E V m ,I1 .1 nM R-CONTINUED H BUT SLIGHT TEMPERATURE. / r I I-AN -~-%.-~ ..-l /w , UNITED PRESS WII DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE THE ONLY MORNING P4PER ANN ARBOR AM. XXVII. No. 5. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1916 PRICE FIVE C r i STATE DEPARTMENT OF PACEACTION COGNIZANCE OF GERMAN PRO- POSAL DENIED BY CHAN- CELLOR POLK. NEWS CAUSES STOCK FLURRY Allied Troops Advance in Severe Bal- kan Fighting; Little Activity on Somme Front. Washington, Oct. 6.-In the absence of Secretary Lansing this afternoon, Chancellor Polk of the state depart- ment, stated that the department has absolutely no knowledge of'any peace proposals from Germany that might be carried by Ambassador Gerard, now .en route home from Berlin on a vaca- tion. He said the department had no information of any intimation on Ger- many's part to suggest that the United States act as mediator between the warring nations. At the time of the publication of the recent United Press interview with David Lloyd George, English secretary of state for war, in which he declared that any peace movement from a neu- tral at this time would be regarded as a pro-German move, it was de- clared there was no chance that this government would decide to advance peace suggestions until it was certain they would be acceptable to both sides. Causes Wall Street Flurry. Rumors that Germany was about to submit peace proposals to American Ambassador Gerard caused a flurry of excitement in Wall street this after- noon and resulted in a sharp break in prices on the stock exchange, when received in New York. Definite inform- ation regarding Germany's plans was lacking. The New York Evening Post, how- ever, stated upon "absolutely trust- worthy information" that the Ameri- can ambassador is now en route to this country aboard the steamship Frederick VIL bringing to President Wilson an application from Germany asking the President to use his good offices in suing for peace. This vessel is due at New York about next Tues- day. The Post asserted that its informa- tion was corroborated by sources in this country which it described as "highest authority." The Post was un- able to state upon what terms Ger- many would seek peace. In connec- tion with peace rumors the United Press correspondent at Rome cabled today that the allies have informed the Dutch government that any move to- ward peace on the part of Holland would be construed as a pro-German act. This was the first intimation that the Dutch government had been feel- ing out peace sentiment among the European belligerents. Allies Advance in Balkans London, Oct. 6-Allied troops thrust forward in severe fighting in the.Bal- kans today, and vigorous battles took place along the Strum front. The British oficial statement this afternoon admitted that the Bulgarians had suf- fered reverses in the Struma fight- Ing. Bulgarian troops were forced to evacuate several villages on the east bank of the river and in Transylvania the Germans and Bulgarians made sub- stantial progress against the Rouman- ians. Field Marshall von Valkenhayn's forces moved forward, driving the Rou- manian center back across the Hom- orod and Alt rivers. The semi-official German news agency this afternoon circulated a story estimating Russian losses in the first two years of the war at 6,000,000 men. The news agency based its es- timate on information from Danish sources. On the Somme front all war offices reported there was little activity aside from artillery engagements. Paris reported a renewal of the bom- bardment at Verdun by the Germans after several weeks of inactivity. Union's Student Directory on File The student's directory prepared by the Michigan Union is now on file in the club's office. Until the regular di- rectory is finished this provides the --I- mnlir~r of "Ainr o mfln nn f .0 Late News Briefs London, Oct. 6.-Orvlle Wright, noted American aeroplane inventor, has presented all his patents free of charge to the British government, to- day's issue of the Aviation magazine declared. Waterford, Ireland, Oct. 6.-The pro- posal to enforce conscription in Ire- land was denounced by John Redmond, Irish leader, in a speech her this afternoon as "the most fatal thing that could happen." New York, Oct. 6.-Five men and one woman were indicted by the fed- eral grand jury today on charges of impersonating federal officers, and at- tempting blackmail in connection with thq alleged luring of Edward R. West, Chicago manufacturer, to this city. New York, Oct. 6.