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REPORTERS
condition relative to drinking on
the campus bespeaks certain effi-
ciency to the methods of the police
force and the University discipli-
nary unit to check the use of
liquor. Yet at the same time con-
siderable credit shown be given to
the individual character of the stu-
dents. Drinking on the campus has
decreased and is at a low ebb not
so much out of fear of disciplinary
action as out of a decreased desire
to indulge.
It is one of the queer character-
istics of a sensation-hungry world
that only little attention will be
given to the committee's statementl
clearing the University students.
The thoughts of, not the investiga-
tion but the spectacular raids will
remain with the general public.
But in the minds of the thinking
people throughout the state, thel
OAVED LL
SPRING
IS
ioHERE
University students will have
exonerated by the report.
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'ThomnasAI. Cooley
Morton Frank
Frank 13. Gilbreth
Saul Friedberg
]oland Goodman
Morton Relver
13ryan Jomns
WAilhur J. Aleyers
YEileen Blunt
Nnti Oeiitz .
Elsie Feldman
Ruth (Dalinmeyer
Evi lv U. Crimies
14an Levy
Dorothi'. gee
Susan Mantucster
Robe t t L.ierce
Richar d Rac ine
Karl seiffert
Jerry E. Rosenthal
George A. Stauter
.ohn W. Thomas
Jlohn iS.Townsend
Mary McCall
CileMiller
Margaret O'Brien
Eleanor Rairdon
Anne Margaret Toin
Margaret Thompson
Claire Trussell
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THE HEALTH SERVICE
The 'addition of highly trained
specialists to the medical staff to-
gether with the close cooperation
between the health service and the
Medical school has made the Uni-
iersity Health service one of the
most efficient and successful units
of its type in the country.
Proof of its efficiency and value
is clearly revealed in the annual
report of the organization which
shows that only seven students
died during the year. In general
society the number for a similar
age group is approximately 50, a
decided contrast.
Michigan students are especially
fortunate in having a health de-
partment which for such a small
sum is able to practically guarantee
health. The service is doing every
thing possible to aid the students
through the requirement that ex-
aminations be taken upon entrance,
in addition to advising special
examinations for many.
Through the present arrange-
ments a student may enter the
infirmary for a period of 30 days,
and, without cost, receive medical
treatment, nursing service, and
board. During this time the student
is visited twice each day by staff
doctors. When complications arise
specialists from the University hos-
pital, among whom are several
internationally known physicians,
are called into consultation. A
majority of the surgery cases are
referred to the hospital where the
costs are paid by the health service.
The University has just right in
pointing with pride to its health
service for probably no other col-
lege or university in the country
has a unit so well equipped, has
such a competent medical staff, or
has shown such a faultless record
as that at the University of Mich-
igan.
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Ann IV. Verner
Marian Atran
Ilelen Bailey
Jlosephine Convisserx
Maxine Fishgriind
Doothy LeMire
Dorothy Layliin
Sylvia Miller
helen Olsen
Milldred Postal
C arjorie Rough
Mary E. Watts
Johanna Wiese
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931
- Night Editor-BEACH CONGER, Jr.
CLEARING THE UNIVERSITY
More than two months have pass-
-ed since the headlines first screamed
the news around the world that five
fraternities at Michigan had been
raided and that 79 students wereI
being held for investigation. In that1
time, the University has probably
received more unsavory publicity
than during any other similar peri-
od in the history of the institution.
The first reaction to this unprec-
edented action by the authorities
was one of shock. When more in-
formation about the spectacular-
ness with which the raids were con-
ducted, a certain degree of indigna-
tion and sympathy was substituted.
The total result of this has been,
Among the irre-
futable signs of
Spring come in-
explicable ditch-
es of the B & G.
This makes the
third year that
they have set
BAXTER a b o u t making
the campus look like an irrigated
rice-field. It is time that the public
was let in on just what this tre-
mendous expenditure of hard-
earned taxes is accomplishing. I
have been appointed to tell them,
and, after a period of extensive re-
search, I was right on the verge of
answering nothing when the Pher-
ret whizzed in and informed me
that it was to keep the B & G Boys
happy and prevent them from
thinking up something worse to do.
