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"Tempest
I A Tepot"...
TIHE MOVEMENT started by the
Landladies League of Ann Arbor
iii an attempt to increase room rents for students
during the coming year is merely a "tempest in a
teapot" and is undoubtedly doomed. to failure.
Since 1922 householders have been agitating
for higher room rents. Even during the golden
era of prosperity when they were charging exorbi-
tant rates and getting away with it they con-
plained, saying that they weren't even getting
enough returns to pay their taxes.
At the present time their cris carry a great
measure of truth. Rents are so low in some
Cases that living expenses and taxes cannot be
paid. This, however, was not due to any cutthroat
competition among the landladies themselves but
rather to the general economic condition through-
out the country.
However, we are certain that any efforts on the
part of this small but zealous group of women will
go for nought for a number of reasons.
First, the law of supply and demand will check
rises in rents. Admittedly the supply of rooms in
Ann Arbor is greater than the demand. Therefore,
if members of this league, which is a very small
minority of the number of householders in Ann Ar-
bor, did succeed in raising their rents the flow of
students would naturally go to those houses which
had not raised rents. Then, instead of getting three
dollars for their rooms in place of the three-fifty
that they raised the rent to, the league landladies
would get nothing. It certainly wil take no stretch
of reasoning on the part of the landladies to realize
that something is better than nothing and to pro-
tect themselves they will have to drop their plans.
Second, landladies in Ann Arbor were requested
to make out price lists for the rooms in their houses
and hand those lists to the Dean's office not later
than July 15. The University holds the right to
scratch from the approved lists anyhouseholder
who changes the prices of her rooms between that
date and the opening of school in the fall. If the
league gets even as much as a third of the Ann
Arbor householders to raise their prices on rooms
the University would be able to strike off their
names from the approved list and still have enough
householders left for student roomers.
Too many of the householders in Ann Arbor need
the rent they derive from student rooming for
subsistence and are satisfied to take any kind of
rent rather than none at all.
We believe that the householders who are leaders
in this movement ought to settle back for a mo-
ment an remember the golden era in which they
'fleeced' the student and then realize that if an
average were taken of prices of rooms during a
period of 20 years the householders would certainly
not be on the short end of the deal.
World Peace -
Will It Stand?....
TIHE DISTANT RUMBLINGS of eco-
nomic, social, and political dissen-
tion in Europe and the Far East once again bring
home the realization that a world tragedy is por-
tending. As these far-away mutterings increase in
volume and frequency, the United States, in her
position of doubtful, isolation, gazes anxiously from
one antagonist to the other in the hope of prog-
nosticating the course of future developments.
.With ugly visions of the last war still clouding
the straggling remnants of the mythical ideal,
"democracy," the people of America as a whole are
probably more opposed to war than ever before.
But it is with the students of the universities and
colleges of the country that this adverse sentiment
against war receives perhaps its greatest impetus.
Forming various local clubs and associating them-
his intelligence. With the first loud blare of the
war trumpets, however, and with the flood of in-
sidious misrepresentation and prejudicial lore
which inevitably precedes, accompanies, and fol-
lows the beginning of actual hostilities, the stu-
dent would doubtless experience many of the prim-
itive sensations which besieged his ancestors
under similar conditions. The shrill, lively airs
of military bands, the smart tread of marching
feet, the general carnival atmosphere which seems
to cloak military preparations with a kind of
false halo - all these would serve to awaken in his
breast long-dormant desires to be a hero. But
cold reason would finally supplant the student's
first wild impulses for ostentatious display, and
he would begin to weigh the possible consequences
of a war in relation to himself. His first thoughts
are neither socially constructive nor patriotically
blind. They are primarily selfish, in that they are
devoted wholly to ideas of self-preservation. Con-
flicting images thrust themselves upon his con-
sciousness. Sparkling visions of glory pale into
significance before the realistic pictures of a hor-
rible death, capture, or disablement for life.
Concurrent with these basic feelings are those
of a penetrating skepticism and a potent desire to
know the "why" of it all. As a student of various
economic, social, and political theories, he arrives
at the conclusion, sooner or later, that war is in-
finitely wasteful and inanely destructive of all that
is fine and good in life. The futility of fighting
for an unknown cause, or for some commercial or
political interest disguised thinly as patriotism,
leaves the student passionately consecrated to the
promotion of peace. Too often, against his better
judgment, he has been forced or shamed into the
line of march by a propaganda-aroused public
opinion. Finally, the college-trained person, with
his knowledge of the present and past trends of
history, seeks to peer into the future. He can
visualize the disruption of the intricate machinery
of society itself as an aftermath of militant lusts.
