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VOL. XVI. NO. 82.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Tine
MAKE CHARGES OF
UNFAIR DEALING
DRILL SUPPORTERS INSIST OTHER
SIDE NOT ON THE SQUARE
Will Accept Challenge for Debate If
It Is Made a Purely
Student Affair
If the paciflcta will contest in a
purely student debate, leaving all
members of the faculty out of It, the
students who favor continuing mili
tary drill at the University on the
present basis, will debate at" the
Temple, February 3.
But if the pacifists insist on using
paid faculty members to take part in
the debate, then their opponents, de
claring that there is no intention of
the pacifists to be fair, -will not talk.
These statements are made on ths
authority of L. W. Trester, one .of
those active in combatting the ef
forts of A. H. Jensen, C. A. Sorenson,
et al., to abolish drill at the Univer
sity. Talk of Unfairness
The drill advocates frankly admit
that they were unfairly treated in the
discussion of the question at All
Soul's church last Sunday night. Th3
church is known to be the Center of
opposition to all that hints of military
strength and preparedness. The pas
tor, A. L. Weatherly, who presided
at the debate, was a member of the
Ford peace expedition, as was C. A.
Sorenson, who is one of the principal
backers of the anti-drill forces. The
audience was a packed audience, the
cadet supporters feel.
So the "militarists' accept the "pa
cifist" challenge to debate, but Insist
that it must be a student debate from
start to finish.
Trester said this yesterday:
"If they want a real debate on the
drill question we will give it to them,
rirovided that all faculty member are
left out as well as faculty coaching.
We will play 'fair' if they will, other
wise no debate.
"We will give them all the hot shot
they wish."
DRAMATIC CLASS
IN PLAY TONIGHT
'Fanchon, the Cricket" Will B Pre
ented in Temple by Freshmen
Dramatists The Cast
"Inchon, the Crlckett" will be pre
ented by the members of the fresh
man dmmatlc class at the third meet
ing of the dramatics department in
the Temple theater tonight Tf e class
under the direction of Ethel Hart
y and Pern Simmons. Interested
tudents are invited, but will not be
?ated during the presentation of the
Plav.
Following is the cast:
Mother Barbeand..Mlss Bertha Bates
Father Barbeand, a rich peasant..
Brooks Harding
Landry Barbeand, his son
Floyd Johnson
fanchon, the Cricket
Miss Genevieve Addleman
Martlneau, a peasant. .Webb Richards
Mothed Fadet, a witch
Marguerite Polk
Ddier Barbeand, Landry's brother. .
Herbert Yenne
Eleanor Frampton
Beatrice Dierks
Marjorie Green
Lillian Wirt
Eugene Moore
....Joseph Thomas
Paul Dobson
Dancii
ng girls..
Eiinne
Pierre.
Collin.
. Peasant boys.
Jelon (Mllard, a rich peasant
Miss True Jack
arlette...
Miss Verne Moseman
..Miss Frances Flood
PROF. BARBER WILL '
OFFER COURSE IN
ROMAN ARCHEOLOGY
A course In Roman Archeology will
be offered second semester by ProC.
B. Barber. He makes the following
statement regarding it:
"At the request of a number of
Btudents I have concluded to give
course 19 next semester on Roman
Archaeology. It will consist of lec
tures illustrated with lantern views,
and will be of interest to general his
torical students. The topics covered
may be found under 19 on page 505
of the catalogue.. The course will
be open to all.
"GROVE E. BARBER."
PHI KAPPA PSI
TRIMS ACACIA
VICTORS TAKE THEIR FIRST IN
TERFRAT GAME, 27 TO 14
Speedy Work by Mike Selzer the Fea
ture Losers Came Back Strong
Second Half
Phi Kappa Pel won from Acacia in
the first interfrat game by both teams,
27 to 14, before a hundred rabid root
ers in the Armory last night Clever
work by Mike Selzer, the little for
ward for the Phi Psls and the strong
come back staged by Acacia in the
second half, featured the game.
The first half ended 15 to 1" for
Phi PsI, the Acacias seemingly un
able to successfully combat the team
work of their opponents, or to locate
the hoop when near their end of the
floor. The lone Acacia score came on
a free throw by Bab Ganz.
