'T -E MICHIGAN IDAILY ICHIGAN DAILY I, . ..a, ", ." to be used as a lever to reform other "abuses" of the fraternity system. While many of the reforms are badly needed, it is disappointing to see the. E fraternity alumni turn to University authorities asking them to force reforms under pressure upon the houses when they could better. -seek them. through personal contact and through the organ- ization of the fraternities themselves. Campus Opinion, - - - I told you so -but it would serve him right. If such people don't like our institutions, why don't they go back to Russia? Unlike he who calls himself "Anti-R.O.T.C.," I never have been a member of the organization. God has seen fit to give me a pair of flat-feet. I bear this tribulation as well as I can although it bars me.. from participation. Nevertheless I am virtually one of the R.O.T.C. in spirit. In Europe, military students are shown the respect they de- serve. Here they should also be met with the same impulse that makes us take off our hats when the flag passes. Hats off, R.O.T.C. - Good American No. I Screen Reflections I, Established 1890, Published every morning except Monday during the niversity year and Summer Session by the Board in ntrol. of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association d the Big Ten News Service. 60eriated doll giateG r or m - T -e _ =1933 (N~nrupa. cioVZ-1934 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS1 The Associated Press is enclusively entitled to the use r republication of.all news dispathces credited to it or it otherwise credited in this paper and the local news tblished herein. All rights of republication of special spatches are reserved. Entered at the cost Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as ond class matter. Special rate of postage granted by hird Assistant Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, .50. 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Bassett, Virginia Bel, Mary vBursey, Peggy Cady, inia Cluff, Patricia Daly, Genevieve Field, Louise ez, Doris Gimmy, Betty Greve, Billie Griffiths, Janet son, Louise Krause, Barbara Morgan, Margaret tard, Betty Simonds. Letters published in this column- should not be con- strued as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous communications will be disrearded. The names of communicants will, however, be re- grded as confidential' upon feues. Cntributors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than 300 words if possible. EXPLANATION OF VANGUARD CLUB ACTIVITIES To the Editor: - Many inquiries have come to individual mem- bers of the Michigan Vanguard Club concerning the aims and activities of the organization. This article is an attempt to state our position clearly. The Michigan Vanguard Club was organized in September, 1933, to enable all types of students to participate effectively in the study of economic, social, and political problems now before the world, and to provide a means for the work of social reconstruction on the Michigan campus, The club is in no way affiliated with any other campus or non-campus organization. TENETS: The Michigan Vanguard Club is guided in all its activities by the following tenets:- 1. Complete student self-government is desirable, possible, and necessary.-r 2 An essential duty of. the State is to provide for each citizen .the means. for a beneficial sandsocially-desirable education. 3. The causes of war ae primarily eo- nomic. To eliminate the necessity of war, these causes must be removed from national and international economies. 4. Personal an intellectual freedon is necessary to the further development of world culture. 5. Natural resources and, the present status of technological ability, when rightly utilized, could provide an abundance of the means of life to all persons, 6. The present politico-economic system being inadequate to prevent the decline of civilization, planned worker-societiesare ne- cessary in which the real producer of goods shall be returned the real value of the goods produced. PLEDGE- Members of the Vanguard pledge themselves to uphold and further these tenets by action, and to use whatever means are thought desirable to effect their realization. The Program Committee of the Vanguard Club has brought to the campus A. Penner Brockway, Chairman of the British Independent Labor Party and militant pacifist; Norman Thomas, American Socialist Party leader; Fred Henderson, British author, educator, and famous Socialist, and Dr. Frank Kingdon, of the League for Industrial Democracy. Five more brilliant speakers will shortly appear on the campus. A motion-picture of Russian communal life was recently shown to a large audience. Similar films are to be secured soon. These pictures are free In keeping with its position on war, the club is backing the Ohio University students who were. recently dismissed for their objections to war and military training. Two of these men spoke at a recent