The Daily Nbraskan
VOL. XXV. NO. 114.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ' WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1926.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
ONI PLAYERS
CLOSE SEASOII
THIS WEEK-END
Will Present Shakespeare's
'Romeo and Juliet" A
Final Play of Year
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Frances McChesney and Herbert
Yenne Have Leads) Falton and
Sumption Alio In Cast
The University Players will con
clude their season this week-end with
the presentation of Shakespeare's
"Romeo and Juliet". A student
matinee will be given Friday after
noon. The cast for the play is as fol
lows: Escalus, Prine of Verona ..
.Edward Taylor
Paris Jack Rank
Montague -
Lady Montague
Capulet .
Romeo
Mercutio
Benvolio
-Frank Moore
Vetura Cave
Evan Styskal
-Herbert Yenne
-Harold Felton
Henry Ley
Robert Read
Tybalt
Friar Laurence
Balthasar
Abraham
Sampson
Gregory
Peter
arold Sumption
Paul Pence
Werner Mall
Don Helmsdoerfer
Erwin Campbell
Paul Miller
An Apothecary Harold Felton
Page to Mercutic ....Pauline Gellatly
Page to Tybalt A.lyce Connell
Lady Capulet .Helen Phillips
Juliet : Frances McChesney
Kurse Ruth Shrank
First Servant Zolley Lerner
Second Servant Earl Weekley
Third Servant .Frank B evens
Ladies and Gentlemen Joyce Adair,
Carroll West, Charles Warren,
Mary Tidball, Elizabeth Coolidge,
Esther Zinnicker.
Frances McChesney who is playing
the part of Juliet is well knows to all
the patrons of the Players. Daring
the season she has appeared as the
feminine lead in "Aren't We All", as
the grandmother in "The Goose
Hangs High", and in "The Show-Off
and ""'Op-'O-Me-Thumb.
Herbert Yenne, associate director
of the Players, and author of sever
al one-act plays, will carry the role
of Romeo. Mr. Yenne has played
in "Outward-Bound," "Hell Bent Fer
Heaven," "The Goose Hangs High,"
and "Aren't We AIL"
Harold Felton, instructor in the
Dramatic department and a law stu
dent, will be seen as Mercutio and
the Apothecary. Mr. Felton is known
for the many juvenile leads he has
played.
Harold Sumption, stage manager
for the Players, has been cast for the
part of Friar Laurence, spiritual ad
viser of both Romeo and Juliet. Mr.
Sumption will be remembered as the
Steward in "Outward-Bound," Lord
Grenhan in "Aren't We All," and
Papa Briquet in "He Who Gets
Slapped."
The rehearsals for the play have
been underway for several weeks un
der the direction of Miss H. Alice
Howell.
Seats for the five performances
iy be reserved now at the Ross P.
Curtice music store.
HOLD FOUR DAHCB
PRACTICES A WEEK
W. A. A. Ursa Women To Coma Oat
For Thia Major Sport; Leort
Chapman It Leader
The Women's Athletic Association
will now hold four dance practice
hours a week instead of two as has
been the practice op to date. Dane
fog is a major sport in the associa
tion and more women are urged to
come out for the practices, to be
eligible for participation in the an
"aal festival presented by the asso
ciation. It has not been announced
yet just what form the festival will
take this year. The leader is Leora
Chapman. Miss Simpson is coach
ing the practices.
Practices will be held at the
Armory, starting March 29, at four
clock on Tuesday and Thursday af
ternoons, on Saturday mornings at
n o'clock, and on Wednesday eve
"'"g at eight o'clock.' All women in
vested are invited to sign up for the
Wednesday practice, and one other
Pctice hour. A list is posted in
West Armory for all those wishing to
There will be twenty-five W.
A. A. points awarded for the com
pletion of ten complete practices.
en women are invited to come
jw, but will not be eligib'e for the
S'o.u Have Largo Vocabulary-
According to tests held at Prince
n University the average senior of
7 ln"titution has a vocabulary of
".500 words.
PICTURES OF OFFICERS DDE
CUaa Officers Mutt Arrange for Ex
tre, PrinU For Cornhutker
Pictures of the class officers for
the 1926 Cornhusker must be ar
ranged for by Friday of this week.
According to Donald Sampson, Edi
tor, pictures of four officers of each
class for both semesters will be used.
Those who have already had pic
tures made will need to have another
print made at the photographers. Any
one wno does not already have a pho
to, should make an appointment be.
fore Friday.
