Yur Daily Nebraskan
VOI, XXLNO- 81.
1NVOI . NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, .1ANUAKY 31. 1!.
THICK K1VK ( KTS
E KINGS
ARE ARRANGED
Tentative Program for Series of
Announced.
mWV.F. ASSEMBLIES TO
BE HELD ON EACH DAY
Classes to be Dismissed for Morn
ing Meetings to be Held
Next Week.
One hundred fifty students, ropre
sentativos of every organization on
mims. crowded Ellen Smith
hall at a mooting railed by the exec a
,ive committee of the Sherwood Ed
j.. meetings, to hear Ben Cherrington
outline the purposes or those meet
ing which are to be held Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday or next
week.
"I haven't the slightest doubt but
that the Kddy meetings will be high
ly successful.? Mr. Cherrington
stated in his talk. He told of the
similar meetings conducted by Mr.
and Kddy at the University of Cali
fornia not long ago when at each
meeting held by Mr. Eddy, over three
thousand students attended.
Sper.king of the purpose of the
meetings, Mr. Cherrington told the
representatives cf the fraternities,
fororities and other societies, that
Nebraska students were being asked
tc turn from the whirl of campus ac
tivities for three days and to concent-si
' their thoughts on the world of
reality outside the campus gates.
Three days of serious thinking on
world problems and the relation of
the individual student 10 them should
l.m a profound influence on the
lives of many U. of N. students, he
pointed out
A4 Pettman. chairman of the ex
ecutive committee, presided over the
meeting and introduced Fliyd Oldt.
Oarence Dunham and others who
pave short talks on plans of organ
ization of the men's organizations. At
least two meetings will be addressed
by Mr. Eddy for men only, while at
the same hour, Mrs. Eddy will ad
dress the co-eds.
The tentative rrogram as an
nounced is as follows:
Wednesday.
11:00 a. m. Sherwood Eddy,
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LtGTURES 10 LAWS
First Lecture Monday Includes
Demonstrative Equipment
of His System,
Monday mcrning at ten o'clock Mr,
Dwicht S. McCarthy gave the first
section of his lecture on Modern Of
fiee Management to the thres classes
of the law college. Mr. McCarthy has
spent ten years in preparing and per
fecting this system. He has written
many articles concerning his study.
nl has lectured to various bar as
sociations and law schools.
On ihe platform before the students
stood an the office furniture find
equipment that the business end of a
lawyer's practice could require. Desks
fiiins cases, form books, and dicta
phones were drawn into tl. lecture,
their relations to the efficiency
system were explained.
One cf the most interesting fea
tures js the dispatch board which is
used in connection with a smali card
index. This combination was referred
to by the speaker as the office brain.
Every new matter that is brought to
the office for consideration is noted,
nd cn index tickler card is made out
n4 filed in the catalog tinier the
toonth and day when it should receive
attention.
When that day comes around the
tickler 6lips are taken from the ctta
lg and placed on the dispatch boaid
in order of their importance. As
each matter is attended to tbt slip
to&y be removed and a memorandum
f the next tack requiring attention
stores one in the face.
The thing most emphasised in the
lecture was to keep the desk in the
neat and orderly condition. This
as said to not only expediate the
'rk, but also to act aa a recom-
UNI EPISCOPALEAN CLUB
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Tho University Episcopalian Hub
elected tho following officers for this
soiiiosicrvnt a business meeting last
Tuesday:
Quintard Joyner, president; Char
iotia Cheny, vico president; Henry
Sargent, secretary; Mary Ellen
Whelplcy, treasurer.
WOMEN OBJECT 10
POLITICAL SYSTEM
Voice Disapproval of University
Politics Plan "Clean-up"
Election Methods.
The political machinery of the Uni
versity is due for a general cleaning
and overhauling. To vote for the man
or woman rather than tho. machine
he or she represents is what a com
mittee composed of representative
girls from dormitories, rooming
houses, sorority houses and other or
ganizations on the campus, decided
should be the slogan for the eomin?
weeks.
This committee is not to be called
another organization, Katner it is
the spotaneous outcome of a great
deal of stored-up feeling the girls
have had for some time that class
politics have not been on the right
basis. So. with one idea in mind.
Cleaner politics,' girls in r-,he Uni
versity have banded together and are
making definite plans for the cominr
election.
Wednesday night, at Ellen Smith
Hall at 7 o'clock there will be called
a general mass meeting for girls.
terestod in cleaner politics is wanted
at this meeting. At the meeting last
evening of sorority and non-sorority
giils, the sentiment seemed to poin'
towards this goal. It is planned to
have the candidates for office present
to make a statement coveiing every
plank in his platform. In this way
the girls will be able to vote in
telligently. They will know before
election day for whom they want to
vote and the method of dragging
people to the polls with instructions
to vote a certain way will be done
away with.
