WEATHER
Partly cloudy; not much change
in temperature.
,3 ll A
LEAP YEAR
"I think it's pretty hot myself.'
Geraldine Heikes, '29,
Dakota City.
VOLTxXVH, NO. 93.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN. NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1928.
PRICE 5 CENTS
SOUSA WRITES
SPECIAL MARCH
FOR NEBRASKA
Famous Composer Complies
With Request Made
Last Autumn
TO BE FORWARDED SOON
University Band Will Have
Own Distinctive Music
For Programs
John Philip Sousa has composed a
"University of Nebraska March"
which will be forwarded to Univer
sity officials soon.
Sousa's military band presented a
concert in Lincoln last fall, and the
leader was asked at that time by
Acting Chancellor E. A. Burnett to
compose a march for the Cornhusker
school Word was received yester
day that Commander Soura had com
pleted the "University of Nebraska
March."
Write Letter to Burnett
Nebraska's R. O. T. C. band will
soon have a distinctive march written
by the "march . king" of America.
The letter telling of it follows:
Dear Mr. Burnett:
Remembering my promise! to write
a march to be dedicated to your Uni
versity, the inspiration started work
ing a couple of weeks ago and last
night I finished the band score and
the piano score of the march.
Will you let ma know immediately
if you want the title called the
"March of the University of Ne
braska," or ' whatever other names
suggests itself that will be in keeping
with the dedication? I sincerely hope
the march will appeal to you and the
students. My friends seem to like it
very much.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed)
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA.
STUDENT S1I0BS ARE
THEtlE OF VESPERS
Tuesday Meeting Takes Up "Greatest
Student Sin" as It Affects
UniTersity Life
Snobbishness, voted most popular
ly as the worst student sin in a re
cent canvass, was discussed at Ves
pers Tuesday evening both as it af
fected individuals and as it affects
group organizations.
"Snobbishness is probably a much
greater sin than the other things
which were mentioned as sins when
the votes were taken, because the
other things don't hurt other people,
they are individual concerns, and
snobbishness is something we do that
hurts someone else," declared Mrs.
Eoy Green, a member of the advisory
board of the Y. W. C. A. She dealt
with snobbishness particularly-as it
affects the individual.
"The snobs that step on people! are
no worse than the enobs that let
themselves be stepped on," she con
tinued, "but sometimes we Just don't
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ELLEN SUM'S LIFB
IS BOOKLET SUBJECT
Literary Society Publishes History
end Anecdotes Concerning Early
University Reg-is trar
To the memory of Ellen Smith,
the registrar of this University from
1877 to 1902, who was commonly
mown to her students as "Ma"
Smith, Josephine Frisbie and Mar
Jorie Stuff, representing Chi Delta
M, women's literary society, have
Published a booklet of the life of
Miss Smith.
Doubtless some of the students
Joye wondered why that stately
building at the corner of R street
ud Fourteenth was named Ellen
Smith Hall. This building,' like the
booklet, is a tribute to the memory
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Scientists Are Always Open to
Conviction, Says E. F. Schram
(Editor', Note: The following
the third, of a series of inter.
'ws with University of Nebras-
"entists concerning scientif
" dogmatism, which will be
PublUheJ in Tk. n.;1 N.kr...
1 .)
II (By P.ul Nelson)
j 1 'Periionally I do not think that
s J ' pier.c6 is dogmatic in its
U rations" declared Prof. E. F.
r&mm, professor of geology,
hek asked fnr t.h,
sked for his opinion on the
U ; minK as dosmutio f '-
j -"" at religion was until recently.
Organization Write-up$
Wanted for Cornhusker
All organization write - ups
should be in the Cornhusker office
not later than Thursday, an
nounced Fritz Daly, organization
editor, yesterday. To date, few of
the organizations have turned in
their stories and it is holding the
staff back in their work. The or
ganization section will go to press
as soon as the write-ups are
turned in.
They should include a list of the
members, officers, the organiza
tion's activities, when it was estab
lished and what for. Any other
information, not exceeding 250
words, as to the nature of the
organization is deserec?.
BURNETT PLANS
PARKING CHANGE
Acting Chancellor Proposes
New Traffic Rules for
University
EXTEND YELLOW LINES
Suggested changes in the present
parking regulations affecting the
University near R street were-proposed
by Acting Chancellor E. A.
Burnett in a letter Monday to Com
missioner Bair.
