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WEATHER Tartly cloudy today. The LEAP YEAR "Why, it's a good opportunity." Helen Day, '30, Lincoln. AILY SKAN D NEBRA volTxxvh, NO. 91. BOARD NAMES FARMER'S FAIR COMMITTEES Arthur Hauke Heads Senior Group; Spence Is Leader Of Junior Board DATE IS SET FOR MAY 5 Many Students Are Chosen to Serve on Committees For Tenth Event Qolnrtion of the committee for the tCnth annual Farmer's Fair was completed yesterday afternoon, ac cording to Arthur Hauke '28, man ager of this year's fair, which will be held May 5. Members of the board are; Arthur Hauke '28 Woodriver, Manager; Gladys Renfro '28 Red Cloud, Sec retary; Anton Frolik '28 DeWitt; Treasurer; Lucille Refshauge '28 Aurora; Elsie Marsh '28 Lewellen; Taul Jenkins '28 Gothenburg. There is also a junior board that meets with the senior board but has no vote. They are: Robin Spence '29 Crab Orchard; Ormand Benedict '29 Darlington, Wisconsin; Clarence Bartlctt '29 Bird City, Kansas; Eve lyn Mansfield '29 Omaha; Dorothy (Continued on Page 4) FOLLIES VIEWED BY MANY CO-EDS Delta Omicron Is Awarded First Prize; Tumbling Act Wins Second Place ORCHESTRA ENTERTAINS More than 500 women attended the Co-Ed Follies at the Temple Theater last evening. This annual event is sponsored by the Associated Women's Student Board. "Souvenirs," presented by Delta Omicron, won the first prize of fif teen dollars. "Tumbling Act," put on by Hazel Johnson and LaNct'tc Knox, and a cast of ten, was awarded the second prize of ten dollars. TL. judges were Miss Alice Howell, Miss (Continued on Page 2) DEAN HEPPNER WILL ATTEND (MENTION Women's Executive Leave for Meet Of National Association of Deans of Women Miss Amanda Heppner, dean of women, will leave February 21 to attend the convention of the Nation al Association of Deans of Women which will begin in Boston February 27. Miss Heppner will make stop overs in Chicago, Columbus, Pitts burgh and Philadelphia, both on her way and returning. Except in Pitts burgh Miss Heppner will be honored at either luncheons or dinners by the Altrusa club, a woman's organization (Continued on fage 2) W. C. T. U. Essay Entry Date Is Now March 31 The date for the submission of en tries in the W. C. T. U. contest which was announced in the Daily Nebras kan Tuesday, has been extended to March 31. Any student in the university is eligible to compete for the fifty dollar prize which is offered for the best essay on the "Significance of the World Movement Against Alcohol ism.' 'Some Scientists Says Dr. R. J. (Editor's Notei Current mag azines and newspaper have been carrying an increasing vol ume of literature charging science with becoming dogmatic The following is the first of series of interview with Univer ity of Nebraska scientist con cerning scientific dogmatism, Viiicm will be published in The Daily Nebraskan.) By Paul Nelson "Of course there is no question that some scientists have been and are dogmatic, but we must distin guish between science and scien tists," was the statement of Dr. R. J. Pool, chairman of the department of botMy at the University when asked for his opinion on the rather Prevalent idea that science is becom jng almost as dogmatic in its asser tions as religion was until a few years ago. "The fundamental keynote of THE 'II Trovatore' Musical Conductor . ") ".: .'.i:'!S :.!.:- V:; v.- : J :' :' 5 ! . " .'S r Giorgio Polacco, noted opera conductor, who will lead the Chicago Civic Opera Company's presentation of 'II Trovatore' in the Coliseum, Thursday, March 29. Mr. Polacco has conducted over one hundred and fifty operas throughout the world, and prides himself on his faculty to remember each of these operas. SALE OF PROM TICKETS BEGINS Representatives in Fraternity Houses May Get Tickets This Afternoon PRICE IS THREE DOLLARS Tickets for the Junior-Senior Prom, the closing party of the for mal season, scheduled for Friday, March 2, at the Scottish Rite Temple will go on sale today. Fraternity and non-fraternity men who are hanJ'ir.s the tickets are listed below. Junior and senior men may secure tickets from them all this week, until Sun day, when the sale closes. The tick ets are listed at $3.00 per couple. Each ticket will carry with it a vote for the selection of the Prom girl, the vote to be cast that evening as the person enters the door of the Temple. The votes will be counted (Continued on Page 2) BOXING TOURNEY IS WON BY DELTA SIGS Farm House Is Second; Theta Chi Is Third; Two Knockouts in Finals Yesterday Delta Sigma Phi won the inter fraternity boxing tournament yester day afternoon by winning the