EDITOR'S NOTE See Page 4 Y L Latest Deadline in the State l~Iati4a CLOUDY, COOLER VOL. LX, No. 41 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Ruthven Asserts 'U' Cost Too High Says Restriction of Education Will Lead to Federal School Controls By AL BLUMROSEN Daily City Editor Fees for Michigan residents at the University are too high, Presi- dent Alexander G. Ruthven told the 32nd annual meeting of the Uni- versity Press Club of Michigan last night. President Ruthven justified the changes made to non-resident students and said they may even be increased, but "only with due re- gard to possible effects on the composition of the student body." PROPERLY QUALIFIED in-state students have a right to attend publicly supported schools in their states, while for out-state students attendance is a privilege, Presi- * * * dent Ruthven told the 50 editors and reporters. Branding the movement toward higher fees in state sup- portedauniversities as, "Un- said that the trend would lead to "the more rigid restriction of advantages of higher education to the privileged groups." And this "will just as certainly lead to Federal subsidies and fed- ea ral control," he pointed ou "IDEALLY," HE SAID, "the state institutions of higher learn- ing should charge no fees to in- state students and the control of education should remain in the states." Preparation of youth for citi- zenship in a developing democ- racy should be accepted as a public responsibility at both pre college and college level, he as- serted. Using the University as an ex- ample of the trend toward higher, fees, President Ruthven said that in 1929, students contributed 20, per cent of the operating costs while this year they will pay 40 per cent. UP TO NOW, any courageous, reasonably ambitious and quali- fied boy or girl has been able to find or earn the funds necessary to finance a college career in state schools, President Ruthven said. * "We have come to the point where a student cannot be self- supporting because he cannot afford to spend the time neces- sary to secure the required funds." "Our country will always need all the trained minds that can be produced," President Ruthven stressed, "and ability of mind is neither directly nor indirectly re- lated to the financial standing of the individual." Newcomb Suggests IRA Check Views By JANET WATTS Prof. Theodore M. Newcomb, of the sociology department, last night asked the Inter-Racial As- sociation to look at its own atti- tudes in their fight against dis- crimination. "Racial prejudice is found among people on two levels: the peren- nial griper and the person who uses prejudice to satisfy personal frustrations," he said. * * * PROF NEWCOMB led the group in analyzing its own social norms in relation to the problem of dis- crimination. Members of the group felt that "possibly we get a per- sonal satisfaction in feeling that we are on the right side." In terms of this analysis, Prof. Newcomb pointed out that there is a wide conflict between those who wish to fight prejudice openly and those who want to let the issue alone." "I suggest that this group at- tempt to take an objective view of the discrimination problem. By objective I mean using our whole intelligence instead of emotional feelings in determining what is right." ALEXANDER G. RUTHVEN SWorld News Round- Up By The Associated Press MANILA - President Elipidio Quirino slowly increased his lead in Tuesday's presidential election to more than 258,000 votes, but has not yet claimed victory. WASHINGTON-The govern- ment yesterday approved export of 40,000 barrels of aviation gas- oline to Yugoslavia-the latest U.S. move to bolster Marshal Tito in his scrap with Russia's leaders. BOGOTA, Columbia-The Con- servative government clamped a heavy army and police guard on Columbia last night, calling for the Nov. 27 election to be held as scheduled. President Perez de- creed the state of siege Thursday after the Liberal-controlled Con- gress threatened to impeach him. * * * NEW YORK-Andrei Vishin- ski declared before the UN that the Soviet Union is using atomic energy for vast mountain build- ing and desert watering projects. Elsewhere, he accused the west- ern powers of trying to freeze atom bomb stockpiling to pre- serve America's lead over Rus- sia. * * * WASHINGTON-President Tru- man yesterday reaffirmed his de- votion to the bi-partisan foreign policy; declared he knows of no more atomic explosions in Russia since the one announced weeks ago, and said there will be no change in the price of gold. Steel Strike Ending Seen As Imminent Lewis Ignores Mediation Meet By The Associated Press The great 1949 steel strike ap- peared on the verge of complete settlement yesterday, but John L. Lewis