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About Books)
A HUMANIST MASTERPIECE.
The undersigned, who have been
very much interested in the recent
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atches credited to it or not otherwiser e u dij n It was long after sundown last writings of the Humanist School of
tn this paper and the local news published uni'nw it enjoys an annual I. - .
hernein- revenue of $13,500,000, which works iterary Criticism and who desire
Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, out at about $100 a month for eyed Daily staff tabulated the last to study the Humanist principles
Micbigan, as second class atter. Special rate every man, woman, and child in vote and staggered home. in practice, would be glad to know
of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- eveof aacontemporary workd of art
waster General. the country. There is no army or of a contemporary work of art
Sbscriptionby carrier, .o; by m navy to support, and a good deal of They tell me that on the strength I either produced by an Americanj
Seseet.Ann Arbor Press Building, May- the state revenue goes to the main- of the probable outcome of the poll Humanist or encouraged and ap-
Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. tenance of a modern system of a local laundry man has bought a proved by one
EDITORIAL STAFFIschools. The number of illiterates brewery. If anythig other than (Signed) R. P. Blackmur, Louise!
ETloA 4925 stalk comes of all this voting, it I Bogan Slater Brown, Kenneth
looks as though this gent will, in Burke, John Chamberlin, Malcom
M AGING E TOR Those who join with gloomy spite of this change of occupation, Cowley, Hart Crane, Edward Dahl-
Dean Ing e in pessimistically pro- still be cleanng up. berg, Babette Deutsch, Herbert S.
Ed.citorial Chairman.......... Ceorce C. Tilleyr ea ng*n esiisialypr-Gorman, C. Hartley Gratton, Hen-~
City Editor...............Pierce Po'senherg claiming democracy the worst of! *D * S r an, C. ofrey T Hen-
News Editor.............Donald J. ine I all governmental systems would do SIDELIGHTS. ry Hazlitt Geoffrey T. Hellman
Sort E ditor.......Edward ,. WarnerJr. 1 to consider pragmatically the The prim co-eds who voted Granville Hicks, Raymond Holden,
Wocmen's Editor............Marjorie Follmer , wellt osdrprgaialIh
Telegraph Editor.........Cassam A. Wilson'success of the Iceladi Alth. strictly dry . . . The pretty co-eds Mathew Josephson, Joseph Wood
Music and Dra7a.......WilliamJ. bhorhyans s otIcndice thei who drink "frequently" but who Krutch, T. S. Mathews, F. O. Math-
Literary Editor.........Lawrence R. Klein before they continue to voice theirwolntgvthinae...Te iseIahrn Ptr, hlp
Night Editors--Editorial :oard Membersratn thoyclvr uswovtea
Assistt ty ldtor .. .Robert J. Feld ran ranting theory. veryd,' veyive r gntms wh vo.te Putn, IJthneroe Ranso, Bur-ps
Frank E. Cooper Henry J. Merry Ivery, verygnd Putnam, Jahn Crowe Ransom, Bur-
William C. Gentry Robert L. Sloes twice . . . The original people who I ton Rascoe, John Riddell, Paul
Charles R. Ka~ffian Walter W. Wilda
Gurney Williams brushed the snow from their coats Rosenfeld, Isidor Schneider, Gil-
Reporters 1 Campus Opinion and said, "It's a bad day for the bert Seldes, Genevieve Taggard,
Morris Alexander. Bruce J Manley Contributors are asked to he brief, drys." . . . The original people who Allen Tate, Mark Van Doren, John
Bertram lA~kwith Lester May
Helen arc Mt rtgaret Ylix confining themselves to less than 300 said, "They ought to empty this Wheelwright, Edmund Wilson,
axelaer David M. Nichol wore s of possible. Anonymous corm-
Maxwell hauer illim Pagemunhcations will be disregard(( ].The box-it's stuffed." . . . People who Stark Young.
Howard H. Peckham names of communicants will, however, i wrote little notes on the ballots . ..(The New Republic for March 26,
Allan H. Berkman buh irc e regarded as confidential, upon re-
Arthur J. Bernstein Victor Rabinowitz quest. Letters published should not be People who wrote nothing on the 1930).
S. Beach Conger John D. Reindel construed as expressing the editorial ballots . . . The picture on page 1 t
Thomas M. Cooley Jeannie Roberts t opinion of The Daily.
Hfelen Domine ,oseph A. Russell yesterday showing a night editor, All of which means that if Hu-
Margaret Eckels 1oseph Ruwtch the City editor, and a reporter of manism can stand firm against
Catherine Perrin Ralph R. Sachis ) BLIND CRITISISM.
