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THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1924
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1924
Night Editor-J. A. LAANSMA
"Every far-sighted patriot
should protest first of all against
growth in this country of that
evil thing which is called "class
consciousness." The demagogue,
the sinister or foolish socialist
visionary who strives to arouse
this feeling does a foul and evil
thing; for he is no true Ameri-
can; he is no self-respecting
citizen of this Republic, he for-
feits his right to stand with man-
ly self-reliance on a footing of
entire equality with all other
citizens, who bows to envy and
greed, who erects the doctrine
of class hatred into a shibboleth,
who substitutes loyalty to men
of a particular status, whether
rich or poor, for loyalty to those
eternal and immutable princi-
ples of righteousness which bid
us treat each man on his worth
as a man without regard to his
wealth or his poverty."
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
THE RESHPONSIBILITITY OF
NOTION PICTURES
Managers of motion picture thea-
ters have a responsibility of temper-
ing their plays to the shorn audience.
To speak of the duty of the movies
to art would seem to be stretching
the possibilities of the mechanical
contrivance, but to speak of its duties
to the civic community is to touch on
a point that few theaters, apparently,
consider. There is no doubt, today
that the movies are the greatest of all
the educational institutions employed
in this country. Where once the home
undertook the instruction of the youth,
the inculcation in his too often re-
sisting mind, of the powers, the inter-
est the ideals and the knowledge that
would enable him to take his proper
place in the society of which he was
a part, now the radio, and the movies
are entrusted with the declicate task.
As an educational agency then, the
movies stand paramount, even above
our -chools, as a source of amuse-
ment its place is unquestioned, but
when scenes are shown in show, such
as certain scenes reminicent of the
electric chair and Sing Sing, which are
neither educational nor amusing, it.
is time some one was starting a pro-
test.
WE CREATE A QUEER IMPRESS1ON
Europeans entertain curious notions
about life in the United States. It is
'true that the cinema has not become
as general a habit across the Atlan-
tic as it has on this side. Neverthe-
less, many of the weird impressions of
American life which are current on
the other side are derived from Amer
ican m'oving pictues. These movies
efature train robbers, bank holdups,
social scandals, shooting affrays, ex-
citing episodes in automobile and
aeroplane and other sensational
things.
A stranger observing a number of
American films will reach the con-
clusion, naturally enough, that Amer-
ica is a large country entirely sur-
rounded by "sin and sentiment." It
is inhabited in the East by unscrup-
ulous, but enormously successful,
business men, who devote their nights
to squandering in cabarets their ill-
gotten gains of the day before. In
the West the bad men rob stage
coaches and banks, shoot sheriffs, and
talk sentiment to their favorite steeds.
The far North is peopled by bearded
scoundrels, who go there to escape
from the law, to steal mining claims
and to menace lonely girls who are
perpetually being snow bound in de-
serted log cabins. Canada is populat-
ed by the members of the Royal
Mounted Police who always get their
man. The most remarkable thing;
in the South are Kentucky feuds, col-
onels who dring "mint juleps," and
half-breeds who are mostly bad.
The "movie" women of America are
notable for the scantness of their cos-
tumes and for their remarkable bed-
rooms-enormous in size, elaborately
decorated, and containing enough fur-
niture to equip a hotel. Likewise they
are addicted to going to entertain-
ments and dancing on the tables or
jumping into marble swimming pools.
,Heroes in America, according to the'
movies, are always just in time and
just naturally stupid. They always
manage to get covered with suspicion
by retaining smoking revolvers, by
shielding convicts, and by assuming
the crimes committed by the worthless
brothers of the heroines.
On the whole, a stranger judging
American movies would say that life
in America must be awfully inter-
esting but just a bit strenuous.
Know Your Campus
,"Behind the Library stands what is
known technically, if not popularly, as
the cenotaph. This monument was
erected in 1845 in memory not of the
living but of the dead. How many of
those who have looked on the broken,
lonesome column, half covered with
shrubery, have stopped to find out
about the men whose names are here
inscribed?'
There are four tablets on the base
of the column each with a vlatin in-
scription, bearing the names of Joseph
Whiting, Douglass Houghton, Carolus
Fox, and Samuel Denton. Professor
Whiting was one of the earliest mem-
bers of the University faculty and his
death occurred just before graduation
in 1845. Houghton has been called
"Michigan's first geologist." He was
a young man of exceptional brilliancy
and ability and came to an untimely
death in 1845, being drowned in Lake
Superior.
Charles Fox was the first and only
professor of agriculture Michigan ever
had. After his death, which occurred'
less than two years after his appoint-
ment, the establishment of the Agri-
cultural college took away the neces-
sity of such a department here. Dr.
