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T H E MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1941
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Glenn Miller's
Band To Play
At Senior Ball
Annual Event Will Feature
Favorite Bandleader
For Second Time
Glenn Miller, recently voted fav-
orite bandleader of college students,
for a second year, will play at the
Senior Ball, which will be held from
10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday, June 20, in
the Intramural Building.
Louis Wirth
To Talk
Jere
Faculty, Students Voice Disapproval
OfPublicationsBoard'Packing'Plan.
Selective Service System Council
Will Allow Deferment Period
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In a survey of dance bands taken
in 171 colleges, including the Univer-
sity of Michigan, Miller carried off
first place for the second successiver
year, which is the first time for anyt
one band to hold this distinction.
His metoric rise to fame from some-
where beneath the first ten bands
where he was two years ago, is one of
the greatest skyrockets on record.l
Where most bands hit a catch-1
style or fad that takes the country
by storm for a few ionths, Miller'st
distinctive color combinations and or-
chestrations remain consistent favor-
ites, because they are based on sound
musicianship and adherence to publicf
demands.
Three Novelty Vocalists
Singing with the band will be Ray
Eberle, Paula Kelly and "Tex" Be-
neke, who carries novelty vocals;
Miller's "Modernaires" will also ap-
pear with the band.
Miller played last June at the Senior
Ball, and was enthusiastically re-
ceivedaby the students.. His return
shows that Michigan seniors are in
step with the nation's taste in bands.
According to musical authorities, it
is Miller's straightforward simplicity
and precise tonal qualities which keep
him in this place of nation's Num-
ber One band.
The outgoing class of '41 plans to
give this year's dance a new attrac-
tion in the form of an outdoor dance
floor, which will be constructed be-
hind the Intramural Building. The
regular indoor dance floor will be
the main ballroom, while the out-
door floor, which will be approxi-
mately 40 feet by 80 feet, will be
used by the League during the sum-
mer sesion for its week-end dances.
Tickets To Go On Sale
Tickets' for the dance will go on
sale next week, according to Bill
Elmer, who is publicity chairman of
the dance. The price and date of the
ticket sale will be announced later.
For previews of Miller's band, the
Senior Ball committee will play his
recordings both tonight and tomor-
row at Michilodeon. Special requests
for favorite Miller records will be
placed at the booth. In addition to
the music, there will be a basketball
throwing game for prizes, and a box
in which to place suggestions for a
theme for thedance. The originator
of the theme which the committee
uses will be given a free ticket to
the dance.
Chairman of the ball is Hubert
Weidman; working under him are
Helen Bohnsack, Lee Keller, Cath-
erine McDermott, James Lau, Fred
Dannenfelser, George Nadler, Bill El-
mer, Bill Vollmer, Robert Buritz, Paul
Rogers and Dorothy Clark.
Church Forum
Will Convene
Labor Views To Be Given
At Unitarian Church
Two views on Labor will be pre-
sented at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Uni-
tarian Church when the sixth an-
nual series of May Forums, arranged
to supplant the usual church serv-
ice, opens.
Ralph H. Marlatt, of Flint, public
relations director of the UAW-CIO
of that region, will speak from the
standpoint of the Union, while Prof.
Z. Clark Dickinson of the Depart-
ment of Economics of the University
of Michigan will offer the view of
government conciliation.
Dickinson served on the govern-
ment board during the NRA which
dealt with disputes in the automo-
bile industry. Marlatt has been a
member of the Union for some years
and has worked for the Ford Motor
Company.
Fish Survey
Will Be Taken
Noted Chicago Sociologist
Will Lecture Monday
Dr. Louis Wirth, Professor of So-
ciology and Associate Dean of the
Division of the Social Sciences, Uni-
versity of Chicago, will be a guest of
the Social Division of the University
on Monday, May 5.
Dr. Wirth will give a public lec-
ture at 4:15 p.m. in the Amphithe-
atre of the Rackham Building on
"The Position of Minority Groups in.
the United States." Professor Robert
B. Hall, of the Geography Depart-
ment wil preside.
At 6:30 p.m. there will be a din-
ner for members of the Division of
the Social Sciences at the Union. Dr.
