TWOt7 SUMIVIER MICHIGAN DAILY __,.,,.Y.,...___. _ _ a __ _ _ _ _ .._.._____________________, ~ ~_ WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 191 a _----I _ _ _ _ _ _ I _I1I wqw 'iimmr Si t e a B ail PbiUshed every morning except Monday iting the University Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis patles credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special 'dipatches herein are also reserved. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, post office as second class matter. Subscription by carrier, $1.50; by mail, X1.76. Offices: Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Telephones: EdItorIal, 49254 Business ' 2-1214 EDITORIAL STAFF MANAGING EDITOR HAROLD O. WARREN, JR. Editorial Director ..........Gurney Williams ASSOCIATE EDITORS C. w. Carpenter Carl Meloy L. R. Chubb Sher M. Quraishi Barbara Hiall Eleanor Rairdon Charles C. Irwin ,Edgar Raine Susan. Manchester Marion Rhornton P. Cutler Showers BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER WILLIAM R. WRBOYS Assistant Business Manager .. Vernon Bishop Contracts Manager .. ..........Carl Marty ' Advertising Manager......... Jack Bunting Accounts. Circulation.........Thomas Muir WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1931 Night Editor-LYLE R. CHUBB BUY A TAG TODAY! MERCHANDIZED HAPPINESS THE presidents of the country's four societies of civil, mining, mechanical, and electrical engineers met recently with the Engineering Foundation, their research agency, and decided that civilization has been male happier by the develop- 'ment of the Machine Age. As proof of their statement they pointed out the existence of unfailing supplies of good water, sanitary disposal of sewage, more and better artificial, light, steadily cheapening power, improved facilities for communica-' tion, better built and equipped homes, rapid and enjoyable travel, safe and convenient explosives, recording devices of all types, machinery for preserving foods, and a multitude. of farm implements. Representing the minority in the discussion, Dr. C. E. K., Mess, direc-I tor of Research of the Eastman Ko- dak Company, questioned some ofl the alleged benefits of engineering.c "The one great gift of science to the world," he said, "has been the. diminution of diseases . . . . We may look forward without doubt to a world in which widespread pesti- lence can no more exist . . . But apart from this I doubt if the life of an agriculturist in any country today is happier than that of a peasant in the Nile Valley four thousand years ago." IWhat Others Say WHERE MORA LE COUNTS (The Daily Iowan) fATED ROLLS UMSND DRAM A GAME LILIOM Sever e penalties are provided in the penal codes of the various states to punish contempt of court. Most of the United States' efficien- cy in its courts depends upon the ability of judges to command re- spect and to enforce their rulings. These regulations help to build up an impressive front for the ju- dicial system, and in many in- stances this same impressiveness is an important factor in ironing out civil and criminal difficulties. Yet if anyone, including Mexican consuls, is permitted to defy with impunity the dignity of an Ameri- can court the system is bound to lose much of its potency. Thursday Municipal Judge Thomas Green of Chicago re- sponded to international pressure and dismissed contempt of court proceedings against Mexican Con- sul Adolfo Dominguez. The Mexi- can representative was cited after he had engaged in a verbal alter- cation with the Chicago jurist Judge Green said in dismissing the case (his statement was forwarded to the secretary of state's office) that the proceedings were quashed "to remove any possible belief that my act was any indication of my feeling toward Mexico or the Mexi- can people or was intended to create any unfriendly relations be- tween the two countries.", It'seems quite unfair that for the sake of maintaining delicate inter- national relations a foreign agent should be permitted to violate the law or be shown special privileges that would not be extended to an American citizen. Harmonious re- lations with Mexico are all-impor- tant, but there should be some ma- chinery to dispose of cases of this nature that would not involve a strain on diplomatic ties. Special hearings with Mexican representatives sitting in might prove feasible, but some sort of dis- cipline should be forthcoming for Consul Dominguez. Upholding the morale of United States courts is difficult enough without permitt- ing contempt cases to go altogether unscathed because of international complications. Campus Opinion Contributors are asked to be brief, confining themselves to less than 300 words if possible. Anonymous com- nunications will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential, upon re- quest. Letters published should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. The Rolls column and the edi- torial board have been busy test- ing the latest game invented by the Rolls Pherret, and have found it to be the biggest success since t he push-other-people-off-the- sidewalk-and-then-laugh game was first brought to the public eye. * * * The preparations