A
rTr. . tt ' n ? - (
WEATHER FORECAST
For Lincoln and vklaity: Thurs
day cloudy and colder.
11 HE PAILY iEBRASKAJM
Special basketball section of
page 4 of thia issue.
rxXVI. NO. 105
CINDER ARTISTS
TO HARD TASK
AT DES MOINES
Twenty Track and Field Men
IT- Tavn ! In.
To Mane up
door Meet Saturday
WANT INDOOR TITLE
Schulte Resting Hope on Squad
For A Third Valley
Indoor Title
-r...n7 track and field men will
,ke up the Nebraska learn at the
annual Missouri vaney muuui
and field meet at Des Moines Satur
day On this squad Coach Henry F.
Schulte is resting his hopes for a
0,,nf.pssive valley indoor title.
The team will be accompanied by
Coach Schulte, -UOC lUClttll, aim
one student manager. 1
Men making the trip are Captain
Bobby Stephens, Doty, Krause, Flem
Marrow. Daily. Davenport, Tap-
Tjan, Campbell, Wyatt, Johnson, Lem-
ly Chadderaon, mcvjnrnicjr,
nr';,io. Andrews. .Page, Hurd, and
Ashburn. Of these, all are in fair
shape with the exception oi reriy
Wyatt who has been doing his first
real running this week since he
pulled a tendon in his leg early in the
year.
Hard Proposition
With only 7 1-2 of the 36 3-4
points made at last year's valley in
door left this year, the Cornhuskers
are faced with a tough proposition in
their attempt to repeat. Johnson
made three points last year in the
mile, Wyatt, two in the 440, and
Wirsig, two and a half in the pole
vault All the other point winners
either graduated or failed to return
to schoo'. New men have been de
veloped to fill some of the holes made
by graduation. On the performance
of these new men rests much of Ne
braska's chance to return with ano
ther championship in hand.
Reports from Oklahoma indicate
that they will add a strong contin
gent to help split the points at the
meet. Taylor, crack; low hurdler
from last year's team, has been step
ping them in nice fashion in prac
tice. They also hope to have Ray
Dunson, crack Indian hurdltr, eligible
in time for the meet Saturday. Pott3,
Sooner captain, is likely to be one of
the strongest contenders against Wir
sig in the pole vault. Potts tied for
second at Kansas City, although Wir
(Continued on Page Two.)
Health Carnival
Will Be Given
March 17-18
A unique entertainment for Ne
braska's campus will be a one cent
health carnival to be given in the
women's gymnasium, Thursday and
Friday, March 17 and 18 by the de
partment of Physical Education for
Women.
A novel feature is the price of ad
mission which will be one cent. Dan-
ting will be another feature of each
afternoon's program and every one
nay dance on paying a cent. In
cluded in the programs will be clog
ging and tumbling skits.
There will be a style show from
which students may for the price of
cent see an artist's conception of
modish attire. If you are dubious of
the future or desire to recover your
lost jewels consult the fortune teller
no will end your worries and en
lighten you concerning the future, all
for one cent.
A poster contest will be held in
connection with the Carnival. Five
fUars will be awarded to the person
"ing in by March 15, the best
Wrter dealing with health. The win
Wll be announced on one of the
ys of the carnival. The poster-, may
2 8'vmi to any of the members of
. con"nittee in charge, vich is
composed of Kathro KidwcH, Chair
fcwjorie Easterbrok, Maiie
"rmanek, Helen Moorclead: Hnu-1
snavely nnrf Itt.. nr. .
a D. S mpson and Miss 7. Hue
Cueehe f8CUlty ,nmbe, f the
01 POINT SKSTEM PRINTED
p,w Resdjr fr Distribution to
AH UnWer.it, Women
The A. w c
Muted . a' POmt 8ystem is now
fcalliv ready for distribution
tte kIITa7, WOmen' Pwtoularly
WD be T n activlties. Copies
houses rn to proctors of rooming
com, frority Predents at the
held 0on Lmeetin8r' which 1 e
K, W s Uld secure "pies from thr.
r hota wen Smith Hah I
'Mri.it lBn Anderson before!
I noil ty wrmine tne en
Since ! PrP0Bed mcle. " '
""'tea -"vines wiu De
ill h... .vhavin sliest elections
; me greatest advantage.
