1N DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY On The Influenza Trailil -1 ,I ted and managed by students of the University of gan under the authority of the Board in Control of nt Publications. ished every morning except Monday during the rsity year and Sumnm 4 Session. Member of the Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively entitled to .the r republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All s of republication of all other matters herein also. 'ed. ered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as d class mail matter. scriptions during regular school year by carrier, by mail, $4.50. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL. ADVER,,SING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO * BOSTON * LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO. er, Associated Collegiate Editorial Staff ). Mitchell ... Swinton.. Norberg........ Canavan. . . . Kelsey ... Kessler......... E. Long.. Sonneborn. . .. Press, 191849 Managing Editor City Editor Women's Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Business Staff, tilip W. Buchen . . . . . Business Manager aul Park . . . . . . . Advertising Manager NIGHT EDITOR: JACK CANAVAN The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. art For I'he Artist's Sake .. T WO PILLARS in the history of American art were erected in the last .ecade. Of the first, little is known outside the rorId of art; of the second, relatively little more. The Section of Fine Arts was organized in the 'riasury Department through the instigation of klward Bruce late in 1933. This is a non-politi- "al organization to encourage painting and culpture of contemporary artists. In government uildings throughout the country are evidences if their work. And no tinge of partisanship :olors the choosing of the artist. The procedure or this is completely impartial, based only on Iuality. Open anonymous competitions are held nd artists from all parts 'of the country take iart. Only after the work has been selected is le name of the artist made known to the jury. Covering a larger field is the Federal Art Pro- ect of the W.P.A. Through this, a small certain :icome is given the artist along with complete reedom of expression. Certainly this small cer- ain income is better than the haphazard one of :rmer days, when the artists had to cater to a apricious public, to wealthy patrons or to luseums. It took many years for America to realize the otential ability in her own artists. For a long me they were completely disregarded or con- dered only as they copied French artists. In the wenties a reaction set in and what resulted was e so-called "jingoistic" overrating of American rt. The system was speculative and artificial. The crash in 1929 put a stop to this onrushing dal wave and rising out of chaos were the two >vernment sponsored agencies. That this has en a great advancement is evidenced by Forbes Ua ton who says: Could there be a stronger force than the knowledge of the artist that he can live in his own community, develop his ideas out of a well rooted existence and sell his art to a client who buys it without ulterior motive? The fact that an agency of the Government has employed several hundred artists, giv- ing them complete freedom of expression, and the fact that it pays each artist at the same rate, suggest to my mind a situation so much more inspiring and direct than the complicated artificial system under which artists formerly were compelled to operate that I feel it fair to characterize it as a powerful new force in American art. Add to this the obvious stimulant given to the artist through knowing that his fellow citizens Want his art and that in offering him an oppor- (unity to contribute his share of the pictorial record of America they are doing so through an agency which has no political powers and ao means of showing favoritism, and we have further evidence of a new force.' -Ethel Q. Norberg 'ur Address: ,0 Maynard... L IKE ANBODY else, The Daily has a mailbox that exists for the sole pur- e of receiving letters. And during the school r, The Daily prints all letters that come to editor, whether they knock, boost, or merely riment. #e haven't had any mail this summer to ak of, and we don't know whether to attri- e it to a lack of interest or ignorance of our ctice of throwing the editorial columns open *fie~ and all. Anvhow our addrssi 42nl ro.v- Dr. C. H. Andrewes, Member Of Reseairch Institute, Explorations made by scientists into the mys- teries of influenza analysis were discussed by Dr. C. H. Andrewes in his talk entitled "On the Influenza Trail" in the Lecture Hall of the Rack- ham Building yesterday. Dr. Andrewes, who is a member of the Medical Research Council of the National Institute for Medical Research in Hamstead, England, out- lined the work carried on in London by him- self and his co-workers, Smith and Laidlaw, in investigating the cause of this disease.