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The Daily Nebraskan LTxxv. NO. 90. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 'THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926. PRICE fi CENTS. GREEK BASKET BALL TOURHBY PROGRESSING Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Kappa And Alpha Tau Omega Win Wednesday MORE GAMES ARE TODAY ZeU Beta Tau Play. Theta Chi and Phi Kappa Psi Meets Acacia On Armory Floor Yesterday's Results Alpha Sigma Phi, 26; Delta Sigma Phphi3 Kappa, 21; Fhi Gamma Delta, 7. Alpha Tau Omega, 13; Phi Alpha Delta, 5. Today's Garnet Zeta Beta Tau vs. Theta Chi, .4:20. Phi Kappa Psi vs. Acacia, 5:20. Three more interfraternity bas ketball games were played Wednes day afternoon. Alpha Sigma Phi walked on the Delta Sigma Phi team to the score of 26 to 3. Phi Gamma Delta succumbed to the Phi Kappa quintet to the tune of 21 to 7. The Phi Alpha Delta and Alpha Tau Omega played a close game until the last few minutes, when it ended with a score of 13 to 6 for the A. T. 0. hoopsters. Alpha Sigma Phi Wins The Alpha Sigma Phi team start ed out well at first, getting a lot of shots, but not making many of them. Konkel sunk a short one. Gillet, of Delta Sigma Phi, made a fre throw. Peterson increased the score for the Alpha Sigs with a field goal. Both teams missed gift tosses. Fritts went in for Thorne for the Delta gi?s. Larson put in a nice long flip. . .tts missed three free throws. The Alpha Sigs were much larger than their opponents, and had little trouble in taking the ball down the floor. Thorne went back in the game for Delta Sigma Phi and Lar son replaced Fetterman on the other team. Lang made a free throw on a technical foul, one from the center of the floor, ahd Larson made a gift throw during the last part of the half, bringing the Alpha Sigma Phi score to twelve while their oppo nents only garnered one free throw. Lang started the second half out with a field goal for the Alpha Sigs; Fetterman followed with another. The substitutes for Alpha Sigma Fhi were sent in and performed nearly as ably as the others. The game ended 26 to 3 in their favor, the Delta Sigs getting their only points in the last half when Hodges tossed a field goal. Second Came Uneven The score for the second game was uneven according to the point column. However, Phi Gamma Delta. (Continued on Page Four.) LIBRARY GIYEN WISCONSIN Three Thousand Volumes on Bee keeping Donated to University The largest library of books on beekeeping in America is the Charles r. Miller Memorial Apicultural li brary, comprising a collection of 3,000 volumes, at the University of Wisconsin, according to Prof. II. F. Wilson, the department of economic entomology. On account of the active support given to the beekeeping industry of the country by the University of Wisconsin, the library, together with an endowment of $2,000, was estab lished by friends as a memorial to the services of Dr. Miller lnd placed un der the custody of the university in 1922. It is now in the Agricultural College library building. Books and journals printed in ev ery civilized language are in this col lection, and the library is invaluable for matter of modern research. Early in January the library re ceived two complete sets, 30 volume in all, printed in the Vlaamschen language from M. Lambrecht of Louvain, Belgium, a noted beekeeper "ho, in his 80th year, has donated his entire library in honor of Dr. Milller and in appreciation of what America has contributed to the sci ence of beekeeping. Dr. Miller, to whose memory the library was established, wai' a rest dent of Marengo, 111. His greatest contribution, as recognized by his fellow workers in America and in foreign countries, was his succesiful experiments in controlling European foul brood, a disease destructive to the industry. Three other apiculture libraries ' ist in the United States today. These include a private collection of aoout 1.000 vol unipi nwnpd hv Prof. Francis Jaeger of the- University of Minnesota; one owned by the Am- encan Bee Journal Publishing Com Pany, Hamilton, 111., which has been in existence for 76 years? nd a li- rary of 2,000 books at Cornell Uni versity. Winter Returns to Nebraska Campus After Groundhog Goes Back to Nap Sudden Drop in Temperature Causes Warm Weather to Vanish; Half Inch of Snow Fall in Lincoln Before Dutk Yesterday Mr. Winter slipped and fell on Lit tle Miss Spring last night and crush ed her completely in a very cold and decided manner. The prophecy, stating that when the groundhog did not see his shadow we would have the beginning of Spring, was proven a fallacy; and the