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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1932

Football

and pointless argument over a question which
has no place in the sphere of politics.
It is a fundamental principle upon which the
government of the United States rests that the
laws of the land will be expressive of the will
of the people. If the people of the United States
want a revision of the 18th Amendment and the
attendant legislation, let them do it in the man-
ner provided--by reference to state conventions.
It is not a problem to be solved by the action of
the parties.
Rather, let the parties turn their attention to
the problems where their arguments may pos-
sibly produce some good. Economic reconstrue-
tion, after one of the most severe depressions
*hich the world has even been called upon to
endure, is a major necessity. Farm relief and the
tariff are problems which must be handled in
this manner and in this manner only. -Foreign
affairs, as they effect the United States, can cer-
tainly be given the most serious and profound
consideration of which our political leaders are
capable and the entire governmental machinery
is sorely in need of re-vamping.
Yet the senseless argument on prohibition con-
tinues despite its highly' artificial resurrection.
The result has been a blurring of the entire poli-
tical stage and a relegation to positions of minor
or neglible importance of the most crying and
desperate questions which the United States is
facing.
Sren Reflections
At The Michigan
Today, tomorrow a n d Saturday-"The
Mouthpiece," with Warren William, Sydney
Fox, and Aline MacMahon..
At The Majestic
Today and tomorrow-"Street of Women,"
with Kay Francis and Allan Dinehart.
At The Wuerth
Today and tomorrow-"The Unholy Gar-
den," with Ronald. Colman, Estelle Taylor,
and Fay Wray.
AT THE MAJESTIC
"STREET OF WOMEN"
(A Review)
Kind: Triangle:; hero - illicit love --young
lovers.
STARRING: Kay Francis.
FEATURING: Allan Dinehart, Marjorie Gate-
son, Roland Young, Allan Vincent.
BEST SHOT: The Roland Young sequences,
Roland, as usual, is right there with the goods.1
WORST SHOT: - The ingenue lead arguing
Kay Francis into giving up her lover.
RATING: The women will probably enjoy it;i
the men doubtful.
ADDED ATTRACTIONS: An Edgar Kennedy
comedy (excellent); The Magic Carpet of Movie-
tone (Paris travelogue); news.l

Broadcastg..

ecusation that football has become too,
ialized finds new proof in the recent;
the iEastern College Association in'ban-
to broadcasts of games next year unless
contracted for. The reason given for:
on was a fall in football receipts last

h a move constitutes a frank admission on
art of the Eastern colleges of the commer-
ature of football. And we sincerely hope
he Big Ten Conference will not follow the
line of action. Not so long ago, boxing pro-
casts because of loss of revenue. Yet two
ago, at the Sharkey-Schmeling bout, a
:ty crowd saw the fight in spite of coast-
st network radio facilities.
iy persons who listen to football broad-
are too far away from the game to be able
end. This is especially true of important
3ctional -contests, most of which are broad-
11 -over the country.
feel ithe Western Conference, in not abol-
such descriptions of its contests, would'
the game on more of an amateur basis.
-charges of professionalism arising every,
in all quarters, the Big Ten could show
11 'fans that there is still some vestige of
' remaining in the game. The radio broad-
are good publicity for the University, and
'more than the 86,000 actuaffly able to'
e game to enjoy it. With a cut in the
of admission, the series of real contests
led for -next fall, Michigan, at least, will
ured of the attendance of all who really,
to come to Ann Arbor for football games.
idio channels should be kept open for the
ient of all.

