THE MICHIGAN DAILY TiiThi3;AY, MARCid 15139 Students Favor Flight Course Offered Here Michigan Students Enter Fourth Highest Number Of Training Requests The University's flight training course ranked fourth in the number of students who applied for mem- bership and third in the total flying time logged, among the 13 college courses sponsored by the Civil Aero- nautical Authority, according to fig- ures which that body released yes- terday. The University of Alabama, with 1,200 applicants, led in the number of students applying. Also ahead of Michigan, which had 153, were the Georgia School of Technology, Kan- sas University, and Purdue Univer- sity. Bringing up the rear was North Carolina State College, where only 35 students applied for admission to the course. In the air, Purdue University got off to an early start, and the report disclosed that they had amassed a total of 517 hours flying time. The University of Alabama was second with 30 hours in the air, and the University of Michigan followed with 8 hours logged. At tl same time, the CAA an- nounced that the Ann Arbor Air Service has covered their equipment and personnel with $5,000 property damage and $10,000 to $20,000 pub- lic liability insurance. The course operators were instruct- ed by the CAA not to proceed at too rapid a pace. "Students must not re- ceive more than one-half hour in- struction in any one flight period," the CAA notice said. Attention was also called to the regtilation specify- ing that "no instructor shall give more than 6 hours of dual flying in- struction in any one day, nor more than 6 days of such instruction in any 7 consecutive days." In order to keep in closer contact with the progress of the prospective pilots, the CAA asked that the stu- dent's flight record form be sent to them upon the completion of each stage.j Jackson Worker Invents Automatic Waffle Iron E. J. Dunley, local maintenance worker at the Jackson prison has invented a waffle iron with an auto- matic pouring ejecting device. The new iron will eliminate many, diffi- culties experienced by novice waffle makers in pouring and removing the waffle, according to the inventor. Dunley is also the inventor of an electrified bedspring, designed to electrocute insects. Story Of Ancient Ashurbanipal Recouittid On Angel l all Slabs Spivak ExposeS N t i E1iioIIa ge [a-nied Lcturer Attacks Propaganda Work University Hospital's Facilities Coer Wide Ad Varied Range Piety, Might And Learning Dominated Old Assyrian Ruler, Says Waterman By RICHARD HARMEL The tale of the all-powerful mon- arch Ashurbanipal who cut off thej heads of his enemies is told in the inscription on a skillfully chiseled Assyrian slab, now on exhibition in 2029 Angell Hall, according to Prof. Leroy Waterman, chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages. Anicient P~raye.r Slob Ashurbanipal, the last great Assy- rian king, reigned in the 7th cen- tury B.C., Professor Waterman said. He was feared by his enemies as aI mighty conqueror, respected by hi§ people as a patron of the arts and admired by his priests for his piety. In keeping with this renowned piety, Ashurbanipal had prayers to his favorite deity inscribed on lime- stone plaques one and one-half to two feet square. These were placed on the walls of his palace in Nineveh in much the same fashion as mem- orial tablets. The limcstone prayer plaque on exhibition, one of th r five in exis- tence, to the God of writing, is ap- proximately 18 inches square and two, inches thick and has chiseled cuneiform characters. Despite its great age and the disintegrationI caused by time, the inscription is re- markably well preserved. Its trans- lation made by Professor Waterman, is as follows: "To the God Nebo (god of writ- ing), the exalted lord, who dwells in the temple of Ezida, which is Niie- veh, the object of whose care and the solicitude of whose great divinity is. Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria. With the aid of his 'ivine assistance and strengthened by his all powerful word I waged successful battle and cut off the head of Teuman, king of the land of 'Elam; by his great command my hands captured Ummanigash, Tam- maritu Pi'e (and) Ummanaldash, who exercised the dominion over Elam after Teumman, and to the carriage of state, the chariot of my royalty, I harnessed them; and as sovereign by means of his powerful assistance, I established the decree Dean Griffin To Discuss Business Problems Today' Dean Clare t. Griffin of the School of Business Administration will speak on "Problems In Business Today" at the weekly vocational coffee hour to be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the small ballroom of the Union. Dean Griffin's talk will be one of a long series sponsored by the Union during the current school year. An ancient Assyrian slab, on which the great King Ashurbani- pal had chiseled a prayer to Nebo, the God of Writing, is now on ex- hibition in 2029 Angell Hall. The slab is one of five in the world and is indicative of Ashurbanipal's piety. of the realm throughout all the lands. "At that time' with great blocks ofj limestone, I enlarged the structure of the temple of Nebo my lord. As an, eternal habitation of Nebo joyously; I beheld it. May it be acceptable in thy sight (0 Lord). By thy mightyI power may thy unchanging decree, for a long life of distant days go forth from thy lips on my bdhalf. My feet shall tread the way to thy temple of Ezida. In the presenceof thy Divinity may they attain the alloted goal of age." Cissel To Discuss Mackinac Bridge Prof. JamesH. Cissel of the engi- neering school will speak at a meet- ing of the '35 Engineers Club in De- troit today, on "Recent Developments in the Proposed Mackinac Strait Bridge." Robert O. Morgan, assistant secretary of the Alumni Association, will also attend. The bridge, which will connect up- per and lower Michigan from Macki- naw City to St. Ignace, is as yet only in the formative stage of planning. Plans for it are being aided by a government grant. The meeting is the second in a new series called by the '35 Engineers Club this year. (Continued from Page 1) Navy Yard and questioned briefly by the Dies Committee. The men had I been to Germany, two of them ad- mitted keeping blue prints of United States ships over night. After being questioned the men were told to tell no one of the incident and nothing more was ever heard of the case. The Dies Committee has in its files seven letters showing Nazi propagan- da activities here, that James True, author of the letter to Allen is work- ing with them, and their former chief investigator Edward Sullivan, who had worked