THE: M I C H I G AN DAILY THURSDAY, MARCH 12,- 1931 __I Published every morning except Monday during the University Year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all newsdis- pace redited to it or not otherwise credited in thispaper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan assecond class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- waate; General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 2r124. ,EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY FRaa E. COOPEx, City Editwr News Editor ........... Gurney Williams Editorial Director ..........alter XW. Wilds Sports-Editor............Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor ......... Mary L. Behyrnier Music, Drama, Books.......Wm. J. Gorman Assistant City Editor....... Harold 0. Warren Assistant News Editor...... Charles R. Sprowi Telegraph. Editor...........George A. Stauter CopyGEditor HE................WDI.T.Pype NIGHT EDITORS. reason for the abolition of an insti- tution which has proven its worth' time' after time, year after year. Perhaps if the sceptic would ask a man whose hell week was fair, de- cent, and moderately hard just exactly what he thought of the institution, such editorials as the "Daily Iowan's" wouldn't have to be printed. It is only when frater- nities forget that they are, primar- ily, groups of gentlemen, whether theoretically or not, that there is any doubt of the worth of hell .week. Our five erstwhile room and boarding clubs now eating at the Union and the League have a splendid opportunity really to make a name for themselves. Why not an amalgamation-the Union Lea- gue club? Undergraduate opposition to the erection of a million-dollar chapel is reported at Harvard university. Yes, Harvard is the Michigan of the East. S. Beach Conger Carl S. Forsythe David M. Nichol JhnAD. Reindel Charles R. Sprowl Richard L. Tobin Harold 0. Warrem ,SPORTS ASSISTANTS Sheldon C. Fullerton A I.Cullen Kenneth Charles A. Sanford REPORTERS Thomas M. Cooley Morton Frank Saul Friedberg Frank B. Gibretl Lack Goldsmith oland Goodman Morton Helper James Johnson Bryan Jones Denton C. Kunie Eileen Blunt Nanette Dembitz Elsie Feldman Ruth Gallmeyer Emily G. Grimes en Lev Srotn Mageer Susan Manchester Powers Moulton Wilbur J. Meyers Brainard W. Nies Robert L. Pierce Richard Racine Jerry E. Rosenthal Karl Seiffert Geor e A. Stauter TohnV. 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 Meuagef. KAsPRX I. HALVERSON, Assistant Mansager DEPARTMENT MANAGERS Advertisirg... .... ..Charles T. 'Kline Advertising............Thomas M. Davis Advertising............William W. Warboys Service.........Norris J. Johnson Publication...........Robert W. Williamson Circulation.............Marvin S. Kobacker Accounts....... ...homas S. Muir Business Secretary............Mary J. Kenan Assistants Marry R. Beglev Vernon Bishop William Brown Robert Callahan William W. Davis Richard H. Hiller Miles Hoisington Ann W. Verner Marian Atran Helen Bailey Josephine Convid e Maxine Fishgrund Dorothy LeMire Dorothy Laylin Erle Kightlinger Don W. Lyon William Morgan Richard Strat:melee Keith TIter Byrou C. Veddat Sylvia Miller Helen Olsen Mildred Postal j Marjorie Rough Mary E. Watt Johanna Wiese . Editorial Comment FRATERNITY FRESHMEN- From The "DAILY NEBRASKAN" Fraternity freshmen are an un- usual lot. They are so downtrodden. When one pauses to reflect, it seems almost a tragedy. Why, until the 'Interfraternity council fixed things up, they were denied initiation into their respective lodges if they had flunked any subject. It was too bad. How can anyone expect a freshman to pass all his scholastic hours? It's ridiculous. The theory of the thing seemed to be that every freshman had to take a flock of required subjects, whether he wanted to take them or not. Then, Oh unreasonable world! he had to get a passing grade in every subject to be eligible for initiation. Now everything is rosy again. A freshman can flunk a course if he wants to, provided he gets good enough grades in his other work to make his total average for the semester seventy-two or better. We are all for it. Let them flunk all their hours. Who cares? They might make better fraternity men, ac- cording to the standards evidently prevalent at Nebraska. Asa matter of fact, there seems to be no reason to believe that any freshman -who cannot successfully carry his fourteen hours or so, the first semester, can ever carry suffi- - cient hours to be graduated. After all, requirements are requirements bless 'em! And if a freshman must register for them, he must register for them, he must pass them whether he wants to do so or not If he cannot do so, he will never get anywhere in this university And, accordingly, why initiate him? Of course, a flunk is recorded as forty-five per cent. And it would in most cases, result in a grad lower than the requisite seventy- two. But that is something else again. Why permit initiation o: men who cannot pass freshman courses, especially, required fresh men courses? JUSTICE HOLMES I From The NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE. To him whose ninetieth birthday gives us the welcome opportunity we express again our reverent ad miration and affection. Every birthday of Oliver Wendel Holmes must be for the people o this nation an occasion of prid and gratitude. