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    he Daily Nebraskan
XXI. NO. 87.
MNCOI Y NEBRASKA , WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922.
I'RICK FIVE TENTS
VOL
Dill MEETINGS
Ifl START TODAY
First of Series of Meetings in St.
F Paul's Church at 11 O'clock
This Morning.
rLASSES DISMISSED
FOR BIG CONVOCATION
leclnrer Arrives in Lincoln Early
This Morning for a Three
Day Stay.
Sherwood Eddy arrived in Lincoln
,t7:45 tliis morning for a throe days'
Kries of meetings with the students
of the University of Nebraska at St.
Paul's church. With mm came Mrs.
Eddy who will speak to the girls at
several meetings during her stay
here. The great lecturer was met at
the train by the executive committee
of students who have been cniryin;?
cut the plans for the programs of
the wek.
The first meeting is at 11 o'clock
this morning at St. Paul's. All classes,
laborctories, and libraries have been
officially closed for 10:40 in order
that the whole student body may
have the opportunity of hearing Ed
dy in his initial address. Another
meeting wil he held at the same place
tonight at 7 o'clock. Elsewhere in
this paper is a list of professors who
have dismissed their eleven o'clock
classes on Thursday and Friday for
the Eddy convocations.
Chancellor Avery will introduce Mr.
Eddy to the students at the meet
ing this nWning. Ad Dettmnn, cnair
man of the executive committee will
act as chairman of the first program
and will announce the topic upon
which Mr. Eddy will speak .
A special entrance for the students
has been provided at the meeting
place in order that they may have
first chance at the seats in the au
ditorium of the building. A great
many townspeople have expressed t'e
desire of herring Mr. Eddy, but the
committee members desire that the
students be given first opportunity.
II Is also desired that students f.o tli
'rectly to the St. Paul's church froir
their 10 o'clock classes in order tivu
the initial speech by Mr. Eddy will
not be cut short.
The Thursday and Friday evening
metines will begin at 7 o'clock in or
der that the students may not be in
terrupted ;ny more than possible
from studying. The meeting Friday
evening, however will be an horn
later as that evening has been di
clared tlo.-ed by university authori
ties. The Friday evening address
will be the final convocation before
Eddy leaves Lincoln.
Tiie iimoi) luncheon which will bs
held today at the Grand hotel will be
restricted to members cf the facuKv
nj of t.e committee of cami-us or
ganizations who have been working
on the Eddy meetings. Mr. and Mrs.
Eddy will be the guests of honor ti
tie lunr iQon as will some of the fac
ulty awl administrative forces of the
unht-r.-ity. Plans for the rest of th;
meetings will be announced at this
luncheon and in all probability the
subjects which Mr. Eddy will use ia
the rest of his lectures will be made
public at this time.
LITTLE TOTS CROWD
CHILDREN? THEATER
Saturday Afternoon Performance
Proves Real Treat for Chil
dren of Lincoln.
The audience of little tots who at
tends the performance of the chil
dren's theater Saturday afternoon
as the happiest crowd that has
lathered there yet. The program con
sisted of two fairy story plays, a
Jizz concert, a series of dances and
Hiss Shenfelt's dancing doll. Sno
'Lite, one of the dramatized fctories
as a Russian tale of life, showing
toll the Joy and sorrow of living;
fcut it was the snow faries, the
haughty princess and magic power
of the characters which delighted
tie children.
"The Princess who hid her Shoe"
Jelightefl the audience ty its charm
ing simplicity. The Prince and the
Princess eiperienced the old but
ever new adventures of love, in other
words, Romance.
Dwlght Merriam, Joe Brown, John
Dawson, Clyde Davie and Marvin
8tver made a place Tor themselves
in the hearts of the youngster ana
(Continued on page 4.)
EXPECT SIXTY-TWO TO
JOIN ARCAPELLA CHOIR
The Arcapella choir, a new organ
ization, of the university formed by
me three, musical fraternities, Phi
Epsllon, Sinfonia, and Sigma Alpli-i
Iota, will hold Its first meeting Frl
day night at the chamber ot com
merce. About fifty members havo
been invited to join and the commit
tee hopes to raiso the number to sixty-two.
