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i he Daily. Nebras WEATHEK FORECAST WHO WILL BS PROM GIRL? For Lincoln and vicinity: Thurs day fir THEJJNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1927. PRICE 5 CENTS KAW STAGE SET FOR JUNIOR-SENIOR PROMONFRIDAY Possible Favorite. For Prom Girl Narrow Down Accord ing To Campus Talk DECORATIONS ELABORATE piew Plan Incorporated In The Field House Lighting Effects Novel The Junior-Senior Prom will be a formal party according to decision eached by members of the From committee. There has been some talk of changing the affair to an informal . -vent because the party is being held s0 late in the spring of this year. This ynl probably not be the case in the future, the committee members point out, and that in order to insure the success of the party as a recognized ' social event the party will officially close the formal season. All arrangements are being com pleted and the Prom promises to be one of the outstanding affairs of the season. Fraternity representatives re port that ticket sales have been most successful. The decorations and pro grams have arrived. Workmen are busy on the floor and two platforms are being placed at opposite sittes oi the room for the orchestras. Tracy Brown's Oklahomans of Omaha have planned a series of clev er entertainment acts and Beck's or chestra will have something new to offer. Prom Girl Draw Interest The Prom girl will be selected and presented by Robert Stephens, pres ident of the Senior Class. Consider able interest in being shown in the election of this most popular social campus co-ed. Voting for the Prom girl will be limited to men attending the event; balloting will be done di rectly on the Prom ticket and the votes will be counted by members of the Junior-Senior Prom commit tee and a faculty representative. Eloise MacAhan and Doris Pinker ton through a typographical error .-srero emitted from the list of possible candidates appearing in yesterday's Nebraskan. Others who have been mentioned as favorites are: Margaret Edwards, Mable Matteson, Joyce Adair, Margaret D u n 1 a p, Ruth Woods, Virginia Lee, Sylvia Lewis, Dorothy Strubble, Elizabeth Cool idge, Ardath Srb, Betty Ortman, Elice Holovtchiner, Henrietta Kivett, Viola Forsell, Ruby Teeter, Katherine McWhinnie and Elsie Vandenburg. This is the irst time a Prom has been given by the juniors for five years, and a large crowd is expected to revive the event which before the war was the outstanding event of the season on the University of Ne braska campus. A few tickets may still be obtained from the fraternity representatives and at the campus book stores. CHINA WORKER SAYS WE ARE PREJDDICED Y. M. C. A. Secretary Declare News papers Play Up Chines Revolu tions That Do Not Take Place "Russia is taking the place Amer ica had," was the way Mr. Arthur Rugh summed up the situation in China in his address on "What's hap pening in China and Why," delivered at the weekly World Forum luncheon yesterday. Mr. Rugh has been in charge of student Y. M. C. A. in that country and has just returned frorn his travels abroad. He has been tour ing the country, giving talks and holding discussions on the eastern situation. A recent account received from China as to the prejudice that pre vails there shows that at present, t strong belief is evident for Commun ism, mainly because Russia has taken a hand in China and taught them Communism. Also they show an in clination for the use of power to take pawer away from a few that have secured it. They do not profess to fight but they do want their rights and what is just. 'There is no series of revolutions in China as the belief in America is. It is merely incarnations of a nation al movement of China to make Chins free," he stated. In southern China they have established a republican form of government, which is grad ually moving forward and taking the whole country. Their three principles embodied, are: a complete sovereign of China, government by the people and equal rights to all. Russian influence began five yean, ago when Russia saw what the other Powers failed to see. They foresaw new China and immediately began smg steps in gaining the good will or the eastern country and to exert lUlr influence over it. If the western countries would only treat China as (Continued o Page Two.) English Professor Expresses Faith In Present Status of College Debate Dr. White Declares that Forentic Activity Still Occupies Strong Place in University Life, and Future Seems Promising. Collegiate debating isn't deadl Far from it. A half hour's talk with Dr. II. Adelbert White, University pro-, fessor and coach of the 1927 Nebras ka