W.A.A. ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS
Marie Hermanek Is President;
Others Are McDonald,
Whelpley and Kidwell
INSTALLATION IN APRIL
Marie Hermanek was elected nresi-
dent of the Women's Athletic As
sociation at the annual election of
officers which was held March 22 and
23. Katherine McDonald was elect
ed vice-president, Laura Whelpley
as secretary, and Eathro Kidwell was
chosen for treasurer. The candi
dates had been selected two weeks
ago. The new officers will be in
stalled at the first general meeting
of the association, the second Thurs
day in April.
Marie Hermanek has been a mem
ber of the association since her
freshman year, and was awarded an
"N" at the end of her sophomore
year. She has been a member of the
board for the past two years. In her
sophomore year she served as as
sistant concession manager, and in
her junior year she served as the
manager of the hockey season, and
was very successful. Marie is a
member of Theta Phi Alpha, and is
a major in the Department of Phy
sical Education. Her home is in,
Umaha.
Katherine McDonald has been
chosen as the vice-president of the
association for the following year.
Katherine was recently warded an
N" at the mid-year dinner dance.
held at the close of the soccer sea
son. ihe is from Alabama, and is a
Junior in the Physical Educational
Department Katherine has been
active in about eight of the women'?
sports, and has shown a keen inter
est in all the undertakings of the
association. She is a member of
Alpha Delta Theta.
Laura Whelpley has been chosen
to. fill the position of secretary for
another year. Laura has filled this
position ably for the association dur
ing the past year. She has been act
ive in various W. A. A. sports, and
is also active in other campus or
ganizations. She was recently chos
en as vice-president of the Y. W. C.
A., and was a member of their cabi
net this year. Laura is a Junior
from Fremont, and a member of
Sigma Kappa.
Kathro Kidwell was elected to the
position of treasurer. She has been
active in the organization for three
years and was awarded an "N" at the
end of her sophomore year. She has
been a member of the W. A. A. board
for two years, as a sophomore she
was tennis manager, and as a junior
she has filled the position of con
cession manager. She is a Junior
major in the department cf Physical
Education. She played to the semi
finals in the tennis tournament last
spring, and her activities include all
sports. She is from Lincoln, and a
member of Theta Phi Alpha.
Mcnnonite Settlers Prove Valuable
Element in Population of Nebraska
To many, the words, "Mennonite
migration" signify nothing. Yet in
the history of pioneer Nebraska the
Mennonite migration which filled the
vast areas of Nebraska prairies in
Jefferson, Gage, Clay, Hamilton and
York counties in the decade of 1870-
80, was of great importance. The
story of this migration is given in
"Nebraska History and Record of
Pioneer Days."
The Mennonites had left Prussia
a hundred years before to avoid
military service. They had settled
in southern Russia with solemn
guaranty of '.exemption from that
service. When the Czar broke the
contract and began to marshal all
his subjects for tbe great war pre
paration in Europe which followed
the Franco-Prussian war of 1870,
these people left the fruitful farms
they had made and came to Nebras
ka. They brought to Nebraska a per
fectly disciplined, religious, frugal,
hard-working people. Almost with
out a single exception, they made a
success of their settlements and of
each indvidual home in them. Work
ing with steadiness and devotion,
they showed how homes could be
made upon the high prairies of cen
tral Nebraska. Also they brought a
deep, even if at times, irrational, be
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Nebraska's affirmative team which will debate the University of South Dakota in Memorial Hall tonight
is shown in the upper half of the above picture. The members, reading from left to right, are Lincoln Frost,
'27, Lincoln; Edward Jennings, '25, Lincoln; David Sher, '28, Omaha; and Reginald Miller, '29, Lincoln.
The negative team which will represent Nebraska against the .University -ot Iowa Thursday and which
is shown in the lower half of the picture is composed of George A. Healey, '28, Lincoln; Lloyd J. Marti, '23,
Hastings, Law '27, Lincoln; Ralph G. Brooks, '25, Wesleyan, Law '27; Munro Kezer, '29, Ft Collins, Colo.
FOURTEEN SIGN
UP FOR TENNIS
Entries For Tournament Close
Tomorrow; Meet Begins
After Vacation
FOUR WILL BE ON TEAM
Fourteen had signed up for tennis
up to 4 o clock Tuesday afternoon.
Entries close tomorrow and those
wishing to enter the tournament
should -sign up at the Athletic of
fice before then.
The tournament will start the first
Monday after spring vacation. Eight
men will be' chosen from this meet to
form the squad and four of these
will compose the team. -
A call for a Freshman tennis team
will be issued next Monday. A team
from this class will be chosen and
meets with other schools will prob
ably be scheduled for it
Gregg McBride stated, yesterday
that any persons wanting help on
their game could see him on the
courts any afternoon excepting Sat
urday.
