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Carl Marty Advertising Manager.........ack Bunting Accounts. Circulation.........homas Muir Night Editor-Sher M. Quraishi THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931 CRIME NEWS What Others Say CAN AMERICA GO IT ALONE? (Detroit Saturday Night) A self-sufficient America! What ideal constitutes a more popular theme with some of our patriotic organizations and the editors of the jingo press? But let us con- sider for a moment the situation of one of these editors who is con- tinually thundering against foreign entanglements and who insists on dealing with the rest of the world on the basis of patronizing charity instead of co-operation. Let us re- call some of the international ob- ligations he incurs every day. He rises in the morning and takes a look at the thermometer filled with mercury from Spain. He cleanses his body with soap to which the cocoanut, the palm and olive trees have made their un-Am- erican contributions. He brushes his teeth with a Japanese tooth- brush and pulls on a pair of socks made from silk from the same country. His shoes are as interna- tional in their composition as the league of nations. The buttons on his coat are from the ivory palm of Colombia or Ecuador. He walks out into the dining room on a carpet or a rug whose basis is the jute yarn of India. He sits down to a table covered with Ir- ish linen, sips a little Java coffee and proceeds to cut up a banana from Honduras on a biscuit whose con- stituents once lay on a Kansas wheat field in a sheaf bound with sisal fibres from Yucatan. He finds at his plate the morning newspaper printed on Canadian wood. pulp from ink whose gums, oils and col- ors came from overseas. On leaving the house he puts on a felt hat made from the surplus Australian rabbit crop. He climbs into the seat of his automobile and finds it covered with mohair which once grew in the Malay archipelago. His train is drawn by a locomotive to whose basic substance, steel, 57 countries have contributed 40 dif- ferent materials. Arriving at his office he switches on an electric light which with its connections is the product of five continents, and summons his sec- retary by the office telephone, an instrument to which an Irishman has contributed flax, an Egyptian long cotton fibres, a Hindoo mica, a Russian platinum, a South Afri- can gold, and a native of the Straits Settlements rubber. While his sec- retary is coming he takes out a pen- cil filled with graphite from Cey- lon and proceeds to sketch out an editorial on "America for Ameri- cans-down with the Foreigners!" administration." The government is the goat. Be it admitted that both prohi- bition and Mr. Hoover have their weaknesses. Still they have enough troubles of their own without sad- dling them with all the ills of the universe which may or may not have any connection with them. But it's a convenient method of disposing of problems, and that's what a scapegoat is for. FRENCH LEARNING IN CANADA (New York Times) OaSlED ROLL1 ADVT. ADVT. ADVT. 12 Those of you who have 'Beggar on Horseback" are ones to whom this scientific is addressed. seen the note Our worthy contemporary, THEl MORNING-EVENING, took up the widget situation pretty well, but it did not mention the latest trend, Roll's improved widget machine ("widgeter," to be technical.) 'BECAUSE it is their public duty, newspapers should and must print crime news, but without glori- fying crime or criminals, delegates to the International Association for Identification convention were told in Rochester recently. M. V. Atwood, associate editor of the Gannett newspapers, said that since the primary function of the news- paper is to give an objective view of the world of reality, crime news cannot be omitted. "We have schools to educate us," he said, "and churches to make us better, but we have only the news- papers to tell us about ourselves .. . Whether the story is good or bad is not the concern of the newspaper or the editor. The press is only remiss when it portrays inaccurate- ly or unfairly our world as it ex- ists." This is a sensible view of a ques- tion that inevitably pops up in any national meeting of newspaper men. Mr. Atwood said that he believed the average crime news content of the country's newspaper is only three or four per cent, but there are, however, far too many papers -notably the tabloids-that "playl up" crime far beyond reasonable, proportions. Murders and crimin- al violence of all types make good, s1 The small group in Montreal who The improved mechanism is es- appealed to the Pope for a uni- pecially important because it al- versity of their own must be stir- lows for floating power and throat- red to see the gigantic building of ease: the University of Montreal rising on a northwestern shoulder of hand instead of power if Mount