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VOL. XXIII NO. 153
JUST CONSERVE
ENERGYJDF SUM
Dr. H. A. Spoehr Say Scien
tist Are Seeking New
Power Source.
GIVES ANNUAL PHI BETA
KAPPA-SIGMA XI TALK
"Our present civilization is burn
ing up ccn year in tne om of coa
and oil, nearly one hundred times
ts much energy as nature can store
up in that time and the scientist with
foresight is vitally concerned with
the problem of conserving the energy
of the sun, the only outside source
of energy that the earth has," . de
clared Dr. H. A. Spoehr of the Car
negie Institute of Washington, D. C,
in an illustrated lecture on the sub
ject, "Sunlight, the Prime Mover of
Civilization," which he delivered be
fore an interested audience in the
Temple last night as the annual Phi
Beta Kappa-Sigma Xi address. "
He explained that all energy eman
ates from the sun and that it is the
plants, and the plants alone, that are
able to transform it bo that it can
be used by human beings and ani
mals. There is a complete cycle of
material going on all the time. Hu
man beings subsist on plants, or on
animals which in turn live on vegeta
tion. Men and animals give off car
bon dioxide when this food is used
up and the plants in turn convert
this carbon dioxide into more food.
But there must be an outside source
of energy to keep this cycle going
and that is light.
The process by which the plant can
convert carbon dioxide and light into
tangible form of energy, such as
sugar or starch, is known as photo
synthesis. This process was briefly
explained by Doctor Spoehr.
When our stored up supplies of
energy, such as coal and oil, give out,
which they are certain to do before
many centuries, man will be depend
ent on the energy that he can de
velop by this photo-synthesis process,
the speaker declared.
A few people have believed that
water-power could be substituted,
but Doctor Spoehr quoted figures
compiled by Charles Steinmetz, the
great electrical engineer, which show
that it would be impossible to de
velop enough water power in this
country to satisfy our needs.
Alcohol, which can be manufac
tured from sugar and starch, the pro
ducts of photo-synthesis, seems des
tined to be the fuel of the future,
said the speaker. The scientists
problem now is to develop a more
efficient means of carrying on this
process of photo-synthesis, because
plants are so inefficient and unre
liable, that they cannot be depended
on.
DARMOUTH Plans are under
way for the annual trip of the Led
yard canoe club down the Connecti
cut to the ocean.
Expect Military Day Stunt to
Draw People from Entire State
Between fifty and a hundred thou
sand people are expected to attend
the military-day stunts to be staged
t the fair grounds May 23, accord
ing to the officers in charge of prep
arations. With the Missouri Valley
track meet drawing sport fans from
over the entire state and from the
entire Valley and the military stunts
drawing their quota, it is expected
that one or the greatest crowds that
"Was ever in Lincoln will be present
for the two days.
Mounted troops, well-trained jn
iantry companies, and a special air
quadron will be here from Fort
fciky, Kan., to give exhibitions. The
PerBhing Riflss, crack drill company,
'te working on a special close-order ex
hibition while a company from the
"adet regiment will go through a
sham battle, using blank ammunition.
detachment of artillery from the
mlar army will also give a spe
cial -Exhibition.
ntversity authorities, the Cham
"f of Commerce, the American Le
pn, and the Officers Reserve corp
ve charge of the vent. The ex
jee of the exhibition will be borne
the military units in Lincoln .cith
he aid of Lincoln business men.
A program of activities for the
eu who are guests here during the
UNIVERSITY
Weather Forecast
Wednesday Fair with rising tem
perature. PLAY FIRST ROUND OF
VOMENS TENNIS MEET
Begin Second Series of Games
in All-University Singles
Tournament
First round games of the all-University
womens singles tournament
must all be completed today. The
second-round matches to be played
off by Friday, May 16. Twenty-nine
women are entered.
Dorothy Supple, who won the wo
mens singles championship last fall,
defeated Sylva Kunc yesterday 6-4;
6-1. The second set of the match
between Ester Robinson and Lillian
Story was decided only after twenty-eight
games had been played. The
set ended 15-13 in favor of Ester
Robinson.
' Results of games played thus far:
Hazel , Saff ord lost to Irene Bar
quist, 6-0; 6-0.
Katherine McDonald lost to Olive
Huey, 1; 6-0.
Mildred Schobert lost to Claire
Miller, 6-3-; 6-1.
Alice Dougan lost to Louise Bran
stad, 6-3; 6-3.
