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he Daily Nebraskan VOL. XXIV NO. 64. AGRICULTURISTS HOLD MEETINGS Livestock, Poultry, Dairying, and Home Economic Are Subjects Taken Up. Organised Agriculture meetings are being conducted on the Agricul tural College Campus, January 6-7-8-9. All sessions are open to the public, regardless of membership in any association. Most of the phases of farm life, of interest to women as well as to men, are discussed at the meetings. Livestock, poultry, dairying, home economics, horticulture, crop grow ing, and rural schools are among the topics taken up. In addition to the Organized Agri culture meetings, a number of ex hibits are on display. There is, a corn show, including the Nebraska Exhibit at the International Hay and Grain Show, on the third floor of the Dairy Building; the apple ex hibit in the Plant Industry Building; and the poultry show in the City Auditorium thirteenth and M streets. The general committee in charge of the Organised Agriculture Pro pram is composed of E. R. Danielson, chairman; E. A. Burnett, Margaret Fedde, C. B. Steward, P. H. Steward, V. H. Brokaw, acting secretary. The schedules for Tuesday and Wednesday follow: Tuesday. Crop Growers Association. Home Economics Association. Horticultural Society. Livestock Breeders Association. Wednesday. Crop Growers Association. Dairymen's Association. Farm Bureau Federation. Home Economics Association. Honey Producers Association. Horticultural Society. Livestock Breeders Association. Milk Goat Breeders Association. Wednesday Eevening. Farmers Family Fun Feed. A nursery for the care of children is provided in the gymnasium, to enable the mothers to attend the .meeting. It. is under the ..care of Miss P.uth Staples, home economics instructor, who is in charge of the baby in the practice house. MISS LOUISE POUND RETURNS FROM EAST Receives New Honors at Mod ern Language Association in New York City. Miss Louise Pound of the depart ment of English of the University of Nebraska returned on Monday from the Atlantic coast, where she spent the holidays. She remained a day in Chicago and Rochester with friends, and passed several days in Boston and Wellesley. At Wellesley she met many members of the faculty at various social entertainments and many well-known writers. At the meeting of the Modern Language Association at New York City, Miss Pound presided at the meeting of the popular language sec tion and was re-elected vice-presi dent of the Dialect Society and a member of the executive committee, She received an invitation to appear on the program of the American Lit erature section next year. On her way home she stopped for day in Baltimore. Miss Pound was asked to give addresses at both Wel lesley and Vassar but did not remain n the East long enough for the open ing of cchooL An eastern publishing house issuing forty or more scholarly and educational periodicals has asked her to serve as editor of a periodical American Speech" to be established next September. Among the Nebraskans whom Miss Pound encountered at New York City were Constance Rummons Ballantine, now instructing in mathematics at the allege of New York, Lilian Fitzpa trick, fellow in Romance Language at Bryn Mawn, and Mr. and Mrs. Clear Golden. Mr. Golden was an instructor at the University of Ne braska at one time. Mrs. Golden as formerly Jeanette Doyle. Applications Must Be in by Friday Applications for positions on thm rVii-nlmcVj. f niik. lication of the College of Agricul ture, win be received until o'clock, Thursday, January 8 at the Cornhosker Countryman of fice in Agricultural HalL The po sitions to be filled are associate editors, business managers, and circulation manager. The editors ind staff of the departments will slso be selected at this time . Hundred or More High Schools Will Debate League of Prof. Fogg Issues Bulletin on Plans of Debating League This Year. The hundred or more schools in the Nebraska High-School Debating League in the eighteenth annual con tests will discuss the proposition "That the United States Should En ter the League of Nations." This question was selected by the execu tive committee. In a bulletin sent to all high schools of the state as the December 17 number of the University Exten sion News, the president of the League, Prof. M. M. Fogg, professor of English and director of the School of