THE MICHIGAN DAILY
DEAN SPEAKS TODAY:
Calls UNESCO Device
To Curb Local Yokelism
Friends To
UNESCO is a practical device
to prevent localism from leading
the world into war again, Dean
Harold Benjamin of the College
of Education at the University of
Maryland said in an interview
yesterday.
Dean Benjamin, who was a
member of the constitutional con-
vention of UNESCO in 1945, will
speak on "Contemporary Educa-
tion in Latin America" at 4:15
p.m. today in Rackham Amphi-
theatre,
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AFTER THE lecture, which is
Grades Show
Rise Despite
Balmy Spring
Warm, sunny days apparently
have little effect on most of the
students at the University, ac-
cording to Registrar Ira M. Smith.
Regardless of the temptation of
balmy days for students to quit
their studies and relax, they
earned higher grades last spring
than in the preceding fall semes-
ter, a check of 'U' grade files by
Smith revealed.
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IN EIGHT of the University's
fourteen colleges and schools,
Smith found there were 1.2 per
cent more A's, with a similar in-
crease in B's during the spring se-
mester.
Spring enrollees made 1.1 per
cent fewer C's and one per cent
fewer D's, Smith discovered.
"Perhaps the fall semester rep-
resents the adjustment period of
incoming freshmen," he declared
when asked the possible reason for
the marked improvement during
the '48 spring term.
sponsored by the Romance lang-
uages department and the educa-
tion school, students and faculty
will have a chance to meet him
at a reception in the Henderson
Room of the League.
Local yokels are dreamers-
full of hogwash and prunes,"
Dean Benjamin said.
UNESCO is practical because
by reducing local yokelism to a
rare and picturesque thing it will
help build a world society to
stand behind world governnent,
he said.
BUT IT IS only operating pilot
projects now, he said. Many peo-
ple criticize UNESCA projects, but
it's easier to criticize than to plan
a difficult job-"it takes time to
learn."
And UNESCO operates on a
yearly budget that is "infinitesi-
mal compared with the cost of a
few days of the airlift."
Campus
Calendar
EVENTS TODAY
Student Forum-Broadcast 3:301
p.m., today over station WUOM.
Irwin Robinson, Gordon Gross-
man, Robert Ernstein, and Flor-
ence Baron will discuss "Is Russia's
Participation Essential to the Im-
mediate Establishment of a World
Federation?"
Geology Club-Richard Strong
will speak at noon today in Rm.
2054, Natural Science on "Some
Factors Concerning Paleo Climat-
ology."
Organ Recital--Leslie P. Spell-
man, 4:15 p.m. Fri., Hill Audito-
rium.
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Hold Peace
Seminars
More than 300 students from all
parts of the world will study the
problems of peace together this
summer in International Service
Seminars, sponsored by the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee.
Ten seminars will be held in
various parts of the country.
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CLARENCE Pickett, executive
secretary of the Friends said the
purpose of the seminars is "to
bring together students from var-
ious countries, races and religions,
each of whom can contribute to
the group's understanding of prob-
lems and issues facing the peoples
of the world today."
Students from more than 40
countries participated in last
summer's program.
Visiting experts in international
relations, economics, history, po-
litical science, psychology and so-
ciology will compose the faculty
for the seminars.
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THE SEMINARS, which will
last for seven weeks, will be held
in the New England area, the
Middle West and the West. Start-
ing dates are June 24, July 1,
Aug. 5.
Further information may be ob-
tained from the American Friends
Service Committee, 20 South 12th
St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Radcliffe Gives
Grad Course
In Publishing
Applications Accepted
For Summer Session
Applications are now being ac-
cepted for a six weeks graduate
course in publishing procedures to
be offered at Radcliffe College,
Cambridge, Mass., this summer.
The course, which is designed
for women interested in entering
publishing work, will survey re-
quirements and opportunities in
this field. The course will last
from June 27-Aug. 5.
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TECHNIQUES of trade books,
newsstand magazines, textbooks,
scientific books, the, house organ
and special-circulation magazines
will be studied.
Two projects will be required
of each student. One entails the
performance of all publishing
functions on a book length man-
uscript. The other will be a dum-
my layout for a magazine.
The staff for the course is com-
posed of experts active in the pub-
lishing field. They will lecture,
criticize and advise.
Women interested in attending
may contact the Director, Sum-
mer Course in Publishing Proce-
dures, Radcliffe College, Cam-
bridge, Mass.
Baxter Heads
Botany Group
Prof. Dow V. Baxter of the For-
estry School has been appointed
Vice-president of the forest bo-
tanical section of the International
Botanical Congress, which will
meet in Stockholm, Sweden in
June, 1950.
Prof, Baxter will be in charge of
the section which involves refores-
tation problems, forest ecological
problems, forest types, diseases of
forest trees and forest genetic
problems.
He will also present a paper on
"The Studies of Wood-destroying
Fungi in North America."
