THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, MARCH. 20, 1931
THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931
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-offenses against society which
necessitated real punishment. It is
upon such a group of men that the
tears of thousands fall when these
very offenders against society add
the recent degradations to their
long list of crimes.
Campus Opinion
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opinion of The Daily.
To the Editor:
It is almost inconceivable to ap-
preciate how anyone living within
the enlightened and intellectual
aurora of a great university such
as ours, could be possessed of such
narrowed and limited powers of
perception and understanding as
are evidenced by that individual
who signs himself as "Outraged
Citizen." In his bitter denunciation
and condemnation of those three
students guilty of the heinous of-
fense of mistaking a house address,
"Mr. Outraged Citizen" is to be
commended for the masterly man-
ner in which he presents the situ-
ation and his opinions upon the
subject. His frequent mention of
such epithets as "dastardly repre-
hensible social menaces, ogres, and
criminals," and his long rhapsody
into the inadequacies of the con-
ventional modes of punishment as
compared to the more expeditious
process of "boiling in oil," etc., etc.,
were certainly as highly revealing
as they were refreshing. In short,
"Mr. Outraged Citizen's" master-
piece would do credit to the literary
aspirations of any high school
"freshman." It must indeed be a
sad blow to the accepted sociologi-
cal theory in regards to the condi-
tioning powers of "environment;"
however, we feel duty-bound to
suggest that perhaps "Mr. Outraged
Citizen" has been deprived of that
aforementioned atmosphere of en-
lightenment through the highly
admirable pursuit of an agricultural
existence. In that event, we salute
him for his enterprise if not for
his judgment. Assuming the oppo-
site to be the case for the sake of
argument, let us look into "Mr.
Outraged Citizen's" query as to
whether or not the three students
in question are to be allowed to
escape with "only" an explanation
and an apology for their actions.
May We inquire of "Mr. Citizen"
what else is to be expected? Per-
haps, he would suggest the addition
of five dollars to the apology and
explanation.
It is quite evident to anyone
adopting a "common sense" atti-
tude that, while the incident is
most regretable, the intent was not
malicious. Such being the case, we
feel that the vast majority of the
citizens of Ann Arbor will exercise
their usual good sense; see the
whole matter in its true light, and
judge accordingly. This, in spite of
the protestations of those few mis-
guided individuals who would make
of themselves "lions" in their re-
spective communities, and cry out
lustily for blood.
In parting, may we impart a drop
of wisdom to "Mr. Outraged Citi-
zen" and suggest that perhaps his
community spirit and zeal are a
bit misdirected? Why not try Pro-
hibition? There's a real field for
justified criticism.
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j Editorial Comment
From The Chicago Tribune
Foreign Students in American
Universities are increasing in num-
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931
Night Editor - HAROLD WARREN
SOFT IEARTD AMERICA
Recent uprisings at Joliet, Illi-
nois state prison, have cost that
state nearly $700,000 in buildings'
and equipment:I erected only six
months ago. Not only has the loss
of money invested been heavy, but
prestige of the state's prison board,
the warden and his staff, and the
entire state have been lowered in
face of hundreds of columns of
sentimental journalism which in-
variably follows such outbreaks.
"The convicts were mistreated;
they were not fed properly; their
housing was poor; paroles were
denied them." These are among the
many statements which appeared
the day after the first uprisings
at Joliet. They were nothing more
than "sob-sister" stories, written
for the credulous, denying the true
'facts in the case, and appealing to
a sentimental nation on the basis
of equality among mankind. Had
the real facts been faced, as they
were in several dispatches, by every
paper covering the events, nothing
but sympathy for the warden and,
his fellows would have resulted
which, in view of the conditions at
Joliet, would have been much fairer
A FIRST NOVEL
THREE STEEPLES: by LeRoy
MacLeod: Covici, Friede: Cour-
tesy Slaters Book Store.
Aside from a conscious awkward-
ness and straining for poetic
effect, Mr. MacLeod has written a
very powerful first novel. It is a
loud "American" story with a style
deriving from D. H. Lawrence and
a philosophy modified from Hardy.
Bruce Durken come home to the
pulpit of the Methodist church full
of the desire to uplift man. A long
succession of spiritual disasters
finally leads to a tremendous ex-
perience in which he denies faith,
God and religion and decides to
preach the oneness of all nature.
