iii Tr-Vv I rlrv, Tstst r a it YTTr-wr AA 4A4- 1. RA. i Jrlljji17.t-I.JEN IlIL. Y I 7 DNE ilt1Y, JULY 22. 1936 THE MICHIGAN DAILYJ Official Publication of the Summer Session .. , ,n_ _ . _ ._ __. ------ - Ei T lE FORUM I - - - - I Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Associa- tion and the Big Ten News Service. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited 'to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant. Postmaster-General. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.50, by mail, $2.00. 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Cameron Hall' Office Manager.............................Robert Lodge+ ... Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants will, however, be regardcd as confidential upon requcst. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserving the right to condense all letters of more than 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. A Kick In' The Seat Of Culture t To the Editor: I have always looked upon the University of Michigan as a great seat of culture. Insofar as, my intellectual development has gone, it has rep- resented a great deal. It was therefore with distinct shock and dis- appointment that I discovered today that the General Library offers no copies of one of the most widely-known books of our times-one that has been reprinted in some 52 languages and dia- lects, including the Maori, and read by countless millions. I refer, naturally, to "Tarzan of the Apes," by Edgar Rice Burroughs. What is the world coming to? "Tarzan" was good enough for me and it was considerably too good for my Grandfather, who said it was all poppy- cock, anyway. I appreciate, of course, that the present crit- ique may tend to the theory that Tarzan carries in a different form the doctrine of Nietzsche, of the Superman. That may be a fair judgment, but is it a reason for excluding it wholly? After all, it is not on record that Zarathustra ate worms and talked the ape language, although he was rather pally with that snake of him. That is what I am trying to point out. The closest I could come to Edgar Rice Bur- roughs in the Library files was "Leaf and Tendril," by John Burroughs (evidently a cheap imitation of the jungle epic) and "John Burroughs at Trout-' beck" (presumably a sequel, in the manner of "Tarzan the Terrible"). I could find nothing under the title "Tarzan," either. The best to be had was "Taschenbuch fur prazisionsmechaniker3 optiker, elektromechaniker und glasinstrumenten- macher und verwandter berufe fur das jahr." Who is this man Taschenbuch? What has he got that Burroughs hasn't got? To me, what he has to say sounds more like downright Fascism than the old Nietzsche self-realization. Are there subversive, influences at work in our Library? I have tried to read Herr Taschenbuch's fulmination, but have been forced to put it down in sheer boredom. It is almost all conversation and no plot. I believe in the fulfillment of the American art forms. Either the University must change its attitude on this matter or admit ci-devant defeatism. Next thing, I suppose the Library will tell me they haven't got a back-file of Moon1 Mullins and The Little King. -Indignant. Education Without Values To the Editor: George S. Counts, professor at Teachers' College, Columbia University, a profound thinker and great liberal is the author of a pamphlet: "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" The pamphlet points out a number of erroneous no- tions which prevail on the subject of education. Writes Professor Counts: "There is the fallacy that education is pri- marily intellectualistic in its processes and goals. Quite as important is that ideal factor in culture which gives meaning, direction, and significance to life. I refer to the element of faith or purpose which lifts man out of himself and above the level of his more narrow personal interests. Here, in my judgment, is one of our great lacks in our schools and in our intellectual class today. We are able to contemplate the universe and find that all is vanity. Nothing really stirs us, unless it be that the bath water is cold, the toast burnt, or the ele- vator not running; or that perchance we miss the first section of a revolving door. Possibly this is the fundamental reason why we are so fearful of molding the child. We are moved by no great faiths; we are touched by no great passions. We can view a world order rushing rapidly towards collapse with no more concern than the outcome of a horse race; we can see injustice, crime and misery in their most terrible forms all about us and, if we are not directly affected, register the emotions of a scientist studying white rats in a laboratory. And in the name of freedom, objectiv- ity, and the open mind, we would transmit this general attitude of futility on our children. In my opinion this is a confession of complete moral and spiritual bankruptcy. We cannot, by talk about the interests of children and the sacredness of personality, evade the responsibility of bringing to the younger generation a vision which will call forth their active loyalties and challenge them to creative and arduous labors. A generation with- out such vision is destined, like ours, to a life of absorption in self, inferiority complexes, and frustration. The genuinely free man is not the person who spends the day contemplating him- self, but rather the one whb loses himself in a great