mx THE MICHIGAN DAILY TEsMDAY, OCOBE 10, 190 POTENTIAL BRASS: "Why Wait, Students Say As Enlistments Spurt Up Oh, Baby - Telephone! MINOR PROBLEM-NO ST AGE! 'T A . '.,T lA --> r711 . . . U ActorsE earn More inan Lines By ZANDER HOLLANDER The prime question bothering students of draft age in Ann Arbor is "How do I get a commission?" So say Sergeant Norwood Boaday and Sergeant William Long, of the Army and Air Force recruiting service. And, the ser- geants add, even though none of' the questioners has been awarded an immediate commission, a good many of them have come back to' enlist anyway. * * * ACCORCDING to the records of Ann Arbor's recruiting office, en- listments are roughly six times last year's figures for University stu- dents. "Last year we recruited about five students between June and October. This year the number is easily over 30," said Boaday. "And that doesn't include navy or marines," Long added. Examining the records closelyj the recruiters noticed that four University students had dropped out after the start of classes and had enlisted. "Cases like that are generally having a rough time financially or scholastically," ex- plained Bftday. * * * BOTH THE sergeants agreed that, it was the combination of events in Korea and the increased1 draft that had caused the jump in University enlistments. They explained that before the draft had been expanded, enlistments among university students had, been "atough nut to crack." "Now the students figure that they will be going in sooner or later, so why not go in now and get it over with," Long said. "This way they can take advan- tage of the right to choose their branch of service and the armed forces vocational schools." This last factor seems to be the deciding influence, even though many of the students are discour- aged when they find out that .the army has no commission waiting for them. Only qualified professional men get immediate commissions. But all students with two years of col- lege behind them are eligible for officer candidate school. * * * SO FAR Ann Arbor has had little difficulty in filling its en- listment quotas. The only prob- lem, the sergeants said, was get- ting the veterans to come back into the service. Only about 25 per cent of the total enlistments has been veterans. The sergeants had a double-barrelled explanation for this. "Most of the vets," they said, "are just getting set in civilian life. They've just married or just left school and so they don't want to upset their lives again." "And then the married ones know that the draft can't touch them yet and so they're not wor- rying about it as much as the un- married ones are. If the draft boards are authorized to take mar- ried men, there ought to be an increase in the veteran enlist- ments," they said. "But the student enlistment rate is way up," they concluded hap- pily. There are more to plays than learning lines, as members of the Student Players, campus dramatic organization, can testify. Working on their coming pro- duction of "Light Up the Sky," the Moss Hart three-act comedy, they've encountered more than the usual difficulties. FIRST OF ALL, the flats owned by the organization, along with some other of their equipment, were stored in University Hall this spring. Returning to campus this fall, Don Hawley, '51, of the Play- ers, found workmen already tear- ing the building down. 'Mid falling, bricks and timber he lugged out the equipment, but it was a close call. Burt Sapowitch, '51, producer and president of the Players, explained that the muslin-cov- ered frames are a permanent in- vestment of the group, to avoid the expense of renting them for every play, and that the loss of them would be "disastrous to our group." The current predicament of the Student Players is the lack of a decent place to build their set. At present they are hazarding con- struction at the ROTC rifle range, but they expect to be fired upon at any time. Associate producer Bill Webb, '51, moaned, "We've got to build this set in a big hurry, too. Any volunteers will be wel- come." * * * THE SET, designed by Hawley this summer, represents a hotel suite in Boston's Ritz-Carlton Ho- tel. "It's an impressionistic one," he explained. "It couldn't be ab- . * . -Daily-Burt Sapowitch IF I'D A' KNEWED YOU WAS COMIN'-Alice Jean Harris, '52Ed, finds it quicker to seek out beau Morton Gottesman, '51, than to wait for his phone call to fight its way into her dorm. Gottesman is about to give up the battle against the women's dorm phone "system." * * * * W ens DormPhones Frustrate U Males, Coeds -Daily-Burt Sapowitch STAGE BUILDERS-Don Hawley, '51, left, and Tom Barnum work on one of the flats used in the stage set for the Student Players' coming production, "Light