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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1921.
Night Editor-T. W. SARGENT, JR.
DRINKING
Early this fall President Marion L. Burton
called A meeting of the representatives of various
campus organizations. These men expressed the
belief that the student body would willingly obey
the dictates of the eighteenth amendment. They
promised to bring the attention of the groups they
represented to the fact that the matter had become
one of law violation. Many of them did so and it is
known that a number of organizations took action
to stamp out drinking among themselves.
However, the action of the representatives has
not been sufficient. Some students who were ac-
Customed to drinking to excess before the era of
prohibition have continued to do so, and others have
followed them. The climax came in the sad affair
of last week-end.
Face to face with the fact that the present situa-
tion is intolerable as a blight on the good reputa-
tion of Michigan, the many must take action to pro-
hibit for all time the excesses of the irresponsible
few. Whether the violators are unfortunate, wrong-
minded, or completely incorrigible has ceased to
have a bearing on the situation. The fact alone,
not the circumstances, is the thing which insidi-
ously makes its way to the tongues of the entire
nation by way of headline and news-story, leavino
its impress in a lumping of the entire university
community as lawless and lacking in moral fibre.
It has.been proved that the good offices of the Stu-
dent council and the promises of representatives can
only partially eradicate the evil. The one complete
solution is an enforcement code set up by the en-
tire student body and backed, as it is sure to be, by
the administration. There must be no exceptions:
relaxations of such a code. however fair to the in-
dividual will beunfair in the end to the greater in-
-terests of the University. Evidence of drunken-
ness should be the only proof required.
Here, in a university town, where people are
sunnosed to tlink straight and to the point. certain
students whose expenses of education are benw
partially defraved by the state have been con-
sciously abetting violation of the law by their de-
mand for liquor. Totally anart from the morality
or immorality of the act of drinkinq n lrgiolic bev
ernfes i sense of duty to society should nrveit c
from inditloinp our tastes when those fast's are i
direct violation of the expressed will ad law of +be
rnaiority. Our country is suffering from a wave of
moral instability which threatens to put law and or-
der at naught. Every time any one of us violates
or winks at the violation of the prohibition amend-
ment, he is furthering the contemtuous disregard
of law which has already endangered many 'ov-
ernmental institutions abroad and which may at any
time do the same thing here in America. These
facts, dinned in the ears of every one of us time
and again, have anparently fallen unheeded before
the little group of violators whose unthinking acts
we must now bring to an end in the interests of the
entire °University.
There could be no better object of the first great
student convocation than the setting up of an en-
forceable liquor code and the expression of our de-
termination to stamp out this menace.
WHERE IS MICHIGAN RADIO?
There was a time in the pre-war days of ama-
teur wireless when the University station over on
the Engineering building was nationally known.
Men who have in the past "pushed the key" on the
old set which represented Michigan in radio fields
still talk of the night in '16 when 8XA, as the sta-
tion was known, worked direct with Colon, Pan-
ama, and was called down for making too much
noise down there. But Michigan radio since the
war is apparently not what Michiganradio was
then. Among the authorities in charge of the ope-
ration of the set here the idea appears to prevail
that amateur communication is not progressive and
that participation in the affairs of the non-com-
mercial wireless world as promoted by such organ-
izations as the American Radio Relay league does
not make for efficiency and a promotion of the art
of etheric communication.
An adherence to strictly technical lines is all
right in its way, but it can be overdone. Amateur
experimental radio work in the past has in many
cases been the emans by which some of the most
useful and valuable discoveries and inventions have
been made in the wireless field. It is nothing to
be laughed at. The amateur is not merely a tin-
kering individual - he is a self-trained practical
scientist and has been responsible for many valu-
able developments in the radio field. For a uni-
versity or experimental set of any kind to be classed
. as a special amateur station is no reflection either
on its importance in the wireless field or on the
ability of its promoters.
Michigan's engineering department has a radio
station with a reputation, a station licensed by gov-
ernment officials as an experimental amateur set, and
yet its call is seldom heard any longer and almost
never counts for anything in the realm of commu-
nication. Much of the apparatus in use is of the
sort which was up-to-date before the war but which
now, with the many recent developments in equip-
ment, is not to be counted as the best by any means;
Of course, experimental work is being done in the
physics department along this line, but meanwhile
the old pre-war set continues towork under its old
pre-war call and accomplishes nothing.
Wisconsin has a station which works all over
this part of the countryhandles communication reg-
ularly, and pushes through weather reports and
time signals. The University of North Dakota and
others such as Washington university at St. Louis
are regularly making names for themselves and
ever since the time when 8XA here was "in her
glory" have been carrying on constructive work in
experimentation and communication. There are
possibilities for near-commercial work with such a
set as we have, for the handling of news dispatches
with other colleges to the mutual benefit of school
papers, and for experimental testing and communi-
cation. Why can't Michigan get back into the
radio game in earnest?
There are few finer shell-racing courses than the
pond above Barton dam. This would be a good time
for' embryo Kellys, Corbetts, and Wrays to make
a try for the inauguration of the great old sport of
sculling and crew-racing at Michigan.
The Telescope
The Tappa Kegs they had a pledge
Who warbled like Caruso;
A brother swung an iron sledge
And now he doesn't do so.
Dear Noah:
Why is it tha't it is much easier for a stout man
than a stout woman to lose flesh? Curious.
Probably because the stout men go to the bar-
ber oftener.
For the Better?
Showered with many socials, the fiancee of Har-
old W. Atkinson, Miss Marjorie Kuhn, is being
feted and made over. - DeQuincey Journal.
D'ja ever have the prof call on you
And be forced to say, "Unprepared, sir."
And all the while the kid volunteer
Next to you was wildly waving his hands.
And then when the prof finally called on him
You found out he didn't know any more than you.
Don't you feel kinda sorry for the poor fish?
Neither do we.
Strictly Non-intoxicating
First stude-Bill always wears an eye glass when
he crosses the campus.
Second stude-Why so?
First-So he can drink in the beauty of the girls.
Yes, Clarice, a girl who marries a block head
could properly be said to be celebrating her wooden
wedding.
"I HAVE REMOVED CORNS FROM THE
CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE."
- A Chicago chiropodist's ad.
Help! 'Help! Help the Telescope!
That the Lord may help them
Is our earnest prayer and hope,
For those kindly souls, who
Contribute to the Telescope.
Famous Closing Lines
"Acting like one possessed " she muttered as she
saw her sorority sister proudly displaying her new
engagement ring. NOAH COUNT.
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