Nebraska Newspapers

    The Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XXV. NO. 133.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926.
PRICE i CENTS.
HEW COMMITTEE
HAS CHARGE OF
FRAT COUNCIL
Six Men Elected To Have
Executive Control Over
Fraternity Doings
PROMINENT MEN CHOSEN
AU Professional Fraternities Gat
Voting Membership! Plans Made
Far Annual Banquet
Election of an executive commit
tee of six men to enforce legislation
of the Intcr-fraternity Council was
the main business at the last meet
in? of the Council held Sunday in
Temple 202.
Of the six men elected to the Com
mittee, two were elected for a one
jear term, two for a two-year term,
and two for a three-year term. Sub
sequent elections will be held for the
three-year terms.
Twelve men were placed In noml
nntion for the six places on the com
mittee, by a nominating committee
composed of Harold Holtz, as chair
man, Robt. L. Ferguson, and Ken
neth W. Cook.
Six Men Put on Committee
The following men were elected
by ballot:
One Year Term, 1926-27
Ralph Weaverling, '11.
Dave Erickson, '11.
Two Year Term, 1926-28
Dr. R, B. Adams, '02.
James Lawrence, '11.
Three Year Term, 1926-29
Arthur Dobson, '11.
Robt. L. Ferguson, '12.
The committee as now operative
under the new amendment to the
Council constitution will have com
plcte and general executive control
of all fraternity matters at the Uni
versitv. and is expected to insure en.
forcement of Council rulings in the
future.
An amendment to the constitution
providing for voting membership for
Drofessional fraternities was also
passed. According to the present
ruling there is now but one cjass of
membership in the council, a voting
membership, allowed to all social and
professional fraternities maintaining
houses of residence. The amend'
ment received a unanimous ballot
Announce Banquet Plans
Announcement was made of pre
liminarv plans for the annual Inter
fraternity banauet to be held at the
Scottish Rite Temple, Thursday eve
ning, My 13. William Trumbull,
'27 Elwood, is the chairman in charge
of arrangements. A committee
will be announced Wednesday.
Scholarship plaques will be award
ed at the banauet. and the council
hopes to obtain Carl Gray of Oma
ha, president of the Union Pacific,
railroad, as the principal speaker.
Fraternities are urged to cooperate
with the Council in getting the at
tendance of all fraternity alumni in
the city this year, as well as active
fraternity members, and fraternity
alumni members now connected with
the Council.
Scholarship Ruling Discussed
Discussion of the Council ruling on
scholarship took up a part of the
discussion period of the meeting. A
report indicated that most fraterni
ties had complied with the Council
ruling in regard to probation.
A meeting of the newly formed ex
ecutive committee will be held soon,
it was announced. Fraternity men
regard the election of these men as
indicative of the desire of fraterni-
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ORR AND WEST TO
SPEAK AT FORUM
Place of Student Activities in Life
Of College To Be Discussed
Pro and Con
Douglass' Orr, '27, and V. Royce
West, '27, both students in the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, will speak
on "Student Activities" at the World
Forum luncheon at the Grand Hotel
Wednesday noon. Orr will speak
"Rainst activities, while West will
defend the present system.
Tickets for the luncheon are on
"ale at the Y. M. C. A. office in
the Temple and at the Y. W. office
in Ellen Smith Hall. They are
twenty-five cents.
In the discussion of the present
day university which have been so
frequent during the past two or
three years, student activities have
been the subject of no little debate.
Some hold that activities consume
so much of the students' time that
there is little left to put on serious
school work, which, they maintain,
ia the important thing in college.
Others defend activities by saying
that in them the student receives
training of a sort that will stand him
in better stead in life after college
than would pure academic training.
Dean LeRossignol Publishes Book on
Practical Principles of Economics
Big Sister Board
To Conduct Vespers
The Big Sister Board will have
charge of the Vesper service at
5 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall on
Tuesday evening. Elsa Kerkow,
president of the board will be
the leader.
