Sunday, April 17, 1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Sunday, April 17, 1955 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven -Peace sciences as well as their applica- tions in agriculture. Prof. Chatters, who received his doctorate degree in botany at the University in 1941, gained interest in radiations research at the Uni- versity where he made studies in 1937 and 1938 on the biological ef- fects of fast neutrons from the cyclotron. The laboratory includes a room ith a $4,000, 150-kilovolt X-ray nit for radiation damage and mu- tation studies, a controlled light room for investigations with ultra violet light and auto-radiography, two temperature controlled rooms for radioisotope countine and ex- primentation calling for cool temperatures and a large labora- tory and small animals room for biological research. SAFETY precautions include con-' crete storage vaults for radio- Isotopes, lead shielding for the use against X-rays, safety glasses for protection against ultra-violet light, well-ventilated fume hoods, and remote control devices for handling radioactive materials. Since the College's interests are. primarily in the field of agricul- ture, much of the work to date has been of this nature. One of the STANDIN most commonly used insecticides DEM has been synthesized and tagged I with radiosulfur as well as with radiophosphorus by members of the college chemistry staff. After the tagging was completed MUSIC by the chemists, botanists, and en- tomologists, the insecticide was used to obtain a better under- G standing of the fate of such chem- icals when applied to plant sur- faces or when administered by By I root systems. " Y CON ANOTHER GROUP on the cam- the music pus studied what happened to nearly as p phosphorus when administered to according t an animal which craved this ele- lace, music ment from a dietary deficiency or As the & other causes. Another studiedtasthd p what determined the mechanism tarofy Wa by which the cotton boll weevil anything tl damages the cotton plant. This student, fr was done by using weevils tagged for admiss with radiophosphorus to learn position af whether the boll weevil injects The broa saliva into the plant tissues or ers appli merely chews up the plant result- acceptance ing in characteristic weevil dam- nation of a age. student-tea Experiments with the growth of istration, a gneat animals, weed killing by tification fi chemical means and the efficient placement. and economical use of convention- "It seem al fertilizers, are examples of add- all this w ed research opportunities made lace noted available through the use of radio- teresting ti active material. tive work.I -RAYS AND ultra-violet light to the job are being used to help solve next day" agriculture problems and to ob- As an ad tai fundamental information on lace "doesn radiation biology. For example, arbitrary the breeding studies that are be- sary to an ing made in conjunction with the are valuab radiation work to determine whe- they can b ther flourescent and non-fluores- to a parti cent varieties will breed true or particulart not. In addit In the field of Veterinary tive post, P Mfedicine, as well as in conjunc- es two sec tion with the problems of industry, tue to no the Laboratory is contributing to uag a mus the general welfare. give up son "Like the Phoenix Project at the students a University of Michigan," Prof. ing becaus Chatters explained, "the Okla- ground, as homs A&M College Radioisotopes those class and Radiations Laboratory's fa- The 39-y cilities are devoted to non-military sterS.C. applications of radioisotopes and Tennessee' radiations." itary Acad "My folk military pr A I LDreally wan ILY studying p four. II ~~r\ "In my P HOTO prep schoo I had a j RTUF APresbyterian then and m going to be Story by cian after GAIL GOLDSTEIN HE. REC degree Pictures -Courtesy University Prof. Roy M. Chatters his Bache Princeton i from the L Poteni Olil G BEHIND A PROTECTIVE SHIELD, ONSTRATES METHODS USED IN TI RADIOACTIVE CHEMICALS USING CONTROL APPARATUS SCHOOL SECRETARY: f-Heat' H oles DAVID KAPLAN 4STANT concern is that facuHl was fir of the 550 students in lowbcame al school be treated as lownbearea possible as individuals," 'lowing year a to Prof. James B. Wal- nt post i 11 school secretary. Previous to chool of Music's secre-~ganPsf a anist and ci ublic relations director, Avenue Chur lace's position entails imilar poit hat has to do with thean acson, om the time he appliesDund hisn, ion until he obtains a During his ter. graduation. Prof. Wallace dephia ah d scope of the job cov-wa p ac ations for admissions, with a part of admissions, coordi- Orchestra in ll academic counseling, concerts. cher relationships, reg- He had also cademic discipline, cer- at Belhaven or graduation and job Miss. s as if i can never get IN 1942, he ork done," Prof. Wal- States Ar "and that's the in- American an hing about administra- until 1946. Aft t is a challenge to stick the musicals and carry over to the the total hist theatre, publi ministrator, Prof. Wal- States govern it believe in hard fast While in t rules. Some are neces- more than 20 y good discipline. They the United S le only in as much as Germany, as e adapted and adjusted istrative work icular individual at a After the w time." ion to his administra-p rof. Wallace also teach- tions of Music Litera- n-music students. "Be- ician, I never want to me aspect of music. The e re extremely stimulat- e of their varied back- id I look forward to ;es." ear-old teacher and ad- cwas torn in Wetmin- and graduated from s Brahnam Hughes Mil- emy in 1932. s had sent me off to .. rep school to see if I ted music. I had been iano since the age of first letter home from l, I told the folks that ob as organist in the n Church. I was 15 iy folks' reply was 'He's e a bushy-haired musi- ' EIVED his Bachelor's in psychology from the of Mississippi in 1930, lor of Music from n 1939 and his Master University in 1947. t Thomas Wolfe as Painter I a of Great Literary Scenes (Continued from Page 1) blessing as a writer lay in the quite as simple as it looks to sep- agonizing fact that he was never arate the man from the artist, and able to build an emotional, pro- the artist from his art. And this tective fence around his soul, thus is especially