T II E D A I h Y NEBRASKA
The Daily Nebraskan
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3aylord Davis Editor-in-Chief
Howard Murfln Managing Editor
Jack Landale News Editor
Le Ross Hammond New Editor
Ruth Snyder Associate Editor
Kenneth McCandless Sports Editor
Genevieve Loeb Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
31en II. Gardner..
Roy Wythers
..Business Manager
.....Assistant Business Manager
Patricia Maloney
Story Harding
Julia Mockett
Sidney Stewart
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Gayle Vincent Grubb
Sadie B. Finch
Oswald Black
Thad C. Epps
Marian Henninger
Margaret Ratcliffe
Ruth Wachter
Edith Howe
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News Editor
JACK LANDALE
For This Issue
NEBRASKA TAKES SECOND
The stellar work of the Cornhusker relay team at Pennsylvania
is a source of supreme gratification. In the face of the country's
strongest opposition and on a foreign field, the team made a most
admirable showing. The time made by the University of Penn
sylvania (3:35) was nine seconds slower than the Nebraska team ran
the mile at Drake a week ago. The remarkable performance of
McMahon in the final heat of the race brought Nebraska within the
nearest fraction of winning the race, in what the sport writers termed
a "heartbreaking finish." We should all feel that the contribution
which sent the team to the east were exceedingly well spent
The work of the relay team at Pennsylvania is only the beginning
of what is destined to be an era of Cornhusker dominance of the
track. Prospects for a team of national champions for next year are
exceedingly bright Three men on the relay team are comparatively
new at the track game, and will take the field as veterans next year.
Fuchs is the only man on the team that graduates this year. It is
probable that Finney will be back next year to run the hurdles, and
sport critics concede him to be the equal of any hurdler in the
country. Dales will work with the weights; Graff will be eligible
for the long distances; and other men who have been out of school
for a year or so will be back to "do their bit" As in football and
basketball, the prospects for track next year are exceedingly prom
ising, and the year 1919-1920 is certain to be one of crowning glory
for Nebraska athletics.
ONE THOUSAND TO OMAHA
Plans are rapidly materializing for the excursion to Omaha on
Friday. Itineraries are being mapped out by the committee to fit
the inclinations of all classes of students. Whatever may be the
special hobby of the student, he will find places outlined on one or
more of the groups that will be of particular interest to him in his
line of work. Agriculture students will visit the packing houses and
the stock yards, medics will visit the new University Hospital, engi
neers will be interested in the Union Pacific shops, the Smelter,
Power Station, etc., art students in the LIninger gallery and the
Dietr Joslyn-Kountz collections, commerce students in the exchange,
banks and wholesale district, journalists in the three principal news
paper offices, chemists in the Smelter, manufacturing chemical works,
and art glass factories. In fact there is no group of students in
the entire university that will not find some place of interest in Om
aha that will be of special educational value to him in his college
work.
The moment students arrive in Omaha, they will become the
guests of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce and will remain so for
the rest of the day and evening. The expense of the trip may be
cut to the minimum of $3.56 for train fare, and beyond this, students
may spend as much os as little as they please. Financial considera
tions need bother no student who Is willing to forego the pleasure
of a few movies. If we "turn out" with a delegation of a thousand
students the trip will be the means of helping to bring the university
and Omaha Into a closer relationship than the two have enjoyed in
the past. Instead of knocking the university as some Omahans have
done in the past, they may, perhaps, change their tune, and become
boosters for Nebraska. Now that we have decided to make the trip,
we should go into the thing with all our heart and "put it across" in
fine style. A thousand students will make a good showing.
MASS ATHLETICS
Mass athletics as originated and put into competitive athletics
contests by Bob Zuppke, Illinois football coach, has met with an un
heralded welcome by athletic coaches throughout the country and
the universities are adopting bis plan as being more beneficial than
the usual "survival of the fittest" as our basketball, track, baseball
and other minor athletic, teams demand in their formation as repre
sentatives of their respective schools.
It seems that this innovation of mass athletics is an advance
agent of the more liberal athletic policy to b-come universally
adopted in the near future. In the past and still at the present t'ne
the big aim of university athletics has been the producing of winning
teams, disregarding at the time the shadowing of other things just as
essential and beneficial. To admit defeat is un-American. To lose
to another university is a violation of university spirit as Inculcated
and expostulated by the loyal student of the university. In any
thing, chess, bridge, politics, and organization pride, the idea is that
the goal must be won, if not through fair means, then by foul means.
