PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY .a.. Published every morning except Mondayt iluring 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 news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited inrthie paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of, postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, May- nard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 * MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY City Editor Frank E. Cooper News Editor..............Gurney Williams Editorial Director............Walter W. Wilds Sports Editor..............Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor...........Mary L. Behymer Music and Drama......William J. Gorman Assistant News Editor...Charles R. Sprowl Telegraph Editor ..........George A. Stauter NIGHT EDITORS S. Beach Conger John D. Reindel Carl S. Forsythe Richard L. Tobin David M. Nichol Harold 0. Warren Sports Assistants Sheldon C. Fullerton J. Cullen Kennedy. Robert Townsend Reporters Walter S. Baer, Jr. Wilbur J. Myers Irving J. Blumberg Robert L. Pierce Donald O. Boudeman Sher M. Quraishi George T. Callison C. Richard Racine rhomas M. Cooley Jerry E. Rosenthai George Fisk George Rubenstein 74ernard W. Freund Charles A. Sanford Morton Frank Karl Seiffert Saul Friedberg Robert F. Shaw Frank B. Gilbreth Edwin M. Smith J ack Goldsmith George A. Stauter Oland Goodman Alfred R. Tapert William H. Harris Tohn S. Townsend James H. Inglis hobert D. Townsend Denton C. Kunze Max H. Weinberg Powers Moulton Joseph F. Zias publican legislature of his state., But for the time being, Hoover is the oly apparent candidate to suc- ceed himself in 1932. THE WHIPPING POST. News stories from Louisville, whee the American Prison asso- ciation is meeting, tell us of George W. Wickersham's modest proposal to re-install the whipping post in our institutions of reform as a punishment for bandits, racketeers and other gang criminals. Mr. Wickersham, chairman of President' Hoover's crime commission and one' of the most learned men in America on the subjects of law, criminal punishment and causes of the pres- ent crime wave, told the assembly that "flogging by the birch or by cat-of-nine-tails" would do more to stamp out the modern ineffec- tiveness of law enforcement than anything now existent. Mr. Wickersham is not a blood- thirsty, cruel person to whom per- sonal freedom, humane treatment, and pain mean little or nothing. It is barely possible that Mr. Wicker- sham has seen floggings before and felt sorry for the criminals. But the fact remains that Mr. Wickersham, a naturally conservative man, now advocates one of the most drastic reforms in the prison system. He tells those who have had more to do with criminals than any other p rofession that there is only one way to stop the haughty arrogance which gangs and the underworld in general have assumed, and that is in the terror of the whipping post. Place the consequences before their eyes, he says, and we will have gone a long way toward re- moving the source. Upon immediate consideration, Mr. Wickersham's plan seems cruel and heartless, a step backward toward the middle ages and their disregard for human suffering. But let us consider the persons whose conduct would lead them to such punishments. Gangsters - who utterly disregard personal liberty, freedom, and who stop at nothing to gain their ends-would be sent to the whipping post to cure their arrogance for law. Bandits-men who have little or no respect for persons or property and still less for law-would feel the sting of the lash and think better of their actions. Racketeers-barons of the underworld who live in opulence while police vainly seek to secure warrants for their arrests on evey charge from murder to perjury. These are the persons, the unde- sirables whom we must frighten, discourage, eliminate from society. How shall we get rid of the underworld? "The whipping post!" says Mr. Wickersham, a quiet old mantwho. knows what he's talking about. 0 .0 Editorial CommentI e n 00 -- -------- -------- .. Mt IC AND DRAMA1 r Yr TIGTY!STOKiOWSKU'S BA(CH ALTERING AND REPAIRING All kinds of altering and repair. ing done at a reasonable cost. Ladies' work a specialty. Bring in your wardrobe for repair. CHARLES DOUKAS 1319 South University Lynne Adams Betty Clark Elsie Feldman Elizabeth Gribble rmily G. Grimes Elsie M. Hoffniey. 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Turner . Aubrey L. Swinton Wesley C. Geisler Alfred S. Remsen Laura Codling Ethel Constas Anna Goldberg en Virginia McComb Joan Wiese Mary Watts Marian Atran Sylvia Miller WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930 Night Editor-DAVID M. NICHOL I'll just wager a pretty that all you boys wonder what made me say that. The truth of the matter is that I said it because I felt like it, and I'm here to tell you that when things get to the point where a guy can't say Highty Tighty any time he chooses it's high time that the authorities stepped in and de- fended our constitutional (if you didn't think there are a lot of let- ters in that one, try it on a Daily typewriter some time,-go ahead,-. try it!) rights. So there. * ** GAME I have originated for those poor unfortunates who roam the streets in Ann Arbor, great- ly to the detriment