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sJnu The Daily Nebraskan THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926. PRICE 5 CENTS. PUBLISH CHART ON UNIVERSITY ! EXPENDITURES Per Cent of the Fifty-nine Money peni rvr struction SHOWS ONE YEAR PERIOD i.other Chart Explains Where Rev enus for Institution Comet From Each Year Fifty-nine per cent of the money f hv the University is lor m section, according to a chart ' 'How the University Dollar Is Distributed (1924-1925) in the new Financial Report of the Finance Secretary, Pxristrar. and Superintendent of wrHons of the University of Ne braska for the year July 1, 1924 to June 30, 1925. The rest of a large circle repre senting the University dollar is iniea with the following i special activities, 10 per cent; commercial 10 per cent; capital additions, 7 per cent, agricul tural experiment stations and exten sions, 14 per cent. Another chart, How the Univer sity Dollar Is Received (1924-1925) answers the question of where the revenue for such a large institution conies from. State funds, taxation, bring 58 per cent, cash funds from student fees and departmental re ceipts show 36 per cent, and federal funds complete the 6 per cent. Show Year's Cash Fund In figures, this shows for the speci fied year, a cash fund of $1,153, 196.45, principally from student fees and .departmental receipts. State funds furnish 1,884,985.40 and the total, including federal funds is slightly over three and one-half mil lion dollars. Students often wonder where the money goes they pay when register ing. General fees netted ?232,- 121.66 for the year, and the Uni versity Extension department had the second largest total of more than twenty-seven thousand dollars. Non resident fees alone swell the Uni- vmity's purse almost seventeen thousand dollars, and matriculation adds nineteen thousand. Part two of the booklet, report of the Registrar, shows some interesting facts. The Arts and Science college has by far the largest enrollment, 3,034, with five-hundred more wo men than men. Teachers College is second and Business Administration third. There are 850 more women registered in the University than men. A total enrollment of 10938 is recorded, with over 500 medical students and student nurses located in Omaha. Are Mostly Nebraskans Most of the students live in Ne braska. There are 4,500 women and almost 4,000 men registered in the University that live in , this state. Wa has the next largest represen tation of 123. Kansas is third, South Dakota fourth, Colorado fifth, and Wyoming sixth. Two students are from South America, one from Russia, Poland, England, and three from Japan. Eight students, are from China and two from Alaska. Part three, report of the Superin tendent of Operations, contains an account of the upkeep costs and maintenance. Light, heat, and power alone for the one year cost $83, 830.05. Give Commissions to Senior Cadet Officers Officers' commissions signed by Chancellor Avery and Commandant Jewett were given yesterday to sen ior cadet officers in the Nebraska R. 0- T. C. regiment. Warrants were Pyen to juniors holding non-commissioned offices. These are signed b the Commandant and Cadet Col onel Donald Sampson. All the com missions and warrants have the seal f the University and of the Reserve Officers Training Corps affixed to i tnem. New commissions and war rants will be given next semester 10 cadets who are promted to higher grade. f Soprano And Pianist On Today's Program Lillian Helms Polley, soprano, nd Marguerite Klinker, pianist, are on the program for the Uni versity convocation to be held this morning at The Temple at 11 o clock. Their program: Chanson de l'aiseleur Delibes. Anette de tableau parlant Crety. Iwiese Fourdrain. he Clock Sachnowsky.' Apeirement Rabey. Papillion Fourdrain. Russian Folk Song. Th Postman. ENGINEERS WILL HEAR MOTT Talk To Be On the Manufacture of Portland Cement "The illustrated Story of the Manufacture of Portland Cement," will be given by H. A. Scott at the meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which is to be held at 10 o'clock Friday, January 15. Mr. Scott, who is a junior in the University, is also connected with the Nebraska Cement company in the capacity of project engineer in the construction of an industrial railway at the Superior, Nebraska, cement plant. JANUARY AWGWAN IS OUT MONDAY Cover Design It Clever Pen Sketch By Lloyd Tucker and Ken neth Thomas The January issue of the Awgwan, Nebraska's comic magazine, will be issued from the Social Science build ing starting next Monday morning. The features of this month's publi cation will deal with the Comic views of campus life and activity, through out the magazine will be the various comments on the life of a student as it is being led by the majority of the students of the universities. The cover is a clever pen sketch by Lloyd Tucker and Kenneth Thomas. Kenneth Neff, the business man ager of the Awgwan, announced to day that a second semester special rate of subscription will be made for the remaining four issues of the Campus Comic. The contributors are requested to start handing in copy now for the February issue of the Awgwan. AG CLUB MEETS TO ARRANGE ELECTION Petition Also Started to Have Boxing And Wrestling Taught at Ag College Gymnasium Ag