THE WEATHER FAIR AND PROBABLY, L fri4b aiI ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED) WIRE SERVICE Il ;EMBER WESTERN CONFERE1NCE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION VOL. X?(XIV. No. 15 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1923 EIGHT PAGES PRICE, FIVE CENTS RES6IGNATION TO PASSKLAN "BILL[ PROMISES TO QUIT IMMEDIATELY WHEN ANTI-KLAN MEASURE BECOMES LAW SPECIAL SESSION TO CONSIDER PROPOSALS Would Prohibit Use of )Iasks by Secret Orgizations in Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 9.-(By A. P.)-Gov. J. C. Walton tonight of- fered to resign to prove his good faith in his fight against the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma if the legislature at its forthcoming special session will enact an anti-klan law which he will sub- mit. Statement Challenges Opponents Challenging opponents of his ad- ministration, whose battle cry has been: "We want neither Klan nor King," the executive issued a statement addressed to the people of Oklahoma declaring: "When this bill becomes law it will rid the state of the Klan and I will resign the office of governor immedi- ately thereupon. In this way the people will be protected .from the Klan and peace and harnmbny can be re-' stored to the state."- Prohibits Use of Masks Briefly, the governor's bill prohibits the use of the mask by secret organi- zations in Oklahoma and provides that. all such orders shall file complete membership lists with the regular civil authorities. If his proposition is not accepted Gov. Walton declares he will decide further how "we must proceed to pro- tect ourselves from this organization of masked marauders who have prac- tical control .of the jurisdictional and, police powers in the principal cities of the state." Majestic To Be REST OF VANI)ERBILT GAM3E SEATS GO ON SALE TODAY I Unsold tickets for the Van- derbilt game Saturday are on sale this morning in the Ath- letic office in the Press building. These tickets will be sold over the counter until Saturday noon 1 when the remaining tickets will be taken to Ferry Field and can be obtained at the gate. Students presenting their cou- pons may obtain seats duringl the wee. The public is privi- leged to buy at regular prices of $2.00 per seat. Not more than four tickets will be sold to any one purchaser.tAll tickets are for reserved seats. CLASS' THREA-TENED0 BY EX PLODI N G TAK11 Fifty Bystanders Escape Injury; One Student Hurt By Acvdient Of , Unknown Cause FORCE OF BLAST SCATTERS MACHINERY THROUGH WALLS New York, Oct. 9.-(By A.P.)-Fifty Columbia University students 'nar- rowly escaped injury today when a compressed air tank in the basement of Havermeyer hall exploded, scatter- ing machinery through walls and breaking a dozen 'windows. The cause of the explosion could not be learned. Windows of nearby buildings also were broken. A large plank was hurled through the air just missing a half dozen students who were con- ducting experiments. Prof. Charles L. Lucas, head of the mechanical en- gineering department at once started an investigation to determine the LLOYD GEORGE HITS HOUSE OF COMMONS Former Premier Declares Hughes' Gerzan Reparation Proposal "Lost In Parliament" LAUDS C)OLI )('E'S STANI FOR WORLD PARTICIPATION Ottawa, Oct. 9.-(By A. P.)-David Lloyd George, Great Britain's war time premier became the guest of the Can- adian government today when he ar- rived in Ottawa from Montreal. Oh board his special train enroute to the dominion capitol Mr. Lloyd George re- iterated to correspondents a declara- tion that Secretary Hughes' proposal made nearly a year ago for an inter- national commission to determiine Germany's ability to pay was the most practical solution of the problem he had seen. The most important point of the pro- posal, he said, was that it still stands. He declared Persident Coolidge's as- sertion in Washington today that it was up to any foreign nation inter- ested in the proposal, to communicate interest to the United States was in effect a reoffering of the proposal. Mr. Hughes' proposal was made up- an the eve of the premier's conference on the reparations question and was j "obviously made" with the conference in mind. "I was in Spain," he continued, "and saw a brief press dispatch enumerat- ing the points whereupon I immedi- ately cabled to London that the pro- posal should be considered. When I returned to the house of commons they denied ever seeing the proposal and even denied that it had ever been deliver d. It is one of the blunders of history that this has been com- pletely overlooked; one of those blun- ders that lead to catastrop~les." Mr. Lloyd George's arrival in Otta- wa tonight was the signal for many demonstrations of friendship and lnvnlt --P WAR PREMIER oETS H101E NEWS AS TRAIN SPEEDS Ottawa, Oct. 9.-(By A. P.)