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The Daily Nebraskan CO TO THE RALLY TODAY. CO TO THE RALLY TODAY. VOL. XXV. NO. 10. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1925. PRICE 6 CENTS ORGANIZATIONS DISCUSS HIGH PARTY PRICES No Definite Action Taken In Campaign to Lower Prices Of Halls and Music. RENTAL RATES HIGHEST ' Proposition Will Be Brought Up This Spring Boycott To Follow If Charget Stay High. No definite action was taken on the campaign to bring down hall rent and the prices of orchestras and catering service, at a meeting held in the Temple last night by the heads of all campus organizations, as it was found that too many reser vations had been made for parties for the coming year. The committee that investigated existing conditions found that the largest increase in prices was in hall rental. nans, however, were made to bring up the proposition in the spring and bring down prices to the student scale.. Four years aero a similar increase in prices brought about a boycott by the students which wa successful in bringing down the prices. A 6cale will be drawn up next spring that will include prices from all halls, orchestras and caterers that get the student patronage. If the prices are too far advanced over the student scale, these halls, orchestras and caterers will be boycotted by all student organizations in an endeavor to make the cost of parties reason able. Those present - on record as being opposed t publication of a fraternity and sorority directory which is being compiled by two stu dents of the University. Chancellor Avery and Dean Engberg are oppos ed to the publication which will not be official. It was decided by fra ternity and sorority representatives present to refuse to purchase the book. The question of smoking on the campus was brought up by Chairman Leo Black. He suggested that this practice be stopped and that upFer classmen endeavor to impress this idea upon the freshmen, ILLINI RESPECT HUSKER GRIDSTHRS Illinois Scouts Bring Back Report Of Strong Nebraska Football Machine. The Daily Illini, official publica tion of the University of Illinois, has the following to say about the Corn- husker team since the return of the Illinois scouts from the. Nebraska camp: Milt Olander returned from viewing Nebraska with glowing accounts of the Cornhusker prowess. Among the Saturday's opponents assets he lists a hard driving line, average 180 pounds a most pleasing backfield, espe cially Rhodes. This same Rhodes grieved Illi nois last year with a sixty-some yard dash for a touchdown and Olander deems him a muchly improved footballer this year. According to the Illini scout Rhodes wallops the line with speed and unbelievable drive. This coupled with the vicious tackles he offers completes the description of a mighty good football player. University Provides Communication For Instructors Free mail delivery, twice daily, is a feature of the services rendered the faculty to make it possible for them to carry on their many func tions. Through the use of the check ing in system of the janitors, any department or professor of the Uni versity may communicate with any other by mail in less than twenty four hours without charge and almost without trouble. The healquarters of the Univer sity mail are in the north end of the west stadium under the direction of John Gunnarson, head of the Uni versity janitorial system. Every building on the campus has a box in which mail to other parts of the campus may be left. This is collected by the janitors twice daily, just be fore twelve noon and just before six, when they return to the stadium to check in their time. When they check out at the stadium they take the mail, previously distributed by buildings from their box and deliver it to the proper persons in their building. This is done also twice, at seven in the morning and at one o'clock. Mail from the agricultural college is brought in tvice a day in Chancellor and Mrs. Avery to Entertain Chancellor and Mrs. Avery will give their annual .faculty party at Ellen Smith Hall on Friday, October 2, from 8 to 11 p. m. All members of the teaching, adminis trative, library, and extension staff with tne adult members of their families are cordially in vited. The invitation includes secretaries, student pastors and any others whose work is closely affiliated with the University. New members are especially in vited to be present in order to be come acquainted with their col leagues. The party will be in formal, and no personal invita tions issued. ILLINI LINE NEEDS CENTER Zuppke Is Looking For Man To Make Capable Pivot Re spects Husker Wall. EXPECT THRILLING GAME URBANA, 111., Sept. 30. Coach Robert C. Zuppke is looking for- a center for the University of Illinois football team which will face its first test against Nebraska in the Illinois Stadium next Saturday. The coach is spending a lot of time on "Bubbles" Mitterwallner, a 235-pound lineman who can be used at guard or center. "Bubbles" re ceived honorable mention for selec tion on mythical teams in the Rocky Mountain division when he played tackle for Colorado college in 1921 He is always "talking it up" in scrim mage and is a fairly accurate passer. He senses the direction of the play quickly and is a fairly fast man for his weight This is his first year of play here. "Zup" lost both his regular cen ters, Gil Roberts, and Leonard Um nus, the substitute, by graduation last June. The freshman Varsity of 1924 sent up two