THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Damage Extensive In Fraternity Fire
Causative
Factors
Agricultural Problem Are Presented
Flames razed the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity at 4 a.m. yesterday.
Photograph shows gutted interior of the house. Damage was estimated
at more than $26,000.
Book On Theoretical Mechanics
Is Written By Mathematician
Mechanics, from the theoretical
rather ;7nan the practical point ofj
view, is the subject of a boolz by Prof.
Carl J. Coe of the mathematics de-
partment, recently published by the
MacMillan Company of New York.
Dr.Coe's book, entitled "Theoreti-
cal Mechanics," runs to 555 pages
and includes problems and answers
on the subjects discussed. It is the
result of eight years of writing, re-
vision and testing through class-
room use. At the present time Dr.
Coe uses the book as a text for his
Mathematics 141 and 142 classes.
Adopting the postulates of Eucli-'
dean geometry and Newton's Laws of
Motion as a set of postulates for me-
chanics, Dr. Coe proceeds to discuss
the rectilinear motion of a particle in
terms of scalar quantities. He then
introduces vector algebra and applies
it to euclidean and analytic geome-
try, proceeding to explain the vector
function of a scalar, and using this
to treat the curvilinear motion of a
particle and the displacement and
motion of a rigid body. A study of
sliding vectors prepares the reader
for a discussion of the statics of par-
ticles, of rigid bodies and the flexible
cord.
The Principle of Virtual Work, the
kinetics of particles and of the rigid
body and the use of the linear vector
function are taken up in succeeding
chapters. Dr. Coe then sets forth
several sets of . alternative sets of
postulates on which mechanics can be
founded. The book ends with a dis-
cussion of vector calculus and an ex-
position of potential theory.
For complete understanding of the
volume, Dr. Coe recommends a year's
study of calculus, and preferably,
though not necessarily, knowledge of
differential equations.
Eriksen Added To Board
Prof. Edward L. Eriksen of t1ie
engineering mechanics department
was appointed to the Consumers
Power Co. board of arbitration over
vacation. He replaces K. A. Ferrell
and will take part in the adjustment
of power rates for Flint.
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concessions from the national govern-
ment. The first result of this struggle
was the awakening of the political
consciousness of the farmers. An
election became as important in their
lives as sunshine and rain. They or-
ganized grange movements, kept lob-
bies in Washington and, in general,
for a long time raised the only pro-
tests against the processes of mono-
poly controls.
It was a long and sincere protest,
but it was a futile one. The Populists
drafted resolution after resolution to
no apparent avail. They fought the
extension of government aid to the
railroads, but the Iron Horse, driven
by a paternalistic government, pushed
his way across the continent. They
cried loudly that the protective tar-
iff would kill American agriculture,
yet the duties on imported goods
kept rising to greater and dizzier
heights, reaching their glorious cul-
mination in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Act.
In regard to the economic develop-
ment of American agriculture the first
fact to be noted is that agricultural
policy in this country, until the past
decade or so, has not been character-
ized by any sort of definite informa-
tion. In consonance with the indus-
trial processes going on at the samej
time, agricultural economics consist-
ed simply of unchecked expansion
and the development of its unexcelled
resources. In the early years of the
nineteenth century Jeffereson wrote:
"In Europe the object is to make the
most of their land, labor being abund-
ant; here it is to make the most of
our labor, land being abundant." And,
as ,Prof. Wilson Gee has indicated,
our public land policy for a century
or more after this utterance was in
line with it, and encouraged to an
extreme degree the element of exten-
siveness in our agriculture.
There is substantial agreement
among economists, however, on the
proposition that American -agricul-
ture, except for the depression in the
early nineties, rather steadily im-
proved its position right up to the
proved its position right up to the
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World War. Although even in this
period it was apparent that farming
could not be kept prosperous without
substantial adjustment to changing
Ionditions in the domestic and world
markets, there did not then seem to_
oe any insuperable difficulties. This
was the period of two-dollar wheat,
seventeen-dollar hogs and twenty-
seven cent cotton. This was the far-
mer's Golden Age, and he was con-
vinced that its glory was eternal.
