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The Daily Nebraskan VOL. XXV. NO. 108. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ' TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1926. PRICE 6 CEN.T3. FIFTY ANSWER FIRST SPRING PRACTICE CALL Football Candidates Devote Firt Day to fcasy Limbering Up GOOD KICKER IS NEEDED gaarg Muit Develop Someone With Educated Toe to Fill Ed Weir'. Place Approximately fifty football war riors answered Coach E. E. Bearg's call for spring football practice yes terday afternoon. Not much real work was done. The men passed the ball around and limbered up gener ally! then Coach Bearg called the iquad together and talked to them a few minutes. A light signal practice was held, principally for getting the men acquainted with the numbers. Between twenty and twenty-five more pigskin aspirants checked out suits Thursday and Monday, making a total of nearly eighty men prepared to go to work. Some of the addition al men are F. Allen, C. Allen, Bor land, Bennett, Christensen, Gibson, Gould, Hunt, Heller, Powell, Snm mers, Stone, Schulz, Sterns, Toman, and White. The practices will start promptly at 3:30 every afternoon, six days a week, in order to be over by 5:30. The first few days will of course be devoted to drill on the fundamentals, and limberinj-up work. A good deal of signal practice will be held too. Banquet Thursday It was announced by Coach Bearg that the Varsity-Freshman football banquet is definitely set for Thurs day, March 18. All last year's Var sity men and the freshmen squad will be invited. The banquet is given by the Athletic Board and will be held at the University Club. It was stated that several excellent speakers had been obtained, and that some good music will add to the entertainment. Coach Bearg has a problem to de velop a punter and place kicker. Ed Weir, who has played his last year of football, did all this work for the team last year. Much emphasis will be put on the kicking- practice. " Both Brown and Stephens showed promise as drop and place kickers in high school, but in last fall's practice did not do so very well. None of the freshmen showed marked ability eith er as punters or kickers. Avard Man dery did the best punting, with the exception of Weir, but he had a little trouble in getting his boots off in time. EDITORS APPRECIATE BASKETBALL SERVICE School of Journalism Receives Com mendations on High School Tourney Stories Appreciative letters from Nebraska editors and marked copies of their papers (one for the School of Jour nalism file and one for the student correspondent) containing the stories on the basketball tournament began to arrive Monday. The first heard from was the Falls City Journal, with front-page-display signed story by Robert McGaffin, '28, David City, on the Falls City-David City game. Editor C. E. Davis of the Falls City News wrote to Professor Fogg: "We ish to express our appreciation to yon and to Mr. McGaffin for the ex cellent report We are indeed glad to use it and will be pleased to receive anything further that any of you students have to offer-that would be of local interest." v Copies of the marked papers are oeing distributed at U 105A to the rtudents as fast as they arrive. The eopieg to. the School will be filed for reference next year. What the grand total of the Cor respondence Bureau's work on the tournament aggregates has not yet keen announced. INSPECTS COLORADO SCHOOLS Prf. A. A. Reed Visits Colleges Ask C Membership in North Central prof. A. A. Reed, director of the Extension division, last week inspect ed two colleges in Colorado which are applying, for membership in the North Central association of schools nd colleges, rrofesscr Reed is a Member of the commission on sec ondary education. While in Denver, Professor Reed M much impressed with the new hl8h Schools recentlv erected. H! rt?0r they "'the most remark D'e in the country. Three are Mtor high schools each of them a monumental building. Several fine jnor high schools have also been D"t, as well as a number of grade "''hools. Freshman and Sophomore Class Presidents Will Not Appoint Committees The presidents of both the sopho more and freshman classes informed The Daily Nebraskan Monday eve ning that they will appoint no class committees this semester. Keith Rosenberg, freshman president, also stated that unless there is a general demand for a class meeting, he will not call one. Mr. Rosenberg said that it seems to have been customary for several years to appoint committees, al