Gladys Foster lost to Ruth Wright,
6-0; 6-0.
Sylva Kunc lost to Dorothy Supple,"
6-4; 6-1.
- Lillian Story lost to Ester Robin
son, 6-2; 15-13.
Luella Reckmeyer lost to Ruth
Johnson, 6-2; 6-1. '
Margaret Tool lost to Kathro Kid
well, 9-7; 6-2.
WILL ANNOUNCE NEW
CENTURIAII MEMBERS
Arts and Science College
Hold Annual Convoca
tion in Temple
to
Centarians, honorary mens organ
ization of the College of Arts and
Sciences, will announce Tiew members
at the convocation Thursday at 11
o'clock in the Temple, at the same
time that the Vestals of the Lamp,
the corresponding women's organiza
tion, announces new members.
A pageant written by Dr. H. B.
Alexander for the installation of the
women's organization will be given.
Dr. Alexander will also deliver the
main address of the meeting. He
will talk on the history of the col
lege and its work.
All Arts and Sciences students
who are free at that hour are urged
by the dean of the college to at
tend. Some classes may also be dis
missed.
KANSAS The department of phy
sical education is sponsoring the an
nual borseshoe tournament
heme planned. Ac
cording to the present program, Cap
itol Beach will be open one night to
the army men. The local theaters
will .entertain the. visitors anotner
night and the American Legion will
give a dance for all army men Satur
day night On the afternoon of May
24. all visiting army men will be
guests of the athletic department at
the Missouri Valley track meet to be
held in the Memorial Stadium.
Several days before the date set
for the celebration, the troops-from
Pnr Tlflev will beein their overland
march. They will be in Lincoln about
two days before the event This will
include about SOO men ana uw
horses.
The night before the celebration,
, nrmv and navy reserve officers
will hold a banquet for the visiting
officers. Many reservists irom over
the state are expected to attend the
bM1Juet- v.
At noon on May Z3,.xne aay ox
events, the grand parade wffl be
staged. The order of parade will be:
Marshall, York National Guard band,
color section with guard, Battery A
of the Ninth Field Artillery, Troop
F, Second Cavalry, Tegular army
units, County Reserve Officers corps
University R. O. T. C. band, and fi
nally the cadet regiment
OP NEBRASKA, LINCOLN,
ENGELBERT ROENTGEN.
Engelbert Roentgen, solo 'cellist
and assistant conductor of the Min
neaDolis Symphony orchestra, is a
member of a famous European fam
ily of musicians. He has the reputa
tion of being one of the master 'cel
lists of America.
NEBRASKA STUDENT ON
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Berge Honored by Organiza
tion Fostering Spirit of
Law and Order.
Wendell Berge, '25, has been ap
pointed to the executive committee
composed of seven members to rep
resent the College and University
committee of 150 which was author
izd at the law enforcement conven
tion attended by Mr. Berge in Wash
ington, D. C, last month. In aadi
tion to Mt. Brge are: R. L. Hodges,
Florida; Freeman C. McClure, Geor
gia; John P. Hubbard, Harvard; Don
ald Stevenson, Yale; Miss Esther Mc
Donald, Teachers College, N. Y. C;
and Patrick M. Malin, Pennsylvania.
The committee is being organized
to further the work started by the
student conference on law enforce
ment held in Washington. The com
mittee of 150 as proposd will "in
clude college representatives from
the whole country. The seven mem
bers of the committee on which Mr.
Berge is serving are voting this
week on the official title for the
committee of 150 and also as to the
percent of students", faculty, and
alumni to be represented.
DR. HAYS SPEAKS TO
UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN
Declares That Spiritual Side
of Life Must Be De
veloped. Dr. S. Mills Hays, retired minister
and instructor in the University of
Nebraska, was the freshman lecture
speaker, Monday evening and Tues
day morning. His subject was "Re
ligion and the Academic Life."
"There is great need of the spir
itual life in education," he said. 1
do not believe that any man or wo
man can call himself or herself edu
cated unless the spiritual side has
been studied."
There are four steps in education,
he declared. Three of them are
stressed in our schools, but the
fourth is the most important. The
study of practical subjects, the col
lection of knowledge or facts and
the discipline of the mind may make
a highly trained man but that person
is not truly educated unless he has
power of realization of the unseen.
It was that power that made General
Foch able to direct many armies, tho
he was not near them, he asserted.
