1890 C Lw 4 af MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS wammmmWommm""m Vol. XXXIX, No. 128. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929. EIGHT PAGES NOTED -SENATOR ,TO OPEN CONVOCATION SERIES ON SUNDAY REPUBLICAN - LEADER SELECTS "THE PRESENT OUTLOOK" AS TOPIC FESS HAS HAD VARIED AND COLORFUL CAREER Efforts Being Made To Secure William Allen White For Address, April 21 Senator Simeon D. Fess, educator and politician from Ohio, will ad- dress the opening student convo- cation of the spring series next Sunday on "The Present Outlook." The convocation service will be- gin at 11 o'clock in Hill auditorium. As professor, college president, and Republican chauvinist, Senator Fess has led a brilliant career. He entered the educational field first, holding a professorship of Ameri- can history at Ohio Northern uni- versity from 1889 to 1896, after which he became successively head of the College of Law, and vice- president of the University. Was College President ' From 1907-1917 he served as president of Antioch college, Ohio's experiment in combining an edu- cation' in the liberal arts with vo- cational day laboring. While president of Antioch, Sen- ator Fess served as, delegate and vice-president to the Ohio Consti- tutional convention of 1912, where he drafted the amendment which created a state department of pub- lie instruction. From 1913 to 1923 he served as a member of the House of Representatives at Wash-' ington, heading'i the House comn- mittee on education. Receives New Term In 1923 epresentativertFess be- camne Senator Fess, elected tos serve until 1929 Last fall in the Hoover landslide, Senatonr ess was relect- edl for a second sx-year term. In the 'Congressiona elections of 1918, 1920, and 1922 he directed affairs for the Republican party in Ohio as a member of the National Cam- paign committee, and was instru- mental in piling up the huge Ohio majority for Harding in 1920. Last summer at Kansas City he delivered the keynote address be-! fore 1,000 howling delegates con- vened to nominate Herbert Hoover , for the presidency. Helen. Durard will play the organ at the convocation service, and George E. Alder, Grad., will sing Saure's "The Palm," as an offer- tory. The congregation will join in singing "Come Thou Almighty King," and "Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart." Black Will Speak Professor Hugh Black of the Union Theological seminary will address another convocation here on April 28, it was announced re- cently by Mark Andrews, '29, chair- man of the Student council com- mittee on convocations, and efforts are being made to secure William Allen White, author-journalist, to address another convocation on April 21. Dean Charles R. Brown of the Yale Divinity School, now travel- ling in Europe, has had to decline invitations to address convocations both last fall and this spring. He has been secured by the committee, however, to speak here next fall. CONGRESS TURNS TO HYDE FOR FARM RELIEF ADVICE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 21.-The vexing farm relief issue which has been tossed about for several sea- sons between the White House and the capitol was turned to a new quarter tonight-the department of agriculture. A letter asking the new secretary of agriculture, Arthur Mh. Hyde, to present to Congress the admInis- tration's view on a relief bill is resting on his freshly varnished desk. Confounded by the word passed from the White House, the Republi- can leaders at'the capital had de- cided it is up to someone to speak for the administration. o-0 SENIOR INVITATIONS S-~ ---~~1I Supreme Court With Answers Answers to summons were pou ing into the ofifce of the clerk the Supreme Court of the Unive sity yesterday, threatening swamp the assistants before tl week is over. Although approx mately 550 invitations were se out due to the large number of sp cial requests, the original regul tion of only 400 at the banquet w be strictly adhered to, according the members of the tickets and i vitations committee of Sigma Del Chi, who sponsors the affair. An, announcement made la night by George E. Simons, I~ assistant chairman of the commi tee stated that only the first 4 answers would be considered, tl checks being returned to tho Due to an oversight on th part of the official printers ( the address of the Marshal of ( of the court was omitted on the subpoenas. All answerq I should include a signed blank a check, and a return envelope They should be addressed to th Marshal of the Court, 915 Oak- I land Ave., Ann Arbor. Clerk Swamped I' ou|~[[ To Grid Summons U10 LILI r- signified their willingness to do of court duty on the appointed night r- are Lieut. Leonard Flo, noted Ann to Arbor aviator who was to have he I been tendered a banquet some time xi- *go. Flo expressed a ,desire to as- nt