DEDICATED TO JUSTICE C, r Sirp ~Iatij MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XXXV. No. 110 EIGHT PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1925 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS __ ..,. I 3 1 1 MAC CONTROL OF EXTENSION SYSTEM MENACED BY BILL! Loses Again PROVIDER $4,W)INCREASE COUNTY Atx-iE P'ROG RAM FOR I FOLLOWS CONFLICT Would Allow Operation of System Without Farm Bureau Contributions Lansing, Mich., Feb. 27. (By A. P.). -Complete separation of the Michigan Agricultural cbllege extension system apparently was aimed at in an ap- propriation bill introduced in the house today by Representative Aleck Cowan, of St. Clair. It provided for increasing the pre- sent $160,000 appropriation for county agents and extension work to $200,000 in 1925-26 and $250,000 in the succeed- ng year. It was estimated by out- state members that the amendment, with, federal and county aid, would make the operation of the system, without farm bureau contributions possible. The Financial connection between the local farm organization and the county agent system caused a state investigation, and a controversy be- tween the state administrative board and the state board of agriculture some time ago. The administrative t board then attempted to withold the extension appropriation unless con- tributions from farm bureaus were discontinued. The agriculture board refused and carried the conflict to the Supreme court, where it was decided in favor of the board of agriculture. Another agriculture board bill was submitted by Representative Dextert book, which would compensate mem- hers of the board at the rate of $10 a day "for their services." The language of the bill indicated that it would pay six board members at the rate of about $3,600 a year. They now serve without pay. Representative Look de- clared that the intention of the bill was to pay them only for the days ac- tualy spent in board woirlk, as oiher state commissions are compensated. He indicated the bill would be clari- fied if necessary. Tau Beta Pi Holds Faculty Reception Beneath the blue and red lights at the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity house and to the strains of Gene Buckr's or- chiestra, Tau !Beta Pi, national hon- orary engineering society, last night gave their annual formal reception for the members of the eng ineering faculty. The guests of honor were A. D. Moore and -I. H. Higbee, both mem- bers of the national council of the or- ganization, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Moore acting as chaperones. The programs for the occasion were in the form of a Taui Beta Pi key, and listed the names of the faculty as well as the active members of the order. Karpinski Writes On Library Books Prof. Louis Karpinski of the mathe- matics department is the author of an article in the last issue of the Dear- born Independent on "American Li- braries Lead in Service." In this con- trib~ution, he discusses the millions of books on rare and well known sub- jects that are available for the gener- al public in the libraries of this country. "The University of Michigan," he wrote, "has a remarkable general li- brary of a half million volumes, with the Clements library one of the great- est gifts ever made to a university. Cheyenne, Wy., Feb. 27.-(By A.P.) -Whether the United States govern- ment is to be allowed 60 more days in which to prepare for trial of its suit in equity for annullment of the Tea- pot Dome naval oil reserve lease held by the Mammoth Oil company, or will be required to start the trial March 9, the date now set, will be announced by Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy, here tomorrow morning. Lansing, Feb. 27.- Taxes on real and personal property increased $8,- 662,523 in 1924. Ourivether Man t i t t 1 i ,t { G a a C ,r s v BAR LA FOLLETTE FROM COMMITTIE POSTS IN SENATE, Washington, Feb. 27, (By A. P.).- , Without a single dissenting voice, the Republican committee on committees took the first step today towards car- rying through the organization pro-c grom for the removal of Senator La- Follette of Wisconsin and three of hist chief supporters, from the presentc ranks of the standing committees ofi the Senate. t The four Senators were assignedc tentatively to places at the bottom ofr the committee list as though they had been elected on an independent insteadI of the Republican ticket. This actionc is subject first, to consideration by a F Republican party conference and later by the Senate itself. , The action was taken over the writ- 1 ten protest of three of the Senatorst -Brookheart of Iowa, Ladd and Fra- zire of North Dakota-in reply to let- ters sent them asking whether they desired the demand of Republicans to make their committee assignment. It has received no reply from Senator h LaFollette. 