- Mr. Lloyd George heard Presi- dent Collidge's plan for the set- tlement of the German repara- tions problem through Associ- ated Press dispatches which were read to him over the wire- less telephone attached to his private car, as the train sped from Montreal to Ottawa. All important foreign dis- patches were also read andl the former premier saidrthat he felt as much at home as though he were discussing affairs of state among his old friends in London. M'CLOSKEY SPEAK AT UNION S~MOKER SAYS U. S. hAS BEST SYSTEM Ok' PJREPAIREiINESS IN WORI 1) "OUR MILITARY POLICY"1 OUTLINED BY GENERAL Italian General To Govern Fiume LYNCH ANNOUNCES UNION COMMITTEES , F O R C U R R EN , i il l F~ i Tl A Y E A R4 \ Q I11J'BBA 111, 31 Eli IAM, L4IVIN4G STONE, IIUMMER{ ANI) STARK NAME ASSISTANTS SEVERAL COMMITTEES YET TO BE APPOINTED Si b-eommiitt cC (ha irnan Selected To Head Corps of General Commit teemen ~ ~ "y 1 "A ';t?.l"' :"":''. ::'".'{::i+1 Dean Cooley Speaks on the of Federation of Engineers 114ory! FIRE ENDANGERS MICHIGAN TOWN Destruction Of Ontanogan By Widespread Blaze; Loss Great ''i aoai (': cause of the accident. Prof. H. L. Parr was explaining to students who had gathered around the apparatus, the metithe cying oe U T PRESENT action of steam en the cylinder of a compressed air engine. The tank set D P Pln the l l r ivpl with nla nkinof( i R~AM Gds \./ ,/'y ] e )e(W We 11 a IUe L1JLIK11 1 ttI H11111 1 ( S-Gover it, burst suddenly, hurling the planks upwards. The catacomb fugitives of Rome -One students as slightly hurt by FOURTH OF JULY OF CHINA TO would be surprised to know that their flying wood and particles of bits of BE CELEBRATED IN drama will be re-enacted hero when metal. ANN ARBOR the :Catholic students of the Univers- ity move from their present seat of.Chinese students of the University Sunday worship to the Majestic the- ater on the first Sunday in November, PHILIPPNE UNI RSITwill gather at 8 oclock tonight in and again at the first of the year when Lane Hall to commemorate theE services will be held in the basement DD[SIfElT E twelfth anniversary of the founding of the new Catholic chapel. IILIILI II LU I U U of= the Chinese republic. With them Rev. Fr. Michael Burke announced there will be present members of the last night that the owner and manag- Manila, P. I., Oct. 9.-(By A. P.)- Chinese University club of Detroit the use of the building to the chapel Dr. Guy Potter Benton, president of and friends amoig University deans congregation for Sunday morning the University of the Philippines, has and professors, as well as student services The chapel on State st resigned. because of ill health and leaders, invited by the Chinese Stu- was sold to the University more thanIsailed today for the United States on dent club which is, sponsoring the a year ago and the congregation's the President Jackson. The Board of gathering. right of possession ceases on Nov. Regents of the university granted the President Marion L. Buron will bel The rent asked- for the structure by retiring president a year's advance in the principal speaker of the evening the University was more than the con- salary in appreciation of his workI and, in addition, an extensive program gregation could afford, according to here, is being planned. J. M. Young, Grad, Father Burke and the, offer of the i Dr. Benton announced his intention will be the only other speakeri theater owners came at a critical recently of asking for a year's leave on the program, giving a talk on moment. of absence on account of his health "Chinese Modern Education."I The permission of the head of the but later decided to resign instead. "The Eve of October Tenth", a three Detroit diocese was obtained for the He is widey known in educational act play written in English by J. C. extraordinary move and preparations circles in the United States and in Lee, a Purdue university, will be pre- for removal to the Majestic will be Europe. He was educational director sented by nine students of the club. begun during the latter part of the I of the American army of occupation It will be staged with Chinese back- month. in Germany. ground and dress. WOMEN AND CHILREN ;SAFE; VILLAGERS JiOIN FIREMJEN Duluth, Minn., Oct. 9.-(fy A..)- Menaced by a forest fire, Ontonagon Michigan, on the scuth shore o , Lake Superior, 150 miles from her-, is threatened with destruction, ac- cording to a telephone message to the Associated Press from C. D. Riley, editor of the Ontonagon ierald-C:ur- ier. Ontonagon, a lumbering center of 1,500 population, was destroyed by a forest fire in 1896. Fire Within ScenM ile The town fire department, after sprinkling the outer buildings with water, have taken up posts in the outskirts. Townsmen are reinforcing the firemen. According to Mr. Riley. the edge of a forest fire which has covered about 60 square miles, is within seven miles of Ontonagon. No loss of life has yet been reported. The families of villagers and farm- ers are being housed in the Green Village school while the men fight the fire. The school house is in a clear- ing and according to a telephone mes- sage from the superintendent of schools, is considered a reasonably, safe place. Mr. Riley believes several logging camps have been destroyed as the fire is raging in a thickly wooded forest. The loss of timber will btu enormous. As there has been no rain in that vicinity for several weeks, the woods are dry and it is feared there is little prospect of control of the flames until rain falls. Fatality Occurs Calumet, Mich., Oct. 9.