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PU BLICATIO N S BODY D C D S W NI~r9 N 9 w~
DECIDES WINNERS
OF ANNUAL. AW ARD

Win Scholarship Prizes In Second
Student Publications Board Award

PHESIDENT LITTLE
STA TES VIEWS ON
LIQUOR PROBLEMV

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FIRST -PRIZE IS AWARDED TO
zU', EDITOR OF
SI*lGWANENSIAN
HIGH GRADE 2.65
Professor Sunderland Also Awards
Zeisler And Henry Second
And Third Prizes
Allin B. Crouch, '2.6, managing edi-
for of the Michiganensian, has been.
awarded the $250 cash prize offered
annually by the Board in' Control of
Student Publications to the student -
maintaining the highest scholastic
average for four semesters while work- Allin B. Crouch, '26, managing ed
won the first prize of $250 offered an
Ong on one of the undergraduate pub- Student Publications to the student on
lications. Karl F. Zeisler, '26, assist- maintained the highest scholarship re
ant editor of Chi Zes, won a second! F. Zeisler, '26, of Chimes (Ieft) was a
f.a Thomas P. Henry, Jr., '28L, ex-night
prize of $I50, an ;homas P. Henry,; the third prize of $100.
r., '28L, who sered as a night edi-
or oThe Daily last year, took the
third 1rize, $100.,'
The scholastic average of Crouch,
(uring the fou/ semesters in which he
worked, -on th' 'Ensian, was given asC
2.6 5, which tied the mark of last year, f
the first in which the annual scholar-
ship award was given, set by John
F Iuber , '26, of Chimes, who won iieemnre
theflrut prize at that time. Zeisler's Note Aiologo i4.
av rage for the four semesters was l OOwn ' ler.
2 ), less than one-tenth of a point Central Alnerlca
'1 er than that of the winner; Halsey
Davidson, '25, managing editor of Gar- INTRODUCED BY KELSEY
oyle last year, who took second place --
1 the first contest, had an average of That Mayan civilization, in spite of
46. Henry was awarded third place cultural handicaps, achieved one otthe
this year by the Board for his record greatest civilizations the world has
o 2.23, which is lower than that of green c as the or has
ar Ailes, '25, who took third place ever seen, was the theme of the lec-
t year with 2.45. tune, "The Greeks of the New World,"'
only ten men entered the coupe- given by Dr. S vanus C. Morley of
tition th s fall, as compared wit 14 t Ca egie Ins to of: ashigt
contestar s lat ye . T gene l
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SI'SPICIOUS ATTITUDE
FRATERNITIES IS
UNGROUNDED

'hotos by Rentschler, Dey, Spedding
ditor of the Michiganensian, (center),
nually by the Board in Control of
n any of the publications who has
ecord through four semesters. Karl
awarded the second prize of $150, and
editor on The Daily (right) won
"HILL TO LECTURE
Prai ent Thi+S achllsetts Lawyer Will
'pek1 On Iegal Import Of
Iodern Law
FIFTH TALK OF SERIES
Artiur Dehon Hill, prominent Mas-
sachusetts lawyer, will speak on
I "Criminal Law and the Lawyer" at
4:15 o'clock today in Natural Science
Auditoritun. This lecture will be the

ASKS COOPERATION
Desires Law Enforcement By Students
Themselves Rather Than By
Proctorial System
"Suspicion with which the fraterni-
ties regard the new prohibition en-
forcement rules of the University, is
absolutely without foundation," said
President Clarence Cook Little in an
interview yesterday. "No plans are
being made to deprive the fraternitiesj
of their rights, and no basis for their
suspicions will develop.
"We are not trying to put anything
over on the organizations, but are
merely attempting to have the laws'
enforced, which is our common duty
as officers and students of a state
supported institution," he explained.
"We are giving the fraternities them-
selves the opportunity of actual en-
forcement," he added.
"A misunderstanding seems to exist
regarding the pledge ,whicl; the men
undertaking the supervision of the
liquor laws will have to take. It will
not be necessary that they sign a
pledge, but we wish them to appear
before Dean Bursley and state their
intentions of co-operating with us and
enforcing the prohibition laws to thet
best of their ability.-
"No supervisor will be required to
report the names of offenders, only
being in duty bound to report that
violations have taken place. If he
says that he believes that he has the
situation under control, tbhat is all
that is then expected of him. In case
4ie finds that he can not handle the
orifthe violations occurs a see-
may report the names
ofb -sen tus and we will tryl
ii V-Wa ._ .the situation