class .championships in the 147, lau, ana 156 pound divisions and winning a !r.,mhir of seconds. Farm House clinched second place, while Theta Chi took third place. The heavyweight clash between TTi-hfin Alnha Siema Phi. and Frahm, ! Farm House, resulted in a victory for the latter via the K. U. route. Urban seemed to be holding up his end of the argument until the th'rd round when Frahm began to plant hard punches to the head and finally one of, them clipped Urban on the jaw and the fight was over. Poet Wins Poet, Midwestern A. A. U. cham pion, fighting for Delta Sigma Phi scored the only other knockout of the program over Baker, Alpha Gam ( Continued on kage 2) Are Dogmatic' Pool in Interview science is radicalism rather than dogmatism," he continued, empnasi. ing the fact that science is always first to recognize new discoveries and discard old ideas wiien eviuc.. is strong enough to refute them. He recognized the fact that some scien tists do cling to old ideas with a dogmatism similar to that of the old religion, but was emphatic in his as- sertion that dogmatism to be deplored in a scientist as much as in any person. Science is .rn. The very fact that scientists do not make absolute statements on sub . . i-ivu (tan arc not nuite sure jecis oi '"v-j tends to discredit them in the eyes of some persons, m vV....v,.. Doctor Pool. Some criticize science because they can see no use in pur suing a study which is always chang ing They seem to think that scien tists are unreliable because they are (Continued on Page 4) UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, Herb Yenne Has Difficult Time Selecting Cast (By Bill McCleery) "How about sineing us a little sone?" asked "Herb" Yenne, author and director of the Kosmet Klub show, "The Love Hater," of approx imately seventy embryonic actors I yesterday. Yenne asked this ques tion seventy times, with alterations, receiving varied answers. Some said they 'could sing certainly. And the odd part about it is that some of them could sing. Two Alpha Sigs, modest, unassum ing examples of the healthy Ameri can boy (advertisement) stated pos itively that they could not sing, un ! der pressure, however, the lads, coax ed forth a little close harmony on '"There Is No Place Like Nebraska," The harmony was very close, as a matter of fact, the two ending scarc- ly two lengths apart. Zollv Lorner exhibited a little character interpretation for the part of Sorel Cabnllo, Italian, giving Dotn the Hebrew and the French dialects. (Continued on Page 3) Ag College Film, The Qmst', Is Distributed To Fifty-Three Towns Ugliness, drudgery, malnutrition, misunderstanding and dircontent are evils which the home economics de partmcnt of the Univcrsit joi Ne braska, is tryi ig to banish in trie mo tion Tjicture 'ibe Quest," which has been prepared by the faculty and students of the College of Agricul ture. Filming of the piuure was started during rehersais for "The Quest" a pageant wh'cn was presented t'uring Farnrs Fair last tprii g, on the Col lege of Agriculture campus. The pageant was written by Miss Edna Benson, then a member of the home economics faculty, coached by her, and presented by students in the de partment of home economics. The film has been sent to fifty three different towns in the state where superintendents and home ec onomics instructors will present it to the high school students in the hope that the true value of a home eco nomics education will be noticed. FEBRDARY ISSUE OF ALUMNUS RELEASED Announcement of Alumni Election Is Made) Ag College Campus Is Full-Page Cut The February issue of The Nebras ka Alumnus, official alumni publica tion, was released to the mails Sat urday by V. Royce West, editor. This month's book covers campus happenings and events of interest to graduate readers. A full page cut of a picturesque spot on the College of Agriculture campus is us the forepart of the Alumnus, actn as an introductory note to an artiue on the meeting of ihc Organized Agricutlural group. A list of Nebraska professors nho have published books i nd magazines dur ing the past year i also prominently featured. Announcement is also made in this month's issue of the coming election (Continued on Page 2) LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1928. Prof. Schramm Lectures On Nebraska's Oil Outlook Prof. E. F. Schramm of the de partment of geology will lecture on "Oil Possibilities in Nebraska," at Morrill hall Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The program will also include several selections on the harp by Miss Milliccnt Davis. POLAGCO WILL DIRECT OPERA 