V I PAGE "OUR T HE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1946 Football Here Big Business rfo THE MAJORITY of the student body: the reason you will be sitting in those end zone and behind-the-goal-posts seats at the Iowa game today is that football, of necessity, is a "business" at the University of Michigan. Michigan's entire athletic program, unlike those of most major universities, is supported almost entirely by football gate receipts. A glance at the Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics financial statement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, tells the story. In that year the excess of receipts over dis- bursements for football amounted to $256,514.87. All other sports operated at a loss. In that same year the University's allocation of tuition fees to the board was $63,043.45 ex- clusive of the salaries of the athletic director and the director emeritus. Of the board's total income for the year, more than 75 per cent was furnished by foot- ball. The board ended the year with a profit of $62,815.12. But football not only pays for the rest of the University's intercollegiate athletic program, it also provides for maintenance of the exist- ing athletic plant and new additions. The fa- cilities provided by football are also made avail- able to the University's physical education and intramural programs. Thus the athletic program at the University of Michigan is self-supporting, and the over- whelming reason for this self-support is foot- ball gate receipts. Like any successful business, football at the University of Michigan must cater to the cash customers. The University pays the Board in Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Control an average of 25 cents for each student admission to each game. Obviously, if the board is to remain solvent it must sell as many three- dollar admissions as possible. It is also obvious that not very many cash customers are going to pay three dollars for seats in the end zones and behind the goal posts. % Clark Baker, Daily Sports Editor, reported yesterday that there are only 25,267 seats be- tween the goal lines at Michigan Stadium. (This is exclusive of bleacher seats, which provide an additional 2,218 seats.) Baker's figure is the combined count for both sides of the stadium. If all the 18,000 students now enrolled in the University were to be seated between the goal lines, the Board in Control would have only about 8,000 choice seats to put up for sale to cash customers - who provide the bulk of the board's income. All factors considered, if students at the University of Michigan want better football seats, they must be willing to pay for them. This is the practice followed at most other colleges and universities and is the reason why students at those institutions have rela- tively choice seats. Or, the University might contribute more to the support of its own athletic program. But this is not likely, since the University is hard pressed at the moment attempting to meet op- erating costs and the expenses of its multi- million dollar building projects. So, think it over when you're watching the game from the end zone or behind the goal posts today. If you want to have a better seat-plus the rest of the University's athletic program- you're going to have to pay for it. This matter ought to be considered in a realistic light. Football is a big industry. In such an industry the sort of thing Michigan stu- dents now face goes on every day, -Robert Goldman Clayton Diekey Football: Cold, Fish-eye View COLLEGE FOOTBALL is in for its yearly panning. American University in Washing- ton, D. C., dropped football with the statement that players are put on the auction block and solid to the highest bidder. The present college game "has no more relation to education than bullfighting to agriculture," the University said. And Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, West Point comandant, has filed a similar charge of pro- fessionalism in the college ranks. University of Michigan students are well a- ware of the 'Big Business' role of thegame. Stuffed into end zone seats, in the interests of better paying non-student customers, they see another phase of professionalism - the sub- ordination of student enjoyment to cash re- ceipts. This cold, fish-eye view of football as a mon- ey-making enterprise tones down the old jubi- lance over the "big game" to a considerable extent. We still have the pre-game pep rallies, the cheer leaders and the singing of the alma mater, but we have also a resentment that the student body is being pushed aside in the inter- est of money in the cash box. Perhaps the Chi- cago Sun is right when is suggests "if the game is to be professionalized, let the colleges be frank about it; let them strip away the phony aura of sentiment surrounding it." -Paul Harsha ['D RATHER BE RIGHT: Big Slump By SAMUEL GRAFTON [I IS BAFFLING, in the highest degree, to see the people of a great nation sitting around, talking about a slump, predicting a slump, and doing nothing to stop it. The mood is fatalistic, almost suicidal. Time Magazine has even re- ported (Sept. 16) that "many" businessmen ("Wall Streeters," it calls them) think a slump may do some good; it will bring down commod- ity prices, and "step up labor efficiency." Br-r-r! A