though the fact that they are use less has been generally recognized. He declared that he had wondered whether it had ever occurred to any one that the best way to drop this useless tradition was not to appoint any. He is willing to help abolish the committees, by refusing to con tinue the practice. Ira Gilliland, president of the sophomore class, said that he had prepared a list of committees but such a large proportion of the per sons named were found to be ineligi ble that he simply decided to drop the matter. He did not feel that there was anyt urgent need for any of them. The sophomores attempted to hold a crass meeting last week but only a handful of students attended. Nearly all of the women present were mem bers of one sorority. Representatives of two or three fraternities were present, but no non-fraternity men turned out. Several sophomores de clare that it was a good bit of a fizzle. MORRILL HALL IS FEATURED Principal Article in March Alumnus Devoted to New Museum RADIO STATION NEEDED The March number of The Nebras ka Alumnus was mailed yesterday. It features an article on Morrill Hall, Nebraska's new museum, work on which is to be started this spring. The contract for the new building, which is to be a memorial to Charles H. Morrill of Stromsburg, who has made large contributions to the Uni versity museum, will be let March 22. The new museum, which is to be a three-story structure, will be lo cated on the corner of Fifteenth and U streets. In general architectural appearance it will resemble Bessey Hall, although it will be considerably larger. In addition to housing the museum specimens, Morrill Hall will be the new home of the School of Fine Arts. Reports on Charter Day Another interesting section is that devoted to the correspondence on the 1926 Charter Day program, broad cost by remote control over KFAB Lincoln, and KFKX, Hastings. The correspondents were especially de lighted to hear the old U-Hall bell. Taking the enthusiasm of the alum ni's comments as its cue, the Al umnus declares that a radio broad casting station owned and operated by the University is a real need. The resignation of Dean Seavey of the Law College, and the appoint ment of Prof. H. H. Foster in his place is featured in another article. The University section gives the NeT braska glee club schedule, and a rec ord of the season's performance of the football and wrestling teams, and Coach Schulte's track team at the Il linois Relays. Other intresting features appear ing in the March issue are: "These Fifty Years," a review of a book of that title written by a Nebraska man, Robert P. Crawford, '17, assistant professor of agricultural journalism, about . the University; "Familiar Campus Personages," featuring com mentaries on the work of Dr. Ray mond G. Clapp, Dr. Louise Pffund, and Dr. G. E. Condra; the fraternity building program; a section of old time pictures, including one of Senior Sneak Day, 1900; and the regular alumni news. Fortna Is Employed By Livestock Farm Clarence L. Fortna, a graduate of the College of Agriculture at the end of the first semester, is now in the employ of the Mosdale Farms Inc., at Lockfield, California.. The Mosdale Farms Inc., is one of the largest livestock farms in the coun try and Mr. Fortna has been employ ed as herdsman. There is considerable demand throughout the country for compe tent men with an agricultural train ing. The value of an agricultural education is becoming more and more evident in this country where agri cultural culture is the great funda mental industry, professors in the College of Agriculture say. CITIZENS TAKE ACTIONIN DRIVE AGAINST R.O.T.C. Will Send Out Ten Thousand Petitions to Get Question Before People HIT COMPULSORY ASPECT Leaders Make it Clear They Do Not Want to Abolish Drill, but Make it Elective Ten thousand petitions for a public vote to abolish compulsory military training in the University will be sent throughout Nebraska by the commit tee of citizens organized against the compulsory feature of military training, according to Rev. Harry Huntington, Methodist student pas tor. In order that the question may be voted upon at the general election next "fall, it will be necessary for about thirty-two thousand voters to sign the petitions. Rev. Mr. Hunt ington, chairman of the committee, expressed himself as being confident that the required number of signa tures would be obtained with no dif ficulty. Avery For Compulsion When asked for his opinion of the movement, Chancellor S. Avery stated, "I