The Daily
Nebraskan
WEATHER
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volTxxvii, NO. 30.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927.
PRICE 5 CENTS
HUSKER DEBATE
TEAM PREPARES
FOR CAMBRIDGE
Nebraska's Famous "Think
Shop" Hums With Activity
Before International Meet
LAWYERS COMPOSE TEAM
Special Features Announced
Include Open-Forum
Discussion
Nebraska's "Think-Shop", for
twenty-six years the center of ac
tivity for Nebraska forensics, is hum
ming this week as the Husker team
prepares for its international clash
Monday with Cambridge university,
England.
An all-law team is Nebraska's of
fering for the Cambridge debate.
George Johnson, Robert Baldwin,
and David Fellman won their places
on the team in a tryout in which six
old Husker debaters participated. In
the last two weeks they have been
spending hours daily in the "Think
Shop" preparing their case for the
Cambridge debate. The team is one
of the most experienced in forensic
work that Nebraska has put into the
field in recent years.
New Features Added
Features of the debate, the first
international contest engaged in by
a Nebraska team, include the plan of
no rebuttal speeches, each speaker
having five minutes longer for his
discussion than the preceding speak
er on his side; an audience vote be
fore and after the debate; and an
open forum discussion.
The open-forum discussion will
furnish the audience a splendid op
portunity to see English native wit,
as exemplified in her college debat
ers, exercised. Members of the au
dience will be permitted to quiz the
debaters on both sides in regard to
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FOURTH ISSUE
IS PUBLISHED
Number of Features Added to
Autumn Issue of Literary
Quarterly
CIRCULATION IS LARGE
The Prairie Schooner's autumn
number will be ready for distribu
tion Monday with a new dress.
It will be the fourth issue of the
university's literary quarterly, and to
celebrate the passing of its first year
will have a new cover, in addition to
numerous stylistic and typographical
improvements.
The magazines will be distributed
from Long's book store and the Co
op book store, both opposite the cam
pus, and from University hall, 104-b.
The price is forty cents.
Wimberly Has Article
The Prairie Schooner will carry its
usual quota of the best stories and
poems from writers among students
and Nebraska residents, and in this
issue will have several very interest
ing essays and sketches. Among the
latter is an article entitled, "The
Decline of the Ghost," by Prof. L. C.
Wimberly of the English department,
who is the author of a study, "Death
and Burial Lore in the English and
Scottish Popular Ballads," published
this summer as one of the university
studies in language, literature, and
criticism.
In the "Midwestern Writers" sec
tion, Willard F. Gostelow, an under
graduate student in the university, is
the author of an appraisal of Carl
Sandburg, whom he knows person
ally. Poems by Chinese Students Published
Chen Yuan and Kwei Chen, Chin
ese students in the university, have
a short series of poems which the
Prairie Schooner's editors consider
excellent.
That interest in literary matters is
n the increase at Nebraska it is be
lieved. Almost 1,200 copies of the
July issue of the magazine were sold,
nd it is believed that the autumn
number which will be issued Monday
will sell as rapidly. According to
the editors, there seems to be more
interest in the magazine among
younger students, freshmen and
sophomores, than among the upper
classmcn. Whether this indicates
that the "younger generation" is in
advance of the older students ran not
determined.
Margenau Has Article
Published in Magazine
A article written by Henry Mar
fan, ffirmer instructor in the phys
department of the University of
Nebraska, appeared in the October
"nber of the Physical Review. The
tPie of Mr. Margerau's article was
mnn fjftect in the Spectrum of
Senum."
Blind Reader
Ml
Walter Gran, who, though blind
since the age of thirteen, is a college
graduate and a well-known reader
and elocutionist.
PLAYERS BRING
BLIND MAN HERE
Walter Gran, Famous Sight
less Reader, Will Appear
At Temple Monday
SIGHT LOST IN ACCIDENT
Walter Clarence Gran, famous
blind reader and elocutionist, will
appear at the Temple theater October
31, under the auspices of Pi Epsilon
Delta, national collegiate players.
Mr. Gran will read "The Shepherd of
the Hills," Harold Bell Wright's
novel.
Mr. Gran was deprived of his sight
by an accident thirteen years ago.