The services will be held in pre
paration for the Big Sister initi
ation which will be held at the
Agricultural College campus, on
Thursday, May 6, at 5 o'clock.
Mary Kinney will speak on the
point of view of the Big Sister
and Marjorie Bone will speak
from the point of view of the Lit
tlo Sister. Viola Forsell will give
a violin solo as the musical num
ber of the service.
ALUMNI VOTE
FOR OFFICERS
Mail Out Ballots For Election
Of Executives Of Alumni
Association
NINE PLACES TO FILL
Ballots are being mailed out for
the election of officers for the Al
umni Association of the University.
The president, vice-president, mem
ber of the executive council and a di
rector for each district are to be
elected. Ballots must be returned to
judges of election in Lincoln before
May 28.
Candidates for president are;
Frank D. Eager, '93, Lincoln, and
Verne Hedge, '03, Lincoln.
For vice-president, Mrs. E. Horn
berger (Marjorie Lichtenwallner) '13
and Mrs. James E. Bednar (Britan
nia Daughters) '05, Omaha, are the
candidates.
Harry C. Cusack, '11, North Bend,
and Mrs. Morton Steinhart (Ella
Schwake) '12, Nebraska City are the
candidates for member of the execu
tive council. .. , ' ,
For director of the first congres
sional district, Otto Kotouc, '08,
Humboldt and Mrs. John D. Foreman
(Marguerite Dye) '16, Alvo, are can
didates. L. W. Charlesworth, '15, Omaha
and Karl C. Brown, '19, Papillion, are
the candidates for director of the
second congressional district.
For director of the third congres
sional district, Edward Huwaldt, '13,
Carroll, and Walter R. Raecke, '17,
Central City, are the candidates.
Josephine Shramek, '24, David City
and Mrs. Harvey W. Hess (Edna
Hathway) '14, Hebron, are the can
didates for director of the fourth
congressional district
Candidates for director of the
fifth congressional district are;
Cloyd L. Stewart, '15, Clay Center,'
and Harry T. Parker, ex-'04, Has
tings. Mrs. Geo. W. Irwin ( Genvieve
Welsh) '17, Bridgeport and Mrs.
Clifford B. Scott (Marjorie Hessel
tine) '20, 0Neil, are the candidates
for director of the sixth congression
al district.
WORK 01! MORRILL
HALL PBOGRESSES
Excavating Ts Finished and Brick-1
layers Expect Wall To Be
Up Soon
Work on Morrill Hall, Nebraska's
new museum, is progressing nicely.
The excavating was finished several
days ago, and the bricklayers have
been working for the past week.
At present about fifty men are
working on the building and if the
preient weather conditions hold out
the walls will be up soon.
The building when completed will
be three stories high and one of the
largest buildings on the campus. It
will be a great relief to the present
crowded conditions.
Thrills Abound In "Spooks" To Be
Presented By Players May 7 and 8
The room was plunged into black
ness as the chandelier crashed to the
floor. The dying man gasped as he
sank, pulling the table cover over
after him .the vases on it smashing as
they fell. Above a distant rumbling
some creature shrieked in the night
A door creaked, and at the scrape of
an unseen foot, a woman choked in
terror.
It all happened in a play, but what
a play!
"SDooks." the drama of mystery
and thrills, never before produced in
Lincoln, will be given by the Uni
versity Players at the Orpheum the
ater, Friday and' Saturday, May 7
and 8, for the American Legion in
place of the usual variety show.
It's a play to turn a coyisii dod
"First Economics" Giyes View
Of the Business World and
Discusses Economic Phases In
Less Than 200 Words
(University News Service)
Packing into less than 200 pages
the gist of all practical principles of
economics, Dean James E. LeRossig
nol, of the University college of
business administration, in his latest
book, "First Economics", recently
published by the A. W. Shaw com
pany, gives a birds-eye view of the
business world, and orients to sci
ence and art of economics in its gen
eral setting of history, anthropol
ogy, politics, and other social sci
ences.
The anatomy and physiology of
complex modern business are dissect
ed and held up for minute inspection
in forty chapters of rapid sympa
thetic survey.
