TWO SH'TE MTIT7,HrANrDITJv SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1931 ,. .SATURDAY,. . .. r. JULY 24e . 1937 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Otficial Publication of the Summer Session U.S. Enters Cancer Fight. . CONGRESS, last Thursday, passed an appropriation calling for $7,- 000,000 to be used for cancer research, establish- ing a National Cancer Institute to aid in the fight of this dreaded and mysterious ailment. It is high time that our government stepped in and lent a hand. In recent years the deaths from cancer have mounted continually, probably because hereto- fore it has been difficult to diagnose. Little real success has been made towards finding a cure for cancer unless discovered in its early stages. If the growth spreads to many parts of the body as it is bound to do if not killed early, the days of a victim are numbered. The government, as attendance at the present play of the Repertory Players, "Yellow Jack," will prove, has accomplished a great deal in con- quering deadly diseases. The Cancer Institute will now take its place along with other private foundations established for the study of cancer, and, let us hope, make the victory over the growth come in the not too far distant future. BOOKS By JOSEPH GIES THE OUTWARD ROOM, a novel Brand. Simon and Schuster, New pages. This first novel suffers from many by Millen York. 309 of the de- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Copy received at the office of the Summer Session, Room 1213 A. H. until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Students, College of Literature, ing class which meets cn Tuesday Science and the Arts: Except under evenings. extraordinary circumstances, courses Ethel McCormick. dropped after today will be recorded with a grade of E. Sunday, 11 a.m., Mr. Marley will -- speak on "Man Must Live with Oth- Graduate Students Specializing in ers," last of series on Religion and Education, for the Master's Degree: Life. The Advisory Inventory Test will be 7:30 p.m., Prof. Paul Muesche of given this morning (Saturday), 9 to the English department will speak on 12 a.m., in the high school auditorium "Proletarian Drama." Discussion and for those who have not already taken social hour to follow. the test. It is required of those en- rolled in graduate courses in educa- Services in Zion Lutheran Church tion for the first time and of those will be held at 10:30 a.m. with ser- who have completed less than 8 hours mon by the pastor, Rev. E. C. Stell- of graduate work in education. horn. Living" by E. Stanley Jones. 5-6 p.m., Social Hour and tea. 6-7 p.m., Wesleyan Guild meet- ing, Dr. Luther Purdom will speak on "Finding One's Place." Methodist Church: Morning wor- ship at 10:30 a.m. Dr. William Har- rison will preach on "Source and Product." The Graduate Outing Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 25 in front of Lane Hall where cars will take them to Silver Lake for swim- ming, games and a picnic supper. Those with cars are urged to bring them. All graduate students are cor- dially invited. Women's Education Club and Pi Lambda Theta: The joint meeting of these two organizations will be held Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the anuthority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and the Summer Session. 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 newspaper. All rights of republication of al other matter herein also reserved, Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscription during summer by carrier, $1.00; by mail, $1.50. During regular school year, by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $:50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1936-37' REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Pubishers Reresentative. 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N.Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON « SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES - PORTLAND - S!ArLE EDITORIAL STAFF MANAGING EDITOR ..........RICHARD G. HERSHEY CIT EDITOR ......................JOSEPH S. MATTES Associate Editors: Clinton B. Conger, Horace W. Gil- more, Charlotte D. Rueger. Assistant Editors: James A. Boozer, Robert Fitzhenry, Joseph Gies, Clayton Hepler. BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER ..................JOHN R. PARK ASSISTANT BUS. MGR......NORMAN B. STEINBERG PUBLICATIONS MANAGER...........ROBERT LODGE CIRCULATION MANAGER .........J. CAMERON HALL OFFICE MANAGER ...................RUTH MENEFEE Women's Business Managers ..Alice Bassett, Jean Drake NIGHT EDITOR: HORACE W. GILMORE Is Teaching A Prof ession?