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THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ' WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1926.
TRICE 6 CENTS.
ENGINEERS HEAR
PLANS FOR TRIP
OFIINSPECTION
Men Meet To Make Arrange
ments, And For Final
Instructions
FIFTY STUDENTS GOING
Will Leave Sunday Afternoon For
Chicago; Itinerary To Be
Ready Thursday
The fifty engineers who' are going
to make the inflection trip to Chi
,8iro held the final preliminary meet
ing yesterday afternoon. Ihe itiner
ary hns not been printed yet but will
be ready Thursday. The train will
leave Lincoln at 4:40 Sunday after
noon and will be in Chicago Monday
morning.
Professor H. J. Kesner, chairman
of the committee in charge of the
trip, announced that a report of the
trip' is expected from each student.
The reports will be in narrative style,
about 2,000 words in length, and wjll
be due no later than May 15.
Professor Kesner impressed upon
the men that the trip is primarily for
business and that everything should
be carefully observed. A serious and
business-like attitude is expected
from the men. The importance of
being on time in making the small
trips around Chicago was also stress
ed by Professor Kesner.
Says Benefit. Well-Worth the Coat
In the opinion of the chairman of
the trip the benefits derived from the
visiting of the large plants is well
worth the cost of the trip. The fact
that the plants which are visited as
eume no responsibility for accidents
was mentioned by Professor Kesner.
Professor O. W. Sjogren, member
of the committee in charge, stressed
the importance of making a good im
pression on the companies in Chica
go. The trip is for the purpose of
getting jobs for the students and
Chicago is the nearest large center.
Professor Sjogren also declared that
the University of Nebraska is com
peting with other nearby schools be
cause all send their engineers to Chi
cago for inspection trips.
The impression that is made by the
representatives of Ntebraska will
either secure jobs for Nebraska grad
uates or cast reflections upon the
school, was Professor Sjogrens warn
ing. The importance of being cour
teous to the employees of the plants
that are visited was stressed. The
managers of the plants are inconven
iencing themselves for the students
and the students should show appre
ciation of the courtesy extended
them.
In regard to taking pictures in
the places visited Professor F. W.
Norris warned the men that usually
no plants permitted snapshots to' be
taken of their equipment.
LET CONTRACT FOR
HEW CONSTRUCTION
Morrill Hall Will Be Built By Bickel
Construction Company for
$224,890
The contract of Morrill Hall, Ne
braska's next building on the pro
gram of its campus extension cam
paign, was let to the Bickel Construc
tion Company of Lincoln, for the low
bid of $224,800. This company also
holds the contract for the Agricul
tural College buildings. Some of
the options were not named in the
contract furnished by the Bickel
Company but it is expected they will
be incorporated in the contract by the
end of the week.
Morrill Hall, which is to be built
as a memorial to Charles H. Morrill
of Stromsburg, Nebraska, in view of
the fact of his great contributions
to the Nebraska Museum, will be a
three story affair with a basement.
11 is to be built at the corner, of
5th and U, and will have the same
Btyle of architecture as Bcssey Hall,
and will be larger. The building will
be the home' of the Nebraska Ma
um, the School of Fine Arts and
the geology department.
Excavation for the building began
Tuesday morning. The contract
states that the building should be
done by February 1, 1927. Chan
cellor Avery estimates that the build
ing will cost near $300,000, including
all extra fees.
WO AW To Broadcast
Historical Pageant
Chancellor Avery has received a
letter rom the Woodmen of hte
Jorld of Omaha announcing that a
historical pageant, "America," will
be broadcast from Radio Station WO
AW on Saturday, April 3. The pro-am
will begin at 6 o'clock Satur
day evening and will continue for
Proximately eight hours.
VOTE FOR MAY QUEEN TODAY
Polli Are in Libraryi Identity of
Winner Will Be Kept Secret
The May Queen will he eWtid
by senior women today at the Li
brary whore the voting booth will be
open from 9 o'clock in the morning
until o m the evening. A list of
the names of the senior women will
be posted, and each Benior may vote
for one woman for the offi. TVi
polls will be in charge of Silver Ser
pents, honorary organization of
junior women.
The woman who receives the most
votes will be the May Queen and
tho one who receives the second Vifo-h.
est number will be Maid of Honor
The identity of the May Queen will
be kent secret until Tvv Dnv nrlinn
she will be crowned by her Maid
ol Honor.
All senior women are eligible to
vote.
G. B. SMITH TO
LECTURE HERE
Chicago University Professor
Will Speak on "Religion
and Modern Life"
SIX TALKS IN THE SERIES
A series of six lectures on the gen
eral subject "Religion and Modern
Life" will be delivered April 13, 14
and 15 by Gerald Birney Smith, pro
fessor of history of religion at the
University of Chicago and Editor of
the Journal of Religion.
