The Daily Nebraskan
TxXV.N0.il2.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ' SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1926.
TRICE 6 CENTS.
EIGHTEEN HEN
WILL RECEIVE
SPORT LETTERS
Meet After Notification to
Elect captains ior
Next Season
SMAHA HEADS CAGESTERS
Brnig I New Wrestling Team
Pilot With Two Years
On Squad
Eighteen men were notified that
hcv will receive letters in the major
norts, basketball or wrestling, Sat.
nrday morning. They met at once
nd elei'tcd captains for the follow
in? year. Clark Smaha was chosen
basketball captain and George Bran
iran wrestling pilot.
Smaha has played on the Varsity
squad for the past two years and has
led in r"nts for 1)04,1 yea"- He
ranks fifth in the Valley in points
this year with 115 to his credit
Branipan has been on the Varsity
wrestling team for the past two
years. He won hia matches in three
dual meets this year, drew in one,
and was thrown in two.
Basketball Letter
Letters awarded in basketball are
as follows: Roy H. Anderson, '27,
Bloomf ic-ld ; Wilmer Beerkle, '26,
Omaha; John Brown, '28, Lincoln;
Fred Ekstrom, '26, Omaha; Thomas
M. Elliott, '28, West Point; Philip
Gerelick, '28, Omaha; William V.
Lawson, '28, Omaha; Frank E. Miel
enz, '27, Stanton; Clark F. Smaha.
'28, Ravenna; Leon A. Sprague, '28,
York.
Wrestling letters were awarded to
the following: Richard E. Blore, '26,
Lincoln; George E. Braigan, '27,
Dix; George F. Highley, '27, Edge
mont, S. Dak; John H. Kellogg, '28,
Lincoln; Arthur J. Jones, '26, Ben
nett; Dale Skinner, '26, Broken
Bow; Joseph E. Tuning, '26, Central
City; Irvin M. Weber, '28, Norfolk.
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ORCHESTRA APPEARS
IN VESPER CONCERT
GEORGE F. BRANIGAN
George F. Branigan, elected captain of the wrestling squad for next
year, has been on the team for the past two years. This season he won
in dual matches with the Kansas Aggies, Missouri, and Minnesota. He
drew. in his match at Ames, and lost in matches with Iowa State Uni
versity and Kansas University.
MILITARY BAND
GIVES CONCERT
Directed by Carl Steclcelberg; Will
Play at Wbittier Junior High
Sunday
The University School of Music
orchestra, under the direction of Mr.
Carl Sterkelberg, with Mr. Rex El
ton Fair, flutist, will give a concert
Sunday evening at the Whittier Jun
ior High School Auditorium, twenty-
second and Vine streets. This is the
twenty-third program of a series of
vesper concerts being given by the
School of Music.
The following program will be
given:
Mendlesshon Italian Symphony;
Allegro Vivace; Andante con moto;
Con moto moderate; Saltarello
presto.
Donjon The Nightingale.
Beethoven Minuet: Mr. Fair.
Mascagni Prelude, Siciliana In
termezzo from "Cavalleria Rusti
cana." Mendlesshon Fingal's Cave Overture.
FERGUSON HAKES
TRIP STATEI1EHT
Ur(et Senior and Junior Students
In Engineering To Attend
Inspection Tour
Dean 0. J. Ferguson, of the Col
kp of Engineering, has issued a
"atemt-nt regarding the engineering
inspection trip to Chicago urging
enior and junior engineering stu
nts to arrange to take this trip if
they possibly can.
Follr.wnig is the statement:
aenior an" Junior engineering
udents who are not listed for the
Engineering Inspection Trip to Chi
caBo this year are missing a strong
Program. It will be two years before
he lo"r trip' occurs again and pres
nt juniors will not have another
opportunity to participate in one.
'By contrast with the 'short trip',
which will be scheduled next year,
" additional expense of this year's
"ip will be well spent. Much great
' vari'ty and magnitude of engi
neering; practices are observable.
'"IS is tn, J- ii i;
tii lines, manuiac-
"r'ng, power, generation, and dis
ci. raiIway construction and
irtlon communication, lighting,
uural work, sanitation, transpor
tation by land and water; the prob-
nu prwted by congestion of peo
ln,preat centers of population;
" hundred of other elements that
kind" lntidenta,1y in visit t this
UuiAnyne elie'b,e to tk the trip
yfar should go, without fail, Jf he
n Possibly arange to do so.'' Re-
-t once to the committee if you
lsh to join the party."
