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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1923
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STATE MILLERS
PAY TRIBUTE JO
SAMUEL AVERY
Association Is Glad to See Chan
ci'Hor Avery of University
Cleared of Incompe
tency Charge.
FIND IJTTLETO CRITICIZE
Legislative Investigating Com
mittee Determines that
Institution Is Well
Managed.
"All lynl Nobraskans will rejoice
that tin' legislative Investigating
committee fouinl but little to criti
cise In tli' conduct of "" nuiiri c;du
catloiml. tin? State University. Chan
cellor Avery Iihh come tbr'ough the
ordPi'l without ny taint of Incom
petency reflected on hlm."
Th,. preceding Ih ono paragraph of
( bulletin issued by the secretary of
l),o Nebraska Millers Association,
Mr. .1. N. Campbell, aud printed In
the latest of "Milling and drain
flows." A Hplendld tribute to the
leadership of Chancellor Avery, grate
ful appreciation for his services to
the nilllern and farmers of the state
some years ago when a member of
the University, and praise for Ne
braskn's athletic teams, are contained
In the article. ,
The artlcl efrom the News, fol
lowed by a short interview obtained
from the Chancellor by the Nebras
kan shortly after the magazine was
published follows:
"All loyal Nebraskans will rejoice
that the legislative Investigating com
mittee found Wilt litte to criticise in
the conduct of our main educational
Institution, the State University.
"But the millers, remembering the
desperate contest over the right to
bleach flour, which was prolonged In
the courts for two years, more than a
decado ago, will take special pleasure
In the fact that our great Chancellor
Avery has come through the ordeal
ilthout any taint of incompetency re
flected on him. What the report con
tained of mild censure of the adminis
trative department has been gallantly
accepted by the board of regents as
the governing body which brings a
happy ending to the circumstances,
and nobody hurt beyond a few pin
pricks to goad the officials on to
greater achievements.
"During the lawsuit brought by the
government, in which the very life of
the milling business In Nebraska and
the Southwest was at stake, it was
Chancellor Avery, then in charge of
the chemistry department of which he
was a graduate, who was the central
figure for the defense. lie saved the
day for us by his masterly presenta
tion of the scientific testimony which
proved to the court that our process
of bleaching flour to make it white,
absolutely added no Ingredient or ele
ment to It that could be in the least
deleterious or Injurious to the health
of the people using it.
"During these subsequent years, he
and his able corps of co-workers in
the university have continued to give
up-to-date assistance to our Industry,
for which we are very grateful.
"Probably few millers outside of
those of Nebraska were aware that
the Nebraska State University and
those in charge of the administration
had been made the objects of what is
popularly known as a "sweeping In
vestigation," but all who recall the
important part that Chancellor Avery,
then at the head of the chemistry de
partment at the University, took in
the defense of the milling industry in
the bleached flour suit which cen
tered around a sack of Nebraska
flour, will join In congratulating him
on the outcome of the Inquiry.
"And, in addition to the pleasure it
Probably will afford Chancellor Av
ery to be assured his splendid work
In behalf of the millers thirteen years
aRo is stil appreciated, he has the
further satisfaction of knowing that
his scientific testimony to the effect
that the bleaching of flour Is not
deleterious to the health of the people
has not been disproved. On the con
trary, and notwithstanding the fact
that they must necessarily eat bread
Hade from bleached flour, consider
the annual crop of real athletes
turned out by the Nebraska State
University! Ask the athletic teams
of the JJniveraity and olleiges of
ther states it they consider the Ne
braska youths a squad of yearlings."
when asked about the above article
Chancellor Avery remarked:
"I am glad the millers appreciate
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Congrcffationalists
Dinner on Thursday
Promotion of a wider fellowship
among students of Congregational af
filiation Is the object of a dinner to
bo given at the Grand hotel Thurs
day evening. Edward W. Cross, said
to be ono of th0 most popular work
ors with young people In tho west,
has been Bcctirod to speak at the
meeting. Mr. Cross Is the Congre
gational pastor at Crlnnell, Iowa.
Musical numbers will feature tho rro
gram, according to the committee in
charge.
