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E DAILY NEBRASKAN Keep Off the Grass. Stayon the Walks. Keep Off the Grass. Stay on the Walks. VOL. XXIII NO. 157 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1924 PRICE 5 CENTS h. KANSAS TROOPS NEAR LINCOLN Cavalry and Artillery Units Are Expected to Arrive Tomorrow Noon. DETACHMENT LEAVES BEATRICE TODAY Cavalry and artillery Units of the regular army are moving toward Lincoln today in preparation for the maneuvers to. be held at tba Fair Grounds Friday afternoon. Coming overland from Fort Riley, Kansas, the troops marched to Wymore and camped Sunday 'night. Yesterday they moved to Beatrice and today they are marching between Beatrice and Cortland. The entire unit, com posed of about 350 mounted troops and 300 infantrymen will reacn .Lin coln about noon tomorrow. The troops will come into Lincoln from the south on Eleventh street. They will march north to O street and than east to Seventeenth street and then to their camp at the Fair Grounds. Business men of the city will decorate their stores and the streets with flags and signs of wel come. An air squadron will arriva here Thursday afternoon, ready to exe cute battle 'maneuvers and stunt flying connected with the celebra tion. Cadet Prepare Exhibition. All units of the regular army and the R. O. T. C. have been put through a special period of training in prep aration for the event; The officers at Fort Riley and the instructors in military science report that the men are enthusiastic about participation in tha exhibition and will put forth every effort to present a true dis play of the conditions under which men enter battle and an additional number of stunts by all the units. Company L of the cadet regiment will sweep the field in front of the grand stand with a zero hour charge against an enemy entrenched on the other side of the field. The infan try unit will make the assault, firing blank ammunition and aided by a one-pounder, a Stokes mortar, and two machine guns. An announcer will explain the situation and will explain the purpose of the various moves made by tha offensive and de fensive troops. The Pershing Rifles will give a ten-minute drill in an effort to "out point West Point." Will Entertain Troops. Various forms, of entertainment have been devised for the troops. The Liberty theater will be open to the visiting soldiers Wednesday and Thursday nights. The American Le gion has arranged for a dance in honor of the soldiers and Capitol Beach will be open to them. The officers will be entertained at a dinner at the University Club (Continued oa Page 4.) ANNOUNCE YEARBOOK ALMOST COMPLETED Will Probably Finish Work on 1924 Cornhusker by End of This Week. The 1924 Cornhusker will be ready for distribution the last of this week or the first of next, according to David Richardson, business manager of this years annual. . The printing has been finished and the book is in the bindery. Work on the binding is said to be of better quality this year, thus requiring more time and labor. The Cornhusker will be larger than previously announced. The number of pages will be 632, considerably ore than last year. The size of the page is also increased to 9 by 12 inches. The annual is of value to students nd also to graduates because of the Pecial attention given to organiza tions. A complete history of every organization in school, including tbe names of its founders, its purposes nd activities should make it a valu able keepsake to every Nebraskan. Another feature of the book is the ection containing the picture of thfe five representative men and five rfPresentative romen of the Univer sity. Twenty peopla were announced be in the lead in the contest staged ! eprirff but the names of the Uz v;nners have been kept secret and "1 not be known until the yearbook distributed. The above scenes show the work troops will be a feature of P.A.D.'S AND SIG EPS TO MEET IN FINALS Interfrat j Baseball Tourney Will Close With Game on Thursday. Phi Alpha Delta, winers of the in terfraternity baseball tourney last year, will go into the finals of the 1924 tournament this week as the result of their victory over the Sigma Alpha Epsilon nine Sunday with the score 8 to 3. They will play the Sigma Phi Epsilon team in the finals. The game Sunday was a nine-inning affair played at Rock Island park. The last game of the tourna ment is being planned for Thursday afternoon. The Sig EpS beat the Pi Kappa Phi aggregation in their semi final game. The P. A. D's started off the game by getting two runs in the first in ning