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VOL XVI. NO. 154.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
OPENS CAMPAIGN
FOR RED GROSS
CAUSE IS SET FORTH AT CONVO
CATION YESTERDAY
W. E. Hardy, A. E. Burton, Organizer,
and Professor Pugsley, Outline
Plan for Student Help
The campaign for membership in
the American Red Cross in the Univer
sity opened yesterday with a ppecial
Convocation. Representing the society
were one of Nebraska's former stu
dents, W. E. Hardy, chairman of the
Lincoln chapter, and A. E. Burton, na
tional organizer of Denver. Prof. C.
W. Pugsley. director of the depart
ment of extension, explained the food
situation over the country and made
an appeal for economy.
Mr. Hardy, the first speaker, ex
pressed confidence that the University
would respond liberally to the request
of the Red Cross. "It is just as pa
triotic, as essential to good citizenship,
for the girls of the University to buy
a Red Cross button and wear it, as
it is for the men who can, to enlist,"
he declared. "Nothing is so essential
to the welfare of our Nebraska boys
on the field as the Red Cross. You
cannot all go to the front. Some must
do their hit at home.
"The Red Cross society is a patri
otic organization," Mr. Hardy said.
"The University of Nebraska should
take a tremendous interest in its work
Our own General Pershing, whose in
fluence is still felt upon our school,
will lead the United States army in
Fiance, the first time a United States
army has been upon the European con
tinent." (Continued to Page Two)
AWARD TRACK AND
BASEBALL SWEATERS
ATHLETIC BOARD RE ELECTS GUY
REED AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Ted Ridded Gets Both T-ack and
Baseball Emblems, ...aking
Four for Year
Fourteen baseball letters and eleven
track letters were awarded by the ath
letic board last night. Guy E. Reed,
who has been manager of athletics for
several years was re-elected assistant
director and financial agent for next
year.
The only other important business
put through by the board was the
changing of the rules for obtaining a
wrestling "N." In the future it will
be necessary for a man to get a first
second or third in he western inter
collegiate meet or win two matches.
These two matches may be in dual
meets or in preliminary contests in
the intercollegiate meet.
The Letter Men
Following is a list of the men who
received track "N'a": Overman, Owen,
Werner. Graf, Grau, Finney, Reese,
Kucha, Townsend, Riddell and Bryans
Jackson was recommended for a spe
cial letter. The awarding of this let
ter is yet to be decided upon.
The baseball men who received let
ters are: McMullen, Shaw. T. Rid
dell, J. Riddell, Harney, Rogers, Press
ley. Caley, Pickett, Mackey, Berqiiist.
Crandall, Crownover and Hoadley.
Riddell Gets Four Letters
In being awarded these two letters
Ted Riddell receives four letters for
the year, he having been already awrd
ed the football and basketball rewards.
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DANCING AND INDIAN
CLUB SWINGING MEET '
IN GYMNASIUM TOMORROW
An aesthetic dancing and Indian club
swinging meet will be held in the
gymnaisum tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock under the auspices of the
physical education department. The
meet is open to all interested.
Entries in the contest will be re
ceived until tonight. Participation will
count 50 points toward membership
in the woman's athletic association.
JACK BEST WILL
MAKEAMES TRIP
FIRST JOURNEY OF TRAINER
WITH TRACKMEN SINCE 1909
Nebraska's Chancea Not Considered
Rosy in Valley Meet, Although
Little Is Conceded
Jack Best, Nebraska's veteran train
er is to make the trip to Ames with
the track team tomorrow. This will
be the first trip Jack has taken with
the track team since 1909, the year
Nebraska won the Missouri Valley con
ference championship.
Coach Stewart expects to make a
good showing at the meet this week.
Hopes of winning were dashed when
Finney left school, but there is still
a fine chance for the Cornhuskers to
push the leaders hard.