Chief among the contents of the
letter was the statement that the
Chancellor planned to ask for an or
der banning parking for about twen
ty-five feet on each side of Twelfth
street, along the north side of R
street.
Would Help Walks
"That is," Chancellor Burnett ex
plained Monday evening, "the yellow
line on the north side of R street
would be extended east and west
from Twelfth street to the other
sidewalks." He pointed out that these
sidewalks are used extensively by
students and that clearance of cars
parked in that region caused consid
erable traffic disorder at the corner
of Twelfth and R streets, particu
larly during the rush hours.
The letter also stated that permis
sion would be asked for parking at
the fire department cistern near the
Law building at Tenth and R streets.
Not more than two cars can be
parked at the cistern, according to
the Chancellor, and in the evert of
fire they could be removed easily.
Objection to ' this latter proposal
was voiced by Fire Chief Hansen.
"The cistern should never be block
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UISSOURIANS WILL
ENTERTAIN HATHEH
Valler Wrestling Meet Scheduled
For March 9 and 10 at
Columbia School
Missouri University will be host
to the Missouri Valley wrestlers in
the Valley meet on March 9 and 10,
as announced by Chester L. Brewer,
director of athletics at the Tiger
schooL
Seven of the ten Missouri Valley
members will send full seven-member
teams to the meet. Grinnell, Wash
ington and Drake will send individual
entrants in several classes. The' latter
three schools in the conference have
not entered a schedule of intercol
legiate dual wrestling meets.
Continuous Matches
On Friday morning, March 9, the
matches will be run off in a contin
uous performance, which will close
Saturday .night Two rings in Roth
well gym will be 6et up so that two
matches may be run off at the same
time.
"Sec" Taylor, sports editor of the
Des Moines Register and veteran
official, and Leon Bayamn, wrestling
coach at Kemper Military school and
a former national champion, will of
ficiate.
Gold, silver, and bronze medals
will go to the champions, runners-up
and third place winners in the seven
classes.
He expressed the belief that a
scientist is always open to conviction.
If the evidence at hand points to one
opinion today and further evidence
disproves the theory tomorrow, the
scientist is first to change his opin
ion. Those doing research work are
always glad to change their opinions
whenever new evidence arises.
"Science has no one book that it
lays djwn as fundamental," con
tinued Professor Schramm. "That is
why it cannot be dogmatic It
sometimes appears that way, but
! W0! t At) BBdjHItl
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Campus Topics
Revolve About
New Prom Girl
Co-Eds Boost Candidates for
Position as March 2
Draws Nearer
Speculation as to the probable
choice of the Prom Girl, has been
the main topic of campus chatter
the past few days. With hardly more
than a week left until the prom,
March 2, sorority sisters have al
ready started a campaign for their
particular choice. Junior and senior
men are being confronted at least
six times a day with the question,
"Who is your choice for Prom Girl?"
Misses Ruth Palmer, Edith Mae
Johnson, Hah May Cottrell, Maxine
Smith, Geraldine Fleming and Ernes
tine McNeil will be candidates for
final ballotting the night of the prom
as a result of the second semester
elections. This plan enables all jun
iors and seniors to have a part in
the selection of the prom girl.
"Dates" Will Influence
Final voting will no doubt develop
into the choice of the "date." Soror
ities at present are not guilty of poli
tical factions but those not having
a member in the final polling will
probably instruct sisters as to whom
they should support and even in this
day and age, the woman reigns su
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STARRELS TALKS AT
NOON WORLD FORUM
Rabbi of Lincoln Church Will Speak
at Regular Weekly Meeting at
Grand Hotel Today
"Americanization and Common
Sense" will be the subject of the talk
to be given by Solomon E. Starrels,
rabbi of the Jewish Congregational
church, B'Nai Jesurun, this noon at
the World Forum luncheon. Tickets
are still on sale at the Y. M. C. A.
and the Grand Hotel.
At his many appearances before
World Forum, Rabbi Starrels has met
with success, according to the opin
ions of those connected with: World
Forum luncheons. A large crowd ia
expected by the committee to greet
Rabbi Starrels when he presents his
address today. Having completed
many speeches on topics of nation
wide interest, Mr. Starrels will come
to World Forum today with many
recommendations from those who re
cently heard him address the Wo
man's Club of the city on the subject
of "Americanization and Common
Sense."
He is at the present time a student
in the University of Nebraska.
Since his arrival 'in Lincoln in
1923, Mr. Starrels has spoken at
World Forum on various occasions.
