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FRIDAY, JANUARY 9. 1931 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THREE SOCIETY "Paili a ra inon!tAf1 kir i 1 1 j joywiiH nonuny season many fru lernity pins have disappeared ami reappeared. Ah a 'result many boxes of candy and cin-ais have hw wpW i the frn ll'TLh' M lhfi informal betrothals m.ua ivnuv.xi, u. win oe presented m the Sunday Ncbrnskan. Pliy Fop Dairy Mixer. 77ie Fear Taf Walks By Noonday By Willa Gather and Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Editor's note: This Is the third Installment of a story which was published In the Sombrero In 1893, The second appeared yesterday. f The Dairy club Is sponsoring a mixer Tiaay evening at tne Agrt cultural Activities building for which the Goldenrod Serenade orchestra will play. All university students are Invited to attend the affair, but they must present iden tification caras lor admittance. Chaperones for the dance are Pro fessor ana Mrs. h. P. Davis and Pr. and Mrs. P. A. Downs. Kappa SIqs Elect Officers Wednesday. Members of Kappa Sigma held election of officers for the coming semester weanesoay evening. They are Paul McKibben, presi dent; .bod woDinson, vice presi dent; Milton Foe, freshman ad visor; Frank Kronkright, steward; Fred Gorder, scribe; Walter John son, inner guard; Don McClay, outer guard. Kappa Phi Alumnae Entertain At Dinner. Active and alumnae members of Kappa Phi, Methodist girls' soro rity, met Thursday evening at 6 o'clock for dinner at the -Llndell hotel. The alumnae chapter, under the management of Ida Dodd, alumnae president, presented a program after the established custom of giving one program a year at a meeting of the active chapter. Margaret Wiener, presi dent of the active chapter of Kappa Phi, Introduced Miss Dodd who, In turn, was in charge of the program planned by Louise Snapp. Favors were presented to the ninety guests who attended the meeting. Social Calendar Friday. Chi Omega formal dance at Lin coln, hotel. Kappa Kappa Gamma formal dance at Cornhusker hotel. Saturday. Kappa Delta formal dance at L-ornnusker hotel. Pi Kanna Phi formal rlAnrn nt Liincoin hotel. Part II. at this Juncture Members of the executive coun cil of W. A. A. met for luncheon at the W. A. A. office Thursday noon. Wayne Cantrell of Omaha was a guest at the Pi Kappa Alpha nouse on weanesaay . Joseph Franklin from Illinois was formally initiated into Sigma Phi Sigma Wednesday evening at the chapter house. Fred Decker and Harold Nelson attended the national convention of PI Kappa A!pha in Memphis, Tenn., during the Christmas holidays. WILSON PREDICTS . .USUAL PROGRESS OF SOIL TILLERS (Continued from Page 1.) ''Russia can not produce more than she can consume, if it is properly distributed. At present, however, production under the five year program is out of balance with the ability to consume the produce. Other nations will suffer. "There is no nation that could have stood the change Russians are undergoing." Wilson stated with gestures. "Russia has been in turmoil for more than 200 years and Is used to it." Socialism is nothing but another chapter in. the daily life of the Russian, it seems to the speaker. To the question of why there is so much furor about machiniza- tion of the farms the Montana big farm expert gives this answer "Socialists are great worshipers of macmnes." Explains Soviet Reason. Then he told why the soviet gov ernment is anxious to put industry on a large scale basis. "A socialistic program will never be successful until the peas ant - farmer is put out of the game," Wilson said as he quoted Stalin, the soviet leader. "Karl Marx has saidA' he quoted further,' "that all business will be in trusts and the farmer will fall out automatically." No one, he added, has written more enthusi astically about machines than Marx. "There are many things con ducive to an efficient kind of farm," the American expert re lated. "Russia has found bow to produce efficiently in large amounts and is ready to complete her work In 1932." The promise that the soviet re gime has given to the peasants, Wilson explained, is that when the work is done everyone will live in luxury. -Until then tbey must slave. . . . Until then the nations of the world will have to be satisfied with Russian competition. Remarkable Changes. There have been remarkable changes made in Russian wheat farming, according to Mr. Wilson une American, he said, with American wheat raising machin ery can do more than seventv-five peasant iamuies. Wilson worked in what he rro- claimed as the largest experiment station in the world. The project mapped out by the reeime is 117.