In this sense, he has transcended the bonds of con-
fining self to the higher realm of thought and
speculation. In this sphere of loftier ideals, social
values are measured in terms of "utilitarianism,"
the doctrine which states that "virtue is defined
and enforced by its tendency to promote the high-
est happiness of mankind." People who view life
from this more human angle see themselves, not
only as individuals with the individual's love of
personal satisfaction, but also as vital parts or
cogs in a.larger whole. Sociologists are wont to call
this kind of conception or variations of it, the
"organic viewpoint," which has been common par-
lance among philosophers of centuries.
H.' G. Wells, noted British author, predicts a
world war in 1940-a struggle which, he main-
tains, will be to end war. Certainly, with the pres-
ent scale of armament increase, and with the in-
tense nationalistic fervor sweeping over Europe, a
conflict may be reasonably expected much sooner
Movies For
Advertising.. .
T HAT THE VENALITY and brazen
commercialism exhibited in the
current motion picture "Heat Lightning" will not
be duplicated by Hollywood is to be strongly hoped
The production mentioned above, cheaply done
throughout, was patently subsidized by the Coca-
Cola Co. This concern's attempt to reach the
public through the medium of that which passes
for entertainment was tawdry in the highest de-
gree, and is to be deplored..
No less than five times, bottled Coca-Cola or
Coca-Cola by the glass was crassly displayed in
the exact center of the screen, so that the public
could not fail to notice that the near-stars o
"Heat Lightning" were quenching their desert-
bred thirst with the "one and only" drink.
The sound track was utilized as well. One char-
acter was given the lines "Give me a bottle of Coca
Cola!" She gets it. Her husband says "Give me a
lemon pop." He gets just what his wife did. Sh(
replies to his modest demurrer "Why you know
you really like Coca-Cola best." With the em
phasis strongly upon the name of the drink.
It is not past belief that the beer companies, too
paid for their plug in "Heat Lightning." The
ceaseless demand of the principal players fo
bottled beer was carried suspiciously far.
Radio advertising is tolerated, and what a beat-
ing the American public is taking!
. When the bottled-drink big-wigs invade the mo
tion pictures, though, the time has come to call
halt.
All motion pictures carrying advertising shoulc
be boycotted. The individual theatre managers car
help out by striving to keep these messes away
from a tired and helpless, advertising-beater
America.
An NRA Ideal In
Contemporary Fact .. .
.N THE bISBARMEN'I of 28-year.
1 old lawyer Hi Summer, of St. Louis
by the St. Louis Court of Appeals, we have ai
excellent example of an ideal the present NRJ
legislation is designed to build up in all trade:
and crafts, industries and businesses.
Lawyer Summer was accused, not by officers o
the law, but by the St. Louis Bar Association, hi
own fellow craftsmen. He was charged, not witl
violation of a law, but with unethical conduct
For "ambulance chasing" and bribing policemei
to obtain quick "inside dope" the men of hip
own profession disowned him, and the court ha;
taken away his right to practice.
The law is an old profession, and self -disciplini
within it is not new. Tradition that comes witl
age, solidarity that gives rise to professional prid
(and shame), and the high ethical standard
the lawyers' social position requires, unite in sucl
a case as that in St. Louis, and the welfare of th
group, and incidentally of society, is secured by the
expulsion of the offender.
Such is the case with law. For the many businesa
and industrial units put under codes since las
June a similar self-discipline was envisioned. Bu
pull and haul sort of adjusting is going to pre-
cede it.
