t THE WEATHER COLDER; POBABLY F Ali1 rrfr ilk UNITED PRESS DAY AND NIGHT WIRE SERVICE s t No. 12i. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1917. PRICFI~ PVE 4"ET' rav+./ a i v L 4 LL1Y : .. . ---. 1 1 SPRING FOOTBALL PRACTICE BEGINS THIS AFTERNOON CAPTAIN SMIT ISSUES CALL FOR ALL CANiDIDATES TO REPORT YOST HERE IN APRIL TO SUPERVISE WORK Will Take Charge of Squad Aided by Assistant Coach Pontius Captain Smith of the 1917 Varsity eleven, announced yesterday that the annual spring practice would start at 3:15 o'clock today on Ferry field. Every man in the University who has any ambition to play on a Michi- gan Varsity football team is urged personally by the captain to come out and begin training immediately. With only 39 men who have had experi- ence in Michigan football on the regu- lar roster of available material, the chanCes for landing a berth on the next team are exceptionally good and every Michigan man who can play football is urged to report today. Coach Yost and Assistant Coach Pontius will take charge of the squad immediately following spring vaca- tion. In the meantime Captain Smith will have charge, while Mac McGinnis and Buzz Catlett will assist in train- ing the candidates. The Varsity leader stated that those men who came out after the first call and who worked during the two weeks before vacation would be given spe- cial consideration and will have the advantage over those who await Coach Yost's arrival before doing any work. Conference teams have been work- ing for the last three weeks, while eastern institutions such as Cornell, Princeton, and Yale have been out two weeks. Nearly all of these uni- versities have had from 50 to 85 men out on the first day, while the best that Michigan boasted last year on any day was about 45, and only a few more than a dozen reported on the first day. It is hoped by those in charge that this record will not recur this year. Equipment may be obtained after 3:15 o'clock at the clubhouse on Ferry field this afternoon. Regular work will be started at once, with two squads to practice on alternate days. FRESH MANDOLIN CLUB HOLD MEETING THURSDAY EVENING The net meeting of the Freshman, Mandolin club will be held on Thurs- day night instead of on Wednesday. The club has been recently organ- ized and h1arry Sunley elected man- ager and G. Carrington Dinwiddie, li- brarian. On account of the rules regarding freshman activities, the club will give no concerts except at class functions£ but will confine their efforts to train- ing themselves for the Varsity club. Raymond H. St.Clair, '17, is the or- ganizer of the club. MARINE ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS OFFER SERVICESt A letter has been sent by Prof. Her- bert C. Sadler of the naval architecture and marine engineering department to the United States navy department stating that he and the 12 men ofI the senior class in marine engineer-t ing will be available, if needed, fort work in the government ship yards. If the offer is accepted the men will probably be used for work on the1 plans for the new naval craft which the government is planning to build., Osborne Tells of League in Prison Reformed Prisoner Relates Experi. ences in Unreformed Prisons and Urges Change Thomas Mott Osborne, famed as th "golden rule warden" of Sing Sing spoke on "Common Sense in Prison Management" in the Methodist church Sunday evening. During his address Mr. Osborne out lined the work of the Mutual Welfare league made up of prisoners in Sing Sing prison and the efficient work i is doing in preparing men in the pris ons to "go straight" when they leave the penitentiary. Mr. Osborne spoke of Michigan as a "civilized state" because it had no criminal grand juries nor capital pun- ishment. His lecture was supple- mented by a talk from a young man who had been reformed by Mr. Os- borne, and who told of the bad con- ditions in the prisons and of the good which the league was accomplishing. MARINE CORPS TO GET 1,400 TOTALIT ONCE PRESIDENT URGES NEWSPAPERS TO AROUSE INTEREST IN RECRUITING Washington, March 26.- President Wilson, in an executive order late to- day, authorized the immediate in- crease of the United States marine corps to 17,400. Accompanying the authoriziation the president issued an appeal to the press of the country to awaken interest in recruiting, and de- clared that "over 4,000 more men are needed in the marine corps, and need- ed now." The present strength of the marine corps is 14,981 men and 596 officers. The appeal issued with the executive order read: "The president has signed an ex- ecutive order directing that the au- thorized strength of the marine corps be increased to 17,400 men. He was authorized by congress in case of em- ergency to direct such increase in en- listment. The United States marine corps is the soldier's branch of our 'first line of defense.' "Marines serve boats ashore and afloat, and are trained as infantry, heavy and light artillery, and machine gun companies. They form the land- ing parties from ships of the