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Helene Burke '54 and Eleanor Dearing '55, co-chairmen of the drive, told last night of arrangements with various Annex clubs to work with them to encourage more liberal donations from the "Cliffedwellers. Political clubs are selling doughnuts and apples in the dorms, and language organizations have agreed to show a foreign film with proceeds going to the Charities Drive...
...committees have already drawn up regulations for their own conduct, but recent abuses and want of good sense and taste have shown the need for uniform authorized rules by Congress as a whole. Senate and House investigations presumably point toward some specific legislation, but with at leas three committee chairmen aiming at, and producing little but headlines, blanket restrictions are overdue...
...most important provision of Javitt's bill calls for a decision by a committee majority on what it shall investigate, and a clear statement of the inquiry's purpose. Under this rule, publicity-seeking chairmen would be curbed by more temperate colleagues who are better able to discriminate between the country's and the committee's best interests...
Committees are indispensable to such an unwieldy group as Congress, but they must always be subject to the wishes of the parent group. Establishment of majority will over chairmen's whims will go far toward bringing many committees back to the point at which their methods, as well as aims, are in tune with the will of Congress...
Britain shoved this problem at the beginning of World War II, when she put all research and development for the services under the direction of civilian scientists. The great universities donated many of their department, chairmen to fill these posts. Military leaders till merely file requests with the chiefs of the scientific bureaus; they have little or no voice in the resulting research...