THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, S_____________________________________________U (41tv'4 tote (Editor's Note is written by Co-Managing Editor Craig Wilson.) ON THE FRONT PAGE today, a former University faculty member violently attacks the "U" Administration with partic- ular attention given to President Alexander G. Ruthven and Provost James P. Adams. They are criticisms that appeared in Sun- day's edition of a Detroit newspaper. His unsupported statements have brought, only polite silence from University officials who undoubtedly do not feel it necessary to defend themselves from vague meaningless charges. The attacker is former assistant professor Lyle S. Van Antwerp, whose teaching con- tract in mechanism and engineering drawing was not renewed for the 1949-50 term. That such outspoken attack should be levelled at such a time-with no reference to any possible reason for the University's fail- ure to keep Van Antwerp-may be taken as some indication of the worth of the charges. Although no one will deny his right to criticize, the competence of that criticism is forever open to the analysis of those who are subjected to it. In this case the merit of the charges lev- elled may be seriously doubted. Until their author substantiates them with documented evidence, they stand as idle chatter-nothing more, nothing less. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: B: S. BROWN Looking Back 35 YEARS AGO: The 1915 Union Opera was in for an ex- tended tour if plans panned out as pro- moters hoped. The company would play in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, South Bend, Chi- cago, Fort Wayne, Toledo and Detroit. Camp Bogardus, the University's outdoor camp at Topinabee near the Straits en- rolled a record 96 for the summer. Forty tents and 10 steel huts were erected on the camp site. Only mishap of the sessin to date was a cut foot, whose owner failed to get out of the way of an axe he was wielding. 25 YEARS AGO: The Law Quad was progressing favorably, with towers erected and leaded glass already installed. Couzens Hall, a nurses' dormitory, ws expected to be ready before Christmas. And all 4,000 of the windows for University Hospital were being installed, with a total of 6,822 steel and woolen sashes and more than 25,000 square feet of glass. At the Uni- versity power plant, the 250-foot tower was nearing completion. 20 YEARS AGO: Commemorative services at Sarajevo, Jugo-Slavia (Yugoslavia) marked the shot which just 15 years before led to World War I. Both those who fired the shots and their victims were honored. On the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Versailles treaty, the German people vigorously protested the continuation of the "war guilt lie" that countries have labeled them with. * * * 10 YEARS AGO: The missing president of Louisiana State University, Dr. James Monroe Smith, who was alleged to have been tapping University funds, was reported to have crossed into Canada via Detroit in his escape from pur- suers. A Louisiana Democratic senator, a strong advocate for a two-term president, predicted that Roosevelt, who hasn't said yet, would not be a presidential candidate in 1940. * * * 5 YEARS AGO: Adolf Hitler was rumored to have taken over German forces on the Western Front after removing Field Marshal Gen. Karl Ru- dolf Gerd Von Runstedt. It apparently didn't do much good, for in the biggest battle since D-Day, Americans.and Britishers were reported in the town of Caen, and Germans were getting out as fast as they could. * * * 1 YEAR AGO: University Prof. Preston W. Slosson has made known his intent to run for Congress for the second Michigan District on the Democratic ticket. Japan's Fukui earthquake was reported to have taken 3,155 lives and injured 7,520. Soviet Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky held out hope that the Russian blockade of Berlin could be lifted before the city's food runs out, whcih is only "several weeks," according to city officials. From the Pages of The Daily. Graduate Examinations Things T hat Could Happen in Sumimmer School Letters to the Editor - TOMORROW another batch of graduate students will be taking the graduate rec- ord examination. Many of them may be wondering what sort of examination it is, and why they have to take it. The test itself is not too much of an ordeal. Most people who are old enough to be grad- uate students have gone through so many intelligence tests and aptitude tests that one more holds no terrors for them. Besides, those in charge of the examination have as- sured the students that the results will not influence their academic standing one way or the other. Presumably the test results are used in some sort of statistical study. But no one seems to