e" Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XXIV NO. 89.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1925.
PRICE 5 CENTS
RUMORS OUT OF
SCANDAL SHEET
Th
YOTE FOR MORTOR BOARDS
All Senior Woman May Obtain BaU
loti at Library Today.
All senior women are being given
the opportunity of voting today at
Students and Faculty of School of Journalism
SPEAK BEFORE LEGISLATURI
WRITERS GUILD
HEARS AUTHORS
University Night Committed
Disclaims Responsibility
for Publication.
TICKET SALE TO
START TUESDAY
A resolution entirely disclaiming
any responsibility for any anonymous
gcandal sheet similar to those appear
ing on University Night in previous
years was passed Thursday afternoon
by the University Night committee.
The action was taken as a result of
rumors of the preparation of an
anonymous publication. It is even
thought by the committee that sev
eral such publications are being made
up.
Final revision of the eight Bkits
to be presented at the performances
at the Orpheum and Temple theaters
Saturday night, February 24, at 8
o'clock was also taken care of by the
committee.
Sale of tickets will be started at
10 o'clock Tuesday morning, at the
Orpheum box office, according to the
committee. Tickets for both perfor
mances will be placed on sale at the
Orpheum.
Three hundred fewer tickets are to
be placed on sale Tuesday than were
available last year. Only a few more
than 1800 seats are available, total
ing the two houses. Practically all
the 2045 tickets paced on sale last
year were taken the first day, and the
majority of these in the first two
hours of sale. The committee sug
gests that organization freshmen be
delegated to stand in line for the
tickets, as each person will be allowed
to secure several tickets . All seats
will be graded according to the ad
vantages of the seats. Prices will
be announced in The Daily Nebras
kan Sunday morning.
Efforts to suppress a possible scan
dal sheet last year were successful,
no copies being circulated. Prior to
that time, "The Eevening Shun," a
journal published by Sigma Delta
Chi, professional journalistic frater
nity, had always appeared on Uni
versity Night Publication of such
a journal was discontinued after the
issue of 1922, by a vote of members
of the fraternity.
Guards will be stationed at all en
trances to make sure that no pack
ages which might contain the scan
dal sheets will be smuggled into the
theaters. Special watch will be kept
on electric light switches, to pro
hibit distribution anonymously during
the performance in confusion follow
ing the blotting out of the lights.
The resolution passed by the Uni
versity Night committee is: "Be it
hereby resolved, That since the Uni
versity Night Committee has decided
not to authorize or sanction the pub
lication of a scandal sheet as a part
of the 1924 University Night program
the committee announces that it dis
claims all responsibility for any such
anonymous or unauthorized publica
tion should it appear."
Skits will be presented by Corn
Cobs, Dramatic club, Engineers, Tas
sels, and an orchestrawith Harriett
Cruise and dancers. Harriett Cruise
will also appear in the Tassel act
These acts will be of twelve minute
duration. Three eight minute cur
tain acts will also be presented by
Moore and Crocker, Miller and How
land, and William Norton. The total
length of the program will be about
two hours.'
All persons in charge of skits are
urged to continue rehearsals in order
that their presentations may be as
excellent as possible. Casts and syn
opses for program publication must
be in the hands of the committee
Monday, February 23 .
EDITORS AT PRESS
MEETINGS REGISTER
Many Prominent Newspaper
Workers of State Includ
ed In List.
The following editors and visitors
to the meetings of the Nebraska Press
Association and Writer's Guild had
registered up to Thursday afternoon:
J. C. Hoeffel of the Mergenthaler
Linotype Company, Chicago, 111.; Cy
rus Black of The Hickman Enter
prise; M. H. Prall of Weeping Water;
Myra W. Thorn gate of the North
Loud Loyalist: R. A. McNeil of the
University Place News; J. F. House
ol the State . Normal College of
Wayne; Ivan D, Long of the Liberty
Journal; Mrs. Iran D. Long of the
Liberty Journal; Miss Arva De Wald
of the Trenton Register; F. O. Edge
combe of The Nebraska Signal of
Geneva; Clyde Tylor of The Over
ton Herald of Overton; W. M. Mau
pin of The Omaha See of Omaha; W.