~ The nature of influenza is, as yet, not very clear, he emphasized, and evidence points toward the conclusion that perhaps several distinct afflictions are now being incorrectly included under the classification of influenza. Two types of human influenza, namely that responsible for the great pandemics and epi- demics, and the milder form which manifests itself in the isolated or sporatic type, appear to be of a different nature, and may even be due to different causes. The sporatic type, he specu- lated, may be caused by the influence of a virus alone, while the modification discovered in the pandemics is perhaps due to the combined in- fluence of the virus and other bacteria. The discovery of a new disease in 1918 among swine which simulated the human form of in- fluenza aided greatly in uncovering the cause of the malady. The cause, as discovered by Dr. Richard E. Shope of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Princeton, N.J., indi- cated the combined action of two agents: a bacterium which had previously been observed in the human modification, and a minute filter- own own By STAN M. SWINTON I am going to stop this chatter around the office once and for all. For some time I've been the cheery type little given to sticking pins in babies but my whole personality has undergone a change since my co-workers started greeting me with an acid "Well, who's tomorrow's GUEST columnist." Things have reached a critical point and there is no back-watering. I shall shove the perfectly good guest column Roy Heath wrote for today into the drawer and get my revenge. Friends on the staff, I present: "Through Europe with Rod, Reel, several Dozen Bed-Bugs and Swinton." And after this you'll be happy enough to read guest columns. * * * This is the time of year when post-cards arrive in the morning mail decorated with an exotic stamp, showing a romanticized view of Pompeii without the flies or exhibiting the Grand Canal at Venice with all of the gondolas and none of the motor boats included. A year ago, roughly, Robert Cooper, an ex-football player who was extremely useful in that he looked like Max Schmeling and won us extra servings at German cafes, and Louis Staudt, a medical stu- dent, and myself fell-and hard-for those yars about the wonders of bicycling around Europe. A meager budget failed to hinder us. A slightly abridged journal of our 2000-odd miles by bi- cycle and ship follow: On S.S. President Roosevelt: Finally a happy thought on how to handle that fellow cutting in on the blond in first class. We marshal a group of healthy heathen children of 12-odd years who are addicted to jumping up and down on Cooper's chest. They are informed, with sufficiently mys- terious gestures, that the objectional fellow who thinks he's getting places with the girl we hav our eye on, is a Japanese spy. What better serv- ice to the world could you, Young Men of America, do than trail him and report to us on each of his moves-with plenty of detail. Our first spy reports in half an hour that the fellow is lighting a cigarette which very probably contains secret instructions from the Mikado himself. We consider this highly improbable but appear impressed. For two days the spies continue to report. The fellow finally decides against murdering us and keeps away from the girl. We retaliate by telling the tribe he turned out not to be a Japanese spy after all. Everything is fine again. GENEVA: After four days in a barrack-like hostelry here which a very nasty cop recom- Inended we ask for the bill. It totals 21 cents for all of us. "Isn't that a little low?" Louis inquires of the land-lady. "Of course not," she replies. "You're staying in the district poor-house." * * * Somewhere in Souithern France: We visit the Medical Research Council Of English Probes Nature Of Disease passing virus. Of the two, the virus was appar- ently the more important. Much of the data obtained on the subject has been gained by the investigation of the disease in ferrets and white mice. First attempts at transferring influenza to laboratory animals failed until, quite by chance, it was discovered that ferrets were very sensitive to infection if the virus were applied nasally. Interesting experiments performed on ferrets, Dr. Andrewes continued, indicated the many modifications of influenza which existed. Cer- tain forms of the disease were developed which attacked the lung tissues similar to the effect of pneumonia. By observing data of deaths due to influenza, covering a large