11 Twe Daily Nebraskan FIVE TEAMS DROP OUT OF RACE FUR FORENSIC HONORS iTniversity Place, Auburn, Oma ha Technical, Battle Creek, and McCook Win First Debates. WLL BE RESUMED TODAY Motion Pictures of Delegates to Be Taken Today at 12 Greeley Meets Auburn. The winners in the five opening (te stes Thursday evening at the Uni versity of Nebraska in the sixteenth jtate debate of the Nebraska 1 High School Debating League were: Uni versity Tlace (affirmative), of the East-Central District, defeated Brady, Western I. by a verdict of 2 to 1; Auburn, (affirmative), Southeastern, defeated Grant (Western II); Omaha Technical (negative), Eastern dis trict, defeated Oakland (Northeast em), unanimously; Battle Creek (neg .KvpI. North-Central, defeated Sid ney, (Northwestern) 2 to 1; and Mc Cook (negative), Southwestern, de feated Geneva (Central), unanimous ly. Lot-drawing held at 10 o'clock Thursday evening in the office of the president, Prof. M. M. Fogg, decided the pairing and sides for the three contests Friday morning at 10 o'clock as follows: McCook (Southwestern), affirmative Battle Creek (North Central district), negative; Greeley (West-Central), affirmative Auburn (Southeastern), negative; University Place (East-Central), affirmative Omah Technical (Eastern), negative. The University Flace-Omaha Tech nical debate Friday morning will be held in Memorial Hall. The Greeley Auburn debate, in which Auburn changes sides from Thursday evening, will take place in Law 101. The Mc-Cook-Battle Creek contest, in which McCook changes sides from Thurs day evening, will be held .in the Dramatic Club Room, third floor of the Temple. Moving and set pictures of the eleven district championship delegates and the league officers will be taken Friday at 12 o'clock on the east steps of Administration building. The Sidney (Northwestern district) team, in charge of Mrs. Merle Green, is at the Lincoln hotel. On the team is a brother of Guy Chamberlain, Law 'lfi, oftLincoln, former Nebraska In tercollegiate debater who represented Sidney and the Northwestern district in the first state debate of the league in 100S. The Geneva team (Central district) delegation of five, is at the Lindell hotel in charge of Miss Ellen Maun It. Five representatives of Battle Creek (North-Central district) are at the Y. M. C. A. in charge of Miss Yrsa Hansen. The Brady team (Western District I) is at the Lincoln hotel, in charge of J. A. Matters. The order of speaking and the judges at the five debates follow: Auburn, Southeastern district (Isa hello Snyder, Marie Nelson, Margaret C.ill.in)-Grant, Western district II (Ruth Troxel, Frank Stohler, Gladys Burgef. Won by Auburn. Judges: Cecil C. Strimple, Law '23 (Nebraska debating teams against Iowa 1020 arid 19211. Oakland, Northwestern , district (Leo Neilsen. Margaret Peterson, EI dred Larson)-Omaha Technical, East ern district (Edwin Hodle, George E. Williams, George M. Hagerman). Won by Omaha Technical, unanimous. Judges: Sheldon Tefft, 22, Law '24, Weening Wntr Nbraska debating teams against Iowa 1921 and 1922, and South Dakota 1923); J. Manly Phelps, Department of Dramatic Art, University School of Mus'.c (debater at Northwestern University); Prof. L. E.Aylsworth, department of Politi cal Science, University of Nebraska. Sidney, Northwestern (Franklin Hornaday, Laurence Davis, Roy Chambers) -Battle Creek, North-Cen tral (William Schultz. Doris Thorn Won bv Battle Creek, 2 to 1. Judges: Robert Van Pelt, attorney, Lincoln (Nebraska aeoating tea:n against Iowa 1920); Prof. J. O. Rankin, departmentof rural economise TTnii-wttw nf TJphrnska - - . .. it ' ioJ - (intercollegiate debater at Iowa State Agricultural College); Prof. Guernsey Jones, department of history, Uni versity of Nebraska. Geneva, Central (Howard Hamilton Roland Pronst. Donald Warner)-Mc- Cook, Southwestern district (Evelyn McClure, Fern Harbaugh, Hazel Shep herd). Woi. by Mc-Cook, unanimous (Continued on Tage Two.) Miss Heppner Will Entertain Seniors Miss Amanda Heppner will be hos tess at a party for all senior girls Saturday afternoon at Ellen Smith Hall from 3 to 5 o'clock. She will be assisted by the Silver Serpents, junior honorary society, according to a cus tom of past years. Spring flowers w ill be used as decoration. A continuous program will provide entertainment for the guests. Vocal and piano solos as well as an original skit, which the Silver Serpents will present, will