T
DAILY NEBRAS KAN
HE
SIGMA DELTA CHI
OUTLINES PLANS
FOR CONVENTION
Fditorial and Business Staffs of
iSh School Papers Guests
of Fraternity Sat
urday. GOOD PROGRAM PLANNED
iv Prizes to Be Awarded in
the "Better Publications
Contest" for Best
Papers.
Welcomed by the University and by
the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce,
the convention of Nebraska high
School Editors convenes in Lincoln for
one-day session on Saturday, May
12, as a part of the program of High
School Fete Day.
Editorial and business staffs of all
Nebraska high school newspapers and
annuals will be the guests of Nebras
ka chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, under
vhoe auspices the convention is con
ducted, on that day. An elaborate
program has been arranged for the
visitors.
Over fifty delegates have already
fent in their advance registrations and
it is expected that this number will
oe considerably increased before the
end of the week. Faculty journalism
sponsors in many cases are accom
panying the .student delegates and will
have a part on the program.
i future of the convention will
the awarding of six prizes offered
by Nebraska chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi in the "Better Publications Con
tost" which has been carried on this
winter 'y the local group. Two silver
cups for the best monthly and weekly
Turners as well as four certificates of
honor will be presented to the editors
of the papers winning the prizes by
the president of Sigma Delta Chi.
After registration of delegates
which will be held in room 101 of So
cial Science Hall at S:30 Saturday
morning, Chancellor Samuel Avery
will welcome the visitors in the name
of the University. Members of the
journalistic fraternity will take the
high school editors on an automobile
tour to points of interest around Lin
coln before the group divides into sec
tions to visit local newspaper and en
graving plants.
i;nun rl-tflhle discussions of high
school journalism problems and a con
ference for thes taff of each visiting
paper and annual will be arranged at
various times during the day. Ques
tions which the editors have been
struggling with during the past year
will be thoroughly discussed in these
sections.
Following the lunchean at the
Chamber of Commerce at noon and
after the dinner at the Grand Hotel
in the evening, some of Lincoln's most
prominent journalists will speak to
the convention delegates. Prof. J. W.
Searson of the University, who is
president of the National Council of
.English Teachers, will speak on "Im
proving the High School Publication."
Will Owen Jones of the Nebraska
State Journal and J. E. Lawrence of
the Lincoln Star are to address the
editors. Ex-Governor S. R. McKelvie
may return from Chicago in time to
speak at one of the sessions of the
convention.
Convention headquarters will be
maintained in the office of the Daily
Nebraskan in Administration building
on the city campus. Announcements
and instructions will be available from
the headauarters Friday afternoon
and all dav Saturday. Members of
Theta Sigma Phi in conjunction with
members of Sieroa Delta Chi are en
gaging places for the delegates to
stay during theiy stay in the capitol
citv.
The program has been arranged so
as not to conflict with the other activ
ities of High School Fete Day as far
as possible, and all delegates will have
an opportunity to see the State Hign
School track meet.
University Art Club
Annual Sunns: Party
to Be Held Saturday
The University Art Club will give
its annual rriTir nartT Saturday. May
12 in the Art Gallery. Each student
m the School of Fine Arts is invited
to come to the party and bring a
friend. The evening will be spent in
dancing, and refreshments will be
served.
It ong been the purpose of the
club to .rtain all students of the
school at a party, but until this year,
Pi Kanna Phi Pmt
buffers Loss From
Bad Fire Yesterday
Fire at the Pi K
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destroyed tha rff f th Kn;n;M,v j
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damaged some, of the personal prop-
eriy 01 me men living there.
The damage was covered by insur
ance, according to J. V. Mayer, 1725
South Twenty-sixth street, the owner
of the property. The fire was caused
by a spark from the flue, according
the the fire chief. It was AivenvantA
by neighbors who reported the fire to
the department. Since the house is
only a block from Encn'ne
8, the fighters were there in a short
time.
OFFER FOR UNI MEN
Chief Quartermaster Brannon of
Lincoln Office Ready to
Explain Details.
