THE CHICAGO MAROONFriday, September 8, *1944 Price Five CentsChicagoGraduates309 TodayOne hundred and ninety-one Chica¬goans will be among the 309 studentsgraduated from the University ofChicago, today, when the Universityholds its eleventh wartime convoca¬tion. Aaron J. Brumbaugh, Dean ofStudents of the University, who leftSeptember 1 to serve as vice-presidentof the American Council on Education,in Washington, D. C., will deliver theconvocation address, ^‘Education forTomorrow,'' in the ceremony whichwill be held at 3 p.m. in RockefellerMemorial Chapel. Ernest C. Colwell,vice-president of the University, willconfer the degrees.Highlight of the 218th Convocation,the first in the University's academicyear, will be the commissioning offorty-seven new officers in the medicalcorps of the United States armed ser¬vices. Major Herman E. Smith, com¬manding officer of the University'sArmy Specialized Program, will ad¬minister the oath to the thirty-onefirst lieutenants in the army, andCaptain Benyaurd B. Wygant, com¬manding officer of the United StatesNaval Reserve Midshipmen's School,to the sixteen lieutenants (j. g.).Chicagoans from the greater metropolitan area to be commissioned firstlieutenants will include: Albert Dorf-man, Frank F. Evans, Edward G. Ference, William P. Fox, Peter L. Giovac-chini, Lester T. Gootnick, Rudolph W'.Janda Jr., Paul I^. Jordan Jr., AlfredJ. Kahn, John F. Kenward, Thomas J.Madden, Norman B. McCullough, Mel¬vin M. Newman, Joseph A. Rider, LeeA. Russell Jr., and ^^rnard M. Stone.Eight Chicagoans will be commis¬sioned lieutenants (j. g.). They are:David S. Fox, Robert W. Jampolis,Robert E. Joranson, Henry E. Mc¬Whorter, George L. Nardi, Alan M.Robertson, David L. Rubinfine, andCharles W. Schlageter.Three women will also receive med¬ical degrees. They are: Miss BarbaraKinyon, Miss Virginia Vail, and Mrs.Betsy Platt Weiner.Although the majority of the grad¬uates are Chicagoans, 31 states, theDistrict of Columbia, and three for¬eign nations are represented,hundred and one will receive the con¬ventional bachelor’s degree; twelve,the bachelor’s degree from the Col¬lege; one hundred twenty-two, themaster's degree; fifty-one, doctor ofmedicine; and twenty-three, doctor ofphilosophy. Housing PlansChanged AgainPrimarily because of the unexpectednumber of students entering the firsttwo years of the College in the fall,and the consequent necessity for increasing the housing facilities allottedto them, another set of changes inhousing plans for next quarter hasbeen announced by the UniversityBusiness Office. Under the new plan,Snell Hall, which was not to havebeen ready for University use untilsome time in November, will be openedto men in the arst two years at thebeginning of the quarter, and Michel-son House, the former Delta Upsilonhouse, which was originally to havebeen occupied by men in the first twoyears, will be opened to women in thefirst two years instead. Men livingin Snell will eat their meals in theprivate dining rooms of HutchinsonCommons.Burton-Judson Courts, which werenot to have been opened until Janqaryof next year, will be partially openednext quarter. The “500” and “700”entries will be occupied by men in thethird and fourth year of college, andthe ”600” entry will be devoted to theASTP pre-medical students, who wereoriginally scheduled to live in SnellHall. Blake Hall, which it had beenannounced would be occupied by menin the third and fourth years of theCollege, will now be given to womenin the third and fourth years.The other housing plans alreadyannounced for next quarter remainunchanged. Poster and Kelly Hallswill be occupied by women in the firsttwo years; Green, Beecher, and GatesHalls will house women in the thirdand fourth years. The former frat¬ernity houses now held by the Uni¬versity, College, Duke, Manly, Maroon,Phoenix, and University Houses, willbe devoted to men in the first twoyears. Programs For Composers'Concerts AnnouncedBy William R. WambaughThe series of composers’ concertssponsored by the Department of Musicand under the direction of AssistantProfessor Remi Gassmann will be ex¬panded to five programs for the 1944-45 season. The series, now in itssecond year, will continue its policyof bringing to the University out¬standing contemporary musicians andtheir works. This season a programof opera and a program of balletwill be included. Some of the com¬posers heard last year will again berepresented, and new names added.The first concert on November 3,will feature two first Chicago per¬formances. Igor Stravinsky’s Dum-barton Oaks Concerto for chamberorchestra will be performed by agroup of first desk men from theChicago Symphony under the batonof Hans Lange, conductor of thatorchestra and director of instrumentalmusic at the University. The workwas written in 1937-8, under com¬mission from the owners of the estateDumbarton Oaks, near Washington,D. C.—where initial peace talks arenow being held.Also to be heard for the first timein Chicago (in its original form) willbe the Sonata for Two Pianos andPercussion by Bela Bartok, withRudolph Ganz, president of the Chi¬cago Musical College, as conductor-pianist of the ensemble. Althoughworks of Bartok were not includedin the composers’ concerts of lastseason, five of his string quartetswere played at the University by the,Kolisch Quartet in 1938.The second concert, on December 8,will be in the nature of an anniversaryconcert in honor of Arnold Schon-Battle of the MidwayGeorge HiltonBartlett FacilitiesOpen to CiviliansJ. Kyle Anderson, athletic directorof the University of Chicago has an¬nounced that the Navy left BartlettGym, and that since September 1st,it has been at the exclusive disposalof male civilian students.Bartlett Gymnasium’s many facili¬ties including its large swimmingpool, its basketball floor and equip¬ment; its wrestling, fencing and gymequipment will be at the students’ dis¬posal from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. daily.In the fall, our basketball team willmeet its rivals on the floor of Bartlettwhere there will be plenty of elbowroom for the grandstanders. The soldiers in the battle againstbankruptcy gathered in silence in theoffice of The Chicago Maroon. Thehush was broken only by a fainttrickling Sound coming from the ad¬jacent room where the members ofthe Labor Rights Society were pour¬ing molten lead down the throat ofa stray capitalist they had found inthe Ida Noyes coke bar.The prevailing tranquility was ab¬ruptly ended by the approach of Mrs.Fred Gottesman, unrolling a red plushcarpet over which her husband, ouresteemed editor, entered the office.His progress toward the soldiers wasslow, somewhat hampered by the 175pound filing case full of his old edit¬orials which he dragged behind him.Dr. Gottesman turned off the fumi¬gating machine which pumped intothe filing cabinet and turned towardhis minions.Mr. Shields was first to speak. “Ohnoble editor,” he said, “where haveyou been? We have not seen yousince our last execution of an anti-vivisectionist.”