The Schedule
The dates for the dual meets sch
duled are:
May 1 Drake at Lincoln.
May 7 Tentative.
May 14 Iowa State College at
Ames.
May 15 Grinnell at GrinneU.
A meet will probably be arranged
with the Kansas Agricultural School
as they played here last year. The
meet on May 7 will be either with
Oklahoma or Kansas.
Nebraska Bays FottiL
A fossil tusk, six and a half feet
long and six inches at its greatest
diameter was purchased by the Uni
versity of Nebraska. The smallest
diameter of the tusk is three inches.
lief and practice in peace doctrines,
for they were Quakers.
Americana Scoffed At Thorn
To the eyes of the original Am
erican stock they appeared queer and
clanish. They were inclined to scoff
at these queer people from Russia,
speaking German, sticking close to
gether and finding in the old-fashioned
religion of their denomination
most of their culture as well as con
solation. Their houses were built
of sod with huge brick stoves, in
which straw was burned for fuel.
The straw filled one of the rooms,
and was used as a general bedstead
for the family on cold winter nights.
To Nebraska they brought Turkey
red winter wheat from southeastern
Russia, and that splendid hedge tree,
Russian mulberry. And they also
brought their devotion. Looking
back on their almost fifty years of
settlement in this state it can be
said that they have proven them
selves one of the most valuable of
many valuable elements in our pop
ulation. It is time for those having
the old American stock in their blood
to say this now while some of the
pioneer Mennonites are still here.
It will be said by all, especially by
the future Nebraskan historians in a
century from now.
Rifle Team Now Has
Twelve Wins Out Of
Twenty-Four Matches
With none of the reports from
last week's matches in, the Nebraska
rifle team is on the right side of
the ledger with twelve wins, eleven
losses, and one tie. The solitary tie
score on the record resulted in the
match with the University of Ver
mont the week of February 13. Ne
braska's score, 3599, was the poorest
of the season.
The Nebraska team shot a score of
3672 last week in their matches wjth
Iowa, 'Wyoming and Nevada.
COACH BLACK STARTS
SPRING BASKETBALL
Reqveata All Thoeo Eligible To Re
port; Will Hold Practices Twice
A Week
Spring basketball practice started
Tuesday night with thirteen men re
porting. Instructions were given by
Coach Black in holding and passing
the balL
Practice' will be held again Thurs
day night at 7:30 in the Armory, and
on Tuesday and Thursday of next
week. Coach Black requests that all
men eligible for the varsity team be
on hand Thursday night
The men reporting Tuesday night
were: JNoriing, Elliott, Kotn, .N mi
ni o, Mitchel, Haggins, Nicholson,
Campbell, Beuesh, Lawson, Olson,
Marrow, and Gohde.
TEXTILE EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY
Homo Economics Department Showt
Interesting Collection
From March 22 to April 3, the de
partment of Home Economics will ex
hibit a very interesting display of
textiles from a loan collection of
New York city. The exhibit is lo
cated in room 300 of the Home
Economics Building at the College of
Agriculture campus. Included in the
display are some fine Persian and In
dian embroideries, Javanese Batiks,
Morrocon covers, Indian cotton prints
and Bolivian ponchos, all in beautiful
coloring and design.
All the University students are in
vited to visit the department to see
the exhibits. Various parts of the
display show how the materials are
dyed. Miss Morton of the textiles
division has chaVge of the exhibits.
WEATHER FORECAST
Wednesday: Generally fair;
somewhat colder.
Weather Conditiont
Temperatures are above freez
ing , throughout the country this
morning except in the southern
Plateau region, being well above
normal in all northern sections.
Rain has fallen in Washington and
northwestern Canada. Fair
weather is general elsewhere in
the western half of the country.
Rain has fallen during the past
24 hours in the entire "astern
half of the country, moderately
heavy in the Ohio vplley and light
elsewhere.
THOMAS A. BLAIR,
Meteorologist
Debaters
HAY VOTE FOR
A. W. S. BOARD
Election Of Members Contin
ues Today; All Women
May Cast Ballots
POLLS OPEN FROM 9 TO S
Election of the officers of the
Associated Women Students held on
Tuesday and Wednesday in the Li
brary is open to all women regu
larly registered in the University.
The polls are open from 9 to 5 to
day. Any who have not cast their
ballot are urged to do so to make
this a representative election.
The candidates for the offices are
as follows:
President Doris Pinkerton, Mar
garet Dunlap.
For four senior representatives
Helen Aach, Alice Cook, Pearl Dil
ler, Viola Forsell, Kathro Kidwell,
Sylvia Lewis, Eloise MacAhan, Kath
erine McWhinnie.
