ICHIGAN DAILY Air., I' they had, while here and there shelters sprang up to serve for the time being as offices. The city itself matched private business -in handling the situation, beginning with the con- 3picuous success of its fire department in limiting the fire to an area of approximately eight city blocks after it had gained a tremendous start in a district difficult of accessibility. While the -havoc wrought was not as large as at first be- lieved, it was a sufficient blow to have severely crippled a smaller community or one of less vi- tality. Officials now generally believe that the con-. flagration had its origin in a carelessly tossed cigarette, possibly thrown from an automobile passing over the yards on a nearby viaduct. Chi- cago's earlier fire, in 1871, is supposed to have ng the started when Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over -the ard in lantern. If these causes can be accepted as cor- elation rect, how typical is each of its times. . g except Monday duri ner Session by the Bo tions. onference Editorial Asso very aL a ices cl rand ublica .d to the use0 ited to it or .e local news in of special ,s or on during ig regular ice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as lal rate of postage granted by rGeneral. imer by carrier, $1.00; by mail. poo1 ;ear by carrier, $3.'75: by ;hczs Building, Maynard Street ne : 2-1214. SPublications Representatives th Street, New York City; 80 612 -North Michigan Avenue Street, Telepflone 4928 VIANAGING IEDITOR ...............WILLIAM G. FERRIS ;ITY EDITOR............................-JOHN HEALEY DITORIAL. DIRECTOR...........RALPH G: COULTER PORTS EDI'TOR.................... ARTHUR CARSTENS VOMEN'S EDITOR ............... ......ELEANOR BLUM flOGT EDITORS; PulJ. Eliptt, John J. Flaherty, Thomas A. Groehn, Thomas H. Kleene, David G. MacDonald, John M. O'Connell, Robert S. Ruwitch, Arthur M. Taub. PORTS ASSISTANTS: Marjorie Western, Joel Newman,' Kenneth Parker, Wulliam Reed, Arthur Settle. NOMEN'S ASSIST .NTS: Dorothy Gies, Florence Harper,' Eleanor Johnson, Ruth Loebs, Josephine McLean, Rosalie Resnick, Jane Schneider, Marie Murphy. ) 1EPORTERS: Donald K. Anderson, John H. Batdorff, Robert B. Brown, Clinton B. Conger, Robert E. Deisley, Allan Dlewey, John A. -Doelle. Sheldon M. Ellis, Sidney Finger, William H. Fleming, Robert J, Feehing, Sherwin Gaines, Ralph W. Hurd, Walter R. Krueger, John N. Merchant, Fred W. Neal, Kenneth Norman, Melvin C. Oathout, John P. Otte, Lloyd S. Reich, Marshall Shulnan, Bernard Weissman, Joseph Yager, C. Bradford Carpenter. Jacob C. Siedel, Bernard Levdck, George Andros, Fred Buesser, RobertCummnins, Fred Delano, Robert J. Fried- man, Raymond Goodman, Morton Mann. Dorothy Briscoe, Ivaryana Chockly, Florence Davies, Helen Diefendorf, Marian Donaldson, Saxon Finch, Elaine Goldberg, Betty Goldstein, Olive Griffith, Harriet Hath- away, Marion Holden, -Beulah Kanter, Lois King, Selma Levin, Elizabeth Miller, -Melba. Morrison, Mary Annabel Neal, Ann Neracher, Elsie Pierce, Charlotte Rueger, Dor- othy Shappell, Carolyn Sherman, Molly Solomon, Dor- othy Vale, Betty Vinton, t aura:Winograd, Jewel Wuerfel. BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2-1214 USINESS MANAGER ............W. GRAFTON SHARP IREDIT MANAGER..........BERNARD E. SCHNACKE IOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........... ..........4......... .. ,... ., CATHARINE MC HENRY EPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, Noel Tur- ner; Classified Advertising, .Russell Read; Advertising Service, Robert Ward; Accounts, Allen Knuusi; Circula- tion and. Contracts, Jack Efroymson. SSISTANTS: Milton Kramer, John Ogden, Bernard Ros- enthal, Joe Rothbard, George Atherton. ane Bassett, Virginia Bell, Mary BTrsley, Peggy Cady, Virginia Cluff, Patricia Daly, Genevieve Field, Louise Florez, Doris Gimmy, Betty Greve, Billie Griffiths, Janet Jackson, Louise Krause, Barbara Morgan, Margaret The The~atre' MORALITY PLAY BACK IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, when the middle ages were drawing to a close and the Rennaissance was about to begin, the theatre was much closer to religion thai we think of it today. Building upon the already established fervor of the worshipers, the. play-makers of those days sought to depict the value of good, to better the audiences who attended their shows. When the plays of -that p:riod are produced today it is rare that they get closer to religious service than the stage of a church auditorium. Sunday evening, however, Play Production did the unusual by presenting "Everyman," at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, as a. part of the regular evening worship. Sacred music, hymns, and prayer preceded it; benedic- tion followed. ,The idea -was a felicitous one. The services of the evening enhanced the play; the play enhanced the services. The effectiveness of the whole caused this reviewer to wonder how "Days