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le Daily Nebraska VOL. XVI. NO. 117. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNEESDAY, MARCH 21, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS FOUR UPHOLD SUFFRAGE CAUSE .VOTES FOR WOMEN" SUBJECT OF SPECIAL CONVOCATION Tw0 National Workers and Prof. Louise Pound, and Prof. F. M. Fling Speak The cause of woman's suffrage was upheld by four able speakers at a special Convocation In Memorial hall at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Mrs. Ilalsey Wilson and Mrs. T. T. Cot nam, national suffrage workers in Lincoln helping to conduct the school for suffrage, Trof. Louise Pound of the department of English literature, and l'rof. F. M. Fling of the depart ment of European history, spoke In favor of the movement. There were about two hundred men and co-eds present. John Z. White, lecturer on the single tax, scheduled for the regu lar Convocation, wired at the Ir.st moment that he would not reach the city until the afternoon, and no regular Convocation was held. Word came too late to shift the suffrage Convocation to the regular hour. Women Lacked Confidence Prof. Louise Pound was the first speaker, and she declared that "one of iliri greatest reasons that vonien have not received the ballot before this is lrt-cause they have lacked continence in memseives. ane Haiu she Vnew the women of the T'niver sity were just as orderly, law aliid inp, successful In studies, and care ful in expenditure of money as their brothers, and asked why there should he fear that there would be tiny difference if the women were given the opportunity to take a part in the affair.' of the state. If the women are weli-conducted here," she con cluded, "and their Influence is for the better and they are a safe elec torate in college, why should thoy be any less safe on a political level than with their brothers outside of the school?" she continued. Mrs. Ilalsey W. Wilson was the second speaker, introduced by Eva Miller, '18, who presided at the meet ing. Mrs. Wilson said that the time had come when women, through the women's clubs, realize that they hive a field which they must pro tect. In order to give women the power to protect their own particu lar nelds they must have the bal'ot, she said. "The women want the . ballot to go out Into the world and inrrect the situations which are detri mental to honest living," and con cluded that "women should be em powered to do their work and serve REVISED PLANS FOR NEW BUILDING Faculty Committee Receives Blue Prinu for Social Science Hall Yesterday Revised plans for the new social science building arrived yesterday from Architects K'oolldge and Hodg don of Chicago, and were inspected nd approved by Professors O. V. p- Stout, H. W. Caldwell, and O. R. Martin, the faculty committee In fhargo of the plans. The appear nt'e of the west front has been tightly altered and a few changes "ade in some of the class rooms. The plans will now be submitted to he board of regents again for con sideration. The first plans for the building e not accepted because of the Penditure that would be required 'n the present time of Inflated prices. d the regents Instructed the arch! ects to draw up another set, cut " down on the size of the bulld lnR somewhat. the state the same as the men are allowed this privilege." Women Largely Indifferent Prof. F. M. Fling, head of the European history department, de clared that "the women don't have the ballot because the majority of the women are indifferent to it." He urged a greater amount of work on the part of the suffrage advocates In showing to the Indifferent the im portance of the ballot. He showed that development had been toward greater education for women and recalled the statement made a few years ago that in twenty-five years women would form the educated part of society. For that reason, he argued, women should be given the ballot to help shape our social Institutions. He said he believed that the ballot would be given to women as soon as they realize it is more than a piece of paper. Mrs. T. T. Cotnam, the last speak er, said "We must admit women Into the electorate in order that they may be able to more intel lectually serve the state." She de clared that the only desire in ask ing for the ballot was that they be able to serve the state. She quoted the recent statement of President Wilson: "We must tap new springs of democracy to avoid stagnation." All of the speakers were well re