It is hoped that in the coming elec
tion that the best man or woman will
be chosen for the job regardless of
whether he is a Greek or a Barb.
Then the thinkers and the workers,
the people in this world who really
accomplish things will be given a
chance to help engineer class and
school affairs, and the natural leaders
would dominate instead of represent
atives of the social organizations to
which a man belongs deciding who
would be a leader. Then we would
have spontaneous leadership. The
leaders would think of the wellfare
of the school, instead of their own
personal glory.
Many offices have been filled in the
pas because the machine back of the
candidate was a strong and powerful
one, because tnat macnine promised
a division of the spoils to all who
would support it. If a plan for clean
er and better politics can be worked
out satisfactorily there will be no
such thing as a division of spoils to
supporters of the victorious, for na
tural qualifications will be considered
when the division is made.
ARE ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
AG COLLEGE ORCHESTRA
The A college orchestra is no
longer a dream; it is here to stay
This is the enthusiastic report from
leader and members alike. Twelve to
fifteen instruments are now out for
regular weekly practice and the or
chestra tili soon be ready for a
public tryouL The men nave taken
real interest in the work and with the
backing of students, should develop
with a worth-while organization.
Pershing Rifles,
An Important meeting cf the
Pershing Rifles, both active and
alumni, will be held Thursday
evening, February 2, at 7;30 in
Faculty hall, 2nd floor cf the
Temple building.
Student Soldiers Have Sand Pile
Class But No Kindergarten Work
Not all of the engineering that ts
taugli in this university is given in
tho engineering college, nor Is all of
the sand-table work taug
pective kindergarten teachers. You
will undoubtedly wonder what the
connection is between these two
things. It is simply this:
Over in Nebraska hall on fat third
floor, where the military depnitment
holds sway, there are two large sand
tables with minaturo equipment of a;l
kinds, some of which looks very much
like the things that we played with
during our early youth. There are
trowels, sticks, blocks, and sand bags.
Cut nil of these things have n more
serious and deadly purposo than mere
child's play.
It is here that the juniors of the de
partment are being initiated into the
mysteries of Held engineering by Cap.
tain Xix. The construction of revet
ments, trenches, obstacles, barricades,
and fortifications is demonstrated in
niiniiture on these sand tabU-s and
the future officers are made to go
through the process of actually con
structing them.
Some of the students take great de
light in digging in the sand and the
less fortunate men of the basic course
DELTA CHI FIRST
INJRIFLE MATCH
Eleven Fraternities Contest in
First Interfraternity Gal
lery Contest.
The Interfraternity rifle match
wrs ''eld during the week of. Janu-
ry 2S :-S Every fraternity vas rer..
resented by a team of five men. Delta
Chi placed first and Alpha Gamma
Rlio, agricultural fraternity, pulled
down second honors. Some very good
scores were fired by men in this com
petition. The three highest individ
ual scores were fired by L. V. Smet-
ana. Delta Chi; E. J. Lake, Uelta;
and Captain Joseph Noh of Thi Deita
Theta.
The ranking of the teams was as
follows:
Fraternity Score
Delta Chi 830
Alpha Gamma Rho 792
Sigma Thi Epsilon '7SS
Sigma Xu 7S2
Thi Delta Theta 771
Alpha Tau Omega 769
Farm House 767
Phi Gamma Delta 764
Silver Lynx . 756
Sigma Chi - 7S5
Pi Kappa Phi 725
Other entries incomplete.
Some rather keen interest has been
displayed thus far in the rifle
matches. There is now an adequate
surply of the new Winchester target
rifles in the gallery now and the men
are becoming used to them rapidly.
A new type of targets is now being
used which requires muth less trouble,
in changing the target. This saves
time and helps to keep up interest in
the shooting.
The inter-collegiate matches are
scheduled to beein soon and the teams
are already practicing up under the
instruction of Colonei Mitchell, who
has attained some success as a rifle
coach. The teams are expected to
make a good showing when the
matches begin this week.
Suffer Ye. Freshmen
Send Snow For
Feeling probably that fraternity
freshmen were not getting all of the
work that should rightfully be be
stowed upon them, Old Man Weather
Sunday morning opened up his snow
machine and sent down a flurry of
flakes., And then in order to hold the
flakes r place he openea me rain
barrel and made streets and side
walks almost lakes.
Sunday night he again opened up
and sent down more snow and rain.
But cleaning snow alone off the
sidewalks is not a particularly hard
job fend the old man wanted to make
the freshmen work. So Monday morn
ing he sent the mercury on the down
ward wain and froze all of his San-
are often seen inspecting the sand
tables and asking about the work. No
body has been found asleep during one
of those classes, and the groups into
which the classes are divided for work
v:t with each other in seeinir who
tau construct the best trench with the
lost comfortable dugout.
