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AILY NEBRASKAN
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
UNDERCLASSES LONGING
FOR OLYMPIC CONTESTS
Each Day . Brings Increased
Confidence to Both Camps
FINAL TRY-OUTS TODAY
Bouts Staged at M Street Park Thi.
Year et 9:30 O'clock List
of Contestants
Final plans for the annual Olypmic
baUle are being rapidly completed,
the M street ball park has been se
cured for the battle ground instead of
salt flats as formerly, the pushball
IB on it's way from Iowa City and
nearly all of the try-outs have been
completed. The first events Saturday
morning will begin at 9:30 o'clock
With only two days remaining be
fore the staging of the annual con
test leaders of both freshman and
sophomore classes are rushing their
preparations forward with all pos
sible npeed. Tryouts for the places
still vacant are being hurried along
and the contestants already selected
are being coached and trained into the
best possible condition.
The try-outs for the freshman relay
team was held yesterday afternoon on
the athletic field. Only four men ap
peared, but these made good time.
1). E. Danforth ran the 110 in eleven
flat, and M. J. Gibbs was a close sec
ond. Other contestants are expected
out and those will probably be given
,a try-out today. A meeting of the
freshmen has been called for 11:30
o'clock this morning in Law 101.
rians for Saturday's contest will be
gone over and final instructions. will
be given.
Last night the finals in the sopho
more middle weight boxing try-outs
were staged at the Y. M. C. A. be
tween Cecil Beacham and C. E. Swan
son. Beacham won by fall, in eight
een minutes and forty seconds.
Lineup of Contestants
So far as is known, the contestants
and their opponents in the Olympics
wEl be as follows.
Freshmen Kvent Sophomore
Lightweight wrestling
V. H. Sherman H. P. Troendley
Middle weight wrestling
H. H. Howitt Cecil Beacham
Heavyweight wrestling
W. R. Lyman Not announced
Lightweight boxing
Not known Lett Hansen
Middle weight boxing
Torn Mackey Cecil Beacham
Heavyweight boxing
W. R. Lyman Not announced
An error appeared in yesterday's
Xebraskan, when it was announced
(hat ('. r. Mingus won the freshman
middle weight boxing try-outs by for
feit. Tom Mackey will be the fresh
man representative in this event.
The length for the relays has been
fixed at 440 yards. Try-outs for the
sophomore relay team will be held
this afteroon. in rharee of Mike Dallv.
All the signs point towards one of
the hardest fought contests in the
history of the University. Both sides
are already claiming the supremacy,
the freshmen because of their greater
numbers and the sophomores because
of experience acquird last year. So
far, nn "high school stuff" has ap
pear ') Both freshmen and sopho-mores-
Vuve declared themselves to be
strongly opposed to such tactics, feel
ing that they do not represent true
Cornhufker spirit which the Olympics
are intended to develop. The final
arrangements for the events and the
points they will bring follow:
Four-man relay, 440 yards Ten
points.
Tug of war, two teams of fteen men
each 13 points.
Wrestling matches, three classes.
To a fall not to exceed ten minutes
s points each.
Boxing bouts, three classes. Three
one mincte bouts 5 points each.
Pole rush 20 points.
Pushball contest 20 points.
Chrysanthemum Show at
State Farm Campus
The students who have work at the
farm have been wondering what that
big tent at the north end of the west
quadrangle was for. It is something
new, in the form of a chrysanthenum
show. Several hundred plants are be
ing shown by Fred Grassart. land
scape gardiner. at the farm. For some
"me Mr. Grassart has been working
ta plan to make some use of the
University greenhouse during the
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uunng tne winter me
campus plants are taken care of in
tne houses, but In the summer time
there has been absolutely nothinc for
them to be used for. At last he
thinks he has found some use for the
greenhouses and is now trying out
his first experiment. The show will
probably last the rest of the week
and it Is well worth the while for
everyone to visit the farm and take it
in. At nights the big tent will be
heated with coal oil burners to keep
the plants from freezing.
UNIVERSITY BAND TO
MAKE KANSAS TRIP
Special Train for Rooters Over
Union Pacific, Friday Night
Get Tickets This Week
The University Cadet band will
make the trip to Kansas this year.
This was the statement made by T. A.
Williams last night concerning the
special train which will carry the
students to Lawrence. Men on the
team who played at Michigan realized
the help which the band wa sto them
under adverse conditions and felt that
they wanted the cadets there to help
celebrate the victory which they in
tend to win over the Jayhawkers this
year.