Tickets may bo secured in the
Temple at the office of Mr. Riley,
Congregational student pastor, from
Mildred Daly, Philip Robinson, o
Keith Tyler, or at the banquet if no
reservation has been made In ad
vance, lor fifty cents.
FOR W.S.G.A. BOARD
All Girls Will Gather This Even
mg in Ellen Smith Hall
for Meeting.
The annual mass meeting of all
girls for tho purpose of nominating i
members for the next year's V. S.
(1. A. Hoard will bo held immediately
following Miss nennett's talk this
evening at 5 o'clock In Ellen Smith
Hal. Two girls will bo nominated
from each of the present junior,
sophomore, and freshman classes.
Girls nominated at this meeting will
bo added to this list already selected
by the nominating committee. From
this list of six in oacli class, four
girls wi be chosen to serve next year.
W. S. G. A. elections are set for
Monday and Tuesday of next week.
Those nominated by the committee
are:
President.
Jean Holtz.
Ruth Miller.
Senior Members.
Margaret Hager.
Margaret Wattles.
Edith Olds.
Esther Swanson.
Junior Members.
Ruth Towned.
Ruth Carpenter.
Frances Weintz.
Desse Wythers
Barbara Wiggenhorn
Sophomore Members
Mariel Flynn.
Helen Thomson.
Eleanor Flatermarsch.
Doris Trott.
Phi Kappa Psi Holds
District Convention
The Fifth District of the Thi Kappa
Psi fraternity held its annual con
vention in Lincoln last week. Dele
gates from chapters in Iowa, Mis
souri. Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma,
and Texas were the guests of Ne
braska Alpha Chapter. Several of the
iiHtional officers of the fraternity in
cluding Edward Knight, treasurer and
Thomas Cookson, secretary were
nresent. Besides, the regular work
of the Council, much was done to
ward furthering the educational anu
scholastic standing of the fraternity
and of the college world at large.
John Fike of Nebraska Alpha was
elected to the position of Archon of
th Fifth District. Oklahoma was
chosen as tire next place of meeting.
Besides the business of the conven
tion there were many social events
h for the fifty visitors. There
was a. smoker and model Initiation at
the Chapter house Thursdaf -evening.
A dance at the Commercial Club Fri
day, and a banquet at the Lincoln
' . . ., .linn In
Saturday brougni me tuuveuw
a close.
College Book Store
Taking Orders for
Senior Invitations
Torino, this week only, orders will
be taken at the College Book Store
for senior graduation announcements
and invitations. These may be had
in 'leather, cardboard, or parchment.
The senior commiuee
ments and Invitations is as follows:
manf.he Gramlich, chairman; Fred
Richards, and Lloyd White.
The Cornhusker track team will
arrive at Lincoln on the return
trp from California at 5:40
Wednesday morning. (Stay up a
few minutes longer and meet the
track team).
FOSTER SPEAKS
ON "THE HUMAN
. TRANSFORMER"
Tells Freshman Engineers Mon
day That the World Has
Been Reduced to
Energy.
TO SPEAK AT 11 O'CLOCK
Relation of Religion to Modern
Scientific Learning Will
He Subject of
Address.
"The universe has been reduced to
energy," said Dr. Allyn K. Foster of
New York in speaking to freshman
engineers on "The Human Transfor
mer," Monday, at 5 o'clock, in M. E.
20(5. Dr. FoHter speaks this morning
it 11 o'clock at a special convoca
tion in the Temple on "The Relation
of Religion to Modern Scientific
Learning, or the Pschology of Power."
He will speak again at o'clock in
the Auditorium of Bessey hall. His
visit is at the request of the Christian
Workers' Association.
"There is a play of electrical force
behind every particle of matter," Dr.
Foster went on. "The ultimate thing
about the universe is the play of
energy. As I speak, certain impres
sions are going , into your minds and
are changing you."
