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THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929
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Comment I Music And Drama
WHISKY FOR ILLS
Published every morning except Monday
during the University Summer Session by
the Board in Control of Student Publications. (From The Daily Illini)
The Associated Press is exclusively en- The government will soon auth-
titled to the use for 'republication of dil news
dispatches credited to it or not otherwise orize the manufacture of a millionj
credited in this paper and the local news pub-
lished herein. and a half gallons of whisky for me-1
Fntered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, dicinal purposes, only, which all
postoffice as second class matter.
Subscription by - carrier. $r.5o; by mail goes to show that there are still1
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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
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Charles Askren
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BUSINESS MANAGER
LAWRENCE E. WALKLEY
a number of persons in America
who are not well.
A conference was held in Wash-
ington by the representatives of
the leading distilleries in the coun-
try to get in on the business of the
manufacture of thislarge quantity
of intoxicant. There will be a fev-
erish bidding, no doubt by the va-
rious manufacturers to get a part
of this business, for 1,500,000 gal-
lons is a lot of whisky, especially
TONIGHT: Martin Flavin's
"Children of the Moon" in Men-
delssohn Theater, beginning at
at 8:15 o'clock.
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"CHILDREN OF THE MOON"
Reviewed by R. Leslie Askren
An apology is due those who read
in the publicity given this play that
it had successful year runs in New
York and London. The error was
the result of misinformation. I
have not the facts at hand now, but
this is certain that the play was a
"flop" in New York.
Presented by a University group
it becomes a good deal more than
a flop. Judged by my own stan-
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SERVICES
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Huron and Division
JULY 21
10:00 A. M.-Student Class.
10:45 A. M.-Morning Worship.
Rev. Warren E. Hall, Wyan-!1
dotte, Mich.
5:30 P. M.-Social hour for
young people.L
6:30 P. M.-Young People's Ilo
meeting.
FIRST METHODIST
r EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Corner S. State and E. Wash.
Arthur W. Stalker, D.D., and
Samuel J. Harrison, Ministers.
10:30-Morning Worship. Ser-
mon: "Looking For a Sign" by
Mr. Ralph Johnson of The
University.
12:00-Student Class at Wesley
Hall.
CANOEING
Every Afternoon and Evening
Saunders' Canoe Livery
On the Huron River at the foot of Cedar St.
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in a dry country, where distillers d
are ot bsy.dards, producing it was an act of
are not busy. distressing immorality; but there
It was explained that the sup- aresmany whoritgotthfx
ply of medicinal liquor was run- are many who will not go that far
ning low, and that further, it was in condemning it.
the duty of the government to see My analysis of what Flavin has
that the supply was kept up. Whis- 'tried to do (and of course this
ky, regardless of what the extreme springs to a great extent from what
drys seem to think, is evidently a I have tried to do myself upon oc-
necessity, and since it is a necessi- casions) is that he has deluded
ty, the government must see that himself into thinkin
himel ito hikig he was creat-
LAST
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SHOWING
Ran for Five
Years on Broadway
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Assistant Business Manager.... Vernor Davis
Publications Manager-........... ....Egbert Davis
Circulation Manager............Jeanette Dale
Accounts Manager..............Noah Bryant
Night Editor-HOWARD SHOUT
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929
THE CONTROL OF THE MACHINE
Commenting on the development
of the machine age in his recent
publication, "Men and Machines,"
Stuart Chase, president .of Labor
Bureau, Inc., and former member
of the Federal Trade Commission,
declared that instead of man be-,
ing made the slave of the ma-
chine, as has often been said, "en-
gines have been enslaved by 'man."
The worst danger, he averred, is
that any time in the future, ma-'
chines may escape man's "poor dis-
cipline" in a two hour mechanized
warfare in which all the cities of
the world will wipe out one an-
other.
* The picture which the author.
paints for the future is indeed a
gloomy one. Undoubtedly man's
discipline of the powerful machin-'
ery and engines he has invented
is a poor one, consisting only of a
determination to control them and'
to use them to his own advantage.
The purpose of all pacifist agita-
tion is to minimize the possibili-
ties that the machine escape the
control of man, and pursue him,
it is supplied in the quantities
needed.
It would be the subject of an in-
teresting survey, to determine just
exactly how much of the whisky
ing drama by treating exaggerated
characters in a melodramatic plot
through overstatement in dialogue.
It is easy to imagine immense dra-
ma in dialogue like this;
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like a Frankenstein, to his own
destruction.
That man is not at present un-
der the domination of the machine
is matter still open to some dis-,
cussion. Stuart Chase traces the
history of the development of ma-
chinery and comes to the conclu-
sion that man is still the master'
and likely to remain so. We must
accept the result of the lengthy re-
search and study which the authorI
has given to this question, at least
as far as the general conclusion
goes. But it seems to us that there
are a great number of examples
in modern life which tend to prove!
the opposite conclusion the true
one. Machine operators in factor-
ies cannot be observed without
some realization of the powerful
grip in which the automatic mo-
notony of their work has them. A
brief consideration of the amount
of. U iiUnHIn, which hmmn it3
sold each year "for medicinal use Mother; Come here.
only," is really put to that use. Daughter; Come here? 6:00-Wesleyan Gu
Those who are intimate with phy- Mother; Come here! tional Service. M
sicians, or those who can convince, Daughter; No, I won't "come
physicians that they are ill enough here.'
to need a "prescription," are us- I say it is easy to imagine drama
ually willing to pay the rather pro- in such dialogue. The only diffi-
hibitive price for a pint of liquor, i culty is that it does not project CONGREGAT
although they have no intention of as drama on the stage. It becomes
using same for the cure of ills. merely tiresome overstatement -
However, it would be impossible to unless it falls into burlesque.
