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VOL. XV. NO. 156.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1916.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
MOVIE ACTORS PLAY
SCENESJN CAMPUS
BLONDE AND BRUNETTE BEAU
TIES ENACT LOVE PLOTS
Chandler Trimble, M4, Wrote the
Scenario Which Won World
Herald Prize
"All right, Toots, hurry!"
"Now register hate! Hurry! Hur
rvi Now shove him! Aw, with both
hands! That's it" Students hurry
ing from their noon classes yester
day wondered what these commands
meant that were heard around tne
campus.
Real moving picture actors had
come to the University of Nebraska
grounds where some forty odd scenes
were to be taken in '.filming" the
World-Herald prize scenario, "The
Young Man's Country." written by
Chandler Trimble, '14, and featuring
the two Omaha girls, Oline Elasser
and Helen McMahon, who won the
blonde and brunette beauty contest
recently conducted by the newspaper.
The photo-play Is to be three reels
long and will be shown in the local
theatres in about two weeks. The
Kxug theatre players of Omaha com
pleted the cast. The play is being
"filmed" tinder the direction of Will
lam Dinner of Omaha.
Yesterday several scenes were tak
en in Omaha. While taking a scene
at Sixteenth and Farnam streets the
strikers, who were making a demon
stration there interfered so with the
work that the whole scene was
spoiled. As a climax several of the
actors and directors were mistaken
for strikers or union leaders and
taken handcuffed to the police sta
tion before the mistake was discover
ed, when the police dispersed the
strikers, according to the actors.
No Life of Roses
"It's not a life of roses by any
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TENNIS TEAM TO
VALLEY TOURNEY
Chatt, Ellis and Gardiner Represent
Varsity at Dei Moines
The varsity tennis team. Captain
Orville Chatt, Harry Ellis and James
Gardiner, will leave for Des Moines,
la., today to compete in the annual
Missouri valley intercollegiate tennis
tournament With a record of no de
feats this year, and the victories over
Ames, Wesleyan. Kansas Aggies and
Kansas to their cerdit the team is ex
pected to make a very good showing
at Des Moines.
Harry Ellis Is the only man on the
team with previous experience In Mis
souri valley tournaments. Ellis and
Charles Gardiner last year were run-ners-cp
In the doubles tournament
which was held at the Country clnb
in this city. The two also made a
good showing In the singles.
Chatt and JImmIe Gardiner have
been stacking up a mighty good game
d teriis this season, and Ellis has
lfen playing in hi usual good form.
The strength of the teams that will
be met is an unknown quanta. 'Yob
ally the stirTest opposition to Nebras
ka will come from Washington uni
versity of St Louis.
Just Why You Should Vote For The
Student Council
It has been suggesied that we have
not sufficiently established the need
for the Student Council. We will there
fore review the reasons that we be
lieve we have established in former
issues of the paper. These matters
have been treated at greater length
before, but we will review them at
the present time that they may be
fresh in the minds of those voting at
today's election.
1. The adoption of the Student
Council will mean that the students
have a body to act in their behalf on
all occasions. At present, we have
many organizations to represent their
members as they see fit Under the
proposed system, we will have an or
ganization whose business it is to see
that the interests of the student body
as a whole are properly cared for,
something that is entirely lacking at
the present time.
2. By unifying student life it will '
create a better Nebraska spirit While
Nebraska spirit has always been a
source of pride to all Cornhuskers,
the proper institutionalization of stu
dent life will add to this. Such is
the testimnny of other schools. (See
issue of May 16.)
3. By being representative of the
various departments of the university,
it will create a better and more
wholesome departmental spirit The
fact that each department will be
'called upon to select its representa
tives in the governing body will mean
a more perfect and wholesome ob
ject for the organization of each de
partment 4. It will mean the adoption of the
Single Tax, which will produce better
student activities. The merits of the
Single Tax are familiar to every stu
dent But the system cannot properly
be carried into effect without a body
to do the administrative work. Fur
thermore, if the system is not adopted
at present, the student body will have
an organization to represent them in
securing its adoption later, as shown
in the first reason above.
5. It will mean the adoption of the
Student Union, which will produce
more democracy among the students.
The merits of the Student Union are
.believed in by all. But we cannot
have the Union without an organiza
tion to put it into effect
. 6. It will mean the creation of a
University State, having functions
similar to the state at large, thus pro
ducing a laboratory in self-government
Our present system teaches the
student that the state which educates
him is wrong in theory. The Student
Council will teach him practical
duties in that state of which he must
be a citizen after leaving school.
7. The results in other schools
justify its adoption here. In the issue
of May 16, we published a table show
ing the operation of Councils in othehr
schools. All schools but one report
that the Council has been a decided
success. Let's place Nebraska life on
a basis of equality with other institu
tions. 8. It will bring order and unity
where now we have disorder and
chaos. At present we have matters of
importance left to many organiza
tions, existing with different objects
and working in different directions. If
anything is accomplished for the stu
dent body as a whole, it is because
by chance some one of these organi
zations puts asid efor the time being
its reason for existence and works
for the welfare of the school. The
adoption of the Student Council will
unify this system, providing an organ
ization to represent the student body
without interfering with the purposes
of the other organizations.
VOTE TODAY AT
REGISTRAR'S OFFICE
Ballots for the vote of the students
on the Student Council, tha Single
Tax, and a committee oi five who
shall draw up a Student Council con
stitution, will be cast at the regis
trar's office today. Students shall ob
tain their ballots at the office and
leave their votes there. There will
university authorities perferring that
not be a voting booth at the state
farm, university authorities preferring
that the vote be cast at one place.