anti-R.O.T.C. meeting here. Various faculty-members and students have led discussions on pertinent topics at the regular meetings of the organization and at afternoon forums in the Vanguard Club room. Constructive criticism of the Michigan Van- guard Club is welcomed, either in the pages of The Daily or at our regular Thursday night meet- ings in the Union. All students and faculty-members interested in applying for membership in the Michigan Van-. guard Club are referred to Theodore Grushko, 1524 Geddes, phone, 9086. Organized by four charter members, the Van-. guard now has a membership of forty active mem- bers and a large number of honorary and asso- ciate members._ Kendall Wood, President. Adria H. Jaffe, Vice-President, Treasurer. Theodore Grushko, Secretary. Paul Stanchfield, Member of Exec, Comm M. J. Wilsie, Member of Exec. Comm. AT THE MICHIGAN "AS HUSBANDS GO" Charles ................. Warner Baxter Luceille ................. ...Helen Vinson Ronny .............. A. E. Reynolds, Jr. Hippi.................Warner Oland Mother .... ...... ...Catherine Daucet A happy combination of good acting and a good play make "As Husbands Go" rather delightful and entertaining. Helen Vinson, pleasantly differ- ent, Warner Baxter, much like he was in "Pent- house," A. E. Reynolds, Jr., a. newcomer and a good actor, Warner Oland, in a new type of part, and saucy Catherine Daucet make the picture the success that it is and turn it into one of the higher, sophisticated pictures of the new year. Involving a new type of plot and setting "As Husbands Go" begins in Paris where Ronny and Luceille are very much for the latter getting a divorce from her husband, Charles, who is back in the States. Hippi and Charles' mother seem to think that perhaps they should get married, too. But mother and young girl return home to spill the news and before they get it out Ronny has arrived in Dubuque, Iowa, with Hippi and the situation becomes cleverly involved when the entire cast meets at Charles' house for dinner. It is in this setting (the house is a masterpiece in itself) that the fine bits of acting and dialogue come to the fore and one complication follows another. You will like; the sce iln which Ronny and Charles talk it over -over the cups into which they dive deeply; the talkative mother trying to keep the Luceille-Ronny romance under cover; the clever questioning of the young daughter when she "smells a rat"; the young daughter's silent boy friend; Ronny's fine acting when he realizes the predicament he is in; the perfection of the ."house in which Charles and his wife live. Best shot; Mother and Luceille stand by the rail- ing of the boat as they leave Paris for Dubuque, Iowa The Charley Chase comedy marks a return of some of the old slapstick work that has been hid- den some place for some time; the Micky Mouse cartoon is as good as the rest of them; and the Paramount News shows the Navy planes arriving in Hawaii. R.E.L. I, Whether you go to the JHOP or- not Pr to tell ou.. who was there, in wha to show you.. .how the Grand March looked to the camer aman to give you... .ethe lowdown on the whole affair to lp1,YOU....oeembe 1 r in your old age th glamour of your Youth . . RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY Call. 1214 _ . ..-- I you will want a I _. 3HT EDITOR: A, ELILIS BALL Con ifkions of Freshman Fraternity Iesidence... HE DEAN of Students has decided that he will follow -the recom- mendation of the Alumni Interfraternity Confer- ence in the matter -of granting permission to fraternities to have freshmen tove into the chap- ter houses next seimrester. Permission will be granted if the house's "attitude on the 'hell week' situation," the number of active members living out of the house, and other "pertinent considera- tions" are satisfactory. The inference is that freshmen are being forced to move into houses against their will and that active members living outside the house should be the first to support the house by living in it. We are opposed to all three clauses of the regu- lation. We do not think that freshmen are moving into chapter houses against their will and believe that it would be unfair to exclude a freshman from residence because actives are living out. Such ex- clusion would take into consideration the fact of the active's financial condition, which is entirely divorced from the situation. The freshman and his parents should be informed of the cost of the room he is to take and of other expenses, and if he can pay and wants to pay, he should not be prohibited on financial grounds from moving in. A fraternity's attitude on "hell week," dragged into this discussion by the heels, has really noth- ing to do with the case. The dean undoubtedly means that he and alumni disapprove of certain practices of excessive physical requirements, inter- ference with school work, and others, and are hoping, by granting freshman residence permis- sion under these