Up the Sky." Hawley is thea set designer and Barnum is the stage manager. * * * * * * solutely realistic because of the cost involved." The group has had a break or two, because of the wrecking go- ing on around campus. They've carried off some of the remains from University Hall for the set, but the doors, according to pro- ducer Sapowitch, "are too heavy to be practical." Even The Daily has helped, to a small extent. Some of the wood in which the new press was crated has been pressed into service. " 'Light Up the Sky' will run from Oct. 26 to Oct. 28 in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre," Sapowitch said hopefully, "but just to make sure, we're going to get dog-tags for the stage crew, at least 'til we get out of the rifle range." By FLOYD THOMAS Campus men and women are despairing over the phone service in women's dorms. Men complain they must set aside a whole evening to call the FA Get these 23 famou0s SO " G tefCe2 ypewriter" features on ryour Royal Portable Companion! rowONLY IUn S T:< X4tehiq t t., + 0 . sift Feedom Fully Standard Keyboard 3. Finger.Flow Keys, 4L Speed Spacer Accleraction Rapid Ribbon Chans 1. Line Finder f*C Time Saver Top' 9. Back Spacer Movable Paper Guide\ 1. Three-point Paper fee&. 2. 2-way Paper Bait 43. Tilting Paper Table 4. Paper Scales 5. Left and Right Margni5 16S. Shift Lock 17. Line Space Selector i. Line Space & Cxaria4 Return Lever 1. Full-size Cylinder \. ~20. Line-end Warning Beni 21. Automatic Ribbon Revers.. 22. Left and Right Shift Keys 23. Air-Flght Carrying Case 28 Years Service to Michigan Students with LEAH MARKS Listeners can escape commer- cials and gain knowledge merely by tuning in to WUOM, which re- ports and interprets almost every- thing of national and internation- al interest, with particular em- phasis on University activities. At 1 p.m. each Monday, Wed- nesday and, Friday the station broadcasts the political science de- partment's popular international politics course, which explains current world developments and their relation to international po- litics. ANOTHER INTERESTING and original program can be heard at 7:30 p.m. each Thursday. Devoted to tracing the history of various industries, this series began last week with a report of the rise of the paper industry in America. The speech department's An- gell Hall Playhouse is broadcast at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Tonight's production will be adapted from an article in June's American Mercury entitled "Meet Me at Grand Central." The play will present the history of New York's famed Grand Central Station. Among the dozens of other en- tertaining and educational broad- casts originating in the WUOM studios are the many world news reports based on WUOM's 24-hour Associated Press service. The aid of faculty authorities is often so- licited to obtain interpretation of the news. girls of their choice on Observa- tory Street. Women claim it's all but impossible to get a call out be- tween 7 and 10 p.m. * * * ONE MICHIGAN male waxed eloquent describing the ordeal of penetrating the great stone dor- mitory walls by telephone. "You call the dorm number at least five times and find it busy," "Then you finally get a ring; and it rings and rings and rings." "When the dorm operator does answer, you give her the room number and the floor phone is busy," the disgruntled man con- tinued. "You have to hang up and start all over again." * .* * MOST RESIDENTS of women's dormitories questioned said it was just as hard to call out of the dorm. One coed complained, "It sometimes takes an hour to get a call out between 7 to 10 p.m. It's easier to walk over to see the person you want to talk to." A campus casanova wailed, "There are dozens of frustrated women sitting home weekend nights because dozens of frustra- ted men can't call them to get a date." IN DEFENSE of the dormitory system, Francis Shiel, business manager of the residence halls, said that the telephone company has taken tests which show that more switchboards are not needed. "We do need more floor phones," he added, "and we are working on that now; but we simply have nowhere to put them." Shiel admitted there are empty phone booths in Lloyd Hall, but insisted that if phones were put into them, service would not be equal in all the dormitories. CABINET HOLDS MEETING: SL Begins Move Into New Building * * * * Legislators Plagued By 'Pen..Pals' By The Associated Press Americans just hate to stand by quietly and see things drifting from bad to worse. If they think the country is go- ing to hell, they do not withhold this information from their neigh- bors. And they write dear-sir-you- cur letters to their Congressmen. * * * SO IT ISN'T surprising, in these