TITT MICTTICAN DXILY T-1 ADAY9 BF.CEMP.rr U, 19i& I m INSIDE STORY: Daily Reporter Inspects Conditions at Infirmar By ALEX LINDSAY I visited the Washtenaw County Infirmary yesterday, which has been under fire from the County Board of Supervisors this week. Chairman Mark Mayne accused Superintendent Herbert Ken- nett with abusing the patients and permitting unsanitary conditions. I FOUND an ancient piano and a small library of law books dominating the visitor's waiting room. Mrs. Ina Kennett was going to show me through the two-story brick building, but was suddenly in- terrupted, so I went through the clean but gloomy corridors and rooms and talked to several patients and employes. Patients' clothing is poor, especially that of the men, whose tattered dungarees are patched and faded. Shoes range from slippers to winter snow boots. When I men- tioned their clothes, a woman in a wheel chair pointed to the patches on her dress and said, "I look like a rag bag." A STAFF of approximately 16, including five nurses, two cooks, a hired man, and other kitchen help, care for the 100-odd aged pa- tients, most of whom are there permanently. Walking patients have some daily task to perform. One grizzled old man who used to live in Canada told me he cleaned the barn behind the infirmary each morning, then "I'm all through for the day." Food is generally said to be "all right" but two complaints are the use of skim milk and the lack of sugar, which is served only in the morning, according to patients. MEN SITTING on the stairs doing nothing, or standing in the corridors looking out windows evidenced a lack of recreational facil- ities. Walking patients live on the first floor "infirmary" and have access to the dining room; bed-ridden and wheel chair patients on the second flood "hospital" have their meals served to them. Four nurses work during the day and one at night, according to a staff member. Several of the staff live at the infirmary, and a laundry in the basemenit is used for both patients' and staff's clothes. SHORTLY BEFORE I left, Kennett arrived. "I waited in the courthouse until 2 p.m., but received no satisfaction," he said. I be- lieve I have a right to a hearing, and I don't wish to comment until then." Prosecutor Douglas Reading, who talked to Kennett after the investigation which produced the charges, said, "At the present time, I am in no position to comment." 'WHAT WILL SELL?' 'Post' Editor Fuoss Answers Queries on Magazine Writing Sam I' P' I U N E I N I I H U M O R - These watchers of high waves at Redondo Beach, Calif, weren't prepared for this unusually big one and scramble to avert a drenching. G E K M A N r V rL. E ' A K - Here is the Volkswagen (people's car) which Hitler promised Germans but never produced. It is being built at rate of more than 2,000 monthly in Hannover plant. Most are for export. Germans can buy them, with official sanction for essential purposes, for $1,590. Engine is in rear. Gasoline tank and luggage space are in front. By RUSS CLANAHAN Frustrated writers who have col- lected an imposing pile of rejec- tion slips from national magazines got their chance yesterday to ask "why" of one of the editors who makes the final choices-and they made the most of it. Target of the barrage of ques- tions was Robert Fuoss, managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post. * FUOSS STOOD up at the front# of Rm. B., Haven Hall, announced he wouldn't give a speech, and bravely invited the students to start firing questions. The result- ing queries covered everything from soup to nuts. Most of the budding writers' questions revolved around the great central question, "What Dormitory News (EDITOR'S NOTE: Contributors to What's Up in the Dorms should con- tact Dolores Palanker at The Daily or 105 Betsy Barbour.) Martha Cook women will be awakened at 7 a.m. today to the tune of reveille. The bugle will herald the tra- ditional candlelight procession which will descend from the top floor to the dining room where the annual Christmas breakfast will be served. APPROXIMATELY 150 men and women from the Law Club and Martha Cook will go carolling after dark today. The carollers will return at 11:30 p.m. to Martha Cook for coffee and other refreshments. The Law Club will fete its em- ployes at Christmas dinner today after which they will be presented with gifts. Guest at Mary Markley's Christmas dinner today will be Mrs. Mary Markley for whom the house was named. Cooley House, East Quad, will have its Christmas party today. On the program will be gifts, re- freshments and entertainment by house talent. CHICAGO HOUSE'S party, at West Quad, will feature movies of the Ohio State game as well as refreshments, house entertain- ment and gift exchanges. And Williams House's project to collect soap for children in Eu- rope will come to a close at to- day's party when each man will be expected to contribute two bars of soap to gain entrance to the festivities. will sell?" In reply, Fuoss gave the neophytes some straight from the shoulder advice. Above all, he stressed, there is no overall formula for writing a successful story-magazine editors judge a story strictly according to reactions it draws from them as a reader. However, he pointed out that "the biggest common denominator of most magazines is romance." * FROM HIS experience, Fuoss advised the budding author that the story having the best mathe- matical chance of being sold would be placed in the United States, have relatively young characters, and include both sexes in the plot. But he warned that a "story which attempts to appeal to both sexes usually lays an egg." Fuoss therefore advised that a story for women be written so the illustrator could picture "the biggest, most luscious clinch possible." A story for men should includev a "scene of violence, preferably with bloodshed," he said. Campus Calendar EVENTS TODAY AVC Christmas Party - 7:30 p.m., 2101 Hill. Guests will be pa- tients at the Veterans' Readjust- ment Center. Hindustan Students' Association -Dinner and short musical pro- gram, 7:30 p.m., Lane Hall. Dinner was formerly scheduled at 6 p.m. American Ordnance Association -Open meeting, 8 p.m., Union. Edward T. Gushee of the Detroit Edison Co. will discuss "Post War and Preparedness." Lecture-Prof. Jose Montesinos will speak on "Lope," 8 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall, under the auspices of Sociedad Hispan- ica. Contest Extended The deadline for entries in the 1949 Michiganensian photo con- test has been extended till tomor- row, Slug Kettler, 'Ensian assis- tant promotions manager, has announced. Pictures should be brought or mailed to the 'Ensian office in the Student Publications Build- ing before 4 p.m., Kettler said. Negatives need not be submit- ted. I N T O K Y O - Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his wife stand at Haneda Airfield, Tokyo, where they went to greet Syngman Rhee, president of Korea, who visited the Japanese capital. F L 0 0 D C ON T R 0 L P R 01' E C T-Army engineers built these piers over Bow River for railroad bridge to make way for $33,000,000 Conewaugh reservoir in western Pennsylvania. Old bridge runs beneath them. Conewaugh is seventh of 13 reservoirs designed to reduce flood dangers at Pittsburgh, 30 miles to west. System is part of Ohio river basin program extending into 12 states. A R T O N D I S P L A Y - Roy M. Pike hangs a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn, Scotch artist prominent about the end of the 18th century, at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N. Y. Pike, museum director, and his assistants, Miss Isabel Herdle and Robert Young, are arranging exhibit of European paintings collected by the late philanthropist, George Eastman. M R S. R OO S E V E L T I N QG E R M A N Y - Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt meets a family from cast rn C rmany during visit to displaced persons and German refugee camp at Stuttgart. WESTERN NEW YORKERS - ~'~',... . -~ Y:,.