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F UNIVERSITY OF NDmESOTA NEWS SERVICE • JULY 1, 1949 FOR JMMEDIATE RELEASE Pr r::-s '(('If tl-.SC~~ Hinneapolis, July - Conflicting viewpoints on how a high level of employment can be reached and maintained in this country -are presented in an informal manner in a new booklet, "Jobs for All: A Primer of Theory", publishod by the University of Minnesota Preas for the University's Industrial Relations Center. Authors of the book are Benjamin Rogge, former ,1J1.ember of the University of Minnesota staff now on the faculty of Northwestern Universit;y, and Dr. Robert G. - . Heneman, Jr., assistant director and research ass6~iite in the Minnesota Industrial Relations Center. The discussion of the problem of employmen\ was written by Rogge and Dr. Heneman in the form of a conversation between an unemployed man and a professor and tll0 experts who propose widely different metho~s of attaining full employment. Tho unemployed man asks questions most people would like the 'anm-rers to. Why are some persons unemployed? What can be done about it? The t"TO experts in the book answer these questions, each according to his point of view--one favoring government intervention, one for local adjustments. "Jobs for A1~' was written with the intention of helping popular understand- ')g of the problem, and to clarity the position of the two theories in order that ,L'" search into the subject may be applied more effect!vely• The only conclusions drawn by the authors of the book are that features of both theories are needed to help solve unemployment. They advocate, hotleVer, more research on the local point of view since, they beliove, most work up to now has been tOllard the other approach. ## # MI"R N4--/ l\-\'-\f UNIVERSITY OF HINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE JULY 1, 1949 FOR JMMEDIATE &"SIJ3ASE HUHORIST WILL SPEAK AT U. OF M. THURSDAY AT II Tiokling funnybones at the University of Minnesota summer session's oonvooation Thursday (July 7) will be Bergen Evans, professor of English at Northuostern university, who Yi11 speak on the subject IlOn Boing Funnyll. A nationa1ly-lmown skeptic and wit, Evans will speak at II a.m. in Northrop Memorial auditorium. The program will be open to the public and will be broadcast over KUOM, University radio station. Evans' talk will outline the psychology, techniques, pleasures and dangers of humor. The humorist attended Miami university at Oxford, Ohio, where he reoeived his baohelor of arts degree, Yon his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degree from Harvard, and was a Rhodes scholar at tho University of Oxford from 1928 to 1931, receiving a degree from that institution. He has done much work in the field of serious literature, but is probably best known as a student of humor and debunker of popular fallacies. He is the author of IlThe Natural History of Nonsense", several other books ~nd many magazine articles and columns. An organ recital at 10:30 a.m. by Arthur B. Jennings, University organist, Yill preoede the oonvocation program. ## # UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE JULY 1, 1949 FOR lliMEDIATE P-ELEASE Two University of Minnesota officials, William T. Middlebrook, business vice president, and L. R. Lunden, comptroller, viII oonfer with Atomic Energy commission officials in Washington Wednesday (July 6) on research and development contracts between the AEC and colleges and universities. luddlebrook vill attend tho conference as chairman of the Inter- Association of College and University Bl1siness Officers, and Lunden, as chairman of the joint committee of business officers of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities and the Nationa1Assooiation of State Universities vill represent those groups. # # # UNIVERSITY OF HINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE JULy 1, 1949 FOR IHMEDIATE RELEASE A postgraduate course in children's dentistry will be presented at the University of Minnesota Tuesday through Saturday (July 5-9)8 Hea.dquarters for the course will be in the University's Center for Continuation Study and most sessions will be held in the medical sciences building. Lecture subjects will include child psychology, comparison of deciduous and permanent teeth, premedication and anesthesia for chil1ren and corrective orthodontia. Members of the University's dental staff and dentists in private practice will serve as faculty for the course. # # # ~ ~ ~ ~ UNIVERSITY OF HINNESOTA NEWS SERVIC:S JULy I., 1949 FOR IMMEDIATE PJ3LEASE Folksongs of the Midwestern people will be sung and discussed in a special lecture Wednesday (July 6) a.t 3 p.m. in the auditorium of Murphy hall at the University of Hinnesota. Philip D. Jordan, professor of history at the University, will be the speaker, assisted by Henry Gal'Ylick and Neil Christian as folk.... sinGers. Jordan is the editor of the book, "Songs of Yesterday", a collection of American ballads and English songs. The program is part of the University's summer session course in American