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he Daily Nebraskan XXV. NO. 104. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 'WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. 1926. PRICE S CENTS. NATIONAL P.B.K. OFFICER WILL HAKE ADDRESS Francis W. Shepardson, Vice President, To Speak at Convocation student"ofschool LIFE Former Dean of Senior College, of Chicago ni Now H-J ' ,n,eP Honor Conference Francis W. Shcpardson, prominent authority on student problems and national vice-president of Phi Beta Kappa, will address a convocation Friday morning at 11 o'clock in The Temple. "Power" will be the subject of Mr. Shepardson's address. Mr. Shcpardson has devoted his life to the study of students and their problems. He was graduated from Brown in 1883 and received his Ph. D. at Yale in 1892. Since 1892 he lias been actively connected with the University of Chicago. He was an instructor in American history and later a professor in that department. From 1904 to 1907 he was dean of the senior colleges at Chicago and t the same time was secretary to the president. During this same period he was connected with the Chicago Tribune, contributing to the editorial columns. Prominent in Fraternity World Aside from his activities as an edu cator, Mr. Shepardson has been long prominent in the Greek-letter fra ternity world. In 1909 he was el ected secretary of the Inter-fraternity Conference and served as the chairman of that body in 1913. Mr. Shepardson was chosen Sena tor of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fra ternity, and is at present vice-president. At the recent Inter-Honor society conference, which was called to help put the honorary societies on a firm er basis in the colleges and universi ties of the country, Mr. Shepardson was elected president. Mr. Shcpardson will arrive in Lin coln Friday morning and will be the guest of the Alpha Tau chapter of Beta Theta Pi. He is national presi dent of Beta Theta Pi and will as sist in the initiation and banquet to be held Friday evening. STUDENT EXCORSION TO PACIFIC OFFERED Nebraikans Invited To Join Party Under Direction of Illinois Zoology Professor Dr. Robert H. Wolcott, department of zoology, is planning to offer courses for zoology teachers in the Puget Sound Marine Laboratory at Friday Harbor, Wash., during the coming summer and in this connec tion a number of students in the de partments are also expecting to at tend the session there. Some are go ing by automobile, but to -all who ex pect to go by train, an opportunity is offered to participate in an excur sion led by Prof. V. E. Shelford of the University of Illinois, who will al so be on the Station faculty. This excursion will start from Min neapolis on June 13, arriving at Fri day Harbor June 20, in time for the opening of the laboratory. The Party will have a tourist sleeper of ts own which will not only have the leeping, but also eating accommoda tions and this car will be set out for one day each at Banff, Lake Louise, and Glacier, thus giving the members opportunity to see the finest scenery of the Canadian Rockies. Also there will be time to look about Vancover and Victoria. Little Additional Cost The additional charge for this Parking of the car, for a tramway ta'P to Lake Louise, and for hotel accomodations at Vancover and Vic una, as well as auto and baggage transfer from Victoria to Friday Har bor, when added to the tourist sleep tr charge, make a total but little ""ore than the regular sleeper charge ln a standard sleeper from Minneap- us to the Coast, and thus offers an unusual opportunity. ronnd tr'P fate from Lincoln Washington, going by Minneapo lis and returning direct, will be the me ag going from, and returning Directly to Lincoln. So one can get tie advantages of this excursion with ut ny added cost for going to Minneanolm TV,. j a .t . lrt"n Minneapolis to the Coast is the fnw ! as from Lincoln. In addition, . .Telford will lecture on the bl o'ogical features of the trip enxoute, n ParticuWs in regard to the trip . the making of reservations may D secured from Dr. Wolcott. fraternities- Against Drinking mternity men of the University .Lv 1S0l,ri have taken the lead to wish student drinking on that cam- Compelitive Drill To Be Shortened To Hold Spectators Attention Lieutenant-colonel F. F. Jewctt, commandant of the cadet corps, is working on a plan whereby