UR THE MICHIGAN DAILY _ Published every morning except Monday ring the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member o Western Conference Editorial heAssociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- ptches credited to it or not otherwise credited ithis paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of posta e granted by Third Assistant Post- a3tOe_, eneral. ' Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4923 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Boar4 HENRY MERRY FRANK E. CoOPEr, City Editor News Editor ...............Gurney Williams E'ditorial Director ..........Walter W. Wilds Sports~ Editor .. ,........Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor:........ .Mary L. Behymer Music, Drama, Books.......Win. J. Gorman Assistant City Editor....... Harold U. Warren Assistant News Editor......harles R. Sprowl Telegraph Editor ........George A. Stauter Copy Editor.................Wm. F. Pypet NIGHT EDITORS S. Beach Conger John D. Reindel Carl S. Forsythe Charles R. Sprowl David M. Nichol Richard L. Tobin Harold 0. Warren SroRTs AssIsTANTs Sheldon C. Fullerton J. Cullen Kennedy Charles A. Sanford REPORTERS the spade-work seems ghoulish, its necessity outweighs its unpleasant- ness. THE INTELLECTUALS CONFER While the hard-working, intelli- gent senators and representatives are relieved from the burdens and worries of a congressional session, it appeared last week that the so- called progressive Republicans were not content with the many bom- bastic statements they had given to the press during the session, and they called a conference to con- sider a program of "enlightened legislation under enlightened lead-1 ership." Senator LaFollette (Rep., I Wis.) is to be credited with this new move in the political maneuv- ering for positions in the next Con- gress. The new project is nothing morec than an attempt to air the mouth- ings of the various Liberal repub- licans in a program which is sup- posed to attract as much favorable publicity to their cause as possible. It is, also, Senator Norris's answer to the regular Republicans for wanting to exile him from the party. It is undoubtedly intended to bring to the standard of this Republican off-shoot the more agricultural states, through the "discussion" of the debenture ex- port plan, and eventually the spon- sors may hope for a complete con- version of the old die-hards to their new policies, for a rebirth of the Republican party. Considering that the motives be- hind the movement are rather self- ish, and purely for party purposes, one can, at first, hardly refrain from condemning the project from the start. It is an earlier beginning of the usual political ballyhoo which preceeds a nominating convention and, once the candidate has been chosen, the froth at the mouth usually disappears, and the normal party lines are resumed. On that reason it might be excused as an extremely novel method of rallying 'round the forces for some progres-. sive Presidential candidate, but rather hopeless. As for the enlightened legislation program, the senators involved in the conference have contributed their brilliant debates, penetrating arguments and piercing logic to every issue which has come up be- MUSIC AND DRAM "THE CRUISE OF THE COSMOS" Reviewed by Frank E. Cooper. The grand old American institu- tion of the Sunday School concert has not perished. Adequate proof that this form of entertainment still persists and that it maintains a degree of popularity with a large portion of our citizenry was fur- nished last night in Hill auditor- ium, when faculty members and students of the University united with professional talent from De- troit in presenting this year's edi- tion of the Cosmopolitan club's annual International Night pro- gram. It was all very much like the presentation of a Christmas pa- geant at a country church house, with a Christmas tree in one cor- ner of the stage and an effigy of Santa Claus perched atop a chim- ney in the other corner, and an assembly of proud parents gathered to watch their progeny perform, and to gossip comfortably before, during, and after the performance. The students who packed Hill auditorium last night went there in the same frame of mind as did the people who went to Sunday School concerts in the gay nine- ties. They were uncritical. They lznew from past experience that they would find some amusement in the program; they expected some good dancing and some poor danc- ing; some rotten music, some that was good, and some jazz. They heard and saw