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GRAFTON SHARF CREDIT MANAGER........BERNARD E. SCHNACKE WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........... . ... ..........................C ENR DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, Fred Her- trick; Classified Advertising, Russell Read; Advertising Contracts, Jack Bellamy; Advertising Service, Robert Ward; Accounts, Allen Knuusi; Circulation, Jack Ef- roymson: ASSISTANTS: Meigs Bartmess, Van Dunakin, Carl Fib- iger, Milton Kramer, John Ogden, Bernard Rosenthal, Joe Rothbard, James Scott, Norman Smith, David Wink- worth. NIGHT EDITOR: WILLIAM G. FERRIS AS Faor Whom The Cheers?. . L AST SATURDAY Cornell Univer- sity's football team came here and two great institutions met on the football field for the first time in more than two decades. By all odds it should have been a great intersectional contest, thrilling for its color. Ann Arbor stores should have been decorated in the colors of the teams as they were in former years. Scores of "M" flags should have lined the sidewalks of the business district. Actually the response was far different. Show- windows contained the usual displays. Cornell visitors were greeted almost with apathy, and but a scant half-dozen "M" flags decorated the campus district. The 100-piece Michigan Band and the 40-piece Ann Arbor High School band - both representatives of educational institutions on which the business of Ann Arbor is depend- ent -were virtually ignored as they paraded down State Street, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Yesterday a hundred men who have violated the laws set up by their fellows came to Ann Arbor as the chief feature of a "promotion stunt" of a newspaper. In their honor nearly every Ann Arbor store displayed the American Flag; school chil- dren were dismissed to see inmates of Jackson Prison parade the streets; a formal reception met them at the edge of the city; traffic was tied up as principal avenues were blocked off fo their marching, and hundreds lined the sidewalks to' listen to them inaugurate "Fall Music Gala Day" with simplified arrangements of Mihigan songs played on glockenspiel, trumpet, and drum. The bands as bands do not enter into this argu- ment; but the fact remains that they are the visible evidences of undergraduate America. They represent that portion of the population which, not long hence, will control these United States. They represent America on the up-grade. Inmates of the State's penal institutions, how- ever worthy may be their efforts to reinstate themselves in society, are on the return-grade. They had their chance and muffed it. Students in the educational institutions are on the first up- grade. Their chance is ahead of them. America on the up-grade should get the attention, the Flag, and the "M" banners, and we respectfully suggest that the publicity and the parties be left in the hands of those merchants who use them for their own profit. Heil Hitler. AT THE MAJESTIC "THE BIG EXECUTIVE" *A CALM TITLE FOR A LIMPID STORY Victor Conway ...............Ricardo Cortez Commodore Richardson.... Richard Bennett Helen Grant ........ .....Elizabeth Young Miss Healy ..................:.Sharon Lynne Harry, the guide .......... Barton MacLane "The Big Executive," featuring Ricardo Cortez and Elizabeth Young, a new ingenue, is a mod- erately slow, story, lacking in plot, elaborately screened in the Hollywood-modernistic vogue. It is the story of a financial battle between young Victor Conway, money-bags colossus of the new school, and the grizzled nonagenerian Commodore Richardson, who typifies the "honest" old school, which shunned fleecing the government and the small investor to concentrate on milking other executives of their steel mills, railroads, real es- tate, and shipping lines. Weaving in and out between the two "schools" of financial tactics is the debutante Helena Rich- ardson, great-grand-daughter of the Commodore and lover of Vic Conway. Miss Young is another in the long succession of very youthful Hollywood starettes whose duties are to grimace and pose at the beck and call of the director. She really is no more of a positive force in "The Big Execu- tive" than is the equally youthful ands; inept Sharon Lynne, miraculously efficient secretaryI unto Conway. As for Mr. Bennett, he is altogether laughable (not purposely) in his aged part, forced as he is to don a brusque, 1890 captain-of-indus- try mustache, corn-starch his hair, wet the mass, and carefully comb it into a spikey forest which is designed to appear unkempt. Mr. Cortez, with the build of a Minnesota full- back and the facial attributes of a Raft, Valen- tino, or a Novarro, is more than slightly out-of- place as a tea-drinking "executive." Those who saw him as the detective in "Phantom of Crest- wood" will be slow to accept him in his latest. Added attractions: A Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy, "The Midnight Patrol" - good; Betty Boop C a r t o o n- riot good; and Hearst Metrotone News. - G. M. W., Jr. Ediorial Comment Ale wood upon the thoroughness