T.... ff.C.IGAN DAILY 3UNt 4 FACULTY FOR KNOWING: Baier Retains Salty Outlook; Maintains Academic Dignity By JOHN CAMPBELL EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the ninth in a weekly series on faculty person- altie$. Though he looks every inch the popular conception of a salty sea captain, Prof. Louis A. Baier still manages to retain the professorial dignity that people expect in the chairman of the naval architec- ture and marine engineering de- partment. Launched in the sandy state of New Jersey, Prof. Baier made his maiden voyage on the California coast. There he began his naval career by operating sailing and fishing boats in the Pacific. The lure of a college education finally drove him inward, however, and he came to Michigan, one of the two schools in the country that offered the type of course he wanted-marine engineering. Beginning in 1913 three im- portant events occurred in rapid succession. Prof. Baier graduat- ed from the college of engineer- ing, he was married and, when the first World War broke, he enlisted in the Navy as an en- sign. Prof.- Baier still holds the rank f Lieutenant Commander in the Government To Investhrate Klan Revival WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -(AP)- The federal government and states in the North and South, the East and West are "cracking down" on a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The Justice Department, which in midsummer launched an inves- tigation of Ku Klux operations in seven states, is considering ex- tending the inquiry to other states. The department also is probing reports of a revival under new names of the German-American Bund and the possibility of an alliance of Bund groups and the Klan. Department officials say they have evidence of Klan-Bund col- laboration b e f o r e the war to promote racial and religious dis- sension. The evidence is said to indicate also that the two organi- zations considered forming an anti-labor third party in an effort to align other elements of the population against labor. Last May Georgia Klan leaders proclaimed a rebirth of the "in- visible empire" at a fiery cross gathering on historic Stone Moun- tain near Atlanta. Since then, courts in California, New York, Kentucky and New Jersey have revoked state charters of the hooded order. Naval Reserve, and, occasionally, he sheds his professorial status long enough to put in some active duty at the Bureau of Ships. He has long since resigned himself to what amounts to the life of a landlubber, however. Now, instead of walking the bridge, he can be found bent over a blueprint in his West Engineering Building office or checking model performances from a towing car in the Naval Tank. For fifteen years following the war Prof. Baier was responsible for the design and construction of hundreds of vessels of all types on both the east and west coasts. Now his services as a consultant are much in demand by the Navy Department, Army Engineers, Maritime Commis- sion and the principal shipyards and designers in this country. Prof. Baier returned to Michi- gan in 1933 to accept a position on the staff of the naval archi- tecture and marine engineering department. One of his most im- portant achievements has been the improvement and development of the Naval Tank facilities for model testing and research work. The Naval Tank, second largest in this country, was an important center of scientific research con- ducted by the University during the war. In explaining his philosophy of teaching engineering, Prof. Baier maintains that it is im- portant for students to coordi- nate practical experience with the theory they learn in class. Many students in the marine engineering department, he points out, take summer jobs on ships or in shipyards Equally important to him is the task of keeping the departmental staff in touch with the latest prac- tices through consulting work with operators and builders of ships. "You can memorize a course in Latin or Greek and teach it year after year," he said, "but you can't do that in engineering and expect to keep up with the times." We were not surprised when he grinned and said his hobby is "ships." Visions of a busy professor puttering around with intricate small-scale ship mod- els were quickly shattered, how- ever, when he explained that his interest is all in modern ship design. For many years he has held winter classes in Piloting and Celestial Navigation in the Detroit area. The casual visitor who may ex- pect to find Prof Baier's home in Ann Arbor lined with portholes will be disappointed. But the salt- water atmosphere is not entirely absent from the house which he planned and built himself. "The actual internal construction of the house," Prof. Baier points out, "is very simihr to that of a ship." f" t sulk Li 5 II 11740 1 iiL U A ra When it comes to secret-keeping, Mom's the word! She Just in time to suit Christmas pocketbooks .. .These outstanding values begin tomorrow. Come EARLY for the best choice! kept the news from Dad when you broke the neighbor's window... flunked in Biology ... stayed out 'till half-past three. And at Christmas she's mum as the Sphinx. Everyone knows her closet's crammed with mysterious pack- ages-her days bustling with shopping expeditions-but no one will know until December 25th what Mother has up her sleeve. And all the while, Mother keeps another secret, too. The secret of what she really wants for Christmas. Ask her, and she says: "Any little thing-just don't spend much money." 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