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TIE MICHIGAN DAILY
Dean Walter
To Give First
Freshman Talk
Re-Orientation Lecture
Series To Open Today
Currently controversial topic pf
"Liberal Education in Wartime" will
be the subject of a lecture by Dean
E. A. Walter, followed by discussion,
the first in a series of Freshman Re-
orientation Lectures, at 7:30 p.m. to-
day at Lane Hall.
The series, sponsored by the Stu-
dent Religious Association, aims to
give the freshmen an opportunity to
hear suggestions and ask questions
concerning problems which trouble
them.
Planned for after Christmas are
the second lecture by Rev. H. L. Pick-
erill of the Disciples Church on the
maintenance of individuality on cam-
pus, and a discussion by a group of
upperclassmen on social, behavior on
campus.
Dean Philip E. Bursley said in a
letter concerning the series to the
Student Religious Association, "There
is no doubt that at the present time
not only freshmen but, in fact, every-
one is more or less at sea regarding
the present and the future, and if
these round-table meetings help these
first-year students to clarify their
ideas, you and your associates will
have done the freshmen a great
favor."
Be A Goodfellow
'NYA Head to Talk to
Inter-Racial Group
Leonard P. Troutman, Personnel
Director of the Detroit NYA, will
speak on "Twenty Centuries behind
the Veil," at 8 p.m. today in the Un-
ion.
The lecture is thte second in a series
sponsored by the Inter-Racial Asso-
ciation. Mr. Troutman will trace the
historical background of the culture
of the American negro.
The Inter-Racial Association is a
University - recognized organization
whose aim is to combat prejudice and
eliminate discriminaton. The lecture
series is part of its program to make
students aware of the problems fac-
ing minority groups and the reasons
for prejudice.
- Be A Goodfellow
MICKLE GETS LEAVE
Lieut.-Col. F. A. Mickle, formerly
an associate professor in the mechan-
ical engineering department, has
been granted a leave of absence from
the University. He will report to the
Tank Automotive Center of Army
Ordnance in Detroit.
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS ORATORIO:
Four Soloists Will Be Featured
In 'Messiah' Program Sunday
On The Line At Grosse Ile
FOUR GALLONS, DADDY'S HOME:
A' Cards Need Not Resurreet
Family Life, Prof. Fuller Says
With a group of distinguished solo-
ists and the University Orchestra and
the University Choral Union com-
bined under the baton of Hardin
Van Deursen, the annual Christmas
oratorio, the "Messiah," will be pre-
sented at 3 p.m. Sunday in Hill Audi-
torium.
Palmer Christian, University or-
ganist, will preside on that instru-
ment, and several of the free arias
will be sung in the Handelian tradi-
tion with piano accompaniment
played byMabel Ross Rhead of the
music school faculty.
Four well-known soloists will be
featured in this performance of the
'Messiah.' The soprano solo will be
sung by Marjorie McClung who, since
graduating from the University, has
won great distinction in New York
as concert artist and as leading so-
prano at the Riverside Church.
Eileen Law from Montreal will also
be heard in a solo part. She has long
been recognized as Canada's out-
standing contralto and will sing in
Ann Arbor for the first time at this
performance.
Harold Haugh, a distinguished ten-
or of New York, now on the faculty
of Oberlin College, will also be heard
in Ann Arbor for the first time.
John MacDonald of the Chicago
Opera Company will sing the bass
Post-War Council
Will Ho ld 'Town
Meeting' Dec. 15
Eager to follow up their successful
Conference held last- week-end, the
Michigan Post-War Council will of-
fer a "Town Meeting" Dec. 15 at the
Rackham Amphitheatre to discuss
"Internationalism-How?"
After a month of intensive re-
search, four students will present ob-
iective descriptions of four major
types of projected post-war interna-
tional organization. They include, Pox
Victoriarium, The Modified League of
Nations, Federations of Regional Sov-
ereignty, and World-Wide Govern-
ment.
Following the presentations of the
plan, time will be devoted to discus-
sion from the floor. As a climax,
votes will be cast on the four general
ideas presented. Although this is an
open meeting it is expected that a
representative campus opinion will be
obtained since each housing unit has
been asked to send at least one offi-
cial representative.