Denton was professor of the theory
and ypractice of medicine from 1850 to
1860 and was also a member of the
first Board of Regents. He died in
1860.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
PROHIBITION AND OLYMPIC
WINNERS
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(The Christian Science Monitor)
Is it a pure coincidence that theI;G R A H M
two countries which led all others in
the Olympic Games at Paris-the Un-
ited States and Finland-should also Try Class ied ads for big Results.
be the two countries that have adopt-
ed prohibition? Of course it would be
futile to assert that prohibition? Of
course it would be futile to assert that LUNCHEONS
prohibition has directly contributed DINNERS and
to these athletic victories. In neither A LA CARTE
country has the law been enacted long E
enough to affect the rearing of these -
remarkable young men, but it goes - OPEN DAILY
without saying that the winners are I 1 : A. M. to
not habitual partakers of alcoholic 7:30 P. M.
stimulants. Even the most fanatical -
partisans of the liquor traffic will Sunday Hours
hardly contend that drink promotet. - 5:30 P. M. to
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ing Olympic team is to be recuited
in the saloons.
But even if these Olympic victories
cannot be claimed as fruits of prohi-
bition, it is nevertheless true that pro- i
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both concording indications of a cer-
t a i n s t a g e o f a d v a n c e m e n t , p r o o f s o f "_pr o g rs sbi t hi nmo r a lhe a l t han di n
progr~ss bith in moral health and in
physical development. Prohibition
cannot be made into law in any free
and self-governing country unless a Greenwood&
large probortion of the population has
already decided to abstain from aleo- Kilgore
hol, and winning Olympic teams can-
not be produced unless the Nation's
general physical condition is good.
A drunken and demoralized popula- The Mans Shop
tion is not likely to adopt prohibition,
and neither is a race of weaklings fit
to produce Olympic winners. Both ~ -
prohibition and vtory in the Olympic
Games are hopeful symptoms. The State Street Over
"runner-up" countries in the Olympics Calkins & Fletcher
were also, significantly enough, the
very ones in which the temperance
movement is strong, and though a
country like Sweden does not have
total prohibition it has done much to-
ward restricting the sale of alcohol
and limiting its use, and in England
prohibition is more seriously consid-
ered than on the continent. In both
Finland and the United States it is the
farming population in the interior that
is the mainstay of prohibition, and it
will hardly be questioned that it is the
counmtr ydistricts that yield the best
athletes. Not many habitual tip- -After the
p ,ors' ans wear the Olympic crown. toere
In both Finland and the United **ied~~ *eagt
States the law is broken by smugglers, eou
secret distillers and their customers, lkesO Heryr
particularly along the seacoasts fac-
ing alcohol-producing regions. In
both countries there is corruption
among oficials, who wink at viola-
tions, and in both countries there are
politicians who do the law only lip
service, who vote "dry" but act "wet."N I y
Before the national elections in Fin- A FieC
land this spring the "Association for!1AcFive Candy
Temperance Without Prohibition" re-
quested the different parties to refrain
from mentioning prohibition on their O°*11'tb"egst' redtrademrktt.Wnt. -
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programs, so that each representative
elected would be free to vote accord-
ing to his personal desires and con-
victions, but prohibition has too much
of a popular appeal for such subter-
fuges and evasions. In the United
States, also, many politicans who are
"personally wet" and politically dry," jus f
which proves that they think the ma-
jority of their electors favor prohi-
bition.
In both countries prohibition may
get temporary setbacks, just as it is
far from certain that the American
and Finnish teams will always lead all
others in future Olympic Games; but
it is also certain that progress toward
prohibition is being made in a number
of countries, and that to defeat the j '
boys from America' and Finland will
require rigorous training without al-
coholie stimulants.
IIA-WING IS TOO GOOD
(The Indiana Summer Student)
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MAKING IT HARD FOR TE
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Gradually, very gradually, a sus-
picion has been growing of late that
it might be just as well to treat uni-
versity undergraduates as adults in-
stead of as children. From time to
time students themselves have had a'
most irritating manner of expressing
their convictions to this effect and
then a rather worried Alma Mater
would throw a sop like the honor sys-
tem at examinations, or student self-
government, or student members on a
few minor faculty committees.
But, of course, the cut system and
compulsory attendance at classes is
the prop on which the academic world
has -long rested. It has always seemed
obvious that if a student did not have
to come to class he would stay away.
If you didn't believe it you had only
to go to any class yourself ax see
if you would not be ready and willing
to stay away the next time.
Now one eastern university has tak-
en the bold step of permitting the stu-
dents to decide for themselves if and
when they will attend classes. The
old fashioned educator shudders at
hearing such news, to him it is posi-
tively revolutionary.
And it must be admitted- that this
new system puts a fearful burden
upon the instructor. H enceforth he
must make his classes interesting or
the students enrolled in his course
may decide not to attend. At the
end of the semester, under this new
system, the instructor must prepare
an examination to see whether or not
the student has mastered his subject
If the student can prove this, his at-
tendance record is desregarded.
It's an old idea among some educa-
tors but it sounds revolutionary to
iany others,
Whale of a difference
;w cents make!"
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was the succinct comment made by
one member of the faculty to another
in the course of a discussion of the
disgraceful conduct of a few members
of the student body at convocation
Wednesday.
Unfortunately this would be the
judgment handed down by the major-
ity of our elders, we fear, if they were
asked to express their opinion of the
actions of a convocation audience.
Students of Indiana University, how-
ever, should not tolerate actions from
fellow undergraduates which might
be expected from a mob of hoodlums
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