VOL. XXII. JANUARY 30, 1917. No. 16 "M. A. C. Cannot Live On Her Past— c C=3 C What Will You Do For Her Future?" JL JL l iw JL \*Jr\»\JLJm D ECOR D State Board Will Ask $250,000 For Library -jjJJ I"_ _ The Rochester Meeting PUBLISHED BY THE MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ASSOCIATION EAST LANSING,MICH. 2 THE M. A. C. RECORD. D I R E C T O RY L A N S I NG B U S I N E SS A ND P R O F E S S I O N AL M EN "J^HE names in this Directory, as well as those of all our other advertisers, are of re liable parties. We hope the faculty and students will patronize those who patronize us. A. M. EMERY 223 Washington Ave. N. Books, Fine Stationery, Engraved Call ing Cards, Fountain Pens, Pictures, Frames. Fine F r a m i ng a Spec ialty. Loose leaf note books for all purposes. BLUDEAU, SEIBERT & GATES Bookbinders File Boxes, Map Mountings, Etc. Citizens Phone No. 3019. In City National Bank Building. LOUIS BECK COMPANY 11*2 "Washington Ave. N. Correct Clothes, Up-to-date H a ts and Caps, Classy Furnishings. J. E. STOFFER, D. D. S. Office 203-5 City National Bank Bldg. Automatic phone 2361 Bell phone 61 ALLEN & DE KLEINE PRINTING CO. 128-130 Ionia St. W. Printing, Typewriters, Office Supplies, Adding Machines, Programs, En graved Cards, Filing Cabinets, Sectional Book Cases. Bell 1094 Automatic 3436 Special care given to M. A. C. and its students. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY Electric Supplies of all Kinds Tungsten Lamps, Shades, Etc. Latest Improvements in Reading Lamps. Motors and Generators. 117 Michigan Ave. E. H. KOSITCHEK & BROS. Lansing's Leading Clothiers 113 N. "Washington Ave. DAVIS' QUALITY ICE CREAM. Not a fad, but a food. UO Grand Ave. 8. DR. J. S. OWEN Eye, E a r, Nose, Throat and Fitting: Glasses Has removed from 115 W. Allegan St. to 208 S. "Washington Ave. (over Gateley's Jewelry Store). Citizens, 2724. A. G. BISHOP French Dry Cleaners, Dyers and Tailors 114-16 "Washtenaw St. W. Both Phones. J. H. LARRABEE 325 S. "Washington Ave. Sport Shop—Athletic Goods of All Kinds. H. H. LARNED China, Glass and Lamps 105 "Washington Ave. S. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL PAGELSEN & SPENCER Patents, P a t e nt Law, Trademarks 1107-10 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Detroit, Michigan E. N. Pagelsen, '89 L. M. Spencer, '06 Formerly Examiners U. S. P a t e nt Office. SILAS E. CHAMPE, '06a, Attorney at Law 71 Washington Blv'd, Detroit, Michigan Cherry 4511 SMITH POULTRY & EGG CO. Commission Merchants Solicit consignments in Ponltry—"Veal—Eggs Guy H. Smith, '11 Western Market, Detroit. . J GOODELL, ZELIN C. (Forestry, M. A. C. Ml) Insurance and Bonds of Every Kind salary, If you haven't insured your better see or write Goodell about a good proposition. Lansing Insurance Agency, Inc., 208-212 Capital National Bank Bldg. * — 1 —; HARRY E. SAIER, '11 Cut Flowers, Seeds, Trees and Shrubs Greenhouse, W. St. Joe St. Nurseries, W. Main St. Retail Store, 109 E. Ottawa St. KINNEY & ALLEN Lansing Battery Shop 109 N. Grand Ave., Lansing. E. E. Kinney, '15—S. C. Allen, *14. Storage Batteries and Auto Electrical Troubles Our Specialties. SAMUEL L. KILBOURNE, ex-'61 Lawyer 2141,fc Washington Ave. S., Lansing, Mich. CORYELL NURSERY Birmingham, Mich. Growers of High Grade Ornamentals. We raise a large variety of vigorous stock for home grounds and public parks. R. J. Coryell, '84, presi dent: Ralph I. Coryell, '14, secretary and treasurer. REMOVAL Having been forced to vacate our present location, we have rented SARINS' Hardware Store 2 12 Washington Ave. S., Bought his stock, and same will be on sale next week. We wish to close same out; also FIXTURES, before we move. Norton's Hardware DR. H. W. LANDON Office hours: 7 to 8:30 a. m.; 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays, 12 to 1 p. m. Citizens' phone 3261. DR. OSCAR H. BRUEGEL Cor. Michigan Ave. and Grand River Ave., E a st Lansing. Hours: 7 to 8:30 a. m.; 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays 12 to 1 p. m. Citizens' phone 3244. A. B. HARFORD College W a t c h m a k er At Variety Shop. Your barbers for "HANK" AND "FRANK" the Pool, Billiards, Cigars. In the new Dickson Building. last Ave years. WILD WOOD TEA ROOM Service a la carte. 318 Abbott Ave., E a st Lansing. Fountain Pens Waterman's, Mercantile, Parker's, Etc. $1 to $ 6, all g u a r a n t e ed College Drug & Grocery Store Full Line if Everything. Agents for Star Laundry. Electric Supplies. Good Things to Eat EAST LANSING'S LEADING GROCERj, TtlL MAC RECORD E A ST L A N S I N G, MICHIGAN, TtJESDAX, J A N U A RY 30, 1 9 1 7. NO. 10 VOL. X X I I. WESTERN NEW YORK ASSOCIA TION BANQUET. about a l u m ni '83, w as prevented The W e s t e rn New York Alumni As sociation held their a n n u al banquet and r e u n i on at Rochester on T h u r s d ay evening, J a n u a ry 25, at Hotel Roch ester. While t he attendance was not as large as it h as been at some of the previous reunions, except for sickness in t he homes of t he members of t he living in Western New York, alumni it would h a ve been very much larger. t h at H. W. It was greatly regretted Collingwood, from a t t e n d i n g; also Dr. a nd Mrs. H. P. Baker, both of '01. However, t he meet ing was a splendid success in every way. All of t he t he table were called upon for short talks. A. H. Voight, of Los Angeles, had hoped to be present, b ut sent a tele gram to t he ef fect t h at he could n ot finish h is busi ness there in time to be in Rochester for the evening. Dr. A. E. Smith, '81, m a de a splendid