Prof. Lionel Laing of the Political
Science department and Dr. Kenneth
Hance of the Speech department
have been faculty advisors to the
group during their research work.
role. Mr. MacDonald has also had
wide experience in the concert and
oratorio field.
Tickets for the "Messiah" will be
on sale at the offices of the Univer-
sity Musical Society in Burton Me-
morial Tower until noon Saturday.
On Sunday the box office in Hill
Auditorium will open at 1 p.m. and
will remain open until the beginnin'g
of the performance.3
Be A Goodfellow
Hootlkins Will
Give Spanish
Lecture Today
Ties of friendship between Mexi-
cans and North Americans will be
discussed by Hirsch E. Hootkins of
the romance language department,
in the first of seven Spanish lec-
tures, at 4:15 p.m. today in Room D,
Alumni Memorial Hall.
Having returned in September from
a six-month stay in Mexico, Hoot-
kins studied for a time at the Uni-
versity of Mexico. Though listed
only as an instructor in French, he
is a linguistic expert, being able to
use 25 foreign languages.
His lecture is the first of the win-
ter series sponsored by the Sociedad
Hispanica, University Spanish Club.
The lectures will be given at inter-
vals from now until March 31, 1943.
Most of them will be presented by
faculty members and will be given
in both the English and Spanish
languages.
Tgday's lecture will be followed by
a talk on various aspects of Colom-
bian culture before the regular meet-
ing of Sociedad Hispanica at 8 p.m.
today at the League. Jose Perdono,
a native of Colombia, will speak on
his homeland.
His talk will be followed by Span-
ish songs sung by Mrs. Roberto F.
Olmedo and recitations by club mem-
bers. The program, the last of the
year, will end with a conversation
group.
Be A Goodfeilow-
French Club To Present
Special Program Today
Members of Le Cercle Francais will
celebrate Christmas with a lively pro-
gram at 8 p.m. today at the Michigan
League.
Games, carols and refreshments
will supplement the presentation of
Zamocois' humorous one-act play "L'
Arriviste" and Professor Koella's
reading of a Christmas story by Al-
phose Daudet.
All active and prospective members
are welcome to attend.
By IRVING JAFFE
"Plausible, but merely common
sense guess work" was the descrip-
tion given yesterday by Prof. R. C.
Fuller of the sociology department to
the recent statement of a Michigan
State professor that gas rationing
would bring about the rebirth of fain-
ily life in Michigan.
Prof. J. F. Thaden, of the M.S.C.
sociology department, predicted that
gas rationing would help bind family
and neighborhood relationships more
closely and would tend to reduce ju-
venile delinquency.
He declared that the practice on
the part of farmers of making week-
end trips into town would disappear
for the duration, and that as a con-
sequence, "there will be greater em-
phasis on card clubs, exchange visits,
popcorn parties and similar activities
in farm areas and small urban com-
munities." He asserted that -small
communities would become less de-
pendent on larger cities.
Prof. Fuller commented that Tha-
den's conclusions are plausible,,but
noted that they are merely predic-
tions and prophesies, not based on
any research. He said, "We cannot
be sure what gas rationing will mean
in solidifying family and neighbor-
hood units and reducing delinquency.
until rationing has been tried long
enough to see how it really works."
He declared that for Prof. Thaden's
predictions to come true, two sets of
conditions are necessary:
The first of these conditions is that
rationing must be "severe enough to
keep people at home and in the neigh-
borhood, and sharing rides." Liberal
issuance of "B" and "C"' cards, he
pointed out, would not change family
and neighborhood relations much.
The second condition, Prof. Fuller
explained, is that other factors which
in wartime tend to promote family
discord and increase delinquency are
not strong enough to counteract the
solidifying effect of gas rationing.
The principal disorganizing factor,
he declared, is the breaking up of
families because of husbands, wives,
sons and daughters being drawn into
military service or industry. Whether
gas rationing can counterbalance
such factors is a question which can-
not now definitely be answered, Pref.
Fuller said.
