The Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XXIV NO. 86.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1925.
PRICE 5 CENTS
PHI KAPPA IS
ESTABLISHED
Nu Alpha Installed Recently as
Pi Chapter of National
Catholic Fraternity.
NATIONAL OFFICERS
ATTEND CEREMONIES
Nu Alpha, local social fraternity,
was installed as Pi chapter of Phi
Kappa, national Catholic fraternity,
last Friday and Saturday. Members
ef the organization from Iota chap
ter of Manhattan, Kansas, Xi chap
ter of Ames, Iowa, and Delta of Iowa
University conducted the work.
The probation was started at 8
o'clock Friday morning: and contin
ued until Saturday afternoon. The
informal and formal initiation took
place at the Knights of Columbus
hall. The installation of the chapter
was completed at a banquet at the
Lindell Hotel Saturday evening. At
this time the members of the new
chapter received their pins and char
ter.
National officers present were W.
A. Hauck of Columbus, Ohio, su
preme secretary-treasurer, and Li. E
Linnan of Algona, Iowa, supreme
vice-president. Dr.' E. G. Zimmer
and Mr. E. L. Flaherty were inducted
as honorary members.
The national officers and honor
ary members were honor guests at
the banquet. Thomas Sweeney, pres
ident, served as toastmaster. Re
sponses were given by Frank Kotin
ek, Vincent Nass, Richard Hrabak,
James Cody, and Dr. E. G. Zimmer.
Special music was furnished by W.
D. Edberg and Joseph Zimmerman.
Thomas Sweeney, '26, Lincoln, is
president of the new chapter. The
other officers are: A. R. Meston,
'25, Des Moines, Iowa, vice-president;
Howard 0. Edberg, '27, Ong,
lecretary; and Randolph G. Mestl,
'26, Howells, treasurer.
Local Organized in 1923
Nu Alpha was organized May 15.
1923 as a local Catholic fraternity.
It now occupies a house at 2511 O
Street.
Phi Kappa was founded in 1889
at Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island. It now has chapters
in seventeen colleges and universi
ties. Among the prominent men who
are members of Phi Kappa are John
A. Price, Theta, the present Grand
Exalted Ruler of the Elks, and "Hon
est John" Burke, Delta, three times
governor of North Dakota, United
States treasurer during the Wilson
administration, and at present a
member of the North Dakota Su
preme court.
Members initiated into the Nebras
ka chapter are: John J. Buckley, '25,
Omaha; James P. Cody, Lincoln;
Walter J. Collins, '25, Greeley; Peter
F. Coniglio, '27, Lincoln; Edward R.
Crowley, '26, Cambridge; Howard O.
Edberg, '27, Ong; Paul Flaherty, '26,
St Edward; Russell A. Hand, '28,
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Famous Editorial
Writer Will Speak
FRANK O. EDGECOMBE.
Nebraska Signal, Geneva
To Frank 0. Edgecombe, editor
and publisher of the Nebraska Sig
nal, Geneva, were awarded in 1923
the National Editorial Association
first cash prize for the best editorial
article, and in 1924 for the best edi
torial page among the members
(numbering between three and four
thousand), the President's cup. The
winner of these notable honors ad
dresses the School of Journalism
Tuesday morning, February 17, on
"The Country Newspaper Editorial
Page", and conducts a round-table
discussion of the tubiect.
Mr. Edgecombe was president of
me Nebraska Farmer Company from
io for twelve years ne
was president of the company "that
publUhed the Beatrice Daily Express,
his interest in which ha sold five
years ago. He is treasurer of the
. Nebraska Press Association.
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M. A. BROWN
The Kearney Daily Hub.
The "dean" of Nebraska editors,
the oldest member of the Nebraska
Press Association which thin week
holds at the University its fifty-sec-
ond convention he is M. A. Brown,
who at the age of seventy-two
(Thursday, February 19, is his birth
day) is the active editor of the Kear
ney Daily Hub and who, out of his
more than half-century experience
in Nebraska journalism field, will ad
dress the students of the School of
Journalism Wednesday morning on
"Newspapering in Nebraska, 1870
1925." "Dean" Brown still writes an edi
torial column daily and keeps an
eye on all departments of his news
paper. His one' diversion is golf.
