'THEMICHIGANDAILY . _ _ __ _ _ Published every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusivelyentitled to the use for re- Tublication of all news dispatches credited" to it 'or not otherwise eredited in this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second elass matter. Special rate of postage }granted by Third Assistant Postmaster GeneraL. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50 Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD L. TOBIN Editorial Director ..........................Beach Conger, Jr. City Editor ....... .... .............«.......:...Carl Forsythe ewe Editorr.«.«.......... .................David M. 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Good May Seefried Minnie Seng Helen Spencer Kathryn Stork Clare Unger Mary Elizabeth Watts to choose. In modern life this ability is made negli-. gible, both because of the bewildering number of things to choose from, and because the pressure from our collective institutions demands allegiance or out- lawry. The luxury of liberalism may therefore be said to exist only in the universities or among the idle rich. The outlaws cannot afford to be liberal: they must be radical. However, even in the universities and among the rich, liberalism's magisterial flame burns thinly. At the present time, it would appear that the universi- ties are too busy making over the rich and the rich are too busy making over the universities to be bothered much about this sort of thing. The college journal must therefore take on an added strength from the thought that its cause may be lost before it is begun. The college journal owes no debt to any class or institution, save to the university which supports it. Its financial debt is to the student body. Its second debt is to the nourishing background of information and ideaswhich may intellectualize its efforts towards sanity. Its liberalism consists. in the evaluation of first principles behind collegiate structure whether it be athletic, academic, or social. As for criticism outside of college to borrow a motto from a more conservative colleague Dulce est periculum. If there is any sustaining editorial faith it must be a faith in the natural death of fools. If the liberalism is not foolish, sensitiveness on the part of the attacked will inevitably betray that the critical shaft has struck home. Attack for the sake of attack is destructive and err on the seamy side. of journalism. As a social entity, the place of the college paper is in the world as well as in the college. It must take its small place in a long and honorable tradition of courageous service. It must base its claim to exist- ence on the unbiased direction of the human will to destroy, not to create, prejudice and fear. By this only can the elements of improvement and contrast enter into society. The college paper in its small way must accept this responsibility inherent in the writ- ten word. .'iMUS and DRA MA CHOPIN: Twelve Mazurkas: played by Ignaz Fried- man: in Columbia Masterworks Album No. 159. In 1908, Huneker said of the fifty-six Mazurkas: "Though they comprise a large and original portion of Chopin's compositions, they are the least known." And judging by the apparent infrequency with which a set of them appears in recitals, they are still not as familiar as the better Nocturnes, the better Polo- naises, the Ballades, the Scherzos, and the Etudes. The superb perfomance by Friedman which Columbia has issued should be sufficient to convince the recitalists to reconsider. Huneker quotes Liszt: "Coquetries, vanities, fantasies, inclinations, elegies, vague emotions, passions, conquests, struggles upon which the safety or favors of others depend, all, all meet in this dance." This selection of twelve proves this to be quite nearly-so. This simple triple metre with its displaced accent proves far more flexible, for example, than the waltz metre. Chopin, by his artistic exploitation of the metre, makes credible the quite peculiar fact that in provincial Poland the peasant Mazurka is used in celebration of the most varied type of events. The appropriation of the peasant's measure seems to have done very good things for Chopin's art. In the idiom there were cer- tain fairly rigid things which had to be observed: (the third beat has to be emphatic, the metrical measure must be