rAov. To~ THE MICHICAN 1) AIEY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1930, _.. -. Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board I 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 herei'. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- mater General. ubscriptiol by carrier, $4.0; by mail, $4.5o. Aices:tAnn Arbor Press Building, May- bard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editorial Chairman........eorge C. Tilley City Editor...............Pierce Rosenberg News Editor...............Donald J. Rline Sports Editor.:......Edward L. 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Worboy Dorothy Bloomgardner Alice McCully Laura Codling Sylvia Miller Ages Davis Helen. e Musselwhite Bernice -Glaser- Eleanor Walkinshaw Hortense Gooding Dorothea Waterma WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1930 Night Editor, CHAS. R. KAUFMAN MORE CAPABLE CENSORS.) Considering the magnitude of the United States. civil service, the quality of men selected for most governmental positions under this system has been mediocre, even to the higher offices appointed on the basis of technical knowledge. Cus- toms clerks have never been an exception to this rule but rather furnish additional proof that it is true, yet they are 'still empowered by law to censor books entering the country. This weakness has long been painfully apparenthespeciallyat such times when Voltaire's "Can- dide" and Boccacio's "Decameron" were snatched up by those smug smut hounds who act as guardians of our ports and permanently bar- red from our liberal and democrat- ic nation. The movement to "ecraser 1in- fame" has at last come to a head and, initiated by Senator Cutting of New Mexico and backed by most of the other senators, will come before the Senate in the form of a bill to provide more competent censors. Senator Couzens' amend- ment--which was obvious and: probably unnecessary - would ex- clude those books which are trea- sonable or threaten violence against the United States. In order to give his bill an added impetus, Senator Cutting has circu- lated a petition among the univer- sities and colleges of the nation asking various professors theirx opinions on the matter. More than 40 members of the Michigan facul- ty were among those questioned. This petitioning should have been entirely unnecessary, but the national" legislative mind has been too engrossed in big business and its relative merits and faults to pay much attention to the more purely intellectual phase of Ameri- can life. If the Cutting bill is passed by the Senate and manages to slip unnoticed through the House. the said in an address at Washington at theinauguration of a five year expansion program of the Boy Scout organization. Characterizing the boy and his sister as "the most precious pos- session of the American home," he counseled that through the agency of such an organization as he was addressing the interests of the youths should be turned to "con- structive joy" instead of "destruc-J tive glee." Civic resposibility should be in- I cluded in the academic teaching of the youth of today, the Chief Executive continued. President Hoover's readiness to accept the belief that the youth of today could be taught to share the re- sponsibility of the civic welfare bf the nation is in itself an encourag- ing gesture. "The conviction that every per- son in the republic owes a service to the republic; that the republic rests solely on the willingness of every one born in it to bear his part of the duties and obligations of citizenship, is as important as the ability to read and write-that is the only patriotism of peace." Mr. Hoover contended. If the youth of today, about whom a multitude of suggestions have been made and to whom warnings of an impending crash in the moral fibre of the nation have been issued, can grasp that simple conviction and understand upon what this republic rests, there is no need for qualms about the future. o -- A member of the geology depart- ment at the University of Texas has found a fish near Dallas which is said to be 37,500,000 years old. The speciment is broken only in one place and will be put on dis-; play soon. Just wait until a cam- pus restaurant gets hold of it. 0ATED O R G t ? LARK LOSES LAUNDRY! Lark, editor of this column for three semesters and a summer school, and now editor of the Books column, has been wandering around the office for the last three days wearing, among other things, a green lumberjack shirt and the most pathetic expression you ever saw. "Oh-h-h-h my," he groans as he paces to and fro, "I can't write a Book column, I can't study, I can't do anything. I can't even change my shirt." Questioning him was to no avail-he merely turned a haggard face in my direction and wandered away, mumbling. _ Music And Drama t (; i MORE ABOUT GABRILOWITSCH.1 Mr. Gehring's admirable review of the Detroit Symphony Concert in the Ann Arbor News suggested a defense of Mr. Gabrilowitsch's "stodginess" that ought to stimu- late discussion. It is my argument that Gabrilowitsch's habit of facile preference for the recognized, lead- ing to the absolute stability of his repertory and confining his cate- gories strictly to the past, makes him an unimportanteconductorein spite of his acknowledged perfec- tion within the boundaries of his choice. Mr. Gehring speaks of Gabrilo- ' t , ; O - ' tY - ' _r acv %Myt . t . 