I FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1936 THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY of these plans lies in the future, yet even an observation of the maladjustments which the student has carried over into the University is a strong substantiation of Dr. Tildsley's criticism, and a good argument for his proposals (with the exception of segregation of the sexes, which is an abnormal condition). Although it is not emphasized by Dr. Tildsley, we believe the broader cultural outlook on the part of the teacher is the most important educa- tional need today, and is a necessary prerequisite for the successful working out of his and other pro- gressive plans. Publisned every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. 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Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserving the right to condense all letters of over 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. AAA Decision To the Editor: When Dean Bates disavowed the interpretation of the AAA decision imputed to him in the Daily, I resisted my first inclination to speak even more harshly of the alleged report of my views. Criti- cising the Daily is a pastime I prefer not to en- courage. But since a communication in Satur- day's issue commended the Bates interview - ignoring the disavowal - and spoke disparagingly of the expressions of economists, comment is necessary. That which purported to be an interview with me was not one. I flatly declined to make a statement for publication; but, particularly since the reporter was a student of mine, I was glad to engage in conversation with him on the subject - a conversation which consisted of a miscellany of questions and actual comments that were not concerned with the fundamentals of the issue. My surprise was great to see next day a front-page story in the Daily based on these remarks. The headline, moreover, was quite misleading: Daily reporters should learn that serious pronounce- ments cannot be obtained on short notice on highly complicated matters. -- Shorey Peterson NIGHT EDITOR: RALPH W. HURD The Threat Of Pressure Groups.0. . THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY that passed the cash payment Bonus Bill in the House Friday, was no surprise to political observers. For some time it has been conceded that veteran pressure groups had both the House and the Senate "sewed up." - The increasing frequency of pressure legislation in the past few years -demanded by such groups as Father Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice, the late Huey Long's Share the Wealth movement, and the Townsend Plan organization -is a threatening development in our Democracy. The Bonus vote is a very good indication of the important role that these pressure groups will play in the forthcoming election. It may be doubtful if the payment of the Bonus will be much more harmful or make inflation any more probable than the other abnormal ex- penditures of the present Administration, but as a piece of pressure legislation it is more dis- tasteful than the unconstitutional NRA and AAA, at least those measures purported to be an ex- pression of free opinion, while the Bonus bill is avowedly a powerful minority wish. The bill will probably be amended in the Sen- ate, but it will pass. President Roosevelt will be perfectly justified in vetoing it, although with the certainty that it will be passed over that veto. With an election coming up it is a good chance for the President to show he is an executive as well as a politician, although his veto will be little more than a gesture, he can at least demonstrate that he does not share Congress' pre-election fear of a powerful pressure group. Rep. Carl E. Mapes, (Rep., Mich.), of Grand Rapids, a strong American Legion city, is to be congratulated for his negative vote on the bill. Shortcomings Of High Schools .. . T HE INDICTMENT of New York City's system of secondary educa- tion made by Dr. John L. Tildsley, assistant super- intendent of schools, in the annual Inglis lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is no more true of New York than it is of Michigan and the whole country. Two characteristics of our present-day high schools especially alarm Dr. Tildsley. First, he points out the pressing need for recog- nizing sharp differences in the intellectual capa- cities and interests of students, and providing special education for the brilliant student. ". ..when children reach the age of fourteen," he declares, "we give them dishonest, lying creden- tials and send them to schools labeled high schools to take work for which they are unfitted and for which they may never be, never can be, and never should be fitted. "For the past 25 years we have been devoting our best energies in the public high schools in salvaging the boys and girls at the lower end of the curve of capacity. Our efforts have been largely fruitless. It is time for us all to discover and put in the way of being educated the best brains of the