THE WEATHER COLD A) CONTINUEID FAIP TODAY Y Abr- VOL. XXXIII. No. 59 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922 :, J PROGRESSIVE EN Flames Pour Forth From Shaft Of Mine, JOINTO OAAfer Explosion That Takes 100 Live UNOFFICIL BLOC LAFOLLETTE ASSEMBLES FORTY IN SENATE CHAMBERS FRIDAYYr-..rf *v 4 TO FUNCTION THROUGH x....,.,..."... ..:. .k : ".,r PRESENT PARTY SYSTEM.: Resolutions Passed Favoring Liberal Legislation in Various ,'.. Fields Washington, Dec. 1.-Another unoffi- cial "blop" in Congress was born to lay when progressives, republicans .. o. *" : :*'. and democrats, called into sessionr oday .by Senator LaFollette, republi, an, Wisconsin, and Representative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huddleston, democrat, Alabama, form- " . d a progressive group for promo-. .ion of progressive legislation dur- $ { ,r ng the present and the next con_ tress, .. r . About 40 senators, representatives, nd members-elect, meeting behind as they enter dlosed doors in the Senate agricultur- Codwse ee sgo aka hyetrDlrieiie il committee room, adopted resolu- Flames pouring from the Dolomite mine set fire to the mine tipple and delayed rescue work for a short time. .1 ommiteeoomy, tdoped resoeil Mine experts say that the explosion, which took a toll of nearly 100 lives, was caused by a string 'of dump cars ions unanimously, 'to "drive special breaking loose and plunging back down the slope into the mine, sparks igniting the clouds of coal dust. raised. privilege out of control of govern- -The force of the explosion drove the flames up and out of the slope, setting fire to the tipple. Thirty minutes nent", and outlining a general pro- after the explosion the mine had been cleared of gas and afterdamp, but the disaster had already taken its ;ram of liberal legislation. toll. SHIP uumnrnn Henry Ford Has Words of Praise F o r Wolverines Two ILU -Although born and raisd within 25 ESir miles of Ann Arbor, Henry Ford nev- er entered Ferry field to see a foot- ball game until this fall when he at- tended the Michigan-Wisconsin game. MAPLEm 1TST. DRIVEN OUT BY As a result of what he saw, Mr. Ford STORM, SINKS WITH has become a warm admirer of the MEN University, of Coach Fielding H. Yost, t c a c 'a ti p1 TEN JUMP TO LIFEBOAT HOVERING IN VICINITY Captain Refuses to Leave Steamer in Violent Storm off Houghton Shore Houghton, Dec. 1.-Eleven men, members of the crew of, the Canadian steamer Maplehurst, lost their lives early this morning when the vessel foundered near the upper or canal entrance to the Keweenaw waterway. Nine- others were saved by Captain Charles A; Tucker and the members of the crew of the Coast guard station at the canal. Not a single life would have been lost, Captain Tucker declared, if the mien on the doomed steamer had acted promptly and jumped into the Coast guard power boat when he told them to after he had brought it alongside the Maplehurst. One Jumps in Lake Ten of the twenty on board jumped. First Mate Henry J. Smith missed the lifeboat and went to his death in the lake. The nine others who ,jumped were saved, while the ten who re- mained on the ship perished. The vessel encountered a storm Thursday and Captain Menard headed his shi down the shore, intending to enter the canal, but the storm in- creased so rapidly that he feared to enter. TheMaplehurst continued to within three or four miles of shore while the storm raged with increased No Third Party Planned Politics were declared to be ban- ned, and it was announced officially that no third party movement wa contemplated. Republicans, demo- crats, and a farmer-laborite joined in the conference, which was declared to be bi-partisan and legislative, but not political. Organization of the new bloc, which is similar to the unofficial Senate farm bloc, and includes many of the latter's members, is to be followed by two open meetings tomorrow of pro- gressives from all parts of the coun- try. Between 100 and 200 are expect- ed for the morning meeting, and the program will close tomorrow night at. a dinner at which accomodations for 800 have been made. Patss