eitus Twu THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILN THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929 i s = 1 N umtttr Published every morning except Monday during the University Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise, credited in this paper and the local news rub- lished herein. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, postofl'ice as second class matter. Subscription by carrier. $1.50; by mail Offices: Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR LAWRENCE R. KLEIN Editorial Director.......... Howard F. Shout Women's Editor...........Margaret Eckels City Editor...................Charles Askrea Music and Drama Editor.. R. Leslie Askren Books Editor............ Lawrence R. Klein Sports Editor ............ S. Cadwell Swanson Night Editors Howard 2. Shout Walter Wilds S. Cadwell Swanson Harold Warren Charles Askrenj Assistants Ben Manson Ledru Davis! Ross Gustin Margaret Harris! Dorothy Magee William Mahey Paul Showers BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER LAWRENCE E. WALKLEY Assistant Business Manager...........Vernor Davis Publications Manager.............Egbert Davis Circulation Manager............Jeanette Dale Accounts Manager...............Noah Bryant THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929 Night Editor - HOWARD SHOUT. A STATEMENT OF POLICY others in, England is in having the collegiate system, thati, an or- ganization into a number of sep- arate colleges, each of which has its own grounds and buildings and in each of which the students live together, eat together, and study together. This makes for greater poise, celerity of expression, and open mindedness." With the opin- ion of this English scholar and educator in mind, we should like i to point out that Oxford and Cam- bridge have long been noted for the brilliant, liberal-minded men whom they graduate. Another point of importance - and perhaps the most important of all - is the value of the dormitory in the orientation of the, freshman to his new life in the University. This problem has been causing more concern among educators of late than almost any other, for it is in the failure properly to adjust the entering boy or girl to the strange environment of the cam- pus, that the reason for lessened ability and efficiency among college students and for lowered standards can be found. Many first-year men are taken into fraternities and many of the women into sororities, leaving the rest more or less out- side the group. A great number of these independents make no effort to establish contacts with others and go through their university careers without any of that inter- play of ideas and feelings that makes the years spent in college a valuable investment and a pleas- ant memory. Undoubtedly, if these men and women . were housed in dormitories where they would meet others daily at the dining table, in the lounges, and in their rooms, the value of their work at Michi- 'gan would be greatly enhanced. About Books "Living," by Henry Green. Price -$2.50. E. P. Dutton Co., N. Y., (By Edward Garnett) "Living," by Henry Green, is an extremely clever novel; in fact, I am not sure that, as a work of art, it is not too clever. But that raises points too debateable to discuss here. Henry Green has created a method of his own, an original technique to describe the life of his characters, mostly Birming- ham factory hands. By this au- thor's plan of telling the story! through the talk of scores of the employees, Gates, Traver, old Mr. Craigan, Tube, Bridges,, Bert Jones, Jim Dale, Aaron Connolly, Mr. Eames, etc., and two women, Mrs.' Eames and Miss Gates, we are leti inside the men's minds, and be- come marvellously intimate with their manners, habits, little ways, and their opinions of one another. Young Mr. Dupret, the son of the head of the Arm, comes down from London to replace his dying father, and to reorganize the bus- iness, and he becomes the center of the interested speculations of the managing foremen and the old hands, who are afraid of losing their jobs. The atmosphere of pet- ty intrigue inside the foundry is relieved by scenes in the adjacent streets and pubs, and in the house- hold of old Mr. Craigan the foun- dry-man, where Lily Qates keeps house for him and her father, and Mr. Dale, the lodger. The story arrests one from the first by its cool daring closeness to life, and steadily increases its hold on the reader from Chapter XIV to the end, a section which de- scribes how the old hands get the 1 sack, and how Lily Gates elopes with Bert to Liverpool, and then comes back. The achievement of Henry Green, throughout, however, is that he has come closer