believe in military science as a required subject. I think it is a wise provision and a moral obliga tion." The chief objection of Rev. Mr. Huntington is that the military pro gram is being carried too far since the last war. "There is more of an attempt at preparedness now than there was be fore the world war," said Rev. Mr. Huntington. "It is un-American to compel any section of people to take military science. It is virtually con scription, in peace, which is against the ideals of American democracy," he continued. "If University Netudents can be compelled to take military science, other young men of America could be made to take it. "There are sixty-three R, O. T. C. units in high schools throughout the United States, and it is the hope of the committee that the passing Of the law will discourage further growth of military training in high schools." "Above-Board Campaign" A student vote on the question of compulsory military training was taken at the University of Ohio. A large majority of the students voted aganst it, he says. The compulsory feature of military science has been removed at the University of Wiscon sin. "Our campaign to abolish compul sory military science in the Univer sity will be conducted in an open-above-board, and honorable man ner," declared Rev. Mr. Huntington. "It is my hope that both sides will openly set forth their reasons for wishing it as they do." Members of the committee explain ed that they have no intention of removing military science from the University. They merely wish it to be given as any other subject is giv en, subject to each student's choice. American Leg-ion Protests The Associated Press quotes Clint on Brome, commander of Omaha Post No. 1, American Legion, as saying in regard to the movement: "There Is every reason to believe that the movement is actually foster ed in its inception and being direct ed by individuals closely identified with the so-called 'youth movement' promulgated and fostered by the third internationale." He asserted that a nationwide movement has been inaugurated to destroy the national defense act and strip our country of its capacity to assert and maintain the right of self government. MARCH AMERICAN SPEECH ODT Numbers of Local Interest in Maga zine Edited by Louisa Pound The March number of American Speech contains several numbers of local interest. Its leading contents are: "Pedantic Study of Two Critics" (H. L. Mencken and Stuart P. Sher man) by Joseph Warren Beach; "American Greek" by Sotirios S. LonUs, of the Greek Daily News paper, Atlantis; "Education Lingo" by Olivia Pound f Lincoln High School; "Dean Swift and the Gold fish" by Raymond Pearl; "Spook English,"" by Lowry C. Wimberly; "Kike" by J. H. A. Lacher; "The 1870's in American Literature" by Marion Murray; "Birds and Frogs" (a poem) by II. B. Alexander; and "Some Notes on American R" by John S. Kenyon. Arthur Kennedy contributes a re view of G. P. Krapp's "English Lan guage in America" and there are brief notices, miscellaneous short articles, and the Contributors' Column. Says Dormitory System Necessary To Success of Deferred Pledging Time Limit on Senior Scholarship Extended The time limit on applications for the gift scholarship of $50, which is offered annually by the Faculty Women's Club to any sen ior woman who is wholly or par tially self-supporting, has been extended to April 1. The scholarship will be paid in two twenty-five dollar installments at the beginning of each semester of tl.i senior year. Application blanks may be ob tained at Dean Heppner's office and credentials should be pre sented in person to the chairman of the scholarship committee, Mrs. C. J. Frankforter. IMMFRAT RELAYS TO BE HELD LATER Events Postponed Because of Spring Football Practice; Definite Date Not Set The interfraternity relays that were to be run off the early part of this week have been indefinitely post poned on acount of spring football interfering. There are men who are going out for football that would have been entered by their fraterni ties in the relays. It is not known just when Coach Schulte will hold the relays. Another factor in postponing the events is the fact that they can be run on the outdoor track in a few weeks. The Varsity is already taking to the oval for its workouts. Fra ternities are urged to keep their men working. SCHOOL OF HDSIC POPILS IH RECITAL Third Public Program of Year To Be Presented In The Temple Wednesday Evening The public is invited to attend a recital to be given by students of the