The Daily nebraskan-
VOL. XVIH. NO. 125.
LINCOLN, THURSDAY, APRIL 10 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CHINESE LOOK TO
AMERICA FOR AID
Miss Me Yung Ting Says China
Needs Leaders Like the Amer
ican Women.
Mrs. Eddy Gives Short Sketch of
Grace Coppock's Work
in Orient.
Indeed we are all living In a thrill
ins age," Miss Me Yung Ting said at
the mass meeting held Wednesday
evening at the Temple. "So many
' things have happened In the last four
years that we are no doubt making
great changes In our Uvea.
In China they are also talking of
changes. There is a great deal of un
rest in the Orient If you study the
political situation you will find that
our little neighbor, Japan, is an ag
gressive nation. China must strength
en herself and one of the powerful
means will be in developing the re
sources of her womanhood. We are
not looking to France for help, be
cause she Is weak from the war Eng
land is not a very good friend of
China, nor are any of the others. We
are expecting aid from America alone.
We need leaders like the American
women who can do big things.
"In this progressive America we
have to fight for votes for women,
while in China suffrage was given to
women when the republic was estab
lished. The Chinese are ready to ac
cept changes if they are shown how
to put them effectively in force. We
are passing through a transitional
period and are loking forward to a
new womanhood.
"When the Chinese resources are
developed then we will pay back our
debts. We should think in interna
tional terms. Indeed the opportuni
ties you are enjoying today have been
obtained through the sacrifice of many
lives. Won't you pass your opportuni
ties on to a less fortunate nation?
When you have so much of the abun
dant life of Jesus Christ, will you not.
be willing to help others."
Mrs. Eddy Describes Work
Mrs. Katherine Willard Eddy, active
executive for the Foreign Department,
Uso gave a short sketch of Grace
Coppock's life in China. "If you had
been in China today the only woman
you would have seen driving a car
would have been Grace Coppock. It is
hard to drive there on account of the
narrow streets, which are so crowded
with people. She was one of the first
secretaries to go to China. When she
landed 6he studied the language for
about three years, then went into sec
retarial work. She has since been ap
pointed national secretary for all
China. Miss Coppock has the. loyalty
of every one of the fifty secretaries in
the country because of her spirit and
wisdom. The Chinese women she
orks with are very fond of her. She
Is the moving spirit in that organiza
tion which will reach the very ends of
. the Orient.
. "I am glad the dollar sign Is passing
out of some people's minds. Since the
ar a number of individuals have en-
. tirely forgotten the money side of life.
There is no beter Investment than in
these Chinese girls.
"The life of the Chinese women is
very monotonous- There is nothing to
do but gamble. Many of them do vol
know how to read and have no books.
They are waiting until this organiza
tion comes to give them help. All the
local organizations are enthusiastlcal
'y supported by the busines men of
China. Wei only support the Ameri
can secretaries."
, The Temple was etfeetlvery deco
cted with fin. AH the officer for
the Grace Coppock campaign sat on
toe Platform Ruth Hutton presided
during the meting and Introduced the
Makers. The committee will start
inciting on the campus Thursday
horning.
UNIFORMS TO BE ISSUED '
ru K. o. T. C. UNIT SOON
Tho equipment for the R. O. T. C.
unit has practically all arrived and
is being issued to the men. Rifles
were Issued last Monday night at
drill hour to the battalion at the city
campus, and uniforms will be given
out as soon as possible.
The competitive drill for the Work
Izer rifles is being held this week at
the farm campus, and In a few days
that crack organization will be on a
working basis and preparing for the
big drill against the Pershing rifles.
SILVER SERPENTS WILL
GIVE CIRCUS SATURDAY
Entertain For All Junior and
Sophomore Girls in Uni
versity Gymnasium.
"The World's Famous Circus,' the
greatest production of Its kind, will be
held In the big gym of the Armory
between the hours of three and five
next Saturday afternoon, April 12, by
the Silver Serpents for all Junior and
Rophomore girls. This is something
new in the University of Nebraska,
but all attractions are guaranteed to
excel the best In the good old circus
that students knew In their younger
days, for as performers the junior and
sophomore girls are said to far sur
pass any professionals.
The first thing o greet the eyes of
the guests will oe a huge parade
headed by a band, and including all
sorts of animals, clowns, acrobats,
chariot racers, tight-rope walkers, a
strong man, a faJadjrf a skeleton, fol
lowed by ail theTidVshow troupes In
the circus revealing before the eyes of
the spectators practically everything
included in the wonders of the world.
Among the side-show attractions
will be Martha Hellner's trained grass
hoppers, an Indian snake-charmer, the
only Bavarian red lynx In captivity, a
living skeleton, a fat lady, Lorene
Hendricks Hula Maidens, Irene Cul
len's "Knock - down- the- nigger- baby"
booth, a fortune-teller, the most beau
tiful lady in the world, the real beard
ed lady, May Stunner's trained ani
mals, with roller-skating bears, an
East Indian elephant, some of the
nearly extinct American buffaloes and
some whistling birds.
