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he Daily Ne WEATHER FORECAST For Lincoln and vicinity : Partly c,oody co,der Wednesday- SK i. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1927. PRICE 5 CENTS bra AN yxvTnoTio TWO NEW SKITS FOR UNIVERSITY MGHTACCEPTED Apache Dance and Skit to e Produced Dy auvcr Added to Program TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY -A Seats at a Dollar Each Will Be Available at Orpheum Next Monday Two new skits have been selected Uv the University it8" J be produced at the University Night program to be given at the Zheum Theatre, Monday evening, March 28. There are to be more SiU presented this year than have VCT been used before. One of the new skits accepted is ,n Apache dance, which will be pro duced by Albro L. Lundy, a mem ber of the wrestling team, and a part ner. This skit was accepted after a try-out before the committee in the Temple (Theater. The latest skit accepted was written and will bef pro duced by the Silver Serpents. It is constructed on the theme of the "Student Prince" popular musical comedy. Rehearsal Hare Begun This makes all of the curtain skits needed for the program which is ex pected to last at least 2 hours and 20 minutes. With the show less than two weeks off, rehearsals have started in earnest. Plans are being made for a dress rehearsal which will effect all organizations participating in the program. Definite announce ment will be made in The Daily Ne braskan as soon as arrangements have been made. Tickets for University Night will jo on sale-vat 10 o'clock Monday morning, March 21, at the Orpheum Thoater box office. There will be only one performance of this pro duction, as the number of students taking part is so great that it is im possible to get them all together for more than one presentation of the program. Seats may be reserved at $1.00 each with the exception of the last ten rows of balcony seats which can be had for seventy-five cents. It is expected from past experience that the house will practically ' sell out the first day the tickets are made available. There is no limit set on the number of seats that may be re served by one person, and organiza tions can reserve blocks of seats if they wish. ARMORY TO HOUSE HEALTH CARNIVAL "One-Cent" Health Carnival to be Held Today and Thursday in Women's Gymnasium ",- Many items of interest will be fouiffl on display at the booths at the one cent Health Carnival which is being held today and Thursday from 2 to 5 o'clock in the Women's Gymnasium. Among the booths are the Chamber of Horrors, Antique Shop, Side Shows, Photographers. Bowling Alley, Lung tester, Shoe Dis play, Poster, Dressing table, and one in which there is a fortune teller. Much talent has been secured for the program which will be held from three to four and consists of tumb ling by the freshman majors, clown dogging, "Buck and Wing," Kathro Kidwell and Madge Zorbaugh, "On Deck" by Helen Nesladek and Gladys Saukeys, "Kankee Doodle" by KaLiro Kidwell, "Ruben Tapa" by Helen Nesladek, "The Waffle Dance" by Leora Chapman and Hazel Snavely: "Scherzo", Helen Morehead, Hazel Olds and Faye Williams. Classes Will Gire Dances There will be dances given by members of the Physical Education classes which includes "The Big Brown Bear," by Faye Williams and Audrey Beales, "The Toad's Mistake" jy Mary Alice Race and Helen More head, "A Balloon" by Hazel Snavely and Leora Chapman. A feature of the entertainment nil take place at four o'clock when the style show will be presented with its modish display of spring garments recently received from fashionable eastern style shops. The garments consisting of coats and dresses will be modeled by members of the Tas sels. Readings on Prog-ram During the afternoon's entertain ment the readings "Sam's Letters" nd "Heyrue" will be given by Marie Mortis. There will be dancing from lour to five o'clock each afternoon. -ach person will be charged a penny dance. All men are invited to at tend the Carnival but they will not be permitted to dance. Refreshments will be served from two to five each day and will consist cocoa malt, milk, esquimo pies. Pples, and cookies. The price of ad Z Hon tor different entertain ments wai be one cent I Jw tin awmv m r m . w r am w m I CLUB INITIATES NEW MEMBERS Block and Bridle Club Takes in Nine Pledges at Meeting Last Night The Block and Bridle club, na tional organization of animal hus bandry students, initiated eight soph omores and one junior in their meet ing last evening at the judging pa vilion on the College of Agriculture campus. The pledges who were initiated are: Ephraim Danielson, Harold Ful scher, Clarence LaRue. Melvin Perry, Victor Sander, Joe Watons, Robin Spence, and E. Hale Sinnett, all sophomores, and Louis Taggart, a