THE WEATHER SN O W O R R A IN ''ov TO)AY ailg ASSOCIATED PRESS DAY AND NIGHT WIRE SER VICE . , VOL. XXIX. No. 64. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918. PRICE THREE CENTS 5UARD OF REGENTS VETOES MILITARY TRAINING FOR THIS YEAR ACCEPTS IATI T PROFESSORS REMITTANCES WILL BE WAIVE IN CASE OF DISABLED FRENCH SOLDIERS UNIVERSITY DESIGN ATEI AS, LOCAL SUB BUREA Advisability of Continuing Vocationa Courses Referred to Committee on Finances No unit of the reserve officer training corps will be re-establishe at the University during the Ares ena academic year, the Board of Re gents decided at their meeting yes terday. The resolution followed tb recommendation of the Universit Senate, which based its opinon upo the assumption that peace will r suit from the Versailles conferenc about to (be' held. U. of M. Designated Sub-bureau The board supported a plan propos ed by the committee on education a Washington, under which the Univer ' sity of Michigan is to be made on of the few sub-bureaus on educatio in the United States. The education al department of the government i establishing these bureaus at severa of the universities located in differen parts of the country. Under a com missioner each bureau will hav charge of that section in which it is and will represent the interests o the central commatttee at Washngton To the request of the America council on education asking if dis abled French soldiers could be edu cated in the University, the Regent replied that a remittance of fee would be made for any who migh come here. It is said that this is on of the results of the French educa tional mission which visited the Uni- versity last month. An exchange o scholars between the two countries is to be brought about. The work will progress gradually at first bu is expected to attain, in the end, tha of bringing France and America clos- er together in intellectual sympa- thies. Consider Publication of War Records A committee was appointed by Pres- ident Harry B. Hutchins to consider - the preparation and publication of a record of the participation in the war by the University and its faculty, students, and alumni. The commit- teemen are: Regent Frank B. Leland, chairman; alumni Regents, James 0. Murfin and William L. Clements; Prof. A. L. Cross and Mr. J. F. Scott, of the history department, and Mr. H. L. Sensemann, of the rhetoric de- partment. Three Professors Resign 'Tge resignations of Prof. William J. Hale, of the chemical department, Prof. N. B. Foster, of the medical school',and N. A. Wood were accept- ed. Professor Hale will devote his entire time to research work in pure and industrial chemistry. Professor Foster is now a lieutenant-colonel in the medical corps of the United States army. Dr. M. D. Haag was appointed to the medical faculty, and Dr. G. C. Huber to membership in the Grad- uate school. Col. W. T. Fishleigh was granted permission to develop a mod- ern laboratory for scientific research work in automobile engineering. Plan Vocational Courses Provision for additional nurses at the University hospital was made. The new class will consist of student nurs- es. Proposal of the engineering col- lege to continue for civilians the courses in vocational training was re- ferred to the finance committee for consideration and report. These cours- es submitted are to be similar to those which have been given to th _ men who were in section B of the S. A. T. C. ' The same buildings and equipment would be used, according to the plans. The Regents voted that a consider- able number of this year's Michi- ganensians should be sent to the va- rious high schools throughout the state. A biennial inventory report of University property showed it to be valued at $8,164,101.10. This is an increase of $936,180.19 during the last .. _... ,1 Gargoyle's Wiles Encourage Smile D The Gargoyle once again is bac: U with Santa Claus in Red and Blac aflaming Boldly on it; and fellow al pause along the Way to Talk aboi it and to say "I'd give my Sunda Bonnet-I'd Mortgage my next Easte Hat, if I could Sling a Brush lil1 , that and raw like That by Thunde s That Artist sure can Sling the Paint d don't let one hear you say She ain't Winner and a Wonder. They open I and look Within, and Swear that Oat - s- of Shame and Sin: "By Cardia t Strabismus, it takes a lot of Nerv .y and Gall to Josh the Dean-I'll be they All must Seek the Woods b e Christmas." And then they see th Double Page and Cruckle at its Per siflage with Gurglings and Guffa'w ings: they read the Poets and th - Wits and Laugh at all the Jokes lik t Fits, and Chortle at the Drawings. - The Gargoyle once again is out, an e selling Briskly ill about as Fast a n they can sell it; if Uncle Walt woul ~ only Write and Ade would aid Hin S to Indite perhaps the Two could tel .l it-but I am only a Poor Amateu t and I Cannot do it. , SENIORS TO HELP f UPHOLD TRADITIONS L. n - "Co-operation of the junior and se - nior classes in upholding Michigan s traditions is sought not to crush th s spirit of the sophomore class," said t L. Albert Lundquist, president of th e senior lits, yesterday, "but rather to - regulate its work of teaching the class - of '22 its place on the campus. Due to f . the disrupting of the campus by the war, the class of '21 did not become as familiar with Michigan and its tra- t ditions as we of the two upper class- t es. Hence the two classes