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every such organization it has had its high peaks
and its periods of comparative passivity.
The most active periods of Comedy Club are
directly traceable to the executive personnel at
these times. There is such a direct relationship,
in fact, that it becomes a matter of considerable
interest to the Michigan student to ascertain the
present achievements of these people who were
responsible for the fluctuating periods of Comedy
Club's glory. Dramatic work has proved to be
for those persons a stepping stone to future suc-
ces. It is hoped that Comedy Club's present
president, Mary Pray, '33, will parallel the success
of the only other woman ever to have been presi-
dent of the organization. This woman was Phyllis
Laughton. During her residence on the Michigan
campus Miss Laughton was the director of the
Junior Girls' Play which the members of her class
gave and was nresident of Comedy Club in her
senior year. From lhe Michigan campus Miss
Laughton progressed directly to the late Jessie
Bonstelle's company in Detroit, and from there
to the New York Theatre Guild, with which she
is at the present time doing notable work.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
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MANAGING EDITOR...........FRANK B. GILBRETH
CITY EDITOR......................KARL SEIFFERT
SPORTS EDITOR.....................JOHN W. THOMAS
WOMEN'S EDITOR.................MARGARET O'BRIER
ASSISTANT WOMEN'S EDITOR......MIRIAM CARVER
NIGHT EDITORS: Thomas Connellan,Norman F. Kraft,
John W. Pritchard, C. Hart Schaaf, Brackley Shaw,
Glenn R. Winters.
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REPORTERS: Hyman J. Aronstam, A. Ellis Ball, Charle
G. Banat, James Bauchat, Donald R. Bird, Donald F.
Blankertz, Charles B. Brownson, Albert L. Burrows,
Arthur W. Carstens, Ralph 0. Coulter, Robert Engel:
William G. Ferris, Eric Hall, John C. Healey, Robert B.
Hewett, George M. Holmes, Walter E. Morrison, George
Van Vleck, Guy M. Whipple, Jr., W. Stoddard White.
Eleanor B. Blum, Louise Crandall, Carol J. Hannan
Frances Manchester, Marie J. Murphy, Margaret C.
Phalan, Katherine Rucker, Marjorie Weston, Harriet
Speiss.
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13USINESS MANAGER................BYRON C. VEDDER
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Boylan, Charles Ebert, Jack Efroymson, Fred Hertrick,
Joseph JHume, Allen nuusL, RussellRead, Lester Skin-
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Laylin, Helen Olson, Helen Schume, May Seefriedc,
Kathryn Stork.
THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1932
rwo Political
ReformsNedd
R EFLECTION on the results of
Tuesday's election should bring
new emphasis on two long-needed political re-
forms. One is the separation of metropolitan
cities from their rural "upstate" or "downstate"
leighbors, and the other is the elimination of
the "party column" ballot and the voting of the
straight ticket,
On nearly ever issue of major importance
Wayne county voted at odds with the rest of
Michigan. Wayne county cut down Hoover's lead,
and Wayne County is responsible for Comstock's
election as governor. The city of New York went
about four or, five times as strong for Roosevelt
as did the remainder of New York state. Boston
made Massachusetts Democratic. Chicago antd
Illinois are notorious foes, and Chicago won the
victory in the general election that she has not
been able to win in the matter of representation
in the legislature.
With their interests so definitely, consistently
and implacably at odds, it is an injustice to com-
pel either faction to submit to the domination
of the other, as must always be the case under
the present system. The city-state plan advocated
by New York and Chicago is bound to attract
more and more attention as these abuses become
more and more unendurable, and it will merit
serious consideration by the country.
The party-column ballot, with the aid of the
"path of least resistance," is a powerful force for
the election of minor candidates in the leading
party. These are logical reasons which may be
advanced by Democrats for the victory of their
party in the national election, but it is hardly'
conceivable that the same reasons which, in the
mind of the public made a change from Repub-
lican to Democratic president imperative should
also demand a Democratic county clerk instead of
Republican. Yet all over the country local offices
held for many years by the same man were turn-
ed over to Democratic candidates. The fact in
many cases, was that the voter wanted to vote for
Roosevelt, and did not want to take the time to
hunt down the column and pick out his Repub-
lican county clerk or surveyor candidate, but voted
the straight party ticket. If the candidates were
listed by the proposed "office-column" plan it
would be necessary for the voter to select a can-
didate for each office, and there would be more
discrimination shown in the selection of minor
officers.