complete such a survey. Whisky The theme of the play is the in- State and Willia
sold for medicinal purposes, is al- escapable taint of hereditary in
ways used for medicinal purposes, sanity and the tragedy that it Allison Ray Heaps
and few people will make admis- brings when the usual romantic
sions to the contrary. complication sets in. With such
But the fact remains that the material it is possible to conceive
government will issue permits for 'a good play, and Flavin has col-
the manufacture of 1,500,000 gal- lected-I do not say conceived - 10:45-Morning Wo
Ions of whisky, so that the Amer- 'some vivid characters, but the ab- mon by Mr. Hea
ican people, in the midst of a coun- solutely essential problem was to "Skepticism - Wh
try which has prohibition, can be- have made the tragedy inevitable
come ill with a feeling of security as the outcome of human strug- Do About It?"
that they will have enough power- gle with an inescapable, inhuman
ful liquor to restore them to good fact. Where Ibsen succeeded Fla- ----
health. vin has overleaped this aesthetic
distance and probed directly into
the festering tissues of the neuro -
Campus Opinion sis itself. His conception becomes ST. ANDRE
rmorbid and decadent, quite without EPISCOPAL CI
confining themselves to less than 30 the delicacy of treatment that
nnicatos wil ie r Anonymos corn-h characterizes a Beardsley and dis-
names of communicants will, however, covers an aesthetic of evil. THE EIGHTH S
te regarded as confidential, upon re-
qu-st. Letters published should not be The development, carried through
corstrued as exprersing the editorial
-pinion of the Daily a tedious first act, full of exposi-
tion, a second act containing the
HOME TALENT 1horrible. scene between the daugh-
ter and her mother when the birth- 8:00 A. M.-Holy Co
To the Editor: right of insanity is impressed on
The item in the Daily News this the child, and a third act which 11:00 A. M.-Sermo
evening concerning the assurance stops the rising tide of horror by The Reverend He
of the appointment of Dr. Ruthven a mechanically contrived inevita- T
as president of the University re- bility-ending, progressively con-
firms the conviction of false con-
minded me of an old story. It
seems that the jury had been out tent warring with realistic treat-
.some time and when the bai ment-note the super-realism at-
lift calledmatmsupper time to find tempted in the dialogue above - FIRST BAPTIST
out whether they wanted a meal and gives the basis for the charge E. Huron belo
sent in the foreman answered, "Yes, of immorality.
11 dinners and a bale of hay." It The specific nature of the criti- R. Edwardmayes
11 dnnes ad abal ofhay Itcism of immorality is this; Flavin H. R. Chapman,
looks to me as if the next meeting hss troydt vidity FisStudents
of the Board of Regents should be has destroyed the validity of his
served with seven dinners and a subject matter by failing to recog- 9:30-Church Bible
bale of hay. nize the necessity for "aesthetic dis- 10:30-Mr. Saylest
tance" from what is otherwise Subject "FORGIV
Seriously, if the Regents are to merely unpleasant and not at all DEBTS."
be dictated to by one man, per- the material of art. He has wo- (In series on Lo
haps it would be best to save the ven it into a melodramatic plot 12:00-Student Cla
taxpayers of the state a lot of trou- which further destroys its value by House. Mr. Cha
ble if we were to dismiss the rest transferring its reality from "life" Wealth as a Hum
of the board and let this one man to "the theater." Having debased .
do it all. Are we slaves to tradi- 6:00-Social hour an
tion? "It's never been done be- his treatment, he proceeds to gild meeting at Guild
fore!" is a medieval way of think- is tresent, he proes t
ing. ~~~~its presentation in dialogue by the ___________
g technique illustrated above. The ,
Why shouldn't the University result is base metal, unskillfully
have "home talent" for its pres- gilded. UNITAR
ident? Any institution which ad- Is it necessary to add that this CHURC
mits that it cannot train its own morality is based on an ethics that
leaders, should admit its own de- have little to do with the conven- 10:45
feat. We cannot expect others to tional "guides for conduct?"
have faith in those we train here There are laws punishing fakirs Mr. Mar
if we have no faith in them our- for misrepresenting and pawning Will Speak
selves. Furthermore, we owe it to off false goods on a gullible pub-
those who are coming up through lic; a playwright suffers a "flop." "MUST THE NATIO
the ranks, that they should be en- But it is distressing to discover We have been warn
couraged to feel that there is a I false coin passing through Univer- next flareup of i
place for them at the top. The sity hands, particularly when such turmoil will occuri
University has been going to the splendid effort as the cast made whetheand hesChnes
outside for men too much of late. is wasted upon it. the Russian railway
Italy may stand for a Mussolini. A consideration of the players able to the Europea
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wild. Devo-
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EVERY human heart holds the secret of its
success. The greatest love drama ever
written. Made into a supreme motion picture.
Jean Hersholt, Charles (Buddy) Rogers and
Nancy Carroll heading the master cast.
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FRANK R. CAPRA
of depenaence w cn numan y
places on the machine is another
point leading to the same result.
We get our food from automats,
our clothes are made and cleaned
automatically; our dwellings and
offices are erected in the same way,
and in fact, almost every one of
the manifold interests and activi-
ties of humanity today includes the
machine. A man of today would be
as-helpless as an infant if he were
to be placed under the living con-
ditions of two centuries ago, for
he would have to depend solely
upon himself and would be forced+
to live an existence almost entirely
void of any assistance from ma-
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