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he Daily Nebraskan WEATHER FORECAST For Lincoln and vicinity: Un settled Tuesday. JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM FRIDAY, March 18 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. TUESDAY, MARCH 15,1927. PRICE 5 CENTS NEBRASKA WILL MEET GRINKELL INDUALDEBATE Two Teams Will Argue Farm Relief Question Friday j Last Local Debate rWO-MAN TEAMS USED Hunt and Skiles Represent Nebraska Here; Fellman, Kezer go to Grinnell University of Nebraska and Grin nell college debaters will meet in two split-team debates Friday on the auestion, "Resolved: That the essen tials of the MeNary-IIaugen farm re lief bill should be enacted into Fed eral law." The home debate, which will be the last local debate on farm relief, will be held Friday afternoon in the Law college. . Two-man, instead of three-man teams, will be used in these debates as another innovation for Nebraska in intercollegiate debate circles. The two-man split-team system- has be come one of the most popular debate forms in the wort. Personnel of Team Evert M. Hunt, '28, Lincoln, will speak on the affirmative for Nebraska in the Lincoln debate and John A. Skiles, '28, Lincoln, will be Nebras ka's negative speaker here. David Fellman, '29, Omaha, and Munro Kezer, '29, Fort Collins, Colo., will make the trip to Grinnell for the other debate. Fellman will speak on the affirmative at Grinnell and Kezer on the negative. Nebraska's affirmative team on the question of farm relief engaged in a no-decision contest with a negative team from Kansas Aggies, Saturday, February 26. David Fellman, Lloyd Speer, and Evert M. Hunt represen ted the Cornhuskers against the Kag gies. Negotiations are under way for a debate between Kansas University and the affirmative team. Negative Team Gets Into Action Negative speakers have not yet had a formal debate this season. Two members of the negative team, Skiles and Kezer, will get into action against Grinnell. The third member of the negative team, Dennis M. Dean, '29, Seattle, Wash., will com plete the team which is scheduled to dphnto Iowa State nt Amc3 on tlie same question April 9. This will fin ish the season for the Husker debat ers. Before that date, Coach White hopes to have a dual debate with Creighton University on the parlia mentary government question which was debated between the University of South Dakota and the Univeisity of Nebraska early in the season. The Nebraska-Grinnell debate to be held here was originally scheduled for Friday night. The time was changed to the afternoon sov as not to interfere with the Junior-Senior Prom. ROGH WILL SPEAR AT TEMPLE DINNER Will Give Principal Address at Stag Banquet for University Y. M. , C. A. Members Wednesday . Arthur Rugh, for many years sec retary of student Y. M. C. A. work in China, will be the principal speak er at the University Y. M. C. A. mem ber's stag dinner to be held Wednes day evening at 7:15 in the "Y" rooms at the Temple. Mr. Rugh is intimate with every type of Chinese life, traveling exten sively in China and coming in con tact wit hthe various castes and their activity. Mr. Rugh, since he has been associated with student life in China, has come in contact with the Chinese Nationalist Movement, in which the Chinese student is playing such an active part. "I consider Arthur Rugh one of the half-dozpn ablest and Heat-informed speakers on China today in the country," stated C. D. Hayes, spheral Secretary of the University M. C. A. Mr. Hayes added that Mr. Rugj, js tne p08se8Sor 0f dynamic Personality, and is one of the ablest men to speek on the Chinese student and his activities. TRAIN 6IRLRESERVE WORKERS M' Richiter Conduct. Groups Mon eys in Ellen Smith Hall Beginning Monday, March 14, Miss Richiter of the City Y. W. C. A. induct a training group for all J" who " interested in Girl Re erve work in high schools. Those who to teach in high school next 8re especially urged to iss Richiter ,is secretary of tha GM Re: serve work In Lincoln with U .lSa.tthe city Y- W.-C. A. She and ? 