The Daily Nebraskan
Stadium Pledget
Due April 24.
Stadium Pledges
Due April 24.
VOL. XXIII NO. 189
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1924
PRICE 5 CENTS
TRACKMEN LEAVE
TODAY FOR DRAKE
Mile Relay Team Weakened
by Absence of Layton
and Scherich.
TVENT V ONE MEN
WILL MAKE TRIP
Coach "Indian" Schulte's track
gquad, twenty-one strong:, will leave
this afternoon at 1:20 on the Rock
Island for the annual Drake relays
held at Des Moines, Friday and Sat
urday. Layton and Scherich, strong
men on the mile relay team are in
eligible because of low scholastic
standing.
In 'fie special events Weir, Hatch,
Beerkle, Gleason, Turner, Hartman,
Brainard, Meyers, Rhodes, and
Davis will represent Nebraska.
The men who will take part in
the relays are: Captain Gardner,
Locke, Hein, Whipperman, Crites,
Higgins, Lewis, Slemmons, Cohen,
Zimmerman, Ross. Hartman, win
ner at the Drake relays last year,
and winner of the Kansas relays this
spring in the shot put, is entered in
this event with Meyers. Locke, Husk
er sprint star, who placed a close sec
ond to Irwin of the Kansas Aggies
last week, is entered in the special
100-yard dash.
Weir and Beerkle Will Run Hurdle.
Weir and Beerkle will be running
the hurdles in top form for Ne
braska. Hatch, besides running in
the relays, will broad jump. Glea
son and Davis are entered in the pole
vault Brainard is entered in the
javelin throw. Turner and Poor
again meet in the high jump at Drake
with a field of the best jumpers in
the world. Turner-placed a second
to Poor at the Kansas relays. Rhodes
will enter this event and also in the
pole vault and broad jump.
In the relays, Nebraska has a
team entered in almost every race.
Locke, Hein, Hatch and Whipperman
will probably run in the 440-yard
and 880-yard relays. Present indi
cations are that Captain Gardner,
Higgins, Lewis, and Crites will run
on the 2-mile team. Slemmons, Co
hen, Ross, and Zimmerman are the
likely members of the 4-mile relay
team. The lineup for the mils re
lay is yet doubtful.
Colleges and universities from all
over the United States have entered
men in the meet. This is the big
gest entry list in years. Coach K. L.
Wilson of Drake has insured his re
lays for $1500 against rain.
Freshman Commission
Will Give Kid Party
Freshman Commission will give a
kid party for all freshmen girls Sat
urday, April 26, at Ellen Smith hall
fro m2 to 5 o'clock. A program will
be given and there will be music for
dancing.
The party is for the purpose of
retting the freshmen girls together
for a general good time. Girls who
are unable to get a kid costume are
invited to come anyway.
CALIFORNIA Graduate students
in ths political science department
are conducting researches along prac
tical lines. One student is working
out a budget classification system
to be tried in several cities. Another
indent is investigating possible con
olidation of certain departments of
rtate government.
All Departments of
College Represented in Parade
Several carloads of clowns and
tandem bicycles led the College
Engineering parade yesterday in
t march down O street. Eight floats
Present.ng the departments of the
college and the gelogy and chemistry
departments followed. Following the
''wns in order were the floats as
allows:
An engineering truck filled with
Members of the band furnished mu
lc. the architectural engineering
"oat, designed by Roland Smith and
Wood, was carried in the form
Pant T-square and a triangle sur
ged by dlafting tables.' The
J0'ogy float, designed by F.Fos
. ' Was decorated with signs bear
" Picture ef a large teapot with
Na T to the Teapot Dome. The
Jemical engineers float, desic-ned by
Vthwick, 'Was n ennrmnna tpnnot
that
Save off "banana oil" in the
Nebraskan Will Send
Reporter to Relays
A special reporter will be sent by
the Daily Nebraskan , to the Drake
Relays at Des Moines, Iowa, Friday
and Saturday. A complete special
report of the meet will appear in the
Sunday issue.
nebraWstaff is
re-elected by board
Volta Torrey and Philip O'Han
lan Are Appointed News
Editors. ,
Paul Richardson, '25, was reap
pointed as editor of the Daily Ne
braskan; William Bertwell, '25, as
managing editor; William Card, Hugh
Cox, and G-eorge W. Hylton as news
editors; and Alice Th'umanand Doris
Trott as assistant news editors, at
the meeting of the publication board
yesterday.
