The Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XXIV NO. 111.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925.
PRICE'S CENTS
WILL PRESENT
FAMOUS DRAMA
University Playeri Will Ap
pear in "The Devil'. Dis
' ciple" by Bernard Shaw.
HERBERT YENNE WILL
PLAY LEADING ROLE
"The Devil's Disciple," a melo
drama in three acts written by Ber
nard Shaw, will be given by the Uni
versity Players In the Temple thea
ter Thursday, Friday, Saturday eve
nings and Saturday afternoon. Her
bert Yenne will play the lead and will
be supported by a strong cast. '
"The Devil's Disciple," one of
Shaw's earlier plays was first intro
duced to American audiences by
Richard Mansfield. After a lapse of
a quarter of a century, the wit of
the play has not dulled. In his play,
Mr. Shaw tries to prove that all good
men are cowards and knaves, and
only blackguards and ne'er-do-wells
can be counted on to do the right
thing. As a jester, Mr. Shaw has his
place as an entertainer.
The play deals with a man who had
been brought up in a Puritan com
munity. He rebells at the restric
tions p'aced upon him and runs away
from home. He is then considered
the "black sheep" of the family. At
the death of his father he is left sole
heir to the property and returns
home to take his place in the com
munity.
Shortly after he arrives, he is mis
taken for a minister and is taken
away to be hung. He shows his he
roic qualities by accepting the mas
querade. In the meantime, the min
ister has recruited an army and won
in battle. With a hangman's rope
about his neck, the Devil's Disciple
jests with death while the fatal min
utes speed by. At the crucial mo
ment the minister returns to save the
Disciple from being hung.
The action of the play is laid in
New Hampshire in 1777. Mr. Shaw
says that most of the incidents of
the play are historically true as in
most drama. The play will be cos
tumed in the style worn during the
Revolutionary war.
MAY STILL ENTER
FRAT MEET TODAY
Drawings for Annual Wrest
ling Match Will Be Made
at 5 O'clock.
Fraternities have one more day in
which to enter the first annual ihter
fraternity wrestling meet which will
be held Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday of this week.
Entries must be turned in at Dr.
R. G. Clapp's office by 5 o'clock this
afternoon. Drawings will be made at
that time.
A change in plans of the meet will
allow more men to enter, it is be
lieved. Former plans called for the
matches in the evening, but the new
schedule cards the preliminaries on
Wednesday from 4 to 5 o'clock.
Men will be required to weigh in
for their matches at 11 o'clock each
day. The classes will be as follows:
108, 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, 175
pound, and heavyweight.
Paine Is Elected to
Graduate Scholarship
Leland S. Paine, graduate student
in the department of geography, has
received word of his election to a
graduate scholarship in geography
next year at the University of Wis
eonsin. He was chosen from a large
number of applicants on a basis of
comparative ratings. He will con
tinue his graduate studies tbere, and
assist in the department of geogra
phy. Economic geotrrachy is the ar
ticular branch In which he is chiefly
interested.
"Fellowship,, good behavior, respec
. lability and ability to meet and know
ften all these may be summed up
w one word, fraternities," declared
Danridge SDotawood of Vlwrin!..
who was recently the principal speak-
" a banquet given in his honor at
"est Virginia University.
Announce Program for
Weekly Vesper Service
Agnes Sassier, retiring - presi
dent of the Y. W. C. A. will lead
devotional services and will
Peak at Vespers at 5 o'clock this
filing in Ellen Smith Hall. Ida
fder will give a reading, "The
fc'W of the Cross." Titer, will be
Pnal mnsic by the choir. All
university women are invited.
Curator Completes Classification
Of Mineral Specimens in Museum
Classification of the five hundred
distinct species in the mineral sec
tion on the third floor of the mu
seum has been completed. Most of
the work, representing a year's ef
fort, has been done by F. G.. Collins,
assistant curator.
The collection includes mineral
species from all over the world. The
number of minerals which are com
mon and easy to get does not far
exceed 150. Out of the rest of the
exhibit many of the stones have been
secured by the field of collections of
Prof. E. F. Schramm of the depart
ment of geology. Some have been
bought. Others have been acquired
as the result of exchanges with edu
cational institutions from all parts
of the world.
