THE MICHIGAN DAILY _ _ ,. iT4 P M tr4 1 .ga n 43'tt-il ishd every morning except Monday during the University year Board in Cuintrol of Student Publications. her of the Western Conference Editorial Association. Asociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- on of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise in this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the Post Oftice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second mss matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant ;Stm~aster General Subscription by carrier, $4.00; bT mail, $4.60 Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, chigan. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 2214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD L. T013IN Itorial Director .................... ........Beach Conger, Jr. ;y Editor ................................ ....Carl Forsythe wa Editor ..................................David M. Nichol orts Editor ... ..........................Sheldon C. Fullerton aen' Editor................... .........Margaret M. Thompson istant i'iewa sEditor.................. .........Rtobert L. Pierce B. Gilbreth j Goodman Earl Seiffert NIGHT EDITO J. Ci en Kenn Rs iei2y James Inglis Jerryed. Rosenthal George A. Stauter J. Myera niey W. Arnhcimn son E. Becker mas Connellan nuel G. Ellis .uel L. Finkie is B. Gascoigne othy _Brockman lam Carver tArice Collins ise Crondall is Feldman donee Foster Snorts Assistants John W. Thomas REPORTERS Fred A. Iluber .Norman Kraft Roland Martin 11enry NMeyer. Marion A. Milezewski AlbeA H. Newman E. Jerome rettit Georgia Geisman AllicGilbert Artha Little ton Elizabeth Long IaCesT Manchester Elizabeth Mann John S. Townsend Charles A. Sanford John IV. Pritehard Joseph Renihan C. Hart Schaaf Brackley Shaw Parker R. Snyder G. R. Winters Margaret O'Brien Hlillary harden Dorothy Rundell Elma Wadsworth Josephine Woodhams BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 ARLES T' . KLINE.... .e................Business Manager RRIS P. JOHNSON. ...................Assistant Manager Department Managers vertising ....... ..................Vernon Bishop vertisi n;,rContracts....................... .Robert Callahan ertising Service ....,................ ... Byron C. Vedder lications. .......................William T. Brown cuatio. . . ....... arryR.B egley 'outs.... ..1.............. ..Richard Stratemeir men's Business Manager............ ..... ......Ann W. Verner improvement over those held in former years, bu from rumors circulating on the campus, were stil far from satisfactory. Although it was necessar to show an identification card or be recognized b a councilman before receiving a ballot, it wa charged that some of the councilmen might hav cooperated with members of the two parties, al lowing them to vote more than once. To put an end to all similar charges in th future, McCormick tried a new system in th junior elections which worked with such succes that it was also used in the sophomore class elec tions. A limited number of ballots were printed, num bered consecutively, and distributed immediatel before the election to six councilmen in charge o the voting. These men, three of whom are mem- bers of the Washtenaw party, and three of the State Street party, were required to sign receipts holding them responsible for the receiving of the ballots. Men from both parties were placed at each of three tables with instructions to give out ballots only after each had inspected the identification card of the voter. The voter's name was then crossed off from an eligibility list that had been received from the dean of student's office. No one was allowed to vote who did not present his identification card. At the close of the election, the number of students who had voted was calculated by count- ing the names crossed off the list and checked by the number of ballots given out. An individual check was made to see that no council menber gave out more ballots than there were names crossed off on his list. Perhaps remembering the scandal of several years ago, when it was charged that members of the council tampered with the ballot boxes after the election and before the counting of the votes, McCormick had the ballot containers carried in the presence of men from both campus factions to a fraternity house where they were watcled until the votes were counted. He also made certain that there would be no accusation of dishonesty in the counting. The boxes were opened in the presence of the council at an open meeting, the number of ballots re- checked, and the number of votes for each candi- date counted under supervision. While it cannot be said definitely that elections have been dishonest in the past, the perfected sys- tem of McCormick at least assured the losing party that they were not beaten by illegal votes of several of their opponents. It has also brought an end to the countless rumors formerly prevaent on the campus that councilmen were helping one party or another to win elections. Now that the Ritz has reverted to its original name, Chubb House, we may expect the Parrot to become the Mud Hen almost any day. The French premier and the German ambassador discussed the "entire question of Germany's condi- tion" in two hours. We wish they would take half an hour to come over here and clear up the prohibi- tion question.' Health Education d t l Y Y S e E- .S THE ELSHUCO TRIO A Review PROGRAM IU vii Aronson ert E. Bursley en Clark Bert Finn nna Becker rtha Jane Cissel nevieve Field iine Fischgrund y Gallmeyer ry Harriman 4ssistants John eysee Arthur F. Kuhn James Lowe Bernard E. Schnacke Anne H-arsba Katharine Jackson Dorothy Layin Virginia McComb Cairolin Mosher Ie =yn Olsen Helen Schmeede Grafton W. Sharp Donald Johnson Don Lyon Bernard H. Good May Seefried Minnie Seng helen Spencer Kathryn Stork Clare Unger Diary Elizabeth Watts NIGHT EDITOR-JAMES INGLIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1931 notiher Midigan xplorer