be included. ELECTS OFFICERS Clifford Hicks Elected President for Ensuing Year Meets for the Last Time Friday. Student Council Officers President Clifford Hicks Vice-president Helen Kummer Secretary Ruth Small At the first meeting of he Student Council held last evening in Social Science 107, officers for next year's Council were elected. Those chosen to lead the activities of the Student Council for the coming term are: President, Clifford Hicks; vice-presi dent, Helen Kummer; secretary, Rufh Small. Ferd Bing, the retiring presi dent of the Council, gave a farewell talk to the incoming members of the Council. Robert Polk, Roscoe- Perrin, and Guy Hyatt, retiring members of the Council, ave short talks to the mem bers of the new Council. President elect Hicks took charge of the busi ness of the meeting. Plans for next year, as well as practicability of the continuation of present policies, were discussed. The Council will meet for the last time this year, next Friday at 5 o'clock, in the same room in Social Science. NEW RULES RESTRICT OF Organizations Having Deficits Must Pay, Cease Activities or Guarantee Bills. financial def icits will hereafter not be permitted to hold any sort of entertainment, ac cording to action taken by the student organization committee of which Amanda Heppner, dean of women, is Ml chairman. A list of such groups win be published after the next meeting ... .11 i 1 1 1 f the committee which win be neiu uring the coming week, and which fill be devoted entirely to a discus- SI ion of this matter. Tkn Tnvnnp of the committee in i- i' - making such a ruling is to induce or franiTntinns to linuidate or at least to reduce their present deficits. Let- - . . . II i. ters will be sent to tne presuiem iu . . . t t - 1 each group advising mm in regani the matter. TVm SplWk. of the Student Activ ities office, has recently put on trial a plan whereby all members oi a uen cient organization wishing to give a ..-f nr. ronuired to sign a guaran tee that they will be responsible for the bills incurred by the party and for the deficit. This scheme will form the only condition under which these organizations may hold any function. The committee also deciciea io i nights during 1923-24 except Food iMnv. Acril 18, and the nights be fore final examinations. It is felt that the majority of the students are restricted on closed nights for the benefit of a few. Two organizations, the practical .f s a ecrtPI H t.i ftfl of the Teachers' Col der and Pi Epsilon Pi. were recog nized by the committee. Application for appointment to the staff of Tne uany the first semester, 1923-1924, . m.i later for sho ..u h sunmiucp "i , Friday, May 18. Application tha bla iks may be got at the u' iuiti office Acti ti,. rations to be Ailed are: editor, marwgMg' editor, associate edit :o-, night editor unrec,, - ness manager, assistant m-.... and circulation manager. M. M. FOGG, Acting Chairman, University Publication Board. STUDENT COUNCIL SPENDING MONEY LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NEBRASKA'S POET WILL GIVE TALK AT CONVOCATION John G. Neihardt to Make Ad dress in Temple Theater at Eleven O'clock Today. POET LAUREATE OF STATE Entertained at Dinner Given by r acuity men's uud is Guest of Dean Sherman. John G. Neihardt, Nebraska poet laureate and honor alumnus of the University, will address the special convocation Friday morning at eleven o'clock in the Temple Theater. Poetry as an element in education wn be the theme of his address. English classes meeting at the hour of the convoca tion will be excused. Dr. Neihafdt arrived Thursday af ternoon and spoke at the dinner of the Faculty Men's Club. He will be entertained after the convocation Fri day at a luncheon given by Chancellor Avery and the members of the fac ulty of the English department. In the evening, he will be the guest of honor at the dinner to be given by the School Masters' Club at the Lincoln Hotel. During his stay in Lincoln, he will be the guest of Dean L. A. Sherman of the graduate college. Dr. Neihardt was in 1919 named poet laureate of the state by the Leg islature of that year. At the normal school of Wayne, Nebraska, Nei hardt's home, a bust of the poet has been placed. It was presented to the school by the poet's mother, and was modelled by his wife, Mona Martenson Neihardt. Dr. Neihardt is the author of nu merous poems, including "The Dawn Builder", "Lonesome Trail", "The