Vol. 20. No. 68. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922 Price 5 Ce«tsHAWKEYES DRILLHARD FOR GAMEHERE SATURDAYCoach Ashmore’s QuintetShows Great Improvementof LateCAPT. SHIMEK IS SCORING STARExtremely confident as a result ofthe defeat of Coach Winters’ “Fight¬ing Ulini”, the Varsity quintet em¬barks upon a week of strenuous prac¬tice in preparation for tin* name withIowa here Saturday. Coach Norgrenis confident that his proteges have“found themselves,” and that theywill make considerable trouble for theremaining teams on the Maroonschedule.The next foe of the Varsity five isCoach Jimmy Ashmore’s Hawkeyefive, which makes its appearance inthe Bartlett gym Saturday. Althoughthe Iowa quintet has failed to breakinto the win column as yet, it can¬not be regarded as an easy foe forthe Varsity.Iowa Steadily ImprovingSince the beginning of the seasonCoach Ashmore has been drilling hischarges in an effort to eradicate someof their glaiing faults, and he hassucceeded to some degree, as theIowans have shown steady improve¬ment.Inability to shoot baskets has beenthe chief cause of the Iowans’ down jfalls so far this season. The defense |of the Hawke.ves is one of the bestseen in Big Ten circles however, and jNorgren’s team will have a tough jtime penetrating it. Iowa demon¬strated its real strength last week, ,when it lost to the pace setting Pur¬due five in he last thirty seconds ofplay.Capt. Shimok Is VeteranSeevral real stars grace the Iowalineup, first among them being Capt.Shimek, the veteran star of the team.Ever since he began his competitionShimek has performed brilliantly. Fortwo years he has been one of the BigTen’s heavy scorers, and besides be¬ing adept at tossing baskets and sink¬ing free throws, is a wonderful floorman. He plays the running guard.Aubrey Devine, captain and starquarterback of the 11)21 Hawkeyegrid team, is fitting in well at one ofthe forward jobs, and is developing iinto a clever and fast floor man. Theother forward job is held by Burgittwho is a good basket shot. Hicksjumps at center with hLohman, a clev¬er defensive man, playing guard alongwith Shimek.Haw key ex Have Lost FourDespite the fact that they have lost j(Continued on Page 2)M. S. DEPARTMENTGETS OUTFIT FOP.STUDY OF TACTICSThe Military Science departmenthas received two sets of class room Iequipment which will be valuable inthe study of tactics. One of these isa sand table with miniature revet¬ments, sandbags and forms of barbedwire entanglements, all to a uniformscale in the construction of miniaturetrenches.The other piece of equipment is arelief map of a territory four by twomiles on a scale of two feet to themile. The map has different groundforms such as hills, valleys and riv-JTS and contains a town with farm-nouses and woods, fields and orchards.The map is divided into eight sec¬tions, and by different arrangementstwo thousand areas may be obtained.This is for use of students in workingout tactical problems and varioustroop maneuvers. Miniature bodiesof troops all to scale are supplied withthe map.These miniatures are made at thefederal penitentiary at Fort Leaven-worfh, and are used for instructionpurposes in all camps and schools ofmilitary tactics.The value of these sets can he ap¬preciated when one considers the dif¬ficulty at the University of Chicago ofobtaining actual ground for the dig¬ging of trenches or the working outof tactical problems. Mummies Make MerryIn Haskell MuseumMorgueEven Haskell Oriental museum hasnot been neglected by bootleggers andbooze-hounds, according to a state¬ment by T. George Allen, secretary ofthe Egyptian moratorium. Last Wed¬nesday night, while staying late toclassify several new specimens, Mr.Allen was aroused by strange noisesin the corridors. Stepping out of hisoffice, he saw the case containing oneof the choicest collections broughtback by l’rof. Breasted on his 1920expedition, had been opened.Searching through the entire mus¬eum, ho found no one and so returnedto his work, no little perturbed bythe occurrence, for the collection con¬sisted of a group of Egyptian beer-makers in full action, executed in al¬abaster. These figures were intendedto accompany the dead man to thegrave, and furnish the poor fellow?with drink in the next life. Evidentlysome enterprising person had takenthe hop-squeezers to his cellar.Several hours later, Mr. Allen wasagain aroused by noises from the nextroom. .Sneaking around the corner,he halted at the sight of Mery, highpriestess of Hathor, and Lady Mera-mon, of the Dynasty, sitting to oneside of the room, while writhing slavegirls sinuously swayed about to theclick of the cubical tiddle-de-winks,which were maneuvered by the GodOsirds. And the missing figures werebusy at work providing liquid encour¬agement for the crowd. Thirstily T.Allen smacked his lips—A horrible dream! Mr. Allen satup.DORF DRAWS VIVIDSKETCH OF DAILYRIOTS IN HARPERSums Up 1 raits of ModernLibrary Flapper InInterviewTwo reporters from The Daily Ma¬roon approached Dr. Dorf in the mainreading room of Harper library.“How do you like your work in yournew surroundings?” asked one of thereporters.“Thank you, fairly well. The ma¬jority of students come up here towork. They mean business.”“Are there other types who visitHarper?” interrupted a reporter.