Wirth will lead the discussion follow-
ing the dinner on the subject. "Im-
pacts of the Crisis on Social Science
Research." Dean C. S. Yoakum will
preside. The meeting will adjourn
promptly at 8,:15 p.m.
Dr. Wirth is also Chairman of the
Social Science Research Councils
Committee on Social Science Re-
search Organization, as well as gov-
ernmental advisor on several housing
projects.
Prof. Slosson
Will address
MIPA Group
Prof. Preston L. Slosson will ad-.
dress, the closing assembly of the
Michigan Interscholastic Press As-
sociation's annual convention at 9:30
a.m. today in the Union Ball Room.
Professor Slosson will speak on "The
World Today."
Opening the MIPA program yester-
day, Dr. Merton S. Rice, Detroit pas-
tor, spoke on "Your Tomorrow" before
seven hundred high school journalists.
Dr. Rice, after naming Washington
and Lincoln as the two greatest men
4merica has ever produced, told his
audience that it is up to youth to
make the world a better place to live.
Following Dr. Rice's talks, Profs.
John L. Brumin and Wesley H. Maur-
er analyzed the editorial content and
makeup of the papers represented.
Principles of newspaper, magazine,
and yearbook writing were discussed
further at round table clinics.
Arthur A. Secord of the Depart-
ment of Speech addressed. the con-
vention's afternoon assembly on "The
Pursuit of Personality." Mr. Secord
stressed good will and friendship as
the basis of happy living and business
success.
Professor Brumm presided at the
annual MIPA banquet at 6 p.m. yes-
terday, which was featured by a gen-
erah quiz on journalistic principles.
The convention will close today after
the presentation of publications
awards at the final luncheon,
Julius Chajes
To Play Here
Mr. Julius Chajes, noted pianist
and composer, and Miss Marguerite
Kozenn, soprano, a graduate of the
Milan Conservatory, will present a re-
cital under the joint auspices of the
Hillel Foundation and Avukah, stu-
dent Zionist group, at 8 p.m. tomor-
row in the Grand Rapids Room of
the League.
Mr. Chajes, a winner of the Vienna
International piano competition, has
given recitals in Carnegie Hall and
over the air. His compositions have
been played by the Vienna Symphony
Orchestra and the New York Phil-
harmonic.
Miss Kozenn, a graduate of the Mo-
zarteum, Salzburg, and the Vienna
Conservatory, was honor prize winner
over 500 contestants at the 1932 First
International Competition at Vienna,
and has been prima donna of the
Royal State Opera at Bucharest, and
of the Volksopera, Vienna.
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tainly undermining the morale of
the staff, and, perhaps, inflicting
more serious injury."
Professor Norman Meier, psychol-
ogy department:
"I see no reason for a change in
the size of the board now. If a
change is needed then I think the
faculty and the student body are
entitled to a full explanation before
;uch action is taken."
Professor Frankena, philosophy de-
partment: "I believe the present set-
up of the Board is reasonably good,
and consequently I can see no strong
reason for any change."
Prof. Preston Slosson, history de-
partment. "On the question of alum-
ni representation I advance no
opinion, but it seems to me unde-
sirable in any reorganization of
The Daily to increase the present
faculty representation. It would
have the effect of making the stu-
dent body feel that the paper wasj
more a faculty affair than a stu-
dent one. It might decrease stu-
dent interest in journalism and
activity in that field. It would cer-
tainly cause the students, and per-
haps the general public, to feel that
anything which henceforth ap-
peared in The Daily represented a
faculty or University point of view.
Anything, therefore, of an unde-
sirable character which did by any
chance slip into its columns would,
far more than at present, directly
damage the University. One draw-
back of all censorships in the world,
no matter how wisely exercised, is
that it makes the censor responsible
in the public mind for whatever
DOES appear. Thus if ANY news-
paper in a totalitarian country de-
nounces the United States we as-
sume that the government of that
country has done so. This is a
responsibility that I, for one, would
not wish to assume with regard to
the future of The Daily.
