The Daily Me
University Night
February 23.
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University Night
February 23.
VOL XXinNO. 97
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1924
PRICE 5 CENTS
bras
FOUR HUNDRED
SEATSON SALE
Auxiliary Chairs and Faculty
Reservation for Fun-fest
Now Available.
TEMPLE TICKET WINDOW
OPENS AT 10 O'CLOCK
Four Hundred general admission
tickets for the University Night pro
gram, to be given Saturday evening
at the city auditorium, will go on
sale this morning at 10 o'clock in
the Temple buiding. These tickets
are for folding chairs to be placed
under the balcony. They afford a
good view of the stage and some are
as good as reserved seats in the best
sections.
A block of faculty seats has not
yet been reserved. If facuty mem
bers do not purchase them by 10
o'clock this morning they will be sold
to students desiring them. These
xests are among the best in the house.
The demand for the seats is great,
accovding to Harold Edgerton, busi
ness manager, and students desiring
seats should try early. This is posi
tively the last chance for seats to
the fun-fest.
All skits have been selected and
the program arranged. The order
of acts on the program will be an
nounced Friday in the Daily Ne
braskan. A meeting was held Monday after
noon in in Social Science 101 to give
directions to all people appearing in
skits. Rehearsals have been held all
week and the skits are gaining per
fection in presentation.
A dress rehearsal of the entire
program in order of presentation will
be held Friday afternoon from 1:30
to 5:30 at the auditorium. Accord
ing to Welch Pogue, it is imperative
that e'ery person appearing on the
profrvaro be present.
HOLD GIRLS GAGE
TOURNEY SATURDAY
Sixteen teams are entered for the
fourth annual girls basketball tourna
ment to be held Saturday, February
23, on the Armory floor, and sev
eral more expected to enter before
the list is closed.
Any girl who has taken part in
eight basketball practices before
Thursday morning, February 21, may
ptoy in the tournament providing she
is scholastically -eligible. Girls who
make position on one of these teams
will be credited with 50 points to
wards "N" sweaters, and members
of the winning team will have a total
of 75 points.
Members of the four class teams
re selected from those playing in
this tournament. If a girl, after
comp?ting in the tournament also
makes her class team, the points
made in the color tournament will be
taken away from her, for she will
then have made all the points al
lowed her for the year in one sport
according to the rules of W. A. A.
Edith Gremlich, girls basketball
sport leader, has appointed the fol
lowing captains of ttams, who will
draw the other members of a team,
nd the color under which that team
will play Thursday:
Grace Dobish, Marie Hermanec,
Ruth Johnson, Jean Keillenbarger,
K-sthro Kidwell, Katherine McDon
ald, Leone McFerrin, Ella Nuernberg
t, Luella Rickmeyer, Elizabeth Rob
erts, Esther Robinson, Cleo Slagel,
Dorothy Supple, Ruth Wright.
BIG AND LITTLE
SISTERS HOLD PARTY
t Social Gathering of the
Year at Ellen Smith Hall
Saturday.
All big and little sisters will gather
at EHen fcimith hall Saturday after
noon for a Washington party from 2
J , 'c'ock. This party will be the
social affair for big and little sis-
this year. Elaborate plans are
made for the party. The
Mnor advisory board is In charge.
Pro?r'm' which includes music
J readings will be given during the
aW n' Games and dancinj
o fnmish entertainment,,and
fwhfflenta i keepin(r with the r.
of the party will be served.
HE VJILL TICKLE J00
MANY ORGANIZATIONS
FAIL TO TURN IN COPY
Groups in College Sections of
Yearbook Slow to
Act.
Half of the organizations which re
served space in the college sections
of the Cornhusker which were closed
last week, have not turned in their
copy. Each organization is re
quired to furnish a key for its pic
ture, -a 250 word history, and a list
of its officers. This data should be
furnished at once "and left with the
managing editor.
Today is the last day that organi
zations desiring space in the clubs
and societies, activities, nd press
sections can make their reservations
for space or schedule pictures. All
group pictures regardless of the sec
tion in which they will go must be
taken this week unless special ar
rangement is made with the Corn
husker staff.
FRAIIKFORTER TALKS
TO FROSH ENGINEERS
Speaker Emphasizes Inter-rela
tionship of Chemistry and
Engineering.