ENGINEERS PLAN
INSPICTION TRIP
Trip of Upperclassmen This
Year Will Be Made to Kan
sas City April 6.
Tentative plans far the engineer
ing upperclassmen's inspection trip
to Kansas City April 6 are being
completed.
The College of Engineering facul
ty has been corresponding with the
Chamber of Commerce at Kansas
City in mapping out the itinerary.
This year's inspection trip is to be
the short journey which alternates
with the biennial long trip. Upper
classmen in the College of Engineer
ing are required to make the tripB
in order to graduate.
A day on the Missouri River, in
vestigating work being done to con
trol the river, is perhaps the most
interesting feature which the engin
eering inspection trip committee is
trying to arrange.
FEBRUARY ISSUE OF
BLUE PRINT IS OUT
Cover Designed by University
Student; Special Articles
Appear.
The February issue of The Nebras
ka Blue .Print is being distributed
this week. This is the official put
Ucation of the student chapter of the
Nebraska Engineering Society.
Among the features in this issue
are the new cover design, which is
Ian original pen sketch by Lloyd E.
Tucker, '26, Sterling; "An Analysis
of a Public Utility Organization,
telling what a commercial engineer
did to deserve his title, by H. F.
McCnIln. commercial engineer of the
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph
Company; and "A Metallurgist
Sneaks of Fuel." by F. W. Davis,
metallurgist of the United States Bu
reau of Mines, this being abstracieo
from Mr.. Davis' talk to the mechan-
ical engineering students.
Square and Compass
Club Plans Meeting
Dr. Robert H. Wolcott, head of
the department of Zoology, will
speak on the theory of evolution be
fore the Square and Compass Club at
Faculty Hall in the Temple, Tuesday
evening, at 7 o'clock.
A special musical program to pre
cede Dr. Wolcott's address has been
arranged for. Harold Buens will
preside at the piano, Roy Dreisbach
at the saxophone, and Orville An
drews will sing. All faculty and stu
dent masons are invited to attend the
meeting.
Reverend Inglis to
Be Vespers Speaker
Rev. Irvin C. Inglis, pastor of Vine
Congregational church, will be the
t Vnra at 5 o'clock to-
' night In Ellen Smith Hall. Miss
Helen Kinqulst, accompanied by
Grace Montrose, will furnish special
mn.ie. Irma Gchl will be the
i leader. All University women are
I invited..
ERICKSON TO
GIVE SPEECH
Head of R. O. T. C. at Univer
sity Will Address World
Forum Wednesday.
TICKETS ON SALE AT
Y. M. C. A. OFFICE NOW
"The Necessity for Preparedness,"
the address which Major Sidney Er
ickson, professor of military science
and tactics in the University, will
give to the students at the weekly
World Forum luncheon at the Grand
Hotel Wednesday noon, will be of es
pecial interest to men students, ac
cording to chairmen in charge of the
luncheon. ,
Men may secure tickets at the Y.
M. C. A. office in the Temple until
late Tuesday afternoon, or secure
them from members of the ticket
sales committees. All reservations
must be made by 6 o'clock Tuesday
evening, wtien members of the com
mittee are required to turn in the
number of tickets they have sold.
Groups or individuals unable to se
cure tickets may have places reserved
by calling V. Royce West, '27, Co-
zad, treasurer of the committee, until
seven o'clock Tuesday. All tickets
purchased W dnesday morning will
be thirty-five cents. Previous to that
time they will be twenty-five cents.
The members of the committee
selling tickets are: Marial Flynn,
Robert Shields, Herbert Frederick.
Julius Frandsen, Douglas Orr, Isabel
Fletcher, Dorothy Withers, Kate
Goldstein. Tickets will be on sale
Tuesday evening at Vespers. They
will also be available at the Y. W.
