SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1946
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Play Production
Will Give Comedy
"The Old Maid and The Thief" To Open
Thursday at Lydia Mendelssohn
"The Old Maid and the Thief,"
Gian-Carlo Menotti's new American
opera, and the garden scene from act
three of Gounod's "Faust," in En-
glish will be offered by Play Produc-
tion of the Department of Speech,
the School of Music and the Univer-
sity Orchestra, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday in the Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre.
Heading the cast of "The Old Maid
and the Thief" will be Carolyn Street
as Miss Todd. Georgia Christophsen
will play Miss Pinkerton; Doris Law-
ton, Laetitia; and Henry Austin, Bob.
The cast for "Faust" will include
Barbara Lee Smith as Siebel, Guy
Nomads Inva de
Iranian Town,
Retire to South
TEHRAN, Jan. 12--()-Armed
Nomads from the south have invaded
the Iranian town of Khorramshahr
on the Iraq frontier and have been
driven back into Iraq, the govern-
ment announced today.
Followers of Sheik
The Iranian people, jarred recent-
ly by the revolt in the northwestern
province of Azerbaijan which re-
sulted in proclamation of an autono-
mous national government of Iranian
Azerbaijan, heard from their govern-
ment that tribesmen identified as fol-
lowers of the Shiek of Khazal had
struck into the border town about 10
miles northwest of the Iranian oil
port of Abadan. The town is on the
Persian Gulf, at the confluence of
the Tigris and Euphrates river, flow-
ing out of Iraq.
Calm has been restored in Azer-
baijan. Meanwhile, the United States
Embassy here officially denied a Rus-
sian report that American aid had
been offered to the insurgent forces
in the north, scene of recent fresh
disorders.
Denies Report
The embassy said Robert Rossow,
Jr., United States Consul at Tabriz,
capital of Azerbaijan, had denied the
Russian report that he had offered
the support of his government to Ja-
far Pishehvari, head of the insurgent
Democratic separatist government in
Azerbaijan.
The Embassy said the announce-
ment was made after an exchange
of messages with Rossew.
Baker as Faust, Henry Austin as
Mephistopheles, Charlotte Boehm as
Martha and Rose Derderian as Mar-
guerite.
Prof. Windt Directs
Prof. Valentine Windt of the De-
partment of Speech is director of the
production. Musical directors are
Prof. William Revelli, conductor of
the University Orchestra, Dr. Earl V.
Moore, Dean of the School of Music
and Arthur Hacket, professor of
voice.
"The Old Maid and the Thief" is
the story of two old maids who be-
friend a wandering tramp and later
discover that he is a notorious des-
perado. Miss Todd and Miss Pinker-
ton, both alarmed and frustrated,
resort to various methads of pilfering
to keep in his good graces. At the
end of the opera, Bob, the thief, has
absconded with everything, including
Laetitia, Miss Todd's maid.
Devil Replaces Cupid
The garden scene of "Faust" is the
culmination of Faust's infatuation for
Marguerite. Faust has fallen in love
with Marguerite because of a vision
of her conjured up by Mephistopheles,
the devil, in the first act of the opera.
In act three, Faust and Mephistoph-
eles conceal themselves in the garden
of her home, having first placed a
casket of jewels beside a modest bou-
quet of flowers left on her threshold
by Siebel, her youthful admirer. Mar-
guerite finds the jewels, ornaments
herself with them and is interrupted
in her pleasure by the entrance of
Faust and his companion. The latter
draws away Martha, the neighborhood
gossip, and Faust woos the maiden.
Performances will be given at 8:30
p.m. Thursday and Saturdayband
3:3 0 p.m. Friday. Tickets will be on
sale in the theatre box office from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 to 5 p.m.
starting tomorrow.
AYHI To Sponsor
Skiing Excursions
Karl Olaf Lie will act as leader and
instructor for a skiing session spon-
sored by the American Youth Hostel
at 2:30 p.m. today in the Arboretum.
Those wishing to attend should
meet at Lane Hall. Although partici-
pants are expected to bring their own
equipment, one pair of men's skiis is
available to anyone not possessing a
pair.
