THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1937 THE MICHIGAN DAILY _ ,"' -A.- w k r ::_, ; Amollts ;stn Edited and managed by students of the Univers'ty of Michigan under the authoity of the Board in Control of Student Publications.- Published every morning except Monday during the University year and SummerSession y Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.. All rights of repubileation of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Ofce at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Sutsriptions duringregular school year by carrier, $4.OO; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1936-37 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONA. AVERtISIN, eY NatinaJ Advertising Service, Inc. C4hwesl gIPitSbers RPresegagave .. 420 MADISON AE. NEW YORK, N.Y.' 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NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT WEEKS The Great SYPHILIS, which does 100 times as much damage yearly as infantile paralysis, which has -infected as much as 40 per cent of the population of certain "backward areas," which causes 15 to 20 per cent of the cases of blindness in the United States, 10 per cent of the cases of insanity and kills uncounted tho'usands by complications of the heart, brain and blood vessels has been allowed to take this toll and to ravage a million new victims each year-partly because of the failure of the govern- ment to "do something about it" and partly be- cause of a public that is too "bashful." Congress now has before it the first large scale plan presented to combat venereal diseases and is considering the request of the United States Public Health Service for an amendment to the Social Security Act that would provide an ap- propriation of 25 million dollars with which to put this plan into operation. The annual appro- priation at present is $8,000,000 for the nation and this year Michigan received $280,000, a sum which has been called "obviously inadequate"-to carry on a campaign against venereal diseases. If the 25 million appropriation is passed, adding this amount of "health money" to the Social Se- curity Act, more adequate facilities will be pro- vided for diagnosis by subsidizing state and ap- proved private laboratories, by helping state and local authorities to pay for public nurses to hold old cases under observation and to trace sources in order to hold the disease in check, according to Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr, surgeon-general of the U. S. Public Health Service. Long a taboo in polite conversation, syphilis has been allowed to thrive because of the diffi- cilty of showing the public or its legislators the widespread suffering and damage for which it is responsible. The harm that is done by this prudery is brought out by contrasting the prev- ar1oee of venereal diseases in the United States and in Denmark, where it has been treated free by the government since 1771. In Denmark the incidence of syphilis and tuberculosis is being diminished rapidly through stringent laws and organzed clinical treatment under State con- trol. Dr. Thorvald Madsen, director of the Danish Serum Institute, Copenhagen, who spoke here last week, said, "Denmark not only makes it a penal offense by the patient to neglect reporting and treatment of syphilis, but goes to the limit in rehabilitation of those who have been treated for these diseases, paying an indemnity, even though the convalescent may be able to do some gainful work and may beactually earning money. The result of this program is that all the classes, rich and poor alike, feel themselves in the same boat, so far as the disease and its treatment are. concerned, and cooperation in combating these diseases is hearty and universal. Mortal- ity from these diseases and incidence of them have, in consequence, rapidly decreased." tically at the vanishing point. But we have not attaclhed syphilis as we have these and many other plagues that we have conquered. For the most part we have been content with wishful thinking." Now that a few metropolitan newspapers hav been audacious enough to print articles on syph- ilis and some of the radio stations have raised the porticullis of prudery and admitted the word syphillis in their health talks, we appear to b leaving the mediaeval realms of wishful thinking and at last coming to grips with a problem that has been clothed in prudery and dark stupidity for more than four centuries. Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressiag the editorial opinion of he Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserving the right to condense all letters of more than 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. 