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VOL. XXVIII. No. 9.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1917.
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HITUTHILL SCORES
CLASS RUSHES AS
BEING "C RMINALI,
OBJECTS TO UNTRAINED MEN
ENTERING SEVERE
CONTESTS
SUGGESTS CONTESTANTS
TAKE EXAMINATIONS
Prominent Officials Agree with Train-
er's Opinion About
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Games
"Criminal" would be an wappropriate
term to apply to the class rushes and
class games as held at the University,
according to Harry Tuthill, Varsity
football/trainer. "Men go into these
games, little men against big men,
small numbers against many, and
struggle as intensely as the fellows
on the football field who have trained
for months for the contest.
Tuthill, who has never seen a push-
ball contest, but who bases his re-
marks upon the one flag rush he saw
last year and which campus critics
admit to be much .tamer than the
spring affair, continued. "Every year
many men are hurt both temporarily
and -permanently. I do not mean tLe
men who suffer broken collarbones or
other injuries which can be easily
healed, but I mean the permanent in-
juries which handicap.the fellow for
the rest of his life.
Mentions Penn Fatality
"It will 'be only a matter of time
until some fatality will result from
these games in much the same manner
that the fatality happened at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania bowl rush,
and which caused the faculty of that
institution to prohibit further holding
of the contest, in much the same man-
ner that the farmer locked his barn
after the horse had been stolen.
"If nothing can be found to take
the place of these affairs, which I am
told are to take the place of hazing
and private tubbing, I would suggest
that every man be compelled to take
a rigid physical examination before
entering the contest, and only those
who can passnwith a clean record b
permitted to take part. Tug-of-war,
cane sprees, and such affairs are good
things from a physical standpoint."
Athletes Barred
Perhaps one of the most ironical
sides of the question appeared last fall
when sophomores on the Varsity as
well as the men on the All-fresh team,
were not permitted to take part in
the contests because of danger of get-
ting hurt. The coaches would not al-
low their men in training and in the
best possible physical condition to1
take a chance of getting so disabled asI
to ruin them for the football field. 1
Dean Mortimer E. Cooley of the en-1
gineering college believes that from<
a physical standpoint the games are
not what they should be and are detri-
mental, but said, "I do not know what
to substitute for these games which
seem to be the only regulated outletf
for the hazing instinct and rivalry be-
tween classes."'
P. G. Bartelme, director of Michi-
gan's athletic activities, agrees with
Tuthill on the statement that those]
taking part In the contests were tak-t
ing a great risk and also agreed witht
Dean Cooley's statement that they
were at present the only feasible sub-
stitute for perhaps more dangerous
and less honorable affairs such as tookt
place on State street last week. t
Chance for Fatality
"There is just as much possibility
for a fatality to occur as there was
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Such things are bound to happen
right along when rough games such
as the spring contests are permitted.
It is not sensible for a man to go
into any of these contestb who has
been barred from taking part in ny
form of athletics and far less so for
an untrained man. If the games are
to continue there is little to do except
urge every mank to try and prepare
himself so he will be fit, this will les-
sen the chance of permanent physical
disability," said Dr. George C. May.
ORATORS WILL MEET
FOR ORGANIZATION
Beginners Will Have Good Chances
for Team Under New
Rulings
First efforts to bring forth winning
Varsity debating teams and 'aprize
orator will be started at 7 o'clock to-
night in room 302 Mason hall, where
a meeting will be held for all those
who intend to compete in the coming
Varsity debates and oratorical con-
tests.
Short talks will be given by faculty
members and men with Varsity ora-
torical experience. It is the aim of
the Oratorical association to get an
unprecedented number of tryouts this
year, as the new rules are especially
fitted to strengthen chances of the be-
ginner. '
BRIEF. PROGRAMPLANNED
FOR CO
PRESIDENT HUTCHINS AND DEAN
BATES TO DELIVER
ADDRESSES
Convocati6n day set for 3:30 o'clock
Friday afternoon in Hill auditorium is
intended to emphasize the solidarity
of the Universityand all students are
expected to turn out in order to make
the celebration a success. The ex-
ercises will be brief.
President Harry B. Hutchins will
give a few introductory remarks. Dean
Henry M. Bates of the Law school,
now at Harvard on a leave of ab-
sence, who will deliver the principal
address, will arrive in the city today.
The music is under the direction of
Prof. A. A. Stanley of the School
of Music, who has not yet announced
the program for the afternoon.
Major E. Rist and Col. C. U. Dercle
of the French medical service, and
Col. Thomas H. Goodwin and Capt.
