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VOL. XXVII. No. 124.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1917.
PRICE FIVE
YOST IN' FAVOR Of
WESTERN GAMESI
Union Opera Ends
Home engagement
Cast and Chorus Retire Until
Performance at Detroit
April 9
Next
Says It Is Neither Desirable
Practicable tq Be Half
East and West
Nor
"Fools' Paradise" is no more for
Ann Arbor audiences. Last night
'T ALLOT UPON
MILITARYTRAINING
Committee Will Recommend That the
Regents Consider Compulsory
Drills at Meeting
CONGRESS TO PROVIDE FREE
EQUIPMENTS AND UNIFORMS
Definkte Dates Are to Be Arranged
Tomorrow and Announced
in The Daily
Michigan students will be given a
Peace
"MICHIGAN ALIWAYS WANTED TO
COMPETE WITH CONFERENCE"
Would Discontinue Games with All
Colleges Not Having Same
Eligibility Rules
By Fielding I. Yost
Nashville, Tenn., March 24.-(Spe-
cial)-You requested my opinion re-
garding Michigan's return to the con-
ference. I want to say that I am.
very strongly in favor of it. I want
to return absolutely and completely.
I do not deem it desirable or prac-
ticable to attempt to be half East and
half West. We have been West in
eligibilty and other restrictive meas-
ures and East only in competition. We
have heavily handicapped ourselves.
Our competitors have not asked or re-
quired us to do so.
Gives Reasons
My main reasons for a resumption
of athletic relations with conference
colleges are:
1. That practically all Michigan
men have always wanted to compete
with western college teams, but in
1906 conditions arose within the con-
ference which made such competition
impossible, for intercollegiate athletics
were almost abolished by this organ-
ization. Michigan remained in the con-
ference observing every conference
rule during the football season of
1906 and until after the football sched-
ule of 1907 was made up, but could
not get a single conference game ex-
cept that with Illinois in 1906. Chicago
and Wisconsin cancelled the games
already contracted for with Michigan
for the 1906 season.
2. That from all reports we can
look forward to friendly and con-
tinuous athletic relations with all con-
ference teams, including Chicago and
Wisconsin, and that there will be a
more general and sympathetic inter-
est on the campus in such competi-
tion than that now existing in our
present schedule.,
Will Be on Equal Footing
3. That if we are in the confer-
ence it will not matter much what
rules and regulations are in force, as
we will be competing with our op-'
ponents on an equal footing so far as
eligibilty rules are concerned.
4. It has not been possible to se-
cure satisfactory baseball and track
schedules outside of the conference.
On returning to the conference I do
not believe that the millenium will
come, in other words that high class'
athletes will "swarm" to Michigan
and that all Michigan students will
suddenly become imbued with the
spirit of work and sacrifice, and get
down in the trenches and dig to gain
a place on Michigan's athletic teams,a
or that all interest on the campus will
become active, helping forces for
Michigan's athletic success. Much has
been said about our present football
competition. Could one wish for ak
stronger schedule of games or one in
which there will be more interest than'
Cornell, Pennsylvania, k. A. C., Ne-
braska?
Played Small Colleges Before
Words of scorn have been utteredr
about'our competing with Kalamazoo,
but a reference to the past records of
Michigan football games will show
that when we were in the conference
the Varsity football teams playeda
Kalamazoo, Ypsilanti Normal, Orchard
Lake Military academy, Wittenberg,
Albion, Ferris institute, and Ohio Nor-'
mal university. Why a crime to play
such institutions when we are out of
the conference?
We want to get back to the con-1
ference because we believe our com-
petition with conference colleges will
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Rioters Disturb
Gathering
DEFINITE MOVE
Of PREPAREDNEII
BRING WAR CLOS
marked the final performance of the
1917 Michigan Union opera in the
Whitney theater.