Club met in Dairy Hall last Tuesday evening to arrange for the second semester election and other business which came before the meet ing. The election date was set at Thursday, January 21. Petitions must be circulated before the names can be placed on the printed ballot. Further discussion of a convoca tion for the award of medals to the judging teams who have represented the College resulted in postponing it until the first part of next semester. A petition was also started in an attempt to influence the physical education department to furnish instruction- in boxing and wrestling at the Ag College Gymnasium. Wayne Girardot and Donald Bell were appointed as a committee to secure a picture of the Ag College football team to be placed in the Cornhusker Countryman office. President Lawrence Jones announced that the Ag Club picture would be taken at the Campus Studio next Monday at 12:30. BIBLE DISCUSSION GROUP ENTERTAINS Dinner Given Wednesday at Ellen Smith Hall is Followed by Varied Program The twenty members of Miss Erma Appleby's 4 o'clock Bible discussion fcToup which meets Monday, Wednes day and Friday, held a dinner at 6 o'clock Wednesday in Ellen Smith Hall. A program was presented including the following numbers, piano solo, Betty Burham reading, Eleanor Leigh, piano solo, Dorothea Leon and vocal solo Audrey Beales. A social hour was held after the program. The committee in charge of the din ner was Eleanor Leigh and Catherine Beekman. GREEKS PREPARE FOR TRACK MEET Interfraternity Competition Prom ises To Be Stiff In Annual Indoor Cinder Races The Greek cinder artists have be gun to limber up their stiff muscles in preparation for the annual inter fraternity track meet which will be staged on the indoor track under the Stadium early next month. This meet is an annual affair and brings out track material which sometimes proved to be of value to the Varsity. Last year Pi Kappa Alpha, with a wt'll balanced team, copped the first place skin, and has a strong team rf-ady to go this year, me com rtfinn nromises to be tougn in u vents and good time is expected mjODscen HUSKER FIVE DRILLS HARD fcearg Gives Cagesters Stiff ?ractice in Offensive End Of Game PREPARE FOR GRINNEL". .i'he Husker cagesters were etnt 'hrough a stiff practice session Wed. .lesday afternoon in preparation lot ;he opening of the Valley scheduk Saturday night with Grinnell. Coach ttearg is pleased over the showing made by the team against Creighton. The game enabled the coach to pick out the weak spots and he has been busy this week correct ing these faults. The first two eve nings were given over by the Husker j mentor in an endeavor to bring out individual brilliance. Offense plays are given that will enable the men to go through the Grinnell defense. The Nebraska defense worked well against Creigh ton but the offense can stand a little more polish. In a practice scrimmage against the freshmen the defense allowed the first year men only one basket, while Elliott, Smaha and Eckstrom broke through repeatedly for bas- ijets EKELEY TO SPEAK BEFORE CHEMISTS Tungstic Acid and Its Manufatcure Will Be the Subject of the Address The one hundred and twenty fourth regular meeting of the Ne braska Section of the American Chemical Society will be held Janu ary 15th, Friday afternoon at four o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Chemistry Hall. Dr. J. B. Ekeley, Head of the Chemistry Department cf the Uni versity of Colorado will speak to the Section and its friends on the subject 'Tungstic Acid and its Man ufacture.' Large quantities of this acid were manufactured during the war from ore obtained around Boul der, Colorado, where Dr. Ekeley was closely connected with research and the development of the product. Alumnus Is Moving Picture Director R. J. Cox, '23 visited relatives and friends in this city during the1 past week. Mr. Cox is associated with the Lasky Picture Corporation as an assistant director, and has been di recting Gloria Swanson's last two pictures. Alumnus Ordered to Washington J. Arnold Karo, civil engineering '23, who is with the U. S. Coast and Geodetis Survey in the Philippine Islands, was ordered to Washington on December 11, at the expiration of his term of service. He has been working on an extensive shoal area around Tubigan and Kullassein, an area heretofore uncharted. Mr. Ka ro expects to be in Lincoln about March 1. Sponsor Guessing Contest Each winter Coach Allen of the Kansas University basketball five offers a prize to the student picking rfnsost. to the official All-Valley cage ! five chosen at the end of the sea- son. Dr. Bleyer Says Defects Seen In t Modern Newspapers Are Not New Present-day critics of the press are mistaken in assuming that the defects they see in the modern news papers are new faults, said Prof Willard G. Bleyer, director of the University of Wisconsin Course in Journalism, in addressing the Associ ation of American Schools and De partments of Journalism in New York City. Even the forerunner of the news paper the broadside ballads of the 16th century were criticized for some of the faults found in the modern newspaper, said Dr. Bleyer. "A pamphleteer critic in 1591 de clared, for example, scare a cat can look out of the gutter, but out starts a half-penny chronicler and presently a proper