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CHICAGO * BOSTON * LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Editorial Staff Press, 1940-41 Iervie Haufler Alvin Sarasohn Paul M. Chandler . Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Corman * . . Managing Editor Editorial Director . . . . City Editor . . . Associate Editor . . . Associate Editor . Associate Editor Associate Editor . . . . Sports Editor . . . .Women's Editor . . . Exchange Editor Business Staff Business Manager. Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager . . Women's Advertising Manager Fire & Water by mascott By ELBI GILENI Mascott looked like an apple in a cider press. He was crushed. Crushed to the ground. The crushing blow had been delivered by an ec prof. He had an exam to prepare for, and was look- ing around for someone who could tell him what course it was. He knew the prof's name and what hours it met. He was also worried and frustrated. "Elbi", he said to me, "I'm in a hole." "Sorry," I parried, "I'm broke. Just bought my J-Hop ticket." "No, Elbi, it isn't that. I've got to study for an exam."o Well that was tough, and I understood. I offered to take his girl off his hands for the evening, but he said he wasn't going to study that hard. He said the real trouble was with Fire and Water. He couldn't see where he was going to get time to copy it and wanted to know if I'd do it for him. He even offered to give me his list of publications to clip from. I asked him when it had to be done. He said I'd have two hours. I told him I was about to pick up the girl friend for a coke, but if it was o.k. with him we could write it together. It wouldn't be very good. but it would do for Fire and Water. He was so crushed that he didn't even retaliate to this, just told me to go ahead and fell out of a second story window into a snow bank, breaking his leg, the first leg of his journey home to study. That's how columns are born. So I went out and then remembered I'd need some paper, so came back and went into the Gargoyle office, it being closest except for the 'Ensian, but they don't use paper there, only pictures, cardboard and glue. I asked editor Donaldson if he had any paper and he said no, but I saw a stack of copy paper that he had swiped from The Daily and took a few sheets on the way out, calling Donaldson exactly what you would under the circumstances. So I got the girl friend and told her we had to write the column and she groaned because she used to be on the women's staff and she knows. So we went to the -- the advertising staff won't allow anybody to say where in print in The Daily, but the place is named after that very bright plumed bird who is usually repre- sented as squawking stridently (the girl friend said to use that word) "Polly wants a cracker". We sat down and she had a coke and I had a lemonade because I hate cokes and we started to write the column. But we couldn't think of anything to write about that would fit Mascott's column and complimented ourselves on that and started to play double solitaire. She won two games and I won two and then she gave me a long lecture on how she never wins when we play cards together so we stopped, and she reminded me that I had to write a column, and I said what do you mean? WE have to write a column so she won and I took her home. Then' I came back to The Daily office and Sarasohn asked me where the column was and I said what column just to see what he'd do and he did it. So I started to write it with twenty minutes to deadline and still nothing to write about fitting for Fire and Water, and you've been reading, if you got this far, what I've been doing since then. And that's how columns are written. Now I'll send this to the shop to be set up, and the linotypist will put it into nice solid slugs and some poor fool sophomore will have to pull a proof and read it (imagine, having to read it!) and Mascott will come in after his date and not like it and toss the whole thing out. And that's how columns die. - w_ If Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause 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. hIMemoriam -- James Joyce .. . JAMES JOYCE IS DEAD. One of the leading literary figures of our time, he passea away at 59 in a Zurich, Switzerland, hospital after an intestinal operation. Joyce will best be remembered for his monumental, stream- of-consciousness novel, "Ulysses," which started a world-wide controversy that was brought to a climax in the libel trial of the Southern District of New York against the publishers. Joyce studied medicine, music and languages before he decided on writing as a career. He started early, and veered into experimentation with words and technique which came to a climax in "Ulysses." This novel took seven years to write and contained many strange, new words invented by the author. PARTS of "Ulysses" were first published in serial form in the Little Review, a New York magazine of the arts. The struggle between the censors and the advocates of free expression came to a head when it was published in book form. Then it was banned as "obscene" in Dublin, London and New York. Finally, in a last effort to lower the bars of censorship which had been choking true literary and artistic expression, the case was brought to court. After careful and lengthy consideration, Judge John M. Woolsey delivered the momen- tous decision which lifted the ban on "Ulysses" in this country. JUDGE WOOLSEY read "Ulysses" to determine "whether the intent with which it was writ- ten was what it is called . . . pornographic, - that is, written for the purpose of exploiting obscenity." He said finally "in 'Ulysses', in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect any- where the legr of the sensualist. I hold, there- fore, that it is not pornographic." "It is because Joyce is loyal to his technique," the decision continues," and has not funked its necessary implications, but has