and two in the second inning. They increased their lead to seven in the next inning. The Sig Alphs got their first counter in the fourth in ning, another in the sixth, and the last in the eight. The P. A. D.'s then made anothef run in the last inning. Norton pitched a good game for the P. A. D.'s striking out fourteen men and allowing only six hits. Mediin caught for the winners. The Sig Alph battery was Anderson and Gray. Anderson allowed eight hits, "Bub" WeHer, of the Sig Alph team, made the only home run of the game in the sixth inning. URGE ALL STUDENTS TO REGISTER EARLY May Obtain Class Schedules for Next Year at Office of Registrar. Registration of all students should be finished Friday noon because of the military fete planned for that afternoon and for Saturday morn ing. The schedules for classes are out and may be got at the Registrars office;' Students who do not see their ad visors by noon of May 24 will be charged a late fee. After seeing their advisors students must take their schedules to' the deans of their colleges. Arts and Scienc men will go to Professor Candy in M301B to have their schedules authorized. Fees need not be paid till Septem ber, but they must be in by Septem ber 8. It is very important that students should have their correct summer addresses on their schedules so that the bill for their fees may be sent to them daring the summer. Will Follow Vesper Service With Picnic Vesper services will be held tonight at Antelope park followed by a pic nic. Mary Doremus will preside and talks on former Y. W. C. A. confer ences at EstePark will be given by Mary Creekpaum and Ruth Carpen ter. Conference songs will be sung. The lunch will be served directly following the service. All eirls who wish to go should leave their names with Miss Appleby by 1 1 o'clock this morning. Mett t Ellen Smith hall at 5 o'clock. i MiiaiMi Mini j -cmj-. illl -:-:-:-:-:-;v;-:-:w: .v:tv .: azu?. TO''i t engaged in by the regular army troops the military festival to be held here on Call for Editors of Student Publications Applications for appointments to the positions of editor, junior man aging editor, business manager and assistant business manager of the 1925 Cornhusker will be received un til Thursday noon, May 22. The Daily Nebraskan applications for appointments will be received un til Thursday noon, May 22, for editor, managing editor, news editors and assistant news editors for the first half of the first semester and for business manager, assistant business manager, and circulation manager for the first semester. Candidates are asked to submit, clearly and as concisely as may be evidence as to their qualifications for the specific position for which they apply. ( - - Blanks may be got at the office of Secretary J. K. Selleck and of the chairman. M. M. FOGG Chairman, Student Publication Board. SENIOR GLASS PICNIC WILL BE HELD TODAY Graduating Class Is' Excused From All Classes for Annual Affair. (For several years in the past the members of the senior class have been guests of Chancellor and Mrs. Avery at the annual senior class picnic. The in crease in numbers within the class, the strain and worries con nected with the planning of the picnic, and the immense cost of providing food and entertain ment has made it inadvisable for Chancellor and Mrs. Avery to be hosts again this year. We are grateful to our Chancellor for the courtesies he has shown the class in the past and we feel that this responsibility is too great to be borne any longer by the Chancellor and Mrs. Avery alone. WM. G. ALSTADT, President of Senior class The seniors will leave the College Book store-at 3:30 this afternoon for the annual class picnic at the Auto Club park, eight miles south of Lincoln. The committee said yesterday that provision has been made for the transporation of every one to the "park. Seniors are 'to be excused from all afternoon classes today. Plenty of food and entertainment is being provided and will be made possible by the sale of tickets to all seniors who are going. The tickets are fifty . cents. Chancellor and Mrs. Avcy are not to be hosts to the class this year, as president Altstadt explained in his letter to the class. Curtis Piass and Alfred Parks are to furnish music in the pavilion. All seniors who can are asked to furnish their own transportation,' but the remainder of the class will be taken from the -College Book store in cars provided by the committee. CALIFORNIA A psychology clin ic has become part of the University infirmatory at the U. of C. at Fort Riley, Kansas. These May 23. STADIUM