ss m VOL. XXIV. FEBRUARY 14, 1919. qhe M A G RECORD W a n t e d: A National Policy in Agriculture. —Eugene Davenport '78, F u r l o ng '18 Wins Congressional Medal of Honor. Director Brewer a nd O t h e rs of College Staff R e t u rn F r om A r m y. M. A. C. Wins Place in 1917-18 College Anthology. *«- s ws k£hfcJb& cannot live onHerpast- iSOr^Si *S •2W5 What s\iy« /*x ,*;-;#•: v Mr?»xy*\ East Lansing Directory DR. OSCAR H. BRUEGEL Hours: 11 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. .Sundays 12 to 1 p. m. Evening hours: MOD., Wed. and Sat. hy appointment. Office in East Lansing State Bank Bldg. Phones : Res. Bell 830. < 'itz. 3244. office Citz. 8632 Your barbers for "HANK" AND "FRANK" the Pool, Billiards, Cigars. last five years. In the new Dickson Building. C O L L E GE C A FE A ND T EA R O OM Grand River Ave., East Lansing. A Real Good Place to Eat. Operated by the Misses Smith, Former Pro prietors of the Wildwood Cafe. A. B. HARFORD College Watch Maker Variety and Gift Shop. H A R V EY PHOTO S H OP P O R T R A I TS Kinds Photographic Work All We Do Framing E. M. Harvey 1915. J. H. P r a tt Mgr. ABBOT AVE. THE C A M P US PRESS EAST LANSING'S MODERN PRINTING PRESS Now Located in the New Bank Building P R IN.T I NG E M B O S S I NG E N G R A V I NG POM YOUR mms QPMEJ THE MAC RECORD E A ST L A N S I N G, M I C H I G A N, F R I D A Y, F E B R U A RY 14, 1 9 1 9. N O. 18 V O L. X X I V. T HE AGRICULTURAL SECTION of t he Michigan Academy of Science will hold its a n n u al meeting at t he Uni versity of Michigan, A nn Arbor, t he first week in April. Professor F r a nk A. Spragg, research associate in plant breeding is c h a i r m an of t he program committee for t he agricultural section. Anyone wishing to present certain subjects or have a p a rt in t he pro gram for this year's meeting should get into communication with Profes sor Spragg by March 1st. T he pro g r am is now being prepared. MOKE THAN 100 TRACTOR STUUEATS t he completed their course last week aft er a m o n t h 's study in special school. They will be followed by an other students w ho large group of t r a c t or school. enroll for t he second Increasing importance of t he position that t he tractor is occupying on Mich igan farms, is demonstrated not alone by t he large enrollments at these spe cial schools b ut by t he great interest shown in tractor work by visitors at the college during F a r m e r s' week. T HE A A N U AL MIDWINTER MEETIAG of the Michigan State H o r t i c u l t u r al So ciety w as held at Fennville F e b r u a ry 11, 12 a nd 13. Prof. Eustace, Prof. Halligan a nd Extensionist I. T. Pick- ford, '13, a re attending t he meeting from t ne college. DOAALD HOOTMAA, formerly g r o u n ds superintendent for t he horticultural department a nd now a me'mber of t he American North Russia Expeditionary Force with t he 310th Engineers, h as j u st sent a cablegram to Prof. Halli gan of t he horticultural department telling of his safety a nd health. Hoot- m an is some distance inland from, Ar changel, a nd h as been in several en gagements with t he Bolshiviki. EDGAR A. GUEST of t he Detroit F r ee Press lectured before members of t he M. A. C. Woman's club and guests in t ne a u d i t o r i um of People's church at E a st Lansing, Wednesday evening. Following t he lecture an informal re ception was held a nd Miss Louis Walsworth sang. T HE IA'FLUEAZA SITUATION at M. A, C, a l t h o u g h' not serious considered has caused t he postponement of t he xractor school which was have to there a re opened Monday. To date 35 cases, mostly among short t he course students a nd four cases among ihe women. T he Atheneaum society house h as been converted into a hos pital a nd is in charge of a corps of nine nurses. With b ut t wo possible exceptions all cases a re mild. Y. W. C. A. GIRLS realized over ?100 d u r i ng from t he "Y" canteen, which they op erated in t he w ar relics exhibit build F a r m e r s' Week. T he ing raised is to go to t he Lake money representa Geneva fund for sending tives from M. A. C. to t he a n n u al s u m m er Y. W. C. A. conference at Lake Geneva, Wis. some particular A VALENTINE PARTY a nd c a b a r et will be held in t he W o m a n 's Building F r i d ay evening, F e b r u a ry 14th, for t he benefit of t he Maud Gilchrist Stu dents' Aid F u n d. T he girls of each college class h a ve been given charge of feature of t he evening's e n t e r t a i n m e n t. T he entire building will be given over for t he evening, with dancing and entertain m e n ts in t he corridors on all three The Maud Gilchrist fund w as floors. s t a r t ed in 1911 by t he E a st Lansing Women's Club in response to a very pressing need to which their atten tion h ad been called. In 1914 an ap peal m a de to t he State F e d e r a t i on of Women's Clubs h as b r o u g ht a num ber of gifts to t he fund during t he past three years from Women's Clubs over t he State. T he purpose of t he Valutentine party is to raise money for present needs since much of t he fund is in t he form of p e r m a n e nt in vestments. A STANDARD ARMY TARGET RANGE is being contemplated by t he military department as a m e a ns of developing better m a r k s m en at M. A. C. and r o u n d i ng out t he R. 0. T. C. courses. It is suggested t h at t he n ew r a n ge m ay be located in t he vicinity of Chandler's marsh. A range of t he type is being considered; one latest with up to date pits a nd steel target frames. A range of over 500 y a r ds is financially impossible