e Often Wonder
t the Same Thing
oof that all ignorance is not con-
to freshmen was unearthed at
health service the other day.
white-clad practicioner was bend-
over a sufferer peering into the
is of a well-opened mouth. At
he investigator straightened with
h. He also assumed a contented
for he thought he had found
THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, MARCH 3; 1917.
,: Says Causes of India's Famines
Are Due to Rule of Englishmen
t -length he spoke: "Your tonsils
very, very large.'
'he patient roused up bewildered,
sed his hand across his eyes, mut-
d "huh," and the doctor repeated
wordg previously spoken. The
leht then uttered something that
sed the doctor to start, stammer,
stare.
hese were the magical words: "Aw
wan, I just had them removed last
uary at the University hospitals."
RK FOR "CITY BEAUTIFUL"
d Out 500 Pamphlets Telling How
to Set Out Shrubs
he Ann Arbor Civic association
ritifying committee will start its
th annual city beautifying cam-
gn next week. Lists of citizens are
g prepared by the committee and
Lit 500 pamphlets entitled "Our City
utiful," will be mailed.
be pamphlet tells how to make the
beautiful by setting out shrubbery
trees on the lawns and parks.
me lists of trees and shrubbery are
ed with the pamphlet and citizens
Wnn Arbor are able to secure these
post from the committee. During
past three years more than 50,000
ibs have been disposed of by the
mtttee.,
ay E. Basset, city forester, who is
erintendent of the campaign, will
information on the laying out of
trees and shrubs and will aid any
en in laying out the plans of his
n without extra cost. For nominal
'ge, citizens may have their shrubs
trees laid out by students of the
stry department.
Start Series of Exhange Lectures
s part of the annual exchange lec-
ship between the engineering co_
s of the University of Purdue and
University of Michigan, Prof. Law-
e W. Wallace, of Purdue, will give
ries of five lectures on "The Lo-
ftive and Its Uses," in room 348 of
engineering building, during the
k of March 12.
~oung Men Who
Trefer Tailoring
)ur policy is broad-
;auged. WVe're here to
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LANE HALL, THE NEW
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IR-MAN FACES DIZZY
HEIGHTS ITH LU
SCHOOL BOYS I BRITISH ARMY
LOOK ON CLOUD-DUEL AS
SIEASY WORK
Williani iPhilip Sinins
(United I?ress Staff Correspondent.)
With the British Armies in the
Field, Feb. 4.-(By Mail.)-You re-
member the county fair? Remember
I
the tremor of expectancy in the crowd
gathered around the dingy old hot-at
balloon as she swelled, oh, so slowly,
with the smoke and fumes of the bar-
rel-stave fire?
Will you ever forget the thrill she
gave you as she lazily lurched intc
the air, dragging with her the fellow
in the darned but spangled purple
tights, the parachute-jump man with
oiled hair plastered down on his fore-
head? You secretly half hoped he
would fall and half feared he would.
And then, at about 1,500 feet, the
aeronaut's mad leap, his dead drop of
300 to 500 feet, the slow opening of
the parachute and the swinging drift
to the ground: Remember?
Suppose you had to leave your job
in the office, shop or on the farm, and
begin such performances tomrrow?
Suppose you had to go up in a bal-
loon, in any and all sorts of weather,
to be shot at by artillery and lunged
at by hostile aircraft? Suppose you
had to leap from burning balloons, or
get tossed out of the basket of one
while passing through the clouds?
"Your Country Needs You"
What if America should suddenly
find herself in a war and the bill-
boards should say: "Your Country
Needs You." Think you could do
those things for her? British boys
are doing the little trick every day.
Yesterday they were clerking in stores,
working in shops, bookkeeping in of-
ices or going to school. Today they
are making parachute leaps from bal-
loons and other more thrilling things
still.
Yesterday that lieutenant you find
yourself talking to, was a pink-and-
white youth at Eton preparing to go
up to Cambridge. Today he considers
fighting duels above the clouds with
Germans as much a part of his job as
yesterday he considered calculus to be.
Yesterday be was a school kid writing
essays abot flowers. Now he handles
a machine gun like a demon as he
hurtles through the sky two miles a
minute, or nose-dives after a war-
hardened youth like himself whom he
is trying to kill.
