Nebraska
line Daily
VOL. XVI. NO. 115.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LOVERS FORM
EXCURSION CLUB
WILL STUDY' THE HABITS OF
AIR FOLK THIS SPRING
Students Invited to Join Organization
Profesor Swenk Lists Common
Birds of State
Students who wish to observe and
enjoy the beauties of bird life will be
welcomed into the organization now
being formed by Lincoln men and
vomcn to study bird life by means
of excursions in the outdoors and lec
tures by entomologists of the college
of agriculture. Prof, and Mrs. Law
rence Burner, Prof. Myron Swenk, Dr.
r h Wolcott, head of the depart
ment of zoology, Prof. Ralph W. Daw
son, Prof, and Mrs. O. A. Loveland,
and Clarence E. Mlckel, were among
the forty bird lovers who attended the
meeting for preliminary organization,
held at the Commercial club Saturday,
Mrs. Hruner, as temporary chair
man of the meeting, was authorized
to appoint n committee of five to ar
range the details of conducting the
work of the organization. Dues will
be dispensed with as far as possi
ble; the meetings will be informal and
open to all persons Interested in
birds.
"Knowledge of bird lire adds to the
enjoyment of the great outdoors. It
is wonderful to know the pleasure
which one receives," said Dr. R. H.
noicoii ai mo iiitcuui,.
"Many know the bluejay when they
see him; they know the robin, the
canary," said Prof. Bruner. "But they
cannot tell you anything of the blue
jay's home life, or that of the robin
or canary. If you ask them to tell
the diff'Tence between an English
sparrow and the common Lincoln
species, they would fall down."
"The bluejay is the great bird of
them all." said Mrs. Bruner. "That
is, observance of his habits brings the
most pleasure."
Nebraska Has 400 Kinds
In issuing an outline for study of
Nebraska birds by women's clubs or
other organizations or persons inter
ested in them, Profesor Swenk, lec
turer on economic entomology, says
that Nebraska has more than four hun
dred kinds of birds, that it is easy
and delichtbul to learn the names of
fifty or seventy-five of our common
birds, and to know their general
habits. The six monthly lessons out
lined by him to Introduce the be
ginner to study of fifty birds repre
senting the various important groups.
Birds considered in the six lessons
are:
Resident birds Chickadee, white
breasted nuthatch, cardinal, goldfinch,
horned lark, crow, downy woodpecker,
hairy woodpecker, screech owl, bob
white. Winter residents Ruby-crowned
kinglet, red-breasted nuthatch, Alas-
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H0LCOMBE MADE
STATE SECRETARY
Preildent of University Y. M. C. A.
Will Have Charge of Boy'a Work
in Nebraska Colleges
Steele Holcombe, '17, of Silver
Creek, president of the University
M. C. A. for this year, has been
PPolnted state student secretary of
the association for the coming year,
h this office (he will have charge of
'l the boy's work in the colleges
throughout the state. The student
cretary Is a member of the state
committee with headquarter! In
Omaha, The position will not neces
sitate his leaving school and he will
return next year.
Holcombe will take charge of the
indent work the first of June and
U t0 Estes Park to begin the
ork M the student conference.
STOCKMAN ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF
PALLADIAN SOCIETY
Harold J. Stockman, a graduate stu
dent, was elected president of Tal
ladlau Literary society for the com
ing term at the regular weekly meet
ing of the society Friday evening.
Other officers were elected as follows:
Vice president, Marjorie Odman, '17;
secretary, Theda Waterman, '20; cor
responulng secretary, Florence Sea
bury, '20; music chairman, Verna
Buchta, '20; program secretary, Erna
Driftmeler, '20; historian, Mabeth
Beach, '17, and critic, Geneva Seegar,
17.
The society attended the gymnastic
exhibition in a body and then ad
journed to Palladlan hall.
WILL SPEAK ON
THEJINGLE TAX
J. Z. White, National Lecturer, at
Convocation Tomorrow Hat Made
Special Study of Land Questions
John Z. White, one of the most
widely known advocates of the single
tax, will lecture at Convocation Tues
day morning at 11 o'clock in Me
morial hall.
Mr. White has been studying land
questions and the initiative and refer
endum for the past twenty years and
has lectured upon these subjects in
practically all off the United States
and in Canada. He has been work
ing in connection with a lecture bu
read in the east. He was of Lincoln
in 1911 at the time when the agita
tion was strong for the initiative
and referendum and spoke before the
Commercial club and the Economic
club at that time.
