Nebraska Newspapers

    Fhe Daily Nebraskan
TXX-NO. 126.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923
CADY ADDRESSES
SCIENTIFIC BODY
INFIRSTMEETING
Head of Chemistry Department
at Kansas University Dis
cusses "Radium and
Radioactivity."
LAST MEETINGS SATURDAY
Professor Nutting of Iowa Lee
tures Today at 4:30 on
"Marine Life in the
West Indes."
On account of the large number
who were unable to attend the
lecture last evening, Profes
tor Cady will repeat the ma.lor
portion cf his lecture on 'Liquid
Air and Its Application" tonight
,t the First Presbyterian church
,t 7 o'clock, preceding the lecture
0( professor Nutting.
Dean U. P. Cady, head of tin? de
partment of the School of Chemistry
of the University of Kansas, gave a
lecture Thursday afternoon1 in the
auditorium of the Chemistry building
oa "Radium and Radioactivity. Pro
fessor Cady performed a series of
experiments along with his lecture
by which ho showed that radium pave
off three different kinds or rays
alpha, beta, and gamma. These rays
have various penetrating powers and
are of different speeds. They a '
deflected when they pass through a
magnetic field and when the field is
of known strength the speed of the
rays may l.e measured. Certain sub
stances when in the path of these
rays fluoresce.
"From the experiments and knnwr
laws arrive by a process of deduc
tion that the alpha rays are positive
ly charged particles of helium and
the beta rays are negatively charged
electrons. The latter play a very
Important part in radio. The actions
i the radio active substances give
strong evidence of the existence of
atoms. The gamma rays are the
ones which are used in the treat
ment of cancer," said Professor Cady.
The meetings of the Academy of
Science, under the auspices of which
Dr. Cady spoke, began Thursday noon
and will he continued until the eve
ning of Saturday, April 14. Accord
ing to notices sent out this week
the meetings will be of interest to
students, faculty, and towns-people
alike. Other organizations that will
meet with the Academy are: Nebras
ka Radio Association, Nebraska sec
tion of the American Chemical So
ciety, the University chapter of Sig
ma Xi, and the Lincoln Academy of
Medical Science.
"Marine Life in the West Indies,'
illustrated with several reels of mo
tion pictures, will be the. subject of a
lecture given by Prof. C. C. Nutting,
head of the department of zoology at
the University of Iowa. This lccturt
will come at 4:45 on Friday after
noon, in Social Science Auditorium.
Two papers to be given in eohnec
tion with the meetings of the Acad
emy are "Water Purification," by
George T. Prince of Omaha, which
will he read at 3:15, Friday after
noon ,in Room 206, Mechanical En
gineeriug building, and "Sewage Dis
Posal," by H. P. Letton. of the Lin
coln firm of Grant, Fulton, and Let
ton, given at 9:30, Friday at the same
place.
Other papers written by members
of the faculty of the University o
Nebraska upon many subjects will be
read at some time while the Academ;
meets. The scope of the papers in
elude treatises on Anthropology, As
tronomy, Botany, Electrical Engineer
'ng, Organic Chemistry, Paleontology
Physics, riant Pathology, and Politi
cal Sciences. These papers have all
been published by the Academy and
ill soon be off the press.
A membership campaign will be
carried on In connection with the
meetings over the weekend. Prof. P.
K- Slaymaker of the College of En
Sneering, is the treasurer and the
membership secretary. Membership -be
taken from 8 to 8:30 n th
hallway of the Temple on Friday
morning.
The vocational burean of the Uni
versity Y. M. C. A. "announces tb
1 ns had many calls for young men
to do heavy work and odd johs for
jr'ng housecleaning. Raking lawns
gating carpets, and the like are use
'1 accomplishments.
Engineers Are Fed
and Filmed on Trip
The Nebraska Power Company of
Omaha had taken an eight by ten
photograph of the more than one
hundred engineering students who
made tho annual inspection trip this
spring, and recently sent a copy ol
tho picture, mouted on a twelve by
fourteen cardboard, to every man in
the party.