for t he present time. T HE MILITARY DEPARTMENT h as j u st taken over all of t he equipment of t he demobilized S. A. T. C. unit, in cluding 500 Enfield rifles a nd some 350 woolen blouses. Each m an in t he issued to h im R. O. T. C. will have flannel an overcoat, campaign h a t, shirt, woolen breeches a nd blouse, field shoes, belt, a nd red, leggings, white a nd blue h at cord. S. A. T. C. men now w e a r i ng t h e ir uniforms will probably be allowed to r e t a in them on entering t he R. O. T. C. A full march ing pack is to constitute a p a rt of each m a n 's equipment. Details of the R. O. T. C. courses a re somewhat unsettled due io r e a d j u s t m e n ts now being made by t he W ar Department. in t he next T HE F I R ST AAAUAU IXTERSCHOLASTIC t o u r n a m e nt to be held in basketball the college gymnasium is scheduled for March 28 a nd 29. F o u r t e en high schools a re already enrolled for t he t o u r n a m e nt b ut it is announced t h at more t h an 20 can be accommodated so it is likely t h at several more cities will be signed up by t he college ath letic d e p a r t m e nt few days. H e a d q u a r t e rs of t he visitors will be at t he gymnasium. Sleeping q u a r t e rs a nd board will be provided for all teams during, t he two days of t he lower the expenses of t he high school teams e n t e r i ng t he gate receipts will be di vided among contestants in propor tion to their travel mileage to a nd from t he college. Among t he schools already on t he t o u r n a m e nt roster a re Flint, Jackson, Battle Creek, Grand Lansing, Rapids Catholic Central, South Haven, Hastings, L a ke Odessa, Clarksville, Adrian a nd Midland. In order to t o u r n a m e n t. Through into t he a n n u al t he failure of P u r d ue to enter tri-state debat ing contests, which have been held for several years at M. A. C. between M. A. G, Iowa State a nd Prudue, col lege debaters will contest with Iowa State only this year. A r r a n g e m e n ts have already been made for t he meet ing although a definite date h as not take been place late in April. fixed. Probably it will The subject for this year's debate is "Resolved t h at t he United States Should So F ar Depart from H er Tra ditional Policies as to Participate in the Organization of a League of Powers Iowa State sends a negative team to M. A. C. a nd we send a negative team there, t he contest being held in each place on t he same night. to Enforce Peace." P u r d u e 's chief a r g u m e nt for failing to enter t he tri-state meet this year is on account of t he lateness of t he season a nd from fear t h at s he would be unable to develop a team in t he short t he dis banding of h er S. A. T. C. t i me elapsing since 4 THE M. A. C. RECORD Published every Friday during- the Col lege Year by the Michigan Agri cultural College Association. Entered as second-class matter October 30, 1916, at the post office at East Lansing, Michigan, under Act of March 3, 1879. the C. W. McKIBBIN, '11, Managing Editor. MEMBERSHIP IN THE M. A. C. ASSO CIATION WHICH INCLUDES SUB SCRIPTION TO THE RECORD, $2.00 P ER TEAR. Memberships may be paid for by P. O. Money Order, Draft, or Personal Check. MAKE THEM PAYABLE TO THE M. A. C. ASSOCIATION. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1919. '18, A GOOD USE FOR A PE1LUAXENT the means of FUyiJ. The publication of the poem, "April in Night,'' by K a t h e r i ne Hume. this year's collection of college verse is placing M. A. C. the first sixty American col among leges and universities in the literary a t t a i n m e nt of their students. Ninety- six institutions are represented in the forty colleges volume falling of class "poems of distinction." the entries of in the mentioned is the technical true. Yet for We have been accused of ten dency of spending too much effort on t r a i n i ng of vocational and our students and not enough on lit erature a nd the a r ts that broaden and round out an education. Of course it the past several years M A. C. has been "represented by a poem or two in the yearly col lection of college verse published as this the Anthology. Our success anything has been due more else to the E u n o m i an prize which is offered each year for the best poems w r i t t en by M. A. C. students. These the means of poems having M. A. C. represented in a vcl- time of the best verse of American colleges and universities have been d r a wn out by, a *25 prize. t h at have been t h an in the E u n o m i an prize The prestige gained for the eollege is by means of worth many times its cost. The prize has always been unfailing yet it may not be called permanent. Here again is a place where a small permanent fund, the earnings of which would be endeavor used and divert us from strict vocationai- ism, could be used to excellent pur pose. to stimulate literary FARMERS' WEEK. It t h at 3.500 is estimated farmers and housewives attended the meetings at the college last week. The meet ings, exhibits, and special programs probably drew close to 5,000 outsiders to the week. Thefe figures a re but bare approxima the campus during THE M. A. C. RECORD. tions but they serve to indicate some things of the success of this last farm ers' week. Certainly it was the larg est and most successful roundup meet ing that the college has ever held. j u st figures, is a t t a i n i ng The attendance however, show something besides plain numbers. They indicate t h at the col lege is winning the interest and. sup port of Michigan agriculturalists, and that