Man from Mars might be excused for thinking that that is doing it the hard way, and for wondering what ails a set of doctrinaires who reject price control to head off inflation, and then almost pray for a slump to produce the same effect. Most fantastic is the glacial immobility with which the pundits are greeting the coming dip. They sit like so many wooden Indians, frozen into a false Spartan calm, commenting on the coming slump as unemotionally as if it were no more dangerous than a coming movie; a dis- aster is approaching, they seem to be saying; how interesting! Stocks are down. New financing is down. There is a feeling of congestion in some business channels, and a noticeable swelling of the ware- houses. An R. H. Macy expert warns retailers to begin to think in terms of reducing their in- ventories. Some cotton textile mills, holding their products, waiting for higher prices, ar reported to be so loaded they can't find storage space. A conference of the National Retail Fur- niture Association is warned by an analyst that, merchants will be "overwhelmed" in six months, by certain categories of goods. Just when the slump comes? WHAT HAS happened is that we have allowed inflation to do us out of a period of stabil- ity to w h i c h we were well entitled. Time Magazine (Sept. 30) wonders dismally what has happened to our "dream of riches;" but Time Magazine's own sneering and mocking at price control may have helped shape our national de- cision to take a ride on a roller coaster instead of on a smooth road. The only thing which could have hurt our postwar prosperity was a price rise; nothing else would have done it; and the gleeful unanimity with which large trade associations and important sections of the press have cried out against the controls .which alone could save us may yet go down in 'history as one of the strangest instances of mass suicidal impulse on record. Now business, with prices higher, finds profits strangely lower, as each corporation dips deeper into the funds of the one next above, to which it sells; and we have reached a stage at which managers cry out against price increases while sales managers ask for still more boosts; the two sets of functionaries seem rarely to meet. Meanwhile goods stay off the market, as they always do when a mood of inflati-onary expectancy has been created. Finally we see the pundits beginning to place their damp little bets on a slump; having earned a kick in the pants, they begin to find virtues in it, and to ascribe magical curative powers to it. But is a slump really preferable to moder- ate government controls, even to a special ses- sion of Congress summoned to halt inflation, roll back prices, and thaw out inventories? In terms of human cost, a slump is obviously not preferable. But the all-out holy war against government controls has gone too far to allow back-tracking. Its leaders promised that a re- duction in controls would mean prosperity; since it turns out to mean recession, they begin to find values in recession.. They cling to their theory, and wait for the kick, cheering each other by murmuring: "Good. Ah, Good; very good." But the Man from Mars is not impressed. He knows that what looks like stoic courage is very often only bewilderment, and anembarrassed inability to think of what to do next. Get Out the Vote' DURING THE PAST week, the campus AVC "Get Out the Vote" campaign advised 3300 students, mailing out approximately 2500 post cards requesting absentee ballots and registra- tion information. The committee which handled the campaign can be credited with having performed two community services. In the first place, politic- ally alert citizens on campus were reminded and helped to register. For them, AVC per- formed a simple, mechanical function, lessen- ing an inconvenience. More important, however, is the service the committee performed in dramatizing the com- ing election and thereby getting action from students who might otherwise have been forced to forfeit their right to vote through failing to register. The confusion and variety of pressing obligations confronting students this year make this type of unintentional self-disenfranchise- ment all to likely. Citizens whose votes would be solicited by local political machines, who would find local issues discussed on every side lose these incentives in the relatively cosmo- politan University community. Today is the last day the AVC committee will be running their campaign. Statements of the urgency of registering should be un- necessary. Those who have not yet done so can take advantage of the AVC's service today. The "Get Out the Vote" committee deserves our thanks for its valuable campaign. -Milt Freudenheim Ballot for Eighteen-Year-Ols? DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in The Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Assistant to the President, Room 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:30 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m., Saturdays). SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 VOL. LVI, No. 11 Notices Faculty and Staff Salary Pay- ments: Withholding TaxaExemption. Certificates must be on file by Oct. 7 for all persons on the Academic Pay- roll expecting to receive checks on Oct. 18. Call at Rm. 9, University Hall if you have not filed one during 1945 or 1946. Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary To the Faculty of the College of Lit- erature, Science, and the Arts: The October meeting of the Faculty of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the academic year 1946-47 will be held Mon., Oct. 7, at 4:10 p.m. in Rm. 1025 Angell Hall. Hayward Keniston, Dean Agenda 1. Consideration of the minutes of the meeting of June 3, 1946 (pp. 1272-; 1274). 2. Presentation of new members. 3. Resolutions for Professor Peter Field and Associate Professor Eugene E. Rovillain. 4. Announcements. r. Elections to Executive Commit- tee Panel and Library Committee. Nominating Committee: Associate Professor Kenneth L. Jones, Profes- sor Edgar M. Hoover, Professor Ar- mand J. Eardley; Associate Professor Karl Litzenberg, and Professor Rob- ert B. Hall, Chairman. 6. Problems of the Library-Pro- fessor Warner G. Rice. 7. Consideration of reports sub- mitted with the call to this meeting. a. Executive Committee - Profes- sor J. W. Eaton. b. University Council - Professor L. C. Anderson. No report. c. Executive Board of the Gradu- ate School-Professor R. L. Wilder. d. Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs-Professor H. M. Dorr. No report. e. Deans' Conference-Dean Hay- ward Keniston. f. Report to Faculty on Budget for 1946-47-Associate Dean L. S. Wood- burne. 8. New business. Sunday Library Service: On all Sundays during the Fall and Spring Semesters except during the holiday periods, and beginning with Oct. 6, the Main Reading Room and the Periodical Room of the General Li- brary will be kept open from 2:00- 9:00 p.m. Books from other parts of the building which are needed for Sun- day use will be made available in the Main Reading Room if requests are made on Saturday of an assistant in the reading room where the books are usually shelved. Warner G. Rice Director STUDENTS, COLLEGE OF LITERA- TURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS Students are reminded of the fol- lowing regulations which became ef- fective with the beignning of the Fall Term, 1946-47: 1) Students are expected to at- tend classes regularly. 2) Wlen the instructor considers the nunber of absences excessive, that is, when a student's absence from a course endangers his satis- factory progress, the instructor should send a written report on the case to the Administrative Board for action. Freshmen and sophomores should be reported to the Chairman of the Academic Counselors, Associ- ate Dean, 1220 Angell Hall. FOR ALL STUDENTS: , Counselors in Religion are provided in two areas of experience; 1. Regardless of affiliation or the lack of affiliation, the Counselor's of- fice at 215 Angell Hall, 11:00-12:00 or 3:00-4:00 daily, is open to any stu- dent or group. 2. According to your church af- filiation, you will be served through the S.R.A. at Lane Hall or at the Ann Arbor worship center of your choice. Your search for religious values among the many values will have im- mediate attention by trained Coun- selors. Seniors and Graduates in Mechani- cal and Industrial-Mechanical En- gineering: Students who expect to graduate in Feb. or June, 1947, should call at once at the Mechanical Eng. Office, Rm. W. Eng. Bldg., and fill out a personnel record form. This is important as a permanent record for future reference and is necssary for IF AT YOUNG people are more election-mind- ed this year than ever before is a reasonable assumption in the light of recent war experi- ences and the phenomenal increase in college students. This year's elections should be of particular interest to the younger residents of Michigan for several reasons. An unusually large number of younger citi- zens participated in the primary campaigns and are now running for various state and national offices. The progressive American Veterans Commit- tee has undertaken the task of awakening inter- est in the coming elections on the part of the voters, and success in this venture seems already IT SO HAPPENS 0 Give Them a Finger Something for NOTHING LES ETTER, who handles public relations for the boys down in the Sports Building, told us this one. It seems he received a request for a compli- mentary ticket to the game Saturday from some- one who undoubtedly felt that he had one com- ing to him. The catch comes in the form of the request. It was a telegram, collect. International Clientele OUR ADVERTISING department tells us that we now have subscribers receiving The Daily in Istanbul, Manila, and "points east." The DOB is sent on ahead by carrier pigeon, of course. * * * * Less Than Meets the Eye WHEN FIELDING H. YOST died, the Battle Creek Enquirer and News printed a picture of the famous coach and received next day an abusive letter from a reader. This anonymous person wrote the paper saying "Shame ! Shame! Shame ! What do you mean by printing a picture of Coach Yost with a pipe, when you know he never smoked!" But a quick look at the picture showed Coach Yost dangling spectacles in front of his face. The Enquirer is taking up a fund to buy spectacles for the hapless reader. * * * * A Common Mistake PORTS enthusiasts who followed the post- pennant race exhibition games recently apparent, in view of the numerous requests for information they have received already. With this quickened interest in the import- ance