Volta W. Torrey, '26, and Philip
O'Hanlon, '27, were appointed as
news editors to fill the vacancies left
by tha resignation of Ralph J. Kelly
and Merrittt Benson.
The board also passed on a sys
tem of awards for members of the
staff who have done especially good
work during the year. Details of
the plan will be worked out and an
nounced later.
EXPECT LARGE CROWD
AT CONCERT MAY 14
Minneapolis Symphony Orches
tra and University Chorus
Featured on Program.
Music lovers from all over the
state are expected to swell tbs
crowds from Lincoln and the Uni
versity when the Minneapolis Sym
phony Orchestra and the University
Chorus present their great open-air
concert in the stadium on Wednesday,
May 14, at 8:30 p. m. Four promi
nent soloists have also been secured
to appear in the concert. The ora
Itoria "Elijah" will be the feature of
the program.
The Minneapolis Symphony Or
chestra is one of the outstanding
musical organizations of America and
is composed of eighty-six musicians
under the leadership of the famous
Henri Verbrugghen. It has been on
tour since April 1 and has on its
itinerary the principal cities of the
east, south and middle west
Bernard Ferguson, baritone of
the Boston Opera company; Mabel
Beddoe, a prominent merfzo-contral-to;
Lenora Sparkes, soprano with
the Metropolitan Opera company;
and Walter Wheatley, a well known
Lincoln tenor, will play the leading
parts in the oratoria. Mr. Ferguson
will take the rols of "Elijah."
Plan for Meeting of
State Dental Society
Complete arrangements are now
being made for the State Dental So
ciety convention that will be held
at the College of Dentistry during
tha third week of May. Dr. Cowley,
'09, president of the society, is in
complete charge of the convention.
Dr. Webster, a member of the Den
tal faculty, is in charge of the im
ported talent.
Engineering
fnrm nf ethvl acetate. The mechan
ical engineering float, designed by
H. A. Burns, represented the dirigible
Shenandoah, anchored to tbs North
Pole and on the side were signs ad
vocating more engineers and less
politicians at Washington. The elec
trical -engineering float, designed by
J. W. Anderson, pictured two ex
treme classes of students, one "care
lessly stewed" and the other "elec
trical stud."
Two burros carrying transit and
pick and shovels formed the contri
bution of the mining engineers.
This parade was supervised under
the general direction of Milburn
Bengtson. The parad formed at
the Mechanical Engineering building
at 11:45, marched to R street, east
to Fourteenth, south to Q, east to
Sixteenth, south to O, west to Tenth
and back to the campus.
NEW MEMBERS OF
SIGMA XI NAMED
Sixty-six Elected to Member
ship in Honorary Scientific
Society
OFFICERS FOR NEXT
YEAR ARE ELECTED
At a meeting of Sigma Xi, hon
orary scientific society, Tuesday eve
ning sixty-six were elected to mem
bership . Of this number twenty-four
were elected to active membership
and forty-two to associate member
ship. Election to the society is ob
tained by research work in science,
New officers -elected for the com
ing year are: President, Prof. W. L.
DeBaufre; vice president, Dr. J..E.
Weaver; councellor, Dr. R. H. Wol
cotti; secretary, Emma N. Andetr
son; treasurer, Dr. M. G. Gaba.
Tba new members elected to the
society and the department in which
they qualified follow:
Active Faculty.
M. I. Evinger, applied mechanics.
B. C. Hendricks, chemistry.
F. E. MussshL agricultural chem
istry. '
Active Alumni.
Alice M. Andersen.