Zuppke and other prominent coaches say It Isn't and thus has
rnmo into prominonr the mass athletics Idea. It snrr ArnA
on whether the institutions of the country want to be represented
by the "masses" or by the "few."
The Big Ten schools are testing this advanced theory May 17-24
and Purdue will gl.e its approval or disapproval at that time. Every
body can benefit by mass athletics if be so desires. Purdue Exponent
NEBRASKA PROFESSORS
CO-OPERATE IN STATE
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT
(Cout timed from l'ge One)
state. The survey has Issued over 300
pages of reports on the various kinds
of road materials In Nebraska. Their
work has perhaps been the most com
plete and satisfying of any accom
plished in this country. Dr. George
E. Condra, of the department of geog
raphy and conservation, Is chairman
of the state advisory highway board,
and has been an ardent supporter of
good roads and their significance.
This board has charge of the naming,
routing and marking of all highways
in, Nebraska.
Chancellor Avery has been one of
the most enthusiastic of road workers
in the entire state. While In Washing
ton working for the government he
was greatly impressed with the all
year roads of the eastern states, and
determined then that Nebraska's
seventy-five miles of paved roads
should be Increased. After the Chan
cellor returned from Washington he
was still enthusiastic and talked with
Secretary Whitten of the Lincoln Com
mercial-Club, in regard to new and
improved highways. As a result of
this activity, the Pershing Historic ,
Route was organized, the name being
suggested by the Chancellor. When
this new organization held its initial
inter-state meeting at the Lincoln
Hotel, Chancellor Avery was made
temporary chairman, but declined to
accept this as a permanent honor.
The Pershing Route will be trans
continental and will connect New York
and San Francisco. From New York
it will pass through Ohio and the j
middle-southerly states and will be j
routed through Laclede, Missouri, the
birthplace of Pershing, and then
through Lincoln, where his home still
stands and where he was formerly
commandant at the university. The
leading cities of the United States will
be traversed by the highway, and it
will be marked with permanent struc
tures, receiving the same prominence
that the Lincoln Highway has received
in the past
Many university professors have
also been interested in the establish
ment of this coast-to-coast road, with
a name of such unusual significance
at this time. Dr. Condra is chairman
of the committee on routing. Professor
Chase on marking, and Professor
Chatburn on construction and by-laws.
A large number of university graduates
have had charge of the roads already
completed.
Lincoln is also chosen as the meet
ing place for the officers of the new
Cornhusker route, named in recog
nition of the Nebraska State Univer-
Ity. Chancellor Avery and Dr. Condra
will represent the school at this meet
ing. The Cornhusker route extends
from Sioux City, Iowa, to Marysville,
Kansas, where It connects with the
Blue Line to Manhattan and Camp
Funston.
Another factor in the close connec
tion between the university and good
roads is the attitude which the regents
have taken on this matter. They are
unanimously in sympathy with the
movement, and heartily co-operate
with every worthy move which is
made to further this end.
ORPHEUM THEATRE W" MONDAY' APRIL 28
The Blaaest Show of the Season
CHARLES DILLINGHAM'S GIGANTIC MUSICAL COMEDY
CHIN-CHIN
With WALTER WILLS and ROY BINDER
Comoany of 65 Mostly Girls Clown Saxophone Band
"Chin Chin" has a name of magic music that Is sorcery nifty
Chinese maldMandarlns-CoolleBear Are.l circus
. Grotesaue dancing a' plenty.
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Makers, at the Orpheum. Tuesday, Matinee and Xight.
With Lots of Resourcefulness,
initiative, determination, and hard work in their
system can make 5500.00 with us this summer.
Write P. O. Box 237. Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Mr. Watkins, a U. of X. graduate of
'C'9, who now has charge of all pub
licity matter for the automobile or
ganizations of California, was very
prominent in organizing the Pershing
Highway. Forty-three millions will be
spent on California roads this year.
Among other former Nebraska men
who are prominent in road work is Mr.
Kobrns, formerly of Tekamah, but now
road booster for Salt Lake City. It is
almost a complete evolution, when we
see that the university has not only
helped to make good roads stand as
they do in our own state, but in many
of the other parts of the Union as well.
The cooperation has been one of
united action and good will, rather
than action by only a few individuals,
and Nebraska is now looking forward
as a consequence to a bright future
and a new era in road construction.
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