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FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 1933
The JHop Gets
Back On Its Own Feet...
T SHOULD BE gratifying to the
student body, and especially to the
fraternities, to observe that the Student Council
and the J-Hop committee immediately withdrew
from the rules for conduct of the annual class
dance a clause which the campus in general found
objectionable--the ruling to prohibit fraternity
dances after 10 o'clock on the night of the Hop.
The joint action of the council and dance
committee is to be commended on two grounds:
First, it returns the Hop to the plane it would
naturally occupy as the leading undergraduate
social function of the year; and, secondly, it
shows that student sentiment is still a factor
which the council, a body representing under-
graduates, is unable to ignore.
The nature of such an undertaking as the Hop
demands, out of respect to its social spirit, that
support be well merited and spontaneous. Restric-
tions that would promote it at the expense of
ther activities are bound to be a dampening in-
fluence. The committee, with unquestioned wis-
doin, has waived a virtual subsidy rather than
risk losing the good will and co-operation of the
campus.
The committee, we believe, is to be compli-
mented on its quickness to realize and admit
the error of such a restriction as the one pro-
pgsed. And we are confident that the managers
of the Hop will have no occasion to regret the
action. Heavy advance ticket sales already prom-
ise success for the dance, the selection of a na-
tionally outstanding orchestra apparently adding:
to the attraction of a long-popular student
function.
By way of post mortem, it might be argued
that when the ruling was included in the Stu-
dent Council's list, it was supported on the basis
that the J-Hop, as a tradition, deserved special
support and protection. And it was argued in re-
turn that a tradition artificially sustained is not
worth keeping. But that is beside the point.
To be sure, the J-Hop is a tradition. But it is
a living tradition, more popular today than it was
twenty years ago. It attracts wider attention and
more spontaneous support than any other tradi-
tion on the Michigan campus. Its own merits, we
believe, assure its success.
Mass Education Production
Soils White Collars.. .
P RESIDENT HOOVER's Research
Committee of Sociologists men-
tions, in its voluminous report recently made
public, that there has been "an eight fold increase
of high school enrollments and a five fold increase
for college since 1900." The Committee considers
this "a great achievement," although it proceeds
in a warning vein, "If the growth of higher edu-
cation continues a question may well be raised
proportion of our population is eagerly attaining
a background formerly reserved for only a fa-
vored few. It does not necessarily mean, as the
Committee suggests, that "future plumbers may
discuss Aristotle with . . . intellectual profit." It
may, and frequently does, mean that a large per-
centage of those gaining degrees are, because of
increasing competition and dependence upon the
financial payments of enrolled students, grad-
uates of colleges which have made no serious at-
tempt to turn out educated, intelligent men with
a cultural background above that of pickaninnies.
Not all colleges are producing discussers of Aris-
totle who should not be plumbers. A good many
are producing plumbers who should not be dis-
cussers of Aristotle.
What does a college diploma signify? Certainly
it is not enough to say that Mr. Jones has an
A. B. degree, that he is a college man. What col-
lege man? Is it Harvard or is it Siwash? Is it Co-
lumbia or is it Podunk? There are hundreds of
colleges in the United States. They mill out di-
plomas regularly, consistently, with the same pre-
cision and lack of hesitancy as a Dearborn plant
turning out motor cars. Yet it must be palpable
to even the most casual of spectators that all of
these degrees are not of equal worth. Yale and
Alabama, Princeton and Mississippi, Wisconsin
and Louisiana-what a world of differences we
Americans hide under the vague term of "uni-
versity."
It is not an overproduction of college graduates
that we suffer from as much as an overproduction
of so-called "colleges." Sometime, perhaps after
the American people look upon education in a
national sense, we will insist that a decent dis-
tinction be made between genuine universities
and cow colleges.
Campus Opinion
Letters published in this column should not be
construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The
Daily. Anonymous communications will be disregard-
ed. The names of communicants will, however, be re-
garded as confidential upon request. Contributors are
asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than
300 words if possible.
GIVING MR. PFAFLE
THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
I should like you to print this written rebuttal
to the speech by Mr. Pfafle of the Japanese Good
Will Tour.
Many speeches and addresses have been made
on the Sino-Japanese question since a year ago
last September. However there has never been
one so wrong, so unfounded, and so misleading
as that given by Mr. Pfafle at the Rotary Club on
Wednesday, Jan. 18. For the benefit of those who
attended the meeting as well as those who may
hear about it later, the cheap and commercialized
propaganda purposely and skilfully arranged to
mislead the public should be unveiled.
It would take too much of your valuable space
were I to attempt to challenge every statement
of the speech. Suffice it, therefore, to say that
Mr. Pfafle spent a great deal of time elaborating
on the necessity of amity and co-operation on the
Pacific, However, in his eagerness he overlooked
the Chinese-Japanese War that is now being
waged on Chinese soil.
How Mr. Pfafle, an American presumably de-
sirous of peace on the Pacific, is able to serve in
the employ of officials in a government that is at
present pursuing an aggressively militaristic pol-
icy in China in violation of all the laws of civ-
ilized peoples pertaining thereto, surely is more
than any self-respecting individual is able to
fathom. Perhaps he is unwittingly being made a
tool of certain Japanese .interests and there is
something very ostrich-like in the way he looks
at things. I like to give him the benefit of the
doubt.
