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By M LTON ORSHEFSKY
(Special to The Daily)
NEW YORK, April 9.-It almost seemed to
this theatre-goer after last night's Broadway
performance of the recently opened stage-ver-
sion of "Native Son" that Producer Orson Welles
had simply pulled another one of his tremendous
artistic hoaxes, this time on the drama critics
of the New York newspapers.
IN HIS STAGING of the Paul Green-Richard
Wright dramatization of the latter's novel
he, aided by an imaginative set-designer, James
Morcom, has uncompromisingly rejected ordin-
ary stage conventions. There are no acts, no
curtain; the ten scenes follow one another con-
nected by the varied sounds of Chicago traffic,
by the fierce roar of the death-furnace in the
Dalton home, by a wisp of piano-playing from
the preceding scene, etc. During those ten
scenes Mr. Welles makes the entire theatre his
directorial province. There are shouts from the
rear of the audience, shots from all over, and
almost as much acti'on in the front rows as on
the stage. In a word, Mr. Welles has exer-
cised his unique dramatic sense exuberantly, but,
for the most part, discriminatingly, and the
result is some of the finest, most original theatre
New York has seen in a very long while.
Because of that-and apparently for little
else-the New York critics have individually
given "Native Son" the only four-star rating on
Broadway, labeled it for every kind of stage
award this year, and pointed to it with almost
relieved pride as an example of what the theatre
is really capable of. But the unfortunate fact
is that the play per se is not a very good play,
and often not even an exciting one. For Mr.
Green and Mr. Wright, in compressing and re-
stating the essentials of the Bigger Thomas story
into dramatic form, have written just so many
incidents. There is the incident of the killing of
the rat in the opening scene, of Bigger's terror-
izing of his pal Gus, of the unintentional murder
of Mary Dalton, etc., but where in the novel
these incidents gained their significance only,
because they were connected as parts of a unity
by a subtle but clear psychology and introspec-
tion, here in the play, even though stated in the
most obvious terms, the relationship between the
incidents is not so clear, and infinitely less
moving.
AND SO the incidents of the play come to
have almost an independent existence: some
are dramatically effective, some are not, but
they do not add up to anything of significance
as an artistic whole. The full psychological
story of a Negro who was at once an individual
of concentrated hate and a symbol of an op-
pressed race has become almost completely a
bare melodramatic treatment of one man's mur-
der in Chicago and the inevitable tracking-down
process. That is why the defense attorney's
plea in social terms, which in the novel had
some point and validity, becomes in the play a
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NIGHT EDITOR: ALVIN DANN
The editorials published in The Michi-
gan Daily are written by members of The
Daily staff and represent the views of the
writers only.
The Fight Must Not End
At The Shore-Line ..-.
THE BRITAIN that would be victori-
ous over the forces of totalitarian-
ism would be in a critical condition. Its state
could be compared to that of a nearly drowned
man, cast up on a beach, but still in danger of
being caught in the tide unless he moves up-
land. If he has heart and determination, he will
climb up to a point where tides will never reach
him, where he will become strong and vigorous.
If the war is won, British democracy will be
in a like situation; either it will stagnate on the
beach in danger of being caught in the tide of
totalitarianism which it fought so hard against,
or it will struggle away from the beach and
buck the steep, tough terrain of building a
better society.
T0TAKE THIS SECOND alternative it will
need a strong heart. Today, in Britain as in
America, the heart of democracy is in the labor
movement. It is to strengthen this heart not
only in Britain but in the United States that is
so urgent. It must be strengthened if national
defense is to be genuinely equated with demo-
cratic defense. -
The actual effect that an intrenched Amerit
can labor movement would have in a world dom-
inated by Hitler is dubious. Its very survival
would be doubtful over a long period: it would
have to confront the death of free movements
throughout the old world; it would have to face.
an ever-declining standard of living as the price
of physical defense; it would be in lasting fear
of both economic and armed aggression; its
future would be only uncertainty.
BUT IN EVENT of British victory the basis for
progress will have been formed. A vigorous
labor movement in this country would be a potent
inspiration to the British and free peoples the
world over, peoples seeking a positive program
after their release from the burden of merely
negative resistance.
