THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCh 9, 1
1952
LOOK and LISTEN
With ALAN LUCKOFF
PRESCRIBE FOR YOURSELF:
Local Store Sells Ready=MadeSpecs
Delegates Plan Arab Parley
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"The Windy City," first in a
series of four dramas based on the
poetry of Carl Sandburg, will be
featured on Angell Hall Playhouse
at 8 p.m. Tuesday on WHRV and
WUOM.
The series will be written and
directed by Sherm Fillmore, Grad.,
who has done research on Sand-
burg and the adaptation of his
work to radio as part of his Mas-
ter's thesis.
Although the national conven-
tions are three and-a-half months
away, radio and TV stations are
alreakly starting on-the-spot des-
criptions of the nation's political
battles. NBC (WWJ and WWJ-
sU'Faculty
Takes Stand
OnCO Blast
By HARRY LUNN
A CIO'blast' at workmen's com-
pensation programs drew com-
ment from two economics profes-
sors who agreed that state com-
peisation programs as they now
stand are generally inadequate.
CIO charges against state sys-
tems appeared in a recent issue
of Economic Outlook, a publica-
tion of the union's Department of
Education and Research, in which
the progress of individual state
programs was branded as "a story
of failure.".
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IN DISCUSSING the article,
Prof. William Haber of the .eco-
nomics department commented
kthat "workmen's compensation
represents one of the most ne-
glected areas in the field of So-
cialSecurity'in the United States."
Prof: Harold M. Levinson of
the economics department
agreed that "the great majority
of state plans have numerous
weaknesses in terms of cover-
age and low payments."
"There- ,are still industrial ac-
cidents and diseases which are
not coveed by existing laws and
many people who are not yet pro-
tected at all," he said.
In looking to future progress,
the article cites a unanimous re-
solution of the IO's Thirteenth
Constitutional Convention which
'asked for an immediate and cor-
prehensive investigation of work-
men's compensation by the Fed-
eral government with an eye to
ultimate enacemet of a national
compensation law.
However, Prof. Levinson remark-
ed that such Federal legislation
"doesn't have much of a chance of
passage." .
As far as progress in the state
systems is concerned, he com-
mented that some improvement in
coverage is being made, and con-
cluded that "strengthening of
state laws would be more feasible
ae. d practical than national legis-
lation at this time."
Near Eastern
Clinic To Be
Held Again
The second "Institute on the
Near East" under the Department
of Near Eastern Studies will be
held here during the summer, it
has been announced.
A program including courses in
anthropology, economics, geogra-
phy, history, law, linguistics and
languages of the near east will be
offered.
According to Prof. George G.
Cameron, chairman of the near
eastern studies department, the
faculty will beicomposed of men
recognized to be outstanding in
their respective Melds, three of
whom will be visiting professors.
Herbert Liebesny is the "one man
in America today who is qualified
to answer What near eastern law
is." He is a lawyer by education,
but has done everything from
teaching, to working with the OSS
to being an advisor to an oil com-
pany.
Peter Franck and William Schor-
ger will lecture in economics and
anthropology, respectively. Franck
has worked with the OPA and the
Afganistan government. For the
past 'year Shoreger has held a so-
cial science research fellowship to
study in the Near East.
In conjunction' with the Insti-
tute a series of public lectures by
"nationally famous and interna-
tionally respected men" will be
given.
The institute was first conduct-
ed during the 1950 summer ses-
sion. It was not offered last sum-
mer as Prof. Cameron made a field
study of the near east instead.
Campus Briefs
Dean Wells I. Bennett olfthe
TV) will send a crew of announ-
cers and cameramen to report on
all phases of the New Hampshire
presidential primary, Tuesday. The
first special broadcast from Con-
cord, N. H., will be at 10 p.m. to-
day.
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SIGN OF SPRING: Starting
yesterday, WHRV is broadcasting
all Detroit Tiger exhibition base-
ball games with Van Patrick at
the mike,'replacing the late Harry
Heilmann.
