Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XVII, NO. 59.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TECHNICAL STUDENTS
GIVEN PREFERENCE
Hot to Be Losers by Remaining
in School
WORD CAME YESTERDAY
Drafted Men In Science Work to Be
Assigned to Branch of Service
According to Training
Technical utudents of this Univer
slty will be given practically as great
opportunities through the draft as
through enlistment or will at least bo
assigned to the branch of Bervlce In
which they have had previous train
ing, If they so desire according to
an announcement received yesterday
by Chancellor Avery from Hollls God
frey of the national council of defense.
Drafted technical students from this
school should obtain a statement from
Chancellor Avery as to their previous
training and experience, and special
qualifications. This letter will be filed
with the war department, and every
effort made to locate the man In a
posllion where his training con be of
the most service both to himself and
to the government.
The Official Telegram
The telegram follows:
Washington. D. C.
Dec. 4, 1917.
Samuel Avery,
President JLJni. of Neb.,
Lincoln, Neb.
Have Just been authorized by secre
tary of war to request ypu to inform
all your technical students that, if
they wait until drafted they can upon
summons to the draft camp take with
them letter from you stating their spe
cial qualifications, such letter to be
filed with occupational census ques
tionnaire of war department under au
thority of this authorized telegram.
Secretary of war also authorizes me
to say that every effort will be made
to use each student's special training
in connection with specialized occu
pations in the army so as to afford
technical students of draft age fully
as great an opportunity through the
draft as if they enlisted now.
HOLLIS GODFREY.
Chancellor Avery's Statement
In commenting on the telegram
Chancellor Avery said :
"I have no information on the sub
ject dealt with in this telegram aside
from the telegram itself. I believe,
however, that the following is a rea
sonable interpretation to be put
upon it.
"First. That the government fears
in case of long war that there may be
a lack of technically trained men
engineers, chemists and the like and
that in view of this situation and the
possibility that later contingents of
drafted men may not be called to the
camps quite as rapidly as was at first
anticipated, the war department pre
fers that these technical trained
men continue in their studies until
actually called to the colors.
"Second. The desire that students
remain at their work until drafted
would not apply to students in art
and and sciences, law, education, and
other lines of work not affording much
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WAR SAVING STAMPS
NOW AT STATION "A",
Are Small Priced Liberty
Bonds for Students of Scanty
Pocketbook
I. Gunnison, superintendent of Sta
tion A, has been authorized to offer
to the students a thrift and savings
means by which they may aid the gov
ernment in its present financial cam
paign. The proposition is open to any
one and does not require an extremely
large deposit. For this reason it Is
hoped that those who were not able
to purchase liberty donds will take
advantage of this offer to do their bit
according to their means.
Following Is the announcement
given out yesterday:
"Station 'A is now supplied with
LINCOLN HOTEL
TICKETS 31. lO (Including War Tax)
war-savings stamps and thrift stamps.
The war-savings stamps vary in price
from $4.12 to $4.23 according to the
month in which purchased. They In
crease in value every month and if
held until maturity, January 1, 1923,
they cam 4 per cent interest com
pounded quarterly. For each of these
war-savings stamps purchased the
United States government will pay $G
on January 1, 1923.
"Tho 25 cent thrift stamps do not
earn interest. When Blxtecn have been
purchased the holder may turn them
in and upon paying 12 to 23 cents addi
tional receive a war-savings certifi
cate which earns interest. For further
Information inquire at Station A."
I. GUNNISON, Supt.
KANSAS CITY EDITOR
PICKS VALLEY ELEVEN
Shaw, Captain of First Team
Rhodes, Cook and Schellen
berg Other Members
Four Nebraska men are named by
F.. W. Cochrane, sporting editor of
the Kansas City Journal in his selec
tion of a mythical Missouri-valley
eleven. Three Cornhuskers are chosen
for his second team and four more
are given honorable mention.
Ed son Shaw is placed at right
tackle on his first team and made
it's captain. Rhodes, tho captain
elect of the Cornhuskers, is placed at
his usual position at right end"; Cook
is placed at left half and Schellen
berg at right half.
On the second team Wilder is
given the left tackle berth; McMahon
is placed at right half and Hubka at
left half. Dobson as halfback, Day
as center, Otoupalik, fulback, and
RIddell at end are given honorable
mention.
Y. W. C. A. TO GIVE
BAZAAR DECEMBER 15
Members Plan to Raise Money
to Refurnish Their Rooms
in Temple
The Y. W. C. A. will give a bazaar
in the rest room at Miller and Falne's
Saturday, December 15, for the pur
pose of raising money to refurnish the
rest rooms in the Temple.
The alumni members of the Uni
versity and University girls are con
tributing to this bazaar and the
faculty and the members of the exec
utive board are donating home-made
cookies to sell. All gifts to be sold
should be turned into Miss Fannie
Drake in the Y. W. C. A. rooms in
the Temple before December 8.
There will be knitting bags, pin
cushions, hat pin holders, sachet bags
and other novelties. The gifts will
be pracical and inexpensive.
