PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY., SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1937 . 1, THE MICHIGAN DAILY 17> A N -r .-- ,;-=/ 91E Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. ,Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. 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 republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPRE*ENTgD PR jiATIONR A. A,..,.. . Ntion1Advertis S College Puliske"-s R ereseijtativo 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON - LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO B ard of Editors MANAGING EDITOR ..............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ...... ..... TUURE TENANDER CITYEDITOR................. . WILLIAM C SPALLER NEWS EDITOR.................ROBERT P. WEEKS WOMEN'S EDITOR................HELEN DOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR ...................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER..............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER.................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBERG W9MEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........BETTY DAVY WMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES NIGI EDITOR: HAROLD L. GARN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written 1)y members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Civil Service Quaifications .. HE ANNOUNCEMENT that more em- Iphasis will be placed on experience than on education in distributing jobs under the new civil service commission undoubtedly will be the subject of much controversy. It will involve the age-old question of just how important an education is to holding down such a job. Of the 17,000 state employees in Michigan, it is estimated that only 1,000 of them will be required to have better than a high school edu- cation. Of the remaining 16,000, it is thought that about half of them will need a high school education while the rest will be able to accomplish their tasks satisfactorily with less than a high school education. This does not mean that state civil service jobs do not require' intelligent handling by- em- ployees. It means that the commission does not consider the fact that a person has a high school education to be indicative of the ability of such a person to carry out his job. In other words, what the commission desires is men who will be able to do the job, regardless of how much edu- cation they may have had. It would seem that the commission has struck at the very core of the problem of job distribution. For years the question of education qualification has been a sore spot in the civil service battle. Many have advocated the use of stringent intelli- gence tests as a means of obtaining competent state employees. They have argued that an edu- cation should be the basic requirement for all such jobs. They have disregarded the fact that qualifications for a certain task do not necessarily depend on the amount of education a person has had. What is more important, and what the commission regards as more essential, is the individual qualification for a specific task. It seems logical that a person in public service with experience and a fair education will do better at his job than one better educated and with no experience. This is the view that the Mich- 'igan commission will adopt when the competi- tive examinations are administered in the near future. It is a practical view and one that is designed to obtain the best results in an efelcient manner. As the work of the commission progresses, it becomes more evident that they mean business and are determined to give. Michigan an effi- ciently managed civil service system. Their ac- tions are based on practicality and not on theory. Richard Mann. Propaganda In Newspapers.. PROPAGANDA in the United States is as old as the nation itself. In 1776 when George Washington saw his armies going to pieces under the potent forces of winter and undernourishment, he hired Tom Paine as mili- tary propagandist to write tracts calculated to stimulate the enthusiasm of the men in the field as well as the people at home for the Revolution. Newspaper editors, notably Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams took their cues from Paine and devoted much space to the propaganda. The Revolutionary war proved to the government the efficacy of propaganda in fostering and keeping ,dive the war nsiritr ART By WILFRED B. SHAW Exhibition Of Prints No better opportunity for a little course in the history of prints and print making could be found than that offered in the present exhibit now being shown in Alumni Memorial Hall. Here are extraordinary examples of the work of many of the great etchers and engravers, who worked in the days when the artists of the Renaissance found a new process which would enable a large number of people to know their work. Beautiful examples of the four main processes of print making are shown in the present ex- hibit. The first to emerge was the wood cut, laboriously carved out of a block of wood. Then came the etching, with an incised line bitten by acid, or scratched with a sharp point (dry point). Somewhat later came engraving where the incised line was made by a sharli steel tool called a "graver." Finally, and much later, we have the, lithograph, in