At the Crete Mills, Crete Nebraska,
the Blue River trip, the men were in
vited to lunch and were seated at a
banquet. Mr. .Johnson, president o
the company, took charge of the oc
casion in person. Orpheuni talent
and musicians entertained them.
At nearly all of the companies vis
ited the entire plant with Its force
of employees was turned over to the
students for inspection. The North
western Bell Telephone company at
Omaha also entertained the group at
lunch, and other concerns made the
men as welcome as they could in l lit
short time allotted, passing cigars
and so on.
miehs COMPLETE
1011
Castings Are Donated by Maker
Ice Machine and Company
Product Fine Piece
cf Work.
W'iili the skids being put under it
for transportation to the place of ex
hibition during Engineers' Week.
April 23 to 2S, the compressor unit
of a two-ton ice machine built from
a set of castings in tile machine tool
laboratory in the Mechanical Engin
eering building by engineering stu
dents Is now ready for the final coat
of paint. The preliminary tests have
been run to insure proper construe
tion before final finishing.
The semi-steel castings in the rough
were donated to the mechanical en
gineering department by Mr. Baker,
president of the Baker. Ice Machine
company, a little over a month ago
The machine as finished is the verti
cal typ of ammonia compressor, said
C. A. Sjogren, instructor in charge
of the machine tool laboratory. The
cylinders and fittings are of steel.
Excellent workmansh'p was neces
sary in the finishing of the parts and
the construction of the machine. Mr.
Sjogren said. Unless the work was
skillfully and accurately done the
unit would not operate under the
high pressure for which it was de
signed. The government equipment bought
some time ago by Prof. W. L. De-
Baufre at Long Island, New York, is
now being overhauled in the mechan
ical engineering laboratories, Mr.
Sjogren said.
AT AG SCHOOL TONIGHT
Twenty-five Graduates. Receive
DegreesWalter C. Coffey
Is the Principal
Speaker.
Walter C. Coffey, dean of the Min
nesota College of Agriculture, will be
the principal speaker at the annua
graduation exercises of the School of
Agriculture of the University of Ne
braska at 8 o'clock on Friday, April
io tu-nntv-fiv students will be grad
uated from the School, of whom four
will receive elementary state teacn
ers' certificates.
Chancellor Avery of the University
will preside at the exercises, and wil'
confer the degrees on the graduates
Mrs. Lillian Helms Policy will sing.
The sesstions of the School of Ag
riculture begin late In the fall, and
end usually in the middle of April,
because most of tlm students live
in the country, and are needed by
their parents. The standing is bdoui
the grade of the average high school.
Interclass Mat Meet
Scheduled for Today
The interclass wrestling meet will
be held today at 4 o'clock In the
Chapel, the west end of the Armory.
iao9 .will compete
ine ree"1"'
Winners In each weight are to re
ceive class numerals. Anyone ex
cept men who have been on the ar-
sity team may enter, it. - -Contestants
may weitfi in at any
time after noon. No admission u.ll
charged.
GRADUATION EXERCISES
DEBAUFRE HOME
FROM EXTENDED
TRIP THRU EAST
Visits Dr. Richards at Leigh,
Former Dean of Nebras
ka Engineering
College.
MAKE HELIUM FROM GAS
United States Bureau of Mines
Sending Four-stage Air
Compressor for Ex
perimenting. Prof. W. L. DeBaufre, chairman of
tho department of mechanical engin
eering, returned Wednesday morning
from a trip to the East in connection
with the work of extraction of heliuin
from natural gas. lie visited Lehigh
University at Bethany, Pennsylvania,
where he met Dr. Richards, president
of Lehigh University and former
dean of tho Nebraska College of En
gineering, who asked to he remem
bered to his friends in Lincoln. Liquid
air machinery is on the way to the
University to be used by Professor
DeBaufre in heat-transfer experi
ments he said.
Contracts have been let for most
of (he parts of the semi-commercial
helium-production plant to be erected
this summer at Fort Worth, Texas.
