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CHICAGO ' BOSTON, LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCIS Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 OfALL Things!.. -By MORTY Q N LOUIS UNTERMEYER'S conference session make. WAT'S TIiE TRIOUBLE WITH TIlE Wedneda:, the question of women in art was VOMEN? WHY 1 -RE TIFY NOT GREAT ART- brought up, and not one of the 75 people grouped I ISTS? informally around the Men's Lounge in the Rackham B1hding could explain fully why{SPEAKING of women, today's mail brings a there have not been more and better women letter from a gal who is a little weary of artists. Incidentally, before this goes any fur- this four-out-of-five business. She says, as ther, Mr. Q. would like to urge all of you to follows: attend as many of Mr. Untermeyer's lectures "Perhaps we girls shouldn't make such a and conference sessions as you can: He is dis- fuss since every, one of us should be able cussing a subject in which all of you should to boast at lhast three male catches, but we have a vital and vigorous interest: American do get a little tired of having unflattering culture, its past, present and future, with the r narks continually being ast about us.' emphasis on the latter. Mr. Untermeyer is "Since, by now, the 'Four Out of Five' slo- completely sold on America, and is a very com- gan has gained country-wide fame, do you petent salesman in his own right. suppose it might be possible for me to add Anyhow, to get back to this women business- a slogan' of my own, intended especially for it's being done every day, you know. Various the male population? Vell anyhow, here suggestions were made as possible answers to goes: the question, none of which were at all com- Water, water, everywhere, pletely satisfactory. One person pointed out And all the drips at Michigan that women were more emotionally unstable; he Sincerely, was quickly argued down by showing that, in Marion beisig. '43 the first place, they are not more emotionally * unstable, and, even if they were, doesn't much W ONDERATION DEPARTMENT: What ever of our great art come from emotionally unstable happened to the people's government at people? So that was out. Then, somebody else Terijoki? brought out the place-in-the-home argument* with all the subsequent trimming; but, does 0UT-L-ON-THE-LIMB DEPARTMENT: The that not give them more time to create and is Hillel Play, Irwin Shaw's "The Gentle Peo- not the home a perfectly good place to write, ple," will be one of the best pieces of stage paint or compose? Other arguments were ad- entertainment here this year . . . Michigan, mi- vanced (not, peculiarly enough, by any of the nus Jimmy Welsh, will only beat Wayne, 53-31, women present who seemed to be sitting back in the Intramural Pool tonight advises a cer-- and laughing at the men making damn fools Lain M. F. . . . Matt Mann's great swim outfit of themselves) : but it was not solved to anyone's ! will also bout. out Yale irl the Intercollegiate satisfaction. at New Haven at the end of the month . . . if a So, Mr. Q. would like to throw the question certain F. D. R. runs for a certain presidency open right here and would appreciate any corn- he will be re-elected in no uncertain termns . ments or suggestions any of you would have to if it ain't so, go ahead, sue. The DAILY WASHINGTO'"N JL_ MER1RY-GO-ROUNDl The Outside World: Carl Petersen Etlliott Maraniss Stan M. Swinton Morton L. Linder Norman A. Schorr Dennis Flanagan .in N. Canavan A"n Vicary Mel Fineberg Editorial Staff Business Staff Managing Editor Editorial Director . . City Editor . Associate Editor . Associate Editor . Associate Editor *Associate Editor SWomen's Editor . Sports Editor . Paul R. Park Ganson P. Taggart Zenovia Skoratko . Jane Mowers . Harriet S. Levy Business Manager.. Asst. Business Mgr., Credit Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Publications Manager . . NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT W. BOGLE The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers nnly. Michigan Academy Arrives Today . T ODAY a great flood of lecturers and scholars will come to the University campus to take part in the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. There will be talks on subjects ranging from botany to the economic aspects of war. On looking over the lists of topics and lecturers, anyone interested in learn- ing will probably wish he could be in a dozen places at once. It is of course impossible to give proper em- phasis to each phase of so leviathan an organ- ization as the Academy. Many of the lectures, if presented singly, would doubtlessly arouse much interest that the mass-production of the Academy does not permit. There is one phase of the assembly, however, that seems to demand more than cursory notice. This is the meeting of the Michigan Folklore Group, to be held in conjunction with the Academy. What gives this meeting importance is that it is the first time that the subject of folklore has'become part of the Academy. Furthermore. it marks a determined