true of Wolfe and his keeping the crowd on the outside writingswhere it really belonged. The For Eugene Gant, Tom Wolfe, sneer; the questioning smile and and George "Monk" Webber-call the unsaid word, these-when ap- them what you will-were one. prehended by his vulnerable sen- The artist was his own model, and sitivity and cradled by his peculiar the man who wrote the Wolfe tet- kind of genius-aere the stilted N ralogy was its principal character, crucifixes upon which his books as well. And this; the major criti- were built. cism constantly leveled against H SPOLM oha ua I ,Wolfe: that le was an "autobio- bHig PROBLEMs, both bashuan . graphical" writer, tends to become benadaritwsbscly ., a .only further confused when ad- one of evaluation. For in all his S mixed with the many legends of wretched and lonely life Tom the man. But only by an under- Wolfe never learned that one sim- standing of the man couldone plcesmile exceeds, in worth, the - begin to comprehend the artist value of a thousand sneers. His who wrote-in the only way he books were tailored to his size and knew how-as he compulsively had they were filled, to his heart's ca- to write. pacity, with the misery of pain. A gigantic hulk of a man (six As Eugene, the boy, he had a feet six inches tall, and weighing home; though he neither seemed two hundred fifty pounds) Tom to become a part of it, nor to find Wolfe was never able to find the one later on in life even as "Monk" blessing of anonymity in a crowd. the man. And if his writings laid He was too long for Pullman fallacy to anything, it was to the berths, too wide for common old saying that, "The home is chairs. And, as if this were not where the heart is." For often, enough, he was afflicted with an more often than we poor mortals PROF. CHATTERS almost convulsive stammer being would care to admit, the home is able, at best, to talk only with his where the heart would like to RANSFERRING closest friends. He was, so to speak, be. And, ironically enough, this REMOTE a grotesque among grotesques, strange hill boy, who understood And his tragedy as a man and his father and mother better than most men ever have ina parent- son relationship, never really came to know them. He met as strangers the two O. 5aP -GCII/d Ape ople he was to come to know Oi rofiij. W alI~lce best in life. The first of these, Max Perkins, became his editor and good friend. st appointed to the year in Heidelberg, Germany, in In Max Perkins, as editor, Tom 47 as a teaching fel- the fields of history of music and Wolfe met a guide through the an instructor the fol- the organ. labyrinth of flowing rhetoric and nd obtained his pres- He also attended the first Salz..cadenced prose; a guide who was 50. burg Music Festival after the war, to lead him through the jungle of coming to Ann Ar- held in August, 1945. He received words toward a method of com- allace served as or- the Award of Merit in the same munication of feeling and an es- soir director of Park year, sence of meaning. And, more than ch in New York and He holds membership in Pi Kap- this, he had found a friend who ons in Philadelphia pa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha Sin- both recognized his talent and be- Miss. fonia, and five University Com- lieved in his potentiality as a stay in Philadelphia, mittees in addition to secretary writer. But Wolfe-the provincial conducted the Phil- of music school executive com- -while coming to know this ver- h Society which sang mittee. satile and able editor, was never of the Philadelphia Prof. Wallace has conducted to learn to understand him. three yearly all-Bach the high school choirs in the three Perkins, on the other hand, had local performances of Bach's "St. found himself a young and highly been Dean of Music Matthews Passion," The last one literate writer who, while gifted College in Jackson, was March 25. with a power of description and a "I have a great love for choral talent for detail, was-by his very music," he said, "because my fav- nature-alien to the discipline of entered the United orite form of music is the vocal literary form. And literary form my, serving in the form of art. It is the basic form is exactly what an editor receives d European theatres of musical expression and has al- a paycheck, as a means of com- ter the war, he wrote ways been the greatest contribut- pensation, for enforcing. For section included in ing medium to all the history of Wolfe, caught in the web between ory of the European music." the Voodoo-mysticism of the emo- shed by the United tions prayer meetings of the ment. DISCUSSING the future, Prof. Southern hills and the Romanti- the Army, he gave Wallace says that "my con- cism of Coleridge, was not only the 0 organ concerts in stant dream about the position I symbolist who worked in imagery itates, England and hold, is that the time is drawing but-something very different, as well as doing admin- near when we can see as a reality well-the realist who dealt with C. a music school on the North Cam- things tangible in a most intan- ar, he studied for a See 'OFF-BEAT', Page 11 gible way. PERKINS saw in Wolfe exactly what he was: a primitive from - the hills who had tried to read every book in the Harvard library, and had authored the longest and most intricate play ever actually put into production by Baker's 47 -n Workshop. And it was Perkins, as well, who was the first to see that dm honly by a fusion of almost all forms literary could this young man ever find a means of self- expression. .Here, again, we are confronted with the fiction and the legend of Wolfe the man and the artist. Starting with the publication of the "Angel" and 'culminating with the release of "Of Time And The River," Wolfe was subjected to one of the most vicious attacks, by a mob of critics, to which any writer has ever stood as the ungrateful heir. But it was Perkins who, while being praised, was equally con- demned. For he was accused of everything from telling Wolfe what to write to actually clipping up the pages of the Wolfe manu- script and repasting the frag- :v4. ":.'.: <::'ha .ments, in editorial sequence, as --Daily-Ben Monaghan finished copy for the two novels. PROF. JAMES B. WALLACE And Wolfe, while writing "The ® "a bushy-haired musician after all" See THOMAS, Page 12