Vol. 20. No. 60. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1922 Price 5 CentsC. A. A. SWIMMERSENGAGE MAROONSIN RETURN MEETVarsity Greatly Strengthenedby Return of Capt.BlinksMANY STARS TO COMPETEThe Maroon swimming team islooking forward to a stiff battle whenthey encounter the C. A. A. natatorsin Bartlett tank tonight. The fraywill start at eight o’clock.The Varsity team met the C. A. A.last week and, largely on account ofthe absence of Captain Blinks, themeet resulted in a rather one-sidedvictory for the clubmen. However,with the redoubtable captain on handtonight, and in good form, the pros¬pects for a more favorable outcomeare very good.Blinks to Swim TonightBlinks is expected to gather a largepart of the Varsity’s points, as usual.The leading lights of the opponentsare Topp, H u s z a g h, Brunhart,Browne, Princell, Meagher, and Leach.Many of these are former college andclub stars who have been collected bythe C. A. A. An example is Meagher,a former Maroon, and a Conferencerecord holder in the plunge.In the forty yard swim CaptamBlinks and Gleason will defend theMaroon against Topp of the down¬town aggregation. Heyn and Huszaghwill vie with Byler and Sterling, theVarsity representatives in fancy div¬ing. in the breast -trolce, Taylor willmeet Lyons and Mueller of ChicagoA hot race in the 220 is expected be¬tween Captain Blinks and Browne whowill swim for the C. A. A.Former*Maroon to PlungePrincell and Meagher will plungefor the clubmen against Hedeen, whois the Varsity’s best bet in the event.Ivy and White will swim for theVarsity in the backstroke, againstFergus the club star. Topp and Blinkswill be the chief competitors for thehonors in the 100.l'hc Maroon relay team, consistingof Blinks, Vandeventer, Gleason, andRiver will meet that of the C. A. A.whose members are Topp, Huszagh,Mallen, and Leach. The meet willclose with the water basketball game.Under the leadership of Captain Mer-riam, this event should go to the hometeam.REV. GILKEY ON RELIGIOUSCAMPAIGN TOUR IN WESTRev. Charles Gilkey, well known onthe campus and minister of the HydePark Baptist church has been givinga series of addresses in western col-lges similar in content to those givenhere last fall by Sherwood Eddy. Dr.Gilkey will speak at the University ofKansas in the near future. He wasenthusiastically received by a largeaudience at the University of Texas.BISHOP PAUL JONESDISCOUNTS RESULTSOF ARMS CONGRESS“The results of the Conference forthe reduction of armaments are un¬important except for the fact that ithas brought the topic of war andpeace and the limitation of arma¬ments into discussion in the papersand the pulpit,” said Bishop Paul.Tones, secretary of the Fellowship ofReconciliation, in his lecture at theDivinity house last night. Bishop.lones is a well known pacifist.Until the nations realize that theycan no longer live independent of eachother, and enter into cooperation withone another, he stated, we can hopefor no material decrease in arma¬ments. “The Conference at Washing¬ton met,” he said, “not for the purposeof doing away with armaments, hutof reducing them, and has even failedto do this. The budget this year con¬tains an estimate for armamentspractically the same as that of lastyear.” "‘V7 Plans ForeignProblems MeetingsThe Y. M. C. A. will stage a seriesof meetings in the near future, ateach of which a representative of aforeign country will discuss the pe¬culiar problems of his nation. Onemeeting will be devoted to each of thefollowing countries: India, Russia;Japan, China, and the Philippines.Dates and names of speakers will boannounced later.All is in readiness for the Dutchdinner tonight from 5:20 to 7 in the“Y” rooms, according to Sec. “Gerry”Smith, much foot! having been laid inand plenty of drinks (soft) havingbeen provided.EXTENSIVE PLANSMADE FOR Y.W.-Y.M.WINTER CARNIVALSaturday Night Set for EventOn Woodlawn1” ieldWinter sports will he in order atthe Y. W. and V. M. C. A. Ice Carnivalwhich will begin promptly at 7:20Saturday night. Woodlawn field willin Hooded and special arrangementshave been made with Mr. Flook for•olored lights to play on the skaters.An admission charge of ten centswill entitle one to the privilege ofskating until 10:20 ard seeing the en-Uvtainment. Hester Weber, in charge‘ the performance has secured FrankWolfT and Helen Sloan to do a fewspecialty numbers on the ice. Pal¬mer Ek with a mysterious partnerw'll rival the art of Baptie and Lamb,(t is rumored that there is just ashade of a possibility that Mr. Hodgewill account for himself on the ice.A clown hand on skates will offerthe crowning event of the evening,'there will also he another band to! cep time for the skaters. Boothsw:U be constructed around Woodlawnfield where coffee and hot dogs willhe dispensed at a nominal charge.