THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, DEC. 5, 1939
Bureau Of Industrial Relations
Has Varied Uses, Riedel States
Organ Concert.
Will Be Given
A.li-American
Ballet To Play
MUSIC -:
Schiller
Starred
Nation'
Agency Maintains Library,
Sponsors Conf erence,
Sponsors Publications
The Bureau of Industrial Relations
acts as an impartial evaluating and
disseminating agency for all kinds
of information dealing with employ-
er-employee relations, Professor John
W. Riegel, Director of the Bureau,
said yesterday.
Founded in 1935, the Bureau has
furnished special reports in response
to more than 400 reqpests from com-
panies and labor organizations in
the United States, he continued. In-
quiries last week he said included
letters from firms as far apart as
California and Eastern Canada, and
one from a labor organization in In-
diana.
Reference File
The Bureau maintains a large ref-
erence file of information which has
been solicited from employers, labor
organizations, and government agen-
cies Professor Riegel commented.
Some of the material has been gath-
ered in the field in the course of spe-
cial research projects, he explained,
these files being drawn upon in ans-
wering specific questions. The in-
formation desired istnearly always
too recent in origin to be contained
in book form, and, therefore, Pro-
fessor Riegel pointed out, the ref-
erence collection of the Bureau con-
sists mainly of documents, pamph-
lets, and memoranda. These, he said,
are classified and indexed under
some 250 specific reference titles.
This unusual collection is available
for use by advanced students in the
field of industrial relations, he com-
mented.
Publish Address .
An average of two publications per
year are issued, said Professor Riegel.
One is usually composed of addresses
presented at conferences sponored
by the Bureau, he explained, while
the other is generally concerned with
specific problems in the field.
The publications of the Bureau
cover such subjects as "Salary Deter-
mination," "Elements of Labor Pol-
icy," "The Selection and Develop-
ment of Foremen," and "Collective
Bargaining and Cooperation," Pro-
fessor Riegel continued. The sub-
ject-matter of specific communica-
tions sent out by the Bureau, he said,
ranges over the various phases of in-
dustrial relations from "arbitration"
to "workman's compensation."
A conference on industrial rela-
tions policy is sponsored by the Bu-
reau each year, Professor Riegel
commented. He pointed out that the
members of the conferences discuss
aims in view of current develop-
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ments, consider recent legislation Callahan will Present H ere M onda yWe could not but observe at last
ander ty efeactson betwvieenw cmeho Program Tomorrow_ _ evening's Choral Union recital that
executives and their employees have As American as the hotdog, the had Mr.#Bjoerling been standing on
been improved. The last of the Twilight Organ Se- American Ballet Caravan, designed ! a silken cushion the unreality of the1
In addition to this conference on ries before the Christmas holiday will around native themes and scenes program would have been complete.
policy, the Bureau sponso s a numi. ;be given by Allan Callahan, of De- and including only native dancers, This is not to deny the loveliness of
ber of small conferences in the na- roit, a graduate of the University will appear for one performance Mr. Bjoerling's tone nor his extra-
ture of seminars to which business 'School of Music, on the Frieze Mem- nTheay at the Lydia Mendelssohn ordinary range. The depth of voicef
executives come for the discussion of orial Organ in Hill Auditorium, 4:15'The Company was founded by Lin-he displayed i the Flicken kom of
a selected phase of personnel man- Sibelius was particularly satisfying.
