PA--E FOUR 'T'HE MIC141CA t DAILY" TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1931 FO~ ' :4p TCHIAN AIL Th~DAY OCO~R 7',193 iyMr c441gan Dail Published every morning except Monday during the Univerity year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for re- publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published hereim. Entered at the Post Office- at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second ilass matter. Special rate of postage granted, by Third Assistant Postmaster General- Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50 Officesi Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD L. TOBIt4 Editorial director............................Beach Conger, Jr. City Editor....... ............................'Carl Forsythe News Editor..................................David M. Nichol Pports Edtor............................... Sheldon C. Fullerton Women's Editor ..........................Margaret M. Thompson Screen Reflections ..........................Bertram J. Askwith Assistant News Editor ..........................Robert b. Pierce SCREEN RMIFLECTIDNS I Frank B. Gilbreth Roland Goodman Harl °"Seiffert Wilber J. Myers Jo Brian Jones Stanley W. Aruhcim F Lawson . .Becer IN Thomas Connellan I Samuel G. Ellis H Samuel L. Finkte A Louis B.Gascoigne A Dorothy Brockman G Miriam Carver A Beatrice Collins M Louise Crandall I Elsie ecldman Fr Prudence Foster LB NIGHT EDITO J: Cullen Kenne Spots: Assista o'bn W. Thomas REPORTERS red A.iluber Vormain Draft oland Martin enry Meyer arion A. Milczew I2bert H. Newma SJerome Pettit eorgia Geisman lice Gilbert airtha. Littleton lizabeth Long 'rances Manchest lizabeth Mann RS dy James Inglis Jerry . Rosenthal George A. Stauter rts John S. Townsend Charles A. Sanford John WX. Pritcbard .Joseph Renihian C. Hart Schaaf Brackley Shaw vski Parker R. Snyder ~n G. R. Winters Margaret O'Brien Hillary Rarden 1)orothy Rundell ima Wadsworth r Josephine Woodhams BUSINESS STAFF' Telephone 21.214 CHARLES T. KLINE........................Business. Manager NORRIS P. JOHNSON.......................Assistant Manager Department Managers Advertising ........................ ..........Vernon Bishop Advertising........ ........................... Robert B. Callahan Advertising................................... William W. Dayis Service :............................. Byron C.Vedder Publications................................William T. Brown Circulation ...................................Harry R. Begley Accounts .. ........................Riclkard Stratemesier Women's Business Manager... ............Ann W; Verner Assistaents Orvil Aronsen Willard Freehling Thomas Roberts Gilbert E. Bursley Herbert Greenstone R. A. Saltzstein Willard A. Combs John dKeyser Ber rd R. Schnacke Allen Clark Arthur F. Kohn Grafton. W; Sharp. Gustave Dalberg Bernard H. Good Cecil E. Welch Robert E. Finn James Lowe Donna Becker Anne Harsha May Seefried Martha JanerCissel Katharine Jackson Minnie Seng Cenevieve Field Dorothy Layin, Helen Spencer Maxine Fischgrund Virginia McComb Kathryn Stork Ann Gallmeyer Carolin Mosher Clare Unger Mary Harriman He &ien Olsen Mary Eizabeth Watts Helen Schmeede NIGHT EDITOR-JERRY E. ROSENTHAL TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 1931 ALEX HAMILTON Once again Mr. George Arliss returns to a histor- ical drama, this time American, for his latest talking epic. None other than Alexander Hamilton, Esq., is the character portrayed by the famous English actor in this film of the same name at the Michigan. A great deal is expected of an Arliss picture-and this one fulfills its requirements most satisfactorily. The acting is splendid, the direction and all-round production excellent, and the story interesting and not Ytoo sugary as might be expected in a historical cinema. Plot action revolves about the attempts of Southern political op- r.ponents to discredit the first Secre- tary of the Treasury and prevent the establishment of a centralized n treasury to assume the scattered } 4 and unpaid states' debts. While "Alexander H a m i1 t o n" hardly measures up to the perfec- tion of plot and acting seen in "Dis- George Arliss raeli," it is undeniably a picture'far above the average and well worth seeing. A- rating. TALLULAH Tallulah Bankhead (there's a name for you!) has the able support of Frederic March in her second picture menacingly titled "My Sin." In spite of a rather slow plot, the two co-stars do inject consider- able entertainment into this story of a done-wrong- by woman and her subsequent rejuvenation in a new atmosphere. Ends tonight at Majestic. High C+. CA]IUS HONI'ON To The Editor : At this moment the Student Council together with THE MICHIGAN DAILY is conducting a campaign meant to force the members of the Freshman class to wear their "pots." The freshmen who disobey this age-old tradition are made to answer for their sins; lectured on the enormity of their offense and then, at least so we are. lead to believe, they are severely punished. As a member of the freshman class I wish to pro- test against this action. It is not fair that we, who have dad but little opportunity to learn the value of a tradition that' appears to us a worthless one, be forced into obeying it. The importance