The Daily nebraskan
VOL XVIII. NO. 130.
LINCOLN, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CETVCS
OMAHA DAY CALLED
SCHOOL TRADITION
University Students in Previous
Tears Have Visited Industries
of Metropolis.
'Nebraska Buffet Luncheon" a
Feature of Occasion Enter,
tainment Provided. .
Omaha Day was founded in order
that university students might be able
to visit Nebraska's largest city, and
acquaint themselves with the city's
commercial and Industrial activities.
The trip gives the student a good con
ception of metropolitan life and formu
lates a closer "relation between Omaha
and the university. The visit has in
the past been oT a great educational
value to university students and those
making the trip have declared the
time spoilt ta be worth while.
In 1916 Omaha Day was under the
able management of Mr. E. V. Parish,
publicity manager of the Omaha Com
mercial Club. A special train was
chartered on the Burlington railroad
which left the city at 7:40 in the
morning arriving in the Gate city at
nine o'clock. Each department has
followed definitely arranged schedule
while in Oniaha. Among the depart
ments following especially prepared
itineraries have been the chemistry de
partment, pharmacy classes, home
economics, journalism, art, law, en
gineers, farm management, geography
and conservation instructional agron
omy, dairy husbandry, electrical en
gineering, horticulture and commerce.
No Dull Moments
The student on arriving in Omaha
have always experienced a warm re
ception by members of the Commer
cial club and the Omaha cadet band
which headed' the procession for the
municipal auditorium where the ac
tivities of the day were outlined.
Heretofore a buffet luncheon has been
served at the auditorium by the cour
tesy of the Omaha jobbers and manu
facturers. A wide variety of places of interest
is offered to the students who have
made the trip. The journalism classes
have visited the big daily papers and
engraving concerns. Drug companies
known the world over have been taken
in by the pharmacy group. The Lin-
. inger Art gallery has proven to be a
popular place. The public library,
some of Omaha's finest private resi
dences,, the grain exchange, the M. E.
Smith factory, the Iten Biscuit com
pany, the Skinner Manufacturing con
cern, the creameries, the packing
houses, the banks and department
stores are only a few places that have
been visited by the various groups.
BATTLE TANK HERE FRIDAY
Real War Machine to Be in Lin
coln in Liberty Loan
Interests.
The people of many sections of
Nebraska will have an opportunity
to see one of the tanks that were used
exectively by the Americans and their
Allies in forcing the Germans to sur
render. Twelve of these tanks have been
8ent out from Kansas City by the
Publicity department of the Victory
Liberty Loaa organization to assist in
the Loan campaign that is to start
April 21. The routes have been so
tapped out that it will be possible
for the twelve tanks to cover .the
ireater part of the Tenth Federal
Reserve District in the time allotted.
ne of these tanks will be in Lincoln
Friday and remain until Tuesday, so
016 people hero at homo may havo aa
opportunity to see the real machine
'bout which the boys over there have
writing about The tank will be
banned by tank corpsmen who have
n active service in France.
In no other wr since the dawn of
""ontlntied on Pore Three)
UNIFORMS ISSUED TO
R. 0. T. C. UNIT MEMBERS
The quartermaster department has
lHsued, about 250 uniforms to the men
of the R. O. T. C. unit on the city
campus. Dlouses. shirts
1 w v ft Of
leggings and hats have been given
out. Shoes are to be issued an nrtnn
as they arrive. The new U. S. armv
1917 model Lee-Enfield rifles are ex
pected to arrive soon, and will be
given out In place of the old Krags
being used at present.
Captain Frankforter states that a
new order has been issued regarding
the wearing of the uniform by dis
charged soldiers. Any discharged sol
dier or officer who does not wear the
red discharge chevron is liable to a
fine of $300, six months imprisonment,
or both. The chevron is to be worn
point up, midway between the elbow
and shoulder on the sleeve of blouse,
shirt and coat.
BOOK SALES CAMPAIGN
STARTS IN FULL SWING
Fifty Girls Will Sell Volumes
on Campus for Fifty
Cents.
The sale of the semi-centennial
books begins early this morning. The
fifty girls who are to take subscrip
tions for these, must call at the Stu
dent Activities office as soon as pos
sible. This book will be a brief his
tory of the University of Nebraska.
It will portray the early life of
the university and give interesting
sketches of the organizations and
great men who have been graduated
from this institution. The copies are
imited so every student should try to
subscribe today.
The students will value these semi
centennial books more as the years go
by since there will be no other book
published again for another fifty years.
They will sell for only fifty cents and
are well worth more. The following
girls will take subscriptions:
Mabel Conrad
Doris Cole
Mary Helen Dayton
Patricia Maloney
Marian Hendee
Genevieve Loeb
Carolyn Reed
Marian Hompes
Elizabeth Scribner
Genevieve Addleman
Dorothy Hippie
Miss Louise Pound
True Jack
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Phi Delt Exchequer
Depleted By Robbers
Sneek thieves reaped a bumper har
vest early Tuesday morning when
they entered the Phi Delt house, ran
sacked the strong boxes, and a reward
for their labors carried off about $100.