'ILTROVATORE' Noted Musical Conductor To Lead Presentation Here March 29 Is HAS CULTIVATED MEMORY Director Remembers Each of One Hundred and Fifty Operas He Has Led Giorgio Polacco, musical director of the Chicago Civic Opera company will be in charge during the musical production of "II Trovatore" at the University of Nebraska Coliseum, Thursday, March 29. ' John K. Selleck, in charge of Lin coln arrangements for the opera pro duction received word Saturday from Clark A. Shaw, general manager of the tour, that Polacco would conduct the Lincoln performance instead of Roberto Moranzoni or Henry C. Weber, assistant directors with the company. "Lincoln music-lovers are fortun ate in that arrangements have been completed to have Giorgio Polacco in charge during the staging of 'II Tro vatore in your city," writes Mr. Shaw. The man who will direct the opera in Lincoln is one of the best known conductors in the operatic realm. He (Continued on Page 2) BOOTS WILL TEACH HERE THIS SUMMER Bruno, Void, Guilford, Camp, Others Have Been Engaged For Short Session ind Twenty-five visiting instructors have been engaged to teach at the University of Nebraska's summer sessions this year, which begin in June and end in August. Among the better-known outsiders are: Dr. Ralph Simpson Boots, pro fessor of political science at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania; Frank J. Bruno, head of the social service de partment at Washington University at St. Louis; George Brvnn Void, in structor in sociology at the Univer sity of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Joy Paul Guilford, assistant professor of psychology, University of Kansas; Pauline Camp, director child guid ance and special education at the University of Wisconsin. Many Are On List Others include: Ralph J. Andrews, instructor in the city schools, Falls City; Clara Olive Bigford, Lincoln City schools; Archer Lowell Burn ham, superintendent, Beatrice (Continued on Page 2) SHORT COURSES iRE POPULAR THIS YEAR Reports Show That More Than Two Hundred Students Enrolled In December, 1927 Attendance in winter short courses so far this vear at the College of Ag riculture has shown a remarkable in crease over that of last year. More than 200 students, mainly farmers, dairvmen. mechanics, ice cream pro ducers, and poultry raisers, enrolled in the courses which started in De cember. 1927. All short courses will have been completed by March 16, at which time the last course in general agriculture will be brought to a close. A large number of farmers took advantage of the special sessions, since no preparatory work is neces sary to enroll in any of the winter courses, and the only requirement is a minimum age limit of 16 years. It is the aim of the college of Agri culture to conduct winter courses for those T,ho do not have the necessary time for a full year's work. (Continued on Page a) Andrews Hall Tunnel Contract is Awarded The steam tunnel contract for r,drews Ilall has bcn awarded to Arthu? Dolson andcompany at $3,87R. There will be 165 feet of tunnel eight feet wide by seven feet high. The floor- will be fif teen feet below the earth's sur face. Work will begin next week. KOSMET KLUB CAST TRYOUTS HELDSATURDAYj More Than Seventy Men Tryi For Parts in Yenne's 'The Love Hater' CAST IS NOT CHOSEN YET Additional Tryouts Will Be Tomorrow Evening at 9 in Temple More than seventy University men exhibited their style' and grace be fore the Kosmet Klub and Herbert Yenne in tryouts held yesterday in the Temple for parts in Kosmet Klub's show, "The Love Hater". Ad ditional tryouts will be held in Tem ple 202 tomorrow evening at 9 o'clock to take care of a number of persons who were unable to try out Saturday. Kosmet Klub announced after the tryouts yesterday afternoon that an unusually largo amount of acceptable talent appeared for "The Love Hater." No definite announcement of the cast has been made, but a number of the leading roles and chorus players have been picked. Request Feminine Characters An urgent request has been sent out by the Kosmet Klub for persons to try out for the part of Mazie (Continued on Page 3.) DEBATE TEAM MEETS MIZZOU Miller, Baldwin, Fellman Make Up Same Team That Went To Manhattan HUSKERS TAKE NEGATIVE Negative debaters for Nebraska will meet the University of Missouri affirmative team in the Social Sciences auditorium Tuesday eve- nine. Thoi question, "Resolved: that this house condemns the tendency of governments to interfere in the rights of individuals," was debated bv the same negative Cornhusker three against the Kansas Agricultur al College in