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The Daily Nebraskan BUY A CORNHUSKER NOW! CORNHUSKER PICTURES MUST BE INI VOL. XXIV NO. 83. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1925. PRICE 5 CENT3 SHAW WILL SPEAK TODAY Former Secretary of the Treas ury Will Address Con vocation. THE CONSTITUTION" WILL BE SUBJECT The Honorable Leslie M. Shaw, ex governor of Iowa and former Secre tary of the Treasury, will address convocation this morning at 11 o'clock at the Temple theater on "The Constitution." , Mr. Shaw reached Lincoln early yesterday morning, and will speak today as follows: 10 o'clock Joint session of the legislature; 11 o'clock- Convocation at the Temple; 12 o'clock Luncheon and reception at the Chamber of Commerce; 8 o'clock Lincoln birthday anniversary pro nam. St Paul Church. ' Governor McMullen will preside. Mr. Shaw talked before the high school assembly at Lincoln high school yesterday morning on "Essentials of Success." "Give Service," was his most emphasized statement. Professor Grummann, director of the School of Fine Arts, said of Mr. Shaw, "Mr. Shaw is a speaker of very great dignity. In spite of that digni ty, he is able to interest keenly his whole audience. He reminds me in this respect to Secretary Hughes. To my mind, he holds interest even bet ter than that famous speaker. "Mr. Shaw spoke here at a con. vocation many years ago, in the old Memorial Hall," remarked Professor Grummann. "His address was one of the most eloquent I have ever heard. I have had charge of the convoca tions for a long while, and I think that in view of my experience, know whereof I speak. The audience was an unusually large one, and Mr. Shaw entertained it every minute of his talk." Shaw's start in politics was made during the free silver controversy of McinleKy's administration, when he was chosen by the Republican party to reply to a speech made on the sub jeet by William Jennings Bryan. The International Monetary Convention at Indianapolis, in 1898, elected him its permanent chairman. Mr. Shaw was elected governor of Iowa in 1897 and kept the office until 1962 when he became Secre tary of the Treasury in Theodore Roosevelt's administration. Since his retirment from the cabi net Mr. Shaw has increased his fame as a lecturer and author. He has been intertated in religion, and has served as a lay delegate at several general conferences of the Methodist Epis copal church. 600 PICTURES IN SENIOR SECTION Appointments May Not Be Made After Today; Panels Will Be Shipped Soon. "Six-hundred pictures have been taken for the senior section of the Cornhusker and we cannot extend the time for seniors," said Wendell Berge, '25, editor-in-chief, Wednes day afternoon. "Today is the last day on which seniors can make appointments at Townsend's or Hauck's studios, un less they make special arrangements with the staff. All proofs must be returned by Saturday night, or we will have to make the selections our selves. The senior panels will be hipped to the engravers the latter part of next week." The list of seniors published was not entirely accurate. All students having eighty-nine or more hours at the beginning of the first semester, or who are reasonably sure of receiv ing a degree in June, are eligible for the section though they were omitted from the list Pharmacy students, enrolled in the short course, fresh man law students, and junior law stu dents having between eighty-nine and one hundred and twenty-five hours credit are eligible. Women's Rifle Team Attains Good Scores Some fairly good scores were made by th women's rifle shoQters Tuesday morning for the first week of intercollegiate women's rifle team shooting. Marie Hermanek was the highest in the prone position with a mark of 99 "out of a possible 100. Lucille Bauer ranked second with a prone score of 95. Other scores made were G. Foster 93, K. Jensen 92, L Lamles 91, E. Shively 90, K. Kidwell 90, L. Reckmeyer 91, D. Ab bott 89, and Estey Cox 81. The shooting gallery is reserved for the team on Monday and Tues day mornings from 9 to 12 o'clock. Women who are eligible for Univer sity athletics may fire for the team. Pointa earned will count toward an N" sweater. NEW ART INSTRUCTOR HERE Mis Thereta Emerion Will be Mem ber of Fine Arts Faculty. Miss Theresa Emerson arrived Mondhy to take the position of in structor of drawing and painting in the fine arts department at the Uni versity. Miss Emerson is an honor graduate of the fine arts