"Not so verv many years past a
chemical engineer was unheard of,
today he is indispensible," was the
statement made by Prof. C. J. Frank
forter. of the chemistry department,
lecturing before the freshman engin
eers Monday night, on the subject,
"The Relation of Chemistry to
Engineering".
"Only a few industrial concerns,
6uch as those engaged in the produc
tion of various chemical products,
employed chemists, until very recent
times. Aside from some scientific
men who were assisting in the con
trol of production, but very few were
employed as real research chemists
and enrineers by any of the indus
trial organizations. Today the strictly
up-to-date chemical concern pos
sesses a research department, the
staff of which consists of engineers
of all types, chemists, physicists,
bacteriologists, zoologists, botanists,
physicians and other specialists".
Professor Frankforter told of the
change in the position of the chemist,
from the idea of a few years ago,
that he must know all about the few
branches it then had gone into, to
the one prevalent at present, that he
does well to keep up on all of the
developments in his own particular
specialized branch' of the science,
and in general touch with the devel
opments in the other branches.
Frequent allusions were made by
the speaker to the work that the
chemical engineer has done in the
time he has been a necessary adjunct.
The new alloys that have brought
about revolutions in the automobile
industry; improvements in glassware;
the lining of steel tanks with glass!
the insulating of compounds used in
the electrical industries; and many
others were attributed to this new
iype cf this new type of combination
genius, the ehemical engineer.
The interfrrternity track meet,
which was to have started Tues
day, has been postponed until
Monday, March 10, on account of
the inclement weather. The fra
ternities not yet entered must do
so before March 8.
MARKSMEN WANTED
FOR RIFLE TOURNEY
Captain Eggers, Coach of the
. Local Sharpshooters Asks
for More Men.
Captain Eggers, rifle team coach,
issued a call yesterday for more rifle
shooters for Hearst trophy matches
which will be fired in three or four
weeks. Eggers wants all the fresh
men who were on the list announced
in January to come up to the gallery
and start intensive practice as soon
as possible. Any other men who
wish to try for the matches should
do so this weeek.
Coach Eggers is planning to enter
at least two teams of seven men each.
If enough more come out to make a
third team, Nebraska will enter three
teams in the tourney. Several fresh
men are all ready shooting in prepar
ation for the meet.
About forty men are firing the
pistol, practicing for matches this
spring with West Point, Pomona
college, nd Missouri. Fifteen of
these men are firing regularly and
making creditable scores. Capt.
Eggers thinks that about thirty of the
forty fellows now shooting the pistol
will be able to qualify as experts by
the end of the year.
Captain Eggers is also giving
special instruction in pistol and rifle
shooting to cadets who are going to
the R. O. T. C. camp this summer.
Rifle and pistol markmanship will be
one of the deciding camp activities.
Golden Fleece Grads
Will Attend Meeting
Eva Miller Grimes (Mrs. George
Grimes) of Omaha, and Magdolen
Graff Radke of Tecumseh, two of
the founders of the Order of the
Golden Fleece have written to the
committee of arrangements that they
expect to attend the meeting this
year.
Mrs. Radke has contributed stead
ily to the programs of the organiza
tion. Mrs. Grimes has not attended
since she was graduated.
Evinger Aids Towns
In Improvements
Prof. M. I. Evinger of the civil
engineering department is at pres
ent acting as an adviser to two Ne
braska towns in the municipal im
provements that they are contem
plating. He 8Txnt the last week-end
in Hastings where he met with the
city officials and members of the
city council helping them with prob
lems that have arisen in city im
provements. H expects to go to
Kearney this weck-enJ on a similar
mission.
Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy and colder for Wed
nesday for Lincoln and vicinity was
the prediction of the weather bureau
Tuesday afternoon. The bureau pre
dicted that the minimum tempera
ture Tuesday night would be near
12 degrees.
PEACE IS SUBJECT
OF HOLT'S LECTURE
But Three Forms of Interna
tional Relationship Pos
sible Says Speaker.
' "Peace is the outcome of justice,
justice is the outcome of law, and
law is the outcome of political organ
ization. Only when we have justice
can we have peace, therefore we must
have laws backed by the moral and
religious sanction of the nation as
well as by the economic, military and
police forces, in order to maintain
justice and peace," declared Hamil
ton Holt, former editor of the Inde
pendent, who is now touring the
country speaking in behalf of the
league of nations, in his address at
the Vesper services at 5 o clock Tues
day in Ellen Smith hall.
