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-Stiier forecast ror Lincoln and vicinity: Most , fair Friday? cold wave; atrong wind diminishing. -IE Daily Nebraskan Nebraska Cagors Meet Oklaho ma Tonight in University Coliseum PARTY ACTION IS DROPPED BY GREEKCOUNGIL Interfraternity Group Decline. To Limii the Number of Downtown Partiea SCHRAMM TO HAD GROUP President The question of limiting th num ber of downtown parties to one a vear anion the fraternities and the present situation in regard to pro posed legislation in the state legisla ture concerning the regulation of fraternity affairs were the centers of discussion at the meeting of the interfraternity council, Thursday night in Social Science 205. A motion was made and carried that the council shall not consider a ehange in regard to downtown par ties at the present time and a com mittee of five was appointed to in vestigate the bill which is now before the Senate Committee on Education which would prohibit pledging until after one year of schooling has been completed in the institution at which the student is pledging a fraternity or sorority. Party Question Talked Considerable discussion took place when the question of following the action of the Pan Hellenic council came up, in limiting the number of downtown parties' to one a year among the fraternities on the cam pus. A report of an informal can vass that had been made on the sub ject was said to have had nineteen supporters for the new measure and three against. This was the report received from twenty-two fraterni ties. But the council failed to come to any decision in its discussion and the motion was made and carried that the council should not consider any change in the present system, for the time being at least. After being informed on the bill which is before the Committee on " Education in the Senate, it was voted that a committee of five should be appointed to investigate- the measure j and the probable action. This com mittee of investigation is to consist of three members of the interfrater nity council and two members of the executive committee of the council. Of the six nominations for repre (Continued on Page Three.) TIIEUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927. PRICE 5 CENTS Winter Dies Hard; Makes a Last Desperate Attempt to Retain Hold KAPPA EPSILON TO SPONSOR ONI PARTY Women's Honorary Pharmacy Soror ity Announces Dance to be Held In Armory Saturday Kappa Epsilon, women's honorary pharmacy sorority, will sponsor a University mixer at the Armory Sat urday evening. Miss H. Alice How ell's drama class is preparing a one act skit to be given during .the eve ning by Misses. Cleo Slagel, Ardath -Srb, and Paul Miller. A candy sale will also be held throughout the evening. Cleo Sagel's Red Jacket orchestra will furnish the music. Sponsors selected are: Dr. and Mrs. Lyman, Mr. and Mrs. Bukey, and Mr. and Mrs. Burt. The admis sion is thirty-five cents each. Weather Bureau li Betelged with Inquiriea about Length of Cold Spoilt Normal Weather is the Pro phecy for Coming Week. The chances are that old man win ter is taking his last hard poke at the weather patrons of eastern No braska this week until another year Repeated inquiries at the weather station Thursday afternoon drew the reply that the thermometer reading was about zero with the result that the investigative cold-blooded folks shivered, clanged up the telephone receiver and probably threw a few more shovels of coal into the furnace. Thursday night was supposed tc have marked the crux of sinking mer cury and boreal gusts of wind when the thermometer reading hovered about zero throughout the night. Ac cording to T. A. Blair, Meteorologist at the weather bureau station, the chances are only about one in seven that there will be a colder night than last until next winter. Records show that we have had very cold weather in the month of March, the thermom eter reading reaching the extreme of 11 degrees below zero at onetime, but it has only happened once in six or seven years that the mercury has gone down to the zero mark later than the middle of February. The icy wave which swept over this portion of the state early Thurs day morning in the wake tf last week's snowfall will probably con tinue throughout Friday with some subsidence in the wind and perhapr a slight rise in temperature. Fridaj is predicted to be a fair day in addi tion to these changes. Saturday and Sunday will perhaps see moderate weather again, at least