to the working-class consciousness, to its ways of feel- ing and manner of expressing it- self, than any other English vixer of today. The realism Qf the book is startling, and its human interest, as a stucy of the life of Birming- ham operatives, is great. A few scenes flashed in here and there of the Dupret family's upper-elass life in London, intrcd.ced as a change from the dingy foundry at- mosphere, show that Henry Green's sympathies are with no particular class, and that should he write of Mayfair, his dissection 9f its char- "Folks, how -can I make Whoope. up here . *e when down in front the ccoughers' are whooping?" "Maybe the audience would be grateful if I stepped to the footlights some night and voiced the above protest about the 'coughing chorus' down in front. "But that wouldn't be kind and it wouldn't be just. The cougher doesn't cough in public on purpose. He can't help it. It embarrasses him as much as it annoys his neighbors. "What he needs, to avoid that throat tickle, is an introduction to OLD GOLDS." (SIC..JED) Why ' not a cough in a carload? OLD GOLD Cigarettes are blended from HEART-LEAF tobacco, the finest Nature grows. Selected for silkiness and ripeness from r the heart of the tobacco plant. Aged and mellowed extra long in a temperature of mid-July sunshine to insure that honey-like smoothness. 0 P. LOXrd ' O(I, EMireH 1 . - - . i bunr i cho pocial! 250 BOXES MICHIGAN SEAL STATIONERY WA B OO K STORE 1 l J From this time forward it shall Dormitories have one other out- be the policy of The Daily to pub- standing advantage: the small lish no more reviews of the Play I amount which it will cost the stu- Production efforts in the League dents to live in them. Arguments theater. This action is necessitated pro and con have been advanced by the resignation of Mr. Leslie on t his subject, but it can scarcely )Askren, editor of the Music and be questioned that the housing and Drama column of The Daily. In feeding of hundreds collectively is the opinion of the editor there is certain to be cheaper than the no one at the present time on the cost of eating and rooming inde- campus eligible scholastically or pendently. critically to assume the direction In addition to these points, there of the column and to maintain on is the matter of student gtidarnce the high basis of sound, construe- and supervision which can by this tive critical judgment the work be- arrangement be more carefully and gun by Mr. Askren, adequately maintained than in the1 To those who know the state of past. campus drama there is little doubt Considering the dormitory ques- of the value. of Mr. Askren's work tion from these angles, it can read- in connection with Prof. Rowe of ily be seen that their erection will the rhetoric department and Val- be an enormous benefit to Michigan entine Windt of the speech depart- and to the students. The dormi- ment to take Play Production from tories should be built not as an ex- --- - II t " . , a position of ridicule on the cam- periment but as a definite part in acters will be as keen as is his study pus to their present laboratory in the program of developing the Uni- of the workers in a machine-shop. the League theater, where they are, versity, * * * after all, respected and patronized. _THE THEATER OF THE MIDDLE, And because we are unable to.. WEST find so capable a man on the cam- Campus Opinion (Continued from Wednesday) pus 'at present, we are discontin- Contributors are asked to he briet, In a conversation held recently uing the column and the reviews. confining themselves to less than 300 regarding ideals of playwriting as To allow a writer who lack's Mr. munications will be disregarded. The they may be discovered in the re- n anmes of communicants will, however, Askren's background and critical, becregarded as confidential, upon re cently issued volume of "Michigan discermting viewpoint to continue q Letters published should nutrbe Plays" Director Windt of the Play construed as expres'sing the editorial with the work would be to under- opinion of the Daily. Production department madte the mine the splendid platform of pol- statement that American play- icy for campus dramatics that Mr.I To the Editor: wrights have not observed the pri- Askren has erected. i To those on the campus who en- mary principle of genuine literary joy trenchant criticism and who craftsmanship. Mr. Windt said THE PROPER VIEWPOINT I have liked the engaging freshness that it was his relief that. future The dormitory question has been and vigorous charm of the under- products of the Americn dramatic buried under such a mass of per- graduate critical mind as express- pen should be tle res lt of care- sonal