tm, -Nt zttc, A, 1w ti Cr A -. ~ - 5. ~ 5.S, .. .F ;..5.s. ItU. fl 5 J .1 fr',_h1 : x i 0ccupational Conference Will Be Held Jan. 6 7r8e "? 6 Women's Role In War Effort To Be ~Theme. Series To Be Held In Rackham Lecture Hall; President Ruthven Will Preside At First Meeting (Continued from Page 1) J_ Wartime Revamping Of College Life Foolish, Asserts Ilka Chase such as chemistry,, engineering, or mathematics, and stenographic, sec- retarial, and clerical positions. Scheduled to speak in the after- noon are Mr. L. V. O'Loughlin, direc- tor of the International Business Ma- chines Co., Detroit, and Mr. Kenneth V. Meade, director of College and Technical employment of the General Motors Corp., Detroit. Evening Speakers Evening speakers include: Mr. E. D. Brown, employment manager of the Ford Motor Co. at Willow Run Bomb- er Plant; Mr. J. E. Walters, vice- president of the Revere Copper & Brass Co., Rome, N.Y.; and Mr. Hu- bert C. Smith, assistant chief metal- lurgist of the Great Lakes Steel Co., Ecorse. Miss Ethel McCormick, social di- rector of the League and chairman of the committee on the Women's War Program, and Dean Alfce C. Lloyd will preside at the afternoon and eve- ning meetings, respectively, on the third and last day of the conference. Mr. Robert W. Kelso, director of the Institute of Public and Social Admin- istration of the University; Mrs. Mer- yl P. Stone, food. consultant for the Quartermaster Corps of the War De-. partment; and Miss Helen S. Willard, director of the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy, have been se- lected to speak. Varied Subjects Their subjects are connected with social and health service work, which offers opportunities for dieticians, medical social workers, nurses, dental hygienists, and nutrition experts. According to Dr. Purdom, director of the Occupational Bureau, plans for the conference are quite com- plete, but are subject to change. Be A Goodfellow,---- Germans Release American Victim CAIRO- (A)- Col. Mary Booth of the Salvation Army, granddaughter of the founder of the organization, has arrived in Cairo after having spent two and one-half years in in- ternment camps in Germany. Col. Booth was exchanged with a number of other British women for German women detained in Pales- tine. She was seized by the Germans in Belgium early in the war while making for Ostend, and was subject to 24 hours of questioning by the Gestapo, who suspected her of being a spy. By SHIRLEY RASKEY If there is one person who lives up to her advance notices, that person is Ilka Chase. In keeping with her philosophy of life, Miss Chase declared in an inter-. view today that she considers it fool- ish for any person, whether attending college or not, to completely revamp his life to suit a war-torn world. "Why give up Saturday night dances1 to sit home and knit!'" is her answer. Of course, if the German forces were arriving at the Ann Arbor sta- tion, I would expect everyone to man the barricades. But, until that time, don't give up what characterizes the life of an America, merely add to that life along constructive lines." "Help Sensibly" "Students between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two possess a greater amount of energy than even they realize. They are capable of do- ing their part without curtailing any- thing. Moderate activities if neces- sary, but don't eliminate them. Help in every way that you can, but do it sensibly!" An equally curt response was given to the question, what would you ad- vise a young girl who was planning on making the theatre her life work. "Be prepared to starve," was her an- swer. "Go to New York and pound the pavements. However, there is at least one good point in going into radio first-you can eat! Radio pro- vides good experience, and is a bumpy but direct road onto the stage." She titles the theatre the "heartbreak of the world." Possesses Wit, Charm Wit, charm, friendliness, and a truly "effervescent" personality, have all contributed an equal part to mak- ing her name known throughout the country in the realms of the theatre, radio, literature, and the screen. Those of you who enjoyed Miss Chase's last book "Past Imperfect" will perhaps be interested' to know that she is now at work on a new book. This time it will be in the form of a novel. Miss Chase is doing her part in the war effort by acting on the governing board of the American Theatre Wing, which sponsors the Stage Door Can- teen. Following her lecture tour she plans on returning home, where she will take part in several functions for the purpose of furthering the sale of War Savings Stamps and Bonds. Be A Goodfellow MESSIAH SUNG SUNDAY The annual presentation of the "Messiah" sponsored by the Univer- sity Musical Society under the direc- tion of Charles A. Sink will be given at 3 p.m.