T" THIC"16AN IiAILV WEDNSDJAY,, JULY 11, 1956 ----,. 4RLEZ-YOUS FRANCAIS? Language House Facilitates Learning byHARRIETRICHEY |||j| Have you ever desperately wanted some gravy on your meat and potatoes but struggled through a meal without it because you didn't know how to ask for it in Prench? , Situations like this arise every day for the ten girls who are living at the language house on Baldwin Avenue. These girls .are trying to master French or Spanish and live together in a world where English is 'shocking' to the ear. English, allowed only when "people from the outside" call on the telephone and don't realize that they should converse in French or Spanish with their friends in the language house. Problems Arise Problems arise, however, when a girl who can speak only French wants to communicate with a friend who can speak only Span- ish. Both must then break down and speak English. These ten girls live under the direction of Senorita Yolanda Fu- entes from Arequipa, Peru, and Mlle. Francoise Mazet from Paris, France. Senorita Fuentes is in the Unit- ed States for the first time this summer. She plans to teach Eng- lish when she returns to Peru. While here at the University she is teaching a Spanish course call- ed "Life in Spanish America". Taught at Wooster Mlle. Mazet has been teaching at Wooster College in Ohio since she left Paris two years ago. She teaches a conversation course in French at the University this sum- mer. Senorita Fuentes and Mlle. Ma- zet both believe that in guiding these girls they at the same time learning a great deal about how Americans live - though t h e y would rather the girls did not rea- lize this. 4 d h( m r t a r R I n ir P, l l t I 1 I (c Sees Relief For Aiders LOf Relatives Increasing urbanization a n d isappearance of large family omesteads are signs that society nay eventually have to relieve elatives entirely of their obliga- ion to support adult dependents, according to an article in the cur- ent issue 'of The Michigan Law Review. Prof. Daniel R. Mandelker of the ndiana University law school notes that legal concepts regard- ing the duty of a family to sup- port relatives in distress are large- y undefined and "may have fal- en in disuse in some communi- ies." At present, .he continued, the' egal teeth of family responsibility aws stem directly from a desire to cut relief rolls wherever close relatives can be required to pro- vide assistance. Demand for such financial sup- port may well create financial and emotional problems for all con- cerned, however. "If a child has not developed a sense of security and has a need for acceptance by the family group, he may be over- generous in meeting this demand," Prof. Mandelker commented. "But the child who has separat- ed himself from his family with difficulty will resent the financial and personal ties that the law compels and will exaggerate the reasons why he cannot afford to give this support," he said. By ADELAIDE WILEY Instead of pink net formals,! red crepe paper strips and Paul Brodie's band, the Union's big ballroom was filled with laughter, and walking canes yesterday after- noon. "We're both just Lansing bums, aren't we, honey?" said a Lansing lady, and her white-hatted com- panion giggled in appreciation. adding to the general congenial atmosphere. It was the ninth annual confer- ence on aging. "Health for the Aging" and the Senior Citizen's Guild was meeting, with a panel of gerontologists using the speak- ers from which "Dancing in the Dark" usually bursts. Member Reads Question A panel member read off a question: "In a diabetic case what does a doctor mean when he says sugar has taken control?" He pointed to Dr. Frederick C. Swartz, head of Lansing's Rehabilitation Center, who picked up a canary yellow dunce's cap, and said, "I wish I knew that answer"-laugh- ter. LANGUAGE HOUSE-House on Baldwin Avenue enables Spanish and French students to practice their languages. Both graduates and undergradu- ates live in the house. Several girls are members of the glass of 1957 and are majoring in either French or Spanish. Others are working to- wards their Doctorate or Master's degrees. One or two are already teaching Science Group To Hear Talk "Molecular Basis of Genetic Recombination" will be the topic of the third in a series of lectures sponsoresd by the Biophysics Re- search Center to be given at 9 a.m. today in Auditorium C, Angell Hall. The lectures are part of a Sum- mer Symposium on Biophysics which is dealing with molecular structure and biological function. CONFERENCE ON AGED: Gay Atmosphere Prevails THE FIRST recorded observation of the transit of Venus was in 1631. Join us in celebrating the 325th anniversary of this event by clipping this coupon. Bring it in, 'tis worth 1 c in trade, today only. BOB MARSHALL'S BOOK SHOP Bob Marshall has the bargains a foreign language in an elemen- tary or secondary school. Permits Free Expression c The girls enjoy the languagea house because it gives them ac chance to express themselves free- r ly and naturally. Mistakes are laughed