it is giving them what they want and giving service. F u r t h e r m o re with such n u m b e rs attending college meet ings there are indications t h at M. A. C. the agri cultural colleges of Ohio, Missouri, t h at have be and come famous for the service they give farmers and the support they receive them. from In every respect it w a s -a b a n n er week. Those who came enjoyed them from selves and gained much good i he programs and exhibits. Next year they will come again and bring their neighbors with institutions r a nk with them. Iowa, M A. G . M AN DECORATED BY CON GRESS. Harold A. Furlong '18 Wins Medal of Honor. The highest award of honor which the United States can bestow upon her soldiers h as j u st been granted to an M. A. C. man. Lieut. Harold A. Furlong, M Com pany, 353 Infantry, son of A. D. Fur long, Detroit, has j u st been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for e x t r a o r d i n a ry heroism in action, Nov. 1, 1918, on the St. Mihiel sector. On December 17 he w as given the Dis tinguished Service Cross at Gondel- by Major-General sneim, Germany, the 89th Divi Winn, commander of regi sion, of which Lieut. F u r l o n g 's m e nt led is a unit. This decoration to t he action by Congress which was reported on F e b r u a ry 5. Lieut. FUr- long is 23 years old. Only 44 men have been t h us dec orated with the Congressional medal for gallantry in t he war, so t h at Lieut. Furlong's a w a rd brings unusual hon or to M. A. C. the During the engagement November 1 the commanding officer of his com pany was killed and company command devolved on Lieut. Furlong, it is reported. Single-handed he cap tured a machine gun nest four t h at had been holding up his guns advance, and captured 20 prisoners. F o ur days later h is family was noti fied this action, and it was n ot until after sev eral from him t h at the W ar Department report ed a mistake had been made. t h at he had been killed letters had been received of in F u r l o ng the officers' left college to a t t e nd the Sheridan. After first c a mp at Ft, t r a i n i ng g r a d u a t i ng from camp in August, 1917, Lieut. F u r l o ng was stationed at Camp F u n s- ton, Kan., as a special in bayonetry, until May, 1918, when he was sent overseas. instructor there, ATHLETIC DIRECTOR BREWER RETURNS FROM ARMY WORK. from army service and C. L. Brewer, director of athletics, returned is again on the job at the M. A. C. gym - nasium. Brewer reached East Lansing Sat urday and took active control of ath letics again Monday. He has received numerous delays to the old job but his welcome was none the less enthusiastic the it was somewhat delayed. fact And Brewer says is mighty glau to be back in school again after spending several months the ser vice as divisional athletic director for the T r a i n i ng Camp activities commis sion. in getting back in spite of t h at he t h at in M. A. C. REPRESENTED IN YEARLY ANTHOLOGY. entitled "April Night." In the annual volume of "Poets of for the F u t u r e ," a college Anthology 1917-18, M. A. C. is represented by a poem by K a t h a r i ne Agnes Hume, '18, This year's Anthology, which h as just been published by the Stratford Company of Boston, contains poems from sixty- six American colleges and universi ties. Ninety-six American institutions entered poems, forty being mentioned with "other poems of distinction." This year's Anthology is a much smaller volume t h an in previous years due largely to the w ar conditions un der which colleges have been strug gling. The editor, Dr. H e n ry T. introduction, Schnittkind, says in his " t he present collection the most is significant of the s t u d e nt Anthologies volume because were w r i t t en at the in their very au world's history when into t h o rs were in the act of t e a r i ng shreds the false poems of Autocracy a nd creating in i ts place the song of the Democracy of t he World." t h is t h at point the poems in twenty-two college The M. A. C. poem, "April Night," in by Miss Hume, will be published an early issue of t he RECORD. " T he Best College S h o rt Stories," a best volume containing stories w r i t t en by students d iring the past year and "Sixty-four is an Other Stories of Distinction" from publication other very recent t he Stratford Company. Among the stories of distinction is mentioned " F or F r a n c e ," by E r ma E. Preston, '19. This was the only story entered from M. A. C. MEMBERS OF COLLEGE STAFF RETURN FROM ARMY, Members of the college teaching to r e t u r n i ng force who were released to enter ser vice are gradually re Beside Director sume their duties. Brewer several others have r e t u r n ed w i t h in the past couple weeks, among whom are Professor R. C. Huston, of instructor tne chemistry department; B u r k e tt of department, the English and C. S. Robinson of the E x p e r i m e nt Station. in the Sanitary Corps, Professor Huston, who has been a captain re turned to E a st L a n s i ng last week. He entered service as a captain on Aug three ust 6, 1918, a nd has served at different posts. He was employed in laboratory work at the Rockefeller I n s t i t u te of New York, the Yale Army Laboratory School a nd laboratories in discharged Raleigh, N. C. He was F e b r u a ry 1 from the general hospital No. 19, at Oteen, N. C. Much of his work connection with gas defense a nd gas warfare. in service was in of Major A. S. Burkett, who h as been in command of a battalion the 160th Depot Brigade at Camp Custer, has j u st been discharged