PAGE FOUR THlE MICHIGAII'4, DAILY TH [u R D AY. DECEMBER 1o;, 1930 r. _ Published every morning except Monday during 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 in this 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, Maynard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY FRANKi E. COOPER, City Editor News Editor ............... Gurney Williams Editorial Director ..........Walter W. Wilds Sports Editor .............. Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor ...........Mary L. Behymer Music, 1Drama, Books........Wmn . Gorman Assistant C'ity Editor .... ..-arold 0. Warren Assistant News Editor......harles R. Sprowl Telegraph Editor...........eorge A. Stautem Copy Editor .................. Wm. F. Pypes NIGHT EDITORS Campus Opinion M KK AND DA words if possil. nn m us c('on- ", ~"" = " - murnications hill be ( te d - ~.3g nib '1 +I i*CtV F 7? t _ names of coninnic no ns ill, ' v.,IOIiL teLdi.Mc d be regarded a1s cini1 t,'~i, Iinollr- '- .'~ r. )a' I-atperfoiance quest. Letter s pul li sbc( dshoui ld nrot l ja'e 9i he iet-i Tl A fce construed as expressing; the editorial _eSomehwI.'117.3I' y 10 bePlayONE rather iunwarranted to many of our~ neeyoysmuibti em :TkMSCNE~ t laI ,--r 1 . °' M I j I ;i I, ~ Pb i Lab10i it Sand Prolperty Damage Pr'iemiu 1m Including Ci ul) and Ensergency Poad Service. Ford and Chevrolet......16.00 Essex . ..-18.00 Buick Standard.......19.00 Buick Master 21.00 Dodge Six....... 19.00 Pontiac...........18.00 HUdson..........20.00 Other cars in proportion. l S. Beach Cogger Carl S. Forsythe David M. Nichol John D. Reindel Richard L. Tobin Harold 0. Warren SPORS ASSISTANTS Sheldon C. Fullerton J. Cullen Kennedy Robert Townsend REPORTERS J. E. Bush Wilbur J. Meyers Thomas M. Cooley Robert L. Pierce Morton Frank Richard Racine Saul Friedberg Jerry E. Rosenthal Frank B). Gilbrcth Charles A. Sanford j~ack Goldsnmith Karl Seiffert Oland G;oodlman Robert F. Shaw Morton helper Edwin AT. Smith Edgar I lornik George A. Stauter Bryan Jones John W. Thomas Denton C. Kunze John S. Townsend Powers Moulton Eileen Blunt Mary McCall Elsie Feldman M\amgaret O'Brien Ruth Galhnicyer Eleanor Rairdon Emily G. Grimes Anne Margaret Tobin Elsie M. Hoffineyer Margaret Thompson Jean Levy Caire Trussell Dorotny.Magee Barbara Wright BUSINESS STAFF TIelep~hone 21214 T. H-OLL I S'E HMABlLEY, B usiness .Manager KASPrR PJI IALVERSON, Assistant Manager DEPART MEN-r MIANACGERS Advertising.................Charles T. Kline Advertising ................Thomas M. Davis Advertising ............ William W. Warboys Service ................... Norris .. Johnson Publication ............Robert XV'1. Williamson Circulation .............. Marvin S. Kobacker Accounts....................Thomnas S. Muir Business Secretary............ Mary J. Kenan Assistants Harry R. Beglev Erle Kightlinger Vernon Blishop Don W. Lyon Williarn Brown William Morgan Robert Callahan Richard Strateineier William W. Davis Keith Tyler Richiardl H. Hiller Noel D. Turner Miles Iloisington Byron C. Vedder Ann W. Verner Sylvia Miller Marian Atran Helen Olsen Helen Bailey Mildred Postal Jo~sephine (Convisser Marorie Rough Maxine Fishgrund Mary E. Watts Dorothy L.eMi re Johanna Wiese Dorothy Laylin THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1930 Nighlt Editor-Harold 0. Warren students. To many of them the cover was nothing more than a burlesque Christmas card. Judging,: from his letter in Tuesday's Daily,I Norman Anning must be one of those people to whom the story of, the three wise-men was only aj nice background for Ramon 'Navar-E ro's "Ben Hur." He says that the story is not sac- red, that it is merely a beautiful, poetic narrative, like the story of "Snow-White and Rose-Red," and the "Three Bears." He says that it is ridiculous to believe that God could change the course of a star 'in his own heavens. The story of the wise-men is sac- red. It's in the Bible and it's