An opportunity for real "he-men"
to get good jobs with steady advance
ment and the privilege of retiring
after sixteen years with permanent
salaries for the rest of their lives, is
what the navy offers, according to
Chief Quartermaster Branson, of the
Lincoln office. "We want men who
are willing to work, and who can come
up to our standards physically, men
tally and morally. To such men the
navy offers a chance that is seldom
equaled in civil life. After twenty
years' service a man can retire with
an income of $104 a month. Show me
any place in civil life where the aver
age man has the same opportunity.
Of special interest to university
men is the fact that every year one
hundred men are appointed from the
ranks to the Naval Academy at An
nopolic. These men are trained for
four years at government expense and
then become officers. There are also
openings in the radio, hospital, musi
cian and yeomen branches. The men
who enlist in these branches are given
a technical education which will bo
of great value to them after they
leave the navy. There are many va
cancies in the engineering branch
which offer a good chance for ad
vancement. For men who do not wish to enlist
in one of the trade branches, the sea-
I man branch is open. -Here the oppor-
1 , . . .
tunitv tor advancement is jum
great and the man has the privilege
of changing at any time to a trade if
he so desires. The man who enlists
here will be sent to the training school
at San Francisco where he will re
ceive three months' training before
being sent to sea. while in the navy-
he will get thirty days a year leave
with pay. Any men who are inter
ested should see Mr. Brannon at ihe
post office building.
WINS PE
Calloway Takes Second 1'iace
with Aurora Third rvarr
Is High Man.
Results in the 1923 high school pen
tathlon were announced yesterday at
Coach Schulte's office. Gothenburg
won first place in the team pentathlon
with 15. 722 points, while canaviay
took second honors with 15,408 points.
v. f Gothenbure won the indi
vidual championship with 4,425 points.
A summary of the team resuns
follows:.
Gothenburg l"
Callaway
Aurora 5
iw i-"8
Cambridge" ,136
Bloomfield 14-j?
Tecumseh WJ
Wilbur 027
McCook ?2,919
Arnold
Bartley .
The first fifteen athletes m me in
dividual pentathlon standings are as
Karr, Gothenburg
Holmes, Gothenburg
Moore, Aurora --
Chambers, Fremont
Aitken. Cambridge
Mandery. Tecumseh
Rowland, Aurora
Hudercheldt, Columbus 4,ou
..5 zSK
J. OOI, -
Weir, Superior
3.936
3,920
8,910
S,S97
3,8C9
riAVY
HAS
SPLENDID
GOTHENBURG
111
NTATHLON
Marvel, Hastings
Marvin, Alliance
bailey. Alliance
Chadd, Callaway
NEW MEMBERS
ARE ANNOUNCED
FOR SIGMA XI
National Honorary Scientific Or
ganization Elects Thirty-..
Five New Members
This Year.
NEW OFFICERS
ELECTED
Nebraska Chapter Organized in
AAA V a a
iys urbanization itas
Total of Forty
Chapters. c
Thirty-five new members were
elected at the annual' meeting of the
local chapter of Sigma Xi, national
scientific honor society, May 7. The
annual initiation and banquet will
occur late in May. and the exact date
will be announced in the near future.
The newly-elected officers for th
societ" are: President, H. G. Dem
ing; vice-president, W. L. DeBaufre;
secretary, Emma N. Anderson; treas
urer. M. G. Gaba: councillor, A. L.
Candv. These officers succeed R. J
Pool as president; and M. H. Swenk
as vice-Dresident, the other officers
beinff re-elected from last year.
The Nebraska Chapter of Sigma Xi
is one of the forty regular chapters
which now constitute the national or
ionization The most of the chapters
are at prominent universities and col
leces in all parts of the United States,
The local chapter at the university is
the only chapter in this state. The
first, or parent chapter was organized
at Cornell Universitv in 1S86 by a
small group of scientific men inter
ested primarily in engineering. The
Nebraska chapter was the sevenlh to
be admitted to the society, this chap
ter being dated June 24, 1S9S. The
latest chapters to be organized and
granted charters were Swarthmore
College and the University of Oregon
in 1922.
Sigma Xi grew out of the desire
for comradeship in a small group of
earnest and scholarly university men,
whose tastes and training were along
engineering and scientific lines and
who found their intellectual ideas not
altogether in sympathy with the old
established ideals of literary scholar
ship. They were beginning to realize
that the American college is but the
culmination of the disciplinary train
ing of the high school, and were quite
unconsciously formulating for Ameri
can education the ti-ue university
spirit. Although effort had often put
forth to establish an intercollegiate
scientific society, such a body did not
come into actual existence until the
founding of the Alpha chapter of this
organization.