In 1925 he gave an address on the
subject oiUniversalism." Today
he will attempt to give his points of
view on the subject of "Americaniz
ation and Common Sense."
BOMB EC WILL SIDDY HEAT
Professor Loeffel Will Demonstrate
. Different Grades of Meat
On Wednesday and Thursday af
ternoons the food study classes of
the home economics department,
under the direction of Miss Matilda
Peters, will attend a meat-cutting
demonstration given by Professor
W. J. Loeffel of the Animal hus
bandry department The demonstra
tions will be given at the meat lab
oratory at the Agricultural college.
In the demonstrations Professor
Loeffel will aim to show the students
the different grades of meat as well
as to acquaint them with the differ
ent wholesale and retail cuts.
It is felt that this demonstration
is a most valuable part of tha work
given on meats.
Business Officials
Will Visit Students
Officials of the Northwestern Bel1
Telephone and Western Electric com
panies will be on the campus Thurs
day and Friday interviewing grad
uating seniors. Seniors who wish to
learn of opportunities or college
men in these organizations may meet
them in Mr. Bullock's office, Social
Science 307.
Kotmet Shoir Cast Hps
Not Yet Been Selected
Persons who tried out for the
Kosmet Klub show, "The Love
Hater," will be compelled to wait
another day before the cast is an
nounced. Due to the isnexvjeted crowd of
applicants Monday evening it will
take Kosmet Klublonger to pick
the cast. It will probably be an
nounced in tomorrow's Issue of
The Daily Nebres'f aw.
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Above, are the members of the
tion of government interference with the University of Missouri. vFrom left to right they are: top row, David
Fellman, Robert Baldwin, Reginald Miller; bottom row, Lester Schoene, Evert Hunt, Joseph Ginsberg. Lester
Schoene and Evert Hunt debated at Missouri last night, while David Fellman and Reginald Miller appeared
against the southerners at Lincoln. The other two members of the team did not debate against Missouri.
Y. J. C. A. HEN
ARE HPNATED
Hager and Olson Candidates
For President; Hunt, Groth,
Tomson Will Run
BALLOTS WILL BE MAILED
Nominations for officers of the
University Y. M. C A. for next year
were made- at a recent meeting of
the nominating committee. Those
who were nominated were: Gordon
V. Hager, 29, Lincoln, Lincoln, and
Carl W. Olson, '30, Lincoln, presi
dent; F. Wendell Groth, '31, Lin
coln, and Coburn T. Tomson, '31,
Lincoln, secretary; Joe M. Hunt, '28,
Scottsblnff, repreEfictaiii'e on the
Rocky Mountain field council.
No vice-president was nominated
as the candidates receiving the next
to the highest number of votes for
president will automatically become
vice-president. The latter is not
merely a nominal position but shares
the responsibility of the work con
nected with the office of the presi
dent. New Office Made
A new office has been created,
that of representative of the Rocky
Mountain field council. It has come
about through the creation of the
new national student division of the
Y. M. C. A. Under this plan there is
a council in each field into which the
country is divided.
This position has taken the place
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Y. W. G. A. DINNER
IS THURSDAY HIGHT
Annual Staff Entertainment Will Be
Held in Preparation for
Finance Drire
A dinner for all staff members of
the Y. W. C. A. will be held Thurs
day evening at 6 o'clock, in Ellen
Smith HalL The dinner will serve
as the annual get-together of the
staffs in preparation for the annuaf
Grace Coppock drive to collect funds
for Nebraska in China. Miss ElBie
Ford Pieper will speak nn Grace Cop
pock's school years at Nebraska.
A musical 6kit will be presented by
Harriet Davies, Pauline Bilon, Kath
erine Williams, Faye Williams,
Geneva Davis, and Hasel Sutton.
Delta Omicron, musical sorority, will
I urnhsh entertainment during the din
ner. Eloise Keefer, chairman of the
Publicity Committee, is in charge of
the affair, assisted by Dorothy Craig,
decoration; Geraldine Heikes, serv
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BIG SISTERS PLAN
WASHINGTON PARTY
Will Giro Annual Entertainment for
Little Sisters Saturday at.
Ellen Smith Hall
George Washington's birthday ia to
be the occasion of a party given for
the Little Sisters of the campus by
the Big Sisters Advisory "toard at
Ellen Smith Hall, Saturday, Febru
ary 25. Every February the Little
SicUn are entertained. Last year a
Valentine Day program featured the
party.
