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iT BASKETBILL
DEPENDSI ON BIGTEN
MITCHELL'S CALL FOR CANDI-
DATES BRINGS MANY
NEW MEN
Basketball at the University of
Michigan will not start formally un-
til the conference decides definitely
upon the course it will pursue this
year, according to an announcement
made by Coach Mitchell, of the flive
man team, yesterday.
His ifitial call for tryouts for the
squad, should one be formed, was giv-
en out yesterday, resulting in a large
number of tryouts reporting today.
Freshman were in the majority, de-
spite the fact that their eligibility for
the five man game has not been de-
cided upon.
Few Veterans Remain
Mitchell has but a very small com-
plement of last year's aggregation
about which to build a squad. In fact,
but two veterans remain. Bornstein
and Hewlitt, both forwards of last
season, are the only experienced men
upon whom he has to depend. Karpus,
a forward on the all freshman team
of last year, will probably make a
berth on the squad.
,Althoughpractice has not started
because of the lack of a gymnasium,
the coach is desirous of meeting the
candidates for the team, until a place
can be secured. Mitchell talked to a
number of candidates yesterday, out-
lining the prospects of the season.
All State Man Reports
Among the first year men who are
desirous of obtaining a iace on the
Varsity five is an all state high school
guard, from Indiana. Peare is the
freshman's name, and he promises to
be good fruit. Loeb, another fresh-
man who reported for a tryout, with
two years' experience on the Univer-
sity High School five, of Chicago, will
probably give some one a run for the
forward position..
Football stars are also reporting
for the work. ,Fortune, the plunging
line man, who featured in offensive
work on the 1918 eleven, will make an
attempt to land a letter in the five
man game. Dunne, the stellar end,
is also in the running for a position,
and is almost assured of the center
position on the five.
More candidates are asked to re-
port to the coach at the athletic of-
fiees.
EXTENSION OF NEBRASKA'S
FOOTBALL SEASON CERTAIN
(By Associated Press)
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 5.-Extension of
the University of Nebraska's football
season to December 14 is now prac-
tically certain, according to Prof. R.
B. Scott, athletic director.
After negotiating. with several
schools for post-season games, Pro-
fessor Scott announced that the Corn-
huskers are apparently certain of an
engagement with the Washington Uni-
versity team, to be played in St. Louis
December 7, and -that there is a
strong probability of a late engage-
ment with Camp Funston.
Major General Leonard Wood wrote
Professor Scott inviting the Nebras-
ka squad to Camp Funston to meet
the service team December 14. Pro-
fessor Scott wired a conditional ac-
ceptance, pending permission of the
military commandant of the S. A. T.
C., at the university, to make the trip.
CAmp Custer Health Conditions Rest
Battle Creek, Dec. 5.-Camp Custer
last week topped the list of U. S.
army camps as regards health condi-
tions, the number of men ill being but
16.73 per 1,000. Several tonsilitis cas-
es are reported at the base hospital.
The cases have been isolated and there
is no epidemic.
Training continues, although the
length of the hikes, as well as the
hours of drill, has been shortened. A
number of the men are signifying
their willingness to go into the reor-
ganized regular army. It is under-
stood those so willing will be given
a month's leave of absence before be-
ing transferred.
Y. M. C. A. at the University of Col-
orado has started an active cam-
paign to secure jobs for those men
in the S. A. T. C. who need work in
order to stay in school. No tuition
will be charged the first quarter and
TRACK MEN - NOTICE
All track men who have equip-
ment in the Ferry field club
clubhouse are asked to get it
out by the end of this week, that
the clubhouse may be closed.
Some one will be at the field, to
let the men in the locker rooms,
when they appear.
Track practice will be held in
Waterman gymnasium as soon
as It is vacated by the soldiers,
Doc. May, trainer, announced
last night. Workouts will also
be held on the outside track.
ILLINOIS VARSITY
RECEIVE LITTERS
Urbana, Ill., Dec. 5,-Sixteen mem-
bers of the Illinois football squad
have been awarded letters for the sea-
son of 1918. The list is headed by
Capt. B. A. Ingwersen, the junior who
was chosen to lead the team when
Captain-elect Sternaman went to
Camp Funston.
The names familiar to Michigan
men are those of Ingwersen and of
W. L. Kopp..Jngwersen played sec-
ond base on the baseball team the
Maize and Blue champions beat twice
last spring. Kopp was the catcher
for the nine.
Gold footballs will be presented to
the 16 letter men, increcognitionof
their unblemished conference rec-
ord. Illinois woi all four of her Big
Ten games, though she lost to the
Chicago Naval Reserves, upon a touch-
down by Gerald Froemke, ex-'20;
INFLUENZA STEALS
MILLIONS OF YEARS
(By Associated Press)
New York, Dec. 5.-The Spanish In-
fluenza epidemic which swept this
country during the autumn, "stole"
millions of the best years of life from
American manhood and womanhood,
Henry Moir, an insurance authority
of this city, declared here today.