Engineer Arrange for
Kansas City Trip
All men going on the Engineer's
trip to Kansas City, April 3 to 8,
are expected to stay at the West
Gate Hotel, which will be head
?uarters for the group unless
written permission is secured to
rtayelsewhere, according to an
announcement made by Prof. J. E.
Smay, instructor in Engineering
Drawing.
All men wishing to drive cars
ire required to make written ap
plication to Dean Ferguson.
RIGE TELLS
BIBLE THEME
Tulsa Pastor Outlines Bible
Subject in Talk at
World Forum
POINTS OUT MANY TERMS
Declaring that morals and religion
were the theme of the Bible, not
physical evolution, Dr. John A. Rice,
addressed World Forum yesterday
noon t the Grand Hotel on the sub
ject, "Jesus and Evolution." Dr. Rice
is the father of Professor J. A. Rice
of the Classics Department. He is
pastor of the Boston Avenue M. E.
church of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Dr. Rico opened his address by
reading a resolution passed by a
school board in Lancaster County,
Pa. in 1828. It opened the school
house to discussion of all reasonable
subjects but it forbid debates con
cerning railways. It said that if God
had intended railways to exist he
would have foretold it in the lives
of the prophets. Dr. Rice cited the
resolution as typical of the reaction
ary mind which sees nothing good in
anything new.
Cite Many Examples
Citing numerous examples of the
conflict of the literal story of the
Bible (which he stated .numerous or
ganizations were trying to make the
only story permissable to teach in
the schools of the country) with com
mon scientific knowledge, Dr. Rice
exclaimed, "These suggestions raise
a terribly blinding question. What are
we going to do about it? Shall we
throw away Genesis? Shall we curse
science? Shall we become agnostics?"
Solution of this problem was rep
resented by Dr. Rice as lying in the
fact that the Bible sought to teach
only religion, not physical evolution.
"In the Bibje," he stated, "we have
no real account of creation at all.
What the author is trying to do is to
tell of the things prepared for man,
who is to be the master of the world.
All this leads up to man as the mas
ter creation of all. The whole work
is religion. The one central idea
which prevails is God, God,
God, everywhere."
Gives Terms of Bible
Pointing out the terms of the Bible
came out of the authors' lives and
were within their cultural limita
tions, he showed how the first two
chapters of Genesis contradict each
other.
OXFORD HONOR
WOM BY TEFFT
Nebraska Rhodes Scholar Awarded
Vinerian Scholarship at
Oxford University
Sheldon Tefft, Nebraska Rhodes
scholar from Weeping Water, has
won the Vinerian scholarship in law
at Oxford University, according to
Lincoln friends. This scholarship lasts
for three years following a competi
tive examination. This is the most
highly prized honor given at Oxford
for work in legal studies. The scholar
must pursue a course of legal study
or training of his own selection, but
subject to the approval of the law
faculty at Oxford University, is the
only requirement of the scholar.
Mr. Tefft graduated from the Uni
versity in 1922, and from the law
school in 1924. In 1923 he was elec
ted as the Nebraska Rhodes scholar
at Oxford. Hugh Cox, '26, has been
elected his successor. It is under
stood tbit Mr. Tefft is the first Amer
ican who has been honored !y the
award ot this scholarship.
Rhodes sehekrs receive four hun
dred pounds a year, out of which
they must pay their expenses Eligi
bility of th-5 .Rhodes scholarship is to
male citUiis of the United Htnlcs.
who are not younger than nineteen
nor oldor than twenty-five by Octo
ber 1, 1828. They must have com
pleted at t! s:p.ervre ycr
at some recognized degree university
or college.
The Nebraska committal of selec
tion announces coroput'iio.i for an
other scholarship which will De
awarded next December for the year
1928, Anyone wishing to try for the
scholarship must have his application
in the hands of the Nebraska com
mittee secretary, Paui F. Good, not
later than October 22. The selection
will be made December 10.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,
North Carolina Council Starts Suit
To Exempt Frats From Tax Payments
The Interfraternitv Council of the
University of North Carolina is insti
gating a law suit in the interest of all
the fraternities of the campus
agains the county in which the Uni
versity is situated for an exemption
of all fraternity property from tax
ation, according to a letter recently
received by Mr. Gunderson, the Fin
ance Secretary of the University of
Nebraska.
The University of North Carolina.
situated in Chapel Hill, North Caro
lina, is writing through the President
of the Interfraternity Council to
learn the status of the question at
the University of Nebraska. Their
case is already in the hands of their
attorneys and they expect to get a
hearing soon.