have com- - bined to regulate the hazing which the class of '22 may expect after Christmas.' "I speak for my own class as well as '20 when I say that I don't believe in the old-fashioned hazing. In the old days the bounds of human en- durance were frequently overstepped. Rough stuff is to be avoided and we intend to see that it is." Lundquist believes that a monster mass meeting 'should be held imme- diately after Christmas, at which there should be prominent alumni and campus speakers present to tell thel assembled classes about Michigan as it was before the war and just what is expected of each class in order to put the University back on its old basis. t "An old-time pep meeting with the band out and all that goes to make Michigan spirit should be held," he said. NEW YORK PLANS PAGEANT ON DEC.23 (By Associated Press) Washington, Dec. 13.-- Return to home waters of the first ships of Am- erican armada, sent to Europe to com- bat German sea power, will be marked by a great naval pageant in New York harbor about Dec.n 2. In the home coming fleet will be nine dreadnaughts, 20 destroyers, and more than 40 converted yachts, mine planters, submarides, and other craft. Th.e destroyer force, part of which is already on the way to New York, in- cludes many of the vessels first sent to the war zone, and some of them carry on their funnels the stars awarded for destruction of German ; >marines. Hea h ConditionsImprove in Camps W astsigt on, Dec. 13.-Health con- ditions _i army camps of the United States continued to improve during the week ending Dec. 6, a report to the surgeon general of the army said. Both the non-effective and death rates was decidedly lower than.th previous week. Influenza continued to prevail at practically all large posts, and offi- cials said that it was less violent than, STEP ON EVERYONE FOR JUST 25 CENT When the old-fashioned all-campu mixer supplants the officers' tea as social event, he who runs may rea that the war is over. The complet return to the days of peace is b ing celebrated in ways too numerou to mention nowadays, but the parti ular form of jollification today is ti polite pushball contest known as mixer. This one is being given by th Women's league at 2 o'clock this afi ernoon in Barbour gymnasium. There are, it is said, good reasoi why everybody should be "amor those present" beside the well-know] fact that "a pleasant time will be ha by all." Those who know everybod; on the campus are foreordained to ei joy themselves, and those who do not cannot help but get acquainted. A mixer is nothing if not true to i1 name, and he who hunts up his part ner by the initial of her last name and wonders if he remembers wha her last name is, must be the rea oyster if he doesn't make a fe' friends, and cause some people to re- member him to the close of his colleg8 career for the emphasis with whicl he placed his feet on theirs. Thif latter privilege alone makes the afi ernoon worth the trifling two bit. requisitioned by the doorkeeper. 738 MEN RELEASED roMi t'rPTiflm i - n r FuIVI JEIIIUII ti MEN PAID FIFTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS; INSURANCE KEPT BY ALL The total number of men discharg- ed from the service yesterday ex- ceeded any of the previous days' e l number by about 300, when 736 of e the S. A. T. C. wre released. Al- though it was expected that only four ,companies could be run through, com-, panies 7, 8, 12, 13, and 14 were dis- missed during the day. This leaves _ only three more to go, of which num- ber companies 15 and 16 will be re- leased today. Company 17, which Snow comprises 110 men including 69 of the section A men who were trans- ' ferred to it yesterday, will be the only part of the unit to renain. These men will be discharged from time to time, 15 of them going yester'day. Men Get Eighteen Dollars The serial numbers for the men who were in the engineering reserve have not arrived yet so they are still to be included in the post here. All the men have been paid now with the exception of a few special cases. Fifty-seven thousand dollars was the approximate total of the money that was paid out to the men in this last payroll, all the men re- ceiving the same amount, about $18. All the men are continuing their in- surance as it is an excellent oppor- tunity to enjoy the most reliable in- surance in the world at a minimum premium rate. Vacate Many Fraternities Attendant to yesterday's discharges the following fraternity houses were vacated: Alpha Delta Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Zeta Psi, Trigon, Phi Gamma Del-1 ta, Delta Chi, and Delta Tau Delta. WASHES WINDOWS; GETS BAD TUMBLE3 While washing windows yesterday, on the third floor of Barracks 44, thec Zeta Psi house, Warren E. Jackson,t '21, Co. 14, lost his balance and fell,s fracturing bones in both feet and an- kles. He was rushed to St. Joseph's hospital, where he was resting com- fortably last night. Dotcors at the institution say thatt the swelling caused by the fracturest is so great that it will be two orl three days before an' X-ray can be7 taken to determine the extent of a Jackson's injuries. Since Co. 14-wasT disbanded yesterday Jackson will be transferred to the only remainingI company, 17. Requirements Lowered at Iowa State University of Iowa has decided to grant to all S. A. T. C. men the de- gree of bachelor of arts if they com- plete 110 semester