The Daily nebraskan
vol. XVIII. NO. 8(
I'MVKIfSlTY OF NKKIJASK A, MNCOLN, MONDAY, KKItKUARY 10,
PRICK KIVK CUNTS
CROWD PACKS GYM TO
SEE PIKERS WHIPPED
Student: Turn Out in Force to
Cheer Team on to
Victory
State Legislators Enjoy Watching
Huskcrs Trim Rutherford's
Men 30 to 25
Clear beyond the wildcat predic
tions, th old Nebraska gym was
parked to the very ridgepole with
howlins (ornhuskers and members of
the state legislature to Bee the Husker
basket loopers down the Washington
VnivoTfity quintet Friday night by a
score oi .".0 to 25.
Tim baskets in quick succession
by the Washington star, Marquard,
and tv .i by McEwelwee and Russell,
within the last three minutes of play
threw a scare into the Nebraskans
and ii .icli their hearts Jump up nnd
stick ::i their throats until the ref
eree's whistle terminated the proceed
ings. Th" score was 28 to 15 i.i the Coni
huskei!," favor when the Rutherfnrd
ians n a.le their spurt in the fag end
of tlie came; but like their fate at
Wesh yan Thursday night, they failed
to inaugurate it soon enough, and the
final chirp found them , on the short
end of the count. A parting shot by
ratty added two more points for Ne
braska before the crowd spilled out
onto the floor.
Speaking of the crowd, there hasn't
been anything like it at a regular Ne
braska basketball game for centuries,
and Doc Stewart's smile overspread
his entire countenance as the couples
took the floor to the tune of "Hindu
stan" after the smoke of the battle
had cleared away. The sororities and
fraternities were out in full force and
the section reserved for the legisla
tors was packed to the brim. The gal
lery, bath ends of the room and every
available square centimeter was oc
cupied with somebody, the crowd spill
ig out into the playing court in several
places. ! .";
Gain Early Lead
Marquard started the scoring by
dropping a free throw thru the hoop
when Bailey was called for a foul,
but Nebraska's midget forward, Gil
lilan, came thru immediately after
ward with a goal, which put the Husk
ers in the lead and they were never
headed. Jackson, Gillilan and Bailey
worked the Cornhusker talley up to
12 points while McCollum, Marquard
and Russell could only manage to pile
up 7 u.arks for- Washington in the
first half.
The first shot after .the tip-off at the
beginning of the second period slipped
gracefully thru the loop at the hands
of Dunker. This seemed to make Gil
lilan and Bailey a trifle sore for they
both came back with a basket apiece
and made the score 16 to 9. MeCul
luni and Russell nearly knotted the
count at 10 to 14 a little later, but the
Huskers managed to keep out of reach,
NEW COURSE 111 AESTHETIC
DANCING OFFERED WOMEN
The department of physical educa
tion is offering this semester, for the
first time a general course in aesthetic
dancing, open to all university women
who have had freshmen gymnasium.
t"P until this time it has been im
possible for any but physical educa
tion, normals and Fine Arts students
to register for this work. Many girls
enrolled in other colleges have asked
to be givf-n this training and the new
poursc is designed to meet their need.
ll will e fcnow-n as physical Educa
tion ,8 and the classes will be held
on Mondays and Wednesdays at 1:00
o'clock. One hour university credit
will e. given, but the work cannot
be 8"ffctiiuted for other gymnasium
wk which is required.
A,l who desire to take this work
fchnnl ...
uuicr wim l Jr. or Mrs. ciapp
l ooe. No extra charge will b
ade for late registration.
STUDENTS SHOW INTEREST
IN COMMERCIAL RHETORIC
Th work in the new commercial
composition class. Rhetoric H.'i. has
been successfully launched and I!5
members have enrolled for this work,
only three of which are women, Pro
fesor Weseen feels that the prospects
are good for a very interesting and
profitable course, and that at the end
of the semester the students will have
accomplished much, for a large amount
of personal Interest is already being
taken in the work and this in itself is
a great factor toward the success of
any enterprise.