department of Syracuse University where she won a thousand-dollar traveling scholarship. She has spent the last fifteen months studying in Paris. Miss Emerson replaces Miss Her mine Stellar who left Saturday after noon for Chicago. She comes here from Belfast, Maine. HOUSE CONSIDERS BILL FOR LEYY House Discusses Provision for University Improvements Wednesday. The bill now in the State Legisla ture to provide for a one-eighth mill levy for a period of ten years for buildings and improvements at the University, was considered by the house Wednesday morning. The es timated total of the levy is $3,750, 000. The bill carrying this levy, ap proved in committee of the whole, was advanced to third reading yes terday. It was supported on the floor by members from all over the state, representing city and rural lo calities. One amendment was added provid ing that the Board of Regents shall not have under construction at any one time buildings and improvements to cost over one million dollars. DR. HOLMES SPEAKS AT YBSPBR SERVICE "Bitter-Sweet" Is Subject of Tuesday Evening Address Before Women. "It is the bitter-sweet joys of life that make up the most precious ex periences and leave the sweetest memories ' declared Dr. Jonn Andrew Holmes, pastor of First Plymouth Congregational church in his address Bitter-sweet" at Vespers Tuesday evening in Ellen Smith Hall. Dr. Holmes warned against trying to strain from college experience all the bitterness. "There is scarcely enough misery in the average life to give it a good flavor. The only sac rifices that we make in life are those of luxury. It is the blend of the bit ter and the sweet that gives the sweet flavor to the whole of life. The stu dent in college who tries to drink only of the sweet, lays up for him self emptiness of mind and spirit for years to come." The Delta Omicron trio composed of Mary Ellen Edgerton, violin; Mary Creekpaum, cello; and Harriet Cruise,, piano, furnished special mu sic. Eleanor Flatemerscb led the services. COCHRAN TO SPEAK ON LIFE OF LINCOLN Will Broadcast Addre This Evening Over Radio Sta tion WFAV. Roy E. Cochran, assistant profes sor of American History, will talk at 8 o'clock this evening over radio sta tion WFAV, the University of Ne- braska, on the life of Abraham Lin coln. Mr. Cochran will make a simi lar talk before students of College View High School, February 20. Last Monday afternoon he spoke on social life during the period of Andrew Jackson before the History Section of the Lincoln Women's club. Mr. Cochran talks to this department every other Monday at the Temple. He has been appearing before the club for the last five years. Zoning Ordinance May Require Denver University to Create traternuy iow Propose That Greek Letter Or- ganizations Build in One Block. The creation of a "fraternity row" at the University of Denver, which would result in the grouping of the homes of all Greek letter organiza tions on a block of property adjoin ing the campus, and owned by the University, and subject to modified faculty supervision, is the project in volved in an amendment to the city toning ordinance which was passed on first reading at a recent meeting of the Denver City Council. This amendment iifvolves the ex tension of the class "A" residence Mabel Dickinson Is New Vice-president Mabel Dickinson, '26, Seward, was elected vice-president of the Wo men's Athletic Association by the executive board of that association. This office has been vacant since September and could not be filled until the recent amendment to the W. A. A. constitution waa approved and ratified. ' The new vice-president is a senior in the Arts and Sci ence college and is a member of Sigma Kappa. GIVES REPORT . OF CONVENTION Beulah Sundell Tells of Wash ington Foreign Mission ary Conference. WORLD FORUM HEARS NEBRASKA DELEGATE "The hope of the world lies not in our western civilization nor in our re ligion, but in the true spirit of Jesus Christ," was the keynote of the For eign Missionary Convention of the United States and Canada as report ed by Beulah Sundell, '25, v Omaha, Nebraska student representative, at the World Forum luncheon at the Grand Hotel Wednesday noon. "This fact seemed to permeate the entire convention, and was prophet ically first sounded from the plat form by Calvin Coolidge, who said, in the opening address of the conven tion, 'Foreign missions cannot rise higher than their source.' The Pres ident further urged that the stand ards of those