The Dally Nebraskae
VOL. XVI. NO. 102.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1917.
PRICE FINE CENTS
ALPHA PHI AND
FARM HOUSE CLOSED
QUARANTINED BECAUSE OF SCAR
LET FEVER EPIDEMIC
Dean Engberg Askt for Information
Concerning Disease Among
Students
As a result of the spread of the
scarlot fever epidemic in Lincoln, the
Farm House fraternity, 307 North
Twenty fourth street, and the Alpha
Thi sorority. 1237 R street, have been
quarantined by the department of
health, and several student rooming
houses in different parts of the city
have also been isolated. With the first
few eases starting a week and a half
ago, the disease has spread all over
Lincoln and suburbs, and fifty-three
cases have so far been reported.
Both the Farm House and Alpha Phi
house were quarantined yesterday
morning. C. L. Chrtstensen, '20. of
Minden, is the scarlet fever Tictim
at the Farm House and Marian Norris,
IS, of McOook, is isolated at the Alpha
Phi house.
Dean Carl C. Engberg, executive
dean of the University, yesterday re
quested all who know of scarlet feTer
cases among students to notify him
immediately, declaring that this infor
mation was very necessary in order to
handle the situation.
Mostly Among Students
The records show that the disease
is confined largely to University and
high school students. Its appearance
so far has been in a light form. The
health office predicts a perceptible in
crease in the cases reported because
of the number of suspects" those
who have been exposed to the disease.
At the Farm House, the one patient
is confined on the third floor of the
house. Yesterday freshmen were sta
tioned about the house as an advance
guard to warn innocent strangers, and
the men were preparing for their
week's confinement in the happiest
manner possible.
Following is the statement issued
by Superintendent Chapman of the
city health office regarding the epi
demic: "The desire of this department is
that the public be fully Informed at all
times about contagious diseases exist-
ir.g in U:icoln. . v
Situation Serious
"At this time there is an epidemic
of scarlet fever prevailing in Lincoln
and suburbs adjoining on the east.
There are fifty-three cases ta Lincoln.
Con-i Jering the number of exposures
it is safe to say that the number will
show a perceptible increase each day
or until the public becomes awakened
to the seriousness of 'the situation.
"The two most common sources
wbi.h have to do with the spreading
of scarlet fever are milk and direct
exposure with one having the disease.
There has been no reason to suspicion
the r.Kk supply other than raw milk
hi li is always suspicious when an
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WALTER RAECKE IS
SENIOR LAW HEAD
Election cf Minor Officers Indefinitely
Postponed Vote to Hold
Barbecue
Walter R. Raecke. of Central City,
was elected president of the senior
law , Uk at a meeting of the class yes
terday morning. J. L. Barton, of Lin
coln, was the other candidate for the
oee.
Imposing solemnity marked the
tt'Mng after it was called together
fcr Jo C. Flaherty, retiring president,
"ntil the presidential rote was cast,
ten the uproar of cheering made It
evMry t0 poatpone the election of
amor officers- Indefinitely.
Before adjrurnment, the class voted
tcanimousiy In favor of a motion to
kol1 tt traditional law barbecue this
spring.
NEW MAGAZINE ISSUED
BY COMMERCE STUDENTS
AT WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY
"Commerce," a new magazine pub
lished by the students in the course in
commerce at the University of Wis
consin, made its first appearance on
February 20, the opening day of the
Wisconsin Commercial and Industrial
Congress, of which it was the official
publication.
HAS DOUBTS OF
G00DFR0M WAR
Rev. S. Mills Hayes at Convocation
Pessimistic of Effect Upon
American Civilization
"I am considerable of a pessimist,"
confessed Rev. S. Mills Hayes, pastor
of the Church of the Holy Trinity of
Lincoln, at Convocation yesterday
morning, "when I think of the effect of
the present European war upon Ameri
can civilization. This war is primar
ily a commercial war, and because it
ts such a war for material ends Its
influence will be exerted along ma
terial lines."
"It Is my opinion that it is very
doubtful that the United States will
reap the advantages which have been
reaped after the great wars of the
past," Mr. Hayes declared, and pointed
to the great wars of history. He cited
the Prussian and Greek wars which
resulted in the rise of an architecture,
a school of sculpture and a literature,
which, he said, were the finest the
world has ever seen.
He reminded the audience that In
the Middle Ages, when the Turks
over-ran Europe and destroyed Con
stantinople, the human intellect was
stimulated In such a way that there
followed the rennaissance. The
French revolution brought to France
an idea of democracy and a sense of
the worth of the individual, that revo
lutionized the country."