from service a nd will reenter the English depart instructor. Mr. B u r k e tt m e nt as an attended the first camp at F t. Sheri dan and received a captain's commis sion at the closing of the camp. He was promoted to Major while at Camp become Custer. He will coach of the j-mglish department. the debating teams for probably in C. S. Robinson, who has been a l i e u t e n a nt in the S a n i t a ry Corps, has resumed his work as research associ a te t he chemistry d e p a r t m e nt at t he E x p e r i m e nt Station. Lieut. Rob inson left M. A. C. to enter the Sani t a ry Corps and d u r i ng his e n t i re per iod of service has h ad charge of a THE M. A. C. RECORD, course of instruction in clinical chem istry at t he Rockefeller I n s t i t u te for Medical Research at New York City. He was discharged on J a n u a ry 8th. WORLD'S SWIMMING RECORD BROKEN IN M. A. C. TANK. record d u r i ng new the in The s w i m m i ng pool christened g y m n a s i um was properly l a st T h u r s d ay when by professionals F r ed Schwedt, a young lad w e a r i ng the colors of Detroit N o r t h e rn High for the world's School broke the distance, plunging for s w i m m i ng exhibition, given as p a rt of the athletic p r o g r am for guests of the Legislature. F a r m e r s' Week- a nd plunge distance in 60 seconds for a coasted 32 feet to world's record, adding seven feet the best previous dive. Schwedt is a protege of Tom Clemens of the De troit Athletic Club, who brought with him from De troit to e n t e r t a in t he F a r m e r s' Week crowds. five other swimmers Sehwedt the in in and last T h u r s d ay evening Some 3,000 people gathered the gymnasium to witness the athletic program. A half dozen boxing bouts lively wrestling m a t ch between Mellencamp, '22, and Hatobsky, '22, and an exhibi tion in the Japanese a rt of J iu J i t su the by •' Naito, a J a p a n e se s t u d e nt at college, proved one of in the most teresting and most talked of enter t a i n m e n ts of t he week. a The s w i m m i ng demonstrations by six of the best swimmers in the State were the first ever held in the cpllege pool, and served the crowds which thronged the gallery, the possi bilities of M. A. C.'s splendid to show tank. M. A. C. WINS FROM WABASH 37 TO 26. The basketball their to team added a n o t h er victory in last F r i d ay list defeating Wabash College by a score of 37 to 26. The defeat administered the week previously gave at Wabash to Gauthier's men and added "pep" efforts. stimulated t h at F r om the Wabash aggregation are used to floor, which affords their own small an opportunity their own. to u n u s u al it would seem them the result tactics all for game Following the the Wabash team played at Hope College on Sat urday, a nd lost a ragged game by a 21 to 18 score. Here again a small floor was encountered by Coach Gau this, together with thier's outfit and t he fact the team was badly off t he Hope m en a chance color gave to take a victory. is the general feeling t h at the team did not go down to defeat before a superior quintet, but lost through loose playing. t h at It M. A. C. DROPS GAME TO DEPAUW The tables were t u r n ed Wednesday n i g ht w h en M. A. C. lost to Depauw 5 their own t he gymnasium. University q u i n t et by a 20 to 12 score in Two weeks ago M. A. C. won from the Depauw aggre floor but were gation on unable t h is week. The game was one of the best t h at has been played on the college courts, and was h a rd every minute. It was very well attended. to duplicate fought s t u nt t he A double bill will be presented on S a t u r d ay night, when the Aggies meet the U. of M. team. As a p r e l i m i n a ry t he all-fresh quint will meet the speedy Alma college t he M. A. C. floor. Michigan has a team of is promis this y e ar a nd old players ing to p ut up a mighty battle to save themselves from defeat here on Sat u r d ay night. five on WANTED; A NATIONAL POLICY IN AGRICULTURE. E x t r a c ts from t he A d d r e ss of D e an D a v e n p o rt '78. the The following are extracts from address of t he president of the Asso ciation of American Agricultural Col leges and E x p e r i m e nt Stations deliv ered at t he thirty-second a n n u al con vention at Balimore, Maryland, Janu ary 8: is this paper "The purpose of to invite attention to the very great need at the present time of a more definite policy r e g a r d i ng agriculture; a policy t h at shall be national its scope, universal in its interests and compre hensive in its procedures. * * * in in " W h at is m e a nt is meant is such a farms and farmers and to m a i n t a in is such a consen sus of intelligent opinion and such a deliberate j u d g m e nt about agriculture as s h an represent the constructive pur pose of the American people w h e t h er laborers, or business men. farmers, a nd w h e t h er operating their pri vate or their governmental capacities. W h at common recognition of .certain facts a nd prin investiga ciples to be established by tion and conference as shall a m o u nt at any given time to a national policy farm about the policy which ing as over against separate assumes a struggle of each interest its place in a constantly shifting balance of power in which all are frankly antagonistic and each prospers or suffers in pro portion to t he force it is able to exert and the advantage it is able to secure. This policy is not called a program to carry because p r o g r a ms are m a de pur out and fixed poses, while the mind of t he speaker is r a