which the printing surface is neither raised nor incised, but depends upon the ink sticking to a drawing made by a greasy crayon on the lithographer's stone or metal plate. All these methods are shown. These are four magnificent prints by Albrecht Durer, notably his "Four Horsemen," a wood cut, and two etchings. Three most interesting plates by Mantegna, the great Italian painter of the Renaissance, show the simple direct approach of the early print makers who did not disdain to use acid and the graver indiscriminately. Any method was used to get the effect. A number of the works of the earliest etchers show an extraordinary delicacy and refinement, as well as sure decorative quality. For etchings by Rembrandt, and two portrait engravings by Nanteuil represent the work of the greatest mas- ters in their respective fields. Rembrandt's "Gold Weighers Field" is a famous plate in which the foreground is obviously touched up by dry point. Almost equally well known are his "Little Jewish Bride" and "David in Prayer," which reveal the very modern spirit in Rembrandt's drawing. Nanteuil's portraits of Louis XIV and Harduin show what can be done in the way of portraiture and the representation of textures with the en- graved line, relatively limited and inflexibly com- pared to the freedom of the etchers point. A little sketch next to the Louis XIV, by Cornelius Du- sent "The Sitting Fiddler," shows what an etcher can do with textures. A similar contrast is shown by Van Dyke's well-known etched portrait of Jan Snellinx, an extraordinarily fine work in pure etching, and the very similar print, Rubens "St. Catherine," where the artist has strengthened the design, first etched with acid, with strong engraved lines. Every print in this collection deserves special mention, but space will only permit mention of Hirschvogel's "Landscape With Tree" since this artist was one of the first to interest himself in landscape. Turning to the few examples of modern artists we find one of the finest prints of the great French lithographer and caricaturist, Honori Daumier-"The Meeting of the Legislature," which shows him at his very best. Meryon's "L'Abside de Notre Dame" is one of the most famous prints of one of the most famous French etchers, while le Pere, another great French etcher, is represented not by an etching, but by an extraordinarily fine wood-cut, "Le Port d'Nan- tes.'> Then English school is represented by only one print, but that is Sir Seymour Hayden's "Breakup of the Agememnon," a print which may be said almost to mark an epoch in British etching. Ifeems to e Heywood B ro un History lists three tragic figures who were de- stroyed by their own creations. Each made, in a manner of speaking, a monster through which he was obliterated. I refer, naturally, to Pygmalion, Frankenstein and Edgar Bergen. And possibly I should add a fourth, since Sin- clair ("Whitey") Lewis has been chewed up by Babbitt in much the same way that Charlie Mc- Carthy has succeeded in overshadowing Mr. Bergen. Mr. Lewis invented a char- acter who portrayed all the folly of slogan thinking. His realtor was a man who knew that a gorilla could lick them both, and that every radical wore long whiskers and car- ried a bomb. But the Nobel Prize winner put so much of himself into his work that he and George Babbitt went down for the third time with their arms interlocked, and if either body is ever recovered identification will be impossible. Today the casual reader is often surprised in reading some fugitive red baiting essay to find that it was not written by Ham Fish, after all, but sponsored by Sinclair Lewis. The man who issued a gloomy warning that Fascism might come to America now seems to be devoted to fostering the very point of view -which would make such a calamity possible. * Sinclair Lewis Sells Red In a recent homily in Newsweek entitled "See- ing Red" (though "Seeing Through 'Red'" might have been even better) Mr. Lewis laments the innocence of those who lend themselves as fronts for radical movements. He speaks of Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Hemingway and Archi- bald McLeish as among those taken in by the Communists in the American Writers Congress of last year and adds, "It's an old trick of the Communists, and a good one, to coax an illus- trious innocent to serve as show-window dummy They were able to use Dreiser so, until he mur- mured, with unexpected sincerity, that he dis- liked the Jews, whereupon he was heaved out of Zion." Just why an anti-Semite should be welcome in Zion or any other civilized' citadel Sinclair Lewis does not explain, and he seems unconscious of the fact that he himself appears to round out an inclination toward completion of the Fascist cycle. He is severe in criticizing American rad- icals whom he accuses, on the authority of Fred Beal, of going to Moscow "on vodka-jazzed junkets-at the expense of American workers." Mike Gold he indicts as "the Lucius Beebe of Communist journalism." * * * The Air Of Vermont But it is my impression that the very austerity of Vermont farm life has been crippling to the talents of the man who wrote "Min Street." In years gone by Mr. Lewis kept vast scrapbooks of notes and citations before he began to work upon a novel. He strove for factuality. More recently it would appear that all his research is