Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XVII, NO. 16.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Th
WAR TAKES VALUABLE
MAN FROM HUSKER SQUAD
Stanley Henry Is Called by Draft
Must Report Home
at Once
LINE IS SHOWING STRENGTH
Swiftly and -without warning, the
first serious effects of the big rumpus
Kaiser Bill is kicking up across the
pond reached the Cornhusker football
camp last night when it was an
nounced that Stanley Henry had been
drafted and must report at his home
town immediately. The news puts a
big crimp in the outlook for a success
ful season as Henry has been showing
fnff on the field in the last few prac
tices that has out-shown the work of
onv of the other men on the squad.
Thi is the first year that Stanley
has had a chance to seriously try for
the varsity, as he has been com
npilpd to work most of the time dur
ing his other years in school. He
has provided all the expenses of his
education since a Junior in high
srhnol bv working odd hours, night
and summers. Last year, while out
for football every day, he worked
pverv nieht and as a result was not
in condition to give competition to
varsity men. This year he has man
ag'.d to get out for football regularly
and has been training.
Henry has worked as hard as any
man on the squad this fall and had
Hnrhed a Dlace on the team. He has
speed and a good head with plenty
of weight and has shown an unex
pected ability in the last few night's
practice, of being able to slide out
of the grasps of would-be tacklers
with great skill.
Freshman Scrimmage
The scrimmage with the freshmen
yesterday was somewhat a repetition
of the day before, with the varsity
going through almost at will and the
first year men unable to gain but
little ground. The freshmen, through
experience and the addition of some
new men, Including rarsity candi
dates have been able to present a
rather formidable front iA the two
practices of the week, but it has been
unavailing in stopping the rushes of
the varsity backs.
Kellogg. McMahon, Dobson, Henry
and Schellenberg were again the ag
gressors in the ground gaining and
could not be stopped, on most of the
occasions when they carried the pig
skin, until thtey had gone several
yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
The line Is gradually assuming the
shape of a real stonewall and with the
seasoning of the first two games of
the schedule, should be in fine shape
by the time Notre Dame invades Corn
huskerland. ART CLUB EXHIBIT
RECEIPTS . TO RED CROSS
Pictures Have Been Secured From
Mrs. Melville Johnson of
Richmond, Ind.
The Nebraska Art association held
a meeting at the commercial club,
Monday, and decided to give all door
receipts of the exhibits to the work
of the Red Cross.
The annual exhibit will be held soon
after the holiday days and all neces
sary work of installing the pictures
will be volunteered work, so all the
money from season and single admis
sion tickets will go to the Red Cross.
The board of directors have secured
the exhibit from Mrs. Melville John
son of Richmond, Ind. Mrs. John
son has charge of a collection of pic
tures assembled to be sent to the
lareer cities of the middle west.
The collections will be arranged by
Mrs. Harrison.
Captain Bolby, class of '05, visited
Dean W. P. Stout today. Captain
Bolby is graduate of thev ngineering
college and recently obtained his com
mission in the twentieth engineers
corps. i
PRE-MEDIC SOCIETY HOLDS
FIRST MEETING OF YEAR
YESTERDAY FORENOON
The Pre-Medlc society was re-organized
yesterday morning at the first
meeting of the year. President Rich
ard Carlson presided and all other of
ficers elected last spring took up their
duties.
Membership to the society Is open
to all pre-medic students. Anyone
wishing to Join should see E. Studley
the secretary and deposit a fee of one
dollar.
A smoker will be held for members
of the society Thursday evening at
:30 at the Alpha Sigma Phi house,
1340 U street.
FRENCH MORE POPULAR
THAN GERMAN AT OHIO
Decrease of From Forty to Fifty Per
Cent in Enrollment for Kaiser's
Language
Present relations existing between
(he United States and the various Eu
ropean countries, owing to our en
trance into the war, have caused a
decrease of 40 to GO per cent In regis
tration in the German classes in the
Ohio university, while the French
classes are filled to overflowing. This
estimate was given recently by Prof.
M. Blackmore Evans of the depart
ment of German. The enrollment in
first-year French on October 1 last
year was only 520, while this semes
ter there are already 512, and more
coming in each day.
The faculty has made no changes
in the department here except, as is
usual in time of war, the dropping of
several enemy alien professors from
the faculty.
