, 1938 THE MICHIGAN DAILY wirr r rree irrr .r m m News Of The World In Associated Press Photographs t. n hat Corner By SUZY Q 11 The last weekend of the Summer Session has come, gone and been mulled over with mingled emotions, and now with about three more days of summer school left, all good "stoonts" are putting their minds to work. And let that be a v lesson to them. K _ Friday night seemed like a good night to go out of town for a lot of people, with Detroit: and its environs 'the most likely place. Kay Steiner and Howard Burr barrelled all the way out to Westwood to hear Friend Heidt and his - swooning music, and Fee Menefee and Bob Wurster went to Eastwood where Artie Shaw - " was playing. Peg Becker and Paul French, yearning for a boat ride, left Detroit Friday and steamed over to Bob-Lo and back. What's In A Hamburger-Or You Name It A superior A2 hamburger jernt harbored some smooth campus numbers late Friday night. Hunched around the counter on stools were John McFate, Bob Mueller, Gw en Lemon, Jack Pedigo, Dorothy Houlle and Jim McCollum. Same had been in a party that included Zo Van Valkenburgh, Bob Angley and Jean Clauser. At a place best described by the loathe- some phrase, "a downtown restaurant," were crowded a bunch of people Saturday night. Among said people were Claire Ford, + ( Earle Whetsell, Tom Ryan, Carter Cham- berlain, Webb Jennings, a cute Alpha Xi +r s "Delta, name of Ruth, Sissie Staebler of Ann Arbor township and points north and the Adonis of the waffle iron-Jack the Grip- per Brennan. Softball Lures The Screwball Seems that the stirring game of softball has gripped the nation. At one of Ann Arbor's better games Saturday night lurked Marian Iddings, Betty Lou Robson, Margie Edsill and Tiny Quackenbush. A couple of daring rounders known to intimates as Bernard C. Shields and Roberto Buehler spent Sunday evening in a strange and notorious spot east of Ypsi-and I do mean dive. Hank Homes and Janice Jackson were observed the other day as Hank was giving Janice an airing in his autymobile. Bob Fryer the infamous was in town from Toledo on another of his weekend jaunts, as was Robert Hartwell, ex-president of Congress to those 6 who know all. Ai Playevs Celebrate Tenth Anniversary Tex Flowers, the devil, was seen beering with an unidentified but lovely young lady the other night, and among those at the theatah Sunday night were Ruth Sauer and Powers Moulton of the Detroit Free Press. Tom KGleene and Bill Swim-Swim Delancey also took the spectacle in; Punch-on the house-was served during the sec- ond intermission to celebrate the closing production in the Repertory Players' Tenth Anniversary Season. And, this is not an adv., a tremendously successful season it was too. If you don't believe it you never tried to get a ticket for any of the plays. Winchell Dept.: And Does It St-nk Pete Lisagor, Ex-Daily Sports Editor, (who is this guy Fineberg?) was This is the first string backfield for the Intercollegiate All-Stars, who will meet the Washington Redskins, pro- fessional league champions, in Chicago Augus 31. Left to right: Corby Davis, Indiana; Andy Puplis, Notre Dame; Andy Uram, Minnesota; and Cecil Isbell, Purdue. Guinea Pitrs Or School Children? High School Students Say Both 'Skppy' Professor Quiz.. Knowing full well how every sport fan loves to display his factual knowledge and knowing that this is blue book time (at least, for youse guys what am still in dis uniwoisity) I'se gonna, excuse me, I'm going to give a little examination. Get your pencil. You needn't hurry, this fool- ishness will still be around when you get back. The first seven questions are of the true-false variety. Question Number 1- The first intercollegiate base- ball game in America was played after the Civil War. 2: On hits to right field, the pitcher should back up third base at a distance of eight to ten feet. 3. Infielders should attempt to field all ground balls with their feet together. 4. A caught foul tip is a strike and is not dead, but is in play. 5. Brick Muller, of the Univer- sity of California, threw the longest pass on record way back in the '20's. 6. Joe Jacobs is the boxing promotor who has a strangle hold on national boxing. 7. Detroit Tigers have a, good pitcher on the staff. (If this is answered in the affirmative state names specifically and be prepared with proof). Miiore Of It . .. The following interrogations are fill-in blanks. 8. This big league manager never played Big League. baseball. (Pie Traynor, Oscar Vitt, Miller Huggins, Joe McCarthy, Burieigh Grimes). 