Daily Nebraskan
VOL. XVII, NO. 58.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VARSITY BANQUET TICKETS
TO GO ON SALE TODAY
War Prices Make One-Dollar
Charge Necessary
NO ROWDYISM TOLERATED
Original and Attractive Program Pre
pared With Take-Offs on Team
and Prominent Students
Tickets for the Varsity banquet in
honor of the 1917 football team and
dedicated to a greater Nebraska, will
be placed on sale at ?1 each at 1
o'clock today. Two hundred tickets
have been validated.
The committee In charge of the sale
of tickets includes Wayne L Town
aend, chairman, Hugo Otoupalik, Will
Urbach, John Cook, Ted Riddell, Ivan
Beede. Edson Shaw, Dwight Thomas,
Merl towrisendL Harvey Rathone, '12,
nd B. H. Graves, '13, will handle
tickets for alumni.
The Red room ot tie" city Y. M. C. A.
is the place selected for this war time
banquet. War-time prices havt also
been put Into practice. The first esti
mated price Of 75 cents did not pro
vide for all the necessary expenses of
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POLAND AND IRELAND
COMPARED BY DR. G. JONES
Views Their Treatment From
Standpoint of Language, Lit
erature and Land Problems
"We need not be ashamed of the
treatment that England, our most
trusted ally in the present war, has
given Ireland," Dr. Guernsey Jones
head of the department of European
history, summed up his lecture on
"Poland and Ireland," at 11 o'clock
convocation yesterday morning in
Memorial hail.
Dr. Jones asserted that England has
not tried to crush the individuality of
Ireland, but that especially in the last
fifty years England has tried in every
possible way to help the people. "Eng
land would give Ireland home rule,"
Dr. Jones said, "if the people would
agree on what they. wanted."
"The criticism of England's treat
ment of Ireland has been an im
portant part of the German propa
ganda," Dr. Jones said. "Germany
has declared that it is ridiculous for
England to assert that she is fighting
for oppressed nations in view of her
treatment of the Irish. Germany is
not justified in this criticiem," Dr.
Jones said. "From the middle of the
eighteenth century up to about fifty
years ago, England treated Ireland
with neglect not with oppression, and
since then she has been very generous
with Ireland," he said.
Three Comparisons Made
Dr. Jones compared the treatment
of Ireland by the British and Poland
by the Germans, from three points of
view, the language, religion and land
problems.
"The religious problem has been
settled in Ireland since in 18C9," Dr.
Jones said, "when England took away
the established church which the Irish
objected to supporting. The Germans
hnve not treated the Poles so leni
ently," he said. "They have insisted
Ted Riddell, of Beatrice, Chosen
Leader of Husker Basket Ball Team
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TED RIDDELL
upon the Poles using the German lan
guage even In their religious cere
monies. "The language problem was not set
tled by either, nation so easily. The
methods employed by the Germans to
introduce their language into Poland
were rough and eventually defeated
their own ends. The Poles learned
the German but stuck to their mother
tongue tenaciously. They became bi
lingualists and as a result expert small
tradesmen. Not liking this prosperity
for the Poles, the Germans forbade
Polish to be spoken anywhere. Polish
books were searched for and seized.
"In Ireland there were no Buch per
secutions. English was put in the
schools and the people naturally
learned and spoke it. When in about
1S90 the nationalist movement took
place and the Irish desired to revive
their language, the English helped.
They appropriated large sums of
money for this. The universities in
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BASKETBALL PREPARATIONS
NOW ON IN EARNEST
Captain Riddell and Coach
Stewart Plan Work Ex
cellent Material Out
With a captain at the head and
Coach Stewart ready to devote his en
tire time tO the coaching of the candi
dates, the basketball situation Is as
suming definite shape and It will be but
a short time until the practice season
is in full swing. The coach has been
present at the two sessions of this
week and has put the men to scrim
maging at a mid-season rate.
Cable Jackson, a veteran of one sea
son, is the only man who at this time
of the season appears to have a place
on the team waiting for him. Jack
son, although very light has all the
fighting qualities and speed that a real
basketball player requires and with
one year's experience should be a star
this year.
Hubka, Schroeder, Anthes, Munn
and Kellogg were the other men given
chances on the varsity last evening.
Hubka and Schroeder give promise of
developing into valuable men, while
the others will probably be on the
team when the season opens.
Practice hours have been definitely
set at 7:30 o'clock on Mondays and
Wednesdays and at 4 o'clock on Tues
days and Thursdays with 5 o'clock as
the probable hour on Friday.
A freshman varsity team will be
started as soon as enough first-year
men report regularly. It is probable
that some sort of a schedule will be
linei! up for the first-year men this
year.
Chancellor Attends Alumni
Meeting at Omaha
Chancellor S. Avery visited Omaha
yesterday and today when he attended
a luncheon held by the evecutive com
mittee of the alumni association. He
will probably return this afternoon.
New "Liberty" Poem Quoted
"Liberty," the poem by Prof. II. B.