of their footwear, a lovely game. It is known as the "Spiggot Game" to its ardent followers and goes like this. The player walks a- bout the streets of the town (preferably the more thickly populated :ones) until someone approaches him and inquires the way to somewhere. If he knows where the place is he, of course, directs the inquirer down a street which runs at right angels to the proper di- rection (this is because the in- quirer may be an old hand at such games or an Ann Arborite and go in the opposite direction from where he is directed.) If, however, the player doesn't know the location of the desir- ed spot, he should merely shake his head vigorously several times back and forth or up and down or both and say "No Spiggot Engleesh!'" whence, as you can easily see, children, comes the name of the sport. Say, fellows, I'll bet you thought I had forgotten all about the He Men's Club didn't you now? Oh come now, 'fess up, you really did didn't you? Ah, I was sure of - it. Well, I had, but this weather brought it back to me with full force, and I'm off in a huge cloud on my way to get the movement going again. I see just as much no sense as I ever did in running a- round attired even like unto Mrs. Astor's Plush Horse during hot days, cold days, and all other kinds of nasty days indigenous to Ann Arbor. The Coatless Shirt League forever! FRONT PAGE NIFTIES On the front page of one of Ann Arbor's leading morning sheets there appears in headlin form the following statement... MANY UNDER SUSPECT There's nothing I hate to be under like a suspect. Dear Nephew: I have heard so much about the dismal A n n Arbor weather that I am writing to ask if you have changed to your winter underwear yet. Now please be careful, Dan-and don't forget what I told you about women. And speaking of that, while visit- ing you last week-end I was partic- ularly impressed with the homo- geneous, stick-together-boys spirit existing in your local taxi con- cerns. I had occasion to use taxis a lot on Saturday and no matter what number I called the same answer came back through the re- ceiver, namely, "Yellow Cab...Yes, mam; right away." What happens if you call the fire or police depart- ments, Dan? "Yellow Cab ..Right away," i'll bet. I'm glad to hear you've been studying hard, Danny. So's your, Aunt Minnie. That's a mere Nothing Aun- tie, I called the same number twice last year and got two dif- ferent taxi companies. .As to your query as to the fire and police departments and the re- sults of calling them up I think that, if anything, you would get better taxi service than that supplied by the local Ben Hurs. * * * The Rolls Artist, having recover- ed slightly from his sprained toe, is once more able to continue his duties in the column. His first drawing which appears below, is merely a tentative effort to see BACH: Brandenburg (Concerto No. in F Major; Choralvorspicl-Wir Glauben All' An Einen Gott; Passa- eaglia in C Minor: played by Leo- pold Stowkowski and the Philadel- phia Symphony Orchestra: Victor Masterpiece Series. The story is told that Frederick Stock was so overwrought by the Stowkowski recording and tran- scription of Bach's great organ Passacaglia in C minor that he im- mediately set to work to make his own transcription. Whether this story is true or not, the facts are that the Stowkowski set was issued Nov. 1, 1930, and that Stock took off the same month to write his transcription; that possibly Stow- kowski had gotten underneath his skin, suggested itself at his playing of the Passacaglia at the last May Festival, by the amazingly brusque beat at which he clipped along and by his sharp strident tone. i THE 1932 HOOVER CAMPAIGN Dwight Morrow's announcement that he would not even consider running for the presidential nomiP nation in 1932 against Hoover seems to havehbeen quite a surprisen t many who thought him the only logical candidate for that election Actually, it was only meant to avoid embarrassment to the President and staunch G. 0. P. supporters who firmly believe in giving a man eight years in which to accomplish some- thing in office. Morrow, if elected senator from New Jersey, will serve until 1936, the expiration of his term coinciding with that of the President's. Mr Hoover has strongly endorsed Mor- row for senator, in spite of the official dry plank of the Republican' party, and is counting on him to be one of his loyalist leaders on the floor of the senate. It is evident that Hoover will run for re-election in 1932 against whatever candidate the Democratic henchmen can find. The question is, and has been, will Morrow run in 1936? He is at pres- ent the most logical candidate. Al- though entering politics rather late after a most successful career in financial New York, he has acquit- ted himself with credit to the Re- publican party, first as ambassador to Mexico, and later as delegate to the London Naval conference. His stand as a wet candidate may or may not keep him from thq race.' At presept the wet issue is gaining very few votes in the form of repre- sentatives and senators. But when a state such as Michigan, which has never sent an anti-prohibition can- didate to Congress before, elects a wet to serve from one of its dis- tricts, the movement must be gain- ing some force. Also, the present line-up