During the war the process of ag-
ticultural expansion went on at a
heightened speed, and it was only
natural the farmers should continue
the same procedure following the
conflict. And it is to this point that
most of the present difficulties con-
fronting American agriculture can be
traced. The post-war world was one
marked by financial and commercial
disintegration. The war-devastated
countries of Europe "beat their
swords into plowshares" and each of
them set "to the task of making their
economies as self-sufficing as pos-
sible.1
In the space of a few short years
the United States had emerged as the
largest creditor nation in the world.
To meet this situation the federal
government inaugurated a marked
deflationary policy, increasing both
the value of the dollar arid the dif-
Museuim Staff
Tov Assemble
Giant Dinosaur
The skeleton of a huge "duck-
billed" dinosaur that roamed the
swamplands of the earth some 40
million years ago is slowly and pain-
stakingly being removed from its
casing of rock at the University Mu-
seums.
The fossilized bones of this semi-
aquatic reptile were found last sum-
mer in the Fort Peck fossil deposits in
northeastern Montana by a Univer-
sity of Michigan expedition headed by
Prof. E. C. Case, Director of the
Museum of Paleontology.
The expedition spent six weeks in
removing the four tons of stone con-
taining the bones. This material was
then shipped to the University.
The skull of this strange creature
that was mired in the prehistoric
swamp and covered with sediment
which preserved it through the ages
is the first portion of the skeleton to
be chiseled out of the enclosing rock.
It has taken three months to do
this work. William H. Buettner, Mu-
seum preparator, has been grinding
and chiseling at the hard casing sur-
rounding the four foot skull since late
September when the boxes and cases
bringing the material arrived at the
Museum.
The skull, which is nearly clean,
now rests in a work box of sand. Rows
of teeth show clearly along the jaw
bone, and the nasal passage and eye
sockets are easily identified. A close
inspection of the skull :shows that
this huge animal had a very small
brain capacity, scarcely larger than
a man's clenched fist.
ASU Delegates
Attend geng
Fourth Annual Convention
Held In New York City
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resolutions were passed to guarantee
the preservation of democracy in the
school system. The introduction on
college campuses of a "Primer for De-
mocracy" course was advocated. Aca-
demic freedom was urged for stu-
dents and teachers alike, discrimina-
tion because of race, color or creed
deplored, and increased democracy
in determining educational policy ad-
vocated. The NYA was hailed as a
force equalizing educational oppor-
tunities.
Nine points were enumerated as
part of a legislative program "to
meet the needs of the pe6ple as a
whole." These are federal aid to
education, adequate social security
legislation, expansion of the NYA,
federal slum clearance and housing
program, a peace program that will
defend democracy, a federal health
program, defense of the Wagner
Labor Act, security of tenure and
cost of production for the farmer
and anti-lynching legislation.
Nine official delegates attended the
convention from the University and
several other students visited as ob-
servers. The Michigan chapter of
the ASU (the Progressive Club) was
one of three college affiliates to re-
ceive a banner for increased mem-
bership. The chapter here now in-
cluded more than a hundred students.
ficulty of paying debts. The results
are familiar: huge agricultural sur-
pluses piled up, farm prices slumped
precipitously, rural birth rates de-
creased, and while the' rest of the
nation prepared to enter the great-
est flush period in its history, the
farmer was engulfed in 1920, in an
agricultural depression from which
he has not since been able to emerge,
Cercle Francai s
To HoldMee.ing
The Cercle Francais will observe
an old French custom known as the
"Feast of the Three Kings" in its
meeting at 7:30 tonight in room 408
of the Romance Language building,
according to Helen Owston, '39, who
is in charge of the evening's pro-
gram.
The "Fea-it of the Three Kings,"
celebrated by t-' French on Jan. 6
of each year, consists of selecting
three kings by passir , out pieces of
a cake in which the , rings are
buried. The persons findi.; the rings
in their pieces of cake becom: kings.
Following the observance o; the
French custom, the meeting will be
turned over to a discussion of the
present political situation in France.
Ltter Dims ILpes
Of Neafis' Safety
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that all "international" prisoners
were sent to the jail at San Pedro, I
am inclined to agree with the above
assumption. But there is of course
always the{hope that he is "lost" in
some jail or prison hospital and will
turn up with the passage of time. It
is a hope that we can pray to see its
fulfillment; otherwise Ix can only sug-
'gest continued work in demanding a
thorough search of the many Fascist
jails in the hopes of uncovering his
presence."
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English Boot and Shoe Maker
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