possibiliiies, R. D. Murray of Chicago, and Robert Reitsch of Rockford, & brother of Hank Reitsch, sub center in 1920 He is a fighter all the way and charges fast. He may be moved to tackle. Reitsch weighs 172 pounds but holds his own. His defensive work is especially good. Murray has been working regularly in scrim mage. Nebraska has two lettermen, Hut chison and Wostoupal, at the pivot position. Their line is practically a veteran one, while the Illini wall is green. The unknown factor of the Illini line is sure to make the Husker contest a thrilling one, impossible to predict in advance. The Illini ex pect a crowd of 25,000, a record breaker for an opener. According to Milt Olander, as sistant scout, who watched Nebraska in action at Lincoln Saturday, the Huskers are working like beavers to perfect a defense against "Red" Grange. Coach Bearg, when he brings the Missouri Valley lads into the stadium Saturday, will have im parted to his crimson clad players all the information he knows about "Red." And that is plenty. Ever since Grange was a freshman, Bearg studied him. As an assistant coach to Zuppke he helped plan the famous interference which assisted "Red" in reaching the open. Pro bably no other coach in the United States knows as much about Grange's tricks. This fact inspires Nebraska with a lot of confidence. Free Mail trucks and the mail destined for the agricultural campus returned in the trucks. This system enables a professor to drop his mail in the box in his build ing any time before six o'clock at night and have it received the first thing the next morning. Or if mail ed "before twelve o'clock noon, the majl will be received by the proper party immediately after dinner. Mr. Gunnarson states that often profes sors wondered why their mail was not received the next morning. The University mail system doesn't ac complish any such wonders but it does take care of the mail between departments in an unusually effi cient manner. Previous to that time the mail was collected and distrib uted twice a day by a boy but that proved unsatisfactory in a number of respects. Mr. Gunnarson says that the least the system is ever called upon to hadle is around fifty letters a day. The average is about 150 to 500 each delivery or alomst five hundred a day. All the mail directed to the University from the University Y and the alumni association is includ ed in the deliveries. MANY GOING TO ILLINOIS Burlington Officials Request Student To Get Tickets As Soon As Possible. TRAIN LEAVES AT 4:40 Students expecting to go to the Nebraska-Illinois game on the special Burlington train tomorrow are re quested to get their tickets at the city ticket office, 110 North 13 street, today or Friday morning. Ticket sales show the majority of the students are going with pullman res ervations. The "Illini Special" will leave at 4:40, giving ample time to arrive in Urbana before noon Satur day. University of Illinois students will meet both the football team on Fri day and the special Saturday morn ing. The "Student Union," an or ganization composed of practically the whole student body is in charge of the affair and will take the team to their hotel and as many students from the special as they can accom odate. Tickets for the game may be se cured at Latsch Brothers, today and Friday morning. Arrangements have been made to have someone on the special take the remaining tickets back, in place of returning them with the team this afternoon. Ticket sales at both Latsch Brothers and the student activities office in the Ar mory total 225. Seventy-five good seats in the center of the field are still available. Herbert Gish, director of athletics, announced that the special would leave Urbana as soon after the game as possible, probably 6 o'clock. The Cornhusker eleven will go back on the special, which will stop in Chi cago for four hours, leaving for Lin coln at 12:30 Saturday night. At least ten cars will compose the special, including a diner, as many pullmans as the students re quire, and the quota of chair car accomodations. Round trip fare from Lincoln is $19.46 and from Omaha $17.48; pullman reservations are $6.38 for lower berths and $5.10 for uppers. ' Students expecting to make pullman reservations are re- quested to do so at once in order that the Burlington may determine the number of pullmans to be in eluded in the "Illini Special.' PLAN METHODIST STUDENTS PARTY Affair Only One of Many Such En tertainments which Will Be .. Held During Year. An All-Methodist party, for the Methodist students at the University, will be held Friday night, October 2, at eight o'clock in the Armory. The committee for the program consists of Valerie Augustus, Lucille Bauer, Orin Bratt, and Frederick Wiren. The committee in charge of refreshments is Lois Jackman, Mary Kinney, and Theodore King. This party is one of many which will be given during the school year. The Methodist students have already had a banquet for the freshmen, and on October 15, will unite with all the other denominations in a large banquet. The other events for the year are: November 19, banquet at the Grand Hotel. November 26, Thanksgiving day party. December 4, Christmas party. January 14, banquet at the Grand Hotel. February 12, party. March 18, banquet at the Grand Hotel. April 16, party. May 7, picnic. The Methodist Student Council is in charge of all campus programs for the students during the year. There are about thirty members of the committee, of which Miss Carrie