who become missionar ies should raise, and that the people who send them should maintain high er standards of Christian conduct 'The missionaries must not go in the spirit of teaching alone,' he conclud ed, 'but in the spirit of learning and interpretation.' " The main purpose of the conven tion was to enlarge the view of the field of foreign missions, according to Miss Sundell. The question of a new policy of foreign missions was put before the body the policy whereby true Christianity should be given the peoples in the Pacific re gion, rather than the civilization of the missionaries. It was the general opinion at the convention that the greatest problems of adjustment in the next fifty years would be in the Pacific region, mainly concerning Japan and China. "We are prone to look at mission ary work merely from the altruistic viewpoint," said Miss Sundell. "But there is another means of justifies' tion of this work. Selfishly looking at the work, we find that the good we do comes back to us." In continuing this line of thought, Miss Sundell gave examples of medieval discover ies that had come from missionary fields. "Ghandi. the great non-Christian leader in India, said in regard to missionary work to Dr. E. Stanley Jones, one of the foremost men in the field: 'You have innoculated the world with a mild form of Christian ity, so that the majority do not get the real thing.' It is feared by many that all the missionaries are living ex emplary Christian lives. They must do that, in order to get others to fol low their leadership. "The Orient is looking for a move ment in Christianity toward the Occi- dent," concluded Miss Sundell, quot ing Professor Cornelius of Lucknow University, Lucknow, China, from his address to the convention. Erck Speaks Before Associated Leagues Rev. Henry Erck, Lutheran Uni versity pastor, spoke at the annual banquet of the Associated Walther Leagues of Omaha and Council Bluffs, held in the Omaha Y. M. C. A. Wednesday evening. The Wal ther League is the name given to the young people's societies of the Missouri Synod Lutheran church. district of Denver to include practic ally all the property around the cam pus with the exception of the one block. Under the city '.oning ordin ance, fraternity houses, which are listed in the "B" class, may not be erected except on property leased from the University. No hardship for the organizations whose present homes are in the re stricted disrict is anticipated by the executives who have been interested in furthering the plan. In case the ordinance passes at the final read ing, the block of property on which the fraternity houses can best be lo cated will be purchased by the school and then leased to the various organizations. PICK VARSITY DEBATE TEAM Eight Men Chosen from Nine teen Candidates at Try out Wednesday. WILL MEET SOUTH DAKOTA AND IOWA Eight men were picked as members of the University of Nebraska debate team from the nineteen candidates who spoke yesterday afternoon University hall 106. They are: af firmative: George Johnson, '28, Lin Coin; Volta Torrey, '26, Aurora; and Alexander McKie, '25, Law, '26, Om aha. Alternate: Edward Jennings, '26, Lincoln. Negative: David Sher, '28, Omaha; Ralph G. Brooks, Law. '27, Lincoln; and Lloyd J. Marti, Law, '27, Lincoln. Alternate: John A. Otley, '25, Waverly. Two other men were also appoint ed for membership in the Intercolleg iate-Debate Seminary. They Paul Haberlan, '27, Lincoln and Douglass W. Orr, '27, Lincoln. "The seminary is the only class on the campus with an alumni association," said Anan Raymond, Omaha, secre tary of the Nebraska Bar Associa tion. The question argued was: Re solved: That Congress Should be Given the Power to Overrule, By Two-Thirds Vote of Both Houses! Supreme Court Decisions, Which De clare Acts of Congress Unconstitu tional. Due to the fact that only seven men talked on the affirmative yes. terday, Johnson, McKie and Jennings were changed to that side by the judges after the tryouts. M. M. Fogg, director of the School of Journalism and professor of Eng lish, was chairman as he has been since debating started at Nebraska twenty-four years ago. The judges were: Prof. Clarence E. McNeill, de partment of economics, former Doane College debater; O. K. Perrin '14, Law '16, Phi Beta Phi, Sigma XI Order of the Coif, Lincoln; C. L. Rein, '13, Law '15, J. D. '21, Lin coin; and Robert VanPelt, (Doane), Law '22, Lincoln. 