THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAI
V, DECEMBER 9,
STULDY IN JEOPARDY:
Department of Speech presents Brazer Calls Personal
Department
To Present
TB STRIKES 80,000 YEARLY:
Dr. Willis Emphasizes
Seriousness o .TB
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"The sales tax is an excellent' Thornton Wil
revenue-producer which is easy to comedy. "The
administer and comply with, and be he a
doesn't meet with too much oppo- Fieseand Satur
sition from taxpayers. Neverthe--s
less, it imposes an increasingly versity speech d
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3p.m. Thursday,
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f this season's
By PHILIP POWER
"'People have a notion that TB'
is reaching a level of relative un-
importance, but I submit that a
disease which sickens 80,000 peo-
pie year in this country is still
a disease of serious import to us
From its former position of the
nation's number one cause of
death, killing 70.000 people a year,
TB has dropped to a death rate
of around 14,000 a year, Dr. Willis
remarked.
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and and those in the lower in-
come bracket," Brazer said.
"The present tax structure is
extremely inequitable," Brazer
said. Even if we have a recovery,
we will find a deficit for the 1959
fiscal year which will run at least
$60 million.
"This is not because of an in-
crease in capital outlay or gen-
eral fund appropriation, but will
be caused by an increase of 70,-
000 more school children this year
than last and a reduction in sales
and other tax receipts.
Past Deficit General
"In the past, the deficit in the
school aid fund was made up from
the general fund," he added.
"Although some of us are dis-
appointed that the program
doesn't do much for local govern-
ment, the committee chose not to
take action on the relationship be-
tween state and local finance and
local non-property taxes.
"I doubt, though, that you will
get much done at the local level
until the state fiscal house is put
in order," he said.
Professor
To Lecture
Here oday
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Playbill productions, "The Match- all," a noted medical expert said the igt egonst TB, r.e Wii
maker" is the story of a miserly yesterday, the fight against TB, Dr. Willis
elderly Yonkers storekeeper who Thidconclusion was reached by commented, it still strikes some
travels to New York City to find Dr. Henry S. Willis, Superintend- 80,000 persons every year. The
himself a wife. He consults a ent and Medical Director of the United States Public Health Serv-
matchmaker, who decides that he North Carolina Sanitorium Sys- ,0ie has estimated that some 55-
would make a perfect mate - for tem, at the 11th annual Henry 000,000 persons in the United
her. Brooks Baker Memorial Lecture.h
The play begins in a Yonkers given yesterday at the School of of infection.
store and moves quickly to a New Public Health Auditorium. "TB remains just as infectious,
York hat store and from there to Dr. Willis. speaking on "The destructive and paiful as It did
a garden restaurant in the Bat- Challenges of Tuberculosis," noted in the past," Dr. Willis said, "and
tery. It winds up in the home of we must continue with our ef-
one Miss Flora Van Huysen, who ,forts."
i Mis o Van Huse, wh Dr. Willis noted the main lines
is reminiscent of the Duchess in t where progress needs to be made.
"Alice in Wonderland."h g ed
To Feature 'Aside' Work Still To Be Done
Directed by Prof. William P. ~In the field of clinical manage-
Halstead of the speech depart- <> ment of TB, though progress has
ment, the prduoction will use the been made from the days when
theatrical aside to the audience, ~wolf liver, lard of a pig fed only
which shows Wilde at his best, ~on vegetables and the flesh of an
Thomas Skinner of the speech de- ass with its broth were used as
partment indicated. 'specifics, much work still needs to
Designed by Ralph Duckwall of be done, Dr. Willis noted.
the speech department, elaborate- Problems still remaining un-
ly painted scenery will form the msolved in this area include the
iy pintd scner wil fom te ~tendency of the TB bacillae to
basis of the visual production. teden y a the to drugs ued
Both drop and wing settings develop a resistance to drugs used
will be utilized. sin treatment and the large number
of patients released from sanitoria
Characters Listed who still carry lesions and could
Main characters in the play in- have a relapse and turn into car-
clude Sally Ann Rosenheimer, riers of the disease.
