PAGE TWVO THE MICHIGAN UAILY War Students To Be Aided ByCampus Drive Will Provide Relief For Aliens, Prisoners In Foreign Nations The World Student Service Fund will begin its drive to aid Chinese students, European War students and prisoners and refugees from the war- torn nations on March 17, which has been designated by the W.S.S.F. as "Help a War Student D;ay." Contributors to the fund on this day will receive book-marks as sym- bols of the aid which they have made pogsibe for students in the embattled lands. "Help a War Student Week" has been designated as the period from March 17 to the end of the week. During this period further contribu- tions will be made possible by having banks for money placed around the campus-. Objectives Of Drive One of the principal objectives of the drive is to aid Chinese students who have been forced continually westward in the face of privation in order to continue their education at transplanted universities. Besides the educational difficulties experi- eneed by these student, many of them are in want of the bare neces- sities of living and many have lost their homes and families in the Jap- anese invasions. The plight of the war students of Europe, war prisoners in Europe and Asia and refugee students from for- eign countries in the United States al~d claimns much of the attention of the W.S.S.F. In the case of war pris- ofter., aid is given in the camps in- dependently or with the cooperation of the Y.M.C.A. Prisoners in the camps are in need of recreational ,facilities, medical aid and other nec- essary items. Impartial Distribution The W.S.S.F. administers relief impartially in all the warring nations where it is possible. Prisoners of war and military and civil internees in Germany, England, occupied and un- occupied France, Switzerland, and Australia receive aid from the Fund. Two of the principal obstacles in the way of effective administration of aid by the W.S.S.F. are the possi- bility of duplication of work by simi- lar groups and the limitations on shipping in war-time. The first diffi- culty is being met by clearance and cooperation with the other organi- zations. Rationing Tips Given By State Precious Sugar' Rulings Explained To Buyers LANSING, March 4. -(IP)- If you're as confused as the next fellow about the sugar rationing program which will be administered this month, here are a few clarifying tips from the State Rationing Adminis- tration Office: A mother or father can register for the entire family and obtain a ra- tioning booklet for each member. One adult can go to the store to buy sugar since one shopper may hold the booklets of each person in the household. Parents are charged with the safe- keeping and proper use of their chil- dren's rationing stamps. Each person should keep record of the serial number of his book of ra- tion stamps and the number of his rationing board and must return each book stub to the board before a new one is obtained. The State Rationing Office said that rules just received from the Office of Price Administration warn that because the owner is respon- sible for the use of his book, he should lose no time informing his rationing board if it is lost, destroyed, stolen or mutilated. Each book will contain 28 stamps In making sugar purchases, a single stamp must be torn from the book~ in the presence of the store-keeper clerk or delivery boy, who is subject to penalty if he accepts a stamp which has been torn loose previously The stamps will be honored at any store which handles sugar. Appointments To University Hospital Made Four Changes Announced In Two Departments; NorthwayIs Resident Four changes in the staff of the surgery department of the Univer- sity Hospital and three in the de- partment of dermatology and syph- ilology head the list of appointments and resignations announced yester- day. Dr. Robert O. Northway a gradu- ate of the University Medical School, I has been named resident physician in the surgery department. Dr. Har- old S. Bowman has been selected as an assistant in bone' and joint sur- gery, and Dr. L. Vivian Iob is serving as a research assistant. Dr. Robert D. Snyder, former resi- dent physician, has resigned to take up practice in Dayton, Ohio. The appointment of Dr. John C. Slaughter as assistant resident in the dermatology department has/ been revealed, together with the ac-L ceptance of the resignations of Dr. Ira L. Schamberg, research associate, and Dr. Robert L. Barton, instructor. Dr. Schamberg has joined the Louis- iana State Department of Health, and Dr. Barton has joined the staff of the Mayo Foundation. Dr. Charles W. Newton, Jr. has been appointed assistant resident int the department of obstetrics andf gynecology. Dr. William H. Batesc has been named resident physician in medicine. He formerly was assis- tant resident in that department, but had left the staff because of illness.1 John Gregg has been appointed1 junior pharmacist and Mrs. Jeanette Underdown has been selected phar- maceutical chemist in the pharmacy department. Miss Jean H. Kelso, as- sistant to the chief pharmacist, wille lefve the staff soon to take a positionf in Tuckahoe, N. Y.1 SLA. Pledges Full Assistancet x f To War Effort Mapping a program for giving full help to the war effort, the local chap- ter of the Student League of America met yesterday to form committees and start projects for full coopera-1 tion.1 Dan Behrman, '43, was appointed chairman of the