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The Daily Nebraskan
WUXIK- NO. 57.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1919.
FIVE CENTS PERC01Y
V
SIN IS LIFTED Oil
SCHOOL FUNCTIONS
Week-End Will be Crowded
Christmas Dances and
Entertainments.
With
Shortened Class Schedule to Con
tinue Until After Holiday
Recess.
AH social events for week-end
usual." announced by Dean h.ng
berg MOlliiay miciuu""!
univer.siiy students. Mid-week dances
fell narties, and Christmas .entertain
ntents will hold the center of the stage
f..i- the few days preceding the
riiristnias recess.
The only reservation made by Dean
fc'ngbcrg Is that events scheduled for
the Temple will not be held in case
inert; is difficulty In securing coal at
the university.
The present plan of shortened hours
will hold pood until Christmas recess
heeins. The old schedule will be In
force after the holidays. Tuesday
niirht some evening classes will begin
woik again and in a day or two the
university is expected to be in full
swing.
The Daily Nebraskan will be is
mri for the remainder of the
week and again beginning Tuesday
January 6th. 1920.
DELEGATES TO STUDENT
VOLUNTEER CONVENTION
TO MEET THIS EVENING
The delegates chosen to represent
Nebraska University at the Interna
tional Student Volunteer convention
at Dcs Moines will meet for a get-to
gether in the Red Room of the City Y,
M. C. A. from 5:30 to 7:n Tuesday
evening. The delegation will nave
lunch together, after which plant wll
be discussed and the group will or
ganize under a chosen leader.
Several people who have attended
other conventions will give short
talks to familiarize the students with
the character and purpose of the con
ference and Don Heffley will tell
about the arrangements which have
teen made concerning train service,
end other details. It is imperative
that every delegate attend this get-together.
CHICAGO UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS DO OWN WASHING
Chicago, Dec. 15. (Leased Wire
Service.) Laundry prices have been
piibbed to such a high figure that it
is almost cheaper to wear one's linen
as Ions us the police will permit and
throw it away for the laundry charg
es are mighty close to the original
cost.
I'ntil the coal strike brought about
unusual conditions the patient Chin
ese l;iutnlinien were the only refuge
lor patrons who could not meet the
exorbitant charges of the big concerns,
but now the Chinese have raised their
prices to the trust figures. Tbey say
he hiid to come io this ordr to get
any foal, perhaps so, but the heathen
Chinesi' is peculiar.
So, with the last resort failing, stu
dents at the University of Chicago
have taken the dilemma by the horns
and will do their own laundry They
have invested in a machine and a
;nai)Kle and oiher contraptions which
have been installed at a fraternity
house. Colville C. "Red" Jackson,
captain elect was unanimously elected
to Mart the war on old H. C. of L.
anl his maiden effort accounted for
twenty five sheets, thirteen pillow
cases, seventy-one towels, eight table
covers and forty-three napkins all
spotlessly white, neatly Ironed and
Placed on the shelves of the 1'nen
Hoset. This saved a laundry bill of
f'.63 and the work was superior.
Now the work is regularly organ
ized and no more laundry wagon will
clutter up the sacred turf of the uni
versity. Evening State Journal.
Admission
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CONVOCATION
Profesor M. M. Fogg of the Depart
ment of Journalism will address Con
vocation .this morning. He' will speak
on "Nebraskans on the Battlefields of
France.
CONTEST OF COLLEGE
HUMORISTS PLANNEO
BY NATIONAL COMIC
A co Ico wits contest is being
planned by the Judge Publishing Com
pany, to run on the same principles
as an Intercolleginto track meet. Pic
tures, poems, articles and jokes by
university men and women from all
colleges in the United States are In
vited for participation in this contest.
For the best plctur a silver cup
Is to be awarded, and the best text
contribution will also win such a cup.
The college making the best showing
Is to be awarded a large silver tro
phy for one year, and nny college win
ning it thre times will secure its
permanent possession. Each person
whose contribution is selected for
publication will get paid for the work.
Material entered in this contest must
be received by the Judge Company by
February 1st. with the exception ot
color designs for the cover which
have to be in before January 15th.
Nebraska students will have an ex
cellent chance to put the university on
the wit-map by participation In this
contest.
SEMINAR IN EDUCATION
MEETS AT CITY Y. M. C. A.
The Graduate Seminar in Education
Is meeting In the Blue Room of the
city Y. M. C. A. at 7:30 Tuesday eve
nings. The themes under considera
tion have related to the Art of Study
and Economy in Study. The theme
for tonight Is the Aci&pration of Study
and Education to the natural endow
ments among the students.
