Daily Nebraska.e
VOL. XVI. NO. 87.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1917.
PRICE) FIVE CENTS
The
LETTER MEN TO.
HAVE "N" CLUB
VARSITY MEN ORGANIZE FOR CO
OPEATIVE PURPOSES
Will Serve the University as an Or
ganization as Well as
Individuals
An "N" club, to which all of the
varsity letter men in the University
will be. eleglble, will be formed at the
Lincoln Commercial club Saturday
noon for the purpose or gaining great
r unity and co-operation among the
athletes of the University.
Tlie possibilities of such an organ
ization, long realized, will soon be
seen, for the first work the "N" club
will be the sponsoring of the high
school basketball tournament and in
tcrseholastie track meet. It shall be
one of the purposes of the club to
help strengthen, in whatever way it
ran. scholastic athletics, and to this
Interest, it will publish a magazine,
"The " Man," which will review the
athletics both in the high schools and
the University.
Another wide interest of the club,
which includes the motive for the for
mer, is the promotion of a better
spirit of unity and common interest
among all the "N" men of the past and
present. This spirit the club will at
tempt to perpetuate by initiations fol
lowing each athletic season, when the
new letter men will be taken into the
club.
Temporary organization will be per
fected and plans for the future formu
lated at the meeting Saturday noon.
All men who have won their "X" in
football, baseball, br.sketball, pymn,
track, tennis or wrestling are re
quested to be present at the first
meeting of the organization.
"WE CAN SWIM,
BUT SHALL WE"
Twenty-three More Co eds Needed to
Reach Required 75 Only
Two Days More
Only two days remain in which 23
ro-cds who can swim, or would like
to swim, may sign up for girl's swim
ming and round .out the list of 75
needed to secure the Lincoln high
school pool.
So far 42 girls have registered for
the course, and ten more have signi
fied their intention of doing so. Twenty-three
more must come forward be
fore Friday, or else there is likely to
be a change in the interesting plans
which have been booked for the se
mester. Placards bearing the legion, "We
can swim, shall we?" have been placed
about the campus to remind the co
ds th8t the results lie wholly with
them.
RECEIVES REPORT
OF IMMIGRATION
IN ARGENTINE
Prof. C. E. Persinger of the Amer
ican history department, received four
copies of the "Argentine Immigration
Reports" today with the personal com
pliments of the compiler. Dr. Manuel
Cirrorraga. director-General of immi
Rratlon In Argentine, with whom Pro
fessor Persinger became acquainted
at Buenos Aires during the summer
of 1914.
Each vloume of the report is illus
trated and summarizes the progress
of immigration in Argentln since
lfllfi, covering 1914-1915 in detail, with
explanation in English accompanying
the statistics.
The volume will be retained in Trp
fossor Persinger's Latin-American li
brary. Any person desiring one of
the other three copies can secure it
hy calling at Professor Persinger's
"flee.
CORPORALS STUDY
MILITARY MAPS
AND PROBLEMS
Military map reading was explained
to corporals in the University cadet
regiment in lectures given in room
101 Mechanic Arts, Monday afternoon.
How to map the terrain, indicate cuts,
fills, "dwellings, wooded, swampy and
elevated plares were shown. The use
of contour lines to indicate slopes was
explained to some extent.
Small infantry problems are to be
studied by the corporals for several
weeks. Many of the men will be glad
to have outdoor drill again when
spring weather closes the indoor class
work.
PROGRESS IS
AIM OF HOME
MISS RAVENHILL, ENGLISH ECON
OMIST, AT CONVOCATION
Idea of Shslter Alone Is Primitive
Should Be Seed Plots
of Progress
"If l.o'.ncs are to meet present needs,
they must be seed plots of progress,'
Miss Alice Ravenhill, the English
home economics specialist stated yes
terday morning at convocation in her
discussion on "The Kffect of Housing
Upon the Family." Prof. F. H. Grum-
rnann. of the German department, pre
sided at the meeting, and Misp Alice
Loomis, professor of home economics,
introduced Miss Ravenhill It w ,s
through the efforts of Miss Loomis
and Mrs. T. F. A. Williams, professor
of sociology, that Miss Ravenhill was
secured by the Convocation com
mit tee.
