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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNMUMAY, JANUARY 21, 1931:
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FRANx E. COOPER, City Editor
News Editor............. Gurney Williams
Editorial Director ..........Walter W. Wilds
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NIGHT EDITORS
of the state; when a depression re-
quires that the State's hospitality
be meted out in simpler fare, the
University accepts with good feel-
ings.
Naturally Senator Norris is op-
posed to joining a third party. HeJ
already belongs to two, neither of
which owns him.-Toledo Blade.
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IT'S A COLD,
COLD
WINTER
The holdouts aren't all in the bigt
leagues. Yesterday we went to a
class, fondly expecting the profes-
sor to rush up with hand out-
stretched in greeting. He didn't.
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About Books
STUART GILBERT'S STUDY.
"There is probably no exact paral-
lel in all literary history for the
labor of scholarship that Mr. Gil-
bert has here performed on the
great tellurian body of James
Joyce's 'Ulysses'." This is from the
New York Times. There might be
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Campus upinion
Contributors ate asked to be brief,
confining thensel es to less that. 300
wordis if possible. Anonymous comn-
nunications will be disregarded. The
names of communicants will, however,
be regarded as confidential, upon re-
quest. Letters published should not be
construed as expressing the editorial
opinion of The Daily.
REORGANIZE THE 'LAME-DUCKS'
S. Beach Conger
Carl S. Forsythe
David M. Nichol
John 1. Reindel
Richard L. Tobin
Harold 0. Warren
SPoRTs ASSISTANTS
Sheldon C. Fullerton J. Cullen Kennedy
Robert Townsend
REPORTERS
. E. Bush
Thomas M. Cooley
Morton Frank
Saul Friedberg
Frank B. Gilbreth
Jack Goldsmith
Roland Goodman
Morton Helper
Edgar Hornik
James Johnson
Bryan Jones
Benton C. Kunze
Powers Moulton
Eileen Blunt
Elsie Feldman
Muth Gallmeyer
Emily G. Grimes
Jean Levny
Mrtyagee
Wilbur J. Meyers
rlBrainad WX. Nies
Robert L. Pierce
Richard Racine
Theodore 1. Rose
Jerry E. Rosenthal
C:harles A. Sanford
Karl Seiffert
Robiert F. Shaw
Edwin M. Smith
(eorgeA. Stauter
John W. 'rhomas
John S. Townsend
Mary McCall
Margaret O'Brien
Eleanor Rairdon
Anne Margaret Tobin
Margaret Thompson
Ciaire Trussedl
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931-
Night Editor, CHARLES R. SPROWL
In the adjacent column, the edi-
tors publish with pleasure a com-
munication which they were grati-
flied to receive as a manifestation of
the "courageous and intelligent
leadership" that they bespoke in
last Sunday's Daily, as looking to-
ward the day when there would be
less pretension and sterility in
campus organizations.I
THE BUILDINGS MUST WAIT
The Administration's announce-
ment that it will not seek extra
appropriations from the state for
the University's 1931 building pro-4
gram must have created some grati-
fication in the hearts of the legis-
lature and taxpayers of the state.
Despite the too-apparent earmarks
of paralyzed business conditions
throughout Michigan, it would
hardly be appropriate to call Presi-
dent Ruthven's measure a political
gesture-notwithstanding the cam-
pus needs that have been unful-
filed for some time.
Under state law, enacted in 1929,
the University's appropriation was
set at a minimum of $700,000 an-
nually for a period of four years.
During the first two years under
the statute, appropriations approxi-
mated $1,000,000, while the state
budget for 1931-32, recently issued
from Lansing, indicates an antici-
pated expenditure of $1,200,000 at
the University. Thus a reduction of
half a million dollars has been
effected by the Administration's de-
cision to minimize expenditures
during the coming year.
Building programs planned by
officials during the past twelve
months must now be discarded
until 1932 in the fact of the lack
of anticipated funds. These build-
ings were to be not only a part of
the regular expansion program to
keep the University abreast of the
changing-needs in equipment, but
were necessary parts of a plan to
eliminate over-crowded conditions,
poorly built class-rooms and age-
old structures whose usefulness has
long been outlived.
After this evidence of co-opera-
tion and willingness to strap the
University to a policy of rigid eco-
nomy, there can be slight excuse
To the Editor:
The reforming enthusiasm of the
recent Daily editorial entitled the
"Lame Duck Array" is commenda-
ble, but the writer was more criti-
cal than correct. The "cumbersomet
array" of student organizations isc
due not so much to their lack of
purpose as to the failure of student
politics. The editorial states cor-t
rectly that student organizations
can do more than they are doing,c
but fails to recognize the necessityt
for close faculty supervision over
every major campus activity, whichc
in itself has tended to stifle student
initiative.
