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VOL. XV. NO. 36.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1915..
PRICE 5 CENTS.
WFSLEYAN NEXT
Oil JUSKER BILL
YEULOW AND BROWN IN YEARLY
CONTEST SATURDAY
ARE NOT WORRIED BY DEFEAT
Kansas Takes Oklahoma Victory Calm
iyNebraska la Human and Can
be Beat Regular Out of
Sooner Game
The Wesleyan Coyotes, state col
legiate champions, will endeavor to
score on the Huskers next Saturday
minus the services of their mainstay,
Johnson, who "fills the shoes of the
famed Chamberlain who preceded him
at the Methodist school," as a Sioux
City dispatch put it before the Morn
ingside game last week. But the
Coyotes will have instead of Johnson,
Roy Hudson, one of the few Wesleyan
footballers who ever earned the dis
tinction of crossing the Husker line.
Hudson is filling the shoes of the hefty
Scandinavian marvelohsly well In con
sideration of a year's absence from the
game, and there are many University
Place citizens who are confident that
he will be able to duplicate his former
feat.
TJoach Stiehm will keep the regulars
in no longer than Is necessary next
Saturday after assuring himself that
they have received a good workout.
The Huskers must be pointed toward
.the Kansas game on the 13th and the
final game with Iowa the 20th, and he
has no desire to train the Huskers
up to a fine edge until they meet the
Jayhawkers. Already the Husker
coach has begun work on a new cam
paign to be used against the Jay
hawkers. Kansas is taking very optimistically
its defeat at the hands of Oklahoma.
The heat and absence of several regu
lars during most of the contest is
blamed for the drubbing. Loose tack
ling has been charged against the
Jayhawkers, too, but it is, claimed
that the apparent looseness was due
more to the shiftiness of the Sooner
backs than to any glaring fault on the
part of the Kansas defense. The
Sooners have a strong eleven whose
main fort is the wide-open game, as
wide as it can be made. Sky-piercing
forward passes of forty and fifty yards
are the favorite means of negotiating
yards by the Oklahoma team, and
they have achieved an expertness in
this one department which has made
them formidable opponents for any
team. The Sooners this year have
developed in addition to artists with
the forward flip, a back-feld of line
plungers and speed-artists , which
proved an un solvable combination to
the Jayhawkers. After "beating the
Sooners at their own game" during
the first half, with the score tied at
? to 7, Kansas could not stop the
Sooners during the third quarter until
13 points had been run up. Several
regulars, kept out of the game up
o this time because of injuries in
former contests, were sent in for the
final quarter, and succeeded In scor
ing one touchdown and making a
good advance toward another one he
tore the final whistle blew, but the
rlly came too late.
Thomas D. Rice, inspector of the
S. Bureau of Soils, visited the
Geography Department Monday.
' V'-V
MAURICE CLARK
ENGINEERS' HOP SATURDAY
To be the First University Dance of
the Season Lincoln Hotel the
Place
The first University dance of the
season is the Engineers' Hop at the
Lincoln Hotel, Saturday evening. All
the tickets have been sold and the
arrangements are complete. Dancing
will commence at 8:30 o'clock and the
grand march at 9:00. Scott's Orches
tra will furnish the music. The com
mittee is: M. M. Garrett, chairman,
U. S. Harkson, master of ceremonies,
and E. M. Kadlecek. It is requested
that everyone be on time.
Fay Merriam, '16, of Seward, has
been spending a few days at the Bush-
nell Guild House.
STEEL CARSJOR DEFENSE
Plans Are Under Way to Provide
Means For Transporting Guns in
Time of War
The following is clipped from the
Army and Navy Journal:
Considerable publicity has been
given to the plan for transporting
coast defense artillery rapidly along
our seaboard to repel enemy efforts
to land. We have practically a com
plete system of rails on the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts, and the Pacific coast
is also provided suitably up to point
about a hundred miles north of San
Francisco. If steel cars can be built
not only to transport the guns quickly
to a threatened point, but also to serve
as a firing platform which will resist
the recoil of the gun. we shall have ad
vanced a long way in the direction of
reliable defense. Guns fired from flat
cars could be quickly shifted in the
event of the enemy discovering then-
location, and a mobile nre piano....
for heavy howitzers would possess
enormous advantages."
Girls Practice Swimming
Mi.la WArA In the Y. M. C. A. pool
.rAcv mnrnine to take the second
lesson of the season. Although many
collected around the diving plank in
the deep water, the crowd was so
congested in the shallow end of the
Miss Gittinsrs ordered the
water lowered several feet so the in
experienced might have a larger space
toward middle of the pool in which
to practice the beginning swin..u...
strokes.
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GHOSTS TONIGHT AT TEMPLE
Ibsen's Greatest Literary Contribution
Will be Played by the University
Players
Ibsen was known as a poet and one
of much promise long before "Ghosts"
came from his hand. With the ap
pearance of "Ghosts" Ibsen became
the mark for a hurricane of bitter
criticism. In all the world there were
only a few who recognized the great
stride Ibsen had made. His contempo
rary, George Brandes, wrote "that the
play might or might not be Ibsen's
greaetst work, but it was certainly
his noblest deed." Shortly after Ib
sen's death, another of his contempo
raries, Bjornstjerne Bjornson in an
interview stated without a moment's
hesitation that "Ghosts" was Ibsen's
greatest work.
However that may fce "Ghosts" is
one of the most important if not the
most important drama of recent time
With its appearance the school of
. I,-,. -nroo hnm Since Ibsen's time
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many have followed along the line
ihA fAnriAss noet naa openeu.