just as sacred as the story of the birth- of Jesus. If the story of the "Mag-P is not sacred to you, none of the: Bible is, and when the Bible lo:s I its sacredness, you had better be- come an English instructor. That's the best place for people who feelj that way about it. They're harm- less there, nobody takes them ser- iously, and they have free rmill to rave on about their doctrines of reason, culture, Hellenism -- any- thing but Christianity. ILet's read the story of the "M,,agi," as we find it in the second cha)pter° of the Gospel of Mathew:f "Now when Jesus was born inI Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise- men from the east came to Jeru- salem, saying, 'Where is He that sL born King of the Jews? for wie sawv his star in the east arnd have comre to worship him.'.., and they, hav- ing heard the king (Herod), went their way; and lo, the star, whichI they saw in the east, went before! them, till it camne and stood ever where the young child was. AndUU when they saw the star, they re- joiced with exceeding great joy. And they came into the house and+ saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and they foll down that such are not to oc. 7-re I£tUndoubtedly the most interest- am adding a few insult to many hn- lilI' musical experience on last j ury, as mruch akgazinst my will asI nights program was the reading yours. which Mr. Falcone and the Varsity i band gave to the Passaca glia and well! nenn thing among t Fugue in C MLinor by Bach arrang- so my,: ills s ° uat the Pher- led by Vasseli. The differentation jret han' cdketod me like in instrumental color which the tbliri ~ !,,heand dlesertin g fugue form demands, was not, at sinin s iic i gave me the least to as great an extent as is f+lloingfi? your edification,1 possible with the ordinary orehes- but you donyt,«o course, have; tral reading, as sharp as it might to use it for 't-at unless YCU have been. And this change in the really trtilyv ei o color of the inner voices did in this F§~ RET -'ae.cause an entirely different NEWLY E)DtK dfIL furnishedl mood. There was however an in- arl vr~n v~r ;.' at~1 ad tere sting rythmnic structure, ada shlowter for >oy 4 1listeam ; ,lternation of themes in th-e bras - heat, also beadif double room, es, which carried the intricate work sing;lan ae. along and made the lack of color IGH~~[ T~l~TY! 'et ust~ Iseem somewhat insignificant. There ! fie a T., it ! ihi is a danger in arrangements of this that this", oute, n~ns sort however of a too great popu- can? be c rrid oofa, A per-i lanszing-a movement which has sonay, ld r';ho al toagh l[ up till now threatened music less may be, prearto b y ain than any other art. .narte nr avdi i The choosing of this anid the nian.Symphonic March by Boneili on an -- .. ,. ,.otherwise lyric program is perhaps Christmas~ as it is best lknown- ninfortuniate. It semed to mL'.e that in its translates' form frog the old the program would be a more ini- Hebric frm Ohrima147 A. D. SFh ih is one :ea o possibilities of the band. I-I main- hihIhv^ inoL sic,; wh-at- ttains a single modal effect through- 'ever, o ut except for one part where the Why only thinc! With the pass-'I characteristic March rythm was 1~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~* ,, ftm y:Ii c '~ rto wed to a iyric motion. The el-or- E 6scni oalh nI c'eJaa I raiang ement of the accomp ani- 10yof which !Aree~ . mnt tends in some places to grow' tidota icVLcI 14y y 1, monotonous. However, in the very t'-~ no atall s o2' n whch fet that it can be critized in this itsn r and joga11 ea U K 1j , t ; i ;-- manner it proves itself a more than Phone Office 7912 Phone Residence 9790 H. A. WELCHER I GENPRAL INSURANCE li 337',2 South Main St. O a a 0 0 It I , r r Ilia " C tt opmIng s owl p DAYS BEFORE GOING HOME O Christ as Suggestions II edce Prices'- GREETING ClARDS0 STrATIONERY FOUNTAIN PENS GIFTITM 314 South State Street The Stationery and Typewriter Store OPEN EVENINGS ARed Arrow Store t EVERY DAY FINDS UNUS$UAL VALUES IN OUR CLA'IFEI)SECTION 1 I 4l .a SPECIA L TRAINSts CHRISTMAS VACATION =1Friday, December 19th ° SOUTH OUN a Leave Ann Arbor 11:00 am. (Central Time) arriving Toledo 1:15 SOUTHHp. in. (Eastern Time), making all Toledo connections. - NO THBO ND:Leave Ann Arbor 5:15 p. in. (Central Time) arriving Durandi 6:45 = NORTHBO ND.