Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XVII, NO. 17.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
The
BLUNK RESIGNS AS
BUSINESS MANAGER
Head of Nebraskan Business Staff
Gives Up Position for
Other Work
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Walter Blunk, '19, of Grand Island,
for two semesters business manager
of The Daily Nebraskan, has resigned
his position because of other work,
to'take effect upon the appointment of
,,nd his resignation has been accepted,
a successor. Dean O. V. P. Stout,
chairman of the student publication
board, has called for applications for
the position.
Blunk recently accepted a place aa
secretary to T. A. Williams, agent of
student activities, and has found it
impossible to keep up his Nebraskan
work. He was elected by tba board
last spring and took the place in the
hope that he would be able to arrange
the two satisfactorily.
Paper Prospers
The Nebraskan has enjoyed a pros
perous period under Blunk's manager
ship. He took the paper over Just
a week after it had started as a six
column sheet, a big venture from Ne
braskans of the past. This year, the
new shape, although not so large aa
last year, contains the same amount
of news spa6e and is Just as big a
deal to swing financially.
Blunk has organized the office work
of the business staff in a commend
able manner, and during his manager
ship started a filling system of elec
trotypes, a follow-up subscription cam
paign, and thorough advertising pro
grams. He is one of the few men
who have been business managers of
the paper in their sophomore year.
Annotated Speech During the past
summer, Dr. Guernsey Jones of the
department of English history, in
company with four professors from
the University of Minnesota, spent,
several weeks annotating President
Wilson's Flag Day speech. Over
1.000,000 copies are to be printed and
it is planned to give a copy to each
soldier in the United States.
ANNOUNCE TRYOUTS FOR
CHEERLEADERS OF 1917
Rules governing the selection of
cheerleaders for the present athletic
season were announced yesterday. All
candidates should report to Dwight
P. Thomas, chairman of the commit
tee in charge, by Friday evening. A
number of men will be tried out at
the Wesleyan game Saturday, but the
official tryouts will be held in con
nection with the first football rally
next Thursday morning.
DEAN FORDYCE ASKED
TO LECTURE AT CAMPS
Dean Charles Fordyce has received
a call from the national war depart
ment of the Y. M. C. A. to devote a
month in lecturing to the various
military camps. Feeling that his
work in the University in the train
ing of teachers to fill the places made
vacantly the men who have gone to
the front is a duty as imperative as
could be rendered in any service he
might give at the military, he was
forced to refuse the committee.
Harold Rowan, '20, is acting cor
poral at Camp Funston, Kansas.
George Moyer, '19, is in the same
company.
Alumna to Teach
Eleanor M. Johnson, '04, who at
tended the recent summer session of
the University for work towards her
master's degree, is to teach this year
in the Springfield, 111., high school.
She reports that the slowness of the
contractors in finishing Springfield's
new $500,000 high school building has
delayed the opening of the year's
work until the 4th of October.
ZEIGLER ELECTED EDITOR
OP NEW BLUE PRINT
Soldier Engineers Will Get Free
Copies of Magazine If Enough
Students Subscribe
L- C Zeigler, '18, of Beaver Cros
sing, has been appointed editor-in-chief
of the Blue Print for the com
ing year. V. E. Kauffman, '19, of
Hardy. i8 assistant editor; H. C. Lang
don, 'is, of Omaha, is business man
ager, and O. D. Bushnell, 20, of Lin
coin, associate business
The other staff members are": Cir
culation manager, G. S. Reeves, '18;
assistant circulation manager, Paul
Lindley, '19;E. E."editor, B. F. Slls-
bee, '19; C. E. editor, L. S. Hamilton.,
'19; M. E. editor, Byron Hunter, '19;
A. E. editor, R. P. Lintz, '19.
The Blue Print is a semiannual
magazine published by the students
of the college of engineering. Arti
cles found in this magazine include
scientific and practical discussions of
Interesting engineering problems.
It is planned to send every former
Nebraska engineer who is actively,
engaged in the war, copies this year.
In order to make this plan financially
possible, evety engineer in school
should subscribe. Plans are being
completed for a subscription cam
paign. Retained as Engineer
Prof. C. E. Mickey of the depart
ment of applied mechanics, has been
retained by the county of Lancaster
as consulting engineer for the street
paving in the new additions south
of the city. In all, about 20,000 yards
of asphalt will be laid. Professor
Mickey has also been recently re
tained as consulting engineer by sev
eral outside towns, among them Beat
rice, Aurora and Webster City, la.
