'he Dally Nebraskao
VOL. XVI. NO. 156.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DRILL DROPPED
OFFICERS GALLED
SERGEANTS ALLEN AND WIRTH
ORDERED TO OTHER DUTY
Institutions Informed That Army Of-
ficert Lost to Instruction During
Emergency
Yesterday was the last day of drill
for 1'niversity students under the In
striu tioii of army officers, nccordiug
to an order from the war department
which called Ordnance Sergeant V. J
Allen, who lias been in charge of drill
during Captain Parker's absence at
Fort Snelling. and Sergeant Thomaa
F. Winh. his assistant, to close up the
jovernment's business with the Uni
versity and report for assignment to
other duty.
The orders also informed all educa
lional institutions that the present
emergency will necessitate the with
drawal of all active officers and non
commissioned officers at the end of
the academic year. If extra summer
military courses are contemplated, ar
rangements should be made to conduct
the work under the supervision of
faculty members or cadet officers, un
less retired officers should be avail
able the department announced.
The letter from the war department
follows:
The Instructors
"Each professor of military science
and actics who is an officer of the ac
tive list will report at once by letter to
this office by the date of closing of
the Institution to which he Is detailed.
He will arrange matters connected
with government property and ac
counts payable under Section 50, na
tional defense act, in such manner that
his return to the Institution will not
be necessary. He will be prepared to
leave for other duty promptly on re
ceipt of orders.
"Assistants to the professor of mili
tary science and tactics and non-commissioned
officers of the active list
ill likewise be ready to comply with
orders placing them on other duty.
"Returned officers on duty at edu
cational institutions will hold them
selves tvady for other duty during the
mmnifr vacation.
"Th authorities of all institutions
are informed that the present emer
gency will necessitate the withdrawal
of a'l active officers and non-commis-sinned
officers at the end of the acad
emic year. If extra summer military
courses are contemplated, arrange
ments should be made to conduct the
ork under the supervision of faculty
members of cadet officers, unless re
tired officers are. or can be made avail
able. "By order of the secretary of war,
"H. P. M'CAlNV
TEN MEN REPORT
FOR MOSQUITO FLEET
Expect to Start Training Immediately
for Submarine Chasing on
Atlantic Coast
Ten University men, who enlisted
earlier in the year In the "mosquito
feet" of the naval reserve, have been
ordered to report to the Lincoln head
Quarters of the league. It is expected
that they will be sent soon to the
Atlantic coast to prepare for their
rk of submarine chasing.
The ten are: Charles K. PetPron.
Carl Grn Irving Augustine, Charles'
w right. Peter Seemann. W. M. Bau
ETTOUH
man. Michael B. Nolan, Ralph M
Thorpe. Curtis Kimball, and George
B. Farney. Most of the men have al
ready notified, the local office that
they are ready.
The "submarine chasers" which the
ten will man are small bouts, speedy
enough to Insure them free play among
otner vessels. Many of them are
yachts donated to the government by
private cltlxens. The crew Is limited
to eight men, and is in charge of an
officer detailed for this duty.
VOTE TODAY ON
STUDENT COUNCIL
PLAN SUBMITTED FOR STUDENT
SELF-GOVERNMENT AT UNI.
Polls In West Entrance of Armory
Voting Hours 9 to 12,
2 to 5
The plan for a student council for
Nebraska University, recommended
to Chancellor Avery by the student
council charter commission which
worked on the project for more than
three months, will be accepted or re
jected by the student body today. The
polls for the election will be in the
west entrance to Memorial hall, and
will be open from 9 to 12 o'clock in
the morning and from 2 to 5 o'clock in
the afternoon.
In its work of drawing up the pro
posed constitution, the charter com
mission held regular meetings, got the
opinions of leading students in various
activities, and sent one of its mem
bers, Albert Bryson, to the national
convention of student councils at Pur
due university, the first week in March.
Bryson's expenses were paid by the
general mixer fund of the University.
What the Plan Is
The plan for the student council, as
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FACULTY MEN SPEAK
TO SCHOOL GRADS.
UNI. PROFESSORS IN DEMAND FOR
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES
Extension Department Acts as Book
ing Bureau for Numerous
Engagements
This is commencement week in
most of Nebraska's high schools, and
a number of University faculty men
have been called upon to give the last
instructive message to high school
seniors. Requests for speakers come
to the extension department, which
acts as a booking bureau.
Last night, tonight, and tomorrow
night are the dates for most of the com
mencement exercises, although a num
ber of schools closed last week. Nine
professors and University officers filled
engagements last night, ten will speak
tonight, and two are scheduled for
speeches Saturday.
Following are the bookings for this
week:
Monday
A. M. Voss Tamora.
Wednesday
Prof. H. E. Bradford Table Rock.
Dean Charles Fordyce Ravenna.
Thursday
Dean Charles Fordyce Crawford.
Pref. H. E. Bradford Prosser.
Rev. E. A. Worthley Deshler.
Prof. F. A. Stuff Adams.
Prof. F. M. Fling Schuyler.