The choir will give a pro
gram before the end of the year.
TALKS 0NML06Y
Tells Freshmen of Influence of
Other Persons on Life of
Each Individual.
"Sociology is the science of human
association. It is the study oi' the
life of men in groups in relation to
itheir fellow men," said Professor
Hattie Plum Williams in her address
before the freshmen at the regulir
freshmen lecture sessions, Monday
afternoon and Tuesday morning. Slio
presented to the freshmen the pur
poses and value of the study of soc
iology and set forth some ot the
chief things that it involves.
The chief point stressed by the
speaker was the importance of our
associates in determining our actions.
Every person we meet influences us
directly or indirectly. We may not
be conscious of this influence but it
is present nevertheless. Sociology is
a scientific sf.udy of the laws of
association and group life.
Sociology is not a study of social
ism, it is not tne science oi crime
nd poverty, nor is it a substitute
for religion. Crime and poverty en
ter into the study of sociology but
are only one division of the subject.
Sociologists are not atheists but- in
fact use religion a great deal in fur
thering their work.
Associations.
Professor Wliams) gave .several
pointed illustrations of how associa
tions and environment prominently
effect life. A sheep herder who lives
in solitude with only a dog for a
companion becomes in a shoit time
a very different creature, although
he may have been raised in close
association with his fc-ilow men. A
man and a woman each raided in a
different environment may marry
and in a short time assimulate eaca
others ideas.
It would be interesting to note how
many people we meet in tin course
jf a day. It would also be tnteres
ing to list the different agreements
which we enter into with other peo
ple each day. Again the different
groups to which we eeiong present
a fascinating study. There are the
groups over which we hav no coi
,ro! such as race, nation, state, com
munity, and family. Secondly, there
are those groups which we ourselves
determine such as our church, school,
club, and hundreds of others. Many
of these groups we do not think oi
as being units, but In reality they
are. For instance, if a fire broke
out when a class of several bun
red students was listening lo a lec
ture, the group would lnsantly act
a unit in making their escapo.
The field of applied sociology !
the most valuable of all. Ti e prob
lems of a doctor are closely allied
with the problems of a sociologist. A
doctor can do very little for health
if conditions of sanitation and hius
irg are unsatisfactory An eoucatoi
can not effectively Accomplish his
vrr!' if the home coni-fious '. chil
,ir.n not harmonious. Of course
the field of law is closely a'Hed with
sociology because the Mcloiogis'
studies problems of crime, public
safety and other allied problems with
which a lawyer deals. Ministers and
..oi wPlfare workers must be we'l
versed in sociology in order to do
their work well.
Study People on O Street
Professor Williams said that O
trr.t u a isood place to study peoplo
observe the different types as thej
go to work. About 7 o'clocK in me
morning the laundresses, roundhouse
,ir .nd other laborers go to
work. About 8 o'clock the students.
.mi tenograpbera are seen
and a little later the business and
professional men appear, au tnese
. - . necessary to move the
world but each have their separate
problem! and It Is for me ono,OBU.l
to study them and aid In th-ir solution.
RUSSIA IS IN DIRE
NEED OF STUDENTS
Those Able to Attend Universi
ties Must do Manual Labor to
Support Themselves.
THIRTY THOUSAND HAVE
DIED IN THREE MONTHS
Russia Has Suffered Two Crop
Failures and Half of the Pop
ulation Has Starved.
Russia is in desperate need of stu
dents owing to her shortage of pro
fesional men. Since 1914, thirty
thousand doctors, one-third of the
medical profession, have died through
war and pestilence. A nation's lead
ers are largely individuals who have
been students. But in Central Europe,
the very men and women who should
be students today, in order to be
come the leaders of tomorrow, cannot
attend the universities or must do so
under the greatest handicaps, owin
to the unfavorable economic condit
ions and the deplorable financial
conditions under which they are
forced to live.
Thousands of students whose stud
ies were interrupted by the war are
now returning to the universities
in an endeavor to complete their
courses. It is difficult to request
them to give up their studies and tc
seek other ocupations, especially when
there is no employment to be had.
