PAGE FOUR 'SH'E . MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAIT:V THE MICHIGAN DAILY Students Say Experimental Theatre 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.A 'Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mailnmatter. Subscriptions during the regular 'school year by carrier $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIZING B' National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON * LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940-41 Editorial Stafff Hervie Haufler Alvin Sarasohn . Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky . Howard A. Goldman Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Corman . Busin Business Manager Assistant Business Manag Women's Business Manag Women's Advertising Mar Managing Editor . . . Editorial Director . .City Editor Associate Editor . . . Associate Editor * . Associate Editor S . . Associate Editor Sports Editor .Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor mess Staff 'er er nager Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Sane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT SPECKHARD The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily stiff and represent the views of the writers only. .1.S. Stakes in Far East Vital To Economy . . OF PARAMOUNT IMP@RTANCE to the United States at'the moment is her lack of certain vital raw materials which cannot be obtained, at least in the proper quality or adequate quantity, within its continental entity. The attention of our experts has been devoted for some time to a consideration of this major problem. On the whole, they have con- fined themselves to answering one general ques- tion: upon what regions of the world in particu- lar do we depend for the materials we lack and what importance can be attached to our depen- dence upon those producing regions? At last they have succeeded in arriving at an answer. But the answer only makes matters more com- plicated. Recently the Army 'and Navy Munitions Board has come up with three lists of materials which have been classified under the respective titles " strategic," "critical" and "essential." Seventy items are listed in all. However, under the "critical" and "essential" headings fall those materials which can be provided in one way or another should an emergency present itself; therefore, the "strategic" list need be the only one to command our attention. THE last-named includes fourteen materials "which are imperative to our national de- fense in times of war, necessary to the mainte- nance of our economic order and well-being in. time of peace and for which dependence must be placed in whole or in large part on sources out- side the continental limits of the United States. More specifically, the "strategic" list, has itself been divided into three groups. The commodities for which the United States depends almost entirely upon foreign sources and for which no adequate substitutes can be found comprise the first priority group. The materials falling under the second priority grouping de- mand foreign important because their domestic sorces have been found to be inadequate, too isolated, or of an exceedingly low quality to per- mit utilization. The materials assigned to third priority ranking include those which can be sup- plied at home per demand, together with those which permit workable subtitutes to be used in their place. THE government considers antimony, Lchroni- un, manganese, manila fiber, nickel, quartz crystal, quinine, rubber and silk the most impor- tant and, hence, "strategic articles of first pri- ority. Mica, quicksilver and tungsten rate second call. Coconut-shell char is , the only material classified as third priority. All are important. The foreign sources of each are highly indis- pensable to this country. But what are the foreign sources of these ex- tremely vital raw materials which the United States lacks and needs so desperately in order to function as a major industrial state? Determined by routes to them and probabilities of political control, they fall roughly into two groups. WESTERN EUROPE, South America, the Car- ibbean region and the actual traffic sphere of the United States itself (including Mexico, Cuba, and Canada) are the regions easiest to reach or control. On the other and, South Africa, Russia and the lands west of the Pacific ,..._;ni . ,orn gi . .,rl ho e1; mifh arif To the Editor:- ". .. it is especially desired that the student ... shall not be confined to academic subjects, but shall be allowed the widest possible latitude, and that the new, the unusual, and the radical shall be especially encouraged." THUS DID Avery Hopwood define that type of literary art which he believed worthy of encouragement. His words are especially appli- able to the drama, which is the most ubiquitous and cosmopolitan of all the arts. We at the Uni- versity of Michigan have not as yet fulfilled Avery Hopwood's anticipations. Radical, in the sense used above, refers to a departure from the accepted or prescribed literary norm. In what respect have we failed? To answer this we must appreciate a fact which is characteristic of the drama and peculiar to it alone. Drama is written to be staged be- cause drama realizes its fullest significance only when it is being staged. And yet, in the past nine years of Play Pro- duction only one full length, student-written play has been produced. This despite the fact