The Daily Nebraskan
CAMPAIGN BEGINS
FOR PAYMENT ON
STADIUriPLEDGES
immediate Redemption of .Stu
dent Contributions to Be
. Urged in Drive This
Week.
M0NEY IS BADLY NEEDED
Interest on Capital Borrowed to
Start Construction Work
Runs into Large
Amounts.
Voluntary payment of the second
Installment of the stadium pledges is
being urged of University of Nebras
ka students this week in orter that
the cause of the Memorial structure
may be furthered to the greatest pos
sible degree. A -booth will be placed
on the campus Monday morning, and
students are urged to stop there to
make their second payments on their
pledges.
Letters, asking students to make
their second payments, and if they
wish, payments in full, have been
mailed to all Stadium Builders, and
the payments will be received at the
booth on the southeast of the campus
at Twelfth and R streets, or at the
office of the Memorial association in
the Law building, room 106.
Interest on the amount that has
had to be borrowed for the stadium
iuns into large sums. Interest as yet
unpaid on the second installments, is
$1,260 each year alone. On the four
installments due from University
students surscribers the amount
versity student subscribers the amount
paid out each year is" approximately
15.000. Every cent of this that can
be paid will mean a bigger, better,
-and more complete stadium for the
1923 football playing season, accord
ing to the committee.
The second installments ' on the
'stadium pledges are not due until Oc
tober, and the stadium committee 'iH
make no compulsory campaign for the
payments. It is hoping, however, that
the students, out of a patriotic spirit,
will make their later payments and so
help the work of the stadium along.
Tuesday is compet, and following
that men who have been taking drfli
throughout the year will turn in their
suits and receive a $10 bill in return.
This $10 can be turned over to the
stadium committee as thfe second and
third installments on $25 pledges
without the student greatly missing
the amount. Students who did not
make pledges last fall may turn the
$10 over to the stadium now as a full
payment for that amount.
Seniors, especially, should avail
themselves of the present opportun
ity to make their late stadium pay
ments, say members of the committee,
and insofar as possible should pay up
their entire stadium obligations, so
that they have their pledges entirely
cleared away before leaving school.
The campaign for volunteer pay
ments of stadium obligations will con
tinue for three days at the stadium
booth on the campus. Every stadium
pledge paid now means that much
more to put into the big concrete
structure to the north of the campus.
McKelvie Gives Talk on Newspaper
Ethics at Sigma Delta Chi Banquet
A code of newspaper ethics adopted
two weeks ago by the American So
ciety of Newspaper Editors at Wash
ington, D. C, was read and discussed
by S. R. M'Kelvie of thj Nebraska
Farmer, as a part of his talk at the
banquet recently given by Nebraska
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi to the
high school editors of the state.
Wide spread interest has been
aroused by the statements of the
Society which consists of editors, man
aging editors, and chief editorial writ
ers on the principal daily papers of
the large cities of the country. In
order that these principles may be
read by University students, they are
Sprinted U;low:
"The primary function of news
Papers is to communicate to the
human race what its members do, feel.
aid think,. Journalism, therefore, 'de
mands of its practitioners the widest
ranse of intelligence, of knowledge,
and of experience, as well as natural
Debaters Plan Reunion
During: Round-Up Week
First reunion of the 154 men who
have worked in the Nebraska Inter
collegiate Debate Seminary, will be
held this year during Round-Up
Week if the present plans of a com
mittee composed of alumni and under
graduate debaters, are carried int
effect.
The reunion will take the form of a
banquet to be held at the Lincoln
Hotel the evening of Saturday, June
2, at 6 o'clock. A letter has been
sent to each one of the 154 alumni
of the "Think Shop" inviting him to
return for the reunion.
This is the first time that a re
union of all the seminar members has
been held. The committee had se
lected a date which does not conflict
with the fraternity banquets, class re
unions and other events of Round-Up
week. The committee in charge is:
George N. Foster, '11, Professor of
Law; Clifford Rein, Law '15; and
Welch Pogue, Law, 26. 4
BLUE PRINT FOR iY
WILL BE OUT MONDAY
Earl Howard's Account of An
nual Engineers' Inspection
Trip Is Feature of
Issue.
