The Daily Nebraskan
LINCOLN, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919.
PRICE F1VR CENTS
.Will. NO. 115.
STATE CONFERENCE
MEETS AT WESLEYAN
College Students Will Assemble
March 28 to Discuss Religious
Problems.
Able Speakers Have Been Secured
to Give Addresses on
Foreign Missions.
Tho 1918-19 state Student Volun
teer Conference will be held at Wes
leyan University next week, beginning
Friday evening, March 28 and closing
Sunday, March 30. This ia an an
nual event at which from two to three
hundred students from all the - col
leges of the state meet to consider
student religious problems and inter
ests, especially with regard to foreign
missions.
Last year the conference was held
at Doane College in Crete in Febru
ary. Seventy-five men and women
from the University attended as dele
gates and it was one of the best state
conference held in the entire country.
The committee in charge hopes that
all who attended last year will be
delegates again this year, and that a
great many more will also attend.
The conference will be addressed by
some of the best speakers on the
platform today, among whom will be
Harry C. White, a graduate of this
university. Mr. White was a mis
sionary in India when the war broke
out and immediately volunteered as
a Y. M. C. A. secretary with British
troops. He served In the Gallipoli
campaign and later in France where
he was decorated by the French gov-
eminent with the' Croix de Guerre.
Mr. White is one of the many lead
ers who will make the conference an
event that no one who Is at all Inter
ested in foreign work can afford to
miss.
The conference this year is felt by
those in charge to be especially im
portant because of the increased in
terest America has in foreign lands,
particularly, Japan, China, India, Tur
key, and South America. The United
States is Just beginning to find out
how great a service the missionaries
In these lands performed during the
war; in keeping down revolutions that
would have hindered the allies' cause
tremenduosly. India's 315 million peo
ple could have sounded the death
knell for "democracy" had they not
been kept from revolting largely
through the Influences of American
missionaries preachers, teachers,
doctors, nurses, farmers, business
men. engineers, etc.
All these countries are now looking
to the U. S. to take the lead in world
reconstruction, and in spreading west
ern civilization. America's influence,
her opportunity, and hence her re
sponsibility were never so great as
Just row. College men and women
we in , a position where they can
readily respond to the challenge and
need. All these and many other things
wiH be topics for discussion at the
Conference next week.
Further announcement of leaders
and of plans will be made from day
t0 day. Any student who desires
nre information or who wishes to
be counted among the delegates from
the University of Nebraska should see
Miss Drake at Women's Hall or Wm.
frbach nt the Y. M. C. A. at once.
MADAME DE VILMAR '
PLEASES STUDENTS
Madame Laura De Vilmar.gave a
recUal at convocation yesterday
morning in the Temple to a large
"udlence. Madame De Vilmar's voice
u a rich soprano and Is dramatic In
hty. Her enunciation is very dis
nct a"d her wide variety of selec
3" highly pleased the large audi-ce-
Mrs. Raymond accompanied on
,te Piano.
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D. V. STEPHENS SIGNS
UNI WEEK CONTRACT
The annual contract hns been drawn
up between the University Week As
sociation and the business manager for
the new year. The contract this year
sets forth that I). V. Stephens shall
perform the services of a business
mannser of university for the school
year 1918-1919 at a specified salary,
and was dated March 19th. University
week this year will bo conducted on a
largo scale and an Interesting and defi
nite program hns ben worked out. The
dates are from April 2nd to April 5th.
SOPHOMORE PRESIDENT
DIVIDES THE SPOILS
Appoints Members of Class to
Act on Various Committees
Second Semester.
President Jesse Patty of the Sopho
more Class has announced the follow
ing committees which will, conduct
class activities:
Hop Committee
Charles Gillilan, Chairman.
Richard Hadley, Master of Cere
monies. Helen Nieman.
Mildred Smith.
Frank D. Patty.
John Gibbs.
Glen Gardner.
Elmer Hinkle.
Ivy Day Committee
George MoGuire, Chairman.
Jack Landale.
Willard Green.
Ivan Hedge.
Gerald Pratt.
Merten Camp'bell.'" '
Athletic Committee
Clarence Swanson, Chairman.
Richard Neuman.
Roy Lyman.
Girls' Athletic Committee.
Doris Hostetter, Chairman.
Ruth Lindsay.
Florence Chlttlck.
Hobble Halts
Her as She
Tries to Hurry
in c,TtP nf lne and lively conversa-
Hnna nil tnfl subiect of the 1919 skirt,
nn nhflRP of the mater has never been
given sufficient attention. No one has
ever discused the moral effect or tne
new spring skirt a la hobble.
Tho ciinrpniA dancer to life and limb
inPurrpH hv every woman who wears
one has been argued about exhaustive-
From the point or view or an,
r.ny earnest souls have urged that It
ih tom of c-race. while the econom-
U VII- m'w w ci '
ists joyfully retort that it saves wool
lyway.
nut nn one has seemed to realize
effect of wearing a 1919
i nut ..- - -
.biw io nhsnlntelv tremendous. Para-
onii v - w
doxical as the remark may sound, the
hobble skirt is the greatest step in ad-
A i
vance made since the armistice enueu
the ethical stimulus of the war. And
this is the way it works its nne re
form.
