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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln, Nabratka OFFICIAL PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA TJa4.r direction of tha Stud.nt Pnhllcntion Boars TWENTY-SEVENTH TKAR mbtUhad Tncidar. Wdntda, Thursday rrtdar. en Sunday Moraines during tha acad.mic raar. Editorial Offica UnWaraity Hjll . 4. ;"Ao.0r"o"urSIr.H 00 ?o : . Fr.d., and Bu"l. silli atUraoaa. .xe.pt F-1d., d Sunday. "Talaphon.. Kditarial: B8l. No. 14t: B.iasa.i B48l. No. 77; Nignt n0!. Knt.nH a. aaoond-cl... Bi.tt.r at tha " " t rasr. SUBSCRIPTION RATE SIngU Copy I cants tl.tl samastar Lm Vea Oscar Norling Kuth Palmer Carald E. Griffin Edward G. Dickion Munro Knot Paul P. NcUon "news editors Mitnr-in-Chiaf Mnrin Editor Asst. Manasinc Editor , Asst. Managing Miwr TWtmth Nott Floronc 8wihart ASSISTANT NEWS EDTIORS Konnoth Anderson Monro n Paul Marti Willard Uost.low Betty Thornton vAnvi CONTRIBUTING EDITOR8 Kato Golditoin Maurieo Spati Joyce Ayre Florence Seward Otho K. DeVilbia Kicbard F. Vetta u.ltnn ateGrew . William H. Kearna Businaas Manager Aft- Butineaa Manager ; .l.tinn Ullitfftr ZZ Circulation Manager t. Marthali Pitier VALUE RECEIVED For three days the University of Nebraska has v v.e f tV,-. rfeWates at the third annual conven- tion of the National Student Federation of America. And for three days these delegates have remarked that the local Student Council's promise of hospitality has been fulfilled by the Cornhusker student body. And a smooth-running convention, planned by vis iting delegates, Us been made still more successful by the full cooperation of the Nebraska students who gained valuable pointers from this interesting gather ing of "outsiders". In return for our hospitality, the delegates have contributed many ideas to Nebraska students and the local Student Council, which may help to solve prob lems on this campus. Similarly, every delegate will return to his or her school with new "slants" which may correct old faults. Faults in student government, faults in faculty supervision, faults in every line of college activity in which students should be allowed some voice. A broadening viewpoint is the most valuable dona tion of the international meeting to its individual members. It is not a Bolshevistic weed for students to take home and plant in their institutions. It is the result of serious thought by executives of every type of college dn th country where these1 problems arise. Serious thought, however, is the end of the good which such a convention can accomplish for its dele gates. No effort was made to definitely tell the visitors what their colleges needed. They are to take home the cream of the ideas and apply them as their own student bodies see fit. Whether any practical good to the colleges rep resented will result from this convention depends upon the absorbing power which the delegates possessed. The ideas were here if they cared to get them. And judging by the convincing demonstration of business like student delegates, plenty of good ideas are on their way home. There is always satisfaction dn a task well done, as there is here. Nebraska did her part, and received her share of the benefits. The delegates proved to Nebraska that they were here for business, and they "took home the bacon" in the form of helpful sug gestions to those who were not fortunate enough tc attend this worthwhile congress. A co-ed in Texas was sentenced to fourteen years in the pen for a bank robbery. Be careful, girls that's an extreme stage of gold We shall most likely hear some of the following: "Yes, dear, I bought the duckiest Remington today in a lovely beige, matches my new coat perfectly." "I simply had to get a new job; you know the typewriters at the office were too drab." Alberta Gateway. CORRECTING FOOTBALL EVILS Sport chatter since the meeting of the represen tatives of the "Big Six" in St. Louis indicates the likelihood of the passage of a rule prohibiting athletes from participating after transfer from one school to another. At present, men transferring schools are required to go one full year at a new school before being eli gible. In many cases, freshmen have played a year at some small "iollege and then gone to a larger school. The extra year of ineligibility means practically two years of freshman competition for the man. Under the proposed rule, such men would be com pletely barred from competition dn their school of sec ond choice as well as men who had had varsity com petition previously at other schools. The rule would not affect men who attended other schools but who had not participated in athletics, either varsity or ireshman, at their institutions. With the growing commercialization of college athletics, increasing precautions need to be taken. Eastern schools, where the professional menace looms greater than in the Middle West, have already largely adopted the transfer rule. The West is coming to it. It is a most effective check to prevent large uni versities raiding the smaller schools of outstanding ma terial. Under the proposed rule, the only men in small er schools who would be