- 000 acres in extent. Next vear it will be Increased to 287,000 acres. This vast amount of land is di vided into land operating units of 10,000 acres each. Three or four tractors are worked on each unit if the land is allowed to lay 50 percent under summer fallow. Each unit is divided into four fields three times as long as they are wide and the work is done in a hurry. Kitchens, dining rooms, sleeping quarters, and machine shops are carried along on trucks. The crew consists of a manager and an as sistant manager, two shifts of tractor operators, four machinists and two greasers of machinery. It averages about 623 acres to the man and runs as high as S00 acres. "We who live in this western civilization find ourselves in a dif ficult situation because of machine farming," Wilson concluded. "It has brought about surplusses. We have the greatest problems to solve that has ever faced this country." Dr. Rose Speaks. "You have contests in judging crops and livestock," charged Dr. Mary Swartz Rose as she began her message, "but do you Judge children? Do you know their fine points and their weaknesses? "Yet, you know of the tools. the foods," she continued, "you have had them all your life, but what have you done with them?" Dr. Rose had a table covered with curious diagrammed figures by means of which she illustrated her address. She showed the com parative values of calories and vitamines in the various foods con sumed. "Women of today are four pounds heavier and several inches taller than their mothers," she remarked. "It is no longer a sin for women to eat. "Food is not a matter of having plenty, it is a question of what to eat rather than how much. It is that kind of . knowledge which is going to enable us to conquer the earth. Marshall Speaks. "Young people were never more progressive than they are at the present time," Hon. Duncan Mar- i shall declared as he took the plat- It was at this Juncture that Freddie Horton awoke and be stirred himself. Horton was a pe culiar player; he was either pas sive or brilliant. He could not do good line work; he could not help other men play. If he did any thing he must take matters into his own hands, and' he generally did; no one in the northwest had ever made such nervy, dashing plays as he; he seemed to have the faculty of making sensational and romantic situation In footbaal just as he did in poetry. .He played with his imagination. The second half was half over, and as yet he had done nothing but blunder. His honor and the honor of the team head of the table correct and fault thought of it the big veins stood out in his forehead and he set his teeth hard together. At last his opportunity came, or rather he made it. In a general scramble for the ball he caught it in his arms and ran. He held the ball tight against his. breast until he could feel his heart knocking against the hard skin; be was conscious of nothing but the wind whistling In his ears and the ground flying un der his feet, and the fact that he had ninety yards to run. Both teams followed him as fast as they could, but Horton was running for his honor ,and his feet scarcely touched the earth. The spectators, who had waited all the afternoon for a chance to shout, now rose to their feet and all the lungs full of pent-up enthusiasm burst forth But the gods are not to be fru.i trated for a man's honor or his dishonor, and when Freddie Hor ton was within ten yards of the goal he threw his arms over his head and leaped into the air and fell. When the crowd reached him they found no marks of injury ex ccpt the blood and foam at his mouth where his teeth had bitten into his lip. But when they looked at him the men of both teams turned away shuddering. His knees were drawn up to his chin; his hands were dug into the ground on either side of him; his face was the livid, bruised blue of a man who dies with apoplexy; his eyes were wide open and full of un speakable horror and fear, glassy as ice. and still as though they had been frozen fast in their sockets, It was an hour before they brought him to, and then he lay perfectly quiet and would answer no questions. When he was stretched obliquely across the seats or a carriage going home he spoke for the first time "Give me your hand, Reggie; for God's sake let me feel something warm and human; I am awful sorry, Reggie; I tried for all my life was worth to make that goal, but " he drew the captain's head down to his lips and whispered something that made Reggie's face turn white and the sweat break out on his forehead. He drew big