THEIF MI HZ LAN DAILY ____: ,. Tht Stcl~pau Thtt " Publish'ed every morning except Monday during the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conflrence Editorial Association. * The Associated Press is exclnsively entitled to the use for re- publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local mews published herein. 'Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second . class 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, Vichigan. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214., EDITORIAL STAFF - Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD L. TOBIN News Editor............................... David M. Nichol City Editor ........ ................. ........... Carl Forsythe Editorial Director ....... Beach Conger, Jr. Sports Editor.;...................... .. Sheldon C. Fullerton Women's Editor.........................Margaret M. Thompson Assistant News Editor........................ Robert L. Pierce NIGHT EDITORS Frank B. Gilbreth J. Cullen Kennedy James Inglis Roland A. Goodman Jerry E. Rosenthal Karl Siffert George A. Stauter handsome of face, and at least semi-wealthy. Men at Columbia/ university prefer smart, intelligent women, regardless of beauty in face or figure (the hypocrites). Barn~rd college co-eds favor moneyed men who have culture, good looks, and a sense of humor. Their second choice calls for a man who is an accomplished conversationalist,* not particularly handsome, but at home with his thoughts and books! These are typical; we could go on indefinitely with college 4fter college. The farm would be seventh heaven for Colunbia men. Itt would be hell for the women whose views we have exposed. That is, of course, if any of this sort of hokum meant anything. CAMP US OPINIION Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the'editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous com- munications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contrib- utors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than 300 words if possible. An Engineer And Where His Dues Go BO O KS ,Now you cae have your shoes repaired at lowest prices. Soles from 50c THESE MERCHANTS ARE WORTHY OF ____________________________ T 1 ~n Brian W. Jones Stanley W. Arnheixn Donald F. lankertz' Edward C. Campbell Thomas Connellan Robert S. Deutsch Albert L. Friedman Sports Assistants John W. Thomas REPORTERS lred A. Huber Harold F. Klute John S. Marshall Roland Martin Henry Meyer Albert H. Newman E. Terome Pettit Prudenne Foster Alice Gilbert Frances 'anchester Elizabeth! Mann ' John W. Pritchard Joseph Renihan C. Hart Schaal, Brackley Shaw . Parker Snyder Glem "R. Winters Margaret O'Brien Beverly Stark Alma Wadsworth. Josephine Woodhams Miriam Carver Beatrice Colline Louise Crandall Elsie Feldman , Charles A. Sanford I To The Editor: BUSINESS STAFF, Telephone 21214 CHARLES T. KLINE......................Business Managet NORRIS P. JOHNSON.................... Assistant Manager Department Managers. Advertising.........................-..--.Vernon Bishop Advertising Contracts..... ........Harry R. Begley Advertising Service........... ....... ......Byron C. Vedder Publications ..............................hWiliam T. Brown Accounts......'....r.. .............. Richard Stratemeir Women's Business Manager . ............. ..Ann W. Vernor' '3rvil Aronson Gilbert E. Buraley Allen Clark, Robert Finn Donna Becker; Maxine Fischgrund Ann 'GallrneYer Katherine Jackson Dorothy I aylin Assistants Arthur F. Kohn Bernard Schnacke Grafton W. Sharp Virginia ,McComb Caroline Mosher HIelpa .Olson 1Je eh Schmude May Seefried Donald A. Johnson, II Dean Turner Don Lyon Bernard H. Good Helen Spencer Kathryn Spencer Kathryn Stork Clare Uiager Mary. Elizabeth Watts During the past few weeks, the class treasurer of the senior engineering class has attempted to collect from all Senior engineers class dues of five dollars. He has met with no small amount of success due to a statement in The Daily and otherwise posted viz: . >.those who have not paid their dues by Friday, March 18, 5 p.m., will not be permitted to secure commencement programs; their names will be ex- cluded from the class announcements; they will not be privileged to secure their cap and gown through the Cap and Gown memorial of 19,31 at the reduced rates." In other words-what few benefits and privileges accruing from be6bming a Senior are denied those who cannot produce the five dollars. I believe the class dues should 'be paid, but I also believe that the amount should be reasonable and that I know for what I am paying. Attempts to gain some statement from the treasurer as to ,what was the basis for the rate made drew nothing but a few wise-cracks and speers. I believe too, that the treas- urer, for the information of the class, should be re- quired to post conspicuously an authorized budget of the debts and expenditures that it is or will be re- quired to meet. Finally I have also a sincere belief that the five dollar rate is much too high. A very large percentage of the class cannot afford this amount I am quite sure. I know that I cannot, when in addition I have'to pay my diploma fee, as well as