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Secretary of Agriculture David F.
Houston recently stated that here will
be the same farm labor difficulties
this year as there were last season,
especially near large industrial cent-
ers, but that the various states work-
ing through the agricultural colleges
and other agencies ar making labor
surveys in an endeavor to equalize
the labor supply. Skilled labor has
been given deferred classification and
the secretary of war has asked for
power to furlough soldiers of the na-
tional army if their previous farm
training permits.
Citizens Should Help
Men, now living in cities and towns,
who have had farming experience and
are able-bodied are urged to serve
their nation at this time in the field
of agriculture, especially in the sea-
sonal strains of planting, cultivating,
and harvesting.
Secretary Huoston further said: "If
soldiers are willing to serve in the
trenches, to dig ditches, build rail-
:roads and risk their lies, mn civ-
ilians can well afford to spare a part]
of their time to serve in the furrows
and in the harvest fields."
Towns Can Best Co-operate
If farmers experience difficulty in
obtaining labor, the -leaders in the
town or city immediatelydependent
upon that region should organize and
do all they can to remedy the short-
age.
The departments of agriculture and
labor will render every possible aid,
but each community knows its own
problems, and the people of the cities,
especially business men, can co-oper-
ate most effictively and render the
most assistance.
It has not yet been determined what
attitude the universities will take in
augmenting the ranks of laborers.
ENGLAND CAN GIVE
ONLY 750,000 MEN
-That Great Britain can, at best,
put only 750,000 more men in the field,
and not 2,000,000 men, as has been fre-j
quently stated, was the somewhatj
startling statement made recently be-
fore a prominent club in New York
city.
Sir John Foster Frazer, chairman
of the British war lectures committee,
speaking before the Lotus club furth-
er stated that is was absolutely nec-
essary to maintain some industries
and that there were scarcely 750,000
men above the number it would take
to do this available for army. "That
will bring us to the top point of our
man power, and we will be reaching
it this summer," said Sir John.
He said there should be no alarm
about the result of the reported com-
ing German offensive on the western
front. "The British know exactly
where the blow will be struck. At
terrible sacrifice the enemy may bend
our line," said Sir John, "but he will
never break it."
GERMAN ENROLLMENT LOSES
TO LARGER FRENCH CLASSES
There has been a 20 per cent in-
crease in the French enrollment this;
year and a $0 per cent decrease in
German, according to Prof. A. G. Can-
field of the Romance languages, de-
partment of the literary college. Last
year there were 783 French and 1,141
German students, while this year 897+
classified for French and only 584 for
German. The great decrease in the
number of German elections has been
mainly in the beginners' courses
where the loss has totalled 75 per
cent. Two hundred and ninety-one
began French in 1916 and 138 began
German, while in 1917, which includes
this semester, 451 enrolled for French
1 and and only 34 Germban 1.
The principal cause for the great
decrease in. the study of German is,
of course, the war. Practically all of
the universities and colleges have
been similarly affected.
Dance at Maccabee Hall. March 8th
by uniform rank.-Adv.
French Front, Feb. 16.- (Corres-
pondence of the Asociated Press).;
Alcohol1 is ;'regarded .by the chiefs of
the German aviation service as an
enemy to be avoided. by flying men,
and its consumption is strongly dis-
countenanced in an advisory circular
issued by the general in command of
the flying corps. This document as-
serts that alcohol is a bad heat-pro-
ducer whose effects are very fugitive,
and its consumption may produce fat-
al results to an aviator flying at high
altitudes.
Other recommendations considered
essential to the efficiency of the fly-
ing man advise him not to wash his
hands and face nor shave just before
a flight..
On alighting after a voyage through
the air the aviator is told to wipe his
face and hands first with a dry cloth
and then to bathe them several times
alternately, first in cold and then in
hot water.
Clothing Specified
The document is detailed in its ad-
vice as to clothing and general pre-
paration. for a flight. It tells the air-
man to wear woolen or silk under-
clothing, while his outer garments
should be of wool thickly lined with
fur or wadding. An aviaton suit of
leather overalls should cover every-
thing. None of the clothing should be
tight-fitting-and if possible a sweater
should be worn.
As to legs and feet, which are parts
of the body most apt to suffer from
cold, the underclothing should be of
wool or silk and the airman, ,should
wear two pairs of woolen stockings
between which should be inserted a
thickness of paper. Over these should
be worn a pair of fur or camel-hair
socks, and the whole covered with a
pair of large-size leather high boots
lined with fur or wadded wool.
Ointment for Exposed Parts
For the protection of the hands,
they should be well rubbed with pro-
tective anhydric ointment, over which
should be worn large-sized, but light,
woolen or silk gloves and then anoth-
er pair of leather gloves lined with
fur or wadded wool.
The face should also be rubbed with
the same protective ointment as used
on the hands. A woolen or silken
cap covering the head, ears and neck
as well as the greater part of the face
should first be put on and over this a
leather mask lined with silk or one
of canvas. Between the two head-
coverings there should be inserted
several thicknesses of paper and over,
everything a thick leather helmet.
