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.