Sigma Xi has been a very active
society since its founding, and while
not exactly competing with Phi Beii
Kappa, nevertheless it has contributed
much to the origin nad growth of the
best things in the intellectual life of
our colleges and universities.
The charter members of the Ne
l.raska chapter were: E. H. Barbour
C. E. Bessey, Lawrence Bruner, A. L.
Candy, F. W. Card, E. W. Davis. I
I,. Lvon. H. H. Nicholson, ' R. B
Oewns, C. R. Richards, 0. V. P. Stout,
G. D. Stout, Swezey and H. B. W ard
Of these professors, Barbour, Candy,
Swezey and Brunei- are still on the
university faculty.
The list of new members is as loi-
lows:
Active Members
From the faculty Harry, M. Mar
tin, Zoology.
From the graduate students Ellen
Armstrong, Botany; Martha E. Cur
tis, Zoology; A. C. Edwards, Biochem
istry; LeRoy G. Story, Chemistry; E.
Z. Stowell, Physics; E. C. Grau, Anat
omy; Bruce H. Harris, Botany; Ed-o-ar
V. Allen. Anatomy; H. C Law-
son, Physiology and Prahmacy; Bar
nard McKenzie. Chemistry; JJ. i. Mas
urovsky, Dairy Husbandry; John L.
Osborn, Zoology; Maud Reed, Botany,
H. B. Sprague, Agronomy.
Associate Members
Frm the graduate students John
V Schultz, Chemistry; Leland S.
Paine, Gealogy and Geography.
From the Senior class kdwin isar
tunek, Electrical Engineering; Fred S.
Bukey. Pharmacy; Stuart H. Cook,
Chemistry; Earl G. Colton, Geology;
Harold E. Cox, Mechanical Engineer
ing; S. 3. Keeter, Electrical Engineer
ing; Henry A. Karo, Civil Engineer
ing; H. L. Klentschy, Mechanical En
gineering; Sam L. Krechefsky, Ar
chitectural Engineering; Dorothy Mc
Cutcheon, Zoology; Ralph V. McGrew,
Chemistry; Dwight McVicker. Geol
ogy; Louise B. Mathews, Zoologoy; C.
B. Philip, Entomnology; Robert San
derson, Zoology; Caryl Sly, Chemis
try; C. L. Wfble, Physiology; George
M. Buffett, Chemistry.
JOHN G. NEIHARDT
TO SPEAK FRIDAY
AT CONVOCATION
Poet Laureate Will Read Some
of His Own Compositions
English Classes
Excused.
LEAN ES FRIDAY EVENING
Faculty Men's Club Will Enter-
tain Dr. Neihardt at
Dinner Thursday
Evening.
Enarlish classes meeting at 11
o'clock Friday morning will be ex
cused for the convication at which
Dr. John G. Neihardt will speak. No
other classes will be dismissed. Dr
Neihardt, who was made Poet Lau
reate of Nebraska by the 1919 ses
sion of the legislature, is expected to
read some of his own compositions.
Dr. Neihardt will arrive in Lincoln
next Thursday afternoon. He will be
dinner given by the Faculty Men's
Club. He will make his initial speech
before a Lincoln audience at this time.
All male members of the faculty and
administrative forces of the Univer
sity are invited to attend. Reserva
tions should be phoned to the Finance
office or to a member of the club's
committee before Thursday.
Poetry as an element in education
will be the theme of the address which
Dr. Neihardt will deliver at convoca
tion on Friday morning. Immediately
after the convocation, a lu.icheon will
be given for him by Chancellor Avery
and the faculty of the English depart
ment.
A dinner at the Lincoln Hotel on
Friday evening will conclude the en
tertainment planned ofr Dr. Neihardt.
This will be given by the School
Masters club of which Dean Sealock
is the president.
Henry VanDyke speaking of Nei-
hardt's work says:
"It has the breath of life in it; it
goes to the mark. John Masefield has
well earned honor by his gift of tell
ing a vstcty in verse. I think Jonn
Neihardt's is as good. Nay, 1 like
it better, because it is about a land
and people that 1 know and love."