more in terest wil be created in compet this year1 both for the men competing and for the public. Prizes may be offered to the individual platoons, as well as to the winning company. The time of the drill will probably be cut down to an hour and a half or two hours, followed by a quick, snappy parade, after which the prizes wil be awarded. "The idea of the whole thing is to broaden interest," Colonel Jewett stated. He is working on several plans along this line, by means of which interest in the military course will be stimulated. PAN-HEL WILL BE GAY BALL Special Entertainers and Two Orchestras to Feature Party PRIZES TO BE AWARDED Two nine-piece orchestras, the Colonians and Beck's eleven special entertainers, twelve prizes to indi viduals, a continuous dance program, elaborate decorations, and novel lighting effects feature the annual Pan-Hellenic ball at the Scottish Rite Temple Friday evening. The two orchestras will alternate in playing the dances. There will be no intermission. Included among the entertainers are three dance teams presenting feature dances, one solo dancer, three singers, and an accor- dian artist. They will appear during the regular dances and between numbers. A most attractive scheme of decor ating has been devised. The two orchestras will be covered by a can opy. A lounge room will be arranged and punch and wafers, candy, mints, and cigarettes will be served. Fra ternity and sorority decorations will also be used to a certain extent in the main hall. A new idea is the offering of spe cial prizes. Each person, man and woman, will be given a numbered program at the first of the evening. At intervals in the dancing a number will be drawn and announced. The person holding the program with that number will receive a prize. Several prominent Lincoln firms have donat ed gifts. ART CLDB ELECTS EIGHTEEN MEMBERS Organization in School of Fine Arts Initiate a Large Group The Art Club announces the elec tion of eighteen new members: Frances Beers, '27, Omaha. Hazel Snavely, '28, Lincoln. Frances Farrens, '28, Lincoln Vera Hill, '29, Polk Clarence Stroup, graduate, Lincoln Mrs. Alma Easton, graduate, Lin coln. Florence Joseph, '29, Lincoln Lucille -Wright, '29, Lincoln Bob Barr, '29, Fairbury Bernard Theodore, '29, Omaha Evelyn Lindeman, '29, Lincoln Ehelma Gwin, '29, Sheridan Juanita Matheny, '28, Lincoln Ruth Jane O'Neill, '29, Omaha George Herzog, '26, Chambers Barbara Head, '27, Imogene Mildred Beckman, '27, Fremont C. Elizabeth Ferguson, '29, Lincoln The Art club, which was organized in 1917, is endeavoring to promote interest in art and to encourage its study. American Professor College Youth After I rip to Prance Qrt niiin la sn A nSnut the frivolity of modern youth that it is rare and unique to hear something to the con trary. Arnold H. Rowbotham, associate of the French department of the Uni versity of California, has just re turned from a trip to Paris with a favorable impression of two much maligned subjects, ine Am... .,,;f an1 .nlWiate vouth. It is true that Professor Rowbotham s fa- vorable impression is noi Daseu uf ntorinM ndions tendencies on the part of' the Americans, but he claims that students in raris are to learn as much from people and places as ihey would from books. r :,. Have Hard Row im student has a , " much harder row to hoe but his char acter is strengthened in the process .J V ! hotter developed intellectu ally than his more carefree American cousin," said Professor xmwdo.. being tried JOURNALISM BUREAU BUSY Staff of Students Who Will Cover Tournament Get Assignments FINAL ORDERS ARE ISSUED The big staff of the School of Journalism Correspondence Bureau that is to cover the high school bas ketball tournament for the Nebraska press was buzzing in the Bureau office U 105A Tuesday getting their assignments straight and get ting at their finger tips the instruc tions for their big job of covering the biggest basketball tournament in the world. The number of papers that the Journalism students will cover this year will be a record-smasher for the University far ahead, it is stated, of the number in 1924, when 128 Nebraska papers published local-end stories on the work of the teams. The exact number of papers covered this year will not be known until Wednes day afternoon.' Another Bulletin Issued A final bulletin (No. 4) of detailed instructions to the staff members was