Since that time he has won success
in schools and dramatics. To quote
the Minneapolis Daily Star concern
ing one of his performances, "He
not alone read the well known novel
of Harold Bell Wright, but he lived
and breathed life into his portrayals
of such characters as "Dad Howett,"
the shepherd of the hills, the ruf
fian, Wash Gibbs, the young Mat,
raging with anger and the tender
sympathetic young Sammy Lane
mourning' over the grave of her
father".
Mr. Gran has not always been blind
so had a view of the world long
enough to have formed artistic tastes
and an insatiable thirst for learning.
He was graduated from the North
Dakota school for the blind in 1914
and entered Jamestown college the
following fall. He studied expression
and dramatic art in many of the
leading schools and colleges of dram
atic art and public speaking.
Possessed of an excellent voice,
an aptitude for public reading and
poise, together with patience and
great ambition, Mr. Gran never de
cried the loss of his sight.
TEFFT SPEAKS AT
FORUM LUNCHEON
Former Rhodes Scholar Relates His
Experiences While Attending
British College
"I am still a Nebraskan though I
came back from Oxford in a differ
ent capacity," stated Sheldon Tefft
at the World Forum luncheon yester
dav noon. Mr. Tefft introduced by
Lee Rankin as the"man who has made
the highest average ever made in the
college of law," addressed those pres
ent on the subject "Comparison of
English and American Universities."
He added to his first remark, "I
wish I were still a student at Nebras
ka." Mr. Tefft explained that he could
not easily compare Oxford with Ne
braska because of the marked de
gree of difference. He said that the
one of the impressive thing about Ox
ford is organization. The average
American, he continued, thinks of the
pnlWe an a gtoud of buildings in
which different subjects are taught.
Each college at Oxford is governed
hv a senaarate faculty who give only
a few lectures and appoint an exam
ining board to give the examinations.
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MISS COLE IS EDITOR
Former Graduate Appointed on Staff
of Congressional Digest
FctiM.r r.ole who received her
J"i'v
Dolitical science at
the University of Nebraska and has
been taking work in economics ai
Brookins graduate school, Washing
v TV C... has recently been ap
pointed research editor of the Con
gressional Digest.
This magazine deals with foremost
nf the nation. Miss Cole,
at present, is gathering information
concerning Senator vare
sylvania and Senator Smith of Illi
nois, whose elections r.eve
strongly contested.
CADET CRAWL IS
SCHEDULED FOR
SATURDAY NIGHT
Plans Nearly Completed For
First Event of This Kind
At Nebraska
AFFAIR TO BE INFORMAL
Tracy Brown's Original Or
chestra Will Furnish Music
For Dance Program
Complete arrangements for the
first cadet crawl to be held on the
Nebraska campus Saturday evening
October 29 are being made by mem
bers of the military department. The
party is to take the place of the mil
itary carnival of former years but is
to be an entirely different type of
affair. The dance will be entirely in
formal in nature and all university
students are urged to attend.
This is the first attempt of Scab
bard and Blade, honorary military
society, to stage an informal party
and every effort is being put forth
by them to make the cadet crawl as
important a factor in the informal
party schedule as is the military ball
on the formal calendar.
The military department hopes to
make the cadet crawl an annual af
fair and as a large number of tic
kets for the party have already been
sold, military department members
feel confident of student support,
Tracy Brown's original orchestra
from Omaha, . has been engaged to
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OLYfilPICSHEAD
MAKES CHANGES
Freshmen and Sophomore Try
outs Scheduled for This
Week and Next
SOPHOMORES SET TO WIN
A few changes in the wrestling
event of the Olympics were an
nounced .yesterday by Tom Elliott,
who is in charge of the Olympics
plans. The classes now read as
follows: 125, 145, and 178 pound
classes. This change has been made
so as to enable more men to parti
cipate. The boxing events will re
main as first stated.
Freshmen tryouts for boxing and
wrestling will be held Saturday
morning announced Harry Pritchard,
a member of the freshmen Olympics
committee. These tryouts will be
held in the wrestling room of the col
iseum between 9 and 11 o'clock
Pritchard says that a large number
will be on hand for the tryouts as
many freshmen have signified their
intention of going out.
Sophomores to Tryout Next Week
Sophomore tryouts will be held on
Tuesday of next week, according to
Gordon Larson, chairman of the
sophomore Olympics committee. The
wrestling and boxing tryouts will he
held in the afternoon from 5 to 6
o'clock at the coliseum. Voegler
and Kellogg will judge and referee
the matches. These two men will pro
bablv also judere the Olympics. The
four men who will participate in the
440 yard relay will also be selected
Tuesday afternoon. There will be
no tryouts in the other events, but
all who, intend to take part are urged
to report to Gordon Larson immed
iately.