Journalism, University of Nebras ka, announces League plans for the year. The following directors for 1924-1925, who will have immediate charge of the League work in their respective districts, have been ap pointed: Central District Supt. R. W Kretsinger, Geneva. Eastern Principal J. G." Masters, Omaha Central High School. East-Central Principal C. W, Taylor, Teachers College High School, Lincoln. North-Central Supt. Myrtle V. Price, Albion. Northeastern Supt F. A. Bishop, Oakland. Northwestern Supt G. F. Lie- bendorfer, Sidney. Southeastern Supt. F. G. Thom- ann. Pawnee City. Southwestern Supt. C. K. Morse, Nebraska School of Agriculture, Cur tis. Western I Supt. C. S. Hetrick, Elmcreek. Western II Supt G. W. McGaw, Oshkosh. The directors of the Southern and West-Central Districts have not yet been announced. Twenty-five new schools have ap plied for membership this year in this state-wide organization, organized by Professor Fogg at the request of DR. JUDD TALKS AT Y.W.C. A. VESPERS "A Pearl of Great Price" Subject; Secretary Goes to Tibet Soon. Is Dr. Walter Judd, a graduate of the University and of the Medical Col lege at Omaha, now traveling secre tary of the Student Volunteers but soon to go to Tibet as a medical mis sionary, gave an address A Pearl ol Great Price" at Vespers on Tuesday evening. Vr. juaa win speaa again at a general convocation on Thurs day. "We all have one life to live," said Dr. Judd. "Shall it be dominated by service or by self-interest? The two are mutually exclusive. Which shall it be?" The life which has service for its basis, so declared Dr. Judd, has fori its dominant passion the desire for an abundant life. There is in such a life no selfish ambition or love of money, power or fame. "The call for self -surrender is not a call lor life-surrender. Think not of what you lose, but of what you gain. Even though you sell or resign all your other pearls, you gain one perfect pearl a pearl of great price the Kingdom of God. Mary Creekpaum presided at me Vesper services. Blanche aianz sang a special solo. She was accompanied by Jeannette Olson on the piano, ana by Helen Oberlies who played a vio lin obligate. TRACK CAPTAIN IS AWARDED LETTER Zimmerman Receives Honor Following Recommenda tion by Coach McMaster. Captain Paul Zimmerman of the 1924 cross-country team was award ed a letter by the commiwe u awards at a meeting held during tne Christmas holidays. The award fol lowed a recommendation, by Coach McMaster, for three of the members of the team. Zimmerman was the first Husker to finish in the dual meet with. Okla homa, placing second. He was the second Nebraska harrier to Cwsh against the Kansas Aggies, but lacked the necessary points required for a letter. Besides carrying six teen hours University work, Zimmer. ... workine eieht hours on a night shift at the Burlington. This, with a slight inju-y, handicapped him in competition. In 1923. his first ..,., in competition. Zimmerman was u. nn.V ta finish in every . j mwfh. aesinst a meet, im - t. .i - r;n.rnnr runners at "e Missouri Valley meet THE UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA, LINCOLN,1 NEBRASKA, Nations Question schoolmen in 1908 to encourage straight thinking and straight talk ing: Adams, Blair, Cedar Rapids, Clarke, David City, Doniphan, Endi- cott, Grand Island, Hartington, Her man, Holbrook, Homer, Juniata, Kimball, Leigh, Loup City, Maywood, Raymond, Riverton, Rulo, Syracuse, Tilden, Wilsonville, Wood Lake, Yu tan. Because of the increased member ship and in the interest of saving travel expense, another diBtrict or two may be organized. Members in each district will be paired for the first-series contests, which will begin in February. The district-championship honors entitle the winner to participate in the three-day state-debate tournament at the University of Nebraska in May. The district championships were de cided last year in nearly all the dis tricts by the percentage method. The annual membership fee, ?3, is to be paid before a school participates in a first-scries debate. The secretary treasurer is T. S. Dunn, Lincoln High School. Large certificates are presented to the district-championship and the state-championship schools, and cer tificates of honor are given the indi vidual members of these teams. Each League school is urged to have two teams in order to insure training in give-and-take