bickering and debate that the ed in the columns of The Daily, ful and sympathetic observation of true substance of the problem has Ithe resignation yesterday of Mr. the American milieu, and that ren- been given scant attention. The Askren as Music and Drama Edi- dering the picture should be con- question should not-as we have tor came as a shock and a disap- trolled by ideals of accuracy and pointed out previously-involve any pointment. Throughout last year simplicity. consideration of increased tax- and so far this summer the cam- Mr. Windt's criticism has consid- rates, lowered property values, or pus has watched Mr. Askren slow- i erable force when directed against individual losses. If it would be ly rid his column of the stigma at- what is perhaps the only outstad- best from the standpoint of the tached to it by the puerilities of ing piece of Americana, Eugene O'- state as a whole and of the prin- his predecessors, Mr. Wall and Mr. Neill's "Desire Under The Elms." ciples on which the American sys- I Henderson, and build up a new ( The colorful bizarrities of subject tem of education is based to house tradition of sound thinking and!matter and the theatrical method the students in dormitories, then constructive viewpoint. of dealing with situations are not the dormitories must be built; if, Particularly is Mr. Askren's deci- American, and militate againgt te on the other hand, to live ir them sion to resign his column unfor- excellencies of character prtrayal would prove detrimental to the Stu- tunate in view of the still precar- that distinguish the iece. dents, they must not be built. All ious position of the 4rama on this' The observatio! might be made other considerations are secondary campus. Under the stimulus of his that playw ight toay co not and unimportant. acute criticism and his hearty en- writ -f At1e? ernan audience, It is our belief-and we propose couragement of worthwhile exper { but for the New York mixture of to give our reasons-that life in i imentation, students have come to European tinged dilletantes and' dormitories would be much more realize the place campus dramatics rubberneck visitors from, "the beneficial to the young men and rightfully should have in universi- sticks." The only remedy for which women who come to our campus ty life, and play production activi- would seem to, be the creation, at} than life in scattered rooming ties have risen from the plane of of protest, of a theater of the Mke- houses all over Ann Arbor. stultifying adolescence, where they dle West wherein authentic Arineri- In the first place, the dormitory stood a year and a half ago, to cana may be given the recognition in one form or another is an in- their present position of compara- it deserves. stitution and a tradition of college tive maturity and affluence. Thei Which is not to say that there life. From time immemorial stu-; movement toward better campus is very much of that sort of writ- dents in university towns have been dramatic facilities, which The Daily ing, but a theatrical declaration of lodged in these large units and it has always tried to foster and in ipdependence would very much en- is from them, that colleges have, partial success it has had no in- courage its production. achieved their reputations for con- considerable part, surely owes R. L. A. geniality, fellowship, and youthful something to Mr. Askren, who was spirit. I the first really to take it serious- "Just Married," the Ann Nichols Prof. E. A. Milne, visiting Oxford ly. piece at the Comoedienhaus thea- physicist, pointed to one of the Mr. Askren is to be congratulated ter, had a moderate reception. It greatest advantages of the univer- on the performance of a difficult was planned as old fashioned, but sity "club" in an interview of some and exacting task, and my only most reviewers voted it amusing weeks ago, when he said, "The ad- regret is that the interruption of nevertheless. vantage of these two universities his labors is so untimgv f ro n -. r a 4 i - ~- - I 1' -- --I 'I. ~ p - 1 'I 'V ~. p-i- '% ) ^1 ...:..: * Electric (ooking /Is He ahe r ooDS cooked with the sputre heat of an elec- tric range ar'e untainted by smoke or fumes. Vegetables an I meats (even the cheaper cuts) are cooked to ' a rich and meAting tenderness, and all the na tural juices are sealed-in. Electri- cally cooked foods not only taste better but also hold . the ir original nuttriment intact. You can enjoy el ct ric cooking in your kitchen\now. Convenient time payments and 'a liberal allowadnce for yoz4r present cook- ing equipments mal; e it unusually easy for you to ,own a modern electric range. 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