R. O. T. C. Musicians Play Sec
ond Program of Year To
day In Armory
LAST THIS SEMESTER
The R. 0. T. C. band will play
its second concert of the year this
afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Ar
mory. The public is invited to the
program, composed of seven num
bers. No admission will be charged,
Plans were first made to give this
in the new Field House, but the
building has been turned back to
the contractor for completion, and is
not in shape for the program. Plans
are being worked! out to hold a
series of concerts next year in the
new auditorium.
The program this afternoon will
be the last one this year. The first
was given on March 1, in a joint
meeting with the Glee Club. The
band, composed of more than sixty
pieces, is under the direction of Wil
liam T. Quick. The officers are:
Raymond Lewis, Captain, Fairfield;
J. Russell Salsbury, Lyons, First
Lieut.; and James Davis, Gibbon,
First Lieut
The program:
Overture "Pique Dame" F. V. Suppe
Valse "Etternelle IvresBe"
Louis Ganne
Caprice "Garden of Love"
Emil Ascher
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
Leon Jessel
Silhouettes, a characteristic Suite
Henry Hadley
American
French
Irish
Selection from the Opera "Mefis-
tofele" A. Boitc
The "Cornhusker."
St. Louis Symphony
Will Give Recital
The St. Louis Symphony Orches
tra under the direction of Rudolph
Ga:iz, with Frederick Fischer, assist
ant conductor, and Miss Kathryn
Brown, soloist, will appear in a con
cert at the Lincoln City Auditorium,
Manday evening, March 22. The
University School cf Music has a few
PLAYERS GIVE
LOVE TRAGEDY
"Romeo and Juliet" Will Be
Last Presentation This
Spring
NEW COSTUMES ORDERED
NEW BIG SISTER
BOARD ELECTED
Retiring Members Announce
Successors Saturday
At Luncheon
Hushers' New Cage
Pilot Is Selected
ELSA KERKOW PRESIDENT
Announcement of the Big Sister
Board for next year was made at a
luncheon given by the retiring mem
bers at Ellen Smith Hall Saturday
afternoon. The new Board consist?
of:
Senior Members: Elsa Kerkow,
Ethel Saxton, Helen Aach, Wilhei
mina Schellack, Blanche Stever.s
Florence Brinton, Frances Boomer,
Viola Forsell.
Junior Members: Ruth Barker,
Ruth Clendenin, Marion Eimers.
Mary Kinney.
Sophomore Members: Mnry Field,
Geraldine Heikis.
Program During Luncheon
The following program was given
during the luncheon:
Vocal Solo Esther Garrett
Piano Solo Mary Kinney
Violin Solo Alice Sanderson
The Purpose of the Big Sister...
Board Wilhelmina Schellack
Summer and Fall Work
Dorothy Thomas
Hopes for the Future....Dorothy Carr
Initiation for new members of the
retiring Board was held immediately
after, with Dorothy Carr, retiring
president, presiding. Elsa Kerkow
was announced to be her successor,
and Ethel Saxton as vice-president.
The newly appointed Board held a
business meeting and elected the
following officers:
Secretary Ruth Clendenin
Treasurer Blanche Stevens
Historian Wilhelminia Schellack
Member of the Big Sister Advis
ory Board are: Mrs. Brownell, Miss
Anderson, Mrs. Amers, Mrs. Hinman,
and Mrs. Virtue.
Advisory Board
..Big Sisters for next year will be
elected within the next few weeks
and their initiation will be held early
in May.
Retiring members of the Board are
Dorothy Carr, Dorothy Thomas, Lois
Jackman, Elsie Rice, Dorothy 01m
stead, Nellie McReynolds, Eloise
McMonies, Alice Sanderson.
"Romeo and Juliet" will be the
concluding presentation of the Uni'
versity Players this spring. The
famous Shakespearian tragedy will
be given at Temple Theater on the
evenings of March 25, 26, 27 and
Friday and Saturday afternoon.
The University Players have al
ways offered one Shakespearian
play a season, and this year they
have selected the "love tragedy.
Miss H. Alice Howell, head of the
Dramatic department is dSrerting
the cast of players. The traditional
Shakespearian pantomime, scenery,
and costumes will be used.