-Sunday in Hill Auditorium. Meet Old, New] Friends Today At Coke ;Bar Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Stockwell, Psi Upsilon, Sig-} ma Phi Epsilon and Theta, Chi, are the specially invited groups at the Union Coke Bar to be held at 4 p.m. today in the main ballroom of the Michigan Union. Hostesses this week include Joan Gallup, 46; Constance Hammett, ;'45; Martha Kinsey, '45; Pat Palmer, '45; Marilyn Ruch, '45; Bunny Williams, '45; Fran Tripp, '44; Rosemary Klein, '46; Joan Schukowsky, '45; Nancy Jefford, '46; Marilyn Moore, '45;. Shirley Hogan, '45; Phyllis .Adams,I '44; Nancy Griffin,-'44; Pat Heil,.'45; Clare Blackford, '44; Marge McCabe, '45; Sue Arnstein, '45; Martha Op- sian, '44; Mary Horan, '44Ed; Frances Capps, '43; Joan Clement, '43A;z Peg- gy Ross, '43Ed; Jean Whittemore, '44; Marcia Netting, '45SM; ) Peg Brown, '43. Both dates and stags will be wel- comed at this Coke Bar, the .goal of which is to serve as the place to bring a Tuesday afternoon date and also as a means of allowing students to make new acquaintances. Couples will dance to the latest records. As usual gingerale and cook- ies will be served as refreshments. I li BET TER QUIT GR I P IN': First WAACS Overseas Are Much Admired By PEGGY LITTLE Five WAAC lieutenants represent- ing five different states won immedi- ate admiration on their arrival for war duty in London. In England, the WAACS will assist in clerical duties and will aid in maintaining the- communications sys- tem. Eventually theytexpect to be followed overseas by others. Their trim uniforms-well cut dark tunics and lighter skirts topped by peaked caps-have caused much fav- orable comment, and their roomy pocketbooks are the envy of British women. British officers look askance when service girls carry packages or are seen with uniform pockets bulg- ing. When a photographer asked one of the lieutenants the significance of the emblem on her tunic lapel, he discovered that it represented Pallas Athene, the Goddess of Victory. The lieutenant smiled anti said that that was what the WAACS hoped to see in England. Factories Take Youngsters; Labor Shortage Grows Here TOU might think service in local stores is bad now, but it's going to get a lot worse! For now that Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins has opened jobs in war plants to 16- and 17-year-old girls, we can hardly expect any- thing else. Ann Arbor especially,.being in the defense area, will find its labor short- age growing more acute. A glimpse at the want ad page in the Ann Arbor News will show approximately 20 calls for persons to work in local restau- rants and soda fountains alone. N SPITE of the shortage of labor, however, persons in the "eating busi- ness"" have not found any decrease in the number of customers. The real headache these people must contend with is that the public expects to receive the same kind of service that they have always been used to. And as any of them can tell you, there's nothing worse than a starving "Joe College" demanding to be fed the minute he enters a restaurant. But instead of a host of waiters rushing up to accommodate him, he is lucky to get the attention of a not-too-enthusiastic fourteen-year-old. ;DORMITORIES, fraternities and, sororities are having a tough job of finding waiters and cooks also. Members of Kappa Gamma sorority have taken the job of waiting table upon themselves, and it looks like the rest of us are going to have to get used to the idea of serving ourselves sooner or later. But satisfying our own needs is not going to be enough. We're going to have to devote more and more of our time and energy to helping out with the vital work that the Manpower Mobilization Corps and the various class projects are sponsoring; namely, helping out at hospitals, collecting scrap, and aiding the also short-handed local farmer. And, if you can't manage to get in on any of these things, the least you can do is to quit griping about the slow service! -- Charlotte Haas Sorosis, Alpha Phi Lead 'Home Front Invasion' !WAA Voluntary Physical Fitness Chart In League Shows Four Houses With 100% Participation Leading the "Invasion on the Home Front," are.Alpha Phi and Collegiate Sorosis with 110 per cent participa- tion in the WAA Voluntary Physical Fitness program for the past week. Standing of the other sororities, dormitories and league houses may be discovered by a glance at the pro- gress chart in the lobby of the League. Tiny soldiers are placed in line with the appropriate percentages on a bat- tlefield background, with a blue stream, a brown fence and trees which give a realistic aspect. Other Toppers Named Other toppers in the exercise pro- gram are as follows: Alpha Omicron Pi and Delta Delta Delta,, 100 per cent; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 97 per cent; Alpha Epsilon Phi, 95 per cent; dand Theta Phi Alpha, 90 per cent. Jordan No. 2 takes the lead in the dormitories with 82 per cent and league house zone No. 7 is at the top of the league houses with 50 per cent participation. "League houses that turned in their charts showed a very high participa- tion, but their zone averages were pulled down in most cases by those houses that didn't turn in any lists at ,all," according to Helen Willcox, '44, vice-president of WAA. Bonuses given This unique chart is drawn up for a seven week period, so that at the end of that time 700 per cent would be a perfect score, excluding bonuses. An extra 10 per cent is allowed each week as a bonus to those houses who follow the exercise program on week- end nights also. Next week's progress will be marked by a piece of artillery and the soldiers will be left up, so that soon a com- plete army will be marching across the "Home Front." Uncooperative Houses Listed Certain houses did not present re- sults for the week at all: Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Gamma Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta and Phi Sigma Sigma. The cooperatives who failed to do this are Lester, Pick- erell, Adelia Cheever and Couzens Hall. The dormitories which did not hand in any participation slips are Mosher and Stockwell Halls. Uni- versity House failed in this respect also. Athletic managers or leaders of the program in the