honestly at- tempted to tell fully what his characters think about, that he has been the subject of so many attacks and that his purpose has been so often misunderstood and misrepresented. For his attempt sincerely and honestly to realize his objective has required him incidentally to use certain words which are generally considered dirty words and has led at time to what many think is .a too poignant preoccupation with sex in the thoughts of his characters." WOOLSEY goes on with his decision and con- cludes that "Ulysses" may be admitted to the United States. It was a momentous day for those who had been fighting to lift the ban and "liberalize the law of 'obscenity'." With "Ulysses" and his subsequent novel, "Finnegan's Wake," Joyce paved the way for a new flow of life in creative writing in America and a new freedom of interpretation of the laws. of "obscenity," which culminated a long struggle toward this end. Joyce and "Ulysses" will long stand as a milestone in literary history. -Bernard Dober Billions For Defense The War of 1812 was ended on Feb. 17, 1815, when Congress ratified the Treaty of Ghent. Yet today, almost 126 years later, the United States Government is still paying a pension growing out of that war, to the daughter of a Dew Pedso .dw Rbed5 .Alle ' WASHINGTON - The President's chat with Ed O'Neal, soft-spoken head of the American Farm Bureau Federation, was not as harmoni- ous as the impression given when he emerged beaming from the White House. On foreign policy the two men saw eye to eye, but it was quite different on the farm ques- tion. O'Neal bluntly chided Roosevelt for not giving more consideration to agricultural in- terests in the defense program. "We've been hearing how business will pros- per and the rights of labor will be protected," O'Neal said. "You've had plenty to say about this in your speeches, but you've been silent on the farm question as related to national de- fense." "Maybe that's because I have no complaint against the farmers," said Roosevelt, in effect. "WELL, we have a complaint against you," shot back O'Neal, with no trace of jocular- ity. "All this bickering and indecision in Con- gress about farm legislation to be submitted at this session is due chiefly to the Administra- tion's failure to agree on steps that should be taken." O'Neal had no real success in urging on the President the Farm Bureau's plan for govern- ment loans up to 85 per cent of parity on basic crops to keep production up to demand. (Parity loans now range from 52 to 75 per cent.) Acre- age control benefits, plus the loan guarantee, he contended, would enable farmers to get full parity, while "dumping" on government ware- houses of cotton and wheat surpluses could be stopped by the imposition of penalties for over- production. This plan was a compromise, O'Neal told Roosevelt, between the present loan program and the processing (sales) tax proposal of the Republican-backed income certificate plan. Roosevelt agreed that farm prices would have to be jacked up and production restricted, but demurred at appropriating more funds for par- ity loans. He argued that the vast defense expenditures would boost crop prices auto- matically. But this line of reasoning did not persuade O'Neal. "Mr. President," he said with a grin, "I'm telling you now that we're going to demand full parity from this Congress. Our convention in Baltimore approved the plan I have outlined, to you and we won't rest until we get it." United On Britain THE TENSION SUBSIDED when the Pres- ident and O'Neal got to discussing aid to Britain. The farm leader proudly related how the Farm Bureau convention had endorsed the policy of "all-out" aid to the hilt. "There wasn't a peep of opposition," O'Neal said. "I thought some might develop from dele- gates representing parts of the country reputed to be isolationist, but it didn't." Warmly thanking O'Neal for his efforts in putting the resolution over, Roosevelt remarked that no one section of the country could hardly be considered isolationist, since each was de- pendent on the others in preserving national security. "We're getting letters of support from all over the country," he said. "They're coming in at the rate of more than 1.000 a day." Last Call NOT ALL THE TALES around Defense head- quarters are about bottlenecks and other brain-wracking problems. A different one go- ing the rounds is about a job-hunter on a de- fense construction project and an application form he was required to fill out. When he came to the question, "Are you a Nazi, Fascist or Communist?" he promptly an- swered, "Yes, suh, Boss'" "Are you sure you know what that means?" said the interviewer. The applicant insisted he did. "Well, let's put it another way. Are you a Fifth Columnist?" "Boss, I certainly am. Yes, suh." "What does 'Fifth Columnist' mean?" "That means," was the grinning reply, "the fella that's the last to be called. and Boss, that's me." Our YesterdaysI FROM DAILY FILES 50 Years Ago Jan. 15, 1891-PERSONAL: Will the janitor of the general library kindly brush at least a portion of the dust off the goddess who is en- gaged in adorning the entrance to the reading- room? It would lighten her task. 25 Years Ago ..Jan. 15, 1916 -Announcement has just been made by the Athletic Association that a sep- arate trainer for the football team, Harry Tut- hill, of the Detroit Tigers, will have charge of reconditioning the gridiron men next month. This action will relieve "Steve" Farrell of the necessity of taking his time from track and cross-country prospects to devote to the foot- ball squad. to join the army. As such his strength of char- acter was noteworthy. M i ,, \I",, ,,s1 F .rY s The City Editor's 'i clrtch 'lad ONE of the staff members insists this is a scoop. He says that the Eighth and Sixth Avenue subways in New York have been built so that they could be used as bombproof shel- ters. It's all been secret, presumably. Another Winter Parley is over, and the memory is not too pleasant. Audiences were small and anything but a cross-section of campus thought. To our mind, a parley is a part of the dem- ocratic process on the campus. To mean any- thing it must receive the attention of all kinds 'of people. IT IS little less than amazing that the so-called Michigan party could enlist hundreds of voters at a Senate election, and yet can send only a sprinkling of its members to attend an important meeting sponsored by the same Stu- dent Senate. A Michigan Party, a liberal group, or a band of fifth columnists, are stupid non- sense if they are not informed and willing to defend their views in the face of oppo- sition! * * * ' To the sponsors of the Parley we suggest that riore showmanship and perhaps a "name" speaker would have lured more students to the sessions.