t h er a s t a t us and a precedure under conditions, with t he i n t e nt always to promote the as a prosperity of favored but as a typical and component p a rt of society, producing in poten the food of the people and tial control of the land polices of the commonwealth. My general t h at thesis considerations of fairness and of pub- predetermined the farmer, shifting is t h i s: t h i ng class not the in 6 t h at the t h an h i t h e r to re lie safety both demand a higher gard for interests of the affairs and the open country and for the welfare of the farmer and his family; in farmer m u st a real democracy stand higher in public esteem, not because of demands he may m a ke upon society but by reason and of his worth and t h at he should count for more in the public affairs, not m a n a g e m e nt of he administratively, has little skill, but requiring counsel, m which he is comparatively wise and relatively unprejudiced. in which in m a t t e rs h is service: by the farmer Outside regarded journals, t he source of cheap Agriculture, whether considered as a profession or as a mode of life, has never figured adequately in world af publicists fairs, being mainly as food for cheap labor and of raw material good for commerce and for manufac ture, both convenient for holding the balance of trade upon the right side of the ledger. The himself has been generally considered as an unskilled laborer, a humble producer rather t h an a typical citizen. the technical public press is almost as silent about farmers and agriculture—except for the annual an occasional poor crop statistics, or report the m a r k et farming were done upon —as if our Mars, The columns are the struggles between labor and capital, of society notes and of business schemes, but in general a m u r d er trial with a tri mystery, or the love letters in a for good angular divorce the greatest morn space live stock exposition the world. Fundamentals Policy Among the achievements necessary to insure the proper development of American agriculture whether from a private or a public point of view, the sufficient following. at significance fun damental least are to be considered as in a national policy. bj a National suit are full of joke, t h an of in of t h at will First — Subsidization country insure schools to an extent to every child born upon the farm the opportunity of a good high school ed college, with ucation a d m i t t i ng along choice of differentiation agri commercial, mechanical. cultural, t h is literary scientific, or roof or Without breakii \ the busi ness. the father's bome and lines—and ttg to . in recognition of the i is neither a cap- r, as the terms are ednjtmercial world, ator of a small the gec( fact t: italisT understood but a manajdr. - business or • . there family are fore entitled the public to stand esteem as a typical democrat, not as a "rube" or even as an eminently use ful laborer t h at should be "contented with his integral parts, and th< home and lot." in Third—Recognition of the fact the American farmer, citizen most fundamental our greatest home-builder, representing our industry, as a t h at typical largest and as and is entitled THE M. A. C. RECORD. to an income comparable with his la bor, his investment, and his mana gerial skill. F o u r t h — T he assurance of in this come, not by a r b i t r a ry price fixing in defiance of the economic law of supply and demand, not by force, b ut by. con ference between producer, distributor, a nd consumer. Fifth—Requirement by law of min imum housing conditions upon rent ed farms, such conditions to be main tained under a system of adequate in spection. Sixth—The obligation not only to m a i n t a in but to increase the fertility of land, this obligation to be equally binding upon landlord and t e n a nt and enforced by public license. Seventh—Recognition of the owner and the t h at as between operator of the land, the a nd support of the public with the operator. fact the sympathy should be of the Eighth—Recognition fact the owner-operator, t h at as between the the speculator, tenant, and the sympathy and support of the public snould be with the owner-operator as the typical farmer. from the Ninth—The elimination public m i nd of the idea t h at t e n a n t ry is to be regarded in America as typi cal land occupancy ideal road to ownership, theories for nation alization and mutualization of land to the contrary notwithstanding. or as the financing young men Tenth—The appropriation of public in funds for prospective ownership as soon as they shall have fully established a reputa thrift and shall have accu tion mulated say ten percent of pur chase price of productive the lands. for loaned Eleventh — The establishment of upon interest rates on funds land for home-building purposes t h at shall be based upon those of the most issues, not upon cur favorable bond rent term for short rates banking loans—rates t h at cannot be generally realized in farming and t h at ought not to be realized in the business of pro ducing the staple foods. Twelfth—Discouragement of specu lation in land, by means of graduated if necessary by prohib taxation and iting the accumulation of large num bers of farms or other acquisition of land with no intention of occupancy; in other words, the absolute dissocia speculation from tion of real estate the production of f a r m i ng and from the food of the people. If we are to retain the principle and practice of private ownership, we m u st not abuse the privilege. of