thought of new spring hats and gowns that were to be worn in a few days passed out of sight. The weather around Lincoln the last few days has been anything but bad, but yesterday the wind changed and toward noon a severe storm was in the air. At seven o'clock last night the official weather report showed Lincoln to have more precipi tation than the rest of the storm area; the amount being .45 inches. The storm district extended from GERTRUDE ELY SPEAKS TODAY Woman Organizer of "New Voters" to Talk at Convocation WILL Bkv ENTERTAINED Miss Gertrude Ely, who has been traveling through Kansas and Mis souri organizing branches of "The New Voters," a junior section of the National League of Women Voters, will speak" to Univeviity wompn ip the Temple theater, this morning at 11 o'clock on political rights. She will be entertained at luncheon by the Lincoln Junior League, and a tea will be given for all university wo men, in her honor, this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, at Ellen Smith Hall. , Miss Ely comes to the University of Nebraska, to reorganize the Junior Leaue of Women Voters into a branch of The New Voters. It has been found inadvisable to continue with the present name as it is often confused with . the Junior League, which is also a national organization. This is only the second year of the New Voters, organized as such. The work in its organization was carried on only in eastern colleges last year, but at the annual spring convention of the National League it was voted to send an organizer through the western states. Miss Ely was chos en because of her extensive work along this line since she returned from France after the war. In the "Journal of the Mud-House" Elizabeth Sheply Sargent describes Miss Ely as the girl whom the war corespondents, the wounded and lone ly overseas, college girls, working pirls, Indians, Civil Service reform ers, Junior Leaguers, and the New Voters of the League know as their devoted friend. The tea for Miss Ely in the after noon will take the place of the week ly tea given for all university wo men. Inthe receiving line will be Miss Ely," Ida Mae Klader, Helen Aach, Ruth Clendenin, Gwendoline Templine, Mary Louise Freeman, and Grace Elizabeth Evans. Kansas Summer School Bulletins Ready Soon Summer school bulletins of the University of Kansas will be ready for distribution by the middle ol March, according to Prof. W. H. Johnson, assistant director of the summer session. This bulletin will give complete information as to sum mer school facilities, costs, a state ment of the curriculum, and desmp tion of courses. A preliminary bulletin is off the press and contains views of the cam pus and gives a brief statement oi the summer's program. Such bulle tins' may be had upon request to the University registrar. Fine Arts School Receives Etching Willi. r. Crevv. ex-'84 of Hack- ensack, N. J., has sent the University School of Fine Arts an o.. sk etching by Paul Cadmus entitled "Sarah." Prof. Paul Grummann, director of the school, has reccivea a letter from Mr. Gregg stating that he is contemplating a collection of such etchings for the school and will send examples from time to time. The groun will be placed in the Uni- versity gallery and wm " the William C. Gregg exhibit Mr. Gregg is also the donor of a paint ing "Venice from the Canal of San Giogio," by E. W. Cooke, which is now a part of the University s collection. eastern Colorado, through Iowa and Illinois and even as far east as To ledo, Ohio. It extended south into Kansas, but no farther north than the boundaries of Nebraska. The measuring and the watching of the weather is not as easy a job as one might think. Careful tests are made in measuring how much it rained, at what time, and on what date, A complete and exact record has to be kept, and these are sent in to the United States Weather Bu reau department. The weather de partment has helpers in the various parts of the state known as co-operative observers. They send in a monthly report to the department here which is the head of all the out state observers. Precipitation is considered as snow, rain, hail or sleet. Snow is melted and added to a known quan tity of water and then the measure ment is taken again and that amount subtracted from the known amount. In this way a more exact figure can be obtained than if the snow were melted by some heating process. CONDRA TALKS TO CHAMBER Says University Has Most Extensive Collection of Books on State 'The University of Nebraska has a more complete collection of books telling about the character, re sources and development of the state than has any