Resolutions The congressional bloc's resoau- tions today pledged members to co- operate in behalf of progressive leg- islation to be brought forth by com- mittees of the bloc during the pres- ent and next Congress. A general program announced includes as sub- jects agricultuye, labor, railroads, taxation, shipping, natural resources, direct primaries, corrupt practices, and constitutional amendments to abolish the electoral college and ob- tain earlier meetings of Congresses. TE HEALTH MEETING DRAWS UNIERSITY MEN , NDWALL, CABO0T, "IOAD VJ LL ATTEND CONFERENCE AT LAN.SING Dr. John Sundwall, *director of hy- giene and public health, Dr. Hugh Cabot, dean of the medicalrschool, and Prof. W. C. Hoad of the depart- ment of municipal and sanitary en- gineering, will represent the Univer- sity at the second annual .Conference of Health Officers and Public Health Nurses to be held at Lansing Dec. 4 to 8 inclusive. The conference is fostered by the Michigan Department of Health and the Michigan Public Health associa- tion for the purpose of enabling health officers of all cities to come in con- tact with a large number of men in similar lines* of work, and thus to bring forth new ideas and new meth- ods for their consideration and use in all parts of the state. Alex. J. Groesbeck, Governor of Michigan, will address the convention at a banquet the evening of Dec. 7. A total of over 35 speakers from all parts of the country will be heard during the five days of the confer- ence. . tip Frost as ot Encounter With Southern ANWMW"= Alk fFINDS COLOR IN OLD TEXAN, TOWN "If I should ever leave the North, (may that time never come) 1 would- go to San Antonio", said Robert Frost, Michigan's resident poet, 'when interviewed concerning his ' recent lecture trip through th.e South. He returned to Ann Arbor last Sunday, evening. "San Antonio is the most interest- ing town that I visited. As the cen- trr.l point of much of the fighting in the war for the independence of Tex-I as, there are buildings and locations of historical interest. A Spanish or Mexican quarter has some 40,000 in- habitants who are, to all practical purposes, full-blooded Aztec Indians. I found it an exceedingly fascinating place. "While. in the South I found some- thing which, I hadt previously ha;. a glimpse of in my thoughts. In a girl's college in Georgetown, Texas; I saw an institution in which intellectual and practical courses were minged in what I believe to be the best man- ner. These are colleges of a purely efficient nature, there' are those of the entirely intellectual variety, ;.ndl there.are the kind that favor techni- cal study but temper it with culture. TAFT S. SUMONE TO WINESSSTAN "In Georgetown I saw a. college in which the two are mingled in such a way, ot that the practical may bene- P~jWtI violence.' 'The wind's velocity was T,00/phgo r, s more than.40. miles per hour. Appiroaches 10irm es Seeing signals from, the distressed ship, Captain Tucker ordered the life- There seems'to be a disincination to boat mianned. Captain Menard, the discuss the klan in the South survivors said; told his men to jump "Another thing. which.iskept out if they wanted to, but said he was f it bteral a nvbu s tatsoe ti t gtht iemasgea to stae b0 the seime 1n b-- erat aag x 'tcy y e up. httmels fit by the culturaI," but 'so,that some- Oti h ueto vito.On httm atya ery5 members tetich ujc fe j~tin n were taken' in. The fall election is a tiing of the practical is brought in . minister .i a town' that I visited was comparatively new feature in the to make sounder the 'intellectual. The decidedly opposed to the theory and Michigan chapter, this being only the old saying 'Hitch your wagon to a had carried the town with him. The second year that it has been used, am star' should be rather 'Hitch your" situation is like this ,in many parts of only associate members are taken in ideal to a wagon'. As I see It, the add= the South. The biology departments rn at this time. ed pull will bring out the best in the of the colleges keep their hands tight- Both r ly over their mouths, for fear of FIE . Lrrv Bt