closely with Nazi agents, was removed only after public opinion made it a necessity, Spivak pointed out. Japan Menaces Panama, The Panama Canal, this "country's life line" for trade and military de- fense, has long been a subject of con- rn for Japan, and at present Italy and Germany are cooperating with her, Spivak pointed out. Japanese "fishing" boats are operating near San Diego, a vital military base, he said. These fishing boats, he ex- plained, have steel hulls, a place for machine guns and are equipped with radios and more important, they "don't fish." Their fishing lines, ac- cording to Spivak, are well suited for measuring the depth of water and discovering how near to shore boats may safely go. Actions Are Stereotyped Nazi activities follow a ,et pattern, Spivak stated, a pattern which was used in Austria and Czechoslovakia and which is now being used in Mexi- co, the South American countries and the United States. Bunds are estab- lished, propaganda spread, and when the organizations are strong enough, secret armies are .organized. It is up to the American people, he concluded, to put pressure on the Dies Commit- tee to investigate these activities here and to spread American propa- ganda to counteract the effect of the anti-democratic sentiments aroused by the fascists. Applications for membership in the American Student Union, which were handed out at the meeting, may be turned in at a desk in the South Lounge of the Union from 4 to 6 p.m. today, Ruth Horland, '39, membership chairman, said last night. Faculty Shows Increase There are 778 persons on the Uni- versity of Michigan faculty with the rank of instructor or over, the 1937-38 President's Report shows. This is an increase of three per cent over last year. By MORT LINDERr The University Hospital, sixth largest in the country, may well be called an hotel manager's fondest dream . . . with every room an outside room construction started in 1920, legislative tie-ups necessitating a waitl until 1925 before completion . . . total cost almost four million dollars . . . latest addition: $400,000 neuro-psychiatric clinic recently opened . . . most distinguished patient: former Gov. Frank Murphy, here for observation several times last year . . . listed by American Medical Association as finest collegiate institution of its kind in the country . . . took three million bricks, 37,800 cubic yards of concrete and limestone, and over 1,200 tons of reenforcing steel . . . one of few existent buildings able to boast of vary- ing numbers of stories, dependent upon vantage point: six stories of building proper, but nine floors are visible from the north side and 10 stories dis- cernible on edge of "Sleepy Hollow" . . . roof contains well-equipped chil- dren's playground . . . total beds: 1100, including various annexes-, facilities available to physicians throughout entire state, who may refer patients for examination and treatment. Nazis To Restrict Universities To Party Youth, Writer Asserts (Editor's Note: This is the first of a Extending even to the university series of articles on German universi- ties under Hitlerism, as affected by last calendar, the order provided for com- week's educational decrees.) pulsory education in government, war- By LEONARD SCHLEIDER fare and "defense economy" during Brink Elected FlyingOf ficer Local Club Head Honored By National Conference Glenn Brink, '39E, was elected sec- retary of the National Intercollegiate Flying Chib, it was announced last night at a meeting of the University Flying Club, which Brink headed for four years. Both Brink and this year's Presi- dent, Edward Martin, '41E, plan on flying to the Fifth National Intercol- legiate Flying Conference to be held March 20-21, in Washingon, D.C. Among the speakers at that meeting will be Col. Floyd Evans, Director of Aviation of the State of Michigan. Members of the club flew a total of 951 hours the past year, according to the annual report. Although this figure was slightly under that of the previous year, Martin said that it gave the organization a chance to win the Loring trophy which is award- ed that group which shows the most flying hours and the best results in the yearly Intercollegiate Flying Meet, in which Michigan placed sec- ond. A practice flying meet at the Ann Arbor Airport was announced for March 27 in order to prepare for inter- collegiate contests scheduled with Purdue University, Kenyon College and Wayne University. will place themselves in the service of the people or they will disappear," Dr. Scheel's statement continued. He called for increased nationalistic feel- ing not only among students but also among alumni. Then, as if admitting that Nazi attempts to dictate what Germany's youth will think had failed, he demanded closer supervision of all educational institutions throughout Greater Germany. "Until now all a student has needed to enter a university has been an Aryan grandmother and his second- ary school diploma," Dr. Scheel went on. "In the future, entrance to a university will be possible only through selection by the Party acting through its student organizations." 4 Complete liquidation of the past survivals of old Germany in the uni- versities of the Third Reich was in- dicated last week by the Education Ministry's announcement that in the future institutions of higher educa- tion would accept only students selec- ted by the National Socialist Party. At the same time, according to the New York Herald-Tribune, Dr. Gus- tave Scheel, Reich Student Leader, called for "a new type of student who will be worlds removed from the earli- er dishrag intellectual." Observers in- terpret "dishrag" as meaning the non-political, pacifistic student of former days. Similar in intent to last year's "bloodless purge" of army moderates, the Ministry decree will remove the last vestiges of independence which the universities have managed to re- tain. Foreign correspondents view this move as further evidence of the desire of Germany's leaders to create a limited elite within the structure of the already festricted National Social- ist Party. vacation periods, the Herald-TribuneI reported. Heretofore considered un- hangeable, vacation periods will be reduced to only two, Whitsun and Christmas, and undeniable confession that the policy of racial purity has created a serious shortage of trained officials. School sessions will last al- most twelve months with vacation periods devoted to intensified train- ing of the dictators of the future. "Either the Gexman universities SPECIAL! MOTOR TUNE- UP Call or Phone for an Appointment. 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