about, but rarely does a girl repeat an error. Hearing a language every day, they believe, is far more helpful than years of reading and vocabulary practice. Words are picked up easily and not forgotten as soon as those crammed the night before an exam. Occasionally the group eats out in Ann Arbor restaurants. Ob- servers often stare at them since they continue to converse in French and Spanish. Increases Ability Everyone agrees that spontan- eous evening parties lull of Span- ish dancing and French and Span- ish party records have greatly in- creased language facility; although chatting around the ironing board is probably even more rewarding. One student claims she expects to start saying her prayers in French any day. Curiously enough, students es- pecially enjoy entertaining Ro- mance Language faculty members at dinner. Professors C. N. Stau- bach, Sanchez Escribano, Julio del Toro, Louis ''ennenbaum and James O'Neill as well as Emile de Sauze of Cleveland have already visited the house. The girls hope that some day the Language House will become a permanent campus establishment, since it has already greatly in- creased their language abilities. Linguistics Speech Seymore Chatham of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania will speak at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow on "Lin- guistics and Politics" before the Linguistic Forum. The Linguistic Forum is spon- sored by the Summer Session Lin- guistics Institute and is held ev- ery Tuesday and Thursday even- ing in Rackham Amphitheater. The meetings of the Forum are op- en to the general public without charge. (Continued from Page 2) Marion, Ohio-Teacher needs: High School Home Economics; Junior High vocal Music; Arts and Crafts; English/ Latin. Maumee, Ohio-Teacher needs: Girls' Physical Education, High School/Ele- mentary; Public Speaking/English; Speech/Hearing Therapist; Elementary (5th Grade).t South San Francisco, Calif.-Teacher# needs: Vocal Music/one other subject; Basic English; General Science; Indus- trial Arts; Elementary (1st to 8th). Stockton, III.-Teacher needs: Home Economics: Speech Correctionist; Math; English/Dramatics; Science (Gen. Sci- ence or Biology); Library; Girls' Physi- cal Education. For additional information contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad-' ministration Building, NO 3-1511, Ext. 489. PERSONNEL REQUESTS: City of New York, Dept. of Personnel, announces an exam for Jr. Planner- requiring a B.S. degree in City Planning, Engrg., Arch., Landscape Arch., Public Admin., Econ., Soc., Statistics, Geogra- phy, Law, or equivalent and one year of, experience or a year of graduate study towards an M.A. in City Planning. Ap- plications must be in by July 16 1956. There is also an exam for Assistant Civil Engineer. Applicants filing by Nov. 6, 1956 may take the exam Jan. 26. 1957. Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, has an opening in the Tax Divi- sion for a young man with a strong interest in corporation tax. Requires a man with a degree in Commerce and! or Law with some background in Acctg. Spaulding Fibre Co., Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, needs a man with a degree in Elect. E. or Mech. Elect. to work as Sales Engineer. Allen Studio (Photography Studio) Detroit, Mich., has an opening for a Salesman. For further information contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg., Ext. 371. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN But Dr. Swartz went on to ex- plain to the large crowd of elderly people that the phrase could mean there was too much sugar in a patient's blood, but it would be up to individual doctors to give an expert explanation of what was meant. The Senior Citizens members listened attentively to answers and, periodically, someone would write a question down, handing it to Dr. Woodrow W. Hunter-Division of Gerontology, Institute of Human Adjustment, at the University - who was happily collecting the questions on bits of paper and handing them to panelists. Ladies wore straw hats and cool print dresses. One. hat, red, was covered with sparkling rhinestones, topped with a red velvet rose - someone said "We're all out in our Sunday best. What do you think of that lady with dyed hair?" Man Adjusts Tie A tanned, courtly old gentleman' adjusted his polka-dotted bow tie as another question shot out, "How come three people with different ailments get the same pills?" Other interrogations were put to the doctor-panelists and the lively meeting ended with more punch served for "anyone who wants to imbibe." Mrs. Grace Leedley (who said to this reporter, "I'm eighty-two- oh, are you going to put that in? Wel, it's all right") is on the fi- nance committee for Lansing's Big Brother Club. "We have fifty-five men who each take young boys under their wings. These boys are on the roaC to juvenile delinquency, you know and the Club helps them a lot Seventeen are on our waiting lis for big brothers." Happily, people filed out of the ballroom, some even clad in saddli shoes. "That crazy