)rvoir Continued from, Page Five 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. un's/c ty edent Ei erntus 11w., 'or C s u 4 pro, V. Continued from Page Six 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 ---- --- -- -- -- - - ----- - - __ I F C. " Broken lenses duplicated - Frames replaced - Contact lens fluid sold CAMPUS OPTICIANS 240 Nickels Arcade NO 2-9116 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? Cook .Dorm Continued from Preceding Page 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 " THE FINEST IN DIAMONDS 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