* UOMMEACE COMMISSIOI rst tte Body Makes Recommend tleas to Congress; Adjusts N Rates The thirteenth annual report of the Interstate Commerce commission for the year ending Oct. 31, 1916, has just been made public. It deals in order with the many departments which the commission has under its control. The number of formal complaints filed during the year with the commis- sion for their consideration is 854 and the investigation3 Instituted by them is 223. During the year the commis- sion conducted 1,485 hearings and took approximately 154,488 pages of testimony. The division of corre- spondence and claims disposes of the informal business of the commission and during the year answered approx- imately 50,000 inquiries. Commission Adjusts Rates The matter of greatest interest and importance coming under the fourth section of the act to regulate com- merce has been the question of the proper adjustment. of the transconti- nental rates. Rates also occupy a major part in the duties of the com- mission and during the year just past 10,642 tariff publications containing changes in rates, fares, classifications, and charges were filed by carriers. The division of inquiry listed 54 in- dictments for violations of the act to regulate commerce and 53 cases were concluded. Makes Recoimmendations to Congress The commission made a number of recommendations to congress includ- ing provision for the punishment of any attempt to influence by threat the testimony of any witness before the commission, that the commission be given definite and specific authority to prescribe for all carriers by rail sub- ject to the code of rules and regula- tions governing interchange of cars, return of cars to the owning road, and the compensation which common car- riers shall pay for the use of each others' cars, and that by statute the congress fix the interstate rates, fares, rules and regulations existing at a specific date, and provide that no change therein after that specified date may be made except upon order of the commission. Ann Arbor's progressive merchants use the Michigan Daily as their adver- Using medium. *: * :* * AT THE THEATERS TODAY )Ta estic -Viola Dana in "The C(ossack Whip," Orpheun: -Leonore Ulrich in "The Intrigue." Also Holmes Travels. ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dec. 16. This attraction is one of the great extravaganzas produced c.t the Winter Garden in New York city each year. The Winter Garden has become famous for its many creations along spectacular lines. "A World of Pleasure" is reported to be one of the most ambitious pro- ductions of this famous temple of amu'emnt. If we are to believe ad- vance reports the company appearing here will number over 100 people, comnozed mostly of girls. At the Majestie T+:: Wasihingtoti Square Prayers Tine Wauthiiamostn iqure Plaer There is plenty to amuse in the bill Gne of tho most unique organiza- which opens at the Majestic tomor- tiwns of late years is found in the hihpesathMjstctm - V-lashofngte yearsPiayersnd ithrow night. It is a bill filled with nov- Washington Square Players, which cities, music and song. A big girl act will give several performances at the t d somy.tfyig girl a t Whitney Theater Dec. 15. A group of intd a mystifying girl who fats out actors, artists. and authors, havingtrt the avowed purpose of stimulating and Beauty, youth and grace are exem- develoling new and artistic methods plified ten-fold in Anderson's girl re- of acting, producing, and writing for vue, the whirling frolic of song, dance the American stage has earned con- and costumes, which is the feature of siderable and well-merited praise in their production of 32 plays by both American and European dramatists, which might not otherwise have been given a hearing. Five plays in all will be produced in Ann Arbor, three by American and two by foreign authors. Phillip Kloel- ler is the American playwright whose "Helena's Husband," and "The Road- house in Arden" will be presented, as well as "Moondown," by John Reed. Austria contributes to the drama in tbe form of Arthur Schnitzler's "Lit- erature," while Maurice Maeterlinck, author of the famous "Blue Bird," will represent Belgium in his "Miracle of St. Anthony." "A World of Pleasure" "A World of Pleasure" is announced this bill. A novelty is "The Girl In the Moon." It is a charming musical offering with a mysterious and pleasing finish. A pretty maiden, sitting in a new moon, sails out over the audience, drops now and then low amongst them, and pins carnations in the buttonholes of coats while singing popular songs. The other acts on the program are: Fields, Keans, and Walsh, Harry Ad- le; and Anna Arline, and Will Morris. These present clever singing and dancing, an odd hypnotic act, and hu- inorous pantominme respectively. Today the offering will be the much talked of picture, "The Cossack Whip." with Viola Dana. It is a Russian story of interest which concludes with the girl victim finally getting the best of the prefect of police and giving him ROSAL E 3 ATIHEWS AND HAROLD Fi DR MAIN, WITh TIIHE WASip TON SQUARE PLAYERS, AT THE WHITNEY THEATRE, FRlD. DECEMBER 15. "LIKE STORIES" "The Woman in Drab" "Candlesticks" Two real good ones. in the Christmas INLANDER "W Inesday's the Day" FILMS DEVELOPED FREE if prints are ordered 8x10 Enlargements sepia or black and white only 25c Limited time only Offer Closes Jan. j 1917 Leave orders at any of the fol- lowing stores: The Delta, Cor. Packard & State. Sugdens Drug Co., S. State. Students' Supply Store, S. Univ. Eberbach Pharmacy, E. Liberty. Fischer's Pharmacy, E. Liberty. Edsill's Rexall Drug Store, S. Main St. Tice's Drug Store, S. Main St. Dawson Bros.' E. Huron St. Crippen's Drug Store. N. Main. East End Supply Store, Cather- ine St., near Hospital. Amateur Finishing Syndicate Inc. 232 Nickels Arcade Notice: We have Discontinued the Agency for Amateur Finish- ing at Calkins' Drug Co. pr at man Hereafter they will appear only in The Gloe Club Concerts ONRLY' AVIS- HAS So you will have to come to Hill A. d toriurn the Wlitney Theater, Saturday, Ia dose of his own medicine. W. r:t -tin r Friday, S A! December 15 I F T S A AND WHAT'S MORE THE MIDNIGHT SONS QUARTETTE TSB "COME DY FOUR" THE VARSITY QUAR.TET TE THE BANJO SEXTETTE will be there at THAT GLEE AND MANDOLIN CLUB'S AFTER THE CONCERT ,GLEE CLUB DANCE BARBOUR oYM TICKETS AT $1.00 "IKE" FISHER'S 10 PIECE ORCHESTRA Cor. Maynard and William Sta. r 3