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1 tie Daily Ne VOL. XVI. NO. 149. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. 19.17. PRICE FIVE CENTS UNDERCLASS TAKE CAUSE OF ORPHANS FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES TO MEET THURSDAY MORNING Professors Fling and LeRossignol Will Tell of Call of the French War Orphans Mass meetings of the freshmen and sophomore classes have been called for Thursday morning at 11:30 to con sider means for organizing Nebraska towns this summer to take care of the French war orphans. The class of first year students will meet in the Temple theatre, and the sophomores in Mem orial hall. President W'ill Johnson of the sopho more class, and Vice-President Alice Temple of the freshmen, called the meetings yesterday. Prof. F. M. Fling of the department of European history tnd Prof. J. E. LeRossignol of the school of commerce, will speak at the meetings. The Orphan Fund The purpose of the mass meetings, besides gathering the classes together for the last time this year, and perhaps for the last time that many of them will ever attend a class meeting, will be to consider the work on behalf of the French war orphans. A goodly number of students of both classes, ind especially of the freshmen, have been anxious that funds from the class treasury be devoted to supporting for two years French war orphans. The junior class has already adopted i French baby, and the senior class Is expected to do so as its gift to the University and to the cause of better international feeling and humanity. Not to be outdone by the two upper classes, the freshmen and sophomores expect to take the matter in hand. For the Home Town One of the things of tar-reaching importance that is expected to come out of the meetings tomorrow, is the organization of a number of students who will take to their home towns in the state the idea of this splendid gift to France, and Bee that their town support one or more of the babies whose fathers have given their lives for the cause of liberty. The work of organizing the under classes for this work has been put in charge of Miss Laura Pfeiffer, associate professor of European history. Both Professor Fling and Professor LeRos signol, who will speak, are well known to University audiences, and the an nouncement that they will talk is ex pected to bring out a great many stu dents. WILL HELP UIIGLE SAM THIS SUMMER MASS MEETING OF GIRLS TOMOR ROW TO LAY PLANS The girls' mass meeting to be held t l o'clock Thursday evening in the Temple, has already aroused much in terest among the University women. Plans are being made to go in groups from the various houses and a capacity attendance ia expected. Mrs. Emma Reed Davisson of the University extension service will be Present to give information as to what lines of work educated young women should now ttfke up in order to help In the work at home during the war. No other class of women, with the exception of teachers has three months of vacation on its hands. Nobody else has so long a vacation. Miss Davia n H1 endeavor to tell how this 'acation can be used most advan tageously m the interests of Uncle Sam. The government is putting a man and woman expert on food conserva tion and preservation in every county in . ..... .... - sutie. .iany or the home eco nomics girls have already applied for iiese positions. ALPHA PHIS AND DELTA GAMMAS ADOPT ORPHAN Two sororities, Alpha Phi and Delta Gamma, have taken the care of two French war orphans for one year into their hands. Joanne Paris, ten years old, of Champagne le Marais, Vendee, France, is the Alpha Phi ward. Delta Gamma has not yet selected the child it will adopt. The cost of keeping an orphan for a year Is estimated at $73. Jeanne Paris is old enough to write letters and the Alpha Phis look for ward to a correspondence with their orphan. The members plan to send a number of little gifts to her through out the year. ONE HUNDRED ARE Hi CANNING GLASS UNIVERSITY WOMEN WILL PRE PARE THEMSELVES FOR SUMMER About one hundred girls registered for the canning classes which will be held in room 306, agriculture hall, at the farm campus the latter part of next week. Maude Wilson, of the de partment of extension, has general charge of the classes. She will be as sisted by Prof. Alice Loomis, Julia Vance, and women of the department of home economics. The Canning Program There will be three sessions each day, in the morning, afternoon and eve ning. Beans, peas, tomatoes, carrots, beets, corn, greens, pumpkins and squashes will be