PAGE FOUR THI . MICHIGAN DAILY SA2'UnDA,7e, JAN 29, 1938 TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JAN, 29, 1838 -~ - I THE MICHIGAN DAILY Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Studer+ Publications. Pubiuhed 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 republication 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. En'red at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY NationalAdvertisingService, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CICAGO BOSTON - LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors VANAGING EDITOR ...............JOSEPH S. MATTES CDITOR AL DIRECTOR ..........TUURE TENANDER CIT~Y EDITOR................. WILLIAM C. SPALLER NEWS.EDITOR-....................ROBERT P WEEKS WOMEN'S EDITOR-..................HELEN DOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR -......................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER .............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT'MANAGER.................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER .... NORMAN B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER .......BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES NIGHT EDITOR: S. R. KLEIMAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Spare The Drugs And Save The Student T IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE that dpingrace horses is contrary to law. Yet, there seem to be some students on campus who have found it necessary to dope themseves in an attempt to pass examinations. These students lay off their studying until the last week before examinatons and then find that they have more work to cover than they possibly could in the time remaining. They then take various drugs, without the advice of a physician, in an effort to go through long stretches without- sleep. This is regrettable for two reasons. One: it con- sistently has been shown that it is practically impossible for an entire course to be assimilated in eght or ten hours and have that course mean anything to the student. Second: these people often come to regret the fact that they have foolishly meddled with their health when they begin to suffer from insomnia and nervous break- downs. Earl R. Gilman. UNDER 9) THE CLOCK with DISRAELI THE BOYS in the Back Room got themselves comfortable in their chairs and the cigar smoke, amnong other things, got thicker and thicker. "Boys," said Pinkie the Mink lined Muscle Man, "boys, we got a problem. Today's the day the Boys get together and resolve themselves in the Com- mittee for the Dissemination of Student Opin- ion." We gotta decide what the Associated Letter Writers of Hoi Polloi should use as the subject for their letters-to-the-Editor this week." "War!" shouted Winnie the Gin Sop. "Peace! screamed Bennie the Belch. "No! The lynching bill! The old Southern Gentleman said, his eyes flashing and the image of courtesy. "The educational system ... phooey !" said the Man with the Red BVD's. "Naw, cut out that stuff! What do you think a letter to the editor is, a pulpit for the propa- ganda of crackpots?" Pinkie the Mink Lined Muscle Man smiled to himself at his well turned phrase. He certainly had a way with him. "Yeah," said Johnny Greenbehindtheears. "Where do you get that stuff?" He nodded his head under the approving eye of Philbert Phoo and Pinkie. "You must forget sectionalism, intellectualism. dualism, rheumatism and neuralgia," Pinkie con- tinued. "Let this be an expression that repre- sents the most pertinent, most pressing, most captivating, most entrancing of all the sentiment of the entire campus. In a word-or two-what is it that fills the minds of that great body politic, that superb collection of young and eager intellectuals, the students of this great university." "Barrelhouse," said the Old Southern Gentle- man thumping his cane with utmost politeness and rising to make a: speech. "Sah, in the South it is ah custom and ah pride that we have the politest lynchings in the country but today ah am proud and ah am chahmed to relinquish mah devotion to the preservation of intolerance and barbarity in favah of barrelhouse, in favah of thah killlah-dillah ." "Hurrah!" shouted the Boys in the Back Room. "Hurrah!" And he sat down jingling his medals of the Confederacy politely in a gentle jam session and dramatically throwing his pocketsized noose into a corner. "Okay," said Pinkie at last when the roar of the crowd had subsided. "Then this week we are going to ask Johnny Greenbehindtheears be- cause he is someone everybody knows and admires because of his fascinating ability to do nothing at all with the utmost of energy, to direct that all letters-to-the-editor are confined to a discussion of J-Hops bands and the barrelhouse: Johnny, get the public behind it! It's up to you to produce!" "Yeah!" said Johnny and Philbert Phoo nodded! ifeen to Ale Heywood Broun Dorothy Parker has made, it seems to me, an important contribution to the ever current