FOUR T MICHIGAN DAILY THEMICIGN DIL "1.1L/ ', a.,1. ' I r Published every morning except Monday dur- ing thc University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Mnember of Western Conference Editorial Asso- ciatioln. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michi- ganl, as siecond class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Postmaster General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY FRANK E. COOPER, City Editor News Editor ...............Gurney Williams Editorial Director...........Walter W. Wilds \ssistant City Editor...... ,.Harold 0. Warren Sports Editor.............Joseph A. Russell W~rmen's Editor............. Mary L. Bchmyer Music, Dramna, Books.:........Win. i Gornan Assistant News Editor.......Charles It. Sprowl Telegraph Editor ............George A. Stauter Copy Editor.................Wm. E. Pyper NIGHT EDITORS S. Beach Conger Charles R. Sprowl Carl S. Forsythe Richard L. Tobin David M. Nichol harold 0. Warren John D. iReindel Sports Assistants Sheldon C. Fullerton J. Cullen Kennedy Charles A. Sanford 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. beenI '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 BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214. T. HOLLISTER MABLEY, Business Manager jiAsP'ER H. HALVER SON, Assistant Manager Department Managers Advertic;ing....r.. .....Charles T. Kline Ader iing...............homas M. Davis Advertising............William W. Warboys Service............ ...Norris J. Johnson Publication.............Robert W. Williamson Circulation..... .......Marvin S. Kobacker Accounts..................Thomas S. Muir Business Secretary............Mary J. Kenan Assistants harry I. Reglev Noel D. Turner Vernon Bishop Don. W. Lyon William Brown William Morgan Robert Callahan Richard Stratemeier William 'W. 1avis Keith Tyler Tiiles Hoisingtora Richard H. Hiller Erie Kightlinger Byron C. Vedder 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. A 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. ** * 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. * * W 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. * * * 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. * * * ' 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. * * * 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? * * * 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! * * * 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 1 lJSJC AND DRA -I - -p - - rn K 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. WASHED, SCREENED SAND-GRAVEL ALL SIZES KILLINS GRAVEL CO. CALL 7075, 7112 OR 21014 m TYPEWRITER REPAIRING makes of machines. All Our equipment and per- s o n n e l are considered among the best in the State. The result of twenty years' careful building. O. D. MORRILL FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Cor. S. State and E. Washington Sts. Dr. L 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. -11 1= Phone 6615 I 601 East William BE CONSISTENT IN YOUR RELIGION I~ Editorial Comment CAMPUS POLITICS (The Daily Princetonian). The vernal rash of "student gov- ernment" elections has recentlyI l rin nr n ninr Am in r m t t 1 ,x 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-" ATTEND CHURCH REGULARLY 11 11 I FIRST CHURCH 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. 11 x E -t'1 a; a { C'ON wk 11 11 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.