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THE SUMMER MICMGAN DAILY

TUESDAY, JULY 1, 100

TED SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1930

r TOinEROLL b About Books
Published eveymoring e-ept Monday IW'EHRE / ______________________________
during. the Unvesity nSummer Session by AEt NLPANS'EEYHN
the Board in Control of tudent =Publications WEREHRE L.I..a The Long Trek by Richard L.
The Associated Press is exclusively en- Sto n ihr .Sto r
tifled to the use for republication of all news We overheard some Iron Moun- Sto n ihr .Sto r
dispatches credited to it or not otherwise The Mosby Press, St. Louis, Mo.
credited in ,this paper, and. the- local.,news tain school teachers, .revived. co-
published herein._ eds if you want to put it that way, There is always a delight, a spec-
Entered. at the Ann Arbor, Michigan sitting. on the bench, that stone, ial delight, in reading_ an auto-
poustofce as second class matter cold and hard. bench in front of grpe book. You feel in a sort
Subscription by carrier,) $x.5o; by- mail,grpe
$2.00. the lbay n hs oes(no lsns ihteato ee
Offices: Press Building, Maynard Street, lbay n hs oes(no lsns ihteato ee
Ann Arbor, Michigan. the good old summer time) these though most copies a la autograph
EDITORIAL STAFF Said- co-eds were singing - ah, cost ten dolars and up). My de-
Telephone 4925 would I could capture the luscious light in reading The Long Trek
sweetness of their warble - this, has been extra special. Th e
MANAGING EDITOR dear reader, is' what they were night I was reading it, reading
GURNEY WILLIAMS singing -- this, this, ah this-: it under a bridge light that at-
Editorial Director......... Howard F. Shout Shoo fly don't bother me tracted every miller and June fly,
City Eiditor..... ..... Harold Warren, Jr. Shoo fly don't bother me in the neighborhood, my delight
Women's Editor .. .......Emily Grimes
Music and Drama Editor. .. William 3. Gorman Ditto was to meet hand to hand the Dr.
Books Editor ......... Russell E. McCracken
Sports E;ditor...... .... .... Morris Targer For we're in summer school Sutton Jr., who helped in the mak-
Night Editors you see ing of the book. I met the young-
Powers Moulton Howard F. Shout Getting our .M. A. degree. er Dr. Sutton, the Michigan gradu-
Harold Warren, jr. * * ,
Assistants ate, 29M, who was responsible for
Helen Carrm Richard Hurley Speaking of park benches two long chapters and about half
Dorothy Magee Sher M. Quraishi or were we speaking of them? the photographs contained in this
does one speak of park bench- record of an African and South
BUSINESS STAFF es? is that one of the things Asian trip.
Telephone 21214 too that JUST ISN'T DONE. The Long Trek is the story of a
BUSINESS MANAGER Well, speaking of park benches, year's hunting trip spent in Ugan-
GEORGE A. SPATER where was I? oh, park bench- da and Indo China, a year spent in
es, speaking of them, school exploring with gun and camera.
Assistant Business Managers teachers dears, don't you get Dr. Sutton Sr. is a well-known big
William R. Worboys Harry S. Benjamin cuh nte.N o' o aehne.H a eno
Circulation Manager ........ Bernard Larson cuh nte.N o' o aehne.H a eno
secretary .. Ann W. Xerner dare! Why I know a girl one, trips. on two previous occasions.
Issu EdtorHOWRD . SOUT a big girl, a girl big like Molly This was Sutton Jr's. initiation
IsueEitr-O AR F HOT Konglomeritz, school teacher to elephant and tiger trails. We
TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1930 from Iron Mountain, why I are told in the introduction to the
know - - bz, bz, bz. No don't book that the recent trip was a
EXIT VACATIONS you dare get caught. Study and kind of. birthday party in celebra-
be sweet and be nice and let tion of the son's graduation from
The last of the dignified seniors, Masters wait till by and by. college, a party planned by father
diploma in hand, has marched his * * * and son long ago when. they hunt-
way off the campus; the old grads, EXPOSTULATION ed "ordinary" game in the various
Dear Teacher: Please excuse me wild places of this country.
to the last man, have held their but I've never been out with a The book is a very interesting
reunions, 'reveled in the spirit of school teacher (a perriniel co-ed) yarn, especially interesting to us
former days, and taken themselves 'before. "home men" for whom the most
back home again. The university, AND REPLY dangerous moment of life is the
sthrough with the formalities of Dear Johnnie: I'll say you ain't. whelpish 1921 Flivver that jumps
* * *the kerb every morning as we wait
commencement week, is now ready on the corner for transportation to
to settle into the routine of the town. We who get -adventure out
Summer Session. of preposterous dime thrillers find
Already the official, announce- in this book of the Drs. Sutton
meathas ome hatfourthouandwhat. the real thing, is like. The
menthas ome hatfourthouandnarrative is told in a leisurely arm-
students are expected to take work chair style, told with delightful
at Ann Arbor this summer. The humour. It is scholarly; especially
number 'seems somewhat startling the chapter "Kiswahili" by Sutton
when wey realize that this is far LITTLE CINDERELLA (Associat- Jr., dealing with the language of
more than a third of the whole ed Press ,wire apologizes for not se- these people (the Kiswahili is the
student population during the reg- curing her photo) LOST HER SLIP- name of a tribe) is commendable.
ular school year. PER, lost her slipper in the strug- I talked with Dick about the
Searching back through the files gle to get away. book. I asked him about "them
we discovered that the total enroll- * * * elephants" (which weren't caught).
ment for the Summer Session of Dear Mack: Well, I have always been leary of
1920 as published in The Wolverine Did 'little Cinderella get fishermen and game hunters, they
(the then summer newspaper of away? are such darnable liars (the big-
the University) was 2,218 or a lit- Stan ger the game they go after, the
tle more (than half of..the number * * * bigger the lie they bring back-is
expected, this year. In -ten years Stan: an old proverb), but at least these
the Summer Session has doubled Sh, sh, little fella, it's Drs. Sutton are consistent. Father
its enrollment. only a mother goose story.todnhighasnwulnt
There are only two possible caus- There aren't any more Cinder- stand by and swear to!
es for this increase: that the Uni- ella's and they don't run away.NER LO .
versity has been able to offer MackNER LO .
courses of study, facilities for re- Sweet Man by Gilmore Millen;
search, and an atmosphere favor- Ladies, and gentlemen (if there The Viking Press; $2.50.
able to summer work, which have are any since prohibition) Mack You start about reading this
attracted more and more students; has just passed out while striving book with a lot of advertising blurb
and that summer vacations of the valiantly to finish the column, fresh in your mind. Carl Van
long, leisurely type are gradually Consequentlymnooe, e witht the make-up Vechten says: "This powerful
disappearing from the scene. safo h teIl iihti novel flames like a great lithograph
There is little to consider in re- ctffoluntorsepthrouglfnh thiol printed in red and black and gold
spet to :the first point that is not clm rseptruhta of. .,.. daring, even sensational..
well known on the campus. The game tomorrow.* * but true . ... " How much can you
experience and ability of the vis- ncs n fteern e- count on publisher's blurb! After
iting faculty members In the sum- I aeayo h rato r the first fifty pages you-you throw
mer added to the high regard with ring females on the campus (the the blurb quotation into the basket
which our own men are considered, Women's staff just slipped off my with your "delegated" autograph
the interesting and informative se- knee) would like to know what of D. H. Lawrence, etc, etc,-a
ries of lectures, institutes, and this great big handsome author thing quod est demonstrandum.
symposiums which are offered the1 looks like I am enclosing a beauti- Sweet Man is the story of an ir-
students, and the opportunities ful full-length portrait of him. responsible negro, John Henry, ir-