Carl F. Forsythe Cecelia Shriver the Daily; a ballot box, a desk, and this concerted and most formid-
Sheldon C. Fullerton Charles R. Sprowl I
Ruth Gallmeyer Adsit Stewartr To the Editor: -oh, yes, to be sure-(let me look able attack, which includes the
Ruth Geddes S. Cad well Swanson gi)-rsdn uhe!focso h ain h e e
Ginevra Ginn Jane ThayerI One possibly should never become again)--President Ruthven! forces of The Nation, The New Re-
Tack Goldsmith Margaret Thompson ..* public, Plain Talk, The Saturday
M sGres ird L. Toin dignant; one, however, cannot While tending the ballot box at Review, and the better part of The
Mar aret Harris Eliabeth Valentine help becoming disgusted on read- the Hospital I discovered a fertile American Mercury, it deserves its
can Levy y . Lionel WillensJ ing the letter of March 21 on the field for cigarette butt snipers. In kind fate.
ussell E. McCracken Barhara Wright Gabrilowitsch review, the corridor on the second floor , The note, of course, was designed
Dorothy Magee Vivian ZimitGarlwtcreiwThnoeofousasdigd
Blindness to the written words there are four metal jars filled to invoke a reply from the human-
BUSINESS STAFF tdwith sand in which lecture-bound ists pointing out their work of art,
Telephone 21214 hY. students dunk their smokes. You'll or their approved work of art. This
BUSINESS MANAGER irrelevant emotive remarks, de- find all the brands there and some done, the enemy camp can proceed,
A. J. JORDAN, JR. cided inaccuracy, plus a cheap of them are nearly whole. . . Don't in the several periodicals mention-
Assistant Manager 1slurring aspersion, make this letter snipe the ones with initials on 'em. ed, to tear said work into little bits,
ALEX K. SCHERER quite characteristic of the many * } thereby in one feel swoop destroy-
.EcitMy vote stated that I drank fre- ing the bulwark of the humanist
Department Managers pernicious letters that have been d tiT- i
uentl an j to rov it I en- fU 1ik~4IkO.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1930
NIGHT EDITOR-HENRY MERRY
tquety, umiwuwp uv t 1 ort icat ons.
published on the subject of 'criti- closed this photo: Won't some one please come for-
cism.' This particular letter be-! 7 ward with a suggestion?
comes quite the satire of all such --,THEo--BE
letters when one notices that the d ITHE BOHEST
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EDUCATION FOR ALL.
Aggressive campaigns of educa-
tion are being waged in thirty-five
states by President Hoover's Na-
tional Committe' on Illiteracy and
twenty-six of these states have al-
ready appointed sub-committees
to concentrate on teaching as many
of their citizens as possible how to
read and write. The initial ex-
penses of this national committee,
which is outside of the government,
have been provided by John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., and the Julius
Rosenwald fund.
The theory upon wich the com-
mittee is working is that the edu-
cational resources of 48 rich and
powerful states should be able to
carry education to all the people
and thus stamp out an unhappy
evil so utterly incongruous with
America's purported high civiliza-
ation. Widespread illiteracy would
invalidate our entire system of
representative government..
The need for such a campaign as
the one now being carried on has
long been apparent. The numerous
drives which have been conducted
in recent years to"cure this social
ill and that economic weakness
have all been worthwhile projects,
but this war against illiteracy is
undoubtedly the most fundamen-
tally important from the stand-
point of the° entire nation. If the
Hoover Committee can reduce ig-
norance it will go far toward wip-
ing an ugly blot from America's
'scutcheon.
1,000 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY.
Seventy years before Leif Eric-
son,, a native of Iceland, discovered
the mainland of North America, a
parliamentary form of government,
the Althing, had been established
in his fatherland.
In June of this year, Iceland will;
celebrate the one thousandth anni-
versary of this parliament, the old-
est and the longest enduring in
the world's history. All the leading
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writer was not even present at the
Sc tIt is going to be slightly embar-
On ca he.rassing "to whoop it up for the In-
On cannot help feelng that lander between now and the time
when such a person sees anything / / it coes out next Monday because
with a frame around it, disap- . I myself have modestly contribut-
proved of, they immediately see ed a little article on Humanism
red; neither can one believe that which Mr. Harold Courlander, the
( such a person actually is capable **editor, has kindly consented to
of appreciating so outstanding and Dimwit Dora says there couldn't print in a most unwarranted pro-
so "AUTHORITATIVE" (if I may have been any cheating at the minent position. However, I shall
be permitted to quote the black polls. "Thousands of students didn't strive :not to let that little soft
type which Mr. Gorman felt the even vote once" maintains she, "so soaping blind me in judging the re-
j need of for those who miss ordin- how could they have voted twice?" mainder of the printed matter.
