FRIDAY, JAN. 8, 1937 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY Bruce Bliven Will Lecture Here Jan. 14 Editor Of New Republic Will Speak In Fourth Of Oratorical Series Bruce Bliven, editor and president of the New Republic, will deliver the fourth Oratorical Association lecture of the season when he speaks on "The Press-Truth, News or Propaganda?", January 14 in Hill Auditorium. Mr. Bliven has been an editor of the New Republic since 1923, and in 1930 was made president of the mag- azine. He is also New York corre- spondent of the Manchester Guar- dian and a lecturer and contributor to other periodicals. He was born in Iowa, was grad- uated from Leland Stanford Univer- sity in 1911 and has lived in New York City for several years, making frequent visits to other parts of the country and Europe. Mr. liven was head of the depart- ment of journalism at the University. of Southern California from 1914 to 1916 and has lectured at Columbia and New York University. He has been successively chief editorial writer, managing editor and associate editor of the New York Globe. He is a member and director of the Foreign Policy Association of the United States and of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Re- lations, a director of the Twentieth Century Fund and a member of the committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America and the Social Policies Committee. In the course of his jour- nalistic work he has traveled in many foreign countries. Mr, Bliven recently contributed an article to a symposium on American civilization. George Soule, a col- league of his on the New Republic, wrote the following statement about him for publication in this sympo- sium' "Bruce Bliven knows his United States from side tokside and from top to bottom. There are few who can observe more closely what goes on in America, interpret it more accu- rately, or write about it more cogent- ly Famous Pianist To Join Staff Of Music Camp Percy Grainger, famous pianist, will be included in the teaching staff of the National Music Camp at Inter- lochen, to open June 27, Prof. Joseph E. -Maddy of the School of Music and founder of the camp, announced yesterday. The National Music Campiis a non- profit summer camp near Traverse City for music supervisors and stu- dents. It has attracted nation-wide interest and the enrollment for the coming season is expected to include 300 high school students and 125 part-time students. A teacher for each instrument is chosen from among the personnel of the leading sympony orchestras in the country, who also coach the students indi- vidually. Grainger, who is well known for his "Country Garden," has appearedl in Ann Arbor on five occasions in Choral Union and May Festival con- certs. Professor Maddy explained that Grainger will conduct and pre- pare the high school students during July and August for concerts to be broadcast over a National Broadcast- ing Company coast-to-coast network. Where Watchmen got Clu To Kidn'ip Cang Rice ElectedI S1hiakespeare Division Head Modern Language Meeting Attended By 15 Mem- hers of English Dept. Prof. Warner Rice of the English department was elected chairman of the Shakespeare division of the Mod- nrn Language Association in its an- nual meeting held recently at Rich- mond, Va., in which 15 members of the English department participated. Prof. Charles C. Fries served as acting chairman of the important general program committee and Prof. Thomas A. Knott held the two posi- tions of chairman of the general Eng- lish section and the present day Eng- lish group. Prof. Hereward T. Price read an extended paper entitled "Toward a Scientific Method of Textual Criti- cism for the Elizabethan Drama." A paper on "Wordsworth on the Imagination" was read by Prof. Ben- net Weaver to the Wordsworth sec- tion of the meeting. Prof. Clarence D. Thorpe read a paper on the same subject in addition to one on "Sub- limity in the 18th Century" to the section in the critical study of ro- manticism. He was elected secretary of the group for next year. James F. Roettger read a paper entitled "The Development of Ablaut in the Strong Verbs of the West Mid- land Dialects of Middle English." Others who attended were Prof. Earl L. Griggs, Prof. Sanford B. Meech, Prof. PaulrMueschke,Prof. Kenneth T. Rowe, Harold Whitehall, Leo Kirschbaum, and Herbert S. Dahlstrom. Influenza And Cold Increase In West The heaviest snow storm in 20 years burdened Arizona. Motorists turned back because of impassable highways crowded Gallug, N.M., ho- tels. Transcontinental planes were grounded at Tucson. A thick fog kept airliners in their hangars at Chicago. The cold belt widened - stretching from the Pacific coast to the Great Lakes and extending south to the Texas Panhandle. Predictions of rising temperatures were received with mingled feelings. Some medical authorities feared moderation would hamper efforts to stem the spread of influenza. The public health service reported at Washington the dread disease was on the increase all over the nation. Bankhead Takes Office Dr. van der Sehalie Studies Mussels Of Mississippi Region The first complete, scientific study ,f the mussels in the Mississippi River region, the greatest mussel enter in the