“Yea, verily, yon Donald sayethsooth,” added Feature Editor Harmon,who had just come from his bachelor'sexamination in Elizabethan prose.“I,” said Dr. Gottesman, puffing onthe pipe he had hurriedly substitutedfor the fumigating machine, “have,been in Harper Library.”“Poring over a rare old volume of Earl Stanley Gardiner, no doubt,”suggested Business Manager Strauss.“Or perusing A Key To Studs Loni~gan,^* interjected Music Editor Wam¬baugh, his eyes gleaming at thethought of James T. Farrell.“Neither,” replied the editor. “Ihave been studying.”The staff arose as one man fromthe kneeling position in which it wasaccustomed to address the editor. Mr.Shields leveled an accusing fingerwhich flapped slowly in the breezeand said, “You have disgraced us.Not since the days of our first editor.Dr. Charles Collins, has a Marooneditor stooped to studying.”“Is it that bad?” asked Dr. Gottes¬man.“Worse,” replied Ellen Baum, au¬thor of Talk of the Town. “Itcouldn’t be printed, even in MY col¬umn.”“Then there is indeed no hope forme. I have disgraced my office andmust leave this sanctum sanctorumforever,” sighed Dr. Gottesman. “YetI depart with no ill will. May theeternal blessings of Hutchins, themerciful, the compassionate, be uponyou,” he said as he stepped into achariot pulled by six snow-white Econ¬omics instructors and gently glidedaway in the direction of U. T., leavingbehind him, as an undying memorial,the fumigating machine, 175 poundsof editorials, and Mrs. Gottesman. HANS LANGEberg’s 70th birthday, which will beon September 13. The program willconsist of one of the string quartets,and Verkldrte Nacht—better knownas a work for string orchestra andas music for the ballet Pillar of Fire—in its original form for string sextet.High point of the program will bethe midwest premiere of the recentKrueger DisclosesACP Plan Of ActionFor 1946 ElectionsDiscussing “Methods and Tech¬niques of Effective Political Action”at the concluding lecture of a seriessponsored by the campus Common¬wealth Club, Maynard C. Krueger,Assistant Professor of Economics, andexecutive board member of the,Amer-ican Commonwealth Party, revealedthe plan of action of the ACP forthe next tv/o years.“One year for the getting-togetherof the people who are willing to work,and the next year to be used in build¬ing a strictly local precinct organiza¬tion in the strongest area of the city.”“This will be for the 1946 elections,”he asserted to the gathering of stu¬dents, faculty and interested outsid¬ers.Mr. Krueger has been well-knownfor his activities in the Socialist Par¬ty, of which he is the National Chair¬man, and as Secretary of the ACP.In his discourse on techniques ofpolitical action, emphasis was placedon a programmatical outlook for anythird party. Financial remunerationor increased prestige cannot be usedas a reward for precinct work, whichis the basis of organizational success,so that a liberal program has increas¬ed importance.The function of the program beforeachieving electoral success is to solvethe manpower shortage; after suc-ceiis, it is used to discipline the offi-icials.The development of a party wasdivided into two stages: the growthfrom a group of interested personsinto a substantial minority; and froma substantial minority into a major¬ity.In the United States, he claimed,there are no substantial minorities.In Canada, however, there is theCanadian Commonwealth Federation, Ode To Napoleon, bysed upon a poemby Byron. The work will be given inits original form for speaking voice,piano, and string quartet. It will bedone by Mack Harrell of the Metropol¬itan Opera Company—^who will deliverthe verbal text; Edward Steuermann,pianist; and the Pro Arte StringQuartet. The work will be performedfor the first time on November 23,in a version for string orchestra bythe New York Philharmonic Symphonyand Arthur Rodzinski, with Mr. Har¬rell again doing the text.On February 16, two contemporaryoperas, Milhaud's The Woes of Orph¬eus (Les Malheur8 d'Orphee) andHindemith’s Hither And Back (Hinund zuriick) will be given. Milhaud’sopera, written in 1924, had its pre¬miere at the Theatre de la Monnaiein Brussels in 1926, but has neverbeen^ performed before in America.A special English translation for theperformance is being prepared byCecil Smith, Chairman of the Depart¬ment of Music. The Hindemith,written in 1927, has been performedin America several times but neverin Chicago.Hither And Back is a very unusualwork. It is a mirror opera in thathalfway through the work the entirework moves backward in mirror fash¬ion. The plot briefly is: a husbandcomes home and finds his wife with alover. He slays the culprits and flingshimself out the window. Stretcherbearers from the morgue arrive andremove the bodies. At this point theentire opera reverses itself: the bodiesare brought back in; the husbandcomes back in through the window;he “unkills” the wife and lover andbacks out through the door as thecurtain comes down.Edith Mason, Chicago soprano, willbe the artistic director of the operaevening; and special sets are being(See “Composers,” page four)Int House ArrangesOrientation ProgramInternational House is arranging itsFall Quarter program with an eye tobetter adjustment of foreign and Am¬erican students. Miss Eva DeaneKemp, Activities Director, has an¬nounced.Events for the first two weeks havebeen designed to orient house membersto the House and its purpose. Anopening