N .ATHER WERS AND TODAY Vi~Sir Iat ASSOC IATEl PRESS JDASI ATNI I 11 SERVICE . No. 171. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1921. PRICE FIV ERIMAN DEFENSE FORCES PREPARED FOR DIRM NT ENERAL VON HOEFER ASSERTS READINESS OF ARMIES * TO DISBAND AYS PURPOSE WAS ONLY TO KEEP ORDER roops Did Effective Work in Prevent- ing More Serious Struggle, Claim (By Associated Press) Ober-Glogau, Upper Silesia, May 31. Voynich 's Roger Bacon Manuscript To Be Explained By Newbold Today Prof. William Romaine Newbold of the philosophy department of the- -University of Pennsylvania will ex- plain "The Voynich Roger Bacon Manuscript" in a lecture to be given at 4:15 o'clock Thursday afternoon in Natural Science auditorium. The manuscript, part of which was deci- phered by Professor Newbold him- self, is important because if it can be rightfully attributed to Roger Bacon it proves that he used a telescope and FACULTY CONSIDERS ENRNEkHNE -German defense organizations in Failures of First Year Men Were Also this city and in other towns west of the Oder river will disarm and dis- band as soon as inter-allied authority has been re-established in Upper Sil- esia, said General von Hoefer, com- mander of German guards in this city, yesterday. He added that the allies should be thankful that the Germans had "organized these men and had maintained order, instead of trying to disarm and disband the defense troops at' this critical time." "We do not want to keep Ithese men' under arms a minute longer than ne- cessary," he went on, "but we must protect ourselves." _ General von Hoefer is considered the strongest German personality in Silesia. He is credited with having es- tablished discipline among the defense forces gathered along the Oder, but many of the men he has disarnied and' others who came here from Germany, were sent back. General von Hoefer has repeatedly prevented the Ger- mans from stairting a general advance rising one morning at 4 o'clock to send orders to Germans already under way toward the Oder to turh back. JUNIOR ENGINEERS ELECT COUNCILMEN Eugene Harbeck, '22E, was elect- ed to the Student council over Mil- ton Goetz, '22E, in the balloting at the junior engineering class meeting yesterday morning. Harbeck polled 64 votes against 51 for Goetz. The class balloting was made necessary as the result of the tie which existed at the end of the recent All-campus elec- tion. Proof on the class directory which was posted in the room of the Engi- neering society for correction has been lost and another proof will be posted in the office of the Technic this morning. This must be attended to immediately in order to get the booklet out in time, it is announced. Copies of the directory will be mail- ed to all members of the class who have paid their dues. The directory includes the names, -nicknames, home addresses and local addresses of all members of the class. V. F. W. PLAN FIRST ANNUAL BANQUET AT ARMORY TONIGHT In order to bid farewell to those seniors "of 'the organization who are leaving school this yqar, the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold their first annual banquet at the Armory at 6:30 o'clock Thursday evening. Several speakers of prominence in the organ- ization will address those present. After the banquet there will be a business meeting at which all re- maining business will be transacted and plans made for the work of next year. Tickets for the banquet may be pur- chased from N. K. Chamberlain,, '22E; W. D. Gilbert, '22E, J. R. Rowe, '23, or J. P. Lawton, '24. Discussed at Meeting Yesterday SUGGEST REQUIREMENT OF MORE THAN ONE CONTINUATION STUDI Freshmen failu'res at the University of Michigan, together with a proposed revision of entrance requirements, were the topics of discussion at the meeting of the faculty yesterday aft- ernoon. For some time a special committee of the faculty has been se- curing information on which to base a revision of the present entrance re- quirements, and this information, to- gether with numerous recommenda- tions and suggestions, was presented to the faculty in a report by the com- mittee. Change Necessary Freshmen failures at the University make ncessary some change in the present system it is thought, and as a result of information gathered from other institutions throughout the country the committee feels its sug- gestions will povide a satisfactory remedy. The entire subject of fresh- men failures was goneover by the