“You will find other types than thisserious student in the reading room,”continued the Doctor. “Notably amongthese is the giggling girl. She can’thelp it. Life is too full of fun. Soon¬er or later she will cry—life is not ajoke. But I wish that she would puton the sordine. Another type, thecoquette, is busy with her looks. Sheneeds a little more powder, her hairhas to be arranged, while her escortis full of admiration. He is being(Continued on Pone 4)Library Purchases RareEdition of ShakespeareThe Library has recently obtained avery rare and expensive set ofShakespeare’s works from a Londonconnoisseur. The set consists of six¬teen huge volumes published in 1853.The edition was a limited one, only200 copies being printed. They weresold only to persons of importance inEurope. The list of original owners,which is printed inside the cover ofeach hook, is headed by the King ofPrussia. The copies obtained by theUniversity were the.property of Al¬fred George of London. One volumeis devoted to the biography of Shakes¬peare and contains a remarkable collection of facsimiles of his birth cer¬tificate, marriage license and otherimportant papers.HOLD REGISTRATION TODAYAll undergraduates who did notregister during the Autumn quarterand who expect to vote Feb. 17. mustregister in Uobh 9A from 9 to 1 to¬day. There will be no further oppor¬tunity to register afforded this year. PETITIONS DEMANDCOMBINED FROSHSOPHOMORE PROMJunior College Formal Will beFirst of ItsKindMAY DANC E AT KENWOOD CLUBAs a result of repeated demands onthe part of junior college students fora prom of th<*ir own, petition for aproposed freshman-sophomore prom,to be held Mar. 4 at the Kenwood clubare now circulating on the campus.As soon as 250 signatures are ob¬tained, the committee in charge, head¬ed by Russel Pettit and Melvin Wam-bolt will proceed to make definite ar¬rangements. Those desiring to at¬tend are requested to sign one of thepetitions.Tickets to the prom will not costover SI.50 according to the commit¬tee, but this does not mean that theaffair will be in any way inferior toformal dances held in the past. In¬stead the* committee announces thatplans are under way to engage one ofthe best orchestras in the city andthat other preparations all point to astellar affair.The prom will he formal and, ac¬cording to its sponsors, will be bet¬ter than any class prom which hasever taken place at the University.PRESIDENT SCOTTGIVES ADDRESS ATNEXT CONVOCATIONPres. Walter Dill Scott of North¬western university will deliver theprincipal address at the 124th Con¬vocation, on the subject of “HandlingMen,” Mar. 24, at 4 in Mandel hall.President Scott is one of the country'sforemost authorities on modern psy¬chology.Before being elected to the presidency of Northwestern, he was a pro¬fessor of psychology there and con¬ducted many experiments. Duringthe war, he performed an extensiveservice in instituting and supervisinga personnel system for the U. S.army. As a reward for his work inthis connection, he was decoratedwith the Distinguished Service Med¬al. He is the author of many author¬itative books on his subject, including“Science and Common Sense in Work¬ing with Men,” which he published incollaboration with M. H. Hayes.“President Scott is well qualifiedto talk on the subject of ‘HandlingMen’,” declared Dr. E. J. Goodspeed,secretary to the President, yesterday.“Scientists everywhere respect hisopinions on any psychological topics,and relations between the executiveand his men have always been his-special field of investigation. 1 lookforward eagerly to President Scott’svisit.”THIRD Y. M. C. A. TOUR TOCUSACK ADVERTISING CO.The third of the Y. M. C. A. “KnowChicago” tours is scheduled for nextSaturday, Feb. 1”. The tour willconsist of inspection of the plant olthe Thomas Cusack Advertising Co.,at 615 Loomis St. This organizationhas one of the finest plants in the cityin regard to both equipment and effi¬ciency of its employees. It is one ofthe largest companies of its kind in [the country and handles a large partof the billboard advertising in andaround Chicago.The trip is open to anyone in theUniversity who desires to avail him¬self of the opportunity. The only ex¬pense involved is the carefare to andfrom the factory. The party will meetat the “Y” rooms and will leavepromptly at 9 under the leadership ofsome capable person.C. & A. Smoker Next TuesdayC. and A. men will hold a smokerTuesday of next week in the Reynoldsclub theater. The announcement thatthe affair was to be held last nightwas an error. A vaudeville programcigars, cigarettes, and candy arepromised the club members. PROF. MANLY DECIPHERINGMYSTERIOUS BACON MSS.Head of English Department at Work in Florida toDetermine Value of Ancient Volume Saidto Make Scientific PredictionsSuccess is Predictedtor Portfolio Show“Paint, Powder, and Patches”promises to exceed any other Port¬folio production ever seen on the stagein Mandel if present indications aretrue, declare the managers. “In in¬troducing- novelties in dance andmusic, Mr. Coleman has organized aplay which is bound to be a success.Emphasis is now being put on theperfection of dancing, singing, andexpression and new and striking ef¬fects are being added each day.”During the past week severalchanges have been made in the cast.| Anna Gwen Pickens and Alice Lar¬son receiving prominent parts. TheI rehearsals for the chorus groups havebeen arranged so that most of theI women have to practice only twice aweek.LOCAL RIFLE CLUBSCARD MEETS WITHVARSITY MARKSMEN—Use Range In Stadium BehindConcrete Stands In StaggField—With a prospect of matches withHarvard, Yale, and other eastern uni¬versities in the near future, the University Rifle club is calling for under¬graduates to participate in contests.At present tournaments are scheduledwith local clubs. The University Rifleclub is a member of the National Rifleassociation, fostered by the War de¬partment.Anyone connected with the Uni¬versity is eligible for membership inthe organization. The shooting rangeis maintained in the stadium on EllisAve., and is open from 7 to 9 everyevening except Saturday and Sunday.Wednesday night is women’s night.Rifles are supplied by the club, butammunition must be purchased by theuser. The fee for ammunition isnominal.Regular expert riflemen and sharp¬shooter medals are awarded by thewar department for shooting on thisrange. These medals entitle theholder to full standing in the UnitedI Continued on page 3)Coaches Will ChooseWomen’s Cage TeamsJunior and Senior College basket¬ball teams have been particularly dif¬ficult to pick this year due to thequality of the material, say thecoaches. Tentative squads have beenselected and are practicing every af¬ternoon in preparation for the firstgame which is scheduled for Feb. 25.