dis- cussion of humor, its uses and abuses. She did an an article on Spain for New Masses recently, and in her introduction she wrote: "The only group I have ever been affiliated with is that not particularly brave little band that hid its nakedness of heart and mind under the out-of- date garment of a sense of humor. I heard someone sayt and so I said it, too, that ridicule is the most effective Sweapon. I don't suppose I ever really believed it, but it was easy, and so I said it. Well, now I know. I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. A Piece Of Expert Testimony No single witness is sufficient to swing a verdict, but this should be acceted as expert testimony, since Dorothy Parker has long been hailed as one of the first wits of our day. She coined many mots. and others, by no means as good as her own. were attributed to her. Indeed, narrators often tried to win the favor of an au- dience in advance by using the introduction, "Have you heard Dottie Parker's latest?" She became a myth, and to some extent in the paragraph which I have quoted she does obeisance to the Dorothy Parker legend. Ridicule was hardly her only weapon. There was plenty of heartbreak in her so-called light verse. Still it probably is true that the prevailing rule in her group used to be, "When in doubt make a wisecrack." Doubts are always disturbing dinner guests, and it is easier to snub them than to resolve them. I admire people who can make epigrams ,and I love people who can make puns. These are not easy arts. A good punster is like a good sprinter. He covers a lot of ground in a few strides, though to be sure, he is running for his life. But something strange and sudden has hap-# pened to the boys and girls who were once people of infinite jest. It seems there has been a mass conversion on the road to Damascus, or maybe it was Madrid. Causes, and good ones at that, have caught up with those who used toj tell the funny stories. Most of them still remem- ber some kick they learned before they were saved, and so they can be earnest without being priggish. And where are the academicians, the men and women who looked down on the cafe litterateurs as frivolous? I'll tell you. They are either down in the deep dugouts or dancing around in the public square with cap and bells, and being aw- fully, awfully comic. Fresh Forces Come Upt Possibly there is a universal application in the story of that famous incident which happened on the road to Damascus. Quite probably it profited Paul that he had once been Saul, and 'way over on the other side of the tracks. There is no fury like that of a convert. And there is no such efficiency elsewhere. Those who come at the eleventh hour have more steam in their punches for rounds twelveI to fifteen, inclusive. I do not know more than a handful of old liberals who haven't become tiredj in recent years. It is probably an excellent idea for every man to pick his corner when he arrives at discretion, but it is also a good notion to save something for the final rounds. And at that stage of a fight I think the regulation just has to be "Quit your kidding,"? On The Level By WRAG Aunt Bella" of the Lawyer's Club continues the battle with Michigan co-eds by making a plaint against perpetual female saddle shoe wear- ing. He believes that "the impulse of self- protection" makes them wear such awful foot- gear. For proof he quotes Anatole France, "A woman attracts a civilized man in proportion to the angle her feet make with the ground . .." Jabberwok attended last night's concert and came back with the following song: "Bob j White-Whatcha Gina Cigna Night?" n the near future, cigarette manufacturers will offer a newly patented idea to smokers. This innovation will make cigarettes give off red, blue. green, yellow and other colors of smoke. Designed primarily for women, these vari-colored smokes can match the girl's dress, fingernails, and if the smoke is red. it can match her date's bankroll. A sophomore economics bull-session was somewhat taken aback yesterday when one of the cramming students asked, "Where is this place called 'Utopia'? I can't find it on 3 this map anywhere." Scene; Final meeting of the Equity and Law MUSIC DAILY OFFICI Il[till }Auditorium Publication in the Buletin is cons University. Copy received at the offi Ginga Cigna, French dramatic so-until3:30; 1:00 a.m. on Saturday. prano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, appeared last night in the,------- 2 eighth of the current Choral Union all other registrations) and to make concerts. The program consisted of arrangements for lesson periods, stu- songs and arias in French and Italian; dio practice, etc., at the office of the Gluck, Cerdi. Puccini, Rachmanin- President of the School of Music as off, Gretchaninoff, and Respighi were far in advance of the opening of the among those represented. i second semester as possible, to avoid confusion and last minute em- In reviewing a performance such barrassment. as that of Mlle. Cignafone