na- tipn. Second, Dr. Tildsley sees a very real danger of increasingly inferior teachers. For this he blames college teachers of education who lay an "undue stress on the professional prep- a ation of teachers, narrowly conceived, and their overemphasis in such preparation on methods of +.A~f.t tA ' m m. lic c Frsronn v++.1 n. ,.. Movie Reviews To the Editor: The screen reviews in the Michigan Daily are, I believe, poor. I do not wish to take issue with the criticism which is offered, but rather to ask that there be more of it. A synopsis of a cinema plot such as the ones that frequently appear in The Daily, are, to my notion, not only extremely tire- some reading but utterly unnecessary, too. A few remarks pertinent to the general action of the picture, are, I think, as helpful as the elab- orate and often occult screen reviews that The Daily is in the habit of printing. Granted that a worthwhile review of a movie cannot be dashed off in a few minutes, it is nevetheless far better to find something with a little "guts" in it rather than the jejune rehearsals of incident that so often constitute a movie review in The Daily. - Jerry Peck New Magazine In The Library To the Editor: "Does Civilization Still Need Religion" by Prof. Ernest Hocking of Harvard is the "lead" article in "Christendom," a new quarterly journal which proposes to set forth the best in present day Christianity. One paragraph reads: "A con- science which in some way represent the nature of things makes all the difference and to have such men as the components of an eternal order, makes all the difference in the life of a civilization." "Toward Emancipation of the Church" by H. Richard Niebuhr of Yale, and "Ten Years of Church Union" by Claris Edwin Silcox of the Institute of Social and Religious Research, treat the institution for the United States and for Canada. Perhaps this first issue rises to its height in the articles by William Temple, Archbishop of York, upon "Restoration of Christendom" and by Gregory Vlastos of Queens College, Ontario, upon "What is Love." But "Natural and Revealed Re- ligion" by Paul Tillick, a German now teaching in New York, will most appeal to and satisfy the American undergraduate. Better still, Editor Morrison has in this simple issue thirty-five pages of able book reviews. Edward W. Blakeman As Others SeeIt__ Comrades, Arise! (From the Cornell Daily Sun)t SIMULTANEOUS with the first meeting of Corneil's newly-organized chapter of the American Student Union there comes an an- nouncement from official sources confirming opinions long held by undergraduate liberal leaders: Cornell University is going to the dogs! It is the Junior Week committee that is respon- sible for bringing this shocking situation into the open. Boldly it has declared its intention of sending Cornell to the dogs in time for the Ice Carnival. Thinly veiling its Fascistic purpose under the guise of entertainment, it has declared that a dogsled race fill be held on the ice of Beebe Lake Thursday of Junior Week Do you not realize that this is capitalistic symbolism? Do you not realize that the dogs represent the poor, downtrodden worker, over whose back the lash of the power-crazed capi- talist, foaming at the mouth as he feeds on Hearst [The Conning Tower AFTER NOON (To S.F.E.) And shall we be asleep when blaze Your red streaks in the waiting sky? Oh, no. Our banner of old days, Courageous, still will float on high. Yours is not the will to fight, Nor yours recognizance of Need, Nor yours monopoly of Right, Nor yours the heart for bloody deed. Not by your foolish threat, nor still More foolish fumbling hand on sword Shall you achieve your wanton will. For Justice, by the spoken word And patient deed, though slowly, builds Securely deep, securely wide. The light of love her turret guilds And Hate departs - unsatisfied. A.S.H. It seems to us thaty.if the President were as astute a politician as what his Republican name- sake called Malefactors of Great Wealth credit him with being, he'd have done better on his broadcast message. At Eastern Standard Time it came at 9 o'clock and lasted until nearly 10. For some of us Connecticut farmers it was past bedtime; we heard it in our night garb, ready for beddy at the drop of his voice. For some of the New York diners it came at the dinner hour. As the course of the Republic westward took its way, the time became earlier, and it must have coincided with many a supper hour on Iowa, Montana, and California farms. No; the President is a good politician, but no Miracle Man. "Fond Memory Brings The Light" Sir: If Mary Boland was fifteen when she played in "Percy and Harold," how old was she when she played in "Strongheart" opposite Robert Edeson, and do you think she would remember me? I was the fighting halfback, when the company played in Buffalo, who lay on the floor of the Columbia football team's locker room (upstage, left) and panted (signifying exhaustion) all during the big second act scene, the scene between the halves, where the coach bawls the hell out of