. Th SUMMER MICHIGANi DAILY Published every morning except Mondhy 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 ofsall news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, postoffice as second class matter. Subscription by. carrier, $t.so; by mail, $2.00. Offices: Press Building, Maynard. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Street,I EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR GURNEY WILLIAMS Editorial Director........ Howard F. Shout City E~ditor.......... Harold Warren, Jr.I Women's Editor . .... Dorothy Magee Music and Drama Editor...'William J. Gorman Books Editor .........Russell E. McCracken Sports Editor............ Morris Targer Night Editors Denton Kunze Howard F. Shout Powers Moulton Harold Warren. Jr. Dorothy Adams Helen Carrm Bruce Manley Assistants Cornelius H. Bertha Sher M. Beukema Clayman Quraishi Constance M. Wethy BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 2"214 BUSINESS MANAGER GEORGE A. SPATER Assistant Business Managers William R. Worboys Harry S. Benjamin Circulation Manager ......Bernard Larson Secretary ........... ....Ann W. Verner Assistants Joyce Davidson Dorothy Dunlav Lelia M. Kidd SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1930 Night Editor-Howard F. Shout- TECHNICALITIES The criticism most often made of the American judicial system is that it permits criminals aind of- fenders of all kinds to escape pun- ishment by taking advantage of technicalities of the law. The pa- pers are filled with stories of trials that came to naught when a de- murrer was over-ruled or a declar- ation refused as being made out in wrong form. Naturally, the average citizen is a little skeptical of a kind of justice that deals in technical, distinctions to the extent of losing sight of the broad issues of the case. The statements made recently by Prof. John D. Wickhem of the law school, visiting professor from the University of Wisconsin, in this connection would seem to indicate that the rules of procedure and evidence are not so deserving of criticism as we might think. Rules of evidence are, according to Pro- fessor Wickhem, "the result of years of judicial experience, and represent the judgment of men ex- perienced in litigation as to the factors which will produce order, expedition and fairness in jury trials." The most superficial study of this subject is sufficient to convince us of the efficacy of these remarks.' Every regulation of the method of presenting and building up a case at bar is obviously designed to serve as an aid to the dispensing of jus- tice, for example, the hearsay rule, the principle of judicial notice, cer- tain provisions for the admitting of confessions and former declara- tions of deceased witnesses. All are designed with one purpose in view -justice. The question then confronts us: What is the cause of the injustice in our courts if not the technical loopholes with which our laws are, perforated? Strictly speaking, tech-l nicalities are the cause of it, but About Books T RL MISS SPENCER'S CONSOLATION REMARKABLE FIRST NOVEL. GRA AEPOOR Gallow's Orchard by Claire Spen- DeaRAsterE cer; Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York; Price $2.50. How in Sam Hill is a newcomer Gallows' Orchard is a remarkable (I almost said freshman, because first novel. The author, Claire I feel that way on this campus, Spencer, is a very young woman when in reality I am supposed to hardly out of her teens. She is not be a dignified grad) going to know acquainted with contemporary lit- what to do and what not to do on erature, nor has she done much this plot of soil and buildings with the stock readings in the his- called campus. I am a reader of tory of literature. The novel is an unique piece of wdrk, it is delight- signs, and obey to a letter the law ful and fresh, free from the usual in regard to smoking in buildings maneuverings of the average sec- because I don't smoke. ond rate novel. It is this quality, Of course, I have been studying this freshness, that is the book's on the Engineers' benches, and re- greatest attraction. ciprocated with angry glances It is the story of Effle Gallows, a those that I received. I didn't w i I d 1 y romantic creature, who know I was trespassing. comes into conflict with the stan- T dard morality of her little town, Then I took my girl through the Durkie, Scotland. She attracts three main entrance of the Michigan men to her, and is the death of one. Union, and the looks I received They worship her, she is not un- from other members of my species derstandable to them, they worship were enough to kock a man cold. her as some abstract force, some- Then I haven't said anything thing beyond good and evil. She about how I get tangled up in 11- antagonizes her differences with braries going out the wrong door the townspeople and finally