LAUS !~TWU THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAIL\ TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929 e umu11tr 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 Pub- lished herein. Entered atethe Ann Arbor, Michigan, postoffice as second class matter. Subscription by carrier. $i.5o; by maill $2.00 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 FEditor.. R. Leslie Askren Books Editor............ Lawrence R. Klein Sports Editor............. Cadwell Swanson Night Editors Howard F. Shout S. Cadwell Swanson Charles Aski en Assistants Walter Wilds Harold Warren n Francis O'Keefe Ledru Davis Margaret Harris eilliam Mahey Francis O'Keefe Noah Bryant Bernice Davis Ross Gustin Dorothy Magee Ben Manson 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 Night Editor-Charles A. Askren TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1920 OVERARTICULATE MINORITIES Two or three times a week the press publishes a pronounce- ment by some religious, political, or social organization condemning the smoking of cigarettes or the use of rouge by women, or advising the government to remedy the un- employment situation or to enter the world court. These expres- sions of sentiment by isolated and unimportant groups seem often- times to verge on the ridiculous. Any readers who happen to hold an .opinion contrary to that ex- pressed are practically never in- fluenced to reconsider their own stand on the question, and there is some reason to think that it lowers the dignity and position of these organizations to make a statement which is obviously not within their province and which in the last analysis can have little influence on the general opinion. Of course, it is true trat America is controlled to a dangerous extent by minorities, but it is also true that a minority attempting to con- trol the public opinion in a matter with which it has no reasonable connection is only wasting its time. For example, a religious society recently went on record at its an- nual convention as favoring the entry of the United States into the world court. The connection be- tween religion and the world court seems rather remote. And it Is also questionable whether a state- ment disapproving of rouge and lipsticks will have any effect on the young things who use them. All of these publications of opin- ion are nothing more than propa- ganda with all the smaller minor- ities following meekly in the wake of the larger; most of the religious groups indorse unqualifiedly 'the actions of the anti-saloon league, and the farm associations stand solidly and stolidly behind the doings of the "progressive politi- cians." These are merely examples of minorities. Of course, we repeat that if it were of any benefit to Mrs. McGil- licudy, who lives over on Cypress Avenue, to know that the Amalga- mated Celery Packers Association protested violently against the feeding of vodka to nine-months- old infants, we would have no objections to the publication pf the opinion; but where lies the benefit? It would seem much more reasonable and constructive for the celery packers to tell Mrs. McGil- licudy the best method of serving celery or of raising it. Otherwise the association in question is mere- ly giving vent to an inflated sense of importance. We suggest more constructive and beneficial activities for all the organized minorities in the coun- try. - AMERICA ON WHEELS According to figures recently giv- en out by the American Automobile association, the army of tourists that will stream over America this summer will number 45,000,000. 'ethic ia . lar,. rnmber than wa and brings up a number of serious questions worthy of discussion. The annual exodus from the home town is increasing in impor- tance. every year. It is no longer an event exclusively for the weal- thy to spend a few months at the' seashore or in the mountains; it has become a part of every aver- age family's life. Whereas in for- mer times even the shortest jour- ney was a matter of great mo- ments, requiring extensive prepar- ations and months of planning, to- day the wife and kids are uncere- moniously hustled into the car, the lawnmower shoved into the base-. ment, and some remote part of the country announced as the next stop. In other words, long distince travel has become an incident in the lives of most people. All this is having a tremendous influence on Ameri'can life. For example, sectionalism is dis- appearing under the magic spell of close contact. There can be little. misunderstanding when alldiffer- ences can be discussed face to face. Increased feeling of national unity is the result, and all lack of har- mony yet remaining results only from the strain of business or po- litical competition.- Again, this quick and easy trav- elling is bringing relief from the tense pressure of modern living. It gives these 45,000,000 individuals an opportunity to escape from the de- bilitating routine of-their everyday work; they see new and unfamiliar places and come back with a great- er interest in life. Even more than the educational values of these trips, the relief and leisure which they give are perhaps the only in- fluences tending to combat the drift toward mechanization and Smaterialism To narrow the question down somewhat, the immediate prob- lems arising are those of good roads and highway courtesy. The sum- mer horde of automobile tourists is the supreme test of the suffic- iency of our highway systems. Have we provided enough roads of pro- per construction to take care of all this travel ? Undoubtedly the neg- ative will be proved this year as it has every year in the past. The appropriations for road improve- ment and building will have to become even larger than at pre- sent to keep pace with the enor- mous increase in motor transpor- tation. The matter of highway courtesy -is hashed over about this time ev- ery year, and it has been gratify- ing to notice that motorists as a class are gradually becoming less selfish and more sporting in their use of the roadways of the nation. There is more care at crossings and less of a tendency