the team, I was sixteen, and so were most of the rest of the team, but we were all tall for our age. We were all recruited from the senior class at Lafayette High School (that's the high school whose crew tied Kent School on Lake Quinsigamond last June). One of the boys had a drag with the stage manager at the old Star Theater, and got us suping assignments pretty regularly - three eve- nings and matinee at 50 cents a performance less a 25-cent tip to the stage manager the last night, Dr. Peter Cornell, Katherine's dad, managed the Star Theater, but I didn't know him. Of all the actresses I ever played with, Mary Boland was the most beautiful, and the one with whom I fell most deeply in love. She was young, slender, blonde and exquisite. Although employed only for one scene, I hung around back stage all three acts in my greasy Columbia jersey, staring reverentially at Miss Boland's loveliness. The villain of the, piece, during a scene in a college room, came off stage carrying a marshmallow on a fork. My heroine was always sitting in the wing, at this point, just outside the door where he came off. Invariably, she would open her beautiful mouth and he would pop the marshmallow into it. How I hated that man H.H. What Miss Mary Boland played in at the age of fifteen with Ward and Vokes was either "A Run on the Bank" or "A Pair of Pinks." They were always Percy and Harold. So many read- ers remember this that credit is hereby scattered among them. ANTHEM For some the noisy rural scene with unrestricted sound Where roosters wake the echoes, and the automo- bile honks; Give me the muted sins of those quasi-quins; Manhattan, Queens and Richmond, fair Brooklyn and the Bronx. W.W.R. Lay of the Last Hand-Organ Athwart new January joy There throbs at least one somber note That seems predestined to alloy The laughter in the New Year's throat A drab spot mars the festive coat, A tear dissolves the meted fun; The organ-grinder is the goat - The hurdy-gurdy's day is done. Transcending any tinkling toy A lucky child might lightly tote, This was a marvel to employ Rare characters for anecdote; This was an issue for the vote! Of recent shame there has been none So flagrant as the stated quote: "The hurdy-gurdy's day is done." Who were the bards we would destroy? Old men, who played old tunes by rote, And yet whose music did not cloy Like briny ballads on a boat. Our Mayor wronged them when he smote Them from a place beneath the sun. His soul's salvation is remote: The hurdy-gurdy's day is done. L'ENVOI And though I hardly dare annoy His Honor, may I ask him one: How tell my little girl and boy The hurdy-gurdy's day is done? BROCK MILTON THE SCREEN I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication In the Bulletin is onsnrii ivc notnc(e to alli ,bers of the Univers:ty. Copy received atrthe offce of the Assistant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. AT THE MAJESTIC "MAGNIFICIENT OBSESSION" A Universal picture starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor, with Charles Butterworth, Betty Furness. Sara Ha- den, Ralph Morgan, Henry Armetta, etc. Lloyd Douglas' great novel of the same name is the basis of this un- usual and delicate picture which has everything for those who are interest- ed enough to look for it. True, it varies somewhat from the original story, but it was a wise move for thus the picture is more compact and less involved. In spite of this, it was apparent from the audience reactionj that those who have already read the book find the picture easier to under- stand and the altruistic background clearer. The suspense and mystery which one experiences while seeking the answer to the great obsession add greatly to the strength of the pic- ture. Irene Dunne, as Helen Hudson, gives a sterling performance that should go down in the records of the year, and Robert Taylor as Dr. Bob- by Merrick, although a comparative newcomer to the screen, more than lives up to the great things expected of him. Betty Furness, as Joyce Hud- son, is extremely competent and ap- pealing and Charles Butterworth as Tommy provides comic interludes. We also liked Ralph Morgan as Ran- dolph, the man who imbues Bobby with the obsession. Dr. Hudson, the originator of the obsession, is drowned at the start of" the picture because the only available pulmotor is being used to save the life of Bobby, a young wastrel whose drinking caused his near drowning. Dr. Hudson has been revered by all who have known him, and conse- quently Bobby is hated as the indirect cause of his death. He learns of this at Dr. Hudson's hospital, where he hears everyone bemoaning the fact that a great man had been sacrificed to save the life of good-for-nothing Bobby Merrick. Helen and Joyce Hudson both share in this loathing. for him. Through a series of coincidences Bobby meets Helen, Dr. Hudson's widow, falls in love with her; brings additional tragedy into her life; and finally becomes her saviour. Bobby comes in contacthwiththe magnific-' ient obsession through Rudolph, a man that