ANNUAL COMPETITIVE
DRILLTODAY 1:00
BUELL, KRAMER AND FOWLER
WILL BE JUDGES
Company D Draws First Place In
Lots I Company Will Con
clude the Drill
TAKE MOVIES OF
M, E. STUDENTS
Mechanical engineering students ap
peared in a "movie" Tuesday after
noon, when Dr. G. EL Condra "shot"
them while making a frame for a
cast iron shear for cutting Iron. The
picture shows the making of the
mould, melting the Iron, pouring the
molten metal into the mould, breaking
up the mould and the casting as it
comes from the mould. A special fea
ture of the film shows the sparks
from the furnace when the Iron is
melting. To get this part of the pic
ture, the camera vu placed directly
la front of the i'urnace door.
The shear, which weighs 1.400
pounds, will be used in the forge shop
of the M. E. building for cutting ma
terial used in the laboratories.
Lieutenant Frank A. Buell, U. S. A.,
Captain Kramer and former Cadet
Colonel Fowler mill be the judges of
the twenty-third annual competitive
drilL to be held today commencing
at 1 o'clock on Nebraska field.
Lots were drawn to determine the or
der in which, the companies should
drill with the following results: D,
Farm, O. H, F, K, M. B, A, E, C
and L .
Following the company drill, four
selected men from each company will
give a crack exhibition. Then comes
presentation of the 6abres by the
sponsors to the captains, presentation
of prizes by the chancellor, parade
of the regiment and announcement of
promotions for next year.
After the parade of the regiment
the retiring officers aDd Colonel Hew
itt will fall In line with the sponsors
and the iew officers will lead the
regiment In review.
Miss Ida Wilson, 16, has been very
ill for the past week.
STUDENT COUNCIL
RALLY NOT TO BE HELD
The proposed Student Council rally
after the convocation hour will not
be held this morning, In spite of prev
ious announcement to that effect
The enforced absence of some of the
speakers is the reason for not hold
ing the rally.
PRE-MEDICS ELECT
FLOTHOWPRESIDEHT
Department Professors Speak at Last
Meeting if the Year Last Night
The Pre-Mccic society of the Uni
versity of Netraska met Wednesday
evening at the Alpha Tan Omega
house for its final business meeting
of the year. Thi election of officers
for next year was the principal busi
ness of the evening. The fallowing
were elected: P. ('.. Flothow, presi
dent, Omaha; E. Hurns, vice presf
dent Rife. Colo.; Harold Sturbeit
secretary. Council Bluffs, la.; A. .
Herman, lrea?-rer Lincoln.
rians for next year were then dis
cussed and the loyalty of the Pre
Medicsthis year was commented upon.
After lunch, r. Waicott, Dr. Parker
ar.d Dean Lyman gave talks upon
work of the society and the co-operation
of tn freshmen. There were
about forty men present
RECOMMEND NEW
PLEDGING RULES
INTERFRAT COUNCIL PROPOSES
MODIFIED SOPH PLEDGING
Would Make Scholarship the Test
Acacia Adrnit'eci to Council
Prof. Buck Again Chairman
A recommendation to the university
regents, that would suspend the soph
omore pledging rule adopted April
23, 1914, and mike sophomore pledg
ing after February 1, 1917, depend
ent upon the scholarship of fraterni
ties, was unanimously adopted by the
interfraternity council, meeting last
night. If concurred in by the regents,
the effect of the new rules would be
to suspend sophomore pledging next
fall, and to enforce it each semester
after that only against those frater
nities whose average scholarship Is
below the general average for all fra
ternities for this present semester.
The recommendation is in four par
as follows:
I
After the first of February, 1917,
fraternities whose averages in the
present semester have been equal to
or above the average for all the fra
ternities in the interfraternity coun
cil during the second semester of
1915-16 may pledge and initiate fresh
men without regard to the rules of
sophomore pledging adopted April
23. 1914.
n
All fraternities whose averages fall
below the general average mentioned
above must adhere to the sophomore
pledging, rules adopted April 23,
1914.
Ill
After the first of February, 1917, all
rules for governing rushing and
pledging shall be suspended by those
fraternities coming within Section L
IV
All pledges and initiations must Im
mediately be announced to the chair
man of the interfraternity council
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TRACK -TEAM TO
MO.-VALLEY MEET
ELEVEN MEN AND COACH REED
LEAVE FOR COLUMBIA, MO.
Dope Gives Crnhutkers an .Even
Chance to Win, bt Competition
Will Be Strong
The Nebraska track team will leave
for the Missouri valley track meet at
Columbia, Mo, over the Burlington
at 10:30 o'clock today. Eleven men
and Coach Reed will comprise the .
party. Although Nebraska has been
defeated by both Kansas and Ames
and in spite of the wonderful perform
ances of Missouri, Nebraska has an
even chance to win, the varsity root
ers believe.
The men making the trip are:
Captain Scott, Irwin, Wiley, Owen,
Overman, Gran, Bates, LlebenGofer,
Shaw, Corey and O'Erian.
Scott, Irwin, B-tes and Owen will
run the sprits; Overman nd Graa
the distance runs; Wiley the low'
hurdles and Jump; Llebendorfer. pole
vault; Shaw, Corey and OT3rian,
weight an! field events.
r.Tr.y 23th
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