Art Department Makes Sets
The sets for different scenes are
being done by Mr. Dwight Kirch,
instrutcor in the Art department, and
his pupils.
Thomas Leiben and Son, Omaha,
are making new costumes for the
Players which will add a freshness to
the presentation. They will be
made of velvets, silk, and laces in
bright colors.
Leads in the play will be taken
by Frances McChesney, Herbert
Yenne, Harold Felton and Harold
Sumption. The other members of
the cast will be announced in The
Daily Nebraskan later.
Seats for all performances may be
reserved now at the Ross P. Curtice
Co.
HOOKER TO APPEAR
IN PIAKO RECITAL
School of Music Student Will
Feature Program in Tem
ple Thursday
Smith Engagement to
Speak Here Postponed
On account of conl j with mid
semester examinations, the three-day
speaking engagement of Gerald Bir
ney Smith, profeRsor of the history
of religion in the University of Chi
cago, has been postponed to April
13, 14, and 15, by the University Y.
M. C. A.
Dr. Smith will lecture on the gen
eral subject "Religion in Modem
Life."
Halycon Hooker, of the class of
Mrs. Louise Zumwinkle Watson, of
the University School of Music will
appear in his postgraduate recital
Thursday evening, April 1, at the
Temple. Orchestral parts on the sec
ond piano will be played by Mrs.
Will Owen Jones. The program in
cludes the following numbers:
Bash Prelude and Fugue, B flat
Major.
Beethoven Sonata, Op. 28, Al
legro, Andante, Scherzo, Rondo.-.
Schuett Romance Appassionato.
Brahms Rhapsody G Minor.
Zeekwer- En Bateau.
Chopin Ballade F Major.
Saint Saens Allegro Appossion-ata.
LIVESTOCK JUDGING
CONTEST THIS WEEK
Block and Bridle Club Stages Annual
Student Match At the
Ag College
A students' livestock judging con
test will be held at the College of
Agriculture, March 27. It is spon
sored by the Block and Bridle Club,
an organization of men in the animal
husbandry department, and will be
managed by the seniors in the de
partment. The contest is staged an
nually for the purpose of promoting
interest in livestock judging and to
thereby bring out better material for
the judging teams that represent
Nebraska at sectional and national
contests.
Prof. W. L. Blizzard, head of the
animal husbandry department at the
Oklahoma A. & M., College will judge
the contest. The names of the win
ners in judging the various classes
of livestock will be placed on plaquer
in the Block and Bridle Club room
A permanent record is kept of the
winner of the content and the win
ners in the different classes by meanr
of the plaques.
In past contests the list of entrants
has always been high and it is ex
pected that the majority of studentf
in the college who have work in the
animal husbandry department will
enter this year.
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CLARK SMAHA
Clark Smaha, newly elected bas
ketball captain, has played on the
Varsity squad for two seasons and
led in points for both years. He
scored 115 points this year, which
put him in fifth place in the Val
ley. He is a member of Delta Upsi
lon fraternity.
REGENTS BACK COMPULSORY
DRILL WITH A DECLARATION
Board Unanimously Endorses Required Military Training at
Meeting Saturday Stating Why Proposed Legislation
On the Matter Should Be Defeated
AVERY ISSUES STATEMENT; MORE RESOLUTIONS MADE
Chancellor Favors Much Discussed Question Saying a Change
"Would Repudiate a Moral Obligation" Campus
Organizations Defend Present System
An emphatic declaration in favor of compulsory military
training, passed unanimously by the Board of Regents, and ac
companied by a statement of their position ,and a statement by
Chancellor Avery explaining the obligations of the University
to make drill compulsory, were the outstanding developments
in the compulsory drill situation during the week-end.
The Daughters of the American Revolution, in their state
convention at Firbury, went on record as being opposed to
war but strongly in favor of the continuation of compulsory
drill; the Nebraska Engineering Society, Beta Theta Pi frater
nity, and Pershing Rifles passed resolutions favoring compul
sory drill ; and the Doane College faculty requested the Univer
sity Regents to send them a speaker to present a case for com
pulsory drill next week after Thomas Q. Harrison had present
ed the case of the opposition there.