debate teams, is sufficiently con vincing. The movie, the dance, the gridiron, may far surpass it in popularity and interest but that debate still occupies a substantial position was indicated in an interview granted by Professor White, who was debate coach at Washington and Jefferson for eight years, is a national vice-president of Delta Sigma Rho, national forensic fraternity, and editor of the Gavel, publication of Delta Sigma Rho. "There are too many other activ ities," was the way Dr. White sum marized the reason debate has ap parently declined. Dramatics and journalism, he explained, have ob sorbed much of the interest formerly manifested in debating. "It seems to me," he remarked, when asked as to how interest in de bating could be revived, "that the changes of the last few years, the open-forum, no-decision debates, etc., are helping. There is no evidence that there is any increase in attendance but there has been an increase in in terest. We are having far more de bates than in the supposedly palmy days of debate. By far more students are taking part in debates than for (Continued on Page Two.) STAfE CALLS FOR 5,000 WARRANTS Persons on University Pay Role Will Be Affected by New Treasury Order Registered state warrants number ing from one to 6,000 are now being called in by State Theasurer W. M. Stebbins. This includes warrants is sued from November 10 to December 13, and the face value of the war rants, together with four per cent in terest to March 15 will be paid on presentation to the state treasurer. University deans, instructors, and readers who have been holding their warrants will want to present them at this time, as no further interest will be paid after March 15. The state treasurer's report at the close of February showed that there were at that time 21,000 warrants out standing, involving a total amount of $4,135,000. The state will be obliged to make an interest payment totalling approximately $7,000 as interest on the warrants one to five thousand which are being called in. These war rants involve a total of $586,000. This is the first call that has been made for the payment of the regis tered state warrants since these, numbering from one to 5000 were is sued. State warrants are discounted one to two per cent or more if pre sented at banks, the amount of dis count depending on the individual bank. REV. GILMAN TALKS AT TEMPLE MONDAY Nebraska Alumnus of '98 Will Speak On Chin', at Convocation) Has Been Missionary The Rev. Alfred A. Oilman, '98, will speak on China at the convoca tion in the Temple Theater at eleven o'clock, March 21. The Rev. Gilman received his A. B. degree from Ne braska, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors. China has been so much the sub ject of newspaper comment and of contemporary conversation, that any first-hand information on the subject is more than welcome. That Rev. Gil man is able to give this authoritative information, there is no doubt, for he spent practically a quarter of a century in the Chinese missionary service. A year after his graduation from the Philadelphia divinity school in 1901, he went to China. The first few years were spent in gaining knowledge of the very difficult larg uage of the Chinese, after which he was able to go into active work. So satisfactory has he been in his chos en capacity that, in 1917, he was made president of the Central Chin ese University in Changsa Hui.an ITn has held this position ever since, and is now neoring th close of his year's leave of absence. Reverend Gilman's presence in this untry has been a source of delight all who have been privileged tr hear him speak, and to his many friends in Nebraska. The fact that Rev. G?Iman was born in North Platte and spent his boyhood in the fashion that most Nebraska boyhoods are spent inake his ctrwr in China seem more of a Nebraska contribution to the Orient. UNI NIGHT TO HAVE 12 SKITS Another Skit is Added; West Asks That Rehearsals Get Under Way SEAT SALE ON MONDAY Each member of the University Night committee who has charge of a skit for University Night should turn in to Royce West, Chairman of the Committee, the names of the per sons in his skit, and the program for the skit, so that programs for the entertainment can be made up and participants can bfe. given compli mentary tickets. They should also see that rehearsals are under way, and be able to report to the commit tee, at a meeting Monday night, as to how soon the skit will be ready for rehearsal before the committee. New Skit is Added Another skit has been added to the program since Tuesday. It is a tele phone skit and will be produced by "Nick" Amos and Vinton Lawson. This