March Issue
Of Magazine
Distributed
With some minor changes in make
up, the March issue of The Cornhus
ker Countryman, official publication
of the College of Agriculture was
distributed yesterday.
One of the feature articles is "Dan
iel Freeman First Homesteader," by
Elvin Frolik.
Blanche Ingersoll, who is now em
ployed by the Washburn-Crosby Mill
ing Company, writes on "Opportun
ities for Home Economics Gradu
ates." In this interesting article, she
sajs, "The business world is not
drying out for women with home ec
onomics training. It's just waking ur
to the fact that home economics has
something to offer them." She ex
plains the place of the woman trained
in home economics in the business
world.
"Merrill-Palmer School The Fond
Hope of Every Home Economic?
Girl" by Hazel Banning '27, tells of
the work in the Merrill-Palmer
School, a school that "fits girls, men
tally, morally, physically, and reli
giously for their life work."
Nelson Jodon '29 in his article on
"The Cereal Chemist Right Hand
Man of the Miller" tells of the work
in the standardization of baking tests
which are being carried on under the
direction of Dr. M. J. Blish, agricul
tural chemist of the Nebraska Exper
iment Station.
A very interesting article to the
farmer readers is an extract from the
Chicago Tribune, "Future Farming in
Corn Belt Calls for Big Team Hitch
es," by Frank Ridgway.
Under "The Best Freshman Eng
lish Themes of Month" Elsie Vostrez
has written on "Moonlight on the
Water," Franklin Dally on "The Hail
storm," and V. Irena McKay on
"Evening Shadows Along the Nio
brara. " Honorable mention was giv
en to Janice Abbott, M. Bell Oakley,
Basil Wendt, George Kennedy, ar
Cleora Major.
Other departments filled with in
teresting materials are "from the
F i e 1 d," "Vocational Education,"
"What the Ecs are Doing," and
"What Ag College is doing." The
joke department appears under the
new heading, "Stray Ears," editor
Cyd Cobb and censored by No Boday.
Onenine Games of
Coliseum, Ag, and Y.M.C. A. Floors
TVip 1927 Hifirh School Basketball
Tournament will get under way this
mnrninf nt 8:00 a. vnen fourteen
teams will clah for the opening
games. The five courts at the Coli
seum will be in continuous vsi during
the tournani3!K.
rvinmh.i and Plattsmouth are
schedukd H open the Class A cm
petition at 5:00 o'clock, this after
noon. Hastings will start their first,
round twenty miuntes later when
they mix with University Place.
TTocfinorsi 1ia the edee on the game,
having completed an undefeated sea
son." meeting some oi tne strongest
teams in the state.
Fnllnwincr is a complete schedule
of the teams as arranged for today:
CLASS A
Coliseum No. 1
-lolumbu. vs Platt.mouth 5:00 P. m.
HatinK. v. University Plmc... .... 5:20 p. m.
St Psul v. Fremont 7 : m-
iuburn . Crete 0
McCook vt Kearney 8 :20 P. m.
Lincoln . North Pl.tte 8:40 p. m.
Bridgeport vs West Point B 40 p. m-
Curtis v. York
' rni;.onm Nn. 1
Scottsbluff vs St. Edward ..
10:40 a. m.
11:00 a. m.
1 :00 a. in.
1 :20 p. nt.
2:20 P. m.
2:40 P. m.
8:40 p. m.
4:00 p. a-
Superior vs navennm
n - ... rl.v Center
Indianola vs NeliKh
Havelock vs noriou .
Arlington vs Gothenburg
Bayard vs Chappell
Holdre. vsHog-jj
Coliseum No. 1
Falls City vs Kimball
g :00 P. m.
8 :20 a. nt.
9:80 a. m.
9:40 a. m.
8 :00 3. m.
. 9:20 a. m.
, 8:20 a. m.
9:40 a. m.
5:00 p. m.
. 5:20 p. m.
Syracuse vs Benedict
Sutton, vs roiwr
Alma vs Aurora -
Hartineton vs Schuyler
Battlecreek vs Genoa Indian
Milford v. W.k.fieWsi
Coliseum r.o. t
Minatare vs Newman Grove
Central City vs Arnold
Gering v reru rr.p ............. . ;;-
7 :00 p. m.
Hebron Academy v. "
Harvard vs Bethany 8:20 p. in.
Walthill vs Nelson : V. m.