Outstandingly curious are the spe
cimens of "petrified lightning," or
fulgurite, long, brown zigzaggs of
hardened sand. These are created
when the lightening strikes the sand
hills and fuses the sand into hollow
tubes, glazed within, forming manga
nese fulgrite. Only one or two ex
amples are found in the state. That
in the museum is broken into a num
ber of pieces. It was removed from
the earth intact in the long, irreg
ular trail cut by the flash of light
ALUMNUS IS CARTOONIST
Jef arson Machamer, '18, Holdrege,
It oa Staff of Judge
Jefferson Machamer, '18 of Hol
drege, is now one of the cartoonists
on the staff of Judge. After leav
ing school Mr. Machamer went to
Kansas City where he was employed
on the Kansas City Star. He soon
left for New York and worked for
the Tribune in that. city. It was on
this paper that he did the work that
has made him famous.
Mr. Machamer is twenty-six years
old and is recognized as one of the
foremost cartoonists in the United
States.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY
TO ELECT MEMBERS
Phi Lambda Epsilon Will Hear
Frankforter at Thurs
day Meeting.
New members to Rho Chapter, Phi
Lambda Epsilon, honorary chemical
fraternity, will be chosen at a meet
ing Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in
the lecture room at the Chemistry
building. C. J. Frankforter, assis
tant professor of chemistry, will talk
on the manufacture and uses of ex
plosives. Members of the fraternity, which
was established at Nebraska in 1922,
are chosen from chemistry students
with a high scholastic standing. The
new men are elected by the active
chapter in consultation with members
of the faculty, who are associate
members of the organization. The
active chapter of Phi Lambda Epsi-
llon numbers eight, and R. W. Max
well is president The new members
will be picked from graduate students
and others high in standing.
Mr. Frankforter stated that be
cause the meeting was open to out
siders, his lecture would not be of a
technical nature. He will deal with
the manufacture of the more common
explosives and their uses, both from
a military and a commercial stand
point. Both types, high and low ex
plosives, will be gone into fully. The
lecture will be illustrated with sixty
samples of explosives, and two reels
of motion pictures, furnished by the
Bureau of the Mines, and the Her
cules Powder Company.
With an enrollment of 40,000, in
cluding the extension students, the
University of California is the larg
est educational institution in the
world.
New York University Will Sponsor
Nine European Summer Study Groups
In spite of the age-old saying that
rolling stone gathers no moss, New
York University intends to prove
that just the opposite is true by send
ing nine European study groups out
this summer. Migratory students
will travel from Italy and Greece to
as far north as Scandinavia.
Thv will browse around the fam
ous galleries and art mrseums while
in Europe, delve into economic con
dition, and "do the sights" of the
famous landmarks on the continent
economics, history, liter
ature, economic and commercial geo
graphy, art and poetry are Included
in the curriculum. College credits
(are given in all the courses.
ning, and prldcfully displayed in its
most realistic attitude in the mu
seum. Later, the curiosity was sent
to a convention of geologists in the
east While describing the phenom
enon, the lecturer allowed it to drop
to the floor and break comparatively
short pieces.
Another rare feature of the ex
hibit is the specimen of carnotite,
or radium ore. A hydrocarbon sub
stance named sutterite resembles or
dinary clay, but burns like asphalt.
It is shown in the form of small
brown chunks, coming from Utah
and northern Colorado, where it is
associated with the oil shales and
gilsonite deposits. It is not found In
sufficient, quantity, however, to Jus
tify extensive commercial use.'
A fine mineral genm, the kunzite,
has been contributed by Robert
Whitham, Los Angeles minerologist.
This species gets its name from Tif
fany gen expert Kunze. It is found
in San Diego county, California.
One of the finest sets of fluorites
in the possession of any museums
comes from Cumberland, England.
These are gem minerals of great
clearness and luster, and are found
in a number of bright colors, com
monly yellow and purple.
NEBRASKA DEBATERS
HOLD POST MORTEM
Discuss Matches with Iowa and
South Dakota in Tradi
tional Session.