must either __ sacrifice the innate humane desire to Naval Architecture and Marine En- be pleasant or else perjure one's ai- gineering: Students expecting to tistic conscience. Therefore it is our classify for the second semester should unpleasant duty to record that. consult the classification list in Room judged by sound and sincere musical 326 West Engineering Building for standards, the performance last night! the time of their classification. left much to be desired. Undoubtedly em he ss tn Mlle. Cigna is possessed of a pleasant The Roger Williams Guild open personality, and moreover she prob- houses will be discontinued until the ably passed on to most of her mildly beginning of next semester. entertained bearers the emotive states through which she passed. Sections 15 and 16 of Sociology 51,4 Vocally, the singer's performance meeting at 9 -a.m. and 11 am. Sat- was no more than adequate. Realiz- urday, will meet today, ing that Mlle. Cigna is one of the lead- Elmer Akers. ing prima donnas in the Italian wing of the Metropolitan, one can easily Independents: All those who have see more than one reason why Wag- signed-up for Congress J-Hop booths ner is now enjoying such a vogue may find out which booth they are2 at that institution. In its middle reg- in by consulting the lists on the Con- ister, when not forced, her voice was gress bulletin board in the lobby of moving and flexibly guided by the the Union.- musical line. The lower register had A breakfast will be served for all AL BULLETIN tructive not ice to all inembrs or the Ce of the Assistant to the President Hanna, 208 U.H. Hart, 201 U.H. Hathaway, 302 M.H. Helm, 1025 A.H. Knode, 229 A.H. Knott, 1025 A.H. Leedy, W. Phys. Ogden, 1025 A.H. Peterson 2215 A.H. O'Neill, 103 R.L. Peake, 205 S.W. Schenk, 4003 A. Stibbs. 2235 A.H. Stocking, 301 U.H. Taylor, W. Phys. Walcutt, W. Phys. Weimer, 103 R.L. White, 2215 A.H. Wells, 2235 A.H. Williams, 1025 A.H Woodbridge, 103 R.L. English II. Roellinger, 2054 N.S. Stevens, 18 A.H. Nelson, 4208 A.H. Room Assignment for Final Exam- inations in German 1, 2, 31, 32. Jan. 29, 1938, 2-5 p.m. German I. N.S.A.. Diamond, Graf, Gaiss, Schachtsiek, Striedieck. 1025 A.H., Willey, Philippson, Su- less to give, and the upper was sel- dom under complete control. Intona- Final I tion, especially in releases, was fre- ture, Sci quently at fault. Forestry. - Examination Schedule, First Semester, 1937-38: College of Litera- ence, and the Arts, Graduate School, School of Education, School of For the most part, Mlle. Cigna's interpretations were faithfully con- ceived, although conveyed more by external histrionics than by subtle; musicianship. Outside of the songs by the two Russians and the de- lightful one of Respighi's, it was the Verdi arias, from The Force of Des-. tiny and Aida, which were most pleas-! ing and gave more legitimate sway{ to the over-dramatic tendencies of the artist. Fritz Kitzinger gave cap-j able accompaniments. aFORUM Time of Examination Exam. Group Letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R Mon. Mon. Mon. Mon. Mon. Mon. Mon. Tues. Tues. Tues. Tues. Tues. Tues. Tues. Specia Specia Specia Specia Time of Exercise at 8 at 9 at 10 at 11 at 1 at 2 at 3 at 8 at 9 at 10 at 11 at 1 at 2 at 3 .l l l First Semester Mon., Fri., Wed., Mon., Tues., Mon., Tues., Mon., Tues., Wed., Tues., Wed., Fri., Thurs., Sat., Sat., Sat., Feb. Feb. Feb. Jan. Feb. Jan.4 Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Jan. 2 7, 4, 2, 31, 8, 31, 8, 7, 1, 2, 1, 9, 4, 3, 5, 5, 29, 3, 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 9-12 9-12 2- 5 9,12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 Wed., Mon., Tues., Mon., Mon., Sat., Thurs., Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Tues., Fri., Sat., Wed., Sat., Tues., Sat., Second Semester June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June June .8, 6, 7, 6, 13, 4, 9, 13, 7, 9, 10, 14, 10, 11, 8, 11, 14, ,4, 9-12 2- 5 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 9-12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 Dorms Vs. Fraternities * "*"*j To the Editor: I will attempt to keep away from the words Foo and Poo and Foo, inas- much as they are abhorrant to so' many, and so as not to incurr Profes- sor Slosson's wrath any more than possible. The controversy between the two systems which these terms rep-: resent seems to be of sufficient im- portance for discussion, however. "Peace, civil liberty and economic. .justice" do not always take a na- ooueogjWuis l uoieu.tajui .o 1euot but may be of importance even in a 1 restricted area.; It is not the intention of the writer Thurs., Feb. Any deviation from the above schedule may be made only by mutual agree- ment between students and instructor and with the approval of the Examina- tion Schedule Committee. N.B. Within the past year, the time of exercise for several of the courses listed in the Literary Announcement has been changed, but due to an over- sight no corresponding change was made in the Examination Group Letter. In order to avoid conflicts in such cases, the time of exercise-rather than the approvingly. "Hurrah!" shouted the Boys in the Room, and history having been made, trucked on down to the baffleboard in the room and sat sipping cokes. Examination Group Letter-must be{ examination. those interested in a private dining room of the Union at 3:30 a.m. The price will be 75 cents (75c) per per- son. All those who wish to make a reservation may do so by signing Back they front A Lesson In Journalism. .