Daily Nebra
VOL. XVII, NO. 46.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Th
skah
PRESS SHOULD HAVE
IDEAL OF SERVICE
Charles E. Eurf Advises Uni
versity Journalism Students
ATTACKS PROFIT STANDARD
0nly Truth Should Be Written and
Language of Common People
Should Be Used
..NeVer fail in your resolve to write
only the truth.
Establish an ideal and never
swerve from It. Make your career
something which you can do that will
make the community better.
Try with all your might and mind
to keep the news work from being de
graded into a commercial enterprise.
Keep it as an instrument for good and
not to heap profits.
"Keep the newspaper to perform its
functions as a champion of justice, as
a protection of the oppressed and as?
an instrument for greater democracy
and liberty.
This was the advice given to the
University news writing class by
Charles Edward Russell, member of
the Russian commission and one of
the most eminent journalists of the
country, at the Lincoln last efening.
"If a newspaper is to fill its social
function, the first thought must be al
ways of service," said Mr. Russell.
"To tell the truth should be the ideal
of every newspaper and it is only with
such an ideal that a paper can make
real enduring progress."
He emphasized the fact that the
only way to get the real art of news
paper work was by actual practice ar d
by mingling with people. He told of
the plan he used when he was city
editor in New York of keeping watch
on his office boys for reporting ma
terial. These boys nearly all came
from the tenement houses and knew
life -as it really was. For t hat reason
they knew what appealed to the peo
ple and developed into some of the
best men on the staff.
"The vast mass of news readers are
pretty ordinary people," he said, and
(Continued on page four)
CRITICISM OF ALEXANDER
PAINTINGS AT CONVOCATION
Works of Noted Artist Dis
cussed by Prof. Blanche,
Grant Yesterday
John White Alexander was an un
usual artist in maiiy ways. Professor
ISlanehe Grant, associate professor of
drawing and painting, said yesterday
morning at 11 o'clock convocation in
Hie art gallery, lie did not go back
and paint over, he used full, swirling
strokes and then merely retouched
them.
"He was particularly fond of green,"
Professor Grant continued. "I saw
one exhibition of his in which there
was scarcely one canvas in which
Kreen was not the dominating note."
Professor Grant gave a glimpse of
the way the artist received his start.
He went to the art editor of Harpers
and after he had failed twice to get
a position with them as an artist, he
took a Job as their office boy. He kept
this position for eight months.
At that time the process of repro
duction of paintings by photography
came in, and Alexander was given
ome of this work to do. He was suc
cessful enough with this to attract the
attention of several artists of the
time. He saved ' his money and went
to Paris to study.
He soon found that his money would
not last long in the gay French city,
8 ha went to Venice. He found he
could not afford even this instruction
lng, so into the Bavarian mountains
and drew pictures of the peasants
tnere. His work attracted consider
ate attention and he -was asked to
k, . ma Bketches to the annual ex
niMUonat Munich. There his sketches
Peasant won the medal. From then
- w progress was rapid.
Emggirmoers'
LINCOLN
Alexander's pictures aip. i;iriv
O ' 'J
mural paintings or portraits. He has
painted some exquisite landscapes,
Professor Grant said, but these he
kept in his own studio for the most
part.
Alexander seems to have been par
ticularly fond of sunshine. The paint
ing, "The Ray of Sunlight," shows this
tendency. Other of his paintings are
"The Butterfly." "June Memm-ipa"
I "Other Days." "The Gossip." "The
Green uown.
The collection also includes a series
of paintings representing the "Crown
ing of Labor" and the "Apotheosus of
Pittsburg."
KANSAS TICKETS
SOLD UNTIL TOMORROW
Reservations on Student Spe
cial Close Thursday
Noon
Tickets and Pullman reservations
on the student special, which will
carry the band and rooters to Law
rence for the Kansas-Nebraska game,
went on sale yesterday morning in the
student activities' office and a large
number were sold during the day. A
special Union Pacific representative
will be in the office today and tomor
row morning to handle the expected
heavy call for reservations on the
train. It has been announced that all
reservations should be made before
Thursday noon in order that the rail
road company may know what ar
rangements to make to handle the
travelers.