The university woman dons ner new
,,-f and trnps forth to ascend to class.
But' a few steps assure her that she
ftlowly and with care. It
lit ua L
takes her twenty minutes to walk to
school, where it once took only ten.
She
e begins to reflect on nature uu
losophy and things she hadn't had
phi
ijiniuv"j
. . nt hpfore. The whistle
lime iu luiin
blows, and automatically ahe starts for
ward at a swifter pace, nut tnai siram-
sensation across tne anie uaua
oho nroeeeds more slowly,
ncr, r
calmed and restrained by the little
hobble skirt which win now u uu.-
ried, reckles haste.
The same thing happens agam uu
n. and by the time sue ess kw
ZZ rorment a week, the whole
character of the lady's disposition hu
changed. She If Inclined to reflection.
She thinks before she acts. She seems
to belong to the good old days ap
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"N" CLUB SUGGESTS
RHODES MEMORIAL
Letter Men Inaugurate Plan to
Pay Homage to Great Corn
husker Athlete.
Organization Praised For Efflci
ent Management of Ninth
Annual Tournament.
Highest praise was bestowed upon
the "N" Club for their efficient man
agement of the ninth annual state
high school tournament which ended
la.st Saturday in a meeting t the
Commercial Club yesterday. Letters
fioni Chancellor Avery and A. It
Congdon, president of the N. H. S. A.
A., expressed their appreciation of
the efforts of the Cornhusker letter
men.
Dr. Stewart, who was director of
the tournament, expressed his ad
miration of the manner in which the
Scarlet and Cream athletes handled
the complex problems of the world's
largest basketball tournament. To
supervise the staging, of contests be
tween the 120 teams and to provide
for the 1,200 athletes who partici
pated in these games was a real job,
which the "N" Club successfully, and
creditably handled. Next year a still
larger tournament will claim the at
tention of the Nebraska organization
and with the experience gained from
their first effort, the tenth annual
tournament will successfully eclipse
nil its predecessors.
"Dusty" Rhodes Memorial
The "N" Club made a decision at
this meeting, and their suggestion will
receive the enthusiastic applause of
the whole university, namely: To do
everything in their power to secure
some sort of a memorial for one of
Nebraska's greatest athletes--"Dusty"
Rhodes. Once the idea is started
around the campus, the "N" Club will
find little work to do in pushing the
suggestion, for the school will feel it
a privilege to perpetuate the memory
of "Dusty" and what he did.
What form such a memorial will
take, whether the new gymnasium,
or the new athletic field will bear
his name or whether a tablet will
express the homage of the university,
no one could say; but all who have
got the idea feel certain that the
day is not far distant when in some
appropriate manner the Cornhusker
campus will pay tribute to "Dusty"
Rhodes.
Dr. H. B. Alexander Suggests
Ways to
Editor The Daily Nebraskan:
I have noted with lively Interest the
communications of "A Lonely Student"
in your columns. The matters raised
in these communications appear to me
to be of no small importance, not only
to individuals, but also to the future
and to the fair name of the University.
vnrtlipr. thev seem to me to represent
problems which the' students of the
University must themselves solve; tne
faculty cannot offer solutions in pure
ly social matters, though its members
may, possibly, be able to make some
sugestions leading to solutions.
Briefly, it appears to me that the
grievance of the author of the letters
is real and that it is beyond the pow
ers of any single student to correct;
the matter is one for student senti
ment and student collective enterprise.
Further, it Is a matter that extends
beyond the campus. The real source
of unrest in the United States and in
the world today is the Tact (as I
think) that institutional privileges are
not equitable; that Individuals do jaot
hare equal nor fair opportunities. Tue
pVeatest of our public problems' is tne
making of life as a whole (that Is. to
communities as a whole, all members
included) sane and attractive oppor
tunity of work, opportunity of play,
opportunity of Idealization. This is
FORMER UNI STUDENT
PASTOR RE-ENTERS WORK
Rev. C. J. Pope, university student
pastor of the Ilapl 1st Church, hns re
enter d the work at Nebraska. ' For
merly he "was Baptist student pastor
until two years ago, when he resigned
to enter another line of work; Rev. K
J. Worthley, (student pastor for tho St.
Paul Methodist Church, Is at present
In London. He hns been actively en
gaged In V. M. C. A. reconstructs
work at Cork, Ireland, for severa.
months. It Is probable that he will be
unable to return to the United States
for some time.
Y. M. C. A. CONFERENCE
TO AE HELD AT WESLEYAN
School Making Elaborate Prepa
rations to Entertain State
Association Workers.
The State V. M. C. A. Training
Conference for officers and cabinet
members of Nebraska college asso
ciations will begin Thursday noon,
March 2", and close Friday evening.
the 28th. This conference will bo
held at Wesleyan University.
