0 SIX -XIH.E ni-GUGAIN DAILY THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939 Women's Lack Of Objectivity HitBy Reporter Detroit Free Press Book Editor Specifies Reason For Press Prejudice Lack of objectivity in reporting stories is responsible for the fact that few women reporters are hired on metropolitan newspapers, according to Helen Bowers, book editor of the Detroit Free Press, who spoke here yesterday afternoon under the aus- pices of the journalism department. Although women have made consid- erable inroads in the fields of society reporting, home economics, columns and advice to the lovelorn, the num- ber of women working directly under the city editor is small, she said. The "daring" woman reporter braving numerous dangers and "scooping the town" is pretty much of a Hollywood -myth, she explained. The prejudice against feminine journalists broke down after the World War, Miss Bowers stated and since then women have held posi- tions ranging from publisher down. Just bow far a woman gets in this field is still largely a matter of indi- vidual ability, she concluded, citing Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Thomhpson as examples of women who have made a name for themselves. Foreign Center Remains Opel Organization To Sponsor Spring Vacation Program The International Center will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day during Spring Vacation for both foreign and American students re- maining in Ann .Arbor, according to Howard Holland, Grad., assistant director of the Center. Highlights of the Center's vacation program are two trips, one to Jack- son and Battle Creek and another t Adrian. The first trip, leaving Ann Arbor at 8 a.m. Tuesday, will include a tour of Jackson Prison, food fac- tories at Battle Creek and the Kellogg Sanitarium. The second trip, leaving at 12 noon Thursday, April 14, is a tour through the Starr Common- wealth for Boys, a modern school for delinquents. Those interested in eith- er trip should register at the office of the International Center. Other events on the Center's vaca- tion calendar are an intramural night, Saturday at the Intramural Building; an informal social hour at 7 p.m. Sun- Sunday; basketball game at 2 p.m. Wednesday between the Chinese team and a mixed foreign and American team ending the Center's cage season; a hike up the Huron River April 14, with the usual recreation program at 8 p.m. the same day; and a radio concert featuring the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra at 2 p.m. Satur- day, April 15, an the Center lounge. University Symphony Orchestra Will Present Fourth Concert Tonight Democratic Alliance Needed To Stop Hitler, DeWeerd Says Every democratic nation in the will have complete authority to deter- world now realizes that to preserve I mine to whom we shall sell goods of i world security it is necessary to stop Hitler's rule by force, Prof. H. A. De- Weerd, of Dennison College, declared; here yesterday at a Rotary Club meet- ing. "These last two weeks of March, 1939, have been the most eventful in the history of the world since the World War," he said. The triumphant march bf the Nazi government into Czechoslovakia, Ru- mania, and Memel during those weeks has changed the whole pattern of modern history, he pointed out. "Today France and Great Britain realize that they must halt Hitler. Until last week none of them thought it worthwhile to take the risk of fight- ing the powerful German army and airforce." England is holding conferences now with the diplomats of Poland, Profes- sor DeWeerd continued, and is at- tempting to form an anti-Germany pact that will include Russia. But the problem of forming an alli- ance that will insure Russian support would be difficult, he said. with Rus- sia compelled to march across the plains of Poland, before she will be able to use her troops in a war against Germany. "The government of Poland realizes this fact, and the last thing they want is to have an army from the Soviet marching across their nation, stirring unrest among the already large Polish peasantry." Hitler may have made a fatal mis- take when he took non-German peoples into the Reich by his last coup, Professor De Weerd statedt He pointed to the Polish corridor and the Ukraine as the focal points where Hitler will probably strike next. He attacked the efforts by United States congressmen to revise our neu- trality policy so that the President Steere Goes To Puerto RIco Dr. William C. Steere, associate professor of botany and research asso- ciation in the University herbarium, will go to Puerto Rico next fall as an exchange professor. war. Citizens of the United States must study international affairs closely if they are to become intelligent voters, he warned. "A few years ago it didn't take any knowledge of the map of Europe to vote. Today some of our most im- portant national decisions depend on the international situation." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN__j (Continued from Page 4) the morning, at the general offices of the School of Music, 325 Maynard St. All orders with remittances to cover received prior to Friday, April 14, 5 p.m., will be selected in advance of the public sale. Physical Education, Women Stu- cents: The outdoor season which offers classes in tennis, golf, archery, canoeing and camp-craft, will begin on Monday, April 17. Anyone wish- ing to enroll for one of these classes should do so before spring vacation in office 15, Barbour Gymnasium. A Graduate Council Dance will be held Saturday, April 8, in the ball- room of the Rackham Building. Dancing will be from 9-12 p.m. and refreshments will be served. The dance is especially for all graduate students remaining on campus dur- ing vacation. The Graduate Outing Club is, in- vited to attend the dance given by the Graduate Council Saturday, April 8, 9-12 p,m. in the Ballroom of the Rackham Building. The club has planned an outing for students on campus during vacation. The group will meet at the Northwest door of the Rackham Building, Thursday, April 13, at 2:30 p.m. When they return supper will be served in the club room. Faculty members and all graduate students are welcome. 4 The University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra,, composed of 92 students, under the direction of Thor Johnson, will present the fourth in a, series of free concerts 8:30 tonight in Hill Auditorium. Feature of the program will be Wagner's "Good Friday Spell" from his sacred music drama, "Parsifal." Dean Otto Heller To Give Lecture On Goethe Here The meaning of Goethe in the modern world will be discussed by Dr. Otto Heller, Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Washington Uni- versity, St. Louis, in a lecture April 18, in the Rackham Amphitheatre under the auspices of the German de- partment, Prof. Henry W. Nordmeyer of the department announced yester- day. Dr. Heller, one time literary editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and former head of the German depart- ment at Washington University, is also going to lecture on "Ideals and Ideas versus Facts and Figures in Education" on the following after- noon. In a recent letter to Professor Nordmeyer, he designates himself as "an implacable foe of educational humbug and humdrum." In thz; literas]y field, Dr. Teller has always been a pioneer, Professor Nord- meyer pointed out. He was one of the first in this country to call attention to Gerhlirt Hauptniann in his book, "Studies in Modern German Litera- ture," in 1905, when even in Germany Hauptmann's reputation was not yet solidly established. He was also one of the first Americans to make an ex- tensive study of Henrik Ibsen. In his recent book, "Faust and Faustus," Dr. Heller compared the "Faust" of Goethe and "Dr. Faustus" o . Marlowe, attempting to prove (octhc's in deb tediess. According to Profe' !:.Nordmeyer, lie 1 as also cedi e(n a Iw num er of textbooks, wli l" te cin German alnd modern +,?if~jt ~1 l'=r41Cs. not0 lpentioni niiiit~roT; o~ er worksj. Dr. leller has been in Ann Arbor but once bifore this lecture appear- = nce, in 1920, when he attended the inatu guratUon of President Burton as a delegate from Washington Universi- ty. "Sable Cicada," the only Chinese mimade moving picture ever to be ac- corded American release, will be shown here Friday apd Saturday, May 5 and 6, by the Chinese Students Club. The story of Cicada, or chirping cricket, a Chinese maiden, is a classic known as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, covering a period of Chi- nese history abolt 200 A.D. Tickets may be obtained this week and after vacation at the League and the Union. Profits from the production will be sent to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China in New York. Chicago May Swing 1940 Election I WASHINGTON, April 5.