V. m. C. A. EDITION The Daily Nebraskan VOL. XVII, NO. 119. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27. 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS FDOTBALL GRY IS STILL HE MEN Coach Asks For Twenty Addi tional Candidates TRACK PROSPlcT BRIGHTER Ames Here One Week from Saturday No Men out for Weight Events The success of the spring football practices which have been inaugurat ed m Nebraska this year, is still some what doubtful. So far only a relatively few men have reported for work, and the prospects for some real workouts ire becoming more and more uncer tain each day. As General Leonard Wood, who Just returned from the bat tle fields of Europe, says, the urgent cry of the war now is men, men, men. And so it is with the football situation In Nebraska the cry of the coaches is for men, men, and still more men. It Is not because there are not enough men in the school, for notwithstanding the heavy drain there has been on the football squad, there are still plenty of men in the University who, if they only knew it, would make excellent that every one sits back and either thinks that it is too nice weather to gridiron material. The real trouble is get out get all "tired out" or else they believe In letting the other fellow do it all, and the other fellow is too often apt to do the Bame and the thing never gets done. If the present plans of the athletic department are to be carried out there must be at least twenty more man nut fnr the resrular evening grind. At present the work consists mostly In sprinting practice on the track for the pnrpose of getting the men hard ened into condition, but very shortly the work of blocking and tackling will be gone into and it is planned also to give the men some scrimmage work of a more peppy variety. But to do this we must have men. Track Prospect! Brighter Everything is not gloom however, and by the way of a little consolation, the prospects for the track are look ing Bomewhat better. Several new men have appeared on the track In the last couple of days who make things look like we would be able to get into things in the proper manner by the time the . Ames aggregation makes its appearance on the field a week from Saturday. But there Is still room for a number of more men here, too. As yet there are but two men out for the hurdles and one for the pole vault and the high jump, while in the weight events practically no one has entered. It takes co-oper-tlon and hard work. ANNUAL TRIP TO ESTES ABANDONED THIS YEAR Larger Conference To Be Held at Lake Geneva, North of Chicago For several years delegates from Nebraska Association has gone to Estes Park for ten days in June to get training and inspiration for the next year'B work. As a war measure this year tha Estes Tark conference has been cancelled In favor of a similar yet much larger conference at Lake Geneva, Wis , Just north of Chicago. The association has always de pended for Its leadership upon thes9 conferences but this year the need of such a conference Is far more Important. It is necessary to train and use younger men In Y. M. C. A. work and In addition to this fact we must carry the greatly enlarged war program. It la recognized that the Northfleld conference has meant a great deal this year to the study program for students and has made it possible to enlist 200,000 students in these classes. Lake Geneva must play this part in the regular association work fdr next year. Those Interested either In going or in helping others to go, should see Wm. F. Urbach or Walter Judd. UNIVERSITY NIGHT IS FINANCIAL SUCCESS Total of $09.05 To Be Turned Over to Gilkey Campaign Fund The final report of the University Night, performance Issued yesterday by Chairman William F. Urbach, shows Hi at l,r37 students and faculty members were present and that $Gfl.9.r Burplus was realized and turned to the Bible study committee to partially de fray the expenses of the Ullkey cam paign. Up until last year the I'nlvertlty Night has resulted in a deficit, but staging the event at the Auditorium has lessened the cost to such an ex tent that a profit can be made. There is, however, no endeavor to make money, the object being firsr to please the University. The committee directly responsible for the program is made up of men and women selected regardless of their connection with the Y. M. C. A. or the Y. W. C. A., but keeping in mind their part in University activities and their ability to help with such a program. The committee this year consisted of William F. Urbach, chairman; Flor ence Bishop, Theda Waterman, Ruth Hutton, Harold Long, George Driver, Ray Cowen and Laverne Stone. In the working up of a program all organizations are asked to submit a sketch to be considered by the com mittee. About fifteen organizations usually respond and the best of the sketches submitted are selected. Following is the financial statement: Tickets sold 1377 at 15c, total, $206.60. Complim'entaries, 160. Total attendance, 1.537. Expenditures Auditorium $'0.00 War tax 30.65 Orchestra 10.00 Walt. Bros 8.00 Miscellaneous 38.00 Total $136.65 Profit $ 69.95 GYMNASTIC EXHIBITION CANCELLED ACCOUNT WAR No Trip To Be Made This Year By Gymnastic Team to Western Meet The war has claimed another victim. The annual gymnastic exhibition has been called off "on account of the wnr" anH thus the students have lost one