The entry list includes, besides val
lew schools, Grinnell college, of Grin
nell, la. This school has a runner by
the name of Hdyt who has for the last
two years been the sensation of most
of the western meets in the dashes.
His presence in the meet means that
Nebraska will be robbed of some sure
points in the dashes. His strong race
is the 220 and until news of his entry
was received Nebraska was looked
upon as a winner in this race.
"Dope," however, is fickle and the
Cornhuskers may come out better than
is expected despite the handicaps un
der which they will labor.
Will Speak at Palmyra
Prof. Sarka Hrbkova will give the
commencement address, "Young Amer
icans," at Palmyra Friday afternoon.
PROF PUGSLEY NAMES
FOOD CONGRESS WORKERS
Prof. C. W. Pugsley, director of the
extension service, who is chairman of
the eardeninK committee of the food
conservation congress to be held at
Omaha May 22 to 25, has appointed
H. B. Fleharty. Omaha garden com
missioner, in charge of garden work
for the city government, to act as sec
retary of the committee. Fifty per
sons from ail parts of Nebraska were
also appointed on the garden commit
tee by Professor Pugsley. Most of
these are supervisors of home-school
gardens.
A meeting of the newly appointed
committee- and other persons inter
ested in gardening work will be held
In the auditorium of the Rome hotel
at Omaha Wednesday morning at 9:30
o'clock. No set program has been an
nounced, but plans will be laid for the
recommendations to be made to the
general committee on policy of the
congress.
Windy City Aiumnl Meet
Thirty Nebraska alumni, attending
the University o! Chicago and North
western University, met at a dinner
dance In the Ida Noyes buildfng of
Chicago university May 3. according to
a letter from Leone Mallery. now in
the Northwestern scnooi oi urmu.j.
IUSKER
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QUESTION OF FALL
ATHLETICS IS UP
MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE
WILL DECIDE IT AT AMES
Nebraska Stands for Continuation of
Relations so Far as Condi
tions Permit
Tho question of the continuation of
athletics in the .Missouri valley con
ference next fall Is one' of the things
which is expected to come up at the
annual meeting of the' conference at
Ames Friday.
Prof. Grove E. Barber, Nebraska's
representative, who leaves tomorrow
for Ames, will take from Nebraska a
stand unqualifiedly for the continua
tion of all athletics so far as possible.
Dr. E. .1. Stewart, director of ath
letics, and members of the athletic
board have expressed their endorse
ment of athletics In war-time and their
belief that every effort should be made
to keep the system intact.
Expects no Definite Action
It is the opinion Of Professor Bar
bour that the conference will take no
definite action on the question, but
will postpone it until future develop
ments have come. Conditions in the
universities and colleges next fall may
be better or worse than they are right
now. he said, and for this reason the
conference will probably defer final
judgment until more is known of what
the future holds.
Individual institutions may take
some action on their schedules, Pro
lessor Barber thinks. Some of the
valley colleges have been hard hit by
enlistment and may see fit to drop
their schedules. Nebraska, however,
will never do this, It is believed.
The present situation in eastern col
leges, where athletic heads are lament
ing their hasty action in abandoning
intercollegiate contests, is taken at
Nebraska to be an example of what
the weakening of the system of ath
letic training would mean.
The intercollegiate competition ques
tion is the biggest thing which will
come up before the conference. One of
the thingsrofessor Barber will ask
the conference to do will be to make
the javelin throw a major sport. Ne
braska has but one meet each year
in which this event is listed, that with
Minnesota, when Ted Riddell,- the
Cornhusker representative, won the
throw despite thes fact that it Is a
required event in Big Nine meets.
J. B. Kuska, 13, went through
Lincoln on his way to visit the agricul
tural college at Fort Collins, Colo.
Kuska is in the United States depart
ment of agriculture at Washington.
D. C.
University Contributes $500
To The Red Cross Cause
Early returns from the University
Red Cross campaign yesterday reached
a total of 1378, according to Mr. M. G.