'Who For Whom' To the Editor: What's this twaddle about 'Who Works For Whom' and 'Whom Works For Who?' It reminds me of the joke about the fellows at a bar: "You know," one said, "What I like about women is their hair" "What I like is their eyes." "It's their walk that gets me" "I like their sweet voices." Finally a disgusted voice from the rear, "Why don't you fellows quit lying and' tell the truth!" And what is the truth about 'Who(m) works for Who(m)'? Simply this: Wher an institution is rapidly developing from a college of a few hundred to a university' of ter thousand, where millions of dollars must be raised within three or four years . .. There is an imperative need for an executive of the captain of industry type. Under such conditions the President becomes a general manager respon- sible to a board of regents or trustees as directors, the deans are managers and division superin- tendents, the department heads are foremen, the rank-and-file of the teaching staff are em- ployees, the students are the raw material, and the alumni 'The Manufactured Product' bearing the 'College Stamp' This is what our Professor Slosson wrote in The Great Crusade and After as quoted in James Wechsler's Revolt on The Campus. Slos- son's analogy here successfully refutes Slosson's analogy about the dancing class in his latest letter. Slosson can apparently take both sides of the same question quite cleverly and quite successfully. Personally, I think the quotation above is the truer statement. There can be little doubt that 'Who works for the board of re- gents' to an uncomfortable degree. And it's really surprising hLw powerful and how impor- tant the regents are in corporations other than the University. Come to think of it, if we students 'employ the teachers, what would we do if they ever struck against us and demanded higher pay. I think we'd give it to them, if we could. For even if tliy are our employees, they work too hard. We students don't want to be accused of sweat-shop conditions and being responsible for them. We could give them collective bargain- ing, seeling that the Wagner Labor Act is con- stitutional. By the way, don't you think it's a bit incon- gruous for our employees to summon us before a committee for conduct 'unbecoming a univer- sity student? Sort of like a valet beating his master for drunkenness and threatening to fire him. When and if five of the seven persons arrested for picketing are sent letters during the summer asking them not to come back, don't you think they ought to be told about this new relation- ship? After all, it's pretty difficult for an employee to fire his employer. That, I'm led to believe, is Bolshevism. .-Who and For Whom'. Time To Recover To the Editor: Although I have never been a contestant, I at- tended the meeting last year at which the win- ners of the Hopwood awards were announced. I could not help noticing the probably unconscious brutality of the method used in announcing the winners. The whole group of contestants were invited, all of them totally ignorant as to which would l'e successful. And of course, practically every one of those trying out for the awards is immensely concerned over his success or fail- ure, for in these troublous times, awards rang- ing from $250 to $2,500 are not to be taken light- ly. Indeed, to most of the entrants, whether they will it or no, the winning of an award becomes a life and death affair. Yet it is obvious that the majority of the con- testants must be unsuccessful, and that in view of the money and prestige involved, this lack of i success must cause a great deal. of discomfort and unhappiness. Nevertheless, the committee in charge makes the whole group suffer silently through a speech that would be only moderate- ly interesting under the most precipitous circum- stances, with the tension growing and growing as the dreaded moment when the winners will be announced draws near. And when the an- nouncement finally does come, each lucky one has to go up and receive his prize, and walk back to his seat feeling very out of place indeed amidst such a sea of sick and disappointed faces. No wonder that some of those who became winners last year chose to stay away rather than go through the ordeal. It would seem that the least that 'could be done would be to'make it possible for the con- BENEATH **** r His IS THE STORY of a Mosher Jordan freshman who had heard vague rumors of the facts of life. The .young lady was squired one evening by a very respectable lad who, following a walk, asked if she would like to stop at his boarding house while he gave a message to his roommate. The maid was horror-stricken at the thought and quaked inwardly with terror as she now saw her perfectly honorable escort in a new and frightening light. They compromised with a coke in the Calkins- Fletcher establishment which fronts on both State and Packard, and the lass managed to keep her fear to herself as'she sat cringing in a corner of the varnished booth. When they rose. to go the young lady walked sedately out and turned on Packard. Then gentleman took her by the arm and attempted to direct their course up State Street, but with a disdainful thrust of her arm, strengthened by the conviction that she was the victim of a 'bad man,' the girl thrust her from him and set out down Packard at a brisk walk. Somewhat bewildered because she was taking the shortest- route to where he lived, the boy walked silently beside her for several blocks. When he looked up it was to see his roommate and a friend sauntering towards them down the street. Introductions marked by an air of frigid hostility, were passed off, and the puzzled gentle- man in a serious tone said, "Say fellows, I wish you'd help me explain to ----- which way she should go." To the girl this thinly veiled insinuation had but one meaning and when the boys each took an arm and playfully began to drag her back to- wards State Street her alarm became hysteria. "Help, help," she shrieked as she scratchedand tore at her abductors. "Help me, save me some- body, help." The boys let go in a hurry and fell back amazed. The girl, momentarily