more evening's entertainment. Every spring for years the physical education department has hud one evening to entertain the student body with an exhibition in gymnastic drills, and folk dancing, tumbling, aesthetic dancing, and work with dumb-bells ana gymnasium apparatus. The proceeds in the past have gone largely to" pay the expenses of the gymnastic team on their yearly trip to the western colleg iate gymnasium meet In CBicago. This meet has also been called off on ac count of the war hence there is no necessity to raise funds for this purpose. Dr. Charles W. Gilkey of Chicago is to spend four days of next week in our University in the effort to strengthen and deepen religious work and feeling among the faculty and students. Dr. Gilkey was here last fail for a day and spoke at convocation. Those who heard him are enthusiastic about his powers as a public speaker as are those who' know him as to his character. He will devote himself to the effort to touch all that is best and highest In the possibilities of student life. Those who were fortunate w r a i...k.nn when he was T. IY1. iiiviivvi. - - . j M-ii - u. lmni.aa4 hw that force with which he developed the Idea that we who are left at home must not f get that those who are fighting our battle at the front are after all only doing so that we may freely and in a free world develop char acter and citizenship here at home. It lies with us to make our communities worthy of the sacrifice or else our dead will have died In vain. Dr. Gilkey with all his power cannot do this alone. Without our assistance he cannot even do any of it amongst us. If w hold ourselves selfishly or carelessly aloof he would as well not have come. Can we not give ourselves . . . . attendance at all his meetings? JUNIDRSGtTTITLE IN FINAL DEBATE Win Unanimous Decision Over Sophomores Yesterday ARGUE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP Winning Team Composed of Robert Moodie, William Maddox and Walter James Excelling the freshmen in argu ment and rebuttal the junior debating team, consisting of Robert Moodie of West Point, William Maddox, of Falls City and Walter James of Brush, Colorado, won the unanimous decision of the judges in the final debute of the interclass series In Law 101 yesterday afternoon. The question was, "Resolved, That the United States should own and oper ate the railroads of the United States." The freshman team, winners from the sophomores, was composed of Reuben Claussen of Beatrice, Leo Sturgeon of Alton. Illinois, and Law rence Slater of Lincoln. The judge were Prof. J. P. Senning, of political science department and L. W. Kline, '19. G. V. Lundmark, 18, of Omaha, chairman of the interclass debating board, presided. The Juniors urged in the case which won (the debate for them that the chance to the system of govern ment ownership and operation was necessary in that the present system had failed completely to provide efliclent, economical and just service. They pointed ont the discriminations which existed and which regulation (Continued to Page Three.) EMPLOYMENT BUREAU IS BIG AID TO STUDENTS Helped to Find Positions for Wage Earners Aggregating $2,500 This Year There is one department of the Uni versity Y. M. C. A. that helps many men who work their way through school. The University Employment Bureau finds jobs for men that want to work for board and room, regular employment, or odd time work. Also at the first of the year, students are directed to residences and rooming houses where rooms can be secured for the school year. No charge is made tx the students for any work done by the employment secretary. Up to date, the Employment Bureau has filled over four hundred jobs- since the beginning of school. Many of these have been odd jobs in the residence districts for spare time. The most popular work is earning board in res taurants" or In sorority and fraternity houses. About seventy-five men have done work to earn rooms. Over fifty miscellaneous Jobs were given such as office and store work. Many calls are now being received for gardening and out-door Jobs. The earnings of men put in employment by this department since the opening of school, aggregate about $2,500. . enough to hear Dr. Ward at the throuah our city a xew wetn and mm a cnance ry umim9 ,n W. G. HASTINGS, Acting Chancellor. NEBRASKA TO CHINA FUND NEARLY COMPLETE $1,207 is Total Amount Sub scribed Excellent Spirit Has Been Shown That the Nebraska-to-China cam paign has been more than success ful and beneficial both to Miss Grace Coppock and to the girls of the Uni versity of Nebraska, was brought out at veRpers, Tuesday at C o'clock in the Y. V. C. A. rooms. Over $1,207 has already been subscribed and about 450 girls seen by the various teams. Bernlce Miller, chairman of the committee which has been working on this campaign, presided and called on the captains, or their rep resentatives, for reports of the mon ey, number of girls seen and also what the campaign had meant on the campus and to themselves per sonally. Summed up the opinions of the girls were as follows: that China, during the past week had been much more real and nearer, that Miss Taylor and Miss Ting had broadened and inspired every girl they really came into touch with, and that the canmaien had brought out even more vividly the spirit of the times--that of unselfishness and