The average economic loss of ac-
tive life in each case of death from
the malady or its aftermath was at
least 25 years,. said Mr. Moir, empha-
sizing the peculiarity of the epidemic,
which found most of Its victims under
30 years of age, as compared with the
average life of 55 and 60 years of per-
sons insured in well established com-
panies.
Mr. Moir warned the public that
there is no assurance that the dan-
ger is past. "We learn," he said,
"that Influenza is now revisiting Eu-
rope and this time there are indica-
tions that it may be more objection-
able than the milder form of mid-
summer. We should therefore take
warning from this recurrence and ob-
serve watchful care to prevent further
infection, since the disease has dis-
tinctly decreased and seems to be
dying out in this country."
TRANSPORTATION TO BE PAID
FOR CUSTER MEN DISCHARGED
SENATOR Ce S, THOMAS
URGES EFFICIENCY
SAYS PEOPLE MUST RISE TO RE-
SPONSIBILITY OF OUSTING
SEDITION
(By Associated Press)
New York, Dec. 5.-Ordinary effic-
iency in public administration would
save the people of this country $600,-
000,000 a year, United States Senator
Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado, told
the Association of Life Insurance pres-
idents in a thrift conference which be-
gan here today. Senator Thomas is a
member of the senate committee on
finance.
"The war leaves us a legacy of a
stupendous debt," declared Senator
Thomas. "It will reach, if it does not
exceed, $35,000,000,000 or twice as
much as the combined debt of the Al-
lied nations, including Russia, when
the war began. The annual interest
upon this stupendous sum will be $1,-
400,000,000; nearly twice the net total
of the nation's annual pre-war ex-
penditure. This means a vastly in-
creased rate and radius of taxation.
The people must bear the burden; for
Germany cannot make indemnity. They
will bear it willingly, if economy in
public administration and the applica-
tion of every dollar to the public needs
shall become the policy of the govern-
ment. They will not and should not
be content if the gross extravagance
of the past continue.
Revision of Public Service
"In 1910, Senator Aldrich declared
that ordinary efficiency in public ad-
ministration would annually save the
people $300,000,000. It would now
save twice that sum. If the taxpayers
of America will unite in demanding a
radical revision of our public service,
a consolidation ofnduplicating bureaus,
and the institution of the budget sys-
tem in appropriations, it will be done.
If they will also rigidly supervise
public expenditures, taxation can be
largely reduced. If they fail to do
this, our appropriations will keep in-
creasing, for every demand made upon
the treasury is complied with when
political or organized force is behind
it, and everything in these days is' or-
yganized except the man who pays the
taxes."
Senator Thomas declared that Am-
erican shores have been flooded with
a mass of humanity apparently unas-
similable. The immigrants' colonies
have become "national plague spots,
breeding places for all the ugly dis-
orders of the century." Disruption of
the central powers, he believed, would
remove all restrictions upon immigra-
tion of their people. "The dam," he
declared, "must be erected on this side
of the Atlantic and no time should be
lost in its construction.
New York Bed of Sedition
"Your city typifies the general sit-
uation. It contains the germs of every
social and political disorder. Parts of
its press are constant and competent
sewers of sedition. From such con-
genial soil was bred the Black Hand
and I. W. W. A powder magazine un-
guarded is not more dangerous to the
community.
"Into the face of this sinister men-
ace, wealth flaunts the orgies of the
Great White Way. It thus supplies
the east side with text and justifica-
tion. A population, sullen with the
discontent of poverty, confronted with
the vulgar and ostentatious display
of lavish extravagance, will not al-
ways remain quiescent. An explosion
is inevitable.
"It is a sinister fact that except-
ing Lenine, nearly all the leaders of
Russian Bolshevikism graduated from
the swarming centers of New York,
Chicago, and Philadelphia. Their
bloody program was formulated here,
and here they proposed to test it,
when opportunity beckoned and Russ-
ia became their victim. From that
continental slaughter house they sal-
ute their accessories in America and
urge them tothe commission of sim-
ilar atrocities.
WAI KING LOO
Open from 11:30 a. m. to 12:00 p. m.
Phone 1620-B
"The war has taught us the wisdom
and the simplicity of thrift. We should
make it a national virtue. It is the
best cure for discontent."
MEN IN TRAINING
PROVE VETERANS
(By Associated Press)
Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 5.-Their
willingness to serve, their willingness
to go abroad and to do their part in
the battles for the freedom of the
world, if necessary, even though they
were not sent abroad, will have con-
siderable effect on their lives after
their discharge from the army, the
men from a half dozen states now
training at Camp Custer in the 14th-
the black bear division-believe.
These men are looked upon at home
as veterans and, according to their
officers, they are veterans and should
be honored as such. It is held that
it was through no fault of the men
of the 14th that they have had no op-
portunity for foreign service for they
have valiantly worked and trained foF
participation in their country's anb
the world's battles.
These men will be honored, just as
will the veterans of the fighting in
Europe, by their native states on their
return home, according to information
received here. In several states ar-
rangements are being made to pay
signal honors to men returning from
both cantonments and abroad.
In Michigan many public offices will
be available to the men who have
served and will not be limited to those
who served overseas, it is declared.