“We hope that everyone under¬stands that this party is just as muchfor those who don’t skate as for those:hat do,” said Marie Niergarth, chairin an of the affair. “There will beplenty of novelties to occupy the at(• ntion of the non-skaters. The com¬mittee lias gone to a great deal ofexpense to make this the biggest af¬fair of the Winter quarter.”NEW QUADRANGLE CU BBUILDING PROGRESSESWork on the new home of the Quad¬rangle club is being carried on unin¬terruptedly now, and officials antici¬pate no further delays in the erectionof the building which has been in theprocess of construction for the pastsix months. Unless further delays,due to strikes and other troubles inthe building trades are met with, theclub house will be completed in plentyof time for occupancy next fall.Numerous improvements have beenmade over the original plans for thebuilding, insuring greater convenienceand comfort to the members of thefaculty organization. The new clubhouse will permit the carrying on ofnumerous activities that are impos¬sible in the present building, due tolack of room and conveniences. No¬table improvements in the new build¬ing over the present one are found in♦ he arrangements for better cafe serv¬ice ami for social affairs.Time of Lecture ChangedProf. Read, who is delivering aseries of History lectures daily inHarper Mil, announces that his finallecture Friday will take place at tinstead of the announced time, 4:20jDISTRIBUTE COURSE BOOKSCourse hooks may be called for to¬day at I he Recorder’s office betweenthe hours of 8:20 and 5. Hereafterthey may he secured only during theregular office hours. PLAY FIRST GAMEOF INTER-CLASSBASKET TOURNEYSeniors-Sophomores, Juniors-Freshmen Clash Tomor¬row at 8 in Bartlett*WINNER OF SERIES GETS CUPFirst powder will be ignited in theinter - class basketball tournamentwhen teams representing the fourclasses play a pair of contests tomor¬row at 8 in Bartlett gymnasium. Thegames scheduled for this time are:1st game, seniors-sophomores; 2ndgame, juniors-freshmen.A complete schedule for the intra¬mural series has been drafted by JackHarris, chairman of the intrclass hasketball committee. Starting with to¬morrow’s double header twelve gameswill be played. Each team will playtwo contests with each of its oppon¬ents during this time. The four teams,upon completion of this round, will belifted according to their percentageof games lost and won.Plan Final GameAs the climax a big championshipcontest between the two teams at thehead of the list is planned. The classemerging victorious from this gamewill receive the loving cup offered bythe Undergraduate council. In addi¬tion the individual members of thewinning five will be presented withsome appropriate awards, possiblygold wat T.-ohai ms.There is a chance that the cham¬pionship will lie decided from resultsof the preliminary contest, and thatthe winner will be matched w'itliCoach Norgren’s second Varsity squadfor a post-season battle.Indications point to two strong'teams representing the classes of thejunior college, according to ChairmanHat is. “The freshmen and sophomoresare showing the most interest in thetournament,” he said, “and have al¬ready organized creditable teams.The upper classes have hecn slow er inresponding to the call.”Give Complete ScheduleOrganization of the different teamsis in the hands of athletic chairmenof the classes. William*Gallinger isselecting the “Frosh” five; Brickmanwill pick the represetnative sopho¬mores; Stahr will choose the juniortossers; and Chuck McGuire, the senid’s.The schedule for the championshipseries is as follows:Jan. 26—Seniors-sophomores, 1stgame; juniors-freshmen, 2nd game.Feb. 2 — Seniors-freshmen, 1stgame; juniors-sophomores, 2nd game.(Confirmed on Page 2)“GHOSTS” PRESENTEDBY MME. HAMMERTONIGHT IN MANDELNorwegian Actress Guest ofDramatic Club at TeaThis AfternoonMme. Borgney Hammer, who willappear in the leading role in Ibsen’s“Ghosts” tonight in Mandel hall, willbe the guest of the University Dra¬matic club this afternoon at 4:20 onthe second floor of Ida Noyes hall.Members of the club and of the fac¬ulty are especially invited.Mine. Hammer, who was horn inIbsen’s home town, Bergen, made herdebut at the age of seventen playingthe leading part in a famous old Nor¬wegian play. Since that time she hasplayed leading parts in the produc¬tions of all the great dramatists of thoworld.Mme. Hammer is the only actressof the younger generation whose workhas been compared favorably withthat of Madame Laura Gundersen,considered by many the greatest play¬er Norway has ever produced.Chicago playgoers will have the op¬portunity of seeing Ibsen interpretedaccording to Norwegian traditions.Tickets arc on sale in Cobb 11A in¬stead of in Ccbb 5A, as announcedyesterday. Tickets may be reservedshy telephoning Midway 0800. Alumni Track Stars toMeet MaroonsSaturdaySaturday will mark a new venturein Maoron athletics, when the Vars¬ity trackmen take on a team of Alum¬ni stars in a dual meet in Bartlettgymnasium. The Maroons have noBig Ten meet carded this w?eek end,and the meet with the former greatswill give them plenty of competition.Many men who have won fame asVarsity performers during the pastyears will compete against the pres¬ent Varsity aggregation, and sometough sledding is in store for the Ma¬roons, as many of the former starsare still in great shape and ready fora good grilling.Among the men who will battle theVarsity are: Jerry Fisher, who wasBig Ten champion in both the polevault and the high jump; “Red” Gra¬ham, who at one time held the World’sInterscholastic pole vault record; JoeStout and George Otis, star distancerunners; “Morty” Harris, last year’strack captain; Joe Hall, hurdler andquarter miler; Bartky, sprinter andmiddle distance runner; and Whiting,another big star in days gone by.With this aggregation of shiningstars the Alumni hope to give the Ma¬roons a real setback. The meet willstart Saturday at 7:45.STUDENT MUSICIANSORGANIZE FOR NEWBLACKFR1AR SHOWFaculty Members Speak atFirst Practice Meeting;Cast Tryouts TonightBlackfriars took the first steps inthe organization of their new studentorchestra yesterday at 3, when theinitial practice was held in the Rey¬nolds club theater. Eighteen campusmusicians reported ready for work,and the preparation for musical ac¬companiments to “Anybdy’s Girl” wasstarted by J. Beach Cragun, directorof the present University orchestra.Prof. F. M. Blanchard and DeanD. A. Robertson were present at themeeting. They gave a few reminis¬cences of the old Chicago militaryband with which they were connectedand which was organized under thelate President Harper. “The bandwas organized all for the glory ofplaying together,” said Prof. Blanch¬ard.Prof. Blanchard suggested that thenew musical organization be calledthe “University of Chicago BlackfriarOrchestra.” It will be the first of itskind to appear on the University cam¬pus. 