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RESTORE TECHNICAL PROGRESS TO PUBLIC: 4 ' ?r- ;' " ' ..+ ' 'T iF49-, ' k _ '.i ' - j. i ! / z ':y ,: . , ! i - ,, ,. ±; }.°i s ;,cry l k} - r ;,,, t &4( ', Science (Editor's Note: The following arti- must st cle by Prof..Louis C. Karpinski of the those w mathematics department is reprinted loS 'i from Science, May 7. This material has housewi gone to every member of both the to the a House and Senate Military Affairs and the Committee. The resolution which Dr. achieve Karpinski refers to here was made before t long before the Kilgore Bill (5.702) was olistic p introduced in Congress. This latter product bill is for tihe mobilization of the sci- develope entific and technical resources of the Nation, and for the establishment of do CO an Office of Scientific and Technical Germ Mobilization. The Kilgore Bill scores the uncoordi- their res nated information concerning scien- requiredt tific resources, the trend toward America1 monopolized control of scientific and ery resou technical data, and the unplanned de- that libe velopment and use of scientific per- universe. sonnel-problems which Dr. Karpinski discusses in this article.) To sec small ind No American scientist can today tinues to view the world as it is without necks in knowing that an economic, political, No le educational and moral crisis threat- tary Ick ens our very national existence. Prob- Nationa ably no group of citizens not in the derelict armed forces has responded more public i completely than the scientists wheth- Privat er employed in teaching or in scien- rationsn tific state and national bureaus or leges an in private enterprise. gesn Yet the scientists are under vented th widespread attack because large and the numbers of scientists in govern- advice s ment and college employ have sold processes their services, "on the side," to pri- tion rei vate interests. Some concerted ef- When Se fort must be made to restore scien- from the tific progress to its proper place of ences a] primary service to the public in- agencies terest. vey, men The fact that scientifically Amer- mary in ica was relatively unprepared is not great co disputed. Despite the fact that for represent some years the imminence of a crisis charges was obvious, yet in stocks of essential Ickes inc metals, rubber and rubber substitutes held for American scientists and the Army smalleri and the Navy made absolutely inade- In vie quate preparations. records, The "cartel agreements" in alumi- lications num, in rubber substitutes, in min- of then erals vital to all progress in quantity Light A production dependent, for example, dreds of on rapid tooling were made with the leadingi assistance of many scientists suppos- nical sc? edly employed in public service, revealed Our long delay and the deaths associat of many thousands of our soldiers tive tha I MIonopo lies ill be laid at the door of ho prevented the American fe from enjoying her right luminum, the electric power gas, and the other great -ments of modern science he war crisis. The monop- practices prevented greater ion facilities from being ed. NDUCT the war to which any and Italy devoted all ources for so many years has of England as it requires of the intense devotion of ev- rce in England and America rty may not perish in the ure the participation of the dustries has been and con- be one of the vital bottle- production. ss a personage than Secre- kes has openly charged the ?l Academy of Sciences with ion in its service of the nterests. e contracts with great corpo- made by professors in col- d by scientists actively on ental payrolls have pre- he government, i.e., the Army Navy from receiving that so essential to democratic even in quantity produc- quired by the war effort. ecretary Ickes requested aid e National Academy of Sci- rd even from government such as the Geological Sur- were given him whose pri- terest was in serving the rporations which these men ted "on the side." These were . made by Secretary open Congressional hearings the purpose of aiding the industries. ew of the fact that public notably government pub- s concerning the activities notorious National Electric Association wherein hun- f college teachers including men in our foremost tech- hools and universities were to be on the payroll of the ion, make it seem impera- Et some organized group take up actively the defense of the scientfic group as a whole and to make possible that the public in- terests be served properly by men with only that end in mind. T OWARDS THIS END I introduced the following resolution on Janu- ary 30, 1943, at the New York meet- ing of the American Council of Learned Societies to which I was an accredited delegate of the History of Science Society: The American Council of Learned Societies regards with disapproval the extensive inroads made into uni- versity and college staffs of America by great corporations and public utl- ities: these have been revealed some- what accidentally, and most unfor- tunately even in connection with criminal actions or other actions af- fecting the public interest. In all matters of the public inter- est, the American Council of Learned Societies affirms its belief that in a democracy the professors in univer- sities and colleges should serve only the public interest. We recommend to the university and college administrative officers that all teachers in institutions of higher learning be required to note to their college officials their con- tractual connections with corpora- tions or private or even public utili- ties. These connections should be noted after the teachers' names in some readily accessible publication' for each institution, so that any