*. . OVERHEARD on the campus the other day was the question of a young would-be teacher put to an old, experi- eced teacher. "Is teaching really a profession?" Those who have labored at teaching over a period of years are quick to answer yes. More in doubt are the conscientious, youthful teachers who are experiencing the first agonies of in- structing the young. Th question demands a definition. What, then, is a profession? Webster defines it as a calling "not purely commercial, mechanical, agricultural, or the like." By implication a calling that, fired by the spirit of service and humanitarianism, deals directly with human welfare, rather than with the matter of physical and biological sur- vival, is a profession. "Yes," replied the older man. "Teaching is de- cidedly a profession. "I see in the ever-changing groups of young people before me potentialities far beyond my ability to understand or control. My every act, my every word, must be chosen so that they may be developed and not suppressed; so that they may be aided in the creation of ideals, sound judgments, a useful mode of life; so that their talents and energies may not be misdirected into wrong channels. "My life as a teacher is no longer my own. I must merge it with that of those whose mind is in the forming so that the future may look to the schools as the fountainhead for its supremest tasks. "The teacher deals' with human life, not dead materials, and directs it so that it may grow healthily, sturdily, usefully. Behind each suc- cessful individual there has been an inspiring teacher. Profits accruing can not be counted in dollars and cents but in tangible, sometimes intangible, human values. The real teacher is not merely a clerk, a corrector of papers. He wields the powers to reshape a world." The young man thanked his elder and went his way, mulling over new thoughts. He had been foretold something that in time that other great teacher-experience-would have taught him. High School Band Clinic. . T OMORROW, the second high school band clinic, conducted by the School of Music under the direction of Prof. William D. Revelli, will be brought to a close, In session for three weeks, the clinic has brought more than 100 high school teachers, supervisors and students from all parts of the state. to Ann Arbor. Excellent training for all who participated has been provided by the clinic. Public school music teachers not only have been able to get together and discuss their respective difficulties, but they have played in concert under the direction of well-known conductors. Harold Bachmann, di- rector of the University of Chicago band, Ralph Rush, director of the Cleveland Heights High School Bands and Professor Revelli are among those who directed the band and the clinic. The high school students present for the three week session have also gained invaluable experi- ence from associating with the conductors and playing under them in their band and orchestra. Last night the second public concert was given by the clinic band and the Summer Session Band, numbering together more than 175 musicians. THE FORUM is I 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 regarded as confidential upon request. 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. Modern Art To the Editor: It is certainly a truism of long standing that the University of Michigan is far more guilty of the sins of omission than of any conceivable positive misdemeanors it might be given to com- mit. In an institution such as this where the name and nature of education are so zealously appraised there is at this time to be evinced one of those gross instances of crass indifference toward the serious consideration of a great mod- ern art-an indifference which, while generated by the desire of our educational system to realize the true norm of culture and not to be taken in by every whim to which less dignified institu- tions such as the Family or the Lodge so easily succumb, is in this case not only inexcusable, but rather ridiculous. _ Now it is undeniable that this institution should, on the whole and despite cer- tain isolated instances of immaturity on the part of both those in charge and the student body, be commended for this effort to retain an awareness of the mean. The importance of such awareness cannot be emphasized too strongly, but on the other hand it can signify little if the fact is overlooked that any mean or norm is significant only in relation to the ever changing forms of social expression which constitute it; that while in one sense at least it may be considered con- stant, surely in another sense it is forever chang- ing. The eternally changing bears always the characteristic of the constant and this dual in- terpretation of the nature and approach to the mean of cultural activity should be forever pres4 ent nowhere so much as in the educational insti- tutions of our land. A short time ago there appeared in an obscure section of a Detroit paper a notice, to wit, that Columbia University has recently installed a chair in the art of Motion Picture Composition and Criticism that takes its place alongside the chairs in Sanskrit, Chemistry, Philosophy, etc. This is the first time, if we may believe the papers in which a major American university has recog- nized the art of motion picture production in a serious