C. A. office in Ellen Smith Hall.
The subject for this week's address
is the second of a series of three up
on the general subject "Varying
Views of Militarism." Dr. A. Bruce
Curry of the Biblical Institute of
New York, first addressed the group
on "The New Loyalist" last Wednes
day. The Rev. E. T. Inglis, pastor
of the Vine Congregational church
will be the speaker a week from
Wednesday.
Attendance at the World Forum
luncheons during the first semester
averaged 145, according to the rec
ord. The majority of those attend
ing have been University women.
SPECIAL CHARTER
DAY PROGRAM SENT
KFKX Station at Hastings
Broadcasts Traditional Num
bers to Alumni Clubs.
Charter Day exercises were broad
casted over Westinghouse Station
KFKX, Hastings, from Art Hall last
evening. Music by University or
ganizations and speeches by faculty
members chiefly composed the pro
trram. Alumni clubs throughout the
country had arranged to "listen in."
Speakers included Chancellor S.
Averv. President Earle Campbell of
the Alumni Association, Coach Henry
F. Schulte, Ed "Weir, Nebraska's All
American tackle, Dean L. A. Sher
man, James Stuart Dales of the
Board of Recrents. Dean A. L. Candy,
and Professors Guernsey Jones, Rob
ert H. Wolcott. Grove E. Barber,
Lawrence Fossler, E. H. Barbour, G.
R. Chatburn, and Clara Conklin.
The University Band, the Univer
sity Orchestra, the Men's Quartette
and the Girl's Octette were the or
ganizations contributing music. The
total number of student participants
exceeded 125.
Special Charter Day meetings were
held by 87 alumni clubs throughout
the United States, who supplemented
the radio program with addresses on
the traditional day for the individual
meetings. Professor F. W. Upson
sfoke at Sioux City, Iowa, Professor
Morrow Fling at Alliance, and Pro.
fessor Philo M. Buck and Director
of Athletics Fred T. Dawson at
Grand Island. Moving picture films
and slides depicting campus life were
sent by the Conservation and Survey
division of the University to alumni
clubs at Helena, Mont, Pittsburgh,
Pa., and Cleveland, O.
The program was sent to Hastings
by long distance telephone where it
was broadcasted over Westinghouse
Station KFKX Microphones were
installed in Art Hall. Last year the
broadcasting was heard in Canada,
Mexico, and every state in the Union
except perhaps Nevada. University
Station WFAV did not take part in
the broadcasting.
All Group Pictures
Must Be In March I
All group pictures for the Corn
husker must be in at the office 'by
March 1. The Campus studio is now
dated un until February 20. but af-
'ter that time they will be open for
dates until March 1.
SHOULD LIST ACTIVITIES
Junior Must Fill Card by Friday;
Correction May Be Made Now
Juniors who have had their pic
tures taken for use in the Corn
husker must have a list of their ac
tivities on their cards by Friday, Feb
ruary 20, when the cards will be sent
to the printers.
Corrections, if they be necessary,
may be made at the Cornhusker
office before that time. If no one is
in the office, Juniors should make
the correction . on a piece of paper,
and place on the Editor's desk.
POLLS TO OPEN
THIS MORNING
Positions of Presidencies, Ora
tor, and Student Council
Members Open.
LIST OF CANDIDATES
EXCEPTIONALLY SMALL
The polls will be open today from
9 until 4 o'clock, at which time stu
dents will be given a chance to vote
for candidates who filed for positions
of class presidents, Ivy. Day Orator,
and the three Student Council vacan
cies. The voting will be done in the
basement of the Administration
building on the city campus and in
the office of Dean Burnett on the
Agricultural College campus.
Very few candidates have filed for
offices and in the case of the three
Student Council vacancies, only two
persons have filed for three positions.
This extra chair will be held open
until the next election next fall. It
was made vacant by Dale Reynolds,
representing the College of Phar
macy, who graduated, and his place
on the council is vacant.
