THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1931 .. r very morning except Monday dur- sity year by the Board in Control blications. W estern Conference Editorial Asso- ted Press is exclusively entitled to publication of, all. news dispatches or not otlerwise credited in this lOCAl fiexs published herein. he postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michi- d class Tmtter. Special rate of d by Third Assist nU Postmaster be taken as an indication of Mich- igan's receptivity to his views, we may not be far amiss in submitting that this university could shortly add ten years to its stature of maturity by forgetting its illiberal and petty departmental grievances and quibbles in favor of broad and appreciative reforms in the insti- tution at large. :n by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. nn Arbor Press Building, Maynard es: Editorial, 45125; Business, 21L]4. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 492.5 MANAGING EDITOR ;hairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY NK E. COOPER, City Editor ..............Gurney Williams ector......... ..Walter W. Wildis ity Editor........l1arold 0. Warren r .Joseph A. liussell tor. ...-......ary L. Behwyer aa, Books..... ,.....i. . .orinant !ctions.........Bertram J. AsJkw ith ws Editor.......Charles R. Sprowl ;ditor............ (orge A. Stauter ...... E. s iyer NIGHT EDITORS nger Charles It. Sprawl ythe dichard L. Tobin hol Harold 0. Warren adei Sports Assistants ullerton J. Culen Kennedy Charles A. Sanford REPORTERS Cooley * Robert L. Pierce k Richad Raine breth Karl Seiffert rg Je rry E. Rosenthal Iman George A. Stauter er John \V. Thomas John S. Townsend Mary McCall z Cue Miller Margaret O'B~rien Eleanor Rairdon g Anne Mlargaret Tobin Margaret Thompson Claire Trusseli UNIVERSITY BROADCASTING Saturday night's radio program addressed to prospective Michigan students marked the last broadcast from the University studio for this year. The programs, arranged un- der the direction of Prof. Waldo Abbot, have served the University as a desirable means of advertis- ing as well as furnishing radio listeners thoughout the country with the highest class of musical and intellectual programs. Many faculty members have giv- en their time to the preparation of addresses for these programs with- out financial remuneration, while many students and faculty mem- bers of the School of Music have worked diligently to present musi- ,cal selections. These people de- serve just praise for the assistance they have given the University in the presentation of such worth- while programs. Programs similar to those broad- cast from the campus are growing in popularity, and each year more universities and colleges join the ranks of those presenting radio programs. The public appreciates such programs and looks forward to talks by leading educators as is shown by comments in the thou- sands of letters received each day by the various broadcasting sta- tions. Plans will go forward almost im- mediately for next year's programs, and again the University will seek the assistance of its faculty and student talent which, without doubt, will respond favorably. Each year ithe facilities at the studio are bettered, and each year the pro- grams are enjoyed by more and more people. Michigan's broadcast- ing programs have a great future. They will undoubtedly grow in pop- ularity each year, and it will only be a question of time until the work will take on a much broader sig- nificance to the University and tc the .radio public. 0 MUSC AND DRAMA PIERRE PATELIN A medieval farce under the title "Pierre Patelin" is to be Comedy club's next contribution to the+ campus dramatic season and will be presented Friday and Saturday nights in the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. The cast for the play is headed by Richard Humphreys who is al- ready well-known for his work in campusrtheatricals. He will play the part of Patelin, the shyster- lawyer about whose shrewd actions the plot of the play is developed. Opposite him will be Ruth Stesel, a comparative new-comer to campus productions. Other members of the cast in- clude Franklin Comins, Palmer Bol- linger, and Stanley. Donner. More than30 extras will be used in the production of the play. The play itself was written by an unknown author in 1464 A. D. Previous to its original presenta- tion, the fifteenth century actor gave all his parts extemporaneous- ly. This is the first play of its type to be accurately recorded for future, presentation. State settings and the costumes will be in period and the general presentation of the play will be in the medeival manner. It is under the direction of Ruth Ann Oakes. 0 About Booksb, BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 IOLLTSTER MABLEY, Business Manager ;PER H. lIALvERSON, Assistant Manager Department Managers tising....... ........ Charles T. Kline tisin ......_..........Thomas I. Davis tising ............William W. Warboys e. Norris J. Johnson cation ..... .. .Robert W. Williamson lation... .....Marvin S. Kobacker nts ........ ....hiomas S. Muir less Secretary...........Mary J. Henan Assistants yR. Begle A NoelsD. Turner n Bishop Don. W. Lyon am Brown 'William Morgan rt Callahan Riehard Stratemeler m W. Davis eith Tyler Hoisington Richard H. Miller, Kightlinger Byron C. Vedder V. Verner Sylvia Miller an Atran lhelen Olsen Bailey Mildred Postal .ine Convisser Marjorie Rough ne Fishgrund Alary E. Watts thy LeMire Johanna Wiese thy Laylin TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1931 tit Editor-CARL S. FORSYTHE JR CHAUVINISTIC DEPART- MENTS xclusive and chauvinistic de- tmentalism as the product of e-bound over-specialization in .ous fields of higher education trenchantly scored by Presiden-t ;ell of Yale university in his tors convocation address here Friday morning. In a manner hly reminiscent of the incisive- s of former President Little, Dr. ell deplored the tendency of :emic specialists to form an tocratic hierarchy which blinds n to the broader interests of the AN OUTWORN GENRE Editorial Comment After College, What? ty as a whole. * The appropriateness of so de- scribing the effects of over-special- ization in higher learning is two- fold: in the first place, the field of education is quite potent in illus- trating the logic of Dr. Angell's main thesis - that synthesis and correlation of knowledge is needed to balance the extremet specializa- tion of our present eras; in the sec- ond place, if President Angell had been addressing the faculty and students with Michigan's peculiar situation specifically in mind, he could have commented upon it with no greater aptness. The phrases "playing off the interests of one] department against those of an- other in faculty politics," "the atti- tude that no one is qualified to ad-, minister the affairs ofh a depart- ment better than the members themselves" cut deep into the warp and woof of this university's seden- tary commitment to a policy of slow, unenterprising, but less ardu- ous evolutionary progress. The status of the "University col- l.ege" idea is exemplary in showing how great a part this chauvinism and jealous exclusiveness of de- partments canddeter)a broad pro- gram of needed reform.. Over- lapping curricula, the Ph.D. fetish, and. emphasis upon mechanical re- quirements of attendance and me- ticulous grading systems are all manifestations of this inter-related antagonism. The howling need, as President Angel ha stated it .i "for hreak- (From the Yale Daily News) The sooner an undergraduate knows toward what career he is aiming, the better. An extensive section of the University endorses the opposing platform, regarding specialization in higher education' as inferior to the aimless assimila- tion of alleged culture. This is not in accordance with demands of progress today. It is doubtful even if any amount of "culture" without regard to the future life. of the in- iividual is desirable. That any young man should spend four years soaking up refine- ments without peering over the walls of an intellectual Bastille is zcademic nonsense. Aimless pur- suits of intellectuals of this cate- ;ory only encourage public criti- ism of scholasticism. The man who studies zealously to some well defined end is a different species of1 fowl. He is not floating on a balmy breeze to end up in a graduate school, waiting three more years ,or a career to hatch. He is pursu- ing a definite quarry and his flight is straight, not plunging into every beckoning by-way of intellectual- ism, regardless of its value to his purpose. The common theory that college vnen have plenty of time to make ip their minds is not wholly un- ounded, but is largely abused. Be- mause a man has not made up his mind, he should doubly exert him- ,elf to do so. It is too easy to drift with the idea that every word of' 3very professor is a glittering gem. [t is too hard to recognize that what is a ruby to one is a garnet to another. The---to The elimination of the organized racket would be as valuable a sin- gle movement toward prosperity as could be carried through .-Free Press. 0 Archdeacon Bodshan insists that the Devil was the author of prohi- bition. If he was, he has reason to be proud of his work.-Free Press. THE PURE IN HEART: by Franz Werfel: Simon and Schuster: Re- view Copy Courtesy Slater's Book- store. The German school of post-war disillusion has been slow in reach- ing America in translation with the result that this novel from its best representatives carries with it the stale taste of past unpleasantness. We have already reached the "third stair" and even if we do not place our hope in the strict Catholic con- cepts of God, we have faith in so- cialism or something else. In short the spiritual man (who is in the novels of Feuchtwanger and Wer- fel always in bitter conflict with the material powers of an insensi- tive and dulled post-war state) has conquered as he was bound to do. We look back somewhat in amaze- ment at the bewildering futility and cynicism immediately follow- ing the war. We read this book in amazement. Werfel has used here as he did in "Class Reunion" (which I con- sider a much greater book despite