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Burchell the sense in demanding a championship year be- fore we make the arrangement, when that ar- rangement is to last indefinitely and supremacy is only a temporary matter? As to the question of prestige, few there would be who would claim that victory over a great East- ern university will not bring natinal renown to Michigan, and much greater prestige than the sec- tional competition whih limits our present activi- ties. Eastern alumni have repeatedly advised us of the high esteem in which our former athletic re- lations with the East had placed Michigan. It is time to revive this esteem. The claim that an Eastrrn football game would detract from theseason's drawig-power seems un- tenable. Demand for sents at all the -big games are fa' in excess of accommodations, and the same people frequently attend. all the principal encoun- ters of the season. Rexuembering the crowds at Eastern games of the past, it seems as though, with our prestige already enhanced through stiff compe- titior in the Conference, we should expect such an intersectional contest to be a still greater drawing- card in the future, particularly if it be with such a team as Yale. Re-entrance into the track intercollegiates and the scheduling of °a football game and one or more baseball games with the East should be the cardi- nal points of Michigan's immediate athletic policy. THAT AUSTRIAN DRIVE Vigorous comment has been excited during the last week by the announcement of oversubscrip- tion of the drive for funds for needy Austrian students; and-two opposing views on the matter have been convincingly presented. As both the two professors who condemn the campaign and the professor and "doughboy" who uphold it, agree that as a general proposition to as- sist suffering fellow beings is a fine act of hu- manity regardless of their crimes, the conflict of opinion largely centers around the question' of whether, in viw of the part the Austrians played in the wanton desolation of France, it is right to give them money to alleviate their hardships re- sulting from the war. It is highly probable that the matter would have received much less adverse criticism if the charity campaign had accompanied or followed a move- ment to render the French additional assistance, but the French made no appeal and no one started a French drive. Too much cannot be said for the good taste 'and gratitude fo past gifts tht our former allies show by r fraing frompresenting their needs to us from time to time, but this re- straint is the reason why some of the money did not go to rebuild France. Unfortunately, the drive was inadvertantly called a campaign "for starving Europeln stu- dents"in certain news releases, and has come in for some criticism thereby, though all reports in- dicate that the solicitors always asked contriubu- tions definitely for Viennese or Austrian destina- tion, and that those in charge of the drive certainly never intended that the mistake in appellation should be made. If the Austrian cause is a worthy one, we should not upbraid each other for supporting it instead of giving to France, but should keep French needs in mind without being reminded of them by direct appeal. America seems ready now to turn the full- ness of its generosity to any good purpose; the Austrians have seen this fact and with great enter- prise taken advantage of it. The fault, if one ex- ists, lies with Americans who have failed to make use of their own mine of available funds for the more appealing cause of reconstruction in the lands of our former allies. 1. er H avaa d .. Persons wishing to secure inforinationconcern'ing news for any ue. of The Daily should see the niht editor, who has full charg all news to be printed that night. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1920. e t Night Editor-H. W. HITCHCOCK. The editorial staff and 'ry:uts will meet at 4:1 lock this afternoon. The p it p'er staff will mee 3:45 o'clock. KNOW YOUR UNIVERSITY ee position of surgeon general of the navy un- cently was held by William C. Braisted of the of '83f white Gen. John Biddle, who left Mich- in 1877 in arder to enter West Point, had e of the American forces in England during Vorld waj. ATHLETICS WITH THE EAST Demand for the return of Michigan to competi- n with the East in the track intercollegiate, in seball, and in football las taken a tremendous urt with the dosing of the very satisfactory 20 football season. Eastern alumni have a large dy of sympathizers among their, confreres roughout the country and, among the student dy, in their efforts to revive again the annual :ersectional struggles with their intense rivalry d with the glory which they believe would at- id Michigan's re-entrance. It would be unfair to omit the fact that a large dy of men well acquainted with Michigan's ath- ic situation and particularly the football phase it are opposed to Eastern competition on va- us grounds, the chief of which are: i. That Michigan should not attempt large in- sectional contests until she has again established. doubted leadership am..ng the schools of the nference, inasmuch as a great East-and-West itest is supposed to give some indications of the ative strength of the best teams trained under two systems. . That playing an Eastern team brings Michi- no national prestige inasmuch as the larger stern universities have shown themselves to take purely sectional view of athletics, refusing to .sider that contests outside their own athletic que" are anything but practice encounters, no tter what the result. Exponents of this view