PAOi TesO THE suAVnR MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1031 w w r!tn tamesbd y morning exceept Mondae tE l Omversltj Summer Session by the to Onto a Student Publieations. The Asdt~at d Fres is exclusively entitled M risefor republication of all news die. L redited to it or not otherwise credited bsi payer and the local news published lit e.iAhls.ofrepublication of special disptekee hes are alec reserved. Datered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, post- o9is us second class matter. Subsoription by carrier, $1.60; by mail, $f1.75. Olie": Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. "r eeohnes: Editorial, 4925; Business !,84. EDITORIAL STAFF MANAGING EDITOR HAROLD 0. WARREN, JR. 3Ditrial Director........... Gurney Williams ASSOCIATE EDITORS 0. W. oarpenter Carl Meloy R. Chubb Sher M. Quraishi Barbara Hall Eleanor Rairdon hi.. Manchester Marion Thornton P. Cutler Showers BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM R. WORBOYS Assistant Business Manager .. Vernon Bishop Contrasts Manager............ Carl Marty Advertising Manager......Jack Bunting Accounts. Circulation......... Thomas Muir Night Editor-GURNEY WILLIAMS TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1931 presentation of conditions is good "roughage" for the American mind, and we wish every citizen could be made to read every report in full. What Others Say a nice sunny slope adjacent to a watermelon patch. Approach it stealthily, keeping a wary eye out for the owner. Choose your fruit; it should be deep green, large, and should give out a gurgling sound when shaken. Then run quickly to the slope, with your melon tuck- ed under your arm. After you get there, drop it on a convenient stone. It will bur4 lusciously, scattering seeds-black seeds-at your feet. Then pick uv It - OT UEDROLL THE FISH IS A VERY FUNNY FELLOW ..s f k The Rolls staff woke up to find this in its Daily: Sunday THE TIME FOR ACTION (Daily Iowan) the pieces and eat them as fast asI In New York, where the volume you can, stopping for breath only of crime has gradually made citi- when absolutely necessary. You will, zens indifferent to tragedy, there in time, learn to shoot the seeds is now a thoroughly aroused com- out of one side of your mouth while munity as the result of the death absorbing melon with the other. of one small child and the injury of When you are filled to repletion, four others by a carelessly aimed walk slowly to the nearest brook, gang gun. bathe your hands and, face in the Such an atrocious crime is sym- cool water, and lie down to sleep bolical of the condition which has in the sun. developed in the organized crime And that is the only way to eat sector of large metropolitan areas. watermelon. Consideration of this It seems incredible that a single in- technique shows how illfitted city stance of this kind does not incite dwellers are to express an opinion, a horrified civilization to even. favorably or otherwise, on this king greater drastic, concerted action. of fruits. However, it is encouraging to1 learn that New Yorkers have not become so utterly calloused to the WHAT'S GOING ON' ruthless tyranny of "the racket" H TSG IG O that they are willing to ignore fear -_ less machine gunning of babies. Vigorously awakening of a torpid TODAY citizenry is the only effective solu- 4:00 - Educational Conference,' tion to the fan. rule a rblem and "The rT~irh hec. Pprn 11 Qc.4- LOW WATER KILLS FISH, KRULL SAYS Research Confirms Opinion, Uni- versity Fish Pathologist Reports to State. (Special to The Daily) LANSING, Aug. 2-The lack of water and the low lake lev- els which occurred at spawn- ing time this year are the rea- sons given by the institute for fisheries research of the Uni- versity of Michigan for the large numbers of fish deaths reported from many inland lakes. * * * This mesage from Wendell F. Krull, fish pathologist of the in- stitute, galvanized us into action. Before you could say Jack Robin- son, or Nikolaus Popolopolopolopft, we had set about refining and ar- ranging our material for a com- plete expose of the fish situation. . , e DRUGS For A Lilmited Time Only! PARKER PENCILS $to $5 PARKER PENCILS GIVEN with latest model Parker pens at $3.50, $5, $7, or up to $10, including guaranteed for Life Duo- fold Pens. KODAKS r . ,. _. INEFFICIENT POLICE CHARGES of political corruption inefficiency, ill-equipment, in- competent personnel, and bad training are contained in the four- teenth report of the Wickersham Commission to President Hoover The report, signed by the ten com- missioners who conducted this phase of Wickersham's investiga- tions, stated that little success was possible for the first arm of the law until some general and con- structive changes were made. What these changes should be the Com- mission did not say; it disclaimed authority to make recommendations to city officials as to how the should reorganize or remodel their police forces. Police units in virtually every principal city were criticized or one or more of the counts covered by the Commission. The repori maintained that with the