individual houses are expected to use their own judgment in excusing women from the exer- cises because of illness. Members of' the WAA Board, responsible forh Assembly Ball Interviewing Begins Today Interviews for Assembly Ball, which is scheduled for Jan. 9, will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. today through Friday in the Undergraduate Office of the League; petitions are to be brought with the interviews in- stead of being submitted beforehand as has been the usual custom. The week usually allowed for peti- tioning has been cut out to give the ball committee time to organize their plans, because the date has been moved up about three months on short notice. Positions open for petitioning and interviewing are general chairman, assistant general chairman, ticket chairman, program chairman, pa- trons chairman and publicity chair- man. Second semester freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors are eligible to try out. All interviewing will be conducted by the Executive Council, consisting of Betty Newman, '43, president; Dorothy Schloss, '43, vice-president; Mary Moore, '43, secretary; Roberta Holland, '43, treasurer, and Jean Con- way, '43, president of the league house group. g . Be A Goodfellow - u.ssoldiers Must Not Flirt With Moslems WASHINGTON-American troops in Morocco and Northern Africa have been warned against flirting with Moslem women who hide their fem- inine charms behind veils. The veil, to a strict Moslem woman, is a curtain of respectability screen- ing her from the eyes of the world, says the National Geographic Socie- ty. She is never seen unveiled to any man other than her husband and the men of her immediate family. In some parts of the Moslem world the women are so completely veiled that only one eye is visible. In Tunis not even one eye is uncovered. The long black veil of the middle-class Tunision woman covers the entire face and is lifted only slightly by the wearer so that she can see a few steps ahead when she walks in the narrow, crowded steets of the native city. The poorer women, sheeted and shrouded in white, are masked' in a black veil that fits tightly over the face, but allows two small slits for the eyes. Algerian women sometimes take drawing up the progress chart, are Shelby Dietrich, '45, Nancy Filstrup, '43, Marcia Sharpe, '45, and Miss Willcox. Miss Marie Hartwig, faculty advisor, also assisted. Forest To Call Women To Serve State LANSING, Dec. 7.-(P)- Women will be recruited in an army of forest fire fighters in Michigan,the State Defense Council announced today, declaring the war's absorption of available manpower has made this step necessary. Duward Robson, chief of the State Conservation Department fire-fight- ing force and state coordinator of the defense council's forest fire fighters, said the women would be employed principally as headquarters clerks, drivers of light trucks, first aid atten- dants and somewhat similar capaci- ties Labor Shortage Cause Recruiting will be started by local defense councils in mid-February, he said, thp. enrollees to be trained -at strategic centers, receiving supple- mental gasoline rations to attend the schools and for work on fires. Robson said it would be necessary to employ women because of a 50 per cent turnover in regular personnel of his conservation department staff, and because available male labor for imprest duty has been largely lost due to defense employment and the draft. To Receive 30 Cents per Hour He said the volunteers would sup- plant all imprest labor, and receive the 30 cents an hour fixed by rule of the conservation commission for imprest labor. About 8,000 volunteers will be en- rolled and trained, 'including high, school students, he said. more freedom. Their veils fit tightly over the bridge of the nose with their head coverings pulled down low enough to conceal their eyes. In Northern Africa the Moslem woman of the city is almost always veiled. The desert women go un- veiled. (Reprinted from N. Y. Times) _- i YOU'RE SURE TO PLEASE AFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 4) Hall. Evening Prayer will be said at 5:15 in the Chapel. Disciples Guild: Tea will be served this afternoon, 5:00-6:00, Disciples Guild House, -438 Maynard St. Both Disciples and Congregational students and friends, are invited. Christian Science Organization will meet tonight at 8:15 in Rooms D and E of the Michigan League. The Book.-Shelf and Stage Section of the Women's TFaculty Club will meet with Mrs. Kenneth K. Landes, 2119 Woodside, today at.2:45 p.m. Michigan Dames will meet tonight at 8:15 in the Michigan League. Dr. E. V. Moore will speak on "Music in the Army." Coming Events Graduate History Club Meeting on Thursday, December 10, at 8:15 p.m in the East Conference Room, Rack- ham Building. Refreshments and election of officers. The Cercle Francais will hold its annual Christmas meeting on Thurs- day, December 10, at 8 o'clock in the Michigan League. There will be-read- ing of Christmas plays and ,singing of French songs. All members and prospective members are cordially in- vited. Refreshments. Episcopal Students. There will be a celebration of Holy Communion Wednesday morning at 7:30 in Bishop Williams Chapel, Harris Hall. Break- fast will be served following the ser- vice. The Faculty Women's Club will meet Wednesday, December 9, at 3:00 p.m. at the Michigan League. Each person should bring a sharp knife or scissors to cut greens. ( : advisor, also assisted. 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