Mead vs Lexington . ,! P"
David City vs Brainard .... 10:00 p. m.
CLASS E
Coliseum No. t
Loup City vs Broken Bow 10:40 a. m.
According to Mr. Gunderson, the
question, although brought up here
sporadically, has never been pushed
very hard. This is largely because
there has been no encouragement of
such an exemption here. Oklahoma
is practically the only other "state
which exempts the fraternities at
their state university from the pay
ment of taxes on the grounds of the
property being used for educational
purposes.
If this exemption could be gained,
thousands of dollars could be saved
for the students of this university
every year. It would greatly encour
age the Greek organizations on the
campus and cut living expenses enor
mously. However there is no hope of
tax exemption in sight in this state.
Journalism Students
Will Report Games
For Nebraska Papers
Students in the School of Journal
ism of the University of Nebraska
will again "cover" for the weekly
newspapers of the state the annual
high school basketball tournament
which will be held at the University
March 10, 11, and 12.
Over 250 teams are entered in this
year's tournament although all teams
who had not won at least 40 per
cent of their games were barred. To
the home-town papers of each team
will be sent an account of all games
in which the team plays. To accom
plish this task the 150 students in
the School of Journalism and classes
in news writing have been organized
into a gigantic correspondence bur
eau which will function day and night
during the three days of the tourna
ment. Last year, when there was no 40
per cent rule, over 330 teams par
ticipated in the tournament. The
School of Journalism correspondence
bureau sent stories to 271 Nebraska
newspapers, mostly weeklies. The
copy turned out aggregated 181,000
words, enough to fill 225 columns of
an ordinary weekly paper.
ANNUM BANQUET. HELD
Phi Delta Phi Members Give Thirty-
Fourth Yearly Affair
The thirty-fourth annual banquet
of Phi Delta Phi, national profes
sional legal fraternity, was held at
the Lincoln Hotel at 6:30 Wednesday
evening. Active members, initiates
members of the law faculty and local
members of Phi Delta Phi were pre
sent.
Wednesday afternoon seventeen
men were initiated into the society
the ceremony taking place in the
Supreme Court Chamber at the State
capitol. The newly initiated are: Gif
ford E. Bass, Don M. Becker, Norris
M. Chadderdon, Donald E. Devries,
Her.bert C. Henderson, Ernest A.
Hubka, George E. Johnson, Merle S.
Jones, Robert A. Krallf Ernest A.
McGrew, Wilits A. Negus, Lumir F.
Otradonsky, Phil L.. Sidles, J. D.
Spiker, Harold E. Stanley, Charles
W. Uhlig, Allen Wilson, Ernest Hod-
der, Harry Ashton, Vance Greenslit,
Erwin Ruchlos.
Tourney Start On
So. Sioux City vs Belgrade 11:00 a. m.
Wausa vs Ogallala 1 :20 p. m.
Clarkson vs Rimkin 1 :00 p. m.
School of Ag (Lin.) vs O'Neill 2:20 p. m.
Virginia vs Harrison 2:40 p. m
Minden vs Ong 8:40 p. m.
Atkinson vs St. Mary's (Grand Is.)
. 4:00 p. m.
CLASS F
Coliseum No. 3
Oakdale vs College View 6:00 p. b.
Gordon vs Cambridge 5 :20 p. m.
Dannebrog vs Sutherland t 7 :00 p. m.
Bertrand v Lyons - 7:20 p. m.
Leigh vs Waterbury 8:20 p. m.
Venango vs Dawson :40 p. m.
bitlhfield vs Rushvllle 9:40 p. m.
CLASS G
Coliseum No. 3
Bladen vs Herman 10:00 p. m.
Papillion vi Merna .. 10:40 a. m.
Stromsburg vs Hemingfnrd .... 11 :00 a. m.
North Bend vs Ainsworth 1 :00 p. m.
Bassett vs Shubert 1 :20 p. m.
Reynolds vs Ponla 2:20 p. m.
Eagle vs Onkdalc - 2:40 p. m.
3helton vs Wymore 8:40 p. m.
CLASS H
Coliseum No. 8 A 4
Farnam vs Weslevan Prep 4:00 p,
Western vs Humboldt
Valentine vs Huntlev
Lawrence vs Stockville .
Pilger vs Sargent 1... -
Chester vs Surprise
F.lmrreek vs Orleans
Fairmont vs Ragan .
Plainview vs Spencer .
8:20 a. m.
