PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 195T ELECTRICAL MAZES:, Workshop Equips Psych Department _________* * * * Epstein, Ex-Daily Editor To Speak on Advertising Arts Theater To Produce 'Oedipus Rex' By FRAN SHELDON Instruments varying from reac tion-testing equipment to electri- cally wired mazes can be manu- factured in the psychology depart- ment's instrument workshop. In the three rooms of metal and woodworking equipment, George R. Fisher and Robert M. Fee of the psychology department, pro- duce and repair nearly any mech- anism the department might need in carrying out its program of ex- perimentation and instruction. * s CITED BY Fisher as being the best equipped University shop of its type in the United States, the workshop's time and facilities are under the overall control of the shop committee. Much of the pres- ent chairman of the committee. Nearly any type of work can be done in the shop from the construction of a 40-foot elec- trically rigged maze which will be used in studying motivation control in rats, to the repairing of electronic chart recorders which map human reactions to any given stimuli. In addition to the work done by Fisher and Fee, the shop is open to the entire department staff. With both men available when neededtohdemonstrate the use of machinery and tools, more than half the shop's work is done for and by graduate students working on their thesis. A large part of the remainder of work is done for the department's group dynamics workshop, which changes its experiments period- ically. Routine work on regular class and testing equipment and the construction and repair of reaction indicators of a variety of forms and types completes the activity of the shop. Future plans for the workshop include the installation of metal plating equipment. Becker Cites High Expenses Of Hospitals Harry Becker, director of a com- mission on financiig hospital care, spoke yesterday at the School of Public Health on hospitalization problems confronting us today. At the present time hospital costs are rising at a rate suffi- ciently rapid to cause alarm, he said. Upon investigation the com- mission, which represents a cross section of American society and industry, found increasing costs for labor and better quality ser- vice to be the two main causes. * s * HOSPITALS, in order to com- pete with other industries, have found it necessary to raise wages if they hope to induce superior young women to become nurses and dieticians. Financing medical care for the poor and aged has been a problem both society and insurance com- panies have long been attempting to cope with, Becker noted. In his opinion our main efforts should - be directed toward devising a satis- factory system of pre-payment of hospital bills so in times of emer- gency the burden will not be too heavy. In conclusion Becker said mon- ey alone will not be the determin- ing, factor in bringing results but rather a genuine interest and spirit of cooperation must be aroused in the people. WUOM to Feature American Writers American writers who have in- terpreted through their works the essential spirit of our country will be the subject of a new series of programs to be broadcast by W UOM at 1 p.m. every Wednes- day. The programs, entitled "In the American Vein," will be conducted by members of the English depart- ment under the supervision of Prof. Warner G. Rice. The series will include a panorama .of American literature and will deal with the lesser known as well as familiar writers. Joseph Epstein, former Daily city editor, will lecture on "Adver- tising" at 3 p.m. today in Rack- ham Amphitheater. Epstein, '25, not only served on The Daily while attending the University but also as Ann Arbor correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. * * * AFTER GRADUATION he work- ed on the New Orleans Item as a reporter, later joined the adver- tising staff and became classified ad manager. In 1927, he left the New Orleans Item to join the Fitz- gerald Advertising Agency as a partner. ' Active in New Orlean's civic affairs, Epstein at various times has served as publicity director for the Third War Loan, Red Cross War Fund, Navy Day and, Naval Aviation Cadet Recruit- ment. He is past president of the Community Chest, New Orleans Jewish Welfare Fund, New Orleans League for Better Hearing and a * * * -Daily-Don Campbell PSYCHOLOGY WORKSHOP TURNS OUT EQUIPMENT HORNS OF DILEMMA: Administration Tax Quandry Analyzed by Prof. Musgrave By ARLENE LISS "The Administration is caught on the horns of a dilemma in re- gard to the problem of cutting Symposium Fellowships To .Be Given A precedent in science will be set this summer when the Univer- sity awards fellowships to the symposium on astrophysics from June 29 to July 24. Advanced graduate students or doctoral degree holders who were less than 30 years old Jan. 1 may apply until April 10 for positions in the symposium. THE UNIVERSITY'S summer symposium on modern physics has been a well-known institution