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CO-EOS HELP BOOST
RED CROSS TOTALS
GARBED IN WHITE, THEY SOLICIT
MEMBERS YESTERDAY
Sororities Organize for Work Co-Opera
te With Section Booths Mem
bership Passes 9,000
Co-eds dressed in white, and wear
ing the cap and cross of the Red
Cross nurse, were an important factor
yesterday In the "clean-up canvass"
for Red Cross members on Lincoln
streets yesterday, which boosted th
total close to the 10,000 mark set as
Lincoln's goal. They will continue
their work today and tomorrow.
Four hundred solicitors in all were
stationed at every downtown street
corner yesterday. The majority of the
four-hundred were co-eds, with high
school and city girls completing the
number. The solicitors worked In
connection with booths placed in all
parts of the business section, and
those who passed down a thoroughfare
yesterday, unless they wore the "rec
ognition button." was met at every
block by at least two smiling work
ers. Those who were obstinate at
first, and reluctant to pledge, were
usually won over before they had gone
very far.
Sororities Organized
Sororities were organized for the
work, and every chapter was repre
sented in the canvass. Some of the
booth managers have arranged "soror
ity days." Yesterday was Delta Delta
Delta day at Hardy's, the home booth.
In charge of Mrs. J. W. Winger. To
day the Alpha Phis will concentrate
there, and tomorrow is to be Kappa
Kappa Gamma day.
Alpha Phis were working at the
Meier Drug Co. booth, in charge of
Mrs. T. J. Doyl,e yesterday: Delta
Gamma was working for Mrs. S. H.
Burnham at the First National bank.
Mrs. V. E. Hardy had a squad of
Thetas at the Motor Inn. Pi Phis were
helping Mrs. Paul Bartlett at Herpol
sheimer's. Assisting Mrs. Keith
Neville, w ife of the governor, and Mrs.
S. R. McKelvie at the C. H. Frey florist
shop were the Delta Zetas and the
Alpha XI Deltas.
Your Duty To Vote
The vote upon the proposed plan for a student council today is a
test of your University citizenship.
Nebraska's students have the opportunity of deciding whether
or not they shall be self-governing, to have every activity, every
extra-curricular function of the students controlled by the students,
or controlled, as at present, by the faculty.
The plan presented by the charter commission provides for
complete student control. No faculty members will be upon the
council. The plan is a strong one, and yet can be modified as
experience may prove necessary, upon the initiative of the student
body.
Although the commission has given the students the opportunity
of voting separately upon the different provisions of the plan, the
wiser course would seem to be to vote for the plan as a whole. The
details of the operation of the council can be worked out by time.
The crying need now is for a beginning, and the plan as proposed
today provides a strong constitution for the student governing body
in Its inception.
The Nebraskan urges every student to exercise the right of his
University citizenship and vote today. Nebraska will not be called
upon to pass upon a matter of more fundamental importance to the
students. The single tax has been adopted. The student council is
needed to put it into force. The student council is needed to bring
about the establishment of the student union, the honor system, and
to give expression to Cornhusker spirit.
The student council is needed to prove to the state of Nebraska
that the, students of her highest educational institution are capable
of governing themselves.
Vote' for the student council today.
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PLAN MOBILIZING OF
FOODRESOURCES
FACULTY MEN PROMINENT IN
STATE FOOD CONGRESS
Dr. G. E. Condra la Executive Secre
tary of Body Begin Reports
Yesterday
Nebraska faculty men, including
Chancellor Avery, have played a prom
inent part In the work of the state
food conservation In Omaha this week.
Dr. G. E. Condra, head of the de
partment of conservation, and execu
tive secretary of the congress, w as one
of the principle figures in the recent
meeting when the various elements
represented were brought together
after threatened disruption earlier in
the weeks. Other University faculty
members in the congress are Prof. C.
W. Pugsley, director of the agricul
tural extension service ; Prof. V. .
Burr, head of the department of
agronomy; Prof. L. V. Chase, head of
the dairy department, and Dean E. A.
Burnett, dean of the college of agri
culture. What the Congress Is Doing
Fourteen committees of the con
gress, representing every phase of
production, distribution and conserva
tion of food, began their reports yes
terday afternon. Each committee Is
drawing up resolutions to be presented
to the congress which will evolve their
work into a "war time law of con
servation" to rule Nebraskans In the
mobilization of all their food resources.
Informal estimates given out from the
committee rooms indicate that this
year's increase in food products in
Nebraska will vary from 10 per cent
to 25 per cent, the latter in the pro
duction of beans.
The first committee to report was
that on meat supplies, represented by
Dean E. A. Burnett. Discussion In the
committee rooms yesterday Indicated
that the committee will recommend
conservation of breeding herds; will
oppose selling of immature cattle, es
pecially calves; will recommend the
growing of as many cattle on the farms
as can be raised on roughage; will
recommend the introduction of silos
on those farms which do not already
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have them, and will recommend the
sowing of alfalfa for feeding cattle
and hogs after the spring grain crops
are harvested.