of "pot-wear- ing" has never been brought to our attention. All that we have been told is that we must wear the dinky little caps whether we wish to or not. This campaign cannot hope to be successful. It is true that while pressure is brought to bear the fresh- men will wear their caps, but as soon as pressure is lessened, which it must be soon, the "pots" will again come off. Force is a poor method to employ in this case. Personal habits of dress as well as all personalI habits, should;not be interfered with and cannot be interfered with successfully. If the Student Council, instead of using all its energies endeavoring to force the freshmen to do something they are firmly resolved not to do, would spend the same effort in educating the freshmen in the value of this and other traditions, a campaign of this present type would be unnecessary for every freshman would wear his "pot" not because he is forced to do so but because he is proud of its mean- ing, membership in the finest class on the campus. RAYMOND L. REBEN, '35. PROHIBITION TED SPECIAL TO TOASTED. ROLLS i Michigan Ekes Out Win Over JI1nRo )is by Quite a Margin Toasted Rolls, being easily the most active, progressive, alert, and wide-awake department of t h e whole paper has made a special coverage of the football game in Champaign Saturday, and we did it just for our readers, too. That's the way we are; always thinking of someone else. It cost us a lot of money to make this trip too, and if any of our readers wish to make contributions to help defray the expenses incurred in their behalf, they will be cheerfilly accepted and no feelings hurt. The audience will never for- get what happened at the flag raising ceremony. The band assembled on the field, played the national anthem in their best style, everyone stood up and, placed his hat over his left breast and Old Glory began to soar majestically toward t he top of the flag pole. Then just as the band got to the crescen- do allegro fortissimo part the pulley broke olf of the top of the pole and our country's ban- ner dropped like a plummet in- to the shrubbery. It was a blow to the Boy Scouts, you bet. * * * We are very sensitive when it comes to our University's honor so we were I very much / incensed whenea lady in front of us told her partner that Michigan had the worst seats in the Big Ten. Why the very idea! She had on a green dress, too. * * * Everyone is wondering what happens to that gaily capari- soned Indian between games; the one that comes out on the field and dances between, the halves. It must be quite an ex- pense to support him. We hear t h a t Indians are especially fond of Buffalo meat, and what with the scarcity of buffalos those days and all, we expect it must be quite a trial. Being interested in such things we looked up the Illinois Siren of- fice. For those who don't know it, the Siren roughly corres ponds to Gargoyle. (Only roughly, however). Eliminating the College Parasite PRESIDENT HUTCHINS, of the University of Chicago, recently delivered one of his educa- tional theories, namely, that a college should not try to educate unintelligent peoplk who do not want an education, nor those who care for nothing more than dates, football, and speakeasies. In this theory, he has definitely established what in law would be known as an 'express negative" on the duties of a college. Universities of today are filled with too many parasites, selfishly using up the time of their pro- fessors and more ambitious class mates. They go to college because it is the thing to do, because otherwise they believe they will lose social caste at home, or because it affords four years of corr- paratively easy work which otherwise would have to be spent in g to 5 office hours. It offers an op- portunity to devote four years to their own selfish amusement, provided their parents can afford to send them to college. And last but not least, it costs the taxpayers money, if they select a state supported institution for their prospective Alma Mater. Several methods are being put into effect today by colleges in an effort to decrease the number of these parasites in college. 1oth the new Univer- sity of Chicago plan, as well as our own "Michi- gan" plan, should succeed in eliminating a large 4number of such a type. Higher entrance require- meitsbassure that they will sometime not even get as far as freshman year. Most students entering college do not have the faintest idea of what constitutes an education. Those who are actually desirous of obtaining one acquire at least a notion of what an education is during their four years in college. Education is never acquired in a life time. The so-called "edu- cated men" have ,only been more successful in finding the road to education than their fellow students have been. President Hutchins' theory is praiseworthy. It provides,'when carried into effect, a weapon for government provided schools against having to enroll every son of a taxpayer who feels that he is entitled to go to college-by virtue of his taxes. It is helping to make a college education more of a true education in these days of mass production. LAST WEEK'S BEST SELLERS Slaters. Sparks Fly Upward, by Oliver LaFarge. (Houghton Mifflin) $2.50. Best Plays of 1930-31, edited by Burns Mantle. (Dodd Mead & Co.) $3.00. Perhaps Women, by Sherwood Andersen. (Horace Liveright) $2.00. Forty-Niners, by Archer B. Hulbert. (Little Brown &C$35 1 0. - - III°ilP> ' t John B. Kennedy Associate Editor and Radio Announcer, Collier's G~~~W(eorgeW.Wkekm Chairman, National Commission on Law Enforcement SuBrilliant British Statesman and Orator 1 APPLICATIONS FOR SEASON TICKETS MUST BE RECEIVED AT 3211 ANGELL HALL BY OCTOBER 26 TO RECEIVE FIRST PREFERENCE. TICKETS FOR ENTIRE SERIES, $2.50; $3.00; AND $3.50. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN O.ratorial A Socation Presents Rafael Sabatini Author of "Scaramouche," "Sea-Hawk," "Captain Blood," Kiing Maker" Martin and Osa {'3 nson America's best known African explorers Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Essayist, and Publicist A Great Educational Opportunity -~Y By M. Levi. There was no one in the , office (This is the fifth of a series of articles on Prohi- when we got there so we went i. bition by M. Levi, professor emeritus.) and looked around, and found In my last letter I quoted a number of passages nothing but a lot of old cuts and from a work by James Truslow Adams who has dwelt a contribution box with one jole at great length on the subject of prohibition in several in it. Allright, allright, we'll print chapters of his book "Our Business Civilization." The the joke if you want it, but you'll opinions of Mr. Adams seem to me sufficiently weigh- be sorry. ty to justify nee in quoting a few more passages from He: Are you a misogynist? his work. The following paragraphs are taken from She: No, I'm an ostepath. that part of' the author's book which deals with There now, we told you you'd be Hoover and Law Observance. sorry. This gives you a pretty good "Prediction is dangerous work but I think there idea of what the Siren it likeg is one prediction not hard to make. That is, thatidaowhtheSrnilk. our having so unthinkingly written unenforceable The Editor, who knows us prohibition into the Constitution and our then insist- ing ponthesantit oftha Costiutin, s ging very, well. indeed, even sincee he n resun thisanctity ofhawakeConstitution, is gsing became so famous, just came in to rsul intim intheawaene neroe' isising and} gave us a free jiiass to the upon the observance of the 15th Amendment. If International Live Stock Ex- prohibition is sacred and inviolable because it is a position, at the Union Stock constitutional amendment, how about negro suffrage? Yard, Chicago. Every student There are already rumblings being heard, and in my of the University of Michigan opinion the fanatical drys have not only split our country into bitterly opposed factions and decreased should have a vital interest in respect for the Constitution, but they have, without this wonderful exposition in giving the matter a thought, brought the crisis of Chicago which will be open to racial hostility nearer to us than it could ever have the Public and the Editor of been brought in any other way. The time is rapidly this column from November coming, if t-he Methodists and Baptists and W. C.T. 28th till December 5th. If the U. and all the -'other prohibition forces insist upon student body will contribute to- the -sanctity of the 18th Amendment, when the fifteen ward- a fund to pay the travel- million negroes, fast growing in wealth, education ing expenses of the Editor of and racial selfconsciousness and assertiveness will in- this Column and will make it sist upon the'sanctity of the 15th. worth his while, the Editor will But we may also ask Mr. Hoover about the 4th be only too delighted to go to Amendment, which the officials of his government are Chicago and carefully review constantly violating, certainly in spirit. w h o l e exposition. Contribu- After having dveoted considerable space to the tions should be mailed to difficulty of repealing a law as compared with enact- "Press Building, M a y'n a r d ing one, Mr. Adams continues: "No one believes for S t r e e t, Ann Arbor, Mich." a moment that prohibition will result in a civil war: Make out checks payable to but it is obvious that this particular law is against Fielding -. Yost, athletic Di- the will of so large a minority, if it is a minority, of rector. the people that thorough and impartial enforcement is impossible, and that the old American weapon of We have just been looking over nullification will continue to be used against it. It this pass to the International Live- is evident that not even the United States govern- stock Exposition and according to ment can patrol eight thousand. miles of boundary the conditions on the back we, in and put one policeman in every one of twenty mil- accepting the ticket, agree that the lion homes. A very considerable number of our peo- International Livestock Exposition ple consider the law to be unwise, unjust and tyran- Association shall not- be liable, uin nical. Throughout the whole of American and Eng- der any circumstances, whether of One of the most important factors in the formation of first impressions is personal ap- pearance. By sending your clothes to the Varsity you may assure yourself of the best , appearance laudering can produce. For Call and Delivery Service DlE - --'* 1 11 l l 111111