quite what they ex- pected, and were pleased. They did not object to an occasional dull 'spot on the program. Yes, "The Cruise of the S. S. Cos- mos" was very like a Sunday School concert. But it was also a great deal more than that. In fact, it was the best international night program that the campus has seen during the past five years, at least. For the first time, the program had a beginning, middle, and end. Once the performance started, there was no break (save for an unscheduled intermission of a few moments when one of the troupes was not ready to appear on time, About Books' SOME ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM LEIGH HUNT'S "EXAMINER" EX- AMINED: by Edmund Blunden: Harper and Bros: 1931. Until very recently, certain ex- trinsic things-his more or less de- plorable influence on Keats, his shady money-dealings with Shelley, Byron's expressed contempt f o r him, and Carlyle's peevish remarks about him-were allowed to deter- mine popular judgment of Leigh Hunt. But Edmund Blunden, w h o s e sympathies as a poet and a scholar have always been in that period, has recently taken Leigh Hunt in hand. His biography "Leigh Hunt and His Circle," published last year, quite effectively cancelled the pic- ture of Hunt as a shallow, fantas- tic creature of facile ardours and grandiose gestures. The book show- ed Hunt entirely admirable in many aspects that were hitherto unrec- ognized. Now Mr. Blunden follows up his biography with a charming and rather novel book that defends Hunt from another angle. The "Ex- aminer" (L e i g h Hunt's brilliant paper published from 1808 to 1825) is the hero of this book. Blunden recreates the conditions w h i c h brought this journal into being, de- scribes its content4 analyses its spirit a n d purpose, traces and judges its influence. And all with keen insight and a well-sustained enthusiasm. MUST YOU ; .. / '. ,.. 1 , .. MISTAKES ? Thomas M. Cooler Morton Frank S aul :Friedberg Frank B. Gilbrethl Jack Goldsmith Oland Goodmas Morton Helper Jamnes jubunsml Bryan Jones Denton C. Kunse Eileen Blunt Nanette Dembits Elsie lFeldman Rut~h Gallmeyft EmilyG. Grimes an Lev Susan Manchester Powers Moulton Wilbur J. Meyers B~rainard W. Nies Robert L. Pierce Richard Racine Jerry E. Rosenthal Karl Seiffert George A. Stauter Tohn W. Thomas Sohn S. Townsend Mary McCall Cile Miller Margaret O'Brien Eleanor Rairdon Anne Margaret Tobin Margaret Thompson Claire Trussell BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2121.4 T. HOLLISTER MABLEY, Business Msnagf, KASPZ 1T. HALVERSON, Assistant Manager DEPARTMENT MANAGERS Advertsi .............Charles T. Kline Advertising........... .Thomas M. 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The chief corollary of this aim is that, also ideally, the student rep- resentative agency should be at least an intermediary between the student body and the administra- tion; it should intercede in behalf of student interests, present the student view on pertinent issues, and if it is worth its salt, it should even go to the mat for the preser- vation of normal, individual free- dom, which in all but pathological cases is considered a right, not a gracious amenity handed down from the throne-room of some 'benovolent' autocrat who happens to Abe smiling at the time. All this is ideal; the practical picture is strikingly different. Petty squabbles over minor malfactions,1 an intolerant paternalistic attitude J 1 i 1 Iore Congress this sesion. Whenas is often the case in amateur their ideas have been reasonable, theatricals) until the grand finale the other groups have infrequently was reached.' For the first time acceded to the amendments. Yet in history the Internaional Night the Senators have promised that program of last night boasted'a nothing of a political nature will be stage setting which at least hid the discussed. One can, therefore, pre- ugly pipes of the Hill auditorium sume, that these intellectual genii willappy th thoris ofKeyer-organ. will apply the theories of Keyser- For the first time, in a word, the ling, Marx, and others to the var- performance was staged by a pro- ous problems which confront the essional showman - Ruth Ann nation. Their altruistic motives are bakes-and to her must go a great to be admired, although their dc- deal of credit for the success of the sire for uniformity in legislation performance. She had the courage may obtain for them the desired tout the acts of the least talented embarrassment to President Hoover. terformers to reasonable limits, To make the representation of nderoies to re be limits- patriotic gentlemen complete, they d to insist that there be no pen- need add only the name of Sen- Ios of silence between the end of ator Nye. one act and the beginning of the next. For years, this column has specu- lated on the possibilities that lay in Editorial Comment the International Night idea, if Sonly a competent director were se- .....