John Gilmore of the British medical
service will be present at Convoca-
tion as guests of honor.
The annual Convocation day recep-
tion for the new members of the fac-
ulty and their wives will be held in
Barbour gymnasium and will be at-
tended by the Regents, the president
and the members of the faculty. The
reception will begin about 9 o'clock.
DIRECTORY DATED
TO APPEAR SOON
Copies Will Be Placed in University
Hall and Engineering
Building
SABOTAGE PLANS
Lansing Makes Public Three Cable-
grams of More German
Treachery
BERNSTORFF INSTRUCTED IN
"WEASEL" POLITICS EARLY
Foreign Office Gives Description of
Irish-Americans for
Plot Work
Washington, Oct. 10. - Secretary
Lansing upon his collection of Ger-
man diplomatic correspondence again
today showed further light upon what
the German foreign office and the gen-
eral staff were doing in this country
while nominally at peace with the
United States.
He gave to the public, without com-
ment as usual, three brief cablegrams
disclosing that more than a year be-
fore the submarine piracy drove
America to the war, the Berlin gov-
ernment was instructing its ambassa-
dors here to arrange for description of
Canadians and to use Irish-Americans
in carrying on sabotage in their own
country.
They showed also that Von Bern-
storff on his part, was even at that
early date seeking authority to sup-
port a campaign to influence congress.
One of the cablegrams from the
German foreign office to Ambassador
Bernstorff read: "You can obtain par-
ticulars as to persons suitable for
carrying on sabotage in the United
States and Canada from the following
persons: Joseph MacGarrity, Phila-
delphia; John Keating, Michigan av-
enue, Chicago; Jeremiah O'Leary, No.
16 Park Row, New York."
Administrative officials privately
declared that not only does this cor-
respondence take in connection what
went on before, and has already been
-made public by the state department
convicting the German government
through the kaiser's personal repre-
sentative in this country of violating
American neutrality and the effort to
deal a blow at its European enemies,
but it merely disclosed the cajculated
German purpose to strangle the ad-
ministration in any attempt which it
might make to preserve neutrality by
deep laid plots to control the legis-
lative branch of th government.
This further disclosure of the
perfidy and denial of German official-
dom, it is charged in administrative
circles, will tend to silence much of
the pro-German peace propaganda, not
only in America, but among the en-
tente powers in Europe.
ASKS NATION-WIDE POST CARD
CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY LOAN
Washington, Oct. 10.-A nation-wide
campaign by. post card or letter of all
bank depositors in behalf of the Lib-
erty loan was proposed today by
Comptroller Williams in a statement
addressed to the national banks of the
country.
The comptroller estimates that $46,.
000,000 deposited in the banks in the
country represents 25,000,000 indi-
viduals of whom 15,000,000 can afford
to buy Liberty bonds and ought to do
so. The conditions of the banks at
the present time, Mr. Williams says,
warrant the extension of proper terms
to all particular bond purchasers.
LIST OF MICHIGAN MEN IN
SERVICE TO APPEAR FRIDAY
Owing to the many new names
turned in after the announcement yes-
terday that names of Michigan men in
service would be printed this morning,
it was impossible to complete the list
in time and it will be run tomorrow
morning.
HIS SLOGAN STILL
DOMINATES HOUSE
D~r. Angell's Watchword, "Service,"
Now Used in Red
Cross Work
"What is the Angell house being
used for?" This is a familiar query
concerning the building which stands
with quiet dignity in the midst of the
busy campus. Particularly appropriate
seems the answer, that it is the head-
quarters of the Ann Arbor branch of
the American Red Cross.
The outside presents the same apr
pearance as always, except for a large
banner at the entrance which gives
noticeto the passerby of the activity
within. The interior is now severe
and business-like with most of the
furniture removed to accommodate the
practical accoutrements of Red Cross
work. Easy chairs and couches have
given place to long oilcloth-covered
tables, where women in spotless white
cut and fold bandages. Serious pur-
pose and efficiency is dominant every-
where, for 15,000 dressings have been
promised for this month alone to the
boys "Somewhere in France."
To those who knew the late Presi-
dent-emeritus James B. Angell, the
Red Cross seems the proper occupant
for the old home of Michigan's great-
est educator, whose watchword was
service.
FACULITY LIBERTY DRIVE REACHES
550;650 AREAIN 24 HOUR SMASH
TOWARDS MARKSET BY LOANERS
LIBERTY LOAN BOND
POINTERS
In making Your subscription
you are not giving money to the
government, but are investing
it in the United States govern-
ment bonds the premier security
of the world.
