T HE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1937 P 'of. Maier Finds Rats To Have Speaker Claims Paper Industry Is On Upgrade' Mr. A merica Zoology Luncheons Date Back To Joe's And Orient I :E Prof. MaerFi Adsats od ave anngReasoning Ability In Food Tests ' Industrialist Says Forests Must Stay Productive To Insure Resources C. W. Boyce, secretary of the Amer- ican Paper and Pulp Association and a graduate of the School of Forestry and Conservation in 1914, said yester- day that the paper industry of Ameri- ca is a more stable base for the main- tainance of heavy forests than the lumber industry. Mr. Boyce was the guest speaker at the first forestry assembly of the year, held at 11 a.m. in Room C, Haven Hall. He stated the fact that the per capita consumption of paper in this country is 220 pounds and that 55 per cent of the world's consumption is used in the United States. This is higher than the figure for any other nation in the world. The fact that the use of paper for printing purposes and for varied me- chanical uses such as insulation are continually growing was pointed out by Mr. Boyce as evidence that the lumber industry is swiftly becoming stabilized with the greater part of its production going to the manufacture of pulp. Thus the need of maintaining standing forests of trees for paper- making will encourage the practice of reforestation and conservation measures for the sake of having a ready supply of raw material. The old type of "cut-out and get-out" lumbering which resulted in the de- foresting of many acres of valuable land will have no place under that system, he asserted. Mr. Boyce claimed that the pro- duction of southern spruce in great quantities for the purpose of making paper has opened a great field to the modern forester in the southern states. He urged the young forester to join the "bull gang" of the lumber camps and learn the business from the bot- tom, waiting a chance to step into business for himself. Streicher Slayig Probe Is Resumed Investigation by Circuit Judge George W. Sample's one-man grand Jury into the unsolved Streicher slay- ing was resumed today following a two-weeks' recess to permit the open- ing of the October term of circuit. Witnesses yesterday included Mrs. Frances L. Wiemer, Ann Arbor dress and beauty shop operator, and a friend of the slain boy's mother; Dr. Raymond W. Waggoner, director of the University Neuropsychiatric in- 4itute. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 4) Igan League, Thursday, Nov. 4, at 8:30 p.m. Physical Education for Women: In- dividual Sports test in swimming will be given on Thursday evening from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Union pool. Freshman Girls' Glee Club: There will be a regular meeting Thursday at the League at 7:15 p.m. All mem- bers please be present. Important. Modern Dance Club: A meeting of the Modern Dance Club will be held Thursday evening, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Barbour Gymnasium. All mem- bers who expect to be in the Christ- mas program are requested to be present. The Independent Men's Organiza- tion: Smoker at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Union. The Michigan-Illinois football pictures will be shown and the zoning plans of the organization outlined. Cider and doughnuts. All independent men are urged to come. I Is Discussed to The zoology department luncheon tbe held Friday in the Natural Soi- By Henderson ence Building has a 25-year-old an- cestry, Prof. George R. La Rue, of the zoology department, declared yes- That long, lank, shrewd-faced terday. Yankee called Uncle Sam, as repre- First luncheons were held at the sentative of Americans, underwent an Union when it was still in the "Cooley extensive examination by Dr. W. D. House," back in 1912. Later they were Henderson, director emeritus of the held at Joe Parker's, then at Foster's University Extension Service, last cafe, and finally the members of the night at the Farmers Club banquet in zoology department decided that they the Union. Uncle Sam is not the smartest man in the world, Dr. Henderson said. Upj to the time of the great depression,I the average American felt that he was a little smarter than anyone else, but the depression gave him a rude awakening. "With more food than we could eat, more coal than we could burnI and more clothes than we could wear, we found ourselves in dire straits, with 30,000,000 hungry, cold and ill-clad. With our business struc- ture toppling and our banks failing, we presented a sad spectacle for the world to behold," Dr. Henderson said. Nor does Uncle Sam typify "The Thinker." He is not a very thought- ful person, and most of the thinking that he does do is in terms of local situations and individual gain. He has the capacity to think but he has been too busy cutting down forests, plowing fields, digging mines and exploiting his resources. Dr. Henderson refuted the notion that Americans are the wittiest peo- ple in the world. "Americans are hu- morous not witty. The French are the wittiest and the Scotch next. Wit is of the intellect while humor in- volves action. We are the only people who every.Sunday read eight pages of Andy Gump and Joe Palooka." Uncle Sam does possess, however, certain positive qualities which dis- tinguish him from the rest of the world. One of these is the quality called initiative. He also has an un- usual capacity for action and is swift and sure in his motions. Despite his hard, bitter face he is a most sym- pathetic person. When questions of human needs and welfare are to be considered he is impulsive and gen- erous. Americans must, however, acquire' vision and obtain a new kind of edu- cation-an education which will teach him to think not only of him- self and his own prosperity, but the well-being and prosperity of others as Iwell. TO DO RESEARCH WORK HERE Dr. Florence S. Hague, associate professor of the zoology department1 at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, arrived here yesterday to do physi- ological research work with Prof. Alvalyn