THE MICHIG A N DAILY WEMNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936 Michigan Union Life Members Get Gold Pins Seniors Who Have Been In University For Eight Semesters Eligible Life-memberships in the Union may be taken out any time after May 1, Wencel A. Neumann, '36, president of the student organization announced last night. Any senior who has spent eight semesters in the University auto- matically becomes a life member of the Union and those desiring to be- come life members who have not been in the University for that length of time are urged to call at the busi- ness office in the Union and make ar- rangements for such a membership. The life membership costs $40, and each student is given credit when he pays his semester tuition fees for $5 toward the total sum. Those who pay less than the required $40 may take out a membership by paying up the amount lacking to make the $40 total. Others who are now eligible arc urged to call at the Union sometime after May 1 and receive their gold life membership pins as well as the key tags. In commenting about the reasons for becoming life members, Union of- ficials pointed out that especially in the last few years have such mem- berships become more valuable. When returning to the Union on football week-ends or Commencement week, life members are given preference in reserving rooms at vthe Union. At the present time, only life members are allowed rooms at these times. Special rates are available in the Union pool and the bowling alleys for those holding life memberships and admission to the weekly dances is always accorded life members even when the full quota of tickets has been sold. The key tags given all persons tak- ing out life memberships often prove infinitely valuable to their owners, of- ficials pointed out. At one time last year, Neumann said, a bunch of keys with the tag attached was shipped to the Union by some unknown per- son and sent back to their rightful owner who lives in Seattle, Wash. Sociology Trip To Chicago Is Planned May 1 SCA Project Plans Tours To Various Churches And Points Of Interest Several additional features have been added to the itinerary of the SCA sociological field trip to Chicago scheduled for May 1-3, according to an announcement yesterday by Rich- ard Clark, '37, secretary of the or- ganization, who said that the addi- ions were made possible by changing the time of departure from Ann Arbor from 5:20 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. The additions to the tentative itin- erary previously announced include a visit to the Merchandise Mart, a large shopping center similar to Radio City. The student group will go through the National Broadcasting Studios also. Officials in charge of the field trip hope to meet with various "charac- ters" of Chicago's streets. If plans work out, dope addicts, prostitutes, .unemployed, itinerants and fanatics will be asked to talk to the group while at dinner in the Loop. It is hoped that these street characters will present their philosophy of life and their ideas of the world at that time. Friday evening, May 1, the group will spend in some racial center, with trips slated for the notorious "Hell's Half Acre" on the "near north side" of the city, a low class district, where the group will find interest in the people and numerous "dives" in the narrow streets. Sunday, according to plans, the students will visit various churches -the Greek Orthodox, Negro, and old-world Jewish. This sociological trip, the last of the year, has been planned with the co- operation of Prof. Earl S. Johnson of the sociology department of the Uni- versity of Chicago. Ira Latimer of the Chicago Board of Education will assist in conducting the tour. William Wilsnack, '37, president of the SCA, who said that many stu- dents had expressed interesi in the trip, warned that the tour would necessarily have to be limited to 40 persons, and advised all students wishing to go, to pay the 50 cents registration fee at Lane Hall imme- diately. Come In and See Our GIFTS of All Varieties IVORY and WOOD WORK SILK ROBES LINENS Apparatus Being Used To Cure Scadding's Foot -Associated Press Photo. A "glass boot" similar to one shown here was used by physicians in an attempt to save the feet of Charles Alfred Scadding, rescued after being buried alive for 10 days in a Moose River, N. S., gold mine. After using the boot a few days physicians at Halifax, N.S., said Scadding's feet had improved so much that it was hoped surgical interference would be unneecssary. The boot was developed by Dr. Louis S. Herr- mann of Cincinnati as a means of inducing circulation. Tickets may be obtained at the door,_ price $1.25. As arrangements must be made in advance, please notify the secretary, Ralph G. Smith, Pharma- cology Building, if you intend to bej present.1 Owervatory Journal Club will meet at 4:15 Thursday, April 30, in the Ob-! 