tea will be given on September24th in the Home Room. On October1st a reception is to be held, withthe Director and his wife, the Boardof Governors, and the staff in thereceiving line. Jerry Glidden willfurnish a piano accompaniment fordancing.On October 8th the Alumni Associa¬tion of International House will inviteforeign students from all the collegesin Chicago to be guests of honor ata tea.used as the model of the Americanorganization, which is gaining controlin Saskatchewan province.In response to the question of awoman spectator, “Why have youtak. n tht ACP in place of the Social¬ist Party?” Mr. Krueger answeredthat it was not because of “program,but because of electoral futility.”Postwar PlanningOf all the topics under the heading of post¬war planning the one which most concerns stu¬dents of this University is that of peace-timeconscription. It is the one which affects mostdirectly all students on campus: it is the onewhich will have the most far-reaching effect ontheir lives. Tried for a short time prior to theUnited States’ entry into the war, it met withmuch criticism, many objections, and numberlessattempts to shift the burden of service onto othershoulders.It would be well to examine the motives ofthose who favor peace-time conscription. Thoseof the left and the right who adhere to an author¬itarian concept of the State favor peace-timeconscription: those of the right in order to bringabout regimentation of the citizens of this dem¬ocracy; those of the, left in order to brftig largenumbers under their sway. The pleas for con¬scription are disguised ( in the case of the right)in the term “preparedness for national defenseare disguised (in the case of the left) in the term“education for national service.”In addition, the two major political partieshave espoused this cause out of fear that theUnited States, being no longer young, is alreadydecadent. The corollaries of this appear in theirplatforms: the Republicans say that we must dis¬continue immigration and erect high tariff bar¬riers to protect ourselves since we can no longerassimilate immigrants and compete with the restof the world; the Democrats say that we musthave an increasing regulation of internal affairs.Unfortunately, neither group has paused to re¬flect that, if we are decadent, then we are tooenfeebled to defend ourselves.There are immediately raised the three ques¬tions : who is to be drafted; for what is he to bedrafted; for how long is he to be drafted. Inanswer to the first it may be safely asserted thatconscription would be confined to males: no Con¬gress would for many years to come find thecourage to conscript women. Undoubtedly itwould be universal for males sometime betweenthe eighteenth and the twentieth year. Thisimmediately raises the problem of exemption orpostponment in the case of those who have notfinished school, those who have embarked upon acollege course, those who intend to enter one ofthe professions which require several years ofstudy.To fail to draft all would be discriminatory.To exempt students, particularly tjiose in collegesand universities would be discrimination in favorof an economic group. Failure to exempt stu-|dents in institptions of higher learning would beto deprive the nation of the gron|) best fitted tolead it. Failure to exempt students of medicine,dentistry, and similar long-term studies woulddeprive the nation of the service of many of thesemen since it would mean postponment of the com¬mencement of such studies until a time when pro¬spective entrants to these fields might feel itfutile to begin.The goal to be achieved by conscription hasbeen interpreted in many ways. Some proposeto make it a program of. training for militaryservice alone. Others would make it a programof “training for national service,” although theyleave the term “national service” undefined. Inthis connection it will be well to recall the com¬plaints of those inducted before the war underthe peace-time conscription law. They felt thattoo much of their time was given to menial tasks,for the performance of which the Army couldhave hired civilian labor. They felt that toomuch of their time was spent listening to patri¬otic ballyhoo spewed forth by persons above theage of service. When Congress extended theterm of service for the original inductees fromone year to eighteen months, they felt the govern¬ment had not kept faith with them; and morale,(Se« “Postwar,” page four) THE CHICAGO MAROONOfficial student publication of the UniTersity of Cbicaao, published every Friday durina theacademic quarters. Published at Lexinaton Hall, University of Chicasro, CUcaco, UUnois.Telephone DORchester 7279 or ICDway 0800, Ext. 861.EDITOR: Frederick I. GottesmanBUSINESS MANAGER: Alan J. StraussEditorial Associates: William R. WambaughBusiness Associate: George HiltonEditorial Assistants: Carroll Atwater, Ellen Baum, Frances Carlin, Catherine Elmes, DoloresEngel, Roger Englander, Vicki Grondine, Betsy Harmon, Joe Hart, Ed Hofert, Winslow Hunt,Dorothy Iker, Frank Mangin, Lorraine McFadden, Jeff Miller, Don Shields, Connie Slater,Nancy Smith, Helen Tarlow, Espey Voulis, Mary Wong, Carla Zingarelli.Business Assistants: Nicholas Gordon, Ida Jane SandsNext Quarter On Campus(Editorial Note: This week, as asubstitute for the regular This Weekon Campus, this space will be devotedto a preview of next quarter’s activi¬ties. It should be kept in mind thatmost of the specific plans announcedarc only tentative, and are subjectto change at any time).Social LifeThe high spot of next quar¬ters all-University social seasonwill be a formal dance to be held short¬ly before Thanksgiving, probably atIda Noyes Hall. The Student SocialCommittee, which is sponsoring theformal, is also sponsoring a series offour all-campus “C” dances, to beheld at Ida Noyes on September 23,September 30, October 14, and No¬vember 4.Other events scheduled early in thequarter at Ida Noyes are the Presi¬dent’s Reception, September 26, anda Fashion Show and Tea, for all wom¬en in the College, October 4. In addi¬tion, Ida Noyes will stage a series ofopen houses every Friday nightthroughout the quarter, from 7 to 9.Activities will include swimming,bowling, bridge, roller-skating, anddancing.Fraternity