The Daily Nebraskan
WJTXXV. NO. 51.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ' TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1925.
TRICE 5 CENTS.
CLASSES ARE
EXCUSED FOR
CONVOCATION
Dismiss Student, for Lecture
By Dr. Fosdick on "The
World Court"
WILL MARCH TO CHURCH
University Band Will Head Pro...
.ion to St. Paul'.; Viking.
Will Organize Parade
To the Faculty and Student of the
Uierity
Dr. Raymond Foidick will speak at
, Special Convocation in St. Paul'
ckorcli, Wedneday, December 2, on
The World Court. All 10 and 11
o'clock classes will ! dismissed.
It it hoped that every atudent will
.rail hime.Ir of the opp-nity of
tearing Dr. Fosdick while he U here.
(Signed)
CARL C. ENGBERG,
Ezecutire Dean.
Classes have been dismissed to en
able" students to hear Dr. Raymond
Fosdick on the subject of the World
Court in a convocation to be held in
St. Paul's church. Students will line
up at 10 o'clock behind the University
band which will be stationed on
twelfth street just south of the Social
Science building. The Vikings, hon
orary organization for junior men,
will help organize the march to the
church, according to V. Royce West,
president of the society
With classes dismissed, a capacity
crowd is expected since citizens of
Lincoln are invited to the meeting.
Students will be admitted first, how
ever, and will be seated before others
are permitted to enter. Chancellor
Avery will preside at the convoca
tion and introduce Dr. Fosdick.
Dr. Fosdick comes to Lincoln un
der the direction of the Christian As
sociations.' The local committee in
cludes Wendell Berge, Cyrcna Smith,
Arthur Jorgenson, Miss Erma Apple
by and Douglas Orr. This' committee
is cooperating with the University in
managing the convocation.
Working with the League of Na
tions Non-Partisan association, the
local committee is helping manage a
Chamber of Commerce luncheon to
follow the convocation to which all
members of the faculty and a large
group of business and professional
men of Lincoln have been invited.
Mr. IL H. Wilson, a leading Lincoln
attorney, will present Dr. Fosdick to
this group.
Dr. Fosdick comes to Lincoln with
a reputation not only as a leader of
the New York bar and as under-sec-retary
general of the League of Na
tions, but also as a man who has had
considerable experience speaking be
fore student audiences. Chancellor
Avery as well as Dean Engberg and a
considerable number of the faculty
are urging students to hear this able
speaker as one of the leading author
ities on international questions.
LIVESTOCK JUDGING
TEAM PLACES NINTH
Nebraska Men Enter Competition
With Twenty Teams from Can
ada and United State
The University of Nebraska live
stock judging team, composed of
Peter Pratt, Beaver Crossing; Wal
ter Tolman, Lincoln; Russell Ken
dall, Lincoln; Louis Hall, Petersburg;
Melvin Lewis, Ashland and Amos
Gramlich, Papillion, won ninth place
n the inter-collegiate judging contest
at the International Livestock Ex
Position at Chicago in competition
ith more than twenty teams from
the United States and Canada, ac
cording to a telegram from W. W.
Derrick, the coach of the team.
The men left for Chicago a week j
ago last Friday, spending the week
before the contest visiting some of
"e leading livestock herds of Am
erica. They will return the latter
Part of the week after returning af
ter attending the Livestock show in
ession this week.
Cadets Bar Corsages
From Military Ball
No corsages at the Miltary Ball
Friday evening at the Auditorium,
w the request of the Cadet Offi
cers Association which is sponsor
ing the affair. This has been the
custom of the ball for several
years, and Includes not only the
escorts of Cadet officers uJ the
Army officers, but also any others
attending the opening function of
ne formal 'season. All tickets
kave been sold. Final prepara
tion are being completed.
DR. LEES' HEALTH IMPROVED
Nebraska Professor Taking Leave
Of Absence in California
Friends of Dr. Jas. T. Lees, who
is now in California on leave of ab
sence from the University of Nebras
ka on account of illness, will be happy
to learn of his improvement. Writ
ing to Chancellor Samuel Avery, Dr.
Lees states that he is holding his
own and adding a pound or two to
his weight Mrs. Lees, who is with
him at Coronndo, is quite well, the
letter state.
