1 our nufctuM v(n ee COnPttTt VJHtN AN Ot.0 fASHIONEO SfANKIWj WEATHER For Lincoln and vicinity: Fair Wednesday; moderate tempera ture. 16 pRI&lftVIO THIK.6 VQiTxXVH, NO. 69. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1928. PRICE 5 CENTS T017 Daily Nebraskan I SIGS AND SIG ALPHS WIN IN TITLE RACE Sig Eps Lose 21 to 18; Delta Tau Delta la Defeated 22 to 19 FAST PLAY IS FEATURE Norling, Margaret, and Mor rison Do Outstanding Work For Victors Marked by fast, rough playing in both games, Alpha Sigma Phi won from Sigma Phi Epsilon, 21 to 18, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon won from Delta Tau Delta, 22 to 19, in the first two games of the championship race for the title in inter-fraternity basketball. Both games were exciting and neither of the teams was sure of victory until the final whistle was blown. In the' first game, the1 Alpha Sigs started out with a rush, using fast breaking plays to score. The Sig Eps, however, soon recuperated to launch their attack. After a series of rough, fast plays the quarter ended 9 to 2 in favor of the Alpha Sigs. Sigma phi Epsilon outshone their oppon ents in the second quarter, scoring 6 points to 2 points for Alpha Sigma Phi, although the half ended 11 to 8 in their opponents' favor. The third and fourth quarters were packed with thrills, the third quarter ending 16 to lt, and the game ended with the Alpha Sigs on the long end of a 21 to 18 score. Oehlrich led the Sigma Phi Ep silon team with 8 points. His good basket shooting aided by Krause's accurate floor work enabled their team to score the majority of points. Norling of Alpha Sigma Phi scor ( Continued on Page 3) SiLE OF TICKETS FOR FROLIC OPENS Results of Classroom Canvass Are Very Successful) Interesting Program Planned Ticket sales for the Bizad Frolic, to be held January 13 at the Lin coln Chamber of Commerce, began Tuesday morning and were very suc cessful, according to Wilbur Mead, chairman of the Frolic committee. All classrooms in the College of Bus iness Administration were canvassed yesterday by a group of five cap tains and their assistants. This year's Frolic promises to sur pass any of its predecessors. Mayor Verne Hedge is scheduled to give an address at the banquet which begins at 6:30 o'clock in the Commerce din ing room. Dean J. E. LeRossignol and a few other members of the Col lege faculty are also on the speaking list and plan to give short addresses, "Red" Krause to Play. Immediately following the ban quet, "Red" Krause with his accor dion and orchestra will provide mu sic for the dance. Students who de sire to attend only the dance or only the banquet can buy separate tickets. Banquet tickets sell for one dollar' while the dance tickets are seventy five cents. Classes will be visited aeain today to give students, who were unable to bay tickets yesterday, another chance. Plans for interviewing stU' dents individually have been made provided the classroom campaign fails to succeed. Interesting lighting effects have been planned according to the com- miwce in charge. Vari-colored bulbs, fashing off and on, will be provided to lend an air of "frolic" to the oc casion. ' Come and hrinc, ttii. Aala " ia the . b v., aw earnest plea of the committee cnairman, Wilbuf Mead. A large per centage of Bizad students is needed V insure the success of the Frolic, -fording to him. Ml BANQUET IS TONIGHT pen Council and Lincoln Hieh J5fhool Hi-Y Meet Jointly Tile Freshmen fliMiTifi'l nrTiinli nini. "f1?. .meets on Wednesday evenings at 7 o'clock will meet with the Lin ! foln high school Hi-Y tonight at a ALPHA M .banquet ?t 6 o'clock In the Hi-Y M ouudinc n... u x x m. "Jen school This banquet is. being !ven for the Lincoln high school MuMi.? tieJIi-Y club. A he feature the banquet will be presses by two delegates to the invention of the Student Volun- in Detroit recently. Perry ftemb e" of the Lincoln Hi-Y club t me Danquet. Be Freshman Council 4L . i group on s rW1wJy t 930 o'clock aunday mornings will hold their men"ig ur.J;9? ;r4L MASONIC CLUB WILL MEET C. P. Peterson Will Deliver Address To Square and Compass The Square and Compass club, art organization of the University of Ne braska faculty and student Masons, will hold its regular monthly meet ing this evening at 7 o'clock in Fa culty Room 202, Temple building. The Honorable C. Petrus Peterson will be the main speaker of the eve ning. His topic will be the "Spirit of Adventure," the oration he gave before the Grand Lodge last June. Masons of any rank