PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1953 _____________________________________________________ U I LIBRARY COLLECTION: 'Radical' File Unfolds Past * , * By GAYLE GREENE Though the University saw bit- ter exchanges over parades, pick- eting and ideological debates, the announcement in 1940 of loyalty oaths for State employes failed to arouse much notice according to an easily-accessible file of "Radi- cal activity" in the General Li- brary. Tucked into nine cream-colored folders in the library's main ref- erence room is a voluminous se- ries of clippings from The Daily, Detroit and Ann Arbor newspapers, an occasional bit from Time Mag- azine and the Nation, plus a hand- ful of both professionally printed pamphlets and more amateurish- ly mimeographed leaflets-all filed under the general heading: "Mich- igan U, Radicals." * * * THE FOLDERS tell a lengthy tale of cooperative bookstores, and boarding houses, of pacifist action and a variety of "isms" as re- viewed, extolled, denied or sub- jugated by the University in the last 18 years. Clipped unobstrusively into the file, the brief, concise news item on loyalty oaths which failed to 'arouse controversy in 1940, reported: "In compliance with a State Senate resolution University em- ployes have recently been com- pelled to sign affadavits swearing they are not members of 'any polit- ical party or organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of govern- ment'" Passed, on July 9, the resolution had just gone into effect at the University although many of the teachers had previously been re- quired to sign a similar teacher's oath. Nine years later, however, an Arbor News headline announced: "U-M Already Out in Front in Ousting Red Teachers." The ar- ticle said "Ruthven appeared to have gotten the jump on other college presidents when he an- nounced recently that he had required loyalty oaths at his in- stitution since 1941." This Ruthven scoop was revealed at the National Education Asso- ciation in Boston where a resolu- tion to ban all Communist Party members from teaching had been passed. * . NEATLY attached with mask- ing tape as the first item in the file are several clippings describ- ing the organization of a non- profit cooperative book store scheduled to open in 1933. Though termed "radical"~ in the thirties, no mention of any book exchange or such co-oper- ative venture in later years has rated a spot in the file of radi- cal memories. Similarly, an article in the De- troit Free Press, dated Nov. 4, 1934, which told how members of the Socialist House, a co-operative boarding house whose members paid two dollars per week for room and board and the Michigan Wol- verine where 20 meals per week cost $3.50 are the one clipping on co-op housing included in the Rad- ical file. * . * FROM speakers imported to dis- cuss "The Truth of the Radio City Controversy" over a Diego Rivera mural and the arrival of Tony Sender to address an assembly of "Communists, Socialists and Amer- ican Fascists in Radical Hall," the first in the series of folders goes off into the deluge of clippings, editorials and indignant letters which followed a May Day epi- sode in 1934. Members of the campus. Van- guard Club and the local Na- tional Student League had rent- ed a truck which was driven to a Detroit May Day parade by Rev. A. Lee Klaer, associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. According to a Daily clipping their attempt to "show solidarity with the workers" met with a rude shock when the workers failed to put in an appearance and left the students to conduct an im- promptu one-truck parade of the down-town district singing the "Internationale" and giving lusty cheers for the workers with an oc- casional interpolation of "The Vic- tors" amid thousands of pedestri- ans and police. The pastor told how students had been seized, searched and some actually thrown from the truck as police forced the group to disband and left the pastor to drive home an empty truck. President Ruthven called for an investigation and told re- porters: The Communist group here is small." The Free Press quoted the president as adding "I keep them here to amuse me." Amusing or not, the known par- ticipants in the much-publicized incident went before the Univer- sity Disciplinary Committee the -Daily-Don Campbell LOCAL WITCH HUNTS-A University coed intently studies the "Radical" file in the General Library, checking to see whether her blind date for Saturday night is listed as being involved in any subversive activity. * * *! next day. Although the students were said to be guilty "of regret- table immaturity of attitude," no action was taken against them. * * * AS THE presidential election of 1936 approached, The