The Big and Little Sisters will
gather at 3 o'clock Saturday after
U.VUU. Fur two he urs they will be
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University of Nebraska
V-
t
University of Nebraska debate team,
Visitor Gives
Local Campus
His Approval
By Bill McCleery
"The Nebraska student council
made a wise move in eliminating all
but the senior honoraries under the
existing circumstances," stated Hart
ley Pollock in an interview last eve
ning before the Missouri-Nebraska
debate. Pollock is a member of the
Mizzou debate team, president of the
Missouri student body and was a
delegate to the National Student
Federation of America convention
held in Lincoln this winter.
"The average university campus,"
continued Mr. Pollock "is over-organized.
I believe in concentration
upon university work which is lost in
toe many individual organizations." j
Pollock went on to say that, itf his'in Tuesday's meet; tie ed team.
nnininn tt,P atndfent -m,nril of a uni- 95-55 and the Black team. 81 Pints-
versity should occupy the paramount
place among university organiza
tions. He added that Nebraska's sys
tem represented what he considered
the proper arrangement of organiza
tions. Approres N. S. F. A. Met
Pollock expressed his approval of
the manner in which the N. S. F. A.
convention was handled at Nebraska.
"Jensen, Palmer and Kezer deserve
a lot of credit," remarked the de
bater. Incidentally, the N. S. F. A.
convention will be held at Missouri
next fall.
"I'm mighty glad to be back!" as
serted Hartley Pollock, emphasizing
the fact that he had been very hos
pitably received. He was inter
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HOME EC GIVES NEW COURSE
Household Equipment Laboratory
Is in Machinery Hall
The laboratory for household
equipment, a new home economics
course, is located on the second floor
of Machinery HalL The room has
been turned into an attractive labor
atory and is one of the busiest places
on the campus.
There are now five units in the
laboratory: the laundry unit, the
house cleaning unit, the stove unit,
the eletrical appliance unit, and the
non-electrical appliance unit. Each
contains household jappliances.
Special effort iB being made to
have a course in household equip
ment in summer school. This will
be useful for graduates who will re
turn for summer school work.
A new home economics course in
special problems in equipment is be
ing offered this semester according
to Miss Mary Mason who has charge
of this 'work. This requires that the
girls taking this course do work on
individual research problems.
Eight practical equipment prob
lems are well under way and are be
ing worked out by the following girl
who compose this class; Ruth Davis,
Henrietta Fleck, Dorothy Lawler,
Kathryn Meier, Mary Mills, llarg
aret Richert, Mary Theobald, Thelma
Young and Jessie Baldwin.
Leaders in Prom Ticket
Sale Will Get in Free
The three students who sell
the most tickets to the Junior
Senior Prom will be given com
plimentary ticked to the party,
it was announced yesterday by
Charles O. Brucek chairman ef
the ticket committee. Students
wishing to buy tickets may obtain,
them at their respective fraternity
houses or in the Cornfcucker or
!suiy Nebraskan offices.
Debaters
!
V
it'
which last night debated the ques
BLUES RECORD
TRI-COLOR WIN
Senior Team Finishes First
On Cinders for Third
Consecutive Time
RED GROUP IS SECOND
The senior Blue team again proved
its supremacy when it won its, divi
sion for the third consecutive time in
the tri-color track meet staged Tues
day afternoon under the east stadium.
Coach Henry F. Schulte, Jimmy
Lewis, "Choppy" Rhodes, and the
student managers, William Dubois
and Harold Miller, supervised the
meet.
The Blue team scored 102,5 points
Th.e junior Black um Korei
52
points and edged out the Blues who
totaled 51. The Red team garnered
48 points for third place.
New Scoring System
According to the scoring system
used by the student managers, the
winning team of each meet makes
one point; second place, two; and
third place, three. The team having
the lowest number of points after the
j first four m?ets wins a "feed" from
!the other two teams of each division.
Following the first three meets, ac
cording to this scoring method, the
seniir Blue team has three points;
the Red team, 6 points, and the
Black team 9. The Blue team has
already won the first series of four
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PRIZES ARE OPEN TO
UNIVERSITY CO-EDS
College Women's Association Offers
Scholarship Awards to From
One to Four Students
The Lincoln branch of the Amer
ican Association of University Wo
men will give scholarship awards to
women students who will be juniors
or seniors next year. The applies
,tion blanks may be secured at the
j office of the Dean of Women and
must be filled out by March 12.
The awards are made on the basis
of high scholarship or academic dis
tinction and financial need. The com
mittee in charge consists of Dr.