There is a good deal of enthusiasm
being shown concerning the coming
meet and indications point toward
a larger participation than ever be-
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GREEN GOBLINS
ELECT OFFICERS
Harry Reed Heads Freshman Society;
Organization Will Attempt
to Justify Existence
The Green Goblin election of of
ficers wps held Tuesday, October 25.
A committee was also appointed to
vork on the organization of the
freshmen class for Olympics.
Harry Reed of Lincoln, was elected
resident; Georpre Mickel, Omaha,
vice-president; C. E. Davis, Omaha,
secretary; Paul Nelson, Loup City,
Missouri, treasurer; Wm. E. Swain,
Omaha, sefgennt-at-arms.
Robert Johnson of St. Joe, Miss
ouri, is chairman of the Olympic com
mittee, and wording on this commit
tee with him are Harry Pritchard and
Wendell Groth. Robert Day was ap
pointed chairman of the social com
mittee ,
According to a statement by Pres
ident Reed, in the next, two weeks the
Green Gobli.is are going to make an
earnest attempt to justify their ex
istence on the campus.
Article By Aylsworth
Receives Recognition
Professor Aylsworth of the de
partment of political science of the
University of Nebraska, has received
special recognition by having one of
his articles on "Presidential Ballot"
quoted in full in a book on "Amer
ican Government" which was pub
lished recently by Alfred A. Knopf.
CAPTAIN SPEAKS
AT CONVOCATION
Blackburn Compares Navy
With Football Team in
Navy Day Address
NAVY ACTS DURING PEACE
"The United States navy is like a
football team," Captain Blackburn
said in his Navy day convocation ad
ress in the Temple auditorium at 11
o'clock, Wednesday, October 25.
The navy's fleet tactics work out
like football tactics; the idea is to
concentrate the greatest force at the
enemies point of least resistance. Ex
ceptional battles, he continued, are
like outstanding plays of the game.
Nelson made a line buck at Trafal
gar; at the battle of Jutland, the ends
played too far and the game was lost.
During the Russo-Japanese war when
the two powers met in one of the
greatest naval battles that has ever
taken place, Admiral Togo made a
brilliant center smash, consequently
making Russian a third rate naval
power.
Navy Aided Search For Fliers
The navy, according to Blackburn,
is like a football team is kept in con
dition by practice and maneuvers,
and there are also many peace time
duties to perform. Recently, during
the Dole air race to Hawaii, the en
tire Northern Pacific was combed for
the missing fliers. Ships are con
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November Issue
Of Countryman
To Appear Soon
The November issue of the Corn
husker Countryman will be ready for
distribution Wednesday, November
2. This issue will be larger than the
previous one this year and it is the
plan of the staff to put out a larger
issue from now on featuring more
student contributions.
The December issue will devoted al
most entirely to the home economics
department and the January issue
will feature organized agriculture
week which is always an important
and well attended event on the col
lege of Agriculture campus.
Through a new subscription policy
which is being worked out this year,
two hundred issues will reach farm
homes throughout the state.
Staff meetings will be held at noon
on the second Wednesday of each
month starting November 9. These
meetings are held to promote greater
interest in the paper and a closer
understanding between the members
of the staff.
Stellar Syracuse Tackle
Jacob T. Patterson, 183-pound
line aeainst Nebraska when Referea
clash. Patterson is the only Orange player who has ever played against
Nebraska on the football gridiron. He was in the game back in 1922 when
the Orange and Husker elevens met at Syracuse.
The big tackle is a world war veteran, and spent seventeen months
with the marines in France. He was wounded in action and after the ar
mistice was signed he returned to his home in Syracuse. His prowess has
not only been established on the gridiron but also on the wrestling mat,
for the big tackle is the heavy weight intercollegiate wrestling champion.
His number is 25, watch for him in the game Saturday.
VARSITY GRID
MEN SCRIMMAGE
WITH RESERVES
Presnell and Howell Score in
Opening; Half with Orange
Clad Squad
PEAKER PILOTS SECONDS
Nebraska Will Have Ten
Pound Weight Advantage
( In Syracuse Game
A thirty minute scrimmage was the
important number on the practice
session for Coach Bearg's Scarlet
clad warriers last night on stadium
sod. The second eleven took the
field against the varsity crew and
Presnell carried the oval across the
goal line after ten minutes of scrim
mage. His try for goal was wide.