Quest", "The River and I", "Song of Hugh Glass", "Song of Three Friends", "Stranger at the Gate," and "Two Mothers". In 1921 Mr. Neihardt was editor-in-chief of The Poet's Pack, a monthly published in New York. Medical Fraternity Elects New Members Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary medical fraternity, has elected the following students from the class of 192:1. University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha: Neil J. Dau, Fresno, Cal.; Warren H. Eller, Lin coln: W. Max Gentry. Goring; W. H. Judd, Rising City; Morris Margolin, Omaha; A. R. Moritz. Seward; C. A. Owens, Omaha; H. E. Stroy, Murdock, and D. Q. Waddell, Los Angeles. Twentv-six leading medical schools in the United States have chapters of this fraternity. The Nebraska chap ter was established in 1914. Dr. Inez Pbilbrick will talk to the University girls at St. Paul's church. Sunday May 13, at 9:45. Her subject hp "The College Girl's Christian Responsibility Toward the Health of Future Generations." University Y. W. C. Report From "Foochow Association of the Honor Roll" is the title of a report received by the University Y. W. C. A. from Mildred Hand of Shanghai, China. Fukien Province was at the time of writing the report the center of one of the many flurries of welfare so characteristic of the provinces on the early days of the Republic of China. The annual finance campaign, in charge of Rosale Venable, general sec retary for China, started off with a typhoon that used up so much coal on the steam launch that was taking the secretary to Foochow that the crew had to make up the coal dust that remained in the bins into little balls to enable the boat to carry them the remainder of the way. Upon ar riving, Miss Venable found that the governor had issued bonds to the amourt of $13,000,000 to pay me nor thern soldiers who were holding the city. Next day Miss Venable departed after the foreign consul had urged that all properties of the Y. W. C. A. be removed to the safety zone with out delay. "Even war has its hu morous aspects," for finally the as sociation as in a state of deficit. The "association" then in Foochow FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1923. INSPECTORS WILL VISIT NEBRASKA'S UNIT OFJU T. C. Two Majors Will Arrive Monday to Gather Report to Make to War Depart ment. HIGHER RATING WANTED Visiting Officers to Be Enter tained by Major Erickson, Captain Nix and Scab bard and Blade. Major Henry T. Bull of the United States cavalry, on duty with the chief of Cavalry, and Major R. W. King man, of the United States infantry, on duty with the chief of infantry, will arrive in Lincoln Monday to inspect tthe R. O. T. C. unit of the University and report to the war department in regard to conferring distinguished rating. The officers are on a tour of inspection, visiting, Texas, Arizona, California. Oregon and Washington and including fourteen schools, with the final intention of deciding as to the relative merits of the military de partments of the schools visited. Monday, from one to six, there will be a general inspection. On Tuesday morning, the officers will inspect the classes which regularly meet at that time. Distinguished Rating Distinguished rating is accorded on the basis of faculty and student sup port, equipment and facilities for the work, and practical and theoretical work of the corps. The work of the unit in general must be above the average. The announcement as to ratings will be made about the first of July. There are only twenty-five honor schools in the country, and they are inspected annually to be sure that each one keeps up the rating, fcu souri is the one western school which is now rated in this class. In 1921, Minnesota was so honored. Major Bull and Major Kingman, will leave Wednesday morning for Washington, D. C, where they will report on this trip. Every year the war department picks certain schools to be inspected preparatory to the de cision as to the conferring of the rat ing. Nebraska has never before been considered eligible. Entertainment Planned While the officers are in Lincoln, they will be honor guests at several functions. On Monday, Major Sidney Erickson of the military department of the University of Nebraska, will entertain them at luncheon. Mrs. Erickson will be the hostess at the Monday evening dinner at which they will be honored. Scabbard and Blade, honorary mili tary fraternity, will