Five hundred tickets for the game
arrived in Lincoln yesterday and may
be purchased when the reservations
on the special are made. It is ex
pected that well over one hundred will
make the trip on the student special,
and beside that number there will be
the University band of thirty-five
pieces.
The rooters' special will leave Lin
coln Friday evening at 10 o'clock over
the Union Pacific. It will make a
straight run to Lawrence, arriving
Saturday morning at fi o'clock. It will
leave Saturday evening whenever the
students desire.
The cost of the excursion lias been
cut down to a minimum by the rail
road company, although the war tax
has added to the total. Carfare is
$9.70. Pullman reservations may be
made as follows: Standard, lower
berth for one or two persons, round
trip, $4.40; upper berth, same condi
tions, $3.50; tourist section for four,
$4.40.
Why You Should Give To the Y. M. C.
J .
1 Do you realize that there are at
present hundreds of ('ornhuskers in
France or on their way to the war
zone who will in the course of time be
inmates of the ghastly prison camps
of the Central powers? Do you know
that the Y. M. C. A. is the only agent
that can bring them comfort, that can
bring them hope, and what they will
crave above all, diversion? It is no
exaggeration to say that upon the suc
cess of the Y. M. C A. war work de
nends the fate of their futures
whether or not they shall come back
to us the same men that left at their
country's call.
2 Do you fully understand the let
ters of your chum or of someone's
chum whose communication is pub
lished in the press that the worst en
emy the soldier has is homesickness,
with its perverted impulses and always-present
temptations? Do you
know that the Y. M. C. A. hut is at
present the only wholesome meetta
ground our soldiers and the allied sol
diers have? Realizing this would you
rather save yourself a few dollars than
to save their moral standards.
3 Do you know that it is expect
ed of you as a Nebraskan that you
subscribe to the Y. M. C. A. fund? Of
all the middle western colleges Ne
braska has been the least responsive,
the least patriotic in this matter. Do
you realize that by her attitude she
fs placing herself in the light that may
eem to show her more interested in
the welfare of her dollars and ce
San of her soldiers? Nebraska s
duty is well defined. It is a question
of heeding or disregarding ...
HOTEL
I of heeding or aisrejsi"'
RED TRIANGLE FUND
TOTAL NEAR $ 7000
Twenty-three Teams Report
Pledges of $4,485.54
TEAM TWENTY HEADS LIST
Executive Committee Plans Big Drive
Till End of Week to Reach Re
maining Students
Total subscriptions in the Univer
sity Red Triangle campaign are now
close to the $7,000 mark. Of this
total, $4,4S5.54 is credited to the twen
ty-three teams of workers, $595 to
the executive committee in charge of
the campaign, and $155 to the faculty.
Individual subscriptions handed in di
rectly to the office make up the rest
of the amount.
The teams are still hard at
work, and expect to raise this
sum to the University's allotment of
$15,000. A number of the cards have
not been turned in and a number of
the team captains have made no re
ports. A meeting of the executive
committee has been planned for to
night to arrange for a vigorous cam
paign during the rest of the week to
account for the cards that are out.
Team twenty, headed by V. H.
Judd and Lloyd Lyne, heads the teams
in the amount reported, with $379.50.
Team sixteen, headed by Arch Bren
ker and Harold Gerhart, is second with
$35S.50. Team four with Anne Brun
dage and Louise Enochs, captains, is
tied with team one, with Mary Aliens
worth and LaRue Gillern, captains, for
third place with $348.50 reported fcr
each team.
A complete list of the team captains
and the totals reported by their re
spective teams follows:
Mary Allensworth and LaRue Gil
lern, $348.50.
Gladys Appleman and Martha Leal,
$136.
Elizabeth Brown and Gwendolyn
Drayton, $1S2.
Anne Brundage and Louise Enochs,
$34S.50.