20 Mr. Perrin took part in the Nebras ka-Iowa debate in 1913 and is now a Lincoln lawyer. Mr. Rein was speaking member of the Nebraska team against Illinois in 1910 and against Minnesota in 1911. He is an other Lincoln lawyer. Mr. VanPelt was in the Nebraska-Iowa match in 1920, and is now also practising law here. The order of the speakers yester- day afternoon was determined by lot shortly before the tryouts began. Vol ta Torrey, affirmative, was the first speaker. Each contestant was giv en eight minutes time, and Torrey was given a two-minute rebuttal Hugh Cox was the timekeeper. The affirmative team chosen yes terday will represent Nebraska in its annual meet with Iowa, here March 19, and the negative team will com pete with South Dakota at Vermil lion on the same date. Only five more weeks remain until the matches, which is the shortest time any Ne braska team has ever had in which to prepare material for an intercollegi ate debate. "The 'Think Shop,' in which Ne braska cases have been forged for the past twenty-four years, will start operations today," said Professor Fogg as he locked his door last night CADET NEWS IS OUT TODAY Will Ba DiitribuUd Fram Office of Military Department. Containing the scores of the rifle teams, pictures and information of the Gold Star inspection, the Febru ary issue of the Cadet News will be out today, announces Emmett V. Maun, editor. This is the second is sue of the paper this year and it will be distributed from the office of the military department and in the class rooms in Nebraska Hall Friday morn ing. This issue will contain an article on the necessity of co-operation and team-work in getting ready for the examining board which will be here some time in May. Pictures of the company sponsors are featured. Former Instructor Elected As Dean Prof. R A. Emerson, former instructor of horticulture at the Uni versity of Nebraska, and a member of the class of '97, had been selected dean of the Graduate College of Cor nell University, Ithaca, New York. Professor Emerson has been at Cornell for some time where he was formerly professor of plant-breeding. While at Cornell he secured a leave of absence to study at Harvard, where he took up genetics, receiving a D. S. degree. Journalism Students Will Report Address The members of the course in News Writing (Journalism 82), who have been studying the analysis and the accurate, fair-play reporting of addresses, have been assigned by Prof. M. Mi Fogg to "cover" the ad dress at convocation at 11 o'clock Thursday morning in the Temple the ater, by the Honorable Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the Treas ury, who is in the city to give the Lincoln Day oration. The assignment calls for a report (about 500 words) to be turned in at University hall 112 as soon as possible after the address is given 3:30 o'clock is the dead line hour. WILL SPONSOR PLAY CONTEST University Players Will Award Fifty-dollar Prize for Best Drama. NO LIMIT ON LENGTH OR NUMBER OF ACTS The University Players, through Miss H. Alice Howell, professor of elocution and dramatic art and their director, announced yesterday a prize of fifty dollars to be awarded to the student in the University of Nebraska submitting the best play in a contest which they are sponsoring. flays of any length and of any number of acts may be submitted in the contest. So that students who start work on their manuscripts this spring may have ample time to complete and re write their plays, the contest will continue through the summer. Oc tober 15, 1925, will probably be the last date on which manuscripts may be submitted. It is the plan of the University Players to produce, at various times next year, a number of the best dramas submitted. Final selection of the best play will probably be made by a jury of out side experts. Preliminary considera tion of the manuscripts will be made by a committee of the University fac ulty composed of: Louie Pound, professor of Eng lish; II. Alice Howell, professor of elocution and dramatic art and di rector of the University Players; Marguerite McPhee .professor of nglish; Constance Syford, instruct or in English; P. H. Frye, professor of English; S. B. Gass, professor of English; R. D. Scott, professor of the modern English drama; and J. A. Rice, jr., professor of ancient lang uages, chairman. All manuscripts must be submitted to Professor Rice, $he chairman. Students intending to enter the contest may consult any members of the committee for more complete in formation. LUTHERAN