that Robert Sherwood, famous playwright, once cited Stanford, Yale, and Ann Arbor as the three main sources which would supply this country with its future drama- tists. That his contention was justified is amply testified to by the fact that in the past three years; twelve national playwriting awards have been won by students in the playwriting courses at the University of Michigan. THIS LACK of production of original student plays is in itself not the dominant point of our discussion, but is used merely to exemplify the lack of experimental and vital aspects of our theatre, which should be the companion and. the instrument of the " .. . new, the unusual, and the radical ...", rather than a medium for the repetition of hackneyed, successful, over-used, stereotyped, professional theatre successes. The University theatre must be an organic unit, subject to change and development. That the theatre is a powerful influence in many other priority product and is the only deficiency mate- ial obtained from that region. It is not requiredj in sufficiently large volume and can readily be stored. SOUTH AMERICA has a near monopoly of our antimony and quartz crystal imports. Al- though such a monopoly naturally brings weight to bear on that region's importance to us as a nation, we cannot place too much faith on that fact alone. Quartz crystal is the only first priority material which cannot be obtained else- where. Chromium and manganese are important but not adequate, and both can be derived from other lands. The Caribbean lands have lost their import- ance to us with the overcoming of our aluminum deficiency. Our own supply has proved larger than anticipated and the enormous deposits in the British and Dutch Guianas can be protected. Aluminum, at the most, was considered a third priority article before the government struck it off the "strategic" list. CUBA, Mexico and Canada supply us with man- ganese, chromium, antimony and nickel. But only nickel can be considered highly important. Other sources have been found for the others. Africa's manganese and chromium are es- sential to us and may possibly become more so; but both can be obtained elsewhere if our South Atlantic routes should be broken. Russia sup- plies us with a goodly amount of manganese; however, since the second World War started she has gradually withdrawn from this trade. The United States is already shifting her depen- dence for manganese to other sources. We come finally to the lands west of the Pa- cific-to Southeastern Asia and the South Pa- cific Islands. By "a pyramidical error of geo- graphy" the United States finds itself so vitally and completely dependent on Southeastern Asia that our entire foreign policy must be adjusted to that fact. T THE PRESENT TIME, we depend upon this region for the bulk of five first-priority needs: manila fiber, rubber, quinine, silk and tin. Southeastern Asia also supplies us with enorm- ous amounts of tungsten and coconut-shell char. From China we import to a considerable ,degree ,quantities of antimony, although the present war has naturally impeded exportation from that region of late. The Philippines pro- vide us with chromium; and manganese is im- ported from British India. From the South Pacific also come large quantities of chromium. Some nickel is obtainable from New Caledonia and new nickel deposits are already being work- ed on the islands of Sumatra. Therefore, it can be said with certainty based on research that the lands beyond the Pacific can completely supply the demands of the United States in ten of the fourteen "strategic" neces- sities, six of which are first priority. Two more first priority commodities might also be obtained from Southeastern Asia within a very short time. In other words, only two of the fourteen "stra- tegic" materials cannot be produced in this re- gion-quartz crystal and quicksilver. rrHE RAMIFICATIONS of this revelation can easily be perceived. It is only upon the lands west of the Pacific, and particularly upon South- eastern Asia, that our dependence is so com- plete as to threaten our very existence as a na- tion were the sources severed in any way. It is not exaggeration to say that the United States would be forced to wage war against any power that might attemut to cut off ur trade limes illHelp Drama universities, and that it fulfills such functions as we have described is supported by many, ex- amples. ONE OF THE FINEST theatre plants in the country is located at Dartmouth, which has two workshops and theatres, one of 2,700 seats and the other 427, this latter theatre being de- signed and used only for experimental work. Vassar devotes one third of its total annual pro- ductions to. original plays. Stanford and Iowa regularly devote one-half of their season's pro- grams to original plays. A nation-wide reputa- tion has been attained by the University of North Carolina, mainly through its program of producing only new plays, while Cornell Uni- versity's theatre is the center for all of New York State's rural and small town drama. This latter function in relation to the state could very well be handled by the University of Michi- gan. In this connection we should like to point out that a new $450,000 theatre has just been built at Michigan State College, which certainly has not been nationally prominent for its achievements in the literary or dramatic fields. As we see this theatre, its advantages would