-The Hughes Women's special is making votes for Hughes at every stop, in the opinion of National Chairman Wilcox. "The tour is successful from every stand- point," Wilcox said, "and the beauty of it is that the women originated the idea, planned most of the details and are executing them all by themselves." Y.W.C.A. OUTGROWS BUILDING Opening Banquet to Be Held October 14 in Barbour Gymnasium. This year the annual banquet of the Young Women's Christian associa- tion will be held in Barbour gymnas- ium for the first time in the history of the organization. The change was made necessary by the fact that the number who attended last year crowded Newberry hall beyond its ca- pacity. The banquet, which will be held at 6:00 o'clock on Saturday, October 14, is complimentary to freshmen, while upperclass women can secure tickets for 50 cents at a table in the'library. Freshmen who wish to attend are re- quested to call for tickets at Newberry hall not later than 6:00 o'clock Wed- nesday evening. At the banquet, Dean Jordan will act as toastmistress, and a unique pro- grain has been arranged. Wyvern so- ciety will co-operate with the Y. W. C. A. cabinet in making general ar- rangements, while the women of Martha Cook building, Newberry resi- dence, Symphonic league, Mortar Board and Senior society will present stunts in Sarah Caswell Angell hall following the toasts. YEARLING MAIDS WELCOMED Minstrel Show Songs, Dances, Girls! Girls! Juniors Show Big Time. Last night at Barbour gymnasium the junior women entertained the freshmen at the fourth annual junior advisor supper. College activities open to women were discussed as.follows: The Daily, Marion Wilson; Y. W. C. A., Frieda McLellan; Woman's League, Pansy Blake; athletics, Clarissa Vyn; dramatics, Nona Meyers; Glee club, Vera Brown. Later a clever minstrel show was presented by the junior girls with Henryetta Brandebury as interlocutor. The dancing of Mable Hall, Helen Brown and Betty Hall won much ap- plause, as did also Nona Meyers' take- off on Madame Homer. The rest of the program was made up of col- lege songs and hits at well-known in- stitutions on the campus. Gertrude Brock, chairman of the junior advisory committee, had as her assistants Margaret Henderson of the supper committtee; Helen Brown, who planned the minstrel show, and Grace Raynsford, social chairman. MEXICAN DECREE HITS BANKS Carranza Appoints Money Commission to Adjust Trouble. Mexico City, Oct. 6.-Fifteen state banks finding it impossible to comply, with General Carranza's decree re- quiring them to increase their metallic reserve, today agreed to the appoint- ment of a commission to solve their problem of liquidation of their issue after a meeting in the treasury depart- ment. Government banking officials an- nounced that local banks which closed their doors after the decree was is- sued are making arrangements to in- crease their reserve to cover paper is- sued and will reopen soon. YERINGS SHOW FIN E PEP AT 1 ST MASSGATHERING GAULT, DUJNNE, WELCh, PARKER AND PINNEY PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS. 'BOB' BENNETTTEACHES YELLS Student Council Outlines Traditions to Be Followed by Fresh- men. Hill auditorium fairly rang last evening when Cheer Leader "Bob" Bennett taught the class of 1920 how to yell according to Hoyle at the sec- ond annual freshman pep meeting. Long before time for the program to begin the yearlings begn to gather and when Daies threw his first pic- ture on the screen a mob of about 3,000 was present. Following Mr. Daines' pictures of the campus cele- braties and activities of the Univer- sity, "Bob" Bennett started his yell- fest which continued at regular inter- vals throughout the program. Harry Gault, 17L, ex-president of the Michigan Union, was chairman of the evening and first introduced the band which played the "Victors" for the first time this year. Maurice F. Dunne, '17L, varsity foot- ball and baseball player, was the first speaker. He told the youngsters the importance of loyalty, not only to their class, but to the school, and above all to be proud of their university until the day they die. After the freshmen, led by Chase Sikes, grad, had sung "Varsity," M. W. Welch, president of the University Y. M. C. A., gave a "pep talk." "Michigan doesn't want weaklings," declared Welch. "If you are weak, go back where you came from." John C. B. Parker, '17, was the next speaker and urged that the freshmen wear their fresh caps and live up to the traditions of the University. Sikes then taught the yearlings "I Want to Go Back to Michigan." Earl Pinney, '16, came next, and brought out the importance of debat- ing and oratory. He was followed by Glenn C. Coulter, '16-'18L, president of the Union. "The Union stands primarily for the social life of the university," stated Coulter. "It stands for democracy. At the Union all are on an equal plane. Its purpose is to enable the men to make friends." In the last speech, which was given by Dean John R. Effinger of the lit- erary college, the necessity of study- ing was emphasized. "There is one tradition of Michigan which must not be forgotten and that is the tradition of hard work," was the advice of the dean. After thesinging of the "Yellow and the Blue" the freshmen followed the band to the open house at the Union. Following are the list of traditions as stated by the Student Council in the pep meeting program: Your principal business here is to get an education, and a good one. Make a good reputation your fresh- man year and keep it. We know you went to prep school. You know your place. Keep it! Remember, at doors and cross-paths upper-classmen first. Real Michigan freshmen wear fresh- man caps. Don't think that everything that has been done before is a tradition. Only those traditions that make for a better Michigan are Michigan tradi- tions. U-NOTICE All members of the band meet in front of University hall this afternoon, with capes, coats, and puttees. Michigan Men For Michigan ! (The following letter was written at a gathering of Michigan alumni in Detroit Thursday night and sent to The Michigan Daily for publica- tion.