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and soon tone or the T ii he Daily WEATHER For Lincoln and vicinity: Fair to-night and Friday; not much change in temperature. PROOIGAL BOMS WILL RETURN HOtlc TO ttfJJ fATTErt THE LAna - AND COW AND PIG VOlTxXVII, NO. 36. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927. PRICE 6 CENTS Nebraskan DECORATIONS TO BE JUDGED THIS EVENING Prizes to Be Offered to Greeks For Best Decorated Houses In Annual Contest EXPENSE IS LIMITED Maximum Amount Allowed Placed at $25.00; Winner Will Be Announced Sunday Decorations for homecoming must be completed by 6:30 o'clock Friday evening, November 4, according to Emerson Mead, chairman -of the homecoming day committee. The judging of the decorations will be gin at that time and to facilitate the work of the judges, all houses must be lighted with flood lights. Any organization not turning in their list of decoration expendi tures before 5 o'clock will be in eligible for the prizes offered. Lists may be turned in at the Daily Nebraskan office at the managing editor's desk. A statement of expenditures signed by the treasurer of each com peting fraternity and sorority must be turned in to Oscar Norling at the Daily Nebraskan office by B o'clock this afternoon. The maximum amount allowed for decoration ex pense has been placed at twenty-five dollars. This action was taken to in fluence more contestants to take part in the affair. With the knowledge that no participant in the contest can spend more than the amount allowed. Pictures To Be Taken Winners of the contest will not be announced until Sunday morning in the Daily Nebraskan. Still and mov ing pictures of the prize-winning fraternity and sorority house will be taken Friday evening after the judg ing has been completed. Siirma Phi Epsilon has won the cup two years in succession. Alpha Delta Theta was the winner of last year sorority contest, and plans to make a real bid again this season. C. G. Lawrence, window decorator for Speier's, D. V. Manrose, in charge of the Playhouse scenery, and Dwight Kirsch, instructor in the school of fine arts, will act as judges. They will visit the Greek houses in a La Salle car furnished by a local dealer. All graduates of Nebraska are in vited to a get-together held before the game Saturday in the N club room at the coliseum. This room contains trophies and pictures of former Nebraska athletic teams, and 'will be an appropriate place to hold the grads reunion. GREEKS TO PLAY AT WATER POLO New Interfraternity Sport To Be Staged at City Y. M. C. A. Swimming Pool Water polo has been installed as a new interfraternity sport by the in terfraternity athletic board. The entry fee is $1.00 unless the fratern ity has paid a fee for the all-year program. Entries will close on Tuesday, November 8. Practice periods for polo-players will be held in the "Y" pool, and as signments will be made at the athletic office in the coliseum. Games will take place in the city Y. M. C. A. Pool, and will probably start about the third week in November. Let ters have been sent to all fraternities explaining the sport, its rules, and qualifications. Trophy Awarded Winners in the interfraternity wat er polo contest will be awarded a trophy in the form of a plaque, sim ilar to the awards made in other 'interfraternity championships. The (Continued on Page 2) R.O.T.C. HOLDS FIRST REVIEW Regiments Practice for ArmUtice Day Parade Next Friday The first R. O. T. C. review was neld yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock for the purpose of preparing the reg iment for the Armistice Day parade nert Friday. A much larger attendance was had over last year, according to CoL F. F. Jewett, who seemed quite pleased lth tne results of the review. Col. ewett commented on the appearance the ranks and added that the first Matrons in both companies "E" and showed up good. t A good representation of the reg ?ent 58 expected for the parade on Armistice Day. The fact that the cancellor hss dircU. tfw to parade will probably encour ? the attendance, Colonel Jewett Pointed out Seniors Elect Minor Class Officers The senior class held its first meet-, ing of the season Tuesday afternoon in the Social Science auditorium, for the purpose of organizing the class for the present semester. Twenty-five members of the class attended the meeting