Concerning the agitation to make military training option
al at the University of Nebraska, the Board of Regents has is
sued the following statement which it unanimously adopted at
its meeting Saturday :
TENNIS TEAM
CHOSEN SOON
Candidates Asked to Report
At Athletic Office First
Of Week
FIVE MEETS ARE PLANNED
Larger Clashes More Efficient
Tests conducted at the University
of Minnesota show that the efficiency
of larger classes is equal to, if not
greater, than that of small classes.
Spring Here to Stay;
Co-Eds Can Cast Off
Fur Coats They Say
Spring has arrived with all the
balmy weather that characterizes it
and according to reports of the
Weather Bureau, a sudden reversal
to winter need not be feared. All
fur coats and apparel designed to
protect against winter's flurries of
snow may safely be put away, for
the weather reports indicate that thir
year the first day of spring wilpHot
be followed by an inch and one-half
of snow on March 22, as it was in
1923. The lowest temperature waF
23 degrees gn that day, but it warm
ed up considerably the next day, and
reached 51 degrees.
The first day of spring, however,
may be cloudy, with the possibility of
showers, so those who prize their
pre-Easter bonnets highly must not
yet throw discretion to the breezes.
Little groups of students congre
gating in pleasant nooks of the cam
pus while waiting for classes, is an
other evidence that spring, has defi
nitely arrived on oar campus.
A call for candidates for the ten
nis team has been issued and all in
terested should report at the Ath
letic Office Monday, Tuesday, or
Wednesday. . Candidates are re
quested to report as soon as possible
that the eligibility reports can be
made so that the work on the squad
can start at an early date.
Gregg McBridej well known fol
lower of the tennis game, state dou
bles champion with Don Elliott,
University champion in 1921, and
president of the Nebraska State Ten
nis Association, will have charge of
the squad until the middle of April,
when a tournament will be held to
determine the team, which will be
composed of eight men.
Plan Another Dual Meet
Five dual meets have been sche
duled and another will probably be
lined up. The team will also be en
tered in the Missouri Valley tennis
meet which will be held here May
21 and 22, at the same time as the
Missouri Valley track meet.
Dual meets with Drake and Kan
sas have been scheduled to be played
on the University courts. If a meet
is played with Oklahoma, it will al
so take place here. Matches with
schools away from Lincoln will be
with Ames, Grinnell, and Kansas Ag
gies. Prospects Good
Prospects look very good for a
successful season although only two
letter men, Schielneck and Newton,
will not be back. A number of stu
dents who have been showing up well
on the courts are Elliott, Sunderland,
Hunt, Straka, Hattori, and Macasa...
The courts were opened in the mid
dle of last week, and an unusual
amount of interest has been taken in '
the sport. The courts have been
crowded every day. The weather
has been ideal.
Students Don't Know Religion
Recent tests showed that high
school students in Virginia are main
ly illiterate when it comes to know
ledge of religion.
WEATHER FORECAST
Sunday: Cloudy, possibly show
ers. Weather Conditions
High pressure and cooler weath
er overlie the lower Missouri and
middle Mississippi valleys. There
is a trough of low pressure and
warmer weather over the entire
Rocky Mountain region and light
rain has resulted in southern
California, Arizona, and eastern
Colorado. Another trough of low
pressure extends from Texas to
the New England coast, resulting
in rain from the middle and lower
Mississippi valley, the Ohio valley,
the Lage regioJi and the north At
lantic Btates.
THOMAS A. BLAIR,
Meteorologist.
MILITARY TRAINING IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
The Board of Regents of the Uni
versity of Nebraska unanimously re
affirms its position announced a
year ago, after an investigation of
the course of military training and
its results, as now conducted at the
University, and unqualifiedly ap
proves the same.
Inasmuch as the public press an
nounces that a committee of 100
is organizing to secure the abolition
of military training in the Univer
sity of Nebraska as a required sub
ject, and inasmuch as the proposed
plan contemplates the enactment of
a law through initiative to conpel
the Board of Regents to make mili
tary training an optional subject,
the Regents of the University of Ne
braska desire to explain to the voters
of the state why they believe that
their authority as constitutional of
ficers to manage the affairs of the
University should be sustained and
why the proposed legislation should
be defeated.
1. FEDERAL OBLIGATIONS
The University of Nebraska is one
of the land grant institutions. These
schools owe their origin to an act of
the Federal Government signed by
Abraham Lincoln in 1862 givine cer
tain public lands to the several states
for the maintenance of educational
institutions "where the instruction,
including military tactics, should pro
mote the liberal and practical edu
cation of the industrial classes in the
several pursuits and professions in
life."