academic way. A precedent has been set by a university respected throughout the world: our chief cause for grief here at Michigan is that we were not privileged due to heaven-knows- what sort of prejudice, to be the first to be honored by such an installation. That which we have done for the advancement of a sincere and systematic consideration of motion pictures is even more to our shame if not wholly analo- gous to the popular treatment of any other great art or science in the yellow journals of amuse- ment or intrigue. Though at the mercy of a num- ber of gibes let us ask: Is it not shocking that the one public institution of universal importance that is wealthy enough to make it possible for students to examine the technical problems of motion picture construction as it is performed in the world's greatest studios should, with one re- cent exception, completely ignore that art save for brief literary comments here and there which generally contain no more real value than does the time of those who trouble to formulate them. To what distant maturity must the cin- ema aspire before we in the high places of learn- ing may consider it as worthy of systematic study? What kind of influence is it supposed to exert before we are privileged to break away from the consideration of its moral and social aspects and study it as an art as one would study canon and fugue to understand better the art of muse? There have been enough cases of sheer beauty in motion pictures in the past five years forming a number of five star productions from 'All Quiet on the Western Front' right down to the recent masterpiece 'Night Must Fall' to jus- tify the installation of as many courses in this subject as are offered in, say, the School of Music or Architecture. Expression begins with the mastery of technic. Certainly one cannot write Greek prose until he knows the Greek language. Well, what in the world could be more honorable for the Univer- sity of Michigan than to follow the example of Columbia and bring to the students' doorstep the principles of motion picture making, thereby making our lives the richer for one more lively art brought home. Who knows, through this dif- fusion of a basic rather than literary knowledge there might be brought about a higher standard fects. typical to first novels, but possesses at the same time a quality of depth quite unusual in beginning authors. This seems particularly strik- ing in view of the fact that the author is a man and his story is told through the eyes and mind of a woman. The story is a "Seventh Heaven" modernized with Freud and Marx, a combination of the standard idyll-of-the-big-city with abnormal psychology and the class struggle. The girl, at 22, has been in a mental hospital for seven years suffering from apparently incurable circular in- sanity, the result of the violent death of her brother at a time when her Oedipus complex had just been transferred to the latter from her father. She resolves at last to escape from the hospital, a plan tacitly approved by the director who has little other hope of effecting a. remis- sion. Reaching New York under an assumed name, she is on the point of succumbing to the terrific physical strain of her vain hunt when in comes St. George in the person of Johnny Kohler, a machinest (deus ex machinist!), who takes her home with him. She soon falls in love with her savior, but it's really all right because he doesn't sleep with her the first two nights. Of course the point is that love accomplishes the cure of her manic-depressive cycle, but quite a bit more is worked into the story. Mr. Brand has an interesting way of describing, certain incidents by leaving as much to the read- er's imagination as possible. For example in one place where she goes to look for work, Harriet, the name the girl has taken, is asked by the employer if she would "appreciate a favor." She asks what he means, and the author closes the incident abruptly with: "He explained." Natural- ly, Harriet is too good a girl to stoop to that sort of thing, though. The description of the girl's life at home in Kohler's flat and at work in a hole-in-the-wall dress factory is done with admirable economy. The picture of the squalor and suffering is just sketched in, with no wasted gestures of either irony or pity. One incident in particular stands out as a concentration of the suppressed horror of the great city: an Italian workman, who lives on the floor above, owns a dog. Once he goes out for a short time and leaves the animal tied in the court yard. Someone complains to the police, who take care of the matter in the usual efficient manner, and when the Italian returns h finds his dog dead. The unadorned brevity of this little episode renders it sublime. Without ever even hinting broadly, the writer brings out the deep attachment of the man for his dog, and when the beast is shot the whole multitude of "minor tragedies" of the life of the poor suddenly become very real. Of course a good