'ivatory lecture room. Dr. Robley' C. Williams will give a demonstration! talk on a "Vacuum Deposition of1 Mdealli Films." Tea will be served' at 4:09. Junior Mathematical Society will meet Thursday, April 30, 7:30 p.m.,z Room 3201 A. H. Prof. R. L. Wilder, will discuss "The Nature of Mathe- matics." Refreshments. Delta Sigma Rho will hold its thir- tieth anniversary banquet Saturday, May 2, in the Michigan Union. The banquet, starting at 7 p.m., will also be in honor of Professor Trueblood, one of the national founders of the society. Members of any chapter who wish to attend may make their reservations with Sam Travis at the Lawyers' Club. Dinner will be $1.25 and the dress informal. Phi Delta Kappa Initiation Banquet will be given Thursday, April 30, 6 p.m., Union. Prof. A. B. Moehlman will be the speaker, and Prof. George E. Carrothers will be the toastmaster. The Initiation itself will precede the banquet. Aeronautical Engineers: Meeting of the Student Branch of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences on Thursday, April 30, 7:30 p.m., Room 1024 East Engineering Building. The meeting will be a seminar in aircraft structures. All members are urged to attend and to participate in the discussion. Hillel Players: Tryouts for a series of one-act plays will be held at the Hillel Foundation on Thursday, April 30, 3 to 5 p.m. All those interested please be present. Drama Section of the Michigan Dames: Last regular monthly meet- ing Thursday, April 30, at 8 p.m., Michigan League. The play to be read is "Awake and Sing." Mrs. R. Roberton and Mrs. J. H. Gast ire in charge of the meeting. All mem- bers of the Dames that are interested are cordially invited. Doctorsr[o Sturfy how patients look after an accident, y Dr. Max Peet of the Medlical School Traffic A c.detitS who will discuss the treatment for injuries to the head and spinal cord, and Dr. Charles Washburne who will Au open meeting on the causes and speak on first aid in automobile ac- results of automobile accidents, spon- cidents. scred by the Washtenaw County Med- A dinner for doctors will be held ical Society, will be held here on in the Union preceding the open Tuesday, May 12, it was announced meeting which will probably be held yesterday by Dr. John V. Fopeano of in the Union ballroom. the University Health Service, see- _-- retary of the Society. Eye Glass Frames Speakers for the meeting will be Repaired. Lt. Herbert McCaske of the traffic Lenses Ground. division of the Detroit Police Depart- ment who will talk on the causes of HALLER'S Jewelry automobile accidents, Dr. Carl Weller State Street at Liberty of the Medical School who will tell -_ _-- DRUGS KODAKS Brown Says Alcohol Useless For Automobile Motor Fuels Will Result In More Costly' Operation And Wasteful Use Of Resources The blending of agricultural alco- hol with gasoline in motor fuels can only result in more costly operation, considerable marketing and storage difficulties, and generally uneconomic use of natural resources, is the opin- ion of Prof. George G. Brown of the chemical engineering department. In support of his position on a ques- tion which has for the past few years agitated the legislatures of the corn belt states and which was the subject of a symposium conducted by Pro- fessor Brown at a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society in Kansas City, he marshalled a long array of facts on the relative merits of alcohol and straight gasoline as fuels. To begin with, he pointed out, al- cohol has a potential heating value only about two-thirds that of an equal volume of gasoline. Thus in any engine which depends upon the heat liberated from burning the fuel for power, the fuel delivering the largest amount of heat is obviously the fuel able to give the most work. If maximum power requirements are substantially fixed, as in the automo- bile engine, then the higher heating value of the gasoline allows less fuel to be used. Conditions for burning the mix- tures must be properly adjusted to ob- tain greatest power output, Professor Brown remarked in explaining the preceding data. Since alcohol re- quires much less air for complete combustion than does gasoline, car- buretors must be adjusted according- ly. The net effect of the higher pro- portion of alcohol in the combustible mixture is to give very nearly the same power output per unit volume of fuel-air mixture for the two fuels. All other factors being in their best possible condition, he explained, the power developed by an engine de- pends chiefly upon its compression ra- tio. The principal limit upon in- crease in the compression ratio is the degree to which the fuel can be com- pressed without knocking. Therefore the value of a fuel with a high anti- knock rating lies in the latitude it gives motor builders for raising the compression ratio. When full advantage is taken of the compression ratio increase allowed, it' has been found, Professor Brown stated, that the net decrease in motor efficiency amounts to about 2.5 per cent for each 10 per cent of alcohol used. Even when the blend has been run into an engine's fuel tank, the op- erator's difficulties are not over, Pro- fessor Brown warned. Due to alco- hol's increasing the ease with which the fuel will vaporize, a condition known as "vapor lock" may be set up in fuel lines or carburetor, and the engine will stall or fail to start from lack of fuel. Also this tendency of the mixture to vaporize means a larg- er loss in fuel vapor at the carburet- or, thus again