WEDNES3DAY, OCT flEYR9, 1929 PAGE WOUl THE F.MICH-IGAN DlAILY V -d . _ _ 0 , Published every morning except Mond'ay 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 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. r - EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY 'Editor. .... ...... . ...... George C. Tilley City Editor.... .......Pierce Rosenberg News Editor. . George E. Simons Sports Editor.......Edward B. Warner, Jr. Women's Editor ........... 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Musselwhite Hortense Gooding Eleanor Walkinshaw Alice McCully Dorothy Stonehouse Dorothea Waterman Marie Wellstead not be indefinitely taken of Presi- dent Ruthven's wish to be fair without blocking the necessary progress of an institution that serves not only Ann Arbor, but the State of Michigan, the United States, and many foreign coun- tries. 40,000,000 CRIMINALS Until the present time liquor buyers have never been considered either "conspirators" or ''members of the criminal class." A test case tried recently in Philadelphia showed tha the purchaser cannot be found guilty of violation of the Volstead Act either on the chage of conspiring with the bootlegger to aid and abet crime or on the charge of transportation. Yet it was announced yesterday that Texas Senator Shepard will initiate what he terms the "last step" for prohibition enforcement by offering Congress a bill to make buyers of liquor equally guilty with manufacturers and sellers. Bishop Cannon offered a similar bill last week,^but will now back Senator Shepard. This bill would in reality be the "last step," for without a law of the proposed kind, prohibition as an enforceable measure is tooth- less. It is practically impossible to stop completely, or even par- tially, liquor production (and ulti- mately its sale) when there is a constant demand for it by persons not criminally involved. If the consumer were to be implicated in the crime of disobeying the Con- stitution, an entirely different as- pect would be given the situation. The demand would probably be greatly lessened with the buyer's knowledge that he might be faced with a prison sentence or no less than a large fine for merely having transacted business with a boot- legger. President Hoover, in persuance of his campaign promises, is at- tempting to enforce prohibition more efficiently and at the same time to ext~icate the courts from the tangled condition in which they have been placed. Were this law passed, it would obliterate the work which he has already accom- plished. Dockets would be crowd- edfor'months ahead with cases so petty in nature as to be almost ridiculous. Fortunately, the bill to be ad- variced by Senator Shepard ap- pears doomed at the start. The people of this nation do not want prohibition badly enough to make criminals of one-third of the pop- ulation and fools of the other two- thirds. 0- CONFIDENCE The action of University officials in permitting fraternities to invite non-members to "football parties" held on days of football games this f all will be welcomed by students not only as creating an opportunity for enjoyable parties, but because there seems to be an indication in the open party edict that the Uni- versity intends gradually to modify the policy of paternalism which in late years has become increasing- ly oppressive to students. Coming with President Ruth- yen's announcement that the ad- ministration will not be opposed to possible modifications of the auto ban, the notice in regard to foot- ball parties is believed to indicate that henceforth the University will hesitate to exercise minute super- vision over the private lives of stu- dents. But aside from the general ques- tion of paternalism, the action of the University in permitting open parties on days of football games is to be welcomed as a refreshing ex- ample of the confidence of Uni- versity officials in the sincerity of fraternities. The comic-magazine conception of fraternities as drink- ing houses filled with young men who care nothing for the scholas- tic, aims of University life is pal- pably a false one, and it is en- couraging to see the University recognize the fraternity's anxiety to keep behaviour at house parties quite in accord with the proprie- ties. None the less, fraternities would do well to note the official warn-. ing anent the holding of Satur- day night dances after football games, and to exercise discretion in determining the guest lists of such parties. We see by last Saturday's foot- ball program that Tackle Roach is SUSTAINED POWER Tide House, by Maude C. Perry j Harcourt, Brace and Company k New York City Price $2.50 Review Copy by Courtesy of Print and Book Shop, * * * More important than any other quality in Mrs. Perry's novel is the faculty of clear expression. Tide House is her first work that leaves PLAY PRODUCTION Play Production'sannouncement of its plans, containing