Commenting on the pulling down
of old University Hall, where Dr. Lees
spent his entire thirty years of ser
vice to the institution, he writes:
"We feel like being thankful that the
changes in old University Hall were
made before something happened. It
calls vividly to mind how I used to
watch the gradual bulging of the
south wall before Westover put in
the ugly iron braces. So at least we
of the old Uni Hall may have a new
building so as to keep step with 'the
modern.' "
STUDENTS HEAR
BUCKNER SPEAK
United States Attorney Gives
Address on "Legal Edu
cation" Monday
DEBATE WORK VALUABLE
Emory R. Buckner, of New York,
distinguished alumnus of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, came back to the .
campus wnicn ne leic twenty-one
years ago, and gave a rousing ad
dress on "Legal Education" at 9
o'clock yesterday morning in Law
101 before a joint session of students i
from the College of Law and from the
course in argumentative composition.
To the training which he received
in the course of argumentative com
position and as a member for two
years of the inter-collegiate debating
squad Mr. Buckner attributed much
of his success. In striking phrases, ,
forcefully and vigorously, he pounded
home to the packed room the im-
portance of facts, both in law and in;f
life.
"Facts, facts, facts!" he exclaim
ed. "Find out all the facts in the
case before you go near the law li
brary. Know all the tacts 01 eacn ,
case. .No advice is given 10 a cutm
without facts. No case is won, no
case is lost, unless the facts go right
or go wrong. That's why the best
law course in collpge is the course in
argumentation and the squad work in
debating they teach you to find the members 0f the World Forum will j head coach at Indiana for the past
facts." ihesr Dean James E. LeRossingol, of j three years, will serve as coach and
"There isn't such a thing as ab- the College of Business Administra- j manager of the eastern team. In
stract law," he continued. "There tjon on the subject of "How Early J gram js jn the pink of physical condi
isn't any such thing as rules of law. jshould Specialized Training Begin?" jt;0n after his work with the Indiana
AH that is history. Every case in the on Wednesday, December 2 at the jRqUad and will play part of the time
books in your library is simply what j Grand Hotel. against the western team. "Navy
some judge did with a certain set of j The quCEtions dealing with pro-' Bill," though an exponent of eastern
facts. You can't find a case in the f essionaj or technical training on the : football, is a favorite of the west,
law reports that isn't simply a history lne j,an(jf anj liberal, general or! where as an officer in the United
of what different judges at different cu!turaj education on the other have -States Navy, he organized, coached,
times decided to do in certain been much discussed in recent years, and played in the Pacific coast fleet
ations." . jhe committee in charge of the For-'teams of 1920 and 1921, which de-
"Against too great hurry on the jum feelg that tne gpear js especial- i feated every outstanding coast eleven
part of law students to get into prac-:jy prepare,i to give an intelligent J except California,
tice Mr. Buckner gave emphatic ad- . f t t the sub,-ect because of, As coach of the eastern outfit, In-
vice: "Seven years m college
law school seems a waste to a
and i
Sodi
many people. 'YouH be old,' you
say. 'When are you going to get a
job?' But isn't college life? Aren't
you working and thinking and liv
ing?" he asked.
"To sum up: Everything you do is
a maturing process. Get all the edu
cation you can, and if you get in a
hurry and want to put yourself out
while you are still an embryo, don't
do it," Mr. Buckner concluded, "be
cause you will regret it later and
wonder why you did not have sense
enough to grow up."
Mr. Buckner was introduced by
Prof. M. M. Fogg, formerly his teach
er in argumentation and debate, who
sketched briefly his swift rise from a
student at Nebraska, at Harvard law
school, and as law clerk in New York
to chief investigator in the police ae
partment clean-unp, and, finally to
his appointment eight months ago by
President Coolidge to probably the
most important Law-enforcemnet post
in the country that of United States
attorney for the Southern District of
New York.
Lincoln High Forum
To Meet With Alumni
The Forum club of the Lincoln
High School will hold its annual
alumni meeting on Thursday even
ing, December 3, at 7:30 o'clock.
About thirty-five fwnr.cr ir.err.W. of
this organization are in the Univer
sity of Nebraska at the present time.
