Nebraskaie
VOL. XVI. NO. 7.
' UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER. 21, 1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Dor
iREEKS ARE TO MEET
IN LAW
FLEDGES AND FRATERNITY MEN
IN ANNUAL COUNCIL
Chancellor Avery and Dean Engberg
;. Among the Speakers Explain
. New Rushing
All Greeks will meet in Law 101
tonight for the annual interfraternity
meeting. The newly pledged men, as
well as the initiated men will attend,
and nearly every fraternity man In
'school is expected to be present for
tte annual council.
VERNE AUSTIN '18,
" HEADS DRY WORKERS
WILL HAVE CHARGE OF UNIVER-
SITY WORK FOR PROHIBITION
.590 Men Wanted for Active Work for
Amendment at the Fall
Election
' Verne- Austin, 18, member of the
Y. M. C. A. cabinet, has been selected
'to take charge of the Nebraska uni
versity organized work in behalf of
. the prohibition amendment at the com
ing fall election.
y Austin has bad considerable experi
ence as a practical railroad man, and
this waa one reason for his selection.
He will know how to present the prop
osition so that the working men, who
often resent student "interference" in
such a campaign, will not have reason
for such an attitude.
it
I The plan for Nebraska university,
according to W. E. Baker, who is as
sisting in organizing the campaign
here, will be to organize 500 men stu
dents for active work for the prohibi
tion cause. Speakers will be used,
men will be placed at the polls, and
quartets organized for the campaign.
1 The university girls will be enlisted
to help, if possible, and other univer
sity organizations will be urged to
lend support to the cause.
UNIVERSITY BUREAU
FINDS POSITIONS
FOR 24 TEACHER8
Twenty-four teachers have recently
received positions through the efforts
of the bureau of recommendation of
teachers of the university. The fol
lowing is the list: Delia A. Nelson,
1C, Kimball Co. H. S.; Theodora
Dodds. '16. York; Julia Rands. '16.
Redstone. Mont; Ada Partington, '15,
Elba IL S.: Edith Higgins, '15. Mis
souri Valley, la.; Edith A. Forrest,
Scottsbluff ; Ray T. Glenn, Lincoln
city schools; Marjorie Page, Worcbes
! ter; Editha Sixta, '16, Randolph; Irma
! Calhoun. Etuart; Alia Arbuckle. Clay
Center IL 8.; Wm. Fleming, Fairbury
IL S.; Evelyn Dobbs, Ogden. Utah;
Roxy Auble, Home Economics and Mu
sic, Ord; Harry K. Bloom strand, Fon
da, la.; Mary M. Wilson. Alliance;
RobL A. Conley. Fairbury IL S.; Fan
nie E. Malzacher, 16. Brunsjrlck JL
&; Mablo Sanders. '17. Osmond; Wil
metta E. Morse, Shields. N. D.; Gladys
Thomas. Halgler IL S.; Edna IL King.
Byron, I1L; Emma Chrietenson. Yer
don IL S.; Marie Lewis. Shubert IL S.
REGISTRATION AT WASHING
TON U.
More than 2.000 students had com
pleted their registration by last night
and several hundred more will enroll
today. Student passes have been sold
. to 2,203 Individuals when the books
weie closed last bight, and money, in-
eluding tuition at 4 matriculation fees,
totaling S48.2Z7.S8 had been deposited
at the office of the comptroller. Exchange.
101 TOiGHT
Prof. P. M. Buck, jr., chairman of
the interfraternity council, will pre
side at the meeting. The complete
list of speakers has not been given
out, but Chancellor Avery and Dean
Engberg will be among them, in addi
tion to a number of the alumni and
active fraternity members.
The new rushing rules that go into
effect with the closing of the present
rush season, will be explained to the
men. Fraternity problems, in general
and particular, end problems 01 tre
university will be discusses.
REFERENCE BUREAU
REVISES NEB. PAGES
FOR YEAR BOOK
.The legislative reference bureau is
preparing data for The Statesman's
Year Book," edited by J. Scott Keltic
XJL. D of London, which is the lead
ing statistical authority of the world.
The Nebraska pages cover the follow
ing topics: Government, area, popula
tion, instruction, charity, finance, de
fenses, production and industry, and
reference books relating to Nebraska.
The following letter was recently
received from Mr. Keltie requesting
that these statistics be sent to him:
"To the Director of the State
Legislative Reference Bureau, Ne
braska State Library, Lincoln:
Sir: I beg to send you herewith
the pages of ths 'Statesman's
Year Book" relating to Nebraska
in the hope that, as in past years,
you will do me the favor of having
the facts and statistics revised
and brought up to date for the
next edition, a favor which I as
sure you will be greatly appre
ciated. Tf there are any additions
which you consider desirable, I
hope you will be good enough to
have them made.