F. W. Davis.
D. B. Dow.
G. W. Pickwell.
E. W. Rowe.
Ellery Davis.
John Latenser, jr.
Active Graduate.
Edwin Bartnuek, electrical engi
neering. Harvey J. Cottle, agronomy.
W. H. Foxwell, mechanical engi
neering. Katherine A. Wolfe, botany.
Clyde B. Bennett, anatomy.
Melvin W." Binger, physiology and
pharmacy. .
Laurence R. Custer, pathology.
Glenn W. Goldsmith, botany.
Ieland P. Hawkins, physiology and
pharmacy.
Emrys G. Jones, agronomy.
Milton F. Landwer, zoology.
Edward C. Person, physiology and
pharmacy.
Donald M. Pillsbury, pathology
and bacteriology.
Carroll A. Whitnah, chemistry.
Associate Graduate.
Allen E. Andersen, mathematics.
Harold L. Bedell, chemistry.
George W. Powers, zoology.
Edgar J. Boschult, chemistry.
Rupert A. Chittick, physiology and
pharmacology.
James H. Dorsey, chemistry.
jC. M. Downs, mechanical engineer
ing. Dorothy W. Duff, botany.
Julia J. Harper, botany.
James A. McNah, zoology.
Henry J. Wing, chemistry.
Associate Senior.
Arthur P. Allison, geology.
Gerald M. Almy, physics.
Dorah Burnell chemistry.
George L. Burleigh, applied me
chanics. Alvin W. Brust, civil engineering.
Jacob H. Gable, astronomy.
David Halberslefeen, chemistry.
Frank V. Hranac, electrical engi
neering. Herluf P. Nielsen, mechanical en
gineering. Ralph F. Nielsen, chemistry.
George E. Read, physics.
Carl E. Rosenquist, agronomy.
Edith Saal, mathematics.
Henry A. Sargent, civil engineer
ing. John C. Schmidt, civil engineer
ing. Edmund F. Slattery, chemistry.
Glen Stnngfield, agronomy.
Lloyd P. Shildneck, electrical en
gineering. George F. Spfague, agronomy.
Rolland Sturm, applied mechanics.
Ralph F. Tefft, chemistry.
Grace F. Thomas, chemistry.
Edgar C. Tullis, plant pathology.
Ruth Trotti mathematics.
Ruth J. Vernon, botany.
Eugene L. White, electrical engi
neering. To Broadcast Results
of Drake Track Classic
DES MOINES, la., April 23. TheV
Bankers Life Compiny,-Des Moines,
Station WHO, wavj length 526 met
ers, will broadcast the results of the
Drake Relays here on Friday and
Saturday, April 25 and 26. This is
done .in order to allow members of
the student body will listen in on the
report of this athletic event.
Weather Forecast
Thursday Fair; not much change
vin temperature.
MAY MAKE STADIUM
PAYMENTS AT BOOTH
Third Installments on Pledges
Made Last Year Are
Due Now.
Payments on stadium pledges will
be received today at a booth at twelf
th and R streets on the city campus
and at the finance office at the Col
lege of Agriculture. All payments
at the Ag campus should be made to
Miss Schnurr at the finance office.
The booths will be open from 8 to 5,
the rest of the week.
The stadium headquarters has been
recently moved to offices in the Tem
ple building and all who are in doubt
about the standing of their pledges
should inquire there and not at the
booths.
"This is the third payment on the
pledges made a year ago last fall and
the second on those made last sem
ester. Payments on the pledges
made last year' are based on the fol
lowing schedule: 20 per cent cash at
the time of pledging, and 20 per cenji
installments at intervals of six months
after the letting of the contract for
the stadium.
The contract was let a year ago to
dayhus making the third installment
due now. Payments on pledges made
last fall are payable in installments
coming due at intervals of six months
from October 24, 1923.
RICHARDSON HEADS
PRESS ASSOCIATION
M.V.I.P.A. Honor Nebraskan;
Will Come to Lincoln for
Next Meeting.
