PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942 Michigan Girls To Meet Here In onvention More than 200 of the outstanding girl 'citizens' of Michigan will meet here next Thursday for a full week of participation in the second an- nual Wolverine Girls' State. Using University facilities, the high-school-aged girls will take part in a program designed to emphasize practical living problems with special training in home economics, eti- quette, citizenship, fine arts and nursing. University staff members will aid in teaching and entertaining the girls who have been chosen for lead- ership qualities by local chapters of the American Legion auxiliary. As a climax to the seven-day pro- gram a mass assembly will witness the presentation of pins and awards to outstanding representatives. Clothes Make The Man; Cabby Comes To Rescue NEW YORK, June 15. -(P)- ,Thanks to an honest taxi driver- none to his brother, the best man-- John Hughes was able to start his -honeymoon today as planned. At the conclusion of the wedding ceremony best man Charles Hughes remembered he had left the bride- groom's traveling clothes in a suit- case in a taxicab and sought police aid to find the driver. Later the wedding reception was interrupted by Cab Driver Harry Robbins who .told the bridegroom "I have your clothing for you." CL ASSIFIE D DIR ECTORY HELP WANTED NOTE AVon ad in leading maga- zines. Well established territory open for ambitious woman. Chance for advancement. Phone 2-2184 evenings. FOR RENT SINGLE ROOM: Also double with adjoining lavatory. May be ar- ranged as apartment. 422 E. Wash- ingtonr. LOST and FOUND Modern Greek Offered Here As War Work New Course Will Stress Conversation Training, Prof. Blake Declares A completely practical course in modern Greek, listed by the govern- ment as a language important to the prosecution of the war, is being taught by Prof. Warren E. Blake of the department of Greek languages and literatures. Anticipating new fronts in Tur- key or Asia Minor where Greek is the most widely spoken language, Professor Blake will emphasize con- versation rather than reading in the four hour course, and students will learn "to talk to any policeman in Athens" rather than spend their I time mastering the highly stylized and artificial literary Greek used in formal writing and declaration. No previous knowledge of Greek is required for the course, which will begin with instruction in Greek characters, and continue with the study of arts and two Greek news- papers published in New York. The course will be held at 9 a.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fri- day throughout the summer and fall semester, and may be continued after that. According to Professor Blake this is the first time in more than 40 years that such a course has been taught on this campus. Similar courses are being given at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, California and Chicago Universities. "Ancient Greek will be of little help in this course," observed Profes- sor Blake, "for although the same letters are used and the languages are fundamentally the same, it bears the relationship to modern Greek that the English of Chaucer bears to today's slang." .bicycle ' Riders Remindd To Obey Traffic Rulings LANSING, June 15.-(P)-Vaca- tion-time and war-time emphasis on the use of bicycles creates another traffic problem, the state health de- partment warned today. Pointing out that 41 bicycle riders were killed in Michigan accidents last year, the department urged par- ents to "impress on children that a bicycle is a subject to the same gen- eral traffic rules as an auto." Heads News Agency Elmer Davis, writer and radio commentator, has been named by President Roosevelt to head a newly-created "Office of War In- formation." lxlTransferred To .ecr f, Post Ending a three-year sojourn on the Michigan campus as Assistant Professor of Military Science, Colo- nel Harrie D. W. Riley, University graduate of the Class of 1911, has been transferred from the ROTC unit to an unrevealed post, it was announced by the military science department yesterday. Col. Riley was transferred to the University faculty in 1939 and has served here ever since, establishing one of the longest records of service at the post in the unit's history. Since 1939 Col. Riley, acting as head of the Engineer Unit of the Reserve Officers Training *Corps, has in- structed cadets, specializing in the instruction of military engineers. Had Engineering Here Born in Normal, Ill., in 1887, the Michigan alumnus attended the Uni- versity of Iowa for two years before transferring to the engineering col- lege of the University of Michigan. He graduated from the University in 1911 with the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. Previous