TWO THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY -m Published every morning except Monday during the University Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publica- tions. 1 The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatchescredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub- lished herein. Entered at the Ann Arbor, Michigan,I 'ostoffice asseeond class matter. Subscription by carrier, $1.5o; by mail, Offices: Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR PHILIP C. BROOKS Editorial Director.... .Paul J. Kern City Editor.. Joseph E. Brunswick Feature Editor..Marian L. Wellesr Night Editors Carlton G. ChampeH. K. Oakes, Jr. John E. Davis Orville Dowzer T. E. Sunderland Reporters E. M. Hyman Miriam Mitchell Mary Lister Robert E. Carson Betty Pulver Wrn. K. Lomason Louis R. Markus BUSINIESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER LAURANCE J. VAN TUYL Advertising.............Ray Wachter Accounts ........... John. Ruswinckel the struggle, and if the situation is analagous at all, and it certainly is analagous, then the whole country can expect some day that the ques- tion of prohibition will "cease to ex- ist and come .as a matter of course." After all, the nation is only a large sized community on the order of Maine. If that state has succeeded, here is no reason to feel alarm at the present national situation. All great things take time, and there is bound to elapse a period between the time the law is enacted and thetime it is completely enforced, especially in the cases of moral questions; but we have at least reached the stage where the law has been enacted. We are passing through a narrow interim in the history of human progress, where the last die-hards of a reac- tionary era are getting in their final thrusts at the progress which is 1 bound to come. All great human achievements have been thus. The Reformation suffered by St. Bartholo- mew's massacre, republicanism the heel of the falling monarchs, mono- gamy its mormonism, and now pro- hibition itself as crossing the narrow gulf where it is facing the dying op- position of the dying reactionaries. There may be those who sad that prohibition hasn't succeeded, but let there be none who say that prohibi- tion won't succeed. Even on the first point there may. be some disagree- ment, for, contrary to the false re- ports given by propogandists, figures from the census department show that leaths from alcoholism have de- creased. Figures from the financial centers show that bank deposits have# increased, and they show that mil- lions more are being spent on soft drinks and less vicious amusements since the cause of intoxicating liquor began its last convulsions. It will take time, of course, Sane men like Governor Brewster admit that. By every analysis that we have available, however, the cause of the, open saloon is doomed. America is' progressing, and perhaps some day a president of the United States may say, with the complete truthfulness of Governor Brewster, that the issue of prohiition is dead throughout the nation as it is dead in Maine, and that the cause of human progress has prevailed. After all there seems to be no dif- ference of opinion on the undesir- ability of making available ot the TFroAS!ED L THE GOVERNORS MEET WAY UP AT THE NORTHERN end of this state of Michigan all the gov- ernors of some of the states are meeting to solve problems. We wish some of them would take a few math ourses around here and solve prob- lems for us. * * * BUT THAT CRACK ABOVE is a pun and now we have to write someth- ing funny. About the easiest way of filling this column with funny things would be to print pictures of a few choice governors, but they might ob- ject to that. * * * WHENEVER WE THINK OF gov- ernors we always think of the day when the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Caroli- na, "It's a long time between drink." Evidently that governor was elected on a prohibition platform ,and was fool enough to stick by it. * * * OUR OWN GOVERNOR, Fred Green, spoke about the troubles of the gene- ral property tax. Right there he agrees with the political science de- dpartment and calls to mind the de- lightful possibilities of evading such a tax. Down in Illinois (Len Small is the governor) there is a county called Cook and city called Chicago. In this county, where machine guns are heard cracking once a week, watches seem to be rather scarce. According to a recent general prop- erty tax report, only one in every 300 or more persons in that part of the country owned a watch or clock. Perhaps they were afraid of hold ups. But, in McHenry county, which is next to Cook county, watches not only were scarce, they were curios. According to the repot, in this county there are 45,000 people and only three watches or clocks. *** AND NOW, WE, THE writer of this column, must confess that we live in Chicago, and we wish we were home so that we could say some nasty things about Len Small, but since we are at present in Michigan and he is here too, we have to tell the world that he is a fine governor. Well, HALLER'S State Street Jewelers. 10 GRAHAMS TWO STORES I v I fl mm Books and Supplies for Summer School Final Clearance SADLE Fall Collegiate Suits Actual Values $40, $50 to $60 Be sure to visit ing Building. our store across from the Engineer- Maintained for your convenience, I Assistants C. T. Antonopulos, G. W. Platt S. S. Berar{ 25.00 $2.50 White Broadcloth Shirts $1.69 213 E. Liberty Both Ends of the Diagonal. Subscribe For The Michigan Weekly Night Editor-H. K. OAKES, JR. TUEDSDAY, JULY 26, 1927 NOT A MORON THOUGI A GOVERNOR One thing at least that the gover- nors' conference at Mackinac Island has done for the state is the bring- Ing _to Michigan of Governor Ralph Brewster of Maine. Tucked away in an obscure corner of the metropol-j tan press, his arrival was not her- alded widely, nor did it deserve to be, for his daughter is not engaged to John Coolidge and on the whole Mr. Brewster is a wholly respectable man. But even unspectacular governors often have something of real value to say, and this is where the gover- nor of Maine shines. Sound ideas all too few among men of his position, but when one does emanate it should not be ignored, even though it lacks the essence of sensationalism. Gov- ernor Brewster, it seems, comes from the state that was the first to pass a prohibition law, and while this is of interest in itself, it is not nearly as significant as the opinion which the governor has of that