eligible if they transferred, would be men who had not participated. Any athlete who had sufficient self-denial to keep out of athletics in such a school, knowing the rule, would not be likely to be swayed by flattering offers from larger institu tions. The Missouri Valley conference has been more free of the evil of raiding smaller colleges for players than most conferences of the country. But in recent years, a few institutions have moved steadily in this direction. Adoption of the transfer plan would ef fectively check this tendency. Nebraska has been a leading supporter of the plan. It is to the best interests of the University that it be adopted ni the new conference lest profession alizing tactics of other schools cramp the Cornhusker's dawing power for athletes. as chairman of a research group at this meeting. She will also attend a meeting of the Linguistic Society of America at Cincinnati. C. G. Lowe, acting chairman of the classics department, and C. H. Oldfather, professor of ancient his tory languages, will also attend tho in Brace Laboratory working on a research problem; Leva B. Walker, associate professor of botany; Elda R. Walker, associate professor of botany; W. J. Himmel, assistant pro fessor of botany; George M. Darling ton, instructor in accounting, who plans to revise the accounting labor- philological meetings at Cincinnati, latory manuals; and Prof. L. E. Ayls Dr. Oldfather will attend meetings of worth of the political science depart the American Archaeological asso ment, who will devote his time as ciulion there and is a delegate rep- 'sectary of the Citizens Committee resenting Nebraska at the American of Two Hundred in the movement Accuwiotio.. TT.ioorcin Professors. I for cnarter cnanges in meeting in the same city. Vocational Meet la At Los Angeles One faculty member will travel to the Pacific coast for professional meetings. She is Miss Jane S. Hink ley, associate professor of vocational Lincoln's city government. Among the faculty members who will go on pleasure trips during the holidays are Elsie Pokrantz, assist ant instructor in Germanic lan guages, who will visit at her home R.O.T.C. Target Practice Indicates Ability of Students to Apply Theory In Other Columns education, and she left last Tuesday in Tilton, la.; W. H. Morton, direc- f or Los Angeles, where she will , tor of teacher training in tne xeacn speak to the home economics section crs' College, will spwid the greater of the American Vocational associa- part of tho vacation at his home in Lawrence Perry, New York football scrivener, who does his "experting" for the Consolidated Press asso ciation, featured the athletic situation at the Univer sity of Nebraska in an article published today in the Omaha World-Herald. Mr. Perry recommends Herbert D. Gish, Nebraska's acting director of athletics, for the athletic commissionership which the new "Big Six" conference is planning to create, and gives an unquali fied o. k. to Ernest Bearg, head football mentor at the Cornhusker institution. The Perry article in th World Herald follows: Gish Man for Job "The 'Big Six' conference, composed of members of western state universities which withdrew from the Missouri Valley conference, is said to be looking for a commissioner of athletics who will serve the new or ganization as Major Griffith is serving the 'Big Ten.' "It would not be surprising if Herb Gish got the job. Gish, who for some time has been acting director of athletics at Nebraska, is one of the younger school who throughout the country are beginning to take a strong hold on athletic affairs. Gish not only has wide knowledge of conditions in his section and throughout the country, but he is a strategist and a diplomat of merit in other words, a college statesman. Conference Organizer "He was mainly responsible, for the organization of the "Big Six" and possesses all the qualities which would enable him to keep it running in good order." Baseball and football, two of the three chief American sports, are not distinctly American in origin. The first ape who took pleasure in throwing a cocoanut to his brother in another tree invented baseball, and the game in somewhat its present form was a Dutch perfection. Football, it is claimed, was played by the Greeks and Romans, and more recently was adapted from the English association football. But basketball, the third great American sport, is purely American, and is unique in that it was deliber ately invented. Back in 1882 James Naismith, director of Physical Education at the International Y. M. C. A. Training School, at Springfield, Mass., saw that Indian clubs, dumbells and weights were not going to be enough to keep h.'s Loyc in the gymnasium during the winter months. Baseball furnished plenty of sport in the spring and summer, and in the fall football was rapidly increasing in DODularitv. But dee hoekev was nrnrtirsllir the only winter sport, and not everyone could learn to play this. So Naismith set about to develop an indoor game. Four walls and a smooth floor were all that he had to begin with. He realized the importance of football, and suspected that some such game might