THE MICHIGAN DAILY IGAN DAILY of the Summer Session - . I .4;! ",-- T1 have elected to serve as executives. Shortly after the close of a presidential campaign marked by numerous nation-wide radio addresses, President Roosevelt was forced to appeal to the people for aid in settling the difficulties which had brought about a crisis in the banking situation through- out the country. This he did, frankly and fear- lessly, explaining, through the medium of the radio, the actual conditions surrounding the affairs of the larger banks and just what steps the government was taking to satisfactorily quiet matters. Thus the people were able to be on the "inside" regarding governmental activities. Since that time Roosevelt has always attempted to keep the public informed on the many prob- lems which have arisen at Washington. Utilizing the radio, newspapers and every other possible channel, he has frankly attempted to keep the cards above the table that the voters might follow every play. During administrations of the past, executives have not had the benefit of modern methods of news dissemination and have not therefore been given the same opportunities that have been ac- corded President Roosevelt. And yet it is for- tunate that, coupled with the modern mechanical means, we also have at the helm a man who is taking the fullest advantages of his opportunities to "play ball" with the public. The national recovery program now under way depends for its success upon full acceptance and support by the people of the nation. Leaders,! standing alone, are powerless to accomplish de- sired ends if they work without the backing of the millions of individuals who go to make up the electorate. Daily headlines and radio addresses do much to keep everyone informed of the plans, hanges, and progress of such a program. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in -ontrol of Stuident Publications. 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Y., EDITORIAL STAFF Phone: 4925 MANAGING EDITOR...........FRANK B. GILBRET AMTANT MANTAGING EDITOR..... ARL SEIFFER AjS80IATE EDITORS: John C. Healey, Powers Moulton Y d l!4. Jerome Pettit. REPORTERS: Edgxr H. Eckert, Thomas H. Kleene, Bruce anley, Diana wers Moulton, Sally Place. BUSINESS STAFF office Hours; 9-12, 1-5 Phone: 2-1214 lB JZNESS MANAGER ....BYRON C. VEDDER A~IWNT BUSINESS MANAGER. .HARRY R BEGLEY ATION MANAGER.........ROBERT L. PIERCE THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933 Detroit Motorists Get A Break . ETROIT police department offi cials have announced the testing of a new plan to reduce the number of arrests for trffic violations in that city. Believing that drivers of automobiles will respect the presence of police officers, two cars have been put into exiperimental service in an attempt to determine tfie reaction of the public. These two cars are boldly painted in such a ma±ner that motorists will be able to easily and 4iuiekly distinguish them as belonging to officers of the law. Officials believe that, through the use of suchr vehicles in the place of cars which an- not be so easily noticed, there will be fewer tickets passed out by officers for traffic law violations, especially speeding. If the two experimental cars now in use pro've effective in reducing speeding and accidents it is probable that 'all remaining scout cars will be decorated in similar fashion. Motorists always have felt a certain resentment for the polie cars and their drivers who "swoop" from a side street to make arrests on unsus- pecting motorists. This has been a common prac- tice 'among traffic officers in Detroit, as 'well as in most other cities. There can be little doubt cencerning the inadvisability of this method of making arrests. It breeds contempt in the minds of the motorists, it places the officers in a "sneak- mng" position and it results in the passing out of an unusually large number of "tickets." On the other hand, painting police cars in such a manner as to make them easily distinguishable also has its disadvantages. It is difficult to under- ' and, for instance, just how such a practice will reduce speeding among motorists. Perhaps it will reduice the number of arrests for speeding since no sensible driver will be willing to break the law when he knows he is in the presence of police officers. And yet, realizing that he will be able to distinguish a police car when one happens to come along, the average driver will be tempted to drive a bit more recklessly than in the past, when he had to be forever on the watch against isolice cars which resembled the other vehicles in the traffic maze. It is' easy to create the picture of a string of cars, traveling down a Detroit boulevard with no regard for trffic ordinances U4til a white-striped police car appears on a side street. Then of course, aware of the presence of law enforcement officials, all the motorists will slow, down to a reasonably safe speed. It is true that there would be fewer arrests under such' Circumstances, but the speeding and reckless- ness will have taken place. , Perhaps, with a large enough number of scout I cars on duty to keep the larger traffic veins well patrolled, the above condition would not' result. With a well-defined scout car in prominence most of the time it is true that motorists would soon be. educated to properly observe. ti-affic laws. Per- haps this is what the Detroit police, officials have7 in mnind. And at any rate they are attempting, in] their efforts, to