issued Tuesday by Prof. M. M. Fogg and Mr. Gayle C. Walker. The School of Journalism Box Score Sheet for reporting the games was issued Tuesday for the conven ience of reporters and in the inter est of accuracy and uniformity. The reporting of a basketball game was discussed in Professor Fogg's news writing course Tuesday. Part of the time was taken by Gregg Mc Bride, who gave concrete suggestions. Letters from editors asking for the repetition of the service given them by the School in 1923 and in 1924 kept arriving Tuesday. RABBI STARRELS DEFINES PRAYER Vesper Speaker Relates it to Arts; Not to "Change God" but Raise Men to His Plane "Some Random Reflections on Prayer," was the subject on which Rabbi S. E. Starrels spoke at Vespers Tuesday evening. The service was led by Mary Doremus. Katherine Dean gave a vocal solo. "Prayer is looking at life from the highest point of view," was the definition quoted by Rabbi Starrels. He spoke of the relationship of music, paintings, and other art to prayer, stressing the effect of the "great out-of-doors" on one's frame of mind. "Once you experience the higher thoughts and higher living you will wish for more. When you have the yearning for higher and greater things you are on the threshold of prayer," stated the Rabbi. "True prayer is the summoning of energies and aspirations for the higher things of life." The best prayer is the rolling up of one's sleeves and attempting to achieve the things that were aspired in prayer. Prayer is furthermore the organization of unsatisfactory de sires. It has the effect of investigat ing and stimulating the causes of the desire. The purpose of prayer is not to change God into what ws want Him to be, not to make Him conform to our. own selfish desires and petty aims, but to raise ourselves to His plane. "The prayer sincere is the soul's sincere desire uttered and expressed, and therefore prayer cannot be an outward thing," he sa'd. "All men are always praying, all prayers are always answered, therefore we must be very careful what we pray for," he said. "What we really want to be is what we should pray for." Thinks More of 'to the present time there have been no social organizations to correspond It- . u A maioti frotiirtiitiofl rty enr- lu me 1 1 1 it.i. ...... orities. A step in that direction is being attempted by the organization of residence clubs for the students of different nationalities. Strassborg Library Wonderful "My trip to Alsace-Lorraine was one of the most interesting experi ences. The library in the Strassborg is the finest outside of the one in Paris, and the development of that institution, largely due to the Ger mans, has been brilliantly fostered by the French," said the professor. "But don't worry about your Am erican collegiates," laughed Professor Rowbotham, noticing the glum look on the freshman reporters face. "They learn a lot even if it is not out of books. And the foreigners aren't all so very much better. It's no un common sight to see marcelled men among the exotics of the Latin quar ter of Paris!" WEATHER FORECAST Wednesday: Rain or snow prob able; colder. Weather Conditions Temperatures have risen in the Missouri and upper Mississippi val leys and the Great Plains, attend ed by generally fair weather but some cloudiness. A storm area is devloping in the Southwest with rain in extreme southern Califor nia and in Arizona. This area will probably move northeastward with resulting unsettled weather and probably rain or snow in Ne braska. It is fair and moderately cold in the eastern states. Rain is falling on the north Pacific coast. THOMAS A. BLAIR, Meteorologist. RAMSAY HAS LEAD . IN PLAYERS' NEXT Five Performances of 'He Who Gets Slapped' To Be Given This Week The cast for the University Play er's production, "He Who Gets Slapped" by Leonid Andreyev, which will be presented March 11, 12, and 13, includes twenty-three characters. The play deals with the lives of performers in a permanent circus in Europe, the scene being in the green room of a little circus in some French town. The central figure of the play, "He," played by Ray Ramsay, comes into the circus life to get away from the tragedies of life "Out there," only to find that the tragedy of life is as great "here" as in the world from which he has tried to escape. "He" falls in love with the bareback rider, Consuelo, portrayed by Polly Robins. Harold