PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1930 * 1'* - Published every morning except Monda durngra Tjjvrstyyear by the Board i!n S Coadl of Student Publications. Member of. Western Conference ZIiterialF Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis-g patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published1 herein. - Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate pf postage granted by Third Assistant Post. e master General. Subscription by carrier. $4.0; by wail,E Oices: Ann Arbor Press Building. May1 mard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business,2 ta24.- EDITORIAL STAFfIt Telephone 4925 S MANAGING EDITOR 7 ELLIS B. MERRY Editor.al Chairman........George C. 1 le City Editor ...... .......Pierce Rosenberg News Editor................Donald J. Kline Sports Editor.......Edwar L. 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Maria Atran Mary Jane Kenan Dorothy Bloomgarden Virginia McComb Laura Codling Alice MCully Ethel Constas SylviaMiller e, osopine Convisser Ann Verner ernice Glaserv 1DsorothearWaterman Anna Goldberger Joan Wiese Hortense Goodimg WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1930 Night Editor-DAVID M. NICHOL THE "CONCERT" OF EUROPE Current news dispatches from Europe indicate that Foreign Min- ister Briand's latest proposal to r create an all-European Federation have met with general disfavor, even in France, his home country. One of the New York correspon- dents stated recently that the plan was "received coolly and met with all sorts of adverse critisism." 1 Two definite stands have been taken on the new consolidation question which include nearly all the prominent, leaders of the con- tinent. The majority view the plan as merely another "league without teeth in it." There are a few less sceptical statesmen, however, who see the move at a "step in the right direction." Although few modern government heads are far-seeing enough to actually picture a "Unit- ed States of Europe" after centuries of international conflict on both1 the battlefields of oratory and of, war, there remain a scattered rem- nant whose foresight is, we believe, astonishing to say the least. I It is not our point to declare that the Briand plan will not work, for nothing which has not been tried need be condemned on sight. We do contend, however, that the ideal of a United States of Europe is .just a bit far-fetched for even the best imagination. Students ofI European history are aware of theI tremendous national and interna- tional feeling which has influencedl continental governments and peo-I ple for the past thousand years. The Great War proved that hetero- geneous peoples 'cannot be cooped up within certain definite borders and expected to live peaceably after centuries of hatred, rivalry' and strife. When the United State of American came into being, one common cause prevailed, to firmly cement the complex group state is inspired is even theoretic- ally false.4 Briand may be a far-sighted statesman and may honestly be- lieve in his "United States of Europe" but the plan seems wholly impractical and theoretically un- sound. Briand's judgment in stat- ing that eventually European na- tions must consolidate against the high tariff wall which the United States perennially erects is sound enough. But farther than a mere commercial agreement between na- tions of the continent, there can' be little hope of a "United States of Europe" under a plan more politi- cally rigorous that the League of Nations. 0 THE MC CORMICK-LEWIS FIGHT. The fight for the senatorial seat from Illinois this fall will be one which will attract nation-wide in- terest. Mrs. Ruth McCormick will run against Jim Lewis, of pink- whisker fame, who is campaigning on the Democratic platform. Mrs. McCormick has lived in a political atmosphere most of her life. Her father was the brilliant Mark Hanna, who represents the nearest to a national "boss" that the United State has known; her husband was senator from Illinois until his death in 1922. She ran for the nomination against Senator Deneen on the world court issue, but, as a number of prominent citizens pointed out in a petition to the senatorial investigation com- mittee, her real support came, not because of her opposition to the World Court, but from the Cook county machine, which at present controls Chicago, and the women's votes. There were no clearly de- fined issues except that the Cook machine had tired of Senator De- neen. Jim Lewis, whose whiskers are reputed to have faded somewhat since he last sat in the Senate, was one of Wilson's right hand men during his administration. He was one of the outstanding figures in the senate, because of his per- sonality, appearance, oratorical powers, and political acumen. He undoubtedly would add life to the senate and take his place next to Borah and Reed as the leaders. The question on which he, as a shrewd politician, wishes to fight out this campaign, is prohibition. The most astute candidates have always carefully avoided this issue, but Mr. Lewis, who usually thought three jumps ahead of Deneen, be- lieves that he can