junior. Ed Crowley, '27, president of the club, presided over the business meet ing and Cecil Means, '28, chairman of the initiation committee, had charge of the ceremony. Following the meeting the club served a "feed" to the new members. PROM TICKETS SELL RAPIDLY Interest Shown in Tradition to Be Revived Friday After Five Year Lapse rLANS NOW COMPLETE With ticket sales rising daily and all plans complete, the Junior-Senior Prom committee stated yesterday after its meeting that everything was in readiness for the party Friday eve ning. This is the first time a Prom has been given by the juniors for five years, and a large crowd is ex pected to be present' to revive the event, which before the war was the greatest of the season on the Univer sity of Nebraska campus. All fraternity representatives of the committee will meet tonight at 7 p. m. at the Delta Tau Delta house where Louis Turner, in charge of ticket sales, will check in sold tickets. Tickets will be sold however, up until Friday by the representatives and at the College and Co-Op Book Stores. Prom Girl to be Presented A new idea will be introduced at Nebraska with this Prom, the se lection of a Prom Girl, which is causing considerable interest in the party." The co-ed who receives the honor will be presented by Robert Stevens, president of the senior class, at an intermission during the Prom. Tracy Brown's Oklahomans of Omaha, and Beck's orchestra of Lin coln, will furnish the music for the evening, with no intermission except at the time when the Prom Girl is to be announced. Decorations for the party have arrived and the decorat or expects to start work today on the Coliseum. The plans show that the objectionable feature of a large floor will be done away with and that lighting features never before tried in the Coliseum will be incorporated. RDOH WILL SPEAK AT FORM TODAY Secretary of Student Y. M. C. A. iu China Will Discuss Recent Happenings There "What's Happening in China and Why," is to be the subject of Arthur Rugh's lecture to be delivered at the World Forum luncheon at noon to day. Mr. Rugo, wn ror many years has b-in in r.r;.';. of the student Y M. C. A. in China, conies to the Uniccrsity highly recommended and as one of the most renouned speakers of the year. He has traveled all over China, visiting the universities and colleges and has acquired a broad knowledge of the conditions of student life in the Orient. Mr. Rugh has returned from his travels but recently and students are very fortunate in being able to hear him. "Mr. Rugh is a very competent talker and will bring some excellent ideas concerning the problems of the East," Mr. Hayes, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., stated yes terday. Tickets can be secured at the of fices of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. and from members of the World Forum Committee. Library Cataloguer Resigns Position Miss Marjorie Bowers, who has been senior cataloguer for I'm Uni versity of Nebraska Library since September, 1925, has turned in her resignation and it became effective Tuesday. Her mother's illness was given as the cause of her resignation. Miss Bowers came here from Gary, Ind. Former Superintendent in School John M. Matzen, former state sup erintendent of schools, who has held the offic for several terms, is now taking courses in the University as a preparation for future graduation work. Conjecture as to Possible "Prom Girl" Candidates Heard on Campus With the date for selection of the Junior-Senior Prom Girl drawing near, talk of possible candidates from among women members of the Senior class is taking an important place on the campus. The Prom Girl idea has never before been tried on this cam pus, but if interest increases as it has in the last few days, it will prob ably remain a custom and perhaps in later years will rank with the Hon orary Colonel and the May Queen. From a list of 300 possible candi dates, in fact all of the senior wom en, already favorites have been re duced to about twenty in number. Talk around Social Sciences and the Silver Moon yesterday was running high and the names of possible' Prom Girls was limited to one-fifteenth of the original number. Voting for the Prom Girl will be limited to men attending the event Friday night, but it is a possibility, if not a fact, that the feminine guests will control the voting. The bal'oting will be done directly on the Prom tickets; the votes will be counted by Bearg Calls Meeting Of Tennis Candid a te Coach Earnest Bearg wants to meet all candidates for the Varsity tennis team at 3 o'clock Wednesday at his office in the Coliseum. The tennis schedule for the coming year has been made out and reports from the athletic office assure a good schedule for the racquet