navy, and are the first men detailed for ex peditionary duty. Tbey defend all naval bases. Each capital ship of the navy carries one company of marines. "The marine corps offers exception- al opportunities to young men of grit and ambition to serve their country in the first line of defense." Professor Magoffin to Speak on Rome Prof. Ralph V. D. Magoffin, '02, now of Johns Hopkins university, will give a course of four lectures in Ann Ar- bor during this week. At 11 o'clock this morning in the smallVlecture room of Alumni Me- morial hall, Professor Magoffin will deliver a lecture with illustrated stere- opticon slides on "Rome as Mistress of the World." This afternoon at 4:15 o'clock pictures of contemporary ar- tists on the subject of "Roman Life and Death" will be shown in the upper hall of Alumni Memorial hall. Aristolochites to Initiate Tonight The Aristolochites, an honory phar- macy socity, will hold their initiation at 6:45 o'clock tonight. Election into this society is based on scholarship, the initiates generally being recom- mended by the faculty. - Seven neophytes are to be initiated: E. H. Wirth, '18P, Alfred Black, '18P, G. R. Byrnes, '17P, H. B. McWilliams, 18P, W. E.Kirchgessner, '19P, R. B. Fast, '19P, and F. E. Marsh, '17P. Yoelker Speaks Before Tryads Tonight Charles M. Voelker of the Voelker- Schorfemberg company of Detroit, will lecture on advertising art in room 162 Natural Science building tonight at 7:30 o'clock, speaking under the au- spices of the Tryads. The lecture was planned for mem- bers of the student body 'that expect to enter the field of advertising art, but is open to the public. PREDICTS ABRUPT WIAR DECLARATION House Foreign Affairs Committeeman Expects Congress to Waste Little Time HOLD FIRST CLASS IN CHINESE TODAY Free Instruction to Be Chinese Students' Club Given by BEGIN SERIES OF MEETINGS CONCERNING NATIONAL DEFENS e Plan to Cover Espionage Legislation, Newspaper Censorship and t Other Affairs e Washington, March 26.-No fur- ther national guard mobilization a is under contemplation for the Im- mediate future, Secretary of War Baker announced this afternoon. Washington March 26.-Representa- tive Harrison of the house foreign af- fairs committee, who held a confer- ence with Secretary of State Lansing, Chairman Flood, and Representative Ragsdale today, believes congress will pass a flat declaration of war against Germany. The meeting was the first of a series of "national defense conferences" held at the call of the house foreign affairs committee, and the secretary of war. It is understood the conference cov- ered in a general way espionage leg- islation, newspaper censorship, and the form of the resolution which con- gress is expected to pass declaring a state of war exists with Germany. Because the extraordinary session will find little on the statute books which deals with the situation, admin- istration heads and leaders in con- gress are being impressed with the necessity for speed on the work. There must be provisions for deten- tion of suspected enemies of the re- public, rigid laws governing citizens of Teutonic powers, punishment of spies, protection, and the necessity for perhaps billions of dollars in cash. In connection with defense legisla- tion the counsel of national defense announced today it would convene its advisory board on April 2 to be ready with the vast amount of data it has collected. INLANDER DELAYED Magazine to Appear Tomorrow with Poems, Essays, Sketches and Campus Comment Owing to an unavoidable delay, the' March number of the Inlander will not appear until noon tomorrow. Dif- ficulties have beset the publication of the present issue, but members of the staff promise that the result will amply reward readers of the maga- zine for the tardines of its appearance. The issue is devoted to essays, sketches, and poems for the most part, and in the editorials is comment on campus affairs. JUDGE LANE SAYS LAW HAS OPENING FOR HUMANITARIAN "If you want to help mankind, then law has an opening for you," said Judge Victor H. Lane Sunday night in his lecture on "Law as a Profession" at Lane hall. "Law offers an opportunity to make ones self felt," said the speaker. "In fact there is probably no other body of men of equal numbers whose in- fluence has been equaled or who have so controlled public opinion in the history of our country as the bar." The last of a series of lectures on the professions will be given by Prof. . Leo Sharfman next Sunday night on the subject, "Business as a Pro- fession." BOTANICAL JOURNAL CLUB TO HOLD MEETING THIS EVENING Prof. H.'H. Bartlett and W. J. Broth- erton, grad., will be the princip1al speakers at the meeting of the Bot- anical Journal club to be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in room 173 Natural Science building. Other brief reports will be given by members of the club.- Gen. Wood Takes Transfer Laconically New York, March 26.