-Editor.) "To the Student Body: "Michigan played Marietta Wednesday afternoon and Michigan won. But when our Varsity ran out onto Ferry field before the game, it was greeted by hand-clapping. Not one real Michigan cheer was given that sixteenth team of Yost's. "There may have been some excuse for the absence of the band. But Michigan cheering sections do not need extended practice, and Michigan spirit does not begin with the second game. "Last year Michigan was decisively beaten by M. A. C. The next week, on the heels of defeat, and bigger than any lost game, came a giant mass meeting, the greatest display of Michigan spirit that our univer- sity has ever known. "That mass meeting should have been down there at the Marietta game. "Michigan elevens have not been accustomed to hand-clapping. This 1916 team of ours deserves the red-blooded support of every Michigan -man. It deserves organized cheering-regular Michigan cheers. And it deserves the band. "Come on, Michigan men! Show Case on Saturda that they are playing Michigan-not eleven men, but eleven Michigai men of Yost, backed by the university which is yours and ours." 39000 PRESENT AT MICHIGAN UNIONE WIDE OPEN HOUS BONFIRES LIGHT THE NIGHJ FRESHMEN SHOW GOOD YELL- ING ABILITY. YOST SPEAKS ON FOOTBAl Prof. R. M. Wenley and "Eddi Carroll Other Talkers on Even. Ing's Program. BAND TO DON UNIFORMS FOR GASE__AME TO9A Rehearsals Giee Promise of Splendid Organization for Coming Year In full uniform of yellow and blue the Michigan band will appear on Ferry field today to furnish music for the Case game. This will mark the second public appearance this year of the organization, which showed up so creditably at the freshman mass meet- ing and Union open house last night. Progress among the band boys has been rapid since the first rehearsal on Wednesday night, when 50 men came out for positions. At that rehearsal excellent results were accomplished, considering the fact that most of the men had never played together before. Later work in rehearsals and last night's public appearance cause Cap- tain Wilson to believe that the band this year will be a splendid one. Tryouts will not close until some- time next week, and the membership in the band which played last night and which will play this afternoon is not permanent. No definite organiza- tion can be affected until the names of all of the tryouts have been passed on by the eligibiliity committee. Men who came out for practice but who failed to appear in the band last night or who will not appear this afternoon, will still have a good chance of secur- ing places after the ranks have been thinned by eligibility cuts. GAS COMPANY EMPLOYEE OVERCOME WHILE WORKING Arthur Kauska, a young man em- ployed by the Washtenaw Gas com- pany, had a narrow escape from death by asphyxiation when a faulty air hel- met forced him to breathe gas while he was working in a manhole in North University avenue, near the dental building. He went into the manhole at 4:00 o'clock yesterday afternoon to repair a valve and had been under ground only a few minutes when the man on the surface who was pumping air to him saw him fall over. Kauska was revived with a pulmo- tor owned by the Eastern Michigan Edison company. It took nearly a half hour of work with the pulmotor before he was restored to conscious- ness, and taken to his home, 731 Seventh street. Berlin Reports Aeroplane Success Berlin, Oct. 4, via London.-The ad- miralty made the following announce- ment today: "On the afternoon of Oc- tober 1, naval seaplanes pursued an enemy air squadron. In the fight an enemy aeroplane was shot down. Our machines returned safely." WILSON CONFERS WITH IWESTERN PART% CHIEFS Democratic Candidate Discusses Political Outlook in Chicago. the (By Robert J. Bender, United Piess Staff Correspondent, on Board President Wilson's Train.) Chicago, Oct. 6.-The President stopped off here for an hour and a half today. Governor Dunne and Senator Walsh from Democratic western head- quarters discussed the political situa- tion with him in his private car. Governor Dunne afterward said it was almost certain that the President would address the women of Chicago on the afternoon of October 19, when he comes here to make a big night ad- dress in the stock yards' district. Pres- ident Wilson was disappointed at not having been awakened today in time to greet 3,000 persons who swarmed about the train at Clinton, Iowa. , Greatly encouraged by the reception accorded him on his first trip west since his nomination, the President to- day was preparing a speech t be de- livered tomorrow afternoon from the porch of Shadow Lawn to a delega- tion of "Wilson independents." DRUCOBURN LECTURES SUNDAY Professor in Allegheny College to Be. gin Wesleyan Guild Series. Dr. Camden M. Cobern, of Allegheny college, will