The Nebraska-Iowa and the Nebraska-South
Dakota deb'ates on
whether Congress should have the
right to overrule decisions of the
Supreme Court, were completely
"hashed over" at the annual post
mortem in University Hall 106 yes
terday afternoon by members of the
two teams and the faculty.
David Sher, '28, Ralph S. Brooks,
'25, and Lloyd J. Marti, '27,. mem
bers of the negative team, gave a
complete account of the match at
Vermillion.
H. H. Foster, of the Law College,
took part in the discussion, which
lasted an hour. Other members of the
faculty and former Nebraska debat
ers were present at the meeting.
CALL FOR STADIUM
PLEDGES APRIL 24
Statements Will Be Sent Out;
Last Installment for 1922
Notes.
Stadium pledges come due again
April 24, and statements will be sent
out to everyone then. This is the
last installment for those who pledg
ed in 1 1922, and is the fourth for
those signed the next year. Actual
pledging was done earlier, but the
pledges did not take affect until the
contract for work was let April 24,
1922.
The last general statements were
sent out on October 24, 1924, and
the results were good. Other state
ments are sent to delinquents from
the alumni office every month. The
next general statement will be sent
out in October, 1925.
Expect Dean Seavey
Home from Ashville
Dean Warren A. Seavey, of the
College of Laws, went to Ashville,
N. C, a week ago to attend a confer
ence of the American Institute on
Agencies, is expected to return to
day. Dean Seavey is a member of the
Institute.
The Northwestern university glee
club is to give a concert at the- Uni
versity of California.
The University has chartered spe
cial boats for this novel expedition
which win be carried out under the
direction of its extension bureau.
Faculty will be made up from other
institutions as well as the one spon
soring the idea. After the students
reach Europe, they will split up into
parties, according to the subjects
which they are going to study while
abroad.
The faculty of the University ex
pects that the idea will be a complete
success because of the fact that the
students will study the conditions
first hand and will have the lessons
more firmly impressed on their mem
ories than ever would be possible in
a class room.
STUDENTS GIVE
ONE-ACT OPERA
University School of Music
Presents "Cavalleri Rusti
cana" Monday Evening.
SICILIAN VILLAGE IS
SCENE OF PRODUCTION
"Cavalleri Rusticana," one-act
opera by Pietro Mascagni, was sung
by students of the University School
of Music last evening in the Orpho
um theater.
The scene of the opera is laid in
a Sicilian village on Sunday morn
ing. Leads were taken by Famie
Wagner, as Santuzza, the betrayed
sweetheart; Agnes Backstrom, as
Lucia, mother of Turridu, the fickle
young soldier (Wyatt Hunter);
Lola, coquettish wife of Alfio, the
village teamster (Jacob Friedli),
Helen Cowan.
Madam Gutzmer, whose class in
opera sponsored the production, ser
ved as stage director. Howard
Kirkpatrick directed the chorus and
C. A. Steckleberg the orchestra.
Hart Jenks and Adrian Newens serv
ed as dramatic coaches. Fleda Gra
ham was the accompanist
Although Madam Gutzmer's class
has studied several great operas dur
ing the term, this is probably the
only one which it will produce.
"Cavalleri Rusticana," composed in
1890, is the one great composition
of the Italian musician Pietro Mas
cagni. Great brilliance and variety
is displayed in the melody, and the
widest extremes of joy, sorrow, con
tentment and passion, are given ex
pression in the score.
Following were the other mem
bers of the cast:
Flower girls: Katherine Costin,
Florence Bennett, Ruth Warner,
Harriett Taylor, Edna Leininger.
Sopranos: Bernice Mallat, Faye
Hulbert, Frances Jacques, Mrs. F.
G. Campbell, Esther Novotny,
Maude Bryant, Maurine Jenkins,
Mrs. A. W. Nelson, Helen Hillie,
Mary Truner.
Altos: Ruby Warner, Bessie No
votny, Mrs. E. T. Williams, Mabel
Zimmerman Margaret Mahaffey,
Olive Bentz, Aline Oleson, Mamie
Gebhart, Jessie Nichols, Felice Stem-
berg.