The case of the St. Louis shyster lawyer still is
interesting as proof that self-discipline within a
group is both possible and practicable. The time
when all the units of business and industry can
maintain their ethical health as competently, Gen-
eral Johnson will be in his heaven, if he has not
already passed on to a more traditional one. 1
As Others See it
HOLLYWOOD, FAIRYLAND
Hollywood, the fairyland of perpetual sunshine,
fabulous salaries, pretty men, "glamorous ladies;
of the Trojan football team, child prodigies, and
Aimee Semple McPherson. Hollywood of the lav-
ender roadsters, potted palms, pink Spanish bun-
galows, and Iowan autograph-seekers. It is all-
American ballyhood, where the American flag flies
in the artificial breeze of an electric fan, where
the stage is set daily, where the lives of a fortunate
few are governed by the gods in the casting office,
where eccentricity is at a premium and sex is the
standard of values. If you aren't unusual, have
no complexes, aren't interested in becoming a mu-
seum piece in the world's greatest collection of
human oddities, Hollywood is no place for you. If
you can't sing under water, play polo, dance
on a table, or ride a velocipede down the street
nonchalantly, stay where you are.
But surely, you ask, these things have nothing
to do with being a capable actress or actor? You're
right, they haven't, but they have everything to
do with publicity, and publicity is the life-blood of
the industry. Unless millions of office-girls, high
school chilren, shoe-clerks, and house wives are
kept constantly convinced that the Elysian fields
of Hollywood are filled with smiling, sun-tanned
children of fortune who gratify their every whim
with sheaves of twenty dollar bills, the box offices
show a dangerous slump in sales.
Acting is a sideline, the business is actually one
of getting the public eye and keeping it. The star's
success is determined by the weight of her fan
mail, her bust measurement, and the number o
column inches she can gain on the front pages
of daily papers. The moment you and I stop won-
dering why Sally Snicklefritz paints her toe-nails
green, and what became of her fourth husband,
poor Sally is on the skids. A trip to Europe, per-
sonal appearances, and two dozen revealing news
pictures are all that can save her.
And does the public swallow this? It eats it up
faster than the movie magazines can dish it out.
It laps it up so thoroughly that it has to come
to Hollywood and see for itself. Daily trains unload
hundreds of mid-western farmers, runaway girls
from eastern cities, and otherwise sensible folk
who have succumbed to the glittering phrases
of a board of commerce booklet. Hollywood must
.continue the illusion they have brought with them;
hence the motion picture premieres which are
attended by the casts "in the flesh"; hence the
searchlights playing up and down the crowded
boulevards; hence the ornate and flimsy bunga-
lows; hence the constant appeal with the unusual
and bizarre.
If you assert that my portrayal of the film
capitol has been unjust and exaggerated, I answer
your assertion by asking if you have ever seen a
thundering, swaying mass of humanity straining
eager eyes to catch a glimpse of an over-dressed
blonde child who is supposed to have glamou.
Have you ever seen four dozen supposedly refined
women claw at each other in a frantic attempt tc
get a frilly-haired chorus boy to sign their pro-
grams? What other town changes the name of its
f main street to "Santa Claus Lane" for the Christ-
mas season?
The whole picture is so grotesque with its friv-
olity, scheming sensationalism, and tragedy inter-
- mingled with hopes and illusions as to make the
place utterly different from any other either here
e or abroad. It is truly the melting-pot of Americar
culture, theology, ideas, and ideals.
ON WOMEN'S WISDOM
It is a sign of women's wisdom that they have
e almost always known how to get themselves sup-
r ported, like drones in a bee-hive. Let us jus
consider what this meant originally, and why men
- do not depend upon women for their support. Of a
truth it is because masculine vanity and reverence
- are greater than feminine wisdom; for women
a have known how to secure for themselves by their
subordination the greater advanage, in fact, the
upper hand. Even the care of children may orig-
j inally have been used by the wisdom of women as
y an excuse for withdrawing themselves as much as
a possible from work. At present they still under-
stand when they are really active (as housekeepers,
for instance) how to make a bewildering fuss about
it, so that the merit of their activity is usually ter
times over-estimated by men. -Nietzsche.
Graduate School: All GraduateX
School students who expect to com-
plete their work for a degree at the!
close of the present summer session
should call at the office of the Gradu-
ate School, 1014 Angell Hall, to check
their records and to secure the proper
blank to be used in paying the diplo-
ma fee. The fee should be paid
not later than today.
G. Carl Huber
Candidates for the Teacher's Cer-
tificate: A tentative list of candidates
to be recommended for the Teacher's
Certificate at the end of the summer
session has been posted on the bul-
letin board in Room 1431 University
Elementary School. Any student
whose name does not appear on this
list and who wishes to be so listed
should report this fact at once to the
Recorder of the School of Education,
Room 1437 U.E.S.