The rebbers entered the front door
which was unlocked, ascended the
stairs and started operations for their
successful haul. The uninvited guests
became frightened by the arrival of
one of the occupants of the house and
fled via the back door. The robbers
were given a merry chase for a few
blocks who escaped from the clutches
of their pursuer by climbing fences.
The police were notified but no trace
of the culprits has been found.
CONVOCATION
Mrti,er. head of the Molzer
Violin School and an accredited teach
er of music in the School of Fine Arts,
... a violin recital for the con-
Thursday morning m -
La Rue Moore Shire will accompany
him on the piano.
The program follows.
Sarabanda e Giga. corem-.""-
Sa Tschalkowsky-Molzer
Romania -Tscna
Sche? Tschalkowsky-Elman
Chanson d amour
From the i-aneui -
TRUE JACK WILL BE
NEW W.S.6.A. HEAD
Fae Breese, Mary Brownell, Kath-
erine Wills Chosen Officers
of Association.
Three Girls Elected Wednesday
from Each Class for Board
Members.
True Jack was elected president of
the W. S. G. A. at the board elections
held Tuesda yand Wednesday.
Fae Breese who received the next
highest number of votes among the
juniors will be the new vice-president.
Mary Brownell was chosen for sec
retary from the sophomores and
Katharine Wills from the freshmen
was elected treasurer.
The ballot was composed from the
preliminary elections held Wednesday,
April 9, when eight juniors and fresh
men and seven sophomores were nomi
nated. The board members chosen
from this list follow:
Juniors
Helen Fisher
Helen Giltner
Martha Hellner
Sophomores
Marjorie Barstow
Doris Hostetter
Ruth Lindsay
Freshmen -
Lucile Andrews
Dorothy Pierce
Betty Scribner.
KOSMET KlUB
RENEWS OEFER
FOR GOOD PLAY
The one hundred dollar prize offered
by the Kosmet Klub for an acceptable
play written by any person connected
with the university still holds good.
At a meeting last night of the play
committee composed of Herman
Thomas, Lawrence Shaw and Alex
Krause, the decision was reached to
renew the offer made some time ago,
Students are urged to submit plays be
fore the end of the school year or to
work on them in the summer months.
The play must be adaptable for a
musical comedy. It will be presented
early next fall.
While the club regretted the post
ponement of their play this year, such
action was necessitated' by the short
time left after the readjustment of
school affairs for the second semester.
They deemed it unwise to attempt the
production without the assurance of
liberal time and enough material to
maintain the standard of Kosmet
plays.
The Student Should Know
THE STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
Wthat are the Student Volunteers?
Is it a new society in the University?
These ara some of the questions asked
concerning this organization. It is
not a new" society. It was founded in
1915 by some earnest Y. W. C. A. and
Y. M. C. A. workers. Its purpose is
to interest students in foreign mis
sionary' work to help those Interested
to obtain more knowledge of the work.
to help support those already In the
field, and to train its members for fu
ture service There are twelve mem
bers this year. They are Nelda Grove,
nresident: Walter Judd. vice-presi
dent: Harris Hi'scher. secretary; Wil
liam F. Urbach, Ralph Boyd, Frances
Mavnard. Bertha Pier. Miriam Pool.
Lawrence Bratt, Mary Bratt, Paul
Thomas and Miss Baker.
Their meetings are held together
every two weeks. Some country or
htem is taken up for discussion.
On the alternate weeks the men and
women hold their meetings separately.
Another phase of their work Is to
speak before the different young peo
ples "church eocitles, covering their
work.
SIGMA NU DELEGATES
TO ASSEMBLE TODAY
Delegates of the Tenth District of
the Sigma Nu fraternity will convene
in Lincoln, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of this week. Men from
Ames, Minnesota and Iowa universi
ties will attend the convention. This
Is the first biennial convention of the
fraternity to be held at Nebraska since
1912 when delegates from six univer
sities were present.
Mr. Edwin Dunlavy, general secre
tary of the fraternity and editor of
the monthly publication; William Ran?
dall, '12, of Omaha, division inspector,
and Ernest Kenny, ex-14, of Lincoln,
chapter advisor, will, be the chief
speakers of the convention. The an
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nual banquet of the local chapter will
be held Saturday evening.
EX-HUSKER IS ENGINEER
OF CAR SHOP IN FRANCE
George W. Nigh, '14, on Foreign
Soil Sixteen Months Writes
Dean Stout.