Manhattan last week. Reginald Miller, Robert Baldwin, and David Fellman will make up the team which expostulates with Miz zou Tuesday evening. As usual un der the new system of debate-judging, the audience will vote before and after the debate upon their opin ion of the merits of the question un (Continued on Page 4) LAMBDA CHIS LEAD IN BOWLING TOURNEY Sigma Chi, Xi Psi Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, Kappa Sigma, and D. U. Are Tied for Second Lambda Chi Alpha still leads the bowlers in the inter-fraternity tour nament, as a result of the games last week, with a record of twelve games won and three lost. Kappa Sigma Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Chi, Xi Psi Phi, No. 2, and Delta Upsilon are all tied for second place with eleven games won and four lost. Pi Kappa Alpha is in third place with ten games won and five lost. Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Phi Epsi- lon are tied for fourth, Xi Psi Ph; No. 1, is fifth, and Delta Tau Delta and Pi Kappa Phi are tied for sixth. Games scheduled for next Thurs (Continued on Page 3) OUTLOOK MEETINGS WILL HEAR FILLEY Ag College Professor Will Speak At Gatherings Throughout State This Week "Nebraska does have a long time acTicultural program," Prof. H. C. Filley, chairman of the department of rural economics of the College of Agriculture, is going to tell the far mers who attend the outlook meet ings this week. . "This program is being followed by the most progressive farmers of the state now and is both practical and profitable. Many men have proved that in the last six years," Professor Filley contends. The name long time program was presented last year but some new angles of it will be given this year. He will discuss tha ouasiircn Of labor distributi on and labor income and prosperity of the individual farmer. Just what is profitable farm work vnll be another point. The farmers raise a lot o hegs and then get out of the hog business, (Continued on Page S) LaMonte Will Read From Poets Today Sunday afternoon from 5 until 6 o'clock Mr. John L. LaMonte will read from his favorite poets at Westminster House, 333 North 14 street. The majority of Mr. LaMonte's readings will be selec tions from Arthur Symons, a Cor nish poet, who, under the influ ence of Verlaine and Baudelaire, became a leader of the Symbolist movement in England. Both men and women are invit ed to the literary reading Sunday. The next reader will be the Rev erend John Lever of Holy Trinity. NEBRASKA MATMEN DROP MATCH TO AMES Cornhusker Wrestlers Prove Easy Opponents for Crack Iowa Mat Contingent The crack Ames wrestling team took an easy victory from the Ne braska grappling contingent Friday night 20 1-2 to 4 1-2. In scoring the decisive win, the Iowans won two falls and cartured three decisions. Caotain Luff of Nebraska ws the only Cornhusker wrestler to W5n his match. Luff furnished the only real I excitement of the entire evening when he broke a vise-like body scis sors by rising from the mat and (Continued on Page 4) MANTZ FUNERAL IS TO BEJELJ) TODAY Services for Graduate StucVnt Who Died Thursday Will Be in Grace Lutheran Miss Martha Mantz, a graduate student who has served a group of Lutheran churches as student secre tary in the University, died at the Bryan Alemorial Hospital last Thurs da yevening. funeral services will te held at (.race Lutheran ihurch, 11th ai d F, at 3 o'clock Sunday af-tfi-noon. After the services the lMy will be taken to Philadelphia for burial. Miss Mantz was. graduated from the University of Pennsylvania last June, having majored in education. She came to Nebraska la.t fall, and has been taking graduate work in education and psychology. Miss Mantz was very much interested in religious work among the students and has served as local president and regional secretary of the Lutheran Student Association of America at her Alma Mater. Miss Mantz was born in Philadel phia, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1907. She received her school work in the public schools of that city before en tering upon her university work. The committee on Lutheran stu dent work, in memory of their sec retary, has compiled a" list of resolu tions concerning her death. They console themselves and the family of Miss Mantz in this list of resolu tions. University Uses 1500 Tons of Coal Less This Year Than Last Season Coal consumption for heating the University buildings this year has been 1500 tons less than that of the preceding year, according to a re port from the campus heating and power plant. Last season approx imately 9,000 tons of coal