exceptio of two cities, "on a basis of this study not a single police force o cities above 300,000 population ha an adequate commission system and equipment essential in these days to meet the criminal on ever terms." Whether Detroit was one of the exceptions the report did not but the ability of Detroit police fly- ers to make 60-second arrests b3 use of radio-equipped cars was fa- vorably mentioned. The report made no bones aboul facts. The first paragraph set a pace that was maintained through- out, and which strikes a timely note: "The general failure," it reads "of police to detect and arrest crim- inals guilty of many murders, spec- tacular bank, payroll and othei hold-ups, and sensational robberies with guns, frequently resulting i the death of the robbed victims has caused a loss of public confi- dence in the police of our country.' New Yorkers must have sat up and taken notice at that, with the re- cent gang shootings in Harlem still occupying their attention. New York Police Commissioner Mul- rooney took issue with Wicker- sham's report that "political con- trol in the police system in Ne~ York is deplorable." He insisted that candidates are selected from civil service lists and that politics has nothing to do with it. Whether or not this is true in New York or any other city mentioned in the report is not far us to debate; the point we wish to bring out is that vio- lent reactions to Wickersham's claims will justify all the time, money and trouble spent by the in- vestigators. Say "'Wickersham Committee" to a group of people and most of them will snicker. We recall part of the Commencement address g i v e n here last June by President Coff- man of Minnesota in which he stated that the most popular sub- stitute for Anerican intelligence is the appointment of committees. President Coffman hit the bell with that statement. There is a re- grettably small amount of interest shown in the work done by most committees, simply because, as President Coffman implied, people are too lazy or smug or blissfully ignorant of actual conditions to act. Wickersham investigations are, however, presenting facts in such a way that people who have refused to believe them can no long- er ignore the situations they ex- pose. - The Commission has cost the na- tinn nanr1 half millon dn*lo'r g g p***o*- ,**'*d-,1** eac r I. l'The fiasa es nsh (n.; p.FISHES, or col- if New York really means business, ant Professor Edgar G. Johnston' eis FISH) isHEn i rsting perhaps the day for action is at principal of thfmUniversieyig o F our nationalwan int rest ng Highschool.Iof the most confusing things about ADVENTURE 5:00-Lecture, "Romantic Spain" being a fish-as we diagnose it- BY PROXY (Illustrated). Prof. Herbert A. Ken- would be the great variety of names yon. Natural Science auditorium. you are called. In several absurd (Daily Iowan) 8:00-Concert, James Hamilton, hr nlanguages (which it is not tenorhere convenient to list, for obvious Will the public tire of "new" tenor; Wassily Besekirsky, violinist; reasons you would have to answer round-the-world flights and non- Hanns Pick, cellist; and Josephr1 to fisch, fisc,wsvss sr stop records? Brinkman, pianist, all of the School piscis, and i fiskas.s Boardman and Polando have just of Music faculty. Hill auditorium. To make things worse, you would hopped from Broadway to the land have to look yourself in the eye of the Crescent. The Graf is back Theatres. and acknowledge that you were one in the home hanger after a loop Michigan-"Smart Money" with of numerous completely equatic, into the Arctic. Pangborn and Hern- Edward G. Robinson, James Cag- waterbreathing cranite vertebrates don are somewhere in Russ'ia on ney and Evelyn Knapp. Also Bob- with a somewhat fusiform body, to the New York to New York circle. by Jones' "The Brassie." boot. Amy Johnston is on her way from Majestic-"The Night Nurse" with Take this report from the insti- London to Tokio. The Lindberghs Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon and tute, for instance. In discussing are leisurely taking their aerial va- Clarke Gable. a fish disease, it stated: cation tour. Why do the papers Wuerth-Lew Ayres in "Up for "This is in some way associat- streak their pages with headlines Murder." ed with the lack of water, but and pack the columns with the lat- * * * just how is another question." est "dope" on it all? WEDNESDAY So it goes, one thing after an- Probably most of the masses will 3:00 - Lecture "The Historical other. If someone isn't trying to never make such trips, at least un- Pageant." Thomas Wood Stevens, catch you on a silly hook, he's put- til the pioneering days are over, guest director of Play Production ting you in a bowl or studying your But the spirit of it is i their blood. Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. (Open reflexes with red and green lights. mire and applaud those who do en- only to invited guests and to hold- Even your private life is invaded. gage in trail-blazing. ers of season tickets for the Michi- In that report we mentioned: Psychologists call it "vicarious gan Repertory plays.) Since the water level was low experience." What does it mean? 4:00 - Educational Conference, at the spawning time of com- It means the five-and-ten girl "Do College Students Retain What mon fish found most abundant- thrilling over her early morning They Have Learned?" Assistant ly in Michigan lakes, and since edition on the street car, and im- Professor A. C. Eurich of the Uni~ they are particularly sensitive agining herself Anne at Lindy's versity of Minnesota. University to . water conditions, their side. It means the plutocrat chuck- High school auditorium. spawning activities, no doubt, ling over his noon edition and the 5:00-University Lecture, "Arnold were interferred with, event to picture of a pair of Americans sur- Bennett." Prof Erich A. Walter. the extent of making some of rounded by a flock of curious Turks. Natural Science auditorium, the normal spawning beds un- It means the dinner table council 8:15-"Beggar on Horseback" by available for fish. In Lake Mit- in the "average" family on "Boy, George S. Kaufman and George chell, Wesford county, for in- boy-what will they do next?" They Connelly. Michigan Repertory stance, the black bass did not all feel that they have been some- Players. Lydia Mendelssohn the- occupy their spawning beds where. atre. this spring. So long as new adventures and T*trs new heroes are to be found they Theatres. continue their hero-worship and Michigan-"Smart Money." What if you do want a bit of coike t heirhngersoth-worind Majestic -"Transgression" with night life, and don't get home to like it n So lngas t ordhinar h Kay Francis and Ricardo Cortez. your pillow before July? What bus- work-a-day world and for the price Wuerth-Lila Lee and Fred Koh- mess is it of theirs? But no, they or-aw-dycler in "Woman Hungry" and re- must go messing about! of atwopenny paper go a-zeppe- lining with Eckener in the polar quest feature, "Little Caesar" with If you don't think this business regions-so long will these feats of Edward G. Robinson. of being a fish is getting pretty regair crowd the front page. * * * bad, look at the chart below: the aTHURSDAY Calkins-Fletcher Drug Co. t r f } TI i T I South State Street C CANDIES Three Dependable Stores South Cor. East and South University State and Packard SODAS N. - Don't Put It Off Till Next Month"" . I1 k 1 " f i , ''i - I IN PRAISE OF WATERMELON 1 (Daily Illini) Now that the hot days of summer are here in dead earnest, we wish to come out unrestrainedly in favor of watermelon. Of late, the watermelon contin- gent does not seem to be as large or as enthusiastic as it used to be. Unsympathetic and soulless ob- servers have been casting asper- sions-some even saying that it is' not better than a glass of water' sugared and colored with cochineal. To this heresy, however, we wish to protest strenuously. Watermelon is ambrosia, delicately flavored, cool, crisp, rosy. And anybody who doesn't think so is an unfeeling, shortsighted ignoramus! There are qualifications, however. Watermelon at its best is found south of the Mason-Dixon line. We wager that there are some whose sole acquaintance with watermelon is through those soft, flabby melon balls served in a glass cup at the more expensive restaurants. Oth- ers, to be sure, have eaten their melons in thick, natural slices- but nevertheless have never tasted any but those picked green and "ripened" on a freight car travel- ing north. The true watermelon lover, however, knows that fruit like this should be shunned like the nlague. There is one way, and only 5:00-University Lecture, "Elec- tricity in Modern Life" (illustrated with motion pictures. Prof. Benja- min F. Bailey. Natural Science auditorium. Theatres. 8:15-"Beggar on Horseback." Ly- dia Mendelssohn theatre. Michigan-"Confessions of a Co- Ed" with Sylvia Sidney. Majestic-"Transgression." Wuerth-"Woman Hungry" and, "Little Caesar." * * * FRIDAY 8:30-Social Evening. Under the auspices of the Women's League. 1 Open to all students of the Sum- mer Session. League building. _____ (Chart showing increase or de- Theatres crease among pickerels as against 8:15-"Beggar on Horseback." Ly- trout, or both.) dia Mendelssohn theatre. * * Michigan-"Confessions of a Co- In fact, the whole wretched prob- Ed." lem is summed up pretty well by Majestic-"Transgression." Webster's Dictionary, when it says: * * * "The eggs are meroblastic SATURDAY and often produced in im- 7:45 a.m.-Excursion Nine, New mense numbers. Many elasmo- Michigan State prison, Jackson. branchs and some other fishes Reservations in Summer Session of- are viviparous." fice, room 9, University hall. Trip * * * ends 12:15 p.m., Ann Arbor. When you've said that, you've said it all. Theatres. * * * Michigan-"Confessions of a Co. Today's instalment of the Mam Ed." moth Serial is Omitted because we Maiestic--"The Seret cal" with ncoldn't find nusin Flntsch. t v .; rAo 1' I A Three Minute Phone Call Will Do It For You Now! That attractively furnished suite, or that nice, large airy room that you want to rent next fall . . . have you rented it yet? 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