Paul Richardson, editor ' of the
Daily Nebraskan, was elected presi
dent of the Missouri Valley Intercol
legiate Press association at a meet
ing held at tbs Kansas States Agri
cultural College, Manhatten, Kan.,
April 21 and 22. Richardson was
the Nebraska delegate to the meeting,
the student body to listen in on the
tion of Nebraska to hold the next
annual meeting in Lincoln next
October.
Representatives from Iowa State
College at Ames, Oklahoma A. and
M., the University of Oklahoma and
the University of Kansas attended
the meeting. Grinnell and Drake
have signified their intention of en
tering the association although they
did not send delegates t) the con
vention. The association was formed
last February at a meeting held at
the University of Oklahoma.
L. E: Aylesworth of the Iowa State
Student, was elected vice president
of the association and L. M. Gardner
of the Kansas State Collegian, sec
retary. ,
GLEE CLUB CONCERT
TICKETS GO ON SALE
i
Large Crowd Expected to At
. tend Two Presentations
of Musical Program.
J Advance ticket sales for the home
concert of the Glee club indicate
that there will be good houses on
both nights. Both concerts will start
at exactly 8:15 and will end in time
for students to attend parties or
dances. Tickets are on sale at Ross
P. Curtice company, Tucker and
Shean, and the College Book store
for fifty and seventy-five cents.
! The club consists of thirty mem
bers directed by Professor Parvin
Witte. The program will include
solos, ensemble numbers, quartette
selections, piano numbers and a skit
from Robin Hood.
Tom Wise Will Speak
at Convocation Today
Mr. Tom Wise, who has just com
pleted four performances of the "Old
Soak", in Omaha, will talk to stu
dents of the University, in the Temple
Auditorium, today at three o'clock.
His subject will be "Reminiscences
of the Stage".
EVENTS TODAY MARK CLIMAX OF
ENGINEERS ANNUAL CELEBRATION
Presentation of Leather-bound
Sigma Tau medal and Speech by R. E. Campbell
Included cn Program of Convocation.
WILL OPEN BUILDINGS TO
The Ag Student all wish the
Engineers the maximum of suc
cess for their "Big Night" to
night. May their efforts be re
warded by increased interest in
their college and the upbuilding
of a greater University spirit.
The Farmers Fair Board.
ORGANIZATIONS MUST
FILE FOR DRIVE DAYS
Council President Says Ignor
ance of Rule Not to Be
Accepted as Excuse.
All organizations must file appli
cations for dates for drives for next
year by May 16, according to a rule
of the student council, the president
of the council stated again yesterday.
Each one must file a first and sec
ond choice. They must be addressed
to Clifford M. Hicks, president of
the student council, at Station A.
Last year many organizations
pleaded ignorance as an excuse for
not having filed for dates. No ex
cuse will be recognized this year as
twenty days notice is being given.
The calendar will be published in the
"N" Book at the beginning of the
year. After all filings have been
made a hearing will be held to settle
conflicting dates.
COMPANY A TAKES
FIRST IN PARADE
Company G Wins Second and
Company E Third Place
in Review.
Company A, Harold Spencer, cap
tain, won first place yesterday in
the initial formal parade and review
of the year in honor of Miss Rosalie
Platner, honorary colonel of the
regiment. Company G, D. Dirks cap
tain, won second place, and Company
E, Francis Millson captain, won third
place.
t The winning company will be color
company in the next parade which
will probably be in honor of Chan
cellor Avery. Company guidons ap
peared fojr the first time in the
parade yesterday. Captains and staff
officers will carry sabers at all fu
ture parades.
The sponsors of the winning com
panies are Major Morrison, company
A, Helen Kummer, company G, and
Florence Tyler, company E.
There will be no parade next
Tuesday. The war department in
spection to pass on Nebraska's ap
plication for distinguished rating will
take place Friday and Saturday of
next week. All cadets will be ex
cused from classes from 1 to 6 o'clock
and must report on the drill field
in uniform.
