The Daily Nebraskan
NO. 124.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 'WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1926.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
,' PHARMACY NIGHT
SILL FEATUKK IN
WEEK'S DlorLAi
Pl.n. Near Complelion for
Main Event To Be Held
Thursday Evening
PROGRAM IS BROADCAST
.. i.:- Culler. Chairman, Tells of
Progress and History Over
KFAB Station
rion for the sixth annual Phar
Bcy Night are nearing completion
..a tfco e ommittees in charge promise
that all will be in readiness by next
Thursday evening:.
A talk by Molvin Gulley, chairman
. Phormncv Week, was broadcast
tation KFAB Tuesday evening,
,t 8:40 o'clock. He gave a short
history of Phnrmacy Night and its
rrowth. At first it was merely an
nnimnortant part of Pharmacy Week,
but now it has come to be one of the
must important events of the week.
People are showing a greater interest
In it every year and as a result tne
programs keep improving.
What To Expect
Gulley also gave the listeners an
idea of what they might expect to
we Thursday evening. He explained
that while exhibits may not, as
rule, appeal to the public, Pharmacy
Night was put on for the special
purpose of being both interesting and
instructive. Not only will drugs and
their uses be explained and shown
to the visitors, but the pharmacists'
work will be displayed.
This form of publicity should help
to boost the attendance over that
of last year when 2600 favors gave
out before the evening was over.
Convocation Today.
A Pharmacy Week convocation
will be held Wednesday morning at
10 o'clock. Judge Chappell, of the
Lincoln Municipal Court, will be the
main speaker. He is an alumnus of
the college and is well acquainted
with the work of a pharmacist. He
will talk on pharmaceutical law or
the laws which especially concern the
pharmacist.
On Friday evening the annual
pharmacy banquet will be held. The
plans for this are incomplete as yet,
NEW ZEALAND HEARS
LOCAL BROADCASTING
Aaniversary Radio Program From
KFAB Got at Distanca'
Of 8,000 Mile
A letter was received by the radio
station at the University of Nebras
ka, announcing that the anniversary
program, recently broadcast, was
greatly appreciated at Hastings, New
Zealand. The distanec from that
tation to Lincoln is a little over
8,000 miles.
The program, the latter part of
February, was broadcast over the
rtation KFKX by remote control.
Loud Speaker
The letter first received by the
Hastings, Nebraska, station, said that
the program was heard over the loud
speaker and remarked on the amount
of volume that the Nebraska statior
Produced. S. C. Gordon, Hastings,
New Zealand, expressed his appreci
tion of all the American concerts.
The time difference between Has
tings, Nebraska, and the New Zealand
town is seven hours.
A letter recently received from
the Somoa Islands, complimented the
tation at Nebraska on the fine pro
flams broadcast from KFAB.
MEN TAKEN IN
N CLUB AT MEETING
Awnal Picnic Data Set For May
16i Discuss Coming Creek
Baseball Plant.
The regular monthly meeting of
l N club was held yesterday at 12
0 clock. Ten men were initiated into
th club. Inter-fraternity baseball
diacussed. A date for the N
Ub picnic was set for May 16, to
held at Crete.
PM men who earned their let
n in wrestling were initiated: Ir
ln M. Weber, George E. Branni
!an; Joseph E. Tuning, and Arthur
Jones
Thomas M. Elliott, basketball
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ln Minneapolis Symphony, dur-
its tour of colleges, has only once
emed t necessary to play a real
aphony. The student audience,
ose intelligence was thus honored
c .that of the University of Wis-
NOTED LECTURER TELLS
OF CHANGE
Dr. Smith Show Differences
In Modern Generation
From Elders
A NEW CONCEPTION HERE
"I supose there has never been a
time when the gap between the older
and younger generation was wider
than it is now!" emphatically de
clared Dr. Gerald Birney Smith in
his address on "The Old Faith in the
Modern Age" given in Social Science
Auditorium before a well-filled houso
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
"It is particularly acute in relielon
because that is such a sensitive sub
ject with so many people and dis
agreeing makes it so painful, especi
ally between close friends.