'I he orchestra will meet on Tues¬day and Thursday nights under thediroct:on of J. Beach Cragun. Allmen who can play any kind of mus¬ical instrument have been urged toattend the practice tomorrow night at7 in 214 Blaine hall.Epple New Publicity ManagerWilliam Epple has been appointedpublicity manager for the 1922 showto take the place of Kenneth Rich¬ardson w'ho will bo out of residenceduring the winter and spring quar¬ters. Howard Vaughn has been namedas assistant to Epple.The scenery contest for “Anybody'sGirl” will close officially tonight at 7when all miniature sets and plansmust be in. The winning set will beannounced in the near future.Tryouts for cast parts will be con¬tinued tonight at 7 in the Reynoldstheater. All men who made the proliminary tryouts held last Wednesdaynight have been requested to bepresent.Phi Gamma Delta PledgePh' Gamma Delta announces thepledging of George Hoffman of Chi¬cago.COUNCIL MEETING CALLED OFFBecause of the sudden illness ofWilliam Oflbbins, the Interfraternitycouncil will have no meeting tonightas was announced. P. C. DEPARTMENTEXPLAINS SYSTEMTO STUDENT iA)DYTo Include Final Exam InCourses’ Work, SaysReedREQUIRE GYM FIRST 2 YEARSIn a statement from Dr. D. B. Reed,health officer of the University, tothe office of the dean of the juniorcolleges, the present vague summariz¬ing and aimless discussion of the gymquestion is adequately cleared up.'l he department of physical culture istaking into consideration the follow¬ing points in the giving of credit forP. C.:1. “Attendance—This is evidentlyof greater relative importance in ourdepartment than in others as our workinvolves motor education, doing rath¬er than knowing. We therefore saythat more than ten unexcused ab¬sences in a quarter will result in fail¬ure no matter what the quality of theman’s work. Absences from one toten will reduce a man’s grade, the in¬structor to use his judment as to theamount of reduction.2. “Attitude—This includes the in¬terest a man shows in class, etc.2. “Effort—We aim to give a mancredit for earnest effort to do welleven though his accomplishment isnot first class on account of a phys¬ical handicap.4. “Improvement—This is to becounted for a man’s grade eventhough his absolute standard of ac¬complishment is lowT.5. “Accomplishment — The manwho is good at doing the things weask him to do will receive a highergrade than the man who is equallysatisfactory on points 1, 2, 3, and 4,but not so good a performer.6. “Examination—We are tryingto give examinations partly for thepsychological effect on the men’swork, and partly to judge the im-p r ovement and accomplishment.Where it is possible the examinationswill have a mental content such asknodledge of game rules, strategy,training rules, etc.”Take Six In a RowThe physical culture regulationwhich the faculty board issued sometime ago provides that a man, uponentering the University must takewith his first six quarters of study,six quarters of P. C. Undergrad¬uates, however, who have neglectedto take their P. C. in successive quar¬ters can begin doing so now unlessthey have made particularly bad in¬fringements of the P. C. ordinance.CAP AND GOWN ISASKING FOR TENSTUDENT SELLERSWANTED—Ten students to sellCap and Gown subscriptions on com¬mission. Apply today between 1 and3 at (he Cap and (.own office in El¬lis 14.Early reports from student solicitors indicates that the final Cap andGown subscription drive which startedyesterday will succumb to student in¬difference unless the drive gathersmuch impetus than is evident now.It is in the hope of injecting morelife into the campaign that JacksonMoore has issued the request for so¬licitors printed above. In comment¬ing, he stated that students who sellsubscriptions help one of the most im¬portant activities of the Universityand also earn themselves a liberalcommission.Members of tho Cap and Gown staffare at a loss to account for the con¬tinued indifference and have come tothe conclusion that lack of informa¬tion is the only cause. For this rea¬son student solicitors will he main¬tained on the campus throughout theweek. Subscriptions may also hepurchased at the Y. M. or Y. W. C. A.rooms or at the Cap and Gown officein Ellis 14.THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1922Slip Daily iarimuThe Student Newspaper of theUniversity of Chicago1‘ublle.lieii Dioruiiitfs, except Saturday, Sun¬day and Monday during the Autumn,Winter and Spring quarters l*y The DailyMaroon Company.Entered aa second class mail at the Chi¬cago post off icea Chicago, Illinois, March13. lbtiti, under the act of March 3, 1873.Offices Ellis 14Telephone Midway 800Member ofThe Western Conference Press AssociationWednesday, Jan. 25, 1922GYM JAM GEMS NO. 2The rigid penalty of making stud¬ents ineligible for public appearanceif they have