PAGE TWO THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILN SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929 PAGE TWO SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929 rn-rn ~ U UJipV 'rnrnniWHAT'S THE DATE? According to the report of the al National Committee on Calendar Simplification, the major defects in the present system are: the lack' Published every morning except Monday ; of equality in the lengths of the during the University Summer Session by{ the Board in Control of Student Publications. months, the fact that the months The Associated Press is exclusively en-do not conain a whole number of titled to the use for republication of al news weeks, and the fact that the days dispatches credited to it or not otherwiso of the week shift each year to dif- credited in this paper and the local news pub- feetdts h omte a lifhed herein. ferent dates. The committee has C-tered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, worked out a simplified calendar in postoffice as second class matter. which there are 13 equal months Subscription by carrier. 2.; by snail of 28 days each. This plan was Offices: Press Building, Maynard street, approved by 98 percent of 488 ofI Ana Arbor, Michigan. those organizations in this country EDITORIAL STAFF who answered queries concerning Telephone 4925 their attitude on the, question. Of Tthe 1433 organizations interviewed MANAGING EDITOR 80.5 percent strongly favored cal- MANAGING EDITOR endar simplificaion. The reasonsI ftfftflttitlflfffifttlitlttl111iflfltfillfl { About Books SUNDAY "They Stooped to Folly," by Ellen cSUNDAYE Glasgow, 1929, Doubleday, DoranIS5(11S1 Garden City, New York.-$2.50. (By ; !tilititlfflil~lflititifitllltlfl ttf g Courtesy of the Print and Book. Shop) I1 Iiia ,ill Fall Milinery A new era is ushered in with this presen- LAWRENCE R. KLEIN Zditorial Director.........Howard F. Shout Women's Editor.......... Margaret Eckels City Editor ..............Chars Askren Books Editor........... Lawrence R. Klein Spots Editor...........S. Cadwell Swanson Night Editors Howard 2. Shout Walter Wilds 5. Cadwell Swanson Harold WarrenE Charles Askren Assistants Ben Manson Ross Gustin Dorothy Magee Paul Showers Deirdre McMullan L-dru Davis Margaret Farris William Mahey Marguerite Henry Rhea Goudy BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 for this overwhelming support of the simplification program are obvious when the advantages of the new arrangement are consider- ed. Under the simplified system all months have the same number of work-days, Saturdays, and Sun- days, and are directly comparable; each month has the same number of whole weeks, and fractions of weeks are eliminated; the fixing of per- manent dates for meetings, court sessions, etc., is facilitated, and the shifting of week-day names to dif- ferent dates is avoided; periods of earning and spending would be coordinated and budgeting thereby made simpler; all months will be comparable without any adjust- ment, a great amount of clerical work eliminated, and split-week payrolls dispensed with; the 13 monthly settlements during the year would bring about a faster money turnover, and the same bus- iness could be handled with less money; holidays would always occur on the same week-day, Monday; and a permanent, complete, and scientific revision made. BUSINESS MANAGER LAWRENCE E. WALKLEY Assistant Business Manager.......Vernor Davis Publications Manager........................Egbert Davis Circulation Manager..........Jeanette Dale Accounts Manager..............................Noah Bryant SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929 Night Editor--S. Cadwell Swanson MARKETS AND MEN "I have tried to make money that it might be an instrument of serv- ! It seems, in view of these ex- ice," stoutly declared Bishop James tremely important benefits, that Cannon, Jr., of the Methodist Epis- any religious or minor business copal Church, South, in answering objections to the change are not worth consideration. Expense and the criticisms of his recent stock market activities. Considering the trouble involved in the change amounts which Bishop Cannon has would be slight as compared to the advanced in the support of vari- ad e accruing in the future ous political campaigns in his home as well as to those which would state, his ideas of service would come into being at once. All dif-I stat, hs ieasof srvie wuldficulties could be overcome if suf- seem a peculiar one. But ignoring ficietpogreveesmndinest this, the actuality of a changed at- ficient progressiveness and interest titude on the part of a vast num- were shown by the general public in authorizing the change. only ber of our citizens toward stock the narrowest of principles and the speculation is something of major' most reactionary and conservative importance in tne economics of the motratoayadcnerai United States. Bishop Cannon is of individuals could retard the de- velopment of this project, and it but one example-although his po- seems natural to expect the Amer- sition makes him an interesting ican people, who pride themselves one - of a general trend of busi- on being both the most scientific ness activity in the country. and forward-looking of peoples, to This changed opiion signifies agive their approval to what will major sociological shift according certainly benefit the whole world to many Wall Street brokers. Os- socially and economically. A world tensibly the market has been stead-: conference to bring this matter to ily rising with only minor fluctua- a head is assuredly the next step. tions, but, as pointed out in The Brache Review, it "is full of ab- normalities and differences." Ac- Editorial Comment cording to a recent Evening Post it is demonstrated that ninety stocks LEISURE FOR READING had risen thirty-six points, i LEr e FORREAING amounting to an eighteen per cent (From The Daily Illini) advance, since May 27. However, What appears to be a wise move this rise has been accompanied by and one that could be profitably a movement toward lower levels on copied by other publications is the the part of a long list of individual decision of The Century to leave stocks. "These are stocks," states the monthly field and return in the Brache Review, "that were October as a quarterly. bought by the public . . , The Today the individual who at- public holders are still holding tempts to keep abreast of current them, with ample margin, but with thought as found in the multiple not much daylight ahead." publications which claim our at- The only conclusion is that the tention must either possess re- large financial interests have been markable discriminatory powers or garnering large profits while the an extraordinary capacity for read- smaller investors have