effort on the part of the Folklore Group to bring to the public's at- tention the rich sources of folklore in Michigan that have never been tapped. As has been pointed out by Prof. Ivan H, Walton of the engineering English department, chairman of the group, Michigan has one of the richest backgrounds of folklore material in the country, and yet has done little about it. The schoonermen of the Great Lakes, the lum- bering camps, folk songs, Indian rites-all these form a colorful past of which the present genera- tion is not cognizant. Today's meeting may be dwarfed by the immensity of the Academy, but, from it may spring a broadened interest in the past of Michigan. - Hervie Haufler Legislators Missed Grapes of Wrath-- G RAPES OF WRATH, both as a pic- ture and a book, apparently has failed to reach the people who should have been most influenced by it. Instead of trying to better conditions of migratory workers, the California state legislature has taken steps that will make even worse the situation Steinbeck described. In a special session, the legislators instituted a 40 per cent cut in relief allowances that will affect 370,000 relief clients, numbering among them hundreds of the "Okies" and some Mexican families. The maximum budget per family has been reduced to only $58 while the residence qualification has been raised to three years. The migratory workers, who have had a miser- able subsistence in the past, will be forced to an unbelievably low standard of living by the new maximum monthly relief check. EVEN more injured by new regulations will be some 30,000 Mexican families. These Mex- icans are victims of what the New Republic calls the "worst wave of race hatred in California since the Chinese pogroms." Many of the Mex- icans were imported by American labor con- tractors but have no documents to prove entry prior to 1936, as required by law. Ironically, some native-born clients who have been agitat- ing anti-Mexican prejudice are also losing through the regulations. WASHINGTON-Now that artillery fire has departed from the battlefields of Finland, the Allies are getting an almost panic-stricken picture of what that defeat means to them. For when the history of this world war is written, probably the let-down of Finland. can be placed beside the British sabotage of the Spanish Republic as the war's two major ca- tastrophes. The surrender of Finland means not so much a triumph for Soviet Russia as for Germany. It means that the remainder of Finland now will be welded together for self-protection in an economic alliance with Sweden and Norway. And most important of all it means that all Scandinavia will come under the direct domination, if not the control, of Germany. In fact, Nazi Germany is working overtime right now, and has been for the past two weeks, to create a sort of United States of North Eu- rope-Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, all cooperating in the closest manner economic- Deiroit Has A Skim Disease ... S OMETHING like a pulp magazine crime story has been unfolding in Detroit in the past few weeks. Charges of ac- cepting graft have been leveled at some of the city's highest officials, and these charges have apparently been confirmed by court testimony. Many of the top men of the police forc.e of the fourth largest city in the United States are under fire. The whole affair is a crime story of the worst sort, for i appears to be true. Graft is a skin disease which breaks out every once in a while in a democratic government. It's an ailment which you get if you're not careful and which you may get even if you are careful. But it is not an irritation which can be blamed on the system. It occurs because the wrong elements enter the system. Those city officials on whom the greater part of the charge of accepting graft from gambling syndicates is laid were elected by the democratic procedure. The citizens of Detroit went to the polls and voted for the man who seemed to them to be best fitted for the various offices. It was expected of those who took office that they would respect the authority which had been allowed them by working in the in- terests of the citizenry. The voters in Detroit evidently made some mistakes in their popular choice, as is evidenced by the corrupt mess which has been uncovered in these last few weeks. Now, with a half dozen executives suspected of graft, there is bound to be a popular mistrust of the entire police force down to the last rookie on the suburban beats. Mistrust of the whole force is not to be jus- tified by the uncovering of graft among higher officials in the department. The charges of receiving graft are leveled against individuals and not against an entire department. When those individuals are rooted out, there will re- main hundreds of law enforcing officers who are utterly innocent of any charge of accepting graft. They are the ones who make the Detroit police force, and they are the ones on whom most of the responsibility for keeping the city ally, and perhaps politically, with the Reich. That is why Dr. Schacht, Germany's economic genius, arrived in Stockholm exactly one day after Finnish peace was signed. This means that aother vital area of Europe becomes alienated from the British, .just as the downfall of the Spanish Republic meant that British influence vanished from one vital area of the Mediterranean. Chapter By Chapter TO GET h.e complete picture of British mud-. dung, one must go back to the start of 'the Finnish war last November. Here is the history, chapter by chapter: Chapter 1.