0 THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, APRIL 27,1 941 1"HE MICHIGAN DAILY Washington Merry-Go-Round DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN WASHINGTON - Examination by U.S. ex- perts of the captured Messerschmftt sent here by the British has uncovered one highly signi- ficant fact. The Nazis are now using only one to two hundred pounds of magnesium in the construction of these famous fighter planes. This low Nazi magnesium content is compared 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. 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BURNS The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Dance Orchestras Create Problem .. . 3HE DIFFICULTIES of the music committee of Crease Ball in secur- ing an orchestra for the dance brought up once again the problem of what to do about booking orchestras for University dances. The truth of the matter is that the students are being taken advantage of, and there doesn't seem to be anything they can do about it. The lawyers weren't the first ones this year to be confronted with this problem. It is only a repetition of wht has happened before in con- nection with Panhellenic Ball and Odonto Ball. In short, the music committees cannot secure orchestras for their functions with any assur- ance whatsoever that the bands will make their appearances as contracted. They have to go through the headaches of arranging for one orchestra, then being told that the band won't be able to appear, and having to go through the whole process again. It has reached the point where the music chairman crosses his fingers and holds his breath until he is actually greeting the bandleader on the night of the dance. ALL ARRANGEMENTS for bands are made through the Dean of Students office. The Mike Falk Booking Agency in Detroit handles the University's business because of its con- tracts with Music Corporation of America's held office in New York and its branches in Chicago and Cleveland. through which it can arrange trips for orchestras through the mid-western area. This booking eliminates the expense of our bringing a band out here for a one-night stand by arranging tours of about two weeks duration. The agency, of course, gets a commis- sion for its work, serving not only our interests but those of Wayne University, the University of Detroit and Michigan State College as well. Crease Ball can be used as an example of the situation as it now stands. When the date for the dance was first set at April 4 about a month ago, the Agency announced that it could get Al Kavelin and Everett Hoagland for a total of $800., Both are M.C.A. bands that the Cleveland office was getting from New York. The committee had scarcely agreed to this plan when the New York office said "no" for Kavelin. Hoagland was all right, and they'd offer Louis Prima as a sub- stitute for Kavelin. THE PUBLICITY COMMITTEE was eager to start advertising the dance, so they ac- cepted Prima and the students signed the con- tract, making a down payment of $400. How- ever, the matter was not settled. Before the Cleveland office could sign the contract the New York office again said "No;-no Prima." A wire of confirmation had already been sent to the committee and legally the contract was binding without being signed, but the committee was desperate and could either accept just Hoagland or call the affair off. The lawyers were on the spot ad had to make their minds up fast. Ob- viously it was impossible to call the dance off, so once again they submitted to the will of Music Corporation of America. T IS PLAIN that M.C.A. is using its position to take advantage of college students. They supply bands to hotels and night spots in New York City and will let bands come to college dances provided there isn't a better spot for them there. Of course. if thev find a snot for By DAVID LACHENBRUCH EVERY WEEKDAY AFTERNOON millions of American housewives learn about life. They learn about a new life-a life they've never had. They learn about a glamorous life. They learn how a simple farm girl from South Dakota inar- ries a wealthy and titled nobleman. They learn how it feels to be the wife of a famous matinee idol. They learn what it means to run away with that "other man." All through the courtesy of the Sudsy Soap Company. But it's not life they're listening to-it's an imitation of life-a very cheap, naive imitation. All through the morning and afternoon second- hand thrills are pre-digested for the tired house- wife, who is bored with hubby, bored with the monotony of housework, bored with the gossip of the bridge club, bored with the weekly budget, bored with the Sunday drive in the country. THE SOAP DRAMAS present artificial thrills to give the housewife one more try at a ro- mantic life as she dusts the living room furni- ture. These loud-speaker romances from coast- to-coast invariably represent