TO DISPLAY 18 SCHOOL BANNERS Pennants of Missouri Valley Universities to Be Flown at Track Meet. Eighteen banners, bearing the name and letters and made up in colors, two for each Missouri Val ley school, will float from staffs on both stands of the stadium before the eyes of the track fans Saturday. The banners are made of heavy bunt ing and are 6 1-2 by 20 feet in size. They will be displayed on all occa sions when events are staged in the stadium. The banners were purchased by donations from various campus or ganizations. Mystic Fish, Xi Delta, Silver, Serpents, . Mortar Boards and .Valkyrie contributed to the purchase of one banner and the following or ganizations bought one banner each: Ag club, Scabbard and Blade, All University party committee, W. S. G. A., Tassels, W. A. A., Home Ec club, Farmers Fair, Kosmet Klub, Y.M.C.A., N club, Commercial club, Pi Epsilon Pi, University Union, 1924 Cornhusker, Daily Nebraskan, and Nebraska Engineering society. Contributions were not taken from commercial establishments in order to' hold the purchase of , the banners free from becoming an advertising proposition. Effort will be made to have the names of contributing organizations engraved on the staffs. But, if this is not feasible, a tablet bearing the names will be placed in the stadium. WILL ELECT LEADERS FOR SPRING SPORTS Will Have Polls Open in West Entrance of Armory from 9 to 5 O'CIock. W. A. A. elections for the spring sport leaders will be held today from 9 to 5 o'clock in the west entrance of Memorial hall. Jessie Iliett, Elis abeth Armstrong, and Luella Reck meyer have been appointed election tellers. The nominees for the sports are as follows: Hiking Alice Pfeiffer and Jean Kellenbargfr. Swimming Margaret Hymer and Hazel Safford. Baseball Louise Branstad and Marie Hermanek. Dancing Harriett McClelland and Dorothy Dougan. Track Helen West and Mildred Armstrong. Tennis Karen J-ensen and Kathro Kidwell. Volley ball Dorothy Taylor and Mildred Schobert. All volley ball practices roust be in before 1 o'clock today for mem bership on the class teams. Five practices are required for member ship. The first round of the class tournament will be played off Wed nesday noon and the finals Thurs day noon. CHICAGO The University of Chicago baseball team will invade Japan on a three months' tour. This is the fourth trip of a Chicago team, similar jaunts having been made in 1910, 1915, &nd 1920. Weather Forecast Tuesday Fair; not much change in temperature. APPOINT TAYLOR ' AS NEW REGENT Governor Bryan Selects St. Paul Attol?iey lo Board Vacancy. WILL HOLD OFFICE UNTIL JANUARY, 1927 Frank J. Taylor, St. Paul, Nebr., attorney, has been appointed by Gov ernor Bryan as a member of the Board of Regents of the University. Mr. Taylor will fill the unexpired term of W. L. Bates of Lincoln, who resigned several weeks (ago. The appointment is to run until January, 1927, when a regent will be regularly elected. . Mr. Taylor is a graduate of the Ann Aibor law college and has been prominent in democratic politics in the state. He owns large tracts of farm lands between St. Paul and Og allala. He was recently elected to be one of the delegates of the Sixth district to the democratic national convention at New York. Governor Bryan in making the ap pointment, is carrying out the spirit of the new constitution by giving the place to a congressional district which has not heretofore been rep resented on the board. Two oi the nresent regents are residents of the Second district, two of the Third and one of the Fourth. The First district, left unrepresented by the resignation of Mr. Bates will elect a new regent this year to succeed one of the Second district men. The Fifth and Sixth districts will elect two years hence. SET-JUNE -5 AS-DATE-- FOR LAW BARBECUE Festivities of the Day Will Be Opened by Parade Led by College Band. The annual barbecue of the Law College is to be held this year on June 5, at the Auto Club park. Mem bers of the bar association of Lin coln are invited. A parade down O street will be held in the morning with the Law band playing. The new Law flag which was designed by the Fine Arts college will make its first ap pearance in the parade. All members of the supreme court have been invited to attend as well as all members of the local bar as sociation. A letter has been sent to Emory R. Buckner of New York city asking him to address the Laws on the occasion. The committee anounces that there will be plenty of "eats," in cluding barbecued meat, salads, and pies. The program is being ar ranged now. Tickets