are invited to attend. PLAYERS WILL GIVE NEW PLAY "The Black Flamingo", Jan ney's Last Play Not Yet Pre sented on Broadway OPENS IN LONDON SOON "The Black Flamingo," next of fering of the University Players to be presented Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, in the Temple Theatre, will give patrons the rare opportunity of enjoying a play which has not yet been presented on Broad way. Sam Janney, the author, wrote the drama for Guy Bates Post, who plans to take it to London before opening the production in the east. Janney's play is a mystery drama of the French Revolution, and was secured for the use of the Players after a long correspondence with the author, .who finally gave his permis sion for a special showing. The un usual achievement of producing an acknowledged success before its east ern presentation will add much to the attraction of the offering. Cast of Twenty Twenty players will take part in "The Black Flamingo." The play will be beautifully costumed, in keeping with the period in wheih the action takes place. The scene of the action, the Black Flamingo Inn, an old stone building, will be realistically presen ted by use of novel settings and ef fects. In keeping with the thrilling and mysterious atmosphere of the play, weird and striking effects are being used to obtain the most color ful effect. Plot and action center about the theft of a diamond 'necklace which belongs to Queen Marie Antoinette. The action takes place July 15, 1789, the day after the capturing of the Bastille. The aristocrats are fleeing for their lives. The necklace, together with a young man, has disappeared, which initiates the plot that quickly becomes complicated with mystery and unusual happenings. (Continued on Page 2) BIZAD NEWS FOR JANUARY ISSUED Publicity for Bizad Frolis, News and Features Form Content of First 1928 Number. January's number of the Bizad News will be issued this morning from stands at the north and south ends of the third floor, Social Sciences building. This issue is de voted to publicity for the Bizad Frolic to be held Friday evening. In addition to Frolic news, the January issue contains a clever poem concerning "Ye Frolic" and a spe cial article on "College Women in Business." Bob Trullinger furnishes a take off on "Captain John Smith and Po cahontas," and Sense-O-Grams writ ten by Emerson Smith furnish a col umn of clever sayings. "If You Be lieve It, It's So" constitutes another feature of the January News. Humor Used. Organization writeups, personals, and humorous events transpiring in the College of Business Administra tion are also included in the paper. An article concerning the recent visit of Doctor Heilman, dean of North western University's Commerce School, completes the contest of the January issue. ' The staff of the News includes Douglas Timmerman, editor; Flor ence Benson, associate editor, and Paul Marti, news editor. A. Ralph Fell, business manager; Wilbur Mead, assistant business manager; Enos Heller, advertising manager; and Marvin Grim, circulation manager ompleU the business staff ol tne January number. Dr. A, W. Adson Visits Zoology Department Dr. Alfred W. Adson, a graduate of ther university, was a visitor at the department of zoology Wednes day. Dr. Adson is now on the staff of thr male, clinic at Rochester, N. Y. University Students Study Culvert And Bridge Materials for Highways The curses or the blessings that Mr. Motorist bestows upon the high way beneath the balloon tires of his automobile (or Ford) might well be referred back to a little group of men, many of them University of Nebraska students, working in a dusty laboratory on the University campu3. For these men, who paused, per haps, in their study of Plato and Aristotle to don overalls in the lab oratory, are the official testers of the highway, culvert, bridge, . and guard-rail material that goes into the roads of Nebraska. It is for them to decide, with the aid of the most modern machines, whether a certain mixture of concrete shall be acceptable for a stretch of prairie highway or for one of the streets in a thriving Nebraska town. It is for them to determine if a certain cul vert will withstand the shocks of speeding automobiles passing over. In explaining the work of the test ing laboratory today C. M. Duff, as sociate professor of applied mechan ics in the University said: "By an arrangement between the University and the state department of public Nebraskan and Awgwan Applications Due Friday Applications for