not met physical culturerequirements seems absurd. Disqual¬ifying students from the debating ortrack team or from Blackfriars or thePortfolio, if he has not taken the nec¬essary amount of gym, seems just a«irrational and illogical as keeping anundergraduate from pursuing a coursein, say, Anthropology, if he can’t walkaround the loop in four minutes.Last year University officials verysensibly reduced the rigid P. C. re¬quirement. This year it would bemost wise far them to change thepenalty for lack of gym credit tosomething more rational. The Boardof Physical Culture and Athleticsmeets Saturday. The Daily Maroon,desiring to keep campus activities andUniversity athletics of as high a cal¬ibre as possible, asks them to considerseriously the possibility of changingthe penalty. Something just asstringent, such as taking grade pointsoff for every cut over 10, might besubstituted for the present unsatisfac¬tory penalty, without interfering withstudent activities. ASCHER’SFROLIC THEATRE55th St. and Ellis Ave.Thursday and Friday, Jan. 26 and 27WallaceREID GloriaSWANSON ElliottDEXTERin“Don’t Tell Everything”Is it right that two persons engaged to marry, keep nosecrets? Or— Is it true that “What you don’t knowwon’t hurt you? See the answer vividly livid in thisfascinating production. AlsoTOONERVILLE COMEDYDon’t Forget “Way Down East’ REVUE-Feb. 8-9-10-11BAD NEWS FOR THE BUNKARTISTHere’s bad news for the bunk ar¬tist! The student who has been inthe habit of “getting by” courses bybluffing should be worried by the an¬nouncement that a type of examina¬tion has been discovered at Columbiacollege, which, it is said, will eliminatethe student with a good imaginationbut a sad lacking of facts. A newaid has been introduced, which, ac¬cording to Dean Hawkes of Columbia,affords no chance for the bluffer toexercise his arts and removes the ex¬amination from the category of sport¬ing propositions.“The clever student,” says theDean, “whose verbose knowledge of afew topics can be stretched so as toappear to advantage whatever ques¬tions may be asked, is left stranded.With the new examination he is shoot¬ing with a rifle instead of with a shot¬gun.”If such an examination could be putinto effect successfully, it would makefor greater accuracy and impress up¬on the student the necessity of glean¬ing important details and not just afaint glimmering of a subject. “Itis possible,” the Columbia Dean as¬serts, “that in the essay type of ex¬amination there is a margin of errorof from 10 to 25 per cent, which isentirely eliminated in the new exam¬ination. Furthermore, the new exam¬ination covers the course to an extentutterly impossible in the essay type.”COMMISSIONS WILLSETTLE ALL CHINA’SWOES—MAYBE: HARDJoint Committees in East MayUnify Subject PeoplesAgainst WhitesBy WILLIAM HARD(Special to The Daily Maroon)Washington, I). C., Jan. 23.—Theprincipal teaching proffered to thepublic this week by the WashingtonConference is that we may now lookforward in the Far East to a reallyperfected era of complicated joint in¬ternational action in China with aninternational committee or commis¬sion or board or bench for just abouteach and every separate individualChinese woe. The Board of Referencetv w contemplated by the Conferencef the potential adjustment—or, atany rate, potential consideration—ofquestions arising out of the applica¬tion of the principle of the Open Doorand of foreign equality of business op-i o' tonity in China will be presumablya long lived body.The commission on what is to hedone about foreign troops in Chinaand the commission on what is to bedone about foreign law courts in | ton conference simply retired fromChina and the assembly of foreignmakers of the Chinese tariff might al¬so last for some time in their presentproposed form or in some other form,in view of the fact that the woeswhich they are to abate they willprobably abate without extinguishingand since the Chinese will more orless applaud them as abaters and thenuninterruptedly demand that they goon to be extinguished it is not unrea¬sonable that they or their successorswill continue until China is sweptclean of all foreign administrative po¬litical intrusion whatsoever.Joint Action DemandedThe moment of the peak of imper¬ialism now shows us on the other sideof the peak a peculiarly perpendicularprecipice. Joint international actionis demanded by the contraction of theworld through the improvement in thefacilities of travel and of communica¬tion and it is demanded by the in¬creasing interdependence of the coun¬tries of the world in the matter ofnatural resources and of manufaetured commodities. But joint interna¬tional action among the strong isbound to bring forth exactly whatRabrindranath Tagore of India lastFriday mentioned in his memorablecomment on the work of the confer¬ence.It is bound to bring forth a joiningof minds among the weak. The Mo¬roccan or the Annamese who is dom¬inated no matter how benevolently byFrance, the Egyptian or the Indianwho is dominated no matter how ben¬evolently by Britain, the Filipino whois dominated no matter how superhu¬manly benevolently by the UnitedStates, the Korean who has incurredthe Japanese imitation of white im¬perial benevolent dominance, are allof them now bound to feel the currentof a common cause flowing from theAtlantic Morrocean coast through allnorthern Africa and across the wholeof western and southern and easternAsia to the islands of the Pacific inanswer to the apparent common causeof the great nations