THE MICHIGAN DAILY BALLY-HOO WILL CALL YOU! Promotion People Prove Peskiest By We do PETER HOTTON everything from teas to * * * * * * * Anything for talking, elbowing, thre'atening or bamboozling their way into the shaky confidenceof anyone on or off campus who will do them a favor, is the battle cry of three of the peskiest men at the University. THEY'RE Cliff Rodgers, Tom Cramer and Neale Traves, only three of this year's army of pro- motions men ballyhooing every- thing from the Union Opera to selling a horse to Henry Kaiser. It's tea at the Leauge with campus dignitaries for one big campus gag, and it's tease for wangling black lace unmention- ables out of University women for their acts, displays and stunts that are constantly hit- ting the public between the eyes. "You have to keep agitating everyone you know or you won't get your product over," Rodgers said, explaining their technique. * * * ALL THE TROUBLE they go to usually pays off. "The way things are going with tickets for the Opera, we're going to have to sneak in," Traves quipped. On campus things are easy, Rodgers said, "but when you start promoting things out of town, the going gets rougher and rougher, so instead of work- big all afternoon and all night, we work 24 hours a day." And half the town knows all about it. If the trio isn't inter- rupted in a movie with a stunt, they find a subtle hint of this or that "colossal, stupendous cam- pus show" on their toast in the morning and in their beer at night. * * * THERE'S NO discrimination about whom they heckle, whether it be the president's secretary on how to give a tea or the auto plant at Willow Run for a broken- down stagecoach. Of course many of the tran- sactions cost a little something. But free or expensive, everyone seems to be willing to help them and have fun in the process. After a while, however, their victims reach a saturation point and, Cramer lamented 'We've gotten that 'unwanted' feeling every place we go." WHEN THEY get a new job they try judiciously to avoid the people they bothered at first. But some people they can't avoid. They're the editors, business managers, reporters and ad writers for The Daily, Ann Arbor News, University News Service and all the Detroit papers. "It's these people that are our life blood, and you have . to treat them gently if you want to get something out of them," Cramer said. * * * WHEN THEY'RE not hounding the life out of someone at the weirdest hours of the day and night, they're dreaming up some- thing new to spring on the un- suspecting public. They don't seem to have much trouble fitting some of the foot- ball players for the chorus in everything from dainty size 12 shoes to hand-made falsies. "Not when you have friends of friends," Traves confided. So when you pick up a towel or cup of coffee and see some- thing about "See This!" or "Hear That!" or "DON'T FAIL TO GO TO THIS HERE," you'll know that one of the species known as promoters was there before you. Ice Rescue LANSING - (P) - A Haslett man who learned life saving in high school saved a fisherman from drowning in Park Lake near here. John Harden, 38, of Park Lake, broke through the ice while re- turning from a fishing trip. Harold Ray and several neighbors living; nearby shoved a ladder out on the ice and fished Harden out of; the water. -iJaiy-burt bapowitcfl PESKY PROMOTERS-This trio of the vast species on campus known as homo promotus, are engaged in their favorite pastimes: left to right, Cliff Rodgers, threatening; Tom Cramer, demon- strating; and Neale Traves, commanding the hapless night editor what, where and how much they want in The Daily to ballyhoo their current project. with DOLORES LASCHEVER Germans Not Convinced by Democracy' Job Shortage Is Blamed by Huber By PAUL BRENTLINGER German young people are not convinced that democracy is the "right way" because they have never really seen democracy at work, according to Hans Huber, a member of the Heidelberg city council. Huber, who also is a county judge in Mannheim, is one of seven German legislators current- ly visiting the University as part of the State Department's cul- tural exchange program. * * *, PRESENT-DAY economic prob- lems brought about by the war and the post-war occupation of Germany - have been a major cause of German youth's lack of appreciation of democracy, Huber declared. "An acute shortage of jobs for college trained young people has discouraged German stu- dents very much, he added. This lack of jobs was caused largely by the effects of the war, along with the over-crowded con- ditions in western Germany, ac- cording to Huber. * *.