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7 he Daily Nebras kan VOL XX. NO. 58. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1920. TRICE FIVE CHEST i.. Squad Shows Good Form Yesterday in First Real Workout of Season. Use Six Teams For Game, to Be Played Beh.nd Closed Doors Scheduled with Wesleyan and Cotner. The first real scrimmage of the on for the Varsity basketball .quad was held last evening in the Armory. Coach Schlatter was well ulMMd 'lth the way the men handled the ball. The men showed cood form individually for the first scrimmage of the season. Ooach Schissler used six teams in lhe workouts. There was no team work displayed by any of the quintets and the playing as a whole was ,agcod. This is always the case at ,U beginning of the season. Practice started with the men going through the fundamentals of the -,rae and continuing with a fast 'sr.rt rracUce. Coach Schissler then ont the men through an hour and a quarter of the stiffest kind of scrim mage. Work of this kind will make up the program for the rest of the week. Play First Game. . Tie first game of the season will ;ake place on Tuesday afternoon of nVrt week when the Huskers will mis jth the Cotner Bulldogs. Wednes day evening the Scarlet and Cream quintet will face the Wesleyan OoTotes. Coach Schissler's proteges w,;'l meet Cotner again Thursday afternoon and Wesleyan again Friday n-'pht- These games are not regularly scheduled games for the Huskers and will be in the nature of practice con 'ests for both teams. The four games will be held behind Uoeed doors and will not be open to the rubllc under any circumstances. The reasons given out for this are that the coaches of the teams do not wish to have their respective teams ij.pear In public at this time, and also on account of the limited floor space of the Armory. The Husker quintet will, in all ability, rractice at the Coliseum at the State Fair Grounds arter the Christmas and New Tear holidays. The Coor is being completed rapidly and will make a wonderful place for the contests to be put on. The seat tag capacity of the Coliseum will be in the neighborhood or 2,500 which is considerable larger than that of the Armory. Mystic Fish Plan Subscription Dance Wt?'jc Fish will entertain Friday night at Knights of Columbus Hall. Tt hours of dancing will b from 9 until 12 because of the Cornhusker sarties. It is the first big rarty the Kys'ie Fish has given and elaborate preparation are being made for it. Tickets are now on sale by the mem irj of the Mystic Fish. MANY JOINING THE FARM BUREAU More than 1C.000 farmers have join?-! the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation in the last month. Nine counties have conducted membership campaigns and several more are now in the ml(it of adding new members. Ninety fj cent of the farmers in the counties so far canvassed have joined. Tumbling prices and the money stringency are helping to draw fanners together for the protection cf their Interests. Tl.e Farm Bureau I? an orderly attempt to solve the economic problems of agriculture. It is non-political, constructive in its ideals and objects, and appeals to judgment and not to prejudice. It stands for sound and sane co-operation. The campaign now in progress is eipected to increase the Nebraska membership by at least 50.000 farm era. More than a million farmers in the United States belong to farm bureaus. CORNHUSKER SUBSCRIP TION BOOKS. Solicitors In the 1921 Corn husker campaign are urged to turn in all subscription books to the Stud-nt Activities off Wednesday. It is desired that all books be checked In so thst cash and subscriptions can b checked over as soon urn possible, Japanese Prints On s Exhibit Thursday An exhibit of Japanese prints and books has been planned by members of the University Economics Depart ment. These articles will be dis played lu Laboratory 303 of the Home Economics building, Thursday, Decem ber D, from 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock, and from 4 to 5 o'clock and Friday morn ing from 9 until 11 o'clock. Univer sity students are Invited to call and inspect the exhibit. Model Ceremonial For Camp Fire Put On A model ceremonial meeting was put on beore the Wolohl Camp Fire o the University by a group of Lin coln Camp Fire girls whose guardian Is Frances Westering. '23. This is a part of the guardians training work which is given under the leadership cf Mrs. F. F. Teal. Meetings of the Wolohl Camp Fire are held every two weeks at 4 o'clock Monday afternoons In Ellen Smith Hall. The next meet ins will be held Monday, aJnuary 3. BY College Comic Asked to Contribute Page in Contest with Best University Papers. Again the popularity of Nebraska's college comic. Awgwan. has been n-vognized by one of the foremost publications in the country. The iiidependent Magazine, with which is now incorporated Harper's Weekly, has wiitten Gayle Grubb. editor of the Awgwan. offering the Nebraska publication the further opportunity to place its methods of fun-making be fore the people of the United States. The letter to the Awgwan follows: In the spring of 1914 the Inde pendent had the pleasure and honor of making a free-will offering of a fu'.l page of its aT.ogvd rateable srace to the editors of the editors respect lively of the Yale Record, the Har vard Lampoon, the Princeton Tiger and the Columbia Jester. "We invited our journalistic col leges to print in the Independent at cur expense and for the delectation of our readers anything that their rancy suggested that was not runishabie by fne or