appointments to the following positions will be received by the Student Publica tion Board until Friday noon, January 13: The Daily Nebraskan: Editorial editor in chief, contributing editors, managing editor, assist tant managing editors, news ed itors, assistant news editors. Business business manager, as sistant business jnanager, circula tion managers. Awgwan: editor, associate edi tor, business manager. Application blanks may be got at the office of the secretary (student activities office, Colise um) and at the office of the School of Journalism (U104). Ap plicants are expected to submit evidence as to their qualifications for filling the positions for which they apply. (Material already on file need not be duplicated.) J. K. Selleck, Secretary Student Publication Board. Ice Brought Copper Lump To Dakotans Vermillion, S. D., Jan. 10. About fifteen years ago a piece of pure native copper was ploughed up by Andrew Helseth on his farm on Brule creek in Union county, thir teen miles northeast of Vermillion. The piece of copper which is oblong and flat, weighs almost nineteen pounds. It is now in the museum of the University of South Dakota. The lump of copper, Prof. W. H. Over, curator of the museum, said was evidently picked up and carried down from the Lake Superior copper region thirty of forty thousands years ago by the Wisconsin ice sheet, the last of the glaciers that passed over this country. "Suggestion has been made sev eral times," Mr. Over said, "that the ore may have been carried to this locality by the Indians. But there is no archaeological evidence that this is the case. And too, there is no logical reason why an Indian would carry so heavy a piece of copper to this locality in primitive times." Mr. Over also pointed out a nwn-1 ber of other indications that the ice was the agent that carried the ore; the rounded shape of its edges, for . i instance, from rubbing against rocks. PROFESSOR MICKEY WILL GIVE ADDRESS "Conservation of Water Resources and Mississippi River Flood Control" Is Subject. A lecture entitled "Conservation of Water Resources and Mississippi River Flood Control" will be given by Professor C. E. Mickey at the meeting of the student branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in Mechanical Arts, 100. Flood control is one of the print cipal questions before the present Congress. Professor Mickey has just recently returned from Washington where he served as technical advisor for the House committee on . flood control. He also worked on a com mittee made up of the leading civil engineering instructors of the coun try which has also been called be fore the House committee on flood controL This group advocates the utilization of flood water for aid of agriculture and for use In the water ways of the country. works, the department of applied mechanics does the testing of all the materials used in the building of state roads and other state struc tures. This work has grown until it require- pracuca ny tne equivalent of three men on full pay. It offers excellent opportunity, however, for students to make part of their ex penses, at the same time gaining val uable experience. One of the important phases of the laboratory's work is testing con crete. "Probably no rond material is subjected to more variables in its construction than concrete," said Mr. Duff. "As in baking a cake, the fact that all ingredients used are first-class and satisfactory does not Conch Charley Black's basketeers set insure a satisfactory or first class re- tied down to a real practice grind suit. In concrete work, the quantity by staging a lengthy contest with of cement and water used, amount Bunny Oakes' yearlings. Tom Elliott, of mixing, and the quality of curing, Dutch Witte, Jug Brown, Elmer all effect the quality of the con-! Holm, and Bob Krall started the crete." tussle with the freshmen and Glen In addition to testing the stone, Munn, Harvey Grace, Kenny Othmer, gravel, sand and cement, the con-jAdolph Lewandowski, and "Army" crete made from these ingredients is Armstrong finished the game. Scoring molded into cylinders twelve inches honors were fairlv even for awhile long and six inches in diameter. Af (Continued on Page 2) AWGWAN TO BE ISSUED FRIDAY "Leap Year" Number Features Local Comment on Sororities And Campus Events ART WORK OUTSTANDING Leap Year number of the Awgwan will be released Friday unless fur ther trouble is encountered in drying the cover colors, it was announced yesterday from the Awgwan