SORORITY BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT SATURDAY
Woman's Athletic Association in
Charge Loving Cup to
Winning Team
The int r-Miiority basketball tourna
ment will be held next Saturday after
noon. The match is in charge of the
Woman's Athletic Association and a
silver loving cup will be awarded the
winning team. The cup will pas? to
the winning team each year and will
have the winning sororiiy's name and
the date engraved on it.
Each team will be charged one dol
lar to enter either the Inter-Sorority
or Rainbow tournaments and any
team which does not appear or any
sorority which does not enter a team
in the tournament will be charged two
dollars.
Saturday night, six sororities had
entered the names of their teams and
their team captfins. Those teams en
tered are:
Alpha Omricon Pi
Doris Hostetter (captain).
Lucile Mauck.
Mary Waters.
Nina Bell Cooke.
Bess Cram.
Delta Gamma
Janet Thornton (captain).
Helen Black.
Ruth Linslay.
Dorothy Wright.
Margaret Radcliffe.
Delta Delta Delta
Eleanor Bennett (catain).
Dtina Gustin.
Lucile Enstrom.
Jocelyn Stone.
Ruth Dubois.
Gamma Phi Beta
Margaret Henderson (captain).
Marvel Trojan.
Helen Morrisy.
Mary Hardy.
Gertrude Henderson.
Alpha Phi
Marjorie Barstow (captain).
Madeline Girard.
Ada Stidworthy.
Jeanette Doyle.
Dorothy Hammond.
Delta Zeta
Gertrude Desautelle (captain).
Martha Krogman.
Sarah Surber.
Helen Hewitt.
Sadie Rotholz.
and finally got away with the ham at
the end.
Jackson and Gillilan Star
tk Tniifh heralded star, Marquard,
was watched like a hawk, but in spite
of Schellenberg's close guarding and
the rest or the Cornhuskers efforts,
v .no nv of the other Washin-
U t? U U to ii v
ton players. The tall center shot five
r - 1 1.4
free throws and tnree ube.
tain Jackson of the Home Doys oeat
him by one point, making four free
throws and shooting four baskets, a
total of twelve . points against Mar
Gillilan was next in
quaru e .. . .
order with ten points and Bailey third
with four.
The Score
Nebraska
G. F. F.T. Pts.
4 2 4 12
5 2 0 10
1 2 0 2
0 0 0 e
2 3 0 4
IOCS
0 0 0
nillilan. f
Schellenberg. c " 1
Pickett, c
Bailey, g
Patty, g
SEMESTER ELECTION
COMING NEXT WEEK
Aspirants for Political Honors
Begin to Make Appearance
in the Field.
Little Excitement Forecasted in
the Race for Class and
C3rnhusker Offices.
With the announcement that appli
cations are now open for the annual
second semester elections, aspirants
for class and Cornhusker honors are
beginning to enter the field. The elec
tion will be held Tuesday, February
IS, and filings must bo in the hands
of the registrar by 5 o'clock Friday,
February 14.
The opening of the campaign has
caused a slight stir among the pros-
I pective candidates, althouyh indica
tions point to a comparatively quiet
election. Ambitious students who
have made their plans in advance are
putting the final overhauling touches
on their "machines" and unless dark
horses appear a number of them will
receive the coveted offices without op
position. A well filled ballot of repre
sentative candidates, however, is al
ways desirable, since it promotes in
terest in the election and makes pos
sible a democratic selection. The au
thorities last year postponed the elec
tion for one week due to the political
lull.
Women Are Represented
University women already have one
representative in the field. Mary Shel
don of Wayside, Missisippi, the first
candidate to file, is seeking the fresh
man presidency.. She is a daughter of
Ex-Governor George L. Sheldon of Ne
braska and this is her first attempt to
live up to the political traditions of
her family. Other co-eds will probably
enter the political fray before the end
of the week.