which they willbelieve are leaguing themselves to¬gether in Far Eastern treaties andFar Eastern Committees and commis¬sions not to modify their dominancebut to fortify it.Modification Theory AdvancedThe theory that all these hundredsof millions of people can be persuad¬ed that our purpose is really one ofmodification will be advanced. It willbe advanced in periodicals which thesehundreds of millions of people do notread. The Orient will know simplythat Britain and France and Americaand Japan ave joined in the Orient.Why are they joined? They are joinedin order to prevent quarrels amongthemselves. It is a most laudable, amost necessary, object. But what arethe quarrels about? The quarrels areabout things in regions which theyfoieignly dominate. And how do theypropose to abate those quarrels? Notby withdrawing from these regionsbut by establishing conferences andcommissions in them. It may be ar-'gued justly that the conferences andcommissions are natural and honor¬able and inevitable. It remains truethat conferring* and communicatingsbetween peoples in common subordi¬nation to dominant leagued peopleswill be natural and honorable and inevitable.We shall see the clash of two inev¬itabilities. The Washington coher¬ence forwards the freeing of the Ori¬ent.. If the nations in the Washing- the Orient, the Orient might relapseinto its own ancient despotisms. TheWashington conference abolishes thatprospect. It confronts the Orient witha concert of powers which can be re¬sisted only by a concert of awakenedpeoples. It assuages the clash betweenthe powers. It hastens the day of aconference in the Orient for assuag¬ing the clash between the powers andthe peoples. It could ask no largerdestiny. After Graduation-What?A QUICK RISE to a position in the businessworld — or a long period of training beforeyou are fitted for an executive role? In addi¬tion to your undergraduate work, which shouldserve as solid foundation, it will be well to considerthe advisability of special training which will cutoff years of apprenticeship in the business world.The Babson Institute offers an intensive trainingcourse of one or two years — which teaches thefundamental principles of business and how toapply them in the conduct of commercial affairs.By laboratory methods the student is shown andtaught the principles of Executive Managementwhich have built many of America’s leading con¬cerns. Babson Institute is conducted for the pur¬pose of aiding young men, who are to occupypositions of responsibility and trust to fill suchpositions ably and with credit to themselves.Write for BookletIf you art seriously ambitious for leadership send forbooklet. You will learn of the unusual methodspeculiar to this institution by which men are fitted with¬out toss of time tor executive positions. Merely sendyour name and address toBabson InstituteDepartment 330 Wellesley Hills, 82, Mass.PLAY FIRST GAME OF INTER¬CLASS BASKET TOURNEY(Continued from Page 1)Feb. 9—Seniors-juniors, 1st game;sophomores-freshmen, 2nd game. Feb. 16—Juniors-sophomores, 1stgame; seniors-freshmen, 2nd game.Feb. 23—Seniors-sophomores, 1stgame; juniors-freshtnen, 2nd game.Feb. 30—Sophomores-freshmen, 1stgame; seniors-juniors, 2nd game.VThisPublished inthe interest of Elec*trical Development byan Institution that willbe helped by what•ever helps theIndustry. Junior is learningto be a bankerIF you are putting in three hours a day in the electricallab, don’t be surprised twenty years later to find your¬self promoting a public utility bond issue. Or if you startin newspaper work, as like as not later on you will turn tomanufacturing or advertising or law.You don’t know where opportunity or inclination willlead you. 1 his fact has a great deal to do with your workat college not so much the things you learn as the wayyou learn them.Don’t think ot education as a memory test in names anddates and definitions. That knowledge is important, butonly as an incidental. Of far greater value is the habit ofgetting at underlying laws, the basic principles which tie factstogether.1 he work of the pioneers in electrical experiment, atfirst glance confusing, is simplified once you realize thatmuch of it hinged upon a single chemical phenomenon, theaction of the voltaic cell.Analyze your problems. Look for fundamentals. Learnto connect a law or an event with what went before and whatcomes after. Make your education a training in logicalthinking.This ability to think straight, whether acquired inEngineering or Arts, is the biggest thing you can get atcollege. Its aid as a means to success applies equally towhatever work you take up—since mental processes are thesame everywhere. It is the power which enables a mechanicto become sales manager, a lawyer to head a great industrialorganization. Develop it, if you would be ready when yourbig opportunity comes.1 he executives of this Company have beenchosen from all branches of the organization.It doesu t make much difference where youlearn to think straight, so longas you learn.3THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1922LITERARY LEADERSTHE LATEST BOOKS REVIEWEDByJohn GuntherSHORT STORIESFirst on the program today areshort stories. That there is a prej¬udice in the minds of publishers andbook-sellers against volumes of shortstories is well known; people, theysay, won’t buy ’em. Well, in that case,let us uplift the public taste for acolumn or two. And what types ofshort stories, ladies and gentlemen,do you prefer? Stories of gypsies,the