the fact of the directions their activities seem forced to take, is a glaring testimony of the complexity of the campus dramatic situation. It ap- pears that Play Production is to 324 South State Sheaffer outsells I About Books i the form of the short story, and divide its activities between com- Night Editor-WM. C. GENTRY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 1929 A STITCH IN TIME Since last Saturday's announce- ment by President Ruthven' of the University's definite commitment to a dormitory building program, we have been waiting for an out- cry by enraged landladies similar to the one that greeted President Little's similar announcement of last spring. Even the Washtenaw Tribune, which claimed remarkable tilings for its circulation figures as a result of opposing Little's dormi- tories, appeared yesterday without a whisper against President Ruth- ven's adoption of the Little pol- icy. Of this we are glad. The logical conclusion to draw is that the landladies have decided to liqui-f date their investments instead ofI fight the University. So far a's Ann Arbor is concerned landladies are about to be superceded by dormi- tories much as carriages were sup- erceded by automobiles, and there will be many less wailings and gnashings of teeth if they are wise enough to sell out before the crash. Our inference; however, that the property-owning landladies have derided to liquidate is merely the. logical one, and it is our experience that logic is not always part of a landlady's equipment. There is considerable danger that they have taken too much comfort from President Ruthven's addendum to the Little annuncio . stating that their interests would be consulted. This addendum should not be con- strued to mean that the University will wait until it is convenient for them to sell, or that President Ruthven is going to seek their per- mission individually to go ahead with each new dormitory.. The proposed 450-room dormi- tory for girls will undoubtedly go up as per schedule in 1930, and others will follow rapidly as soon as the proposed scheme of financ- ing the construction proves itself practicable. Because there are lots of land- the sustained clarity of her prose is for this reason all the more re- markable. There is a precisenesst in her choice of word and figuret that belies immaturity, and yet thet deliberateness with which they are1 chosen does not strangle the artis- try of the phrases and sentences and finally the entire structure which they compose. Too often novelists - more par- ticularly lady novelists-who min- gle powerful characters in miore or, less romantic settings create noth-I ing more than a sentimental tale, their character development being lost amidst the glamor of a rosy1 setting. Witness Rosamond Leh- man's Dusty Answer. Mrs. Perry happily escapes this over-balanc-I ing Mathew Gulick, her powerful' character, grows up pagan-like in a lumber town on the northwest coast. He is strong and resource- ful, but his strength is loose and unorganized. Left by a dissolute father with nothing but the heri- tage of a bad name, he gradually formulates his life in accordance with patterns he has drawn. He blackmail's his father and utilizes him to attain financial progress. Three women enter his life. One becomes his mistress, one he mar- ries, and one he neither anticipates nor recognizes. His ambition is to marry and establish a family that will be established in the commun- ity and regarded with respect and honor. To' effect this aim he mar- ries one of the three women, Bruna. Bruna is further testimony to Mrs. Perry's ability. Had she fail- ed in the process of 'creating Bru- na, the terrible thing Bruna does to Kittie, the mistress, would be unjustifiable, horrible, and utterly distasteful. Hovwever, she, succeeds, and Bruna's act is wholly consist- ent with not only her character but also with Kittie's and Mathew's' and the delicate and deft manner in which she has almost inexplica- bly woven together her plot and characters. Tide House will do much to make Mrs. Perry the foremost woman of letters in Michigan. It is a novel with an ambitious purpose and 1 technique well handled. L. RK. TRUTH IS, ETC. Beieve It or Not, by Robert L. Ripley Simon and Schuster, N. Y. C. Price $2.00 Mr. Robert Ripley's fantastic and inexhaustibly funny book has gone through nine editions since it came out in January of this year. And chances are good that it will go through nine more before the au- thor is prepared to make another ,series. S Themost unbelievable fact con- cerning Mr. Ripley's volume is that it is incontrovertibly true. It is, as its fly-leaf purports, "A modern book of wonders, miracles, freaks, monstrosities, and almost-impos- sibilities, written, illustrated, and proved." Its value lies not only in its humor but also in its ability to show mere drab beings that life does have oddities, irregularities, and