know for sure. The only thing that the student can be certain of is that the examination is com- pulsory.hEvery graduate student in the Uni- versity this summer has to participate, unless he has taken the test before or can show proof that he has had an equivalent exami- nation elsewhere. The Graduate School has announced that if anyone should refuse to comply, he would be refused permission to reregis- ter at the University next semester or next summer. But not only has the student no choice about complying, he is obliged to pay a two- dollar fee for admission to the examination. The time and effort involved are not exces- sive, but to many people two dollars is a lot of money to spend for no visible benefit. What is the purpose of the graduate rec- ord examination? What use is made of the results? How are they compiled? Who is responsible for it? The students who have taken this exami- nation before have asked these questions, without receiving a satisfactory reply. Why couldn't the authorities make a statement explaining the reason for the graduate rec- ord examination and its purpose? Surely the graduate students are entitled to know why they are paying their two dol- lars and trooping to the Rackham Building to spend the evening sweating over an apti- tude test. -Virginia von Schon The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for iblication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the order in which they are received all letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters and letters of a defama- tory character or such letters which for any other reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. Economics ... To the Editor: According to Arlynn Rosen of The Daily, "it seems that now, more than ever, only over-all eco- nomic planning will be enough to forestall or maybe avert another depression." I and undoubtedly the Congres- sional Un-American Committee on American Affairs would like to learn what is to her mind an ef- fective over-all economic plan. If she has one and it is of the So- cialistic variety, be it Communis- tic or British edition, it will fail. This is true, I believe, because all economic planning of today stum- bles over two of its essential ingre- dients: Industrialism and Nation- alism. Industrialism, by its very na- ture, must, if it is to survive, search out world markets for the sale of ts goods. Secondly, it must em- brace. underprivileged areas in a "Fair Deal." in order to assure adequate raw material for its in- dustrial plants. Industrialism takes little cognizance of geographical, political, or national barriers. In the days of Adam Smith when the "Fair Deal" was a lot less fair than it promises to be today, this type of industrial calisthenics met little serious opposition from its fraternal brother, Nationalism. To- day. with nation-states locked tightly together in an uncomfort- able tembrace by modern science, there can be only one result to industrial maturation. The results have shaken the world in two mighty wars within easy memory. Today no over-all economic plan can hope to succeed if nation- alism is allowed to exist in a state of raw freedom. What started out to be Communism in 1920 turned into a super form of Nationalism in 1930. The proletariats instead of raising their standard of living to a height unknown to capitalist countries, raised fortifications un- der orders of a strict dictatorship which rightly expected an attack. British Socialism and American capitalism are caught in-the same spider web of Nationalism which so effectively expurgated Marx from Russian political thinking. We too are unable to hold to the- ory and are in truth drifting into a form of totalitarianism. -Allen Hurd I'd Rather Be Right BY SAMUEL GRAFTON A YEAR OR SO ago the big question be- fore America was whether Western Europe could be made prosperous, and the first Marshall Planappropriation was our answer. We realized then that we needed a prosperous Western Europe, and that it was worth paying something to have it. This year the great question before Wes- tern Europe is whether America is going to remain prosperous-prosperous enough to continue the Marshall Plan at full levels, prosperous enough to import Western Euro- pean goods in quantity, prosperous enough to send tourists. European papers, especially the English, print American unemployment figures with some degree of prominence, as, apparently, indices well worth the watching. It is quite strange, this change in a year, from American concern over European prosperity to European concern over American prosperity. Some sort of wheel has come some sort of circle. Of course, there isn't very much that Western Europe can do about it. It isn't quite in a position to organize a