such are the present indications and this meam thawing weather and the rapid melt ing of the snow. Next week, judging from the' re cords of past years, should show nor mal weather throughout with 29 de grees as an average mean for thr day, varying from a minimum of 2C degrees at night to 40 to 45 degree; during the day. This will mean freez ing weather at night and thawing iri the daytime which is characteristic for this time of year. This time of year is marked bj rapidly rising normal temperature and any temporary cold spell seemr excessively frigid. As we near thr end of the month the chances for real cold weather grow less and less though March has been known tr blemish an otherwise perfect spring. T. Bruce Robb To Talk At Meeting Dr. T. Bruce Robb of the College of Business Administration will ad dress the Tri-otate Credit conference at Sioux City, Iowa to-day on the subject, "How Proper and Improper Treatment of Credit Affects Prices, Conditions and the Movement of Goods." The conference includes represen tatives from Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota, and will be in session all day Friday. The first meeting of the conference was on Thursday. The Nebraska College of Business Administration will be represented by Dean LeRossignol also. STATE EDITORS CONVENE HERE Nebraska Newspaper Open Fifty-Fourth Annual Session Men KAPPA SIGMA OUT OF RACE Phi Sigma Kappa Continues March Toward Interfrat Championship GRACE STAR OF GAME Todays Results Phi Sigma Kappa 21, Kappa Sigma 14. Saturdays Games 10:00 Sigma Phi Epsilon vs. Phi Sigma Kappa. Phi Gamma Delta vs. Kappa Sig ma. Pi Kappa Alpha vs. Acacia. Phi Sigma Kappa continued their march to the coveted championship of the Interfraternity basketball NATIONAL Y.W.C.A. SECRETARY COMING Miss Oolooah Burner Will Be at Wesleyan Campus for Meetings February 25, 26, 27 i Miss Oolooah Burner, national sec retary of the Y. W. C. A., a special ist in religious psychology, will be at the Wesleyan University campus, White Memorial Hall, February 25, 26 and 27. Thirty-five are allowed to come from the Nebraska campus for con ferences. The registration lee is twenty-five cents. The first session on Friday is from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock. The third session on Saturday is from 9:30 to 12:00. o'clock and the third session- from l:al to a.av o'clock. The Sunday session is fo be arranged. Medical Fraternities Issue Cage Challenge Fraternities at the medical col lege in Omaha telephoned The Daily Nebraskan last night a'chal- lenge to play the winner of the Lincoln campus interfraternity basketball tournament for the championship of the whole Univer sity. The game would be played either at Lincoln or in Omaha. The finals in the medical col lege tournament will be played next Tuesday. Last year the Lin coln winners refused to meet the medical champions. 30,000 Jack Pine Seedlings To Be Given to Nebraska Farmers Approximately 30,000 three-year tree claims were examined this fall old seedling jack pines from the fores! service nursery at Halsey will be available for the farmers of Ne- tourney Thursday evening by de f eating Kappa Sigma 21 to 14, in game postponed from Wednesday Grace proved the outstanding playe of the evening. The Phi Sigs took the lead from the start and at no time throughout the contest did they lose it. The Kap pa Sigs let the score run to 9 to before they came to life, but a rally by Owens brought the score to 9 to 7 at the half. King Starts the Scoring Bob King started the second half out right by takinpsfhe ball from the tip-off and sinking a long shot. Grace took the clue and immediately started sinking the ball frorrf most any posi tion. Shining in defeat proved a hard (Continued on Page Four.) braska this spring at a very nominal cost, according to C. W. Watkins, ex tension forester U the College of Ag riculture of the University of Ne braska. "People in general are showing a great deal of interest in tree plant he said. "Of the 84,000 seed lings distributed last spring reports how that over 60 per cent of these are now living. This is an unusually good showing when one considers the extreme drought of last season. . 