Here's an example. The incident
occurred in the observation ballooiu
section. Two youngsters, carrying out
observations over the German de-
fenses, suddenly got a shell through
their balloon. It began to fall, slowly
at first, then faster. They were about
a mile high.
"We're Hit and Falling"
"We're hit and falling," one of the
observers phoned down to the ground.
"The hostile gun is at X-22-D62!" A
moment later the second observer
phoned down the position of the hos-
tile battery which had punctured them,
but gave the position slightly differ-
ent.
hut serving as balloon section tele-
phone central, "that you two gentle-
men failed to agree on the location of
the hostile battery which brought you
down." And though there was a
twinkle in his eye, his voice was
severe.
"Sorry, sir!" one of the young of-
fiers replied with a smart salute, "but
perhaps our error was due to the ob-
servat ions being taken at different al-
tit d ." Throughout the British army
one finds boyish-looking officers. And
they have again and again proved
themselves up like this, when the
Pinch has come.
4,1O l cet in the Air
S'wo other young officers while at
an altitude of about 4,000 feet found
tlh ,Iselves caught in a windstorm be-
fore they could be hauled down. Just
before reaching earth a violent gale
lit the balloon, which pulled the winch
on the ground completely over, snap-
ping the wire cable. The sausage went
up and off among the clouds like a
bubble in a whirlwind.
At a tremendous height the balloon
was struck by lightning and set on
fire, throwing one of the officers out
of the basket. His parachute opened,
but as the balloon, now falling like a
rock, had its rigging tangled up with
the lower cords of tlie parachute, the
latter began descending at frightful
velocity through the storm clouds. The
officer might have cut the balloon
loose, making his own escape a cer-
tainty, but he would have doomed his
brother officer to certain death. So he
refrained, preferring to take the mil-
lionth chance along with the other
man.
The velocity of the fall extingu-
ished the fire which had burned a
great hole in the balloon and wind,
getting in through this opening, caused
the fabric to swell out, thus forming
a parachute of itself. The ground was
reached with a thud which broke a
collar-bone or two but both young
men walked to the nearest dressing
station where they "reported" beforet
receiving first aid.
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CiT Y.MI C - A.oCLOSES
ITS FIVE-DA CMPIG
BAlSE MORE THAN REQUIRED
AMOUNT TO ERASE
DEBTS
Thirty-one thousand two hundred
sixteen dollars and eighty cents
marked the end of the five-day city
Y. M. C. A. $30,000 campaign which
closed at 8 o'clock last night at the
association building.
Mr. Charles L. Brooks, captain of
team number three, reported the great-
est amount secured, which was $4,888.
Mr. H, J. Abbott, captain of team num-
her nine, was second with a total
amount of $4,203.50. Mr. J. Karl Mal-
colm, captain of team number four,
was third with a total amount of $2,-
402. Eighty of the local business men
volunteered their services towards the
securing of donations. For the first
time in its history, the association will
be absolutely free from debt and pre-
pared to do its work unhampered by
financial embarrassment, according to
the association's circular.
Mr. L. J. Hoover of the Hoover Steel
Ball company started the movement
by a donation of $10,000 for the in-
stalling of a swimming pool on the
condition that the directors and
trustees of the association would
raise an additional $20,000.
SO SHE KISSED HIM!
Cabin Boy Effects Change in Mary's
Bouquet of Flowers
New York, March 2.-In quest for
new gowns for the "movies," Mary
Garden sailed for Spain today with
three trunks, 18 quarts of milk, and
a gold headed cane.
She was in high spirits as she
tripped up the gang plank of the
steamer Alfonso XIII, and when a
cabin boy offered her a bouquet of
jonquils she promptly threw aiway a
bunch of orchids she was carrying,
took the boy in her arms, and kissed
him.
Nijinske and 52 members of the Rus-
sian ballet, whose last American ven-
ture failed, were also passengers on
the Alfonso. The ship carried a total
of 111first class and 67 second class
passengers, including many Ameri-
cans.
