PAGE FOUR T- HE MICIIIGAN 1 A\IY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1931 ............ . Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial T'heA sociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or aIot otherwisei edited 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 HEilNRY MERRY FRANM E. COOPER, Cits Editor News Editor .............Gurney Williams Editorial Director ..........Walter W. Wilds Sports Editor.............. Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor...........Mary L. 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Criticism of governmental com- plicity has long been rampant inj this country. It is estimated that, at the present time, the conscien- tious voter must make more than 400 choices during the year and despite all the modern aids and rapid communication this is more of a burden than even the most competent citizen can bear. Now comes the news that the cit- izens of Cook County, Illinois, have taken the lead in abolishing at least .a part of this trouble. The first move is to be the study of the 417 local governments in the dis- trict with the object of drawing up a plan which will co-ordinate the work of these units. This task is to be done by thirty of the county's prominent citizens who have been appointed by the president of the county board. They will, according to the motion of the board, study public credit, govern- mental services and expenditures, and develop definite measures for taxation and revenue reforms. The entire aim of the commission is to simplify, as much as, possible, the government of the county and to do away with all duplications of work by single men and by depart- ments. This is a very laudable beginning on a reform that might well take on national proportions. Duplica- tion, inefficiency, and often in- competency are the inevitable re- sult of a system as loosely co- ordinated and as pseudo-democrat- ic as present governmental proce- dure. Political plums are too fre- quently distributed without a n y need other than the necessity of placating an irate campaigner or of building a stronger machine. This can do else but lead to a much too complicated government. Campus Opinion Contributors are askhed to he brief, confining themselxes to less than 300 words if possible. Anonvnicus comi- muinic7ationls xiill he dlsregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as conidential, upon re- (]uest. Letters published should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. About Books SI ,A DDRA LITERARY SOURCE MATERIAL. BLACK YEOMANRY, edited by T. J. a Woofter, Jr. Henry Holt and Co. New York is a rolirikintg, bump- New York. 1930. ($3.00). kin town, wih a lce. on its face .mhand a back alley down which to Black Yeomanry, though it may ru.Ad"Th nseto Genra" not primarily concern the litterateur run. Ar "The InscorGeneral" in the same sense that does Black ismrollickig,;bumpkin play with April, Porgy, and other books deal- neither the leer nor the back alley. gy , Jed Harris, with?- his usual acumen, ing with the Negroes of the Caro- i-ha chosen Gogol's boosey bur- inas, is a vork of no little n- lesque to hold a mirror up to New potnce and interest to anyone koi. Of course, parenthetically, who would fully understand the Yok'fcuspa nItcly and in the interests of accuracy, it characters of such novels. Black is t only one facet of that much Yeomanry is first of all sociological adult ald gem. And New York, and historical, but it gives a color asd usual ignores the mirror, for it, portrait of life on St. Helena Islandrk whic shuldbe itenelyinterest- the mirror, does not take New York which should be itensely seiously. The play says--come. look ing to people concerned with Negro at yourself, sit in the balcony if you life and development in the South. must, come on a matine^ if you One chapter in this book is de- voted to the songs and stories col- il. T ppbut come an lokat your- lected by Guy B. Johnson, of the self. The people come but they don't ofNot Crlia adook. They laugh enough at the University of North Carolina, and heavy booted Russian Pumor, and this chapter gives, an esthetic taste at the fine acting (although it must to the report which otherwise would , said that at time the players be absent. Dr. Johnson arrives at seem thoroughly shocked at their the conclusion that many of the own parts). But that is all. There spirituals are pure American or never was such a tremendous apa- English in their origin, though the thy to a perfectly apparent, though Negro has done most in his adapta- unconscious, symolism. tion and perpetuation of t h e m. Not that there is anything in the Some of the songs have been close- "Inspector General" which directly ly identified as adaptations from or indirectly alludes to New York, English ballads. The choruses of To the Russian peasantry portrayed Roll, Jordan, Roll and Lord, Re~ New York does not exist, and Petro- member Me are borrowed from Ste- grad is Heaven for Hell). phen Foster's Camptown Races; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is strik- ngly related to Amazing Grace. In December 23 at the Hudson. It is practically every case, however, new he story of a corrupt Russian town elements have been injected into town of tha opn these songs, sometimes reflecting v t oan Inspector General from plantation life, sometimes suggest- t For they have good rca-I ing Africa and the jungle. What- etrogreapd. For they hae goo e- . . on to be auniour -these petty offi- ever the elements of this synthesis, f , ~~j als for whl-om liffe has been one the spirituals have come to be pure- 7 rv t y American. aft another. The mayor ;y Ame4L,- - ,icai. ,_.. 