The Daily Nebraskan XXV. NO. 70. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ' WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1926. PRICE 5 CENTS. CHOOSE CAST FOR PLAYERS' NEXTCOMEDY To Present "Outward Bound" This Week-End; Matinee On Saturday MISS HOWELL IN CHARGE Herbert Yenne and Harold Felton Have Good Parts; Entire Leit Weil-Known The cn-t for the production of Outward Bound" which will be pre sented by the University Hayers Thurs.'.av, Friday and Saturday eve ning nd Saturday afternoon has been announced by Miss H. Alice Howell, director 'of the play. The cast is as follows: gcrubhy Harold Sumption. Ann-Tauline Barber. Henry Herbert Yenne. Mr 1-,-ior Harold W. Felton. Mrs. Cliveden-Banks Helen Cowan. Rev. William Duke Theodore C. Diers. Mrs. Midget Martha Baird. Mr. Linglcy Ray Ramsay. Rev. Frank Thompson Charles Youngblut. The scene of the play is on board a small ocean liner. During the first act the eight characters discover that they are on a ship but why, when, and how they do not know. Scrubby is the steward of the ship. He acts in the capacity of the cap tain and the crew.' He knows more than the other passengers on - the ship but he keeps his knowledge to himself. Tom Prior is typical of a. youth who has kept himself going with constant stimulants. He is pleasantly communicative and is the first char acter to discover that he is dead. Mrs. Cliveden-Banks representing the organized snobery of the upper class, receives a setback with the en trance of Mrs. Midget, a humble charwoman, who is out of place in these strange surroundings. Mrs. Cliveden-Hanks feels that the Rev erend Dukes will bring some inis fortune to the ship. Reverend Dukes, i sincere and earnest clergyman, friend to ail t,e ! 1 proves himself a passenpers in the end. The luvc theme of the play cer.-j ts around Ann and Henry who are afra.d to be separted one second from the other. They are both very much i!i love with each other thougn j .i .11.1 uw an- irouojea cy some sorv u . secret which they cannot remember till late in the play. Mr. I.ir.gley thinks of himself con stantly r.; a big business map. He cannot forget, though he ii 'often reminds! of the fact, that he is no lor.per of Lingley, Limited. 4 TEAM LEAVES FOR JUDGING CONTEST Junior Livestock Judging Team Coes To Denver to Enter Collegi ate Competition The University of Nebraska Junior Live-lock judging team leaves to morrow afternoon for Denver, where they will compete in the collegiate judiig contest held in connection with the National Western Livestock Show at Denver. The men miking up the team are: Ed Crowley, Cambridge; Ross Mil ler, Franklin; Irving McKinley, Pon a; Frank Reece, Simeon; Clay West-' ott. Malcolm. Before entering the contest on Saturday, the boys will visit the Col orado Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Colorado, where they will do some practice judging on the i herds of livestock maintained at the college. Teams from Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, New Mexico, and other west ern state agricultural colleges will compete in the contest This team will continue their study f judging and make up the Senior Livestock Judging team which will ntr the collegiate contests held this fall and winter at Peoria, Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri; and at the International Livestock Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. Vesper Choir Members Hold Monthly Dinner The members of the Vesper Choir htld their monthly dinner and'busi meeting in Ellen Smiti Hall on Tlfdy evening at 6 o'clock. dinner was in charge of Con rnce Steven, and the members of j' committee included La Verne Man. Vern. Syke, Marjory Bone nd Serine Dean. A thort pro fam ftr the dinner was presented y. G0 Sitzer who gave a piano nd Mirth. Farrar who gave a Pwp of readings. MONTE MUNN TO GIVE SPEECH Will Talk Before League of Women Voten at Meeting Tonight Monte Munn will speak on "The Part the University Student Should Play in Polities," before the Junior League of Women Voters tonight at 7 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall. Mr. Munn was graduated from Nebraska College of Law, nnd has spent one season in the Nebraska legislature. Evelyn Schcllak, president of the League, will tell the members some thing of the coming visit of Misa Gertrude