Alexander is printed In the official
proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual
meeting of the Society for the Promo
tion of Engineering Education which
was held at Washington, D. C, in July.
Tho poem is used in the conclusion of
the address by the president of the
society, Prof. George R. Chatburn.
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Ted Riddell of Beatrice was elected
to lead the 1917-18 Cornhusker basket
ball team last night. Riddell will play
hl3 last season this year. Ted has
chiefly come into prominence because
of his ability as a football player but
those who saw his work with the bas
ketball squad last year knew that he
has few superiors at the guarding end
of the game.
Ted has been accused by opposing
players and coaches of being unneces
sary rough, but has been able to stay
in roost games as long as any member
of the team. His services will be val
uable to the team this year because
of the lack of experience among most
of the candidates. It was feared for
a while that Ted would not play bas
ketball this year, but injuries which
have been slow in healing appear at
last to be disappearing and the cap
tain should be in shape in a. short
time.
JUDGING TEAM WINS
CONTEST AT CHICAGO
Word Received Yesterday of
Excellent Record Made
TAKE MANY FIRST PRIZES
Champion Galloway and Red Polled
Steers of the Show Won
Especially Well.
The Nebraska judlng team added an
other Item to Its long list of victories
by winning the championship in the
International Live Stock show at Chi
cago, which has just closed. This was
the word contained In a telegram re
ceived yesterday morning from Prof.
H. J. Gramlich of the agricultural col
lege, who has been with the team on
their trip.
The men representing Nebraska
University are bringing home a large
number of premiums of high rank, hav
ing won thirty ribbons on Monday
The list of prizes for that day Includes
three championships and five firsts.
The telegram adds that champion
Galloway and Red Polled Steers of
the show won especially well, on
Hampshire hogB, there developed the
greatest competition ever known.
The team left for the Chicago show
last week accompanied by the coaches
after a long period of thorough train
ing and careful work on every point
that would help in their score. The
word received yesterday did not give
the individual point winners. These
will probably be known today and an
nounced in tomorrow's Nebraskan.
The team that made the Chicago
trip is practically the same as the one
which carried off high honors at the
recent show at Columbus, Ohio.
CONVOCATION
Convocation Thursday morning will
be a flute recital by Rex Fair, instruc
tor of the flute at the University
School of Music, at the Temple the
ater. The program is:
Gross Sonata in G Minor
Frederick Kuhlan
Valse Caprice Howe
The Wren (Piccolo solo) .'. .Damare
First Movement (Allegro) from
Concert No. 299 Mozart
CONGREGATIONALISTS PLAN
INAUGURAL FOR PASTOR
National Moderator and General Sec
retary of Denomination To Be
Present Convocation Planned
Something new to this city is to
happen on Sunday, December 16, and
the day following, in the proposed
Inauguration of Dr. John Andrew
Holmes by the First Congregational
church as its pastor.
Dr. Hubert C. Herring of Boston,
the general secretary of the denomi
nation and the real head of the Con
gregational body in America, will take
the leading part in the ceremony.
Hon. Henry M. Beardsley, ex-mayor
of Kansas City, who during the last
two years has been the national Mod
erator, will also be present and give
an address.
Dr. Herring was at one time pasto-
if the First Congregational church o
Omaha, and is known by some of out
citizens. Moderator Deanlsley was a
one time a member of tho church a'
Champaign, 111., from which Dr
Holmes comes.
In addition to the morning and even
ing services, there will be an after
noon meeting of welcome, at which
greetings will be extended by Profes
sor E. L. Hinman for the First Church
Dr. S. I. Hanford for Congregational
ism in Lincoln and Nebraska, Dr. S
Mills Hayes for the churches and mln
isters of the city, Chancellor Avery for
the University, and Mayor J. E. Miller
for the city. Dr. F. S. Stein, Dr. M. A
Bullock and Mr. Beardsley have also
been asked to have a part in this
meeting.
A Forefathers' Week dinner will be
held at the church also on Monday
evening, which It is planned to make a
gathering for all the Congregational
ists of Lincoln and so far as possible
of leaders of the denomination in Ne
braska. It is hoped to have both Dr.
Herring and Mr. Beardsley as speak
ers at this function.
A convocation of the University is
being arranged for 11 o'clock on the
same day, at which both these denom
inational leaders have been asked to
speak.
Dr. Holmes has been here two
months, during which time the con
gregations have about doubled.
It is believed that, no such inaug
ural service by the national eaders of
the denomination, has previously been
held in this country, in any church.
It is designed to supersede the former
custom of a council of installation
called from the churches of the vicinity.
To Write on Plant Life
Dr. R. J. Pool, head of the depart
ment of botany, was asked by the
American Microscopical society to
prepare an article bearing upon some
phase of the microscopic study of
plants. He has completed a drawing
which he will soon send In, repre
senting the detailed anatomy and
physiology of plant life. In the
sketch Dr. Pool shows the funda
mental structure and activities of
all plant life.