The Yale Review: "Let us fervently
pray that lhese Songs may take rank
with, if not precedence over, Scott
and Tennvson in our schools, while
the Xew York Call states: "For
beauty of expression, for color and
imagery, for sustained power,
few
modern poets are his equal."
ALPHA KAPPA PSI
ELECTS OFFICERS
Professional Commercial Frater
nity Holds Annual Meet
ing Alumni Chapter
Planned.
At the annual meeting of the Alpha
Kappa Psi, professional commercial
fratemitv. the following officers
elected for the coming school year:
President; Raymond Eller; vice-
president, Kenneth Cozier; secretary,
Dietrich Dierks; treasurer,. Willard
Usher; corresponding secretary, Wil
lard 'Penry; and master of rituals,
Hoyt Hawke.
Kenneth Cozier will represent the
cl.apter at the annual, conclave at
Xew York in June
On Wednesday, May 16, Founders'
Day will be celebrated the annual
banquet. Alpha Kappa Psi was
founded at New York University on
May 15, 1905, and Zeta chapter was
established at Nebraska in 1914.
There are now forty chapters of the
fraternity.
Plans are under way for the estab
lishment of an alumni chapter in
Omaha, where many of the members
of the organization are engaged in
business.
Miss Heppner Gives
Tea for Graduates
Saturday at 3 P. M.
Saturday afternoon at from three
to five at Ellen Smith Hall, the girls
of the senior class will be entertained
at a tea by Miss Amanda Heppner,
dean of women of the University.
This is the last affair of the season
for the girls of th graduating class.
It is the custom "of the dean of
women to entertain the girls who are
graduating with a tea in the end of
the school year. She extends to all
girls of the senior class an invitation
to attend the tea.
Many Attend Picnic
of Y. W. C. A. Girls
Held Tuesday Night
In Dlace of the regular Tuesday
afternoon vesper services of the Uni
versity Y. W. C A., a conference hike
picnic was held last night, when about
150 girls hiked to Antelope 1'aiK.
A cafeteria lunch was served by the
members of the conference staff, and
short talks by girls who last year
attended the conference were made by
Ruth Small and Dorothy Williams.
Grace Soacht led devotionals, and
music was furnished by the Vesper
choir.
Nebraska is in the western district,
and her representatives attend con
ference at Estes Park, Colorado.
IS MAY 17 AT CRETE
Chancellor and Mrs. Avery Fur
nish Luncheon Wallace
Craig Is Chairman.
Chancellor and Mrs. Avery will fuv
nish the luncheon for the senior picnic
to be civen at Horkey's Park May 17.
The senior picnic is an annual affair,
and is given as a farewell to the grad
uating class.
Seniors will be excused from classes
on that day as will also all underclass
men who furnish sufficient transpor
tation, and secure excuses in advance
from the Executive Dean or the Dean
of Men. Cars are to be used- to take
people to and from Horky's Park, and
arrangements are in the hands of a
special committee from the graduat
ing class.
There will be dancing in the pavi
lion, music being furnished by a pop
ular University orchestra. The usual
boating, and swimming for all those
hardy enough to wish to go in, will
be other features of the entertain
ment. The committee on arrangements for
the picnic is as follows:
Wallace Craig, chairman; Kather-
ine Beacom, J. Wilbur Wolfe, James
Fiddock, Lorraine McCreary, Grant
Lantz, Adam Kohl, Floyd Reed and
Jacqueline Bost.
NSTALLED ON CAMPUS
Five Girls Initiated as Charter
Members into Gamma
Epsilon Pi.
Mu Chapter of Gamma Epsilon lM,
national honorary fraternity for girls
specializing in business administra
tion, was installed at. Nebraska Uni-
vnrciii- 'W.-m.latr afternoon Mav 7 at
o'clock, at which time the following
were initiated as cnaner memoes
of the organization:
Nancy Tennoyer
Janet McClellan
Eleanor Dunlap
Grace Dobish
Mildred Jensen
Miss Grace Merrill, Northwestern
University '20, grand president of the
fraternity, served as chief installing
officer. Assistant her were Louise
Jerrill, Iowa University '23, and
Ernestine Schultz, Kansas University
'22.
