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CUMPULSURY TAX
FOR ALLBALLOTS
Appoint Committee to Discuss
Feasibility of, Measure
on Elections.
WOULD COLLECT DUES
J-Hop Committeemen Submit*
Plea to Keep Ticket Prices
at Ten Dollars.
The possibility of a compulsory
tax, to be placed on all ballots be-
fore students can vote in any sort
of an all-campus or class election,
was discussed last night when a
committee was appointed by the
Student Council to investigate the
feasibility of a plan of this nature.
The tax, which would be a meas-
ure to collect proposed classbdues,
would also have to be paid before
students could take part in extra
curricular activities.
Allison B. Evans, '32E, member of
the Engineering Council, started the
discussion by asking the permission
of the council to place such a levy.
upon all classes of the engineering
school. The council then considered
the advisability of such a system
for all undergraduate colleges. The
investigating committee was ap-
pointed by Edward J. McCormick,
'32, president of the council.-
When asked the purpose of class
dues, Evans stated that a fund,
could be used for paying bills of
damage done by the class andj
that "a surplus could be used to,
circularize the class after gradua-11

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It took two members of the fac-
ulty of the journalism department
to show the high school boys at the
Michigan Interscholastic Press as-
sociation convention dance last
night, how to meet strange women.
As the orchestra started to play,
the boys hung back rather shyly
near the walls of the Union ball-
room and no amount of urging by
either Prof. John L. Brumm or
Donal H. Haines would induce them
to leave their posts to dance with
girls that they had not met.
To set the example, the two
faculty members walked arm in
arm out into the middle of the floor
and cut in on two of the best look-
ing girls.
Professor Brumm started off in
a rapid if uncertain waltz. Mr.
Haines and his partner performed
a rather neat two-step.
At any rate, it had the desired
results. The boys soon lost their
shyness and cut in on the strange
women..

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ININ RULESVICTORY on First;Day of Sale

Anti-Prohibitionist Action May
Permit Vote on Amendment
in Next Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-(/P)-Re-
publican anti-prohibitionists scored

Upperclassmen Start
Advance Classifying
Advance classification for next
semester, begun Wednesday for sen-
iors, is to continue until after the
Christmas vacation, with a week re-
served for each of the classes, it
was announced yesterday by assis-
tants of Dr. Daniel L. Rich, director
of classification.
During the remainder of this
week only members of the senior
class may classify, while next week
the office in room 4, University hall,
will be open for the classification of
juniors only, with the final week
before vacation reserved for sopho-
mores. Freshman classification will
be taken care of the week after the

a victory today in a party caucus
which took action that may permit
a vote on prohibition in the coming
Congress.
After three days of debate the
party approved a change in the
House rules under which legisla-
tion could bejtbrought up by a peti-
tion of 145 members. It requires
a majority of the House to do this
now. The action came after the
conference voted down an effort by
drys to place the number of 190 on
amendments to the Constitution.
This was intended to protect the.
Eighteenth Amendment.
Democratic leaders, meanwhile,
planned to put a program for rules
modification before the Democratic
caucus Saturday.
The long-smouldering Senate Re-
publican row burst into lively
flames today with declarations
from Western independent leaders
that they would oppose the re-elec-
tion of George Moses, New Hamp-
shire, as president pro-tempore.
ISen. Moses referred to the inde-
pendents as the "sons of the wild"
jackass" when they went into a
coalition with the Democrats on the
tariff two years ago.
Sens. Borah, of Idaho, and Nor-
ris, of Nebraska, insurgent leaders,
in announcing against Moses, in-
sisted their action was evoked by
threats that they would be deprived
of committee chairmanships if they
failed to support the outspoken
New Hampshire member.
Borah and Norris defied retalia-1
tory action but it seemed unlikely
tonight that such a move would be
made against them. Democratic
aversion to taking over control of
the Senate without a majority is
expected to preclude an upset in
the Senate Republican organiza-
tion.
The independents have no inten-
tion of attempting to replace Moses,
with-a Democrat. They are prepar-
ing to support Senator McNary, of
Oregon, the popular assistant Re-'
publican leader, or the veteran
Wesley Jones, of Washington.
CABARET TO OPEN'
IN LEAGUE *TODAYi
Choruses Will Dance or Sing at
Fifteen Minute Intervals
From 3:30 to 5:30.

