rei~ x ASSOC PRl DAY AND N SERI ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918. F . I CHOOLS AID WAR STAMP CAMPAIGN Eleven thousand, seven hundred rid fifty-eight dollars in War Savings rid- Thrift stamps have been pur- based by Washtenaw county people nce the beginning of the W. S. S. ampaign. Tuesday's sale totalled IAL COAL It is expected that this amount will RS IN be greatly augmented by the special campaign to be conducted by the school children on the afternoon of r TO Washington's birthday. The children TORIES will visit each house in Ann Arbor equipped with 10 Thrift stamps and cards in an effort to make Ann Arbor useholders, a 100 per cent city. But one stamp le In- will be sold at each place. The pur- chaser may secure the others to fill his card at any of the numerous agen- s) cies about the city. lirect mes- "PHORMIO" TRYOUTS HELD FOR istribution CLASSICAL CLUB MEMBERS ements of considered Tryouts for parts in "Phormio," the 'ar, and to Latin play, will be held at 3 o'clock s essential today in Room 101, University hall. Selections will be made for 11 male d soon by parts and two female parts. The try- The plan outs will be open to all active and as- *move to sociate members of the Classical club, a strictly including freshmen. Contestants are asked to be pre- onight by pared to recite some short selection. Mr. George D. Wilner of the Oratory calls for department and Prof. Raleigh J. Nel- into four son of the English department will i of a pre- act as judges of the contest. g the fuel ._-_ an navy ass on the Wilson ToVuck get coal New Wheat Price ers put in tel admin- f Jan. 17 Washington, Feb. 20.-The full in- ers, ships, fluence of the administration will be ind public used if necessary to prevent enact- ment of bills pending in congress to U. S. Planes Go To France Washington, Feb. 20.-The first American built battle planes are enroute to France nearly five months ahead of the original schedule. In making this announcement tonight Secretary Baker said the first shipment, although in itself not large, "marks the final overcom- ing of many difficulties met in building up this new and intricate in- dustry." "These planes," Mr. Baker said, "are equipped with the first Lib- erty motors from machine production. One- of them in a recent test surpassed all records for speed and climbing for planes of that type. Engine production which began a month ago is now on a quantity; basis, and the peak of production will be reached in a few weeks. Only the 12-cylinder type is being made, as developments abroad have shown it wise to concentrate on the high powered engine instead of the eight-cylinder.' NO RELIEF IN SIGHT COMBINED CLUBS PLEASER LO ' IH IWT M OD 9O X1 FIRST VICTORY BREAD WILL BE ON SALE ON FEBRUARY on. r the increase the price of wheat. This became known tonight from an authoritative source. Opposition to the measures is based on the ground that their passage would upset the entire wheat and bread program CTED YOUTS which the food administration worked out in great detail, and that President com- Wilson already has full authority to caose readjust the price if necessary. Wheat is now selling on a basis of pe-$2.20 a bushel. The prices are main- res- tained by heavy government purchases rep- for the army and navy and for the "rep- , the allies. aries, Already the agitation for a higher noon price for next season's crop, food ad- omen ministration officials say, is checking the flow of wheat to the terminals and west- to the mills and threatens to stop it been entirely. The flour situation in Ann Arbor3 remains unchanged today with no re- lief in sight. Small bakery firms throughout the city are expected to close within the next two weeks. No 'increase in the price of bread in spite of added cost of manufacture will occur as a result of the action of a bakers' conference held at Lans- ing which ended in a decision to main- tain the current price until Feb. 24. On that day, Victory bread, containing 20 per cent grain substitutes, will be sold to the public. A government in- quiry has been started into the high prices charged for mill feed in west- ern states asda result of several com- plaints made about extortionate prices. The Michigan Milling company con- tinues to be closed and no supplies of flour are reaching the city. Food Administrator Prescott of Detroit, was expected yesterday at Ann Arbor to speak