predicts the nomination of Governor Roose- velt, of New York, by the Demo- crats. Roosevelt's health will un- doubtedly keep him from running in 1932, and a nation-wide boom is in progress for his election four years from then. Thus the two most snectacular figures of the two par- WED NEDAY, OCTOBER 15i, 130 "Every Student needs one Laundry Cases Fiber and Canvas 1111 SOUTH UNIVERSITY HALF BLOCK EAST OF CAMPUS PHONE 4744 Mil11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111 11i1 llilli111i 1111t I IS EDUCATION A MENACE? (From the Christian Science j Monitor). Is the ominous hand of too much higher education casting a shadow over Great Britain? Strange as it may seem, Prof. Ernest Barker, in addressing the Cambridge Summer School recently, gave an unequi- vocal affirmative answer to the question. He was not jesting when he viewed with alarm the potential spread of university education among English youth, a condition which is equally evident in many other countries. Indeed, the ques- tion is one of world-wide interest. Professor Barker said: If you give university education to too great a percentage, you will get two results: (1) You congest the universities and make their teaching mechanical; (2) You may produce an unemployed, or quite inadequately employed, intellectual proletariat, which is the mother of revolutionary movements, political and economic, It would seem that Professor Barker is almost as cruel a critic of the positive effect of education as Oscar Wilde was some thirty years ago of its negative effect. In "The Importance of Being Earnest" -just now being revived in London with brilliant success - Wilde re- marked that while "the whole theory of modern education is radically unsound, fortunately in England at any rate education produces no effect whatsoever." Frankly, there is ample ground to disagree with both. Is it not{ indeed an extremely deprecatory estimate of higher education which fears that its spread is necessarily synonymous with the spread ofa revolution? Why not, then, curtail ( I do think that in that particular day's performance of the Passa- caglia there was an overemphasis of this purity of impulse. But if Stock was offering that perform- ance as a criticism of the Stow- kowski recording, he certainly established his points. And if it were a criticism, it was an admir- able method of making an evalu- ation, as if in the playing of his transcript he were saying "this is the way I like Bach played Mr. Stowkowski, this is to my taste." It is to my taste too. And the point is that though Stowkowski is a great conductor. he has limitations which I believe iie precisely in the wherefore of this greatness. I think that Stowkowski's great- ness is mainly in a delicate physical sensitivity to ' music. Whatever music he comes in contact with becomes related to his bodily-feel- ing self, as if his viscera were going through .a process of animation. What we hear, providing the or- chestra is adequate is a vocalized projection of this coenesthetic state. So that whatever music he takes it upon himself to conduct, must of necessity become sub- charged with "Stowkowski." The music becomes a mutual creation of both composer and conductor. I This sensitivity plus his develop- ment of an immensely adequate orchestra (one of the three great- est in the world), capable of trans- mitting the remarkable nuances of his responses, and partaking of the richness of their quality, makes him a great conductor. During a performance of Wag- ner's Tristan and Isolde I onfe overheard a young woman excaim with a catch in her voice, "this is too personal!" It is with such music that Stowkowski is superb. Witness his recent recording of The Over- ture and Venusberg Music from Tannhauser. Toscanini, genius that he is, could not surpass such an interpretation, nor achieve the physical intensity that Stowkowski gives to it. In 'impersonal,' 'absolute' music, i.e. music independent of human experience (instrumental music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart) the highly formalized psychological s t a t e s transmitted are explicit in the score. The more incomplete the de- personalization of the artist, the lesser the explicitness and so the self-sufficiency of the score, and the greater the necessity for vocal- izing, or endowing the music with human responses. The music of Bach is self-suffi- cient. The listener is not at all interested in being shown what a splendid fellow Stowkowski is; rather he is primarily concerned with what a splendid fellow Bach is. To this latter aim the performer should function as an enunciator i.e. he should make clear the con- trapuntal elements, he should be precise about the rhythm, he should treat the dynamics musically. For Stowkowski to participate in the score by indulging in rubato, by an occasional but persistant inti- mation of coming notes, even by infusing the score with a luscious tone quality, is an intrusion. There should be more humility and con- sequently less glorification in Stow- kowski's approach to Bach. Needless to say, the album is a very valuable set. It is the only recording of the Brandenburg Con- certo in F major, by some consid- ered to be the purest product of Bach's nolvnhonic style. 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