complete in six beats, the phrase must uniformly lie in a stretch of eight bars). These things (just as in the case of the technical problems of the Etudes) proved beneficial to Chopin. The Mazurka form was both too slight and too rigid for introspective meandering. Chopin's lyricism is given lucidity and directness by the external dance condi- tions to which it had to conform. His genius is the more evident, the more sharply defined by the fact that he gets lyrical range in a limited idiom. Like a good dancer, he does many expressive things while repeating (metrically) the same thing over and over again; and that unity in variety gives sharper form than is customary in Chopin, It is very possible that these miniatures are among Chopin's best composi- tions. Friedman should nearly be the model Chopin player. He modulates tone "color" and dynamics al- ways tastefully (that is, always with certainty and with a reason). And his rhythms are a revelation; he gets the Chopin waving elasticity without losing rhythmic stability. NIGHT EDITOR-ROLAND GOODMAN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1931 ver and The Navy League P RESIDENT HOOVER and the Navy are at odds. Under the caption, "The President and the Navy," the Navy League of the United States charges the President with deliberately starving the navy under a guise of economy, asserting. that humanitarian and pacific inten- tions have led him into exhibiting an "abysmal ignorance" of why navies are maintained. As a result, the President has demanded of Wil- liam Howard Gardiner, president of they civil- ian organization, an immediate apology.) The whole affair is lamentable. The state- ment, promulgated at a time when every effort is being made by the federal government to reduce expenditures, and to lead the country out of its precarious position into a more opti- mistic future, was unjustifiably bitter, lacking in restraint, and utterly absent of psychology. On the other hand, the President has shown' that he is not a politician; if he were, he would have retorted to the scathing word for word, blow for blow. But it is difficult for a man of Mr. Hoover's position to be publicly derided without penetrating his outward shell. As someone has termed the words of Mr. Hoover's reply, "They seem like expressions of injured pride rather than explosions of righteous in- dignation." Again, the President's proposal to subject the question to an investigation by a committee of his own appointment, and t9 include in its membership members of the Navy league, seems doubtful of attaining success. Charges and countercharges will follow; and the com- mittee cannot help exhibiting partisanship in its efforts to decide the matters. Upon comple- tion of the investigation, Mr. Hoover expects Mr. Gardiner "to make public correction of his misstatedhents and an apology therefor." The apology may be forthcoming, but it is unlikely that it will do much to relieve the tension that already exists. What's Going On SUNDAY Michigan-'Sporting Blood" with Clark Gable, Lew Cody, and Madge Evans. Majestic-"The Spirit of Notre Dame" with Lew Ayres. Wuerth-"Homicide Squad" with Noah Beery, Mary Brian. Concert-Miss Maud Okkelbery, Prof. of Piano, will present program at 4:15 o'clock in the Hill auditor- ium. University Broadcast-"Infectious Diseases of Childhood" by Dr. James D. Bruce, Department of Post Graduate Medicine. "Univer- sity News of the Week" by Prof. Waldo Abbot of the English depart- ment. MONDAY Michigan-"Sporting Blood" with Clark Gable, Lew Cody, and Madge Evans. "Royal Family of Broad- way" with Frederic Marsh. Majestic-"The Spirit of Notre Dame" with Lew Ayres. Wuerth--"Homicide Squad" with Noah Beery, Mary Brian. Bursley Luncheon Group meets at 12 o'clock at the Union. Lecture-"The Pain of Intermit- tent Claudication" by Sir Thomas Lewis, F. R. S. of the 'University College Hospital Medical school, London, England, at 3 o'clock in the Hospital amphitheatre. University Broadcast-Chariton's Romance-the First European Nov- el" by Prof. Warren E. Blake of the Greek department. TUESDAY Michigan-"Sporting Blood" with Clark Gable; Lew Cody, and Madge Evans. Majestic-"The Spirit of Notre Dame" with Lew Ayres. Wuerth-"Homicide Squad" with Noah Beery, Mary Brian. Lecture-"Noire Specifications for Large Reduction Gears in Terms of