- The firstj fatality as a result of the forest firesI which are virtually unabated in the Michigan copper country today occur- red when Mildred Koidu, age 3, wand- ered with other children from a -farm house near here to a small thicket a thousand feet away and was burned to death. FLORIDA09DYKES 0BREAK; TOWN IN DIR STR91TS Stating that the United States had h.lme finest system of military pre- >aredness in the world, Colonel Manus M cCl oskey, brigadier general in active service during the war, delivered his irst address in Ann Arbor at the engi- 1eer ig smoker held last night in the Jilion. Col. McClokey, speaking on, "Our \lilitary Policy" before a crowded as- ,embly hall, eutlined the policy that he United States will follow in rela- ion to foreign nations, and recounted vividly'a number of his experiences 'luring active service. 1ean Cooley Speaks Lean Mortimer Cooley, who intro- duced the sneaker, spoke on the hist- ory of the Federation of Engineers. As president of this organization which has a membership of about 50,- )00, he discussed the policy of the so- :iety and its benefits to the world. He further mentioned that it was the Federation of Engineers who had the most to do in bringing about the eight- hour day in the steel industry. "The United States," said Col. Mc- Closkey, "is keeping prepared by hav- ng different units of training, such as the R. 0. T. C. and the National Guards. With this system a defense ('can be thrown up immediately and shortly afterwards the army will be strong enough to take an aggressive offense. This is the first system of preparedness that has been put through in the United States that has met with success." Does Not Desire War The colonel went on to say that the people may have a wrong impression about army officers. "Army officers do not find pleasure in fighting. The sol- dier is a citizen who has taken the army for his profession. He is not merely after battle. I have been at Cuba, where I have seen my friends sick with horrible fever. I have been at the Philippines and at Peking.I have seen school-mates and soldier friends subject to all kinds of filth and malady, living in the dirt, taking a bath whenever possible and when bombs were flying overhead spelling fdeath. Do you think any thinking in- dividual would desire to see and live this? "We have amongst us men," he con- tinued, "who are known as' pacifists. We must be careful when we read about them. Pacifists say discharge all your army and navy and let us have peace. You might just as well abandon the fire department. There is I another group working hand in hand ' with the pacifists and these are the anarchists and radicals." Col. Mc- Closkey proceeded to show up the evils of this group. Now With Signal Corps At persent Col. McCloskey is con- nected with the general staff on duty as assistant chief of staff of the sixth signal corps. He received his training in the military -academy from which he graduaced in 1898. He is also a graduate of the General Staff college, the Army Staff college, the War col- a lege, and an honorary graduate of the army school of the line. Immediately following the talk en- tertainment was furnished consisting of a solo and banjo music and refresh- mnents. Appointments to all Union commit- tees for the coming year were an- pounced yesterday by Thomas Lynch, '25L, president of the Union. The ap- pointments are tentative, and changes General Giardino may be mnade in the committee during Premier Mussolini, of Italy, has the year if it is found advisable. named General Giardino, third in com- Although the larger number of the mand of the Italian army, to be mil- committees were named yesterday itary governor of Fiume as govern- 1-there are several that will not be an- .nent heads there resign. nounced until a later (late. Among tles are the library committee, the owling committee, time Fathers day committees that will be appointed as the need arises. jj [ (( pp FExcu f lve Committee Named The Union this year will be con- trolled by the Executive committee composed of the followin'g men: Tho- mias Lynch, '25L, president, Henry Journalistic Organization Holds First Hubbard, '24E, recording secretary, Meeting of Kemp Keena, Grad, general secretary, Year Milton Peterson, '25, and Carl Robert- son, '25, assistant recording secretar- TARR, PRICE AND WATERWORTIt Js, Charles Merriam, '25E, chairman ARE SOME OFFICERS NAME) of the Upperelass Advisory commit- tee, Charles Livingstone, '25, chair- Officers were elected and the first man of the Reception committee, Rob- stes o oganzaionfo th smeserert hummer, '25, chairman of the steps of organization for the semester House committee, and Edward Stark were taken last night when the Stu- '24, chairman of the Life Membership dent Press club held its first meeting in University hall. The officers elect- committee. ed were: E. P. Lovejoy, Jr., '24, former Avisory committee of which Charles city editor of The Daily, president; R. W.Merriam, '25E, is chairman hare