Prof. J. H. Frandsen made the re
port on "Conservation of Dairy Prod
ucts." He laid great stress on the
"crime of slaughtering cows and
calves and especially heifer cows and
calves." He declared that a cow if
slaughted for meat would supply the
meat ration of two soldiers tor one
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DEAN PUTS AN END
TO WITHDRAWALS
ANNOUNCES NO MORE WILL BE
GRANTED THIS SEMESTER
Emergency Causes, He Thinks, no
Longer Exist Nine Get Re
leases Yesterday
Dean Carl C. Engberg yesterday an
nounced that no more withdrawals
would be granted this semester.
The fact that but one week of school
temains and the belief that emergency
causes justifying a release no longer
exist were given by the dean as the
reasons for closing down on the with
drawal mill.
Up to the time that Dean Engberg
announced the new policy 1.026 stu
dents, of whom practically one thou
sand were men, had withdrawn from
the University on account of the war
emergency. Nine secured their re
leases yesterday. They were:
Roger S. Pierce.
R. G. Grant.
Frances Bollard.
Joseph Kreamer.
H. Stewart McDonald.
William Storkan.
Vera Menagh.
Josephine Malzacher.
Seth Taylor.
TRACK MEN STARTS
FOR VALLEY MEET
SEVEN MEN LEAVE YESTERDAY
TWO WILL GO TODAY
Missouri Conceded Meet, With Ne
braska Standing Good Show for
for Second Honors
The track team, seven strong, ac
companied by Coach Stewart and Jack
Best left for Ames yesterday after
noon to take part in the annual Mis
souri Valley conference track meet.
The team was minus Captain Overman
and Reese, who will make the trip to
day, leaving at 1:40.
Missouri is handed the palm before
the meet starts, as the most probable
winner. The presence of Simpson who
tan be counted on for as many as
twenty points, makes this proposition
the more probable. Although, the
mighty Robert may not participate in
all the events in which he would be
sure of placing he will still be good
for enough points to put the Mis
sourians out ahead. Second place is
open for speculation. Kansas, Ne
braska. Ames or Grinnell with a little
luck might grab second honors.
On advance dope the Cornhuskers
look to be the ones to push the win
ners. The presence of Grinnell in the
meet will hurt the Nebraska chances
more than it will any of the other
schools, however. Hoyt, the Grinnell
spedster, is almost unbeatable in the
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THINK CO-EDS ARE
U0TC00D HELP
FARMERS' WIVES DON'T WANT
UNI. WOMEN THIS SUMMER
Mr. Emma Read Davlsson Reports
Skeptical Attitude From Outstate
Would Want to Be Guests
Nebraska farmers' wives are not
taking ravorably to the idea of free
help from University coeds during
the summer months, Mrs. Emma Read
Davlsson of the department of exten.
sion, reported in an Omaha interview
yesterday. Mrs. Davlsson has just re
turned from an extended trip out into
the state in the Interests of her wom
an's club work, and while on her tour
broached the plan of the national
league for woman's service to place
University women on Nebraska farms
to alleviate summer drudgery.
In the first place, it was hard to
convince overworked farmers' wives
that co-ed labor would he free, and
when this was made clear, the objec
tion was raised that under those cir
cumstances their "help" would want
to be treated as guests.
The Qualifications Needed
A co-ed who could fill these qualifi
cations, however, would be acceptable:
be willing to eat in a hot kitchen,
watch the baby, help in the fields if
necessary.
This is what Mrs. Davlsson, in her
interview said was the attitude she
encountered:
"In my extension work throughout
the state I meet a large per cent of
the farmers' wives In Nebraska and I
have discussed with them the propo
sition the college girls have made. In
one town where I talked to twenty
women for an entire afternoon on the
subject they refused to entertain the
Idea. Wtwn I asked them it they
would refuse trained college girls
capable of canning 100 quarts of to
matoes in a day they reqlied, 'Such
girls would demand wages beyond our
incomes.' "
"When told that many of the girls
wished to volunteer their services
free, the women replied, 'Then we
would have to treat them as guests
and they would be more bother than
they are worth. Only help who would
be willing to eat in the kitchens,
which in the summer are insufferably
hot. who would be willing to attend
to the baby and help in the fields if
necessary, unless personal friends of
the woman on farms, will be accept
able.' "
For Potash Investigation. W. A.
Norris, '17, left yesterday afternoon
for the potash country in northwest
ern Nebraska and southwestern South
Dakota to conduct potash investiga
tions for the U. S. department of con
servation this summer.
SIG. EPS. LEAD IN
GREEK SCHOLARSHIP
Revised Standing Boosts it From Sixth
to Fourth Among
Fraternities
Revised scholarship standing Issued
by the office of Executive Dean Eng
berg place Sigma Phi Epsilon first
among the Greek letter fraterities and
fourth in the list of all fraternities.
with an index of 185.9 and per cent
C. F. D. 9.2. Kappa Sigma, second
among the Greeks, has an. index of
S2.2 and per cent of C. F. D. 9.6. Two
individual scholarship standings re
ported tardily are responsible for the
boost of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
TODAY