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VOL. XLIV No. 129

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1934

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League Head
Petitions Due
By Tomorrow
Applicants Are Urged By
Grace Mayer To Include
All Qualifications
Electoral Board To
Select All Officers
Committee Positions Open
To Women Interested In
League Work
Petitions for the presidency of the
League must be submitted by tomor-
row, according to Grace Mayer,
'34Ed., president of the League.
Applicants for the position are
urged to include all their qualifica-
tions for the position in the petition.
Any woman on campus is eligible this
year, since it is the first year in
which the administration of the
League will be determined by the
merit system rather than the custo-
mary campus election.
Applications will be considered by
the electoral board composed of two
faculty members: Dean Alice Lloyd,
and Dr. Margaret Bell, and three
student members: Miss Mayer, Ruth
Robinson, '34, and Harriett Jennings,
'34. This board will consider the
women's leadership ability, her prev-
ious campus activities, and the ease
with which she makes social con-
tacts.
Other Positions Open
Other committee positions are open
to women interested in League work.
Applicants for such positions are
likewise urged to either write to or
interview personally Miss Mayer, or
Miss Ethel McCormick, social direc-
tor of the League. Work in the League
includes house, reception, publicity,
social, and Undergraduate Campaign
Fund committeeships. These six com-
mitteeships and the chairmanship
of the Board of Representatives, and
presidency of Panhellenic constitute
the main committee positions.
The house committee will super-
vise business matters in the League,
assisting the business office in this.
Reception committeeship will involve
meeting celebrities on the part of the
League, while the social committee
will take care of the League dances
and other social functions such as the
recent fashion show.
Writing publicity and caring for
ad-writing will be the job of the pub-
licity staff, while the Undergraduate
Fund committee will maintain its
present duties of sponsoring money-
making activities for the Undergrad-
uate Campaign Fund. The chairman
of the Board of Representatives will
also continue as in past years to con-
duct the meetings of representatives
from the women's residences.
Ride Bureau To
Be Managed By
Union Officers
Names Of Car Owners And
Students Wanting Rides
To Be Kept On File
The Union ride bureau, operating
as a clearing house for students who
wish to obtain passengers for their

unfilled cars and for those wishing
to obtain transportation for them-
selves, will be conducted by student
officials prior to spring vacation, it
was announced last night.
John Donaldson, '35, student ex-
ecutive councilman and director of
the bureau, announced that more
than 250 students had availed them-
selves of the service rendered by the
organization before Christmas vaca-
tion and expressed the belief that
even more would be accommodated
within the next two weeks.
He emphasized the fact that inas-
much as the bureau is being operated
on a non-profit basis, no commer-
cial schemes will be promoted and
only private parties will be accommo-
dated. The service is also open to
women students as well as men.
In order to register students for
the bureau, Union committeemen
will be stationed in the offices on the
first floor every afternoon from 3 to
5 p.m.
Motorists Must Use

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Princeton, New Jersey
CHRISTIAN GAUSS
Dean of the College
Mr. Thomas Connellan
The Michigan Daily
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dear Mr. Connellan:
I am afraid our situation at Princeton is so
different from yours at Ann Arbor that a com-
parison is not likely to be helpful. Until recently
there were no set restrictions on the sale of beer
though the university prohibited its sale on uni-
versity property.
At present we are under a local license system
and our local license board has jurisdiction over
any seller of light wines, beer or harder liquor.
The town of Princeton is, however, a town of
one long main street. Nearly all business is con-
ducted on this street. You would not have a
parallel situation in Ann Arbor unless State
Street were the only street on which shops and
restaurants were situated.
With this proviso let me say that we have not
noticed any increase in disorderly conduct as a
result of the repeal of prohibition.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed)
CHRISTIAN GAUSS
The above is a copy of a letter sent to the editor of The Michigan
Daily from Christian Gauss, dean of Princeton College, Princeton, N.J.,
and an alumnus of the University of Michigan.