hours' work in the university independently of the pres- t ent quarter. The normal requirement l has been 120 semester hours. b W. J. HALE RESIGNS FROM UNIVERSIT s Prof. William J. Hale, of the d a partment of chemistry of the Un e versity, tendered his resignation - the board of Regents who were s session yesterday and his resignatic - was accepted. e Professor Hale resigned in order a be able to devote more of his tin s to research in pure and industria - chemical. He has accepted a positic with the Dow Chemical Co. at Mi s lands. He is planning to put ant operation some new processes whic t will aid greatly in the developmen 1 of organic chemistry. t By making this change Professo Hale will be given an opportunity t study and to carry on research in sev eral problems which he has bee % working on for some time. Because o his work in the University he ha ben unable to give these subjects th amount of time which he wished. H desires to make research work in thi branch his life work and believe that he is making a step toward ac complishing this work by resignin from the University. Professor Hale will remain her during the remainder of this semeste and will not move to Midland unti March. OFFICER EXPOSES HUGE HUN PROPAGANDAPLO GERMAN SYSTEM INTENDED T( UNDERMINE OPINIONS OF U. S. PATRIOTS (By Associated Press) Washington, Dec. 13.- Operation of the German propaganda system in the United States, through which val- uable information for transmission to Berlin was gathered, and at the same time German doctrines were spread over the country, were laid bare today by Capt. G. Lester, of the army in- telligence service, in testimony before the senate committee investigating German propaganda. Iluns Send 31 Propagindists Captain Lester declared that an un- named informant, now interned, told him that the Berlin government on July 10, 1914, nearly a month before the war started, called into confer- ence about 131 trained and educated German propagandists, and sent them to all parts of the world with instruc- tions to prepare for the world war, which they were told was about to be precipitated. Thirty-one of these land- ed in the United States two weeks aft- er hostilities started, and became the nucleus for an organization of be- tween 200,000 and 300,000 volunteers, namely German-Americans, who gathered information of all kinds and reported it to German consuls and agents in hundreds of communities. Teuton Systeji Far Reaching William Baird Hale, a writer for the Hearst newspapers and formally confidential representative of Presi- dent Wilson in Mexico, eventually be- came head of the publicity organiza- tion thus built up, Captain Lester said. The officer also said that news- papers and writers were influenced by German propaganda, film plays were produced promoting distrust in Japan and Washington, and Washing- ton newspaper man was hired to re- port government secrets to the Ger- man headquarters, writers were sent to Germany to send back dispatches praising the German causes, and a "golden book" was circulated through- out the United States to get signa- tures of American citizens leaning to- ward pro-German sympathies. Communication Heads Named Washington, Dec. 13.-Postmaster General Burleson appointed a board for the operation of the telegraph and telephone under government control. Union N. Bethel, vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph ompany, is chairman, and the other 1%embers are, F. Stevenson, superin- tendent of the plants of the American Telephone and Telegraph company; G. Yorke, vice-president of the West- ern Union Telegraph company, and A. Adams, president of the Kansas City Home Telegraph company. BEG YOUR PARDON!t Harry D. Hause is the alternate on he J-hop committee instead of Wil- liam Leitzinger as was stated in yes- terday's Daily. Russian Pianist to Startle Public d- An entirely Russian program wi o be given at the pre-festival concer h tonight in Hill auditorium. The selec it tions will be almost all of Serge Serg ievitch Prokofieff's own composition r His works are a partial answer t to the query as to what will be the effec - of four years of war on musical rea n tion as he has written much durin f the last four years of the storm an d stress in Russia, according to Pro .e Albert A. Stanley, of the School o e Music. 's Professor Stanley went on to say s "Prokofieff, the composer pianist, is a - interesting personality. At an earl g age he developed great ability asa pianist and a remarkable gift for coin e position. r "At the age of twelve he had thre i1 great dramatic works to his credit, al though they were omewhat imma ture. Neither these nor the 100 piece he wrote before 1909 are published. "Since then, however, 19 works ranging from operas to sonatas, an concertos have been printed. More over, a, large number of pieces fo pianaforte, several of which he wil include in his programme, have been put onsale. "It is not always easy to listen to an entirely new note without preju- dice as has been seen in the last gen- eration when nearly every novel con- s tribution has been met with either in- difference or opposition, generally the - latter. "In Prokofieff, however, the musical world has been broght face to face with a great artist who is bound to have a decided influence in the future. - This is indicated that after his recent debuts in New York and Chicago, practically all of the great construc- tive critics discussed his art at length in the columns of their papers." thirteen Hoodoo Followvs Thirteen Are you superstitious? If you were a member of Company 13 you'd better start throwing salt over your shoulder and be sure there aren't 13 grains in the sodium chloride too. Company 13 went into barracks on Oct. 13. There are 213 men in the company, with 13 men in the orderly room. 