Music and Drama
COMEDY CLUB'S
TRAINING PROVES VALUABLE
By JAMES RAYMOND
The oldest and most active amateur theatrical
Another former president of Comedy Club is
Robert Henderson. with whose work most of the
Ann Arbor residents and students are familiar.
Mr. Henderson has recently taken over the man-
agement of the beloved Bonnie. With his com-
pany at the present time are Miss Mildred Todd
and Mr. Alan Handley, both of whom were dra-
matic favorites in the last two years of Comedy
Club productions. Another Comedy Club actress
who is now playing on Broadway is Phyllis Povah,
and Amy Loomis, who is now in her second year'
with the Copley Stock Company in Boston. Last
year one of Miss Loomis' most successful produc-
tions was a play written by another ex-president
of Comedy Club, Valentine Davies. This play,
"Three Times the Hour," played to crowded houses
in Boston after a successful run on Broadway.
Robert Wetzel, who resigned his position on the
teaching staff of the University English depart-
ment this fall because of ill health, has been
seen in Robert Henderson's productions during
two seasons of successful performance. He was,
up to the time of his resignation, the only un-
married instructor on the staff of the English
department. Another former Comedy Club mem-
ber who is well known to us is Mrs. Ruth Ann
Oakes, who has had prominent connections with
little theatres throughout the state and has di-
rected a number of the most successful Junior
Girls' Plays. Yet one more ex-president of Com-
edy Club who has done some fine work with little
theatres is Dr. John Haasberger, who is at the
present time the manager of the "Village Play-
house" in Bloomfield Hills-a little theatre which
is attracting favorable comment throughout the
country.
Richard Forsythe is a prominent Detroit lawyer
who has had much to do with the furthering of
the inteersts of the intimate theatre. He was
secretary to Charles B. Warren when the latter
was ambassador to Mexico. Warren Parker, who
was one of the members of the evolving Comedy
Club, is now associated with the National Thea-
tres, Inc.; he toured the country with the first
road showing of "Scarface," the expose of gang-
land which played every large city in the United
States with the exception of Chicago.
A Washington
B YST ANDER_
By KIRKE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON-(/P)--In the uproar of con-
flicting predictions from campaign leaders as to
the outcome, one is likely to lose sight of the re-
iterated claims of Democratic house warriors, like
John Garner and Joe Byrnes of Tennessee, that
the party would widen its present slim control of
that body to a majority of 50 or more in the next
congress.
It is hardly to be doubted that Garner's de-
cision to accept ovice presidential nomination, in
addition to his all but traditional re-nomination
to the house from his Texas district, was made all
the harder by his belief that such a result wat
coming in November, so far as the house was con-
cerned.
Backed by a 50 vote party margin, any speaker
could expect a relatively easy life. His prestige
and importance would be as great, but his prob-
lems of leadership, of getting bills through, would
be much simpler.
WHY SO OPTIMISTIC?
Now the question arises, however, as to what it
is. that makes these two house veterans put out
such claims. There have been no straw ballots
taken in the congressional districts on a scale to
give them ground for such optimism.
Granted they have spoken their minds frankly,
what are they counting on?
Probably they were considering such things
as these: Three members of the next house al-
ready have been elected. They are from Maine,
two Democrats and one Republican. That leaves
432 seats to be filled in November.
But in the pending congressional election for
those 432 seats, 40 men are running unopposed.
Four are Republicans, all from California, and 36
Democrats. So, except for the formalities of elec-
lion in those cases, five Republicans and 39 Dem-
ocrats are already "in" for the house of the 73rd
congress.
Oddly enough, one of the unopposed democrats
also is from California, the other 35 all being from
southern states. speaker Garner himself, how-
ever, has opposition.
REAPPORTIONMENT
That represents, clearly, quite a Democratic
headstart. It leaves only 392 house seats to be
contested in November. And in that contest an-
other factor shows up, the aftermath of the con-
gressional reapportionment and the failure of
18 of the 48 states to complete redistricting legis-
Campus Opinion
Letters putblished in this column should no. be
construed as epresin; the editorial opinion nl The
Daily. Anonymous comnuncanons will be disregard-
ed. The names of communicants Will, however be re-
garded as confidential upon request. Contriutors are
asked tobe brief, confinng iemselves to less tisn
300 words if possible.