-pin., Owosso 7:20 p. in., connecting with Grand Trunk and Michigan fwCentral for Flint, Port H uron, Ponciac, Saginaw, Bay City, etc. ' S UTFBOU D:Regu.lar Train---Leave Ann Arbor 2:16 p. im. (Central Time), arriving Toledo 4:55 p. in. (Eastern Time) connecting with all lines diverging. Special Train Service f romx Toledo - } ~RETURNING JANUARY 4, 1931- t For .accorinodati(on of students returning to Ann Arbor following Christmas vacation, THE ANN ARBOR RAILk OAD' will operate a SPECIAL TRAIN fromt Toledo' to Ann Arbor, leaving Toledo at 6:45 p. m. (Just- = ern Time) Sunday, January 4, 1931. IPurcbase tickets and check baggage in advance to avoid delay and confusion at train time. AD("IRAJLR OAD R. V. OLD)HAM, H. A. MILLS,- General Passenger Agent, Commercial Agent, SToledo, Ohio At-n Arbor, Mich._ t lllll lllll- IIM l IIIIll- IIiII lU-11 I111 IiM E IigoII I1M IIIII-IIIIi 11111ilIili1lllllI i THE ISOLATION MYTH With the stage set for a long fight on the much discussed ques- tion of America's entry into the world court, the forces in opposi- tion have again begun the time- worn argument of America's splen- did isolation, a policy which, it is claimed, was first Laid down by Washington and has since been ac- knowledged by all the great states- men of the country. It is admittedly a strong argu- ment for there has grown up in the popular mind an implicit belief in this policy. The word isolation it- self has been surrounded by a ser- ies of myths and traditions and, al- most without exception, it has been strong enough to defeat any meas- ure such as the world court proto- col. But America's isolation has re- mained a myth. As far back a. 1803, Commodore P r e b 1 e was pounding down the walls of Tripoli in an attempt to free not only American but world commerce from the domination of the Pasha. In 1853 Commodore Perry was forcing his way into the ports of Japan and demanding the right of trade with the United States. Twelve years later, American guns were leveled at Kagoshima to punish the Japanese for firing upon a small American steamer and the United States were joined in this destruction by the British cannon Since that time, the Samoan Is- lands have been taken, a nava' base has been established at Ha- waii, Cuba has become a protec- torate, and Americans have taken a prominent part in the Hague con- ferences of 1897 and 1907. More recently, in 1921, there was the Washington disarmament confer- ence. This is obviously a very brief list and could be extended almost infinitely. The time has come when th( American people should be freed from. the mental straight-j ackets of such myths. There are advan- tages in the world court plan which no one can intelligently deny ant and worshipped him; and onen 7iseg . 2""' r , E ""i sfficien t i arch znumber. ,. vo a their treasures they offered unto' ely;-prenteaen~ The Girls Glee club, in under- him gifts, gold and frankincense ic ti I ,~ s:: ndingz and allowing for its own and myrrh." . . f a job on themrtaor' old pi L ',nitations, was the most nearly, That's the story. If yoIeiv csrwul epodt e o ideal unit for this type of program.' y u blee ssr w ld b pr d to u. yo that God has no other powers th I r w, to r id s al o gd a + the Brahms Lullaby especia lly, ths eogn t h ua e it r:, owed itself consciou s of the thoe blogin t th hu-tn-b ) with mercena.ry ('cnsidel.ationsr ing, it's ridiculous. But if your G od or whatt Uncle Merry is going to ' nuances and inflections necessary. is He that healed the sick and