Is Honored ANNOUNCEMENT Tuesday that Professor Carl D. LaRue, of the botany department, had een elected to membership in the Explorers Club, s an indication of the extensive amount of re- earch material Michigan has contributed to the ield of science. The elevation of Professor LaRue o this group gives the University a representation f eight, a total larger than that of any college r university in the United States. To be eligible for membership in the Explorers lub, one must have done some work of an explor- tory nature. It is not given for mere travel alone, ut for research of a more or less revolutionary ature in some scientific field. Membership is xclusive, so to speak. Wealth or social station an exert no influence. The number is few; and n this group can be found such personages as ,tefanson, Byrd, Hobbs, and Gould. The selection of Professor LaRue was made n the basis of his work in South America in con- ection with rubber experimentation. He has long een known as an authority on rubber; and irA iew of this, he was made leader of an expedition : Sumatra from 1917 to 1920. Three years later e was made chief of an expedition of the depart- nent of agriculture to Brazil. Again, in 1927, 'rofessor LaRue was named co-director of an xpedition to Brazil, a project sponsored by Henry ord. He is a young man in the scientific world, ut his advancement has been so rapid that, in a ew years, he has achieved an international repu- ation. To glance over the list of the University's fac- lty who are members of the Explorers Club is c marvel at the names written thereon. One finds. hat of William Herbert Hobbs, dean of geologists, nd leader several years ago of the Michigan Greenland Expedition. Another is Dr. Laurence A1. Gould, a youth in his own field, geology, and econd-in-comand of the Byrd Antarctic Expedi- ion.. Then there is Ralph L. Bedknap, third of he geologists, who accompanied Hobbs to Green- and. Continuing we find R. B. Hall, of the geo- raphy department; Donald M. Matthews, of the orestry school, and Dr. Carl Guthe and Melvin R. rilmore, of the University Museum. Their achievements have been distinctive, aid-, ng materially the progress of science. It singles ut definitely the creative genius within our own roup. Michigan stands alone in this respect, and tands as a tribute to those who have made this - ",;;"iin "ajor 01).8 (Second - Verion) ....................Brahms, I itaniae ..................... Paul humn - Trio in B tat major, op. 99.....Scdubert f The Elshuco Trio opened the ser- ies of concerts sponsored by the Chamber Music Society last night in the Mendelssohn Theatre. They are-as they were two seasons ago .-a talented ensemble who man- age to make fairly lucid the struct- ural and emotive values of the works they play. But one always vaguely feels, I think-the review- er- happens to be fairly familiar with their work over a period of some years-that there is some- thing which prevents them from ever being an excellent Trio. The clue to this feeling lies perhaps in my descriptive phrase "they man- age to make lucid." There is, I think, always a sense of effort, a sense of deliberateness apparent particularly in the phrasing (and often in the rhythms) of each in- dividual player. I mean to say that in their own right they are not first-rate musicians. There isn't that sense of certainty in the flow from their response to music to their objectification of that re- sponse which oie gets from better artists. There is rather self-con- sciousness (which is uncertainty). This is particularly apparent in Mr. Willeke (though more apparent on previous occasions than last night). When he gets the predominant part in the ensemble, he always "makes the most of" his opportun- ity with a luscious tone, with im- petuous, anxiou^ly emphatic phras- 'ing. This is self-consciousness; it is also self-confidence and self-es- teem (which on past occasions has been very objectionable to some of the musicians in the South Mun- tam audiences). Mr. Willeke, de- spite his notable career, has a rep- utation for being more absorbed in himself than in the music. And since to a good extent he sets as leader the whole direction of the interpretation, t h e ensemble is compromised by his type of sec- ond-rateness. Mr. Giorni at the piano is quite a different type of, musician. He is Self-conscious in, a different vay. Very little of his playing carries a feeling of immed- iacy, of conviction. He is, I think quite conscious of the lack of flexi- bility in his technique; and more or less deliberately exploits a some- what unobtrusive, staccato style which modestly and quietly chisels out his phrases and rhythms. He manages to be nearly always ade- quate; but he is never rich and immediate. (Those who are ac- quainted with Myra Hess' playing in the recording of the Schubert B flat Major Trio will, I think, real- ize immediately the difference I am trying to state). Mr. Kraeuter, who seems an intelligent and sensitive musician, may be somewhat com- prised by the necessity of adjusting his execution to Mr. Willeke's. Last night the Trio opened with The Second Version of Brahms' Trio in B Major, Op. 8. This was a ricly emotional work of subtle texture. Fanny Davies, writing on Brahms in the Oxford Chamber Music Encyclopaedia, assures us that when in 1891 Brahms turned to his early work (op. 8, 1854) he used only the broad openings of the first movement and the finale and the Trio of the third movement; that otherwise it is an entirely new work, misinterpreted if referred to as a revision. This may be a con- solation to those, like myself, who were not able to clearly compre- hend the Brahms last night. Its opus number should be somewhere in the hundreds; and in the hun- dreds Brahms is anything but sim- ple. The Litaniae by Paul Juon (whom Mr. Willeke is quite alone in es- pousing) seemed most thoroughly bad; indeed, incredible as music of religious inspiration. 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