"It is important to have a large
fraction of the national dividend,
but it is far more important to have
a dividend to divide," concludes
Dean LeRossignol in discussing the
vexing question of wages and distri
button of the national income. The
laborer is better off with 66 percent
of a 4-pound loaf than 94 percent
of a 2-pound loaf, he shows in ad
vocating that "all the factors of pro
duction should first of all strive to
increase the joint product of in
dustry and allow no quarrel about
shares to interfere with that."
Discusses Why Men Work
The first four chapters introduce
the general subject of economics
with a consideration of the reasons
for studying it, and then a survey
of the development of the earth, its
vast resources, and men as the ulti
mate master. "Why Men Work" is
the title of the fourth chapter in
which Dean LeRossignol shows the
basis of work in man's desires for
making a living, for providing for
his children, for getting all the ne
cessities and luxuries of life. He
shows that there is practically no
limit to men's desires, and that this
driving impulse has resulted in civi
lization. Income, wealth, capital, property,
and ways of making a living are ta-
ken up in the next few chapters.
After an historical review and "con
sideration of the economic basis of
civilization, he describes the organi
zation of the business world and
takes up in more or less detail manu
facturing, raw materials, trade, sell
ing, transportation.
The relation ' of supply and de
mand as determining the price of a
commodity are dealt with in three
chapters in which Dean LeRossig
nol shows that desirability and scar
city are the forces back of the de
mand and supply.
"If the positive creative power of
human desire had its way without
restraint, there would be an abun
dance of everything, but no price
as everything would be free," he
states in ear-marking scarcity as .the
cause of both the riches and poverty
of mankind.
Money System Is Indispensable
The money system in all its work
ing phases is explained and des
cribed in detail in several chapters.
Its indispensability in modern busi
ness in clearly shown by examples
of countries like Germany and Russia
which had their money removed or
destroyed and soon had to establish
new monetary systems in order to rise
up out of the resultant ruin.
The factors of production, the
wage system, investment, and all oth
er component parts of the economic
structure, with a final discussion
of public revenue and expenditure
are considered in the later chapters
of the book. Dean LeRossignol holds
more or less to the classic economic
theories, and stresses production and
more production as the great desid
eratum of the economic world, but
throughout the whole book never
loses sight of the human factor. His
presentation of the subject is keyed
around a sympathetic understanding
of the reactions of the average man,
who is the center personality in all
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into a Fiji islander's headdress, to
make the bravest man see a ghostly
shape in a vacant dark corner and
.the most courageous of women
scream because of an unexpected
movement on the stage.
The entire action of the play is
laid in a house of terrors and mys
tery, the home of the late Simon
Blackwell. The heirs must pass
three nights in the ghostly dwell
ing, and the happenings at the dead
ly hour of midnight are sufficient
price to pay for the fortune.
. But men have dared death and
high water for the sake of gold, and
the characters in "Spooks" are no
exception. The three nights come
to an end at last, and the mystery
of the play is made crystal clear.
HIGH SCHOOLS
WILL COMPETE
IN TRACK MEET
Twenty-Fourth Annual Track
And Field Meet Will Be
Held Here May 7-8
MAIL OUT ENTRY BLANKS
Will Have Three Distinct Champion
ships For Different Groups Of
Secondary Schools
The twenty-fourth annual track
and field meet of the Nebraska High
School Athletic Association will be
held at the stadium Friday and Satur
day, May 7 and 3. Copies of the
rules adopted by the athletic associa
tion and entry blanks are being mail
ed out to' the schools over the state.
All entry blanks are to be filled out
and mailed in by April 29. .
Any student of a high school which
is a member of the Nebraska High
School Athletic Association is eligi
ble to compete in this meet, provided
the contestant is eligible under the
rules and regulations of this Associa
tion. Any secondary school of the state
accredited by the University of Ne
braska may join the Nebraska High
School Athletic Association on pay
ment of an initial fee of two dollars
and by subscribing to the rules and
regulations.
