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for Business Recovery
By SAM DAWSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
NjW YORK-Plans to get a business recovery off the launching pad
run largely today to three types of economic fuels:
1) Easier credit to make borrowing at business and consumer
leavels attractive.
2) Increased government spending to restore a bit of the late
Wfliationary zip.
3) A possible tax cut to give consumers and maybe business, too,
More wherewithal to buy the goods that manufacturers have the
over capacity to produce.
These efforts aim at offsetting the deeper causes of the present
slump: leveling off of consumer spending and borrowing to buy, especi,
6. 1958.
NIGHT EDITOR: RICHARD TAUB
Suggestions for an Improved
Literary College Curriculum
[BERAL ARTS education should, as much
s is possible, serve- to prepare a student
Iderstand and control himself and his
onment, to contribute to the society in
Z he lives and to bring home the bread.
these goals in mind it is interesting to
b through the lit school catalouge-as
of us have been doing of late-to see if
a liberal arts educational program is
d to students or if the form in which it is
d could be improved.
appears revisions could be made in the lit
1 menu that would better prepare students
derstand and contribute to their society.
nost serious shortcoming is the unjusti-
preoccupation with things European and
ern, a malady of our intellectual life which
er Lippmann laments in today's column.
"English" majors are given almost an
sive diet of English literature, almost as
s literature alone had right to claim the
of literature. The offerings in Slavic and
Eastern literature are very few and are,
ded mainly'for area concentrates.
Fine Arts, we could find no courses con-
d either with Slavic or with Black African
History we could not find a course on
3 Africa, though historical claims are im-
nt factors in understanding contemporary
an nationalism, especially in Ghana. The
ry Department can be used to make
ier general point. Though non - United
s, non-European geographical areas may
e attention when you take advanced
es, introductory courses; beyond which
students do not go, are concerned pri-
y with things Western. That is, Political
ce 11 considers modern government using
Jnited States as the case in point; Eco-
es 51 and 52 essentially considers United
s capitalism, by no means the prevalent
>mic system of the world; and Fine Arts
rer peeks at a Japanese print. Likewise,
ry 11 and 12 hardly mention Ghengis,
i or touch the long history of China or
might be added that, although there is
ed a course in modern Scandanavian-a
age of perhaps 25 million people-there
Drs to be no offefing of Hindi, virtually the
nal language of 375 million Indians. And
there is a course- in scientific German,
is no such course in scientific Russian,
the scientific superiority of the Soviet
n is a conceded fact at the present. And
t might be suggested that there be a course
omparative religion so that Americans
t speak in knowledge and appreciation of
eligions of so many foreign peoples.
THE SECOND MAJOR shortcoming in the
menu is the lack of courses that would
facilitate an understanding of contemporary
issues and events-that is, preparation that
would help students to thoroughly understand
the front page of a newspaper. In regard to
social issues, perhaps a Great Issues of the Day
course like that offered at one eastern college
would fill the void. In regard to scientific and
technical events which confront every layman'
in so many current social areas, perhaps a
General Science course like that offered at
many colleges would be of more value than the
existing arrangements. If the- 12 hours of re-
quired natural science could be devo.ted to a
course that would teach the non-science major
enough physics to understand the potentialities
of fusion, enough astronomy to understand the
promise and problems of space travel and
enough chemistry, biology, geology, etc. to
understand thpir importance in today's world,
the lit school may have better fulfilled its
tasks.
This integration of the natural sciences for
non-science majors brings up the third major
criticism of the lit school program-the lack
of cooperation between the departments in
integrated programs available to most stu-
dents. That is, the student has some difficulty
in connecting the knowledge he gathers in
different departments into a meaningful whole.
Though Fine Arts, History, Political Science,
Economics, Geography and Psychology are all
interdependent and inter-influenced, they are
taught essentially as separate entities. and
taken by students at haphazard times during
their four years. It seems careful considera-
tion should be given to such a multi-hour
course like Great 'Civilizations as taught at
Columbia where the history of civilization is
traced considering the roles played by the
different disciplines. Lecturers are drawn from
their areas of competence.