serve the public in the best pos- sible manner. If nothing else can be accomplished through their recent efforts it wil be gratifyingl to know that the practice of "lurking" on side1 streets in order to make arrests will have been abolished. And that is something. Keeping The Public1 Well Informed. . . Theatre GOOD WORK ON A TIRESOME VEHICLE-"THE CIRCLE" When Noel Coward goes about trying to put over a thesis in a play, as he does in "Design for Living," he makes a definite point first of all of accomplishing two objectives. He makes the char- acters who are to demonstrate the truth of his thesis thoroughly likeable, completely acceptable to the audience as models of correctness and charm. Further, he causes his philosophy to seep through the action and creep upon the audience gently, rather than pouring it out in great, long, George Bernard Shaw orations. We do not imply that Coward's way is the only way, but we do say that it is a more effective way than that which W. Somerset Maugham used in writing "The Circle," which opened last night on the Michigan Repertory Players' season at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Quite aside from the specific merits of this production, which, generally, was good, none of Maugham's characters has any great personal charm. "The Circle" concerns the problem of a young couple about to elope in defiance of tile lady's matrimonial obligations. They are con- fronted with the example of an older couple who followed a similar plan in their youth, with dis- couraging results. The keynote of the play-"it isn't what you do, but what you are"-is carried out in the decision of the young pair to go through with the elopement in spite of all. Maugham's approach, permitting one of the characters to speak the theme in the last act, is cbvious indeed. Unfortunately, he fails to follow it in the execution of his play. If, as a matter of fact, this young couple is of better, more de- pendable stuff than is the older pair, there should be no doubt about it in the mind of the audience. Here, however, the observer cannot feel that there is anything intrinsically better about the first than the second. To all appearances, Lady Kitty and Lord Porteous are merely Arnold and Elizabeth grown old, and grown old as they have lecause of their manner of living. The Players' production contains three excellent characterizations. Frederic Crandall, as Lord Por- teous, the aged tippler who ran away with his secretary's wife in his youth, is prime. Mr. Cran- dall, whose success here in "Hay Fever," "Jour- ney's End," "The Play's The Thing," and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has been sufficiently lauded, once more gives a performance that is very nearly flawless. The other old man of the show, Clive Champion- Cheney, who staye.d young when his wife had left him, is almost equally well done by Richard Humphreys. On the basis of this production alone it is clear that Mr. Humphreys is an actor of considerable finish and intelligence. Theie is, however, some doubt that he may not have made his character too sympathetic. Throughout the play he alone has the audience enjoying his per- sonality, only to be proven ridiculously in the wrong at the final curtain. To Ella Haith also, who played Lady Kitty, fighting unsuccessfully to remain young, must 'go a good measure of praise. Miss Haith is to be congratulated upon refraining from following the Violet Kemble-Cooper tradition in the playing of silly old women. For Lady Kitty, though her soul may be "just as painted as her face," is not by any means completely shallow. She - and this Miss Haith brought out clearly --is much more pitiful than she is ridiculous in her attempt to be just one of the girls. The rest of the cast was scarcely more than passable, with L. Wayne Smith somewhat more proficient than the others. In general, "The Cricle" as produced by the Players is rather doubt- ful entertainment, with hardly sufficient comedy and good characterization to carry the tiresome philosophy and hackneyed love sequences. -K. S. Screen Reflections- tional outlets of the young pupil should serve as a standard by which the piinciples of the picture might be judged. Christa Winsloe, the authoress, is a German by birth and training, but the daughter of a Scotchman, and the wife of an Hungarian noble- man. Her father was a German cavalry officer, although of Scottish birth, and her husband is a famous publicist. Frau Winsloe's experience as a child in Darm- stadt, where her father w4e in command of the troops of the Grand Duke of Hesse, and later, after the death of her mother, as a lonely, for- lorn youngster in one of the famous Prussian boarding schools for girls of the aristocracy, af- forded her a rich and detailed background for the story of "Maedchen in Uniform." She had often said that it was something that she had to write in order to get rid of the dreadful memories of her childhood. "It is true," Frau Winsloe wrote in a letter to her producers, "that the school in which I was first placed . . . between the- ages of eleven and seventeen, was quite a unique institution. To fit the 'daughters of officers' to become the wives and mothers of soldiers, a regime comprising iron discipline, a starvation diet, and the rigid repres- sion of every emotion, was rigorously enforced. "How we unhappy girls feared and hated each inhuman spinster on the staff, from the head mis- tress downward . . . with one exception! For a