PACE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DDAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1930 Published every morning except Monday during the TJnivesrsity year by the Boart! is Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association.. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tho use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and the local news published herein. I Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, ticbigan, as second class matter. special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post . ater General. Subscription by carrier, $4.0; by mal, flices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May-. mard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, rx:4. EDITORIAL STAFrg Telephone 4925' MANAGING EDITOR ELLIS B. MERRY Editorial Chairman.........George C. Tilley City Editor.............Pierce Rosenberg News Eitor..............Donald . Kline Sports Editor........Edward L. 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Constas Sylvia Miller Sosephine Covisser Ann'Verner errnce Glaser 1Dorothea Wateran AnnaGoldberger Joan Wiese "ortense Gooding WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1930 Night Editor-DAVID M. NICHOL WHAT ARE RHODES SCHOLARS FOR,? In proposing to change the basis of selecting Rhodes scholars, the trustees and the British Parliament are indulging in an extraordinary departure not only from the terms of Cecil Rhodes' will, but also from his express intent. He provided for the award of two. scholarships to each state. The new plan is to choose scholars by regions or dis- tricts. . The purpose is to get better stu- dents. Some states have appointed men who were not so good as others who were rejected in the more populous states. Granted. But Rhodes was thinking, not of intel- lectual, athletic or social advance solely, but of political advance, of making for better understanding between England and America. He wanted to keep sending back to every part of our country men who had lived and studied in his coun- try. It was essential to his purpose that many of them should come from and return to our more re- mote and less sophisticated towns. A few American graduates of Ox- ford can hardly make a dent in New York or Chicago, but they can powerfully influence the public! opinion of Albuquerque or the Ozarks. Campus Opinion Contributors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than too worA of possible. Anonymous Vo.'s 1 munications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential, upon re- quest. Letters published should not, be { construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. The Editor, The Michigan Daily, blood of 27 is hardly even a drop compared with the pools of inno- cent Indian blood which the Brit- ish police may be expected to shed in the next few months. The re- sponsibility for all these murders rests with the British. The British have no right to rule India. Their soldiers and police are murderers in a foreign land in which they have no right. "No man has any1 right in another man's country with a gun on.his shoulder." England should not disregard the India question you argue because the lives of hundreds of Europeans and Englishmen may be in danger. Your hollow pettiness is evident in your reason, not in the sugges- tion to deal with the question of India. You seem to consider the lives and the loot, (property you call it), of a few hundred Euro-I peans as the major or important issue. The lives, property and the freedom of a fifth of mankind you seem to consider of secondary or perhaps of little importance. Could pettiness go further? If you want to think about Indian problems you will have to think in larger terms -certainly not in terms of hun-. dreds-even if lives are European. You have a dense ignorance of with passive resistance means or of the conditions of British life in India. The people of India are ab- solutely and completely disarmed, maybe a few but not very many air guns, even. Perhaps consciously but probably due to the same ignorance you join the word European to English in your comment. India has no quar- rel with Europeans or Americans or' any other people except the British. You should at least know that. Boycott of cloth promulgat- ed by the All-India National Con- gress is not a boycott of all trade. Those commodities that India can not produce just now are not in- cluded in this boycott of foreign goods. Think, the tendency to- wards boycott is expressed by free nations in their tariff imposts. That passive resistance is futile is and only can be comprehended by you. If passive resistance is futile, do you advocate active re- sistence? It is annoying to Eng- land, you suggest. Precisely, the intention and desire of the people of India is not only and merely to annoy by passive resistance, if pos- their position in that country un- tenable by passive resistence, if pos- sible; by other means, if impossible by passive resistance. You make a very serious mistake when you say that England would solve her 400,000,000 problem. It is just the other way around. The British are the problem of India, "How best to dispose of them, with- out being cruel or even unkind." Passive resistance is a far kinder method than violence. You say it i~ futile. Well what is India to do? Does the answer lie in your comment that passive resistance is futile? India hopes you are mis- taken, but perhaps you know the British better-know history, 1876 and so forth. British greed (imperialist and na- tionalist) has been the human problem -for 200 years and more. Look at a map of the world. The red shows where human blood has been shed to gorge this greed. Maybe I see more than the facts warrant, but certainly Empires are not built on self-sacrifice, abnegation, hu- mility, philanthrophy and a love for freedom. Perhaps you know history differently. Now, Sir, you will hear-there is the censor and the experience gained by the British in propa- ganda during the war,-of how the people of India "murder Belgian babies and cut off the breasts of women and the chubby hands of tiny tots," and this believing and gullible world will drink it all in. We will hear of such things and probably worse ones, Indians have no wireless, or radios or news services,-in spite of the "Green Goddess"-and most Americans will believe such news. Editors, too have often the gullibility not far above the average. As a matter of fact the world has listened only to the British version of India for 200 years. A shameful interpretation, biassed-unclean- worthy only of an imperialist group determined and equipped to pro- duce an unfriendly attitude to- wards the innocent millions of de- fenseless India. I write this, however, with deep appreciation of that desire for the exposition of truth that lurks be- hind the writings of every intelli- gent and progressive student con- i Music and Drama I--- I- BIG MAY SALE 20% DISCOUNT ON FRATERNITY JEWELRY Burr, Patterson & Auld 603 Church I _ 1I r,, First May Festival Program The Festival program tonight promises a rather more than usual variety. Quietly and unostentatiously, perhaps a tribute to late-comers, the Chicago Symphony Orchestry will open with Georg Schumann's Liebesfruhling Overture. o Miss Dux then very properly