I 4 Wyeather Cloudy, possibly snow; rising temperature tomorrow. Y k iga I it Editorial Consider Cost Of Your Irresponsibilities . VOL. L. No. 96 Z-323 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEB. 16, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS Crisler Lauds Intercollegiate Sports; Denies Overemphasis Admits Athletics Are No Perfect, But Supports GeneralCollege Setup Faults 'In Minority,' Football Coaeh Says Intercollegiate football received a sound thump on the back here yes- terday from Herbert Orrin Crisler, Michigan's head football coach. The Michigan mentor, admitting that there are some imperfections in scholastic athletics, insisted that they are "far in the minority" and that we should fight "everlastingly" to preserve our present opportuni- ties for physical education. "We who are vitally interested in college athletics realize that they have not been perfect," Crisler said, "Nevertheless I venture to concie that out of some thousand colleges and universities in our country there are not more, than a dozen where athletics have been over emphasized sized." Crisler Reflects Definition Crisler neglected to define what he considers to be "over emphasis," and he did not speak at any time in direct reference to the situation at the University. His statements are published in the current issue of the Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Re- view. Although he does not identify the evils which he admits have become associated with football in "not more than a dozen colleges,"- Crisler Stressed that athletics in general are contributing greatly to the educa- tional success of all universities. Athletics replace uncivilized, bar- barianeactivities, he explains, and train human mental reactions so that they assume a wholesome rela- tion to our social needs and ideals. "The very war dogs of a man's be- ing are aroused and at the same time controlled by athletics," Crisler de- clared. "Emotional strength is de- veloped, made obedient to the leash. Praises Athletics "There is nothing better than ath- letics to prepare the individual for the ultimate crises of life," he ob- served. Crisler draws an analogy between the men who would eliminate foot- ball because it is sometimes abused, and the trainer who would shoot his dog because he has mange. "I con- tend that, inescapably, there is evil connected with every thing good and wholesome," he added. He attacks suggestions that Ameri- can colleges should adopt an Eng- lish style of athletic program. "The sports of different races and people reflect the characteristics, impulses, ambitions, and emotions of each," he argues.. IFC Changes p lotI IW RI110o Paths Supplant Sidewalks On Campus - Daily Photo by Bogle. Paths like the one pictured above are causing sleepless nights for the buildings and grounds depalrtment these days, for they're to be found all over campus. Although the University will be forced to go to great expense, come spring, to repair damages so wrought to the turf, these amateur-blazed trails are quite ingenious affairs as the great number of students who use them can testify. They also prove, no doubt, that it is unnecessary to clear the regular walks-few use them. Improved Reading For Students Is Aim Of SpecialCourse Here 8 Freshmen Win Awards In Hopwoods Prose Narrative, Essay Prizes Go To An All-A Coed, Margaret A. Avery Lion's Share Goes To Ann Arborites Margaret A. Avery, all-A student from Ann Arbor, yesterday received first place awards in the essay and prose narrative divisions of the Avery and Jule Hopwood literary competi- tion for freshmen. Three hundred dollars in prizes were divided' among eight winners in the annual contest. Miss Avery will receive $100 for her double victory. First place winners received $50, sec- ond place $30, and third place $20. Hopwood Is Donor The contests were made possible by Avery Hopwood, American dramatist and alumnus of the University, who left part of his estate to be given away each year to "students who perform the best creative work in lit- erary fields." Freshmen submitted their manu- scripts in January. Contests for up- perclassmen will be held in the spring. Only students regularly en- rolled in the University are eligible to compete. Five of the nine prizes went to Ann Arbor residents. Miss Avery, John C; Purdue, and Thomas G. Gies, all of Ann Arbor, won in the essay class; and Miss Avery and Marjorie P. Mul- lin, of Ann Arbor, received prizes for their narrative prose. Freshmen Winners Freshmen winners are: Essay: Margaret A. Avery, Ann Ar- bor; John C. Purdue, Ann Arbor; Thomas G. Gies, Ann Arbor. Prose: Margaret A. Avery, Ann Arbor; Marjorie P. Mullin, Ann Ar- bor; Gerald E Davidson, Detroit-. Poetry: Alvin L. Ureles, Rochester, N.Y.; Carol J. Bundy, Cranford, N.Y.; Howard I. Moss, New York City. E To Speak On Religion I, Attempt To Solve Problem Of Classroom Failures To BeginThis Saturday By PAUL CHANDLER An ultra-modern motion picture technique will be used here this se- mester by University educational scientists in an attempt to solve the study problems of college students. The new program is designed to improve habits of reading-one of the important reasons for student failure in classrooms. Presented on a voluntary and non- credit basis, the work will begin Sat- urday afternoon when a reading aptitude examination will be given in Natural Science auditorium at 2 p.m. Andemon Is Administrator Dr. Irving H. Anderson, of