imprisonment. -The editors of these coliese comics all accepted our offer and entered into the jest with ec'.at. We printed their effusions, and then the war broke out. Offer Again Repeated. -Now that we are approaching normally again I want to repeat our feat of 1914. and I am inviting the Nebraska Awgwan. the Cornell Widow, the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. the Stanford Chaparral to en'er the list this year. "My idea would be to have all copy in by February 1. at the latest, and 1 should be glad to have you use both text and illustration, or if you prefer, send us a large batch of cuiff. and let us make our selection and 'make up from It I should not object if you even "lock off the Inde pendent as the Tiger did in 1914. "Let me know at once, please, if you will add to the gayety of nations by editing a page for us in 1921. -With high regards. I am "Yours very tru'y, "(Signed) HAMILTON HOLT. "Editor. Independent Magazine." AIV6WAN PUBLICATION Old Straw Hats Become Popular HifA Freshmen Several pledges to a University fraternity appeared on Lincoln streets on a recent cold day bedecked in very old stra-w hats with -winter parapher nalia. A squad of upperclassmen kept pace with them on the opposite side of the street on the way to the chapter house, where the pleasures of probation awaited the first-year men. This stunt reminds us of the K. O. T. C. "traffic cops" in uniform who carried umbrellas to protect them from the sun during a recent walk down Thirteenth street. We ' also think of those who used to roller skate to school, carry bricks for pets to classes and even beg for alms on the public streets. Last year n organ-grinder and bis ptt monkey ar Feared cn O street, and it wss rumored that baby sparrows made choice meals for the Freshmen or particular fraternity for several days. Variety is the sale of life. "A Linden Campus" Is the Plan For University in Future Years No, don't be excited, our campus hasn't been bombarded by some de structive enemy; nor have any mid night pranksters been meddling with the cannon near the Library, as the numerous theil holes on tlu grounds would seem to Indicate. Various rumors have been Heating around the campus as to the reason for these si.il depressions. We have heard that a new water system is to be installed; or thai tho campus is to be surrounded by a barbwire fence for protection of the grass; also that th? campus is to be FAIR PRICE CAMPAIGN ADVOCATED RY FARMERS Nebraska State Agricultural Associa tion Plans Discussion of Fair Com Pensation for Farm Produce. The general keynote of the dis cussions at the meetings of the Ne braska State Agricultural Association to be held in Lincoln. January 3 to 7. will be the obtaining of a fair price for agricultural products. Although increased production will not be neg 'ected. and will come up Tor promi nent consideration at the sessions, farmers are more interested just now in better prices. The Nebraska Crop Growers' .ssociation will devote at least half a day to soil fertility and 'arger production and the live stock men will give considerable time to pure -bred sires and better live stock. However, farmers in general are realizing the futility of producing more products if they are worth little after they have been grown. The crop growers will devote a pr.rt of a day to the future outlook of farming, as it looks to the owner oi high-priced land, as it looks to the renter, and as it looks to the young man just starting farming or just about to start. Prominent land own ers, tenants of known worth, and sincere voting men are on the pro gram to discuss these three phases of the present situation. Several other programs will take similar angles of agricultural pro duction. Prof. J. H. Frandsen will peak on the future of dairying. C. H. Gustafson, president of the Nebraska farmers union, will speak on "How Shall We Handle the Marketing or Our Small Grains?" H. D. Lute, sec- retarv of the Nebraska farm bureau federation, will follow Mr. Gustafscn. Consider Marketing Problems. The Nebraska State Horticultural society, which has a pretentious pro gram this year, will devote consider able time to the marketing end or its industry. Thqrne A. Browne, state railwav commissioner, is billed to dis cuss freight rates on fruit. Several others are to tell what can be done to better market Nebraska horticul- iContinued on Page Four) NEWS OF Delivers Message to Congress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. President Wilson's final regular message was sent to the two houses yesterday by messenger. He did not mention the !pgue of Nation but urged the im mediate passage of the budget bill immediate revision of tax laws, strict est economy In government appropria tions. adequate provision for disabled soldiers and sailors, a government loan to Armenia and the granting ot independence to the Philippines. Austria Pawns Treasures. AMSTERDAM, Dec 8 Austria is pawning famous Gabelia tapestries, formerly the property or ex-Emperor Charles, with Dutch capitalists to get money for American flour, it was learned today. An American firm or rered to sell $6,000,000 worth or Hour to Austria, but demanded a prelimi nary deposit of $700,000. Plan to Rush Bill Stopping Immigrants WASHINGTON. Dec. 8 Acting under the belief that the country is demanding temporary cessation of the food of immigration. Republican leaders in the House planned yester day to join through nnder a special rule limiting debate, the Johnson bill suspending all Immigration for a period of two years. There