9. This great two-year-old horse broke a leg recently and had to be destroyed (Dauber, Man-O-War, Thingumabob, I'se a Muggin, Gov- davey). 10. The 1940 Olympics will be held in (Helsinki, Tokio, Hades-on Yangste, Flatbush, London) 11. You "draw" (a cross-court shot, flies, a billiard ball, an outcurve, the line) in sports parlance. 12. This school boasted the finest college basketball team in the coun- try last year (Notre Dame, Southern California, Ypsilanti Normal, Stan- ford, N.Y.U.). 13. This promotor brought "big- time" basketball to Madison Square IGarden (Mike Jacobs,' Harry Kipke, Ned Irish, Nat Holman "Piggy" Lam- bert). 14. Who won "the most popular first baseman's" poll recently con- Roo WERE WE GUINEA PIGS? By the Class of 1938, University High School, The Ohio State University Press-303 pp.-Henry Holt and Company, $2.00. Reviewed by Eda Lou Walton (From The New York Herald- Tribune). This book by the members of the Class of 1938 of the University High School of Ohio State University is the story, told by the students them- selves, of six years of experimental schooling. It was written instead of the usual "Yearbook," in which stu- dents designate each other as "the best dressed," the "brightest," "pret- tiest." The 55 members of the class, as an editorial board, worked out the plan for their own book. Tenta- tive plans were submitted to Henry Holt and, on the basis of these, the publishers signed a contract. Why not? Today we are interested in re- lating school life to the community life and in all educational ideas which at least seem to proceed from the students themselves. The Class of 1938 was a full-fledged example of a group of students who had directed themselves and their studies from the' time they were in the seventh grade. These students are sincerely en- thusiastic about their progressive school on the university campus. They wish to answer the criticisms made of progressive education as they have known it. Therefore they show first that they are neither a group of gen- iuses nor of morons, that they come from families of average incomes and typical middle class standards, that their parents are rather more conser- vative than progressive. They then analyze for us their teachers and their backgrounds. These teachers seem to have good educations and to accept the values of progressive education. The students are well aware that such teachers are clever in directing them to think their way through any given problem. They do not believe, however, that the teach- ers forced them to plan their work. In the seventh grade.the students undertook first to plan their school room. The furniture, the color of the walls, the lighting--everything was in their hands, and they succeeded, they believe, in making it their home. Books had to be selected for the li- brary. A housewarming led the stu- dents into planning for the home ec- onomics department in general. So- cial studies soon became necessary in order that they know markets, sani- tation, town management as a whole. Money and Its fluctuations in value, the prices of things and the reasons for their lowering and rising caused the class to study economics, history and labor movements, They realized that even as their home was related to the life of the town, the life of the town was related to theteconomic de- velopment of the United States. Science became important to these students too, as a direct part of their lives. Their English classes were connected with their studies in home -economics at first. Gradually, how- ever, the students found that litera- ture pictured life and the list of their reading proves that they read more than the usual high school student Moreover, they read from modern as well as from classical literature be- cause they wanted to know their own world. Nor was their reading all fic- tion. As their interests broadened they read psychology, zoology, books on social science. They wrote com- positions on subjects that interested them. Some of their papers are print- ed here and they are convincingly good. The specific study of language they undertook as a tool of expres- sion and of understanding. Self-expression through drawing and painting came into their course (Continued on Page 4' "Skippy"-his real name is un- known-was placed in a hospital at Martinsburg, W. Va., after a De- patment of Assistance worker found him living, ill and under- nourished in a chicken coop. "Skip-, py (above) three years , old, is a waif of the 1936 floods and was, separated Trom his parents, then given to adoption. in town with Bill Reed Oxford, Mich. where Pete .. over the weekend. The two traveled down