before the grocers' convention being held in this city, but was unable to appear because of a message which called him to Lansing. Leading bakers and grocers in this city advise people against becoming too frightened over the situation, al- though C. H. Hyde of the Oklahoma council of defense, has stated the pos- sibility of wheatless weeks within a short time instead of wheatless days. SEVERAL FACULTY MEMBERS REGISTER AS ALIEN ENEMIES Several faculty men and a number of students are among those that leg- istered with Thomas O'Brien, Ann Ar- bor chief of police, as alien enemies. Mr. O'Brien has registered 175 men in this city. All those that registered are compelled to remain here until special permission is given them to go out side of the city's limits. Registra- tion cards containing the photographs of the aliens will be given them and will have to be shown at all times upon request. The police department is in possession of finger prints of all registrants. Registration of aliens and the class- ification of the registration cards will be continued rntil March 1. SERVICE FLAG PRESENTED BY ASSOCIATION OF GROCERS Michigan's Glee and Mandolin clubs, presenting a varied and lively pro- gram, were well received last even- ing when they appeared in a combined concert in Hill auditorium. J. A. Lake of the Grocers' and Gen- eral merchants' association now in convention in this city, presented the combined clubs with a service flag containing 35 stars in honor of the men from these two organizations now in the service of the government. It was called to the attention of the gro- cers Tuesday that the clubs possessed no flag; the matter of securing one was enthusiastically taken up, and a member was sent to Detroit yester- day to purchase one. Robert Dieterle, '21M, received the flag for the clubs and then led them in a yell for the donors. J. Palma, '20M, A. B. Thompson, '21M, W. R. Stark, '19, and P. R. Kempf, '20, the Midnight Sons' quar- tet, presented several cleverly done feature numbers. R. Berman, '19, M. W. Kann, '20, and Frank A. Taber, Grad, a violin, 'cello, and piano trio rendered two excellent numbers: "By the Brook" by Bois- :leffre, and "Spanish Dance, No. 5," by Moszkowski. A Varsity quartet composed of T. S. Barnett, '18M, J. H. Tuttle, '20, Rob- ert R. Dieterle, '21M, and'L. R. Van Ness, '20, were also given much ap- plause. The love of the student body for good jazz was shown when they called for three encores from the Mandolin club septet composed of A. J. Gornet- sky, '19L, L. W. Kunkel, '18, Harry Sunley, '20, C. H. Cottington, '19, V. A. Carpenter, '20, H. V. Pruha, '19, and M. W. Kann, '20. The performances of Robert Dieter- le, 21M, soloist for the Glee club and of R. Berman, '19, violin soloist, were worthy of the many compliments they received. The numbers by the combined clubs i and by each club separately showed plenty of talent and that the fellows had been working hard. The program1 as .a .whole was well balanced, andI sustained the interest of the largel crowd from the beginning to the end. ELEPHANTINE FOSSIL SKULL SHOWN IN SCIENCE MUSEUM 1 After three months work in mount- ing, a skull of a Titanotherium has been placed on exhibition in the geolo-1 gical museum in the Natural Sciencei building. This is the most valuable specimen of some five hundred verte-1 brate and invertebratetfossils found by the expedition sent to the Big Bad; Lands of South Dakota last summer by the University. Some of the limb bones as well as the skull were un- earthed, and those in charge of the museum hope to be able, sometime in the future, to restore the whole of the body of this prehistoric animal,, which was about the size and some- what the shape of an elephant. Prof. F. N. Scott's Classes Not to Meet Prof. F. N. Scott will not meet his classes today because he has gone as. a delegate from the North Central As- sociation of Colleges and Secondary Schools to the convention of the Na- tional- Security League to be. held in Chicago. MILITARY FOOD I BEGINS CLASSES Military Food I, a war food course recommended by Herbert S. Hoover to upperclass college women all ove. the country, was inaugurated yesterday afternoon at Michigan before a class of 115 juniors and seniors. Through the joint efforts of Acting Dean Agnes E. Wells, Miss Grace Greenwood, and Dr. Herbert W. Em- erson, the course was briefly outlined as to scope and