roU t THE MICHIGAN' DAILY THURSDAY, APRI 3 1941 ..._____________________ .. -- _ . . - - U . . _ .w ... , a.... .....7 .. ..v.....,, ::y am'a:.eb lIE MICHIGAN DAILY i - -I 11 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 newpaper. All tights 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 ADVERT3ING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADisoN AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON * LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Fember, Associated Collegiate Editorial Staff Heri e Haufler . . Alvin Sarasohri Paul M. Chandler . Karl Kessler . . Milton Orshef sky . Howard A. Goldman. Laurence Mascott . . . Donald Wirtchafter . . . . Esther Osser . . Helen Corman . Business Staff Business Manager . Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager Press, 1940-41 Managing Editor Editorial Director . City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor . Sports Editor .Women's Editor Exchange Editor Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack *Jane Krause DRAMA Play Production Finale. . .In Re 'The Corn Is Green' . "REMEMBER THE DAY": a play by Philo Higley SOME TIME AGO (on Jan. 12), this column, and Philip Dunning, in seven scenes; directed by Frederic O. Crandall; Scenery by Vincent Jukes; given over momentarily to selected reviews costumes by Emma Hirsch. of "The Theatre In New York", carried one dis- senting vote against Emlyn Williams' "The THE CAST: Peter Antonelli, Ollierae Bilby, Elaine CnrnGreenada m ynhichlhams'e"Then Alpert, William Stegath, Harvey Willens, Joseph Corn Is Green." a drama which has been playing Lynn, Marion Chown, William Kinzer, Sheldon to a packed National Theater on Broadway Finkelstein, Natalie Schurman, Gwendolyn Law- since November. With vacation only a little more head, Charles Leavay, Thomas Armstrong, Marion than a week off, and Easterners already turn- Conde, Dorothy Hadley, Lee Perry, Carol Freeman, .ingtheir thoughts to the theatre, it is only Ruth Seager, Margaret Wiseman, Jack Mitchell. Merle Webb, Claire Cook, Margaret Cotton, Jeff just to all people concerned that the other side Solomon, Lynn Walton, Chet Bowling, Martha Ann of the story be presented. Good, Sally Platt, Helene Herzfield, Jim Bob Ste- The dissenting review took particular issue phenson, Gultekin Aga-Oglu. with Ethel Barrymore in the production's lead- By MILTON ORSHEFSKY ing role, and uttered some sharp derogations For the finale of its 1940-1941 season Play with which this observer can not agree. For Miss Production is dipping deeply and lingeringly in- Barrymore is playing a part that is admirably to the nostalgia of Philo Higley's and Philip suited to her special talents. She is represent- Dunning's ancient Broadway success, "Remem- ing a clear-sighted school-teacher with a vision ber the Day." in her heart: a dream that young Welsh miners As the program claims, in what is perhaps a can be educated out of their economic and saddening understatement, this is the story of spiritual misery. Her special charge is a young "a long time ago." For background there is the lad with -peculiar literary talents that she feels 12-desk schoolroom, with a titled Lincoln and must be developed to the point where he can win a patient Washington looking down from the a scholarship to Oxford. The play is concerned wall, along with the clock that always says a with the successes and, set-backs before the quarter to four, and the over-stuffed living pair's ultimate victory. room of a presumably typical Middle-Western AS STORY MATERIAL, this is obviously suburb of the late '90's. Into that background not much, and there is always the danger are fitted more or less unobtrusively the hopes that it mighf drift into the maudlin. That is and fears, the petty gossip, the intrigues - in a where Miss Barrymore takes over with poise and word, the flesh and blood, however diluted, of a sure skill. In only one scene can the play be existence within the limiting frame of a quiet said to bog down into an annoying sentimental- town. ity - the over-long "seduction" scene in Actt Play Production does a generally adequate job II where a moronic girl succeeds in winning of fitting. Ollierae Bilby is a gifted actress, and over the momentarily rebellious student - and a charming teacher for whom it was undoubted- significantly, that is one of the few scenes ly a pleasure to pay after-school penance. Dor- in which Miss Barrymore has no part. When othy Hadley, as the fussy, quietly self-sufficient she is on the stage there is warmth and an mother, turns in a professional performance, uncommon emotional interest, especially in the and is complemented ably by. Jack Mitchell in tense scene where teacher meets pupil for the a brief bit as her gently bewildered husband. first time. Joseph Lynn is at least an exuberant, if often a too full-lunged, boy around whose pleasantly BUT TO SINLE OUT Miss Barrymore for sentimental relationship with the school-teacher special praise is to obscure the fact that this the maim- action revolves. Sheldon Finkelstein is an incredibly moving