B. Tarr, '24, vice president; Ruth A. as follows: Lester G. Whitman, '25, Price, '24, secretary, and Isabel P. Edwin F. Westover, '26E, Frank P. Waterworth, '24, treasurer. Weaver, '26, William Coleman, '26E, The meeting was opened by Prof. Bernard Baeteke, '26, James B. Deane, John L. R. Brumm, of the journalism '26E, John P. Doleman, '26E, Richard department, and it was decided that Barton, '26, and Norman Benham, '25. the Student Press club as an organiza- Assistant recorders for the coming tion should be continued and every year will be as follows: Quincy Well- effort made to make it even more valu- ington, '26E, William James, 'X6, J. able to its members than in the past. Graves, '261i, James Newton, '26, angl After the election of officers several Kenneth Hollister, '26E. They wlll amendments to the club's past meth- act as assistants to Henry Hubbar, ods were offered and it was agreed to '24E, who is recording secretary for raise the membership fee to one dollar ithe coming year. a semester. Recepion Committee Chosen All members were urged to attend The reception committee will be the, yarious meetings of the state con- headed by Charles Livingstone, '25, ventional of editors this week and a aid will be composed, of: Wallace committee of 10 was appointed by the Flower, '25, H. A. Turner, '26E, Wil- president to act under Professor liam Diener, '26, and John Tracy, '25. Brumm as guides when the editors ar- Each of these committee members will rive. head a sub-committee under the gen- eral supervision of the Reception com- m ittee. SEVENflhIINTffl The sub-committee in -charge of EVEN ~rrui u TOathletic receptions will be headed by hI. A. Turner, '26E, and will be com- posed of Therman Clark, '26, and Wil- liam Austin, '26. The General Re- ception committee under the leader- Announcement of the jVarsity ship of John Tracy, '25, will be made cheerleader squad selected last night up of Richard Earhcr, '26, Kenneth at the end of the second meeting of Keller '26, and F. Davis '26. William tryouts held this year has been made Diener will be chairman of the Alumni by the Student council. The personnel Rooming committee. The committee of the squad is as follows: John A. will be composed of John Plain, '25, Bacon, '26L, William H. Frankhauser, Carl Kane, '26, Robert F. Mark, '26, '24L, Lyanan J. Glasgow, '25, Robert and Robert Grab, '26. Leopold, '25, and James Collison, '25. Stark Heads Lifee Membership Two men chosen as alternates are: Edward Stark, '24, will be general James J. Weadock, '25, and Richard J. chairman of the Life Membership Jamesd 'J. aocommittee this year. He will be as- Baulard, '24. This squad of five men and two al- I sisted by Arden Kirshner, '25, and is sua ve en n woa -Paul Bruske, '26, assistant chairman. ternates is the permanent cheerleader lThe rest of the committee will be body for this year. he first four c osed of the team captains of the men named above were picked at the Iteams that will act during the drive. tryouts held a week ago and consti- These will be appointed at a later tuted the squad which officiated at the date. Teho team captains will choose Case game. Collison, who was added the men that will assist them in can- to the squad last night, will be given vassing the campus for students to a permanent position after the Van- sign for life membership in the Un- derbilt game if one of the alternates ion, is not selected for fifth man in his The house Committee, headed y place. Two alternates will be kept Robert Hummer, '25, will be made up with the regular squad thorughout the of George Watkins, '25 and Kenneth year. Seick, '25. These two committeemen The Varsity cheerleader will be will act as chairmen of two sub-com- elected from the squad after the Van- mittees that will be under the general derbilt game by members of the squad supervision of the House committee, Hall Endorses Proposal To Raise Fraternity Standard Dr. Arthur G. Hall, registrar of the I University expressed himself yester- day as heartily approving, with some reservations, the general plan which representatives of, fraternities, meet- ing with Dean J. A. Bursley, devised recently to raise the scholastic stand-- ard of such organizations in the Uni- versity. He declared however that, some of the provisions would need slight alteration if the plan is to fulfill its= purpose., "Such a move by members of repre- sentative fraternal organizations is to be commended," he said. "They are taking a step that will surely react to their advantage. Penalties for lowering group scholarship have been needed for some time. It is an offense which should be taken seri- ously. "One provision, however, seems to defeat the purpose of this commend- able step. A premium is placed on group probation with no emphasis of individual probation. If the plan is to function, as it should, with a re- sultant raising of scholarship of the group, entrance requirements must be raised above the present standard. The adoption of new provision with- out elevation of initiation require- ments would simply result in an in- creased number of fraternities being placed