“It is almost impossible to pick thefinal Junior-College team as there arcseveral competent persons who playalmost equally well for every posi¬tion,” said Miss Marshall yesterday.“We hope to pick the teams by nextweek so that the final round of prac¬tice can begin.”Class teams will be picked nextweek also. More women than usualhave shown interest in the class teamsas well as the college teams. Becauseof Portfolio, the coaches are consid¬ering playing only six on a team in¬stead of the usual nine.PROM NAMES WANTEDAll men who expect to attend theWashington Prom must turn in theirfull names and the names of theirpartners to The Daily Maroon, Box(). Faculty Exchange, before Feb. 17,if the mimes arc to appear in the spe¬cial Prom issue of The Daily Maroon. The most mysterious manuscript inthe world, one of those hidden treas¬ures of literary art disclosed by theworld war and one which has excitedkeener popular interest than perhapsany volume yet discovered is beingdeciphered by Prof. John M. Manly,head of the Department of English.Prof. Manly attempted the giant taskof solving the ancient riddles lastsummer and i at present at work inFlorida.For many years the mysteriousmanuscript was practically unknownin literary circles. It was, accordingto the Department of English, in thepossession of an Italian nobleman whowas forced, during the Great War toget rid of his entire library in orderto avoid the Italian war tax. In theprocess, the manuscript was smuggledacross the border and came into thepossession of Mr. Wilfred Voynich, awell-known Paris bibliophile and deal¬er in ancient manuscripts.May Be Worth Large FortuneShould the exact meaning of themanuscript he deciphered by Prof.Manly, the volume may be found tobe worth at least $200,000. The firstwork of examining into the meaningof the time-worn pages was carriedon by Prof. W. R. Newboldt, of theUniversity of Pennsylvania who de-vi ted two years solely to the problemof deciphering it.The common belief, before muchlight had been thrown on the manu¬script was that it had some vagueconnection with the Shakespeare-Racon controversy. This was provedto be merely a rumor. The Baconwhose name has been linked with themanuscript is thought to have been afriar who lived about the thirteenthcentury, who was profoundly inter¬ested in subjects relating to science,and who made many mysterious pre¬dictions concerning scientific subjects.He was accused of practicing the il¬legitimate “black magic” of the time.Because of the uncanny predictionsby Roger Bacon, who foretold of tel¬escopes, microscopes, aeroplanes, gun¬powder and horseless carriages, par¬ticular interest was aroused in Prof.Newboldt’s investigation of the manu¬script.Mystic Symbols ProminentThe Mss. is regarded as perhapsthe most puzzling of all time. Mysticastronomical symbols and drawingsin color which figure prominently onits pages remain to be translated forpopular reading. What do the cryp-(Continued on Page 3)PROM COMMITTEEDECIDES TO TABOOFLOWERS ON 21 STYou can’t “Say it with flowers” onthe 21st.So say the leaders of the Washing¬ton Prom. And they ought to know.At the last of their austere meet¬ings, the delicate subject of posiesarose and was hurriedly sent to a de¬serving death.Roses, violets, carnations, lilies,hyacinths, geraniums, clinging ar¬butus, the honeysuckle, and even themodest dandelion are barred *fromparticipation on the coming eventfulevening.And the Prom leaders threatenstrict enforcement of the ruling.Flower hounds are to be stationed atthe doors and will follow the aromaof neatly bunched posies to the farth-erest corner of Ida Noyes.Wearers of the forbidden tokenswill probably he requested either toremove the florist’s pride or to leavothe floor.So, women, don’t he peeved if theusual floral decoration fails to makeits appearance. It can’t be, that’s all.And anyway, you’ll he ineligible forpublic appearance, just like I’. C., ifyou overstep the ruling.2Sill* 0aily HlaroanThe Student Newspaper ofUniversity of Chicago thePublished mornings. except Saturday , Sun-dav and Monday during the Autumn,Winter and Spring liwrters by The DailyMaroon Company.Knler* 'd as second class mail at the Chi-C&gO Lm »«i office. Chicago. Illinois. March13. 11H Ml under the net of March 3 . 1873.Offices Ellis 14Telephone Midway 800Member ofThe \V. stern Conference Preim AssociationEDITOltl AL STAFFHerbert l(u bet MunitKinK editorLennox EditorRichard liliel EditorMary I H yes Woman's EditorArvid 1 allude Vl lilel ies EditorBartlett Corninek.. 