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VOL. XVII, NO. 80.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN. MONDAY. JANUARY 14. 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PROMINENT SPEAKERS AT
WAR CONFERENCE FRIDAY
Bt. Honorable Frederick E.
Smith to Talk
LANE. UNABLE TO ATTEND
Secretary tf Interior Cancells En
gagement Duo to 8on's Call
to Franco
The Rt. Hon. Frederick E. Smith,
attorney general of England, who was
created a baron by the king on New
Year's day, and Dr. George E. Vin
cent, president, of the Rockefeller
foundation, chancellor of the Chau
tauqua institution, and former presi
dent of the University of Minnesota,
who is regarded at Washington as one
of the strongest speakers in America,
will address Nebraskans assembled
at the Friday evening, January 18,
mass meeting of the two-day war
conference.
- At the Saturday evening mass meet
ing the speaker will probably be Dr.
Vernon Kellog, who was the right
hand man of Herbert Hoover in the
work of the Belgian relief commis
sion. Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor of the
food administration, who was an
nounced a week ago to speak Saturday
evening, will remain in Washington
at the request of Mr. Hoover.
Lane Unable to Attend i
Hon. Franklin W. Lane, secretary
of the Interior, has cancelled his. en
gagement to address the conference
and the four conferences that week in
Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Kan
sas. News that he could, not come
was received Saturday by Prof. M. M.
Fogg, director of the state council's
bureau of speakers and publicity, in
the following telegram from Director
A. E. Bestor of the speakers division,
committee on public information:
"Sincerely regret to inform you that
Secretary Lane has cancelled engage
ment for all western war conferences.
His only son, a lieutenant in the avia
tion corps, is ordered to France next
week; and the secretary and Mrs.
Lane must see him off. While deeply
regreting this change, I am glad to
inform you that Dr. George E.
Vincent, formerly president of the
University of Minnesota, takes Secre
tary Lane's place in Lincoln Friday
night." . .
Director Bestor will be the speaker
at the general session Friday after
noon, his subject being "The War and
the Formation of Public Opinion.'
Curney Newlin of the council of de
fense and representative of the United
States shipping board will speak
twice Saturday on the relation of the
work of the state councils of defense
to the work of the national defense.
The food and fuel section meeting
will be addressed by Gurden W.
Wattles and John L. Kennedy, and it
is expected . afco by Dr. Vernon
Kellog.
Mrs. Phillip N. Moore of Washing
ton, member of the women's commit
tee of the council of national defense,
will address the woman's section
meeting Friday forenoon.
Pour-Minute Men Conference
Delegations from dearly a half hun
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DEMAND FOR TEACHERS
INCREASING DAILY
Women Called ' Upon to Fill
Positions Left Open by
Men Leaving for War
Calls from states in every section
of the country are being received
daily by the teachers' bureau all ask
ing for teachers to take the places of
men leaving for war work. Letters
are received almost dally from Ne
braska towns that are feeling the
same scarcity of instructors. Some
of the positions are available immedi
ately and others will be open next
semester.
The subjects for which teachers are
generally desired are domestic
science, mathematics, manual train
ing, science, agriculture, 'physical edu
cation, music, drawing and commer
cial courses. Superintendents and
principals are especially needed since
most of these men were the first to
leave for the camps.
Portions have been recently filled
at Avne, Tp,; Flit Point 8. D.:
Elreno, Okla.; Hannibal, Mo.; Ieon,
la-: Miles City, Montana; Mfflers-
burg, Ohio; Missouri , Valley, la.;
Basin, Wyo.; Centerville, S. D.; Chey
enne, Wyo.; Frankfort, Kan.; Hot
Springs, S. D.; Hull, la., and Indian
apolis, Ind.
To the following schools, the reply
has been Bent that we have no teach
ers to recommend for those places:
Castlewood, S. D.; Amarrow, Kan.;
Dora Ana. N. M.; Everly, la.; Glidden,
la.; Kansas City, Kan.; Madison, S.
D.; Newcastle Wyo.; State Normal
School, Silver City, N. M.; Ogden
City, Utah; SalIna,.Kan.; Silver City,
la.; Kansas City, Mo.; Sioux Falls,
S. D.; Valley City, N. D.; Vermilllan,
S. D.; West Liberty, la., and Weiser,
Idaho.