be three-fold: to the immediate community of Ann Arbor, to the State of Michigan, and to the country as a whole. We feel that such a University theatre as we visualize would be important for the community and would build its audience from the towns- people as well as the students and faculty. We base this belief on certain simple, but important facts. Because of its function as an educa- tional implement within the University, the the- atre by its very nature requires the production of a large number of both classical and original works, as well as Broadway successes. It will_ thus tend to attract and arouse an audience in- terested in witnessing the production of plays not ordinarily available and it is this interest in the unusual which will enable the audience to overlook whatever shortcomings are character- istic of the college theatre by virtue of its con- stantly changing mass personality. rfHAT ANN ARBOR, despite its relatively small size, can be a center of culture in Michigan, has been adequately demonstrated in other forms of art. Ann Arbor was made known to millions of new friends throughout the entire nation when the New York Philharmonic broadcast its regular Sunday afternoon concert from Hill Audito'ium. To the State of Michigan as a whole, a Uni- versity Theatre would have the function of be- ing an important center for the development of a specific state drama, having the character- istics typical of Michigan life, its farms, in- dustries, geography, just as has been done in the development of a North Carolina state drama. But perhaps the theatre's most important function is in its relation to the country as a; whole, in its contribution to the sum total of artistical expression in the interpretation of the constantly evolving political, social econom- ic and educational trends of our era. r0FULFILL ALL of these requirements, such a theatre in Ann Arbor must be organic, pliable, vital. It must be receptive to new ideas, never merely for the sake of newness alone, but on the other hand, never rejecting something because it is new, or, what is perhaps even worse, ignoring it altogether. It is only by trial without prejudiced opinion aforehand that we shall be able to determine the relative values of new works of art, and as we have already said, this is especially true in the case of a drama. For although a play may be literature before it is staged, it is certainly not a play until it is played, nor does it achieve its fullest significance and realization in its own right unless it is brought to life before an audience. This is the concern of every individual inj the community ... We have the materials necessary. We have plays; we have talent, as Play Production has shown by its efforts on very difficult work un- til now; we have audience interest, as testi- fied by turnouts even for such plays as have been given in the past. We are an intellectual center for the state in many other respects. Why, then, should we not fulfill all of our potentiali- ties and by our University Theater achieve our dramatic center as a living actuality, Alled Siber Paul V. Conason Stanford Sobel The Value Of (;riticistui. An assistant of banking, hired by the National, Association of Manufacturers to do the job, re- ports that a substantial proportion of the social science texts in our schools criticise our govern- ment and our economy too much, The NAM investigator says he found "a very notable tendency in many of the books to play down what this country has accomplished and to place the emphasis on defects. The whole em- phasis is placed on the one-third of the popula- tion who are under-fed, rather than on the two-, thirds who are well fed."" We have a suspicion that when the investi- gator speaks on "the whole emphasis," his re- marks are a trifle on the strong side. In general, the textbook writeis understand their craft. American accomplishments are well known and we will not forget them. We are not too modest a People, On the othe, hand, the best way of lengthen- ing the list of accomplishments is to hammer away at what has not yet been donc. Criticisms held tonight in Hill Auditorium, 7:00- Piano Concert: Maud Okkelberg, 11:00. Arrange to come a few min- ' Pianist, will present a recital as part utes early to facilitate seating. of the Faculty Concert Series, at 4:15 p.m. Sunday, March 2, in the Lydia1 Mendelssohn Theatre. The concert INew Graduate Students: Signs will{ will be complimentary to the' gen- be posted in the foyer of Hill Audi- eral public. torium indicating seating arrange- ments for the Second Session of the7 Graduate Record Examination. This Exhibitions is required of all new graduate stu- Exhibit of Maya paintings in Yuca- dents and will be at 7 o'clock tonight tan and Guatemala by Joseph Lin- in Hill Auditorium. Arrange to come don Smith. This is sponsored by the a few minutes early to facilitate seat- American Federation of Arts, Wash- ing. New graduate students are re- ington, D.C. Third floor, exhibit minded that credit is withheld unless hall, Rackham Building, from 10 this examination is taken. a.m. to 10 p.m. through February 28. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Problem" to be given by Professor Beckenbach will have its first meet- ing on Monday, March 3, at 3:00 p.m. in 3201 A.H. The course will meet for five weeks, three hours a week. Geology 11 Make-up Final Exam- ination will be held Friday, Febru- ary 28, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 2054 Natural Science Building. Philosophy 34: The make-up ex- amination will be given in 202 M.H., Tuesday, March i4, at 2:00 p.m. Biological Chemistry 111: Labora- tory refunds may be obtained this week at the storeroom window at the following hours: Today 4 to 5; Fri- day, 4 to 5; Saturday morning, 11 to 12. Seniors in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts and in the School of Education: Signs will be posted in the foyer of Hill Auditorium indicating seating arrangements for Books III and IV of the Graduate! Record Examination which is re- quired of June and August seniors in the above schools and which will be phia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy and Thor Johnson, Conductors. Friday Afternoon, May 9. Suzanne Sten, Mezzo-soprano and Jose Itur- bi, Pianist, soloists. The Youth Chor- us, the Philadelphia Orchestra; Saul Caston, Juva Higbee, and Jose Itur- bi, (conducting 'from the pianoforte) Conductors. Friday evening, May 9. Dorothy Maynor, soprano, soloist. The Phila- delphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor. Saturday Afternoon, May 10. All Sibelius program. Jascha Heifetz, violinist, soloist. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Con- ductor. Saturday Evening, May 10: Epi-1 sodes from "Eugene Onegin" by Tschaikowsky. Jarmila Novotna, so- prano; Suzanne Sten, Mezzo-soprano; Enid Szantho, contralto; Charles Kullman, tenor; Mack Harrell, bari- tone; Norman Cordon, bass, soloists. The University Choral Union, the Philadelphia Orchestra; Thor John- son, Conductor. Orders for season tickets and for individual concerts may be mailed or left at the offices of the University' Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Concerts May Festival: The University Mu-3 sical Society announces the follow- ing schedule of artists and dates forp the Forty-Eighth Annual May Fes- tival:. Wednesday evening, May 7. Law- rence Tibbett, Baritone, soloist. The Philadelphia Orchestra. Eugene Or- mandy, Conductor.-Y Thursday Evening, May 8. Jar-s mila Novotna, Soprano; Norifan1 Cordon, bass; and Gregor Piatigor-L sky, violoncellist, soloists. The Uni- versity Choral Union, the Philadel- { X. e DRAMA "Trelawney of the Wells" will bec a hit during the rest of its run at7 the Mendelssohn Theatre, and the star system has cofne to Ann ArborY to stay. Nan McFarland and Whit- field Conner, playing the two top roles of the piece, are so good they almost embarrass their excellent sup-1 porting cast. These two, as Roset Trelawney and Sir William Gower,t gave the production that quick, sharpl bounce usually found only in the very best of the professional stage's of- ferings. I have never seen two more, beautiful jobs done here in Ann Ar- bor, and I suspect that if I had caught their performances in any of the thayatuh's more glamorous centers, they would still head my list.: But that's not all. Bill Altman,J Joe Lynn, Adeline Gittlen, Jack Ben- der and Robert Lewis make the com- edy fairly howl once they get going, and in their excellent last act work,] Bill Kinzer and Margaret Cotton add just what is needed to make their characterization complete. I can do no more than say that all these and; IrAn exhibition of Currier and Ives prints and of work by Yasuo Kuni- yoshi is open afternoons from 2 to 5 in Alumni Memorial Hall, through March 7. - Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Reinhold Schairer, formerly Lecturer in Com- parative Education, London Univer- sity, will lecture on the subject, "Re- construction of Europe by Education" under the auspices of the Depart- ment of German at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Charles E. Kel- logg, Chief of Soil Survey Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. and memberuof Association of American Geographers, will lecture on the subject, "The Sci- entist and Agricultural Policy in a Democratic State" under the au- spices of the Department of Geogra- phy at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rack- ham Amphitheatre. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: The Honorable Edwin Lowe Neville, recently Ameri- can Minister to Thailand, will give the following lectures under the au- spices of the Political Science De- partment at 4:15 p.m. on the days named. February 28: "The Consolidation of Japan." Rackham Lecture Hall. March 5: "Far Eastern Reactions to Western Penetration." Rackham Amphitheatre. Attention is called to the changes made in the schedule for Mr. Neville's lectures as originally announced. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Colonel W. H. Draper, of the Selective Service Head- quarters, U.S.A., will lecture on the subject, "The Selective Service Act and the College Student" under the auspices of the University Commit- gineering Profession." Refreshments, smokes, movies. A.I.Ch.E: February meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 in 1042 East En- gineering Bldg. Dr. E. C. Britton, Organic Research Director of Dow Chemical Company, will speak on "The Dow Flow Sheet." All engin- eers are welcome. The Political Science Rlound Table will meet tonight at 7:30 in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Buiding. The Honorable Edwin L. Neville will speak on Thailand. German Club will meet tonight at 7:45 in room 319 of the Union. Dr. Reinhold Schairer, University lectur- er, will speak