the added ecpenditures I am privileged to make once having paid my five dollars. The Secretary's office states that the approximate number of engineers graduating in June is 190. Con- servatively speaking, of this number possibly 160 will manage somehow to pay their dues. This means that there will be some 800 dollars in the class treas- ury. Do you not believe that we have a right to know where this money is going? Furthermore, the treasurer's job is to receive and spend the money. Must he limit his activities to a certain date, aftee which he feels that he may refuse to accept dues9 When the literary college only charges two dollars, our dues seem too high. An Engine r. NIGHT EDITOR-JERRY E. ROSENTHAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1932 Deferred Rushig and 'Hot-Boxing CORNERING a likely freshman and subjecting him to a barrage of high pressure sales1talk on the subject of a certain fraternity has been called "hot boxing" and is frowned upon by administra- tive officials and fraternity amen themselves in their more reflecting moments. The elimination of' this abuse from the rushing system was one of the main talking points for the deferred pledging idea. Is it logical that deferred pledging should bring about the elimination of this evil, and how far has ift been elininated in this first year of the "noble experiment?"4 The setting up of rules specifying the day and hours when freshmen can visit fraternities, speci- fying whether upper classmen can take freshmen places outside the house, prescribing what they shall talk about to the freshmen, in short tho whole mass of administrative minutiae which such a system entails, must ,necessarily cause confusion and distrust in the minds of freshmen and active members alike. . More than three quarters of the boys rushed at any house know at least one member of the chap- ter through previous t hometown connection or otherwise. Can you tell a freshman, who is con- fused and possibly a little upset, that it is against the rules fdr him to have a private conversation with this friend with whom he may have been intimate all his life and expect him to do otherwise than laugh in your'face? This regulatio alone is so unreconciled with a man's fundamenta instinct that it 'inust inevitably break down. Even admit- ting, that these unauthorized contacts are not numerous, they. are easily enough to start the word. going ardund that the rules are being flaunted. After this the administrative structure must inevit- ably crumble. That this system instigated on the campus by a small group of alleged reformers and carried out by a number of cheerfully unthinking campus organizations, has failed completely is clear. What next, remains to be seen 5U 'ONE WAY MO HEAVEN,' by Coun- tee Cullen (Harper & Brothers, 1932) $2.00. (Review Copy Cour- tesy of Wahr's Bookstores). A REVIEW. By John W. Pritchard. With all the sincere vigor and rough polish of his poetic gems, Countee Cullen, negro poet, pro- duces'this, his first novel of which we know. The style, although nothing ex- traordiilary, is marked by touches of vigor, humor (usually rather lu- gubrous humor, at that), and beau- ty that distinguishes its writer as being above all things a poet and a student of his race. As in so many fine works, plot is almost entirely sacrificed for char- acter study. And many of the characterg are so very amazing that one would be highly inclined to consider them imaginative, if one had not read the note at the out- set: "Some of the characters in this book are fictitious." And we would be inclined to qualify this statement, if we may be permitted to deduce a few things from the re- alistic nature of most of the char- acter portrayals: those characters which are not rewrites of definite personalities are obviously true hu- man types. In "One Way to Heaven," Mvtr. Cullen introduces us to a side of life that perhaps never before has ben revealed in literature, except in a factious vein. That is the life of the high caste, wealthy negro of 1 fashionable Harlem. And we see a most remarkable sight: a rather free intermingling of educated ne- groes and equally educated whites. It is not a distasteful sort of mis- I cegenation, either, although it is motivated by a nunber of reasons: bohemianism, the desire to "slum," the interest of a white student in the black race and vice versa, and a genuine liking which exists be- tween individual members of the white and black elemeits. Constancia Brandon is perhaps the outstanding character of the novel, although supposedly the is of secondary importance. She was a negress who was practically white in color; many tim'es she had pass- ed for- a white person. She was "the mirror in which most of Har- lem delighted to gaze and see itself. She was beautiful, possessed money 1 enough to be willful, capricious and rude when she desired to deviate from her usual suave kindness; and sshe was not totally deficient in brains... she had never experienc- ed any racial disturbances or mis- givings, atributed her equanimity on this score to one English grand- father, one grandfather black as soot, one grandmother the color of coffee and cream