Refreshments will be served during
the afternoon's fun, and perhaps some
of the good old pink circus lemonade
may be found to quench the thirst of
the guests.
An admission fee of ten cents will
be charged at the door.
STEPS TAKEN TO BETTER
Ulil TELEPHONE SERVICE
Dean O. J. Ferguson has devised a
scheme by which statistics may be
found to determine the extent to
which the present university telephone
Bystem must be remodeled. Mimeo
graphed sheets of paper slgnfed by
Chancellor Avery have been issued to
the users of university telephones.
The improvement of the service is the
primary object of these sheets. Three
points are made plain to the reader:
(1) "In studying the present con
ditions of telephone service upon both
the city campus and farm campus
having in mtod the betterment and
probable growth of the service, it be
comes necessary for us to count for
one week all calls originating . upon
our system.
(2) "Will you, therefore, place the
attached form where it will be seen
by all users of your telephone, instruct.
ing them to record every out-oomfl
Jl from your telephone by placing
thereon for each call completed a
Uily mark in the proper row and
M-e no recoH of Incoming
calls.
(i) "At the end of the week, re
turn this-tally sheet to Prof. Fergus
M. 208. City Campus. Any q.e. km
arising as to interpretation of this
.Continued n Pa Four)
V.A.A. TO CONDUCT
A SPORTS CONTEST
Annual Minor Sports Contest of
Woman's Athletic Association
Thursday Afternoon.
Program Includes Individual Aes
thetic Dancing Twenty Girls
to Take Part.
The annual Minor Sports Contest
of the Woman's Athletic Association
will take place Thursday afternoon,
April 10, at 3 o'clock in the Temple
theater. The program will Include
individual aesthetic dancing, group
and toe dancing, and Indian club
swinging.
Twenty girls will take part In the
different events of the contest. The
following program will be given:
Technique All dancing contestants.
Club Swinging Helen Hewett.
Pompian Flower Giil Dance Ro
man, Stidworthy, Girard, Maloney,
Breese.
Mistress Mary Genevieve Loeb.
Club Swinging Marjorie Barstow.
Bedoiun Daughter of the Desert
Donna Gustin.
Club Swinging Irene Springer.
The Flatterer Dorothy Woodard.
Club Swinging Elizabeth Rose.
Jack and Jill Mary Shepshrdlu
Jack and Jill Ruth and Ruby
Swensen.
Club Swinging Mary Shepherd.
The Dance of hte Tulips Ruth Du-
Bols.
Club Swinging Gertrude Desau
telle.
Ferla Helena-Clark.
A Breath of Spring Marjorie Bar-
stow.
Swings Awakening Kohl, Girardi,
Maloney, Breese Stidworthy, Lindsey
Judges
Clug Swinging
Miss Nell Miller.
Mrs. Adelloyd Williams. .
Miss Josophine Gordon.
Dancing
Miss Eloise HilL
Miss Pleasant Holyoke.
Mrs. Carl Rohman.
Patronesses
Mrs. P. H. Grummann.
Miss Margaret McPhee.
Miss Louise Pound.
Mrs. J. N. Girard.
Miss Amanda Heppner.
Mrs. R. G. Clapp.
Mrs. T. J Doyle
Mrs. S. Avery.
Mrs. A. L. Beghtol.
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CHATBURN PREPAK
AN INTERESTING PAPER
Professor George R. Chatburn of
the engineering department, former
president of the Society for the Pro
motion of Engineering Education in
1917. is now preparing an interesting
paper on "The' Survey of Its Past
and a Reconnaisance of Its Future."
This paper will be read before the
next meeting of the society which will
be held from June 25th to the 28th
at Baltimore.
This meeting will commemorate the
twenty-sixth anniversary of the so
ciety, which was founded the year of
the Chicago Exposition in 1893. Dur
ing these years the membership has
increased from a bare 70, to over
1.400. Each college with an engineer
ing department is allowed to take out
one membership for the institution
il-if. and lhe are called institution
membres. The number of members
at Nebraska, including practicing en
gineers and college professors, is 14,
crrludine her institution membership.
The largest number of members come
from tha eMers states, and Ecstoa
and New York alone have over 100
each. .
tm rear's meeting held at Balti
more will be under the auspices of
Johns Hopkins University. Proressor
(Continued on Tare Poor)
PROFESSOR JONES TALKS
ON BOLSHEVIK MOVEMENT
The address given by Professor
Guernsey Jones on the movement of
Bolshevism was greatly appreciated
by the. University men of Omaha.
They are eager to keep in close touch
with the University of Nebraska and
welcome all speakers and visitors from
here at the University Club.
WALTER CAMPBELL WRITES
OF ATHLETIC POSSIBILITIES
Former .Cornhusker Sends Inter
esting Letter and Clippings
to Dr. Clapp.
Lieutenant Walter Campbell, assist
ant physical director 1916-17, writes
the following letter from France.
