TH E MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEM E MICHIGAN DAILY ... A II Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for rpublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, -4.00; by mail, $4.0. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPRS8ENTEO FOR NATIONAL AVERTISIUNG BY NationalAdvertisingService, Inc. College Publishers Rejresentative 420 MAISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y CHICAG- ROSTON . LOS ANGELES-SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR ............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ............TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR....... .....IRVING SILVERMAN William Spaller Robert Weeks Irvin Lisagor Helen Douglas NIGHT EDITORS:Harold Garn, Joseph Gies, Earl R. Gilman, Horace Gilmore, S. R. Kleiman, Edward Mag- dol, Albert May o, Robert Mitchell, Robert Perlman and Roy Sizemore. SPORTS DEPARTMENT: Irvin Lisagor, chairman; Betsy Anderson, Art Baldauf, Bud Benjamin, Stewart Fitch, Roy eath and Ben Moorsteini. WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT: Helen Douglas, chairman, Betty Bonisteel, Ellen Cuthvert, Rut Frank. Jane B. Hoden, Mary Alice Mackenzie, Phyllis Helen Miner, Barbara Paterson, Jenny Petersen, Harriet Pomeroy, Marian Smith, Dorothea Staebler and Virginia Voor- hees. Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER.............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER..................DON WLISHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES Departmental Managers Ed Macal, Accounts Manager; Leonard P. Siegelman, Local Advertising Manager; Philip Buchen, Contracts Manager; William Newnan, Service Manager; Mar- shall Sampson. Publications and Classified Advertis- ing Manager; Richard H. Knowe, National Advertising and Circulation Manager. Welcome To '41. . . I N BEHALF of the University, its faculty and students, we wish to extend to you who are entering today for the first time a friendly welcome. You will be surround- ed by strange faces. and strange buildings but we believe that they will prove friendly. Some of you are'looking forward to spending four years in an atmosphere where time and responsibilities mean nothing. Others expect exhilarating discussions of intellectual problens far into the night. Those who are a little bit farther along than you have found that the motion picture descriptions are as far amiss as those which portray the university as a totally intellectual institution. Hard work has made many realize that life at Michigan is not all play while others have been keenly disappointed by the fact that the majority of students find Friday night dates and the outcome of the daily baseball games far more vital than the fact that quite a few people were killed in Chicago on Memorial Day. But this is not the whole story. One gets a wonderful spirit of defiance and self-assertion in marching down State Street in a shouting, pot-wearing mob. One can find quiet and op- portunity for thought in those walks around Ann Arbor hills on warm spring nights or feel thrilled a.t crossing the campus early some brisk Winter morning when the sun shines through the snow covered trees. Some, who aren't very careful, even get educated to a remarkable de- gree. You will be forced to make many decisions in this, your first year. You will have to make up your mind whether to join a fraternity or not, and if so, which one. You must decide whether to go out for sports or other extra-curricular ac- tivities. If you do participate in activities you must reach a decision as to the proper balance of effort to be given your chosen activities and your studies. These are but few of the problems that will confront you as the year forges ahead. You will meet various types of people. There are those who wish to amount to something socially. There are those who do nothing but study and believe that two engagements per year with a member of the opposite sex are suf- ficient. There, are those who glory in the fact that they never go to class and never worry about anything. It may sound hackneyed, but in the long run there is nothing more that we can tell you except that the outcome depends solely upon you. Surface Reform .. . DESPITE the announcement last week that Georgia's chain gang system may be abolished, an Associated Press survey of prison systems in various states follow- ing upon its heels indicates that humanitarians have little cause yet to rejoice. Some states still allow whipping with a strap or bat or beating with fists. Others punish un- ruly prisoners by restricting their diet to bread shackles from which it takes its name may go. It is reported that a proposal by county wardens to return whipping-abolished in 1923-will be dropped. (This sounds good until we learn that the lash would have been returned if it had not been ruled illegal by the Attorney General). In some states, however, forward-looking prison administrations have adopted psycholog- ical methods in preference to physical punish.