in their most fe- s licitous comnbination, one creole grandmother, and two sane par- r ents." And she proved her misce- genistic nature by the startling ex- pedient of having- the author of The Menace of the Negro to Our American Civilization" lecture be- e fore a meeting of her colored, and a few of her white, satellites. But what we have outlined above s is only the more startling portion of the novel. The main theme (and perhaps we have erred to mention it as truly secondary in importance) concerns; Itself with the story of Sam Lucas, handsome, one-armed I negro vagabond who makes a liv- ing by "working a racket" at color- ed revival meetings, and Mattie Johnson, a black beauty who was converted to Christianity through Sam's trickery. e'Sam's particular forte was a nov- el one, indeed. In the midst of a church service, when the time for confessions of faith had come, he would stride to the altar, his empty sleeve evoking the commiseration of the congregation. Kneeling be- fore the altar, he would drop be- fore the astonished eyes of the congregation a razor and a pack of cards, and then would proceed to . burst into heart-wracking sobs. His performance ordinarily netted him several weeks' free board and lodg- ing from the members of the flock, after which he would move on to another locale. And it Was upon this act of sacrilege that poor Mat- t-_ igna r eP af its fraudulent n- IS ' ,. I, I I L ii! I; ...y I I iuSEc and IDRAMA I , II . Publicity from impresarios )on grand opera stars at times is a bit boring and even laughable-"but occa- sionally one runs across some material which speaks well for the star and is worth re-publishing. Such a thing is the feature on Goeta Ljungberg, Metropoli- tan donna, who will make her debut in Ann Aybor on the, May Festival/program, in the March Musical Digest. Madarne Ljungberg, whose name, by the way is pronounced as if with a "Y" instead of "Lj", since her debut with the Metropolitan last month, has re- mained 'a woman of mystery inasmuch, as little is known f her experience and past training. It is in this article that a little of this sought-after knowl- edge is to be found. - We read: "Goeta Ljungberg, a newcomer who was born in north Sweden very soon showed that she and the theatre would get better- acquainted. On her eighth birthday the Queen of Sweden visited her school, heard her sing, gave her five'crowns (squan- dered on candy) and told her she 'had gold in her throat." Since then eight has been heir lucky num- ber. At sixteen, i.e., twice eight, she entered th Stockholm High School for Singing, then went on to the school of the Stockholm Royal Opera. Made her debut as Elizabeth in that house. But not confined to German roles. Could do Italian parts too, such as Santuzza. Spent several seasons in London, where people liked her, and where she created the title role in Eugent Goossen's' "Judith." Then to the Berlin State Opera, where she made her debut as Elsa. "Subsequently most central European opera houses heard her in Wagner festivals, singing all three Brunljildes. . . . Admits she is superstitious and con 'nues to keep two horseshoes on her dressing tabl, to fear black cats and the number thirteen to blowson a silver coin before she makes an entrance and to be jubilant if she actually puts on a stocking inside out. (Never cheats, though). Once threw away a gold ring into the Mediterranean because it had the number 13 engraved on it. "One thing sie doesn't leave to chance, her figure strenuous Swedish exercises every day with swim- ming, riding, skating and, ski-ing, keeping her in trim. Since she came to New York, however, her open-air activitieshave been limited to taxi-rides between her hotel and the opera house." Despite the foregoing didactic piece, Madame Ljungberg is still a woman of mystery but it is not unlikely that by the time she has become more familiar with other than New York a'tdiences she will be as the other donnas with their usual goldfish privacy-or perhaps she may choose to remain a "womai) offmystery" as her Swedish ponfrere Miss Garbo. J. E.'R. Why not weave a little child interest into the ]EDITORIEAL C TI L '_"1 i 1 NOT SO BAD (Oregon State Daily Barometer) Quite often we hear from our fellow students and others that fee costs on the Oregon State campus are not in keeping with the ideas of those same students. The charge for graduation on this campus is five dollars, collected from each senior before becoming a candidate for a sheepskin, which carries with it all the, rights, privileges, etc., of a college degree. At the University of British Columbia graduation fees have been reduced from twenty-five dollars to fifteen dollars. It is said that-this fee will cover all expenses incidental to the issuing of diplomas and hoods, and should come as a great boon to the mem- bers of the graduating classes. From the above data those of 14s who are seniors at Oregon State may, in worn-out jargon, "thank our lucky stars" we are members of this student body when we take into consideration the present eco- nomic situation.--E. D. A. HOW MANY GET THE TYPE? (The Stanford Daily) If anyone doubts that mate-choosing is one of