'The ritrht tr In thn ric-ht nlace the aim of the forestry department of Nebraska. Although there is a wide variety of soil conditiona there ia a correspondingly . large variety, of "ees with different requirements to nt these soil conditions," he ex Plained. Localities which have the severest "limate and most limited rainfall pre 'nt the greatest forestry problems. Jet these are the places, according to Mr. Watkins, njjere trees are most needed to check the velocity of the inds and to hold the soil from drift ing. Failure in gome sections of Nebras- to get treei to grow is due to other "nses than climate and lack of rain r, say. Mr. Watkins. "Several old t.rnV The Halsey forest reserve is south of the Loup river in a sand hill re gion. Pictures of spots taken before the trees were planted and pictures taken now show a sharp contrast be tween blow-outs then and beds of pine seedlings now. This remarkable change was brought about in a com paratively few years. There are about 12,000 acres in the nursery, which is a part of the Nebraska National For est Reserve. It is being increased at fthe rate of about 1000 acres a year. The oldest trees are now aDoui twenty-four years old and arebout thirty-five feet tall, growing m a very dense stand. t, from the reserve will be ready for distribution about April 1. Farmers in counties having agricul tural agents are asked to make re quests for the trees through them. In other counties farmers may write directly to the extensiondivision of the College of Agriculture at Lin coln. A number ef requests have been already received from various parts of the state. Instructions ror planting and care or we wee. be sent out to the farmers with the ( Continued on Page Three.) ' WYLAND TALKS AT AG COLLEGE FORUM Lincoln Minister Discusses Problems In Government; Bradford Is The Next Speaker Do we want a democracy or republic?" was the question raised by Rev. B. F. Wyland of the First Plymouth Congregational Church in his discussion of "The Republic" be fore the Ag College World Forum luncheon yesterday noon. After statin the difference be and in four out of five cases evidence of fire or Jamage by cattle could bf found. Young trees cannot survive either, but both are subject to con-L een the two forms of government, he cited instances in ordinary life where the work of importance is del egated to persons best fitted to do it ; he compared it to the delegation of government to men fitted to do it. He stated that there is not as much "rottenness" in political affairs as i some groups wouia nave peopie think. "In the majority, leaders have played fair," he said, In discussing the direct primary system as a method of choosing can didates for office, he considered it a move toward democracy and again raised the question as to which form of government was wanted. It was not the purpose of the discussion to settle and question definitely, but rather to give the students some new avenues of thought. Following his talk, several students and faculty members took part in a discussion of the topic. The committee has secured Prof. H. E. Bradford, chairman of the Vo' cational Education department, to discuss the Question of " the Honor System as followed in some colleges and universities. Tickets are on sale at Miss Virginia Zimmer's office in 1 .If XI.. "-lt In.U.ilf BROWN OPENS MEETING Editors and newspaper men from all sections of the state were pouring into Lincoln Thursday to be present for the opening session of the fifty fourth annual convention of the Ne braska Press association. Before the first session of the annual conclave at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Lindell Hotel more than seventy five newspaper men had registered, and incoming trains were expected to bring many more association mem bers who were not slated, for the in itial programs. The first session went into progress at 2 o'clock when editor W. A. Brown of Friend, president of the associa tion, announced the standing com mittees. Ole Buck, secretary of the association, read the minutes of the last convention. Late Thursday after noon the announcements of the cup winners for newspaper achievement were to be made. Awards to Be Made Six awards were to be made, one to the newspaper in the state per forming the greatest community ser vice ; one to the paper using the best original editorial; one for the best newspaper in the state; one for the best front page; one for the best front page in a town of 1000 or less population and a sixth cup to the best newspaper in a town of 1000 or less. After the announcements of the judges the meeting was adjourned until 6 p. m. when the editors were the guests of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. The program was in charge of the Chamber of Commerce and following