out of which have come some of the great names in physics. Prof. Leo Goldberg, chairman of the astronomy department, commented, "The time has come when it is necessary for the physicist to consider problems in astronomy and when the astron- omer must be aware of physics. The summer symposium will be divided into two parts, one con- cerned with astrophysics and the other with X-ray diffraction lim- ited to physics. Living expenses for symposium associates will be covered by a Na- tional Science Foundation fund granted to the University. The symposium staff will include astronomer Walter Baade, who has previously worked the 200- inch telescope at Mt. Palomar; physicist George Gamow of George Washington University; mathema- tician G. K. Batchelor of the Uni- versity of Cambridge; and nuclear physicist E. E. Salpeter of Cornell University who will cover the ques- tion of stellar energy generation. Morley To Speak On Public Health Dr. John D. Morley of the School of Public Health will speak on "Public Health-the General Field of Local Services" at a meet- ing of pre-med students at 7:30 p.m. today in Auditorium D, An- gell Hall. The meeting will also feature "Journey Into Medicine," a movie depicting the life and work of a medical student. taxes," Prof. Richard Musgrave of the economics department said. Prof. Musgrave pointed out that if the present Congress does not cut taxes they will be in trouble with their constituents who elect- ed them on a platform of lower taxes. But if they do cut them he believes that they and the whole country might be in a very dangerous position. "IF WE ALLOW the present ex- cess profit, corporate and excise taxes to expire or be reduced dur- ing the fiscal year 1954 as they are scheduled to do, we will' end up in that fiscal year with a defi- cit of about $2 billion," Prof. Mus- grave explained. "But," he continued, "the full effects will not be felt until 1955 when the final deficit might amount to well over $12 billion." Considering this would come up in an election year the Repub- licans would be embarrassed with so large a figure. Prof. Musgrave doubted wheth- er the Administration would be able to make enough expenditure cuts to balance the deficit. "Eisenhower might be able to make cuts of a few billion by tight- ening up on the Administration, but after that he would have to cutback substantially on the de- fense program," he said. He further explained that cut- ting defense expenditure would not be compatible with our present foreign policy. Commenting on recent articles that have claimed that the United States is on the verge of an eco- nomic collapse because of heavy taxation, Prof. Musgrave said, "That just is not so. This country has enough resources to carry her through. It may not be pleasant, but a heavy defense program never is."9 'Holiday' Story On 'U' Plantned The University, a favorite sub- ject of newspaper and magazine articles, is being visited this week by Dave Sherman, Holiday maga- zine photographer, for a feature story expected to run next winter. Sherman took pictures Saturday at the winter sports weekend and several fraternity houses. He will remain on campus for a week to get pictures of all phases of Uni- versity life. The article will run in conjunc- tion with Holiday's series on lead- ing universities and colleges. WHEW! 'U1' Escapes LongHandle By FREDDI LOEWENBERG Students here narrowly missed attending the University of As- senisipia. This tongue-twister, along with Metropotamia and Cherronesus, was once proposed as the name for the lower peninsula of Michigan. HOWEVER, the congressional committee which was considering names for the states to be formed out of the Northwest Territory had to revise its report before it would be accepted. Thomas Jefferson, the head of the committee, had proposed the name Cherronesus, taken from the Greek word peninsula, but tecommitteehfnally settled on the name Michigan. A discussion of the origin of other words peculiar to Michigan will be featured on a new series of programs, "Wolverine Words," to be broadcast by WUOM. The first of the series to be con- ducted by Prof. Albert H. Mark- wardt of the English department every Thursday at 3 p.m., will be about the words Michigan, Wol- verine and Michigander. Listeners are invited to submit questions or contribute phrases, sayings, and oddities which are peculiarly Michigan in use or origin. Labor Library Supplies Data On Business Data on collective bargaining, union publications and personnel problems may be found in the Uni- versity's Bureau of Industrial Re- lations library. Located in Rm. 330 of the Busi- ness Administration Bldg., the library maintains such reporting services as "Labor Relations Re- porter" and "Labor Arbitrations" and a collection of government publications and published statis- tics on employment, wages, hours and work stoppages. MORE THAN 30,000 pamphlets and 1,200 books regarding labor- management relations are among the resources available that can aid