STUDENTS ATTEND CONFERENCE Association Holds Regional Meeting Friday, Satur day and Sunday. The regional conference of the Lutheran Student Association of America will be held in Lincoln Fri day, Saturday, and Sunday. Dele gates are expected to attend from the universities and colleges in Kansas, Cojorado, and Nebraska. The meetings of this conference are to be held in the First Lutheran church, at Thirteenth and K streets. The conference will open with a ban quet Friday evening. C. P. Harry, traveling secretary of the board of education will be one of the speakers of the conference. E. T. Peterson of Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, is president of this region. The University Lutheran Club has charge of local arrangements. Reser vations for the banquet to be held Friday evening can be made by call ing Oline Oleson. Investigation at California Shows Huge Consumption of Foodstuff Compile Figures to Show the Amounts Eaten by Frater nities and Sororities. A recent investigation carried on by the curious at the University of California, at Berkely, shows the vast quantities of food eaten every month. A statistical survey of the fraternity and sorority houses gives the figures of what men and women in the college eat. 10,850 loaves of bread are con sumed each month, or enough, if placed end to end, to reach for two miles. To butter this bread two tons of butter are needed on the week WILL READ PLAY BY BARRIE Ellen Van Volkenburg Will Appear Thursday Evening. Ellen Van Volkenburg, one of the most prominent character interpre ters on the stage today, will 'read "What Every Woman Knows," a four-act play by James Barrie, Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the Temple theater. Tickets are being sold by members of the club. Miss Van Volkenburg gives an imi tative interpretation of the play bas ed on Maude Adam's production. She has seen the play presented only once, and has never studied the text. It has been Baid that she has the most marvelous memory of any ac tress on the American stage. At present, she is the director of the California Theater of Golden Bough." The trip was planned un der the auspices of the University Dramatic Club. BETA GAMMA SIGMA ANNOUNCES MEMBERS Scholastic Fraternity Chooses Eight Seniors and Two Faculty Members. Eight members of the class of 1925 and two members of the facul ty of the Colleges of Business Ad ministration have been elected to membership in Beta Gamma Sigma honorary scholastic fraternity of the college. The faculty men chosen are: T. T, Bullock, assistant professor of eco nomics and business law. Dr. E. S, Fullbrook, associate professor of ec onomics and commerce. The undergraduate men chosen are: Martin Aegerter, Randolph; A, J. Cox, Bethany; Norman L. Cramb Fairbury; Monroe D. Gleason, Den ver; Bernard Gribble, Chambers; Ir vin Jetter ,Omaha; Morris M. Shap iro, Lincoln; Wendell E. Wilson Omaha. Scholastic requirements for eligi bility are very similar to those of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic society of the College of Arts and Sciences. Membership in Beta Gam ma Sigma is not open to women. Elections were made following re ports of instructors on courses car ried the first semester of the present college year. The men chosen are the ten per cent of the graduating class of 1925 whose grades are high est. ANNUAL WRITEDPS DUE FEBRUARY 25 Set Deadline for Sketches of Organizations for 1925 Cornhusker. vThe writeups that are to accom pany the organization pictures in the Cornhusker are due on February 25, and all organizations should be ready to turn in their copy at that time. These writeups need not have ab solute uniformity, as has been the rule in previous years, but unless oth erwise specified, they must follow a somewhat general plan. These write ups that are to be with the pictures are to be about two hundred and fif ty words in length. In the first par agraph should be stated the aims and purposes of the organization and the remainder of the article should be devoted to a survey of the activities during the past year. No writeups that are in the nature of a general history of the organization will be accepted, as that will be a duplication of the work of last year and newness is the keynote of this year's work. Organizations wishing to follow some other plan must submit this to the staff for approval. All copy is to be turned in to Donald Sampson, '26, Central City, managing editor of the Cornhusker. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE Girls are urged to attend the box ing meets in larger numbers. It is characterized as an all-college event days of a single month. A herd of thirty-five choice steers is required to furnish the meat eaten. Fifteen hogs and ten calves are used in the preparation of Sunday dinners. To flavor this same meat 320 gallons of catsup are required and a ton of lard to cook it has been used in the first semester of this year. Every month the members of the various fraternities and sororities eat a carload of potatoes. To fur nish this supply a potato patch of five aores must be picked over. The report goes on to give figures in regard to the vegetables, fruits, and other articles that are consumed by the students in a month. P. K. A. STILL ' LEADS MEET Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Al pha Epsilon Maintain Places. GISH AND WYATT TIE FOR HONORS The three leaders in the interfra ternity track meet successfully de fended their positions yesterday in the half-mile run and the 50-yard low hurdles. Pi Kappa Alpha still leads with 8,578 points as the new grand total. Delta Tau Delta cut the Pi Kappa Alpha lead 52 points, and now stands second with 8,390 points 188 behind. Sigma Alpha Epsilon has 7, 375 points in third place. Gish of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Wyatt of Kappa Sigma tied for high nnint. hnnnrs. Rnfh run t.hp BO-vard low hurdles in :0G:6 for 880 points. This equalled the meet record estab lished last year. Moore of Pi Kappa Alpha and Dav enport of Delta Tau Delta lowered the meet record in the half-mile run. Moore ran the distance in 2:08:4-10, for 864 points, and Davenport came in 1-10 of a second later, for 860 points. The former record was 2:09: 8-10. Wyatt of Kappa Sigma is the indi vidual high-point man of the meet so far. His total for the three days is 2,248. The 660-yard dash and the pole vault are scheduled for this after noon. The race this year has not devel oped into such a runaway affair that N it was last year when Alpha Tau Omega led consistently with a lead of 593 points as the lowest in the six days, and ended up 2,225 points ahead of Sigma Phi Epsilon. The events tomorrow may just switch the two top teams as Pi Kap pa Alpha is only 188 points ahead of Delta Tau Delta. Sigma Phi Epsilon has only an outside chance of break ing into the first or second positions as it is 1,016 behind Delta Tau Del ta. Alpha Tau Omega only 289 below Sigma Phi Epsildn may push" up to third place. Sigma Nu with' only four points less also has a chance to place in the top three. There may be some changes in the relative po sition of the other teams at the end of the day, but none of them seem strong enough now to' overcome the lead of the first three teams. The master sheet showing the in dividual results is posted on the Ar mory bulletin board. The standings are: Pi Kappa Alpha 8,578 Delta Tau Delta .8,390 Sigma Phi Epsilon 7,375 Alpha Tau Omega ...7,113 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 6,824 Sigma Nu 6,820 Farm House 6,405 Alpha Sigma Phi 6,402 Alpha Gamma Rho 6,067 Alpha Theta Chi 5,673 Delta Upsilon 5,635 Silver Lynx -..4,941 Kappa Sigma 4,647 Beta Thea Pi 4,622 Phi Kappa Psi 4,493 Delta Chi 3,942 Phi Delta Theta 3,802 Pi Kappa Phi 8,700 Mu Sigma ...8,063 Phi Tau Epsilon 1,692 Omega Beta Pi 620 ORGANIZE CLASS FOR FACULTY MEN Announce Plans for Gymnasi um Work Under Direction of Dr. Clapp. Efforts are being made by Dr. R. G. Clr.pp, professor of physical edu cation, and other members of the fac ulty, to start a faculty men's gym nasium class. According to plans made now, the class will be held Fri day, between twelve and one o'clock in the Armory gymnasium. No permanent announcement has been made, but it is thought that the time will be taken up with general body building exercises, apparatus work, and games and sports. Announcement concerning the class has been sent to every man on the faculty, and Dr. Clapp stated that he thought the class would have fifteen enrolled at the start Nebraska Geologists Leave for Venzuela Two former Nebraska students of geology have accepted positions with South American oil companies locat ed in Venzuela. Claire Clark left for this territory last month and Marion Funk leaves February 16. Mr. Funk goes to the South Ameri can Gulf Oil Corporation and Mr. Clark is assistant to Dr. L B. Bur nett '14, who is chief geologist cf the Large Oil Company. v