In the institution so endowed,
military instruction has been a re
quired subject The moral obliga
tion to retain it as such has been
recognized in our own University
from the beginning. It was unani
mously so recognized by the Associ
ation of Land Grant Colleges in
1924 and reiterated in 192R. Ihis
interpretation was apparently re
cognized in the National Defense Act
of 191 G, which makes a distinction
between those state institutions that
are required to provide instruction
in military tactics under the Land
Grant Act, and other institutions.
In a word, military training as a re
quired subject has been accepted in
all the land grant colleges without
question. It has been assumed in
legislation, written into contracts,
universally recognized by the institu
tions, and never seriously questioned
until the state legislature of Wis
consin in 1923 compelled the insti
tution to make the subject elective.
The Regents do not insist that this
federal relation creates an enforce
able legal obligation. They do in
sist, however, that there is a moral
obligation that cannot be lightly set
aside.
In addition to this, the University
entered into a contract in 1916 with
the federal government, in connec
tion with the establishment of the
R. 0. T. C, to maintain a two-year
course of compulsory military train
ing for physically f it stu" . a
contract which is still in force and
which the Board has no desire and
believes unwise to set aside or evade
2. ' NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT
The Regents believe that the Na
tional Defense Act of 1916, and as
amended in 1920, represented wise
legislation. If supported in eood
faith by the people of the United
States, it will render a large stand
ing army unnecessary, will make it
Bafe to depend largely upon an em
ergency army of citizens, and work
for the cause of peace. The train
ing of students to become reserve of
ficers available in times of emer
gency is a salient part of the Defense
Act. Those who took part in the
World War and who now constitute
the Reserve Officers Corps aro di
minishing in number. In any future
emergency, the reserve officer, uni
versity trained, will be the key to the
nation's defense will constitute the
volunteer force to train a citizen
army.
A proposal to make military drill
voluntary, will, of course, be followed
by efforts to induce the students not
to elect it. The same group of agi
tators now urging the elective system
will be the foremost In discouraging
election on the part of individuals.
In this they wijl have the sympathy
and support of all foreign militarists
who envy the greatness and prosper
ity of the United States, of all com
munists and anarchists who are op
posed to orderly government, of all
parlor bolshevists, and of all Utop
ians who dream of the millenium.
The government of the United State?
a right to expect this cheerful ser
vice on the part cf the University
and of the state, based on the ori
ginal Land Grant Act, and later leg
islation that has come. During the
years of the University's existence,
millions of dollars have come into
the state treasury for its support,
and now amounting to about $250,-
000 a year. In addition, it is main
taining an admirable faculty of men
to carry out the purpose of the
National Defense Act. The instruc
tion given in this department gratui
tously by the Federal Government
would cost the taxpayers of the state
thousands of dollars to replace, if
the R. O. T. C. unit should be withdrawn.
3. SOURCE OF THE OPPOSI
TION
There has never been in the history
of the institution any general or
spontaneous opposition to military
instruction from the student body.
Individual students, of course, would
prefer not to drill. Many who have
been compelled to drill against their
wishes have later borne testimony
that they considered it one of the
best courses in the University. The
discussion that arose over a year ago
resulted from the visit of an East
em propagandist to the University.
Others, not connected with the insti
tution, who have attempted to sow
in the student body the seeds of dis
content, have been advocating on the
campus principles in which interna
tionalism has been emphasied, as op
posed to the traditional Americanism
of the institution. These efforts
have been apparently without success
in the student body, but have influ
enced certain religious and welfare
workers associated with the Univer
siy. The attitude of the student
body and the faculty in this matter is
a source of gratification to the Board
of Regents and it express to the
students and the faculty its appreci
ation for their loyalty to the tradi
tional policy of the school. The
Board disapproves the attitude of
certain religious and welfare workers
assigned to the University, who do
not seem to Tealize the gross im
propriet of accepting the good will
and hospitality of the institution and
conducting from offices given them
by the Regents a campaign against
the traditional policies of the insti
tution and against the authority of
the governing board. The Regents
respectfully suggest that all churches
and societies assigning religious and
welfare workers to the institution se
lect only those who will cooperate
with the University authorities in
maintaining the policies f the
school. At the same time the Regents
acknowledge with appreciation the
loyal attitude of a number of the
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