186 A nswer Staff t Tryout Call On i FourPublications' More than 186 members of the un- der classes have responded to the call t for tryouts issued at the close of thec first semester by the various campus publications. Of this number, 55 aret members of the fair sex, and 131 are future masculine jqurnalists. The Daily proved to be the lure that brought out the girls, 30 of them be- ing engaged in the competition for thet work on Woman's page. This greatly augments tle number available for secretaries for upper staff members. The men also flocked to The Daily, the editorial staff claiming 43 and the, business staff 37. For all publica- i tions, business work and literary ex- perience proved to be about equally sought after the former claiming 90 devotees and the latter 96. The complete list shows: Daily ed- itorial, 73; Daily business, 40; 'Ensian editorial, 6; 'Ensian business, 21; Gargoyle editorial, 16; Gargoyle busines, 19; Chimes business, 10. Total, 186. No call has been issued as yet by the Chimes editorial staff, but try- outs will have their opportunity to join the staff the early part of next week. Tentative Dates Set For Concert At a meeting of the University Glee club committee held Thursday even- ing, the date for the Glee club con- cert, to be held in Hill auditorium be- fore the clubstarts on its spring tour, was set as either March 28 or April 8. Detailed plans of the program as well as the exact date are now being arranged, and will be fully settled by Monday, cacording to Carl Schoon- macher, manager of the club. Probably the same numbers will be given at this concert that were sung at the Intercollegiate Glee club con- -test held recently in Chicago, where Michigan took second place.j l Exhibit Will Show Artists' Paintings Two art exhibits are planned for April and May by the Ann Arbor Art F association. Work done by Grand Ra- (niaq ntio innludin 3o ni nintings SEE SENATE FIGHT DY-ER _HARBOR BILL, Storm Develops When Cape Cod Canal Purchase is Asked in Amendment CARRIES SIXTY RIDERS Washington, Feb. 27.-(By A. P.)- Carrying more than 60 new proposals added by the Senate today, the $41, 000,000 rivers and harbors authoriza- tion bill tonight appeared to have en- tered a stormy period in the Senate* because of attempts to attach to it several vigorously controverted meas- ures as riders. Senator Fernald, Republican, Maine, late today proposed an amendment to incorporate in the measure the House bill for government purchase of Cape Cod canal for $11,500,000. Western senators, led by Senator Gooding, Reptblican, Ilaho, imme- diately launched an attack on this amendment, and in turn proposed to add to the Cape Cod proposal the Gooding bill prohibiting lower freight rates on long and short hauls over the, same railroad route. The measure was laid aside tonight before Senator, Fernald had concluded his argumentj in behalf of his rider and will be tak- en up tomorrow with a lengthy fight' in prospect unless both the riders are disposed of. Virtually all of the amendments to the House bill proposed by the Senate commerce committee were approved, ncluding one to eliminate a provision that all authorized projects should be1 completed within five years. This was! done at the request of President Cool-j idge, who was informed by Director Lord that the proposal would seri- ously hinder the program of the bud- get bureau. SWIMMING POOL WORK SHOUS 6000 PRO6UISS Work on the Union swimming pool has been progressing to the extent that t is expected-to be'flnishled before the. second week in March. The difficul- ty in finding tile setters has made it impossible to complete the tank by March 1, as was desired.I At present the ien working on the pool are four tile setters, four helpers, two plumbers, two helpers, six paint- ers, two marble setters, two helpers and one carpenter. The walls of the pool have been entirely tiled as have fu 1, a'-11 ~oi t- - -rto 1ai ,1+~H- -4ann 1 G.O.P. ELECTS LONGWORTHAS SPEAKER CHOICE Washington, Feb. 27.-Nicholas, Longworth, of Ohio, was selected to- night as the Rcpublican candidate for speaker of the next House. Mr. Long- worth, who is the Republican floor leader, was named over Represent-j ative Madden, of Illinois, at a caucus of Republican representatives elect.! On the first ballot, Longworth re-! ceived 141 votes and Madden 85. As soon as the roll call was known, Mr. Madden moved to make Longworth's election unanimous. After Mr. Longworth's nomination had been made unanimous, Represent- ative Pilson, of Connecticut, was named to succeed him as floor leader. MARKET PROJECTS BEFORE_ CONGRESS! Coolidge UrgestConference Program Re Enacted Into Law At This Session SOLUTIONS OFFERED Washington, Feb. 27.