DEFLATION See Page 4 Y Latest Deadline in the State Daii4 RAIN, CLOUDY VOL. LIX, No. 126 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Photo Finish Seen In Regent's Race Republican, Democratic Candidates Voice Replies to Daily Questions By DICK MALOY Daily City Editor Veteran political observers see a tight race in the April 4 primary for the two vacancies on the University Board of Regents. Republican candidates are Alfred Connable, Jr., of Kalamazoo and Vera Baits of Grosse Pointe Park. Democratic aspirants are Rosa Falk of Detroit and Joseph Arsulowicz of Grand Rapids, while the Progressive Party is entering Georgina Fields and Ruby Sweetnan. * * * * THE GOP INCUMBENTS are bucking a strong campaign being waged by the Democrats who are being given the active support of the CIO. If the CIO gets out a strong vote in the Democratic metro- politan centers they may well carry the election, experienced political writers told The Daily. In Michigan from four to six hundred thousand voters usually take part in a spring election. Of this amount about one third is expected to come from the large metropolitan centers which vote Democratic. Several weeks ago ,The Daily submitted a list of questions to the four major candidates for the Board of Regents. The questions are listed below and followed by answers of the various candidates. * * * * 1. What is the "platform" upon which you are running for election. ARSULOWICZ-I feel that my educational background, including six years spent at the University of Michigan, together with my public and civic activities since that time qualify me for service on the Board of Regents. BAITS-I interpret the oath of office to which I subscribed in 1943 to mean that a member of the Board of Regents . . bears a grave responsibility during the comparatively brief period of his The Daily will conduct a straw vote of some 1,000 students selected at random this week on their preference among the six candidates for Regent of the University. The results will be published in Friday's paper. service in the continuing life of that constitutional corporation. It is primarily the responsibility of helping enhance the University's posi- tion of intellectual leadership in the democratic way of life, in this nation and throughout the world. I stand committed to the preservation of the principle of free inquiry, dispassionately pursued, in all activities of the University's schools, colleges, departments and services. Attempted influence by individuals or pressure groups of any kind toward modification of this obligation on the University's part is not to be tolerated. CONNABLE-I believe that a candidate for regent should offer his personal qualifications rather than present his stand on issues. However, my record on the Board of Regents testifies to my sustained belief in the practice of and protection of the democratic way of life. Reluctantly I recognize we are a divided world. Totalitarian ideology must be answered. Our free schools must give the answer. FALK-Open meetings of the Board and accountability to the people of Michigan as to what is going on. * * * * 2. What are your views on the question of open meetings as opposed to closed meetings of the Board of Regents? All candidates were in favor of open meetings of the Board of Regents.' * * * * NCAA Swimr Titleto OSU e ents Okay Phoenix Project A~s M' Thied Verdeur Races To Medley Mark (Special to The Daily) CHAPEL HILL, N. C. -- Ohio State, still superb in the diving events, annexed the NCAA title here last night. The Buckeyes piled up 47 points, 20 of them in the diving, to finish 14 points ahead of second place Iowa. Michigan was third with 32 points, followed by Yale with 20. JOE VERDUER of LaSalle and Keith Carter of Purdue teamed up to provide the highlight of the meet once again last night, this time in the 150-yd. individual medley. Victim of one of the biggestj swimming upsets in history when he lost to Carter in the breast stroke Friday night, Ver- deur gained a measure of re- venge as he raced to a record- shattering win in the individual medley, but the victory was far from clear cut. Both men touched out at vir- tually the same instant, finishing so closely that the timers caught them in the same time-1:30.6- but the judges gave the verdict to Verdeur, precipitating a violent argument which ended with no change in the standings. THE TIME will stand as a new world's record for Verdeur, a sec- ond faster than Carter's still un- accepted record set at the Big Nine meet earlier this month. Charlie Moss of Michigan fol- lowed Verdeur and Carter across the finish line to take third. Wally Ris of Iowa, who was awarded the Swimmer - of - the- Year award before the final event in a totally unexpected decision bolstered his claim to the award by taking the 100-yd. free style, opening event of the final night's schedule. * * * RIS WAS timed in 50.4 sec. as he edged Michigan's Dick Wein- berg, winner of the NCAA 50-yd. title. Weinberg, who led the af- ternoon qualifiers with a 50.6 tim- See NATATORS, Page 6 Busch To Lead Symphony in ConcertToday Fritz Busch will conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at 7 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium for the final concert of the