"It would be an additional fa
vor if you could return the re
vised pages before November L
1916.
' "I beg to remain your obed
ient servant,
"J. SCOTT KELTIE."
SIX BADGER CITIES HAVE PLAY
GROUNDS Six Wisconsin cities maintain super
vised public playgrounds at the pres
ent time, according to a survey re
cently made by the municipal refer
ence bureau of the University of Wis
consin. These playground systems are
maintained in many other cities.
Milwaukee has fifteen public play
grounds run throughout the er un
der four supervisors an fsresfy-four
directors. Its system and equipment
are the most extensive In the state.
Superior has six playgrounds with
one supervisor and six instructors.
under the direction of the board of
education. The city park board also
maintains a bathing beach in summer
and fifteen skating rinks during the
winter. The average attendance at
the playgrounds is 500 to COO dally.
Racine has ight playgrounds, un
der a supervisor and ten instructors,
which arc maintained only during a
period of ten weeks during the sum
mer. The park board controls the
system and the attendance last sea
son was about 76.7S0.
Sheboygan maintains two play
grounds under a supervisor for six
weeks during the summer. The
board of education directs the play
grounds and pays the cost of main
tenance. Madison has four playgrounds un
der the direction of a supervisor and
eleven instructors, maintained through
co-ope ration of the park boards and
the board of education. Its attend
ance averages about 25,000 a 6c?on.
Kenosha has a system of supervised
recreation with one director under the
direction of the school board. Exchange.
PRAISE FOR
KEENE ABBOTT
AS STORY WRITER
Keene Abbott, dramatic editor of
the World-Herald, is given a nice com
pliment in Harper's magazine for Aug
ust by the editor of the magazine,
Henry M. Alden. In discussing cur
rent literature, and particularly that
which has been accepted by Harper's
publication, the veteran editor in
cludes Mr. Abbott with a few short
story writers of today who have shown
"creative imagination," and are really
making literature. Mr. Abbott is the
son of Dr. Abbott, the well known Ne
braska pioneer and one of the leading
authors of the state.
MISS GHAIKEN HEAD
GIRLS' SUMMER CAMP
WAS SUPERINTENDENT OF NEW
YORK CITY CAMP
Describes Conditions Surrounding the
Lives of Girls Who Lack
Opportunity
"The two months I spent this sum
mer superintending a vacation camp
at Fleischmann, N. Y., for girls from
New York City, were most interesting
although the work Was very difficult
and 3trenuous," said Annis S. Chaikin,
'08, -Then asked of her vacation yes
terday.
Miss Chaikin, who is now secretary
of the alumni association, was former
ly secretary of the Jewish Big Sisters
of New York City, and the camp she
conducted was under their auspices.
The association does preventive work
in connection with the juvenile court
Girls who show symptoms of becom
ing unruly are referred by parents,
guardians or teachers to the "Big Sis
ters." who try to influence them to
better things before it is too late.
Home visiting is done by volunteers,
but the infantile paralysis epidemic
this summer handicapped the visiting,
so it was decided to conduct a camp
in the Catskills as an experiment.
Two Months' Leave
"I received a telegram on the Fourth
of July asking me to superintend the
camp," Miss Chaikin said. "Chancel
lor Avery, who was in New York at
the time, granted me a two months'
leave of absence Immediately. I ar
rived at the camp just one day ahead
of the first division of twenty girls."
"The girls, whose ages ranged from
nine to sixteen or seventeen years,
came to the camp in groups of twenty.
Four groups were given the outing.
They were sent by boats up the Hud
son river. The last two hours of the
trip were by train. Assisting Miss
Chaikin at the camp was a trained
nurse, a housekeeper and a playground
worker. The children tbemse'ves did
the remainder of the work, which was
so systematized that It took perhaps
one hour a day from each girL
The camp consisted of a large pri
vate home surrounded by lovely
grounds. A brook ran across the
premises and the children greatly en-i
joyed tumbling In and being fished out
of this. It was a wonderful experience
to these children, who. coming from
very poor tomes, bad. many of them,
never seen the country before. Some
did not know a butterfly from a cater
pillar, and were equally afraid of both.
The children climbed the mountains,
picking apples, blackberries, raspber
ries and Cowers. Each week they bad
a hay ride. They built fires and toast
ed marsbmallows. The fireplace or
bonfire was a "furnace" to them, they
knew no other name.