the exciting, glam- orous lives of those with royalty, riches, fame or unfaithful husbands. Lone Journey, Stepmother, Big Sister, Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories, When A Girl Marries, The Romance of Helen Tren Our Gal Sunday, Life Can Be Beautiful, Woman in White, Right to Happiness, Road to Life, Young Doctor Ma- lone, Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, Linda's First Love, The Editor's Daughter, We the Abbotts, Story of Bess Johnson, Mary Marlin, The O'- Neills. You can hear all of those any day over one station (WJR). Technically, the stories are excruciatingly slow-moving and poorly written. They all fea ture women--and their admirers-and their problems of love, money, fame. Few, if any of these stories, will even stand up next to any true confession magazine story, yet many housewives who wouldn't dream of reading periodical trash listen daily to John's Other Wife as they dust the cobwebs off of hubby's chifferobe. BUT what harm do these second hand thrills do? Well, sociologically they are completely unsound. They do absolutely nothing to acquaint the listener with true life problems. True, they have a definite escape value, but that escape could be supplied by dramatizations of good novels or plays. The cost would not be more, the results would be far better, and it would probably sell soap just as well. These afternoon dramas are little more than opium. At first intelligent housewives are forced to listen to the dramas because there is nothing else on the daytime air. But gradually they get used to the drivel, and the more they hear, the more they want to hear. The results are (1) a lowering of literary taste, (2) false ideas about life and (3) a waste of electricity. And most women don't like the programs at first. They'd rather hear some good jazz or some good serious music or a good theatrical presentation. But the advertisers who make possible The Love of Juliet Jones don't realize that. O it's not really wholly the advertisers' fault. , They have no real way of telling what the public wants. They know that these afternoon dramas, coupled with a few routine lies, a con- test giving away a romantic trip to Bermuda and offers of free cookie cutters will make fami- lies bathe their body odors in Sudsy Soap. Perhaps some day housewives will wake up and demand better programs for their soap money. I think they will. RADIONOTES: Beginning today, all programs change time of presentation in most U.S. cities. Why? Because New York changes to Daylight Time. Thus 120 million yield to the will of seven million New Yorkers .. . A new program (WJR- Thursday night) called City Desk is a MUST NOT for intelligent listeners--mediocre drama- tizations glorifying the romantic idol of a smart, repartee-slinging reporter and his moll . . . The FCC's recent frequency reallocation seems to have been a flop. I dare you to get one station on your dial without hearing six or seven others at the same time. Maybe Frequency Modulation will clear this up . . . Just about the most an- noying thing on the air is that two-minute period of applause after every introduction, speech, good joke or musical number. It is not feasible for the University to sue the corporation, even if such a suit should be suc- cessful-and that is very doubtful. In order to win the suit the students must mitigate dam- ages-that is, prove that the orchestra that has been substituted is not as good as the one that had been promised first. This would obviously be a difficult task. On the side of M.C.A., how- ever, they could sue us for the entire amount promised if we should back down on our promise. Since no legal steps can be taken, the only thing left for us is to apply some kind of pres-, lure through the University.. We spend annually .92a.0o nn hands for nlu r-anrandntrmp rnf to the 400-500 pounds used in similar U.S. planes made of this featherweight metal, one-third lighter than aluminum. Our big bombers use are much as 1,000 pounds of magnesium. The more magnesium used, the lighter the over-all weight of the planes. This is considered evidence that German mag- nesium production is not keeping pace with the Luftwaffe requirements. If it were, the Nazis would certainly be using more magnesium in their planes, because of its extreme lightness and strength. Heavier metals increase the dead weight, reducing the planes lifting power, speed and cruising range, all vital factors in aerial combat. F, AS THE EXPERTS BELIEVE, German mag- nesium production is falng behind war needs, it is highly important. Under the Nazis Germany took the world lead in the output of this stra- tegic meal.t For years the United States lagged behind because of cartel agreements between magnesium and aluminum manufacturers, which kept down production. In 1939, U.S. magnesium production barely totalled 7,000,000 pounds. By 1940, as a