Sumption as Briquet, man ager of the circus, Ruth Jamison as Zinida, and Edward Taylor as Count Mancini, will all carry heavy roles. The Cast Tilly and Polly, musical clowns Werner Maul and Jack Rank. Briquet, manager of circus Har old Sumption. Mancini. Consuelo's father Ed ward Taylor. Zinida, a lion tamer Ruth Jami son. Angelica and Francois, trapeze performers Elizabeth Woodbury and Ed Styskal. He Ray Ramsay. Jackson, clown Donald Helms doerfer. Consuelo, the equestrian tango queen Polly Robbins. Alfred Bezano, bareback rider Henry Ley. Baron Regnard Erwin Campbell. A Gentleman Harold Felton. Wardrobe Lady Ruth Schrank. Usher Thad Cone. Spanish Dancer Ethel Blumethall. Sword Dancer Pauline Gellatly. Egyptian Dancer Katherine Gal lager. Ballet Girls Eloise MacAhan and Florence Flodeen. Sweeping Boy Paul Pence. Snake Charmer Georgia Spelvin. Contortionist Frank Moore. Riding Master Ernst Lundgreen. Jockey Charles Warren. COMMITTEES FOR ENGINEERS' WEEK Stanley Rieff, General Chairman. Announces Assistants for Annual Display The committee chairmen for Ne braska's annual Engineers' Week were announced Tuesday by Stanley G. Reiff, '27, Omaha, general chair man. The appointments are: Publicity Emerson Mead, Ash land, '28. Pep Meeting Fred E. Hunt, Lin coln, '27. Parade Dan O. Hannan, Lincoln, 27. Program Mark Fair, Omaha, '26. Posters and Window Display Ted Johnson, Lincoln, '27. Open House Gilbert Fish, Nor folk, '27. Banquet Eldred O. Morton, Cook. '27. Field Day Fred O. Stenger, Lin coln, 27. Convocation Lester Shields, Lin coln, '27. Confections Edward Richardson, Lincoln, '27. The committees will start work immediately. The veek of May 3 to 8 has been definitely set as the time, and an outline program will be an nounced in a few days. The above committee chairmen will meet with Mr. Rieff in M 203 Thurs day at 5 o'clock. Catch Cold ia Fraternity Hons The director of the health depart ment at Ohio State University says that fraternity houses are the best places to contract colds.. NEW COACH IS NOW ON DUTY Charles Black, Basketball and Assistant Football Mentor, Comes for Tourney WILL BE HERE SIX WEEKS Coach Charles Black arrived in Lincoln Tuesday. He is here for the state basketball tournament and will stay for six weeks of spring foot ball practice. He will be head bas ketball coach and will assist Bearg in coaching the backficld of the foot ball squad. "I've always thought Nebraska to be a good place," said Black, "and I like things here fine." The new coach is a modest, unas suming young man who will undoubt edly find himself at home tutoring the Cornhuskers. Black comes here with the repu tation of being the greatest all-round athlete that the University of Kansas ever produced. He was a letter man in football, basketball, and baseball. He starred in all these sports. After spring football practice here Black will return to Grinnell to take care of baseball.' He will probably coach baseball here in the event that it is reinstated. LITTLE INTEREST IN $50 SCHOLARSHIP Applications For Faculty Women's Club Gift Must Be Received By March 15 Applications for the gift scholar ship of fifty dollars, offered annual ly by the Faculty Women's Club to any senior woman who is wholly or partially self-supporting have been coming in slowly. Applications should be addressed to the secretary of the club, and sent to the Dean of Women's office before March 15. 11 women of junior standing are eligible to apply. The scholarship will be paid in two installments, twenty-five dollars each semester. The girl will be notified of her favorable consideration at the close of her junior year, so that she will be able to plan her work for the last year acordingly, but no money will be available until her registra tion for the first semester of her sen ior year. At least three references, two of which must be faculty recommenda ttions, must be submitted to the rota ting committee appointed by the club to choose the winner of the scholar ship. Information regarding the occupa tion of the individual applying, years of attendance here, major and minor subjects, high school, date of gradu ation, normal schools or colleges at tended, college organizations, college honors, church membership, and ref erences are all required in the ques tionnaire filled out by candidates. The scholarship is presented not as a loan, but as a gift. The