The Daily Nebra
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L1NVOLN. NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1019.
PRICK FIVE CENTS
VOL. XVI 1 1. No. 14:1.
CODE BILL INSURES
AGAItlSr NEGLIGENCE
State Senator Peterson Tells Po
litical Science Class That It
Makes Responsibility.
Creates Six New Administrative
Departments Under One Head
No Change in Salaries.
Monday morning. May 5th, Senator
C. Petrus Teterson spoke to the mem
"hers of Professor SennlnR's eight
o"clock Political Science class on the
Civil Administrative Code Bill. Sena
tor PeterFon Is widely known in Lin
coln and throughout the state because
of his close connection with civic and
political problems. He has served the
state admirably for many years and
has been state senator during the last
two sessions of the state legislature.
The code bill creates six absolutely
new administrative departments un
der one responsible head, but there
will be no material change in salaries.
The secretaries of each department
will each receive $5,000 per annum.
Senator Peterson said, in part:
"The administrative officials and
departments as now organized are not
responsible to any one definite head,
nor are they responsible to one an
other. The insurance and banking
boards are the real executives in Ne
braska, because, in truth, the gov
ernor is behind them in all that they
do or say. There is a marked lack
of co-ordination of energies. This
would in time lead to a complete lack
of any responsibility.
"If the man in charge of state
".tanks acts unfavorably to certain in
terests in the state and he is appealed
to. he usually says: 'If 5 d01'1 ,ike
like my work, you perhaps had better
see my superiors' (the banking
board, composed usually of the gov
ernor, attorney general and another
executive official.) The meeting of
this board is as indefinite as the re
sponsibility of the board.
Locates Responsibility
"Have we, the people of Nebraska,
enacted as many remedies to existing
state legislation as the constitution
permits? The Civil Administrative
Code Bill locates responsibility, as
suring great efficiency out of the
remedies the state has already made.
It will also strengthen the financial
system of the state, although the pow
er over taxation has been more or
lss flustraled.
"The greatest opposition to the
theory of the code bill, is that it places
undue concentration of power in the
hands of the governor. There are
two movements afoot throughout the
United States in regard to this: first,
that which tends toward pure de
mocracy through the initiative, ref-
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UNIVERSITY BLAIR CLUB
. HOST TO HOME SENIORS
The members of the University
Blair Club entertained the Blair high
school senior pupils at a banquet
Saturday evening, May 3.
The main purpose of the banquet
was to create Interest in behalf of the
state university. Miss Myrtle Jensen
acted as toastmistress and the follow
ing responded to toasts:
Allen Andersen. "University Tradi
tions;" Burt Williams. "The Univer
sity Blair Club;" and Dorothea Hede
lund. "1919's Goal." Professor B. H.
Barbour of the university gave a lec
ture, illustrating it with colored slides,
of the campus.
Besides the thirty-two seniors who
attended, tie present university stu
dents at the event were: Misses
Myrtle Jensen. Helen Cook. Eleanor
Nelson. Messrs. Allen Anderson. Coy
States. Kenneth Ross. Jack CarnKi.
and Mr. and Mrs. Burt Williams.
University alumni were Miss Fern
Bentr. Mable Johnson. Faye Fawcett
and France Underwood. Mr. and Mrs.
C. DibeL Messrs. Howard Jensen. Al
bert Miller, and Myron Myers. Pro
fessor and Mrs. W. H. Myers and Mr.
and Mrs. D. C. VanDuesen chaperoned.
VACATION WORK OFFERED
TO ENGINEERING MEN
The Chicago Central Station Insti
tute Is offering summer vacation work
to sophomores and juniors mho wish
to secure experience In commercial
lines. This applies particularly to
electrical engineering students. The
compensation will be from 175 to J SO
per month. For further information
students may inquire of Professor O.
J. Ferguson, to whom the letters have
been directed.
DEAH LINN SPEAKS Oil
"EDUCATIONAL FANCIES"
Noted Instructor Addresses Hon
orary Societies in Art Hall
Monday Evening.
"If I could find some one who knew
about education and had not forgotten,
it would be a boom to the world."
said James Weber Linn, dean of the
junior colleges at the University of
Chicago, in his address on "Educational
Fancies" before the Phi Beta Kappa
and Sigma Xi societies Monday even
ing in Art Hall. Dean Linn is a
nephew of Miss Jane Adams of the
Hull House. Professor Gass intro
duced the speaker.
"There is nothing about which less
is known and which is more talked
about than education. It begins in
babyhood and ends with the grave.
We are limited by a various number of
theories, in the kindergarten, the Mon
tessori. Fairhope and Dewey, and in
the vocational training, junior high
school, normal schools and colleges
by the Dewey and Fairhope. At th
University of Denver the freshmen are
permitted to take political economics
and not political sctence-"while at the
University of Chicago it is just the
opposite.
"What is education? Is it infor
mation, the training of the mind, the
training for a job or the training as a
social being? When thirteen years
old I began to study geometry and was
still taking mathematics at seventeen.