PRE-MEDIC HOP WILL
BE FRIDAY AS PLANNED
The Pre-Medlc hop will be held as
scheduled Friday, December 19th, at
the Rosewilde. Programs will be 'a
feature of the affair. Tickets may still
be secured from the committee, which
is as follows:
Howard H. BenneU. chairman; J. C.
Root, R. O. Whltham, Glenn S. Everts,
J. B. Spain, W. Clinton Kenner. Geo.
Johnson.
COLLEGE DRYS PLAN
DES MOINES CONVENTION
The Eighth National Convention of
the Inter-Collegiate Prohibition Asso
ciation will he held at Des Moines,
Iowa, January 5, 1920, immediately
following the Student Volunteer Con
vention In the same city.
This convention will bring together
representative students and profes
sors from all important institutions
to consider the liquor problem, to
gain a vision of the responsibility of
American colleges to other colleges of
he world and to work out the plans
for an extension of the college pro
hibition movement to all other lands.
The morning and afternoon ses
sions will be devoted to business and
Inspirational programs and the Na-
ional Oratorical Contest will occupy
he evening.
All delegates to the Student Volun
eer Convention are urged to remain
over one aay longer anu outers are
nvited to make a special trip.
The Pathe camera man visited the
university Friday of last week to make
Individual pictures of the volunteers
as they signed up to go to the coal
mines if necessary. These films will
be shown soon on all the screens of
the country. The west room on the
second floor of University Hall was
used to stage the mock registration.
because of its superior lighting facili
ties.
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NEW ORGANIZATION OF
ENGINEERS MAY HAVE
CHAPTER AT NEBRASRA
Nebraska university may have chap
ter of St. Patrick's Nationalization
Engineering Society. G. S. Salter, Ne
braska university representative, has
just returned from a three-day con
vention at Columbia, Missouri, and
will present their plan to the Ameri
can Asoclation of Engineers at the
next meeting, early In January.
The St. Patricks Nationalization
society was organized in 1903 at the
University of Missouri, Columbia, Mis
souri. Each year a convention has
teen held at Columbia and engineers
from schools in the Missouri Valley
have been invited to attend. Last year
the organization had reytesentatives
from eight colleges in six different
states. The convention was so suc
cessful that elaborate plans were made
to increase and completee the national
organization of the society. Last
spring invitations were sent out to all
the engineering colleges in the Mis
souri Valley laying particular empha
sis on the importance and need of feuch
an organization. G. S. Salter was sel
ected by the A. A. E. to represent the
University of Nebraska at the conven
t ion.
"Eleven colleges and nine states
were represented at the convention,"
said Salter, "and there were sixteen
delegates from the visiting universi
ties." Business meetings were held
every day from 9 o'clock until 6
o'clock with the exception of the first
ifternoon when the entii body tu
taken for an automobile ride through
the city.
Entertainment in the shape of danc
es, banquets, and smokers made the
convention a social as well as a buis
ness success. December 7th the St.
Patricks Nationalization Ball was held
and on December 8th there was a ban
quet and smoker.
The business completed was the or
ganization of the Knights of St. Pat
rick, the drafting of a constitution for
the organization, and the election of
W. G. Fowler, of Missouri as presi
dent. Much of the success of the or
ganization is due, according to Salter,
to the patient and untiring efforts
of the newly elected president. A
vice-president will be elected by the
chapter at Ames where the next an
nual convention of the society will be
held next year.
The A. A. E. will hear Mr. Salter's
report at their next meeting in Janu
ary and they will decide what steps
will be taken in regard to the propo
sal to establish a chapter here.
Prof. Dowling "What is the ans
wer to this problem?"
Stude "Mine is two, sir"
Prof. Dowling "Minus two.
rect. Wisconsin Dahy Cardinal.
Cor-
Alpha O.s Make Hurried Exit.
When House Catches on Fire
Thirty frightened sorority-girl iefu-
gees were compelled to bite the nos-
ty air Sunday morning, when the cry
of "Fire! Fire' caused the meniDers
of Alpha Oniicron Pi to abandon
heir house on North Sixteenth street
shortly before the noon hour, and .ieek
shelter in the Phi Kappa Psi ami Sig
ma Chi houses nearby.
Wher the occupants of the third
floor smolled smoke, they rushed
through the rooms shrieking the fa
miliar cry of "Fire!", while girls hus
tled around in their rooms snatch
ing up valuables and garments and
hurried to the street.
