THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1934
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Ruthven Makes Prominent Figures In Impending House Speak'ership Fight
Students Given Library Proposals
Renti.s A.d PassedBy Board
Religious Aid1
Boa n At the regular meeting of the Board
By Foundation ofEducation of the Ann Arbor schools
'Wednesday, proposals were made con-
(Continued from Page 1) cerning the public library of Ann
night open forum, at which students Arbor. ?
discuss and contest phases of a par- ! The librarian was authorized by the
ticular religious theme presented by, board to make investigations in con- B D
a main speaker. nection with the founding of a branch BUTT, Pa
The educational program of the ! reading room in down-town Ann Ar-
Foundation covers every aspect of bor. The board also requested the li-
Jewish life and history. Classes arebe
offered in the following subjects: brarian to report on the trend of
"Dramatic Moments In The History public opinion in the matter of keep- E
of Judaism," led by Rabbi Heller;j ing the library open on Sunday. READ r
"Medicine Among The Jews During
The Ages," led by Prof. Raphael -- - - ----- -
Isaacs, of the Medical School; "Jew-
ish Ethics," led by Mr. Hirsch Hoot-
kins, ii..structor in the Rpnance
Language department; "Post Biblical
Literature Of The Jews," led by Rab-
bi Heller; "Introduction To Mishna,"
led by Rabbi Heller; "The Jew And
Near East Civilization," led by Prof.
William H. Worrell, of the Oriental
Language department; "The Jews In
English Literature," led by Montague
F. Modder, instructor in the English,
department; "Rashi's Commentary 100 Aspirin Tablets 29c Parke.Do
On The Pentateuch," led by Rabbi $1.25 Petrolagor 89c Halive
Heller.
The Foundation plans to inaugur- 50c Agua Volvo 39c P.D. & C
ate in 1936 the practice of conferring Large Squibbs Tooth
the title of Ben Torah upon those stu- Paste 33c Colgate's
dents who have completed a specified 5 lbs. Wrisleys Water Willia
number of courses. Softener 49c ($1.4(
Another activity at the Foundation
is the holding of weekly teas, spon-
sored successively by each of the Jew-
ish sororities and fraternities on the Camels, Chesterfields, All Br
campus and occasionally by outside Lucky Strikes, Old Golds,
independent groups. Dances, open LukKtieOdGls
house affairs, and smokers are also 2 pkgs. 25c, $1.20 carton 15
on the social agenda.
Once every two weeks the Foun-
dation issues a four page newspaper,
entitled "The Hillel News," which is
distributed free to all Jewish students.
Several times during the year a lit- 340 South State Street
erary supplement is published in col-
laboration with the News. Phone 3534
The dramatics organization of the ---_--
Foundation, "Hillel Players," pro-
duces two major three-act plays, one
each semester, as well as several one-
act plays during the year. The Play-
ers has its own staff of performers,;.w::: :::x..
directors, technicians, csmeticians, .
and costume designers. ~.
FRqTERMTY
JEWE LRY
THE WANT ADS
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The contest for the speakership of the next Congress, which has been going on quietly since the death of
Rep. Henry T. Rainey of Illinons, finds the four men shown above being prominently mentioned for the post
in which administration advisers want a strong leader;hip to handle the huge Democratic majority. Upper left
is Sam Rayburn of Texas, upper right William Bankhead of Alabaina. At left, below, is James M. Mead of
New York, and at right, Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee.
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Preston W. James States Se.t
Screen Reflections
Shelter-Belt Project Unsound
AT THE MICHIGANt
erizing the $75,000,000 shel- pening to fall in the area, and that- "TlE AGE OF
roject which is now being it will perhaps even increase rainfall. AINNOCENCE," AND
boyt hihed isalowengnt In the first place, Professor James INNOENCEWA
by the Federal government ad, such a shelter-belt would be STAGE SHOW
sterous," Prof. Preston E. s ai, sc hle-etwudb
the geography department just a fuzz on the landscape of the j An R.K.O. production starring John
a interview yesterday that middle west." The movements of Boles and Irene Dunn, featuring Lionele
amentarw gesrai ad wind-and the causes behind rainfall Atwill, Laura Hope Crews, Julie Hay-
amental geographical and are produced on a much grander don. and Helen westley.