events far removed from the , commonplace. It might interest some to know that Lindbergh was the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic in a non-stop flight; that an eighteenth century Shari- fian Emperor was the father of 888 children; that 170,141,183,460,469,- 229.731,687,303,715,884,105,727 is the largest number that cannot be. di-' vided by any other;' that George Washington was not :the' first pres- ident; that the Dutch fleet was once captured by cavalry. L. R. K. * * * FALL LIVERIGHT NOVELS DIDO, Queen of Heartsk By Gertrude Atherton Virgil celebrated the . marvelous love of Dido and Aeneas in the Aenead, but he only suggested its inherent drama. Mrs. Ather- mercial productions with a price charge at the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre and free performance in their own laboratory, so enthusias- tically whitewashed just a year ago by a small group of idealists. Re- actions to this announcement are already probably numerous and varied. Many will certainly be la- menting the fact that the univer- sity organization is definitely en-' tering the commercial ield where amusement is God; a field which should be sacred to the extra-cur- ricular organizations. There is a difficulty here, and it is only fair to Play Production that its reasons be made clear. In the first place the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre (the much-bewailed tem- porary substitute for the University Theatre) contains stage equipment, elaborate, complete, and modern. It is important that members of Play Production class, as students of stagecraft, should gain a work- ing familiarity with a stage more adequate than their own, where even the slightest move is an or- deal. But a more striking reason is the fact that really important things cannot be done in University Hall. Play Production, it is hoped, has so improved that their mere staging of a play no longer constitutes an act of reverberating importance. It is true that this summer it ap- peared doubtful whether it had passed that stage. But then it was more definitely a commercial organization out to make money than it is during the school year. At the end of the summer it some- what compensated for its' previous acquiescence in the second-rate by a splendid and brilliant production of "Trelawney of the Wells." It is undeniable that Play Production's metamorphosis last year from a very limited 'activity to a laboratory that interested thousands was co- incident with a very definite im- provement in aim and accomplish- ment. At the end of last year, for the performance of "The Beggar on Horseback" they needed and de- served better stage facilities than University Hall could provide., Most of us want to believe that fre- quently this year they will need and deserve better than University Hall. Hence-the Mendelssohn Thea- tre. But there, Play Production has the problem of rent to face which necessitates a small charge. The minute there is any charge for performance, the royalties on the plays used shoot up, necessitating more charge. The result of this line of changes is that Play Pro- duction against its will is turned into what looks like a commercial theatre, performing publicly and charging. The situation is, indeed, stormy. The university theatre is a great white cloud in the distance but just now it isn't helping a bit. The only solution is that Play Production should fly boldly in the face of what we always term aud- ience psychology and maintain a policy of amateur interest in art even in their public productions. The motto of all dramatic organ- izations which claim to know the psychology of their publics is of course that a poor fare which is assimilable is much better that a costlier provision which is ques- tionable. The whim of the public then of course becomes the meal ticket of the producing organiza- tion. But with such whimsicality a campus dramatic organization should have nothing to do. It is true that the campus aud- ience just like the village one can be seduced' into laughs at banal jokes or tears at simple situations.C But Play #roduction should be above such amorous wiles. All the- atre audiences are probably child- like, open hearted, sweet and gen- erous in their desire for escape. With this true, the temptation to { mediocrity is strong. But Play Production should not succumb. Its problem this year is the creation of nan in.r.nfaA a ..Atii'nna en mv...rv.a "r Music And Drama TONIGHT: At the Whitney, Genevieve Hamper and her company present "Romeo and Juliet." '1 ~~7L: That Praceful, tapered shape means tore than a sleek, modern design. It proves the 4 Balance in Sheaffer's Lifetime* pens and pencils. Balance means speed-more words per minute in class, and restful writing of long themes. Moreover, such service is guaranteed you for your entire lifetime. 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