ACTOR SAYS OWN
THINKING COUNTS
Humans Too Likely to Imitate, Says J.
E. Kellerd at Special Convocation
Friday
About three hundred students and
members of the faculty listened to a
short address by John E. Kellerd, who
appeared last week at the Oliver the
atre in a series of Shakesperian pro
ductions, at a special Convocation Fri
day morning in the Temple theatre.
Mr. Kellerd declared that he had
never known an actor, who, when he
was elected to play the great parts of
Shakespeare, did not begin by watch
ing others interpret them. He said
that there is a marked tendency to
imitate rather than to create. "Peo
ple today are creatures of habit," he
said. "When a singularly distinct
success is made in any walk of life,
it will be made because that man or
woman has departed from the beaten
lines. If you look for the reason you
will find that the whole thing is ex
plained by a very simple sentence
the individual has elected to think ror
himself."
He told of a friend who began as a
poor boy and who is now a million
aire. He credits his success to the
Tact that he Is so efficient, yet in cer
tain peculiar exercises of dressing,
according to Mr. Kellerd. he wastes a
great deal of time, simply because
he has formed certain habits, which
he has never broken.
"Actors are Just like everyone else,"
be continued, "more or less lazy,
more or less creatures of habit. They
don't think for themselves." As an ex
ample, he pointed out the fact that
actors all over this country even imi
tated some of the physical defects of
a great actor of today In their eager
ness to imitate his interpretation of
the thought "They imitated his
faults, but they could not Imitate hia
mind."
INSPECTION TRIP
STARTSSATURDAY
ABOUT FIFTY ENGINEERS WILL
GO TO CHICAGO
Nebraska Alumni Planning Itinerary
at Windy City Those Who Will
go Meet Today
About fifty Junior and senior en
gineers will leave next Saturday for
their annual spring inspection trip,
this time at Chicago. Present plans
call for inspection of the Keokuk dam
and power plant, the interlocking plant
of the Northwestern railroad and the
big Union station now in construction
at Chicago. In addition to these it is
very probable that the General Elec
tric Co. and the steel mills at Gary,
Ind., will be included.
Nebraska alumni at Chicago are
preparing an itinerary and a meeting
of the students who expect to make
the trip will be held at 11:00 o'clock
Tuesday in M. E. 206, at which Prof.
C. L. Dean hopes to announce the com
pleted program. Prof. J. N. Brldg
man and Prof. O. J. Ferguson will
probably accompany the students.
Contrary to general belief, a foreign
inspection trip Is not a requisite to
graduation; local ones are given full
credit. In both cases a written report
of the trip must be submitted to the
heads of the different departments be
fore any credit is given for the trip.
ANOTHER ARMY MAN
IN MILITARY DEPT.
Sergeant Thomas F. Wirth Assigned
to Duty Under Captain
Parker
First. Sergeant Thomas F. Wirth,
who has been assigned to duties of
instruction in the department of
military science at the University,
has reported to Captain Samuel M.
Parker, commandant. He comes
from E company, Thirty-seventh regi
ment of the United States army,
stationed at San Antonio, Tex. The
Thirty-seventh is one of the seven
new regiments recently added to the
army.
During eighteen years of service,
eleven as first sergeant, Sergeant
Wirth has been three times to the
Philippines and has served In
Alaska, in addition to service at posts
In the states. He was stationed at
Fort Crook in 1903, and took part
in the hike made by soldiers of
Fort Crook, to Fort Riley, Kas.,
when maneuvers were held there in
that year. The arrival of Sergeant
Wirth gives the University three
noncommissioned officers of the reg
ular army, who will work with Cap
tain Parker.
Sergeant William J. Allen was in
active service for thirty years be
fort he was placed on the retired
list and took up work at Nebraska.
Recently he was returned to active
Would Students Walk Home If
R. R. Strike Came In Recess ?
Students have been holding their
breaths during the last few days
speculating upon the effect of the
railroad strike, if it should come,
and the approaching spring recess.
