THE WEATHER PROBABLY SNOW AM) COLDEN TOIDAY -A =,Now ..tt4t aiij MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS t VOL. XXXV. No. 71 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, UECEMI3ER 16, 1924 EIGHT PAGES PRICE, FIVE CENTS INTER F RAT ER NITY COUNCiL CONSIDERS NEWCONSTITUTION1 JROPOSED CODE TO BE VOTED ON AT NEXT 1EETING OF' REPRESENTATIVES DANCE RULE TABLED PIlan To Divide Organization Into Five Sections For Election Of Officers May Get Post 'Reds' Control R Kill Fee Tho All Russian schools and colleges are "Red" institutions, under the con- trol of the Bolshevik superstate, and teach the absolute abolition of the or- thodox religion and Christianity, ac- cording to Captain Francis McCul- lagh, who spoke Sunday night at the Methodist Episcopal church on iThe Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity. "Many Russian students have a tendency to think for themselves," declared the journalist after his lec- ture, "but they never get far if they I make this known to the Soviet agents, who are continually examining them. If they (to give any expression to ussian Schools, ught, Writer Says FORMER STUDENT OEMR ATr rUnrIIN r Hobbs Urges Early Action For Big Navy BENSON ORCHESTRA AND TWO OTHERS Suggestions for changes in the pro- touts not in accord with the corn hun hts overnment, d tth a e n o ma- posed constitution of the Interfrater- imiist gOvernment, they are not - lowedl to pass their courses." nity council, which were submitted Citing an example of a young stu-j by the judiciary committee in its re- - port, and the reading of the new con- etitution occupied the greater hart of : the meeting of the council held at 4:30 { o'clock yesterday afternoon in the ;° Union. ! !after the reading of the new docu..j ment, it was moved and seconded that Tlhonias J. CamiipANell a suitable number of copies be printed Thomas J. Campbell, famed as the and distributed sto the various frater- greatest "dry farmer" in the world, is Iieeting of First Year Men et. Union nities on the campus in order to en- being considered by President Cool- Tomorrow Noon Will be iLast able those bodies to become acquaint- idge, it is rumored, as a possible suc- Before io0idays ed with the suggested changes and to cessor to Howard Gore, when the lat- --- make it possible for them to cast ter resigns the agricultural post in the BROWN, IT TL TO TALK their votes on the matter at the next;cabinet March 4. Campbell has 80,000 meetiing. acres in wheat in Montana. Three changes in the code of laws __Present ticket sales indicate that council shall be divided into five sec- mr hn4nemnmutr tions, numbered from one to five, each I !Hthe luncheon to be given by the class section containing as nearly as pos- UWJ U U LU H1MPI LR [ at 12:15 o'clock tomorrow noon in the sible the same number of fraternities. main assebly hall of the Union. The and that the first year the plan goes 'ur into effect the president shall be se T E5riasem f the nion. The lected by the members of group 1, the i freshman class together once more secretary from group 2, and the treas before the Christmas holidays. urer from group 3. The next year ('oeamon Council Accepts Proposiion Richard T. Savage, '28, will act as section one would be moved to the of Pleople's Motor Coach George Little bottom of the list, and the officers Coiipay and Rol ert Brown, '26, captain of next would be selected respectively from year's football team, will speak. Hen- gr 2, 3, and 4. 11 MAIN LINES PLANNED ry Grinnell, '28, president of the fresh- A new fraternity joining the counciA n:an literary class, Chales A. John- shall be placed in the'section at the - son, 28E, captain of the fall games top of the list provided that all the Resolutions p)assed by the common and Paul Burton, '28E, president of' sections have the same number or council of Ann Arbor last night pro- the froshman engineering class, will members, and if the membership is vided for the substitution of a com- also speak. uneven, the new fraternity shall be fsiofb- i Burton Hyde, '25M, will give sev- placed in the ranking section among oehensive system of automobile bus- oral selections on the Xylophone and those having the smallest number of ses in place of the present system of Ted Rhoades' orchestra will furnish members., street cars. The resolution calls for music during the luncheon.I It is also provided that none of the the new bus system to be in opra- All men who are selling tickets officers of the Inter-fraternity council i yfor the luncheon must have their nor any members of the judiciary I bu cmoney and unsold tickets turned in committee shall come from a frater-! statements made by Prof. A. H. White to William L. Diener, '26, at the Union nity that has not been a member of of the engineering department, chair- by tonight. If unable to do this, they, the council for at least five years. The man of the council railroad commit- are asked to call 231. dent friend of