play. Mr. Williams does a convincing role as the lad who can't get writes a vibrant prose in the Welsh idiom, and out of the seventh grade and with good reason. Producer Shumlin has made sure that his actors The list, with more space, might properly be have a feeling and understanding for it. There extended. is not a mediocre performance in the entire It remains only to* point out that the play; drama with Richard Waring as the student, obviously, is slight stuff. But last night's audi- and Rosalind Ivan and Thelma Schnee as moth- ence was apparently willing to remember the er and moronic daughter, particularly effective. day with sporadic laughs and chuckles of un. In short, "The Corn Is Green" is a play with derstanding, and at the very least, there was an point and sincerity, staged, directed and acted indulgent smile. That is probably the way it in such a way as to make it one of the finest will be - and ought to be -- for the rest of things the New York theatre has to offer. the four-dad run.-I-M. O- Letters To The Editor The Reply Chturlsh By TOUCHSTONE W ATCH what Harold Gray does with the newly born Ford strike in Little Orphan Annie. Daddy War- bucks is due for a lot of grief from1 those fuzzy headed labor racketeers,J who are not, incidentally called labort racketeers any more because once upon a time Harold Gray got himself into some sort of trouble with his obvious leanings toward a fascistict scorn and frenzy against labor. Why that comic strip was not publicly burned long ago is more than Harold Gray must know, and indeed were' Daddy Warbucks to have control of things for awhile, all comic strips as obviously intended to influence the thinking public which reads the com- ic strips, would be done away with. That the youth of the nation has not yet seen things the way Mr. Gray would like them to is- not the faults of Daddy Warbucks or his super- natural aides. Daddy, with the dia- mond stick pin gleaming from the boiled shirt he wears with his tuxedo at all hours of the day or night, has been had in so many different ways of scheming crooks who agitate that he was pretty near out of the pic- ture until National Defense brought him back for last bats. And Annie, that wise little tyke, has carried on in his absence with pathos and bathos and little children (not her own), with all the tools of a stupid and pompous brain aiding her in her fight for reason and rule by the comic strip. There are other comic strips (where did that name originate?) which have approached the sticky, distorted mush of the Orphan Annie non-political episodes. Little Annie Rooney is a try, just to mention one. But no other hack has dared what Harold Gray has dared, for indeed Bund members have been spoken sharply to for far less than what poor old Daddy Warbucks has' been saying these many years. In a way, Harold Gray comes pretty close to reality sometimes. But whenever he does, Mr. Asp polishes off what- ever is wrong, or the big Oriental with the turban (fill in name here) waves a cloak over the offenders, and pouf! there you are. And Mr: Gray's ap- proaches to that reality, few they are, are always of a rather brutal na- ture, such as blowing up a few boys, or just maiming them for life, be- cause they deserve it, because they are Interfering with Production, be- cause they are Bushy Headed. Such indeed come close to home, but any resemblance to living persons or Har- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN t (Continued from Page 2) the Graduate School are urged to attend the meeting. College of Architecture: Midsemes- ter reports indicating students ei- rolled in the College of Architecture doing unsatisfactory work in any unit of the University are due in Room 207 Architecture on April, 10. Report blanks for this purpose may be se- cured from the office of the College or from Room 4, University Hall. To the Householders: Many of the students will remain in Ann Arbor over the spring vacation. If you need student help for your spring house- cleaning, yard or garden work, call Miss Elizabeth A. Smith, University 4121, Ext. 2121, Student Employment Bureau. The student rate of pay is 40 cents an hour. May Festival Tickets: The Univer- sity Musical Society announces that owing to the excessive number of orders already received for MaysFest- ival tickets, it is obliged to respect- fully declip'e to accept further orders for season tickets in the $7.00 and $8.00 divisions; and for individual concerts in the $2.00 or $2.50 divi- sions. ,Y Orders for $6.00 season tickets and for individual concert tickets at $1.00 and $1.50 wil continue to be accepted for the time being. Men's Residence Halls: Present oc- ^upants of the Men's Residence Halls may secure reapplication forms for the year 1941-42 from their House Directors. As soonbas atform is com- pleted, it should be returned to the House Director, and it should be in her hands by April 25. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information 1 has received notice from The Penn- sylvania State College that several graduate assistantships are available for the academic year 1941-42. Appli- cants must have completed a four- year curriculum in horie economics. Complete information on file at the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4. Academic Notices Zoology Seminar tonight at 7:30 in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Re- ports by: Miss Winifred S. White on "The environmental conditions af- fecting the genetic mechanism of NIGHT EDITOR: A. P. BLAUSTEIN The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. hibition Room, Architecture Building, through April 9, 9:00 a.m. to5:00 p.m. Exhibition: John James Clarkson- Oils, Water Colors and Drawings. Ex- hibition Galleries of the Rackham School, March 28-April 26. Daily (ex- cept Sundays) including evenings. Auspices: Ann Arbor Art Association and Institute of Fine Arts, University of Michigan. Lectures University Lecture: Harry D. Tie- mann, physicist at the Forest Pro- ducts Laboratory, U. S. Forest Serv- ice, Madison, Wisconsin, will give an illustrated talk on "Significance of Research on Wood" at 4:15 p.m. today in the amphitheatre of the Rackham Building, under the aus- pices of the School of Forestry and Conservation. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: William S. Cul- bertson, former ambassador to Chile, will lecture on "Political and Econom- ic Aspects of Hemisphere Defense' at 4:15 p.m. on Friday, April 4, in the amphitheatre of the Rackham Build- ing, under the auspices of the Uni- versity Committee on Defense Issues. The public is cordially invited. Lecture: Professor Harold E. We-' they, Chairman of the Deparment of Fine Arts, will give an illustrated talk on "Spanish Painting" today at 4:15 p.m. in Room D, Alumni Memo- rial Hall, for members of the group who are planning to visit the exhibi- tion of Spanish painting at the Toledo Museum of Art on Saturday. Lecture: Dr. Harry F. Ward will speak in the Natural Science Audi- torium on Fri., April 4, at 4:00 p.m., on "The Dean of Canterbury's Soviet Power." Sponsored by the Karl Marx Society. Events Today Captain W. M. Estes, U. S. Army, will be at R.O.T.C. Headquarters to- day to interview students interested in becoming Flying Cadets. Appli- cations will also be taken for those students interested in non-flying training. This is the last day Cap- tain Estes will be in Ann Arbor. Graduate History Club meeting to- night at 8:00 p.m. inthe East Confer- ence Room of the Rackham Building. The subject discussed will be "Out- standing Men of, the Department of History of the University of Michigan and their contributions to historical scholarship." Rrefreshments. University Glee Club Concert: The University Men's Glee Club, David Mattern, conductor, will present their annual Spring concert at 8:15 to- night in Hill Auditorium. The pro- gram will be complimentary to the general public. All campus organizations are in- vited to send delegates to a meeting of the Student Senate Spring Parley Committee at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Union, Room 323. All organi- zations are invited to propose names of both faculty and students who would be willing to serve on the panel session of the Parley. April 25 and 26. Stewart Beach will be at the Hop- wood Room for tea this afternoon. Students in writing courses are invit- od to meet him. Central Committee of J.G.P. will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Council Room of the League. Michigan Dames: Art Group will meet at the home of Kathleen Ward (Mrs. C. D.), 1601 Westminster Place at 8:00 tonight. The Interior Decorating Group of the Faculty Women's Club will have their final meeting of the year at 3:00 p.m. today at the League. Mrs. John B. Waite will talk on "Beautiful Accessories." K) Trade Unionism Faces Greatest Test THE THING they were afraid of, the thing they knew had to come, fin- ally happened early yesterday morning, and the worst part of the whole business is that it came at the wrong time. Ever since the CIO was born at the Tampa Convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor in 1935 and began organizing the great masses of industrial workers, it was rea- lized that one day a showdown would have to . come between the apostles of the new kind of trade unionism and the arch-individualist - Henry Ford. Since 1935 and, more exactly, since 1937, the CIO has gone about the terrific job of organizing all the little workers on an industrial basis. Taking over where the senile AFL had not bothered to go, the CIO brought the idea of unionism to all the workers of the industrial system, not only to the more or less aristocratic members of the crafts. Since 1937 the CIO has slowly unionized big industry. It went through a period of hardship where public opinion, en- couraged both by the newspapers and an old and outworn philosophy of mistaken individual- ism, made the going almost impossibly rough. But, slowly, most of the great industrial giants. were unionized. The cries of socialism, radical- ism, Communism, un-Americanism and alien agi- tation were thrust about; the unions had to fight down great odds. It was a big job to