Consumers' Com- mittee, which will study the possi- bilities of holding a Consumer's Week in Ann Arbor as has been suggested by the Office of Price Administration in Washington. In connection with the nation-wide celebration of Consumer's Week, the SLA discussed the possibility of sur- veys designed to show the average student how he can save money and at the same time prevent inflation. Another committeewas named to handle the SLA's part in post-war planning activities on campus, and this committee was instructed to co- operate with Clifford Straehley, Chariman of the Michigan Post War Council. Homer Swander, president of the national organization, who now serves as chairman of the local chapter, told of the national release of his statement to the chapter opposing the psychological hate' program an- nounced by the Navy in connection with their new aviation cadet train- ing system. ASCE Student Chapter To Meet For Discussion Members of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil En- gineers will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union to hear a discussion of water supply problems. Robert Letts McNamee, chief en- gineer for an engineering company andeconstruction engineer for a , water supply project in Ohio, will speak on the subject, "Water Supply Problems of the Miami River in Ohio."He will enumerate problems encountered in this Ohio project and discuss their solutions. U.S. Destroyer Jacob Joines Snimk Of f New Jersey I I Diminutive Size Of Slide Rules 'Overlooked' By Technic Staff The discovery that 350 slide rules found in The Michigan Technic of- fice Tuesday were a bit undersized yesterday obliterated intentions to give full size slide rules away as favors at the coming Slide Rule Ball, but the small rules will still be a part Falling prey to an enemy submarine, the U.S. Dest royer Jacob Jones was sunk Feb. 28 off Cape May, N. J., taking with her all but 11 of her normal 145-man crew. 'The first warship to be lost in home waters, the Jacob Jones was built during the last war. ZlechanicalMavlOfTbatn Service Do'emngly Impossil' By CHARLES THATCHER "There ain't no such animal!" Like that classic exclamation of the farmer who saw a giraffe for the first time, equal incredulity might well be applied to some of the me- chanical counters, sorters and other amazing machines which form the nucleus of the University's Tabulat- ing Service-for man comes unbe- lievably close to performing the im- possible with some of these instru- ments. Automatic Tabulator Take the tabulator, for instance. Specially punched cards, each punch- ed with its own significance, may be fed into the machine at a rate of 150 a minute, and the machine non- chalantly "reads" the impressions on the card, translates the punchmark code, and calmly prints the interpre- tation on paper. Other equally amazing machines can sort cards into desired classifi- cations at the rate of 400 cards a minute, while still another makes the all-important punchmarks which tell so much to the person-or machine- who can translate them. Grades Sorted Among the regular customers of the Tabulating Service, located on the ground floor of the Rackham Building, is the Registrar's Office, which undoubtedly saves itself untold man-hours every semester by having student grades tabulated there. Grade lists are obtained from the various instructors and are matched with cards perviously filed in the same order, one for each student in each course. The cards are fed into a typewriter-like machine and the operator has but to punch the grade onto the card-60 per minute. That's slow, compared to another machine, however. This one reads pencil marks! Penciled cards are fed into the machine and come out on the other side with punchmarks in the places indicated by pencil, 100 cards a minute! A sorter makes short work of the 9 . iProf. GHammfett Will Give Fourth job of getting any one set of grades together, and a master punch then notes all the punchmarks on any one set and transfers them to a master card, one for each student. But that sorter is an amateur com- pared to another. This second ma- chine can arrange as well as sort. Master and individual cards may be fed in, and the machine will arrange them so that there are five individ- ual cards between every master card, five being the average number of courses elected by a student for a semester. Given two packs 'of alphabeticallW- arranged cards, this same machine H am pus Highligts . Spanish Lecture Book lovers among the faculty as well as the students will have an opportunity during this week to ex- amine a display of the work of the Pynson Printers, which is on exhibi- tion in the ground floor display cases of the Architecture Building. This show, consisting of books, panels, labels, posters, demonstrates the excellence of the work of this group of artists and type designers, who have made a definite contribu- tion to American art. The display is open daily from 9 to 5 except Sun- day. : Prof. Shirley W. Allen of the School of Forestry and Conservation will leave for Michigan State College today where he will attend a meeting of the board of directors of the Mich- igan Forestry and Park Association. 