In the senior class the only candi
date so far to aspire to the president's
chair is Dwight Kirsch of Lincoln. He
is managing editor of both the Corn
husker and the Awgwan. Another po
sition which seniors will fill is that of
Ivy Day orator, but no one has yet
anonunced his intention of seeking
the traditional honor of the senior
class.
The position of " editor-iiv-chief of
the Cornhusker which, by tradition, is
handed down to the junior managing
editor, will apaprently go without op
position to Harold T. Gerhart. Floyd
Stone of Lincoln is the only candi
date to definitely announce himself
for the junior presidency.
Between Class and Cornhusker
Interest in the sophomore race will
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"Zeppelins Swept My Breath Away"
Writes Baehr, ex- '18 From England
Ensign Max- Baehr, ex'18, has writ
ten a letter to Dean C. C. Engberg in
which he tells of experiences with
Zeppelins used in the naval aviation
service. Baehr left the university in
1917 and received his commission in
the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. His
lelter follows in part:
"I shan't attempt to impress you
with what I say but shall attempt to
stick to facts. The Zeppelins were
the first to receive our attention. They
simply swept my breath away. Al
though I had had a little experience
on the British Rigid airships they
didn't have a patch on the German
ones. They were simply stupendous.
A report is now in the press concern
ing this trip and its achievements and
I shall do my best to get a copy of this
for you. Airships, I am sorry to say.
are little known to most, people who
coasider .them great, expensive, un
wieldy and most of all vulnerable
things. The experience of the Eng
lich in this has been decidedly in fa
vor of tie airships and especially of
the large Zeppelin type. For instance
I will give you some idea of what the
Vitest German Zeppelin was capable
of doing.
First of all. she had a disposable
KAPPA APLPHA THETA
EQUIPS WAR WORKER
Kappa Alpha Theta Is undertaking
to equip and support a reconstruction
worker in France. A fund of $2,00 is
now being raised by the active college
and alumnae chapters to send one of
their members who has studied in
Franco and had experience in teach
ing in this country, to work in the
devastated regions. Last year Kappa
Alpha Theta contributed 87.000 to
war work activities. Most of this
money was used to equip with uni
forms, nurses in a base hospital unit.
The sum collected was more than nec
essary for this purpose, however, and
with the extra money Miss Ruth
Townley was sent to do relief work
for a year
MANY WOMEN REGISTERED
IN SCHOOL Of COMMERCE
Students Contribute to Annual
Support of French War
Orphan Fund
Professor England of the economics
department and school of commerce
reports that the classes are all un
usuailv larj;e this semester, and that
there are more women registered for
the various courses than at any previ
ous time in the history of the school.
This is interesting to note, because
only four professors have charge of
the work in the entire department this
year, as three of the former professors
are still actively engaged in war work.
The evening class in money and
banking, which meets Tuesday eve
nings at 7:30 in U 102, is larger than
at any previous time it has been of
fered. About tliirty-Pve students have
registered for this work, half of whom
are not university students,
The registration in the economics
department and school of commerce
for this semester has been estimated
at 700. This is an increase of 70 over
last semester's enrollment of 630, and
is the largest registration since the
years 1916-1917 With an estimated
number of summer school students at
70, the approximate total registration
in these departments for this year
will be nearly 1,400.
Professor England also announces
that the total amount of money turned
in by the women students of the de
partment of economics, in the annual
support of the French war orphan
fund, was $35.50. This money will go
toward the sole support of a six-year-
old French girl, orphaned by the war.
The French war medals, which the
girls have been selling for this pur
pose, promise to be genuine souvenirs
in the future, for only a limited supply
were manufactured, and this supply
has been discontinued now.
life of thirty-eight tons. That means
that besides lifting herself she could
also take up thirty-eight tons of
weight. Some of this was taken up
by cars, engines, bombs, crew, fuel,
water ballast, etc., but even at 1hat
she had to carry twenty-five tons wa
ter ballast. She is a monster of near
ly 700 feet length and a diameter of
over ninety feet. Can you picture this
streamline shape or rather two of
them in a huge shed dimly lighted?
