THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRID~AY, JANUlARY 17, 194 ,.. .. . THE MICHIGAN DAILY ART C o E O- - 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. Subscriptions during the regular school year by carrier $4.00; by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIMING S National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publisbers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO . BOSTON . Los ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1940.41 Editorial Staff Hervie Haufler Alvin Sarasohn Paul M. Chandler Karl Kessler Milton Orshefsky Howard A. Goldman Laurence Mascott Donald Wirtchafter Esther Osser Helen Cormnan Managing Editor Editorial Director City Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . Sports Editor . . . . Women's Editor Exchange Editor 1' '1 THE ANN ARBOR ART ASSOCIATION pre- sents currently in Alumni Memorial Hall its annual show of members' work. An exhibition of this srt immediately raises critical problems that are no more easily solved than were the similar ones faced by the jury. Let it be said that the standard of the show is good, although there is nothing present that is outstandingly different or unique, nor does one see shown the signs of a great and original mind new to the world. However, one does not expect that in an exhibition of this character. Rather, is it to be regarded as a live display of a healthy interest in art. After all, there is a much great- er opportunity to understand art by making a stab at it than there is in hearing an infinite number of lectures on the topic by experts, qual- ified or not. As it is, then, Ann Arbor has a just right to congratulate itself on its Art Asso- ciation and the stimulation coming to the com- munity from seeing the products of many peo- ple practically interested in the arts. From the entire exhibition the visitor gets an interesting and, I think, typical reaction in pan- oramic form to various art traditions. There are evidences of the renaissance re-studied and diluted, essays in current abstractionist styles and modes, an occasional hint of post-war, Ger- man expressionism, one or two suggestions of the method of surrealism-which, by the way, are not successful-and most startling is one picture that irresistably calls up the ghost of Arnold Bocklin, of all people. Yet, these recol- lections and influences are fair enough, in that they show sensibility and alertness, and tfte show is blessed by the almost entire absence of imita- tion Brooks, Karfiols, or Bentons. AS I HAVE SAID, the work is of a good level. Were I to undertake the ungrateful task of selecting the best thing in the show, I believe the choice would be a draw between Emil Wed- dige's lithograph, Village Pond, no. 103, a first- rate performance, and Grover Cole's matt- glazed white bowl, no. 32, a sensitively designed and handled piece. These two items seem to be the most completely successful and would hold their own in any company. Good, too, are Mina Winslow's fresh water color, no. 10b, East Ann Street, and May Brown's sparkling Modern Arrangement. John Clarkson's Valley, no. 28, relates to the theory of modern painting as the international style does to modern architecture. like it or no, the picture has an idea. Jean Paul Slusser's San Francisco, no. 88, marks another peak for him, being authoritative yet unforced. Edward Calver's Heath, no. 22, and Elizabeth Bailey's Taos Puebla, no. 7, are simple and di- rect observation slowing considerable feeling. Donald Gooch shows in Sunday Morning Break- fast, no. 48, a sarcastic bit of genre which is most telling. Martha Parker's La Siesta, no. 78, is an odd summation of the nude, done with grace and some memory of Pascin. The oils are less important than the water- colors, and the sculpture, save for Carleton An- gell's Puma, no. 5, and Ernst Mundt's elegant ceramic group, Adam and Eve, no. 73, is negligi- ble. Among the oils, Doris Porter's Hallowe'en is perhaps the most satisfying. It is simple and not overbearing. Margaret Bradfield shows a pleasant flower piece, and Mr. Slusser's On the Huron is distinctly ornamental. Orlo Heller's Still-life, no. 54, is full of sober delight in the art of painting, and Alexander Mastro-Valerio's Nude, no. 98, is subtly satisfying in color. - John Maxon Business Staff Business Manager 4 . Assistant Business Manager Women's Business Manager Women's Advertising Manager'. Irving Guttman Robert Gilmour Helen Bohnsack Jane Krause NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT SPECKHARD The editorials published in The Michi- gan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Associated Farmers And Migrant Labor IT SEEMS that the Associated Farm- ers of California are determined to retain their status as one of the leading anti- labor groups in the country, for they have be- come openly active once more. You will perhaps remember the "Farmers" from their self-styled "aggressive action" cam- paign against the Dust Bowl migrants in 1936- 37. The membership of the