The special train for the team, its
supporters and the band will leave
over the Union Pacific at 9 o'clock
Friday evening and will arrive in
Lawrence at 6 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. All students who intend to ac
company the team are asked to make
arrangements at the ticket office im
mediately, in order that sufficient ac
commodations may be provided. Sleep
er cars, especially tourist, are hard to
obtain this year and all students who
wish these should make arrangements
this week in order that they may be
secured.
The railroad fare is $9.7;".. including
the government war tax of 72 cents.
An extra charge of $2.20 and $1.76
is made for standard sleeper accom
modations; and $1.10 and 9S cents
for tourist tickets. The government
exacts a ten per cent tax on the
sleeper rates.
Kansas City reports a sale of over
one hundred tickets to Cornhusker
graduates and sympathizers and five
hundred additional tickets have been
reserved for the Nebraska delegation
which will go from Lincoln on the
special. This indicates that the team
will have no want for support and the
band will lend its peculiar strength
when ever the "jinx" tries to loom
up on their ranks.
Reservations for seats may be had
at the Students' Activities office any
time until Wednesday of next week.
Story of Pied Piper of Hamlain
Is Quaint Tale of Peasant Life
By Eva
Once upon a time, years and years
ago, over in Germany, there was a
little village called Hamlin where
prosperous German peasants grew
richer and richer each year from the
yields of their farms. But one year,
after the harvest when the granaries
were bursting open with the bushels
of golden grain, the town was stricken
with a plague most terrible. Their
huge storehouses were overrun wil'i
a vertable army of rats and the
sturdy, industrious peasants saw the
grain which they had toiled so hard
to accumulate, rapidly disappearing.
There came one day when the peas
ants were in deep despair, a strange
man. who offered to rid the town of
the the rats in return for a very large
sum of money. Some of the more
skeptical hesitated at first, but when
they thought of the poverty to which
they would soon be reduced if they
were not rid of the rats, they were
willing to consent to almost any
terms.
The stranger, as soon as he entered
the village walls, on the following day
drew forth from his pocket, a flute,
and began to play the most wondrous
music that any one had ever heard.
Soon the astonished villagers saw the
rats coming from the granaries to
ward the player, and as the sweet
strains rose and fell in their pure
melody, the rats grew in numbers
till the main street of the town was
filled with them.
Then the musician turned away, and
walked quickly from the town. And
I, he went the rats followed forever
But the townspeople were not far
different from townspeople our own
day. and they were slow in paying
their debts. So when the piper, as
Sey called him. came for his pay they
tmt him off. until some future time.
P This happened again and again, un
UNIVERSITY PREPARES FOR
ANNUAL HOME-COMING
Planning Royal Welcome for
Old Grads
ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED
Annual Olympics, "The Piper," Missouri-Nebraska
Game, Parties and
Banquets Make Up the Schedule
Saturday is the annual Home-coming
day.
The football team, the University
players, the alumni secretary, the
freshman and sophomores in their
annual Olympic contest and the col
lege organizations with their banquets
and parties are all doing their part
to make this week one of the most
enjoyable and memorable of all Home
comings. While the number of old
grads who return may be somewhat
smaller than in other years they will
be none the less glad to return to the
scenes of their college days and none
the less enthusiastic over the work
that is being done. A number of en-
1 listed men from the training camps
' have secured leaves of absence for
the latter part of the week, and uni
forms appearing on the campus will
show in a concrete manner what Ne
braska is doing for her country.
The fun will begin Friday night.
The University players have practiced
steadily on "The Piper," they have
given rehearsals at both the peni
tentiary and the asylum. The ad
vanced art class has helped with
posters.
Olympics Saturday Morning
Saturday morning will be the
Olympics. Freshmen and sophomores
will apply the war paint and go out
for the annual scrimmage. Although
it has become almost traditional that
the freshmen win, those who know
both classes this year are not so sure
as to who the victors will be.
The latch strings of all the depart
ments of the University have been
loosed, members of the faculty are
doing their part in the welcoming.