Two lectures are to be given each
day, one in the afternoon and one in
the evening.
In addition to the series of six lec
tures, Professor Smith will speak at
an all-university convocation to be
held at 11 o'clock, Tuesday, April 13.
The lectures are being arranged
under the auspices of the University
Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. in co
operation with representatives of the
Lincoln churches.
The committee on arrangements
with John M. Allison, as general
chairman, consists of representatives
from all the churches. Cyrena Smith
is chairman of sub-committee on ar
rangements and Julius Frandsen is
chairman of publicity.
FAIR BOARD WILL
ISSDE GUIDE BOOK
Official Announcements For Annual
Farmers' Frolic Available
Third Week In April
The Guide Book, the official an
nouncement of Farmers' Fair by the
Farmers' Fair Board to the students
and public in general, will be issued
the third .week in April.
The Guide Book gives the program
of the day. which includes the time
and place of every attraction and the
Pageant program. It also contains
write-ups telling of the Educational
Exhibits which are one of the big
features of the day, advertisements
bv the leading merchants of Lincoln,
and short accounts of all the other
attractions.
The names of the Farmers' Fair
Board, the Faculty Advisory Board,
d the chairmen and names of the
students of every committee will be
in the Guide Book.
Will Have Twenty Pages
Four puide books have been pub
lished in the past and each year the
book has been an improvement over
the previous one. The Guide Book
this year will contain twenty pages,
which is eight more than last year.
The attractions will have longer
descriptions than usual, and several
other changes will be made which the
committee hopes will make it the
largest and best, ever printed.
Copies will be distributed at tne
Agricultural College campus, and on
the main Campus where all will have
a chance to see it.
The committee in charge of the
Guide Book is Arthur Hauke, Chair
man; Lillian Leitner, Alice Klein,
and Don Bell.
""WEATHER FORECAST
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy;
not much change in temperature.
Weather Conditions. .
The southern storm center has
moved to Texas, attended by rain
or snow in the southern Mountain
region, the southern plains, the
lower Missouri valley, the middle
and lower Mississippi valley, and
the southeastern states. Heavy
snow has fallen in southern and
eastern Kansas, Oklahoma and
northern Texas. Temperatures
have risen somewhat in the north
Mountain region and the upper
Missouri and upper Missippi val
leys, but continue below normal
for the season.
THOMAS A. BLAIR,
Meteorologist
Glee Club Which Starts Tour This Week
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Courtesy Lincoln Star.
Top row, left to right; Raymond Lewis, R.A. Krause, Carl Olson, Irving Changstrom, Er
nest Carlson, Francis Obert.
Second row; Wallace Banta, Lawrence Smith, Taul Morrow, William Damme, Kenneth
Cook, Ed Hays.
Third row: Charles Pierpont, Arthur Schroeder, John McDaniels, Charles Johnson, John
Culver, Arnold Strom, Wendell Dodd.
Fourth row; John Schroyer, Ivan McCormick, Wallace Nelson, Marshall Neiley, Paul
Woolwine, Aldrich Hanicke, Paul James, James Shane.
The Glee Club, under the direction of Parvin T. Wittee, will make a tour of ten Nebraska
towns between April 2 and April 11. They will also stop at Sioux City, Iowa.
PRIZE JERSEY
IN UNI HERD
Completed Test Shows Loretta
Lincoln Holds State 305
Day Record
THREE OTHERS TESTED
The dairy husbandry department
at the College of Agriculture, Uni
versity of Nebraska has just com
pleted a test on Loretta Lincoln, one
of the Jersey cows, that established
the highest 305-day record that has
ever been made in this state. Lor
etta Lincoln started on test at eight
years of age and in the following SOS
days she produced 483.87 pounds of
butterfat and 8,220 pounds of milk.
She was with calf for 204 days of
this time, qualifying in class AAA.
Jerseys in the University herd now
hold three 805-day test records.
At the age of 6 years Loretta Lin
coln produced 526.43 pounds of but
terfat and entered the Register of
Merit at that time. According to E.
N. Hansen, instructor in the depart
ment of dairy husbandry, a test of
a good dairy cow is her inherited
ability to produce well over a long
period of years.
The sire of Loretta Lincoln is Pur
dy Lincoln, a foundation Jersey
bull of the University herd. His
six daughters averaged 9,761.2
pounds of milk and 497.64 pounds of
butterfat for a year. The dams of
these six cows averaged 8,842 pounds
of milk and 440.84 pounds of fat,
showing an increase of 919 pounds
of milk and 56.8 pounds of fat per
daughter.