sist in any way possible to convict] e- the guilty lubricator. :averal resi-' a- dents of Ann Arbor, members of ill the faculty, and many students FRESHMEN AND L to have already returned their answer WILL HOLD X n- forms to the committe from the AFFAIR ta clerk's office. The trial, which is to be held at JACK M'CAYG ,st the seventh annual Gridiron b Ja CKMA- 30, quet of SigmaDelta Chiat 6:30 MARKS TO L t- o'clock Wednesday night, April 3, 00 in the ball room of the Union, will Chairman Announces he be open to men only, and will rc- Frosh Frolic Tic se quire formal dress. After the pre- This Aftern CLASS ! ONIGHT AW SENIORS kNNUAL S ERALD EAD BANDS Work Continues 1 A MAEBARSA In Flooded Area UllUniniiCh fhInAIVIIIEIIISL AE s Lst Sale ckets For noon OfI (By Associated Press) MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 21. -Red Cross officials in Washington estimated today that 26,000- per- sons had been made homeless by floods in south Alabama and northern Florida, and reports of additional scores of refugees were received at Maxwell Field, govern- ment flying field, here. The fliers had been taking a leading part in the relief work. The additional reports came from towns along the Alabama River, which is far out of its banks. Major W. R. Weaver, commnand- ant of the army post, said planes flew over the section around Selma, dropping provisions and blankets to the marooned families. TIRIBUTE PAID TO L[ATE WAR LEADE Chamber Of Deputies Votes Sixth National Funeral In Memory Of Marshall Foch THOUSANDS VISIT HOME (By Associated Press) Leo Norville, Jarl Andeer, Stephen Jones Lose To Badgers There AndI PROF. MITCHELL OF LYONS AWARDS VERDICT TO WISCONSIN RECORD NOW STANDS AT TWO WINS, TWO LOSSES VICTORS OVER NORTHWESTERN HERE; NEGATIVE TEAM LOSES TO WISCONSIN -o sentation of the case of loquacious e lubrication by several able attor- ,I neys, taken from various profes- f sions, before a judge whose name I is being withheld for the sake of s ( protection against pre-trial threats, , ( the tradition oil can will be pre- . sented to the person convicted who e will have the custody of the award - for the coming year. who cannot be accomodated. Alex- ander K. Gage, Jr., '29, chairman of the committee stated that al- though it looked as though the quota would be filled within the next few days, under no circum- stances would answers received after March 30 be considered. Among the list ofP men who have SPEA_OVER WJRI "School Discipline," Mars Again" And "A Rhetoric Laboratory" ' Arc Topics Discussed UNION ORCHESTRA PLAYS' Dean James B. Edmonson of the School of Education, Prof. Amos R. Morris of the rhetoric department, and Prof. Ralph H. Curtiss of the astronomy department last night delivered the three talks on the 22nd Michigan Night radio pro- gram of the current series. The program was put on the air from the new Morris hall studio through WJR, the "Good Will Station" of the Richards Oakland company, Detroit. Dean Edmonson, speaking on "The Old Versus The New in School Discipline," told of the changes . which have taken place in the va- rious schools of today, stressing 'the newer idea of cooperation, help- fulness, and industry as opposed to the older idea of school discipline- that which emphasized quiet, or- der, and submissiveness. The second talk of the program given by Professor Morris was en- titled "What is a Rhetoric Labora- tory?" Professor Morris has been interested in the study of language arts by analysis of human speech sounds and told of efforts being made by which an adequate stand- ard may be set upon which to base our estimates of literary values. Professor' Curtiss, who is direc- tor of the University observatory spoke on "Mars Again" telling at length of the characteristics of this planet and what scientists oh the earth know about that heaven- ly body, or what they have reason to belive is constantly taking place on it. As for the musical portion of the program, the Union dance orches- tra under the management of Paul Omer and Don Loomis and directed by' Bill Suthers, presented several of their liveliest numbers during1 the interim between the speeches. Waldo Abbot, director of the sta- tion, states that he is at present working on a number of special programs for the future. MIMES TO STAGE PO PULAR MYSTERY Mail Orders Now Being Accepted For "In The Next Room" Reservations WILL PLAY NEXT WEEK Mail orders are now being receiv- ed at Mimes theater for the next, week's performances of "In The Next Room", the popular mysteryl thriller by Eleanor Robson Belmont and Harriet Ford. The play will be put on for nightly performances (except Wednesday night) begin- ning next Monday and at a special Saturday matinee. Eleven persons are included in the cast which has been rehearsing forl several weeks. Included in that number are many