George S. Counts, president of the American
Federation of Teachers and professor of educa-
tion at Teachers College,, Columbia University,
has well grasped the situation and has present-
ed a comprehensive plan for American labor
which is broad enough, however, to apply to all
free labor movements.
"The first and most fundamental point in such
a program," he writes, "is the strengthening of
organized labor as a free and independent force
in American society.
"(2) It calls for an increased share by labor
in the shaping of all public policies and particu-
larly all policies pertaining to defense.
"(3) . . . maintenance (and raising) of decent
living standards for all the people.
"(4) The forces of democracy must insist on
the full employment of labor, on the release of
the productive energies of industrial technology,
on the direction of these energies to the im-
provement of the lot of the common man.
"The fifth point in the program is the framing
of a system of taxation deliberately designed to
prevent the further concentration of wealth.
"The maintenance and extension of public
education and all public services constitute a.
sixth point in the program. ,
"(7) . . defense of civil rights and liberties
for all Without the guarantees of free serch
patch-work expression of social values that has
little or no connection with the rest of the play.
It is perhaps not entirely fair to judge the
drama by the novel, but even for those who have
not read the novel, the drama is likely to be dis-
appointing. There may well be an intellectual
awe at Mr. Welles' doings, but it is difficult for
this observer to see how an audience can remain
at the "emotional pitch" the New York critics
wrote about. Pitch implies, above all things, a
certain evenness, and whatever else the play,
"Native Son", is, it is certainly not even.
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WASHINGTON - In interpreting war news
from the Balkans the basic thing - the
amount of advance scored by the Nazis in the
extreme south of Serbia and in Greece - has
come off as planned. Advances in northern Yugo-
salvia, on the other hand, mean nothing.
In fact, the border between northern Yugo-
slavia and Hungary was not even fortified, and
the Yugoslav army always planned to evacuate
that area immediately if its own counter-at-
tack were rolled back. This part of the country
- Croatia and Slovenia - once under the Aus-
tro-Hungarian Empire, consists of broad, roll-
ing plains, among the most fertile in Europe,
and similar to the corn belt of Iowa and Kansas.
IN THIS SECTION, the Yugoslav general staff
did not even build pill boxes; and before the
war started, the bulk of the army was evacuated
south except for a skeleton force to fight a rear-
guard action or stage a lightning raid on Hun-
gary.
But in Serbia proper, which is in the south,
the army worked feverishly to strengthen fort-
ifications along the Bulgarian border. The Greeks
also were extremely active.
CHIEF ALLIED WORRY was that the Greeks
would be forced to fight on two fronts, and
with a much smaller army than the Yugoslavs.
This is the point where the greatest shock
strength of the Nazi army has been thrown - in
an effort to cut through Greece to the south of
the Yugoslav army, thus getting behind it, or
to force the Yugoslavs to withdraw, thus expos-
ing the Greek flank. This has now been done.
Mich To Adriatic . .,
ANOTHER PART of Yugoslavia to watch is
Montenegro and along the Albanian fron-
tier. For years, Serbian officers have been itching
to march as victors down to the Adriatic. Once
in 1915 they marched there defeated. And having
no great love for the Albanians and even less for
the Italians, they are throwing an important part
of the Yugoslav army into Albania.
Note - Yugoslavia, or "Land of the Southern
Slavs," is made up of Serbia Croatia, Slovenia,
Montenegro, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Hercigovina
- where, at Sarajevo, the last war started. All
except Serbia and Montenegro were under the
Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1918.
Montenegro, or "Land of the Black Mountain,"
maintained its own king for centuries, never was
conquered by the Turks. But in 1918 it joined
Yugoslavia, much to the disgust of more inde-
pendent Montenegrins. The language of all is
about the same.
Allis-Chalmers Peace
FOR 19 HOURS last week-end, five members of
the Defense Mediation Board sat with labor
and employers behind closed doors, battling to-
settle the Allis-Chalmers strike.
The conference began Saturday morning in
an atmosphere of undisguised hostility between
company officials and strike leaders. There has
been over 70 days of. labor war, climaxed by
street fighting and tear gas. The outlook for
agreement was anything but bright.
All that day, into the night, again all Sunday
the mediators wrestled with the two groups.
