Daily Nebraskao
VOL. XVI. NO. 40.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
The
WILSON WINS STRAW
BALLOT OF STUDENTS
PROHIBITION CARRIES 12 TO 1
AMONG UNI STUDENTS
Daily Nebraskan Poll Shows President
a Favorite with Both Men
and Women
COMPLETE STRAW VOTE
For President . .
Wilson, Democratic 246
Hughes, Republican 141
Benson, Socialist v 3
Hanly, Prohibitionist 1
On the Prohibition Amendment
For the Amendment 350
Against tho Amendment 25
The Vote of the Men
Wilson, Democratic 165
Hughes, Republican 99
Benson, Socialist 3
Hanly, Prohibitionist 1
For the Amendment 238
Against the Amendment 19
The Vote of the Women
Wilson, Democratic 81
Hughes, Republican 42
For the Amendment 112
Against the Amendment 6
Woodrow Wilson would be presiden
tial choice of the Universty students
by a little less than. 2 to 1, accord
ing to the straw ballot taken by The
Dally Nebraskan yesterday, which
showed the democratic candidate the
favorite with 246 students, and
Charles B. Hughes, the republican
nominee the preferred by 141. Allen
OLYMPICS PLANS
ARE ANNOUNCED
INNOCENTS PLAN ON SHORT, DE
CISIVE BATTLE
Five Events, with Pushball and Free-for-AII
Scrap Featuring
the Affray
A short, decisive affair is what the
Innocents and junior committee, in
charge of the annual freshman-sophomore
Olympics, have planned for the
morning of Saturday, November 18.
The first year man will be given a
representative field of competition in
which to assert his right to live in
the same university world with the
sophomore, but the events have been
reduced in number, in an effort to in
crease the interest as well as the
spirit of strife.
At a meeting of the committee last
Friday the following events and points
were decided upon:
The EvenU
Wrestling, three divisions, 6 points
each.
Boxing, three divisions, 5 points
each.
Tug of war, 17 points.
Pushball, 25 points.
Pole fight (free for all), 33 points. .
Division of the classes in wrestling
and boxing will be lightweight, middle
weight and heavyweight. Bouts will
be of ten minutes' duration, with de
cision on points. Competent referees
will be in the ring.
Arrangements for shipping the push
ball from its home in Ames, la., to
Lincoln for the meet are now being
made. With the exception of the
class fight, which will this year cen
ter around a flag pole, the pushball
contest.is the bisgest bone of conten
tion. High and bounding, it Is batted
back and forth between two swaying
phalanxes which meet at the ball with
a resounding thud.
Use Pole Fight
After some discussion the comniit-
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K. Benson, socialist candidate, polled
three votes, and J. Frank Hanly, the
prohibitionist standard bearer, one.
The University Is overwhelmingly
for the proposed amendment to mane
Nebraska dry, the vote being fourteen
to one. Three hundred and fifty stu
dents registered themselves in favor
of the amendment, and twenty-five
were opposed. Six of those opposed
were women students. .
Both the men and the women fav
ored Mr. Wilson over Mr. Hughes by
about the same proportion. The men
did not vote so solidly for prohibition,
although they were more than twelve
to one in favor of it. The women
were eighteen to one in favor of the
constitutional amendment to make
Nebraska dry.
Men and Women Voters
About twothirds of the men sub
scrlbers to The Nebraskan cast their
vote at the straw ballot, and about
one-third of the women. The co-eds
seemed to feel a timidity about exer
cising the franchise even on the straw
vote, and some of them confessed it
was the first time they had ever even
played at voting. Taking everything
into consideration, the vote might well
be considered as representative. A
number of the faculty men and women
voted. Some students who could not
obtain Nebraskans with the official
ballot, wrote their vote on slips of
paper, and these were counted, too.
The votes were counted by T. A.
Williams, representing the faculty,
and Eva Miller, George Grimes and
Ivan Beede of the staff of The Nebras
kan. FARM FACULTY AND
AG CLUB TO ENTERTAIN
FRIDAY NIGHT
Faculty members of the agricultural
college, assisted by the Agricultural
club, will entertain students in the
Ag college at a dance and lunch on
the farm campus Friday evening. All
agricultural college .students are in
vited. The faculty members have
planned an informal entertainment to
help the students get better acquaint
ed with faculty and other students.
