THE ICHIGAN DAILY THE ICHIGAN DAILY I DAILY OFFICIAL 'BULLETIN ublication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to all members the University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to le President until 3:30; 11:30 a. m. Saturday. THIRD CLAIMANT( BEN (IIN1 F0RME Ln Uil -~ON HuInnm The 'Alumnus' Features 7 TOL. XLII. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931 No. 23 Soviet Situation Is Discussed by Thomas Kerl in University Lecture. "Russia tried prohibition under NOTICES Phi Beta Kappa: The local Chapter is constantly being asked to nish addresses of members of other Chapters who are for the time ing in the city. The Secretary will be glad to receive the addresses of Phi Beta Kappa members in the Faculty or among the Students who ve recently come to Ann Arbor and of any who have not been receiving notices sent out by Alpha of Michigan since coming to the city. They y be sent by U. S. Mail or by Campus Post to the Secretary, 3233 gell Hall, 0. F. Butler, Secretary. Junior Engineers: The second order for Junior Class Jackets will be en this week at Van Boven's. Mortar Board Transfers from other colleges please call Agnes Gra- rn, phone 8225. Engineers intcrestcd in afIlliaing- with the Student Branch of the 3.M.E. are urgpd to see any of the following men for membership plications: Anderson R. Ferar D. M. LeVine Beechler D. Gerdan C. Marty A. Goldsmith D. Mull * Bleil A. Henge W. Neilson Briggs L. Harge C. O'Mara Chase J. Jones W. Parker Comar N. Knapp R. A. Snyder Davis M. Laurie One of the above named men will be at the table near the West igineering Library from 8 a. m., until 3 p. m., on Monday and Tuesday. The National Society has the following divisions: Areonautic, Oil td Gas Power, Management, Hydraulic, Fuels, Applied Mechanics, achine Shop Practice, Iron and Steel, Materials Handling, National efense, Power, Railroad, Wood Industries, Textile, Petroleum, and inting. EVENTS TODAY Pharmacy Faculty: A meeting of the Faculty of the College of Phar- acy will be held at. 4:10, in Room 212, Chemistry building. Senior Engineers' Election: The class will meet at 10 a. m., in Room 3, West Engineering building. All candidates must have eligibility ps. Students will be.excused from classes at this hour. University Symphony Orchestra: There are still opportunities for outs. Vacancies in all strings and trombones. Please report at Morris ,11 today at 3 p. m. University Symphony Orchestra: Important rehearsals today at 3 m., in Morris Hall Also Sunday morning, at 9:30, in Hill auditorium. COMING EVENTS Economics 51 and 52-Make-ups (11. L. Caverly): Make-up examin- ons in these courses for students absent from final examinations in ne will be given Monday afternoon, October 26, at 3 p. m., in Room ', Economics buil'ding. Associated Press Photo 'W. L. Aldrich, of Shreveport, has entered as a third claimant to the governorship of Louisiana, further complicating the tangle between Paul N. Cyr and the present gover- nor, Huey P. Long. Michigan Tax Expert Pleads for Economy SAULT St. MARIE, Oct. 22.-(AP)-- Citing an increase in Michigan state and municipal debts to nearly $800,- 000,000 in the last 10 years, George Lord, tax expert, told an audience here Wednesday night that the time has come to "practice economy until it hurts." may do so by coming to Lane Hall half an hour before the initiation meeting begins. The initiation ceremony will be followed by a musical program and refreshments. Kirby.Page, editor of "The World Tomorrow," will) speak at a Peace Mass Meeting in the Natural Science+ auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at+ 4:15 p. m., in the subject: "How may' another World War be averted?" All students and the public are invited. Oriental Women's Club: General election of officers for the year on Sunday, Oct. 25, '3:30 p. im., at the League. All members are urged to attend the meeting. Lenin but when Rykoff took office up Lenin's death he found that the government needed money badly so the government went into the liquor business." So said Thomas Kerl, internation- ally renowned farmer, yesterday afternoon in a lecture in Natural Science auditorium. Mr. Kerl spoke on his "Impressions of Russia," having just returned from a tour of that country as a member of the international Soil SciencerAssocia- tion. "In honor of Rykoff," Mr. Kerl continued, "one asks for a Rykoffka instead of vodka when one goes to buy a drink. Russian banquets are wonderful , You start with vodka, then there are four kinds of wine and you finish the meal with brandy in your coffee. There are bread lines and soup lines among the poor just like there are in other countries but the lines for vodka are much longer than for anything else. "Tourists travelling in Russia must keep close watch on their pocketbooks and personal posses- sions," said Kerl. "Russian history is the bunk," say the Russians of today, acord- ing to Kerl. "We must forget the past." "The supreme power in Soviet Russia," said Kerl, "'is invested in 1,400 men elected not by the Aus- tralian ballot but by the raising of hands at caucuses. There is no such thing as trial by jury. Cases'are heard by three men, one a legal ex- pert, the other two workers. The extreme penalty for murder is ten years' imprisonment, for conspiracy against the government, death. Prisoners are made to work hard." Women have absolute equal rights with men in Russia, according to the noted farmer-traveler. He said that women work in the factoties, on an equal basis and drive street cars and work as street cleaners. The houses of the rich under the old aristocracy have been turned into rest homes for the workers where they may spend two weeks every six months. The old palaces of the nobility have been trans- formed into tuberculosis sanator- iums, Kerl said. AA AA "A AA A * -Marie Josephine Root, '14, is the only woman in the world engaged in manufacturing road scrapers and snow plows, for as Vice Presi- dent and General Manager of the Root Spring Scraper Company of Kalamazoo, that is her life work. She came to Michigan after grad- uation from Western State Teach- ers College, taught school a few years after