6nenced in Girl Reserve work tion inVtn7tCJiPRblft c ' inBtruc- Nebraska's First Prom Girl Will be Selected From List of 300 Seniors Men Will Vote on Representative' Social Woman at Junior-Senior Prom Friday Evening; Ticket Sales Are Increasing. Nearly three hundred University of Nebraska women will be eligible to receive the title "Nebraska Prom Girl," according to the registrar's records. The Prom Girl will be selec ted from the senior women by a vote the night of the Junior-Senior Prom of all men who attend the af fair. Interest in the idea, which has never before been put forth at Ne braska, has grown so great that the Prom Committee has sent a letter to every fraternity on the campus in order that the possible favorites may be cut down to ten or a half dozen before Friday night. Announcement of the honor will be made at inter mission of the dance. Prom Girl is High Honor The Prom Girl idea has been tried at other schools and at many has grown in proportions as to vie with other campus honors. If it is success ful at Nebraska this year, and it promises to be that, it will be handed down from year to year along with the Queen of May and the Honorary Colonel. Nebraska has few social hon ors such as this for women and school authorities have said that they do not think another would be amiss on the campus. Plana for the party are almost com plete, and with a good ticket sale such as everything now points to the Junior-Senior Prom should end the winter party season in proper form. Louis Turner, in charge of ticket sales with Vikings and Silver Serpents, reports a fair sale, and an ticipates the annual last-minute rush. Tickets for the party are selling at $2.50, lower than other parties of its kind this year. They may be had from representatives in every frat ernity on the campus and at the Co Op and Long's Book stores. The par ty is not limited to juniors and sen iors only, but is open to all classes. Two Orchestras Furnish Music Tracy Brown's Oklahomans and Beck's orchestras will furnish the (Continued on Page Three.) ENGINEERS PREPARE MARCH BLUE PRINT Made Ready for Distribution March 21; Decided at Luncheon to Publish Special Issue The Nebraska Blue Print, Engin eering publication, will be ready for distribution March 21, according to announcement from the College of Engineering. Subscriptions may be given to Eldred Morton, Homer Scott, or Ernest Pollard, of the Ne braska Engineering Society, to any of the Departmental Chairmen, or to the Co-Op Book Store. The subscrip tion price, one dollar, also pays the dues of the Nebraska Engineering Society and the Departmental Society for the remainder of the school year. It was decided at a luncheon and meeting of the staff that a special issue of the Blue Print would be distributed Engineer's Week, and that all members of che Nebraska En gineering Society would be given an extra copy to send to their parents or friends. Carl Olson and William Van Wie have been put in charge of local ad vertising, by Chester Hawke, business manager. Ray Lepicier and Kenneth Young will have charge of national advertising. R. R. Fowler ha3 been chosen gen eral manager to fill the vacancy caused by the absence of Forest R. Hall. - R. O. T. C. Band Adds to Spirit of - - " 'a r w . Gatherings; Has It is a gala day during the football season. Streams of humanity now .toward the stadium. Cars full of laughing, shouting, singing students careen recklessly around corners, all headed for the game as though drawn by a common magnet. Mnonificent limousines and some not so magnificent in which the old grad3 ride, pull up sedately to the gate of the Nebraska Memorial Sta dium. Co-eds in many-hued sweaters fVint. rival the rainbow in brilliance swarm down the walks toward the campus. Here Comes the Band I SnHflAnlv there is a burst of music, and around the corner swings the R. O. T. C. band to the tune oi "There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old TWn Tonieht." Straight ranks of blue-gray uniforms and shining in struments, in front, a drum major whose bearskin shako almost sweeps the sky, and row upon row of shining zuttons. The music stops, and with a ruffle the band, seventy strong, marches proudly into the stadium, and to its time-honored seats m tne front row, for what would a football Three Hyannis Boys Take First Rail Ride The annual state basketball tour nament gave to three members of the Hyannis team their first thrill of a :ide on the railway. It was the boys' first experience with a train. The team, headed by Claude W. Reynolds, superintendent as well as instructor of history, were rumierj-up in Class P. Many alumni, including professors and coaches representing schools from all parts of the state, were vis itors of the University during the days of the