Wyer, University librarian, chairman
of (he committee in charge. This in
cluded all of the memberships taken
at rampus tables and some of the
buildings, but did not take In the farm
college and some or the other build
ings on the citp campus. Mr. Wyer
said that he was confident the total
vould be more than $500.
" A number of students were unable
yesterday to enroll because they did
not have the money with them. The
announcement has been made that
students may still subscribe at Dean
Mary Graham's office in the admini
stration building or Mr. Wyer's office
In the library.
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ANNUALS TO APPEAR
AT 1 O'CLOCK TODAY
CORNHUSKERS READY FOR DIS
TRIBUTION AFTER SOME DELAY
Book Compares Favorably With Those
of Recent Years Is Complete
in Detail
Distribution of the 1917 Cornhusker
will commence ut 1 o'clock today at
the student activities office.
The book, with Charles M. Frey as
editor, and DeWitt Foster as business
manager, compares very favorably with
any of recent issue at Nebraska Uni
versity. It has a number of features
that are new; a number of old ones
that are good. In make-up it follows
very closely the plan of annuals of the
past, and there is little if any origi
nality in the treatment of the different
departments.
The binding is attractive, and seems
to be permanent, a thing that will
please the students who have been ac
customed to losing the covers, of their
books. Its dedication is to Prof. M.
M. Fogg of the department of rhetoric,
"a man who is an inspiration to all
his students."
Campus Scenes
Perhaps the best single feature in
the Cornhusker is a group of twelve
photographs of the campus. The
scenes are revealing of the beauty that
may be found even between the nar
row walls, and among the somewhat
ugly architecture of Nebraska build
ings. This section teaches that Ne
braska has an atmosphere of loveli
ness that students are too apt to miss
because they remember only that this
campus is crowded and these buildings
dark and variegated.
Chancellor Avery has written a fore
word that gives exactly the reason
why this Cornhusker will be treasured
as others have not been: in il are the
faces of students who have gone to
war and who are going to war, and
whose faces we may sometime have to
look at through tears.
The different classes, the depart
ments representing athletics, the regi
ment, the Greek letter societies and
organizations, are treated much in the
fashion that has been followed in
former years. The book is unusually
complete in detail. The addition of
the summer school section, and the
completeness of the medical college
section, are features that are splendid
ly worked out, and fittingly so to a
student body that is prone to forget
these very Integral parts of the Uni
versity. Nebraska Girls' Section
For the Nebraska girls' section,
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The amount t8ken in at the tables,
which were .in charge of the girls'
club, was $264." Buildings reported
the remainder of the $378 reached last
evening.
The University campaign was con
fined to yesterday. On the same day
a general campaign for 10,000 mem
bers in Lincoln was opened, which will
continue throughout the week. Uni
versity girls will help in the canvass
of the city tomorrow, Friday and Sat
urday. A call has been issued for four hun
dred girls to do the canvassing, and
this number has not yet been secured.
Those who will have time to help are
asked to leave their nsmes with Dean
Mary Graham.
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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.
60 LABOR BUREAUS
ALREADY ORGANIZED
COLLEGE OF. AGRICULTURE IS
HEAD OF DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Local Bureaus Already Answering
Calls From Farms Men and High
School Boys Listed
Though little more than a week has
elapsed since it began active operation,
the newly created state labor bureau
with headquarters at the college of
agriculture has already organized local
labor bureaus in 60 Nebraska towns.
Organization of additional towns is
in full swing, and it is hoped that
every county seat in the state may be
provided with a labor , bureau in a
short time. The force of men who are
actively promoting the organization
consists of fifteen special food agents
of the Burlington railroad, nine county
agricultural agents working under the
direction of the agricultural extension
service and the United States depart
emnt of agriculture, and six members
of the regular force of the extension
service.
