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Atom Cities
Cause AEC
Difficulties
"Management of the three atom-
ic towns diverts the energies of the
Atomic Energy Commission and
has become one of the Commis-
sion's greatest problems," Lyman
Moore, City Manager of Portland,
Me., declared at the Public Policy
and Atomic Energy lecture yes-
terday.
At present such relatively un-
important details as housing and
town management are the direct
responsibility of the federal agen-
cy and solve many problems.
* * *
MOORE EXPLAINED that un-
der current conditions, the man-
agements of Oak Ridge, Los Alo-
mos and Richland operate under
subsidy of the federal government,
supported by federal, not city,
taxes, and services proportionately
better than those in corresponding
cities are provided to the resi-
dents without the accompanying
tax charges.
The former assistant director
of the Housing Administration
maintained that a time table
must be drawn up for relieving
the AEC of responsibility and
shifting it to private citizens.
Moore said that the main ob-
jection to conversion is the fear
that a change in the present stan-
dards of municipal service would
obstruct the recruitment of highly
skilled personnel, now attracted by
living conditions.
HE ASSERTED, however, that
"attraction" should be determined
by salary structure and the oppor-
tunity- for creative and vital
achievement.
"The residents will not be
starting from nothing, without
the benefit of time for long-
range programs; they will inher-
it physical assets already provid-
ed," Moore said.
"As far as security permits, and
in basic fairness to taxpayers in
other cities who must reconcile
what they want with what they
can finance, the residents should
become full citizens with full re-
sponsibilities," Moore said.
Linguistic Society
To Meet Today
Everything from X-ray motion
pictures to syllables will be up for
discussion today and tomorrow in
the 12th Summer Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America, to
be held in the Rackham Building.
The meeting is being held in
con unction with the Linguistic
tnstftute at the University, and all
sessions will be held in the Rack-
ham Amphitheatre.
Twenty-three speakers will pre-
sent papers and reports beginning
at 2 p.m. today and continuing
through Saturday afternoon.
Included on the program are re-
ports on "Midland Terms in Min-
nesota," "The Nature of Articula-
tion" (with X-ray movies) and
"The Syllable."
Prof. Einar Haugen of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, the president
of the Society, will preside. Prof.
Haugen is a distinguished dialect-
ologist and linguistic geographer.
Hampton To Sing
Grace Hampton, soprano, will
give a recital at 8:30 p.m. today in
Architecture Auditorium with Dig-
by Bell accompanying on the pi-
ano.
Her selections will include five
songs by Schubert, a group by
Georges Auric, airs from Tunturi-
lauluja by Yrjo Kilpinen and will
close with three Barber melodies.
Her recital will be open to the
public.
Teen Ager's Diary
"It wasn't So Much What He
Said," produced by University
radio students, will describe the
trials and tribulations which every
young lady must go through at
2:30 p.m. today over WUOM and
WKAR, East Lansing.
LOCAL CREATION:
Happiness Latest Item
On Scientific Market
The newest thing on the science
market is happiness.
This new science of happiness is
the creation of F. J. Onderdonk of
Ann Arbor, former instructor in
the architecture college.
* * *
TO PROVE that happiness as a
science is more than a remote pos-
sibility, Onderdonk is working on
a book written so that the man
in the street can understand it,
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many simple truths to produce one
concept of happiness.'
A common denominator ex-
ists upon which many of the
different philosophies and reli-
gions could agree, Onderdonk
asserted.
"The insight of Jesus, Buddha,
Mohammed, Confucius, Aristotle,
Tolstoy and Schopenhauer should
be combined with the findings of
psychology to produce the new
science of happiness."
ONDERDONK PREDICTED that
future generations will regard this
era as the "darkest of the dark"
and urged a simple approach to
happiness as the best way to end
the darkness.
Onderdonk, who lived in Vien-
na for 20 years, saw the begin-
ning of World War I and realiz-
ed the "need of people to achieve
a perspective toward tolerance."
For several years he lectured in
many leading colleges and before
clubs on such topics as "From
World War to World Unity," "Tol-
stoy Versus the Dictators," and
many others.