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1931 Night Editor-BEACH CONGER, Jr. EXIT HELL WEEK? "This year will not see the com- plete abolition of hell week on the Iowa campus," the "Daily Iowan" tells us in a recent editorial, "but the day of the paddle together with! a great amount of horseplay is rapidly passing. A new type of pro- bation is at hand. It involves a program of constructive work for the pledges rather than a period in which no good is accomplished and only harmful methods em- ployed." This, and; other recent editorials, point to a resumption of the age- old argument over the question: "Shall we or shall we not have hell week?" And this very ancient prob- len is answered effectively every year by an overwhelming majority of those who know the benefits to be derived from pledge probation periods, benefits which cannot pos- sibly be obtained through any other means. It is true that there are certain fraternities, certain classes of active members whose regard for 4-1- .-P 4-. Lnn21, -n4 V nr lit of IT'S THURSDAY AGAIN! It doesn't seem to matter what the weather, how bad the times, or whether Rudy Valee-'Our Rudy' -is going to bleat a few of old Michigan's songs into the country's ill graces, still Thursday keeps re- morselessly rolling around at its allotted time, rarely if ever being even so much as a day late, and visiting all it's trials and tribula- tions upon our innocent heads. * * * And now that Thursday is dis- posed of, let us turn our attention to the ad that appears on yester- day's back page: "Make your shut in friends happy with a cheerful potted plant." All day long suggestions have been pouring in as to how thi might have been worded. This de- partment has only one reply to al these proposals. The advertisemen says "Make your shut in friend happy with a cheerful potted plant' and that's all there is to it. If th management had wanted it wordec otherwise they would have said so CONTRIBUTION Dear Dan: Have you noticed that the University of Rochester has abolished all 8 o'clocks for the reason that they consider that the students might better sleep in their own rooms than those furnished by the University and filled with uncomfortable benches. This is an idea. Sincerely, J. T. Scronk. Dear J. T.: You're right. It is an idea-bu not such a darn good one if yo ask me.-Oh all right, don't ther but that's what I think anywa3 The fallacy is that they entirel overlooked the fact that everyon of any social standing whateve always sleeps through his first clas t(which may or may not be at, o'clock) at home and comeseto hi second one to sleep in the class room. What they need, then, i obviously some rule which wi abolish everyone's second class re gardless of what time it may com and the benches will be free c Ssleepersand everybody else. r If they find that this cuts in on the day's work too much they might move the first and second classes up to 6 o'clock or , thereabouts. Or they might just give up the idea of having a University there at all. If such a movement as this last should spread I am sure it would prove s very popular with people in , general. Think of the rest it e would afford for liquor raiders! - Yrs . . . . . .Dan. f We take great pleasure in ushe ing into the limelight a new indu - try. The prospectus we got labe it simply as a "Trouble Shop." Th sounds like a very fine enterpri indeed. If you are tired of your o] troubles just drop around and s - them. A tentative price list is give below so that you may see the po: y sibilities of the new business in o y amongst, so to speak. (1) Nail in shoe, 5c. (2) Postcard from the Dean's l office, $65. f (3) Heartening information e about number of cockroaches in local eat shop kitchens for s the fastidious, $15. (4) Wart on neck, 50c. e (5) Professor on neck, , $2,750.36 s* .* I see that, despite my scath- f ing coments of the other day p that JUNIOR GIRLS' PLAY is h still determined to appear. They even threaten to'show the - faculty and B. M. O. C.s and e the Faculty as they really are. a Granting that they could pos- sibly know enough to do so, I r still regard this as being dis- d tinctly worth not seeing. The )f J. M. O. C.s and the Faculty y look bad enough as they ap- s pear to the ordinary casual f observer, and I for one have - not the morbid curiosity to go and see how badly a lot of girls - in pants that don't fit can imi- h tate them. t In pleasing contrast to the usu g 'Gigantic Sale' signs that threate e us on every hand these days com the refreshing conservatism of tl r following as it appears in a loci d bookstore window ..... e "MICROSCOPE SALE" t * -USIC AND DRAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONCERTS TONIGHT: George Poinar, violin- ist, student of Professor Wassily Besekersky of the School of Music will present a program in the School of Music auditorium tonight Always i k t ki ,1 beginnign at 8:15. Mr. Poinar was sent on a scholar- ship from his native city to the National High School Orchestra Camp at Interlochen where he won immediate recognition and was unanimous choice of students and faculty to be concert master of the orchestra. The following year Mr. Poinar enrolled in the local School of Music from which he has ap- peared several times, notably in a recital last year which included a splendid performance of the Men- delssohn Concerto. The intresting program which Mr. Poinar will present tonight follows:c Concerto in G Minor Bruch Sonata in G Minor, for violin alone Bach - Romance Svendsen Rondo Schubert Lotus Land Cyril