on "German Education- al Ideals Before Hitler." Phi Delta Kappa coffee hour will be held this afternoon at 4:15 in the Nest Conference Room of the Rack- ham Building. Prof. James K. Pol- lock will discuss the European situa- tion. Vocational Guidance Talks: The first vocational guidance talk will be given on Business Administration by Dean C. E. Griffin in the Small Ball- room of the Michigan Union at 4:15 p.m.. today. Students in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, and all others interested, are invited with Dean Griffin, who will explain the preparation necessary for admis- sion to the School of Business Ad- ministration. The next vocational guidance talk will be on Dentistry, by Dean R. W. Bunting, in the Small Ballroom of the Michigan Union, to be held on Tues- day, March 4. Varsity Glee Club: The following men have been selected to appear in Owosso this evening, the bus leav- ing the Union at 4:00 p.m. sharp: Ossewaarde, Mattern, Edwards, Allen, Scherdt, Holland, Bassett, Steere, Erke, Powers, Repola,Crowe, Pinney, Martin, Koppin, Wilton, Stern, Muller, Conti, Strickland, Hines, Rechlin, Wierengo, Davis, Klopsic, Mason, C. Brown, Whitney, Sherrill, Lovell, Landis, Plott, C.,Gib- son, Liimatainen, Berger. The Ann Arbor Independents will meet today at 4:45 p.ni. in the League. Old and new members please attend. Meeting is import- ant. Seminar in Religious- Art: Pri .,.®- sor Harold E. Wethey, chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, will talk on "Christian Arts" at the first meeting of the Student Religious Association's extra-curricular semi- nar in religious art tonight at 7:30 in Lane Hall. The seminar is open to the public. All tutors under the League Tutor- ial System will meet today at 4:30 p.m. at the League. e- Alpha Kappa Delta will meet today at 8:45 p.m. in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Building. The program will consist of a panel dis- cussion on student life, with Profes- sor Robert C. Angell, Dean Alice C. Lloyd, Mr. Peter A. Ostafin, and Rev- erend Pickerill participating. A meeting of the Ann Arbor Jewish Committee will be held at the Hillel Foundation tonight at 7:30 p.m.,All s .idents are welcome to attend this meeting, at which a report of the Refugee Drive will be given and plans for the rest of the year will be dis- cussed. The regular Thursday afternoon P.M. will not be held at the Hillel Foundation this afternoon. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church: to- night at 6:00 p.m. is a Parish Din- ner, Harris Hall. Speaker: Prof. Preston W. Slosson. Topic: "The Church's Realistic Idealism." This is the first of a Lenten series. J,GP. Central Committee will meet tonight at 7:00 in the Council Room of the League. "Trelawney of the, Wells", Arthur Wing Pinero's famous comedy of theatre life in the, last century, will be performed again tonight, Friday night and Saturday night in the Ly- dia Mendelssohn Theatre by Play Production of the Department of Speech. Reservations may be made by phoning 6300. ConngEvents Varsity Glee Club: Rehearsals on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in room 305 of the Union. All members bring eligi- bility cards and those ordering pic- tures bring money, as this is the last day for orders. All second semester freshmen interesting in the Glee Club are invited to attend, Suomi Club will meet Saturday. all the others worked their ways tee on Defense Issues on Thursday, through to a place where they were March 6, at 4:15 p.?n. in the Rack- no longer the people you sit next to ham Lecture Hall. The public is in class, but characters in a play, cordially invited. having a reality and personality quite-- their own within the framework of University Lecture: Dr. C. N. H. the story. That should be enough I Long, Sterling Professor of Physiolo- praise for the best of actors. gical Chemistlry, Yale University, will In order to avoid gushing all over ivC iifth following lectures under the the place, i'll say now that because aUSliCCS of the Department of Bio- of a severe case of cockney accent, log ical Chemistry: I didn't know what John Sinclair March 7: "Endocrines and the Con- was saying during most of the first trol of Carbohydrate Metabolism." act, but feel quite confident that if 4:15 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. he will concentrate more on the March '8: "Chemistry and Physi- words and less on dropping H's, this ology of the Adrenal 'Cortex." 11:00 Ablett person he plays will fit into a.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. things a little better. And then I The public is cordially invited. wish Dick Strain would get a little clearer on just what sort of a guy Biological Chemistry Lecture: Dr. Tom Wrench is, because it wasn't J. L. Irvin of Wayne University will quite coming off last night, Dick. An- lecture on "Bile and Bile Acids" in other thing, though it isn't really im- the East Lecture Room of the Rack- portant, be a little more casual about ham Building at 11:00 a.m., Satur- those casual embraces Wrenchx. er- day, March 1. All interested are in- forms more or less ad lib; they aren't vited. too ad lib, if you know what I mean, or in plain English, don't be afriidvro Yet to take some of the sting out 'The Anatomy Research Club will of this, Strain's performance picks nmeet today in Room 2501 Eask Med- up swell in the last two acts, and ical Building, at 4:30 p.m. t 1