"PACIFICISM MILITARISM
ANARCHISM" AT CONVOCATION
Dean W. G. Hastings of the Col
lege of Law Speaks on Inter
esting War Subject
"If Tolstoi's altruism cannot be fol
lowed to the limit, can't be made an
absolute principle, and we are liable
to have too much of it, then surely in
dividualism, as represented by Nietz
che, and state absolutism, as preached
by Trietschke, cannot be made abso
lute and unlimited principles. And
the three together represent the
pacificism, anarchism and militarism
up-to-date," Dean William Granger
Hastings, dean of the college of law,
summed up his address at Convoca
tion at 11 o'clock in Memorial hall
yesterday morning.
Dean Hastings read a short pam
phlet by Tolstoi, "The Demands of
Love," which gives the essence of
Tolstoi's doctrine of altruism. The
pamphlet depicts the ideal life of one
who believed not only In word but in
fact, the brotherhood of man. It de
scribes the experience of one who
gives tjp position and wealth to help
the poor. It brings out the fact that
there is no place to stop when such a
course of action is begun.
"If there is a limit to the line of ac
tion, a point where the person feels
he must do no more, then the motive
is not altruism, but hypocrosy," the
pamphlet states. The last years of
Tolstoi's life were spent carrying out
these "Demands of Love," outlined in
the pamphlet.
"The artist-philosopher is introduc
ing into the world an absolute altru
ism, absolute non-resistence, then he
bewails that they do not fit," Dean
Hastings said.
"It Is true that force is to be avoid
ed most of the time," he admitted.
"The state recognizes this in private
matters, yet It believes in public force.
The sum-total of government compul
sive force has been reduced."
No fantastically conceived Idea of
benevolence should be tolerated that
endangered and well-fare of humanity,
Dean Hastings asserted.
"The pitiful and awful results come
when the individuals say, My country
can do no wrong,' "he said." The
doctrines of morality applied to in
dividuals should be applicable to na
tions. School Spirit Shows
Nebraska Men
By Special
Camp Funston, Kansas, October 1.
When headquarters company of the
55 infantry swung into its first long
march to the order of "rout march"
it stepped to the cadence of U-U-Uni.
When spirits run high or when noise
and enthusiasm are at their height
no single call will start such a re
sponse as anything that harkens back
to Nebraska University.
The occasional copy of the Nebras
kan that sifts out of the mails into the
Nebraska barracks has more readers
than anv other one paper. The whole
regiment is from that state and In
eyery Company there are representa
tives from the university. They have
been first to organize football teams.
any every other kind of rival organi
zations between companies.
In Y. M. C. A. building No. 8 last
Fridav nieht. the men were asked to
cheer for the state they came from as
the -name of the states were called.!
ebraska came last. The response,
mild have done credit to a football
rally when the law college yelled un-'
muzzled and a certain expressive not
TICKETS FOR WESLEYAN
GAME ON RESERVE TODAY
Reservations for Student and
Faculty Scats to Be Made
at Activities' Office
COYOTES STRONG THIS YEAR
Tickets for the Wesleyan game may
be reserved by faculty and students
at the student activities office in the
basement of the Administration build
ing any time today. Reservations
will be made here this year instead
of at Harley's as was announced.
This year a special rooter's sec
tlon will be reserved in the best
block of seats for the whole season
This section will be In the center, on
the south side. All student tickets
will be reserved in this section free
of charge except for the Notre Dame
and Syracuse games. Unless student
tickets are reserved in this section
they will count only as general ad
missions and there will be an add!
tional charge for reservation for each
game. It is thought, however, that
students will take advantage of the
free offer and will get together in the
rooster's section. This will be one
of the means of getting the concen
trated sptrit which produces the
psychic wave that Dr. Stewart has
been working on ever since he came
to Nebraska.
Tickets for First Game
So far students have bought less
than 200 tickets for the opening game
In former years nearly a thousand
have been sold before the first big
game. Students decide they want the
tickets after one game has been
played and thus lose that much. The
athletic committee urge that ail stu
dents Dumhase their student ticket
at once for four dollars and get out
for the first came Saturday.
The Coyotes are coming with an
unusually strong line-up this year and
the dope is that they will spring some
surprises on the Huskers before the
final whistle sounds. Wltn tne var
sity force weakened with the loss of
Henry from the backfield there will
be some important changes in the
line-up Saturday that will Interest
supporters of the team.