'k i4. '' ;, . .. a ; y ': ." , f 1, ti !!! x r . i. <' . tflrllllititll~l1r~iIU~nI IIII[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIIIIIIfIUlllIIII IIIIInIlg~ IItIllf I PALMER CHRISTIAN: IN E fvery Wednesday at 4:15 P. M. in Hill Auditorium unless otherwise - _ announced. COMPLIMENTARY TO THE PUBLIC Except that for obvious reasons small children cannot be admitted. A i ICCCCCICCCICI CCI CIII ill IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIIIIIIIII II II IfIllI IIIC1' ... ..:.. I ..,24....7.. f.. ct.. l.l.: 1.. .. 4 .«_... .....I.,. ... .. J,...... Campus Opinion Contributors are asked to he brief, confining themselves to less than :io words of possible. Anonymous comn- mnications will ye disregarded. The names of oninun iant s will, however, be regarded as confilential, upon re- quest. Letters published shoid not ie construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. APPRECIATION. To the Editor: As one among many faculty men' interested in student self-expres- sion, permit me to congratulate the'campus in general and the Hil- lel players in particular on the performance of "Caponsacchi." We have for years noted with concern the comparative indifference shown by most students to such activities as debating, literary cre- ation, literary criticism and the like, and have been all the more pleased to note the interest and skill which so many students have shown in at least one creative acti- vity-the drama. For the most part this welcome dramatic interest has spent itself on the lightest of light comedy or modern parlor drama; it is still another step forward that a campus group should tackle the most difficult of all assignments, the poetic drama. That there should be some inequalities of per- forMance in the realization of such an ambitious undertaking was in- evitable; the really remarkable fact is rather that the spirit of Browning was seized so well. Per- haps it may even encourage some to tackle "The Ring and the Book" in private reading, for though it is the most formidable poem of the most difficult of poets, it is also the best detective story ever writ- ten. Theabest, because while the facts are all before the reader, the "truth" which gives meaning to the facts does not appear until they have been examined afresh from the angle of each important person in the story. It is, as an English critic put it, "an epic of free speech," the fundamental idea being that we cannot know the truth as it is until we are willing to examine the truth as it seems to others as well as ourselves. But I must not yield to my professional bad habits and turn a brief note of appreciation into a lecture on lit- erature. Yours sincerely, Preston W. Slosson. SCOFFLAWS? I -! R ; i _ ,{ t 1 4 . ( 1, i J J 1 1 . } i 1 1 * * witscn's "attitude toward-s modern Yesterday afternoon he'didn't music." As I see it, it is question- show up at all and I was about to able to credit a conductor who has dispatch a Rolls sleuth to search never attempted it with an atti- for him when a letter arrived - a tude towards modern music. A letter that will pull at your heart bolder, more important conductor strings and awaken in you a feel- (like Koussevitsky and Stowkow- ing of compassion for the unfor- ski with reservations for his vir- tunate lad. I!tuoso aspirations) achieves an at- titude by inclusion, by trial. The LAMENT. boundaries of his interests are Dear Joe: How do you go about achieved after an experience of sueing the government? I want to some sort, rather than by a pre- collect from the post office depart- conception or a predisposition for' ment for damaged dignity, mental safety with established works. This anguish, and alienation of my bold type of conductor can hardly! laundry. Ever since last Friday I hope for the , "consistency" and have been waiting for a laundry continual success in his repertory case to be carried 180 miles by the that Gabrilowitsch achieves. Kous- efficient American post. In addi- sevitsky's expansive attitude, mak- tion, Joe, I-welll, it's a delicate ing his repertory fluid, unpredic- tion, Joe, I-well, it's a- delicate table (and exciting), continually and blushful matter to mention, involves him in error; for example but I haven't any clothes. If I the critical discussion of his evalu- wear the one shirt I have left once ation of Ravel's Bolero. But it is more I will be taken for a Facisti my contention that his expansive- general. I ness is more important than Gab- Really, Joe, I have had enough rilowitsch's conservatism because mail misdirected to be a charac- representative of