finishing her work at Ann Arbor, took a year's post grad- uate work at Columbia and then succumbed to her father's request, for help in his office. The business was formed in 1900 to manufacture snow plows for street cars, and horse-drawn road scrapers. In 1920 the first truck scraper was intro- duced to the country at the same time that Miss Root was introduced to the company. Upon her father's death in 1925 Miss Root was named to her present position and has kept on developing and improving the company's products-producing the first hydraulic scrapers and snow plows. CITY COMPLETES FI NEW_6,000,000+ Expect to Finish Entire Plant by Middle of December, Is Plan. With the recent opening of the first section of Ann Arbor's new 6,000,000 gallon reservoir, one of the most modern of city water plants was made available to the people of this city. The old reservoir, which is now being dismantled, was of the open type, excavated from natural earth with surrounding walls built from the dirt removed. Its open top made it constantly subject to outside pol- lution which added a taste and. odor to the water even though purifica- tion prevented disease from that source. Constant exposure to air and sun- light furthermore aerated the water an doxidized the iron therein which would later form a dark colloidal suspension difficult to settle. The new reservoir is much larger than the old one, measuring 288 by 156 feet and 20 feet deep. Its over- flow is 1,000 feet above sea level, seven feet higher than the old one. Its capacity is three times as/great, making it possible to begin remov- ing the old one as soon as the first 2,000,000 gallon section was com- pleted. Construction throughout is of reinforced concrete, top, bottom and sides. The top is supported by -Fred W. Seymour, '09E, has won' a place for himself among the fore- most utility executives of the nation for his organization and engineer- ing ability. His first job after grad- uation was that of chemist for a Texas cement firm, and this was followed by employment as Chemist and Plant Superintendent of the Grand Rapids Gas Company. In 1916 he became Vice President and General Manager of the Battle Creek Gas Company. He organized and became President of the Fed- erated Utilities, Incorporated, in 1922, selling out in 1927. Mr. Sey- mour now holds the positions of Vice President and Assistant Gen- eral Manager of the American Com- monwealths Power Corporation and President of the American Gas & Power Company. -James P. Logan, '80L, is Editor of the Newark, New Jersey, Sunday Call. After dividing his time for three years between law and news- paper work he decided to make the latter his life work and has pur- sued it for 47 years, the last 36 years in the city of Newark, New Jersey. On January 1, 1917 he resigned as Associate Editor of the Newark Eve- ning News, the largest and most influential daily newspaper in New Jersey, to take the Editorship of the Sunday Call, which he still fills IRST SECTION OF GALLON RESERVOIR 24-inch concrete columns. The en- tire project will be ready by the middle of December. The main superiority of the new tank over the old one, aside from its larger capacity, lies in the pro- tection given the water. The entire work is covered with dirt, giving absolute freedom from outside con- tamination. Water will enter at one end of the middle chamber and flow slowly to the other end and there separate, flowing in equal parts through the outside chambers. This will allow suspensions of natural impurities to settle and will precipitate some mineral compounds. LIQUOR_,CONTROL (Continued from Page 1) Some of them are fit to repeat. Some are not. The Rev. Holsaple replied that "Mr. Clancy meant to make a dif- ferent kind of speech than he did. He meant to discuss the prohibition question." "Prohibition does not hinge on whether Christ was a wet or not," he said. "I am willing that prohibi- tion stand or fall by any test that we apply to any other known effort." Mrs. Myron B. Vorse, represent- ing the Crusaders said that Wood- cock made a great case for the fact that the law cannot be enforced. "Prohibition," she stated, "after 11 years, has sunk our country deeper and deeper into hypocrisy, immorality, and indecency." Mayor H. Wirt Newkirk, of Ann Arbor, was booed by the forum when he said, "Neer beer is just as good as real beer." He mentioned the case of a blind pig owner who sold neer beer to his customers for two months and none of them knew the: difference. "Whiskey," stated the Mayor, "is better now than it was 57 years ago when I was attending the Univer- sity." Stating that he had seen only one intoxicated student in the~ streets of Ann Arbor in the lase ten years, he concluded that one could not find 9,000 young men in the country that are as orderly as the' students in the University of Michigan. Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore Conducts Investigation Dr. Melvin R.'Gilmore, curator of ethnology, in the University Mu- seum of anthropology, is conduct- ing an investigation of ethnobotan- ical specimens sent him by Ohio State University. The specimens are of wild fruits, nuts, grasses, woods, barks, culti- vated crops, and fibers, all found in Ohio caves. They are of pre- historic times. The cultivated crops show the extent of agriculture of that time. Dr. Arthur, Novelist and Dramatist, Dead VIIFNNA, Oct. 22.-( P)---Austria mourned today one of its greatest modern literary figures, Dr. Arthur Schnitzler, novelist and dramatist, who died suddenly Wednesday at the age of 69. t ogy 42: An examination will be held Saturday, October 24, N. S., for those absent from examination in Psychology al, W. B. Pillsbury. in of Phi Delta Kappa Luncheon: The first luncheon meeting will be held he Michigan Union, Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 12:15 sharp. All faculty and lent members are urged to be present. A special invitation is ex- Jed to all members of other chapters, who may be in Ann Arbor this' , to come and get acquainted with the men of Omega Chapter. Masonic Students: Craftsmen Club meeting Saturday, Oct. 24, at p. m. 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