SUNDAY, OCTOBER-2422 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TREN
The Unfinished Swimming Pool
(By Kenneth Hoag) was thought that various social func- which the users of the pool will have- much of the burden upon the stu-
Michigan's- range of activities is tions during the Christmas vacation to pay in any case, plus the $18,000 dent body. More than likely at least
practically without limit. It presents prevented the students from working. necessary to complete the pool makes one-half of the faculty would support
a list of subjects for study that is Consequently the second campaign a total of $33,000, the idea. Then, too, there are a large
actually hewildering. Campus activ- was arranged for the Spring vacation The pool would he open from ten group of alumni who would not side-
ities include everything from the most of 1022. This time eight hundred o'clock in the morning until midnight. step a five-dollar tax if a really tan
petty matters of business to the high- promised to work. Of this number, By counting one and one-half hours gible idea were placed hefore them.
est forms of art. All kinds of games forty or fifty did work and turned in each for the noon and evening meals The Athletic Association also would
from chess and golf to hockey and $4,643. Larger donations coming and the time from ten to twelve at probably as soon pay the twenty-five
football have their enthusiastic fol- from individual alumni and not made night with few'swimmers, five hours cent fee to the Union pool as to the
lowers. Yet one Of the most valu- through students gives a present total are taken from the fourteen, leaving Y. M. C. A.
able and universal forms of physical I of about $15,000. Besides this, an al-I nine in which to run to capacity. Ar- A pool 35 by 75 feet with 120,000
exercise with its accompanying men- umnus in Cleveland promises $6,000, rangements are to be made so that gallons of freshly filtered water each
tal relaxation and renewal of vigor and the Athletic Association $1,000 fifty persons can be undressing, tak- day, a pool in the most convenient
is entirely neglected at Michigan. when the remainder is raised, making ing showers, and going into the pool; place conceivahie, a pool so excel-
Michigan has no swimming pool! the amount actually lacking $18,000. fifty in the pool for the period of one- lently equipped and operated that it
The Huron river is a mile and a Several ways of raising this $18,000 half an hour; and fifty coming out, will cost over fifty dollars a day to
half or two miles away. It is dirty present themselves. Any plan of making nine hundred swims a day. maintain must surely make a strong
and unprotected. If the swimmer is shows, concerts, and so forth is not The pool would be used forty weeks appeal to anyone eligible to use it.
lucky enough to get himself loose feasible because the money is obtained or 280 days out of the year. If two- The completion of the pool means
from the weeds and reach shore, he too slowly, and also because it would thirds of the nine hundred people who the recognition of swimming as a
finds himself in a much more grimy interfere with the program of the would be necessary to run the pool to major sport. There is at present a
condition than when he went in. And service men, who are using this' capacity for nine of the fourteen hours wealth of known material on the cam-
the Municipal Beach is closed during method to complete the Union read- it would be open were to use it, six pus which, together with men yho are
those parts of the winter session when ing room. hundred daily swims (a conservative waiting only for some incentive to be
the weather would permit outdoor Another general campaign does not estimate) would be given. Six hun- offered them to come forward, is cap-
swimming. i seem advisable. The student body dred daily swims for 280 days gives a able of forming a college team second
About 20,000 swims were given at has shown itself either unable or un- total of 168,000 swims for the year. to none in the country. This, too,
the Y. M. C. A. during the past year. willing to obtain the necessary amount With admission of twenty-five cents when Michigan has had nothing to
Five hundred different students took by solicitation of the alumni. And for each swim, the receipts for the offer the high school athlete who has
5,000 of these swims. When one con- these alumni must not be approached first year would be $33,600 or approxi- distinguished himself in swimming in
siders that the cost is thirty-five cents too frequently, for their support will mately the $33,000 necessary for com- the way of a place to exercise his
a swim, eight dollars for the winter, soon be badly needed for clearing the pleting the pool and maintaining it abilities. Even in the past, under its
or the necessity of transferring the debt and building an addition to the for one year. tremendous handicaps, Michigan, has
home membership; that the pool is Union. If, now, 6,720 of the 8,000 male stu- had an informal team very favorably
several blocks down town; that being A certain few interested alumni dents on the campus were to buy cards know throughout the East and Middle
only 19 by 60 feet, it is often over- might be prevailed upon to make large permitting twenty-five admissions to West.
crwded with the townspeople who are gifts for the completion of the pool, the pool, for five dollars each, the It is doubtful whether five dollars
its chief users; that even its existence but so far this has been impossible $33,600 would be raised. But it would could ever be more profitably spent.
is known to relativelv few students, because of the uncertainty of busi- not be necessary to place even this (Continued on Page Four)
this is in reality a large number. The ness conditions.
