D WEATHER Weather: Fair and cooler. AILY MEBRASKAN VOL. XXVII, NO. 18. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1927. PRICE 5 CENTS HUSKERS DROP TO FOURTH IN VALLEY RATING Nebraska Loses First Place In Race To Tigers In Saturday Game TO PLAY GRINNELL NEXT Bearg Will Use Reserve Men In Line-up Against The Pioneers Missouri now leads the Missouri Valley football race alone with .a percentage standing of 1000 per cent. The Tiger victory over the Ne braska Huskers put the Mizzou elev en in first place as the other Valley schools played non-conf erencei games last week-end. Missouri Valley Standings W. L. Pet. Missouri 2 0 1000 Kansas 1 0 1000 Washington 1 0 1000 Nebraska 1 1 500 Grinnell 0 1 000 Kansas Aggies 0 1 000 Oklahoma Aggies 0 1 000 Ames 0 1 000 Oklahoma - 0 0 000 Drake 0 0 000 With the Tiger vistory over the Huskers, Nebraska dropped from first to fourth place in the Valley gridiron race. Nebraska and Missouri were the only conference teams that played Valley games this week. Kansas met Wisconsin, Washing ton played a non-conference team, Oklahoma Aggies met Minnesota, Drake entertained the Navy eleven. This week the Nebraska Huskers will be on the home field against the Grinnell Pioneers. Grinnell has met only one Valley team and that was Kansas. The Jayhawkers had little trouble in putting over a large win on the Tioueers ana this Bearg is go-, Ing to give his reserve lineup every opportunity to produce their wares on Stadium field. The next Saturday is an open date and in all probability there will be a full time game between the fresh ( Continued on Page 2) CORNHDSKER LISTS STDDIO COMMANDS Second Assignment of Students Is Made for Junior and Senior Picture Section The second assignment of upper classmen to studios for pictures in the senior and junior sections of the 1928 Cornhusker is made today. Those listed in this story should have their pictures taken Wednesday or Thursday at one of the studios as designated. All activities of each student should be included with their home town address, and affiliation with or ganizations. The following people are assigned for Wednesday or Thursday, Oct. 12 and 13. Hauck's: Ada Baumann, John Bean, Doro thy Beatty, Chester Beaver, Kathryn Becker, Fred Beckman, Harold Bed well, Jesse Bell, Charles Benbrook, Eugenia Ben ing, Casper Benson, Flo rence Benson, Blossom Benz, Ralph Bergsten, Frank Betzer, William Lewis Bitney, Vaunie Black, Lucille Blecker, Edgar Bleick, Edna Blore, Richard Blore, Clinton Bodley, Ida Bogen, Wm. Hal Bohlkc, Paul Bolen, Floyd Bollen, Frances Bolton, Lil lian Bookstrom, Walter Borg, Whit ney Borland, Zella Borland, Eleanor Borrt'son, Marie Bowden, Paal Bow er, Wilma Braddock, Helen Erad dock, Henry Brainerd, Eulalie Brat cher, John Brauer, and Nellie Brecht. Townsend's: Louise Armitage, Alice Armstrong, Helen Ashton, Charles Asmus, Helen Auro, Lois Aura, Bruce Austin, Cor nelia Ayers, Don Avers, Florence Ay ton, Geo. Ayton, Eugene Boch, Edna Backer, Walter Balls, Hettie Bailey, Willard Bailey, Leighton Baker, Paul Baker, Ruth Baker, Lawrence Bak wcll, Elmer Baldwin, Gladys Baldwin, Jessie Baldwin, Mary Ball, Alan Bal lard, Harriet Ballich, Marie Ban croft, Edna Barnes, Willard Barnes, Ralph Barry, Clarence Bartlett, Mrs. Baskett, Gifford Baas, Newell Bat tles, Hildegarde Baumgartner, Doro thy Bax, Caroline Beach, Audrey Bealeg, and Oura BealL Iron Sphinx Meat To Plan Enforcing Green Cap Rule The Iron Sphinx will hold a meeting tonight at which a list of freshmen who are without green cap will be compiled. All freeh nen who have not attended to this matter are strongly urged to do so before drastic meajures be come necessary. Intensive Campaign Colonel Is Waged, Election of Chairman To Represent Nebraska At National Student Council Convention Is Position Second In Interest. By the Rag Man Wiles and coquetry are the sched uled order of the day in the vicinity of the Temple today where the six candidates for honorary colonel will take the field in a day's race whose results will not be known until the Military Ball the first week in De cember. Intensive campaigns were waged over the week-end by the six candid dates despite the absence of a con siderable portion of the voting strength of the campus for the Mis souri game. Six in the running makes it anybody's race. From reports Mon day, all six are willing to make it a race. Freshmen will learn today for the first