tournament. STORRS SPEAKS TO ENGINEERS Former Graduate Will Discuss Electric Problems at Dinner Tonight STUDENTS ARE INVITED Lucius S. Storrs, a former grad- uate of this University, and now managing director of the American Electric Railway Association, will give a talk to the Nebraska Section of A. I. E. E. on "Problems of the Electric Railway Industry", at the Grand Hotel this evening at 6:15 o'clock. There will be a charge of fifty cents a plate for all those who wish to eat luncheon there. All stu dents of the university are cordially invited. Mr. Storrs is an authority on his subject ,and has had wide experience in the practical operation, financing, and development of large electric railway properties. At one time ho was president of the New England Investment and Securities Company, and is at the present time a director of the Union Trust Company of Springfield, Mas sachusetts. Experience Gained with Steam Roads Mr. Storrs' first transportation ex perience was gained with steam roads in the northwest. Since that time his wide range of activities has been par ticularly noteworthy. As president of the Connecticut Company he was in direct charge of the operation of nearly all of the electric lines and many of the busses throughout the state of Connecticut. Later he be came the managing director of this company, and while in this position he was successful in financing the organization and greatly improved it with his public relations work. While head of the Connecticut Company, he served a term as presi dent of the American Electric Rail way Association, and during the war was Chairman of the National Elec tric Railway Committee. Graduated in 1890 Mr. Storres graduated from here in 1890 with a B. Sc. degree. After considerable expedience in the coal (Continued on Page Two.) Discussions on Burner Topic Held This Week All women who hoard Miss Oolooah Burner of New York City when she spoke here several weeks ago on "The Divine Possibilities of Life," or who are interested in follow-up discussion on this topic are invited to a discussion group meeting at four o'clock on Mondays and Thursdays. Marj. rie Sturdevant has charge of the group on Mondays, and Ase nath Schill on Thursdays. These dis cussions will continue for several weeks. Interesting History game be without the band and its tuneful accompaniment to ycll3, and its famous old songs which have in spired gridiron warriors for over a half-century? Quick States Interesting Facts Time was, however, when there was no band as large as the one which exists now, according to Pro fessor William T. Quick, the band's present director, who has in his pos session many interesting facts con cerning the beginning of the present musical organization at the Univer sity of. Nebraska. "Way back in the past, when the University consisted of only a few buildings on the campus," the band got its start. It had no uniforms, and of course no school credit was given for it. It must have been a sort of volunteer organization, with each member wearing his best Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes in lieu of a uni form. Has Always Been Band "There has always been a band at the University," said Mr. Quick, "and it , has always been affiliated with the Military Department. Before It (Continued on Page Feur.) PLEDGING BILL IS DISCUSSED IN LEGISLATURE Senator Banning Introduced Bill; Social Standards Are Too High COMMENT IS EQUAL Would Result in Financial Burden and All-Year Rushing, is Belief "The social standards set up by fraternities and sororities are too high and as a result ninny students find it necessary to leave school he cause of the heavy expense in curred". Senator Banning told the Senate today when introducing the bill for second year pledging. Pre senting the bill at the request of alumni, the senator said that these organizations set up an artificial standard of living. The Pan-Hellenic and Inter-Fraternity Councils govern the Greek-letter organizations very strictly on such matters to which the Senator referred, Neil Adams, '27 replied. Tf fraternities had considered second- year pledging beneficial, a rule to that effect would have been enacted within the Council itself. Locke Opposes Measure "This bill would result in all year rushing and would be an additional financial burden and a detriment to scholarship" Roland Locke stated in opposition to the measure. Mr. Locke showed the Senate that the scholar