H. Weeks of tha Norfolk Press of
Norfolk; T. Boot At Omaha; A. J.
Ashley of the Linotype Company ol
(Continued on Page Two.)
the Library for those junior women!
wnom wey tninK eligible for Mortar
Board. Each voter must place not
lesB than nine names nor more than
thirteen on her list in order to have
her vote counted. From this list the
faculty committee eliminates those
not eligible from the standpoint of
scholarship and the active chapter of
Mortar Board selects those to make
up the succeeding chapter from those
remaining.
TO PICK CAST
FOR "TUT-TUT?
!
Klub's
Tryouts for Kosmet
1925 Production Will Be
Held Next Week.
CANDIDATES FOR ROLES
TO REGISTER THIS WEEK
Tryouts for "Tut-Tut," Kosmet
Klub production for 1925. will be
held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs
day evenings of next week. Previous
announcement that the tryouts
would start Monday evening was in
correct and students may sign up for
appearance any evening of February
24, 25 or 26. The trials will be
held in Dramatic Hall of the Temple
between 7:30 and 10:30 o'clock.
Students must sign the list held in
the Student Activities office in the
Armory before Saturday. Each ap
plicant will be given five minutes for
a skit but if persons appear together
they will be given a longer time.
Members of Kosmet Klub will judge
the tryouts.
Many have already signed for ap
pearance and the number is expected
to be over a hundred. More than a
hundred sought ylaces in the 1924
production, "Wishing Ring," and of
that number sixty were chosen for
for the play.
Announcement of the cast will be
made soon after the tryouts and work
will e started immediately on the
comedy. "Tut-Tut" will be present
ed April 24 at the Orpheum.
PHI SIGMA INITIATES
EIGHT NEW MEMBERS
Dr. George L. Peltier and Dr.
J. E. Weaver Elected
From Faculty.
Phi Sigma, honorary biology soci
ety, held its regular bi-monthly meet
ing Thursday when initiation services
for the new members elected this se
mester were held. About twenty-two
members and eight initiates were in
attendance.
Two members of the faculty and
six undergraduates were elected this
semester. Dr. Geo. L. Peltier, plant
pathology, and Dr. J. E. Weaver,
plant physiology, were the two facul
ty members. The following are the
names and majors of the undergrad
uates who were initiated : G. W. Bea
dle, agronomy; Joe C. Lite, zoology;
Jay E. Muhm, zoology; Geo. R. Pink
erton, plant ecology; Walter L. Tol
mai, animal husbandry; Donald E.
Tolman, animal husbandry; Donald
E. Wight, genetics.
DARTMOUTH'COLLEGE The
Annual Dartmouth Outing Club's of
ficial trip to Mt Washington will be
held this year from February 21 to
25. The trip is not difficult or dan
gerous and experience on skis and
snowshoes or in the mountains is unnecessary.
Unique Collection Gathered by
Historian for Press Association
Henry Allen Brainerd's Exhib
it on Display in U Hall
106 This Week.
By Lawrence Pile.
"May I have a badge to put with
my collection?" The speaker was
an elderly man, asking for one of the
Journalism-Week badges. He was
given one, and then after a moment,
"Go over to U106 and see my ex
hibit" He added, "I'm Henry Al
len Brainerd."
That afternoon in U106, Mr.
Brainerd pointed out the features of
of the Nebraska Press Association
collection, which he, as historian,
had gathered. It consist of every
thing from individual photographs
to political "ads;" everything from
an engraving, "Signing of the. Dec
laration of Independence," to a
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Some of the students and faculty members of School of Journalism, 1924-1925 shown above.
Little Sisters to Be
Entertained Saturday
Little Sisters will be entertained
by the Big Sister board in Ellen
Smith Hall from 3 to 5 o'clock Sat
urday afternoon.
George Washington's birthday will
be the keynote suggested in the dec
orations and entertainment A pro
gram of musical selections and read
ings will be followed by dancing and
games.