its brevity) a style that he has de- veloped into great strength. It is to start with a picture and then through the process of the retros- pective return to the picture. The return has the terror of a too great knowledge, and the beauty of a sit- uation in which all human impli- cations are known and a complete understanding exists. Ferdinand R., a ships' doctor on a Mediterranean cruise leaves the unmoral brilliance of a company of movie actors and walks to the rail of the ship to let fall from his hand the contents of a small bag which he watches as it falls and over which he seems to breathe the blessing for the denouement of a tragedy. The contents of the bag was the small collection of gold which his nurse Barbara had col- lected through a life of long serv- ice. Barbara is the only one in complete communion with Ferdin- and througheallhis life,the only "pure of heart" that Ferdinand knows, and it seems to the doctor that the fittest place for this har- vest is in the ocean as far as pos- sible from the world which had de- feated him. "Is it an expiation, an atonement? Possibly, though at present he cannot remember that he has deprived himself of any good or that Barbara's legacy is now irretrievably lost. Is it lost? Surely it is quite safe for the first time, more certainly, more scrupu- lously intact than"in Ferdinand's trunk or in any strong-room of a bank. Barbara's gold henceforth will be lying in the depths of the world. The honey of the sacred la- boring bees is eternally shielded SPRING IS HERE First and foremost among the day's news items is that yesterday ALFRED the steam shovel has at last appeared at ground level again and has shaken the mud of the Law Club basement forever. AL- FRED apparently liked his old home pretty well because he certainly did kick and scream when they tried to get him out. 'ey had to resort to trickery to get him out at all. They turned Alfy around bassackwards so he couldn't see where he was going and then set him to work. The energy he put into it with his nose shoved him right out back- wards immediately with only one serious threat of rolling over and over back where he came from. Another sign of Spring is that they are building a peanut stand out in front of the Library again. I think the University ought to discourage this as strenuously as possible. Any good political scien- tist will tell you that it is a bad policy for the state to mix up business and government. If indi- vidual students want to sell pea- nuts and student Socialists and messy things like that around the place, I suppose we will just have to put up with it, but I object to the fact that the University feels it necessary to build the stand for them especially when they haven't enough money to repair Newberry Auditorium. It is enough that the University furnishes the monkeys. * * THE COATLESS SHIRT Cam- paign is still among us, fellows. ,Don't let this slip by you unnoticed. Buy a shirt and help the depression. Spend for prosperity. A penny saved is the thief of time, and it's the last straw that shows which way the wind blows. The IGNORE THE MAY FES- TIVAL Campaign is still on too, but its author and sponsor isn't doing much for it, and I am afraid that I haven't the time to spare. Hurry Up, Willie, tempos fugit; and unless something is done pretty soon they will get here before we have the ignoring sqpad half trained. Among the other campaigns that are going to get a little brushing up and renovating this season are those for rebuilding NEWBERRY AUDITORIUM, pouring boiling tur- pentine down' the backs of coeds heard shouting "Oh, isn't that the darlingest little puppy!" upon the advent of anything from a horse down and the ground up,-shooting every soprano in the SCHOOL OF MUSIC,-and discovering who in hades LITTLE YVONNE FAGAN is. * * * DONATE TO THE FRESH-AIR DRIVE Tomorrow people will come up to you and ask if you have subscribed .. whereupon you, with some jus- tification will rush off and miss another day's classes all because you just don't know about how to get by these people easily. The thing to do is give them fifty cents and then put the tag they give you on with wire. I have been asked to say that, besides'myself, President Ruthven, Joe Bursley, and T. HOL- LISTER MABLEY endorse this campaign, but such is my interest in seeing the project prosper that I don't think I'd better. No use of spoiling it all at the beginning. DAILY POEM See the Old School Spirit going, See the writing on the wall? Soon there'll be no nice school ,spirit. It's a fine world after all, WHO IS YVONNE FAGAN * * * / I suppose all you fellows went to the. Honors Convocation. I did- three years ago this very week. Once is a good thing-it teaches you better for the future. *5 * * IGNORE THE MAY FESTIVAL * 5e * Canoeing season is now at hand. Tissic! Tsk! * * * UPHOLD THE COATLESS SHIRT LEAGUE! The Arboretum is becoming popu- lar again . . . See last article but one for remark. A OTS & _ R E VA TI K~f~ft it ~ L BLifU *t * OTN TCM~, 4 USS OR BROWN-CRESS & Company, In. 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