makes a lolal of twelve skits to be presented at the University Night program. The skits are assigned to members of the Committee as follows: Crocker skit Robert Davenport. Magician skit Edward Morrow. Corn Cob skit Merle Jones. Joyce Ayres and his orchestra skit Oscar Norling. Sigma Delta Chi skit Julius Frandsen. Tassels skit Helen Aach and Os car Norling. Apache dance Royce West. Amos and Lawson skit Lee Vance Silver Serpents skit Elice Holovt chiner. Tickets go on sale at 10 o'clock Monday morning, March 21, at the Orpheum Theater box office. Per sons unable to get to the box office can have their tickets purchased by friends, as there is no limit set on the number of tickets that can be re served by one person. Tickets will sell for $1.00 with the exception of the last ten row3 of balcony seats which may be had at seventy-five cents. At this price, the probabilities are that practically all of the tickets will be sold by Monday night. Due to the large number of students par ticipating in the program, it will be impossible to ive more than the one presentation of the performance. Anyone who has material that might be suitable for slides to be shown on the screen should turn it in at once to Sam St. John, chairman of the slides committee, so that the committee can determine what slides are to be used. "I do not care to make any com ment as to whether or not this is to be a bigger and better University Night program than ever before," was the statement of Royce West, chairman of the University Night committee, when asked for an opin ion on the program. "All I can say is that it is to be a different program. We Rre offprint it for the approval of the public and the people will be the judges." TO GIVE BEETHOVEN CONCERTS First of Series Will Be Presented at Morrill Hall March 20 ' The first of a series of five con certs in honor of the Beethoven Cen tenary will be held in Gallery A at Morrill Hall Sunday afternoon, March 20, at 3:30 o'clock. The series will take up in chronological order the compositions of Beethoven; each program will deal with a certain per iod in his development. . The first concert will consist of his works as a boy and a young man covering a period of ten years, from 1780 to 1792. Compositions from 1792 to 1797 the period of Beetho ven's maturing genius will constitute the program for the second concert to be given under the direction of Henry G. Cox. The University orchestra and guest musicians from Omaha will furnish the music. Dinner Dance To Be Given By Senior Society Valkyrie, senior women's honorary society, will entertain at a dinner dance in the Garden room of the Lin coln Hotel Saturday evening. It is the first event o2 this kind that this society has sponsored. All alumnae and active members of Valkyrie are being invited. Decorations will be carried out in the society colors, using the spring effect. Clever entertainment is being planned. Colonel and Mrs. F. F. Jew ett, Prof, and Mrs. E. W. Lantz and Prof, and Mrs. Roy E. Cochran have been chosen as chaperones tot the affair. PAN-HEL FAVORS FRESHMAN WEEK BEFORE RUSHING Vote to Eliminate Rushing for Three Days Prior To Registration WILL NOT GIVE UP HOMES Sorority Representatives Feel Need For Homes During Pre-School Period Sorority rushing will be forbidden during the three days of Freshman Week provided it is inaugurated next fall, but the sororities will not house freshman girls during that period, according to a decision reached at the Pan-Hellenic council meeting yester day afternoon in Ellen Smith Hall. The Council decided to support the proposed Freshman Week by not rushing during those days. The so rorities declared that they would not start their rushing until Monday noon preceeding registration. The girls voted that they would : not give over their houses to accom modate the freshmen as had been proposed. They felt that they would need the space for their own mem bers, and could not possibly give up the rooms to' the new girls. Freshman Week has been proposed as a means for the fwashmen to orient themselves to the new sur roundings before school actually starts. It has boon tried in several schools and has proven a success, so a movement has been started to adopt the system here. There has been much discussion recently among the campus organizations as to the merits of the proposal. The decision made by the Pan-Hellenic Council is representative of all the sororities, as each sorority has three members, one senior, one jun ior and one alumnae representative on the council. ONE MEMBER OF GROUP INACTIVE Student Council Enforces Its Rule on Attendance At Meeting First Time PLAN FOR CONVENTION In view