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O tl tie ebra y VOL. XVI. NO. 92. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS N skaii ARE FEW NATIVE NEBRASKA SONGS But State Treasures Many Ballads Which Are Interwoven With Her History, Dr. Pound Says With the exception of "The Klnkaid ii a" Song," and probably "The Little Old Sod Shanty," the folk-songs of Nebraska were composed in other places and brought here by the settl ers, Dr. Louise round, professor of English literature, said yesterday morning at Convocation, in her talk on "The Traditional Songs of Nebras ka." "Folk songs are those that have been learned by singers and not from the printed page," Professor Pound ex plained. "The main essential of a folk song is that people sing it, and that it has persisted for a fair num ber of years." There is a "history of taste" for folk poetry Just as for book poetry, Miss Pound declared. "The older folk songs were composed for the ear rath er than for the eye. Much in modern song, however, is unsingable, and un rememberable; no one can expect it to make a deep impression on the popular mind." Some "rag-time'" songs composed in our own age which are like to live Professor Pound prophesized, are, 'There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" and "Tipperary." The range of topics of the tradi tional songs in Nebraska is very wide. There are old English and Scottish bailads, Irish songs, pioneer and west ern songs, elegies and complaints, war songs, sentimental lyrics, moral izing and reflective pieces, negro songs, railroad songs, Indian pieces and many others. "The Kinkalders' Song," which is popular in the Nebraska sand hill region, where it is sung at picnics, re unions and the like contains the fol lowing: ( "You ask what place I like the best, The sand hills, oh the old sand hills; The place Klnkaiders make their home And prairie chickens freely roam." "The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim" tells of a man, eastern born, who is holding down a claim. It goes: "I am looking rather seedy now, While holding down my claim, And my victuals are not always served the best; And the mice play slyly 'round me, As I nestle down to sleep In my little old sod shanty in the West." DRQP CONVOCATION FOR jjUFFRAGISTS University Sympathizers Will Combine With State Workers at Meeting Luncheon at the Lincoln The suffragist Convocation sched uled for tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock in Memorial hall has been dropped because of a similar meeting at the Lincoln hotel at the same time. University girls will combine with lo cal and state workers in a general meeting, which will be followed by a suffrage luncheon. Tomorrow will be a big day for suf frage, for the state senate will vote at that time on a bill providing for partial voting rights for women. The influence of the agitation has been markedly felt on the campus, and the University suffrage sympathizers have taken a promirent part in it A number of University women were entertained at the suffrage tea given yesterday at the home of Mrs. Frank Woods, from 3 to 5 o'clock, and co-eds who have taken an active interest in the campaign poured. THE H. C. L. HITS ASHLAND An agitation to move the University to Ashlnnd is likely to bo started by press dispatches from that town tell ing about "a dainty but substantial ni?al" of chicken patties, mashed po tatoes, broad and butter, apple and banana salad, apricot fluff wafers and tea, served by the Woman's club of that place for slightly over seven cents. The only thing needed to start the Ashland migration, in the opinion of University men, is to ad vertise a laundry which will man handle a dress shirt for less than a dollar the smirch. A. T. O'S DEFEAT DELTA UPSILON Win Game in Second Round of Inter fraternity Basketball Tour nament, 166 The A. T. O.'s did the expected last night when they eliminated the D. U.'s from the inter-frat basketball tournament, in a hard-fought game by the score of 16 to 6. Schellenberg of the A. T. O.'s was the individual star, gathering four field goals and four free throws for a total of twelve points. Schellenberg's g'oals -were all earned by excellent floor work by his team mates and himself. Frequent flashes of team work were shown by both teams. The A. T. 0. guards. Vifquain and Schumacher, played a fine guarding game, holding their opponents to two field goals. Doran and Owen played good games for the D. U.'s. The lineup follows: A. T. O. 16 D. U. 6 Gerhart f Owen Barnes f Grabill Schellenberg c Doran Schumacher g Fuchs Vifquain g