men. Practice will get under way im mediately and all candidates are re quested to be present at the opening meeting. Mural Painting Series Is Begun In Morrill Hall The first mural painting of a series which is to line the wall cases of the hall of the first floor of Morrill Hall is nearly completed and the second will be begun today. This scene de picts a glyptodon, a huge pre-historic animal which was nine feet long and fifty-two inches wide across the back, of which the armadilla is a modern representative. This mural painting is being done by Elizabeth Dolan, an artist of New York City. It is done in colors, and much of the scene is in relief so as to maV the parts more effective, and some frescoeing is also being done on it. A model of a large glyptodon, which is in the British Museum in London, is displayed in the fore ground of the case, making a very attractive exhibit in conjunction with the mural painting in the back ground. Display Cases Being Filled The long stretches of wall cases along the walls of the hall are rapidly being filled with permanent displays. The long succession of cases is a great advantage as specimens can be arranged in organic or chronological series which give an accurate and more unified conception o the ex hibits. An interesting collection dis played in one of these wall cases is the anthropological display, which attracted much attention Sunday afternoon among the visitors at the Museum. The skeletons of the domes tic cow and horse, with which the Museum was started more than thirty years ago, are exhibited in a prom inent place. The front legs of a civa therium and a huge giraffe from India are some new specimens which are now On display. Another specimen which is quite new, and is now being ex hibited for the first time, is a very large pair of tusks of the Elephas ganesi from India. This is mounted on a mahogany base and is shown in Elephant Hall University Women Are Acting As Mannequins At "L'Echo de Paris" Seven university girls are featur ing a spring style-show "L'Echo de Paris" at" Gold's department store this week. They are: Eleanor Bor reson, Myrtle Call, Ruth Brownfield, Pauline Campbell, Ruth Muirhead, Gladys Reed, Bernie Pringle, Leona Guse. There are many different types of costumes being modeled, including sport, afternoon, and evening attires. The style show is held on the second floor of Gold's store where a plat form has been constructed. The plat form is decorated with rose and blue hangings. The girls promenade In vie wof the patrons, displaying the attractive models to the best effect. All these styles are patterns, which may be obtained from McCall's mag azine. The display is especially in teresting to girls who do their own sewing. The style-show will be held each afternoon this woo!; at two o'clock ia the ladies ready-to-wear department at Gold's. members of the Junior-Senior Prom committee. Oscar Norling, chairman of the committee stated yesterday that the group was more than pleased with the interest shown in tha Prom Girl idea and hoped that the candi dates would be so limited that the girl given the honor would receive a substantial vote. Although there is talk bout certain co-eds, the fact does not limit any of the other senior girls, he said. Robert Stevens, newly elected President of the Senior class will present the Prom Girl at a short in termission at the party. The girls who have been mentioned as possible favorites are: Mabel Mat teson, Joyce Adair, Margaret Dunlap, Ruth Woods, Virginia Lee, Sylvia Lewis, Dorothy Strubble, Elizabeth Coolidge, Ardath Srb, Betty Ortman, Elice Holovtchiner, Henrietta Kivett, Viola Forsell, Ruby Teater, Margaret Edwards, Marie Bowden, Katherine McWhinnie, Ruth Wood3, Elise Van denburg, and Margaret Nichols. STORRS SPEAKS TO ENGINEERS Electric Railway Expert Views Transportation Industry Optimistically SAYS IT HAS BIG FUTURE Approximately seventy-five men were present at a dinner meeting of the Nebraska Section of the Ameri can Institute of Electrical Engineers. Ther? were sevral Nebraska alumni at the meeting, among whom were Morris Long, '17, who is now with the Bell Laboratories Incorporated, of New York City, Fred A. Brooks, '23, also with the Bell Laboratories, and Lucius S. Storrs, '90 and '04, manager of the, American Electric Railway Association, who was the speaker of th evpning. Mr. Storrs . spoke on "The Prob lems of the Electric Railway Indus try." He has been connected with the transportation business for some time on the engineering side, the operating side, and the financial side. "No city in the' United States can grow to considerable size without an adequate public transportation sys tem," he declared. He made the statement that the1 street cars in the United States transport annually