ship standing of fraternity men was higher than that of non-fraternity men. Last year there were forty eight fraternity men forced to leave the university because of delinquent grades as compared to the eighty non-fraternity men dropped for the same reason. Verne Hedge, president of the Alumni Association, remarked that he was in favor of the measure, but not at the present time. In order to make the plan workable a new dorml tory system would have to be in stalled. The present dormitory ac commodationa are inadequate. .General discussion followed these arguments. The bill will be :onsider ed and taken up Thursday by the Committee on Miscellaneous Sub jects. AUTHORITY ON CHINA TO SPEAK AT FORUM Mr. Arthur Rugh, Many Years in Charge of Y. M. C. A. in Orient Will Talk at Forum Mr. Arthur Rugh, noted authority on China, is scheduled to speak at the weekly World Forum luncheon Wednesday. Mr. Rugh has been for many years in charge of Student Y. M. C. A. in China and comes to the University as one of the most re nowned speakers of the year. He has traveled all over Chinn, visiting the universities and colleges and has acquired a broad knowledge of the conditions of student life in the Orient. He has just returned from his travels recently. "I met Arthur Rugh last summer and he is worth going far to meet. He knows the student movement in China thoroughly and will be able to tell us some mighty interesting things about the new China which is making itself felt throughout the world," John Allison, president of the Y. M. C. A. stated yesterday. LAW COLLEGE GIVES TUITIONS Second Semester Scholarships Gran ted to Twenty-seven Students The University of Nebraska Law College has recently granted scholar ships for the second semester of 1926-27. The scholarships were granted to those who made application fur IV-m and whose scholastic standing was high enough. In the junior and sen ior classes an average of 80 or above was required, while in the reshman class the lowest average to receive the honor of the scholarship was 82. Twenty-seven men received the honor: nine seniors, eleven juniors, and seven freshmen. The scholarship amounts to the tuition of one semes ter in the law college. The following men received schol arships : Seniors: Harry Ashton, John. C. Conley, Edward E. Eaton, H. S. Grimminger, Philip M. Lewis, Alfred J. Luebs, Lloyd J. Marti, Johr W. Starr, Fred T. Vette. Juniors: Paul B. Bowen, Harry B. Cohen, David F. Foster, Herbert S. French, Wm. H. Hein, Herbert E. Hill, John H. Kuns, John H. Leisveld, Philip H Robinson, Harold E. Stan ley, Ronald G. Yoder. Freshmen: George A. Healey, Har ry L. Ladbury, James R. Mansfield, Lumir F. Otradovsky, Elmer E. Thomas, Charles Wm. Ulig, Clarence C. Virtue. Will Play j f , . t i I A; , ' fir A a Q , t , r " ....... .... , Tracy Brown's Oklahomans, who are noted for their novel features and rythmic dance melodies, will provide part of the music and entertainment for the Junior-Senior Prom. Students who have heard this orchestra in Omaha have given their enthusiastic approval to the selection of this band for the evening. MEANS TO SPEAK AT CONVOCATION Colorado Senator Will Deliver Address on National De fense This Morning SPONSORED BY VETERANS Senator Rice W. Means, United States Senator from Colorado, who will address the University Convoca tion to-day on "Our National De fense," is National Commander of the United Spanish War Veterans. He is making a tour of the country in this capacity, and is visiting here through the auspices of the local chapter of that organization. While in the city, Senator Means will be entertained by the United Spanish War Veterans and the Ladies' Auxiliary. He and Mrs. Means will be met at the Burlington station when he arrives this mcrning at 9 o'clock, by a reception commit tee and escorted to the Lincoln Hotel. He will address the University Con vocation at 11 o'clock in the Temple Theater. From there he' will go to a luncheon of the Chamber of Com merce. May Address Legislature In the afternoon Senator and Mrs. Means will be taken on an and Mrs. Means will H taken on an excursion trip around the city and the state institutions including the University and the Agricultural Col lege. He will address a joint session of the legislature, if the necessary arrangements can be made. In the evening, he will give an address at a banquet given in his honor by the United Spanish War Veterans and