TIlE' MIdIIWAN~ DAItY "i :aJi .tx l".- i.' 'i.,h 1 L ..1 k7 F,' i 3 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 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 'ntitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newpaper. All tghts of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIING BV National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADIeON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO - BosToN * Los ANGELES * SAN FANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 Discourtesy Shown By Concert-goers . AT THE CONCERT given Tuesday evening in Hill Auditorium by Na- than Milstein there was reenacted the same audience discourtesy which has been shown dur- ing every one of the concerts of the Choraln Union Series this year, and, most probably, in other years as well. This was in the matter of leaving early. There are large numbers of people in Ann Arbor who are sincerely interested in music, but there is also a group which seems to feel com- pelled to attend the concerts. It is these last who constantly rush out of the auditorium ei- ther just before the last scheduled number or immediately upon its completion. They know from experience that at least one encore is given by each artist, and they should also have learned that these encores are, more often than not, works of universal appeal and popularity. Yet they persist in leaving before these pieces and thus disrupting the order in the auditorium. T HE QUESTION OF TIME cannot be a part of their argument, for the most part, since, because these concerts are of varying length, one cannot plan to leave at a specified time. Another point they put forward is that they have had enough music when the last scheduled number is over, and that any more is likely to spoil the effect. But the manner in which they hurry away would in itself blot out any impres- sion created by Beethoven or Bach, and thei very statement that they have had enough mu- sic for the time being implies that they have come to the concert because they feel it their- duty to culture or society. It is distracting to a performer to notice that his audience is literally walking out on him, and it annoys those who have applauded for more music when they have to put up with all the commotion accompanying the departure of their neighbors. No rules can be made to cover a situation like this, but certainly a large part of. the audience could employ more courtesy in this respect in regard to an artist's performance.; -Barbara Jenswold r ii Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler . Alvin Sarasohn . Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler . . Milton Orshefsky . Howard A. Goldman Laurence Mascottr. -Donald Wirtchafter. . Esther Osser . Helen Corman , Business Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Managing Editor Editorial Director . . City Editor . Associate Editor . Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor . .Women's Editor . Exchange Editor Staff .f Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: BERNARD DOBER The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Conmmunity Projects And National Defense ... PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has asked Congress to appropriate $225,000,- 000 for the national housing program and $150,- 000,000 for community projects such as the im- provement of streets, roads, water and sewerage systems in needy cities. At first glance it may seem that these are large and unnecessary expenses for a nation in the midst of a costly defense program. How- ever, when it is realized that the proposed proj- ects constitute an extremely integral and im- portant part of defense the sums do not seem excessive. The housing problem alone is enough to give Administration officials a headache. In the last six months over 3,000,000 persons have become transients in search of defense jobs. Some of them manage to find steady employment, while others do not. The latter continue to drift from place to place, barely managing to stay alive. They have erected little communities all over the country which are reminiscent of Califor- nia's Hoovervilles. THE TERRIBLE PART OF IT is that the livin conditions of the persons who do find perma- nent work are not much better than those of the transients, due to the appalling shortage of housing. As Pearson and Allen recently pointed out in their column, 12,000 workers are now liv- ing in Charlestown, Indiana, which formerly had a population of only 1,000. They live in trailers and makeshift dwellings or commute 40 miles over icy roads. The second sum of $150.000,000 for community facilities is also sorely needed as a supplement to the housing program, for houses are not enough. They must be adequately serviced witW' sanitary water and sewerage systems. And there must be improved streets and roads to carry the additional traffic. The reason projects of this nature are so closely linked to the success of the defense pro- gram is obvious. No job can succeed unless the workers are happy and