agement. Since the Bureau was Cs- p.m. tomorrow. The general public coln Kirstein three years ago as a Nor could we fail to note the assur-
tablished, over 900 executives have with the exception of small children, revolt against what he called "Rus- ance with which he performed the
participated in these several confer- is invited to attend without admis- sian tearoomish interpretations of whole Swedish group. Here he was
ences on the University Campus. sion charge. American scenes by foreign ballet not vocalizing. He seemed to have
The Bureau thus serves its ends" Mr. Callahan has prepared the fol- troupes. tgrasped the relation of the word to
in four ways Professor Riegel con- (A major) by Walther; Chorale Pre- In keeping wi o t his American mo- the music. Perhaps the credit be-
clfudrdwysProfesngsorRee n-ude. tif, the themes of the individual bal- longs to Sibelius and Sjogren, but at
cluded, by providing a reference l hlde by Kellner. lets are built around such elements least Mr. Bjoerling did not impressl
brary for advanced students in the Chorale Prelude by Brahms;of Americana as a., large U.S. city, us (who know not Swedish) as dis-
field, by giving information to busi- Prelude, Fugue and Variation . by the legend of Pocohontas, filling sta- turbing the relation.
ness firms and labor organizations in Franck; Pastel and Chorale (Op. 92, tions and truck drivers and the West However, a charming voice and a
response to their requests, by spon- No. 3) by Karg-Elert; Pierce (Op. 37, during the reign of Billy the Kid. capable range are hardly sufficientf
soring conferences and by issuing No. 3) by Jongen; Apparition de L'- There is, however, a classic train- to compensate for a generally insipid
publications on various aspects of Eglise Eternelle by Messiaen, and ing that all ballet artists must under- selection of 19th century songs, a
go, and this is reflected in one of the wooden stage appearance, almost
three ballets to be presented here. complete musical immaturity, and an
Music for this tradition type of bal- accompanist born with a mission, viz.,
Englishm an's Letter Reveals let, "Air and Variations," is from to counterbalance in the accompani-
Bach and the choreography is by ment the lack of vigor in the voice.
Typical British View Of W ar William Dollar, of the Metropolitan A program of 19th century operatic
Opera Ballet. arias and minor lieder simply cannot
The two essentially American bal- hold its own any longer-not in a
The first few days of the European a gun had been fired. Since then lets to be presented are "Charade, world that has heard the songs of
war as it seemed to an Englishman we have had two other warnings, one or the Debutante," which is centered Stravinsky and Honegger. If only
are vividly pictured in a letter from from 2:45-3:15 a.m. and another around the debut of a girl coming Mr. Bjoerling had broken out into a
aredon. vivdlyp trdin ittefrom 6:45-9 a.m. a.m. Nobody knows out in society in an American town bit of Swedish Swing, much would
London. The letter, dated in the what it's all about. Nobody knows in 1910, and "City Portrait," about l4ave been saved!
early days of the war, gives the view what's happening, life in a metropolis. The program opened with Beethov-
point of the typical Briton on the war. "I tried to join the army the other Tickets for the performance will en's Adelaide, during which the solo-
The letter says in part: day. I spent all day like a vacuum- go on sale Thursday at the League ist was not hea-rd at all due to Mr.
"On the fatal 3 September, Sonia cleaner salesman, but they don't want boxoffice. Mail orders are being Ebert's amazing manipulations with
and I left the house on our Sunday a soul at the moment. Not even a accepted now. the dynamics of the master's ac-
morning excursion to meet her father private. So in desperation I put companiment. The pianist per-
in a pub at Hampstead. We stopped my name down as an ambulance Clements bformed the piano sco're in the "grand
to listen to a radio from an open driver. That was six days ago, so manner" (we understood from ad-
window in the sunny street and heard I don't know yet whether they'll 'Ne we Fr a u nc e' vertisements that that was Mr. Bjoer-
old man Chamberlain pronouncing have me. ling's peculiar attribute) while the
the inevitable words that we are now London is a strange place just Has Long History "soloist" sought to observe some ves-
in a state of war. We boarded our now. By day we are guarded by tige of classical style in his own part.