Without End" would seem in a church. James Doll's arrangement and direction, done under the supervision of Mr. Windt, was excel- lent, as was his acting in the part of Everyman. Sally Pierce used her throaty voice to the best ad- vantage as the First Narrator. The rest of the cast, many of whom will graduate next month, ably dis- tinguished themselves. Particularly deserving of mention were Mary Pray, Barbara Vander Vort,; and Frances Manchester, and Jay Pozz, Charles Harrell, and Lester Griffith. Campus Opinion Letters, published in this column should not be con- strued as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous communications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be re- garded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than 500 words if possible. ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE, AND PEACE MOVEMENTS EDITOR'S NOTE: Owing to the length of the following discussion of the .recent Anti- War Conference, it has been necessary to di- vide the letter into two installments, the sec- and of which will appear in tomorrow's Daily. Musical Events PIANO GRADUATION RECITAL Suite XVI in G minor.............Handel Allemande Courante Sarabande Gigue Andante ingF .............. ..........Bach Variations on an original theme in C minor ...... . .:.............Beethoven Prelude, Chorale and Fugue ..........Franck Bagatelles, Op. 5 .. .... . .......Tcherepnine Allegro Marciale Prestissimo Lento con Tristezza Allegro con sprito Presto ARAH LACEY, winner of the Stanley medal, is giving her graduation recital this evening in the School of Music Auditorium. Miss Lacey has- played in out-of-town recitals this year, and per-, formed with the Chamber Music Class Recital -in Hill Auditorium, April 22. She has a compre- hensive grasp of the types of music that are in- cluded in her program, from the Bach to the sketches of the Russian, Tcherepnine. Her program is intere tingly composed so that with the talents of the young pianist, the-recital will fulfill more than graduation requirements, but will be an hour of musical enjoyment.--S.P. S cree; n R e,.fl ec tio -n s The rating pf motion pictures in this column is on the following basis: A, excellent; B, good; C, fair; D, poor, E, very bad. AT THE WHITNEY Double Feature "THE CRUSADER" With H. B. Warner. Ned Sparks, and Evelyn Brent Ned Sparks' portrayal of a newspaper reporter, while unrealistic, saves an otherwise worthless movie from being a flop. H. B. Warner is a mo're or less crusading dis- trict attorney that Ned Sparks and his managing editor wish to remove from office. The -D.A.'s wife, Evelyn Brent, has a lurid past and Sparks discovers among other things that she was once a gangster's sweetheart, so he decides to strike at the district attorney by revealing her in his paper. The gangster, it seems, has also reformed .and jerks plenty of tears with his Robin Hood antics'' such as giving a prostitute $100 and sending her back to her mother. The usual murder finally transpires, the D.A.'s wife is accused, but the gangster confesses to shield her name, and,-by the time the case comes up for trial the D.A.'s sister has confessed, but is freed. Clever: Ned "By-Line" Sparks scores a scoop by having a lip reader observe the deliberating jury through a telescope and announces the acquittal of the D.A.'s sister in an extra before the courtroom crowd hears the verdict. Funny: The managing editor who throws ink bottles through his glass door every 10 minutes. A Whole Lot For Your Money MODERN. 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GROEHN To the Editor: Relative to the parenthetical "unanimously passed" following one of the-resolutions recorded in The Daily from the Anti-War -Confexrence Sat- urday afternoon may we point out that this is in- correct. To know that any vote was. unanimous a reporter or official would have to know the exact number of the voting delegates and possess an ab- solute check upon them. VIan Ends AdCareer. , MICHIGAN UNION 10--3 AN who was grad-' e Law School but rnalism died Satur- onally known as an llis J. Abbot, was in d of the Christian uished career in the hough he was no longer engaged in the law, Abbot was planning to return to Ann Arbor ine for the 50th anniversary reunion of his Class of '84. Had he come he should have1 able to participate in the dedication cere- es of the University's completed Law Quad- le, embodying perhaps the finest law school (ties anywhere - the pride of all, Michigan ii. fore going to the Monitor, Mr. Abbot was man- g editor of the Chicago Times in the '90s, editorial writer of the New York American, served on the Chicago American, the New York and Collier's..On the Monitor, generally con- ed by newspaper men as embodying a' jour- tic ideal, he was for the five years until 1927 r, and since that time a member of the edi- 1 board appointed to supplant a single editor. ng his writings are his reminiscences