'The barracks is located just 13 blocks from the Michigan Central station and 13 blocks from the Univer- sity hospital. :Wednesday evening 13 military .police from Company 13 rounded up 113 wanderers. The company was mustered out on Friday, Dec. 13 and each lieutenant had ijst $13 in his pocket. It has been report- ed that the company found 13 worms in the mess, and some even say that each worm had 13 legs. Too bad they weren't gobs so they would each have 13 buttons on their uniforms. RECEPTION TO BE GIVEN FOR MASQUES THIS AFTERNOON A reception will be given to the members of the Masques by Prof. J. L. Raleigh and Mrs. Raleigh assisted by Dean Myra B. Jordan at Profes- sor Nelson's home, 927 Forrest ave- nue, from 3 to 5 o'clock this after- noon. The masques is the dramatic organization of the women of the Uni- versity. On the occasion of this re- ception, plans for the year's work will be definitely announced and the newly elected members will have ar opportunity to meet the older mem- bers. To Have Victory Prom at Wisconsin The University of Wisconsin is planning to have a Victory prom this year instead of a junior prom. It is to be an all-university prom in honor of the victorious solders returnng to Wisconsin. The mnotto is, "Let's have a great, democratic Victory prom." Montreal Strikers Return to Work Montreal, Dec. 13. - The strike of policemen, firemen and otht3r city em- ployes was settled tonight, and the. men returned to work. 11 ADMIRAL MAYO STAGES t SEA FIGHT FOR PARTY Bluejackets Sing Hymn, After Picture Show, on Evening Before Vessel to Puts in French Port g (By Associated Press) d Brest, Dec. 13.-The George Wash. f. ington, with President Wilson and f Is official party aboard, arrived off Brest shortly after noon today. At 1:10 o'clock this afternoon the George Washington entered the harbor and y steamed slowly toward her anchorage. a - (By the Havas Agency) Paris, Dec. 13.- By a unnanimous e vote the Municipal council of Paris - today decided to confer the title of - "citizen of Paris" on President Wil- s son. (By Associated Press) d |Berne, Dec. 12.- (Delayed).- .A - formal invitation to visit Switzerland r was made by the Swiss parliament 1 this afternoon. Paris, Dec. 13. - The Municipal council completed today the last de- - tails for the reception of the 'resident and Mrs. Wilson. When President Wilson is being presented the grand gold medal of the city of Paris, Mrs. Wilson will be presented with a gold broach set in diamonds, with doves, in back relief, bearing an olive branch. (By Wireless to Associated Press) On board the U. S. S. George Wash- t ington, Dec. 12.-(Delayed).- Presi- dent Wilson's last night aboard the ship was a memorable one. It was marked by a demonstration on the part of the personnel of the ship which greatly touched him. Bluejackets Sing for Wilson President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson had attended a moving picture show aboard the George Washington, and when the show had ended and they were ready to depart, a great chorus of bluejackets, unannounced, entered the room and sang two verses of "God Be With You, Till We Meet Again." After the singing the President ex- pressed his 1ppreciation of the words of the old hymn, especially as coming from men of all walks of life, many of them former prosperous business men, who had sacrificed their interests in serving their country in time of need. Orchestra Plays Old Song At the conclusion the orchestra broke forth with "Auld Lang Syne," and the voices of the whole sixth com- pany rose to the pitch of the tune, which must have been heard on the decks of the torpedo destroyer a quart- er of a mile off. He bowed his ac- knowledgement to the singers, but did not address them. President Wilson wil remain in Eu- rope, probably two months, returning to Washington just before the close of the present congress. If he is required later at the peace table, it is said he will not hesitate to return to France. it is known, however, that he hoped to avoid this later contingency and (Continued on Page Six) SPHINX INITIATE SEVEN NEOPHYTES Riding high and dry on the camels' backs, but touching the burning sands occasionally only to find the heat un- bearable, seven juniors were initiat- ed into the Egypt known to none but the tribe of Sphinx, junior lit. hon- orary society, yesterday afternoon. The wearisome journeyywassurviv- ed by the following neophytes: John Perrin, Harry Heffner, Vincent Rior- den, Harry Hause, Jean Freeman, Lawrence VanNess, and Kendrick Kimball. At the mummification banquet Dav- id B. Landis, '20, acted as toastmas- ter and called for a bit of ancient wis- dom from Prof. J. A. C. Hildner, Fran- cis Bacon, Carl Johnson, '20, Clar- ence Roeser, '19, and Lawrence Van- Ness, '20, of the neophytes. PRESIDENT WILSON REACHES FRANCE;. PARIS MAKES MONSTER PREPARATIONS; l~S HEAD REFUSES FEW INVITATIONS MOVING PICTURE SHOWS AMUSE AMERICAN PEACE MEMBERS ON LONG VOYAGE AU