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NO. 30.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Nebr
ilJSKERS START GRIND
FOR MICHIGAN BATTLE
Shaw, Otoupalik, ScheUenberg
Out with Minor Injuries
SEE HARD FIGHT AHEAD
Loach Yost Admits Team I Best He
Has Had in Deeaai-vuiweiyn.
Nebraska
By Dwight P. Thomas
four regulars and in a con-
Lual cloud of dust the Cornhuskers
Wted preparations ior imcnigan,
Yesterday afternoon. Captain Shaw,
ScheUenberg, Otoupalik and Kositzky
Were all absent from practice. Shaw,
Woupalik and ScheUenberg are nurs
ing minor injuries. All these men will
Sx in today's workout.
t McMahon. Kellogg, Dobson and Day
fmade up the varsity backfleld quar
tet in the few minutes practice the
fmen were forced to go through. Cook
fwas shifted to Day's place at center;
Mubka held down left tackle and Rid
Mell was back at his old position at
bright end. It is probable that the
line for the Michigan game, from left
tad to right will be as fsdlows:
'Rhodes, Hubka. Kositzky, Cook, Wil
der, Shaw and Riddell. The backfleld
Combination is not certain yet, that
'depending on the condition of Otou
Ipalik and ScheUenberg.
Yost Has Best Team in Years
Michigan is one team that has ab
solutely refused to send out "bear
stories." Coach Yost has a good team
and he admits it: he even has gone
'so far as to say that it is the' best
team he has had in nearly a decade.
Ths Wolverines have a weighty line
'and a heavy, fast backfleld. Here is
the way Sturenegger, an old Nebraska
'man, who scouted the Michigan game
Saturday sized up the Cornhuskers'
next opponents.
'Michigan to my mind has the best
team she has had in six or eight years.
They haven't a lot of old stars who
have won their reputations and to
whom the zest and novelty of the
game has worn off. They have a good
all-around team that fights like a
whirlwind. They at times come out
of their positions like streaks; getting
under way almost instantly at top
speed and slow up for nothing. They
have the young blood and fight, with
enounh old men and stars to steady
the team and give the younger men
the required confidence. They will De
one of the hardest teams to beat that
Nebraska ever played."
The Wolverines have a fulback that
is sii feet two inches tall and weighs
200 pounds. He hits the line like a
mad bull and is Just as easy to stop.
One of the halfbacks weighs 180 and
the other two are near the 170-pound
mark but with much experience ana
worlds of Rnppd. In the line they
have two tackles over 190 and the
other five men, with the exception of
center, weighing over 180.
Wisconsin Regents Buy
$11,000 of Liberty Bonds
The University of Wisconsin will
purchase 111.000 worth of liberty
bonds. The board of regents at its
meeting last week voted to Invest
that amount of university trust funds
In bonds of the second liberty loan.
These trust funds are moneys that
have been given to the university for
endowment of scholarships, fellow
hlps, and for similar purposes pnd
are held in trust and invested by the
regents.
This is but one phase of the uni
versity's support of the liberty loan.
Individual members of the board of
regents are investing in the bonds,
nd an active campaign is being
aged among the faculty by a com
mittee of professors. Even the uni
versity employes who are not on the
""tractional staff are banding to
gether to buy bonds.
SORENSON APPOINTED TO
GOVERNMENT FOOD BUREAU
Wil Aid in Scheduling Speaker to
Prttnt Conservation Plan to
People of 8UU
C. A. Sorenson, 15, counselor and
"8UUnt director of the State Legi
Jt!ve bureau, yesterday received no
tice of hli appointment to the United
states Food Administration Speakers'
ourcin.
The
J , enllt group of speaker In each
Ule 10 present to the people Mr. j
Hoover's plan, as United States food
director, for the conservation and in
creased production of food products.
Apparently the bureau is to be a per
manent institution, the letter to Mr.
Sorenson stating: "The demands up
on us when peace is established will
probably be quite as heavy as the de
mands are now. The food problem,
of course, will continue to be a press
ing one for years." Dr. Arthur Bes
tor, president of the Chautauqua insti
tution, Is chairman of the bureau. The
speakers will give as much of their
time as they can spare and will work
without pay of any kind.