cur- rent Choral Union series. Verdi's Overture to "Louis Miller" will open the program, followed by Haydn's Symphony in G major, the "Oxford" Symphony * * * ALSO INCLUDED on the pro- gram will be Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn and the Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major. Guest conductor Busch has seen previous service with the Chicago Orchestra, having di-; rected the organization during the 1947 season and again last year during their summer con-j certs at Ravinia.I Busch first rose to fame as con- ductor of the Dresden Opera. Since his resignation in protest of the rise of Hitler, he has con- ducted throughout the world, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm. Tickets for today's concert will be on sale at the Hill box office immediately preceding the per- formance. Finance Program of $6,500,000 ACADEMY 'AWARD WINNERS-Film stars proudly clutch their newly acquired "Oscars" and grin broadly after the presentation ceremonies in Hollywood. On the left is Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who accepted two awards on behalf of Sir Laurence Olivier who was voted the best actor for his role of the melancholy Dane in "Hamlet" which also won the prize as the best picture of the year. Others are (left to right): Claire Trevor, best supporting actress; Jerry Wald, winner of the Irving Thalberg award for "most consistent high quality of pictures"; Jane Wyman, best actress; and Walter Huston, best supporting actor. Alies Move ToDivide Rhine Laud By The Assoiated Press The Western Powers said yes- terday they will slice off 52 square miles of Germany and give it to the Netherlands, France, the Saar, Belgium and Luxembourg. In all, 31 localities with a popu- lation of 13,500 are affected. The decision was made by the United States, Britain, France and the three Benelux countries. THEY MADE the realignment a provisional one to be confirmed or modified by the final terms of a German peace treaty. Allied spokesmen said the shifts were necessary chiefly to solve water- way, highway, rail and customs problems. Germans reacted bitterly. The announcement brought forth some of the most violent Ger- man denunciations of the Wes- tern Allies since the war. CAMPUS RAH-RAH: Poll Indicates Students Favor SchoolSpirit Revival Plans By AL BLUMROSEN series, does not have a scientific Freshman caps lost by one vote, basis. but the rest of Student Legislator Most enthusiastic response was Bill Gripman's plan for revival of given to the proposal for a fresh- school spirit, including a tug of man-sophomore talent show, with war across the HuronRiver; met 145 students for it and 40 against. with substantial backing from Eighty per cent of the freshmen students quizzed in a Daily poll. and eighty-six per cent of the Daily roundup reporters found sophomores quizzed were in favor that 154 of the 199 students con-o tacted favored some kind of pro- The vote on freshman caps gram to revive school spirit. Of was 100 to 99 against, with the students polled, 54 were fresh- freshmen opposedn24to 31, and men, 44 sophomores, 39 juniors, 26 upper classmen in favor by a seniors and 34 in the various small margin. graduate schools. A freshman-sophomore tug of * * * war across the Huron was sllu- Expectant Pop PITTSBURGH-(1P)-Timmy, the mis-named police cat, is ex- pectant again. It's the 33rd time. It will make 33 litters in 13 years. She's had about 160 kittens. The bobtail cat is the mascot at the Oakland Police Station. "Timmy's the best mouser in the country," said Safety Di- rector George E. A. Fairley. "Most of the kittens have short tails and they're in great de- mand." Conferees Deadlocked OnRentBill WASHINGTON - (P) - Angry Senate and House conferees on rent control legislation ended more than seven hours of debate last night deadlocked over what to do about rent increases. Senator Sparkman (D-Ala.) an- nounced the stalemate, butmwas optimistic about reaching a com- promise agreement tomorrow - just three days before the present law expires next Thursday. * * * THE GROUP agreed on a 15- month extension of controls through June 30, 1950. How to handle provision for possible rent increases was the only unsettled point in the com- promise measure, Sparkman re- ported. He said the House rejected a Senate proposal for percentage in- creases, and that the two sides were only one word apart on a compromise. The Alabama sena- tor said he and other Senate mem- bers of the joint committee were "shocked" when the House group held out. The joint committee will meet again tomorrow morning. The House members will convene sep- arately a half hour before the Senate-House group resumes de- bate. Ask T ruman- Stalin Meeting NEW YORK - (AP) - Demands for a Truman-Stalin talk to end the cold war arose at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace last night. T. O. Thackrey, editor and pub- lisher of the New York Post Home News, first voiced a demand for a conference "at the highest level, with both President Truman and Premier Stalin in attendance." S*. * AT THE CONFERENCE Henry Wallace said that Charles F. Ket- tering, research director of Gener- al Motors Corp., once gave him a "suggestive" book by a Russian author. He referred to a book on