Ellerbroch Substitutes Shaw for Barnes; Zum winkel for Gerhart. Field goals Schellenberg 4, Vif quain, Zumwinkel, Fuchs, Doran. Free throws Schellenberg 4, Owen 2. Referee Thiesen. MORE MALE VOICES NEEDED FOR CHORUS SAYS MRS. RAYMOND More male voices are still needed for the University chorus, Mrs. Car rie B. Raymond, the director of music, announced yesterday. Registration is still open for membership in the musical organization. The class meets at 5 o'clock Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and from 7 to 8 p. m. Mon day and 5 o'clock Friday for men who drill. Chorus students are especially en Joying this semester the work that they are studying, "Hiawatha." This was given three or four years ago, and proved most popular. The chorus will FRESHMEN TURN OUT WOODWORK Value of One Semester's Laboratory In Mechanical Engineering Esti mated at $500 That freshman students in mechan ical engineering turned out more than $500 worth of woodworK in laoora tnr classes during the first semester of the present term, is the estimate of Albert E. Bunting, assistant proiesau. of practical mechanics. Profesor Bunting told the iresnman engineers that this estimate does not include the smaller lathe work, such as gavels, rosettes, tool handles, pic ture frames and the like, which the students were permitted to keep for their own use. The larger woodwork Included window frames, doors, tables, drawing boards, T-squares and other large pieces. The estimate was based on market values of such work. TO TEST DESIRE FOR CHARTER DAY Faculty May Consider Renewal of An nual Holiday if Students Large ly Attend Commencement If the students attend the mid-winter graduation exercises in large numbers, the faculty may consider that sufficient interest in Charter Day to justify the renewal of the holiday next year, according to a committee of Innocents who interviewed the chancellor yesterday. Harold Holtz, Ralph Thiesen and Otto Zumwinkel told the chancellor that there was a general feeling among the students that the holiday ought to. be observed. The chancellor said, it is reported, that the faculty thought that the cus tom of so many students going home, or not coming to the Charter Day cele bration at all, justified the discontin uance of the day. If the students show Interest in the commencement exer cises and Professor Fling's address to morrow night, the faculty may change its mind. GERMAN BLOCKADE MAKES ENGLISH SOURCE BOOK SCARE Because of the difficulty in securing books from England on account of the German blockade, Prof. Guernsey Jones has asked the Regents' Book store to secure second- hand copies of Bell's "PuritauNm and Liberty 1603 1660." a source book used in English. The department would appreciate it if students who care to would sell their books and thus place them at the disposal of this year's class. sing this as a part of the May music festival. Membership in the chorus will mean free admission to the May music fes tival, including the concerts of the St. Louis Symphony orchestra, one of the best musical organizations of the country. HOLTZ-ANNOUNCES STUNT PROGRAM Five Organizations Picked by Com Mittee for This Night Will Be March 3, in the Auditorium The complete program for Univer sity Night, the annual stunt night, to be held at the Auditorium March 3, was announced last night by Harold Holtz, chairman, after a meeting of the committee on selection. The four organizations which will be represented on the program as decided by the comniitee, are the Engineers; the Commercial club; the Vikings, junior society; Phi Delta Phi, law fra ternity; and either one or both of the journalistic organizations, Sigma Del ta Chi, journalistic fraternity, and Theta Sigma Phi. journalistic soror ity. The stunts already chosen, which, with the five to be presented by the organizations previously mentioned, will make up the evenings' fun, are the band, the glee club, a sketch by two talented University comedians whose names are withheld for the present, and a curtain sketch in which will be presented a new Nebraska song, which, critics declare, will be of lasting popularity. The presenta tion' sketch will include, besides the singing of the song, some exhibitions of skilful dancing. The author's name will also be disclosed at that time. The Evening Shun, the annual "ex tra" Issued by Sigma Delta Chi on every University Night, will again be distributed, and will, if advance re ports from the editorial office can be believed, disclose some scoops that truly deserve the publication of an "extra." NEBRASKA FIVE TOJANHATTAN Meets