The bond sale opened Oct. I
and applications will be receiv
ed up until the close of the bus-
iness day of Oct. 27.-
The second Liberty loan ponds
paydfourtper cent interest in-
stead of three and one-half per
cent as did the first issue.
Any bank will handle the ap-
plication four your bond.
Bonds are exempt from taxa-
tion in the United States or
aly of its possessions in
amounts which do not exceed
$5,000.
PROFESSOR'S DISMISSAL
ROUSESSTUDENTS' IRE
CLOTHING TORN IN COLUMBIA
FIGHT; WOMEN AID IN
FREE-FOR-ALL
New York, Oct. 10.-Columbia Uni-
versity students fought one another in.
front of the library steps today when
they assembled to discuss the action
of the trustees recently in dismissing
two professors for their utterances in
connection with the war.
Groups calling themselves "rebels"
and "loyalists" engaged in a free-for-
all battle in which faces were
scratched and clothing torn. Several
hundred women were among the 1,000
students who had 'assembled.
The meeting had been advertised
"as a protest against the suppression
of epidemic freedom under the trus-
tees." When the battle was over and
speaking began, several students
charged that the meeting originated
not with the students themselves, but
with persons not connected with the
university.
GALLI-CURCI TO OPEN
SERIES OF CONCERTS
Famous Coloratura Soprano Will ken-
der Program in 1il Audi-
torium Tonight
Ann Arbor concert-goers who were
disappointed at the failure of Amelita
Galli-Curci to appear here last spring,
will have an opportunity to hear the
world-famous coloratura soprano at
the opening of the Choral Union series
tonight.
Mme. Galli-Curci was born in Milan
of Spanish-Italian parents, and. Is a
graduate of the musical conservatory
of her .native city. After six years of
successful concert singing abroad, in
Spain,Italy, and South America, she
received an almost unparalleled ova-
tion at her debut in Chicago last No-
vember.
Thevoice, art, and personality of
Mme. Galli-Curci have received uni-
versal endorsement from critics all
over the country. She is hailed as
"the greatest coloratura soprano of
the generation." Not only is her voice
perfect in development, flexibility, and
sweetness, but she is also an accom-
plished pianist and composer.
Mme. Galli-Curci will be assisted by
Manuel Berenguer, flutist, and Homer
Samuels, pianist.
HAI'S MEN REST AFTER
CONSOLIDATINGR ANS
REPORT SAILORS MUTINY IN GER-
MAN FLEET; MEN
SHOT
(By Associated Press.)
Field Marshal Haig on Wednesday
permitted the British troops in Fland-
ers to have a breathing spell while
consolidating their gains of Tuesday
along the Ypres.
Likewise, the French forces and the
British left flank were busily engaged
in organizing the newly owned posi-
tions. A heavy rain fell during the
day and no attempts at strong attacks
were make by either side.
Along the right flank of the Meuse
in the Verdun sector, the Germans,
after a violent bombardment, attacked
a French line and penetrated it ht sev-
eral points, but were kept from pro-
ceeding further by the French artil-
lery fire.
Peace is impossible, according to a
statement of the imperial German
chancellor, so long as Germany's
enemies demand German soil or try
to separate people from their em-
peror. The German foreign secretary
in an address to the reichstag asserted
that there was no impediment toward
peacethat could not be overcome by
negotiations except the demand of
France for the return of Alsace-Lor-
raine.
-The news has leaked out that re-
cently there was a mutiny on four
battleships of the German fleet at
Wilhelmshaven.~ The captain of one
boat was thrown overboard and
drowned. The sailors later surrend-
ered and a number of them were said
to have been shot, while others were
sentenced to long terms of Imprison-
ment.
Creates Interest In Washington
Washington, Oct. 10. -Few dis-
patches since the war began have cre-
ated more interest at the navy depart-
ment than today's report at Amster-
dam telling of a revolt in the German
navy.
Officers unhesitatingly declared the
story, although not confirmed in of-
ficial reports, to be one of the most
encouraging signs of the year for the
allies and probably one of the most
ominous from the German view.
REPORTS FROM MEDICAL SCHOOL
INDICATE BIG TOTAL FOR
PHYSICIANS
FULL LIST OF COLLEGE'
SUBSCRIPTIONS NOT IN
Student Campaign to Start Saturday
With $200,000 as Their
Quota
With a total subscription of $50,650
secured from the members of the eng-
ineering and literary college staffs,
in a 24 hour campaign, the University
faculty Liberty loan drive went smash-
Ing over the top toward the $8,000
goal set by the faculty loaners, Wed-
nesday.