"The reason for the discredited con
dition of the home and it is discred
ited," Miss Rovenhill emphasized,
"is because homes have been left I
where they were hundreds of years
ago, while outside conditions have
been progressing. The idea of home
as a place of shelter for immature hu
man beings is a primitive one still
held," she asserted, "while the fact
that the home should be the nursery
of progress is overlooked now."
Women Greatest Spenders
"Women are the greatest spenders j
of the world," Miss Ravenhill smil
ingly declared, 'and they have no
training for this responsibility." She
condemned the plan of parents paying
their children for duties around the
home. Home training should teach the
right division of labor, and all other
fundamental principles of economy.
The father should not be regarded as
a mere money producing machine.
The children should be taught early
in life that all money has to be earned,
then there will be no hardships in
their lives later. The child who is
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BOTANISTS HELP
FARMERS FIGHT
TIMOTHY FUNGUS
A comprehensive study of timothy
rust fungus to obtain more data as to
obscure points in its history as a
means for combating the rust, wnicn
appeared lav the first time last sum
mer In an epidemic character on Ne
braska farms, is under way by the ag
ricultural botany department of the
University. This rust was found in
many localities during a plant disease
survey in five counties in the eastern
part of the state. Then, through co
operation with correspondents, the
botany department located it in other
sections of Nebraska.
Growers of timothy have been in
vited to send specimens of the rusted
Plant to the laboratories at Lincoln,
together with data au to the seri
ousness of the disease during the sum
mer of 1916 More serious damage to
the 1917 crop is feared unless plans
are laid for a co-operative study and
prevention campaign by both farmers
and experts of the Unlversi'.
COMMITTEE FOR
A STUDENT COUNCIL
Genera.' Mixer Committee Dec'are6 It
eelf for Student Government
and Suggests PUn
The general mixer committee of
the University, meeting yesterday,
unanimously declared itself in favor of
the establishment of a Student Coun
cil its soon as possible.
This expression came at the end
of a half hour's discussion of the ques
tion, in which "ways and means of
getting the council before the student
body were considered. The commit
tee sentiment was that a constitu
tional convention should be chOBen at
an early date, to draft a plan that will
be presented to the students for final
ratification or rejection, providing that
the consent of the faculty to such a
student council can be obtained.
The committee adjourned to meet
again on Thursday, when it is hoped
that definite proposals can be sug
gested for the selection of the means
rf selecting the charter conimisison.
The committee approved the action
o!' is chairman in purchasing candle
shades that will be rented to chair
man of class hops and proms for a
nominal sum.
SIGMA NU TRIMS
PHIDELT FIVE
Wind Up First Round of the Inter
Fraternity Basketball Tourna
ment Score, 11-6
tn the last game of the first round
of the inter-fraternity basketbr.li series
the Sigma Nu's grabbed the big end
of an ll-to-6 score from the Phi Delts.
Munn, the Sigma Nu pigmy, al
though hampered greatly by his small
size, was heavy scorer of the evening
running up a total of five points with
two field rials and one free throw.
Rincke vho scored four points for
the Phi Delts, showed the best all
around work for his team.
The lineup:
Sigma Nu 11 Phi Delts
Schumacher f Bowers
Munn f Vance
Horn c Halligan
Prve B Koehler
Rhodes g Uincker
Field goals Munn 2, Schumacker
4, Rhodes, Frye. Rincker 2. Halligan.
Free throws Munn.
Brown. The Brown Herald an
nounces prizes totaling $185 offered
by the Maryland League for National
Defense for the best essays of not
more than 1,000 words submitted on
the snbject of "Universal Obligatory
Military Training and Service." Ex.
Nebraska Issues Call For Volunteers
V
Millitary Department Starts Today To Raise University
Regiment Of Field Aritillery U. S. V.
The possibility of war was brought
home to University students last night
by the announcement issued by Com
mandant Sam M. Parker that an at
tempt would be made to form a volun
teer regiment of field artillery out of
University faculty members, alumni,
and students.
His announcement was immediately
met with two acceptances from faculty
men, bringing home something else
to the student body, the seriousness
of the occasion. Prof. Philo M. Buck
of the department of rhetoric and C.
J. Frankfurter, assistant professor of
chemistry, volunteered their services
in the regiment, should It be formed.
