I "r-/. IICHIGAN DAILY ct t gtt c Ialtti' OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Published every morning except Monday during the Univer. r year by the Uoard in Control of Student Publications. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for -ublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise dited in this paper and the local news published therein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second- ss matter. Subscription by carrier or mail, $3.50. Offices : Ann Arbor Press building, Maynard Street. Phones: Business, 96o; Editorial, 2414. Communications not to exceed 300 words, if signed, the sig- ure not necessarily to appear in print, but as an evidence of :h, and notices of events will be published in The Daily at the cretion oi the Editor, if left at or mailed to The Daily office. isigned communications will receive no consideration. No man- :ript will be returned unless the writer incloses postage. The Dailydoesnot necessarily endorse the sentimentsex- :ssed in the cornmunications. "What's hoing On notices will not be received after 8 o'clock the evening preceding insertion. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 2414 kNAGING EDITOR...........GEORGE O. BROPHY JR. ws Editor ...........................Chesser M. Campbell ght Editors- T. H. Adam H. W. Hitchcock B. P. Campbell J. E. McManis J. I. Dakin T. W. Sargent, Jr. Renaud SherwoodJ r day Editor .... ... ...........J. A. Bernstein torials........... Lee oodruff,RobertSage, T. J. Whinery istant News .......... ........... ....... E. P. Lovejoy Jr. rts .....................................Robert Angell men's~ Editor..... ..........Mary D. Lane legraph............... ...............West Gallogly escope................................... Jack W. Kelly tet than for every single student to get his ticket to the games he is entitled to, thereby showing the basketeers that all Michigan will be actively behind thiem and appreciates.their efforts. COLLEGE READING * (New York Times) The question what college students read has per- ennial interest. One undergraduate of an Eastern university sorrowfully answered an inquirer: "They don't read .tt all." He was ruling out, of course, the prescribed reading-which seems to provoke many students to an incurable hatred of litera- ture - and also the skimming of newspapers and periodicals, which all do more or less. It is with the latter that a recent survey of 453 students in the political science courses of the University of Michigan concerned itself. The results are sum- marized by Professor Kirldpatrick in School and Society. It appears that nearly every one of these devotees of political science reads a daily paper. Their own university publication, The Michigan Daily, leads all the rest. Serious weekly reviews have only twenty readers out of the 453. In magazines the taste shown is very like that of the homes from which these young men came. There are thirty-two readers of The Atlantic Monthly. But of The Saturday Evening Post there are 270. All this, of course, is only a feeble glimmer of light on a dark problem. No one expects to find many mighty readers in college. But there ought always to be at least a few in each class. It is their golden opportunity. And there are many who hold, in the midst of the endless discussions of the higher education, that the one thing which colleges may yet do is to teach the boys to read. An old pro- fessor, whose chair was described in the catalogue as that of Comparative Philology, or some other heathen title, once put all the flummery aside and- said: "No, I am simply a teacher of reading." Can it be taught except by example, or by turn- ing a youth loose in a library? The most athletic readers in college usually teach themselves. When Charles Snmner's light was observed to burn late every night in the Harvard Yard, it was no pro- fessor, we may be sure, but an inward impulse and appetite that drove him to his long and delightful intercourse with the master spirits of literature. A proposition to have an extra last two days of compulsory vacation in Ann Arbor, with classes but no lessons, would probably meet with the uni- versal support of the home town society lions who always need to rest up from the holidays. A COMPLETE LINE OF DIARIES' AND DESK CALENDARS AT Both Ends of the Diagonal Walk Assistants Waldo Byron Darnton W *eber Thomas E. Dewey Carlow Wallace F. Elliott Vickery Leo J. Hershdorfer rk L. Armstrong Kern eindel Hughston McBain onfort, Frank H. McPike Grundy JA. Bacon berholtzer W. W. Ottaway Adams Paul Watzel . Damon J. W. Hume, Jr. H. E. Howlett M. A. Klaver E. R. Meiss Walter Donnelly Beata Hasley Kathrine Montgoiinery Gerald P. Overton Edward Lambrecht William H. Riley Jr. Sara Waller 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. in., and hourly to 9:10 p. m. Limiteds to Jackson at 8:48 a. in. and every two hours to 8:48 p. in. Ex- presses at 9:48 a. m. and e; ery two hours to 9:48 p. m. Locals to Detroit-5 : 55a.m., 7:00 a.m. and every two hours to 9:00 p. 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. in., and 12:10 p.m. JANUARY S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 '24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Men: Last geason's hats turn- ed inside out, refinished and re- blocked with all new trimmings look just like new, wear just as long and saves you five to ten dollars. We do only high class, work. Factory flat Store,617 Packard St, Phone 1792. 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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921. Night Editor-THOMAS H. ADAMS. MAKING 1921 COUNT Nineteen-twenty is past and we are on the verge of a new year, full of possibilities for both failure and success. The question is, what are we going to do with our chances. With final examinations coming along very soon, we can show very shortly what we are going to do in one respect. The time to prepare for finals is not the night before ; the time to prepare is long be fore that, before they have changed from a mere prospect to a bug-a-boo. If we -begin when the beginning is good, our worry is going to be de- creased, our comfort will be greater, and our ,chances for making goad in our present courses will be swelled considerably. But there are other means whereby we can show that we intend to make 1921 the best year so far. There are programs and campaigns to be boosted. There is the budget question to be put before the people of the state, the individual voters, in away which will-make them realize that our request for $8,690,000 is not