increasing consump- tion. Looking at the question from the standpoint of the relative costs of the fuels, Professor Brown remarked that with corn selling at 25 cents a bushel, alcohol of the requisite purity would cost at least 27 cents a gallon accord- ing to Department of Agriculture fig- ures. At the average price of corn from 1920 to 1933, 67 cents per bushel, the alcohol would cost 47 cents a gal- lon. In concluding, Professor Brown pointed out that conversion of corn to alcohol seemed a waste of energy. Some 10 or 12 pounds of coal, as well as the grain, are used in producing a gallon of alcohol, so that the heating value of the original materials is about 4 or 5 times that of the alcohol. Dance Instructioi Begins At League Because of the many requests re- ceived asking for a continuation of the series of dancing lessons at the League, a new sequence will begin to- night. The class will open at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in the ballroom of the League, according to Miss Ethel A. McCormick, social director. The new series will consist of six lessens, to be given for $1.50. Marie Sawyer, '38, and Douglas Gregory, students of Roy Hoyer, local dance in- struictor, will conduct the classes. Sev- eral new ballroom dance steps will be introduced. STUDENT ALLIANCE MEETS There will be a meeting of the Stu- dent Alliance at 7:30 p.m. today in room 323 in the Union. STAMSHIP- TICKETS &Cs* You steamshpO passage to Eurpe. for this coming Spring & Sunmmershould bereserv~ed now. Phone or come in, choose your ship eS as mall deposit will guarantee the .space. If you, find you cannot go. Ive gladly arrange for a ransfer.Ora full retu, rn fdepo t"oney All deais completed he without chaige. "Perona ee n every hooking, since tgt. P. 6412 1 IKESI.ER TRAVEL BUREAU. 601 E. Huron St.. Ann Arbor_ DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 4) Showings at 4, 7 and 9 p.m., Tues- day and Wednesday, April 28 and 29. Admission free to students. Events Of Today Quadrangle Club: Prof. I. L. Sharf- man will speak to the Club this eve- ning on "Economic Control and the Supreme Court." Officers will be elected at this meet- ing. Scabbard and Blade: Regular meet- ing at 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Student Senate: An important meeting of the Committee of Twenty will be held at the Union at 5 p.m. Plans are to made for the next forum. Will the members please notify the secretary if they are unable to be present. Stanley Chorus: Altos meet at 7:15, first sopranos at 8:00, and second so- pranos at 8:40 for tryouts. Everyone: please be on schedule. Contemporary: Tryouts for next year's business staff are to meet at 4:15 p.m. in the Contemporary of- fice, Student Publications Building Contemporary: Luncheon meeting this noon at the Haunted Tavern. Staff members are urged to attend A New Dancing Class is being or- ganized, 7:30 p.m., Michigan LeaguE Ballroom. 6 lessons for $1.50. En- tirely new routines will be taught Open to men and women who can dance. Coming Events Sigma Xi: The Annual Banquet anc Initiation will be held Wednesday May 6, 6:30 p.m., Michigan Union Dr. E. C. MacDowell, of The Carne- gie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. will speak on "Wild Blood Cells.' Today's Special Luncheon CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP i0C MEAT LOAF CREAMED POTATOES BUTTERED PEAS BREAD and BUTTER .COFFEE; TEAor MILK ICE CREAM 35C BEAU BRUMMEL', . It was, perhaps, one of the secrets of this lover that to be a favorite one must treat the women nicely. It still holds true, so, men, bring y/our dates to the Calkins-Fletcher Soda Fountains, between classes, after a dance or show, or at noon. Calkins -Fletcher Drug Stores 324 South State 818 South State CANDY I SODAS t t y 1 , "" .. 1 9 / Q , 1 ' WHAT W-- vo er JD7) TYPEWRITING and MIMEOGRAPHING Promptly and neatly done by experienced operators at mod- erate rates. Student work a specialty for twenty-eight years. 0. D. Morrill 314 South State Street MAKES THE TIRED BUSINESS -MAN THE BUSINESS MAN who sits in a comfortable chair all day, with perhaps little more physical exertion than pushing a button to summon his secretary, may come home at night and say, truthfully, "I'm all tired out. I M. 1 ov-'4 MAY FESTIVAL TICKETS I've had a hard day" The Over-the-Counter Sale of Indi- vidual Concert Tickets will begin Eyestrain is not the only bad result of poor lighting. In addition to the abuse to the eyes, nervous energy is used up needlessly. The student who attempts to read or work under inadequate light may be as fatigued, and may have burned up as much energy as the man who spends a day at hard muscular labor. The new Science of Seeing has shown quite clearly that .it does take energy to see, that seeing consumes energy just as definitely MONDAY, MAY 4th as muscular work, at General Office, School of Music $2.50 -$2.00 - $1.50 - $1.00 Each If you have the right light, you can do better work -faster and more asily -and without the danger of eyestrain. There are no substitutes for the services of an eyesight specialist. But good lighting helps to protect eyes young anc old, good and bad. Be sure your light is right! ! Check it ° 1 {