who are well known to followers of campus dra- matics, including Richard C. Kur- vink, '29, George W. Priehs, '30, Eugenie Chapel, '32, Josephine Ran- kin, '30, David B. Hempstead,. '31, Win. R. Day, Jr., '30L., and Freder- ick K. Kleene, '31. The play enjoyed a long run on Broadway within recent seasons and was one of the most successful of the mystery plays which have been produced. The action con- cerns the mistaken sale of an orig- inal antique cabinet in place of a copy which had been ordered. Numerous unaccounted for mys- teries in connection with the cab- inet complicate the action and everything becomes shrouded in mystery until the final disclosure of the guilty one, whose identity is disclosed as a quick surprise to the audience. Many special effects within the' theater are planned by E. Morti- mer Shuter in an effort to haveI the mysterious atmosphere pervade 'the theater from the time one is seated to the very end of the per- formance. Music such as Chopin's "Funeral March" will be played between the acts. ERNEST RHYS, VERSATILE WRITER, TO LECTURE HERE Negotiations are virtually com- plete for the appearance here of Ernest Rhys, editor of Everyman's library, as a University lecturer sometime next fall, according to an announcement made yesterday. In addition to having written a number of novels, among them The Fiddler of Cane, Mr. Rhys is well known as *a lecturer and speaker. During the past summer he was adjudicator in the Arts and Let- With freshmen on campus hold- ing the first class dance of their college career and dignified Law seniors holding their traditional class dance, the campus will cele- brace a gala night tonight when the Frosh Frolic will be held in the Union ballroom and the Lawyers Crease dance will be held in the lounge of. the Lawyers' club. Final arrangements for both dances were completed early in the week, and all will be in readiness for the two dances tonight. Few Frolic Tickets Remain While the lawyeis are boasting a sellout for their dance, the Fresh- man committee still has a very few tickets on hand, the com- mittee in charge announced late last night, and -these will be on sale at the Union and at a booth in the lobby of University hall to- day. Contrary to expectations, the ticket sale for the Frolic will close promptly at 5 o'clock this after- noon at all the booths, it was said yesterday, as University rules re- quire such a measure. "We want to correct any idea that tickets to the Frolic will be sold at the door tonight," Kenneth McCallum, '32, general chairman announced. "The sale will close promptly at 5 o'clock' and it will be impossible to pur- chase a ticket thereafter." The dance at the Union tonight will commence atr-9:30-oclock and, will close at 2 o'clock, with the grand march scheduled for around 11 o'clock. McCallum will lead the march with Miss Iorothy Fendley of Detroit, as his partner. The music will be played by Gerald Marks and his Oriole Terrace or- chestra of Detroit, the band leav- ing the famous Detroit cafe to play this dance especially. It is a Col- l umbia recording orchestra. Favors will be given outaatrthe door at the dance, the favors chairman announced. Lawyers Engage Jack McKay Decorations for the dance will start early this morning under the 'care of the Goodhew Floral com- pany of this city. A new motif is promised, with the floral decora- tions grouped in bunches instead of in the usual style of being spread around the ballroom. 0 The Crease dance will be featur- ed by the music 'of Jack McKay's Country Club orchestra from De- troit, a band which made a big !hit here recently at another party, and by the publication of the Crease paper with scandals about the great and near-great of the Isenior law class and other sections. The Crease dance is one of the most famous of class dances at Michigan, deriving its name sever- al years ago when the Lawyers changed to wearing of evening ! clothes instead of the usual out- fits. The committee in charge of this party was headed by Donovan Y. Erickson, '29L. ALLIED NATIONS AGREE ON GERMANY'S PAYMENT (By Associated Prss) PARIS, March 21.-One billion, seven hundred and fifty million marks (approximately $420,000,000) is the irreducible minimum whichf Germany's creditors will accept as hr fist nnnit nvm ; enndr PARIS, March 21.