the "Origin of Life" by A. I. Oparin. The conference moved back to the Waldorf - Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue with two Canadian visitors absent. They were seized at a banquet last night and sent back to Can- ada. A third was allowed to re- main. Divide Funds For Buflding, Experiments Ruthven Reveals Research Plans The Board of Regents yesterday officially approved plans for rais- ing $6,500,000 for the Phoenix Project, University memorial to World War II dead. In a resolution, the Regents commended the "University alum- ni throughout the nation in volun- tarily assuming responsibility for the fund-raising campaign," plan- ning by the faculties and adminis- tration and the "eager and enthu- siastic support from the student body." * * * THEY ALSO disclosed how the money for the research center, which will be dedicated to the peacetime applications and impli- cations of atomic energy, will be spent. "Not more than $2,000,000", will be allotted to a building for atomic research, study and re- search in the social sciences, administrative offices, confer- ence and workrooms, a library and auditorium. The remaining sum of $4,500,000 will underwrite a program of re- search in the natural and physi- cal sciences, the social sciences, and an over-all administrative staff to coordinate and direct the program. AT THE same time that the Regents approved the fund-rais- ing campaign, to be headed by General Electric president Chei- ter H. Lang, President Alexander G. Ruthven revealed plans for atomic research "University-wide in scope." "Undoubtedly, the most ap- pealing features of the research to be undertaken in the new cen- ter will involve the use of radio- active isotopes in medicine, chemistry, botany, forestry, den- tistry and genetics, to name just a few," he said. Other important studies will be made in economics, psychology, philosophy, law, business adminis- tration, education and sociology, Dr. Ruthven announced. WIDE ENTHUSIASM among faculty members in the research is evidenced by more than 60 pro- jects being considered in the nat- ural sciences alone, he said. Student Heads Air Problems Representatives from a dozen Michigan College campuses will present the results of a two-day inquiry into the problems of stu- dent leadership to a Michigan re- gional NSA conference at 10 a.m. today in the Architectural Audi- torium. The delegates heard Prof Alvin F. Zander praise their efforts to define theproblems of campus leadership at a banquet last night. HE TOLD his audience that student legislative bodies face I many difficult problems today. Chief of these are the rousing of a united group feeling and student confidence in the campus organi- zations, he explained. "Student groups must con- stantly be on guard lest they deviate from the line of pop- ular opinion," Prof. Zander said. "Democracy on the campus de- mands extraordinary skill from the student office-holder. This, in turn, means that a worthy student leader must have a sound back- ground in the many procedures and problems with which he will have to deal." Student Petition Deadlines Slated Petitions for Student Legisla- ture seats and class offices are 3. Do you think University enrollment should continue to expand, remain at the present level, or contract? ARSULOWICZ--(This question) cannot be answered with any mathematical certainty. Whether the University expands or not depends on the need for higher edupation. No one should be denied the advantages of a college education because of a lack of facilities. At the same time, a university may get so large that the "campus touch" may be missing. The future of the University should be corre- lated with the development of all the other colleges and normal schools in Michigan to provide one unified program. BAITS-I think that the University must stand prepared to cope with present high enrollment figures, or even increased ones, as the course of events may enable more qualified applicants for matricula- tion to present themselves. CONNABLE-I do not believe there can be an arbitrary answer to this question. If there is the need and demand for expansion, the situation must be handled as it comes along. Ideally, I believe it would be desirable that the total University enrollment does not expand further. The emphasis should be one doing an increasingly better job with the 22,000 students already here. Yet qualified men and women should not be denied educational opportunity to the degree that they can profit by it. It may be that the answer to further enrollment expansion in the undergraduate schools is the development of the State's junior and regional colleges. FLAK-I do not think anyone is in a position to give an intelli- gent answer to this question until such a survey of the needs for higher education, as proposed by Governor Williams, has been made. - !nav well be that such a survey would indicate the need for curtail- ment of enrollment in the freshman and sophomore years and a corresponding need for using the University facilities to serve a greater number of students in the junior-senior years and in the professional and graduate schools. K* * * * 4. What should be the ratio between graduate and under- graduate students at the University? ARSULOWICZ-(This), question