office. The January issue will feature lo cal comment on sororities and cam pus situations, revolving particularly around Leap Year possibilities. Ethelyn Ayres, whose parodies were features of the first two num bers of the Awgwan this year, re turns as a contributor in the Jan uary issue as a versifier. In conjunc tion with Mary Alice Race, she pre sents a half page of "Very Light Verse", a collection of five short verses with a humorous twist in each. Number of Contributors Short sketches from the type writer of Alan C. Mcintosh, associate editor, Kenneth Anderson, Frederick Daly, Elice Holovtchiner, Joyce Continued on Page 3) PLANS FINISHED FOR GRACE COPPOCK TEA Tea is Given in Honor of Work Done In China by Grace Coppock and Vera Barger An elaborate poster display will feature the Grace Coppock Tea to be held at Ellen bmith Hall on Thursday from 4 to 5:30 o'clock. The history of Y. W. C. A. work in China will be portrayed by the pos ters and offers a real educational op portunity for all university women. The tea will carry out the Chinese atmosphere. Entertainment will consist of musical numbers and a talk by Chen-Shih Yuan, , a student from Honan, China, Chinese art work and costumes will be loaned by Miss Williams of the City Y. W. C. A. Waitresses will be dressed in Chinese costumes. Miss Erma Appleby will preside at the tea table during the first hour and Miss Williams during the sec ond hour. The purpose of the tea is to ac quaint the students with the work done in China by Mist Grace Cop pock, Nebraska's first woman mis sionary, and Miss Vera Barger, her successor. Grace Coppock was graduated by Nebraska in 1905, and went te China soon after her graduation. Sho be came nationrl secretary of the Y. W. C. A. in China and died there in 1921. The memorial fund which the women of Nebraska send each year to China goes to a work in which Miss Coppock was vitally interested, the physical education of Chinese women. Miss Vera Barger uses the money sent here by the University of Nebraska to promote physical ed ucation programs all over China. South Dakota Paper Is Awarded First Prize Vermillion, S. D., Jan 10 First place among student publications competing in the North Central press association was awarded to the 'Volante' Student publication at the University of South Dakota by Har per Leech, well known Chicago news paperman, author and critic now of the Medill school of journalism, at the annual cnventic7 held at. Creigh ton university January 6 and 7. BLACK DRILLS BASKET SQUAD ON OFFENSIVE Game whh Drake Bulldogs Is Scheduled for Saturday Night at Des Moines MEN IN FINE CONDITION Drake and Nebraska Each Have Single Game in Victory Column After placing Monday's game with Washington in the wrong column, but the Varsity was well ahead when Black called the halt. Offensive drill is to receive the most attention during the coming week, according to Coach Black. The Husker defense was functioning smoothly Monday night against the Bears and will be spared drilling un til just before the game wtih Drake at Des Moines Saturday night. Two Schools on Par Drake has won a single game so far this season and ranks with the nusKers as iar as winning is con cerned. .The Bulldog quintet seems to play about the same brand of basketball as the Scarlet and Cream hoopsters, being especially good at basket tossing one night and especi ally poor the next. No prediction can be made on the outcome now or just before the contest. Varsity athletes weathered their (Continued on Page 2) Mercury Rise Sets Record For January Yesterday was the hottest day in January ever recorded by the gov ernmental records of the weather de partment. The mercury took an abrupt rise like gilt-edge bonds on Wall Street. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon it had climbed to the un heard of heights of 67 degrees which is rather warm for January weather. The only instances on' record of weather reports nearly equalling this were when the mercury showed 66 degrees Fahrenheit, on January 16, 1892 and January 29, 1919. This cannot be explained unless the mercury is rising because of the fact that students have been forced indoors to cope with coming exami nations. , FOUR DAYS REMAIN FOR REGISTRATION Students Display UnusUal Prompt ness in Filling Second Semester Schedules. With the deadline of noon, Janu ary 14, still four days off, registra tion of resident students for the sec ond semester is progressing rapidly. One hundred and thirty-seven stu dents had