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...cowman's contemptuous word for oleomargarine is bull butter. Last fall the Iowa Farm Bureau, to whom the cow is sacred, got Iowa State College to suppress a scientific pamphlet praising bull butter as a wartime labor saver (TIME, Oct. 11). Whereupon Professor Theodore Schultz, head of the college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed...
...Y.M.C.A. and Negro and labor organizations which sponsored the pamphlet The Races of Mankind, attacking Nazi racial doctrines, were gloomy when the U.S.O. banned it (TIME, Jan. 31). Then the Army bought 55,000 copies and total sales mounted to 290,000. This week the Army banned the pamphlet...
Andrew Jackson May, House Military Affairs Committee chairman, claimed credit for this military triumph. His Kentucky blood had been roused by a statement in the pamphlet based on World War I Army intelligence-test figures. These showed that Negroes from New York. Illinois and Ohio (with better schooling and economic luck) got higher intelligence scores than whites from Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky...
...servicemen affected, I was appalled at the shortsighted and presumptuous action of U.S.O. President Barnard (TiME, Jan. 31) in halting further distribution of the pamphlet The Races of Mankind on the grounds of its being "controversial." Since when has a good dose of healthy "controversy" been anything but salutary? ... I shall do my damndest to obtain ., copy...
...fairness of the reporting in this pamphlet should have been a source of great satisfaction to those who truly struggle with this great problem. It could have been objectionable only to those whose minds were set upon a definite course of action and who were accordingly selfishly resolved to disregard any facts bearing on this question. The weak stand taken by President Barnard disqualifies him for his position. He has sanctioned the governing of the many by the few. DOUGLAS P. ADAMS...