spared from a fate worse than death stood ashen and shaking on the sidewalk. No one said a word. Then a great light came into her eyes and she looked up at her ddte. "Lord," she said, "that is the way home, isn't it' * * * * And the poor kid crept home to bed completely crushed and thoroughly mortified, which goes to show that maybe me and the University aren't so far wrong when we say some of the co-eds still need a little mothering. * * * * BENNY GOODMAN will toot his whoozis else- where the night of June 18 when Michigan's seniors parade at the last social occasion of their college careers. MCA broke a verbal contract with Dean Rea and committee members and has re-routed the King of Swing so as to make his appearance here for the Senior Ball an impos- sibility. Negotiations to secure Glenn Gray instead are already under way with some progress reported. Other bands which are available for the Ball are Isham Jones, Jan Garber and Freddie Martin, MCA had definitely agreed to hold Goodman at $1,500, but pulled another of their innumerable fast ones and, presto-chango, scheduled Benny to play Walla Walla. COMMISSIONER BONTHRON slipped down to Windy's yesterday afternoon and as a result of what happened slips you a classy zebra who will bear plenty of watching in the Derby. This hyde, DELLOR by name, came from be- hind in the stretch to outga'me the odds on fa- vorite, Reaping Reward, and annex the Derby Trial, run over a mile course, $1,500 for his owner, and $8.80 for me. To my way of thinking yesterday's prep cleared away a lot of cobwebs from Saturday's picture. It proved that Reaping Reward cannot go the Derby route. He yielded to Dellor in the final furlong yesterday and that was only a mile race. It also established Bernard F, an Ike Collins entry who furnished your columnist with a new suit at the Detroit track last summer, as a sure starter. The Ohio colt ran a good race and got the show handily. Galsun failed miserably in the Trial and in all probability will not start. However Earl Sande, returning to Churchill Downs for the first time in five years, announced yesterday that he planned to start both of Maxwell Howard's horses, which means that the former Idaho rider who himself has ridden three Derby winners, will saddle both Fencing and Sceneshifter for the classic. On a dry track it's still War Admiral, Scene- shifter and Pompoon, but if its gumbo when the parade to the post begins, you'll be smart to get a small wager down on Dellor. That dog can really step in a bog. This column is glad to print the combined plea of Alpha Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon who are willing to do practically anything to recover the wig which they lost while staging their "Ten Most Beautiful Girls" act at the Michigras. It would seem that the wig in question was real hair to the value of $65, and unless it turns up somewhere, members of those hatchet clubs will be eating salmon hash for the next two weeks. barrage of stores of a host of acquaintances and rivals who have known all too well of his hopes for success. Such treatment is positively indecent. Let us hope that this year the indi- vidual contestants will be informed of their for- TH EATR e By JAMES DOLL You lake It With You4 IN ITS CHOICE of You Can't Take It With You by George Kaufman and Moss Hart for the Pulitzer Prize Play this year, the Committee that makes the recommendations has fur- ther weakened the prestige of the Award. There have almost always been heated arguments over the prize. But the awards to Sidney Kingsley's Meu in White and Zoe Akins The Old Maid in 1934 and 1935 were rejected practically unanimously by the soundest commentators on, the the- atre and its literature. The original statement in Joseph Pulitzer's will was: "Annually, for the original American play, performed in New York which shall best repre- sent the educational value and power of the stage in raising the standards of good morals, good taste and good manners, one thousand dollars." In 1928 the conditions touching "good morals, good taste and good man- ners" were dropped. In 1934 the phrase "preferably one dealing with American life" was added. CLEVER COMEDY LIKE MANY OTHERS Just how You Can't Take It With You "best represents the educational value and power of the stage" needs a good deal of explanation. It is a clever Broadway comedy. It has not the element of satire which made Of Thee I Sing- such an inspired choice in 1932. It depends principally on clever gags and in this respect is hardly better than The Women or Stage Door. It has more geniality than these two but hardly more than Yes, My Darling Daughter or Having Wonderful Time which are the same sort of play. All of these plays show the power of the stage to entertain but hardly in a way that could by any means be described as original. The central idea of a mad family has been done--and sometimes better done- in Hay Fever, The Mad Hop's,1 The Vinegar Tree. In You Can't Take It With You we have just an- other set of amusing characters hungc onto a very trite plot by a string of gag lines. As with a funny story, if you've heard them once they've lost their appeal. In a comedy like To-, varich, for example, this wouldn't matter. No description of lines or situations could take much away from the delight of seeing them. Also, the characters have more roundness, rela- tion to the complicated ways of real- ity. CRITICS' AWARD