POW SHOW - A group of German prisoners, former musicians apd
actors, put on three shows daily inside the prison compound at Fort
Custer for fellow prisoners waiting to be shipped to Europe. Here two
actors, one dressed as a woman, are completing their make-up. After
they have been processed for shipping, the POWs have nothing to do
but wait, and army authorities encourage activity such as this to keep
them busy.
JAP MORAL CHANGE:
Prof. untley hinks Hirohito
Could Become Sincere Christian
Prof. Perkins
Advocates Polls
of Taxpayers
Vote Would Record
Commuinity Opinion
Determination of what services
taxpayers expect of their community
is urged by Prof. John L. Perkins of
the political science department.
Writing in the current "MPichigan
Municipal Review," Prof. Perkins ad-
vocates Gallup-type polls to discover
local opinion on current issues affect-
ing municipal governments. This
would match the voice of pressure
groups and special interests against
the voice of all the people, he states.
More Efficiency
Prof. Perkins suggests that new
services can be financed out of sav-
ings achieved by performing existing
functions more efficiently. He warns
against reliance on state and federal
funds unless cities are willing to sur-
render more of their local democracy.
Taxpayers also should be made to
realize that they probably receive
greater value in return for each dol-
lar of taxes they pay to their city
governments than is received for any
other expenditure they make, he sug-
gests.
Improve Relations
Improvement in municipal public
relations to make the citizen aware
of the many functions the city per-
forms for him is advocated. There is
no room secrecy in municipal govern-
ment. Prof. Perkins declares, in urg-
ing that city officials to give the
newspapers all the news about mu-
nicipal activities.
Although he does not expect any
expansion in municipal services com-
parable to that which took place after
the First World War, Prof. Perkins
anticipates that cities may have to
offer additional facilities to counter-
act the present tendency for people to
move just outside city limits. Exten-
sion of certain services to these out-
lying areas is cited as a possible need
within a short time.
ADRIAN LADIES:
Anti" Saloon
Fight Recorded
In Old Minutes
"Imprisonment for six hours in a
saloon," the outcome of one 1874 bat-
tle against "the traffic in ardent spir-
its," is among the incidents described
in an Adrian Ladies Temperance Un-
ion minute-book recently given to the
Michigan Historical Collections.
Seeking to curb "the unlawful sale
of spirituous and intoxicating liq-
ors," the Temperance Union, accord-
ing to the accounts written by the
secretary, would ask the saloon-keep-
ers to sign pledges saying that they
would not sell any more liquor. It is
recorded that one hotel-manager was
so pleasant and willing that the wom-
en voted to give a supper for him.
They did not always, however, meet
with such good-will. June 2, 1874,
thirteen of the women, attempting to
hold a religious service in qne of the
saloons, were locked in a room by the
saloon-keeper's wife. Almost faint-
ing, the women remained in the dark
for six hours while "profanity and
tobacco smoke" poured in from the
other room. It was then decided that
they had been "punished enough."
The minute-book was given to the
Collections by Mrs. C. A. Howell,
through Mr. Richard Bury.
BETTER BARGES:
Baier Reveals'U'Experiments
Aided River Supply Transport
Wartime transportation of oil
and other vital supplies by river
barges was facilitated by experimen-
tal work at the Unlversity, Lt.-Comdr.
Louis A. Baier, chairman of the De-
partment of Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering, revealed yester-
day.
"This facility, plus the ultimate
construction of pipe lines, brought
the vitally-needed oil from the fields
to the refineries and supply bases on
the east coast," Comdr. Baier stated.
Traffic Boomed
Need to improve the performance
of river barges arose when many
coastal tankers were sunk, bringing a
boom in upstream traffic on the Mis-
sissippi River and through intercoas-
tal waterways from Florida and
Texas northward.
At the request of the War Depart-
ment and the barge companies, ma-
rine engineers of this department
went to work to eliminate difficulties
in this method of transportation.
30 Per cent Savings
A 30 per cent saving in resistance
resulted from one improvement de-
veloped by this research, Comdr.
Baier reported. Working out the
best flotilla arrangement, it was
found that by integrating the ends of
barges arranged in a row, eddy resis-
tance between the usual "raked," or
projecting, ends could be eliminated.
