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PREPARE FOR BIG
TRI-STATE GEET
Fogg' Protege Lose Much
Sleep in Training for De
bate Triangle.
CLASH WITH SOUTH
DAKOTA WEDNESDAY
Nebraska debaters are burning
midnight oil getting ready for the
triangular debate with Iowa and
South Dakota this week. The debate
irill be held here tomorrow with
South Dakota. The following Ne
braska men taking the affirmative
side of the immigration question are:
Gayle C. Walker, Wendell Berge,
Devon C. Eyer, Volta W. Torrey.
The first contest is to be with the
South Dakota team in Memorial hall
March 12. The Cadet Band will play
and an open forum discussion will
follow the debate.
Another Nebraska debating team
will argue with the Iowa team Thurs
day, March 13, in Iowa City. This
debate will be broadcast over the
Iowa City wireless station and it s
probable that it will be heard by a
great many Nebraska students. Hugh
B. Cox, Bernard S. Gradwohl, Floyd
E. Leavitt and John A. Otley will
take the negative side of the ques
tion against Iowa.
The affirmative team membership
against South Dakota at Lincoln is
as follows:
Wendell Berge, Law '25, Lincoln,
took part in nineteen high school de
lates in 1919, 1920 and 1921. He
represented Nebraska against South
Dakota in 1922 on the cancellation of
the allied debts and against Iowa in
1923 on the League of Nations ques
tion. His essay on the cancellation
of the allied debts won in 1923 sec
ond prize in the Institute of Interna
tional Education Essay Contest. He
is a member of Delta Sigma Rho, na
tional honorary debating society.
Devon C. Eyer, Law '26, Union
City, Ind., represented his high school
in interscholastic debates. He was
alternate against South Dakota last
year, and this year was member of
the junior class debate team.
Gayle C. Walker, '24 (School of
Journalism), Lincoln, won debate
honors during three years at Clin
ton (Okla.) high school. He was
president of the high school debat
ing society.
Volta W. Torrey, '26 (School of
Journalism), Aurora, alternate, was
member of two district championship
teams of the Nebraska high school
debating league at West Point in
1920 and at Aurora in 1922. At the
University he was captain of the
freshman debating team, which won
the interclass championship last fall.
The members of the negative team
against Iowa at Iwa City are:
Hugh B. Cox, '26 (School of Jour
nalism), Lincoln, was a member of
the debate team at Lincoln high
school for two years. In the Univer
sity he was member of the freshman
debating team and represented Ne
braska against South Dakota in 1923
the third freshman in over twenty
two years to be awarded a speaking
place on a Nebraska debating team.
He is a member of Delta Sigma Rho,
national honorary debate society.
Bernard S. Gradwohl, '23 Law
'24, Lincoln, represented Nebraska
fgainst Iowa in 1922 and 1923. He
is member of Delta Sigma Rho.
Floyd E. Leavitt, '24, Bethany,
ws a member of the Cotner Col
lege debate teams in 1921 and 1922,
the team in 1921, taking champion
ship among the secondary colleges in
Nebraska. He took second place in
extemporaneous speaking. At the
University he was member of the
junior class team in 192 which took
the interclass championship.
John A. otiey, '25, Waverly, al
Ornate, was a member of the sopho
more class team in 1921.
Collins to Address
Ag College Vespers
Dr- J. D. Collins, director of re
ligious education for the Baptist
wwch of Nebraska, will speak at the
Agricultural college Y. W. C. A. Ves
P today at 12:20.
bert L. Davis, '14, visited alumni
Washington recently, en route to
ke his new position as plant breed
in the federal agricultural experi
Eic? Station at Mayageux, Porto
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COMMITTEES NAMED
FOR ENGINEERS NIGHT
General Chairman Announces
Men in Charge of Seven
Events of Week.
Chairmen in charge of the main
events of Engineers week, to be
held April 21 to 26, have been ap
pointed by Judson Meier, general
chairman. The men in charge are:
James Marshall, convocation; Wil-
lard Turnbull, field day; A. F.
Burns, dance; A. L. Hyde, banquet;
Roy Randolph, engineers night; E.
L. White, wndow displays; M. A.
Bengtson, parade.
Committees have also been ap
pointed in the various schools of lh?
college, and are meeting regularly
with the general chairman Tuesdays
at 5 o'clock, M. A. 205. The men
on these committees are:
Mechanical Engineering Burns,
Scheel, Olson, Gustafson, Olsen, Ar
nold. Civil Engineering Fowler, Rob
erts, McCoskey, Galley, Vvian, Eller
meir, Sandstrum, Eckstrom, Caster.