give a luncheon Tuesday for the officers, and on Tues day evening, they will attend the din ner of the Reserve Officers' associa tion. Sunday afternoon, Mrs. R. W. Nix, wife of Captain Nix of the Military department, will give a tea in honor of the military inspectors. A. Receives Workers in China consisted of four foreign secretaries "determined not to run." Upon in struction from the consuls they with all other foreigners fled to the Island connected with Foochow by "The Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages" and then to the mobilization point on Natsi Island where they were forced to join the "refugees". Here in the Danic-stricken mob the four secre taries held classes in hand sewing and hygiene talks. Then they worked in the Red Cross rooms making supplies for the emergency hospital opened for soldiers wounded in battle. Much bankruptcy has made Foochow a city economically unstable. The first public playground in China is yet to be established, but interpre tative dancing is a new feature in the curriculum of the Normal Training School for Hygiene and Physical Edu cation just added this year. Huo Tzo who h?d just returned from two years of study at Mill3 College and the Uni versity of Wisconsin, is teaching this course. One of the special events of this new department was the visit of Pavowa who seemed much pleased with the class and who graciously gave two boxes so that the seniors might see her dance. IChatburn's New Book Now in Circulation "Highways and Highway Transpor tation." written by Prof. Chatbum, chairman of the department of ap plied mechanics of the College of bn- o-inperincr. is iust off the press of tne Wiley company, publishers of tech nical books. The volume contains manv nctual Dhotographs of obsolete and modern methods of transporta tion and road conditions, and is sup plemented by detailed lists of ref erences. Copies ot tne worn are nuw in circulation on the campus. WILL MEET SATURDAY Seventy Delegates to Be Here Under Ausoices of Sigma Delta Chi. Headquarters for the convention of Nebraska High School Editors will be open in the office of The Daily Nebraskan in the Adminis tration Building this afternoon and all day Saturday. Seventy delegates from high schools in every part of the state will arrive in Lincoln today and early tomorrow for the convention of Nebraska High School Editors. Registration of dele gates will take place at 8:30 Saturday morning in Room 101 of Social Science Hall. Editors and business managers of high school newspapers and annuals and faculty sponsors of journalism ac tivities are invited to the convention. Interest among the high schools is evidenced by the large delegates which are being miles. At least two schools are sending representatives more than three hundred miles. Sigma Delta Chi journalistic fraternity is in charge of the meetings Convention Pamphlet A sixteen-page pamphlet, "Nebraska High School Journalism," has been published and will be given to the delegates at the time of registration. The pamphlet contains a detailed pro- irram of the sessions and an outline of the discussions which will occupy an important place on the program of the day. Following an introduc tion which reviews the purpose of high school newspapers and annuals, are printed suggestions to the edi torial and business staffs. Thpse suggestions have been com piled after a study of practically all Nebraska high school papers and an nuals as well as figures concerning high school publications in South Da kota and Kansas. High schools may obtain copies of the pamphlet by send ing to Sigma Delta Chi, under whose uuspices the book is written, and en closing mailing charges. Delegates to the Editors' conven tion will be asked to express their opinions on the founding of a perma nent high school publication organ ization to be known as the "Nebraska High School Press Association." De tails of the organization will be worked out at a business session to be held at the Chamber of Commerce following a luncheon and address by Prof. J. W. Searson. Arrangements for the lodging of the delegates at fraternity and so rority houses is under the direction of members of Sigma Delta Chi nnd Theta Sigma Phi. Instructions to del egates concerning the convention and lodging arrangements may be ob tained at the office of The Daily Ne braskan this afternoon and tomorrow. Vocational Men to Discuss Wage Cuts A meeting