Interesting Incidents
Numberiess interesting Incidents oc
curred. Two girls who slept in cots
In a small room, refused to open both
mindows because "We don't need to,
then are only two of us." One little
eleven-year-old girl bad never made a
bed before in her life. They didn't
make the beds in her borne, and she
was delighted to learn bow it was
done. Few know bow to sweep a room
as It should be done, but most of them
were eager to learn and very appre-
AWGWAN A MONTHLY
PUBLICATION FOR
THE PRESENT YEAR
The Awgwan, published since its in
ception as a semi-monthly magazine,
will be published but once a month
this year, according to an announce
ment made yesterday.
With the change to the monthly
paper, the size of the Awgwan will be
increased, and prompt publication will
be made. Delays of a week or more
were frequent occurrences in the past
history of the paper.
Kappa Alpha Theta announces the
pledging of Aileen Mitten, of Teka-
mah.
FRATERNITIES PLEDGE
AT 1200 TODAY
ENTRANCE CREDITS EXAMINED
BY EXECUTIVE DEAN
Professor Buck Will Announce Pledges
Inter-frat Council
Meeting
Fraternity pledging will take place
at noon today, when the list of pledges
given to Professor Buck will be
checked over by Dean Engberg and
the eligibility of the men certified to.
No man can be pledged by a fraternty
whose entrance credits are not certi
fied complete.
The rushing season ended yesterday
at noon. Representatives to the inter
fraternity council met with Professor
Buck, and gave him the lists of the
men that were desired to be pledged.
Professor Buck declared that if any of
the fraternities announced lists of
pledges prematurely, before the uni
versity had had an opportunity to
make sure that entrance requirements
had been met, the fraternity would be
penalized by having the pledges with
drawn.
L. R. Doyle, Phi Delta Theta. was
elected permanent secretary of the in
terfraternity council. A suggestion
was made that a Pan-Helenic banquet
be held, but no definite action was
taken.
SELF-SUPPORTING STUDENTS
GIVEN WORK BY YALE
New Haven. Conn., Sept. 20. The
1 rpnnrt nf tha V1 hnrpan nf innnint.
ments for the year 1915-16 just com
pleted by its secretary, Edwin Rogers
Embree, shows a striking total of as
sistance to self-supporting students in
finding work and in scholarship
awards. Eight hundred and nine stu
dents were enrolled with the bureau
for work; 2.178 individual Items of
work were given to students directly
by the bureau during the nine months
of the college year, from wtikh the
men have reported total earnings of
144.808.74; 231 positions were given
for the summer, from which the esti
mated total income is 145,619, making
a grand total of earnings by students
from work directly referred to them
by the bureau of 190.427.74.
It is estimated that the total earn
ing of the self-sapporting students Is
oneuarter of a million dollars.
Teachers who want to combine some
library science with other blgb school
studies now bare a chance to get
training in library management at the
University of Washington. This
course will give them sufficient train
ing to enable them to arrange, class
ify, catalogue and manage an ordinary
high school library Exchange.
ciative of what was done for them.
They were very Interested In the
stories that were told at story hour,
especially fairy stories.
"Their greatest ambition," Miss
Chaikin said, "was to acquire a real
brown coat of tan. They would put
salt water on their faces and lie for
hours out in the hot son. I was often
afraid it would make them 111, but it
evidently did no barm as we did not
have a single case of sickness during
the summer."
SHORT SCRIMMAGE FOR
FIFTY-FIVE MEN OUT WORK ON
DUMMIES
Bruises Prevent Stiff Workouts Dope
from Kansas and
Ames
Only a short scrimmage took place
at the practice last night. Most of the
time was taken up with practice in
punting and tackling. Doyle, Gardi
ner and Otoupalik did the punting,
while Caley and Cook received.
A squad of fifty-five reported for
practice. The varsity and scrubs
were mixed up in 6mall squads, tack
ling the dummy and tackling each
other. While most of the freshmen
were engaged in falling on the ball, a
few of the stars were mixed with the
scrubs, and under the eyes of Ruther
ford went through signal practice.
Several of the varsity are suffering
from minor injuries and bruises,
which was the cause of the short
scrimmage.
Field Chalk-Lined
The field has now assumed the look
of a real gridiron, having been lined
during the day in preparation for the
big varsity-freshmen game Saturday.
Nebraska 1b not the only school In
the valley that will have , a team this
year, by any means. Drake, our first
opponent, and Kansas, our ancient ri
val, both have been practicing for
some time.
ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT
REGISTRATION TWICE
THAT OF LAST YEAR
Registration in the department of
zoology is approximately twice that
of last year. The present enrollment
in zoology I and 3A is 160, against last
year's eighty-two.
