TH E MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, F~ uulished Qeery Inlruin except Monday durin~g the University y he Board in C trolo tudentPublicaions. U ember of the Western Conference Editorial Association. he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- ationi of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise :d in this paper and the local news published herein. rntered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second mtter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant aster General. ubscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50_ ffices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, an. Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD L. TOBIN' ditor............................ .Carl Forsythe ia Diector ........................each oner Jr. Editor.................................. David M. Nichol ,Editor.................. . . Sheldon C. Fullerton 's Editor.Marg aret M..Thomipso' lilt News E'ditor ............ . . ......obert [.. Pierce NIGHT EDITORS B. .(iibreth . Cullen KeEnndy. ames Inglis Roland A. Goodman Jerry . Rosentha Earl Seibfert eorge A, Stauter. sent to Sing Sing before he is able to do much, but Leila Burnett, hash-slinging waitress and George E Stone, prominent for his work in the gangster shows are good throughout. Miss Burnett keeps up a continuous tirade of re- miniscences anent her sad and depressing experi- ences with m, that fits perfectly the languid, gum- chewing role she takes. In "Emma" she has a bit as a thick-skulled servant that helps out Marie Dressler considerably. Miss Burnett's specialty is be- ing dumb, and she floes that suprisingly well. Though pretty plotless and not involving any very weighty theme, "Taxi" has the charm that goes with any story about the activities of the tene- ment-dwellers of New York. Miss Young is the long- suffering little gal of the boy who would rather fight than eat, and the story follows the war-like advent- ures of her man, whom she marries in spite of his faults and loves because of them or something, in his attempts to buck the racket. In the end the bad man falls out of a window just in time to keep from getting shot by the hero. K. S. t. 1 NOTICE! UNDER NEW MANAGEAHE T. I i I 'J. Myers BrIan Jones Sports Assistants Jolin 1. Thomas John S. Townsenad Charles A. Sanford i "'TO IALCOMMEN 1 V -° REPORTERS gh W. Arnheim Fred A. Huber. n E. Becker Norian K:rIft d C. Campbell Roland Martin ilsiam Carpenter enry 'bye' is Connellan Albert 11. Newman ce Hayden E. Terome Pe2tit y 'Brocknan (e orgia Geinan SCarver Alice Gilhc t e Collins Martha Littto, Crandall Elizabeth Long Feldmin Frances Manchester ce roster Elizabeth Manin John W. 'Prichard Josep'.i Rei'luaul C. Hart Sclktaf llracki :y Siaw Parker Siiylbr G. R. Winters Margaret 0'i ri'[n hlillary Rarden I)orothy Rundell 4Jilma Wadsworth osephine Woodlhams BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 LES T. KLINE ......................Business Managet S P. JOHNSON....................,Assistant Manager Department Managers ing ..................................Vernon Bishop ing Cotracts.......................... arry R. Begley ing Service. ... ...............Byron C. Veddeor ions ..................................W illiam T. Brown s ...................................ihard Stratenmeir s Business Managcr......................iAnn W. Vernor Assistants hronson John Kcyser E. Burslcy Arthur F. lohn .lark Jamcs Lowe Finn Becker Ann Harsha Jane cissel Katherine Jackson ye Field Dorothy Lay in Fischgrund Virgiia McComb nllmeyer Carolin Mosher arriiman helen Olsen Graton 1V. Sharp Donald A. Johuson, 11 Don Lyon Bernard H. Good In Which the Daily Builds Its Platform (Daily Northwestern) The collegiate public must be hit just as often, and just as violently between the eyes as the great unwashed of any aggressively crusading metropoli- tan daily. To wake the collegiate public to any vital reform one must use bold face and italics type with Hearst-like prodigality. The past semester 'has taught the Daily that lesson, and that is why we present in this, the first edition of a new term, a clearly enunciated and italicized "platform" which: we intend to flaunt at the head of these columns un- til June and a new administration -flings them blithely towards the printer's hell box. We present five causes in whose names we intend, aif necessary, to carry on a semester-long crusade. We have campaigned for them intermittently before, have had them well in mind. They are not new, but they have not made as definite an impression on either ,the student or faculty mind as we have in- tended that they should. The Daily recommends that Northwestern: 1. Adopt a' three-grade system indicative of failure, passing and honor. 2. Place the regulation of class -absences in the hands of the individual instructor and the individual student. 3. Liberalize the women's rules, placing ulti- mate responsibility for their enforcement on the individual. 