1 >ra mat ie EditorEdit orLennart Weil EditorWednesday, February 8, 1922A MENACE TO ATHLETICSThe action of the Purdue, Illinois,and Notre Dame faculties in disqual¬ifying certain athletes for playing inprofessional games should be highlycommended. There is no doubt thatthe men corrupted the amateur as¬pect of college athletics whether theymeant to or not. And it was onlyright to denounce them so that otherathletes would not be led astray asthey were.But it is evident lately that the in¬dicting of athletes has gone too far.Various publicity-seeking coaches andeducators, anxious to "get the goods”on members of teams they are jeal¬ous and afraid of, are promiscuouslyaccusing any questionable athlete, andwithout attempting to investigatewhether or not their indictments aretrue, these muckrakers are merelycasting a bad name on intercollegiatesports.Each new day brings to light in¬vidious accusations. “The stage hasbeen reached where any college whichdevelops a successful team or a num¬ber of star athletes is at once undersuspicion,” Prof. C. W. Savage, di¬rector of athletics at Oberlin college,recently asserted. ‘‘Such conditions,‘‘he thinks, threaten the entire struc¬ture of intercollegiate sports. It istime for faculties, administrators andgoverning bodies to consider thesethings.”Stamping out professionalism is agood thing, but it must be clone insuch a way that it will not menacethe foundation of intercollegiate ath¬letics.INNUENDOThe Honor commission nomineeswill evoke the usual storm of criticismboth from disgruntled aspirants andfrom the professional malcontents.In the main, however, they strike aninteresting average. Several areathletes virtually all have won prom¬inence in some extra-curriculum ac¬tivity. The Honor commission hastried to choose men and women whorepresent the thought of the typicalundergraduate.It is not an easy task to serve on asuch a board as the Honor commis¬sion. But the students selected mustfeel it their duty to devote conscien¬tious thought and effort to the job.In courageously urging he mainten¬ance of the honor sentiment on thequadrangles and disciplining its of¬fenders the members of the Honorcommission deserve the comemndationof the University, and not the veiledsneers which have too often been theironly reward.HAWKEYES DRILL HARD FORGAME HERE SATURDAY(Continued from Page 1)four Big Ten encounters, the Hawk-eyes have shown themselves to be afighting outfit, and should give a goodaccount of themselves when compat-ing the Maroons here. The Iowa fivehas demonstrated to the basketballworld that it is a good road team, andMaroon rooters should not be over¬confident as to the outcome of Satur¬day’s game.Although out of the Conferencerace, the Ilawkeyes are determinedto keep their slate clean during therest of their schedule, and because ofthis the Maroon-Iowa game shouldprove to be an interesting one.Iowa Students Raise FundTwo days’ canvassing on the Uni¬versity of Iowa campus netted $740for the Student Loan Fund, whichprovides for men and women students“during periods of unusual financialstrain.” Iowa City banks contribut¬ed $800 to the fund. THE DAILY MAROON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922ASCHER’SFROLIC THEATRE55th St. and Ellis Ave.—TODAY—I). \V. GRIFFITH PRESENTSDOROTHY GISHandRichard Barthelmessin“WAY DOWNEAST”A tale of love and lovers.Full of thrills and pathos.A picture never to be forgot¬ten, and enjoyed by both oldand young. Don’t fail tosee the production that setthe country talking.— I Hon. Jacob DickinsonSi ’OR i Si lOR 1S Donates 525 VolumesYY. H. Taylor, Illinois star plunger,came within 4-5 of a second of therecord for the GO ft. plunge. Meaghera former Maroon is the present hold¬er of the record at 17 and 3-5 seconds.The University of California football team averaged four-tenths abovethe grade that the faculty has set assatisfactory. Sort of a blow to thehead of an Eastern College who saidthat football was detrimental toscholastic work.Purdue’s basketball team is in abad way. White is ineligible, Mastersand Gullion are sick, and Little andKeesling are having scholastic trou¬bles. Outside of this the team is infine shape and eager to go.Don White, Captain of Purdue’sbasketball team, who was lately barred from athletics for playing base¬ball with an outside team, was chosenas an all-American guard for the lasttwo years. He was also the leadingscorer in the Big Ten in 1921. Rathera bad man to lose.T. Nelson Metcalf, coach of Ober-lin’s football team that defeated OhioState last year has taken the job ofhead of the department of physicaleducation at the University of Minne¬sota.Illinois thought that Chicago wouldbe a tough opponent, despite their de¬feat at the hands of Minnesota. Foronce they thought right.Harvard has dropped swimmingfrom its list of recognized sports. Inspite of all the talk they are doingtheir best to do away with clean ath¬letics.The annual Army-Navy game willbe held next fall at Franklin Field,the athletic field of the University ofPennsylvania. Since 1914, the con¬test has been held at the Polo groundsin New York, but the precedent willbe broken next fall. The stands arebeing remodeled so as to accommo¬date a crowd of 55,000.Harvard and Yale will hold theircustomary clash on the same day asthe Army-Navy game, namely Nov.25.One of the traditions at Dartmouthis the annual Winter Sports Carnivalwhich will be held this year on Feb.9, 10, and 11. Many kinds of contestswill be held, among which are: bas¬ketball, swimming, hockey, skiing,skating, a nsdnowshoe races.Italy will send a team to the Pennrelays this year, for the first time inhistory.Sixty men reported for the first callfor basketball candidates at OhioState. Coach St. .John has only fourU tter men out of this number, aroundwhich to build the team.A compilatoin of Michigan’s ath¬letic record in Conference competitionin the four major sports, shows thatthe Wolverines have won a majorityof their contests with each of the oth¬er Conference schools. Their teamsin the last few years have not comeup to past standards, however. The Hon. Jacob Dickinson of Chi¬cago, Secretary of War during theTaft Administration, has recently pre¬sented to the University Libraries acollection of 525 volumes, the mostnotable gift