NOW IMPORTANT Because of their dissatisfaction with the awards of a few years ago, the New York critics formed an or- ganization of their own to give a prize each season. Last season this New York Drama Critics Circle made their award to Maxwell Anderson's Win- terset and this year'to his High Tor. He had won the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 with Both Your Houses. In com- menting on the formation of the Critic's Circle, he said: "In so far as the Pulitzer prize has had any in- fluence on our theatre it has been a confusing and misleading influence, an encouragement to mediocrity, a gift passed out to a lucky winner by authorities who possess in this field neither standards nor information." If the Pulitzer Prize Committee did not wish to run the risk of Mr. An-1 derson's refusing the award-as Sin- clair Lewis did several years ago when his Arrowsmith was given the award -they had plays like Paul Green's Johnny Johnson, John Howard Law- son's Marching Song and Robert Tur- ney's Daughters of Atreus to choose< from. On the basis of this year's Pulitzor Prizes in both the fields of fiction (Gone With the Wind) and drama,i the award seems to have resolved if- self into 'a popularity contest. Spring Parley By BERNARD WEISSMAN EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series of articles by the section chair- mine of the Spring Parley outlining the probable issues that will arise in the sections they will lead this Saturday. Issues Facing Education For University students, the prac- tical focal point for the "Program for our Times" which the Spring Par- ley hopes to plot this week-end lies in the application of broad social, economic, religious, artistic, and po- litical principles to that process of mental seasoning known as "higher education." The startling inability of the av- erage student to justify, even to him- self, the expenditure of four valuable years, not to mention several thou- sand dollars, on a college education suggests the urgent necessity of tak- ing stock of what we should get out of auniversity suchias ours and of whether the university is properly fulfilling its educational mission. There is a fertile field, in these questions, for constructive discussion of issues ranging from the grading and examination system to teachers' loyalty oaths; from the students' role in politics to curricular reor- ganization as suggested, for instance, by Chicago's President Hutchins; from student-faculty relations to peace demonstrations; and from the nlace of the humanities in 20th cen- Notices WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1937 VOL. XLVII No. 153 President and Mrs. Ruthven will be at home to students today, 4 to 6 p.m. 'Co Users of the Daily Official Bul- letin: The attention of users of The Daily Official Bulletin is respectfully called to the following: (1) Notice submitted for publica- tion must be Typewritten and must be signed. (2) Ordinarily notices are pub- lished but once. Repetition is at the Editor's discretion. (3) Notices must be handed to the Assistant to the President, as Editor of the Daily Official Bulletin, Room 1021 A.H., before 3:30 p.m., (11:00, Saturdays). Apparatus Exchange: The Regents at their meeting in March, 1927, au- thorized an arrangement for the sale of scientific apparatus by one de- partment to another, the proceeds of the sale to be credited to the budget accounthof the department from which the apparatus is transferred. Departments having apparatus which is not in active use are advised to send description thereof to the University Chemistry Store, of which Prof. R. J. Carney is director. The Chemistry store headquarters are in Room 223 Chemistry Building. An effort will be made to sell the ap- paratus to other departments which are likely to be able to use it. In some instances the apparatus may be sent to the University Chemistry store on consignment and if it is not sold within a reasonable time, it will be returned to the department from which it was received. The object of this arrangement is to promote economy by reducing the amount of unused apparatus. It is hoped that departments having such apparatus will realize the advantage to, them- selves and to the University in avail- ing themselves of this opportunity. First Mortagage Loans: T h e University has a limited amount of' funds to loan on modern well-locat- ed Ann Arbor property. Interest at current rates. Apply Investment Of- fice, Room 100, South Wing, Univer- sity Hall. .t. Students Interested in Summer Employment (Men): The University, Bureau of Appointments and Occu- pational Information has been noti- fied by the Uited States Civilian Conservation Corps of their program for summer employment (June to, September 15) open to students with at least one year's college training and especially to those majoring in Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Forestry, Biology, Geol- ogy, and History. Duties consist of assisting in the technical work car- ried on by the National Park Serv- ice; salary, $70 per month. For fur- ther information call at 201 Mason1 Hall, office hours, 9 to 12 a.m. and 21 to 4 p.m. Seniors in all departments are again reminded that the Commence- ment Invitation booklets and an- nouncements may still be obtained at the store of Burr, Patterson & Auld, 603 Church St. It should be understood that these announce- ments do not constitute admission to the