Past presidents of the Forum will
be called upon to make a few re
marks to the present members.
Wendell Berge, Hugh Cox, Dons
Trott, John Allison, Douglass Orr,
DeSss and 'Reginald Miller have
I' - .Ints of the club and are
George Huiton, umu
been presidents of the
PRAISES WORK
OF GRID TEAM
Governor Congratulates Squad
And Coach on Record
This Season
HAS SEEN MANY GAMES
Coach Ernest Bearg and Captain
Ed Weir of the Cornhusker team,
each received from Governor McMul
lei letters congratulating the team
and themselves for the record that
the team has made this season. The
Governor, who is a former student of
Nebraska, saw most of the games
this season and had as his guests at
the final game Governor Hamill of
Iowa, and Governor Paulen of Kan
sas. The letters are as follows:
To Captain and Team
"Dear Mr. Weir: Permit me to ex
tend to you and to the entire team
of the Nebraska squad my sincere
congratulations on the completion of
a successful football season.
'The victory Thanksgiving Day was
a fitting close to your brilliant ca
reer as a player and Nebraska is
proud of you nnd the varsity for the
splendid showing which you made for
the university and the state.
Very truly yours,
"ADAM McMULLEN,
"Governor.
To the Coach
"Dear Mr. Bearg: It is a very
great pleasure to me, indeed, to ex
tend to you my congratulations on j Monday, December 14, to open train
the success which has marked yourjing for the East-West gridiron bat
first year with Nebraska as football j tie the day after Christmas in the
coacn'
"The team has made a splendid j
showing and seldom is one privileged '
to witness such a remarkable dem- j
onstration of football as was present-!
ed on the home field Thanksgiving ;
Day. It was a victory to which you .talent of the west,
may well point with pride. j The game will be played under the
"The Varsity and yourself are to j auspices of Islam Temple, San Fran
be highly commended on the season's cisco Shriners, as a benefit for the
la.nmnli:hmnt Vprv txulv vours.
j "ADAM McMULLEN,
"Governor.
pAT)TTlI WITT LTD AD
VilUlil LULU ilDml
DEAN LEROSSIGHOL'r;
W;jj
Conider Specialized Training
At Lnncheon at Grand Hotel
I
Wednesday Noon
J
As one of their discussions on j
topics of educational interest, the ;
education at McGill University.
w,nh tend to emphasize the general
or cultural education as a preparation
to specialized training.
Being dean of a school which com
mences it specialized training very
early in the undergraduate course,
the speaker gets another point of
view, the committee feels. Having
to face the situation from several
angles, it is felt that the speaker
will be of unusual interest
Student Dance Remonerative
Student dances netted more than
$4,000 to the University of Kansas
last year.
Resident Pigeons Left Homeless
By Wrecking of University Hall
Pigeons which for years have made
heir homes in the gables and eves of
'Tniverzity Hall were homeless when
reckers tore off the roof of the old
building and destroyed their nests,
'esterday they were seen flying
ibaut the campus flitting from build
ing to building in search of new quar
ters for their homes.
A group of teven or eight was
perched almost all day on the roof
of Soldiers Memorial Hall across the
way from University HalL They
iwe looking longingly and sadly at
their old habitation which is rapidly
disappearing down the wreckers'
chutes. At intervals they would fly
around the shell of University Hall
as if inspecting it closely from all
sides in hopes oi discovering some
one of their old haunts.
Another group made temporary
quarter, on the roof of Mechanical
Engineering building northwest of U
Hall.
From there they watched the j
Returned Missionary
Will Be Speaker at
Vesper Service Today
L. Wendell Taylor, who has spent
four years as a missionary in China
and is in the United States on a year's
furlough working in the interests of
the Student Volunteer Movement,
will be the speaker at Vespers Tues
day evening at 5 o'clock at Ellen
Smith Hall. Romain Dickinson
will be the lender.
Mr. Taylor arrived in Lincoln on
Monday morning and spoke at Cot
ner college on Monday evening. He
is visiting the campus of the Univer
sity of Nebraska under the auspices
of the organization of student volun
teers of which Dorothy Thomas, '26,
Lincoln, is president. He is a gradu
ate of the Hastings Collrcge, Uni
versity of Chicago, and McCormick
Seminary of Chicago.