Awards For Each Group's Winners
There will be three distinct cham
pionships in the one meet. (For each
championship there will be appro
priate team and individual trophies.)
Group I will comprise all eligible
high schools that have an enrollment
for this year of under 150.
Group II will consist of all eligible
schools with an enrollment between
150 and 300.
Group III will consist of all eligi
ble schools with an enrollment above
300 for the school year.
The points which will be given for
each group are: four places in each
event, including relay, will count for
points; 5 for first, 3 for second, 2
for third, and 1 for fourth.
Rules Concerning Competitors
The number of competitors will be
1. Three competitors. Each
school may enter three men in each
event.
2. Four entries. Each school
may enter not more than four men in
each event.
3. Unlimited team.
No contestant may. compete in
more than two track events exclud
ing the relay. If a contestant com
petes in the relay he is allowed three
events with the relay being counted
as one of the three. Ho limit is
placed on the number of field events
in which a contestant may compete.
The championships will be a two
day meet this year. Preliminaries
will be held Friday beginning at 2 P.
M. in the 100, 220, 440 yard daRhes
and all field events and possibly the
880 yard run. Track events will be
eliminated in the Friday prelimin
aries to eipht men to each race so that
only the finals will be held on Sat
urday. Field event entries will be
eliminated to five men in each event.
This applies equally to Groups I, II,
and III.
Rules Concerning Expenses
As to expenses, the Board of Con
trol has ruled that:
First, the immediate expenses of
running the meet shall be taken out
of the receipts. This shall include
printing and medals, etc. The re
ceipt money remaining after the ex
penses shall be distributed as follows:
Second, every team which comes to
this championship paying out over
100 dollars carfare. (This applies to a
maximum team of 10 men who ac
tually compete.)
Third, any money remaining after
this expense has been paid shall be
pro-rated among the various teams.
This arrangement will help equalize
the opportunity for participation
among the distant and near schools.
Announce Awards
The 'following are the prizes:
Individual: In each group cham
pionship there will be medals for
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WEATHER FORECAST
Tuesday: Mostly fair.
Weather Conditions
Except for light snow in the
lower Lake region and light rain
in the New England states and in
Florida, fair weather prevails
throughout the country this morn
ing. It is cool for the season
throughout the eastern half of
the country and in the lower Mis
souri valley and the southern
Plains, with frosts in Nebr ska,
Iowa, and Illinois. It is warmer
than normal in the Rocky Moun
tain states and westward to the
Pacific coast.
THOMAS A. BLAIR,
Meteorologist.
Vanity Real Reason For Personal
Adornment, Says Museum Lecturer
Development of Varying Styles of
Clothing and Customs of Adorn
ment Traced by Marjorie Shana
felt in Last of Sunday Addresses
"Why do we wear clothes?" in
quired Miss Marjorie Shanafelt, in
her address at the Museum Sunday
afternoon, April 25, on the subject
"Peacocks All," the last of this year's
series of museum lectures.
"Why for protection we all an
swer and for modesty's sake," she
continued. "However, the first rea
son is rather refuted when we consid
er that some of the things we wear
are rather poor protection. If it
were a case of modesty, we'd all wear
the same thing, but wo don't. Mod
esty seems to differ in different
countries; for example, the Japanese
woman is extremely modest about her
feet, while the Hottentot woman's
modesty is limited to the necessity of
keeping covered a small tuft of hair
on the back of her head.
"The fact is," declared Miss Sha
nafelt, "that clothes are more for the
sake of adornment, for the ,sake of
vanity."
Colored Illustrations Shown
Turning to the various manifesta
tions of vanity, the speaker proceed
ed to illustrate her points with col
ored slides. Teeth were subject of
her first illustration. In Borneo it
is the custom to fjle the teeth in
various shapes and to dig holes in
them into which silver plugs are
placed.