the banquet there was a frolic of fun and entertainment. The convention meetings are to be in progress throughout Friday and well into Saturday. Ole Buck says that there is much business to be transacted, and the editors are not going to be harassed by continual routine duties. There will be ban quets and fun parties for the editors and their wives while in Lincoln Eight Women Pledged To Musical Sorority Nebraska Center Delta Omicron, national honorary musical sorority held a pledging ser vice for right women Thursday eve ning. The pledge list includes: Viola Forsell, '28, Omaha; Alice Duffy, '30, Central City; Maxine Goodbrod, '30, Exeter; Maxine Mathers, '30, North Platte; Eleanor Tipton, '30, Fre mont; Gertrude Gierman, '30, Lin coln; Margaret Anderson, '30, Stromsburg and Dorothy Prouse, '30, Lead, S. D. BOWLING TODRNEY IN SECOND ROUND Xi Psi Phi Rolls Highest Game With Total of 814; Snether Bowls High Game With 192 Ag hall on the College of Agriculture campus. Thursday Results Xi Psi Phi, 2266; Phi Delta Theta 2047. Sigma Phi Epsilon, 2175; Sigma Nu, 1630. Kappa Sigma, 2307; Pi Kappa Al pha, 2257. The second round of the annual interfraternity elimination bowling tournament got under way last eve ning at the Saratoga bowling alleys with Xi Psi Phi, the Phi Delts, the Kappa Sigs, the Pi K. A.'s, the Sig Eps and the Sigma Nus on the alleys. The second round started with i good record for the highest individ ual game with a total of 814 pins for Xi Psi Phi. Their game, -Was walk away from the Phi Delts who were over 200 behind at the final count. The Phi Delts won one of their games. The Sigma Nus were easy for the Sig Eps who had an advan tage of 500 pins at the final tally. The Kappa Sigs -won their match after the Pi K. A.'s held the lead foi the first two games, 'lhey rallied in the last game to win from the Pi K s but with only an advantage of 50 pins. This game was the closest of the evening. Snether, Phi Delt, set the pace for the high score of the evening wit) sco-e of 192 pins for an individual game. Mitcneu, ri iv. a. was second high with a score of 191 pins. The igh score man for the three gamer was Walter, Kappa Sig with a tota' 512 pins. The second high man was Krall, Kappa Sig, who holds the record for the highest individual score for the tournament, with a to- (Continued on Page Four.) Delta Sigma Phi Is Given Shoot Trophy Presentation of the trophy for first place in the interfraternity rifle shoot was the occasion of a dinner at the Delta Sigma Phi house Wednes day evening. O. J. Fee doner of the trophy, a skin, made the presenta tion. Col. F. F. Jewett, of the mili tary department was also a guest of the fraternity. Formal presentation of the trophy will be made at one of the regular regimental parades. Earl ' Gillette, James Mason, Claude Mason, Victor Peterson and Robert Wolfe were the members of the Delta Sigma Thl team. MILITARY DRILL IS ISSUE AGAIN Proposed Bill Now Pending In Legislature Will Be Discussion Topic A bill to do' away with compulsory military training in the University of Nebraska, House Roll No. 500, will be presented by the committee on education for a public discussion to night at 8 o'clock in the House chamber. A petition similar to the above bill was circulated last year, but due to the fact that there was an insuf ficient number of signers by the re quired time, it was defeated. The Board of Regents and the Ad ministration of the University have announced their opposition to the act as introduced. L. E. Gunderson, Finance Secretary, says: "The bill is contrary to the continued policy of the Board of Regents since the passage of the acceptance of the Morrill Land Grant Act, approved by the Legislature f Nebraska, Febru ary 12, 1869. Under the provisions of this act the University is receiving from the Federal Government $285, 000 a year, which is being expended for all educational purposes except ing military training." Foster Gives Statement The Rev. H. F. Huntington, Metho dist University Pastor, states: "Re pression is removed when the com pulsory feature of military training is removed. And when, as in this case, the subject is not vital to educa tion it is in the interest of academic freedom when a choice of subjects is allowed. Compulsory military training gives a mind sex for war as explained by psychology." According to Capt. A. D. Foster, of the military department, under the provisions of this act, advanced stu dents in military training would not have a sufficient