The May number of the Blue Print,
publication of the College of Engi
neering, will be ready for circulation
Monday. Five articles written by
students are included in this issue.
The account of the Annual Engi
neering inspection trip written by
Earl A. Howard, '24, was selected as
the best from accounts written by all
the other men taking the trip. An
article written by Henry Sargent,
"Hydro-Electric Projects in the Span
ish Pyrenees," is also included in the
May issue. A model of the projects
described in this article was exhib
ited at the Annual Engineers' Night.
Two articles of local interest are
"The Lincoln Sewage Disposal Plant,"
by Harry P. Letton, and "The Univer
sity Place Cut-Out," by A. A. Little.
The first article deals with the new
sewage disposal plant which is now
being constructed. The second deals
with the adoption of the automatic
system by the University Place tele
phone exchange. The Blue Print also
includes an article on "Excessive
Rates of Precipitation for Lincoln."
Alpha Omega Alpha
Elects New Members
From Senior Class
Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary med
ical fraternity has elected the follow
ing nine students from the class of
1923, University of Nebraska College
of Medicine in Ornaha:
N. J. Dau
W. H. Eller
W. M. Gentry
W. H. Judd
M. Margolin
A. R. Morit:.
C. A. Owens
H. E. Stroy
D. Q. Waddell. The fraternity was
founded at the University of Illinois
in 1902 and the Nebraska Alpha
chater was installed at Omaha in 1914.
It is the only order of its kind and is
limited to Class A Medical Colleges
twenty-six in number. Membership is
based on scholastic standing and
moral qualifications.
and trained powers of observation and
reasoning. To, its opportunities as a
chronicler indi'ssolubly are linked its
obligations as teacher and inter
preter. "To the end of finding some means
of codifying sound practice and just
aspirations of American journalism
these canons are set forth:
Responsibility '
The right of a newspaper to attract
and hold readers is restricted by noth
ing but consideration of public wel
fare. The use a newspaper makes of
the share of public attention it gains
services to determine its sense of re
sponsibility, which it shares with
every member of its staff. A journal
ist who uses his power for any selfish
or otherwise unworthy purpose is
faithless to a high trust.
Freedom of the Press.
Freedom of the press is to he
guarded as a vital right of mankind.
(Continued on Page Four).
DR. MEIKELJOHN
ADDRESSES TWO
HONOR SOCIETIES
President of Amherst College
Makes Speech Saturday to
Sigma Xi and Phi
Beta Kappa. i
EXPLAINS MORAL LAWS
'Democracy and Excellence" Is
Subject of Lecture Are
Two Conceptions in ;
Society. '
Speaking on "Democracy and Ex
cellence" Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn,
president of Amherst College, ex
plained the principles underlying the
moral laws of democracy and excel
lence and pictured the conflict exist
ing between the two conceptions in so
ciety, in the annual Sigma Xi and
Phi Beta Kappa address Saturday
evening in the Social Science audi
torium. Dr. Meikeljohn pointed out that
there are two different demands made
upon man as a citizen and as a human
being. These two are the demands
of democracy and of excellence.
"These two demands are somewhat
in conflict with one another," stated
Dr. Meikeljohn.
"The fundamental law of human
life is the law of Excellence," declared
Dr. Meikeljohn in explaining the prin
ciples of Excellence. "The most
strenuous, the most urgent single de
mand that the world makes upon a
human being is for taste. The one
great sin is dullness," he went on.
"The first duty of man is to be- senti
tive to what is good and to whatsis
bad. We niust perceive and be sen
sitive to what is good and perceive
and abhor that which is low and vul
gar. The first and most important
distinction in human life is the distinc
tion between that which is excellent
and that which is vulgar and low."
In taking up democracy the second
of thd two moral laws, Dr. Meikeljohn
declared that "we have one moral law
whhen we should have two." He
pointed out that while democracy was
important it is to a great extent over
emphasized. The spirit of sharing
is the underlying principal of democ
racy, according to Dr. Meikeljohn.