registered in the College of Arts and Science, Monday, ac cording to a report from Dean Candy's office. This is the largest number of students to register in that college on the first day of reg istration within the last five years. Up to noon Tuesday, one hundred and twelve more students had turned in their schedules to Dean Candy. From the College of Business Ad ministration no actual number of registered students has been re ported. Miss Klotter, of the office staff of Dean LeRossignol, intimated that the number of students regis tered in this college the first two days of this registration week was larger than the number registered at this time last year. Students Serve At Ag College Banquet Students in the College of Agri culture cooperated in serving the an nual Farmers' Family Fun Feed which was served to 800 Nebraska people in the students' activities building on Wednesday, January 4. The banquet was sponsored by those in charge ol Organized Agriculture meetings which were held on the Agriculture College carrnus the past week. Under the faculty supervision, forty boys and sixty girls who vol unteered through the Ag Club and the Home- Economics Club, worked with girls majoring in institution management in the serving. New Course Is Added To Advanced Zoology A new course in advanced zoology is being offered by Professor Blake next semester, Embryology 113. A large amount of equipment has been added for this course, among which is over $200 worth of slides. SLAVIC RELIGION IS VESPER TOPIC Professor Orin Stepanek Dis cusses Reputed Irreligion Of Czecho-SIovakians PERSECUTION TO BLAME "Why the Slav has the Reputation for Irreligion in the Un.ited States" was the subject upon which Pro fessor Orin Stepanek talked at the weekly Vespers meeting held last night in Ellen Smith Hall, and led by Elizabeth PeteTson. The n: iapprehension in regard to the Slavs and the reputation which they have acquired of being atheists comes from the fact that very few Slavic immigrants in this country go to church. "In Czecho-Slovakia religion and Catholicism are the same thing. You are either a Roman Catholic or you are a pagan, atheist, heathen or any one of like terms used synonomously and carelessly," Professor Stepanek declared. Church Ali-Powerful Through centuries of persecutions the Czechs never forgot the inius tices forced upon them by the gov ernment which was at the same time the church. A Czech could not be legitimately born, married or buried, unless the government sanctioned the act, until 1918 at the close of the World War when the Catholic church ceased to control the government.' Professor Stepanek here paused to remark that he did not mean to up hold Catholicism one way or another, but merely to explain the situation among the Slav3. "That great empire of Great Britain tried for nine hun dred years to force the Irish to ac cept Protestantism in much the same manner that Catholicism was forced upon the Slavs, and with just as little real success," he stated. "It all goes to show that you cannot force a re ligion upon anyone who does not wish to be so forced." Slav Immigrants Misinformed. Slavic immigrants to this country have carried the notion that Chris tianity and Catholicism are one, and since even as late as 1918 they were persecuted for refusing to obey or comply with Catholic conventions in Slavic countries, they have refused to have anything to do with the (Continued on Page 2) ANATOLE MOZER IS LUNCHEON SPEAKER Native Russian, Delegate to Recent Detroit Convention Will Address World Forum Anatole Mozer, junior in the Col lege of Arts and Sciences, and dele gate to the recent international con vention of the Student Volunteers in Detroit, will address the World Forum meeting this noon. "Echoes from Detroit" will be the topic of the talk to be given by Mr. Mozer this noon. He will tell of the impressions he received during the meeting in Detroit, nd review the work of the convention. Mr. Mozer was on of the twenty-three dele gates to represent the University at the Student Volunteer Convention in Detroit from December 28 to Janu ary 1. "He has been asked to speak to the students of the World Forum by the committee, not just because he was a delegate but because he has experienced a different kind of a life than the average Nebraska student and has a great deal of interest in his subject," stated Mr. C. D. Hayes, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. Born in Russia. ! He was born in Russia, the son of land-owning