talk, which included retention of College a plea for the Hall t h at completely won over t he more recent graduates as to t he de ancient sirability of structure. D r . ' S m i th also in a most dramatic way of his a r r i v al at t he College in 1877 with j u st 50 cents, a nd how, d u r i ng his course here, his mother was able to send h im b ut $40. He h ad t he n o r t h w e st corner room in William Hall on the second floor, and t he three windows had blue curtains. Many an afternoon he used to draw these curtains and feel bluer t h an they were when he had but 5 cents to face the future. from Grand Rapids r e t a i n i ng told t he over Mr. O. L. Hershizer is the president and presided de of the association lightfully affair. He ex t he pressed the hope t h at something will t h at be done to r e t a in the Split Rock; t a k en it will be nicely care of. fenced a nd Mr. H. J. Eustace was the represen tative from t he College, and his re m a r ks about t he necessary expense of a t t e n d i ng College at the present time, backed up by an actual expense ac count since t he freshman y e ar of a to be present senior student, proved very the older alumni. interesting, especially to The following were present: Mr. a nd Mrs. Hershiser, Dr. and Mrs. B. '81; Dr. S. P a l m er and Miss Palmer, A. E. Smith, '81; Milton St. John, '83. This is the first time t he latter had seen Dr. Smith since graduation, and in his talk he expressed the pronounced character of the alumni of M. A. C. t h at when he came to when he said t he m e e t i ng he did not know any of them and before he had been there a few m o m e n ts he knew he was among old friends. Prof. C. A. McCue, '01; Mr. a nd Mrs. W. J. W r i g h t, '04; F. W. Howe, '09; C. C. Taylor, '09; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Pinney, '14; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Martin, '12; Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Kains, '95, Mr. J. J. H a r r i s, '12. The next meeting will be held in Syracuse a nd t he officers of the asso ciation were elected as follows: President, F. W. Howe; vice presi dent, H. P. Baker; secretary, W. W. Rider; treasurer, J. F. Baker; member of t he executive J. Wright. committee, W. SHORT COURSE MAN TAKES PRIZE AT HORT SHOW. t he The prize for at the best exhibit of horticultural apples a n n u al show held F r i d ay and S a t u r d ay in the Agricultural pavilion went to Hawley of Ludington, a former short-course mau. W. H. Chapman of Bangor took second honors-, a nd C. B. Cook, '88 of Owosso third. In the contest between the states, Washington, with an exhibit p ut up '12 and Malcom by D. F. Fisher, Brown, '17, took first. Massachusetts was second, and Ohio third. The co-ed pie contest was one of the interesting features of the show. It was won by Bernice Horton, a senior student from Bath. The prize was $5.00. W h en sold at auction the pie brought $1.75. Second prize went to Dorothy Klein of Birmingham, and her pie sold for 85 cents. Dorothy Lil- lie of Coopersville won t h i rd prize and her pie sold for $1.65. t h an ever, m a ny of The exnibit of apples at the show was larger them coming from the show at Grand Rap ids. The general a r r a n g e m e nt of t he exhibit was about as usual with the the greenhouse plants. exception of With tropical glade was fixed up at the east end of t he lent building and a cataract of water these a veritable an unusual and beautiful aspect to t he show. M. A. C. alumni contributed quite generously to the exhibit. In addition to those mentioned above the follow i ng were among those who sent fruit: Paul Thayer, '00, of Wooster, Ohio; U. S. Crane, '11, and H. B. Crane, '14 of Fennville. STATE BOARD MEETING. The State Board of Agriculture met at t he Downey House, Lansing, Jan uary 24, with P r e s i d e nt Kedzie a nd Messrs. Doherty, Wallace, Woodman, and Beaumont present. One of t he i m p o r t a nt items of busi ness was the authorization of t he sec r e t a ry of t he board to have a bill in troduced in t he legislature asking for a special appropriation of $250,000 for a library building. T he president presented correspond ence between himself and Mr. Brewer, of the University of Missouri, with reference to his employment as direc tor of athletics. The board approved the president's action in the m a t t e r. the J u ly meeting, On motion of Mr. Wallace t he chem ical laboratory is hereafter to be called the Kedzie Building. It was resolved t h at the resolution passed at setting aside $70,000 for t he completion of the revoked and is hereby gymnasium, t h at t he same sum be restored and credited to t he c u r r e nt account, it be like ing sum after to J u ly 1. t he g y m n a s i um to apportion a the purpose fund as legislation known Prof. F r e n ch and S u p e r i n t e n d e nt of presented I n s t r u c t i on Keeler Public now their views of t he the pending in congress Smith-Hughes bill. T he m a t t er of suggesting a state board to be incor porated in a proposed bill to the legis t he lature, accepting the Smith-Hughes bill above referred to, if the same shall be enacted a law by congress, w as referred to P r e s i d e nt Kedzie and Superintendent of Public I n s t r u c t i on Keeler with power to act. The appointment of Miss Clare King Morris the position of extension worker in home economics until Sep tember 1 was approved. t e r ms of to The secretary was directed to draw an enabling act p e r m i t t i ng t he board (Continued on page 4.) 