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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
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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
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