Tenors: Hobart Davis, Edward
Ellingson, Albert Friedli, Ivan Mc
Cormack. Baritones: John Mattox, Gale
Fowler, William Newens, Ellif
Oleson, Richard. Lowe, Dietrich
Dirks.
HIGH WILL SPEAK
AT CONVOCATION
"What Shall We Think of Rus
sia" Will Be Subject
of Address.
E; Stanley High, author and news
paper correspondent, will talk at
University convocation at 11 o'clock
at the Temple on "What Shall We
Think of Russia." Mr. High recently
talked before the World Forum.
His "Revolt of Youth" and "Chi
na's Place in the Sun," two late
books, have created favorable im
pressions. . A third book will proba
bly be off the press soon.
Mr. High attended Nebraska Wes-
leyan before he entered the World
War. His parents live at University
Place.
SIX ALUMNI WORK IN JAPAN
Engineering Graduate Represent
Five Companies There.
The College of Engineering of the
University of Nebraska has six alum
ni engaged in engineering work in
Japan four in Tokio, one in Osaka,
and one in Kobe representing five
different commercial organizations.
These men are:
Kinju Akagi (Civ. 10, Elec. '11),
electrical engineering department,
Kawasaki Dock Yards Company,
Kobe,- Japan.
Stanley Bracken, (Elec. . '12), rep
resentative of the Western Electric
Company, at the Sumitomo Electric
Wire & Cable Works, Ltd., 60 Oki
jima Minamino-Cho, Nishi-Ku, Osaka,
Japan.
Ivan F. Baker (Elec. '09) and
Clarence A. Johnson (Elec. '06, E. E.
'15), the former as manager and the
latter as resident engineer for the
Westinghouse International Company
in Japan. Address: care of Takati &
Company, Marunouchi, Tokio, Japan.
William K. Fowler (A. B. '14,
Elec- '16), representative of the In
ternational General Electric Com
pany, Chiyoda-Kwan, Minami Den-
ma-Cho, Kyobashi-Ku, Tokio', Japan,
Howard C. Kendall (ex-Elec '03),
engineering department of the Amer
ican Trading Company, Box 20, Cen
tral P. O., Tokio, Japan.
Wants Applications
For Nebraskan Staff
Applications for appointment, to
the following positions on the edi
torial staff of The Daily Nebras
kan for the second half of the se
mester will be received until noon,
Wednesday, March 25: editor,
managing editor, news editor, as
sistant news editor.
Application blanks may be got
at the office of the chairman and
of Secretary J. K. Selletk.
M. M. FOGG,
Chairman, Stutient Publication
Board.
INCLUDE MONEY TO
IMPROVE R STREET
Would Resurface Paving and
Install New Lighting Sys
tem Along Campus.
The State Senate finance commit
tee voted to include an appropriation
of about $17,500 for widening and
resurfacing the paving and installing
new street lights along R street
where it borders the campus in the
general appropriation bill for this
work at its session yesterday.
A system of lighting along the
street similar to that used in the
down town districts is proposed. The
committee agreed that the lighting
system now in use was too dim and
in view of the fact that many stu
dents are obliged to come to the Uni
versity during the evenings, a better
system was needed badly.
The street work and the installa
tion of lights, if the bill is passed,
will be on R street from Tenth to
Fourteenth streets. The amount ap
propriated is the regular share of the
State in street work, the rest of the
cost being borne by the property
owners along the street affected.
DISTRIBUTE MARCH
ISSUE OF MAGAZINE
Nebraska Blue Print, Engin
eering Publication, Is
Published.
The Nebraska Blue Print, publica
tion of the College of Engineering,
for the month of March is now ready
for distribution. The cover bears a
picture of historic University Hall
and the grounds to the south of it.
The feature article of the issue is
written by C. H. Murray of the
American Rolling Mill Company on
the topic "Simplifying the Selection
of a Career."
An article on "Lightning" written
by F. W. Peck, Jr., of the General
Electric Company also appears in the
March number. Another feature of
the issue is a. discussion of "Decimal
Point Determination in Slide Rule
Operation" by Prof. James T. Rood
of the University of Wisconsin.