of books received in re¬cent years.The books help to fill gaps in thepresent collections and cover a widerange of subjects including politicalscience, international law, Europeanand American history and literature.Biographies to be CollectedBiographies of men who have beenprominent in the history of the Uni¬versity will be collected and publishedin the near future. Mr. T. W. Good-speed, father of Dr. E. J. Goodspeed,has undertaken the work of collect¬ing material on the lives of these men,including such ones as MarshallField, Joseph Reynolds, La VerneNoyes, Sidney Kent, Silas Cobb, Wil¬liam Ogden, and Charles Hull. Thecollection includes the biographies ofeighteen men, almost all of whichhave appeared at one time or anotherin the “University Record.”Underweights Must ReportThe Physical Culture departmentstates that all women who were tenper cent underweight in the fall, andwho have not reported since, shouldreport immediately, to Miss OrsiThompson of Miss Dudley’s depart¬ment.Vets Present “Buck on Leave”“A Buck on Leave,” the musicalcomedy presented before half a mil¬lion soldiers in France after the Ar¬mistice by members of the MotorTransport Corps began a two weeks’run Feb. 6 at the Auditorium underthe auspices of the Chicago NationalGuardsmen. A committee composedof the colonels of the various Chica¬go regiments, has charge of the ar¬rangements for the production.University Students Receive CourteousAttention atTHE FROLIC THEATREDRUG STORECigarettes Fountain ServingCorner Ellis Ave. and 55th St.Adjacent to Frolic TheatreTelephone Hyde Park 761WHIPHARROWJomju collarCluelt,Peabody & Co.Inc.Troy, NY. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED THE MILK DIET?-Doctors say it is a wonderful curefor all sorts of digestive difficulties.It furnishhes 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 81 7.SIDNEY WANZER & SONSEstablished 1857Q.OOD THINGSfrom 9 climespoured into a singleglass for you.DELICIOUS ANDThe Coca-Cola Co.Atlanta, C*a.Training for LeadershipBusiness leadership is a matter oimental training and ability plus a knowledgeof business principles and their practicalapplication to business life. In addition to yourundergraduate work, which should serve as solidfoundation, it will be well to consider the advisa¬bility of special training which will cut off years ofapprenticeship in the business world.The Babson Institute offers an intensive trainingcourse of one or two years—which teaches the fun¬damental principles of business and how to applythem in the conduct of commercial affairs. Bylaboratory 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 are seriously ambitious for leadership send forbooklet. You will learn of the unusual methods peculiarto this institution by which men are fitted without lostof time for executive positions. Merely send yourname and address toBabson InstituteDepartment 330 Wellesley, Hills, 82, Mass.I Subscribe forI! THE MAROONII1| RATES1 Quarter Yearj Called for $1.50 $3.00j Delivered 2.00 4.00f Mailed 2.00 4.00' <.'I *, l THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922LITERARY LEADERSTHE LATEST BOOKS REVIEWEDByJohn GuntherSIGNS AM) WONDERSA curious and puzzling book isSIGNS AND WONDERS (Putnam),by J. D. Beresford. As far as I knowthis is the first volume of short studies Mr. Beresford has issued; prev¬iously he has done only long novels—notably the Jacob Stahl trilogy,.whichnow, after a decade, begins to loom upas a definite and significant landmarkin contemporary literature. In “JacobStahl'’ and its sequels, even more thanin the “Sinister Street” of ComptonMackenzie, the modern autobiograph¬ical novel reached its height—or itsreductio ad absurdum, as you prefer.Even “Jean Christophe” is no more acomplete summation of a man thanthe Beresford trilogy.Remembering “Jacob Stahl” andthe other realistic Beresford novels,this new “Signs and Wonders” comesrather as a shock. It is like a par¬ticularly spirited cocktail after heavybeer. The book is small, and the sto¬ries (really sketches for the mostpart) which comprise it are brief andsharp in the extreme; there is noth¬ing of the huge massiness and theblurred outlines of “Jacob Stahl.” Itis exactly as if Mr. Beresford hadchanged from felling trees to wood-carving—or from elephant hunting toneedle work.This is not to say, of course, that“Signs and Wonders” is not satisfac¬tory. It is. At least a dozen of thesketches (many of them deal withwar-time England) are quite perfect—tiny entities completely realizedwith a pleasant subtlety and a finesalting of irony. Often they are puz¬zling; Mr. Beresford is a mystic ora symbolist or a Fruedian or some¬thing—in any case being afraid tosay exactly what he means. One ofthe sketches, for instance, is called“The Barrage: A Study in Extraver¬sion”—surely a dubious and ponder¬ous caption for a character sketch.One of the best of the stories is aboutan unw'ritten novel which becomes fa¬mous; another deals with a shell¬shocked soldier who thinks himselfdead. And in all of them—no matterbow' recondite their treatment liorhow subtle their subject-matter—there is apparent in them the touchof a shrewd and competent artist.W. II. HUDSONA test of the really great writer, Ithink, is that he can write about beau¬tiful seven-year-old girls withoutsentimentality. Another and a farmore decisive test is that he can makeunsignificant subjects, like seven-yearold girls, significant—that he can takesomething utterly trivial, utterlyminor, utterly ephemeral, and convertit, by some magic of style or point ofview or “art,” into something realand vital and important. And bothof these things W. H. Hudson, who,beyond any doubt, is one of the great¬est living masters of English