Grammar, III, 403). Similarly, Professor George
Oliver Curnie, the dean of English philologists
in America, in his recent authoritative work,
Syntax, has written, "We often find the accusa-
tive (me) here in good authors in serious style."
(p. 42). Had Mr. Lloyd taken the trouble to
read Professor Fries' article to the end, he would
have found quoted on page 119 a statement by
Professor Grattan of the University of London
to this effect: "Indeed, by American standards,
many idiomatic usages long sanctioned in Great
Britain are still 'bad grammar.'" The predica-
tive me is included in Professor Grattpn's list of
usages long sanctioned in Great Britain.
if Mr. Lloyd is prepared to grant that usage
by standard authors is a criterion of good" Eng-
lish, there is no lack of evidence to justify the
use of this expression. According to C. A. Smith's
Studies in Syntax (p. 81), the It is me construe-
tion appears eight times in Shakespeare and
twice in Marlowe, and I for one am exeedingy
happy that Shelley used the accusative formof
the pronoun rather than the nominative in "Be
thou me, impetuous one!" (Ode to the West
Wind.) In Winston Churchill's The Inside of the
Cup, (p. 50), we find a negative use of this ex-
pression, "It is not me (whom) he misjudges."
Mr. Lloyd seems to regard all languages, word
meaning, word arrangement, and word infiec-
tions as a convention. He insists that "conven-
tion in language is recognition of the need for
order and harmony," and inquires how Professor
Fries' dictionary might be possible without rigid
adherence to the convention of the alphabet. It
should be recalled that even the convention of
the alphabet is by no means immune from al-
teration. Only a little more than a century ago
there were two types of the letter s, one used
finally and the other used initally and medially.
Until the middle of the seventeenth century the
letters u and v were used interchangeably for
both vowel and consonant and so were i and J.
In Shakespeare's time the letter y frequently
represented the sounds we now indicate by th.
These are only a few of the changes which this
apparently fixed convention has undergone in
three centuries, and it is idle to assume that its
present form will remain as a permanent stand-
ard.
When Mr. Lloyd declares that "convention in
language is recognition of the need for order and
harmony," he forgets that order and harmony
are, after all, primarily subjective. The history
of painting and of music is replete with evidence
of changing points of view. A century ago few
composers would have ventured to use parallel
fifth intervals. They are frequent in the music
of today. The Pre-Raphaelites reacted violently
against classical conventions in nineteenth cen-
tury painting, yet the casual observer today is
frequently unconscious of any indications of re-
volt in their work.
Just so, a mode of expression which seems ade-
quate today may be considered cumbersome and
inexpressive by succeeding generations and like-
wise our own daily speech abounds in construe-
tions which are the vulgarisms and solecisms of
yesterday. The word mob was considered entire-
ly unsuited to the eighteenth century drawing-
room, ice cream was condemned by the learned,
and it was but two hundred and seventy years
ago that one zealous stadpatter applied the terms
"idiot" and "fool" to anyone who might presume
to use the pronoun you in the singular. It is well
enough to speak of the advantage and inevitabil-
ity of orderly change, but seldom does any
change seem orderly to the purist, be it in agree-
ment of verb and noun or the construction of a
symphony.
In discussing usage as a basis of correctness in
language, Mr. Lloyd asks, "Where then will he
(Professor Fries) draw the line and through his
influential position seek to mould public prac-
tice? In The Teaching of the English Language
Professor Fries has given n explicit and praci-
cal answer to this question. "If then we dismiss
the conventional rules of our common school
grammars as standards by which to measure the
forms and constructions of our language we may
give a practical answer to the question "What
English is grammatically acceptable?" in the fol-
lowing three statements:
1. The only basis for correctness in grammar
must be usage, for the schools the usage of those
who are carrying on the affairs of the English-
speaking people.
2. Where this usage is practically unanimous
there is no appeal, but where it is divided no one
form or construction is the sole correct one.
3. In cases of divided usage a reasonable
guiding principle of decision would be to choose
that form or construction which is in accord
with the tendencies or patterns of English as
these can be seen from the history of the langu-
age." (p. 43).
By assuming the existence of two distinct levels
of English, vulgar and correct, Mr. Lloyd has
quite misrepresented the language situation. The

vitality and vigor of our language as a means of
expression derive particularly from the fact that
these very distinct levels do not exist, that in-
novations may be and are transmitted both up-
ward and toward, from one social and cultural
evel to another. Moreover I feel that Mr. Lloyd
has repeatedly confused the scientific and aes-
thetic points of view toward language, a distinc-
tion which Professor Fries considers so important
that he has devoted to it all of the fifth chapter
>f The Teaching of the English Language.
It is interesting, in conclusion, to compare Mr.
Lloyd's statement that English is an illogical
language with a comparatively recent expression
>f opinion on that subject by Professor Jesper-
son in his Growth and Structure of the English
Language.
"No language is logical in every respect, and
we must not expect usage to be guided always by
strictly logical principles. It was a frequent er-
-or with the older grammarians that whenever
he actual grammar of a language did not seem
conformable to the rules of abstract logic they
named the language and wanted to correct it.
Without falling into that error we may, never-
heless compare different languages and judge
hem by the standard of logic, and here again I
hink that, apart from Chinese, which has been
Iescribed as pure applied logic, there is perhaps
o language in the civilized world that stands so
aigh as English." (p. 13).
Yours very truly,
Albert H. Marckwardt
The Fresh Meadow golf course is being guard-
A, following threats of disgrunted gamblers to
'reck the National Open by damaging the
reens. There is still the possibility, though,
.hat they will cough during putts.