graduate students and sen- intellectual.ym ,_orswereelected this fall. The grad- "Some amusing things happened to arousig unfavorable publi senti- uates elected were: Hazel M. Losh, e during my trip in the South", con- ment. I co!1d say whatever I desired, li and Out", Opening Here Monday, George R. Strimbeck, Helen Upde- tinued Mr. Frost. "I always tend to as I was always leaving town on the To Feature Special graff, and .John ;C. Wood. The sen- tne MrFrs.Ialastntonext tanseFauenie-ieece ee rhrF bend my readings toward the drama-I t Music iors elected were Arthur F. Dittmer tie sort of delivery rather than the Mr. Frost expects to be in Ann Ar- __Dean B. McLaughlin, and Arthur H chant or song-like kind, although in bor for some time. THOMAS UNDERWOOD, '2L, Stuart. many cases they might be read in TO SING REMINISCENT LYRIC - -- .-- the latter manner. One evening, in POPE ASKS THAT THREE RARE BIRDS the midst of my reading an old gentle-E Fifteen pieces will be included i roan got uip {and. said 'Verse is not EXECUVTIONS'STOP' ite pee il eiclddi SECURED F RI W blank verse unless one can chant the orchestra for the Union opera, "InFO It'. I asked him if he were a poet and Berne, Switzerland, Dec. 1.-Pope and Out'', which opens its week's run Found by Professor In Backwoods of added that I asked the question be- Pius has ordered Monsignor Mag in Ann Arbor Monday at the hitN eal cause he resembled William Cullen ney theater. The orchestra is com-{ Bryant. This seemed to make him lone, the papal representative inI utnb'Bi S n Switzerlandtointerveestronglplete in strings, brasses and wood-a t, Iowa, quite indignant ,and he replied, "Sir, Sw. izelnd, thnere,erngly with n sth eteuipdee the rarest birds in New Zealand were I would rather resemble Billy Sunday.' added to'teUiest fIw' r " Is that your true attitude?" I tive at the Lausanne conference, n use y a Uon opera. inthological collectio by Prof. Day- asked order to prevent further executions of The direction of the music will- rtbeha sIt is the worst thing I could say former ministers by the Greeks .The by Thomas I. Underwood, '23L, who as atresult othe Fij-Ny ea n to show my feelings', he returned, i Swiss press and population 'expressed sang- "Naughty Eyes" in last year's scientific expedition from the Univer- talked to the old gentleman after the great idignation over what are term- production. This year he will sing sity last 'summer. These were the mneeting was concluded and partly ed the political murders"- "Michigan ,Nights", a reminiscent lyr- north 'island robin, the bell bird, and convinced him that it was permissible ic written by E. R. Meiss, '23. the parson bird, or tu,la. to read in other than a chanting FREESTATERS RIOT Four violins, a cello, and a bass: Of these three, the iibrth island rob- styl. 1 WITH IRREGULARS viol will complete the string division in is the rarest, Professor Stoner Some tardiness on the part of the Wfof the orchestra. The violins will says. One of the staff members of a trains in Texas caused Mr. Frost some be played by Robert R. Tanner, grad., New Zealand museum who accom- trouble, also. "If one had been olf Dublin, Dec. 1.-Two Free Staters Frank Stiles, Jr., '24, John Dinwid- panied Professor Stoner on his col- time I would have been afraid to ride were killed in a clash which took die, '24, and John P. Chandler, '24: lecting trip into the interior of the on it because it would have jumped place at Chaipool, near .Tubbercur- William L. Newberry, '23E, will play f country said he never had seen one the track before we reached the next. ry, Sligo, with irregular troops. Dub- of the birds although he was a na- station, in order to get a little behind lin is reported quiet, ho'iever. the cello, and Joseph E. Michaels, ive of the country. time", he said.. ' Official army reports says that Free.25, the bass viol.. "I had no encounter with the Ku State troops' recently raided Quaker In the brasses, Carl A. Weinmann, University Club Holds SmCker Klux Klan in Texas, but on a certain Island and captured the leader of the '24, will play cornet, J. K. Altland, '24, Members