At the meeting, a plea was sub-
mitted by the J-Hop committee
asking permission to keep ticket
N prices for this function at ten dol-
lars, as in fQrmer years. Action was
delayed until a budget of the Kop
could be submitted to the council.
One hundred dollars, the amount
of damage done to property in the
engineering. college, caused by
Black Friday fights between the
freshman and sophomore classes,
will be divided evenly between the
two classes, it was decided. During
the fights, several windows were
broken and a door jammed.
McCormick and John Denler, '32,
were elected by the council to at-
tend a convention, to be held Dec.
27 to 31, in Toledo. It will be a
meeting of delegates to the Nation-
al Student Federation of America.
COMMITTEE URGES
HOME PRODUCTION
Conference on Home Building,
Ownership Receives Proposal
From Operations Board.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-(P)-Mass
production of homes was proposed
to President Hoover's Conference
on Home Building and Ownership
today as a means of bringing them
within reach of 50,000,000 clerical
and industrial workers.
A powerful corporation with mil-
lions of dollars in resources was'
suggested by the Committee on
Large Scale Operations to carry out
this giant construction scheme-de-
signed to include single family
houses as well as apartments and
model tenements.
The building of a single house by
one owner, "no longer typifies the
methods of an industrial age," the
committee said. "The present meth-
od of small scale housing, has failed
to meet the present need in both
quality and in cost."
The 3,000 delegates to the confer-'
ence were urged last night by Mr.
Hoover to find a way by which
homescould be bought on the easy
installment plan and with better
methods of construction.
Lawrence Uren Case
Goes to Jury Today
The case of Lawrence Uren, 24, ,
charged with negligent homicide in'
the death, last Aug. 7, of Hazen R.
Gardener will be placed in the
hands of the jury, this morning.
Prosecutor Albert J. Rapp yester-
day afternoon gave his final charge
to the jury.
The point upon which the case
rests is whether or not Uren was
forced into the crash hv another

LEGUE'S PROGRAM
REFUSEDBY JAPAN
Tokio Government Believes Plan
Restricts Its Activity
Against Bandits.
TOKIO, Dec. 3.-(IP)-Japan re-
jected the League of Nations Man-
churian peace program on two
scores today and drew up counter
proposals to be submitted to the
League Council meeting in Paris.
The Tokio Government interpret-
ed the League plan as restricting
Japanese activity against bandits
and as fixing a virtual time limit
for the evacuation of troops outside
the Manchurian treaty zone.
The Coun'cil's settlement resolu-
tion provides that if evacuation is
not completed by the time the
League's commission of neutral ob-
servers reaches Manchuria, they are
to "report speedily to the League
with whatever recommendations'
they see fit."
This amounts to the establish-
ment of a time limit for the com-
pletion of troop withdrawal, in the
view of the Japanese Government,
The "declaration" by Aristide 3ri-
and, Council chairman, contains
the other point to which Japan ob-
jects.
This is an admonition to China
and Japan to co-operate in suppres-
sing banditry. The Japanese posi-
tion is that this does not give Japan
enough latitude in dealing with
bandits.
The. Japanese Government is un-
willing to allow neutrals to accom-
pany their troops operating against
bandits.
ASK ME ANOTHER
Second Set of Current Events
Questions Announced.
Do you know what recently elect-
ed Mayor once led an army of un-
employed on Washington? Have
you read aboutt the return to the.
stage in, a Shakespearean role of
a noted actress? Do you know
whether Nizam is a German Fas-
cist, Indian Ruler, an African dam,
or a Russian city famed for fairs?
Three Michigan students are go-
ing to win prizes amounting to $250
for answering questions like these
in the annual New York Times cur-
rent events contest to be held in
March, 1932.
These questionshare from the'
group selected by the contetst com-
mittee for November; the remain-
ing queries and the answers will
be found on page four of today's