The business men of Lincoln prom
ise to have a record breaking crowd
at the opening game and it is hoped
that the student body will wo meir
share in starting right the biggest
football year Nebraska has ever had
Miss Amy Armstrong, A. M. '17, who
is teaching at Park City, Utah, just
outside of Salt Lake City, writes that
she cannot complain of having idle
time on her hands. "At present," she
says, "I am teaching six classes in
English, coach debating, dramatics,
and basket ball, chaperoning dances,
and guarding campfire girls.
FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY
"N" BOOKS WILL BE
OUT THIS AFTERNOON
Four hundred more "N" books have
been received at the University Y. M.
C. A. and will be ready for distribu
tion at the Temple this afternoon.
There were a number of students who
wished the books when they were dis
tributed before and it is probable that
these on hand at present will not be
sufficient to supply the demand.
Itself Among
At Funston Camp
Correspondent
English word had not been stricken
from the rooting vocabulary.
As soon as the camp is more com
plete and the next large percentage
of men corns, the organization of all
University men is expected. Many
of them and practically all of them
who came with the first five per cen',
have been already named as tempoi
ary non commissioned officers.
A few Nebraska men, now in the
regular army and stationed at Fort
Riley, a few miles from here, have
visited the camp to hunt up acquaint
ances. The size of the place is hard
to realize until one begins trying to
locate some other person. Those who
are coming later should arrange to
meet their friends at some Y. M. C. A.
building by number some certain
hour on the second or third evening
after arrival. Otherwise they may
not find them for a long time.
Passes and furloughs are difficut to
obtain for periods long enough to
reach Lincoln. It is not impossible
however, that a mems will be found
by some to be on the scene when
Notre Dame or Syracuse bite the dust.
GIRLS' FOOTBALL RALLY AT
CONVOCATION TOMORROW
Chance for Women to Show They are
Behind Nebraska Team
This Year
A girls' football rally will be held
tomorrow morning in Memorial hall
at 11 o'clock Convocation. The Val
kyries, senior women's organization
to promote school activities, have
charge of the program.
The purpose of the rally is to inter
est University women hi the football
games. It Is realized that many girls
do not realize what they are missing
when they do not attend the games.
Blanche Higglns, "18, will preside.
Dean Amanda Heppner, Mrs. J. B.
Lees, of the department of physical
education. Prof. Sarka Hrbkova, head
of the department of Slavonic lan
guages, Coach E. J. Stewart, T. A.
Williams. Capt. E. A. Shaw are among
the speakers.
NO SORORITY ACTION YET
ON FORMAL QUESTION
Are Asked to Make Decision and
Report at Meeting
Tuesday
No definite action was taken in re
gard to formal parties, at the Inter
sorority council meeting yesterday.
Of the different policies presented, the
plan of eliminating formals, was most
popular. Five groups had taken defi
nite action, but most of the sororities
had not reached a decision.
Dean Heppner and Prof. Louise
Pound, chairmen of Pan-Hellenic coun
cil, expressed a desire that each or
ganization talk the subject over, and
have some policy for the delegate to
present at the next meeting, which
has been called for Tuesday at 11:30
o'clock.
The faculty committee on student
organizations decided at the last meet
ing that there should be less social
life, of the kind that calls for formals
and expensive parties. The policy
of restricting social affairs of this
nature, has been recommended to the
Greeks, with whom the final decision
now rests. A meeting of inter-fraternity
council was called for today by
Chairman J. T. Lees to find out the
decision of the men.
PLAN FOR THIRD OFFICERS'
TRAINING CAMP
Open Only to Enlisted Men or Those
From Colleges With Military
Instruction
The war department at Washington
is making plans for a third series of
Officers' Training camps, open only
to men enlisted in the army or stu
dents from colleges giving military
instruction. This announcement ap
pears in a recent issue of the army
and navy register. It Is expected that
those qualifying will be appointed
second lieutenants in the army as
vacancies appear. In regard to the
plans, the Register says:
"Arrangements have been made in
the war department for a third series
of officers' training camps to be
opened early in January. None of the
training camp sites now being utilized
will be employed for this purpose, it
having been decided that the instruc
tions shall be held at the divisional
cantonments and under the division
commanders. It Is planned also that
the instruction shall be limited to en
listed men of the military force, to
gether with designated students at the
colleges where military instruction is
imparted. It is made known that
there is no intention of Including in
this instruction young men from civil
life. Those who qualify in the third
series of training camps will be placed
on a list from which appointments
will be made -to vacancies in the grade
of second lieutenant in the army. By
virtue of this eligible list it will be
possible to have at hand qualified can
didates for commissions without delay
of examination."
