WlE3DIMESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1937 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE WJ~DNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1937 ~ P4GE TIKEZE i NEWS Of The DAY The News Of The World As Illustrated In Associated Press Pictures J (By The Associated Press) Legislature To Adjourn Today LANSING, Aug. 10.-(P)-The leg- islature tomorrow will adjourn finally its first special session of 1937, with prospects that it will be back in the capitol before the end of the year to resume its fight over laws demanded by Governor Murphy that twice have been rejected. Only a handful of legislators was expected for the formality of ad- journment. The only business on hind was voting to quit. The special session now in its dy- ing hours defeated a labor relations bill demanded by Governor Murphy, passed a teachers' tenure bill and piade corrective amendments to leg- islation enacted at the regular ses- sion. W ightman Cup Team Named NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-(IP)-The United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion today named Alice Marble, Helen Rull Jacobs, Mrs. Sarah P. Fabyan, Carolyn Babcock, Mrs. Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn and Dorothy Bundy on the personnel of its 1937 Wightman Cup team, which defends its title against the British women lakyers at Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug.- 20-21. Miss Bundy, only newcomer on the tgan, is the daughter of May Sutton Bundy, who was makii ir!ernational history in women's tennis long be- fore the Wightman Cup series began. Miss Bundy is only 20 years old. Give Influenee Of Substratum On Linguistics Speakers Discuss Various Situations, Illustrated By Babylon,_Pennsylvania (Continued from Page 1) rived the Semitic "sigreti" (ladies of the hiarem. A possible effect of a prehistoric linguistic substratum was pointed to by Prof. Wm. Worrell of the Univer- sity, who commented upon a recent article which drew certain parallels between the vernacular Celtic of Ire- land, northern Scotland, and Wales, on the one hand, and Hamitic Egyp- tian on the other. Both language groups, for instance, use the peculiar construct relationship of compounds, so that the combination "house dog" means not what a European speaker would expect, but rather "house for the dog." Both groups lack verbs and make use of round-about meth- ods to express the time and action elements in a sentence. It is quite likely, concluded Dr. Worrell, that such an influence ex- isted, for there is also some archeo- logical and anthropological evidence to support the theory that when the prehistoric Celts came to the island of Britain they found there a Mediter- ranean people speaking a Hamitic language. Although the relationship between Pennsylvania Dutch and English is not quite that of a substratum lan- guage to a dominant one, there is suf- ficient resemblance to make lin- guistically important the research necessary to determine the historical facts, said Prof. Leo L. Rockwell of Colgate University. Here can be seen some of the substratum effects actually. in the making, instead of in a state of dubious preservation some thousands of years later. Dr. Rockwell related briefly the movement of the Low Germans from the Palatinate and other regions to Pennsylvania beginning in 1709 and continuing to such *an extent that at the time of the American Revolution half the population of the colony was German. Their language, he pointed out, was a Low German dialect, "Deitsch," which was not a literary form but existed only in the vernacu- lar. Contrary to what a recent scholar declared with reference to the char- acter of Pennsylvania Dutch, the' phonological effect, said Dr. Rock- well, has been great, to say nothing of the vocabulary borrowing. Be- cause the Palatine dialect used a sound intermediate between English "p'" and "b, many words appeared in altered forms in both languages. That is why a certain famous pro- duct of Reading, Penn., came into English as "pretzel" and not "bret- zel," and why in the early documents of Pennsylvania colony one may find the word "daunschip," which is simp- ly the English "township." DIES OF BULLET WOUND PONTIAC, Aug. 10.--(P)-Joseph Weinman, 9, of Detroit, died here Faculty Team Beats Cards In U. League Tilt The Faculty soundly trounced the league-leading Cards 8-3 yesterday, but the Card's position was a lot bet- ter than their big-league namesake, because they've got the University League title clinched anyway by vir- tue of their five victories and two de- feats. In the day's other game the Chem- ists pounded out 10 runs while the Cubs were sending five markers across the plate to leave both teams dead- locked in third place, each having three wins and four defeats. Safe in second are the Faculty with four conquests and three lickings, while the Yankees are sadly in need of a DiMaggio as they huddle in the cold, cold cellar with two wins and double that number of defeats. Next Thursday final games of the circuit will be played. Comet Discovered, By Finsler Slips Past Big Diper CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 10.