under- taken in some dentist's waiting room upon the funny papers of a past decade. There is less of Plato in his dialogues and more of Pat and Mike On the whole the playboys and girls of the gen- eration have kept closer to events than Lewis in his road company version of the life of Thoreau. Some seek escape from problems which they fear to face in city night clubs, but the same panic may be expressed in locking yourself up with a landscape. And if Sherlock Holmes were to ex- amine the printed tracks of Sinclair Lewis across a page I think he might remark, as he did on viewing the footsteps down the lane in "The Hound of the Baskervilles," "Watson, that man was running for his life."I On TheLel By WRAG Tonight the Independent Men's Congress is throwing the "Congressional Fling" at the Union. It will be a regular Union dance with Steinle and the buck, but the non-affiliates have given it a name and a new glory, which is a true Congres- sional touch. * * * * At first glance, the affair seems to have poten- tialities. The men can call each other "Senator" and, with the Congress dividing Ann Arbor into ten sections which house independents, the "Sen- ators" can bring a representative from their own district. * * * Instead of asking to sit out a dance, the girls will probably have to ask their dates if they'd like to "filibuster this one out." * * * * And then when two of the "senators" want to trade partners for a dance, they'll have to pre- cede the trade with a little quiet "log-rolling." Without a doubt George S. Quick will be THEATRE By NORMAN T. KIELL DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constretive notice to all memb rsof'the Black is black and white is white, until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. and never the twain shall meet, as Albert Bein sees it in his play "Let SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1937 4 frain from bringing small children. Freedom Ring," presented last night' VOL. XLVIII. No. 59 at the Masonic Temple by the Fed- ( egal Theatre of Detroit. Black are To The Members of the Faculty ofE the factory owner and mill bosses of r the Collegeof Literature. Science, Ann Arbor Art Association presents the South Carolina cotton mill, and The Arts: a double exhibition: Prints - from White are the uncomprehending The third regular meeting of the Durer to Derain; and a Survey of the mountain people who are brought to faculty of the College of Literature, Michigan Federal Arts Project- it to sweat and starve and have their. Science and the Arts for the aca- Drawings, Photographs and Sculp- spirits crushed. demic session of 1937-38 will be held tue; in the small galleries of Alumni "Let Freedom Ring" is not only an in Roon 1025# Angell Hall, Dec. 6, Memorial Hall, Dec. 3 through 15; invective but a mirror of actual con- 1937, at 4:10 p.m. daily, including Sundays, 2 to 5 p.m. riti" il o+ Lo,, c, Yr ~ I A - - X i- .. ditons. Alpert Bein shows his be- j Edward H. Kraus. wildered mountain people, trans- Agenda: planted to the crushing work of the 1. Adoption of the minutes of the saw and cotton mills in the town, to meeting of Nov. 1, 1937, which have be the victims of social .stupidities -been distributed by campus mail which make it impossible to reinte- (pages 379-388). grate themselves into the new social 2. Reports. congelation. a. Executive Committee, by Pro- What saves "Let Freedom Ring" fessor J. F. Shepard. from automatically falling into either 1. Consideration of recommended of the two pigeonholes usually filled change in wording of announce- by left-wing.drama is that it is neith- ment relative to freshman elec- er reporting nor propaganda. It is tions. militantly proletarian in point of b. Executive Board of the Grad- view, without distortion of the play- uate School, by Professor F. E. Bar- wright's keen realistic sense of char- tell. acter or his ability to tell a pretty c. Advisory Committee o n good labor story written within the I University Affairs, by Professor Ar- confines of a play. It is just this con- thur S. Aiton. sistency of character portrayal that d. Deans' Conference, by Dean E. carries "Let Freedom Ring" along. H. Kraus. ' The people of the play built and 3. Report on Karpinski resolution mount and unconsciously become in- of October meeting by Professor J. R. delible in the mind of the audience. Hayden. When the bitterness and brutality of 4. Suggested revision of regulations a system that forces its workers to be concerning repetition of courses with exploited to the bursting point, in D grade. this case to strike, we see the sobriety , of the characters turn to sheer poig- Sophomores, College of L.S.