4 THE M. A. C. RECORD. THEJ1A. C. RECORD Published Every Tuesday During College Year the Michigan by Agricultural College Association. the Entered as second-class matter October 30, 191(5, at the post office at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. C. S. L.ANGDON, '11, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1 P ER YEAR for by P. O. Money Order, Draft, or Personal Check. Subscriptions may be paid TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917. A LIBERAL LECTURE. No one has a right to say now that students in technical lines of educa tion cannot appreciate and do not re spond to poetry. A crowded armory, even to the "galleries;" every seat taken, with standing room at a premi um; eager listeners, drawn the edge of their seats—these are some of the appreciation which greeted Alfred Noyes in his last Tuesday lecture evening. Noyes recognized this inter est, for he is said to have remarked: "That audience meets you more than half way." in evidence of items the to It was an unusual frame of mind in which the distinguished English poet left his M. A. C. audience. They recognized the beauty and vigor of his poetry." They also got a glimpse of bits of English life in the present con flict. But more than this, they were raised out of the commonplace consid erations in which students in techni cal education are likely to fall. The M. A. C. family needs more such lectures as this. Then the course might be truly a "liberal arts course." * * * EARNINGS OF CIVIL The most complete ENGINEERS. investigation to determine what are ever made the average earnings of men engaged in civil engineering has been com pleted by a committee of the Amer ican Society of Civil Engineers. The report- of the committee's findings ap pears in the December "Proceedings" of the organization. The data was on 6,378 different in dividuals. The committee believes that the average salaries are a little larger than would obtain if all civil the engineers were ones reporting were all members of Sv ie engineering organization. included, since private "When classified as to nature of serv ice the salaries were as follows: Con tractors, $7,678; consulting engineers, companies, $4,240; $6,737; railroads, $3,335; schools, $3,240; municipalities, $2,994; national government, $2,899; states and coun ties, $2,735. This gives an average salary of $4,032. technical The report points out that the civil engineers who have been fortunate enough to be sent to foreign countries are the best situated with regard to salaries, their average being $5,170; those working in the Middle States are next with an average of $4,194; Central States, $3,813; New England, $3,602; Western, $3,548; Southern, $3,- 803; average, $3,905. From the meager information which the committee could obtain it was convinced that the compensation for engineering work compares favorably with that received by men of other professions. * * * LOCAL CONDITIONS. When local conditions are taken into consideration we would say that sal aries in civil engineering, according to the above report, compare very fa vorably indeed with those of teachers. It hardly seems possible that the aver age quoted can be the true state of affairs. But the time will probably never come when teachers in educa institutions will command as tional high salaries as they would in the business world. There are remunera tions in educational work which will always induce high-minded individuals to take it up at financial sacrifices. But the difference must not be too great. The man in educational work must receive such salary as will en able him to have a fairly high stand ard of living, to raise a family, to be able to contribute to needy causes, to provide against old age, and to meet the expense of advanced study which is absolutely necessary to "keep up" educationally. in order From the 1916 report of the State Board of Agriculture, which has just come from the printers, we find that the average salary of those hired as teachers at M. A. C. is $1,572, the in dividual amounts varying from $700 to $6,500. Considering those classed as instructors, of which number there are 92, the average is $1,141. It is well to face actual living con ditions at M. A. C. when these figures are considered. Undoubtedly salaries should be higher all along the line, but the greatest pressure of living costs is in the lower classes. Almost any instructor, even with an average or above the average salary, will tell you that he cannot make ends meet, to say nothing about contributing to the church, the Belgians, an old age fund, or setting something aside for In fact quite a num advanced work. ber of instructors are getting aid from home or depending upon summer work to "square themselves." And we do not believe that instructors can be charged with extravagant living. Just to drop in on a family unexpectedly at meal time would convince any out sider of this. Of course this year has brought un usual conditions. The high cost of foodstuffs, rent, and are very real. Coupled with this is the fact fuel that, due to the burning of the engi neering building and its replacement, there were almost no increases in sal ary last year. This makes a double burden on those who were formerly close to the line. Considering these difficulties we believe the instructors have been most loyal in sticking to the ship. And we believe this loy In this dis alty will be recognized. cussion we do not wish to be under stood as being official spokesman for the teaching staff. We have merely pointed out some