TRACK MEETS
STARTjeNESDAY
EVENTS TO BE RUN OFF ON FIVE
DAYS
A track meet as a test of the re
sults of tho fall workouts, continuing
over more than a week, will com
mence Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock on Nebraska field, when the
100-yard dash, the one-half mile run
and the two-mile run will be staged.
The remaining events in the track
curriculum will be staged Thursday
of this week, and Tuesday Wednes
day and Thursday of next week. On
Thursday, of this week the high hur
dles and the 440-yard dash will be
run; on next Tuesday, the mile and
the 220-yard dash; Wednesday of next
week, the low hurdles, the pole vault
and the broad jump; and Thursday of
next week, the high Jump and the re
lay race.
Medals Awarded .
Gold, silver and bronze medals will
be awarded winners of first, second
and third places in tho meet. The
four men on the winning relay team
will be given gold medals, silver
medals to the second team, and bronze
medals to the third team.
The contests will be open to any
man student and participation in the
fall practices will not be necessary to
be eligible. Captain Overman and uuy
Reed the coach, are anxious to ha
every track man take part in the
meet. The events each afternoon will
start at 4 o'clock.
EASTERN PICTURES
AT ART GALLERY
TWO SCHOOLS REPRESENTED IN
INTERESTING EXHIBITION
Prehistoric American Art Exemplified
Examples of Designs for
Interiors Water Colors
The art gallery has an interesting
exhibition of pictures from the School
of Industrial Art of Pennsylvania and
the Teachers' college, Columbia uni
versity. A private exhibition was
given last Friday night and the gal
lery was open to the public Sunday
afternoon. About eight people took
advantage of the opportunity to view
the exhibit on Sunday.
The pictures from the Teachers' col
lege at Columbia university are char
acterized by the line and color of pre
historic American art applied in mod
ern practical design in panels, tiles,
page ornaments and 'patterns for
printed stuffs. The old Indian art is
utilized for modern industrial pur
poses. One picture represents the concep
tion which the Shoshone Indians had
of the universe. The domed firma
ment was believed to be of ice against
which was coiled the back of a huge
serpent identified with the rainbow.
In winter the monster's friction with
the ice caused snow to fall onthe
earth; while in summer the snow
melted and turned into rain.
Some of the most interesting pic
tures included in the exhibition from
the Pennsylvania School of Industrial
Art are an example of Gothic rhetoric,
a very intricate and beautiful original
design for a lace centerpiece, interior
wall paper, furniture and textile de
signs; photographs of garden pottery,
water colors; charcoal drawings from
life; photographs of work in silver
and jewelry; designs of historic orna
ment and comparative anatomy.
Work from the art students of New
York has just arrived and will be hung
with the rest at once.
ELECTION DAY
HAS ARRIVED
Students Will Vote on National, State
and Local Matters of Importance
Every office from county commis
sioner to president of the United
States, as far as Lancaster county
and the state are concerned, are to be
voted upon at the election to be held
today. Probably five or six hundred
men students of the University have
registered and may vote today.
Students who have registered with
Lincoln as their home will vote at
the polling places announced in the
city papers. Students who come from
a town or more than 7,000 Inhabitants,
who have a registration certificate
from the election officials of their
town may vote, and those who come
from smaller communities can vote
by making affidavit to an election
Judge that they are qualified voters of
their district.
PROMISE OF
READY MONEY
EXCITING STUDENTS
Students who went to hear Mr. Bry
an yesterday were given cards an
nouncing that ready money would be
available to a limited number of them
before the Thanksgiving recess. This
announcement aroused a good deal of
curiosity, and there was much specu
lation as to the source of the money.
Some declared that there might be
a benevolent, old lady who was going
to contribute to students who wanted
en home. Others held that the
ready money resulted from the lavish
oTnpndlture for political purposes, no
one seemed, to know exactly, and their
queries only brought the injunction
to watch the paper.