per- and coming in the wronger one. ishes at their hands. Only this af- I write my old Sweetie back home ter two very strange weddings, a that if I ever get out of the Uni- mysterious illegitimate child, a versity alive, we will have wedding brawl, a murder, a prison escape, bells in September. I never want a stoning. This may suggest some- to come back to this campus again. what the dramatic nature of the As yet, I haven't tried all the story. It is very romantic and thrill- buildings, nor all the doors, nor all ing. The author must be somewhat the benches, but every time I find wildish like the heroine of the tale, it necessary to try a new one I of- if one can judge from the loose ar- fer up a prayer for protection. rangement and choice of the inci- Yours in Suffering, dents of the book. There is a spon- A NEW GRAD taneity in this arrangement that lgives it the saving quality of youth. * * Miss lSpencer must have lived with So about all you have to com- the characters she presents, she plain about are a few dirty looks must have loved them all. Her pre- from the Engineers, some nasty og- sentation is of one of anartist who lings in the Union, and nothing is enthusasti, and excited about more than getting smewhat be- his creations. This excitement and fuddled with the library doors and spontaneity gives the book a sense their chief guardians, the desk of realness, gives it a human value boys. Now, look here, Grad, thems over-and above its delightfulness as not grounds for complaint in any a rich romantic tale. It is its high- sense of the word. est value. Regarding Effie's attitude toward Wait till you've been here a year the standard morality of her town,I or so and have accidentally walked it is remarkable how well Miss into a nest of embryonic surveyors Spencer has ben able, like a good peeking through spy-glasses and artist, to keep herself in the back- holding up sticks and waving their ground. The book utterly lacks a arms, wait till you've done that point of view. One might argue and heard them address you in the that the schoolmaster who tells the'language that "only the angels may tale represents the author's opin- hear", then you'll begin to under- ions, were it not that the school- stand. master is so completely a masculine Wait till you've paid five cents in and individual character, were it the Union tap-room for a strip of not that upon close examination bacon that would make a postage you find that he is different from stamp look like the facade of An- anything this feminine author pos- gell hall by comparison, wait till sibly could be. The schoolmaster you've tried to get elevator service, unhesitatingly worships Effie, with wait till you've tried to get some all her faults, in all her selfishness. information at the desk, then you'll Surely this is not Miss Spencer's be able to endorse your letter pro- point of view or she would not have perly. shown so sympathetically the wick- And smile when you say that edness of Effie as viewed in Mist- about the library until you have ress Weir's eyes. No, Miss Spencer had a slight difference with the la- has performed her task as an ob- dies who barge about the grad jective artist very well, she has al- reading rooms in our General Li- lowed the characters free play to brary, hold off your comments un- I their own personality. This quality til they've withered you with one in a young artist, such as Miss of their withered withering eyes Spencer is, is very noteworthy, it is and spat venom at you from their a feature that should be encour- rapier tongues and raised eyebrows aged in artists young and old. to high heaven, making pink rem- The style is not normal, it is issness blaze to scarlet sin, then highly romantic and personal. The you'll be a man, my son. author has subjugated her char- All of which means, friend, that acters to a diction that is distinctly even we, to whom the campus is her own. The word combinations at as familiar as a co-ed's face, have times are hilarious, then gaudy, been but only a few days ago sometimes sheer flimsy. But they sneered at in the library's Maga- are delightful in their unrealness. zine Room, only yesterday shouted Surely Miss Spencer must be placed at in the Union, and spend our days among the worshippers of words. As in terror and our nights in dread you read you are ever conscious of at the prospects of meeting one of I FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Cor. S. State and E. Washington Sts. Rev. Arthur W. Stalker, D.D., Mini. ister; Rev. Samuel J. Harrison, B.D., Associate Minister; Mr. Jack Luther, in charge of Student Activities for the Summer. 10:30 A. M.-Morning Worship. Subject: "A Laboratory Test of Religion." Speaker: Doctor Lewis 0. Hartman, Editor of Zion's Herald, Boston. 12:00 M.-Discussion Group for Students at Wesley Hall. Leader: Prof. W. C. Rufus. 