Mr. Holt will speak again at the
werld forum luncheon Wednesday
noon at the Grand hotel, and at
general convocation Thursday in the
Temple on other phases of America's
world relations.
There are three possible systems
of international relations, Mr. Holt
asserted. One is the doctrine of
complete isolation, defended in this
city recently by one of its greatest
exponents, Senator Hiram Johnson.
The second plar. is that of the world
court, favored by the late President
Harding. The third plan is the
league of nations conceived by Wood
ro; Wilson.
, "When there is injustice there will
be agitation, and man demands re
sults. If he cannot get it any other
way, he will resort to war. Is there
not some other escape?" asked the
speaker.
Mr. Holt explained something of
the organization of the league of
nations with its court, parliament,
and executive departments. He told
how the court, in the two years of its
existence has settled nine cases; how
the assembly in 735 instances has
been responsible for progress thru
the treaties, laws or decisions that
it has made. The executive depart
ment, he said, has thus far been weak
but he added that it would undoubfc
edly be perfected in time. He em
phasized that in its functioning the
court and the assembly have been
very successful in their purpose.
Miss Ruth Virtue presided at Ves
pers and special music was furnished
by the choir and by a trio consist
ing of Mary Creekpaum, cello; Mary
Ellen Edgerton, violin; and Harriet
Cruise, piano.
FEBRUARY UNIVERSITY
JOURNAL IS PUBLISHED
Includes Stories on W. S. G. A.,
Alumni Office and En
larged Temple.
The February number of the Uni
versity Journal just off the press,
is one of the largest issues ever put
out. There are forty pages in the
number and a greater amount of
reading matter than ordinarily.
Feature articles for the month are
on- the W. S. X3. A. , the alumni
office equipment and office force,
and the plan for enlarging the Tem
ple discussed in the Chancellor's
corner.
A section of the journal lists the
Nebraska alumni who are candidates
for political offices in the appro
aching election. There are five
candidates for the judiciary, two for
congress, one for senate, one for
regent, and one alumnus is candi
date for mayor of Seattle Wash.
A new department of the journal
started this month will run a series
alumni who have won recognition
in Who's Who in America. Nine
Nebraska men are included in the
initial installment which covered all
nrmes beginning with A. ,
Dean Philo M. Buck of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences will at
tend the district convention of the
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity to be
held at Lawrence, Kas., the last of
the week.
GENERAL POINT SYSTEM DEFEATED
TUESDAY BY EIGHT VOTE MARGIN
Plan for Women Proposed by
354 to 74 MajorityWill Go Into Effect ,
Immediately.
OVER THIRTEEN HUNDRED
POLLS KEEN INTEREST SHOWN IN BALLOT
May Queen Election.
Senior girls will vote for May
Queen on Thursday, February 21,
in the Library, from 8 to 5 o'clock.
FROSH HEAR HISTORY
OF COURTS GROWTH
Dean of Law School Empha
sizes Importance of Amer
ican Justice.
"The Supremacy of the Law" was
the subject of a lecture given by
Dean Warren A. Seavey of the Col
lege of Law before the freshmen of
the College of Arts and Sciences,
Moriday evening and Tuesday morn
ing. He traced the history of the
American system of laws.
In America the law is supreme
because it controls everyone at the
same time, he said. Whether
person be a wealthy or prominent
individual or someone little known,
the common court can reach him.
Dean Seavey explained that the
Oriental Law is primitive. In coun
tries where it is practiced, the head
of the family or the ruler of the
tribe gives the law according to his
individual consideration of the jus
tice of the situation and not accor
ding to any rules or regulations.
The chief disadvantages of this type
of law are: the enormous power of
the judge and the uncertainty of
the law.
In a way, the Anglo-Saxon Jaw was
Oriental said Dean Seavey. It came
to England from various tribes in
Europe located along the North At
lantic Ocean and the North Sea.
The king, who was the judge could
hear all of the cases, and in time
appointed men to hear them for him.
This gave rise to the court as we
know it. Originally, priests were
chosen as the judges as they were
the wisest men and had a knowledge
of divine things.
After the Norman Conquest a
Grand Council was formed to settle
controverseries. Later this gave
way to branches of itself.
The exchequer system followed,
It first dealt with finances but later
became a law court. It received its
name from the fact that the men
sat around a square table which was
marked as a checkerboard to aid in
calculating sums.