Association is, of course, not made up of small, hardworking farmers as they would have you believe. Instead, the greatest portion of the members are wealthy owners of large industrialized farms- Factories In the Field" as Carey McWilliams calls them. The idealogy of the organization is well il- lustrated by the fact that it has opposed almost every particle of progressive legislation passed in the last eight years-such acts as the Wages and Hours Law, the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. ECENTLY, THE ASSOCIATED FARMERS R have become particularly alarmed at new labor gains such as the successful Vultee strike and the State Supreme Court decisions pro- tecting the closed shop. Therefore, in close co- operation with other businessmen's associations they began casting around for some method to combat the advances of labor. The scheme they hit upon was just about what one would have expected. They decided to launch their reac- tionary campaign behind the very convenient camouflage of national defense and patriotism. Time Magazine reports that the organization's first step was to scatter all over the California countryside red, white and blue billboarcd posters which read, "National Defense-A nation at work-Protect the open door for jobs for every- one-The open shop is the open door." Obviously, the signs are nothing but false propaganda designed to subtly inject into the mind of the average person the idea that labor is being unpatriotic when it demands the closed shop, the right to strike and the right t picket. The Associated Farmers of California hope that under the guise of a national defense emergency they can get a strangle hold on labor which will last long after the emergency is past. WHILE 'vE ALL MUST ADMIT that both labor and capital-both employees and em- ployers-will be required to make sacrifices dur- the present emergency, we must also demand that neither group profit at the expense of the other. And, yet, that is just what the "Farmers" on the Pacific Coast are trying to do-profit at the expense of the laboring class. This condition is not, by any means, limited to California, however, although it is in a much more~advanced stage there than elsewhere. There are people in every state in the'union who agree with the actions and motives of the Associated Farmers and would like to profit from the de- fense program. Such people are dangerous to America. It is, therefore, up to the clear think- ing, far-sighted persons in the country to be al- ways on the alert. They must see that no one takes from them the social advances whih have been obtained in recent years, for if these gains are now lost we will have taken the first fatal step toward the complete disintegration of our democracy. Let us hope the people of California set us a 11 , ad: Sobert S.Aeet GO$ WASHINGTON - That astounding executive order signed by the President making Charles F. Palmer, Defense housing coordinator, a super defense agency all by himself, is not going to last. His power-hungry wings are going to be clipped in short order. Cooked up in tight backroom secrecy by Bud- get Director Frank Smith and 'his little clique of civil service bureaucrats, and sprung on the entire Defense command as a bombshell out of the clear sky, the extraordinary scheme literally turned the Administration inside out. In the eight years of the New Deal no move has ever created such inner turmoil and upheav- al. From top to bottom the inner circle rocked with raging fury like a ship in a typhoon. There was plenty of reason for the explosion. Every- thing about the affair was in the realm of the fantastic. PALMER has been under fire for months from Defense Commissioners, builders, govern- ment housing chiefs and other authorities. Al- though on the job nearly six months, housing for tens of thousands of civilian defense workers all over the country still is a total blank. Several weeks ago, with the q.t. aid of William McReynolds, Civil Service Secretary of the De- fense Commission and one of the Budget Bur- eau clique, Palmer attempted to ease himself out from under the control of the Defense Com- mission-and free of the increasing rain of brick- bats and complaints. This maneuver was block- ed and a quiet move started to, get rid of him entirely. Last Saturday plans were set in motion within the Commission to go to Roosevelt when he re- turned from Hyde Park and recommend that Palmer be replaced. The boys were too late. The chicken already had flown the coop. FIRE & WATER by mascot, ONTINUING a tradition begun last semester, Athe campus co-ops, united in the Inter- Cooperative Council, present atthe Union this afternoon their annual open meeting to the public. The subject is "Campus Co-ops-What They Were; What They Are; What They Offer," and Rev. H. L. Pickerill, one of the godfathers of the campus co-op movement here, will be the principal speaker. Of course, the meeting is not only designed to inform the campus community as such of the cooperatives but also to explain to those, either