It is always with a feeling of regro
that tho bell that signals the intermis.
sion, is heard, for all of the work must
then bo demolished and the table lev
eled off for the next problem. Hut
sand-castles are like air-castles, they
must always give way to others of
their kind.
When a group of students have
toiled bard for the space of some fii'
iccii or twenty minutes at the con
struct ion t:f an unassailable position,
heaving up vast quantities of earth
nd rocks (snnd nnd gravel in real
ity) it is rather hard to have the in
structor come around and point out
a score or more of places where
your trenches fall short of that model
trench perfection, the Hindenburg
line. Rut you breathe a sigh of re
lief when you think how easily your
errors can be corrected in the sand
and rejoice that you do not have to
alter them out in the field uuder fire
and in full size.
WINNERS OF DANCE
Thirty-one Successful Girls Will
Take Part in "Dance Drama"
to be Given Soon.
The tryouts for the "dance drama"
to be given in the spring under the
auspices of W. A. A. are over. The
thirty-one successful girls are re
quested to meet Tuesday noon, at
12:15 in the armory. Dorothy Whelp
ley, chairman of the committee, has
important announcements to make.
The successful danrers:
Arbutus Wilson.
Ruby Damme.
Frances Gable.
Harriet McClelland.
Marie Snavely.
Davida Van Gilder.
Dorothy Van Vranken.
Hope Barkley.
Irene Barquist.
Dorothy Dougan.
Beulah Graybill.
Esther Swanson.
Mabel Dickenson.
Lillian Lewis.
Olive Votaw.
Bertha Reese.
Mary Ellen Whelpley.
Dorcthy Hilsabeck.
Bessie Epstein.
Josylan Stone.
Bernice Ballance.
Dorothy Seacrest.
Esther Ellen Fuller.
Ruth Ellsworth.
Dorothy Minor.
Mildred Taylor.
Helen Tanner.
Winifred Mayhew.
Ruth Xorth.
Betty Ball.
Marjorie Haley.
Bernice Bayley.
For I Shall
YoulTo Clean Up
day efforts into a mass of ice.
And along with these two flarries
followed by the freezing there ap
peared in front of the many sorority
and fraternity houses young men with
shovels, bound by orders to mae the
sidewalks navigable for the traveling
public. Fraternities sent theh first
year men to aid the fair co eds dis
perse of the excess of snow and all
Sunday morning the followers of the
Greek worked to obey orders.
Now comes more good news for the
freshmen. The weather man's prophet
says that there will be a new flurry of
snow later in the week and teat ac
cordingly the young men will again
have an opportunity to practice with
the shovel.
GIRLS' COMMERCIAL
CLUB TO ENTERTAIN
The girls commercial club will en
tertain the members at Ellen Smith
hall, Wednesday, February 1, 5 p. m.
at dinner. Mildred Othmor ha.: charge
of the salo of tickets, which ;ue 50
cents each. The tickets will v.ve to
bo purchased before Wednesday noon
in order that tho proper reset vat ion
can be made.
URGE EX-SOLOIERS
TOJIH LEGION
Samuel Avery Says Veterans
Should Join for "Honor of
the Institution.
A letter urging' former students,
alumni and faculty of tho University
if Nebraska who served in the recent
world war, to join tho American iculon
has been sent by Chancellor S.mniel
Avery to Hanford McXider, n .lional
commander. In it. the chancellor
stresses the patriotism displayed by
the university during the late war and
that this should be continued. He
urges all veterans to join the legion
for "the honor of the institution and
the perpetnality of his counir."
The letter to the alumni, fi-rmer
studenis and faculty of the university
follows:
"Approximately 3.000 students, for
mer students and faculty members
were enrolled in the armed force." of
the United States during the world
war; and though the war is oer our
patriotism is not demobilized. The
university now has appiw.iinately
1,000 students in the reserve officer;?
training corps. On the campus, the
faculty and students delight i.. pre
serving the tradition of Pershing as
a young lieutenant in the army. From
the state at large the alumni have
furnished both the past an.l the pres
ent state commander of the Ameri
can legion. The first. Earl Cline, is
a distinguished former student of '15:
the second. Robert G. Simmons, of
the same class, is now president of
the State Alumni association; the
present able and active commander
William Ritchie, jr., is also of '15.
"The American legion can and ought
to be one of the greatest forces for
good in the country. The American
citizen soldiers and war veterans
have preserved this country from the
curse of militaristic tyranny. Let us
now preserve it from the curse of the
tyranny of anarchy. Let us make
the legion strong in order that it may
help keep America on its historic
course, avoiding the ditch cf imper
ialism on the one side and the even
deeper ditch of bolshevism on the
other. Hence I urge every University
of Nebraska veteran of the world wai
to join the legion for the honor of the
institution and the perpetuity of his
country. Very respectfully submit
ted. SAMUEL AVERV,
Chancellor University Member cr Lin
coin Post Xo. 3."