amount of students in the basic course to practice on. It would also require the same num ber of instructors and divisions as are now being used. Special Program To Be Held At The University Club Sunday Afternoon Sunday afternoon at the Univer sitv Club from 4:30 to 6 Professor E. M. Dodd of the College of Law will read from "The Further Side of Silence." The author, Sir High Clif ford, is a highly gifted British offi cer, now Governor of Ceylon, who spent most of his life at various posts in Borneo Trinidad, Togoland, and the Straits Settlement?, and tells of Malayan adventures that depict the life of the jungle. After the readings II I. Kirkpat- rick of the University School of Music will present Mrs. Altinas Tullis in a soprano solo from his romantic cantata, "The Fireworshippers," and Mr. Herbert Gray with Mrs. Tullis in a duet from "La Menuetfce," an opera written by Mr. Kirkpatrick to Pro fessor Alexander's libretto, and pro duced in several Nebraska cities. I if j " A a I - I I j I ' i I 1 1 I I V v ' $ - 's-"t- ' "J NEBRASKA CAGE TEAM TO CLASH WITH SOONERS Scarlet and Cream Lineup May Be Shifted Tonight, Coach Black Says SOONERS DOWNED ONCE Ted Page, the giant Nebraska cen ter, who has been the main cog of the Husker basketball team this season will have a hard foe to handle tonight in Vic ' Holt, six loot six men UKia homa center. Page measures six feet seven and was able to get the tip-off from Holt when the Nebraska five met the Sooners at Oklahoma. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CANDIDATES NAMED Officers and Directors Are Elected By Mail Ballot in May During The Annual Round-Up Nominations, for the nine officers iind directors of the University of jpbraska alumni association were an nounce! today in the February issue of the alumni mara7iiil i he nomin ees were selected by a special com mittee. The officers and directors will be elected in May in a mai vote of all members of the association. Ballots will be canvassed and the new offi cers installed during tne annnii alumni RoundUp preceding the Uni versity graduation exercises aboui June 1. Following are the nominees: President: William Ramsay, Oma ha1; William L. Dowling, Madison. Vice-president: Mrs. Ruth Munger James, Stromsburg; Mrs. R. E. Iavies, Utica. Executive committee: Lynn Lloyd, Lincoln; L. E. Mumford, Lincoln. Director, first district: Ek Ericke, Plattsmouth; Jean Cain, Falls City. (Continued on Page Three.) FAIR EXHIBITS WILL BE MORE EXTENSIVE Will Also Be More Accessible, Heads Of Groups Say; Committees Are Announced The educational exhibits of the Ninth Annual Farmers' Fair will bo more centered so that they will be more accessible, is the announcement of the 1927 Farmers' Fair Board. It is also planned to make them more extensive, according to Arthur M. Hauke, '28, and Elsie Marsh, '28, chairmen of the exhibit executive committee. The following committees have been appointed by the board to pre pare the exhibits from the various departments of the College of Agri culture : Exhibit Executive Committee Arthur Hauke, chairman: Klsie Marth, joint chairman: Hazel Manning. Kermit Erickson, Alberta Granrfy. Ilertha Maeee. Corrinc Mai-l'ranK, William Snyder. Agronomy Crops AuBtin Goth, chairman; Richard Covell Nelson, Jodan, Theodore Sautter. Animal Pathology Myrle White, chairman: Ira Flanagan, William Heuerman, David Johnson. Animal Husbandry Clay Westcott. chairman : Hernard Parnefl, Fred Sundecn, Clifton Wehrman, Donald Williams. Chemistry Lawrence Means, chairman; David Franz en, Elmer Hurren. Dairy Addison Miller, chairman: Paul Carlson, Georire Le Dovt, Clarence Bartlett, Warllen Rice, Robert Whttomore. Engineering Lawrence Shoenleber, chairman, Leonard Shoenleuur, Melvin Perry, Walter White. Entomology Karl Koch, chairman : Carrol Oriff inl Clarence Runyan. Garrett Roseberry. Horticulture Ralph Gemmell, chairman: Steen Castle. Norman Adams. Andrew Evans, Elton Hub- bert. Paultry Ephriam Danfelson, chairman; Roscoc (Continued on Page Two.) Oklahoma Lost to Nebraska Team In Game at Okla homa This Season The Nebraska Scarlet and Cream basketballcrs meet Coach Hugh Mc Dcrmott's Oklahoma Sooners tonight on the floor of the Coliseum for a conference game. "Red" Eagan will send the two quintets into battle promptly at 7:30 o'clock before what athletic officials say will be the larg est crowd of Cornhuskcr fans this season. Oklahoma is rated as one of the strongest teams in the Missouri Val ley and at present are holding