male or female, who are contemplating mem- bership in a co-op of the advantages and re- sponsibilities entailed in such membership. But, above all, the meeting should be impor- tant to the University community because of the significance of the co-op movement itself- especially here. The co-op movement here is significant because it has been the means by which hundreds of students can afford to attend college. It is significant because of its active practice of the principles of democracy. THERE DO EXIST, however, misconceptions concerning the co-ops at the University of Michigan. We would place under this list, first, the notion that it is difficult to join a coopera- tive. Though the Inter-Cooperative Council Personnel Committee receives more applications for membership than there are "room" vacan- -ies in the constituent houses, boarding oppor- tunities in the co-ops are almost unlimited. A "boarding" position in a co-op, moreover, en- titles the boarder to all the privileges of full membership, since he is usually considered in an apprentice position to a rooming and board- ing membership. Requirements for acceptance by the Personnel Committee which serves as a "clearing-house" for all the co-ops assigning new members on the basis of need of the mem- ber and the need of the houses for members (thus avoiding competition between the houses for members) are not difficult to meet a cer- tain amount of need and a basic degree of tol- erance by the applicant. Second misconception we would list as a skep- ticism of the living standards of the co-ops which can offer to their members prices rang- ing from $2 per week to $6.50 per week for board and room. Such a misconception ignores the mass-purchasing power and highly efficient purchasing of the united campus cooperatives and does not realize that, since all work in a co-op is done by the members themselves, a labor cost (in price terms) is non-existent. THIRD FALLACY and a vicious one is that the "co-ops are filled with Communists." The fact exists that the co-ops when they admit members do not even ask the political affilia- tions or feelings of the applicants since the co-ops, sublimating democracy, are interested in the member as an individual in a fully dem- ocratic society. There may be Communists in the cooperatives, but even the members them- selves would not know the number or extent. Co-op men do know, however, that in a campus cooperative there is a wider expression of all opinions than exists in most other parts of the campus; that in a cooperative because of its democratic principles and procedure there exists a fellowship based on living and working to- gether for common ideals and aspirations with- LETTERS FO THE EDITOR Christianity And War These lectures are a graduation re- To The Editor: quirement. AFTER READING in the Detroit Margaret Bell, M.D. News under the caption "U.M. Medical Adviser to Women professor writes war plea" that "To stay at peace would in all probability bring the destruction of our liberties and ways of life," I feel I must con- demn such sophistry. I would address myself to the Christians on this cam- pus because I know that their ap- proach to the crisis must be different. I go upon these assumptions: War is evil and the evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit; peace is good and a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; the power of good is al- ways greater than the power of evil. Ours is a Christian country and must have Christian doctrines to guide it; in a crisis like the present these principles must stand forth' in the words of Christ in the Bible. Two of the most important are found in Christ's sermon on the mount: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the children of God," and "Love your enemies: Do good to them that hate you." 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. today. This con- ference takes precedence over other School of Music Classes. All are invited to submit questions to Mr. Stewart. Leave thee questions in my mail box, First Floor, Burton Tower. before noon Thursday. - David Mattern Recreational Leadership: Women students wishing to enroll in the course in Recreational Leadership of- fered by the Women's Department of Physical Education during the sec- ond semester are asked to fill out an application blank in Room 15, Barbour Gymnasium, by January 25. O A CHRISTIAN those words Doctoral Examination for Miss Su- T A w Hsuen Wu, Botany; Thesis: "Cy- mean something that we don't tological Studies on Spironema Fra- just think about, but must put into grans Lindl. and Certain other Com- action. Those words aren't to be melinaceae," today at 10:00 a.m., 1119 thrown aside just because we are on N.S. Chairman, W. R. Taylor. the brink of war, or because our gov- ernment doesn't seem to recognize Doctoral Examination for Miss Christian principles; those words are Doris Alicia Cline, Education; Thesis: to be vitalized now of all times. If "AnsA na lisefEd at on esis thequoatonsaboe re ot nogh An Analysis of