reason for this as stated in the report of the committee, is that, "since the girl who works her way through college is debarred from so many of the ad vantages and pleasures of the Univer sity, it is not deemed advisable that the student should leave the Univer sity with a large debt still to be paid." Credentials should be presented by the girl in person. There is still a chance for students to receive aid in this manner but applications should be in the hands of the committee by March 15. Credit for Sunday School The University of Denver allows its students to attend a certain Sun day School clas3 for college credit. Characteristics of Indian Life Revealed in History of Nebraska "heap of buried potatoes," and is made by placing poles some twent five feet long, with the lower ends in a circle and the tops coming near together, leaving an opening there of three or four feet in diameter at the vertex, and all kept in place by wattling with small branches of trees. The door-way consists of an avenue or hall, some six feet high, and the same width. Twenty in One Lodge "All around the circular inside area, adjacent to the poles, are sleep ing places, like the berths in the side of a vessel, wide enough to hold two or four or five pet-ions side by side. From ten to twenty such berths are in a lodge. In front of each berth is a kind of bench, used as a 'stow away' place for blankets, skins and extra clothing of the family occupying the berth, and un der the bench, the remainder of the family goods seemed to be stowed away. The inside of one of these lodgei was an object of no ordinary Hiram Corntassel To Visit Campus During First Part of April Farmer Hiram Corntassol with his characteristic grin will be on the city campus beginning the second week in April. He will be there for the sole purpose of entertaining and establishing spirit of "Good Will" be tween the down town students and the Ag students. He will have some information about the farmers' fair to give out every day. He will station himself somewhere in front of the Pharmacy building, so everybody will be bound to see him. So watch for the arrival of farmer Corntassel sometime during the second week of April. J. R. ISAAC AT FORUM TODAY . M. C. A. Secretary, Native Of India, Will Speak at Noon Luncheon 'NEW AWAKENING TOPIC "The New Awakening of India," will be the subject of the address which will be given by J. R. Isaac, at the World Forum luncheon at noon today at the Grand Hotel. Mr. Isaac, a native of Bombay, India, is a secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in In dia. Tickets may be obtained at the of fice of the University Y. M. C. A. in The Temple, or of the Y. M. C. A. in Ellen Smith Hall, and will be sold at the door. Next Wednesday, March 17, the address will be given by Thomas Q. Harison, a representative of the Fellowship of Youth For Peace. Ger ald Bierney Smith, professor of his tory of religion in the University of Chicago, who comes March 23 to give a series of lectures en "Religion and Modern Life," will speak at the For um, Wednesday, March 24. Following this the series of talks on "Progress," temporarily dropped will be resumed, probably early in April. Dr. Hattie Plum Williams, of the department of sociology, will speak on "Social Reform and Pro gress," and Profesor J. A. Rice, Jr., chairman of the department of an cient languages, will speak on "Pro gress and the Individual." CONTRACT LET FOR STUDENT BUILDING Bickel Company of Lincoln Will Con struct Activities Structure At Ag College The student activities building which is to be erected at the College of Agriculture will be constructed by the Bickel Construction Company of ! Lincoln at a total cost of 94,350. The Bickel bid was $93,450, with an extra $900 for special acoustic fea tures, and was accepted by a commit tee of the Board of Regents Monday afternoon. Sixteen bids, ranging from $93,200 to $101,000, were submitted. Last Thursday the bids were opened and tabulated by L. F. Seaton, purchasing agent. The building will occupy the site near the home economics building where the tennis courts are now situ ated. It is to be constructed of light brick, to harmonize with other build ings, and will be one story high, with a large auditorium and a basement containing rooms to be used for social purposes. Work will begin immedi ately. Optional Attendance in East Harvard