In view of thse facts, I believe
that a complete reorganization of
the four groups mentioned in the
editorial-and the list should have
been more comprehensive -would
be desirable. By making the groups
smaller, by instituting the merit
system and completely abolishing
fraternity politics, except in a few
cases where it is necessary to con-
duct class popularity c o n t e s t s,
Michigan would be embarking upon
a live program of extra-curricular
activity.
In making this reorganization,
the extent to which student control
can go must be clearly appreciated.
Surely no one knows better than
The Daily's editors how freely they
may express themselves in editori-
als before the dean of students re-
quests a hearing; or how far the
business department may go in dis-
pensing funds before the faculty-
controlled board takes a hand.
And this paternalism is not utter-
ly bad; it is necessary. The Daily
has gone further than many other
student organizations in seeking
and promoting efficient men. This
is the point, however; whenever
politics does exist, the students
themselves are the reason for it,
and faculty supervision only keeps
the system from degenerating.
Campus politics, no doubt, has
had an enervating effect. Under
'the present system a man, to gain
office, need be neither popular nor
efficient. The politicians winning
out owe so many debts to obliging
friends that committees and offices
are created to salve the vanity of
the latter. These clutter the field
of extra-curricular action, causing
the "cumbersome array" to which
The Daily editorial alluded.
For this reason, I propose that
every all-campus organization hav-
ing a reason for existence, institute
the merit system and admit a large
Smeasure of faculty control. Under
I an unbiased method of selecting
so-called student leaders, the posi-
tIons they hold will gain prestige.
Because the men who occupy these
positions will be qualified, they
should be vitalizing forces in extra-
curricular life.
For social reasons, it might be
necessary to retain class presidents,
if not so many committees. Because
these positions should be graced by
individuals who are popular, who
have the necessary amount of col-
legiate "smoothness," they ma y
best be turned over to the discrim-
inating taste of political bosses.
Whoever is elected need possess no
special ability, so this type of elec-
tion might be left untouched by
the merit system.
'Whether or not such honorary or-
ganizations as Michigauma should
be abolished is open to question.
Admission to these holiest of hol-
ies is gained by a vote of those al-
ready members, and often in the
past elections have been swayed by
petty prejudice. This has under-
mined the prestige of the honorary
groups, something which t h e y
themselves do not want. Would it
be best to make membership auto-
matic onceda student has achieved
5a certain distinction in some ac-
tivity under the merit system?
The Oratorical association h a s
been planning to introduce the
merit system in its method of ap-'
nointment to office The iustness
What was our surprise to learn some abstract connotations from
later that the big stiff didn't even this earthy encomium. At any rate
remember us. Oh, well, maybe it it is certain that 'Ulysses' has stir-
was the wrong class, anyway. red up a tempest of comment-on
the psychological and subconscious,
But the big event of the day matters which before had very
came when our instructor in little if anything to do with the
English announced that we novel (that is academically). It has
would have to get a book review also given birth to a body of dis-
in before the end of the semes- ciples which include such widely
ter. cThe s hicy inludg suc widely
.The funny thing about it divergent artists as D. H. Lawrence{
all is that the end of the semes- and Fannie Hurst and may be said'
ter is only a few days away. Ito have extended a good distance
That is, maybe it's funny. into the literary life of these halls
*i*i *r . of learning, And that is perhaps
Al tin al it wdas Fpretty disap- more important.
pointing yesterday. First there wereSo that "James Joyce's Ulysses"
those two classes. Then about 5 y Sthat GiJaer Joyclses"
o'clock we went over to the Library. m by Stuart Gilbert, a "close textual
That's bad enough in itself. We commentary" and "minute exege-
were standing around the circula- sis" printed by Alfred Knopf car-
tion desk, waiting for a book, when ries with it the weight of import-
suddenly an overpowering thirst ance and novelty. There is probably
overpowered us. We wandered over no other such work on the product
towards the fountain in the corner, of a living author, in existence. As
when whom should we run into but to its importance, it is said that
one of these co-eds, playing peek- one who would really understand
a-boo from behind the door with pgthe chronicle of Joyce's gigantic
somebody in the periodical room. pilgrimag both "obscure but also somewhat
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winter ahead! Every hat greatly reduced for
this spectacu!atr event!
we arew ourst p uruy, I ay ll
almost anything. And then she
said: "Oh, go ahead and drink. I'm
not in a hurry."