"The last seventy-five years, dur
ing which time the greatest of sci
entific developments and discoveries
have been made, have been years of
ereat spiritual education," declared
the speaker. "Those scientists who
scanned the heavens and studied xne
inhabitants of the earth deserve much
credit for the great fundamental
truth they have brought u They
thought that running throrrph this
entire universe, governing the uni
verse, holding part to part and bind
ing it together so that it was a per
fect universe and not P. chaos, there
was one great external universal
force. They did not call that force
God. but they indicated that there
was but one pqwer behind every
thing."
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NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY
Ed Weir President of
Vikings for Next Year
Vikings, junior mens honorary so
ciety, held election of officers for
the forthcoming year Tuesday eve
ning at the Alpha Sigma Phi house.
Officers elected were: President, Ed
Weir; vice president, Robert Scou-
lar; secretary, Donald & .mon; trea
surer, Ralph Rickley;" sargeant-at-
arms, Otto Skold.
SELLECK WILL SPEAK
TO BIZAD STUDENTS
To Give Talk on Business Mo
rality at General College
Convocation.
"Business Morality" will be the
subject of the speech of W. A. Sel
leck at the general Bizad college con
vocation in Social Science auditor
ium at n o'clock Thursday, May 15,
according to a statement issued by
Philip Lewis, general chairman of
the committee.
"I wish that every student in our
college would take thirty minutes of
his time Thursday morning and at
tend this convocation," says Dean
LeRossignol. 'I know that Mr. Sel
leck will have much of interest for all
who attend."
Regular convocations will be held
every six weeks next year. Plans
are being made to have the convoca
tions scheduled in advance and notice
of them published in the 'N" book.
If this is done classes will be ex
cused at the hour when the convo
cations are held next year.
MOTHERS ARE GUESTS
AT TEA AND VESPERS
Mrs. W. T. Elmore Compares
Influence of Mothers of
Christ and Moses.
Mothers day was observed at Ves
pers Tuesday afternoon in Ellen
Smith hall when the mothers of Uni
versity girls were entertained at tea
from 4 to 5 o'clock, and were guests
at the regular Vesper services where
the program was in keeping with the
spirit of Mothers day.
Mrs. W. T. Elmore, in her address
at Vespers, described the influence
of the two mothers one the mother
of Moses, the other the mother of
Christ. The words of Christ as he
was being crucified, "Mother, be
hold thy Son," were the speak
er asserted, very suggestive of the
influence of one mother upon her
son.
A violin quartet composed of
Gladys Mickle, Mary Ellen Edgerton,
Charlotte Baksr and Kathryn War
ner, accompanied on the piano by
Dorothy Payne, played for the open
ing of the services. Miss Harriet
Cruise sang a solo, and the Vesper
choir sang another special number.
Miss Grace Spacht presided.
UTAH A union building cam
paign has been launched at the Uni
versity of Utah. Each student is to
be asked to pledge $50.
HENRY J. WILLIAMS.
Henry J. Willifms, harpist, was at
one time famous all over the British
Isles. He was a member of Sir
Henry Wood's orchestra of London
and b,;w?f n VekKons made concert
tours. He was so favorably impressed
with this country upon his first visit
that he concladed to stay, and has
-bean a member of the Minneapolis
Symphony orchestra since 1903.
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LENORA SPARKES.
Lenora Sparkes, soprano with the
Metropolitan Grand Opera company
of New York city, will take one of
the leading roles in the concert to
night She is one of the four dis
tinguished soloists who will appear
in the presentation of the oratorio
"Elijah."
INVITE ALEXANDER TO
LECTURE AT SORBONNE
Philosophy Department Head
Will Speak on Indian Art
and Mythology.
Dr. Hartley Burr Alexander, head
of the philosophy department of the
University, and a professor of phil
osophy here since 1908, has received
and accepted an invitation from Sar-
bonne college of Paris to give a se
ries of lectures on American Indian
art and mythology. If given a leave
by the Board of Regents, Professor
Alexander will visit Pans next spring.
An invitation to lecture at Sar-
bonne is considered a very great hon
or. The college is connected with
the University of Paris and was
founded about 1500 by Francis I. It
asks only the highest authorities in
the world to lecture to its students.
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson have both lectured there.
Dr. ' Alexander has obtained many
honors in his field of work. He is
author of many books on the Amer
ican Indians. Dr. Alexander was
born in Lincoln and secured his de
gree from the University in 1897.