bus, and after twenty minutes the literally hundreds of captive bal- But it soon became apparent that
sirens started to wail. (Do you re- loons which have their moorings in Entitled "A Shorte and briefe nar- Mr. Bjoerling was going to sing the
member the Martians in Wells' "War the strangest corners. They are sil- ration of the two Navigations and Dis- whole program in one manner. It
of the Worlds" with their ululations? ver and rather stupidly phallic. By coveries to the Northwest parts called was most unfortunate because it gave
Our dear sirens are just what he night the balloons are still there, but p'gE FRAUNE of to his performance the one character-
had in mind.) The driver was a bit we are also muffled in the blackest pages is one of the most interesting istic no audience can abide-monot-
perplexed. He stopped, thought, re- darkness. The business of groping piecents lion ony.
started and stopped again. By this about is giving many people "black=L Chements La nFrom the opening number the same
time the blue sky was torn with out eyes" which are caused through This book was owned by King unhappy disjunction between soloist
the upsadaisy-downsaday howlings, peering about with relaxed eye- George III of England and then pre- and accompanist followed through
and the little creatures with two legs muscles. It is more serious than George IV under very dubious cir- rost of the program. To top it all,
and souls decided to take shelter. We that, however, for the road casualties cumstances in 1826. It is believedr
were more self-conscious than at night are up by about 300 per cent. h cabin 826 Itisfaelid g" wherever possible. In the 19th
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Parkes, Pinney, Reizen, Luxan, Strick-
land, Davis, Loessel, Mason, Gell,
Gibson, Whitney, Fromm, George, C.
Brown, G. Brown, Sorensen, Liima-
tainen, Landis, Haberaecker.
The following men will leave at 4:30
with ' Jack Secrist from the Union:
Tuttle, Hines, Penn, Berger.
Sigma Eta Chi meeting at 5 p.m. on
(Wednesday, Dec. 6, with Mrs. Smith,
1008 Oakland Ave. Review lesson
for he National Exam.
1940 Mechanical Engineers and
Graduates: Mr. F. L. Pierce of the
American Machine and Foundry Co.,
Brooklyn, N.Y., will outline the op-
I portunities with this company at 7
o'clock, Wednesday evening, Dec. 6,
in Room 348 West Engineering, after
f which appointments will be given for
( interviews on the following day.
The AAUW Drama Group will meet
Wednesday evening, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m.
at the home of Mrs. F. W. Ouradnik,
1718 Baldwin.
Hobby House : Working hours :
Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 to 5 p.m.
Saturday, 9-12.
Anyone interested call Jane Brich-
Michigan Dames Bridge group meets
at the League, Wednesday, Dec. 6 at
8 p.m.
Women's Swimming Club meets
Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Union Pool.
International Center: Any students
interested in sharing the expense of
an auto trip to Montreal for the
Christmas holidays, leaving Ann Ar-
or, Dec. 14 and returning Dec. 30,
should call for particulars at the
office of the International Center.
All girls eligible and interested in
ushering for Play Production's "One
Third of A Nation" given.in the Lydia
MVendelssohn Theatre, Dec. 6, 7, 8 and
9, sign up on the lists in the Under-
graduate Offices of the League.
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Miller !Drug. Store
727 N. University
alarmed. We had been called to
join in the business of a war whey,
the war was twenty minutes old,
and our role as rabbits was strange.
Our blood-pressures rose, and our
pulses quickened with the nervous-
ness of young artistes at a first night.
Sonia and I trooped rather coyly
into an apartment house marked
"Air Raid Shelter," and waited for!
the worst. Then Noel Coward came
in. Ahah! I thought. Then the[
whole thing is a dream, and I was'
surprised to find that I wasn't
dressed as Queen Elizabeth or Robert
E. Lee's groom, It was Noel Coward,
though, and after a short time every-
one got bored, came up and waited
for the all clear. It came and not
The other evening Sonia and I were
in a friend's car when we contacted
a stationary car (without lights) at
about 25-30 miles an hour. We were
cut and bruised, so the war has al-
ready claimed a few drops of my
blood.