part of the book is not par- ticularly original-a rehash of "Sister Carrie," and similar novels, but it never is actually boring. A really brilliant insight into life and stream-of- consciousness in a sanatarium in the first 60 or so pages is by no means the least meritorious sec- tion. Altogether, the novel doesn't maintain " continuity in as polished a manner as might have been expected of a more experienced author, and foreshadowing is not always too subtle, but the story is of the category usually described as com- pelling, and written with a talent for maximum effect from minimum detail that makes it a rather auspicious beginning for a starter-oter. RECORDS By TOM McCANN One of the best tunes of the season is "Who'll Be The One This Summer?" which you can find recorded by Tommy Dorsey and the Clam- bake Seven. The recording of this swell tune is typical "jamming" but it has a trumpet chorus that is one of the best things we ever heard on wax. Edythe Wright, Mr. Dorsey's trombonemand probably the trumpet of Bunny Berigan make this a . . . well, what we're trying to say is that you're going to like this thing. , ** *. 1. It's almost a year old now, bit if you haven't heard Benny Goodman's "Swingtime in The Rockies" you'd better dig it up. A good edu- cation in swing is not complete without it. * ' * So Rare and Dancing Under the Stars-Here are two great tunes done by a great band (Gus Arnheim's) which means simply that this is a pretty fair recording. (Brunswick 7919). Congo and My Gal Mezzanine-Typical wild orgy stuff done a la drunken brawl. Cab Callo- way and orchestra in two of its first and worst efforts for the Irving Mills organization. (Variety 593). * * *, * Mary Had a Little Lamb and Goodnight Ladies -These recordings come in Brunswick's album, "Twenty Minutes With Andre Kostelanetz." We liked the novel treatment of the two mentioned, but the other four sides are tangoes and rhum- bas, which we didn't, like because they were tangoes and rhumbas. (Brunswick 7873). * * V * Hot Lips and Bells of Saint Mary's-You'll like Horace Heidt's three trumpeters in "Hot Lips," but the other side reminded us of that concert given on the carillon last year after which three l'n-, x oP cl - r fr% 1'Q- n hn l 'Rr- rc _ m ~l I Monday at 7:15 p.m. This meeting Summer Session Chorus: ReportI Sunday at 7:15 p.m., Library Steps. Scoend University Vesper Service to be held on the Library Terrace on Sunday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. The Rev. R. Edward Sayles will give the address. Music to be directed by Prof. David E. Mattern. Student Fellowship Meeting: There will be an Episcopal Student Fel- lowship meeting Sunday, July 25. Cars will leave the St. Andrew's Church, 306 N .Division St., at 5 p.m. Bring swimming suits. Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church: Services of worship Sunday, July 25 are: 8 a.m., Holy Communion, 11 a.m., morning prayer and sermon by The Rev. Henry Lewis. New Intermediate Dancing Class: There has been a request on the part of many students for a new series of intermediate dancing classes. In re- sponse to this request it has been de- cided to have such a series. The firstI class will meet Monday evening, July 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the League ball- room. The class will continue to meet on Monday and Wednesday eve- nings for three weeks. The charge is $1.50 for the six lessons. All students who are interested are invited to come. This class should not be confused with the present intermediate danc- tinn xane n ven: b. ervies will be held at 9:15 a.m. with sermon by Rev. Henry Yoder on "Knowing and then Doing." The Lutheran Student Meeting will be held this Sunday evening at the home of Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Stellhorn at 6 p.m. The discussion will center on the topic "What should be the attitude of the Church on Current Problems." All Luther- an students and their friends are in- vited. A light lunch will be served.. Stalker Hall: 9:30 a.m., Student class with Prof. G. E. Carrothers. We will consider the book "Victorious . Trinity TmthPr-an Phnrrh" gnrvivPc .I will be at the Michigan League and not the University Elementary School Library, as previously announced. Piano Recital: Ellen Nelson, Cole- ridge, Neb., pupil of Prof. Joseph Brinkman, will give a piano gradua- tion rocital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a master of mu- sic degree, Monday evening, July 26, at 8:30 p.m., in the School of Music auditorium. Deutscher Verein: There will be a picnic Monday at 5 p.m. Everybody interested is requested to register at the German Table or in the office of the German Department, 204 U.H., (Continued on Page 3) Classified Directory Place advertisements with Classified Advertising Department. Phone 2-3241. The classified columns close at five o'clock previous to day of insertion. Box numbers may be secured at no extra charge. 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