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, * * * 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. * * * 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. #1 bic " lBJNo Bl4S . f , - OH, BOY! !5E r A T B S L S E V E if HELEN of TROY had had 'em- 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * , 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 at 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 I, I*n@* * 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. State Street at North University Dial 6363 With your name, address, town, and a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SEAL 60 Sheets and 40 Envelopes 1 See them in Detroit at J. L. HUDSON free booklet: "WARDROBE TRICKS". Write Judy Bond, Inc., Dept. I, 1375 Broadway, Now York 18 The Pause That Refreshes Andi t's Only Five Cents - ~ ~I~ A& m