cause or glorious adventure." -M. Levi. There's the story going the rounds about the professor who explained to his summer school classes how they differed from his regular term students. "To me the difference is this," he said. "When I say good-morning to my regular classes, they all say good-morning to me, but when I say good morning to my summer students, they write it down in their notebooks." -Jay Burr, the Summer Northwestern. The President still is canny; you notice he hasn't given any fireside talks in July. -The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Probably the shock of Iffy's desertion has been responsible for Mickey's relapse. Unfortunately, there is no gong arrangement in the studios for political speeches. -The Ohio State Journal. r, DAILY OFFICIAL BLLIETTIN VOL XLV No. 19 WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1936 NoticesI Graduate Students in Education: who are taking work beyond the Mas- ter's degree are invited to attend a tea to be held in the libraries of the Uni- versity Elementary School this af- ternoon, July 22, between 5 and 6 p.m. The Michigan Dames cordially in- vite the wives of all students and in-. ternes to the first of a series of bridge teas to be held this afternoon at 2 p.m. at the League. Mrs. Kenneth Hodge will have charge and she will be assisted by Mrs. Paul Crampton, Mrs. Joe Wag- ner, Mrs. Newton McFayden, and Mrs. Ford Graham. Both contract and auction will be played as well as galloping bridge. A charge of ten cents will be made. All women interested in education are invited to attend a meeting to be held at the League this evening at 7:30 p.m. Several faculty men will give brief talks about the various fine arts. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; School of Music; and School of Education: Summer Session stu- dents who received marks of Incom- plete or X at the close of their last term of residence must complete work in these courses by the end of the first month of the Summer Session, July 29. The Administrative Board of the Literary College, the Adminis-t trative Committee of the School of Education, or the Director of the School of Music may grant a limited extension, in unusual cases, when a written request bearing the written approval of the instructor concerned is presented at the Registrar's Of- fice, Room 4, University Hall. When no additional grade is re- ceived, and no petition for extension has been filed, these marks shall be considered as having lapsed to E' grades. Stalker Hall: The picnic scheduled' for today at 5 p.m. has been post- poned. Watch for further notice. At 4:05 p.m. Dr. John R. Clark, principal of the Lincoln School, Teachers College, Columbia Universi- ty, will lecture in the University High School Auditorium. His topic will be "Curriculum Making in the Lincoln School, New York City." Dr. Arnold D. 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We wish that we might be a source of some com- fort to a man who, as religious counsellor and friend, has been to so many of us oftentimes a source of strength and moral courage. TdLehe Very Good Life ... THEY USUALLY stay on the wall, unnoticed after the first scrupulou, week-those rules for The Healthy Life. Yesterday, out of the fortieth annual conven tion of Osteopaths in New York, came anothe set: six rules for The Healthy Life. We've clipped them out and pasted them on the edi torial medicine chest, where, every time we have splitting headaches (as a Natural Consequence we will resolve to follow them minutely. We pass them on to you because there is something dif- ferent about them: 1.Sleep eight hours every night-we can't all be Edisons or Napoleons. 2. Drink four or five pints of liquid a day. 3. Eat slowly, deliberately, a wide variety of foods--a little less than you actually want. If time does not permit a leisurely meal, better not eat at all. Leave the problem of calories and vitamins to your psysician. 4. Never allow yourself to become too good at competitive sports and games. Leave perfection to professionals and to youth. - The Flight From The Book U wl I 5. Walk a lot. 6. Learn to think+ Worry and hurry are They insure a short merry one. deliberately and usefully, the twin sisters of fate. life and anything but a 6a. (This is our own). Don't over-study. Most generalizations about Americans come from people who passed one while crossing a fjord in Norway. Nevertheless,. our brief acquaintance with them emboldens' us to say that we've never known one who wasn't in a hurry. Even in a small town like Ann Arbor, the nervous tempo transmits itself and destroys that rich and quiet way of life such as we conceive to prevail in the small villages of France, or Spain, or Italy. (Rev- olutions excepted.) With pathetic longing, while the press is pounding away on its foundations, while type- writers are beating with incessant blows on ye editorial brains, while telephones are ringing, and a copy boy stands ready to tear the sheet out of the typewriter before it is finished, we read this statement which prefaced the six rules: "Doctors have just about reached the limit in improving health and lengthening life unless a real tranquility of existence can become fashion- able." Hurry up with that copy! D'you think you're working on a magazine? A child in the public schools is required to do fifteen times the amount of reading that was re- quired twenty-five years ago and the college stu- dents five times as much, according to Dr. A. C. Hardy, president of the International Society of r --B. Ifor Evans in the Manchester Guardian- So far, the radio has had, to my mind, little or e A1TITLE may sound a little too melodramatic. no effect on imaginative literature. I think it is, but I do not see how else to I feel less happy about Mr. Wells' conclusions ) express what I have in mind. I have been trying on the film. He himself has always been inter- to think out the effect on writers of the presence ested in fresh possibilities. He abandoned the - in our time of means of expression apart from novel for his "Outline," and now he has come books. back to the novel in a written story of his film, Both the radio and the film offer attractive al- "Things to Come." The short, economical phrases t ternatives, which need not enter into elaborate of that story show how well he has adapted him- discussion, the radio provides a large if hidden helf to the film form: every word in the conver- national audience, and the film sends a writer's sation counts, and the descriptions are as pointed work round the world far more quickly than the as stage directions, though much more vivid. f printed page can travel. The mechanisms be- Still, my belief remains that, whatever new art t hind these forms set limitations on the author, Mr. Wells is gaining, he is casting off some of his and I should have thought that the employment powers as a literary artist. Imagine for a moment of either of them would impose a hundred restric- that Mr. Wells were today a young writer with the tions on free expression. Above all, they neces- idea for "Kipps" newly entering into his imagina- t sitate the desertion of the book, and it is through tion. Would he write a novel, the novel which the book that all literature apart from the actually he did write 31 years ago, full of hu- drama must live. morous descriptions, pathos and with a running The problem concerns me mainly in the film. commentary of ideas, or would be not say, "This Many of our most interesting writers are curtal- is a story for Charles Chaplin," and set out to ing their literary activities in order to compose write a film script? film scenarios. Some, I fear, are even abandon- It might be said that this does not matter be- ing altogether the art of writing fiction in book cause the film has a far wider audience than the form. Others many try to serve both masters, printed page ever commanded. Many would but this is difficult, for the writing of fiction is a also make a claim for high place for the film great craft, a full-time profession. The labor of as an art. I know that the film is an art, but I inventing film scenarios and of seeing them believe with Lessing that each art has its own through the studios would, one imagines, lessen limitations. the vitality of a fiction writer. * * By tempting writers into the studios, the in- I asked Aldous Huxley the same question about dustry is anesthetizing contemporary authors. Our the film and fiction as I put to Mr. Wells. His most competent writers, our most skilled story answer seems to me to illuminate another side of tellers, are being tempted away. the question. He confessed to an interest in the * * film and added that even if he wrote for the film, I have asked H. G. Wells his view on this matter, he would "never dream of abandoning writing for he has conquered the film after one of the for screen work, which seems to me a very inade- most notable careers in fiction of our time. He quate instrumuent for expresing most of the things does not share my fears. that seem worth expressing." "Radio makes for very careful phrasing," he There Mr. Huxley seems to me to have seized comments. "I find myself that when I do a radio upon a vital point. For the film may be an art talk, I write and rewrite and weigh my words and yet may be quite incapable of expressing "most much more carefully than I do when I am writing of the things that seem worth expressing." To for print. read "the book of the film" of one of the scenarios "The silent film did perhaps tend to mini- made out of Dickens and then to read the novel mize wordcraft, but with every improvement in as Dickens wrote it will be to prove that this is sound reproduction, the possibility of fine music true even for a writer whose work seems supremely effects and a subtle use of language increases. adapted to the screen. In more intricate and I am making an effort to publish 'film stories' subtle writers, the loss in indefinably greater. in book form with every word of dialogue and Above all, there is the loss of style. Apart from with -compact descriptions of non-technical lan- style, the novel has virtues of its own in space guage, side by side with the production of the and roominess and leisure with which the film films. cannot compete. "Naturally, the first efforts are a bit experi- The compromiser will say that all is well, for mental and clumsy, but I think that here is the some writers who can manage a film story will possibility of a new and exciting literary form- develop in that way, and those who wish to retain something between a long short story and a play. the more subtle effects of the written word can go II I Do you have typing to be done, or do you want typing to do? Or, have yanything? In any case, your best- mediu~m is The Michigan Daily Classified Column 1 «I CASIH RATES in II lic PER LINE 'I II