Marshall Plan of its own, to keep us prosperous so that we can keep it prosperous. And there is no real comparison, anyway, between otir moderate economic dip, and the sad condi- tion that the European economy was left in by the war. But what does come out of the whole situation is the very clear realization that prosperity is indivisible, that you can't give it unless you have it, and that when we undertook a four-year Marshall Plan to make Western Europe prosperous, we gave an implied promise to stay prosperous our- selves, at least for four years. We didn't spell that promise out, but it's obviously a part of the picture. When we undertook to lead the western world to prosperity, it became a fair inference that we would keep ourselves in tVe nec- essary condition to do that job. And what we have to realize in this sum- mer of 1949, perhaps with a bit of a start, is that we are a part of the Marshall Plan area, and a part that mustn't be neglected. European concern over American prosperity, such as has arisen during the past year, is no tso much the emergence of a paradox as it is a manifestation of a basic unity in this field. Perhaps we did not realize when we an- nounced that we were going to care for others that this meant we must also care for our own, but, after all, the discovery of such deep, underlying unities as this is part of the great human adventure. And now we must do something about it; we must work out a plan to counter- act our own recession, through the use of public works projects, aid to business ex- pansion, and whatever else may be need- ed. Merely to pull back on the Marshall Plan, and to cut appropriations for it, would be no answer; that would be a declaration that we had undertaken more than we could fulfill, and we cannot place such a declaration on the record. To decide that we must help ourselves instead of Europe would violate the unities we have lately been finding out about-the same unities that are violated by the effort to help Europe while paying too little atten- tion to our own unemployment. And the fact that the Marshall Plan is pushing us on toward a discovery of these unities and to a realization that we are commited to prosperity may in the end be marked down as not among the least of its accomplishments, but among its greatest. (Copyright, 1949, New York Post Corporation) -Daily-Bill Hampton Thf freshman who, at an exchange dinner, finds himself paired off with his old tenth grade English teacher. Washington Merry-Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON ii' I CURENTMO/IES At the State . . . THE LIFE OF RILEY, with William Ben- dix, Jimmy Gleason, Digger O'Dell and the rest of the crew. WHEN MOST RADIO shows make their debuts on the screen, the results are pretty sad. The Life of Riley is sad, too, but there are some face-saving events, mainly hauled out of the fire by Bendix, Gleason and Digger. Generally the story follows the radio show quite faithfully, with all the assorted characters and situations. Mr. and. Mrs. Riley are quite charming and Babs, their daughter, played by Meg Randall, is doubly so. Junior is just a kid, which is the way it should be. The plot, such as it is, gets Riley into some absurd situations and is helped along by his boss, the boss's son, who owes a pseudo-crook $23,000 for playing the horses, and the landlady's nephew, an insipid pre- med student (with apologies to all pre-med students). This is the guy that Babs marries in the end, and it shouldn't happen to a dog. Riley is threatened with losing his honue, gets promoted, gets the money necessary to pay for the house through his promo- tion which was engineered by the son providing that Babs marries him so he can get a trust fund with which to pay the crook. It all gets very complicated and is cleared up very implausibly in the nick of time before the last reel runs out. There is also an ex-beau of Mrs. Riley, played by Bill Goodwin, who is so unfunny that he's worth forgetting about right here and now. There are a few redeeming factors, as I mentioned before, and they are all handled very well by Bendix, Gleason and the radio Digger O'Dell, played by John Brown. Bendix is genuinely funny with his facial expressions and is actually sincere, if not overwhelming in his job. Gleason is his old self as Willy Gillis, and Digger is just as soon on the screen as on the air. Also ran-an excellent bit of horse-flesh on the Kentucky Derby and a Disney tennis match with Goofy the dawg as the an- nouncer, Goofy as the player, Goofy as his opponent and thousands of Goofies as spec- tators. It's clever. -Paul Brentlinger. DESPITE President Truman's refusal to comment on Bernard Baruch's blast at the failure to evolve a national mobilization plan for use in the event of war, the crit- icism deserves more than shoulder- shrugging.. Whatever the White House meant in saying that Mr. Baruch was mis- informed, our best information is that no such plan exists today in practicable form. The responsibility for such a plan devolves upon the National Security Resources Board; the top-level advisory agency charged with allocating over-all resources between po- tential civilian and military needs. .