Lieut. Campbell's resignation started
the troubles of the physical education
department. He entered the "Y
work at the close of the school year
in '17. His successor, Mr. Sedlak, gave
up his university work in the winter
of 17 and went to France with the
Czecho-Slovak division. Hugo Otou
palik then took up the work, but joined
Base Hospital No. 49 in the spring.
The following letter from Lieutenant
Campbell and a few clippings from a
French newspaper gives a little in
sight into the athletic activities of
the A. E. F.
Headquarters
Camp Bassens , No. 4,
A. P. O. 705, France.
Dr. R. G. Clapp,
UnL-Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska
March 22,. 1919.
Dear Mr. Clapp: I thought you
would be interested to know what had
become of me.
I enlisted at Cody, leaving the Y. M.
C. A., and after a time I was put in
charge of the physical training of the
division, but specializing on casual
men.
When we reached Camp Dix in Sept
I was commissioned and assigned to
the 109th Ammunition Train.
The armistice was signed about
three weeks after we arrived and then
the athletic work began in earnest.
I was made Athletic Officer of Camp
de Souge and conducted a very suc
cessful track meet Thanksgiving Day.
Our Train was loaned to the Motor
Transport Corps and moved to Bas
sens. Our work consisted of taking
convoys of trucks overland td Dijon.
In that way we saw a good deal of
France excepting the area of opera
tions. .
They have appointed a number of
officers to do nothing but promote
athletics, and I have been assigned to
Bassens District with ten camps to
look after. .
We are doing much to keep the boys
active and to keep them from thinking
too much about home. The great cry
is "When are we going home?"
I have been recommended to offici
ate in the A. E. F. championships and
I want to stay for the Olympics, then
visit Italy before going home.
This war has done & lot for our
boys and I believe the country appre
ciates more than ever the need of
physical training for alL
We are getting as much rain in this
country as we got sand in Cody and it
is hindering our baseball plans. How
ever, my team won the opening game
in the big league last Sunday.
I hope all Is well with you and Ne
braska University.
With kind regards to Mrs. Clapp, I
remain.
Sincerely yours,
WALTER CAMPBELL.
Basket Ball at Bassens
On Tuesday afternoon, at the Bas
sens Y. M. C. A, the second series of
the camp basketball league were
played under ther direction of the
area Athletic Officer, Lieutenant Wal
ter Campbell.
The Camp Huntington team, appear
ing for the first time on the Bassens
floor, was defeated by the 113th Sup
ply, with a score of 35 to 0. The Re
frigerating Plant, who had won by for
fCoptlnoed n Far Fourl
TWENTY-ONE ENTER
WRESTLING TOURNEY
Entry Is Largest in History of
Tournament Preliminaries
to Be Seven Minutes.
Winners to Be Picked After First
Bout Troendly and Fuchs
Withdraw.
The entries for the annual wrest
ling tournament in the Armory to
night are all In and when the men
have weighed in all will be in readi
ness for the referee's whistle at 8
o'clock. This year's entry list of 21
is the largest in the history of the
tournament and the spectators will
be treated to some fast scraps. Ring
side seats will retail for 25 cents.
According to the present plans all
the bouts will be fought on one mat.
The preliminary rounds will last
seven minutes. The winners in the
prelims will be picked after the first
bout A fall or referee's decision will
decide the victor, but if the match
is a draw the pair will have to lock
for another round. If the great num
ber of the opening bouts crowd the
one mat, another will be added and
two matches will be staged at the
same time. The finals will be set
tled by three five minute rounds. If
no decision has been reached after
these three, two extra three minute
periods will be added. The choice
of position being split fifty-fifty.
Letter Men Withdraw
The two letter men on the squad,
Captain Troendly, and "Rudy" Fuchs,
have voluntarily withdrawn from the
tournament Both have won wrest
ling letters and decided to stay out
and leave their classes open to the
new men.
The tournament 6tarts promptly at
8 o'clock and about 125 ringside seats
will be available. Dr. Clapp, Troend
ly and Fuchs will referee.
The Entries
125-lb. class None.
135-lb. class
Salter,
Weaver, A.,
Ingham, L. W.
145-lb. class
Walsh, M. R..
Wertz, J. C.
Morrill, A. D.,
Burley. J. S. "
Brock, Q-. D.
158-lb. class
Stewart S. D.,
Andrews,
Sandstedt R- M.,
Sandstedt A. E.,
Bates, G. E.
175-lb. class
Baskin, R. P.,
Perry, II. P.,
Pickwell, G. B.,
Dobson, P.,
Zollars, A. D.,
Munn, W.
Heavyweight
Munn, Monte,
Pucelik, L. J.
CONVOCATION
TEMPLE THEATER
11 a. rr..
The Kilties, a division of the Mili
tary Allied Band, will give the con
vocation program this morning at 11
o'clock in Memorial HalL They will
appear In costume. The band la com
posed of veterans of the recent war.
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