Abuses Of Late
Privilege May
Lead To Action
Cases Of Infractions Are
Reported To Dean Alice
Lloyd's Office
Abuse of the late permission re-
cently granted to seniors may lead
to drastic action, Grace Mayer,
'34Ed., president of the League said
yesterday.
Underclassmen have been taking
advantage of the fact that they can-
not be distinguished from the sen-
iors, and have requested too many
late permissions on Saturday nights.
The result may be, according to
Miss Mayer, that either the senior
privileges be withdrawn, or else late
permission may be limited to two for
a semester.
The late permission for seniors was
granted to them without any scholas-
tic requirements after months of
campaigning on the part of the wom-
en for hour privileges.
Cases of abuse have been reported
to Dean Lloyd's office, and may, it is
believed, be a temporary result of
added freedom. League officials yes-
terday said they hoped that no ac-
tion will be taken, and that the
women should realize that they are
jeopardizing their own chances for
extended hours when they are seniors
by their action now.-
FALL KILLS SLEEPWALKER
MT. CLEMENS, March 26.-- S. W.
Kline, 90 years old, was killed in-
stantly at 6 a.m. Sunday when he
plunged 15 feet head first from a
second story window. His daughter-
in-law, Mrs. Jay W. Kline, said that
Mr. Kline sometimes walked in his
sleep, and attributed his death to
that.

Locality Blanketed
With Snow Opening
The Spring Season
"Snow probable," was the promis-
ing word from the Detroit weather
forecaster last night as Ann Arbor
wondered what Easter Sunday will
be like with the ,precedting week
stealing all its stuff.
The five and a half inches of
snow recorded at the University Ob-
servatory at 7 p.m. last night had
mounted to an unofficial 10 inches
by midnight, with snow still coming
down steadily.
No trouble had been caused by the
storm in the vicinity of Ann Arbor, it
was indicated last night, but the De-
troit Edison Co. reported heavy sleet
at Monroe and some sleet with minor
wire trouble at Dundee, and said the
weather here looked threatening.
Six Finalists Named
For Speech Contest
Six students qualified yesterday for
the finals of the annual University
Oratorical Contest which will be held
at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in
Room 4203 Angell Hall.
The students who qualified are
Gilbert E. Bursley, '34, Edward T.
Downs, '35, Edith Engle, '35, Edmund
K. Heitman, '35, Hyman Mottenberg,
'34, and Whitmer Peterson, '34.
The winner of the finals will win
the Chicago Alumni Medal for excel-
lence in oratory and will represent
Michigan in the Northern Oratorical
League contest which will be held
Friday, May 4, at Minneapolis.
The judges of the preliminaries,
which drew 20 entrants, were Profes-
sors G. E. Densmore, and Louis Eich,
and James H. McBurney, Carl G.
Brandt, Floyd K. Riley, and Henry
Moser, all of the speech department.