A man is a wonderful machine,
he said, constructed of spirit, mind,
and body. The lungs are the firebox,
taking energy from the air and Trans
forming it. Recent medical discover
les show that every cell in the body
ther eis a little electric wire in the
shape of a nerve,' and blood bathes
It all, he explained. The wonderful
thing about it is that machine is go
ing all the time, he insisted. A man
is only a physical organism trying
to adapt himself to the playof en
ergy in the universe.
"But you must take care of your
machine." he warned. "Thre ,re
men who try to run them at seventy
miles an hour, climb trees, and go
across rivers with them, and rhe man'
who doesn't run his machine right is
dissipating energy. The man who do
liberately punctures a tire or the gas
tank, or who puts sand in the gears,
can't expect his machine to hit on
all siv. What interests me is the
extreme sensitiveness of the flesh.
We can't trifle with our bodies.
"My sympathetic nervous systcrh
catches all the impressions not strong
enough to Impress the conscious
mind. I simply mop up an atmo
sphere." What you take in unconsciously at
one time may crop out when least
expected and cause trouble, Dr.
,Fosteri affirmed from his own ex
perience. "The mind divides into intelligence,
feeling and will. When an idea gets
on fire we have feeling. Intelligence
and feeling transform into will, and
the will into an act, and that acv
committed oce, twice, three times,
becomes a habit, and can only be
stopped by your bringing about sum
cataclysmic happening.
" 'Morals' only means your conduct
toward other people. You can't live
in vacuum for long. If you live on
a level of low moral ideals, by virtue
of yourSiiental structure, you will
at least get used to it and you will
be committed to what no decent man
should be committed."
"De Profundis" a book written by
a convict in his cell was recommend
ed by Dr. Foster. The man, in his
hook, Dr. Foster asserted, attributed
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Click-Clic of Cameras Will be
Order of Day on Campus Tomorrow
Tomorrow cameras will be the or
dcr of the day.
The Cornhusker Jtaff 'has an
nounced Wednesday as the day for
action pictures to be taken on the
campus. Snaps of all the campus
characters and Iheir friends pictured
In their favorite haunts; views of
campus life and of college life in
general; all are wanted for the Stu
dent Life Section of the 1923 year
book. Comic snaps as well as those of a
more serious vein will find ready
welcome at the office of the Corn
husker this week. Smiling faces add
greatly to the success of the year
book In the opinion of the editors.
Groups and individuals alike are to
be victims of the roving cameras
HUSKER DEBATERS
LEAVE TOMORROW
TO MEETCOYOTES
Nebraska Affirmative Forensic
Team to Battle South Da
kota at Vermillion
Thursday.
WILL UPHOLD THE LEAGUE
Party Making Trip Is Composed
of II. Cox, S. Teft, A. Mc
Kie and D. Eyer.v
Nebraska's affirmative debate team
will leave Lincoln Wednesday after
noon at 1:30 for Sioux City, where
they will stop Wednesday night en
route to Vermillion, South Dakota,
whore they will meet South Dakota's
negative team on the question.
"Should the United States Enter the
League of Nations."
The following team will journey to
the Coyote state to uphold the Leagir
of Nations:
Hugh B. Cox, !26, Lincoln.
Alexander McKie, ;24, Omaha.
Sheldon Tefft, '22, Law '24, Weep
ing Water.
Devon C. Eyer, '25, Union City,
I lid., (alternate).
These men have been working
with the members of Nebraska's neg
ative team for the last six weeks,
putting into shape their arguments to
go against the South Dakota debaters,
veterans from two intercollegiate
debates on the same subject. These
other debates were held with Cus
tavus Adolphus College and the State
University of North Dakota.
South Dakota Debaters.
Their opponents In the Thursday
evening debate will he:
James V. Yaukey, '25, Mobridge,
who has served on the South Dakota
team, using the same question, in the
colleges named above, and who is a
member of Delta Theta Pi, national
debate fraternity. He is also a mem
ber of the Rostrum Speaking Club
of the University of South Dakota.
Theodore Kleinsasser, '25, Freeman,
who' debated on the team against
Nebraska Wesleyan and Morningside
in 1922. He is a member of Tan
Alpha Kappa, national debating
fraternity.