Other Cows Hold Records
-Another Jersey herd sire, Golden
Shylock, has thirteen daughters in
the University herd that show an
average increase in production over
their mothers to the extent of 1589.4
pounds of milk and 93.88 pounds of
butterfat per year. One of the
daughters, Reba Lincoln, recently
completed a year's record of 13,420
pounds of milk and 675 pounds of
butterfat at the age of 12 years and
7 months. This record makes her
the highest producing aged cow in
the state. Her half-sister, Ula Lin
coln, also Bired by Golden Shylock
and bred and owned by the Univer
sity of Nebraska, has the splendid
record of 14,880 pounds of milk and
815.22 pounds of butterfat produced
at the age of 11 years and one month
which is another state record that
won her the coveted gold medal
award by the American Jersey Cat
tle Club. The best record of this
cow's dam was 509.75 pounds of fat
which the daughter bettered by
.305.47 pounds. This record empha
sizes the importance of carefully-selected
sires in order to raise the
standards of the herd, as the aver
age production of the ordinary herd
can usually be raised by the use of
better sires.
REES WILL MEET ENGINEERS
To Confer With Any Interested In
Regard To Employment
Colonel R. I. Rees, New York City,
Assistant Vice-President of the Am
erican BeH Telephone and Telegraph
Company, will confer with senior
mechanical and electrical engineers,
and any others interested, in regard
to future employment. He will be
at Room 104, Electrical Engineering
building, at one o'clock Wednesday
afternoon.
Colonel Rees is a man of eminence
in the field of engineering and is
held In high regard by engineers
throughout the country. All seniors
are urged by Dean O. J. Ferguson to
talk with Colonel Rees.
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Announce New Members
Of Phi Beta Kappa At
Convocation Thursday
New members of Phi Beta Kappa,
honorary scholastic society for stu
dents in Arts and Science college,
will be elected at a meeting Wed
nesday noon and will be announced
at convocation on Thursday morning
at 11 o'clock at the Temple.
The University String Orchestra
under tne direction oi Mr. raui
Thomas, instructor in the School of
Fine Arts, will present the following
numbers :
Vivaldi: Allegro Moderato from
Concerto, in a minor.
Bach: Air from D major Suite.
Bach: Prelude No. 20 in A minor.
Wagner: Lohengrin Verspiel.
Grieg: Spring.
Grieg: In Der Heimath.
Grainger: Mock Morris.
The program will not be repeated
on Sunday of this week since many
of the churches will having Easter
services.
MARKSMEN WIN
IN FINAL MEET
Rifle Team Has Successful Sea
son With Twenty-One
Wins, Twelve Losses
LAMMALI IS HIGH MAN
The University rifle team ended
the season last week with the best
score of the season, 3707, defeating
six of their eight opponents. The
Missouri marksmen, turning in a re
markable team score of 8933, were
the only squad to hand Nebraska a
defeat, although Iowa State Col
lege, at Ames, had not been heard
from last night
The team's record for the season
show twenty-one wins, twelve losses,
one tie, and one match undecided.
Captain Eggers, who is just finishing
his third year in charge of the rifle
team, expressed himself as being well
pleased with the showing of the
team. He will have charge of the
range when the 1926-1927 season
starts next fall.
Lammali, who has lead the list of
high scorers almost every week, has
the high-point average for the ' sea
son, nosing out Shafer by a margin
of slightly over two points. The
eight scores, and their averages for
the season .follow:
Lammali, 876.56.
Shafer, 374.32.
Currier, 872.
Otradorsky, 870.61
Madsen, 868.73.
Skinner, 368.23.
Kossek, 866.92.
Plotts, 366.73.
WILL HOLD SECOND PARADE
Companies Assemble At 5 O'clock
Today For Military Practice
The second parade of the ntire
military department will be held this
afternoon on the drill field. The
companies will assemble at 5 o'clock.
The military department is trying
a new system this year, holding pa
rades on different days ot the week.
The first parade was on Thursday,
and this ore on Wednesday. In this
manner it is hoped that some of the
men who could not attend a single
practice affair last season because
of conflicts, will have an opportun
ity to attend some of them this year.
The date of the third parade will be
an&ounced shortly after vacation.
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CONVOCATION
AT AG COLLEGE
Will Make Further Plans
Thursday Morning For
Annual Farmers' Fair
IS LARGEST IN AMERICA
The convocation which will be held
Thursday morning, April 1, at 11 !
o'clock, in the auditorium at the Ag
ricultural College will be to further
plans and instill more pep into the
students about Farmers' Fair. Dean
E. A. Burnett will preside over the
meeting. Prof. H. J. Gramlich and
Miss Edna Benson will be the main
speakers.