are being sold in the Law college at f 1 each. Frank Watson is the chairman of the general committee for the bar becua. The following are also' on the committee: Seniors, Harris Poley, Ed Crook, Dan Lynch; juniors, Welch Pogue, J. M. McCarthy, R. Patterson; freshmen, J. Miller, II Dewitz, W. Ogden, L. Hubka. ANNOUNCE PURPOSES OF HEW DEPARTMENT Professor Buck Explains Aims of Courses in Compara tive Literature. Prof. Philo M. Buck, head of the newly created department of com parative literature, and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, issued a statement yesterday to ex plain the purpose of the department and describe some of , tbe courses. The statement is: , "It is the purpose of this de partment to encourage the study of the relationship of English literature to the literature of the other Euro pean countries. Though it is ex pected that the advanced courses in the department will reqquire an easy reading knowledge of other lan guages yet there will always be a (Continued on Pago 4.) MEIJI PASTIMERS DEFEATHUSKERS Japanese Visitors Win Close Baseball Game by Score of 4 to 3. TEAM IS HANDICAPPED BY LOSS OF PLAYERS The Meiji university pastimers from Tokio, who are making a tour of the United States playing the leading college nines, proved them selevs to be clever ball players and took tba measure of Coach Kline's Huskers 4 to' 3, in a close game at Rock Island park yesterday after noon. Locke, stellar short stop, was out of the lineup because the coaches did not want to risk an injury before the Missouri Valley championship track and field meet to be held here Saturday. The Valley champions from Oklahoma come here for a two- game series Wedrvssday and Thurs day. Locke will also be kept out of these gamds as will Rhodes, star Ne braska left hander. r Kumagai, husky Jap centerfield-er, knocked a home run in the third with two on bases that accounted for most of the Meiji scores. The Huskers got off to' an early lead in the first wben Volz knocked out a double and scored on a Jap error. The second inning was scoreless. Jap Pound Homer. In the third, Yokowzowa got to first on an error and went to sec ond when the next man was walked. Then came Kumagai's circuit drive that made things look bad for the Huskers. In Nebraska's half of the third, Janda, first man up,' singled and went to third on Volz's hit. Blood good then placed a nice double out in the field which scored Janda. The Jap catcher missed the throW home and Volz came in with the run that tied the score. - Not until the ninth hming was -the tie broken. Both teams were playing good ball and they were going down in one, two, three order. The Huskers missed their golden opportunity in the eighth when Pat ton, after drawing a pass to first, advanced to third on Bloodgood's sac rifice. But Gibbs then failed to con nect with the 'scheduled sacrifice and Patton was an easy out at tbe plate. In the ninth, the first Jap up got a double and went to third on a sac rifice. A nice bunt layed down the first base line scored him and put Meiji in the lead, 4 to 3. Nebraska made a desperate effort to coma back in their half of the ninth. Lewellen was out at first. Then Rhodes, sent in as a pinch hit ter, fanned. E. Lang, also a pinch hitter, got a single and Janda walked. Volz, left-handed Husker slugger, was n-ext up and Nebraskas hopes rose but he was an easy out at first. Inava, Meiji short stop, was a stellar performer for the Japs, mak (Continued on Pae 4.) DISTRIBUTE MAY ISSUE OF ENGINEER MAGAZINE Last plumber of Blue Print Is Largest Published Dur ing Year. The Nebraska Blue Print will make its final appearance for the year to day. The May issue of the Engi neering magazine is the largest of the year and contains several articles of interest to engineers and others alike. The feature articles of the issue is one on the wonderful possibilities of the future of aviation. A' trip from Lincoln to the coast is de scribed and the present facilities ane described and illustrated. Prof. J. W. Haney, of the department of Me chanical Engineering, who has had practical aviation experience at tbe Curtiss plant, is the author of the article. ' A story of the recent engineering inspection trip to Chicago is told by C. F. Rogers, whose official report won tba first prize. "The Nation's Most Unique State Capitol" is the title of the article by C. F. Hrubesky, a Nebraska alumnus now employed in the construction of the new state capitoL Hr. Hrubesky tells of sonra of the architectural ef fects present id the new building and gives the meaning of these.