debating by sending the teams against one an other. Abstracts of a large number of authoritative articles and parts of books on the League of Nations yues tion are being prepared,'' under the direction of the president of the League, by University debaters. These abstracts, which are designed to give schools with limited library facilities access to facts and intelli gent opinion concerning the ques tion, will be furnished at approxi mate cost by the Debating and Pub lic Discussion Bureau of the Univer sity Extension Division. They will be ready for distribution in printed form early in January. CONSIDER MEN FOR COACHING West, Wynne, Rutherford and Chamberlin Are Among Prospectives. BOARD SIMMERS IT DOWN TO FOUR MEN C. A. West of South Dakota State Agricultural College, Guy Chamber lin, Chet Wynne, and Dick Ruther ford are among the candidates being considered by the Athletic Board for the position of head coach at Ne braska. Many applications have been re ceived for the position left open by the resignation of Fred T. Dawson inct mnnth. Accordine to John K. Selleck, business manager of athle tics, the Board is meeting practically every day and is determined to find a capable coach .who will be able to step into Dawson's shoes. West of the South Dakota Aggies is one of the outstanding applicants. Chamberlin, a former Cornhusker star who coached the Bulldogs while they won the championship of the national pro league for f jee consecutive years, has also been spoken of but has not communicated with the office or applied for the position. Wynne and Rutherford have been talked of very much and Bearg, as sistant coach at Illinois, last week conferred with the Board regarding his appointment as head coach. Dawson resigned as head coach but is retained as director of athletics. Bishop Keeney To Speak At Banquet At the Methodist Student Banquet at the Grand Hotel Thursday, Bish op F. T. Keeney of the Methodist Episcopal church will be the speak er. This banquet is one of a series promoted throughout the year by the Methodist Student Council of the University of Nebraska. Dr. H. F. Huntington left Tuesday afternoon for Chicago to attend the annual ses sion of the church workers in the Universities. Sophomores To Play Seniors on Friday The finals of the women's soccer tournament will be played Friday af ternoon at 4 o'clock on the field next to the Teachers' College building. Either the sophomores or the seniors 11 win the championship in this fame. The juniors, who were forced to play short, lost to the seniors in the game held the Friday before va cation. HONORS SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM M. M. Fogg Represents School; But One of Several Appli cations Accepted. ASSOCIATION ADMITS NEBRASKA AS MEMBER The University of Nebraska School of Journalism, organized in 1923, on the basis of its work its first year was elected, at the recent meeting at Chicago, to membership in the Amer ican Association of Schools and De partments of Journalism. The association has taken a con servative stand on the admission of members. Of several applicants this year, Nebraska was the only one ad mitted. It was represented at the meeting by the director, Prof. M. M. Fogg. Most of the three-day session was given to the formulation of prin ciples and standards of training for journalism. The fifteen members of the asso ciation now are: Columbia Univer sity, Indiana, Kansas, Kansas Agri cultural College, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. The De cember 1925 meeting will be at the Columbia University School. MAKE APPOINTMENTS FOR SENIOR PICTURES All Photos Must Be in by Janu ary 28; Expect About 700 This Year. Seniors will have their pictures taken for the 1925 Cornhusker Thursday, January 8. All pictures must be in by January 28. It is ex pected by the members of the Corn husker staff that about 700 seniors will turn in pictures. This is the largest senior section in the history of the Cornhusker. The list of ap pointments follows: Lysle Ezra Abbot, Aileen Hilliard Acton, John Quigry Adams, Juvia Ray Adams, Martin E. Aegerter, Ma bel Aggson, Myrtle Mary Agnew, William Findley Aiken, Carolyn Airy, Alta Agnes Allen, Frank Lenan Allen, Franklin Lenam Allen, Helena Holden Allen, Norman A. Allen, Wendell R. Alabaster, Harold E. Carlson, Ruth H. Crain, Ann De Lor es Davey, John E. Hook, Ladimer J. Hubka, Raney