Hermine Hatfield and Katharine
Kohl, $229.25.
Helen Loftman and Ruth Sheldon,
$74.50.
Vesta Hawe and Vernie Moseman,
$139.5(1.
Winifred Moran and Helen Holtz,
$237.
(Continued on page four)
President Wilson has wired
John R. Mott, head of the Y. M.
C. A. war fund campaign, under
way this week, as follows:
"The special campaign for
$35,000,000 which the Y. M. C. A.
has inaugurated is of vital im
portance to the work of increas
ing the contentment and effici
ency of our citizen army. It is
fundamental to making morals
the basis of military morals, and
should engage the generous sup
port of all our people. I be
speak for it a unanimity and a
unity of effort and of gifts to
speed this patriotic and practi
cal work forward to abundant
and complets success."
4. Wherever they are in camp, in
fortress, in posts, in cantonments, and
even way down on the Texas bord.-r.
where the Y. M. C. A. maintains three
traveling movie automobiles to give
outdoor shows the American soldiers
and sailors enjoy their movies regu
larly because of the indefatigable ef
forts of the Y. M. C. A. For use in
France the Y. M. C. A. has ordered
or already shipped seventy-five pro
jecting machines and fifty portable
power units. There the American ex
peditionary forces find the Red Tri
angle movies, secured "over there
mostly from European producers, and
many is the dull hour, the homesick
heart and the disconsolate "Sammie
that is relieved by the click, click of
Hop,
To Report Soil Survey
Mr. Frank W. Hayes, A. M. '15, now
with the United States bureau of soils,
has returned to the geography depart
ment to prepare his report on the soli
survef of Morrill county. He was as
sisted in this work by Vernon Sea-
bury, ex-'17.
Delegates to Catholic Convention
Leo McShane. '18, and Clara
Schulte. '18. were chosen as delegates
to the national convention of Catholic
students to be held December 7 and
8 at Cedar Falls, la., at a meeting of
the local club Tuesday evening.
STUDENT DIRECTORY OUT
TOMORROW MORNING
Compete Catalogue of All Stu
dents and Faculty With Ad
dresses in Great Demand
University student directories will
he readv for sale tomorrow morning
promptly at 8 o'clock. Tables will be
nlaccd at the Library, at University
hall, Bessey hall, Law building and at
the Home Economics building at the
farm and the books may be obtained
at. anv of these nlaces.
The directories have been delayed
one week longer than last year due
to the scarcity in the help in the
printing work. They have been made
in every way as complete as in former
years and contain the list of all stu
dents alphabetically and by towns,
faculty list, abreviations and the usual
fraternity and sorority sections. No
advertising is included.
The cost of publishing the directory
this year has increased' with the cost
of materials and labor and yet is given
to the students for 25 cents. The book
is in charge of the University Y. M.
C. A. and is published by them at ac
tual cost. Only 1,200 copies have been
printed and those who wish to get
theni should get them the first day
they are on sale.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY TO OFFER
COURSE IN RUSSIAN GRAMMAR
As a result of the present war a
course in the Russian language will
be offered in the University of Kansas
next year. Should the experiment
prove successful, more advanced
courses will be given. Dean Templin
says that when peace is declared Rus
sia will offer marvelous opportunities
to both professional and business men
and that a rudimentary knowledge of
the language will be of great benefit.
A. War-Work Fund
' nrAioffnr'i nmnl nnrl t1ir Alluring"
the projector's crank and the alluring
magic of the screen.
A brand-new attraction in the mili
tary and naval movies is soon to make
its appearance in the form of a sol
diers'. and sailors' own weekly motion
picture. This film will be similar to
the commercial films of the same type,
but will feature matters of particular
interest to enlisted men. Doings in
other camps, outstanding military and
civil events, interesting happenings in
affairs of state both in and out of
Washington, as many European war
pictures as can be obtained, and in
cidents "back home," are some of the
subjects to be included. The aim will
be to as great an extent and in as
many ways as possible "to keep the
home fires burning," and the home
ties from breaking, as well as to fur
nish information and entertainment
through the medium of animated cur
rent events. This weekly picture, fur
nished by the Community bureau, will
be shown as a part of the regular "Y"
programe throughout the country.
