blic nterpretation Argument Shakes'U'1 ress By RICHARD KELLER SIMON The sale volume of the University Press declined 15 per cent during the last fiscal year--the first time it has made money in a long time. The explanation for this apparent contradiction lies in a 35 per cent reduction in expenses during the same period. Two different interpretations of this change in policy have been offered. Liquidation Policy Felix Morrow, principal sales representative for the 'U' press charges that its financial administrators are leading it on a policy of liquidation. Morrow's contract expires this June and is not being renewed. He claims that the action was taken because of his protests against the policy. University Controller Gilbert L. Lee explains the situation by a "better control of costs." Specifically, expenses declined from $1,- 304,000 to $842,000 as sales declined from $1,120,000 to $953,000. Lee says that he knows "of no policy" of liquidation. Regent Euene B. Power of Ann Arbor says the "Regents want the press to grow and expand. A healthy and vigorous press is an essential part of a vigorous and growing university." He added that the press' administrators are new and must have more of a chance to prove their worth. Morrow's charges against the press' administrators are denied by Lee, current Press Director Glenn Gosling, and Secretary of the University and Chairman of the press' executive committee Erich Walter. Gosling says that Morrow had a special contact with past director Fred Wieck and is disturbed about losing it. The press, like other campus publishing houses, issues books generally of a more scholarly nature than those of a commercial publisher ,and books these organizations cannot or will not handle. Role of the Press The press' role is one of communication of ideas, "whether profitable or not" according to Regent Power. Morrow says that Wieck developed the press from a small in- consequential printing outlet for the faculty into an internationally famous institution. Wieck resigned last year when the press changed its policy-when the retrenchment program was begun, Morrow says. Sales figures released by Vice-President for Business and Fi- nance Wilbur K. Pierpont show sharp rises from 1954-1955 to 1960- 1961 ($100,000 to $1,120,000). For most of this period Wieck was director. Drop in Sales Sales figures for the 1961-1962 fiscal year have dropped to $953,000. For the first six months of the 1962-1963 fiscal year sales show $432,000. The 1961-1962 fiscal year showed a profit of $150,000, after two years of loss. But Morrow=contends that all this means is that the press is not ploying enough money back into acquiring new mem- bers for its mail order business, and that this will show up in the near future. The first half of this fiscal year shows a $47,000 profit, which if doubled, shows a 34 per cent decline from last year. '60-'61 Losses The 1960-1961 fiscal year shows a $141,000 loss. This repre- sents, Lee says, not losses for one year, but a write-off of uncol- lectable debts that accumulated over many years because of the collection method. There is a different collection method now in operation. Quar- terly figures show the recentsales decline. Sales figures for the last six computated periods show the following: 1961-1962 $254,000 $284,000 $250,000 $163,000 1962-1963. $192,000 $239,000 Gosling took over in the middle of the $163,000 period replac- ing acting director Edward Watkins who took over for Wieck during the $254,000 period. Sales in the last two quarters have risen. Compared to parallel sales the year before, the figures show declines. Gosling maintains that this trend will not continue and that the upcoming quarters will showed marked increases. Morrow interprets these sales declines as a liquidation policy. He charges that the directors of the press have adopted a retrench- ment, instead of a growth policy because it gives them little to worry about-they do not have to make large investments or be concerned over large sums of money. Morrow also charges that the press is deliberately denying im- portant sales figures to its representatives so that they have little knowledge of how many books to order of particular issues. They are not told of overall sales on each, only individual sales, he says. See MORROW, Page 5 THE REGENTAL CANDIDATES See Editorial Page Seventy-Two Years of Editorial Freedom ~IaitF PARTLY CLOUDY High--64 Law--42 Scattered showers in the afternoon VOL. LXXIII, No. 139 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1963 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES -AP Wirephoto VOTING DEMONSTRATION-Members of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights gathered yesterday to protest the viol- ence and what they termed "infringement of rights and intimida- tion" in Mississippi voter registration programs. A copy of the. Fifteenth Amendment is in the coffin behind the demonstrators. U.S. Requests Court Order To End Southern Violence By JEAN TENANDER After four days of violence involving Negro voter registration attempt in Greenwood, Mississippi, the federal government yesterday sought a court order requesting an end to the interference. The government also asked the release of the eight Negroes jailed during one of the demonstrations. The justice department charged Greenwood and Leflore county officials with using intimida- tion, including "arrest and prose- "ution" of Negro registration work- Lati Speaks s todiscourage from registering. If passed, the injunction would alsoAprevent discriminatory pun- O n A lliance ishment of registering voters. Two days ago, Jessie Crain, a tenant farmer, and his relatives Candidates Aim. For Socialism (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series of five profiles of Regental candidates. Two Regents will be elected in tomorrow's ballot- ing.) By GAIL EVANS As long as capitalism prevails, education will be the states }social "step-child," the Socialist Labor Party candidates main ta". W. Clifford Bentley and John Zywicki are "running for Re- gent to give people who want fundamental social change a chance to express themselves through the ballot-the legal sub- stitutefor force to bring about change."F Education cannot reach its full potential without the end- ing of private ownership and production for profit. Only under' an "occupational or industrial democracy" can education develop. Education by Educators The party's position is that education should be completely run by educators, rather than "idle businessmen who have only time for the office." Their aim is to make education a functional part of society. Each industry, education being one, would be controlled by "industrial unions" made up of the workers in that field. The' workers would be the controllers of the means of production. "University administrators and faculty would be like auto shop workers in that they would have complete control over the in- stitution." In this new society proposed by the Socialists there would be no money. All laborers would be paid in "labor-time vouchers, which would be exchangeable for goods and services. No Student Tuition Students would not pay any tuition because education is their "social right and obligation." When the students enter the productive phase of their lives, after graduation, they will more than pay back society for their educations.' Since there.is no money as a form of exchange in the new social order, University plant expansion would be furnished free by the construction industry. The University would merely ap- ply for a building and the construction firm would build it. The members of society will determine the needs and priori- ties of all production. Individual Platforms Both candidates stressed that they are running on the party's program and not on individual stands. Bentley maintainsx that "the party does not compromise its principles in order to win votes." Neither candidate expects to be elected to the Regental post. Bentley points out that "the chances of one of the party's candi- dates being elected without the election of Socialist candidates See SOCIALIST, Page 5 SELL-OUT: Welensky Hits Macmillan, As 'Empire Liquidator' LONDON (A)-Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the tottering Central African Federation, was quoted last night as assailing Brit- ain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as "the liquidator of what was once the greatest of all empires." The London Sunday Express said Welensky told an interviewer Macmillan is following a "sell-out policy" in Africa. Britain authorized the withdrawal of Northern Rhodesia from the federatoon Satur- day, thus sounding the death knell for the 10-day-old experi- ment in multiracial partnership. Due To Leave L African-ruled Nyasaland is due lambda Ch to leave the federation this fall. Southern Rhodesia, where white supremacists won elections last t December, is the third membe. "In my seven years as pime ;";n:;.>:::<: £:'>^