4. Begin an active campaign for a student union building now. 5. Develop =a strong, central student govern- ing body. On these five objectives, editorial guns will be concentrated. There gre other beneficial reforms that could be urged, or example a well-developed advigor system, a politics-free campus and an organ- ized independent vote, and they will not be neglect- ed. To include them all in the permanent platform however, would weaken its force. May Seefried Miie Seng ] felon Spencer TXathryu Stork Clare Unger iAary Elizabeth Watts I I NIGHT EDITOR-ROLAND A. GOODMAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1932 _i se'velt S )uandary OVERNOR RO.OSEVELT, of New York, f has been placed in quite a\quandary by Sam- Seabury who has been conducthng an investi- ion of New York; city admistration. Plead-' with the governor to remove Sheriff Thomas ley, Tammany leader, Mr. Seabury charged t the "wonderful tin box" e'xplatiation of Far- 's $357,000 bank deposits while in office was insult to Your Excellency's intelligence." Were Governor Roosevelt only the governor New York State, the decision might not be so icult to make. However, he is also a candidate the Democratic nomination for the presidency. that this demand, following the investigation o Tammany official's bank deposits on ridicu- sly smaller salaries, is very embarrassing. The large New York delegation, controlled in t by Tammany will certainly come in very dy for Roosevelt at Chicago. The removal of ley might antagonize this organization more n any other past act of Roosevelt's has, and to ne to a convention without the vote of his own e would be politically almost fatal. low will Roosevelt decide? A decision against estigator Seabury's plea might alienate votes ii other states. For national leaders are scep- .1 of Rbosevelt's chances; mainly due to the fact t he has said very little on the major issues fronting the nation. His position on many il questions 'is as yet unknown. True to his sent duties, he declined to comment on the gue of Nations, stating that he was having able enough running his own state without hering to investigate national problems. Too ch of this attitude, however, will do much to ng the primaries towards his opponents in the Ultimately, the question.is one of whether or the governor will continue to fulfill his guber- orial duties before venturing upon a presiden- campaign, or whether he will sacrifice the iri- sts of the state of New York, and more partic- zly those of the city of New York, to his per- al ambitions. I_1MIUJSllCand DRAM~A BONDAGE, Presented by the Wesley Players in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A Review by Margare B. O'Brien, A sincere effort on the part of the Wesley players failed last night simply because the whole thing ob- viously was an effort. A weak play, nervously pre- sented by actors who seemed to be acutely self-con- scious, lacked any saving spark of spontaneity, and was as wooden as the visage of Mr. Jones, whq play- ed the role of the stern and malevolent father. The fault lay chiefly in the construction of the play itself, which never attained any semblance of a dramatic crisis, clinging to a. monotonous level of situation and emphasis. The plot itself was woefully thin, and strained both the patience and credulity of the audience. "Bondage" deals simply and repeadedly with the fact that browbeaten Mary Jane decides to rebel against the virtual slavery in which she has been held by her husband for twenty-five dreary years. Her realization of the futility of it all is prompted by a dream, but here again the inherent weakness of the play is shown in the lack of conviction which the suffering creature's declaration carries. This one point is enlarged and elaborated and dwelt upon to such an extent that it undoubtedly pails. Mrs. Buchanan shows a lack of scope and finesse. and although her sincerity of purpose and ability to create characters is undubitable, the essential weak- ness of her work seem's to be the result of a certain narrowness of vision. Mrs. Lowell Carr in the role of Mary Jane was impotent in her characterization of the maltreated wife. Her gestures and inflections were almost stere- otyped, and while at times she impressed by her in- sight into anl sympathy with her role, she did not realize all of its possibilities. Her portrayal was not entirely consistent, and her obvious experience fail- ed to carry her through. Mr. William Jones' interpretation (if such it can be termed) of the part of the domineering father showed that Mr. Jones was ill at ease in the most literal sense of the word, and was most painfully conscious of the fact. In the first act, his vain at- tempts at conveying an impression of overbearing intolerance was weakened materially by the fact that he was obviously out of character. An almost com- plete lack of stage presence, and understanding 01 what was entailed for the part was further shown ir the second' act when Mr. Jones, after suffering from a kick of a presumably ferocious horse, which rend- ered him unaccountably crippled, paralyzed in both arms, and, fortunately, speechless made it necessary that he fall back on pantomine for expressing his sourness, an art at which he was equally inept. Miss Blossom Bacon had the same signal weak- ness as Mr. Jones, for her self-consciousness made her acting undilutedly bad. Mr. Beyerlein failed to impress in the role of her brother. Thp hart nant n g"of th a vp-ninP, ma c rnn o byMr Of course we didn't mean to alarm all the good people of Ann Arbor by threatening any drastic changes in Rolls Editorial Policy, but we had to put something pretty startling in the headline to capture the public's attention. We would- Sn't want anyone to get the impres- sion that we were going to turn things upside down from now on because we aren't going to do any such thing. We fully intend to ex- ercise the same editorial discretion that has been such an important part of Oscar The Wonder Horse's policy. Calm down, folks. Sit back and'relax, You may' repose confi- dence in our discretion. * * * But on the other hand it has re- peatedly