their ladies. Mrs. Blanche M. Bar ker, of Massechusetts, president Gen (Continued on Page Three.) ENGINEERS TO DISCUSS TRIP Meeting Concerning Kansas City Trip Will be Held Thursday A meeting will be held of all men expecting to go on the Engineers' in spection trip to Kansas City, April 4-8, Thursday at 5 o'clock, in M. E. 20G. All questions in regard to the trip will be answered, and general information will be given regarding the tentative itinerary, where the men will stay while there and ar rangements about securing positions while there. At the present time eighty-six men have registered for the trip. The registration from the different de partments nre: Electrical, 32; Civil, 25; Mechanical, 11; Chemical, 9; Architectural, 7; Agricultural, 2. Flashy Clothes and Proclaim the Spring must be heie. Fuv coats :ire abcut tnbboo, the gr.sr is taking on a verdant aspect, and the campus is :!a-li"i with flaming color combina tions in neckties tabby seasonal (rrcFps and smug swing coats. The r:iri r re coming out al' ir a i-.iij win ter of hibernation, and there is many a familiar clatter and bang of a cam pus wreck that has had a four month lay-off, enough to make the bearings just a little more void of oil than tbpv were the fall before, the tires just a little bit more uncertain and the upholstering a bit more irazziea nnrf Tint thoroughly dried out from 'the winter's snows and more noise than ever. Tf. in o-pttine more difficult to make those afternoon classes, and more rodimi than ever to pore over e book in the evening. The window is up and the curtain blows back in face. There is something viva cious in that evening breeze. You chance a glance out the window and spa a few difts of clouds and a slice of moon. The study lamp snaps off. the chair is kicked over backward and the book bangs up in the corner. You are out in the evening air and convinced that spring is here. at Prom Hayes to Give Talk at Vespers This Afternoon Mr. C. D. Hayes, general secre tary of the Y. M. C. A. will speak on Tuesday at 5 o'clock at Ellen Smith Hall. Miss Helen Clarke has charge of the meeting. COPPOGK DRIVE FALLS SHORT Workers Raise $679.70; Less Than Half of Amount Set as Goal The annual Grace Coppock drive closed Monday evening less than half way to the goal set at the beginning of the campaign, with a total of $679.70. Never since this fund orig inated has Nebraska failed to send ler-3 than fifteen hundred dollars to China, and in spite of the fact that some money will undoubtedly come in today from the campus and that the alumni pledges are not yet in there is little hope that the final sum will reach more than a thousand. Helen Anderson's team, team I, has turned in more than any. other and heads the list with $138.00 to their credit. Team B, under Edna Schirck comes second with a total of $83.25, while team M, under Ethel Saxton continues in third place with $80.95. The Grace Coppock drive is one of the two drives which the univer sity Y. W. C. A. sponsors on this (Continued on Page Four.) CARNIYAL HAS STYLE SHOW Combined with Other Features in First Health Show at Nebraska A style show will be a feature of the one cent Health Carnival to be given March 10 and 17, Wednesday and Thursday in the Women's Gym nasium from 2 to 5 o'clock. A bar room, dancing, a fortune telling booth, a "house of horrors," a weight guessing contest, and sil houette booth have created such in terest that all students who have no classes will undoubtedly attend the first Health Carnival ever given at Nebraska University. Clogging, tumbling and dancing acts are a part of the number of skits obtained. An orchestra will play. The carnival, under the direction of W. A. A. and Physical Education Club, is open to men and "'omen and the price of admission as well as for each attraction U one cent. Antique Cars Coming of Spring Favor Social Science There is dozing in class. The stone work about Social Science is becom ing warmer and oii must hunt for e space big enough for two to. sit on now. Barriers will probably be stuck on all the short-cuts across the cam pus lawn. Everything indicates that spring must be here. March 21 hap come to mean nothing except to in form tardy ones that they can begin to think about putting put onion sets. For it is only a calendar beginning of spring. Campus dress and activity has heralded the season a week in advance. Slickers will probably be necessary this week, as