commencement exercises but are really formal invitations to be used for personal friends and relatives. Admission tickets to the exercises at can be obtained at a later date at the University Businss Office. ; W. B. Rea. Student Loans: There will be a meeting of the Loan Committee in Room 2, University Hall on Monday, May 10 at 2 p.m. At this time the committee will consider requests for loans for the Summer Session and the school year 1937-38 as well as requests for immediate financial as- sistance. J. A. Bursley, Chairman. Directed Teaching, Qualifying Ex- amination: All students expecting to do directed teaching next semester are required to pass a Qualifying Eaxmination in the subject which they expect to teach. This examina- tion will be held in the auditorium ofI the University High School on Sat-I urday afternoon, May 22, starting sharply at 1 p.m. The examination will consume about four hours' time; promptness is therefore essential. Comprehensive Examination in Education: All candidates for the Teacher's Certificate (except grad- uate students who are candidates for advanced degrees) are required to pass a Comprehensive Professional Examination covering the Education courses prescribed for the Certificate. The next examination of this kind will be given in the Auditorium. of the University High School on Sat- All Junior Engineers: The collec- tion of the regular class dues has been so slow this year that less than half of our current expenses have been met to date. These expenses amount to about $70, principally in the form of assessments by the En- gineers and Honor Councils, and the class page in the 'Ensian. Our only source of income this year is the collection of dues, so please pay at once to one of the following members of the Treasurer's Commit- tee: Jack Young, Jim Eckhouse, Goff Smith, Carl Clement ,1ob Baxley, Dave Lansdale, John Harris. One of these men will be available at a table by the main bulletin board in the W. Eng. Bldg. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings of this and next week. Academic Notices Psychology 31: Recitation Sec- tions 6 and 7. The class bluebook this week will cover Chaps. 11, 12 and 13 of the textbook. Metal Processing 7, Metal Process- 'ing '10, and M.E. 21a: The proposed trip through the Ex-Cell-O Aircraft and Tool Corporation on Thursday afternoon is postponed until Thurs- day, May 13. O. W. Boston. Mental Hygiene of Adolescence, CIZQ: This course will resume its regular meetings beginning today. The field trip to the Ypsilanti State Hospital will be held as scheduled. Members of the class meet in front of the University Elementary School on Monroe St., Thursday, May 6 at 1:15 p.m. 11. Y. McClusky. Concerts Graduation Recital: Jane Ellen Rogers, contralto, will appear in graduation recital this evening at 8:15 p.m. in the School of Music Au- ditorium. The public is cordially in- vited to attend. Carillon Recital: Wilmot F. Pratt, University Carillonneur, will give a recital on the Charles Baird Carillon in the Burton Memorial Tower, Thursday afternoon, May 6, at 4:15 p.m. Lectures Universityl Lecture: Dr. Walter H. Bucher, chairman of the department of geology and geography, University of Cincinnati, will lecture on "The Hartz Mountain Overthrust" on Tuesday, May 11, at 4:15 p.m., in Natural Science Auditorium. Illus- trated. The public is cordially invit- ed. The Henry Russel Lecture: Dr. Charles Wallis Edmunds, professor of 1Vlateria Medica and Therapeutics, will deliver the annual Henry Russel Lecture at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, May 1$, in the Natural Science Auditorium. His subject will be "Experimental studies on Diphtheria Toxin." On this occasion also announcement of the Henry Russel Award for 1936-37 will be made. Exhibition An exhibition of paintings by Mar- garet Bradfield and Mina Winslow is being held in Alumni Memorial Hall through May 5, 2 to 5 p.m. Sun- days, under the auspices of the Ann Arbor Art Association. Events Today School of Dentistry: An Assembly of the students will be held at 4:15 p.m. today in the Dental School Am- phitheatre. The address will be giv- en by Mr. E. E. Peterson of the In- stitutt of Archaeological Research on the general subject of "Archaeological Research with special reference to the University of Michigan Excavations in the Near East." The talk will be illustrated by moving pictures. Chemstry Colloquium will meet 303, Chemistry Building. Prof. Kasi- this afternoon at 4 p.m. in Room mir Fajans will speak on "Molar Refraction of Inorganic Substances." Cercle Francais: There will be a meeting of the Cercle Francais at 7:45 p.m., this evening at the League. The room will be posted on the Bul- letin Board. The games committee and current affairs committee will be in charge of the program. It is very important for members to be present. A.I.ChE. will have a meeting at 7:30 p.m. this evening in Room 1042 of the East Engineering Building, for the purpose of electing +next year's officers and discussing plans for an Institute banquet. Refreshments will be served. Sigma Xi: The Annual Banquet and Initiation will be held this evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Michigan Union. Prof. Jesse Ormon- droyd will speak on "The Two Hun- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin Is construective notitce to all members of the Umiversity. 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