offers the E Susanna non vien aria from The Mariage de Figaro. In her years of activity Miss Dux was always the lyric soprano with the consummate grace of style, the exquisite softness of tone necessary to Mozart singing. She was always the aristocrat of her art, using a tone of cool, fragile loveliness. Her later choice on the program will be the three well-known songs with f orchestra by Richard Strauss, Freundliche Vision, Morgen, and Standchen.1 Percy Grainger, pianistic playboy of the American continent, widelyk admired for the width of his repertoire, is the most important artist of the evening. His first offering will be the John Alden Carpenter Concertino for piano and orchestra,3 which he had the honor of first perform- ing back in 1916. Carpenter's work in all forms of4" composition has been pretty largely of an attractively humorous nature. He has always had a properly American scorn for depth and contented himself with such works as the Krazy Kat suite, a fine bon mot now somewhat outmoded, and the humorous coments on in- - fantile sentiments in Adventures in a Perambulator. His Skyscrapers, too, were soon found to be practically cardboard. These musical jokes, because their achievement was pretty largely in the- current idiom of the year they were Grainger written in, are becoming passe as all jokes do. His most considerable claim to permanence of appeal, lies, it is generally granted, in his Concertino. The music is still of the same quality but the exigencies of writing for a solo instrument in addition to the orchestra and of writing to established forms stimulated him technically to a rather more important achievement. Carpenter's own note on the work, significantly light, indicates the music's quality: "Not to impose on it a definite program but merely to establish the mood of the piece, it may be suggested that the Concertino is, in effect, a light-hearted conversation between piano and orchestra-as between two friends who have traveled different paths and become a little garrulous over their separate experiences. The conver- sation is mostly of rhythms. The rules of polite talk, as always between friends, are not strictly observed-often in animated moments they talk both at once, each hearing only what he says himself (a naive way of-.saying expect dissonance). There is still much to be said- on a pleasant night-with youth in the air-between friends." At any rate it is an attractive work of exceeding interest stylistically, presenting nice conversational problems to the piano andethe orchestra. Grainger will close the program with Cesar Franck's Symphonic Variations, one of the most effective compositions for piano and orches- tra not in the concerto style. The expansion of the variation form. achieved by Beethoven, Schuman and Brahms, made possible this subtle use of it by Franck. Three Exhibitions A REVIEW BY JEAN PAUL SLUSSER Amusing evidence of the completeness with which modernism has struck in American art within the last few years is afforded by the fact that exhibitions by two such diverse groups as Scandinavian Artists and Young American Moderns can be combined, as in the present showing in Alumni Memorial Hall, so as to bepractically indistinguish- able. It may be said that the unity of both exhibitions is a loose one, and consists largely in an open-minded and experimental attitude on the part of the artists towards approach and methods. This is indeed a rough and ready description of modernism, although of a somewhat negative sort. Those who were brought up on a strict -diet of impres- sionism, and are accustomed to a pretty thorough accounting for the facts of superficial appearance in their art will be at a loss here to discover any more unifying principle in these pictures, or indeed to see in many cases what all the excitement is about. Yet an open-minded approach on the part of the public will yield far greater returns than the simple attitude of resistance to all that is new and strange. Like it or not, this is the world the artists of today are giving us to live in, and sooner or later we are going to find ourselves at home in it. In neither of these exhibitions are works of the first importance, if one except the portrait of Charles Bateman by Henry Mattson, but their significance as revealing the tendencies of our time, as exhibiting the common idiom of the day out of which a new art-language is being molded, is perhaps the greater "for that. This is the best opportunity Ann Arbor has had this year to become acquainted with contemporary painting, because here it is seen in the hands of some of the younger men whose reputations are still on the make, and it is exhibited in its common or garden rather than in its official aspects. The quality which runs through most of this work, diverse as it is, and entitles it to be classed as modern-there are a few notable excep- tions, particularly in the work of some of the Scandinavian-Americans- is its complete insistence upon the formal or design aspects of the picture. Some of these canvases show design in its more limited and obvious asp'ects, as the flat-color geometricized arrangements of Knud Merold, or the line and color day-dreams of the Ulreichs-both are vaudeville entertainers: Buk is a hoofer, and Nura croons mammy-songs, (but why not? American art has been burdened with uplift and earnest- ness too long, it is time for some one not only to dance and sing but to shout in it). The topical interest, the whimsical and sentimental,. is certainly here, but these pictures, whether successful or no, are conceived as designs, and actually decorate the space within the limits of their frames. The more representative approach is essayed by Arnold Blanch and Arnold Wiltz, two extremely serious-minded young men of Woodstock, each with a very personal approach to his subject. "The Olive Tree" of Wiltz is one of the most thoroughly well planned and beautifully executed compositions in the exhibition. More abstract and more Parisian is the idiom of Cramer and Mangravite, the latter of a Puck- like whimsicality. Birger Sandzen, the Kansas-Scandinavian master, shows three canvases in the high color scale of the long-departed neo-impressionists which still do not look out of place in this somewhat vivid company. The small group of canvases by Charles Hawthorne in the North Gallery will give particular ease and pleasure to those who abhor the new and the experimental, and who test the excellence of an art-work by what the generation of critics exemplified by Royal Cortissoz denominate as its 'quality,' meaning, one guesses, a certain urbanity of handling which suggests the time-ripened patina of the old masters. This Hawthorne offers in generous quantities, as well as qualities of dignity, aloofness and repose, which may or may not be imitated from certain old masters, but which-unfortunately, perhaps,-are less inJ demand by the current generation than they were by the generation which chiefly nourished the art of Hawthorne. Hawthorne's greatest MAXE RESERVATIONS NOW EUROPE, ORIENT on ANYWHERE. LINE ANYI C SHIP GLASS TRAVELERS CHEQUES. ETC. ECKEBLER, Steamship Agit Licgased & Sea" *41 J. Huron. Ana Arbow TYPEWRITERS RIBBONS SUPPLIES for all makes of Typewriters. 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