(fik j, i1 OFPICIAL NEWSPAPER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Published every morning except Monday d4irng the university year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. DEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS T Associated Press is exclusively entitled tlzte use for republication of all news ds- katehe~s.credited to it or not otherwise credited ' this. paper and also the local news pub- ,lis herein. : tered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class matr.$ Subscrptions by carrier or mi $3.50. Offices: AnnArbor Press Build-g Phone>s: Business, 960; Editorial, 244 Communications not to exceed 3oo words, iU signed, the signature not necessarily to ap- .petr In print, but as an evidence of faith, and enotes of events will be published in. The y at the discretion of the Editor, if left mailed to the office. ined communications will receive no eration. No manuscript will be re- d unless the writer incloses postage. The Dail does not necessarily endorse the isexpressed in the communications. d C. Mighel.......Managing Editor arold Mak/nsn........Business Manager LeGrand A. Gaines. Advertising Manager Ages L. Abele.......Publication Manager BUSINESS STAFF Dofal- M. Major I Win.A. iLeitzinger THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1918. Night Editor-Martha Guernsey ORGANIZED PHILANTHROPISTS Among the many organizations fhU have been born of the war and which have for their prime motive the moral, mental, and physical advance- et of our fighting forces, the War amp Community Service occupies a ositlon by no means mediocre. If this war activity is less well known han some of its contemporaries, it is bec~ise its represntatives have chosen to fulfill their mission in silence. In Ann A'rbor the work of the ser- vice is being carried on by the Mich- igan Union, the social diretor f which, Mr. Frank Racon, bleds the executive committee -- a pero:ifnnel representing the best organizations of city and campus. The local scrvice is now arranging a series of entertain- nieants for the army men, and it bids' r to become as usefui in Ann Abr r as it the many other camp and can- tonment cities in which it has boen estblished. In its latest undertaking, the Union is working hand in hand V itit the y: M. C. A., now, as always, identied with worthy activities. The cornbina- tion of these two institutions, bacled by other motive groups of ca us, civic, and national importance, is , r- tami to make its presence felt am value by the siuut- oidie of Ann Arbor. Above all other features, the spirit the War Camp Community Service le to be commended. The non-mer- 1enary basis of operation and the un- 'eflf6hness of purpose which char-. acterizes the welfare work of the ser- see cannot but facilitate the success of its great and noble mission. COLD STEEL Bayonet practice was held . yester- 4ay on State street behind the PsJNp- sllrn fraternity house. The officers were receiving instructions as to the correct method of handling the weap- on and manipulating it. Dummies will probably be used later for there is as fch finesse and strategy in this phase of warfare as in the manage- !ent of an attacking airplane. The nrimness of the struggle for which the erstwhile careless boys, who used to loiter about Ann Arbor's streets after classes( are preparing them- re ves, came home with force as this bardest and most revolting of war's lessons was being taught. It brought one up with a jerk to the realization that the buzz and excitement of war- time activity in the University, in it- self not an unpleasant thing to live through, is only the prelude to that U, t~r rle and soul-trying of all evpCriences. real war. Anyone who has had one of these weapons i his hands and has tried t imself using it effectively, exprie&~a revulsion which it is nectrv -or a soldier to overcome, nuthy ariening his human sym- c by fixing his mind upon irpose for which he fights rm ned for accomplishing this ard part nf his work in the most ef- fective war An aviator is keyed up to his baiWa by the thrill of his situ- at ion and 'ter all, he only shoots at the neomv The man behind the big gui is 1 u away from the Hun, and his primnaterest is in the working f the nngn. If the ball strikes he is not directly aware "f itsI efcts A man.handling a rifle shoots at figres in the opposite trench much u he wonmd shoot at a bull's-eye. lint a Dayonet-"It's either you or the otier fellow" is the constant reitera- lion of an officer to keep his men- front inathbrg the thought of using it ever on the nost brutal of enemies. in almuost any other kind of fighting, the soldier is sustained either by the ronumc of it, ar the long-distance range at which, it is carried on or both. But not so with bayonet. And since every soldier must use it soonerI or later, it is needful that every man have that conviction of the righteous- ness of his cause which will steel his mind and nerves to this test.OM _____________ CCASION DESCRIBED IN COM- Detroit police are investigating te MUN1ICATION FROM PROF. tactics of plumbers. A wholly un- C. B. VIBBERT necessai y procedure, considering the amount of material available on the The following account of a Mich- subject in humor columns. . igan dinner held in Paris on Sept. 28, is contained in a recent letter from The University is not the only insti- Prof. C. B. Vibbert, secretary of the tution which has been shorn of an- Michigan bureau of the American un- cient traditions. No army mules have iversity union: so far been observed in Ann Arbor. "You would have enjoyed very / much, no doubt, looking in on the Grant's prescription of "uncondi- dining-room last Saturday evening, tional surrender" has stood the test of when 54 Michigan men in service time and is recommended for the pre- gathered together for our fifth All- sent patient. Michigan banquet. I had scarcely hoped, with all permissions to Paris We 'can continue to yawn and chow formally cut off and the greatest of- gum behind it in class anyway, fensive yet launched in full swing, to round up more than 35 or 40 men. LIBRARY WILL SOON In fact, I should not have been sur- prised if we had had scarcely more BE FULLY OCCUPIED than the 20 Michigan men of Hospital unit Q, recruited from Grand Rapids,- which is in charge of a big tent hos- Occupation of the now unused part pital set up in the 'old steeple-chase of the new library, it is hoped, will race track at Auteuil in the southern take place ' by mid-winter. It is end of the Bois de Boulogne. But planned that this part of the build- what was iuy surprise, alnost embar- ing will be for the exclusive use of rassment, when 54 men appeared on the S. A. T. C., for supervised study the scene. I had as guest of honor, rooms. The fu'rniture is to be of the Dr. William Exley Thompson, presi- most temporary kind." The tables will dent of Ohio State university, on whom be of rough boards placed on horses,1the University of Michigan conferred and there will be wooden benches. the honorary degree of L.L.DD. in The present% reading rooms will con- 1915. Dr. Thompson is in Europe as tinue to be used by the other stu- the president of the agricultural com- dents during the remainder of the mission sent out by our department school year. . of agriculture. He gave a stirring A feature of the new library will be jtalk upon America's conception of the a newspaper stack room which will war and its meaning. be completed very soon and will be "Other toasts were responded to by but to use i msdiately. yh uhd bnilMjr (. . \ sou ul the 1th Regt ery will il nioved into Jow (uarters ii..thigan National rd, v ho in the northeast eirner of the base- lis juSt been givut tie IX.:I for ment a soon as it h.a boon tomplet- I remna rna ' ta ' wv ii toep g s _i N1 [t i n ~_r um isio ' .1 ' ih- w i tha": at ; .1 ' 2. 11 iu economics, L.a1in., and olL or SUbJO(.5., :8e ti a t d e in tIn boniitai w;h not he osse rbis year. Xor a r. 'ii 1'2o wn~r bat fA rte- RUe to the ge-ia I hiort: ge on In - V nl . v .41., brand materi. an 1 diculty in Aa47:.-e