"If you assume that life is excel
lent it is desirable that you share it
with others," Dr. Meikeljohn said.
"No man can live by himself. Every
man must count every other man as
important as himself," the doctor
stated in describing the principle of
democracy. He pointed out that when
democracy was external it is a matter
of the control of political affairs.
Democracy in the true sense means
education," Dr. Meikeljohn declared.
"Insofar as a people can be edu
cated they can be democratic," he said.
"You can't put control into the hands
of people who do not know what is
going on."
Dr. Meikeljohn then pointed out
that a certain type of "honest aristo
crat" points out that all civilizations
of a high type, such as that of ancient
Greece, have been founded on an un
democratic basis.
"They did it by building the excel
lence of a few on the slavery of the
many," Dr. Meikeljohn declared. "The
honest aristocrat says 'that's the way
excellence has been achieved in the
past. If you want excellence do it
again. The way to achieve excellence
is to allow the few to gain control and
to justify it by attaining the high peak
of human achievement.' "
"Is it true?" questioned Dr. Meikel
john, "you members of Phi Beta Kap
pa and Sigma Xi, who are supposed
to have learned how to think, whose
business it is to understand America,
wha of it? Is democratic sentimen
talism or is it a working plan. Shall
we go" on as we have been going or
shall we turn in our tracks?"
In pointing out how much at vari
ance the conceptions of excellence and
of democracy were Dr. Meikeljohn
said:
"When you give excellent things to
a great many people they degrade
them. Excellence given to the crowd
is at once degraded. The crowd as
compared with the individual is al
ways pulling drwn."
"We must find out if the youth of
America can, in any real sense be edu
acted," Dr. Meikeljohn declared in
suggesting a possible co-ordination
between the laws of excellence and
democracy. "There is a chance that
we shall succeed in educating them.
I think that the chances are against
us. In attempting this America is
trying to do more than hasever been
(Continued on Page Four.)
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, MAY 20,
COMMITTEES FOR
ARTS AND SCIENCE
DAY ARE CHOSEN
Plans for Convocation at Eleven
O'clock and Dinner in Eve
ning Are Almost
Completed.
TICKETS ARE ON SALE
Members of Centurions and Ves
tals Are in Charge of Pro
gram for Jubilee
Wednesday.
Tickets for the big annual Arts
and Science Day dinner at Miller
and Paine's on Wednesday, May 23,
at six o'clock, may be obtained for
$1.00 at the Student Activities of
fice, the Daily Nebraskan or from
members of the Centurions and
Vestals.
Committees for Arts and Science
Day which comes Wednesday May 23,
have been announced. Elaborate plans
for the convocation at eleven o'clock
and for the dinner at Miller and
Paine's at six o'clock Wednesday are
practically complete.
The committees are as follows:
General Chairman Edward M.
Buck.
Convocation Mike Miles.
Publicity Chas. F. Adams.
Special issue of Nebraska Herbert
Brownell, Jr., chairman Orvin B.
Gaston, Ruth Miller, Jacqueline Bost,
Prof. Orin Stepanek.
Initiation Mason Merrill, Prof. II.
B. Alexander.
Ticket Sales Robert F. Craig,
chairman; Frances Mentzer, Prof.
Boots, Prof. T. J. Thompson.
Active ticket sales are under the
auspices of the Vestals and the Cen
turions, honorary student organiza
tions of the College of Arts and
Sciences. The membership of the Ves
tals follow: Margaret Hager, pres
ident; Helen Guthrie, secretary Ad
delheit Dettman; Verna Bowden, Dor
othy Whelpley, Jacqueline Bost, Lois
Pederson, Libuse Tomes, Millicent
Jacke, Gertrude Tomson, Ruth Miller,
Frances Mentzer, Belle Farman and
Gladys Mickel. The faculty mem
bers are Dr. Winifred Hyde, Dr. Flda
R. Walker and Miss Amanda Heppner.
The members of the Centurions arc:
Orvin B. Gaston, president; Edward
Buck, secretary; Mike Miles, Wendell
Berge, Robert F. Craig, William
Wright, Herbert Brownell, Jr., Chas.