Sorenson, in addition to his work
with the Legislative Reference bureaH,
is secretary of the League of Nebraska
municipalities and as such is editor of
the Nebraska Municipal Review. He
is also the executive secretary of
the Nebraska Popular Government
league, the organization which se
cured through the last legislature the
submission to the people of the ques
tion of the calling of a constitutional
convention. He was formerly editor-in-chief
of The Daily Nebraskan, and
was a member of the University de
bating teams which by unanimous de
cisions of the judges defeated Illinois
in 1913 and Iowa in 1914.
APPEAL TO UNIVERSITY MEN
TO HELP WITH BOND SALE
Fraternities Have Pledged One
Hundred Fifty Fifty More
Needed for Wednesday
The Lincoln Commercial club has
issued a second appeal for University
men to help with the liberty bond
drive, through the committee which
is in charge of the campaign. The
committee requests that fifty men, In
addition to those who have already
registered, are needed to aid in push
ing the big liberty loan day in
Lincoln on Wednesday, which has
been declared Liberty Bond day by
President Wilson. The city has been
divided into districts and so arranged
that the entire city can be canvassed
in" one day.
The fraternities, through the Inter
fraternity council, have pledged them
selves to furnish 150 men. It is neces
sary to have fifty more. Any Univer
sity man may volunteer for this work,
and render a worth-while service to
his country. Those who are willing
and who can give the time are re
quested to leave their names with
Prof. R. D. Scott, or in the Daily Ne
braskan office before noon today.
There will be a short business meet
ing cf those who will help, in the Lin
coln Commercial club at 7.30 o'clock
tonight. All men who expect to work
must be present.
Receives Interesting Painting
The Nebraska Historical society has
received a large painting of "The
First Homestead in the United States"
through Congressman Charles H.
Sloan. It Is a painting of the Daniel
Freeman homestead on Cub creek
about three miles northwest of Be
atrice. Prof. F. E. Mussehel Arrives
Professor Mussehel. new head of
the poultry department, has arrived
to take up his duties. Classes will
begin in a few days.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
GIVES 600 TO COUNTRY
Flags With Enlistment Stars Con
spicuous at Fraternity
Houses
Six hundred men from the Uni
versity of Washington have gone to
war, according to present estimate.
The list is not yet complete and as
many as a hundred more names may
be added to this roll of honor.
Many of the fraternity houses
have been closed because so large a
number of their members has en
listed. Service flags, some with as
high as sixteen stars to a flag, are
furled from the houses that are
open; and as the need becomes more
and more urgent, many more stars
will be won by new enlistments.
The branches of service into which
the students have gone include al
most all of, both army and navy.
Campus activities were for the
most part without leaders for the
new year and a student body meet
ing was called last week to nominate
new men to fill the vacant offices.
Athletics fcas experienced the same
loss and the U. of W. football team
this fall Is likely to be of entirely
different caliber from that of last.
UNIVERSITY ACTIVE IN
AIDING FRENCH ORPHANS
Thirty Faculty Members and
Thirteen Students Organiza
tions Have Made Adoptions
Proof that the University is doing
its part in the care of French war
orphans is shown by the fact that
thirty faculty members and thirteen
student organizations have already
made adoptions. x Mr. Max Wester
man, treasurer of the Lincoln commit
tee, urgently hopes that many of the
other fraternities and sororities will
take up the plan and will volunteer
to take a war orphan.
The policy of the society is to main
tain the children in their own homes,
to be brought up by their mother in
the religion of their father. Personal
relationship is established between
the "Donor" and the child, through
correspondence with the child or its
mother. The cost per day of keeping
an orphan is 10 cents, per month $3,
and $36 per year.
The bi-monthly report of the Lin
coln committee shows that one more
University organization. Alpha Chi
Omega sorority, has adopted an or
phan. The report, and the complete
list of faculty members and Univer
sity organizations that have adopted
orphans to date follow:
Prof. H. B. Alexander, Prof. J. E.
Almy, Chancellor Avery, Prof. W. C.
Brenke, Prof. P. M. Buck, Jr., Prof.