Horton's head upon his breast and stroked it as tenderly as a woman. There was silence in the dining room of the Exter bouse that night when the waiters brought in the last course. The evening had not been a lively one. The defeated men were tired with that heavy weariness which follows defeat, and the victors seemed strained and uneasy in their manners. They all avoided speaking of the game and forced themselves to'speak of i "Ain, Stop Biting Or HI Get MadF' But does aflfl care H B1U st m4X She doe aotl Watrh the hilarious fun when tht wildcat smeaUtor t "Cauirht fWt"- tell! "( Houm' Butch where ha cn' go! ; mat.ee przssler Ad WALLACE BEERY nsndBili" from Lor"! Mean's "gS'H Silly Hsuee Cemeey Ntwe 3! il Now Showing form. Faces brightened as young- things they could not fix their er members of the audience,, not- minds upon. Reggie sat at the ably students, assumed the words had of the table correct and fault- of praise. Gray haired farmers less. Reesrie was alwavs correct. nodded approval. but tonight there was very little students are breaking down old of festal cheer about him. He was prejudice-, Marshall added. "They cleanly shav.ed, his hair was part are putting new ideas and new life ed with the usual mathematical into the agricultural program. . . . accuracy. A little strip of black Nobody needs to be so observant court plaster covered the only ex as the farmer." ternal wound defeat had left. But According to the Canadian ap-ri. his face was as white as the SDOt- cultural minister, there is no doubt ,e9S expanse of his shirt bosom, that farm conditions are roinc to and his eves had big black circles change. Machinery, he insists, under them like those of a man does not so much increase acreage coming down with the fever. All as It takes out drudgery from farm evening he had been nervous and labor, excited: he had not eaten anvthing "The combine has done more for nd was evidently keeping some- women than any other thing," thing under. Everyone wondered Marshall asserted. "Women on the what il was n1 yt feared to farm used to slave riurinr rh hear it. When asked about Horton threshing season in order to feed he eimply shuddered, mumbled the neighborhood something, and had his wine glass oine cuts the threshine- crew down ruiea again. to but a fraction of the number. Laughter or fear are contagious, i am confident that all nf thi. and by the time the last course improved machinery will hrinr was on the table everyone was as benefits," the speaker summarized, nervous as Reggie. The talk "Young people are seizing the on- started up fitfuiiy now and then, portunlties. but it soon died down, and the Fear for Debt. weakly attempts at wit were re- mere is on thought I vunnt n ceived in silence. instill in your minds." Mamhuii Suddenly everyone became con- cautioned, "And that is, have cious of the awful cold and ln fear of debt. Nothing is an rim- explicable downward draught that aging to farming and so depress- tny nad ,eIt that afternoon, big to the home. If vou can't tab Everyone was determined not to care of your money, give it to your how it. No one pretended to even wife she values nothing so much ntice the flicker of the gas Jets, as a home. and the fact that their breath Before going into farming vnn curled upward from their mouths should have money enough to nav ,n Uttla wreaths of vapor. Every- for it. Before buving more land one turned his attention to his have enough money to see you PIa-te and his glass stood full be- through one vear clear of dht uae mm. tfiacK mad", some re- Don't gamble on wheat futures or mrk about politics, but his teeth any other kind of futures. You chattered so he gave it up. Reg- farmers gamble enough on the ie ,ace was working nervously, weather. Don't wish anv added and he suddenly rose to his feet (uiu biu in a. narsn, sirainea voice; Gentlemen, you have had one man on your side this afternoon who came a long journey to beat us. I mean the man who did that wonderful punting and who stood before the goal when Mr. Horton made his run. T rronose the first toast of the evening to the twelfth man, who won the game. Need I name him?" The silence was as heavy as be fore. Reggie extended his glass to the captain beside him, but sud denly his arm changed its direc tion; he held the glass out over the table and tipped it in empty air as tho touching glasses with some one. The sweat broke out on Reg gie's face; he put his glass to his lips and tried to drink, but only succeeded in biting out a big piece of the rim of his wine glass. He spat the glass out quickly upon his plate and began to laught, with