Data Concerning the quotations above are not enoug Freshmen Admitted to Wayne Uni- to cover the situation, we find that' rsmnAmte oWyeUi Christ made* himself more specific: I versity," today at 2:00 p.m. 4017 "You have heard that it hath been U.H.S. Chairman, George E. Meyers. said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth By action of the Executive Board for a tooth. But I say to you not to the chairman may invite members of resist evil: But if one strike thee on the daculties and advanced doctoral thy right cheek, turn to him also candidates to attend the examina- the other." (Matthew, 5, 38) I can- tion and he may grant permission not expound the whole Christian to thoseswho for sufficient reason viewpoint here or anywhere, but I might wish to be present. do exhort those REAL Christians to C. S. Yoakum work for peace and not aid in bring- Abnormal Psychology 42," second ing us into war directly or indirectly. semester, gives three hours credit, not T MEN like Prof. McDowell. who two hours as announced in the Cata- wrote the war plea and to other log. war-mongering professors and stu- dents I can only add that if you Concerts would work half as hard for peace as' you do for war, we would have a Student Graduation Recital: Uarda world worth living in. You are no Foster, Pianist, will present a recital better than Hitler when you have at 8:30 p.m., Monday, January 20, to put your ideas over the same way in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. he does. This recital is in partial fulfillment John P. O'Hara, '42L of the requirements for the degree o P r 4 of Bachelor of Music. t e (Continued Trom Page 2) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN r k may be procured at the door at the time of the lecture. American Chemical Society Lec- ture: Professor C. C. Furnas of Yale university will speak on the "Kine- tics of some Solid-Gas Reactions of Interest to Metallurgists" at 4:15 p.m. today in Room 303, Chemistry. The meeting is open to the public. Events Today Dormitory Board will meet in the League at 4:30 p.m. today. All As- sembly representatives residing in dormitories are requested to attend. The I.Ae.S. will have its 'Ensian picture taken at 5:30 p.m. today at Rentschler's studio. It is imperative that all members come. Future Teacher's Association will meet today at 4:15 p.m. in the Ele- mentary School Library. It is im- portant that all members be present for the election of officers. Anyone who has not secured a membership may do so a few minutes before the meeting. Auditioning for JGP songs will be held today, 2:00-4:00 p.m., in the League. Room reservation will be posted on the bulletin board. Com- posers are requested to bring copy of the music and lyrics. If not able to be there, and interested in writing songs, call Phyllis Waters, 2-2547. Disciples Guild will have a Winter Sports Party at Huron Hills Country Club this evening. Meet at the Guild House, 438 Maynard St., at 8:00 p.m. Call 5838 for reservations. Small charge. Association Coffee Hour will be held at Lane Hall, 4:00-5:30 p.m., to- day. All students are welcome. J.G.P. Dance Rehearsal today at 4:00 p.m. in the Women's League. Westminster Student Guild and the Methodist Young People will sponsor a party in the social hall of the Pres- byterian Church tonight from 8:00 to 12:00. An evening of entertain- ment and fun. Harris Hall: There will be a tea this afternoon from 4:00 to 5:30. All university students areinvited. Wesley Foundation: Bible Class at 7:30 tonight in Room 214 at the First Methodist Church. Dr. C. W. Bra- shares, leader. At 9:00 pm. there will be a joint party with the Pres- byterian Guild at the Presbyterian Church. All Congregational students and friends are cordially invited to a party to be given in the Congregational Church parlors, tonight, 9 to 1 o'clock. Folk dancing and games. Refresh- ments. Newcomers' Section, Faculty Wo- men's Club: Midwinter Party today at the Michigan League at 3:00 p.m. Mrs. Ralph W. Hammett will give an illustrated talk on Mexico and tea will be served after the talk. Conservative Services will be held at the Hillel Foundation tonight at 7:30. The Fireside Discussion to fol- low will be led by Prof. Preston W. Slosson on the subject, "This Chang- ing World-Techniques for Living." The public is cordially invited. Coming Events Suomi Club meeting Saturday, Jan, 18, at &00 p.m. at the Speech Clinic, at 1007 E. Huron. Graduate Outing Club will meet at 2:30 Sunday afternoon in the club- room. (Use northwest rear entrance Rackham Bldg.) Watch for further notice, All graduate students wel- come. Saturday Luncheon Group meets Saturday, 12:15 p.m. at Lane Hall. CINEMA e 1 By LAURENCE MASCOTT Lusty, bawdy and downright funny is per- haps the best characterization of "The Baker's Wife," a French film produced by Marcel Pagnol and starring Raimu which began its three night run at the Lydia Mendelssohn last night under the sponsorship of the Art Cinema League. And last nigjit, "The Baker's Wife" proved to its local audience