-"I am a sol- dier, and I go where I am sent," was the only comment Major General Leon- ard Wood made today on his transfer from the command of the department of the East to the department of the Southeast. The initial meeting of the class in Chinese will be held at 7 o'clock this evening in the Cosmopolitan club rooms in University hall. The course will be in charge of the Chinese Stu- dents' club and will be taught by F. C. Liu, '18. There will be two one-hour recita- tions each week at 7 o'clock on Tues- day and Friday evenings. The course will be an elementary one and all per- sons interested in the Chinese lan- guage are urged to enroll at once. The lessions will be given free. INTEREST GROWING IN MUiCiPAL EXHIBITS ISTEPS TAKEN BY COMBINED ASSEMBLY TO PLACE MICHIGAN IN POSITIODN TO AID COUNTRY IN PREPARING FOR, wAI PlWSIDEVNT HUTCHNS AND DEANS OF COLLEGES CALL UPON STU- DENTS TO CONSIDER SOME PLAN OF IMMEDIATE ACTION COUNCIL WILL HOLD CAMPUS VOTE ON QUESTION THURSDAI Action of Other Colleges ani Universities Throughout the Country In Ad- opting Compulsor Training Act as Welding Power for Au. cates of Defense ANN ARBOR DEMONSTRATION CITY ACTIVITIES HELD THIS WEEK OF The municipal exhibit that is being held in the city hall this week will no doubt be the forerunner of city municipal exhibits in the state and in the country, as the local exhibit is one of the first of its kind to be given, and reports from a number of Michi- gan towns reveal the fact that the movement is being taken up through- out the state. Every city office will be open to the public and city officials will be pres- ent to answer any questions about how the city government is carried on. Every department and nearly every industry of the city will have some form of representation at the exhibit. The work of the children in man- ual training has been classified ac- cording to grades. A model of the proposed new Broad- way bridge has been set up. The ap- propriation for the new bridge will be voted on at the spring election, April 2.. The idea of the whole exhibit is to show exactly what is being done with the taxes that are being paid into the city funds and what the functions of the various departments of the city are. MEMBERS SHOULD REGISTER EARLY FOR SCIENCE MEETING Members of the Michigan Academy of Science are urged to register at the office of the secretary in room Z-231 Natural Science building as soon as possible. Nominations for member- ship should be turned in early in the session. The social program of the academy during its session in Ann Arbor will consist of a smoker given at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening in Alumni Me- morial hall by the Research club; a luncheon for biologists at noon on Fri- day in room B-100 Natural Science building, and an informal dinner at 6 o'clock on Friday at the Michigan Union for the political economists. BERLIN REPORTS FOOD RIOTS IN MIDDLE SECTIONS OF ITALY Berlin, March 26.-The official Ger- man press bureau today issued the following statement regarding riots in Italy: "Vienna newspapers report fromi Italy that a furious riot occurred, noti only in Milan, but in other towns in the upper and middle sections of Italy. There have been disorders almost everywhere caused by starvation. "Also, there have been manifestoes1 against war and in favor of peace. In numerous places soldiers were forced to interfere." School Superintendents Leave Tonight With the end of the session at 7:30; o'clock tonight in the Natural Science lecture room, the Michigan Association of Superintendents and School Boards1 will leave Ann Arbor to make way for1 the Classical institute conference, thec short term state institute, and the Academy of Science meeting. Thec time and place of all lectures will be found under the What's Going on Col-c umn.c German Attacks Repulsed at Postavy Petrograd, March 26.-An attempt3 by German forces in the region of Postavy to advance a'fter four suc- cessive gas attacks was repulsed byr Russian forces. The enemy was thrownf back. I Resoluns of Committee Whereas, the United States is at the present time confronted with a very serious crisis, and Whereas, we believe that the part played by the colleges and uni- versities is of vital importance to the country in preparing for war, and Whereas, we believe that the University of Michigan should co operate with the other universities of the country who have already taken steps in placing their resources at the disposal of the national government, Be it therefore resolved: That military, training as provided in general war orders No. 49 be put into effect at .Michigan as soon as possible and that the Regents of the University make such drill com- pulsory on the freshman and sophomores of the literary and engi- neering schools, such training to be optional with upperclassmen of all departments. That the Student council of the University of Michigan shall on Thursday, March 29, 1917, conduct an all-campus vote from 8 o'clock to 6 o'clock to determine whether Michigan students favor the adop- tion of compulsory drill for freshmen and sophomores in the literary and engineering colleges, such