Mae Medley, James F. Miller,. Fred Nies, Franklin Potter, Paul C. Richardson, Floyd Lape Am- mer, Jay W. Anderson, Sarah Marie Anderson, David Benjamin Ander son, Johanna Anderson, Hannah An drews, Elta B. Andrews, Fred H. An drews, Virgil G. App, Mildred Arm strong, Paul Arnold, Walter W. Ar nold, Lillian C. Aspegren, Ruth At kinson, Ren Aton. Mary Avery, Eme lyn S. Avey, Gladys M. Babcock, Er- rold G. Bahl, John C. Baisch, Esther M. Baker, Lillian E. Baker, Freda A. Barker, James M. Barnes, Dorsey Barnes, Helen V. Barnett, Esther Barney, Frances Barr, Lucille Barr, Burlin D. Basteau, Goldia M. Bauer, Oscar R. Bauman, Raymond r. Bay. HOLD PRELIMINARY TRYOUT; THURSDAY Wants Candidates for Indoor Meets; Kansas City Is First Opponent. With the first indoor track meet a scant four weeks away, Coach Hen ry F. Schulte yesterday issued the first call for candidates for the 1925 Varsity track squad. Work will be gin immediately on the renewed in door track underneath the east stand of the stadium for the first meet, the Kansas City Athletic Club fray. Preliminary tryouts for the team which will represent Nebraska at the K. C. A. C. meet will be held in the stadium Thursday, January 15. Track men are expected to sign up if they intend to try out for the meet and to work out regularly or turn in their suits. The events will be the regular in door meet contests 100-yard dash; 220-yard dash; 440-yard dash; half mile; quarter-mile; mile; two-mile; high jump; broad jump; pole vault; shot put; and possibly a relay. Schulte expects to cop the Missou ri Valley flag for the fifth consecu tive time this year and prospects on the cinder path are very bright Maurice "Mud" Gardner, captain of the 1924 team, is assisting Schulte in training the athletes. Everett Crites of Central City will captain his mates and will probably enter in the quarter-milt , the low hurdles, snd the half-mile. Crites holds the Nebraska record in the hurdles. Roland Locke of North Platte will be back in the dashes. The holder of (Continued oa Fag Three.) WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, Dr. Holmes to Talk At Forum Luncheon Dr. John Andrew Holmes, pas tor of the First-Plymouth Congre gational church of Lincoln, will discuss "The Christian View of Life" at tho World Forum lunch eon at the Grand Hotel at noon'to day. Members of the committee in charge are trying to secure Bish op Becker of Lincoln to present the Catholic view at the luncheon two weeks from today. If he is unable to do this, Dr. Holmes' dis cussion will close the series in which the views of life held by peoples of various religions have been discussed. The Greek, Ori ental, and Jewish views of life have been taken up. Next week Dr. Wm. Axling, "98, who has been a missionary in Japan for nearly twenty-five years will speak. His topic will probably be "The International Outlook of the Student." STUDENTS WILL HEAR DR. JUDD Student Volunteer Secretary to Speak at Convocation Thursday Morning. "WHERE SHALL I INVEST MY LIFE" IS SUBJECT Dr. Walter H. Judd, '20, M. D., '24, traveling secretary for the Stu dent Volunteer Movement, who is delivering several addresses in Lin coln this week, will speak on "Where Shall I Invest My Life?" at an all University convocation in the Temple Theater at 11 o'clock Thursday morning. Those who have heard Dr. Judd say that he is a speaker of unusual force and ability. He was president of the University Y. M. C. A., and served successively as local, state, and national chairman of the Stu dent Volunteer Movement while a student in the University of Nebras ka. He was also vice-chairman of the Indianapolis convention of the Movement last year. He was offered a position with Mayo Brother's Clinic at Rochester, Minn., immediately after his gradu ation from the College of Medicine, but he declined this to take up his work with the Student Volunteer Movement. Next year he expects to go to China as a medical missionary. A dinner for him will be given at the Grand hotel Thursday evening. It is open to the public and the tick ets, which are fifty cents, can be purchased at the University Y. M. C. A. office in the Temple. Dr. Judd is to speak to Dr. Bark er's zoology class in Bessey hall at 11 o'clock this morning. Earlier in the morning he is scheduled to speak at Cotner College, Bethany. Thursday morning he speaks at Wesleyan University, University