canned. Glass jars have gone up J2 a gross in the last two days on account of their scarcity. Recognizing this the instructors will discuss the old drying methods. Girls who wish' to enroll for these classes must do so by Friday. They may enroll at the table in the library, at the V. W. C. A. or at Dean Mary Graham's office. There are no registra tion fees. EXPECT 1,000 MARK TO BE REACHED TODAY WITHDRAWALS FROM COLLEGE YESTERDAY NUMBERED TWENTY Twenty withdrawals were added to the list yesterday making a total of 975 up to 4 o'clock yesterday. All of these applications were for permission to do farm work, gardening, or teach ing. The per cent of women withdraw ing has increased greatly during the last week. It is expected that the total will reach the 100 mark today. . Yeisterday'a withdrawals follow: Carl A. Happold. W. F. Foxwell. G. W. Hearn. W. Spencer Flint. James L. Irwin. C. Ivan Winslow. Orlan L. Liming. Max J. Baehr, Jr. Henry A. Knutien. ' Evalyn I. Wheeler. Walter W. Carveth. J. H. Kellett. William Maddox. Lucille M. McConnell. Emily H. Greive. W. J. Johnson. 3. Alden Casteel. Ivy Wythers. Leland M. Towle. STUDENT ASSISTANTS WILL ELECT TOMORROW Election of officers of the student assistant's club for next fall will be held at the final meeting of the club for this semester In Faculty hall. Temple, Thursday evening. A special program, consisting of talks, discussions and musical num bers, has been arranged. The depart ments of physical education, rhetortic, ENTRIES COMPLETE FOR M MEET ANNUAL TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS TOMORROW AFTERNOON Championship Baseball Game Will Also Be Decided The List of Entries Determined to break one world's record and perhaps more. Nebraska girls will compete in the annual track meet tomorrow afternoon, to be held under the auspices of the W. A. A. Ten cents admission will be charged not only to spectators but to participants in the meet as well, in accordance with a request from the girls taking part in the meet, who offered to pay the admission charge to help out the W. A. A. treasury. The annual championship baseball game between the seniors and juniors will be played and the interclass relay championship decided.' Other events are the sprints, hurdles, high jump, shot put, baseball throw, basketball throw, broad jump, javelin throw and pole vault. Following are the events and the entries: 30-Yard Dash Semi-finals First heat, Mary O'Neal, Florence O'Shea, Elizabeth Doyle, Madeline Girard. Second heat Edith Brown, Eliza beth Chaney, Irene Springer, Mildred Shea. 50-Yard Dash Semi-finals First heat Grace Nichols. Mary Alice Davey, Lucy Jef fords. Second heat Blanche Higgins, Elizabeth Doyle, Elizabeth Chaney, Eleanor Bennett. 60-Yard Hurdles First heat Ruth McKenney, Mar guerite Lonam, Madeline Girard, Pansy Read. Second heat Beatrice Dierks, Eliza beth Doyle, Helen Holz. Marjorie Green. Third heat Grace Nichols, Edith Brown, Sybil Gantt. Running High Jump Helen Hewitt, Lillian Wirt, Eleanor Frampton, Marjorie Green, Ora Nell'. Louise White. Shot Put Eight Pounds Elizabeth Rose, Fredrika Swartz lander. Blanche Higgins, Doris Bates, Martha Hellner, Mildred Chapin, Louise White, Ora Neff. Lillian Wirt, Daisy Parks, Lulu Mann, Helen Mil ler. Baseball Throw Helen Hewitt, Fredrika Swartzland er, Martha Hellner, Doris ' Bates, Mildred Chapin, Daisy Parks, Jose phine Strode. Elsie Mathews, Ruth Shlvely, Gertrude Bettis, Lillian Story, Ora Neff, Ruth McKenney, Caroline Griggs, Helen Miller. Basketball Throw Helen Holz. Camilla Koch, Margaret Anderson, Gertrude Bettis, Lillian Story, Elizabeth Rose. Running Broad Jump Beatrice Dierks. Blanche Higgins, Lillian Wirt, Marjorie Green, Lotta Mahaney, Camilla Koch, Janet O'Neil, Lulu Mann. Caroline Griggs. Ruth Sheldon. Eleanor Frampton. Javelin Throw Elizabeth Rose. Fredrika Swartz lander. Louise White. Beatrice Dierks, Katherine Kohl. Mildred Chapin. Fern Noble, Lulu Mann, Margaret Ander son. Helen Hewitt, Helen Miller. Pole Vault Grace Nichols. Ruth Shlvely. Mar garet Anderson. Fern Noble. Elizabeth Chaney. Lenora Noble. (Continued to Page Three) Slavonic languages, and agronomy will all furnish speakers. Since its organization at midsemes ter the club has grown rapidly until It now has over thirty members from fifteen departments of the University. All undergraduate student assistants are invited to be present at the meeting. KANSAS MEET . COMES FRIDAY CORNHUSKERS and JAYHAWKS WILL MEET IN TRACK Nebraska Not Conceding Victory This Year Townsend and Jackson Leave School Kansas