All students are eligible to vote
for their respective class presidents,
for the Ivy Day Orator, and for all
Students Council candidates except
the representative of the Pharmacy
College.
The list of candidates who have
filed for the various offices are: v
Senior president: Leicester Hyde,
Pi Kappa Alpha, Norfolk; and John
Kleven, Alpha Theta Chi, McCook.
Junior president: Orr Goodson,
Beta Theta Pi, Lincoln.
Sophomore president: John Boy
er, Phi Delta Theta, Pawnee City;
and Paul Larsen, Delta Upsilon, St.
Paul.
Freshman president: Newell Joy
ner, Alpha Delta, Broken Bow.
Iyv Day Orator: William N. Nor
ton, '25, Phi Alpha Delta, Polk.
Student Council: Harry L. Riffe,
'25, Wray, Colorado, Pharmacy; and
Dorothy Peterson, '26, Gamma Phi
Beta, Chicago.
Buck Will Talk on
'Colyum'-Writing"
OLE BUCK
Field Manager, Nebraska Press As
sociation, Author of "Buck-Shot."
The author of the "Buck-Shot"
column that is run by more than
three hundred newspapers and the
field manager of the Nebraska Press
Association, Ole Buck of Harvard
(of Lincoln during the session of the
Legislature), took his first flier in
the weekly newspaper business when
he purchased the Long Pine Journal
in 1896 and began his editorial ca
reer that has covered thirty years.
Since 1921 he has devoted all his
energies to the organization work of
the Association, in which work he is
assisted by Miss M. M. Hansen, for
merly in charge of the Service de
partment of the Lincoln branch of
the Western Nevrepaper Union, and
his daughter, Miss Naomi Buck, sec
retary of the Association.
Instead of the $800 deficit the As
sociation had six years ago, it has
now a surplus; and the organization
work has been carried to a degree of
efficiency unparalleled in any other
state. The Nebraska Press Bulletin
has also developed from an occas
ional circular to a regular monthly
publication.
His address on 44 'Coly urn'-Writing"
Tuesday morning to the School
of Journalism students is the open
ing feature of the Journalism Week
piogram.
CENTURIONS
PLAN SMOKER
Organization for Arts and Sci
ence Men Sponsors Event
Thursday Night.
MUSIC AND SPEECHES
BEING PROVIDED FOR
A smoker, sponsored by the Cen
turion Club, an organization for Arts
and Science Men, will be given
Thursday night at 7 o'clock at the
University Club. The smoker is for
Arts and Science men only and good
entertainment is promised.
After a program of music, a lunch
will be served, and Professor Philo
M. Buck, and Horace C. Demming,
will speak. After the speeches a
short discussion will be made by
those present.
Tickets will go on sale soon and the
following men have been placed on
the ticket committee: John Allison,
Frank Moore, Howard Buffett, Al
bert Ernest, John Kleven, Maynard
Frank Mooney, Walter Arnold, Ed
ward Morrow, George Towne, John
Charvat, Fulius Fransden, Victor
Wackier, Paul Zimmerman, Ellsworth
Duteau,. Robert McGaffin and Royce
West.
General Committees appointed
were: .Program vernon acnopp,
John Allison and Henry Eller. Pub
licity Douglas Orr. Business Man
ager Charles Warren.
Those who are selling tickets may
get them this afternoon at 4 o'clock
in the Daily Nebraskan office.
PERSHING RIFLES
SELECTS MEMBERS
Ten Freshmen Chosen by Or
ganization Following Try
outs Last Week.
Ten freshmen were recently select
ed to be members of Pershing Rifles,
honorary military organization, fol
lowing the tryouts held last week.
These men will be pledged soon and
initiated later. The active chapter is
now made up entirely of basic course
men with only the officers in the ad
vanced course.
The following are the newly-elected
men: Frederick Van Valin, Arch
ibald Eddy, Sigfried North, Eugene
Thomas, McGrew Harris, David Sher,
Arthur Sweet, Moritz Krieg, Phillip
Bruce, Kenneth Mallette.