The "Hall of Fame" department
nominates C. R. Richards, president
of Lehigh University, for its mem
bership. "The Dean's Corner," edi
torial comment and numerous mail
er articles complete tne issue.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
That not over 20 per cent of the col
lege students have the mental capa
city to make Phi Beta Kappa, is the
belief of the faculty of the univer
sity. They would discourage the idea
of every student having that honor
ary fraternity as his goal.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY Be
cause of scholastic deficiencies, 257
students were dropped from the
school at the end of the semester.
Most of these were dropped from the
engineering school. The average
number dropped in the last five years
at the end of the first term is 255.
Oregon University dormitories
have arranged a special diet table for
overweight girls.
Students at Syracuse University
Cut Thousands
Compile Figures Pertaining to
Absences During First
Semester.
Thirty-seven thousand, two hun
dred and fifty-three "cuts" were tak
en by students at Syracuse Univer
sity, New York, during the first se
mester of the year according to fig
ures announced by the absence com
mittee of the institution, last week.
The average student at Syracuse,
according to these statistics took nine
absences from classes during the se
mester an increase of 36 per cent
over last year. The majority of the
absences were excused, however.
Russel Will Give
Math Club Address
Prof. M. E. Russel of the physics
department will address the regular
meeting of the Math Club tomorrow
evening at" 7:30 in the lecture room
of Brace Laboratory. The topic for
the speech is "Cameras and Camera
Lenses." Prof. W. C. Brenke will
present a mathematical cross-word
puzzle which he has designed for
solution by members of the club.
BEGIN OUTSIDE
TRACK TRYOUTS
Husker Athletes Who Will
Meet Stanford Will Be
Chosen in Trials Today.
TRACKSTERS PREPARE
FOR CALIFORNIA TRIP
The first outdoor tryouts of the
year, and the final tryouts for the
first Husker outdoor meet with Le-land-Stanford
University on April 4,
at Palo Alto, California, will be held
this afternoon on the cinder track in
side the Nebraska Memorial stadium,
if weather conditions are auspicious.
Failing that, the tryouts will be
staged on the indoor track under the
east stand.
The tryouts will begin at 3:15
o'clock with the mile run, followed
at fifteen minute intervals by the
hurdle, dashes, half-mile run, low
hurdles, 440-yard dash, and the two
mile. Field events will be staged
while the track events are being ruu
off. '
The initial Husker outdoor track
meet with the California university
is on Saturday, April 4. The Ne
braska team, consisting of about
twenty members will leave March 31
travelling direct to Palo Alto, Cali
fornia, to meet Stanford. The return
trip will be by way of the southern
route, a dual meet having been ar
ranged with the University of New
Mexico at Albuquerque.
Varsity track men have been busy
the last week or so getting ahead .in
their studies so as not to fall behind
after the trip, which vvill take about
a week's time, part of it being includ
ed in the regular spring vacation.
Captain Crites, quarter-miler, who
was unable to compete in the last
meet on account of a pulled tendon,
will probably be in shape for the Cal
ifornia meet, and if not that, for the
New Mexico meet.
The Stanford track team this year
is one of the strong coast aggrega
tions, and the two schools will be
about equally matched, with slight
advantage on the side of the Cali
fornia school. Nebraska's weakness
in the field events, is a factor favor
ing Stanford, although Krimmelmey
er's placing in the shot put in the
Valley meet at Kansas City, and Wir
sig's showing in the pole vault, have
raised Nebraska hopes. The Nebras
ka strength will be in the track
events, hurdles, dashes, and middle
distance runs. . '
New big ten standings were posted
yesterday for the javelin throw. Wos
toupal heads the list with a heave of
166 feet. Johnson is third at 160
feet and ten inches. In the discus,
Scot stands alone with 120 feet to his
credit.
The schedule for the tryouts this
afternoon is:
3:15 Mile run.
3:30 12 high hurdles.
3:45 100-yard dash.
4:00 880-yard run.
4:15 Low hurdles.
4:30 440-yard dash.
4:45 220-yard dash.
5:00 Twoi-mile run.
Field events, pole vault, shot put,
and discus at 3:15.