Words Used Incorrectly
"Thero are two words," he con
tinued, "much used today, but seldom
used correctly. These two words are
fundamentalist and modernist. The
fundamentalist is one who believes in
the old faith without any change.
The modernist, on the other hand,
wants the forma of the old faith
changed to fit modern demands and
customs."
Progressing along this line of
thought, Dr. Smith discussed the two
kinds of fundamentalists and the two
kinds of modernists. Certain mem
bers of each class cannot conceive
of anybody differing from themselves
and still being religious; that is, there
are single-track minds in both of the
groups, lhen, there are those hon
estly concerned about their own be
liefs, but granting others a right to
their beliefs also.
What la Religion?
"Religion," stated the speaker, "is
living at your best.
"The old faith was characterized
by a sense of responsibility to God.
With the belief that God was daily
judging them, adherents to the old
faith had every incentive to live at
their best.
"Today," questions Dr. Smith
"are we trying to shape a faith in
cluding only our wants and likes?"
The old faith gave our fathers a
sense of sin; they went to church,
making a business of trying to be
better in this fashion as well as by
family prayers and bible study; and
the old faith tried a little religious
thinking.
Thoughts Change
These things won't work in the
same way today, naturally, because
A thoughts have chang
ed. That is no reason, however, or
sitting back and saying that they
won't work at all. There are two
ways of being liberal; negatively or
by working out a way to adapt the
old principles to the new environ
ment.
"In every city," remarked Dr. Bir
ney Smith, "are men who came there
as country boys, on whose integrity
we depend to uphold the morale of
the city. The majority of these men
are of the latter class of liberals,
men who have come with rural prin
ciples and ideas which they find
won't work in the city and which they
are forced to change, to fit with their
new environment, or fail utterly.
Old Faith
Recoenizine this fact, the goal be
comes an adaptation of old faith
principles to the modern way. These
old faith principles are sound enough,
but it is the importance attached to
fnrms. the rieidity of the old faith
at which the freedom of youth balks.
Therefore, let the modern youth
adopt the principles of making it his
business to try and live a better life
nA the nrinciDle of doing a little re
ligious thinking, but let him apply
those principles to his daily life in
his own way.
Makes Suggestions
In conclusion, Dr. Smith made a
few suggestions: "i mm
would be more wholesome for us in
these days than to get back at the
real religion underlying the old faith
and forget these theological contro
versies. Let us remember it isn t
an easy thing to change one s emo
tions even though one may be in
tellectually convinced that he should.
Then let us remember that those re
presenting the old faith are stub-
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Dr. Gerald Birney Smith
Will Speak Twice, I oday
rw r.nmlrl Birney Smith will
BDeak twice today at 1 o'clock
and at 7:S0 o'clock. Both meet
ings will be held in Social
Auditorium. Students r
to be present for discussion of re
ligious questions wmcn
bothering them.
The subjects which Dr. Smith
will discuss today:
At 4 o'clock "Christianity and
Evolution." ,
At 7:30 o'clock "The Modern
Quest for God."
IN RELIGIONISM DATE SET
Next Topic Concerns Science
And Its Relation to
The People
RESEARCH GIVES NEW ERA
"Religion and science must work
together; we need religion to keep
the moral science from being fool
ed, declared Dr. Gerald Birney
Smith, professor of the history of
religion in the University of Chicago
and editor of the Journal of Religion,
in the second of the scries of lectures
on the various phases of religion and
life.
"Originally religion had the right
of way in the guidance of what peo
ple should know," he continued, "but
be need to appreciate the fact that
the human race grows fast in know
ledge and it is quite obvious that the
best of knowledge of four or five
hundred years ago will not coincide
with that of today for the church has
been superceded by the researches of
science."
What Is It Trying To Do?
"What is it that religion is trying;
to do? Is it trying to enable us to
live at the best, but how can we?
We can only know the world truth
fully through what we may learn
from scientific research.
"Truth can be expressed in more
than one way," Dr. Smith pointed
out Religion wants to tell the
truth yet it does not put it in the
same manner that science does." In
the Middle Ages the. church was in
corporated into a system whereby the
method of getting at the truth was
the people's reference to the Bible.