conditions at a time when the houses cannot do otherwise than accept both the concession and the attached conditions, to remedy certain abuses which have grown up in connection with the pre-initiation period. Paddling for its own sake is regrettable, and harkens back to pre- paratory school discipline and high school fra- ternities. But physical chastisement for grown up high school children who understand little else may improve their spirits if administered sparing- ly and to the accompaniment of proper judicious advice. Studies should not suffer, and do not suffer, if the fraternity is suffiiently interested in the future scholastic and activities standing of the house. An attitude of extreme interest in the freshman as a human being, on the part of fra- ternity men, will do more than anything else to make for reform. Certainly the fraternity alumni connilr do hfftr than recommend that houses be .AT THE LYDIA MENDELSSOHN "DER HAUPTMANN VON KOEPENICK" Zuckmayer's movie is all that the advanced re- ports said it was; fine photography, direction, acting and fine humor and satire. The historic episode of pre-war Germany is re-enacted with a masterful touch given it by director Oswald and the European knack for excellent photography is the means through which it is portrayed in first class manner. - The part of the Bogus Captain is done by Max Adalbert and he arouses one's sympathy at the be- ginning, the only flaw in the character being the sudden change from his down-cast frame of mind to the commanding part he takes when he cap- tures the city of Koepenick. But his fine acting makes this a minor point and our suspicion is not aroused to that point at the time. The sharp satire of the German government at the time of the picture (1906) is fine and done with such smoothness that it is not harsh. One can readily appreciate the feeling of the ex-convict when he comes forth into such a disciplinary and militar- istic world as well as appreciate the humor that he derives at the finish when his hilarious doings are rewarded and he explains it all to the officers of the court. Touches of private life in Germany at the time are of great value and raise the stand- ard of the picture to the highest type of cinema one can expect. The "Battle for Life" series is highly educational but .a little too "crawly" while the Micky Mouse is above the average run of such cartoons by no small distance. 1111, ,. i .A 'U*Y t r J Q Y ! f 1 GOOD AMERICAN DEFENDS HIS POSITION To The Editor: I was about to offer a defense of myself and, more important, of the cause which I, as a pa- triot, champion; but a colleague of mine- a 2nd Lt.-has already come to my aid. True enough, he did insinuate that I was an idle chat- tering fool, but he did defend thoughtfully the R.O.T.C. with very good arguments; like: putting the cart before the horse; if you are going to be mustered into a batch of cannon-fodder, prepare yourself beforehand; learning how to handle men; getting $200 and becoming an officer who has an idea what it's all about; the great pacifists whr. scream, "Let the enemy kill my wife, and damn the R.O.T.C. for starting all this;" and why did those seven fellows go to Ohio State anyway. My friend, 2nd Lt. Gordon McDonald, has ably done his part. Now it remains to defend myself. Some misdirected persons have taken it upon themselves to be flippant or just parlor-radicalish and for those fat-headed reasons have maligned this one of the American institutions - the R.O. T.C. Upon a close examination of the actual foundations of the R.O.T.C., one finds no reason to treat it lightly, for as I have stated before, the R.O.T.C. is more than a small local group. It is a big part of our system of government -Democ- racy. It is pitiously evident that one of these "wise guys" who facetiously (?) signs himself "the 2nd Noble Kinsman" confuses many of my previous points. I did not say that a war could C-lgiate Observer a By BUD BERNARD A professor at the University of Illinois during a- history lecture said, "Let us take France for instance . . A voice from the rear of the room piped up, "Why not, she took us for plenty." A circuit judge at St. Louis took time off to pass a bit of advice to college men who are seeking wives. "Pick her from the middle class," said the judge. The majority of the divorces, he said, occur among the rich and the very poor. Appearance also, he said, was no criterion in selecting a wife. Ruby lips, he opined, rub off at a touch; but a good disposition lasts a lifetime. Upon the front page of the Maine Campus of the University of Maine appeared this headline: DEATH TAKES FOUR FACULTY MEMBERS THROUGH VACATION Perhaps they had a hot time ? ? ? ? ,. b or any other thing of an equally remote nature-or maybe even a room The Daily Classified Ads can supply you with scores of applieants for that vacant room. SM- (dents consult the Daily Classified Ads bIfore looing RF A SCNARE, R AT III II