fac- ulty-yesterday afternoon and the pre- liminary report of the committee read, but several more conferences will be necessary before any faculty action may betaken. Specific proposed requirements for admission to the various colleges of the .University were presented to the faculty yesterday afternoon following approval by President Maion L Bur- ton and the deans. Criticism a d sug- gestion in regard to changes w re ask- ed for by the committee in charge. The matter will come up before the' faculty for discussion and adoption early next fall. Co-ordination Advocated Closer co-ordination between high schools and the University is advocat- ed by the faculty committee on fresh- men failures and revision of entrance requirements. Among the recommend- ations made by the committee yester-~ day afternoon were those jn regard to continuation studies. These studies are defined by' the committee as cours- es demanding as a pre-requisite a preparation equivalent to the units' accepted i1 that subject for admission. The committee advocates that at least one of the major subjects of high school study other than English must be pursued throughout the freshman year as a continuation 'study; that English shall be continued in the freshman year in the University either as rhetoric I or II, depending upon whether three or four units of Eng- lish with composition are offered for admission; that when two or more units are offered in Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, history, or Mathematics, or one or more units in chemistry or physics, the work done in these subjedts must be of such a character as'to pernsit the student to pursue them in the University as con-; tinuation studies; and that no course which is a repetition of a unit ac- Continued on Page Eight) manyt other modern scientific appli-. ances. The names of the preceding own- ers of the Roger Bacon manuscript, which was purchased by Wilfred Voynic" of London in 1912,, remain a riystery. However a contemporary courtier is said to have related that Emperor Rudolph of Russia reward- ed a messenger lavishly for carrying the manuscript to him. After some research work Mr. Voy- nich came to the conclusion'that the prominent mathematician and confi- dential agent of Queen Elizabeth, Dr. John Dee, brought this cipher man- uscript to the Emperor of Russia about 1580. Mr. Voynich is also of the opinon that thanks to Mr. Dee many of the works of Roger Bacon have reached us and he has suggest- ed that further investigation into the archives of Queen Elizabeth may throw new light upon the.identity of the immediate pupils of Roger Ba- con. In his, lecture Professor Newbold will explain why he attributes the manuscript to Bacon and he will in- dicate the importance of Bacon's dis- coveries to the medical and physical sciences. By the use of slides he will exhibit on the screen the drawings found in the manuscript. FINAL CHACGIEWR VETERANS TO GET BONUS BLANKS MAY BE SECURED FROM 11 TO 12:30 O'CLOCK TODAY War veterans now attending the University will be offered their last opportunity to secure bonus blanks through the University organizations from 11 to 12:30 o'clock this morn- ing,' when W. V. Gilbert, '22E, rep- resenting the V. F. W., will be at the R. 0. T. C. office on the campus to receive applications. Nearly 600 men have already signed up and thosein charge of the plan desire to complete the work immediately because of the labor involved in sending to the ad- jutant-general's office for the blanks and supervising their distribution here. The forms for those who have al- ready signed up, at the office are ex- pected tomorrow, according to Gil- bert, and the men who -appear at the office this morning can probably se- cure theirs within a few days. The reason that it is necessary to de- mand individual signatures! is that several different forms are provided by the district office and the exact number of each type to be used is re- quired before they will be mailed to Ann Arbor. Men are urged to secure their dis- charge papers as soon as possible in order to have them an hand at the time when their blanks arrive. PROF. F. N. SCOTT NAMED AS CO-OPERATING EDITOR Three co-operating edtors to as- sist the secretary of the American Association of University trofessors in the work of editing 'the Bulletin of the association haveFbeen appoint- ed. They are: Prof. F. N. Scott, of the University of Michigan, Prof. Stuart P. Sherman, of the University of Illinois, and Prof. A. L. Wheeler, of Bryn :Mawr college. SENIOR MEETING POSTPONTD UNTIL TOMORROW AFTERNOON Because of the small attendance, the meeting of the senior literary class which was to have been held yesterday was postponed until 4 Q'clock tomorrow afternoon in room 205, Mason hall. .