Any question could be"Settled by the
word of the Bible."
Science Translates
Science, it is plain to see, trans
lates the world of common sense into
strarge names. What is the differ
ence between water and the chemi
cal formulation for such? Few peo
ple are familiar with scientific terms,
and thus it is an easy thing to teach
science so as to shock the people.
Knowledge of the expert is accepted
without question, man not interested
in the scientific field, does not stop
to prove or even to question the facts
established by authorities.
"Scientific language isn't devised
for the purpose of guiding life," the
speaker stated, and religion cannot
be translated in the terms of the
scientist for it is an appeal to the
deepest of human emotions."
A discussion followed the address
and students were permitted to ask
questions.
NEW FIELD H0D8B IS
NEARING COMPLETION
Construction of Large Stage Is
Under Way; Painting and
Decorating Started
The new Field House, st'arted
early last fall, is now nearing com
pletion. The contractors are at
present working on the stage, adding
to the present structure on the
north. The work now is finishing
the steel construction of the stage
and preparing to lay the permanent
floor.
The entire floor used during the
basketball season was laid as a tem
porary measure and is soon to be
replaced by a permanent floor.
The stage, which will be the larg
est in the city, is to be 60 feet by
110. The structure of the stage if
to be such as to use the most mod
ern equipment and facilities.
University Students
Spell "Persevere"
(University News Service)
Can you spell "persevere" or "cal
endar?" If you can't, you are not
alone. 574 out of 1602 missed "per
severe" and 504 stumbled on "cal
endar" in tests given to groups of
University of Nebraska students last
fall by Prof. Oscar H. Werner, of
Teachers College. The results are
published in a current number of the
University Extension News in an ar
ticle. "Can College Students Spell T
The students were asked to spell fif
ty words from the Buckingham ex
tension of the Ayres spelling scale.
The most common misspelling of
'talew'ar" was "calender" which oc
curred 218 times out of the total of
504 mistakes. Next was "calender"
which was given 185 times. Miscel
laneous mistakes made up the other
171 errors.
"Financier" was the third hardest
word, and was missed by 397. The
common misspelling was "financeer"
by 142. "Beneficial" was another
word that gave difficulty. 336 spell
ed it wrong, and there were three
different prevalont misspellings. The
most common was "benificial" "which
was given 120 times.
"Character" is a well-known word,
judging from the fact that it was
GREEK BASEBALL
Deadline is Thursday; Time
Is Not Set For First
Round Matches
FINALS WILL BE MAY 28
AH entries for the interfraternity
baseball tournament must be in by
Thursday, April 15. There(has been
no definite date set for the first-
round games, but an announcement
will be made as soon as the plans for
the tournament have been completed,
Much depends upon the weather, and
upon the number of entries. The fi
nal games will be the main event of
the annual spring round-up. The
date for the baseball games of the
finals is May 28.
There has been ho decision made
whether the last year's letter men in
baseball will be eligible. There seems
to be a question of fairness involved
in permitting N men to play, but
these are the men most interested,
There are rumors of an intercollege
baseball tournament. Herbert Gish
will send letters to all the Deans of
the colleges, asking them to send re
presentatives to a meeting to be
held where the plans of a possible
intercollege baseball tournament will
be discussed.
Strictly Elimination
The interfra'ternity baseball tour
nament will be a strictly elimination
contest. In the first round each
team will play at least three teams,
thus giving every team a chance to
play more than the one game, as in
former years. For the first round
the teams will be divided into groups
of teams, and each team will play
the others in its group. The team
that wins the greatest number of
game will then pass into the second
round. . If there should be a tie in
the first round, both teams winning
the same number of games will play
another game to determine the win
ner in that group.
Trophy Is a Skin
There will be a trophy for win
ners and runners-up consisting of a
skin with the name of the fraternity
on it and the place that they won in
the tournament. The interest in the
games is expected to be very keen,
because there will be no' University
baseball this spring.