WEIR TO PLAY
ON STAR TEAM
Will Be in Line of Eastern
Squad in Battle With
West at Berkeley
OPEN WORK DECEMBER 14
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 30.
The greatest aggregation of all
American football stars ever assem
bled on one team will arrive here
University of California stadium at
Berkley. Advance seat sales for
this contest indicate that a record
breaking crowd of close to 100,000
will see the greatest players of the
east in their contest with the leading
Shriners Hospital for Children in
San Francisco. The event is to be
J strictly an amateur affair, and no
i one participating in the game will re
jceive more than his expenses,
j The all-American calibre of the
! cast-west football scrap is evidenced
in the mere mention of names of the
'men who have now definitely agreed
report here for preliminary prac
tice in the Indiana University Mem-
onal vadium. uaroiscn, Dieter,
Flourney, Weir, Farwick, Slaughter,
Bach, Ingram, whose names at once
Teca recent all-American honors
showered by sports critics of the
country.
. "Navy Bur Ingram, Navy
gram will have an advantage in his
knowledge of both the eastern and
western styles of play. Against him,
however, will be the combined
strength of practically all the out
standing western coaches and critics
They have placed the training and
strategy of the western eleven in the
hands of two outstanding men,
"Pesky" Sprott known as California'
greatest halfback, and "Brick" Mul
ler, California, a member of Walter
Camp's all-American team of 1922.
Walter Eckersall, Chicago, one of
the greatest halfbacks ever developed
in the west, sports critic and official,
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wreckers as they tore ruthlessly into
ancestral abodes,
Fair weather is making; the plight
of pigeons bearable for a few days
until .hey get settled in some new
part of the campus. They will prob
ably be seen circling around the cam
pus for several days.
Their thickest nests in University
Hall were in the gables of the north
wing, where wreckers uncovered the
nest which were half a foot thick
in places, representing the building
activities of many generations.
Sparrows also lived in the nooks
and crannies oi University Hall ga
bles, roofs and window casings. Many
of their nests, small in comparison
with the pigeons were discovered
when, workmen removed boards over
the windows.
A large flock of the little winter
birds nestled in the bushes just north
of University Hall. They will prob
ably find new quarters more quickly
than the more gentle paeons. .
REMOVE ROOF
FROM U HALL
First Floor and Basement Will
Be Ready for Classes
After Holidays
TAKE BELL DOWN FRIDAY
Wrecking of University Hall upper
stories is progressing ahead of the
schedule and the first floor and base
ment will be ready for classes after
the Christmas holidays. The roof of
the old building has been completely
taken off, and work started yester
day on tearing down of the third
floor walls.
The old bell which since 1871 has
rested on the south edge of the roof
was taken down last Friday, together
with the large stone arch in the wall
underneath bearing the date 1870.
The bell was estimated by the con
tractor to weigh about 2500 pounds.
It is three feet across at the lower
end, and over three inches thick
where the clapper strikes. The stone
larch with the date was so weather
beaten when taken down that the last
numeral could hardly be distinguish
ed. Bracing rods on the east end of the
third floor were removed yesterday
after bricks had been taken down
enough to make it safe. The long
rods were pushed off onto the ground
three stories below, and more landed
point first digging deep into the
ground.
The work of wrecking the brick
walls on the third floor will start
in earnest today and tomorrow when
the last beams are taken off the third
floor ceiling. The constant sliding
of bricks and mortar on the wrecking
chute has worn out the sheeting of
tin. Boiler plate will be laid on the
chute today to take care of the new
rush of bricks and wreckage.
Wooden framework for the flat
roof is about half done, and will be
completed about the time wrecking is
finished.
Thousands of alumni in Lincoln
for the Thanksgiving game with the
Notre Dame team failed to get ex
cited over the demolished condition
of the building. They all seemed to
realize that the old building was un
safe, and accepted the wrecking as
but the inevitable fate of a badly
constructed building.