The second quarter opened with
the ball in possession of the varsity
on the ten yard line. Three drives
and Howell had planted the pigskin
on the other side of the line and
made his kick for goal good. This
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TICKET SALE FOR
DINNER IS LARGE
Affair for Journalism Students
Is This Evening in
Silver Moon
EVENT FIRST OF ITS KIND
Fifty tickets had been sold Wed
nesday noon for the school of jour
nalism dinner which will be held this
evening in the SilveT Moon from 6
to 8 o'clock. It is estimated that
twenty-five more will be sold before
noon today. They may be bought
from any member of Theta Sigma
Phi, in University Hall, 104, or at
Long's bookstore for sixty cents.
The affair will be the first of its
kind in the history of the school and
is opn to all ftudents registered in
the school of journalism and to those
who are taking an active part in
journalism. Members of Theta Sigma
Thi, national professional journalistic
sorority, are in charge of the ar
rangements. Daily Nebraskan, Corn
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MISS JACKMAN IS SPEAKER
Topic for Agricultural World Forum
Is "Student Activities"
Miss Lois Jackman, '25, will speak
j at the college of agriculture World
Forum at 12 o'clock today on "Stu
dent Activities". Miss Jackman is
well qualified to discuss the subject
i as she played a prominent part in
activities while attending the college
of agriculture.
The collejre of agriculture World
Forum is held every Thursday noon
in the Home Economics building.
Trays for the lunch are to be secured
in the cafeteria line and taken to
room 213.
Syracuse tackle who will be on the
Edmonds opens the big intersectional
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Money or Tickets For
Green Caps Requested
It is imperative that all Iron
Sphinx members who have green
cap tickets or money turn them
in today, according to Richard
Vette, who is in charge of the
green cap sale. Tickets and
money are to be . turned in to
Vette at the Daily Nebraskan of
fice this afternoon between 3 and
5 o'clock.
TICKET SALE
DEADLINE SET
Places for ads' Day Luncheon
May Be Obtained Until
Five O'clock Today
INNOCENTS ARE SPONSORS
The deadilne on the sale of tickets
for the Dad's Day luncheon has been
set at 5 o'clock today. They may be
obtained from members of the Vik
ings or from C D. Hayes at the Tem
ple. A canvass of the fraternity
houses was made last night during
the dinner hour by the Vikings.
The sales have been unusually
heavy and all those wishing to at
tend are urged by the committee to
make their reservations as soon as
possible. A number of the frater
nities are cooperating with the Inno
cents, who are sponsoring the event,
by closing their tables Saturday noon
enabling all members to attend the
luncheon with their dads. The
Troubadors, a local orchestra, will
furnish the music for the affair.
KFAB is announcing this dinner over
the radio Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday evening.
Tickets for the Syracuse-Nebraska
football game, in the special Dad's
Day section are still obtainable. Stu
dent tickets may be turned in for
those in this section, so that every
son and daughter may sit with dad
during the game. This should be
done at once, as the ticket sales for
this game has been the largest in
Dad's Day history.
Paper Topics
Announced For
Arts Meeting
"The Progress of Municipal Art
in the West," will be the topic of the
Wednesday morning program of the
American Federation of Arts to be
held in Lincoln, November 21, 22 and
23.
This session, which will begin at
10 o'clock, will be one of the most
important of the whole series. It
will consist of four papers.
The first will be given by R. A.
Holland, director of the Art Institute
of Kansas City, and will concern the
development of muncipal art in Kan
sas City and plans for the future of
the art institute there.
The second paper will be presented
by Edgar C. Mechan, secretary of the
Denver Art museum. He will tell of
the progress of municipal art in
Denver.
Russell A. Plimpton, director of
the Minneapolis Art Institute, will
discuss the institution of which he is
in charge, and tell of their plans for
development.
The last of this series of papers
will be given by Ernst Herminghaus
of Lincoln. His topic will be "Ways
and Means of Improving Smaller
Municipalities."
SOCIETIES ASKED
FOR INFORMATION
Names Beginning With N, V, and Z
Posted, for Correction Until
Friday
All honorary societies which wish
to be listed in the student directory
must submit the name of the organ
ization, the name of the president,
and his address and telephone num
ber to Sherman Welpton, Temple
101, of this week.