--The world mourned with France today at the bier of Marshal Foch. King and president, general and minister of state, came to pay him tribute while thousands of the, more humble crowded into the courtyard of his house to inscribe their names in the register of those who came to do him honor. Representing Belgium which was the first to feel the wounds of the Great War, came King Albert in person to pay tribute to the man under whom hie had served in Flan- ders as head of the Belgium army in the last days of 1918. General John J. Pershing, commander-in- chief of the American Expedition- ary Forces, also came. President poumergue, 4Premier,,,roincare and, former Premier Clemenceau, - "the father of victory," were there, too. To the home where the general- isiimo of the mighty allied hosts of 1918 died at sunset Wednesday an unending succession of distinguish- ed personages, messengers and messages began to arrive before dawn lnd, continued throughout the day. The high and lowly of France mingled in the marshal's courtyard with those of other races whose kin served in the World war under the supreme command of the French warrior who finished his final campaign Wednesday night.; While an unending procession of generals, ambassadors, ministers of state and distinguished -figures and several thousand humbler citizens came to the Foch home, the French chamber of deputies voted to give the marshal' a national funeral, the sixth in the history of France. It was announced that the fun- eral would be held Tuesday, prob- ably from the famous Cathedral of Notre Dame, although definite plans awaited reading of the mar- shal's will. The body will lie in state under the Arc de Triomphe for 24 hours previously. DUDLEY-KIMBALL TAKE UNION BRIDGE TOURNEY Harold W. Dudley, '29L, and Miles W. Kimball, '29, won the finals of the all-campus bridge tournament being sponsored by the Union last night by defeating John W. Watling, '30, and William N. Andrews, '31. As a result of their victory, the members of the winning team were MADISON, Wis., March 21..-Wis- consin's affirmative defeated the Michigan negative in a Western Conference intercollegiate debate here tonight. Prof. Eugene Mitchell of the de- partment of speech of Lyons col- lege was the single expert judge who rendered the decision. Marvin I B. Rosenberry, chief justice of the Wisconsin supreme court bench, presided. Record Is Even With its defeat here tonight, Michigan now has a record of two victories and two defeats for its first year of debating in the new Western Conference debate league which was founded last fall. The conference victories were over Illi- nois last semester and over North- western last night. Ohio. State was the other Conference school beside Wisconsin to win from Mich- igan. The Conference schedule will be arranged next year so that in the course of the two semesters each University will meet the four oth- ers which it did not oppose during the preceding year. Under this ar- rangement Michigan will meet Iowa, Purdue, Indiana, and Min- nesota in Conference debates next year. Three Compose Team Leo T. Norville, '30, Jarl Andeer,' '29, and Stephen Jones, '30L., com- posed the negative team which de- bated-here. The members' of the Wisconsin affirmative were John Paras, D. Laikin, and Wells W. Harrington. In upholding the affirmative case, the Wisconsin debaters argued that the jury system is obsolete, that it is inherently defective, and that the judge system would re- sult in speedier and more efficient justice. Norville Opens Decision N Norville, opening the Michigan case, contended that the jury sys- tem is basically sound, that its abolition would disrupt our legal system, and that faults in the jury are not inherent but procedural in nature. Andeer, giving the second neg- ative speech attacked the judge as an institution and 'argued that substantial justice is obtained through the jury. Jones was the third Michigan speaker. He con- cluded the case of the negative in the specific defense of the jury as necessary in the decision of crim- inal cases. WAR IN CHINA BELIEVED INEVITABLE; TROOPS MOVE By Associated Pre) LONDON, March 21.-War clouds in China, never long absent from the horizon since the turn of the century, loomed today in reports from Nanking, Peking, and Han- kow. The Nationalist government, with a slumbering military revolt on its hands in Shantung, was at the loggerheads with the faction controlling the rich and powerful Wuhan cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang. Both sides believed war was in- WEBSTER, BOESCHE, AND LEVY COMPOSE WINNING TRIO PROFESSOR BARD OF IOWA ACTS AS JUDGE Abolition Of Jury Is Debate Topic In 11ll Auditorium Last Night Debating the proposition, Re- solved that a judge or 'a board of judges should be substituted for the jury in all trials throughout the United States, the Michigan affirmative team defeated t h e Northwestern negative last night in Hill auditorium. Prof. A. Craig Baird of the department of speech of the University of Iowa was the single expert judge. John E. Webster, '30P., Fenelon Boesche, 1, and Nathan Levy, '31, speaking in the order named, com- posed the Michigan team. They were opposed by Stanford Clinton, Stuart E. White, and Isadore Katz of Northwestern. Webster Begins Debate Webster, opening the discussion, pointed out