FRATERNITIES ASKLit School To
TIE TO ONSIDER' ConductEarly
'TIMEClassification
Election and classification for sec-
PRESLENT' EDICT odsemester courses will be con-
dIuctedl in the literary college from,
Jan. 18 to 21, it was announced yes-
REPRESENTATIVES OF 40 GROUPS terlay at the Recorder's office.
CONVENE AT INDIGNATION The plan of allowing election of
MEETING LAST NIGHT second semester courses before the
~-- close of the first semester will
PASS RESOLUTION be tried out for the first time in
Janunary, it being designed to elimi-
_nate confusion which has heretofore
Ask Extension Of Time To Consider prevailed when elections were receiv-
Alternatives Presented For ed during the final examination week.
Fraternities' Adoption Elections will be received at the
Recorder's office, rooms 4-6, Univer-
Sentiments of 40 fraternities were I sity hall.
Freshmen are required to continue
expressed at an indignation meeting firstrsemesteracourses throughout the
last night at the Union regarding the second semester, except in the case of
three alternative methods which irregularities, when permission for
President Clarence Cook Little has change will be given by the commit-
presntedto he oganiatins i antee on elections. Opportunity will also
presente to the organizations in an be given for correcting irregularities
effort to enforce the prohibition law. which may occur in schedules of stu-
Final decision at the meeting was dents other than freshmen.
reached in the form of a resolution,
after presentation and discussion of
the 'various stands which the fraterni-
ties might take. -
The resolution asked that the
adoption of the rules by the Univer
sity be deferred until opportunity had
been given for more mature consid- -
eration by the fraternities, as well as Debate Resolution Of Sen. Swanson In
an opportunity for conference be- Open Executive Session; IFas
tween the University officials and Five Reservations;
members of the student body...
The text of the resolution is as fol- NEED DEMOCRAT VY
lows: I
"Whereas, we, the student body of
the University of Michigan as citizens (By Associated Press)
of the United States of good moral WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The long
character, are highly in favor of the pending proposal that the U. S. ad-
astrict. enforcement of the laws of the here to the World court comes before{
nation and the state of Michigan, the Senate tomorrow under a special
therefore: order,
"Be it resolved that we hereby ex- The resolution of appearance is that
press our willingness to cooperate of Senator Swanson, of Virginia, rank-
' with the University in advancing any ing Democrat on the foreign relationsj
reasonable and just efforts which may committee and contains five reserva-I
be made by it in enforcing the laws, tions. The two principal ones areI
"But whereas teuniversity appar- that adhesion shall not be taken to
ently has arbit.rily imposed a sys- involve any legal rela.tions on. the.,
tem upon the student body which fore- part of the U. S. to t e
es organized units to elect upon three tions and-thattLt
days' notice between three alternative manner bound by any adversary opin-I
methods, all of which seem to be un- ion of the court.
justifiable and unreasonable, and The court question will be consider-
"Whereas this system has been im- ed in "open executive session" and
posed upon such organizations on will be the subject of extended debate.
such short notice that due considera- While two Republican presidents have
tions cannot be given by the said or- recommended adhesion the adminis-
ganizations, and without an opportu- tration must look to the Democrats
nity being afforded for conference be- for the margin of votes necessary for
tween the University officials and the ratification.
student bogy, therefore: Chairman Borah, of the foreign re-
"Be it resolved that we resent the lations committee as well as the other
implication of generally poor moral "irreconcilables" in the League of
character thrust upon us, and are op- Nations fight are opposed to adhesion
posed to the manner and means of en- on the ground that the court is the.
forcing the new system, and ask that creature of the League. Proponents
its adoption be deferred until an op- of the court dispute this, contending
portunity be provided for more ma- that while organized under League
ture consideration as well as an op- auspices, the tribunal is wholly sepa-
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DOYLE MAY START
lolenda Will Make First Appearance;
Oosterbaan' And Babcock May Be
Used During Game
Coach Mather's revamped Wolver-c
ine basketball five will meet the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh cage team in the
second game on the 1926 basketball.
schedule at 7:15 o'clock tonightiW'
Yost field house.
In the opening contest against Ohio
Wesleyan last Saturday Coach Math-
er's aggregation displayed a formida-
ble offense, but had littl. Goffer on
the defense. Durin gast week
each practice sessio en devoted
to strengthening th1 sive play of
tie team in or t the strong
attack of the Eastern rs.
Michigan's startin~g lineup will
largely dependsupon the condition of
Captain Dick Doyle, who has been
suffering from a slight attack of the
grippe. In the Ohio Wesleyan game
Doyle displayed a fighting spirit in
spite of his ailment, but was con-
d Ihb yslowed up by the fast pace
set in the first half. The Wolverine
captain made a favorable showing in
the final practice yesterday afternoon,
and may take his old position at the
tip-off at the start. In the event that
Doyle is unable to start, Coach Mather
has selected Wayne Schroeder, who
played a guard position in the opener,
to take the veteran leader's place at
center.
Chambers and Harrigan have-been
chosen to start at 'the forward posi-
tils. Harrigan led the Wolverine
A ring attack last week with six bas-
kets and will undoubtedly figure
gp against
rg ve. C ambers, who
played guard against Ohio Wesleyan
has been shifted to forward. Against
the "Battling Bishops", Chambers
proved uncanny with his timely long
shots from the center of the floor.
Molenda, stellar fullback of Yost's
championship football team, will make
his first appearance in a Maize and
Blue basketball jersey tonight, start-
ing at guard. Red Cherry, who has
been one of the most sensational floor
C men on the Big Ten courts for the
past two years, will start at his fa-
vorite position, running guard.
Benny Oosterbaan, who earned a
reputation as being a great basketball
player at Muskegon high school, has
been working with the squad for the
past week and is likely to face the
Pittsburgh five in some period of the
game. Sammy Babcock, who has been
displaying a whirlwind of speed in
the practices held this week, may get
a chance in tonight's game at forward.
Schommer, of Chicago, well known
football and basketball official in Big
Ten athletics, has been selected to act
as referee. McCulloch of the Spring-
field training school, will be the um-
Air~e.
LOCAL GEOGRAPHERS TO
SPEAK AT CONVENTION

