FADE VOUXt THE MICHIGAN DAILY T=Sl~hDAY JANUTAR2~9.191 ^.l.L/LLit V1111 ViAiVi GIVE iVVi c Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. Th~e Associated Press, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited inrthis paper and -the local news published herein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate frpostage granted by Third Assistant Post- ma:ter General. ._ Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, ,Maynard Street. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR Chairman Editorial Board HENRY MERRY FRANK E. CooPER, City Editor News Editor.............Gurney Williams Editorial Director..........Walter W. Wilds Sports Editor ............ Joseph A. Russell Women's Editor..........Mary L. Behymer Mus~ic, Drama, Books........ Win. J. (jorman Assistant City Editor........arold . Warren Assistant News Editor......harles R. Sprawl 'Telegraph Editor .......... orge A. Stauter Copy Editor ................Win. F. Pypei NIGHT EDITORS S. Beach Conger Carl S. Forsythe David M. Nichol John D. Reindel Richard L. Tobin Harold 0. Warren SPORTS AssIsTANTs Sheldon C. Fullerton J. Cullen Kennedy Robert Townsend REPORTERS . E. Bush hoasF M.Cooley Morton Frank S aul Friedberg Frank B. Gilbreth oland Goodman MortonHelper Edgar Hoornk James Jobnson Bryan Jones Benton C. Kunze Po*ers Moulton Eileen Blunt Elsie Feldman kuth Gallmeyer Emil G. Grimes Jeany ev Dorotliy agee Wilbur J. Meyers r rainard W. Nies Robert L. Pierce Richard Racine Theodore T. Rose Jerry E. Rosenthal Charles A. Sanford Karl Seiffert Robert F. Shaw Edwin M. Smith Gieorge A. Stauter .ohn W. Thomas John S. Townsend Mary McCall Margaret O'Brien Eleanor Rairdon Anne Margaret Tobin Margaret Thompson Claire Trussell Campus Opinion Contributors are asked to be brief, confining themsehes to less that. 300 words if possible. Anonymous com- munications 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. To the Editor: It is indeed extremely gratifying to know that Mr. Lawrence R. Klein has evidenced an interest in the well-being of the Michigan Union. The Union is at all times desirous of securing constructive sugges- tions, and at all times it is especial- ly prompt in making changes and alterations to better serve its mem- bership. I wish to say that another mem- ber of the Union who was in the shower room with Mr. Klein also noticed that the showers were not properly regulated at the time. Even before the readers of The Daily had an opportunity to consider Mr. Klein's criticism, a verbal report has been made to the persons to whom such suggestions are ordin- arily made. A telephone call was put through to the Detroit office of* the Powers Regulator company and a request was made for a man to remedy the condition. He who re- ported the faulty regulation to the Union did not think it necessary to dispatch a letter to The Daily. Albert Donohue. To the Editor: I, too, have read Rabbi Bernard Heller's essay on "The Modernists Revolt Against God." But nowhere do I find any statement from which to draw the conclusion that Rabbi Heller advocates the "drilling into a child from infancy up that there is a God and that he shows himself in everything," as stated by JED inI his recent letter to The Daily. Rabbi Heller does not assume this authoritharian attitude. He does not advocate the "drilling" into a child of a belief in God; rather, he maintains that we should let the child and the youth learn of the existence of a God through intui- tion. Let the teacher merely point out the trees and the mountains, the lakes and the stars as mani- festations of this God. He does not care to burden the child's mind with any syllogistic proof of God's existence. JED, on the other hand, main- tains that "we are living in an age of reason" and so we should prove the existence of God to the child on a dialectic basis. The Rabbi is keen enough to realize that such proof is vulnerable, and therefore 4he is honest enough to admit that proof of God's existence can only be arrived at by experience and intu- ition. ' '' ill////II////llllil./1/1/I.%f/!// , DASTED ROLL DEGUSTIBUS NON DISPUTANDUM EST 'p BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 T. HOLLISTER MABLEY, Business Manager KASPER H. HALVERSON, Assistant Manager DEPARTMENT MANAGERS Advertising...............Charles T. Kline Advertising............. Thomas M. Davis Advertising ............William W. Warboys Service .............Norris J. Johnson 1blication ............Robert W.Wiliamson Circulation.............Marvin S. Kobacker Accunts.... ....:.....homas . KMuir Business Secretary........... Mary J. Kenan Harry R. Begley Vernon Bishop William Brown Robrt Callahan William W. Davisi Richard H. Hidler M~iles Hoisington Asn, W. Verner Marian Atian Helen Bailey Josephine Convisset MM*lne Fishgrund Dorothy LeMire Dorothy Laylin Assistants Erle Kightlinger D~on W. Lyon William Morgan Richard Stratemeier Keith Tyler Noel D. Turner Byron C. Vedder Sylvia Miller Hlelen Olsen Mildred Postal Marjorie Roug Mary E. Watts Johanna Wiese This business of the Registration Bureau is getting to a point where it can no longer be regarded in the light of a joke. Why, they have even corrupted some of the famous Ann Arbor proofreaders in 1 4 such a manner that they cut a large part of what Baxter we had to say about the situation out of the col- umn last Tuesday. That is typical. of the way things are done around here.