THE MICHIGAN DAILY [E MICHIGAN DAILY NI . '"" I { 1 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Pubishe every morning except Monday during the University year and 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 all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. 1 rember, Associated Collegiate Press, 193738 R.PRZSENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVURTISING Y .NationalAdvertisingService, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MAPIGON AvE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CucA O .OSTON *-Los ANGELES -"SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors MANAGING EDITOR. . IRVING SILVERMAN' City Editor... . .. Robert I. litzhenry Asistant Editors . . . . . . Mel Fineberg, Joseph Gies, Elliot Maraniss, Ben M. Marino, Carl Petersen, Suzanne Potter, Harry L. Sonneborn. Business Depattnent USINESS MANAGER ... ERNEST A. JONES Credit Manager . . . . Norman Steinberg Ciculation Manager . . . J. Cameron Hall Assistants . . Philip Buchen, Walter Stebens NIGHT EDITOR: BEN M. MARINO The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. It is important for society to avoid the neglect of adults, but positively dangerous for it to thwart the ambition of youth to reform the world. Only the schools which 'act on this belief are educational institu- tions in the best meaning of the term. -Alexander 0. Ruthven. The Primaries In Kentucky And Georgia... T HE VICTORY of Senator Barkley over the weekend was the highlight of the summer primary season and the acid test the Presidential pat-on-the-back technique. Political commentators have freely asserted that without the intervention of President koosevelt, the Senator would have been unable to carry the state against the tremendous cam- epaign of the popular Governor Chandler. Even the supposed Chandler stronghold of northern Kentucky, the Covington district, gave his oppon- ent a margin. Turner Catledge in the New York campaign of the crumb of praise Mr. Roosevelt east him during the trip through Kentucky. The outcome of current primaries in Ohio, Arkansas, and Idaho, particularly the latter, will probably be a determining factor in the Presi- dent's decision in Georgia. Unmistakable inter- vention against Senator George would have as much political significance as the sled-length en- dorsement of Senator Barkley, especially because of the prestige involved for William Green. -Joseph Gies As Others See It Con stantin Stan islavs ky If you witnessed the miracle achieved by the Moscow Art Theater players when they visited this country in 1923 you will surely not have for- gotten it. Today that extraordinary revelation of a great art at its purest springs undimmed to mind with the news of Constantin Stanislavsky's death. Glamorous individuals have held audiences in rapt attention while acting in an alien tongue- Duse and Bernhardt, for the chief examples. But there were no individuals in "The Cherry Orch- ard" or "The Lower Depths," as the Mosco players brought these plays to life before one's eyes. Or, perhaps, it would be more accurate to say that every character was an individual. At any rate, there were no leading men or women, and the memory that one took from the experi- ence was a totality, a fusion of endlessly varied acting in a single stream that was the play. Much has been said and written of the Stan- islavsky methods of direction and presentation. Fortunately, the stage possesses his own account of them in "An Actor Prepares," surely one of the most precious books in the whole history of the art of acting. Their impingement upon the stage the world around has been the most con- spicuous fact in its modern development. Doubt- less his technique has been unwisely used at times; it certainly calls for no slavish application to the American scene. But of its vitality and essential truth there is hardly a remaining doubt. One turns to a living master in another art for an illuminating parallel. It has often been remarked that there is nothing sensational or striking in the directing of Arturo Toscanini. To hear him conduct is to meet music face to face; by dint of tireless rehearsing, by the inspiration of his zeal and imagination, an orchestra plays so well and with such singleness of mind that one all but forgets its existence. The utmost of art conceals itself. So with Stanislavsky. The months of rehearsal, the respect, the gravity with which he viewed the :actor's art, the untold hours devoted to the mastery of sheer technique ended in a perform- ance that left only the play. Here was the exact opposite of the type casting so familiar on the Broadway stage. His stress over the years ran all to the spiritual side of acting. Unless an actor knew his'part psychically he could not express its essence by any speech or gesture. The members of