an idle one at all. There is the pool drive to be completed. Then how about campus activities? Are the few going to keep on running things? Are the same small groups still to handle the problem of manag- ing our campus institutions, or is everybody going to get in on it to some extent? There is most im- portant work to be done by the upperclassmen ad- visors; who, it must be admitted, have let their function slip more or less into the discard of late. What is more, a new semester is coming along shortly and it is up to each one of us to see that he individually selects courses whereby he may be enabled to get the most possible out of the Univer- city work. The new year offers opportunities 'for getting down to productive brass tacks in our stud- ies. And is it too early to consider what we are going to do with our vacation next summer and begin making the necessary arrangements? There are a thousand and one ways in which we can all make the New Year the biggest and most productive so far, both in our own lives and in that of the University. Let's put them up as an end and work toward it. GET THOSE BASKETBALL TICKETS With basketball in the center of the limelight and Michigan's quintet hitting its stride, the problem of getting tickets to the court games again demands attention. Last minute efforts to gain admission have proved unsatisfactory in the past, and this year it is essential that everyone make his arrange- ments for seats at the court contests. The Athletic association's plan of distribution is designed to give every student tickets to two games. "First come, first served" is the motto to be fol- lowed and as the available seats at the most popu- lar games will soon be exhausted, students having a preference will have to act promptly to get their first choice: The system promises to bring about a rapid allotment of seats and offers no inducement whatsoever for procrastination. Every one should take immediate steps to con- vert his coupon No. 36 into basketball currency. Capacity attendance at every game is certain, btt there is no better way to support Michigan's qui, Th e Telescope We hope we won't curdle the milk of human hap- piness for some of these boys who imagine they're a regular knockout with the girls by the following litle ditty from one of the fair ones: These Mighigan Men Are started again, On the job of "handing a line" - They declare you divine, And say, "Sweetheart be mine," While later on in the night, (When perhaps a bit "tight,") To a bunch of their cronies they'll say "She's a pippin, all right, But not very bright - for she swallowed the whole blooming yarn." (I wonder if she really did?) We can't help wondering if it's action and not words that the people want, why more of the hon- orary societies don't hang up the "To Let" sign. Dear Noah: Can we truthfully say of a senior medic who has just graduated from college that he is "following" the medical profession? R. L. Not at all. A man cannot truthfully be said to be following the medical profession until he be- comes a full fledged undertaker. How To Be the Life of the Party LESSON I So many of our readers have written in asking us how they can be witty, though natural, that we have decided to give a regular course in the art of repartee. Lesson I follows and will be followed at regular intervals or oftener, if desired, by the other lessons of the course. To tell this joke you can either have just come from the barber's, or else be clean shaven. Wait patiently until the ladies have begun discussing their ages. Then when the silence has become real pro- nounced, observe in a conversational tone: "I was in the Union barber shop this afternoon. And what do you think happened?" (Pause dra- matically and give your hearers, a you'd-never- guess-in-a-million-years survey.) Then continue: "And the barber, thinking I was a regular cus- tomer, when he found out I wanted a shave asked, 'Did you bring your own mug?'" If any of the company think this is the joke and titter appreciatively, frown them down and when silence has again been restored say: "Certainly," I says to him, "whose mug did you think I wanted shaved?" Then try to laugh a little embarrassedly as the salvo of applause greets your efforts. Famous Closing Lines "Breaking home ties," he sang gleefully as he ripped in two the hilarious Xmas cravat. NOAH COUNT. . ... 1 i Tt L . ' What Is V F THE traffic policeman did not hold up his hand and control the automobiles and wagons and people there would be collisions, confusion, and but little progress in any direction. His business is to direct. The phficist who tries to obtain a vacuum that is nearly perfect has a problem somewhat like that of the traffic policeman. Air is composed of molecules-billions and billions of them flying about in all directions and often colliding. The physicist's pump is designed to make the molecules travel *in one direction -out through the exhaust. The molecules are milch too small to be seen even with a microscope, but the pump jogs them along and at least starts them in the right direction. A perfect vacuum would be one in which there is not a single free molecule. For over forty years scientists have been trying td pump and jog and herd more molecules out of vessels. There are still in the best vacuum obtainable more molecules per cubic centimeter than' there are people in the world, in other words, about two billion. Whenever a new jogging device is invented, it becomes possible to eject a few million more molecules. The Research Laboratories of the General Electric Compahy have spent years in trying to drive more and more molecules of air from containers. The chief purpose has been to study the effects obtained, as, for example, the boiling away of metals in a vacuum. This investigation of high vacua had unexpected results. It became possible to make better X - ray tubes - better because the X - rays could be controlled; to make the electron tubes now so essen- tial in long-range wireless communication more efficient and trust- worthy; and to develop an entirely new type of incandescent lamp, one which is filed with a gas and which gives more light than any of the older lamps. No one can foretell what will be the outcome of research in pure science. New knowledge, new ideas inevitably are gained. And sooner or later this new knowledge, these new ideas find a practical application. For this reason the primary purpose of the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company is the broadening of human knowledge. General neralctri GeerlOffice C'i ~Schenectady,N.Y. 96 7e-P