I am really sorry that I
can't give you any serious news. For
us it is quite difficult to realize that
there is a war on anywhere. For you
it must be almost impossible. I
earnestly hope that the dirty busi-
ness may be mopped up before any-
one in the United States thinks of
joining in. I also hope that we
shan't get to the stage when we have
to ask a farmer to leave his home in
Ohio to come and die in Germany."
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brary and donated it to the British
Museum to save it from the Czar of
Russia, who had offered to buy it.
The shelf mark of the King's Libraryl
may still be seen {in the front of the
book.
Easlick And Jay Will Go
To New York Convention
Dr. Kenneth A. Easlick and Dr.
Phillip Jay, of the dental school, will
attend the 15th annual meeting of
the Greater New York Dental Society
in New York city this week.
More than 10,000 dentists are ex-
pected to attend the five-day con-
ference.
century operatic arias this was some-
aria from Meyerbeer's L'Africana,
what pardonable, particularly in the
where the words have as much rela-
tion to the music as nothing at all.
But for the most part it was inexcus-
able.
vi ilinu uepaumnr,
by Al Mayio, Grad., on i*
itiment . in the last war sicU tua nts
by The Daily files and
tter from Wilbur David-
the Interfraternity Coun-l
ng the attitude of soror-
ternity members toward Recital Toda
nd an answer by Robert
L, president of the ASU,
uded in the first issue of Drawing upon musical literature
enge," Miss Harris stated. new to the campus, 21 students from
he highlights of the first the School of Music will present a
Harris said, is an article, woodwind recital at 8:15 p.m. today
tle Children," by Elliott in the School of Music Auditorium.
0, and Harry Stutz, Grad, The recital by pupils of William
analyze the political, H. Stubbins, instructor of band in-
economic causes for the struments will include six pieces
)spitalization funds for that were written for the Paris Con-
ildren in Michigan. servatory of Music; and will feature
of books, including "The the Bach Violin Concerto No. 1,
ition" by Granville Hicks, transcribed for clarinet and played
Mountain," by Thomas by Arthur Hills, '42.
"In Dubious Battle" by Participating in the program will
'eck will be awarded to the be the University Clarinet Quartet
sells the highest number made up of William Rhoads, '41;
Xiss Harris said. Philip Busche, '41; Richard Worth-
---i-- ngton, '42, and George Roach, '40Ed.
T:lhe Quartet will play David Bery-
)uting Club nets "Clarinet Rhapsody."
Other School of Music students
feet Saturday taking part will be:
Lee Chrisman, '40, flute; Arthur
of the Graduate Outing Hills, '42, John Gajet, oboe; Gene
)ld their last meeting be- Sherry, '42, .and Edward Ostroski,
n at 7:30 p.m. Saturday '42, bassoon, who make up the Uni-
b rooms in the Rack- versity Woodwind Quintet.
ag, Abraham Rosenzweig, Louis Davis, '43, Edwin Kruth, '42,
ident, announced yester- Leonard Ruby, '42, Frederick Eggert,
'42, Justin Gray, '42, Robert Brown,
varied program will be '42Spec, and Thomas Snyder, '42,
its members, Rosenzweig will play clarinet solos.
will go. to the Intramural Accompanying on the piano will
or swimming or other te Janet May Davis, Spec., Frederick
aup will skate at the Coli- Eggert, '42, James Merrill, '42, Mary
those who wish may stay McCall Stubbins, Helen Byrne, '40
rooms to play games. and Gordon Imhoff.
YPSI LANTI NORMAL CHOIR R
Singing Unaccompanied 250 Voices
LREJIRDUK A\LEXANDERl, GiC~fc
CHRISTMAS MU SIC
Nativity Music from Many Lands Old Music - Young Voices
PEASE AUDITORIUM, Ypsilanti No Reserved Seats
Thursday, Dec. 7. 8 1l.m. Sharp Admission 25c
buying something no other cigarette can give
Christmas
for Michigan
Engineers...
The official Senior Class Ring
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