em- What h s been said of The Daily.fact is simply that the group inently a classicist. Horowitz's tech- is true of the other publications, have not yet matured. For this nique, of course, is phenomenal. with minor alterations, and the reason it is wrong to condemn Thus the temptation to exploitation importance of participating in them. One cannot presuppose a is strong. But he uses it strictly ! some form of extra-curricular act- campus populated by students as equipment, never as exhibition. uivitiescan hardly be overempha- whose itellectual and artistic de-tHis style is far removed from that sized. When the calls for tryouts = velopment has reached an end- of the hirsute thunderers who come next semester, there should point on the same plane. The hu- push concertos into our ears. His and probably will be a large num- morists go their punning way and manner is cold and external and ber of freshmen at the Union, the poke about among jokes that ex- simple; above all, honest. His is no Gargoyle, or, The Daily who wish ploit the college life of their per- opulent, satiny, lingering touch Io share in the benefits ihI sonal Utopias. Simple justice seeking to stretch little moments to har i th bneftsMichigan sol offers should permit this on the face of out to eternity. Well-related forms -o__things. But when within their issue in perfect definition. Horo- W r s drealm there remain virgin soils to witz has the intellectual grasp of We were asked today: If Profes- be cultivated to productivity, it ap- his duty and consistently gives a sor Meader gave a bolt in Russian'I lit would that be another Deferred J pears unjust that the waste should lucid exposition of the writing. His Russian plan? continue. It is indeed surprising style represents a vitality that has that the humorists themselves its source of genuine feelings (mu-' We are given to understand that have not . aspired to better their sical impulses) but that are organ- Wthe Klaxon horn people have re- aproduction 'long ago, especially ized consciously by the intellect thed K laxon hornpeoe haven r since the means are already within and perfectly translated into terms taned Helen Kane to invent a their grasp. of piano-playing. When the music horn that will go: Whfoop-whfoop-, ,a-doop. * * is mediocre (as I think in both ra-oop'concertos that I have heard him I 1i- _ - It is queer that the humorists play) our reaction is curious, alert, ishould hold themselves in such and reflective rather than sensa- Campus Opinion splendid isolation. With a little ef- tionai Contibutos ar as e to I r fort they might extend themselves The recital Friday night, when confining themselves to"less than coo j to include not only their own out- he will play the following program } words of possible. Anonymous comn- 1 inunications will be disregarded. The look on life (as set forth in their of good music, should prove the aegafrdedmas confinntI il, phonre magazines) but also to hurl darts most interesting concert of the * uest. Letters published shoul( not be at the other groups. By means of Choral Union Series: construed as expre'$ing the' editorial termsefciv wapnth opinion of The ail. their most effective weapon, the Organ Prelude and Fugue, D j i cartoon, they might poke fun at major............Bach-Busoni FORK OVER, F RATS! the entire college world. Instead mCapriccio...............Scarlatti To the Editor: they are content to picture only In Sunday's Daily I read of the their own fantasy of college life as Two Intermezzi, Op. 118, 119 I pitiable condition of the finances expressed in pretty co-eds in . of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Other drunken, naive, or amorous po Scherzo, F minor.......Brahms WIL 1 n joy mnusi c a Wa $5 $9 11 \V Bob Carson'.I each afternoon l nd evening. nt Ads Pay Dress oxfords of $7 $ cordovan and patent Shirts--Studs-Suspenders-Etc. AG1R&COMPANY fJor Men c &rnce 1&4 I I I I I Ij ".. o ~ g ~ ~ w ww ~ ? m 0 0 v A N T A RI -1 A I 0 m L I writers imply that several houses I on the campus are in the same em- barassing position financially. j I do not see why such a hue and cry is being raised about finances. Belonging to a fraternity auto- matically gives privileges: I won't mention them but we all know! what they are. The fact remains,, the fraternity man has several ad- Sture. An ii they would turn from the expression of their own world Ballade. G minor alone and include (in ridiculous Two Mazurkas manner if they wish, and better Impromptu, A flat so) the other worlds, they would not Etude, F major only succeed in establishing their Valse brilliante own place in the collegiate uni- verse but establish it on a real and!Gavotte for the most part invulnerable Suggestions Diabol foundation. major...Chopin iques.. Prokofieff "f£eaune nue tout leanemne" lithograph by six modern artists in uaruovle'ls N i Nif In ;al