"Burn the churches" he shouts in
a poetic ecstacy. The church is
Fired by the town idiot and Bruce
is burned to death trying to save
from the flames the idiot who is
not there.'
I should like to discuss the style
first. Very elaborate rythms are
sought and achieved admirably in
some cases. But the necessity oi
this rythm leads sometimes to
ridiculous figures. I can open the
book at random and find passages
such as this: "There was one (a
laugh) in the man's chest-bellows
now if the eye was not lying, if
that tremor along the cheek-stub-
ble was what it looked to be." These
figures seem to me to be affecta-
tions, errors. They do not succeed
in awakening the vivid imagery
that must be their purpose (al-
though they also fit the heavy
rythms), but rather they confuse
it. However there are many fine
passages: "But overhead the stars
released his spirit to the vague
limits of their reach. And under
him the snow gave a dim freedom
to his feet. And here he walked-a
shadow in the shadow of the earth.
-the cold and obscurity were like an
awful displeasure between him and
the stars, as if God had withdrawn
from his weakness, leaving it alone
behind the earth among the dreads
of his boyhood." Compare this with
the somewhat similar passage from
"Sons and Lovers:" "From his
breast, from his mouth, sprang the
endless space, and it was there be-
hind him, everywhere.--Little stars
shone high up; little stars spread
far away in the flood waters, a
Firmament below. Everywhere the
vastness and terror of the immense
night-." Mr. MacLeod is first of
all a poet, and a young poet whose
feelings are sometimes awkward in
words.
This prose style, these rythmic
and poetic effects, this heaviness
and struggle, must of course have
a great deal to do with the message
of the book; as must also the
unmathematical coincidences, the
dramatization of characters, the
very evident symbolism, the undi-
verted direction of all the events
in this novel. And yet in a short
forword Mr. MacLeod makes such
statements: "a book with no axe
to grind-less concerned with ideas
than with humanity-I hope no
one will find in 'Three Steeples' a
profession of my beliefs." If we are
to pay any attention to such non-
sense "Three Steeples" is immedi-
ately damned. The whole invention
would be meaningless. But I think
they are the result of a misplaced
fear or of a misunderstanding of
the place of a morality in art.
S. S. F.
PORTRAIT BY CAROLINE: by
Sylvia Thompson.
Strangely unfeminine is Sylvia
Thompson's outlook in "Portrait
by Caroline." Not only does her
attitude violate many of the hoary
traditions which usually encircle
feminine logic, but her method of
expression has a directness which
is startling at times.
The novel is more a portrait of,,
than by, Caroline. She makes an
unusual heroine with her alternat-
ing dull and luminous beauty, and
tall awkwardness. She seems coldly
superficial, and even after she has
probed the depths of emotions her
impassiveness in the face of a cas-
ually sensual affair makes one won-
der whether she is really more than
a creature of passions with no real
regard for worth while things.
Caroline is in love with her hus-
band, and clings desperately to her
affection for him throughout the
.ntire story. She meets Peter Stan-
ley, and loves him blindly, for she
,never seems capable of seeing his
actions in a rational manner. What
does not seem to be compatible
with her character is her brief and
sultry interlude with a mere ac-
quaintance.
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MUSIC ANDDRA
TWO EXHIBITIONS
A Review by Cile Miller
Not even the usual note of hope
marks the exhibition of water col-
ors and oils now open in the North
and South galleries of Alumnae
Memorial hall under the sponsor-
ship of the College Art Association.
If this indicates the potentiality of
Americans in the field of modern
art, God help the Americans.
Not that we ask perfection in the
evolving artists, but if they must
use drab colors, why can't we have
some lyrical quality in the composi-
tional design of the picture? But
the artists of this present show
seem to forget that our small aes-
thetic appreciation must come in-
to the consideration of their under-
takings, and they let loose on their
canvasses in washes of color, fling-
ing harmony, rhythm, form, and all
the other academic terms to the
winds. The independence is admir-
able, but this is more nearly license
than liberty.
Out of all of the pictures offered,
only two stand out in my mind:
Warrern Wheelock's Return From
the Fields, and John Whorf's water
color, Nigger Hut. The first com-
bines a background hollowed out in
Cubistic angles with figures of the
virile simplicity of a Millet, which
results in an unusual composition.