and club rushing will be¬gin approximately two weeks afterthe beginning of the quarter. All stu¬dents in the third year of the Col¬lege, or at higher levels, are eligibleto be rushed, pledged, and initiated.International House will be host toa weekly series of Sunday Soirees,jheld at 4:30 on Sunday afternoons,which are open to members and theirguests. There will probably be an eve¬ning of folk dancing every Tuesday,open to members and guests for asmall admisison fee.LecturesAlthough plans for University lec¬tures next quarter are still tentative,there will probably be a lecture byMark van Doren, entitled “Poetry andEducation,” under the auspices of theWilliam Vaughan Moody Foundation,a series of four or five Walgreen lec¬tures, to be delivered by Thurman Ar¬nold of the Department of Justice,and two series of ten lectures each onmusical and literary criticism, to bedelivered by Cecil Smith, Chairman of;the Department of Music, and Clar¬ence H. Faust, Professor of English^nd Dean of the College, respectively.AthleticsBartlett Gymnasium, just returnedto the University by the Navy, will beopen to all men students from 9 a.m.to 6 p.m. daily. Bartlett has facilitiesfor swimming, basketball, gymnastics,fencing, and wrestling. Women’s ath¬letics will be centered at Ida NoyesHall.MusicHighspots of the musical seasonnext quarter will be the concerts ofthe Chamber and Composers Series.The first concert of the Chamber ser¬ies, to be held October 20, will featureNickolai Graudan, ’cellist, JohannaGraudan, pianist, and Robert Linde-mann, clarinetist; soloists and pro¬gram for the second c(^ncert, to beheld November 17, have not been an¬nounced. The autumn quarter con¬certs of the composers’ series includea program featuring the music of Schonberg, including the Midwest pre¬miere of his “Ode to Napoleon,” whichwill be given on December 8. Allconcerts in both series will be held inMandel Hall, starting at 8:30 p.m.Tickets may be purchased at the In¬formation Office in the Press Building.( The Department of Music sponsorsI daily record concerts in Social Science122, from noon to 1 p.m., and Inter¬national House will also hold a seriesof record concerts.The activities of the UniversityjChoir next quarter will include sing¬ing at Sunday morning services inRockefeller Chapel and a ChristmasPageant. Any student interested injoining the Choir should see MackEvans, Director, in his office in Lex¬ington Hall any afternoon next quar¬ter after 2:30. There are openings forall voices.The University Orchestra, under thedirection of Hans Lange, of the Chi¬cago Symphony Orchestra, is also re¬cruiting students for its next quarteractivities. Anyone interested shouldsee Arpad Elo in the orchestra officein Lexington Hall. Hours are 1 to 6p.m. daily.ArtStudents interested in art are in¬vited to join the Student Art Club.The Club is hoping to have a showingnext quarter in the gallery in Good-gpeed Hall, but nothing definite hasbeen arranged yet. The present show¬ing of paintings by two members ofthe club, George Latta and JeanneCrage, will be continued through Sep¬tember 30.The Renaissance Society is alsoplanning a showing, tentatively sched¬uled for early in October, of paintingand sculpture by American Negro art¬ists. The exhibit, consisting of about40 pieces, is entitled “New Names inAmerican Art.”Religious ActivitiesRockefeller Chapel will have its us¬ual series of religious services at 11o’clock on Sunday mornings. Sermonswill be delivered by Dean Charles W.Gilkey, and eight guest speakers, in¬cluding President Hutchins, who isscheduled to speak on October 22.There will also be the regular seriesof noon religious services held onTuesdays and Fridays at Joseph BondChapel, with guest speakers.Student religious groups on campusinclude the Calvert Club (Catholic),Chapel Union, Christian Science or¬ganization, Christian Youth League,Episcopal group, Hillel Foundation(Jewish), Inter-Church Student Coun¬cil, Methodist Students’ League, Rog¬er Williams Club (Baptist), and West¬minster Club (Presbyterian).Political GroupsThere will be three active politicalgroups on campus, the AmericanYouth for Democracy, the Common¬wealth Club, and the Student Politi¬cal Action Commifitee. The SPAC andAYD are recruiting workers for pre¬cinct work in the November campaign.MoviesThe Documentary Film Group hasplanned a series of five documentaryand five fiction films, to be shown onalternate Tuesdays at 8 p.m. in SocialScience 122. Don ShieldsTraveling BazaarThe organization mentioned herea few weeks ago as being in theprocess of formation has finally reach¬ed a more or less definite status andis about to seek University recogni¬tion. . .Ed Hofert, the spark and orig¬inator of the group, reports that it isto be named the Athletic PromotionCommittee and that Kyle Andersonhas been invited to act as facultysponsor. ..A principal aim of theA.P.C. is the stimulation of a spiritof unity in the College through par¬ticipation in and support of the various athletic eventson campus...It hopes to displace the traditional Uni¬versity of Chicago lethargy towards its teams, at leastas far as the students are concerned.It is significant that this kind of action is initiatedby the student body itself.. .At the present time there islittle if any unity existing in the College.. .Groups,cliques, and factions are the usual thing in both thefirst and last two years and the Administration of theUniversity, which is doing next to nothing to correctthe situation, often seems to encourage it...Yet the lit¬tle descriptive booklets sent out to “sell” the Chicagoplan to prospective students still at the high-school lev¬el dwell lovingly on the fact that a Very real form of“College” life is offered to those who come here...Thestudents know better...We know that the Chicago planis an unqualified success academically but that as faras any social orientation goes, especially for that largegroup of students who live off campus, the whole thingis a dismal failure...As mentioned before, many activeand potent campus organizations have recognized thisfailure and tried to do something about it...Somegroups, such as the fraternities, have attacked the prob¬lem