Blanks for the payment of the cer-
tificate fee may be secured in the of-
fice of the Recorder. This fee must
be paid by the end of the summer
session.
C. O. Davis, Secretary
August Seniors, All Schools and
Colleges: Students who expect to
complete work for a degree at the
close of the Summer Session, must
pay the diploma fee before August 17.
Call for the diploma fee blank at the
Recorder's Office of the school in
which registered.
The examination in French and
German for the M.A. in English will
be given in Room 2225 A.H. August
10 at 1:30 p.m.
Reading Requirement in German
for Ph.D. candidates: Candidates in
all fields except those of the natural
- sciences and mathematics must ob-
tain the oflicial certification of an
adequate reading knowledge of Ger-
man by submitting to a written ex-
amination given by the German De-
partment. .
For the summer session this exam-
ination will be given on Wednesday,
August 8, at 2 p.m., in room 203 U.H
Students who intend to take the ex-
amination are required to register
their names at least one week before
the date of the examination at the
office of the German Department,
Room 204 U.H., where detailed in-
formation with regard to examina-
tion requirements will be given.
Teacher's Certificate-Comprehen-
sive Examination: All candidates ex-
pecting to receive a Teacher's Cer-
tificate at the close of the summer
session are required to pass a com-
prehensive professional examination
covering the work of the required
courses in Education leading to the
Certificate. The next examination of
this sort will be held this morning in
the University High School auditor-
ium at 9 o'clock sharp. Candidates ex-
pecting to take this examination
should leave their names immedi-
ately with the Recorder of the Schoo
of Education, 1437 University Ele-
mentary School. Graduate student
taking advanced degrees in Augus
ewill be exempted from this examina
tion
1 . C. 0. Davis, Secretary
School of Education
Michigan Dames: There will bea
meeting of the Michigan Dames o0
Monday evening, August 6, at 8:0
o'clock in the Michigan League. Wive
of students and of internes in th
n University Hospital are cordially in
'ited. The committee in charge i
planning an amusing evening's en-
tertainment.
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the
University. Copy received at the Summer Session office until 3:30; 11:30
Saturday.
Bishop J. Ralph Magee of St. Paul
will occupy the pulpit at the First
Methodist Episcopal Church, State
and Washington streets, tomorrow,
preaching at 10:45 on "Christian
Certainties."
i
Congregational Church: Service ofC
Worship Sunday morning at 10:45t
with sermon by the minister, Rev.F
Allison Ray Heaps. Subject, "Is There t
Divine Guidance in Human Affairs?"
James Pfohl, organist, Thelma Lewis,
soloist. This will be the closing serv-
ice of the summer.I
Education B-182: Students in thes
course in Adult Education may obtaink
their Unit Summaries at the circula-
tion desk of the University High
School Library.-
Stalker Hall: Saturday. at 1 p.m.-1
Tour to Ford Co-Operative Farms.r
All students interested in the Ford
farm-industry project and policy are
welcome.
Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church:
Services of worship Sunday are: 8:00
a.m. Holy Communion; 11:00 a.m.
Kindergarten; 11:00 a.m. Holy Com-;
munion and Sermon by the Reverend
Nathaniel Noble, "What is the Chris-
tian Church?"
Women's Riding Classes: Women
students wishing to ride Saturday are
to call 7418 to make arrangements.
Speech Students: Mr. Leo Fitzpat-
rick, President of WJR, Good Will
Radio Station of Detroit, will speak
Son the subject, "How to Get into Ra-
dio Work," at the student-faculty
lurncheon of the Depatment of
Speech and General Linguistics to be
held at the Michigan Union Tues-
day, August 7, at 12:10 p.m. All Uni-
versity students and townspeople are
invited.
The Michigan League Against War
and Militarism meets Monday, August
6, at 5 p.m., in the Union.
Camp News
BIOLOGICAL STATION
July 29 - The University of Michi-
gan Biological Station, Douglas Lake,
Cheboygan County-Besides the par-
ty of Saturday night, the big event of
the week was the all-day trip to
Mackinac Island. The party which
1 was called a "Deutscher Verein" in-
cluded a program of singing in Ger-
iman and dancing by bar maids at-
tired in costume.!