&A.: nnyin a display of embattled hu- Sohmrs olg fLS& nancyindhu-Elections of courses for the second man nature. It was hardly the fault of the semester must be approved during acting last night that made the list- the period from Nov. 22 to Jan. 28 in eners believe this. Some few were Room 9, University Hall. To prevent persuasive in their ability to show congestion in the office of the coun- the natural dignity of human charac-ss ters. The acting seldom came up to selors, individual postcards will be professional standards; most of it mailed daily to a small group of stu- was still-born. But the performances dents. Each card will be dated seven of Louise Huntington as the patient 1days after the dgy of mailing. To be mother; of J. Richard Gamble as admitted to a conference with a Grandpap; of Edward Masson as the counselor, a student must present his ambitious youth; and Chester Adams card not later than the date it bears. as the martyred union organizer, did If he comes after this date an inter- much to keep the play afloat. view will be granted only if there aref It was good to see the work of no others waiting at the office. James Doll again. His multiple set, In order to make an intelligent se- half expressionistic, half realistic, lection of courses each sophomore helped greatly to speed along the should give careful attention to his action of the play. next semester elections before meet- ing with his counselor. J. H. Hodges No Graeco-Roman, This E. A. Walter A. Van Duren; By IRVIN LISAGORI Nothing so poignant since Cliff Odets "Waiting For Lefty" has paint- ed the proletarian drama in such broad, humane strokes as the Thurs- day night wrestling show at the Ypsilanti Armory. With a cosmo- politan cast which opened and closed -with surprising facility-the stop- cocks of human emotions, the four- act opus cut so deeply into the con- sciousness of the 1,200 clients that it almost inflamed them into open class warfare. In a word or two, the Ypsi grunt and gioan carnival was the, unmitigated nuts and brought down the house. Italy's Tony Bommarito and Wash- ington's Dick Merrill exchanged grimmaces and groans with consum- mate skill in the first act, with Bom- marito (called Bum for short) cop- ping the dubious honors as villain of the piece. Boris Karloff never achieved the mobile expressiveness of the agile Italian as he pulled Merrill's hair, covertly dented the, referee's bulging paunch with his folded hand and practiced a rude trick on Mer- rill which is known to the parlor trade as "tickling under the arms." Faculty, School of Education: The regular luncheon meeting of the Fac- ulty will be held on Monday, Dec. 6, at twelve noon, at the Michigan Union. A full attendance is desired as many important matters are to be considered. Bowling for Graduate Women Stu-, dents: Any graduate woman student wishing to join a graduatebowling club should leave her name and tele- phone number at Office 15, Barbour Gymnasium. Basketball, Graduate Women Stu- dents: Any graduate woman student wishing to play basketball should leave her name and telephone num- ber in Office 15, Barbour Gymnasium. Academic Notices Sociology 51: Classes meeting at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. Wednesday and Saturday will not meet today (Sat- urday). Elmer Akers. Lectures l University Lecture: Dr. Karl Paul 'Link of the University of Wisconsin will give a public lecture on "Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Bio- chemistry of the Hexuronic Acids" in the Chemical Amphitheatre, Room 165 Chemistry Building, at 4:15 p.m., Monday, December 6. The public is cordially invited. Public Lecture: "Cultural ReIa- tions between the East and West During the Crusades" by Dr. John W. Stanton. Sponsored by the Re- search Seminary in Islamic Art. Monday, Dec. 6, 4:15 p.m. in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. Admission free. Oratorical Association L e c t u r e Course: Dr. Victor Heiser, noted au- thor of "An American Doctor's Odys- sey" will appear in Hill Auditorium, Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 8:15 p.m. He will lecture on his experiences as "Private Physician to the World." Tickets are now on sale at Wahr's. Events Today University Broadcast: 9-9:30 p.m. "Jack and Joan." Les Voyageurs: Be sure to be at the Cabin before 2:00 on Saturday, as there is some important business to attend to before the proceedings of the afternoon. Phi Delta Kappa Initiation and Banquet: There will be an initiation of new members this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the Michigan Union followed by a banquet at 6:30 o'clock. Lee A. White of the Detroit News, will be the speaker. All members are urged to attend. The Graduate Outing Club will meet at Lane Hall Saturday evening at 7:00 for a treasure hunt. All graduate students are welcome. Annual Hillel Charity Carnival will be held at Lane Hall trom 9:00 to 12:00 on Saturday evening, Dec. 4. Tickets may be secured at the Foun- dation or will be delivered on request. The Christian Student Prayer Group will hold its regular meeting in the Rehearsal Room of the Michi- gan League at 8:00 p.m. Saturday. Christian Students are cordially in- vited to attend. The Liberal Students Convention, sponsored by the Progressive Club, will be in session today and tomor- row. The opening meeting will take place today at 2 p.m. in the Michigan League. Mr. A. K. Stevens of the English department and Kenneth Born of the American Student Union will be the speakers. In addition there will be reports from the va- rious schools represented. All stu- dents are invited. The attendance of 'Progressive Club members is par- ticularly urged. Coming Events American Association of University Professors: There will be a dinner meeting of the local chapter of the A.A.U.P. on Monday, Dec. 