world, ;s now being un- dedtaken by Dr. Henry van der Scha- te, assistant curator of the mollusk ivision of the Museum of Zoology. He will continue the work of Dr. A. M. Ellis, member of the physi- logy department of the University ,f Missouri and director of the di- vision of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries devoted to investigation of interior .vaters. This study is being made possible through the recent gift of 10,000 shells to the University Museums by Dr Ellis. "In spite of the fact that nearly one-half of the thousand different mussel-species known lie in the Mis- sissippi waters, conchologists have never tried to make'a really complete scientific study of this area," Dr. van der Schalie said. "This is largely be- cause no institution has ever been willing to finance such an expensive project as is involved in obtaining ,he shells." Up until 1925 scientists generally conceded that it was necessary for mussels to go through a very com- plicated parasitic stage on some fish before they could develop froni their embryonic form (glochidium) to a young mussel. "The fact that each mussel species had its individual fish upon which it might be parasitic limited so greatly the abundance of the shells that the pearl button industries were facing extinction. The danger was so great that the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries erectedta special station at Fairport, Iowa, to study the situation," Dr. van der Schalie pointed out. Finally, in 1925, Dr. Ellis discovered a new way to develop the glochidia to mussels omitting the complex par- asitic stage and thus getting rid of the principle factor which heretofore had limited the abundance of shells. Every since his discovery, Dr. Ellis has spent most of his time working on his "floating laboratory," dredg- ing various sections of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In this way he found spots to plant his mussels. 41I -Photo by- Walter A. Crow. With the aid of a renorter, E. Ii. Grvbbe (top, right), Shelton, Wash., mill watchman, is shown re-enacting the scene which occurred when Grubbe was approached by two men, one of whom backed him into the mill and told him to tell Dr. W. W. Mattson, of Tacoma, his son was safe. Below is shown how the ransom money, $28,000 in $5, $10 and $20 bills, looks when packaged and ready for delivery. -- Associated Press Photo His right arm upraised, Speaker William B. Bankhead, of Alabama, is shown as he took oath of office as Speaker of the House at the opening session of the 75th Con- gress in Washington. Philippine Students Honor National Hero The Philippine-Michigan Club will hold its annual celebration of Jose Rival day at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Lane Hall. The celebration is in honor of an early martyr who died in the cause of Phillipine independence from Spain. Prof. Arthur S. Aiton of the his- tory department will deliver the ad- dress of the evening. Student rep- resentatives of various national groups have been invited to the cele- braion, according to Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson, councilor to foreign students YoU Can Save .. . Several dollars by bring- ing your radio repair jobs /downtown. Take advantage of our "lower than Campus' rates on repairs, and on lower prices for new sets. Drop in and see us first! e ef Dick 'adio. 327 S. Main - Ph. 7991 P Women's Debating Squad Is Selected Plans for a woman's debating team were officially inaugurated yes- terday when the speech department conducted tryouts in Angell Hall. A squad of 1 2 was selected after the candidates had presented three-min- ute speeches on the question "Re- solved: That the Essential Features of the N.Y.A. Be Made Permanent." The successful candidates were then arbitrarily divided into four teams which will engage each other informally next Wednesday and Thursday in practice debates on the same question. The women chosen to compose the squad were: Miriam Sanders, '38, Margaret Ayers, '38, Katherine Schultz, '9, Rebecca Newman, '39, Betty Jane Mansfield, '39, Claire Weil, '38, Dorothy Wepman, '37, Eli- nor Somerville, '38, Barbara Brad- field, '38, Grace Gray, '37, Lillian Talhurst. '38, and Mary Francis Adair, '37. I-Iomecoiing Plans For Dentists Given Plans for the annual homecoming of the School of Dentistry to be held here Jan. 27 were announced yester- day by Prof. Russel W. Bunting, act- ing chairman of the school's execu- tive committee. Between 500 and 600 alumni, most of whom live in the state, will at- tend the reunion, which will include a series of clinics and conferences that will see all departments of ,the school in operation. Glee Club Members Go On Road Today The Varsity Glee Club will make their first long trip of the year today when 'they go to Port Huron for a concert before the Orpheus Seciety of that city at 8:15 p m. tonight. Thirty-nine men, most of whom are old members, will leave by bus today at 2:15 p.m. The entire mem- bership of the club numbers eighty men. Professor David E. Mattern will conduct the full evening concert and Martin Thompson, tenor, Wilmot F. Pratt, baritone, and Ralph Clark, baritone. will give solos. 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