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5ATUDAY, AWRIL 18, 19J42
Library Owns
Book Placing
'Time Capsule'
Instructions For Locating
Archeological Record
preserved For Future
The General Library is the sooth-
sayer's envy as it covers the begin-
ning, present and even the future, for
it has a record of the events of 6939
A.D.-the 70th century.
Down in the Rare Book Room there
is "The Book of Record of the Time
Capsule," a 51-page volume of non-
fading ink, permanent rag paper and
a special type designed by Frederick
W. Goudy, which records the details
of the famous time capsule buried at
the New'York World's Fair in 1939.
The most revolutionary archeolog-
ical attempt in the world's history,
evidence for future centuries has been
entrusted to 176 libraries-even such
faraway places as the Lamaseries of
Tibet have a copy of this volume,
and the University library is also a
recipient.
Only about one-third inch thick
and the size of an average textbook,
the book leaves no chance to fate but
gives the exact geodetic location of
the capsule and elaborate directions
for building the electrical means of
locating metals.
It even solved the possibility of the
English language becoming unknown
with a key to English and a diction-
ary of slang. The Lord's Prayer is
written in 300 languages and mes-
sages to the future have been sent by
Albert Eistein, Thomas Mann and
Robert A. Millikan.
"If anyone should come upon this
capsule before 6939 A.D., let him not
wantonly disturb it, for to do so would
be to deprive the people of that era
of the legacy here left to them. Cher-
ish it therefore in a safe place,"
commands the inscription. To be
sure of the appointed year six com-
mon ways of reckoning time are giv-
en, including Shinto, Mohammedan
and Buddist, but also-just in case-
by astronomical data.
One copy of this book is now in
the "Cupaloy" capsule which is com-
posed of an indestructible time-proof
combination of copper, chromium and
silver; but despite this academic
record of our civilization the capsule
also has specimens of modern cos-
metics and one of those singular ap-
parel creations of our age-a woman's
hat.
Petition Deadline
For Civil Service
Exams Announced
The United States Civil Service
Commission has set April 27 as the
last day that applications may be
received for junior assistant profes-
sional and scientific positions.
A new examination will be given
in May, and those eligible will be used
to fill positions at $1,800, $1,620 and
$1,440 -a -year. This examination will
include all branches of junior pro-
fessional work, but persons are par-
ticularly desired in the field of Public
Administration, Business Analysis,
Economics, Home Economics, Library
Science and Mathematics.
All applicants must have completed
a four-year college course or must
be enrolled in the last semester of
the senior year. Those who meet
these and other entrance require-
ments will be given a written test to
measure their general knowledge and
aptitudes. The Commission is plan -
ning to give these tests early in May,
hoping to establish the eligible lists
the first week in June.
The proper application forms may
be obtained at any first- or second-
class post office or by writing to the
Washington office.
Spring Concert
To BeApril 23
Men's Glee Club To Sing
In Annual Program
* * *
Foremen Hold
Fourth Yearly
Meeting Here
Conferences Will Begin
Today With Delegates
From Michigan, Ohio
Beginning at 9:30 a.m. today and
.ontinumg throughout the morning
tid afternoon, the fourth annual
Michigan and Ohio Foremen's Con-
'erence will be held in the city.
With Hill Auditorium ws its gener-
al headquarters, delegates will at-
end two general sessions and have
their choice of various conferences
in the morning and afternoon.
Sponsored by the University Exten-
sion Service and the National Asso-
ciation of Foremen and the Fore-
men's Clubs of Michigan and Ohio,
delegates will discuss various phases
of the foreman's place in industry
and management together with cor-
related subjects.
Speakers at the general sessions
and the conferences include several
members of the University faculty,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUCTUR--E
NEWSvV N
PROF. DAVID E. MATTERN I
* * *
Prof. David E. Mattern will direct
the Men's Varsity Glee Club in their
annual spring concert, which will be
hel'd at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, April 23,
in Hill Auditorium.
The program will be divided into'
two sections. The first part of the
concert will consist of formal num-
hers, which will include classics,
semi-classics, Negro spirituals and
other similar songs.