stosies of the north, stories ofAmerican middle-class life, of Rus¬sia, or of sophisticated London?Which shall it be? It matters not;here they all are, hot and ready toserve.A good starter is GHITZA (Boni),by Konrad Bercovici. One of thestories in this hook was proclaimedby the indefatigable Mr. O’Brien asthe best short story of last year; an¬other the same gentleman announcedas the best effort of the year preced¬ing. I don’t see why Mr. O’Brienstopped at only two, for out of thedozen things in “Ghitza” half, any¬way, are quite first-rate. All of themdeal with gypsy life in Rumania—alife lawless and primitive. The bestword to descrbe them, 1 think, is thefourteenth word in the preceding sen¬tence—count back and see. They areexotic, strange, colorful—but prim¬itive most of all. And they are pow¬erful with a fine restraint. Best ofall, they are something altogethernew.From gypsies to Russia is no farcry, and here is THE SCHOOLMAS¬TER (Macmillan), the latest volumein the collected edition of the greatestwriter of short stories who ever lived—Anton Chekhov. “Maupassant?”,you say, aghast. Nay, nay. “lheSchoolmaster” contains stories in theusual vein of the master—shortsketches of character or incident withlittle plot. Every reader of Russianliterature in English, by the way,should pause to bow with hand overheart to Miss Constance Garnett,queen of translators—or should it betranslatresses ? She has given us nowthe complete works of Turgenev, Dos¬toevsky, and Chekhov in admirabletranslations—a noble work.CARTER (Appleton), by Don Mar¬quis (really his name), is a collectionof the more serious work of the col-yum conductor of the New York Sun.The tales are uneven; some, like thetitle story, an ironic sketch of a mul¬atto, are altogether good; others ap¬peared originally in the SaturdayEvening Post. It is interesting tonote the character of much of thisprofessional humorist’s work: one sui¬cide story, one murder story, one ar¬son story, one race-riot story, and soon. Well, reaction, you know.Algernon Blackwood, high priest ofthe supernatural, has taken unto him¬self a collaborator, Wilfrid Wilson,and together they have done THEWOLVES OF C.OI) (Dutton), collec¬tion of . stories in the authorizedBlackwood manner—stories of the su¬pernatural, of uncanny atmospheresand weird unholy things. The titlestory and several others deal with theNorth Woods; nevertheless they donot in the least resemble the works ofJames Oliver Curwood, who, it is ru¬mored, has a copyright on the region.Mr. Blackwood, 1 should say, is thegreatest living master of atmosphere,not even Conrad excepted. The bestof the stories is “Confession”; it issuperb.This brings us to THE ROMANTICLADY (Dodd), by Michael Avlen. Mr.Arlen is an Armenian with an unpro¬nounceable name; he came to Englandsome years ago, straightaway learnedthe language, and then produced, lastyear in “The London Venture,” a vol¬ume of reminiscence almost uniquelysophisticated. Hence it was with un¬common expectation that I opened“The Romantic Lady”; I was disap¬pointed, for no book, unless GeorgeMoore wrote it, could quite match“The London Venture”; this is not tosay, of course, that “The RomanticLady” is not of uncommon distinc¬tion. There are three stories and anovelette in it; all are of a kind—amatory experiences retold cleverlyand subtly in sophisticated prose. 'I hetitle story is the best of the four; itis civilized and delicate to a high de¬gree.CHEKHOVMentioning Chekhov a few para¬graphs above brings to mind two no¬table books which Huebseh has issuedrecently — REMINISCENCES OF ANTON CHEKHOV, by Maxim Gor¬ki, Alexander Kuprin, and I. A. Bunin,; and THE NOTEBOOK OF ANTONCHEKHOV. The first book is illum¬inating and instructive; the second ismore than that—a really notable ad¬dition to belles-lettres, comparableeasily to the notebooks of Hawthorneand Butler. In it Chekhov jotteddown names, ideas, plots, shortsketches, and the like, and the book,as a result, is like a cross section ofthe great Russian’s mind, like a sortof mental laboratory in which we arepermitted to see how he worked. Fewthings could be more suggestive thansome of the plots outlined in threesentences; plots out of which mighthave come great short stories. A pityit is Chekhov died before he coulddevelop them! This book should beinvaluable to every literary student.THE FLAPPER FLAPSOn the wrapper of DOLF (Boni),you will find this statement: “Can abeautiful young girl, thrown on herown resources and with an uncon¬querable zest for life, keep untarnish¬ed the one thing she has eventually togive—herself ?” No, no, you decide,since the author is F. E Baily, whowrites for Hearst’s. At least, youprobably hope not,—untarnished her¬oines .are usually dull. Thereupon,perusing the book, you find that Dolf,the 17 year old young lady in ques¬tion, is successively kissed, pawed,and manhandled by the followinggentlemen: Tom, Ronnie, Gerald,Ralph, Reggie, Sir Henry, Archibald,George, Hugh, Basil, Gillingham,Geoffrey, Philip, and two very specialones—Aubrey Julian Secundus Pur¬vis and Guy Henry de RlancheforetSenlake. Count ’em—fifteen. At theend, despite the warnings on thewrapper, Dolf is still morally intact,if not actually chemically pure. Weleave her about to be married. Godpity the husband!ESSAYS AND THINGSAlthough this is January, the dold¬rums of the publishing seasons, whenthe winds are not trade winds, thebooks pile up increasingly. And allour space, owing to Mistress Dolf,Mr. Chekhov, and the short