-The Washington Post. A CERTAIN AMOUNT of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight. -Schopenhauer. 2' WASHINGTON-While the congressional probe of the five percent- ers has been getting the headlines, another Senate investigation has been quietly delving into certain gentlemen who make much more than 5 per cent. Five percenters are lobbyists who expedite government contracts -through influence-in return for a commission of 5 per cent. But Senator Bill Fulbright Hof Arkansas is spotlighting a much more significant practice whereby certain government officia; after aiding private firms, then resign to take jobs with those firms. Two cases of this recently exposed by this column are: 1. John Hagerty, former manager of the RFC's Boston office, recommended a government loan to the Waltham tch Company. After the loan was granted, Hagerty was hired A general manager' at $30,000 per year, and took with him his RFC assistant, William H. Morrow. 2. Sterling J. Foster, former chief of the RFC Loan Division, helped process a $2,500,000 loan for the Plywood Plastic Corp. of Hampton, S.C., later went to work for the company at a starting salary of $18,00--plus a percentage of the company's net earnings. Hagerty and Foster made $10,330 with the RFC. To cure this practice, Senator Fulbright drafted a bill forbidding firms, borrowing from the government, from employing RFC officials for at least two years. Fulbright also called hearings of his Senate Banking subcommittee, with the first witness RFC Director Harvey Gunderson. BLIND RFC DIRECTOR "You are familiar with the recent criticism which to a great extent gave rise to this bill?" Fulbright began. "I am aware of criticism contained in the Drew Pearson column," replied Gunderson. "That is the only criticism I have seen." When the questioning got around to Hagerty who had denied recommending the Waltham loan, Fulbright read a United Press dis- patch giving Hagerty's denial, and demanded: "Is that an a'ccurate statement? " "I believe it is, Senator," replied Gunderson. "Hagerty recommended a $9,000,000 loan, and you cut it to $6,- 000,000," shot back Fulbright, incredulously. "Therefore, you do not think that is a recommendation of the $6,000,000 loan?" "That is right," agreed Gunderson, lamely. "To me that is a very odd distinction," puzzled Fulbriglt. ""If you recommend more than you gave, you say that is not a recommendation of the loan." Snapping his fingers, the Senator from Arkansas called for the RFC files on the Waltham loan. "I think you will find," he addressed the RFC director, "that there is language (in Hagerty's report) which recommends that a loan be made. It is true that some of the details were changed. For example, he recommended they pay him $40,000 and they ended up only paying him $30,000, so they cut his salary some." Fulbright referred to a 25-page report containing Hagerty's orig- inal recommendations to Washington. In this report, Hagerty re- peatedly stressed the need for a "competent" manager who, he sug- gested, should be paid $40,000 per year. It turned out that he had himself in mind for the job. His opinion of himself is also indicated in one passage in which he states the qualifications essential for the job. "We cannot emphasize too strenuously," he wrote, "the impor- tance of having a hard-boiled, realistic businessman who understands the importance of integrated control, a merchandizing program, and the practice of economy in this business ...' Note-Worst branches of the government to practice this type of favoritism are the army and navy, where admirals and generals frequently retire to join big firms doing millions of dollars worth of business with the armed services. CROTCHETY KENNETH McKELLAR Senate grandfather McKellar of Tennessee is getting touchier and touchier. The other day, Dr. Paul Raver, chief of the Bonneville Power Administration, was testifying before the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee, of which McKellar is chairman. "May I interrupt to ask a question?" broke in McKellar. Then he changed his mind. "Never mind," he grunted. "I will question you later. Go ahead." "I shall be glad to answer your question now, sir," Dr. Raver offered politely. "I heard what you said!" snapped the Senator from Tennessee. "I do not like to be answered that way, so I will not pursue it!" The startled Dr. Raver, who hadn't opened his mouth except to offer an answer, sat dumfounded. (Copyright, 1949, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN All notices for the Daily Official Bulletin are to be sent toathe Office of the Summer Session in typewritten form by 3:30 p.m. of the day preced- ing its publication, except on Satur- day when the notices should be sub- mitted by 11:30 a.m., Room 3510 Ad- ministration Building. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1949 VOL LIX, No. 11S Notices "The Graduate Aptitude Exam- ination is required of all graduate students who have Cnot had the Graduate Record Examination or the Graduate Aptitude Examina- tion before. The examination will be held 7 to 10 p.m. in the Rackham Lec- ture Hall, Thursday, July 7. Examination fee is $2.00. Candi- dates must buy an examination ticket at the Cashier's office. Vet- erans will have a supply requisition signed in the Graduate School of- fice before going to the Cashier's office." Approved Student Sponsored Social events: July 6, 1949-Casa Espanola; July 8, 1949-Graduate School Student Council; July 9, 1949-Chinese Students Club; Hostel Club; Phi Delta Phi; Stev- ens House. July 10, 1949-Amer- ican Veterans' Com.; New Wom- en's Residence Hall. History Language Examinations -French, German and Spanish language examinations to be given in 1035 Angell Hall, Saturday, July 16, 10-11. Master's candidates in- tending to take this examination must register immediate in the HistoryOffice, 119 Haven Hall. Student Organizations planning to be active during the summer session are requested to submit to the Office of Student Affairs, Rm. 1020 Admin., not later than July 8, the following information: (1) a list of officers and members, (2) the acceptance of a member of the faculty willing to act as adviser to the group. ORGANIZATIONS NOT SO REGISTERED BY JULY 8 ARE ASSUMED TO BE INAC- TIVE FOR THE SUMMER TERM. Forms for reporting the required information may be secured in Room 1020 Admin. Eligibility: Officers of student organizations and staff members of student publications should apply immediately in the Office of Student Affairs, Rm. 1020 Admin. Bldg. for a certificate of eligibility. Overseas Positions: Representa- tives of the Department of the Army will be at the Bureau of Ap- pointments Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 7, 8, and 9 to in- terview people interested and qualified for the following teach- ing positions in Dependent Schools: In Japan-men with math, science, physical education combination; physical education men to teach basketball and base- ball; combination French and Spanish teachers; music and art teachers; first grade teachers with MA to also be building principal. Also, librarians, assistant librar- ians, and school nurses, In Ger- many - elementary teachers to handle four grades in two-room schools. Age limits: 22-40. Two years' teaching experience required. For further information and appoint- ments, call at 3528 Administration Building or call extension 489. The Department of the Army is also recruiting recreational work- ers (women) for Army Service Clubs in the Pacific Theatre (Japan, Okinawa, Guam, Korea). Qualifications: Assistant Service Club Director-graduateion from college and experience in adult education; age limits 30-40. Rec- reational Director - graduation from college and practical knowl- edge of arts and crafts, dramatics or group recreation. Interviews will be held the latter part of this week. For further information call at 3528 Administration Building. Lectures American Canadian Relations Lecture: An introdution to Clem- ents Library and to the Summer Exhibit "Unique Canadiana." Col- ton Storm, Assistant Director of Clements Library. 7:30 p.m., Clem- ents Library. Giraud Chester, visiting assist- ant Professor in the Department of Speech will talk on "The New Look in Radio and Television" this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Lecture Series in Chemistry Building: Professor Luis W. Al- varez of the Radiation Laboratory of University of California will talk on "High Energy Physics," Wednesday, July 6, 4:00 p.m., Rm. 1300 Chem. Lecture: "Using Tests Effective- ly." Robert M. W. Travers, Asso- ciate Professor of Education, and Chief of the Examining Division (Continued on Page 3) lAOhs 1Mi~i3u &r~ Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigy tunder the authorityof the Board in Gbntrol of Student Publications. Editorial Staff B. S. Brown ......Co-Managing Editor Craig Wilson...Co-Managing Editor Merle Levin ............. Sports Editor MarilynoJones.......Women's Editor Bess Young ............... Librarian Business Staff Robert C. 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