We read in Monday's paper
that nine members of the
Wickersham commission are
pro-prohibition. What we want
to know is what is this country'
coming to, Wickersham like
that advising the President.
WELL, NOW, DEPARTMENT
From a WAl-Known Local
Morning Daily (adv.)
Feminism struck Chicago in the
art field during the past week when
several of the art galleries opened
exhibits devoted completely to
woman artists.
THE WEEK'S WORST PUN
We overheard this one in An-
gell hall, so it must have been
designed with malice of fore-
thought: a fellow was telling
another fellow that if this New-
berry person wanted to be well
remembered around campus in
connection with this building
named after him, he auditorium
down instead of leaving it
there.
That didn't go over so well, did
it?
* * *
And now that that's over, we
might just as well come right out
and face facts. Yes, sir, it was cold
yesterday. Yesterday was about as
cold a day as we've felt in a long,
long time. We went out and walked
around the block, and do you know,
why, every instant we felt the cold
more and more. In fact it was
pretty cold. You know what we
mean, all right; we mean that it
wasn't very darn warm anytime
yesterday.
But that's beside the point,
although it was pretty cold.'
What we really started out to
point out to our readers is that,
in spite of the cold, Dean
Humphreys has come right out
and offered the poor, suffering
student body a chance to tell
him just what it thinks of the
current marking system, even
if it freezes.
We wrote out all of our sug-
gestions on a post card and
were going to mail it, but the
postmaster warned us that you
can't print that stuff. How does
he know, the big stiff, I printed
iR all right, all right.
Someday this University is going
to be facing a real crisis. Yes, sir,
DeantHumphreysdhad betterdlook
out. It was a cold day yesterday,
but just the same we managed to
get out and scratch a line through
his name on the Bulletin posted in
the lower corridor of Angel hall. In
fact there are no limits to the
lengths to which we would go to
make that man feel our presence
around Ann Arbcr. Some day, we're
going to put on our overcoat and
walk out to the nearest mailbox in
spite of the wintry blasts and post
a letter that we've been saving up
ever since the last time Dean Rea
called us into the office for not
keeping the mud off our University
driving license tags. Then the world
will know. Just wait.
But then, it's too cold today to
get all boiled up over such trifles.
We'll have to let it go until some
inaccessible," must read Gilbert.
He has attempted to prove that
"Ulysses" is more than a "fantasia
of the unconscious, a choatic and
disagreeable mass of uncorrelated
material, a betrayal of the intellect
to 'the hydra-headed rabble of the
mental underworld' "; is in fact
a work "classical in spirit, com-
posed and executed according to
rules of design and discipline of al-
most scientific precision." In a
word, Joyce was a conscious and
purely objective artist.
The publishers hint with a ques-
tionable accuracy, that "Ulysses"
being inaccessible in this country,
Stuart Gilbert's study, with its very
liberal quotations, is the next best
thing. Of course the value of a
critical study without the prelimi-
nary benefit of a knowledge of the
work under study, may be under
question.
BACH THE SOCIALIST.
Following Shaw's somewhat du-
bious lead in the case of Wagner,
Rutland Boughton has written a
new interpretation of Bach's genius,
reading it in the light of a social-
ist. His work is called "Bach the
Master," and is published by Harp-
ers.
Boughton, who is an English
composer and socialist, would have
us believe that Bach's somewhat
deeply turbulent religious life, and
his occasional fierce conflict with
the powers of the German religious
and temporal state, were inspired
by a conviction to use his music as
a symbol for, what he felt to be
truth. He uses as example Bach's
chorales. which he claims are elo-
quent testimony to his leanings
toward a people's state and re-
ligion.
AN INDIVIDUAL GEOGRAPHY.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon, from
his home in Holland, announces
the preparation of a new work,
which is to be a geography execut-
ed in the individual style of his
"Story of Mankind," and other
works. The individuality of that
other history "America" is still
vividly remembered. It is told by
the publishers, Horace Liveright,
that the old and, until now, gen-
erally accepted plan of two dimen-
s.:onal maps will be discarded by
Mr. Van Loon in favor of what is
probably the more accurate style of
maps in three dimensions.
This is an interesting departure
in both geography and book-mak-
ing. It will probably be quite a
problem for publisher and book-
binder, and quite a delight for Mr.
Van Loon's large public.
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bring back long lost faith.
"The Road Back," by Erich Re-
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leaving us in the midst of chaos
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