be adapted to indoor playing. But tackling was an dmportant part of football, and tackling on a maple floor would be out of the question. The reason for tackling, he reas oned, was to stop a man from running with the ball. Therefore the new game, to be a success, would have to eliminate the running element. This would mean that the ball would have to, be passed or bounced. Kicking also would be out of the question in a small room, nj that was taken out And if the ball were to be thrown at the goal, anyone could toss it over such goal posts as are used in football. So a new goal had to be invented. The first goals were peach baskets, hung about twelve feet from the floor, and the balls, to be counted as a goal, had to stay in the basket. Naismith did not have time to wait for the manufacturers to build a special ball for him that first winter, so the first basketballs used were regulation footballs. According to old timers who witnessed the first basketball games, the shape of the ball added interest to the games. It was a real feat to bounce such an oval, and there was always the feeling of uncertainty. The present basketball soon was developed, how ever, and the game began to assume better form. But the first rules were few and far between. As many as could get on the floor could compete at one time, and as many as fifty often would take part at the same time in one game. There were no foul shots, but if a team made three fouls, it counted as a goal for the opposing team. Such was the beginning of a game that has spread to all parts cf the globe, and is the most important winter sport in America today. Dr. Naismith, the in ventor, is a permanent member of the official rules committee and still does haB bit to make the game con tinually better. He is now at the University of Kansas. (IP) tion, meeting December 21 and 22, in Los Angeles. Gilbert H. Doane, university libra- Plymouth, Nebr.; Ray E. Ramsay, instructor in dramatic art, who will visit his home in Kansas City; Anna rian. and Miss riara L. Craiir. refer-1 Cameron, instructor in social work, ence librarian, will attend mid-win-1 extension division, who will visit rel- . .. . w .1. . 1 1 . lr TT ter meetings of the American Li brary association in Chicago, De cember 29-31. Miss Mabel Lee, head of the phys ical education department for wom en will take part in the program of atives in Pueblo, Colorado; Mrs. H. M. Brock, instructor in china paint ing, who will visit relatives in Sioux City and Cherokee, la.; Emma Skudler, assistant instructor in the School of Fine Arts, who will spend the third Race Betterment Confer- part of the holidays in Nebraska ence in Battle Creek, Mich., January 2-6. Miss Lee will present a paper on the national development of women's athletics. Barbour Goes To CleTeland I E. H. Barbour, curator of the mu seum, will journey to Cleveland, 'Ohio, for a meeting December 28- 30 of the Paleontological Society. Prof. E. F. Schramm of the geol ogy department will spend the holi days in the oil fields of Texas. Two members of the department of political science, C. M. Kneier and J. P. Senning, will attend the national meeting of the American Political Science association in Washington. Prof. Senning is a member of the executive council of the association. M. H. Merrill, assistant professor of law, will attend the annual meet ing of the Association of American Law Schools in Chicago December 29-31. Four Nebraskans will attend coaching and athletic meetings in New York city. " H. D. Gish, acting director of athletics, will take part in the National Collegiate Athletic association meeting and will also confer with representatives of east ern schools whom Nebraska has been playing football, in regard to future games. Bernard F. Oakes, assistant coach will spend part of the holidays at his home in Chicago and will go on to New York to meet with the American Football Coaches' Associa tion. H. F. Schulte, track coach. will attend the meeting of the track and field committee, National Colle giate Athletic Association, of which he is a member. Dr. R, G. Clapp, professor of phys ical education, will attend meetings in New York of the Society of Di rectors of Physical Education in Col leges, the Student's Health associa tion, and the National Collegiate Athletic association. In the latter group Dr. Clapp is secretary of the wrestling rules committee which will hold an important meeting Decem bers to formulate new intercolleg iate wrestling rules. Many Will Remain in Lincoln But many of the raculty members, will spend this holidays quietly in Lincoln, most of them engaged in research work or study. Among these are J. O. Hertzler, professor of sociology, who will put the finishing touches on the manuscripts of a book to go to press late in January; Br. A. L. Candy, chairman of the de partment of mathematics, who will give some time to the collection and interpretation of statistics concern ing the College of Arts and Sciences; Harold K. Schilling, instructor in physics, who will spend the vacation City; A. E. Bunting, assistant pro fessor of practical mechanics, who will go to Pittsburgh to visit his