Sunday morning at 7:00 a number
of parties left in cars for Cheboygan
i where they boarded a boat for Mack-
- inac Island. When it landed on the
4 Island; the group dispersed and fol-
- lowed their own interests, visiting Old
s Fort Mackinac, taking the trip around
t the Island in carriages or by boat, and
- having a generally good time. Lunch-
es were sent with each person from
the dining room. The ride home was
rainy and a bit rough but well en-
SIf you writes we' ae it.
n Correspondence Stationery,
0 FomaintE. Pes$ In, etc
s Typewriters all nakes.
e Greeting Cards for body.
- O. D.MORR ILL
s 14 S. State St., Ann Arbr.
speakers Charge That It
Has Brought Econoinric
Dictatorship
PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 3. -(AP")-
Nearly 5,000 persons gathered today
in the quiet mountain valley where
Calvin Coolidge lies beneath the un-
trimmed turf to venerate a departed
President and to hear criticisms of
the administrations.
On the eleventh anniversary of the
induction into office of the former
Vermont farm boy, Senator Warren
R. Austin, of Vermont, Rep. James
M. Beck, of Pennsylvania, and other
speakers charged that the New Deal
had brought regimentation, bureau-
cracy and economic dictatorship.
"The New Deal, or Misdeal," said
Beck, "assumes that the State, work-
ing, through bureaucratic agencies,
knows better what is for the welfare
of a man than the man himself."
It was the old Coolidge homestead
a short distance up the road that Cal-
vin Coolidge was administered the
oath of office by his father, Col. John
Coolidge, after word was received that
President Warren Harding had died.
A large grandstand, covered with
a canvas canopy, had been erected
across the road from the country
graveyard where the former President
is buried beside his son, Calvin, Jr.
Amplifiers sent the voices of speakers
reverberating among the peaks.
Rep,. Beck, introduced by Gov.
Stanley C. Wilson, of Vermont, level-
ing hi$ attack at what he termed the
"Misdeal," said.
"I appreciate that the dictatorial
power of the NRA and the AAA have
been exercised by an iron hand wield-
ed in a velvet glove. A pretended spirit
of moderation has been one conces-
sion to the American spirit, but dic-
tatorial because they might be apol-
ogetically exercised or because there
are assurances of extreme considera-
tion for the victim."
joyed, and Sunday evening about 8
p.m. the trip was completed.
Former students of the Station who
visited here this week were: E. L.
Cheatum, Robert L. Brown, Joe Tidd,
Don Thomas, Dr. Henry Vander Scha-
lie, and Alexander Smith. Other visi-
tors included Dr. Helene E. Schutz
from the Health Service, Miss Mar-
garet French, and Mr. Fallis from the
Ontario Research Foundation. Pro-
fessor L. J. Young from the University
School of Forestry and Conservation
and Professor E. L. Stover of the Il-
linois Normal School at Charleston,
Ill., and Mrs. Stave are spending the
rest of the session here.
-Florence D. Muyskens, '37
'New Deal' Is
Criticized At
Coolidge Shrine
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Eddie Bob
LAUGHTON & WOODRU"'
_ and Their Music
Dancing every nloht exceia MOR.
...Adnssion 40 at Mrichigan's'
Most Beautiful Summer Ballroom
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THE NEW BROADWAY SUCCESS
Doub e Doo".r'lh
THE MELODRAMA THAT WON THE
APPLAUSE OF NEW YORK
FINAL PERFORMANCE TONIGHT at 8:30
Lydia MENDELSSOHN Theatre
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Screen Reflections
Four stars means extraordinary; three stars very
good; two stars good; one star just another picture;
no stars keep away from it.
COMING TO THE MAJESTIC
"THE OLD FASHIONED WAY"
W. C. Fields and his star "mellerdrammer"
troupe of stock actors appear at the Majestic today
in Paramunt's story of stage life in the gay
nineties, "The Old Fashioned Way." With Baby
LeRoy, Judith Allen, Richard Carle, and some
twenty others in the cast, the show offers a mix-
ture of comedy and drama - built largely around
Fields' wit and acting ability
Theplot concerns the troubles of an earnest, but
floundering, traveling company of actors who are
held together only by Fields' fluent assurances and
clever devices. Baby LeRoy proves to be the fly
in his ointment, continuing the well-known feud
between W. C. Fields and the baby.
When Fields plays up to a homely but rich
spinster to keep his show going, the real comedy
of this impressario is paraded in all its trimmings.
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