from a selfish point of view and have only madematters worse... Other organizations such as the Ma¬roon and Student Social Committee have achieved onlya minimum amount of success. The group founding theAthletic Promotion Committee has discovered anotherway to approach the problem... They are counting onthe unifying effect of athletics to bring about some kindof common spirit among the various groups in the Col¬lege. . .They would like to see football revived.. .Not the“Rah! Rah! Racoon-Coat” variety that the Universityso courageously took the lead in eliminating from col¬lege campuses, but a healthy system of unofficial gamesby a team of students in their spare time that the restof the campus could go out and root for.. .The A.P.C.intends to put on publicity drives to increase attendanceat the regularly scheduled basketball games... But be¬hind the athletic stimulation is the idea of promotingunity in the College.. .They feel, as do a disconnectedmajority of the student body, that the University hasfailed to appreciate the situation, or even to give anynotice that it recognizes the existence of a problem...They therefore feel that action must come first fromthemselves.Recognition from the Dean’s Office is the only prob¬lem confronting the group at the moment...And it isnot too difficult a one if the University really has a live¬ly interest in student activities... If recognition comes,it will be up to the A.P.C. to see that they deserve stu¬dent support.. .D.S.BUI Roberts^ IJS.N.R,Life Lines“Agnes, this novel is so sexy they couldn’t possiblymake a movie of it!”THE CHICAGO MAROON Pag* ThraaUniversity Astronomer SleetedEnglish Royal Society MemberThe Royal Society of London, de¬voted to the advancement of science,has elected Professor S. Chandrasek¬har of the University’s astronomy de¬partment,^ to membership. This is anunusual distinction for a scientistwhose entire scientific work duringthe past few years has been in thiscountry.Chandrasekhar, who has been as¬sistant professor of theoretical astro¬physics at Yerkes Observatory onLake Geneva since 1937, received hisundergraduate training at MadrasUniversity, India. After receiving hisM.A. degree there, he went to Eng¬land as a Government of India re¬search scholar to study theoreticalphysics at Cambridge University;and while there was a Fellow of Trin¬ity College and received his Ph.D. Atpresent he is an active Fellow of theWisconsin ChemistSpeaks on NutritionIn Harris LectureThe radio has done more to destroyfaith in nutrition research than anyother element in American life, C. A.Elvehjem, University of Wisconsin bi¬ochemist, asserted in the first publicsession of the 20th Institute of theHarris Foundation on the universitycampus, Monday, September Fourth.ITie five-day meeting is being devotedto the place of food in internationalrelations.“We have with us continuously thepernicious type of commercial .adver¬tising and statements and articles bypsuedo-nutritionists,” Professor El¬vehjem declared. “I imagine more peo¬ple have lost faith in nutrition fromlistening to the radio than from anyof the other causes.”Because of exploded hopes, original¬ly unfounded on scientific fact, there-are indications that interest in nutri¬tion has begun to wane. Prof. Elveh¬jem said.“In many areas, the present genera¬tion has seen the complete disappear¬ance of rickets, beri-beri and pellagraas a result of the proper applicationof scientific knowledge,” he contin¬ued. “People familiar with these re¬sults expect their arthritis, colds, al¬lergy, etc., to be treated with thesame rapidity. Since this is not pos¬sible, they begin to grumble a littleabout nutritional research.“Among scientists today there ismore and more interest in producingoptimum health rather than only pre¬venting obvious disease.“The speeding up of growth of per¬formance for short periods of timedoes not necessarily mean improvednutrition,” he said. “Optimum nutri¬tion will not result from saturationof the body with cheap vitamins atthe expense of other nutrients orflooding the body with fats and carbo¬hydrates so that the body systemsnever need to exert themselves to pro¬duce the energy required for the bodyactivity.”The problems facing nutritionistsare many, complicated by world-wideneeds in wartime, but continued re¬search can be expected in ever-widen¬ing areas. This research shoulddeal with total nutrition, with the to¬tal fitness and efficiency of an indi¬vidual, he urged.“Past exy^erience indicates that theindividual human has benefited almostimmediately from advances in nutri¬tional research,” Prof. Elvehjem toldhis University of Chicago audience.“Nutrition has become of age. Inter¬esting laboratory experiments are nolonger sufficient, the facts must bebuilt into world patterns.” Royal Astronomical Society, London;a member of the Cambridge Philo¬sophical Society; and the Indian Acad¬emy of Sciences.Dr. Chandrasekhar’s career as anastrophysicist has been a brilliant one.While working in England with R. H.Fowler and E. A. Milne, he began astudy of the internal constitution ofstars in the light of modern atomictheories. He applied the theory of“degeneracy” of an electron gas tothe elucidation of the structure ofwhite drawf stars. The current theoryexplaining these superdense stars,generally accepted by physicists andastrophysicists, was developed by himduring his fellowship period at Trin¬ity. At Yerkes his attention turnedto the problem of the dynamics of thestellar systems, and he has developedan extensive theory to interpret thestructural features of extra-galacticnebulae. Dr. Chandrasekhar’s mostimportant publications are: “An In¬troduction to the Study of Stellar Dy¬namics,” and “Principles of StellarDynamics.”Bidwell DiscussesPostwar ProblemsOf World CommerceIn his talk on “Post-War TradePolicies”, Percy Bidwell, of the Coun¬cil on Foreign Relations, Inc., NewYork City, advocated international co¬operation in the solving of post-wartrade problems. The lecture was thethird in a series of four on “Food inInternational Relations”.Early in his lecture, Mr. Bidwellstated, “Tariffs are obstacles to theraising of standards of nutrition.” Hethen went on to point out some of the“red lights” on