second place in the conference cage race. They are bringing to Lincoln a squad of cage stars consisting of Victor "High" Holt, Sooner center who has been the mainstay of the Oklahomans all season. Holt is six feet six inches tall and every inch a real basketball player, playing his second year on the Sooner five. Captain Gene West is playing his third and last year at forward and is small, but makes up doubly for his size in speed and ac curacy in goal shooting; he ranks as one of the best in the conference. Bruce Drake will be seen playing as the running mate of the Sooner cap tain and is a flashy forward of vet eran caliber although he is a first year man. Giant to Meet Giant Besides seeing a basketball gama that will be a real fight from the opening whistle to the final gun, Ne braska fans will have an opportunity to see a battle of the two giants of the Missouri Valley, Ted Page and Vic Holt. Although Page has a one inch advantage on the Sooner pivot man and outplayed him when the two teams met at Norman, Holt is a stel lar player and a center of the first class. Coach Charles Black, who directs the activities of the Cornhusker bas ketball machine took his Scarlet and Cream basketballers through a final workout last night in the Ccliseum. Under the directing eye of the Ne braska coach, plays were run back and forth on the court until the few fans watching the session of the Hus- kers claimed that the team work was perfect. For two hours the boys in red drilled the plays, short passes and short shots in a final effort to make a perfect showing against the teams from Sooncrland. The Nebraska coach has made some changes inhis line up, but the five that will start against Oklahoma University is not certain. Tom Elliott, (Continued on Page Two.) Student Fmployees Of The University Paid After Delay of Week Students employed by the univer sity have been paid after a delay of seven days, f our to hve hundred students were affected by the delay. It is true that all of the departments have not been paid but this is due to the delay in making out the lists. The majority of the warrants are now in the office. It was not the fault of the finance department that this delay came about. The University office prepared the vouchers and turned them in at the proper time. The delay was in the state auditor's office. , Measure to Do Away With First Year Pledging Is Introduced in Senate In the sheaf of bills coming off the ( institution where he joins the society. press the first of this week and add ing to the thickness of the stack of proposed measures on each senator's and representative's crude desk at the state legislature, was one, Senate File No. 257, which, if placed on the statute books of the State of Nebras ka, virtually means that there will be no more first year pledging by any fraternity or sorority on the Univer sity of Nebraska campus or by any other such society yi any other insti tution maintained wholly or in part by the state of Nebraska. This contribution to legislative grist, by Senator W. B. Banning of Cass county who introduced the bill cn February 2ad, explicitly states -that no student, male or female, in the state university, state normal schools or other institutions of higher education supported in whole or in part by public funds or public taxa- tion, snail join pieoge to join any college iraternity, sorority, or any other secret society whose active membership is composed of college students,- before that student hat completed at least one year in the It will be noticed that the bill pro vides that the year of schooling pre vious to pledging must be spent in the institution where the student pledges to a fraternity or sorority. As a penalty to the student who would violate the law the bill says that he shall be expelled from the school at which he is a student. The administrative heads in the respective schools affected are delegated to en force the prohibition as they "deem reasonable and necessary", and to use the ultimate measure of expul sion upon discovering such a viola tion. Senator BanningV bill received its first reading the day it vas intro duced in the iSenate Chamber, and the following dry, February 3, was given the second reading and then referred to the committee on miscel laneous subjects. Copies of the bill are back from the printer and a copy of the proposed measara is on the desk f every Senator snd Represen tative for consideration before its final reading and the committee re port. . '