HUSKERS START
WORK FOR KANSAS
JAYHAWKERS GROWING STRONG
ER A3 SEASON ADVANCES
Fast Backfleld Line Is Heavy Lind
say, Last Year's Star, Again
on Team
Now for Kansas!
With this as their slogan the var
sity will start on its two weeks' grind
in prepamlon to meet the husky
'Rock-Chalkore."
From information received from the
Southland, anything may be expected
from the K.tnsans. They have a line
which will outweigh Nebraska by 15
to 20 pounds to the man.
Two Good Halfbacks
In the backfleld the Jayhawks have
two crackerjack halfbacks in Wood
ward ard Lindsay. Lindsay was the
whole show itst year as far as Kansas
was con' erred. It wasn't much of a
show for a team to pui up, but when
one man did the whole thing against
the wonderful Nebraska machine he
wouid liov. t be a pretty good muu.
Coach Uitherford, who saw the
Kansas OKiahoma game Saturday ro
ports that Kansas is much stronger
than Ams.". Ames managed to slip
over a 13-0 victory on the Jayhawks
early in 'jo season, b it it was on Ho
Saturday following the Illinois massa
cre thai the two teamp met and the
K. U. men were quite bunged ur
Heavy Line
Perhaps a little reminder that the
smallest man on the Kansas line be
tween the ends weighs 218 pounds
will not come amiss. Both ends
weigh well over 180. These are not
mythical figures, but absolutely cor
rect and vouched for by Rutherford.
The varsity will not start practice
until tomorrow afternoon, giving the
freshmen two days in which to get
acquainted with Kansas formations
as they were learned by Rutherford
last Saturday.
All the first string men came
through the Ames game uninjured ex
cept for a few scratches and wrenched
joints.
UNI. DIRECTORIES
ON SALE WEDNESDAY
BIGGEST AND BE8T DIRECTORY
EVER PUBLISHED HERE
One-Half of Edition to Be Sold To
morrow All to Be Sold
- This Week
Eight hundred copies of the Univer
sity Directory, the largest and most
complete ever published at Nebraska,
will be placed on sale on the campus,
Wednesday morning.
This is half of the edition. The
rest of the copies will be received
Thursday and will be sold Thursday
and Friday mornings.
The Directory this year contains
forty-eight more pages than any other
directory published here. It is com
plete in every detail, giving the name,
address, telephone number, college,
year in school and affiliation of every
man and women registered In the Uni
versity. Faculty Represented
The names, addresses, telephone
u mbers, departments and other In
formation about the members of the
faculty are also given. Different fra
ternities are listed with their com
plete membership, as well as the so
rorities, and the officers of the organ
izations are named. Other valuable
Information is given, making the book
the best that has ever been published
here.
The University Y. M. C. A. published
the directory. The price will b
twenty cents each.
BRYAN FLAYS
ADDRESS
URGES UNIVERSITC PEOPLE TO
VOTe"FOR DRY AMENDMENT
Students Jam Temple Theater to Hear
Him Urges Wilson's
Re-election
William Jennings Bryan addressed
an audience of University students in
the Temple yesterday morning an
audience that filled every nook and
cranny of the theater from pit to gal
lery, and listened to him with the
close attention that his presence at
the University always secures. It was
Mr. Bryan's first appearance since al
most two years ago, when he ad
dressed another audience, almost as
large, in the chapel.
The proposed amendment to the
constitution that will make Nebraska
dry after May 1 next if carried, was
the principal subject of Mr. Bryan's
talk, although he also devoted some
part of his time to a plea for the re
election of Mr. Wilson. He asserted,
however, that the fight he was in this
year, the fight for prohibition, is more
important than any previous fight he
has waged.
Mr. Bryan was in good trim, and
his voice, while slightly husky, car
ried with ease to every part of the
theater. His humor was there, his
aptness with a telling story, and his
adroitness in winning the sympathy
of the audience, although the students
by the applause they gave him as he
walked upon the stage, clearly showed
that they liked and admired him,
whatever their opinions might be re
garding his politics.
For Woman's Suffrage
"If I had had my way two years
ago, the vote would have been open
to women as well as men," Mr. Bryan
declared in the beginning of his talk,
and quick applause from the women
students who formed half of the audi
ence, rewarded him. Then Mr. Bryan
predicted that prohibition would carry
this year, and woman's suffrage two
years from now.