Ely, representative of the national league. Miss Ely, who is a graduate of Bryn Mawr, is traveling all over the middle west organizing leagues and will pay the Nebraska league a vist. The council repre sentatives and nil university women interested in the league should at tend this evening's meeting. WANT SKITS FOR ENTERTAINMENT University Night Committee Sends Letter to Organi zation Heads JANUARY 31 IS DEADLINE Skits for University Night, Feb ruary 20, have been called for by Clayton E. Goar, chairman of the University Nip-ht letter to the presidents of the vari- ous University organizations Mr. Goar set January 31 as the last day! on which skits may be turned in. i Anv stnHpnr r ct,w " " - t-.vauwiv Ul fc" " n LlWIl mav submit slot- I ThP mmitt ..k.vfc ! Vv - " ii-4i aa aiiiiuuil" ced Saturday held its first meeting Monday and made preliminary plans for the presentation of the annual "fun-fest." The acts must appeal to the entire student body and not just to onejture is especially insisted upon dur group of individuals. The skits ';np- class hours. must include detailed plans of the acts before they will be accepted by the committee. They may be sub mitted to any member of the com mittee. The letter written by Mr. Goar follows in part: "The committee desires that all or- panizations wishinf? to participate in Ilia nrArlimtin- V r, ,r nf ahaa . . . , . ., 1 ipare for their part in the program. "The material is no further limited than that it js coselv conneeled with , the campui5) and that jt be of Ke. , intt.rest to the studpnt bod "curfa; in acts may be five minutes , Regular acts may take twelve minutes. The number of members of a cast for an act is indefinite, but must be . limited. Properties nec- essary will be provided unless they are very expensive. "The committee reserves the right to reject any skits and to alter any which may come to its notice for presentation. It will be glad to an swer any inquiries relative to the productions." TO HOLD PARADE AT ICE CARNIVAL Offer Prize for Beautiful, Unique, and Ridiculous Floats at W. A. A. Fun-Fest At the ice carnival to be held Fri day and Saturday nights, sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association, there is to be a float parade. All organizations are invited to enter a float. Prizes will be g?ven for the mort beautiful, most unique, and the most ridiculous. The toboggans were initiated on Tuesday afternoon by the outdoor classes in the Physical Education de partments, and others who are iater- ested in outdoor or winter fports The ice is not in condition yet, but will be in another day. The ice carnival is the first of its kind on the Nebraska campus. The admission fee will be only twei.ty five cents, and there are a number of Kpecial and interesting features on the program. WEATHER FORECAST Wednesday: Fair and colder. Weather Conditions Very rapid changes in pressure and temperature occurred during the past 24 hours. A cold wave with below rero temperatures oc curred in eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, and southern Wisconsin, while temperatures rose rapidly ana tre now much above normal in the upper Missouri valley and Manitoba. It remained moderate ly cold in 1 eastern Nebraska but warmed rapidly during the night in northwestern Nebraska. It is clear and cold in the southern Plains region. There wm no pre cipitation of importance except in the lower Lake region. THOMAS A. BLAIR, Meteorologist. New Field $ .3' 4 ,'?krfJh Nebraska's new Field House as it looks at the present time. The structure is practically enclosed and with the heating system installed can be used as soon as the- front and rear walls are completed. As the picture shows, the columns and brick wall in front are not yet finished. When completed the building will become the home of Husker indoor sports and University functions. SHOW VALUE OF GOOD POSTURE Department of Physical Edu cation Conducts Campaign Toward Health INSTRUCTORS COOPERATE . , . . : , Department of Physical Edu- Cati". is C0"ducti,'S a yod Posture campaign this week in the endeavor to show students the importance of Posture to health. Posters relating to the subject are posted at the west entrance of the Armory and short talks are being given in each Physi cal Education class throughout the week on the importance of good pos ture and what