L HAPPY APRIL FOOLS' DAY aitr ran Latest Deadline in the State Dait~ CLOUDY VOL. LXII, No. 128 ANN ARBOR, MIHIGAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1952 SIX PAGES .It, * * * * * * * * * I Taft Faces Crucial Primary Tests Wisconsin Voters May Decide Fate Senator Makes Bid for MacArthur Votes in Heated Nebraska Contest By The Associated Press Sen. Robert A. Taft's presidential bid hangs in the balance today as more than a million Republican-voting citizens of Wisconsin and Nebraska step into polling booths to swing the pendulum. In Nebraska, Tafts' forces made an open bid yesterday for the votes of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's followers. WITH A MILLION-VOTE total forecast, Democrats in Wis- consin scrambled feverishly yesterday for their expected one-fourth share in a race where Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee is regarded as top runner. Damp weather predicted for all of Wisconsin could cut somewhat the voter turnout in a contest to name 36 Democratic and 30 Republican delegates to 4 * * * An Editorial.. . Today, everything is laid out for the convenience of the student electorate. There are 17 voting booths, comfortably placed under trees and the like, 114 can- didates for 49 positions, and three referenda-every- thing, in fact, to make the laziest student a voter. The candidates have done all in their power to make themselves heard. The referenda have gotten thorough discussions in the press and on various podia. The Student Legislature has printed ballots and enlisted the Union Ballroom for counting ceremonies on Wednesday night. It's all been done --all, that is, except the voting. This last point is one that obviously can't be taken care of by anybody but you-the potential voter. It's your job from here on in, to demonstrate interest in the SL, class officers, and the other boards, all organizations which are in turn ready and able to represent that interest for you during the coming year. -Chuck Elliott, Bob Keith, Len Greenbaum, Vern Emerson, Ron Watts, and Bob Vaughn April Showers. May Hurt Voting SL Officials Hope Half of Campus Will Turn Out for Two Day Election By HARLAND BRITZ Student interest and the weatherman hold the keys to the success of the spring all-campus elections scheduled for today and tomorrow. Student Legislature officials are hoping for a 7,848 vote, which would constitute 50 per cent of the student body, but the weather bureau has forecast cloudy skies with occasional showers, which may seriously hamper the polling. A peak temperature of 68 is promised. ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN candidates, in all, will be battling it out for the 49 student posts at stake. The largest field is in the race for the 22 SL seats where 38 candidates are in the running. The last two candidates elected will serveQ' * * * Party nominating conventions at x Chicago in July. Taft, buffetted by a defeat at the hands of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in New Hampshire and his own attempted withdraw- al from the April 15 New Jersey primary, is staking his position in the Republican presidential race largely on the Wisconsin outcome. He has said he will win 20 of the delegate contests there. Although Eisenhower is not on the ballot, former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota has offered to share with the general one- half of any delegate votes he wins there and a sla'te running for Gov. Earl Warren of California has said it will back Eisenhower if Warren can't make the nomination grade. Upward of 300,000 votes are expected to be cast in Nebraska if the weather continues clear and mild. Voters will choose 18 Republican and 12 Democratic National Convention delegates- but the winners will not be bound legally to vote in conven- tion for the winner of the popu- larity contest. The Democratic candidates in Nebraska are Sen. Kefauver and Sen. Kerr of Oklahoma. Kerr told a news conference yesterday he is now "an all-out candidate for the Democratic nomination for presi- dent." He indicated he will enter other primaries regardless of the outcome in Nebraska. MEANWHILE, in Washington, Sen. George D-Ga.) said yesterday he expects Vice-president Barkley to bid for the Democratic presi- dential nomination now that Pres- ident Truman has stepped aside. Speculation continues to mount in Washington on whether or not Truman is planning to put his support behind Gov. Adlai Steven- son of Illinois. Truman has spoken favorably of Stevenson, but there has been no public commitment of presidential support to anyone. Wilson Views Steel Walkout 'I . Four Campus Leaders Ask 'Vote Yes'y By VIRGINIA VOSS In a pre-election rally held last night in the League Ballroom, four campus figures strongly urged stu- dents to "vote yes" on the anti- speaker ban referendum on elec- tion balots today and tomorrow. The rally climaxed strenuous ef- forts of five campus political clubs to encourage affirmative support of the referendum. It reads: "Do you oppose the empowering of the University eture Committee to restrict any recognized campus or- garization in its choice of speakers and subjects." * s EXPRESSING his faith in stu- dent judgment, Prof. Hayward Keniston of the romance lan- guages department emphasized that "academic freedom should be no less than general freedom." In an attack against fear of Communism, Keniston estimat- ed that at most only one person in 1,000 is a Communist. "I doubt that the other 999 can be persuaded," he said. Another faculty speaker, Prof. Marvin Felheim of the English department, stated, "I doubt if truth can be discovered when cer- tain sides of truth are barred." * s * MORE THAN 100 students heard the speakears' arguments for free exchange of ideas. Students for Democratic Action President Ted Friedman, '53, cit- ed the organizational support the referendum has received as "as- tonishing." He saw the Lecture Committee and the Regents by- law it administers as repetitious of state laws Marge Buckley, '54, co-chair- man of Young Progressives, saw in the present situation the paradox of a school receiving appropria- tions to fulfill educational func- tions and then failing to carry them out. -:v n.....: : .v s r- ::":.. .......v;.::"a . rrm . { . .:: ::::,...:r. ..r.."i::;":{;!;r {rt '<;+i"'vv, .ff- ^:?4: YCr, 4. ,"r ... ...f . .... ;R ... >: .. .. . {., . r:: . . .. :=.:: v.. ..:'::'.":' ,.{b,.5,E ":Q S..:>F: ':z-r Ui : l i~:..:i::S~;iiii ~:. :.. 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