- ment. One Oklahoma prison attires recalcitrant men of crime in Mother Hubbards 4nd bloomers to tame them by the jeers of their fellows; in Louisiana bad actors wear red hats; in Texas they stand atop a barrel-maximum four hours; in Indiana they must stand and face a blank wall. Colorado puts its trouble-makers in broad-striped uniforms or shaves the hair from half the head. Prison reforms have been slow and somewhat unsuccessful in the past mainly because of the attitude taken toward the function of the peni- tentiary. And until this attitude is changed no amount of pressure from a startled citizenry and no amount of investigation and reform can pro- duce a satisfactory solution. The attitude that must be eliminated is that which interprets the prison's function in the light of the Biblical "An eye for an eye." Punish- ment for the crime committed should be the least consideration in treating a criminal. This does not mean that Society should "turn the other cheek." Far from it. It means merely that society must face the problem squarely as one of prevention instead of locking the empty barn door. . We have approached this sane outlook in the treatment of the insane-criminal or otherwis Yet although we have long stopped burning the insane as witches we still carry on practices not far removed from the medieval in the treat- ment of criminals. Sociologists and criminologists of renown have frequently demonstrated that criminal traits are far from hereditary. Environments of poverty, vice and sensational tabloids spawn the crooked mentality. We need no more conclusive evidence of this than the story of the New York slums portrayed in "Dead End." Until the pus which contaminates youth is cleaned out of an infected economic condition, prison reform will remain a hollow promise. TH.EATRE By JAMES DOLL Theatre On The Campus FROM BOTH SIDES of the footlights, Ann Ar- bor is one of the most active places in the country for theatre activity. Certainly for a town of its size-and taken all together, there are few in the country where it is possible to do and see better work. Plays are produced here during the regular year by Play Production, a unit of the Depart- ment of Speech. Its director is Valentine B. Windt. The plays are presented at irregular but frequent intervals. Current plays from the Broadway theatre, plays never produced before, and classics make up the list. At least once each year a musical is presented with the co- operation of the School of Music and the de- partment of physical education. An example of each of these from last season: Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, Martin Flavin's The Good Old Summertime (it's New York title was Around the Corner), Shakespeare's Henry VIIL, and Gil- bert and Sullivan's Yeomen of the Guard. During the Summer Session under the name of the *ichigan Repertory Players, the Department produces a season of eight or nine plays. Each spring in the same theatre there is the Dramatic Season, a group of five or six plays with professional actors, under the supervision of a Civic Committee. Other activities-mostly in the Mendelssohn -are outstanding foreign movies brought here under the auspices of the Art Cinema League, and plays by local organizations such as the Hampstead Players, the Ann Arbor Civic Play- ers, and Nell Gwynn's Company. In March or April the Junior women do a musical, the Junior Girls Play. Detroit is near enough so that it is quite easy to see the many touring shows which come to the Cass and Wilson Theatres. Detroit also has now an active WPA Federal Theatre which is planning an interesting season. '* * * MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT ACTORS JF YOU ARE interested in doing practical work in the theatre, there are many chances for actors and technical workers especially with Play Production, the Michigan Repertory Play- ers. Their work is organized in courses in the Speech Department carrying regular University credit. None of this work is open to freshmen. In fact, Speech 31 and 41 or 43 are prerequisites to the work, so usually students do not take theatre courses before the junior year unless they had work of university caliber elsewhere. However, they 'may, as second semester fresh- men, work with the Children's Theatre, an or- ganization under the joint supervision of Play -Production and the Michigan League. Sarah Pierce is th edirector. PLAYWRIGHTS HAVE