ceived and enthusiastic applause fre quently followed their remarks. SOPHOMORES WILL GIVE JFJENEFIT HOP Next Saturday Evening in Armory Dance Will Be Held to Clear Class Deficit The sophomore class will hold a fifty-cent benefit hop in the Armory Saturday, March 24, to make up the deficit in the class treasury and to pay for Cornhusker engravings. Because of the short time before the dance in which to sell tickets, arrangements have been made to sell them at the door of the Armory Saturday evening, but to assure the success of the undertaking the com mitteejiopg to sell as many as pos sible before thaT time. Plans have been suggested to in troduce some novel stunts during the evening and efforts will be made to make the dance a good Informal affair. Tickets may be had of the fol lowing: Helen Loftman, Katharine Newhranch, Wilson Bryans. Robert Wenger, William Johnson, James Maloney and John Charles Wright. GRANDMOTHER'S JOB AND YOURS Four Co-Eds Discuss Relative Posi tion of Women In the World From Different Points of View The subject "Your Grandmothers' Job and Yours," was discussed from four points of view at Vespers yes terday afternoon. Mary Hedrlck, '18, talked about the grandmothers' gen eral attitude toward life; Vesta Mawe, '18. dealt with the social side; Fern Noble, '19, with suffrage, and Melba Quigley, the church.- Carrie Moodie, .'17. presided at the meeting. Our grandmothers job was differ ent from ours. Mary Hedrlck and Vesta Mawe brought out. She could not have a "vocation" like women of today. Today all those things with which she occupied her time are done by machinery or foreigners. Suffrage does not mean Just vot ing hu Includes the whole civic re- Eponsibility, Fern Noble declared. he said that the reason women ao not have suffrage is because they do not . take enough Interest in it. The church has grown up outward ly from little wooden buildings to the magnificent ones of today. LEAVE TOMORROW FOR WESTERN MEET Wrestling and Gymnastic Teams and Fencer Will Go to Iowa City to Compete In AnnQal Contest The varsity gymnastic and wrest ling teams and University fencer will leave for Iowa City Thursday to com pete In the Western Intercollegiate gymnastic, fencing and wrestling as sociation meet to be held there Fri day and Saturday. Captain Drewlng, Adkins, Weaver and GifTin are the gymnasts to make the trip. Drewing and Adkins will compete in all the events; horizontal and parallel bars, flying rings, side horse and tumbling. Weaver will perform on the parallel bars and fly ing rings, while GifTin will be a rep resentative on the horizontal bars, side horse and in tumbling. Max Baehr will represent the University in the fencing events. On the wrestling squad will be the following men: Barnes, 125 pounds; Brian, 135 pounds; Ander son, 143 pounds; Fuchs, 158 pounds; Otoupalik, 175 pounds, and Dale, heavyweight. The wrestlers will leave Thursday morning, the gymnasts and fencer following in the afternoon. Ruther ford will be in charge of the former. Dr. Clapp of the latter. PHILLIPS BROOKS CLUB TO HEAR SYMPOSIUM OF HIS LIFE THURSDAY A symposium of the life of Fhiliips Brooks will be given by members of the Phillips Brooks club at a meeting in the banquet hall of the Temple Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. J. A. Kline, '20, will speak on his life; Knute Karslon, graduate student, on his minstry; Ray Cowen, 19, on his sayings, and E. 'Miller on Brooks as a representative American. PROF. BARBOUR ON NEBRASKA ELEPHANT Will Give its Geneology Before Sigma Xi Tomorrow Evening Replaces Prof. H. F. Roberts Prof E. H. Barbour will lecture before Sigma Xi Thursday, iMarch 22, In Music hall on "The Geneology of the Nebraska Elephant." Prof. H. F. Roberts, who was scheduled for the address is unable to come. Professor Barbour has the material on hand that will probably clear up the history of the elephant as com pletely as is that of the horse. After the lecture he will conduct the audience through the museum to examine the specimens there. The lecture will bo delivered In a ioiular style for the benefit of the students who are interested in the subject. Melba Quigley pointed out. But un derneath all this there are the same fundamental principles which today it is just as necessary to understand and appreciate as It was in our grandmothers' time. Warden Fenton's Shut-ins To See "Green Stockings" Tonight From their Monday night success at the state hospital for the Insane, the junior