ical prnciples on which scale than would be at all influenced Edith Wharton's "The Age of Inno-
sbased are in the mamnun-by a few strips of trees. The idea cence" has been made into a well-
that a shelter-belt would produces
eady Cos't 15 Million more rainfall is obviously the out- conceived, nicely-designed, acceptably
an, for which $15,000,000 growth of the old superstition of well-acted picture. Its story is a wellf
dy been appropriated, is primitive peoples that trees are gifted known one, being concerned with
o create a shelter-belt more with some miraculous rain-producing the love affair of a couple who lived
miles long and 100 miles quality. This belief has been dis- about fifty years too soon, and on
ing through the geographi- proved again and again by modern hny s
of the United States from meteorologists, but it still persists. whom convention played all sorts of
ian border in eastern North Would Reduce Evaporation dirty tricks. If the story were not
outhward to Texas. The It is true, he continued, that the so full of sentiment and of rather un-
t will consist of 100 or more trees would reduce the wind velocity satisfactory characterization, it would
ut '125 feet wide, separated in the immediate vicinity, and thus be a .great deal more worth while.
nd. reduce evaporation of soil moisture, But that is not so much the fault.
ory behind the planting is but more than a few hundred yards of the picture itself as of the original
shelter-belt will serve to away such an effect would be hardly story. .
wind, thus preventing the noticeable. Instead of a wind break, As a moving picture, the presenta-
a eroding the soil as seen the shelter-belt will be a "break" to tion has helped the faults greatly,
henomena as dust storms, the farmers, putting millions of dol- and some of the characterizations areI
conserve the moisture hap- lars into their pockets and proving so well done by the players that the'
__________ an excellent way to sell the Demo- shortcomings are overshadowed in
LRS FOR TAXI SERVICE cratic party to agricultural interests spots. John Boles and Irene Dunn
P of the country. do not fall into that category, how-
0 It is true also that trees will con- ever, because their acting can be
4 5 4 5 1 ~N serve moisture, as the shelter-belt is called only average. The minor char-I
designed to accomplish, but govern- acters steal the glory and carry the
AMPUS CABS mental foresters have not taken into show. Laura Hope Crews is excellent
4-HOUR SERVICE consideration the fact that the trees as the conventional, proper matron
themselves require moisture, as much who frowns on everything that is not
or more than ordinary crop land does. true to form. But the best bit of
Thus the moisture conserved by the acting in the picture is done by Julie
shelter-belt would be to a large extent Haydon as the loveable, spry, wise
offset by the moisture taken from the old granny whose sense of humor
farm land and absorbed by the trees. produces many moments of the au-
- Should Make Inventory dience's enjoyment.
I "The only advantage I can see from The stage show at the Michigan is
this shelter-belt would be to prevent an extraordinary one, offering an un-
the washing away of soil by rains," usual aggregation of Russian players
Professor James said. "To realize I who play fast, peppy tunes, dance in
this, however, the trees must obvious- many interesting ways, and who have
ly be planted in locations where the as their "piece de resistance" a
soil is likely to be eroded, and where dancer whose body is painted a very
Ve at our place. land has been made unsuitable for real gold and who does a very fan-
agriculture. A belt down the center tastic, and incidentally, entertaining
surroundings. of the country looks very impressive dance. The whole program at the
on a blank map, but for any practical Michigan is an unusual one, and has
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that the only thing that the ground
could be employed for would be cat-
tle grazing.
The states that he especially refer-
red to were parts of North and South
Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.
These areas are known as the 20-inch
rainfall belt.
"Farmers have been, for many
years, turning over the top-soil to
plant wheat. Now, because of the
great dry period, the wind has car-
ried off this top-soil and, coupled with
the receding level of the subteran-
nean water, allows neither water nor
fertile ground to touch the roots of
the wheat." Therefore, he concluded,
I believe their only salvation is to let
the land go back to grass and engage
in cattle-grazing more extensively.
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purposes the government would have,
to make an inventory of its soils andI
surfaces, recognize its problem areas,
and plant its trees in these places
where they will be of some use.
"I admit, however," Professor James'
said, "that trees are very beautiful
objects, and they certainly would be
an adornment to the central regions
of the United States. My suggestion,
here is that a combination of yellow
cottonwood and red oak trees would
be the ideal color combination."
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