son and to meet his brother, who is com ing to American from England, and whom he has not seen for 35 years; and Blanche M. Lyman, instructor in history, extension division, who will visit in Chicago. Board Elects Staff Members (Continued from Page 1) editor of the guide boolc for Farm ers' Pair. Dwight Anderson was as sistant circulation manager during the past semester. Mildred Hawley has been a Home Economics contribi utor, and is a member of the Junior Farmers' Fair Board. Appointments to the staff are made by the Publication Board, con sisting of five faculty members and two student members. The faculty members are: Mr. JL P. Crawford, chairman, IL E. Bradford; I. O. Rankin; F. E. Mussehl; and Miss El well. The student members are Ce cil Means of Red Cloud and Itha Anderson of Lincoln. The Cornhusker Countryman Le- ran publication seven years ago. Trior to that time "Agriculture' was the official student publication in the C'..u'g of Agriculture. Grant Lf rtz was the first editor of this I :'t. Other men to holi this po s.! i:n since this time have been: El Lvx. vow associat editor in the agricultural extension department ; Allen Cook, principal of the Kearney public schools; Virgil Michael, farm-i er near Woodriver; Amos Gramlich, another farmer; Glen Buck, associ ate editor of the Nebraska Farmer; and the present editor, Emil Glaser. Try Outs To Be Held Monday (Continued from Page 1) negative team here. The Nebraska affirmative team will meet Missouri's affirmative at Columbia on the same night. The men who wall uphold the af firmative in the tryouts are: Joseph Ginsburg, Ponca; Sherman Welpton, Omaha; J. L. Pearl, Burwell; Carl J. Marold, Saguache, Colorado; John Reimers, Brule; Samuel S. Died richs, Maxwell; and Archibald W. Milieu. The negative speakers are: David Fellman, Omaha; Robert M. Etldwin, Htbron; Chauncey A. Ha ger, Ord; Reginald C Miller, Lincoln; Lester P. Schoene, Syracuse; John P. McKnight, Auburn; Joe Hunt, ScottaMuff. Faculty Members Make Various Plans (Continued from Page 1) ment of mathematics will give a pa per on the program of the American Mathematical Society at Nashville. This meeting will be held in con junction with those of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Mathematical Associa tion of America, and the American Physical society. Meetings of philologists and lin guists at Iouisville, Ky., and Cincin nati will attract five Nebraskans. Prof. O. Stepanek will present a pa per at the meeting of the Modern Language association in Louisville, and also expects to be present at some of the Linguistic Society ses-, sions in Cincinnati Miss ConUia To Go Lonisrill Miss Clara Conklio, chairman of the department cf romance lan guages, will attend the Louisville meeting, g will Miss Louise Pound f the English department. Miss Pound wfll serve for the lliird time T V EBRASKAN IJ TAILORS 1 M CLEANERS XT PAYS TO BE WELL DRESSED B-6013 235 N. 14th Miss Foster Tells Of South America ' (Continued from Page 1) from the coast and at Lima, the cap ital of Peru, the country is more pleasant. The northern part of Chile is very unsightly, being only a mining region, biit as one travels farther south the country becomes more at tractive. Valparaiso Has Good Location Valparaiso has an interesting lo cation, being nestled in among a cir cle of mountains much as if it was situated in the center of a vast am phittheater. Chile has a climate somewhat like that of the United States, except that there is not such a sharp dis tinction between the seasons. Their seasons are divided more into a rainy and a dry season. The rainy season is disagreeable, and at times the sun is not visible for several weeks. Miss Foster considers Bolivia the most interesting of the South Amer ican countries, because it is the most individual and most unusual. "Cer tain countries of South America are very Spanish, others are very Por tuguese, but Bolivia is very much it self," said Miss Foster. Three Races of Indians Are Found There are three races of Indians found in South America, the Quich uas and Aimaras are found in Peru, Bolivia, and northern South Amer ica, and the Arucanians are fourfc in the south. The Arucanians are very proud" of the fact that they have never been conquered by any foreig ners. All three of these races are descendants of the ancient Incas. Miss Foster concluded her talk by playing some Bolivian music on the piano and showing photographs which she brought back from her trip. By Clifford Smith Freshman target practice for this year is completed except for clear ing up the firing by the men who accent when their companies fired on the range and for the men j who are attempting to raise their scores. Practice on the range has been going on for five weeks, and altogether about 800 men fired. Thirty shots were fired by each man; ten at a practice traget and twentv for score, ten in a prone po sition and ten while kneeling. The average score for this year is slightly lower, than the last year score, being a score of 100 out of a possible 200. N. R, A. targets, al lowing a possible score of 200 were used.