Daily par- ticipated in the usual poll fever. On Oct. 31, a report of a faculty poll showed 10 votes had been cast for the Communist Party candi- date, Earl Browder. A headline the following day read "Regent Seeks to Dismiss 10 Faculty Reds." Another re- gent defended the faculty "Reds," saying there "is no need for alarm in the fact that 10 out of 800 faculty members de- cided to vote for Browder." In April, 1937, several students were arrested on various charges, and the campus went up in arms. The Student Workers Federa- tion, affiliated with the Ann Ar- bor Trade Unions Council had led campus participation in a pin setters strike for higher wages at a local bowling alley. (They were aiming at a minimum wage of one dollar per day.) When Ralph Naefus (later killed in the Spanish Civil War and for whom the local student Commu- nist Group is named) addressed the crowd, he was arrested. An- other SWF leader who rose to speak was also arrested. * * * PRESIDENT Ruthven's com- mencement speech in June, 1940 issued a warning to students plan- ning to enter or return to the Uni- versity the next year, saying "Michigan welcomes only students who are convinced that democ- racy is the ideal form of govern- ment for a civilized people." A few days later 13 students were refused readmittance to the University. While a storm raged in Detroit papers and reports came over the Associated Press, The Daily car- ried no news of the expulsion until the end of June, when they print- ed a letter supporting the Univer- sity's action with a brief editor's note telling of an organized pro- test against the expulsion by mem- bers of the American Student Union. The Michigan Committee for Academic Freedom scheduled a meeting to protest the dismissal in Detroit. The meeting took the form of a trial, with several of the students under question- ing by a local labor lawyer as the prosecuting attorney. No one was on hand to represent the University. The crowd assembled at the meeting heard Prof. Jerome Davis of the New School for Social Re- search say "President Ruthven told me there was no such thing as academic freedom for students when I interviewed him a few days ago to try to secure an open trial for the students involved." RUTHVEN'S withdrawal of the Michigan Youth for Democratic Action and a subsequent contro- versy came to a head when * *, * the group, operating off-campus' brought Gerhardt Eisler to town. The group had secured a per- mit for Felch Park but later Mayor Brown rescinded permis- sion. With police waiting for mob action, Eisler and Carl Marzani by-passed the crowd and drove to the apartment of Ed Schaffer, MYDA leader. There in a room lit only by candles, Eisler held a press conference for about 150 persons. The Phillips-Slosson debate held off-campus in a State St. Cafeteria aroused a storm of publicity in 1950 and left 2,000 people jam- ming the streets in an attempt to catch snatches of the debate from inside the packed room. Bringing the file up to' date are a recent series of articles on cam- pus Communist activity by Daily Feature Editor Zander Hollander and several clippings which tell of the Velde investigation and the comment it has aroused. But the file seems to be more sparse over later years than it was in the thirties, ignoring letters to the Editor which are parallel to those which played sueh a promi- nent part in the earlier folders. Five Students Win Art Contest Prizes Five University art students came out on top in a Brochure Contest held recently by the Art Directors Club of Detroit. In competition with six other state colleges, the University walk- ed away with five out of seven awards. First prize of $100 went to Beverly Arble, '53A&D; second prize of $50 to Barbara J. Herri- der, '53A&D; third prize of $25 to James I. Bernardin, '53A&D, and honorable mentions to Barbara L. Wildman, '53 A&D, and John V. Reizian, '53 A&D. Ogden Nash To Present His Poetry Six years in a publishing house hardly sounds like a training course or an inspirational begin- ning for a prospective poet. However, it was during his stint at the advertising department of a publishing house that versifier Ogden Nash got the idea for his particular brand of poetry. * * * BEST KNOWN for "tripping the light fantastic" in verse through the pages of the Saturday Even- ing Post and other national maga- zines, Nash has also published more than a dozen books of poetry. Ann Arborites will have a chance to hear Nash recite a number of his "classics" and comment on the turn of events in his life that caused their crea- tion when he appears at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Hill Auditor- ium. Except for a brief tenure as managing editor of the New York- er in 1931, his life