prq- nouncements may be judged by tle public and the press as to whether such pronouncements emanate from a financial interest or from an aca- demic (unpaid) interest in the pub- lic welfare. Coupled with this resolution it is expected that an act will be intro- duced into Congress to compel all so-called expert witnesses who testify before Congressional committees to record their affiliations in advance of their testimony and that such con- nection be properly indicated when the expert testifies. gy such processes Americans may hope that the scientists will re-establish themselves in the con- fidence of the public which they serve. -Louis C. Karpinski, President, History of Science Society F -.1" ARGENTINE CRISIS: Progressive Leaders Must Abandon Politics IT'S THE OLD STORY from Argentina. Robus- tiano Patron Costas, pro-Fascist, pro-Axis Castillo stooge, is practically certain of election to the presidency next September. And why? Because the so-called liberals and socialists can- not forget their petty differences and unite on one candidate and one program. And while the anti-fascists bicker, the Castillo pro-Nazi Con- servative Party will carry the elections. From the scattered reports coming in from Argentina, it is hard to say which of the three pro-democratic parties, the Radicals, the Social- ists, or the Progressive Democrats are to blame for this disaster. . Since 1940, the Castillo government of Ar- gentina has sabotaged the Good Neighbor pol- icy of the United States, it has attempted to stop the other South American countries from breaking relations with the Axis, and above all it has been the eyes and ears of the Axis In the New World. Only recently one of the former Argentine at- taches to Tokio who was in that city during the Doolittle bombing, said that the Japanese regard their embassy in Buenos Aires as the most im- portant anti-American vantage point they hold. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC has been told time and again, however, that at the next free election the Argentine people would reject their pro-fascist government. Of the two houses of parliament the lower one is already in the hands of the Radical-Socialist coalition. Why the coalition which functioned so ad- uirably during pre-election days should break up on the eve of the elections is a question that concerns the whole United Nations cause. The 4eath of the popular General Justo may have eliminated the most suitable candidate but it certainly cannot be responsible for this calam- itous disunity There seems to be only the age-old explana- tion. The Argentine pro-democratic leaders are playing politics at the expense of the Argentine nation and the world. - Ed Podliashuk 218th MEMBER: Anti-Poll Tax Petitioners Certain of Passing Bill LAST WEEK the two hundred and eighteenth member of the House of Representatives signed his name to the petition calling for dis- charge of the anti-poll-tax bill from the House Judiciary Committee, where it had been held up, just as it was for so many months last session. This time the petition was completed in one day less than two months, record-breaking time for such a task. This accomplishment was the result of a coalition drive led by Democratic, Republican and American Labor representatives. Republican Rep. George Bender of Ohio, who heads the steering committee of the coali- tion, announced on eoinpletion of the petition that the committee "is confident that the House will vote overwhelmingly to abolish this property restriction on suffrage. The passage of this bill will be evidence to our allies that the American people are fighting for democ- racy and freedom." The anti-nol-tax fighters are certain that this DREW PEARSON'S MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON, May 14.-John L. Lewis would have got the surprise of his life if he could have had a dictaphone recording of the conver- sation of Secretary of War Stimson and Gen. B. B. Somervell regarding the use of troops in taking over the coal mines. Lewis had expressed public apprehension that the Army had a plan to seize the coal mines in case of a strike. Undoubtedly subordinate Army officers did have such a plan. But when Secretary Stimson sat down with Secretary Ickes, plus Gen. Somervell and other Army officers, the Army expressed vigorous opin- ions to the contrary. Gen. Somervell, accused by some of wanting the Army to take over all civilian activities, made this remark: "The last thing we want is an issue of the Army against the people." Secretary Stimson also expressed relief that Secretary Ickes, known as a staunch defender of civil liberty, had been selected by the Presi- dent to handle the coal crisis. He offered Ickes every cooperation but expressed the hope that he would not have to use troops. During the period that followed-and up to this writing-there was only one brief moment when use of troops was even suggested. An excited representative of the Bituminous Coal Commission in Pennsylvania phoned that miners and the families were walking over coal mine property. Ickes told liim to keep his shirt on and that was that. Capitol Chaff Herbert Hoover has been telling groups of businessmen: "People have been kidding me for a long time about my promise of two cars in every garage. But now look where we are- every car is in the garage." . . . Hoover might also say, regarding his famous chicken-in-every- pot promise-"Chicken is now about the only thing we can get for the pot." Submarine Antidote A history making event took place last week in the long war against the submarine. Official tests were made of the helicopter, which, despite opposition of the Navy, has been urged by offi- cials of the Army