For four junior representatives
Helen Anderson, Mary Louise Free
man, Helen Van Gilder, Kate Gold
stein, Orrel Rose Jack, Eloise Kee
fer. For sophomore representatives
Audrey Beales, Ruth Creely, Kather
ine Douglas, Geraldine Heikes, Vera
Stephenson, Laura Raines, Julia Ri
der.
Prof. Henzlik Visits
South Dakota School
(University News Service)
Prof. F. R. Henzlik of the depart
ment of school administration, in
spected last week a normal school at
Springfield, South Dakota, for the
North-Central Association of school!
and colleges. His report was sub
mitted by the secretary of the associ
ation at the annual meeting held in
Chicago, March 18, at which appli
cations were considered. Dr. Henz
lik reports that the normal has f
good school plant, and that he enjoy
ed his visit very much.
Lay New Floors In
As Building
The University field house is
gradually nearing a state of comple
tion, with the favorable weather of
last few weeks. A large force of
workers are busy carrying out the
construction of all parts.
The temporary wood floor that was
laid during the basketball season has
been taken up. Another layer of ce
ment will be put over the present
one before the permanent wood floor
is put down. The permanent floor
will probably not be installed until
the construction work is nearly fin
ished. The floors of the aisles that run
underneath the balcony are being
covered with a layer of cement The
steps leading to the basement have
just been constructed. There is a
stairway on each side of the field
house.
Part of the basement floor has
been laid already, and the rest will
be put down as soon as possible.
The basement floor will be of s
ment, but it will probably not be
entirely finished at present The
locker rooms will be located in the
basement and will include a small
GRADUATES VISIT FERGDSON
Two Former Engineering Student
Vitit Dean't Office
Karl A. Hobiit, '25, and Richard C.
DeCou, '16, called at the office of
Dean O. J. Ferguson of the Engineer
ing college Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Hobiit is now connected with
the Northwestern Bell Telephone
Company at Norfolk, Nebraska, and
Mr. DeCou is Sales Engineer of the
Fairbanks-Morse Company in Omaha.
FORUM TALK BY
DR. WILLIAMS
"Social Reform and Progress"
Is Subject Of Luncheon
Address Today
LECTURE ONE OF SERIES
Social Reform and Progress is the
subject for the World Forum, which
will be given today by Dr. Hattie
Plum Williams, chairman of the
Department of Sociology. The series
of addresses on the Progress, was
temporarily dropped a few weeks
ago, but it is now being resumed.
Much interest has been shown in this
series, and it is expected that many
will wish to hear the closing ad
dresses of them. The luncheon will
be held at the Grand Hotel, and
tickets are still available at the of
fice of the University Y. M. C. A.
in the Temple and the Y. W. C. A.
office in the Ellen Smith Hall for
the price of twenty-five cents.
AH who do not have one o'clock
classes are urged to stay after the
address for the general discussion
in which questions will be asked of
the speaker.
The last address of the series on
Progress will be on the "Individual
and Progress," and will be given by
Prof. J. A. Rice, chairman of
the Department of Ancient Lan
guages, next Wednesday, March 31.
This series was planned by the World
Forum committee, with the purpose
of attempting to discover whether
progress exists, and if we., can dis
cover what its nature is, and how it
is shown in the various fields of
human activity.
Gerald Birney Smith will be the
speaker at the luncheon which will
be held on April 14. Professor
Smith is a professor of the History
of Religion in the University of Chi
cago, and is coming to the University
for a three-day speaking engage
ment, including a series of addresses
on "The Relation of Religion and
Modern Life."
The meetings beypnd this date
have not yet been planned by the
committee, but it is possible that
there will be discussions on the sub
ject of athletics, and also on stu
dent activities.
DRAMATIC CLUBS EXCHANGED
Two
Ohio Schools Devi Contest
That It Rather Different
(New Student Service.)
Two Ohio schools have devised an
intercollegiate contest that is differ
ent Ohio Wesleyan and Western
Reserve Universities recently ex
changed dramatic clubs. The Wes
leyan Players performed at Reserve
and the Reserve members of Sock
and Buskin at Wesleyan.
"The Goose Hangs High", a popu
lar play among the collegians this
year was given by the Wesleyan
group, Martin Flavin's "Children of
the Moon" by the Wesleyans. The
visiting actors brought no scenery
with them but used the home clubs'
property.
Field House
Nears Completion
room with showers for the use of
the visiting teams and one for the
varsity athletes.
The ticket booths end the offices
in the south side or the building
have been plastered. There will be
ample office space in the field house,
with offices all along the south side.