Kansas Aggies Tonight and To morrow, Then Lawrence Valley Standing at Stake Tire varsity basketball squad left this morning for Manhattan, Kansas, where they will play the Kansas Ag gies tonight. Nine men made the trip, Captain Campbell, Flothow, Nelson, Wertz, Riddell, Jackson, Pickett, Flynn and Schumacher. The condition of the men is not all that could be desired. Nelson, upon whom much depends along the scoring line, has been sick for the past few days and has not yet fully recovered. The rest of the squad is in fair phy sical trim. Following the game tonight there will be one with the Aggies tomor row night, and on Friday and Satur day nights games will be played with Kansas at Lawrence. On the outcome of these four games will depend the standing of Nebraska in the Conference. If the Cornhusk ers can come through all these games victorious they will practically have second place in the Valley tied up. It seems almost too much to ex pect the men to win all of these games, however, when it is taken into consideration that they are playing on foreign floors and before hostile crowds in every contest. SET OF BUILDING STONES ADDED TO MUSEUM COLLECTION Thirty polished slabs of famous building stones, representing choice material from all parts of the world, was received by the Museum yester day from the Campbell-Sutermeister Co., of St. Louis. These specimens of polished marble are each 12x18 inches and will be placed on exhibition on the third floor of the Museum. The collection is a valuable addition as the department is constantly consulted by builders and architects concerning building stones. STEELE HOLCOMBE WESTERHDELEGATE Goes to Chicago Today to Represent Estes Park Conference of Y. M. C. A. Workers at National Conference Steele Holcombe, '17, of Maxwell, president of the Y. M. C. A., who was recently elected to represent the western and Rocky Mountain states conference of the association, leaves for Chicago this afternoon to attend the national conference there Thurs day and Friday. The purpose of the Chicago conference, at which are del egates from the five districts into which the work of the association divided, is to discuss the general status of religious work in American colleges. There are five general districts in the association, and each holds a summer conference. The Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colora do, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico and Arizona com prise the western and Rocky Mountain states district, which holds its annual conference at Estes Park, Colo. The delegateship to the national confer ence is considered a big honor. The Chicago conference, which meets every winter, is held for the purpose of a general discussion and investigation, gathered from the re ports at the summer conferences, on the religious ideals of the American college student with a view to their betterment Holcombe has been a strong char acter In Y. M. C. A. work In the Uni versity, taking an especial interest in gospel team work. ENGINEERS TIE LOVE KNOTS The best fun of the whole year for the engineers is coming. Every over ailed, grimy, greasy man cf them is going to have the chance this week to tie a "love knot." These knots, which the students make in materials testing laboratory are constructed of cold, brittle steel, and are said to hold much longer than the ones in which fickle heartstrings arc em ployed. All students who have ambi tions to tie a love knot some day are invited to the laboratories in the Me chanic Arts building on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, to watch the delicate, entrancing process. ALPHA GAMMA RHO GRANTED AGGUILD Agricultural Organization Receives Charter of National Fraternity Fourteen Charter Members Alpha Gamma Rho, national agri cultural fraternity, has formally granted a chapter to the Agguild, an agricultural organization of the Uni versity, with fourteen charter mem bers. The Nebraska chapter, which will be known as the Kappa chapter, will be installed soon. The men who make up the charter chapter are W. H. Barber, '17; I. K. Metz, '18; F. A. Liebers, '18; D. E. Walrath, '18; J. D. McKel vey, 18; B. H. French, '18; B. K. Easterling, '18; W. F. Roberts, '18; C. L. Lierbers, '19; M. L. Lauritsen, '19; R. T. Bang, '20; G. E. Olson, 20; D. W. Spencer, '20. Alpha Gamma Rho is limited to men in the college of Agriculture and is composed of twelve chapters, which are, Alpha, University of Illinois; Beta, University of Ohio; Gamma, Penn. State; Delta, Purdue Univer sity; Epsilon, North Dakota Univer sity; Eta, Iowa State