M.A. Exam Slated
The History M.A. language ex-
amination will be held at 4 p.m.
today, Rm. B, Haven Hall.
Students should register for the
examination at the history office.
current rate on
insured savings
Extra earnings on Bonus
Savings Accounts
WHEN UNIONS DISAGREE-Archie Crowder, an engineer in a
St. Louis, Mo., gas plant and a member of the CIO United Gas,
Coke and'Chemical Workers of America, Local 6, is being hustled
off the job by two members of the AFL International Union of
Operating Engineers, Local, 148, as the AFL union took direct
action in a jurisdictional dispute.
SIXTEEN TAKE $1,300:
BAd. School Students Receive
Scholarships for Semester
Sixteen students in the Univer-
sity business administration
school have been awarded scholar-
ships for the second semester with
a total value of $1,300.
The awards are of varying
amounts, and all except three are
general University scholarships,
provided byefunds appropriated
by the Regents for aid to out-
standing students.
A scholarshipsof $125 for the
semester was awarded to Melburn
Wahl Biddulph. This is an an-
nual award to a student interested
in accounting.
An award from the Ann Arbor
Board of Realtors was granted
to Eugene Wambold and one from
the Michigan Real Estate Asso-
ciation to Gerald Anthony O'Toole.
The general University scholar-
ships went to: John Anton Jans-
ma, Raymond Russell Talaska,
Melvin Herold Kennedy, Bobb
Murray Stevens, Peter Michael
Behrendt, JohnRichardson Mc-
Cormick, Donald Alfred Krueger,
Ruel Conrad Kahler, Arnold The-
odore Husick, Ralph Irving Sny-
der, Amato Contino, Dean Lynn
Baker, and William Earl Dean, Jr.
Appoint Fischbacb
At a recent ceremony in North
Hall, Frederick F. Fischbach, '52,
contract NROTC student, was ap-
pointed to the rank of Midship-
man, United States Naval Reserve.
Captain H. B. Wheeler, in the
name of Secretary of the Navy
'John L. Sullivan, administered the
oaths.
School Head'
Tries to End
Sports Tax
LANSING - (A)-- Dr. Lee M.
Thurston, state superintendent of
public instruction, started a cam-
paign for the lifting of Federal'
taxes on paid admission school
events yesterday.
At the same time, it was sug-
gested in the State House of Rep-
resentatives that a 10 per cent
State tax be imposed on profes-
sional hockey, baseball and foot-
ball games.
DR. THURSTON'S proposal
would principally affect such
school drawing cards as football
and basketball.
Ile estimated that $1,000,000
is collected annually in federal
taxes on school events in Mich-
igan alone.
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DR. THURSTON made public
a letter to inembers of the Mich-
igan Congressional Delegation in
Washington, in which he urged
the abandoning of Federal taxes
on admissions to public, parochial
and private school events.
"A Federal tax on admission
of any type of public school
event virtually is a tax upon a
tax since all such schools are
supported by State and local
taxes," he declared.
Y.P.'s Choose
New President
Gordon MacDougall has been
elected chairman of the Young
Progressives for the spring se-
mester.
Other new officers are Cal Lip-
pitt, executive secretary; Bob Law-
rence, corresponding secretary;
and Marilyn Shube, financial sec-
retary.
Elin Corbin was elected social
chairman; Flora Lewin, cultural
and educational chairman; Jack
Lucas, publicity director, and Sid
Bienard, Harriet Landy, Al Lip-
pitt, and Jack Barense, executive
committee members at large.
48-HOUR SERVICE
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per box
FOLLETT'IS
AN EYE ON ECONOMY:
Washtenaw Sheriff Requests
Lie Detector for County Jail
Would-be criminals won't stand
a chance if Sheriff John L. Os-
borne gets the Keeler Polygraph he
is asking for his office.
The Sheriff has asked the Board
of Supervisors of the county to buy
a Polygraph-better known as a lie
detector-to speed up procedures
now in use.
THE MACHINE would cost
$1,295 plus an additional amount
for the training of an operator at
the Keeler Institute in Chicago
and installation in a room in the
County Jail.
But the machine would reduce
lie detector costs to 15 cents per
suspect. At present it costs the
County $25 a head to get con-
vcts tested at the Lansing Police
SPECIAL OFFE
in PERSONALIZED STATIONERY
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Ileadquarters, and it takes up a
full day for two police and a
car.
The Board of Supervisors have
referred the request to its Sheriff's
Committee for action.
THREE AGENCIES are inter-
ested in the detector, the Ann Ar-
bor police and Ypsilanti police, in
addition to the Sheriff. Between
the three they took 90 criiminals
to Lanming last year.
The Sheriff submitited letters
from the Ann Arbor and Ypsi-
lanti police supporting his re-
quest.
If the machine is obtained it
would be the third in use in Michi-
gan.
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