satisfied. Therefore, it is distinctly to our benefit to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the nation's workers through housing and allied programs. As Mr. Roosevelt said, "We must do more to obtain the most effect from new plants, new houses, and, most important, from new workers." IF WE REALLY WANT OUR DEFENSE TO SUCCEED we must necessarily be willing to spend a great deal of money to maintain the desirable mental, moral and physical attitude on the part of our laborers. Mr. R. W. Hudgens, of the Farm Security Administration, stated the case very well when he declared, "We talk a great deal about national defense. We have appropriated several billion dollars for that pur- pose and we probably will have to spend several billion more. We are providing ships, airplanes, guns, munitions-the whole array of war tools. But it is folly to gird ourselves with an impreg- nable coat of armor to shield a weak and falter- ing heart, or weary and worn-out muscles." It is evident, then, that Congress should grant the appropriations which the President has asked for. The legislators, however, should make cer- fain that the mnnev is not wasted. but is utilized Che ew Pedrsos Robert SAlte GQ DEFENSE HEADS are worried lest the U.S. family medicine chest be hard hit by the Med- terranean war. To offset an expected shortage and price rise, they are discussing a plan' to set up an import control similar to the export con- trol now in effect on certain strategic materials. For many years the drug industry has been dependent upon foreign sources for such es- sential items as belladonna, from the Balkans; nux vomica from India; quinine from the cin- chon1e tree grown mainly in Java; opium from poppies grown in Turkey and Jugoslavia, and gum arabic from the acacia tree in the Sudan. Virtually all imported botanical chugs can be grown in the United States, but low pre-war prices made it unprofitable. Now, with shipping facilities daily becoming scarcer and costlier, the U.S. faces a serious shortage of these drugs plus soaring prices and profiteering. AUTHORITIES LEARNED that recently, out of a shipment of 1500 tons of gum arabic- transported by a Greek freighter from Alexand-' ria, Egypt, via the Red Sea, the Pacific and Pana- ma Canal to an Atlantic port--one importer got four-fifths of the stock. The remaining one- fifth was distributed among his competitors. This in effect gave him a corner on gum arabic, as, according to Defense experts, he obtained what amounts to a three years' supply. Under an import control all dealers would be treated alike; also the Government would be able indirectly to keep a lid on price kiting. MEANWHILE the situation has revived inter- . est in domestic production of botanical drugs. Several state universities have begun ex- periments, and Defense experts say that if this is, pursued seriously the country could be made self-sufficient within a year. Synthetics are still another field for replace- ments, but they have not been popular and only dire necessity will make their use general. Wrong Number A CERTAIN CHIC YOUNG Justice Department telephone operator is going to be careful about whom she confides in from now on. The J.D. operators gave a tea and invited the Department officials, among them Attorney Gen- eral Bob Jackson. Very democratic, he approves of these departmental parties and was wander- ing from one group to another when a very pretty miss took him into tow. She began pouring out an account of her duties. One of tem, she relaed, was seeing to it that Ugo Carusi, energetic efecutive assistant of the Attorney General, had his phone calls answered promptly. "He's a very important man," the young lady explained earnestly. "He's the only official in the Department who has a red light over his number on the switchboard, and we have strict orders to drop everything when the light flashes and give Mr. Carusi immediate attention." "He must be important," exclaimed Jackson. "I wonder how one would go about getting that sort of service?" "Oh, you couldn't get it," was the emphatic reply. "Mr. Carusi is very special." They chatted a few more minutes and then as Jackson rose to go his hostess remarked, "Say, you're awfully nice. Who are you?" "The name is Robert Jackson." "Oh dear! The boss!" "Don't worry," said the Attorney General, grinning broadly, "it's all right. I won't tell Mr. Carusi on you." Bulgarian Minister FOR FIVE YEARS, Dimitri Naoumoff has lived in a grey stone house overlooking Rock Creek Park, comfortably mingled in the diplomatic circle, comfortably watched trade grow between} Bulgaria and the United States. Ever since Versailles-and before-the United State has been friendly to the aspirations of Bulgaria. Though she was on the German side in World War I, American delegates at the peace conference opposed carving western Thrace from Bulgaria to give it to Greece. A few years ago American manufacturers in- creased the blending of Turkish tobacco with Virginia, and this meant big exports of Bulgar- ia's Turkish type tobacco. fi This 1s Where