Trofessor DeBaufre's return was de
lajed a few deys when he stopped in
Cincinnati and Chicago to consult
with firms building some of the ap
paratus for the helium plant.
His visit to Lehigh University was
for the purpose of discussing with
Dr. Richards the possibility of co
operation of Lehigh University with
the committee on application of oxy
genated air to metallurgical processes
of which Professor DeBaufre is a
member. The committee has been
working out the possible advantages
of using oxygenated air in blast
furnaces and is planning to conduct
an experimental demonstration ol
these advantages by building a small
blast furnace with an oxygen pro
duction plant, Professor DeBaufre ex
plained. The location of this experi
mental apparatus has not yet been
definitely determined, however; it
may be located at the Ohio State
University, at Pittsburgh, or at some
other college.
The United States , Bureau of
Mines is sending a four-stage air
compresser, capable of putting air
under a pressure of 2500 to 5000
pounds per square inch, to be in
stalled in the Mechanical Engineering
building. A liquefier will be installed
with it so that liquid air may be
produced.
Professor DeBaufre derived a new
formula for heat-transfer apparatus
last summer while he was in Wash
ington working on the helium prob
lem, and this formula has greatly
simplified the design of interchanges.
The object of the experiment which
he proposes to carry out is to check
the relations involved in this new
formula at temperatures down to
that of liquid air.
Several of the tracksters while a
California observed with interest that
the Bear University athletes ate at
training tables. This included th
rowing crew.
Minnesota University President Tells
Interesting Story at Annual Banquet
Lotus D. Coffman, president of the
University of Minnesota, used to be
a coach of athletics.
Athletic authorities at the Univer
sity and from Minnesota high schools
were treated to a teurpriseJ. when
Prexy Coffman, speaking at the ban
quet for teams in, the state high
school basketball tournament told
how for seven years, when he was
principal of a high school in southern
Indiana, he helped direct the football.
track, and baseball teams.
Incidentally, he brought the track
fans to their feet with his descrip
tion of the way a rangy Hoosier boy
trained for the mile run, which his
hiirh school had to win in order to
figure in an Indiana interscholastic
meet.
"Our only chance," said Prexy,
"was a tall, incredibly thin boy who
lived on a farm about four miles from
town. His name was John. With
his sister, he drove to and from
school daily in a rattletrap of an old
buggy. I thought I saw speed in him
but he had no time to practise. He
had to leave school as soon as classes
were dismissed so that he might
Honorary Colonel to
Review Cadets Today
At 5 o'clock this afternoon, all
cadets will participate In a parade
and review on the drill field north ol
the Social Science building, to honor
Miss Pearl Swanson, '23, honorary
colonel of the cadet regiment. MIsb
Swanson was elected to this position
by popular vote this fall, and was
formally presented at the Military
Ball December 9. She will review
the cadets from the stand on the
drill field.
The schedule of reviews for the
remainder pf the school year wan
given out yesterday. The only event
for the military department which
has not yet been scheduled is tin
annual 'comeplitive drill, which h
the culmination of the year for the
cadets.
The calls for the reviews will be
as follows:
First call 4:45.
Final call 5:00.
APRIL NUMBER OF
MAGAZINE IS OUT
Mrrny Interesting Articles in
Digest of College Publica
tions Contains 60
Pages.
The April number .of "The Amer
lean Student," ,a digest of college
publications, has just been issued
This is the second issue of the sixty
page magazine, which is published ir.
Buffalo, New York.
The first few articles of the maga
zine comprise the feature section, in
cluding "Thrift in a Wisconsin
School" and "A Student's Idea of
Educational Success."
Ninety-three articles are devoted to
a digest of college news. ' Seventy
one articles are given to a chronicle
of (he Ugh school news of the coun
try. A page of editorials by high
school and college editors is given.
"A Department for Mothers" Is the
title of a section given over to ar
ticles discussing the welfare of the
child. What the athletes are doing
is condensed into six pages of terse
stories. The ever present humor
section is filled with dippings from
school papers.