to World War I, Col. Riley went into railroad work, serving as Railway Signal Engineer, and later serving in a technical capacity on a brapch of the ICC. He entered the World War in 1917, and served with the Purchase and Traffic Division of the General Staff. Served In Panama Finding army life to his liking, Col. Riley went to Panama where he spent three colorful years with the 11th Engineers. Since his Panama service, the versatile engineer has worked at many tasks, including the operation of the hydroelectric plant at Muscle Shoals. Before being as- signed to the University of Michigan, Colonel Riley spent some time as Engineering Instructor with the Illi- nois National Guard. When assigned to the University post, Colonel Riley held the rank of a major. Students who wish to enter co- operative houses this semester or in the fall will be interviewed at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in Room 306 of the Union W the personnel committee of the In- tercooperative Council. Local Citizens Donate Rubber To Aid Drive7 (Continued from Page 1) tioning is not all that is at stake in the salvage campaign. "The rubber shortage already has caused serious handicaps to our mili- tary machine," he declared. "Building of tank treads, life rafts, gas masks, barrage balloons and other military: needs depends upon an adequate sup- ply of rubber." Meanwhile, in Detroit the state scrap rubber campaign committee representing oil companies of the state met to formulate plans at full speed ahead. The committee is com- posed of Kempf of the local Staebler- Kempf Oil Company, Howard Coffin of Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Rankin Peck of the Michigan Retail Gasoline Dealers Association, a rep- resentative of the Michigan Farm Bureau and Reed Brazil of Leonard Refineries. Dawson Local Chairman Eighty-three local committeemen were appointed at the meeting to su- pervise the local drives. The local chairman is William Dawson. The Associated Press yesterday re- ported that a Herculean scavenger job is being performed throughout the nation as citizens combed gar- rets and basements for the precious rubber. Authorities saw a conclusion even more successful than a bang-up beginning. Machinery for the nation-wide col- lections is in the hands of the oil industry from the 200,000 stations to the great refineries. Some 800,000 workers are donating time to aid in the drive. Scrap Sent To Depots. From the local stations the scrap will be sent to depots designatedby the oil companies. It will be pur- chased from them at the rate of one cent per pound. Any profits from the donations of scrap will be turned over to the Red I Cross and the USO. All scrap will be sent to reclamation plants for war use. Aid in the drive will be drawn from Boy Scouts, Civilian Defense, local groups and Chambers of Com- merce. LANSING, June 15.-tiP)-Gover- nor Van Wagoner today took public issue with the suggestion of Probate Judge Arthur E. Moore of Pontiac that Michigan, unless it can provide proper care of feebleminded persons, consider condemning them to pain- I less death.I "The only conclusion I can drawl from your letter," Van Wagoner, wrote in an open reply, "is that you are seeking in an emphatic manner7 to call public attention to the long1 standing failure of Michigan to meet in full the mental illness problem. "But in my opinion you have left solid ground when you suggest that the State seriously consider 'mercy killing,' scientifically known as eu- thanasia. "I am opposed to 'mercy killing.' It is an unjustified invasion of the right of innocent persons to live, and can lead only to the most serious of excesses when once started." He added that Michigan allows capital punishment of criminals only in event of treason. Van Wagoner's letter said Michi- gan has accelerated its program for rehabilitating persons with mental ailments, and has opened facilities for care of 4,000 additional patients since the start of a hospital building program by former Governor Frank Murphy. He said the war and in- ability to obtain priorities for needed materials "have halted a further building program." He pointed out that to relieve hospital overcrowding the State Hospital Commission is experimenting with a^boarding-out program for certain types of patients, and declared that "in the past 18 months we have institutionalized some .1,200 feeble-minded persons from a waiting list of 1,500." At a press conference, Van Wagon- er discussed Judge Moore's propos- al, demanding "isn't that what Hitler is up to? I hope we are not going to have that set-up in this country. That's one of the things I thought we were fighting against." 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