facts that must be faced. * * * NAMING B UILDINGS. We hope that the action of the State Board of Agriculture at its last meet ing in naming one of the buildings on the campus after a noted M. A. C. pro fessor will not stop there. The Record has often advocated the naming of our buildings and believes there are other professors whose memory might be fittingly honored in this manner. We get tired of referring to the Agricul tural, Entomology, Forestry, Botany, Bacteriology, Horticulture, and Wom an's buildings as such. Let's give them a more personal aspect by nam ing them after noted professors. Here's a suggested list: Miles, Bogue, Beal, Cook, Marshall. * * * STATE BOARD MEETING. (Continued from page 3.) to appropriate funds for the purpose of co-operating with the city of East Lansing in paving Grand River Ave nue. The recommendation of the presi dent that the tuition fee for foreign students be increased from $5.00 to $15.00 was approved. The secretary was directed to advertise in the M. A. C. Record the sale of Dr. Beal's "His tory of the College" and Prof. Bar row's "Michigan Bird Life." The resignation of Mr. Tulley as in structor in poultry husbandry and su perintendent of the poultry plant was accepted. The request of $200 additional ap propriation to the English department to care for the traveling expenses of the debating teams was approved. Dean White was authorized to at tend the meeting of the National Edu cational Association at Kansas City, February 26-28. The Board accepted the following report, which was submitted by a com mittee of the College faculty chosen by President Kedzie a memorandum of soil and economic survey presented by R. C. Allen, state geologist, and others, under date of January 9, 1917: to consider (1) We believe a soil and economic survey of the newer portions of Mich igan would be of great in stimulating and directing agricultural In such a survey we development. service would consider investigations relating to soils, climate and other natural re sources as of primary importance, and other economic phases mentioned in the memorandum as secondary be cause of their dependence on the for mer and the possibilities of speedy and radical changes. it that (2) If legislation should be enacted authorizing investigations as describ is our ed by this memorandum, opinion the Michigan Agricul tural College should not be charged with the administration of the same because of the varied economic, socio logical and in industrial cluded in the addition of the soil sur vey. features (3) At the same time we are thor oughly of the opinion that if state legislation authorizes and provides for the conduct of investigations as de scribed in the memorandum, a co-op erative agreement should be made be tween those charged with the admin istration of the investigations and the Michigan Agricultural College relating to the agricultural or soils investiga tion phases of the work. The special training of men in Soils and Science and the varied and extensive facilities of the College would aid in providing co-operators who should see clearly, interpret correctly and direct safely. survey (4) We believe the newer portions of Michigan are not only greatly in need of a soil survey but require an in its broadest agricultural sense the co-operation of soil physicists, crop experts, animal and dairy husbandmen, horticultur ists, geologists, chemists, meteorolog ists, botanists and other scientists as well. involving (5) If legislation is enacted as sug gested in the memorandum, and if co operation should be established be tween those charged with administra tion and the Michigan Agricultural College the specific point of attach ment should be with the Experiment Station, as the work would be primar ily of an investigational character. (6) We are so positive of the great need of the investigations outlined in the memorandum that we desire to give it our indorsement and express the earnest wish that provision may be made for the establishment of the work on the basis heretofore outlined at an early date. RESOLUTION. Inasmuch as it has pleased the Al mighty God to take from this vale of tears, our beloved friend and school mate, and believing that our Earthly loss is his Heavenly gain, we, the M. A. C. Association of Northern Ohio, hereby express our grief and extend our sincere sympathy to the bereaved wife and parents of H. D. Fargo. B. A. STOWE, President. R. M. LICKXEY, Secretary. At Cleve^jid, Ohio, January 25, 1917, THE M. A. C. RECORD. 5 THE NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR CHESTER LELAND BREWER Chester L. Brewer, Professor of Physical Education and Director of Athletics—this will be a new liner in the M. A. C. catalog for next year. President Kedzie met Brewer in Chi cago Monday night and closed the deal. The new gymnasium, splendid pros pects for the future, and the silent call of thousands of alumni and for mer students were enough to turn the announced trick. President Kedzie that Director Brewer will come to East Lansing about August 1. M. A. C. alumni do not need to be told anything about the new director. They may be interested to know what Missouri people think of him. He has: been at the M. U. six years. President Hill of Missouri Univer sity said at a football banquet this fall, "Our athletic department is one of the models of its kind, for the en tire country." At the banquet Brewer was introduced as "the squarest man in the Missouri Valley." This last year Missouri had the valley cham pionship team in football and