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THE DAILY NEBBASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under direction of the Student Publication Board
TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
Publiahtd Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
moraines during tha academic year.
Editorial Office University Hall 4.
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Office Hours Editorial Staff. 1:00 to 6:00 except Friday and
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Telephonee Editorial) B-em. No. 142; Buiineea: B-68D1. No.
77! Jigni D-DODS.
Entered aa aecond-clasa matter at the Poatoffiea in Lincoln,
Nebraeka. under act of Congress. March 8. 1879. and at special
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Oscar Norling
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Managing Editor
ZAsst. Managing Editor
Asst. Managing uunui
NEWS EDITORS
Paulina Bllon
Dean Hammond
W. Joyce Ayrea
Edward Dickson
Kate Goldstein
Evert Hunt
Maurice W. Konkel
Paul Nelson
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
CHIT F. Sandahl
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CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Maurice Konkel
Paul Nelson
Cliff Sandahl
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Business Manager
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Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager
WHY VOTE?
The names of candidates filing for position, on
the Student Council and the Student Publication board
are announced today. The announcement is the signal
?or active campaigning for votes until he polls close
Tuesday afternoon. Members of both political factions
..:-ii Y, itli fmternitv brothers on the &ai-
especially w.. -
lot-will industriously endeavor to get as many stu
dents as possible out to vote. ut tne mj , -usual,
take little interest and only a small percentage
will bother to cast a ballot.
Why such a lack of enthusiasm and interest?
Few people, one might answer, are interested in
that which they feel no personal participation nor
benefit. And few students are in a position to evaluate
the candidates so that they could feel that the selection
of certain individuals would affect them in any way.
The majority care little whether John Jones or Bill
Smith is elected as a member of the publication board
for what does it matter to them? It is no wonder that
a dull apathy on their part is the result.
But these students should awaken to the fact that,
if they are at all interested in th activities and re
sults obtained by the undergraduate body, elections do
affect them. Better selections of student members of
the publication board result in better selections of those
to head the various publications. And better publica-j
tions naturally result in a more favorable representa
tion of student life. Intelligent selection of student
council members reflect in the same favorable manner.
So there ia an individual reason, although remote
and indirect in most cases, for all to vote. And it is
the duty of each student to bring himself to a position
where he will be able to vote intelligently next Tues
day. What has the man done? What will he do in of
fice? Is he the one who could best carry out the duties
that such an office demands? These are the questions
that one should ..sk of those campaigning for their
candidates. The answers may be loaded with "propa
ganda chaff" but there will be points for comparison
and evaluation.
Students will find it to their advantage to take
interest in the coming election. They should find out as
much as possible concerning the various candidates
and then vote intelligently for the man and his worth,
not for whom he represents.
My mother's hair is divine, my father's eyes are
wonderful, but my girl's next best
much toward creating favorable sentiment for the col
lege and for the profession.
Leaders in the field are brought to Lincoln during
the week to talk to the students on problems of engin
eers and to stimulate professional self-respect and
ethics. This gives the student engineer an opportunity
to get in closer touch with men actively engaged in
the profession and to profit by their experiences.
The success of Engineers' Week is evidenced by
the increasing number of visitors who come to witness
the public displays each year. The giowing popularity
of the demonstration speaks well for the ability of
the engineers in overcoming the inherent handicap of
'their profession by making their work interesting
enough to the general public to create a favorable and
sympathetic response.
The Cynic Says:
From the looks of their political slate, the "Yellow
Jackets" must have held their caucus at the Phi Psi
house.
CAPONSACCHI
Students who attended the University Players pre
sentation of "Caponsacchi" Thursday, Friday, or Sat
urday had the good fortune to see one of the finest
pieces of dramatic art exhibited in the Temple for
several years. And such a statement is in no way
derogatory to the performances of the Players occur
ring during the present student generation.
Miss Howell's students have been a potent factor
in maintaining interest in the exposition of dramatic
qualities in Lincoln. The University Players have es
tablished and maintained an enviable reputation for the
successful presentation of plays of finer quality.
During the past three days, the Players have pre
sented a most difficult play. But it was done in a mas
terful manner. It was easy to understand why Hart
Jenks so endeared himself to the hears of Lincoln play
goers when he was regularly with the University Play
ers. Jenks, Ramsay, Lerner! What a trio they made!
But back of the eplendid acting was a wonderful
play. Rewritten from Browning's "The Ring and the
Book," it was unmistakeably a Browning product.
The play is heavy. But it is powerful and inspiring.
It is a splendid example of the type of art, interest in
which the University might be expected to cultivate.
"Caponsacchi" will be given all this week at the
Temple. Students interested in literature, in dramatic
art, in the final intellectual and aesthetic passibilities,
will find their time well spent if they are able to attend
a performance. To the student who has not yet de
veloped a conscious interest in such art, the play might
not be attractive. The habitual movie-goer, the student
who has never seen a University Players' production,
might, however, be agreeably surprised at the variety
of delights attainable from such a production. It is a
good risk even for the uninterested. The same can
not be said of all artistic productions.