Dr. D. E. Whitney succeeds Dr.
Powers in this department, coming
recently from Wesleyan university In
Connecticut, where be was head of
the department- His especial work in
Nebraska will be experimental zool
ogy, evolution and genetics.
Prof. H. B. Latimer, whs was head
of the department at Nebraska Wes
leyan, is another addition to the de
partment. Professor Latimer took one
year of graduate work In the Univer
sity of Berlin and the remainder at
Chicago under Professor Donaldson.
ILLINI STAR COURSE
The Star course as offered to the
university community under the man
agement of Adelpbic and Philoma
thean literary societies consists of six
numbers, four of which are musical
and the other two dramatic. Humor
and the best that is popular will mark
the course as a whole, and according
to C. R. Gideon, its manager, the tal
ent secured Is as good as any In tbe
country.
Gadski Comes First
On tbe program, coming to the uni
versity In tbe order named are Johan
na Gadski. Evan Williams, Tilly Koe
nen, the Portmanteau Theater, Miscba
Elman, and Strickland W. Gillilan.
Most of these are well known In col
lege communities and tbe larger cities
of tbe United States. Madame Gadski
has a world's record for attendance
at a public concert In New York,
where 10.000 heard her sing at one
performance, and Miscba Eta an
shares honors on the violin only with
Fritz Krelsler.
New to the university is the Port
manteau Theater. This is a theater
built by Stuart Walker, for six yean
manager for David Belasco, designed
to travel from city to city. It Is of
such nature that it can be taken down
and boxed for shipment by a few men
In an hour and a half.
Pormanteau Theater Is Novel
The company of actors Is first class,
and tbe entertainment is usually
given only in large cities. The com
pany will be at the Fine Arts theater;
VARSITY LAST NIGHT
Drake is also in the hands of new
coaches this year. Their names are
Glaze and Wier. The latter is a for
mer United States military academy
player. The' former hails from Dart
mouth and was on Walter Camp's .'oke
for several years. Drake is not as for
tunate as Nebraska in that they only
have six letter men back. Ther? are
a few others with varsity experience
and a host of last year's freshmen,
among whom ;s a former Misiouri star
by the name of Robertson. From all
accounts their coaches are getting
away as well with the men as Ne
braska's nev ones are.
Kansas Dope
From our neighboring state on the
south comes the usual hot-air balloon
which is always destined to be punc
tured and vanished when it hits Lin
coln. The Kansas coaches have now been
at work for almost two weeks, with
utter disregard of Missouri valley
rules, which prohibit coaches from ap
pearing on the field until September
15. But they are becoming desperate
down there, to turn out a team that
can beat Nebraska, so they are liable
to do most anything.
Nebraska has no monopoly on the
heavyweights, as Kansas has seven
candidates who weigh over 200 pounds.
One of these men was a coach last
year at Lawrence high school. As a
whole the Kan sans can see nothing
but an all-victorious team.
FALL TRACK STARTS
WITH 32CANDIDATES
Captain Overman Heads Distance Men
on the Cinder Path
Thirty-two men answered Manager
Guy Reed's call for the fall track meet.
Many were freshmen, some of whom
held records, in high school. There
also was a good number of old track
men out Captain Overman of the
track team, was pleased with the out
look, as was Guy Reed.
Tbe squad will meet every night
from 4 to 6 on tbe athletic field, and
Saturday practice win also be held.
The men reported last night for the
frst time. The freshmen were very
enthusiastic. There Is a great num
ber of long distance men out and Ne
braska should be able to give a good
account of herself In this line at least.
Among tbe old men out were Cap
tain Overman, Graf, Garrison, Cribble
and Ralph Anderson, all distance men.
CHORUS
Registration for chorus Is still open
without additional fee.
Men who drill may meet Monday,
7 to 8 p. m. and Friday at 5 p. m.
Regular rehearsals for all parts.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
5 p. to.
All rehearsals are held In Art halL
Members of chorus are given free
admission to the Minneapolis Sym
phony orchestra concerts during the
May festival.
The tickets for tbe second annual
welcome ball to be held October 8,
went on sale yesterday. Scbemtszk's
fifteen-piece orchestra has been en
gaged. The dance Is under the man
agement of Theodore Metcalfe, 18,
and will be at the Auditorium.
in Chicago for a week In February.
On the university program it will take
the place formerly filled by the Ben
Greet players. Tbe Portmanteau The
ater is being offered on the Star
course at a blgh cosL The plays to
be presented are comedies. Exchange.
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