19n t. 7t2...4P ,':/ .F ., s y . ;5 i f , . R (4'. i rgr fi t-T , _ ;; 4't 1 , ir °; . a" " '' M _ ! ai r rpI L l G .-a 1 1 " _ ____ __ ilk - , .:. 7.. ';l ' ' y ' 1 t[r 1 r. J l Py '' 7 _ IL I ': ° ^-i F j ' r,. .,fit . y ' Fti:_ i % ' t 1 ' f, ' ' ,_ a a ' ; k ", y i- .n: - , --,,,, I a4 HX Harry R. Beglev Vernon Bishop William Brown Robert Callahan Williamer.Davis Richard H. H-iller Miles Hoisington Erle Kihtlinger iDon W. Lyon William Morgan Richard Stratemeier Keith 'ynler Noel U. Turner Byron C. Vedder J , 3 Ann W. Verner Sylvia Miller Marian Atran I helen Olsen E~elen' Bailey M~ildrerd Postal Usephine Convisser Mariorie Rough [axine Fishgrund Mary E. Watts Dorothy LeMire Johanna Wiese Dorothy Laylin MDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1931 Night Editor-JOHN D. REINDEL THE ENTREPRENEUR IN COLLEGE Critics of the large university of- ten harp upon the evils of large-, scale production which becloud the educative process of such institu- tions. Recently one of Yale's pro- fessors stated that administrative methods were tending to emulate; the factory system. Vice-president: Yoakum has also recently pointed out that his duties may be des-G cribed as watching the students and the pedagogical processes justl as the vice-president of a corpor- ation watches the money and ac- counts. This then would seem to make his position a sort of pro- duction manager. The brief in favor of business and efficiency in college administration has been so amply stated previous- ly that it requires no further ex- planation But the students too of ten are swamped by these mechan ic of running the educationa plant; they feel the effects of tht. massed production, their individua differences are waived before thi demands of efficiency, and the find themselves doing lip service t( the great pedagogical wheels, whicl grind out their product inexorably It is idle to lament the passing o. the old idealistic, tradition-bounz attitude towards one's alma mate. which saw its flowering in a da; when the human factors were no sunk under a labyrinth of routines formalizing and lock-step demands Yet with that passing, or rathe due to the causes of its departure went also many of the bonds whicl once drew faculty and student to gether. Not every student find glamour, warmth or even appeal i contemplating the delicately bal- anced mechanism which gives hin his education. Leadership in col lege administrators has pivotec from the qualities of personalit; and ideals that led students to- ward culture to the attributes of competent business man. It is fin( to consider the advantages of de- mocratic education, balanced bud- gets and large ones at that, anc J t ; ,. { , . R I To the Editor:j In connection with your refer-j once to compulsory military train- ing in American colleges, readers of 'The Daily may be interested in learning what a great Englishman, Bertrand Russell, has to say on the subject. After having shown the damage arising to teacher, pupil and society from teaching orthodox opinions on politics, religion or morals, the writer continues: "In every country, by means of flag- waving, Empire day, Fourth of July' celebrations, officers' training corps, otc., everything is done to give boys a taste for homicide, and girls a conviction that men given to homi- tide are the most worthy of respect i'this whole system of moral degra-' dation to which innocent boys and iris are exposed would become im- ossible if the authorities allowed ecdom of opinion to teachers and upils." As for the stories which Dr. John- son has collected, they are intrinsi- cally valuable for their form and the connotations of Negroid-Ameri- can civilization in slavery days rather than for their content. An-- thropologists have compared stories of many primitive peoples and as yet have found little which is com- parable in cultural qualities to the Gullah stories of the South. The editing of Black Yeomanry by Mr. Woofter represents careful selection from the research of many eminent sociologists and historians in St. Helena Island. H. C. APHRODITE IN AULIS I George Moore, whom most of u somewhat shamefully think of as1 dead (so vividly does he suggest completely dead decades), has just