Chemical Engineering Wehmer,
Southurch, Ulrieh, Othmer, Pillsbury,
Freeman, Loubach, Strader. .
Electrical Engineering Ander
son, McDermott, Hyranek, Schindler,
Johnson, Stiles, Phillips.
Geology Wyman, Harden, Ma
theny, Beck, Foster, Clark, Collins,
Sorenson.
Agricultural Engineers Heddin,
Zink, Novotny, Reed, French.
Architectural Engineers J. Wood.
MISS VERA BARGER
who is the successor of Grace Cop
pock to the support of the Univer
sity Y. W. C. A. Each year a cam
paign is carried on to raise funds
for Miss Barger, who is director of
recreation work in China. Ne-
. braska has the only Y. W. C. A.
wheh contributes to the support of
a foreign missionary.
Leroy Meiringer, '17, M. S. '20,
Ph. D. 22, will be at Scott Field,
Belleville, HI., for two months as
meteorologist studying air currents
as they affect ballon flights.
NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1924.
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W. Torrey, Wendell Berge, Gayle C. Walker, Devon C. Eyer.
A. Otley, Bernard S. Gradwohl, Hugh B. Cox, Floyd E. Leaitt.
Journalists to Hear
Law Dean on "Libel"
Dean W. A. Seavey of the College
of Law will give the first of the se
ries of lectures on "Libel and Con
tempt" for the new course in ethics
and the law of the press today at 4
o'clock in U. H. 106. The course
is being given by the School of Jour
nalism with Professor M. M. Fogg,
Dean W. A. Seavey, and J. S. Law
rence, editor of the Lincoln Daily
Star, as joint professors.
AG CLUB NAMES NEW
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Nine Groups Begin Plans for
Farmers Fair to Be Held
This Spring.
The new committees of the Ag
club include an advisory board m sde
up of the presidents of agricultural
organizations. This board is an in
novation this semester and is in
tended to increase the co-operation
between all the organizations and
make for better general college spirit.
The committees are:
Advisory Alpha Zeta, Allen Cook;
Engineering, Leon Samuel; Block
and Bridle, Nat Tolman; Dairy, Rob
ert Bushnell; Economic, Allen Cook;
Agronomy, Ralph Vose.
Mxer James Barnes, chairman,
Dorsey Barnes, Walter Ruden.
Entertainment Jay Hepperly,
chairman, A. M. Daniels.
Initiation Hugh J. McLaughlin,
chairman, Edwin Weir, Wilbur Shain
holtz. Refreshments Wallace Buck, Al
fred Engel, Harold Frost.
Constitutional Allen Cook, chair
man, Kobert v eir. uavia iinasirom. ,
Athletic awards Dean Higgins, ;
chairman, Orris Hatch, and Lambert :
Tichy.
1'ublicity Virgil Micnaei ana vjien
Buck.
Meetings of the club have been
planned with the idea of leading up
to the Farmers Fair next spring. Pep
rallies are also' planned for the next
two months. The second regular
meeting of the club will be held at
the Dairy building tomorrow night
at 7:15. Girls are invited.
Dr. Barker Lectures
at Kansas Colleges
Dr. F. D. Barker of the depart
ment of zoology addressed 1500 stu
dents at a special convocation at the
Kansas State Agricultural college at
Manhattan, Wednesday morning. He
also gave lectures at Washburn col
lege, Kansas, on Wednesday and
Thursday.
Tickets Go on Sale
For W. A. A. Fete
Tickets for the annual W. A. A.
dance fete to be held March 21 at
the Temple theatelr went on sale
Monday and can be bought from W.
A. A. members for 50 cents. The
dance is under the direction of Don
na Gastin. Bernice Ballancc is the
student member in charge of the
dance.
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MRS. GREEN VESPERS
SPEAKER TUESDAY EVE
at v. c n u Tk.i lu:
Member of Cabinet That Initi-
ated Copock Drive to
Give Address.
Mrs. Roy Green, a member of the
TJnivor. .ly Y. W. C. A. cabinet whc:i
the first Grace Coppock drive was
organised, Rod Dr. John Andrew
Holmes, of the First Plymouth Con-
scregational church, will speak at Ves
per services tonight at 5 o'clock at
Ellen Smith hall. Vespers will in
itiate the tenth annual Grace Cop
pock -cmpaign. The drive will lat
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
The goal is set at $1700.