-Be A Goodfellow
MAIER TO SPEAK
Dr. Norman Maier of the psychol-
ogy department will conduct the sec-
ond session ,of this semester's leader-
ship course at 8:30 p.m. today in the
Michigan Union.
These Navy Aviation Mechanics are warming up planes for cadets
at the Grosse Ile Naval Reserve Aviation Base near Detroit. So large
has the field grown since Pearl Harbor that many auxiliary fields have
been established throughout Michigan. Cadets from the United Nations
receive primary flight training at the base.
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Lieut. Commander Roy Callahan
of the Miami naval air station 'and
a graduate of the University was
credited recently with the dramatic
rescue of four naval ensigns forced
to bail out of their planes over the
Atlantic after a mid-air collision.
He had to blast through heavy rain
squalls and ignore the dangers of
Students to Honor
Former Pastor
To honor Dr. Howard M. Chapman,
former pastor of the Baptist students
of the University for 20 years, a spe-
cial memorial service will be held at
4 p.m. tomorrow at the First Baptist
Church. Dr. Chapman, who died
Tuesday at Northville, was 73.
The service will be presided over
by the Rev. Chester Loucks of the
First Baptist Church. Dr. Edward W.
Blakeman, religious counselor and an
alumnus of the Baptist Guild who
worked under Dr. Chapman will also
speak.
While in Ann Arbor Dr. Chapman
was chairman of the leadership train-
ing in religious education for Protes-
tant Churches, chairman of the
Washtenaw Council of Churches, and
chairman of the Student Religious
Council for three years.
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choppy seas to rescue the wrecked
fliers who had escaped by parachute.
Commander Callahan radioed an air-
craft rescue patrol boat after he had
located the castaways clinging to a
rubber life raft about 50 miles off
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He landed be-
side them and took them aboard, but
was unable to take off with the added
load.
Commander Callahan, who serves
as operations officer of the Miami
naval air station, received his A.B.
degree from Michigan in 1924 and
graduated from law school here in
1929. He captained the cross-country
team in 1925 after breaking the
Michigan Agricultural College course
record in 1924. Callahan also was a
member of Michiguama.
Even then he was known on cam-
pus for his courage. Three times he
lost one of his shoes in a conference
meet and continued running. Once
he ran four and a half miles after
losing his shoe over the roughest
course in the conference.Callahan
ran an M.A.C. race half blinded in
1923 and managed to finish the race
even .though he was unable to see.
Later he submitted to an operation.
Commander Callahan, who is now
38 years old, was a prominent New
York attorney before he was called
for active duty in October, 1940. He
joined the Navy Air Corps in 1929
and remained on active duty for two
years before beginning his law prac-
tice. He is unmarried and his home
is in Shreveport, La.
Be A Goodfellow-
Manpower Corps
Removes Boiler
Bricks for WPB
Bricks flew thick and fast yester-
day as eight Manpower Corps volun-
teers began work on two six-ton boil-
ers in the West Engineering Building
in an attempt to make them ready
for WPB inspection Friday morning.
These two steam boilers, formerly
used by the University, stand two and
one half stories high. Each is lined
with bricks which have to be removed
for inspection.
Richard Dick issued an urgent call
for volunteer workers to finish work
on these boilers. Said he, "We'll work
to all hours of the night to get these
things ready for the WPB."
Volunteers are asked to call Dick
today at 2172 for work today, Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday if necessary.
These boilers have to be ready for
removal the first of next week, Dick
stated, and the more workers we have,
the faster this job can be finished.
Ho pwood
Notes
Not much more khan a month re-
mains for freshmen to complete their
manuscripts, if they plan to enter
the annual Freshman Hopwood Con-
test.
Prizes of $50, $30 and $20 are of-
fered for the prize-winning selections
in the essay, prose fiction, and poetry.
Essays are limited to 3,000 words,
prose fiction to 10,000 words, and po-
etry to ten poems. All freshmen are
eligible to compete in more than one
field.
Any freshman enrolled in a com-
position course in the English De-
partment of the College of Literature,
Science and the Arts or in the Col-
lege of Engineering may enter the
contest.
Judges will be Prof. Arno L. Bader
and Prof. Louis I. Bredvold of the
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