sacrifice. Before the reports Gertrude Munger gave a vocal solo. FILLMORE AND BOX BUTTE COUNTY REPORTS RECEIVED . The State Conservation and Soil Survey department has Just received a published report on the soil survey of Fillmore county, Nebraska. An advanced copy of the map of the soil survey of Box Butte county has also been received. The final report will come in a few days. The field work on these reports is made by the state and federal surveys, but the publications are issued at Washington. JUDD IS ELECTED TO LEAD Y. M. C. A. WORK Active Member of This Year's Cabinet to Succeed Ray Cowen as President Walter II. Judd, '20, of Rising City was yesterday elected president of the Y. M.,C. A. cabinet for the com ing year. He will take the place of Ray II. Cowen, '19,. of Stratton, who has entered war service. Cowen also acted as general secretary but -it is probable that a special secre tary will be engaged next year to take charge of that work. Judd has been very active in the cabinet both this year and last. He was chairman of the Bible study committee and was representative to the big Volunteer conference at Northfleld, Mass., the meeting which was the start of the big fight for Christian World democracy. He has been at the head of the organization work in the establishing of Tues day evening discussion groups at the various fraternities. Judd was in charge of the big convocation in the second Red Triangle drive. ELECT DELEGATES TO CHICAGO CONVENTION Madeline Girard and Fae Breese to Represent Nebraska W. A. A. Pt April Meeting Madeline Girard and Fae Breese were elected representatives to the National Convention of the Women's Athletic Association which is to be held in Chicago on April 12, 13. at the meeting of the University W. A. A. Tuesday evening in the gymnasium. Gertrude De Santelle was elect ed hike leader and Irene Springer basket-ball leader. I HI. C. I DRIVES IN Great Success Met With In All Student Campaigns $23,000 TO RED TRIANGLE Oversubscribe Quota by $8,000 In First Undertaking Large Attendance at Volunteer Classes The outstanding event of the first semester from a Y. M. C. A. stand point was the Red Triangle campaign in November. The drive was not officially conducted by the student association, but by a general Uni versity committee. A goal of $15,000 was set for the University of Ne braska and in a great patriotic con vocation held November 23 at the au ditorium over $23,000 was subscribed. Most of the subscriptions were to be made in monthly installments and have been coming in very promptly. Already over $15,000 has been paid in. The secondary results of the campaign the effects on the stu dents themselves, who. sacrificed in order that their fellows in arms might have more of the comforts cf life were perhaps even more valu able than the money raised. The campaign gave an entirely new note to University life a dis tinctly war note. It did a great deal to broaden out students, giving them a vision of world needs of to day than Just a narrow local vision. Helped Discussion Groups The Red Triangle campaign made possible the organization during the second semester of a great many groups of men and women meeting weekly to discuss Christian prin ciples as they relate to the present world situation." These are not in dications of men becoming effeminate and "pious" but they are indications that virile men and women are ans wering the greatest call to be heard today not so much the call to enlist in military service as the call for every . Individual to enlist in some sort of world service. University students are thinking in world terms, they are reorganizing their modes of living on a war basis, they are work ing not for America alone but for all the peoples of the earth in seek ing to make possible a true world democracy. They are searching anew the life and words of Christ to find how His principles fit into the world situation today. It is such questions and problems that these groups are seeking to solve and reports indicate tht every where a hearty response is met with. Almost half the men in school are being reached by these classes. The leaders are faculty members, busi ness and professional men, and stu dents. Almost all of the fraternities (Continued on page two) SOCIAL COMMITTEE HELPS STUDENT ENTERTAINMENT Four Big Events Arranged For Men During Past Year By Association Work of the Social committee of the association this year ' has centered mainly about four principal events. The first two were "Open Houses" at which new and old students number ing nearly to 100 at each meeting, were entertained during vacation week. Varied programs were present ed at each of these meetings, and at the second gaatherlng the freshmen were given an opportunity to meet with upperclassmen and with members of the faculty. Coach E. J. Stewart gave an interesting talk to the fresh men on the opportunities In athletics. The third df the meejtlngs held was the All-membership party held No vember 17, following v the Kansas Nebraska football game. The enthus iasm of the victory made for one of the best meetings of the year at tils time. The last social event was the post exam Jubilee which was held February 2. The celebration this time was over th timely defeat of Captain Flunk and his cohorts, and there was nearly as much elaHon as of the time after the Kansas defeat.