Thirteenth—Recognition agri culture in all its phases as a m a t t er of regard deep public concern, whether ed as the machinery for the produc tion of the food of the people, or as the means of providing ideal condi tions for the r e a r i ng of children. Fourteenth—Finally, the determin the to m a i n t a in upon the land ation same class of people as a re those who constitute t he m a ss of American citizens. the prevailing type among Granted t h at these or some similar principles are not only r i g ht but de about sirable, how may We best of a their realization working National Policy? Upon this point there is interesting m a t e r i al for by which the methods reflection we have arrived at other convictions and policies t h at may fairly be called national. set form in the in to of the join T h at I would President Specifically, the a d m i n i s t r a t i ve for suggest the following pro your consideration the Association of position: American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment- Stations memorialize both Congress and the United States, as representing t he leg func islative a nd in tions of our government, the appointment of a p e r m a n e nt Ag ricultural Commission, not of officials but of representative citizens, who shall serve w i t h o ut compensation ex cept for actual expenses and a nom inal per diem; the the personnel of to be representative not Commission only of farming as a business and of agriculture as a national enterprise interests, particu but also of other industry; larly a body the Roosevelt Country Life Commission the National Ad and visory Committee jointly by the Department of Agriculture and body the Food Administration; competent to consider from to agricultural situation and time needs, charged with the duty not of drafting bills looking to specific legis f preparing and publishing lation but t h at shall be regarded as ad findings visory to the legislative and t he administrative branches of our gov ernment and t h at also may be helpful in creating h e a l t -y public opinion and in establishing and main- influential ing sound national in agri policies culture.* labor and capitalized in purpose resembling appointed a time function the in to last p a r a g r a p h. of *The recommendation contained in the above ad the by the Associa dress was endorsed tion, and the Executive Committee was instructed to take suitable action recommendation the toward m a k i ng effective. SOME ALUMNI WHO R E G I S T E R ED LAST WEEK. R. V. Tanner, '09, Hastings, Mich.; Sgt. W. H. Thies, '19,. Traverse City, '03, Detroit, Mich.; F. 0. Foster, '16, Manis Mich.; Alice M. Kuenzli, '78, Old Mis tee, Mich.; E. 0. Ladd, '15, H a r t, sion, Mich.; B. F. Beach, Mich.; Alfred Hemishorn, T l, Shelby, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Bogan, T6-T8, Rosebush, Mich.; Wm. M. Ri der, '88, Brattleboro, V t; N. S. Mayo, '88, 1650 Maiden Ave., Chicago, 111.; '82, Constantine, Wm. T. Langley, '09, Vermont- Mich.; M. W. Sprague, '12, ville, Mich.; Earl C. Sanford, Grass Lake, Mich.; Otto W. Pino, '17, Manchester, Mich.; C. E. Smith, '10, 822 Farwell Bldg., Detroit, Mich.; '15, Grand Hav Grace H. Hitchcock, '11, Caro, en, Mien.; A. MacVittie, '12, Dowagiac, Mich.; C. A. Stahl, '16, Owosso, Mich.; R. S. Linton, Mich.; H e r m an W. Reynolds, 522 Isaac Peral, Manila, P. I.; Elvine A. . Reynolds, '04, 522 Isaac Peral, Manila, '10, Lapeer, P. I.; Robert L. Taylor, '11, Evart, Mich.; Mich.; C. L. Rose, '98, Bellam, Mich.; R. E. Morrow, '12, Onsted, Mich.; S. Gale Gilbert, '10, ' Three Rivers, C. Hagenbuch, Mich.; L. J. Reed, '13, Clio, Mich.; I. L. Cardwell, '14, Imlay City, Mich.; L. B. Littell, '01, 544 Giddings Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.; Alta Lawson Littell, '03, 544 Giddings Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.; E d w a rd B. Benson, '17, Fennville, Mich.; Carl H. Knopf, '11, Manistee, Mich.; C. S. Langdon, '11, Hubbardston, Mich.; George F. '88, Fowler, Mich.; Robert H. Stow, Gorsline, '19, Battle Creek, Mich.; Royal J. Bondie, '18, Dearborn, Mich.; Lieut. W. S. Beden, Lansing, '14, L'Anse, Mich.; Mich.; Hazel Ramsay, E a t on '14, Rapids, Mich.; W. P. Wilson, '06, Col. C. A. U. S. A. Ft. Revere, Boston Har bor, Mass.; M. J. Hamilton, '20, Ith aca, Mich. Irving- K i r s h m a n, '16, WEDDING. in performed The wedding of Capt. F r ed A. Stone '12 of Chicago, and Miss Lena Vee Kelley, daughter of Congressman and Mrs. P a t r i ck H e n ry Kelley of Lansing, took place Wednesday evening, Febru ary 5, at seven thiry o'clock the home of the bride's parents, Royden a p a r t m e n t s, Washington, D. C. The ceremony was by Rev. J a m es Shera Montgomery, of Calvary Methodist church. Capt. Stone, since the engi graduation, has been with neering department Illinois Central railroad and during his war service served in the 20th E n g i n e e rs instructor at Camp overseas and as H u m p h r i e s, Va. Mrs. Stone is a grad uate of LaSalle Seminary a nd Colum bia university, and h as been teaching in New York. the of UNDER CLASSMEN STILL IN SER VICE. Arend, C. H., w'21, Co. D, 337th Inf., Amer. E. F., F r a n c e. Andrews, H. J., w'19, M. I. T., Naval Avia. Det., Cambridge, Mass. Andrews, Ward, w'19, M. I. T., Naval Avia. Det., Cambridge, Mass. Archer, Laurence C, w'19, Co. 616, Bks. 828 N. Camp Decatur, Great Lakes, 111. Delamarter, A r t h ur R., w'20, Corp. Rifle Range Det., U. S. M. C, Quan- tico, Va. Engels, J. L., w'19, Co. B, 106th Eng. Amer. E. F. Gustafson, Clifford W., w'20, U. S. S. West Zula, care Postmaster, N. Y. THE M. A. C. RECORD. 