old nut," a lady smiled, "he got one of the retire- ment pamphlets I wanted" (refer ring to a man from Grand Rapids) Dr. Schwartb walked out, sport ing a rose bud in his lapel, fitting for the air of conference gaiety We asked Dr. Swartz what he old, start in getting wrinkled skin, white haid, hardening of the arter- ies and all that, it doesn't mean! that it's a natural thing. "I have a theory differing from what most people believe about old age-I call what happens to you after 40 or 50, the 'product of the impact of environment.'1" 'All Good Things' As an example, Dr. Schawrtz cited an experiment in which a cat was placed on a table with "all the good things a eat might want around him." The cat was quite satisfied, Dr. Swartz said, until the experimenter introduced a dog in the room, at 15-minute intervals. "Then his hypothalmus." the gerontologist patted the top of his head, "began to react, and so did his pituitary gland. This went on all the way down to his adrenal glands, until he had what I call an overdose of glandular extracts." This dog did not come near the cat, but soon the cat showed "all the signs of what is know as old age," and he might have had white hair by the end of a week, Dr. Swartz said, if he had been human. Not Like Old Days "In the old days," Dr. Swartz frowned, "every time a lion or tiger came near you, you would use up all these glandular extracts in fighting back at him. "But now, there are no lions or tigers, you have no way of letting off steam ,and you hold all the fight in you. So you fret and fuihne inside when you have a harrowing experience, and you hair is liable to turn white overnight." Asked why, "in the old days," humans had shorter life expect- ancy, Dr. Swartz remarked, "The tigers ate you up." Dr. Swartz said that too many gerontologists subscribe to the belief that old age is result of only the passage of time: a negative belief. 'Enjoy Your Stress' Emphasizing that by 1980 there will be 25 million retired people in the United States, Dr. Swartz said, "This means one elderly per- son for every working person to support in the country." If it could be done, he added, he would get all the University stu- dents up in the ballroom, and start changing their ideas about old age so they would not approach it with! the old attitude. Dr. Swartz said he thought each' day should be thought of as a new, challenge, not a worry. "Perhaps the best solution I can give to 'old age' is summed up in Hans Selye's book, in which he says, 'Enjoy your stress.' "I think all young people have potential to live 120 years. 'Enjoy your stress'-this Is the way to live." Museum Display An exhibition, "Weaving from the Looms of Ancient Egypt," is currently on display in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University. Outstanding in the exhibition is a burial shroud of cotton cloth embroidered with silk and silver thread which displays crosses in many variations in its design. A row of peacocks, early Christian symbols of immortality, decorate the neck border. Dating perhaps from the 14th century, this is from the ceme- tery near the monastery Deir-Al- Idham, "Monastery of the Bones," near Asiout, middle Egypt. r--^,^ H ENRY H. S'TEVENS," lInc* .1 State Flora Book Subject Of Botanists University botanists will begin work this fall on Michigan's first complete current handbook on loc- al flora in more than 50 years. Research and publication of the, book will take five years and cost an estimated $60,000. Results are anticipated to fulfill needs of the: state's flower and gardening en- thusiasts, as well as professional botanists. Scheduled for publication in 1961, the book is expected to run 400 to 500 pages with easily un- derstandable descriptions of all known varieties of Michigan flora and line drawings of the more im- -portant plant species. "Every attempt will be made to prepare a book attractive and use- ful to laymen," Prof. Kenneth L. Jones, of the botany department. Principal investigator for the project will be Edward G. Voss of Ann Arbor. Much of his work will be centered in the University's Herbarium's extensive plant col- lection. *1- 1273 Broadway Bill Flint 6, Michigan Stevens e 'Lit. '+40 Phone Flint Manager Collect CEdar 4-1686 For L~ower Interstate Rates. We own, operate, schedule and despatch our own fleet of vans for better direct service without transfer. r u. I Y Sensational S- I 0o J4 SALE RUBE GOLDBERG won the Pulitzer Prize for car- tooning just 8 years ago. In celebration just clip & bring in this ad. Worth 1 c in trade, today only. BOB MARSHALL'S BOOK SHOP Nob Marshall has the bargains. SPRING & SUMMER 500 PAIR WOMEN'S SHOES CHILDREN'S SHOES INCLUDED BUY 2 PAIR FOR PRACTICALLY THE COST OF 1 -OR BRING A FRIEND AND SHARE THE SAVINGS! THESE SHOES ARE FROM OUR PRESENT FALL STOCK! , 1 thought of the conference so far. Replying that he thought it was good fun besides being profitable work, Dr. Swartz added, "I think there's somewhat of a wrong ap- proach in there too." 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