Whether many students would re
main in Lincoln during the recess, if
they found It impossible to make the
trip home on the railroads, is a mat
ter of conjecture. Those living with
in a radius of one hundred miles
would probably get home In automo
biles, and those within fifty miles
well, a week of home cooking is
worth a walk that fax. Students from
towns in extremity of this state and
In other states would probably face
a week of school-less life in Lincoln,
OPEN JUNIOR PLAY
RESERVATIONS
GREEN TICKETS NO LONGER
GIVEN PREFERENCE
Comedy Will Be Presented at Pen!
tentiary and State Hospital Be
fore University Performance
Tickets for the Junior play, "Green
Stockings," which will be played at
the Temple theatre Friday evening,
have been opened for general sale
at the College Book Store, and the
green tickets, given first chance at
the seats last week, will no longer
get the preference. The manage
ment announces that tickets have been
going rapidly but that there are still a
few choice seats left which will be
sold to the first comer.
The cast will put on the play be
fore the convicts at the penitentiary
Wednesday night and the inmates of
the state hospital for the insane
either tomorrow or Thursday night.
This is an annual custom adopted by
all junior plays. It affords diversion
for those in the institutions and gives
the cast two presentations before it
faces critical University theatregoers.
The performances will work up a
fitting climax to the rehearsals.
The special lighting arrangements,
which Superintendent of Construc
tion chowlns has agreed to put in
the Temple theatre, will be installed
today and tomorrow, and will give
the play some added touches which
are expected to make it distinctive.
SPECIAL SUFFRAGE
CONVOCATION
Co-Eds in Charge of Program After
Regular Exercises Dr. Fling and
National Worker to Speak
A special convocation in the inter
ests of suffrage will follow the regu
lar program tomorrow morning in
Memorial hall. One of the national
suffrage workers in Lincoln conduct
ing the suffrage school today, tomor
row, and Wednesday, and Dr. F. M.
Fling, of the department of European
history, will speak, and it is planned
to have the cadet band play. Men are
especially invited.
University women are showing
much interest in the school for suf
frage, where they learn all about the
history of the cause and how to up
hold it to advantage. A large .enroll
ment of co-eds is expected.
duty. Sergeant Allen, during active
service, was regimental sergeant
major in a cavalry regiment, the
highest regimental position a non
commissioned officer may hold.
Sergeant Daniel H. Sullivan, after
seven years of active service, was
placed in the reserve corps, but,
like Sergeant Allen, was returned to
active service. He was supply ser
geant In his company when he was
transferred to college service.
which, they firmly believe, would be
a week of quiet solitude.
Although conditions Saturday even
ing pointed toward a clearing up of
the strike situation, It is predicted
that the decree would go into effect
if at all before the middle of this
week at least, leaving a fortnight be
fore the recess bertns. What might
happen In a fortnight is also a thing
with which the Imagination can build
all sorts of pictures. The authorities
might call off the recesB, or postpone
It, or else Lincoln, with its greater
provisional facilities, might be a bet
ter place to stay at that time than
would the smaller home town- What
ever happens, students are consider
ing it worth thinking over and plan
ning to meet.
UNION SOCIETY
GIVES ST. PATRICK
PROGRAM FRIDAY
Union literary society gave a St.
Patrick's program at its regular week
ly meeting In Union hall Friday e ri
lng. Following the program a num
ber of Irish games were played and
a prize for the best drawing of St.
Patrick was won by Annie Mogenson,
'17. The program was as follows:
Mignonette Seventh B McKinley
school girls, directed by 'Miss Cornelia
Frazier.
History of St. Patrick Dorothy
Adamson, '18.
Quartette "St. Patrick's Day"
Annie Mogenson, '17; Ura Ellison, '17;
Vaughn Rusom, '19, and Walter
Roberts, '18.
Mandolin solo, Irish Melody-
Annie Mogenson, '17, accompanied by
Bernlce Wood, '17.
Irish jokes John Walburn, '18;
Vaughn Russom, '19.
Reading Alfred Hinze, "18.
Playlet, "Mrs. Hooligan's New
Spring Hat."
COWEII ELECTED
Y.M,C.ALPRESIDENT
Members of Association Name Head
of Cabinet for the Coming
Year
Ray H. Cowen, '19, of Stratton. was
elected president of the University
Y. M. C. A. for the coming year by
the vote of the student members
Saturday.
Cowen is a sophomore in the Arts
and Science college and in his two
years at the University has taken an
active part in the Y. M. C. A. work.