it means. Good pos- 9 Since there are only 1429 students registered in the department, letters stuck to hinl( and so ci0sely was per have been sent to all the other in- sonality entwined with that of the structors asking thenv to take a few!pap?r t,at the nicJname became the minutes from their class hours to tell the students what a good sitting position is, so that every one will be reached Eac partme rating tracing. These tracings have been accurately graded and grouped into four classes. A is good, B is fair, C The results show that 22 received a rating of A; 507 D; 791, or more than half, C; and 109, D; Of the groups with the best general posture, those majoring in Physical Education : came first and the sophomores sec-i ond. These findings i-how how. much physical training benefits posture. PUBLISH SUMMER SESSION BUDGET Professors From Other Colleges Will Offer Courses in Various Subjects The Board of Regents has given out the budget for the summer ses sion which allows for more courses and teachers than ever before. Among professors from other col leges who will offer courses next summer are Dr. George D. Strayer. who will teach School Administra tion; Dr. N. L. Engelhardt, who will also teach School Administration; and Dr. William II. Kilpatrick, from Columbia University. Dr. Alexan der Lindsey, of the University of Oxford, England, is expected. He will teach philosophy and lecture on contemporary British thought. The summer session of the Uni versity of Nebraska has grown very greatly since its beginning in 1892, when there were only seventy-eight students. In 1921, the enrollment was 1,589, and in 1925, it was 3,247 an increase of 105 per cent in four years. It neia ninm piace iai-i sum mer, surpassing the enrollment of such colleges as Cornell, Harvard, Il linois and Michigan. Wisconsin Constructs Largest Hockey Rink Although hockey is a comparative ly young sport at the University of Wisconsin, the Badgers have just completed construction of a varsity rink that is reputed to be the largest in the country. It measres 110 by 250 feet The rink used last year was barely two-third the size of the new rink. Kay Iverson, Badger hockey coach, has also had two small rinks con structed adjacent to the varsity field. One of "the rmaliar enclosures will he used by the freshman team and the other will be used by a squad of young women. The If ngth and width of the varsity rink will permit the construction of bleachers sufficient to seat more than 2,000 persons. , . , , . " " " : " oi guara maienai out ior me team George Remsburg, now of h woman registered m the de-jago which concludes that just as athis year nnd he has been forced to n , ... F 7lmmtlrm!1 lit tine hnnn (Tivnn a nActilro ! fr4- vim ic nflnn rnlA "CKm" p.. 1 v.. - ,... ....... .a uin.i -"" , su'rhnnm Kmwn from o-iiarrl tn fnr. v l i.. taKcnjrcm ncr genematograpn must a conservative . . . . , . . i .. ... .. ' " r- -v. vu'uu, naiia?. litis i j.'i House Nears tit J, Itl "Rag" is Campus Name For Daily Nebraskan Through Many Years Why is "Rag" the universal cam pus name for the Daily Nebraskan is a question asked not a few times by campus visitors and new students. For, though, dignified as the Nebras kan may strive to be, the nickname persists with a virility scarcely ef fected by twenty-five years of usage in a constantly changing and ever new student body. ' & - J ' T , The explanation, gleaned from a; not ready for occupancy. This will 1 1 he offlcers of the organization are: story written ten vears ago in The! be the fourth game for the Husker ! president- W E- Hardy- Lincoln: Nebraskan, is that the name "Rag" i five, three pre-season games having '"? vice-president Rev. Michael A. came into being as the nickname of I been played.' Sh,ne; Plattsmouth; second vice- the first editor-in-chief and founder! Grinnell will open its Valley sea- res! de" JamesnF- "a"son fre" of The Daily Nebraskan. His namejson Thursday night when the teamT11 V ea?urer' Do" Love- ,L'"- was t rank Kiley. He earned the ti- tie "Rag" or no reason at all. ex cept as a consequence of his position on a new campus paner. The name inheritance of the paper after "Rag" Riicy left school. A suggested justi- fication of its continued popularity paper Nebraskan be called "Rag." (these two men work together in nice ped flints, stone