{ MASQUES PLAY T WHITNY 'TOIGHT All Rough Spots Polished Off at Last Rehearsal Held Tuesday Night CAST INCLUDES ACTORS WELL FITTED TO PARTS PORTRAYED "The Importanc of Being Earnest", by Oscar Wilde, will be presented by Masques, women's dranatic organi- zation, at 8:15 o'clock tonight, at the Whitney theater. Tickets will be on sale to both men and women at the box office today. Many good seats are yet available. The dress rehearsal' last night with attention to minutest details of busi- ness and costuming was highly suc- cessful, according to Prof. J. Raleigh Nelson, director.- Cast Fits PartsI "The cast was selected with re- gard to special fitness to the parts taken and great development has been noticed as to artistic finish in each role," is Professor Nelson's com- ment, "and the play itself has proven most adaptable to our presentation, and contains many clever situations. "We spent the entire day yester-f day in arranging the setsof scenery for each act painted by 0. C. Davis of Detroit. The effects are even better than we had anticipated," said the di- rector. Cast Pictures Displayed I Pictures are on display in Graham's window of members of the cast, who are as follows: Isabel Kemp, '22, John Worthing, J. P.; Christine l9ur- kett, '22, Algernon Moncrieff; Mil- dred Trick,.'22, Lady Bracknell; Mary Ives, '23, Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax; Joyce McCurdy, '22, Cecily Cardew; Jeanne McPherson, '21, Miss Prism; Margaret Reineke, '23, Merriman; Is- abel Swan, '22, Lane; and Lesse Gay- lord, '23, Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D. Tile. high school orchestra of 20 pieces will furnish the music during the progrgm. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MIS. ROBERT PATTERSON' Funeral services for Mrs. Robert Rowley Patterson, who died at 6:25 Sunday afternoon, were held yester- day morning at the Patterson resi- dence, 2g11 Hill street, and interment was made the same afternoon in Grand Rapids. Mrs. Patterson was the wife of Prof. G. W. Patterson's youngest son, Robert Rowley 'Patterson, the mar- riage having been solemnized on June 12 of last year. Before her marriage she was Eliza- beth Louise Palin of Grand Rapids. She was a gradate of the Central high school and afterward attended Sweet Briar college, Virginia. During the war she served on the seretarial staff of Sen. William Alden Smith in Washington. The death came very suddenly, fol- lowing illness of only a few days. Mrs. Patterson is survived by herf husband, her father had mother, Dr. and John H. Palin of Grand Rapids, and a brother, Milburn Palin. SPAINE WILL ADDRESS MEN'S q EDUCATIONAL CLUB TONIGHT C. L. Spaine, deputy superintendent' of schools in Detroit, will speak be- fore the Men's Educational club at 7:30 o'clock tonight in room 304 ofs the Union. Mr. Spaine has chosen as his topic, "New Phases of City Edu- cational Work" and is expected to make reference to the platoon system as it is being worked out in Detroit at the present time. RUTH'S FIFTEENTH HOMER SETS NEW MAJOR RECORD IWashington, May 31.-Babe made his 15th home run of the season here today In the game with Washington. The hit was made In the ninth with two men on bases. A new major league record was set by today's home run, which was the 118th the Yankee slugger has made during his major league career. The form. er record, 117, was held by C. G. Cravathy formerly of the Phil. adelphia Nationals. . e Graduation Series RecitalI omorrow Buy M'iss Rominger (By S. B. C.) Another recital in the graduation series will be given by Alice Evelyn Rominger, School ' of Music, at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at the school. These recitals are a regular part of the requirements for gradua- tion and are prepared in such a way as to make them well worth while. Miss Rominger, a soprano,. is a pu- pil of William Wheeler and will be assisted by Frank Bishop, a pianist from Almont, Mich.,- The complete program by Miss Rom- inger and Mr. Bishop is as follows: Voi che sapete ......Mozart Alice Evelyn Rominger Fantasie Op. 49..............Chopin Frank Bishop Faith in Spring, Ave Maria, The Secret, Margaret at the Spin- ning Wheelr............Schubert Miss Rominger Prelude in C Minor. Edward Bredshall Etude in. D flat..... .......Liszt La Campanella........Paganini-Liszt Mr. Bishop The Soldier's Betrothed, Broken Blossom, Collette, Dream of an Eve..'