other state in the un ion," said Dr. G. A. Condra in an address given before the chamber of commerce on Wednesday. Dr. Condra pointed out that the books printed many times during the year are valuable to people in learn ing more about their state as well as valuable to real estate men in learn ing more about the thing .that they are selling.. He also showed how the radio was the greatest thing for the selling of Nebraska as well as ad vertising it to other parts of the country. CHAPEL GOERS HAVE "BRONCHIAL COUGHS" Students At Williams Find New Ways To Amuse Themselves During Sermons ( New Student News Service) At Williams it is reported that Chapel goers not only match pen nies, lay bets on the length of the sermon or prayer, but also amuse themselves by coughing. From authoritative sources The Boston Transcript reports on this new chapel amusement. It is a mixture of the cigarette cough and the bronchial cough, and "breaks out at a strategic moment because of extended sermons or the Scripture readings. Numerous freshmen have written home during their first days at the college that they are well, but that everyone else sems to be suffering from bron chial colds. One professor, when conducting the service and in danger of being drowned out, merely stops until quiet is resumed, while anoth er is reputed to rapidly skip over the lesson, reading the end. The Westinghouse amplifiers, installed in the chapel this year, have diminished the former custom of sleeping ir. the rear pews during the Sunday sermon. Some industrious students i now bring a book to read while an occasional magazine is found left in a pew " The practice of reading newspa pers and letters in morning chapel has recently fallen off. "A young eagerly search for his articles dur ing the service until President Gar field, conducting the service, remark ed, "Gentlemen, contrary to the ap parent belief the lesson is not in the Springfield Republican, and in the second book of the Acts." Choruses Practising "Guardian Angel" Rehearsals are progressing rapidly for "The Guardian A'igel," an ora torio by Prof. C. S. Skilton of the University of Kansas, to be given by the Independence Choral Union when the Kansas Federation of Music meets here March 24. A chorus of 250 local children and the Kansas City Littla Symphony orchestra will assist in the production. The Kansas Federation of Music made possible the publication of the oratorio, which is based on a legend of the Moravian settlers about Sa lem, N. C, in colonial days. Local subscriptions have financed the pres entation of the oratorio, and the audience of 2500 that assembles in the new memorial auditorium will be an invited one. Professor Skilton recently visited Independence and heard the work of the two choruses, and was guest of honor at a dinner here. 'S PAN- HEL BANQUET IS TONIGHT Scholarship Awards Will Be Made to Four Highest Sororities PROGRAM KEPT SECRET Entertainment Will Not Be Known Until Banquet Tonight at Scottish Rite Temple Around 1000 women are expected to attend the Pan-Hellenic banquet this evening at the Scottish Rite Temple. All of the active sorority women will attend, as will many of their alumnae. The banquet, spon sored by the Lincoln Pan-Hellenic Association, is the first of its kind ever to be held in Lincoln. It is hoped, however, that it will become an annual affair, corresponding to the men's interfraternity banquet. The feature of the evening will be the awarding of the four silver loving cups by Mrs. R. C. Ames, president of the Lincoln Pan-Hellenio Association, to the sororities having the highest scholastic average for the year. The cup for the highest scholarship will become the property of the sorority which receives it. The other three cups will rotate from year to year to the sororities with the second, third, and fourth scholastic averages. Tracing three years back, the fol lowing sororities won the scholarship cups: 1921-1922, Kappa Delta, first; Phi Mu, second. 1922-1923, Alpha Phi, first; Phi Mu, second. 