This year he is a member of the
cabinet and has had charge of all of the
boy's work for the last two semesters.
He is also Interested in Gospel team
work and was a member of the team
which went to Fremont.
CORNHUSKER SALE
COMESJEXT WEEK
ORDERS FOR 1917 YEARBOOK
PLACED MARCH 26, 27, 28
Will Sell at Regular Price, $3 Fifty
Cents Advance After the
Campaign
The sales campaign for the 1917
Cornhusker will commence one week
from today and will continue for three
days March 26, 27, 28, according to
an announcement made by DeWitt
Foster, business manager, Saturday.
Despite the high cost of printing, en
graving, and binding, the bok will sell
at the regular price of $3, during the
campaign, although it will advance
fifty cents in price Wednesday.
A thorough canvas of the campus
will be made during the thre days.
Students will sign up for a copy of
the annual, paying $1.50 down and the
other half on publication day, May 1.
Subscriptions will also be taken at
the student activities office.
The staff believes that this will be
the most complete and the most repre
sentative Cornhusker that has ever
ben issued. It will contain twenty per
cent more Junior and senior indi
vidual pictures than last year and
there Is a ten per cent increase in the
number of organization pictures.
Many organizations that have never
befoie had their pictures in the book
will be represented this time.
Dr. Manor Leroy Burton, president
of Smith college, a former Minneapo
lis newsboy 8nd drug clerk, has been
selected to succeed George R. Vincent
as president of the University of Min
nesota by the board ot regents of that
college. Dr. Burton will assume his
office June 1. Ex.
FOUR HUNDRED IN
GYiyXHIBITION
ARMORY IS PACKED TO SEE PHYS.
ED. WORK
Program Includes Work of Both Men's
and Women's Classes Dancing
Follows
In a remarkable demonstration of
its work, the department of physical
education successfully conducted the
twelfth annual gymnastic exhibition
before a crowd that filled the
Armory last Friday evening. Every
feature of the work, both practical
and recreative, was brought out by
the 400 men and women who partici
pated in the games, drills, dances, and
apparatus work. Informal dancing on
the Armory floor followed the ex
hibition which lasted about two hours.
A mass dumb-bell drill by the first
year men's class under the direction
of Walter Campbell opened the pro
gram. Unity of action and the dis
play of muscular dexterity made the
drill especially attractice.
The wand drill given by 125 girls
of the sophomore class, was a pretty
exhibition, combining hygienics with
graceful movements for all parts of
the body.
Class Apparatus Work
The class apparatus work by the
first and second year men's classes
was conducted on a large scale. The
classes were divided into groups of
eight or ten, each group performing
on a different piece of apparatus.
Muscular control was displayed in all
of the apparatus work.
The dances formed an interesting
jpart of the program. A fascinating
Russian dance, Oukrainsky, was given
in costume by the beginning class in
artistic dancing. The music for this
number was collected from Russian
folk songs and the movements of the
dance were interpretative of these
songs.
The flag dance which followed typi
fied the feeling of patriotism which
is sweeping the country. It was greet
ed by enthusiastic applause.
An aesthetic dance, "The Shep
herdess" was given by four beautifully
costumed girls, each bf ng a staff
of different color. This dance was
pastoral in effect and typical of the
light and graceful movements of the
French peasant girls. It was en
thusiastically encored.
All of the dances on the program
were under the direction of Miss
Dorothy Baldwin, who brought them
from the ballet school of Louis Chaliff
in New York City.
The comic wrestling exhibition be
tween "Frank Gotch" and "Joe
Stecher" was easily the most popular
number on the program. Henry Pas
cale represented Gotch and Hugo
Otoupalik took the part of the in
vincible Stecher. Both were dls-
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COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE
ENDORSE SUFFRAGE
Miss Brown Told of University
Courses Preparing Women for Life
Will Discuss Dormitories
A resolution endorsing equal suf
frage rights for men and women was
passed unanimously by members of
the Lincoln Association of Collegiate
Alumnae at the annual banquet and
meeting of the association held Sat
urday at the Lincoln hotel. The
next topic for discussion by the as
sociation will be women's dormi
tories. The resolution was introduced by
Mrs. Frank Woods, and supported by
Mrs. William George Langworthy
Taylor.
Miss Mary Ellen Brown told of
courses offered at the University
which tend to prepare women tor
business life.