track, tied for honors in baseball, and had the best basketball team in its his tory. CORRESPONDENCE. REGARDING THOSE WEEKLY LUNCHEONS IN CHICAGO. Editor M. A. C. Record: Want to advise you that the Chi cago Alumni Association is doing a war-bride business. Our luncheons are getting better every week, and the attendance is beginning to cramp our present quarters in the Intercollegiate Club. Today we had fifteen fellows out and had one of the best feeds put out in the city at the price. The following grads and ex-grads were present: Smith '13, Henry '15, Allen '17, Mather '13, Van Kerkove '13, Woodin '13, Nies '13, Woodworth '86, Newell '10, Zierleyn '15, Taggart '14, and '16, Estelle '16, Barman Burns '13. Some outlay, eh? I'll bet that there is no other association in the whole bunch that can show as large a crowd at their weekly lunch eons. This noon plans were laid for the annual banquet and dance which will be held either the last Saturday night in February or the first one in March. "Prexie" Kedzie has already stated that he will be with us and we expect several other M. A. C. people to be on hand to tell us all about the present, activities of the College. Will give you full details of the plans at a later date. that Might mention the weekly luncheons are held Thursday at 12:30 noon, in the Intercollegiate Club, on; floor of the Stevens the sixteenth Bldg. I. J. WOODIN. 6 THE M. A. C. RECORD. t he like t h at in t h at too much pleasure food has proved satisfactory a nd is remarkably in America. In fact, we cannot say we are under t h at the slightest h a r d s h ip going the is respect. Our only fault cook takes in his is Thanksgiving. task and every day The boy is quite provokingly orna mental. So far as we can determine he only waits on the table and makes the beds a nd sees t h at the coolie does the rest. However, he waits on the table very well and $7.00 Mex. a month (without procure board) wouldn't much service in America. The coolie seems to know all the work is coming is very cheerful and to him, for he happy. He to to me and seems to t h i nk if he only gets near enough talks ray loudly enough I will u n d e r s t a nd every thing. talk Chinese face and likes to to from juniors, an American "Yale gives an eight-year course cor responding high school and college. The high school has about 40 students in each class, while the college is much smaller, hav ing about 10 seniors, no 3 sophomores and 12 freshmen. On ac count of changing the date of opening school to September, J a n u a ry there are now two senior high school the classes, one half a year ahead of in phy other. Ralph has them both sics, but one class will finish in Jan uary and then he will have time for some study. The medical college plans to give a five-year course two-year pre in medicine, besides a also p a r a t o ry There for men and women nurses. schools first-year There are at present nine upper medical students, ten language course. t he are in these twenty-two p r e p a r a t o ry year a nd in the lower. Ralph is teaching physics three classes now, to each of but first-year class only lasts till the J a n u a r y. The lowest class causes the most difficulty because their English is not very good as yet. The other men u n d e r s t a nd and speak English fairly well. in the m en n u r s es for an hour each "On Sundays Ralph helps in the Y. the medical M. C. A. meeting is school at 9 o'clock. Every student a member of the association and the majority of them attend, although only about ten are Christians. My purely missionary work is confined to teach two to i ng English afternoons a week. Most of them are bright boys and I enjoy it, though only two hours of English a week makes their progress very slow. My major I have occupation is language study. the two teachers first t h i ng in the morning. They were sent to a special summer course which the N a n k i ng Language School held for native teachers and we a re told they have improved wonderfully. They are enthusiastic over t he N a n k i ng method large and doses. They seem to" m a ke a showing, as there are six peo ple who stopped at N a n k i ng for a year, and five of us who came on here. I have learned about 150 out of the 1,000 characters I am supposed to know at takes hours the end of of h a rd work to fix the queer things It is not so very dif in one's mind. ficult to m a ke one's self un to learn derstood but it is quite another mat ter to speak good Chinese. to be anxious a d m i n i s t e r i ng the year. are in It it "Sunday afternoons we attend the union English service, • which up un- Outwitting the Frost King W h en the snow lies ^ deep on meadow and pas ture, the farseeing dairyman re joices in his trusty Natco Silo Sweet, juicy and free from mold, the silage holds the cows to full milk flow and puts flesh on t.._ steers and fattening lambs. Your corn crop will go % farther when preserved in a Natco Imperishable Silo "The Silo that Lasts for Generations Built of glazed hollow tile impervious to air and moisture, and frost-resisting A It s the silo that needs no repairs—no painting—has no hoops to tight- en. Strongly reinforced and fully guaranteed. Simple in de sign; only two shapes of tile used; any mason can erect a .Natco. Will increase the value of your farm. Send for our Silo catalog and our book, "Natco on the Farm, "—both free. Tell us what you intend to build. We have valuable building plans —free. Write today. National Fire Proofing Company 1143 Fulton Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Z3 