ballad of a strange sight is endited." "When at the end of the first year of 'The Spectator' in 1711 it had at tained 3,000 subscribers a day. Ad dison expressed his gratification that his paper had succeeded with out giving any of the objectionable reading matter that the newspaper of the day contained. "Of the contents of 'The Specta tor' he wrote that 'there are no fashionable touches of infidelity, no e ideas, no satires upon Coal Pile Back Of University Campus Catches On Fire If you don't believe it was warm-, er yesterday than other days this winter ask the employees of the Uni versity power plant. They will vouch that it was hot enough to caa.se a lire from spontaneous com bustion in one of the large coal piles back of the campus. If that is not conclusive enough evidence, there are black flame-scorched boards as proof.' The flames shooting out of the coal were discovered at about 3:30 o'clock. Water from the pow er house was played on the fire. Coal was shoveled away from the burnt spot to prevent another fire. WOMEN TO HAVE RIFLE TOURNEY Contest Will Start January 26 First University Shoot With Maine REQUIRE TEN PRACTICES The rifle tournament of the Wo men s Athletic Association will be gin January 26. Every woman who is out for rifling, and wishes to be eligible for a team must have ten practices in by that date. No wo man will be eligible unless she turns in the targets of the remainder of her practices. The rifling matches will begin February 1, and last through the month. The first University match es to be shot are with the University of Maine, at Orono, the University of Nevado at Reno, and the Univer sity of Hawaii at Honolulu. These matches will be fired, being com pleted by February 6. There is to be a national rifling tournament, in which all schools having women's rifling teams are in vited to take part. This has ben suggested by the women's rif ling sorority at the Northwestern University, and ail univer?i',!es have been invited to taka part in tMs tournament. The women out for rifling may make up back practices any. day ex cept Mondays, from nine to five o'clock. Everyone interested in this sport is urged to get in the re quired number of pruc.ieijs, in order to have a good tournament, a id have a good University team. The class standings which have been posted are as follows: There are fourteen freshmen womt-r., and the average is 43 out of a possib'c 50. For the son home res thero t.Te 15 women out. una the aerage if 47. The juniors have thirtwn w men out, and the average is -It. There is but one senior listed and the average for the senior is 48. All women should reclaim tnoir lormer interest in the sport, get in their practices, and help raise their cIbns average. Women's Basketball Will Be Started Soon The Women's Athletic Association hopes to start basketball soon, as the soccer tournament will be played the week of January '25, weather per-, mitting. In order to be eligible for basketball, each woman wishing to participate in the sport must have a medical examination slip in the W. A. A. office not later than Janu- ary 20. These slips may be given by the home physician, or some other physician. popular topics of ridicule, no private scandal, nor anything that may tend to the defamation of particular per sons, families, or societies.' " 'There is not one of the above mentioned subjects,' he continued, 'that would not sell a very indiffer ent paper, could I think of gratify ing the public by such mean and base methods.' "Daniel Defoe, who wrote "Rob inson Crusoe,' and was also a suc cessful journalist, wrote ' in 1725 that 'this article called home news is a common hunt after casualties; the miseries of mankind are the chief materials, such as death and marriages in the first class; disas ters of families such as robberies and bankrupts, that's the second. class; the jail deliveries, either to or from the gallows, that's the third class.' "Of the manner in which early 18th century journalists played up the exploits of noted highwaymen day after day Defoe wrote. 'If in deed a flaming rogue comes upon the stage such as a Shcphard, a Gow, a Jonathan Wild, or a Blue skin, they are a great help to us, and we work thera till we make skele- (Continuea on Page Three.) WILL PRESENT DRAMA TONIGHT "Outward Bound" Is Name of University Players' Production HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL "Outward Bound," Sutton Vane's death drama, will be prjqpnted by the University Players for the first time tonight. Other performances will be given Friday add Saturday evenings and Saturday afternoon. The curtain will be raised at 8:20. "Outward Bound" was first pro duced in a little by-street theater In the suburbs 'of London by an artist ic theatrical group similar to our Theater Guild in New York. There it attracted so much attention that it was moved to one of the popular West End theatres of London. Its run there was enormously profitable, as was its season's engagement at the Ritz Theater, New York, when it was produced by William H. Harris. "Outward BounJ" is the story of eight passengers on a ship outward bound. In the course of the voyage these eight learn that their ship is bound for the hereafter and that they are to meet the Great Exami ner. Everything on board is as it is in life