** P AUL Y. ANDERSON, one of Amer- ica's greatest reporters, has been dis- charged by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for which he has worked for twenty-three years. Whether his dismissaj was unjustified is not our concern. But that his reporting has been far ahead of any other Washington correspondent's deserves comment. le has never been content to write such un- adulterated slop that leaves the reader in a per- petual haze as to what was actually hb.ppening in Washington. He wrote vigorousy and straight- forwardly, using few "if's" and "but's." He was responsible for the airing of tle Teapot Dome scandal, and he, more than any other, helped to bring the disgraceful Memorial Day massacre in Chicago to the public. It is almost always said that bias in the news columns is wrong. Maybe it is, but one wonders when one reads such stories as Anderson wrote on the Memorial Day massacre. In such cases as this, when a good -reporter's judgment tells him one side is definitely wrong, it might be well that the reader know. A young man entering journalism could do little better than to model himself after Anderson. S. R. Kleiman. As Others See It - ul Congreos expects soon to receive from the Pres- ident a message recommending increased expen- ditures for national defense. Although the bud- get already allots nearly a billion dollars to this purpose, and although this sum is nearly twice as large as the amount spent for the army and navy as recently as 1934, it is nevertheless true that the defensive needs of the country must be judged in the light of the conditions actually pre- vailing in a troubled world. The United States ON CAPPY THE GREAT BOLONEY of over-publicized intercollegiate athletics there is always some- where a justification for the direct application of big business methods. This is usually the claim of character building. Sometimes it is good old Anglo-Saxon "playing the game" that is the main stuff. Sometimes it is the men that the athletes have an opportunity of contacting. At Michigan this is the greatest claim and for once it is justified. Michigan athletes in their after years can on the whole lay claim to having reached a higher level of living and a more sub- stantial place in the business and social world than the average ex-athlete who has played his ;ame under coaching regimes where the play is upon higher pressure production methods where you have to produce or else. Maybe the team wins more gaines-and sometimes it doesn't- when there is the element of a distant, all-power- ful and impersonal force directing the efforts. What it does leave with the players though is just about what is left to some denim shirted fellow who loves his boss and is an intense be- liever in -the capitalistic system, but who works for eight hours a day on some final assembly" line. The point to all this is that among the men we admire most for his ability to come close to the Michigan athlete and regard him not only as material for the championship tender in his sport, but as a lusty, healthy kid who loves action and a good time, is Franklin C. Cappon. His un- prepossessing attitude arou id the Field House, belied sometimes by his loud shouts and the swell swear words he can slam off sometimes, has many times hurt him but it has also earned him the respect of many publicity conscious persons. Cappy besides handling a heavy share of the ad- ministration duties for the Athletic department has gathered for himself a keen regard of his players. It doesn't exactly amount to hero worship, but the men on the basketball team and men on the football team have found in him the basis of that deep friendship possible only between men. It not based upon ability to coach nor upon ability as an executive, nor upon any tangible knowledge of anything. It is just that most men have an ability at making and pleasing acquaintances. others at acquiring useful friends. And then, most men are able to make at least a few genuine friendships that last through their lives. to claim any sort of perfection for the their names on the list on the Con- fraternity system. Is any system per- gress bulletin board before Feb. 8. fect? The Interfraternity Council could be a much stronger group than, Aca lit is. However, whether this weak- demic Notces ness is"due wholly, to a lack of co- Economics 51: Rooms for final ex 'operation among the fraternities am., Thursday morning, Feb. 3: themselves, or in part to the organi- 25 A.H., Travis. zation, members,or officials of the 35 A.H., Polk. council, is another problem.