think one or two ahead of Mrs. McCormick; and in forcing the debate on this issue, an event which Mrs. McCormick is most anxious to avoid, he hopes to win the election. Rumors are prevalent that the Thompson ma- chine supported Mrs. McCormick to defeat Deneen and later back Lewis; at present the odds are even, but hte fight will bear watching and the outcome will be of interest to all ambitious women politicians. -o y, ED ROLL ELECTIONS ARE OVER. 0-- Md Music And Drama t Well, the voting is over.' mains the counting and ing. ** * I see the Union officials hibited card playing in1 There re- the grip- have pro-{ the lobby 1 1 J now. Never mind boys. Therey isn't a single rule-(and I know be- couse I spent a whole month read-, ing the rules of the University on the subject of misdemeanors)-as I was saying there isn't a single rule against playing marbles on the diagonal. Come on fellows, let's go! * * * DISCOVERY. The Rolls archaeological bureau has dug up an interesting relic. They report that over on an ob- scure corner of the Law building there is a tablet that says some- thing about "Free Education, Per- sonal Liberty." It is such valuable work as, this that keeps us so well informed on the manners and1 customs of the bygone ages so that we may profit by their foolish mis- takes. a * * FORECAST. Rolls takes this opportunity to prophesy by the aid of the special dual control Rolls Patent three speed prophesyer that whatever the result of tpe honor system poll was the average honor among the theives that surround me in my math class won't go up a bit. (That was for the black hearted villain who had the wrong answer to problem five on his paper last week. I guess it ought to show him all right all right.) * * * I see by the papers that there is now a possibility of getting some-f thing in return for the ten dollars a year we pay to the Union. Those who have been here four years can run right over and get a life-time member's pin free. I regard this as a laudable motion in the direction of the "Free Education" business. * a * * ANOTHER DISCOVERY. It has lately been determined by a wealth of circumstantial evidence that Shakespeare, when he wrotej "Twelfth Night," was inspired to dash off the ditty-"And the rain it raineth every day" by a week's stay, in Ann Arbor. We do not, however, vouch for 'the authenticity of this claim. *k * * A THIRD DISCOVERY. I have just found that the rest! of this column is already written. That one is worth all the rest put together. TONIGHT: Second performance of Albert Sherwood's historical burlesque "The Road to Rome" in the Mimes Theatre, at 8:30. THE CAST. \leta ......................E ugenic Chapel Fabia ......................... Helen Carrn Fabius .................... ...Gcorge Prichs Amytis ....................Jospehine Rankin Scipio ........................... Alvin Katz I Sergeant.....................George Johnson Hasdrubal. ..................George Tremble Mago .......................Kenneth White Hiannibal ...f.................Norm~an Brown I THE ROAD TO ROME. j A Review. Mimes climaxed a strikingly hor- rible year last night with a produc- tion that definitely and vigorously wrests the honor from Comedyl Club's In Love With Love of being! the most frankly bad dramatic fare IT L. G. BALFOUR CO. 1121 South University FRATERNITY JEWELERS Badges-Favors-Programs Corkey Stanard, Mgr. MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW EUROPE, ORIENT 0o ANYWHERE- A BYLINE STEAMSHIP CLASS TRAVELFRS CHEQUES. ETC. E.G.KEBLER.Steamship Agt Bos.L 6 41 IL.Hurw Aa Aror Fi -- --------------- "~ - *ONO MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONEC~o Telephne Ho"me Long Distance Rates are Su"prisingly 1i I I Editorial Coi --e mment r o -- BEAR MARKET. (From The Harvard Crimson) Dartmouth college went Boy Scout yesterday morning in a fash- ion that puts the famous Outing Club to shame. Clothing designers all over the country sat up to take notice as the men of green-five hundred strong - turned out for the daily jamboree in shorts. Lead- ing Hanover undergraduates report the abbreviations are here to stay and manufacturers of young men's apparel are getting ready for a short cut to style. It is only too easy to picture the i effect of Dartmouth's attempt to cool off. When New Haven tailors found out they could sell more cloth if they cut their customer's trousers like a sailor's every office boy in New York followed suit. At Dartmouth the college newspaper thought it necessary to urge foot- ball men to set the precedent for shorts in order that the more timid would follow. This counsel was unnecessary, the habit will doubt- less spread across the country over night. Boys in the big city to the south who have been running around all winter without hats will shortly have the pleasure of mak- ing -their flapper friends feel at, home in the subway. At Harvard, where threre is a strong msaculine tradition never to be caught short, the new vogue will probably not get much of a AH! A PROOFREADER CRASHES THROUGH' Every Michigan Man Firmly Maintains and Believes That: 1. The dean's office employs male and female spies. 