Informality will reign in the sec-
ond portion of the program when
the audience will be invited to join
in singing such songs as "I Want To
Go Back To Michigan," "Pack Up
Your Troubles," "Home On the
Range," and "Yankee Doodle."
The concert, as in former years,
will be free to the public, and all the
campus is invited to attend.
Art Collection
Is. OnDispla
f on Kc l tlolr Gifts Shown j
1 o Public At Racklain
An exhibition of the Maud Ledyard
von Ketteler collection is on display
in the central galleries of the Rack-
ham Building and open to the public
from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. daily
except Sunday until Wednesday.
The 10-piece gift by Baroness von
Ketteler consists of a Chinese cut
velvet hanging, two Chinese throne
mats, a Japanese laquer writing box,
two specimens of Spanish embroi-
dery, three Belgian tapestries, and
an Italian processional cross.
All the items of the collection were
purchased in Spain and brought to
Italy by the Baroness. They represent
a significant addition to the Uni-
versity's collection of art objects be-
cause cf the quality of the works and
its variety. Following the exhibition,
under the auspices of the Museum of
Art and Archaeology, the collection
will be available to students of design
and fine arts as well as the general
public.
Each item in the collection is an
outstanding example of its type of
art. The laquer box was done by
Korin, a 17th-century Japanese
painter of fans and 'screens.
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industrial representatives of com-
panics- from various sections .of the
United States, and memb rs of the
War Production Board of Wasimtin.-
ton, D.C., and the district board in
Detroit.
Camp us Thief
StrikesAgIain
After a long winter of hibernation,
the campus burglar who menaced
student rooming houses last year in
a minor crime wave, returned, to
action early yesterday morning, ran-
sacking a fraternity and a sorority
house.
Today police continued their search
for the thief who entered Phi Sigma
Delta fraternity at 1811 Washtenaw
and took more than $51 in cash, a
cigarette lighter valued at $10, a $35
suit, a sweater and a bathrobe.
While the boys wei e sleeping in
the house dormitory, the burglar en-
tered their rooms and emptied their
pockets and dresser drawers. Police
claim that none of the house or
room doors were locked.
Also ransacked early yesterday
morning was Delta Gamma sorority
from which a diamond ring and some
money were stolen.
Police had been summoned by the
girls when they heard a prowler in
the house but by the time the squad
car had arrived the man had fled.
Suzanne Scheffer, '44, reported a
diamond ring missing from her dress-
er drawer and also found $4 had been
taken from her purse. The ring was
a family heirloomn valued at approxi-
mately $800.
BeforTi' ir> Si)j)ly
NEEDHAM, Mass.. April 17 /11
Now., app~arently, I ley're rli 191nm1W
timin ration ('ertifie ates.
Moturi'sts in this town learned lo-
day they couldn't get a ertificate
for a new or retreao iire-even if they
were entitled to one.
Secretary Arnold Mackintosh said
the tire rationing board had run out
of certificates-and don't expect to
get another batch for two weeks.
T H E R E' L L B E R E'S I D E N T S B Y A N D B Y-A soldier stands guard at the enemy alien concentration camp at Fort
Devens, Massachusetts, where adult males considered dangerous to nation's security are to be "guests".of Uncle sam-for the duration.
Camp, a quarter mile long and eighth of a mile wide, has about 270 tents, each with accommodations for six men. Long cement build-
ings are for cooking and hospital use. Lookout towers and floodlighting are planned. Two rows of barbed wire enclose camp.
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wander down the fairway when shapely Audrey Korn is at the left
is just one of those mysteries of lhollywood, where they both ap-
peared for a golf match--Audrey as a caddy, oh yeah? The match,
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Ore Ranrho Country club Cour,,e.
N 0 S E K N E W - Two opposing forces meet at the.nose of
Salvatore Baccaloni, basso'buffo "of the Metropolitan opera, in a
Cleveland hotel lobby. And the lily smell won by nose. He's
breaking in a new pipe, the gift of friend.
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dine with you, why don't you?
You know it would be fun.,
especially if you make the event
really memorable by bringing her
here for one of our tempting
meals- There's gerulne flavor
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