struggle against such odds - for it was said that the way of the CIO was not the "American way." A fine and good governor of the state of Michi- gan was beaten for reelection because he hadn't been "American," because he hadn't ousted sit- down strikers by force from the plants of his state. THAT FIGHT for unionization was greatest in this state, because here are situated all the great automobile plants - almost virgin soil for the planting of the new philosophy that the little workers have a right to organize and bargain collectively for higher wages. shorter hours, and better working conditions. Through four years the CIO has worked to organize'the workers of the great automobile industry - now the life- giver of the nation --- and it has done its job almost completely. It-has changed the philoso- phy of America, until now it is no longer "un- respectable" to be a unionist. It has solidly or- ganized the industry until now even the great managers of production do not oppose union- ism. It has come of age. It is a part of America. But all through these years Ford has managed to maintain an open shop and to resist the spread of union activity in his plant. He has stood on the rights of the individual employer to run "his plant in the way he wants to run it, and no union organizer is going to tell him what to do." This is the time-honored attitude of Ford, and it is the attitude that is so admired by the rugged individualists of another day who are still with us and refuse to see that, in spite of the fact that individualists did yeoman work in building, up the great America, times do change, condi- tions change, and methods must change. THE PRINCIPLE of unionism has been accept- ed by the other great automobile companies, ry Bennett is purely coincidental. wing production in the chrysanthe- And as I say, watch your local Or-. mum aphid," and Mr. R. Dean Schick phan Annie for further develop- ments. i i on "Changes in the vagina of the white mouse during pregnancy and their simulation." Daily Art Columns To the Editor: The drastic criticism of the paintings of John James Clarkson which appeared in your "Art" column of March 29th has come as a shock to many. Some have rightly felt that its apparent bias was unsportsmanlike. In investigation it appears that editorial shears completely altered the character of a brilliant and honest, if un- favorable, review. In fairness to the artist, the author of the article, and the outraged public, I hope you can see your way to printing the original last paragraph which I append. - James Marshall Plumer, Lecturer on Far Eastern Art ,*: *k *: Paragraph omitted from the "Art" Column of Saturday, March 29, 1941: There are one or two compositions with in- trinsic interest, notably the two concert pictures. But one finds the most pleasure-indeed, a quite considerable amount-in the drawings. There Mr. Clarkson's intuition for form and composi- tion is expressed without hindrance from the paint pot. There is to be seen the easiest ex- pressed joining of his .emotion and intellect. And, withal, one must, no matter how one feels about many of the results, hail the painter for as one of a homogeneous many, he can make sure that he will make enough money under decent working conditions so that he may maintain himself and his family in an American manner. THIS IS AND MUST BE the standard of mod- ern America, and, in the automobile industry, it has come to be a reality: now Ford must face it, for it is the way of the present and of the future. There are' those who may argue that Ford out of his own benevolence, gave the work- ers a good wage. But the fact that his wage scale for unskilled men is 10 cents below the industry average and that peaceful conditions in his plants are maintainable only through the establishment of a Gestapo-like "service system" refutes the claim that a majority of Ford's workers are well taken care of. And, even if they are, the most important point must still be made - that workers in a democracy have the right to bar-' gain collectively. It is law: it has come in the last few years to be regarded as a right, and to deny it is to deny progress. The sad part is that the drive to organize Ford reached a crisis during the current national de- fense furor, and, so, the union must brave the wrath of a country which claims to. see an un- patriotic plot to sabotage defense efforts. It can only be said that the unionization of Ford is .. his uninhibited experiments and his admirable willingness to search. Note: Not "editoral shears" but 2 o'clock in the morning, an approaching deadline, and a column that ran just a little too 'long and had 'to be chopped fast-these are the reasons for the appar- ent "misunderstanding. We're sorry. - The Editors. hbe Ore Peceo eod 9 Robert S.Ane - " UNCENSORED U.S. reports from both Italy and France reveal the amazing fact that the United States is more popular with the Italians than with the French. Our friendship with France is deep-rooted, extends from Lafayette to Pershing, was fur- thered by a hand-picked friend of Roosevelt's as