f An almost complete sell-out was
I the result of yesterday's sale of the
December Gargoyle, Harcourt S.
Patterson, business manager of the
publication announced last night.
Only 60 copies renain after the to-
tal sales were added up and these
will go on sale this morning at the
University hall stand only.
Christmas ismtotheme of the
magazine this month and both the
cover and the material contained
in it are dedicated to the Yuletide
spirit. The cover is one of the pop-
ular enigmas with which the publi-
cation gas puzzled the campus be-
fore but contrary to former issues,
the explanation can be found on
one of the back pages.
More short jokes than ever be-
fore printed in the magazine are
contained in the issue and new
features as well 'as the standard
ones make up the pages. Numerous
cartoons, commentaries, skits and
other humorous material are also
printed.
Tom Powers, has dedicated his
sketch page to the Revelers who
sang last night oA the Choral Un-
ion program while "Encomia" this
month is given to Paul Buckley.
Outstanding events in campus
drama are discussed in the maga-
zine as well as other occurrences
in Campus Talk. An appeal to cam-
pus humorists for contributions is
also included.
BROWN CRITIIZES
CONRS'LXITYI
University Professor Maintains
Special Session Should
Have Been Called.
By S. Beach Conger, Jr.,
The present Corgress has no one
but itself to blame for not having
met in special session earlier this
year. This is the conclusion one
reaches atter .re g an artitle by
Prof. Everett S. Brown, of the po-
litical science department, in the
November issue of The American
Political Science Review, on "The
Time of the Meetings of Congress."
"The fact is often overlooked,"
writes Professor Brown, "that Con-
gress itself has the power to regu-
late the time of its meeting. The
fourth section of Article IV of the
Constitution provides: The Con-
gress shall assemble at least once
in every year, and such meeting
shall be on the first Monday in De-
cember, unless they shall by law
appoint a different day. Under this
provision, the much critized rush
f bills in the short session could
easily be averted by an act conven-
ing Congress at an earlier date
than the first Monday in December.
So, too, a Congress whose final ses-
Sion was coming to a close could
provide that its successor should
meet immediately, instead of wait-
ing until the following December."
Thus, a congress could provide for
a special session irrespective of lack
of action on the part of the Presi-
dent, provided it could over-ride a
Presidential veto.
Professor Brown further supports
this interpretation of the Constitu-
tion by actual examples. Prior to
1821, eighteen laws were passed
regulating the time of Congression-
al session, ten of these selecting the
first Monday in November, a full
month before the time indicated in
the Constitution. In 1867, accord-
ing to the article, the Congress met
the 4th of March, immediately af-
ter its predecessor had left, and
continued until the 1st of Decem-
ber, when it adjourned at noon, and,
then was at once called to order
for the second session. The law pro-
viding for the first session, which
was a special one, is the only stat-
ate of its kind which has been

passed since 1821.
"Congress has the p o w e r to
change its times of meeting, just
as it did so in its earlier history.
A Constitutional amendment is not
necessary to enable a newly elected
Congress to meet for its first ses-
s i o n on, or immediately after,
March 4 following its election or to
enable Congress to fix the dates of
the annual sessions.
Reincarnation Is Topic
of Theosophist's Talk
Assuming reincarnation to be a
fact, our conscience is the memory
f former incarnations, asserted E.
Norman Pearson, president of the