his cast were all virtuosos, and they were trained until all their virtuosity was forgotten and they themselves vanished and only the play, pulsing and speaking, was left. A great figure upon the world scene, one of the greatest men of the theater that ever lived, Stanislavsky came to fame under the Czars and suffered no diminution in glory under the Soviets. His passing, ripe in years and rich in honors, is a reminder of verities that stand all but forgotten in the present welter of world confusion. But they can and must return to power if the Wes- tern World, as it has marched to triumph in the names of Shakespeare and of Moliee, as of Bach and Beethoven, is ever to resume its ad- vance. BOOKS By RALPH THOMPSON The Orchestra Speaks Almost any one who enjoys so-called serious music ought to enjoy "The Orchestra Speaks," by Bernard Shore, first viola of the B.B.C. Sym- phony Orchestra. Mr. Shore writes informally of various conductors under whom he has played -Beecham, Mengelberg, Casals, Harty, Goossens, Barbirolli, Harrison, Wood, Toscanini, Koussev- itzky, Coates, Sargent, Boult and about a dozen others. Some of the names will be unfamiliar to American readers, but the comments are no less interesting because of that. Mr. Shore writes well and is never merely adulatory. Toscanini, he says, is the one living conductor of whom all orchestra members seem to approve -although some of them deplore his fondness for second-rate Italian music. He works his play- ers very hard and on occasion flies into fits of rage, twisting scores in his hands and throwing his baton to the ground, but he expects no more than he himself is prepared to give. During rehearsals, Toscanini is intense in mood, rapt to the point that he will not even ap- proach the platform if there is the slightest sound of tuning. When complete silence has been established he appears, glances quickly through the score (the sheet held close to his nose, as he is extremely near-sighted), gives such special di- rections as may be necessary and then stands in deep reflection for a moment or two, "in a char- acteristic attitude-head slightly bent down, the baton held upright close to his body, its tip just touching his chin." "Then," Mr. Shore contiues, "with his prepar- atory words in three languages: 'Bien-bitte--al- lora!' he taps his desk sharply with the baton and immediately plays as far as possible, not stopping for minor details, but paving them up in his head for either an enforced stop or the end of the exposition of the movement. Most of the incorrect minor details are reflected by his ex- pression, or by a click of his tongue. If all goes well, to his thinking, he does not play it again- Jfeemrslo Me H-eywood Broun In the first chapter of Genesis it is written:- "And God said, Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion" but in the third chapter it is set down that the Lord God said unto Adam:-"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return." Man functions, therefore; under divergent auspices. He is buoyed by a blessing and cast down by a curse. Sometimes he gets a bit confused. But it is well for us to remember that the blessing came first and that it is the better part. Moreover, the words spoken to Adam are possibly less an interdiction than a bit of prac- tical advice. The sons of Adam may still attain the likeness of God and win dominion over "every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." But they will have to work for it. The days of Eden are no more. The earth is no ripe plum to drop into the lap of the dreamer. And before man comes into his inheritance he must stand upon his feet. It is not his privilege to lord it over creeping things as long as he him- self crawls on his belly. End And Beginning And so I do not think that it is meant for man to gaze with frightened face upon a troubled world and lament that here is the beginning of the end. Many Utopians have lost faith and cry out, "Civilization as we have known it is being destroyed." They seem to forget that once they spoke of a new world and if the old order passes they should be the last to regret it. But in their dreams betterment was to be a gentle rain and not a cloudburst. The lion, they felt, would lie down with the lamb largely from his own volition. And so some turn away from their visions and disown them because it becomes apparent that the lion will not lie down. He must be pushed or beaten into submission. This was no part of the dream. And out of the ranks of an advancing army some scurry home to wrap themselves in plati- tudes and reap the rich awards which the'privil- eged bestow upon prodigals. There are none so reactionary as the tired radicals and the limp liberals. And they assail their old comrades in arms as cruel and wanton because they seek to turn hopes into realities