which are given for recreation, all resistible to the ladies (they fought
combine° to make Ann Arbor the over him), irresistive of them.
vacationh home of many. "Sweet man" is the name given to
However, there is certainly some ' a negro who is kept by a dark lady.
basis for discussion: in the second Such was John Henry. It is aj
point we have set above. It has story of pain and squalor brought
oftentimes been contended among about by ignorance. It is a hor-
educators that the long.. summer rible ordeal. We are not in sym-
vacation is a product of the agri- t pathy with the characters, though
cultural (age in America, and that we feel that they are not to blame
it will disappear as the country be- for behaving the ways they do.
comes more and more industrial. 'They are too ugly, too disgusting.
Formerly, of course, students had The whites in the story are very
to be dismissed from school so unreal.
that they could assist in the care*** Compared with the other negro
of the crops. In most communi- And so, after a breath taking novels of our acquaintance this is
ties this circumstance no longer pause," we will continue to tell decidedly inferior. Heyward and
makes such action necessary. It something more about ourselves' Peterkin have done much better
has been forced out by increased (editorial license). We were forc- work . Van Vechten's Nigger Hea-j
industrialism and the recognition ed to close the villa this summer yen, though terribly incompetent,'
of the value of, education. because the bears were so mean in is better. When you compare this
Many schools have taken. the ad- October, but we have kept the cot- whole book to the few pages of An-
vance of inaugurating the four se- tage open at Bar Harbor. derson's Dark Laughter, the few
mester plan,3 under which classes** * pages where Bruce lies on his cot
continue throughout the year. We have been watching this in the negro district of New Or-
When the size of 'our own: institu- campus for a long time in the sum- leans listening to the sounds and
tion is considered, the waste of mer, but we couldn't seem to un- sights of negro life going on out-
overhead costs while "the: school is derstand the innocent young school side his window, compare Sweet
not in session, and the time lost in marm who asked us if Saunders' Man to this bit in Dark Laughter
which the equipment nand facilities Canoe Livery was the place to en- and you will let the book drop.
of the University might be ,devoted rol. There is probably no doubt that
to the increasing of the powers of *' * * the incidents in Sweet Man are
many young men and' women, the And where is our Prexy going? true. But truth to fact is not
four-semester plan, or some other Answer:-Out west to look for a enough for the artist. Something
of similar effect, might wel be ad- snake in the grass. Why didn't he else is needed. That something
opted at Ann Arbor. Certainly, look up the guy that was supposed Anderson found, found in the very
with so great an increase in en t write this column in the first subject that Mr. Millen is hand-
rollment in ten years to be consid-J place? WOW ! I can see the storm ling, and you will find it in Dark
ered, some provision for the future coming now. Laughter on those few pages.
drillha e r ifn hanaaao g,VThe Rumble Seat Romeo. I R .M.