College; Zeta, Cornell University; Theta, Univer sity of Missouri; Iota, University of Wisconsin; Kappa, University of Ne braska; Lambda. University of Minne sota; Mu, Massachusetts Agricultural College. TESTING MACHINE IS BROKEN IN MECHANICS LAB The 100,000-pound Riehle Bros, universal testing machine in the ma terials testing laboratory was broken Monday by the class in Applied Me chanics. The operator left the ma chine in gear while attending to other duties and the drawhead, running down on the weighing table, bent the screws of the machine. Thld will ne cessitate sending the screws and the draw-heads to Philadelphia for repairs and possibly the purchase of new parts for the machine. The damage is estimated at $200. HAVE ROAD SHOW TRYOUTS TONIGHT Six Places to Be Filled on University Week Stunt Program Expect It to Be a Feature Tryouts for places on the program for the road show, one of the num bers of which will go out over the state with University Week during the spring recess, will be held in Mu sic hall of the Temple tonight at 7:30. . John B. Cook, assistant business manager of University Week, in charge of the tryouts, has announced that there are six places yet to be filled to complete the program. The road show will bo made one of the big nights of University Week this year, for the management believes that there is a real field for the dis play of University talent here. The numbers wbich are chosen to make op the program will be coached by Prof. R. D. Scott, who will have direction of the shov while it is on the road. WILL START WORK ON COUNCIL NOW With Appointment of Innocents and Black Masque Representatives, Committee Is Completed With the appointment last night of Albei t Brj-Hon, Fullerton, to represent the Innocents, and 'Ethel Stone, Lin coln, to represent the Black Masques, the Student Council commission is now complete. Investigation and work on the formulation of a plan to be presented to students and faculty for approval will be begun at once, Dean Mary Graham, the chairman, an nounced. The junior and senior class appoint ments were announced yesterday by Presidents Tully and Neff. Jean Bur roughs, Lincoln, and Otto Zumwinkel, Utica, are the representatives of the two classes. Just how long it will be before the commission will have drafted a plan to be placed before the students and University Senate for ratification is impossible of conjecture, but it is practically certain that a working plan will have been both formulated and approved before the end of the semes ter. The complete student council com mission which will have charge of drawing up Nebraska's Student Coun cil charter, is as follows-: Dean Mary Graham, chairman; Dean Engberg, representing the interfraternlty coun cil; Miss Lulu Runge, representing the intersorority council; Albert Bry son, representing the Innocents; Ethel Stone, representing the Black Masques; Otto Zumwinkel, represent ing the senior class, and Jean Bur roughs, representing the junior class. TWO SHORT PLAYS TO BE GIVEN AT TEMPLE TONIGHT Tonight in the Temple theater, the University Players will present two short plays, "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and "King Rene's Daughter." In giving two short pro ductions instead of a single lengthy one, the players are adopting a plan which Is rapidly gaining favor in the dramatic world. University stars will be numerous in the two productions. Prof. Alice Howell will have the leading role in "King Rene's Daughter," and Maurice Clark. DeWitt Foster, Luclle Becker, I Elizabeth Erazim, Catherine Pierce, Lad Kubik, and several more who have won the recognition of student critics will be in one or the other casts. FACULTY MEN ON THE PROGRAM Professor Martin Speaks at Merchants' Short Course In Session Chan cellor Avery Speaks Today Prof. O. R. Martin, teacher of ac counting and business administration in the school of commerce, was one of the principal speakers at the second day's session of the merchants' short course held at the Lindell hotel yes terdayx J. E. LeRossignol, director of the school of commerce, presided at the afternoon session. , Frank I. Ringer, commissioner of the Nebraska Manufacturers' associa tion, spoke in the morning on "The Retailer and His Community." Arthur E. Swanson of Northwestern univer sity, who spoke on the previous day, was the first speaker at the afternoon session. His subject was "Lessons for the Small Retailer from the Chain Store." Professor Martin was the second speaker and his subject was "An Ac counting System for Small Retailers." (Continued to Paje Three)