8:00 a. m.
9:20 a. m.
..8:00 a. m.
9:40 a. m.
8 :20 a. m.
9:40
m.
. 9:20
CLASS I
Coliseum No. 4
Marquette vs Franklin . 5:00 p. m.
Odcll vs Elmwood 5:20 p. m.
Raymond vs Verdon .... 7 :00 p. m.
Benkleman vs Scrihner 7:20 p. m.
Scotia vs Spiague-Martell ........ 8:20 p. m.
Oshkosh vs Overton . . 8:40 p. m.
Wauneta vs Valley 9:40 p. m.
Blooming ton vs Elgir. 10:O!Vp. m.
CLASS J
Coliseum No. 4
Milligan vs Dunbar 10:40 a. m.
Ewing vs Creston 11:00 a. in.
Honey Creek vs Warloo 1 :00 p. m.
Alvo vs Pleaianton 1 :20 p. m.
Palmer vs Sterling 2:20 p. m.
Guide Rock vs Lewiston . 2:40 p. m.
Table Rock vs Trenton 3:40 p. nri.
Beemer vs Burwell 4:00 p. m.
CLASS K
Ag College
Atlanta vs Red Willow (McCook) 9:00 a. m.
Imperial vs Long Pine . 9:20 a. m.
Shelbi vs Daykin . 10:20 a. m.
Brady vs Tobias . 10:40 a. m.
r bed ford vs Waverly . 11:40 a. m.
Perking Co. (Grant) vs McCool Jun.
12:00 noon
Stockham vs Kenesaw 2 :00 p. m.
Greshani vs Besver Crossing .. 2:00 p. m.
- CLASS L ;
Ag College
A voca vs Fllley 8 :20 p. m.
Palisade vs Dewit.t ..- 8:40 p. m.
(Continued from Page One.)
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927.
TEAM MEMBERS
WORK FOR GOAL
$250 Turned in for Coppock
Memorial Fund at End
Of First Day
$1700 TO BE RAISED
Two hundred and twenty-four dol
lars toward the seventeen hundred
dollar goal was turned in by team
workers in the Grace Coppock me
morial drive, Wednesday at Ellen
Smith Hall. The amount falls short
by a hundred dollars of the amount
totaled at the end of the first day
of last year's campaign, but the drive
is to run a week this year instead of
three days in order that the drive
workers may have more opportunity
to interview the women assigned to
them.
The Veam captained by Helen An
derson now leads with more than a
hundred dollars to their credit, Ethel
Saxton's team is in second place sand
that of Helen Eastman runs a close
third.
The first of the teas for all univer
sity women, which are to be given by
the Grace Coppock staff, will be held
this afternoon in Ellen Smith Hall
from 3 to 5 o'clock. Team members
as well as all other women of the
campus are urged to make use of
these teas as a meeting place. Chin
ese articles will be used in decorating
for the tear, and someone will be in
charge to explain their meaning and
to answer any question about the
drive which may be asked. A second
tea will be given next Monday after
noon at the close of the drive.
Drive Ends) Monday
All money to count in the drive
must be turned in by next Monday
evening. The time of the drive has
been extended this year from three
days to nearly a week because team
members found it impossible to cover
the territory they were given in that
time.
Team members are urged to make
their interviews as early as possible
in as much as thirteen teams must
cover the campus this year and do
the work which twenty teams accom
plished last year. The number of
team workers has been Cut down this
year in order to eliminate as far as
possible freshmen women from the
ranks of the drive workers. First-year
women are being used on the teams
only after the most careful consid
eration and selection.
Money Goes to Budget
The money from the drive will go
(Continued on Page Two.)
COMMITTEE NAMES
MCI. NOMINEES
Joe Hunt Only Nominee for President
Other Selections Made on
Wednesday March 16
Nominations for the various of
fices of the University Y. M. C. A.
for the next school year were made
public Wednesday by the nominating
committee. The election will be held
Wednesday, March 16. Joe M. Hunt
is the sole nominee for president. Fol
lowing is the complete list of nom
inations: For president Joe M. Hunt, '29,
Scottsbluff.
For vice-president Archibald R.
Eddy, '28, Lincoln; Carl W. Olson,
'29, Lincoln.
For secretary Gordon V. Hager,
'29, Lincoln; James W. Higgins, '29,
Schuyler.
For intercollegiate representative,
Robert C. Davenport.