The war has disturbed the public
school system to a very great degree
throughout the country. Hundreds of
teaching positions all over the United
States have been' vacated within the
last six weeks. Most of these teach
ers have gone for military service,
conservation work or to fill civil serv
ice openings. Many of these places
cannot be filled since there Is such
a dearth of trained or experienced
teachers. J
DR. L. VAN ES SECURED BY
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Noted Veterinarian Employed
to Take Charge of State
Live Stock Interests
Dr. L. Van Es, dean of the veteri
nary division of the North Dakota
Agricultural College, has been select
ed as head of the department of ani
mal pathology in the University of
Nebraska, it was announced yester
day. Doctor Van Es is one of the
best authorities on animal diseases
in the country and after several
months of negotiation he announced
his acceptance of the position at the
University here. With only one ex
cention. he will be the highest paid
official or member of the faculty now
in. the employ of the institution. At
the same time the announcement is
made that a new veterinary hall will
be erected on the farm campus of
the University within the next few
months. Doctor Van Es will begin
work at the University here next
July.
For a number of years the Univer
sity of, Nebraska has been endeavor
ing to develop research work in ani
mal diseases, looking forward to the
eradication of the epidemics that
now and then play havoc with the
live stock interests of the state, 'i ne
last legislature made a special appro
priation for research work in animal
diseases and a search was immedi
ately begun to find some one of na
tional reputation and experience to
take charge of the department.
Last September, Chancellor Samuel
Avery and Dean E. A. Burnett of the
College of Agriculture, made" a trip
to North Dakota and secured a prom
ise from Doctor Van Es that he
would" consider the position at Ne
braska. Shortly after Doctor Van Es
met with the regents, who were so
favorably impressed that he was of
fered the position at a salary con
siderably in excess of any now paid
by the institution.
To Erect Laboratories
An agreement has, also been en
tered into to erect new laboratories
at a cost of from $60,000 to 1 100,000.
Additional associates will be brought
to the institution to develop the work
as soon as the new building is com
pleted. Doctor Van Es is a native of the
Netherlands. He graduated from the
Ontario Veterinary College at -Toronto
and later from the medical depart
ment of the University of Alabama.
He has been a veterinary practi
tioner, a professor of veterinary sci
ence la the North Dakota Agricul
tural College, state veterinarian of
North Dakota, and consulting veteri
narian of the North Dakota live stock
sanitary board. In 1907 the United
States department of agriculture sent
Doctor Van Es on a special mission
to Belgium. France and Germany and
in 1909 on a mission to Holland, Ger
many and Denmark.
He is, however, quite well known
among Nebraska live stock interests.
Hve years ago when the mysterious
horse disease resulting '
poison was prevalent, causing the
Seath of thousands of Worses he was
called into consultation. At that time
made a favorable Impression upon
JheTve stock interest, and his name
wa. -often suggested as the most
available man to take charge of a
SlnS-ment. Doctor Van Es will de
department. rfl,
rote praciico 1 01 ' . r.
learch work at life University f Ne-
braska.
CORNHUSKER QUINTET
PREPARES FOR BATTLE
Dr. Stewart Puts Finishing
Touches on Varsity Five
JACKSON ONLY VETERAN
Unexperienced Team to Take Floor
Against Camp Funston in
Season's Opening Game
With one week left before the start
of the playing season, on Saturday
night of this week, Doctor Stewart is
busy putting the finishing touches on
his squad of Cornhusker basket
tossers. The time is short and there
is much work to do, but fans have
hopes that by the end of the week
the team will be in good enough form
to at least hold the bunch from Funs
ton to a close score.
The chief fear of the coach is that
the team may take another slump.
It has been in the habit of playing real
ball a while, and then dropping off
fornt for several days. If the team
can break off this, and play consistent
ly like it has recently, the Missouri
valley will still hear of the 1918 Corn
husker basketball team. The team is
developing the two great essentials
team work and a good eye for the
basket but is greatly handicapped by
Inexperience. With the exception of
Jackson, the men are all playing their
first year of the game as regulars, and
have to be carefully coached to do the
little things that would come instinc
tively to a veteran. So as a conse
quence, the team is as much in need
of individual development as anything
else.
The game Saturday will be followed
by one next week with the Camp
Dodge team. Both of these teams will
be strong, but Funston has beaten
Dodge, so Nebraska has a chance to
beat. Dodge, if they hold Funston down
well. The Funston team is composed
almost entirely of ex-Wesleyan stars,
and will probably use the Wesleyan
style of attack and defense. Those
who have seen Wesleyan play, or who
are acquainted with her basketball
ball record, can realize that this fact
would not be very encouraging to any
team, and that it would be anything
but that to a team that besides having
only one veteran on the squad, has
been forced to fight a Jinx ever since
the eeason f.egan.