E. Woodward of the zoology department. that in terms of actual accomplish- ment. these tests show definite rea- soning power in rats. In answer to' those who say that a rat can have no reasoning power, Prof. Maier stressed that five year, old children., when put to similar tests do not score as high, i would be better off if they made coffee in their own building and brought lunches from home. German Collee Not Suppressed, Berliner Stat es Rats show definite reasoning power end of the tables, which is the fourth ;' as the average rat. equal to that of five-year-old chil- experience surhets, drenwhe pu tothetes ofcom- !Thus the set-up for the test is. dren when put to the test of corre- TAPPING SPEAKS IN WEST lating previous experiences into spon- Prof. Maier repeated two tables, placed APPINGctr A nSIN EST An electrical transcription of a taneous action, Prof. Norman Maier parallel to each other several feet speech by TI Hawley Tapping, gen- of the psychology department, who apart. At each end the tables are eral secretary of the Alumni Asso- has been doing research in this field, connected by bridges. Food is put ciation, will be heard at the meeting stated yesterday. in one corner of Table A with a screen of the University of Michigan Club Food is the objective of the rat, placed around it in such a manner of Oklahoma City, Nov. 9. Moving and his reasoning may be determined that the rat cannot reach it without by how he goes about securing this going all the way around Table A, pictures of Michigan games will also acros te , ownTabl Bandbe shown on the program. food, Prof. Maier said. Food. experi- across the bridge, down Table B, and ments are differentiated from the across the other bridge, which leads T well-known maze tests in that the directly to the food. ROTARY TO HEAR BAKER road to the food is constructed in a The rat now must think back on Recent developments in eero- forward direction, whereas in the his separate experiences in each* plating will be discussed by Prof. Ed- maze, the route is constructed grad- phase and try to correlate the fourwI "ally in the backward direction, of them so that he may get to the neering department at the luncheon In testing the rat, he is given four food, meeting of the Rotary Club today at separate experiences. He is first put Prof. Maier pointed out that dif- the Union. on a table (Table A) and is allowed ferent rats use their own techniques to make himself familiar with the in getting to the food, and that older various passageways and hazards.1 rats make less errors than young; --- GENTLEMEN --- After he has learned these, he is put ones. Changes are made in the set- IYou'll find them at on Table B, where he becomes ac- up of the apparatus from day to day, customed in the same way. such as the bridge being changed Then he learns to run across a from one corner to another. TheI Sta eb & D4Y bridge and passage that gaps the adaptability ,'of the rat to these two ,tables at one end, Prof. Maier changes indicates his ability to solve explained. He is not allowed, how- such problems. ever, to run from the table onto the The time that it takes the rat to4I bridge, but is put at the end of the get to the food varies from three bridge, cut off from the table. When minutes to cases where he goes to he becomes familiar with this, he is sleep in the middle of the first table, put on a similar bridge at the other Prof. Maier declared, pointing outThose Big, GRIFFIN SPEAKS IN CLEVELAND Dean Clare E. Griffin of the bus- iness administration school will de- liver a paper on "Education for For- eign Trade" today at the National Foreign Trade Council's annual meet- ing in Cleveland. The Council, an organization of business men formed to encourage foreign trade, will also hear Henry F. Grady, the vice-chair- man of the U.S. Tariff Commission. 67c~r42t 'I c J The Gerban government does not interfere with the academic freedom of the universities Hans-Walter Berg,! Grad., exchange student from the University of Berlin, said last night: at a meeting of the Deutscher Verein in the League. The first two years of American college education are like the last two years of German high school, Berg stated. Examinations are only given after six semesters, and then for the Master's and Ph.D. degrees. In German universities there are no recitations, he said. All classes are carried on in the form of lectures. The student is not required to go to thes eas he is in Aemirca. In place of the fraternity, the Ger- mans have the Kameradschaft he continued. These organizations are conducted similarly to their American counterpart, but the names of these organizations are taken from famous Germans in history. FRIENDLY SHOES Future I.M.O.C i r0 Speech Contest Finalists Will Vie This Afternoon The finals of the first intra-section speech contest of the year for Speech 31 students will be held at 4:15 p.m. today in Room 1025 Angell Hall, it was announced yesterday. The contestants in their speaking order are: Harold Goldman, '40, Utica, N.Y., topic unannounced; Robert Bailey, '38, East Lansing, "The CIO and Labor"; Jack Sessions. '40, Ply- mouth, "A New York Tenement House"; Jack Gelder, '40, Grand Rap- ids, "Can- Michigan Remain the Champions of the West"; Robert Gil- lis, '39, Detroit, "Youth and Peace"; and Ted Balgooyen, '40, Grand.Haven, "The Advisory System." HAVE YOU ever felt just a bit like a high school senior on an all- important date? When the or- chestra swings into a new tune, don't you sometimes feel that here is something calling for a new step? For checking up on little errors in dancing technique and for get- ting a new slant on old steps and an introduction to new ones, we suggest either class or private in- struction. Classes Wednesday at 7 P.M. Private instruction by appointment Rates upon request (S\ . r G 1 n t :. ' Full-Cut Swagger O'Coats In soft luxurious fleeces and hard wearing tweeds. We'll take great pleasure in showing you all the new models, if you'll step in for just a look. 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