play cast, headed by Elizabeth Erazim and Ted Metcalfe. will go to the state penitentiary to night, to present the play "Green Stockings" to the shut-ins at Warden Fenton's asylum. This will be pre liminary to the production of the play at the Temple theatre Friday night. As the plot of the play talis upon the ingenuity of the attractive heroine to alibi, and mistaken identity oc WILL ORGANIZE WOMENATHLETICS Nucleus of Association - Formed at Meeting Yesterday Committee Will Report Today The nucleus of a University of Nebraska Women's athletic associa tion was formed by women who have won "N's" or have been members of a class team, yesterday morning at 11 o'clock in S 102. About thirty five women were at the meeting. Blanche Higgins, '18, of Schubert, president as temporary chairman. Mrs. C. B. Lee and Miss Dorothy Baldwin, instructors of physical edu cation, gave short talks. The chair man was empowered to appoint a committee to draw up a constitution for the association. The committee will be announced today. Mrs. Lees emphasized the impor tance of organizing the association at once if the department is to receive any of the money from the single tax next fall. "Everyone in the world is organizing," Mrs. Lees said. "Big schools, little schools, working men and workingwomen, all realize they can accomplish more that way. You girls want the association in order to have something that is your very own, that you can run to suit yourself." Associations Elsewhere Miss Baldwin described the asso ciations of other schools, particularly the universities of Chicago and Wis consin. She said the object of these associations was to reach a large number of women, make them inter ested in athletics. "We ought to have more than four basketball teams and two baseball teams," she said. "We want enough teams so that every girl who makes the effort will make a team." Thursday morning in S 102 at 11:30 the committee will make its report, and the organization of the asso ciation will be perfected. The quali fications for membership in the as sociation now are that the girl holu an "N" or be a member of a team. It is probable that the requirement will be changed to the earning of a certain number of points in athletics. An individual trophy, which all girls will work for, will probably be a lettered sweater. 'GREEN STOCKINGS" A HIT AT WISCONSIN, DAILY CARDINAL SAYS "Green Stockings." the play the Nebraska University juniors will pre sent at the Temple theatre Friday night, scored a big hit last Friday evening when the juniors of the University of Wisconsin presented It t the Fuller opera house in Madison. The success of the production at Madison was complete. The leading lady. Miss Marjorie Kinnan. who had been quarantined for scarlet fever, escaped in time to make a triumph of her part, and to Judge from the Madison press dispatches, the comedy proved of the type that Is peculiarly suited to University presentation. The play was given at both mati nee and evening performances at Wisconsin. curs in Itf it is expected to meet with an euthusiastic response from the convicts, many of whom are in their present plight because their alibi failed, or because, it is alleged, a case of mistaken identity occurred. Miss Howell's productions are well known to the long-termers at the penitentiary. The junior class play of last year made a tremendous hit, and other productions have proved most popular. The performance to night is expected to repeat the suc cesses of the others, and even, go beyond them. ADLER, VARSITY CHEER LEADER, LEAVES SCHOOL Leo J. Adler, '18, of Omaha, one of the two varsity cheer leaders, has left school, going yesterday to his home, where he will enter business with his farther. Adler has been prominent in junior class activities all along. PROF. BUCK INVITED TO SPEAK AT CHICAGO INTER FRATERNITY DINNER Prof. P. M. Buck of the rhetoric department has received and expects to accept the invitation of C. D. Tracy, president of the interfraternity council of the city of Chicago, to be the speaker at the annual dinner of the council some time in May. Professor Buck will be the guest of Mr. Tracy, who is president of the Blackstone hotel, and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. HEARING ON STUDENT COUNCIL Charter Commission Announces Pub lic Meeting at Temple Tomor row at 7 p. m. The Student Council charter con vention will hold an open, public meeting at the Y. W. C. A. rooms in the Temple Thursday night