Yet I can remember nothing that I
learned during those years. Informa
tion cannot be the object of education.
"One fundamental matter in educa
tion is the training of the mind. In
exercising the intellect, the muscles of
the mind are developed. The problem
is what courses best train the mind,
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UNIVERSITY MEN STAGE
WATER CARNIVAL MONDAY
T7n Swimminc Teams Show
Class at Y .M. C. A. Tank
Yesterday.
The men's swimming team under
the leadership of Ed. Hoffman defeat
ed "Bill" Wright's team by the narrow
margin of 27 to 24 in the swimming
meet at the city Y. M. C A. pool
yesterday evening. Captain WWght
proved the best point getter of the
match by carrying away two firsts and
a third. Instructor W. D. Healy acted
as referee.
The teams were composed as fol
lows: Hoffman, captain; Richards.
Ellerbrock. Beckord, Moreanty, uiaier.
Wright, captain; Phillips. Davis,
Taylor.
The events:
20-Yard Swim
Wright, first; Richards, second;
Phillips, third.
40-Yard Swim
Wright, first; Phillips, second;
Ellerbrock, third.
Plunge for Distance
Beckord. first; Richards, second;
Ellerbrock. third.
100-Yard Swim
Hoffman, first; Davis, second; Tay
lor, third.
20-Yard Relay
Hoffman. Richards. Moreanty. Slater.
Fancy Divlnfl
Phillips, first; Hoffman, second;
Wright, third.
NEBRASKA MAY;SED
TEAM TO CAMBRIDGE
Husker Relay Men Will Go to
Harvard if Supported cy
Students.
Crinnell Springs Surprise on
Ames Locals Must Fight
Hard Saturday.
Will the relay team go to the
National Intercollegiate Track Meet at
Harvard. May 31? This question
must be decided by the student body.
The whole country now is aware that
Nebraska has a relay team, and is
wondering what It could do under
more favorable circumstances than
those encountered at Philly. Coach
Stewart has been urged by many stu
dents and business men to go to Cam
bridge and he will probably send in
entry blanks to get on the Inside this
time in case the school does send Its
big four.
Many enthusiastic co-eds have
broached the Idea of a tag day to
raise the funds. Those who contri
buted to sending the team on the last
eastern trip consider that it was a
dollar well spent and there are hun
dreds on the campus who undoubtedly
would like to feel the same way. The
team will sure go to Harvard if the
campus so desires.
Grinnell Surprises
Grinnell sprung one of the big sur
prises of the season when she wal
loped Ames last Saturday 69-57. Haas
of Grinnell who won the century dash
at the Penn relays carried off honors
in the 100 at"' the 220-yard events,
while the ban nnie race also un
expectedly helped swell the total of
the victor. The Cornhusker's waited
patiently to get the line-up on the
Grinnell speedsters as this meet would
reveal it and the result hasn't created
much joy in this vicinity.
The dopesters didn't concede Ne
braska a ghost of a show in case the
squad went to Ames and the prospect
now appears hopeless. However, the
fans who witness the dual spectacle
at Grinnell Saturday will see some
thing more than a tame, one-sided,
it's-a-shame-to-take-the-money affair.
Haas will meet some real competition
when McMahon begins to dig up the
stretch in both the hundred and the
twotwenty. On the other hand, the
Husker quartet of quarter milers fresh
from the Quaker meet will have to
earn their money in the relay. Grin
nell snatched this event handily from
the Ames artists who are a fast group.
No time was given for the events in
the press reports but Nebraska may
expect a real fight.
R.O.T.C. SUMMER CAMP
AT FUNSTON, JUNE 21
Mileage and Subsistence Given
Students Will Last Six
Weeks.
The war department of Military
Science and Tactics has received from
the War Department the notification
of the summer camps for the mem
bers of the university R. O. T. C.
The camp for the district in which
this university is included will be
established at Camp Funston. Kansas,
and will open on June 21, 1919. The
duration of the camp will be six
weeks. The attendance is limited to
only the members of the unit
Courses at the Camp Funston camp
will pertain to infantry work and will
be as follows: (a) Course for mem
bers of the Advanced course of Senior
Units; (b) Course for members of
the Basic course of Senior Units; (c)
Course for members of Junior .Units.
Mileage at the rate of three and one
half cents per mile will be paid for
the number of miles from school to
Camp Funston and, in returning, for
the number of miles from Camp Funs
ton to the home provided this latter
distance does not erceed the number
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KEEN RIVALRY WILL MARK ELECTION
FOR MEMBERS OF STUDENT COUNCIL
Polls Open in Memorial Hall To
day Between 9 and 12 and
2 to 5 O'clock.
Students Must Be Careful in
Following Instructions Be
fore Casting Ballots.
Election for members on the stu
dent council will be held today from
9 till 12 and 2 till 5 in Memorial
Hall on the city campus, and from
11 to 2 in Room 202, Agricultural
Hall at the Farm. Competition will
be very keen as all the candidates for
election have been unusually active
in school affairs and are all expected
to pull heavy votes.