RECEIVE BRONZE TABLET
OF DR. CHARLES BESSEV
Art Department Places Me
morial of Pormer Botany
Head on Exhibition
The bronze memorial tablet of Dr.
Charles Edwin Bessey, formerly head
of the department of botany. Univer
sity of Nebraska, designed by Eliza
beth Tuttle Holsman of Minneapolis,
and donated to the University by Dr.
P. J. O'Gara of Salt Lake City, a
former student of Dr. Bessey, has
been received and placed for exhibi
tion in the art gallery. The tablet
will remain in the gallery during the
January art exhibit.
The tablet Is considered a remark
ably fine likeness 'of Dr. Bessey in his
scholar's gown and holding a bunch
of flowers named after- him in his
hand. In the border of the tablet
Mrs. Holsman has ingeniously worked
out a design from the names- of plants
named after Dr. Bessey. The tablet
will utimately be hung in Bessey Hall.
CONVOCATION
Ross Hammond, editor of a Fre
mont naner. who has recently re
turned from Europe, will speak on
"The West Front." at Convocation to
morrow morning at 11 o'clock in Me
morial hall.
Mr Hammond has eiven a number
of talks on this subject since his ar
rival. He spoke to a Lincoln audience
about two weeks ago. He la a force
ful speaker and has many interesting
things to relate. .
Law School Makes Plans
for All-College Dinner
The Law Collie Ust wecl: begun
to organize forces for ifce promotion
of an organized law spirit in the
University. The chief step in this
direction was the resolutions adopted
to hold regular law nights at certain
set periods during the school year.
These will be in the nature of a din
ner held in some down town hall un
der the auspices of one of the classes,
the different classes to take turn at
arranging and providing the dinner.
The feeds will be moderate priced
and ones that every member of the
college can easily afford to attend.
This plan has been provided with
the special object of getting more ac
quainted among the classes in the
college. The freBhmen will be given
a better opportunity to meet the up
per classmen and vice versa, and the
law school will ultimately become a
more organized . institution.
It is also planned to have members
of the faculty and city lawyers attend
these affairs, and make short talks to
the students. All classes are work
ing on the plans and it is expected
that within the next week a definite
date will be set and all arrangements
will be completed for a law feed to
be held soon.
ORGANIZED AGRICULTURE
TO OPEN SESSION TODAY
Farmers' Societies Gather for
Seventeenth Annual Meeting
to Discuss War Problems
" The seventeenth annual meeting of
the Nebraska State Agriculture As
sociation will be held in Lincoln,
January 15-19, 1918. The committee
in charge of the conference is Mr.
W. R. Mellor, chairman; E. R. Dan
ielsonr H. J. Gramlich, R. W. McGIn
nis, W. S. Whitten, E. A. Burnett,
and Secretary C. E. Pugsley. Organ
ized Agriculture, with meetings of
about thirty different farmer societies,
will bring hundreds of farmers to the
city for most of the week.
War-time problems are reflected in
practically all of the program. The
things that are pressing at this time
will be taken up and the presence of
several national speakers in the city
will add to the interest of the meet
ings. The actual programs will begin
Tuesday morning. Monday will be
taken up in the main with small get
togethers and meetings of the exec
utive committees. The meetings of
the Organized Agriculture toward the
latter part of the week will be grad
ually run into the program arranged
by the State Council of Defense.
The farmers, besides talking over
agricultural questions will be given
an opportunity to hear what the gov
ernment Is expecting of them at the
present time through the talks that
will be given by such men as the Rt.
Hon. Frederick E. Smith and others.
Fruit and Corn to Feature
The fruit and corn show which has
been a feature of past meeetings of
Organized Agriculture will be held as
usual in the city auditorium. The
exhibit of fruit, flowers and potatoes
will be under the auspices of the
state horticultural society. That fruit
can be grown in Nebraska and
packed in attractive shape will be
evident after one baa looked over the
150 boxes and barrels of apples that
are now being placed in the audi
torium. Nebraska Dotatoes will also
come in for consideration. Four or
five of the biggest potato-producing
counties in northern and western Ne
braska will have county exhibits. Cut
flowers and potted plants will also be
on display. It is planned to open the
exposition, which will be free to the
public, Tuesday morning.