"The entire fight for prohibition,
and for all laws restraining or re
stricting the sale of liquors is built
on one proposition, that alcohol is
harmful when taken into the human
system," said Mr. Bryan. "It is based
on the proposition that alcohol weak
ens the physical strength, weakens
the mental strength and weakens the
moral power.
"If you can overthrow that funda
mental propositon you can successful
ly attack every law applying to the
liquor proposition. If you can't over
throw it you will find it very difficult
NEW MEDICAL
FRATERNITY AT
OMAHA COLLEGE
Phi Chi, a national medical frater
nity boasting the largest membership
of any secret Greek letter medical so
ciety, was installed at the Omaha
medical college of the state University
last Saturday, when a chapter of fif
teen men were initiated, at the house
which will be the home of the Omaha
chapter. Dr. E. J. Carey of the na
tional council of the fraternity, was
the officiating officer at the installa
tion. The charter members of the frater
nity are E. L. McQuiddy, J. Wear, L.
L. Edmlston, H. F. iFreidell, W. F.
Deal, G. H. Lamphere, G. H. Misko,
C. E. Rogers, E. H. Morris, E. G. Weg-
ner, M. L. Mlnthorne, A. C. Graham.
I. V. Church, H. C. Stewart, and W. A.
Gerry.
C. A. Sorenson, assistant in the leg
islative reference bureau, made a bus
iness trip to Omaha the latter part of
last week.
SALOON IN
TO STUDENTS
to make any argument in favor of the
saloon.
"God never made a normal human
brain that needed alcohol to stimulate
it to action. God never made a hu
man being so strong that alcohol
could not utterly destroy him. There
is not a day in the human life when
one can safely commence the use of
alcohol, for there isn't a day from the
cradle to the grave when the appetite
may not be formed that will lead to
destruction."
Voice Was Deliberate
Mr. Bryan delivered his blows to
the saloon with a voice that was not
vociferous, but with a studied, delib
erate, cutting oft of his words that
carried the feeling of the sincerity in
the speaker. From time to time he
was interrupted by applause; when
this happened, he waited, usually un
smilingly, for the noise to stop, and
then went on to his next point.
Various arguments advanced by the
liquor forces were taken up by Mr.
Bryan, who ridiculed a Prosperity
league that said a law could not be
enforced when it was the organiza
tion that would profit by the non
enforcement. He compared York
county, a dry territory with no sa
loons and one government license, to
Hall county, wet, with 30 saloons and
64 government licenses, and said
these figures proved that blind tigers
were more numerous in wet than in
dry regions.
The fight that is going on
within the democratic party came
in for only this statement from Mr.
Bryan: "This is the only state I
know of where a man must openly
declare that he is for the saloon to
have standing in the democratic
party, and that won't last after to
morrow. Outside of Nebraska the
democratic party is a decent institu
tion. Of the nineteen states that are
dry, ten of them go democratic at
every election."
The National Campaign
In telling why he thought Woodrow
Wilson ought to be elected, Mr. Bry
an said the national campaign rested
upon two issues: whether the govern
ment should be turned back into the
hands of the reactionaries who con
trolled it four years ago or kept in
the hands of progressive democrats;
and second, whether we should re
buke or commend the president who
has succeeded in keeping the nation
out of war with Mexico and with Eu
rope. The legislative achievements of the
democratic party were but briefly
touched upon by the speaker, who
dwelt at some length, however, in a
justification of President Wilson's pol-
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CLASS FOOTBALL
TO.JTART SOON
Rutherford Warns Classmen to Pre
pare for Inter-mural
Tournament
Coach Rutherford has issued a call
for candidates for the freshman, soph
omore, junior and senior class foot
ball teams, which will meet in a tour
nament later in the fall.
The managers who have been ap
pointed to take charge of the respec
tive teams will issue a call for each
class at a later date.
The call from Rutherford is to serve
as a warning for all those who wish
to try out for their class team to be
in readiness.
An inter-mural council composed of
one man from each class and depart
ment in the University will be ap
pointed in the near future and will
have charge of all the interclass and
departmental sports.