and War Shipping Administra- tion for anti-submarine patrol. Within a few hours after the publication of a MERRY-GO-ROUND story on this subject, a group of officials: from Washington, includ- ing highly interested and highly placed offi- cials of the British Admiralty, British Ship- ping Mission, and the RAF, stood in amaze- ment ont the deck of a tanker offshore while a little airplane with a crazy rotary wing on top landed and took off from a deck space not more than twice the size of the plane itself. It was a Sikorsky helicopter, piloted by a boy- ish colonel who reminded everybody of Charles Lindbergh in his younger days-H. F. Gregory, from Wright Field, Dayton, 0., who knows more about helicopters than anybody else in the Air Force, Gregory made 24 landings on the tanker dur- ing the two days of trials. He operated under all conceivable conditions-when the tanker was I'd Rather Be Right By SAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, May 13.- The time has arrived for another easy lesson in obscurantism, or double-talk. This Congress has (for the time being) killed the Farm Security Administration. The farm lobby hates this agency, which, in a sinister way, goes around putting small farmers on a self- supporting basis. With low cunning, it teaches them to can their own vegetables. In a spirit of subversive chicanery, it fixes their teeth and changes them from being share-croppers into becoming independent farm owners. One-third of all the increase in our milk pro- duction last year was contributed by the 7.6 per, cent of the nation's farmers who are borrowers from the Farm Security Administration. That will give you an idea of the sort of scoundrelly outfit this is. Hissing venomously, the Farm Security Ad- ministration gets more milk and beans and beef and peanuts out of the ground than we ever got out of the ground before. Behind closed doors, with shutters pulled (to hear its critics describe it) it viciously plots to feed us better. This is too much for certain big plantation owners in the farm lobby, who have struck a blow to kill this agency, and thus preserve the American way of life, which, in their minds, is indissolubly linked with share-cropping. Con- gress, so far, has obeyed their orders. That means less food. The same Congress has then gone on to fight "bureaucracy" by refusing to let the Office of Price Administration employ more than about 1,000 price investigators. It refuses to let even these investigators sidle into a store, nonchalantly, and maybe make a pur- chase, to see where, now, prices really are. They're forbidden to spend a penny in this way. And where Congress's attitude toward the Farm Security Administration means less food, its attitude toward the Office of Price Administra- tion means higher prices. Well. A coal mine labor crisis comes along. The miners' leader, John L. Lewis, a man who hates the war and the President, has only one sound agument, which is that food is scarce and that prices are up. Congress, racing to meet the situation, does so by writing an anti-strike bill on the back of an old envelope, between days. So we see our Congress playing a kind of organ with negative stops. No loans for farm- ers to increase food production. No additional agents to enforce price control. If a strike threat comes along, partly as a result, why, that's easy to handle. Just throw in another negative. No strikes. In other words, jab the animal until it begins to foam a little at the mouth, then pass a law against foaming at the mouth, I say that our Congress is following the path of double-talk and obscurantism, because it uses any excuse it wants; to pass any bill it wants, When it considers an anti-strike bill, it does so in the mood of having to fight a desperate war. That is a good mood. When it considers a bill to put several hundred thousand small farmers out of business, the desperate war is suddenly adjourned; now the mood is a different mood; it is the mood of yielding to special farm interests. When Congress appropriates, or refuses to ap- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Girls interested in living at the Hillel Foundation this summer should apply at the Foundation before this evening. Notice to Sororities: Every sorority must return J.G.P. stamps or money (prefer- ably ONLY MONEY) to Geni Schwartzbek on Monday, May 17, from 2-5 at the Un- dergraduate Office of the League. Academic Notices I will not meet my classes today. -R. G. Walker United States Armed Forces Institute Examination: Studentsin the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts who have been invited to write the special examination for the United States Armed Forces Insti- tute will be excused from class attendance today from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. -E. A. Walter Attention, May Graduates: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Music and School of Public Health. Students are advised not to request grades of I or X in May. when such grades are absolutely imperative, the work must be made up in time to allow your instructor to report the make-up grade not later than 4:00 p.m. on Wednes- day, May 26. Grades received after that time may defer the student's graduation until a later date. -Robert L. Williams Biological Chemistry: Courses 110 and 111 will be given from 7:00 to 8:00 and from 8:00 to 12:00 a.m. daily, during the period of the Summer Session. Non- medical students are advised to take the work during the Summer Session. It is expected that the enrollment in the Medi- cal School will be so large that it will be necessary to restrict very considerably the dumber of non-medical students who will be permitted to take the