prose,can emphatically do.His new book is called A TRAVEL¬LER IN LITTLE THINGS (Dutton).The delightful title exactly describesthe book. Mr. Hudson is a travellerin little things—in dogs, in old ladieswho wander the fields, in trees thatfall, in birds and curtsey and wildflowers and churchyards—and hisgentle meditative sketches make theselittle things big. The most charmingpart of the book, as 1 have hinted,deals with a group of children Mr.Hudson knew and loved. As Mr.Mencken once remarked, it is an al¬most superhuman feat to make tinychildren live in print—and in “ATraveller in Little Things” it is done.TARKINGTONTen years or so ago Booth Tark-ington wrote HARLEQUIN ANDCOLUMBINE (Doubleday) for somemagazine as a short serial; now it ap¬pears, as fresh as ever, more perma¬nently. In the story you will find analmost complete gallery of stage-folk—the distraught author, the ingenue,the stage manager, the critic, the pro¬ducer, and above all the sublime mat¬inee idol—all of them presentedsharply and w'ith that species of sym¬pathetic irony which Mr. Tarkingtonknows so well how to handle. Thestory itself is slight, and the hookmust stand mainly on the portraits—all of them, as I say, done to a turn.Tarkington, it may be noticed, usedin this book, written ten years ago,exactly the same sort of tragi-comcdywhich distinguishes “Alice Adams. ’By the way, there will be a new Tark¬ington novel out soon—to be called, Ihear, “Gentle Julia.” PLAYS AGAINAs I have been heard to complainbefore, the books pile up increasingly;and if this column is to cover theground at all, there must be somelumping together of comments. Butit pains me more than it does the pub¬lishers (which, probably, is saying alot) to have to consider these fivebooks of drama in two or three shortparagraphs.First we have Clarence Stratton’sPRODUCING IN LITTLE THEAT¬ERS (Holt)—a complete and concisehandbook dealing with every aspectof amateur play production. Mr.Stratton says practically all there isto say, and he says it with a lot ofcommon sense — about organizinggroups, ,choosing plays, rehearsing,directing, setting, lighting, make-up,and so on. He closes his excellentmanual with a list of two hundredplays suitable to amateur production—all of them with brief descriptions.If 1 were Director of the Dramaticclub I think I should keep this bookunder my pillow while the winter playis gestating.The indefatigible Barrett Clark hasissued a new edition of MASTER¬PIECES OK MODERN SPANISHDRAMA (Ividd)—a volume contain¬ing Echegaray’s superb (albeit atrifle old-fashioned) “The Grand Gal-eoto,” Galdos’ “The Duchess of SanQuentin,” and a play by the CatalanGuimera. There are bibliographiesand a critical introduction. It seemsstrange that nothing of Benevente isincluded.William Butler Yeats has furtherdistilled his familiar compound of sil¬ver trumpets, bitterns, lonely fens,and so on into FOUR PLAYS FORDANCERS (Macmillan) — plays inverse which are to be chanted to theaccompaniment of special instru¬ments, danced by actors in masks,and played on a stage without a cur¬tain. The most intelligible of the fourseems to be “Calvary,” a retelling ofthe Christ story.THE ATLANTIC BOOK OF MOD¬ERN PLAYS, edited by S. A. Leon¬ard and issued by the AtlanticMonthly Press, is an anthology con¬taining a dozen or so classic one-actplays—“Riders to the Sea,” “TheLand of Heart’s Desire,” andO’Neill’s “lie” among them. Thecritical notes are informative. I thinkit is the only collection of its kind 1have ever seen which did not includeEdna Millay’s “Aria de Capo.”The first text book of the marion¬ette theater ever to be published (so1 am told) is the TONY SARG MAR¬IONETTE BOOK (Huebsch), by F. J.Mclsaac, with illustrations by Mr.Sarg and two puppet plays by AnneStoddard. Mainly the book is a high¬ly interesting account of Sarg’s ca¬reer, a description of his puppets, anda more-or-less complete handbook ofpractical puppet-theater operation. Ibseems a pleasant but a complicatedbusiness, and 1 recommend the hook,with all respect, to L. Dooley, Esq.HE WANTED SNOW AND HEFOUND ITDavid W. Griffith went looking forsnow and he found it. But it wasn’tall at Mamaorneck where, on theFlagler estate, the motion picture di¬rector has established his studios.Part of the time there was snow nearNew York, but for real genuine old-fashioned blowing, scurrying snow,blizzardly, and irrisistible, Griffithand his associates in the making ofthe production of “Way Down East,”which will be at the Frolic theatertoday, had to go to White River Junc¬tion which seemed to be the prizespot. It was quickly visited and thewhole cast went with the director andhis camera men. The result of hisearnest effort in this instance is inone of the most effective snow scenesever, shown on a screen, as those whosee “Way Down East” will agree.It is the storm, for one thing, thatsets “Way Down East” on a newplane, hut that story of a wrongedgirl who ultimately comes to happi¬ness is so poetical in the Griffith ver¬sion and the characters are so realand so human that the tale has be¬come a masterpiece. “Broken BIohsoms” was recognized as a great ad¬vance in motion picture tales. “WayDown East” is a new example of theGriffith artistry.“Way Down East,” one of the big financial successes of the stage datesback to 1807, when the play was called“Annie Laurie,” and was known inNew England. Joseph R. Grismerelaborated the original story by Lot¬tie Blair Parkei, and the revised play,offered in Chicago, had such an in¬stant success that a New York the¬ater was at once obtained. There asix months’ run followed. After thesecond season in New York two othercompanies were organized for tours,and for years the entire country wasthoroughly covered by the three or¬ganizations.