Organized Agriculture this year
sees the birth of a new organization,
the Nebraska farm equipment associa
tion, which will hold Its first meeting
next Thursdar. At the afternoon ses
sion there will be a special tractor
session. In fact it Is quite largely.
due to the tractor that the new asso
ciation came into existence. Shoit
cuts on the farm will be discussed by
experts. R. S. Howard, a tractor ex
nert and one of the principal speak
ers at the meeting, has divided his
address Into four main divisions, tak-
fnr nn the possible advantages of
tractors, how tc select a tractor for
Its various uses, the seed bed pro
duced bv a tractor, and the care of
motors, with special , emphasis upon
the care of the cylinders ana the nt
ting of bearings.
Stock Interests Represented
The live stock Interests of the state
will be well represented. The cam
paign at the present time to pul
sheep growing on its feet has result
ed in one of the strongest sheep pro
frsms vr held. There will be an
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BASKETBALL TOURNEY
REACHES SEMI-FINALS
Games Today Decide Teams to
Enters Finals
FAST TEAMS DEVELOPING
Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Tau Omega,
Sigma Phi Epsllon and Delta
Tau Delta Victors Friday
The second round of the inter-frat
tournament was played off Friday,
with four games of fast basketball.
The scores of the games were: Pht
Kappa Psi 10, Phi Delta Theta 1;
Alpha Tau . Omega 12, .Alpha Sigma
Phi 2; Sigma Phi Epsilon 12, Sigma
Alpha Epsllon 7; Delta Tau Delta 14,
Delta Upsllon 9.
The brand of ball played Friday
was the equal of that seen in any
tournament of the kind of previous
years, although not so rough as it
has been by any means. The Delta
Tau-D. U. game was the classic of
the evening, with both sides repre
sented by fast teams composed main
ly of candidates for either the varsity
or the freshman varsity squads.
The Phi Psl-Phi Delt game was
played at noo. The Phi Psis easily
had their opponents out-classed, and
ran away from them from the first
Kellogg, Smith and Cook were the
Phi Psi stars, and Koehler did the
best work for the Phi Delts. The
line-up follows:
The line-up follows:
Smith f Koehler
Kellogg f Peters
Thorpe c McMahon
Wright g Vance
Cook g Danthorpe
Phi Kappa Psi Phi Delta Theta
In the evening, Alpha Tau Omega
started the schedule by beating the
Alpha Slgs, 12 to 2. The A. T. O.'s
have a fast bunch, and are doped by
many to win the tournament Schel
lenberg and Gerhardt formed the
nucleus of their scoring combination.
On the loser's side, Dobson playeu the
best game. The line-up was as fol
lows ;
Alpha Tau Omega Alpha Sigma Phi
Schellenberg . ...f Robjr
Thomas ..f..... Bryan
Bush c Farnum
Gerhardt g Dobson
Bailey g Wilder
Sig. Ep's. Victors
Sigma Phi Epsilon got the long end
of a 12 to 7 score over Sigma Alpha
Epsilon. The Sig Eps outplayed their
opponents in the first half, but the
two teams put on a real battle in the
last half. Better team work was re
sponsible for the victory. Town
send, Hoffman and Dales played the
best game for the Sig Eps., and
Wilder , Swanson and Ludwlg showed
the best form on the Sig Alpha team.
The line-up follows:
Sig Alpha Epsilon 8ig. Phi Epsilon
Calder f Thompson
Lyman c Hoffman
Tyman c Dale
Swanson g Plehm
Wilder g Soulders
In the fastest game of the tourna
ment, the Delta Taus beat the D. U.'s,
14 to 9. The game was fast and hard
fought from start to finish. The
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WAR PRINCIPAL TOPIC
FOR ECONOMICS MEETING
Interesting Series of Lectures
for Annual Assembly of
Association
The Home Economics Association
will hold Its thirteenth annual meet
ing next Tnesday, Wednesday and
Thursday at the state l&rm. Mrs.
Mable Daniels Gramlich of the de
partment at the farm will preside at
the meetings. Julia Vance, acting
bead of the Home Economics depart
ment, is vice-president Maude Wil
son, associate professor of home eco-'
nomlcs. Is secretary. A number of
the University faculty members will
gire addresses at the meeting.
Tuesday morning after the meeting
has been opened by the president,
Esther Warner, '17, will talk on
"Common Sense Patriotism." Louise
Meredith and ilabel Sterne will then
give a demonstration of butter substi
tutes In cookery.
Tnesday afternoon Prbf. Blanche C.
Grant associate professor of drawing
and painting, will give her lecture on
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