"The Causes of India's Famines" is
the subject of the fifth article of a
series of 12 dealing with that country
by Dr. N. S. Ilardikar.
"The government of a people by
themselves," writes John Stuart Mills,
"has a meaning and reality, but such a
thing as a government of one people
by another people does not, and can
not exist. One people may keep an-
other people for their own benefit, may
use their country as a place in which
to make money. In such a case the
subjugated country becomes a cattle
farm for the profits of the other's in-
habitants."
This is quite true of countries which
are being ruled by foreign people. It
is especially true of India. "The more
I read about the British rule in In-
dia," writes William Jennings Bryan
in his "India," of July 20, 1906, pub-
lished in London, "the more unjust it
seems. The trouble is that England
acquired India for her own advantage,
not for India's. She administers to
India with an eye to England's inter-
ests, and she passes judgment upon
every question as a judge would, were
he permitted to decide his own case."
Since this is so what wonder is
there that poverty, famines, and dis-
eases should make their home in In-
dia? We are accustomed to speak with
horror of that terrible destroying
agency, war. But there are in our
land of ancient fame and prosperity
agencies which are far more terrible,
and far more destructive in operation
than the worst war recorded.'
Men Die Like Flies
What, for instance, is the loss in-
flicted on Europe by the wars in Bel-
gium or Serbia compared with the
mortality from disease in India during
the same period? Men die like martyrs
on the battlefield for their country in
one case and people die in heaps like
flies in the other. They die from want
of food, and lack of care. Were I
asked to choose one of these deaths I
should prefer the former. The Eu-
ropean war is nothing with the war
silently fought upon the soil of India.
Dadabhai Naoroji, the grand old
man of India, once a member of the
British parliament, and who is now 92
years old, said in his book on "Pov-
erty and British Rule in India": "The
British made the famines in India."
In his book, "The New Spirit of In-t
dia," H. W. Nevinson says: "Our rigidl
and revolutionary methods of exactingi
the land revenue have reduced the
peasantry to the lowest extreme of
poverty and wretchedness. Famines1
are now more frequent and severe d
"Stated roughly," says Sir William
Digley in "Prosperous British India":
"Famines have been four times as
numerous during the last 30 years of
the nineteenth century as they were
100 years earlier, and more wide-
spread.
"Famines in India are not due to
the lack of food supply. Enough food
has always been grown in India to
feed the population. But the people
are so resourceless, so absolutely un-
prepared, that when crops do fail, they
are unable to buy food from any neigh-
boring province, which may have a
rich harvest. It is the poverty of the
people which brings on the famines."
Famine Due to Poverty
Rev. J. T. Sunderland of this city
claims "The cause of Indian famines
is the extreme, the abject, poverty of
the Indian people. The cause behind
this poverty is found in the simple
fact that India is a subject land, ruled
by a foreign power which keeps her
subjected not only politically, but com-
mercially, financially, and indus-
trially."
In a letter to Theodore Roosevelt,
Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago, Prof.
C. R. Lanman of Harvard, William
Lloyd Garrison, and Myron H. Phelps
of New York, said: "Englishmen went
to India in the beginning not for be-
nevolent purposes, but because India
was a country of great wealth, having
an almost world-wide trade from
which they hoped to reap large fi-
nancial returns. FIrom the first ap-
pearance of England in India a stream
of wealth began to flow to London.
The exact amount of this drain at the
present time is difficult to ascertain,
but it is considerable more than $100,-
000,000 a year."
ENROLLMENT IN FIRST AID
COURSES REACHES 100 MARK
Examinations for American Red Cross
Certificates Held Next Sat-
urday
Over 100 students enrolled in the
first aid to the injured courses at 7:30
o'clock last evening at the University
health service. The complete schedule
of classes and instructors will be an-
nounced later.
Examinations for the American Red
Cross certificates, conducted by Dr.
F. R. Towne, the examining officer for
this district, will be held next Satur-
day in the basement of the Homoeo-
pathic hospital. All those desiring to
take the courses should apply to Dr.
Clyde B. Stouffer at the health service
before the time of the meeting.