7 Higbie, Chas., w'20, Co. G, 307th Am. Train, A. E. F. F r a n c e. Perkins, E a t on F., w'19, Sergt. Sani t a ry Squad No. 57, A. E. F. F r a n c e. Rowley, Harold, w'21, Ensign, Receiv ing Ship, New York, N. Y. W I TH OUR M EN IN S E R V I CE F r om Lt.-Col. M. L. Ireland, S. Army, A. P. O. 717, F r a n c e, Prof. H. K. Vedder. '01, LT. to in F r a n c e, J a n u a ry 21, 1919. This is j u st to say hello and to reg ister encountering over here Capt. L. H. Taylor, E n g i n e er Corps, class of 1901, Mr. Bemies, Athletic Director 1899-00, as special agent with Russian Forces Brigadier-Gen. Thomas Reldy, Corps of Engineers, class of 1882 from Williamston, 1st Lieut. Marvin L. Streeter, Motor T r a n s p o rt Corps., w i th 1914 Eng. I think, Major Floyd C. Hecox, Motor I T r a n s p o rt Corps with 1908 Engr. also m et from 125th the they h ad oc Michigan shortly after the Rhine cupied Andermach in early while on a trip to Coblentz tell you Sometime I may December. how has been. I saw Brigadier-General H. H. Band- holtz a m o ng others. interesting my work I n f a n t ry on Mame. We drilled for about six weeks before going to t he St. Mihiel sector. We were only in reserve here but on September 26th we went over the top in the Meuse-Argonne offensive north west of Verdun. • We were t h at battle until October 12th when we left for the Belgian front and fought un der K i ng Albert in the Lys-Sheldt of fensive a r o u nd Audenoide from Octo ber 31st to November 3d. You have no doubt read of in Over on strong resistance met by the 91st the Argonne. The P r u s s i an were used to try to stop us. this a (Belgium) in German document was picked up the German soldiers were of which fered eighteen days additional leave for every member of the-91st division So I guess we were not captured. very popular Avith them. front the in g u a r ds F r om here we expect Mans, F r a n c e, to be our trip home or else to the Rhine. reequipped to go to Le- for F r om R. E. Brightup, '11, Capt. Coast Art. Cps., now a t t e n d i ng the Army Line School, A. P. O. 714, Lau- gres, F r a n c e: to I was assigned the 56th Regt. (C. A. C.) Avhen it was of Artillery of the coast in organized Long Island Sound, Dec. 20, 1917, and came t h at organiza tion to F r a n ce with in March, 1918. defenses to After much training, etc., we land ed in the Chateau Thiery region, the latter p a rt of August, as a r my artil the F r e n ch 155 lery equipped with mm. G. P. F. guns. the J u st before offensive started on Sept. 26 we were moved over the region n o r t h w e st of Verdun and j u st below Montfaucon where we took p a rt in t h at drive. I though as I was finish didn't get to soon ordered down here to the Line the war had continued I School. to suppose the Gen'l Staff College on finishing this course. However, now t h at it is over I hope soon to land in the good old U. S. A. If I would have been sent I have met only a few M. A. C. men since coming Smith of to F r a n c e. about 1913 come over on same the boat and I h ad a lad in my battery (my to join left who had the a r my battery was made up of regulars) at the end of h is freshman year. F r om Pvt. V. R. Cooledge, Co. A, 347 M. G. Bn., Amer. E. F., A. P. O. No. 776, to Dr. Giltner: We left Hoboken J u ly 5th and ar rived at Liverpool on July 16th after t h e re we an uneventful the went channel side- to Mamay, H a u te door P u l l m a ns to LeHavre and to Southampton, crossed took F r om trip. F r om a 'Dad's Day' letter w r i t t en to G. E. "Buck" E w i ng '92 by his son, now in Germany with t he a r my of oc cupation. to the I went We entered t he dressing trenches May 30th in the Alsace sector n e ar Bell F o r t. We were j u st holding t he lines there. T h at w as a good war, but August 1st the our troubles began. We entered drive at Chateau Thierry, here our Battalion advanced eight kilometers one day. F r om here we went the Soisson front on t he 28th of August. We entered and went over t he top the m o r n i ng of the 29th. t h r o u gh t h at O. K. but the 30th we were or dered to a t t a ck again at 4:30 p. m. Well, we h ad j u st reached o ur object to ives a nd I was digging like H— get out of danger of shrapnel when I was struck by a piece on my left hip, about 6:30, believe me I hobbled for the next m o r n i ng found me in P a r is at an evac I stayed there about uation hospital. a week, t h en was t r a n s f e r r ed to a base hospital at Nantes, w h e r e! remained about t h r ee weeks, t h en I got back to my company j u st in t i me to enter t he Argonne sector on t he Verdun front, w h e re we put twenty-one days of in in which our battery went over H— t he times. W h en we were top relieved some of us were given a fur it was cut short one day lough, but because our regiment was p ut in the lines again November 5th a nd we were the I h e a rd there until the eleventh last shot m i n u te of t he eleventh day of t he eleventh month 1918, and believe me Dad I will never forget t he minute, hour, day, m o n th or I do not believe you can imag- year. finish. fired—it was the eleventh h o ur of station, t h r ee the 8 THE M. A. C. RECORD. ine how we celebrated. American and Dutch alike, they came o v e r' to our line and told us where some of our boys were lying t h at h ad been wound ed in an attack the day before. They also loose which they h ad captured the day before, in cluding four from our company. t