training to be optional with upperclass- men of all departments, and That the University of Michigan Union be empowered, in co-opera- tin with the University, to secure definite information in regard to all resources of the University, including the various services which' ihe faculty, students and alumni of this institution could render in ease of war, in order to have sash information available "for the na- tional government, and That a mass meeting of faculty and students be called at an early date for a serious and dispassionate discussion of ,the situation, and what part the University of Michigan could play in the impending conflict, and That a thorough and careful discussion of the situation be stimu- lated through the columns of The -Michigan Daily. Studi Undi Students Than1 , s to 77 -ain Michigan will take immediate sty to aid the federal government in p er War Order paring for wr No More Subject to Call Citizens Not Enrolled in Military Drill Under general orders No. 49 under1 the act of June 3, 1916, the United States war department is enabled to organize, train, and maintain a reserve officers' training corps composed of one or more units in all civil educa- tional institutions, without expense to the students, but under the direct supervision of the secretary of war, with all uniforms, arms, equipment and detailed officers furnished by the war department. The principal pro- visions of order No. 49 are in brief as follows: The object of the training corps is to train men efficiently with the least practical interference in their civil occupation. The corps shall consist of units es- tablished by the presidents of such in- stitutions as apply for membership, but must be under the regulations pre- scribed by the secretary of war. Organization shall be in two divis- ions. A senior corps in such uni- versities requiring four years of col- legiate work toward a degree, and a junior division in all other institu- tions. Eligibility requires all applicants to be able-bodied men, citizens of the United States and not under 14 years of age. Direct control shall be in the hands of the war department but the uni- versity authorities "will retain their oridinary powers of supervision and control." Uniforms, arms, and equipments will be furnished by the war depart- ment without expense to the student. Students in the corps Are no more subject to call into active service than citizens not in training. At the-end of four years they may be commissioned into second lieutenants. At a meeting of an emergency com- mittee held last night, and composed of the president of the University, the deans, the heads of the various cam- pus organizations, and the entire Stu- dent council, resolutions were adopted leading to the co-operation of the University of Michigan with other uni- versities throughout the country in placing all their available resources at the disposal of the government. . A set of resolutions drawn up and presented to the committee by Glenn M. Coulter, '16-'18L, president of the Michigan Union; A. S. Hart, '17, presi- dent of the Student council, and John C. B. Parker, '17, managing editor of The Daily, providing that a student vote be taken upon the question of adopting compulsory military training under war orders 49, that a mass meet- ing be held, and that the Michigan Union be empowered to take definite steps to catalogue the resources of the University for government use, was passed almost unanimously by the committee. After a short introductory talk by President Hart of the Student council, President Hutchins took charge of the meeting. Time to Prepare for the Worst "It is the duty of every student to take stock of himself and discover in what capacity he is best fitted to serve his country in the event of war," said the president. "I am confident that every Michigan man will do his duty," he continued. "It is time that we should prepare for the worst and con- sider the matter in a most serious light. Don't let enthusiasm throw you off your feet. Avoid all undue haste and excitement, but remember that Michigan men have always done their duty in the past," he said in con- clusion. Dean Vaughan Speaks Dean Vaughan spoke first for the faculty. "I hope that'the students will ask for immediate compulsory (Continued on Page Six.) Adelphi to Discuss Pece After War Projects for permanent peace after the war will be discussed at tonight's meeting of the Adelphi house of rep- resentatives. The talks will center about a resolution introduced advo- cating a league to enforce peace, with Republican and Democratic repre- sentatives upholding their respective sides of the argument. A report of the committee in charge of the collection of funds for the re- decorating of the -Adeiphi rooms has been prepared and the actual work of refurnishing will probably be done during the present semester, accord- ing to those in charge of the fund. Engineering Directories on Sale Sophomore class directories will be on sale at the class assembly Thurs- day for 15 cents.