Joe M. Hunt was a member of ths
Freshman Council last year. This
year he was editor and business man
ager of the student directory and
chairman of the book exchange com
mittee. He was also a delegate to
the national Y. M. C. A. convention
held in Milwaukee during Christmas
vacation and to the state convention
recently held at Grand Island.
Archibald Eddy, a nominee for
vice-president, has been chairman of
the publicity committee. During his
first year in the University he was
also a member of the Freshman
Council. Higgins was also captain of
one of the teams in the finance drive
last fall.
The only nominee for the position
of intercollegiate representative is
Robert Davenport, who was in direct
charge of the finance campaign last
fall.
All members of the University Y.
M. C. A. are eligible to vote in the
elitLm. Each member will be offi
cially notified of the election, accord
ing to C. D. Hayes, general secretary
of the organization.
It is thought that the new officers
will be iritsalled early next month so
that they will have ample time, to
get their work for next year lined
up.
Members of the nominating com
mittee were: John M. Allison, presi
dent of the, University Y. M. C. A.;
Lincoln Frosty jr.; Julius FrandBen,
jr.; Prof. O. R. Martin, chairman of
the advisory board ; and C. D. Hayes,
general secretary.
Journalistic Society
Pledges New Members
One junior and three sopho
mores were pledged members of
Theta Sigma Phi, honorary jour
nalistic sorority, Wednesday at 5
o'clock at Ellen Smith Hall. The
new members are Regina McDer
mott, '28, Wood River; Audrey
Beales, '29, Blair; Marjory Stur
devant, '29, Lincoln; Frances El
liott, '29, Omaha.
Lambda chapter of Theta Sig
ma Phi was established on the Uni
versity of Nebraska campus, May
16, 1920. The pledges will be in
itiated just before the end of the
semester.
BIZAD DAY TO
BE ON MAY 13
Dean Chatburn Recognizes
Date As Holiday for Stu
dents in Bizad College
COMMITTEE IS NAMED
Bizad Day has definitely been set
for May 13 and Dean Chatburn has
officially recognized this date a
holiday for students registered in the
College of Business Administration.
Bizad Day is an annual event held
in the spring. This year the holiday
is being sponsored by the Bizad Ex
ecutive Council.
The Council has appointed a cen
tral committee to be responsible for
all arrangements of the day. This
committee is composed of five mem
bers who will in turn be chairman of
their sub-committees. The members
are Wayne Gratigny, general chair
man; Florence Benson, chairman of
food ; Glen Spahn, chairman of ticket
sales; Harry Moore, chairman of en
tertainment and program, and Victor
Brink, chairman of publicity.
Plans Are Formulated
A definite progran has not yet
been announced by the committee but
general plans have been formulated.
The day will open at nine o'clock
and the morning will be taken up by
inter-class competition and other en
tertainment. r At "n'otrtPa barbecue
luncheon will be served, followed by
a baseball game between the faculty
and Undergraduates. The evening's
entertainment will consist of a show
and dance. Tickets will admit the
student to every event of the day and
will probably be priced at one dollar.
Wayne Gratigny has am.ounced
that no effort or expense will be
spared to make this the most success
ful Bizad Day ever staged at Ne
braska. Sub-committees will be an
nounced in a few days. .
Civil Engineers Club
Hold Annual Banquet
Nearly sixty persons were present
at the annual banquet of the Univer
sity of Nebraska Civil Enbineers
Club hld at the Grand Hotel last
night. After the dinner, toasts were
given and musical numbers were pre
sented. Nominations v. ere made for
departmental chairman for Engin
eer's Week co be ciosed today.
Mr. J. A. Wickman, cl airman.
opened the meeting and introduced
Mr. W. B. Ryons, vice-president of
the Firt-t National Bank of Lincoln,
who aatod as toastniastcr l'oasts
were frivei by C. E. Mickey, Profes
sor of Civil Engineering. Mr. J. G.
Mason, Bridge Engineer, Nebraska
Department of Public Works, and
Mr. John Bruce, member of A. S. C.
E. and of the Bruce and Grupe Con,
suiting Engineers.
A number of musical selections
were given by Mrs. E. P. Thorns,
piano, Miss Meredith Thorns, violin,
Eugene E. Lundquist, trombone, H.
M. Clute, piano, and Earl Luff, voice.
At the conclusion of the program, the
group sang "The Cornhusker."