Reports from all countries con
cerned show that living costs have in
creased out of all proportion to the
increase in wages and incomes and
that the conditions threatens to make
beggars of the entire middle class
In Czecho Slovakia the prices haze
increased to thirty or forty times the
pre-war price. Every student in Rus
sia is doing manual labor, and every
student is haJf-ritarveo They are
without the most elementary necess
ities of study book9, paper, ink and
illencils. Everywhere there is the
acute lack of food, clothing and trans
porting facilities. According to the
best information available, Russia is
practically without drugs. Thewhole
country is diseased and starving.
Two Rusian Universities, Samara
and Saratow, are in the famine area,
Under date of December 9, Professor
Nausen, the , great Scandinavian re-
'ief worker reports, by wireless from
Moscow as folows: "Have visited
Samara and vicinity. The tragedy
overwhelms our greatest fears. Dur
ing the months of September, October
and November, 30,000 people died.
and the rate of those perishing from
hunger is steadily increasing. At this
death rate, two-thirds of the inhabit
ants will have perished by spring."
f Continued on Page 4.)
The Far East Question
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES AND DELEGATE
FROM JAPAN TO THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.
Japan At The Conference
ARTICLE NO. 1.
(By Baron Kijuro Shidehara.)
The truth must be recognized that
Japan is a strongly growing, ener
getic nation, of which the population
has already reached nearly tfce linif".
of the food producing capacity of the
land It Uvea in. Japan can, of
course, intensify and increase lta
food production somewhat, md this
matter is already in band. Tbe gov
ernment will not rest in its applicai
tion of energy and science to ttis
problem it has attained the maximum
results. But this increase will by
insuffiecient for the national require
ments, and some other means will
have to be adopted.
The experience of England and i.t
Belgium has shown that the p. actual
jswer is industrializing the ration,
and Japan, as a measure of self
preservation is now facing . this
transformation from a nation of foi
mers and harvesters of natural pre
ducts into one of manufacturers. But
manufacturing successfully Is Impos
sible without two essentials, the ra
materials for the factories and the
markets for the finished rnvrcbtn
dise.
Now the real essence of tbe matter
ia that Japan's islands do not con
tain the raw materials in any suffi
cient supply, nor does the popula
tion of Japan furnish the possibili
ties of markets sufficient to obserh
Japanese manufactured products. Like
England, Japan most bay msiruus
Huskers Defeat Grlnnell Five.
GRINNELL, la., Feb. 7.
fScecial Disrjatch to The Ne s
braskan.) The losing streak
of the Nebraska cagesters was
haltod tonight when the Husk
ers de.'eated the Grlnnell Pio
neers, 28 to 25, In a fast game
on the local court. The contest
was featured by the excellent
teamwork and goal-shooting of
the Cornhusker quintet, before
whose onrush the Pioneer de
fense broke down.
ELECT COACH DAWSON
TO BE DEAN OF
Football Coach Chosen to Fill the
Newly Created Office of Uni
versity Faculty.
Coach Fred Dawson will fill the
newly created office of dean of men
along with that of head coach at the
university. With the retiring of Pro
vost Lees that ortice will b3 discon
tinued, and most of his former duties
taken over into the office of the ex
ecutlve dean. Mr. Dan-son beconv s
active director of athletics and wil
continue this position until Septem
ber unless his successor is appoimed
before that time.
Following is the report from the
meeting of the board of regents,
which met Tuesday, February 7, 11
o'clock:
The board of regents met at 11
o'clock in the chancellors office with
all regents present except Mr. Sey
mour who is still ill.
The forenoon was spent in confer
ence with Coach Fred T. Dawson.
The following reorganization was ef
fected: Dr. Lees, who relinquished
the active work of Provost last spring
on account of ill health, retires from
the position to devote himself ex
clusively to the work of teiching and
chairmanship of the department of
ancient language. , The "office of
provost was discontinued and the
duties formerly performed by the
Provost are added to those of ex
ecutive Dean Engberg who will be
relieved of the greater part of the
duties which he has performed in
the past, commonly performed by a
dean of men. Coach Dawson accepts
the double position of Dean or Men
and chief coach of football. He will
be given extra help in the deans of
fice during the football season so
that he can give that work at that
time practically his entire attention.