stories, isgone. Therefore these five interesting-books of essays must get short shrift.BOOKS AND HABITS (Dodd)contains the lectures given by Laf-cadio Hearn to his students in Japan.The subjects are mainly connectedwith English literature. Hearn’sdelicate, patterned prose was nevermore effective. In ESSAYS ONENGLISH (Scribner) Brander Mat¬thews discourses amiably on one ofhis familiar themes—the Englishlat.guage. Prof. Matthews, it may bewhispered, is less vigorous than MrMencken on the same topic. ADVEN¬TURES IN ART (Boni), by MarsdenHartley, is largely concerned withmodern American painters. Mr. Hart¬ley himself is a painter of no littlereputation, and he knows whereof hespeaks. On literature, at the end ofthe book, he is less convincing. Rob¬ert Cortes Holliday’s 1921 volume offamiliar essays is called TURNSABOUT TOWN (Doran). The pa¬pers, which are informally literary,appeared originally in the Bookman.Included is an excellent sketch of G.K. Chesterton. AMERICA AND THEYOUNG INTELLECTUAL (Doran),by Harold Steams, is a trumpet callto exodus—exodus from Puritanismand Prohibition. Mr. Stearns arguesand writes neatly and well. StuartSherman, of the opposition party,ripped him up beautifully in the Lit¬erary Review last week.Sophomore class meeting today at12 in Harper Mil. PROSPECTS BRIGHTFOR MAROON TEAMIN FENCING EVENTSWith the return of all but one ofthe Maroon fencing squad which lastyear captured second place in the BigTen meet, prospects for a winner thi3season look exceptionally bright. Themen are working out daily under thedirection of Coach Merrill, and themen are already showing good form.In the sabre event Lindeman andLaMont, two skilled veterans, areavailable for duty against the teamsto be encountered. La'st year LaMontcaptured the University all-aroundfencing cup, and took second place inthe Big Ten sabre event. Both La¬Mont and Lindeman are expected tocreate considerable disturbance inConference circles this year.Three Clever FencersIn the foil events, Coach Merrill hasthree dependable performers, Capt.Wood, Dean and LaMont. All of thesemen are developing great skill andpromise to be in great shape for theConference dual meets which havebeen carded.Several practice meets with localfencing teams have been carded,thereby giving the men plenty of com¬petition. On Feb. 10 a dual meet hasbeen scheduled with the KensingtonTurnverein, and on Feb. 17 CoachMerrill’s me nwill take on the teamfrom Forwards Turnverein. Both ofthese teams are composed of hardenedveterans, but the Maroons are expect¬ed to give them some real competi¬tion.Prank Brcto jersFifth Avenue Boot Shoprear 46th Street, New YorkMASTER-MADE FOOTWEAR |j -- - - — -■ - . ■■==The deadline for all senior activitycards and money has been set forFriday, Jan. 27, at 5. No pictures ofdelinquent students will be printed inthe 1922 Cap and Gown, it was an¬nounced by Charles Loeffel, senioreditor.Phi Delta Theta Announces PledgePhi Beta Delta announces the pledg¬ing of Robert Mason of OklahomaCity. fiW] mi mi UUBMMnNEAREST BANK TO THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGONew Building Under ConstructionThat’s where they all go—to thePARKSIDE LUNCH5558 ELLIS AVENUE Woodlawn Trust& Savings Bank1204 E. SIXTY-THIRD ST.Meals at moderate prices—Also fur¬nished rooms. Special Plate Dinner,35 cents Under State and National SupervisionN. W. Corner of Stagg Field y/iw tiw iV/iM.ivy'IV'fiWHAVE YOU EVER TRIED THE MILK DIET?Doctors say it is a wonderful curefor all sorts of digestive difficulties.It fumishhes elements needed tomake new blood, to repair worn outcells, to maintain growth of tissues. Yet it is one of the most easily di¬gested, easily assimilated foodsknown. When no other food seemsto agree, milk will provide amplenourishment.WANZER’S MILKis pure, fresh and wholesome. It is bottled in a modern plant,in a clean, sanitary manner. Wanzer service is thoroughly reli-able. For Wanzer milk, cream or butter, call Hyde Park 207—Stewart 1 39—Calumet 817.SIDNEY WANZER & SONSEstablished 1837GLAD CLOTHESfor Spring!LITHE, buoyant—m harmonywith the joyousness and viva¬city of Youth are the clothesthe college girl wears in class and onthe campus.And a place of distinction is reservedin her wardrobe for the creations ofthe House of Youth. The advanceSpring creations are being featured bythe leading stores. Embodying thenew colors, the new fabrics, the variedsilhouette of the ingenious mode-each creation graced by an indefinabletouch of Youth itself.If you do not know thename of the store inyour locality we will bepleased to direct youTHE HOUSE OF YOUTHSCHULMAN & HAUPTMAN38 East 29th Street, New York3 Avenue De L’Opera, Paris4reading “Briary-Bush” for Contempo¬rary Literature. * * * Freshman wo¬men of the flapper genus futilely “try¬ing out” for campus activities, whenall their interest centers on one ac¬tivity. * * * Robust members of thefaculty dauntlessly braving Januaryclimates, overcoatless. * . . Physicalculture instructors waiting for the liftto carry them two flights up, in Har¬per * * * Professorial members ofthe national academy of sciences sob¬erly calling class roles for the bureauof records. * * * Campus correspond¬ents of metropolitan newspapers eag¬erly reading The Daily Maroon. * * *America’s foremost authority on herhistory earnestly discussing mootpoints with last night’s life of theparty.WE SHUDDER to contemplate thenarrow escape from tragedy in theLaw school, when one of its shininglights avoided, by the barest margin,a severe seige of lockjaw.SET ’EM UPInterfraternity bowling having re¬sumed once more, Hank Marino willlead off in that touching aria, “ComeOn Back to Our Alley.”