The installing officers and Mrs. J
E. LeRossignol and Mrs. r . t.. wone
were entertained at a luncheon at
the Woodburn preceding the instal
lation services. At four o'clock the
Girls' Commercial Club entertained
the officers, faculty women, and new
ly initiated members of the fraternity
at a tea in their honor at Ellen Smith
HsJl.
Gamma Epsilon Pi was established
at University of Illinois on March 26,
1918, and since that time it has added
to its roll, seventeen chapters estab
lished in the leading universities in
the United States. Election to mem
bership is purely honorary, only
junior and senior women are eligible.
Each year the fraternity may elect
15 per cent, of their upperclassmen
enrolled in Business Administration
College and the elecv.ed members
must have a l average of 85 per cent.
or over.
Correction
It was announced in Tuesday's Ne
braskan that the officers for the
Senior Girls' Advisory board for next
year had bejn elected but this was a
mistake. Ti;ey will not be elected
until after installation Saturday
morning.
ANNUAL
SENIOR
PICNIC
HONORARY
FRATERNITY
HEAVY VOTE CAST
FOR MEMBERS OF
STUDENTJ0UNC1L
New Members to Convene Soon
and Elect Officers for Next
Year Announced
Later.
OLD MEMBERS HOLD OVER
Only Two Votes Cast in Dental
Collie Many Names Are
Written in This
Year.
An unusually heavy vote was cast
yesterday in the elections for the
Student Council for 1923-24. Marx
Kochnke, whose name was written in
on the ballots, was elected from the
College of Agriculture. The largest
vote was cast in the "Ag" College
where a total of 130 ballots was cast.
The Dental College with a total of 2
votes, had the smallest number.
The polls were in the Library Cor
ridor on the City Campus and in the
Dean's office at the MAg" Campus.
A tabulated list of the votes cast, with
the names of the winning candidates
at the top of the list, follows:
Juniors
Ruth Small 2S8
Josephine Shramek 211
Lila Wyman 162
Beatrice Broughton 107
Robert F. Craig 279
Carl J. IYterson 212
James Tyson 204
Don Reynolds 127
College of Engineering
Francis Boucher 17
William Bertwell IS
Judson Meier 6
College of Business Administration
Victor Anderson 23
Dave Richardson 16
Edward Stemen 16
College of Agriculture
Marx Koehnke (written in) 58
Hugh McLaughlin 43
Raymond Swallow 29
Frances Weintz 9o
Edna Boorman (written in) 9
College of Arts and Sciences
Ronald Button SO
Emmett Maun SO
Neva Jones 56
Glee Gardner 48
Fine Arts College
Gladys Lux 16
Beulah Butler 15
Lavada Zutter 10
Pharmacy College
Pell Broady 26
George Carpenter 23
George Hargreaves 1
Teachers College
Dorothy Hultin 11
Arvilla Johnson 8
Mary Boyles
Law College
William Schaaf 40
Richard Mackey (written in) 17
Keith Evans 8
Wallace Waite 0
Dentistry College
Jack Meradith 2
N. F. Johnson 0
Cornhuskers Meet
Ames Cyclones Today
on Tennis Courts
The tennis season at Nebraska will
begin officially Wednesday when the
Cornhusker team will meet the Iowa
State players from Ames. The game
is scheduled to be played on the
campus courts beginning at 3:30 p. m.
Nebraska's team will be selected
from Bob Rus?ell, Minor Skallberg.
John Newton and George Teddicord,
according to the number of players
needed. It is probable that three sets
of singles and one set of doubles will
be played. Ames is reported to have
a strong team and the competition
should be keen.
New Vikings Elect
Officers for Next
Year Last Night
At the election of officers for next
year's Vikings, junior men's interfra
ternity society, the following were
elected: President, Arthur Whit
worth; vice-president, Arthur Latta;
secretary, Phillip Lewis; treasurer,
Giles Henkle; sergeant-at-arms, Wil
lard Usher.
The men are elected to the Vikings
in the early spring, each fraternity
being represented by one member. The
purpose of the organization is to bring
the men of the class into closer re
lationship with one . another.
t has never been accomplished.