After their rest in the second half,,
the Acacias came through with some
long and lucky shots from the floor
that brought their score up to respect
able dimensions. The Phi Psis added
steadily to their own count, however,
and were never In danger.
The spectators found much more
fun in the second than in the fir3t
half.
The lineup:
Phi Kappa PsI 27 Acacia 14
Seemann c Ganz..
Selzer f Patterson
Keflogg .... f Holmes
Wright '.' g. Heller
Cook g Meyer
Substitutes Kenner for Kellogg;
Porter for Wright
Goals from field Selzer 4, Kellogg
2, Kenner 2, Ganz 2. Holmes 2, Heller
Meyer, Seemann, Wrightr Cook.
Free throws Selzer 6, Ganz 2.
Referee John Riddell.
DEAN ENGBERG DECLARES
THE SINGLE TAX IS
WORTHYA TRIAL
Dean Carl C. Engberg, executive
dean of the University, makes the
following statement regarding the
single tax of $3 a semester on which
students will vote during registration
W January 23, 1917. Editor Dally
Nebraskan, Campus. Dear Miss
Miller:
The Single Tax, a plan whereby
students pay once for all, through
the medium of one agency, for
the support of the various stu
dent activities, dramatics, de
bating, the college paper, etc., is
worthy of serious consideration.
Not only does this plan put these
activities on a firm financial basis,
but also It creates a community
Interest, and so tends toward the
forming of what we need above
all else a college spirit A three
and a half dollar fee per semeser,
which may bs permitted In case the
student Is registered for less than
12 hours, or for other flood cause,
Is not oppressive, and is at least
worthy of trial.
Sincerely yours,
CARL C. ENGBERG.
What The Single Tax Will Be
The single tax, on which students will be asked to vote registra
tion week, is outlined below. It provides for a fee of $3.50 a semester,
which would raise on a conservative estimate, $21,000 a year. The
tax would be distributed according to the table.
Athletics $10,000
Medical Supervision 5,000
Daily Nebraskan 3,500
Dramatics 600
Mixers 500
Who wilt pay?: All students
registered for twelve or more
hours will pay the tax although
excuses for financial inability
or other good and sufficient rea
sons will be accepted.
Collection: The tax will be
collected as a part of the regis
tration fee at the beginning of
each semester.
Athletics: This sum would
go for the support of both men's
and women's athletics. Payment
of the tax would admit to all
athletic contests, intercollegiate
games, and exhibitions free.
Medical Supervision: Every
student paying the tax would
be given absolutely free expert
medical advice and would be en
couraged to consult a physician
on every needed occasion. A
visiting nurse would probably be
secured.
Dally Nebraskan: Every stu
dent entitled to a copy of the
paper. The Nebraskan could be
made far better and more repre
sentative, with many features
now impossible of securing. A
special student wire from every
away from home football game.
Dramatics: This sum would
be made available for the School
of Drama, and the Junior and
senior classes. It would insure
to each Btudent a free perform
ance of every play of the school
GRUMMANN WRITES
ON 0LDMYTH0L0GY
Traces Five Waves Affecting Germanic
Tribes Suggests Origin of
Indo-Europeans
An article by Prof. Paul Grummann
director of the school of fine arts and
professor of modern German litera
ture has been published in the Janu
ary number of the "Monatshefte," a
monthly devoted to the study of Ger
mon and pedagogy. The subject of
the article is "Cultural Movements in
Germanio Mythology."
Professor Grummann says: "For
thirty years the theory that the orig
inal home of the Indo-Europeans is to
be traced to the territory south of the
eastern part of the Baltic has been
growing in favor, but no consistent
attempt has been made to harmonize
Germanic mythology with this theory.
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Repents Recommend Legislative
o -
Enactment tor Bessey tuna
Two interesting recommendations
in regard to the Bessey fund started
last year by alumni were made by
the board of regents in their biennial
report to the legislature". The first
la that a yearly fund be established
from the permanent endowment equal
to the interest coming from the $3,000
raised by alumnL The other recom
mendation would provide for the pay
ment to Mrs. Besse of the balance
of Dean Bessey's salary for the year
In which his death occurred, amount
ing to $1,453.33.