FOOTBALL TICKET
SALE IS LIGHT
Wesleyan Makes 1,000 Reserva
tionsOnly 250 Cornhuskers
Have Secured Seats
Wednesday morning the seats for
the game with Wesleyan were placed
on sale. Seats were purchased by
students in the student activities of
fice. Wesleyan is also boosting the
sale of seats for their section, and the
business men of Lincoln started their
ticket-selling drive at 9 o'clock.
The demand for reservations in the
rooters' section has fallen short of
expectations. So far less than 250
reservations in this section have been
made. The girls of the University
have been heavier buyers than the
boys, making three times as many
reservations. Reservations in this sec
tion cost the student nothing extra" if
he has a student ticket. The sale of
students' tickets has also been light.
Only 263 season tickets have been
sold. Ninety of these were purchased
Wednesday. Students who delay in
purchasing their season athletic
tickets will simply be losing out on
one football game, for the ticket will
not be reduced in price.
What Wesleyan Has Done
On the toher hand, Wesleyan is
promising to bring a real bunch of
supporters. They have asked for res
ervation of 1,000 seats, and expect
that about 500 of these will be filled
by University Place students.
The sale of tickets by the business
men downtown is being taken up with
much enthusiasm. On the first day
they had disposed of over 500 season
reserved seats.
According to past records, there
should be at least 1,000 of the stu
dents' athletic tickets sold already.
As it is, the citizens of Lincoln have
bought nearly twice as many season
tickets as the students, their tickets
cost twice as much as the students',
and are good only for football games,
while the students' tickets include
all athletic events of the year.
CORNHUSKER SOLDIERS AT SHELLING LONG FOR
Fort Snelling, Minn., October 3.
Following the period of trench build
ing and study of trench warfare, Fort
Snelling students returned to their
barracks for a week of the strict
discipline of close order drill, plus
the mental maneuvers of four hours
a day of stmjy and conference.
Drill in the school of the battalion,
which is the tactical unit in the field,
two hattallnn rractice marches with
the full pack, and the daily physical
exercise and bayonet drills, tested
anew the physical powers of the sol
diers. The use of the rifle in the ex
ercise preliminary to the bayonet
workout, was taken up.
Weeding out of men who would not,
in the opinion of tire (instructors,
make good as officers in the line, con
tinued, and in each company a number
of men were told they would be given
an opportunity to resign. Among
this number was a Nebraska univer
sity graduate, who had held high rank
in the cadet regiment. Why he was
dropped is not generally known. In
most of the cases the men were told
that they simply had not been pro
gressing fast enough, and the fact
that they have to leave the camp Is
in no sense a reflection upon them.
The orders for the second training
camp are that only those men will
be commissioned who can lead troops
PLAN NOVEL PROGRAM
FOR UNIVERSITY PARTY
A Cornhusker Field Meet Will
Introduce New Talent for
First Time
In following out the plan to provide
entertainment for1 every one, the com
mittee for the all-UniverHity party
Saturday evening, has arranged to
have the party start promptly at 7:30
with a general student-faculty recep
tion. After the reception there will
be some real Nebraska spirit shown
in Cornhusker songs and yells, to
start the field meet, which promises
to prove a very amusing feature, with J
Cornhusker material that has never
appeared before.
The program committee has Becured
the best talent for the stunts that
the campus offers, and with music
from the University band, with re
freshments and dancing to wind up
the evening's fun, the first University
party is expected to make this form
of amusement a popular and demo
cratic way of bringing the student
body together.
Closed Night for Party
Dean Amanda Heppner has request
ed that all organizations who had
scheduled parties for Saturday,
change their dates, so as to leave that
evening open for all students to at
tend the big party.
The chairman of the general com
mittees are as follows: Reception,
Edith Youngblut; program, Dwight
Thomas; entertainment, Kenneth
Saunders; dance, Wayne Townsend;
refreshments, Lucile Wilcox; finance,
Walter Blunk; decorations, Harriet
Ramey; advertising, Leonard Kline.
CO-EDS MAIDS OF HONOR
AT OMAHA YESTERDAY
University Well Represented at
Annual Festival Band
in Parade
The University may feel that it has
been well represented at the annual
Ak-Sar-Ben celebration in Omaha. The
band left yesterday for Omaha to
march in the afternoon military pa
rade, and in the electrical parade in
the evening, returning last night at
midnight.