time how valuable their in fluence may be in assuring success to the military ball. Sophomores in uniform will have their last chance to be mistaken as freshmen. And juniors and seniors will find that all candi dates know them. Second in interest to the election of the honorary colonel will be the balloting for a chairman to represent Nebraska at the national student council convention here in December. Names of four popular campus sen iors are on the ballot. Little cam paigning has been done for them as the nominations were made by the (Continued on Page 2) SECOND RACE TO . BE HELD TODAY Hare and Hound Race Will Be Over New Course and Is To Be Longer MORE TRICKS ARE ADDED The second of the Hare and Hound races to be held as a part of the new and extensive intra-mural athletic program, will be held today at 4:15 o'clock. Martin Janulewitz and Lewis Etherton, who are the hares for this week have gone over the new course and have added a great many more tricks so that the race for this week will be much longer than the first one. Everyone interested is urged to be out for the race. Each fraternity is expected to fur nish transportation for its own men and as many additional cars as pos sible, as the race will end in the country. The race will be called in front of Belmont School on North 14 th street. Those who wish to watch the race may see most of it from Belmont bilL Students May View Jupiter This Evening A chance for university students and the general public to view the planet, Jupiter, will be offered by the campus observatory this evening from 7 to 10 o'clock. Provided the skies are clear, an observation will be made, and everybody interested is invited to attend. At 8 o'clock, a lecture with lantern slides will be given concerning Jupi ter. This will explain the various characteristics of the planet, and make the observation of more inter est to those who come. A particularly favorable position of Jupiter makes it easy to examine the planet at this time. Preparations for a good sized crowd have been made. American Idea Is The Government, "The American idea is that the cit- themselves are the govern ment," stated Miss Edna D. Bullock of the Legislative Reference Bureau in a radio talk yesterday afternoon at the University studio. This talk is the continuation of a series that she hnn been eivine on the American-citi zen and the American government. "There may be a few individuals in various countries who advocate the abolition of all governments in all forms," Miw Bullock continued, "but what they may never have known or. what they have forgotten i.it the intellect needs to be di luted with horse sense to be useful or safe. "W are not born with any sense f h rio-hts of others. Our early years are occupied with our own needs and desires, we nave 10 q tncrht that we must regard the needs and desires of others. Even many creatures of the ficjd and forest co nt with their own kind for mu tual benefit and protection. "The purpose of government is w -oir- tht. world fit to live in. Our fathers recognized this when they laid the frame work ol our leaerai For Honorary With Six in Race 'EYE-OPENER' IS CLEVER AW6WAN First Issue Contains Many Unusual Features and Witty Sketches ILLUSTRATIONS ARE GOOD The first issue of the Awgwan, titled "The Eye-Opener" went on sale Monday morning at book stores and magazine stands near the campus, and down town. The staff, heaJed by Munro Kezer, edixr, turned out a magazine containing twenty-eight pages of printed n.atter and illustra tions, mainly local in content. The The first issue of the magazine i3 larger than issues of preceding years. The cover, a charming co-ed in the midst of her luggage, with a "Ne braska" pennant much in evidence, was the work of Alan Klein. Victor Seymour's "Ethcrial New," is one of the finest pieces of humor in the magazine, and is a witty sketch of events happening in the other world. Ethelyn Ayres' parody of Milt Gross modern diction, using Social Sciences building as the locale, is one of the cleverest parodies yet appearing in the Awgwan. Lloyd Kennedy, world traveller, has two good poems, while a take-off of campus 'belles' as a par ody of Edgar Allan Poe's "Bells" is the work of Florence Seward. There is a variety of short jokes and sketches, and many fine illustra tions. Margaret Emery's full page "Co-ed" is i feature, besides car toons, and a clever fly-leaf drawing by Tom