Johnson is chairman. One of its duties is to look up new students at the University. So far, they have gotten in touch with over five hun dred freshmen Methodist students,! who will assist in promoting church affiliations on Sundays. Cheerleader Tryouts Will Be Held Friday Tryouts for freshman and var sity cheerleaders will be held Fri day afternoon at 4 o'clock. Can didates are to report in the Ar mory. All appiontmcnts to this position yil be subject to scholar ship rules, eiofth eebeFa Few Candidates File For Coming Election Two names for the position of Honorary Colonel, and one name for each class president are tho only filings which have been received to date at the Student Activities office. Nominations for these offices cannot be made later than five o'clock, Fri day, October 2, so any possiblo can didates are advised to hand in their names as soon as possible. Nomination is made simply by fil ing the candidate's name, but once a name is filedd it cannot be with drawn. Tho election will bo held in the southwest room in the basement of the Administration Building, and all students are urged to show their class spirit by casting a vote. GET LINE ON COMPETITION Early Season Showings Indicate Husker Gridsters Will Meet Tough Teams. NOTRE DAME LOOKS GOOD On the eve of the battle which Nebraska and Illinois will wage on the gridiron at Urbnaa, 111., fans are beginning to review the gridiron re sults of last week so far as they affect the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Three of the games played last Sat urday have a direct bearing on the future of the 1925 Cornhuskers. Although overshadowed on the sporting pages by the overwhelming victory which Notre Dame achieved over Baylor University, undefeated in three years, and rated as one of the best Sevens in the south, Hus ker followers will take more Immedi ate notice of the impressive manner in which the University of Washing ton (Seattle) stampeded over, around and through the Williamette eleven to ring up a score total of 108 against the Williamette zero. It was not a case of a fair team getting up against a frightfully weak eleven. Williamette cannot be rank' edas a pushover f of most of the wes tern schools. Last year, when Wash ington had one of the leading elevens on the coast, a team which romped to victory over Montana, Whitman Washington State, Puget Sound, Oregon Aggies and U. S. S. Mary land, Williamette was able to hold the Huskies 57 to 0. This year, when Washington is singing the sob songs for the loss of several veteran linemen, Williamette was trampled on twice as hard. Such a victory cannot be achieved by a mediocre team. Washington has four backfield men who will rank with the best in the country; in fact, the Husky backfield quartet may easily be called the class of the coast. George Wilson, Walter Camp's all-America selection for his second team, who is unanimously ranked as the best halfback to don moleskins on the Pacific Coast in the last de cade; Elmer Tesreau, captain of the Huskies, himself an all-Coast full back, who in his first year won na tional fame for his work against the strong Navy team in the New Year's dav eame at Stanford; Elmer's brother, Louis, who weighs 195 pounds and is a triple threat man who, Washington followers believe, may outshine his illustrious kinsman ; and Mike Hanley, a brother of Dick Hanley, coach at the Haskell Insti tute, who has earned his right to that kinship by his work at a half back. Besides these four men, the Hus kies have four other backfield men who deserve consideration. Harold Shidler, "Bill" Charleston, George Gutlormsen, and Harold Patton, are all playing their second year under Washington colors. Although the Huskies, have issued a mournful cry because of the grad uation of their last year's linemen, they are not lacking in men for the (Continued on Page Three.) Awgwan Subscription Campaign Llosed With Estimate of 1200 Sold The campaign for Awgwan sub scriptions closed last night with an estimated total of 1,200 subscrip tions. A complete check has not been made yet as definite returns from the fraternities and sororities have not been received. Fraternity and sorority subscrip tions were to be sold in blocks and the Awgwan management is expect ing around 800 subscriptions from this source. With the ones secured in the campus drive it is felt the total will be around the 1,200 mark. Any who failed to subscribe for the Aw gwan during the campaign may sub scribe at the same price, one dollar, a the Awgwan offices in the base ment of University Hall. WORLD FORUM HEARS JAMES New Dean Of Art And Science College Addresses Wed nesday Meeting. COLLEGE SHOWS DFXLINE Dean Herman G. James of the Col luge of Arts and Sciences, addressed the World Forum at the Grand Hotel Wednesday noon. Dr. James spoke on the subject "Why is a College of Arts and Sciences." According to Professor James tho college of Arts and Sciences was the first to exist in tho Universities over the world. The original American college aimed at the training of men for the clergy. In later years the schools began to train for other pro fessions. "The other colleges," he remarked, "are showing a stoady increase, while at the same time the Arts and Sci ences are in the apparent decline. The colleges for law and medicine come in a later era than those of the clergy. In more recent times nearly every profession is being taught. This specialization caused the stu dents to go from high schools into the