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The heart of Brazil, the vast
Amazon basin, has yet to be fully
explored. The -league of Nations
once reported that -the Amazon
basin could support 900 million
people. Only four million occupy
the area now.
RIHIN ,untapped resources, it
holds reserves of oil, gold,
iron ore and manganese to name
only a few. Today, Brazil is faced
with the problems of getting these
minerals out of the wild interior
of the Amazon. Transportation is
hampered by the lack of railroads
and roads needed to move the raw
materials'from the interior to the
industrial centers.
Intent on developing internally
opening its arms to foreign in-
vestors.
But Brazil is only part of the
Latin American picture.
O THTER REPUBLICS have taken
her lead and are asking for
capital and skilled 'Workers, no
matter what their nationality.
The United States has reluc-
tantly responded by agreeing to
an Inter - American Development
Bank last year. But the total capi-
tal is only one billion dollars and
will bring only modest help:
Russia is welcoming economic
missions from Brazil and other
countries. Mikoyan just recently
completed a tour of Mexican in-
dustrial plants. Offers of ma-
chinery and technicians are being
received with open hands.
The hard - working individual
who isn't restricted by narrow
horizons is what is most desired.
Men who enjoy the challenge of
the undiscovered and unexploited
are at a premium below the border.
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ane unwritten contract with the
older, already established fra-
ternities.
He said at that time, "It is a_
long established rule of law that
no individual has an inherent
right to. membership in any par-
ticular organization." Further, the
University had no right to, jeop-
ardize the property values and
traditions which the fraternities
and sororities had built up.
What does he, say now about the
fracas which bothered. him -in his
very last days in office at the end
of the 1950-51 semester year?
He commernts, "I've always
thought fraternities and sororities
would be smart to get rid of thse
discriminatory clauses. They bring
a lot of bad publicity. After all,
they' can elect whomever they
want anyway, just like a private
club. I think the national organi-
zations are a little stupid to keep
those meaningless clauses in their
constitutions."
RUTHVEN STILL watches stu-
dent affairs at the University.
"I've always been enthusiastic
about student government because
it has the opportunity to concern
itself with the welfare of the Uni-
versity as a whole," he says.
"But while some students are
involved in governing bodies, many
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remain unconcerned," he adds. "It
has always been thus."
Having viewed student govern-
ment in many forms, he notes, .
"I've often wondered if you could
raise more interest if graduate
students and technical students
could be induced to see that Stu-
dent Government Council serves
the University in general."
He asks, "Would it be impos-
sible to allocate membership of
the council among all the schools
of the University?"
For many years he has gheard
the Council labeled "a literary
college affair." Most of its mem-
bers have been literary school stiu-
dents.
He suggests, for instance, that
the Council should be concerned
with tuition charges. Here it might
represent the opinion of all parts
of the University.
However, student government,
administrative organization, legis-
lative appropriations -- the prob-
lems which concerned Ruthven as
president and interest him now-
are far removed from the sci-
entific pursuits on which he set
his early goals.
BORN IN Hui , Iowa, April 1,
1882, Rhve n's ins intrkest
was in wildlife. In a small book
printed in 1931, he wrote:
"Riding a cowpony over the sun-
lit, wind swept prairie, tramping
over the black loam of plowed
fields under dull autumn skies,
listening to the calls of the wild
fowl as they dropped into sloughs
swollen with floods from melting
snows, or curled on a couch by the
parlor stove with a copy of Wood's
Natural History, a small boy
dreamed of knowing wild animals,
studying their habits, and being
associated with them in a museum
or zoological garden."
He did become a zoologist, re-
ceiving his Bachelor of Science
degree from Morningside. College
in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1903. From
then on he continued his work at
Chicago and the University, and
when he received his doctorate in
1906 he was immediately appoint-
ed instructor in zoology here.
Dutieshas director of University
Museums and chairman of the
zoology department gradually
claimed his attention. Not of the
"armchair scientist" variety, he
also led 18 field expeditions from
the Museum of Zoology and pub-
lished 128 scientific papers before
he became president.
BUT RUTHVEN soon became ex-
clusively an administrator; in
1928 he was named dean of ad-
ministration. When in 1929 the
University sought a. man to take
the presidency he stepped into the
job and attempted to clear, up the
chaos which had resulted after
Clarence Cook Little resigned.
Ruthven expressed his- educa-
tional philosophy in this state-
ment from his platform:
"While recognizing that . . . it
must accept technical training as
one of its functions, the Univer-
sity should make it possible for all
students to obtain a cultural train-
ing, and no student should be con-
sidered properly educated unless
he has come to appreciate good
pictures and other forms of art,
to love good music more than jazz,
to prefer dramin higher forms
than represented in the movies, to
enjoy good literature, and to have
an intelligent knowledge of life
and society."
His vision was too broad to re-
main confined to zoology.
Rn Hrd has been honored by
1degrees from as many uni-
versities, decorated by Nationalist
China, made Admiral of the Ne-
braska Navy and a member of the
Order of the Plow (a state of
Iowa honorary citation).
University President during a
depression, a world war and post-
war enrollment boom -- one can
see leisure was not for Alexander
Grant Ruthven.
And now (as a Detroit News
correspondent recently wrote) -
When a man is healthy, happy,
interested in a dozen things -
When the years have taken little
toll and his hair is nearly as black
and his face as tanned as it was
three decades ago -- what does
age matter?
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Just how one becomes a Martha
Cook Girl seems always to have
been shrouded in a mystery pos-
sibly prompted by the written
pledge each girl signs. After com-
pletion of an application and an
interview with the house direct,
the girl must sign a pledge that
she will not rush or join a sorority.
Then the house contract is signed
and she is an official "Cookie."
C OLLECTIVELY or separately,
Martha Cook girls are a unique
phenomenon. First and foremost,
they are, upperclass, independent
women; from there on, anything
goes.
Statistics testify that they havea
the highest academic average of
any women's residence on campus.
Rumors vary from classing them
as a group of intellectuals headed
for sure spinsterhood to a body of
frustrated sorority girls banded
together to defy the Greek curse.
The some 150 Martha Cookies,
who call themselves "ladies," por-
tray their virtues in their official
anthem : "You can tell a Martha
cook girl a mile away, because she
looks so sweet and blase". .
By BARTON HUTHWAITE
FROM OUR MINES TO YOU
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versifying the country's economic
base. A wide gulf separates this
city dwelling aristocracy and the
countryside's native worker.
BOUND TO THESE large farm
estates by debt peonage, the
average Latin American worker
struggles to keep himself and his
family alive. An alert middle class
has never been given a chance to
rise due to Latin America's reluc-
tance to diversify its agricultural
economy.
A greater portion of support for
Barton Huthwaite is asso-
ciate editorial director of The
Daily and a senior in the lit-
erary college, studying Latin
American affairs.
LAIN AMERICA is beckoning. k d
Properly termed the world's UB s
"last frontier," it is a vast reservoir- AOL<u R L nrAsM
of undiscovered resources, unused'
manpower and' undeveloped pur-r
chasing power. z.
Industrialization has only be-
gun to scratch the "surface of Latin
America's 20 sovereign republics.
Money, friends and progress are .
to be had for the adventurous in-'~
dividual who is willing to battle ~
the traditions of a semi-feudal so-" .,.. .
ciety, agricultural economy and j
highly unstable political outlook.~
_Economically, it is a land bound
to the soil with ownership concen-
trated° in the hands of a select ~
minority.. Huge, estates monopolize .
the economic life of Latin America,
holding back social change and'X
preserving the rigid structure of a r
semi-f eudal economy.a
The wealth of the Latin nations
Is largely dominated by this land-~
owning clique, content to sit back s
idly and reap yearly profits with- Untapped wealth lies hidden deep in the Brazil's unexplored Amazon Basin. Nurtured by the mighty
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from exports. This foreign trade
has largely been restricted to the
production of raw materials for
the industrialized economies of
Europe and the United States.
Dependent on usually only one
or two of these major resources,
the Latin republics have con-
tinually faced deflated economies
with fluctuations in the world
market. The result has been eco-
nomic insecurity coupled with a
strong sense of frustration on the
part of government leaders.
Foreign buyers of these raw ma-
terials have usually been content
to drain away these resources
without reinvesting their capital
for industrial development in the
Latin republics. This unwilling-
ness, largely on the part of the
United States, has led to bursts of
prosperity followed by depressions
as their northern neighbor varies
her purchases.
POLITICALLY, Latin America is
constantly plagued by the
specter of the Spanish viceroy of
over 400 years ago. Given virtually
all legislative, judicial and ad-
ministrative powers, the colonial
viceroy came to stand as the only
symbol of government the Spanish
American knew.
Democracy was hampered by
this stress on personalism coupled
with the lack of a middle class.
Revolutions were merely the re-
placement of this figurehead with
another by the wealthier classes.
The machete - swinging n at iv e
rarely played an important role in
directing the upheavals. He only
knew what he was told and that
his participation might bring him
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DAYTIMERS, too, galore
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LITTLE HATS and head - and - ear
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