that it actually was the top- notch, scintillating comedy that won it countless awards and tributes-even those of Dorothy Thompson, which may or may not be an advan- tage. Skillfully combining clever dialogue with su- perb comedy acting and equally sure and excel- lent direction by the gifted Marcel Pagnol, the film tells the story of a good baker, played by Raimu, in a small town in Provence,. But though it is Raimu and his fine portrayal that head- line the film, the picture features the story of the baker's wife (played by Ginette Leclerc) who runs off with a handsome shepard (Charles Moulin) and is made to come back by the vil- lagers, not because they feel sorry for the grief- stricken baker. but because he wouldn't bake any more bread until she did come back. But there are other interests seeking the return of the baker's wife since the reactions to the baker's serio-comic plight are tem- pered by the characters in the story according to that which each has to lose by the baker's wife running off with another man. Though the simple villagers -are concerned only with the loss of their daily bread, the marquis is concerned with the loss of his prize horse, on which the two impetuous lovers rode off, and the village curate is concerned only with saving the baker's soul while the school teacher is perhaps alone in his desire merely to help a fellow human. John Erskine, however, says in his foreword to the filrm: "The subject is man's need of bread ... Day-dreams, traditions, even prejudices-all tempered with charity-are our daily bread." Impressive, however, are such scenes as the baker's first refusal to believe that his wife Bradley Under Fire To The Editor: CHESTER BRADLEY'S review of Louis Adamic's new book "From Many Lands" in Sunday's Daily not only fails to give a clear idea of what Mr. Adamic is getting at, but also says something about Mr. Adamic's position that is absolutely false. After quoting Adamic's purpose- "to begin exploring our American cul- tural past and to urge the cultiva- tion of its many common fields-.. - until we dare to sink our roots into our common subsoil"-and "I am try- ing to work toward an intellectual- emotional synthesis of old and new America," Bradley states: "He favors, in short, lasting effec- tive racial assimilation." NOT ONLY do the above quotations from the book have nothing to do with assimilation, but nowhere, in the book, in his previous books, or in his articles in the new magazine that he edits does he champion racial assimilation. On the contrary, his idea, as expressed in "Common Ground" is: "The central educational or cul- tural effort, both with youths and adults, should not be toward uni- formity and conformity-to the preva- lent, as it was in the "Americaniza- tion" drives of twenty years ago and as it still is to an entirely too great an extent, but toward accepting and welcoming and exploiting diversity, variety and differences which do not, and cannot conceivably ever, come into conflict with out national ideals and safety." ADAMIC'S IDEAS should be of special value to members of mi- nority groups-students and profes- sors alike-who dislike the thought of identifying themselves with the culture and problems of the group of their origin. "What's wrong with just being an American?" (i.e. pseudo Anglo-Saxon) they ask. Adamic's expert observation has convinced him, to quote a reviewer of the book in Christianity and Society: "Only as the American-born sec- ond and third generations of 'for- eigners' move away from the current surface values of Americanism, re- capturing what is best in the cul- tural heritage of their' ancestors, will they truly contribute to what is enduring. America, the paradise of millions of life-tossed peaple, will as- sure her real future much more if the descendants of the motley i- migrant groups revive in living mem- ory and active life the spiritually linked traditions of their parents and grandparents." Exhibitiors 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 the West Gallery until Saturday, Janu- ary 25, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Hornell Hart, Professor of Sociology at Duke University, will lecture on the sub- ject, ''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. French Lecture: Professor Louis Allard, recently of Harvard Univer- sity, will give the first lecture on the Cercle Francais program, Monday, January 20 at 4:15 p.m., room 103, Romance Language Building, on "Le Theatre et la Vie." Tickets for the series of lectures RADIO SPOTLIGHT WJR WWJ j CKLW WXYZ 750 KC - CBS 920 KC - NBC Red 1030 KC - Mutual 1240 KC- NBC Blue Friday Evening .6:00 Stevenson News Music; Oddities Rollin' Bud Shaver 6:15 Hedda Hopper Newscast; Music Home The Factfinder 6:30 Inside of Sports Bill Elliott Conga Time Day In Review 6:45 Kelody Marvels Lowell Thomas Canadian Speech Short Short, Story 7:00 Amos 'n Andy Fred Waring Val /Clare-News To be Announced 7:15 Lanny Ross Dinner Music Do You Remember? 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