The Daily Nebraskan
XXIV-NO. 138.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1925.
ENGINEERS ARE
HOSTS TONIGHT
All Laboratories and Equip
ment of College Ready for
Intpection by Crowd on An
nual Engineer' Night.
BUILDINGS TO BE OPEN
Student Will Explain Educa
tional Exhibit and Amuting
Display Planned by Variou
Department.
Roaring engines, grinding wheels
hlazing lights, and shouting "bally'
hoo" men will contribute to the cele
bration of Engineers' Night in all
College of Engineering buildings
from 7 to 11 o'clock this evening.
Engineers' Night has been an es
tablished function of the College for
thirty years, but it was incorporated
is a part of Engineers Week only
nine years ago. Ihere will be dis-
plays of educational interest and
stunts intended merely to amaze or
amuse. Scores of engineering stu
dents will be on hand in the labora
tories, ready to explain and demon
strate the exhibits to visitors,
"An Engineer on Mars" will be
one of the spectacles offered in the
observatory by civil engineers where
Prof. G. D. Swezey has lent the use
of the large telescope. Here new de
velopments on the planet can be not
ed by means of an intricate combina
tion of lenses, plus the aid of photag
raphy. Mars and its weird inhabi
tants will not, however, be visible un
til after 8:30.
Build Model Bridget
A model suspension bridge built by
Willard Turnbull, C. E., '25, will be
on exhibition in the Mechanic Arts
! building, as will Howe, Bratt, and
Warner truss bridges, which will be
tested under the supervision of A. W.
Johnson, '26. Winners of a guessing
contest as to the weight supported by
these bridges will receive prizes. An
other display is a model pile driver,
A large number of souvenir coins
have been prepared for distribution
in vUUors. A model of the famous
Bear Mountain suspension bridge
across the Hudson River between Al
bany and New York has also been
built Students will demonstrate the
tying of knots in rods and steel bars
and the testing of bars.
Ed Richardson and Don McCoskey
both C. E. '25," will preside over the
Jtand in front of the Civil Engineer
ing building. Here hamburgers
"Coney Islands" and lemonade will
be sold.
After passing through the "Dun
geon of Shadows," spectators will see
in the Electrical Engineering build
ing such apparatus as the Tesla coil
which produces ultra-high voltages
causing sparks to pass to the body of
the demonstrator, due to the ex
tremely high frequency of the cur
rent The fact that the current pass
es on the surface prevents electro-
mution. Another object of interest
will be the Thordarson transformer
oi 220 to 150,000 volts.
Open New Laboratory
The new communications labora
tory, for both telephone and radio,
will be of outstanding interest in the
"E. E." building. This contains i
new artificial transmission line furn
ished to the University by the Bell
Telephone Company. The laboratory
is not fully equipped yet. University
Broadcastnie Station WFAV will
also be open for inspection.
Several spectacular stunts, such as
the unsupported collar which bobs up
and down on the neck of "Andy
Gump," well-known comic section
president, and the "transmission of
Power by wireless" have been arrang
ed for by the "electricals."
The steam, fuel, and woodworking
laboratories will all be open in the
Mechanical Engineering building,
with all machines in action. Opera
tion of the complicated ice machine
was started at about 3:30 yesterday
afternoon. Flowers, pictures, and
rubber ball3.may be frozen by- this
apparatus.
Show Hydraulic Machines
Hydraulic equipment will also be
in operation, showing the water tur
bines, water nozzles, and wires un
der test The internal combustion
engines will be in action also, as will
the steam equipment .including the
arge Corliss engine.
In the fuel laboratory on the sei
ond floor of the Mechanical Engin
eering building, tests regarding the
value of coal, in moisture, ash, vola
tility, and heating power are to be
conducted. Tests, the same as those
used by the city, will demonstrate
the volatility .
wi Knauuiic. n uluii,
TRICE 5 CENTS
All Departments of Engineering
College Represented in Parade
Eight floats and twenty-five auto
mobiles made up the annual Engin
eers' Parade that assembled on
Tenth street and went up O street
during the noon hour yesterday.
ri i ,. , .
iiuwua ran uhck ana lortn among
the floats and amused the specta
tors by their antics.