Courts, which grew up next, were
displaced by a system in which a
number of jurors, representing the
king, spent all of their time dealing
with controversaries, thereby acquir
ing considerable skill and knowledge.
This system became common to the
whole country, unifying its laws, and
exists today. Reporters took down
what he said in each case, and the
preceding decisions were examples
for those following.
This type of law is purely English
and American, and it has given great
contribution to the laws of the world,
the doctrine of binding effect to pre
vious decisions, trial by jury, and the
proof that the law is supreme.
The Magna Carta was the first of
a series of constitutions to prevent
a sovereign from depriving the peo
ple of personal liberties, Dean Sea
vey said.
The constitution of the United
States, according to the speaker, is
the greatest governmental document
that has ever been struck off at one
time by the hand of man. The law
stands out as supreme. It protects
the individual against the legislat
ure, and the minority against the
majority.
Howe Will Address
Chemists Thursday
Dr. HE. Howe, editor of "Engi
neering -and Industrial Chemistry"
will speak to the members f the
American Chemical Society Thurs
day at 8 p. m. in Chemistry hall 208.
His subject w'!l be "The Relation of
Chemical Research to Engineering."
Mortarboard Approved by a
STUDENTS VISIT
POINT SYSTEM.
General Against 523, For 515
Women' For 354, Againtt 72
CLASS OFFICERS.
Ivy Day Orator HarrU A. Poley
Senior Pretident Win, G. AlttUdt
Junior President. .Roland Eattabrooka
Sophomore Reginald Everett
Frethman Pretident... Millard Gump
PUBLICATION BOARD.
Senior Member Arthur Whitworth
Junior Member Donald M. Reete
Sophomore Member
Harold Grosihan
The general point system for the
entire university was defeated by
eight votes, and the woman's point
system proposed by Mortarboard was
adopted by a large majority at the
second semester elections Tuesday,
Over 1,300 votes were cast and the
voting was much heavier this year
than in previous elections.
More than 350 ballots were cast
in each of the upper three classes and
more than 250 in the freshman class.
In most cases the results were very
close together. Twice as many men
as women voted.
Class officers will take office im
mediately. Members of the publica
tion board, however, do not take of
fice until the beginning of the school
year in September, 1924.
The results on the general point
system submitted by the student
council follow:
Against For
Senior ' 114 165
Junior 156 130
Sophomore 139 139
Freshman 114 81
Totals 523 515
The women's point system pro
posed by the Mortarboard was
adopted by a vote of 354 to 72 and
will go into effect this semester.
The vote for senior president was
fairly well distributed, Altstadt re
ceiving 143 votes to 108 for Dirks
and 91 for Lantz.
Poley was elected Ivy day orator
by a vote of 196 to 134 for Hicks.
In the race for the junior presi
dency Eastabrooks received 201 votes
and Martin 160.
Whitworth was elected senior
member of the publication board in
a close race with Latti. Whitworth
received 189 votes and Latta 164.
Everett was elected sophomore
president with 142 votes. The other
candidates, Burke and Pauline Bar
ber leceived 116 and 98 votes respec
tively. Reese defeated Hunton by
12 votes in the contest for the junior
membership in the publication board.
He received 181 votes and Hunton
received 169.
Gump defeated Weaver for the
freshman presidency. The vote wa?:
Gump 165, Weaver 74. Grosshans
defeated Weir by 40 votes for the
freshman publication board. He re
ceived 141 votes and Weir 101.
STATE TEACHERS TO
MEET IN LINCOLN
(University News Service.)
The physical sciences section of
the Nebraska State teachers will hold
all-state meetings in Lincoln Thurs
day and Friday, March 13 and 14,
Prof. B. Clifford Hendricks of the
University presiding the first after
noon, and Prof. Howard A. Durham
of Nebraska Wesleyan on Friday.
The Thursday program is devoted
to the subject of high school sci
ences and their place in the course
of study. A. L. Burhaw, state direc
tor of secondary education; R. S.
Nickle, of Fairbury high school; D.
W. Hayes, former president of Peru
state teachers' college; and II. O.
Sutton, professor in tha Kearney
normal, are the speakers, each ad
dress to be followed by a five-minute
discussion.
Dr. Charles Fordyee, professor of
tr ;8urement and research in the
Teachers College, addressed the Ro
tary club of Alliance Friday noon on
"How to Discover Special Aptitudes
and to Train Men for Vocational
Efficiency."