University School of Music at 8:15 o'clock Wednesday evening in The Temple. This will be the third pub lic recital given by the School this year. The following program will be presented: Mozart Sonata, C Major, No. 11, Allegro Beth Miller (Mr. Harrison) Grieg.... Sonata, Op. 7, Allegro moder- ato Helen Howe (Mrs. Watson) Beethoven Sonata, Op. 63, Allegro con brio .. Wilma Anderson (Miss Klinker).. Beethoven Sonata, Op. 13 Rondo Mary Kinney (Mrs. Jones- Godowsky Alt Wien Rachmaninoff Waltz, A Major Bernice Grunwald (Mr. Schmidt') Chopin Nocturne, E Minor Waltz, E Minor Velma Wood (Mrs. Smith) Mozart ....Deh vieni non Tarder from "The Marriage of Figaro" Blanche Martz Debussy Shepherd's Song Golli- Wogg's Cake Walk - Margaret Armstrong (Miss Kincella) Wagner ....O Pure and Tender Star of Eve from Tanhauser Lloyd Robinson (Mr. Ferguson) Liszt -Rhapsody No. 8 Ernestine Levers (Miss Jones) Goodyear Man Will Interview Seniors A representative of the Goodyear Tire company will today interview seniors desiring positions with' the company. He will be in social Sci ence 304, at 11 o'clock. Students interested should consult Prof. T. T. Bullock, chairman of the committee on emplayment. WEATHER FORECAST Tuesday: Generally fair; with rising temperature. Weather Conditions Temperatures are below normal in the Missouri and Mississippi valleys and the eastern portion of the country, and somewhat aoove normal in the Rocky Moun tain region and westward. Clear weather prevails this morning from the Missouri valley and the southern Plains westward to the Pacific coast. Light snow is fall ing in the middle Mississippi val ley, the Ohio valley, and the Lake region, and cloudy weather ex ten Is to the Atlantic states. THOMAS A. BLAIR. Meteorologist. Frances W Shepardson, Student of Fraternity Affairs, Believes Fresh men Will Loose Democratic Spirit If Scattered While fraternities do not live up to their ideals, they do so as well as might be expected; probation weeks are without justification and should be radically modified or abolished; scholarship should be. the chief aim and is the true test of every frater nity; second-semester pledging is not likely to fulfill its objects unless a dormitory system is established; and the curse of the college student to day is' a senseless pursuit of "activi ties." These are the opinions of Dr. Fran cis W. sneparOBon, iormer chair man and secretary of the National Interfraternity Council, president of Beta Theta Pi, vice-president of Phi Beta Kappa, and life-long student of fraternity affairs. He expressed them in an interview with a repre sentative of The Daily Nebraskan in his recent visit here. Human Nature at Fault "It is true, of course, that fraterni ties do not realize their three chief ideals scholarship, morality and brotherhood to the fullest extent. But is that not due rather to human nature than to the fraternity sys tem? Few church members follow the teachings of the church fully either. "For a failure to attain high schol arship, however, I see little excuse. Fraternity men say that they are se lected carefully, and feel that be cause of this they may be proud to be fraternity members. But if they fail to accomplish their one object in coming to a university good scholarship in what does their superiority consist? Fraternity scholarship should not merely be up to the general men's average; it should be above it." The National Interfraternity Coun cil, Dr. Shepardson stated, is making an effort to improve fraternity schol arship. This is being done by a sur vey of conditions, to determine where each school, fraternity, and chapter stands. Probation a "Fad" Probation weeks, Dr. Shepardson believes, persist merely because it is the fad, because it is a "tradition." "The idea spread," he said, "merely through the contact of one fraternity man with another. Young men are (Continued To Page Three) UNIYER8ITY POWER PLANT ENLARGED New Equipment, Costing $32,000, Is Installed To Care For the New Buildings New equipment, costing $32,000, is being installed in the University power plant. The addition was necessary to supply the new Field Hodse and the future Morrill Hall. The new 810 horsepower boiler is already in place. Its addition to the old 1900 horsepower boiler gives the plant a capacity of 2700 horsepower. The money used in installing the new equipment is part of the $900,- 000 appropriated for the University last year by the legislature. The new boiler, which is strictly modern, will be a part of the new power plant