pub- d under the title "Watching The World Go and other books dealing chiefly with his- al subjects. He was devoted to international e and understanding and a student of the e of the newspaper in the field of interna-' il relations. , . one of the finest of Michigan men and one ae most successful in the field of journalism, .s J. Abbot deserves a final word of sincere In regard to the revised Oxford pledge, the vote was 85 to 5 in favor, according to a careful count, but we cannot be certain that this is absolutely. right as in the above case. We do not go on record as endorsing the res- olutions of the commission on Mounting Arma- ments and War Prevention in which we tried to take- a part. We made it very clear to the com- bined high school and college delegates of this Commission Saturday morning that we do not endorse it as a program of. purposeful .action, or as expressive of the purpose of the Conference as we see it. We do support the Oxford pledge. We choose im- prisonment or persecution in the event of another war in which, according to the present ineffectual and disunited efforts, the first of the youth will be killed by materials made right in their own, countries, countenanced by their own nations; and, as in the last war, if men do not hang from barbed wire fences made in unlicensed, unrestrict- ed, and uncontrolled war materials factories of their own countries, giving up their young lives to die screaming and begging for their own soldiers to shoot them to relieve them of their agony (while armament criminals gloat in profits and million- aires are made by rolling the dead out of their' clothing), they will die in a way just as futile and agonizing. In our Commission we hoped for a program of action which would be consistent in co-operating with headquarters, the Congress -of the United States. To fight for World Peace we believe is to petition individually and unitedly for the entrance of the United States into the World Court and the League of Nations at the earliest Jpossible moment as was pointed out by President Nash. Also, to support the Nye resolution by direct pe- tition to our senators in Washington; to demand as the next and immediate logical step, the licens- ing, restriction, and control of armaments; to de- mand that our country lead the world in this firm and unshakable legislation. The untold amounts of munitions already sent to Japan and other warring nations must someday, somehow, be ac- counted for, to our great dishonor, we believe. Is -it possible that the "little foxes will be allowed to spoil the vine" ad infinitum? Collegiate Observer By BUD BERNARD Things that a freshman should know 'before. taking examinations are listed in a Bucknellian column including the following: "There is only one way to get a professor out of the room. Tell him he's overpaid. He'll probably go through the - roof." The members of A.E. Phi at the University of Illinois seem to be very religious. Every time a male walks through the front door they murmur, "Ah, men." Atthe University of Minnesota an empty tomato can mounted on a tripod is awarded annually to a member of the business school who has rendered outstanding service to the school during the:year. Sort of giving the business school boys experience in getting "canned." A student at the University of Maryland nicknamed his girl "appendix" because it costs so much to take her out. The University of Chicago permits students in the humanities curriculum to bring with them to final examinations any texts, notebooks, or refer- ence material they choose.? The theory seems to be that unless the student knows something of the course he cannot "crib" enough in the allotted time td raise his grade much. "It is a slightly complicated matter. A mor- tar board carried by a builder often has cement on top, but the one here at school often has concrete under the top.." The University of Paris offers a: course in the appreciation of "rare wines and - liquors." We wonder if there is any chance of taking the course in absentia? hatred among nations by peaceful action on this crucial point. To study causes of war so that we may use every means in our power to combat the 'psychological campaigns for war preparations now being carried on through the press, on the screen, and over the radio. To petition for legislation stopping the manufac- ture and shipment of materials for the destruction of human life to any country. To urge adoption i, _ , F1 .T TICKETS $4.00... LIMIT 300 ... SENIORS ONLY NO RESERVATIONS i ir~ J 4 J 1934 Ensian Distribution contin- ues at the Student Publications Bui-iiug at420 MaynardStreet. icago Recovers one Disastrous Fire... All payments must be made be- fore copies may be received. A few copies are still available at -- 4 C HICAGO'S $8,000,000 FIRE has be- come little more than a dramatic ncident in the history of a great city. Politically :orrupt and gang-ridden though it is, America's