All of these changes take place Sep
tember 1.
Ths following changes take place
March : Mr. Luehrins's resignation
wis accepted for that date. Mr. Daw
son becomes acting director of ath
letics until September 1 or until hi
(Continued on page 4)
abroad and must pay for tlis pui
cbases with the sale abroad cf hei
products.
The natural source of supply as
well as the natural market, exists
next door to Japan on the Asiatl.
mainland.
Other sources of natural products,
as well as other markets have bei
developed by other countries to mei
their growing needs, and before the
development of what may be called
modern applied commercial etLIct,
some of those countries laid plans to
exploit China without full respect to
China' rght to her own. wealth.
However, that right is now recog
nized publicly, and Japan herself, al
though her access to Chinese supplies
and to Chinese markets is of su
preme importance to ner economic
existence, is determined that there
shall be no infringement of Chines3
rights, no exploitation of China In
any way detrimental to China.
Japan would be the first to puffer-
after China herself from harmful ex
ploitation of China. Even If great
development work should bo under
taken in China, and her production of
aw materials enormously Increased
by an outside nation, unless the prof
its of tbat work should stay In Chi
nese hands It would mean tbat Chi
nese purchasing power would not be
proportionately developed: in other
words there would be no correspond
ing growth of the Chinese market f?r
(Continued on page 4.) ,
All-University Candidates Win
Out In Mid-Year Elelection
Adams, Wenke and Noh Successful on the Junior Ticket Sullivan
and Reynolds Win on Sophomore Ballot
Win by Three to Two Ratio.
KENNETH M'CANDLESS SELECTED BY
SENIORS FOR THE IVY DAY ORATOR
Raymond Tottentoft is Freshman Member of Publication Board
Berge, Simon, Freye and Ebersole Had no Opposi
tionLight Vote is Polled.
The successful candidates for
acli office follows:
Senior Ticket
For President:
Eugene Ebersole 224.
For Ivy Day Orator.
Eugene Dornbaugh 85.
Kenneth McCandless13S.
Junior Ticket.
For President:
Carl Adams 319.
J. Wilbur Wolf 239.
For Editor-in-Chief of the Corn
husker: Frank Beiser 227.
Adolph Wenke 324.
For Publication Board:
Joseph Noh 3uo.
Eugene Philbrick 236.
Sophomore Ticket.
For President:
Harry Freye 462.
For Business Manager of the
Cornhusker:
Audley Sullivan 297.
Howard Turner 175.
For Junior Managing Editor oi
the Ccrnhusker:
John Holiingsworth -187.
Reede Reynolcfa 275.
For Publication Board:
Paul Simon 462.
Freshman Ticket.
For President:
Wendell Berge 512.
For Publication Board:
Ronald Button 174.
Raymond Tottenhoft S38.
Every candidate supported in the
mid-year election by the al-university
party, organized of fraternity and
non-frateinity men and women last
semester, was successful in his race
for the respective offices. The ail
university candidates defeated t'.'p
greater-Nebraska men an average of
three to two votes.
Interest Dies Down.
Interest in the election while ver:
heated for several days previous to
the time of balloting, was on the
wane Tuesday. More than 00 fewer
votes were cast in the election Tuc s
day than in the one early in the
fall. The total vote in the .October
election was 2,359 and the total of
LYCEUM HAIG
TIME 10 GET PLAYS
Management Hard Pressed to Se
cure Good Dramatics for Ex
tension Week.
Prohibitive royalties anl laig.
casts are forcing tho university ly
ceum board into a deep puzzle as to
furnishing entertainment features for
the variety program to be sent out
during the spring vacation. A variety
show has been decidod as one of the
features of the program and it wts
hoped that the University players
would be able to furnish a play for
one evening. A lecture and musical
number probably will be given on one
evening.