Those races wearing little clothing
are. extremely fond of ornaments;
for example, the Indian girls who
wear rings in their noses. Similar
adornments are ear rings, larger ones
of which are worn each year until
often the lobes of the ear are pulled
down to the shoulders by the weight ;
brass coils worn around the neck,
arms and legs, the number on each
individual depending on the wealth
of the family. Twenty-one is the
number commonly worn and thirty
is the most ever seen on one person.
The weight of these coils on. a sin
gle person often aggregates from fif
ty to sixty pounds. In the intense
heat these are apt to get so hot that
they have to be cooled, and great
infections form around the edges of
these coils. It is a case, however,
of beauty at any price.
The recent advertisement of Mar
shal Field in Chicago, announcing
the new style of four or five rings
worn around the neck makes one
wonder if America, the land of pro
gress, is going to sacrifice health for
vanity, Miss Shanafelt said.
Some Customs Injurious
Though the majority of these
customs are harmless, there are some
which are very injurious; for ex
ample, the small shoes have crippled
the feet of Japanese women, and the
small waists in vogue in the early
days of this country ruined many
people's lives..
Other expressions of the vanity
prevalent in human nature are the
habits of painting the flesh, first
used by the Egyptians and Japanese
and now "in style," to some degree,
in nearly every country; and tattoo
ing the body, a painful method of
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Farmers' Fair Committees Finish
-f Plans For Parade And Exhibitions
3
Amos Gramlich,
chairman of the pa
rade declared today
that the largest pa
rade ever made up in
connection with Far
mers' Fair would
make its way through
O street at 12 o'clock
noon next Saturday.
The parade is one of
the best single attrac
The band
tions of the Farmers'
Fair. Many people
decide to attend the
fair only after seeing
the parade, and it is
generally a great
drawing medium.
Through the parade
we try to visualize to
the public the nature
of the instruction in
Agriculture," Gram
lich said.
The educational ex
position is almost
complete except for
The prise
the
the setting up. Glen
rBuck, chairman of
the educational exposition will make
this part of the Farmers' Fair far
reaching and effective in showing the
public what the Ag college stands
for.
The guide book is finished, an
nounced Arthur Hauke, editor of
this official informative medium of
the Fair. It is a larger book than
those of previous fairs, and contains
everything required to direct the vis
itor around Ag Campus. Some of
these books will be distributed during
the week. They will be given out dur
ing the parade Saturday, and one
R. O. T.C. Will Parade
In Honor Of Sponsors
The R. O. T. C. regiment will
parade on the drill field this af
ternoon, honorary to all the regi
mental sponsors. The sponsors
will assemble at Nebraska Hall at
4:45 o'clock, and will be escorted
to the drill field by a committee
of Juniors.
A feature of the review will be
the presentation of letters to the
six high men on the rifle team,
Lammili, Shafer, Otradorsky,
Madsen, and Skinner. While the
parade is in progress the letter
winners will be called forward,
and Athletic Director rGish will
make the presentation.
NOVEL EXHIBIT
FOR ENGINEERS
Standard Bridge Company Of
Omaha Erecting Model on
University Campus
TO FINISH IN FOUR DAYS
Construction on the Transverse
Joist Girder Type bridge, which will
be the feature exhibit of Engineer's
Week was begun this morning in the
open space between the Administra
tion Building and the Armory. The
big pile driver, which will drive the
eight steel pilings was set up last
night
Six engineers from the Standard
Bridge Company of Omaha, which
is putting up the structure free of
charge, will do the actual work of
construction but University Engin
eers will be on hifhd during the con
struction.
Splendid Type Of Highway Bridge
This type of bridge, an invention
by Robert Drake of the Standard
Bridge Company, is generally con
ceded to be a splendid type of high
way bridge, although it was invented
only five years ago. The one on the
campus will be an exact duplicate of
the service bridges erected by the
company. It will run north and
south, being twenty feet wide, and
thirty feet long, long enough to span
an ordinary creek. The floor of the
bridge will be only four feet above
the ground, and will rest on eight
pilings twenty-four feet in length.
After its completion the bridge will
be painted white and will be illum
inated during Engineer's Week by
flood lights.