been brought to our atten- tion that the Toasted Rolls column is a one sided affair;that it reflects only the viewpoint of the Lit col- lege; and that it is of very little interest to anyone not in the Lit school. We believe this criticism to be well-founded mi many res- pects and we intend to inaugurate a new policy of "broader scope." We intend to inflate the Rolls cor- respondence as much as we can and try to capture the interest of the faculty, the engine school, the arch school, and even the Medical school, maybe, but we realize what an aw- ful job that would be. ** This business of interesting the faculty has its little diffi- culties. Once last semester we made a smart crack about one of our professors and it netted us a "D" in his course, so per, haps we had better stay away from the faculty. On second thought we won't stay away from the faculty. What do we care about "D's"? Nothing. Absolutely Nothing. - * *' The Michigan Daily is just begin- ning to recover fr'om the devastat- ing effects of the J-Hop extra which taxed the ingenuity of the entire staff to the limit. The lists of guests were the worst strain, most of them being written down in pencil' or leaky fountain pen and practically illegible. For instance :n one list Mr. James Liggett had as his partner Mrs. Howard Liggett. That was a tough one for the Daily Staff to figure out but they finally came to the following conclusions: Firstly, a man wouldn't bring his mother to the J-Hop. Secondly, the Mrs. Liggett in question must be the :wife of Mr. Liggett's brother. 'Thirdly, Mr. Liggett's brother was probably but recently deceased and that Mr. Liggett was escorting Mrs. Liggett to the J-Hop to help her forget her bereavement. Fourth- ly, in view of those circumstances wouldn't it be more humane, and more in accord with the ethics of journalism to omit' Mrs. Liggett's husband's first name from the list. Fifthly (and lastly), perhaps the names had better be put in the pa- per just as they were written on the blank by Mr. Liggett, and let him do the worrying about it. We are beginning to realize more and more as this column progresses that it is extremely unlikely that today's effort will be read to freshman classes in .English Composition, but inas- much as we are still in such a state of confusion and chaos from our latest classification orgy that we can't think in se- tences of over ten syllables, we believe w e can legitimately blame the University for the lack of rhetorical coherence ex- hibited in this column. The classification system really isn't so bad though. We really must give Director R i e h credit, because credit is due. We can remember the days when there was no advance classifi- cation at all, thus necessarily throwing about five thousand students into the recorder's of- fice at one time. Those were the days when we weren't the only one to be confused. Ah me - how the world does grow up. Times have ehanged. Times have changed. ONLY THREE MORE WEEKS We note that the Editor has set the first week in March as the de- but of the Freshman class into the realm of student journalism. We 'IInrVc ann m N nina +n trar S A I-E S A N D E N . I 95-923 GENeERALSELECTR'IC Pl V* DEPTH SOUNDE S F.OR AIRCRAFT WITH the application of electricity to aircraft instruments, another chapter was written in the annals of air transportation. To-day's ship is not only swifter but safer and more dependable. Modern depth-sounding devices indicate instantly the height of the ship above the ground surface. A unique feature of General Electric's recently purchased monoplane is the almost com etely electrified instrument panel. The most recently developed instrument is the sonic altimeter, which proyides a quick means of indicating changes in height above ground. Sound from ap irtermittently operated airwhistle is directed down- ward. The echo is picked up'in a receiving megaphone, and the sound is heard through a stethoscope. The elapsed time between the sound and the echo determines the height. Tests show that water, build- ings, woods, etc., produce echoes that are different and characteristic. Besides developing a complete system of aircraft in- struments, college-trained General Electric engineers have pioneered in every efectrical field-on land, on sea, and in the air. 0 1 N E E R I N G S E R V IC E _ I N .P R INCIP ALI .r C IT IE k THRlE GOLD DIGGERS OUT FOR A LITTLE;QUICKi-IILVE I SEE THEM IN "the (i rut, ks H aldfr Them" it, As the Guest By 6f the Michigan Theatre Subscribing to P I it a ttlj OCREEN RELFLECTIONS AT THE MICHIGAN' and Guy James Cagney, as he appears in "Taxi," at the Michigan, is as tough as 'article as any- g ever pictured; he drives his cab, drinks his r, and protects his woman with both fists, and ain't no mug gonna park on my feet and get r with it-see? ' i comparison with the jaw-smacking activities r. Cagney the tussles of other movie muscle men relegated to insignificance, and persons like ter Morris and Edward G. Robinson dwindle to sissies. Cab-driver Cagney is the kind of in- [ual that socks first and thinks afterward, with' result that between socks he has opportunity to lenty of thinking. / te understand that Joan Blondell was intended he feminine lead opposite Cagney as the show nreinnnlh n annrid hut that .due to fact that 0# With each new subscription or renewal there will be given a guest ticket for "The Greeks Had A Word For Them" showing at the MAchigan Theatre beginning Sunday, February 21. IN NEW SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL $2.00 a 0 MAILED $2.75