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A GRASSHOPPER "SINGS SWEETLY" while
Dr. and Mr.; Hubert W. Frlntz; make a tap.
recording of Its ton.• m 111c,r apartment The
Frings
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By LYNN WARD
Most people wouldn't consider bird calls of much importance to Air Force operations,
but Dr. Hubert W. Frings, professor of zoology, and his wife Mabel have proved they are.
Periodically the Air Force has been bothered with flocks of starlings which collect in air
plane hangers and ruin the finish on planes. The Frings were approached by the Air Force
in the summer of 1952 to find a method of getting rid of the birds through the use of sound.
The Frings have made studies of
the effects of sound on animal ca n s.
Kaolinite Paper
behavior for some time. Dr. Frings, The Frings found out that the
said after trying many different French crows are more -cosmo- G i ven by Profs
sounds in an attempt to "scare" politan" and in their travels
.
the birds out of the hangers. they they learn to recognize the gen- Two faculty members presented
recorded the distress calls of the eral features of the crow's dia- . paper "Th Thermal Transfor
starlings. but didn't do anything l e a s , so th ey could recognize '-'
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illation of Kaohnite to Gamma
with the recordings. the American crow dialect. But Alumina and Mullite," before the
Some time later they dis- the specific Maine crows sub- Crystallographic Asso
covered by accident that the re- jetted Amer icaned to the tests were "isola- Marion meeting last week in Pitts
cordings would cause the star- tionists" and didn't have the burg h.
Bags to leave the area in which same knowledge of the "lan-
they were played. guage. - They were G. W. Brindley,
Since then the Frings have The Frings are presently in- professor of solid state technology
made many recordings of bird volved in recording grasshopper and head of the Department of
calls in different situations. But, communications. Dr. Frings makes Ceramic Technology, and M. Na
the Frings said, their "real m• tapes of the grasshopper's "tunes" kahira, visiting research associate
terest hes in insect , and their under various temperature con- in ceramic technology.
communications." ditions. By running the tape
through iron filings he can get a
Both the Frings are graduates As 3 Profs See It
picture of the grasshopper's lan
taught
the University:Mrs. Frings has.
ge. He said this compares fa
taught nature education, but now gunge, He
to picturesof sound seen
devotes her time to helping her
projects, in
oscilloscope.
husband with his many aulkner
and experiments with sounds and' The Frings agree that their
studies and research are made
insects.
primarily to increase the amount By RALPH MANNA !sales," Meserole said. "The for-'based on Lafayette County where
The Frings keep their tape re- known about insects and effects "I'm not a literary man; I'm mer was written in 1932, during!Faulkner lives) achieves reality.
1 He called_ Faulkner's novels
corders and insect specimens mof sound on them. • ~ iFaulkner's so-called 'height of ar- ..nowerful and products of gen
the i r apartment "laboratory." _ ____ _ _ _ _ just a farmer who writes. I tistry.' The latter, written in 1948 T• -
Presently they are doing most of • • With these words, spoken by ;was written at a time when hel
',am
their own experiments right at Traffic Court s trying to do different things' Werner quoted Many critics
who called Faulkner's words "un
home. :novelist William Faulkner's`
was h his b o o k"
witi
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They are very proud of their L evi es 14 Fines P ' t g g
ta p e recorded voice the Belles- 1 The lan ua ein Faulkner is' I,gr. grammatical, incoherent." One
collection of some of the oldest
"new, critic, Faulkner's cousin," asked
and finest books published on Lettres panel discussign of the' new, fresh, vital, sometimes!
,of a work: "Was you drinkin'
all phases of insect life. Mrs. Traffic Court this week fined shocking but nonetheless effec-: when you wrote those words?"
,Writer began. Jive: Meserole said. The words
Frings keeps an extensive re- 14 students a total of sll3.Werner criticized the novelist
search file on most of the ma- Fines included $43 for parking J. -J. McNalley , instructor in are ` ' of the character, not for the;
terial known about sound and violations, $6O for failure to regis- English, was introduced as know-'character." There is also a pre-t for shifting from - low-life" to
its relat.onship to insect be- ter and display a registratioreing Faulkner personally. But Mc- , dominence of coined words, words rising to snobbish words. "H.
speaks of honor, love, pity, sac
bevior. sticker and SlO for failure to re- Nalley said: made to fit ideas.
rifice," but this is not what he
Through another study for the Port to the campus patrol office "No one in our age can know Answering the criticism that writes of in his works, he said.
Air Force, the Frings became in- within the next complete school Faulkner personally. When you ' Faulkner's sentences are involv- i Faulkner deals "almost wholly
terested in the extensive vocabu- day. . look into his dark impervious ;ed and wound-up and inter- with sex, illegitimate children and
lanes of crows Vito the use of Ten fines were suspended and eyes you know they will not ' larded with irrelevaant ideas, } seduction—in spite -of all his talk
tape recordings they ana ly ze d v a r :l4 cases were dismissed. Four stn- tell you anything. In dealing Meserole said the material is '
of honor," he said.
ious signals of crows, :dents who failed to appear were with the .public he has donned relevant. "The reader is forced He called Faulkner a "phony"
Friends of the Frings in Flance,automattcally fined a total of $l2. a mask." to abiorb the many ideas which 'because "he says man will endure
became interested in their studies! One student who was found H. T. Meserole, instructor in Faulkner piles one atop another. , and prevail but he really doesn't
and decided to see if French crows,guiltv of his fifth violation was English, spoke "pro" Faulkner.: but at the end there is a blind-
.know anything about man."
could understand the calls of ordered to send his car home for• William L. Werner, professor of ing flash a lumination of E Werner questioned the pro as-
American crows. 16 weeks. American literature, spoke "con." everything." sumption that:
Through the interchange of re- They discussed the two main- ,
The structures of Faulkner's "Faulkner didn't do well in col-
Players Tickets on Sale
cordings, they discovered th a t criticisms of Faulkner, language novels are never of a kind; there; ege composition and yet he de-
French crows would respond to Tickets for the Players produc- and structure, in light of two of is a particular structure to each,iveloped a great style." Of the
the calls of American crows, but tion. "Carnival of 'relieves." will his novels, "Light in August" and Meserole said. However, they are,"structure" question, he said, the
the crows they tested in Maine be on sale today at the Hetzel "Intruder in the Dust." consistent in that the YOknopat- writer "is not successful in his
made no response V.+ the French Union desk for Sieach. "Both novels were successful in awpha County Sage (which is various structures."
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NSYI VANIA
Judd To Reappraise
Foreign Aid Tonight
Rep. Walter H. Judd, (R.-Minn.), will discuss "A Reap
praisal of Foreign Aid" in a speech at 3 tonight in Schwab
Auditorium.
His lecture, which is open to the public, is sponsored by
the Graduate School.
Judd has served as a congressman from the Minnesota
fifth 'district since 1942 and prior;
to that time he was doctor in Min- " •
neapolis.;Speer al Offer
In 1925 Judd went as a medi- !
cal missionary to bandit- and
malaria-infested South China 'Made Students
under the program of the For- •
eign Mission Board of the Con- G ong to Pitt
gregational Church. Repeated
attacks of malaria during the The Music Guild and Gateway
six years he was there nearly !Plaza restaurant in Pittsburgh are
killed him and eventually offering students special price
forced his return to the United tickets for dinner and an evening
States. ;at the ballet for the Saturday
After several months of speakH night of the Pitt-Penn State week
ing in churches and colleges i end, Nov. 23.
warning about the menace of The tickets include an ala carte
communism and Japanese milt- dinner at the Gateway Plaza, free
tarism, as both were expanding I parking at the Gateway Garage
at the time in China, he received land transportation to and front
a fellowship in surgery in 1932 ' the Syria Mosque where reserved
at the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, seats will be held for the Ameri-
Minn, can Ballet Theater.
Tickets for the evening are
available at $3.30, $3.85 and $4.50.
They may be purchased through
the Gateway Plaza, 2 Gateway
Center, Pittsburgh 22, Pa. Check
or money order should accompany
reservations.
The American Ballet program
includes "Les Sylphides,' a clas
sial- ballet based on the music of
Chopin; "The Combat," which had
its premiere at the Greek Thea
ter in Los Angeles last summer,
and "Offenbach in the Under
world," a ballet featuring the can
can and costumed by original re-
Freshman Wins !productions from the painting of
I Toulouse-Lautrec.
Ed Council Seat
AgEng Group to Hear
Joanne Rocco of Pittsburgh won .
eteei Structures Talk
the 4-way race for the freshman' " 1
elementary education seat on; Earl Anderson, National Presi-
Education Student Council. 'dent of the American Society of
Miss Rocco defeated Jacqueline /kgricultural Engineers and Direc-
Long of Suffern, N.Y.; Andreaitor of the American Society of
Marron of Philadelphia; and Elsa! Agricultural Engineers and Direc-
Lorange of Villanova. The latter;tor of Agricultural Extension at
two were elected alternates. IStran-Steel Corp., will speak at
Vivian Semko of Lansford de
la meeting of the student branch
feated Caroline Metz of Pittsburghlof the ASAE at 7 tonight in 206
for the freshman seat from secon
!Agricultural Engineering.
dary education. Miss Metz will bel His subject will be "Steel
Miss Semko's alternate. iStructures in Agriculture."
Judd returned to Asia in 1934,
this time to North China, where ,
for four years he was super- '
intendent of a 125-bed hospital.
He and his staff brought the
hospital through the commun
ist revolution and the Japanese
invasion, and at the same time
improved its works from 33 to
83 per cent self-supporting.
He returned to the . United
States in 1938 and spoke to 1400:
audiences in 46 states in two•
years.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1957