short time we had one adorable teacher, whom we all worshipped, but she left the place after a few months. "I left that school an unbalanced and imma- ture creature, in whom fits of intense shyness al- ternated with periods of unnatural boisterousness. It required the best part of two years in the relatively human atmosphere of a finishing school at Lausanne before I recovered my natural con- fidence. "The Manuela of 'Maedchen in Uniform' is I," Frau Winsloe states. "The adored Fraulein von Bernberg is the teacher who was with us for so short a time, and who was possibly forced to leave because of my tragic love for her. I wrote the story the way I did because that was the way it was." . The theme then, by the admission of the au- thoress, is too well recognized and too normal to be considered psychopathic unless carried to extremes. It is probably a well-known fact that young persons when repressed 'too much, will seek love and, emotional outlets wherever they are obtainable. The lonely beauty of the young pupil in the harsh, hard atmosphere of the Prussian school is beyond simple explanation or justifica- tion therefore. Frau Winsloe had a 'definite story to tell through the writing of "Maedchen in Uniform" but had it not been for the excellent direction and fine acting in this film her light of reset- ment towards the school of repression would have become but a feeble flicker. The theme is remarkable, to be sure. It is none- theless true in its picturization of the beautiful love of a young girl for"a sympathetic instruc- tress. And the restraint with which the story is put forth is rarely found on the screen today. The acting in "Maedchen" is superb. Hertha Thiele, as the central figure of the young girl, establishes her right to a screen position in the foreground. Likewise, Dorothea Wieck, playing the part of the instructress, presents one of the most beautiful performances we have ever witnessed. If we have any adverse criticism of "Maedchen" it is in the one fact that the English subtitles are not numerous enough, since the dialogue is in German. For the film is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary and arresting pictures yet pro- duced. It is a beautiful cinematic achievement. -E. J. P. A Washington BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON-The New York ship news re- porter who shot an ironic query about the city sky line at Professor Ray Moley as he landed from his rush trip to London seems to have gauged correctly the Moley publicity complex of the moment. The usually affable and talkative Roosevelt "brain truster" would not even talk about that. The return was in contrast with his departure. What with naval destroyers and airplanes expe- diting his flying visit with the President and then setting him aboard his London-bound liner, it is not to be wondered at that the news men scented a sort of message-to-Garcia quality in the trip. Sent To Explain If there were ever any justification whatever from any authoritative source close to Mr. Roose- velt for all of that, the Bystander never heard of it. Subsequent developments tended to show the Moley mission was exactly as described by Mr. Roosevelt-that of a messenger to explain to the delegation in London the happenings at home after the delegation's departure. Painful as the tart editorial comment about his London activities may have been to Moley himself, there seems no good ground now for supposing that he did not fulfill his mission en- tirely to the President's satisfaction. What happened was that commentators over- looked the seemingly obvious fact that if Mr. Roosevelt had felt it necessary to supersede Hull, directly or indirectly as head of the delegation in London, he probably would not have chosen Moley for the job. The professor has been a valuable lieutenant to Mr.' Roosevelt ever since the start of the presidential campaign, but his help has been in a restricted, advisory field. The fact that a place close to the White House was found for him in the state department as an assistant secretary by no means meant that he was to play any role in regard to foreign affairs generally. Like A Presidential Secretary Excursion No. 6, General Motors Proving Ground, Milford, Wednes- day afternoon. August 2. This ex- cursion was originally scheduled for July 15, but was postponed for the Niagara Falls excursion. Members in the party will have opportunity to see automobiles of the General Motors Company put through 165 severe tests at the 1,268-acre labora- tory. The party leaves from in front of Angell Hall at 1:00 p. m. and will return to Ann Arbor about 5:30 p. m. Reservations must be made by 5:00 p. in., August 1, in Room 9; Uni- versity Hall. Bus fare, the only ex- pense on the trip, is $1.00. Observatory Nights: The Univer- sity Observatory will be open to stu- dents of the Summer Session Mon- day, Tuesday, and Wednesday, July 31, August 1, and 2, at 8:15 p. m. Admission will be by ticket. Tickets may be obtained in the office of the Summer Session upon the presenta- tion of the treasurer's receipt. German Reading Examination for Ph.D. Candidates: The examination for the required reading knowledge in German for all candidates except those in the Natural Science and Mathematics will take place Wednes- day, August 2, at 2:00 p. M., in Room 203 University Hall. Only those who have left their names at the depart- mental office can be examined. This will be the only examination given during the Summer Session,. The