The Bessey fund was raised by vol
untary subscription, no active canvas
being made. Interest on the money
Debate 300
Ag College Judging Teams 300
University Night 300
Ivy Day 300
Convocations 200
of Drama, and the senior and
junior class plays.
Mixers: A proper number of
mixers during the year, given to
all students free of charge.
Debate: All students would
be admitted to the debates free.
Debating would be placed on a
proper financial basis.
Ag College Judging Team:
This sum would help pay the
expenses of stock, dairy and
fruit judging teams representing
the University in interstate and
collegiate competitions.
University Night: All stu
dents to see the performance
free of charge at the city audi
torium, or two performances at
a theatre. Better and more elab
orate stunts.
Ivy Day: This would mean
a successful, all-University day'
celebration free of charge.
Convocations: This sum would
be used to bring nationally fa
mous speakers and lecturers, or
other good features to the con
vocations. Incidental: All excess over
the 121,000, would be made a
past of the Incidental fund. This
should include for the students
free admission into the art ex
hibits, possibly the May music
festival, the girls' costume party,
and enable the student activities
office to enlarge the "icope of its
activities.
PICK CAST FOR "GREEN
STOCKINGS" FER. 5
JUNIORS WILL TRY OUT JUST
AFTER REGISTRATION
Five Judges to Select the Players-
Three Minutes Work From
Each Contestant
Tryouts for the junior play, "Green
Stockings" will be held in Music hall
of the Temple Monday evening, Feb
ruary 5, at 7 o'clock. The judges, H
chosen by the committee, will be
Prof. Alice Howell, Prof. R. D. Scott,
Prof. F. A. Stuff, Prof. Searle Davis,
and H. A. Prince.
F. T. Cotter, chairman of the play
committee, has announced the follow
ing rules governing the tryouts:
The contestants are to be Judged
on about three minutes' work as one
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will eventually be used for a scholar
ship in botany.
Regarding the request for the pay
ment of Dr. Bessey's Balary for the
balance of the year of his death, the
regents report:
"The regents also desired to pay
Mrs. Bessey the salary for the balance
of theyear in which Dean Bessey
died. There is ample precedent for
doing this in public and private institutions-
but it seemed illegal under
the laws of Nebraska and so the claim
was not pressed upon the state offi
cials. The regents now desire legis
lative action permitting them to pay
Mrs. Bessey the balance of the year's
salary, amounting to $1,458.33."
WOULD USE REST
OF BUILDING FUND
FOR IMMEDIATE GROWTH
The continuance of the building
campaign on the two campuses almost
without interruption was indicated by
one of the recommendations of the re
gents in their summary of the finan
cial situation, In which they request
that the 93 per cent of the building
fund for the remaining blennium be
paid at once.
The regents also recommend partic
ularly that payment of the 93 per
cent mill levy for maintenance and
brought out their negative attitude to
ward the expending of money for new
projects unless by special appropria
tion. DR. STEWART IS
ON ANXIOUS SEAT
HUSKER COACH WANTS MORE
BASKETBALL MEN
Forward and Guard Badly Needed
More Men to Go
on Squad
Dr. Stewart is worrying.
The coach's trouble is lack of ma
terial from which to make a varsity
basketball team. There are plenty of
men out but they are not of the right
caliber. Therefore more men are
needed, and it is up to the student
body to furnish those men.
Dr. Stewart does not mean that he
does not have a basketball team al
ready. What he- means is- that -rfrfl
team he has is not as good as the one
he thinks he ought to have.
Next Saturday night the Wesleyan
Coyotes Invade the land of the Corn
huskers and it is for the purpose of
meeting this Invasion that Stewart
wants some men and wants them
badly. Of course any man that is in
serted into the lineup before that time
will have to be a phenomenal player,
but the coach Is still hoping to find
such a man.
The coach's main need is one for
ward and one guard. The forward is
needed at once and the guard will
be needed as soon as Jim Gardiner
retires from the lineup. Gardiner is
a basketball guard of the most ex
ceptional type. He knows the psy
chological time to start things from
that position, and when things are
started by Jim they usually go
through.