Place, in addition to the convocation here. Dr. Judd spoke at the Vesper Services in Ellen Smith Hall and to the local Student Volunteer Union last evening. He was a member of Bushnell Guild, now Pi Kappa Alpha, and of Phi Rho Sigma, medical fraternity. He also won Phi Beta Kappa honors while a student here. Former Student Visits Ferguson Henry Sargent, A. E., '24, was a visitor at the office of Dean O. J. Ferguson of the College of Engineer ing, while spending his Christmas holidays in Lincoln. . Mr. Sargent is working for his masters' degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology at Boston. More Than 200 Men Are Wanted for Gymnasium under More than two-hundred men are j wanted to register for gymnasium classes this week, under the super vision of Prof. A. G. Clapp and Direc tor Fred T. Dawson. There are three beginners classes and one class for those who have had one year or its equivalent of gymnasium work. The first-year classes will meet at 1 1 and 3 o'clock Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and at 7:45 Tuesday, Wed nesday, arsd Thursday evenings. Ad vanced classes are at 3 o'clock Tues day and Thursday. In addition, there is a class in heavy gymnastics open to those who have had a considerable amount of apparatus work. Credit in all courses will be one hour, counting toward graduation. "The gymnasium classes are plan ned to give a large amount of gen eral exercise to counteract the affect of the sedentary work in which the students engage," said Dr. Clapp. "Their purpose is to keep up a high 1925. Former Nebraska Man Receives Appointment Prof. A. R. Moore, '04, head of the department of physiology at Rutgers University, has bocn given by the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, the American table at the Naples, Italy, station for April-June, 1925; , and the Rutger trustees have given him leave of ab- sence. lie expects 10 conciuue ni five-months' trip with a vacation in the Tyrol and in the cathedral cities of northern France. SELL TICKETS FOR PAN-HELLENIC PARTY Kosmet Klub to Announce Winner in Contest at Annual Formal. Tickets are now on sale for the Pan-Hellenic Formal to be given Sat urday, January 17 at the Scottish Rite Temple. Ten tickets have been allotted to ach fraternity house and a representative from each organiza tion is selling at his house. Several fraternities have purchased their quota and are calling for more. A smoker for all representatives selling the pasteboards will be held tonight at the Phi Kappa Psi house at 7 o dock. Kosmet Klub members, sponsors of the formal, will be hosts, Tickets and money should be turned in then and a re-distribution of tick ets will be made so that fraternities wanting more can get them. The formal will be much more elaborate than in former years. Mu sic will be furnished by The Ne braskans and will include songs from the musical comedy to be produced by the Klub this spring. Announce ment of the winner of the contest for the writing of the play will be made at the party. Five plays have been considered. Any men in school who have not been able to get a ticket and want one may get in touch with Bill Brad ley at the Phi Psi house or any other member of the Klub. BLUE PRINT FOR DECEMBER IS OUT Distribute Engineering Publi cation to Students This Week. The December issue of The Ne braska Blue Print, official publica tion of the College of Engineering, is being distributed on the campus this week. "Nebraska's First Step Toward 'Super Power' " is the title of the first article, written by B. E. Ells worth. Oliver S. Lyford contributes a paper on the subject, "The Engi neer as a Leader in Industry." Her bert Hoover is the personage whose biography is given under the caption "Hall of Fame." Other features are "The Dean's Corner," departmental notes, and monthly news. Library Catalogues Additional Volumes Several sets of books were acces sioned and catalogued during the vacation by the library staff. They have been placed in the reading room, where they can be more con veniently handled than in the crowd ed offices. Following are the sets of volumes: Journal Asiatique, 1839-1913, 150 volumes. Commission Municipale du Vieux Proces Verbaux, 13 volumes. Ibis, Quarterly Journal of Orni thology, 50 volumes. Dresser, History of the Birds of Europe, 9 volumes, folio. Clapp and Dawson physical efficiency