which was pre sided over by W. F. Matschullat, president of the senior class. The officers elected are Elanor Borrison, vice-president; Blanche Allen, secre tary; and E, A. Jones, treasurer. Y.W.C.A. STAFFS ARE COMPLETE Members Assist in Carrying On Activities During Ensuing Year MANY STUDENTS CHOSEN A complete list of Y. W. C. A. staff members for the ensuing year have been announced from the Uni versity Young Women's Christian as sociation office. Staff members assist by doing their part in carrying on the various activities of the Y. W. C. A. Each staff meets once a week and all work under the guidance of Miss Appleby, secretary of the Y. W. C. A. They are as follows: Bible study staff Helen Clarke, chairman; Margaret Adams, Helen Witherspoon, Geraldine Fleming, Mary Ball, Catherine Beekmann, Elva Erickson. Membership staff: Ruth Barker, chairman; Maurine Drayton, Edna Schrick, Margaret Peterson, Vera Stevenson, and Irene Davies. Vesper staff Grace Modlin, chair man; Dorcas Weatherby, Elizabeth Peterson, Eleanor Gadd, Mary Elea nor Aldrich, Lindell Brumbach, Eve lyn Bauer, Ruth Shallcross, Dorothy Sturm, Elva Erickson, and Helen Day. Publicity staff Eloise Keefer, chairman; Dorothy Craig, Kathryn Douglas, Florence Seward, Minnie (Continued on Page 3) BIZAD WOMEN GIVE MONTHLY LUNCHEON Girls' Commercial Club Hold Meeting At ChamLer of Commerce At Noon Thursday The monthly )"cheon of the Girls' Commercial club of the Bizad college was held Thursday noon at the Lin coln Chamber of Commerce. Thirty members attended the luncheon and the short program following: Professor Bullock read a poem and Professor Darlington entertained the club with a number of jokes. Both of the speakers are members of the college of business administration fa culty. Miss Florence McGahey and Dean Amanda Heppner were the guests of hono rat the luncheon. Miss Ger trude Beers, sponsor of the club, also attended. In the absence of the president, Florence Benson, Jessie Stearns took charge of the program. Further af fairs of a similar nature were planned, and also methods of getting a larger number of the club members to attend. -.V Kansas Jayhawker team which The squad members are: of'-' . ViV Ttnffnm rw (leit to rignti t-a wu. 'jt B W. in. Anderson assistant coach; Roland Logan, Leavenworth; man, Wichita; Joe Anderson, assisiani c D... ' .... u c,4 row Frank Purma, i.usworcn; uienu uuiu, v-., ' ' ' C Cappon-Capt Barrett Hamilton, Kansas City, Mo.; Harold O. Steele, line coach; Allen Cochran, protection; Tom Myers, Lawrence; Mort White, Beloit; Steward Lyman, Cumbus. Schmidt, McLouth; Art Schroeder," North Kansas City, Mo.; Russell Cooper, Lawrence; Bcb Maney"st 7!s Mo.;"jack Schofflin, Kansas City, Mo. Henry Shenk, Lawrence; Dick Mullins, Lawrence; Wes Cramer, St. Joseph, Mo.; Guy Look- abaugh, coac0fJaLJJrence olathe; Herbert Hadley, St. Louis; George Mackie, Lawrence; Ray Carnahan, Columbus; Floyd Snowden, Abilene; Andy OlaoScrantonClark Sherwood, Hutchinson; Delmar Fritts, Kansas City, Kas.; Donald Cooper, Winfield. . . BASEBALL IS REINSTATED MAJOR SPORT After Two Years Absence Game Will Reappear As Re sult of Conference Rule FIRST TEAM IN 1929 Organization of Team Prob ably Not to Be Made for Ensuing Year Baseball will be reinstalled as a major sport in the University of Ne braska next year after two years ab sence, according to an announcement yesterday made by the athletic board of control. It is probably that a baseball team will not be organized this year. Baseball will reappear at Nebraska as the result of a requirement made by the the new conference. The conference names football, basket ball, and baseball as necessary sports. According to Herbert Gish, direc tor of athletics in the university, a Cornhusker baseball team will begin practice in the spring of 1929. The reason for the absence of this nation al sport in the athletic roster at Ne braska for the past two years is en tirely financial. Previous to its elimination in 1925, the pastime had occupied an important place in Hus ker activities, and it is expected that when reinstalled it will be well sup ported. At the meeting is was decided that Nebraska would not have a siwmming team this year. Y.W.C.A. OPEN HODSE STAGED Today and Monday University Girls May Meet Cabinet and Staff In Ellen Smith Hall Open house for invitation week is