Willi 11 .t w -
As has been frequently saia
broke into the field of real life and
dealt with the fundamental problems
ufa Hitherto, the inner
workings of the home had been held
sacredly inviolable. But many of life's
most serious problems are those of
home life. And it is in opening up
these great questions and exposing
them to the light that Ibsen showed
his daring.
As was said yesterday many thought
Ibseri too daring. "Ghosts" was black
listed by the theaters at first. Finally
a traveling troup in Sweden under
took its performance in 1883. Gradual
ly the prejudice broke down until at
the present time "Ghosts" can be pro
duced in nearly every country of the
, -L- irfriaTiri'n cfinsor. alone, nM
glODB. rune,!""" - . .
- t,a resent time, refused o
let the play appear publicly.
The play as it wm ne
night, is substantially as Ibsen wrote
it In acting the play a few unimport
ant omissions have been made to
slightly shorten the performance.
Trof Taul H. Grummann in comment
ing upon Ifea work of the cast said
that few if any professional players
tmrt "Ghosts" as well as
the University players did last spring.
PrnfBssnr Gnraimann re-
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marked that one s coi.eB Cuuv...
could hardly be complete wu..uu,.
Bidering this epoch-making Jgedy.
cHU maw good seats to
be obtained at the College Book store.
ESSIE JONES
"LIFE INVESTMENTS" WAS TOPIC
Miss Burner Spoke at Temple Theater
Tuesday Dean Graham
Presided
"Life Investments," was the topic
of Miss Oolovah Burner's talk at Ves
pers yesterday in the Temple Theatre.
She spoke of the most worth while
investment of the Y. W. C. A. in the
support of Miss Grace' Coppock In
China as one that should be met.
Dean Mary Graham presided and Mrs.
Walter Lynden Pope sang. Miss
Graham announced the tea for tomor
row from 3 to 5 o'clock; the Vespers
next week, when Prof. Louise Pound
will speak on "The College Girl and
Her Books," and the Committee Girls'
Conference with Miss Burner tonight
from 7 to 8 o'clock.
SEEK A KOMENSKY CHAPTER
Slavonic Department of California
Petition Columbia Also
Applies
The Slavonic students at the Uni
versity of California have made an
application for a chapter of the Ko
mnfikv Klub. There are quite a few
(Slavonic students enrolled there who
have for a long time felt the need of
such an organization. Prof. George R.
Noyes is the head of the Slavonic
Department there. Bohemian, Polish,
and Russian is being taught.
The Slavonic students at Columbia
University have also made an appli
cation for a chapter. If this is granted
it will be the first east of Chicago.
The Komensky Klub is a national or
ganization with chapters in most west
ern and many foreign schools. At
Columbia University they have as yet
not Department of Slavonic Languages
but Prof. M. I. Tupin, of the Depart
ment of Science there, a Serbian,
hopes to have it established in the
near future.
Cadets Assigned to Companies
Last Friday evening the University
cadet recruits were assigned to their
regular companies for the year. Since
the beginning of the semester the re
cruits and veterans have been drilling
separately, the recruits learning the
manual of arms and the veterans doing
company and battalion maneuvers.
The recruits and veterans are now
about equally divided in each com
pany. The work in preparation for
the competitive company drills which
are held in the spring will be sUrted
at once.
DR. WARD PRESENTS
LABORJROBLEMS
THE SPEAKER DEALS WITH CONDI
TIONS OF EASTERN FACTORIES
STARVING WAGE EMPHASIZED
Only Forty-nine Per Cent of the Chil
dren of the Large Cities Finish
the Eighth Grade Women
Enter Metal Factories
"If this republic is to maintain itself
and not go the way of the class-torn
nations of Europe this re
public must safeguard the life of the
worker and enable the worker to get
culture," declared Dr. Harry F. Ward,
professor of Sociology at Boston Uni
versity, at Convocation yesterday
when he spoke on "The Challenge of
Labor to Culture."
The speaker considered culture In
America pledged to democracy. Uni
versal education Is one of the safe
guards to democracy. Universal edu
cation can at best, however, be only
an Ideal towards which the people
will have to strive with the purpose
of making elucation as universal as
possible. Education is not nearly so
universal as people might suppose.
Only about 49 to 51 per cent of the
children in our large cities finish the
eighth grade. As long as this state of
affairs exist labor cannot hope to se
cure culture to which it is as Justly en
titled as any other class.
The first challenge of labor to cul
ture is "to make life safe." Dr. Ward
spoke of the greed of the employing
class which compels workers to use
unsafe machinery. He told of a worker
who had removed the safety devices
on a machine, In violation of the law,
to enable him to turn out the number
of pieces required ifhe was to hold
his position. Children and women are
now beginning to enter some of the
most dangerous trades, such as the
metal trades.
"Starvation wages" was another
point emphasizel. In a recent strike
among the Cleveland Garment Work
ers, one of the bosses met one of the
young girl strikers and asked her,
"Why don't you go back to work? If
you want to live you must work; the
community wont support you." "I
can't live much on 49 cents a day."
replied the girl. Despite this, the
worst feature in child iabor is the
destruction of the spirit of the child.
Underpaid labor destroys the very lif
of the laborer. "What shall it profit
a nation?" asked the speaker, -if
it gain the whole world in efficiency
and business but lose ils soul?"
Indoor Drill November 20
Indoor drill of the University cdots
commences Monday, November 20. to
take up the theoretical part of th
soldier's work as taught in 1he United
States infantry regulation. Target
practice and handling of rifles are also
taught. The inside drill wil couMmo
through the winter until the weithr
will again permit the cadets to resume
their work outside.
Orchestra Begins Work
The St Paul's orchestra is now be
Hnnlnff Its new work under the direc
tion of Prof. Carl Steekleberg. meet
ing Sunday Afternoons at 4 o'clock
for rehearsal. A cordial invitation is
extended to University students. .