-Save money on announce- ments and spend it in bribes. All fooling to one side, however, what with the science of buck- passing in the University offices having reached a perfection which allows the original passer to receive it right back before he even knows that it has started the rounds, it is time something is done. Our re- porter, trying to get at the bottom of the Announcement shortage, was referred to the Dean's office, the Registrar's office, the Editorial office, and finally to the janitors and the B & G hangout. The latter denied all knowledge of the doings of the party in power. Hence it would seem that it is up to the students to do something them- selves. We might, of course, refer it to the Student Council, thus starting off one of the most momentous races in the history of the school to see who could get the greatest amount of nothing done with a maximum of noise until it is time for another Classification spree to set in. But the best solution seems to be that offered by the Classifica- tion office itself,-that of having the students return a few of the catalogues they took out earlier in the year. Surely some of you fellows have an extra one you could spare, or at least a nickel for a cup of coffee. The Administration is in a bad way, and no fooling either. If you don't believe me, go look at the Newberry Aud. and draw your own conclusions. * * *t DAILY POEM To inactivity inclined Both winter summer spring ad fall, Are our elders old and wise. Hence we learn with some surprise They car pass the buck, these guys It's a fine world after all. A mistaken impression seems to be making the rounds-if impres- sions go in for that sort of thing, that this department didn't like Mosher-Jordan when it went up there. This, as we said, is a mistake. The Library over there is simply superb, being equipped with one of the swellest red-haired,-I mean with some awfully nice bookshelves. The elevator door, however, is a disappointing fake, as I discovered at the cost of a ruined penknife when I tried to carve my initials in it. Just in case you ever feel the urge to try it, I warn you right now that it's made of solid steel. K * '1 IT MUST BE THE WEATHER DEPARTMENT Dear Dan: I enjoy your column very much. It is one of the bright spots in my day. I should like to meet you some day real soon. A Coed. Dear Fellows: It must be the Weather. Dan. * * * M is1C AND DRAMAI TONIGHT: Play Production pre- sents one-act plays by student authors. Performance begins at 8:30 o'clock at the Laboratory theatre. ART EXHIBIT A Review by Cile Miller. At first glance the collection of Mrs. James Stanley's water colors which are now on exhibition at Alumnae Memorial hall gives on the impression of great washes of blue-purples and blue-greens, of much color and very little form. Yet strangely enough her composi- tions on a closer inspection reveal an almost text-book exactness in the arrangement of compositional shapes. Conscientiously Mrs. Stan- ley, it would appear, lays out a pattern of geometric forms and builds up her pictures in an intri- cate interweaving of abstract shapes fusing into one another. Her valleys are inverted triangles which stretch up to include the up- right triangles which form her rock- crags. The horizontals of her sky- lines or water edges form Latin crosses with the verticals of a tree or spire. The works which she exhibits here, are for the most part inspired from her recent two year stay in the West, and her extreme blues and harsh dashes of other- colors are admirably suited to the inter- pretation of the sun-soaked glare of the Western plains and canyons. Although the work of Mrs. Stanley is pleasing, one becomes satiated with too much of it. Perhaps this is due to the fact that she has built up a conventionalism of her own that she can't take us by surprise. There will always be a splash of blue and purple, the exactness of her geometric forms. Sometimes, however the artist defeats the expressiveness of her own style by outreaching its limita- tions. For instance in her painting Zane Grey's Canyon, her devotion to triangular shapes set one upon the other results not in a convinc- ing landscape or even in a very unusual pattern arrangement. The result is more like a Chinese temple than the promised canyon. How- ever for the most part her method of construction accomplishes an apt expression of what she wishes to portray. Like the overbrilliant illu- strations of travel guides we have a good understanding of what original scenes must have been like, but we lack any very marked ex- pression of an artist's personality. We feel that Mrs. Stanley's work is better in conception than in the final result. In one or two of her offerings she has diverged from her usual treatment of her subjects and she approaches a form of impression- ism. For, : although Mrs. Stanley works from an impression rather from the natural form, her paint- ings seldom savor of the Impres- sionistic school. Her usual approach might be called a photographic im- pressionism, no more than that. However in her water color, Wood- side, she does the unexpected; for- gets the blues and purples and the geometric shapes with the result that her picture is a hazy fancy of sun-flecked woods. Her use of strips of unpainted white showing through the other colors in uncertain shapes and forms allows for a pleasing vagueness. The painting, Rainy Season, also cuts away from her style and we find Mrs. Stanley using the watery colors and blurring brush work of a Marie Laurencin, a most fortun- ate innovation for the painting of a drizzling rain. The only other painting which stands out as some- thing different is that of the Italian Tyrol. Here Mrs. Stanley creates an effect as though she had induced a magic paint pot to spill its con- tents and drip down the composi- tion into the shapes of young pines along a mountain side. As to her display of sketches, Mrs. Stanley has offered some very com- mendable work which has as defi- nite a stylization as her work in water color. Throughout the entiro group of drawings we find a delib- erate use of short definite strokes in either vertical or horizontal lines. And it is surprising that the artist can accomplish such good light and shade effects through this unvary- ing technique. If anything her sketches are a little more free from the dominance of paternized shapes. But there is a danger here, for in f ,PE.R R EPAI R ING H ALLER'S Stake Street Jewelers F- 601 East William Phone 7515 $elW, aa e n " " iat h.