The voting is more complex than
usual and it is necessary that voters
shall pay close attention to the print
ed instructions when they are cast
ing their votes. An X should be
placed after the candidate the student
is voting for. The X should be placed
in the first column if the candidate
Is first choice, in the second column
if second choice, and in the third
column if third choice. No candi
date can be marked twice. Each stu
dent has one of three preferences for
each person on the ballot Where
only one candidate is nominated for
a college or school, Xs should be
placed in the first column; where two
candidates out of three or more are
to be selected vote for two in the
first column. Others should be placed
in the second or third column ac
cording to preference.
Must Follow Instructions
In the last group where eieht can
didates out of twelve are to be elect
ed mark four men and four women
in the first column and the remainder
in the second or third column ac
cording to preference. In each group
on the entire ticket the student must
vote for as many candidates as are
to be elected from that group; if. for
example, two are to be elected and
the student marks one as first choice,
his ballot will be invalid. To make
the votes effective, students must ab
solutely follow instructions through
the ballot.
Votes should be cast early and
every printed instruction should be
.ii. A complete ballot is print
ed for the student's reference in this
issue of the Nebraskan.
KAPPA SIGS Will FIRST
ROO IN: SEMI-FINALS
Swamp Sig Alphs 10to 1 Phi
D elt-Sig" EP WilTBattle
This Afternoon.
A landslide in the sixth and seventh
innings put the Sig Alphs out of the
running for the fraternity champion
ship and brought the Kappa Sigs into
the semi-finals. No runs were scored
In the first five innings but the Kappa
Sigs found Peters for a quartet of
counters in the sixth while the Sig
Alphs counted their lone tally in this
frame. The final division netted the
victors a safe margin. Samuelson
struck out fifteen of the enemy while
Walters and Ralston were the main
run getters back of him.
Today the Sig Eps meet the Phi
Delts and tomorrow the Kappa Sigs
and the A. T. O.'s will go round' and
round in the semi-finals. The Phi
Delt-Sig Ep game will be called at
4:30 this afternoon on the M street
lot
Kappa Sigma, 10 Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, 1
Ralston ...cf Goodbrot
Linn ss Wythers
Brown Swan son
Albrect 3b -...Lear
McKinley -If Hopkins
Harbey -rf - Gish
Walters lb Shaw
Sloniger 2b .Wray
Samuelson P Peters
Score by innings:
CANDIDATES FOR TODAY'S
ELECTIONS
College of Arts and Science
Marjorlt Barstow
Olive Hartley
Ruth Lindsay
Lawrence Slater
Florence Wilcox
C. L. Christiansen
Francis Flood
Harold Long
Byron McMahon
Elmer Schellenberg
Elmer Witte
Fae Breese
Verna Buchta
Martha Hellner
Genevieve Loeb
Carolyn Reed
Ruth Sheldon
College of Engineering
Seth Taylor
College of Law
Dana Harper
Lawrence Shaw
Business of Administration
John Burley
Carl Howard
College of Agriculture
Paul Cook
Gertrude McHale
Irene Philpot
College of Pharmacy
Hans Jensen
College of Fine Arts
Melba Bradshaw
Donna Gust in
Ester McKennon
Teacher's College
Janet Maitland
Margaret Ratcliff
RECEIVES LETTERS FROM
BOYS MAKING SACRIFICE
The following letters have been re
ceived by Dean J. E. LeRossignol of
the College of Business Administra
tion, and speak only too mildly of the
sterling qualities of these former uni
versity students who lost their lives
in the great world war:
Mead, Nebraska,
May 2, 1919.
"Prof. J. E. LeRossignol.
Lincoln, Ncbr.
"Dear Sir: Your letter to H. C.
Hagelin was referred to me to answer.
Enclosed you will find a biographical
sketch of Paul's life. You may add
to or deduct from this whatever you
think best. As you undoubtedly know,
Paul worked his way through the uni
versity. He leaves his parents, three
brothers, and two sisters and a host
of friends to mourn his loss.
"If I have omitted anything you
should like to know you may call up
his sister at the Overland Co., in Lin
coln, and she will be able to give you
any other Information you might de
sire. "C. E. Hagelin, who attended the
university with Paul has been in the
navy since the first of September and
just received his discharge a few days
ago. He is now with the Ellison
White Chautauqua System on the
Pacific coast.
"Paul A. Hagelin was born on a
farm near Wahoo, Nebr., July 3, 1892,
and received his early training there,
attending the public schools and later
the high school at Wahoo, graduating
with the class of 1910. For two years
following his graduation he was en
gaged in the lumber and grain busi
ness with his brother at Touhy. He
entered the state university with the
class of 1912, being graduated in 1916.
In 1917 he took a post-graduate course
and when he was called into the ser
vice he was an instructor in the com
mercial department of the Lincoln
High School He entered the service
April 26. 1918, ?nd was put in the
341st machine gun battalion, 89th Divi
sion, arriving overseas the first of
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