Factories Prompt Shipments Short Hauls T he editor here quotes from a FROM OUR REPRESENTATIVES EH C H I N A. let t er received from Mr. and Mrs. R. W. '13 respectively, who Powell, instructors went to China last fall as t he school at Changsha, known as in "Yale is supported by Yale University. in China," which '11 and "We a r r i v ed in Changsha on Sep t e m b er 27th, after a most delightful journey of exactly seven weeks. One day was spent in Honolulu, where we were shown about the city and splen d i d ly entertained. We had the good f o r t u ne to reach Yokohama ahead of schedule, due to the fair weather en countered, a nd spent in Japan. We visited Kipling's "Buddha at K a m a k u r a ," and spent one day in Tokio, one in Kobe and one in Osaka. J a p an m a k es an excellent 'reception room' for the F ar East. E v e r y t h i ng is o r i e n t a l, but it is all so clean and ar t i s t ic t h at one is wholly charmed. days four * they were both occupied * "We spent only two days in Shang in h ai a nd b u y i ng necessary supplies. * O ne afternoon we did take a carriage out to St. J o h n 's College, and were very m u ch pleased with their campus, which was as beautiful as one would find in a small college in America. We w e nt to N a n k i ng by rail, spending one in Soochow with missionaries n i g ht we m et on the Tenyo Maru, and an in Nanking. o t h er n i g ht with friends O t h e r w i se we came the r i v e r, c h a n g i ng boats at Hankow and r e a c h i ng Changsha by In that last respect we consider ourselves fortunate, as the water very soon got so the steamers could not reach t h is place. They will not come this far until the r a i ns begin in Jan u a r y. s t r a i g ht up steamer. t h at low "'Changsha the college finished. A large hospital is situated on is just outside the corner from the east bank of t he river and is surrounded by a wall five miles in circumference. T he Yale campus the North Gate. T he new domitory, chapel a nd recitation hall have just been com is entirely pleted so t h at out of the city. F o ur faculty houses a re also completed and two more are nearly is being built but now both the hospital and medical school are in the city. The residence compound in the city is just around the hospital a nd that is where we live. We were g i v en t he choice of a section of a C h i n e se house and the third floor of a large building which was formerly used by t he owner as a library. We chose t he t h i rd floor, as it was much drier, lighter a nd in better condition than t ie other house. We have a liv i ng room a nd dining room combined, store a study, bedroom, bathroom, room, p a n t ry a nd kitchen. There is a v e r a n da all around each floor and we the h a ve a beautiful view over tiled roofs to the hills be yond. We are really almost as cosy as we would be in an a p a r t m e nt in A m e r i c a. We have three servants, a cook, a boy and a coolie. The cook t he river and THE M. A. C. RECORD. 7 twelve til the present has been held in the Yale chapel, with a different minister each Sunday. We cannot do much else until we can speak Chinese. There are now families connected with the Yale mission, not including four bachelors, two unmarried women and two families on furlough. The other larger missionary groups are the Presbyterian, Norwegian and Wes- leyan Methodist. There is an Episco pal Mission right near us and the China Inland Mission and American Bible Society also have stations here. There seems to be a strong commu nity spirit between the missionaries, including some of the business peo ple. The Yale group contains people tastes and of quite widely differing characteristics, so is nothing there monotonous about the social life here. The chapel alone has representatives from America, England, Germany, Nor way and China. Five o'clock tea is an institution every one seems to have adopted from the English and it is re markable how quickly you fall into line. Teaching is over then and we quite enjoy having friends drop in for a half hour's visit. "MAUDE NASON POWELL." 5 OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATES IN WEST INDIES. able extent in light cultivation. We have many problems to deal with in our agricultural work, plowing as stated, a great deal of hand implement Some time ago President Kedzie re •- work, a large amount of drainage as ceived a letter from F. T. Maxwell, , well as irrigation. We also have to vice president and general manager combat various cane pests, animal and r of the Guanica Centrale, a company fungus. I dealing very largely with the growing "My desire now is to bring in some ; and manufacturing of sugar in Porto fresh blood and, notwithstanding that 3 Rico. The Record is glad to print ex I am from Louisiana where, as you cerpts from this letter, not only be know, there are extensive cane sugar cause of the opportunities presented I some plantations, I want for M. A. C. graduates, but in order to J young men from the Middle West and show something of the work and life if possible would like to get men with i re this neighboring agricultural in a strain of Germanic or Scandinavian gion. blood in them, and it has occurred to "For your entire understanding will 1 me that it is more than probable that say that we are large growers of sugar at the Michigan Agricultural and Me " cane and manufacturers of sugar, hav chanical College you have a good many ing some 16,000 acres in the cultiva men of that type, of first, second, or tion of sugar cane here in