1923 1924, Alpha Delta Theta, first. The decoraitons for the banquet will carry out the scarlet and cream motif. Red streamers will extend the length of all the tables. Gold candlesticks, and white candles tied with red tulle will complete the de corations. The Delta Omicron trio will play during dinner. Each sorority will have a special table at the banquet. The tables will be set around a large open space allowing ample room for the Awn- cers. The program is to be kept a secret until this evening. It is being offered by th active chapters of the sororities. The committee for this unusual women's affair comprises Mrs. Thel ma Sealock, in charge of the banquet menu; Miss Blanche Garten, pro gram; and Miss Helen Tuttle, plate reservations. Tickets for the banquet were sold for $1 each. Every sorority house is closing its table for the evening so that all the girls will go to the banquet. Lawrence Music Week Will Be During April The singing of "The Messiah" by the Lawrence Choral Union of over 500 voices Sunday night, April 25, will be the opening event of Music Week at the University of Kansas. Monday and Tuesday of the week will be given over to programs by the musical organizations of Law rence. The University glee clubs, University and Lawrence bands, high school and grade choruses and oper ettas will be among the entertainers for the two days. Madame Schumann-Heink will sing, Wednesday, April 28. On Thursday, April 29, the Lawrence Choral Union will again sing, this time, Chadwick's "Land of Our Hearts," Coleridge-Taylor's "Hia watha's Wedding Feast" and the "Death of Minnehaha." Friday, April 30, the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra will give' two concerts. Foundation Investigates Football The general interest in the place that football occupte3 in American intercollegiate world has prompted the Carnegie foundation of teaching to undertake a thorough investigation since the close of the football sea son this year. WEATHER FORECAST Thursday: Cloudy and unset tled; considerably colder. Weather Conditions The center of low pressure is now in the Southwest and a trough extends northeastward to Lake Michigan, causing unusual ly warm weather for the season in the southern Plains and the lower Mississippi and lower Mis souri valleys. Colder weather ap pears in the upper Missouri valley; and zero temperatures in Canada. It is snowing on the western slope of the Rockies and in the Plateau region with 10 inches on the ground this morning at Salt Lake City. Light rain has fallen in Il linois and Michigan and in the West Gulf Region. Fraternities Join Together in Drive To Secure Lower Walking May Become Custom at Ne braska Again Unless Prices of the Rented Cars Are Reduced; Sorori ties Taking Part in Movement Walking may become the custom among the students of the University of Nebraska again as the resul. of an action started this week t secure a reduction in the price of renting cars. Not only is the movement designed to secure cheaper rat.j of transpor tation by renting cars but also to urge sudents to return to the custom of a few years ago and walk on their dates. More than twenty-five fraternities have joined the movement, started this week, to secure a return to the old rate for renting cars. Not only have the fraternities started the movement, but a number of sororities have expressed approval of the at tempt to secure lower rates. In ad dition, a large number of students not identified with any organization and a number of faoulty members, BOOKS GIYEN TO UNIVERSITY One Thousand Volumes Are Donated To Kansas School A miscellaneous collection of near ly one thousand volumes, given to the University of Kansas by John D. Macomb of Chicago, M. S. '98, has arrived at Watson library. About five hundred and fifty of the books are bound volumes, while more than four hundred others are pamphlets and similar unbound material. The books have been shelved and will be catalogued in a short time. A large portion of the bound vol umes and practically all of the un bound materials are government re ports, all of which are in good con dition. Among them are found re ports of the United States geological survey, the University geological sur vey of Kansas, reports of the sec retary of agriculture, the bureau of ethnology, Smithsonian institute and others. PERSHING RIFLES ELECTS NEW MEN Twenty Members of R. O. T. C. Named As Candidates for Initiation Twenty men in the basic course of the R. O. T. C. were elected to Pershing Rifles, honorary military organization, at a meeting held last night. Pledging will be held soon and formal initiation will be held the first Wednesday after mid-semester examinations, it was decided at the meeting. The new men : Elton Fee, Lincoln. William Kearns, Lincoln. D. Fnhenstock, Lincoln. H. Hodges, Superior. Linn Twinen, North Platte. ft R. II. Lovald, Colton, S. D. W. C. Mentzer, Cheyenne, Wyo. Paul Morrow, Fremont. II. W. Miller, Omaha. L. Porter, Fairmont. Krving Cameron, Tekamah. Max Grow, Loup City. C. O. Grant, Auburn. K. H. Lindbeig, Victor Schmidt, Summcrf ield, Kas. John McGreer, Lincoln. Alton Orendorf, Fairfield. Edward Potter, Douglas, Wyo. Emerson Smith, Lincoln. A. P. Haller, Blair. Ministers Attending