-With cooper- ative marketing legislation recom- mended by the agricultural c fer- ence enmeshed in a jam of conflicting proposals before Congress, President Coolidge renewed today his insistence that the conference program should be enacted into law at this session. He regards as necessary and sound the proposal which was drafted by theI representatives of all branches of agriculture with expert assistance. The Dickinson co-operative market- ing bill, lacking the resolutory pro- vision carried in the Capper-Haugen bill for which it was substituted by the House, is before the Senate agricul- ture committee, and Chairman Carey of the agriculture conference has ask- ed a hearing before it tomorrow in op-, position to the change, Members of the conference are said to hold the view that the Dickinson measure could not accomplish the re- sults they. believe could be obtained through passage of the Capper-Hau- gen bill. Members of the Senate Farm bloc expect to call up this meas- ure in the Senate tomorrow. The McNary bill, providing for a farmer export corporation to handle surplus farm production, has been reported favorably by the Senate ag- riculture committee and placed on the 1 calendar, but with little hope of con- sideration at this session. SIMS HITS HOUSE AI9 SRVC FOE Turns Loose Broadside Against Naval Officers Who Hold Battleship Supreme Defense WEEKS WILL TESTIFY Washington, Feb. 27.-(By A. P.)- Rear Admiral William M. Sims, re- tired, turned loose before the House aircraft committee today a broadside of criticism against naval officers who still hold the battleship supreme in naval warfare, and also aimed his fire against the proposal for unified air service as urged by Brigadier Gen- eral Mitchell, assistant army air chief. While the admiral was declaring the battleship "obsolete" and attacking the navy for its "conservatism," Sec- retary Weeks, who will appear before: the committee tomorrow against cog- nizance of the aircraft controversy by making public a letter to Repre- sentative Perkins, the committee ex- aminer, declaring "untrue" recent tes- timony before the committee that jun.- for army officers are "muzzled from telling the truth" by the War depart- ment. The War secretary previously had denied the accuracy of this testimony, and in his letter today he set forth the War department's policy regarding the testimony of officers before con- gressional committees. The letter pointed out that General. Mitchell had been informedof the department pol- icy in the matter, but did not mention him directly as the witness who made the "muzzling" charge. A part of the letter also defended: the War department against charges' of "conservatism," which were reiter- ated today with respect to the Navy department by Admiral Sims. ILLINI CARNIVAL DRAWS RECORD, ENTRY LIST Urbana, Ill., Feb. 27.-More than 700 athletes, representing 64 universities, colleges and high schools, will com- pete for honors in the eighth annual anniversary of Illinois' indoor relay carnival here tomorrow night, making the event the largest exclusive col- lege indoor meet in America. Thirteen athletes who wore United States shields in the Olympic games in Paris last summer will be in the competition. Six are from Big Ten - universities, and two of the; are world record holders. San. Kfnsey, Illinois hurdler, who tied the best record time for the 75 yard hurdle in the carnival last year, is the Olympic 2 c 1 { I c t l t I t . ' .: I 1 f ' ! ! t , i , f 1 t t 1 1 i CASTAWAY TRIO RESCUEDAFTER LEW 90SLNCL ULL MONTHAT SEAG ABSENCE RUL East Hampton, Long Island, Feb.G IES IN SR CTOR 27.--Adrift In the Atlantic ocean for almost one month, three men in an MOREaJIJRISDIGTION open boat were rescued by the crew of the Texas Oil company tanker, Lighteurne, about 374 miles north of REVISED RULES WIlL SUPPLANT Miami, Florida, late this afternoon, THOSE NOW APPEARING IN according to wirelss dispatches picked CATALOGUE up by the Independent Wireless com pany's station here. The trio, facing starvation, are said CHANGES DOPTED to have been carried out of Miami by a storm. The steamer Lighteurne was Absences For Purpose of Attending bound from Norfolk, Virginia, to Gal- Athletic Contests Will veston Texas, when she encountered Count as Three * the drifting boat. According to the but recovering aboard the vessel. Radical changes in the system for wireless message, the men were weak checking student attendance in the literary college will be placed in effect as soon as a shift can be made from the present method to that recently adopted by a meeting of the faculty of the literary college. The change will practically do away with the ex- isting attendance committee, and will place more responsibility upon class instructors. Seven Compete in Finals; Second The import of the new system, which Place to R. S. Miller, 7;. is already in effect from the student Winner Given Plaque angle, is that instructors will be al lowed to use their own judgment more freely, but that in cases of excessive TOPIC IS CHILD LABOR absence, the Administrative board, as heretofore, will take action. The in- Gerald Dykstra, '27, was awarded structor has the alternative of report- first place in the second extempore ing cases of excessive absence to the assistant dean with power, or he may contest held last night in University exclude the offender from his clasw hall. The subject of the winning and then notify the assistant dean of speech, chosen from the general topic, this action, recommending that the Child Labor, was "Child Labor in I student be "dropped without grade" Michigan." Dykstra received the new- or "dropped with 'E'."' ly designed Oratorical seal, mounted According to the resolution which on a plaque, which