Physical Units" by E. J. Abbott at 4:15 o'clok, room 1041 East Physics building. Lecture-"Equal Rights and the League of Nations" by Miss Mar- garet Whittemore at 4:15 o'clock, at Harris hall. Lecture-"What Next in the Phil- ippine Islands?" by Dr. Joseph R. Hayden, professor of political sci- ence, at the first A. A. U.W. Inter- national elaihs luncheon, at 12 o'clock, League. University Broadcast-F"How We Are Able to Measure Intelligence" by EdIward B.,Greene, instructor in Psychology. WEDNESDAY Michigan-"Sporting Blood" with Clark Gable, Lew Cody, and Madge Evans. Majestic-"Get Rich Quick Wall- ingford," with William Haines, Er- nest Torrence, Jimmy Durante, and Leila Hymans. Wuerth-"Homicide Squad" with Noah Beery, Mary Brian. Organ Recital by E. William Doty at 4:15 o'clock in the Hill auditor- ium. University Broadcast-"Why Lat- in?" by Prof. Fred S. Dunhan of the University high school. THURSDAY Michigan-"The .Bargain" .with Lewis Stone, Charles Butterworth, and Doris Kenyon. { Majestic-"Get Rich Quick Wall- ingford" with William Haines, Er- nest Torrence, Jimmy Durante. Wuerth-"Man of the . North" with Gilbert Roland. Lecture-"Maya Civilization and Its Place in American Archaeology" by Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, director of the Chic'hen Itza Project, Carne- gie Institution of Washington, in the Natural Science auditorium. University Broadcast-"R e c e n t Developments in Aviation" by Prof. Milton J. Thompson of the engi- neering department. FRIDAY Michigan-"The -Bargain" with Lewis Stone, Charles Butterworth, and Doris Kenyon. Majestic-"Get Rich Quick Wall- ingford" with William Haines, Er- nest Torrence, Jimmy Durante. Wuerth-"Man of the North" with Gilbert Roland. University . Broadcast-"What a Layman Should Know about Archi- tecture" by Francis S. Onderdorf:, of the Architecture school. SATURDAY Michigan-"The Bargain" with Lewis Stone, Charles Butterworth, and Doris Kenyon. Majestic-"The Phantom of Par- is" with John Gilbert. Wuerth-"Man of the North" with Gilbert Roland. Football-Indiana-Michigan at 2 :" ii FA 1J1 W. J. G. THE ELSHUCO TRIO The depression must be over. Chicago school teachers who haven't seen a pay check since last April got a month's salary the other day, possibly as a re- sult of the rumor that the government is going to collect all that back income tax from Mr. Capone. We are glad to hear that the three Minnesota football players reported to authorities that they had been approached with bribes to throw the Wisconsin game. What we can't understand is where the bribers would have gotten the $1,500 topay them off if they had accepted. This Sino-Japanese business has been tough on the radio and telegraph operators. They're fighting about the Shupingkai-Chechtiatun-Peaonan railway iow. S, as in Shupingkai. The Chamber Music Society of Ann Arbor, which for the past five years has been attractively impor- tant in local music life by supplementing the Choral Union Series with a series of four concerts, opens its fifth season next Wednesday evening by presenting the Elshuco Trio of New York in the Mendelssohn Theatre. Led by Willem Willeke, whose finest energy has been devoted to the cultivation of chamber-music in American since his early days as cellist with the great Kneisel Quartet, the Elshuco Trio has gained rapid recognition as one of the finest organizations in the world. A few years ago they were responsible, with the help of a few other' artists, for complete cycles of the chamber music of Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert. Mr. Willeke is now the director of the South Mountain music colony in Pittsfield, Mass., which, as the seat of the American Maecenas, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, has witnessed the most important American activity in chamber music. The program for their appearance here Wednesday night has not yet been announced. ETHEL BARRYMORE t C I- EDIIWOIRAL COMMI~ENTI Ethel Barrymore, inveterate trouper, is at the Cass Theatre in Detroit this wek in her own produc- tion of Sheridan's celebrated comedy, "The School for Scandal." After her brief visit in Detroit, Miss Barrymore will start a repertory in her own play- house in New York, with the Sheridan play the first one to be given. In each generation the theater's foremost actress THE LIBERAL CREDO I .5....