He Comes In! ART DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THE INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS of the Uni- versity is sponsoring in the East Gallery of the Rackham Building an exhibition designed to analyze ancient Chinese bronze mirrors and the craft of their making. It has been prepared by Prof. J. M. Plumer, under a faculty research project, with the cooperation of the Fogg Mu- seum of Harvard University and the aid of cer- tain private collectors. The mirrors date from the late Chou dynasty through the T'ang dynasty. roughly from 300 B.C. to 900 A.D. These mirrors represent a special phase of highly developed Chinese craft of bronze casting. They are notable in the brilliance of their tech- nique and the nobility of their form. Chemical research has shown that the formula of the bronze is the same as the one of the modern mirror metal, speculum. By experiment, Chinese craftsmen arrived at a material, over twenty centuries ago, that has taken years of modern research to equal. HERE IS REPRESENTED a tradition of craft, part of which was the ancient notion of the anonymity of the craftsmeni. The workman worked not for his own aggrandizement but to produce fine objects of use. Working thus, in a set tradition, the craftsman may be expected to follow definite patterns of constant form. This form, the-circle, was governed by both functional and ceremonial use. The functional part was that of the economy and inevitability of struc- ture; the symbolic part was to represent religious truth, the circle as the .symbol of celestial light. This combination of two kinds of function is one common in the Orient, and it is shown as in continuous existence throughout nine hun- dred years of mirror making. T HE SHOW IS SEPARATED into two parts to show the tradition of craft, the reappear- ance of typical symbolism from other media, and, with the aid of enlargements and drawings, the character, form, and peculiar idiom of the orna- ment. The part showing this last is the most impressive. Within the severe bounds of the circular symbol and contemporary tradition, the artist displayed great freedom of personal in- vention. He did as he pleased so long as he ful- filled certain basic requirements. This ornament, as seen in these mirrors, shows the great Chinese love for nature and the particular Chinese un- derstanding of it. This is one half of that orna- ment, the other being a superb and limiting sense of abstraction. In combination, these show the use to which design and technique may be put for practical service. In these mirrors one sees that practical use in ancient China was both natural and supernatural. - John Maxon- Reductio Ad Absurdum Fantastic things sometimes happen in Amer- ican politics, but it has remained for the Dela- ware House of Representatives to reach classic perfection. That august body has unanimously adopted a resolution denouncing the state's Attorney-General for enforcing the Sunday blue laws that it has refused to appeal. The House describes his enforcement activities as an at- tempt to "coerce" it. We have tried very long to think of some comment on this act that would be more scorching than a simple report of it, but we give up. -- The New Vnrk Times (Continued from Page 2) Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Summer Jobs: There are available several summer camp positions for doctors, nurses and cooks. If quali- fied and interested, please get in touch with the Bureau of Appoint-{ ments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall, hours 9-12, 2-4. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received notice of the following United States Civil Service Examina- tions: Supervisor of Indian Education in Mural Painting and Fine Arts, $3,800 a year. Assistant Supervisor of Indian Edu- cation in Mural Painting and Fine Arts, $2,300 a year. Applications must be on file with the United States Civil Service Com-' mission at Washington, D.C.. no laterI than March 31, 1941. Complete information is on file at the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Mathematics 350 (b), Short Course: This course on "The Plateau Problem" being given by Professor Beckenbach, will meet on Mondays and Fridays from 3:30 to 5, in 3201 A.H. Exhibitions An exhibition of Currier and Ives prints and of work by Yasuo Kuni- yoshi is open afternoons from 2 to 5 in Alumni Memorial Hall, through today. Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: A collection of drawings in various phases of Design from Pratt Institute in New York, and an exhibition of the last semester's work in Design by students of the College, are being shown in the third floor ex- hibition room, Architecture Building. Open daily 9 to 5, except Sunday, through Mar. 10. The public is in- vited. in the Hill Auditorium. is cordially invited. The public : i Exhibitions: Ceramics and Bronzes from Siam. The Neville Collection. March 5-15, 2-5 p.m., Rackham Academic Notices Bacteriology seminar, Monday, March 10, at 8:00 p.m., Roomn1564 East Medical Building. Subject:1 "Inflammation and Its Application in1 Certain InfectiousdDiseases." All in- terested are invited. Make-up Examination in English 127 for persons who received incom- plete or "X" last semester will be held on Wednesday, March 12, atl 2:30 p.m., in 205 South Wing. German Make-up, Examinations wiii be held on Saturday, March 8, from 9-12 a.m. in room 301 U.H. C -t-. h i 'i The City Editor's ! rhatcA 1210d Make-up final examination Chemistry 3, Section I, will be h Tuesday, March 11, from 2-5n in Room 165 Chemistry Building. for held p.m. Building. Stelae from Kom Abu Billu. From the University's excavation in Egypt. March 5-15, 2-5 p.m., Rackham Building. Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors. March 5-15, 2-5 p.m., Rackham Building. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. C. N. H ,ong, Sterling Professor of Physiolo- ,ical Chemistry, Yale University, will give the following lectures under the auspices of the Department of Bio- ogical Chemistry: Today: "Endocrines and the Con trol of Carbohydrate Metabolism.' 4:15 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. March 8: "Chemistry and Physi- ology of the Adrenal Cortex." 11:00 a.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Dr. George D. Birkhoff, Perkins Professor of Mathe matics, Harvard University, will lec ture on the subject of "Aestheti Measure" under the auspices of th Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters at 4:15 p.m. on Friday March 14, in the Natural Scienc Auditorium. The public is cordiall invited. University Lecture: Dr. Edga Allen, Professor of Anatomy at Yal University School of Medicine, wi lecture on the subject, "The Ovarie and Their Hormones," under thi auspices of the Department of Ana. tomy of the Medical School at 4:1 p.m. on Friday, March 14, in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The lectur is open to the public and membe f the iehin AeahAnm nf Cieni, Events Today All professional students in Public Health are cordially invited to, a Faculty Reception to be held this eve- ning from 8:30-12:00 in the Assem- bly Room of the Rackham Building. Cards and dancing. Alpha Lambda Delta: Luncheon at -12:00 noon today in the League, either in. the Russian Tea Room or in the grill alcove. Bring your dues if -you haven't paid them. Movies of the National Parks in color will be shown at the Interna- tional Center at 7:15 this evening in Room 305, Michigan Union, by Mrs. Preston Slosson. Fellowship of Reconciliation study group will meet to consider Gregg's "Power of Non-Violence" today ,at 3:30 p.m. in Lane Hall. German Play Try-outs: Tryouts for the German play will be held to- day from 2-4:30 p.m. in room 300 South Wing. All students interested are invited. Women's Rifle Club will meet to- day at 4:30 p.m. at the Women's Athletic Building. Attendance com- pulsory. Westminster Student Guild: The class for University students, led by Dr. Lemon, on "The Oldest Life of Jesus" will meet in the Lewis-Vance Parlors this evening, 7:30-8:30, dur- ing Lent. From 8:30 to 12:00 p.m. there will be a recreational program. Refreshments. Students are invited. J Harris Hall: A tea will be held this afternoon from 4:00 to 5:30. Uni- versity students are cordially invited. 0 Wesley Foundation: Bible Class to- night at 7:30 with Dr. Brashares in Room 214. Party with games and dancing at 9:00 p.m. I. The Gamma Delta Student Club of - St. Paul's Lutheran Church will have c a Kid Party tonight at 8 o'clock. All e Lutheran students are invited. i F' THIRTY-FOUR LESS PEOPLE, and Mayor Jeffries would have spoken to an empty hall Wednesday evening. The Michigan Party did a real service in bringing the Detroit executive here, but the student body, as always, doesn't realize it. Jeffries is one of the most respected men in Michigan. As it was, his words rebounded off the Union walls 23 times (estimate) before they settled. Headline of the -week: "Army Secrecy Irks Congress." History Make-up Examinations: The make-up examinations in all history courses will be given exam- inations in all history courses will be given from 3 to 6 p.m. today in Room C, Haven Hall. Students taking a make-up examination must present written permission from the instruc- tor in charge of the course. , Zoology 31 (Evolution): Examina- tion for those absent from the final will be held in Room 3089 N.S. on Tuesday, March 11, beginning 1:00 p.m. Political Science 1: The make-up examination for all sections will be given Saturday, March 8, from 9 to 12 in room 2014 Angell Hall. e y r e ill .s e I- 15 ie re rs c Coming Events- The Angell Hall Observatory will be open to the public from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Saturday, March 8, to observe the moon and the planets, Jupiter and Saturn. Children must be accompanied by adults. German Ta"le for Faculty Members will meet Monday at 12:10' p.m. in the Founders' Room, Michigan Union. Members of all departments inter- ested in German conversation are cordially invited. There will be a hrief tlk nn "Die 7woAlf-Tn Thph.