number of years a certain regu- larity can be immediately seen. Apparently, Dr. Andrewes indicated, the pandemic form appears strongly every four years, Speculating on the possibility of developing an influenza vaccine, Dr. Andrewes stated that such a vaccine had been quite successfully used on ferrets, but its use in humans was as yet a re- mote possibility. caves of Montmosseau. After walking through the cool passages with their musty smell and thousands of bottles of champaign we go up again. The guide invites us to have a drink of champaign. We accept. Some hours later we leave. Cooper decides he has a better way than pumping a bicycle and promptly rolls down the hill. At the bottom he thinks better of the idea. *s * NAPLES: We stay at a place called Fatty's. It costs 20 cents a night but we decide to splurge. We kill thousands of bed-bugs. We leave for Capri. ISLE OF CRAPRI: We insist on singing "On The Isle Of Capri" which no one on Capri ever heard of. Cooper and I go for a walk along a romantic, tropical path to the shore, expecting to run into the Duchess of Windsor or maybe even Hedy Lamarr. The romance disappears when we find we've been walking on top of sewer pipe. We find this out by almost falling in a hole. LONDON: We stay at a Salvation Army hostel a block from Liverpool St. station and around the corner from a pleasant little pub called Bloody Dick's. We decide to see the tough part of Lon- don, inquire the way to Limehouse late one night. We arrive at Limehouse and spend the evening looking for opium dens, Fu Manchu and assorted mysterious characters. We find nothing. Louis once claims he sees a Chinaman but it turns out to be a kid with a mask. We inquire of a Bobby. "Where," I ask, "is the really tough part of the city? The part where knives get stuck into people, beautiful heroines get drugged and that sort of thing? The very rock bottom? Isn't it in Limehouse?" "Heavens no," he says, "Limehouse is a nice enough neighborhood. But if you want a really bad part of the city, a dirty, nasty, grimy, evil section I should strongly suggest that you visit the region around the Liverpool St. Station and the Salvation Army hostel. No decent man could stand it!" "My God," Louie screams, "that's where we're living!" (Tomorrow: More European Adventures unless the staff quits griping about guest columns. It's up to you guys, make up your own mind.) Life On Other Planets Astronomers and physicists should not be too sure that planets devoid of oxygen in their atmosphere can not support some form of in- telligent life. It is agreed by all scientists that life on this Earth evolved from primary, minute organisms-germs-developed from chemical and electrical, or ionic, activity and combinations. The germs that produced most of the life now existent on this mundane sphere require oxygen for their sustenance and growth. All larger ani- mal life as we know it requires oxygen. But there is a form of life existing on this Earth, present in the soil and elsewhere, which does not require oxygen; in fact, oxygen is tolerated by some of these peculiar germs, while some of their genus can live and grow only in the absence of oxygen. This micro-organism is called the "anaerobe," and is the highly dangerous cause of so-called "gas gangrene," from which the death rate is high, if this peculiar germ gets into wounds. Perhaps there is a race of beings springing from the anaerobe, highly developed in intelli- gence, on some of these far planets. For the anaerobe knows what it wants and how to get it, and spurns oxygen. --The Detroit News Today's Events 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:05 p.m. 4:15 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Book Week Conference (University High School). Physics Symposium, Prof. Gerhard Herzberg, University of Sas- katchewan (Room 2038 East Physics Building). Physics Symposium, Prof. Enrico Fermi, Columbia University (Amphitheatre, Rackham Building). Excursion to Greenfield Village. "Meanings and the Reading Problem," lecture by Prof. Clifford P. Woody of the School of Education (University High School Audi- torium). Tea and Dancing (League Ballroom). "Geographic Aspects of the Struggle in China," lecture by Dr. George B. Cressey of the Department of Geology and Geography, Syracuse University (Amphitheatre, Rackham Building). "School and Pressure Groups," by Dean J. B. Edmonson of the School of Education (University High School Auditorium). "The Nature and Property of Viruses," lecture by Dr. C. H. An- drewes of the Medical Research Council of the National Institute of Medical Research, Hamstead, England (Room 1528 East Medi- cal Building). "Man and Nature in North Sumatra," illustrated lecture by Prof. H. I I