except that the strange craft sails without engines or crew. The usual habits of life go on as usual but there is a strange foreboding they are all to meet the day of judgement. HONOR SYSTEM IS NOT SUCCESSFUL Complaint Against the Scheme To Force Student Honesty Comes From Many Colleges Universal complaint comes from the many colleges where the honor system is in operation. Represen tatives from sixty student govern ment associations meeting at Welles ley college for the annual conference of the Women's Intercollegiate As sociation for Self Government, dis cussed animatedly the system's short comings. Concensus of opinion was that the most serious difficulty is the student's unwillingness to as sume the responsibility of reporting misdemeanors. The Cornell Sun list eight accu sations of the honor system, as oper ated at present. Because of these serious faults Sun holds it responsi ble for much more evil than good. (1) The disturbances, conversa tions, whistling, etc., in classrooms where the honor system is in force. (2) Leniency of the student hon or commitee. (3) Wrong student attitude to ward faculty: "if you do so and so we will be honest. If you do not we will try to get away with any thing we can." (4) Slow, ponderous mechanism of the system. (5) Impossibility of trying June violations until September. "A sen ior may have received his degree and gone to the ends of the earth. What are you going to do about him?" (6) Inadvisability of giving the student honor commitees, the right to mete out academic penalties. (7) "We accuse the Honor System of being human built upon an un desirable trait in human nature that of spying upon and reporting other students. In the first place, most students when they come into an examination room have no time to look about them. They must con centrate on their own work. Sec ondly, few persons care to squeal about others, and many a student who by chance observes a violation, does not report it for this reason. This business of setting a man to spy upon his fellow is universally un popular and unsatisfactory." (8) The burdensome routine of the work of the honor committees with requires too much time of the members of these, committees. Time and again committees will sit throughout an evening hearing a case. No inconsiderable imposition is made upon the time of undregrad uates when they meet often, thus deprivirg these students of an op portunity for study. Telephone Men Here To Interview Students P. M. McCullugh and G. Bickler, who are representatives of the North western Bell Telephone company, will be at the . electrical engineering building Thursday and at least a part of Friday, for the purpose of interviewing engineering students who may be interested in entering the employ of the Northwestern Bell Telephone company. , SOCIETY HOLDS INITIATION Twelve New Members Are Taken Into Organization Tuesday The Union literary Society met Tuesday night for the discussion of the current literary studies and the initiation of new members into their society. Those initiated Tuesday night were William Batie, Wood Ri ver; Marie Beam, Holmesville; Ber tha Brodfueher, Lincoln; Howard Farr, Kimball; Alice James, Ord; Helen John, Elmwood ; Margaret Nielsen, Omaha; Anne Motis, Milli- gan; Malcolm (shoemaker, Ud1I Professor and Mrs. Joe E. Smay were welcomed into the society as honorary members. TO GIVE SHORT COURSES IN AG January 25 to February 19 Is the Period of Abbreviated Prac tical Training Those who are unable to leave their farm work for more than a few weeks at a time will be given a chance to get some practical train ing in agriculture during the win ter short course in general agricul ture which is offered by the College of Agriculture, January 25 to Feb ruary 19. This general course is open to any person over sixteen years of age. The work is divided into several groups, each group of studies being taught in the department offering it. The instructional work is handled by the College faculty. In animal husbandry, a study of the care, selection and management of farm animals with some work in slaughtering and dressing them will be considered. In dairy, breeds, se lection, and management with spe cial work in calf care and manage ment will consume most of the time. The instruction in soils and crops will consist of studies in the cultivation and management of the common cereal and forage crops with special soil problems. The subjects of fruit growing and potato produc tion will be given consideration. Farm accounting and a study of the marketing of farm products will be given in the course in rural econo mics. The pests and diseases that cause iso much loss to the farmer will also be studied. The animal pathology department will give a scries of lec tures on the nature of the common diseases of farm animals and from that, give preventative and suppres sive measures. A series of practi cal lectures upon the insect control, and the life history of the insects will comprise the entomology work. The diseases of cereals, potatoes and fruit trees will be studied under plant diseases. For further information concern ing the course, address, Principal's Office, College of Agriculture, Lincoln, Nebraska. FACULTY WOMENS' CLUB HAS MEETING Mrs. Frank Davis Gives Group of Vocal Numbers Accompanied