Amplifying this scheme, it was nec-
essary to allow for the winding of
the Mississippi above St. Louis,
which makes a long string of barges
unwieldly, Comdr. Baier said. It was
found to be more economical, on the
whole, to integrate only pairs of
barges, which could then be doubled
upsat this point. Total savings gained
were large, because these flotillas car-
ry capacity loads up to 20,000 tons,
and travel from 1,000 to 2,000 miles,
Comdr. Baier pointed out.
Eliminated Swaying
A second problem handled through
research in the naval tank was that
of eliminating the yaw, or swaying
motion, of towed barges. Extra power
is used up in towing the barges, and
there is danger to other navigation
on the waterways, Comdr. Baier ex-
plained. The problem was partially
solved by adjusting length and pro-
portion of the bridle arrangements by
which the barges are towed. Another
improvement was the placing of
wooden projections, called skegs, at
the proper angle at the stern of the
barge to prevent a side-wise motion.
An increase in cargo per horse-
power was made possible by build-
ing the barges with a stiffer rake,
or more abrupt rise, in the stern than
in the bow, Comdr. Baier stated. This
allowed an increase in cargo ton-
nage without causing a proportionate
increase in resistance, he explained.
Majfor Issues.
Face Congress
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-Congress
comes back to Washington next week
in a political quandary that finds
many members eyeing the November
elections without knowing which way
to jump on at least five major issues.
A sampling of opinion among
Democrats and Republicans pointed
to these as current puzzlers:
Strikes and labor legislation, par-
ticularly the fact-finding proposal
which President Truman has made
and which he may urge again in his
state of the nation message Thursday.
Loans to foreign countries, head-
ed by the $3,375,000,000 proposed ad-
vance to Great Britain.
"If Emperor Hirohito were to adopt
Christianity, as it has been rumored
he might, there would be no reason to
doubt the sincerity of such action,"
Dr. Frank L. Huntley of the political
science and English departments stat-j
ed in an interview.
Dr. Huntley supported this opin-
ion with three reasons. First of all,
he said, for years it has been rum-
ored that the emperor has been
strongly influenced by Dr. Bowles,
a Quaker missionary.
A second reason, according to
Huntley, is the fact that Hirohito is
the first Japanese emperor to have
left the country and traveled and
studied in Europe. He said that the
introduction of western culture by
Hirohito is demonstrated by the fact
that he has practised monogamy.
Dr. Huntley also pointed out that
both he and tle empress have al-
lowed their faces to pe photo-
graphed, which is in direct con-
trast to the ancient Japanese tra-
dition that no one may look the
emperor full in the face.
The final reason for believing him
sincere is that Emperor Hirohito is
a great admirer of his grandfather,
Meiji, the ruler who opened Japan
to the west, Dr. Huntley said. "He
also is a student of history and has
specialized in the period of his grand-
father's reign, up to 1889, when the
country was first subjected to west-
ern influence."
Dr. Huntley said that another sig-
nificant factor is that the emperor has
denounced the myth of divine origin
of the Japanese rulers. This is the
first step towards democracy, Huntley
declared. "This move did not come
as a surprise to a great many people
who knew that Hirohito was person-
ally against much that he was forced
to do", he said.
"Ncw he is being realistic and ap-
pealing to the suppressed elements
that had dared to question the
myth. This ideal of divinity was
fostered in the textbooks of the
Japanese elementary school, es-
pecially in 'Shu Shin', the book on
morals",' Dr. Huntley explained. On
the basis of practical experience
of teaching school in Japan, Hunt-
ley claimed. "Not one of my univer-
sity students actually believed the
myth, though they would not open-
ly say so."
"Therefore," he concluded, "the
action taken in denying his divine
origin and any future action in adopt-
ing Christianity on the part of Em-
peror Hirohito is merely in keeping
with his realistic attitude toward the
situation and his desire to be more
of a person than a -puppet. I believe,
though, that the ultimate goal of
such steps would be to abolish the
monarchy entirely, whether sacred
or secular."
Dr. Huntley will deliver a series of
eight lectures on Japan at the School
of Japanese Language at the Uni-
versity of Chicago on Jan. 14, 15, and
16.
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