The second splashes in shadows
and lights of blue in the Monet
fashion, only that his attack is
much more careless and broad.
Turning from this amalgamation
of drabness we find in the West
gallery an exhibition of y o u n g
American Moderns from the Du-
densing galleries of Chicago which
is very reassuring. True there are
many artists represented here who
in their attempt to be free overstep
their own bounds and produce
freakish novelties, more like thea
low relief of a salt map than the
canvass of a painter.
If only the few contributions of
Nura were there the show would
be justified. Her art introduces an!
Egyptian stiffness which she sub-
jects to her own interpretation in
such a way that the result is not
the usual sternness of Egyptian art,
but a very charming and provoca-
tive piquancy. Perhaps the most
tantalizing of her contributions is
the watercolor portraying the doll-
like figures of two children and a
saucy yellow poodle, and all of this!
in a background of absurd trees
with chintz-like flowers growing
beneath their shade.
Peppino Mangravite is represent-
ed in the Dudensing exhibition in
a much more commendable manner
than in the other current show.
Here we can appreciate the real
strength of the artist in molding
human forms into beautiful design
curves. Here also we are assured
that the artist's understanding of
color relations is keen. The oil
which portrays a girl reclining in
a garden chair with a patternized
background of falling leaves is
subtle in its color quality of un-
expected shades.
Adolf Dehn is here too with his
distorted caricatures, and his amus-
ing jibes at the passing shows. Nor
in passing through should we neg-
lect the single contribution of Wil-
liam S. Schwartz, a print called
Impression. The strength of the
print lies in its paucity of line and
the revolution of lines and curves
which intertwine to form a nude
figure. Another artist represented
by a single print is one who signs
himself S. Simpson. This sketch
represents a slender girl just awak-
ening and the compositional ar-
rangement is most satisfactory.
THE FIRST MRS. FRASER
Grace George, who probably has-
n't been seen by people around here
since she induced Hannibal to turn
back in "The Road To Rome," is
stopping in Ann Arbor Monday
matinee and evening in the play
which she has been using for over
a year, St. John Ervine's "The First
Mrs. Fraser."
As the title indicates, St. John
Ervine writes (in the typical Eng-
lish drawing-room smart-chat tra-
Idition) of divorce and re-marriage,
with A. E. Matthews (the swell but-
ler in "Serena Blandish") cast as
the Scotchman who divorces Miss
George. The play is by now a test-
ed vehicle, having been in Chicago
and New York for over a year. Rob-
ert Littell of The World said of it,
when it opened: "The First Mrs.
Fraser has moments that verge on
sadness and others that peek over
the fence at melodrama but the
performances of Miss George and k
A. E. Matthews keen these moments
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to al concrned;ber. In 1929-30 more than 10,000 1
to all concerned. I foreign students were registered in
The real facts are that Joliet some 450 American institutions of
recently built a new prison for its higher learning.
'inmates, a prison which has been As a factor in American foreign
used as a model by every other policy the international exchange
state in the union. The cells were of students and instructors should
in good condition, the food was not be neglected. Good will towards
moderately palatable, the privileges America and mutual understanding
at the prison were extremely len- over a long period can be promoted
lent, and the warden genial. To top by this means as in no other way.
this off, the prison board, while It is unforunate that a large num-
tightening down on its excessive ber of foreign students are attend-,
parole grants of 1929, had given an ing American institutions that are
average number of suspensions neither of the first rank nor deeply
during the past six months. ' in the current of American life and
But the convicts, using their progress.
main chance to play upon the If the first class universities of
sentiment of the general public, America would make more provi-
ignored this extreme liberalism and sion for foreign students, especially
revolted. They set fire to dozens: Latin Americans, a great service to
of buildings and created a needless, America as well as to American
unreplaceable loss of $700,000 in education would be performed.
two days. The state of Illinois, hard Entrance requirements could be
pressed for finances this year, will better adjusted to foreign students
not be able to rebuild immediately, without lowering the high stand-
and the result will be the crowded ards of the institutions. Social and
conditions which the new buildings educational conditions should be
of six months ago were designed to mor flpvihu oenmmnatin +nt
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