Reports from the Medical school
canvassers late yesterday indicate that
their subscriptions would run propor-
tionately high. None of the other col-
leges in the University had sent in
detailed reports, but leaders in the
campaign believe that as great success
will be reached by all.
Princeton Opens Drive
"Princeton university opened a
Liberty loan drive, Monday, with $400,-
000 as a goal, and there are less than
1,000 students there," said Prof. John
C. Parker,, one of the campaign man-
agers. "We're going to show Prince-
ton that we've got some real spirit
in the west. I feel very much en-
couraged by the splendid effort made
by the faculty, and I believe we will
surprise the state with our subscrip-
tions."
Notices have been sent to every or-
ganization on the campus to send one
representative to the Liberty loan
banquet at the Union, to be held after
the close of Convocation, Friday night.
Any organization not receiving a no-
tice should send a representative.
Ike Fisher will furnish the music.
"Bud" Hamilton is on the program for
a special quasi-comic war song. The
loan campaign among the students
will start with a bang Saturday morn-
ing and continue two weeks, until the
quota of $200,000 for the University
has been oversubscribed.
"Bond from Every Student"
"A bond from every student is the
slogan of the big two weeks effort
of Michigan students to beat the
Huns.
Local Drive
The local Liberty loan committee re-
ported that at noon yesterday bonds
were subscribed to the amount of
$17,950. The captains and delegates
met in the morning and decided not
to interfere with the activities of the
students on thier coming drive.
The Boy Scouts of Ann Arbor are
busy distributing literature and ad-
vertising matter for e city campaign.
National Drive Slumps
Bond sales are lagging in the fed-
eral reserve districts where the larg-
est returns are expected. These are
mostly in the financial regions. Treas-
ury officials can assign no reason for
the slump.
Daily subscriptions of at least $92,-
500,000 for the four districts known
as New I|ngland, New York, Philadel-
phia and Chicago, must be sustained
if the loan is to succeed.
Detroit loan subscriptions need a
decided boost, according to reports re-
ceived from that city late Wednesday,
when but $3,500,000 of its $60,000,000
allotment had been sold.
"Big subscriptions are needed," says
the treasury department. The drive
will be boosted with all the ingenuity
and vigor the campaigners possess to
carry on the loan to its successful
conclusion.
19 VESSELS SUNK DURING
WEEK; .14 OVER 1,00 TONS
London, Oct 10.-Brtsh merchant
vessels over 1,600 tons sunk by mine
or submarines in the last week total
14, according to the official statement
of the British admiralty tonight. Two
vessels under 1,600 tons and three
sailing vessels also were sunk.
University of Detroit Swxmps Toledo
Detroit, Oct. 10.-The University of
Detroit football team swamped Toledo
here this afternoon, averaging about
three points per minute for a 105 to 0
score.
The Student Directory will soon be
out. No longer will students be forced
to ask themselves: "Wonder where So-
and-so lives?" or "What can Bill's
telephone number be?"
The staff is working day and night
to get the directory in the hands of
the students by Oct. 25. A new fea-
ture in making this year's issue 'will
be the placing of copies in University
hall and the engineering college in
order to permit students to make any
needed corrections in their names and
addresses.
The cover of the new book will be
of the same material as last year's
and blue-brown in color.
The Student Directory is meeting
with difficulty in securing the names
of officers of the different campus or-
ganizations. Organizations can great-
ly assist the staff if they will telephone
the directory and supply this informa-
tion.
Kalamazoo, Club Cancels Banquet
After making preparations to enter-
tain the Kalamazoo Normal football
team and their friends with a banquet
in Lane hall last night, the Kalama-
zoo Students' club had to cancel the
affair, due to the fact that the visitors
left on the 5:25 train for Kalamazoo.
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Important Notice on M. A. C. Game
Coupon No. 5, accompanied by M. A. C. student application cards must be in Athletic Association offices by 6:00 P. M.
today to receive consideration in order of classes. After this hour, applications will be filled in order of their receipt at the
Athletic Association Offices:
Ushers are wanted for both M. A. C. and Cornell games. The Athletic Association will pay a fee of fifty cents ($.50) to
students ushering at M. A. C. game and one dollar ($1.00) to students for ushering at the Cornell game. Apply personally at
the Athletic Association Offices, Ann Arbor Press Building.