seven times the population of the world. Three Mistakes Cause Trouble He mentioned three fatal mistakes that have caused the electric railway industry a great amount of trouble. They are the building of many lines for which there is no need, the fall acy of the fixed fare, and the use of private automobiles for urban trans portation. "Fortunately the motor bus is fill ing a very great need," he said in speaking of their use as means of public transportation. He expressed the belief that they would never be run in competition to the street cars, stating that there is only 4 percent less electric railway trackage now than there was at the peak in 1917. Busses and Electric Cars Used "The electric railway companies are now considering themselves transportation companies and are using both motor busses and electric cars" he said. Mr. Storrs stated that he believed the future offered great possibilities for the electric railway industry, be cause the traffic problems would not permit the use of private automobiles to any great extent in the large cities. "The big problem confront ing the electric railways," he de (Continued on Page Two.) Copy For 1927 Cornhusker Is Still Missing A number of organizations have not turned in their list of members and officers to the 1927 Cornhusker. The president of each group should attend to the matter right away, for the yearbook staff is completing a number of forms for the printer and the writeups are needed. Only a list of officers and members is requested. The following have copy missing: Iron Sphinx, Mystic Fish, Glee Club, University Octette, University Players, Senior-Junior Prom Commit tee, Vesper Choir, Ad Club, Delta Theta Phi, Gamma Lambda, Phi Delta Phi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Gamma Epsilon Pi, Pi Lambda Theta, Com mercial Club, Math Club, Methodist Student Council, Pharmaceutical So ciety, Union Literary Society, 4-H Club, Elementary Education Club. These organizations have only the key missing. The president or some member should stop in the Cornhus ker office and make out the key: Varsity Party Ooromittj, A. S. A, E., Art Club, Delta Sigma Rho, Pi Epsilon Delta, Christian Science Society. Y.M.C.A. ELECTS OFFICERS TODAY Executive Cabinet to Serve During Coming Year to be Chosen at Election POLLS OPEN IN EVENING Members of the University Y. M. C. A. will vote today for the men that will handle the affairs of the or ganization for a period of another year. All members of the University Y. M. C. A. are eligible to vote for the men that have been appointed by the nominating committee. The commit tee is composed of John M. Allison, The following are the nominees for the various offices of the Uni versity Y. M. C. A. Executive Cabinet: President Joe M. Hunt Vice President Archibald R. Eddy Carl W. Olson Secretary Gordon V. Hager James W. Higgins Intercollegiate Represents t' re Robert C. Davenport president of the University Y. M. C. A., Lincoln Frost, Jr., Julius Frandsen, Jr., Prof. O. R. Martin, chairman of the advisory board, and C. D. Hayes, general secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. In case that some of the members do not have a chance to vote during the day at the "Y" offices, the polls will be kept open during the evening. At 7:15 a member's stag will take place. Arthur Rugh will speak on the Chinese student and his activity. Mr. Rugh will also tell about the Chinese nationalist movement, which is tak ing such an important part in the development of China. Refreshments will be served during the evening, and it is planned to have everything over by nine o'clock, Everyone Is urged to vole at some time during the day, and if possible, to attend the stag in the evening. Y.M.C.A. SECRETARY SPEAKS AT VESPERS C. D. Hayes Tells of Experiences While in China Under Aus pices of Y. M. C. A. Anecdotes about his life in China comprised most of Mr. D. Hayes' talk at the vesper service yesterday evening. Mr. Hayes is general secre tary of the University Y. M. C. A. and has spent several years in China under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Before telling his Chinese stories the speaker related a certain episode of his boyhood days in Virginia. There was a patch of woods through which he was forced to pass at night on his way home. Although he knew these ood3 thoroughly in the day time I he was never quite sure of himself in the dark. One night he lost his way and after floundering about he lay on the ground and looked at the star-lit sky. Just at that moment he saw the tip of an old tree and his sense of direction came back in stantly. Sometimes we are lost in the intricate by-paths of our lives and we struggle uselessly until exhausted when we at last find the path again. China Faces New Day "There is a new day dawning in China." Mr. Hayes said. "Never be fore in the history of that country has there been such an intense spirit of patriotism. The foreign ambassa dors, however, are slow to recognize this change and try to carry on their relations as before." At this point Mr. Hayes said that the British ambassador was deter mined to find out more about Chinese conditions before he formulated his policy. The speaker's second story was of a young prefect in one of tfie Chinese cities who at a very young age won great honors. This young scholar was well versed in the doctrines of Con fucius. With all his accomplishments and honors life was unsatisfactory to him. He took advantage of the Revolution to go to a Buddist mon astery in southern China to see if the new religion had anything satis factory to offer him. It was then that Mr. Hayes secured the young China man as an English teacher. In the course of their reading they trans lated a Chinese version of Pilrnue Progress. They were working on the part wherein the Christian is pray ing. The Chincso teacher told bis American pupil that he could not understand prayer. Mr. Hayes prayed with him and at last the heart of the seeker found the satisfaction for which it had been searching. nelen Clarke led the meeting. A lor.gw mentation than y&wiS was held and the girls were urged to utilize the time to scrutinize themselves. ARTICLES ARE PDBLISHED Miss Smith Has Work Printed in The Journal Stockman " Miss Muriel Smith, extension spe cialist on the convenient kitchen, had a verf interesting article, "Sixty- eight Out of Every One-hundrad Ne braska Homes Need Running Water," in the Journal Stockman for March 11. Another of her articles entitled "A Light Kitchen, a Cheerful Kit chen," will appear in the April num ber of this magazine. She has charge of the project work on the conven ient kitchen which she presents to the Home Demonstration Clubs of Nebraska. Last Sunday, Mrs. Will Minier, President of Federated Women's Clubs of Nebraska, who ha a series of articles in the Sunday papers, used another of Miss Smith's articles, "Running Water at the Sink for Every Nebraska Farm Kitchen." Next Sunday Mrs. Minier will use an article written by I. D. Woods who is also of the Extension Department of the University of Nebraska. PHONE OFFICIALS HOLD INTERVIEW Representatives of Telephone Company Interview Students Interested in Field Four representatives of the North western Bell Telephone company are in Lincoln this week, interviewing University students who will be graduated in the spring, and who are interested in entering the field of work with telephone companies. The representatives, three of whom are graduates of the University of Ne braska, spoke to eighty students in Social Science 302 Tuesday on var ious phases of the tephone indus try. Mr. Brachen, of the Northwestern Bell company, Mr. S. L. Lambert, as sistant to the president of the N. W. Bell, Mr. George Bickly of the per sonnel department of that company, and Mr. Long of the Bell Laborator ies, New York, are the men who are here in the interest of the Bell com pany. Mr. Bickly is the only one of the four who is not a graduate of the University of Nebraska. Offer Openings to Seniors These representatives will be at the University today and tomorrow for the purpose of further interview ing seniors who intend to be grad uated. Every year, students giaduated from the School of Engineering and the College of Business Administra tion are placed with the Bell com pany. Prof. T. T. Bullock, of the College of Business Administration is chairman of employment for that school, and is instrumental in helping graduates obtain positions with or ganizations in various lines of indus try. There are at present, sixteen graduates of the Business Adminis tration college engaged in the field of telephone work. This field, ac cording to Dean LeRossignol is an ever-widening one, and the telephone industry a promising line of endeavor for univprsity gradiiHtea, Following are the names of the graduates who are employed by tele phone companies in various parts of the country: Merritt L. Chaffee, '18, Roger A. Jenkins, '18, George D. Driver, '20, L. H. Redelfs, '20, Arno J. Wessel, '20, M. V. Johnson, '21, D. M. McCIellan, '21,. J. W. Rdelfs, '21, D. H. Mitchell, '22, H. A. Willey, '23, Ernest A. Andre, '24, J. M. Hawke, '24, A. W. Stunkle, '24, Mil ton P. Beechner, '25, Henry G. Eg- gert, 25, and Merle M. Hale, '25. Of these men, nine are located in Omaha, and three in Lincoln. Former Nebraska Pitcher Signs to Play With Links Byrl Lang, '25, pitcher for the University of Nebraska the year baseball was removed from the sport program, has signed a con tact to play ball with the Lin coln club. He will leave for Or