The Red Cross certificates, which
are signed by President Wilson, will
entitle the "holder to a place in the
medical corps in case of hostilities.
than formerly; and it is the irony of
fate that our statute book is swollen
with measures of relief in favor of,
the victims who have been impover-
ished by our administrative system.
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Then both boys jumped. Their
parachutes opened about the same dis-
tance down and, not more than 50
feet apart, they were wafted earth-
ward together.
"The blighters!" one youth called
over to the other as they dangled half
a mile above the earth. "They couldn't
do that again in a million shots."
"Rummy lot of stale cheeses!"
growled the other, waving an arm in
the direction of the Germans. "Pure
accident. They couldn't hit a bread
wagon if they tried." Thus chatting
they landed in a field about a mile
from their winch, and patiently
trudged back.
"I'm sorry to note," said the com-
pany commander as they entered the
lac-a3l argaeiite Clark in 1Wild *
S Flowers" fox comedy, "His *
S Ticklish Job." *
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AT TIE MAJESTIC
Owing to the fact that the Tennessee
Ten and their Jazz Band, open on
Monday matinee at B. F. Keith's Or-
pheum theater, Brooklyn, N. Y., the
management of the Majestic theater
announces that the program will be
rearranged for the night performances
tonight. Instead of this act closing
the show, it will open it and the Polzin
Brothers will close. The last show
will start promptly at 9 o'clock.
Iuth Ely V. W. C. A. Vice-President
Due to an error, Hazel Beckwith,
'19, was named in yesterday's Daily
as vice-president of the University Y.
W. C. A. The name should have been
ti at of Ruth Ely ,'19, who was elected
as a result of Thursday's vote.
Make reservations for Sunday night
luncheons, Delta Cafe. .Phone 817-M.
Huron Valley Bldg. & Say. Assec.
H. H. Ierbst, Sec. and Atty. Room,
14, A. A. Say. Bank Bldg. Safest
place to invest your earnings. Divid-'
ends never less than 6 percent. Money'
loaned at lowest rates. tue-eod
Gen. L. Wood Cancels Engagement
The National Security league receiv-
ed a telegram from Gen. Leonard Wood
yesterday, canceling his engagement
to address the Ann Arbor division
of the league next week.
Additional duties growing out of
the present critical international situ-
ation, was the reason General Wood
gave for his inability to appear in Ann
Arbor.
The league is attempting to obtain
a man of national repute to take
General Wood's place.
Freshmen Form Racquet Association
All freshmen interested in tennis
are requested to meet in the social
room of Lane hall at 7:30 o'clock
Monday evening for the purpose of or-
ganizing a tennis club. The purpose
of this club will be to centralize all
men who play this game so that a
schedule may be arranged for matches
this spring.
Mr. GA. IL Pfeif Interviews Engineers
Mr. G. H. Pfief of the General Elec-
tric company spent yesterday in inter-
viewing senior engineers who are in-
terested in obtaining positions with
his company. It is probable that he
will be in Ann Arbor again soon and
those who failed to see him yesterday
will have an opportunity at that time
to do so.
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1857-Dry Goods, Furniture and Women's Fashions- iy7
Three Charming Groups of
New Dresses
SURPRISINGLY SPECIAL for SATURDAY
An opportunity for fashionable young women to
obtain at important savings, the correct afternoon and
evening gowns required for the Spring wardrobe.
Each group presents a diversity of styles and all
sizes, but it is only during Saturday thai they will be
offered at less than regular prices.
SILK POPLIN afternoon frocks becoming tailored in
the new loose box pleated and fitted effects. Navy, copen-
hagen, sand and gray.
$12 00 values at
11
$8.50
SERGE DRESSES made in a variety of pleated models with
belts or sashes and extra detachable collars and cuffs of white
I
11
silk poplin.
Apple green, navy and dark plum.
$16.6o values at
[!II
$11.50
PARTY GOWNS in smart draped and tunic effects, trimmed
with gold and silver lace. White, pink, nile, maize or black
over raspberry or turquoise blue. The collection includes
every party gown in stock.
$25.00 to t45.oo values at
Half
Banjorine orchestra, Delta
Sunday evening luncheon, 50c.
Cafe,
l ii (SECOND FLOOR SALONS)
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