snubbed government efforts to end the soft coal dispute. The nation's labor force, mean- while, see-sawed between a return to work in coal mines and steel mills and new layoffs on steel- starved industries. * * * THESE WERE the major devel- opments: 1-Lawyers for the giant U.S. Steel Corp. and the CIO United Steel-workers worked throughout the day polishing up a proposed pension and insurance agreement. The negotiating teams of the Com- pany and Union will study it today. One source who wouldn't permit use of his name said the agreement may be signed Friday. "It's the Bethlehem Agreement here, too," he said. 2-Lewis' 380,000 miners streamed back to the mines un- der a three weeks' strike truce, but the Mine Union Chief him- self failed to show up for a point coal operator-union conference in Washington. He sent a curt message to Federal Mediation Chief Cyrus Ching saying he would be there Mondaysinstead. Ching, miffed by Lewis' rebuff, replied he had other things to on Monday. 3-A shortage of steel hit the auto, electrical appliance and farm equipment industries. Sev- eral companies announced layoffs or production curtailments until steel supplies are built up again. *. * * THERE WERE indications that purely legal aspects were the only points left for settlement in the U.S. Steel Strike. There was a report that the Union had turned down a pro- posal of the Wheeling (W. Va.) Steel Company, which employes 12,500, because it failed to fol- low the Bethlehem Pattern. Lewis' exact whereabouts were unknown. He declined to say then whether he would attend Ching's mediation conference called for the following day. Chest Closes Solicitations Although today is the last day personal solicitations will be made for the Ann Arbor Community Chest of 1950, checks will continue to be accepted. Seventy per cent of goal of $151,000 has already been com- pleted, according to Paul H. Proud, Jr., chairman of the fund raising campaign. Of the University quota, more than 77 per cent has been collect- ed, Prof. A. F. Neumann, of the law school, has announced. Fraternities which have contrib- uted are Alpha Phi Omega, Zeta Phi and Sigma Chi. Contributing sororities are Alpha Phi, Delta Zeta, Kappa Alpha Theta and Al- pha Epsilon Iota. IDEAS WELCOME: Dean Kenis ton Suggests Student Ai on Courses Student participation in the improvement of the literary college curriculum was suggested by Dean Hayward Keniston yesterday. Declaring that the administration and faculty of the college would welcome constructive proposals from the student body on curriculum questions, the dean noted that it would be "fortunate" if there was some sort of organization to facilitate such expression. DEAN KENISTON'S remarks came in a statement he released on the grading philosophy of the literary college. The statement was in response to a series of letters to the editor which appeared recently in The Daily concerning the grading system in the College of Literature Sci- , ence and the Arts. The text of Dean Keniston's statement follows: "It is gratifying to find that a number of students in the literary college are interested in the kind of education they are getting. The evils in education that beset us to- day, mass grading, mass examina- tion, and mass accumulation of credits, are not peculiar to Michi- gan-they are the' inevitable out- come of our democratic system of mass education. And they have been rendered more acute by the bulge in numbers during the last four years. * * * "THE VERY FACT that we must provide a training program for students of every kind of interest makes it imperative that the indi- vidual student must assume a larger responsibility for working out his own educational salvation. "The rating of individual per- formance is a part of our Ameri- can competitive system, and all through life a man's perform- ance will be evaluated, no mat- ter what his profession or career. Not even professors can escape evaluation. "No one believes that a grading system can be anything more than a rough device for comparing the performance of one student with another's. And nothing in the sys- tem requires that the achievement of grades should be the unique or the chief goal of a student's ef- fort. "'The fundamental motivation of a student should be a real desire to learn. The effectiveness of this motivation is usually reflected in the grades which he receives in his courses. * *. * "NO COLLEGE CAN undertake to 'give' a student an education The most that it can do is to pro- vide him with opportunity and en- couragement in getting an educa- tion. To this end it can and should provide competent, even stimulat- ing teaching, personalized coun- seling, and adequate library and laboratory