- The lowest score thi3 year was 11 and the highest score 190. Instruction Help Captain Louis W. Eggers, who has charge of the range, feels that any man that can see properly or who is not suffering from some or ganic disease which prevents him from holding his rifle steady, can shoot as well as the next man. The reason for the variance in scores lies chiefly in the different degrees in which the men follow the instruc tions given before actual firing takes place. Captain Eggers found that some men completely disregarded all instructions. The one great fault of many of the men was failure to use a trigger squeeze and instead, jerking the trigger. The trigger-squeeze is a gradual tightening r.f the whole hand until the trigger snaps of itself. If the man firing doe not know when WE Se( the Standard of NEAT APPEARANCE for Nebraska Men. Mogul Barbers 127 No. 12th, BLACKSTONE CAE A better place to dine. Everything from a sand wich to a complete meal. BLACKSTONE DAILY FEATURES Uni. Special 35c Business Men's Lunch..50c Six Course Dinner 75c SUNDAY TABLE DE HOTE DINNER $1.00 Lincoln's Newest,' Most Modern Restaurant Conveniently Located 1324 "O" St Bring: your date or come alone. Meet your friends At The Blackstone A A rV Give HER a Real Treat on Sunday at Hotel Cornhusker TaMe D'Hote Dinner $1.25 to $1.75 the trigger is going to snap he will net flinch and spoil h'i shot as he does when he snaps the trigger. A few men failed to follow the preliminary instructions so far as not to even have their sling in the proper position. A sling placed properly and tightly 13 very neces sary to secure steadiness in firing. College Students Impractical "The beauty of the Boy Scout movement is that it teachers boys to apply what they Icorn," Colonel Jewett said in discussing the results of the target practice. "One fault of college students is that they n ake no practical application of their studies. A student will study gram mar and English, and then go out and talk just as he did before. Many of the studies take up nothing but mere theory. Of course, there are some studies, such as chemistry. physics, toology, and others that do teach the students to apply their knowledge. "One of the purposes of the target practice is to give students an op portunity to practice in the applies tion of things they have been taught Some students avail themselves of this opportunity, and others dont The scores show the extent of this application. "We are rather proud of the fact that not one accidental shot wag fired this year. There are a few rules that must be observed in fir ing on a range," Colonel Jewett concluded, "and if these rules are obeyed there never will be any acci dents, but as yet a fool-proof range hasn't been devised." Many Attend 'Varsity Drag' (Continued from Page 1.) lights formed a pleasing roof effect. Tinsel and bells were also used to carry out the Yuletide note in the decorations. Refreshments were punch and wafers. Chaperons for the party were: Dr. and Mrs. B. C. Hendricks, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Prescott, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Manter, Captain and Mrs. Lyons, Professor and Mrs. J. D. Hicks, Mr. and Mrs.'C W. Ackerson. The "Varsity Drag" was the last dance to be held before the Christ mas holidays. The next varsity party will be February 17. BOWMAN IS VALUABLE MAN Captain of 1927 Oklahoma Affies Is Chosen by Team Mates Stillwater, Okla., December 17. Ransom (Pat) Bowman, of Pawnee, captain of the 1927 Oklahoma Ag gie football team, has been chosen by his team mates as the most val uable man on the squad. He will receive a watch offered by a local -YOUR DRUG STORE" Withes 701a vary aappT Christmas and all rose thing- lor the mw Year. Owl Pharmacy S. E. Car. 14 P. Phee BlOM ( y shall I do fSsgL Vbrg) with Wgp that B3367 VARSITY CLEANERS AND DYERS jewelry company, of Stillwater. Nine players were nominated for the honor. Among the points consid ered in the selection were: general football ability, team spirit and co operation with players and coaches, ambition and interest, attendance at practice, willingness, improvement during season, scolarship and attend ance of classes, grades in season, all around character an dobservation of training rules in and out of season. Physical Education Club Holds Luncheon The Physical Education club will hold its regular monthly luncheon Monday, December 19, at 12 o'clock at Mrs. Bizby's food shop. Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman of the Home Economics Department of the College of Agriculture, will be the speaker. The feature of the lunch eon will be a Christmas party. CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS From TDCKER-SBEAN 1123 O Street Gifts that are Sure to please For Him For Her Diamonds Watches Silverware Fine Clocks Jewelry Leather Goods Fine Stationery Fountain Pen Desk Sets Pen and Pencil Sets Games, all kinds The pleasure of a Tucker Shean gift will live in memory long after less lasting gifts are forgotten. 3 Days Until Vacation Come in and select those collegiate gifts before you go home. We have a large assort ment to choose from. Co-Op Book Store just east of Temple