Margaret Williams will lead the
services. Special music will be given
by Helen Kinquist, voice and Myrtle
Alyne Cheney, violin. The hostesses
will be Mabel Lundy and Doris Trptt.
Baseball Season
Opens for Women
Baseball practice for the womens
class teams started yesterday in the
Armory. Only those women who
have been in ten practices are eligi
ble to the teams. Practices will be
held indoors until the weather per
mits practice on the field back of So
cial Science hall.
Practices are being held Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday at 4 o'clock,
at 9 on Tuesdays and at 1, 2 and 3
o'clock on Tuesday and Thursday.
Baseball s one of the major sports
and a place on a class team means
100 points toward an "N" sweater.
FRATERNITY TRACK
MEET POSTPONED
Because of the cold weather, the
lecond annul interfraternity in
door track meet has been post
poned indefinitely.
High School Cage
Success Many
The 1924 high school basketball
tournament, with 249 teams entered,
was financially the best in the ten
years that the meets have been held
the Universty athletic office an
nounced yesterday. The total re
ceipts were fully $2000 more than
last year an approximate estimate
shows- Last year 60 per cent of the
expense of each team was returned.
This year it will be nearer 70 per
cent, H. D. Gish, general m?.rtger of
the tournament, stated.
Other than financial statistics the
tournament records also show an in
crease. The total number of points
scored in the tournament this year
was 5,574 as against 5,411 scored :n
all classes last year. The class A
total was 397 as compared with 427
registered in 1923. Creighton Prep
winner of class A honors, was high
point quintet during the recent classic
counting 83 markers to its orpon
ents 31, with Cathedral high winner
of class D was second in scoring with
77 tallied Chester, class I champs,
Weather Forecast
Tuesday and Wednesday Fair
and slightly warmer.
REHEARSE "MACBETH"
UNDER GARNET HOLME
University Players Practice
Under Superivision of
Director.
Rehearsals of Shakespeare's "Mac
beth," to be presented at Temple
theater Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, are proceeding under the spe
cial direction of Garnet Holme,
formerly director of the Stratford
Memorial Players of Stratford, Eng
land. The cast of twenty-eight in
cludes Miss H. Alice Howell as Lady
Macbeth, Hart Jenks as Macbeth, and
Herbert Yenne
Costumes, scenery and stage set
tings designed by Andreas Haugseth
of the School of Fine Arts, will make
this the most elaborate Shakespearian
tragedy ever staged by the Univer
sity Players, Albert Erickson, busi
ness manager, said Saturday.
The complete personnel of the cart
is as follows: Herbert Yenne, H.
Alice Howell, Hart Jenks, Neil
Brown, Dwight Merriam, Orville An
drews, Darrell Starnes, Lewellen
Hawley, Kenneth Anderson, Edward
'Taylor, Marguerite Munger, Mary
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ite Fisher, Dolores Bosse, Edna Lem
ing, Pauline Gellatly, Lucile Brock,
Ruth Alcorn, Marianie Cumigs,
Rose Cecil, Neva Jones, David Lind
strom, Harold Gish. Foster Matchett,
Clarence Gittings, Frank Milienz
Garnet Holme, the special director,
is the owner of a circuit of open-air
theaters in California. He directed
the Pilgrimage play in Hollywood for
several years, and the the close of
his duties in Lincoln he will start di
rectly for ' Carmel-l)y-the-sea,Cal.,
where he will produce his "Serra"
play as the opening of the open-air
season there. Following this he wrill
present at Mt. Talmapias his moun
tain play which he is writing at pres
ent. He spent the last six months
in England, France and Italy, study
ing, writing and lecturing on his
work with open-air theaters in Cal
ifornia. Bishop to Speak
at World Forum
Dr. Theodore S. Henderson. Meth
odist bishop of Detroit, will rpak
before the World Forum luncheon
Wednesday noon at the Grand hotel
on the subject of "Isosceles Christi
anity." Bishop Henderson wl'i also
spend about a week here Iii-turing
before the students of Nebraska Wes
leyan University.
Tickets' must be purchased in ad
vance for the luncheon and may be
procured at either the Y. M. C. A.
office in the Temple building or at
the Y. W. C. A. office in Ellen Smith
hall.