axes, pottery, and "There has been a great deal of nn TTTJnmrT Tin Ti7TTT !fashion- 3IiIcnz is bt?inS groomed 'ceremonial stones numbering alto-1 discussion lately as te what Ame.i )K HKnli jhiK tl i lfor 8 guard Psit:on and one gether about 10,000 specimens. jcanism is," he" stated. "It is new Ul. llUniUULin II1UU thinf? in his fayor js that he js fast. The ,ate Dr j A Williams' col- worldliness." nKP.TKQ PRnfrPUQQ " h'S feCt and 8 hard man U i'lon of photographs was present- Dean Pound then illustrated UIUUUUJ I llUUllLlJO around. Gere'.ich of Omaha, a de- by Mrs. Dagmar Williams, his'this challenging remark with a pendal !e guard, will be ready for ac-j widow. She explained that Dr. Wil- 'story of Einstein in America World Forum Will Hold First Series at Luncheon Today At Grand Hotel Dr. J. O. Hertzler, of the depart- ment of sociology, will speak on the subject "What is Progress"" at the World Forum luncheon and discus- . jit.... i sion at the Grand Hotel at noon day. All students who bought tic- kets before today will be admitted first. Tl.. .1 T ,. T 1 jL- f. L. xiic uistuiuu is iiie urst oi r series on the general BUDjeci or "Progress. The subject will be Creighton in Omaha last Saturday) dealt with from many different an- ;nig'it. The team played fine ball gles. Prof. H. G. Deming, of the j and the t hree sophomores on the j department of chemistry, will be the, first five plaved star roles. Lawsen ' speaker next week. The title of his was a whirlwind at guard and Brown discussion has not been announced, his running mate, looked mighty The committee in charge of the , good. Elliott, the other youngster, Forum' reminds students that they; was the high point man of the Hus are urged to stay after the luncheon . kt-r team and looks like a comer, and take part in the general dis-! If the Huskers play the brand of cusslon. The ?pe'aker will be glad ball Saturday nieht that thev Dlaver, to discuss question which students against Cre'ghton they should be re-to look bright I took it to the Bur raise. ' 'turned from thp r:im -innpr iington round house and fooli-hly Number Carried Out to 707 Decimal Places in Mechanical Arts Building A number carried out to 707tory. Whereever records are found decimal places is part of the mural about the measurement of land, decorations put up l?st fall on the j there is generally found an attempt third floor of the M. A. building :ed approximation of this value Pi where the mathematics department is which is indispensible in calculating located. Over fifty-two feet of(areas bound by circles, narrow paper were required to show j The earliest mention of the value the figures. The number is carried j Ri is found in the Bible in I Kings to so many places that there are vii, 23; and II Chronicles iv, 2, no names in the English language where in the coputation of a circld, by which the numerical value can .the approximation 3 is used. In be called. The best, that can bo j 1700 B. C. the Ee-vnti.m wnrl-cH n done is to write it down, and luok at it, and then say it is carried out to 707 places. Ilere it is in' pa.tial form. Try and name in millions or billions: 3.14159226535897323 ' In every day language the number is called Pi, and is written in the arithmetical forln 3 1-7 or 3.1416. It is one of the mofet important quantities in science and engineer ing, one of the most interesting in Mathematics, because it represents the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, and en ters into countless formulas, and problems. The search for the value of Pi began with the first records of bis- Completion i TO MEET IOWA FIVE SATURDAY Husker Basketball Team Will Enter Contest with Grin nell Cagesters FIRST GAME IN VALLEY The Cornhusker basketball team will open its 1926 Missouri Valley I schedule Saturdav nieht with Crin- jnell. The game will be played in the I Armory as the new Field House is representing the Iowa school plays the Kansas Jayhawks at Lawrence. A 4c iiuuning Ulllb l.licjr will Cl!John WT tne Kansas Aggies at iuannattan. These two games will give Coach' Bearg a chance to size up the ' strength of the Pioneers. j Coach Bearg has been busy this Iweek develonine guards for the Hus-i ker five. There is a great shortag ward. Lawson is holding down ihc otner regular guard position and f iion ine second semester, cass oi t j Kavenna is anotner player being j coached for a guard position. ' Presncll, who has been plaving some at guard, will probably be used mostly at forward. Besides Pres- ! nel1' B,ack. Anderson, Sprague and Beerkle- have becn tried at guard, , but they have shown up better atjstrcet on tne Missouri river. i""""'"- " I'lvutxuiv: uyeiiiiigi to-;lineup for the GrinneU game h EIli. . i ci.. t - " vi.- I strom, center, and Brown and Law- ;son, guards. i . . .... . Mu.ker stock took a dor rip rl mmn ' . s. 1 ; upward with the defeat handed to the value 3.1604 for use in measur ing land in the flat Nile Valley. Of all early attempts the most accurate was by the Chinese in the fifth century of our era. They fig ured it out to be 3.1415926, which is accurate enough for all practical purposes, indeed more accurate than is ordinarily used. The most distinguished mathema ticians from ancient times to modern days tried to obtain accurate values for Pi. The history of the symbol includes suchnsmps as Archimeded, Hippocrates, Ptolemy, Leonardo Pi sano, Newton, Leibnitz, Fermat, Wal- ( Continued on Page Four.) POSTPONE UNIVERSITY PARTY i Unable to Use Armory January 16 Because of Basketball Game Because of the Grinnell-Nebraska basketball gnmo to be played Satur day, January 10, in the Armory, the All-University party scheduled for that evening has been postponed by the committee. The date of the party will be announced soon. The remaining All-University par ties will bo held in the Armory, in atead of the Field House, because the workers will be unable to lay the wooden floors until the concrete floor is thoroughly set. The com mittee is working on some new fea tures to help make the last pnrties of the year the best. SOCIETY HOLDS STATE MEETING Present Gifts and Loans to His torical Society at Tues day Session OFFICERS ARE ELECTED The presentation of special gifts and loans to the historical society and a business meeting including the election of officers constituted the morning program at the forty- ''ninth annual convention of the Ne braska State Historical society, in Lincoln Tuesday. Officers were reelected for the ensuing year. N. C. Abbott of Ne braska City was chosen to fill the PIace on the "ecutive board made vacant b' the death of Dr- LowrF- j Cassctt, Gibbon; John F. Cordeal, !Mf.rVnU. Vfii'io 7 !noll Ti'iixnln Z. Snell, Robbins, Omaha. The Zimmerman-Remsburg stone age collection of southeast Nebraska was presented by E. E. Blackman, rljrnfnr nf ttip TTistArirnl iiftfiptv mil. . seum. The private collection, gath- dents and explorers of this region, recently been ruwhaswl bv the soriptv. 1 1. rnnsiots of specimens of stone age work, chip- Hams; who spent the greater part ot his youth on the boats with his I father, took great interest in the j steamboats and the collection of ! tne5e P ctures was one of his great- est pleasures. Many of the pictures v.ere taken by him personally while leveeing at the foot of Douglas - the story of the Spanish sword of rmr,.-.,!,. ,.f v;nnr n. cfop,i - that he came in to possession of the relic sometime in August or beptem- 1 1 r r - 1 1 ? 1 . I uer, iooi, wnea ne re.siaea ai jic- I ook. The gentleman from whom he obtained it claimed that it .was found at a place thirty-five miles northwest of McCook. The relic was badly rusted and the edges lull of nicks. A kind of etching extended from the point two thirds the dis tance to the handle. When Mr. Abbott obtained pos session of the sword by exchanging it for a polished buffalo horn, he fays, "Being anxious for the swoid (ground away the ruH, nicks and remnants of the etching. I had the handle made solid by pouring melted leak in it, and later had the blade n.Med." "The history of a pioneer move- (Continued on Page Two) MAY USE Y. M. READING ROOM Association Invites Public To Take Advantage of Magaxine Files The Y. M. C. A. reading room in the Temple building has recently listed among its magazine files a number of the best magazines and newspapers in the country. Al though there seems to be a current idea that the room is closed to those not belonging to the Y. M. C. A. the public is invited to use this room as a reading room and study. Recently the New York Times has been put on file for public use daily. Among the magazines open to public use are the folowing: Atlantic Monthly; Review of Reviews; the