Mentioning Engineers' Week to a lawyer is-like
waving a red flag at a bull. But perhaps we shouldn't
have brought that up.
ENGINEERS' WEEK
This week students in the College of Engineering
will put aside routine work to devote their efforts to
Engineers' Week, the biggest event in their calendar
for the year. It is entirely a student affair and is con
ducted primarily for the purpose of demonstrating to
the public some of the work done in the college and
some of tne new achievements in the field of engin
eeriitj. Tt has the additional purpose of stimulating
students to dc rrewtive wk nn lw-ovrn irJliati?
end to promote professional self-rnpect and ethics
The profession of engineering, because of its In-
rerrnt nature, ia one which is not often brought to
7 '.Mi!; i.&uee. The world knows little of.what is taking
In ti.u lu l l or who its leaders are. The display
-I on riiiruK'r'rs' ineht gives the public an op.
y tit vl.,li ths laboratories and to get tonne Idea
. - ' "ilt ',!?,5r iov'&tr bM of sonny of ths truly'
"- fflvti.' cmIa Th Jcmonstihtlons do
In Other Columns
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Notices
Tennis Instruction
Tennis Instruction for men registered in
courses 22-IX, and 24-IX.
Arrangements have been made to have
Mr. Joe Stanton give instruction in tennis
to all men interested, from 4 to 6 P. M. on
Mondays and Wednesdays, and from 8 to
4 P. M. on Saturdays, for the next three
weeks. This instruction will start on Mon
day next week (April 80). This hour of in
struction will be credited as participation in
tennis for all those who report to Mr. Stan
ton. There will be no charge for this in
struction. (Signed) R. G. Clapp.
TLursuVy May 3
Dramatic Club
The Dramatic Club will meet Thursday
evening at 7 o'clock. Election of officers
will be carried on.
MIRED ON THE HIGHWAYS
A car was mired on a stretch of dirt road. All
four of the wheels were deeply imbedded in the red
"gumbo," but the rear wheels especially, had churned
themselves almost out of sight. Except for the driver,
there was not a person in sight it was early morning.
The man was in a hurry for he was continually pulling
out his watch and debating with himself what was the
best thing for him to do.
The car was hopelessly "stuck." One man in fifty
would have tried to extract it single handed from its
setting of mud. This man was the one. He glanced
around and spied a heavy plank some six or seven feet
long lying nearby. He fetched it and shoved it beneath
the rear axle. Then, by tugging on the end of the plank
he found he had the necessary leverage to work one
wheel loose. He would lift on the plank with both'
hands, then sustaining the weight of the lifted wheel!
with one arm, he used his free arm for pushing rocks
and sticks beneath the tire. In two minutes he had
lifted both wheels a few inches out of the tenacious
clay. He then, optimistically, entered the car and
started the motor. For a moment or two the wheels
whirled in the slush, then they fastened on the sticks
and stones. The car floundered in the ooze, rocked back
and forth wearily and then accomplished a miracle by
inexorably plowing out of the mire to firm ground
leaving two unsightly, yawning furrows of red earth.
The performance was a triumph over the impossible, a
direct proof of the unbelievable.
Everywhere there are people mired. They have
churned themselves into the ground and by all the
laws of God and man they are hopelessly, irredeemably
"stuck." The "gumbo" of life has closed over them.
They have reasoned the matter out themselves and
have come to the conclusion that there is no possible
escape for them. They think, act, and feel life failures.
Inspiration never comes to them. They have no ambi
tion. They have given up, and are terribly glad to live
for they don't believe in miracles.
Such as these might take a lesson from the solitary
motorist, who wasn't "wise" enough to see the hope
lessness of his situation. They might be surprised to
find how often the hopelessly, "it's no use to try " im
possible yields to effort. They might learn to distrust
the finality of human judgmentsespecially their own
and trust once again to hope and imagination and
work. The Minnesota Daily.
"How did you break your wrist?"
"I changed my mind in an authmat restaurant."
-Critograph.
A MYTHICAL PERIL
The hullabaloo raised by eastern universities
against co-education might well be taken to be as re
liable a sigo of the passing of an old frontier, as the
noisy resistance to law in the border camps character
ized the passing of the western frontier.
It is a last cry raised by the adherents of the old
New England tradition that a man should be educated
and a girl "finished." It is the last wail of another
obsolescent tradition slowly crumbling before the as
saults of feminism.
In the west, where co-education is the rule instead
of the exception, the furor is little heard. Woman has
long been accorded her place in the sun, and the west
ern man, instead of bewailing such a condition, has set
himself to meet the criteria of the modern college
woman.