This morning at 9 o'clock, enroll
ment of men will begin at the com
mandant's office, and will continue un
THETA MGMA PHI
COUNCIL IN MAY
Nebraska Chapter of Jaurnalism So
rority Will Send Delegate to
Lawrence, Kansas
Theta Sigma Phi, the national jour
nalism sorority, will hold its grand
council at Lawrence, Kas., in May, on
invitation of the Kansas university
l chapter. Lambda chapter of Nebras
ka University, which was installed
ast spring, will send a representative.
Thirteen universities now have
chapters of the sorority, whose mem
bers are engaged in the study of jour
nalism, and intend to enter the jour
nalistic field on the completion of their
college course. The chapters are at
the state universities of Nebraska,
Kansas, Washington, Wisconsin, Mis
souri, Indiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, Minne
sota, Stanford university and Kansas
agricultural college.
The Nebraska chapter is next to the
youngest in the sorority, Kansas agri
ciltural college following it. The ac
tive members of the Nebraska chap
ter are Vivienne Holland, Eva Miller,
Jean Burroughs, Fern Noble. Ruth
Beecher, Eleanor Fogg, Marion Hen
finger and Helen Dill. The alumni
members are Mollie Gilmartin, Gert
rude McGee, Ethel Arnold and Clara
Dobbs.
ANNUAL BAND
HOP ANNOUNCED
Tickets Go on Sale Today for Big
Informal Auditorium Dance
Limited Number Issued
The annual band hop will be given
February 24 in the city auditorium,
and tickets go on sale today through
student ticket sellers.
In preparation for the annual dance,
the band is putting in all of its time
row preparing all the "latest pieces," ,
for they have sei as their goal a dance
as successful as the one they put on
just before the Oregon trip.
The ticket committee, which will
have complete charge of the limited
number of tickets issued, is composed j
of H. N. Aldrich. August Zuhlke, Fred
Orciitz, Leslie Kills, '"red (iartisoa. !
H. R. Anderson, Harry Huffman. L. ;
W. Kline, R. E. Miller, B. M. Neuman,
P. F. Iltman, H. G. Schroeder, W. A. I
Schumacher. Ralph Thies.-n. I). P.
Thomas. Kd Young, and Fred Clark.
Pennsylvania. This week has been
social service week at the University
of Pennsylvania, to IntereRt t?i? hiu-i
dent publ'c In the social service work i
hp'ne conducted about Philadelphia'
by the various organizations employed
in that branch. Ex.
til the minimum regimental unit of
1,350 men and forty officers has en
listed. The organization of the regi
ment will go no farther tjian paper,
but the units will be formed, officered
and made ready so that in the event
of a call for volunteers, It can be mo
bilized and offered to the president
in a very short time.
The University has not been slow in
the past to offer the services of its
students and faculty members to the
country in case of war, for its volun
teers did notable service ir the Philip
pines In the Spanish-American war.
It is the general opinion of undergrad
uates that, although there seems no
imminent likelihood that the proposed
regiment shall be called upon, the
present student body will take this
crisis just as seriously.
PROF. H. W. CALDWELL
OFFERS COURSE IN
HISTORY OF NEGRO
Prof. H. W. Caldwell's new course
In the American history department,
"The history of negroes In America,"
will hold Its first session today with
an enrollment of thirty.
The aim of the course is to Investi
gate the growth and development of
negro races in America during slavery
and under freedom. The southern
race question is having considerable
consideration by scientists and Inves
tigators at- present and the enroll
ment shows that Nebraska students
are interested in the live problems
of the day. t
rev. sTmThayes
heads workers
A New Organization Is Formed to
Promote Religious Activities
in the University
Rev. S. Mills Hayes of the Holy
Trinity church was elected president
of an organization of religious ' work
ers among the students of Nebraska
University, at a meeting of a com
mittee consisting of Dean Mary Gra
ham, Miss Fannie Drake, the Y. W. C.
A. secretary. Rev. Dean R. Leland,
University pastor, and Mrs. E. L. Hin
man. The organization is for the purpose
of securing better co-operation among
the various agencies for religious work
air.ong the student body.
The other officers elected were H.