the education school, is administering the new course. Although the examina- tion on Saturday is voluntary, it will be required of every freshman en- tering the University in September, 1940. Reading treatment will 'then be offered to men and women who need it. Invented in part by Dr. Anderson, the motion picture which will be used along with other methods here this year has produced remarkable results both in laboratory experi- ments and in actual use at Harvard University. Schedule To Be Arranged No schedule of classes has yet been arranged for this semester, but D, Anderson announced yesterday that he would complete arrangements this week. Classes will be held in the University high school building. The motion picture treatment which will be given students will be a "flash" method of presenting parts" of sentences over and down a screen. These "flashes" will consist of units of words from a paragraph of read- zf. alternate leaps and pauses. Good readers make relatively few pauses per line while poor readers make many. The films intend to improve reading ability by controlling the number of eye pauses. Dr. Anderson's technique consists of presenting the units in two ways: "discreetely" and "continuously." In (Continued on Page 2) Michigan Tech Blea-ts Puecmen In Final Period Wolverines Are Whipped, 1-0, As Petaja Scores In Last Four Minutes (Special To The Daily) HOUGHTON, Feb. 16.-Michigan's chance to emerge from its hockey' slump was shattered here tonight when Michigan Tech handed the Wol- verines a 1 to 0 defeat. The game was decided when wingman Bob Pet- aja scored for Tech with less than four minutes of the third pw-iod re- maining. The game was the first of a series of two, Michigan will clash with Tech again Saturday night, and was one of the features of Michigan Tech's colorful Winter Carnival program. A crowd of 1,400 watched the rival pucksters check all scoring attempts during the evening in a fast and aggressive game. The winning goal by Petaja was a back handed shot from scrimmage. The Tech wingman hit pay dirt when his effort from a scrimmage directly in front of the Wolverine net slipped past Goalie "Spike" James. * * * Prof. Carlson To Open SRA Series Today Chicago Expert To Discuss Scientific Observations Of Religious Beliefs Attention of the campus will be focused on the questions of religion when Prof. Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago's physiology department delivers the first lecture of the new Student Religious Asso- ciation series at 8 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Presenting the viewpoint of a scien- tist toward religion, Professor Carl- son will discuss the question on which three other speakers will later deliver opposing oinions-"The Existence and Nature of Religion." Professor Carlson, Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, in his lecture as in his writings, is critical toward institutionalized, ritualistic religion and holds that ultimately, everything can be explained by science. A former president of the Ameri- can Association of University Pro- fessors and a member of the National Academy of Science, he has been called an "anti-supernaturalist," al- though he holds ethics to be of the highest importance. The new series of lectures has been designed by the SRA to supplement last year's talk on "The Existence and Nature of God," discussed by Bertrand Russell, Msgr. Fulton Sheen and Reinhold Niebuhr. The lecture, free to the public, will be discussed by Prof. Raphael Isaacs of the medical school at 8 p.m. Tuesday in a forum at Lane Hall. Publisher Gets Post On Board W. W. McCall To Succeed Stuart H. Perry W. Webb McCall, publisher of the Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Times-News, has been appointed to the Board in Con- trol of Student Publications, it was announced yesterday by University olicials. An alumnus of the University, and President of the University Press Club of Michigan, Mr. McCall will succeed Stuart 1H. Perry, publisher of the Adrian Telegram, as a member of the organization. Mr. Perry re- signed last spring. Mr. McCall lectured on the Uni- versity campus last spring in a series of talks presented by the journalism department Finnish Retreats Reported; Soviet Assault Continues 1915 Triumph Is Celebrated By Pa'wlowski Twenty-five years ago the Uni- versity offered its first course in aeronautical engineering-and Prof. Felix W. Pawlowski, who today is Michigan's outstanding aviation scientist, delivered the first lecture. Professor Pawlowski celebrated the silver anniversary here yesterday. It was on Feb. 15, 1915, that the first aeronautical class met, but "1awlow- ski was able to teach it only after a hard battle convincing University of- ficials in all parts of the country that aeronautical engineering should be taught in college classrooms. He approached 18 different schools and colleges before he was able to convince Prof. Mortimer E. Cooley, dean of the engineering college, that his plan was worthwhile. Cooley was impressed with the idea, and first hired Pawlowski to teach me- chanical engineering. Later the avi- ation course was adopted, and today it is one of the leading departments of the entire college. Commissioners Vote To Oppose 'Orphan Roads' County Road Men Object To rMaintenance Load Imposed By The State Michigan county road commission- ers in session at the twenty-fifth Michigan Highway Conference in the Union