Stars Of1934
Drama Event
Are Rvealed
List Of Plays And Actors
Scheduled s Dramatic
Season Is Announced
Ian Keith Will Be
Starred In Macbeth
Cast Of 'The Brontes' Is To
Include Leontovitch And
Elizabeth Risdon
The complete schedule of plays
and artists for the 1934 annuall
Spring Dramatic Season was revealed
today by Robert Henderson, director,
after official permission was granted
in a lengthy session. with the Uni-
versity and civic committees.
With two exceptios, the stars of
the 1934 season will ,be new to the
Ann Arbor drama s son audiences.
Headliners for the eason are Ma-
dame Eugenie Leon ovitch, star of
the original stage , production of
"Grand Hotel," and ian Keith, stage
and screen star who recently ap-
peared as the Lord Treasurer in
Greta Garbo's starring vehicle,
"Queen Christina."
Mr. Keith will be cast in the title
role in an elaborate production of
Shakespeare's "Macbeth." He has
been granted special permission to
leave work on Cecil B. DeMille's film
production of "Cleopatra," starring
Claudette Colbert, to appear at the
Dramatic Season. The role of Lady
Macbeth has not beei cast yet, Hen-
derson said. "Macbeth" will be the
fifth play of the season, and wil run
for eight performanes beginning9
June 5.
Opens Mayx,14
The Season will opei May 14, im-
mediately following the five-week
Dramatic Festival in Milwaukee, with
the American premiere production of
Alfred Sangster's "The Brontes." The
cast will include Elizabeth Risdon of
the New York Theatre Guild, Violet
Kemble-Cooper, long cown to Ann
Arbor audiences, and Audrey Ridge-
well as the three Bronte sisters. Eu-
gene Powers will play the part of
their father, the Rev. Patrick.Bronte.
Following "The Brontes," Madame
Leontovitch will be presented in
James Fagin's comedy of the Res-
toration, "And So To Bed," with
Rollo Peters as Samuel Pepys. Also
in the cast will be Roberta Beatty,
Edward Marshall, and Ludmilla Es-
meralda, who were all members of
the New York production.
The third production will be Keith
Winter's current New York play,
"The Shining Hour," with the stage
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Dr. Petersen
Says Weather
Affects Health
Starting with the ancient belief of
Hippocrates that the weather has an
important effect upon health, Dr.
William F. Petersen, professor of
pathology and bacteriology at the
University of Illinois medical school
advanced the theory along altogether
new lines in a lecture at 4:15 p.m.
yesterday in Natural Science Audi-
torium.
Using slides, the physician stated
that unsettled weather conditions are

to a large extent influential in the
cause of disease. "In the spring of
the year," he said, "our every or-
ganism is striving to acclimate itself
to the change of.the seasons, and as
a result, we are much more suscep-
tible to disorders."
Dr. Petersen said that the death
rate is lowest in the comparatively
calm weather of July and August. By
the use of charts he showed that
there were more than twice as many
"sudden deaths" in March as in Au-
gust.
Dr. Peterson said that meteorolog-
ical conditions have a great influence
on child birth. He stated that mal-
formations at birth are due to un-
settled weather. Pointing to charts,
he showed that by far more deformed
children are born in the North and
East, where weather conditions are
turbulent and storms are prevalent,
than in the South and Southwest.
Dr. Peterson spoke here on the in-
vitation of Alpha Omega Alpha, hon-
orary medical fraternity. He was in-
troduced by Dr. J. Udo Wile of the
University of Michigan medical
school.

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Kirby Pag
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Speakers

Sixty Per Cent Of Women Are
Found Opposed To Hell-Week i
By ELEANOR BLUM houses enforcing work on the pledges
Of 33 women questioned at ran- which involved physical labor to
dom recently on the Hell-Week ques- which they were unaccustomed. "Only
tion, 20 were absolutely against it, over-fatigue and a weakened phys-
three felt that it should be modified Weal condition can result when Hell-
eight were in favor of it and "one( Week is carried to the extreme which
eigh wee i faor o itandoneit now is in many houses," she stated.
was indifferent. This was the result ice Morgan, pres," eta
of only a brief survey, taken from no Alice Morgan, president of Delta
particular group on campus. Gamma, Sue Calcutt, prominent jun-
Betty Aigler '35 president of ior, and Mary Sabin, junior member
Panhellenic, in supporting the con- of Judiciary Council, all agreed that
Pahennic in shuporting h cnon- the only purpose of Hell-Week was to
tendons of the 60 per cent who op- get the pledges better acquainted, and
posed Hell-Week, condemned the sys- that many houses carried their meth-
tem as giving the pledges a warped ods to extreme.
idea of sorority life. "Hell-Week" Entire abolition of the system as
tends to subordinate the ideals and out-worn was thenrecommendation of
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FERA Projects Give Work To
752 Students As Quota Is Filled