is awarded to ex- outlines the new plan, three consecu- tempore contest winners. tive absences in any course will be The second place contestant was reported for the information of the Robert 8. Miller, '27, who spoke on the administration. The ruling will con- subject "Child Labor; the Solution of tinue that absences on days immedi- the Problem." George E. Sorrels, '28- ately preceding or following holidays D, received honorable mention as third will be counted as three absences, place winner. Miller was awarded a although the instructor is now privi- book. leged to waive this rule. The winning speakers were chosen The th"ee absences incurred by fail- from a group of seven contestants ure to attend classes before and after who survived the preliminary tryouts holidays will not count as consecu- held last week. Individual topics tive absences, but will be counted in based on the questibn of Child Labor the total attendance record. were drawn at & o'clock yesterday al- "Except-for team members, absence lowing a three hour preparation -be- for the purpose of attending out-of- fore the final contest. Speeches were town athletic or other contests, per- limited to seven minutes. formancgs, or exhibitions *shall The Judges of the contest included Prof. deemed as wilful neglect, and each T. C. Trueblood, head of the public such absence shall be countted as speaking department, W. C. Dixon, '25,I three. Members of teams shall pre- who was in- charge of the contest, I sent to each instructor a written state- and two members of the team which ment from the responsible authority debated with Northwestern, W. A. specifying the exact period for which Dahlberg, '25, and A. M. Stern, '27L. absence is necessary," the resolution states. N "When reports from a student's in- structors indicate that through ex- cessive absence he is neglecting his (}}{{r Wwork, the Administrative board shall H1IIIUIIBYIDR[EIilNi have power to give formal warning L Lor place him on probation. At the end of the semester it may also assign him Washington, Feb. 27-The whole one or more negative hours of credit. question of the French debt to the "The committee recommends that United States was revived suddenly these rules be printed in place of today by a visit to the treasury of those appearing on page 25 of the an- Emile Daeschner, the new French am- nouncement of the literary college for bassador. Monsieur Daeschnerspent I the year 1924-1925, and in place of nearly an hourwith Secretary Mel- those appearing on pages 158-159 of lon, much of the time being occupied the 1923-1924 catalogue." in a discussion of the debt. 1 The main purpose of the change in While neither the ambassador nor checking attendance is to allow ad- Mr. Mellon would divulge details of ministrative officers to pay more at- the talk, it was learned officially that tention to outstanding cases, W. R. the conference had in a measure cov- Humphreys, assistant dean of the lit- ered ground gone over by former Am- erary college. declared Thursday. The bassador Jusserand in his conferences new system will be less troublesome with Mr. Mellon prior to his retire- for the student who is regular, and as ment. a check upon the student who is un- It was asserted that there was no- necessarily irregular in his attend- thing definite in the expressions of ance, he added. either official in today's meeting, and The Administrative board will con- there was no understanding as to the tinue to handle all excessive cases, holding of further conferences. the dean stated. The new system will aa be put into complete effect as soon as possible, it was announced yesterday. Instructors have already been inform- ro agana - - :edi of the change. the walls of the room also, filters and violet ray machines have been install- ed, part of the office equipment nec- essary at the pool entrance has been put in place, plastering of cracks in the walls is finished, and almost all the painting and decorating has been done. I Pumps and heaters have not yet been installed but Homer Heath, gen- eral manager of the Union, reports1 that they are now in transit. MICHI6AN TEAM CHOSEN FOR MID-WEST DEBATE' CINCINNAiTI EDUATIR IMEET ENDS; ON- STFF BACK Members of the debating class who were selected to compose the Michi- gan debating team, which is entered in the Mid-West debate, include the following six men who were chosen from those competing for position on} the team: Radcliff B. Fulton, '26, Frank P. Weaver, '26, and IH. F. Wah-j renbrock, '27L, to form the affirmative1 team, and N. C. Bowersox, '27, James J. Dunn, '25, andE. R. Gomberg, '27, to form the negative team. The Mid-West debate, which is a triangular debate between Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, will be held March 20. Michigan will oppose Illi-! nois at Urbana and the Wisconsin team here. The general subject for the debate is Child Labor. w .f Burton Memorial Alumnus On Sale; Copies of the Burton Memorial num- ber of the Alumnus, official organ of the Alumni association, are on sale at the office of that body in Alumni Me-f morial