being held in Ellen Smith hall today and Monday for all members of the Y. W. C. A. All women who have joined or who wish to join the asso ciation, are ured to call on these days at any time, in order to ac quaint themselves with the cabinet and staff girls who are there and who will aid them in finding their place in the Y. W. C. A. The certificate of membership which is given to every member reads: "The Young Women's Christian Association of the University of Ne braska gladly welcomes Mary Doe into the fellowship of those who, in sympathy with its purpose, seek to live as true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accords to her while she is connected with this institution full rights and privileges of member ship. Corbett Will Speak to Class This Morning Charles H. Corbett, who has ad dressed several gatherings on the campus this week, will speak before Dean LeRossignol's class in labor problems in Social Sciences 302 at 10 o'clock Friday. Mr. Corbett's sub ject will be "Causes of Chinese Pov erty," and will include references to the industrialization of the Orient. NEBRASKA'S OPPONENTS SATURDAY & r A 'fLSJL f) f .v .' ; V JLV -' will invade the Nebraska Husker squad cn,DnnT, New Student Reception Will Be Held Tonight A reception for new students will be held this evening in Westminster house, Presbyterian university pas tor's parsonage. The affair is being sponsored by the two student Sunday school classes of the Westminster Presbyterian church. The chairman of the committee in charge is Agnes Randolph. A musical program will feature the entertainment for the evening. ?jf 4000 TEACHERS CONVENE HERE Attendance Records Are Brok en; Slutz and Smith Are Session Speakers HEDGES GIVES WELCOME Attendance records for the first district meeting of Nebraska State Teachers, association were broken Thursday morning when more than 4,000 teachers convened at the uni versity coliseum for the opening gen eral assembly. Frank Slutz, princi pal of the Morraine Park school, Day ton, Ohio, and Payson Smith, com missioner of education for the state of Massachusetts, were the principal speakers. "It teachers are to have the per sonal power necessary to make them master teachers, or life changes, they must tune in on the great powers of the universe," Mr. Slutz said in part in his address on "The Master Teacher." , He maintains that this is the only way that the teachers become unself ish, courteous to others and able to render the services which they must learn to do if they are to make a true success of the mission which they have chosen ta fulfill. SOCCER TO BE PLAYED HERE Minor Sport Replaces Hockey in W. A. A. Schedule Yearly Soccer will replace hockey as the W. A. A. sport, beginning next Mon day. The season will last four weeks. Soccer ranks as a minor sport, and twenty-five points will be awarded for participation in five practices. Additional points will be awarded on the basis of ability. Freshmen Asked to Bring Boxes for Bonfire Rally Every freshman is asked to bring at least one box for the bonfire to be held on the drill field Friday night. The pile will be started early Friday noon and it is urged that -the boxes be brought before 5 o'clock. A frame will be built this morning fifteen feet high and twelve feet across. The Innocents also urge that every freshman in school take part in the parade which will fol low the band through town Satur day at 1 o'clock. The freshmen are urged to wear their green caps and march four abreast. They will follow the band through the south gate and march down on to the field behind the band. The pa rade will pass in front of the stands and the freshmen will then take their seats from the front. d . .. -.Nk on Memorial Stadium field Homecoming day. jjnnn - Bndd Reinhold. St. Francis: John Akers. Lawrence: Carl Kull- , - ... , . Gordon McMillan, Beloit; Anthony Propernick, Aurora, 111. . ti.a Mori- TWV, rtnnrl. Ohrlin: Head Coach Franklin KANSAS SQUAD FOR GRID TILT Jayhawkers and Coach Here For Thirty-Fifth Annual Game With Huskers TEAM HAS LAST PRACTICE Nebraskans Drill on Plays and Defense for Coming of Homecoming Battle Coach Cappon and his Jayhawker crew of football players will arrive in Lincoln today for the thirty-fifth annual football classic with the Ne braska Huskers on Memorial stadium field Saturday. The Kansas team in coming