on probation. Dr. Hall emphasized that this is es- sentially a problem with which the fraternities themselves must grapple. It will be to their advantage to change their requirements for initia- tion since it is only in this way that their scholastic standard can be rais- ed. No amount of placing fraternities on probation will accomplish this ob- ject, in his opinion. "The registrar's office will be more; than willing to co-operate in carrying out the plan, even though the issuing of cards with standing of pledges will entail considerable additional work In the homeland this day is ob- served by parades, display of flags, fireworks and the closing of all schools, and practically resembles the Fourth of July in this country, say Chinese in charge of the celebra- tion. Today has been chosen from among the many days that commemorate the turn into a republic because At is the anniversary of the day upon which republican government became an es- tablished fact.- I .. FREHMEN TO START DISCUSSION GRHOUPS' Freshmen will officially open theI first of the series of discussions be- tween respective groups at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening at Lane hall. The meetings which will be carried on under the auspices of the Student. Christian association will be held at this hour only during the opening Moore Haven, Fla., Oct. 9.-(By A. P.)-A frantic effort was being made tonight to rebuild the dykes surround- ing this city and save the town from utter disaster. The gale which swept across a lake on which the city faces, was dying down at dusk but the water still was rising in the city. Waters ifrom Lake Okeechobee still were I washing high and farmers were at-' tempting to reach the city with their stock. A small canal bank wasj crowded with refugees. A careful check late today showed I there was no loss of life. Only a shift in the winds can check the rapidly rising water. The dykeI around the city of Moore Haven has been damaged and the dyke extending down to Lewistown, 20 miles from here, has crumbled away in places so !.that the flood is threatening the entire t west shore of the lake. New Device Aids Game Spectators Spectators at football games dur- ing the coming season will be aided in following the play by a newly- and a committee of three men fromj the Student council. Lyanan J. Glas- gow, '25, is the temporary head cheer- Players Prepare For First Shows erected scoreboard. The new device is leader until that time. located in the same place as the old Daily drill in uniform cheering, sim- one and was put in. operation by the ilar to that used at the Case game, will Athletic association. begin today. Blazers are to be worn ,It indicates the scores of both teams by the cheerleader team this year forf at all timnes in the game and gives the first time. the number of the down and yards E to go as well. The yards to go will be shown by means of a pointer mov- NAME LAW PRESIDENT "WORDS FAIL ME" How often have you heard someone say that? It's all very well to say it for the effect, but what if they actual- ly do? There is but "one" thing to do., If you need words or anything else,, call-- JIMMIE meeting, the time for the following ones being determined by the group Twelve tryouts met Ross L. Taylor,j membership and leader. '24, in the Players' club workshop last It was further decided that the night preparatory to starting work on groups, instead of meeting at one time the scenic effects for the first two will meet individually at a date most plays of the year, "The Trysting the Dance committee and the Billiard committee. Kenneth Seick, '25, will be chair- man of the Dance committee and will be aided by: Edmund Madden, '25, Charles Murray, '25, Ralph Byers, '24, J. B. Johnson, '25E, and Philip Rowe, f'25. The Billiard committee will be - made up of George Watkins, '25, chairman, with no members assist- ing him. The Bowling committee, another sub-division of the House committee, will be named at a later date. | Ohio State head Il 1 President Marion L. Burton an- nonced today that President Thomp- son of the Ohio State university is very ill and would not be able to at- tonri f+ip Mirliisran hin a n fnthn convenient, thus causing gathering of groups to take place every night of the week. The freshmen will be di- vided into 14 respective groups. All freshmen interested in the S. C. A. Place" and "What They Think." More than 20 students and towns- people have reported for possible work' on the casts of the plays, which are to be presented during the latter part of this month in Sarah Cawell1 Anzel ing along a row of figures to corres- pond to the number of yards. The entire arrangement is simple and all numbers of a size and legibility ex- pected to be visible from nearly all parts of the stand. Effinger to Attend RHies Dean Tnhn R. finger, of the lit- I Clayton F. Jennings, '24L, was elect- ed president of the senior law class at the class meeting held yesterday I afternoon to vote upon the tie for this office, which resulted from the regular election held last week. The other class officers were named at the first i m At m