THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATUDAY, MY 12, 19"2 U 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. * * * * (.. -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. * * *S 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. Read Daily Classifieds SERVING YOU HE KEY TO TOP VALUES - Unlock the door to opportunity) Do your buying and selling ....through wont ads for. values, savings, pro- fits! Start the WANT- AD habit now! PLACE YOUR ADS TODAY! Just call 23-24-1 .6 . t I Fountain Pens Greeting Cards Stationery Office Supplies Typewriters W/C Tape & Wire Recorders s " s Steel Desks, Chairs, Files . _ - MORRI LL'Sj 314 S. State Open Saturdays until Phone 7177 I P.M. -Daily-Bruce Knoll THE CLASS OF 1911 DONATED A PRACTICAL GIFT V 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- rouW W tries aites are tied to eco- nomics. Birthrates boom during BRITAN prosperity, dropin depressions. appears to have hi hest birth rate ! _- in~ the word, ranging from) ln 45-55 per 1,000 population. I1_= SJ.AMERICA *E \ 4j - J * * * s OVER 40 30 TO 40 ZO TO 30 UNDER 20 AVAILABLE AP Newsfeatures ,( - ---- -- I m m FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, Scientist 1833 Washtenaw Ave. 9:30 A.M.: Sunday School. 11:00 A.M.: Sunday Morning Services. July 13-Sacrament 11:00 A.M.: Primary Sunday School during the morning service. Sunday Evening Services will be discontinued during the months of July and August. 8:00 P.M. Wednesday: Testimonial Service. A free reading room is maintained at 339 South Main Street where the Bible and all authorized Christian Science literature may be read, bor- rowed, or purchased. The Reading Room is open daily except Sundays and holidays from 11 to 5, Friday evenings from 7 to 9, and Sunday afternoons from 2:30 to 4:30. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH State and E. William Streets Minister-Leonard A. Parr Student Work-Marilynn Paterson, Robert Inglis Director of Music-Harold Haugh Organist--Howard R. Chase 10:45 A.M.: Junior Church Chapel. 10:45 A.M.: Public Worship. Subject of Dr. Leroy Waterman will be "Protestantism An Arrested Development?" FIRST METHODIST CHURCH 120 South State Street Dwight S. Large, Erland J. Wangdahl, Eugene A. Ransom, Ministers 10:45 A.M.: Morning worship. "The Old Becomes New" Rev. Eugene A. Ransom preaching. 2:00 P.M.: Fireside Forum-meet at rear of Church to go to Kensington Park for Picnic, 5:30 P.M..: Fellowship Supper at the Canterbury Club. 6:45 P.M.: Worship and Program at Wesley Lounge. Dr. Kenneth Leisenring will speak on "The Thinking of Albert Sweitzer. MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Disciples of Christ) Corner Hill & Tappan Sts. Rev. Joseph M. Smith, Minister Morning Service, 10:45 A.M. Sermon: "Is Christianity a Source or a Solu- tion of Conflict?" by Rev. Smith. Roy Jorgensen: Organist Robert Inglis: Soloist STUDENT GUILD meeting at 6:00 P.M. at the Congregational Church for a cost supper, and at 7:00 to hear Dr. Preston Slosson speak on NATIONAL ELECTION: The Men and Issues. All students welcome. UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL AND STUDENT CENTER 1511 Washtenaw Avenue (The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod) Alfred T. Scheips, Pastor Sunday at 10:30: Worship Service, with sermon by the pastor, "What is the Dignity of Man?" Sunday at 5:30: Gamma Delta, Lutheran Student Club, Supper and Program. "The Lutheran Confessional Books." CAMPUS CHAPEL (Sponsored by the Christian Reformed Churches of Michigan) Washtenaw at Forest Rev. Leonard Verduin, Director Phone 3-4332 10:00 A.M.: Morning Worship. Rev. J. G. Van Dyke, Mich., Director of Church Extension, Christian Reformed Church. 7:30 P.M.. Evening Service, Prof. Van Denbosch BATTLE OF BABIES-Central America appears to have the highest birth rate in the world, according to this world map of the stork's visits.I 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. ** * 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. 30 Teachers A .I..vkr1, Crw.f-L Auto Layoffs 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 FRIENDS (QUAKER) MEETINGLane Hall 11:00 A.M.: Sundays. Visitors welcome. ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH and The Episcopal Student Foundation North Division at Catherine The Reverend Henry Lewis, D.D., Rector The Reve~rend ruce H. Cooke.ChaDlain I 11 11