bt that Michigan could secure a home-and- ne football arrangement. . That the addition of another big football ne to the schedule will merely serve to detract n the drawing-power of the other games, and t an Eastern contest i ill never create the in- st which would be aroused by placing another ference team on the schedule. )bviously, the first objection can have no appli- on to track and baseball, in both of which Mich- i has for years been an acknowledged leader. urn to the Eastern itercollegiates, which Mich. s student body favors as heartily as it opposed withdrawal last spring, is a step which should :arried out as soon as the opportunity is pre- ed. .Insofar as the ci iterion of "undoubted ership" applies to foothall. it must be admitted Michigan did not reach that summit this fall; we did not fall far short, and Chicago, whose i we defeated 14 to o. has scheduled a home- home arrangement with Princeton. After all, 'e intend securing an Eastern game at all we : to make it a permanent feature; and what is - , 1 1{ I i DETROIT UNITED LINES In Effect Nov. 2, 1920 Between Detroit, Ann Arbor and Jackson (Eastern Standard Time) Limited and Express cars leave for Detroit at 6:05 a. m., 7:05 a. m., 8:10 a. m., and hourly to 9:10 p. m. Limiteds to Jackson at 8:48 a. m. and every two hours to 8:48 p. m. Ex- presses at 9:48 a. m. and e: ery two hours to 9:48 p. i. t 9cls to Detroit-5:55a.m., 7:00 a.. and every two hours to 9:00 V. in., also 11:00 p. m. To Ypsilanti only, 11:40 p.m., 12:25 a.m., and 1:15 a.m. Locals to Jackson-7:50 a. m., and I I i i ii 12:10 p.m. A! S M 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 DECEMBER T W T 1 2 7 8 9 14 15 16 21 22 23 28 29 30 F 3 10 17 24 31 S 4 11 25 MIMEOGRAPHING CIRCULAR LETTERS POST CARDS ETC. 24 - HOUR SERVICE Leave Orders at Either of Whar's Bookstores or Edwards Bros. 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SUGARBOWL HOME MADE CANDY ABSOLUTELY CLEAN BEST LINE INTHE CITY EVERYTHING : MADE IN ANN ARBOR LIGHT LUNCHES ANN ARBOR SUGAR BOWL :. _ 1 _ -- ' i f _ " " ~ r' ;?,i;. b, , . ° ° °d GRAHAM ,i (6 Ci What Is Air ? f TWO STORES 4 IC (t Th.e Telescope STANDING No. of Contribs Points Men......... ..175 175 Women ......... 5O 150 Ye Editor's Prayer Before an Ec. I Bluebook Now I lay me down to sleep In my little bunk. I hope I die before I wake And thus avoid a flunk. i The Co-.=d's Lament We cannot change our nature, That is beyond our reach. The girl who is born a lemon Can never be a peach. 4' . EFORE 1894 every chemist thought he knew what air is. "A mechanical mixture of moisture, nitrogen and oxygen, with traces of hydrogen and carbon dioxide," he would explain. There was so much oxygen and nitrogen in a given sample that he simply determined the amount of oxygen present and assumed the rest to be nitrogen. One great English chemist, Lord Rayleigh, found that the nitro~- gen obtained from the air was never so pure as that obtained from some compound like ammonia. What was the "impurity"? In co-operation with another prominent chemist, Sir William Ramsay,. it was discovered in an entirely new gas-"argon." Later came the discovery of other rare gases in the atmosphere. The air we breathe contains about a dozen gases and gaseous compounds. This study of the air is an example of research in pure science, Rayleigh and Ramsay had no practical end in view--merely the dis- covery of new facts. A few years ago the Research Laboratories of the General Electriq Company began to study the destruction' of filaments in exhausted lamps in order to ascertain how this happened.: It was a purely scientific undertaking. It was found that the filament evaporated -boiled away, like so much water. Pressure will check boiling or evaporation. If the pressure within a boiler is very high, it will take more heat than ordinarily to boil the water. Would a gas under pressure prevent filaments from boilin away? If so, what gas? It must be a gas that will not combine chemically with the filament. The filament would burn in oxygen; hydrogen would conduct the heat away too rapidly. Nitrogen is ' useful gas in this case. It does form a few compounds, however: Better still is argon. It forms no compounds at all. Thus the modern, efficient, gas-filled lamp appeared, and so argon, which seemed the most useless gas in the world, found a practical application. Discover new facts, and their practical application will take care -of itself. And.the discovery of new facts i the primary purpose of the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company. Sometimes years must elapse before the practical application of a discovery becomes apparent, as in the case of argon; sometimes a practical application follows from the mere answering of a "theoret- ical" question, as in the case of a gas-filled lamp. But no substantial progress can be made unless research is conducted for the purpose of discovering new facts. I 01 )ilg ell no of the fair ones bolsters up her claim of be- ing to the "wittier sex" when she rings the for three points with this one: Ode to Departed Spirits 'Twilight and eveing thirst - And but cold tea for me -! There's only moaning at the bar Where whiskey used to be. One case and but two jugs, And then my cellar's dry. There'll be much sadness of farewell When I drink wood alcohol and die. ! For though from out of time and place The Law hath borne it far, I dream of a bottle face to face When I stand at the bar!t General Office Co Y Schenectady, N.Y. Famous Closing Lines "Making light of me," sighed the martyr as they lighted the fagots around him. NOAH COUNT. si-um-