C. Rigglestone, vice-president; Dean
R. Leland, secretary and Fannie
Drake, treasurer. These names were
added to complete the executive com
mittee: Dean Mary Graham. R. A.
Waite. pastor of the First Congrega
tional church, and R. M. Badger, pas
tor of the English Lutheran church.
The conference set apart the week
beginning February 18 as a time to be
devoted to the special consideration
of the religious life of University stu
dents. Special programs will be pre
pared to be used in the various serv
ices of the church during that week,
and certain special services may be
arranged for the University students.
To further the religious life of the
students, co-operation along these
lines has been suggested:
An exchange of information among
all agencies involved.
Securing correct names and address
es ff all students to be available to
religions workers.
Discussion of plans for Bible classes
among students and suggestions for a
ionise of study.
S, C. BASSETT
TO JOURNALISTS
President of State Historical Society
Is One of Several to Address
News-writing Students
. ' I read about this class in jurnal
Ikmi and I made up my mind when I
came to Lincoln I'd visit it,'' said S.
C. Bassett, president of the Nebraska
State Historical society, in speaking
tc Professor Fogg's class in journal
ism lat night.
The visit of Mr. Bassett, who is an
old Nebraska newspaper man, was
another step in the plan of Professor
Fogg of giving his students a chance
to get some first-hand advice from
men who have devoted mast of their
lives to newspaper work.
Mr. Bassett emphasized the fact that
the farmers are depending on the pa
pers of the cities to give them accur
ate and true facts.
Other ro'fts made by Mr. Bassett
were, that the real purpose of a course
In journalism is to learn to be helpful
that it is better to be the editor of a
small country newspaper than to be
star reporter on a large city paper
INNOCENTS FOR
STUDENT COUNCIL
SENIOR SOCIETY ADOPTS RESOLU
TIONS FAVORING IT
Believe That Council Would Fill
Field Not Now Covered May
'Mean Early Action
The Innocents society, by tradition
the most powerful of student organ
izations, passed resolutions endorsing
the student council plan and recom
mending action looking toward its in
stallation, at a regular meeting of the
society last night.
The action of the Innocents is con
sidered more significant than any
thing that has accurred in the agita
tion for the council so far. It means
that the senior society will work act
ively for the establishment of a sys
tem of judiciary and legislative stu
dent self-government
The stand taken by the Innocents
is also a dumb denial of the rumored
opposition they would make to the
plan.
In their resolutions, the Innocents
declare that there exists now no stu
dent organization vested with the pow
er to govern the students or to act
legislatively, and that the time is ripe
for the organization of a representa
tive student body working for the good
of the University solely, and recom
mend investigation of other univer
sities where the council is in force
with an eye to the establishment of
the system at Nebraska.
The resolutions follow:
"Whereas there exists a field for
student activity not now covered by
any organization; and
"Whereas, the time is ripe for care
ful investigation and organization of
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MORE TIME FOR
INDIVIDUALS
Cornhusker Management Announces
Extension of Junior and Senior
Pictures Until Saturday
DeWitt Foster, business manager of
the Cornhusker, announces that the
time limit set for the junior and sen
ior individual Cornhusker pictures has
been extended until Saturday of this
week. Most of the photographs are
ii. but due to the bad weather the
Cornhusker staff has decided to give
the tardy ones a few more days in
which to have a bitting. Thi6 section
of the book is being held up by those
who are late and the staff wishes to
emphasize the necessity for co-operation
on the part of the students. If
they do their part the staff can guar
antee to bring the book out on time.
The military section is now com
plete and will shortly be ready for
the printers.
SENIOR DEBATERS
! WILL BE CHOSEN
i THURSDAY NIGHT
Tryouta for the senior debating
team, postponed during examination
week, will be held Thursday evening
at 7 o'clock in U 106. Chairman Al
bert Bryson is anxious to have a num
ber try for the places on the team, for
the seniors will meet in their first
debate the juniors who won the cham-
I pionship last year.
If outside work and other activities
j do not keep some of the silver-tongued
member or tne senior ciass in-m lin
ing for the team, Bryson is confident
that, although the juniors are primed
to repeat their 1916 victories, the
upperclassmen will leave school with
victorious eagles.
and that a newspaper man must be
able to read as well as to write and
digest what he reads.