The alumni office, in the basement of
the Administration building, will be
turned over entirely to the visitors.
it is very important that all alumni
come to the alumni office and register
in the Visitors' book, as it is largely
through this office that alumni find out
just who is back, and where those who
are not back are located. "I want the
visitors to feel free to make use of
Miller
til the Piper went off threatening ter
rible things. He returned soon after
and went up and down the streets of
the village, playing even more won
derful melodies than the time when
he had rid the town of the rats. But
this time, the little children of the
town, heard the magic music, and left
their work and their play to follow
the man and his flute. Even the
tender cries, and pleas of the par
ents could not stop them, and before
long, the Piper, playing his wonderful
flute, and followed by the little chil
dren of Hamlin, disappeared forever
down the long dirty road into the
country.
Prof. Alice Howell, head of the
dramatic department, assisted by a
cast of her pupils, and about twenty
little children will present the "Piper."
a prize play by. Josephine Freston
Peabody based on this old legend of
the "Pied Piper of Hamlin." at the
Temple theatre. Friday evening at
S:30. Miss Howell, wuo takes the part
of the Piper, has created an atmo
sphere of fascination for the legend
about the play. Carolyn Kimball, as
Veronica, the mother of the little
lame boy takes her part very adeptly.
Wcntworth Fling, as Juan, the lame
boy, and Myrtis Downing, the leader
of the children both play important
roles with special merit. The whole
cast has been chosen with an eye to
direct results and the play as a fin
ished product is ona that appeals to
both the old and the young audience.
The play, written by an American
woman, Josephine Preston Peabody,
took the International prize at Strat-ford-on-Avon.
England, on July 26,
1910. It is one that evelops Idealism
Instead of the lack of it in life and
is well-fitted for the performance by
the University Players Friday evening.
the office in every possible way,"
i Annis Chaikin, '08, alumni secretary
I said.
The football game, of course, comes
i Snhirrtnv nftprnnnn. then nerhaDS the
"snake dance" downtown led by the
band, followed by hundreds of shout
ing, yelling loyal students. Kappa
Alpha Theta will hold its annua re
ception in the chapter house after the
game. And in the evening there will
be a place for everyone to go.
JINX STILL CAMPS
ON HUSKERS' TRAIL
Only Two Regulars in Yester
day's Line Rhodes and
Dobson Out of Game
Gloom was thick enough in the
Cornhusker camp yesterday afternoon
to hide the sun or the silver lining
of the much talked of dark cloud. A
substitute line with the exception ol'
two men. Day and Wilder, was used
to buck the freshman team. Dusty
Rhodes, who has not missed a txame
at end during the early games of the
season was in an automobile accident
Wednesday morning and suffered a
scvere heel bruise. His place will he
taken by Anthes, a light but speedy
man who has not held down a varsity
berth in any game so far.
Dobson. who received a wrenched
leg in a scrimmage Tuesday afternoon
was not in uniform. Captam Shaw,
Kositzky and Hubka were three other
regulars who did not appear in uni
form. Kositzky is battling with his
studies while the other two are nnrs
ing injuries. Farley Young was glvn
a hard workout at the right end posi
tion in yesterday's practice, while
Same Kellogg was shifted to Dobson's
place at fulback.
Cook, McMahon and Schellenberg,
have been holding down regular
places in the scrimmages of the week
and it is probable that the coach will
depend on the work of these three
men to defeat the Tigers in the com
ing game. Cook's experience and gen
eralship combined with the speed of
the two youngsters will make a for
midable combination in the backfield.
In the line the coach will probably
use Hubka and Munn or DuTeau at
thf. tackles. It is expected that both
Wilder and Kositzky will be back at I
their regular positions at guards for
Saturday's game at least.
Just at present the coach's greatest
worry will be in finding ways to get
along without Dobson and Rhodes,
two men that he was counting on for
this game. Dobson's punting will be
almost necessary if the Cornhuskers
are to win.
Three Telegraphers Leave
for Training Station
Three more men from the Teleg
raphers' school have been ordered into
Unicle Sam's service. Cecil I. Mat
thews has been ordered to report at
the Great Lakes training school. G.
F. Gorham and A. F. Falef, who were
enlisted in the signal corps, were
called out with the other members
of the corps this week.
This makes four recruits sent out
by the school since its founding.
Stewart Beeman of Lincoln was sent
to a training school last week. Other
members of the school are making
excellent progress, and will probably
be able to meet the government re
quirements within a short time.
The school received twenty-lve new
sets or telegraph instruments this
week and these will be put into use
as the registration in the school in
creases. The Instruments were man
ufactured by "Mesco" and are the
very best o nthe market.