next' examination will be at the end of October. Walter A. Reichart School of Educatlion: All students completing requirements for gradua- tion at the end of the present Sum- mer Session should paj diploma and Teacher's Certificate fees before the end of the Session. Blanks for this purpose may be secured at the office of the Recorder of the School of Edu- cation, 1437 University Elementary School. C. 0. Davis, Secretary Reading Examinations in French: Candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in the departments listed below who wish to satisfy the requirement of a reading knowledge of French duringt DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Summer Session until 3:30; 11:30 a. m. Saturday. the present Summer Session are in- formed that examinations will be given on Saturday, August 5, from 9 to 12 a. m. in Room 108, Romance Language Building. It will be neces- sary to register at least one week in advance at the office of the Depart- ment of Romance Languages, be- tween the hours of 11 and 12 a. m. and 2 and 4:30 p. m., or 9 and 12:30 on Saturday morning. This announcement applies only to candidates in the departments of An- cient and Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, History, Po- litical Science, Economics, Business Administration, Sociology, and Edu- cation. Candidates for Teachers' Certifi- cates: All students who expect to be recommended for a Teacher's Certi- ficate at the end of the present Sum- mer Session should pay their fees be- fore the end of the Session. Blanks for this purpose may be secured at the office of the Recorder of the School of Education, 1437 Univer- sity Elementary School.. C. O. Davis, Secretary University High School Demon- stration Assembly: The fourth dem- onstration assembly of the Univer- sity High School Summer Session will be held Friday morning, July 28, at ten o'clock. The program will be given by pupils of the French, type- writting, and social studies depart- ments. All Summer Session students who are interested are welcome to attend the assembly. M. A. Degree Candidates in His- tory: The reading. examination in French, German, and Spanish will be given Friday p. m., at 3 o'clock, in Room 1009 A.H. A. S. Aiton "Some Phase of Psychology" is the title of a talk which Professor John F. Shepard of the Psychology De-- partment will give at 4:10 in Room 1022, University High School. This is one of the talks'sponsored by the School of Education. Notice: Health Service Eye Exam- inations: Students wishing their eyes tested for glasses at the Health Service should receive their appoint- ments by calling the office before August first. Warren E. Forsythe What Has Roosevelt Accomplished? will be the topic of a talk by Nqeil Staebler, to be given at 5 p. m. Fri- day in Natural Science Aud. for the Socialist Club's Public Lecture Series. Chinese Student Club: A picnic will be held at Island Park Satur- day afternoon. Members desiring to attend should assemble in front of Lane Hall at 1:00 p. m. Food expen- ses will be shared. Torn Mooney Mass Meeting: The Michigan Socialist Club announces a mass meeting on the subject "Free Tom Mooney" in the Natural Science Auditorium tonight at 7:30. Mr. Al Renner of ,Detroit will be the princi- pal speaker. There will be a game in the Edu- cation baseball series today at 4:00 at South Ferry Field. Students of the Literary College and Law School are invited to at- tend a lawn party at the Michigan League today from 4 to 6 o'clock. The Lutheran Student Club invites all Lutheran students of the Summer Session to a social gathering at the Boch hone on Jackson Avenue, to be held this Friday evening. All who are planning to go are asked to meet at the Zion Lutheran Parish Hall at 7:00. The hall is located on the corner of East Washington and South Fifth Avenue. Transportation will be provided from this point to the Boch home. Married students are asked to bring their wives or husbands. Michigan Repertory Players: "The Circle," W. Somerset -Maugham's modern comedy, will be presented to- night in -the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre. The final perfoFmance will be given on Saturday night. Seats are now on sale for every perfor- mance. The box-office is open from i9:30 a. m. 'to 12, and from 1:15 to 9 p.' n. The telephone number is 6300. ' Public Health Nurses: There will be a picnic supper at the Fireplace Friday, July 28, from 5:00 to 7:00 p. m. A fee of 25 cents is being col- lected. Meet at the north door of the Michigaii League, not later than 4:45 P. m. i8 MJnUyA urkishltnot Turkish tobacco is to cigirettes what seasoning is to food.. , the "spice," the 'sauce." You don't want too much seasoning in food. Or in a cigarette. But you do want enough! R Chesterfield uses just the right amount of Turkish tobacco. Not too much, but just enough to give to Chesterfield the finishing touch of better taste and ..,,,_ aroma. AXPUBLIC WRK'S program ex- plained through a radio address by 'resident Roosevelt and seconded by Hugh S. ohnson, his key man in the general program for etter times, serves as an excellent illustration of ae many benefits to be derived from modern rnovations and recent improvements f6r the eneral welfare. T no .+ ,oo,'cr. the n'mih'ir ne o nn,+nt 4'n, ia- Four stars means extraordinary; three stars very good: two stars good; one star just another picture; no stars keep away from it. AT TIlE MAJESTIC * "MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM"