PAGE SIX Expect Battle On Governor's Plan, Of School Funds, Supt. Voelker Proposes Plan To Oppose Program Offered By Fitzgerald Schools May Fighi Claims $1,000,000 Per Day In School Funds Needed At Present THE MI CHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935 - -------- - ---- ......... . . ...... . . Wrecked Liner Havana Beuchcd On Balham Cr- Reef Dr. Furstenberg Named Head Of Medical Schol01 Dr. James D. Bruce Is Appointed Chairman Of New Health Division (Continued from ~Pagp 1 structor in psychology and education at Campbell College. In 1903 he went to Hiawatha (Kan.) Academy as an instructor in science and mathe- matics for two years. Dr. Yoakum was a fellow in psy- chology at the University of Chica-I go from 1906-08 from where he went to the University of Texas for nine years as professor and head of the department of public philosophy and psychology. In 1919 he became pro- fessor of applied psychology and di- rector of the bureau of personnel re- search at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Five years later he came to the University for the first time as pro- fessor of personnel management and in 1927 was appointed director of1 the Bureau of University Research. i However, during 1929 and 1930, he was dean of the college of liberal arts at Northwestern Univerit Sv in | I AN8ING, Jan. 7. - (1) --A bitterR ] g:laive fight over school aid was _ _ _ __ _ indicated today. Paul E. Voelker, superintendent ofj public instruction, served notice that Salvage masters surveyed the the schools must have emergency with 83 members of the crew still ab money at the rate of $1,000,000 a when it was feared the ship migh month until the Legislature acts. He left no doubt that he is prepared -to oppose the school aid program ad-P vocated by Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald, and that educational organizations B will be enlisted to put pressure on the Cast Ballots In esi mattre. The governor suggested that the S al*c total state aid for public educatiops, Saar Plebi cte including the primary fund, be in- cre{ied from a little less than $32,- 000,000 a year to $34,000,000. He also Postponement Of The Vote proposed that state money now being Abandoned When Minor sucnt on the University and Mich- A igin State College largely be diverted Clashes Are Reported to the public schools. The total effect ' of his program would be to give the SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Ter- pubic school system about $8,000,000 ritory, Jan. 7.- (P )-Voting began a year more than it got in 1934. today in the plebiscite, ordered 15 . Schools May Fight years ago at Versailles. Opposition from several sources was Five thousand public employes cast in ight. University and Michigan their ballots in a "dress rehearsal"' S'. c College authorities are not ex- of the mass voting next Sunday. t pected to allow their state appropria- tions: to be cut off if they can help it. They were allowed to vote early be-! Th' school organizations claim they cause they must work on the regular must have $25,000,000 of State aid. election day.E The last Legislature gave them $15,- In effect, it was a vote for or againstr 000,000 from sales tax revenues, pro- Adolf Hitler, just an army corporalt viding 'there was a surplus of that when the powers which won the World amount when other state operating War decreed that the Saar, after 15t expenses had been met. The provision years of supervision by the League of1 blocked the schools out of nearly $10,- Nations, should decide whether to re-s 00,000. They actually got only a little turn to Germany, unite with France, over $5,000,000 in addition to the pri- or remain under the League's guid- i my school fund. ance.t 'Ihe legislative situation is comph- Most observers freely predict a re- cat ed by the fact that few members union with the Reich. ha: anyidea of the amount of school Minor Disturbance Reported t ependiiures, nor the sources from Only minor disturbances were re- which the revenue is derived. Local ported in Sunday's huge wind-up taxes, the sales tax, the primary mass meetings. This was interpreted s~col fund, an equalization fund and as a brilliant victory for the plebiscite n e regency fund from which sums commission, which permitted the rivalr were loaned o schools in distress, factions to demonstrate without ser-I make up the financial picture. ious clashes.y New funds Proposed For this reason the possibility of a c The -mergency fund, appropriated postponement of the vote, consideredv by the augnted State administra- Saturday because of fears of Sundayx te board, was $50,000. According to disorders, presumably was abandoned. Vociker it is exhausted. He suggested Polling places nevertheless weref tat a new emergency fund of $300,- heavily guarded. Efforts to break 0 ?0 to $400,00 be established. He also Ithrough the lines to see the inner pioposed that $1,000,000 a month be Imechanism of the plebiscite were se aside for general school distribu- cfruitless. Lion. In addition to that he would The first ballots-will be guarded in have the Legislature make a definite T safes and mixed with final votes for appropijiation from sales tax revenues counting one week from today. Thus f r ; chool0 purposes, As the law now conigoeweIfo oa.Tu tand pthe schools get what is left the vote gave no indication of which ;t,,r other state demands have been ;way the wind is blowing, although a majority of the public servants are rpcsing the demands of Voelker regarded as Nazis. and his associates, some legislative Hespital Inmates Vote laders believe the schools can get Some 5,000 more burgomasters, along with what they have been re- -taeet car conductors, policemen, c,ving, They content there was no stenographers and track walkers will tious closing of schools last year. vote Tuesday in the "dress rehearsal" Vociker insists the schools stayed ;or next Sunday's mass event. Voting " .