will be entertained by the Cornhuskers at the annual dual track meet on Friday afternoon instead of Saturday. This is the chance the Ne braskans have been looking forward to for a long time and unless some thing goes wrong the Jayhawks are due for a mighty stiff tussle when they step on the track on Nebraska field. The Kansans are coming up, here conceding the Cornhuskers about 20 points without competititon, they say. The Nebraska tracksters, however, are not being deceived by the "bear dope." They remember what happened to Minnesota last week after they had been given 28 points at the start. Some Strange Concessions Strange as it may seem the Jay hawks are conceding Nebraska 8 points in the very event in which the Cornhuskers didn't have a man en tered in the meet last week, the pole vault. They are also giving both places in the hurdles. Whether all these points will be so generously awarded the day of the meet as they have been during the week is a question for speculation. Nebraska has lost all hope of cap turing the mile relay. Both Jackson and Townsend, important members of that team, have left school and there will hardly be time enough to train two men to take their places. It is prob able that Grau, half-miler, will step in to one of the places, the other as yet has no likely candidate. "Mike" Finney, hurdler, has been retained until after the meet Saturday at least and possibly until the end of the season. Nebraska Recruits At Fort Snelling Write Home Of First Days In The Training Camp Lots to do, an atmosphere of en thusiasm and light-heartedness, and devout thankfulness that the food is good and plentiful, characterize the first letters that have reached Lincoln from Nebraska University's army at Fort Snelling. Real work has not yet begun for the recruits, but lots of it is in sight. They find the life in camp, as the Nebraskan correspondent puts it: "Like the first days of school in September." These are registration days; study and work and grind will soon begin. FROM HUSKER RECRUITS (By Richard" Cook.) Fort Snelling, Minn., May 14 (via St. Paul). These days at Fort Snell ing seem nothing else than the first days of school at Nebraska in Septem ber. There are "freshmen" coming in on every train. There is a busy faculty and a hustling registration staff. A man picks out his branch of service just as he picks out a college or de partment at the University, but all will be trained alike for the first month. The Nebraska men are certainly not arriving by groups as Nebraskans. They stand in line at the administra tion building intermingled with Da kotans. Iowans and many more Mln nesotans. They do not see many other Nebraskans until there' Is a little' leisure time to scout around and look them up. Physical Test Gets Two Per Cent About two per cent of all the men coming fail to pass the physical exami nations. Many thought that when they passed the examination upon first ap plication they were fixed for good, but SPECIAL ELECTION STUDENT COUNCIL CONSTITUTION Notice is hereby given that a special election is called for the adoption of the constitution for the student council Friday May 25, In Memorial hall, west en trance. Polls will be open from 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. All students are eligible to vote. FLORENCE I. M'GAHEY. Acting Registrar. SOPH, GIRLS WIN FROM FRESHMEII TAKE CONSOLATION BASEBALL GAME YESTERDAY, 12 TO 4 With skill they did not show in the preliminary game last Friday with the juniors, the sophomore girls' baseball team defeated the freshmen, 12 to 4, yesterday morning at 11:30 on the ath letic field. The feature of the game was the strong sophomore battery, Helen Hewitt, pitcher; Josephine Strode, catcher, and the excellent field ing of Maquerite Lonam, sophomore outfielder. Josephine Strode made the only home run of the game. Her play ing at home plate was remarkably fast. Sophomore Position Freshman Josephine Strode.c. . .Martha Hellner Helen Hewitt ..p Lillian Storey Amelia Specht..lb Irene Cullen Myrtle Peterson. 2b Irene Springer Helen Halb's'b'n.3b Pansy Read Madelene Glrard.ss.Jeanette Thornton Gertrude DeSa'le.ss Doris Bates Olive Means .. .of .. .'Myrtle Johnson Marg'rite Lonam.ot Emma Stellek Lenora Noble ..or... Ruth McKenney Bess Chaney ...or Ruth Hutton Runs Sophomore Hewitt, 1; Strode, 2; Specht, 1; Peterson, 2; Means, 2; Halbersleben, 2; Chaney, 1; Girard, 1. Freshman Storey. 1; Mc Kenney. 