CONSIDER PLANS
FOR CONFERENCE
Representatives of Denominational
Croups Hold Discussion
At Grand Hotel
About thirty-five students repre
senting the various denominational
groups in the University religious or
ganizations met Monday noon at the
Grand Hotel for a consideration of
the coming Inter-denominational Con
ference to be held at Evanston, 111.,
December r29 to January 1.
After the election of a temporary
chairman, the group discussed the
plans fo rthe four-day conference of
alj denominations and made sug
gestions for a Nebraska delegatrion
to number about twelve.
The Inter-denominational Student
Conference proposes to discuss re
lations between the church and the
student life as it is now and as it
ought to be in the future. Its aim
is to get free expressions from all
points of view and get to the facts.
The relation of the cnurch to youth,
human needs, the social service,
the city, the nation, foreign missions,
politics, war and the like are ques
tions suggested in a circular sent out
by those in charge of the conference.
NEBRASKA STUDENT
WINS IN CONTEST
James Roue, '28, Writes Second
Best Essay Among Animal
Husbandry Students
Sears-Robuck Agricultural Founda
tion at Kansas City has announced
James Rosse, '28, as the author of the
second best essay in their National
Essay Contest for Animal Husbandry
Students, recently conducted at the
American Royal Livestock Show at
Kansas City.
The essays were to express in less
than three hundred words an Uca of
practical benefits to the American
Farmer on the topic, "My Most Help
ful Livestock Lesson."
Every agricultural college west of
tha MississiDDi River was represented
according to Samuel R. Guard, di
rector of the foundation.
Weather Forecast
Tuesday: Fair and warmer.
PALLADIANS HOLD INITIATION
Literary Society Admit Twenty
Two into Membership
Palladian Literary Society initiated
twenty-two pledges last week at an
informal initiation held on Wednes
day, November 25, and the formal in
itiation held on Friday evening. The
people who - vrp initiated included
Annie Bracl u lenry Meyers, Mil
dred Beele- i.'o -er Kells, Albert
Hoisted, Richard Page, Mary Theo
bald, Margaret Olson, Ruth Lang,
Gordon Phillips, Ernest Carlson,
Mary Field, Elizabeth Field, Theodore
Scholz, Laurence Dunmirc, Caroline
Beach, Herrold Miller, Mildred Mel
ick, Loren Graham, Genevieve Mc
Cartney, Arnold Strom and Robert
Bates.
PAY HOMAGE TO
FOOTBALL MEN
College of Agriculture Holds
Convocation in Honor of
Squad Members
WEIR INTRODUCES TEAM
Students and faculty members of
the College of Agriculture gathered
in convocation yesterday morning to
honor the members of the 1925 Var
sity football squad who are Ags.
The members of the team present,
Arnold Oehlrich, Willard Dover, Bob
Whitmore, Joe Weir, and Cecil Mol
zen, were introduced by Captain Ed
Weir, all Ag College men. Ed gave
a short talk in which he spoke of
the place Ag College had held in the
Varsity athletics not only football but
in track as well.
Head Coach Bearg and Coach Ow
en Frank gave short talks speaking
of the game last Thursday and ex
pressed the hope that Ag College
would continue to send men into the
Varsity competition. Coach Bearg
told the men that no matter whether
they were large or small there were
very few who would not get to play
a few minutes, if they worked out
consistently.
Lois Jackman, '26, and Nathaniel
Foote '26, acted as spokesmen for
the student body and expressed the
appreciation to the men for the part
they had played for Nebraska and
for the college.
Rufe DeWitz, athletic director for
A? College assured every one that Ag
College had some more good fresh
men material to take the place of
thore who are graduated this year.
Dean Burnett announced that final
nlnns for the new student activities
building are being completed and he
promised Coach Bearg that the next
time he wished to put his boys in a
"solitary confinement" it would not
be necessary to do so among the
"planters" and "reapers".
After singing the "Cornhusker"
and cheering, the convocation ad
journed with an invitation to as
semble for the same purpose next
year.
ANNOUNCE OPENING
OF RIFLE SEASON
Women Will Organize Class and
University Teams; Ten Con
tracts Accepted
The Women's Athletic Association
announces that rifling starts Tues
day, December 1, and the practice
season continues until the first of
February. Class teams will be cho
sen, and an all university team will
shoot with women's teams from
other schools. There have been
ten- contracts accepted, and twenty
eight more challenges have been sent
out.
