TSieDaily Ndbraskain VOL. XIV. NO. 130. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1915. PRICE 5 CENTS. REGIMENTAL MIXER BIG MILITARY DANCE TO BEHELD IN ARMORY LIKE WEST POINT INFORMAL NMkMl Color, to Be Used in the Decoration Refreshment to Be Served from Camp Tents The First Annual Regimental Mixer" of the Nebraska Cadets, mod eled after the Annual West Point In formal, 'ill open April 30 in the Arm ory with the Cadet Band playing the strains of the Star Spangled Banner and the walls and ceiling of the Arm nrv covered with Old Glory and Regi mental Colors. The grand march will start at 8 o'clock sharp, executed in regimental parade in column of com panies, led by Colonel Kirk Fowler. The staff officers will follow next, suc ceeded by field officers and companies. The Armory will be set as a camp scene at evening. Tents will be pitched around the room and from these soldiers will serve refreshments. Two hundred tickets were issued last night and more w ill follow if these are sold before tomorrow night. Three restrictions have been put on the stu dent attending this affair. First, that he be a cadet in the First . Regiment Nebraska Cadets; second, that he be in uniform, and third, that he be an escort This is the big social event of the Military Department and all cadets should be present to swell the ranks of their respective companies and to give an idea of the Military Depart ment in its best attire. Tickets will be on sale until next week .Wednesday, and may be pur chased from the first sergeants or at the Commandant's office. Price fifty cents, which admits two. The committee in charge and from Thorn tickets may be purchased are as follows: Phil Warner, chairman, Co. 6 V. C. George, Co. A. L. X. Xorris. Co. C. , Herbert Pierce, Co. D. William Folsom. Co. E. H. Hadley. Co. F. F. L, Hixenbaugn, Co. G. M. L. Palmer, Co. I. C. L. Holcome. Co. K. W. B. Wanner, Co. M. P. K. Frost. P. M. Temple. A. H. Dinsmore. PICTURES OF MODERN LQBGIH8 METHODS Clyde Iron Works Have Sent Three Reels of Pictures to the Forestry Department VALUE OFARBQR DAY POPULAR SENTIMENT JUSTIFIES IDEA PROPOSED BY J. S. MORTON Nebraska Was First Recognized as a Tree Planting State Forest Conserved and Wate Land Reclaimed Bane bad yob fer Lumber Jack, my Gee!" Statistics of Students The Registrar's office -is preparing statistics from county superintendents as to the number of high school grad uates expecting to attend the Univer sity tliis fall. Catalogs are being dis tributed among schools to aid in bringing new students to Nebraska. CHEMICAL USE OF IRON AND STEEL Illustrated Lecture Was Given to the Members of the Chemistry Club Professor Morris of tht Forestry De partment ha rPO!vd from the Clvde ton Works three rels of moving pic tures of modern logging methods. Thf-S Ttirtiiraa Vnotn with ih fell- ing of the trees in the woods and car ries it through the different stages of operation up to the finished product in U yards. TV exhibition will be given Friday. APrtl 22, at 7:30 o'clock In the Red room of th Y. M. C. A. Tote exhibition is open to all and is free Cf charge. Prof. C. J. Fraukforter, with the assistance of a student from the Chemistry department, gave an illus trated lecture to a large number of the Chemistry Club on "The Chemis try of Pure Iron." in M. E. 204 last evening. The slides used showed the industrial application of steel and iron and the methods employed in the re search laboratories of the American Rolling Mills Company at Middleton, Ohio, where the views were taken. Many practical tests are made there regarding the best possible uses of steel and iron for such purposes as culverts, flumes and splitting Ingots. Besides making the lecture instruc tive by the use of the slides. Professor Frankforter told a number of inter esting incidents experienced in his trip to Middleton and his worn in .ub chemical laboratories of the mills. The University of Illinois tennis team has been cut down to ten men. From this; small number will be picked the defenders of the tennis laurel of Chicago. Tennis in the large universities has now become one of the biggest of minor sporta. LAWS DROP FIRST ENGINEERS SLAUGHTER BAR RISTERS IN OPENER SCORE WAS NINETEEN TO FIVE New Departmental Baseball League Season Was Successfully Opened Yesterday Domeier's Pitch ing a Feature At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the University Departmental Baseball League season opened when the Laws met the Engineers in an exciting, though ragged ' game on Nebraska Field. Dr. Maxey, the beloved patron sinner of athletic sports at Nebraska, pitched the first ball and made a 'hit" in doine. The doctor received an ovation as he retired to the bleachers. The