yesterday resolved to fight the attempt of the State Highway De- partment to burden counties with the maintenance of "orphaned roads." In a resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the Association of Road Commissioners, the establish- ment of a special committee to con- fer with the State Highway Depart- ment was approved. Frank N. Smith, retiring president of the association, instructed the committee to employ legal counsel in behalf of any county against which court action is brought by the State Highway Department on the status of trunk-line roads turned over to the counties by the State. In a statement issued last night, Murray D. Van Wagoner, state high way commissioner, declared that the "attorney general's office will repre- sent the state in seeking a declara- tory judgment in the courts." "The State Highway Department," he con- tinued, "is anxious for an early deci- sion fixing the responsibility concern- ing the cancelled trunk-lines." Speaking at the annual conference dinner in the Union ballroom, Van Wagoner paid tribute to the founder members of the conference and laud- ed the achievements of the conference during its twenty-five years of service to the state. Engineering problems involved in (Continued on Page 2) A. - ui : G A I CU' O ing matter, and the images will be The low score 01 the game was due exposed consecutively until the read- largely to the excellent work on the For Freshm en er has seen the entire story or article, part of the rival goalies. "Spike" The texts are taken from school James turned in a brilliant perform- books, novels and other standard ance for Michigan at the net, check- Rules covering eligibility and status works. ink numerous scoring threats and of fraternity pledges were changed at The method is based on the theory holding Tech at bay until the final the last meeting of the Interfraternity that the eyes, while reading, do not moments of the third period. Fred Council with the result that pledges move across the page in a contin- Meyers also chalked up a creditable are not, as heretofore, automatically uous sweep but proceed in a series of (Continued on Page 31 depledged at the end of the first semester if they fail to attain a C average. Five Thousand Hear Eve Curie Further rule changes clarify what constitutes eligibility if a pledge Tell Parents', Radiu n's Story should have less than 14 hours credit. The effect of the new rules is to make a better-than-C average necessary By LEONARD SCHLEIDER poverty, my mother always called her for eligibility with credit hours less Five thousand persons in Hill Audi- early struggles the happiest part of han m4.y torium last night heard Mlle. Eve her life," Mlle. Curie averred. terday by Tom Adams, '40, president Curie sketch the life stories of her CAfter their marriagelin 1895, the of the Council, are as follows: celebrated parents, Marie and Pierre Chestworked separatly-Pierre on a Cuie, o-dicovrersof mn's ostthe structure of crystals; Marie on "To be eligible for initiation, a Curie, co-discoverers of man's most the new-found element of uranium, pledge must have received a C aver- precious element, radium. studying its "radio-activity." Their age in the semester in which he was The famed Frenchwoman, author first daughter, Irene, was born in pledged. A minimum of 11 hours and actress, told of the simplicity of 1897, later to be the family's third and 25 honor points is necessary, with her mother's life, of her father's devo- Nobel Prize winner. the following requisites for hours tion to his research and of the humble Collaborating "perfectly" for the credit up to 15. Twelve hours-26 conditions under which they worked. first time, her parents isolated an en- honor points, 13 hours-27 points, "But hard as the fight was, my par- tirely new radioactive element, radi- 14 hours-28 points, and 15 hours- ents were bolstered by.the greatest um. Still poor, they separated a few 30 points. allies people can have-enthusiasm, grains of radium in a ramshackle' "Depledging shall not be compul- energy and love," Mlle. Curie, now laboratory from a ton of pitchblende sory for scholastic reasons at the end director of women's activities for the sold to them as waste. It took 45 of the first semester provided the French ministry of information, said months to complete the process, Mlle. i f ° Still They Come The Ice Carnival, The Silver Dollar Latest twist to Ice Carnival build ups is that tickets purchased with sil- ver dollars may be obtained at a lower price than those purchased with other types of money, the quoted reason being to "corner Ann Arbor's silver exchange," according to Charles Hein- en, '41E, general chairman of the Ice Carnival. That there will be an actual Silver King was also revealed. He will par- ade about, giving out free tickets here and there on the campus, amply dis- guised with the cotton whiskers of his profession. The Carnival will be held next Friday in the Coliseum, -and will feature performances by members of a Detroit Skating Club and two soloists from Ann Arbor. Coleman Talks To Liberal Club, State-Owned Electricity Considered Necessary "When we have 'democratized' our electric power systems by state-in- tegrated ownership of these utilities, we will have taken a long and great step toward economic freedom and genuine democracy." Thus did McAlister Coleman, utili- ties authority and economist, crystal- lize the thesis of his talk, sponsored by the