1' * * "Screening" tests, required for en- listment in the Army Air Corps, will be given at ROTC headquarters on campus between visits of the Travel- ing cadet examination board, Major Floyd Showalter, president, an- nounced yesterday. The tests, mental aptitude exam- inations, require about two hours for completion. Physical examinations will continue to be given only by the traveling board on its periodic ap- pearances here. The board will re- turn to Ann Arbor early in April. Headquarters of the University ROTC unit announced yesterday that the quota of advanced course cadets in the Ordnance and Medical Corps units had been materially increased. The Ordnance group has been in- creased from 38 to 100 and the Med- ical Corps from 54 to 72. Replace- ments to fill the new enrollments will be selected in approximately equal proportion from the junior and senior classes. Mouse Traps' Economy Is Found To Be All Gravy BARGAINTOWN, N. J., March 4.- (i?-The best bargain is not always the cheapest for Bargaintown, the Egg Harbor township committee de- cided in appropriating $2 for the purchase of mouse traps to be laid in Grange Hall. An irate taxpayer who protested that 50 cents worth of poison would have killed as many mice was over- ruled because surplus food for relief, families is stored in the hall. A will put them into one alphabeticala pile without any trouble whatsoever,I and thinks nothing of doing this at1 a rate of 400 cards a minute. Work On Polls The other important source of pat- ronage for the Service is all types of polls, questionnaires and surveys,1 whether conducted by the University or outside sources. The first step in tabulating such returns is to make out a code card,' upon which is determined where each answer shall be punched and what sort of punch will denote what sort of answer. All cards used by the Service are similar, containing 80 columns of fig- ures from zero to nine. In general the column denotes the question and the number punched in that column indicates the answer to that question. Cards Punched Punchmarks are made by another unpretentious machine, and the op- erator merely reads through the questionnaire answers and punches the correct numbers in the proper columns. Once this is done it is a simple matter for a sorter and counter to pick out all the cards which show a certain answer to a given question, and totals, percentages and trends can be computed in almost less time than it takes to tell it. Alan I Meacham is directing the Service. Journalism School Opens i-W eekl y Discussion Series Inaugurating a series of bi-weekly discussion periods designed to con- tribute towards student understand- ing of world conditions, the Depart- ment of Journalism sponsored an in- formal meeting yesterday to criticize and evaluate the attitude and ideas of Sir Stafford Cripps, leader of the British House of Commons. Prof. W. H. Maurer of the journal- ism department opened the discus- sion with a review of "The Prophetic Rebel," Sir Stafford Cripps' biogra- phy, dealing with his attitudes as Ambassador to Russia and as an im- portant figure in England's wartime awakening. Similar books, concerning the war and post-war period will be dealt with in future journalism coffee hours, sponsored by Kappa Tau Alpha and Theta Sigma Phi, honorary societies of the journalism school. It is hoped that these discussions, which are open to all interested, will stimulate interest in current political, social and economical problems and will foster the acquaintance of members of the department. Methodist Breakfast Set Michigan's annual All-Methodist Breakfast will be held at 8:30 a.m. Sunday in the Union. Highlight of' the breakfast will be an address by Bishop Wade of the Detroit confer- ence. >f the program. a. In the excitement of the original b liscovery of the rules in a secret __.__.._..._.__.._...._________________s t G~pras' Council n To Make Plans Participants Will DISciss Future Social Events 2 Graduate Council invites a grad-h uate students interested in partici-t pating in the discussion of plans for3 a social program for the coming sem- ester to attend its meeting at 5 p.m.' tomorrow in the West Conferen-cen Room of the Rackham Building. g Seeking to provide for the variedr interests of a heterogenous graduateb body, the Council will welcome all suggestions and ideas. A plan underv consideration, says acting chairman,r Ivor Cornman, proposes the rotation of sponsorship among the variousl groups within the Council. Each1 group would in turn be responsible for programs at coffee hours andI similar occasions to which all grad-s uate students would be invited. By such a plan, all groups would be able to have programs not only of special interest to themselves but 'the rest of the graduate body as well. The coffee hours would provide ex- cellent opportunities for the students and faculty men to participate in In- formal discussions that would be of interest and benefit to all, sayst Chairman Cornman.1 Planning for the various dances and other social events which will bef sponsored by the Graduate Councilx will be undertaken at the meeting.t Representatives of all graduate groups which have or have not for-i merly participated in the Council's activities are urged to attend and learn of their share in the semester's program. Keep France's Culture Alive, Jobin Declares Challeriging Americans "to fight, as have the Canadians for almost two centuries, to conserve what re- mains of French culture and influ- ence on this continent," Prof. An- toine Jobin of the romance language department addressed members of the Cercle Francais and others yes- terday in the sixth of the current! lectures sponsored by the French or- ganization. Two