uneasy times, that some Ameri- cans have an itch to take pen in hand and begin: "Dear Joe-" Harold E. Stassen did it last week. Henry A. Wallace did it in 1948. Since Mr. Stassen and Mr. Wallace are prominent political figures, it is possible to imagine that they had an added Incen- tive for their letters to Joseph Stalin. But the itch is felt by obscure citizens as well. The State Department dis courages these earnest people and quotes the Logan Act to them. The Logan Act was passed on Jan. 30, 1799, and is still. on the books almost unchanged. This law prohibits any U.S. citizen, without authority of the U.S., from getting in touch with a foreign govern- ment-directly or indirectly-with intent to influence that govern- ment in relation to a dispute with the U.S. * * * NO RECORD EXISTS that any- one was ever convicted of violating this law but the State Department implies that there could always be a first time. The Logan Act was named after Dr. GeorgeLogan, but he was not a member of Congress. Here is the story: In 1798, when John Adams was President, we came periously close to war with France. Re- lations were broken off. George Washington, then 76 years old, was yanked out of retirement to command the army. Adams sent three men to France to smooth things over. They failed. Adam's Party, the Federalists, whooped it up for war. Vice-Presi- dent Thomas Jefferson's Party, the Republicans (not the present Republican Party) was friendlier to France, and opposed war. Feel- ings were bitter. *a* . IN THE MIDST of all this, a wealthy; benevolent, well-meaning Quaker from Philadelphia, Dr. George Logan,'decided to try for. peace. He went to Paris a his own expense. The French hailed him as a dove of peace. He came happily back to the U.S. in November, 1798, bearing verbal assurance that France would negotiate. The Federalists were furious. They were convinced that Lo- gan had been sent to France by the Republicans. Secretary of State Timothy Pickering rebuff- ed Logan. Gen. Washington was curt to him. Pickering was so angry that he induced Congress to pass .- you guessed it, the Logan Act. Ten years later, when Pickering was a senator from Massachusetts, the situation was reversed. The Republicans had come to power. We were drifting into war with England. Pickering sent messages to Eng- land in an indirect effoft to per- suade George Canning, the foreign secretary, to lay off America. This seems to historians to have been a clear violation of--yes; the Lo- gan Act. Harold E. Stassen, the later-day Republican, no doubt is familiar with the George Logan story. He certainly knows all about the Lo- gan Act, for he told Stalin very clearly that he only sought world peace and was not trying to in- fluence Russia in relation to any dispute with the U.S. Nevertheless, if he visits Stalin, perhaps a new political slogan will be in order: "George Logan rides again!" 'i The Student Legislature began its move into a new office building when the cabinet held the first student government meeting in the structure yesterday afternoon. With its secretariat planning to move from the present SL room in the Student Affairs Office, Ad- ministration Bldg. by the end of the week, SL's occupancy should be completed. * 4 * LOCATED at 122 South Forest, across the street from the women's tennis courts, the. building is in good condition. A large white clapboard struc- ture, it has 11 rooms. The rooms will be used by committees and the SL cabinet and secretariat with one ground floor room re- served as a student activities lounge. Enthused about the new office building, SL president George Roumell, '51, said, "This building can prove to be a great boon to student government on the cam- pus. "With all the committees meet- ing under one roof, problems of coordination will be much easier. The secretariat should function much more easily." * * * A FORMER nurses' residence, the building was donated by the University for SL's use this sum- mer. In its meeting, the cabinet heard a report from Roumell on the meeting of the Big Ten stu- dent government presidents held in Evanston this weekend. At the meeting, the presidents established a permanent organiza- Ask about trade. ins; lweip asy weekfytermes) 115 W. Liberty St. Writers Think of Rider's HOUSEWARMING-Student L Belin, '51, Irv Stenn, '52, Nancy '52, accept penny suckers and ca celebration of the first cabinet m 11-room office building. tion, the Big Ten Student Presi- dents Association. The association will meet next December. The association was set up to provide a means for the Big Ten governments to get together and discuss common problems and get an exchange of ideas, Roumell re- ported. 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