the weather reports prophesy rainy weather before Satur day. Until Wednesday we ought to enjoy balmy weather, then a slight cold wave and a' rising temperature toward the end of the week that is if you bank on weather reports. Tuesday will show signs of being unsettled. It will probably be good kite flying weather. Monday. was a warmer day by from three to ten de grees than ia characteristic for this time of year. At three o'clock the approximate average for the day was 50 degrees. The lowest temperature Monday night was above freezing. DATE SET FOR ANNUAL FROLIC TICKET SALES Tickets Will be Available Next Monday; May Reserve Any Number of Seats MARCH 28 IS OPEN NIGHT Nine Skits May Complete the List; Orpheum Orchestra Will Furnifh Music Tickets for the annual. University Night program will be available next Monday morning March 21, at ten o'clock, at the Orpheum Theater box office. The ticket sale for the annual frolic begins at that hour. The price of admission has been set at $1.00 a seat, with the exception of the seats in the last ten rows of the balcony which can be had at seventy-five cents. The date for the presentation of the University Night program ha3 been set for Monday, March 28. This has been declared an open night for sororities that they may attend the performance. Box seats or seats on the main floor and in the dollar sec tion of the balcony may be reserved. There is no limit set or. the number of seats that might be reserved. Frat ernities and sororities will thus be enabled to fiend a single representa tive to purchase a block of reserved seats that they may sit in aggregate. May Need a Curtain Skit Thus far the"? have been nine skits accepted by the University Night Committee for presentation and it is probable that the lis; is complete, though there may be an addition of . short curtain burlesque. The eve ning of enter'ainment will last ap proximately tw.) hours and twenty minutes, a full evening of clever per formances. Thi regular Orpheum or chestra will furnish the music during the performances. At the msoiing of the University Night Commite?, at 5 o'clock Mon day evening these arrangement? were made. K was further decided that Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalis tic sorority for women, should have charge of the compiling and printing of the programs. There will be a great demand for the tickets this year and organiza tions and individuals are urged to bear this date hvmind that they may obtain choice seats. The ticket sale begins on next Monday morning at 10 o'clock, at the Orpheum box of fice. Blocks of seats may be reserved by organizations. The minimum charge has been set at seventy-five cents for any seat in the last ten rows of the balcony. All other seats will be sold at a dollar. UNIVERSITY CHOIR SINGS IN MISSOURI Fifty Nebraska Students Appear with A Capella Choir in Kansas City Churches Singing unaccompanied the master pieces of Bach and Mendelssohn, a choir of fifty University of Nebraska singers made its appearance at two churches in Kansas City, Sun day. The Nebraska choir is under the direction of John M. Rosborough. Sunday morning the choir ap peared at the First Baptist church, Linwood boulevard and Park avenue in Kansas City, and Sunday night ap peared in the Linwood Boulevard Presbyterian church, Linwood Boule vard and Woodland avenue. The singers arrived in Kansas City Saturday and were guests at a thea ter matinee in the afternoon and at a dinner in the Hotel Baltimore Sat urday night. They returned to Lin coln yesterday morning. FIRST AO MIXER TO BE HELD SATURDAY Agricultural Students Plan Series Of Parties; Giveu in Activ ities Building The first Ag club mixer of the semester is being planned for Satur day night, March 19 at the Student Activities Building on the College of Agriculture Campus. This is to be the first of a series of parties and mixers as a social program for the college, according to Thome John son, '27,; who is chairman of the committee. The floor of the activities building is large enough for five hundred couples and will be freshly polished for the occasion. One of the best or chestras in town is promised fr the music and an evening of the finest entertainment is assured. Admission for the men is fifty cents. Ladies are admitted free. Every student in the University ia invited, the committee has announ ced and it is hoped that many will avail themselves of this opport'in