Every section of the country is
represented in the pages given over
to the correspondents of the paper.
The stories cover a wide range of
interesting activities in American
schools.
Items from every state are told in
a sentence in a section at the last
part of the magazine.
Fordyce Lectures on
Forming of Character
Dr. Charles Fordyce. professor of
educational measurements and re
search in the University, will deliver
a lecture on "Relative Influence of
Inherited Characteristics and Envi
ronment in the Moulding of Charac
ter," to the University Men's class at
St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church,
Twelfth and M streets, Sunday morn
ing April 5, 9:45 o'clock.
reach home in time to do the chores.
I sought the sister's advice.
" 'You just leave that to me', she
said," was President Cofl'man's de
scription. "'I'll train him.'
"And she did. When they started
to school. John put on his running
shoes, bis sister goaded the old horse
to his full speed, and in they came to
town, John panting after the buggy.
Homeward bound, it was the same
story.
"Finally came the day for the meet.
'John I said, 'how fast can you run
the mile?' 'Why,' was his reply, 'I'm
sure I can't say. I never ran any
thing under four miles in my life.'
" 'Well I said, 'you go in and show
them how it ought to be done.'
"When the race was over, John
led by fully 220 yards. He had gone
the first mile of his usual four In
4.46 1-2. I don't remember exactly,
but I think his sister and some of us
teacbers had to stop him and tell
him the race was over. Anyway, he
had won the meet for Jiis team. In
all my time as a teacher I never had
any experience more satisfying than
that."
AMERICAN STUDENT
ANNUAL IOWA-NEBRASKA DEBATE
HOTLY CONTESTED BOTH TEAMS
Debaters Talk for Three Hours on "Should the United States
Enter League of Nations" Iowa Upholds Affir
mative and Nebraska Negative
Large Attendance.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR FRED G. JOHNSON PRESIDED
Professor M. M. Fogg Well Pleased with Showing Made by Ne
braska Debaters in Defending Negative Side of the
Question Open Forum Discussion
Follows Debate.
L
OPEN TO STUDENTS
Government Offers Jobs of
Radio News Editor, and
Examiners to Appli
cants. A radio news editor is needed by
the Civil Service Commission. The
applicant must have had practical ex
pedience in newspaper or magazine
work, and must submit published ar
ticles to the commission. 'Education
and experience count 35 per cent,
and a practical test counting 35 per
cent will be gjven to applicants who
can fill the otlier requirements. The
salary varies according to the ability
of the employe from $l,SO0 to $2,100
plus a bonus of $20 a month to em
ployes whose services piove satis
factory. A civil service examiner is want
ed. The applicant must take an ex
amination on the general information
necessary to the position. He must
also write a paper of 300 words on
cue cf several subjects named by the
commission, such as Chemistry, Ec
onomics, Spanish, or Editing and
Proof reading. The salary varies from
$1,000 to $1,200 a year plus the bonus.
Beside contact and intercourse with
men and women in the government
employ, who in many cases stand at
the head of their profession, univer
sities conveniently situated in the
city offer a wide range of courses
leading to bachelor's, master's and
doctor's degrees. These courses are
arranged as to hours so that studies
may be pursued in evening classes.
The student may thus be self-supporting.
A salary of $1,200 to $1,800 goes to
the successful applicant for the posi
tion of junior chemist. An examina
tion covering, the chemistry and
physics and some optional subject
will be given by the commission. Edu
cation, training, and experience count
30 per cent in the awarding of tin
position. Inspectors and agents required un
der the anti-narcotic act are asked
for by the commission. Application
should be in before May, 15. The
ratings are made on the basis ol
physical ability, ten per cent, and
training and experience, 90 per cent.
The duties involve the inspection of
the records of manufacturers engaged
in the manufacture of narcotics and
the investigation of .illicit traffic.
A junior statistical clerk will bi
f elected in an "assembled" examina
tion May 9. Practical tests in statis
tital tabulation and computation will
be given to '.applicants. A large
background of experience is required.