When one considers the episode
of the oiled road back of A. H.
last year, perhaps this is a worthy
cause at that.
A possible use has been suggested
for these ditches, however, now
that they are all dug. The sugges-
tor thought that perhaps Newberry
Aud. would crumble into them and
get washed away by the famous
Ann Arbor Spring freshet. In view
of this possibility, I am in favor o
leaving them there providing, o0
course that those piles of dirt be
removed from the sidewalks. And
traffic be allowed to resume its
wonted flow.
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THE WEATHER
Typically Ann Arbor over the
North east portions all this week.
Has anyone noticed the swell
Handy Sandy Andy or whatnot
that they have erected in the
latest Law Club excavation? It
makes me wish I were a child
again too.
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Our old pal Robbins of D. O. B
fame has written a very excellent
article on the benefits of league
houses for girls. I'll bet he never
mentioned all the rules about mak-
ing beds and sweeping the floor
and keeping the light turned on
on the front porch all night and
all those things.
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In this connection, I under-
stand that the University, having
succeeded in putting up street
lights all over campus so that
nothing may be missed by the
curious, are now planning on
flood-lights for all front porches.
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It would save money if they de-
creed that all coeds would have to
say good night to their escorts-if
any-in the Natural Science Aud.
greenhouse with all the lights turn-
ed on and then go home in an
armored car.
WILLIE has suggested something
that strikes all the members of the
Rolls Staff as being eminently
worthy. He didn't mean it quite
that way, but he really started us
on the right track. He suggested
dropping the COATLESS SHIRT
CAMPAIGN in favor of one ignor-
ing the May Festival. A much finer
idea all around is to combine them.
The method would be, of course,
to go to the May Festival in your
shirt-sleeves, thus accomplishing
the desired result in both cam-
paigns.
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Shirt sleeves are the coming
thing this year. Just the thing for
the May Festival. It's just like I
say--anyone can wear a coat, but
it takes a gent with faith in him-
self and his taste in shirts to go
without. Are YOU going to let
people think that you aren't quite
sure whether that shirt you got
at the sale last spring is just the
right shade of salmon or not?
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And don't forget the words of
that immortal poet Dan Baxter who
wrote one fine day last spring an,
ode to the effect that ....
There was a young fellow from
Cressy
Who was always exceedingly
dressy
He felt really hurt
At the sight of a shirt
And he wore a vest too-THE BIG
SISSY!
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I understand that the University
Golf Course is offering a tin of
Fifty Chesterfields to anyone mak-
ing a birdy providing it's witnessed.
My private opinion is that a birdy
isn't any good unless you get away
with it undetected, but then, maybe
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN
A Note on "City Lights"
It is regrettable that Charlie
is our only clown. We have no one
with whom he can be compared,
and so he must withstand, alone,
the most severe criticism of critic
and crowd, from China to Paris. In
the old days of Keystone and Es-
sanay there were others: Hank
Mann, Chester Conklin, Fatty Ar-
buckle, Ben Turpin. The American
Public, in a moment of happy in-
tuition for which Hollywood has
ever since failed to give it deserving
credit, almost unanimously favored
the slapstick over other types of
movie offered at that time. The
camera could project objects in mo-
tion, and slapstick obviously pro-
vided the most adept and funniest
kinds of motion. But Capital, Pub-
licity, De Mille, Gloria Swanson and
Elinor Glyn finally established the
feature picture and Charlie's asso-
ciates began one by one to drop
out of sight.
Today there are hopeful signs.
The excitement over the first talk-
ies has subsided and the industry
is fast falling into the sanie straits
from which the talkie so miracul-
ously rescued it. In Paris audiences
walk out of American talkies in
disgust. In Detroit the three largest
first-run houses are again resort-
ing to elaborate stage-shows, the
big money's worth.