of the Student Council rule passed last fall regulating the attendance of members of that body one member will automatically be come inactive in Council affairs for the remainder of the school year. The rule states that if any Student Council member is absent from three consecutive meetings without logical excuse that member will be declared inactive and dropped from the Coun cil roll. This action came as a result of the fact that Council members believed it imperative that its members should be present at the meetings. This is the first instance that it has been necessary to enforce the rule. Coun cil members stated last evening after the council meeting that they regret having to take this action. A number of other members must be present at the next meeting in order to escape the penalty. The Council will begin arrange ments in the near future for the Na tional convention which is to be held here next fall. Ruth Palmer, James Jensen, Richard Vcttc, Tom Elliott and Ruth French are members of the committee in charge. The matter of assisting in promot ing Varsity Dances will be given careful consideration by the Student Council at their next regular meeting which will be held March 30. The committee on Varsity Dances is ex pected to make a complete report at this time. NEW ARITHMETIC BOOKS OUT Wisconsin Educators Authors of a New School Series Two Wisconsin educators are the authors of a new series of arithmetic books which is being published "ex perimentally" in limited editions in order to find out what changes are needed before the books are pub lished in large-editions. The new series by Prof. J. G. Fowlkes of the University of Wis consin and Prof. Thomas T. "Geff of Whitewater Normal school for some time has been tried out in typical class rooms in large and small school systems. This Bpripg the first book is being published in a much larger "experimental" edition by the Mac millan company. In the late spring the second book probably will be pub lished in an "experimental" edition. Other volumes of the series are in press or in preparation. The series will be known as the Fowlkes-Goff Arithmetics, and will embody the soundest of the newer methods oi teaching arithmetic in all the elementary pchool grades. University Hopes Slate Legislature Will Approve Street Improvements HUNT IS NAMED Y. M. C. A. HEAD Olson, Hager and Davenport Are The Other Officers Elected CHINESE WORKER TALKS Joe M. Hunt was elected president of the University Y. M. C. A. cab inet at the election held yesterday. Other officers are: vice president, Carl R. Olson; secretary, Gordon V. Hager; intercollegiate representative, Robert C. Davenport. Arthur Rugh of China spoke before the University V. M. C. A. members at the stag. Mr. Rugh told of meet ing a group of students from a Chin ese university who asked him what he thought China needed. Mr. Rugh told them what they .needed was to study the teachings of the "Sermon on the Mount." Sometime later Mr. Rugh returned again to see this same group of Chinese students. However they did not greet him kindly, and accosted Mr. Rugh with remarks stating that they believed him sent there by the government to make statements that would tend to place the Chinese in the power of the Uni ted States. Was Friend of the Chinese Mr. Rugh was primarily concern ing himself with overcoming this false idea. He explained to the Chin ese group that he was not sent there by the government, and that he was working under Chinese authority, and his money was being given him to carry on his work by friends m China. This did not seem plausible to the Chinese editor of the college paper, who printed articles declaring Mr. Rugh's policies as false and dan gerous. The editor argued that it would not be plausible for a man to work under the supervision of an other man or firm, from which the financial backing did not come. Seeing that no headway was made in the way of convincing the stu dents Mr. Rugh asked them what they wanted to do. They stated they wished to fight; to drive out the for eign powers. Then Mr. Rugh ques tioned them concerning the thought of preparation for war. The Chinese students thought it over and saw how exeat a length of time it would take to raise an army to drive out all the world powers. They gave up their ideas of War and saw that the way to a free China was through the fol lowing of the principles layed down by the "Sermon On The Mount." Mr. Rugh, in closing, stated that he had studied with the Chinese stu dents this problem, and that the (Continued on Page Two.) REED WILL TALK ON ENTRANCE DEMANDS Extension Director Attending Annual Meeting of College Association In