In some cases, mayors of towns have
appointed men to take charge of a
local labor bureau; and in others, com
mercial club secretaries have taken
over the task of bringing work and
workmen together. Some commercial
secretaries have been given extra pay
for conducting a labor bureau in addi
tion to their regular work.
Already Answering Demand
Local bureaus have already begun
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BANDAGE CIRCLE HAS
DISBANDED FOR SEMESTER
No more-meetings of the bandage,
circle will be held this semester, if
was announced yesterday. The regu
lar hour tomorroy afternoon was post
poned because University women are
devoting their energies to the Red
Cross campaign, and it was decided
that a meeting next week, the last of
the school term, was not warranted.
In order to make it possible for
every co-ed who has not been a regu
lar attendant at the meetings of the
circle but who wants to learn how to
make bandages at home this summer
to gain this knowledge, appointments
may be made with Alice Proudflt, '16,
president of the college women's re
serve league, for today. or for Tues
day of next week. Miss Proudflt, upon
appointment, in the First Congrega
tional church upon those days, and
conduct demonstration lessons.
STRING TRIO WILL PLAY
BEETHOVEN AT CONVOCATION
A string trio will give selections
from Beethoven and others at the Con
vocation program Thursday morning
in the Art gallery. Miss Jessie Wit
kins will play the violin. Miss Lillian
Eiche the cello, and Miss LaRue Moore
Shire will be at the piano.
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REGULAR ARMY WILL
OFFER COMMISSIONS
WAR DEPARTMENT MAKES SPE
CIAL PROVISION FOR COLLEGIANS
Those Not Called to Fort Snelling May
Take Examination for Provisional
Second Lieutenant
Students who failed to get the call
to report at Fort Snelling still have
a chance for commissions, according
to a letter to Chancellor Avery from
Captain James l McKinley, of the
Omaha recruiting station. By a recent
ruling of the war department, it Is
possible for college graduates or a
student in a recognized college to take
the examination for a commission as
provisional second lieutenant in the
regular army immediately upon enlist
ment or any time thereafter. Hereto
fore at least one year's honorable sev
ice was necessary.
The mental examinations differ, de
pending upon whether the applicant is
a graduate or student, and are divided
into two groups, as follows:
, Group 1. U. S. history and consti
tution; English grammar and composi
tion : geography: general history,.
arithmetic; algebra; geometry, plane;
trigonometry, plane.
Group 2. English and American
literature; French, German, Spanish;
analytical geometry; minor tactics and
field engineering; surveying.
The Requirements
All candidates who are not gradu
ates will in general be required to
take all of group one and any one sub
ject of group two. Graduates are ex
empt from group one, but will take
two subjects in group two, not more
than one of which may be a foreign
language.
(Continued on page 3)
CANNING GLASSES
TO START TONIGHT
TWELVE MEN AMONG 275 REGI
STERED FOR COURSES
Eleven Laboratories Will Be Employed
This Evening Class List
Posted in Library
Two hundred sixty-three co-eds and
twelve men are registered for the
course in canning which will be given
at the state farm beginning today.
Eleven laboratories will be used by
the class this evening. Three of them
will be in the homes of faculty mem
bers, five in the home economics build
ing, two in the stock judging pavilion
and one in the soils laboratory. The
laboratory work will begin promptly
at 7:30 o'clock.
A complete class list, showing the
laboratory to which each student has
been assigned Is posted in the library.
The canning campaign is general
over the state and all state schools
will offer courses at the places where
they are located. Teachers from the
Lincoln city schools, and from Wes
leyan will be among instructors who
will have charge of the work at the
farm. It is planned to have 29 of these
classes over the state in the next two
weeks, beginning with Wesleyan next
week.
All students enrolled in this course
will be given an opportunity before
the end of the session to register for
summer service, in which they will
teach others what they have learned
and will make complete reports of
their work.
AT 1 O CLOCK TODAY
IN STUDENT ACTIVI
TIES OFFICE. COME
AND GET YOUR BOOK
EARLY.
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