purpose. The plan as outlined by Mr. Hoover includes three divisions-war and food, nutrition, and laboratory work. Due to a late start here, the first two will be com- bined into one course which will be given at 4 o'clock Monday, Wednes- day, and Friday in Tappan hall, under the combined tutelage of Miss Green- wood and Dr. Emerson. The labora- tory work will be conducted by Dr. Emerson from 4 to 5:30 o'clock on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Two hours credit, will be given for the general course with an additional hour for the laboratory work. It is preferred by University authorities that this work be added to the stu- dent's regular program, which may be done without application for extra hours. However, other courses may be dropped for this purpose if deemed expedient. After the course. was outlined, Miss Greenwood gave the first lecture on the nature of cookery and its purpose. Opera Cast Will Rehearse Friday Rehearsals for the entire cast and chorus of "Let's Go!" will begin at 10 o'clock Friday morning at the Un- ion. At this time all men and women members of both cast and chorus will rehearse together. The complete rehearsal schedule for the remainder of this week was an- nounced yesterday by. Director St. John as follows: 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon, School of Music, showgirls only; 7:30 o'clock Thursday night, School of Music, men's cast and cho- rus; 10 o'clock Friday morning, U- ion, entire cast and chorus; 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, Union, entire cast and chorus; 10 o'clock Saturday morning, Union, entire cast and cho- rus; and 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, School of Music, entire cast and cho- rus. RED CROSS FOLLOW-UP CANVAS ' TO YIELD $2,OO PER MONTH An income of more than $2,500 per month is expected by the local Red Cross after the follow-up campaign just inaugurated has been completed. It was impossible for the canvassers to see all the residents Sunday and Postmaster H. J. Abbott, head of the local Red Cross, is sending out a cir- cular letter to the people who were not seen Sunday to ask for contribu- tions. The money will be used entirely for work in the city. One-third of it will go to the surgical dressing department in Angell house, another third to buy yarn for the large number of Univer- sity and Ann Arbor women who are knitting daily. The third will be used for other expenses coming up and to help either the surgical department or the knitting department if it be- comes necessary. LACK OF FRENCH TEACHERS AT CAMP CUSTER CANTONMENT i - Camp Custer, Feb. 18.-The demand fOr teachers of French is so great hereI that it far exceeds the supply. The ed- ucational director of the Y. M. C. A. has adopted a novel method of reliev-l ing the situation. Acting on his sug- gestion, the executive committee of the Michigan State teachers' associa- tion has made an appropriation of $500, with which to purchase phono- graphs and records to be used in teaching the soldiers. (xrocers and Merchants Tour Campus Prof. I. Leo Sharfman, of the econ- omics department, accompanied the delegates of the Grocers' and Mer- chants' convention in an inspection of the campus yesterday afternoon. A picture of the delegation was taken in front of Alumni Memorial hall. The final session of the convention will be held this afternoon. Last evening the delegates attended the Glee club con- cet in a hbodv HUN ARMIES INTO RUSSIA LITTLE[ OPPO, NORTHEAST OF DVIN PENETRATES 12 MI RESUMP' DISA Widespread Anti. Stirs Russia; in Sever (By the Associated Pres Feb. 20.-The German inv Russia continues unimpeded. ently there is to be no cess the eastward march of the en til the Russian Bolshevik goy entirely slaps the face of the for a peace "which correspoi our interests" as expressed German foreign minister. Southern Esthonia has been by German troops and. a bas lished, from which operations carried on against Reval, an tant port on the Gulf of Northeast and East of Dvinsk i etration of the enemy along I road lines leading to Petrog Smolensk at last accounts ha ed more than 12 miles, and southward to southern Volhy invasion was in progress ov areas with the Germans tak oners and guns, rolling tock er booty in large quantity. Scant Heed for Peace Cr Scant heed has been taken military authorities-,of German frantic announcement ofa d the part of the