R. C. Clapp, Dr. Clarence Emerson,
Prof. F. M. Fling, Prof. Laurence Foss
ler, Prof. Sherlock B. Gass, Mr. Fred
1 R. Hanley, Prof. Guernsey Jones, Prof.
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CONVOCATION
The first of a series of con
vocations to familiarize Univer
sity students with national and
state songs, will be held at 11
o'clock convocation this morn
ing in Memorial hall, under the
direction of Mrs. Carrie B. Ray
mond. This community singing
will be led by the University
chorus, but all students and
faculty members will take part.
Mrs. Raymond has arranged
for an orchestra to accompany
the singing. The arrangements
had not been completed last eve
ning. University students will
play violins.
The songs to be sung have
been printed and will be dis
tributed to the students at the
door.
Compulsory Physical
Training at Kansas
Beginning Monday, October 29. the
University of Kansas will adopt a
new schedule whereby every student
will have the hours from 4:00 to 6:00
for some form of compulsory exer
cise. The first morning classes will
start at 8 o'clock and the last after
nrvnn rlasses will close at 3:50 o'clock.
leaving the hours from 4 to 6 o'clock
open. In this way many men who
have formerly been unable to do so
can now get out for football, and the
Jayhawkers expect to thereby greatly
strengthen their team. Credit will be
given only to freshmen and sopho
mores. Svoboda Elected Head
Of Komensky Club
Clement Svoboda. '18. was elected
president of the Komensky club to
Bucceed Bess Fith at the first regular
meeting of the organization in Ban
quet hall, Temple, Saturday evening.
Emma Pospisil, '19, was chosen to suc
ceed Svoboda as treasurer. Lieut.
Ludlslaus Kubik was present at the
meeting and gave a short talk. Prof.
Sarka Hrbova addressed the members
on "What Is Expected of Students Un
der War Conditions."
After the program games were
played and refreshments served.
Illinois
Student Council
Bans Formal Parties
At a meeting of the Student coun
cil of the University of Illinois, it was
decided that the ban should be put on
3 class formals. fraternity and
sorority formals. Although the de
Xn will rest with the indiv dua,
organizations, It Is expected that the
Zll of the sororities in voting down
Ihelr formals will e followed. Infor
mal dances will be In vogue.
Doctor Link Resigns
Dr. George K. K. Link of the de
partment of plant pathology and physi
ology has been granted a leave of ab
sence until next July in order to assist
the United 'States department of agri
culture in the inspection of seed pota
toes and in potato disease control.
Professor Link will be attached to
the office of cotton, truck and forage
disease investigation under the direc
tion of Mr. W. A. Orton.
OBSERVATORY OPEN TONIGHT
FOR VIEW OF MOON CRATERS
The observatory will be open to the
public tonight for views of the moon.
At present the moon is at its first
quarter at which period its craters
and mountains may be seen more
plainly than when it is at full. A lec
ture will be given at 9 o'clock on
"The Moon As an Extinct Planet."
This lecture will be illustrated with
lantern slides.
Prof. G. D. Swezey has selected the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each
month as "open night" at which times
the public is free to make observa
tions of the various planets.
SORORITIES LIMIT AMOUNT
TO BE SPENT ON PARTIES
Inter-sorority Council Favors
Usual Tax and Surplus Given
to Patriotic Organizations
A limit on the amount each sorority
might spend on down-town parties this
year was set yesterday afternoon at
the meeting of the Inter-sorority coun
cil. A short time ago the Greeks
voted to allow only one party down
town and sentiment has been strongly
in favor of cutting down expenses as
much as possible and having all par
ties either at the chapter houses or on
the campus. The council suggested
that the usual tax be levied on the
members and that the amount which
can be saved by economy be donated
to some relief organization at the
pleasure of the individual societies.
Fraternities and sororities are thor
oughly in accord with the economy
plan and this is another of the numer
ous measures which they have adopted
this year to limit expenses. The lead
which they have taken in these mat
ters has made itself felt in the various
classes and they, have been active In
limiting expenditures there. This year
only one class, the Junior class, has de
cided to have a Prom and it without
dinner and decorations. There is
some talk of cancelling these plans
and giving only the Hop.