Each department of the College of
Engineering was represented by
float in the parade, which was one
of the best engineers have given in
the last few years. Members of the
faculty and engineering students
rode in automobiles in the proces
sion.
Behind a corps of motorcycle pol
iceman came a special miniature
automobile built by the Moore Cycle
Company of Lincoln. It was followed
by the radio car in which was a re
ceiving set, reproducing music sent
out from the University of Nebraska
radio station WFAV. The mechani
cal engineers' float was a forty-foot
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Applications for the following
positions on the staff of The Daily
Nebraskan beginning next Sep
tember will be received until noon
Saturday, May 9: editor, contrib
uting editor, managing editor,
news editor, assistant news editor,
business manager, assistant bus
iness manager, circulation manag
er. Application blanks may be got
at the office of the chairman and
of Secretary J. K. Selleck.
M. M. FOGG,
Chairman, Student Publication
Board.
May 4, 1925.
model of a new type of "power-from-the-air"
ship, designed by a German
Inventor.
The civil engineers had a float rep
resenting two convicts working on a
road, and watched over by an armed
guard, who was also operating a sur
veying instrument. The electrical
engineering float showed a man and
a girl, surrounded by native ( palms,
singing and playing into a microphone.
(Continued on Page Two.)
PHI DELTA KAPPA
INITIATES TODAY
COMMITTEES OF
FACULTY PICKED
University Senate Committees,
Which Will Act on General
Question Next Year, Are
Announced by Chancellor.
SOME CHANGES ARE MADE
National Honorary Education
al Fraternity Will Take in
New Members.
Phi Delta Kappa, national honor
ary educational fraternity, will hold
its initiation ceremony at the Tem
ple, at five o'clock today.
T'.ie fraternity is the only national
educational fraternity in the United
States. The men that are taken into
it must have the highest standards of
education and an interest in educa
tion. They are also required to mke
some contribution to the educatiornl
field. Many of the great educators
of the time are members of the fraternity.
Phi Delta Kappa is the same to the
educational field as Sigma Xi is to
the scientific field and Phi Beta Kap
pa is to the College of Arts and Sci
ence.
Lawrence Replaces Gas on
Student Publication Board
En g berg Head Committee
on Organizations.
The standing committees of the
University Senate for the academic
year 1925-1926 were announced yes
terday. The University Senate is
subject to the Chancellor and the
Board of Regents and determines
questions which concern more than
one College or the University as a
whole. The Chancellor, Deans, chair
men and acting chairmen of depart
ments, and others named by the Re
gents are the voting members of the
Senate.
The standing committees for next
year are:
Accredited Schools and Admission
to Freshman Standing in the Colleg
es The Chancellor (chairman), Ex
ecutive Dean, Deans of the Under
graduate Colleges, University Exam
iner, the Registrar.
Convocations and Public Exercises
Professor Paul H. Grummann
(chairman), Prof. J. O. Hertzler,
Prof. J. D. Hicks, Mrs. Raymond, the
Registrar.
Nominations The Chancellor
(chairman), the Deans.
(Continued on page 2)
INVITE WOMEN TO TEA
All University women are invit
ed by the Grace Coppock staff of
the Y. W. C. A. to attend a tea
in honor of Miss Vera Bargcr at
Ellen Smith Hall at 4 o'clock this
afternoon.
STATE DEBATE
OPENS TONIGHT
Eleven High School Teams,
District Champions, Will
Battle for State Honors.