By Mrs. Z.. H. Barbour The January meeting of the Fac ulty Women's Club was held in Ellen Smith Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Frank Davis accompanied by Mrs. E. H. Barbour gave a group of vocal numbers. After the pro gram the rest of the afternoon was spent socially. The committee in charge of the refreshments who acted as hostesses include Mrs. H. J. Gramlich, Mrs. H. B. Walthers, Mrs. Joe Snay, Mrs. G. L. Peltier, Mrs. L. V. Skidmore and Mrs. Clyde Filley. Mr. Sherer Will Give Illustrated Lecture An illustrated lantern slide lecture showing the use of projection in map making will be given by Mr. C. R. Shearer of the mathematics depart ment at the meeting of the Mathe matics Club Thursday at 7 o'clock in the lecture room of Brace Labor atory. A discussion of the problem of Appolonius, will be given by Mrs. Young. Elect National Vice President Veri De Sa was elected national vice president by the Nebraska chap ter of the Cosmopolitan Club. The Nebraska district was chosen vice president district by the National Cosmopolitan Club at a convention at the University of Kansas held at holiday time. Each of the nine dis tricts elects a president who is the representing officer in the national club. WORLD FORUM HEARS TALK BY HERTZLER "What I. Progress" Is Theme Of Discussion by Soci ology Professor PRESENTS NEW OPINION Points Out Abstract Aims of Pro gress and Shows Its Results on World's Civilization Showing that neither change nor evolution in itself was progress, Professor J. O. Hertzler of the de partment of sociology yesterday dis cussed the subject "What Is Pro gress?" before the World Forum, pointing out the abstract aim of progress, better conditions for all and indicating the concrete aims which today are progressive. 'The progress idea is a strictly western concept," stated Professor Hertzler in introducing his subject. "It is strictly characteristic of the western thought. We consider it to be in the very nature of things so much that Walter Lippman has called it the very stereotype of western civilization. "The rapid diffusion of the pro gress idea through the last -100 years is easy to understand. The Indus trial Revolution brought a greater change in 135 years than had oc curred in the previous 125,000 years. Tremendous population increases in Europe, continued and startling ad vancement of transportation and communication, and advanced dem acratization of ideals have all en couraged the changes. Presents Diversity of Opinion "While the progress idea is a cur rent part of the thought and speech, there is a wide diversity of opinion as to what, progress is. What all of us want is Droeress. Each has his own conception of progress. The business man has his concept of progress. The socialist has his, the religionist his. We must have a uni fied idea of progress if its to mean anything. "In the last fifteen vears various groups have tried to unify the con ception of progress. Some common errors in beliefs as to what progress is are now easy to recognize. "Some think change is progress. Change is not necessarily progress. It may be merely a departure from a previous condition. It may re semble the situation of a colored man running away from a hive of bees when he said 'he wasn't going anywhere, but just getting away from where he was at.' "Evolution is not always progress. Evolution may be merely a change in conditions following certain laws. Progress may develop out of evolu tion. When it does we have pro gressive evolution, blind progress. Analyze Progressive Idea "Coming to an analysis of- the progressive idea, one viewpoint of it is that progress is conscious direct ed change following evolutionary principles. Even more, progress is directed change or controlled evo lution toward a goal, or a standard, or an ideal. 'Where do progress goals come from? Ordinary people have not the leisure and rarely the ability to formulate a progressive goal. The goals of progress generally come from exceptional individuals. They come from outstanding leaders such as Isaiah, Jesus, Aristotle, Plato, Francis Bacon, and others. "Often progress ideals are lost or lie unused for long periods and then become a vital force. For over for ty years eugenics has huen rising in mportance. It was first given prominence by Plato. It survived through all. the period of neglect. Populor and compulsory education was conceived shortly before the Re formation yet was only carried out about 10 years ago. 'The progress ideal which we have at any moment is appropriate only then. The term is relative. What is progressive today will be retro progressive day after tomorrow. What was progressive to our fathers is old fashioned today. The pro gress ideal in existence is the best (Continued on Page Four.) ,s WEATHER FORECAST Thursday: Fair and warmer. Weather Conditions Clear weather and tempera tures above normal prevail in the Missouri Valley. ;he great Plains and the northern Mountain re gion. Temperatures have risen decidedly since yesterday and are now above normal in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and upper Mississ ippi valleys and the Lake region. Fair and cold weather prevails in the eastern and southern ftats.:, and fair and cool weather on th Pucific coast. priesthood, marrmge, and the like the races.