A private who signs himself "U. S.
A., Q. M. C." from Fort Wayne, Ind.,
writes home about the Y. M. C. A.
work as follows:
"The Y M. C A. stands for three
things, primarily, to prvoide nourish
ment to the mind, body and spirit of
every man. The "Y" secretary is a
brother, sister, sweetheart, mother and
father to us. The building over which
he presides is a church, club room and
theater. It is a place where a fellow
likes to go when feeling blue, a good
place to " be on Sunday, a good place
in the long winter evenings."
SCHEAIBECK'S JAZZ- BAND
FEAR OFJAYHAWKS
INCREASING DAILY
Varsity Takes Stiff Workouts
to Prepare for Battle
COACH PLANS SURPRISE
AM Veterans to Be in Lineup Saturday
With Possible Exception of
Kositzky
Scrimmage that lasted long after
dark was on the program at yester
day's practice. The varsity bpent more
than" an hour going through and
around the freshmen and stopping
their attempts at gains.
Fear of te Jayhawks is becoming
more real with each practice and the
varsity has taken the work more seri
ously this week than they have at any
other time this season. All the vet
erans have been in the lineup In scrim
mage both evenings, with the excep
tion of Kositzky, who will probably be
absent from the game Saturday.
It is an open secret that Coach
Stewart is planning to spring some
plays on the Kansans that will make
anything attempted by . the Cornhusk-
ers so far this season look like the
Justly celebrated child's play. New
formations of all kinds have been
worked out by the coach and a few
shifts in the lineup have been made
that will probably bring important re
sults.
The weight of the Kansas team is
causing more worry all the time. Al
though the line will not have much on
the Cornhusker forwards, the back
field will out-weigh the Nebraska quar
tet by a great margin. Neilson, cap
tain, weighs 175; Mandeville, 170;
Pringle, ISO, and Foster, veteran quar
terback, 150. The Nebraska backfield
against this average of 1G9 will have
four men averaging less than 165,
with all the men about the same
weight and not one light man and all
the rest heavy as is the case with the
Kansans. It is probable, at best, that
the Kansas weights are four or five
pounds below the actual poundage of
the men.
CO-EDS COMPETE FOR
AWGWAN KANSAS TRIP
Twelve University Girls Canvas
Students for Subscriptions
Campaign Closes Thursday
The Awgwan subscription campaign
which started Monday, will close at 5
o'clock Thursday, instead of at noon
Thursday, as was previously an
nounced. LaRue Gillern, Carolyn Reed, Emma
Neilson, Heen Howe, Lillian Arendt,
Mary Eastham, Francis Whitmore, Fae
Breese, Marion Humpes. Dorothy Hip
pie, Ruth Wilson and Dorothy Doyle
have charge of the campaign, and the
business management has offered a
free trip to Kansas to the girl who
succeeds in selling the most subscrip
tions. The incentive has proved very
powerful, and the girls have developed
an ability for salesmanship, that is al
most irresistable.
The book is on sale for the rest of
the year, including the thirty-two page
Home-coming number, which was is
sued last Saturday, at a price reduced
from the original cost, which was a
dollar, to 75 cents.
The Awgwan is the most striking in
dividual University publication. It is
a magazine typical of college life, it
is a reflection of the campus. In it
we see our own foolish fantasies, hear
our own light banter, and suffer our
fondest allusions to be extolled or
made sport of, in clever cartoonE,
jokes and editorials.
The paper is in the hands of Sigmfi
Delta' Chi, Journalistic fraternity.'
Wayne L. Townsend, '18, who is the
editor, is also the editor-in-chief of
this year's Cornhusker. John Charles
Wright. '18, is business manager.
Mrs. P. D. Downing of Rising City
will visit her daughter, Helen, at the
Delta Delta Delta house Saturday and
Sunday.