ONDERDONK SPENDS every
spare minute of his time on his
happiness book, and has put out
a request for collaboration in the
final editing of his manuscript to
"any interested student or faculty
member who sympathizes with my
aim."
"Those wishing to volunteer
;uch assistance can contact me
evenings at my home or by tele-
phone, 21751," he urged.
'Habitant' in
Canada Have
Unique_ Habits
French Canadians are not only
noted for their unique language,
but for their entire civilization,
which is unique as well, according
to Jean-Noel Rouleau, president of
the students of the Faculty of Let-
ters at the University of Montreal.
Rouleau explained this claim be-
fore the Cercle Francais, Univer-
sity French Club yesterday.
* * *
T H E FRENCH CANADIANS
(Habitant) have reached their
weight in education, with several
universities of national repute, he
said.
It was a year before the
founding of Harvard that Can-
ada had its first institution of
higher learning, and that was
the French-Canadian College of
Quebec in 1635, Rouleau added.
But American influence havs
b r o u g h t many modifications,
though these schools still have a
H a b i t a n t atmosphere, partly
through both English and French
being spoken in classes, he ex-
plained.
And it's Montreal's Hockey team
that's on top in Canada, rivaled in
the northeast part of thecontinent
only by the Wolverines, who split
a two-game series with the Can-
ucks last year, he said.
Montreal's enrollment is not
much like Michigan's however,
with 6,000 strictly international
students, the majority in graduate
school, Rouleau said.
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"The development of law in the
Near East will be in the direction
of a synthesis of Islamic law and
foreign law," Dr. Herbert J. Lie-
besny of the U.S. State Depart-
ment told the Institute on the
Near East at 4:15 p.m. yesterday
in the Rackham Amphitheatre.
Liebesny predicted that there
will no longer be a wholesale ac-
ceptance of exotic laws and codes.
He pointed out that new civil
codes and an improvement which
will eliminate the previous dualism
of Arab law are, presently being'
worked out.
* * *
HE TRACED the historical de-
velopment of Levant law under
Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine,
Islamic and Ottoman rule. The
unique part of Arab law was its tie
with religion-the Koran and the
acts (Suma) of the Prophet Mo-
hammed, according to Liebesny.
This relationship has never been
broken, he said.
Another oddity is that the
Moslem jurists themselves each
maintained private legal docu-
ments and were as much theol-
ogians as lawyers.
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However, in the Near East's lat-
ter history, he explained, modern-
ization with the super-imposition
of foreign laws on the culture of
the Arab World took place. Anglo-
American law existed side by side
with Islamic law, resulting in
many problems, difficulties and a
nebulous situation.
* * *
MODERNIZATION was given
an impetus after the first world
war, he added. The family law
remained largely Islamic, the civil
and criminal law being an admix-
ture of French and Arabic law. In
the course of time, labor legisla-
tion and commercial codes were
adopted in the Near East, im-
provements being accepted mainly
in Egypt and Syria,
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Near East Will Witness
Law Change--Liebesny
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which he hopes will be an impor-
tant factor in spreading "the sim-
ple truths of happiness to the
world."
There are 56 elements which
make up the chemistry of hap-
piness and each element is treat-
ed as a separate chapter in my
book, Onderdonk explained.
"These elements include practi-
cally every problem that people
face-love, marriage, work, death
-as treated by the great philo-
sophers.
* * *
THE EMERGING science of
happiness could be called a "mosa-
ic" of ethics, philosophy, religion
and psychology, Onderdonk said.
"This mosaic is a consolidation of
Film To Star
Birds, Beasts
The University Museums will
present a program today entitled
"Birds and Beasts in Natural Ha-
bitats."
Two moving pictures, "Glacier
Park Studies" and "Wild Fowl
Conservation," will be shown at
7:30 p.m. in the Kellogg Audi-
torium of the Dental Building.
Exhibits at the Museums featuring
habitat groups of birds and ani-
mals will be on display from 7 to 9
p.m.
"In the third floor exhibit hall
are many habitat groups of Michi-
gan birds and mammals.
New installations with painted
b a c k grounds include dioramas
showing the woodchuck, upland
plover, muskrat, Baltimore oriole
and yellow warbler," according to
Irving Reimann, prefect of the ex-
hibits at the Museum.
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