the wine coring out between his white lips. Then everyone laughed; lean ing upon each other's shoulders, they gave way to volleys and shrieks of laughter, waving their glasses in hands that could scarcely hold them. The negro waiter, who had been leaning against the wall asleep, came for ward rubbing his eyes to see what was the matter. As he approached the end of the table he felt that chilling wind, with its damp, wet smell like the air from a vault, and the unnatural cold that drove to the heart's center like a knife blade. "My Gawd" he shrieked, drop ping his tray, and with an inartr cuiate gurgling cry he fled out of the door and down the stairway wiui me Danqueters after him, all dui Reggie, who fell to the floor, cursing and struggling and grap pling with the powers of darkness. When the men reached the lower hall they stood without speaking, holding tightly to each other's hands like frightened children. At last Reggie came down the stairs. steadying himself against the ban- isier. his dress coat was torn, his hair was rumpled down over his forehead, his shirt front was stained with wine, and the ends of his tie were hanging to his waist. He stood looking at the men and they looked at him, and no one spoke. Presently a man rushed into the hall from the office and shouted: "McKlnley has carried Ohio bv eighty-one thousand majority!" and Rcgiland Ashton, the product of centuries of democratic faith and tradition, leaped down the tlx remaining stairs and shouted: "Hurrah for Bill McKinley." In a few minutes the men were looking for a carriage to take Regiland Ashton home. OREGON MEN PLAN TO S Idea Is In Conjunction With Annua! Beaver Sales Campaign. K. U. PROF. TELLS OP SCHOOL'S EARLY DAYS (continued from Page 1.) years, had two rooms in the base ment. "In front of Fraser was a semi circular redoubt part of the earth works which had been thrown up iu ueiense oi me town or Lawr ence during border ruffian days We boys once dug a Minnie ball out of a fence post at the end of me fortification. Back of Blake hall at that time was a stone quarry, stone from which had been used in building Fraser. This quarry has long since been filled in. Where the lilac hedge in front of Watkins now is, were only tail weeds. "The beer garden I was speafc ing of," Professor Stimpson con tinued," was a block east of Aker's home. It was run by a Mr. Albaugh and was a real Ger man garden and bowling alley a rather nice sort of a resort Mr. Albaugh's two boys, Will and Henry, were in my class at the University. "Yes, I have seen a g'eat many changes at the University in my life time," Professor Stimpson agreed when the reporter remarked how different life on the Hill must have been in those days. "Come around again when I don t have to be rushing away and I II tell you all about Lawrence's brewery. You know the red brick building one block north of the Memorial hos pital, the one now used as a tan nery by the Byrd Fur company? Well, that was walrurr s brewery, After the state prohibition amend ment was passed, about '78, it ran for a year, jhipping us products out of the state." CORVALLIS, Ore. Beards, red beards, black beards, curly .beards straight beards, clean beard , and dirty beards, in fact, beards of all kinds, will be very much in order on the Oregon state campus the first two weeks of next term. Men who had deplored the ne cessity of a dally struggle with stubborn bristles, men who have longed to see themselves sporting a reauy masculine stubbie, and coeds who admire real, hirsute he men, will all welcome with keen est satisfaction the announcement of a beard growing contest to cul minate in a grand climax the night of January 16, when, at a student body dance sponsored by the staffs of the Barometer and Beaver, the facial adornments will be judged and prizes awarded. Conjunction With Campaign. The beard contest will be held in conjunction with the annual Bea ver sales campaign and will as sist in carrying out the central theme of the Volume XXV Beaver, the Oregon Trail idea. The Oregon pioneers were busy men, having no time for such ef feminate weapons as razors, and for two weks the men of Oregon State will follow their example, al lowing razors to rust in their cases and permitting shaving cream to turn rancid in the tube while they glory in their emancipation from the daily shave, reckoned by some campus pnnosopners as the great est curse of modern civilization. Leaders Unanimous. Campus leaders have been prac tically unanimous in their enthus iastic agreement to back the con test to the last hair, and many side bets have already