The seats in Ithe balcony were
completed for the high school tour
ney, lhey are of the same type as
those in the stadium.
Work on the mammoth stage was
neglected during the winter months
so that the building could be made
ready for basketball. With all the
athletics out of the way now, the
back wall of the stage is being
bricked. The back of the stage is
fifty feet back of the north walL
Durinr Ihe basketball season the op
ening for the stage was walled over.
In future tournaments the stage will
probably be used for one playing
floor.
The radiators for the heating-sys
tem are in the building now. They
will be installed as soon as possible.
The showers will be put in a soon as
the basement floor is completed.
HOLD DEBATE
TONIGHT WITH
SOUTH DAKOTA
Nebraska Has Affirmative on
Regulation of Child Labor
By Congress
OPEN-FORUM TO FOLLOW
Negative Team Will Enliven Dit
cuttion) Several High School
Delegations Coming
The University of Nebraska's 1926
intercollegiate debates the twenty
fifth since the organization of the
Intercollegiate-Debate Seminary (the
"Think Shop") in 1901-1902 will
be held Wednesday evening, March
24, in Memorial Hall, with the Uni
versity of South Dakota, and Thurs
day evening, March 25, with the Uni
versity of Iowa at Iowa City, on the
question of amending the Constitu
tion to give Congress power to regu
late child labor, a question much
debated this year in the college
world, east and west. Nebraska will
maintain the affirmative against
South Dakota.
The open-forum discussion, with
questions from the audience, is go
ing to be enlivened by the presence
of Nebraska's negative team Geo.
A. Healey, '28, Lincoln; Ralph G.
Brooks, '25 (Wesleyan), Law '27,
Lincoln; and Lloyd J. Marti, '23,
(Hastings), Law '27, Lincoln which
has delayed until midnight its start
to Iowa City for the contest Thurs
day evening, in order to hear the lo
cal battle and to heckle the affirma
tive team.
Frott To Open Nebratka.'a Case
Nebraska's case against South Da
kota will be opened by Lincoln Frost,
Jr., '27, Lincoln. The second speak
er will be Edward G. Jennings, '26,
Lincoln; and David Sher, '28, Oma
ha, will be the third speaker.
Delegations from schools in Ne
braska High-School Debating League
are coming to study the workman
ship of the University - debaters.
The largest delegation heard from
so far is thirteen from Ceresco.
The University Cadet Band - will
furnish music
Nebraska's representatives are
picked students appointed at an open
try-out competition last winter by a
committee of University professors
and former varsity debaters. They
have been investigating the subject
by the intensive "Think Shop" meth
ods. Sketches of the Nebraska repre
sentatives follow:
Nebraska Againat South Dakota
LINCOLN FROST, Jr., '27, Lin
coln, was graduated from the Lincoln
High School in 1923. He is going
into the law. He is member of Pi
Kappa Alpha fraternity.
EDWARD G. JENNINGS, '28,
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PLANS FOR PASSIOH
SERVICB OUTLINED
Mitt Ermn Appleby Speaks At Ves
pers On "The Christian Exper
ience Of Salvation"
c
In preparation for the Passion
service to be held at Ellen Smith
Hall on next Tuesday at 5 o'clock,
Miss Erma Appleby talked on "The
Christian Experience of Salvation"
at the Vesper service at 5 o'clock,
Tuesday, in Ellen Smith HalL Irene
French was the leader and Betty
Coleman sang a vocal solo.
"Just a week from tonight,"
stated Miss Appleby, "we will be
gathered together here for the sim
plest and most solemn Vesper serv
ice of the year. This service will
probably have two-fold effect on
each one of us. We feel that there
is set before us human life as hu
man life ought to be and we will also
have the sense that God is in it alL
that somehow His love is set forth
in the death of this human person."
"An infinite number of men, dis
ciples of Jesus, have been like Jesus,
have been delivered of their trans
gressions and from their littleness.
We might understand better how to
live Christian lives if we would live
over the experiences of the disciples,"
pointed out the speaker.
"Salvation", pointed out Miss Ap
pleby, "is a word used often. Moot
people have the idea that salvation
is the escape from living eternal life
in unpleasant surroundings. I do not
deny," she said, "that some kind of
fate awaits us after we are out of
this life, but a bigger meaning of the
word salvation may be interpreted as
meaning "how am I to escape from
my littleness and my selfishness in
this life."
"Salvation is the achievement of
character. At no time do we desire
it more than when we lock at Jesus
and realize what He made cf. a human
Hfe, and begin to wonder what we are
making of ours," stated Mirs Appleby.