ange, Tex., today with the rest of the Links for their spring training. Lang has an enviable record as a pitcher when in the University, and since leaving he has been on several professional teams includ ing the San Francisco Seals, in the Pacific Coast league. .South Dakota Orator Enters Valley Contest Vermillion, S. D-, March 15. Samey Rashid, Detroit, Mich., senior in the college of arts and sciences, will represent the University of South Dakota in the Missouri Valley ora torical contest at St Louis, March 18. Rashid won the local contest with an oration, "Never the Twain ShaL Meet" in which he advanced the theory that the dividing line between the east and west is growing fainter and that tha two civilizations will grow together. MEANS' ADVISES PREPAREDNESS AT CONVOCATION United States Senator from Colorado Describes Results Of Past Unpreparedness SPANISH WAR VETERAN Senator Means Now National Commander of Spanish War Veterans "Your flag is your protection and yours to defend," declared Senator Rice W. Means, United States Sena tor from Colorado, in his address on Our National Defense" delivered at University convocation Tuesday mor ning. Professor Grummann, in charge of University Convocations, intro duced the Commander of William Lewis Camp of the, Veterans Bureau who introduced Senator Means to a large group of students and residents of Lincoln. r Senator Means, who is National Commander of the United States Spanish War Veterans, is making a tour of the country in this capacity and is visiting here through the aus pices of the local chapter of that or ganization. While in the city, he will be entertained by the United States War Veterans and the Ladies' Aux iliary. Civil War Fought for Union "The great Civil War, some say, was brought on b' cause of slavery," stated Senator Means, "but quite to the contrary for hs President Lincoln said, 'The Union, it must be preser- ved.' " A sacrifice was made then to preserve this union and it is up to us to fulfill our destinv. We would not today have the opportunities we do if it had not been saved. We all hate war. Service men know the hor rors of war and are in favor of doing away with it but we must defend our nation. The G. A. R., which wai estab lished soon after the Civil War, has doTi srreat deal towards teacHng patriotism in the schools. They es tablished Flag Day in order to teach reverence for the flag but they failed in one thing, that of keeping a Na tional Defense. The Indian wars that lOijowru Miter liie Civil Wax fo'uud not such a great need for a standing army and after that military facili ties began to disappear and it wasn't until the Spanish-American War that the real need was felt. Learned Much in Spanish War "Great men are dating our great ness from the day we entered the Spanish-American W a r," Senator Means declared, "for it was there we learned the necessity of self de fense." President McKinley held back from declaring war against Spain be cause he realized our unprepared ness and it was not until the sinking of the battleship Maine and the nation-wide cry of the people arose that he declared war. It was the demand of the people to aid suffering neighbors that prompted the action on the part of the United States. It was not for aggressiveness. Power did not cause it. America has never taken the initiative in any war but has clashed to defend our rights and our people. Great Loss of Life "The loss of lives in the first year of the Spanish-American War ex ceeded the loss in the first year of the World War and yet there was only tnq-tenth the number under (Continued on Page Two.) MEETING IS HELD ON BETTER HOMES Dr. Gray, Miss Brown and Miss Feddo Attend Better Homes Confer ence at Des Moines Dr. Greta Gray, research and home management specialist; Miss Mary- Ellen Brown, state leader of home demonstration work; and Miss Mar garet Fedde, chairman of the home economics department, attended the Better Homes Conference held last week at Des Moines. The conference was under the auspices of the Feder ated Women's Clubs. The object of the meeting was to follow the work of the survey of equipment made by the Federated Women's Clubs in the past year. A great number of exhibits of house hold plans and furnishings were on display. Among the more prominent speak ers was Ross Crane, noted decorator. who showed the furnisling of a liv ing room Tor six hundred dollars. An interesting rrt of the demonstration was the noticeable use of very strong colors, the tendency was to use less of gray. Figures also seemed to pre dominate. General Lord, who has charge of the United States budjrt, spoke in terms of household budget Mia. Sherman, president of the Ft del tie J Women's Clubs, spoke on equipment of various kinds. t ., . ,. (. l .. - . ... 'J