University to Aid
Class Play Choice
Vermillion, S. D. March 8 Senior
classes of South Dakota high schools
will be assisted to choose their class
play by the Extension division of the
University of South Dakota, accord
ing fi the extension secretary. Dra
matic coaches may borrow sample
plays from the extension division, ex
amine the plays, and thus find it
easier to make a choice of a suitable
play.
For the benefit of the state high
schools, the extension division has
acquired 800 three and four act plays
and 400 one and two act plays. These
are loaned to state high schools if
the borrowers will pay the pobtal
charges.
Many Farm Improvement
According to the 1925 assessor's
reports, there are 127,200 farms In
Nebraska. Of this number of farms
12.482 have have water piped to the
kitchen, and only 7,629 farms have
facilities for bathing. Eight thousand
of these farms have radio sets, 8,463
have trucks, .18,733 have tractors,
and 102,164 have automobiles.
PRICE 5 CENTS
BASKETBALL
MEET STARTS
THIS MORNING
Greatest Tournament Begins
With 256 High School
Teams Entered
ADVANCE SALE TICKETS
Many Seats Already Reserved ;
Expect Capacity Crowd
For Final Games
The world's greatest basketball
carnival will be under way by 8:00
o'clock, this morning. Of the 256
teams entered ninety-four of them
had registered at the Coliseum by six
o'clock, last evening, with other
teams steadily pouring in. Pilger was
the first team to register.
According to the "dope" sheet,
Crete, Hastings and Lincoln have the
best chance at the Class A title, al
though University Place and St. Paul
are liable to cause them plenty of
worry. Havelock, Ravenna, Clay Cen
ter and Arlington seem to have a
slight edge over the other teams in
Class B.
3500 Seats Available
A total cf 3,500 seats are available
during the first round of the tourney
but the seating capacity will be en
larged to accomodate 9,000 people
for the Class A semi-finals and finals
The entertainment for today as
arranged, consists of a group picture
of all teams in front of the Coliseum
at 12:15 P. M. This will be the only
official picture of the 1927 tourna
ment. At 3:30 P. M. Coach Schulte
will give a series of five minute talks
on track and field athletics. The var
sity track men will give demonstra
tions at the same time in the east
stadium.
An advance sale of reserved seats
for the finals and semi-finals points
to a record tournament crowd, the
reservations being made for the Fri
day and Saturday games. It is plan
ned to send several blocks of seats
to any out-state teams that perform
in the Saturday night championship
games.
Reservations for Finals Made
Among the teams registered yes
terday were two lady coaches. Mary
Tompkins instructs the Riverton
team, while Hubbard claims the
other feminine coach, Margaret
Terry.
H. D. Gish received word from
Wausa High School, yesterday morn
ing that its team would not be able
to compete in the tournament. They
were scheduled to meet the Ogallalp
aggregation in the first round of
Class E, consequently Ogallala goes
into the second round by default.
All classes and building will be
open to the 300 high school student?
that will be here this week end. The
teams are also invited to visit the
State Capitol building, accordingly
many local business men have ex
tended invitations to the visitors to
examine their plants.
RICE TELLS OF
BIBLE WRITINGS
"Literary Forms and Materials in
The Bible" Is Subject in
Group Discussion
"Literary Forms and Materials in
the Bible" was the subject Dr. John
A. Rice chose for his talk to the dis
cussion group in Temple 101, yester
day afternoon."-
He declared that the writers of the
Bible gathered1 their material from
all the Bourea'al their disposal much
as the historiani: of today. He de
clared rhat'rherr works are not words
that wertf given to them verbally by
God, arid in "support of this view,
pointed out four different kinds of
material found in the Bible which
differ as to style and form of writing.
"Why does a thing have to be dead
to be religion?" he asked, when com
menting upon evolution and its re
lation to the Bible. He made the
statement that the .Bible is not con
trary to the theory of evolution- held
by scientists.
Past Week's Weather
Competes With April's
But Snow Is Possible
March 9 has been the warmest day
since November 6, and the tempera
ture of the past week has been as
high as that recorded for the usual
April weather, according to Thomas
A. Blair, Meteorologist of the Ne
braska Weather Bureau. The highest
temperature ever taken for this
month was 98 degrees, a rare oc
currence in contrast with the 62 de
grees of Wednesday. But on the
whole it is still warm for the season
throughout most of the country.
Snow may fall during the month as
well as the first part of April but it
will not remain long. The latter part
of April will find the rains, charac
teristic of the Bason.