Broad jump, high jump, and jave
lin at 4:00.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The University of Chicago has given
its football financial estimate. Re
ceipts reached $500,000, with a pos
sible profit of $200,000. More than
245,000 fans saw the last year's
games.
of Classes Yearly
Men seemed to have more difficul
ty in making their classes than wom
en as the total of men's absences was
13,522 and that of the women was
11,446. Excues varied from sickness
to religious holidays. The men at
the institution were especially relig
ious according to the statistics, since
almost 2,000 "cuts" were excused be
cause the student pleaded a religious
holiday. Only 608 absences of
similar nature were made by women.
The College of Business Adminis
tration was the chief offender, rtu
dents in this college averaging over
ten absences each. The College of
Liberal Arts was the lightest offend
er as students there averaged only
eight absences.
AMEND BILL FOR
APPROPRIATIONS
Senate Includes $750,000 for
University Buildings in
General Expenses.
SET ASIDE $240,000 FOR
STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS
An appropriation of $760,000 for
buildings for the University was in
cluded in the amendments to the
general appropriation bill for State
expenses by the Senate financial
committee before it adjourned yes
terday noon. $240,000 for the state
normal schools for building purposes
was also included in the appropria
tion, which will total approximately
$26,000,000.
The committee has thus cut out the
University and normal school levies
for ten years and substituted a flat
appropriation of the amount which
it is estimated would have been
raised by the proposed levy of one
eigth mill for the University and one-twenty-fifth
mill for the normal
schools.
The bill wil be sent back to the
House following its amendment It
will probaby be referred to a confer
ence committee, where revision of
many items included in the bill will
probably take place.
SIGMA LAHBDA
INITIATES FIYB
Professional Arts Sorority
Holds Annual Banquet Sat
urday Evening. .
Sigma Lambda, national profes
sional arts sorority, initiated five wo
men at its annual initiation held Sat
urday evening at the Lincoln Hotel.
The new members are: Henrietta
Dirks, '28, Lincoln, Miriam Reynolds,
28, Creston, Iowa, Gladys McDonald,
'28, Lincoln, Helen Bachmer, . '2.7,
Lincoln and Ernestine McNeill, '28,
Linclon.
The annual banquet preceded the
initiation. The room was decorated in
snapdragons, the sorority flower and
flame and pekin. blue, the colors of
the sorority. Seventeen members at
tended the banquet
Beta Chapter of Sigma Lambda
was installed in 1923. The sorority
was organized at the University of
Wisconsin in 1922 where it was in-
staled as Apha chapter. The active
members of Sigma Lambda at Ne
braska are, Louise Austin, Charlotte
Endberg, Olivia Van Anda, Irma
Guhl, Olive Kier, Dorothea Dawson,
Mrs. Aileen Acton, Koren Jensen,
Jessie Ullstrom, Marie McGeer, Em
ma Schudler, and Viola Looseback.
Y. W. C. A. Staff Will
Hold Dinner Tonight
The association year of the Y. W.
C. A. will be closed after Vespers this
evening with a staff dinner at kllen
Smith Hall. Reservations should be
made with chairmen and from Miss
Erma Appleby, Y. W. C. A. secretary.
Fifty cents is the charge for a plate.
Doris Trott. vice-president of Y.
W. C. A. for the past year, will pre
side over the business meeting and
discussion. The poster and finance
staffs will be in charge of arrange
ments.
Second Edition Will
Be Ready Thursday
The second edition of "Nebraska
the Beautiful," bulletin published by
the Conservation and Survey division
of the University under the supervi
sion of the director, Dr. G. E. Con-
dra, will be off the press Thursday.
Approximately a thousand requests
for the bulletin are yet to be filled.
Freshmen at the University of Cal
ifornia are busy scrubbing the red
paint off of the large "C" which is
on a hall back of the campus. The
original color is golden, and it is the
duty of the freshman class to keep
the color immaculate during the
school year.
Women law students at the Uni
versity of Iowa maintain higher
scholastic averages than the men.
Psychology Is Subject
Of Lecture by Dr. Hyde
The freshman lecture Monday
evening was given by Dr. Wini
fred F. Hyde, professor of psy
chology, who talked on the gener
al subject of "Psychology." Miss
Hyde will give the same lecture
to students of the second sec
tion of the class this xaornin? at
9 o'clock.