by grim and stern struggle. But perhaps the true essence of cruelty lies in the fundamental misconception of Utopia phil- osophy. Jehovah made man after His likeness. Out of the dust of the ground he formed him and then He "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." But traces of the mud of the garden still cling to humankind. Even in life there is a tendency for dust to return to dust. The soul goes marching on, but it must force its way through ambuscades and scale the walls of citadels. * * * The Great Days It has been said that some of these days the Lord's going to set this world on fire. Perhaps it has happened. These are the great days. In fifty years I have never known a time when there was more to make one conscious of the heroic determination of men and women to do away with ancient evils. There is blood and there is strife, but man marches on. He fights to win dominion over creeping things. And he seeks to take on the shape of the image in which he was created. Not in a day or a week or a year, but still within the vision of the living he strives to regain the lost paradise of brotherhood and bounty. And it will be a finer garden even than that which was called Eden. It will not be a boon from 'heaven, but something man has made with his own hands and out of his own image. God breathed into his nostrils back at the dawn of creation. Now man must give an accounting. He must answer the query of his creator when the question comes:- "What have you done with the 'living soul within you?" flails his arms about, whoops with excitement. Sir Adrian Boult, on the -contrary, stands almost still on the rostrum. Willem Mengelberg spouts an endless stream of instruction, sometimes launching upon a long sermon with his arms raised in the air at the "ready". His rehearsals go on and on and on, as if clocks had never been invented. Mengelberg is meticulous about tuning and has spent as much as two hours getting a pitch that suits him. With him the A comes always from the oboe, the player of which must obedi- ently stand and pipe in one direction after the other. Sir Henry Wood's ritual is but slightly less elaborate; Sir Henry appears with a tuning fork marked 439 and whacks it near the ear 'of string player after string player, listening to the resultant A and saying in nine cases out of ten, "Too sharp!" He goes through a similar ceremony with the wood-winds, using a flatter tuning fork to allow for the cold instruments. Mr. Shore's remarks on Sir Henry, who is now in his fiftieth year as a conductor, are particu- larly amusing. What he has to say about Bee- cham and the works of Delius, about Kous- sevitzky's "tyrannical" attitude, and about such composer-conductors as Vaughan Williams, El- gar, Kodaly and Prokofieff, will probably prove of greatest interest to professionals. But his book as a whole should please a host of professionals and laymen alike. 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 until 3:30; 11:00 am Saturday until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. _ _ _ WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10, 1938 VOL. XLVIII. No. 38 The WPA teachers on campus are specially invited to a tea given by the American Federation of Teachers on Wednesday, Aug. 10, from 4:30 to 6 p.m.in the library oftthe Unitarian Church, corner of State and Huron Streets. Other persons interested in the work of the Federation are cordially invited. Faculty. School of Education: An important meeting of the regular faculty of the School of Education will be held Wednesday, Aug. 10, at of Reconciliation Wednesday evening, 9 p.m., Lane Hall. Extension Courses. Bulletins listing the courses to be offered by the! University Extension Service during the first semester of 1938-1939 are now available at' the Extension of- fice, 107 Haven Hall. Summer Session French Club: The last meeting of the club will take place on Thursday, Aug. 11. There will be a banquet at 6:30 p.m. in the "Second Floor Terrace Room" of the Michigan Union. The French Consul of Detroit will. 3 p.m. in 1430 U.E.S. be the guest of honor. Mme. Charles -- E. Koella will sing some French songs Chemistry Lecture. The seventh in and Dr. Didier Graeffe will play a the series of Chemistry leciures will sonatine by Ravel. be given by Professor F. F. Blicke on The members who have not yet signed up for the banquet please do Wednesday, Aug. 10 at 4:15 p.m. in so before noon Wednesday by teic- the amphitheatre of the Horace H. phoning Mr. Koella, 3923 or Univ. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. 405. Those who have signed up and Subject: Developments in Synthetic cannot come please telephone also. Drugs. All interested are invited. 