where it has been obtained, and to develop it where the students have not had the advantage of training. The courses this year are planned to make the work inter esting and recreative as well as in structive in gymnastics. Students must have sound bodies to have sound minds." Mr. Fred T. Dawson, Director of Athletics, said, "In all our sister in stitutions there are from 800 to 1000 men taking gymnasium work regular ly, and it is hoped that where an opportunity exists as it doer Siere, we will not be behind the others. With our present limited space for sports and games, we are offering this as a substitute, and we know the men will avail themselves of this splendid opportunity for exercise. Under the leadership of Mr. Knight there will be plenty of spirit and fun that lends an enjoyable as well as beneficial prase to the work." PRICE 5 CENTS REGISTRATION IS VERY LIGHT Application For Courses Must Be Left With Deans by Saturday Noon. NO GENERAL NOTICE OF PERIOD COULD BE MADE Students of the Arts and Sci ence college are urged by Acting Dean A. L. Candy to register for afternoon classes. Up to date, the registration has been very light in these sections. Registration for the second semes ter has been comparatively light dur ing the first two days of the period, according to reports from various colleges of the University, largely due to the fact' that no general no tice of the period has been made. In previous years announcement has been made to the student body, but it was impossible this year due to the winter vacation. The College of Business Adminis tration reports a larger registration Monday and Tuesday than in the first two days of any preceding year. Amanda Heppner, Dean of Women, who passes on the registration of all undergraduate women, reports that very few women, as compared with former years, have visited her Mon day and Tuesday. Applications for courses, and state ments of outside work must be left with the deans of the college in which registration is desired by Sat urday noon, January 10. All stu dents who have not registered by that time will be charged a late registra tion fee of three dollars. Students in the College of Agri culture will not be required to regis ter until next week, January 12 and 13, Monday and Tuesday, due to the Organized Agriculture, a fair at the Agricultural College Campus devoted to various farm problems. Arts and Science college students including, Pre-Dents, Pre-Laws; Busi ness Administration, Fine Arts and Journalism students will be required to pay their fees January 28 and 29, at the Armory, between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. Students in the College of Agricul ture, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Engineer ing, Law, Graduate, and Teachers, pay their fees January 26 and 27, at the Armory, entering the east door, between 9 a. m. and 4 p.m. Registration will not be complete until all fees are paid. No changes in registration will be considered until February 2. START BASKETBALL PRACTICE MONDAY Women Must Have Permit and Live Up to Training Rules. Basketball practice for women started Monday noon with freshmen on the floor. For the next six weeks two practices will be held every noon and on Tuesdays and Thursdays at two o'clock. Class team practices are held at noon; the freshmen on Monday, the sophomores on Friday, the juniors on Tuesday, and the seniors on Wed nesday. All other practices are gen eral and are open to all players. The noon practices begin at 11:45 and 12:20 o'clock. No woman will be allowed to enter this sport until she brings a physi cian's signature saying that she is physically able to participate. These cards may be had at the W. A. A. desk. To be eligible for the color tourna ment or class tournament play, all players must have lived up to the training rules recently passed by the Association. SCHULTE AND CLAPP HONORED Are Placed oa National Athletic A- ociatiea Committees. Henry F. Schulte, Nebraska track coach, and Dr. R. G. Clapp, wrestling Icoach, were placed on committees of the National Collegiate Athletic As sociation announced during the holi days. Schulte was named a member of the national committee on track, and Dr. Clapp was placed on the wrestling committee. Mike Ahearn of the Kansas Ag gies was the only other Valley man' placed on a' committee. He was se lected for the football group.