Obviously, this is no time to start
c'. mpaigns for special funds, how-
ever, there may be a sufficient mn-
ber of interested persons to provide
-the necessary amount.
Every sutimer Washtenaw county
lakes take loo heavy a tol of life.
One life would be too heavy a toll,
but unless something special is done
tu avert tle Itragedies there are al-

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We're sorry, but just can't say that Kay Fran-
cis' latest opus, "Street of Women" has any-
thing that raises it above the ordinary. Kay
is darkly beautiful as always she receives cap-
able support from Allan Dinehart and especially
from Roland Young; and we have a pretty new-
comer in Gloria Stuart; but the spark just isn't
there.
Possibly it is that the theme of the despairing
husband who seeks solace with another woman
has been overworked. Recent
movies have built their drama
and their climaxes on feet of
clay, on a plot that leads to
apathy on the spectator's part.
It's a yesterday's dish served
on a dazzling platter.
.. ...?' We have introduced to us
Allan (Legitimate Stage) Dine-
{ hart, a new face who should
> rt-go along way. A thoroughly
. masculine type who played an
unconvincing part well.
'L: . Gloria Stuart, too, looked
Kay O.K. Blonde, pretty, and not
too much of an actress.
Edgar Kennedy, who leads the cast in the
comedy, "Giggle Water," is sure to make you feel
that -enraged desperation you all know. Edgar
this time is a yacht painter who is bound to re-
pair a boat, fit it up, and set to sea, all for the
pleasure of busting a bottle of champagne over
her nose. And can he look sore! This one gets
the call over the feature in a walk.

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'Michigan Repertory Players
present
A. A. Mine's Delightful Comedy
iPasses By'

o weeks ago the Republicans at Chicago
;d one of the -most bitter controversies -in the
'y -of their conventions on the subject of
bition. The result, a rather conservative
pt at referendum to the states, has been
"constructive" by some and by others it
een called a distinct "straddle." Party unity
dangerously threatened. Senator Borah,
his dry-as-dust program, has refused to
it Hoover in his coming campaign and the
orats, in, typically Democratic manner, have
ed to the plank as an "agglomeration of
-umber."
r the same question threatens to disrupt.
emecratic party. Fifteen minutes of dem-
tion followed the mention of the word "re-
in Keynote Barkley's speech. Some of the
refused -to join the parade and actual
s ensued. Certain it is that they will take
inctly wet stand on the question. But what

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ly we have, as Professor Slosson said in
lecture the othe~r day, '"organizations in
a of issues" rather than organizations whose
purpose is the composition and unification
Eblic opinion on major political problems.
bition is certainly a major problem but it
; political in its nature.
has been so artificially bolstered both by
,nd dry organizations that it has assumed
enter of the stage in all the deliberations.
en and professional politicians alike have
responsible for the unnatural and abor-
imensions which the entire argument has
ed. On the 18th Amendment has fallen
lame for almost everything out-of-the-way
Shas happened in the past decade. It has
:e the universal Atlas upon which the bur-
of the entire nation have been shifted.
the whole thing is a pernicious process
can not possibly lead to any good. True,
serve to stimulate all the bitter partisan-
ind sectionalism which only the United
can produce. It will divide cities, churches
ver families. But what effect can it pos-
produce upon the economic difficulties
h which the world is passing? How can it
to orient properly the United States to

WILL SOME kind soul tell the producers that
if we ever see anotherhorsedrace innthe news-
reels we'll POP! Oh, those hideous monologues
and the falsely enthused "They're off!" Andl
seventeen of the "World's prize fillies" and what-
not in some race never heard of run around the
track and then the wreath is presented and how
we wish it was a black one with "Departed" in-
scribed thereon in nice, black, funereal letters.
Campus Opinion
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garded. The names of communicants will, how-
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selves to less than 300 words if possible.
Are Cosmetics "Necessities?"
To The Editor:
Reading The Michigan Daily this
morning I greatly enjoyed your editorial in which
you write: "the budget is being balanced by the
:nen and woren who buy gasoline, toothpaste,
cosmetics and other necessities of the day." How
elightful to see cosmetics among the necessities
of the day! And why did you omit the new tax
)n letters and checks? These are two real neces-
,ities of the day. With cordial greetings.
M. Levi,
Professor Emeritus.

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Several of the questions w-ich
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