his, Captain McCullagh. stated that the Soviet examiner had wome t? one of his classes and had l ieen asking each stu"ynt a supposi- Sqschool examiner and were confronted l OUGLAS . STEERE AWARDEI) with two students, one who was dull SC(IOLARSHIP 1 NOW )ut was a communist and another AT JIARVARlI) who was bright l ut was not a com- inunist, which one would you pass?" According to the former Russian 3 C ADETS SELECTED :,orrespondent, if the student answer- _d that he would pass the bright one, Appoint : taCandidates out of Total C he would not only fail in the course of i7 Who Applied for but would be put even further back.11onor "The Russian universities arc Iow filled with elderly men who have been Douglas V. Steere, formerly a stu- sent there by their local Red' organi- zations to become political leaders," dent at Michigan Agricultural college 1. continued. "With such a situation and now of the philosophy depart- existing, most of these men being ment of the Harvard graduate school, practically illiterate, and with ai 'it- was awarded the Rhodes scholarship ter absence of order in the stuffy,fea crowded school rooms, the profess or the state of Michigan at the meet- have little heart to teach and are ig of the committee Saturday, ac- sometimes overcome by suffocation cording to the report made uublic due to the overcrowed conditions. yesterday by President Frank Ayde- ditions. lotte, of Swarthmore college, who is "Practically all of the best and ii the American secretary to the Rhodes dependent thinking professors have trustees. been sentencevi to prison, killed, or Steere was graduated from M. A. exiled following one of the so-called C. in 1923, and in the fall of that year 'purgings' which have taken place at 'he entered Harvard. After a year's various ti"es since the Soviet gov- study at that institution he was named ernment crme into power,' said Cap- an assistant in the philosophy depart- tam McCullagh.i mnent, and recently received a schol- arship. According to the regulations of the T U O Rhodes trustees, a man may be a candid t^o for a Rhodes scholarship eitherin the state in which he resides or inwhich he has received at least rtwo years of his college training. Tl:;s makes it possible for any given college or university to have cornpet- Exploration of Unmapped Areas is itors entered in a number of different Possible, Says Designer of states. Dirigibles 1 Princeton headed the list this year with 27 candidates from 17 states. EXPLAINS STRUCTURE Harvard had 22 candidates from 11 f states; Yale, 20 from 10; Cornell, 12 from 7; Vanderbilt university, 9 from Exploratien of the vast unmapped 4; Oberlin college, 7 from 4; and the areas within the Arctic circle may University, 7 from 3. soon be realized through the utilization For the first time since the first ,. .. ., ,. __I i n-- - Action should be taken on Secre- .,ry Wilbur's naval recommendations t the earliest moment, in the op^nicn I oZ Prof. W. 1.H.obbs1) of the geology Ipartnent. "In view of the raising iJINSON'S AND GOLI)KETTE'S the curtain by Secretary Wilbur I MUSICIANS WILL ADD TO esterday, it is easier to discuss the FESTIVITIES situation without disclosing facts long withheld from the public," said Pro- BARBER GIVEN PRIZE fessbr Hobbs in a statement to The Daily. "The public is now informed offi- Annual Junior Dance Will be Hed cially that Japan is rushing naval Friday Feb. 6, in Barbour, preparations of a kind which can only Waterman Gymntnasiums be interpreted to mean that they are intended for probable hiostile action Benson's Orchestra of Chicago, con- against the United States," he ex- against tducted by Don Bestor, Victor record plained. "Events which in recent months have artists, Arnold Johnson's Harmony followed each other with kaleidoscopic Boys, also of Chicago; and the Jean suddenness, and all of which are in Goldkette orchestra of Detroit, will some way related to the Washington furnish the music for the Hop of the Arms conference and to the critical situation in the Pacific region, where class of '26 on Friday, Feb. 6. It seems to be agreed the next war These orchestras were selected by will take place, should be reviewed the music committee, under the lead- to consider this question intelligent- ership of Gene K. Buck, '26D, from a ly, he added. "These events are, in part, the re- field of more than 25 musical organi- cent Geneva Protocal, by the terms zations, comprising most of the fam- of which Japan was promised what ous orchestras of the country. The she strove to secure at the Paris con- three selected are among the premier erence, and would have o ined dance orchestras of the middle West. I for the stubborn opposition of the Tho Benson Orchestra consists. of Australian Premier, W. M. Hughes; te pesn hscheved nio the recent Immigration Act of ten pieces, and has achieved nation- United States, which Japan has con- wide popularity as a result of its sidered to be an affront to her; the re- many