WOllVERINE FIVE
WIL CLASH WITH
PITTSBURGH TEAMV
MATHER'S TEAM STRENGTHENS
DEFENSIVE PLAY DURING
WEEK'S jPRACTICE

^ g~r~rr~rt rxs t e'sa. ~bL II~II U ence audito'rium.O
the initial contest, the first ten men I
last year maintaining an average of lates of civilization t
2.26 while the ten applicants this year only the first two, and
averaged only 2. to the rest of the worl
The prizes are offered each year by the Neolothic periodr
the Board in Control of Student Pub- vanced in many wa
lications, both as a reward for those stated.
students who have maintained a high Dr. Morley was int
scholastic record while working for F. W. Kelsey, directo
the publications, and as an incentive Research, who decla
for members of the staffs of the under-r Chichen Itza project
graduate papers to secure higher portant archaeological
grades. The marks are obtained from p
ntt mt d in C ntin A

the Mayas had
d in comparison
d at the time of
were more ad-
ys, Dr. Morley
roduced by Dr.
r of Near East
ared that the
of which Dr.
s "the most in-
expedition ever
A m ricnn _ 'Pvc

Mr. I fill h_ practiced law in Boston
since 1894 and is at iresent senior
member of the law firm of hill, Bar-
low and Homans. lie was district'
attorney 'of Suffolk county in 1908-9,I
and for a long time was a member of
the faculty of the Ilarvard Law school.
Ile resigned from this position in
1916; and 1 the entrance of the
United states into the World war he
associated himself withr the Judge Ad-
vocate's department. Later he became
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aL emp~e 1n enr a metn . re ,sU
the official records of the University nt d y r France during the months near the
ing the fall of the old M4'ayan empire ,"
and the result announced by Prof. E. because of a threatened famine, and close of the war.
R. Sunderland, business manager of the exodus which resulted in the Mr. Hill is a member of the Ameri-
the Board in Control of Student Pub- founding of othei cities, Dr. Morley can Criminology society, and the
lications. explained that by the end of the American Bar association. Because of
seventh centu'ry the old empire had isextended experience in both the
sbeenentirely abandoned eTropicaltheoretical and practical phases of
III li ~ forests, growing rapidly because of criminal law, Mr. H-ihl is said to be
BILL O T[Ofe, w r d b ue the large amount of rainfall, have cov- eminently fit to treat modern law inI
nnTiia ered the ruins. He devoted most of the light of its moral and social sig-I
SUIRfU PASSES SENATE!the lecture to explaining the ruins of nificance,
;Chichen Itza which was the greatest
city of the new empire and the mecca
(By Associated Press)pc of the ancient world. By agreement{
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Conclu- with the Mexican government the [ M
slons reached by the President's air Carnegie Institute has been granted 'r
y i permission to excavate the city. TheU
board came to early fruition in thearchitecture and the astronomical ob- 1
Senate today, when it passed, with- servations which have been recorded Acted Press)
out a record vote a bill by Senator in hieroglyphs comprise the principall GENEV Dec 16.-Neither the
Bingham, Republican, Conn., designed finds. League of Nations nor Great Britain
to effect the boards findings with re- Every five years the Mayas set up envisages war in the Near East be-
monuments in the courts of the city cause of the decision of the League
spedt to commercial aviation. !as part of their system of calculating council in the Mosul conflict, said Col.
Senator Bingham was a member of ! time. The most remarkable building I. C. M. Amery, the British colonial