These men will also appear in the
Cornhusker picture which is to be
taken this noon at 12 o'clock sharp
at the Campus Studio'.
FEBRUARY ISSUE OF
ALUMNUS IS READY
Articles About Charter Day
Program and Coach Bearg
Are Featured.
The Nebraska Alumnus for Febru
ary is off the press and ready for dis
tribution. Articles on the annual
Charter Day program, Coach Bearg,
and the new dean of the College of
Medicine, Dr. J. J. Kcegan, are feat
ured. The publication contains
eighty pages.
The "Chancellor's Corner", "Corn
husker Athletics", "Who's Who",
and 'News of the Classes" depart
ments again appear. An art
icle on "Is The College Doing Its
Job" by F. M. Chase, one on "The
Aumni and the College" by E. D.
Burton, and another on "Recognition
of University Needs" by R. P. Craw
ford are included.
Many Vaccinated In
Pharmacy Building
Because more than two hundred
students were exposed to' smallpox
last week in the Pharmacy building,
vaccinating is going on there on a
large scale, and any student wishing
to be innoculated may have it done
In Room 204 at any time during the
day.
Pharmacy students, and no doubt
others, were exposed to the disease
all last week, when a student attend
ed school while he had smallpox. He
is now in a hospital.
Will Hold Services
For Student Today
Due to an error in the proof read
ing, the account of the death of Ruth
Jones in the Sunday Daily Nebraskan
incorrectly read Ruth James. Miss
Jones was a pledge of Delta Delta
Delta sorority and was a junior in
school, her first two years being
spmt at Wesleyan. Services will be
held this afternoon at the hjine of
her parents at Wayne, Nebraska.
Association Head "
To Give Address
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MRS. MARIE O'DONNELL
WEEKES
President, the Nebraska Press Asso
ciation and of the Tri-State Press
Association; Editor, The Norfolk
Press.
In recognition of the efforts of
Mrs.. Marie O'Donnell Weekes, edi
tor of the Norfolk Press, who speaks
today on "Country Newspapering, A
Woman's Opportunity for Service,"
for the advancement of journalism
efforts which have made her name a
household word in Nebraska and in
surrounding states and her paper a
welcome visitor in many homes the
Nebraska Press Association elected
her in 1924 its first woman president.
Not singly have honors come to
Mrs. Weekes. Recently the Tri-
State Press Association, composed of
newspaper workers in Nebraska,
Iowa, and South Dakota, elevated
her from the vice-presidency to the
presidency. She was Nebraska's
first woman candidate for Congress.
UNIVERSITY NIGHT
TICKETS SOLD SOON
Friday Morning at 10 O'clock
Set as Time When Sale
Will Commence.
University Night tickets will be
placed on sale Friday morning at 10
o'clock at the Orpheum box office,
according to an announcement made
Monday evening by Clayton E. Goar,
'2G, Kansas City.
The program, to be presented at
both the Orpheum and Temple thea
ters Saturday night, February 28,
will be composed of eight acts. The
Corncobs, Dramatic Club, Engineers,
Tassels, and an orchestra will present
twelve-minute acts, while three eight
minute curtain skits will be put on
by Moore and Crocker, Holland and
Miller, and William Norton.
All seats will be reserved. Prices
will be announced later. The cur
tain will rise on the first act at 8
o'clock, both at the Orpheum and
Temple theaters. The same acts will
be presented to both houses, but will
be in different order. The perform
ance will last about two hours.
PLAN GYM CLASS
FOR FACULTY MEN
Eight Members Meet with Dr.
Clapp to Organize Ex
pect More in Future.
Eight men met yesterday with Dr.
Clapp, Professor of Physical Educa
tion, for the organization of a fac
ulty men's gymnasium class. This
first meeting was held in the Armory,
and similar ones will be held during
the remainder of the week at 12
o'clock every day. Each meeting
will last for forty-five minutes.