The committee in charge Is Eleanor
Fogg, Betty Brown, Winifred Miller
and Margaret Roebling. The ad
visory board of the Y. W. C. A. is
also helping.
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
FORMED BY STUDENTS
A student council of defense is be
ing organized this week at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin to co-operate
with the state council of defense and
to carry on efficiently all war work
and war campaigns to be conducted by
the student body. The new council
will guide the war work of the entire
student body Just as the active and
efficient women's war work council
has led the activities of women stu
dents. The Whisk Broom will cost fifty
cents, twenty-five cents down and
the rest when he book is delivered
in January or February. A lot of it
has been written already, several ex
tremely interesting scandals have
been uncovered.
It is being published ay Theta Sig
ma Phi, honorary Journalistic soror
ity. The books may be secured from
Eva Miller, VIvienne Holland, Dorothy
Coburn, Katharine Newbranch, Jean
Burroughs. Eleanor Fogg, Helen Dill
and Fern Noble.
VARSITY BANQUET
TICKETS GO FAST
Only Two Hundred Validatet
Program Completed
ORIGINAL SKITS PREPARED
Chancellor Avery, Toasters and Team
To Occupy Honor Table
Friday Evening
Over one hundred and fifty of the
200 tickets validated for the first
Varsity banquet, to be held in the
Red room of the city Y. M. C. A. Fri
day evening at 6:30 o'clock have been
reserved already. Those who have not
secured tickets are asked to get in
touch with the following members of
the committee in charge of the ticket
sale before Friday morning: Wayne
Townscnd, Hugo Otoupalik, Will Ur
bach, Edson Shaw. Alumni can se
cure tickets from Harvey Rathbone,
12, or E. H. Graves, "13.
The war-time price of $1 has proved
popular, since it is a material reduc
tion from banquet prices of normal
years. The reduction has been made
possible not by paring the menu but
by eliminating useless extravagance in
preparation and serving.
Unique Program Complete
In order to provide something ap
propriate and palatable in the line of
entertainment, an interesting program
of three skits, given by students and
caricaturing University life and simi
lar in nature to gridiron dinner spe
cialties have been prepared. In addi
tion to this, two speeches will be
given, one in honor of the football
team, the members of which will be
the guests of the University, and one
devoted to University students and the
winning of the war. Rev. L. D. Young,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, will give the latter. Music
will also be provided.
The Red room will Just accomodate
200 students, alumni and professors,
in addition to the team. This will
make It impossible to accomodate last
minute orders for plates, and those
who plan to go are urged to make im
mediate arrangements.
Chancellor Avery, the toasters and
the football team will occupy the
honor table in the banquet room, with
the other tables grouped around it.
The skits will be presented on a little
stage at one end of the hall. Walter
Johnson, '19, and Prof. R. D. Scott are
in charge of the gridiron program.
CONVOCATION
Rex Fair, instructor of the flute, Uni
versity School of Music, will give a
flute recital at the Temple theatre at
11 o'clock this morning.
The program:
Gross Sonata in G Mirtor
Frederic Kuhlan
Valse Caprice Howe
The Wren (Piccolo solo) Damare
First Movement (Allegro) from
Concert No. 229 ...Mozart
FRESHMAN COMMISSION
PLANS PARTY FOR GIRLS
Committee AppointedtoHandle
Get-Ttogether Evening
After Holidays
The freshmen girls' commission de
cided to give a freshman girls' party
after the Christmas holidays at a meet
ing held Tuesday evening in the Y. W.
C. A. rooms. The party is to help
the freshmen girls to become ac
quainted. The following committee tn handle
the party was appointed by Mary
Brownell: Dorothy Hiup'e, Florence
Wilcox, Ruby Swenson and Nellie
Schwab.
The commission also decided to hold
three Bible classes each week for
freshman girls only. These classes
will be held Monday 5-6 o'clock, Tues
day 3-4 o'clock and Thursday 5-6
o'clock. Miss Fannie Drake, secre
tary of the Y. W. C. A., gave a short
talk regarding the classes.
SCOTT'S ORCHESTRA
On Sale
Illinois Men Receive Honors
"Illinois men in tho ambulance
corps completely outclassed Yale and
Cornell men in actual service," ac
cording to one of their number who
returned to his alma mater after hit
dismissal from the ambulance service
The Illinois section was awarded ar
insignia for exceptional service in the
trenches. The contingent of univer
sity men went into tho ambulance
sorvice with the agreement that thej
should be transferred later and given
commissions, but when the govern
ment found itself unable to comply
with such terms the men were dis
missed and are now entering different
forms of service in the interest of
their country.
CO-EDS BUSILY PLAN
SKITS FOR PARTY
Committee Announces Pro
gram Must Begin Promptly
at 7:30 O'clock
Every sorority, both Union and Pal
ladian and several boarding houses
are going to give skits at the annual
girls' Cornhusker party in the Armory
Friday night. Because there will be
so many of these, the committee in
charge has announced that the pro
gram will begin promptly at 7:30
o'clock.