rais- kick through with this year. I .T1h soloists were pleasant, in the .d the dead, that made the blind 1*n twge! pet I mr go . a, spirit o[ thea occasion. The to see, the halt to walk, the sinnr University Glee club was rather er- to be forgiven, and the lost to have C .._... ir ,ic, sacrifici at times technr- hope, it won't be hard to believe, - cal perfection to the holiday sea- :hat He could change the course of son. mne of His own stars in His ow 3 These rather informal muzsical r !r ,V ; . s ) As for the Gang cover, I athink that the whole offense was unin- tentional. Somebody had a seem- ngly clever idea, but nobody hap- )ened to realise that it would be offensive to so many of their read- ;rs. You know, college students are .upposed to be so unconventiona, >o hard, so ultra-modern, so ideal- stic. They're all ready to make the whole world over, and there's noth- ng like starting with man's oldest mnd most reliable friend, his Goal. So they proceed to make thsese old truths ridiculous and funny. seem thata music wiith a religious flavor is highly attractive, for at' the Adeste Fidelis, the audience stood up and sang with the perfor- miers. This is something that could' only be enjoyed here, and here it was really enjoyable. It is hoped that the Glee clubs and the banld will continue their welcome reci- tals. The University band has lim-, ied itself too imuch to the football field. S.S. F. - _ _ _ _ _ _I I It would have been a much be - ler policy for the Gar;; to have j ChristmasP levoted itself to the campus r wvue,(d :ather than rushing in where only 1 feasts have been utter-ly riind by v ingels dare to tread and making the1(,fact tha=t AetA Aha pre-s tself obnoxious. sented someo ne with a magenta - Iscarf t: tan by any othe r thing in thie history of fea,,:t. SI t seems acsad J.,ut inevitable W hat ? , concl.usion that lich is ,ire nature \1V at' :'of thing-s, howtev, whe wecon- ides thaGt even such thin-ss the Going !old Feasts of Am' eealways I 1acempaniod by such Tcrnines as 0fl t{Presenting Arms' ee' nye god tde dayes, butevn o -,7cn;bu ~ ~~----peel just a triflesry over the THEATERS$ whole affair whenT look baca and I sen wh-at it n-ighthave been just Lydia Mendelssohn a-- Christm s Iwlla!nthd Tno-ee o program: Moliere's " Affectedt Miss-la lot of people whzo tho-ught they s, Pc w k's C rs m s; s n-C lith f 31E by gvnored by Women's league Play Pro- cheaper resents than these they duction, and Freshman Girl,- Glee? fot froze otherfs. club. The forem 'ost ex eunc of this Michigan -~ "The Mati'hnRonial ytmwaa ar s3haebe Bed" with Lillian Tashman. aoet elfr asereo0s Majestic-"Cheer Up and Smzile" mart named.. - -i who used to with Dixie Lee and Arthur La-ke, -r u i rscI al t Wuerth -Harold Lloydi Pe ~etrt nte ao noae~ yinFirst.'' - ,?rIiflthem c 1l ~i -. __ I OPERA PROGRAMS "Luisa Miller" will have its, first performance this season next Men- dlay evening opening the ninth week of the Metropolitan Opera. season with Mines. Ponselle, Telva and Doninelli, and Messrs. Lauri-- Volpi, Deluca, Pasero, Ludikar and Paitn inieri, M~r. Serafin conducting. The rest of the program for the first week of the Christmas season follows: "Lohengrin" on W e d n es d a y, "Mignon" on Christmas evening w.ith Miss Bori and Giglh. "Haensel and Gretel"i and "Pag,-- liacci" as a holiday matinee on Fri- day. "The Flying Dutchman" on Fri- day evening with Mmne. Jeritza. Mr. LBodanzky conducting. "Don Giovanni" as a Saturday m-atinee, with Mine. Ponselle and MJr. Gigli. "Tosca" for the "popular" Satuir- clay night opera. There will be an opera concert on SundayT night. Minmes. Mueller, Sw1-arthgout, Didlur, Doninelhi and F E.-xper and Messrs. Tokatyan, Fi- gerio, Piniza, Windheim and Cehan- ov:sky will sing. C 0111 aL 1, tp GivLop D~ not forget oCri -a et o l uia ntuet W t ~Itctn es.ilcristmas neCotrl , I li I Hi I ii K I 4 hl 47$. T n At 3-" t T rr a 4 ." I I 1 111111