++J +..+Nan.v yr + vim. a wu vvica,.v uts nv b b 1b a g C c c r II 1] The most illuminating thing the book does is to give us a clearer picture of the state of opinion a- bout poetry contemporary with the 'Examiner" than do the rather better-known vilifications of the 'Quarterly" (with which the "Ex- aminer" waged a most delightfully bitter war.) The "Examiner" was quite as unequivocal in its opposed policy as w a s the "Quarterly." Through Leigh Hunt, it expressed only contempt for Southey. Through Leigh Hunt, it expressed only contempt for Southey. Through Hazlitt, it poured damnation on the other Lake Poets (the famous re- view of "Christabel," the remarks about "Kubla Khan," the brilliant attack on the "Excursion" means to overwhelm Wordsworth's poetic nostrum of the simple cottager). Meanwhile, Leigh Hunt was writ- ing the papers (which Mr. Blunden happily reprints in their entirety) in which he showed a surprising sensitivity to genius unrealized and an intelligent zest in defence of it. The "Examiner" through these ten or fifteen years was almost the only friend of Keats, Shelley, and Byron. And despite some excessive adula- tion (which was a reaction against the Quarterly's railing) it was an intelligent friend (as the acuteness of Hunt's textual criticism proves). This whole critical struggle is probably very necessary to the stu- dent of the period; and this book gives it completely, intelligently, and pleasantly. Sign VOGUE.. Conde Nast 10 I'VOUE $2 . One of the Publications the coupon now and mail STEPPE NG I NTO JINGOISM IN EDUCATION (From Daily Princetonian) Through the columns of the New York Times, Mr. Louis A. Cuvillier of the New York Legislature has; voiced his disapproval of the dole- - gation of American students who called on President Hoover and members of Congress with a pro- posal to "outlaw the compulsory f~n-.7n of f ililai r i rn frn o the university egged on by ieaIures o mi ary training rom squeamish parents and alumni, and American colleges and universi- a perhaps unduly youthful urge of ties." Their petition, signed by 10,- students to retain small privileges, 000 undergraduates in 55 institu- all have ruptured the main sources tions, is based on the contentionI of friendly trust and cooperation, that the study of military scienceI even mutual respect of students and "idealizes war and inculates a administration. This swerve is more spirit of unquestioned military obe- than a tendency; it has well nigh dience which is an emotional arm- become an established fact through ament of war." disparagement over such fruits of In his criticism of their action, the University's beneficent wisdom Mr. Cuvillier reveals a discouraging as. are bound to come from an as- lack of faith in humanity: "the sumed father and son, or the later world will escape the blight of war host and guest relationships. The when man has ceased to be hu- university's intentions and the stu- man." He appeals also to that illog- dents' intrests are at opposite ical promulgation of the militarist: poles. "To insure peace, you must prepare A more emasculated form of the for war." His concluding statement original ideal for student govern- is, "It is better for the nation and ment was then thought up, that the student that military scienceI of permitting the student council be studied in the colleges and uni- to exist for routine small jobs with versities than to have our nation occasional resolutions on the side. perish from the earth." We would This marked the nadir of the stu- be in hearty accord with the lastI lent government farce at Michi- declaration, could we be at all per- gan. Since this campus entered isuaded that the abolition of un-. upon a regime of mock-representa-' dergraduate R. O. T. C. courses tion by -uninterested and unim- would precipitate the perishing of{ pressive political eunochs, the gen- our nation from this earth. eral run of students have found Only education can hasten theI recourse for their liberties and time when the boundaries of com- sensibilities in a growing spirt of munal interest will extend beyond caired to whip the material into show form. Last night, Mrs. Oakes