-Finland was dickering with Rus- sia for a settlement without war. While Fin- nish envoys were in Moscow, the British press urged an unyielding front against Russia, Bri- tish diplomats patted Finland on the back, gave her every encouragement to resist Stalin's de- mand for territory and naval bases. Chapter 2.-The war started. Finland appeal- ed to Britain for planes. Lord Halifax explained that Great Britain could not afford to risk of- fending a friendly country--Russia. Chapter 3.-As Finland stood her ground, and as the war dragged past Christmas, the British and French began sending planes surreptitiously into Finland. But there was no open support. Chapter 4.-On February 7 Premier Daladier and Prime Minister Chamberlain met in Paris. By that time confidential military reports from Finland indicated clearly that the Finns could not last much longer. More than equipment, they needed replacements. Their men were worn out. Daladier proposed that Britain and France undertake an expeditionary force through Sweden to Finland immediately. He said that French troops were ready, but no expeditionary force could move without the British fleet. Neville Chamberlain said he would take the matter under advisement. Chapter 5.-On February 8 the Swedes, long worried over the encroachment of Russia, in- formed the French and British that they would cooperate with an Allied expeditionary force. The Swedes went even further, said that since it would take some days for the British and French to reach Finland, they, the Swedes, would send troops immediately if assured that later the British and French would back them up. This Chamberlain also took under advisement. Chapter (.-By mid-February, the Finns were giving ground steadily before renewed Russian onslaughts. But Chamberlain still was advising with his Cabinet. By mid-February, also, the Germans had heard of the Allied plan for an expeditionary force through the Scandinavian countries, and had warned Sweden against it. This put the Swedes in a tough spot. However, Sweden still stood by her position. She informed the Allies that if they would send a full-fledged expeditionary force, Sweden; would permit its passage across her territory and cooperate fully. But if the Allies only sent driblets of volunteers, then Sweden could not cooperate. For this would only mean risking German displeasure without Allied protection. Still Under Advisement Most Students Ignore 'Task' Of Getting Job By LEONARD SCIILEIDER (First o a series) Twelve thousand Michigan stu- dents spend a part of every day (r wvorrying about the future but few pc do anything about it. o Every college student will agree t that his major interest should be e the life he will lead once he moves g outside these sheltering walls. Yet, d paradoxically, he tries to ignore it q as much as possible. a A minority of college men and n women realize that choosing an oc- cupation has become doubly impor- tant since the discovery that there are ten million unemployed persons in the United States. They hear f phrases like "security," "technolog- d ical unemployment" and "job misfit"C and realize that such language is meant for them just as much as for the "shabby" people who haunt the L employment agencies.- i These persons are the few who a take advantage of increased facilities S for vocational guidance, who seek s information about careers and then select one with the intentionof c learning everything about it. Theyn are the ones who delve into the mys-c teries of "the outside world." But there are others who prefer to keep to the rutted road when choosing a life career. C They let reputedly "wiser heads" dictate to them the occupations for d which they should prepare. This m doesn't mean that one should refuse ti to seek help or take advice from ex- perienced persons; it does mean that 1 those who abide by parental wishes, p family tradition or the kindly and ai sincere advice of an old friend can easily be led astray. They make no effort to investigate this job of getting a job. Or, on u the other hand, they buy "wake-up- IS and-boss" books and come to believe that by memorizing six simple say- ings all office doors will magically t swing open. , They refuse to drive toward anC occupational goal-as soon as they n hear that the field they've chosen is N overcrowded or requires extensiveb preparation, they hop off the wagonE Or, as a corollary, they set their 1z minds on a particular career, and' close their eyes to others for which c they might be better qualified. n It is to both these groups of stu- dents, but chiefly to the latter, to a those whose careers are still in shad-a ow, that this series of articles onc "The Outside World" will be address-. ed. Personnel experts say that the joba of choosing a career consists of: t 1. Determining the types of occu-v pations one's abilities, aptitudes and training qualify him to enter. 