that will be constructed next year. According to L. F. Sea ton, operating superintendent, the new plant will be entirely modern in all features. It will serve as a la boratory for engineering students, as well as its more fundamental pur poses. REX FAIR AT CONVOCATION Flutist Will Present Three Groups of Numbers Thursday Morning Mr. Rex Eelton Fair, flutist, and Mr. Ernest Harrison, pianist, will ap pear in three groups of numbers at convocation Thursday morning, at 11 o'clock in The Temple. The concert will be repeated Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the University Art Gal lery. The following numbers will be giv in: . Sonate No. 3 I Handel Adagio, Allegro, Andante, Bouree, Menuett Mr. Fair and Mr. Harri- son. Romance Andalouse : Menuett (Old Style) Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 .Germ an : Pessard .Chopin Characteristic Russian Piece Popp Human Face Changing The human face gradually is grow ing longer and narrower, Miss Vivian George anthropologist, has announced Br- conclusion of her studies of the ihuman skull. First Practice Parade For R.O.T.C. Thursday First call for the annual in-j structional parade of the Univer sity R; O. T. C. Regiment will be blown Thursday at 5 o'clock. This is the big "dress rehearsal" for tho federal inspection, and is de signed to give the new men a fa miliarity with tho procedure of that affair. t As mistakes crop out they will be corccted, and puzzling ques tions will be answered. The ma jority of the men are having their first taste of military instruction, and it is hoped that this practice parade will make them feel at home when the annual inspection comes. HARRISON IS VESPER SPEAKER Secretary of Fellowship of Youth For Peace Here Today Thomas Q. Ha'rrison will be the speaker at Vespers Tuesday evening, at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall. The service will be led by Sylvia Lewis, and is the fourth of a group of ser vices arranged by the Vesper com mittee on the general subject of pray er during the Lenten season. Mr. Harrison will arrive in Lincoln Tuesday afternoon and will be a guest in the city for a few Uays. He is the secretary of the Fellowship of Youth for Peace, a graduate of Ne braska Wesleyan University, and has also studied at the Boston Theological school. Recently he discontinued his studies to tour the world organizing youth against militarism and plan' ning a great world peace conference to be held in 1928. MATMEN FINISH IN THIRD PLACE Grapplers Take One First and Pair of Seconds in Valley Meet SKINNER WINS HIS CLASS The Nebraska Wrestling team re turned Sunday night from the Mis souri Valley Conference Champion ship meet at Stillwater, Oklahoma. Although Skinner of the Nebraska team took a first in the 146-pound and Kellogg and Tunning each won a secend, Nebraska was only able to place third in the meet. With an' almost exact repetition of last year's performance, the Okla homa Aggies and Iowa State College emerged with first and second hon ors respectively. The Aggies gleaned a total of twenty-seven points to capture the championship and the Iowa team scored thirteen points. In the consolation rounds, Kellog of Nebraska threw Hendrix of the Kansas Aggie team in 8:34 minutes. In the heavyweight class of the con solations, xuning won a fall over Reese of the Kansas team in 4:53. These two falls gave Nebraska their two seconds. ' There is a possibility that the Ne braska captain, Highley, will go to the Mid-Western A. A. U. meet, to be held at Iowa City this week. Al though Highley failed to make cny counters for the Nebraska team in the last meet, he hopes to redeem himself in the A. A. U. meet. Skinner and Kellog, in consider ing the meet at Iowa City, decided that they could not afford the time from their scholastic work. The en tire team is tired after their eight and a half weeks of grueling wo'k, with some meet each week. Of six dual meets the Cornhusker aggregation has won four. Nebraska dropped one meet to the University of Iowa team, which recently tied for the championship of the Big Ten. The other was to Iowa State, by a very close margin of one fall. Ne braska won from Kansas, Kansas Ag gies, Missouri and Minnesota, Cappella Choir Will Sing in Kansas City The A Cappella Choir, under the direction of Mr. Rosborouch of the University School of Music, will eive a series of out-of-town conecrts this week- According to their srherinfo they will appear Thursdav evening at nlls City, Friday at St. Joseph. Mo., Saturday at