The ball games have moved -the
speech department newscast right
off WHRV this season and they
are now heard on WPAG at 3 p.m.
"Radio Workshop Drama"'will be
heard on WUOM only, during the
season.
PROGRAM NOTES: "The Talk-
ing Cure," a story of Dr. Sigmund
Freud, will be presented on CBS
Television Workshop at 4 p.m.
today, WJBK-TV. The workshop
is an experimental program, which
is featuring new techniques in
television art, and has pioneered
in some new innovations which-
will soon be adopted by more con-
servative shows.
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PROF. SAMUEL ELDERSVELD
will use short dramatic sketches as
illustrations on his political par-
ties telecourse on the University
Television Hour at 1 p.m. today,
WWJ-TV. The topic will be "No-
minating the Candidate."
Prof. Philip Jones will discuss
fundamental operations in his
math telecourse and the work of
campus linguists will be featured
in the teletour.
Limon Troupe
To Perform.
SL-Cinema Guild fans who en-
joyed the performance of Jose
Limon dancing "The Moor's Pa-
vanne" in a movie short this
week-end will be treated to'a per-
sonal appearance of the dancer
and his troupe at 8:30 p.m. Satur-
day at the Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre.
"Pavanne", the story of Othel-
lo's tragic betrayal, will be in-
cluded - on the program. Other
numbers will include "Concert",
a dance set to the preludes and
fuges of Bach, and "La Malinche",
a Mexican legend.
On the lighter side, the dancers
will present "The Story of Man-
kind" from the cartoon by Carl
Rose. "Mankind" is a humorous
tale of man's rise from the cave-
age to the penthouse, and his re-
turn to the cave.
Tickets for the performance
will be on sale this week at the
Lydia Mendelssohn boxoffice.
Price of tickets will be $2.00 or
$1.75.
Daily-Don Campbell.
DUBIOUS BARGAIN-At least one campus store still carries
ready-made eyeglasses for people who don't trust eye specialists.
Seventy-six cents takes home a set of specs after the customer
tests them on a "Gettysburg Address" eye chart.
COLLEGE ROUNDUP:
.Administrators, Students .both.
SlapLids on College Papers
By DONNA HENDLEMAN
Censorship held the spotlight
last week again at the colleges'
throughout the country.
Biggest controversy is the now
three-month-old one over the ap-
pointment of an advisor to the
University of California paper, The
Daily Californian. Although the
staff started out; with a compara-
tively talm promise to "cooperate
with an advisor as long as he is
not a censor", the editors of the
paper have lately increased agi-
tation over the question.
CIRCULATING the campus is a
petition decrying the move as mis-
directed and unnecessary. So far,
more than 5,000 students have
Christian Science
Talk Slated Today
"Christian Science: The Way
to Fulfill God's Purpose" swill be
the topic of a public lecture given
by Mrs. Grace Jane Noee at 3
p.m. today in the Ann Arbor Ma-
sonic Temple auditorium, 327 S.
4th Avenue.
Mrs. Noee, Christian Science
Lecturer from Chicago, is a mem-
ber of the Christian Science Board
of Lectureship. Formerly the head
of a large food brokerage firm in
Chicago, she withdrew from busi-
ness life in 1927 to practice Chris-
tian Science healing.
During her commercial career,
Mrs. Noee served as the first
President of the Altrusa Club, an
international organization of pro-
fessional .nd executive business
women. I
signed the petition.
But from official quarters
there is no sign of a change in
the new policy, although the
student Executive Committee
head said the committee would
take it up when the petition was
formally presented to the group.
Any final action would have to
come from the Regents.
MEANWHILE, the University of
Maryland's Diamondback News
and the Lobo News of the Univer-
sity of New Meico were bothhit
recently by a similar loss of inde-
pendence. At Maryland the ad-
ministration layed down a com-
paratively elastic censorship rule:
"Student editors must submit to
faculty advisors any matter that
is questionable, controversial or
debatable."