BAD WEATHER DELAYS
TELEGRAPHIC CONTEST
Missouri Valley Freshman
Track and Field Meet
to Be Run Today.
Cold weather yesterday prevented
the running of the Missouri Valley
freshman telegraphic track meet and
field meet. The meet will be held
this afternoon at 1:30 on stadium
field. All freshmen who are to com
pete will be excused from classes.
New entries since those announced
yesterday are Jolley in the mile run
and Watkins in the shot put. Other
freshmen who wish to take part in
the meet should come out, and there
wfll be tryouts for the four places
which are allowed in each event
Nebraska has won the telegraphic
yearling meet for the past two years,
and another victory is hoped for this
year. All schools in the Missouri
Valley conference will Jiold the same
events on their home courses and
the results will be telegraphed to a
central headquarters where the tabu
lations are to be made according to
the time and distance reported for
each vent. Trophies will be given
to the winning srhools.
Nebraskas material for next years
track team will come to light in the
meet, as this will be the first time
that all the freshmen will run togeth
er on the same afternoon.
Delta Omxcron Chooses
Officers for Next Year
New officers for next year were
elected at the regular monthly busi
ness meeting of Delta . Omicron.
These eVcted are: Pre mt, Mary
Ellen Edgerton; vice presx t, Fleda
Graham; secretary, Jeaneu Olson;
treasurer, Alice Miller; warden Ruth
Ann Coddington; chapter editor, Mar
ian Yoder.
PRICE 5 CENTS
GIVE CONCERT IN
STADIUH TONIGHT
Everything in Readiness for
Program by Minneapolis
'Symphony Orchestra.
CHORUS OF 300 VOICES
TO SING AT FESTIVAL
Everything is in readiness for the
open-air concert to be given in the
stadium at 8:30 this evening by the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Henri - Verbrugghen,
four distinguished soloists, and a
picked chorus of 300 voices directed
by Mrs. Carrie B. Raymond.
The advance sale of tickets has
been quite heavy, according to mem
bers of the committee in charge. Tick
ets sold by members of the commit
tee may be exchanged for reserved
seats at Ross P. Curtice's until 5:30
this afternoon. Tickets will be on
sale at the stadium box office after
that time. The prices are 50 cents,
75 cents, $1.
A large stage has been erected in
front of the west side of the stadium
to accommodate the orchestra. The
chorus will be behind the orchestra.
Huge flood lights to furnish illumina
tion for the stage and the stadium
have been installed. Mr. Gaines of
the Minneapolis orchestra pronounced
the acoustic properties of the sta
dium to be perfect for such a con
cert. There will be two parts to the
program this evening. Liszt's Sym
phonic Poem No. 3, "Les Preludes,"
will be given by the orchestra as the
first part. The second part will be
the oratorio, "Elijah," by Mendel
sohn, presented by the orchestra and
the chorus, with Bernard Ferguson,
noted baritone, Sn the role of Elijah.
Mr. Ferguson will be assisted by
three other soloists: Lenora Sparkes,
soprano; Mabel "Beddoe, contralto,
and Walter Wheatley, tenor.
The Minneapolis Symphony orches
tra is hailed as one of the greatest
organizations of its kind in the coun
try. Henri Verbrugghen, its direct
or, has had an interesting career as
a musician. He has directed or
chestras in all parts of the world in
cluding the London Symphony or
chestra. A number of distinguished
instrumental soloists will appear with
the orchestra.
Ferguson Takes Leading Role.
Bernard Ferguson of New York,
who will take the role of Elijah, is
physically, as well as vocally fitted
to that role, and he has been in de
mand for concert and oratorio work
in all parts of the country.
Mabel Beddoe, possesses a voice of
warmth, and a style of distinction
that rank her as one of the best con
traltos that this country has pro
duced. She has received a great deal
of favorable comment from the press
in all parts of the country. Lenora
Sparkes will be the soprano soloist.
Walter Wheatley, who will be the
tenor solo, is well known to all Lin
coln music lovers, having lived here
for a number of years.
The orchestra will arrive this
morning Irom Concordia, Kan. a
complete rehearsal will be held in
the stadium at 1:30 this afternoon.
Continued on Page 4.)
JENNY CULLEN.
Miss Jenny Cullen is one of the
very few women players in any
great symphony organization. She
is a wmbeT of the famous Verbrug
ghen string quartet that is included
in the Minneapolis Symphoay orches
tra. She was formerly the concert
master of the celebrated State Sym
phony orchestra of Sydney, Australia.
