GE TWO T H E MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1941 I I 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 r C: 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. (Continued from Page 1) 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." * * * 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 k E f C J c l ( l 1 !) I G (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 Art Cinema To' RnFilm Art Cinema League patrons who attended the recent revival series of Douglas Fairbanks films will have the opportunity to see an extra and most swash-buckling film at 8:30 p.m. to- day in Lydia Mendelssohn theatre when "The Mark of Zorro" will be presented without any charge. For those who wish to attend the film and who do not hold tickets to the recent series the price of ad- mission will be 35 cents. Built around the affairs-romantic and hysterical-of a local Romeo of the old California under the Spanish government the film follows the in- credible Douglas through various ad- ventures that shine out even beside the stupendous deeds of the recent Tyrone Power in the sound revival of the same plot. MICHIGAN fira Yet a blonde...and a boy he loved... trapped himwhen the law failed! ,4 Thrilling! 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." t Students Speak (Continued from Page 1) s 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 i i 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." Sun. "Road to Zanzibar" Everything you need at "Cut Rate Prices 365 days a year!" -Lost Times Today - EDW. G. ROBINSON Jack London's "THE SEA WOLF" Coming Sunday! From the Novel "F. 0. B. Detroit" Study Of State's Lakes Planned By Institute The summer program for the Insti- tute For Fisheries Research will in- clude parties for stream and lake surveys, according to C.J.D. Brown, Associate Aquatic Biologist of the Institute. 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