The Farmers' Fair at the Agricul
tural College is the largest student
event of its kind in America, it was
learned today after compiling the sta
tistics of other similar events at the
various Agricultural Colleges. The
Nebraska Ag College Farmers' Fair
drew an estimated attendance of
over 80,000 visitors for the last
three fairs or an average of over
10.000 for each year. The fair of
1924 drew over 15,000 people for
the day, a record which no other far
mers' fair even approaches. The fair
of the year before brought out a
crowd of 8,000, and last year's fair
approached the 7,000 mark although
threatening weather was on hand
during the entire day.
Missouri Fair Is Oldest
The Farmers' fair at the Missouri
Agricultural College is the oldest
such event in the country, yet in
size, it has been surpassed by the one
held at the Nebraska College of Ag
riculture. Missouri's attendance fi
gures for the past three years are
considerably below those at Nebras
ka. Their banner year was in 1923
when they had an attendance of
12,000 people, according to figures
as given in the College Farmer, the
Missouri Ag College publication.
The student's fair at the Ames in
stitution is of three days duration,
yet its total attendance, according to
J. R. Redditt, a former student at
that place and now of the Nebraska
College of Agriculture Poultry De
partment, is below that attained at
the Nebraska Ag students event. The
figures for the Ames event run up to
the 12,000 mark. Other institu
tions where a farmers' fair is held
show that their event is older than
the one held at Nebraska but none
indicates as impressive records, or a
fair as large.
Plants Collected By
Hanson Are Described
The March number of the Univer
sity of Wyoming Publications in Sci
ence contains descriptions of nine new
species of plants collected in Ari
zona by Dr. Herbert C. Hansen of the
Department of Botany. Two of the
species, Penstemon Hansoni and Mac-
haeranthera Hansonii were named in
his honor. Of the several hundred
specimens now collected in Arizona
by Dr. Hanson, twenty or more were
new to science.
Article By Cornpton
In "The Step Ladder"
An article by Miss Nellie Jane
Compton, a member of the staff of
the University Library, appeared in
the last issue of "The Step Ladder,"
a publication issued by the .Bookfel
lows, a national organization of
booklovers and writers. Miss Comp
ton's article is entitled "Old and
New."
DISTRIBUTE APRIL AWGWAN
Booster's Number Contains Satire
On Organizations
The April issue of the Awgwan
will be distributed today.
This is the Booster's number and
contains a special feature cartoon by
Knudsen. A number of new cor
toonists have been added to the Btaff
for this issue.
The subject matter is mostly sa
tire on local social organizations.
"Captain of His Soul," a feature
story by Tucker is one of the out
standing numbers in the book this
time.
MANY COMMENTS
ON TOURNAMENT
Principals Of Omaha High
Schools Give Reasons For
Withdrawal
SAY IT IS A PRECAUTION
Acting Athletic Director Herbert
Gish returned to Lincoln Tuesday
afternoon but was not ready to make
any statement concerning the with
drawal of the Omaha high schools
from the 1927 State Basketball tour
nament. , Mr. Gish had been in Manhattan,
Kans., visiting relatives and varied
reports had reached Lincoln as to
whether or not he would co to Om-
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aha to try to straighten the matter
out. Upon his return to Lincoln he
said that he knew very little of the
affair and that he was going to
"see what it was all about" before he
made any decision.
In the meantime "social conditions
connected with the tournament which
had become unwieldy," the charge
made by the Omaha principals when
they withdrew, was traced to one al
leged drinking party in which seven
Omaha high school girls, (four from
Tech, two from Central, and one
from a private school), and seven
youths participated, in a single room
a't the Lincoln hotel.
Give Personal Stands.
Two of the Omaha principals gave
their personal stands Monday af
ternoon, giving reasons for their ac
tions. Principal Dwight E. Porter of Om
aha Technical High School said, "So
far as the four Technical High stu
dents are concerned it was more a
case of sinned against than sinning.
We took the withdrawal steps more
us a precaution than anything else.
Technical High school will not be
back in the tournament until we are
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RICE IS F0RDI.I
SPEAKER TODAY
Series on "Progress" to be Concluded
With Address on "Individual
In Progress"
"The Individual in Progress," the
sixth and last address in the series of
talks on subject of "Progress" will
be discussed at the World Forum
luncheon at the Grand Hotel this
noon by Prof. J. A. Rice.
The preceding talks on the sub
ject have been:
"The Idea of Progress," by Prof.