- of Thursday, Jan. 16. Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- tificate, June 1941: Before making elections for the second semester, each candidate should check the require- ments in the major and minor teach- ing fields, as outlined in the School of Education announcement. page 28 and following. Academic Notices Chem. and Met. Eng. Seminar: Today at 4:00 p.m., Room 3201 E. Eng. Bldg., Mr. D. E. Holcomb will speak on "A Comparison of The- oretical Design Methods for Multi- Component Fractionating Columns." The Correlated Course in Educa- tion (Education D150) will not be of- fered during the academic year 1941- 42. Concentration in English: Stu- dents should confer with me at the following times: Wed.. Jan. 15-11-12 a.m. Fri., Jan. 17-1-5 p.m. Wed., Jan. 22-11-12 a.m. Fri., Jan. 24-1-5 p.m. - -J. L. Davis English 121: The course in the English Romantic Poets will be giv- en at 9 o'clock on Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday. The hour stated in the catalogue has been cancelled in favor of the earlier hour. (English 121. MWF. 9, 2225 A. H.) All students taking classes in In- strumental Supervision are required to attend a Conference conducted by Mr. Carleton Stewart of Mason City, Iowa, to be held in the Third Floor Assembly Hall, Rackham Building 9:30 to 12:00 a.m., Friday, January 17. This conference takes precedence over other School of Music Classes Exhibitions - Exhibition, College of Architecture and Design: The work of Bruce Rog- P ers,-books, including the Lectern z Bible, pamphlets, studies, bookplates, P labels, water color sketches,-is being shown in the ground floor cases,I Architecture Building. Open daily,1 9 to 5, except Sunday, through Jan- uary 16. The public is invited. Exhibition, Rackham Building: Photographs of- Outstanding Ex- amples of Iranian (Persian) Archi- tecture, made by Myron Bement Smith and loaned by the Library of Congress will be on Exhibit in thet West Gallery until Saturday, Janu- ary 25, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Lectures University Lecture:, Dr. Hornellt Hart, Professor of Sociology at Duke University, will lecture on the sub- iject, "Happiness Measurements and their Sociological Applications" un- der the auspices of the Department of Sociology at 4:15 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, in the Natural Science Audi- torium. The public is cordially in- vited. University Lecture: Professor James Holly Hanford of the Department of English at Western Reserve Univer- sity, will lecture on the subject, "John Milton as Propagandist," under the auspices of the Department of Eng- lish at 4:15 p.m. on Monday, Janu- ary 20, in the Auditorium of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Institute: Graduate and Post-graduate Den- tistry. The public is cordially invited. , University Lecture: Myron Bement Smith, Confultant in Islamic Archi- , tecture and Art at the Library of Con- gress in Washington, D.C., will lecture e on "Iran: The Country and Its Archi- tecture" under the auspices of the Re- krehitecture of Mexico today at 4:15 )m. in the Architectural Lecture Fall. Lecture will be illustrated with )olored slides. French Lecture: Professor Louis Allard, recently of Harvard Univer- ity, will give the first lecture on the ,ercle Francais program, Monday, Tanuary 20 at 4:15 p.m., room 103, t.omance Language Building, on "Le 'heatre et la Vie." Tickets for the series of lectures nay be procured at the door at the ime of the lecture. Myron Bement Smith, Consultant n Islamic Architecture and Art at he Library of Congress in Washing- ton, D. C., will lecture on "Iranian Vault and Dome Construction" on Wednesday, January 22, at 4:15 p.m. n Room 102, Architecture Building. The public is cordially invited. Events Today The Research Club will meet in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Build- ng tonight at 8:00. The following papers will be read: "Some Analyses of Reasoning in Rats," by Professor John F. Shepard. "Franklin's Political Journalism in England," by Professor Verner W. Crane. R.O.T.C. Drum and Bugle Corps will meet today at 4:00 p.m. at Head- quarters. Chemical Sound Movies: The pic- tures "The Story of Neoprene," de- picting the development and pro- duction of synthetic rubber, aid "It Isn't Done With Mirrors," dealing with the development and produc- tion of plastics and resins, will be shown in the Rackham Ampitheater today at 4:45 p.m. They are being sponsored by the Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity. Alpha Phi Omega will meet tonight in room 304 of the Michigan Union at 8:00. Professor Ralph L. Belknap, of the Geology Department, will speak on "Little Known Facts About Greenland, Its People, and How They Live." Cercle Francais: The 'Ensian pic- ture will be taken today at 5:00 p.m. at Dey's Studio. Mr. Claude Nelson, National Direc- tor of the World Student Service Fund, will speak at Lane Hall at 4:30 p.m. today concerning the stu- dent relief work in Europe and China. Ski Club Meeting will be held to- night at 7:30, in Union Room 305. Application for membership will be accepted. All interested please at- tend.