Bolshevik govi for peace on Germany's ter cept for a demand by the commander at Brest-Litovsk authentic copy of the Bolshe uments of capitulation be se no attention has been paid to pressed desire for a cessation tilities. Not alone in Germany but Austria-Hungary the reco ment of hostilities is unpopul the masses, who, tired of the M hoped that with the dabacle . sia a general peace was neare inent newspapers in both and Austria-Hungary evince pointment over the new phase situation. Massacre Jews Meantime Russia is still throes of civil war and added has another widespread ati- movement to combat. Swedish are to the effect that there has return of the old time prat carrying out massacres aga Jews. On the battle fronts in Fran gium and Italy only . bombai and minor infantry operatIons progress. TUSCANIA VICTIMS CARRI U. S. GOVERNMENT INSt Washington, Feb. 19.-Every and sailor lost on the torpedo cania was protected by the States'government insurance a pensation: This has been offci nounced by Secretary McAdo Those who had not applied, surance were coveredby+thli matic insurance under the la is payable to a wife, child, or 3 mother. This automatic insure gregates $4,300, or $25 ahm' 240 months. Of those who l plied for insurance, many ha out the maximum amount of which nets their families abo month for 240 months. Crease Dance Gets Keith's Ente Keith's Circuit entertainers t Temple theatre in Detroit will the program and Fisher's 0 the music for the Crease dan given by the senior law stude Friday night at the Union. * The dance will be informal. have all been sold and there no admission at the door. Technical Teaching Course held 3 ago FRIEND OF KAISER WILL LECTURE ON WAR s and the A public war lecture will be given competed by Mr. Poultney Bigelow at 8 o'clock -I . )ARDS ns for the been placed letin boards the second Bather laced on' has Michiganj upper part of re the Univer-! and the words pies will be on ex- ek. Next week the of the class mem- ed by members of nittee, who will be sity hall and in the mre and days c e will take the or- ations will be an- Tuesday night in Hill auditorium. "Prussian Memories" will be the top- ic, and the talk, which is under the auspices of the University, will be given free to the public. In a book by the same name, writ- ten by Mr. Bigelow, he describes inter- esting phases of German life in Ger- many proper, and its colonies. He also tells of the kaiser's speech at Metz in Alsace-Lorraine when a mon- ument was dedicated to its conqueror. "Germans you are, Germans you have always been, and Germans you will remain, so help me God and by my trusty sword," is the nearest Eng- lish translation of the kaiser's words. PROF. HUGO THIEME GIVES LECTURE ON MILLET'S ART "Millet's art represents serious France",said Prof. Hugo P. Thieme in a lecture before the Cercle Francais yesterday afternoon. Prof. Thieme stated that the object of the great painter seems to have been to per- sonify work. To tipify this he chose the peasant. Millet broke away from the traditions of former artists, he threw laws and canons overboard and painted life as he saw it. His aim was to be realistic. Prof. Thieme supplemented his tall( with views of various paintings. READINGS FROM DANTE GIVEN AT ITALIAN SOCIETY MEETING Readings from Dante were given at the meeting of "Il Circolo Dante" yes- terday afternoon in room 301 Univer- sity hall. Mr. Stephen Scatori of the Spanish department, gave several] readings in Italian and various mem- bers read translations. The club meets from 5 to 6 o'clock every Wednesday afternoon and is open to members of the faculty and all students who are interested. Prof. W. A. McLaughlin of the French de- partment is director of the society. Programs consist of. lectures and dis- cussions. Election of officers will be held at the next meeting. Dr. Vaughan to Talk on War Diseases Major Victor C. Vaughan will return to Ann Arbor next Monday, Feb. 25, for a week's stay during which.he will deliver a series of lectures to the med- ical students on the diseases that are, prevalent in the military camps and' at the front. On Tuesday Major Vaughan will make an inspection of Camp Custer. ak on. Delinquency of the sociology de- he speaker this noon Lenten address at louse at the corner erson streets. The the subject, "How For My Delinquen- ment?" and will be- Out at 10 O'clock Today 11 be given out again at 10 X-