One last problem is the duplication present
among the different departments. Thus, nu-
merous cases arise as in the Political Science
department and the Philosophy department,
the former offering The Politics of Totali
tarianism and Democracy, the latter offering
Philosophical Bases of Communism, Fascism
and Democracy, neither being much different
in subject matter.
In fairness, one must say that the lit school
has done, all in all, a competent job of shaping.
the curriculum to fit the times and needs of
education. But, in the areas mentioned, some
fat could be eliminated and some lean added.
--JAMES ELSMAN JR.
Editorial Director
* WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
O FAR IT'S BEEN the Republi-
can members of the Moulder
FCC Investigating Committee who
have voted solidly, steadily, and
unanimously against doing any
deep-rooted investigating, to pay
for which they were voted a quar-
ter of a million dollars. That quar-
ter of a million has now been
spent and the preliminary evid-
ence is at hand.
Reluctantly,, the Republicans
were forced by the pressure of
public opinion into a probe of
free color TV sets and free travel
for FCC officials. However, the
TV scandals go much deeper. And
if the Republicans are afraid'of
stepping only on Republican toes,
here are some Democratic toes
they can also steponr:
* * *
TOE NO. I--Jimmie Byrnes of
South Carolina. Jimmie, who has
long been known as "Mr. Demo-
crat" of the Southeast, was Secre-
tary of State under Truman,
Supreme Court Justice u n d e r
Roosevelt, a Democratic senator,
congressman, and war mobilizer.
With this prestige behind him, he
sent a letter to the United States
Court of Appeals, urging speedy
action on WSPA, a TV station
near Spartanburg, S. C., in which
his wife owns stock.
As a former Justice of the high-
est court in the land, Jimmie knew
it was unethical to write such a
letter. Yet he wrote it to the late
Chief Judge Harold Stephens, on
behalf of his wife's station. The
Court of Appeals, however, held
against Mrs. Byrnes and Jimmie's
long-time friend and associate,
Walter Brown, on two different
occasions. Despite this, the Fed-
eral Communications Commission
three times supported Mr. Demo-
crat's wife and friends in per-
Locrats Pull FCC Wires
By DREW PEARSON
mitting them to switch their TV
antenna from Hog Back Mountain
to Paris Mountain, despite the
fact that this knocked one UHF
station out of business and gave
unfair competition o a second.
Toe No. 2-- Se A. Lyndon B.
Johnson of Texas. Mrs. Johnson,
a lovely lady, is head of the LBJ
Co., which owns one radio station
and two TV stations in Texas. Her
husband's prestige didn't hurt her
at all in getting them, and she was
paid in the past $25,000 as board
chairman, which the income tax
agents questioned on the ground
that she couldn't operate the sta-
tions in. Texas while living in
Washington with the Senator. This
was settled in her favor, which,
however, is not the paint the
Moulder Committee should in-
vestigate.
* * *
THE POINT to be investigated
is how the Johnson family got its
first big TV license, KTBC-TV, in
Austin. Any investigation will re-
veal a whole series of so-called
"quickie" grants to the Johnsons
and many others, put across under
FCC Chairman Paul Walker, a
Democrat, when the Democrats
dominated the FCC.
These "quickie" grants were one
of the most unfair developments
in the telecasting business. Among
other things, they helped put UHF
television almost out of business.
And the UHF part of the TV spec-
trum is where a lot of TV licenses
can be granted, instead of a few
big semi-monopolistic VHF lic-
enses.
What happened was that when
the FCC unfroze television after
the war, a TV applicant would get
together with a competing appli-
cant, buy or persuade him out,
then file a new application at 5
p.m., just a few minutes before
the FCC closed for the day. Then
at 10 a.m. next day, there being
no competition, the FCC auto-
matically granted him a license.
If he had filed at 3 p.m. instead
of 5 p.m., he couldn't have got
away with it. Because other attor-
neys would have seen the new,
non-competitive application and
would have filed a competing one.
Toe No. 3-Mrs. Oveta Culp
Hobby. Nominally, Mrs. Hobby is
a Democrat. True, she held office
under Ike, but she was uncere-
moniously kicked out; so Republi-
can congressmen who are shying
away from any embarrassment of
the Eisenhower Administration
should not hesitate to probe the
manner in which the FCC gave
Mrs. Hobby's TV empire one-third
interest in a TV station in Beau-
mont, Tex.