Thus far the military department
has received no official communica
tion from the war department In re
gard to the new training camps, but
information will undoubtedly be at
hand within a short time.
PROF. SARKA HRBKOVA
SPEAKS BEFORE LINCOLN
BUSINESS WOMEN'S LEAGUE
rrof. Sarka Hrbkova gave a very
interesting talk to twenty-five mem
bers of the Lincoln Business Women's
league last Monday evening on "Mak
ing Democracy Safe for the World."
Owing to the novelty of the subject,
the talk was enjoyed very much by
those present.
SMOKE OF ELECTION
BATTLE CLEARS AWAY
Closest Race in Freshman Class
Nelson Wins Over Dobson
of Juniors
GARRISON HEADS SENIORS
Class elections passed off yesterday
with the usual number of casualties
and the unexpected overthrow of sev
eral dope sheets.
The closest race was In the fresh
man class where only two votes gave
"Hank" Albrecht of Lincoln the
leadership of the first year group over
I Willard Green of Omaha. The con
test between Paul Dobson of Lincoln
and Jean O. Nelson of Sterling which
promised to be one of the keenest re
sulted in a 3 to 1 victory for Nelson.
Everett J. Garrison of Summerfield
won the senior presidency over John
Riddell of Beatrice by 14 votes. Rus
sel R. Best of Omaha the sophomore
candidate had things all his own way
and was elected with no opposition.
Political Machines Active
Political machines were active dur
ing every minute the polls were open
and there was hardly a time the whole
day that the space in front of the
Armory was not crowded with vote
getters. Hearty handshakes, friendly
advice, pleasant smiles and assuring
glances all had their place and were
employed with a zest and persistence
that would cast 'shadows over many a
professional. The freshman especial
ly showed excellent organization and
the annual Lincoln-Omaha battle for
first year president was as hard
fought as ever.
Following is the result of the count
last night:
Senior President Everett J. Garri
son, 86; John L. Riddell, 72.
Junior President Jean O. Nelson,
165; Paul Dobson, 53.
Sophomore President Rusell R.
Best, 49.
Freshman President "Hank" Al
brecht, 187; Willard Green. 185, and
Claude F. Peters, 70.
Many Drake Men In Camps Every
morning when the bugles are blown
throughout the camps of the United
States army, 225 Drake men will stand
at attention, for that many have an
swered the call to the colors and are
now at camps scattered from Maine to
California, training for real warfare
in France. Football, basketball and
track stars of yesterday are army of
ficers of today, and that same fighting
spirit with which Drake men have
gone into every battle is the spirit
which is now pushing the men to the
front.
DEAN HEPPNER SPEAKS ON
VALUE OF FRIENDLINESS
Denies Statement That College
Creates Selfishness and Re
lates Incidents
Prof. Amanda Heppner, dean of
women, spoke at Vespers Tuesday
evening on "Investment in Friendli
ness and Friendship." Helen Humpe,
'18, led the meeting.
"I think that there Is a divine guid
ance," said Dean Heppner and she
proceeded to tell several incidents In
which many difficulties were solved
by friendliness. The charge has al
ways been made that college life
created selfishness. It is for us to
prove that it does not necessarily
make the student think only of her
self. A friendly word, a nod or a
clasp of the hand may encourage
some downhearted student to tako up
his work again.
"In the University of Washington
the upperclassmates assume the
guardianship of the freshmen. Some
wonderful friendships have arisen
through this responsibility Service
for ethers is the greatest happiness
and a general Interest in everybody,
will be able to understand the greater
problems of life."
NEBRASKAN FREE TO
UNIVERSITY SOLDIERS
Believing that Nebraska men
actively engaged in the war are
just as anxious for news from the
campus as their former classmates
are for word from them, the man
agement of The Nebraskan will
send the Barer free of chared to
every Cornhusker soldier whose
address is known. You can help
by sending lists of addresses to
The Nebraskan, either mailing
them to Station A or telephoning
them to the business omce, js-iojt.