that among the de- fects in the present jury system are the facts that intelligent peo- ple are nearly always excused from jury service and that the average jurors cannot comprehend the rules of court procedure and testi- mony. "Remedies," he added, "have been suggested for these evils but have never been placed In effect." Continuing the affirmative dis- cussion, Boesche declared, "The administration of justice in any area fits the demands of that area. Although we insist upon experts in every other phase of our social, political, and economic life, we are content to accept the decisions of inexperienced laymen in the ad- ministration of justice." "Juries are chosen from people who form the lowest strata of so- ciety," Levy stated in giving what was probably the best speech of the evening. "The jury comes, acts, and merges back into society," he argued. "It is the only American governmental institution which is not responsible for its acts. The judge, on the other hand, con- tinues from day to day and must accept responsibility for his deci- sion. Clinton Claims Soundness Clinton was the opening negative speaker. "The jury system is in- herently sound," he continued, "be- cause it applies a social concept of justice, and is the only effective means of eliminating prejudice and vice." It is the only safeguard the ,people have against oppressive leg- islation, he believes. "The judge system which the affirmative are advocating is in- herently unsound," White declared in continuing the negative case, "because it is a cast system, be- cause it is easier to corrupt two or three judges than it is to corrupt a jury of 12 men, and because the judge system puts men on the bench whose minds are in a rut of legal technicalities." Katz, the third negative speaker, gave the concluding arguments .of the constructive speeches. "The judge is impractical," he avered. "It takes out of our administration of justice the right of the every day man on the street to be judged by his peers. Norville Opens Discussion "The function of the jury is to act as a check upon the arbitrary acts of a judge," he continued, "The trend is not away from the jury but toward it. In the past 100 years, every European country ex- cept Holland has adopted the jury system." Prof. Hobart R. Coffey of the Law School was the presiding of- I flcer of the occasion. Ormand J. Drake,'r3Ed.,eandrHoward Simon, '30, Varsity debaters of last semes- ter, served as time keepers. CREWS WORK ALL NIGHT TO SAVE FIFTY MINERS (By Associated Press) PARNASSUS, Pa., March 21.- Sruggling against great odds, hel- meted miners and crews tonight I'wre woirking feverishly in the KiCnd~ ters section of the Olympic con- tests at Amsterdam. - -nernrsc annuny paym ut nc FREE MOVIE OF SUPERIOR QUALITY BEING PLANNED any new reparations p-tha t Experts representing the allied BY HOAG AND COUNCIL FOR CAP NIGHT CELEBRATION nations today reached this definite point in the long negotiations lead- Extensive arrangements are be- ( lar Majestic organist for the oc- ing up to the revision of the Dawes ing completed between Manager ( casion, An act of vaudeville may plan, and so informed Dr. Schacht, Jerry Hoag of the Michigan thea- I also be added to the evening's en -chief of the German delegation. Jrerr a fthe uet on i otertainmen~t. I tre and the Student council to To replace the present Hill audi- !". Ih stage a free movie in celebration torium screen suspended on four ,a er 4 of Cap Night, May 17, that will be ropes, Hoag will move in the comparable to paid-admission per- screen which is now being used at formances. the Michigan. The rope-suspended A. first-run feature will be pur- screen used heretofore for free I chased by the Butterfield interests, shows, rippled everytime a door presented individual loving cups. evitable, and from Peking came Season passes to the Mimes the-word that Nationalist troops from ater were presented by the Unionthe province of Anhwei had reach- as the prize for the runner ups.ed Lotienhsien, 70, miles northeast More than 76 teams were original-of Hankow, indicating that the ly entered in the tournament. outbreak was imminent. THIEME'S CONVERSATION WITH ANDRE OHEVRILLON REVEALS HIGH REGARD HUMANITY HAS FOR FOCH How Marshall Foch was regarded was always asked, whatever sub- by his fellows in the French: Aca- ject was being discussed." demy, the "society of immortals"'lFoch's treatises on military tactics was revealed yesterday when Prof.'lishowed such marked ability and Hugo P. Thieme, of the Romance his general knowledge of cultural Languages department, reported subjects was so great that he was conversations he held with Amdre I one of the few honored by admis- Chevrillon on his visit here last sion to the French Academy, which week. Chevrillon sat with Foch in is primarily a literary society.