OPPORTUNITIES, TOO DUE PARTLY to the Hopwood Awards (de- scribed on page 26 of this issue) there has been a decided impetus to write plays the last few years. This work is directed by Prof. Kenneth Rowe of the English department and courses are usually open only to seniors or graduate stu- dents. Many of these student written plays have been produced and more will be in the near future. with DISRAELI HELLO PEOPLE! Memory Course For Freshmen Remember, Frosh, There's no time to sorrow, Freshmen are but sophomores tomorrow. From what you were last week The glory you can't borrow. Remember, Frosh, And do not fret, You'll be a man (or woman) yet. Should a callous soph sneer at you, You lift your head and just cry "FOO"! l'envoi Remember, Frosh- -On this I'd bet- That any soph with his polished air, Svelte, and lush with savoir faire, Suave and hearty, hail well met, Beneath it all, is part frosh yet. MAYBE THE RIGHT IDEA, it being Orienta- tion Week and all that, is to be very serious in this our first column of the glorious school year. But why, O why, must such be so. The University is too busy itself with trying to keep its perennial smirk subdued until the freshmen have been sufficiently impressed. And who of you hasn't gone through that trying period of early freshmanhood-that gloom, that high ser- iousness, that disillusion, that depth reached only by a youngster who has come to college and is disappointed in the first few days for either of two reasons. Because (1) he came here to study the serious things in life and found they didn't exist, that all was gayety and laughter. And because (2) he came here for gayety and laughter, and found they didn't exist, that every- body in college worried about the serious things of life. We feel it is up to us to strike a happy medium and if it isn't medium, at least happy. Pshaw! That's us, all right, little bright-winged butterfly. What if you did flunk Aptitude test 103! Pshaw! Don't gloom because you couldn't make head or tail of the English placement test-even though you are nursing in your bosom the throbbings of literary genius like ours! What if after being valedictorian of your high school for two years in a row, the university decides you have an IQ of sixty and a mental age of seven? Pshaw! Pshaw! You're in good company. Show me a BMOC who is comfortable at temperatures higher than a good sturdy Stephen-Binet fifty or sixty! And bring to me all coeds eager for intellectual acro- batics! With the laughter of a girl of twenty and the knowledge of when to laugh of a woman of forty. (O-a-h, Mr. Mencken, bring them to me). And don't let anyone kid you. We may be dumb, but we're not quite as dumb as we are going to find out we are. * * * * Pick it up, lay it down, and swing it! TODAY we have a short story but we haven't thought of a name for it. Or rather, we haven't thought of a real name for it. We did get as far as an alternate name though. But if we can't get a real title the alternate title doesn't make sense because they go right to- gether. If you hear of something good, let us know. THE STORY It was bright and sunny in Fitchburg that day. The autumn roses were abloom and the scent from them was wafted over the green meadow. The people in the bleachers could just detect it through the smell of dried tobacco juice and stale peanuts. The right fielder was leaning against the sun field fence and the wind was billowing past him, through his loose and shaggy uniform. After a while you knew he hadn't washed since the last time they had played the Yankees, so you see the roses had two strikes on them from the beginning. But no one cared in Fitchburg because the home team was at bat. A hulking behemoth of a man, a whacking, smacking, rooting, tooting chappie he was too, walked up to the umpire with his willow in his hand. Softly he whispered to the umpire in tones that soothed the ear. The umpire didn't hear him. The big man glared, sputtered. He exploded. "Whyn't you wash yer ears?" he shouted in cultured tones. Moving closer he boomed into the umpire's ear. "I'm batting for Muzzikoff!" The rush of air was as after a vast upheaval of the earth by generous deposits of natural gas. A-a-h, terrible sound. The referee came up fighting, bobbing, weav- ing. But the Fitchburg batter strode to the plate and heroically struck out. It happenes again and again, the pinch hitter each time he came to bat, blasting the umpire to the ground. The umpire was helpless. The fans thought it was funny. Maybe it was. Finally, in the ninth inning with Fitchburg behind one run and a man on third, the pinch hitter came to bat and hit a double, having first blown the umpire off his feet again and hit him with a spurt of tobacco juice while he was