to the Cornhusker strong hold determined to beat Nebraska on its own field. The Nebraska coach sent his Scar let clad warriers through the last scrimmage workout of the week be fore the Kansas game. A drill on plays and offense filled the card last night on the sod as the Husker foot ball mentor prepared for the coming of the Jayhawk and the annual Ne braska homecoming battle. A large number of Nebraska grads are ex pected back for the game. The game will begin at 2 o'clock and the starting lineup is as follows: Kansas Nebraska Hauser le Lawson Cramer It Richards Kullman Ig Holm Burton c James Myers rg McMullen Olson rt Itandels Akers re Lee Hamilton (C) cb Bronson Cooper lh Presnell Lyman rh Howell Propernick fb Oehlrich (Continued on Page 4) Reception Is Announced for Saturday Night The Wesley foundation, organiza tion for promotion of activities for Methodist students of the university, has recently distributed a program of the year to all Methodists young peo ple of the university. The Wesley foundation fosters several societies for university stu dents. Phi Tau Theta is the men's society and and Kappa Phi is the women's organization. In addition to these societies a dramatic club has been organized, the Wesley Players. The activities of the Wes ley foundation are supervised by the Methodist university pastor, W. C. Fa we 11. Among the coming events spons ored by the foundation is a reception to be held Saturday evening in the Wesley foundation parsonage, at 1417 R street, from 7 to 10:30 o'clock. All Methodist students, al umni, and friends are invited to the event. Martin Is Speaker at Grand Island Meeting Prof. O. R. Martin of the College of Business Administration, spoke Thursday before the commercial sec tion of the teachers' convention at Grand Island. His subject was "The Objectives of Commercial Work in the High School. l Prominent Member 1 " s'-t mmmm Courtony Nebraska State Journal W. E. Sealock, dean of the teach ers' college, is on the state executive committee and a prominent figure in the sirty-first annual session of the State Teachers' association. SHOW SKITS DUE NEXT THURSDAY Acts for Kosmet Klub Thanks giving Morning Show Sub mitted to Committee BREAKFAST WILL PRECEDE A description of skits which stu denti would like to r.roduce for the Kosmet Klub vaudeville show on Thanksgiving morning, must be in Herbert Yenne's office in the Tem ple by 5 o'clock next Thursday, the committee in charge have announced. This vaudeville will be staged at the Orpheum theatre Thanksgiving mor ning, and will consist of a two hour bill of acts with Ray Ramsay as mas ter of ceremonies. It will begin at 9 :lock, and will be preceded by a Kosmet Klub breakfast at the Idyl Hour from 8 until 9 o'clock. All stu dents are invited to the breakfast There is some talk of having some downtown theatre present an act in the program, but university talent will be used throughout the greater part of the cast. Students have been requested to contribute any skits which they would like to have put on. The five best acts submitted will be chosen and presented as part of the bill. The entire show will be made up of eight or nine acts, featuring a Kosmet Kluh review of song and dance hits from past Kosmet produc tions. Fraternities and sororities are be ing urged to submit skits. Major po sitions on the bill will be given to the best fraternity skit, and the best sorority skit. These skits will last about eight minutes, the individual acts being shorter. Fraternity and sorority acts must be submitted to Herbert Yenne at the same time as individual skits. CORBETT PRESIDES AT WESLEYAN MEET National Council Secretary Meets With Group at University Place Saturday Mr. Charles Corbett, who spoke at World Forum Wednesday and at Ves pers Tuesday on the Nebraska cam pus will preside over the Christian World education meet to be held November 5 at Nebraska Wesleyan university. Students from the Uni versity of Nebraska who are inter ested in international problems are invited to attend. Where are college students in their international thinking and interest? This question will be discussed in the group meeting from 9 to 10:30 o'clock in the morning. Mr. Corb ett will attempt to explain these in terests and the ideals of students. A second session from 10:40 to 12 o'clock will consider the "hot spots" of