the board and his bill was the first of the Maya civilization, Dr. Morley secretary commenting on the council's
passed at the present session of the ! said, was the Caracol, or astronomical findings which give Mosul virtually in
Senate. It would authorize appoint- observatory, from which the Mayas its entirety to Great Britain in the
ment of an additional secretary of observed the plants through fixed form of a mandate.
commerce charged with general sup-.lensless telescopes. Their observa- The decision was announced today
ervision of the government's activi- tions were recorded on stone slabs in in the assembly hall packed with peo-
ties in connection with commrecial hieroglyphs. ple at the last of the 37th session of
aviation. A late Renaissance was brought, the council. It was marked by three
The measure also would provide for about when the Mayas were conquered notable declarations. The first, sol-
licensing of civilian pilots, inspection in 1191 by a warrior who changed emnly read by Vittorio Scialoia, for-
of commercial airplanes, weather bu- their customs, religion, and their ar- mer Italian minister of foreign affairs,1
reau service for air planes establish- ( chitecture. Architecture was aided! in the name of every member of the
ment of commercial air routes lighted 1 by the fact that limestone was plen- council was deemed significant because
under direction of the light house ser- tiful, from which lime was taken by it admitted that a state of tension
--ice and installation of radio finding a burning process, mortar being made had been created between Great Brit--
devices at frequent intervals along from it. The most distinctive feature ,ian and Turkey over the possession
the approved traffic lanes. Only a of the architecture, according to Dr. of Mosul. Signor Scialoia urgently
few minor amendments were made by Morley, was the feathered serpent recommended that these two nations
the 5;nat in cting on the bill.- columns which they used in decorat- reach an amicable agreement of the
-- --ung their religious temples. difficulty so as to put an end to the

under control.
"The University will not force any
student to leave school unless he
makes such a measure necessary. This
is not our intention. We only want
to have machinery which will be able
to cope with the enforcement of the
Volstead act.
"I wish thiat the students would re-
gard Dean Bursley and myself as
members of the student body who
have authority, and not as University
officials who are trying to force rules
upon them. We are not attempting to
force them into anything, but are giv-
ing them the choice of the way in
which they desire to control the prob-
lem themselves.
"The University may have no legal
right to have a proctor enter the
houses, but the right will exist if the
fraternities in their choice insist upon
this method of enforcement. They are
given two choices, and if they do not
wish the proctorial system they
should choose one of the other meth-
ods. We most certainly hope that
they will do so."
National Student
Conclave Will Be
Held Here In 1926

portunity for conference as afore-
said."
At the conclusion of the meeting a
motion was carries[ to give President
Little a vote of confidence in his ef-
fort to enforce the Volstead act on the
campus.
Expressing the view that the mat-
ter should "either be pushed to a.fin-
ish or action taken backing President
Little in his undertaking," William L.
Diener, '26, presented the interpreta-
tion of the rules which he had gotten
.I from President Little in conference.
He stressed the point that the su-
pervisors which are selected to en-