—ADV.PROF. MANLY DECIPHERINGMYSTERIOUS BACON MSS.(Continued from Page 1)tic diagrams mean ? Of what sig¬nificance are the strange pictures ofwomen, unknown to our generation.All this may be expounded in the in¬vestigation by Prof. Manly. Perhapsthe manuscript is merely the dis¬torted and meaningless child-likedrawings of a mad monk'.On the other hand, should the nervewracking efforts of Prof. Manly dis¬close a reality, an unknown store ofknowledge of the past may be madeknown to the modern generation.Style Show at Ohio State Friday Set For WestSide Dispensary TripThe annual Federation trip to thewest side Dispensary will be conduct¬ed Friday at 3:30 from the foyer ofIda Noyes hall. Those wishing to gohave been asked to leave their namesin the sewing room some time beforeFriday. The Dispensary is the char¬ity half of the Lying In hospitalwhere the outfit made in the sewingroom are sent.Women have been asked to offertheir cars to take this trip. At leastthree cars will be needed to make thetrip in any time, the Dispensary beingat 14th and Halsted Sts. “It is themost interesting trip,” said Faye Mil¬lard, president of the Federation, “lastyear we saw men having their toenails manicured on the street and themost awful men try to sell you theseweird wares. The trip is an educa¬tion in itself for those that have nev¬er been.”Those who will offer their cars forthe trip have been asked to notifyRuth Metcalfe, sewing room. Noticesmay be left in the office of The DailyMaroon or in the sewing room in IdaNoyes hall. OFFICIAL NOTICESMR. SMOKER!A spring style show will be held j VVe carry a complete line of Cigars,this month under the auspices of the i Cigarettes and Smokers Articles.Woman’s Student council of OhioState University. Columbus storeswill furnish the costumes.LOCAL RIFLE CLUB CARDS MEETWITH VARSITY MARKSMEN SAML. A. FISK823 E. 63rd ST.“The prices are right and the goodsare right”(Continued from Page 1) The Junior Mathematical club willmeet today at 4:30 in Ryerson 37.Prof. Biles will speak.The Bacteriology club will meet to¬day at 4:30 in Ricketts 1. Miss Sa¬rah E. Branham will speak.The Psychological Journal club willmeet today at 4:30 in the Psycholog¬ical laboratory. Miss Frances feod-kin will speak.The Zoology club will meet today inZoology 20. Prof. Newman willspeak.The Spanish club will meet tomor¬row at 4:30 in Ida Noyes hall.II Circolo Italiano will meet withMr. Altrocchi tomorrow at 4:30 at1406 E. 56th St.The Physics club will meet tomor¬row at 4:30 in Ryerson 32. AssociateProf. Lunn will speak.The Social Service club will meettomorrow at 8 in Classics 10.At the meeting of the Y. W. C. A.tomorrow at 4:30 in the Y rooms,Walter Sargent will speak on “Artas a Vocation.”The Social committee of the Y. W.C. A. will meet today at 3:30 on thesecond floor of Ida Noyes hall.An Inter-collegiate dinner for wo¬men will be held tomorrow at 6. Tick¬ets are 50c.Members of the Western club areasked to attend a meeting tomorrowat 4:30 in Harper M16.States Army as expert riflemen orsharpshooter.The University was the first to ad- jmit women to membership. Other iuniversities followed, and today there iare many expert shots among Uni- jversity women. THE DAILY MAROONA CAMPUS NECESSITY jLast Day to Turn in MoneyFriday is the last day on which or¬ganizations may turn in money forspace rented in the Cap and Gown.Over seventeen organizations havenot yet paid up and will receive nospace in the year book unless they do. SUBSCRIBE TODAY!uIn Architecture—WHEN you go after your first big commission, you’llneed something more than a knowledge of stressesand strains, periods and piping. You’ll need the atmosphereof success, and the air of knowing your way ’round. Oneevidence of this familiarity with the world’s good things isthe habit of preferring that citizen of the worldcMelachrino"The One Cigarette Sold the JVorld OverRemember that Melachrino is the master blendof only the finest Turkish Tobaccos as origin¬ated by Miltindes Melachrino. Egyptian cigar¬ettes are simply those that originated in Egypt.But the tobacco is what you want to knowabout —and if it’s Melachrino—it’s right.4TALK ME TO SLEEP(To be sung to music)Talk me to sleep in my Pol Econ class,Cover me with theories, and leave methere at last.Just let the prof miss my eye everymorn,Like the quizzin’ I’ve been missin*In my classes since I’se born.1 ain’t done a bit of work;And 1 always try to shirk;1 can never get the quirkThat will bring an “A.”So talk me to death while my proftalks of oats;And let me die there, dry there,Buried in reading notes.“DON Quixote,’’ remarked Mr.Joranson sagely, “—ah, here we havea satire on the knight life of Spain.”Ted.QUADRANGLE TYPESIZZY, the demon English shark,takes his lecture notes in shorthand.THREE weeks ago they asked thePortfolio tryouts, “Can you dance?”“Can you sing?” “Can you act?”Now they ask “Are you eligible?”Candy Kid.IDENTIFICATION1 have a sure system for tellingthe class of undergraduates. 1 mere¬ly watch their behavior when late toclass.1. Freshmen run.2. Sophomores walk but worthy.3. Juniors dont care.4. Seniors don't go.Jawn Cupid.THE CUB REPORTERThe cub reporter is so dumb hethinks the Law School basement is astudy-room.LECTl RES WE SHALL NOT AT¬TEND“Maepheus Ycgius’ SupplementumAeneidos.”— Undergraduate Classicalclub.PACKEY was examining some ofthe Cap and Gown action track pic¬tures.“Ooh, why do they throw theirheads way back when they run?” shecried, pointing to a picture of a closefinish. “That fellow will run rightinto that string!”SYSTEMOne must hand it to the C. and A.students. Who, for instance, wouldthink of holding a smoker just beforeelections but these shrewd souls?Sing a song of six bucks,Hip-pocket full of rye;Four and twenty coppersStole it on the sly.Chester Gump.