THE HOBBY family, which
owned KPRC and KPRC-TV in
Houston, plus the Houston Post,
was originally turned down by the
FCC for a TV station in Beau-
mont. Then suddenly the FCC did
an unusual thing. Politics reared
its head. A rehearing was sched-
uled.
In only one other political case
had the FCC ever reopened a deci-
sion already made. But with un-
usual forces working behind the
scene, it reopened this one, and
after the new hearing was sched-
uled, the Hobby family paid $55,-
000 for one-third interest in the
Beaumont Broadcasting Co., and
eventually got the blessing of the
complacent and politically minded
FCC.
The deal smelled so bad that at
one point the Court of Appeals
threw it out, but the FCC still
ruled in favor of the Hobby group.
(Copyright 1958 oy Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
ally of durable goods: and the
drop in business spending for
capital goods plant and equip-
ment and for inventories.
The counter moves also attack
the two things blamed by some for
triggering off the recession--tight
money and the economy wave in
defense ordering and spending.
* * *
THE FIRST two are being tried
now. Credit is easier, if only at the
financing level-that is, interest
rates are down, although bankers
contend that so far they actually
have very little more funds to
lend than before.
Federal government ordering for
defense is already up and spending
will rise as the goods are delivered.
State and local spending is rising.
A tax cut is being talked of as
a possibility only if the business
recovery doesn't launch itself by
April.
Meanwhile, most figures coming
in each day just add up to a clear-
er picture of how deep the dip has
already gone.
Total unemployment continues
to' rise with a turning point
thought to be six to 10 weeks
away. r
JANUARY auto output was the
lowest for that month since 1954.
Steel production is far below that
of a year ago.
Oil companies have various gas-
oline price wars on their hands.
Cotton textile mills have cut out-
put and sliced inventories but
prices are still weak.
Business spending for plant and
equipment and inventories is well
below peak.
The steel industry has spent 10
billion dollars since World War II
to build up a huge capacity, al-
most half of which is lying idle
today.
Oilmen are soft-pedaling their
expectations for 1958. Consumer
demand for their products has
been disappointing. Profit margins
have been shrinking while inven-
tories haven't.
All this can change by April, as
many in Washington say they ex-
pect. If itadoesn't, the direct pump
priming moves of tax cuts and
bigger federal deficits may be tried.
Exchange
BACK FROM an averseas vaca-
tion, Washington's gregarious
Democratic Senator Warren G.
Magnuson brought tidings to a
private Seattle luncheon of a droll
exchange between himself and
Pope Pius XII.
At the end of an audience with
His Holiness, the senator, having
been tagged as a Lutheran, was
about to leave. He clutched a box
containing a rosary, a souvenir of
his visit.
The Pope asked him to tarry a
moment and asked: "Did youlook
at what is in the box?" Magnuson
allowed that he had peeked.
Quipped the most urbane of
modern pontiffs: "Sometimes,
when I give them to Lutherans,
they're emptyl"
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
x New Paths
By WALTER LIPPMANN
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1958
VOL. LXVIII, NO. 16
General Notices
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Michigan Memorial - Phoenix Projet
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Administrative Secretary, Mrs. Calla-
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Summary, action taken by Student
Government Council at its meeting
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vious meeting. Appointed: stan Levy te
SOC Evaluation sub-committee. Post-
poned action on recommendations for
appointments to Membership restriction
study committee. Established date for
spring elections as March 25, 26. Ap-
proved activities as follows: Feb. 15, Ga.
lens, Caduceus Ball, Union, 9-1 a.n,
Feb. 14, 15 Ukranian Student Club, Sym-
posium "A Critical Analysis of the Sov-
iet Education System," six lectures: 13
Ukranian Student Club, Ukrainian Ball.
Rackham, 8 p m. and 22 Michigan Un-
ion "Jazz at Ann Arbor" show, Hill,
p.m. The following activities were cal-
andared March 37, Michigan .Union
Union Madness and March 8 Jr. IFO,
Jr. Panhellenic, dance. Change of date
for Military Ball from March 7 to Mar.