Porto Rico experience generation. Your third ) and 5,000 acres in the Island of Santo > may be different from mine, but I have Domingo, some 120 miles from here. found that such men as described We go in for rather intensive cultiva their working in places remote from tion, we fertilize on a large scale and I homes are usually more content and have a considerable irrigation system. stick longer than the general run of We do a large part of our plowing ; young Americans of many generations. with steam plows, but also do a con "I would want these men to have siderable amount of plowing with good knowledge of the care and gen oxen, and employ mules to consider- to eral treatment of livestock, also to secure The 1917 WOLVERINE Your Name Stamped in Gold on Your Copy of the '17 Wolverine-FREE. This Year, More than Ever Before, The Wolverine Needs the Support of Everyone Loyal to M. A. C. ALUMNI, this means you, too! 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RECORD. know something about the practical p a rt of p u t t i ng up ensilage, a practice If your agri t h at is new to us here. t r a i n i ng cultural students have some in the care of a n i m a ls and t r e a t m e nt of diseases and in the m a t t er of breed ing, so much the better, as on our es tate in Santo Domingo we raise horses, mules and cattle. "Needless strong, to say, we w a nt intem healthy men and do not w a nt vernacular, perate men, or "boozers," under any circumstances, for we will not keep such m en in our employ. the in a r o u nd to $30.00 t r a n s p o r t a t i on "We would be willing to pay such m en as I nave described for the first year f 75.00 per month, with their quar ters furnished them, but subsistence for their own account and this usually per r u ns $25.00 first- month. We would pay actual class their from traveling expenses homes to estate in Porto Rico or San to Domingo and at the expiration of their term of service would allow first- class from Porto Rico or Santo Domingo back to New York City. Every second year we give such employes who are to continue in our service vacation with six weeks two months, depending on circumstances, and, in such cases, we pay t r a n s p o r t a t i on to New York City and r e t u rn from New York City. While in our service we carry accident in surance at our expense for the a m o u nt of the employe's yearly salary and for the benefit of the employes. We fur nish hospital, medical and surgical at tention free of charge for the ordinary ailments and for any operation t h at m i g ht be due to accident. For opera t h at m i g ht have nothing tions to do with their services for our company, for instance appendicitis, a reasonable charge is made by our surgeon. pay for to t h at there are a "Finally, the agricultural end of the cane sugar business is a wide field and the demand for good m en is great and salaries for those who m a ke good are very satisfactory. F or your informa large tion will say number of m en in the agricultural end of cane sugar work who get salaries r u n n i ng up into thousands of dollars per year. Some men with exceptional ability forge ahead very rapidly; as an from instance, I know a young m an Kentucky who had never seen a stalk of cane growing until three y e a rs ago when he came to one of the West I n d ia Islands at $75.00 per m o n th a na who is now in another West In getting dian year." $4,000.00 Island about per A L U M XI VISITORS. J. A. Mitchell, The following alumni registered last '09, and Ruth week: E d w a r ds Mitchell, 11, Quincy, Cal.; A. B. Cook, '93, Owosso; Chas. A. Ward, '82, Lakeland; E. A. Holden, '89, Lan sing; H. J. Bemis, '12, Chicago; R. E. Decker, '15, Plainwell; Bert Edger- ton, '10, Detroit. BASKETBALL. presented M. A. C. 39, I. A. C. 27. Team play, aggressiveness, and an to shoot baskets when the op ability portunity the game for M. A. C. which was played with the Illinois Athletic Club in the Armory is re the t h i rd beating ported the I. A. C. h ad seven in years. last F r i d ay night. itself won received it was t h at It During p a rt of the first half the I. A. C. boys were in the lead, but con sistent pegging ended in M. the half the count being 11 to A. C.'s favor, 9. During the second half Chicago quit the floor at one time on account of a m i s u n d e r s t a n d i ng as to offiicals. They were r e t u rn and finish, but the occasion left such t h at Coach Gauthier de taste a bad clared after t h at M. A. C. the game would schedule no more games with an independent team of this kind. induced finally to The final score was 39 to 27. Pep- baskets field. M u r r ay got 3, Vevia pa id led in the n u m b er from 6, a nd F r i m o d ig 1. the of the first half M. A. C. 31, NOTRE DAME 25. The quintets representing M. A. C. the a nd Notre Dame staged one of fiercest and toughest games ever seen in the Armory Saturday night. F r om the start it was evident t h at the score would be close all the way. M. A. C. finally landed on the heavy end of a 31 to 25 score. During the play was fairly fast and clean and at half-time the F a r m e rs were in the lead with a 15 to 8 score on the board. The sec ond half opened up with Notre Dame bound to roll up points, but unfortu their oppon the Catholics nately for ents had The the same half was rough and men were sprawl ed on the floor most of the time. Pep- par d and Vevia for M. A. C. scored 21 points between them, while McDer- mott for Notre Dame scored 19 of the 25. intentions. NEWS AND COMMENT J. F. Cox, of assistant farm crops, had a splendid article on breeding last week's Country seeds Gentleman. pedigreed professor in The Dramatic Club, the leadership of Prof. E. S. King, will pre sent "The Snowball" the Armory in this Wednesday evening. under Frederick Palmer, noted w ar corre spondent, will be the next speaker on the Liberal A r ts Course. He will lec t u re next Tuesday evening. N a t h an C. Shaeffer, superintendent of public instruction for Pennsylvania, (Continued on page 9.) Northwestern Teachers'Agency Largest in the West—For the Entire West Only and Alaska. - - HOME OFFICE Progressive—Aggressive—Your Best Medium to Secure a Western Position. Write immediately for free circular. - BOISE, IDAHO HOTEL HEADQUARTERS FOR M. A. C. PEOPLE HOTEL STATLER Detroit 1,000 rooms—1,000 baths. 