Dr. Hudson had helped, adopts it. and determines to finish the dead doctor's unfinished work. To this end he also becomes a doctor, and a great one, and follows Helen over the world in hope of being able to atone for what he has done to her. The story works out to a finale which is sure to please everyone.f Some of the problem children in the' audience find parts of the picture' too difficult for their immature minds to grasp and so resort to noisi- ness, without which the picture would1 have been even more enjoyable. How-t ever, it is one of the attractions that1 one cannot miss. You'll be sorry if you do. l~ SUNDAY, JAN. 12, 1936 VOL XLVI No. 74 Notices Sophomores, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Sophomores may have their elec- tions approved in Room 9, University Hall, until January 15, at the follow- ing hours: Monday, 1:30-2:30. Tuesday, 1:30-3:30. Wednesday, 9:00-11:00. Thursday, 1:30-3:30. Friday, 1:30-2:30. Beginning Jan. 15 Sophomores must have their elections approved, in Room 103 Romance Language Building, in accordance with the following alphabetical divisions: Hours 10-12; 2-4 daily. HIJ, Wednesday, Jan. 15. KL, Thursday, Jan. 16. M, Friday, Jan. 17. NOP, Monday, Jan. 20. QR, Tuesday, Jan. 21. S, Wednesday, Jan. 22. TUV, Thursday, Jan. 23. WXYZ, Friday, Jan. 24. AB, Monday, Jan. 27. C,Tuesday, Jan. 28. DE, Wednesday, Jan. 29. FG, Thursday, Jan. 30. J. H. Hodges R. C. Hussey, SophomoreAcademic Counselors. Conflicts in Final Examinations - College of Engineering -Instructions for reporting conflicts between final examinations are posted on the bulle- tin board adjacent to my office, Room 3223 East Eng. Bldg. All conflicts must be reported to me before Jan- uary 29. J. C. Brier Graduate Women interested in studying economics, international re- lations or journalism: A one thou- sand dollar scholarship is open through the Federation of American Women's Clubs in Europe to some American woman for study in Eu- rope in 1936-37. Applicant must be an American citizen, a graduate of an accredited institution, and must have a thorough knowledge of French and a working knowledge of one or more other European lan- guages.FApplication must be sent in before February 1. Further details may be obtained in the office of the Graduate School. C. S. Yoakum Ruddigore - Box office will be open Monday morning, January 13, at 10:00, in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Phone 6300. Performances of this Gilbert and Sullivan oper- etta will be given Wednesday through Saturday evenings at 8:30, and a Saturday matinee at 2:30. Choral Union Members - Pass tickets for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Kolisc Quartet, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra con- certs, will be given out to such mem- bers of the Choral Union as have clear records, on Tuesday, January 14, from 9 to 12 and 1 to 4 o'clock. After 4 o'clock no tickets will be given out. Members who have not already done so, please return their Messiah copies and receive copies of Verdi's "Requiem." Those whose records are not clear will please return Mes- siah copies and receive back their book deposits. Unless this is done promptly, no deposits will be re- funded. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational information has received announcement of Detroit Civil Service Examinations for Elec- trical Engineering Aid (Department of Street Railways), salary $1800, and Senior Electrical Engineering Aid, salary $2160. For further information concerning these examinations call at 201 Mason Hall, office hours, 9:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 4:00. Academic Notices Geology 11: The last bluebook for the semester will be given Friday, Jan. 17, 9:00 a.m. Please go to the same rooms as before. Notice to Students Planning to do Directed Teaching: No assignments in directed teaching for the second semester will be made until Thurs- day afternoon, Jan. 30. A schedule of hours for conferences with Pro- fessor Schorling will be given at a later date in the D.O.B. Lectures Public Lecture: "Identity of ar- tistic expression in Islamic and North European Arts" by Dr. Mehmet Aga European Arts" by Dr. Mehmet Agla- Oglu. Illustrated. Sponsored by the Research Seminary in Islamic Art. Friday, Jan. 17, 4:15, in Room D. Alumni Memorial Hall. Admission free. Public Lecture: ."Excavations at Dura-Europas" by P ofessor Clark Hopkins: Sponsored by the Re- search Seminary in Islamic Art. Mon- day, Jan. 13, 4:15 in Room D. Alumni Hall. Admission free. Concerts St. Louis Symphony Orchestra: Vladimir Golschmann, the disting- uished conductor, will present the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in its first Ann Arbor concert in the sixth Choral Union concert, Tuesday eve- ning, Jan. 14 at 8:15 o'clock, when the following program will be offered. The public is requested to come suf- ficiently early as to be seated on time. Overture to "Oberon" ...von Weber Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 y... . y....... . Beethoven Poco sostenuto: Vivace Allegretto Scherzo: Presto Allegro con brio Tone Poem, "Tod und Verklarung," (Death and Transfiguration) Op. 24 .......................Strauss Symphonic Fragments from the Bal- let "Daphnis and Chloe" (Second Suite No. 2) ...............Ravel a. Lever de Jour (Daybreak). b. Pantomime. c. Danse Generale. Events Of Today Stalker Hall 12 noon, Class for students under the leadership of Rev. L. LaVerne Finch. 