- 1035 A.H., Aldrich. There can be no doubt that fra- 231 A.H., Dufton. ternities have a definitely useful place 205 M.H., Anderson. on the Michigan campus. They are l 103 R.L., Colberg. old established groups, and represent much of the Michigan tradition. At Relativity, Mathematics 178, second; present the Greek letter societies rep- semester: Persons interested in this lastic average is above the all men's course who have conflicts, please group on campus. At a school of this communicate with Professor Rainich. size no one can doubt the value of j organization in the shadow of so Mathematics 36, Section 1 (Lit. Col- much disintegration. The purpose of lege, Dr. Myers): This section will this letter is not to advocate any rah- { have its final exam in Room 202 Ma- rah stuff, but on the other hand, this son Hall, Friday, Feb. 4, 9-12 a.m. would certainly be a dull place with- out fraternities. The fraternity sco nglish 35 (Section 3): Final ex- I lastic average is baove the all men's Enlh35(eto3)Fiacx i average. Although no claims to high amination for Mr. Rettger's section fraternity scholarship is made hereinwill be held on Monday, Jan. 31, 2-5 the facts speak for themselves. In p.m., in the regular classroom. proportion to the ratio between af- filiated and non-affiliated men, the English I and II Final Examination number of fraternity men in activi- Schedule, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2 p.m. ties is much the larger figure. Fra- English I. ternit men hold a majority of the Ackerman 2003 A.H. important campus positions. It must Allen. 215 A.H. be admitted that perhaps some fra- Baum, 225 A.H. ternities place too much empasis on Bertram, 2014 A.H. activities, however, as the Univer- Calver, 4043 A.H. sity supports both scholastic and ex- Cassidy, 215 A.H. tra-curricular activities, the frater- Cowden, 3227 A.H. nity standing in each should be given Dean, 4203 A.H. important consideration. Ellinger, 203 U.H. Under the present scheme (mainly Everett, 3231 A.H. concerning the Allen-Rumsey House), Foro, 2203 A.H. will the dormitory system remedy any Giovannini, 103 R.L. of the so-called evils of the fraternity Green, 1209 A.H. system- The answer is an emphatic Greenhut, 35 A.H. -No! The 'dormitories can scarcely Haines, W. Phys. bring a more intellectual atmosphere employed in determining the time of dermann, Braun, Van Duren. 1035 A.H., Scholl. German 2. C. Haven Hall. All sections. German 31. 25 A.H., Gaiss, Diamond, Graf, Van Duren. 231 A.H., Willey, Reichart, Philipp- son. 1035 A.H., Scholl. 301 U.H., Wahr. 201 U.H., Hildner. German 32. 203 U.H., Nordmeyer. 306 U.H., Eaton. EE. 7a, Building Illumination, will have its examination on Saturday af- ternoon, Jan. 29, at 2 p.m., in Room 338 and 340, West Engineering Build- ing, directly above the regular lec- ture room. Those few students who have another examination at this time should see me as' soon as pos- sible for adjustment. Mathematics 6, Section I (9 o'clock): This section will have its final ex- amination Saturday, Jan. 29, 9-12 a.m., in Room 318 West Engineering Building. Political Science 1 and 2. Final ex- amination Thursday, Feb. 3, 2-5 p.m. The following rooms have been as- signed: Hayden's section, 25 Angell Hall Kitchin's sections, 35 Angell Hall Dorr's sections, 25 Angell Hall Cuncannon's sections, 205 Mason Hall French's sections, 231 Angell Hall Kallenbach's sections, C Haven Hall Kline's sections, 1025 Angell Hall E - - 1 7 i jE I l t Concert Postponed: The concert by the School of Music Little Symphony Orchestra announced for Sunday evening at the Michigan League, has been postponed to March 6. to university life. As proved by women's dormitories,. studying would not be any easier aa process in dormitories than in fra- ternities. Cliches will exist in a dor- mitory as much and possibly more (as it is claimed they do), within or between the Greek letter social or-1 ganizations. The most important' question, however, is that of finances. Under the present set up, the living expenses at the Allen-Rumsey House] 1 are Ps hiohs o i thns nn v rarm Ivy Colleges, but to improve men's EventsToda y rooming conditions. Those men able University Broadcast. 5:45-6:00 p.m. to spend four or five dollars per week Public Health Series. Topic: "Periodic for rooms would hardly be victima- Health Examinations," Dr. Earl E. tized by poor rooming conditions. It Kleinschmidt, Instructor in Hygiene is primarily those who can afford and Public Health. only about two or three dollars for rooms that poor rooming conditions would affect, therefore. At the pres- ent time, living expenses at the Allen- Junior Research Club: The Feb- Rumsey House are not solving the ruary meeting will be held on Tues- nhlem of unfit living nurtr. ri ar a h - nminPnnm1 . , . i k lkilv"1G141 Vl L41AILU 11 V111 ual uul Zl. 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