technical colleges for the train ing of one certain profession. This turn of events has become so accute that the question, is now 'Why is an Arts and Science College?' "Unless the 'Why' is answered," said Professor James, "so it can be understood by the public, the typi cal university will become a collec tion of vocational schools, with no cultural center to rally around." After this review of the tendency to abandon the arts college, Dean James said: "Fortunately, before that situa tion was completely realized, a coun ter tendency began to manifest itself. I say, fortunately, because I believe we were being driven to unjustifiable extremes by the materialistic tenden cies of a practical age. From the point of view of simplicity and symetry in educational organizations one might perhaps say 'unfortunate toly,' for it is certainly much simpler to abolish an outgrown instrument than it is to fit it into a changing and increasing complex organism. Whether fortunate or unfortunate, however, we must take note of this backward swing, of the pendulum if we are to consider intelligently our opening query of "why a college of arts and sciences?" "This counter tendency of which I speak, so significant for the future of the colleges of arts and sciences, was the growing realization that the pro fessional courses which had so sue (Continued on Page Thrae.) STADFFER HEADS PERSHING RIFLES Commissioned' Officers Advanced: Captain Welpton Not In ' School Thi Year. Paul Stauffer, '27, Omaha, was elected captain of Pershing Rifles, honorary military organization, at the first meeting of the year held last nignt. uaptain stauiter suc ceeds John Welpton who did not re turn to school this semester. Stauf fer is a first lieutenant in Company B. R. O. T. C. and is a member of Phi Kappa Psi. The other commissioned officers in the company were advanced. The new offircrs are: Fred Chase, Pi Kappa Phi, first lieutenant; August Holmquist, Phi Gamma Delta, second lieutenant; and Horace Noland, Phi Kappa Psi, first sergeant. Routine business was taken up at the meeting last night and it was decided to begin drilling the company soon. It was learned that other schools in the middle west are be coming interested in the organization and it is probable that several new chapters will be installed this year. Postpone Relative Ranking of Cadets The relative ranking of cadet offi cers in their respective grades, which was to have been published yester day, will be postponed for one or two days on account of the great amount of clerical work involved in checking up the military scholarship lecuius of last June. The list will be pub lished either Friday or Sunday morn ings. Silver Moon To Be Run By Mortarboards Today Today is the day the Mortar boards have charge .of the Silver Moon. From 8 o'clock to 5 o'clock, the members of the senior women's honorary organization will be waitresses in the Silver Moon, following a custom which has been adopted in recent years. Glee Club Personnel To Include New Voices Glee Club tryouts were held last Tuesday evening in tho Art Gal lery. The total number of as pirants was eighty-three. Mr. Witte states that the group of voices was the best that had ever tried out. Members of the Glee Club will not be announced until after the old members' try out which will be held Friday at five o'clock. About twenty old men will be back so this necessitates adding twenty new men. ANNOUNCE DATE FOR OLYMPICS November 21 Is Day Set By Innocents Who Have Charge of Affair. PROGRAM IS THE SAME On Saturday afternoon, November 21, the Olympics, traditional battle between the sophomore and fresh man classes, will be held. The pur pose of this contest is to decide the supremacy of the two classes and to determine the fate of the green caps. If the freshman are successful in gaining the largest number of points they will be allowed to discard their emerald coverings otherwise, they must wear them until Christmas va cation. Never in the history of the Olym pics have the freshman been defeat ed by the second-year men. This being due largely to the fact that they always far outnumber the soph omores and are able to win in all the contests which are tests of weight and numbers. The tentative program as an nounced by the Innocents, who have charge of the Olympics, will be prac tically the same as last year. It will include two track events, three classes of boxing and wrestling matches, the bull pen, a pushball game and the final event, the pole rush. The pole rush is the most interest ing event of the whole day. In this event the whole sophomore class is crowded around the pole on which the president of the class is sitting. The freshman are grouped back of a line at a distance of about a hun dred yards from the pole. At a given signal the freshmen succeed within the allotted thirteen minutes they will be awarded the contest. In the Olympics of 1924 the outcome of the whole morning was in doubt until this last event which the freshmen won together with the right to dis card their green caps at Christmas vacation. Last year both classes were well organized and the spirit of rivalry between the two classes was very keen. The sophomores intend to be even better organized this year and hope to break the string of consecu tive victories for the freshmen. Hero of Long's Peak Climb Enrolls As Special Student at Nebraska Walter Kiener, crippled after his heroic efforts to save the life of his companion, Miss Agnes W. Vaillc, of Denver, after