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Lewis Maryellen Brown t THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1924 Night Editor-ROBT. S. MANSFIELD an insurance company gave Edsel for international copyright and for1 Ford $89,000 because his wife's Jew- simplified selling, to stress in all sea- els were stolen. A society woman as- sons the need and advantage of the serts she spends thousands of dollars study of American literature, and to annually to protect some jewels which point out, perhaps in too many sea-. originally cost her $50,000. Another sons, that literature and plays are society woman, a short while ago, not the same thing. Now that he is informed the police she was not par- !retiring, though he leaves no single ticuularly concerned about the loss professor quite equal to taking up his of her pearl necklace since it was full task, he leaves many in many uni- only a paste duplicate of the expen- versities who are engaged in it. sive original which was stored in a His attitude toward the stage is vault. typical of his whole career, and of its Why do people in this stage of civ- influence. All the smart young play- ilization wear jewels anyway? Is it wrights, said someone a decade ago, for pleasure, for adornment, or mere- were "brandered by the same Mat- ly to demonstrate the ability to pay' thews." From him they learned to for them? If people find aesthetic distrust closet dramas, the bastards pleasure in wearing jewels, how can in blank verse and unwieldy acts and they reconcile themselves with cheap scenes which pretended to the throne imitations? If jewels are worn for of literature in an unpropitious time; adornment, are we in our aesthetic learned . to study the tricks and de- sense really any more civilized than vices of the actual stage and to think ,savages who wear rings in their nos- in terms of audience and box office. es? If one must wear jewels to dis- Professor Matthews, and his followers play wealth, again where is our civ- after him, liked the "well-made play," ilization? Are we not a bit childish aid they, if not he, made it a fetish. if we wear jewels to "show off" or to Such a program was tempting, partic- make our poorer friends envious of ularly so long as there was no con- our wealth? temporary dearth of plays which had And why are such exhorbitant sums any real literary merit. It fortified paid for the so-called "precious" the playwrights and critics in their stones? A great many stones are as instinct to see a necessity as a vir- beautiful as some of the precious tue. The plays of his earlier years as ones. The only difference is that the a professor could not be read, but latter can be procured more readily. some of them could be played; it If the precious stones were not so seemed therefore the part of wisdom rare, they would not be in such de- to examine them not as masterpieces mand. On the other hand, if they but as theater-pieces. When later a were less in demand, they would cost new age of drama dawned, the follow- less. And if they cost less, people ers of Professor Matthews were some would not be so keen to wear them. of them not ready for it. They kept on talking about Pinero when there PRIMITIVE PURITANISM was a Shaw to talk about. It isn't far from Ann Arbor that To put it briefly, Professor Matthews te i .y iu w t came upon the stage of American ed- there is a city, so imbued with the ucation at a time when the drama to spirit of the Spanish Inquisition and have depth was expected to have dul- the Blue Laws of Zion City that only ness. He helped to banish dulness, those people who are friends of the but he also helped to bring it to the librarian can draw out "The Plastic surface, to make it alert. That is no Age," and they have to carry it out longer all the drama needs. It must, of the library in a paper sack! The as it lately shows a tendency to do atmosphere of rarified intelligence find its depths again. His influence which the University is supposed to will have been most useful if it proves disseminate has not extended to to have made it more difficult for Adrian where this primitive from of drama to be dull. puritanism is rampant. It makes ,no difference about the Mi a merits or demerits of the book, ex- i ChIgan ongs cept that people who object actively to it place themselves in the same (Editor's Note-During the summer category as the Women's clubs months the University is host to a throughout the country who put them- great many strangers who know noth- selves on record as opposed to the ing of the school other than what they showing of such movies as "Flaming see and hear in the course of their vis- Youth." Neither the "Flaming Youth" it. For this reason, songs of old Mich- nor "The Plastic Age" are worthy of igan, Michigan traditions, and Univer a person's valuable time, they are sity history will be featured in this silly to be considered seriously, yet column from time to time). people all over the country rise up . on their hind feet and hee haw ob- I jections to obscenities they fancy are THE YELLOW AND BLUE found there. Sing to the colors that float in the It is all a part of the same spirit light that leads people to find fault with Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue! 1 the textbooks of scholars with whom Yellow the stars as they ride thro they do not agree. At this time, the night, New York City is planning to adopt And reel in a rollicking crew; a system whereby an "expert" text- Yellow the fields where ripens the book writer shall write the textbooks grains, at the dictates of the teachers. This And yellow the moon on the harves comes as a reaction against the con- wain; elusions drawn by certain eminent Hail! Hail to the colors that float i t historians which run counter to those the light, whose votes control the school Hurrah! for the Yellow and Blue! boards. America is about to enter a period Blue are the billows that bow to th comparable to the dark ages where sun learning and progress must be tied When yellow-robed morning is due down to suit the ignorant whims of Blue are the curtains that evening the voters, the biased, prejudiced, de- has spun, smands of our masters. The slumbers of Phoebus to woo; I May you feel its steady gleaming Guiding you awake or dreaming. Cherish tenderly its fire, May it all to heights inspire; Guard it for the Maize and Blue This gift of love so true. 