"This particular ship I have in mind,
L171. had a rate a rate of climb under
terrific emergency, such a escaping
from a pursuing plane, of between 2,
500 and 2,800 feet per minute And
moreover her uttermost ceiling was
over 28,000 feet She had a speed of
about 73 miles an hour and is capable
today of making a round trip journey
from Germany to New York and back
carrying fifty passengers.
Long Flignta Made
"Now I will give you an account of
the two longest war flights made dur
ing the just finished conflict. The
longest was made by a German Zeppe
lin which stayed In the air for 110
hours and flew from Bulgaria to Ger
man colonies in South Africa and
1 Continue n Pc Ti
HUSKERS TAKE BOTH
GAMES JrROM PIKERS
Romp Away with Second Bout
from Washington by Safe
Count of 23 to 13.
Jackson and Gillilan Show Bril
liant Form in Passing and
Shooting Baskets.
Coach Stewart's, basket, ball
machine fulfilled Cornhusker
hopes by pocketing both of the
garnet with Washington. This
double victory plants them se
curely in second place, next to
the top, in the Valley Confer
ence. Missouri still leads and
will meet the Nebraskans in the
Cornhusker arena this coming
Friday and Saturday in the at
tempt to maintain her position.
Nehiaska waked away with the
second game of the Washington series,
to the tune of 28 to 13. The Pikers
played a clever game, but the air
tight guarding of Bailey and Reynolds
kept the::i ;u a sa;e distance from the
illusive net, while Jackson and Gilly
dodging swiftly up and down the
floor bagged goal after goal.
The game started in slow fashion.
For ten minutes both teams fought
warily. One long attempt after an
other failed miserably until Jackson
dashing in from the side arched a
pretty overhead shot into the iron
receiver. This broke the spell and
things began to happen. Marquard
and Shelly had revived their little
love match of the night before and
began to rough it. Marquard handled
the ball cleverly and several times
broke away with a sensational dribble
only to fizzle his shot The big Piker
center nursed a visible grouch which
added zest to his duel with the fight
ing Husker center, and the mystery
of it is that both of them went the
entire grind with but one "personal"
each.' The half was nearly over be
fore Rutherford's men earned a goal.
They were saved from such total hu
miliation, however, when McCollum
broke through the ironclad Husker
blockade and succeeded in locating
one. Revenge came swiftly, for
Jackson began to run wild. Shoot
ing like a demon from difficult posi
tions he caged three in quick suc
cession. The first period closed with
the scarlet and cream on the long end
of a 15 to 5 count.
Speed Up in Second Half
The second period was a fast scrap
from the first blast of the whistle.
Little Gilly darted off for the first
6Core with a catlike swiftness that
dazzled his rangier opponents A few
K oiiiiiined on I'uirf 'J'hriM )
CONDRA, CHAIRMAN OF
. PATRIOTIC MEETINGS
Dr. George E. Condra, head of the
department of geography and con
servation of the university, is chair
man of the committee which has
charge of a series of six patriotic
meetings, open to Lincoln men, at
which reconstruction topics will be
discussed. The first of this series of
meetings will be held at the Orpheum
Theater at 3 p. m., Sunday, February
16th. The list of subjects to be dis
cussed follow:
"Lessons from the War."
"American Citizenship: Its Duties
and Privileges."
'The Outlook for Labor in Amer
ica." "The Influence of Religion in Amer
ica's Future Career."
"Urgent Problems of Lincoln and
Their Solution,"
Following the speeches the meet
ings will be thrown open for discus
sion. The state has offered motion
picture films on subjects of patriotism
snd true American spirit and these
will be shown.
.Cotitinm-d B Tbrw)