Chicago How college entrance require ments will be restated is the topic of the report which A. A. Reed, di rector of University Extension, will make today at the annual meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in Chicago. Attempts to revise the require ments for college entrance have been made by the North Central associa tion of colleges and secondary schools since 1921. A few months ago the following committee, with Mr. Reed as chairman, was appointed by the president to work on the problem: Dr. C. H. Judd, University of Chi cago; registrar ira M. bmitn, uni versity of Michigan; Principal H. H. Ryan, Ben Blewitt High school, St. Louis; Principal Merle Prunty, Tiiisa High school. Mr. Reed left Tuesday night to at tend the meetings; be expects to re turn in about a week. TWO COLLECTIONS ON DISPLAY The Work of French, Dutch, British And American Artists Hung Soon Two outstanding collections of paintings will be hung in the galleries of Morrill Hall during the last of March. A one-man exhibition con sisting of seventeen landscape paint ings by the French artist, Victor Charreton, will be shown from March 19 to April 1. A collection of fifteen originals by Dutch, American, French and British artists will be on display from Mttrch 18 to April 1. This collection is loaned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The galleries are open to the pub lic free of charge from 9 to 5 o'clock daily, and from 3 to 0 p. m. on Sun days. f Representatives of Croups Will Meet To Discuss Relative Merits of Cut ting Fifteenth Street Through to The Campus. Representatives of the University, Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, State Capitol commission, city officials, and Lancaster county legislature have been discussing the merits of a bill before the legislature authorizing the plan for the development of a proper setting for the Capitol to the north and cutting Fifteenth street through to the north from O street to R street. Tre bill, according to Prof. M. I. Evinger, one of the representatives from the University, as it is drawn, is an enabling bill, carrying no appro priation, and for its main feature the authorization of the Board of Re gents, State Capitol commission and the City of Lincoln to look into the possibilities and the best methods of developing the general plan of beau tifying the section of the city north from the Capitol to the University campus. The bill was prepared jointly by Hon. Max Kier, state representa tive, and John Ledwith of the city planning committee. The essential idea, explained Prof. Evinger, is to provide a way by which the plan may be worked out in the most satisfactory manner be fore anything definite is done. Mod els and plans will probably be used to popularize the idea before it is presented to the legislative body for action. The meeting was called because of a feeling among the representatives that a proper setting for the new Capitol will be necessary in a short time and that it might be worked out in connection with the campus plan of Regent Seymour. Pan-Pacific Problems To Be Discussed Discussion groups for the further study of the problems of the Pacific basin, have been organized by a group of st.udcnt3 who attended the Pan-Pacific conference. The group was organized at a meeting held Sun day afternoon. Sessions will be held on alternate Sundays at 4 o'clock beginning March 26. It is planned to have four meet ings with each meeting given over to the discussion of conditions of one country. The countries on which dis cussions will be held are China, Phil lipines, Russia and Japan. A separate committee will be in charge of each meeting. The committee will formu late plans for discussion and will also collect material which will be on file at the Y. M. C. A. office for further study. The first group will consider the problems of China with Miss Ethel Hartney, Y. M. Lin, C. S. Yuan and R. T. Prescott in charge. The two main topics that will be discussed are. Should the United States Recognize the Nationalist Government in Chi na?" and "Is the United States Jus tified in Landing Marines in China?" Books nnd magazines concerning China are on reserve at the City Li brary. Any student that is interested in the problems of the Pacific countries may attend the meetings. College Life Of 1870 Fixed For Students Ames, Iowa, March 16. Special: A rising summons at 5:30 every mor niny, long afternoon hours in the field or kitchen that was the life of the student who attended Iowa State College in 1870. a stn'-cing contrast to the life of the collega student of 1927. A perusal of the old college records leveals many practices and customs of