'TIS OF MICHIGAN WE SING 'Tis of Michigan we sing With a merry, merry ring As we gaily march along We will sing a jolly song, Of Ann Arbor and her chimes And her merry, merry times, Yes, a joyous song we'll raise To Ann Arbor and her praise. Clessifled Ads work wonders. Try. Tie Summer Michigan Daily for re- sults.-Adv. 1,- WHO ARE YOUR ASSOCIATES? That is a question that means much socially. It means a deal more in business and finance. 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Eith- er the nations voters did not know, or they did not care, for the consequen- ces, and a 46 per cent return on the election was the first result. For that bit of political somnambulism we or they or someone else may be respon- sible, but for it finally all of us must pay. If we had time for theories, we might state a practical one, and in this fourth year later at the brink of another political abyss, define for our- selves the basis of our government. This is a representative democracy; in it governmental actions are per- formed and the business of keeping on our feet in the world is accomplished by men dependent on and responsi- ble to American voters. The demands of the people as expressed at the polls are ultimately effective, or if the peo- ple make no demands, they acquiesce in the status quo. Silent disgust with party policies is no weapon against corruption. This nation is precisely what the electorate makes or fails to make it. These figures, recently published in Collier's, the national weekly, on the extent of the stay-at-home vote, are significant: In 1896, 80 per cent of the voters cast ballots. In 1900, 73 per cent. In 1908, 66 per cent. In 1912, 62 per cent. In 1920, 46 per cent. With 54 per cent of the voters smug ly quiet, primary conditions of demo cracy are not realized and the govern ment itself must be less than half ef ficient. Half of our plans can fail o hal o them never mature, and w should not complain so long as we re main half indifferent to our share it the work of government. Our political silence is antiquates and unworthy of a free and sovereign people. We must learn to spear above a whisper where our interest and welfare are concerned if our gov ernment is to interpret anything tha we say as mandatory. 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(Mack's, second floor) (!, - i r e 'I n d n k :s ~_ Lt t e S y I| EDITORIAL COMMENT EXIT (The Nation) The !retirement of Brander Mat- thews from the professorship of dra- matic literature at Columbia Univer- sity rings down the curtain on an in- teresting drama in the history of Am- erican education. llis appointment, a generation ago, brought to Columbia an impressive element of that quality which was in time to make it the most worldly of the universities. As an undergraduate, he has told in his me- moirs, he read the Greek and Latin dramatists without once having it im- pressed upon him that they ever wrote for the stage. But he had gone into the world and had come into close touch with the theater and with jour- nalism. IHe had polished his French by conversations with Coquelin and had begun the studies which mAe him the first American expert in fne mod- ern French stage; in England he had been associated with a brilliant period of the Saturday Review and had been forced to define his own Americanism by becoming aware of it against a British background. Called to his pro- fessorship, he glittered on his city campus, a wit among the scholars, though also a scholar himself. He was enough of a pioneer to do battle Blue are the blossoms to memory dear, And blue'-is the sapphire that gleams like a tear; Hail! - Hail to the ribbons that Na- I- ture has spun, Hurrah! for the Yellow and Blue! Here's to the College whose colors we wear; Here's to the hearts that are true! Here's to the maid of the golden hair, And eyes that are brimming with blue! Garlands of bluebells and maize in- { tertwine; And hearts that are true and voices combine; Hail! Hail to the College whose colors we wear, Hurrah! for the Yellow and Blue! SENIOR SONG Music-"Glow Worm" Soft the shades are 'round us fall- ing, While the voice of night, is calling, See our tiny lanterns swaying In the preezes 'round them playing. Now from out their centers glowing, Golden beams of light are flowing, Telling true, Oh. Maize and Blue, The love we feel for you. Now to you this-torch we're leaving, But 'tis not with tears or grieving; . "What a difference Just a few cents make!" J E WI E.S- Time was when savages bartered valuable lands for glass beads; today, civilized people pay enormous sums for jewelry; and years from now, pro- bably, our most valued jewels will be in museums as relics of a barbaric age. Only recently a millionaire paid $600,000 for a string of pearls, while FATIM