1; Johnson, 1; Thornton, 1. this is sadly not the case. Everybody likes Major Henry S. Greenleaf, who is doing much of the physical exami ning. The Nebraska men have been look ing around for Professors Babbitt and Buck, who may have registered by now. This is Monday morning. The men came in in shoals Sunday. Those of us on duty at headquarters did not get off to go for the typhoid vaccina tion Sunday as others did. The prophylaxis or whatever they call it makes one a little dizzy sometimes. A few are not influenced at all. Many have dull headaches which can be slept off. The hats came late and the compa nies were marched to the quartermas ter's early this morning to get out fitted. We have been putting the straps on our rifles and taking the oil from the parts. These guns are great things, brand new and very light. We like the hats, too. The uniforms are cool and feel good. We're off of civilian clothes now and glad of it. One doesn't have to wear collars or neckties. Lots to Eat Two dramatic students who have for saken amateur footlights for train ing camps, Lad Kubik, 17, and Deyo Crane, '19, have written interest ing letters to Prof. Alice Howell, head of the dramatic department, in regard to camp life. The letters follow: "I have just come back from the doc tors who gave me "a shot in the arm" for typhoid, and of course that means that I have succeeded in passing the physical examination. That I shall like the place and the work goes with STUDENT COUNGIL VOTEJN MAY 25 STUDENTS WILL PASS ON STU DENT SELF-GOVERNMENT PLAN Plan Will Be Submitted as a Whole, With Separate Vote on Government Plan The vote on the plan for a student council, as recommended to the chan cellor by the council commission, will be May 25, one week from next Friday. This was announced yesterday by Miss Florence McGahcy, acting registrar. Every student in the University will be askrd then to register his approval or disapproval of the plan for a student governing body selected by popular vote, that will have control over and direction of the work of co-relating student activities and exercising minor disciplinary powers. The plan will be submitted on the ballot in two ways. Students may vote for the plan as a whole, and the eight different provisions will also be sub mitted separately, so that a student who is against one provision can so register his vote, and vote in favor of the other seven provisions. If the plan Is approved by the stu dent body, it will be presented to the University faculty senate. If approved then, it will become the constitution of the organization of the students for their own self-government, and the first election of members will be held within three weeks after the opening of school next fall. Since the plan was submitted to the chancellor, the first week in May, it has caused a great deal of campus dis cussion. In the opinion of those who have been most actively interested in its adoption, it will pass the stu dents by an almost unanimous vote. S. M. U. Gets Endowment The ministers and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal church south of Dallas subscribed approximately $42, 000 towards a permanent endowment fund for the Southern Methodist Uni versity. Ex. out saying, for the place is surely nicely situated and the commanding officers are gentlemen. And as for food, potatoes are on the menu for every meal, and please don't omit the bacon. You ought to see us at mess, lined up with a cup and culinary utensils in one hand and an aluminum plate and dish in the other, patiently waiting for our "hand out." All the men are satisfied and feeling good. Perhaps though all may be sick after the antitoxin works. I am well protected here with Crane on one side and Wilson from Iowa on the other- and by the way, all writing letters at this time; some using suit cases and others anything they can get a hold of. "Have seen Ted Metcalfe. Moser, Pascale and many other Lincoln men, not forgetting Carl Peterson. "LAD KUBIK." "Company 10, Fort Snelling." "As Lad has likely told you he and , I are in the same company and bunk beside each other. It is hard to realize that we are in camp and that work, real work starts Tuesday morning. "We have received our equipment, but owing to my size they are unable to give me my uniform. I expect to receive it tomorrow. "Our captain Is a fine appearing, clean cut looking young chap of about 24 or 25. "The mess is good and we have plenty. The main difficulty seems to be that it ia a very long time between meals. I don't know how it will be when we get into some real work. This training will do wonders for us." "DEYO CRANE." ' "Company 10, Fort Snelling." 'J