were used for heating and lighting of the city campus and for generating power at the College of Agriculture. More light, however, has been consumed this season than last On February 13, 6,980 kilowatts were used in 24 hours. University Library Possesses 'The Holy Experiment,9 Valued at $175 Book Contains Descriptive Matter And Pictures of Miss OaWIey s Murals in Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. Often students complain about the cost of books especially at the be ginning of the semesters you can hear this universal grumble, lhe book seller's calm announcement that Professor So-and-So's history is only S3.50 new. and S3.45 second handed, brings forth every conceivable ex pression upon the faces of the book purchasers. "However, the University librs-y possesses a book, "The Holy Experi ment," which is valued at Ihts look contains pictures and descrip tive raitter of the murals Miss Vio let Oakley painted in the capitol building of Pennsylvania at Harris bure. The ook, whch is 11 1-4 inches by 17 1-2 inches, is bound in vellum over board, and the paper used is PRICE 5 CENTS HUSKERSDROP TWO GAMES TO KANSAS TEAMS K. U. Takes Game Friday Night by 33-27 Count; Teams Evenly Matched KAGGIES TAKE SECOND Nebraska Was Leading Late in Final Period; Grace and Holm Lead Scoring (Special to the Daily Nebraskan) Dropping the second game of their Kansas trip to the Kansas Aggies by a score of 28 to 22, the Nebraska cagers descended further in the sec ond division of the Valley standings. The Huskers dropped the Friday con test at Lawrence to the Kansas hoop sters by a 33 to 27 score, and lost the Kaggie contest only after a last minute spurt by the Wildcat tossers. Nebraska's present standing of five games won and eight lost reduces the percentage to .385. Mertel, Kaggie player, who had not made a basket until the last four minutes of play suddenly started (Continued on Page 4) PARTY HEAD IS TO BE SELECTED Deadline Is Extended Until 4 O'clock Wednesday by Student Council ANY STUDENT MAY FILE Applications for the chairmanship of the Varsity dance committee will be received by the Student Council ! until Wednesday afternoon at 4 I o'clock, members declared last eve ning following a committee meeting. I The extension was made to enable ! any students who did not know of the opening of the filings until Fri day and were unable to prepare ap I plications before the closing hour. I Any student is eleg.'ble to file for this position. Filings are made at the ! Student Activities office. The only I qualifications necessary are that such i applicants have complied with the rules set down by the office of the I (Continued on Page 4) FACULTY MEMBERS WRITE MANY BOOKS Twenty-Nine Instructors Produce Books in 1927; Many More Write Articles Twenty-nine members of the Uni versity of Nebraska faculty produced books during 1927, it has been dis closed through a close inquiry among the instructional force. Books pub lished include both text books and publications for the general knowl edge of the public. Seventy-seven instructors published magazines ar ticles, stories, poems or reviews. Chief among the books written are those along agricultural lines. Close observation of crop condidtions at the experiment stations of Nebraska has enabled the College of Agricul ture instructors to produce many val uable books for the use of the farm er. "Seedbed Factor in Winter Wheat Production" is a book written through the combined efforts of sev eral men, and its contents is said to be of unestimatable worth to the ru ral residents in the state. Other books produced during the year cover practically all the impor tant departments of the University. Science, language and l&rr are aptly (Continued on Page 4) Japanese handmade. Fifty-five fac similes of the manuscript are printed in red and black. Traces Liberty Fifteen panels comprising the frieze in the governor's reception room make up the first section of the book. This section is entitled "The Founding of the State of Lib erty Spiritual" which traces the de velopment of liberty with the signing of the first compacts giving the peo ple some self-government through the progressive stages to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Creation and Preservation oi the Union" is the title of the second section of the bcok. There are nine 'arje rn5 vlik-h wpra jj'actd in the senate chamber of tho Persr.!:?!- vania capitol building. Important hittles of the United States are co oicted. showing how the Union was (created and preserved from the Vev- lolution down to the present cay. I (Continued on rnr S)