Sunday the elevators shut down, conferees
climbed five flights to resume deliberations. An-
gry shouts occasionally punctuated the proceed-
ings.
Then, suddenly, at 7 p.m. there was a loud
burst of laughter, and 15 minutes later everyone
was beaming. An agreement had been reached.
ACTUALLY the peace accord came about 6:30
p.m., at which time.Eugene Meyer, publisher
of The Washington Post and one of the med-
iators, drafted a resolution commending William
H. Davis, chairman of the mediators, for his
execeptional leadership. Meyer showed the pro-
posal to the company officials and they approved
it. He then put it up to the union men.
"Did the company officers accept the resolu-
tion in toto?" inquired Ed Hall, international
representative of the union.
"Well, practically," said Meyer. "They quib-
bled over one word."
IT WAS THIS STATEMENT that brought the
burst of laughter, in which Allis-Chalmers of-
ficials joined. Both sides recalled that quibbling
over words had characterized most of the, two
days' negotiating.
}dote --- Striking illustration of goodwill after
the agreement occurred when the union nmen had
to charter a ulane from Washington to Mil-
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to call at the office of the School of
Education, 1437 UES, during the week
of April 21, between the hours of 1:30
and 4:30, to take the Teacher Oath
which is a requirement for the cer-
tificate.
Junior and senior premedical stu-
dents in the College of Literature,
Science,. and the Arts are eligible to
compete for the Elizabeth Sargent
Lee Medical History Prize, an award
for the best essay submitted on the
history of medicine. The essays
should be from 3,000 to 5,000 words
in length and must be delivered to
1208 Angell Hall by noon on Thurs-
day, May 1.
Househeads, Dormitories, Sororities
and League Houses: The closing hour
for wonens residences today will be
8:00 pm. Martha Cook dormitory will
close at 7:00 p.m.
To Students Who Have Submitted
Questionnaires for Selective Service:
The Ann Arbor Local Draft Board is
advised by the State Selective Service
Headquarters to recommend that all
students who have submitted ques-
tionnaires arrange for physical exam-
ination with their local draft boards
during the period of the spring re-
cess. Such examination will deter-
mine the question of exemption be-
cause of physical condition. This
examination does not effect any de-
ferment or reclassification which may
be made at any future time. If stu-
dents are not examined by their own
local draft boards, an unnecessary
hardship might be placed upon the
local Ann Arbor board, and delay
and confusion may result.
Charles M. Davis,
Adviser
Library Hours, April 12-19: During
the Spring Recess the General Li-
brary will be open as usual from 7:45
p.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily, with the
following exceptions: the two study
halls, in the building will be open
from 10:00-12:00 a.m. and 2:00-4:00
p.m. Monday to Friday, and 10:00-
12:00 a.m. Saturday, and the Grad-
uate Reading Rooms from 9:00-12:00
a.m. and 1:00-5:00 p.m. Monday to
Friday, and 9:00-12:00 a.m. Saturday.
The hours of opening of the De-
partmental Libraries will also be
10:00-12:00 a.m. and 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Monday to Friday, and 10:00-12:00
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
(The following is a letter from the
Alumni Association of Robert College
in Athens, Greece. Robert College is
the American university in Greece and
is intimately connected with the Uni-
versity of Michigan. Over the years
it has had a significant influence on
the culture of the Near East.
PUBLIC OPINION in Greece is
deeply touched by the sympa~thy
aroused among the American people
for our country at this momentous
hour in her long history. The gener-
ous support which is being given for
our cause is concrete evidence of
American concern for our struggle.
To us, the Greek alumni of Robert
College, that great American educa-
tional institution of the Near East,
this practical expression of interest in
our lives is still another reason for
gratitude.
We are in the midst of a war which
we have done our best to avoid but
which we have resolved to fight with
unrelenting determination to the last
man because we believe that we are
right. Just as our fathers died to
preserve for the world the ideals of
beauty, justice and freedom, so have
we felt that it is our duty now to be
loyal to this heritage and to carry on
the strife against the forces of evil.
THIS IS NOT merely a struggle to
preserve our national independ-
ence, our honor and our human right
to live freely. It is a world-wide cru-
sade against the dark practices of
intolerance and oppression. In this
supreme effort in defence of the
values of the spirit we need your help
You of the academic world are the
ones who are best qualified to en-
lighten public opinion in the United
States of America and guide it to a
full understanding of the righteous-
ness and the vital significance of thi
struggle.