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the Michigan Union. Presi- dent A. G. Ruthven, Dean Henry M. Bates, and Professor R. W. Sellars will speak on "Educational Objec- tives" and there will be opportunity for a general discussion. This is an open meeting and all members of the faculty are cordially invited. N German Table for Faculty Mem- bers: The regular luncheon meeting will be held Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the Founders' Room of the Michigan Union. All faculty members interest- ed in speaking German are cordially invited. Union Coffee Hour: Dean Griffin of the Bus. Ad school will lead the dis- cussion at the Union Coffee Hour Tuesday, Dec. 7. All pre-business students are especially invited to attend. Faculty Women's Club: The Book Shelf and Stage Section will meet at the home of Mrs. A. W. Smith, 1008 Oakland Ave., on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 2:45 p.m. Women's Research Club will meet Monday, Dec. 6 in the Grand Rapids 'Room of the Women's League at 7:30. There will be an informal reception for new members. Speaker: Dr. Lila Miller on.the subject: "Enzymatic di- gestion of lacto-globulin." I RADIO rp By THOMAS McCANN Each year Ted Husing, the dean of American sports announcers, chooses an "All Radio" foot- ball team from the ranks of teams which have played games covered by the CBS. This year Ted placed Jack Brennan, of Michigan on the mythical eleven, and further complimented the University by picking the Michigan band as the finest he had seen. In eleven games this year Husing has seen fifteen teams in action, six in the Midwest, six in the East and three in the South. From these Ted chose Bob Green of Harvard and Chuck Sweeny of Notre Dame as ends, Fred Shirey of Nebraska and Lou Midler of Minnesota as tackles, Jack Brennan of Michigan Mason Mayne of Texas Christian as guards, Charles Brock of Nebraska at center and George Peck of Cornell, Andy Puplis of Notre Dame, Vern Struck of Har- vard and Don Heap of Northwestern as backs. Guests tonight on the Saturday Night Swing Club will be Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, Art Tatum, one of our better jazz pianists, and Joe Sodja, guitarist. Leith Stevens will conduct the orchestra in special arrangements of "Dipsy Doodle," "If You Were Someone Else," and "Farewell Blues." Paul Douglas will again act as the session's master of ceremonies. The pro- gram should be a real jim session with the Dor- sey band, Tatum and the Steven's organization, but there is one thing that may detract. That is the presence of Bud Freeman, the much- disputed Dorsey tenor man. 1914-17. Each day metropolitan papers print pictures of women and children killed by Jap- nna a n- hnn r hr rhol in5za ~ m- Of such magnificent depth was the villain's artistry that a dignified cus- Concerts tomer in Aisle B, row 3, a lady, we believe, rose in a moment of unbridled ( University Symphony Orchestra. exuberance and exhorted Merrill to Concert: Thor Johnson, with Was- "Kill the dirty devil." At this, Bum sily Besekirsky as violin soloist, will (for short) struck an unsuspected present the University Symphony chord of "terror" that caused the Orchestra in a concert Sunday after- referee to feint, Merrill to beat his noon, Dec 5, at 4:15 o'clock in Hill hairy bosom and emit weird chal- Auditorium. There will be no admis- lenges of the underdog and a Legion- sion charge, but patrons are request-. naire in Row R, seat 7 to lose con- ed to be seated on time, and to re- sciousness. It was excellent theatre.- The second act was brief and to the pressionist, qualifies for thuggery point, proving that the "Polish Cor- roles in any modern drama. Both ac- ridor" isn't yet the arid land generally I tors reached far into the bag of supposed. John Gudiski, represent- thespic goodies for their grimaces, ing Poland, met England's Walter and when an unkind soul in the au-, Percy, a suave gentleman of restraint dience heckled Lord Finnegan, that and purpose, on the Clark Gable plan, worthy revealed a ready and sharp' physically. The Polish artist missed wit by returning a resounding "rasp- several of his cues and delivered one berry." or two of his lines poorly. He blasted Lord Finnegan's curtain speech be- the aridity theory when, in a fit of fore the 3rd fall was theatrical piece studied anger and disgust, he per- de resistance. In his impeccable mitted some expectoration to drop Hamtramck accent, he berated the onto an innocent client in the first i crowd for ''xpectin' me and de op- row. He won, but Percy drew the ponent to monkey around when wel major share of the applause. rassle de scientific way. If you ain't Matty Matsura Japan and Tony satisfied, de management'll be glad Faletti Italy, enacted a reincarnated to give ter dough back." Whereupon,, I scene from "Way Down East," witht variations, in the third act. After aX fervent prayer that drew tears from: a maudlin gal in the rear, and anI accusation that Faletti was using gar- lic, an illegal accoutrement, Matsura1 reached a histrionic height. He fellt out of the ring, with Faletti enlocked around him, incited a small riot among the audience and then, upont al - --i-n t , ,r sn n-ha ua n-n 4n in-4 the Lord prowess mashing and his adversary matched in a side-kicking, face- denouement that rocked, the Golden Horseshow and ended in a draw. Lord Finnegan was so ex- hausted from his inordinate effort he neglecteda to shake Balbo's hand- and sneered. Next Thursday night, the Bull Curry troupe will present another I#