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Representatives from more than 250 torce poiiion wulo e
universities and colleges throughout I quired to report the names of the
the United States will convene here offenders, but would merely be re-
next fall at the first meeting follow- sponsible for reporting that violations
ing organization of the national stu- had taken place. "It will be their
dent federation. Temporary organiza- duty to attempt to cope with the prob-
tion of the federation was effected at lem themselves," said Diener.
the national students' conference on The discussion which followed,
the World court held at Princeton last brought out the fact that the frater-
week. 1 nities were not taking their stand on
John Elliott, '26, who, with Eliza- the prohibition of liquor, but were tak-
beth Parrott, '26, represented the Uni- ing exception to the methods which
versity at the Princeton conference, are going to be employed in enforce- 1
was chosen treasurer of the national "ment.
federation. Other officers selected "We as compact groups," said Jack-
were: president, Princeton, vice-presi- son Stith, '26, president of the inter-
dent, Florida; and secretary, Ohio j fraternity council, "form a construc-
State. tive nucleus with which to start the
These officers, with two student movement, and it is President Little's
representatives from each section of plan to extend the enforcement to the'
the country, will consider the forma- independents at a later time. The
tion of ia more permanent federation. 'five-student' method which he has of-
fered us is really a step towards fur-!
Little Addresses ther student government," he added.
LiflO f S ociet Although but 40 fraternities were
Medical Society represented at the meeting, more than
200 students were present, and all
President Clarence Cook Little ad-ntbyrgnztns
dressed the members of the Wash- not by organizations.
tenaw County Medical association on R
"Modern Medicine and the Germ Two Papers Read
Plasm," at a banquet held last night
at the Union.1 At ee

rate from the League.
Senator Swanson will open the dis-
cussion with a prepared address
which will require several hours for
delivery. He hopes to keep his reso-
lution before the Senate for several.
days, at least, but some Senate lead-
ers believe it will be many weeks be-
fore the subject can be brought to a
vote.
Special Trains
Scheduled For
Vacation Rush
Four special trains will leave Ann
Arbor tomorrow afternoon and nearly
a score of extra coaches will be used
by the Michigan Central railroad to
carry students home for the Christ-
mas holidays.
The Michigan Opera special will
leave for Chicago at 1 o'clock and
will be comprised of several additional
day coaches for the convenience 01
any students wishing to make the
trip at this time. Another specia
train will leave for Chicago at 2:26. A
special train will leave for New Yorl
city and eastern points at 3:21 an(
another special will leave Detroit foi
points in northern Michigan at 8:31
tomporrow evening.
Practically all regular East ant
West bound trains stopping here to
morrow afternoon( will carry addi
tional coaches.
CLL SPCILt MEETING
OF FRATERNITY COUNCIl
Special meeting of the inteirfrater
nitsr rcouncil will be held at 4 o'cok'

At the annual convention of the as-
sociation of American geographers, to
.be held Dec. 31, Jan. 1 and 2, at Madi-
son, Wis., three members of the geog-
raphy department will represent the
University and will read papers in.
the discussion groups of the three
day assembly.
According to an announcement
made by the geography department
yesterday, Prof. K. C. McMurry will
treat the subject of "The Relation of
Soil Mapping to Geographical Field
Work"; Prof. Preston E. James will
deliver a paper on "A Geographical
Reconaissance of Trinidad;" and
Robert B. Hall take up in detail, "The
Geographic Entities of the Artibonit
Plain, Haiti." the two latter papers
will be included in a special session
of group papers, a feature of every
year's meeting, on the geography of
the Caribbean region.
In addition to drawing representa-
tives front many American college
geography departments, the conven-
tion will be attended by a number of
prominent government geographers.
Will fliusfranti

WASHINGTON--As a further stepj
against smuggling generally and rum
running in particular, all Coast Guardz
stations on the Great Lakes have been
ordered to remain open throughout
the winter.
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Jade, gold, and copper jewels have I1egietabie situation and thus solidiiy
been found among the ruins, he said. that peace which is essential to the
The lecture was illustrated with col- aims of the League of Nations.
ored lantern slides showing the ruins, The second, was voiced by Sir Aus-
figurines, and statues. Charcoal 1tin Chamberlain, British secretary for
drawings showing the kids of hiero- foreign affairs who declared that theI
drayphs weredeonstrated by Dr. British government did not wish to
gly hs wthe conclusion of his talk. adopt a rigid and uncompromising
attitude. Great Britain desires to live
on terms of peace and amity with

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