Victor records and several turn from radicalism and pacifism to vaudeville tours on the Orpheum and conservatism and security, evidenced other circuits. It is now filling an by the British. and American elections engagement at the Drake hotel; and and only less in French politics; ara has played for two years at the Man- the decision of the Baldwin Ministry gold Gardens, Chicago, and one year in Great Britain to indefinitely post- at the Terrace Garden, Chicago. For pone ratification, of the Geneva Pro- the past two summers this orchestra tocal and set out at once to construct ,has played at Atlantic City. the long projected naval base at j The Arnold Johnson Harmony Boys Singapore, which had been turned Iare well known among the younger down by the radical Labor govern set of Chicago, and play for many of meat." the fraternity parties at the Edge- In the belief of Professor Hobbs, water Beach hotel. It consists of the Washington conference, viewed in eight pieces, and will be stationed in the retrospect, appears to be less of Barbour gymnasium. The other two a triumph for Mr. Hughes than itwas orchestras will be placed in Water- heralded to be at the time. "It limit- man gymnasium. ed the armaments only in the form oi min r.-.-.--+a -- - -f i { 1 of the dirigibles Shenandoah and Los Angeles under direction of the Navy departnent, thinks' Starr Truscitt, OIE, designer of the Shenandoah, who spoke before the Aeronautical societyk last night in Natural Science auditor- ium. Mr. Truscott, engineer in the bur- Rnodues seioLrsnip was founUeduGU" n sdi years ago, an .award was made to a capital naval ships, and there is even student from West Point. Three nOW a sharj. controversy as to the: cadets were chosen,retresenting the status of capital ships. This is , states of Maryland, New Hanmpshl brought~ about by the increased imn- 'siate ofi~lryl~n, Nw Hmpsire portance of aircraft and subpxiarlnes. and Washington. I"The conference did not result as There were 507 candidates from 184 1 s expected. The United'States, different colleges and universities having called the conference, was cor- throughout the country, from which itrnted to- its s cessend it was - 32 candidates were appointed from as necessary for Mr. Hughes to sacrifice original makeup of the groups woultethbusswldotesbei ld tee the busses will doubtless be in be by lot. op~eration shortly fe h oia a Another change concerns the judi- ation shortly ater the holiday va- clary committee, which is to be elect- cation. ed to serve one collegiate year, and The terms of the new agreement be composed of officers of the council, between the people of Ann Arbor and a representative from each of the two the People's Motor Coach company of other grouns, and four fraternity retroit call for the operation of a aliumni, two from the faculty and two fleet of coaches adequate to comfort- from the alumni resident of Ann Ar- ably handle the transportation prob- bor but not connected with the Uni- lem. Busses are required to run at versity. intervals of not more than 20 min- The last change is that no student utes, and will operate on such streets can be initiated into a fratern'ty un- as are designated by the council. less dui'ing the preceding semester he Eleven main lines have been tempo- has received eleven hours of C rarily laid out, converging at State grade or thirteen hours of C average. and Main streets. Unless these requirements are met Fares have been placed at 1.0 cents during the first semester in which the for single tickets, three fares for 25 man is uledged, the requirements shall cants, 50 fares for $3, provided that automatically raise to 13 hours of C these be used up within 40 days by grade or better. Failure to fulfilli the holder of the fare hook, and a these requirements shall remove tli weekly or universal transfer for pledge and he' cannot be repledged $.25, which may be used as many nor pledged to another fraternity until I timies as d(sire(l during the week by after he has received, in one semester anyone who has the pass in his pos- 15 hours credit of C grade. Session. Because of the report of the judi Te council retained the right to ciary committee, it was fecided to lay change back to the street car service the matter of the fraternity dance sit any time during the next year if the ,iation on the table until further ac- motor service is found unsatisfactory. tion could be pursued under the im At se idfound uisfactory. pending constitution. The consensus At the end of a year, if the people of opinion at the meeting was that it still desire the bus system, a fran- would be better to table the matter chise will be granted the Motor com- until the new constitution has been pany, and the present car tracks, with discussed and adopted, wholly or in the exception of the interurban hues part, since the proposed code of laws { will be torn up. gives the council power which it has not previously held. In addition, for-ITR9N2 