* "WARTIME BOMBING practi- cally destroyed most of Germany's cities, along with nearly all her industrial facilities," he said "and the policy of destroying facilities for making war materials has also seriously hindered the rebuilding of German industry, thus making the employment problem even worse." The German college student, having grown up in an atmos- phere of authoritarian govern- ment, has thus found his first contacts with government by democratic nations to be rather unpleasant," he noted. "These students naturally make comparisons between present-day conditions and pre-war condi- tions," Huber said. "Unfortunate-1 ly, the present doesn't look so good in the light of such com- parisons." * * * HE ADDED that "the natural tendency is for young people to blame the democratic nations for such conditions. They therefore wonder how democracy can be such a good way of life." Huber praised the State De- partment's cultural exchange pro- gram as one of the best ways to acquaint his countrymen with the virtues of democracy. Case Clubs List Winners The Case Clubs of the law school. have announced the semi-finalist winners for the junior class com- petition and designated Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as the dates for the freshman class fin- als. Winners for the junior class competition are Lawrence J. Full- er, William Milligan, Charles Myneder and Theodore Troff. The finals for these students will be held May 2. Freshman class finals will pit 12 men against one another at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the Practice Court Room at Hutchins Hall. :k -Daily-Alan Reid STUDENT PHOENIX LEADER-Mary Lubeck, '51, chairman of the student Phoenix Drive, leafs through a campaign poster pad at his desk in the Phoenix Drive office. Lubeck eats, sleeps and drinks Phoenix Project about 24 hours every day. * * ,, * - Lubeck Lives Phoenix Project 'Roundsthe Clock 4 4 Multi-Duties Doom ERP, Woods Says European Recovery Program is doomed to failure as long as Con- gress insists that it help Europe, defeat Communism, and under- write the American economy, at the same time, Prof. Elsworth P. Woods of the political science de- partment of Western Michigan College said yesterday. Speaking before a meeting of the political science and history club on "Problems of European Aid Program," Woods stated that ERP difficulties are due to the congressional pressure groups that rewrote the law. "POLITICAL GROUPS such, as the Maritime, steel and farm lob- bies; combined, with legislators, who admitted knowing nothing about Communism, and insisted that ERP become a political and economic weapon of the Ameri- can people are responsible," Woods stated. "Truman's original message to Congress clearly stated that ERP was meant for European economic recovery only. "But in running the gauntlet of Congressional approval, a very different three fold objective ap- peared, which went over and above economic aid," Woods asserted. "Probably the entire issue was based in a bi-partisan foreign po- licy, whose existence was ques- tionable, coupled with the fact that the president was a Democrat and Congress had a Republican majority," Woods felt. IC Discussion "The Role of Poland in Eastern Europe" will be discussed at the weekly roundtable at 8 p.m. today at the International Center, fol- lowing a typical Polish dinner prepared by students of the Po- lonia Club. Latest in the newsslanting trial of G. A. Richard is Sen. Harry Bridges' charge that the radio owner is being "singled out for a Federal hearing because he is an administration critic. Richards, owner of WJR in De- troit, KVIPC in Los Angeles and WGAR in Cleveland, is being tried in Los Angeles for advising mem- bers of his staff to present the Roosevelt family unfavorably in the news. * * BRIDGES (R-N.H.) charged that the Federal Communications Commission "at the request of James Roosevelt has invoked sel- dom-used powers" against Rich- ards, whom he described as a former New Deal supporter who broke with the party in 1940. The Republican Senator be-I lieves Richards is being "singled1 out while other station opera- tors are given complete free- dom to support the party line of the Administration in violation of the Communications Act." It is logical to assume that al- most any political party in of- fice would neglect to complain about news broadcasts slanted in their favor. In fact, they would probably ignore newsslanting pro- pensities unless they were struck by the one-sidedness of the broad- casts-the wrong-sidedness. This is not the point. It is true that Senator Bridges is a " Republican and it is rea- sonably correct to assume that Senator Bridges would not com- plain were the case reversed. * * * BUT THERE IS a bigger issue at stake. According to reasonably re- liable surveys, the radio is the most popular method for the swift-moving modern Ameri- can to acquire his news. It is brief, to the point, less imper- sonal than the newspaper and if he wants an interpretation of the day's happenings he has only to turn the dial. But the important thing is that if this is the ONLY way many Americans get their news - and Litchield To T alk Prof. Edward H. Litchfield, of the public administration depart- ment at Cornell University, will give a University lecture, "The East-West Conflict in Germany," at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Rack- ham Amphitheatre. this seems to be the case - the radio as well as the newspaper has an obligation to present the news as factually