Greece is a small and poor coun-
try which is fighting successfully
against an adversary who is vastly
superior in numbers and in wai
equipment. Every man and womar
in Greece is at this moment doing
his or her share but we know that
the struggle will be long and hard
and that the drain upon our humar
and material resources will be enor-
mous before final victory is won. Thit
war is not ours alone. It is a wai
in which every thinking man and
woman who wants to live freely and
decently inevitably has a share. I
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a.m. Saturday. They will be closed
Saturday afternoons.1
Sunday Service will be discontinued
during this period.
Wm, W. Bishop
Librariant
Staff Positions In the Residence
Halls: Students who are interested
in applying for staff positions in the
Men's and Women's Residence Hallse
for the coming University year will
find application blanks available int
the office of the Director of Resi-i
dence Halls, 205 South Wing. Appli-
cations will be received for Women'sr
Residence Halls assistantships fromf
graduate and professional students,C
juniors and seniors. A limited num-
ber of graduate counselorships and
undergraduate staff assistantships
will probably be open for the comingt
year. Applications will be receivedl
for Men's Residence Halls assistant-
ships from graduate and professionalc
students, and from men who will be
seniors during the coming University2
year.
Present Staff Assistants, AssistantI
Resident Advisers, Resident Coun-
selors, and other student members ofE
the Residence Halls staffs for men
and women should inform their
House Directors or Resident Advisers
at the present time if they wish to be
reappointed to their Residence Halls
staff positions for the University years
1941-42.
Karl Litzenbergs
School of Education Freshmen:
Courses dropped after Saturday,s
April 12, will be recorded with the6
grade of E except under extraordin-
ary circumstances. No course is con-
sidered officially dropped unless it has"
been reported in the office of the
Registrar, Room 4, University Hall.
Prospective Applicants for the Com-
bined Curricula: Students wishing tot
apply for admission to one of the
combined curricula for September,
1941, must fill out applications forc
such admission in Room 1210 Angell
Hall before April 20. As this date
comes during the vacation period,
students should make such applica-
tion before leaving the city.C
Faculty, College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts: Midsemester re-
ports are due Saturday, April 12.
E. A. Walter,
Assistant Deant
Freshmen, College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts: Freshmen
may not drop courses without E
grade after Saturday, April 12. In
administering this rule, students
with less than 24 hours of credit arep
considered freshmen. Exceptions
may be made in extraordinary cir-
cumstances, such as severe or long
continued illness.
E. H. Walter,
Assistant Dean
School of Education, School of
Forestry and Conservation, School{
of Music: Midsemester reports in-
dicating students enrolled in these
units doing unsatisfactory workhin
any unit of the University are due
in the office of the school April 12
at noon. Report blanks for this pur-
pose may be secured from the office
of the school or from.Room 4, Uni-
versity Hall.
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments and Occupational Information
has received notice of the following
United States Civil Service Exam-
inations. Last date for filing appli-
cation is noted in each case:
Principal Engineer, salary $5600,
June 30, 1942.
Senior Engineer, salary $4600, June
30, 1942.
Engineer, salary $3800, June 30,
1942.
Associate Engineer, salary $3200,
June 30, 1942.
Assistant Engineer, salary $2600,
June 30, 1942.
Senior Architect, salary .$4600, May
7, 1941.-
Architect, salary $3800, May 7,1
1941.
Associate Architect, salary $3200,
L May 7, 1941.
Assistant Architect, salary $2600,
May 7, 1941.
Junior Architect, salary $2,000, May
7, 1941.
Complete announcement on file at
the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall.. Office
hours: 9-12 and 2-4.
The Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information has re-
ceived a notice from the California
State Personnel Board at Sacramento
that they have scheduled an exam-
ination for Actuary on April 15th.
This examination is open to non-
residents.' Complete information on
file at the Bureau, 201 Mason Hall.
Office hours: 9-12 and 2-4.
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments and Occupational Informa-
tion has received notice of the fol-
lowing MICHIGAN Civil Service Ex-
amination. Last date for filing appli-
cation is noted in each case:
Social Worker B, salary $105, Apiil
28, 1941.