the world today. This is the sub ject on which Mr. Corbett spoke at World Forum. The conference will meet for lunch and discussion from 12 to 2:45 o'clock and at this time will take up the aims and needs of Christian World education. The last meeting of the conference, from 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon will consider the practical methods of Christian World education on th university campus. Mr. Corbett is national secretary of the Associateed Student Council of Christian associations and has been teaching in China for twenty years. Searchlight Marks Boundary A powerful searchlight is to mark boundary between Canadaa and Al aska, so that fishermen fishing at night will know when they cross the line. hLJ NEBRASKANS TO STAGE ANNUAL BONFIRE RALLY Traditional Pep Meeting Will Be Held at 7:30 O'clock On Drill Field LARGE CROWD EXPECTED Homecoming, Bonfire Rally Combination May Bring Large Crowd to Event Cornhusker students will partici pate in their annual bonfire rally this evening at 7:15 o'clock. The drill field north of Social Sciences will be the scene of this blazing manifesta tion of Nebraska spirit, which will mark the eve of the grid battle with the Kansas Jayhawks. In addition to being the traditional bonfire rally, this pep meeting will also represent the Homecoming rally. This combin ation is expected to draw the larg est rally-attendance ever seen at Ne braska. As usual the rally will be short, and as no parade follows, it will come to an early conclusion. Each freshman in the university is required to bring one box to the drill field before 6 o'clock this eve ning, constituting his offering to the first traditional Cornhusker bonfire rally of his career. These boxes will be stacked in one huge pile, and en closed in wire netting, so that there will be no delay caused by displace ment of the bonfire material. The fiery glare of this huge bonfire will illuminate a stage and set of bleach ers. The stage from which talks will be made will be erected some time today, and constructed so that every one will be able to hear the speakers. The bleachers will be assembled for members of the Husker football tram. Plans Are Made .Husker pep will be represented in this instance by fire. The enormous box-bonfire will blaze sufficiently to throw its glare over the entire cam pus. The drill field will be enclosed in a chain of torches. ."M.'i. will com plete the impression of fiery Nebras ka spirit. "People who have never seen the drill fipld on the night cf a bonfire rally will be stunned at the spectacle which transforms the drab, empty lot," prophesied a mem ber of the rally committee. (Continued on Page 2) SERGEANTS FOR 0 R.O.T.C. NAMED Jewett Announces Appointments To Companies In Order Given Yesterday Sergeants who have been aDDoint- ed to companies were announced bv CoL F. F. Jewett, in a general order yesterday. The men who find their names in the following list should re port to the companies assigned at their next meeting. , The following men are hereby ap pointed to companies: Company A Sergeant Linn K. Twinem. Company B Sereeants Elton P. J. Fee, George H. Gesraan, and Al lan E. Reiff. Company C Sergeants Robin A. Spence, Gordon W. Reefe. Company D Sergeants Paul C. Poppe, Walter D. Lundy. Company E Sereeant Stanlev A. Swanson. Company F Sereeants Bert A. Weber, and Gordon V. Hager. Company G Sereeants John P. McKnight, and John T Trout. Company H Sereeants Fred W. Sanford, and Edbert B. Woods. Company I Sergeant Paul G. MitchclL Company K Sergeant William H. Kearns. Company L Sergeant William C. Mentzer. RIFLE PRACTICE BEGINS Range Now Open for Shooting-; Meets Will Start December 10 The rifle range is now oDen for practice shooting. Captain Eggers who is in charge of the rifle team, announced yesterday. The rifles and ammunition will be furnished by the military department. Captain Eg gers urges everyone skilled with a rifle or pistol to come to the base ment of the Mechanical Engineering Duuding and practice. The "meets" with other schools start December 10. A lot of com petition with other schools is ex pected and because of this the' rifle team will be picked with utmost care. The regular minor letters are to be civen this year as has been done for the last few years. Last year tnree won letters and the year before dix letters were given.