Nation; New Republic; Time; Liter ary Digest; Saturday Evening Post; The Christian Century; System; The International Student; Association of Men; and the Intercollegian. There is also a British publication, The Manchester Guardian. DEAN POUND IS SPEAKER AT BANQUET "The Pioneer Spirit and the Problems of Today" Is Subject W. E. HARDY PRESIDES President of Historical Society Re views Accomplishments of Past Year Declaring that what is held up as inherent lawlessness today is but an outcropping of the pioneer spirit of individual independence, Dean Ros coe Pound of the Harvard Law Col lege, last .night addressed the Ne braska State Historical Society and the Native Rons and Daughters of Nebraska at their point banquet in the Lincoln Hotel on the subject, "The Pioneer Spirit and the Prob lems of Today." The gathering was the first joint banquet of the two societies, Presi dent W. E. Hardy of the Historical Society presiding. Dean Pound's ad dress was preceeded by President Hardy's review of the society's ac complishments during the year, Gov ernor McMullen's greeting to the two organizations, and a short talk by Dr. M. E. Vance, president of the Native Sons and Daughters. "I suppose when a professor ap pears in public, he is expected," sta ted Dean Pound, "to appear s" -e of three roles; the role of a , of a pedant, or of an amiable moron. It is very likely that steady thorough going study will make him oppose ' what is orthodox in the common thinking of the mass. So he is like ly to appear a heretic. "He is very apt to talk in unusual words of many syllables, to speak in a language with which the common person is rather unfamiliar. So he is likely to appear a pedant But in dodging the charges of heresy and pedantry, it will be much easier for him to appear as an amiable moron." With the broad whimsical smile which characterized the most of Dpan Pound's utterances he stated that "in the role of a pedant I have prepared a manuscript which I will California .turn over to the president of the so of White ciety. But in the role of an amiable moron I will try to give the grist of I it c, -j iist uous remark Einstein he said was puzzled over signs "two-minute lunch." He did not believe it was possible that any man should try to eat a lunch in two minutes in our present civilized state.. Walking along the streets of one of our big cities, he found a sign jannouncing "one-minute lunch." In the scientific .spirit of investigation Ilc yu1)UU ouv nls waicn ana timed a n,an and he saw that he went into a . . . . . j ' ' i. aiiu VUb lur ilia I U II L 11 1:1 jt.ss than one minute. Just then a newsboy same up with the daily pa- nf-r containing Einstein's uicture. , Recognizing the man, he boldly and confidently approached, thrust out his hand and said "Shake hands, Re lativity." Einstein knew then he was in a new world," Dr. Pound said. "What he saw in essence is the spirit of the pioneer. "What a poinc-er is, Is described lop;?. Dickens, and many others. But we know him. All of us have lived with him. The characteristics of his that we have observed moreover are the same things that the European sees which makes him re:iliz that this' is a different countrv. "The poineer was independent. He was self-reliant. He had to be. There were no other agencies to look after him. Either he did thi himself or they were not done. Ha was compelled to he self-sufficient, to lead an independent life. "The pioneer was versatile. He had to be equal to every emergency. From the nature of things he was forced to be an all-around man. 'Again he was restless. He waa physically restless, mentally rest less. He was always in search of better lands, of better natural re sources. He always hunted for the greater opportunities. At the same time he was always wasteful of na tural resources. "Agriculture was extensive, not intensive. Mining was carried on in an extremely wasteful manner,' ex tracting only ores which yielded a rich return. Hie development of gas and oil resources was very ws tul. The word 'conservation' was 'n his vocabulary. Development s his aim, not conservation. It is only a crowded order of society which had made us think of conservation. "He had no use for form. He felt that pomp and display detracted from military efficiency. If you want to ee the true American tra- (Cocliuued cn Pa-e Three.)