Tabulating Clerk B, Salary $105,
April 25, 1941.
Tabulating Clerk A2, SalIry $115,
April 25, 1941.
Tabulating Clerk Al, Salary $140,
April 25, 1941.
Tabulating Machines Supervisor I,
Salary $150, April 25, 1941.
Fisheries Research Technician C,
salary $80, April 25, 1941.
Fisheries Research Technician B,
salary $105, April 25, 1941.
Fisheries Research Technician A,
salary $130, April 25,, 1941.
Aquatic Biologist I, salary $150,
April 25, 1941.
Motor Equipment Repairman B,
salary $105, April -25, 1941.
Motor Equipment Repairman A,
salary $130, April 25, 1941.
Barber Inspector A2, salary $115,
April 25, 1941.
Complete announcemjent on file at
the BUREAU OF APPOINTMENTS
AND OCCUPATIONAL INFORMA-
TION, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours:
9-12 and 2-4.
Academic Notices
Sociology 141: Bluebooks for re-
cent quiz in Mr. Landecker's section
can be had at Sociology Office, 115
Haven Hall.
Arthur E. Wood,
Philosophy 140, the History of Aes-
thetics will not meet at 11 a.m. today.
Prof. Parker
Exhibitions
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.
Exhibition: Water color sketches
from the interior decoration studios
of Marshall Field and Company, Chi-
cago. First floor corridor display
cases, Architecture Building. April
4-19.
Lectures
The Alexander Ziwet Lectures-in
Mathematics will be given this year
by Professor Saunders MacLane of
Harvard University on the subject
"Extensions of Groups and Their
Applications," beginning April 21
and extending for' two weeks. The
first lecture will be on Monday,
April 21,' at 4:00 p.m. in 3011 A.TL,
on the topic, "Group Extensions and
Factor Sets."
Notice To Lecture Course Patrons:
The Oratorical Association wishes- to
call attention to the fact that the
ticket issued for the Dr. Beebe lec-
ture is to be used for admittance to
all four of the Julien Bryan illus-
trated lectures. Mr. Bryan will speak
Monday, April 21, on "Argentina";
Tuesday, April 22 "Peru and Chile";
Wednesday, April 23, "Turkey";
Thursday, April 24, "The Siege of
Warsaw." The box office, Hill Audi-
torium, will be open the evening of
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Put Up
Or Shut Up.
Every real thinking Texan and true American
will agree with and applaud Doctor Homer
Rainey for his ringing challenge to the patrio-
teers to "put up" or "shut up." If there be
any such evidence prepare to show it now, or
forever keep 'quiet, and permit those others to
do the speaking who do not have to tear and
rend the character of others in order to prove
their own virtuosity.
Can't we be truly patriotic without attempting
to tear down the character of others? We do
not know anymore of what is in their minds than
they know what is in ours. We should have the
same faith in them that we'd like them to have
in us.
Doctor Ruthven, another great educator,
president of the University of Michigan, told a
group of Michigan alumni two years ago in
Houston, that it was not the students they feared
for, but those outsiders who imagined the things
that the students neither thought nor did. He
further stated that at Ann Arbor they encour-
aged students to study Communism and all the
other isms in order to compare those forms of
government with that of our own, their life and
living conditions with ours. "Indeed we invite
comparison of all other forms of government and
society with ours, so that they may, and will
know how superior ours are compared with all
other forms. We need not fear the result." Dr.
Ruthven went on to say that there was less
hypocrisy, more searching after truth among
college students today, than ever before in the
history of America.
Two thousand years ago Christ had another
name for the patrioteer of his time. He called
him a Pharisee. One who was sanctimonious in
manner and hypocritical in character.
As for us, we choose to believe in the students
at the University of Texas as well as all the
other student bodies of the U.S. and their cour-
ageous leaders so well typified by the challenge
of homer Rainey "To put up" or "shut up." We
hope it is the latter, because we know it cannot
be tne former.
-The Austin Daily Tribune
tion to meet the economic dislocation following
the war."
C(OUNTS HAS LAID OUT a system olf demrio-
cratic defense which is correct in every es-
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