? Will SHOW NEED
OF COLLEGE UNION
Princeton Dean to Talk to Group
Today in Twelfth Annual
Conference.
RUTHVEN WILL SPEAK
Luncheon at New Ypsilanti Un-
ion Will Conclude Program
Tomorrow.
Christian Gauss, dean of students
at Princeton university, will ad-
dress delegates from colleges and
universities throughout the coun-
try on "The Need for and the Place
of a Union in the Social Life of the
Campus," at 2 o'clock today as the
keynote address of the general ses-
sion of the twelfth annual confer-
ence of the association of College
and University Unions.
Registration, which commenced
at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
will continue from 9 to 10:30 o'clock
this morning. Following this, there
will be an inspection tour of the
Union.
At the general session, there will
be a five minute report from each
delegate on the year's outstanding
events in his Union. Questions that
delegates wish to be considered in
the future, will be filed at this time.
President Ruthven and J. Burgon
Bickersteth, warden of the Hart
house in the University of Toronto,
will address the members of the
convention at a formal dinner at
7 o'clock tonight.
Tomorrow morning, at the gen-
eral session, these will be the "ques-
tion box," the report of committees,
and the elections of officers for the
coming year.
The program will be concluded by
a bus ride to Ypsilanti where the
delegates will be entertained at a
luncheon to be given in the new
Ypsilanti Union.
REEAISS START
M EMBERSHIPODRIE
1000 New Members Wated by
Crusaders During
Month.
Crusaders of the University of r
Michigan batallion will commence
their membership campaign drive
next week, according to an an-
nouncement made yesterday by Ed-
ward J. McCormick, '32, treasurer of
the organization. It is hoped that
1000 members will be recruited in
the first month's activities.
The Crusaders, who compose a
nation-wide organization devoted to
a system of government regulation
of liquor as a substitution for pro-
hibition, will maintain headquarters
at the side desk in the Union, where
local officers will start registration.
Students, wishing to enroll in the
organization, may do so every after-
noon next week, beginning Monday,
between 2 and 6 o'clock at the side
desk in the main lobby of the
Union.
The organization committee, that
will direct the first part of the drive,
is composed of the officers, Beach
Conger, Jr., '32, president; Carl S.
Forsythe, '32, secretary, McCormick;
and Paul Icerman, '32, Frederick
Danziger, '32, Marvin Kobacker, '32,
Karl Seiffert, '33, Albert Harris,
'33E, William Crane, '32, and Robert
Mitchell, '34E. Additional officers
and committees will be appointed,
according to Conger, as soon as sev-
eral hundred members have en- -
rolled.

The Michigan unit will be the
tenth college group which has een
organized to date, and the first
mid-West batallion. Eastern col-
leges, which have inaugurated sim-
ilar units, are Princeton, Yale, Har-
vard, Williams, Wesleyan, Dart-
mouth, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Among the prominent educators at
these schools who have endorsed o
the movement are John G. Hibben, 1
president of Princeton; former Dean r
Cross, of the Yale Law school, now e
governor of Connecticut, and Clar-
ence W. Mendell, dean at Yale.
Delegates Would Save .
by Meeting in Chicago 1
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-(P)-Edward b

By Prudence Foster
Canopied shops, street lights, gai-
ly colored pennants are part of the
street scene forming the background
for the Sophomore Cabaret which
is to open at 3:30 o'clock this after-
noon in the League ballroom. Chor-
uses will dance or sing every fifteen
minutes from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock
today and tomorrow afternoon,
from 8:30 to 1 o'clock tonight, and
from 8:30 to 12 o'clock tomorrow
night.
No special theme is being car-
ried out in the entertainment this
year. A Spanish Tango, the Em-
press Eugenie waltz, Chessmen's
War, Harmonica Tap, and a Mod-
ernistic chorus are several of the
numbers to be featured.
Tables are to be placed around
the walls of the ballroom, leaving
the center of the floor clear for
dancing to music which will be fur-
nished by the League orchestra.
About forty sophomore women will
serve as hostesses.

Parker's Cafe
Opena Despite

Remains
Threats

Joe Parker's, the cafe hallowed in
Michigan song and alumni memory,
remained open yesterday despite
the threat, Wednesday, of Prosecu-
tor Albert J. Rapp to bring con-
tempt of court charges against the
owners. The prosecutor maintained
that the place was running in vio-
lation of a court padlock order
which does not expire for another
month. Later, the prosecutor in-
timated that he would drop the
charges. Attention was first drawn
to the cafe this week on Wednesday,
when a night of free dancing wasr
given in celebration of Michigan's
tie for the Big Ten title. It was re-