and Yale have adopted optional upper class attendance. Interesting and revealing charac teristics of the customs and mode of life of the early Nebraska In dians are described in an account of "Quaker and- Nebraska Indians" appearing in the "Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days." In accordance with General Grant's policy of peace in dealing with the Indians, a -delegation of members from the Quaker church visited the Indians in 1869. Their description of Pawnee Indians at Genoa is as fol lows: "The Indians all flocked out of their lodges to see us, some dress ed in blankets, bright blue and red, some in buffalo skins, and the child ren (who were very numerous) in nature's broadcloth; all the males under twelve years of age had noth ing whatever on. "We will endeavor to describe an Indian . mud lodge. A lodge is to contain from five to ten families, or from twenty-five to fifty people, (Coi.tinued To Page Three) HI6H ATHLETES POURING INTO CITY FOR MEET Annual 'Invasion' of Players In Cage Tournament Under Way HOUSING BIG PROBLEM Chamber of Commerce Asulgns Teams To Hotels, Fraternities and Private Residences The annual "invasion" of the Uni versity campus begins today when several thousand high school basket ball players pour into Lincoln for tho "biggest tournament in tho world," which starts tomorrow morn ing. Y. M. C. A. representatives are meeting trains this morning, but the big rush is not expected until after noon. The housing of the visitors is being taken care of hy the Chamber of Commerce. Last night some 280 teams had . been assigned rooms in fraternity houses, hotels, and pri vate homes. The Chamber of Com merce has enough rooms on iU list to take care of those who have not made reservations. Officials Meet Tonight A meeting of tournament officials will be held in the Armory at 7 o'clock this evening. Specific assign ments will be made at that time. A correspondence bureau has been set up in University Hall 105 A, and games in all classes will be covered for the out-state papers by the stu dents in the School of Journalism. Following is the list of twenty-one teams staying at fraternity houses: Alma, Alpha Sigma Phi. Bellevue, Delta Sigma Lambda. Cedar Bluffs, Sigma Phi Epsilon. Cedar Rapids, Alpha Theta Chi. Coleridge, Alpha Tau Omega. Culbertson, Delta Upsilon. Denton, Tau Kappa Epsilon. Geneva, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Grant, Farm House. Hartington, Pi Kappa Alpha. Holbrook, Kappa Sigma. Lynch, Theta Chi. Lisco, Phi Kappa Psi. Meadow Grove, Sigma Chi. Meau, Alpha Gamma Rho. Max Rural, Omega Beta Pi. Ohiowa, Pi Kappa Phi. Orchard, Acacia. Palmyra, Delta Sigma Thi. Pierce, Phi Alpha Delta. Sterling, Lambda Chi Alpha. Below are the assignments for the Corn Cobs, who will have charge of the program sales: Field House 8 to 12, Tappan, Kelley, Moore, West, Ireland, Gould, Stephens. 1 to 6, W. F. Jones, Schroyer, Bailey, Arnot, Sidles, Krause. 6 to 10, Wright, Ahmanson, Tap pan, Hoagland, M. Jones, West, Nel- Armory and Chapel 8 to 12, Nelson, Dick Ross, Berg sten. 1 to 6, Merle Jones, Jorgenson, Hoagland. 6 to 10, Wallace, Foss, Davis. Clyde Whittier 4 to 6, Norling, Spellman. 6 to 10, Neuman, West Bancroft 3 to 6, Nelson, Jorgenson. 6 to 10, G. Davis, Hudson. Ag College 9 to 12, Dick Ross. 12 to 6, Jenson, Hepperley. 6 to 10, Glen Buck. PILGRIMS ELECT OFFICERS Campus Congregational Organixation Plans For Crete Picnic The Pilgrim Student Fellowship, an organization of University students of Congregational denomination, either by membership or preference, elected the following officers at a re cent meeting in The Temple: Presi dent, Dorothy Nott; vice-president, Ernest Perry; secretary, Harold Rice; treasurer, Robert Davenport; church activities chairman, Lloyd Strom beck; bible study chairman, Flora Henkelman; social chairman, Con stance Almy; publicity chairman, Doris Scgur. Other members of the cabinet are: Bessie Bross. Newell Joyner, Francis Myers, Beryl Can non, Henry Blum, Faith Kimberly, Beth Paffenrath, Virginia Wiles, and Glenn Davis. University R. O. T. C. Unit Will Parade On Thursday A military parade will be held Thursday afternoon. This will be the only one during March. Sev eral parades and a guard mounting by Pershing Rifles will be held during April. The parade next week will be merely a practice one. out by the University of Paris. Up