PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1942 M~ox e,.f One-Act Plays Wil Be Given HereMonday Bill Will Include Drama, Shakespearean Comedy, Two Original Scripts Directed By Student A bill of fotr one-act plays, each under student direction, will be pre- sented at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The entire presentation is the re- sult of student effort-as acting, di- recting, scene-building and costum- ing is all done by students. Virginia Whitworth, assistant on the staff of Play Production, is general advisor and supervisor of the program. The plays, each fifteen minutes long, include a drama, a Shakes- pearean comedy and two original scripts directed by the student play- wrights. Joseph Lynn, '42, is directing the drama; Margaret Cotton, '42, is di- recting pastoral scenes from "As You Like It"; Pay Goldner, '42, her own "As Darkness Calls" and Theodore Balgooyen, Grad., his "Black Land, Bright Sky." Play Of Cencentration Camp The last of these plays concerns life in a Nazi concentration camp and is directed, by Balgooyen with certain techniques of Russian dire- tors he has studied-notably Meier- hold. According to Meierhold's the- ories, the characters in plays are symbolic of some idea, and his be- lief that audiences should be in- cluded in a play rather than watch- ing from the outside is carried out in this presentation. Students in Robert Mellencamp's advanced stagecraft class are build- ing the sets for the plays under his general supervision. Balgooyen is designing his own set, Helene Herz- feld, '42, is working on Lynn's play, Willis Pitts, Grad., is art director of "As You Like It" and Gordon Bird, '42A, is working on "As Darkness, Calls." Students To Meet Staff Students in Play Production and .Speech 190-the teaching of speech -will meet with members of the staff later in the evening for an in- formal clinical discussion of the pre- sentations. . Tom Hfarmon Ho+usewarmis ThrongOf 50 (Continued from Page 1) other knotty-pine affair where re- freshments flowed quickly and guests either ping-ponged or stared at some of the 200 leg-art pictures of the adventures .of Harmon in Hollywood. Most of theshots were of Tommy place-kicking with carefully un- dressed starlets. The ping-pong room looked like a theatre marquee dur- ing the world's premiere of "Harmon of Michigan." Well-blue-serged, Harmon and his date, one Dorothy Stephanek, played the perfect hosts and kept the party rolling. Tom is "on call" for the Army Air Corps and expects to be called around March 1. The den, reminiscent of Yost's of- fice with its executive-like desk, prob- ably has more coveted trophies in it than any other room in the nation. Among the gold and silver memorials were the trophies Heisman, Walter Smith and a large All-American scroll. Domestic Mrs. Harmon, an ex- tremely amiable lady, and Harmon's professed "best girl," retreated to the kitchen about 11 p.m. to supervise the preparations for a midnight pot- luck supper which transformed all nine rooms in the house into dining rooms. Cheerleader for the evening was Russ O'Brien, a local bookstore clerk and athlete-satellite, who divided his time between ordering drinks for other people and looking for his date, Dorothy Johnson. Margot Thom, Harmon's "ex-" was there with Al Piel as were other un- assorted peoples, namely Bob Kole- sar, Marjorie Rayment, Lou Carpen- ter, Betty Green, Jack Myers, Jane Connell, Dr. Gunnar Ramstrum, Jeep Mehaffey, Pete Haller, Jean Knappan and Johnny Simmers. Fil ed by 97 Cameramen Quentin Reynolds in ONE DAY IN SOVIET RUSSIA -Also - * Musical Story * Latest Soviet War news Rackham Lecture Hall 8:15 Thurs., Fri., and Sat. Severe Shortage Of Teachers Will Affect Education Program' By MORTON MINTZ Michigan's educational program will be jeopardized during the com- ing year because of serious shortages of nearly every type of teacher, Park G. Lantz, director of laboratory school at the Central Michigan Col- lege of Education warned here yes-I terday. Lantz told approximately 500 edu- cators and guidance experts, con-j vened for the annual guidance con-j ference sponsored by the University Bureau of Appointments and Occu- pational Information, that there will be an "acute shortage of teachers for rural schools which may lead to the closing of many of them.". His conclusions based on reports recently received at the 16 colleges and universities in Michigan, Lantz predicted 1942 will also find: 1. A marked shortage of elemen- tary teachers for graded schools; 2. A shortage of teachers in the secondary schools in the fields of ag- riculture, industrial arts, commerce, health education, mathematics, sci- ence, home economics and music; 3. A "sellers'"' market, in which teachers, trying to move into better' positions, may easily raise the gross turnover in university accredited high schools to 30 per cent, as compared Education School Will Now Offer with 17.3 per cent in 1940-41, and 23.6 per cent this year. Lantz said the State Board of Ed- ucation could see to it that there are enough teachers through the issuing of special certificates, but he cau- tioned that this