Light gymnastics, simple appar
atus work, and games are on the
schedule this week. As the men be
come accustomed to the work, the
exercises will be made more strenu
ous. Although the number was small
at the first meeting of the class,
it is thought that it will increase
as faculty members hear more about
it. Letters have been sent from
the Physical Education office de
scribing the class.
Women Athletes To
Have Picture Taken
All members of the Women's Ath
letic Association are asked to be pres
ent at the Campus Studio Wednes
day at 12 o'clock sharp for the pic
ture of the organization. This is the
first year that the picture of the
whole Association has appeared in
the Corrhusker and those in charge
of the section are desirous of having
a large representation.
Pictures of the winning soccer,
hockey, baseball,., and volleyball
teams will be taken immediately af
ter the Association picture. The
members of those teams are asked
to bring middies and bloomers for.
those pictures.
JOURNALISM
WEEK OPENS
First Program at University
Will Begin This Morning
Students to Attend.
STATE EDITORS WILL
GIVE LECTURE SERIES
The first Journalism-Week pro
gram at the University of Nebraska
opens Tuesday morning, Februrary
17, when a series of addresses by
state editors begins, followed by
round-table discussions, especially
for the 122 students in the School of
Journalism. These students, who
have been excubed from their other
campus engagements Tuesday and
Wednesday morning, will be seated
by classes in Social Science 107.
Those students in the class in News
Writing, in Newspaper Editing and
in Small-Town Daily and Country
Journalism will submit to their in
structors critical reports of the ad
dresses. Journalism students are
urged by Prof. M. M. Fogg, director
of the School of Journaism to attend
also the meetings of the Nebraska
Writers' Guild, Wednesday and
Thursday, and especially the Friday
afternoon and Saturday morning
sessions of the Nebraska Press As
sociation. Excuses from classes to
attend the meetings may be secured
at the office of the Executive Dean,
C. C. Engberg.
Overnight entertainment of Press
Association guests of the University
has been arranged at fraternity and
sorority chapter houses for Thurs
day and Friday nights for 39 men
and 35 women. Detailed arrange
ments will be concluded at the office
of the director of the School of Jour
nalism, University Hall 112.
To Wear Badges
All Journalism students will wear
"Journalism-Week Badges" and will
act as a reception and information
committee during the week. The
badges were distributed Monday af
ternoon. Tuesday morning program, begin
ning at 9 o'clock in Social Science
107, follows:
"The 'Colyura' "Ole Buck, Field
Manager of the Nebraska Press As
sociation; author of the "Buck Shot"
column used by over 300 news
papers. "The Country Newspaper Editor
ial Page" Frank O. Edgecombe,
editor, the Nebraska Signal, Geneva;
winner of the National Editorial As
sociation first prize in 1923 for the
best editorial, and of its 1924 first
prize for the best editorial page.
"A Ten-Letter Word Meaning
Success" J. P. O'Furey, editor and
publisher, the Cedar County News,
Hartington; winner of the National
Editorial Association's third prize
in 1924 for the best community ser-
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J. P. O'Furey Will
Be One of Speakers
J. P. O'FUREY
The Cedar County New. Hartiafton
Mr. J. P. O'Furey, editor and pub
lisher of the Cedar County News,
Hartington, has been the Nebraska
vice-president for the last three years
of the National Editorial Associ-"
ation. He was awarded the Nebras
ka Press Association cup in 1923 for
the best front page and awarded by
the National Editorial Association
third honors in its 1924 national con
test for the best community service.
Mr. O'Furey has been president
and vice-president of the Nebraska
Press Association and a member of
its board of directors for eight years;
he was the prime mover in the or
ganisation of the Tri-State Editor
ial Association meeting annually at
Sioux City, of which he was the first
president; and he Is serving bis
ninth year as secretary of the North
eastern Nebraska Editorial Associ
ation. His address to the School of Jour
nalism Tuesday rooming Is on "A
Ten-Letter Word Meaning S?es."
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