L. T. Donahue, '19, as "Gwendolyn,"
will cease her endeavors to find her
husband; C. W. Clark, '18, as "Vir-
ginia," the intellectual "woman stu-
dent" who was "crushed," will be un-
able to uphold Phi Beta Kappa; C.
Frederick Watson, '17, as "Hiram,"
will lay aside his "frosh" cap, and
0. G. Williams, '19, as "Tubby," the
perspiring athletic aspirer, will re-
tire until April 9, when the show ap-
pears in Detroit.
For two weeks the bottles will ac-
cumulate without the attention of H.
W. Goldstick, '17D, as "Sherman," the
colored porter; F. J. Wurster, '17, as
"Daisy," cannot elope, and C. A.
Zanelli, '17E, as "Pietro," will retain
his Spanish songs.
Comedy Club To
Play in Haes tic
Three Consecutive Performances
Be Given at Popular
Prices
to
The Comedy club will present its
play, "Miss Hobbs," Friday and Sat-
urday with a matinee on Saturday,
May 11 and 12, in the Majestic the-
ater at popular prices.
This is the first time in the history
of University dramatics that such a
costly production has been offered at
prices ranging from 25 to 50 cents.
It will cost between $500 and $600 to
produce the play and it is only
through the co-operation of the man-
ager of the Majestic that such low ad-
missions have been made possible.
"Miss Ilobbs" is one of Jerome K.
Jerome's farcial comedies and is par-
ticularly adapted to a college dramatic
club.
Morrison Wood, '17, and Jean Mac-
Cleunan, '19, will play the two lead-
irg parts.
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chance to express their sentiments on
compulsory military training by straw
ballot, following a mass meeting to be
held early this week at which the
need of bringing the patter before the
board of regents will be discussed:
The committee on military training,
consisting of President Harry B.
Hutchins as chairman, Regents H. C.
Bulkley and Benjamin S. Hanchett,
and the deans of the University, will
meet this week and recommend to
the board of regents which meets Fri-
day that the board consider the whole
subject of military training at the
University.
Mass Meeting to Be Held
The entire student body is invited
to attend the mass meeting which
will probably be held Tuesday. The
question will be put squarely before
the students with a plan for com-
pulsory military training in the Uni-
versity and the advisability of sub-
mitting the question to the board of
regents. This is to give all students,
doubtful of the feasibility of such
training, an opportunity to acquaint
themselves with the facts.
Equipment Provided Free
Congress recently enabled the war
department to provide all univer-
sities with uniforms and full equip-
nicuts, without expense to the student.
The war department will also detail
officers to such universities where
uniformed companies have regular
drills, without expense to the uni-
versities. The course of instruction
to be pursued is prescribed by the
government under the general order
number 99. When the student body,
previously expressed its sentiment,
by straw ballot, such provisions had
not yet been made by congress.
The' straw ballot to be held, not
later than Thursday, is to provide the
committee on military training with
a concrete expression of the student
body. Definite dates will be arranged
tomorrow and announced through
The Daily and posters.
Dr. Louis E. Holden Speaks Tonight
Dr. Louis E. Holden, formerly presi-;
dent of Wooster university, will speak<
at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Presby-
terian church on "Waste as an Ameri-
can Sees It." This will be one of the
Tappan lectures.
BISHOP CHARLES D.'WILLIAMS,
D.D., who speaks at 10:30 o'clock to-
day on "The Gospel of Today" in St.
Andrew's Episcopal church.
BRITISH IN HANGE
oF HINDENBURG LINES
TEUTON RESISTANCE STIFFENING
ALL ALONG THE
FRONT
By Ed. L. Keen
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
London, March 24.- British troops
tonight fight in range of the German
guns on the "Hindenburg line." Field
Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reported
his forces had battered their way
through the German rear guard and
occupied Roisel, fives miles distant
from the Cambrai-St. Quentin line,
supposed to be the new German front.
German resistance apparently was
stiffening along the line.