and wisdom of its text, and Judge Arnold for the forthright courage of his brief. The lawyers who fought this good fight for the public welfare have in serving society served themselves. They have ridded their pro- fession in Missouri of the go-between whose service is not so much to society as it is to crime. The outcome of the battle, one of the most critical ever fought by the people of any state, should be to dignify the law and to purify the ranks of its practitioners. It has been futile to talk about putting down crime without attacking its primary cause. No serious student of American society has doubted for years where the roots of the whole trouble rest. We repeat here what we said about it a fortnight ago: Crime in the United States has its base in the legal profession. Everybody knows this. Jurists know its Reputable lawyers know it. So do criminals know it. They have im- mensely strengthened themselves by estab- lishing contact with the law. That gulf which should separate the underworld and the world of law and order was long ago bridged by this alliance in almost every American city. The bar associations should take heart from the Richards decision and renew their battle for a self-regulating corporate bar. They cannot ex- pect the courts to do for them what they can in the main do for themselves. - St. Louis Post Dispatch 1 1' i t t r. f t I c i d r x t a t c x DIGNIFYING THE LAW The unanimous decision of the Missouri Su-< preme Court disbarring Paul Richards from the1 practice of law in the State for acting as a go- between for kidnapers dignifies the law and re-1 stores popular confidence in it at a time when distrust is widespread. 1 In reaching the decision, the court swept asidei all legalistic rubbish and sophistry. It disagreedI that the acquittal ofaRichards by a jury was the end of the matter, as it denied that a prior de- cision to the contrary by the same court estab- lished the law in the instant case. Judge Atwood1 spent the summer on the case. He enriched it with some of the finest opinions in the history of our jurisprudence. He brought tradition to bear upon a matter so vital as to illustrate how truly experience should be our guide. Disbament of Richards carries two powerful object lessons in the regeneration of American society: first, the integrity of the law cannot be preserved unless the courts constitute our chief defense against its decay; second, the legal pro- fession cannot be purged of those impurities which have roused the whole country unless re- putable lawyers have the courageto cleanse it from within. This was exactly what' happened in the Richards ,case. The St. Louis Bar Association and the Missouri Bar Association joined in the effort to disbar Richards. Both associations brought charges against him. Scott R. Timmons of Carrolton, as Commissioner for the Supreme Court, held a three-day hearing, at which the charges of the city and State bar associations against Richards were presented by Glendy B. Arnold and J. Wesley McAfee, representing the grievance committees of their respective organ- izations. Arnold, a former Circuit Judge, made the plea for disbarment before the Supreme Court. Two' months before, both the St. Louis and the Mis- souri bar associations had joined in an effort be- fore the Missouri Legislature to give the legal profession self-purifying powers. The effort failed. The State, unfortunately, had no definite policy with respect to the limitation of legal practice. It had not undertaken to judge the acts of lawyers coming and going between the upper and under worlds. The same issue arose in the Grand Na- tional Bank Case. The legal profession divided on the bar bill, but the division was not entirely between reputable and disreputable lawyers. Even lawyers of the better class were not sure that the profession's confidential relations with clients are not privi- leged to a degree with which the proposed struc- ture of the bar bill would have interfered. What Missouri needed was a ringing declaration of high principle in this field, and. this is what it got in the decision which disbarred Richards. In that decision, the Supreme Court both reasserted its power of disbarment and destroyed those shadowy legal bridges which had for so long spanned the gulf-between the two worlds. It granted freely the prayer made in this paragraph of Judge Arnold's brief: As a safe future guard to the honor and integrity of the legal profession and the pro- Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.