early college days which heein ex tremely odd now. In those days the students, who were housed in the one college building, had to roll out of bed at 5:30 and study u.itil breakfast time at 6:45. Immediately after breakfast the "college" assembled in the chapel, for devotional exercises before p five hour session of classes. Soon after a 1 o'clock dinner the girls went to work in the kitchens aid the boys in the fields, for in those days the stu dents had to labor for the college every afternoon. They were paid from 8 to 10 cents an hour. The afternoon work "ran?: off" about 5 o'clock. Then' came an hour or amusements. The boys either played "vigorous" games of baseball or indulged in delightful croquet con tests with the ladies. Tea, as the eve ning meal was called, was served at 6. Strict study hours were observed from 7 until 10 when everybody was required to put out their lights and "roll in". IOWA DEBATERS MEET NEBRASKA MEN ON FRIDAY Grinnell College Talkers Come Here With Three Years Of Experience SPLIT TEAMS ARE USED Munro Kezer and David Fell man Being Sent As Nebras ka Representatives Grinnell college debaters will ar rive in Lincoln at 9:40 o'clock Friday morning for their afternoon debate with the University of Nebraska on the question, "Resolved: That the es sentials of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill should be enacted into Federal law." Split-teams will be used both in the debate in Lincoln and at Grin nell. Grinnell is sending two debaters with three years of experience in in tercollegiate debating for the Lin coln debate. They are Loren Reed, who with Evert M. Hunt of Nebraska will maintain the affirmative, and Robert Burlingame, who with John A.-Skiles of Nebraska will defend the negative. Reed is a senior, a member of Sig ma Delta Chi, a member of the men's senate at Grinnell, and is on the staffs of three student publications. Bur lingame is a junior, a member of Sipma Delta Chi, on the staff of the Grinnell student newspaper, a mem ber of the Lantern, honorary men's organization and of the Experimental theater. The Grinnell debaters who will debate there have not !een an nounced. Hunt and Skiles Lincoln Men Two Lincoln men are the Nebraska debaters here. Both Evert M. Hunt and John A. Skiles are former Lin coln high school debaters. Hunt was a member of the "Think-Shop" last year and debated the parliamentary government question in the split-team debate with South Dakota early this year. Both are juniors in the Uni versity. Nebraska is sending David A. Fell man, Omaha, and Munro Kezer, Fort Collins, Colo., to Grinnell. Built are sophomores and were tnembers of the "Think Shop", Nebraska's inter collegiate debate seminar, last year. Fellman will speak on the affirmative and Kezer on the negative. They will leave for Grinnell at 1:19 Thursday afternoon. Former Governor S. R. McKelvie will preside at the Lincoln debate which will be held in Law College 101 starting at 3 p. m. Friday after noon. An open-forum discussion will be held following the formal debate. SIGMA XI INSPECTS PHARMACY COLLEGE F. S. Bukay, Pharmacy Instructor, Gives Lecture on Perfumes At Meeting Last Night Sigma Xi, at a meeting in Phar macy hall last evening, inspected the laboratories and the research work being done in the College of Phar macy. F. S. Bukay of the Pharmacy de partment gave an illustrated lecture on the history of perfumes. Mr. Bukay stated that the first records of perfumes used for vaporizing pur poses dates back to the ancient Egyptian times. The Egyptians had three principal uses for perfumes: incense, vaporizing and embalming purposes. In late years several discoveries have been made showing that spices, such as-we have at the present times were used for perfumery. The use ot perfumes for vaporizing purposes reached its height at the time of Nero. Gaines Speaks To Gamma Alpha Chi Gamma Alpha Chi, honorary ad vertising sorority, gave the first part of the program at the regular lunch eon of the Lincoln Ad Club at the Lincoln Hotel, Wednesday. Mr. N. W. Gaines, community specialist Jn the extension department of the College of Agriculture, spoke on "Farm Mar kets." Advertising slogans were acted out in a short skit by the members of the sorority; Kate Goldstein gave a read ing entitled, "A One Tube Radio Set," and this section of the program closed with a Nebraska song with chorus and ukelele accompaniment MISS RAUSCH TALKS TO ALVO PARENT T&ACHERS Miss Clara Rausch, instructor of individual gymnastics for girls, went to Alvo last night to give a health talk to the Parent Teachers Associa tion Tha t.nlt was tu-rang-jd far by the University Extension Department