and as honestly as possible. * * * THE RADIO should not be a vehicle for political parties or sympathizers of political issues to voice their opinions through care- fully chosen words or vocal im- plications under the guise of ob- jective news reporting. Only if a political speech is announced as such or if. a news broadcaster is called a "commentator" is this right recognized. Actually, it is not Richards who is on trial. More, it is a question of whether the current Admini- stration should sanction a pro- administration news broadcast and not an anti-administration one. The issues at stake are - or at least should be - the presenta- tion of news fairly and squarely against the right of any station owner to slant that news politi- cally or otherwise, intentionally or unintentionally. 4; 4 .,J { A By JOHN DAVIES "I live the Phoenix, Project 24 hours a day and enjoy every min- ute of it," Mary Lubeck, '51, chair- man of the Project's student drive, said contentedly. There is ample evidence to sup- port his working hours claim. * * * MARV SPENDS every weekday afternoon at his desk in the Phoe- nix Project office in the Adminis- tration Bldg., as well as two morn- ings a week and very often Sat- urday mornings to boot. The 21-year-old junior from Cleveland doesn't consider it a full day unless he has held two or three conferences with stu- dent Phoenix leaders, about the same amount with alumni Phoe- nix leaders, explained the Pro- ject's aims to a dozen or so inter- ested persons who happen to wander into the office, and pol- ished off a husky pile of paper work in the spare moments. "I believe in the Phoenix Pro- ject deeply," Lubeck said., "This belief has developed over a period of several months during which time I've studied it thor- oughly and gained an insight into it," he continued. This insight, Lubeck explained.- is based on trying to look into the future objectively and considering what will happen when the Proj ect is set up and running at high speed. to teach people not to be afraid of the atom, not to think the atom is inherently bad," Lubeck comment- ed. When the Phoenix Project is reverted to the back portions of his mind, Lubeck admits he is addicted to reading detective stories. Concerts, lect~ures and movies -especially movies-are his other favorite pastimes. Lubeck is not certain what he hopes to do for a living-"Maybe it will be fund raising," he re- marked, jokingly. Mar has been member of the Student Legislature for a year. He is also former president of Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honor society, former prexy of the Cleveland club, a member of Sphinx and former vice president of his fra- ternity, Pi Lambda Phi. LUBECK SAYS the part of his Phoenix work he has enjoyed most is talking on the Project before such groups as the National Exec- utive Committee and Panhel. "I'm not naturally a good speaker," he admitted, "but when k talk about the Project, sorething takes over, and I seem to instill the audience with some of my enthusiasm for it." beck added. "They are all doing the best- job possible.'" "If things continue as they have, I have no fear that the Project will fail to meet any goal," he said "I really enjoy working with the student executive committee." A I 4 t r a i - i- i TRY OUR EVERYDAY CHEF SPECIALS from Soup to Dessert $1.50 ALLENEL ,. SL Candidates Inaugurate SpringElection Campaigns A q (Continued from Page 1) candidates include Thomas Auch, Harry Criel and Robert Erf for president; and Judith Davies and Ronald Foulds for secretary. Candidates for the Athletic Board seats are Paul Anderson, Bill Konrad, Jerome Segal, Don McEwen and Jim Scala. * * * AMONG THE 59 Student Legis- lature candidates are David Bai- ley, '51, Pris Ball, '51, Gene Bohi, '53, Margie Brewer, '52, David Brown, '51, Phyll Butterfield, 51Ed., Marty Chandler, '51A&D, Doug Cdtler, '52, Tom Dudley, '53, Bill Eggleston, '52, Jim Fitch, '51, Hugh Fleetwood, '50, Chuck Good, 52E, Hugh Greenberg, '51, Adele Hager, '51, Jack Howner, '51, and How- ard Hartzell, '51. Other SL hopefuls include Jack Hetkkenea, '52F&G, George Irving, '51, Charles Jaquith, '51, Henry Jarethi, '51, Morris Katz, '51, Jan Klein, '51, Jeff Knight, '51, Allen, Krass, '52E, Jerry Kremer, '52, Diana Lehde, '51, Ted Laird, '51E, Arlene Lange, '52E, Barry Levey, '52, Ray Litt, '52E, Paul Malkus, '51, Leah Marks, '52. Bill McIn- tyre, '51, and Doris Hellekey, '52Ed. The list continues with Jim Moran, '52, Al Murphy, '51, Jim! Nesbitt, '51, Len Newland, '52, John Osmundson, '51, Spence Par- sons, '51, Jay Pike, '51, Alex Popp,1 '51SM, Nancy Porter, '52, Ed Rei- fel, '51, Jere Rich, '51, Loretta Roche, '53, George Roumell, '51,! Herb Ruben, '51, Robert Schemm,' '51, Judith Sinclair, '52, Audreyl Smedley, '51, Jim Storrie, '51E, and Dallas Turley, '51. Other SL candidates are Henry Tyson, '51, Hal Ward, '52, Spiderl Webb, '52, Richard Webber, '52E, and Leonard Wilcox,, '52. "ONE OF THE Project's important benefits will be, I most hope, 1 II- .. . 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