-Robert Suez
THINGS WORTH MEDITATING
POLITICS
This Congress is showing what sectional and
special interests wil do unless the national will
overrides them, and if the American people do not
react to the spectacle they have lost the energy
of a free people.-Walter Lippmann.
THE SENATE
It was sufficiently humiliating to the United
States to have it demonstrated in the world that
we have a Government which can do nothing
abroad. On top of that we now have the spectacle
of a Senate which can do nothing at home.-The
New York Times.
MORE POLITICS
When a man is old, he should do more than
when he was young.-Goethe (1749-1832).
Question: What are our old men in Washing-
ton doing? Are they doing more or are they
doing less?
FRANCE
"France is not the French," says La Fouchar-
diere . . . "A government is a special providence
that thinks and spends (pense et depense) for its
citizens," who have only to pay or march as the
case may be.-The Nation.
Question: How does this apply to the govern-
ment of the United States?"
-M. Levi
article appeared in the Daily speaking of a fleeced
audience who were truly fleeced in this case.
The Daily admits that the subject was inter-
esting and the lecture worth 25 cents. Does the
criticism depend upon who sponsors the lecture,
or just what, Mr. Daily?
-Meyer Applebaum, '33L
Screen Reflections
Four stars means extraordinary; three stars very
good; two stars good; one star just another picture;
no stars keep away from it.
AT THE MICHIGAN
"LAWYER MAN"
***THE BEST THING
POWELL HAS DONE
Anton Adam ...........William Powell
Olga .. .................Joan Blondell
Izzy Levine .............Alan Jenkins
Bentley ................Alan Dinehart
Gilmurry . ............David Landau
Onetime-pansy-mustached Powell as an East
Side New York lawyer, as a big Shylock, and as a
power in the District Attorney's office is infinitely
more superb than any William Powell has ever
been before, in comedy or serious pictures.
Powell exhibits facial expressions and distor-
tions of the eyebrow muscles that are little short
of miraculous; facial acting
in itself would put the actor
across in this picture. But,
the rest of Powell's work
stamps him as a real master:
of theatrical technique.,
Joan Blondell as Adam's
pretty and capable blond sec-.
retary presents an able per-
formance, characterized b
brief and sporadic attempts
to win the lawyer over to her
way of thinking and by con-
siderable slamming of doors
and hurling of books.
Some of the most perfect comedy-comedy that
is histrionic art-is again presented by a gentle-
man who is one of our favorites and for whom
we predict great things-Alan Jenkins as Izzy
Levine, the gangster and erstwhile bodyguard. If
you saw "Blessed Event" you'll never forget Jen-
kins as Frankie Wells ("I'm supposed to be a
tough guy from Cihcawga, see?"), and Jen-
kins as Izzy Levine is just as grand. Excellent
Jenkins shot: he and an Italian type, also in
"Blessed Event," slack-jawed in consternation
as Powell tells them what will happen if they
carry out their mission of killing him.
All pictures about district attorneys and dour,
sarcastic detective captains have David Landau in
them. This is no exception, but we weren't at all
sorry. In a role slightly altered from his usual
type, Landau plays Gilmurry, the all-powerful
central cog in the crooked city machinery in
which Powell terms himself the "monkey-
wrench." He is extremely convincing without
being the paunchy, lazy, saliva-dripping cinematic
idea of a political boss.
There are shots in "Lawyer Man" which are
definitely dirty. Even if you: aren't looking for
them you'll probably get them. Powell doesn't hes-
itate to speak with conviction lines that are cer-
tainly foreign to his usual manner on the screen.
Photographically there are several dirty shots,
too, but they are not included for dirt; they are
included to build up a character, and they are
good.
Typical excellent shots photographically: a
bridle path in Central Park; a scene through the
glass window of the grand jury room, so effective-
ly sound-proofed that the judge, court officers,
and jury enact perfect pantomime in concluding
the hearing and beginning the search for a de-
cision regarding Powell's indictment.
Added features are Harry Langdon comedy, a
musical short and newsreel. -W. S. W.
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We are inclined to agree with the correspon-
dent who pointed out that Huey Long's filibuster
is based on inflation. As a matter of fact, the
whole thing looks to us like a Glass attack.
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Which reminds us that as long as nobody seems
to be getting anywhere in explaining what has
been going on in the Senate, this seems like a
good time to check up on the present whereabouts
of the Blarney Stone.
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In fact, to judge by the billboards, each
new combination is definitely first.
Automobiles sell for less per pound than beef-
steak, according to an automotive engineer. That
casts some light on the constitution of modern
hamburger.
Some of the grapefruit consumed in the United
States comes from South Africa, we learn.
Matches and light bulbs are bad enough, but we
balk at foreign products that spit in your eye.
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RENT AN ELEPHANT
ONE STUDENT WAS NOT 'FLEECED'
To The Editor:
To those of us who heard Oscar Ameringer
Monday night, your editorial "Students Fleeced at
Campus Lecture" is an unjustifiable misstate-
ment. Your conclusion that only 50 of the 700
who heard him would return to hear him again,
is only the private opinion of Mr. Daily and not
the expressed opinion of the audience. Those of
us who listened to the lecture know that the same
700 will attend even if the speaker chooses to talk
on "The Grasshopper Situation in Timbuctu."
The Daily conveys the impression that the au-
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