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THE FIRST CONCERT of the May Festival Golden Jubilee had a brilliant opening last night with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Salva- tore Baccaloni, "basso buffo," as so- loist. The orchestra opened the program with a clear-cut yet power- ful presentation of Beethoven's Over- ture to "Lenore" No. 3. Dr. Ormandy imparted a wonderful energy to this work, and the brilliant coda, taken at an even more rapid rate than usual, was especially effective. Mr. Baccaloni's first offering was the sonorous aria of Basilio, "La Calumnia," from Rossini's "The Bar- ber of Seville," which was sung in proper bombastic style. Next came Bartolo's aria, "La Vendetta" from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro," with Mr. B. being grim and grotesque, al- though slightly wheezy. It is not this corner's task to de- cide whether the subject matter of Mr. B.'s style is fitting for the con- cert stage. One can hardly sep- arate the soloist's flair for low comedy with his actual vocal tal- ent. The orchestra's next offering was a Sinfonia for Double Orchestra by J. Ch. Bach and arranged by Orman- dy. As played last night, the com- position became a Y'living and moving thing," as they say in the literature, but more in the spirit of Stokowski than the 18th century Italian school. However, one could not help admire the richness and lushness of the strings-even though these qualities were out of place. After intermission, a Symphony by Paul Creston showed off to great advantage the wonderful coordina- tion and technical ability of the orchestra. In an extremely virtuoso performance, the work was shown up to be what it really is-an excellent orchestration. MR. B. returned in the role which has probably gained him the most fame-that of Leporello in Mozart's "Don Gioanni." He sang the great buffo aria, "MVadamina," with much taunting and teasing. The soloist was at his musical best, how- ever, as Donizetti's counterpart of a medicine show barker (in "Udite, udite, O rustici" from "Elisir d'- amore") and also later in the first encore from the Barber of Seville. Just fair were the aria from "Boris Godounov" and the second encore from Don Giovanni. But what mat- ter a few rough spots and flat notes as long as both Mr. Baccaloni and the audience had such fun? Dr. Ormandy closed the program with a brilliant, fairly incandescent version of the music for the ballet, "The Three-Cornered Hat" by de- Falla.--David Protetch WASHINGTON, May 6.- Demo- cratic party chieftains have secretly decided on two major points of strat- egy for the 1944 election campaign. First-not to talk about a 4th term for President Roosevelt. The strategy is, "Mum's the word" regarding the President. Speeches by prominent Democrats urging him to run again will be taboo from now on. secondDemocratic leaders have decided to concentrate activities dur- ing the campaign on keeping a two- thirds majority in the Senate to support the President on the peace treaty. (The House does not vote on treaties). It passed unnoticed, but there was a tell-tale illustration of the "no 4th term talk" strategy at a recent dinner in Philadelphia for the Democratic organization of Eastern Pennsylvania. New Deal Senator Joe Guffey of Pennsyl- vania made an all-out 4th term speech, but three speakers who fol- lowed him-Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker, Attorney General Francis Biddle and former Representative Joseph Casey, a White House advisor - didn't breathe a word about a 4th term. Walker's recent trip through the nation, made to tap political senti- ment, convinced him that it will be very difficult for the Democrats to retain their slim majority in the House next year.' Senator Walker's Aim That is why Walker and his asso- ciates have decided to concentrate on the Senate. In doing so, Walker will not hesitate to cross party lines and support Republican candidates (behind the scenes, of course) who can be counted on to back up the President's peace policies. One GOP candidate the Demo- cratic leadership will definitely support is Ernest M. Hopkins, pres- ident of Dartmouth College, who will run against isolationist Sena- tor Charles Tobey in the New Hampshire Republican primary next year. As Vice-President Wallace was saying good-bye on his trip to South America, he asked Mrs. Laurence Duggan, wife of the State Depart- ment's Latin American, expert who was accompanying him: "Mrs. Duggan, is there anything you want me to do for your hus- band?" "Mr. Vice - President," replied Mrs. Duggan tactfully, "my hus- 9io27Ie &i car Jewish SurvivaI To the Editor: TODAY there exists a people who are suffering from atrocities and violences which transcend the realm of human imagination. Their only '"crime" is their nativity, and conse- quently, they are compelled to help- lessly watch the destruction of every- thing dear to them-their families, their material possessions, and their spirit. These unfortunate victims are the European Jews. In essence, our entire war effort is aimed toward the preservation of human liberty and decency. Our post-war plans supposedly embrace these ideals. If we are consistent with our belief in these principles, the problem of this group cannot be ignored, T0 AID THE PLIGHT of these in- dividuals, the United Jewish Ap- peal is sponsoring a national cam- paign to raise 25 million dollars, This campus, through the Hillel Foundation, has pledged itself to raise $1,000. In the past, the U.J.A. has accomplished phenomenal re- sults in aiding and rehabilitating these refugees who have been for- tunate enough to escape from occu- pied countries. Their work can only continue as long as they receive the proper financial support. This support should come from all quarters-from all men of de- cent instinct and good conscience. For this is a question which con- cerns humanity and does not in- volve any one particular race or religion. We are confident that this drive will receive the support it deserves. --Herbert G. Levin band is a man who needs a lot of sleep." On the trip which followed, how- ever, neither Duggan nor Wallace got much sleep. They were on the go night and day-receptions, speeches, plane hops, more receptions, more speeches. However, when they'ar- rived home both. looked extremely well. Bronzed as an Inca Indian, Wallace had lost ten pounds, never was in better health. Since then he has been getting up around 5:30 every morning to trans- plant vegetables in his sister's gar- den. She and her husband, the Swiss Minister, live not far from Wallace's hotel, and he goes by there every morning for an hour's work before breakfast. A farmer all his life, Henry misses the feel of the earth on his fingers. (Copyright, 1943, United Features Synd.) i NONE TOO SOON: U.S. Took Right Step in Breaking with Robert THE ACTION of the United States government last week in severing relations with Admiral Georges Robert, High Commissioner of the French Island of Martinique, has come none too soon. Until now the United States has been in the awkward position of having a man who is admittedly sympathetic with Vichy, and there- by with Germany, in charge of strategic is- lands at its doorstep. Robert had announced that he is taking orders from Pierre Laval, that he considers Giraud a traitor to France and that our invasion of North Africa was an unfriendly act. Robert's record has not been a favorable one. Last fall the United States opened negotiations with him for our immediate use of some mer- chant ships and later use of an airplane carrier and two cruisers, but without success. Later attempts to gain them by purchase or lend-lease were met with abruptness and discourtesy to our representatives. THESE INCIDENTS were followed by a re- fusal to allow the landing on the island of Admiral Batet, sent to Martinique by General Berthouart, representative of General Giraud, to confer with Robert. Admiral Baet's plane ,was met with a threat that if he landed he would be arrested. The significance of incidents such as these, or of Robert's declarations, cannot be mistaken. For this country to have continued with a pro- Nazi nation in control of this vital post rather than putting it under Giraud's command as is probable now, might have been one of the grav- est mistakes of this war. - Jean Richards COMPROMISE PLAN: Pay-As-You-Go in New Form Is Too Confused A COMPROMISE form of the much criticized pay-as-you-go plan has finally been pushed through the House by its Republican advocates, over the bitter opposition of the Democratic element. Forgiving nineteen per cent.of the 1942 income tax levy, the bill, as it stands now, wipes out more than half of last year's income tax total, as opposed to the Ruml plan which would for- give all of last year's assessments. If the measure passes the Senate, the method of paying income taxes will shift partially from payments on income already made to pay- ments on current income. However, it will create nothing but confusion in that it is only an appeasement measure designed to win the approval of both those who would cling to the old method and those who stand for the adop- tion of a complete pay-as-you-go basis, in the Ruml skip-a-year plan. The compromise Robertson-Forand Bill now passed by the House will mean that half of last year's taxes will be collected while at the same time taxes on current income will be levied ac- cording to the pay-as-you-go idea. THUS a portion of last year's taxes will be paid at the same time that this year's taxes are paid, making the burden on the taxpayer half Take fit Or /eave fit By Jason E THICS is funny stuff. You might wonder, for instance, why I don't have any particular aversion to shaking a nickel out of a candy machine, or swiping a couple of extra sandwiches from the dorm lunch line (I got caught doing that, last summer. Most em- barrassing.) But lifting a few odd bundles of cash from the bank-that's robbery. Or this business of cheating on exams. "You got ethics like my roommate," one of the girls over here was saying to a victim of an Ee 51 bluebook. "She only cheats on the little tests, the ones that don't count much." That's a fine line to draw, all right. But it's not any more illogical than your distinction be- tween the bank and the coke machine, when you come right down to it. Of course, there are plenty-maybe you're one who doesn't even draw that line. Your philosophy of life-paraphrase, for publication-would read: "Life's just one rooking after another." If you can rook the prof and get away with it, that's just so much gravy for you. There's another type of attitude-a sociologist might label it the "honor-among-thieves" mind- set. It was frankly voiced by a girl two rows back of me in Philosophy 33. "Aw, come on," she was saying to the fellow next to her. "Lemme see those notes. I helped you on the last bluebook." One of my profs has devised a counterattack for that psychology, though. It's the "class- average" approach. "You're being marked on class average. Go right ahead and help your neighbor, if you want to. You're cutting your own throat, that's all you're doing, cutting your own throat." That doesn't leave us with -many illusions about being gentlemen, but it works. PEOPLE try their own counterattacks. It takes a pretty hardened veteran to cheat without a few twinges of conscience here and there, and, if you can talk yourself out of it, you usually do. "I've only cheated once up here, and that was on the health lecture test," one friend of mine was saying. "There's no percentage in it-not when you're paying for an education. Of course, in high school, it's a lot different- we cheated all the time there." A nice-looking girl I was sitting next to on the train this week-end (no kidding, it was the only seat left-besides, she was going to visit her fiance) was saying how she made herself go to classes at the University of Chicago by using the same technique. "You don't have to go, at all," she told me. "Some kids never do. I don't cut many, though I figured out that each lecture is costing me $1.60, and I tell myself that all the time. It seems to work . .- THIS UNIVERSITY might profit by Chicago's experience. If you don't make people go to class, if you don't make them take exams, except when they're ready to-a lot of them will study, anyway. And they won't have to cheat, either, I'd Rather L Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, May 6.- President James B. Conant of Harvard wrote a piece for the Atlantic Monthly this week announcing that conserva- tism is finished. (I don't believe it is finished, of course, but it is important that the president of Harvard University thinks it is.) Dr. Conant called for the appearance of a new kind of man, an "American radical," who would take his ideas from America's Jefferson rather than Europe's Marx. He says that this fellow, when he comes along, will believe that every man is as good as his neighbor, and is entitled to a real chance for a decent living. One function of the American radical, says the Doc- tor, will be to keep the country from splitting into right and left wings, which might otherwise sit down and glare at each other while the world went to hell. But this issue was supposed to have been set- tied at the last election. In Washington some people will tell you that last November proved a conservative drift was on. Here is Dr. Conant saying otherwise, precisely as if there had been no such election. That is the wonderful thing about democ- racy. It is always undergoing alterations while doing business, It is never finished. A num- ber of~Americans thought they had settled for- ever the liberal hash of one prominent gradu- ate of Harvard, and here the president of the whole school pops up. And the Supreme Court of the United States picked this week to reverse. itself on the famous pamphlet case. Last year the Court ruled that Fort Smith, Ark. (and other communities), had the right to impose a tax on the sale of pamph- lets. The tax in Fort Smith happened to be $10, which meant that if you had only $9.99 to spend you did not have the right of free -press, but that if you had one penny more, the Consti- tution would be allowed to protect you. That decision (with Mr. Justice Frankfur- ter, shockingly, on the majority side) would have allowed each local community to set up a kind of juridical Sears, Roebuck catalogue, so much money needed to enjoy free press, so many dollars for free speech, and so on. The doctrine would have had the Constitution re- serve its favors for those with the price, a very immoral thing. Now there has been a reversal. (With Mr. Frankfurter still on the wrong side.) It makes me proud of my profession to note that the American Newspaper Publishers Association, practically every member of which has $10, none- theless joined in fighting this curious concept, that you have the right of free press so long as you are sound asleep in bed, but if you want to get up and use the right, it will cost you money. The implications of the reversal are vast. Isn't the poll tax the same kind of business, a local fee set on the exercise of abasic right? So we had this sudden, liberal turn this week. But not only that. Representative Ham Fish happened this week to send one of his usual broadside letters, which attack Wendell Willkie, to Mr. Roland B. Marvin, an up-State New York Republican leader of some size. Mr. Marvin not DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1943 VOL. LIII No. 158 All notices for the Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the Office of the President in typewritten form by 3:30 p.m. of the day preceding its publica- tion, except on saturday when the no- tices should be submitted by 11:30 a.m. Notices The Annual spring Convocation of the College of Pharmacy will be held Monday, May 10, at 4:15 p.m., in the East Lecture Room of the Rackham Building. Dr. Malcolm Soule will speak on "Some As- pects of the Practice of Medicine in South America." All pharmacy students are expected to be present and friends of the College of Pharmacy are cordially invited.- Notice to Men Students in Rooming Houses: Men students living in Approved Room- ing Houses who intend to move from their present quarters at the end of the Spring Term must give notice in writing to the Dean of Students before 4:00 p.m. today. Forms for this purpose may be secured in Room 2, University Hall. The official closing date for contracts in rooning houses will be May 27, and room rent shall be computed to include this date, excepting for seniors and other stu- dents who for one reason or another may wish to occupy their rooms for a longer period. In this case, the rent shall be computed to include the extra time the room is occupied. C. T. Olmsted, Assistant Dean of Students Fraternities and Sororities are reminded that membership reports for the month of April are now due in the Office of the Dean of Students. Seniors in Aeronautical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering: Mr. C. C. Lavene, Engineering Employ- ment Manager of the Douglas Aircraft Company,gilleinterview May and October graduates in all Departments of Engineer- ing today. There will be a group meeting at 8:30 a.m., in Room 3205 East Engineering Building. All interested seniors are asked to attend this meeting if possible. Interviews will start at 9:00 a.m., in Room 3205. The Douglas Company needs engineers for its Oklahoma, Illinois and Southern California plants. Inter- ested men will please sign the interview schedule posted on the Aeronautical Engi- neering Bulletin Board, near Room B-47 East Engineering Building. A. M. Kuethe, Acting Chairman Engineers: Carbide & Carbon Chemi- cals Corporation are sending a represenab- tive to interview engineering graduating in May, August and October on May 7 and May 8. Call Bureau of Appointments, Ext. 371, immediately for an appointment. --Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Academic Notices ROTC Drill: Co. 'D' will 'Fall In' on Hoover Street, in front of the IM Build- ing, in uniform. Doctoral Examination for John Melvin Trytten, Education; thesis: "A Study of the Relation between the Equipment of Commercial Teachers and the Demands of their Teaching Situations." Friday, May 7, East Council Room of the Rackham Bldg., 3:00 p.m. Chairman, F. D. Curtis. By action of the Executive Board, the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctoral candi- dates to attend this examination and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. -C. S. Yoakum Concerts The May Festival. The Philadelphia Or- chestra at all concertsr: Tonight, 8:30: First half-Choral works by Albert A. Stanley and Frederick A. Stock; Frederick Jagel, tenor; Hardin van Deursen, Conductor. Second half-Fritz Kreisler, violinist; Eugene Ormandy, Con- ductor. Friday afternoon, 2:30: First half-Fes- tival Youth Chorus, Marguerite Hood, Conductor. Second half-Astrid varnay, soprano; Brahms First Symphony; Saul Caston, Conductor. Holders of season tickets will please detach, before leaving home, the respec- tive tickets for the several concerts. Door checks will be required to gain re-admit- tance at intermission periods. For. obvious reasons visitors will not be admitted to rehearsals. The University Musical Society will ap- preciate the cooperation of all concert- goers in facilitating all matters pertairiing to the Festival for the greatest possible comfort and convenience of those attend- ing. -Charles A. Sink, President Professor Percival Price, University Car- illonneur, willpresent another in the cur- rent series of recitals at 7:15 tonight. The program will include Sonata for a Musical Clock by Handel, selections from Rigoletto and 11 Trovatore by verdi, and four Amer- lean war songs. P Exhibitions Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of ture, Michigan League Building. daily. Sclp- Open Exhibition: Pottery by Foster and Haile. Sponsored by the Museum of Art and Archaeology, through May 12. Hours: May 6-8, 1-5 and 7:30-8:30. Galleries of the Rackham Building. Events Today Michigan Sailing Club will meet tonight at 7:30 in room 304 of the Michigan Union. Election of officers. GAL I1--WORD WallyM2 Kappa Phi meeting today at 5:15 pm. at the Methodist Church. The Surgical Dressing Unit will be open to all girls interested in making dressings for the American Red Cross, 1:00-5:00 pm., in the League today. Specially Invited houses are Alpha Gamma Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Helen New- berry, and Betsy Barbour. Coming Events Graduate Outing Club will meet at the west entrance of the Rackham Building