Scott ,Polonaise No. 2 Wieniawski The recital is open to the general public and no admission fee is charged. SUNDAY: For the second per- formance of the University Sym- phony Orchestra under the direc- tion of Professor Mattern, Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C Minor has been selected as the major offering. The choice of so complex a sym- phonic work making such severe demands on an orchestra suggests the degree to which the orchestra is developing. The program opens with the ar- rangement by Abert of the organ fugue in G Minor. He has scored it for modern orchestra and pre- ceded it with one of the old German chorales sung by the trombone choir. Following the Brahms sym- thony, the brilliant Concert Valse in D Major by Glazounow will be presented. The program begins at 4:15 Sun- day afternoon in Hill auditorium and will be given complimentary to the public. RECENT RECORDS CHOPIN: Fantasia in F Minor, op. 49: played by Marguerite Long: on Columbia Records 17018 17019. The days of what Ezra Pound called the "young conservatory-girl Chopin" seem about over. DePach- mann, the grandest young girl of them all, is quite dead, I take it (he is, isn't he?). And certainly, the better pianists today refuse to play Chopin in a series of lovely whimpers. They approach him rather as a musician than as a bad poet. The refinement has done Chopin good. For the most part his music can bear it. And, as a result, his immortality is being established on firmer terms than when it lay with drawing-room-perfumed-mel- ancholy readers. To prove that not only the men (Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Back- haus, etc.), are doing this, here is . Marguerite Long playing the F Minor Fantasie (as she also plays the F Minor Concerto for Colum- bia)with restraint in her tone quality, a minimum of color, a minimum of rubato, fine stability in her rhythms, and a general feel- ing that Chopin was a self-respect- ingkartist, not a self-indulgent weakling. This particular composi- tion ("the grandest of them all" said Huneker with typical purple- ness) can bear the treatment. It is free of delirium, it has serenity and occasional nobility, and above all an admirable formal compactness. The recording has that splendid reproduction of piano tone which has echaraterized all Columbias issues recently. 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PACK UP all your bags and go hone for Easter by Greyhound baus. You'll arrive safelyand on time, with extra dollars In your pockets. All over the country the "upper two per cent" are choosing this modern, deluxe way of going places. Try it thin year when making your houeward trek for Eas- ter. You'll like it a lot. For tickets and information see Campus Agent CAMPUS TRAVEL BUREAU 536 Thompson St. Phone 22266 Eastern Michigan Motor Bus Depot 200 So. 4th St. Phone 3589 GREtUND F inal of fir clearance clothing 1 Not many, it is true, but just Suits as desirable, just as durable, just the same stylings at regu- lar prices--forty-five and fift dollars, now $29050 11 the safety, health, and mora iy o He is one of us and few people, a pledge class ceases to be sane can say that of such a man. when hell week comes around. It Holmes-with his great, wis' is also true that there are some spirit, his alert and learned mind houses where the percentage ofr gentlemen is very low; it is from these houses that such conclusions as the "Daily Iowan's" spring. Either a man is an independent without a thorough knowledge of the reality of hell week, or else he As influenced by this ungentlemanly minority when he derides the necessary, vital scheme upon which such fraternity functions are based. Probation week helps a frater- nity decide whether or not a man has the stuff in him to make a good active member. It also gives the pledge a chance to see what he is getting into; it makes him ,use every ounce of self-control he is able to produce during the trying hours of tribulation and insult. Only in such cases as the active forgets that he is supposed to be' a gentleman, only when the paddle is used inhumanly-cases so rare that they are far more the excep- tion than the rule-only when the pledge must wear permanently the mental and physical scars of his hell week treatment must hell week his unquenchable fire of youth, hi tireless energy, his wit, his simpli city, his broad vision, his sense o reality, his instinct for leadershil -are there many to compare witl him? He once said, "We live by sym bols." To us Justice Holmes, whos own life has covered so great part of the life of the United States is a symbol of our ideal nation. Fo the highest patriotism we comment to the youth of the land a study o the volume of his decisions recentl published by the Vanguard Pres and the commemorative volume o tributes issued today by Coward McCann. No one has expressed more beau tifully than he the thing at whic] we are aiming in this government. "When men have realized tha time has upset many fightinE faiths," he said, "they may com to believe even more than they be lieve the very foundations of thei own conduct that the ultimate goo desire is better reached by fre trade in ideas .. . that the best tes is A comparatively large selec- tion of fine overcoats in plain blue and oxford grey at prices much below those of next win- ter. You can use a new coat during March and still be money ahead. Coats originally priced to fifty-five dollars. ~2 95O"