F. Adams, Mason Merrill, Monroe
Gleason, and Lyman Sorenson. Fac
ulty members aii Dean Philo M. Buck,
Dr. H. B. Alexander, Frof. Ralph S.
Boots, Prof. Orin Stepanek and Prof.
T. J. Thompson.
New members for these organiza
tions are being chosen and their names
will be announced at the initiation
ceremonies at the college convocation
Wednesday morning.
At the banquet last spring, over
three hundred 'students and members
of the faculty of the Arts college ct
tended. Arrangements for more than
that number are being made by the
banquet committee. All are urged to
buy tickets as soon as possible so that
a tair estimate of the number attend
ing may be at least cne day in ad
vance. Tickets sell for one dollar.
The complete progiam for the ban-
quel will be announced Tuesday morn
ing but features already promised are
talKo by the first graduate of the Col
'ege of Arts and Sciences, and by Dean
Buck, who returned last week from
India- Musical and entertainment
features have not yet been made
known.
To Hold Last Vefcper
Service on Tuesday
"Friendship" Vespers, to be held
Tuesday at the regular time, will con
clude the Vesper program of th Y.
W. C. A. for this year. Freshman
commission will have charge of the
program, which will include .special
music. Dorothy Perking will lead de
votions. An informal speech on "Ex
periences in Friendship" will be given
by Frances McChesney. A pantomine
will also be presented by the commis
sion.
Weekly Vespers is one of the most
important projects of the Y. W. C. A.,
and the jommittee in charge is pleased
with the success of the past year. At
tendance has been unusually laTge es
pecially during the spring months.
The program for next year has been
completed, and the weekly meeting
will bein in the fall.
1923.
Harry Kretzler First
Medical Student to
Win Varsity Letter
Harry Kretzler was the first student
in the College of Medicine to win an
"N". He did this in 1920 in track,
although two years prior he had made
the Varsity, then under Coach E. J.
"Doc" Stewart. In the fall of 1920
Allen and Kretzler were awarded let
ters in closs country, a sport which
Athletic Director Luehring had re
vived. Kretzler completed his Varsity
career in 1921 at St. Louis where he
helped Nebraska win her first Mis
souri conference track championship.
Since then he had acted in the ca
pacity of coach or athletic manager
on the Medical College campus. . Each
spring has seen an increasing num
ber of Varsity track men from the
Medical campus. Six Medics are now
wearing gold track shoes emblematic
of the conference championship in
1922. One fifth of the team which
met California this spring were
Medics and they all placed when the
Bears and Cornhuskers clashed at
Berkeley.
SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE
Edith Olds, Louise Lieneman and
Helen Phillips Are Students
Given Awards Sat
urday. Edith Olds, Louise Lieneman and
Helene Phillips were announced at a
luncheon Saturday as the winners of
the scholarship prizes awarded by the
American Association of University
Women. Miss Olds, Lincoln, was
granted the $50 scholarship for
seniors Miss Lieneman, Omaha, the
$50 prize for juniors; Miss Phillips
Omaha, the $100 award for sopho
mores. ' Miss Phillips has the distinction of
being the first freshman to win an
award in the seven years that the Lin
coln branch has been granting these
scholarships. She had the highest
scholarship average of all the appli
cants this year. She is a graduate
of Omaha Technical high school where
in her senior year she won the $200
scholarship offered by the Omaha
World-Herald to the most all-round
girl. Miss Phillips is a memebr of
the Union Literary Society and of the
Womens' Athletic Association.
Miss Lieneman is a graduate oJ
Benson High School, and has been
active in Y. M. C. A. work at the Uni
versity. During the summer, she
works at stenography to earn part of
her way through college. She was
given honorable mention by the Pan
Hellenic Association in its scholarship
awards for 1922. Her scholarship
average is very near that of Miss
Phillips'.