Goggles must always be worn and at-
tached to them protectors for the fore-
head and cheeks, while it is advisable
also wear a thick woolen scarf for the
better protection of the chin and
throat.
"NEWSPAPERS ARE NECESSARY
TO RETAIL BUSINESS"-WHITE
Publications Are Not Dependent Upon
Advertisers For Their Ex-.
"The newspaper is necessary to the
prosecution of modern retail busi-
ness," said Lee A. White, '10, of the
Detroit News in his lecture "Is the
Press Servile?" given before the stu-
dents of journalism yesterday after-
noon.
Mr. White went on to say that with
this premise in mind the newspaper
is not controlled by the advertiser in
the popular conception of the term.
"It is the general belief that the
average selling price of a newspaper
does not pay for paper in the sheet.
This is true only when incorporating
in these figures both the news space
and the advertising space."
According to Mr. White, the circula-
tion price for the pure news space;
would amply cover the expense of
production if no advertisements were
printed.
Alumni Secretary Returns From East
Mr. W. B. Shaw, secretary of the
Michigan Alumni association, has just
returned from New York where he at-
tended a meeting of the National As-,
sociation of 'Alumni Secretaries. Mr.
Shaw met with the executive commis-
sion while at the conference.
Thi Daily's specialty is sertoe to
everyone. Let us serve you.-Adv.
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omen will meet at 4 o'clock
oon in Barbour gymnasium
nembers of the senior play
om Saginaw, Gratiot, Mid-
ella, and Genesee counties
signed up for patriotic
meet at 4:15 o'clock this
with Mabel Sanborn, 300 E'
Anyone from these coun-
as not yet signed up will
pportunity to learn about
by attending this meeting.
re and freshman girls are
attend the food lecture at 4
norrow afternoon in room
i hall.
ill be a Woman's league
a 4 to 6 o'clock tomorrow
in Barbour gymnasium. The
or basketball game will
te dancing for which Ike;
Sophdmore girls will hold a get-
together party from 3 to 5:30 o'clock
Saturday afternoon at Barbour gym-
nasium. There will be dancing and
refreshments.
Board of representatives of the' Wo-
men's league will meet at 9 o'clock
Saturday morning at Barbour gym-
nasium.
Senior girls should order their caps
and gowne at once.
A special rehearsal of the freshman
Girl's Glee club will be held at 4:30
o'clock this afternoon in Miss Hunt's
studio in the School of Music. All
members are requested to be pres-
ent.
Senior Invitations Fall Below Record
Orders for senior literary invita-
tions this year will be slightly under
the record of previoui years, accord-
ing to representaLives of the firm
which was awarded the cont -act. Or-
ders were filled for 1,040 leather and
2,6333 paper invitations at a cost of
nearly $600. No mor3 orders are be-
ing taken.
Editor, The Michigan Daily:
Grave suspicions have been cast on
the motive behind the articles publish-
ed in The Daily last year by Dr. N.
S. Hardikar, grad.,, in regard to In-
dia.
Under the guise qf innocence there
was a sentiment adverse to British'
rule. Propaganda directed from head-
quarters in New York is found to have
shown comprimising relations with
German agents..
The Brahmo-Somaj movement in
India with which Rabondranath Ta-
gore is connected, consisting of the
highest elements in Hindu thought, is
unsympathetic to English rule and
wishes to restore an Indi& based on
ancient philosophies. They advocate
a perfection of Hindu rule which they
claim to have existed long before the
British came.
It is probably in connection with
this movement that Tagore is said to
have been originally implicated in an
anti-British plot in India. This end
other more violent forms of unrest
have been cultivated by the Germans
in order to arouse India against Birt-
ish rule.
The German chancellor in his re-
cent reply to President Wilson's state-
ment or war aims claimed for India
along with Egypt and Ireland, the
right of "self-determination" of set-
tlement of their own political future,
and a right which Germany has so
graciously extended to Belgium and
Poland.
GUNGA DIN.
WASHINGTON UNIVI
SCHOOL OF NURSINC
Nursing offers to womn
tunity, for patriotic servic
preparation for life and a
broad social usefulness.
Washington University
years' course in Nursing.
instruction is given ilthI
clinical instruction in the
Barnes and St. Louis Ch
pitals, Washington Univ
sary and Social Service
Six months' credit is off
cant havng an AB. ni
from phis college.
Address inquiries to t
Nurses, Barnes Hiospital
Kingshighway, St. Louis,
WOMEN TO HAVE NA'
SERVICE SCID
Such military virtues
and obedience, will be di
erican women at the 1
ment of the First Na1
school, incorporated, to
Washington, D. C., April
first term, and May 12
term.
Agriculture, intensiv
food conservation, and
arts are to be emp
courses in Red Cross N
relief will also be co
agricultural work is t
out by the department
and directed by experts.
Similar camps were
year by the Women's
Navy league at Chevy C
Presidio, San Francisc<
eva, Wis., and Narragai
Any woman 18 years c
or who will be 18 with
after the opening of the
igible to enroll, subject
lations. Full informatic
tained by writing to I
Ellicott Poe, at Twe
Washington, D. C.
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