their successful ascent of Long's Peak last winter, is now attending the University of Nebras ka. Mr. Kiener is registered as an adult special student and is taknig courses in English and geology. All but one of Mr. Kiener's fingers and his feet from the instep for ward had to be amputated last win ter after the tragedy on Long's Peak. Mr. Kiener and Miss Vaille were both members of the Colorado Moun tain club and had planned early the previous summer to attempt to climb the East face of Long's Peak, a climb rarely attempted and by far the most dangerous. Their trip was continually put off until winter, When Miss Vaille suggested the climb, Mr. Kiener, an experienced mountain guide, was opposed to the proposal but acquiesced under the insistance of Miss Vaille. They first attempted to climb in November and would probably have reached the top and returned successfully had it not been for a veteran member of the Mountain club who had insisted on accompanying them and who lost his nerve near the top forcing them to give up the climb to get him safely back. In January the trip was made. Mr. Kiener and Miss Vaille suchessfully sdaled dthe mighty peak despite the snow and cold, the first time it had been ascended in winter. But Miss Vaille's strength gave out Mr. Kiener had practically to carry her to shelter and then leave her, skiing for miles to secure help. He succeeded in leading the rescue party back to Miss Vaille to find her dead. Exposed for over thirty- six hours, Mr. Kiener himself was WILL HOLD RALLY FOR TEAM TODAY All Students Requested To Join In Parade and Pep Meet ing for Send-off. BAND TO HEAD PARADE Playen and Coachei Will Make Short Talks at Burlington Station Before Train PulU Out. The first opportunity of the year for the students of the University of Nebraska to show their spirit will come this afternoon at 3:45, when all students are requested to gather in front of tho Armory for the huge parade and rally which is to be a sendoff for the Husker eleven. The team will leave from the Burlington station at 4:40 p. m. for Urbana, 111., where they will meet the University of Illinois in the opening game of the season. The parade will be headed by the University band and company's of cadets. The Corn Cobs, University pep organization, will also be in the parade. If the city of Lincoln will turn out the traffic lights for the parade the line of march will be from tho Armory down Twelfth street to O street, then west to Ninth street, north to P street and then west to the Burlington station. xt i i :n i . : iieuru&na win ue piayiug uii n iiua- tile field and before a hostile crowd of thousands, so the necessity of sending the Huskers off in the best of psirits can be readily seen. The only way in which real school spirit can be displayed today is by having the united efforts of each individual student behind this demonstration. It is often the result of the first game that makes the season, and it would be a hard pill for the student body of Nebraska to swallow if the Huskers were to loose because of lack of student support. Moral shp port is a great thing and without it very few teams would reach the pin nacle of success. Coach Bearg is endeavoring to give Nebraska a winning football team this season and in all probability he shall, but he cannot do it without everyone registered in the University behind him. This afternoon presents the first opportunity that Nebraska students have had to give the new football mentor a rousing sendoff and whether it is to be a success or a failure depends on each and every student. Freshmen Commission Holds First Meeting Plans for the coming year together with business problems were discus sed at the first meeting of the Fresh man Commission at Ellen Smith Hall Wednesday evening. Prepara tory to taking in new members some time in November, changes in the methods of choosing new women were considered. practically exhausted and was over come by snow-blindness on the re turn journey. He and the rescue party lost their way returning, his feet and hands were frozen, one of the party was separated and lost his life, and Mrr. Kiener yet says he fails to see how they found their way back. For weeks Mr. Kiener was in the hospital not expected to live. A strong constitution pulled him thru but the doctors said he would never be able to walk. He surprised them by hobbling around on his heels a few weeks later. He found he couldn't use crutches because they threw the weight on the blunted ends of his feet where they were sore from the amputation. So he learned to walk without them. In Switzerland he had been a meat-cutter and had worked' up to the fore manship of a prosperous plant be fore coming to this country.. With' his fingers gone, he could no longer follow his profession So he secured a position as a National Park Ranger. All last summer he was Bituated in a little look-out over 11,000 feet above sea-level with all his own work to ddo. Few would have wanted to attempt it in as crippled a condition as Mr. Kiener. But he said it was the only way to gain the use of what was left of his hands and feet. He had plates made f-r his shoes which helped distribute his weight, making it easier for him to walk. Previous to last summer there had been few visitors to the look-out on the top of Twin Sisters' mountain where Mr. stream flocked to the top oughrdoW Kiener was located but a steady stream flocked to the top Lust year to enjoy his wonderful Swiss hospitality.