Edwin A. Fry Oldest
Editor In Nebraska
The oldest active editor in Ne
braska is Edwin A. Fry, editor of the
Niobrara Tribune, born at Norwalk,
Conn., April 12, 1851, by the age of
ten inoculated with the printing bug.
He printed an amateur paper, The
Yankee Peddler, while apprenticed to
a jeweler; and attended in 1869 the
first amateur editorial association,
held at the home of the late Charles
Scribner. The present Charles Scrib
ner, the New York publisher, was
editor of an amateur paper called
Merry Moments.
From the composing room of D.
Appleton & Company, publishers,
New York, Mr. Fry came west in
1875 to the Yankton, S. D., Herald;
then went to the Springfield, S. D.
Times. To Niobrara he came 61
years ago in 1874 and started the
Niobrabra Pioneer which he ran for
over thirty years, in which period he
also established the Pierce County
Call and the Lake Andes, S. D.,
Wave. Later he was connected with
newspapers in Colorado and South
Dakota, and three years ago he re
turned to the old town and took over
the Tribune.
photograph of Mr. Brainerd's first
printshop in Nebraska.
The exhibit includes an old-fashioned
photograph of Thomas Mor
ton, the first newspaperman in Ne
braska, who published The Nebraska
Palladium in 1854, and one of J.
Sterling Morton, the second Nebras
ka newspaperman, who was editor of
the Nebraska City News in 1855.
Mr. Brainerd, as historian of the
Association, has compiled two pam
phlets recording the history of the
organization from its beginning in
1859 as The Editors' and Publishers'
Association of Nebraska, with thir
teen members, to the organization of
1923. There are many photographs
of the individual officersand group
pictures of the annual meetings.
Another interesting feature in the
exhibit is a group of photographs
(Contirued cn Page Three.)
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UNI PLAYERS
GIVE BANQUET
"Much Ado About Nothing" Is
Presented with Success
Wednesday Evening.
WILL STAGE PLAY
THREE MORE TIMES
The first presentation of Shakes
peare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
by the University Players met with
an excellent reception from the audi
ence of "first nighters." Evening
programs tonight and tomorrow eve
ning and a matinee tomorrow will be
given by the Players.
Hart Jenks, in the role of Bene
dick, a young lord -of Padua, scored
his usual success. Delia Weather
hogg as Beatrice also gave an out
standing interpretation of her role.
The matchmaking schemes of which
these two characters are the victims
furnishes the major part of the plot
to the story.
Coleita Aitken as Hero, Dwight
Merriam as Don Pedro, and Darrel
Starnes as Leonato were especially
successful in their roles. Harold
Sumption and Harold Felton, and
Henry Ley also carry leading parts
in the production.
Tickets for the evening perform
ances cost 75c and those for the mat
inee 50c. The number of seats as
yet unreserved for the three remain
ing presentations are said to be very
limited.
GLEE CLUB TO APPEAR
Will
Sing at St. Paul Kfethodist
Church Sunday Evening.
The University Glee Club will give
a sacred concert at 7:45 Sunday eve
ning, February 22, at St Paul Meth
odist Church. It is to be a full eve
ning's program and wll be the only
appearance of the entire club in
Lincoln. The program will contain
both vocal and instrumental num
bers. ,
The club is now contracting for
dates in several towns in the south
eastern part of the state. A tour of
ten days is being arranged for spring
vacation. Several week-end trips will
be taken in the next few months.
Tassels Elect Officers
And Plan for Uni Night
The Tassels, womens' pep organi
zation, at a meeting Tuesday night
arranged a stunt to be presented at
the University night program Febru
ary 28, and elected the following of
ficers: chairman, Winifred Steele;
vice chairman, Helen Aach; finan
cial secretary, Ruth Clendenin; re
cording secretary, Esther Zinnecher;
reporter, Geraldine Fleming.
Graduate Is, In Charge
Of M. D. Missionaries
Miss Blanche L. McCartney, a
graduate of the University of Nebras
ka and a former resident of Red
Cloud, is in charge of the medical
work of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the Pithoragarh district,
the farthest outpost of the missionary
workers in India. This sone includes
the Zenana Hospital in Pithoragarh
and the dispensary in Champwat,
thirty-two miles farther into the hills.