course during the fall term of the year 1943-44. Final Examination Schedule, English 1 and 2, Thursday, May 20, 2:4 p.m. English 1: Bredvold-2225 AH, Fletcher-35 AHl; Hawkins-2219 AH; Thein-2003 AH; War- ner-2225 AH. English 2: Bertram--225 AH; Engel-B Haven; Ev- erett-E Haven; Fogle-35 AH; Greenhut- 2235 AH; McCiennen-3209 AH; Means- C Haven; Millar-229 AH; Morris-E Haven; Nelson-D Haven; Ogden-D Haven; Ohl- sen-2231 AH; Schenk-3017 AH; Schroe- der-G Haven; Taylor-B Haven; Thein- 2003 AH; Walker-1035 AH; weaver-C Haven; Wells-C Haven; Williams-B Haven. --C. F. Wells Political Science 1: Final Examination, Wednesday, May 19, 2-4 p.m., room 1025 A.H. Political Science 2. Final Examination, Wednesday, May 19, 2-4 p.m. Room 1025 -Angell Hall and all other sec- tions in Natural Science Auditorium. -Preston W. Slosson Doctoral Examination for Robert Thomas Nieset, Zoology; thesis: "A Comparison of the Effect of X-Ray and Neutron Irradia- 'tion on the Development of Hair in Mice; The Design and Operation of Apparatus for Low Temperature Tissue Dehydration as a Supplement to Radiological Investiga- tion," today at 3:00 p.m., 3089 Natural Science. Chairman, P. 0. Okkelberg.. By action of the Executive Board, the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctoral candi- dates to attend this examination and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. -C. S. Yoakum Doctoral Examination for Clarence Pott, Germanic Languages and Literatures; the- sis*: "Heinrich von Kleist's Amphitryon in tie CriticalLiterature of the Ninetednth and Twentieth Centuries," today, West Council Room, Rackham, 2:30 p.m. Chair-' man, H. W. Nordmeyer. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the fac- ulties and advanced doctoral candidates to attend this examination, and he may ;rant permission to those who for suffi- cient reason might wish to be present. -C. S. Yoakum Doctoral Examination for Harry Warren Paine, Education; thesis: "Revision of a Curriculum in a vocational High School by Means of the Trade Analysis Approach." Saturday, May 15, West Council Room, Rackham, 9:00 a.m. Chairman, T. Diamond. By action of the Executive Board, the Chairman may invite members of the fac- ulties and advanced doctoral candidates to attend this examination and he may grant permission to those who for suffi- cient reason might wish to be present. -C. S. Yoakum Doctoral Examination for Mary Lois Jotter Cutter, Botany; thesis: "Recent Speciation in Oenothera:" A Comparison of Types of the Jack=Pine Plains in Mich- igan with Those of the Unglaciated Area of Wisconsin." Saturday, May 15, 1139 Natural Science, 9;00 a.m. Chairman, K. L. Jones. By action of the Executive Board the Chairman may invite members of the faculties and advanced doctoral candi- dates to attend this examination, and he may grant permission to those who for sufficient reason might wish to be present. -C. S. Yoakum Concerts Student Recital: John Dexter, organist will present a recital in partial fulfill- ment of the requirements for the degree 1f Bachelor of Music at 8:30 tonight in Hill Auditorium. His program will con- sist of works by Handel, Bach, Franck, Sowerby, Bingham and Dupre, and will be open to the public. The University "Pops" Band, under the composers of the United Nations, in keep- ing with ."I Am an American Day," to be observed next Sunday. The public is cordially invited. Student Recital: Barbara Zwayer, pupil of Palmer Christian, has arranged a pro- gram of compositions of Frescobaldi, Bach, Franck, Bingham, Doty and Widor for her recital at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 16, in Hill Auditorium. Given in partial fulfill- ment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree, it is open to the public. Exhibitions Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Sculp- ture, Michigan League Building. Open daily. Events Today TheAngeli Hall Observatory will be open totepublic from 9:30 to 11 :00 this eve- ning if the sky is clear. The mopn and double stars will be shown through the telescopes. If the sky is covered or nearly covered with clouds, the Observatory will not be open. Children must be accom- panied by adults. Institute on Post-War Planning: A local institute on this subject will be conducted by District 2 of the Michigan Library Association and the Ann Arbor Library Club today; symposium 2:30-5:00 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre; dinner 6:00 p.m., Methodist Church; film forum demonstra- tion, 7:30 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium. Per- sons interested are cordially invited. Alpha Lambda Delta initiation will be held today at 4:00 p.m. in the League. Room number will be posted on the bul- letin board. All old members are espe- cially requested to attend. The Surgical Dressing Unit will be open to all girls on campus in the Michigan League today, 1:00-5:00 p.m. Specially invited houses for today are Delta Delta Delta, Chi Omega, Alpha Epsilon Phi, University House, and all Ann Arbor coeds. Wesley Foundation: Open House tonight it 9~ o'clock in the Wesley Foundation Lounge and Recreation Room. The Presbyterian Guild will give a Buf- fet Dinner and Dance in the Social Mall tonight at 7:00 in honor of Mr. Lampe's first anniversary as Assistant Student Di- rector. The Tuxis Society will be guests. Guild members will please make early reservations by calling 2-4466, ComtingEvents An original three-act play will be pre. sented by the Hopwood Committee- and the Department of Speech in laboratory style on Monday evening, May 17, at 7:30 in the University High School auditorium. Admission free. Graduate Outing Club will meet in the clubroom just inside the west entrance of