Space for baseball diamonds is not
easily available, which was one of
the reasons why University baseball
has been discontinued. As soon as
the Athletic Department can provide
for more ground for games and prac
tice, an attempt will be made to re
vive University baseball.
CHAIRMEN OF FAIR
WILL LIEBT TONIGHT
Report on Committee Activities
And Further Plans Will
Be Discussed
Chairmen of all Farmers' Fair
committees will hold a joint meeting
Wednesday evening, in the Agricul
tural Hall Auditorium at 7:15 o'
clock.
Each chairman will be called on
for a report of the activities of his
committee, and plans for the further
promotion of the work of Farmers'
Fair will be discussed.
Elton Lux, editor for the Agricul
tural Extension Service, and former
manager of Farmers' Fair, will talk
on "Farmers' Fair," and some diffi
culties that can be avoided in "put
ting the Fair over."
Are Unable To
and "Calendar"
spelled correctly by more than 98 per
cent of the 1602 taking the tests.
"Science" and "extreme" were two
other words spelled correctly by al
most everybody.
College women are superior to col
lege men in spelling, the tests show
ed. The superiority was evident in
all four classes freshmen, sopho
more, junior, and senior. The great
est superiority was in the freshmen
class where the women were 8.3 per
cent better than the men. Not only
were the averages higher for the wo
men students, but the women also
showed superiority in having a small
er percentage of very poor spellers.
Lest too much alarm be felt for
the poor college student, the article
goes on to say that the tests show
that "The majority of college stu
dents exhibit an ability to spell which
is much superior to the ability ex
hibited by a ninth grade h'gh-school
pupil. However, about ten per cent
of college students still exhibit spell
ing ability which is inferior to the
average ability of eighth grade pu
pils." The tests also show that college
training improves spelling ability, es-
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University Professors' Bulletin
Analyzes the Football Situation
The April Bulletin of the Amerl
can Association of University Pro'
fessors devotes ten pages to an an
alysis of the football situation in the
larger schools, together with some
pointed suggestions as to the removal
of the objectionable features.
Article 1 strikes the key note of
the report. It reads: "Intercollegiate
football is a good sport and an in
teresting sport. Properly limited
and controlled it would, by its re
creative value, help and not hinder
the attainment of the central pur
pose of the college. In its present
excess, however, it seriously hinders
the attainment of that purpose."
The report discusses the advant
ages and disadvantages of the game
in the first five sections, presents
two proposals for reform in the
sixth, and concludes with certain
recommendations as to local pro
cedure. The Association sees three great
advantages to the student body in
the game: First, it provides whole
some recreation; second, it creates
a common bond of interest; and
third, "it affords for the entire foot
ball season a clean and interesting
TRIO WILL GIYE CONCERT
Program Presented at Convocation
Will Be Repeated Sunday
The Novello Trio consisting of
Frances Morley, pianist, Miriam
Little, celloist, and Grace Morley,
will appear in concert at convocation
Thursday at 11 o'clock in The Tem
ple. The program will be repeated
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the
University Art Gallery for the bene
fit of those who are unable to at
tend Thursday.
HIGH-SCHOOLS
PLAN CONTESTS
New Interscholastic Academic
Meet Will Have Changes
In Procedure
PRELIMINARIES APRIL 24
The fourth annual Interscholastic
Academic Contests of Nebraska high-
schools, as a result of the experience
of former contests, will modify its
procedure thereby enabling the
smallest high-school to compete with
the largest on a more equal basis than
formerly.
Preliminary contests will be held
Saturday, April 24, for such districts
of the Nebraska State Teachers' As
sociation as may plan to enter, and
sectional contests will be held for
groups of counties in places where
it will be practicable for such groups
to meet.
Uniform Questions.
Uniform questions will be provided
by the University of Nebraska for
all subjects listed in the contest. The
winners of these preliminaries will
then represent their respective dis
tricts in the state contest. Certifi-
cates of merit will be awarded for
all positions in the preliminary con
tests. The preliminaries will be conduct
ed by representatives from State
educational institutions or colleges.
The same rules and regulations will
apply to both preliminary and state
contests unless otherwise stated.