facilities. See STUDENT, Page 6 ro i - A'_,- BRITISH AIRLINER-Britain's Bristol Brabazon, giant 132-ton airliner claimed to be the world's largest, cruises over the English countryside. Taking five years to construct, it was built at an estimated cost of $24,000,000. The craft has eigh t 2,500 h.p. engines, a wing span of 230 feet and a fuselage of 177 feet. Small twin-engined plane above shows comparative side. TIop Lawyer Says Juries In Danger' By BOB VAUGHN Trial by jury is definitely in danger of being lost according to Mr. Edward N. Barnard, prom- inent trial lawyer. Speaking before the Michigan Crib last night at Kellogg Audi- torium, Barnard declared that "lawyers no longer have much voice in the election of jurors." * * * . "JUDGES HAVE taken over this responsibility" he told members of the pre-Law students society. "Today's practice of permit- ting a case to be tried with only ten or eleven jurors is endanger- ing the jury trial" he added. Stressing the importance of di- versified study, Barnard said that "an understanding of ballistics, medicine and engineering are es- sential to the lawyer of today." * * * "LAWYERS SHOULD have a knowledge equal to that of the man on the stand regardless of his occupation." Barnard stated that over-con- fidence, lack of sincerity and improper personal habits are detrimental to all lawyers. He emphasized the importance of observation in the court room. "A lawyer must remain con- stantly alert, watching every movement of the judge, jurors and adversary.'" Successor May Be Oscar L. Chapman White House Press Official Reveals Action 'No Surprise' to Truman WASHINGTON-RP)-Julius A. Krug announced his resignation yesterday as Secretary of the Interior amid signs that he and Presi- dent Truman had fallen out. Krug informed reporters that he was quitting about Dec. 1. A half hour after this word was given to newsmen, Krug's letter of resignation was received by the President. ALTHOUGH WHITE HOUSE aides said the letter was couched in "friendly" terms, they indicated that the President was displeased because Krug had given the news out before notifying him, Bias Clause Plan Stirnied In IFCMeet Measure To Go Before Houses By JAMES GREGORY IFC House Presidents last night tabled a motion calling for even- tual suspension of any campus fraternity that refuses to work for removal of bias clauses from its national constitution. Dick Morrison, '50, Chairman of the Interfraternity Committee on Discrimination, introduced the motion. He said it merely requir- ed houses to put some pressure on the national fraternities to re- move discriminatory clauses. * * * JAMES WELDON, JR., '51, Pres- ident of Kappa Sigma, criticized the motion, saying, "We are in effect admitting that there is something rotten in the frater- nity system, which I personally cannot see." A suggestion was brought up that IFC, to avoid further campus pressure on bias clauses, fight to remove zoning restrictions pre- venting Negro and Jewish frater- nities from building houses in cer- tain sections of Ann Arbor. * * * ADOULPHUS P. Thompson, Grad, replied to the suggestion. He is President of Kappa Alpha Psi, a fraternity without a house. "We Negroes are getting tired of hearing that you'll get us houses anywhere we want," Thompson said. "We'll be able to get a house where we want it when we have the money. "But you fellows are all missing the boat. Discrimination in this country is a bigger thing than you fraternities realize," Thompson warned. "Either you do want to pass this motion or you don't," Thompson declared. "Be above board about this thing. Don't try to fool any- body." Jake Jacobson, '50, IFC Pres- ident, explained after the meeting, "It is natural that the fraternity house presidents would want to table this motion, a big issue that's going to affect the fraternity sys- tem very much. They want to discuss the matter with their groups." Informed officials said they understood the President and Krug had not seen eye to eye on certain matters, including the method of obtaining Congres- sional appropriations for big reclamation projects in the West. There were reports that the President had sent "rather sharp" letters to Krug in recent months, complaining that the secretary was bypassing the Budget Bureau and going directly to Congress with requests for appropriations. KRUG'S SUCCESSOR general- ly is expected to be Oscar L. Chapman, Underspcretary of the Interior for 13 years. The 52- year-old Chapman is one of the longest-serving New Deal ap- pointees. He is a Virginia native who came here from Denver. Krug, now 41 and the young- est member of the cabinet, said to reporters, "I am leaving. I have been wanting to leave for a long time." Charles G. Ross, Presidential Press Secretary, disclosed that Krug's action was no surprise. "The President has known for some time that Krug has been considering this step," Ross said. KRUG IS EXPECTED to reenter private business. It is known that the Secretary has not been too happy about his job since the 1948 election. He was criticized by some party officials who contended he had not busied himself enough for Truman in the election cam- paign. Krug took his post in March, 1946, at the age of 38. He suc- ceeded Harold L. Ickes who split with Truman after the President's attempt to appoint Edwin L. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy. Williams Hit For Refusing Extradition Georgia Official Blasts Governor By The Associated Press ATLANTA-The Attorney Gen- eral of Georgia yesterday called Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams a violator of his oath and a turncoat on constitutional government. These and other similarly harsh views were expressed in a letter by Attorney General Eugene Cook of Georgia to his state's governor, Herman Talmadge. CQOK'S DANDER was raised by refusal of Williams t return to Georgia an escaped Ne- gro slayer, Sam Bearden, Thurs- day. William had said 'that "cruel and unusual punishment" in Georgia is in violation of the Federal Constitution. "It is apparent that Bearden was convicted under circumstances that in this state would have re- sulted at the most in a charge of manslaughter," the governor said. * * * BEARDEN WAS convicted on a first degree murder charge and sentenced to life imprisonment. He testified that before his escape he was subjected to "cruel and unus- ual punishment" and showed scars on his body to substantiate his story. Williams said that in refusing the extradition he was following the decisions of previous Michi- gan governors and of the gov- ernors of other northern states including Massachusetts and New Jersey as well as the Fed- eral Supreme Court. Georgia's Attorney General asked Talmadge to take up "this flagrant and unconsionable viola- tion of the principles of comity" with the Southern Governors' Conference in Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 21. * * * COOK POINTED to a U.S. Su- preme Court decision last Monday refusing freedom to another escaped Negro convict who, like Bearden, claimed mistreatment in Georgit. "Considering the fact that Mich- igan has been the scene of the bloodiest race riots in contempo- rary history, and the further fact that the Negro population in the metropolitan cities of Michigan is crammed into segregated and un- sanitary slums, it ill befits Gov- ernor Williams to accuse the State of Georgia of denying its Negro citizens 'fair treatment'," he wrote. houses Alter SL Schedule Several additions have been made in residence open houses for candidates. Sigma Phi, and not Sigma Chi as erroneously stated in The Daily, will hold its open house at 7:15 n im- Nrn 17 Rally Support Sought by SL 41 Student Legislature has issued an appeal for "token" donations for the last pep rally of the year to be held next Friday before the Ohio State game Nov. 19. Dave Pease, fund-raising chair- man, said that the support by the students could make or break the rally. "The Ohio State game will decide Michigan's fate in the Big Ten this year, and the rally may very well decide the margin of victory." * * * SL IS AIMING at a minimum of $2 from every residence division on campus, from fraternity to coop house, to raise the $75 neces- sary to put on the rally. Individual groups will be solicited. "All we need is a nickel or so from each student," Pease said. The Legislature, which has fi- nanced all previous pep rallies, felt that a rally is a service to enough students to warrant finan- cial backing by the entire student body. PARTIES LINE UP: Political Clubs To Enter SL Election Campaign Three campus political groups will enter the Student Legislature election campaigning with candi- date endorsement, but no group plans to run a complete slate. Young Progressives, Young Democrats and Students for Dem- ocraticaAction will take an off i- cial stand on individual candi- dates, chairmen of the groups re- only one member is a candidate but other students in the run- ning would be endorsed on a party line. Students for Democratic Action plans to support four candidates, all members of the local group, ac- cording to Dave Babson, chair- man. 'Tavntintr .Pnihlran mm t BUT CLASSES AS USUAL: Armistice Celebrations to Be Quiet Except for the veterans' services. Ann Arbor will celebrate a quiet Armistice Day today. erty St. but construction diffi- culties forced the delay in occu- nvi-rth -w nm The unique organization was formed after the first World War