On the French front latest dispatch-
es indicated the French were main-
taining the same speed which has
characterized their pursuit of the Ger-
mans from the start, but as on the
British front the resistance of the
Teutons was increasing.
Fighting on the western front natur-
ally over-shadowed military action
elsewhere, but military observers to-
night were interested in an increase
in the fighting on the Russian front,
reported by both Petrograd and Ber-
lin.
Mass Meeting Results in Fist Fight;
Hecklers Soon Ejected from
Audience
New York, March 24.-A small riot
with open fighting featured attempts
of several belligerent and militant
spectators at tonight's mass meeting
of the emergency peace committee to
object to the pacifist proceedings.
Thfee or four persons in the audi-
ence near the speaker's stand started
heckling Chairman John J. Milhol-
land. In a moment several hundred
persons charged the disturbers, and
a fist fight ensued. The hecklers were
ejected after 20 minutes' of fisticuffs.
MISSOURI SENATOR
ADDRESSES 25,000
Predicts Fall of Teuton Dynasties
When America Enters
Conflict
Kansas City, Mo., March 24.-De-
claring that the moment America
throws herself into the European con-
flict the hour of fate will have struck
for the Hchenzollern and Hapsburg
dynasties, Senator James A. Reed,
Missouri's junior senator, told 25,000
persons, who crowded into Convention
hall here tonight, that "the world is to
witness how dangerous it is to awak-
en a sleeping giant."
Thousands who had paraded Kansas
City's streets since mid-afternoon
were unable to enter the great audi-
torium where the largest patriotic
demonstration in the history of the
middle west was being held.
Senator Reed made the principal ad-
dress. Hen made no mention of Mis-
souri's senior senator, William J.
Stone, nor did he refer in any way to
Stone's failure to support the presi-
dent during the closing hours of the
last congress.
SCHOOLMEN GATHER
Superintendents and School ,Board
Men to Discuss Problems
The annual convention of the Mich-
igan Association of School Superin-
tendents and School Boards will open
at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in
the Natural Science lecture room.
There will be a second session at 7:30
o'clock tomorrow night.
Mr. F. A. Peterson, Ohio superin-
tendent of public instruction, will de-
liver two addresses in the afternoon:
One on "Some Definitions of Educa-
tion," and the other on "Education as
World Building." Reports on school
legislation will be given by Mr. F. L.
Keeler, Michigan superintendent of
public instruction, and Prof. Allen S.
Whitney of the education department.
THE REV. L. A. BARRETT TALKS
TO UNION CLASS TOMORROW
The Union Study class will meet at
7:30 o'clock tomorrow night in Lane
hall. The Rev. L. A. Barrett will
speak on "Peace and the Kingdom"
and James C. Brown, '18, will give an
oration on "Christianity and Militar-
ism." Ralph J. Frackelton, '18M, ac-
companied by Mrs. Frackelton will
play a violin solo.
POLONIA LITERARY CIRCLE
TO BE ENTERTAINED TONIGHT
Mr. L. A. Makielski of the engineer-
ing college will entertain the Poonia
literary circle at 7:30 o'clock tonight
in his studio, 320 South Division
street.
Prof. L. C. Karpinski of the mathe-
matics department will speak.
Women's Peace Party Holds Meeting
There will be a meeting of the Uni-
versity of Michigan branch of the
Women's Peace party at 4:10 o'clock
RECALL BRAND WHITLOCK FROM
BELGIUM; WITHDRAW RE-
LIEF WORKERS
PLACE CENSORSHIP
ON PRESS ARTICLES
Government May Provide Allies with
Big War Loan; to Create
Training Camps
By Carl D. Groat
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, March 24.-The United
States swung several paces nearer
war today with big, comprehensive
preparedness moves.
The government bought 24 new de-
stroyers with orders to hasten their
construction. It ordered Brand Whit-
lock to quit his post as minister to
Belgium, and withdrew American re-
lief workers, at the same time brand-
ing Germany with faithlessness even
in her pledges of protection for Bel-
gium relief ships. It ordered two reg-
iments of militia out to guard the Big
Fore River shipbuilding plant at
Quincy, Mass., and other establish-
ments in the Bay state.