Carl Hartley, '07, has returned
from Java, and is now working in
i the office of forest pathology, bureau
j of plant industry, Washington.
Tourney a Big
Records Shattered
made the best defensive showing in
the week-end tourney, allowing its
opponents but 8 points.
Tobias high scored the most points
in any single game, winning from
Palisade in the first round by a
score of 35 to 7. Lincoln made more
points in one game in class A than
any other quintet, defeating Sidney
3 J to 17 in the initial round. "Jug"
Brown was high point man in a sin
gle c-cntest, making 17 tallies against
the Sidney five.
Following the tourney each year
those knights of the pencil make ap
pearance and start selecting all star
fives. Doubtless high school athletes,
2000 in number, cause the best of
dopesters trouble in picking five out
standing "performers in their respect
ive positions. The followers of the
contest seem to have found selec
tions in Brown of Lincoln and Mar
row of Omaha Central at the for
ward posts withO'Brien of rOighton
Prep at the pivot and Lawson of
Omaha Central and Monogh&n of
Prep doing the guarding.
PRICE 5 CENTS
TO REFER SINGLE
TAXTOOTENTS
Council Announces Plan Would
Be Used for Support of
Activities.
CALL FOR GENERAL
EDITORIAL OPINION
A single tax plan which will be
used in the support of the student
activities at the University, is soon
to be placed before the students for
a referendum, the president of the
student council announced last night.
Opinions of students, expressed in
short open letters to the Nebraskan
are called for by the council in work
ing out the definite plan.
The tax will probably be compul
sory if adopted by the regents. If it
successfully carries in the student
ballot but is not favored by the reg
ents, it will probably be adopted but
will be made optional, according to
the present plan.
Twice favored for adoption by n
student referendum, the single tax
plan was vetoed by the Board of
Regents in 1916 and again n 191".
At that time limiy-iive schools in
the country were using the pian and
o fthese thirty-four had found it a
success. In most of these schools the
tax was more than $7, the sum pro
posed for the tax.
The Daily Nebraskan introduced
the plan in 1916. At that time the
plan as outlined was a compulsory
tax on each student carrying twelve
hours or more. The amount was
$3.50 a semester or $7 a year. This
sum was to be used for the support
of all student activities, dramatics,
debating, the college paper and other
branches of student life. The ta
would amount to approximately
$21,000 a year, which would put all
University activities on a sound fi
nancal basis.
The student after paying the tax
would be admitted free to al! ath
letic contests, all dramatic produc
tions, debates, mixers, convocation,
the University Nght production and
Ivy Day celebration. He would . Uc
receive the Daily Nebraskan free and
would obtain medical supervision
throughout the year.
The plan was taken before the reg
ents in the spring of 1916. They did
not act upon it at that time because
of other matters. It was not started
again until 1917 when a vote was
taken among students and parents.
The results of the vote were decided
ly in favor of the plan . Of a total
vote of 3362, 2853 were in favor
and only 509 opposed to the system.
Of these totals, 2026 students and
S27 parents favored the plan against
366 students and 143 parents oppos
ing it. After this vote the plan was
presented to the regents. They were
not in favor of it and it was dropped.
The Student Council has beer, re
viewing the plan and will present it
to the students for a vote soon. The
plan will be about the same as be
fore except for changes in the amount
of the tax and working of it.
JUNIOR COMMITTEES
ANNOUNCED MONDAY
Third-year Students to Meet
Thursday for Election of
Minor Officers.
Junior class committees for the
second semester were announced yes
terday by the president, R. L. Easter
brooks, i
A meeting of the junior class will
be held at the auditorium in Social
Science Thursday at 11 a. m. at
which minor officers will be elected.
The committees are:
Ivy day Francis Weintz, chair
man, Wilbur Petersen, Judson Mier
and Dorothy Davis.
Hop Bennett Martirt, chairman,
Dolores Bosse, Francis MenlZT and
Charles Cox.
Men's Athletics Monroe Gleason,
chairman, Mathias Volz, Willard
Usher, Harlan Wyant and Melvin
Collins.
Women's athletics Rosalie Plat
ner, chairman, Arvilla Johnson, Bes
sie Yort and Margaret Daly.
Finance Edward Kubat, chair
man, Edward Stemen, James Barnes
and Louis Somberg.
Social Paul Cheyney, chairman.
Pauline Gund, Robert Stephens and
Pauli je Gellatly.
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