Some amusing' Incidents are told of
the peculiar articles which were care
fully carried opt of the burning build
ing. One of the girls seemed to
value more highly than anything else
In her possession, a simple strand of
beads; another saved a fancy boudoir
tap; and a tnira graDDea two manni-
klns which she had Just finished
painting for a Christmas gift, and
hastened wi h them to a place of safe
ty. Clothes, money, and other valu
Wednesday and Thursday 4:30 P. M.
Basket Ball
MORNINGSIDE vs. NEBRASKA
PROFESSOR FOGG TO
TELL OF NEBRASKANS
HE MET IN FRANCE
Professor M. M. Fogg, of the De
partment of Journalism, will address
Convocation this morning on "Nebras
I:ans on the Battlefields or France."
As an actual visitor to the ravaged
districts of France and Belglumr Pro
fessor Fogg has a stry Interesting to
both the men and women who could
not go, and to the men and women
whom this talk will bring back a host
of memories.
Aa head of the College of Journal
ism, at the A. E. F. university, Beaune,
Cote D'Or, France, Professor Fogg,
had a wonderful opportunity to come
In contact with the many Nebraskans
at the school. His work was of the
highest calibre and in recognition of
this fact he was decorated by the
French government.
General J. J. Pershing, personal
friend of Prof. Fogg, made several
trips to the university. At his request,
Professor Fogg, became his guest in a
tour of the battlefields of France, and
visited the battle-scarred areas of
France, Belgium, and traveled for
some distance in uninjured, but beaten
Germany.
This convocation will be of vital
Interest to every real American man
and woman In the university and
those attending will more than find It
worth while.
TO BE SUPER SCHOOL
Stanford University, CaL, Dec. 15.
A "super" university may be the lat
est development in American educa
tional circles according to friends of
Dr. Ray Lynn Wilbur, president,
and Herber Hoover, trustee of Lcland
Stanford Junior university authorities
are said to be planning for the growth
of the institution during the past few
years.
Believing that the first two years
of college work can be done as well
In "Junior college" departments of pub
lic schools, Stanford university au
thorities are said to be planning to
eliminate freshmen and sophomore
work from the university curriculum.
Fifth and sixth year college work
has been gradually added to many of
the departments, and it is believed
the "super" education will eventually
supplant the elementary courses thru
out the university.
Junior colleges have been estab
lished in many of the high schools in
California particularly in the south
ern part of the stqte.
Herbert Hoover has been a trjstee
of Stanford university for a number
of years, and Intimate friend declars
has has been backing President Wil
son's atempt for increased speciali
zation in the studies offered by the in
stitution. Evening State Journal.
ables seemed to have been entirely
forgotten In the excitement.
The fire started from a defective
flue on the third floor, but its imme
diate cause Is unknown. A roaring
Are was burning In the furnace at
the lime the alarm was sounded.
The Lincoln fire department was
soon on the scene, but some trouble
was experienced with the hose, and
chemicals were used almost exclusive
ly to put out the fire, after much
chopping and cutting on the roof of
the house.
One room on the third floor was
burned to a skeleton and the unfortu
nate room-mates lost almost every
thing they had.
When a large number of the girls
arrived" from church they were great
ly surprised to see a file of girls, with
suit-cases in hand, making their way
out of the burning building.
"Matters could have been worse,"
said one of the girls as she examined
the burned rooms. T don't believe
half of the girls were as frightened
as they looked or acted. I think it was
all camouflage."
DR. FLINO TO WRITE FOR
NEW WORLD MAGAZINE
Dr. Fling, professor of Euro
pean History at the university, has
been asked to become a contributor
to "The New World." This is a. re
centiv established maeazlne and is
to be published simultaneously In Par
is, London and New York, in both the
French and English languages. Dr
Fling's first article will discuss "The
Fourteen Points" and will attempt
to show Wilson's viewpoint on the
matter.
FRESHNAN LAW HOP
TO BE HFLD FRIDAY
AT LINCOLN HOTEL
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The annual Freshman Law Hop will
be held at the Lincoln Hotel. Friday
evening, December 19. The committee
in charge of the party announced yes
terday that the party will be given ac
cording to the schedule made before
the fuel shortage made it necessary
to place a ban on university func
tions. This hop will mark the return to the
university social calendar to its nor
mal basis. Scott's orchestra has been
engaged to furnish the "jazz" and
plans are almost completed for an
enjoyable pre-holiday tiance.
Tickets are now available on the
campus at $1.50 per couple, Includ
ing the war tax. The following per
sons are members of the committee
for the party, and have charge of the
ticket sale: Willard Green, chair
man; R. O. Johnson, George Wixer,
Story Harding, Howard E. Crandall,
and Walton Roberts.
