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By DAVIS CRIPPEN
The 28 ton monster with a timer
and an automobile horn got back
to work on the South Quad yes-
terday.
The monster in question is the>
cement mixer-or as it's known
in the business, paver-that mixes
the concrete which is used in the
dorm's construction.
With building hampered by Ann
Arbor Weather, the paver has
been at far from top capacity.
But though inactive, it's been far
from unnoticed.
The paver's operator, Ed
Schwartz, recalled that passers-
by frequently asked him while
the machine wasn't in use, what
it was for, and then, how it op-
erated.
SCHWARTZ explained that it
was quite simple. First a dump
truck backs up into the scoop of
the paver, and drops in its load
of sand, gravel and cement mix..
The scoop - or skip as
Schwartz calls it - then goes
up, dumping its contents back t
into the mixer, where water is
added from; a tank on the paver.
* .' *: *
To Join Ghost
These ingredients then are
whirled around in the mixer. State
law requires that the mixing go
on a minute for every square yard
of cement made. That's where the
paver's timer comes in.
*I * *
AFTER the cement has been
mixed, it is transferred to a bucket
on the boom at the other end of
the machine from the skip.
This bucket then runs out the
payer's boom, and opens to drop
the cement wherever it is wanted;
possibly into a bucket which a
crane will swing up on the dorm
construction-as was being done
yesterday-or perhaps the cement
will be dropped right into the part
of the structure from where it
will be used.
Exactly how the cement is
--Daily--wally Barth
RESTING CEMENT MIXER--The skip boy stands by the scoop
end of the cement mixer being used in the construction of the
South Quad. Rearing up out of the mixer on the right is a smoke-
stack, which goes with the mixer's water heater. The heater is
used in the winter months, when the water used in the concrete
must be heated to reach the 68 degree temperature required by law.
disposed of after it is mixed,
is a much longer and more com-
plicated story than the mere
mixing of it, Harry Smith, ce-
ment foreman on the job said.
The paver's automobile horn?
That's used mostly to warn people,
Schwartz explained.
PRIZE BOOK OUT:
Man From South Dakota'
22 Years Late, Says Author
______ ./ *
George S. Reeves is "A Man
From South Dakota."
Reeves, whose 1949 Major Hop-
wood Award winning story has
just been published under that
title, admits that the autobio-
graphical tale of life during the
drought yearsin the South Dakota
hard-pan territory is "22 years
late."
A 1926 GRADUATE of the Uni-
versity in journalism, Reeves set
out after commencement to man-
age the sheep ranch left him by
his father "for about two years,
sell it-and then sit down and
write a book about my experien-
ces."
He didn't leave-until 1948-22
years later-and it took him al-
most all that time to make his
book materialize.
"I didn't publish any writing at
all until 1939, when I sold a short
story to 'Esquire.' Then I thought
I'd do a piece for them on my life
on the sheep ranch."
"THE BOOK started in 1939 as
a- 1600 word piece for 'Esquire,'
Reeves said, smiling wryly, "and
just kept growing."
He returned to the University
two year ago to enroll in grad-
uate school and take his mas-
ter's degree, "mainly because I
was determined to get the book
written," he remarked. "I also
expected to enter it in the Hop-
wood contest when I was
through."
He taught English one for three
semesters, won the $1,000 Hop-
wood essay prize in 1949, and re-
ceived his master's last Febru-
ary.
* * *
ACCORDING TO Reeves, life at
the University back in the days
"when Benny Oosterbahn was
playing, not coaching," was pretty
much the same as it is today.
As told in the chapter "From
the Mouths of Babes" devoted to
his early University days, Reeves
sat down after the first week
Convocation and "blocked out a
schedule of my academic days
that would have done credit to
a Prussian drillmaster, with cer-
tain hours devoted to the study
of certain subjects, and if an
hour appeared without some-
thing in it ... I filled the, space
with 'gymnasium' or 'recreation.'