has been an organised effort to effect an or ganized fight against the legislation Way to Gain Irish Peaoe. NEW TOPK. Dec, 8. Following a call upon Archbishop Hayes and converted into a graveyard. It has even reached our e.irs that a subway Is to be installed to carry students to their classes, to Insure their prompt arrival. So nnvh co.ii'iient and mystery has been aroused that we felt It our duty to investigate the matter and en lighten the curious students. We have found out that our campus is ooen to he bonutifhd bv the addition of numerous linden trees. It is the plan of the campus managers to plant these linden trees now, arfd then in later years the older trees will be cut down. PUN DRIVE TO AID STUDENTS IN EUROPE Meeting of Presidents of University Organizations Propose Relief for Destitute Scholars. The proposition of the University raising a relief fund for the poverty stricken students in Europe was placed before the presidents of the various organizations by Prof. Lau rence Fossier at a meeting presided over by W. I- Day Tuesday evening. The representatives endorsed the movement for a campaign after Christmas vacation and left further plans to be worked out by a com mittee appointed by Mr. Day. The members of the committee are: Harold McMullen. chairman; Betty Scribner, Faye Curry. Paul Cook and Harry Linton. The call has come to the University to contribute to the relief fund being :aised by the students in America for students in a number of European countries including Austria. Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia. Germany and France. A number of suggestions for carry ing on the campaign were made, but nothing definite was decided upon. Some suggested that the fund be raised through the organizations: others wanted the contributions to be individual. Practically .Ml of the rep rcsentatives of the organizations came nninstructed and accordingly spoke for themselves, not for their organi sations. Elijah Upetz. president of the Menorah Society, told what his or rani7ation had done in raising a re lief fund for Jewish students in for eign countries. Besides soliciting Tveral hundred dollars from Lincoln jeopte the twenty students who are m. rubers of the Menorah Society con tributed $75. Twelve members who ?-e earning every cent of their own -,-r.y through the University con tributed fa each. A rouch legged hawk, one of the tarrest known, measuring fifty-six inches from tip to tip of wings, was ?erit to the University Monday by John W. Condra of Holdrege. It will be mounted for the Museum. THE DA Y luncheon with Eammon de Valera t resident of the Irish repute!.,. Mrs. Terence Macwiney, widow cf the n-a: tyred lore" mayor of Cork, was 'o Uave at 3 p. m. for Washington She is today expected to give evi ience before the committee? there which is seeking to ascertain fact; about the Irish turmoil. She states that the only way in which England could attain peace with Ireland waf by giving her her freedom. Blanket Increase Refused. CHICAGO. Dec. 8 Request for a blanket increase in wages of from $1 to $2 a day by employes of pack- :ng companies, were denied today by Judge Samuel Alschuler, arbiter in he dispute between packers and em ployes over wages. However, son t tTipofary increases to certain c'asses of workers were granted which will amount to about $5,000,000 additional wages which rackers will have to pay this year. Formal Invitation to King. LONDON. Dec, 8 Formal invita tion to Constantine to return to Greece to resume the throne will be made Wednesday Then :h complete figures of Sundays plebiscite are offl cially known, raid an Athens dis patch to the Dally Express, according to present plans, announced la. Athens. Con sunt In 3 will travel from an Itaiian port on the Greek liner PatrJs escorted by three Greek cruisers, and probably will land at Pieraens, the port of Athens. He will be escorted by (00 officers from the Greek army. FRATERNITIES ill 16 E WAR Representatives from Every Greek Organisation on Campus Amend and Ratify Resolutions Drawn Up by Same Body Last Sunday. Students Begin Fight At Once Resolutions Adopted to Limit Charges for Dance Halls, Orchestras and Banquets Plan Made to Withhold Patronage of Amusement Places Until Demands Are Met. Representatives from every Uni versity of Nebraska fraternity and sororitv. at a meeting heM in the Temnle theater Tuesday evening, De cember 7, amended and ratified the resolutions which were drawn up Sundav at a meeting ot these same organizations to regulate prices at the University. These gatherings of the ast few days are the first steps toward a united Nebraska movement on the nart of the Greek-letter so cieties to strike a heavy blow at the high cost of living. At meetings of the various chapters of these societies Monday night, it HOWIES FEATURE OF Films of Nebraska-Rutgers Game to Be Shown at Annual Football Gathering. Pictures of the Cornhusker-Kutgers geme. which was a feature of election day. November 2, at the Tolo Grounds in New York ity, will be one of the rain attractions at the men's Corn husker Ranquet which is planned for Fiidav evening, December 10. at 6 o'clock in the red room of the city Y. M. C. A. This will be the first time the films have been shown in L'ncoln. Dr. George E. Condra of the Conservation and Soil Survey De partment, has been busy for some time editing the reels and placing sub-titles at trial exhibitions in the University testing laboratories. The pictures show to splendid advantage the long runs made by Wright and Hartley. Eecause only three