THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Numerous Monuments Mark Campus
LIKEABLE JOHN BULL:
British Found Warm, Proud
By HARRY LUNI
Like silent sentinals over the
University, dozens of memorial
relics are scattered all around theK
campus landscape.
No one knows exactly how many
tablets, trees, rocks, benches and
other nonuments there are, for
many are located in obscure parts
of buildings or behind thick fol-
iage.
THE PROFUSION of memorial
landmarks probably stems as
much as anything from the wish
of graduating classes not to be
forgotten when they leave the
University.
Back in 1858, for instance, the
senior class held a giant tree-
planting festival and brought in
48 oaks, one for each class mem-
ber.
Planted in concentric circles
around the giant Tappan Oak
near the General Library, the
mighty trees flourished for years
until construction programs and
old age struck many of them
down.
Other classes, desiring to leave
a "living" reminder as well as
beautifying the campus, planted
numerous trees. Not to be out-
done, the class of 1872 planted
masses of ivy on University build-
ings.
IN 1869 THE seniors planted
a small tree and dragged a huge
rock to campus on sleds to place
beside the sapling. Their class
number was etched in the boulder.
When construction of Angell
Hall threatened to destroy the
stately monument, a loyal alum-'
nus provided funds to have the
tree and rock transferred to
where they stand today in front
of Angell Hall.
A seven-ton bounder was 1862's
contribution to beautifying the
campus. It stands on the north-
west corner of the diag where it
was placed by ambitious seniors
assisted by several horses and as-
sorted equipment.
ONE OF THE most practical
gifts was donated by the Class
of 1911 who gave the University
a water fountain which has been
serving thirsty students ever since.
It is located near ROTC rifle
range.
Fraternities and honorary so-
cieties have left several monu-
ments. The Vulcan forge stands
near the Engineering Bldg. and
Druids, Michigamua and other
honoraries have similar markers.
War memorials also dot the
campus. A small, squat cannon
commemorates Michigan men in
the Spanish-American War.
In recent years class gifts and
other memorials have taken the
form of scholarship funds, en-
dowments and other money gifts.
The Michigan Memorial Phoenix
project, financed by the alumni,
students and business organiza-
tions, is the largest memorial pro-
ject.
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-Daily-Bruce Knoll
MIGHTY VULCAN'S FORGE REPRESENTS THE
ENGINEERING SOCIETY
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third
in a series of interpretive articles deal-
ing with impressions of Europe today.
The author, next year's Daily City
Editor, is working in Europe during
the summer as a free-lance writer.)
By BARNES CONNABLE
Special To The Daily
LONDON-The British are a
wonderful sort.
After you've met John Bull half
a dozen times, you're prepared to
like him when you meet him next.
Usually you're dead right.
Whoever started the myth about
the cold, stuffy Englishman should
be forced to take a running jump
off Lord Nelson's flagship at
Portsmouth. It just isn't so.
We have 'met a couple of cold
fish here, but they could have
been bred in Ann Arbor as easily
as in London.
* * *
IT IS perhaps dangerous to gen-
eralize about this British race, yet
some impressions seem to hold
true whomever you turn to over
here.
There is initially a shyness, a
sort of mock reserve, which is
deceiving. But it breaks down as
fast as the Briton warms up to
the American.
This may take some time, for
the British, being a rugged people,
apply rugged criteria in judging
the outsider. They want to know
your ideas, your humor, your li-
quor consumption-and how Bri-
tain strikes you.
'* * *
IF YOU let fly a violent con-
demnation of some aspect of the
life of the United Kingdom, the
Briton won't pay too much at-
tention to you. He is quite sure
you're wrong.
He is, above all, a proud man,
and he has much to be proud of.
At the same time, because he is
no longer in the spotlight of the
world stage, he is a tragic fig-
ure.
He clings desperately to his tra-
dition of service through intelli-
gence and power..
You may not be concerned about
the nationality of the man who
will soon be named to head the
NATO fleet in the Mediterranean.
The British man on the street is,
because he has ruled the seas for
centuries.
THERE IS, coupled with this
pride, an astonishing modesty -
astonishing in its extent and in
its contrast to the heroic deeds of
the British people.
An ROF ace, who flew hun-
dreds of missions over the Con-
tinent during the war, told us
after several beers and an im-
mense amount of prying that he
had "one or two pretty goodi
shows." That's all.
A small, mustachioed gentleman
with a Caspar Milquetoast air
about him stood politely with a
martini in his hand inquiring
about The Daily's activities.
After we had given him a num-
ber of pointers on the newspaper.
business, we asked someone who,
he was. He was, we learned, for-
merly editor of The London Econ-
omist and now top dog at Future,
Britain's expanding version of
Fortune.