FIVE SIMULTANEOUS
DEBATES THIS EVENING
The eighteenth state debate of the
Nebraska High School Debating
League eleven schools in ten de
bates starts Thursday evening, May
7, at 7:45 o'clock. The district-cham
pionship schools, represented by
three speakers, will battle for state
honors, on the proposition "That the
United States should enter the
League of Nations." Sides and pair
ing for the Thursday evening con
tests five simultaneous debates
were decided by lot-drawing in the
office of the president, Prof. M. M.
Fogg, director of the School of Jour
nalism; and the programs for the
succeeding debates will be deter
mined by lot-drawing immediately
after each round. The program for
Thursday evening is as follows, the
schools named first maintaining the
affirmative:
Lincoln-Albion, Social Science Au
ditorium. .
David City-Brock, Social Science
101.
(Continued on Page Two.)
Will Complete
Inspection of
Unit on Friday
The inspection of the Nebraska R.
O. T. C. unit will be completed Fri
day evening according to a wire from
the War Department inspectors re
ceived late yesterday by Major Erick
son. It was originally planned that
the inspection of the regiment would
extend over Saturday morning as
well as Friday.
The feature of the inspection by
the visiting officers will be the re
view in the afternoon. Class room
work will occupy the morning.
PLAYERS STAGE
FRENCH DRAMA
"A Comedy in Three Doses" I
Promise of University Play
ers for Closing Performance
of Season.
SATIRIZES THE DOCTORS
DEFENDS R.O.T.C.
IN UNIVERSITY
Frankforter Tells World For
um of Obligation to Make
Work Compulsory.
LONG DISCUSSION
FOLLOWS ADDRESS
High School Debaters Here for Tournament
bile
owners will find particularly in-
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nd for carbon residue. The final
lt will be that of grease, to deter
ge the coefficient of friction.
'N U" buttons, inlaid, and built
"P Piece by piece, will be given as
uvenirs to visitors in the wood
working laboratory, where, as in the
her kboratories, all machinery will
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BQOCK. -SOUTH EASTERN JDISTI2ICT
Biographical sketches of mem- bate three years. He took part in
bers of the distnct-championsnip . V . ' . , " ,t.
teams follow: '
John PMpt. tUlmtlUorden.LlWSpw. EfytMe Himji, taar Charti Byron Uri8urSem,
LINCOLN (EAST-CENTRAL DIS-
DAVID
DIS-
CITY (CENTRAL
TRICT)
Murray Roper, '27,- is member of
the orchestra, the band, the cnorus,
of the football team. This is his first
year in debate.
Robert Bell, '25, is president of
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his class, editor of the hign scnooj
annual, member of the football
team, and he participates in school
plays. This is his first year in de
bate. He plans to attend the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
Frank Myers, '26, has taken part
in debate only one year. He is class
treasurer.
Ival Howard, '27, alternate, is
president of his class. This is nis
first year in debate.
OMAHA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
EASTERN DISTRICT)
Samuel Minkin. '25. has repre-
clnh and of the male auartette. He
intend to study law, and will prob
ably attend Creighton University.
(EAST-CENTRAL
TRICT)
Perry Morton, '25, has represented
the high school in twelve debates.
He is an excellent student, his schol-
David Fillman, '25, has taken part arship average being over 93 per
in debating three years. He was cent. He is member of the Forum,
voted by the seniors of 1925 the Orpheons, a musical club; Mummers,
best student in school. He won first the dramatic club; the Writers, the
place in the Eastern-District Extern- Hi-Y, and DeMolay. He is going to
pore Speaking contest, and will rep- the University of Nebraska, where
resent Central at the Academic Con- he wH prepare himself to practice
testa at the University, High School law.
Fete Day. He is a member of the Reginald Miller, 25, is also an
Junior Honor Society, Gamma chap
ter, is president of the Speakers' Bu
reau, and of the Mathematics Socie-
honor student. He has represented
Lincoln High School in thirteen de
hates.. He is president of the Forum
ty. He intends to study lav aad and of the OrpbeonF, and is a mem
will attend Creighton University. ber of the Mummers, Hi-Y, and De
Byron Dunham, '26, has been on , Molay. He will also enter the Uni
the Central Debate Squad one year, versity of Nebraska to study law.