studies. It will be open to the public without charge. # ## f UNIVERSITY OF lIINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE JULY 1, 1949 FOR IMMEDIA'IE P8LEASE Minneapolis, J~ - Dr. OW'en H. Wangensteen, professor and ahairman of the department of surger,y in the University of Minnesota's medical sahool, has been eleated the new president of the }linnesota Medical foundation. Dr. George N. Aagaa'rd, director of postgraduate medical education at the University, was named searetary-treasurer. Dr. Uangensteen succeeds Dr. Erling S. Platou, clinical professor of pediatrics, and Dr. Aagaard replaces Dr. Maurice B. Visscher, professor and head of the department of physiology. Both new officers took over their positions Friday (July 1). Tho foundation also named a committee to consider the establishment of Hinnesota Medical foundation scholarships for undergraduate medical students. Dr. \lesley W. Spink, professor of medicine at the University, will hoad the oommittee. # ## UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE JULY 1, 1949 FOR IMMEDIATE REIEASE BOOTH, MAGICIAN, lv1nID READER AT U. OF M. WEDNESDAY John Booth, one of America's four leading magicians, will present IIAn Evoning of Magic and Mind Reading" Wednesday (July 6) at the University of l1innesota•. The program, a recreational feature of the University's SUll'lI!lor session, will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Northrop Memorial auditorium and will be open to the public without charge. Dr. Malcolm M. vlilley, academic administration vice presidont of the University, will serve as master of ceremonies. Booth will perform acts of magic and mindreading feats, telling their names, birth dates and other intimate information to total strangers in the audience. A graduate of McMaster university in Canada and holder of a graduate deereo from the University of Chicago, Booth is a member of the American Society for Psychical Research and his investigated all phases of psychic phenomena. He is the author of "Marvels of Mystery", "Forging Ahead in Magio ll , "Hagie Mentalismll and many other books and articles. # # # UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE ~LY I, 1949 FOR IMMEDIATE RELE~E 'lr~ ,- U~, /~ t(, MINNESOTA-Nev Drafting Course Designed to .et the increasing demand for sld1led dra1'tB1llen, a new two..,.ear technical aide ClOurse in engineering drafting will be presented starting next fall quarter by the University of Mirmesota's 1n8titute of technology. Dean A. r. Spllhau8 ar.mounced that the eourse will be open to high school graduates, both men and wilen, who have had tw years of high sohool 8th_tics. 1111 ~ r UNIVERSITY OF lIINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE r JULY" 1949 FOR IMHEDIATE RELEASE COLOR FIlMS OF FOREIGN LANDS SCIlliDULED A'l' 'u r Holidays in France, Holland and Belgium, Mexico and Florida will be offered University of Minnesota summer session students and the public next week Uu.~..)J.-15) when Robert Friars will present four programs of colored motion pictures in Northrop Memorial auditorium. The first show, "Holiday in France", a feature length travelogue in color, will be presented Monday (July ll) at 8:.30 p.m., and "Holland and Belgium" will be shown at the same time Tuesday (July ]2). At .3 p.m. Wednesday (July 13), Friars will offer his "Mexican Holiday" film as a part of the University's American. studies progra.m, and at the University convocation program at II a.m. Thursday (July 14) he will take his audience on a "Florida Holiday". All programs will be open to the public without charge. Friars, who has shown his pictures in nearly every maj or auditorium in the count.ry, including Carnegie hall, began early making travelogues in Europe, Asia and South America. His first well-known movie was the "Hexican Holiday" which was first shown in 1944. "Holiday in France", which was taken for showing this year, includes soenes of Paris by day and by night, Normandy, Brittany, the Riviera, crafts, sports and the Frenoh Alps. Friars serves as narrator with the movies, providing humorous commentary. He is a. graduate of the University of Michigan and a member of the Adventurers and Explorers clubs. # # # UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE JULY 5, 1949 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE lruMOR SUBJECT OF COll11lOCATION PROGRAM AT 'u' Humor, what it is and what its limitations are, will be the subject of the University of Minnesota convocation program Thursday (July 7) at 11 a.m. in Northrop Memorial auditorium. Bergen Evans, professor of English at Northwestern university, will be the speaker. His subject will be "On Being Funny". The program is open to the public and will also be broadcast over KUOM, University radio station. Evans is known as a humorist and debunker of popular fallacies. He is the author of "The Natural History of Nonsense" and many other books and articles and a regular column, "The Skeptic's Corner", in a national magazine. The program will be preceded by an organ recital at 10:)0 a.m.