“The old saw is wrong,” Wishbonemused. “Absinthe makes the breathgrow stronger.”STRATEGY, MY BOY!“The Varsity played the ball downthe center of the floor most of thetime in preference to the center.”—Spike’s write-up of the N. W. game.Another Lrhana Furore.(Daily lllini)LOST—in Urbana, bag containingblank check, etc. Liberal reward.“DON’T TELL Everything” is thelatest advice of the movie millers.Advice, we hazard, quite literallyfollowed in many a Cobb hall recita¬tion.SANDOW STUFF“Laramie Holds the Range” gets bybig in the Hot Stove League. Whynot try some of the eight stuff inFriars ?NamresiFEARING to keep our patient lead¬ers in suspence any longer, we havedecided at last to announce the long-awaited wheeze about Madame Ham¬mer is being reserved for the Rap andPound section.FASHION OAT“POKE” shapes are fashionable inSpring millinery, we read. The shapeis obtained by donning the lid andtaking a poke at it. “Sit” styles willcontinue the favorites in the derbyline, the sitting, of course, being al¬ways unintentional.BROWNING, IN FACT“When , a noted humorist wasill, his wife gave him ‘Paracelsus,’”Prof. Linn informed his class yester¬day. The remedy, let us hasten toarid, was not proprietary, but poetical.VARYING the usual, we close to¬day with a reminiscent quatrain.Ode to a Taxicab Stopping Before aFraternity HousbThe motor murmurs peacefully,The chauffeur idles greasefully.Within the house—The estwhile occupant strives des¬perately to borrow enough cash topay w hat he ode to the taxicab.Birdie.Who Is Anybody’s Girl?Plan to CombineConference GradsThe Big Ten Alumni association, apiojeet to unite the graduates of theWestern Conference schools into oneorganization, is meeting with the ap¬proval of Conference alumni in allparts of the countoy.The main function of the combina¬tion is to extend the good feelingwhich already exists among the stud¬ents of the different schools of thealumni. The plan is to combine thealumni clubs already existing in anycity into a Big Ten association, with¬out affecting the entity of those clubs. THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25. 1922At New York it is planned to have C. A. vespers today at 4:30 in the Y.a Western Conference club, with es- W. rooms. Refreshments will hetabltehed headquarters. This would served at 3:45.not only serve as an aid to travelers,,but also as a meeting place for the: Alpha Sigs Announce Pledge2000 big ten graduates residing there. | •■ -■ —; ‘'I— ———: Alpha Sigma Phi announces theOFFICIAL NOTICES i n£ °f Robert H. Distelhorst of! Builington, la.—- — ■ *Cap and Gov. n advertising salesmenand all interested in this departmentox the Cap and Gown will meet todayat 3:30 in the Cap and Gown office.Y. W. C. A. Vespers today at 4:30in Ida Noyes hall.Bacteriology club will meet todayat 4:30 in Ricketts 7.The Psychological Journal club willmeet today at 4:30 in the Psychological laboratory.The Zoology club will meet todayat 4:30 in Zoology 29.The Romance club will meet todayat 8 at Maison Francaise.El Circolo Italiano will meet tomor¬row at 4:30 in Classics 21.The Physics club will meet tomor¬row at 4:30 in Ryerson 32.The Junior Political Science clubwill meet tomororw at 7 in HarperE41.The Social Service club will meettomorrow at 8 in Classics 10.The Gun and Blade club smokerwill be held tomorrow at 8 at the clubrooms in Snell ball.Dean Miller will speak at the Y. W.CLASSIFIED ADSFOR RENT—Fine room, privatebath. Dining room, kitchen privil¬ege. 5700 Kimbark A.ve., 3rd apt.FOR RENT—Two double rooms, fur¬nished, for 2 or 3 persons. Steamheat, $12.00 per week. Board if de¬sired. Fairfax 0275. 5701 DrexelAve.FOR RENT — Housekeeping, frontroom and kitchenette, steam, elec-.,gas. O’Conner, 5751 Drexel.LOST — Black canteen containingfountain pen, silver pencil initialedR. L. S., and change. Reward. CallH. P. 4310. R. Schoenfeld.FOR RENT—Nice room for two men,6024 Woodlawn Ave., 3rd apt. Phi Beta Delta PledgesPhi Beta Delta announces thepledging of Phiilp Shapiro ami H. H.Sugar of Chicago; A. N. Landa ofTulsa, Okla.; and M. J. Goldberg ofDayton, Ohio.WOMENS’ HALLS HOLDINITIATIONS THIS WEEK 'The freshmen and new members ofFoster hall presented a short sketchentitled “An Ideal Day in Foster” lastnight. The play was a part of theinitiation ceremonies of the new mem¬bers of the hall.In Beecher the initiation stuntswere performed on Monday and Tues¬day evenings, and the solemn initia¬tion will take place tonight. Abouttewnty-four women will then becomefull members.In most of the halls and dormitoriessome form of initiation takes place.The hall leaders say that this formof entertainment helps to make lifein the dormitories more interesting.FOR SERVICE ONPrograms, Favors*Stationery, Jewelrycall“3ROCHON”SUPERIOR 928NOTICE!I By patronizing our ad-|’e tisers you benefit your-j-cT, our advertisers and The! Daily Maroon.A most interesting event for the tvomen of ChicagoThe January Sale ofPronounced Valuesat *9.75A large group of Foster Oxfords both strap andplain is one of the features of the January Sale—former prices ranged from $15 to $18.All Foster Shoes are reduced for the sale includingwhite oxfords and pumps fo r wear at the winter resorts.Substantial reductions also onFoster Shoes for Children—onHosiery, Buckles <Su OrnamentshF. E. 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