TIHE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, APRIL 2 POLITICAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Stormy Controversies Fill Prof. Wernette's Career By PETER HOTTON president of the University of In fact, the Regents met secret- Starting out right in the midst New Mexico. ly and started firing proceedings. of everything controversial in p01-. itics and business throughout his During his term as president, The president got wind of this, educational career is Prof. Philip the little college jumped in en- and told them "You can't fire a Wernette of the School of Busi- rolment from 924 to 4,491 stu- college president as you might fire ness Administration, who has once dents, almost 500 per cent. He add- a janitor." They held off for a more hit the limelight in the hotly ed a new pharmacy, law and bus- while, but got up enough nerve to contested Herbert J. Phillips in- iness administration schools to the let him go at the beginning of cident still raging on campus. university. "I didn't know I could 1948. * , , After having offered to debate work so hard," he said. Communist Phillips on "Capital- * * * THIS AFFAIR didn't appear to bother Prof. Wernette a bit. He ism vs. Communism," Prof. Wer- BUT PROF. WERNETTE was a came to Michigan the following nett was blocked in his efforts little too fastidious in his appoint- fall as professor of business ad- bytthe Unesity Lecuren Coin -ments, and carefully checked up ministration and director of the rmtes ,deisgon barring R on the qualifications of his ap- Bureau of Business Research. from debating on campus r pointees.Rusai Prf * * * While in Russia in 1933, Prof. BUT PROF. WERNETTE'S con- When he advertised for a new Wernette got a look-see into the troversial position doesn't start, tlaw school dean, the Regents, who Russian economic system, which and probably won't end here. Ad his improvements, he said "was backward then and pressured him with a man whoisbcwrno. former university president, eco- red h th nmb is backward now." nomic adviser and world-traveler, degrees he had and had been He added that the American he started with a bang on the stu-dershehdadhdbntdrdf mran dent newspaper of his undergrad- PROF. PHILIP WERNETTE disbarred in California.. Besides, standard of living, a median fami- dentnewsaperof is udergad-he was the son-in-law of a Span- ly income of $3,200, is still some six uate college, the University of . , . highly controversial ish vote-controlling politician, times that of Russia's. He predict- California. He held "practically * * * shed that "If nothing interfered with every position on the paper except years in South America and Prof. Wernette didn't take at economic conditions, such as wars society and art editors." Russia. During the war he all well to this pressure. Though or governmental meddlings, the After his work in the west, he worked as liaison officer for the the Regents' "favorite son" re- average United States family in- studied and taught at Harvard Office of Price Administration, signed, Prof. Wernette got no come wil grow in the next 50 years for 18 years, and served several and in June, 1945, was made thanks. to more than $8,500." World Problems Discussed in Panels (Continued from Page 1) removed, we have democracy and oligarchy," he said. * * * AN OLIGARCHY which is in- flexible will be able to supress but not to extinguish its opposition. It will lead to a revolution for de- mocracy, he said. Criticizing the political theory of the last 50 years as too con- cerned with descriptions of what has been said and done in the past, Prof. Easton declared: "Political theory cannot say what THE good political order is, but at the very least it can say what a good political order in the near future would be." * * '. PROF. ELDERSVELD emphasiz- ed that political research should employ scientific methods and dis- cipline, and that co-operation with other social sciences is essential for political scientists. Stating that "modern bureau- cracy presents no threat to estab- lished values," Prof. Smithburg said that the study of public ad- ministration should contain more emphasis on theory. "Absence of theory leads to a meaningless collection of facts," he said. Occupation ... True democracy within the oc- cupation system can not be rea- lized, Prof. Gerhard von Glahn of the University of Minnesota charg- ed at a discussion of occupation' policy. "Under occupation it is impos- sible to be completely democratic in our relations with the Germans; without occupation there is little chance that democracy would ever come to life there either," the for- mer member of the American mili- tary government said. * * * PROF. VON GLAHN expressed doubt that Germany will ever be- come a democratic nation, and said that weaknesses in our occu- pation policy have further lessened the possibility that -it might. , He listed these mistakes as ig- noring democratic elements in German society, allowing anti- democrats to creep back into government, bringing top lead- ers in -the occupation home too soon and not granting absolute civil rights German state con- stitutions. Passing over recent reports of a new German nationalism as press sensationalism, Prof. Von Glahn warned that Americans can not simply tell Germans to be demo- cratic and expect them to be so. * * * AT THE SAME meeting, Volk- mar Kahlert, correspondent for the Suddentscher Zeitung, now at the University under the State De- partment's cultural exchange pro- gram, asked for support for the new German press which he term- ed the most democratic institu- tion in Germany. Kahlert said that removal of the licensing German papers has given rise to numerous small, national- istic journals that threaten to wipe out larger but less well off democratic papers. Internationial Politics,. .. "Nobody loves the State Depart- ment because no real explanations are given to the people until a crises is reached," Prof. Arnold J. Kuhn, of DePauw University, said at a discussion of international politics. Prof. Kuhn made three sugges- tions for further state department policy: more long-range policies; better planning; more faith in the people. * * * IN A CONTINUATION of the subject of the State Department, Prof. Ferdinand A. Hermans, of the University of Notre Dame, said that appeasement toward Russia is useless. "Although any general discus- sion with Russia is futile, negotia- tions over any practical, immed- iate point is worth trying," he de- clared. Prof. Leon Epstein, of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, said nation- alization has not been favorable politically since the workers have not been very enthusiastic." "Nevertheless, British Socialism serves as an object of envy since it is a model of democracy and strong labor government," he said. * * State Reorganiation.. . The state legislature cannot af- ford to match departmental funds with the apparently inexhaustible federal supply, John°A. Perkins, assistant provost of the University declared at a discussion meeting of state reorganization. In the "new federalism," the state spends to its limit trying to equal federal aid to state projects, he asserted. PERKINS recommended more proportional representation of the legislators, based on population. "Few legislators feel vitally the effect of state services, such as the universities, because stu- dents come from the more popu- lous areas and the legislators from more sparsely settled lo- calities, he explained. A state manager, with functions comparable to a city manager's, was suggested by Lloyd M. Short, of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Survey Commis- sion. "IF THE CHIEF executive ,does not have the administrative know- how, then he needs some one who does at his right hand," Short as- serted. , Michigan has an appointed Commissioner of Administration -a position once held by Per- kins-but the commissioner has more limited power than the proposed state manager, Perkins added. A Perkins' outlined plans of the State Reorganization Commission to improve efficiency and economy and to strengthen direct popular control of state government. , Reorganization plans have been presented three times in Michi- gan, and have made some im- provements, such as combining overlapping departments, he said. j State Labor.. . State legislation limiting labor powers could have a drastic effect if it were enforced on a nation- wide basis, Prof. Charles C. Kil- lingsworth, of Michigan State Col- i lege declared at a discussion of state labor relations legislation. Prof. Rollin B. Posey, of North- western University, went along with the idea saying that legisla- i tors feel they have fixed a trouble- some situation when they have enacted a law concerning it. "THE FACT IS that often the administration does not want to enforce the law and the public feels satisfied as long as they - know the law exists," Prof. Posey noted. Prof. . Murray Edelman, of the University of Illinois, sug- gested that the wave of labor re- stricting legislation in the states that began in 1939 was due to protests of small interest groups such as agriculture against the growth of unions. The final panel of the three day conTerence will be held today when Ralph E. Himstead, general secre- tary of the American Association of University Professors discusses "Threats to Freedom of Social Sci- entists." 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