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JULY 4T" HOLIDAYS

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SMART SUMMER FASHIONS FOR THE
FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAYS
No matter how you are planning to spend the great National
Holiday, whether you expect to spend the day at patriotic services,
picnic, a pleasant automobile outing, partaking in outdoor pastimes,
or taking a long "hike" into the country, you'll need appropriate
apparel.
And here you'll find assortments from which you can select
garments and accessories for any holiday occasion; and not for this
one holiday only, but which, will give you service throughout the -entire
summer season.

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Coats and Wraps in Lighter
Weights
Captivating in their dash and youthfulness these
new fascinating modes will occupy an important
place in every woman's wardrobe; hence we show a
wide variety of the very latest models, in fabrics de-
lightfully light, yet heavy enough to protect you
from a chill wind or cool evening.
$1 5.00-$29. 75

Smartest of New
Dresses in Summer's
Best Styles
if the day is warmer the need for
sheer, cool Summer dresses becomes
urgent. Anticipating your needs in
our every day occupation and here
are frocks that are on top of the
Summer dress mode, extremely smart
in their simplicity and gay in color-
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Each new Summer season brings forth its own versions of the always popular sports
fashions-and among the many styles featured here, you will find new and novel ideas
in fabric, in model and trimming touches and in the most becoming of the new colorings.

Knitted Suits
in pastel colors--both two and three
piece.
$10.00--$19.75

Sweaters Skirts
Hose .Scarfs
$1.95
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