Foot-O-Scope Will
Be Available Today
A "foot-o-scope," loaned by the
Miller & Paine store, will be used in
the women's gymnasium today to test
the feet of all women in the Univer
sity. This is a part of a campaign
now being conducted by the depart
ment of physical education for worn
en. With the foot-o-scope the posi
tion of the bones in the foot may be
observed with the shoe on.
Miss Buck Secretary
Of Press Association
In Naomi Buck of Harvard, secre
tary of the Nebraska Press Associa
tion and office manager for her
father, Ole Buck, field manager of
the Association, University people
are especially interested. Attending
the University with the class of '23,
she was prominent in journalism cir
cles, being honored by election to
Theta Sigma Phi, woman's national
professional journalistic sorority.
She was member of the Press club
and did publicity work for the Uni
versity. She was member of Delta
Zeta.
Newspaper atmosphere has always
surrounded Miss Buck. While at
tending high school she was actively
associated with her father in the pro
duction of his paper. During 1923
and 1924 she was editor and publish
er of the Harvard Courier, meanwhile
continuing her work with the Press
Association, which organization last
year elected her secretary. From her
duties in this position statistical
work, bookkeeping, and cashier for
the Association she has derived a
wide detailed knowledge of Nebraska
newspapers.
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Dr. G. E. Condra and Dr. H. O. War
nar Gira Lecture.
Professor II. O. Werner' of the
College of Agriculture and Dr. G. E.
Condra, director of the department
of Conservation and Survey of the
University, spoke to members of the
state legislature in Representative
Hall Wednesday evening during the
weekly motion picture program on
the topography of Nebraska.
Three thousand feet of film and
about fifty colored lantern slides
were used in illustrating the lectures
tfco ovonino. TWa will
be no program next week because of
the Legislative League banquet but
the series will continue' on the Wed
nesday evening following.
LESS DANGER
OF SMALLPOX
if
No Developments In Three
Days Danger Is Over,
Says Dr. Lyman.
MANY STUDENTS
ARE VACCINATED
If there are no developments of
smallpox cases within the next three
days the university community will
be out of danger, although there can
be no certainty for at least seven
days more, Dr. R. A. Lyman stated
yesterday afternoon.
.With the arrival Thursday of the
2800 vaccine points that were de
layed by the derailment of the Mis
souri Pacific train south of Falls
City Wednesday, the vaccination of
the students was resumed. The clin
ic reports that 350 innoculations
were administered yesterday.
Students are urged to be vaccinat
ed in the afternoon and evening so as
to relieve the congestions that have
taken place in the mornings at the
student health department. More as
sistance is available at this time and
the distribution will facilitate the in
noculation. COUNCIL SPONSORS
SERVICE BANQUET
Dr. W. P. Lewis, President of
Hua Nang College, to Be
One of Speakers.
The annual life-service banquet
sponsored by the Methodist Student
Council will be held at the Grand
Hotel on Tuesday, from 6 to 8
o'clock. Royee West, '27, is chair
man of the committee in charge of
the banquet.
A number of noted speakers con
nected with the life service depart
ment of the Methodist church will
arrive in Lincoln on Saturday eve
ning. The party includes Dr. Walter
R. Davenport of Vermont Dr. Ida
belle Lewis of Foochow, China, Mrs.
Collins J. Robert, Dr. T. E. Newland,
and Mr. Otto H. Howser. Dr. Daven
port has made a special study of the
work in rural churches and is named
in "Who's Who in America." Dr.
Lewis is the president of Hua Nang
College, the largest girls' school in
China located in Foochow.
Saturday evening the speakers will
be entertained at a dinner at the
home of Rev. Harry F. Huntington,
the Methodist University pastor. On
Sunday they will address the various
student groups at the Methodist
churches throughout the city. On
Tuesday at 11 o'clock Dr. Davenport
will speak at the College of Agricul
ture. The last speeches will be de
livered at the life-service banquet on
Tuesday evening. All students and es
pecially all Methodist students are
invited to hear all of these noted
speakers.