policy would lead to a definite lowering of our present standards of teacher preparation. Shortages of teachers requiring special knowledges and skills, ac- cording to Lantz, may lead to the closing of some departments in the small high schools for the duration of the war. Lantz said the supply of elementary teachers will be approximately 600 in 1942, but the demand, assuming the expected 10 per cent turnover, will be nearly 1600. While the anticipated supply of Use Of Funds For Paralysis Is .described How funds collected in the yearly polio drives are utilized is revealed to University students by Dr. Charles F.. McKhann, Chairman of the De- partment of Pediatrics and Commun- icable Diseases. According to Dr. McKhann, 50 per cent of the funds collected in each community goes to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be used for the promotion of re- search, while 50 per cent is retained locally. Of this latter portion, explains Dr. McKhann, 10 per cent is remitted to the State Chapter for an emergency fund to be used whenever pressure within the State most demands it. Seventy-two per cent goes for medi- cal examination, diagnosis, hospitali- zation and treatment, and the re-' maining 18 per cent is used for edu- cation of crippled children who would otherwise have been deprived of edu- cational facilities. "Even though 1941 was a year in which the incidence of poliomyelitis was low in Washtenaw County," Dr. McKhann stated, "the receipts of the National Foundation Campaign failed to cover the needs which arose for services from this organization. A small balance remains from pre- vious years, although it has been the policy of the Chapter to expand the local funds as needed, weighing the need in each instance, and not with- holding support in any instance in order to build up any sizeable bal- ance. "The persons who administer this County fund receive no remunera- tion, and the total of office expenses for the fund during this period was only six-tenths of one per cent of the total, which was for postage." secondary school teachers will be 877, a drop of 24.7 per cent under last year, Lantz maintained that 1200 new secondary teachers will be re- quired on the basis of the forecast 12 per cent turnover. He cited situ- ations of parallel gravity in the case of special and rural teachers. John J. Lee, head of the Bureau of Teacher Recommendations at the Wayne University College of Edu- cation, revealed that a total of 8555 vacancies were reported to the 16 colleges and universities in 1941. Data compiled by the University Place- ment Bureau show that 2589 teach- ers qualified for the positions, with 2563 of them being placed by the 16 schools, Lee announced. Citing teacher scarcities in such elementary fields as early elemen- tary homeroom, science education and kindergarten, Lee stressed the problem caused by overcrowding into such fields as elementary English and auditorium.. He further pointed out that not all of the people who apparently qualify are available, because of large numbers of men being drafted, mar- riage, and obstacles raised by foreign cultural backgrounds. Congress Council Posts Open To Underclassmen Independent men now residing in dormitories and rooming houses can petition for positions on the Congress Executive Council to fill posts that have been recently vacated, Louis Fogel, '43, Congress executive secre- tary, announced yesterday. Only second-semester freshmen and sophomores are eligible. All petitions must be presented at the Congress offices, Room 306 of the Michigan Union, as soon as possible. Candidates should include in their petitions any aims they have for the improvement of Congress. Eligibility cards must be presented along with the petitions. Local Paralysis Group To Hold Benefit Musicale Mrs. Joseph Brinkman, working with the local infantile paralysis campaign committee, has arranged a musicale for 3:00 p.m. tomorrow, in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League. Dance arrangements by a Univer- sity group under the direction of Miss Ruth Bloomer will supplement piano numbers by Mr. and Mrs. Otto Graf and songs by Mrs. Neil Staebler. An admission fee of 25 cents will be charged, and the proceeds will be turned over to the current polio drive. Control Needed over Trapping Of AllBeavers Experts On 'Conservation Cite Good Conditions Prevalent At Present LANSING, Jan. 24.--(P)-Beaver,, fabulous currency and prize of the empire-building French and British, still is bringing trappers in this state almost $200,000 a year, but conser- vation experts report beaver trapping may be. curtailed drastically this spring. . With furs of other animals trapped in the state, the Michigan total amounted to $1,684,067, P. M. Hoff- master, State Conservation Depart- ment Director said today. Hoffmaster said a summary of the 1939-40 fur crop in Michigan, the latest available total, shows nearly 7,000 beaver were trapped for a value of slightly less than $200,000 in that year. The price was higher last year and trapping conditions were excellent in the Upper Peninsula. Hence, beaver and otter trapping may be banned in that area in April and may be curtailed in the Lower Peninsula in March, the normal seasons. Otter, because it is taken in the same small type of trap as beaver usually is trapped under the same regulations, it was said. H. D. Ruhl, chief of the Depart- ment's game division, said last spring's trapping was believed to have taken a considerable toll of Upper Peninsual beaver, leading to the ex- pectation that a ban would be en- forced this year. New Contracts Awarded To General Motors Corp. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.--(IP)- The Navy said today it had awarded contract for $300,000,000 of war ma- terial to the General Motors Corpor- ation. "The awarding of these contracts," the Navy said, "is in accordance with the arnounced policy of the War and Navy Department to utilize as promptly as possible the trained per- sonnel and facilities of the auotmo- tive industry in the war effort." The type of materials to be pro- duced by General Motors was not disclosed. Study Of Oriental Languages Being Conducted By Dr. Haas By CHARLOTTE CONOVER With world conflict spreading to the i Far East and the countries of the South China Sea taking major im- I portance in the dramatic struggle, thei need for knowledge of all oriental languages has become emphasized. s It is in this connection that Dr. < Mary R. Haas, Research Fellow ofI the American Council of Learned So- cieties, is now on the Michigan cam- i pus making a special study of the' Thai or Siamese language. "There is little up-to-date infor- mation," says Dr. Haas, "about this language, in English or any other European tongue. For this reason the best approach to the problem is to7 make a study of the language as it is spoken by the natives. I am carrying on the investigation at the University of Michigan because of the large number of native speakers among the' students enrolled here." Through the cooperation of four Siamese graduate students, Miss Ubol Guvanaseni. Miss Poonsapaya Grai- yong, Mr. Heng Subhanka, and Mr. Malai Huvanandana. Dr. Haas has been able to launch a special study of the standard dialects spoken in the, capital, Bangkok. The ultimate pur- pose of the project is to prepare teaching materials on the language, including a grammar, a dictionary and a suitable collection of texts, which will prove invaluable to our diplomats and government workers. Dr. Haas has made her study from the point of view of phonetics, the sounds of the language, as well as the structure. Like Chinese, Thai is a tone language of five distinguishing tones by which otherwise identical words may have five distinct mean- ings. There is no grammatical in- flection, as in Latin. but like Eng- lish, Siamese makes extensive use of word order. The difficulties of the language are increased by the fact that in ad- dition to the ordinary language of the people, there is a completely dif- ferent set of words ordained for the use of royalty. The Thai alphabet is ultimately derived from Sanskrit, and the language is soft and musical and pleasing to the ear. A worker in the language field for 10 years, Dr. Haas has made an in- tensive study of American Indian languages. She did her undergradu- ate work at Earlham College, Rich- mond, Ind., and her graduate work at Chicago and Yale. Working among various native tribes in Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma, Dr. Haas made a detailed study of several Indian languages, particularly Cherokee, Tu- nica, Natchez. Creek and Koasati, and has published a grammar for people interested in the study of languages. Because of her wide experience in working with languages of unusual structure. Dr. Haas was appointed last October to undertake this spe- cial investigation of the Thai lan- guage. Birth Records Held Up LANSING. Jan. 24. -(p)- The State Health Department says ap- plicants for certified copies of their birth records might just as well be patient, because there are 10,000 ap- plicants ahead of them. Shorter Courses An opportunity to earn a teacher's certificate in one semester is offered by the School of Education's newly- reopened correlated course in sec- ondary education. The course, to be given the second semester, is intended especially for seniors and graduate students who have had no education courses to date, and who fulfill the prerequisite of having taken Psychology 31 or its equivalent. Special permission to elect this course must be secured at an early date from the instructor. This 17-hour course, first given in 1929, offers a comprehensive training including six full-time weeks spent in off-campus secondary schools getting practical teaching experi- ence. The course includes materials drawn from educational principles, psychology, philosophy, history, ad- ministration and guidance. It fur- ther provides opportunity to do a variety of tasks in extra-curricular and community activities. Emphasis on practical teaching experience is evidenced in the fact that students in the correlated course have worked in 70 school systems with emergency, regular and assis- tant teaching training given. 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