Religious Meetings Ministers of Kansas are this week joining with students of the Univer sity of Kansas in the annual "Re ligious Week" at the University. Albert Parker Fitch, professor of the history of religion at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., is the principal speaker, and is scheduled to address All-University convoca tions of students and visiting minis ters Tuesday evening, and Wednes day and Thursday mornings. Following the morning convoca tions, the ministers will meet at Myers Hall, seat of the Christian Church university activities, for con ference discussions of the preceding address. Each afternoon conferences will be held, addressed by local min isters and others. The Tuesday after noon meeting is to be addressed by Frank Richard of Topeka, secretary of the Kansas Council of Religious Education. Station KFKU will broadcast the Fitch lectures at 7 :30 Tuesday eve ning and at 10 o'clock Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Oklahoma Scholastic RoluS Fraternities at Oklahoma A. and M. College are not permitted to ini tiate new men if the scholastic standing of the active chapter is be low the average of the student body. Rent - A - Ford Rates have approved the movement. The attempt to Becure lower rates was started by a number of individ ual students. They personally decid ed not to pay the increased rates an nounced last week by the ten com panies operating in Lincoln. Their example was followed by others, and soon several fraternities decided to join the movement.. Now nearly all the fraternities, and most of the sor orities, are behind the project. A leader of the movement yester day explained that this was not a boycott. "We merely wish to show the companies that students of the University cannot be forced to pay these exorbitant prices, which we be lieve thoy are," he stated. "The number of companies operating in Lincoln has increased ten-fold in the last five years, which certainly shows that they are profiting. Surely, with such a nice income they do not need the increased rates, but merely are attempting to bleed the students. "The companies combined in ef- Continued on Page Four) CANDY PLANS A NEW CALENDAR University Professor Is De signer of Perpetual Schedule MAKES NO BIG CHANGES The plan for a perpetual calen dar, purposed by Prof. A. L. Candy of the University, is discussed in the February number of The Ne braska Alumnus. The calendar would contain twelve months as does the present calendar, but four January, April, June, and October would consist of thirty-one days, and the remaining eight months, of thirty days each. New Year's Day would come at the last of December. The extra day for leap year would be known as "Midsummer Holiday." Professor Candy states that u is not necessary to make any radical changes in the present calendar to secure a perpetual calendar. He is very much .' favor of revising the calendar as now stands. The Equal Month Calendar As sociation purposes another new plan in which the year would consist of thirteen months of exactly four weeks each. The remaining 365th day is to be placed between the thirteenth and first months, and is called New Year's Day. The extra day in leap year would be, as Pro fessor Candy's calendar, a "Mid summer Holiday." His criticism of this plan is that it is too radically changed from the present system, and the division is made into thir teen parts, a prime number. ALUMNI ELECTION TO BE HELD SOON Association Officers Will Be Named By Mail Ballots Announce Selections in May The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska will elect the new officers by mail for the first time this year. Ballots containing the names of the eighteen candidate? for the offices will be sent to all active members of the association near the latter part of April. The results of the election will be an nounced Round-Lp Week, at the an nual general meeting held in the lat ter part of May. An amendment to the constitu tion has initiated a new system of election. The nominating committee selectes two candidates for each po sition; petitions fulfilling certain re quirements are necessary for. addi tional nominations. Announcements of the selections for candidates appeared in the February issue of the Nebraska Alumnus. The nominating committee com posed of R. L. Cochran, '10, chair man; Helen Cook, '18; William Grant, '97; Mrs. E. J. Faulkner, (Leah Meyer) and O. W. Sjogren, '15, all of Lincoln, was appointed by Erie Campbell, '10, retiring presi dent of the Alumni Association, at the Round-Up last spring. $72,000 Found Value Of College Education Based upon