It appears that artistically as well
as commercially, Charlie has suc-
cessfully heaved his bricks into the
midst of the vested interests. The
opening comment in the talkies
in "City Lights" is good; a sensi-
tive eye and ear cannot help dis-
sociating a reproduced voice from
figures in a two dimensional pic-
ture projected upon a screen. But
the main point is that seeing what
the figures do is more important
than hearing what they say. Charlie
has used sound to guarantee his
musical score. Otherwise his movie
is in the tradition of his former
work. He is still the wanderer, re-
taining his gentlemanly dignity in
spite of all the humiliations the
world thrusts upon him. He is dig-
nified even when he is awkwardly
suspended in mid-air as the band
plays the national anthem and the
crowd looks on; when his curiosity
is aroused by a nude figure; when
he follows a cigar-butt in a Rolls-
Royce, or walks down Fifth Avenue
eating a banana. If we still remem-
ber how he dissected the alarm-
clock in "The Pawn-Shop," did
David and Goliath in "The Pi-
grim," and made the rolls dance
in "The Gold-Rush," we will re-
member his slide across the dance-
floor, the locker-room scene, or the
prize-fight ballet, in "City Lights."
His form has not changed: the
organization is good and the action
made as much as possible to seem
impromptu. The best example of
this occurs when thesblind flower-
girl throws the water in Charlie's
face. His camera is alert, working
as closely and as simply as possible;
it is especiall good in the scene
where the blind girl first mistakes
Charlie for the rich man getting
into his automobile. If "City Lights"
is better than any of his preceding
work (save perhaps "The Gold-
Rush") it is because Charlie's pan-
tomime is even more deft, more
suggestive, more conscious of our
eyes; because the camera is lettingI
us see more of his silent mimic
world. Yet we feel impatiently that
we will never see it all. That is why
he can come back year after year.
We will never see enough of the
world of Charlie Chaplin.
Frank Roellinger.
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O. D. MORRILL
FIRST METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Cor. S. State and E. Washington Sts.
Dr.
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Frederick B. Fisher, Minister
10:30 A. M.-Morning Worship.
"COMRADESHIP"
Dr. Fisher
7:30 P. M.-Evening Worship.
"MADAME GANDHI AND
MODERN INDIA"
Mrs. Fisher
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH
Allison Ray Heaps, Minister
Sunday, April 26, 1931
10:45 A. M.-Morning Worship.
Sermon topic: "The Tragedy of
Getting Used to Things."
6:00 P. M.-Fellowship Supper.
6:30 P. M.-Dr. Frederick Bohn
Fisher will speak on "Building a
Personality."
Cor. State and East Huron
12:00 Noon--Mrs. Fidier's class will
meet at Wesley Hall.
6:00 P. M.-Sunday Evening Devo.
tional meeting. Prof. Bennett
Weaver of the English depart-
ment will speak.
7:00 P. M.-Social Hour.
314 South State St.
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Editorial Comment
CAMPUS POLITICS
(The Daily Princetonian).
The vernal rash of "student gov-
ernment" elections has recentlyI
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however, the accumulation of na- ; eru- uvon several American cam
tion- and world-wide publicity of aI puses. As a pathological complica-
highly undesirable and equally un-Ition, the advertising columns of
just nature. certain of our collegiate contemp-
But during this two months peri- oraries have been trumpeting with
od there has been conducted by a all the blustering fanfare of a
state legislative investigating com-, national election year. One college
nittee a complete and thorough paper, for example, in a recent
examination of existing conditions issue carried nearly 200 column
at Michigan. After all the intense inches of. advertisements, sponsor-
and extremely biased opinion had 1 ed by various social organizations,
died down to some extent, this which called upon the student read-
body, completely unbiased and not ers, in large headlines, to "Vote for
connected in any way with the Uni- These Men to Carry on ... . Honest
versity, presented its report to the and Efficient . . . etc." A certain
State House of Representatives, society advertised its nominees as
In a quiet but certain manner, it representing: "1. Sincerity, 2. Effi-
scores these particular actions of ciency, 3. Responsibility, 4. Depend-
the Ann Arbor police and definitely ability, 5. Progress."