result of frantic defense efforts, this was stepped up to 12,500,000 pounds, still far short of Army, Navy and aid-Britain requirements. Large scale output of certain types of aircraft1 is being held up until several new magnesium plants get into operation. OPM plans call for an output of 75,000,000 pounds in 1942. If no hitches develop, the 50,000,000-pound mark may be reached by the end of this year. Nazi Embassy THE TELEPHONE number of the German Em- bassy in Washington is District 4500, often confused with the State Department number, District 4510. Though the State Department has changed its number, they still get calls for one another. The other day the phone rang in the Ger- man Embassy and a woman's voice said: "Is this the State Department?" The Embassy clerk replied, "No, madams that number is Republic 5600." "Oh, dear," said the lady. "I'm in a pay sta- tion and I've already paid my nickel. Could you transfer me?" Dominic Says CHANGES that enter into the desires, purposes and beliefs of the constitution of individuals. according to John Dewey (Liberalism ared Social Action, p.40), are the only ones about which we should be concerned. The external changes in in- stitutions need not cause alarm except as these changes register longings of a constantly growing number of widely scattered persons. Today, changes are taking place in the United States, in Michigan and immediately about us. Which change is real? Is this change or that, issuing from the deep character of persons who say little, think much, have character and move slowly? In such a decade every person should be a member of two or three groups so that he will be able to read the "signs of the times" not mere- ly see words on the surface. Being close to his chapter or friends but also sustaining a vital relation with his church and perhaps enjoying a literary group will illustrate. Or he may be in family warmth, have a club or a recreation unit and also reach far out and participate in some very liberal grouo. By such a method the citizen in time of feverish social change, or a stu- dent -- within a great body where currents are many, values vague and groups inclined to be tense - may hope to come to wise decisions and keep his freedom of thought and action. TWo OF THE three dimensions in religion are significant here. The Christian likes to think of them as defined by the Cross. The one, a perpendicular plane, presents communion with God. It refers to the solitariness of a person, the inner ideal expressed both as gratitude to God and as a prayer, a deep wish or value to be attained. This is exercised apart from the world of action or impulsively felt and used in the stream of action while running a race or performing a complicated experiment. It is between God and me. The second plane is hori- zontal. This is social. If the former or perpen- dicular plane records a love affair between God and me, this second may be said to record the behavior which results. Just as a lover is condi- tioned by and naturally responds according to the beloved, so religiously, this horizontal plane rep- resents an ethical response to the God I wor- ship. N OTHER WORDS, religion is the process by which man, through his worship of the Diety, works out in society all the implications. Or, as is more often the case with youth, religion is the activity of a man who, while living out habit patterns taken on in childhood, learns to see God as the figuration of many ideals. The minister and philosopher hold to the former statement, God first and ethics following. The scientist and the psychologist reverse the order. beginning usually by observing the ethics and later, God. Hence it would seem that he most certainly will be free in his thought and action in our de- cade who maintains a varied series of consistent social relations and finds God a challenging goal, always the acme of all values. Edward W Bakeman SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1941 VOL. LI. No. 145 Publication in the Daily Official Bulletin is ,constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices has received notice of the following Civil Service Examinations. Last date for filing application is May 7, 1941.1 DETROIT CIVIL SERVICE Materials Laboratory Aid, salary $1,560. J in ;ntaSl~n i1 unor anitry Cemis, salary College of Literature, Science, and junior 4jaIarY unemist $1,92ry $1,920. the Arts Departmental Chairmen, Complete information on file at the Graduate Advisors, and Concentra- Bureau, 201 Mason Hall. Office tion Advisors: A meeting of the de- hours: 9-12 and 2-4. partmental chairmen, graduate ad- visors, and concentration advisors in the College of Literature, Science, All senior women living in League and the Arts is being called for Mon- houses and in private homes are ask- day, April 28, at 4:15 p.m. in 1025 ed to call at the Undergraduate Of- Angell Hall, to discuss