Ambassador, plus two cargoes of food. But the United States has never been more disliked by the French. In fact, France today is more pro-Axis than Italy. There are several reasons for this. The French are a proud people. Their army was acclaimed the best in the World, supposedly un- beatable. And when it crumbled over-night, the French expected that the British, with almost no army, could not last a week. UT almost one year has passed since the fall of France, and the British are still fighting. Result: French leaders have had to give ex- planations to justify themselves. Their two chief excuses are (1) the British pulled their airplanes away from the French army; (2) the United States refused to supply the French with air- planes though now giving them to the British. Real fact was that the United States provided France with far more planes than we did the British (some still being at Martinique). It is true, of course, that the British did withdraw their planes at the end, but only after Churchill had definite information that French leaders in- tended to surrender. Net result: the French are bitter against both the United States and Britain; many would wel- come a German victory. Add to the above, what I be- lieve to be a new note for the Par- ent-Teacher associations. After you people get through with the cereal serials, go to work on the funny papers. You will perhaps have more to say about what goes into your newspapers than you have on what comes out of your loudspeakers. CONSIDERABLE FUSS (for nine days as of March 29 when story was released) over the column writ- ten by Marjorie Myers for the Ober- lin Review, in which the young lady advocated striking out the "forsak- ing all others, keep ye only unto her" clause from the marriage ceremony. The Free Press picked the matter up and editorially said the young lady should be spanked, and the staff of the paper too, and then hung out to dry. Which poses an interesting problem, namely whether the metro- politan newspapers and press ser- vices which take up these purely lo- cal scandals and flash them to an avidly prurient public the nation over, are not just a little bit wetter behind their editorial ears than the kids and indignant local big wigs who furnish the material. In both the Detroit News and the Free Press, the story got page one play on Sunday, if you know what I mean. About the rights or wrongs of what Miss Myers appears to have said, I have no comment other than to point out the slight matter of the power exerted by deans of women, and the unwisdom of writing what- ever comes into your head, even if you believe it. until at least you have reached a position to do so with im- punity. Which status, as she will re- member and regret every night at seven fifteen as she cuddles up in her dormitory with a good book, Miss Myers had not reached when she wrote her column. On the other hand, no matter how unwise she was to write frankly wlat she felt about marriage, Miss Myers did no) write a filthy article, and neither she nor the staff of the paper at Oberlin deserves the letter written by Father O'Laughlin in which he said that "the teen-age sages responsiblefor writing or publishing such unadulter- atet filth furnish conclusive proof themselves of their moronic and sa- distic tendencies." If the Father and people like him would come down off that high horse, maybe the kids might explain or modify a little. Such I Red Cross Water Safety Refresher Course for Instructors starts Sunday, April 6, 1:00 to 2:30 P.M. Course for appointment of new Water Safety Instructors starts same day, 2:30 to 5:30 P.M. Both courses are for men and women. Harold Baker, National Red Cross Representative, will be the instructor. Classes will be held at the Intramural Pool. Required Physical Education for Women: Registration for required work for outdoor season: Barbour Gymnasium-Friday, Ap- ril 4, 8:30 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 5:00: Saturday, April 5, 8:30 to 12:00. Indoor season continues through Tuesday, April 8; outdoor season be- gins Wednesday, April 9. Upperclass students electing physi- cal education classes: Register in Office 15, Barbour Gymnasium-Monday, April 7, 8:30 to 12:00 and 1:30 to 4:30. Additional classes for electives will be offered as follows: Elementary Tennis-Friday 3:20. 3:20., Intermediate Tennis--Friday at 3:20. Archery-Friday 3:20. Elementary Riding-Friday 3:20. Exhibitions Exhibit: Defense Housing, arranged by the Central Housing Commission, Washington, D.C.; third floor Ex- RADIOSPOTLIGHT WJR CKLW WWJ WXYZ 760 KC . CBS 800 KC - Mutual 950 KC - ,NBC Red 1270 KC - NBC Blue Thursday Evening 6:00 News Ty. Tyson Rollin' Bud Shaver 6:15 Liberty's Story Newscast; Tune Home Rhumba Rhythms 6:30 Inside of Sports Frazier Hunt Conga Day in Review 6:45 Musical Lowell Thomas Time Waltz Serenade 7:00 Amos 'n Andy Fred Waring Happy Joe Easy Aces 7:15 Lanny Ross Revue; Melodies Val Clare Mr. Keen-Tracer 7:30 Vox Xavier Cugat Mixture Melodies Intermezzo 7:45 Pop Presents Interlude; News Jas. 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