battery burden was then taken up for the Laws by Sides, in the box. and Shaw behind the bat. Owing to the miserable 'support behind him. and to the unusual abi'ity of the En gineers in wielding the willow, as well. Sides was forced to allow the En gineers eight runs before three outs were negotiated. Mr. Domeier. cham pion slab-man for the Engineers, was found to be invincible. In the seven Innings that the game was allowed to last. Mr. Domeier permitted but four safe bingles. while, on the other hand, but with the same arm. he whiffed no less than thirteen disgruntled Laws. Five more runs were garnered for the Hawkins crew in the second inning and Sides was relieved by Manager Private capital invested in timber lands, mills, logging railroads and other forms of equipment in the United States reaches an enormous aggregate, and the lumber industry, which em dIovs 739,000 persons and has an an nual output valued at 1 1-G billion dol lars, is the third largest in the country. ENGINEERS MADE MODEL OF BRIDGE Students Under Direction of Professor Riddervold Constructed Model of Pratt Bridge Under the direction of Prof. Adolpn Riddervold, the engineering students have constructed a model of a Pratt bridge for the purpose . of testing stresses under various loadings. The model is four feet long. Principles of the distribution of stresses are clearly shown by either loading the strucfure as a whole or part of it. Thus it may be seen, in a striking way, that the structure will collapse under a partial load, that is when a train has advanced to a cer tain point on the bridge; while it will stand up under a full load. Tlie proposal of J. Sterling Morton that a day be set apart for tree-planting in the state of Nebraska bore fruit in 18S3, when the legislature desig nated 'April 22, Morton's birthday, as the date of the holiday to be known as Arbor Day. Popular sentiment mileklv took hold of the idea, resulting in the planting of over a million trees on the first Arbor Day. rsebrasKa came to be known as the "Tree Plant ers' State," and the custom was soon . taken up by the other states of the union, and by many European countries. This early development of the Arbor Day idea, concerned itself merely with the planting of. trees. Such, indeed, may have been the sole idea of the author. But his words have a hint at lease, of a larger purpose when he says: "Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of these reposes upon the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. It contemplates, ' no the good and the beautiful of past genera tions, but it sketches, outlines, estab lishes the useful and the beautiful for the ages yet to come." At any rate the effects of Arbor Day sentiment are ap parent in a rapidly widening scope. The conservation of forests, in order that their resources may be available to posterity as well as to the presnt genration. is now an accepted practice. The manner of its development was foretold as early as 1S98 by Mr. Mor ton when he said, "Tree planting and forestry may be made so popular in American schools, and woodlands nroved to be so important to the wel fare of our race in this and succeed ing generations, that the best class of citizenship will, in the near future, en thusiastically advance and exalt them." The conservation idea has spread un til it includes practically all of our natural resources, even birds and game. Just how much credit for this result is due to the Arbor Day idea is difficult to say. It is significant, however, that many states have had for some time a combined Arbor and Bird Day, thus drawing attention a.nd Banquet for Representative A banquet in honor of C. Petrus Peterson. Law '10. state representa tive from Lancaster county, was given by the Swedish Brotherhood of Lan caster County at the LIndell Tuesday evening, where Prof. Joseph Alexis acted as toastmaster. About one hun dred and forty members were present. The English and French are report ed to be considering changing their name from the Dardenelles to the Darned-helles Daily Kansan. (Continued on page 5.) PHOTO POSTERS ARE NOWON EXHIBITION Pictures of Cast of "Monsieur Beau caire" In Glass Case In Front of Administration Building An artistic poster bearing the pic tures of the cast for the Dramatic Club play. "Monsieur Beaucaire." which Is tobe presented at the Oliver Saturday evening, Is on exhibition in the glass case in front of the Admin istration building. It consists of a group picture of the cast and indi vidual photos of Leon Snyder and Ella Williams in costume. A larger poster bearing individual photographs of other members of the cast is in the window of Walt's Music Store on the south side of O street.