law. Those who declare the eighteenth amendment a complete failure be- cause it has failed to make the coun- try bone dry in less than ten years are due for a rude jolt when they learn that Maine, the first state to go dry, required 25 years for the same process. They are due for an even more severe jolt when they learn that the governor-of that state de- clares that it is foolish for xis -to ex- pect anything like complete enforce- anent from the federal law in less than that time, and they may be sur- prised to learn that prohibition is working In Maine now, and has been for some years, by the admission of its own governor. In the teeth of the nullification alarmists, Governor Brewster flings the statement that for years after the passage of the Maine law the state was so evenly divided that there was always a narrow margin between the wet and dry candidates, and that many county sheriffs ran on the plat- form of the open saloon, and many of them won, whereupon the saloons In that county would remain open and be raided once a year, when they would pay a fine that amounted to a license fee. If the wets who see cause for alarm in the present situa- tion can parallel that, then they have a sales argument. The people of Maine, however, as Governor Brewster continues, finally failed to elect this kind of sheriff, even as some of the wet candidates at present are failing of election. Then Maine became dry, and Maine is dry, and the rest of the country is likely to become dry just as Maine did. Governor Brewster is very sensible, however. He does not feel that we can expect prohibition In 25 years to be absolute, but we. can hope for it, and hope that the nation as a whole will not require much more time to come to its senses than Maine. No doubt the state felt the same pains in going through its per- iod of laxity that the United States is now feeling in Its era of lawless- ness and faulty enforcement. But a fi.vna~ticAA lnvri ilv 41" frn t I T PAYS TO INSIST ARO I I The Coolest Eatnig Place in Town. EXCELLENT MEALS. Ladies and Gentlemen Single' Meals - 54c, 65c Weekly Board - $x.75 Cor. State and Washington READ THE WANT ADS ARROW B ROADCLOTH SHIRTS WITH COLLARS ATTACHED , r , f 1 It ,r PARK i OF IMPORTED ENGLISH BROADCLQTH OF PER- MANENT LUSTER AND GREAT DURABIIITY CLUETr, PEABODY & CO. INC MAKERS common man intoxicating liquor, and I maybe he is, the only trouble being already the wet agitation has died that he has not demonstrated it yet. to a mere hullabaloo for light wines and beers or government sales. Any ONE OF THE GREAT problems the measure which is so fundamentally governors are planning to discuss right as the abolition of liquor is and solve is the preventing of future bound to prevail in time, with the floods on the Mississippi river. We growing enlightenment of public are somewhat of the opinion that even opinion, for though America, like a the Congress of these United States great giant, requires time to move, would have some trouble in making it usually moves in the right direc- the river conform with a law against tion. floods. If this august body, which in- But it nothing more comes from the cludes the Senate, could not make the Mackinac conference than the state- river behave, we think that the gov- I ment of the governor of Maine, that j ernors may have more difficulty in conference has been a success, for it doing so. Especially since they can strikes at the heart of the lawless not make laws and can only grant and reactionay element of the United pardons and reprieves, (as a certain States; it brings even closer the day governor in the state that is known which it anticipates, the day which as the Sucker state has too often will see the complete oblivion of pro- demonstrated and as a governor in hibition as a national issue; a day a certain state in New England has which will only come after continued shown that tit can be done, but it tireless efforts by the disciples of oughtn't to, accordingly he hesitates). progress, and continued application of Perhaps they can pardon the river the best enforcement official of them but they can not stop its flow unless all-time. they bottle it. . THE PLAY CLASS With the University's phenominal, achievements in the line of dramat- ics, brought to a climax each year by the presentation of the Michigan Union Opera, the productions of minor, though able groups, are eclipsed, and plays which elsewhere would be impressive are allowed to slip by with scarcely a notice. This has happened time and time l again with the public performances given by the play class, and though these actors are very capable, well trained, sometimes talented, andI al- ways enjoyable, the campus of the University, satiated as it is with the finest college dramatic presentations in the country, pays them scant at- tention. This neglect must be discouraging to those groups at times,. and this summer again there will be public presentations by the class members. Of course they can scarcely compete with the professional group of Rock- ford Players, but fortunately they have waited, and their per formances won't take place until tbxe regular summer season of plays has been com- pleted. The night for which the per- formances have been arranged is August 10, and three pla37s, all one acts, will be given. The performance will be given in Sarah aswell Angell hall, the home of the Rockford Players, and if those amima the summer tidernts who. BUT LET THE GOVERNORS enjoy themselves and they will come back from their vacations better fitted to do justice to their collegues in the way of favors. We fear that our Fred will be all run down in making an effort to entertain the other execu- tives. SCENARIO CONTEST BEING JUDGED ROLLS SCENARIO judges are now trying to pick a winner. They threw all the manuscript at the ceiling and resolved to award first prize to any one that stuck, but none of them did so now they shall have to read all the submitted scenarios to pick a winner, unless one of the judges finds a new method of judging. It is hop- ed that the winning scenario will be filmed, but there is some matter of doubt as to whether any of the pro- ducers are worthwy of receiving the contract, since only local talent will be used as actors and actresses. --Jeb. have acquired the habit of attending plays regularly can continue the cus- tom an additional week they will be supporting a worthwhile campus ac- tivity, as well as being adequately en- tertained. 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