of choosing the right persons for the responsibilities of government, citizens of Michigan who are approaching the voting age should be especially concerned with a cam- paign promise made last week by Murray D. Van Wagoner, Democratic candidate for gov- ernor. Van Wagoner has committed himself defi- nitely on the question of lowering the age limit for voters by promising that he will put through this change if he is elected. Although American voters have generally learned to be skeptical of promises made in the heat of election campaigns, these promises should not be taken lightly, if only because such statements in themselves enhance the possibility of the change. The importance of enabling eighteen-year- olders to vote cannot be minimized. Although several states have already made this change or are considering it, its success is still largely a matter of conjecture. Endless arguments can be carried on as to whether one is more able to vote wisely and well at twenty-one years of age than at eighteen. Certainly lowering the age limit would en- sure a larger element of liberalism in the po- litical thought of the state. Government of- fice seekers would have an enlarged body of voters to consider, and the immediate wishes and needs of these younger persons might influence vote-hunters to broaden and liberal- ize their platforms and programs to a con- siderable extent. Without a doubt, this element of youthful progressiveness would be beneficial to the state, if supplemented by serious and conscientious preparation before the voting age was reached, a vital responsibility for every educator. If the state Republicans are awake, the question of lowering the voting-age limit will become a serious issue in the next few weeks. It certainly deserves the thoughtful considera- tion of every citizen in the state, whether or not he will be casting a ballot next month. -Natalie Bagrow We know the purpose of the Baruch and Acheson-Lilienthal plans is security, not des- truction of Russia's economy. But our own con- fidence in our own motives does not answer Rus- sia's fears. -Chicago Sun those who wish to take advantage of interviews for positions with indus- trial organizations. Rhodes Scholarship candidates: There will be a preliminary meeting of all candidates from the University for the Rhodes Scholarship on Mon., Oct. 7, at 4:15 in Rm. 2003 .Angell Hall. Formal application blanks to be completed on or before Oct. 7 and additional information may be ob- tained from Prof. Clark Hopkins, 1508 Rackham Bldg. Choral Union Ushers: Will the fol- lowing please report to the Hill Au- ditorium box office between 4:30-5:30 Mon., Oct. 7, for second balcony as- signments: Allan Albert, R. M. Amberg; Frank Arams, Betty Bloxsom, Thelma Brown, Jean Curtis, Felice Davidson, Tom Dickinson, Dan Dow, Ann Ebert, Mrs. Frank Essenburg, Harriet Falls, Colleen Flanery, Shirley Greenburg, Nelson Hauenstein, Herbert Kahn, Lucinda Hieber, J. Hoan, Mary Ong- wersen, Gilbert Iser, Harold Jackson, Jean King, Wm. Kuzel, Betty Leavitt, Henry M. Leiman, Gail Locken, Bar- bara Luke, Nancy MacKaye, Eliz. McLaughlin, George Medcy, Mar- garet Miller, Delilah Murrah, Sidney Owsowitz, Alan Pasch, Marcia Res- nick, William Resnick, Russell Low- ell, Dawn Saari, Elaine Schmid, Jean Schutt, Leroy Steinmann, Norbert Temple, Barbara Walker, Bill Wilkin- son. Choral Union Ushers. Will the fol- lowing please report to the Hill Audi- torium box office between 4:30-5:30 Mon., Oct. 7, for Ticket assignments. Eugene Brody, Howard Carrothers, Dustin Ordway, Fred Eggert, Ernest Getz, Charles La Perriere Thomas Loomis, D. R. MacNaughton, Thomas Potts, Joseph Rourke, Fred Seegert, Paul Taggett, Herbert Wolfson, Al- bert Warner. Football Tickets: 1. Underclassmen who turned in tickets on Monday and Tuesday may present their receipts at the booth in University Hall for new tickets be- tween the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 4, and from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon on Sat., Oct. 5. Only official receipts stamped with the University Seal will be hon- ored. No receipts will be honored after 12:00 noon on Sat. 2. Underclassmen who hold tickets in sections 24 to 28, inclusive, and who failed to turn them in on Mon. or Tues. may turn them in at the booth in the North Lounge of the Union from 8:30 a.m. until 12:00 noon on Fri., Oct. 4. This is ab- solutely the last chance to turn in tickets without disciplinary action. 3. Upperclassmen holding tickets in sections 29 to 35, inclusive, may present them for tickets in the pre- ferred sections at the booth in the Union from 1:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Fri. 4. Underclassmen turning in tick- ets on Fri. morning may Wesent their receipts for new tickets from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon on Sat. Only official receipts will be honored. No receipts will be honored after 12:00 noon on Sat. 5. Underclassmen presenting re- ceipts for tickets on Fri. and Sat. will be given a second type of re- ceipt. This receipt is evidence that the holder participated in the volun- tary exchange, and will protect him from disciplinary action. Each un- derclassman is warned to retain this second receipt, as it is his only pro- tection from disciplinary action in event of an error in the records