statistics of earnings of students and graduates of the col lege of business administration of Boston University and other col leges, the Massachusetts Department of Labor finds that the four years spent in college net the average col lege graduate $72,000. They report the total earnings of the high school graduate between the ages of 18 and 60 to be $78,000 while the college man's earnings from 22 to 60 they estimate to be $150,000. FEE TALKS TO WORLD FORUM ON 'PROGRESS' Lincoln Business Man Says Good Conditions Help Progressiveness HARMONY GREAT FACTOR Selfishness of Executive or Worker Leads to Discord, Speaker Tells Listeners Progress in business lies in im provements which make possible bet ter conditions for all classes and safe ty for all workers, was the conclu sion drawn from the address of O. J. Fee, Lincoln business man, on "Pro gress and Business" before the World Forum yesterday noon at the Grand Hotel. Mr. Fee compared business with harmony, showing that what was har mony a generation ago is discord to day. He stated that it was necessary to secure harmony in business be tween the two factors that always ex ist; those serving and those to be served. "In mass," he stated, "we have complications. Two of us can get along fairly well. But even as small a grouping as two generally combines two types. The president is gener ally a man of vision. The secretary- treasurer is generally a practical man from the economic standpoint. Thus when people get together in the mass they have a directing and an operating hand. "If selfishness comes in on either side, it injures the other. We must have an understanding in business every night. We must have such an understanding not only in relation to industry but also in relation to home environment. When the employer sees the home situation of his em ployee and vice-versa, better co-operation is bound to ensue. "The increasing numbers in our in dustrial organization make it increas ingly difficult to keep harmony. The progressive man is the man who real izes that the proper tone mifi b """tuined at all times all along the line. "We are getting along better now because we understand the relations to one another and to the public bet ter than ever before. We must al ways have the consumer in mind. He must realize he must pay a fair price for the products that he needs. "It is necessary to relieve the ten sion in industry. Among the ne groes, music is a common sedative. Rest periods serve the same purpose among other laborers. The liberat ing of men's minds is the greatest thing that America has given to the world. "The realization of the necessity of relieving the tension makes progress not only in service but also progress for the co-operating units that serve. Contacts with people are immensely valuable. They give one an under standing of group psychology so necessary for progress. "The employer must pay wages that make it possible for employees to give their children education. The children should always have more op portunities than their parents had. We make progress by the distribution of profits among the co-workers and the public. Also we make progress by improved methods which makes employment safer." STATE COMMITTEE ORGANIZED Group Will Study Electricity on Farm Under E. E. Brackett Advantages of electricity on the the farms as well as the possibility of it being used to a greater ad vantage has been the cause of the organizing of a state committee by Dean E. A. Burnett of the College of Agriculture. It will bo the duty of the committee to study the rural electric problem. Professor E. E. Brackett, who has carried on an in vestigation of rural electric service for the College of Agriculture, is Secretary of the committee. Mr. Erackett stated that there were a great number of inquiries from the rural districts from those ho were using electricity or going to use it. "Wide interest has been shown in the matter." Mr. Brackett said, "and Nebraska wants to know if Agriculture can benefit from in creased use of electricity as the manufacturing and industrial world has done. Nebraska's committee will try to find the facts." Dean Burnett was chosen chairman of the Executive Board; Dean Fergu son of the Engineering college was chosen vice-chairman; and E. E. Brackett was named secretary. Other members that are connected with the university that are on the gener al committee are, Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman of the Home Eco nomics department; George Jackson, secretary of the Nebraska Board of Agriculture; and W. R. McGeachen, secretary of the Nebraska Depart ment of Agriculture.