mer by-laws and rules would be nuli- lied by the new constitution. ALJM IT NETI The increase in power of the coun- cil, which is provided in the new doc- ument, is mainly that in disciplining. NO OEA ME BR fraternities the decisions reached by the judicial committee shall be final. Alumni clubs in the majority of the eleven cities in which the 1925 Union Iowa Dean Spends Opera will play are already complet- Week-End In City ing plans for the"en"er"i" the cast, and assistants who wil Prof. Paul C. Packer, (lean of the make the trip. Among the festivities school of education at the State Uni- which are being arranged are dances, versity of Iowa, visited several mem- luncheons, banquets, and recelitions bers of the school of education factuly ; Two groups especially are planning at the University and was a guest of welcomes, these being the Flint and Prof.' A. B. Moehlman (luring the week-end. Cincinnati clubs. In the former city 1e _k-_nd._ a luncheon and an afternoon recep tion, which is to be followed bya EVEN THE TRUTH dinner at the Durand hotel, are o the program. Following the perform Tgdance of "Tickled to Death," the alum eau of aeronautics of the Navy depart- t many states. As each American col- one important consideration after an- ment, indicated that the Project for a lege and university is allowed in the other in order not to lose prestige byI Ivoyage by dirigible to the far north is final competition, only a limited num- its utter failure.. an issue soon to be revived. The de- ber of candidates in a given state, I "Japan, which follows the practice signer pointed out that the most ad- from two to five, depending on the of keeping its naval building program U M Jpidvantageous route for commerrial air pumber of student enrolled, the 507 a secret, found her opportunity to travel between New York, Montreal men who were examined by the state build just such craft as can be con- Washington, ,Dec. 15.-With the last and Europe or the Far East lies committees on Saturday were those structed without the knowledge goingI quarterly payment of income and through the unexplored regions about who have previously survived the out to her rivals," explained Professor profits taxes theoretically in the cut- the North Pole. competition in their own institutions. Hobbs. "Furthermore, she was en- . fers of the government, and the semi Opening his talk with a brief resume Princeton university had three suc- ( abled by the agreement to exact sov- annual nayments on their debts to the of the development of the rigid airship -essful candidates, Brown university ereignty over Yap, a vitally important United States accounted for fron. I(in this country, Mr. Truscott indicated had two, and Harvard two. cable station and strategic harbor in four foreign governments, the treas I that the Navy department was firstjthe Western Pacific. ury tonight apBroached the end of the aroused to active interest in dirigibles ,n"To all criticisms by Americans of m by cycle of financing, as a result, of their use as scoutiigR[ Uthe Washington conference, the reply D~ceceb er fifnncn. ~ IJIJI flISWL 'Iha benmdetht t ecre4fu ;s It received payments today esti- agents by the German navy. j mated at $336,000,000, and practically The Navy department, viewing the Irr at least, the abrogation of the Anglo- 332,000,000 in installments on the success attending the use of dirigibles W 'L ' CUITI h II UIJapanese alliance; whereas, as a mat- UI I~iJ ~ter of fact that result was inevitable funded debts of Great Britain, Fin- over the North Sea for revealing Eas land, Lithuania, and Hungaria. At lish fleet movements, decided in 1917 -- tnder any circumstances, and the the same time, it retired in excess ot to build one. The American engin Houghton, Mich., Dec. 15-- The I most that can be said is that the con $400,000,000 in maturng certificates ears, ignorant of the construction pro- Eagle Harbor coast guard crew re- ference afforded Great Britain a de- of indebtedness. Its financing opera- cess, turned to the British engineer turned this afternoon from a cruise sivcd opportunity to bring this about, tions will not be completc until the r- for assistance. They, through ;esearob 12 miles east of Eagle Harbor and 6 (Continued on Page Two) stilt of the present funding program conducted before the outbreak of war miles west without having found the throtugh the issue of a new long tern and from analysis of structural details source of the wreckage which has i Bond is concluded December 20.k been driven ashore along the north- F IENDS TIBUTE The tax receipts, although estlumat- sistance to the Navy enginere t of t Keweeniaw enn- ed, are regarded as nearly correct and sptki s smla in the last 48 hours, CaptainW represent a reduction of $10,000,00 Utilizing official Glaza reported. from receipts in the samie period last Iand moving ictures, Mr. Truscott dert e Additional wreckage, such as cabin year. If the actual receipts bear out I tf he parts, pieces of furniture, and severali a time tr1asuystmas i inw ai eheneconstuction pocess of to- drifting hatch covers were found. A Washington, Dec. 15.