Just what the etunts will be, of
course is being kept secret, but there
are rumors of talented Egyptian danc
ers, Indians in war paint, all sorts of
football players, some real tramps,
Gypsies and old maids.
Silver Serpents will sell ice cream.
The money received will go for the
annual Christmas dinner for the poor
which this society gives.
NEBRASKA ENGINEERS MAKE
RECORD AT SHELLING
Two Captains and Eight First
Lieutenants Included in
List Announced
Nebraska engineers had an unusual
ly large number of representatives
among those who were granted com
missions from the second Fort Snell
ing training camp, which ended last
week In all, the engineers pulled
down two captaincies, eight first lieu
tenancies, one second lieutenancy,
and one provisional second lieuten
ancy in the regular army.
The list ot engineers, with the com
mission granted them follows:
Captains: R. T. Wenstrand, R. E.
Gillespie.
First Lieutenants: A. N. Thurber,
L. W. Weaver, Harry C. Cusack, C.
W. Helzer, H. A. Knutzen, R. J.
Wachter
First lieutenants. Signal corps: H.
P. Miller, Geo. B. Wilson.
Second lieutenants: Roy M, Young,
Provisional second lieutenant of
regular army (infantry) : J. L. Champe.
H. R. GRUMMANN RECEIVES
COMMISSION AS FIRST LIEU
TENANT IN COAST ARTILLERY
Herbert R. Grummann, '15, who
was second lieutenant United States
coast survey, has received a commis
sion as first lieutenant with the
coast artillery.
Grummann has been in training at
Fortress Monroe since October 4.
He is now stationed at Pensacola,
Fla. He is the son of Prof. P. H.
Grummann, director of the school of
fine arts and professor of Ger
manic language and literatures.
Dean O. V. P. Stout of the depart
ment of Engineering has received a
copy of "American Forrestry" contain
ing an article about the 20th Engi
neers, the Forrestry regiment of the
United States. Captain H. L. Bowlby,
'05, Is adjutant of the company. Cap
tain Bowlby is also a West Point grad
uate. The regiment is the largest in
the world. All of Its officers are prom
inent men in the lumber business.
IN
at College Book Store and Room 313 Y. M. C A. Building
THREE MORE STUDENTS
WITH SMALLPOX REPORTED
Authorities Take Careful Cen
bus of Students Evading Rules
EPIDEMIC UNDER CONTROL
Check Made Yesterday Shows 83 Men
and 300 Women Being In
spected Daily
Three new smallpox suspects have
been reported since Monday, one of
them in an advanced stage of the
disease, the other two merely con
fined to their rooms to await further
developments. All three are men.
The more serious case was discov
ered while the student was in Dr.
Clapp's office for examination. The
office was thoroughly fumigated, to
prevent the spread of the disease
from that quarter and the patient was
at once taken to detention quarters.
University officials have announced
their intention of ' making the appli
cation of the regulations providing
for vaccination or inspection uni
versal. They have checked up the
registration list with the list ot those
reporting for vaccination or inspec
tion, and have a complete list ot the
delinquents. All who have refused
to comply with the regulations, or are
not reporting regularly for Inspection,
will be excluded from the campus till
they submit to the same measures the
other students.
Many Students Not Reporting
According to the check made ot the
work, yesterday, eighty-three men and
about three hundred women objected
to vaccination and are being inspected
daily. Five hundred fourteen men
and women have been reported who
are unaccounted for. The authorities
will locate these as rapidly as pos
sible, and will refuse them admittance
to the campus and classrooms if they
refuse to take the precautions nec
cessary for the safeguarding ot the
public health.
In spite of the late cases reported,
University doctors feel that they have
the situation well in hand. While
some cases that are already infected
may break out, there is no danger of
a general epidemic, because of the
prompt steps taken to prevent the
spread of the disease. It is also pos
sible that cases may break out among
those who Insist on being inspected,
rather than vaccinated.
Russia to Have Farm Films
The state conservation committee
with offices at the University Is as
sembling several thousand feet ot
motion picture film to be run in
Russia. This film will show the
leading agricultural interests of the
United States and is presented be
fore the Russian people by our
federal government. It is to be in
the nature of an educational cam
paign for the betterment of pgri
cultural interests in Russia. It may
be well to say that Nebraska has
more film ' of this kind than any
other state. Preparation of the
films was begun many years ago
and there is now a completo record
of all agricultural industries ot this
.late.
UNIVERSITY MEN
ORGANIZE BOYS' CLUBS
Large Field of Work Covered
Under Direction of
Y. M. C. A.
University men during the past
three months have taken a big part
in the field of student leadership of
boys, and have taken charge of a
number of boys' clubs and classes in
the city.
A group of "newsies," known as
the Saturday Evening club, is under
the direction of Kenneth Madden,
'20. M. L. Chaffee, '18, and Arlo An
derson, '21, are instructing groups of
boys In gymnasium work at the city
Y. M. C. A, Alfred Hinze, '18, la
serving as teacher of a boy'a Sun
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DECEMBER EIGHTH