HOCKEY FEED THURSDAY
FOR TOURNEY WINNERS
Hockey season is over but there is
going to be a hockey "feed"' just the
same next Thursday night, 6:15 sharp
at Ellen Smith hall. The seniors
must be entertained for trampling on
the sophomores. The sophomores are
good sports so there will be good
food, plenty of it, served witli good
cheer. Sign up in the gym before
Wednesday noon.
The "eats" committee Jessie Hiett.
chairman; Frances Gable, Lcis Ped-
erson, Nar. Snavely.
Filings of candidates fcr of
fices to be selected at the elec
tions to be held FeFbruary 7
must be handed into the Stu
dent Activities office by nent
Friday, February 3.
The following offices will be
filled by the election: Fresh
man, sophomores and junior
members of the publication
board; junior managing editor,
business manager and editor-in-chief
of the Cornhusker; presi
dents of all four classes; Ivy
day orator.
HUSK TIED H
FOURTH IN VALLEY
Even Honors for Huskers, Drake
and Kansas Aggies in Con
ference Caga Race.
SMITH IS SIXTH IN
INDIVIDUAL SCORING
Strenuous Week of Practice for
Ames Game Here Saturday
In the Coliseum.
Xebraska is tie with Drake and th
Kansas Atgies for fourth place in the
valley haskt thai! race as a result of
the Huskers defeat at the hand of
the Oklahoma cag s'ors last week.
Missouri, with six victories an.! no
defeats, is siiina ihe pace in t'ie con
ference race. The Tiger quintet, val
ley champions in 121. have been
performing in exccVjit stylo, and are
doped to cop first honors again this
year. Kansas, having lost to Miss
ouri, is now ii seen. id place, while
Oklahoma, by virtue of htr victerv
over the Huskers, ha?, forged into
third place.
Captain Austin Smith, who loads
ihe Sear'et and Cream cagors in the
number of points scored, having made
a total of 55 points, stands sixth in
individual scoring in the conft-rence.
Captain Bond cf Missouri heads the
list in individual scoring, while Cap
a in Rod.y of Kansas is second.
The Cornhusker tossers will go thru
a week of strenuous practice in pre
paration for the Ames game, which
will he played at the Coliseum Satur
day night. Coach Frank's tossers dis
played a noticeable inability to lovate
the basket in the Oklahoma contest,
and the Huskers will make a strong
effort to overcome this weakness be
fore the Cyclone fray.
Captain "Tony" Smith, who was not
in the lineup in the Sooner game, be
ing somewhat behind in his studies,
is expected to be back in the lineup
when the Ccrnhuskcrs meet the Cy
clones Satuiday. Holland, forward,
is sMll out of the game because of in
juries. Xebraska deVatM the Ames 'lipoers
three weeks ago in close co?,tec ?t
Ames, the Huskers winning by a sen
sational spurt in second half. Since
this game, the Cyclones haw improved
and a fast game is expected.
FOR GHID ELTA PHI
Women's National Literary Or
ganization has Interesting
Program Elects Two
Students.
Chi Delta Phi held a meeting last
week at the home of Adelaide Elam,
254 fi S street. Between twenty and
thirty members were present. The
program consisted of the reading of
the verses by Marianna Oummings,
Donna Custin, and Emma Wetrmann
a M'olin solo by Jacqueline Best, and
a story by Ruth Odell. Miss Cuui
n 'ngs and Miscs Westermann were
t?ectcd to active membership. Missts
Fl. ra Bullock. Helen Redinrto.i, and
Lonna Cu;i"i to alumnae membership
and Miss Margaret Lynn of tho fac
ulty cf the University of Kansas and
author of the book of essays, "A Step
Daughter of the Prairies," and the
novel, "Free Soil," to honorary mem
bership. One of the alumnae mem
bers read a letter concerning recent
London experiences from Mis. Sin
clair Lewis. The organization decided
to hold its annual initiation and ban
quet in March. The next regular
meeting will be held in February at
the Phi Mu house.
The university chapter of the wo
men's national literary organization,
Chi Delta Phi, announces that mem
bership in it Is open to all women
undergradates on a tryout basis.
There ought to be more organizations
on the campus, say the officers of Chi
Delta Phi. to which admission is
gained by merit, not for social rea
sons or through friends. It cannot ad
mit a very large membership, but It
is anxious to give every ambitious wo
man student who is interested in writ
ing a chance to show what she can
do. It will be on the basis of what a.
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