At the meeting of the lyceurn board
Monday evening, an effort was made
to get a play for the program. Ail
of the plays submitted- so far by
Miss Alice Howell, director of tho
University players, have either haa
royalties making the cost of produc
ing them prohibitive or else have had
such large casts that the board felt
it could not afford to pay excuses
of tansportation. Miss Howell de
clared it impossible to produco a nes
play especially for University week.
asserting that the department was
overloaded with work now. She
feared that a play gotten np in a
orry would cot do credit to the olay-
ej s.
A resolution was intro-; rt and
fussed fulhorizing the p'iointrapnt
of a c. mlttee to intervie- tho iread
of the fine arts department and see
what could be done In regard to entertainment
ihe yesterday balloting was 1,743.
The influence which the Mated
platforms and endorsed candidate? of
the two factions lias upon the elec
tion is seen in the raot that the per
centage of voting in all offices ran
very nearly the same.
Voting in every class was less than
in the last fall election. The seniors
fell down from 206 votes to 221; the
juniors went from 5S7 to 5HS votes;
the sophomores dropped from 608 to
542 ballots cast, and the freshman
fell short in balloting from 957 lo 512.
Voting at the college of agriculture
was reported to have been lig'Uei and
less interesting than at the last fall
balloting. The same condition pre
vailed on the city campus where little
campaigning was done by candidates
or backers of candidates.
Non-Frat. Men on Committees.
The platform of the winning partv
as published in the Daily Nebraskaa
of last week and which the success
ful candidates are pledged to support
calls for equal representation by both
fraternity and non-fraternity students
in all offices.
Adolph Wenke, newly selected editor-in-chief
of the 1923 Cornhusker,
stated Tuesday evening that he and
Reynolds expect to produce a "real
book.
Eugene Ebersole, new president of
the class of 1922, is a member of
Sigma Phi Epsilon; Kenneth Mc
Candless, selected for Ivy day oratoi,
is a member of Pi Kappa Phi; Adolph
Wenke, editor-in-chief of the 1923
Cornhusker, is a member of Sterna
Phi Epsilon; Carl Adams, junior
president, is a non-fraternity man;
Joseph Noli, senior member of the
i;:dt nt puniaiion board, is a mem
1 r el' Phi I i Ita Thc-ta; Harry Freye,
fp!n:nioi resident, is a moni'je? ot
Si; ma Nv. Reede Reynolds, j'luior
manasing coitor of the 1923 Corn
husker, is a non fraternity man; Aud-5-y
Sullivan, business manager of
the 1023 Cornhusker, is a member
of Kappa Sigma; Paul Simon, junior
member of the student publication
board, is a non fraternity man, Wen
dell P-erge, freshman president, is a
non fv ternity man; Raymond Totten
toft, sophomore member of the stu
dent publication board, is a. non-fraternity
man.
SILVER SERPENTS
HOLD INITIATION
Gladys Mickle was initiated into
Silver Serpent, Junior girls' honorary
society, at a meeting Thursday eve
ning at Ellen Smith hall. Miss
Mickle is a member of Alpha Phi,
the Omaha club and a member of
the V. W. C. A. staff.
Plans fori future. nctiviti?3 iwere
discussed following the initiation.
Silver Serpent will entertain at an
Orpheum party and tea Saturday af
tornoon for last year members of the
organization. Candy and pop corn
balls will be sold by members of Sl'
ver Serpent at the Uni. nlglit pr3
gram, February IS. Plans are under
way for the annual Silver Serpent
circus which is given each yeai la
the spring for all sopnomore and Jun
ior girls.
Electric Lights
Kid Flowers Into
Working Overtime
Electric lights burn the midnight
Juice trying to make spring flowers
blossom in the winter at the campus
greenhouse. From sunset to mid
night tevery vday for the last six
weeks the electric bulbs, nine- in tbe
west room and six in the east, have
been turned on full blast to help
the ferns, tulips, wandering Jews,
and petunias grow. Since Dr Ray
mond John Pool and Dr. Ella Rena
Walker of the botany department
started the experiment the plants
have grown splendidly and show
much Improvement over others of
their kind. The caretaker, however.
hardly believes that any such meth
od could be used practically, as the
lights have already burned up a good
share of the total cost of tbe plants.