GERMAN DRAMATIC CLUB
ELECTS NEW MEMBERS
Seven new members were elected
to the German Dramatic club after
the regular try-outs held In the
Temple Tuesday evening. Initiation
of the pledges will take place at the
np.xt reeular meeting of the club in
Faculty hall, November 14. An initia
tion program, including a one-act
comedy "Schworhorig" will be given
by the following cast:
Elizabeth Rabe Mela Frauenthal
Tekla Alexis Hedwig Wende
Christine Hansen Rosa Fiebich
Following Is a list of the new mem
bers:
Faye Marty Elsie Johnson
Fred Jensen Hedwig Widnian
Meyer Beber Elvera Johnson
May Moritz
Winifred Estes. '16. will attend the
State Teachers' convention at Omaha
this week.
Y. M. C. A. WAR-WORK
CAMPAIGN NOW ON
Big- Mass Meeting Last Night
Launches Work
GOAL OF $15,000 IS SET
American Soldiers Ask for Y. M. C. A.
Service at Front and in Prison Cai. pa
Foreign States Send Requests
The University of Nebraska Y. M.
C. A. war work campaign for the rais
ing of $15,000 for use among the sol
diers at the front and in the prison.
j camps of Europe, was launched last
evening at a meeting ot some uu
students and faculty members in the
Armory. R. J. Bickham, national Y. M.
C. A.x secretary, who is touring the
country speaking before universities
and colleges in behalf of this work,
was the principal speaker. John Rid
dell spoke for the students. Ralph
Sturm presided. Gertrude Munger led
the singing.
A pledge of $1,200 has already been
made, Mrs. Mary Graham Hiltner,
chairman of the exeutive committee,
announced.
Mr. Bickham told of the work the
Y. M. C. A. is accomplishing in the
Unitedl States, in Europe and in Asia.
It is so organized that food and medi
cine can be sent directly to any par
ticular prisoner, even in the prison
camps of the central empire.
"We are able, not only to send in
food, medicine, books, musical instru
ments, but we can organize bands, or
chestras, schools in these camps," Mr.
Bickham said. "There is a part in
each of these where the men who have
gone insane are kept. Some of the
men have been there for three years.
Many are almost naked."
Requests From Abroad
Russia, Italy and France have offici
ally asked the American Y. M. C. A.
to help them in their armies. Russia
in particular, needs help," Mr. Bick
nell emphasized. "The morale of the
Russian army is in serious condition.
There are seven million men now un
der arms in Russia," he said. . "Since
the war began Russia has had four
teen to sixteen million men in the
army. Of these three million are dead
and two and one-half in the prison
camps of the central powers. Under
stand this and you get sometnmg ot
the terrific price Russia has paid so
far."
Before the men are ordered "over
the top," Mr. Bickham said, "a Y. M.
C. A. secretary goes along the line and
gives each soldier a piece of chocolate
with orders not to touch this until tne
rhame is over, and the soldier is
either safe in the German trench or
lying in no-man's land."
The Y. M. C. A. secretaries dig
dugouts just ahead of these trenches
where the attacks are made, and put
white posts to mark them with. They
serve hot cocoa, chocolate and soup
to the wounded or worn out 6oldiers as
they come back from the battle or are
carried back.
Hug: Sum Needed
To carry on this work until the first
of next July the Y. M. C. A. must
have $35,000,000, Mr. Bicknell saw.
Fifty per cent of the money students
give will go directly to relieve the
suffering of the prisoners of war.
After the general meeting Mr. Bick
ham spoke to the executive commit
tee, the captain, assistants and teams.
He explained that of this fund to be
raised 50 per cent goes directly to war
relief, 20 per cent to national Y. M.
C. A., 20 per cent to national Y. W.
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LEAVES OF ABSENCE
FOR CORN HUSKING
All students of the Univer
sity who can render a service to
the country and to the farmers
of the state by helping gather
the corn crop are urgently re
quested to secure a leave of ab
sence for this purpose. On
your return to the University
special coaches will be assigned
to you without cost and every
opportunity afforded for making
up back work. Thia it a pa
triotic duty at a time when
there should be no selfishness
on the part of any of our people.
Consult Dean Engberg In re
gard to details. Do not drop
your studies until you know
exactly where you are to be
employed. Dean Engberg will
assist you in securing employ
ment S. AVERY.