THE DAILY LEANS AWAY
FROM NORMAN TIOMAS
To The Editor:
"If The Daily has any political leanings, they
have obviously been for Norman Thomas, So-
cialist candidate."
The motives that prompted the edi ors of The
Daily to make the above statement (editorial,
Nov. 4) is not clear. But regardless of motive,
this asounding statement throws considerable
doubt upon the sincerity of The Daily's editoria
staff.
Perhaps The Daily has had a change of heart,
if so it is to be congratulated, but the whole-
hearted support it has given the capitalistic
parties m akes it impossible to infer that the policy
of The Daily has even approximated non-parti-
sanship.
It should be obvious to the editors of The Daily
that newspaper propaganda consists, not neces-
sarily of editorializing pro or con a particular
candidate, but in apportioning the greater part
of the political news to articles giving statements,
speeches, and activities of the favored candidate.
Those candidates held in slight respect by the
editors are disregarded and given little if any
mention in the columns.
This is the subtle, but decidedly effective method
of propaganda utilized by the American news-
paper. For, to the layman, conformity to public
opinion, "as mirrored by the newspaper," is the
safest and most desirable way.
On this basis, then, let us see just what direc-
tion, whether intentional or unintentional, the
subtle propaganda of The Daily has taken. Does
it reafiflm the contention that "If The Daily has
any political leanings, it has been for Norman
Thomas," or does it not?
An analysis of all Daily news articles appearing
in the issue of Oct. 4 through Nov. 4, shows these
results:
Number of news articles of national political
importance concerned with the speeches and ac-
tivities of Republicans-27; Democrats-27; So-
cialists-4. Number of pictures of national po-
litical importance: Democrats-8; Republicans-
7; Socialists-0. Editorials discussing policies of
Republican and Democratic parties-7; Socialists
-1. Installments of "The Bystander" comment-
ing on Republicans and Democrats-7; Social-
ists--.
Taken as a whole, approximately 93 per cent
of all political articles of national importance
appearing in The Daily have represented the
viewpoints of the two capitalistic parties, while
7 per cent is left to the Socialists.
This is decidedly not non-partisanship. It is
collceivable to see how the Michigan students can
choose between Capitalism and Socialism when
not only the metropolitan but even the student
newspapers present but one side of the question.
Herschel Zaeheim,'35
TIE SOCIALISTS MUST
HAVE THEIR LITTLE 1JOl
To The Editor:
Your Friday morning edition shows once again
how ridiculous a newspaper really can make it-
self.
Your editorial on the bookstand controversy
was either based on deep ignorance or a deliberate
intention to lie.
In the first place you are unable to differen-
tiate between the Student Socialist Club and the
Socialist Party. You state that the only apparent
reason for the existence of the club is the pler-
secution complex of the radical."
Socialism is a vague term. There is one color
-alled red, but there are dozens of shades of red,
all with a different name. The Student Socialist
7lub corresponds to the general color of red. The
socialist party, the communist party, the League
for Industrial Democracy, the Fabianists, the
Farmer Laborites-all of them are the different
shades of red. But all have one common bond.
They are all working for the creation of a society
in which production will be for use and not for
profit. Whether they attempt to achieve such
a society by legislation, by revolution, or by edu-
cation is the basis for their separation.
So when you say that the name of the Socialist I
Club is misleading, you are wrong. The name of
the socialist party is the misleading one. It would
more fittingly be called the Socialism-by-legisla-
tion Party.
The purpose of the Student Socialist Club is
to spread the .gospel of socialism on the campus.
Incidentally, it tries to bring about co-operation
among the various socialist groups.
Socialism to the club is vastly more than a po-
litical matter. It conceives socialism as the co-
operative society. The club was the moving force
behind the co-operative book-store, the co-opera-
tive rooming houses, and the co-operative board-
ing house.
Isn't such a program just as important as run-
ning around soliciting votes?
Your next fallacy was this statement: "Radicals
are seldom good business men. The socialists
bought $500 worth of literature on credit and
opened a stand." That is a lie. Who in the word
would credit the Socialist Club with $500? Maybe
Moscow. But it so happened that the club appro-
priated $15 to start the stand. This included the
cost of the stand, a slight advance to the attend-
ant, and a down payment on radical literature.
If the literature was sold, the bill was to be paid
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