In an effort to find the needed men
among the squad now out, the coach
will increase the number of men on
the varsity squad to ten. The first
two mento profit from this change
are Pickett and Schumacher, both of
whom have been given chances with
varsity against the scrubs and fresh
men. JUNIORS AGAIN VOTE
TO REPAY MILLER
Class Also Goes on Record Unani
mously In Favor of the
Single Tax
The junior class meeting' In Law
107 at 11:30 yesterday morning, again
voted $7 to Max A. Miller, chairman
of the junior prom, for two compli-
mentarles issued by him for the dance
but not validated by the agent of stu
dent activities. At a meeting- two
weeks ago, the class voted Miller the
money, but official objection was raised
because, It was said, time enough had
not been given between the announce
ment and the meeting. After recon
sidering the motion, the class yester
day voted .unanimously on It again.
The class also voted to go ou rec
ord as favoring the single tax, now
up before the students for considera
tion. This movement was also en
dorsed unanimously.
PROF. SWEZEY ON
EARTH-MOON THEORY
DEVOTES CONVOCATION HOUR
TO ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
Refuses to Say He Believes It Lo
cates Hole Left by
the Moon
A very interesting theory about the
origin of the moon and its relative
position to the earth, called "The
Earth-Moon Theory," was illustrated
on the screen by Prof. G. D. .Swezey,
head of the department of astronomy,
at convocation yesterday morning.
Although supported by several as
tronomers, this r.bsorbing and rather
startling explanation of the origin
of the "peaoeful planet," is not gen
erally believed, and Professor Swezey
did not express his full conviction.
He said: "It is an interesting theory,
and, really, the more one studies it,
the more plausible it seems. I half
believe it myself."
Now, in the beginning, according to
the earth-moon theory, the earth, then
a jelly-like mass, was whirling in
space at a rate which would make a
day of five hours duration, Instead of
the twenty-four weary ones we now
have. This terrific spinning on its
axis caused a bulging at the equator,
and, as time went on, and the surface
of the earth formed into a soft crust,
a protuberance appeared. By the law
of centrifugal force, this protuberance
gradually pulled itself away from the
main mass and finally tore itself
loose, whirling around 4h largop-mass
in an opposite direction.
To Find the Hole
The next question is to find the
place where this big hole in the earth's
surfact, left by the departing moon,
is at the present time? Supporters
of the theory believe that the Pacific
and Arctic ocean basins form this
cavity.
It is naturally to be supposed that
after that portion of the soft earth
crust which formed the moon protu
berance had been torn away, that the
rest of the crust would be broken in
to floating fragments, to adjust them
selves in fixed positions as time went
on. Professor Swezey flashed a dia
gram on the screen at this point in
his explanation which showed all the
earth re-arranged as it might have
been after the cavity had been made.
Leaving the Pacific basin empty, al
most a solid crust of the surface of
the earth can be made by pushing
South America up through the Carri
bean sea into the Gulf of Mexico, and
fitting Africa on to South America
by rotating the tail of the dark conti
nent across the Atlantic on to North.
America, a practically solid surface
can be formed, and by drawing Aus
tralia and the Pacific islands back into
the Indian ocean, the surface of the
globe, save for the Pacific cavity, is
to all intents and purposes, unbroken.
That other planets have similar
smaller bodies whirling around them,
like the moon and the earth, was an
other statement in support of the the
ory made by professor Swezey. Such
pairs of stelujr bodies are called
"double stars," and one of them re
cedes while the other approaches,
making them whirl around one anoth
er in opposite directions.
REV. KUEHNE AT
Y. M. C. A. MIDWEEK
DEVOTIONAL MEETING
The regular mldweed devotional
meeting of the University Y. M. C. A.
will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in.
the music room of the Temple. Rev.
Kuehne will talk on "Fellowship.
Among University Men."
Yale clans a big football rt-aser on
January 19. to do homagr to tlnir 1916
champions, Yale alumni, 4,000 strong.
have been Invited to attend this mon
ster banquet at the New York Yale
club. Ex.
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