Marysville, Mo., and will give two concerts in Kansas City Sunday. Gets Spiders From Mexico Dr. R. H. Wolcott, of the roology department has received specimens for the laboratory of demonstration material from the Mexican National Museum at Mexico City. The speci mens are large tropical spiders,- and were received in return for material sent from here. PROBATION IS SHORTENED BY COUNCIL RULE Fraternities Agree To Limit Informal Initiation to Fifty-Four Hours PLANS MUST BE.O. K.'ED Amendment Creating an Executive Council of Six Members Also Passes A rule limiting the "probation week" of all fraternities to fifty-four hours, was passed at the meetimr of the Interfraternity Council Sunday. ine ruie further provides for the submission by each fraternity of ita probation plans, for approval by the newly-formed executive committee of the Council. A motion to strike out this part cf the rule was lost The amendment to the constitu tion which provides for the creation of an executive council of six mem bers, within the Council organization, was also passed as a part of the Council's program to further regulate fraternities. Members consider the passaee of these two pieces of legislation the most important step, taken bv the Council in recent years. Thursday to Sunday The probation ruling was intro duced by Arthur Whitworth, '25, who was chairman of the committee ap pointed at the last meeting for the investigation of probation practices by fraternities. As the rule now reads a uniform probation period is provided for, to begin on the Thurs day following the registration week for the second semester, and con tinuing until the following Sunday morning. The rule folows: "The nerin known as 'probation week.' ni in formal initiation week, will start on the first Thursday after the registra tion week of the second semester of the school year. It shall not start until 10:00 p. m. on that day, and shall not last longer than 64 hours thereafter, or until 3:00 a. m. on the following Sunday. There shall be no exceptions to the foregoing except as passed on and allowed by the ex ecutive committee of this Council. No practices or activities of this period shall be carried on outside the chapter house during the day light hours, and nothing after dark which causes any noise or disturb ances to those not connected with the fraternity. Each chapter shall submit to the executive committee of this Council, through its probation chairman, at least two weeks prior to the commencement of this period, a program of the activities that such fraternity proposes to follow during this period, which program must be authorized by such committee before it can be followed." A Minimum Loss The effect of the new rule will be to limit probation to a short period of time, thus causing a minimum loss of time from school for fraternity pledges. The new rule will also cre ate a uniform time for probations and will give the executive committee an- instrument with which they can regulate objectionable probation practices. The adoption of the amendment as Article XII of the constitution re ceived a unanimous vote of the Coun cil members. By the adoption an executive committee of six is created which shall have "complete and gen eral executive control over all mat ters pertaining to all fraternities at the University." A nominating committee consisting of Dr. R. J. Pool, '07, chairman of the Council, Clarence Hinds, '11, vice-chairman of the Council, and .enneth Cook, '27, active, will place in nomination two men for each ol the positions open on the executive committee. Two members of the committee will be elected for a three year period, two for two years, and two for one year. Professionals Seek Vote The election of the committee members will take place at the next meeting of the Council. An amendment to the constitution providing for voting representation of professional fraternities maintain ing houses, was offered and laid the table. As the membershin i nnn constituted, professional fraternities may send a representative to the Council meetings, but they do not have a vote. A report of the scholarship com mittee, headed by Ralph J. Weaver ling, '11, was given. Discussion of the Council's ruling in regard to placing men on probation who are down in hours resulted in a motion calling for the appointment of a committee to confer with the school authorities on the proper interpreta tion of this ruling. Society of Atheists A society of atheists has been founded by students at the UniverOy of Rochester.