Winona Perry, Dean Amanda Hep
pner, Professor Margaret S. Fedde,
Mis Gprfrude Hacford and Mioe
Muriel Greer. -
Four students received the schol
arship awards last year, and from
one to four may be given it for the
coming year.
Campus Knights Fare Forth Bravely
To Rescue of Beleaguered Damsels
By Maxine HiU
The Say of chivalry has not van
ished from modern campuses. The
Alpha Sigs effectively proved that
knighthood is in flower when they
volunteered as a chapter to rescue
their neighbors, the Tri Delta, whose
doors, windows, and fire escape were
being battered by a veritable army
of little ragamuffins. Perhaps all
members of the chapter couldn't find
tr iir trusty pers and asmar.
A swarm of boys, ranging in age
from about ten to fourteen, feeling
especially sociable, burst into the Tri
Delt boose through the back door late
! causa a stampede, smoking their
'weed cigsrets and demonstrating their
NEBRASKA WINS
AUDIENCE YOTE
OYER MISSOURI
Debaters, Upholding Negative
Of Jssue, Get Majority
On Their Side
JUDGE WILSON PRESIDES
Visitors Contend that Rights
Of People Are Being
Taken Away
By Don Carlson
Exhibiting concise, energetic ar
guments, propounded with striking
bits of humor, the Nebraska debate
team, debating on the negative side
of the question, "resolved, that this
house deplores the tendency of gov
ernments to interfere in the rights
of individuals," won the decision by
majority of the audience over the
Missouri debate team, in the inter
collegiate debate held last night at
the Social Science auditorium.
The Nebraska team composed of
David Fellman and Reginald C. Mil
ler presented a constructive argu
ment that won the approval of the
audience over the Missouri debaters,
Mr. M. M. Christensen and Mr. Hart
ley Pollock. Although the debaters
of this University were accorded a
large majority of the votes, the de
bate was very close, according to the
opinion of Judge W. W. Wilson, of
the Supreme Court Commission, who
presided.
"I think that this was a magnifi
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GLEE CLUB SONGS
WILL BE BROADCAST
Radio Fans Will Hear Program by
Men's Chorus From Local
Station KFAB
The Men's Glee Club of the Uni
versity of Nebraska will broadcast
from KFAB Wednesday night at 10
o'clock. Herman T. Decker, director,
accompanied by Jean E. Decker, will
give a group of songs. He has se
lected In Arcady by Moonlight,
Branscombe; The Desert Song, Rom
berg; Captain Mac, Sanderson, and
The Drum Major, Newton.
The Glee Club will give the two
following groups of songs: Song of
the Volga Boatmen, Russian Folk
Song; Stars of the Summer Night,
Woodbury; The Heart of You (from
the Largo of Dvorak's "New World
Symphony") ; Love's Greeting, Elgan.
The second group is: Sweet Little
Woman O' Mine, Bartlett; Plantation
Love Song, Deems Taylor, and
Droutheim (a short Cantata), Proth
eroe. The Varsity Quartet consisting of
(Continued on Page 3.)
DEAN LYUAN IS ON
STATE COMMITTEE
Nebraska Professor Named Chairman
Of Croup for Revising Local
Physiology Courses
Dr. R. A. Lyman, dean of the Col
lege of Pharmacy, has been appointed
chairman of a committee for revision
of physiology courses offered in the
hi'h schools of the state. The ap-
pointment was made by the State De-
partment of Public Instruction,
through G. W. Rosenlof, director of
secondary education and teacher
training in the state.
It will be Doctor Lyman's duty as
chairman to appoint members of his
committee and to supervise the work
of revision. This committee is re
sponsible for the preparation and
submission of a one-semeeter course
in physiology to the general commit
tee on revisions, which is composed
of seven members representing the
university, the state department, and
the Nebraska State Teachers' Asso
ciation. knowledge of profanity. Those who
were forcibly puebed out or who were
not lucky enough to get in scrambled
up the fire escape, ran around to the
windows, or began to push against
the doors which by that time werfc
firmly barricaded by a half dorn ter
rified fcirls. .
In answer to a hurried telephone
call two noble knights emerged fm
the Alpha Sig bouse, and since the
marauders bad ODLiued tlmr efforts
in an attempt to make another en
trance through the back door, the
would-be rescuers glanced skerticul
ly about and strolled leisurely across
His -lrcw. AuvtLc and cne
front door was t;;'m tLe foLJect if
(Contirm i ca 1"; - S.)
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