State Contests May 8
The state contest will be held at
the University of Nebraska, May 8,
and each accredited secondary school
is entitled to enter two pupils for
each event under proper certificate
of the superintendent or principal of
the school except as provided by the
plans for the preliminary contests.
The awards for the state contest
will be gold, silver, and bronze
medals and certificates of merit. The
individual and the school winning the
highest number of points will be
awarded trophies.
Four Places Count.
In each event four places will
count for points. Four for the first;
three for the second; two for the
third; and one for the fourth. A spe
cial certificate of honor is to be giv
en the individual competitor winning
the highest number of points.
The contest will include the fol
lowing subjects: spelling, English
composition, English literature, algfr
bra, plane geometry, solid geometry,
American history, ancient and early
Euro? an history, modern European
history, civics, Latin, French, chemis
try, physics, botany, Spanish, econ
omics, zoology and physiology.
Students Smoke in Class
Allowing students to smoke during
a class lectr-e is a new and inter
esting experiment being tried out by
a professor at McGill University at
Montreal. The majority of the stu
dents have expressed their delight
with the new arrangement.
topic of conversation and thought."
But modern football also has its
disadvantages to the student body,
and the Association enumerates them
in the following seven articles of
Section I. The evils of the game
are outgrowths of the intense com
mercialism of the modern game, and
the over-emphasis and over-excitement
of the "big-time football"
brings on the attendant damages to
student morale. The spirit of "win
or die" leads to neglect of college
work, and "a distortion in the stu
dent mind of the normal scale of the
values of college work and life." In
respect to this over-emphasis on a
winning team the Association Bulle
tin says: "It is particularly bad in
the case of intersectional games and
srnmes with traditional rivals. It at
tains its greatest absurdity in the
"pep sessions," which exist ostensi
bly and in part actually to "put fight
into the team," but chiefly to vent
the over-excitement itself and at tfce
same time to cultivate it to still
further intensity. It is at its worst
in connection with football trips to
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PRACTICE FOR
KANSAS RELAYS
Track Squad Slackens Pace
Rest of Week Before
Making Trip
PROSPECTS LOOK BRIGHT
Coach Schulte slackened the train
ing pace of his track squad Wednes
day evening in preparation for the
Kansas Relays April 17 at Lawrence.
Light work-outs will be on the pro
gram for the rest of the week.
The prospects of a winning team
were much brighter after the try
outs Monday evening, when four
men made 22.5 seconds or under in
the 220-yard dash. Captain Locke
led with 21.5 seconds, Bill Hein was
second, and Daily and Davenport
took third and fourth places.
Glenn Johnson took the half in the
fast time of two minutes. Oliver
Roberts was a close second being
scarcely more than a yard behind
Johnson. Jack Ross took third whilt
Jimmie Lewis, the fourth member of
the 2-mile relay team did not run.
Wirsi? Shows Up Well.
Frank Wirsig went over the bar
at 12 feet 6 inches in the pole vault.
With this height in the trials he
should place in the meet on Satur
day. Coach Schulte has not definitely
decided upon the men who will make
the trip. The following men will
probably be entered in these events:
100-yard dash Locke, Hein.
120-yard high hurdles Weir and
Reese.
Pole vault Wirsig, Rhodes.
Broad jump Rhodes, Stevesn.
Javelin Almy
3000-meter run Searle, Zimmer
man or McCartney.
Coach Schulte will also run men in
the quarter-mile, half-mile, mile, two
mile, and the four-mile relays, al
though he is not sure of the men that
will be entered in each event.
Librarian Leaves For
National Convention
Mrs. C. S. Paine, librarian for the
Nebraska State Historical Society,
left Friday for a month's trip to
Washington, D. C, where she will at
tend the national meeting of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion. Mrs. Paine is a state regent of
the Nebraska society. Mrs. Jenkins
is taking her place as librarian.
Unique Debate
A most unique debate will be held
at Milwaukee between the Kansas
State Agricultural College and the
Marquette debating teams. By com
mon agreement, the subject of the
debate will not be selected until the
morning of the contest
WEATHER FORECAST
Wednesday: Generally' fair and
colder tonight.