hall. Many copies were pur- chased yesterday by students, faculty members, alumni, and townspeople. The issue, which is priced at 15 cents, contains stories of the life of the late President, his work both here+ at the University and elsewhere, an ac- count of the funeral services, and sev- eral other topics of interest in his career. Cincinnati's general meeting of the National Education association, whichI was held from Sunday to Thursday of the past week, brought together a notable group of educators from all parts of the United States and was the occasion for numerous group meet- ings of utmost importance and inter- est, Ann Arbor men and women who attended the conferences agree. Among those just returned from the annual assembly are Dean A. S. Whit- ney, Prof. J. B. Edmonson, Prof. Clif- ford Woody, Prof. A. B. Moehlman, Prof. C. S. Berry, Prof. G. L. Jackson, L. T. Purdom, and S. A. Courtis of the School of Education, and Prof. Ra- leigh Schorling, Dr. O. W. Stephenson, Dr. F. D. Curtis, Miss Edith Hoyle, and Miss Selma Lindell of the Univer- sity high school. Miss Margaret Cam- eron, secretary of the bureau of ap- ; pointments, will return today after at- tending a meeting of bureau heads. Purdue Defeats Indiana, 39-29, Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 27,-Hopes of Indiana for the Western Conference basketball championship received a I severe jolt here tonight when they were defeated by Purdue 39-29. As a - result of the defeat, Indiana remains in third place in the Conference, but now trails Illinois by two games. Purdue got off to an early lead and was never seriously threatened by its ancient rival. The score at the first half was Purdue 32, Indiana 13. Iowa Deals Blow To Illini Hopes Iowa City, Iowa, Feb. 27.-The University of Iowa's basketball high hurdle champion, while DeHart' Hubbard of the University of Mich- igan, in the broad jump, holds the Olympic title and a world's indoor rec- or for this event. The East will send three Olympic, stars, Emerson Norton, of Georgetown.' university, Burgess, also of George- town, and MacDonald, Pennsylvania' star quarter miler. The program will consist of eight relay races, ten special events, and the all-around championship'. .The f carnival hasattracted entries from all the universities in the Western con- ference, a majority' of universities in the Missouri Valley conference, Penn sylvania, and Georgetown, in addition to other universities and colleges in the middle West. Norton, a former University of Kan- sas athlete, now competing under the colors of Georgetown, is the favorite to win the all-around championship. He won the event in 1923. Fifteen atheltes, a record number, will fight it out for the all-around title. ' Spread Of Soviet Threatens That the situation in the Baltic, as the result of the effort of the Soviet government to spread Red propaganda in the small Baltic states, is really serious, was affirmed yesterday by Prof. J. R. Hayden, of the political! science department. The conference of foreign ministers of Poland, Esthonia, Latvia and Fin- land, held recently at Helsingfors, Finland, was intended to meet the danger of this spread of socialism, de- clared Professor Hayden. "These Bal- tic states are afraid of the Russian Baltic Situations serious international situation." In discussing the counter anti-Bal- tic demonstration, arranged by the Soviet authorities in Leningrad, Pro- Senate Amendment To Appropriation B ill Is Rejected i i fessor Hayden stated that in his inter- Washington, Feb. 27.-The House to- pretation, it served as evidence that day refused to accept a Senate amend- the fears of the Baltic states are justi- ment to the Independent offices ap- fled. The Bolshevist press has de- propriation bill to repeal the 20 per- nounced the Helsingfors conference, cent Pullman surcharge. A motion by as being directed against the Soviet Representative Barkley, Democrat, government in Russia. Kentucky, to approve the Senate rider No formal action was taken by the was rejected by a standing vote of conference, although Count Skrzynski, 67 to 177. A roll call was then de- Polish minister of foreign affairs, de- manded. clared that the union would be direct- On the record vote the House affirm- ed against the Third Internationale, ed its rejection of the surcharge am- and not against the Russian Soviet endment by 123 to 255. House con- government. ferees on the bill were then instruct- ed by a viva voce vote to insist on Dr. Daniel E. Phillips, head of the elimination of the provision from the psychology department of the Univer- measure. Rejection of the rider came sity of Denver, is visiting his son here after three hours debate in which this weeChairman Winslow of the Commerce Soveit for two mai.n r continued "They feart propaganda, carried on1 Internationale, which, tirely separate from the ernment, is its agent their propaganda, and,s fear the military andf gression of the nation1 resasons," he the Bolshevik by the Third although en- Russian gov- in spreading secondly, they economic ag- itslef. ,F r,'~I."'7 i II i G