at 7 o'clock, to get the opinion of the students as to the best methods of electing the representatives for the Nebraska student council. : This meeting will be open to all students who are interested and any who may care to discuss with the commission the problem before it are invited to do so. The commission has also asked a number of promi nent and representative students to come and give their views. Miss Mary Graham the dean of women, who i3 the chairmen of the student council charter convention, announced yesterday afternon that tho committee had secured about all (the information to be obtained on the workings of the student council in other schools, and was anxious to get the Nebraska campus opinion now. , j LAST GIRLS' CLUB PARTY SATURDAY All Co-Eds are Invited to Attend at Temple Plan All-University Hike Following Spring Recess The last Girls' club party of the year, and what the club hopes to make the best party of the year, will be held at the Temple theatre at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. All Uni versity girls are invited to come. There will be dancing, games, and refreshments. A hike, in which all of the girls in the University will be asked to take part. Is being planned by the club to come soon after spring recess. Just how far afield the route will take the hikers has not been an nounced, but It is expected that a great bevy of co-eds will tramp Into the open country. STRING TRIO WILL PLAY TOMORROW AT CONVOCATION At Convocation Thursday morning, the string trio will present the fol lowing program: Norwegian Dance Krieg Ave Maria Shubert Minuet In G Beethoven Adagio Molto Allegro Vivace Arthur Foote Miss Jessie Wllkins will play the violin. Miss Lillian Eiche, the cello and Miss La Rue Moore Shire the piano. TEAMS FLOCK TO NEBRASKA FIELD FOOTBALL, BASEBALL AND TRACK ENJOY GENUINE WORKOUTS The Thud of the Pigskin, Smack of the Mitt, and Pat of Spiked Shoes, Announce Spring Nebraska Field was the scene of great activity yesterday afternoon. The crack and smack of the base ball against bat and glove, the cries and signals and the thud of the football mingled with the pat, pat of the track men's spikes to make the observer realize that spring had in deed arrived. One football eleven, two ana four ninths baseball teams and a piece of a track team were all busy start ing the season's outdoor work. The football men, under the direc tion of Coach Stewart, practised punting and catching at a warming up exercise. A variation of an out door basketball game followed. The point of the game is to work the ball across the field of play by a series of passes, and register a score by finally getting the ball to a man' standing at the end. A brief session of signals followed the earlier workouts. Captain Shaw was in the backfleld and ran the team. Dobson was the only other letter man out for the first practice. The baseball men, with Ruther ford in charge, had batting and field ing practice, with careful instructions to save the arms. The men were so relieved to be outside, however that not a little speed was in vi dence. Manager Reed was out getting the track men started right. All the promising varsity material was out at some time in the afternoon. RECOVERED FROM SCARLET FEVER GETS APPENDICITIS Dwight P. Davis. '19. who was re cently relieved from quarantine for scarlet fever, was taken ill with appendicitis at the Pi Kappa Phi house Monday and taken to St. Esther's hospital for operation yes terday. PROF. HOFFMAN AT MIDWEEK Y. M. C. A. DEVOTIONAL TONIGHT Prof. James D. Hoffman, of the college of engineering, will speak to University students at the midweek devotional service of the Y. M. C. A. this evening at 7 o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. rooms, on "Why I Am Here." FLING'S LECTURE AT TEMPLE FRIDAY History Department Head Will Talk on Recent Revolution in Russia Prof. Fred Morrow Fling's lecture on the revolution in Russia will be given this morning at 11 o'clock in the Temple theatre. The public Is Invited to the lecture, which will bo heard by the class in European history 2. Lincoln papers have carried notices of the lecture, and a large crowd of Lincoln people who are interested in the war will attend. Students who do not have 11 o'clocks are also expected to attend the lecture in large numbers, because of the in terest in the striking change in the government of Russia, anl the wide reputation of Professor Fling as a lecturer on the European war. r