In this and other states, too, an hon-
orable discharge will be accepted by
hundreds of employers as the only
recommendation necessary when the
holder seeks a position.
No examination week with two hour
finals is the decision of the faculty
at the University of Wisconsin.
Always-Daily service-Always.
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Men's Suits
and Overcoats
In Large Variety
eighteen Dollars and up
Gloves, Hosiery, and Neckwear
To Suit Everyone
WADHAMS & CO.
Main Street
(Iwo Stores)
State Street
314 S. State St.
Ann Arbor
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THE "Y" INN AT LANE HALL
Lunch, 11:45-1:0-40c
fDinner, 5:30-6:45-50
Lunch and Dinner by the week, $5.0
Home Cooked Food
Attractive Dining Room;
Balanced Meals
Open to Men and Women
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(By Associated Press)
Battle Creek, Dec. 5. - Men dis-
charged from the service at Camp
Custer are furnished funds for the
purchaseofrtheir tickets home. The.
amount furnished is far in excess of
requirements for the purchase of tick-
ets, particularly sin'e it has been rul-
ed that .men may have the benefit of
the two-cent per mile rate. It is re-
quired that they make their ticket
purchase on the day of discharge. The
ticket provides for no sleeping or tour-
ist car accommodations.
The discharged soldiers may retain,
for four months, i is stated, a flannel
shirt, service co.t and ornaments,{
one pair of shoes, hat and hat cord,
overcoat, pair of leggins and a slick-
er, giving them opportunity to earn
and purchase civilian clothing dur-
ing that time.
The men may also retain all used
stockings and underclothing perma-
nently. Many men bought uniforms
in order to secure the sort of fit they
thought looked best on them. This
clothing remains their own. It was
unnecessary that such purchases be
made.
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UKULELES
Fine American-made Ukuleles; good
tone. One model priced special for
December at only $4.50; others
$5.00 to $6.00.
MUSIC STANDS
"Hamilton," no thumb screws or
parts to get out of order, nickel
plated, $2. Other Music Stands,
75c for ,.the "White Beauty" and
$1.50 for the "Twentieth Century."
BAND INSTRUMENTS
We are agents for and carry a full
line of the famous J. W. York Sons
American-made Band -Instruments.
Used by Professionals and Leading
Bands everywhere. Complete cat-
alogs and full information gladly
furnished. We quote two Holiday
Specials to show what big values we
are offering in Band Instruments:
Cornet, long model; quick change
from B flat to A; high and low pitch;
American make; only $25.
Clarinet, high-grade French make;
15 keys, 2 ring; perfect in tone and
tune; our special price only $30.
GUITARS, BANJOS,
MANDOLINS, ETC.
Guitars, $7, $10, $12, to $20.
Vega Guitars, $18 to $75.
Mandolins, fiat back, mahogany fin.
ish, $8, $10, $12.
Vega Mandolins, $20 to $75.
Weymann Mandolutes, $18, $24, $36.
Vega Lutes, (flat back Mandolins),
$20 to $100.
Banjos, $8, $10, $12, to $20.
Vega Banjos, $20 to $100.
Banjo Mandolins, $8, $10, $12, etc.
MUSIC ROLLS AND BAGS
An immense assortment of Music
Rolls at 75e, $1, $1.50, $2, etc. Fine
leather Music Bags, a great variety
at $1.75, $2, $3, $4, $5, etc.
BOY SCOUT BUGLES AND
DRUMS
Army Bugle, regulation U. S., our
price only $5.50.
Campaign Drums, maple or mahog-
any shell, size 16 x. 10 inches; Hal-
iday special at $15.
Special Xmas Vioin Outfit, eon-
ssting of full ebony trimmed Violin;
good tone and finish; with canvas
case, bow and extra strings, for only
$15.00.
Choice of Strad or Amati model
Violin; mellow tone; excellent for
beginners; complete with nice case,
good bow and extra set of strings;
Christmas price, $24.
High Grade Violin Outfits at $40 to
$500.
Small Violins, one-half and three-
fourths size, for children; big values
at $15 and up.
VIOLINS
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TOY MUSIC BOXES
Toy Music Boxes, delight the little
ones, $1 to $5.
Toy Pianos, always popular at Xmas,
50c, $1.25, etc.
Jews Harps, 15c, 25c, 40c, etc.
Hikanonieas, Flutes, Fifes, Tona-
harps, and everything imaginable
in Small Instruments, at very low-
est prices.
e-RSelf Instruction Books may be obtaine d at small cost for most of these Instruments
PIANOS-VICTROLAS
If you are interested in obtaining a PIANO, PLAYER-PIANO,
or a VICTROLA for Christmas, remember that here you will find the
greatest stocks and the best values. We sell on convenient payment
terms and guarantee complete satisfaction to every customer. We urge
you to visit our store.
Michigan's Leading Music House
ANN ARBOR STORE: 116 SO. MAIN
The naval unit at the University of
Wisconsin will be released from ac-
tive duty by Dec. 21.. On inactive duty
the men are paid $65 per year, but
will be subject to call any time with-
in the next four years.
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