to claim all the rights of the road. But the pro- portion of accidents due to the criminal carelessness of the small minority who have not yet realiz- ed the necessity for considerate conduct on the road testifies to the need for ever more rigorous en- forcement of highway regulations. {t c 0 0 Music And Drama 1 o 0 TONIGHT: A Recital by Pal-I mer Christian, organist, Thel- ma Lewis, soprano and Mrs. Mayme A. Worley, in Hill Aud- itorium, at 8:15 o'clock. MORE HARANGUES OF HARRIET Dear Josephine:{ I suppose you aren't the only one who has asked cynical and skep- tical questions about my great aunt Harriet. Of course, I admit that it is generally a difficult feat to es- tablish contact with the spirits of the other world. What you need is intense concentration on the sin- gle idea of communication, without distraction. We usually retire into the morgue to do that, I mean the "cut morgue" where they store the pictures of all prominent men they expect to have die or become pres- ident i~n the near future, and you'd be surprised at the number of old pictures we have of really promi- nent men who haven't done either yet. But when we get into the morgue with the door shut and our subjective egos begin to respond to the stimuli (hmm, dun't esk), Har- riet materializes very quickly. As I told you before,- Harriet is a spirit; by which I mean that she is an electric current,mbutan eman- cipated one, not bound by the bore- dom of positive or negative poles. This irresponsibility has its dis- advantages, as Harriet has fre- quently discovered. To show you what I mean: Harriet calls Life a short-circuit with matter. The electricity that we know and use constitutes only a small froction of that contained in Mr. Einstein's curved orange peel of time-space. Harriet of course has free access to all electric fields, and is ever razzing me about the smallness of my world, which she calls a barna- cle on the keel of the Vast Infer- red. When she was out in Holly- wood this spring she made a tour I of the movie studios. TYPEWRITER REPAIRING All makes of ma- chines. Our equip- ment and person- nel are considered among the best in the State. The result of twenty years' . careful building. O. D. MORRILL 17 Nickels Arcade Phone 6615 : I i . j l i ( I 1 i HALLE R S STATE STREET JEWELERS At Liberty Street II' Repairing Watches Jewelry Our Name and History IS YOUR SATISFACTION OR NO CHARGE REENE' Cleaner and DyerS SPECIAL ORDER WORK . 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It is probable that this present conviction is extreme, as his orig- inal prejudice was unjust. That there are young men capable of profiting intellectually by a college education, most professors will agree. But the testimony of this professor to it belief in the serious interest of women in scholarship and culture is worth attending to. He upsets certain traditions in the course of his statement. One is the supposed contradiction between feminine attractiveness and intel- lectual ambition. Another is the dogma that the female sex is un- changeably more conservative than the male. Do not the brightest coeds wears the latest and skimpi- est fashions and are they above the use of cosmetics? But they do show a definite interest in widen- ing their intellectual outlook and in developing a real personality. The male students, however, look on college as a mere aid in train- ing for a definite job in business What suggested, the tour was the recent development of the "talk- ies," particularly that type which transforms sound waves into light waves, and then reorganizes these into electric reproductions of the original sound waves. It seems that it is quite impossible so to insulate the talkie devices so that some electric impulses do not escape and become lost in the race through space. Some of these stray im- pulses had come barging into Har- riet on occasions when she was in her immaterial state and had worked a havoc that was far from immaterial to her peace of mind. Imagine having your frequency split by a loose groan from "The House of Horror!" Well this bom- bardment of half syllables and in- terjections finally became so an- noying that Harriet decided to in- vestigate. It was quite a simple matter for her to get access to the 'various studios; what's to stop a frequency from frequenting any place at all? She was on the First' National lot when "The House of Horrors," now playing at the Michigan, was be- ing shot. I asked her about the scene where the dead chauffeur was apparently dragged by some mys- terious hand into a flaming hell. I wanted to know more about this Hell, since it was the first intima- tion of its existence that I'd had. That embarrassed Harriet. It seems she had something to do with that. Now you know a movie lot is mostly lights and a camera; the floors are paved with light cables. Harriet, wandering around, very much disembodied, stumbled across a light switch, which at once threw her into a quandary, for if there is anything that puzzles her it's a switch-she can't seem to decide between positive or negative forks. Just then Louise Fazenda shrieked in horror and poor Harriet jumped blindly and was carried in a wild ride down the current, dizzily cir- cling through the transformer coils which threw a permanent wave in- to her blond hair, and then was hurled, half embodied, half dis- embodied, through the molecular interstices of the carbons right on- to the set. It was just at the mo- ment when the taxi-chauffeur was on trial before Satan-a scene that is not shown at the Michigan. The chauffeur was swearing, ,as taxi drivers can, and Satan was taking it all in before passing sentence. Well, when they had developed the reel it was discovered that just as the driver had finished his swearing Satan's hair went a glos- sy white and curled into the finest female coiffure you could imagine. Just imagine that and write me. i ;. ill BOOKS -BARGAINS Our Bargain Table of Text And RLEFERENCE BOOKS Cannot Fail to Interest You 50c each WAHURIS BOOKSTORE 'I'l I! p! .,, . 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