400 rooms (with shower bath) at $1.50 and $2 a day. Club breakfasts. 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(Continued from page 8.) spoke at Chapel exercises last Sunday morning. Dr. Schaeffer has held his present position since 1893. He was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Snyder. A faculty basketball team is in pro cess of organization and will play in the preliminaries to some of the var sity games in the near future. Cox, Hasselman, Leroy, Bibbins, Nicholson, Gauthier, and Beatty are some of those interested. J. B. Muncie, assistant in plant pa thology in the Experiment Station, talked before the meeting of the Mich igan Bean Jobbers' Association in De troit last week on "The Control of Bean Anthracnose Through the Use of Idaho Seed." Dr. E. A. Bessey is spending the first part of this week in Pittsburgh in con ference with representatives of the United States Department of Agricul ture, The Heinz Pickle Company, and experiment stations at Wisconsin and Indiana, on the question of pickle dis eases. This is the line of work in which S. P. Doolittle, '14, has been en gaged for two years. • »" RADFORD, '01, ADDRESSES ENGINEERING MEETING. Fred L. Radford, '01, chief drafts man for the Reo Motor Company, gave members of the Engineering society some advice last week on the attitude the engineering graduate should as sume on entering the commercial drafting room. Radford prefaced his remarks by saying that that was the first time he had ever been inside the Agricultural building. ALUMNI DRIVE TO FLORIDA. This week Otto Vergeson, '15, of the State Highway department, and L. P. Dendel, '14, of the Michigan Millers' Insurance Co., start on an auto trip to Palm Beach, Florida. They have bought a Scripps-Booth for the trip. They will go down by way of Toledo, Cincinnati, and Chattanooga, and back by the Atlantic states. Both men are on their vacation. TREATING OATS FOR SMUT. Under the auspices of Sem Bot, honorary botanical organization, an educational movie showing the use of formaldehyde in treating grains for smut was recently shown at the Elmac for the benefit of some 250 short-course men. This is part of the program of the Botany department for secur ing a wider use of formaldehyde over the state this next spring than ever before. The department is advocating a new method of application, first used and recommended by Cornell uni THE M. A. C. RECORD. In this method the concen versity. trated formaldehyde is sprayed on the oats with a hand atomizer, a little shoveling done, and then the oats are shoveled into a pile and covered with canvas or blankets. The formalde hyde vapor then in contact with every smut spore. This system does away with the use of so much water and consequent handling to dry the oats, as was necessary under the old methods. comes RIFLE CLUB CONTEST STARTS. The M. A. C. Rifle team turned in a score of 947 in the first of the series of official shoots of the year. This is a low score compared with last year —a perfect score (1,000) being turned in for every match but two—but all hopes of high scores went by the board as soon as the members of the team saw the official targets. The bull's eye is but 5/16 of an inch in diameter, where last year it was V2 inch. Then the fact that one-half the shots have to be made from the stand ing position this year, will greatly re duce the scores. There is some satis faction in knowing that every team is up against the same conditions, how ever. The five best scores last week were: S. W. Harmon, 196; R. A. Pen nington, 191; R. W. Berridge, 188; R. W. Shane, 188; R. D. Kean, 184. It is not known yet whether there is any change in the personel of Class A in the intercollegiate matches. It is expected that the University of Mich igan will be raised to this class, how ever, as she headed the list of Class B teams last year, with a higher record than the lowest of Class A teams. ' A LUMNI NOTES '99. Arthur S. Eldredge, '95-'97m, visited college friends last week. He is now president and general manager for the Northwest Buick Company, Pacific Northwest distributors, at 802 East Pike Street, Seattle. He had many stories to tell of the days when he roomed with "Bill" Merkel in 21 Wil liams. '03. Harvey D. Fargo, e, died in Cleve land, Ohio, January 23. He had been in ill health for some time but acutely only a few weeks before his death. Tu berculosis was ascribed as the cause. In Cleveland Mr. Fargo was structural engineer with the Wellman-Seaver- Morgan Co. In his college days he was active in athletics, captain in the cadet corps, and a member of the Hes perian society. He is survived by his widow. Burial was in Mt. Hope cemetery, Lansing. '04, Frank T. F. 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