Dr. Louise Pound, C. Lawrence
Hawthorne and Edwin
Ford Piper Speak.
LETTER READ FROM
MISS WILLA CATHER
' Professor Louise Pound, writer; O.
Lawrence Hawthorne, poet; Grace
Sorcnson, editor; Mrs. Anna Brown ell
iDunaway, writer; Miss Helen Mc-
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Donald, writer; Edwin Ford Piper,
poet; Dr. Julius T. House, educator;
Carolyn Renfrew, writer, Hart Jenks,
dramatic student, and Ralph M. Cof-
felt, printer, addressed yesterday's
sessions of the Nebraska Writers
Guild and the Nebraska Press Asso
ciation. "In general, there are two kinds
of folk songs," said Professor Pound
on the subject of "Nebraska Folk
Song," in Faculty Men's Hall yester
day morning; "the songs of the peo
ple as a whole, such as 'America' and
'Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,' which are
in published form and universally
sung; and the kind handed down by
oral tradition, with variation in texts
and airs."
Miss Pound explained that after a
number of years' study of the folk
songs of the plains, she had found
thnt these ballads are governed by
three characteristics: First, the song
has been preserved orally. Second,
all trace of its origin has usually been
lost Third, it has survived through
a long period of time.
Authorities have criticized the
technique of the airs, "But" asserted
Miss Pound, "in these days of songs
about papa, and mama, and baby,
and the boot-leggers' ball, I don't feel
apologetic about Nebraska folk
songs.
Representative folk-songs of the
plains were sung by Lenore Burkett
Van Kirk, including "Jesse James,"
"The Dreary Black Hills," "Bury Me
Not on the Lone Prairie," "Jack of
Diamonds," "Johnny Sands," and
"Lord Randall,' sometimes called
"King Henry," a song mediaeval in
melody as well as in origin. The
texts and airs swing along in a crude,
cowboy rythm, sometimes with a dry
brusque humor, and again with a
quaint plaintive dolefulness.
"The more sense a poet puts into
his poems, the more change he will
take out" declared O. Lawrence
Hawthorne, Omaha, writer of syndi
cate verse, in speaking on "Rhyming
Cents with Sentiment"
Mr; Hawthorne told of his attempts
to convince business concerns that
more than a bare business relation
continued on Page Four.)
STATE EDITORS
HOLD BANQUET
Members of Association Hear
Governor McMullen Thurs
day Evening.
CHANCELLOR AVERY
IS AMONG SPEAKERS
Three hundred persons attended
the annual banquet of the Nebraska
State Press Association given Thurs
day evening at the Lincoln Chamber
of Commerce. Mrs. Marie Weekes,
editor of The Norfolk Press and
president of the association, presid
ed. Students in the School of Jour
nalism and members of the faculty
were present
John D. Bushnell, president of he
Chamber of Commerce, welcomed
the members to the city. Mrs. Jack
Burton of the Beatrice Sun respond
ed.
Governor Adam McMullen, in a
brief address, spoke on the subject,
Know Nebraska,' urging the editors
to become thoroughly acquainted
with all the needs of the state.
Chancellor Samuel Avery of the
University talked on the relationship
between the University and the
press.
State Senator John Wiltse discus
sed "The Legislature and the Press,"
discussing the influence that the
newspapers have on legislation.
Lillian Glebe of Blue Hill gave a
toast to the absent members. Mrs.
Hester Bronson Copper gave a toast
to the Nebraska pioneers.
Allen G. Burke, speaker o' the
house of representatives, spoke on
"Equality Before the Law," and Mrs.
Mabel Gillespie, also a member of the
house, spoke on "Nebraska's Nw
Citizens." 4
A. L. ("Doc") Bixby, columnist of
the Nebraska State Journal, spoke on
"Msde-In-Nebraska Verse."
"Bill" Maupin of the Omaha Bee,
veteran Nebraska newspaperman,
gave a toast to the Nebraska press.
Andrew IL Morrissey, chief justice
of the Nebraska Supreme Court,
spoke on the relationship between
the press and the judiciary.