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THERE IS A unity here which
is at first impression bordering on
the fantastic. It can be under-
stood better when we reflect on
geography, heritage, tradition and;
war. Most amazing is that the out-
sider has a strong feeling that
displays of friendliness are genu-
ine. British sincerity demands it.
When a Briton is bored or ir-
ritated, he seems to be more
likely to show it than the Am-
erican, regardless of the rank
of his antagonist.
Although the Britisher will talk
little of himself, he will talk much
of his country because, after his
family, the nation comes first.
Sometimes, though, he doesn't ev-
en bother to talk about that be-
cause he feels the Battle of Brit-
ain speaks for itself.
This is a people of moral fibre,
and Englishmen will be the first
to admit it. They look down on
many Europeans for lack of it.
The Briton has a great deal of
respect for the people who run his
nation-the Crown, the Ministry,
the civil service and the bobby.
The last is a clean-cut, dignified
and usually friendly individual in
a hat familiar to Americans with
only a night-stick hidden beneath
his coat.
He walks the side-walks, directs
traffic and stands across from a
to I
modest building with a Georgian
front at 10 Downing Street. There
is only one bobby outside the build-
ing where Winston Churchill di-
rects the affairs of state, and efen
he looks quite unconcerned about
the few people who walk by quiet-
ly.
It is difficult to realize, as we
are struck by a general high level
of moral attitude, that a 35-year-
old fruit-buyer named Raymond
Jones stands in the dock before
the bewigged magistrates at Old
Bailey on a charge of snatching
fur coats.
Newspaper headlines in Lon-
don's vast yellow press bring us
down to earth again: Britons are,
after all, subject to mankind's
failings.
But there remains In the larger
picture an amazing immunity to
corruption. Without this, Great
Britain would lose much of its
well-founded pride.
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-Daily-Bruce Knoll
THE CLASS OF 1911 DONATED A PRACTICAL GIFT
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N Attempts To Keep Track of Birth Rate Throughout World
plete. * *
THE LATEST UN statistical bul-
letin makes4 appear that ,a group
of Central American countries -
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico,
Venezuela-have the highest birth
rates in the world, roughly from
45 to 55 per thousand of popula-
tion during last year.
But the UN statisticians are
the first to say that in many
areas of the world it is difficult
to get accurate population, mar-
riage and birth rate figures.
Figures for India, a land where
the stork is busy, indicate fluctua-
tions of from 20 to. 30 per 1,000
population. But experts in the
UN concede that if all Indian reg-
istration figures could be collected,
the best computation would be at
the rate of 50 per 1,000 popula-
tion.
THE IRON CURTAIN also has
been rung down on birth statistics,
The only figures for tihe Soviet
Union that have any value go back
to League -of Nations records in
1930, which indicated the rate was
about 38 per 1,000.
That covered a period when
contraception and abortion were
not legal crimes in the Soviet
Union. The experts can only
guess that the rate may be about
the same since the war.
Only one thing they are sure of
-the birth rate moves in the same
ratio as the economic situation in
industrialised countries.
* * *
THE DEMOGRAPHERS-tech-
nical name fer people who study
this kind of population figures-
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tries aites are tied to eco-
nomics. Birthrates boom during BRITAN
prosperity, dropin depressions.
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to have hi hest birth rate
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45-55 per 1,000 population. I1_=
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Student Work-Marilynn Paterson,
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Long-Disputed Widow's Farm
Seized by Sheriff's Forces
LAPEES-(YP)--Graying, 60-year
old Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens was
evicted yesterday from the 80-
acre Lapeer County farm she had
defended through 17 years of le-
gal warfare and two abortive
eviction raids.
She was dragged, screaming,
clawing and biting by Sheriff
Clark Gregory and a deputy after
a family assault on the officers
that resulted in two arrests and
minor injuries.
of her daughters and two of her
sons, and five deputies.
Arrested were 29-year-old Don
Stevens, a 240-pound ex-marine,
and Kendrick, 35, his brother.
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THE FIVE-MINUTE tussle took
place in the living room of the
small five-room white frame
house that had been the center
of a long legal battle.
Mrs. Stevens lost the title to
the farm four years ago when
she refused to pay a $172 as-
First Worry
JACKSON, Mich.-(P)-Wil-
liam H. Bannan, new provision-
al warden. athSouthern Michi-
gan Prison, had his first es-
cape to worry about yesterday
but it didn't last long.
Frank Allen, 25, walked
away from the prison root
farm early yesterday but was
captured in the woods south
of the prison after only a few
hours of freedom.
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Will Increase
DuringWeek
DETROIT-(R)-Steel shortage
layoffs are certain to pass the
300,000 mark in the auto industry
by early next week.
About 230,000 will be idle at six
car assembly companies alone
when the whistles blow Monday
morning. That night Chrysler
Corp. will add 53,000 to the list for
the duration of the steel strike.
Ford Motor Co. swelled the idle
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