National Reports
RICHARDS, BILL & HAMILTON, HOWARD D.
Latin Americans Woo U.S. Businessmen New Orleans The Inter-American Investment Conference, which recently closed a four-day session in New Orleans, was an impressive attempt by Latin-minded U. S....
...Freer currency with easier convertibility...
...In plant, range of curriculum, research, and graduate study, therefore, MSC excels many universities...
...In Michigan and elsewhere, this is obstructed not only by alumni groups but also by the existence of separate governing boards, usualb endowed with constitutional status and authority...
...The result is sharp competition in the Legislature for appropriations and duplication of facilities and functions...
...There are an assortment of "schools" within the College, ranging from veterinary medicine to music and fine arts...
...Carlos Davila, President of the Organization of American States...
...and his predecessor, Dr...
...Several speakers grew quite eloquent on this last point...
...Western already approaches the dimensions of a university...
...To be completely free of the cow-college tag, East Lansing has consistently abbreviated its signature to MSC, or preferably "State" (university...
...Both State and the University operate extension services...
...Indeed, the only conspicuously missing university features are graduate schools for medicine, dentistry and law, and recognized academic standards, the latter reflecting the rapid growth...
...Lleras, probably the only intellectual among the drummers, made the brightest speech...
...That unleashed lightning at Ann Arbor...
...The Legislature bestowed the resounding appellation of Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science...
...And the centennial fervor has inspired its faculty, students, alumni and friends to make another bid to have its name changed to Michigan State University...
...Less Government regulation...
...His most outstanding achievement has been the construction of a tremendous physical plant, which was capable of taking full advantage of the GI flood...
...Last year, MSC's governing board requested the change as a centennial salute...
...both have bureaus of business and governmental research competing for support from their clienteles...
...In both Latin and North America, this would include: ?Fewer restrictions on imports and exports...
...Thus, 500 businessmen and Government leaders from Latin America's 20 countries (plus possessions like the Netherlands West Indies) came here with projects in which they hoped to interest about 300 U. S. investors...
...What is more, the University is now willing to permit the use of the word "university" as long as the name bears no resemblance to its copyright...
...A bill to accomplish this has been tossed into the legislative hopper, and legislators and citizenry again are rallying to the standards of their respective alma maters, State or the University at Ann Arbor...
...No deals were officially announced at the conference, but two big Venezuelan projects were reported near completion...
...Michigan Colleges Vie for State U. Title Lansinc This year, East Lansing's Michigan State College is celebrating its centennial with extensive academic lectures and ceremonies...
...Not only has he wheedled many buildings from the Legislature, hut many have been financed by self-liquidating revenue bonds...
...Milton Eisenhower...
...In the centennial ceremonies, "university" is a frequent slip of the lip...
...Its administration predicts an enrollment of 30,000 by about 1970...
...Lleras also struck sharply at the timid businessman who speaks loudly for individual initiative but who usually relies on others to light his path...
...These varied widely and included one by Ecuadorian lumber interests to build a sawmill in a mangrove forest high on a mountain river...
...Within the solons' club, University alumni far outnumber State alumni (the law college is at Ann Arbor), and the bill was pigeonholed in committee...
...the University Regents fulminated against the effort of a cow college to infringe on the University's fame and copyrighted name...
...A number called for outright repeal of all U. S. income taxes on profits earned on investments abroad...
...At the innumerable lunches, dinners, panels and press briefings, one point was hammered home: The "investment climate"—meaning government's attitude toward businessmen and their profits—would have to be improved...
...Others were more prosaic...
...If HB 170 passes, it will confer the fourth name on the East Lansing institution...
...He chided U. S. businessmen for expecting their Latin counterparts to resist Government regulation as much as they...
...Chile's worst need was a housing industry...
...When the University recently heralded a "branch" at Flint, State immediately reported community invitations to establish branches...
...For example, although most states are content with one state college of engineering and one or none for forestry, Michigan has two forestry colleges and engineering colleges at Ann Arbor, East Lansing, and Michigan Tech in the Upper Peninsula...
...In these days, when legislatures are called upon to appropriate astronomical sums for higher education and particularly for greater capital outlay, it is imperative that there be adequate coordination among a state's schools...
...Whatever the effect of name changes, MSC has grown phenomenally in recent years...
...He pointed to the long tolerance of Government interference in Latin America, which had its origin in medieval Spain, and he said that while Latins might not like it they had always put up with it...
...Alberto Lleras Camargo, now rector of Los Andes University in Colombia and once President of that country...
...Principal credit for State's meteoric growth belongs to the GI Bill and State's ubiquitous President John A. Hannah, the energetic poultry professor, recently Assistant Secretary of Defense and currently Chairman of the United States-Canada Defense Board...
...United States businessmen, he said, cannot afford "to fall into the very weakness so often imputed by them to their southern neighbors, of waiting for the Government to make the way smooth for them, relying on the State Department to build a highway of treaties which shall eliminate every risk, and trusting to the official bank to go forth as a pioneer and, finally, to some other Government organization to insure them against loss, exchange risks, and yellow fever...
...He also urged the Latins to go back home and "spread the gospel of a better investment climate...
...Extension centers are also operated in various cities...
...East Lansing, however, argues that the only proper name is MSU and observes that Iowa and Pennsylvania have so denominated their A & M colleges without the catastrophic consequences conjured up by Ann Arbor...
...Not to be outdone, the state teachers colleges have served notice that, if State obtains university status, they will drop "of Education" from their names and thereby assert that they offer a full liberal-arts curriculum in addition to teacher training...
...After much hullabaloo, the mortified Board of Agriculture withdrew its request...
...But it extends to other areas as each tries to surpass the other in facilities and activities...
...Greater ease in moving profits out of a country...
...Although some duplication is necessary and desirable, much of it is unnecessary and wasteful...
...The comic war over State's name would be more amusing if the rivalry between Ann Arbor and East Lansing were confined to that and the gridiron...
...The U. S. should start the ball rolling," said a co-sponsor...
...A Continuing Education Division for adult education, equipped with a sumptuous hotel, has been added to the experimental station and agricultural-extension service...
...Robert L. Garner, Vice President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, who spoke for the ailing president, Eugene R. Black...
...Big names turned out for the conference: Henry Luce, Andrew Heiskell, Edgar R. Baker, and James Linen of the Time-Life stronghold...
...Venezuela was interested in factories to process food and make shoes and clothing...
...And the only way to improve it, both Latins and North By Bill Richards Americans were told, was to organize a lobby and pressure the governments...
...Lower taxes...
...With 15,500 full-time students plus numerous part-time ones in extension classes, it is one of the large educational factories...
...Eric Johnston of the Motion Picture Association...
...MSC claims the title of the first land-grant college, antedating the Morrill Land Grant College Act by seven years...
...This year's effort is better organized...
...Businessmen New Orleans The Inter-American Investment Conference, which recently closed a four-day session in New Orleans, was an impressive attempt by Latin-minded U. S. businessmen to carry forward the Eisenhower economic gospel...
...In 1925, the alumni and administrators of Michigan Agricultural College convinced the Legislature that their school was more than a cow college and that the misBy Howard D. Hamilton nomer was an insult and an obstacle to growth...
...At the official Inter-American Economic Conference last year in Rio de Janeiro, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey bluntly told Latin delegates that they must go out and hustle U. S. businessmen...
...Only in this way, he said, could private enterprise be strengthened and what he and his GOP colleagues regard as the trend toward state socialism be halted...
Vol. 38 • March 1955 • No. 13