-President Roosevelt's cold-shouldering of the idea that a special liquor tax session of congress be held had a mean- ing of its own for his voteless neighbors of the na- tion's capital. Those of them who may have hoped to share in a national back-to-legal-liquors move- ment, say some time early in December seem in for a disappointment. Washington, it now appears, is apt to be under the restrictions of the Volstead act even should Uncle Sam's hand be removed from its prohibitory position on liquor traffic in the states. That is the conclusion of District of Columbia legal author- ities. They have submitted the question to the department of justice for enlightenment. THE point is that while the Volstead Act stands on the eighteenth amendment so far as its ap- pilcation to the states is concerned and falls with the amendment, it probably could be constructed as remaining as a simple police statute for the Dis- trict of Columbia and all other territory under direct federal legislative control. That might ap- ply even to Hawaii and Alaska as territories. EVEN if this point of veiw should be rejected by Attorney General Cummings, Washington would not escape. The old pre-prohibition "bone- dry" amendment sponsored in a fit of indignation by former Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, ardent wet though he always has been, is still on the books. Unless and until congress fixes things up for the law-abiding but thirsty in the district, it looks as if they could voyage into wet Maryland and bring home alcoholic beverage only by stowing it inside. MHE President's attitude against a special rum- tax session has another meaning, however. It promptly was construed as based on his unwill- ingness to surrender the single-handed control he now has over currency regulation. It is obvious that legislative drives for mandatory currency inflation from several quarters simultaneously will mark the convening of congress. As it stands, until the regular winter session be- gins in January, Mr. Roosevelt has affirmative con- trol over all phases of inflation. From the hour congress convenes that power relapses to the neg- ative form of his right to veto a bill. I TRGENT treasury need of getting the benefit of newly framed liquor tax lawsas soon as possible has not swayed Mr. Roosevelt from his evident purpose to retain his present all-but-dict- atorial powers over the natioal currency as long as possible. They constitute a weapon that might be needed before January in the fight for economic recovery. #<, CLAS SIFTED DIRECTORY CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Place advertisements with Classified Advertising Department. Phone 2-1214. The classified. columns closetat five o'clock previous to day of insertion. Box numbers mayabe secured at no extra charge. cash in advance--1e per reading line (on basis of five average words to. line) forone or two insertions. 10c per reading line for three or more insertions. Minimum 3 lines per insertion. Telephone rate-15c per reading line for one or two insertions. 14c per reading line for three or more insertions. 10% discount if paid within ten days from the date of last insertion. Minimum three lines per insertion. 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Buy now before the prices rise. Phone 7265. L. C. Reimann. Ho Hum, The Columbia Spectator's At It Again (By Intercollegiate Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-Columbia students are not going to let the scheduled defeat of Tammany be consummated without having a part in it. So the Columbia Spectator, under- graduate newspaper, has come out strongly in favor of F. H. LaGuardia, Fusion candidate for mayor, and the students have appointed a Columbia Fusion committee to work in La Guardia's behalf. A Spectator editorial bitterly at- tacked both Mayor John P. O'Brien and Joseph V. McKee, insurgent Democrat pretty definitely known to have the support of Washington. "President Roosevelt," the paper said, "Postmaster General Farley, and Edward J. Flynn have knifed the Fusion movement in the back." h. .. 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SO THEY SAY "With the passing of the 'whoopee era', a college course ceases to be a four year loaf." .-President of Rollins College A professor at the University of Oklahoma told his audience recently of a young student who ob- jected to studying Hamlet because he had it in high school. When the professor insisted that Shakespearian drama be included in his course in spite of the renitition. the student returned with the query: Program "LINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK" Serenade .............. Mozart for String Orchestra (Koechel No. 525) I. Allegro III. Menutto; Allegretto II. Romanza IV. Rondo: Allegro "LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS" ("The Rite of Spring") A Picture of Pagan Russia . Stravinsky - I. The Adoration of the Earth Introduction - Harbingers of Spring - Dance of the Adolescents - Abduction Spring Rounds - Games of the Rival Cities - The Procession of the Wise Men - The Adoration of the Earth (The Wise Man) - Dance of the Earth. II. The Sacrifice Introduction - Mysterious Circles of the Adolescents - Glorification of the Chosen One - Evocation of the Ancestors - Ritual of the Ancestors - The Sacrificial Dance of the Chosen One. SYMPHONY No. 1 in C MINOR, op. 68 . . . . . . . . . . . Brahms I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro II. Andante sostenuto III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso IV. Adagio; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio ERMANY will have the opportu- 7 nity. Herr Hitler proudly pro- 11