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ELMER SCHELLENBERO
Captain of the Husker Basket
Tossers.
COLLEGE JOURNALISTS
TO MEET AT OKLAHOMA
The 1920 national convention of
Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour
nalistic fraternity, will be held at the
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
City.
This met with practically the un
animous wishes of the 1919 conclave
which was held at the University of
Illinois, Urbana, Friday and Satur
day, December 5 and 6.
Paul Scott Mowrer correspondent
for the Chicago Daily News gave the
main address of the convention fol
lowing the banquet at the hotel In
man, Friday evening. For the past
ten ears, Mr. Mowrer has spent most
ot his time in Europe and was the
first correspnodent to give the world
the actual conditions at the front dur
ing' the first days of the war.
Mr. Mowrer declared that at the
close of the war he was morose, be
lieving that all of his experiences as
a correspondent had been for naught
but recent developments consoled him
in the belief that Mexico might afford
the next field for the war correspond
ent. Mr. Mowrer was graduated from
the University of Michigan.
Frank B. Thayer, Professor of
Journalist at Washington State Col
lege, Pullman, Wash., formerly of the
departmen of Journalism at the Uni
versity, was made a member of the
executive council.
Ralph E. Overholser represented
the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi
at Illinois.
HUSKERS PREPARE
FOR M0RNINGS1DE
Inadequate Facilities of a Cold
Gymnasium Fail to Stop
Schissler's Basket Tossers
Season Tickets for Balance of Ne-
urasna cneavue Will go on
Sale After Holidays.
In spite of the hardships caused by
the coal shortage Coach Schissler
and his twenty -five varsity basketball
candidates have been grinding away
day after day on the miniature Corn
husker floor, a cold gymnasium and
lack of warm water did not dismay
tho Huskers and practice results have
been very gratifying to the coaches.
The wealth of material on hand has
made it difficult to select a first
team and Coach Schissler has no as
yet announced who will start the open
me against Mornlngside College
here Wednesday afternoon.
The first regular scrimmage with
the Freshmen was staged at the gym
nasium Saturday afternoon. Lack of
organization seriously hindered the
Yearling players. Inadequqate floor
facilities together with the large num
ber of candidates have prohibited pro
per workouts for the first-year team.
John Riddell, who developed the pow
erful freshman football team, has
charge of the freshman basket tossers
and picked three combinations which
showed to good advantage against the
varsity Saturday. All the varsity men
were given a chance to display their
talent against the Yearlings and the
coaches were enabled to form more de
finite estimates of the real ability of
each man.
No startling developments were ap
parent In Saturday's scrimmage as
both varsity combinations used by
Schissler against the freshmen made
practically the same showing. In
both clashes the Yearling teams were
completely outclassed. As the situa
tion now stands, the following men
are in line for the various positions:
Forwards: Hussey, Patty, Smith, Rns
sel, Collins, Pickett, Norton, and Dav
is; centers: Bekins, Munn, and Jung
meyer; Guards: Captain Schel'enberg,
Bailey, Newman. Hager, Haworth, and
Dana.
Maroons Arrive Tonight '
Coach Saunderson and his Morning-
side Maroons will arrive in Lincoln
tonight, eager for battle with the
Cornhuskers. The Methodists are ap
pearing on the scene early and ap
parently are determined to grab at
least one game from the Nebraskans.
Four veterans from the successful
team of last year are again included
In the Methodist lineup. They are
Balkema, Rorapaugh, Shafenberg, and
Michelson. The clashes with the Hus
kers 'will be the initial appearence for
the Maroons as well as for Schissler's
men and both teams are desirous of
opening the season v jth a pair of vic
tories. Practice began at the Iowa
school some time before Thanksgiving
so the Methodists have had ample
time to prepare for the games with Ne
braska. SrhissW expects to give ev
ery man on the squad a chance to
participate in the games with Morn
lngside but lie intends to take no
chances on losing the games. While
the Huskeis expect to win, the two
encounters will by no means be walk
aways. Season Tickets After Holidays
The proposed season ticket will not
be inaugurated until after the holiday
recess, and accordingly the season
tickets will not include the Morning
side games. These ticket will be
placed on s;.I immediately upon the
opening of school, which Is January
5. A thorough sales campaign is now
being planned and every effort wPl be
made ta put the proposition across.
The greatest basketDall schedule in
the history of the school will te
played this year and the cost will be
in the neighborhood of 14000. If the
season is a success financially, the
support of every student will be re
qu Ired. Accord ing to the present plans
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