-(AP)-Ex- pectations that Illinois might be a pivotal state in next year's presiden- tial race were heightened by results of the Chicago mayoral contest. Re-election of the Democratic may- or Edward J. Kelly caused no surprise, but the showing made by his Re- publican opponent, Dwight H. Green, brought new Republican assertions that last November's groundswell in their favor was still in motion. A Republican victory would have been a dramatic prelude for 1940. Chicago has had but half a dozen Re- publican administrations in its his- tory. None but the most optimistic party leaders had expected Green's election yet the fact caught attention that he received the largest vote ever recorded for a Republican mayoral candidate and nearly trebeled his primary showing. The Democratic organization de- livered r]'(sults, however, making Kelly the first Chicagoan to be accorded a full decade of service as mayor. His re-election means that the powerful Cook County Democratic machinery wil be available in 1940 to do battle with down-state Illinois Republican trends. Offstage, at least, the Green vote in Chicago afforded Democratic par- ty harmony advocates fresh material for their arguments. Illinois Demo- crats have avoided any direct partici- pation in, the party clash over 1940 tickets or policies, although Sen. Scott W. Lucas, veteran of two house terms, was elected as a Roosevelt Democrat in 1938., Lucas' selection as spokesman for a new middle western farm bloc in the Senate, formed in connection with the struggle over farm policy making, had already attracted atten- tion. It is an honor rarely ,accorded Senate freshmen. Against the back- ground of the Chicago mayoral re- sults, some observers see the possible development -of an Illinois favorite son movement for Lucas in 1941 as a checkmate to the drift to Vice-Presi- dent Garner among some anti-Roose- velt Democrats.l An Illinois favorite son, whether Lucas or some other, would afford at least a parking place for the state's 58 Democratic National Convention votes until the situation as to actual 1940 intentions, both of President Roosevelt and Vice-President Garner, is clarified. The middle west is likely to rally sufficient Democratic favorite son strength in various.states in 1940 to give that area, scene of the heaviest Democratic party losses in 1938, at least a veto position on candidates. It affords a possible direct challenge to the. Garner movement among southern Democrats At war with the Roosevelt administration. Some Democratic national leaders say privately that the state may be the dominant'factor not only in shap- ing the party ticket, but in the out- come of the presidential election it- self. Mayo; Kelly's re-election un- questionably gives him an increasing- ly important place in the narty A SPECIAL! MOTOR TUNE-UP Call or Phone for an Appointment. BATTERY AND ELECTRIC SERVICE 112 South Ashley Streeth Phne 8908 G eoliigis Is Leave lo7day ("fit en Pay Trip rilitroutg East Leaving on its fifth annual Spring Vacation field trip through eastern United States, Dr. Irving O. Scott's class in Advanced Physiography pulls out of Ann Arbor this afteicnoon in four University station wagons. Extinding as far cast as the Appal- achian mountains and as far southi as Tennessee, the ,roup's itinerary will cover approximately 2,000 miles. The purpose of the trip is io observe as many distinct types bf topography as possible. The first day the group will view glaciated country and old lake beds. With Williamsport as its objective the class will cross the Allegheny plateau and travel through the Finger Lake country in New York. The next few days will take the group through the "ridge and valley" topography and the coastal plains. On the way from Washington to the Luray caverns in Virginia they will take the Sky Line drive, 2,500 feet up in the Blue Ridge mountains. The class will also transverse' the Big Smokies in Tennessee and arrive in Monticello on April 14. From here the group will travel north through the Blue Grass country and arrive home by way of Ohio, once more ob- serving glacial topography. In ten days the twenty-three mem- bers of the class will have crossed at least twice the seven greatI physical provinces of eastern United States. Hopwood Winner's Play To e Gi'en The University High School's Junior Class has chosen for its annual class play, "The Bean and the Cod" by Wallace A. Bacon of the English de- partment. The play will be given at 8:15 p.m. April 21 and 22 at the The MERCHANTS OF ANN ARBOR present EDRE STYLE NiDRE SAVINGiS I Do Your Easter Shopping Now! D AYS X711 Fountain Pens RIDER'S 302 S. State St. Typewriters Ir mm h - ,Il SPONGE? How much longer are you going to sponge on your parents? A course in secretarial ...with Conference Telephone Service Y OU'VE probably often wished it were possible to be in several places at once. Today-in effect-it is perfectly simple. 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