the procedures fice of the League this week for a which will be necessary for the de- questionnaire to be filled out for Scroll ferment of students under the Selec- Society's survey. The purpose of the tive Service Act after the present survey is to find out the future ad- academic year. Professor L. A. Hop- kins, Chairman of the University Committee on National Defense, will explain the proposed procedures and will answer questions which are raised in the discussion. Sophomores in the College of Liter- ature, Science, and the Arts: Stu- dents who wish to enter the Degree Program for Honors in Liberal Arts in the fall of 1941 must make appli- cation in the office of Assistant Dean L. S. Woodburne, 1208 Angell Hall, by May 1. Phi Eta Sigma: All members who have not as yet received their mem- bership shingles and who were ini- tiated on December 12, 1939; May 13, 1940; or December 15, 1940, please call for them immediately. They may be obtained from Miss Waggoner in Room 2, University Hall. Summer Jobs--Sales: Men who are interested in sales work for the sum- mer are invited by the Fuller Brush Company to a movie to be shown at the Michigan Union May 1st at 4 p.m. Further information may be obtained at the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 201 Mason Hall, hours 9-12, 2-4. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information has received a letter from the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company of South Bend, Indiana that they would like to interview seniors in the schools of Electrical and Mechanical Engin- eering who have majored in power plant, power transmission, etc. Please call Extension 371 or stop in at 201 Mason Hall for appointment. The University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Information LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . The All-Campus Peace Council - all students for peace on the Michi-l gan Campus - have a big job ahead o thr if th-) anil n r.trike dresses of all seniors in order that the University of Michigan Alumni Association can contact them. These blanks are to be returned by Tues- day, May 6, to the Undergraduate Office of the League. Academic iNotices Bacteriology Seminar, Monday, April 28, at 8:00 p.m. in Room 1564 East Medical Building. The subject will be "Measles." All interested -are, invited. Zoology Seminar: Thursday, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Amphitheatre, Rack- ham Building. Reports by Mr. E. C. Sensenig on "The development of the vertebral column on the deer- mouse, Peromyscus manicilatus ru- finus" and Mr. James A. Oliver on "The distribution and relationships of the genus Leptophis." Botanical Seminar will meet Wed- nesday, April 30, at 4:30 p.m. in Room. 2083 N.S. Bldg. Paper by Carl D. La Rue on "Investigations on the possi- bilities of rubber culture in South America and in Central America." Doctoral Examination for Miss Mir- iam Rose Bonner, Psychology; The- sis "Changes in the Speech Pattern under Emotional Tension," Tuesday, April 29, at 4:00 p.m., in 2129 Natural. Science Bldg. Chairman, W. B. Pills- bury. By action of the Executive Board the chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doc- toral candidates to attend the ex- amination and he may grant permis- sion to those who for sufficient rea- son might wish to be present. C. S. Yoakum Concerts Carillon Recital: Percival Price, University Carillonneur, will present a carillon recital from 7:15 to 8:00 tonight, April 27, in the Burton Me- morial Tower. Featured on the pro- gram will be Prof. Price's own com- position, "Second Rhapsody for Two Carillonneurs," in which he will be assisted by Mr. John Challis, from Ypsilanti. Also included will be a group of French folk songs, and com- positions by Couperin and Holst. some Behavior in Relation to the Origin of Species" (illustrated) under the auspices of the Department of Botany at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, in the Natural Science Audi- torium. The public is cordially in- vited. Alexander Ziwet Lectures in Math- ematics; The fourth lecture in this series will be given by Professor Mac- Lane on Monday at 4:00 p.m., in 3011 A.H., on the subject, "Extensions of Unit Groups." The Work of the Census Bureau, Illustrated, Dr. C. L. 