14 was approved. Assembly Ball, previ-
ously calendared for March 8, was
dropped. Adopted statement relating
to final examination policy, Approved
Forum program, John Gate., speaker
(speaker subject to approval by Co-
bmttee on 'University Lectures).
Lectures
United Nations Lobbyist. Dr. Elton
Atwater, will speak Informally durng
the Office of Religious Affairs Coffee
Hour, 4:15 p.m. Fri., Feb. 7, Lane Hall
Library.
Norman Thomas, director, Post-Wa
World Council, will speak on "Arms
and the Economy," Fri., Feb. 7, at 8:00
p.m. in Rackham Auditorium. Spon-.
sored by the Economics Club. All staff
and graduate students in economics"a
and business administration urged to
attend. All others invited.
Concerts
Faculty Recital: Harold Haugh, ten
or, accompanied by Charles Fisher,
pianist, will be heard at 8:30 p.m. Fb.,
6, in Lydia Mendelsohn Theater. Th.
entire program will be devoted to songs
by American composers, including
Francis Hopkinson, Roes Lee Finney
Sarah Dittenhaver, Theodore Chanler,
Sven Lekberg, Gustav Klemm, Char-
lotte Lockwood, Charles Griffes, Mar-
shall Bartholomew, Quincy Porter and
Herbert Elwell. Open to the general
public without charge.
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Admission test for graduate study In
business: Candidates taking the Ad-
mission Test for Graduate Study in
Business on Feb. 6, are requested to
report to Room 130, Business Adminis-
tration Building at 8:45 a.m. Thurs.
Medical college Admission Test: Ap.
HE AMERICAN satellite Explorer has made
us all feel better, having given tangible
roof that the science of rocketry is known in
his country and that our experts possess the
rt of making and guiding rockets. The event
as confirmed the testimony of those who have
een saying that the Russians have a consider-
ble lead but that we are in the race.
Explorer is, therefore, a good popular anti-
ote to the panicky view that we are in mortal
anger. But it does not wash out the main
ortent of Sputnik-which is not that the
ussians launched a satellite first, and that
heir satellite is very much bigger and heavier
han Explorer. The main portent is that, start-
ag at the end of World War II with their
ountry devastated, their technology far more
rimitive than our own, the Russians have
thieved a rate of scientific and technological
evelopment which is faster than our own.
that they did with the Sputnik shows not
lerely that they have mastered a particular
pecialty but that they have generated a
'emendous momentum in the physical sciences
nd their application.
Though Explorer is in the sky, there is no
eason to think that the comparative rate of
evelopment is now back in balance, much less
hat it is in our favor. We are still the bigger
nd the stronger. But they are still moving
rward the faster.
'HERE IS, therefore, much for us to do, and
as I see it we must move forward simultan-
Editorial Staff
PETER ECKSTEIN Editor
JAMES ELSMAN, JR. VERNON NAHRGANG
Editorial Director City Editor
ONNA HANSON ................ Personnel Director
A.ROL PRINS r... ........Magazine Editor
DWARD GERULDSEN .. Associate Editorial Director
ULLIAM HANEY................. Features Editor
OSE PERLBERG ., ,.,...Activities Editor
[ANE FRASER .,............Assoc. Activities Editor
EOMAS BLUES ...,..... Assoc. Personnel Director
eously along three broad paths. The first is
that we have to find out how to make the
government much better able than it is now to
make and to carry out long-range decisions.
There is little doubt that American progress in
missiles has been retarded by bureaucratic
confusion, presided over by political appointees
who did not understand the issues they were
supposed to decide.
Undoubtedly, this requires a reorganization
in the Pentagon. But the trouble will not be
cured in the Pentagon alone. The White House
and the relevant committees of Congress have
at least an equal responsibility.
The second path we must take is even
broader. It is the transformation of American
education which on the average and by and
large is declining in quality as the quantity
of those to be educated grows larger and
larger. Our schools and colleges are over-
whelmed by the growth of the population they
are supposed to educate, and they are under
enormous pressure-for the most part irresist-
ible -- to lower their intellectual standards.
There is an ominous tendency in American
education to teach more and more students
less and less of the great disciplines which
form an educated man.