11 for the summer contest must be in the Hopwood -Room at 4:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon, Aug. 12. Students in Literature, Science and the Arts, Architecture, Education, Music, Tentative lists of August grad- uates are posted on the bulletin board in Room 4, University Hall. Please report any errors, omissions or cor- rections to the Counter Clerk, Room 4, University Hall. Approved Houses for Women: Sign- out slips for the second three weeks of the Summer Session, July 17 through August 6, must be left in the Undergraduate Office by Friday, Aug. 12. Candidates for Masters degree in Psychology. The comprehensive ex- amination v: ill be given Saturday, Aug. 13, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Room. 4129, Natural ac. nee. Engineering Seniors: .he diploma application must be filled cut before Aug. 17 for graduation after 2ummner Session. Notice to all School of Music mem- bers, faculty, husbands and wives of the same. There will be an informal supper-dance at the Michigan League Ballroom, Monday evening, Aug. 15 at 6 p.m. Tickets 50 cents on sale now at Michigan League Information desk or see Leah Lichtenwalter or Ernest (Continued on Page 3) Luncheon of the Graduate Confer- ence on Renaissance Studies, Wednes- day, Aug. 10, 12:15 p.m. at the Michi- gan Union. Professor Hereward T. Price will speak on "The Influence of the Compositor on Grammar in Eng- land during the 16th and 17th Cen- turies." Make reservations at the English office, 3221 Angell Hall. Linguistic Institute Lecture, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday. Professors Willey and Strong will discuss "The Thories of the Lautverschiebung from an Anatomical Point of View." Lecture by Prof. T. Luther Purdom, "The Demands and the Placement of Teachers," this afternoon at 4:05 in the University High School Audito- rium. Women Students: The Union Pool will be open for recreational swim- ming for women on Tuesday and Wednesday from 7:30 to 8:30 in the evening. "The Very Blue Danube" will be the subject of Prof. P. W. Slosson's lec- ture this afternoon at 4:30 in the Lecture Hall of the Rackham Bldg. The Michigan Dames will meet for bridge in the Grand Rapids room of the Michigan League Wednesday at 2 p.m. Wives of students and in- ternes are invited. Auction and con- tract bridge will be played. Fellowship of Reconciliation: There will be a meeting of the Fellowship Guidance Banquet: Thursday, Aug. 11 at 6 p.m. on the third floor of the Michigan League, 75 cents. 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The result naturally was interpreted as a smash- ing victory for Mr. Roosevelt." The term "personalities," however, scarcely covers the issue involved. As the President told the nation in his fireside talk before the primary swing, his object in intervening in state elec- tion contests was to draw the distinction be- tween liberal and conservative candidates where, as in Kentucky, a clear distinction existed. He felt compelled to do this because of the back- sliding of many Democratic leaders who have paid only lip service to the liberal party plat- form of the 1936 convention. To date, only one candidate indorsed by Mr. Roosevelt has suffered defeat. Rep. Maury May- erick, a militant progressive, lost the nomination in the Texas primary by a few hundred votes. His defeat can be traced directly to the opposi- tion of William Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, who said he considered Maverick pro-CIO, and who actively opposed his renomination in spite of Maverick's good labor record in the House. Mr. Green's position in the campaign is diffi- cult to fathom. As far as can be ascertained from his own utterances, he is intent on opposing every candidate indorsed by Labor's Non-Parti- san League, the CIO political organization, with- out rega'd for the record of the candidate in- volved. Inasmuch as pro-labor congressmen are ordinarily also pro-New Deal, and anti-labor congressmen anti-New Deal, it stands to reason that Labor's Non-Partisan League and the President will find themselves in agreement on the merits of most candidates. Mr. Green, on the other hand, by opposing all candidates sup- ported by the League, 'must necessarily oppose sone supported by the President. It is not yet certain whether or not Mr. Roose- velt will intervene in the Georgia primary, where Senator George, a typical southern Tory of the Carter Glass variety, has been given a "D" rating, the lowest grade possible, by the Labor League, and consequently endorsed "100 per cent" by Mr. Green. Senator George is at present engaged in casting apprehensive glances in the direction of the Presidential party coming up through Florida from the Gulf and trying rather shame- tab AUGUST 1 ORIENTATI S th IrbN .!i l / I- ISSUE , o '' / .it's an advertising medium for your Fall rooms to rent that can't be beaten! It reaches all prospective freshmen Bring Your Ads to I