been laid by those whose ability to sprout a full growth over night has hitherto been but a source of annoyance. complete rules for the competi tion have not yet been decided upon by the leaders of the two campus publications, but one thing is definitely certain: The mus tache, formerly an exclusively SC' nior privilege, may now grow and have its being upon the upper lip of anyone man enough to raise one provided he also permits free growth of hair upon the other areas of his visage: namely, cheeks chin, and throat, which growth shall constitute, and be so consid ered, a beard in fact as well as in tlO.JI.4Ca BAYLOR OFFICIAL BELIEVES CREEKS AID SCHOLARSHIP Fraternity membership promotes rather than retards good scho"..r ship, a survey conducted throj.b the office of Otis D. McCreery, as sistant dean of student affairs at Baylor university, revealed recent ly. Out of a plcdce group cf 248 men, the scholarship rating of 55 percent or mem was raised after being pledged Into Greek letter organizations. Among the men who were not pledgee because of low scholastic rating, 75 percent of them would nave rauen below the scholastic re quirements even though they had not been pledged to a fraternity, Mr. McCreery said. The state ment wa3 based on their low rat ing in the college aptitude test, and ou meir low scholastic average be- iuie numaung. Only 25 percent of all men tken into fraternities last year failed out or scnooi auntie the vear. the sur vey indicated. Of those students whose marks were not satisfactory at the time thev were initiated only one out of everv four able to raise their scholastic stand ing at the end of the pledge period. LEARN TO DANCE Can teach you ts lead In one lessen. Guarantee to teach yeu In six prw vate lesions. Classes every Monday and Wednesday. Private lessons morning, afternoon and evening. Ball Room and Tap. MRS. LUELLA WILLIAMS Private Studio: Phone B42S8 1220 D STREET R E M Dare Saturday Night To the colorful tunes of "Boots and Her Buddies," a smooth all-girl band playing music like only girls can. Sunday Night With Julius Ludlam and his music. A good hot band and one which makes dancing a pleasure. Come out and you'll see your friend here. Pla-Mor 5 Miles West on "O" E M E nuuuica oy spending money you have enough trouble earnlnr money. In the fall of 1901. Sterlins- H. McCaw was m an a r in sr editor. a. manninr assistant manager. ana ueorge f. uniaier, athletic ed itor of The Daily Nebraskan. Early ad in The Nebraskan: "Do not buy a cheap tailor made suit until you look at the Alfred Benjamin and Brokow Bros, ready to wear garments." Relmer, football candidate at the university in 1901, was said to weigh like a Minnesota roan over two hundred. It is claimed he towered like a church steeple over other candidates and raced down the field after the ball like a kangaroo! Crested Jewelry At January Discount Prices Rings Bracelets Pendants etc. HALLETT University Jeweler Established 1871 117 So. 12 St. JANUARY SALE FEATURES! Exceptional values you will want to "look into" at once. Money-saving opportunities! W omen s onoes i-ot l. Shoe ong. pneed 7.60 to 12.00. Strap slippers pumps and ties patent leathers, suedes, kids, calfskins and reptiles. More than 2 of lot in sizes 4 to Sale price pr. Lot 2. Shoes oxig. priced 10.00 to 14.50. Kids, calfskins, suedes and reptiles. Pumps, ties and strap slippers from well-known manufacturers. About 1-3 of lot are sixes 4, 4 1-2 and 5; about 1-2, size 6 1-2 and more. Sale price pr. -Second Floor Men's Pigskin Gloves Seconds! Mm Pfjf "Your Drug Store" Tor the New Tear we elm to five you the beet In Sods Fountain And. Luncheonette Service. Try our noon lunrhss. The Owl Pharmacy Phone B106R 1 No. Wh and P St. WE PELIVE Dance at the Silver Ballroom in the Hotel Lindell Friday Niaht Julius Ludlam and Hla Music. Saturday Night "Red" Krsuse ana" Hit Band. 4 oe'jtarc Will Be Playinf nt Kappa Formal Friday Night and Katppa. Deit Formal Saturday Night GENUINE PECCARY PIGSKINS in sizes 72 to 10. Saddle sewn. Snap wrist styles. Good-looking gloves that w ill give good service. First Floor Turkish Towels 2c LARGE SIZE-DOUBLE THREAD TOWELS. Solid colors or white with colored border. An excellent oppor tunity to "stock up.' 'J i i e-;i .... Third rioer. The Lost and Found Department is operating free of charge for students and faculty! Every day we have dozens of callers and we have returned a great many valuable I things. CALL US If you thing. lose some We can help you. Try the Want Ads They will bring results. DAILY NEBRASKAN Lost and Found! U Hall All Day i r. . c z ' ,-,& .