"It would be better, if any change
is necessary, to move in the opposite
direction; to state in type large
enough to attract the attention of
all that The Daily is a publication
of, by and for the students; that it
contains nothing official except the
D.O.B.; that each editor is re-
sponsible for what he writes and
signs, and each correspondent for
what he writes and signs, and let
them take individually-the respon-
sibility for any missteps. I have
been told that legally the editors of
a paper are responsible not only for
what theywrite but for anything
they permit to apear in the paper.
Granted.But student journalists
will someday be city journalists in
the competitive outside world; why
should they not begin to learn re-
sponsibility now? Why keep them,
like school children, in faculty lead-
ing strings?"
Dr. John Arthos, English Depart-
ment: "The Daily of the past two o
three years seems to me to have been
a capable and sincere production of
the students interested enough tc
work for it. I often think the opinion
expressed in the editorials and col-
umns are mistaken, but adequat
space has always been available fo
the criticism of such opinions
"I recognize that statements in Th
Daily may be taken by people outside
the University to represent the opin-
ion of the student body or of the Uni-
versity, although such statements dc
not and are not meant to. Bul
it seems to me that the gooc
name of the University in thes
matters can be maintained onl3
by proper education of the student
in the course of their instruction
and not through excessive supervis-
ion of their opinion.
"I think that the students on The
Daily deserve trust, and I hope that
the Regents may see fit to allow the
ratio of three students to four faculty
members on the Board of Control
to continue."
Henry V. S. Ogden, English de-
partment:
"What good can the proposed new
board do? Until conservative opin-
ion becomes articulate, no board on
earth can make the Michigan Daily
representative of student opinion.
The new board can do nothing to
free the paper from Communist
domination, since for at least a year,
probably longer, the editors of The
Daily have been against the Com-
munist Party. There is nothing the
new board can do to insure social
tact (in the largest sense of that.
term); they cannot read all the copy3
before it is printed. How are the
students to develop a sense of social
tact without making occasional mis-
takes? Moreover, in the future the
new board will have to take the
blame upon itself for any indiscre-
tions or impolitic statements which
do appear. I do not envy any faculty
man his place on this board. There
is nothing in this situation which
calls for authoritarian measures."
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Prof. Mischa Titiev, anthropolo-
gy department: "I think that before
any final action is taken, the whole
matter should be brought into the
open for complete faculty and stu-
dent discussion.-"
James F. Duesenberry, teaching fel-
low: "The plan to pack the Board
in Control of Student Publications is
contradictory to the principle that
a student newspaper should hp mn
technique employed to achieve a de-
sirable end.
Will that method solve the funda-
mental difficulties? Will it shake the
moderate and conservative elements
on campus out of their present state
of inertia? I doubt it. The elements
that should now be leading the stu-
dent body in WORTHWHILE AC-
TIVITIES have permitted that lead-
ership to pass by default to the ex-
ceedingly vociferous minority-the
radical. As a result a handful of
students represents to the outsider
the general political and economic
beliefs of the student body.
"But what can we do to get the
Board to reconsider its action? In
my opinion the sleeping fraternities
and the independent organizations
can show some excuse for existence.
They can reawaken a sense of re-
sponsibility as free stduents among
their respective members; they can
pledge to the Board their promise to
correct their past mistakes through
the democratic technique of campus
elections conducted by a student
body unified, interested and alert to
its duties and privileges as free
people."
Constance Berry, '41, Delta Delta
Delta: "When a university goes so
far as to do away with student
voice on the running of their own
publications, something is radically
wrong with the set-up!"
Charles Dillman, President Theta
Chi: "In the light of The Daily's ac-
knowledged supremacy in the field of
college journalism, it is indeed de-
plorable that this high standing
should be jeopordized by an unquali-
fied edict from the University Ad-
ministration -- an action, moreover,
which was taken without fully con-
sulting either the editors of The Daily
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(Editor's Noe: This is the second in
a series of articles, written in col-
laboration with Prof. Louis A. Hopkins,
Chairman of the University Committee
on National Defense, which will at-
tempt to explain the position of the
student underthe Selective Service
Act.)
By HOMER SWANDER
Those students to whom it would
be an unusual hardship to be induct-'
ed into the national service at a par-
ticular time may be able, as a result
of a recent ruling of the National
Headquarters of the Selective Service
System, to receive a postponement of
induction for a period not to exceed
60 days.