Y. M. C. A. tank is also used by the The Union could borrow the money
informal swimming team, the Athletic outright or the construction company TRY OUR SPECIAL DINNER TONIGHT
Association paying a special rate of that built the pooi would take thejTR
twenty-five cents for each swim of Union's note. However, the present "GET THE HABIT"
each member of the swimming team. debt of the Union is $365,000 with In- CHINESE GARDENS
There are between five and six hun- terest of over $12,000, an amount 106 SOUTH MAIN STREET PHONE 1549
dred men who do not use the gym- which is offset only by the $10,000 ob-
nasium but who buy a two-dollar tained yearlyby the payment of life
locker ticket each year merely for membership fees. Thus the Union
bath privileges. Two baths with a good debt is constantly increasing and an
plunge in between should have a much addition to it is out of the questioI
greater appeal. Dr. May says that The alternative is tar the students INTELLIGENT AND INTERESTED
two-thirds of the students in the Uni- to finish the pool themselves. To do
versity are able to swim, and that this it would be necessary not only
every one of them should swim. Dr. to pay for completing the pool, butYour bank should be sound, accurate and
Sundwall sees eventually three pools to pay the maintenance, expenses at
-one at the Union, one at the gym- Ithe same time. Mr. Heath gives the efficient. But that is not enough. Banking
nasium, and one at Ferry Field. He estimated figure for operating the pool
says that there is no reason to be- for one year as $14,796, the more service to be of the most use to you should
lieve that these will conflict with one prominent items being:
another. According to Dr. Sundwall, Four part time student clerks $2000 be also intelligent and interested.
six pools would not be too many. Two attendants in the pool 4000
Comparison shows Michigan to be Two porters working all night
poor indeed in this respect. There is to clean the pool 1800 That is what this bank tries to be.
hardly any city club that does not have Part time services of an engin-
at least one pool-clubs, too, which eer for the pumping station 500I
are far less pretentious than the Union. Towels 1500 FARMERS & MECHANICS BANK
All of the other conference schools Laundry 750
have swimming pools. All large mod- Water 200 101-105 So. MAIN 330 So. STATE ST.
ern high schools have one or more Depreciation 3000
pools. Many of the new intermediate The $15,000 for yearly operation'
and grade schools have pools. It can
truly be said that Michigan is practi-
cally the only large school without
swimming facilities for its students.
The Union seems to be the logical
place to start. The foundation is in6 AKA YUtGO -
readiness, and shower piping and cer- - r " KOKUG
tain mipor equipment is already in-
stalled. Of the $40,000 necessary to
complete the pool $15,000 has so far
been raised. The pool certainly will
always be a desirable and necessary Pict
part of the Union as a student, faculty,
and alumni club, even though the Uni- ,your cassmates, fo r -exam pe
versity eventually has others in con-
nection with itskathletic and physi- w ith their snug.som breros tha
cal welfare work. It is difficult to -
believe that such men as Mr. Chapin,
Mr. Goff, Mr. Wells, Mr. Pond, and Mr. row sm allerwth cC rain- r
Inglis would have made large con-
trihutlona for finishing the Union pool
ifuthey hadi not regarded it as an ex- fun to make now and begin to grow priceless in
cellent undertaking.
Few will quarrel either with the your Senior year.
idea that Michigan students should
swim, or that they should swim in
the .completed Union pool. The ac- Picture-making the KODAK way is easy and enjoyable. Come in and
complishment of these ideas is, how-
Two attempts have been made. Sev-
enteen hundred men promised to so-
licit alumni .during the. Christmas va-
cation .of 1921.., It was expected that
each .man would. turn in, about thirty
dollars. Two hundred of the seven-
teen hundred who signed to work did
work, and these two hundred turned
in an average of thirty-seven dollars 71 N. VNIVELS TY
each, making the total of the first
campaign. approximately $7,000. It