Lieutenant George W. Night, M. E,
'14, 21st Grand Division, T. C. A. E. F.,
Camp Pullman, La Rochelle, France,
writes a very interesting letter to
Dean O. V. P. Stout. He writes:
March 22, 1919.
"If all alumni and students were
as lax as. I in keeping the university
informed as to my whereabouts and
what I am doing, the records would
be very Incomplete. But in spite of
my silence, I have received the
Alumni Journal as usual. And you
can imagine how thoroly the Honor
Roll was examined to see how many
fellow Cornhuskers might be in my
vicinity. Unfortunately I found none.
I have been in France for sixteen
months and so far have not met a
single man I knew before.
"Just a little resume of what I
have had to do over here: You have
no doubt heard of the 35th Engineers,
who built all the American cars in
France. I came over with the first
battalion in the winter of '17. Our
shop site was bare all we had were
a few proposed layouts from the
Standard Steel Car Company. I was
assigned to special duty under Major
Douglas, the master mechanic, and
did the mechanical engineering work
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Last Year's Bird Nests
One of the most useful things In a
college community is a bulletin board.
Likewise, one of the most useless
things anywhere is the notice of some
affair which has already taken place.
Such posters can be compared useful
ness (or uselessness) to a last year's
bird nest and yet they are left on our
bulletin boards for weeks at a time.
The results of these conditions is that
no one uses the bulletin boards as
much as they would if all notices
referred to coming events.
In some schools a fine sum of money
s charged to Individuals or organi
zations who abuse the bulletin boardl
privileges, and in other places they
are deprived of the right to post any
notices whatever after a few offences.
is possible that the matter has not
been thought of in this light before,
and that this sure warning will be
sufficient to secure systematic removal
of notices; If it falls, a refusal of the
use of the boards in quetsion should
be Imposed upon the offenders. Ex.
SENIORS MUST ORDER
INVITATIONS AT ONCE
Invitations complete with list of
graduates," and Commencement pro
gram are on sale at the Library be
tween 10-12 and 1-3 dally. Orders will
be taken until four p. m. Friday, on a
cash basis.
Leather invitations 40c
Cardboard Invitations 20c
Announcements c
STUDENTS 111 FAVOR
OF MASS ATHLETICS
University of Ohio Adopts Intra
mural System in Her Annual
Track Meet.
Every One Is Eligible Faculty
and Freshment Excluding
All Letter Men.
The mass athletic idea which is tak
ing hold of American colleges is not
confined to any one section of the
country. The big all university track
tournament of last Saturday was the
outcome of Coach Stewart's efforts In
this direction. The following clipping
from the Ohio State Lantern shows
the wholesale manner in which Ohio
and Michigan have tackled the propo
sition. "Three thousand or bust," "100 per
cent University," "Every man in the
school entered" these and many
more will be the slogans hurled at
the student body in the effort to make
the mass athletic meet, to be held on
the campus May 16-23, the biggest
thing which has ever occurred on the
campus.
"Michigan expects 1500 men out, but
Buckeye officials are after every man
in the University who can walk or
smoke. Everyone is eligible faculty,
freshmen and the rest of the student
body, excluding men who have won a
college athletic letter. Eight days
preceding the "Big Six" meet have
been chosen for the contest, which will
be taking place at every other West
ern Conference university at the same
time. A championship, or rather a
series of championships, will be de
cided in these meets. Ohio State has
never had much material In track
work, and here is a chance for the
University to win its first track cham
pionship. It is the first meet of its
kind and it behooves every man to get
behind and do his bit in putting the
Scarlet and Gray on top.
An Intramural Meet
"The meet will be the annual Intra
mural track meet at the same time
with the points counting for college,,
fraternity, class and boarding-club
championships. The system of scor
ing to be used will give a man's points
to his college, class, fraternity or
boarding club, as well as to the Uni
versity in each event in which he com
petes. "In the Western Conference cham
pionships a victory will be won by the
school having the best 200 men in
each separate event as well as an all
around championship for the all-event
records.
"In addition to the events in the canr
ference meet, which are the 100-yard
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HAROLD LONG MAKES
UNI NIGHT REPORT
1,493 Paid Admission to See
Annual Funfest at City
Auditorium.
The chairman of the University
Night Committee submits the follow
ing report:
Ninth Annual University Night
City Aduitorlum, March 8, 1919
Comps to casts, Y. M.
Paid admissions 1,498
C. A. cabinet, etc 208
Total attendance 1,706
,498 admissions at $.25
$374.50
Rent of auditorium. $100.00
Tax on auditorium.-. 15.00
Tax on 1.706 seats 51.18
Crancer's piano 6.00
Star Van Co. chairs.. 2.64
Globe Delivery Co.....,:.. 2.00
Carter Transfer 2.25
Orchestra and lights... 42.00
Stage hands and scene
rent CV1 50
Janitor 5.00
Ushers - 10 00
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