To Head United Ag Club
Lila Drollinger, '18, was elected
president of the United Ag club at a
combined meeting and party held at.
the horse barn on the Farm campus
Saturday night. The other officers
elected were Carl Llebers, '19, vice
president; Irene Doty. '20, R. C.
Draper. '18, Sergeant at arms. Of
ficers for this semester were elected
last year but the only one to return
to school was treasurer, V. F. Rob
erts, '18.
FRENCH TONGUE SHOWS
INCREASED POPULARITY
Sixty Per Cent More U. of W.
Students Take Subject; Fewer
German Teachers Employed
About CO per cent more students
are taking beginning French In the
University of Washington this year
than took it last year. The per
centage of increase takes no ac
count of forty men taking military
French.
The falling off in beginning Ger
man is almost correspondingly great
The German department, in fact. Is
carrying one less faculty member
and has on half mite only a member
formerly on full time.
Last year the university's appoint
ment bureau for teachers had ninety
six calls for teachers of French.
High schools also called for many
teachers of Spanish. French may
now get an inning in high schools,
however.
"No doubt the war will affect
greatly the popufarity of German,
but whether temporarily or for a
long time I do not know," said Fred
erick E. Bolton, dean of the college
of education at the university. "Ger
man .is still taught in the schools In
England."
Three Washington high schools are
said to have dropped beginning Ger
man and plan to drop all German
next year for the period of the war.
( ' .
VACATION QUESTION LEFT
TO INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS
Educators Recommond That All
Possible Aid Be Given
NO COURSE PRESCRIBED
University May Shorten School Year
by Eliminating Some Holidays as
Suggested at Conference
At the meeting of the State Educa
tors' conference at the Temple last
evening it was voted to recommend
that all schools and colleges do all
possible to aid in the harvesting of the
corn crop but the specific method by
which that was to be done was left
to the individual schools.
Nearly fifty representatives of state
educational institutions and farmers'
organizations attended . The princi
ple representative of the farmers was
President Gustafson of the State
Farmers' union. Chancellor Samuel
Avery, Executive Dean Carl C. Eng
berg and Prof. A. A. Reed of the Uni
versity were present.
It was the general opinion that the
schools could do a great deal toward
helping with the present harvest and i
that it was their duty to do so In that
they were practically, the only source
of supply of male help that was left
since the draft and enlistments. The
manner in which the aid should be
given was the principle point of dis
cussion. The representatives of the farmers
were in favor of closing down the
schools entirely for the husking
period, while the opinion of the pro
fessional educators was that the most
service could be rendered the coun
try by continuing their regular work
and providing for some plan of se
lective conscription so that only those
men who would really help would be
sent out.
Chancellor Avery took the chair for
the vote and State Superintendent W.
H. Clemmons acted as secretary. The
movement for complete dismissal was '
lost before that of leaving the method
of rendering aid to each school. The
conference voted that steps would be
taken to see what holidays might be
omitted this year with a view toward
letting students out earlier in the
spring.
The conference met at 8 o'clock and
was not adjourned until after 11
o'clock.
Read
A Newspaper or
You're a Slacker"
"The man or woman who in these
critical times falls to read a good
newspaper regularly is a slacker,"
declared Prof. Willard G. Bleyer.
head of the department of journalism
at the University of Wisconsin, in
addressing the students of the Li
brary school last week.
"It is the partiotic duty of every
person in this country to keep in
formed in regard to the epoch mak
ing events and utterances that are
reported in the press from day to
day," he continued.
" 'The food of opinion Is the news
of the day,' as President Wilson has
well said, and it behooves every citi
zen not only to read the news but
to form intelligent opinions in re
gard to it.
"Intelligent public opinion, without
which we cannot have true democ
racy, is the sum total of the opin
ions of individual citizens, and the
opinions of these citizens must be
formed largely from the news which
is printed in newspapers.
"By falling to read the news and
to consider its significance, a man is
shirking his duty to his country Just
as truly as he is when he falls
to express his opinions by casting
his vote at an election."
NEBRASKAN FREE TO
UNIVERSITY SOLDIERS
Believing that Nebraska men
actively engaged in the war are
inst aa anxious for news from the
campus as their former classmates
are for word from them, tne 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 mailing
them to Station A or telephoning
them to the business office, B-2597.