ATHLETIC BOARD
ANNOUNCES "N" AWARDS
Twenty Men Receive Insignia
Herbert White Given
Honorary Letter
Twenty men were awarded football
"N's" at a meeting of the athletic
board last evening. Following are the
athletes who received the honorary In-,
signia: Shaw, Riddell, Kositzky, Otau
palik, Cook, Rhodes, Dobson, Wil
der, Schellenberg, McMahon, Hubka,
Kriemelmeyer, Munn, DuTeau, Day,
Kellogg, Young, L. Shaw, Teter and
White. Herbert White, who is a senior,
was awarded the honorary letter which
has been given but a few times in the
history of the school. The possession
of this letter Indicates that the owner
has been out to nearly every practice
on the gridiron during his four years
in school.
The awarding of the "N's" practl-j
cally closes the football season forj
this year. With Dusty Rhodes, Paul i
Dobson and Harold Wilder as a '
nucleus of third-year men and all the
second-year men who will be back
from this year, plus the members of
this year's freshman team the Ne
braska eleven for next year should be
one of the best in the history of the
school.
Telegraphers Enlist
Daily for Service
The government telegraphy school
located on the third floor of the Me
chanical Engineering building is now
sending out men nearly every day to
the various camps and divisions of the
regular army. These are being re
placed by men who are enlisting for
the course out of the draft army and
those who are below the draft age.
This week there will be a number of
men sent to Camp Funston, Fort Oma
ha and the Great Lakes naval station
where they will take up signal corps,
radio service and other military work.
A number of Btudents nre enlisting
in this course and some are taking it
in addition to their regular class work.
The on-coming draft is effective in in
creasing the enrollment and it is Quite
probable that the present number of
forty-five telegraphers will be raised
to at least sixty.
Roscoe "Dusty" Rhodes, Who Will
Captain the 1918 Cornhuskers
Roscoe B. Rhodes, better known as
Dusty, of Ansley, Neb., was unani
mously elected to captain the 1918
Cornhuskers by the members of the
1917 team last night. Dusty has been
holding down the left-end job on the
Nebraska machine this year and has
been doing an exceptionally good job
of it. One of Dusty's best known
characteristics is his fighting ability
and determination.
When Rhodes came to the Univer
sity he knew about as little football as
any man trying out for the freshman
team. His line smashing against the
varsity was one of the features of the
first-year team's play that year. Last
year the ever-present fear of his abil
ity to make the team caused Rhodes
to make good with such ease that he
played every position on the team ex
cept center and quarterback before
the season was over. His record for
this year has been brilliant throughout
the season.
SMALLPOX QUARANTINE
ON CAMPUS LIFTED
But Those Not Vaccinated
Must Still Report
EVERY PRECAUTION TAKEN
All Social Functions to Be Held As
Usual If No More Cases
Discovered
Although the smallpox quarantine
on the campus was lifted Tuesday
noon, after careful inspection of
nearly two thousand students, faculty
members and University employees,
the greatest precaution will be taken
to prevent a spread of the disease In
the future. Those who were not vac
cinated must report daily to the doc
tors In charge for inspection.
No student may attend classes with
out dally Inspection as a record is be
ing kept of those reporting and ar
rangements will be made to take care
of all those who fall to be examined.
Under the direction of Dr. R, A. Ly
man, a count of those who were in
spected and vaccinated Is being com
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UNIVERSITY PLAYERS TO
ENTERTAIN AT CENTRAL CITY
Prof. Alice Howell and "Build
er of Bridges" Scheduled
There December 15
Prof. Alice Howell will read "Jeanne
D' Arc" and the University players will
present "The Builder of Bridges" as
afternoon and evening entertainments
at Central City, Neb., December 15.
Prof. Howell has studied "Jeanne
D' Arc" for several years, and played
the lead when the University present
ed the drama last year. She also
gave a reading of the play at Bethany
in the same year. The part of "the
maid of Orleans" is her favorite char
acter among all those of the stage and
it is the part in which many of her
students, who are now wearing khaki,
remember her.
The lead in "The Builder of Bridges"
is taken by Gwynne Fowler who
played in University week as "Alias
Jimmy Valentine." Katharine Pierce,
also in "Alias Jimmy Valentine" and.
in "Green Stockings" plays opposite!
Fowler. Elizabeth Erazim, who took
the lead in the junior play of last year,
also takes a prominent part.
The story of the play concerns a girl
who breaks her engagement to one
man and promises to marry another,
to save her brother who has embez
zled some funds. This second man is
a middle-aged engineer who really
loves her and the climax comes when
the girl finds out that she has fallen
into her own trap by falling in love
with the engineer.
The cast is as follows:
The Builder of Bridges
Characters:
Edward Thursfield Gwynne Fowler
Arnold Faringay Walter Herbert
Walter Gresham Herbert Yenne
Sir Henry Killlck
D. Gilbert Eldridge
Peter Holland Herman Thomas
Dorothy Faringay. . .Catherine Pierce
Mrs. Debney Elizabeth Erazim
Miss Closson Gladys Corrick
Minnie Elvera Johnson
ROSCOE B. RHODES
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