Such postponement is not to be
confused with actual deferment, nor
will it be awarded on a blanket basis.
The local draft boards must make
their decisions upon the facts of each
individual case as the records are
presented.
The pertinent sections of the new
ruling have been interpreted by Brig-
adier General Hershey, Acting Direc-
tor of Selective Service, as follows:
"In our opinion the induction of
a registrant at the normal time
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For those who wish to attend the
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may result in unusual individual
hardship if the registrant requires
additional time within which to
(1) recover from an illness, (2) be
available in the event of the ill-
ness ,fr death of a member of the
registrant's family, (3) complete
a course of training or instruction,
(4) take an examination after com-
pleting such a course, (5) sell, ter-
minate, transfer, arrange for the
continuance of, or make other
business arrangements with re-
spect to, the registrant's individal
personal business or other activity,
or (6) perform other similar acts."
This amendment and its interpre-
tation are particularly applicable to
a student who wishes to complete a
certain phase of his study this sum-
mer before induction. In other
words, students who were to be in-
ducted in June of this year may be
able to receive postponiement enabling
them to complete a course of study
in summer school.
"Extreme caution should be exer-
cised in requesting postponement for
the first semester of the school year
if the individual intends to return to
his classes the following year," Pro-
fessor Hopkins warned.
"This is because if the postpone-
ment was granted the student would
be inducted into the service in March
of the second semester. When re-
leased a year from that date it would
be too late for him to register at the
University. Thus, he would miss
three complete semesters of school
instead of the possible minimum of
j two."
aged by students. The present set- or the students on the campus.'
up of the Board provides adequate *
protection to the University against Robert Campbell, '42E,' President
immature decisions to reduce the in- Chi Phi Fraternity: "We feel that the
fluence of the students to negligible proposal to "pack" the Board in Con-
proportions, and turn The Daily into trol of Student Publications is a def-
a mere echo of the voice of the Uni- inite and undesirable threat to free-
versity. I see no justification for this dom of the press on the Michigan
procedure and I am in complete oppo- campus. In the current year of pub-
sition to the plan to pack the Board." lication the editors of The Daily have
:shown time and again that they are
Prof. Harold J. McFarlan, geo- willing to cooperate to the fullest ex-
desy and surveying department:jtent with any reasonable request of
"Believing as I do in the freedom the University. All points of view have
of the press, I am opposed to any consistently been given space in both
measure such as the "packing" of the news and editorial columns. The
the Student Publications Board paper has, it seems to us, followed
which threatens the students' right a policy of extreme fairness as regards
to run their own newspaper." this and other matters.
: r "For these reasons, as well as for
Prof. Norman E. Nelson, English many others, we denounce absolutely
department: "I am opposed to the and emphatically the plan to "pack"
change proposed in the constitution the board with more adult members."
of the Board, and to the method and *
means used to effect the change. I Paul Johnson, former presideint of
have suffered serious and embarras- ASME and former business manager
sing misquotations the only two times of Gargoyle: "Although I do not agree
that I have been quoted in The Daily, with all of the opinions expressed in
and I am entirely opposed to its The Daily during the past few years;
isolation policy. But I believe in the I believe that, in these times of in-
maximum freedom of the press con- creased suppression of liberties
sistent with public order, and I be- throughout the world, it is important
lieve that many enemies of The Daily that youth be allowed to express its
are also enemies of democracy." views."
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Students Speak
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the move is not, I believe, appealing{
to student intelligence.
"Definite action by the student
body to express its displeasure is,
I believe, indicated."
Fred Niketh, '41L: "The Daily has
had no severer critic than I. Never-
theless, I cannot but question the
wisdom of packing the Student Board
in Control by the Board of Regents.
Although one can sympathize with
the Board's responsibilities, one can-
not but question the undemocratic
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William Rockwell, Presiden) of
Congress: "The Daily needs no more
faculty control; nor does it need a
censor. The reorganization plan is
designed to bring both."
Mary Spaeth, '42, President of Al-
pha Phi: "I oppose having the student
vote on the Board in Control of
Publications overlooked."
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