Miss Olds is a graduate of Lincoln
High School, is a member of Palladion
Literary Society, Theta Sigma Phi,
the national journalism society for
women, Xi Delta, and the cabinet of
Women's Self-Governing Association
and the Y. W. C. A., the Pan-Presbyterian
Club Council, is associate editor
of the 1923 N book, and has been con
nected with the Daily Nebraskan edi
torial staff.
Miss Phillips and Miss Lieneman
are registered in Teachers' College
while Miss Olds is enrolled in the
College of Arts and Sciences. None
of the women are sorority members.
(Continued on Page Four.)
WINNERS
ANNOUNCED
Memorial Stadium Association Sends
Letter Urging Payment on Pledges
The following letter is being sent
out to those students and friends of
the University who have helped in
the building of the stadium:
"Dear Stadium Builder:
"Work on the stadium has started
you can now see the results of your
pledge. Your investment is beginning
to materialize. Seventy .thousand
yards of dirt are to be moved, more
than four square blocks have been
cleared, ft railroad spur foi.ir blocks
in length is being laid, the contractors
will soon be pouring concrete. All
of this takes money.
"Every cent that the stadium com
mittee borrows comes at a high rate
of interest, every dollar paid out for
interest is just that amount of money
lost. It cuts down that amount on
equipment that should go into the
CORNHUSKERS TO
BE DISTRIBUTED
MONDAY AT NINE
'Your" Cornhusker Ready at
Office of Yearbook in North
west Corner of Admin
istration Building.
IS DEDICATED TO CAPITOL
Few Copies Left for Students
Who Have Not Yet Sub
scribed for 1923
Annual.
At nine o'clock Monday morning,
"Your" Cornhusker will be ready for
you in the office of the annual, in the
northwest corner of the basement of
Administration building.
Students who have made the initial
payments on their yearbooks are asked
to bring their receipts to the office,
where their records will be looked up
in the card catalogs, and the amounts
of the payments marked. Students
are asked to bring the amount due to
the office in order to save time in
the line which will be formed to pro
cure the annuals.
Since a limited number of the books
were run off the press, those students
who subscribed early in the year will
be served first. If there are any
copies left, others may be able to pro
cure them.
The Cornhusker this year is one of
the best that has ever been published
at Nebraska, according to the editor
and the staff members who have seen
the advance issues. Congratulations
are coming m from engiavlng "com
panies, including the Bureau of En
graving, which characterized the book
as t "the best annual in the country
this year."
Color pages as division sheets for
the different books of the annual are
one of the new departures in the pub
lication of the book, which is said to
be "rather an encyclopedia than an
annual."
The book is dedicated to the new
capitol building, and the motif which
is used throughout the book features
the design of the building. The cover
design, which is done by a new color
process used a picture of the new
building as its theme.
The picture of the spire of the
building is used to break up the pages
of the class divisions of the book.
It makes an effective design, bringing
into prominence the most noticeable
thing about Lincoln and her skyline.
The student life section of the
Cornhusker exposes the facts and
foibles of all the folks on the campus
who are in the public eye. There are
a number of cuts, and the expense
of the publication in the making of
these cuts, in tvj purchase of the
cover, and in the use of the color
process on the division sheets, is said
to be higher than on any annual in
the past.
"The book is better than ever be
fore," says Andley N. Sullivan, busi
ness manager of the publication.
"But we will leave that to you to
judge for yourself. The book talks,
and we are sure that you can hear it."
stadium, such as indoor, tennis courts,
handball courts, etc.
"Here is a plain business proposi
tion. The interest on a "five spot"
to you for a year is hardly notice
able, but the interest on 4,200 of these
"fivers" at 6 per cent runs into money.
It means that to borrow a like amount
we must pay $1,260 interest. You have
been very loyal in making your pledge
will you stretch a point and pay
your second payment NOW?
"The inclosed is a statement of your
account. Get this obligation off your
hands as soon as you can. Make
your payment at the booth on the
corner of 12th and R streets. If con
venient, payment in full may be made
and the whole matter dismissed from
your mind. Do this and make the
stadium a better stadium.
"Yours fox Nebraska's Stadium,
"NEBR. MEMORIAL ASS'N."