reasons, asserted Professor Jo- bin, stand out in support of this cause: to serve better the cause of hemisphere solidarity and, "especi- ally at the present time when France finds herself in a state .of eclipse," to offer our aid to the people of Quebec who have succeeded in spite of many obstacles to preserve a cen- ter of French civilization in Amer- ica. The lowering of political prestige need not be accompanied by a cor- responding fall in the cultural and spiritual worth of a civilization. "In a word," the speaker maintained, "I doubt strongly that we should stop reading Shakespeare, Thackeray and Galsworthy even if it happened that England should succumb during an invasion by the Nazis." In all types of French-Canadian writing, and especially in works ex- pressing the philosophy and the his- tory of the people, there is a remark- able persistence of the "sentiment francais," even after so many years of separation from the original mo- ther-country. Professor Jobin illustrated this genre with several quotations from modern authors and closed with "Pour la France," a poem by Gon- zalve Desaulniers, contemporary Canadian writer, expressing the French feeling during World War I. anel in The Technic office, no one oted the discrepancy in size until late yesterday afternoon, when a staff member suggested that the oundling rules seemed a bit small. Ensuing comparison proved that whereas a full-sized rule is about a oot long, these rules were only about an inch long, and hence could not be used for mathematical work. Meanwhile, however, over-zealous awyers showed their hand when hey were noticed hanging around rhe Technic office early yesterday norning, probably scouting for an )pportunity to pilfer the rules. Seeking revenge because the Slide Rule Ball will this year precede their own Crease Ball by over a month, the foymer being scheduled for March 27, the lawyers would undoubtedly welcome an opportunity to sabotage Technic staff plans, as they have habitually purloined the 12-foot pa- tron saint slide rule used at the Ball in the past. Aware of the possibility of a like occurrence this year, Technic staff members have maintained constant guard over their find, although it is reported that guard John S. Burn- ham, '42E, Technic managing editor, left his post long enough to inter- view Morpheus at length Tuesday night. To further discourage prowling lawyers Technic editor, Burr J. French, '42E, has warned that any attempt' to sabotage Slide Rule Ball plans will be met with force if neces- sary. The Ball will go on! Use OfChemicals litnWar Described To ROTC Cadets The use of chemicals in warfare was described to members of Com- pany F, Fourth Regiment, of Scab- bard and Blade and other members of the University ROTC unit last night in what is to be the beginning of a series of lectures on the work of the various branches of the serv- ice. One of two ROTC cadets in the Chemical Warfare Service on ca- pus, Bill Gollamore, '42E, delivered this initial lecture, which was fol- lowed by a movie showing the spe- cific use of chemicals, especially screening smokes, in battle. Opening with a short history of the development of chemical war- fare, Collamore went on to describe the use of chemicals and to demon- strate the use of a gas mask for pro- tection. A business meeting of Scabbard and Blade members was held ifn- mediately after the lecture. THlE DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH presents THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND PLAY PRODUCTION in Moscagni's Opera Canalleria Rusticano Preceded by "The Impresario" by Mozart Tonight through Saturday 8:30 P.M. Tickts: $1.10, 83c, 55c (tax mcl.) LYDIA MENDELSSOHN THEATRE Phone 6300 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING The cruel expression in their art of the blood-and-fear religion of the pre-conquest Indians in Mexico will be described by Prof. Ralph W. Ham- mett of the architecture college in the fourth lecture of La Sociedad His- panica's current series at 4:15 p.m. today in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. Professor Hammett will discuss the art and architecture of pre-conquest Mexico, treating it as "an expres- sion of the life of the plateau In- dians." A recent theory, featured by sensational magazines and papers, claims a connection of he civilization of these Indians with that of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Professor' Hammett will refute this connection, expressing the belief that there may be a link between these people and the ancient Chinese. As proof of this assertion, Professor Hammett will show some samples of Chinese art that have been found in Mexico. The lecture will be delivered in English, and will be accompanied by colored slides, recently filmed by Pro- fessor Hammett. On display will be a small personal collection of fetishes and idols, which has aroused much interest among spectators. Committee Of '42 Will Hold Meeting The Committee of 1942 will hold an important business meeting at 7:15 p.m. today in the Union. Robert Sibley, '42, chairman of the committee, has asked that all mem- bers be present as future plans are to HELP WANTED MAN STUDENT to work for room. 334 Thompson. Phone 4494. WANTED: Young man for messenger and office work. Apply Postal Telegraph, 112 E. Huron. 259c TYPING TYPING: L. M. Heywood, 414 May- nard St., phone 5889. 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