u r n ed prisoners Well we spent the rest of the week cleaning up a nd drilling" some, and on the next Sunday started our hike for the Rhine. Sunday and Monday we hiked 56 kilometers, bringing us to the border line of F r a n ce and Lux- emberg, where we did guard duty for two days. The t h i rd day we were going over the line to the Rhine to establish our front lines ten kilomet ers beyond the Rhine, but two of us corporals were sent back to attend X. C. O. school at Gancourt so here I is am at school, while my company into probably over Germany. the Rhine river From J. M. Maze, '16, 300 3d St., Jersey City to Dr. E. A. Bessey: u n d e r g r o u nd t he silent heroism, I have w r i t t en very little from the front the opportunities being very few for suca a dangerous operation. Then, too, we in t he artillery did not have the same heroic, p a rt as the superb American infantry. Ours was on most occasions to lie low and hope a nd pray t h at the 77's or 150's do not m a ke a direct hit on our shelter trenches or g un platforms. At times, too, we found it necessary to disobey the H u ns a nd keep our 190's blazing away with shells break ing all a r o u nd us and casualties here there. Our battery was a 194 and mm. howitzer ( an old F r e n ch g u n) and was very effective. Being a how itzer our work was principally that of destruction and as such very compat ible with the general spirit. At St. Mihiel we fired on some of t he very "pal renowned Boche aces." On visiting our the next day we saw some of the work conscious of t h at we were hardly having accomplished. Since then Ave had very much respect for our engine of destruction. Our shells knocked in many a dugoutful of Bodies, and in duced h u n d r e ds of Boches to take to In t he first Argonne battle the air. we nred at German batteries in the town of Varennes, a nd on Mt. Fancon when it was r e t a k en by the Germans. The infantry in both cases advanced too fast for the artillery, especially like our 19's. ours of t he heavy kind On the 11th of October we moved to Charney, north of Verdun. Here the infantry was considerably slower in its progress and we h ad t he oppor tunity of firing a nd being fired upon almost daily. Later we advanced to Chattencourt and Coumiers, where the armistice hushed our at 11:01 a. m. One of the guns, to fin ish an even 100 for t he morning, was • "compelled" to fire the last shot "aft er" t he war. targets guns <£* Alumni Notes i# 'SI. "If anyone asks for Root ( J. F.) with '81 tell them I am on a p a rt of the 400 acres my grandfather settled on in 1825 a nd t h at I expect my son to go on" with it soon." T he Root farm is at Plymouth, Michigan. '82. E. N, Ball, H a m b u r g; W. E. Hale, Eaton Rapids; Wm. T. Langley, Con- stantine, Michigan, m et at M. A. C. F a r m e r s' Week. Ball for 18 years h as been secretary of the Michigan Tam- worth Breeders' Association; Hale for years h as been president of the Cy clone I n s u r a n ce Company; Langley has quit in his own behalf and is now active with others in p u t t i ng old St, J oe county back in the fruit r a n ks of the counties of Michigan. He h ad the satisfaction of seeing three of sweepstakes-premiums on the corn come to St. J oe county besides the lesser p r e m i u ms on W h i te Top Corn, beans, wheat and clover seed. T he three "boys" went out and took a look at the beautiful double row of elm t r e es set along the north side of the campus, this spring, in 1879. years forty four ago Theo. F. Millspaugh, during the last month, nas lost by death h is mother, his oldest daughter grand daughter. He lives at 62 Claredon Ave., Detroit, Michigan. and a J o hn F. Evart, Mendon, Michigan is in collecting assisiing "Uncle S a m" the income t ax of Michigan. Why should not '82 have a "Round Robin Letter" a nd a reunion with every living member T he class t h at made Bailey famous (?) present? Every R. F. D. mail box of an M. A. C. m an in the state should have oh it M. A. C. ' — so t h at other M. A. C. men passing could stop and get at least a drink of water. Why n o t ?" —W. T. Langley. '87. W. C. Sanson of 632 W. Burnside St., Caro, Michigan, h as been particu larly active in Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. work during the past year and "in getting the cash from t h at fellow who wants to dodge coming across finan cially to aid the boys." '90. R. Bruce McPherson is still making his headquarters at "the old home inter town, Howell, Michigan. Am ested in banking, timber lands and r u n n i ng a 360 acre farm near here where I keep a herd of about 100 head of Holstein-Freisian cattle so you see my agricultural t r a i n i ng has borne some fruit. Would be glad to hear from any of the boys who are inter I do not hear ested in similar lines. much from the boys of '90. H. L. Bunnell writes occasionally from Van couver, B. C. where he is cruising tim ber for t he Canadian Government." Also see Will W. Morrison, a banker of Toledo, Ohio, occasionally." '91. ( w i t h) Thomas Flower is associat ed with h is cousins, J o hn a nd Charles Flower, a nd is m a n a g er of the Flow er-Stephens Co., Detroit, manufactur ers of w a t e r w o rk m a t e r i a ls and fire company d e p a r t m e nt supplies. H is has on emergency fleet corporation work. He is living at 66 Maidstone, Detroit, Mich. employed been '92. L. C. Brooks is electrical engineer for the Bethlehem Ship Building Cor poration at Bethlehem, Pa. '96. Louis D. 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