-et te tebs ca~Sta e I1I1ia FOUNTAIN 40% Complete Line of Everything Musical I I iscount on Moore PENS I- So that every student in Ann Arbor may write better mid-winter examinations, we have slashed prices on brand new latest model Moore Fountain Pens-one of the very finest pens money can buy anywhere. Pens formerly selling at $2.50 are now only $1.50. Others up to $7.50 similarly reduced. If you need a pen, now's the chance of the year? Calkins-Fletcher Drug Co. Three Dependable Stores UNIVERSITY MUSIC HOUSE William Wade Hinshaw Devoted to Music I Unexcelled Baldwin Pianos Victor Mirco-Synchronous Radio Victor and Brunswick Records Music Teacher's Supplies Popular Music 324 South State Street State and Packard Streets South and East University Avenues THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1931 $ight Editor -HAROLD WARREN Fil CHICAGO'S MAYORALTY ELECTIONS In less than a mon voters will go to the pol a- Republican for the ca mayor of Chicago. In A mayor, who will, it is many, end crime and "World's Fair Mayor" fc take office. th Chicago' Is to chooseI ndidacy for pril, a new hoped by be a good or 1933 will In the meanwhile, Chicago's wave of crime continues its inroads on the safety and sanctity of its citi- zens and the western metropolis continues to try to stop it through crime commissions and enforced rules and regulations. Reports show contradictory evidences as to how well this latter effort is doing. It will be interesting during the next few months to sit back and watch the battle which will grow fiercer and tighter as election date draws nearer for with sixteen can- didates, each of whom thinks that he will make a good mayor, a quiet campaign certainly cannot occur. One of these candidates, who has attracted nation-wide renown for his club-wielding attacks on the petty gangsters and racketeers which infest the courts of Chicago seems to be the center of most of the abuse which the different can- didates have already heaped on one another. From all appearances, ,moreover, he is popular with the Republican voters for the one rea- son that he has done something in a material way in combatting crime, which none of the others has ac- complished. No matter who receives the cov- eted position, however, Chicago's election will still be of national in- terest for there, in the second larg- est city in the country, will be proved whether or not our cities are still -civilized or still laboring under the effects of a soiled over- grown condition which has taken permanent root. -Some men are born unemployed, some achieve unemployment, and only the willing workers have un- employment thrust . upon them.- Boston-Transcript. I feel that JED must be unaware of the fact that he is advocating methods entirely in opposition to modern pedagogy-not only as re- gards religious training-but edu- cation in general, when he asks for a syllogistic proof. Dr. Frederick Tracy ;in "Psychology of Adoles- cence" states that one of the prin- ciples in education is that adoles- cent ,education should be free, joy- ous, and unrestrained so far as possible. "From the intellectual point of view this means that the youth shall be encouraged to in- quire, investigate, criticize, sift and make discoveries for himself, in the realm of truth... The mature mind should not now define truth in set terms, but should go with him on a voyage of discovery through the realm of truth." Our critic in advocating a logical explanation of God would force upon the child, in a belaboring and burdensome process, set ideas about a God which the child cannot com- prehend. Furthermore, in order to formulate a syllogistic proof he would necessarily have to delimit and define his God, and that is folly. To this Rabbi Heller openly objects. Listen to his words: "Help them (children) to cultivate that faculty which will make them see with the eyes of their souls what should be to them the fact that God is. .. Let the child's imagina- tion have free play... If the teach- er will stress the conviction (in the child himself) and not the contour of God, the child's faith in- God's reality - will remain, but his volition of Him and His wants will grow and develop with age, wisdom and insight." What saner method could be sug- gested than letting the 'child and the youth learn to know God through their own inner feelings and convictions, and letting their conception of God develop and idn an d enlan e in n or mithI I One of of our more distinguished professors today confessed to hav- ing a concrete mind. We think it high time that all this false mod- esty and secrecy amongst our pedagogical mentors came to an end, and more of this straight-for- ward, upstanding frankness mani- fested itself. - * *-* S- -yr-- -- Frankness (Courtesy Rolls Airphoto Dept.) A a ** 9.- And say, fellows, while we're 11, liii WIIIWW W~ 111111 I