McCoy. HENDRICKS' ARTICLE PRINTED Modern Methods of Producing Power T J I Du(... In the October 1927 issue of School-Science and Mathematics, ap pears an article written by Dr. Ber nard Clifford Hendricks, associate professor of chemistry at the Uni versity of Nebraska. The subject of this article is "The Chemistry of Power", and deals with problems of energy and time. Doc tor Hendricks, in this story, gives examples of heat producing, time saving, power giving, and service ren dering appliances. He tells of meth ods now modern in use and he also relates about ancient methods of pro ducing power. YJ.G.A. HEAD TO SPEAK HERE F. C Stevenson, State Secretary, Will Arrivo Wednesday Morning Mr. F. C. Stevenson, the state sec retary of the Y. M. C. A., will arrive in Lincoln Wednesday for a visit to the University. A program of events have been planned for Mr, Stevenson. At 7 o'clock Wednesday morning he will address the Y. M. C. A. cabinet. He will be available during the day for short interviews with "Y" Cabinet members about the proposed work for the organization. Mr. Stevenson maintains his head quarters in Omaha. He travels exten sively throughout the state in the interest of the Y.. M. C. A. This is his second year as state secretary in Nebraska. He was formerly Y. M. C. A. secretary at Ames, Iowa. Horace Rainey, 31 years of age, and president of Franklin college is the youngest college president in the United States. That Citizens are Says Miss Bullock constitution. They had a new thought in government Government was to derive its powers from the consent of the governed, and its sole object was to enable us to be secure in the enjoyment of our rights and the ex ercise of our privileges. "The consentrof theljovenieTran ue obtained in its entirety only when the citizens do their duty and parti cipate in government. The most com monly recognized form of participa tion in government is that of going to the polls and choosing the persons who are to make, administer and en force our laws. Since the passage of the nineteenth amendment to our p"rtlcution, no citizen of the United States can be denied the right to vote in elections by reason of race, color, or sex. A few states make some restrictions, but most of the citizens of the United States are entitled to vote. "In the country as a whole in 1926, which was an off year in poli tics, of approximately 62,000,000 eli gible voters, about 40,00,000 voted. In the years 1880 to 1890 about 80 percent of the eligible voters of the (Continued on Page 2) Professor Hertzler Will Speak at Vespers Dr. J. O. Hertzler of the de partment of sociology will speak on "Self-Realization and Self-Investment" at the weekly Vespers service this evening at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall. Mis3 Irene Armes, national secretary of tha Y. W. C. A., will also speak for a, few minutes. Ruth Shallcross wiu lead. Mu sic will be furnished by the Ves pers choir. RAMSAY TO SPEAK ON CO-EDOCATION World Forum Will Hear Address By Instructor in Department Of Dramatic 'Art "The Reasons Why H Prefer Co education," will be the subject of the talk to be given by Mr. Ray Ramsay, instructor in the Dramatic Art de partment, at World Forum. Mr. Ram say is well known to the student body of the University through his success, in dramatics. Mr. Ramsay is talking on the 'pro' side of co-education. According to i his predictions on the subject, he plans to spring some surprises. Miss Zora Schaupp, instructor in the Philosophy department, will talk the Wednesday following, October 19, taking the 'con' side of the ques tion of co-education. Miss Schaupp graduated from the University of Ne braska recently and is now connec ted with the Philosophy department. As both of these speakers are known to the students, a large crowd can be expected. The meetings, which are held at the Grand Hotel are open to all stu dents who are interested in these topics. Tickets may be purchased at the Y. M. C. A. office in the Temple the Y. W. C. A. office in Ellen Smith Hall, and at Vespers. Tickets are twenty-five cents. Varsity Fall Frolic Offers New Features An orchestra soothing the swaying crowd with romantic strains of a moonlight waltz, then turning them to life and frenzy with a fast, catchy fox-trot. Freshmen undergoing the joy or tragedy of their first blind date; freshmen trying to make an impression on the sophisticated sor ority girL