in the air. Another pinch batter strode to the plate. He was a little man with a squeak in his voice. "What's your name?" thundered the irate um- pir~e. The little man looked up at him, up and down, across, measuring him off. His lips rounded. "Boo . . ." he said. The umpire leaped upon him. It was the end. Later, when the umpire regained his senses at the hospital he asked to be wheeled into the little man's room, for he felt sad that he should have struck the fellow, especially since the little fellow was a friend of the guy who batted for Muzzikoff. At his bedside he apologized and told him that he just couldn't help it. h k. , UNDER THE CLOCK W f fl etreel The Times of last Wednesday re- DAILY OFFICIAl corded the sale at the postoffice auc- Publication in the Bulletin is constructi tion of a horse collar and three University. Copy received at the office of1 A. H. until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. iwhiffletrees for $3. This little item elated us, leading us to think we had settled forever the great whiffletree TUESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1937 cour controversy and definitely put Mr. VOL. XLVIII. No. 1 the Webster, who spells the word 'whip- To Users of the Daily Official Bul- the pletree," in his place. But we reck- letin: tion oned without Uncle Sam. With the The attention of users of The Daily Prin government horning in on all sorts Official Bulletin is respectfully called 171 of private enterprise nowadays, we to the following: the should not have been surprised to: (1) Notice submitted for publica- (Bu find it poking its nose into this par- tion must be Typewritten and must Har ticular controversy, and in a particu- be signed. ture larly nasty way. It is now revealed (2) Ordinarily notices are pub- whi that the current year-book of the lished but once. Repetition is at the Sch Department of Agriculture brazenly Editor's discretion. and supports "whippletree," despite the (3) Notices must be handed to the atl Oxford Dictionary, but weakl,7 evades Assistant to the President, as Editor per its legal . responsibility by mnerely of the Daily Official Bullefin, Room quoting a passage from Agnes Chase's 1021 A.H., before 3:30 p.m., (11:00, R "First Book of Grasses" pleading for Saturdays). ing the use of technical terms in farm- in t ing. "Spikelet, glume and lemma," Attention' University Employes: in t says Miss Chase, "are words no more Whenever possible charge all person- tion difficult to learn than are hames,, al long-distance telephone calls and Rea crupper or whippletree, carburetor, telegrams placed through the Univer- 191 clutch or magneto." sity telephone system, to your resi- the All right, Miss Chase-but drop in dent phone. Herbert T. Watkins Pro on any farmer and ask him how his cre whippletrees are doing. Insurance Courses: The following L 'LJBULETIN Ave notice to all members of the the Summer Session, Room. 1213 rses, which are not included in announcement, will be offered in School of Business Administra- this year: in the first semester, nciples of Insurance (Bus. Ad. ). 3 hours credit, T Th S at 10; in second semester, Life Insurance as. Ad. 172), 3 hours credit. Mr. mpton H. Irwin, Non-resident Iec- er, will be in charge fo the courses, ch are open to students in the ool of Business Administration to those in other units who have least fourth year standing and mission of the instructor. eal Estate Courses: The follow- courses, which are not included the announcement, will be offered he School of Business Administra- this year: in the first semester, al Estate Fundamentals (Bus. Ad. ) 3 hours credit, T Th S at 8; in second semester, Real Estate blems (Bus. Ad. 192), 3 hours dit. Asst. Prof. Thatcliff will be in (Continued on Page 5) w- 0 FIRST YEAR MEN OR THIRTY-TWO YEARS The Ann Arbor Press has wit- nessed the opening of the University to hundreds of first year students whom we were to serve and work with during their college years. But experience has taught us that these college years are not the most important of the business connections we have with these new men. Every day -- every week of the year we meet the heads of business firms - both in Michi- gan and adjoining states, who once were freshmen at Ann Arbor, and who because of this memory are interested in us and friendly to us. Therefore we are eager to greet the new freshmen, to serve them with our industry and our art. They are the potential busincss leaders of tomorrow, with whom and for whom the Ann Arbor Press will be working. THE ANN ARBOR PRESS A. J.'WILTSE, Manager It is the vogue to get the news Stop, look and listen By pictures Sharp and Clear Before you cross the hall. 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