"'When I had finished budgeting
Hold .Former
TU' Student As
CheckForger
William Jewell, 21 years old, one
time University student here, was
arrested for investigation of for-
gery Thursday afternoon in the
Union while he was playing bill-
iards.
Jewell, who was a freshman here
last year, admitted that he came
to Ann Arbor on April 27 and
borrowed a student's Union card.
With it he allegedly forged the
students name to a $50 check and
cashed it at the Union. The check
was drawn on a Kansas City bank.
WHEN THE CHECK was re-
turned to the Union on Thursday
it was marked "no such bank."
An investigation revealed that it
was forged.
The police, on a tip from a
student, managed to pick Jew-
ell up in the Union. On ques-
tioning it was learned that he
had returned to Ann Arbor to
keep a date with a University
coed.
"I had a premonition this morn-
ing that I shouldn't come to Ann
Arbor. A hunch that I would get
picked up. But I just had to come,"
he added.
At present he's being held in
the County Jail while authorities
consider issuing a forgery war-
rant.
By DONNA HENDLEMAN
The dead languages apparently
have another member on their
list.
And, contrary to the popular
belief that languages die because
they are thousands of years old
and no longer meet the needs of
the times, this one was invented
just 63 years ago by a modern
scientist.
Dean Explains
U' Functions,
LiquorBan
The issue of the University's
part in liquor enforcement boils
down to a question of a universi-
ty's function, Dean Rea explained
yesterday.
Speaking at an informal panel
discussion sponsored by the SL
sub committee on Human Rela-
tions, Dean Rea pointed out that
the University is a part of the
community. "As such it recognizes
a responsibility for the conduct
of its students, instead of func-
tioning merely as an educational
institution," he said.
*' * *
"WHEN STUDENTS over 21
lose their right to drink liquor
in their houses here, we must re-
member that the general good is
under consideration, not indi-
vidual rights," he said. " is just
another of the rightswhich stu-
dents give up when they accept
the privilege of attendance at the
University."
Legality of the University in-
spection of fraternity houses
was explained by the Dean, who
pointed out that inspection for
liquor rule violation is analogous
to inspection for fire hazards.
"And," he said, "in no case is
there inspection unless there is
evidence that a University reg-
ulation is being violated."
In answer to student question-
ing on the possibility of removal
of liquor regulations the Dean
pointed out that the University
has an obligation to respect the
state law. "The best way to do
this is to accept part of the res-
ponsibility for its enforcement,"
he declared.
Oratory Winner
Seeks Region Title
Edward Griffin, '53, winner of
the University's local James Madi-
son Oratorical Contest, will com-
pete for the midwestern regional
championship Monday.
Griffin advanced to the regional
division by winning the Detroit
area championship Thursday. He
will compete with other metro-
politan winners from San Antonio,
Chicago, Milwaukee, and Pitts-
burgh.
Champions from the three re-
gional divisions will compete for
the national championship some-
time next week.
In 1947 Griffin was a national
winner of the contest in the high
school division while he was at-
tending Redford High School. The
topic of his speech is the life and
achievements of James Madison.
s of the Past
It is Esperanto, the "interna-
tional language."
* *
INTRODUCED BY Ludwig L.
Zamenof in 1887, Esperanto is
just one of the numerous artifi-
cial languages which have been
presented to the world in the last
80 years.
Its simple grammar, which
can be mastered within a few
weeks' time, allowed it to outlast
its competitors.
For many years it was at the
top of the list of competitors for
world approval.
But currently, it too, has all but
disappeared from the public eye.
THE ESPERANTISTS seek to
establish their tongue as an in-
ternational auxiliary language to
supplement existing national lan-
guages. They aim for greater
world harmony through a medium
of communication common to ci-
tizens of every nation.
Opponents of the scheme ar-
gue that an international lan-
guage is impractical and im-
plausible. "'Language has to be
close to its people," Manf red C.
Vernon of the political science
department pointed out, "which
no artificial language can be."
Around the turn of the century,
however, active Esperantists num-
bered more than two million.