He is a member of the O'Book staff, j . Archie S. McMillen, '26, has taken
Henry DeLong. '25, (alternate), j part in four debates. He has an ex
has represented Central in Debate ' cellent scholarship average. He is
two years. He is member of the a member of the Forum, the Orphe
Speakers' Bureau and of the O'Book jons, Hi-Y, and DeMolay, and is as-
stsff. He will study law, probably sistant managing editor oi trie Advo-
s-mted Central High School in Ue-,t the University of Nebraska. - cte, the schcol paper. He is plan
ning to study journalism at the Uni
versity of Nebraska and at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin.
TEKAMAH (NORTHEASTERN
DISTRICT)
Elmer Hays, '25, has been in de
bating two years. He is a member
of the football and track teams, and
is president of the Hi-Y club.
Robert McConnaha, '25, took part
Vn debates one year. He is a mem
ber of the football and track teams,
and of the student council. This iF
his first year in League debating.
Guy Craig, '27, has been in debate
work one year. He is a member of
the track team.
ALLIANCE (NORTHWESTERN
DISTRICT)
Kathleen Blak, '28, is an honor
student. This is her first year on
the debate team.
Ruth SchilL '26, has made an ex
cellent scholarship record. She par
ticipated in the sub-district and the
district declamatory contests last
(Continued on Page Three.)
Compulsory R. O. T. C. training in
the universities was defended by
Prof. C. J. Frankforter of the chem
istry department at the World Forum
luncheon at the Grand hotel Wednes
day noon. More than one hundred
and twenty-five students attended
and the discussion which followed
Professor Frankforter's address last
ed for nearly an hour.
"There is really a legal and moral
obligation for every Land-Grant col
lege to make military training com
pulsory," said Trof. Frankforter dis
cussing the Morill Land-Grant Act.
"At the time when this Act was
passed there was no such thing as an
elective study. The universities laid
down certain courses of study and
these had to be followed. No one
ever thought but that the military
training should be regarded as com
pulsory. Some of our best legal au
thorities, Judge Landis of Seward, a
member of the Board of Regents, for
example, have given their opinion
that there is not question but that
there is a strict legal obligation."
Emphasize Moral Obligation
In emphasizing the fact that there
is a moral obligation as well as a
legal obligation Professor Frankfort
er read from the. report of the Stand
ing Committee on .Military Organiza
tion and Policy of the Association of
Land-Grant Colleges. Extracts of
this report follow:
'It is fitting at this time not
only to recognize the legal obli
gation of every Land-Grant Col
lege to maintain military in
struction, but also to emphasize
the moral obligation to conduct
such instruction in the spirit of
the basic law, our great charter
formulated by Senator Morrill
and approved by President Lin
coln during the darkest hour of
our Nation's history.
'At that time elective studies
were unknown and the provision
for military instruction, in the
colleges to be founded, meant
that every student physically
fit, except under very exception
al circumstances, should partici
pate in military training. We,
therefore, deplore any tendency
of our t'mc to weaken our tra
ditional sense of obligation, or
to impair our spirit of patriotic
service.
'We view with satisfaction the
progre-'-s made in military in
struction undsr the National De
fence Act, through the develop
ment of 11. O. T. C. units, and
we recognize with appreciation
that the present results have
been secured, in a large meas-u-e,
through cooperation with
Liie War Department in the in
terrelation of Federal Legisla
tion. We are in complete har
ir.ony with the War Department
in recognizing that the main
purpose of maintaining R. O. T.
C. units is to provide adequate
reserve officers as a guarantee
of national security and for the
maintenance of peace.'
Avery on Committee
This report, which was drafted by
a committee of which Chancellor
Samuel Avery was chairman, was
also later adopted by the National
Association of State Universities.