Harold Fisher, '25, Canova, also de
bated on the teams against Nebraska
Wesleyan and Morningside in 1922.
as well as the University of North
Dakota in the same year. He won
first prize in the University Extem
poraneous Speaking Contest in 1922.
and was the winner in the Fourth
Liberty Loan Contest in 1922, and
Armenian Relief 'Contest, held re
spectively in 1918 and 1919. He be
longs to Tau Alpha Kappa and to
the Rostrum Speaking Club.
The formal debate will be followed
at Vermillion, as at Lincoln, by an in
formal open forum over the question
of the debate.
Membership Drive of
Engineers This week
The last meeting of the American
Association of Engineers, student
chapter, before Engineers' Week is
set for Wednesday, April 11, 7:30 in
M. E. 20fi. Prof H. H. Waite of the
department of bacteriology and path
ology, will speak on "Sanitation of
the Canal Zone." A membership drive
planned to precede the engineer col
lege week, will be organized,, and
dues collected from delinquent old
members.
Pictures taken during the year are
also wanted at the Cornhusker office
this week or they may be deposited
in the contribution boxes which are
placed in. the entrance to the Library
and the hall of the Social Science
building.
Either -tfhe films or the printed
pictures must be left in the Corn
husker office before the middle of
next week In order to get Into the
year-book. Many pages of student
life material are being planned for
the Cornhusker so the editors declare
the more material they can get the
merrier the section.
A sign to awake interest in .the
"Snapshot Day" was placed in the
corner of the campus Monday morn
in. warning The students not to. for
get the camera day.
Professor Weaver to
Talk on Plant Growth
Prof. J. E. Weaver, of the depart
ment of professor of ecology, will
speak to the members of the Botan
ical Seminar, Wednesday evening,
April 11, on "Plant Growth as a
Measure of Climate." Dr. Weaver
has spent his summers for the past
few years with th Carnegie Institute
of Washington studying the growth of
crop plants and the native species
under carefully measured environ
mental conditions at several stations
from the Missouri River to the Rocky
Mountains.
Dr. Weaver's took overing .the
results of his experiments from 191?
until the present is now nearing com
pletion. LINCOLN SOCIETIES
E
Sigma Xi and Radio Association
to Convene Jointly to Hear
Lecture on Fiji.
The Lincoln Radio Association, the
Nebraska section of the American
Chemical Society, the University
chapter of Sigma Xi, and the Lincoln
'Academy of Medical Science, are or
ganizations that will meet with the
Nebraska Academy of Science at
various times when the Academy
holds its thirty-third annual .meeting
in Lincoln Thursday, Friday, and Sat
urday of this week.
The radio association will hear the
lecture "Liquid Air and Its Applica
tions" by Prof. H. P. Cady, head of
the department of chemistry at the
University of Kansas, Thursday at 8
p. m. in the Social Science aduiior
ium. His lecture will be illustrated
with experiments.
Sigma XI and the radio association
will meet jointly with the Academy
to hear the lecture illustrated, by
slides, "Fiji and the Fijians" by Prof.
C. C. Nutting, head of the depart
ment of zoology at the University
of Iowa, at the First Presbyteriai'
church at Thirteenth and M streets.
Friday at 8 o'clock.
The American Chemical Society
will meet with the academy at the
lecture on "Radium and Radioactiv
ity" by Professor Cady, in the an
dttorium of Chemistry hall, Thurs
day at 4 o'clock.
The Lincoln Academy of Medical
Science meets in 209 Chemistry hall.
Friday morning from 8:30 to 10:45
as one of the divisions of the Acad
emy of Science.
At the Lincoln Star and Univer
sity radio statipns the academy will
be the guests of the Lincoln Radio
Association Saturday morning from
8:15 to 9:00. F. J. Moles of the Uni
versity station, and J. C. Kositzky
of the Star will conduct experiments
in duplex radio telephony.
APPOINT TEMPORARY
CAPT1SJR TEAMS
Dailv Practice for Girls' Base
ball Nines Is Held on Social
Science Field.