has been one long round of poetry and more poetry since the end of his ad- vertising career. For the past sev- eral seasons, he has combined lit- erary life with treading the boards of nationwide lecture platforms. Tickets for his local appearance will be on sale Wednesday and Thursday at the Hill Auditorium box office. Briton To Talk 0 ( On Economies "Britain's Struggle for Economic Survival" will be discussed by James Callaghan, a leader in Brit- ain's Labor Party, at 4:15 p.m. to- morrow, in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. First elected to Parliament in 1945, Callaghan has served as chairman of the Defense and Ser- vices Committee of the Labor Par- ty, and was Parliamentary secre- tary to the Ministry of Transpor- tation and the British Admiralty. Phi Sigma Society To Hear Lectures The Phi Sigma society will hold an open meeting at 8 p.m. tomor- row in the Rackham Amphitheater. Prof. Mark Nickerson of the pharmacology department will speak on the "Chemical Blockade of the Sympathetic Nervous Sys- tem," and John H. Taylor of the Engineering Research Institute will discuss "Studies in Central Color Vision." Livingston To Talk. James H. Livingston, Booth Traveling Fellow in Architecture for 1952, will give an illustrated lecture, "Modern European Archi- tecture," at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Architecture Auditorium. Livingston, speaking under the auspices of the student branch of the American Institute of Archi- tects, studied housing last year in western Europe. Events of the Week .a MONDAY- James H. Liviifgst(n, 19 2 :66th traveling Fellow, will lecture on "Modern European Architecture" at 4 p.m. in the Architecture Au'di- torium. James Callaghan, Labor member of Parliament, will speak on "Britain's Struggle for Economic Survival" at 4:15 p.m. in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. Phi Sigma Society will meet to hear Prof. Mark Nickerson of the Pharmacology College discuss "Chemical Blockade of the Sympathetic Nervous System." John H. Taylor of the Engineering Research In- stitute will speak on "Studies in Central Color Vision." The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. * * * * - TUESDAY- Prof. Emeritus Haven Emerson of Columbia University will lecture on "Some Problems of Drug Addiction" at 4 p.m. in the School of Public Health Auditorium. The Botany Department will sponsor an address by Prof. William Weston of Harvard University on "Points of Interest in the Fungi of Deterioration" at 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. * * * * WEDNESDAY- The Department of Journalism will present newspaper editor Edward Lindsay in an address on "Newspapers and Politics" at 3 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater. The speech department will present finals of the Detroit Free Press scholarship contest at 4 p.m. in Rackham Lecture Hall. The Stanley Quartet will give a concert at 8:30 p.m. in the Rack- ham Lecture Hall. * * * * THURSDAY- Prof. Tatsuji Takeuchi of Columbia University will speak on "Japan and the Two Worlds" at 4:15 p.m. in Rackham Amphitheater. The Oratorical Association will present author Ogden Nash in "An Evening, with Ogden Nash" at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. FRIDAY- A panel on "How to Teach by Discussion" will be presented at 3 p.m. in Kellogg Auditorium. The SL-Cinema Guild will present "The Ghost Goes West" and Walt Disney's "History of Aviation" at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Sat- urday and at 8 p.nt. Sunday in Architecture Auditorium. Scouts Given Vocational Talks U'F l1 "Undergrad" o. 1-SOLD OUT! "Undergrod" No. 2-SOLD OUT! 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More than 200 Boy Scouts from the Detroit area attended the Ex- plorer Vocational Conference held at the University yesterday. The conference was presented under the joint auspices of the, University Extension Service and the Detroit Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. * * * SCOUTS FROM Districts six and seven started the conference with a movie on vocational coun- seling. At a luncheon in the League the delegates were welcomed by University Extension Service di- rector, Everett Soop. Prof. Del- mont K. Bryan of the Educa- tion school addressed the meet- ing on "Choosing Your Voca- tion." The afternoon session consisted of group conferences between the boys and adult counselors repre- senting 15 professional fields. The conference concluded with a dinner at which the representa- tives were presented with certi- ficates in recognition of their par- ticipation in the conference. TRAVEL SERVICE 4 1 12-14 Nickels Arcade - Phone 2-3155 ....... 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