6 p.m., Prof. Leroy Water- man will speak on "TherChallenge to Christianity." 7 p.m., Fellowship Hour and sup- per. First Methodist Church: At 10:45 a.m. Dr. Charles W. Brashares will preach on "Einstein and Eternity or the Fourth Dimension." First Presbyterian Church. Meeting in the Masonic Temple, 327 South Fourth. Ministers: Wil- liam P. Lemon and Norman W. Kun- kel. 9:45, Westminster Forum. The leader will be Mr. Kunkel who will introduce the subject "Religion and the Right to Petrsonal Success." Next Sunday Professor Bennett Weaver will begin a series of discussions on the theme, "Literature and the Abundant Life." 10:45, Worship Service with sermon by the minister on the subject, "The Divine 'Yes' ". 5:30, Westminster Guild Fellow- ship Hour with a cost supper. 6:30, "Three Thousand Youth in Convention - What About It?" will be the general theme when the dele- gates to the S.V.M. Convention at Indianapolis will report. All students are invited. Harris Hall - The regular student meetings at Harris Hall will be re- sumed this evening at 7:00. Mr. Donal Haines of the Department of Journalism will be the speaker. All students and their friends are cor- dially invited. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Services of worship today are: 8:00 a.m., Holy Communion; 9:30 a.m., Church School; 11.:00 a.m., Kinder- garten; 11:00 a.m., Morning Prayer and Sermon by The Reverend Henry Lewis. Church of Christ (Disciples) 10:45 a.m., Worship service and sermon by Rev. Fred Cowin. 12 noon, Students' Bible Class. The class will continue the study of the Life and Significance of Jesus. Leader, H. L. Pickerill. 5:30 p.m., Social hour. 15c supper served. 6:30 p.m., Discussion: 1936 Retro- spect -Prospect 1936. Come pre- pared to discuss the significance of the important events of the day. 7:30 p.m., Church service. Rev. Cowin will show pictures and give a lecture on the life oftWilliam Carey, often called the father of modern missions. Congregational Church 10:30 a.m., Service of worship and religious education. Mr. Heaps will give the second sermon in the series, "Portraits of Paul." Prof. Preston Slosson will lecture on "The Saint as Soldier - Garibaldi, Gordon, Lawrence." In the series, "European Men of Action." Student Fellowship at 6:00. Fol- lowing supper, Prof. Henry M. Ken- dall will speak on "The Italian- Ethiopian Situation." Zion Lutheran Church 9:00 a.m., Sunday School; 10:30 a.m., service with sermon on "Come and See." 5:30 p.m., Meeting of Student Club. 7:30 p.m., Holy Com- munion (German). Trinity Lutheran Church 9:15, Church School. 10:30, Chief worship service. Sermon, "Christ Answers Three Vital Questions." 5:30 Lutheran Student Club in Zion Luth- eran Parish Hall; 6:30, Discussion on "Why am I a Christian?" 7:30, Luther League. Lutheran Student Club meets at 5:30 p.m. in the parish hall of the Zion Lutheran church on Washing- ton Street. 19mnar will hp srvod not 8 Ten Years Ago From The Daily Files JAN. 12, 1926 L . Declaring that he was advocating no particular methods or propaganda of the control and training of child- hood, Dr. Clarence Cook Little, Presi- dent of the University, addressed the Women's City Club yesterday after- noon in Detroit on the necessity of a better understanding of childhood and youth, and the function of youth in civilization. Canadian timber resources are not inexhaustible and cannot be consid- ered a perpetual supply to the United States, according to Clyde Leavitt, fire inspector for the board of rail- way commissioners for Canada, who lectured yesterday afternoon in Natural Science auditorium on "The Forestry Situation in Canada." It will eventually be necessary to re- forestate denuded areas in the Do- minion, although the present prob- lem is the protection of forests from fire, he said. Thomas .Wilfred, the Danish- American artist, will present his sec- ond Ann Arbor recital with the Clav- ilux at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in Hill Auditorium. This performance will come with something of a new significance for Mr. Wilfred's inven- tion, since duringothe past year he has used the color organ both to provide a colored setting for a theatre production in New York City and to accompany the Philadelphia Symph- ony orchestra in its recent presnta- tion of Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Sheher- azade." Coach Matt Mann sent his swim- mers through another hard drill yes- terday afternoon at the Union Pool in an effort to iron out the faults which the swimmers displayed in the Indiana meetrandtin order to add speed and grace to his individual performers.