parents of the old re gime, and was educated in good schools. At the time of the revolu tion, his parents lost their land hold ings and he made his wry out of Rus sia, spent a summer in Europe, and i sailed for America. He is specializ ing in Political Science in conjunc tion with the study of international relationships. The delegates who returned from the convention expressed their views in regard to the convention as very favorable. The 4000 delegates from all parts of the world were brought together in a deep relationship and the delegates maintain that th;y re ceived a great deal of good. The luncheon today will be held at 12 o'clock t the Crsad Hotel, Tickets may be procured for twenty- five cents. REGENTS VOTE TO RAISE FEES FOR NEXT YEAR University Governing Board Takes Action in Regard to Raising Student Fees BOARD ELECTS OFFICERS Increase in University Expen ses Is Reason Given (or Step A new schedule of student fees was passed by the Regents at their meeting today. The order becomes effective with the summer session opening in June and with the college year beginning 'in September, 1928. The increase in fees generally will run from only 10 to 30 per cent and will amount to only a comparatively few dollars per student. Other important business of the meeting was the election of officers. Mr. H. D. Landis of Seward was elec ted president of the Board of Re gents and Mr. John R. Webster of Omaha, vice-president. Professor Guernsey Jones was made Emeritus Professor of English History and Editor of University Studies. The step in regard to student fees has been taken only after a com parison of fees with those of similar institutions dn adjoining states and after careful consideration of the University's financial needs. Main tenance costs of the University have increased faster than legislative sup port. Growth in registration, regard less of stationary appropriations for maintenance, has been a contribut ing cause. Overhead charges of all sorts, such as repairs and upkeep, heat, light, etc., have increased with the rise of general commodity prices. The addition of several new build ings to the plant is also a contribut ing factor. Action Has Been Pending At the present time the student fees pay only about ten per cent of the cost of instruction. Many uni versities have increased their fees from time to time, but Nebraska has postponed such revision, hoping that legislative appropriations would take care of increasing costs. Although the increase in fees runs from only 10 to 30 per cent for the most part and the fees themselves represent only a negligible part of the cost of an education, a special committee will be appointed to look after the interests of needy students who may need some special assistance in the shape of remitted or reduced fees. Expansion of Budget When the budget for the current year was made, it was found that all increases in salary and mainten ance costs must be taken from the ISffervp fund held for emergency pur, poses. This current budget tan be maintained for the next year without creating a deficit in University fin (Continued on Page 2) PI K.A, PHI PSI AND PHI SIG WIN GAMES Xi Psi Phi, Sigma Nu and Delta Tan Delta Are Eliminated In Class B Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Sigma Kappa were shoved up another notch in Class B as the result of the first post-vacation games in the inter-fraternity tournament, held Tuesday evening. Xi Psi Phi, Sigma Nu and Delta Tau Delta were the teams defeated. The Pi K. A.'s were rather easy victors over Xi Psi Phi, the final count being 24-12. Mitchell and Sny der for the winning quintet were the largest factors in the long count, scoring eight points ecah. These two smashed through the Zip defense again and again with disastrous ef fect on their opponents. Stephens topped the list for points in the 14-8 Phi Psi win over Sigma Nu. Both teams shot often and wild ly, but the Sigma Nu defense was penetrated more often tan that of (Continued on Page 3.) SCHUETT WRITES BOOXEP Zoology Instructor and Chicago Man Publish Joint Work J. F. Schuett, an Instructor in the Department of zoology at Nebraska, has written and published, with the assistance of W. C. Allee of the Uni versity of Chicago, a booklet entitled "Studies in Animal Aggregation: The Relation between mass of ani mals and resistance to colloidal sil ver." Schuett was a former studnt of Alisd wfcila jtiu.ding Chicago "G'nl versity and it was then tr.ut the",t joint publication was staritl.