While it is primarily fo:- the ol
fleers of the association, it is also
open for all students who are inter
ested in the association activities.
The program in detail has not been
completed, but. it Is In the making,
and promises to be the best that has
ever been presented at a state con
ference.
Mr. K. A. Kennedy, of the inter
national committee, and Mr. Hanson
secretary of the Iowa State Uni
versity, who up until recently was di
rector- of the association -- work at
Camp Dodge, are but two of a corps
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CORNHUSKEfi SANPSHOTS
Do you like Martha Washing
ton chocolates? Do you want
to go to the Junior Prom? Well,
here Is opportunity knocking at
your door. Hustle around and
gather together that class bunch
of snap-shots which you have
taken this year, and bring them
to the Cornhusker office by Fri
day noon. If the person bring
ing in the best collection of
snaps is a girl, she will be given
a three-pound box of Martha
Washingtons; if the person is a
fellow, he will be given a ticket
to the Junior Prom.
Better Conditions
the great public problem; it is also the
problem of student life in the Univer
sity; and I do not see how University
training . can give better preparation
toward the solving of life's problems
than in encouraging students to solve
here, in the small, what are certain to
be the issue there, In the large.
Ther are certain principles which I
think students ought to bear in mind.
The first is that all are being educated
as the result of state action and public
taxation. It is not at your own ex
pense that you are here, except to a
very minor degree; the taxpayers of
Nebraska, the laborers of Nebraska,
are paying for your education. That
is, students are given the privileges of
the University as a result of public
enterprise. Second, privilege implies
responsibility. If your education i3
bought by the labor of your fellow citi
zens, it is because they expect from
you a direct return. In public spirit, In
public service, in public guidance. No
student who forgets this can deserve
what he i8 receiving. The third princi
ple of which I would speak is the fa
miliar one of our duties to one another
as citizens of a common land having
free institutions democracy, we call
it. Democracy does not mean Indis
crim'nate "mixing"; but it certainly
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VARSITY BASEBALL
HANGS IN BALANCE
National Sport at Nebraska De
pends Upon Reply From
Valley Schools.
Interfraternity Sandlot Contests
Will Be Played Next Month
by Greeks.
Whether or not thore will be a var
sity baseball team this year depenus
upon the answers received from Ames,
K. U., and the Kansas Aggies in the
coming week. Financial stringency ia
the skeleton in the closet of the ath
letic department and unless varsity
baseball will be self-supporting, Corn
husker fans and the diamond game
must remain strangers for another
year.
Two years ago, when Guy Reed was
manager of athletics, the Nebraska
varsity nine paid their own expenses
to Ames, K. U., and Manhattan, with
the provision thait next year they
would Journey to Lincoln under the
same conditions. Last year, however,
baseball on the local field did not ma
terialize and therefore the above men
tioned contract remains to be filled. It
takes no economic seer to reach the
conclusion that If the above mentioned
schools pay their expenses of their
teams to Nebraska, this season's base
bal puzzle will be solved, But thereon
hangs the tale. If by next week the re
plies show that this condition of affairs
cannot be arranged, dreams of varsity
baseball must vanish, for if Nebraska
organizes a nine this year it must be
for the big league. Expectant fans
will know their rate In another week.
Inter-Frat Baseball
The Interfraternity Athletic Council
will soon organize the Greeks into a
big league which will battle for fra
ternity honors some time next month.
As usual, the sophomores, freshmen,
juniors and seniors will cross bats. The
date of the tournament will be an
nounced later.
THREE ART EXHIBITIONS
TO BE GIVEN EACH YEAR
A new policy has been adopted by
the Nebraska Art Association. It
will hold not only the mid winter ex
hibition, which is now on, but plans
to put on an exhibition in April of
French paintings by soldier artists,
secured through the French "High
Commission. An exhibit during the
Thanksgiving season is also a part
of the plan. Admission to all three
of these fine exhibitions will be grant
ed by the ownership of a dollar sea
son ticket, or, if you are a university
student, a fifty-cent season ticket.
This is distinctly a "bargain."
The membership committee, under
Mrs. Maurice Deutsch, has extended
the membership of the association
from about 150 to approximately 350,
with reports still outstanding. The
membership of the association has
increased fourfold in the last four
years.
A reception for all stockholders
and contributing members will be
held tonight in the Art Gallery. To
get new members in touch with the
association is the special purpose of
the reception, the committee1 of which
is in charge of Mrs. C. F. Ladd. Rev.
P. Mills Hayes will give an address
and the university orchestra will play.
DR. LECROII LECTURES
TO DENTAL STUDENTS
Army Physician Tells of Recon
struction Work of Overseas
Medical Corps.
Dr. D. O. N. Le Cron of St. Louis,
Mo., gave an illustrated lecture to
members of the dental college Thurs
day evening In Bessey hall. Dr. Le
Cron has been associated with a med
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