“Is Charley Redmon a Phi Psi?”“Why, of course. He’s one of theirbig men.”CHECK“Phoenix in Sore Need of Material,”headlines this sheet. Glancing overthe last few, we’d say it was all ofthat.And We Thought The War Was Over(Maroon Headlines)“Maroons Defeat Illini in ToughBattle.”“Maroon Grapplers Battle to Drawwith Boilermakers.”“Maroon Aspirants Battle for Vars¬ity Baseball Jobs.”EVEN if we do get a Prom ticket,what’ll we wear?About time to see whether ourwaiter friend will be off duty Feb. 21.Birdie.DORF DRAWS VIVID SKETCH OFDAILY RIOTS IN HARPER(Continued from Page 1)initiated in the art of make-up. Hewill get tired of it.”“How about the men?”Our Garden of Eden“There is the noisy fellow whowants to be heard. He can move achair with so much noise that itsounds like backfire. The amorousfellow and his girl quite forget every¬thing—to them the main readingroom is the Garden of Eden—what dothey care.”“What is the Naughty club?”“This club is here there .and every¬where. The members want to at- THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922tract attention. No stern look, andno sign can subdue their spirit. Theboys are so funny that the girlslaugh—they can’t help it. They won¬der why they are not told to beat it—they like the feeling. Like skatingon thin ice. They dare each other togo the limit.”Suggests Student Lounge“What would you suggest as a rem¬edy for this condition?”"1 wish that we could have a niceroomy drawing room for students ofboth sexes—we need it. The naughtyclub could there have the proper sur¬roundings for its activities. The mainreading room is not the proper place.The club is here to stay. We can’tescape our fate. But we want to havea quiet main reading room, and wewill get it.”CONTEMPORARYCOMMENTTHE RAZZRazz is the official undergraduateweapon for suppressing the noncon¬formist. If a F renchman is different,razz him. If he has too much to say, |razz him. If he hasn’t any brains,razz him. If he has more than heknows what to do with, razz him. If ;in any particular he is not a regula-1tion college man—whatever that is—razz him.Without a doubt, the razz is a greatbump-reducer. Well-timed and ap¬plied with moderation, it has keptmany a man’s head inside his hat,and taught him to take a full courseof lessons from the campus masters Ibefore he tooted his horn in public, jIt has made the mightiest and thelowliest watch their step alike. But Iit can be overdone.It is a serious question whether it iis either necessary or fair to wreck Ia man’s college career because he Ilacks the faculty of getting on to the jropes with average speed. Whatevermay be the doubt in anybody’s mindas to whether he deserves the treat¬ment due to an intelligent man, hecertainly deserves the treatment dueCLASSIFIED ADSWANTED—Young man for part timework, placing leather novelty withdealers, a commission proposition |might be worth your while to inves¬tigate. Send inquiries to Cody, careof Maroon office.LOST—Jeweled fraternity pin withinitials on back It. C. B. ’24. Re¬turn to Maroon office.FOR SALE — Hammond typewriter,almost new. Ethel I. Allen, 807 E.63rd St., Midway 0272.LOST—Gold ring with ruby. In Ida!Noyes Tuesday. Return to Lost |and Found.BOARD and Room, 5721 Harper Ave.Midway 1550. Large double room.Separate meals obtainable.LOST—Jeweled fraternity pin withinitials on back It. C. B., '24. Re¬turn to Maroon office. NEAREST BANK TO THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGONew Building Under ConstructionWoodlawn Trust& Savings Bank1204 E. SIXTY-THIRD ST. RANDOLPH HOTELThe Old BISMARCKRandolph, near La Salle StreetCelebrated for Excellency in Cooking and ServicePastry Specialtiesfrom intelligent men—which is some¬thing worth thinking about. Andcertainly no man deserves less ridi¬cule and more help than the chap whoI seems to the test of us to be a long| distance in the rear, and whose con¬tinued presence in college is a matterfor wondrment as to how he does it.That he does it is the chief fact. That |he has the ability to keep up in his |class work should be enough to com- jmend him at least to the tolei’ance of >the campus character who boasts that jhe can sail on a calm C without crack- !ing a book; and as for the rest of us, jwe kno wor should now that it is not Iour province to render any fellow Jstudent’s task harder than it is.— jColgate Maroon.FRIDAY IS LAST DAY FORMAKING Y. W. C. A. PLEDGESFTiday, F’eb. 10, has been announced jas the last day on which women can |take the pledge of faith to the Y. W.!C. A.No one can become a member of the |Y. W. until this pledge has been |taken. Women who have contributedbut have not taken the pledge shoulddo so on or before Friday if they wishto vote in the March elections. Talk hislanguage!Your father knowsUnderwood type¬writing. Your letterstrikes a responsivechord when you writeit to him on theUnderwood Portable.'The machine you ivilleventually carry”The lightnl Portablewhen caved for travelM A STER- M A DE FOOT WE A ItChicago Flxhibit ShopPeoples Trust & Sav. Bank Bldg. UNDERWOODStandardUnder Stale and National Supervision;Read The Daily Maroon for all the Campus NewsMURADTHE TURKISH CICARETTEEvery day muradsarc held higher in theestimation of the menwho smoke them.They are the standard ofTaste.They arc 100% pure Turk¬ish tobacco — of the finestvarieties grown.They never disappoint — never fail — never change —Yon are proud to smokethem in any company—onany occasion.They are the largest sell¬ing high-grade cigarette inthe world.The cigarette smokers ofAmerica DO prefer Qualityto Quantity.and Egyptian (IgarvUvs in the World "Judge for Yourself—!”