hundred tickets are validated for the affair, due to the smaller capacity or the Y. M. C. A. rooms, the demand for tickets ar-nears to be greater than the supply. Fraternities who have been . selling tickets for the feast are urged to f.irn them in at once at the Student Activities office, because students are calling at that office daily for tickets. It is again sugsrested that fraternities close down their tables at the various chapter houses Friday evening. Tickets Only One Dollar. Those who purchased tickets for $1.75 before the banquet was post poned will be refunded seventy -five rents at the door, because tickets lor the banquet Friday are selling for one dollar each. The toast list and program for the feast will be announced tomorrow It has already been given out, how ever, that Ralph A. Van Orsdel. '06 an Omaha attorney and a graduate of lh Universitv, will be master of the toast list. He will probably call on Coaches Schulte and Schissler. Direc tor Luehring. Captain Day and Captain-elect Swanson for short talks. A cabaret act and plenty or music by a targe orchestra will add life to the affair. Girls' Party. The Girls' Cornhusker Party, a costume affair held the same night as the Cornhusker Eanquet by custom. will be staged in the gymnasium of the Armory. Thirty-five cents ad (Continued on Page Four) B. V. D. Fire Causes Uproar at Beta House Fire burning its way furiously through a suit of helpless B. V. D.'s in the chapter house of Beta Theta Pi, 900 South Seventeenth street, o'clock Monday night, caused an ap peal for the fire department The underwear was hanging in the closet when it caught fire, pre sumably from a match not in the pocket of the B. V. D.'s as we were tempted to say but In the pocket of a nearby pair of trousers. Fire Chief Olson said: "A hole several Inches square was burned in the suit" Before the fire department readied t e scene, some member of the fra t. -nlty bad ducked the burning B. V. D.'s into at bathtub fail of wster, and extinguished the blase. CORNHUSKER BANQUET SORORITIES TO was unanimously agreed to ratify the resolution made to withdraw their patronage from all hotels, dance halls and amusement places, effective January 1, 1921, until these places have met the schedule of prices drawn up Sunday. Not contented with these restric tions, a fight was declared on the cost of soda fountains, theaters, or chestras and the like, and students declared a ban on "subscription dances." These forty-one organiza tions, representing more than & thou sand students, have agreed not to patronise these various amusement places until they meet a scale of prices which appears reasonable to. and is accepted by, every fraternity and sorority at Nebraska, as fixed by a special committee or students. These proposals were nt discussed by these organizations Sunday after noon at a meeting with the members of the Innocents, men's Senior honor ary society. Hits Plans for Increases. At one Lincoln hotel. It was an nounced the dance hall which now rents for J37.50 for an evening, will cost arter the first of the year. with proportionate increases for other items. Many of the ballrooms are booked up to next June and a de posit of $15 was paid on every reser vation by the different organizations. The societies are willing to forfeit these deposits to force rrices down. according to the committee members, who selected the "fair price list." "Fair Price" List. 'jThe "Tair price committee" has fixed $25 as a proper dance hall price with service not to exceed $2 a servant. Banquets are to be tied down to $1.25 a plate; musicians to $7 for an evening. Organizations are urged to hold their rarties and ban quets in their own chapter houses and campus rooms. It was the complaint of fraternity men that local theaters raised their prices immediately after the opening of the University in September. These men are determined to force these places of amusement back to old prices. General tiehter.ing of student in comes is rartially responsible for the action taken. Mary bisiness firms In Lincoln, which formerly employed students for j.art-time work, have dispensed with their services alto gether. These students are now, in a large measure, dependent upon themselves for sur'Prt and thoy Pnt their funds low. It is g-r.erally agreed on the carnpu" that because of the reaction caused by tbe war and the enormous amount of social eayety last year, it is on'y natural that a marked tendency toward con servatism should assert itself now. The Resolution. The followirg is the resolution rati fied at the Mmday night meetings of fraternities and somities. toeetb-r with the amendments passed at the meeting last evening: Whereas: (1) At a meeting held at tbe Terr.rle theater Sunday. December 5. 120. at which meeting the fraternities and' sororities of the University of Nebraska were represented It was the unanimous opinion of the repre sentatives that the fraternities and sororities at the University should adopt a policy or economy in the matter of expenditures ror parties, banquets and other amusements for the remainder of the school year and that a general policy of retrench ment should be inaugurated in socn matters. And Whereas: fM It was the consensus of opinion that proprietors of hotels. dance halls, and other amusement places have been in the habit of . (Continued on Page Four) NOTICE. Applications for the position f business manager of th University Lyceum, formerly University Week, will be re ceived until noon, December 14, at the Student Activities erTwte. - NGREASED S