The construction engineers hope
to complete their work in four days,
but their success will depend largely
upon the conditions they encounted in
driving the pilings. The pile driver
is operated by a team of horses, the
company not deeming it worth while
to send out an engine for this single
job.
wagon and the Farmers' Fair.
Hick Band
winning Agronomy float of
192S Farmers' Fair.
will be handed out with each admis
sion ticket at the gate.
The publicity committee has made
arrangements to take many scenes
of Farmers' Fair Saturday. Moving
pictures will be taken cf everything.
James Jenson, member of the com
mittee has been placed in charge of
the pictures by the chairman.
Two big dances will be held Sa'ur-
day, and Melvin Lewis reports that
a large new floor is be:n construct
ed for the out-of -doer dance. It will
be worked into good condition the
night before the Fair, when tl.e Ag
College students will have a dance
REED EXPLAINS
ENTRANCE PLANS
IN RADIO TALK
To Regulate Entries From Low
est Fourth Of High
School Class
WILL REDUCE FAILURES
Propose To Give Psychological Tests
To the Students From
the Low Groups
(University News Service)
In a radio talk Monday afternoon,
University Examiner A. A. Roed of
the University of Nebraska, outlined
plans which have been recommended
by the University Senate, to reduce
the number of failures among stu
dents by regulating the registration
of students who come from the low
est fourth of their high school gradu
ating classes. Investigations have
convinced university authorities that
these are the students causing the
most difficulty.
The proposed plan will go into ef
fect September 1, 1927, and will re
quire psychological tests of all stu
dents from the low group to deter
mine their fitness for college edu
cation, and to prevent their regis
tration in subjects in which they
would be handicapped for lack of
ability.
Graduate Student Studies Problem
A graduate student who studied
the problem in 1925 found that 77
percent of the freshmen who were
sent home during a period of three
years were from the lowest fourth
of their high school classes, 17 per
cent were from the third quarter, and
only 4 percent from the second, and
but 2 percent from the highest
fourth.
More recent studies of 239 stu
dents from 142 Nebraska high school
who entered the University in 1924,
confirmed the first .investigations,
and showed, Prof. Reed said, that
there is a wide possible application
of the use of the academic rank of
students in high Bchools in predict
ing their college achievements.
Find Interesting Proof
While 80 percent of the highest
one-fourth were still in school, only
2 out of 42 of those from the lowest
quartile were able to survive aca
demic rigors for more than the first
three semesters, and these were
failing in 14 percent of their work.
Twelve were suspended flor delin
quencies or were permitted to with
draw before formal suspension.
Eighteen were in the university one
semester or less. Six failed to make
enough credit to get on the regis
trar's records. Of the remaining, 12
were delinquent in 42 percent of
their work, 7 were in school two se
mesters and were delinquent in 34
percent of their work. Fifteen were
in university three semesters, and
were delinquent in 16 percent of
their hours.
The change is expected to furnish
a precedent for possible future exten
sion of the psychological tests in di
recting registration of students into
most useful channels.
For the other great class of stu
dent failures those who come to the
university and consider the course
as a mere sideline, the university has
only one remedy and that is sever
ance of connection with the univer
sity.
GRADDATB COLLEGE
BULLETIN ISSUED
No Changes Hare Been Made; Col
lege Has, At Present, Thirty
Nine Departments
The 1926-27 Bulletin of the Uni
versity of Nebraska Graduate Col
lege has just been issued. No changes
have been made and the program r
the coming term will be practically
the same as that followed this year.
The College was first organized
in 1886, but did not become the
Graduate College of the University
of Nebraska until 1909 when the
charter of the University was amend
ed. Since its organization the Col
lege has made considerable progress
having at present thirty-nine depart
ments. The greatest growth has
come in the field of chemistry, that
department having the largest de
mand. The departments of Educa
tion and English also rank high in
candidates for degrees.
Professor L. A. Sherman, dean of
the Graduate College, says that ap
proximately $40,000 is spent annual
ly on the work of this college but
that it is difficult to get candiates
who are really qualified for the
work.
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