The posting of names for collec
tion will be continued this week.
Names beginning with N, V, and Z
will be posted until Friday evening.
Corrections should be made on cards
and dropped in the box provided for
that purpose.
Kansas Rooters Will
Ride Special Train to
Homecoming Contest
Lawrence, Kan., Oct. 26. Tickets
for the Kansas-Nebraska football
game to be played at Lincoln, No
vember 5, have been received by the
athletic office of the University cf
Kansas. Flakes have been reserved
for 746 Kansas rooters. A special
train with reduced rates will be run
to Lincoln to take care of pazt of
those who will go from Lawrence to
the game.
LARGEST RALLY
OF SEASON HELD
FRIDAY EVENING
Torchlight Parade to Welcome
Syracuse Team Is
Feature
EVENT TO BE BROADCAST
Dads Invited to Participate in
Celebration to Observe
Nebraska Spirit
A Cornhusker football rally ex
pected to be the largest of the sea
son will be held in the Coliseum at
7:15 o'clock tomorrow evening.
Coming on the eve of the Syracuse
Nebraska game, this rally will intro
duce some novel pep-producing ideas.
The rally will reach a climax in a
torch-light parade to the Lincoln
hotel where the Syracuse team will
receive a Cornhuskc-r welcome of un
usual proportions.
An interesting feature of this rally
is that it will be broadcast over radio
station KFAB. Every radio fan who
has been accustomed to listening in
on the Cornhusker football games
will have an opportunity to hear a
Nebraska rally. "Cheering, as well
as the talks will be broadcast," stated
a member of the rally committee,
"and for that reason every student
is urged to be present at this rally,
and give the radio fans, as well as
the team, an example of Nebraska
spirit."
Rooters Will Parade to Hotel
The pep-parade to the hotel will
be organized by the Corn Cobs and
led by the Cornhusker band. The
committee in charge hopes that this
torch-light procession will equal in
size and spirit the one held on the
eve of the memorable Notre Dame
Nebraska game two years ago.
The Syracuse-Nebraska game is an
important one on the Nebraska
schedule, and deserving of a rally
which will be remembered. The co
operation of every Cornhusker stud
ent is necessary, states the rally
committee, if this rally is to be the
outstanding exhibition of pep of the
1927-'28 season. To be in keeping
with "The greatest year in Corn
husker history" this rally should be
the greatest in Cornhusker tradition.
Short pep-talks will be made at the
Coliseum by coaches Bearg, Hutch
inson and Rhodes.
Students are urged by those in
charge of the rallies to attend the
short rallies in front of Social Scien
ces building Thursday and Friday
mornings at 11 o'clock. In addition
to this, it is hoped that students will
revive the old Nebraska custom of
singing Cornhusker songs at the be
ginning of each class. Upperclass
men who have taken part in such
manifestations of pep are requested
to initiate the new 6tudents into the
custom.
The rally in the Coliseum is the
first number on the Dads' Day pro
gram. Every dad of a Cornhusker
student is invited to take part in the
celebration, and see how Ncbraskans
support their "team.
SATURDAY NAMED
AS "OMAHA DAY"
Many Expected From Neighboring
City; To Parade From
Burlington Depot
Saturday, October 29, is to be the
annual "Omaha Day" in Lincoln.
That morning at 9:15 o'clock three
hundred people will arrive on the
first special train to pull into the new
Burlington depot. These people who
represent livestock interests, packers
and commission men and their wives
of South Omaha, the South Omaha
high school band, and officials of the
Aksarben including the chosen king
and queen, will parade from the de
pot to 15th and O street. At 10
o'clock they will be entertained at
the judging pavilion on the agricul
ture college campus by stunts con
ducted by boys from the Block and
Bridle club of that college.
The planning and serving of the
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DISCUSSION GROUP TO MEET
Arts College Croup Will Hold Meet
ing in Y. M. C A. Oflftca Thursday
The arts college discussion group
will meet at the Y. M. C A. office
at 7:15 o'clock, Thursday, October
27. Chairmen of the departmental
sub-committees are requested to be
present at 7:00 o'clock to utlin
the -work of the sub-committees.
Dr. Oldfather, of the classics de
partment, will be present to answer
questions concerning the conditi;.is
and distinctions of the A. B. degree.
Everyone interested in this work tni
I digression ia Invited by Dr. GMLfA)-.f.r
I Co be present.