of the University club held occasion, at a gathering of some size, irregulars, Matthew Davis, and a trombone, and Thomas E. Fiske, '251 a smoker last night in Alumni Me- 'a .young man who was with me said number of his men. . and Calvin A. Campbell, '24, saxo-l morial hall. that it was safe to assume that two- j Mary and Annie MacSwiney are phones. thirds of those present were members, said to be recovering from the ef- Hubert Bush, '25, will play clarinet: t fects of their recent hunger strike. and Hoard M. Osman, '23E, flute. Tho drums will be h'andled by Richard C. Visions W Russions Send Thanksgviing Message Travis, '25M. Moscow, Dec. 1.-A Thanksgiving The orchestrations have been writ- jation the orcoeItretiintionetoeenLaidmessage to the American people ten by E. R. Meiss, '23. thanks them for famine relief contri- Before President SOon butions, and "hopes for further help' Rl HOM ESrPno ,Polo Grounds, New York, Nov. 30. in the re-establishment of Russia." (Special)--Ina a '. .,. .. ii rI~rrd~II~l (necil)-n agame of thrills heap- Is Asked to Testify in Support mand for Daugherty's Impeachment of De-1 'APPOINTMENiT 'OF CORRUTP1 AME CHARGFID BY KELLAR Washington, Dec. 1.-Chief. Justice Taft was named in a statement to the house judiciary committee by Repre- sentative Kellar, republicah, Minneso-. ta, as a witness to be called:in sup- port of his demand for impeachment of Attorney Gener .l Daugherty. I ing around Princeton's ends through the constantly weake: The Chiei Justice was desired to A three day investigation by th testify, Mr. Kellar wrote, in. connec- .Student council of the rushing of 0- DARWIN THEORY tion with his charge, formerly filed,th GETSNIEW, 'that Attorney General Daugherty had cal theaters last Sunday night is GETS NEW JOLT I appointed untrustworthy, corrupt, nearly complete and'uthe results will and dangerous men to high office, be laid before President Marion L. Stockholm, Nov. 13.-A declaration knowing at the time that they were Burton shortly. In comment on the that Darwin's theory of evolution is men of such character. ' spirit .n which the investigation has wrong comes from the Rev. Dr. J. George W. Wickersham, former at- beenicnducdthe comittof Enander, a Swedish country minis- torney general, Samuel Gompers, been conducted, the committee of ter, more famous as a botanist, who president of the American Federation which John W. Kelly, '24L, is chair- has just returned to his congrega-' of Labor, Guy Orster, Mr. Gomper's man, has issued the following state-' tion and an orchard of at least a secretary, !also were .,mentioned by ment: + mi a .rit+43. -,f mllwr nta r, tr ln. nhar wii~nsse hA "The council denlores. as it feels Are You Going to Hear Mary Garden? Mary Garden will be here Tues- day night. The seats have all been sold. Will that keep you from going? It shouldn't. Some persons have bought tickets, and now are unahe. to zn Avil edupnthis, bringingthe60,000line, and on several occasions br ed upon .thrill, ing up seemingy serious ttacks Henderson, Strauss, Merrick, Immel cheering spectators to their feet'time brilliant defensive. Give Outside Talks after time in frenzied excitement, This is the picture Hugh Fulle Four faculty members yesterday de- Michigan's wonder football team tri- gives us in an article which appez livered lectures in other cities Prof. umphed over Princeton's eastern yesterday morning in the Chic W. D.Henderson, of the Extension champions in the Polo grounds this Tribune on a "dream" game bet," department, spoke at Lansing before afternoon before a record throng, the two teams. He gives a play the Community club on the subject thereby 'establishing its indisputable play account of the imaginary ge "Modern Science and the Bible". Prof. claim to the football supremacy o' with Princeton getting away to Louis A. Strauss, of the English de- the country. I early lead in the first quarter onl partment, gave the second of a series When the final whist:e blew the be overcome by a shower of passe nf Poiht leetnroen vnwnin heforenWolverines were on the long end of tlhe second half.