Girls Commercial Club
Elect Semester Officers
Officers of the Girls Commercial
Club for the coming semester are:
Grace Dobish, president; Mildred
Armstrong, v.ice-president; Edna
treasurer; Ella Neurnberger, report
er. These officers were elected at
the regular weekly meeting of the
club, Wednesday evening.
The Girls Commercial Club ban
quet date was fixed at May 24. The
place of the banquet is to be decid
ed later. Plans were also laid for
a picnic to be held April 30. The
committee will announce before that
time where it is to be held.
Lincoln Dental Society
Elects Hunt President
At a recent elections of officers
of the Lincoln Dental Society Dr. L.
T. Hunt was elected president and
Dr. F. A. Pierson elected secretary.
Both men are members of the dental
faculty. -
Engineering Handbook and
VISITORS THIS EVENING
The special engineering convoca
tion will be held in the Temple this
morning at 11, and Engineers night,
the most important event of the
week, is tonight. The Engineers
week program was published Wed
nesday and will be distributed to
morrow. Several awards are being made
this morning in the convocation. A
leather-bound engineering handbook
is to be given as a gift from Pnf.
C. E. Mickey through the A. S. C. E.
to the student whose scholarship in
creased the greatest according to a
plan formulated by a committee of
civil engineers.
Sigma Tau, honorary engineering
fraternity, is giving a medal to the
freshman who had the highest aver
age last year. This award is so be
made purely on scholarship. Chan
cellor Avery will make both awards.
R. E .Campbell, who is connected
with Miller and Paine'swill give a
short talk. He is a graduate of the
Nebraska College of Engineering.
Sigma Tau, through Grant Lantz,
former president, will add another
picture to the hall of fame.
All of the buildings in the Engi
neering College will be open to visi
tors tonight. Last year from three
to "four thousand took advantage of
this opportunity to look over the
college. Models and exhibitions will
make a trip through the buildings
very interesting.
Six Buildings to Be Open.
The following buildings will be
open: Museum, Chemistry, Mechanics
Arts, Electrical Engineering, Me
chanical Engineering, and the Power
Plant. Among the exhibits in the
Museum will be a model of a mine
with working shafts and tunnels.
In the lecture room of the Chem
istry building, an experiment depict
ing a scene from Shakespeare will
be made. Among the interesting
sights in the Mechanic Arts build
ing will be. the breaking of concrete
beams and steel rods, and tying knots
in 1-4 inch steel rods. Thu will be
done in the -material testing labora
tory. A high frequqency demonstration
will be given in the Electrical Engi
neering building as well as many
others. At 9, 9:15, and 9:30 in the
foundry laboratory in the Mechan
ical Engineering building, molten
lead will be poured into the molds.
Liquid air will be made in the base
ment of the same building.
Geologists Have Charge of Museum.
The Museum will be in charge of
geology students. They will conduct
visitors through the building and ex
plain the exhibits. A giant prehis
toric horse and a section of a tree
hundreds of years old are among
first-floor exhibits. On the second
floor is a display of mammals that
once inhabited the plains country.
Among these is a giant hog, only
two specimens of which are in exist
ence. Electric microscopes will be
running, throwing slides on a screen.
On the third floor are collections of
minerals and gems, and models of
Teapot Dome, a mine, and a working
oil derrick and field equipment. A
diamond collection is on display on
the fourth floor. The General
Pershing collection forms part of this
exhibit.
Brace laboratory will be open and
there will be physics displays in
the main lecture room. s
The program for the week, which
came out", is a twelve-page publica
tion of the usual program siz-e with
a program for each day and adver
tisements from Lincoln merchants.
Seven hundred copies were published.
James D. Marshall is chairman of
the convocation this morning, while
Roy Randolph is chairman of Engi
neers night. Willard Turnball is
chairman of the field day tomorrow,
and A.L. Hydj is chairman of the
banquet tomorrow niht. The week
will be concluded with a dance Sat
urday night with A. F. Burns as
chairman.
MINNESOTA Mother's day will
be observed officially at Minn-ssota
this year for the first time in the
history of the University on Satur
day, May 10.