are simple. All that is required is a second story window, preferably -on the second floor of some building, some rather large yet light object. The two players take opposite sides of the street. * * * And now the modus operandi. The object is thrown out onto the sidewalk, to the tune of loud ex- clamations, such as "My God, I dropped the book," or "My God, I dropped the picture," or "My God, I dropped anything." This is the cue for the assistant, or teammate to say: "Ask someone to throw it up." .This is said loud enough for pedestrians on the street to hear. r Then the chief player, or captain, says very sweetly: "Would you mind . throwing the .. ..up to me?" If the individual does so, that counts 1 one point. If the individual is a woman, it counts two. If he, or she, brings the object into the house and up the stairs, you get five points. The first player to get ar- rested loses. * * * Dr. Mess defined happiness as be ing fundamentally a by-product o activity of some kind, provided th spirit is not oppressed by the ma terial situation of the body. Thu he maintains that although th labor-saving devices now used by the farmer aided him at first, it i now undermining his status, an may perhaps end by eliminating him so that the old normal life of man is passing, possibly never to return. He states further that h believes the inhabitants of ancient Greece and Babylonia were quit as happy as the modern American because "there is little that a man can get today which he could not have had in Athens." In those days he adds, there was more leisure, less pressure, more opportunity for the exchange of ideas, less emphasis on material things. We agree with Dr. Mess, not be- cause we have any intention of abandoning the conveniences of civilizations to follow the tenets of Thoreau, but because it is an ac- cepted fact that easily acquired' comforts are not so thoroughly ap- preciated as those hard won by ac- tivity. Life today consists for the most part of pushing a button or a lever when we want something; stepping into a train or steppingon the gas when we want to get some- where; and twirling a gadget to find the answer to a problem. Be- cause of this we're soft, discontent- ed, dissatisfied; we groan at the thought of walking a mile or strain- ing a muscle, and we spend more time looking for labor-saving de- vices than we do accomplishing a worthwhile job. What we really ought to do is stop saving labor and spend some. We'd be happier for it. --T w r_ U 'n T A , I A Pre-View. - f BOOK SCRIBBLERS e - To the Editor: s There are times when an indi- e vidual's antipathy to the actions of y his fellow students actually be- s comes violent. I have arrived at d that state. It is prompted by a g total failure upon the part of f many students in the University to o utilize the library sanely. e ,t I have recently run across sev- e eral .volumes which have been needlessly maltreated. The student has carefully drawn his pencil througy objectionable passages. , When more vigorous in his denun- ciation, he bans the entire page with an ingenious censorship of pen and ink. I suggest, if a student 'feels himself qualified to pass judgment upon the nature of the reading of a fellow student (this type usually does), that he devote his energies to the writing of a book thoroughly conveying his views. That would at least keep him out of the library, for such individuals have a decided inclination toward intellectual self-satisfaction. My criticism is not directed at the casual underliner or the mar- ginal note maker. This is an ex-. cellent habit, but it also should be employed with much more discre- tion in the library than when thumbing over a personal copy. E. A. K. '33 . The Icelander who became vio- lently demented upon seeing his first talkie wasn't so crazy after all. The only way to make Ann Ar- , bor water popular is to pass a It's an ill wind that blows evilly, and this wind was blowing through the 'Ensian office yesterday. It blew an 'Ensian cover out the win- ,dow, and everybody forgot about it, until some kind gentleman from downstairs brought it up again. He was thanked, and then the gentle- man sitting in the window started to fan himself with the cover. It slipped, and what do you think happened? It fell. This time' it was one of the members of the business staff who brought it back up again. This was too good to be true, so for a third the cover was accidentally dropped. This time a prominent professor in the Rhe- toric, pardon us, English depart- ment came by and threw it up. Somehow, the players didn't catch it, and the prof went on his way, vowing vengeance. * * * The seed was sown, however, and the players transferred their activ- ities to the front of the building, where finally 12 victims succumbed and threw the cover up. It's really an amusing game. * * * If you are fed up with the ab- surdities of contemporary maga-. zine advertising, go out and buy a copy of BALLYHOO, the new humor magazine that takes a crack at advertising in a big way. We haven't had, such a good laugh' since we read one of our last year's Rolls columns. * * * Those sprinklers out on the cam-E pus, that whirl around and around, are contributing to the delinquincy of the younger generation. We sawt one young gentleman, aged two,e crawl out under the sprinkler, which kept revolving just fast enough to prevent the mothers from rescuing her offspring. When she had finally coaxed, threatened,t begged and pleaded, a kind B andE G boy came along and turned thet hose off. Speaking of B and G boys, we watched one install a sprinkler then other day. It took one hour and a half. After bringing the sprinklera down in a wheelbarrow, he returned, brought back from some dark cor.