2. All Ypsi girls are of question- able character. 3. All our athletes have an easy paying job. 4. Good looking co-eds get bet- ter marks than they deserve. 5. The B. and G. boys spend most of their time looking for work to do.- 6. English professors are all ef- feminate. 7. Only grinds elect math. 8. High school girls secretly wor- ship him. 9. All Japanese students are Phi Betes. 10. He knows where to get the best beer in Ecorse. 11. Next year the football team will be better. 12. All economic professors go broke on the market. 13. Truck has athlete's foot. 14. The Gargoyle steals most of its jokes. 15. George Tilly writes most of The Daily. 16. All student elections arel crooked.I 17. Most medics turn out drunk- ards. 18. Engineers use a slide rule to square two. 19. No one goes to the Arboret- um to study plant life. 20. All dent students come from South America. 21. ' He has discovered a new pipe course for the next semester. 22. Canoes are not made to pad- dle. 23. Everyone used to join the opera as an excuse to get drunk. 24. Dean Rea is scared to cross the street in traffic. 25. Nobody ever reads Rolls. offered in the last three years. Un- doubtedly one shouldn't have gone. The play (in rehearsal about a week in all it is rumored) was ob- viously far from ready for dress rehearsal. In its form last night, it proved valuable as a textbook of immaturities-the pecularly ob- noxious immaturities that only amateurs can turn loose. The first act was first in horror. George Priehs, by punctuating all his lines with feverish lapses of memory, made the act, from the point of view of tempi, a fantatia by Stravinsky-Which is confusion of the arts. He was playing the' part of Fabius, the elderly Roman! Kelvinator whose talk and toga bored his wife, Amytis. He was anxious to point Sherwood's satiric' moral ("the old Roman helmeted head is the same as the fat Rotar- ian head, world without end, Amen") and probably would have. But his memory failed him. This is a fault at which normally every- one is rightfully tolerant; but not when by repetition it is quite suf- ficient to make one act of three quite ridiculous. Of course, there were other faults, too numerous to fully eluci- date. Scipio staggered in with hor- rible red gashes, delivered his news, and then discovered surprising virility and remained masterfully erect and potent throughout the act. This same actor had a mar- velous gesture-hand high in the air, fingers subtly poised-which he duplicated with amazing accuracy at least twenty times throughout the play. The entrance of the three senators anticipated the ele- phant parade which they were later allowed to witness in Hanni- bal's camp; they all were very heavy and all stumbled. Then, per- haps eager to atone , they spoke very feebly and unromanly for the frest of the act. The last two acts were not, couldn't have been, as bad as the first. They were adequately medi- ocre. Norman Brown gave solidity and sense to the production by a grave, honest projection of Hanni- bal in all his bellicose stiffness. Miss Rankin, too, as Amytis gave an adequate rendering of her part. Doubtless, she never fully recover- ed from the torturous shock of the staggering cues and rhythms she got in the first act from her hus- band. Doubtless, in later perform- ances she will get more of the hu- mour out of the part, as very clear- ly she has the right conception. George Johnson again proved his talent for burlesque very pleas- antly. George Tremble as Has- drubal added fine vehemence and I fine tempo to the production. Ken- neth White was uproariously pa- thetic as Hannibal's brother, con- demned to keep the elephants in order to prove Hannibal's imparti- ality. In fact, throughout the last two acts there was clear indication of the presence of talent enough to warrant a successful production about Friday night. This indica-' tion of the talent present warrants the harshness of the criticism here. Otherwise one might merely laugh pleasantly at the miserable child- ishness with which Mimes tore up; Robert Sherwood's delightful his- torical cartoon. As has been the case for some years, those responsi- ble for the direction seemed to have no interest in the minor details of this production. And as usual, the minor details overwhelmed the talent. A man is being brought here next month to consider the dramatic situation on the campus from the point of view of a problem to be A Reliable Source of Information Printing News While It Is News THE MICHIGAN DAILY t ..,..,_... .r---- c AFTER UNIVERSIT Y WHAT? A practical secretarial or accounting course will prepare you for definite employment. Begin at once or with the summer classes in June. Free placement service. HAMILTON BUSINESS COLLEGE State and William Sts. . r - "". Drin >r Delicious and Refreshing There's a . y r .. The representative rates listed below are for day Station-to-Station calls and are effective between 4:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m. A Station-to-Station call is one made to a telephone number rather thin to a particular person. 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