Other steps nearer war were the
following: announcement that the de-
partment commanders are obtaining
sites for big training camps like that
at' Plattsburg, New York, and that
millions authorized by the last con-
gress will be spent on equipping these
tracts; information that definite land
defenses are under way.
Voluntary News Censorship
Voluntary censorship was clamped
on news under an agreement between
the state, war, and navy departments
and big press associations of the na-
tion. Later it is believed an actual
wartime censorship will be imposed
by legislation.
Allied government representatives
are keen to have this government pro-
vide them a big loan as a war step.
This will be done unless the nation
opposes the idea. Spokesmen of the
allies here express the view that it
would be inadvisable to send an over-
seas army from this country at the
present time.
CONSIDER SITUATION
Council to Discuss Michigan's Rela.
tion to the National Crisis
Planning to discuss the national
situation with regard to its possible
relation to the University of Michi-
gan in the event of war the Student
council has called a special meeting.
President Harry B. Hutchins will be
present. The deans of the different
colleges and the heads of the various
campus organizations have been asked
to attend.
The meeting will be held at 7:30
o'clock Monday night in room of
the Law building.
SOPHOMORE WO7IEN RUN RELAYS
IN PRELIMINARY MEET MONDAY
Relay racing will form the principal
test in the sophomore women's pre-
liminary apparatus meet to be held at
4:50 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Bishop Williams Speaks This Morning
The Rt. Rev. Charles D. Williams,
D.D., bishop of Michigan, will admin-
ister the rite of confirmation at 10:30
o'clock this morning in St. Andrew's
Episcopal church. "The Gospel for
Today" will be the subject of his ser-
mon. Bishop Williams will preach
again at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Change Time of Senior Girls' Supper
The time of the senior girls' supper
has been changed from 6 to 5:30
o'clock on Tuesday night, March 27.
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UNION GRANTED SOLE RIGHT
TO CHARTER SPECIAL TRAINS
The committee on Student af-
fairs has, by authority of the Sen-
ate council, granted to the Mich-
igan Union the sole right to make
arrangements with the railroads
for special train service at vaca-
tion times.
The activity of individual stu-
dents, heretofore, in making such
arrangements on their own re-
sponsibility has been the cause of
serious concern to the authorities
of the Univiersity. The Union, a
perpetual and responsible organ-
ization with every facility. for
handling such business, has
agreed to take the matter in hand.
We are thus assured of a stable
policy conforming to the rules of
the University and founded on the
interests of the students in gener-
al. It is suggested that the stu-
dents co-operate with the Union
by making known their wants and
seeking information as to trains
at the earliest possible time.
(Signed) LOUIS A. STRAUSS,
For the Committee on Student
Affairs.
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OSBORN WILL
SPEAKI
Ex-Warden to Discuss Common Sense
in Prison Management
Thomas Mott Osborn, ex-warden of
Sing Sing prison, lecturer, reformer,
and extensive traveler, will address
the Wesleyan guild at 7:30 o'clock
tonight in the First Methodist church
on "Common Sense in Prison Man-
agement."
Presbyterian Church
HURON & DIVISION STS.
Louis Edward Holden
7:30 P. M.
Theme:
"Waste, As An American
Sees It."
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Michigan Union Cafe Opens This Noon
Though not entirely redecorated, the
Michigan -Union dining rooms will
open this noon to members. A Sun-
day dinner and an evening lunch will
b served.
Wesleyan Guild Lecture
Thomas Mott Osborne
Formerly Warden of the Sing Sing Prison
Subject: Common Sense in Prison Management
Tonight Tngt
TnhMethodist Church Tonight
7:30 7:30
'Monday, March 26, in Newberry hall. No tickets will be sold at the door.
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