6:00 P. M.-Wesleyan Guild De- votional Meeting at Wesley Hall. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Huron Street East R. Edwards Sayles, Minister 9:45 A. M.-Church School. 9:45 A. M.-Class for Students. 10:45 A. M.-Morning Worship. Sermon by Dr. John Mason Wells on "The Quest for God." PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS We have all makes. Remington, Royals, Corona, Underwood Colored duco finishes. Price $60 O. D. MORRILL 314 South State St. Phone 6615 GRUEN WATCHES DIAMONDS HALLER'S Jewelers State Street at Liberty WATCH REPAIRING FINE JEWELRY ST. PAUL'S LUTHERN CHURCH (Mo. Synod) Third and West Liberty C. A. Brauer, Pastor Sunday, August 3 BIBLE SCHOOL 8:30 A. M.-Preparatory Service. 9:00 A. M.-Sermon and Holy Communion in German. 10:15 A. M.-Morning Worship. 7:30. testimonial meeting. ST. ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Division and Catherine Streets Rev. Henry Lewis, Rector Rev. Thomas L. Harris, Assistant 8:00 A. M.-Holy Communion. 11:00 A. M.-Holy Communion: Sermon by Reverend Mr. Harris. The Reading Room, 10 and 11 State Savings Bank Building is open daily from 12 to 5 o'clock, except Sundays and legal holidays. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Huron and Division Sts. Merle H. Anderson, Minister 5.30 A. M.-Church School. 10:45 A. M.--Morning Worship. Dr. James J. DeKraker, Big Rapids, Mich. 5:30 P. M.-Social Hour for Young People. 6:30 P. M.-Young People's Meet- ing. FIRST CHURCH CHRIST, SCIENCE 409 South Division 10:30 A. M.-Regular morning serv- ice. Sermon topic: "LOVE." 11:45 A. M.-Sunday school follow- ing the morning service. :. P. M.-Wednesday evening t more generally, it may be said that' it is the application of the rules by the individual courts, and the ten- dency to complicate and formalize the original simple rules of proce- dure and evidence. In a discourse entitled "Befuddled Justice" Thomas Compere recently laid bare, the, evils existing in our system of lower courts. The great speed with which it is necessary to try cases, the poor facilities for handling and conducting the trials, and the maze of political and crim- inal intrigue and entanglement that binds, the arms of justice, are illustrated by this able writer. He has pointed out for us the first rea- son for injustice, namely, the mis- application of the rules of trial. We may add to this the tendency to make more complex the simpli- city of laws, as they are first estab- ished, by exceptions, qualifications, and interpretations. Naturally jus- tice becomes "befuddled," and this is the source of the true techni- cality. It must be understood, how- ever, that all the alterations made in the original doctrines are made in the interests of justice, in an her presence behind the lines, shap- ing and moulding the words into their weird arrangements. In its attractiveness Miss Spencer's style suggests a comparison with that of Miss Robert's. There is a deeper note in the prose of the latter, it is slow and drawly, like the brogue of the mountaineers she writes of. In Miss Spencer there is a higher pitch; it is wild and imaginative, a shrill beat here and there, maybe akin to the Scotch people of her story. When you are making out your list of books to read, do not forget Gallows' Orchard. It is quite a remarkable experience from point of view of subject matter, method, and style. R. E. M. those bloodthirsty Engineers when he isn't sober. And if you have wedding bells in September, we're willing to wager that by December you'll be so glad to get back for just one good bawl- ing out in the Union, or the Engine Arch-or even one of the grad reading rooms-that you'd pawn the five-dollars-down-five-dollars- a-week living-jroom rug for just forty-eight hours in dear old An- nie's Arbor. * * * ' The following item was discover- ed by our ferret-eyed ferret while snooping about in the Twice-A- Week University District Herald, an exchange newspaper from Seattle, Washington, which we shall refer to later in more detail. "Spry Mister Stork, busily flying over District homes, has flopped his wings, and rested over the Wal- principle apply to varying situa- tions. If the dockets were cut in half in each court by the appointment of more judges, the many and rami- fled branches of the law might be do Sanatorium five times in the employed more carefully, and all last two weeks, each time sneaking the rules and regulations applied I a tiny bundle through the win-' when and as they should be. Un- dows. Three girls and two boys as- fortunately, the citizenry is more i sisted at these surprise parties." interested in criticizing the Judicial iEven In the far West they still system than in supporting it with can be surprised. sufficient funds to enable it to tune- *SV%. AA 1... Ivy,4.. - , .c-- w ,...- ___