ary print) a conductor as Ossip.*. * . . . For some time past I have been
Gabrilowitsch. I make this state- Ardee Bee says that part about examining the literary magazines
ment from the knowledge that one! finances confused him; he didn't of various colleges in this country
cannot evaluate a man justly with- know whether to mark it frequent- and in addition two from the Brit-
out knowing him in his entirety. ly or occasionally. ish Isles. It can honestly be said
One immediately thinks of Beeth-* * that the Inlander, dating it, of
oven and the utter blindness, or NOTICE. course, from its most recent rene-
possibly dishonesty, of the pre- Frosh, '33, writes me that he is, sceriee and including the material
Thayer biographers, in their at- somewhat indignant that The that is to go into the forthcoming
tempt to see him in all of his be- Daily didn't mention the tremen- issue, simply outdoes any of these
' havior as a bric-a-brac God on a dous success of the Frosh Frolic. others. And it does this in a num-
pedestal. So sterile a conception! "The Daily seems to have forgot- ber of ways. Its appearance and
And so with T. H. McE., conceiving ten,' says he, disgustedly, "that makeup are neater, more profes-
Gabrilowitsch as impeccable - in- there was a party last Friday sional, and more adaptable to the
capable of wrong ; I can't help night." So for the benefit of those material contained. It reviews
thinking from this adjective that who may be interested, Frosh '33 more important books and reviews
T. H. McE. conceives Gabrilowitsch wants me to tell- you all that the them more intelligently. Its poetry
as an emasculated pedestal warm- band was great and the party was is furthest from the typical bad
er. Which is precisely what Gab- a huge success and all that. Isn't college, poetry. Its next issue will
rilowitsch isn't; the man has mas- that just dandy? illustrate its almost surprising
culinity. awareness of contemporory trends
To anyone who read Mr. Gor- SILLY PASTIME. in literature, metaphysics, ethics,
man's criticism with noraml vision, Someone has just sent me a' and criticism.
it will be recalled that Mr. Gor- chain letter, purported to have All this throws a favorable
man became mainly interested in been started in Flanders fields. My light on its editor. But back of it
Gabrilowitsch's apparent restric- punishment for not sending copies all there is the splendid coopera-
tion of himself to certain select to three friends, the letter states, j tion that has been given by certain
classics of the 19th century. These will be bad luck or something. I members of the rhetoric depart-
limitations are obvious (his pro- would make more than 4,000 copies ment. These people, by reason of
grams) whether they were observ- by printing the letter here but I'm! their sympathy with student cre-
ed in N. Y. or not (Paul Rosenfeld not sure it would reach three ative power and the invaluable ser-
notes the same limitation). In fact friends, so I'm sorry to say I'm the vice they have given in discrimin-
that interesteing observation and weak links in that chain. ating criticism, have done more
its interpretation was the basis of: than any one else, even more than
Mr. Gorman's column the following SURE WE HAVEN'T. the careful editing and judging of
day. Dear Joe: While visiting a few Mr. Courlander, to place Inlander
Accordingly why T. H. McE. has patients in the Ohio State insane! within the time of publication of
to refer to Gabrilowitschs ability asylum last week one of them grab- only two issues clearly first in the
as a concert pianist when the bed a Daily out of my pocket, leaf- field of campus literary magazines.
article on hand deals with his pro- ed through the pages frantically The next issue will really -be a
gram is quite incomprehensible ex- until he came to the Rolls column Humanism number. Mr. William
cept as an emotive attempt at and then looked at me with tears Gorman's article on Walter Lipp-
transference of ability. In refer- in his eyes. "Please, please, doc- man and Humanism is ever so
ence to th3 tremendous enthusiast- tor," he sobbed, "when you see Joe much more impressive and finely
ic receptions received in N. Y. and again will you tell him that oysters critical than my own ,and much
also to the "careful reading of don't sunburn, no doubt?" more readable. Aside from these
scores of music reviews" that T. H. Yours, ain't it? two essays on Humanism will be a
McE. talks about may I refer him Fish Chassis. short story by Miss Elizabeth
to the unanimous 'panning' given * * Smith, whom people remember as
by the N. Y. critics (Henderson, Yes, and besides, no, have we? the author of Wives-in-law, which!
Downs, Thompson, etc.) of his pro- * * *.won the one-act play contest, and
gram of Jan. 28. Not that such a THE LATTER, I BELIEVE. A Day's Work which, I might add,
poor display of conducting on that Dear Joe: They're right, by jove, should have won it.
occasion necessarily lessens one Ann Arbor's rainy season is about From off the campus will be fea-
oppreciation of Gabrilowitsch, due again. And we feel only ad- tured Dr. Guy B. Johnson of the
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rather it gives one an opportunity miration for the B. & G. boys who: University of North Carolina, who
to more fully comprehend the man, have built all those drainage canals will contribute some Gullah stories
and so to better evaluate him (in to alleviate the spring floods from which he gathered on St. Helena
my case making me more appreci- our alluvial plain. Question: Will! Island. Poetry will be contributed
ative), in the same way that one's we boys be permitted to stroll down by E. Merrill Root, who is to be
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