'Dedrik, of the Bureau of the Census, will deliver an illustrated lecture on the procedures employed by that agency in the collection, coding, and tabulation of statistics. Dr. Dedrick is Chief Sta- tistician in chiarge of the Division of Statistical Research, Bureau of the Census. The lecture will be given in Room D, Haven Hall, at 4:00 p.m, Monlay, April 28. All interested ndi- viduals are invited. Events Today The International Center: This eve- ning at 7:30 Mr. William Strickland of the American Automobile Associ- ation (AAA) will speak in the Center on some attractive, inexpensive mo- tor trips for the summer vacation. This talk is in the series with others on travel information for foreign stu- dents. All women interested in living in a cooperative next semester please come to 328 East Huron today at 1:45 p.m. There will be interviewing by the per- sonnel committee. Graduate Outing Club: Regular meeting at 2:30 this afternoon in the Outing Club Room of the Rackhajn Building. (use northwest rear en- trance. Any graduate student who is interested is invited. Final plans will be made for an overnight out- ing May 3-4. All expecting to go, bring fee for reservation. The ]ilgrim Fellowship of the Ann Arbor Congregational Church will be host to the Congregational students of Ypsilanti at the First Congregational Church, Ann Arbor tonight at 7:00 p.m. The speaker will be Miss Esther Ewell from the State office, East Lan- sing. Ann Arbor Friends: Study Group will meet today at 3:30 p.m. in Lane Hall, to continue the discussion of the bases of Quakerism. Lutheran Student Association: The a cappella choir will meet for re- hearsal today at 4:00 p.m. in the Zion Parish Hall. The Lutheran Student Foundation will hold its an- nual business meeting and banquet in the Zion Parish Hall Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Rev. Paul Krauss from Fort Wayne,'Ind., will be the prin- cipal speaker for the evening. All interested are invited. Coming Events The Romance Languages Journal Club will meet in the West Confer- ence Room of the Rackham Building, on Tuesday, April 29, fat 4:15 p.m. Katherine N. Balint will review Mor- ris Bishop's new book, Ronsard: Prince of Poets, and Dr. A. Herman will read a paper entitled, "Literary Facts and the Elementary Language Student". All interested are cordially invited. Varsity Glee Club will have no re- hearsal today. Meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Union for the Rotary dinner concert.; Formal dress will be required. There will be a short meet- ing on Thursday, May 1, and election of officers will bb held May 8. Both of these meetings will be in the Union at 7:30 p.m. al memn i ne annual peace.srme on May 1st, only four days away, is Student Graduation Recital: Grace to be a success. For that reason, the Wilson, Mezzo-Soprano, will present Council has called a public meeting a recital at 8:30 p.m. Monday, April for this Monday, 8 p.m.. at the Unio.9 28, in the Rackham Assembly Hall.E to insure that the demonstration this The program, in partial fulfillmentt year, of all years, will be effective. of the requirements for the Master of3 THE STRIKE this year is no dress Music degree, will be open to the gen-J rehearsal. In only one of the eral public. Miss Wilson will be ac-l many official statements Secretary companied by William Schottstaedt, of Navy Knox has said: "This is our '41SM. fight." The administration's philo-T sophy is no longer "steps short of Student Graduation Recital: A pi- war," for the latest proposal is the ano recital will be given by Barbara open use of. convoys, and, as Presi- Cahoon, GradSM, at 8:30 p.m., on dent Roosevelt has declared. "Con- Thursday, May 1, in the Rackham voys mean shooting and shooting Assembly Hall. The recital will be means war." complimentary to the general pub- There is one remaining obstacle lie, and is in partial fulfillment of to total involvement: the steadfast the requirements for the Master of desire-of the American people to re- Music degree. main at peace, inarticulate and unor- ganized as they may be. But they cannot remain inarticulate and un- organized if they are, to resist the 4 increasing pressure of the pro-war fprces. Reaizing their responsibility in crystalizing anti-war sentiment on the campus, two hundred thousand students throughout the country struck for peace on April 23. THIS YEAR more than ever before Michigan students must unite on a common program for peace - a program not only expressing their opposition to convoys, a second A.E.F. and the curtailment of democracy in America, but also defending demo-i cratic, cultural education on the Uni- versity of Michigan campus. The lecture by Senator Wheeler next Friday evening cannot take the place of a peace strike this year. It eliminates student participation, foi' there will be no student speaker, nor the presentation of any program adopted by students as a basis for united peace activity on the campus. Our peace action this year must be the strike called by the All-Campus Peace Council on May 1st at 11 o'clock. A successful strike requires the active participation of all students convinced of the necessity for peace. With America on the bring of war, Lectures University Lecture: Professor Ralph E. Cleland, Chairman of the Depart- ment of Botany, Indiana University, will lecture on the subject, "Chromo- ' The Student Branch of the will hold the annual election ficers on Wednesday, April (Continued on Page 7) ASME of of- 30,