War Show No Advance
"I would like to believe that some
good could come out of this evil," and
Mr. Hayes again referred to the pres
ent war. "But the wars of the nine
teenth and twentieth centuries show
little advance in civilization. Our own
Civil war had little effect on litera-
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JUNIOR GIRLS
Vlll FROM SENIORS
Will Meet Freshmen Thursday for
Interclass Tournament
Championship
The Junior girls' basketball team
won the second game of the girls'
Interclass basketball tournament
played yesterday morning In the
Armory, defeating the seniors by a
score of 16 to 13. The teams were
evenly matched and the game was a
good fight from the first blow of the
whistle to the finish.
Lucy Jeffords was the star of tne
senior quintet, making nine of their
thirteen points. The teamwork of
the Juniors was a feature. Long passes
that did not run amuck enabled them
to keep the ball in senior territory
during the greater part of the game.
The line up follows:
Juniors Seniors
Nichols If Jeffords
B. Koch rf White (c)
C. Koch (c) c... Wirt. Longacre
Shlvely lg San1
Dierks rg Brown
Field goals C. Koch 3. B. Koch 4,
Dierks 1. White I, Longacrel. Jeffords
4.
Thursday morning the big cham
pionship game between the Juniors
and freshmen will be played. A con
solation game between the seniors
and the sophomores will be played be
tween halves.
JUNIOR-SENIOR
DEBATEJOMORROW
Winner Will Meet Sophomore Team
for Championship on Phi Beta
Kappa Day
The second contest in the interclass
debate series come tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock when the seniors
meet the juniors on the question of
armed intervention. The place where
the debate will be held has not been
definitely agreed upon.
The winner of this debate will meet
the sophomores, who won from the
freshmen a week ago, for the cham
pionship, on Phi Beta Kappa day,
March 29.
The debate tomorrow promises to be
even more interesting than the freshmen-sophomore
clash. The Junior
team, supporting the negative side of
the question, has admitted that there
should be intervention but peaceful,
not armed, intervention in Mexico,
and that the United States alone has
the right to intervene. The debate
I will consequently be fought out on
the remaining issues, and, with this
focusing of evidence, there is likely
to be some clear-cut argument.
Walter Raecke, Frank Hlxenbaugh.
and D. D. Parry compose the senior
team, and E. C. Jeffrey, Henry Pas-
icale, and G. V. Lundmark, the junior.
The judges for the debate will be Prof.
H. W. Caldwell of the department of
American history. Prof. G. O. Virtue,
and Prof. G. A. Stephens, of the de
partment of political economy.
DRAKE NEXT ON
HUSKERSGHEOULE
Come Back For More Saturday After
Des Moines Defeat Hard Tussle
Expected
The Nebraska basketball team will
entertain the Drake Bulldogs here
Saturday afternoon. The Iowans have
already been defeated by the Corn
huskers. but according to the accounts
of the game it took some real strategy
to accomplish the feat.
Drake was outplayed in the game
of last Saturday in the first half. In
the second period, however, they came
back strong and threatened the Ne
braska five, and if it had not been for
time taken out at several critical
points the Cornhuskers might not have
been on the long end of the score at
the close of the game.
Coach Stewart has a great deal of
respect for the ability of the Bulldog3
and expects them to put up a strong
game Saturday.
The men have not shown much
spirit since their return, but the coach
has hopes of whipping Mine steam
Into them before the week is over.
W. A. ROBERTS WRITES
THAT WAR PRICES HELP
NEGRO COTTON GROWERS
W. A. Rockey, '14, formerly assist
ant in the geography department, is
now in charge of soil survey in the
bureau of mines of the state of
Georgia, with headquarters at Waynes
ville. He writes the department here that
war prices on cotton have put many
negro cotton growers out of debt for
the first time since the civil war.
DR. FLING WILL SPEAK
TO GRADUATE TEACHERS
SATURDAY EVENING
Dr. Fred M. Fling, of the depart
ment of European history, will be the
principal speaker at a meeting of the
graduate teachers' club, at the home
of Dr. G. W. A. Luckey, 1439 R street.
Saturday evening, March 3.
Joseph M. Fulk will also speak on
the municipal phase of recreation.
The club is making a series of Inter
esting Investigations along educational
lines.
TELLS STORY IN
DIFFERENT WAY
Mexican History Has Its Own Account
of the War With America in
Early Days
American students who hav been
raised on American history from the
American point of view might learn
Just how differently the same story
can be told by reading an eighth-grade
Mexican grammar. In use In the grade
Bchools at Oaxaco, Mexico, and given
to Prof. C. E. Persinger, of the de
partment of American history, by Miss
Norma Clark, a former Lincoln school
girl, who has Just returned after sev
eral years in southern Mexico.
There are no patriotic allusions to
the Alamo, or the fighting Texans,
familiar to the minds of those who
have read the American account of
the Mexican war. "Texas was colon
ized by the United States with the
deliberate intention of making it later
a part of the United States," the his
ory says, early In its account of the
war. It describes the charge brought
upon Mexico by the Americans in re
gard to invading United States terri
tory when Mexicans attacked Ameri
can troops north of the Rio Grande to
be about the same kind of an excuse
as the one the wolf in the fable made
Falsely making the sign of the cross
to save themselves from Catholic sol
diers of Mexico and stabbing Mexi
cans In the back in return for kind
nesses are two more charges against
the "Yankee" soldiers in the book.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR
WORLD SERVICE
Miss Ada Heaton, City Y. W. C. A.
Secretary, Names the
Requisites
Some of the qualifications for world
service. Miss Ada Heaton, secretary of
the city V. W. C. A. told University
women at 5 o'clock Vesper service last
evening, are a good education, an at
tractive personality, refinement, cheer
fulness, a sense of humor, ability of
leadership, orderliness, punctuality,
business ability and neatness.
"I think that people should pay at-
tention to clothes," Miss Heaton said".
1 "It seems too often that brains and
clothes or religion and clothes do not
go together." She also aeserted that
every, girl should have a professional
' life work. "Women are not created
; for marriage alone. Every woman
i owes it to herself to be an individual,
i Too , many women, when they leave
college, take the easiest line cf work
that will tide them over until the time
when someone else will make the liv
ing for them," Miss Heaton said.
"We are all bound at times to have
' failures, but that does not mean that
' we are failures." Miss Heaton con
cluded. REGULAR PAY TO
UPPERCLASS OFFICERS
Commutation of Rations to University
Commissioned Men Practically
Certain
A letter received from the war de
partment by Captain Sam M. Parker,
commandant of cadets, states that
commutation of rations in the reserve
officers training corps will without
doubt be paid during the present aca
demic year. This means that Junior
and senior officers in the cadet regi
ment will receive the regular com
pensation of officers under the provis
ions of the reserve officers' training
corps act.
Up to this time, it was not known
definitely whether the granting of a
division In the corps would bring with
it the benefit to the upperclass officers
of the present school year, but it is
indicated by the letter that the war
department is making preparations for
full compensation.
WANT GEOLOGISTS
FOR COSTA RICA OIL
AND GAS FIELDS
The Geology department received
a telegram yesterday from C. A. Fish
er, chief geologist of a Denver oil and
gas firm, asking for five men to work
in the oil and gas fields of fosta
Rica at ?2.400 a year ami expenses.
The men will probably be picked this
week from the junior and senior ge
ological students. "
RESERVE TICKETS
GO IN TWO HOURS
Fourteen Hundred Tickets for Uni
versity Night Disposed of in Two
Hours
Fourteen hundred tickets to Univer
sity night at the auditorium Saturday,
including all of the Bupply of lower
floor, reserved, seats, were sold within
two hours yesterday. Faculty mem
bers got first chance at the tickets at
11 o'clock in the morning, and a mob
of students grabbed up the 1,000 re
maining cards between 1 and 2
o'clock. The rest of the allotment of
tickets, which give admission to the
balcony only, have been placed on
sale at the College Book Store.
This sets a record for speed In Uni
versity night ticket sales. In previous
years the process has been a slow,
tedious, and sometimes exasperating
one. The management this year re
moved as far as possible these fea
tures by combining the two processes
of purchasing a ticket and making a
reservation. Names of those who
bought tickets or of those for whom
tickets were purchased, Were checked
on a class list, assuring that each
student would get no more than one.
The rush for tickets exceeded the
expectations of the management, al
though they had made preparations
for Just such an emergency. It Justi
fies the prediction made last year
that the attendance at the perform
ance would be almost doubled if an
equivalent Increase In seating capacity
were afforded. This the management
has found in the city auditorium,
which,, although it will seat several
hundred more than the Oliver theatre,
will probably prove too small also, for
the tickets yet to be sold are compara
tively few. The management has, for
this reason, issued a warning that
those who wish tickets should get
them soon.