Temporary captains for the girls'
class baseball teams ihave been ap
pointed. Then practices must be
completed by Wednesday, April 18
in order to make the girls eligible
for the teams, announced the sport
leader. Games are being played al
most efery hour of the day in the
field east of Social Science. Special
practice hours are at 10 o'clock on
Tuesday and Thursday and at 4
o'lock Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day under the direction of Mrs.
Taylor, assistant coach.
The temporary captains appointed
are:
Freshman Margaret Hynner.
Sophomore Thelma Lewis.
Junior Irva Kirk.
Senior Blanche Gramlich.
Dean O. J. Ferguson of the College
of Engineering recently discussed
with Chief Engineer Grant of the
Northwestern Bell Telephone Com
pany, Omaha, the telephone field as
an opening for college-trained men
and also the revision of the National
Electrical Safety Code. Dean Fer
gnson is a member of the committee
working on the revision of the code
under the direction of the Federal
Bureui of Standards.
FRESHMAN GIRLS
TO HEAR LECTURE
BY MISSBENNETF
Will He Excused from Eleven
O'clock Classes for Convo
cation in Science
Auditorium.
CONFERENCES A HE HELD
Regular Yesner Meeting at Five
O'clock Will He Turned
Over to Vocational
Worker.
Freshman girls are excused from
their 11 o'clock classes this morning
to attend the lecture by Miss Helen
Bennett of the Chicago Vocational
Bureau, who will speak to them es
pecially in the Social Science Au
ditorium. All day Monday and Tin sday girls
may have ten minute conferences
with Miss Bennett, who can tell them
about vocations lor women, and who,
because ef her experience with col
lege girls, is particularly fitted to
advise girls in school.
Meetings today will be the 11
o'clock one in the Auditorium "of the
Social Science building, and one at
5 , o'clock at the regular Vesper ser
vices, which will be turned over to
Miss Bennett to use as she sees fit.
This meeting will be held in Ellen
Smith Hall.
On Monday, Mis.s Bennett spoke to
all girls, at 11 o'clock, in the Temple
Theatre. Her talk was general, and
was expected to give a general sur
vey of all the field which she will
cover in her two-day stay at the Uni
versity. The five o'clock meeting
was under the auspices of the Girls'
Commercial Club, and was held in
Ellen Smith Hall.
Detailed reports of these two meet
ings follow:
Eleven O'clock Meetin.
Miss Bennett's talk at the Monday
convocation was a resume of attrac
tive vocations open to women. In
beginning she emphasized the fact
that women everywhere are recogniz
ing the value of work and are seek
ing positions whether they need thein
financially or not.
A word about women in business,
with special mention of the newly
opened field of banking, was the be
ginning of Miss Bennett's speech.
She discussed briefly the functions
of women's departments and the qual
ifications necessary for such a posi
tion. Miss Bennett also took up social
service as a, growing vocation. She
emphasized the need of organization
i nthis line. Opportunities in this
field are open to women in the west
in public institutions of various '
sorts.
Interior decorating and costumes
and design are two fields especially
attractive to women. The field for
interior decorating lies .entirely in
the city and in the town where a
dressmaking establishment can be
worked up among individual patrones
ses. There is a demand for design
ers in wholesale garment companies,
where the problem is to fashion
clothing suitable for all types of
women.
Miss Bennett discussed nursing as
a profession as well as the possibil
ities for women interested in bio
logical science. She also took up
newspaper work, advising the exper
ience of work on a small town journal
as an excellent foundation for the
women who wished to write. In con
clusion she pointed out the opportun
ities open to women with a house
hold arts education.
Throughout her talk Miss Bennett
emphasied the value of a college
work and experience. " College work
of all kinds will be found beneficial
on graduation, she believes.
Five O'clock Meeting.
In giving the most outstanding
feature of the way business is run
these days. Miss Bennett said that
you had to run as fast as you pos
sibly could in order to stay where
you are. There are three essentials
to entering the business world, first,
good preparation; second, determin
ation, and third, strong and vigorous
health.
The business world teaches people
where they belong. A college train
ng is very good, but there is nothing
quite like coming up against actual
things in the business world to gain
an education. There is something
gained from an education in the world
of pracical experience that cannot
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