Five University girls: Eva Miller,
Helen Harrington, Helen Dill, Mary
Hughey and Alice Temple, have been
chosen to be Maids of Honor, attend
ants to the Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben, who
will be crowned at the Coronation
Ball Friday evening, and have gone to
Omaha to be the guests of the Ak-Sar-Ben
board, until after the ball. Louise
Coe, '16, of Nebraska City, is one of
the graduates who will be an attend
ant. PROFESSORS SPONSORS FOR
NEW FRENCH MOVEMENT
A book entitled "Science and Learn
ing in France," has recently been
published under the auspices of Co
lumbia University, with the aim of
By George E. Grimes
in battle, and no commissions will be
granted in quartermaster or ordnance
departments. So men ot nne ami
ities are leaving, because, without any
discredit to them, the instructors
have felt they did not have the pe
culiar qualifications needed to "daddy
the dough boys" in billet or firing
line.
The First Payroll
Another event of supreme interest
to the men was the muster and sign
ing of the payroll for the first pay,
to be received some time before Oc
tober 6.
During the present week the men
will march to the rifle range south of
the fort, and have target practice, at
battle sight, with rifle and pistol. The
light pack will be taken, and the
noon 'chow" served in the open in the
field. '
Homesickness, resist it as the men
will, has been coming to the surface.
ISvery man will declare the camp is
Kiving him the finest training he ever
l ad, that the interest in the work
dies not lag for a moment, and that
each day his joy and pride in his
kahki uniform increases. But all of
these can't prevent the longing for a
bit of home rugs under foot, a eorn:
shuck mattress maybe, or at least a
bed with springs; china plates to eat
from; the gentler manners of the
encouraging Americans to go to
French universities after the war. It
contains an exhaustive treatment of
the contributions of French scion
tlsts and scholars to civilization.
The book is sponsored by p'rofessors
from leading universities and colleges
throughout the United States. From
Nebraska the sponsors jre:
Professors H. B. Alexander, F. M.
Fling, Guernsey Jones, J. E. LeRoslg
nal, Louise Pound, II. H. Wilson, D. 11.
Webster, and L. A. Sherman.
Horace B. English, ex-'13, Rhodes
scholar at Oxford, writes Prof. M. M.
Fogg that he has just received a com
mission as first lieutenant in the san
itary corps to act as psychological
examiner. His work is the well es
tablished work of testing intelligence,
which is the chief qualty needed for
the new officers and non-coms. His
address is Base Hospital, Camp
Devens, Ayer, Mass. English has
been an Instructor in philosophy at
Wellesley College.
Walter Powers of Seattle, Wash
ington, is visiting the Sigma Phi Ep
silon house ths week.
JINKS FOLLOW UP
LEAD WITH HUSKERS
Loss of Henry Followed by Ru
mors of Disqualification
of Another
Following up the solid punch he
gave Nebraska football prospects by
taking Stanley Henry from the list of
possible football stars, old man Jinx
has caused further worry in the Corn
husker camp by starting rumors that
at least one of the freshmen line men
coming up for the varsity this year
will not be able to play.
Despite the good fight he is mak
ing, Mr. Jinx could not keep the Corn
huskers from going through a lively
practice yesterday afternoon. In a
short scrimmage with the combina
tion varsity-freshman team, the regu
lars showed a brilliant offense and
stiff defense.
The loss of Henry will be felt keen
ly, for he was one of the speediest
men on the squad, but Dr. Stewart
still has McMahon, Kellogg, and
Schellenberg for a speedy trio. Schell
enberg got into the practice last night
and did some excellent work at line
plunging. Dr. Stewart is watching with ad
miration the preparation of Wesleyan
to cut up capers on Nebraska field
Saturday. With 1,000 rooters in the
stands, the Coyotes have made a Han-
nibalic vow to "score on Nebraska."
It will be a fast, peppery game,
whether U proves to be close in point
of score or not.
PHI ALPHA TAU DISCUSSES
YEAR'S WORK AT MEETING
Phi Alpha Tau, public speaking fra
ternity, met at the Bushnell Guild
house last evening and laid plans for
the work of the society this year. A
series of general meetings, to be ad
dressed by men authorities on public
questions of the day, was planned.