written a new novel "Aphrodite in Aulis" published in a limited edi- tion ($20) by Random House, tc be shortly reissued in a trade edi- tion by Horace Liverright. The plot summary suggests that the nove: discusses typical themes of thc "nineties." A young sculptor wan- dering alone on a beach discover.. two nude women bathing. They: beckon him to approach and joir in their discussion as to their re- spective beauty. The sculptor is soon asked to make the momentous decision as to which has the mos, beautiful buttocks. The lady whc wins his approval becomes his wife and model, retaining her beauty a; the cost of some unhappiness anc an absence of children. The othe; sister marries a farmer, has chib-' by children, and happiness, mar- red only by moments of envy a the magnificent statuary thatV in- mortalizes h e r sister's charms. tices the mechants, and seduces heir wives (for which by the way the merchants cart have no retribu- I ion). The choclmas tr has imbe- , ie teachers on his staff. The Hos- aital Superintendent oflicially em- ploys a veterin::ry and doles out he hospital beds to his indigent i -hativcs. And the hospital, to put k mi dly, has a most odiferous at- rnospheec. 'The Judge raises geese and dogs in the courtroom, and the Postmaster reads all the mail which comes through his offce . When thc ins cctor dooes come, he turns out. io be bogus, although the good citi- yens don't know it until he has tak- 'n all their b ibes, made the most delicious love to the mayor's wife and daugiter, promised to marry she daughter, written to a Petro- grad friend telling him of his comic adventures at the house of a stupid orovincial mayor who has taken him for an inspector general, and Ahen left the town for what is to be short visit. The deception is dis- covered of course when the Post- master naturally reads the letter, a ircumstance which shows t h a t here may be some virtue in every vice. Romney Brent, in the part of the bogus Inspector, gets ofh to a slow tart in the scene at the inn, but ? ter on, especially in his long ?runken speech about himself and us importance wherein he raves and raves and raves, and paints in ;audy colors for the peasants, his friendly and a-Lmnost fatherly ]rela- ons with Dukes and Grand Dukes, he Church, the literary world, 7inces> ad P'rince.sc f aai Cr'- ccirs an (tenmo o poem in sr a .5 0 of the mn yo-'s)ife ancd- laughter, which rcndercs them all i ith the possible exception of the nayor himself, ecstatic; and finally passcs out in a most deep alcoholic ;ieep, Shows a fine feeling for his I ;nlc. This speech, and his later ove maki n to the virgin dauga- ec, who is sOMewohat carefully and bit too deicately played by Dor- othy Gish (complsrisons with Lil- Ian are alnost inevitable,, wherein ;heee is such a mixture of fear and inticipat on1 and desire and hys- erics on the part of Marya the :agahter, .nd peir ect virtuosity in L:ve making on the part of the In- speto: s would make even the most consciol-iy virtuous laugh, are .n being interp-reted most nearly in ne Clificu"t for an Aaericen i u ss;an feeling for situation, the I best plan-ed sections of the drama. I The othnlr p-r ts are all played capab y, bG one is left with the feeling th{' ' 1e is no diectin g ", sanaTy ( 11 7h stage. Even Mr. Brent 4cs a ic; k somewhat in torce of ch r.E'317ctr which is neces- s'yU to e-rosed to recognize or harbor no so-E .ial distinctions. Theoretically, we{ ire all on the same social level and a pursuit of the same object- aigher education.1 But in practice, and probably I ,uite unintentionally, college life I tends to swerve from the broader o much narrower paths. Coeds, especially, are guilty of putting uph artificial barriers between them- Se1 v e s. Snobbishness oftentimes prevails among members of Greek- Letter sororities towards the unor-I anized women. On t h e otherE aand, unorganized coeds are equal-t y guilty in their clannishness. I There is no doubt that class dis- sinctions exist everywhere there are I )eople, but they should not be so apparent at college. The only wayl A WOMAN IN NEW YORK Undoubtedly a good antidote tc reading of George Moore will be th( epic "Babe Gordon" (Maculay anc Company) which has gone int several editions and all the best- seller lists. G. Egerton Harrimar has written a succinct review ou it: "This is the tale of a Harlem Broad Who drank hard liquor ane mocked the Lord, , Written with unction, gusto and zest By that famous actress, Mac West." In addition to Babe Gordon, thr characters a r e Bearcat Delaney Charlie Yates, Cokey Jenny, and Money Johnson, the Negro Apollc and king of Harlem, the home o1 them all. THE ARTS Outstanding on t n e Brentano Gas heat solves both the problem of the saes manager, who must meet the public taste with delectable hickory-smoked meats, and of the orIgineer, who must contrive to handle the production eco- nomically. The use of gas heat eliminates the fuel problem, and insures i