a more integralj ter in a Hardy novel. You can't acceptance of Music's organic ex- imagine the gross indignity of istence. By simultaneously giving' wearing a flannel shirt day after Music a past and a present, Kous- day. I resent the practice not only 1 sevitsky objectifies its life, and frees because its itching makes mefeel it of the heterogeneous unsubtle- like a Franciscan friar but because ties of popular approbation. of the social and mental humilia- Mr. Gabrilowitsch's atitude (and tion to which it subjects me. Girls Iit is the attitude of most all inter- who once flocked about me in an preters, cf. most piano programs) admiring company shun me with results in what I take to be the pointed and poignant directness. most disconcerting thing about If this keeps up, I shall have to' music as an art: that music in per- retire, like Diogenes, to ascetic bliss formance comes always one gen- in a barrel. eration later than music in crea- But I make one last appeal, Joe, tion. The result is that music, like through your column. Won't some Professor Alexander's Deity, is al-? one send me a shirt? ways one tantalizing step ahead { Vale, vale, of its breeding generation. I take Lark. it that the conservatism of such * * ** ymen as Gabrilowitsch, however in- What are you going to do about telligent, perverts music's right 'to it, gents-just sit around and let an organic existence (such as poet- him suffer? Send old shirts, socks, ry achieves even though isometimes stamps, tin foil, or old buttons! desperately through radical jour- Show Lark that his plight has nals, etc.) It does so by enslaving awakened pity! it to popular approbation, whose * * period of pregnancy has been with The following ad, taken from exasperating consistency about one yesterday's classified column, is a generation. Music thus becomes much better test for sobriety than not an integral aspect of contenr- 'truly rural."' Try it yourself: poraneity (as I think it should be) LOST-Swiss wrist watch Thurs- but something akin to pleasant his- day night. tory, a quiet savouring of the past. * * * ISuch musicians as Gabrilowitsch I ODD SHOTS. consider responsible for making, music a luxury, helping us neither to emotional orientation or intel- lectual apprehension of contem- poraneity (for me about the prob- lem of existence). / wTh vey note -i .R \ i leH RE'S theta.z thatuts the Sin in "Jusinuating" r a... 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Mimes registers a "success" in its second venture by choosing a cash- ' register play-the conventional imysterioso-comic stock company favorite-that inevitably clicks; af- The Rolls Photopgraph Pherret fording momentary pleasure prop- has, contrary to popular belief, erly called vicarious an hour after beenverycbusy these past two leaving the theatre by all self-re-j weeks. According to his report he setn rtc.Rmrso h ha benwiigt e itr specting critics. Remarks on the' has been waiting to get a picture play end there, a futilitarian feel- of a bricklayer at work on the Mo- ing being engendered by the fact sher-Jordan dormitory. "I had to that Mimes is content to do such wait a long time," he states, "but things. was finally rewarded yesterday The production is quite satisfac- when a bricklayers woke up and tory. Norma Bockelman operatic- laid a brick. lik * ally sings the unmaidenly lines of the old maid aunt, which may be Dear Joe: I noticed in yester- either right or wrong: the point day's Daily that in order to get being that in such a play most any- rid of a few outstanding young thing can be done and somehow scholars on the campus they are nationalized as "in character," given scholarships and told to go there being no character to speak to study in Europe. Next there is of. June Day very gratifyingly ase of the rising scholar who fulfills promise predicted for her, i has no standing at all and is given giving a quite charming perform- a couple of E's and told to go ance with details all acceptably I Hoare. worked out pretty largely by intel- Al Kaks. ligent exploitation of personality.i Joe Bates Smith again proves a PICKED UP IN A. H- reliable actor, never failing to I"How're your studies?" realize completely any line or bit any 'ine; I don't botherthem of business that would help the play. No actor on the campus has - Delicious and Refreshing And dull care wIthers on the vine t N __ !, ., f,, ,, . t, k NN To the Editor: Is the Editor of The Daily so sousingly "wet" that he plans to refuse any news space whatever to the so-called "dry" testimony be- ing given, and to be given, before the House judiciary committee for' the repeal of the 18th Amend- ment? For the past two weeks or more The Daily has featured each Sont be always taking your work or love affairs too seriously. It will only end by Proving you know less and less of more and more. The neatest trick you can pull is to slip into the nearest soda fountain or refresh- ment stand--around the corner from sm -a m e __ a ; itv . m. r n n #h I