Liberal Action Club, on "Elec- tricity's New Frontiers," at 4:15 p.m. yesterday in Natural Science Auditor- ium. The talk was the first in a series of five lectures under the auspices of the club. Maintaining that "we should use electricity as freely as we use water" and that the rates charged by private companies are excessive, Coleman predicted "progress toward public ownership ofgthe power companies." He based his prediction on the "facts that regulation of the utilities has completely broken down, and that the industries' technological advances to- gether with enlightened governmental nl inut fi- fl fhP *1 flt-fl f - + n r i.A ' A Russian Casualties Mount In 15th Day of Attack On Mannerheim Line Older Men Called To Finland's Army (By The Associated Press) Russians stumbled over mounting piles of their own dead yesterday in the fifteenth day of their battering ram assaults on the Mannerheim Line which the Finns insisted still re- mained intact. A British news agency (Reuters), however, declared the Finns had been forced to retire from their first line positions at several places on the Sum-, ma sector of the line. The precarious predicament of the stubborn Finns, who said their own losses were "phenomenally low," was emphasized by the second call with- in two days for older men to take up arms. Finns Report Few Losses The Finns, who reported that the Red Army poured 20,000 artillery shells into their positions within a single hour, said no man's land was "literally carpeted with Russian dead." As usual, the Finns made no mention of their own casualties but said 4,000 Russians were killed yes- terday alone on the various fronts. While the greatest battle since the World War raged in Finland and the Allied-German war continued active at sea but stalemated on land, Presi- dent Roosevelt sailed into the Gulf of Mexico amidst great speculation over whether his voyage, billed as a fishing trip, might actually turn out to be a rendezvous with spokesmen of Britain, France and Italy. The help which Britain promised Finland took on the aspect of an un- official expeditionary force when a small army of volunteers, including men in the uniforms of both the Canadian and British armies, besieged Finnish recruiting bureaus in London. British State Rules London authorities pointed out there was nothing to prevent any soldier on leave from volunteering for service in Finland, but it did not mean he would be permitted to 'transfer from British forces. An authoritative British spokesman hinted, however, that none of the vol- unteers were likely to encounter seri- ous difficulties unless they had spe- cial qualifications for a part in Bri- tain's own war effort. Unofficial sources in Scandinavia said likewise that the volunteers prob- ably would have no difficulty in trav- eling to Finland through the Scandi- navian countries. Rentschler Dies At Home Here Well-Known Photographer Was Ill Two Years J. Fred Rentschler, nationally known photographer who had made pictures of hundreds of University men and women, died early yesterday at his home on E. Huron Street after an illness of two years. Mr. Rentschler was a distinguished campus photographer through a span of years that began with the reign of President Angell. He has made portraits of five University presi- dents. In addition to his photographic work, Mr. Rentschler served on the Boardsof Public Works for 20 years. He was born June 3, 1868 in Ann Arbor. He is survived -by his' wife, the former Jessie Doane of Dexter; a son, Edwin D. of Ann Arbor; two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Francis of De- troit and Mrs. Malcolm McCort of Coldwater; a grandson, a brother and two sisters. Art Cinema To Give Double Feature Here Art Cinema League's first excursion into the double-feature field gets under way at 8:15 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre with the nresentation of World Picture's "Mar- Jackson Confirms Knox's Charge Of UnjustAction In FBI Raids Coincidence struck last night when Rev. Owen A. Knox told more than 300 persons who attended the rally in defense of civil liberties, that the FBI raids in Detroit were unjust,' partial, unconstitutional and a clear case of denial of civil liberties against minority progressive groups in the United States. As soon as Reverend Knox had concluded his talk, one of the stu- dents brought in a Detroit newspaper which bore the headline: "U.S. Drops Recruiting Cases." In his statement to the press, Attorney-General Jack- son said, "Even handed and im- partial justice would not localize prosecutions of this character to De- troit nor confine them to only one side of the Spanish War, nor even to the Spanish War itself." urged the audience to withold judg- ment until the 11 men and one wom- an are actually walking in the streets of Detroit as free citizens. In discussing the FBI raids, Rev- erend Knox said, it is essential that three things be questioned in regard to the motive of these raids. Is this incident an isolated affair or is it the first in a series that would repeat the Palmer raids which followed the last World War? It is doubtful, he said, that 100 G-men have come to De- troit merely to pick up a dozen per- sons. It could also be asked, he said, whether this raid was made with the purpose of stirring up war hysteria and increasing war tension. There is some question about the role of the FBI in these raids, Reverend Knox stated Tt is nosihe he said.