Royal.d Most Canadian universities, like1i ,, many American, have followed 125unds closely the English type, though Mc-r Gill, Dalhousie and Queens are pat- terned after Edinburgh. The Uni- versity of Montreal has turned to the University of Paris for its mod- ( 115 el, and its guiding principle rests 0 on the belief that the university. exists for post-graduate work only. Undergraduate work does not con-Y stitute its main purpose, but serves Improved Widgeter as an adjunct only, and is dele- gated to sixteen colleges classiques located in various parts of the Pro- vince of Quebec. Their course of' study is in no part elective; their professors hold. university appoint- ments; their examinations are set by university officers, and their de-' grees or "brevets" are conferred by the university.q The plans for the university call The Finished Product for one single building, with num-' "The improved wdgeter," stated erous wings, measuring 1,000 feet Fredrick Cady yesterday, between by 960. There are to be a univer- putts, "is especially important be- sity hospital of 480 beds, operating t'cause it is an improved widgeter." rooms, dispensaries, out - patient clinics, dental clinics, an observa- * * * tory tower rising 250 feet above the THE INGENUITY OF SOME St. Lawrence, and a power plant. PEOPLE DEPT. The institution is the first lay MAKE CHECK OF PLANE-Yes- universty in French Canada. It will terday's Daily. borrow professors from French uni- versities abroad, and send each CHILD PRODIGY DEPT. year one of its own to deliver a se- Thomas Alva Edison showed more ries of lectures on French Canada activity and more interest in out- at the Sorbonne. All the lectures side affairs today than at any time are in French, and English is rarely since Sunday when his son, Charl- heard. The University of Montreal es, revealed the 34-year-old inven- represents everything which French' tor was "critically ill." tradition has accomplished while -Ditto it was arriving at a consciousness of -DittoL its power as a distinct force in * * * American life. We don't envy the Lidberghs, About Books- flight over barren Canadian wastes but at least the temperature in theTHTCE RFO cockpit isn't 98 degrees, and they THAT CLEVER FOX, don't keep bumping into "Is it hot NOAH WEBSTER enogh for you?" people. Webster's New International Dic- enough -fftir you?.npeoplo"-.- scribed as "a family of small or acalyptrate (which is not a new word) two-winged flies; apple blotch, which they have as "Hort." A disease of apple trees caused byl the parasitic fungus Phyllosticta solitaria . . . "; campfire-girl; gro- ceteria; lip stick, and so forth; and besides all these a dictionary of geography, of biography, and the whole topped off with a reference history of the World. The style of Mr. Webster and hi., followers is slightly more turgid than that of the delightful Mr. Webster whose Sunday Supplement comic, "The Man in the Brown Der- by," has done so much to keep the pe ws empty on hot Sabbaths. Thus you come slightly bewildered now and then as I did on page 2060 over the following criptic remark. "Strobiliferous-a. Bearing or producing strobiles." In the Dictionary Mr. Webster deals with a great many proper names and some that are not so proper, I fear, among the former of which rank the Nipmucs (a t-e ibe of Algonquin Indians), the Hupas, Walpurgis, and many oth- ers who crowd the overflowing pages in a continuous procession of eves -increasing awesomeness. The little Hupas are really delight- ful, but after you have said that, there is really not much more to say. The perpetual delightfulness on some pages give the effect that everything is "sweet and rosy", somewhat even to the Pollyana effect, thus on page 590 you get in rapid succession: delight n. delight v. t. delight v. i. delighted, delight- ful, delightfully, delightfulness, de- lighting, delightingly, delightsome, delightsomely, delightsomeness ... Though in the next breath, by re- flex perhaps, you may find your- self murmuring: deliquesce, de- liquescence, deliquescent... The Doctors Whoofle. 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MORRILL 314 South State St. Phone 6615 . 