There were Esperanto congresses
and conventions, and books of all
types were written in and trans-
lated into "the language of the
world."
AND DURING the 1920's several
New York public schools put Es-
peranto on their curriculum, but
it received short-lived recognition.
At the present time the Es-
perantists advertise in obscure
world journals. And University
students may remember it as the
language presented in the ap-
titude test for incoming fresh-
men.
But its appearance on the apti-
tude test is no special boon to Es-
peranto, according to Dr. Edward
Furst of the Psychological Test-
ing Bureau. "Esperanto is used be-
cause it is probably the best of
the artificial languages for test-
ing purposes," he said, "but any
other one might be used.""
THE B'HAI religious sect in
Ann Arbor once sponsored instruc-
tion in Esperanto, but the classes,
which were taught by Prof. Hirsh
Hootkins of the Romance Lan-
guage department, have been dis-
continued in recent years."a'"
Prof. Hootkins still feels that
Esperanto would be an aid to
diplomats and international
business men. "But I don't be-
lieve it should be a spoken lan-
guage," he said, "there would
be too many dialects."
Diplomatic need for Esperanto
was questioned by N. Marbury Efi-
menco of the political science de-
partment, however. "The U.N. ap-
pears to be functioning smoothly
with its translation system now,"
he asserted. "It is a matter of
pride and prestige for the dele-
gates to use their own languages."
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.. GEORGE REEVES
* * *
my future academic time, there
was no niche or cranny of my life
that made any allowance what-
ever for a sinner who liked to loaf
-and my character was soon very
similar to the old Fordson binder
-which never tied bundles ac-
cording to plan."J
TYPICAL OF Reeves' experien-
ces in the hard-pan country was
the time late in 1936 when he was
herding his sheep around seeking
grazing on the drought-ridden
ground. He finally settled them'
in a lowland.
"Then after no rain for
months, a line storm came
threatening off in the sky, and
I knew that if I didn't want to
wake up the next day sheepless,
I had better get those animals
out of that flat mighty quick."
"But they wouldn't move, and I'
knew that the pan country up-
river would shed water like a tin
roof. About two minutes after I'd
finally growled and whipped those
sheep out of there, a tumbling'
mass of roaring water filled the
valley."
* * ,*
"THE FUNNY thing is, in those
driest years, that was the closest
I ever came to drowning in my
whole life."
Reeves, a dapper, weather-beat-'
en 45 year old man with crew-cut
grey hair, plans to publish his first
novel about the sheep business
during the war, completed in Prof.
Cowden's graduate writing course,
within the next few months.
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Bulletin is constructive notice to all
members of the University. Notices
for the Bulletin should be seart in
typewritten form to the Office of the
Assistant to the President, Room 255
Administration Building, by 3:00 p.m.
on the day preceding publication
(11:00 a.m. Saturdays).
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1950
VOL. LX, No. 147
Notices
University Community Center,
Willow Village.
Sun., May 7-
Village Church Fellowship (In-
terdenominational):
10:45 a.m., Church and Sunday
School.
4:30 p.m., Study and discussion.
5:30 p.m., Pot-luck supper.
6:30 p.m., Free Family Movie.
Sponsored by the University
Wives' Club.
Mon., May 8, 8 p.m., Modern
Dance; Water-color; Ceramics
Lecture on Techniques of Glazing.
Tues., May 9, 8 p.m., Wives'
Club Farewell Party Committee;
Nur'sery Study Group.r
Wed., May 10,8 p.m., Christian
Education Committee Study
Group; Wives' Club Board; Cera-
mics.
Thurs., May 11, 8 p.m., Ceram-
ics; Choir.
IFC Sing: Fraternities or sor-
orities wishing to entertain fol-
lowing the Interfraternity Coun-
cil Sing on May 10 will be auth-
orized to do so provided chaper-
ons are listed in the Office of
Student Affairs before 12 o'clock
noon on Tues., May 9. Chaperons
may be a resident housemother or
a married couple 25 years of age
or older.
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