deliver the, first of a series of five lectures to be, given un- der the auspices of the Wesleyan Guild of the Methodist church. Dr. Cobern will speak at the Methodist church next Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The second lecture will be given on November 5 by Dr. Robert W. Rogers, dean of the Theological Seminary at Madison, N. J. On November 19, Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, president of the Kentucky illiteracy commission, will address the members of the guild. The fourth lecture will be given by Rev. Chas. E. Jefferson, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle church in New York City. This lecture will be given in Hill auditorium and will be a part of a union service by all the churches of Ann Arbor. The final lecture of the series will be given on the evening of January ' by Lynn H. Hough, professor in the Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois. PROF. RANKIN AND MR. AIKIN WRITE HIGH SCHOOL TEXT Prof. T. E. Rankin, of the rhetoric department, collaborating with Mr. W. M. Aikin, principal of the Ann Ar- By the red light of an enormous bonfire that cast flickering shadows over the mass of upperclassmen al- ready gathered, 1,500 freshmen marched last night from Hill auditor- ium to the Michigan Union open house led by the Varsity band playing the "Victors." There were in all 3,000 men present. It was almost 20 minutes to nine before the fire committee.got the sig- nal to "touch her off" from the volley- ing voices of the freshmen shouting "1920, fight 'em, fight 'em." Soon the Union lot was filled by crowding fresh- men and "Bob" Bennett, '18, Varsity cheer leader, led them in a thunder- ing locomotive. After Harry Carlson, '17, had sung "Men of the Maize and Blue," Prof. R. M. Wenley, of the philosophy de- partment, outlined the purpose of the Michigan Union to the freshmen. He traced the Union from its original coiception in the Michigamua rooms 13 ys ago to the- signing of the contrac for the excavation work last Monday night. He stated that the Union was t great home of Michi- gan spirit and &ged the freshmen to join. Following Professor Wnley, "Ed- die" Carroll, '17, captain ofthe 1917 track team, told the freshmen liw cheering helped the team on the field. He stated that the small crowd of rooters at the Michigan-Harvard game had nearly won the game for Michi- gan. In conclusion he urged every freshman to go down to Ferry field to- day and root for the team. "Get in and work and fight and keep on fight- ing for Michigan," were his words. Coach Fielding H. Yost was the final speaker. Coach Yost told about the prospects for the 1916 football team and praised the Union as being a meet- ing ground for students from all over the world. He said that football was the same as the game of life; pluck and tenacity always win out. In con- clusion he hoped that the freshmen would not only stay on the side lines and root, but get out and work for Michigan's athletic teams. Before the meeting the Union was filled with members enjoying the cider and cigarets. EXAMINATION PLAN ADOPTED Students Absent From Finals to Be Given Questions by Registrar. A new method of making up final examinations from which students were absent last June has been in- augurated in the university this year. Instead of applying- to the instructor whose examination was missed, thei student who was absent from the examination will fill out a blank which is to be procured from Registrar A. G. Hall, stating what examination has been missed. Registrar Hall will then secure from the instructor involved a list of questions and these will be given to the student. Proctors will supervise all delinquent examinations. " When the examinations are com- pletedhthey will be returnedrto Dr. Hall and then graded by the instruc- tors from whose courses the students were absent. Under the new system the instructors will not come into con- tact with the students as heretofore. This system applies only to absences from examinations, and not incom- pletes. The examinations will be given the fourth week of the semester. Employment Bureau Secures Jobs T. S. Cox, '17, chairman of the Michi- gan Union employment bureau, an- nounced yesterday that a large num- ber of jobs had been placed through the Union. He said that one trouble with the system was the failure of - the men to report whether they had taken the positions or not. I 111IIg IlIIIIIIIIIIII811111188811111811 111118111111111If llliill 611111i11ill llllltllilllllllllill,'bor high school, is the author of a book dealing with the history and "The Soul's Eternal 19ustudy of English literature. The H unger" ;book is to be brought shortly out by the Macmillan company of New York. will be the theme upon which Mr. The book, which is intended primarily Wells will speak Sunday morning jas a high school text, is especially unaC noteworthy for the attention given in at it to present day literature, for the S emphasis placed upon the various [types of literary composition, and the relation of these to certain periods in ii18lllllltllp1111118.1!1[888111Ithe development of English literature. a man on I