Upperclassmen doing about the same thing. The refreshment committee very busy replenishing the cider glasses and plates of dough nuts. Colored lights throwing soft shadows over failing leaves. Such is a glimpse into one of the most popular social functions of the initial monih of the school year, a portrayal of one of the older tradi tions of the campus, the "Varsity Fall Frolic." Fall Frolic Is Saturday The "Varsitv Fall Frolic" will be held next Saturday evening, October 15, in the Coliseum. Tracy Brown s Merrv-Makers from Omaha will pro vide dance music. Special entertain ment will feature the intermission. Everv effort is beine made by the Varsity Dance committee to make the Varsity Fall Frolic a successful opener to a series of similar parties which will be distributed throughout the school year, and in which the en tire student body participates. SOCIAL WORK GROUP MEETS Nebraska Conference At Beatrice Hears Unirersity People The Nebraska Conference of So cial Work, is holding a meeting in Beatrice, which began Sunday and ending today. Several University people are taking p- rt in the confer ence. Miss Agnes Herrick of the Univer sity sociology department will deliver a lecture to the meeting this morning and Dr. Hattie Plum will lead a dis cussion -group.- Dr.- Zora Schaupp, also of the University was on yesterday's program. Second Convocation At Agricultural College Will Be Held Thursday The second Agricultural College convocation will be held Thursday mornine at 11 o'clock, in the Student Activities building. An entire musical program has been arranged, which is something different according to Pro fessor H. E. Bradford, who is in charge cf all Agricultural college convocations. The program will consist of a vocal solo by Miss Katherine Dean, contral to: a trumpet solo by Don Campbell- and a violin solo by Miss Francis Smith. Mrs. R. E. Sturdevant will play the accompaniment. RECORDS TO GET CLOSE CHECKING Student Delinquencies Will Be Carefully Handled By New Method REPORTS GO TO PARENTS Student delinquencies will be more closely checked than ever before, ac cording to T. J. Thompson, Dean of Student Affaics. A different method of handling the, failures will be used this year. Cards will be sent to both stu dents and parents informing them of delinquencies, conditions, failures, and incompletes. On these cards are enumerated reasons fir the trouble. These include outside work, other ac tivities, health, attendance, attitude, industry, previous preparation, daily preparation, use of automobile, and living conditions. This information is received from the student's instruc tors. It is believed that this system will pro'.c more successful ti'sn any other used to date. Letters Will Go to Parents In a letter sent to parents of stu dents at the time of registration ap pears the following rules dealing with scholarship: "Whenever at the mid dle or end of any semester a student is delinquent in ' two-fifths or more of his hours of registration his name is automatically dropped from the rolls of the University"; also, "A student whose grades are less than 70 percent in one-half or more of his hours of registration, is placed on probation": and further, "a stu dent dropped from the University for scholastic reasons may petition the Committee on Scholarship for re instatement. Such re-instatement will, however, be granted only in ex ceptional cases." AWGWAN IS READY FOR DISTRIBUTION Students Who Have Not Subscribed May Still Do So At Long's Book Store "The Eye-Opener", first issue of this year's Awgwan is ready for dis tribution to subscribers in Long's College Book store and for sale on all magazine stands in the city, Hal F. Childs, business manager of the Awgwan, announced Monday. Students who failed to get sub scriptions during the recent cam paign may subscribe at Long's Book store, Mr. Childs stated, and get their first copies at the same time. Frat ernities and sororities wishing to take block subscriptions may get them at the Awgwan table in Long's and they will delivered at once. Twenty-five copies of each issue are delivered for twenty-five dollars. A new block offer has been made for the benefit of smaller organizations which offers a block of fifteen sub scriptions for the year for sixteen dollars. Representatives of the business staff of the Awgwan will be on duty all day Tuesday in Long's. Subscrib ers should get their copies at