Owing to the number of women
who are interested the range will
be open from 3 to 5 on Tuedy;
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
instead of from 4 to 5 as announced
recently. This arrangement will
open the sport to more women, and
give those who wish an oportunity
to enjoy soccer and rifling at the
same time.
This sport is particularly attrac
tive to women who ari interested in
W. A. A. but are u able to compete
in the more strenuous sports. Try
out points will be given for ten coro
titota nrart , sj nrnrr.io hpino- fin
hour of shooting. In order to be
eligible for class teams, or the uni
versity team ten practices must be
completed. Roll call is taken as in
other sports. The entrance to the
Rifle Range is at the west side of
Mechanical Engineering building, at
the driveway. Women interested
please sign up on the list posted at
t!.e W. A. A. bulletin board.
FAVORS LESS
CENTRALIZED
GOVERNMENT
Buckner Addresses Lancaster
Bar Association Monday
Evening
SPEAKS OF EXPERIENCE
Backs Up Opinions with lustrations
From Work as United States
Attorney
Before an audience made up
largely of his old friends and col
leagues. Emory R. Buckner, '04,
United States district attorney for
New York, made a plea for less cen
tralization of government, in an ad
dress last evening at the Lincoln
hotel before the Lancaster County
Bar Association. "What this coun
try needs more than anything else
Is the slogan: 'Back to. the states,'"
Mr. Buckner declared. "Home rule
is essential to democracy if we are
not to have an autocracy from
Washington."
Mr. Buckner described the meth
ods of reorganization used by him
in the district attorney's office in
New York, the inauguration of the
policy of prosecuting the "big fel
low," and asked for a less compli
cated federal court system, "which
might have been all right in 1850
but is certainly inadequate now."
Many laws are on the statute books
of the federal government now that
should not be there, for they repre
sent only an avoidance of responsi
bility by the state governments, Mr.
Buckner declared. "Take the fed
eral narcotic act," he said ." If there
is one thing the country should get
excited about it is the narcotic trade.
But the United States government
has no business to have on the stat
ute books a law against the sale of
drugs. If the state governments
won't get under the load then let
the people buy drugs and perish!
It's their affair.
Mr. Buckner stated that although
he believed in the prohibition of
child labor, he did not believe that
the already overburdened federal
laws should be added to for this pur
pose. The national auto theft act
was also denounced as a useless en
cumbrance on federal justice.
"It's time the people threw off the
wartime policy of over-centraKza-tion
and demanded home rule," he
asserted, "else the federal govern
ment will break down from over
loading." When any group demands
a new law congress should consider
"What will it cost?" he declared. He
believed this to be the best remedy
for the multiplicity of laws.
At the time he took over the dis
trict attorney's office, little atten
tion was being paid to civil cases,
although these involved more than
40,000,000 a year. By a better ad
justment of the time of his assist
ants, and the addition of more men,
he corrected this. By getting young
men who had been graduated with
honors from law school, he obtained
a higher class of work, he said.
One of the needs of the federal
judiciary is a "police court" to han
dle the unimportant cases that come
before the federal judges, he con
tinued. He described the time of
the overworked federal judges as
"worth its weight in diamonds," and
said that this time should not be
wasted on cases involving the theft
of a pair of shoes by a soldier or of
a half dozen pieces of rhubarb by
a postal clerk. Because of these
cases, he said, the federal courts are
from two to five years behind and
this "often results in justice being
denied." "The wronir nolicv of the
prohibition department to see how
many arrests it can make to put out
in propaganda" was also condemned
on the ground that the elimination of
the big operators was the only prac
ticable method.
Some reminiscences of early days
in Lincoln, when he considered it a
"great metropolis," were given by
Mr. Buckner.
Prof. M. M. Fogg, director of the
School of Journalism and director in
debuting when Mr. Buckner repre
sented Nebraska on the platform, in
troduced Mr. Buckner. Professor
Fogg, who was introduced by Clar
ence Wiles, president of the local
Bar association, told of the way in
which Mr. Buckner had worked his
way through school doing secretarial
work, and of his rise to prominence
in New York after he was graduated
from the Harvard Law School "To
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