Theta Sigma Phi
Alumni Plan Tea
to Raise Funds
Twenty-five Columbus alumnae of
Theta Sigma Phi, woman's honorary
and professional journalistic sorority,
will give a bridge tea at Lazaus',
April 21. Tickets will be sold by ac
tive and alumnae members for 5t
cents apiece, and tables may be re
served for $2.00.
Proceeds will go to the Woman's
National Journalistic Register which
was founded in Chicago in 1920. Its
aim is to place students and graduate
of college courses in journalism in
positions. Although founded and
sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi it
stives ail women who are interested
in working in the newspaper or maga
zine field.'
The managing board of the Regis
ter is supervised by the grand coun
cil of the organization, of which Har
riet E. Daily '19 of Columbus, Is a
member. Ohio State Lantern.
A hot head is a man who hardly
can restrain his impulse to make
other men fight for his country.
"Resolved, That the United States
Should Enter the League of Nations"
is the question over which verbal
battle was waged for three hours
last night at the Temple Theatre.
Iowa upheld the affirmative of the
question, and Nebraska defended the
negative. The debate was spirited,
and the open-forum discussion held
after the formal debate lasted for
three-quarters of an hour until it was
choked off by Lieutenant-Governor
Fred G. Johnson, who presided.
The debate Thursday wasn't "just
talking" but was a keen intellectual
battle. The lower floor of the theatre
was jammed. Many people from tho
city were present and the attendance
was greater this year than at the
debate last year.
"flood teams both of "em," tersely
commented Professor M. M. Fogg,
who is in charge of intc r-collegiato
debate. When asked his opinion on the
performance of the team, he asserted,
"Well done, well done. They mas
tered the question at home. Very
ready they were in answering all
sorts of unexpected questions. Their
command of the material was cspe
eially good."
"I regret that I didn't take more of
tho argumentation courses under you
when I was in school." stated Fred
G. Johnson, Law '03, who presided.
"The boys did very well."
That both the affirmative and nega
tive sides had failed to discuss the
question to the greatest advantage
was the contention of Judge B. F.
Good in the open-forum discussion.
He believed that the negative should
have offered something better than
the league before condemning it, and
the Iowa team should have asked the
Nebraskans to offer an optional plan.
James M. Stewart opened the dis
cussion for Iowa. He explained the
structure of the league, and attempt
ed to prove that the League offers
the highest and most efficient form
of International co-operation. He star
ed that the League represents 75
per cent of the population of the
globe.
Ronald Button, '25, Lincoln, made
the second speech of the evening. He
tried to establish the point that the
League was failing to settle the
major European problems, that the
League had in many cases failed in
attempted solutions, and that in other
situations the Ruhr problem was an
example cited had failed to try to
solve the problems. The fact that
the League was not aiding in the
economic recovery of Europe was
given as a proof of its inefficiency.
Edwin Baker, '24. continued the ar
gument for the affirmative with the
contention that the League was the
most effective means of settling
world problems. He stated the
League of Nations is the only power
which is able to bring about the set
tlements because it could concen
trate the force of the entire world on
any reca hit rant nation.
Bernard Gradwohl. '23, Law '24, up
held the ide;. that the Lcnaue is
unsound in structure. He stated that
the requirement of unanimous con
sent by the members ot the council
prevented any effective action. He
objected to the league on the ground
that judicial disputes were to be
settled by a political body, and that
the delegates would not be able to
rise above their nationalist passions.
The indefinite nature of the agree
ments is a point aeainst the League
according to the speech of Mr. Grad
wohl. He cited as examples, varying
constructions placed upon articles In
the covenant at different times.
That the League of Nations has the
potential power to settle all world
problems was stated by Robert E.
Bin-hard. '24, in the Iowa speech In
the concluding affirmative argument
He stated that one of the greatest
achievements of the League was the
perfecting of a permanent organiza
tion. That, tho League was successful
in operation was shown by the facts
that the Council and Court had to
hold extra meetings in order to take
care of problems, was one of his
statements.
Wendell Berge. '25, Lincoln con
(Continued on Pape Two.)