been bal- ing. With our hourly newspaper ancing the lists with their losses. editions, next week's periodical shot All this has led to several unfavor- at us before this week's has been able conditions from which there stripped of its wrapper, books seems but one escape-to split open shouting for our attention, and the market. As the situation now monthly magazines still operating stands extremely high money rates on a 30-day schedule the average are in effect which are affecting all reader finds himself swamped by a other countries adversely. This is mass of reading matter. certain to have its influence on the Today a month is not what it economic prosperity of the United was before we stepped on the States in time, and should cer- accelerator with such a heavy foot tainly not be permitted to contin- that time is out of joint, and we ue. However, as was pointed out just cannot find the time to do above, the only way in which the reading in 30 days that we once money rate can be lowered is by spread over two or three leisurely forcing a heavy liquidation on the months. market entailing grea losses. Complain as we may of the "speed Going to the other side of the age," we can't find our way back problem-the investors side- we to the leisurely days, and we find the situation taking care of wouldn't if we could. It seems to Itself. So strong is the desire of be our destiny to break the speed the general public to "invest" on limit and we are apparently in love the stock market, as did Bishop with our destiny. Cannon, that the financial powers The Century's decision may start are finding themselves hard put to! a break on the part of certain pub- it to maintain their control. once lications that will see more uar- they lose it, and the wider dis- terlies which a subscriber may read tribution of stocks becomes a fact, at leisure and digest what he has the plunge into a bear market is read before the next issue is in his almost a certainty. The major mail-box .Certainly the conscien- sociological shift, the change in at- tious reader today finds it practi- titude toward market-trading as cally impossible to keep up with a business, will then be bringing the output of good things and the about an important economic change should gain the approval change also. The financial vigor of those intelligent magazine read- of markets and men, it would seem, ers who feel the need of keep-: Are you interested in virginity? Have you ever come right out in [the open and asked yourself: What is there in this chastity racket, anyway? If you feel a glimmer of concern about these matters, climb up on the curb and get a hodful of Ellen Glasgow: The philosophy of purity discussed pro, con, and who-gives-a-damn. The book is subtitled "A Comedy of Morals" and is dedicated "To J James Branch Cabell . . . in ack- nowledgement of Comething about Eve. . . this book that commem- orates the chivalry of men." So you know right off what the at- mosphere is going to be. That crack about "the chivalry of men" was made with tongue in cheek, and a knowing wink at James Branch. The book records the tol- erance and sympathy of one man for the fallen sisterhood (one slip counts a fall) and the faith in the double standard held by the bal- ance of the male sex and most of the other. It's a good thing Mrs. Glasgow called it a comedy--otherwise you wouldn't know where to have her and even now you're not sure; she seems, occasionally, to be in such deadly earnest. For instance: "And out of this desolation, it seemed to him that a burden of futility poured like a shower of ashes into his soul. 'What is the meaning of it all?' he asked himself despondently. 'Where is it leading- What else is left in life after you have had happiness?'" When people begin to cry, "What is the meaning of it all?" you feel an itchy remnider of the Oh, God! school of poetry. Although the book deals to a certain extent with those passion- ate ladies who gave it its title, it is concerned more directly with the effect of these transgressions upon Mr. Littlepage, a Southern gentle- man. Mr. Littlepage, at 57, is, and has always been, a faithful hus- band and is appropriately named Virginius. It takes place in Queen- borough, Virginia, a city of high ideals. The time is some five years after the war--our war, not the one between the states. The first one who stooped to fol- ly was Mr. Littlepage's "poor Aunt Agatha," who slipped in the friv- olous seventies and who had aton- ed for it in the only way a South- ern lady could by shutting herself up in her house, "imprisoned in a tradition.' The second too-generous woman was Mrs. Dalrymple, nearly of an age with Virginius, and the Victor- ian ideal of hour-glass pulchritude if not of virtue. She accepted the traditional fate of the fallen un- complainingly but lightly. Ostra- cism troubled her less than a dearth of lovers. Despite Mr. Lit- tlepage's high principles and his L was as aptly denominated as he spouse), he felt drawn to Mrs. Dal- faithfulness to Victoria (yes, Mrs. rymple. Finally, there was Milly- Mr. Littlepage's stenographer (only). She is a girl congenitally dangerous to men (though, as Mrs. Glasgow would remark, why should men need Safety First signs?) Seduced and defiant she demands "the right to live her own life." Her baby came and died after her betrayer had gone to France. He never knew of the fruits of his passion. Milly, of the new generation, wasn't the girl to throw that up at him. But she wanted him. The war was over, she knew he was alive, but he had not come back. Mr. Littlepage's earnest, beautiful daughter, Mary Victoria, had also tarried in Eur- ope after the excitement, to re- lieve and rescue the Balkans. Mr. Littlepage wrote asking her to look up Milly's deserter. A few months later Mary Victoria returned, with a husband as a surprise for her family. You've guessed it: the bridegroom was none other than Milly's boyfriend. Mary Victoria had see nher duty clearly-it was to save him from himself and from that unsuitable other woman. Im- agine Mr. Littlepage's embarrass- ment. The style of the book is much in the manner of "Juanita Tan- ner's" The Intelligent Man's Guide to Marriage and Celibacy, which is' to say it reeks of G. B. S. Fast ones like "American democracy, in which the superiority of wives is as firmly established as the divine right of averages" are scattered lib- 10:30 A. M.-Regular morning service. Subject: "Spirit." 11:45 A. M.-Sunday School fol- lowing the morning service. 7:45 Wednesday evening testi- monial meeting. The reading room 10 and 11 State Savings Bank Building is open daily from 12 to 5 o'clock except Sundays and Holidays. Hats that reveal eyebrows . profiles foreheads. 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