-' ner a strip of hose. After this was t carefully stretched out on the lawn, t he returned to the dark corner, o and brought a second small stripw of hose. This process was pro- longed until another piece of hose s had been made available. Then be- t gan the process of hooking the ( three strips together. After they p1 had finally been arranged and re- m arranged to complete satisfaction, s the water was turned on. m * * *a a And left on for all of fifteen o minutes. i * * * a And if this doesn't fill up the p column, it is just too bad because si we are going around the corner and r have a drink. (Adv.) cr Ferenc~ Molnar is, of course, the most wily of contemporary drama- tists. He has a staggering list of international successes, all of them revealing an amazing facility to write with theatric certainty and a somewhat specious type of convic- tion on an extraordinary variety of subjects. He is the apotheosis of the successful dramatist: softly wise but not too wise, pleasantly, almost sentimentally cynical, al- ways ingeniously diverting. These are stock truths about Mol- nar. Everyone knows them. But there is an extremely large group (especially in America) who very eagerly affirm that once, years ago, Molnar wrote a play in which he outdid himself, one of the most sensitive and beautiful plays of the century. At any rate, with their production of it in 1921, the then struggling Theatre Guild took a large leap into prominence. The production was graced by the ex- cellent sets of Lee Simonson (which have appeared in several textbooks since), by the presence in the cast of Joseph Schildkraut, Eva LeGail- lienne, Helen Westley, Dudley Dig- ges, and Henry Travers. At any rate, it took New York audiences and critics by the throat. The generally robust Alexander Woolcott, then writing for the Times, nearly broke into tears over it. He said among other things: "It is a pensive and sanguine com- edy which picks up a bit of human riffraff in the debris of Budapest and so twists and turns it that you can catch the glint of gold in it"; and then, very wistfully," it reveals the human soul, deeply imbedded in the body of a dirty bum, a stub- born sinner." Edmund Wilson, writing with more dignity in The New Republic, made a nice remark: "It is the sort of play Barrie might have written If he had a truer sense of reality. For Barrie will not admit that the world is not composed of loveable, sentimental, whimsical people, who, however forbidding or stupid they may appear, have really fine and tender hearts; whereas Molnar be- gins by admitting all the cruelty and stupidity and then derives his pathos all the more validly for the reconizability of the material." Liliom is a large and rough bark- er, the main asset of Mrs. Muskat's carnival because by seducing, de- ceiving and robbing the servant girls of Budapest, he attracts them. A Prologue shows him in all his triumph: the centre of the carni- val's attraction: his lusty crudity grandly attuned to the blare of the carousel. Then he meets a new ser- vant girl in the park, Julie is more tender, less blatant, more myster- ious. They sit on a bench in the park. They try to talk. They don't succeed very well. Julie gazes at Liliom vaguely; Liliom gazes at_ Julie fiercely. She gives up her job; he gives up his carousel. They get married. But marriage isn't much of a suc- cess. Liliom is no good anywhere except at a carnival. They are starving. And they are both some- what annoyed by and ashamed of their love because they can neither express nor understand it. Julie weeps over Liliom's worthlessness and nags him. Liliom strikes her so he may keep his self-resepect. Then he learns he is to be a fa- ther. That, too, stirs him deeply. But it is another emotion he can't understand. He goes to the win- dow and shouts the fact of his pa- ternity into the streets. He grows restless with a sense of responsibil- ity towards his child and deter- mines to make enough money to go off to America. He gets trapped in a miserable set of circumstances, escapes by suicide, wakes up in heaven's police court, is judged, then given an opportunity to re- turn to earth and by a visible act of repentance to his wife and child win his expiation. And whatever other faults of entimentality and under-writing he play may have, that last scene Liliom's perplexed attempt at ex- iation) should surely be very memorable in the theatre as it eems both beautiful and profound in the writing. Molnar's "legend in a prologue nd seven scenes" should prove one f the most interesting plays be- ng done this summer. 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