BEETHOVEN FIVE
AT CONVOCATION
Come Tomorrow in Series of Musical
Programs at Thursday Convoca
tions Strings and Organ
The fifth symphony, C minor. Op. 67
of Ludwig von Beethoven, the most
widely known of these famous compo
sitions, will be played at the regular
musical convocation tomorrow morn
ing by the usual quartet, accompanied
by Mrs. Carrla B. Raymond on the
organ. Edward J. Walt will play first
violin; Ernest Harrison, second violin;
William Quick, viola; and Lillian
Eiche, cello.
In this famous symphony, the musi
cians who have been giving the Uni
versity public an unusually interest
ing series, of programs, are preparing
to make one of their best perform
ances of the year. The ability of every
one who will play tomorrow Is well
known, for they have demonstrated
many times before their skill and
artistic touch.
Beethoven's fifth symphony has
aroused more interest among music
lovers than almost any other similar
composition. Existing memoranda
show that Beethoven had this sym
phony in hand for several years. At
its first production in' 1S08, it made a
119 TEAMS FIAAL
TOURNEY NUMBER
CLASSIFICATION AND DRAWINGS
COMPLETED LAST NIGHT
Three Divisions of Tournament
Play Commences March 7, at 1
O'Clock Closes March 10
One hundred nineteen Nebraska
schools will compete for the state
basketball championship in three di
visions, the battles commencing March
7, at 1 o'clock and continuing until
Saturday night, March 10. The entry
list is the largest In the history of
Nebraska scholastic circles; the meet
will bring together the greatest as
semblage of athletes in the world.
Classification and drawings for the
first round were made yesterday.
Twenty-six schools compete In class A,
thirty-two in class B, and sixty-one in
class C.
The classifications and drawings
follow :
Class A
Division I Lincoln, Wilbe.r, Arling
ton, South Omaha high. University
Place, Wahoo, Kearney, Sutton, Hum-,
boldt, Crete. Hebron, Schuyler, Geneva
and Beatrice.
Division II School of Agriculture,
Harvard, Norfolk, Osceola, Columbus,
Omaha Central high, Nebraska City,
Stanton, Fremont, Holdrege, Friend,
Gothenburg.
Class B
Division I Falls City, Cedar Rapids,
Clear Water, Central City, Havelock,
Wisner, Ong, Bethany, Hebron Acad
emy, Superior, West Point, Sfoelton,
Franklin, Seward, Ravenna, Ord.
Division II Minatare, Auburn,
Ewing, Chadron, Dunbar, Milllgan, Ne
braska School for the Deaf, Swanton,
'Hastings, Lynch, Sidney, Newman
Grove, Exeter, Omaha High School of
Commerce, Randolph.
Class C
Division I Minden, Alma, Silver
Creek, Fairmont, Ansley, Coleridge,
Culbertson, Fairbury. 'Arnold, Ban
croft, Haigler, Steele City, Rushville,
Brady, DeWltt.
Division II Lexington, O'Neill,
Scrlbner. Weeping Water, Nelson,
Pierce, Chester, Genoa, Elmwood.
Hays county high school, Diller, Stella,
Pawnee City, Bassett, Oshkosh.
Division III Juniata, Wolbach,
Louisville, Tobias. Tilden, Indlanola,
Waco, Belgrade, Ohiowa, Salem, Mur
dock. Palisade, Bloomfield, Gretna,
Davenport, Temple.
Division IV Clarkson, Edgar, Hoi
brook, Kenesaw, Giltner, Battle Creek,
Alexander, Merna, Valparaiso, Cedar
Bluffs, Bertrand, Papillion, Crawford,
Humphreys, Carroll.
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PROF. H. F. ROBERTS,
PLANT EXPERT, COMING
Will Address Sigma XI and Univer.
sity Men's Dinner Club, March
22 and 23
Prof. H. F. Roberts, head of the de
partment of botany at Kansas Agri
cultural college. Manhattan, will lec
ture before Sigma Xi, March 22, on
"The Cardinal Problem." and on
March 23 he will address the Uni
versity men's dinnqr club on "The
Vital Thing in Education."
Professor Roberts has done exten
sive research work on plant breeding,
especially in connection with wheat
in the experimental station at Kan
sas, and is an accepted authority on
this subject He la an ardent be
liever in vocational training as a pre
caration for university work and has
been interested in this work for some
time at Kansas Agricultudal college.
profound impression for its marked
virility and Its evident disdain of mere
prettiness of tune. Its moods are
Various, and each of them is treated
so distinctively that once heard, they
are not easily forgotten.