the road to tariff re¬duction. The two largest “lights”, hesaid, will be the desire of individualnations for full employment and theprotection of their industries. Mr.Bidwell stressed the point that inter¬national trade is indivisible, that it isall related. He gave the followingexample: If Germany, after the war,is forced to lower her tariff so as tolet in Canadian wheat, some othercountrV must also lower its tariff,that Germany may sell her manu¬factured goods, so that she may payfor the wheat she imports.Mr. Bidwell also discussed otherproblems of world trade, such as thestabilization of currency and the diffi¬culties of trade between free-enter¬prise systems, like that of the UnitedStates and Great Britian and a systemof planned economy, like that ofRussia, ne pointed out, with severalexamples, that in the past, becauseof the indivisable nature of worldcommerce, bi-lateral or uni-lateraltrade agreements have never been suc¬cessful in solving these and otherproblems, Mr. Bidwell believes that,with the three great powers, the Un¬ited States, the United Kingdom, andRussia, taking the initiative an Inter¬national Trade Commission, whichwould handle these problems, could beset up successfully.Maclean Announces NewIMS Training ProgramThe Institute of Military Studies,headed by Norman F. Maclean, act¬ing director, announces a course inrifle markmanship and basic militarytraining to be given, next quarterfrom September 28 through November16. The course is open to men between16 and 55 and will be held on Thurs¬day evenings from 7 to 10. There isa $5 fee for the course; applicantsshould register in Cobb Hall 403. Bach to BaxDuring the years 1851-54, Wagnerwas occupied in the writing of thepoem, and the composition of the musicof. Die Walkilre, the second of thecycle of four music dramas constitut¬ing the Ring of the Nibelung. Thepoems for Rheingold and Walkiirewere sketched between November 3-11,1851, and the final text of the latterwas completed July 1, 1852. Thecomposition of the first act occupiedWagner from January 28 to Septem¬ber 1, 1854; the second act fromSeptember 4 to November 18; and thethird, November 20 to December 27,of the same year.While the work is a well unifiedwhole, the first act, which took thelongest to compose, undeniably exhib¬its the most care in workmanship.The second and third acts, althoughlonger, seem ^ not to have given thecomposer as much difficulty.Of Wagner’s works, Walkiire is theonly one at the present time availableto any extent on records. Victor hasthree sets which offer 509 pages ofthe 704 in the Peters’ edition of thefull score. The first volume offersLotte Lehmann as Sieglinde, LauritzMelchoir as Seigmund, and EmanuelList as Hunding, accompanied by theVienna Philharmonic, conducted byBruno Walter. The first act is com¬plete and uncut. In addition the firstact is a unit in itself which offersthe singing of three of the greatestWagnerian artists, Bayreuth-trained,with Walter’s driving personality tomake the work live.The set of the second act, althoughfilling ten records, down to the labels,contains a number of cuts which donot detract from the unity or thecontinuity, but are an annoyance inwhat is otherwise a stirring perform¬ance. Side cuts from 245/2 to 246/3(the numbers after the diagonal linerepresent measure numbers on thepages of the aforementioned Peters’edition). Side 9 has cuts from 253/1to 255/10, 257/2 to 258/4, and 262/4to 264/9. Longest cut in the album isthe one between sides 9 and 10, whichcovers 273/7 to 278/1. This is amixed set with two Briinnhildes(Martha Fuchs and Ella Flesch), twoWotans (Hans Hotter and AlfredJerger); but only one Fricka (Mar¬garet Klose), and one Siegmund andSieglinde, Melchior and Lehmann.There are two orchestras and twoconductors: the Berlin State Operawith Bruno Seidler-Winkler, and theVienna Philharmonic with Walter.The scenes with both Siegmund andSieglinde are done with the ViennaI*hilharmonic, Flesch, Jerger, andWalter; the rest of the set with Fuchs,Hotter, Klose, and Seidler-Winkler.—W. R. W.Entering StudentsTo Get Free ‘Maroon’A special issue of the Maroon willbe given to entering students in allyears of the college on September 18.The purpose of the issue will be toacquaint incoming students with boththe activities of the University andthe Maroon.The special six page issue will con¬tain all the regular features and stor¬ies about art, music, sports, religiousgroups, political discussions, ODP, IdaNoyes, documentary film group, thesocial committees, and student pub¬lications. Also it will initiate a seriesof thirteen full page advertisementsby Marshall Field and Company.It will be distributed only to in¬coming students, but any one who isinterested may obtain a copy at theMaroon Office after the beginning ofthe quarter. Talk of the TownWe herewith present the most as¬tounding saying of the week, nay, ofall time: George Hilton, diehard Re¬publican, once said the best man avail¬able for the presidency is a Democrat(please note the capital letter). Werefuse to believe it.Rather belatedly we extend our con¬dolences to Esther Durkee of theChapel office: she’s carrying her armaround in a sling. She tripped off acurb a little too blithely—but don’ttease her about it.The Maroon office in addition to col¬lecting—er—unusual characters thisweek began collecting kittens. “Cat”over at Int House produced five kit¬tens; a threatened drowning promptedsome kind soul to bring the motherand her progeny to the Maroon officewhere the staff magnanimously do¬nated for milk (biggest display ofcash we’ve ever seen around here!) tofeed the gaunt and bedraggled family.Our esteemed Circulation Managernamed the young ones Alpha, Beta,Gamma, Delta, and Omega (it seemshe’s always planned to name his chil¬dren thusly, but it’s a little early forthat. Alas, they no longer grace theoffice—Chuck McKenna adopted one,Susie Burry another, and the otherthree were sent to the Orphans ofthe Storm (along with two copies ofthe Maroon). An interesting little in¬terlude.Speaking of cats, Molly Alice’s re¬maining two are quite superior kit¬tens. They’ve been named Minimaland Nod (that’s short for a namethat’d stretch completely across a col¬umn); for derivation of names, con¬sult Walter de la Mare.Communiques from Ham Craigdown at Arkansas A&M sound v-e-r-ydiscouraged and discouraging. He re¬ports that the campus is overrun withcows, chickens (not the interestingtype), and pigs. He doesn’t tell aboutthe success of his haircutting racket.A burning question has been agi¬tating the minds of all non-attentiveSoc. 3 students. Ever since last fall,there has been a lurid magazine—Snazzy Cartoons or some such title—adorning the table in the Cobb 308office which proffers much amusementto students who weary of the discus¬sion. Which of our eminent professors“Humaro Adventure^’Tells of Lister,Surgery^s AdvanceThe story of the humanization ofsurgery, as told on last Monday’s Hu¬man Adventure broadcast over sta¬tion WGN, concerns itself mainlywith the life of Sir Joseph Lister.Through his constant striving. Lister,during his lifetime, transformed sur¬gery from a dangerous practice to asafe art.Seeking to stop the large number ofhospital deaths from infection and toremedy the hospital “closed for clean¬ing” situation. Lister proceeded toameliorate the butcher-like practicescommon to surgery in his day. He in¬troduced the sterilization of wounds,instruments, dressings, and the useof ligatures into an “art” heretoforebarren of such helps. The medicalprofession, with the exception of theoutstanding scientists of the day, gaveLister’s researches the usual cold re¬ception, but eventually they all “wentantiseptic.”To Lister is attributed knowledgeof the true meaning of scholarship;the infusion of passionate interest in¬to his work, resulting in the “spark”that finally counted. His role in theHuman Adventure was played withunquenchable enthusiasm with the us¬ual resultant gains for humanity. (Meyer or Krueger) donated to sucha worthy cause ? ? ?A few marriages and engagementsare a requisite of gossip column, sohere they be: Lolly Kabrine and WardSharbach are getting married in Sep¬tember. Sarah Jane Peters and EllisLapin are engaged (she graduatedfrom here, while the lucky man gothis degrees from Drexel Institute andCalifornia Technological Institute).Rumor has it that Nita Rose is get¬ting married (we don’t know whetherthat’s rumor or not).We just had pointed out to us avery interesting ad in Carillon—do¬nated by one Robert M. Hodgkins, anartist. It’s worth buying a copy. THISIS NOT. AN ADVT.Mamie Tufts was visiting TanjaCizevska in Rowayton, Connecticut,for a week and enjoying herself noend (Don’t ask about the sunbathingon the small island though). Lt. DickPodolsky and his wife, the formerBetty Seligman of biochem fame, werepassing through campus Tuesday andcondescended to eat lunch with theacting editor of this week (W. W.).Two freshmen women whistled whenthey went by—and they were not re¬ferring to ye ed. Joan Fultz is leavingus next week for a visit to Pris Cope¬land Reining in Alexandria.Interesting little games keep pop¬ping up around campus—the perpet¬ual game in Lexington always findsMary Wong and Jeff Miller filthy cap¬italists. Those people in that officetell us that Ellen O’Conner is havinga slightly rocky time, but a good one,on her mountain trips in Wyoming.Speaking of vacations, Ed Hofert isleaving for a fishing and campingtrip of three weeks’ duration up inCanada that is making everyone jadegreen.Former ASTP Bob Copland was vis¬iting us last week and went back tohis old tricks—sleeping in Wieboldt..Since we are on the subject of the ar¬my, we are reminded of a couple ofpress releases sent to the Maroon of¬fice by army press relations offices.From Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, atthe WAC training center we hear thatAstrid Hammarborg is working likemad there; she’ll probably be a trans¬lator since she’s proficient in German,French, and Scandinavian languages.And from Moses Lake (we wonder^vhether there are many bulrushes)we hear that Richard Recknagel whoused to instruct in biology and zoologyhere has been promoted to a firstlooey. He graduated from meteorol-gy school here in September, 1943,and is now staff weather officer atthe AAF base at Moses Lake, Wash¬ington. .And now we present our nominationfor the character society of the Uni¬versity: the two girls who soda jerkover at Int House in the Tiffin Room.Just go over and see why we classthem as characters...U.T.1131-1133 E. 55th St.Complete Selectionof Beers andOther BeveragesMIDway 0524Blatz BeerFourFuture Soviet Policy“World revolution never interestedStalin,” declared Sir Bernard Pares,professor of Russian history at theUniversity of London, Sunday, on theU. of C. Round Table broadcast, whichalso featured William Henry Chamber¬lin, author, and writer on Russia,and Louis Gottschalk, professor ofhistory at the U. of C.“Stalin’s policy since 1928,” Paresmaintained, “has shown that he hascompletely shelved world revolutionand that Soviet policy has become oneof construction within Russian bor¬ders.”Mr. Chamberlin disagreed with Par¬es, declaring that unlimited national¬ism in Russia points toward imperial¬ism. “The fanatical, missionary re¬volution, however,” Chamberlin said,“has very greatly evaporated. SovietRussia’s own national interests areStalin’s chief aim now.” On the otherhand. Professor Gottschalk agreeswith Pares, stating, “Revolutions thatmay occur outside of Russia afterthis war may rather be very muchopposed to any communist uprising inother European countries.”In relation to future trade withthe United States, both Pares andChamberlin pointed out that the coun¬tries are in most products comple¬mentary. They, therefore, felt thatthe trade possibilities in the futurehave been exaggerated by many, un¬less the United States wants to “give”her products to Russia or unlessmultilateral trade agreements can beworked out.“Because Russia is as rich,” Paresconcluded, “and can be as self-suffic¬ient as the United States, she has the right to choose her friends in thefuture. At the moment, the ball isthrown to us. If we can meet thechallenge and are willing to help, thiswill be one of the greatest guaranteesfor peace.”“Is Europe Going Left After theWar?” is the question to which ananswer will be sought by guests onthe U. of C. Round Table next Sunday.Postwar,,.(Continued from page two)which had always been at low ebb, hitabsolute zero. Only the outbreak ofwar before the end of their serviceprevented mass desertions. All thesedetails are matters of public record.This may go far to explain the differ¬ence in attitude between returningveterans who were drafted before thewar and those who were drafted afterPearl Harbor: the former are general¬ly opposed to peace-time service, thelatter favor it.This last should answer the questionof how long the period of serviceshould be. It must be fixed in such away as to prevent its being arbitrarilylengthened and leading to a repetitionof the morale condition of the summerof 1941.From the foregoing some of the com¬plexities of the problem may be noted.This is not intended to be a final standupon the question; but rather a guideto careful consideration of the manyramifications of the problem. Certain¬ly we should think twice before allow¬ing such a far-reaching measure ofcontrol to be enacted.FIRST ON THEFALL L 1STSome new arrivals you won't want to missFICTION:TIME MUST HAVE A STOPAldous Huxley 0..$2.75OASISWillard Robertson $2.50SHIP TO SHOREWilliam McFee $2.75HARD FACTSHoward Spring $2.50SUNDAY AFTER THE WARHenry Miller $3.00NON-FICTION:PEOPLE ON OUR SIDEEdgar Snow $3.50PIONEERS! '0 PIONEERSHilary Saunders '$2.00FOR THE TIME BEINGW. H. Auden $2.00INVASION DIARYRichard Tregaskis $2.75U. S. WAR AIMSWalter Lippmann ..$1.50THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOBOOK STORE5802 Ellis Av43nue, Chicago, III. THE CHICAGO MAROON •J. L. Adams GivesConvocation SundayAddress at Chapel“Men must cooperate or perish,”James L. Adams, profesor of theologyat the University, told members ofthe 218th graduating class at the Con¬vocation Sunday service in RockefellerMemorial Chapel Sunday.Taking his description from thePsalms, Professor Adams said thatman is “a little lower than the angels,”and must learn by experience andreason to establish community withother members of the species. “Man,unlike the angels, is not self-sufficient,independent and endowed with know¬ledge by primordial divine illumin¬ation.”“Man can body forth the angel inhis soul through organized power,”Professor Adams continued. “Menwho have no power to act throughthe channels of power will simplyyield to those who have this power.Civilization is always a combinationof power and love. Love without pow¬er is obviously impotent. Power with¬out love and justice is tyranny.“We have been living in an erathat thought self-interest throughsome pre-established harmony wouldcreate community, but we are nowlearning that selfish interest on thepart of individuals and societies bringsonly chaos and death in its train.“There is no man who is a goodman as such. He will be a good manonly as a good husband, a good doctor,a good lawyer, a good citizen. A manwhose goodness does not take formin the institutions of family, school,church, and state, is a man who isgood‘for nothing. Virtue is not a clois¬tered thing except among the angels.Virtue and happiness for men needa local communal habitation.”Citing as an example a poll takenin 1937 of graduates of a large mid-western university. Professor Adamsdeclared that there are angelists alsoamong the “educated.” Of 951 stu¬dents and graduates who graduatedfrom the University in 1928, 1929,1932, and 1933 only three per centread significant magazines and books;less than 25 per cent took active partin the functions of citizenship. Hesuggested that Dorothy Canfield's pro¬posal that the university degree shouldbe conferred on the basis of the stu¬dent’s record ten years after gradua¬tion might be a good one in light ofthe facts revealed by the poll.“The typical angelist in our society,for example, is the man who does notbother to register or vote. The onlyway we can overcome the angelismamong us is to become personally ac¬quainted with the actual conditions,with the people around us. Then onlydo we come to cherish our commonhumanity,” he concluded.SpdnishJFnqlishf riqlish-Sprtnish ^DICTIONARY DIVRY'SHANDYSpanish-ENGLISHANDENGLISH-SPANISHDictionaryByJ. DOUGLAS, Ph. 0.andA. LOMO. 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These will be prepared underthe artistic direction of Ruth Page,Chicago dancer and choreographer.One of the ballets will be by RemiGassman, with choreography by Page,based upon scenes from the works ofEdgar Allen Poe.Several of the Composers’ Concertswill be repeated at other institutions.The University of .Wisconsin has re-TERESA DOLANDANCING SCHOOL1208 E. 63rd St. (N««r WoodUwn Av.|Private lessons $1.50—12 N-l I P.M. dailyLady or Gentleman InstractorsTelephone Hyde Perk 3080 ment of Music in this respect, andhas generously offered to share theservices of the Pro Arte String Quar-tet, which is now in residence on theWisconsin campus.All of the programs will be held inMandel Hall, at 8:30 p.m. Seasontickets may be obtained by writing orcalling the concert office of the Depart¬ment of Music of the University ofChicago. The series will sell for $5.40including federal tax, and will go oilsale at the Information Office on Sep-tember 15. No series tickets will besold after November 3, the date ofthe first concert.SPIC . N - SPANChef Snowden^s SpecialtiesBUHERMILK WHEATCAKESFRENCH TOASTFRENCH FRIED SHRIMPOpen 7 a.m.-8 p.m.,except SundayEnjtpy Fine Music in Air-Conditioned Comfort•«» %4.■»:< *^ ^ ^ j *’V i f *. f: k .■■: ■>: / O-^ ^ » • -• > * * XIL. ^^Spirit of Victory^The American Telephone and Telegraph Com¬pany, its twenty-one associated operating tele¬phone companies. Bell Telephone Laboratories,and Western Electric Company, continue to faceunprecedented demands for telephone communi¬cation.Never before in the country’s history has therebeen so much evidence of the indispensable parttelephone service plays in the life of the nation.It makes a direct contribution to the effectivenessof every part of the war effort.The sense of responsibility which telephonepeople call the *Upirit of service?* is in this warthe spirit of victory,** The men and women of theBell System, in whom this spirit lives, may be reliedupon to do their utmost,BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM^Service to the Nation in Peace and War**