from is sojourning at the Reeds' home. Among others in town was Hank Houston who appeared for a little while Saturday, and promptly returned home. Winchell Dept.: What foul trumpet player (or is it cornet?) named Bob Parker and what lovely job named Katherine Brown had trouble with what clock last Friday night? Mysterious, ain't it. Does anybody know-we didn't say care-if Clayton Hepler went to Coloma over the week- end to see Friend F. Selters? Kindly advise by addressing all replies to the Don't Give A G.D. Dept. of The Daily. ~1 Geneva Committee Warns Public On The Dangers Of Propaganda I Skepticism Is Considered' Blue Water Bridge On Lake Huron Necessary In Headlines, S Case Of ummaries Zeller Is Named New Tiger Boss Made Business Manager Of Detroit Club DETROIT, Aug. 15.-(P)-The De- troit Tigers, eight days ago given a new field manager, got a Business Manager today with the front office taking further steps to strengthen the club by creating a new post. Hard upon the dismissal of Man- ager Mickey Cochrane as Manager and the appointment of Del Baker to take that job, owner Walter O. Briggs, Sr., today named John A. (Jack) Zeller, former chief scout, as business manager. First such office in the Tiger or- ganization, the business managership puts Zeller, veteran of organized baseball for 35 years, into a status similar to that of Edward G. Barrow of the New York Yankees and Eddie Collins of the Boston Red Sox. R (From The New York Times) GENEVA-Eleven rules to help newspaper readers everywhere de- tect and defeat propaganda, especial- ly on world affairs, are laid down in the latest report of the International Consultative Group for Peace and Disarmament, which has headquar- ters in .the Palais Wilson here. The subject of the report is "Press Propa- ganda and International Relations." The rules follow: "Resist the tendency to take state- ments in print ,as true by subjecting eveything read consciously to the test of common sense. So many things in the papers can be seen, on the face of it, to be distorted when they are considered in the wider context of facts already known and substantiat- ed. "Resist strenuously, therefore, the common habit of merely picking up newspapers to glance at them in un- critical mood. This news tasting is a dangerous form of 'dope'! "Remember that there is no such thing as 100 per cent objectivity; and that, therefore, everything is written with a 'slant' of some kind-big or little. "Always note the place and source of the news or views. Learn to know the nature and characteristics not only of the editorial policy of the papers you read but of the major agencies (Domei, Tass, Deutsches Nachrichtenburo, Stefani, Havas, Reuter, Associated Press, United Press, etc.), whose telegrams appear (all but the last two) to reflect, more or less, the views of governments. In this way, discounting the 'slant' be- The Blue Water bridge over the St. Clair river between Port Huron, Mich. and Point Edward, Ont. It will be dedicated August 19 with President Robsevelt and Premier Mackenzie of Canada expected to be in attendance. Last Day-1 HAROLD LLOYD 'PROFESSOR BEWARE" - ST2AING WEDNESDAY - in your own country, so much the better. "Keep a look-out for conscientious journalists and publicists, but even so, whatever their reputation may be,. watch carefully for their 'slant.' They have one! "Mistrust headlines. They are of- ten concentrated tendenciousness, if only perforce through brevity. Re- member that the man who writes the 'news story' does not write the head- lines. There is sometimes great dis- crepancy between them. "Conversely, make a special point of reading the fullest possible ac- counts rather than potted summaries. Where important speeches on inter- national affairs are concerned, it is better to read, whenever possible, the verbatim text. Draw your own con- clusions from the speech first; then Library To Be Closed Aug. 28 Through Sept. 5 The University general library will close for one week, Aug. 28 through Sept. 5, during which time routine repairs will be made. Regular serv- ice will be available in the main reading room, periodical room, medi- cal reading room and circulation de- partment throughout the vacation period, with the exception of the repair week, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily except 'Sunday. Departmental reading rooms and study halls will be closed for four weeks. Read The Daily Classifieds1 -omI IL',ti NOW GINGER ROGERS "Having Wonderful Time"' Walt Disney's II ii II And ------------------------------------------------------------- . 1.1A1 1 VD'C 11 I 11 I I