"I am willing to go by the judg
ment of such men as those who
signed that report," declared the
speaker.
In answer to a question as to why
military training should not be made
compulsory for all people, as well as
for University students, Professor
Frankforter said that "brief military
training for everyone would be a
good thi.ig and I'm strong for it.""
He also emphasized the fact that
anyone who has sincere conscientious
objections to military training can be
excused from the work. In reply to
a question on this point. Major Sid
ney Erickson, commandant here, said
that in the four years that he had
been here only two students had ask
ed to be excused and that in his opin
ion this was indicative that there is
(Continued on Page Three.)
Two Casts to Give Show, One
on Friday and the Other on
Saturday Starnes and Ram
sey in Leads.
"A comedy in three doses," is the
promise made by tho University
Players for their closing play of the
season, "The Imaginary Invalid," a
Moliere comedy. The play will be
given Friday afternoon and evening
and Saturday afternoon and evening.
Darrell Starnes and Ray Ramsey
are playing the male leads.
"The Imanginary Invalid" is prob
ably one of the most humorus of Mo
Here's comedies. The French gov
ernment is still directing the produc
tion of the famous comedy in an
endowed theater.
The play satirizes the medical pro
fession of Moliere's time. Moliere
mocks the humbuggery of the medi
cal practice with its bluff and ignor
ance. He wrote the play at a time
when he was very ill himself, so the
play is very true to life. After his
recovery he played the part of "The
Imaginary Invalid." ;
Much of the traditional Moliere
stage business will be used. The
"business" has been obtained from
the Coffer-Miller Players who have
played it for many years and have
learned the "business" from the
French actors.
The Players gave the play last
night at the Reformatory and will
present the play tonight at the Clin
ton Community Center.
The cast for the Friday shows is
as follows:
Argan, Darrell Starnes "Imagin
ary Invalid."
Toinette, Lillian Shimmick Maid
to Argan.
Angelique, Frances McChesney
Argan's Daughter.
Beline, Celeste Leech Argan's
second wife.
Doctor Purgon, Hart Jenks Doc
tor to Argan.
Apothecary, Barney Bernard As
sistant to Purgon.
Cleante, Happy Feltor Lover of
Angelique.
Monsieur Diafoirus, Bernard Max-
ey.
Thomas Diafoirus, his son, and
a suitor to Angelique Edward Tay
lor. The cast for the Saturday matinee
and evening presentation is:
Agan Ray Pamsey.
Toinette Pauline Gellatly.
Angelique Martha Dudley.
Beline Neva Jones.
Doctor Purgon Dwight Merriam.
Clante Harold Sumption.
Diafoirus Clyede Cone.
Thomas Diafoirus Harold Felton.
Extras: Harold Hildreth, Joseph
Brown, Jack Rank, Archie Weaver,
Richard Williams, Paul Pence, F.
Sunderland, Harold Stribling.
Offer Key to Bizad
With Highest Average
A key will be awarded at a com
ing convocation to tne man m the
graduating class in the College of
Business Administration who has the
highest average for his four years
of work. The award v. being made
by Sigma Delta Pi, professional fra
ternity in that College. This is the
first year that such an award has
been made.
A committee, of which Professor
G. O. Virtue is chairman, is now de
termining the winner of the key.
Dean LeRossignol will make the presentation.
A women's and men's debating
club at the University of California
will debate the question "Resolved:
That a woman should pay half the
expenses of the cost of a date with a
man.
1926 CORNHUSKER
APPOINTMENTS
Applications for the following
positions on the staff of the 1926
Cornhusker will be received until
Saturday noon, May 9: Editor,
junior managing editor, business
manager, and two assistant bus
iness managers.
Application blanks may be got
et the office of the chairman and
of Secretary J. K. Selleck.
M. M. FOGG,
Chairman, Student Publication
Board.
May 4, 1925.
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