Gilbert Eldridge, '19, of Omaha, was
elected secretary.
TIGHTENED HOME TIES
civilian life; and the voice and pres
ence of a woman wife, mother, sis
ter, or even the landlady.
Th Need of Home Ties
It is the effort to down this home
sickness that often leads to the care
lessness of the week-end leave. If
the folks back home could only realize
that often the man who slips from
his better standards is only homesick,
they would not forget that letter, that
gossip of the old friends, that little
remembrance now and then. Movies
are not an adequate substitute for
mothers.
Most of the men at Snelling have
left ties very dear, to be of service
in a cause "that appealed to them as
grea 'Even those who are not true
at all times to their better selves
and they are in the minority, believe
me find it easier to be gentlemen
and so to prove they can be officers,
when they constantly feel the interest
of those back home. It is a force
to keep them worthy of old friend
ships. -
So it is good to send The Daily
Nebraskan to Cornhusker soldiers.
It is good to write letters to friends
in the service. It is good to knit and
to ses The ecldier likes to foci tiat
he is fighting, not merely for an ab
stract principle, but also for that prin
ciple as it affects those back home.
INTER-FRAT COUNCIL SETS
TWO PARTIES AS LIMIT
Formals Not Officially Banned,
but Opinion Strongly
Against Them
NO SUBSCRIPTION DANCES
Extravagant and numerous parties
at Nebraska this year were forbidden
by the official action of the lnter-fra-ternity
council at its meeting in U
101 last evening. The number of "hall
parties" was Bet at two a year for
each fraternity. House dances were
sanctioned in moderation. In the mat
ter of formals, the council took no
definite action, but the consensus of
opinion expressed by the individual
members was against making either
of the two big parties a formal affair,
and it was agreed that the formal
flavor flowers, favors, and other use
less extravagances should be volun
tarily dropped.
The ruling against supporting sub
scription dances made last spring was
reaffirmed by the council and the
members were instructed to see that
their organizations did not counten
ance them.
Plan Mass Meeting
In regard to the ruling concerning
house dances, the provision was made
to read that parties given in Art hall
or the Temple theatre were to count
as house dances, for the benefit of
those fraternities whose houses are
not suitable for such parties.
Verne Hedge, alumnus, Kappa Sig
ma, vice chairman of the council, pre
sided. Plans for another inter-fraternity
mass meeting similar to the one
addressed by Chancellor Avery last
year were discussed, but no definite
date was set.
No election of chairman, the posi
tion left vacant by Prof. P. M. Buch's
absence from the University, for the
reason that three recommendations
of faculty members which come from
the University senate in such a case
had not been received. The council
recommended three faculty members
to the senate to be recommended back
to them if the three meet the ap
proval of that body.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
HOLD FIRST MEETING
The student branch of the American
society of mechanfeal engineers held
the first meeting of the year Monday
evening. It was a preparatory one
for the year's work. Meetings will be
held monthly from now on. E. C.
Hurd, consulting engineer for the city
of Lincoln, was the speaker of the
evening.
NIGHT SCHOOL OF
TELEGRAPHY OPENS
A Free Class in French for Prospec
tive Soldiers Started by Pro
fessor Hanley
The total attendance in the day
classes in the University school of
telegraphy has been raised to twenty
seven. The night class was started
Monday, with an enrollment of eleven.
This class lasts from 7 to 6.
The October report to the signal
department of the United States army
showed that there are now four stu
dents who cam receive at the rate of
ten words per minute. Before they
will be enlisted, they must be able
to receive and send twenty words per
minute. Most of the men can already
send the twenty words, which Is con
sidered excellent progress for only
three weeks' work.
A class in conversational French
started Friday night. The class is
taught by Prof. F. R. Hanley, and
meets at 4 o'clock in V 302. There Is
no fee attached to registration.
Irvin Littrell, ex-'19, Raymond
Hughes, ex-'19, and Guy Moates, ex
'19, are at Fort Logan, Colo.
NEBRASKAN FREE TO
UNIVERSITY SOLDIERS
Believing that Nebraska men
actively engaged in tne war are
just as anxious for news from the
campus as their former classmates
are for word from them, the man
agement of The Nebraskan will
send the paper free of charge to
every Cornhusker soldier whose
address is known. You can help
by sending lists of addresses to
The Nebraskan, either m ailing
them to Station A or telephoning
them to the business office, B-2597.
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