of all vocational students in the University will be held Friday evening at 7:30 at 1133 M street to discuss the proposed cut in wages for ex-service men. All men who served in the array and who are now attend ing the University are urged to at tend the meeting. a nararf and review in honor of the Governor and his Staff will be held at five o'clock Friday, May 11, on the drill field north "W Social Science building. The first call will be at 4:50. All cadets will be required to attend In proper uniform unless properly excused, by order of Major Erickson, professor of Mili tary Science and Tactics. HIGH SCHOOL EDITORS HIGH SCHOOLERS CLASH IN TRACK If ET SATURDAY Thirty-seven Squads Will Com pete in Twenty-hrst Annual Track and Field Meet. ALL TEAMS ARE GROUPED Best Athletes in State Will Try tor Honors rreiiminaries Show Very Good Records. Thirty-seven high schools will com pete in the twenty-first annual state high school track and field meet, which will be held at the state fair grounds tomorrow afternoon, starting at 1:30 o'clock. The teams have been divided into three groups, according the en rollment of the schools. All the teams entered in the state meet Saturday have shown up well in the various meets which have been held thruout the state the past three weeks, and the competition should be intensely keen Saturday. Grouping of Schools Nine schools have been classified in the first group, sixteen in the second and twelve in the third group. Ar lington with nine entrants, Gallaway with twenty, Clay Center with sixteen, Dewitt with eleven, Dodge with five, Edgar with six, and Valparaiso with ten athletes have been listed in the first class. Alliance entering the meet with two athletes, Aurora with eight, Broken Bow with seven, Cambridge with ten Crete twelve, Geneva eight, Have- lock two, Hebron six, McCook ten, Os ceola, four, Cozad one, Harvard eight, and Wilber ten, will compete for honors in the second division. Beatrice with thirteen names on the entry list, Fremont with twenty-one, Grand Island seventeen, Hastings sev enteen, Lincoln Fourteen, Norfolk five, Omaha Central eighteen, Univer sity Place twelve, North Platte four, Scottsbluff three, Superio'r one, and Columbus eighteen, have been listed in group one. In Group Three, a close contest for first laurels is expected between Oma ha Central, which won the state title last year, Lincoln, which was victo rious at the Hastings meet last year, and Fremont, Columbus, and Grand Island. The Omaha team won the Fremont meet several weeks ago, competing against Lincoln, Fremont, and other schools, and so the big city lads are favored to cop the state track championship again this year. An even closer fight than the Group Three contest is promised in Group Two. Broken Bow, which won the Custer County meet last week, is the favorite. Gothenburg, however, can be counted on to put up a hard fight for first honors, as the state team pen tathlon competition went to the Goth enburg athletes. Tecumseh, with Mandery. sprinter, and McKenzie, hurdler, as its star performers, is planning to capture first place. Wilber, which won Group Two championship last year, intends to repeat its title winning feat again this year. Callaway, which finished second in the Custer County meet at Broken Bow a few days ago, is expected to have everything its own way in the first group. The Callaway school has a strong, well-balanced team which will score heavily in almost all events. Twelve of the Callaway athletes have won numerals in the state high nu meral competition conducted by Coach .schulte. Fast Races Mandery of Tecumseh and Evans of Fremont are expected to fight it out for first place in. the 100-yard dash. Both of these athletes have stepped the century in 10 1-5 seconds in preliminary meets this year. The same pair of sprinters are also fav ored in the two-twenty, though in- both the hundred and 220 there is a possibility of one of the .other high school speed artists stepping in and copping the honors. Hubert Franck of Tobias, who holds the state record of 4:37,1 in the ml run, is expected to win the mile rurv Evans of Hastings and Moore of Uni versity Place have run the mile under four minutes and fifty seconds, this year and may push Franck for first honors. Lawson of Omaha Central, Wilson of McCook, and Stahl of Cam bridge have run the mile under five minutes, and should come in for a share of the laurels.