of the Legislature. Ray Davis President, Student Legislature WILLOW VILLAGE PROGRAM for veterans and their wives. West Court Community Bldg., 1045Mid- way Blvd., Willow Run Village. COMING EVENTS: Oct. 9: Goodyear's Style Show, sponsored by the Wives of Student Veterans' Club. Everybody is cor- dially invited. Oct.: 16: Dean Hayward Keniston will speak. This lecture' will inaug- urate a series of Wed. night lectures at West Court. They will be given by outstanding people from the University and are open to the public. Lectures University Lecture: "The Possibili- ties of Educational Measprement in Higher Education," by Dr. Kenneth W. Vaughn, Director of the Gradu- ate Record Examination and of the Pre-Engineering Inventory. This lec- ture will be of interest to faculty members and students who are con- cerned with the future of objective achievement and ability tests. The lecture is sponsored by the Bureau of Psychological Services of the In- stitute for Human Adjustment. Rackham Amphitheater. Tues., Oct. 8, at 4:15 p.m. Academic Notices Makeup Examination in Econom- ics 51, 52, 53, 54 final will be given in Rm. 207 Economics Bldg., at 3:00 on Thurs. Oct. 10. Preliminary Ph.D. Examinations in Economics will be held during the week beginning Mon., Oct. 28. Each student planning to take these ex- aminations should leave with the sec- retary of the department, not later than Mon., Oct. 14, his name, the three fields in which he desires to be examined, and his field of specializa- tion. Business Administration 123: Will the following students report for lab, Rm. 106 Rackham, at the specified times. Mon., Oct. 7, 10:00 a.m., M. Savas, and H. Williams; 1:00 p.m. S. Simmons and P. Wiledon; 3:00 p.m., W. Hibbard, L. Daugherty, T. Fellows, and J. Nickel. Tues., Oct. 8, 8:00 a.m., R., Sepell and D. Miller; 9:00 a.m., R. Brown, L. England, C. Mintline and W. Radell; 11:00 a.m., F. Baumgardner, P. Clifton, R. Co- jeen, and M. Rubin; 1:00 p.m., E. Crosley and W. Kohler; 2:00 p.m., D. De Waard, W. Johnson, A. Me- dalie, J. Rolley, N. Singer and R. Wooster. Mathematics 300: Orientation Seminar will meet Mon., Oct. 7, at 7:00 p.m. in Rm. 3001 Angell Hall. Fencing classes for men will meet in the combat room of the I.M. Bldg, on Tues., Wed., and Thurs from 4:30.. 5:30 p.m. Beginners welcome. Foils and masks will be furnished. Students, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: No courses may be elected for credit after today. Students, .College. of .Literature, Science and the Arts and Graduate Students: Dr. Kenneth W. Vaughn, director of the Graduate Record Ex- amination, will discuss the examina- tion with students of the College on Tues., Oct. 8. Dr. Vaughn will discuss in detail the results of the examina- tion taken by sophomores and seniors in May of the Spring semester. The meeting will be of interest to stu- dents who have taken the examina- tion and to those who expect to. All are urged to attend. Rackham Lec- ture Hall. 8:00 p.m. Dean Keniston will preside. Veterans, College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts: Veterans who were admitted to this College as special students will be ac- cepted as regular students after they have successfully completed two se- mesters' work. A summer session cannot be counted as a full semester's work. Students in this category who have failed to earn a satisfactory rec- ord will be asked to withdraw. No special application need be filed to become a regular student. Concerts Carillon Recital: Sidney F. Giles, University Assistant Carillonneur, will be heard in a program at 3:60 p.m. Sun., Oct. 6. Program: La Man- on, and Gigue, by Couperin, Intro- duction, Song and Fugue by Nees, Menuet and Trio by Mr. Giles; Men- delssohn's Confidence, Rebikoff's Au- tumn Reverie, O Sole Mio by Capua, and Benoit's Rubensmarsch. Exhibitions The Museum of Art presents water colors by Dong Kingman and De Hirsh Margules from Oct. 4-Oct. 27, Alumni Memorial Hall, daily, includ- ing Sunday, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Mon- days closed. The public is cordially invited. Events Today Association Luncheon - Discussion Group will meet today at 12:15 at Lane Hall. Winston W. Thomas of Bogota, Colombia, will be the speak- er. Reservations for the lunch may (Continued on Page 6) Fifty-Seventh Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the author- ity of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Robert Goldman ........Managing Editor Milton Freudenheim...Editorial 'Director Clayton Dickey.................City Editor Mary Brush...............Associate Editor Ann Kutz.................Associate Editor Paul Harsha...............Associate Editor Clark Baker ...............Sports Editor Joan Wilk..............Women's Editor Lynne Ford......Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Robert E. Potter ........ Business Manager Evelyn Mills... AssoctatetBusiness Manager Janet Cork....Associate Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for re-publication of all ne~ws dispa~tc~hes Icritedto itor '-',. f BARNABY What about Gus, the Ghost, Mr. O'Malley? And Atlas, the Mental Giant? Are you They're valued colleagues- To write a syllabus for the School System without consulting them- Say goodnight to your father. But don't ask questions. He's busy k Gosh, Morn. So is moy