Weather Conditions.
Low pressure and warm weath
er in Nebraska, the eastern por
tion of the Dakotas, and the upper
Mississippi valley is followed by
rising pressure, northwesterly
winds and colder weather with
light rain or snow in the western
portion of the Dakotas and in
Montana and the Canadian North
west. Clear and frosty weather
prevails in Kansas and the south
west, and cool weather generally
in the eastern half of the country
with rain in Kentucky, Tennessee.
North Carolina, and Virginia.
' THOMAS A. BLAIR,
Meteorologist.
SMITH TELLS
STUDENTS OF
NEW RELIGION
Chicago Professor Speaks at
Convocation Tuesday
Morning
PEOPLES VIEWS CHANGED
New Standard of Living Is Cause
Of Indifferent Attitude on
Modern Theology
"If you are going to be religious
today you have to find out how in
an automobile instead of a horse
and buggy," declared Dr. Gerald
Birney Smith, of the University of
Chicago, speaking at an All-Univer
sity convocation at St. Paul M. E.
church yesterday morning on the
subject "The New Day in Religious
Thinking."
The convocation address was Dr.
Smit..'s first appearance here. In the
afternoon and evening he made two
addresses in Social Science Auditor
ium, speaking on "The Old Faith in
the Modern World" and "Religion
Science".
The series will be concluded today
with a discussion at 4 o'clock of
"Christianity and Evolution" and of
"The Modern Quest for God" at
7:30. Both meetings will be held in
Social Science Auditorium. Dr.
Smith will also epeak at noon at the
World Forum luncheon at the Grand
hotel.
"Now, there," the speaker con
tinued, "is the real source of the per
plexities which face so many people
today. Until recently the standards
of living were quite uniform from
generation to generation, because
there was little change. When peo
ple wanted to elevate things, they
talked about changeless things, ab
solute authority and the like, and re
ligion came to be thought of in
changeless doctrines, absolute state
ments. Think of New Things
"The reason we must have a new
day of religious thinking is because
we have to think about new things,"
he explained. Speaking of the radio,
he asked whether we should call it a
miracle. In the old times, all things
worked back to God. Dr. Smith
characterized this type of thought as
theological thinking.
"The second realm in which man
thought theologically," he continued,
"was politics." It is God's law that
people must live in society and some
one must be at the head. From this
idea the people of the Middle Ages
acquired the idea of divine rights of
kings.
No One Questioned It
"The third realm was the law of
God in religion itself. No one ques
tioned in the old days that any giv
en church had the best ideas. In
any church we find people doubtful
today whether that church has the
right way.
"The present generation is not
much interested in a religious think
ing of the theological kind. We are
having a very definite definition of
theological religion in non-theological
terms. This is a step in emancipa
tion, but it is one which leaves re
ligion very vague, very uncertain,
and, therefore, it seems to me, only a
transition stage of religion."
New Thinking of Today
Commenting on new thinking of
today, Dr. Smith remarked, "New
thinking of today consists in start
ing afresh with an observation of
the world as we find it."
Continuing, he named the two
symptoms of this new thinking as:
Religion has within the past twen
ty years come to be scientifically
respectable.
The theologians of today have
nearly abandoned the framework of
the old theology.
"Religion," he stated, "is the de
liberate attempt of a person to live
at his best. Now if that is religion,
it is certainly worth thinking about,
and any kind of thinking about it is
all for the good."
Chancellor Samuel Avery intro
duced the speaker.
The meetings are held under the
auspices of the University Y. M. C. A.
and Y. W. C. A.
Dean Grubb To Speak
At Music Convocation
Dean Grubb of the Dental Colleee
will give a five minute talk at the
musical convocation, Thursday morn
ing, in connection with Dental Health
Week, which is from April 18 to 24.
This week is being sponsored by the
Lincoln District Dental Society. Its
purpose is to emphasize preventive
health measures and Dean Grubb's
speech will be on this subject.
Women Decide Man's Income
Women students in the department
of sociology at Denver University
have agreed that a man should have
an income of at least $2,200 before
he marries.