0 vCOW'E 2i I fS'f BRN$D 10 "copy" in any paper and they are Such are the international obli- component parts of what we call gations that our militant editor civilization; nevertheless the prac- incurs before he even starts his tice of overvaluating them in front day. Even if he succeeds in provok- pages is justly condemned by good ing war, the war department will journalists. tell him that he must get these Mr. Atwood has little sympathy despised foreigners to lend us at for the sob sister stories on crim- least 30 essential materials before inals and heartily commended the we can carry on war effectively manner in which newsmen strip- against them. ped off the glamor which had sur- The matter with this man is, as rounded Al Capone up to the time ex-Secretary Redfield puts it, that of his arrest. We agree heartily he is doing candle-light thinking with him on that point and look in an electric-lighted world.j forward to the day when all crime news will be handled with proper PLAYING regard for its effect on readers. Un- THE GOAT necessarily glaring headlines over stories that glorify crime will doi (Daily Iowan) more harm than good. One would The children of Israel had a think that never-ending murders charming little custom. Annually, would bring about a general revolt on the Day of Atonement, the sins on the part of those down whose of the people were publicly con- throats the news stories are ram- fessed and formally laid upon the med, but human nature does not head of a goat. This "scapegoat," rebel as often as it should. Rath- as he was called, was then led away er, there is a tendency toward mor- to perish in the wilderness or was bidness, and a too large majority pushed over a precipice. With him eagerly devour the lurid reports of2 went the iniquities of the communi- unethical newspapers whose circu- ty. lation is built upon the sure-fire It was a convenient method of theory that people want thrills. disposal. It is still in use. But it's Newspapers are made by fallible hard on the goat! mortals for fallible mortals and it' Just a few days ago James W. is often difficult to draw a safe line Gerard, pre-war ambassador to of procedure, but in the case of Germany, said that repeal of the crime news it is difficult to see why eighteenth amendment would im- proper judgement cannot be more mediately put a million men to consistently exercised. Thomas work and solve the unemployment Jefferson once said that we should problem. The incident in which n 1 I One of the most remarkable things about all these current air flights is that the names of all the participants can be pronounced by almost anybody. Screen Reflections THE MARQUIS TRANSGRESSES At the Majestic: "Transgres- sion" with Kay Francis and Ricardo Cortez. Closes Fri- day. Ricardo Cortez adds nothing to the plot of "Transgression" which has to do with the age old sub- ject of smooth Spanish villians who flirt in Paris with other men's wives. Kay Francis as the wife of an Englishman falls in love with our Spanish hero. Naturally, Paul Cavanaugh, the husband, returns from India at the crucial moment. However, he most graciously leaves for England while Kay goes to Spain supposedly to a house party. But there were no other house guests. Kay Francis was, as usual very alluring, as a Parisian product, but she is not a convincing tragedienne. It would seem to us that the credit for good acting should go to the minor parts. Nance O'Neil is an excellent old maid, Paul Cavanaugh takes the part of an English hus- band very well. His brusk manner is a pleasing contrast to the effected polish of Ricardo Cortez, who is not f a very convincing Spanish marquis. We always believed that the mo- tion picture had yet to film a pro- duction which was worth repeating. Certainly "Transgression" would not bear a second showing. However we can distinctly recall seeing . a plot similar to "Transgression" which starred Conway Tearle sev-1 eral years ago. Or maybe a dozen of them. The added attractions include a rather interesting trip through Aus- tralia. Ford Sterling appears in a comedy, "Foolish Forties" and is ex-. cellent. tionary of the English Language, 1929. Published by G. C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Massachus- etts; Price-Enough all right, all right. Review Copy from The Michigan Daily Library. Typewriter by Royal; paper by Bond; Review set, up and printed by Ann Arbor Press, Maynard Street. You can't start about reading this book in the usual way. The publisher has gone and printed four pages of color plates ilustrat- ing: a) the official flags of the Uni- ted States; b) Great Seals of the United States and Territories; c) arms of various nations; d) arms and flags of Great Britain and her colonies; e) flags of various na- tions, and lastly, f) yacht club flags of the United States and Canada. It is a darnable idea-as full of holes as a seive, you- know. It as- sumes that you are too dumb to know what your country's flag looks like, that it is necessary to start you off with a little color - the plates are magnificently done in four colors, it will have to be (grudgingly) admitted. Though who knows, these may be printed at the demands of our picture-loving American reading public. ' "What is the good of a book without pictures?" said Alice.' Possibly it is the desire of the book publishers to rob the poor talking picture magnates of an op-, portunity of giving the public pic- tures in color; it's hard to specu- late. 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