in the preparation of union educational programs, employe negotiations and contract drafting. Librarian Eleanor Scanlan will aid in interpreting information in the library which is open from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Teaching Forums "How to Plan a Course" will be the topic of the second in a series of five University forums on col- lege teaching to be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday in the Rackham Am- phitheater. JOSEPH EPSTEIN . . . journalism speaker * * * board member of United Fund, Isi- dore Newman School, Interna- tional House, Family Service So- ciety and the Tuberculosis Asso- ciation of New Orleans.' The public talk by Epstein, spon- sored by the journalism depart-1 ment, will be followed by an in-1 formal coffee hour in Rm. 14431 Mason Hall. Green To Talk On UNPoklcy James F. Green, noted State De- partment official, will discuss United Nations politics and diplo- macy at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. Deputy director of the United Nations Social and Economic Af- fairs Office. Green has served at the Dumbarton Oakes and San Francisco conferences. He has also served in several offices in the United Nations, including the Trusteeship Council and the Cul- tural and Human Rights Affairs Office. Green's lecture, entitled "Mul- tilateral Diplomacy: The General Assembly in Action," is sponsored by . the International Relations Club of the political science de- partment. The address will be open to the public. By MARK READER Primitive dramatic forces and choral simplicity will highlight the Arts Theater's first production of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" sched- uled to open at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the theater. According to Strowan Robert- son, director, the Greek play will be set in pre-Hellenistic times in order to capture the primitive as- pects of the period. Len Rosensen, will portray Oedipus as a tribal chieftain rather than the tradi- tional king, he said. THE GREEK chorus is to con- sist of six members acting as the tribe. Original choreography and music have been composed for the performance. John Devoe, choreographer, stressed the fact that simplici- ty in dance will not impede the progress of the play. He felt that both the music and dance will act as subsidiary forces and that the chorus would be well inte- grated in the production. Members of the cast will in- clude, Ken Rosen, '53Ed, as Teires- ias, the blind soothsayer, Beth- Sheva Laiken as Jocasta, wife and mother of Oedipus, Jerry Richards, '56E, as Creon and Lee Henry, '56M, as a messenger. Len Rosen- sen will take the title role. Music for the chorus is under the direction of its composer Alex- ander Smith, SM. Devoe points out that this is the first attempt of the group to present a Greek classic, and the problems faced in working with a chorus are strikingly different. The theater had previously decided to use highly complex choral ac-} tion but found that simplicity was the key to creating a unified dra-a matic effect, he said. A 1949 Fittztand Fitzgerald translation of the play will be1 the script used by the cast which has been rehearsing the drama for the past month. Applications Due For Draft Exam National selective service head- quarters today issued a reminder to college students that applications for the April 23 selective service qualification test must be post- marked not later than midnight Monday. Students may obtain application blanks from Ann Arbor Board No. 85, 208 W. Washington. To be eligible to take the test, an applicant, on the testing date (1) must be a selective service reg- istrant who intends to request de- ferment as a student; (2) must be satisfactorily pursuing a college course leading to a degree, and (3) must not previously have taken the test. ARTS THEATER-Members of the cast rehearse a dance scene for their production of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," a Greek play opening Friday- night. SUNDAY PROGRAMS: Educators Broadcast WUOM Musician's Series Nationally # & '# t i A WUOM program series, "The Musician Comments," is being broadcast by the National Associ- ation of Educational Broadcasters to 58 stations all over the country. The -series, which began in January, consists of 21 quarter- hour programs and is the first complete series originating in the WUOM studio to be accepted by the NAEB. The programs feature informal interviews with members of the music school faculty and short recorded selections. The purpose is to provide behind the scene views of the working world of mu- sic. Among the faculty members par- ticipating in the program are Prof. William D. Revelli and Prof. Robert Noehren of the music school. The programs may be heard lo- cally at 1 p~m. Sundays. * I r j "i C} tG ( U t3 Q G O D US 0 0 -M FLOWERS are in order for C ASSEMBLY BALL ORCHID SPECIAL - $2.75 V Campus Corsage Service Phone 3-1824 7-11 P.M. 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