..........Chaminade Miss Rominger . E -SEN.BEVERIBBE'WILL SPED WEKEDMERE 400 MILLIUNS Cl FR.OM RAIL WAG BY OARDOuRI DECISION BY NATIONAL RAII LABOR BODY EFFECTIV J UhY 1 31 LABOR GROUPS A 104 ROADS AFFE uA J Red.uctions Will Average 12 Per Ce Attitude of Brotherhoods Undetermined Chicago, May 31.,-An estima $400,000,000 will be cut from thei tion's railway wage bill when an or reducing wages an average of 12 cent to be handed down tomorrow the United States railroad labor boa becomes effective July 1. The or affects members of' 31 labor org izations, employed on 104 railrads. While the decrease is specfica applied only to the roads whose ca have been heard by the board, the s cision says it may later be applied any other road asking a hearing 1 der the provision of the sch-Cu mins transportation act. Reductions Computed Percentages of reductions. compu by members of the board, gave the erage of 12 per cent, and the sA board estimated the annual reduct In wages at approximately $400,0( 000. The decision grants reductions va ing from 5 to 13 cents an hour from 5 to 18 per cent and in the ci of section laborers, completely wij out the increase granted by the $64 000,000 wage' award of July 20, 1 Switchmen and shopcraft were gi a nine per cent reduction while train service men were cut appr ,bately seven per cept. Car repair were cut about ten per cent. Roads Claim Slump The attitude of the railway uni4 towards the decrease ordered rema to be determined. The great lire erhoodsare expected to meet h July 1 to consider the' board's decis winter slump in business, railr( Claiming they were hard hit by winter slump in buisness, railri managements have been clamoring several months for lower wages, o the decision tomorrow wil mark first relief granted by the board si it set the exact scale more. than months ago. CERCLE FR ANCAIS INITIATES TONIGH "More elaborate plans than e formulated before are being made the Cercle Francais for the ann initiation banquet which will be l at 6:30 o'clock tonight in room 319 the Union. William G. Sharpe, '22, will be to master at the dinner and will welco 25 new members. Other speakefs v be Prof. Arthur G. Canfield, head the romance languages departnie Prof. Rene Talamon, and Jean l pet, director of the Cercle. #3. Field, '21, will reply for the initial SENIOR LITS MUST PAY lUES BEFORE FRIDAY AFTERNO Senior lits are expected to pay t dues before the end of this week, cording to J. E. McManis, class tre urer. Dues may be paid at the bq in the corridor of University il f 2 to 4 o'clock Thursday and Frid Architects Elect to Connecl Toda Students of the Architectural loge will meet at 3 o'clock this ai noon in room 311 of the Engineer building to cast their votes for $ dent councilmen from that dep ment. STATESMAN TO DELIVER ADDRESSES DURING STAYr TWO Ex-Senator Albert J. ,Beveridge will be in Ann Arbor next Saturday, Sunday, and Monday as the guest of Prof. T. C. Trueblood, of the public speaking department, and during his. visit will make two addresses under the auspices of the Wesleyan guild of the Methodist church. On Sunday evening Senator' Bever-r ioge will speak at the Methodist1 church on the topic, "The Bible as Good Reading", an address which he has made in different parts of the country on numerous occasions and1 one which has met with a great deal1 of favor. At 4 q'clock Monday afternoon he will speak before the members of theJ Oratorical association in Hill audi- torium on. some phases of public ~speaking. Senator Beveridge is distinguished as a writer, statesman, and histor- ian, his work entitled "The Life of John Marshall" being considered one of the best books of itq kind recent-, 1ly published. In speaking of Senator Beveridge Professor Trueblood re- marked that he was as fine a public speaker as has been in Ann' Arbor for many years. The senator Wmes to this city from Flint, where he is scheduled to ad- dress the -State Bar association Sat-r urday afternoon. Both of his talks in this city will be open to the public. ,., ._. ,, # '' H T MASQUES' ANNUAL PLAY "The Importance of Being Earnest" Under Direction of Prof. J. RALEIGE NELSON 8:15" Tickets: $1.50, 1.00 and 50c AT