J. O. Hertzler.
"Science and Progress," by Prof.
H. G. Deming.
"Progress and Business," by Mr.
0. J. Fee.
"Religion and Progress," by Rev.
Ervine Inglis.
"Social Reform and Progress," by
Dr. Hattie Plum Williams.
The lecture this noon concludes
the series. A second series will be
started following the spring vaca
tion.
Tickets are still available for
twenty-five cents at the Temple and
Ellen Smith Hall.
Awgwan Applications
Applications for appointment to
the two positions of assistant
business manager of the Awgwan
will be received until noon Thurs
day, April 1.
Application blanks may be got
at the office of the chairman
(University Hall 104) and of Sec
retary J. K. Selleck (Student Ac
tivities Office).
Candidates are requested to
submit, in as concise form as may
bo, evidence as to their qualifica
tions for discharging the duties of
the positions for which they apply.
Candidates will give all the Infor
mation called for on the applica
tion blank.
M. M. FOGG,
Chairman, Student
Publication Board
OPTIONAL DRILL
BACKERS WILL
HOLD MEETING
Explain Campaigning to Those
Interested in Passing
Out Petitions
TICKETS NOW ON SALE
Is First Campus Move Against R. O.
T. C. Unit; Defenders Of It
Have Monopolized Stage
The big guns of the agitation
against military training at the Uni
versity of Nebraska will be wheeled
into place Thursday noon at a lunch
eon at the Grand hotel when cam
paign methods will be explained to
"those actually interested in passing
out petitions in their home communis
tfrs during spring vacations." It is
announced that the meeting will be a
business session from start to finish.
A committee of eight, six of them
girls, are selling tickets for the
luncheon at 25 cents. The tickets
can also be bought at the door. '
This is the first actual campus
move in the drive against the R. O.
T. C. unit. For two weeks, since the
speaking engagement of Thomas Q.
Harrison of the League of Youth for
Peace, the defenders of military
training have more or less monopo
lized the stage.
Cosmopolitan Club Approves Drill
Another formal approval of com
pulsory military training Tuesday
noon this time by the Cosmopolitan
club of Lincoln, was the latest coun
ter move by the defenders of the R.
O. T. C. The club unanimously ap
proved the training following a
speech by Colonel Jewett who ex
plained the organization of the Na
tional Defense and the function of
the R. O. T. C. with the other com
ponents. That portion of Attorney Soren
son's article in the New State, re
printed Friday in the Daily Nebras
kan which stated that twenty-one
universities have elective R. O. T. C
and that Nebraska could do likewise
drew the fire of University execu
tives and the military department in
particular. The fact of the matter
is, they say, that among schools of
the same category as Nebraska,
(land-grant colleges) only one (Wis
consin) has made the drill optional.
All the others have stood strong for
the compulsory feature, and at the
last meeting of the land-grant col
lege executives, resolutions were
adopted urging the federal govern
ment to strengthen and expand the
R. O. T. C.
The schools which have optional
R. O. T. C. are under an entirely dif
ferent classification and the -distinction
has been kept in practically all
legislation on the matter. The op
tional units were adopted in most
cases after the present R. O. T. C
system was established, and the
schools did not have any -previous
contracts or obligations to the gov
ernment. 'ASSION SERVICE
HELD AT VESPER
Read Story Of Last Week of Jesns
At the Closing of the Lent
en Season Series
The Passion Service, and annual
Lenten season service at Vespers,
was held at Ellen Smith Hall Tues
day evening at 5 o'clock.
Elsie Gramlich read the story of
the Passion and Resurrection of
Jesus from "His Last Week" a de
votional study of the last week in
our Lord's earthly life in the words
of the four evangelists. This traced
the agony of Gethsemane, the be
trayal and arrest, the trial before the
Jewish Authorities, the denial of Pet
er, the remorse of Judas, the trial
before Pilate, and finally the cruci
fixion.
"The Reproaches," an ancient
devotion of the church, setting forth
in figures drawn from Hebrew his-
tory a recital of God's love and
man's ingratitude, was sung by Mary
Ball, assisted by the Vesper choir.
Blanche and Constance Stevens sang
a duet in harmony with the Lenten
Mediation.
This was the last of a group of
services arranged by the Vesper
committee for the Lenten season.
Herbert Brownell
Receives Honor
Herbert Brownell, Jr., f -"er stu
dent and graduate at the Tsity
of Nebraska, and the son Pro
fessor and Mrs. Herbert Brownell,
has been made editor of the Yale
Law Journal, according to a state
ment printed by the Yale Daily
News, issue of March 21. 1,1 r. Frow
nell is attending Yale Law School.