Long's Book store. Mail subscriptions will go out Wednesday. Reckless Driving; at Purdue Reckless driving by Purdue Uni versity students in their "rattletrap collegiate" cars was one of the princ ipal subjects brought before the city council of West Lafayette. Orders were issued to the police department to arrest all violators of the speed and reckless driving law. Russian-born Woman Tells Tragic And Melodramatic Story of Life Editor's Note: In the pursu ance of their assignments stu dents of journalism often come across bits of life that are quite foreign to campus routine. In teresting and sometimes trap- ic these incidents are as stray beams from life's windows. Such is the following interview. Born in Russia, orphaned at the age of 15, taken by her Greek-Catho lic uncle and sold for seven rubles to a blacksmith, exiled to Siberia for preaching, escaping to Germany and then to America, runs the tragic and melodramatic life-story of Mrs. Leb- ezna M. Holofkof, who is now a res ident of this city. "My story is worth half a million dollars," she declared as she s&t in her one-room living quarters where she gains a livelihood by sewing ba hair-cutting. "I have ben offered thousands up on thousands at dollars for ray life history by religious organizations. I intend to have it written up in book form when I have time, and if I get paid enough." Story Is Unnqua Whether true cr not, her story is Professor R. C. Blood Will Speak In Chicago Prof. R. C. Blood of the college of business administration will speak Wednesday evening In Chicago be fore the International Direct Mail Advertising Association convention and the national association of Tea chers of Marketing and Advertising. The subject of his paper will be "Teaching Direct Mail Advertising to University Students." Candidates for Election Convention Representative Robert Davenport Wayne Gratigney George Johnson. Merle Jones Senior Class President Norman Gray William F. Matschullat Junior Class President Frederick Daly Stuart Campbell Sophomore Class President Arthur Bailey LaMonte Lundstrom Freshman Clcss President George Morrison George Kennedy Margaret Dailey Honorary Colonel Janet Edmiston Edith Mae Johnson Irene Lavely Ernestine McNeil Laura Margaret Raines Betty Thornton Student Council Representative Maurine Drayton Stamp Collecting Subject of Talk At Morrill Hall "Stamps the Hobby for Young and Old" was the subject of the talk given last Sunday at Morrill Hall. The large audience consisted mostly of young folks whose interests were along the line of stamp collecting. The primary purpose of last Sun day's lecture was to interest stamp collectors in Lincoln. The program consisted of colored slides of var ious stamps accompanied by a lecture on the subject by Miss Marjory Shan afelt of the museum. At the present time the museum has on hand a fairly large collection of unmounted stamps. The officials hope to have a large collection mounted and ready for display by Christmas. 'N Book for Ag College Freshmen to Be Given Oat All freshmen men at the Agri cultural College who have not re ceived their "N" books may re ceive them Thursday noon at the World Forum meeting there. Mr. C. D. Hayes, the secretary of the University "Y", will be on hand to distribute them free of charge before and after the luncheon. Madsen Visits Campus After Trip in Europe Carl J. Madsen, a graduate of the Electrical Engineering department in 1926, visited on the campus last week after his return from Khabaro vsk, Russia, where he has been en gaged in a radio installation prob lem for the Westinghouse company. He stopped at. various European cap itals on the return trip. Parties Given By Co-F.ds Parties, which usually occur about Christmas time, are given by North western co-eds for families in the settlement district of Chicago. I unique and reads like an American j fairy tale cr an Arabian Nights story, though everything did not end as it should they did not "live happily ever after." -Memories-tif RussiaTsaid Mrs. Holofkof, "are rather sad and bitter to me, for my mother died when I was 15. Soon after, my father was lashed to death because of his reli gious beliefs. I was left alone when was 15. "Because I was a Russian Baptist. a protestant, my Greek Catholic un cle, who took care of mc for a while, sold me in marriage to a blacksmith for seven rubles. 'My husband was brutal, cruel. 