cannot be answered on a basis of mathematical ratios. Here again it is a question of satisfying the needs of the state. A survey should be made as to the demand for each classification of study at the University of Michigan Certainly the graduate schools should not be developed at the expense of the undergraduate school. One the other hand, there is a definite need for expansion of certain types of graduate facilities, such as the medical school. Many students are now denied the benefit of a medical education due to lack of facilities. This is particularly unfor- tunate, since there is a shortage of doctors in the United States. BAITS-This would, presumably, be a matter for exhaustive discussion in the University Senate, among the administrative officers and in the Board, with ultimate recommendations presented from the two first-named groups to the Board for the formulation of policy. I cannot presume to give an individual opinion. CONNABLE-The most desirable ratio between graduate and un- peroarnadte students at the TTniversit. it seems to m_ ngin dnnpnds THE POLL, third in a weekly World News Round- Up WASHINGTON - Veterans' pensions bounced back from a ported 123 to 64. Freshmen barely approved it by a 29 to 24 vote while second year students were solidly behind it, 31 to 3. THE PROPOSAL for a "Frosh- Scph Week" was backed 121 to 72 with sixty per cent of the fresh- men and two thirds of the soph- omores contacted, in favor of it. A bare majority of the juniors 1mau~ing' vesterdav andl headed 9for1rp hhii tl +hp n r,nnsp1- hi The Cabinet of North Rhine- another roaring fight in the House. two thirds of the seniors and Westphalia, the chief state affect- A call went out to the House graduate students favored the eel by the territorial change, said Veterans Committee today to re- week. the decision violated the Atlantic port for work on a new measure A large number of the stu- Charter and international law. Tuesday. dents contacted seemed to take * * * the whole thing in a humorous f ? +in .L'nma f 1h n h cf n IN WASHINGTON it was learn- ed that the State Department is arranging a meeting of the for-* eign ministers of the U.S., Britain and France to try and settle the big critical issues which are delay- ing final unification and economic development of Western Germany. The meeting is expected to be ! ANN ARBOR-tate attorney general Stephen Roth will ap- point a representative of his of- fice tomorrow to assist in the one-man grand jury investiga- tion of alleged forger and em- bezzlement in the Washtenaw County treasurer's office. Svein. Some of the opposition branded the plan as foolishness. Said one freshman, "It's okay for Ohio State, but Michigan-y never." Others commented that they had enough trouble getting along with their school work, or that the University was just too big for such a program. One grad- uate student said he liked the war time system, while two students who favored the plan blamed the veterans for killing school spirit. GENERAL FEELING of stu- dents who backed the various sug- See POLL, page 3 held in Washington within the LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--At leastj next 10 days. 14 persons were left dead and 83 British Foreign Secretary Bevin injured yesterday in the wake of and French Foreign Minister tornadoes and windstorms which Schuman will arrive in this coun- whipped through Oklahoma, Ar- try late next week for the signing kansas, Texas, Louisiana and Mis- of the North Atlantic Treaty. sissippi. THE MICHIGAN STORY: Dep-^-resio0 Wa-rea yu,# en Reform EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the ninth in a series of articles presenting the highlights in the history of the University of Michigan. Today's installment concludes the overall view of significant events, and fu- ture chapters will relatethesstories of the individual schools and colleges. By ROBERT WHITE Where each previous University administration had shown one central theme of achievement, the Ruthven administration still re- I Among the offices immediately mains an impressive achievement.! created were three vice-presiden- ** * I DR. R.UT1VEN had been asso- cies in charge of various broad ad- ciated with the University for some ministrative fields, and a director years preceding his election to the of alumni relations. In 1938, the Presidency-most recently as Dean first Provost was appointed-an of Administration-and undoubt- official to carry out certain presi-z edly had a better understanding dential functions.I of Michigan's problems and short- * * * comings when he entered office than did any of his predecessors. TO SOFTEN the old line of de- I There were other practical. re- forms and simplifications on every side-in the schools and colleges, in the administration, and even in such fields as alumni relations. BUT THE BEGINNING of Pres- ident Ruthven's administration was marked with something more than a TTniversitv reformo f un- tion's financial insecurity. There were drastic cuts in the school's income in 1932-33, followed by general-but cautious-trimming of expenses wherever it was pos- sible. Because of the considered and intelligent policy taken by the ad- ministration, the University com- munity as a whole weathered the