-Congress and the total -,524,000.00 in income and graphic story of the mgaideni voyage of thorough investigation of the shore those who had an Intimate connec- profits revenue for the current cal- the sbiti' lIeointedto tnui reo f iline failed to reveal anything which E tion with the private and public life endar year, as compared with $3,593,-;ni d fact that the Shenandoah mar might lead to the identities of the of Woodrow Wilso, paid tribute to 000,000 for the calendar year 1928. the longest flight ever negotiated byi vessels fron which the wreckage a dirigible in the recent 15,000 mile came. i round trip flight between Lakehurst, The captain of the coast guards the house of representatives. N. J. and Seattle, Wash.now is inclined to the belief that President Coolidge and, his entire I_ _ _the wreckage has come from the cabinet participated in the exercises, Canadian steamer Glenlynn, owned'by the Great Lakes Transportation com- seats th aoderstin ow oby pany of Midland, Ontario, which went Chief Justice Taft and other members New York, Dec. 15.-Hugh Frayne nardrs.Coolie agound at Rock Harbor Isle Che stice T othr member, who is in charg of the arrangementsa Rya, early in November accompanied by the White House mil- Shere for the funeral of Samuel Gom- Iiary aides, was in the executive gal- pers, said his previous announcement seres 1 that the ceremony would be held Opportunity is again being offered I E rmnmn M leI s 'Thursday at Sleepy Hollow cemetery, by the Michiganensian for seniors to Tarrytown, New York, was "official have their pictures in this year's bookC IR GO A RO METHODS .nti fial. ay" sitattepn aThose who have not had their pictures Sbeen approved over the long distance takel nmay do so by paying $3.00 fo elmn Dec. 15.-President Ebert , URITIIZED BT IULVLI d telephone by Frank Morrison, secre- the photographer's coupon at theo BY y tary of the American Federation of! 'Ensian office. .oChacepted thx's esnatond f - labor, and that reports that the Many seniors who have had their Chancellor Marx's cabinet and it ws Chester M. Culver, general secre- a funeral would be held Wednesday are pictures taken have not returned the new Reichstag would hold its first tary of the Employers' Association of incorrect. proofs to the photographers. This seDetroit spoke on the subject of labor Gov. Alfred Smith and Mayor Hylan must elone before the Christmas i unions in the second series of talks on I of New York will head a distinguished vacation as the photographic work I Today's formal retirement of the the labor situation, which was deliver- -- ief f honrnv, mniih-nrmrswho mmili ,.nstlip , ni, hsySn Tr, uv,,r 1 e i h Marx cabinet was merely in the na- An +, 'in ~ ,4 nnr lai , in-r. Thne .Jean uoidkette orciiestra or Detroit has achieved a reputation among the radio fans of the country, as it plays nightly from WCX. It comprises 12. pieces, and has been playing for the past year at the Grey- stone ballroom. Goldkette has recent- ly signed a contract for one year with the new Book-Cadillac hotel. Neil Parber, '25A, whose Arabian design won the decorations compe- tion, has been awarded twenty dol- lars and a ticket to the I-lop. The next meeting of the J-Hop committee has been set for 5 o'clock Thursday in room 302 of the Union, and not tomor- row afternoon, as was previously an- nounced. SEVEN FACULTY MEM12BERS TO ATTENDCONVENTON Seven members of the . University faculty will actively participate in the next meeting of the Modern Lan- guage Association of America, which will be held at Columbia university December 2: to 31. Prof. Charles E. Whitmore of the rhetoric department will preside over the division on gen- eral aesthetics. Prof. F. N. Scott of the rhetoric department will read a paper on "Favorite Words," and'Prof. A. R. Morris of the same department will report on a "Method for the Ap- proximate Determination of Speech Stress." Prof. C. L. Meader of the general linguistic department will give-a re- f nnrt of thn ,work dnno in the nhnntie t S i 1 laboratory. Prof. J. H. Hanford of the 'nglish department will speak on "Two Twelfth Century Latin Minstrels and Their Succession." Prof. Oscar Campbell of the same department will read a paper on the "Influence of the Borderers in the Development of Wordsworth Aesthetic up to 1798." Paul Mueshke has collaborated with Professor Campbell on his paper. Prof. C. C. Fries, also of the English j department will read a paper on "Shakespearean Punctuation." Professor Scott will also attend a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington January 1 to 3, where he will read a paper on the "American Idiom" before the philological section. THREE CITIES DESIRE MICHIGAN-NAVY SAME _ Pf r, Reports coming to the Alumni as- sociation here show that bitter rivalry