Grad., as Mrs. Dolly Levi; Donald Dr. Willis praised the work of
Ewing, Grad., as Horace Vander- voluntary anti-TB organizations,
gelder; Nancy Engass, Grad., as DR. HENRY S. WILLIS such as the Michigan Tuberculosis
Mrs. Irene Malloy; Donald Lovell, . . . spoke on TB Association, in their public in-
Grad., as Cornelius Hackl; and formation programs. However, he
Terry Theuer, Grad., as Barnaby that through the years there has noted that public ignorance still
Tucker. aen a lot of very effective re- remains a large problem.
- -_ -- search on the treatment of TBI
Prof. Paul R. Rudolph will lec-
ture at 3 p.m. today in the Ar-
chitecture Aud.
In addition to being a practic-
ing architect, Prof. Rudolph is
chairman of the architecture dept.
School of Art and Architecture,
Yale University.
Prof. Rudolph's topic will be an-
nounced from the platform. Slides
will illustrate the lecture which,
is being held under the sponsor-
ship of the University architecture,
school.
Supporting players are Jacque-
line DeCamp, Grad., as Flora Van
Huysen; Lorraine Small, '59, as
Ermengarde Vandergelder; Rob-
ert Shaye, '60BAd,, as Ambrose
Temper; Shelia Stamell, '60, as
Minnie Fay and Gordon Mars,
'59, as "Joe.,,
Dianne Stolorow, '60, as Ger-
trude; Richard Schiller, '59, as
Malachi Stecht; Joel Boyden, '59,
as the cabbie; Frederick Oullette,
'61, as Rudolph; Tony Suarez,
'60E, as August: and Sondra
Sheare as the cook will also ap-
pear in the production.
carried on.
TB Can Be Cured
"In fact, in the last decade, we
have made enough progress to
show that tuberculosis can be
cured and may be completely erad-,
icated in the future," Dr. Willis
said.
Dr. Willis remarked that ad-
vances in therapy for TB patients
have reduced the amount of time
patients spend in sanitoriums, the
number of relapses after the pa-
tient's release, and have increased
the effectiveness of the final cure:
Comments on Research
Commenting on the progress of
recent research, especially in the
development of possible anti-TB
vaccines, Dr. Willis especially cited
recent progress made in the use
of BC, a type of vaccine using
artificially weakened TB bacillae
which is much in use abroad but
not well accepted in this country.
He noted that new techniques
for counting bacillae enabled sta-
tistical methods to be used in
determining vaccination effective-
ness.
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SOCIOLOGIST:
Inkeles Discusses Effects
Of Social Status on Laughter
"Contrary to popular belief, the
lower you are in social status, the He also found that in all the
less likely you are to report hav- countries studied, going down the
ing laughed during the past day," social status scale, people are
visiting Prof. Alex Inkeles of the found to be less and less happy
sociology department of Harvard, in their jobs.
said at the University recently.
In addition, lower status women
are more likely to say they have Amn E e(t
cried.
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Prof. Inkeles, author of studies
on Russian national character
prior to his present analysis of
the industrial personality, said
his findings on laughter hold true
,in warm countries, such as Italy,
as well as cold countries, such as
Britain.
"The sun doesn't seem to in-,
,fluence happiness," he added.
"Although I don't dismiss cul-
turaldifferences," he said, "future
attitudes will be based primarily
on social-status position in indus-
trial society. There will be an ex-
traordinary number of pan-
human features due to the same
perceptions and patterns."
There are findings which in-
dicate this trend. The level of in-
dustrialization doesn't make much
difference in personal belief in life
after death.
N ew Iorker
Fund Leader
Raymond A. Mills, '26, of Endi-
cott, New York, has been elected
chairman of the University Alum-
ni Fund for 1959.
He is succeeding Herbert E. Wil-
son, '23L, of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Other officers chosen this week-
end include Rosemary Scott, '46L,
of Grand Rapids as vice chair-
man; Mrs. Gordon Stow, '37, of
Lansing, re-elected as secretary;
and Prof. Wilbur K. Pierpont,
Vice-President in Charge of Busi-
ness and Finance, who was re-
elected treasurer.
The University Alumni Fund
has received approximately $212,-
000 in contributions to the Uni-
versity this year.
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