It is in this, more than in the ups and
downs in the military balance of power, that
there lies the deepest danger to our American
society. We can most surely defend ourselves
against conquest or domination. What we have
to worry about is that the declining level
of education, with the vulgarization of the
cultural standards in our mass society, we shall
become a big but second-rate people, fat, Phili-
stine, and self-indulgent,
THE THIRD PATH on which we must travel
is to learn to adjust our minds to the hard
facts of life-particularly to the fact that our
Western society, of which we are the strongest
member, is no longer paramount, is now only
an equal, among the great societies of the
globe,
The post-war era is ending and the great
reality to which we have now to adjust our
thinking is that we are an equal but not a
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS:
Law Student Suggests Higher Resident Tuition
Bargain. . .
To The Editor:
THE STATE of Michigan is the
'fall guy' when it comes to the
expense of higher education. Some
80,000 students are being sub-
sidized by the state at some nine
or ten universities and colleges
throughout Michigan, at the cost
of more than $100 million per
year.
This cash outlay is probably
more than any other state in the
nation spends on higher educa-
tion, yet Michigan is only seventh
among the states in population.
California, with twice as many
people as Michigan, has about
half as many students in the
various branches of the University
of California.
The value of higher education
in the modern world is undisputed,
but is it noble to be a fool? It is
a simple economic fact that this
state, as pointed out in numerous
recent newspaper headlines, can-
not afford to spend a hundred mil-.
lion every year on higher educa-
tion,
* * *
I AM a student of law, not an
economist. However. it seems auite
dents will be unable to attend this
university for financial reasons,
if the tuition is again raised. Both
of these arguments are good ones,
but they are by no means beyond
rebuttal.
As a state law student, I am
now paying $350 per year for tui-
tion. At any one of the other top
five law schools, I would have to
pay an average of three times as
much for tuition, because they are
mostly private universities.
In other words, thanks to the
generosity (or should I say fool-
hardiness) of the State of Michi-
gan, I am getting a tremendous
bargain. I am getting a top-notch
legal education for one-third of its
value. I would be willing to pay
more so that this University might
become a better university.
Now, I realize that all of us can-
not afford a several hundred dollar
tuition raise. However, despite our
protestations to the contrary, by
far the majority of Michigan's
state students can afford it. For
those that cannot afford it, the
University could put additional
funds into scholarship aid.
* s *
LET ME SAY that I am grate-
ful to this university for the eco-
the privilege of swelling the cof-
fers of the City of Ann Arbor by
$5, I have a few constructive sug-
gestions to offer.
1) Why doesn't the hospitable
city government invest a portion
of the thousands of dollars bled
from University students in erect-
ing the "No Parking" signs at a
more frequent interval? At night
they are difficult to see in most
areas. Five dollars is pretty hard
to come by nowadays.
2) The few pennies saved by not,
having a stop sign at the corner
of Oakland and Church has al-
ready resulted in many injuries,
and will cause many more if not
corrected.
3) I further suggest that on
basketball nights the City could
spare one of its army of ticket.
writers and station him in front
of the field house to "aid" stu-
dents, faculty and residents.
* * *
THE ANTI-STUDENT feeling of
this city should be tempered with
the fact that, without the stu-
dents, the drag of the overstaffed
department of ticket writers would
bankrupt both the city and the
residents.
If as much diligence and effort
Loss of Memory . .
To The Editor:
BROWSING THROUGH the De-
cember, 1957 Reader's Digest,
I came across this paragraph quot-
ed from the Architectural Forum:
"The very things that Ameri-
cans adore abroad they destroy
systematically at home. Old build-
ings are broken up in the United
States as fast as used packing
boxes, to make way for the new
ones. The loss we endure is not
merely sentimental. What we lose
is our funded experience.
"Architecture is an art whose
masterpieces cannot be stored
away like paintings or reproduced
centuries later Like music. The
art lives on in used buildings; they
alone can carry it. Without them
we are perpetual juveniles, start-
ing over and over, a people with-
out a memory."
THE IMPENDING destruction
of the Romance Languages Build-
ing brought to my mind the very
same thoughts so aptly expressed
above.