states in reference to the liquor The educational aspect of student
problem that "conditions at the government is apparent. Playing at
University of Michigan are better life in miniature is of definite value
than at most colleges and univer- as preparation for the more serious
sities." problems later to come. But when
Actions of the police on this oc- undergraduates effect the bom-
casion were described as "indiscreet I bastic puerilities of American poli-
and overzealous," or "willing - to tical campaigns, it is time to draw
embarrass the students needlessly," the line. The official representatives
This criticism of the police depart- of so-called student government'
nent should not be construed as rarely exert authority in the im-
:neaning that the police should be portant issues of university policy.
ss energetic in enforcing the liquor I To run half-page political 'spreads"
.aws. It simply means that some in the campus paper, to exert pres-
ess spectacular means of obtaining sure on fellow fraternity members,
evidence for the prosecution of and to trade blocks of votes be-
bootleggers should have been em- tween fraternities, as is done at
cloyed. many institutions, is to take oneself
Considering the general conduct with a degree of seriousness hardly
> tile police department it is quite to be expected from the traditional
tpparent that the methods used in college student, and is hardly in
taging these raids are decidedly keeping with a relatively minor1
exceptional. And it is our sincere phase of college life.
FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Huron and Division Sts.
Merle H. Anderson. Minister
Alfred Lee Klaer, Associate Pastor.
Mrs. Nellie B. Cadwell, Counsellor of
Women.
10:45 A. M.-Morning Worship.
"Men of Today for the Man of
Galilee." Service of ordination of
iElders and Deacons.
12:00 Noon-Student Classes.
5:30 P. M.-Social 1lour for Young
People.
6:30 P. M.-Young People's Meet-
ing. Speaker: Rabbi Bernard Hel-
ler.
ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH
Washington St. at Fifth Ave.
F. C. Stellhorn, Pastor
9:00 A. M.-Sunday School.
10:30 A. M.-Service with sermon
on "The Demand of ' Disciplin-
ship."
5:30 P. M.-Student Fellowship and
Supper.
6:30 P). M.--Student Forum.
Division and Catherine Streets
Reverend Henry Lewis, Rector
Reverend Duncan E. Mann, Assistant
8:00 A. M.-Holy Communion.
9:30 A. M.-Church School. (Kin-
dergarten at 11 o'clock).
11:00 A. M.-Morning Prayer. Ser-
mon by the Reverend Henry Lewis.
6:00 P. M.-Student Supper at
Harris Hall.
7:45 P. M.-Evensong and special
musical service.
FRANK BISHOP
A Review
If last night's recital is repre-
sentative of his taste, appearance,
and talent, then Mr. Frank Bishop
(who is curator of the Detroit In-j
stitute of Arts and one of the city'sI
most popular teachers) must be
something of a public menace there.
For one thing, pictorially he is a
survival of a nearly defunct tradi-
tion which has worked havoc in the
bosoms of dictating dowagers and
stirred an understandable hatred
for the piano in the minds of ath-
letic young boys.
But that would be in itself minor
if his playing last night didn't seem
to be a pianistic translation-if I
may put it this way-of his flowing
locks. Consider, for example, the
bad taste of his drooping, moon-
lightish enunciation of the first few
measures of the Bach F Minor
Prelude. Chopin's F Minor Fantasie
-one of the few long Chopin com-
positions with continuity, its sec-"
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CHRIST, SCIENTIST
409 S. Division St.
10:30 A. M.-Rcgular Morning Serv-
ice. Sermon topic: "Probation
After Death."
11:45 A. M.-Sunday School follow-
in¢ the morning service.
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nope that the usual procedure of
prosecuting bootleggers does not in-
clude the wholesale anprehension
What does the Farm Board pro-
noe tn do for the radium farmer-
Proclames the Fatherland of God;
hence the Sonship of Man and his
ultimate attainment of perfection.