'Me big lord, he said. We quarrelled all the time, and once he hurled a knife through my hand. He made me do all the work. I shoed horses. pounded out plough-shares, and made Knives. I worked like a dray-horse, and he prized my work so highly that I worked up to the time that I gave birth to my first child right in the blacksmith shop." When not yet 20, Mrs. IMnfknf was exiled to Siberia because of her (Continued on Page 3.) RTIWRNTS WIU, i Wi VA'M-! A ft U1UU ELECT HEADS OF CLASSES TODAY i Total of Sixteen Prospect Are In the Field, Six File For Honorary Colonel ELECTION WILL BE CLEAN Council Takes Precautions To Enforce Rules and Secure Honest Voting An honorary colonel, one man to represent the Student Council at the National Council convention, four class presidents and one woman student council member from the Teachers' College will be elected to day at the first semester elections in the Temple lobby. Sixteen candi dates are in the field. All student council election rulea are to be most carefully carried out. No electioneering will be allowed inside the Temple building. Stu dents and faculty members under council direction will be stationed about the lobby to aid in carrvinar out their plans. Prof. E. W. Lantz and Dean T. J. Thompson will be about the polls throughout the day. A special election counter in the center of the lobby will eliminate some of last year's difficulty in stu dents being unable to get their bal lots between classes; and will enable the Council to better check on the registrar's voter list. Each ballot will be stamped with the official university validating seal as it is handed to the voter. The person voting may check bis prefer neces on the ballot and return to the Council official table where, in the presence of the faculty advisor and dean of student affairs, it will be placed in the ballot box. The ballot boxes are locked and will not be opened until the closine of the nolla at five o'clock this afternoon. Council members will count the votes for all except the honorarv colonel directly after the closing of tne polls and the complete list of those elected and the number of bal lots cast will be published in Wed nesday morning's Daily Nebraskan. Colonel F. F. Jewett and Prnfesanr Lantz will count the ballot for hon- Miaiy uvunci ana ner laentity will be kept secret until the evening of the Military Ball December 3. Council members expect an excen- tionally heavy vote and all prepara tions have been made for it. Follow ing the political exposure made hv the Daily Nebraskan last spring the heaviest ballot polled for eight years, was cast and an equally large one for this election is the expectations of the Council. Particular interest in this election is through the selection of the hon orary colonel for the R. O. T. C reg iment. Six candidates have filed for this position, this fall. Nearly a thou sand persons cast votes for this nnsi. tion last year; five candidates were m the field and the selection was made on a twenty-six majority vote. The selection of the Student Coun (Continued on Page 2) FIRST BLUE PRINT WILL BE0DT SOON This Issue Contains Feature Article Describing Two Planes Made By Lincoln Firm The Elue Print will be out Fridav. declares Ralph Raikes, editor. This issue will contain thirty-two Daces and be a very good number. 1 he feature article is to be an air plane article describing two planes made by Lincoln manufacturers. Thp article is by John Clama. Mr. Raikes says that more ih- scriptions were sold in the first few days of the drive this year than ever before, during the full season. A new department. Great Enmn. eering Achievements, has been added to the Blue Print this Tear TM department isjevoted to-ths uiscus-r" sion of some of the world's greatest engineering projects, dealing mainly with their advercitiea, future possi- oiuties and benefits to mankind. Geology, which is closelv relnfi to engineering will be given space i ail following issues, raising the total pages to about forty. The B1n Print will be published near the first of the month hereafter. The staff is: Emerson Mead. eral Manager; Ralph Raikes, editor; k fowier, business manager; Rex Hoase, circulation manager. Schulte Urges All Harriers To Tryout Coach Schulte urges all men out for cross country to take part in the. tryoat Thursday at 4:30 o'clock. The results from this trr,t will determine who '.Till ran st t' Kansas Aggie-Nebraska g&rae rejt Satnrdny. 1