Fellow students clamped the lid
at New Mexico. When the editor
refused to print a student govern-
ment column free of editing, the
council fired five student mem-
bers of the board of publications
for "incompetence."
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Students have a different kind
of gripe at the University of Wis-
consin. A group of student leaders
in Madison have started circulat-
ing petitions which demand a
"complete reorganization" of the
university police department.
Leaders in men's dorms, they
have charged that the "unfit" uni-
versity police department is sub-
jecting students to "discourteous
and illegal treatment."
By BOB HOLLOWAY
A fairly long nose, a venture-
some mind and 76 cents can get
you a set of self-prescribed eye-
glasses in Ann Arbor.
A holdover from this country's
turn-of-the-century reliance on
mail-order specs, the practice is
carried on in a campus five-and-
dime store where ready-made
glasses lie exposed to the eye of
myopic, purchasers.
HERE, in an out-of-the way cor-
ner of the establishment, is a tan-
gle of horn-rimmed eye equipment
and a few dog-eared eye-charts.
The lack of promotion on the specs
is reinforced by the sales clerk's
warning to prospective buyers that
she "can neither give advice nor
instruction in the fitting process."
Persevering buyers are able to
test the horn-rims on a Gettys-
burg Address of ever-diminishing
type-size which after dwindl-
ing down to miniscule gray let-
ters, informs the testee, in big
black type, that the store is not
responsible for mishaps caused
by its glasses.
Patrons follow a fitting tech-
nique described by an elderly lady
with bright blue far-sighted eyes.
"I need new spectacles once
every year, so I try on these until
I get ,one that makes this gray
card here (the chart) look like a
white card with fuzzy letters on
it."
"Then I just jiggle them around
on my nose until the fuzz comes
off the letters and go home for an-
other year," she concluded with a.
faith that brings frowns from eye
specialists.
A TYPICAL comment came from
a University optometrist who
warned, "Technique or no tech-
nique, buying eyeglasses without a
professional prescription is down-
right dangerous."
"Besides the possibility of con-
cealing a pathological condition
of the eye like glaucoma, the indi-
vidual who fits his own glasses is
getting no correction for astigma-
tism or other eye quirks," he added.
This kind of warning has had
its effect.
According to the store manager,
sales of the ready-made specs have
been falling off steadily with the
years. But, he estimates, the out-
fit'still sells about ten pairs a week
-to people with long noses, ven-
turesome minds, and 76 cents.
'Players' To Meet
A general membership meeting
of The Student Players will be
held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday in
the Ann Arbor Rm. of the League,
James E. Brodhead III, president
pro tempore of the group announ-
ced yesterday.
Read and Use Daily Classifieds
Arab delegates from all over the
world met in the Union this week-
end to make plans for the Inter-
national Arab Conference to be
held here in June.
Financed by the American
Friends of the Middle-East So-
ciety, the preliminary conference
was attended by representatives
of delegations and embassies of
Syria, Lebanfon, Egypt, Iraq, Ye-
t
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STORE HOURS DAILY
9:30 to 5:30
AT BOTH STORES
men and Saudi Arabia.
Representing Arab clubs in this
country were delegates from the
Universities of Michigan, Colum-
bia, Colorado, Texas, California,
Wisconsin, Chicago and Missouri.
Prof. Esson Gale, director of the
International Center, and Prof.
George Cameron, chairman of the
Near East Studies department,
were the faculty delegates.
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Lang To Talk
With Students
Prof. Paul Henry Lang, of the
musicology department at Colum-
bia University, will be in Ann Ar-
bor tomorrow through Thursday
for consultations with graduate
students majoring in mugicology.
An authority in his field, Lang
has contributed many articles and
reviews on musical subjects to
publications and is the music edi-
tor of the Saturday Review.
Lang will lecture on "Asthetics
of Opera" at 4:15 p.m. Thursday
in Rackham Amphitheatre.
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