--(AP --Finsler's comet swerved out to-- night toward the stellar spaces from which it may never return within the lifetime of those who viewed it. Harvard astronomers said it was flying southward at a rate of about five degrees a day, and probably would pass from sight as it crossed the Equator at the eastern edge of the constellation Virgo early in Sep- tember. The Finsler object, for weeks rush- ing visibly earthward, came its near- est to this sphere last night. It was Sfifty million miles Iaway-nearly twice as close as the sun-when it slipped past the second star in the handle of the Big Dipper under the northern, midnight sky. Using crude carts, of the variety employed for centuries by Chinese farmers,'Japanese soldiers haul ammunition supplies through Fengtai south of Peiping, to front lines of the Sino-Japanese "unofficial" war in North China. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Horst were awarded temporary custody of Donald, the two-year-old boy. they had raised almost since birth, at a court hearing seeking to untangle the complications arising from his "kid- naping" by Miss Lydia Nelson and John Regan, Who claim to be his natural parents. In court, Donald hugged both Mr. and Mrs. Horst and then returned to work on his lollipop. Slayer Of Michigan Graduate Confesses DETROIT, Aug. 10.-(YP)-Admit- ting he shot Patrolman John R. Sher- idan, '31, last week, Edward Keegan pleaded guilty today wnen arraigned before Recorder's Court Judge George Murphy on a charge of murder. Sheridan, the holder of several ci- tations for bravery and distinguished -NOW -Two Features! M-G-M's NEW LAUGH HIT! Written by Anita Loos . ' ...played by the nuttiest comedy cast of the sea- son! You'll HOWL r \ /'J. service, died Monday of bullet wounds suffered when Keegan fired on him from a taxicab.. Keegan's companion, George Pratt, pleaded not guilty and his examina- tion was set for Thursday. L A Message.. . " More than 100 persons, many of them carrying signs indicating their anti-Nazi sympathies, picketed the German-American hall in Kenosha, Wis., during"progress of German-Americans. Uniformed members of the society are shown here standing at atte'ntion as the meeting opened with a song. George Froboese, of Milwaukee, leader of the bund, said approximately 750 persons from Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana at- tended the rally. Tattle-Tale Professor Tells -Reason. Wh Profs Are Such Funny People Y_____ . CHICAGO, Aug. 10.--(,)-For three centuries we have been hoodwinked by college professors who harp on culture. "Most of them neither know what the word means nor demonstrate cul- tured personalities. "College professors, as a class, are second-raters." a Well! Now that he has that off his chest, let's taketa look at this fel- low. Sounds like somebody who's just gulped a couple of portions of sour grapes. It isn't, though. It's Dr. George W. Crane, of Northwestern University. He's in the way of being a professor himself; been on Northwestern's fac- ulty for a number of years. He's list- ed as a lecturer in the psychology department. Now, Dr. Crane, just what's the trouble with our college professors? "You've heard the adage about when a manhcan't make a living prac- ticing a subject he becomes a teach- er in that field? That's your college professor. "Here is the typical development of such a person. In high school and college he .is a shy introvert who cannot sell brushes or be a football star. "After three years of post-graduate study and a thesis on some such pro- found topic as 'The Love Life of a Goldfish' he blossoms out , with a Ph.D. and a teaching job. They Dare Not Argue "Intoxicated with his sudden posi- tion of authority over a group of. co- eds he begins to disclaim positively about advertising and selling, reli- gion and economics, politics and in- ternational relations. "All he really, knows is the love life of a goldfish but he is very brave since his students dare not argue with him." Pause by Dr. Crane. Gasp by in- terviewer. In the midst of the gasp, the doctor bursts out anew, this time about housecleaning, a thorough house- cleaning, of high schools and colleges so that they'd have less Latin, geom- etry and "other impractical sub- jects." Dr. Crane would train high r school students "for life instead of the curriculum if it were not for the for college." autocratic and antiquated domina- Recommends Four M's tion by the colleges." Not the three R's, but the four Dr. Crane was worried about stu- M's-"music, marriage, money and dents who put in four years of high mechanics. school and then did not go to the "Every high school student should1 University. For four out of five of be able to play one musical instru- them it was time wasted, he remarked ment. sdy "Young people ought to know how sadly. the ld hael'nd to play at least one athletic game the fo M's instead of the 'culure' reasonably well and be able to dis- attributed to the study of Aristotle, cuss the rules of several others. Plato, Shakespeare." "Every youngster should know how "And," he addedas the interviewer to render first aid, drive a motor car left, "to the love life of the goldfish." wisely, know how to swim and per- form a few parlor tricks or sleight-of-I hand. POLICE HUNT CRIMINALS "Tap dancing would do more to MONROE, Aug. 10.-R)-Police build up physical and social poise hunted yesterday for two men who, than four years of high school Latin. armed with pistols, held up three em- "If we built a high school curricu- ployes of the Packers Outlet Co. and lum to fit boys and girls for life in- escaped with between $2,000 and $3,- stead of college we would immed- 000. H. H. Worm, manager, was iately include a course on marriage forced to open the safe. The rob- problems and psychology." bers fled in an automobile. Start With Teachers- - - Well, uh, where would you start all READ THE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS this, Dr. Crane? - ' r .® ietd by George B. 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