2. Finding the specific vacancies within these occupations where jobs can be obtained.C It will be the purpose of "The Out- side World" series to analyze various occupations, to discuss their require- f rnents and availability and to pre-v sent information from experts re-n garding them. Sources for the seriess will be data from national vocational d guidance groups, active workers in the fields and members of the Uni- versity faculty in cooperation withn the University's Bureau of Appoint-.. ments and Occupational Informa- tion.t True To Type The Washington and Jefferson College Red & Black has added at history professor to its staff as a commentator on foreign affairs . . The Chronicle of William Penn Col- lege recently published an issue with a blank front page that carried this note: "These are the stories that were1 due Tuesday and definitely due Fri-t day, and positively due Monday, and absolutely due without fail Wednes- day." Apparently the staff took al vacation for a couple of weeks . The Kenyon College Collegian is de- livered regularly by Chinese army fliers to a member of the Chinese Resettlement Commission "some- where" in the interior of China . . . The Polytechnic Institute of Brook- lyn Reporter has the distinction of being the first college newspaper to receive a radiophoto broadcast ex- clusively to it. Date of the broadcast was January 4 . . The University of Kansas Daily Kansan and the Carleton College Careltonian are the most recent additions to the ranks of the tabloid college newspapers . . . On a recent visit to Cornell Uni- versity, Howard W. Blakeslee, science editor of the Associated Press, dug up 20 (yes, twenty) new science stories in three days . . . - Collegiate Press Review immediately and jointly to help Fin- land" with "all the available re- sources at their disposal"-if Fin- land asked for help. Simultaneously, word was passed out from Allied sources that Finland was talking with Moscow merely to make the British realize the gravity of the situation, and bring help from them. In going to Moscow, London %iritn~pr te Fnn, pr huf'fimti FR IDAY, MA RCH 15 1940 b VOL. L. No. 119 u Notices The University Council Commttee 1 n Parking earnestly requests that the M larking of cars and trucks on the vals between the Chemistry and Na- oral Science Buildings, or anywhere A lse on lawns, be discontinued. The rass underneath the snow will be amaged not only by the ice conse- uent to the packing of snow, but lso by the dripping of oil from p notors. o Herbert G. Watkins a y Faculty of the College of Literature, e cienee, and the Arts: The five-week e reshman reports will be due Satur- e lay, March 16, in the Academic e Counselors' Office, 108 Mason Hall.P Arthur Van DurenM Application for Admission to the aw School: Students who are secur- ng the degree of A.B. or B.S. in June, nd who expect to enter the Law ichool, either at the beginning of the ummer session or next September, S hould call at the office of the Re- L ;order of the Law School for the is ecessary blanks and instructions o oncerning application, filing of cre- d entials etc. A ' t Education D99, Saturday Course- S onference: The program for Satin-c lay, March 16, will be on "Assembly nd Auditorium Programs," presented y some of the teachers and pupils of he University High School. This a s an interchanging of the programs C reviously scheduled for March 16 i rnd 23. Bronson-Thomas Prize in German: Value $39.00. Open to all undergrad- ate students in German of distinct- w y American training. Will be i awarded on the results of a three- t hour essay competition to be held N under departmental supervision on March 21, from 2-5 p.m., 203 U.H. contestants must satisfy the depart- ment that they have done their C eading in German. The essay may T e written in English or German. Each contestant will be free to choose his own subject from a list of at least S 30 offered. The list will cover six U chapters in the development of Ger- man literature from 1750 to 1900, each of which will be represented by U at least five subjects. Students who f wish to compete must be taking a s couzse in German (101 or above) at t the time of the competition. They should register and obtain directions as soon as possible at the office of a the German Department, 204 Uni- n versity Hall. I Kothe-Hildner Prize in German: v Two prizes, of $30 and $20 respective-C y, will be awarded to students taking German 32 in a translation compe- tition (German-English and Eng- P lish-German) to be held March 21,C from 2-5 p.m. in 203 U.H. Students 8 who wish to compete and who haveF not yet handed in their applications d should do so immediately and obtaind directions. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Informationt has received notice of the following United States Civil Service examina- tions. The last date for filing appli- cation will 'be April 8, 1940. Senior Inspector, Engineering Ma- terials (mechanical) salary $2,600.6 Senior Inspector, Engineering Ma- terials (hulls), salary $2,600. i Inspector, Engineering MaterialsI (mechanical), salary $2,000. . Inspector, Engineering Materials (hulls), salary $2,000.r Associate Entomologist (taxonomy)t (for filling the position of Assistant Curator, National Museum, Smith- sonian Institution), salary $3,200. Assistant Entomologist (taxonomy)1 Bureau of Entomology and PlantT Quarantine, Dept. of Agric., salary $2,600. The following NEW YORK CITY examinations are also announced: the last date for filing application is noted in each case: District Health Officer, salary $4,- 750, March 21. Junior Engineer (sanitary) Grade 3, salary $2,160, March 25. Personal Property Appraiser, salary $3;800, March 25. Superintendent (C o 1 d Storage Plants) salary $3,120, March 25. Additional information is contained in the March Bulletin. Complete announcements on file at the University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Academic Notices Chemistry 69 and 69E will not meet for lecture today. English 128: Will students please The Time Of March Mud .. , maple sugar ... rain ... Inmh Qnnw gmak,.a s ring their textbooks to class on Sat- rday and Tuesday, Karl Litzenberg Make-up examination in Geology 30 will be postponed from Saturday, larch 16, to Saturday. March 23. Philosophy 34 will meet in 2225 angell Hall today. Exhibitions Landscape Architecture Exhibit of lans and photographs of examples f the work of professional landscape rchitects and planners from New Tork to Hawaii is on display in the xhibition hall of the Architecture uilding. It will be open until the nd of next week. Of special inter- st are the plans of the International 'eace Garden in North Dakota and Manitoba, a plantation village in lawaii, New York City parks, etc. Lectures University Lecture: Mr. Homer L. hantz, Chief of the Division of Wild ife Management in the Forest Serv- ce in Washington, D.C., will lecture > "Vegetation, What It Means" un- er the auspices of the Michigan kcademy of Science, Arts, and Let- ers at 4:15 p.m. today in the Natural cience Auditorium, The public is olally invited. Mr. Louis Untermeyer schedule: Today: Informal discussion ("Old nd New England"). 4:15 p.m. East onference Room, Rackham Build- ng. Today's Events The Student Evangelical Chapel ill hold a social and business meet- ng tonight at 8 o'clock in the Bap- ist Guild House. Election of new ioard members will take place. All nembers urged to attend. Stalker Hall: Bible Class led by Dr. C. W. Brashares at Stalker Hall at :30 o'clock tonight. Peace Commission of the American tudent Union will meet in Michigan Union today at 5 p.m. Members of American Student Union are urged to cast their ballots or officers of local chapter, at table et tip in lobby of General Library oday. Conservative Services will be held it the Hillel Foundation at 7:30 to- ight. A fireside discussion led by Professor David Mandlebaum, of the Anthropology Department of the Uni- ersity of Minnesota, on "The Jews of Cochin" will follow. Westminster Student Guild of the Presbyterian Church will have Bible Class tonight from 7:30 to 8:30. From 8:30 to 12:00 p.m. they will hold Open House. A program of entertainment, dancing and refreshments. All stu- dents invited. The Young People's Bible Class of the Congregational Church will meet tonight at 7:30 at Pilgrim Hall. All students invited. Coming Events German Table for Faculty Mem- bers will meet Monday at 12:10 p.m. in the- Founders' Room, Michigan Union. All faculty members interest- ed in speaking German are cordially invited. There will be a brief infor- mal talk by Professor Norman L. Willey on "Sealsfield-Muenchhau- sen." Seminar in Bacteriology will meet in Room 1564 East Medical Building Monday, March 18, at 8:00 p.m. Sub- ject: "Vitamins and Bacterial Metab- olism." All interested are invited. The Angell hail Observatory will be open to the public from 9:00 to 10:00 on Saturday evening, March 16. The moon and the planet Venus will be shown through the telescopes. Children must be accompanied by adults. U. of M. Flying Club will conduct a flying meet Sunday afternoon, March 17, at the Ypsilanti airport. All participants must have logged at least one-half hour of practice during the week preceding the meet. Car leaves front of Union at 2:10 p.m. on Sunday. Suomi Club meeting at Internation- al Center Saturday, 8 p.m. All Fin- nish students and friends invited. The Verdi Requiem will be sung Tuesday evening, March 19, at 8:15 in the First Methodist Church. The public is cordially invited. Stal'ker Hall: Members of the Wes- leyan Guild and members of the Luth- eran Student group will have a party on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the WAA R,, i1iin' vsRnw rn- o'ovw s. rfsr.a DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN