. Gam , ' Dr 4 1197 It 1 1 . French Club Will Give Play Comedy in Three Acts Scheduled for April 27 Prof. Charles E. Koella of the French department announced yes- terday that "Le Monde ou l'on s'en- nuie" by Edouard Pailleron has been chosen for the French club produc- tion April 27 in the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. The three-act comedy, a light satire on salon society in France in the 18th century, was first played in 1881 at the Comedie Francaise, and is one of the classics of the French reper- tory. It concerns a young girl who falls in love with her guardian. In spite of the intrigues 'of the mother of the hero, and with the help of the Duchess de Reville, the heroine's grandmother, all ends well. Pailleron, a member of the French Academy, has often been compared to Moliere for his spirit and manner of social ridicule as shown in this play, which is generally considered his masterpiece. Last year the French club gave a successful production of "La Belle Aventure" by DeFlers, Caillavet and Rey. UniversityjGrad Named Capital's Leading Secretary by Magazine Washington's number one secre- tary, according to the current issue- of the Woman's Home Companion, is Iona Thornton, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Thornton, and graduate of the University in 1937. Her claim to this number-one spot has resulted from her work as secre- tary to Donald Nelson, and the arti- cle points out that the nation's most important industrialists have to get past her to see the WPB boss. The article, written by Miss Thornton, follows her typical day starting at 6:30 a.m. and continuing through until her waking day is finished. While on campus Miss Thornton was a Phi Beta Kappa and was alsoI affiliated with Alpha Gamma Delta. Before coming to the University she attended the University high school, and she got her master's degree in 1938 from Columbia University where she majored in history and political science. From Columbia she went directly to Washington and took a position in the Department of the Interior. In 1940 she became the assistant secre- tary to Mr. Nelson and the next year she became his secretary. The April issue of The Independent Women, the Business and Profes- sional Women's magazine, published by their clubs, recognized her abili- ties in the business world and de- scribed the particular duties con- nected with her job. In an interview yesterday, Mrs. Thornton said that her daughter en- joyed being in the midst of things in spite of the long hours and her many diversified tasks. "She knew last September that the Companion in- tended to feature her and she fin- ished the article in December." Her Day The pictorial features shows the sleepy Miss Thornton awakening at 16:30 a.m., entering the building while it is still dark, breakfasting at the WPB cafeteria, meeting Mrs. Roose- velt and Ruth Mitchell, the General's sister at tea, working, taking a Span- ish lesson, bowling and attending to a late call for Mr. Nelson. Miss Thornton comments that the Washington secretary is called upon to summon all her knowledge, judg- ment and tact in handling matters that are brought to the office for the attention of her superior. "Here a secretary is not a barrier between callers and the inner office, but a person who can understand their problems and make decisions on be- half of the man she works for." Average Life While Miss Thornton is one of the outstanding government employes, her story reflects the average working woman's day in Washington. She reports the crowded condition of the buses, the excellent food in the gov- ernment restaurants, the typical pleasures of women in a woman- populated world. Miss Thornton's father is a pro-. fessor in the engineering English de- partment. County ClockIssue CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. CLASSIFIED RATES Non-Contract $ .40 per 15-word Insertion for one or two days. (In- crease of 10c for each additional 5 words.) $1.00 per 15-word insertion for 3 or more days. (Increase of $.25 for each additional 5 words. Contract Rates on Request LAUNDERING LAUNDY - 2-1044. .Soxdarned. Careful work at low price. TYPING MISS ALLEN-Experienced typist. 408 S; Fifth Ave. Phone 2-2935. Continuous from 1 P.M. WAR BONDS ISSUED HERE -- NOW PLA YIN G -- MISCELLANEOUS PARTY PHOTOGRAPHS and IN- FORMAL PORTRAITS by appoint-] ment only. Phone 2-4726. WASHED SAND AND GRAVEL- Driveway gravel, washed pebbles. Killins Gravel Co., phone 7112. TYPEWRITERS of all makes. Of- fice and portable models. Bought, rented, repaired. Student and Of- fice Supplies. OQ D. Morrill, 314 South Stat.e St. Phone 6615. FOR RENT FOR RENT-Large suite for 2 or 3 boys. One block from campus. 520 Thompson. Phone 7758. HELP WANTED WANTED-Boy who can drive, to work for room and board. 343 Fifth Ave. Phone 6018. MALE STUDENT WANTED to work switchboard from midnight until 8 a.m.-Phone 4244. LOST and FOUND SHELL-RIM GLASSES with straight bows. Lost on campus about Feb. 15. Call Kaywood, 2-3225. SPEIALS c at your REXALL Ann Arbor+ By Conflict Maier and Parr Will Speak on Hate in Wartime1 j illel Friday Forum To Feature Minister And Local Psychologist Rev. Leonard A. Parr and Prof. Norman R. F. Maier, of the psychol- ogy department, will discuss one of the psychological problems arising out of the war at 8:30 p.m. today at the Hillel Foundation. The question, "Will Victory Come Through Hate?" was considered re- cently in two articles in the New York Times Magazine Section. Ehlya Ehr- cnburg, noted Russian war corre- spcndent, posed the problem in an article entitled "Hate Is Russia's Am- munition," and Rex Stout, American novelist, also wrote on the subject, "Must We Hate the Germans?" Prof. Maier is the winner of the American Academy for the Advance- ment of Science Award for the best contribution to science in 1937 for his work on neuroses in rats. Rev. Parr is pastor at the Ann Arbor Congrega- tional Church. The forum is the second of the semester in Hillel's regular series of Friday evening discussions. It was arranged by the Hillel Forum Com- Imittee under the direction of theJ new chairman, Hannah Katz, '44. The forum will be followed by an informal question and discussion pe- riod. Refreshments will be served. The meeting is open to the public. Preceding the forum, conservative religious services will be held in the chapel of the Foundation starting promptly at 7:45 p.m. The services will be conducted by Lewis Singer, '46, and Elliott Organick, '44E. Colleg~es Able I Cut Staffs Teacher Surplus Is In Liberal Arts Field Because surveys show that Ameri- can colleges are suffering from a shortage of teachers in war-essential subjects and a surplus of teachers in the liberal arts field, many of the colleges and universities have offered to cooperate with the Government by releasing staff members if neces- sary, Office of Education officials report. At the same time, however, that some schools are unable to fill va- cancies in technical fields, other schools have chemistry, enginee'ing and physics staff members who are idle because of sharply whittled- down enrollment in their colleges. In all, there are about 90 idle teachers in the strictly technical fields, a surplus of over 100 in the professional fields, and about 270 extra instructors in the liberal arts fields. Because of the tremendous num- ber of doctors who have joined the armed force, medicine is the most seriously understaffed field. Confused in Time Malcolm A. Beers, 21, of Arling- ton, Mass., shown In civilian clothes, set what army authorities at Fort Devens, Mass., believe is a national record in the intelligence tests given all recruits when he scored 159 points out of a possible 163. Meet Scheduled For New Mixed Debating Squad The men's debating teams and the women's debating teams are no long- er separate organizations but have been combined into one squad, Prof Arthur Secord of the speech depart- ment announced yesterday. Since both will be working on the same question which is, "Resolved: That the United Nations should es- tablish a permanent federal govern- ment," they will be handled as a sin- gle squad under the direction of Pro- fessor Secord. Mixed debating teams, already common to some of the other institutions in the area, will probabl3 be used. Four separate Michigan teams wil meet Wayne University here nexi Thursday on the fourth floor of An- gell Hall. Two of these debates wil be held at 3 p.m. and two at 4:30 p.m The University of Michigan will also meet the University of Detroit in a demonstration debate which will open the experimental debate tour- nament March 12 and 13 at the Uni- versity of Detroit. Other institutions xhich are registered for this contes' are Wisconsin, Chicago, Western Re- serve, Notre Dame and Marquette. Any student wishing to participate in future debates who has not yet joined the squad is urged to see Professor Secord, Room 107 Haven Hall, immediately. University Medical Club Gives Weekly Broadcasts Ann Arbor's County Courthouse clock jumped to War Saving Time yesterday, but action on Attorney General Herbert J. Rushton's deci- sion that County property must change back to slow time apparently was hanging fire. What time the four-faced Court- house clock in downtown Ann Arbor should read has been a bone of coi- tention between the "Saving Timers" and the "Slow Timers" ever since the State Legislature's decision to move Michigan clocks back an hour, Ann Arbor voted, with Detroit, to keep on with War Saving Time, but County Prosecutor George Mea- der felt law-bound to have the Courthouse clock switched back an hour. Such abundant confusion was raised by this time difference in Ann Arbor that Prosecutor Meader took the issue before Attorney General Rushton. County offices, the opinion said, must open and close on Central War Time. The Prosecutor ruled yesterday that each County official may decide on his own time schedule-which action most officials discovered leaves the correct time still a major puzzle. 1 t :I I. Sets Record Property Taxes Show Sight Rise LANSING, Feb. 25.-(AP)--Michigan property owners paid local 'real and personal property taxes totaling $183,197.19 in 1942, an increase of seven per cent over the previous year, the State Tax Commission re- ported today. It said schoolhtaxes were $7,763,- 363.42 higher than in 1941, while county taxes were up $961,256.91 and city taxes $4,159,360.45 above the previous year. Village and township taxes were $384,991.75 and $219,348.17 lower, respectively. The commission said the 1942 as- sessed valuation of $6,625,018,825 was the highest since 1932, while the average tax rate of $27.65 per thousand dollars of assessed valua- tion was 37 cents higher than the 1941 rate. swimming team, and of Psi Upsilon fraternity. Mr. Muir was graduated this month from the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., and was ordained to the Diaconate by the Rt. Rev. Frank W. Creighton, Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan, Feb. 17 at Christ Church Parish, Detroit. NEW ADDITION Prof, and Mrs. Arthur Secord are the parents of an 8 pound, 14 ounce baby girl who arrived at 2:15 p.m. yesterday at the University Hospital. This is their second child; they also have a seven-year-old son. TYPEWRITERS Bought, Rented Repaired STUDENT and OFFICE SUPPLIES O. D. MORRILL 314 S. State St. Phone 6615 Dr. Brown Predicts Change in Type of Student Body Next Year Next .year's fresluan classes in phyvsically unfit in the first draft some colleges will probably include while 401 of 18- and 19-year-olds a larger number 01 17-year-old boys throughout the country will probably and girls w.ho have not finished high be found unfit for military service, school, it was announced last week official sources say. by Dr. Francis .J. Brown, consultant I 3. Pre-professional and profes- to the American Council on Educa- sional groups given occupational de- tion. ferment. "Higli school juniors have been ac- 4. Students in contract training cepted at a few colleges for some under industry. Included in this time," Dr. Brown said, giving the category are such groups as the University of North Carolina as an Curtiss-Wright trainees, the group ! example. "Of the 300 high school that RCA will have in training by juniors tested at North Carolina last April, and the women the Vought year, 140 of them were admitted to Sikorsky aircraft manufacturers plan t the freshman class." to send to college. V-1 Involved Different Schedules Dr. Brown pointed out that the 5. Men and women taking exten- increased number of non-graduate sion courses while working in indus- high school students in freshman try. classes will reflect "a liberalization 6. Men and women under the and expansion" of this policy in col- Army and Navy Specialized Training leges which already practice it, rather Programs. than acceptance of the policy by To accommodate these varied colleges which have resisted it to groups, the larger colleges will be date. The Navy refuses to accept forced to operate on as many as men in its V-1 program unless they three different schedules-quarter have a high school certificate, which periods for the Army, semester perl- is a setback to a larger college enroll- ods for the Navy and their regular ment of 17-year-olds. schedule for their civilian students. Dr. Brown predicted that students who will make up the rest of next year's college group will fall into the rev. Muir Acts following categories: Younger Women AsNew Curate 1. Women-particularly freshmen and sophomores. There will be a A new curate, the Rev. Robert sharp enrollment drop among juniors Muir, has been called to act as stu- and seniors except among those wom- ,d en studying subjects necessary to the dent adviser and to assist the Rev. war effort, such as nursing, engi- Henry Lewis and the Rev. John Dahl neering, and physics. in the work of the St. Andrew's Epis- 2. Men not physically fit for the copal Church. armed services. Dr. Brown pointed . out that college men have a good Born in Detroit, the Rev. Mr. Muir physical record in proportion to the was graduated from Trinity College country as a whole. Due mostly to Hartford, Conn., in 1939, \where he bad eyes, 15%~ of college men were was president of the student body in his senior year, a member \of the l k M The University of Michigan and the Joint Committee on Health Edu- cation of the Michigan Medical Soci- ety are collaborating in the presen- tation of weekly radio talks by Dr. Herman Rieker, associate professor of internal medicine in the University Department of Postgraduate Medi- cine. Drug Store 5c Listerine . ..59c 1.00 Bayers Aspirin .....59c 7 $ 35c Vicks Vapo Rub. ..1C I 50c Ipano Tooth Paste .43c 50c Williams Shave Cream. 43e DEAL ME OUT! Boys Here Come The Gargoyle Salesmen Dr. West's Tooth Brush .47c Paramount developing 'and printing of your films Oine-day service LIGHT LUNCHES served at our soda fountain I I Extra Added "Eatin' on the Cuff" Conquer by the Clock Cinderella Chamoion I I Gargoyle I i Momod