The vanity of the eastern college man has beta
hurt. He likes to think he is superior to mere woman.
His ego demands that he set the model by which his
mate is to be judged. Co-education reverses this condi
tion and the co-ed has very definite physical, mental
and moral standards which she expects her life mate
to meet.
Th eastern man for all of his blase air and worldly
sophistication is altogether too close to his Simian
ancestors. The day when an educated woman can I
impressed by a strutting vain-glorious male it passed.
She is mentally and economically independent and she
knows it. She is suffering under no illusions as to the
genus man. That she is quite capable of offering sharp
scholastic competitions will be shown by the records
of any co-educational institution.
So, we say, let the eastern college man gracefully
submit before he is forced to do so. Instead of lament
ing because the college woman no longer regards him
as a demigod to be ignorantly worshipped, let him set
to work to meet the rational standards she has set.
University Daily Kansan.
Some writers have a fine flow of other writers'
thoughts. Valpraiso Torch.
VACATIONS
"Whenever a college man applies to me for a job
I never inquire about his scholastic standing," recently
remarked a business man, himself a university grad
uate. "What I want to know is how he epends his sum
mer vacations three months per annum, and before
he gets his degree that amounts to a whole year, the
most valuable I think, of his entire collegiate course.
Never again will he have a similar opportunity. If he
has wasted it, I know something about him; if not,
he has a record worth showing."
Perhaps, the matter of grades are underestimated
in tho ralnd of tli 8 above business men, but neverthe
less, it is certain that a great deal of knowledge can be
amassed in a summer's work. This applies especially
to engineering students. One of the most important
phases, of an engineer's education is the actual exper
ience which he possesses. The man who has spent his
summera working, is much more valuable to his em
ployer than the man who has proclaimed the summer
month a holiday after a Wl tr t school. The
Purdue Exponent.
New Books Cover
Variety of Topics
(Continued from Page 1)
"An Athletic Program," by Ander
sen, and Extensive and Intensive
Teaching of Literature," by Coryell.
Students interested in art will find
much available material among the
following books: "Religion and Art
in Ashanti," by Rattray, "The Cliff
Dwellers of Kenya-Massam," The
Analysis of Art," by Parger, "The
Arts in Early England," by Bald
win Brown (consisting of four large
voh.mes dealing with the history and
influence of Saxon and Anglo-Saxon
art), "Greek Vase Painting," by
Buscher, "Beethoven's Letter)," by
Kalischer, "Sonata Appassionata," by
Beethoven, "American Mystical
Verse and Anthology," by Hunter,
"Plays of Negro Life," by Locke and
Gregory, and "Last Links with Byron,
Shelley and Keats," by Graham.
Books and economics subjects in
clude "Getting and Spending at the
Professional Standard of Living," by
Peixotto, "Karl Marx on Value," by
Scott, "Prize Law During the World
War," by Garner, "The Mediaeval
English Sheriff to 1300," by Morris,
"Manual of Municipal Accounting,;'
by Morey, "The Business of the Su
preme Court," by Frankfurter and
Landis, "Who Are the Benefactors?"
by Chesley, and "Light From the
North," by Hart.
The books on history are "The Pa
pal Monarchy," by Barry, "The Com.
mon People of Ancient Rome," by
Abbott, "Factors in Modern History,"
by Pallord, "The Borderland in the
Civil War," by Smith, "Washington,
The Man Who Made Us," by Mac
Kaye, and "Applied History," by
Shambaugh (four volumes on the
county government and administra
tion in Iowa).
Fiction
Fiction is represented by "Adam
and Eve," by Erskine, "Tristan and
Isolt," by Masefield, "The Letter,"
by W. Somerset Maugham, "Jeremy
at Crale," by Hugh Walpole, "The
Works of Arteno," (2 volumes) by
Covici, "Saturday Night," by Bena-
venti, "Nigger Heaven," bv Van
Vechten, "The Arrested Moment and
Other Stories," by Dobie, and "Show
Window," by Davis.
Books treating miscellaneous topics
iwo Vagabond in Albania." bv
Gordon, "Bolshevism," "Fascism,"
and "Democracy," by Nitti, History
of Mediaeval Philosophy," by De
Wulf, "Henry James," by Edgar,
"The Rival Philosophies of Jesus and
of Paul," by Singer, "Transforma
tions," by Fry, "A Way of Life," by
Osier, "Jean Guttennberg," by The
net, and "John Sloan," Gallatin.
Engineers Prepare
For Demonstration
(Continued from Page 1)
Immediately following the convoca
tion, the engineers will leave by
truck for Antelope park for the an
nual field day celebration. Lunch
eon will be served at 12 o'clock, and
a series of athletic contests will fol
low. Prizes will be awarded the
winners of the more important
events.
Open Night Thursday
Engineers' night, Thursday, May
3, is the big etent of the week. All
are
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buildings in the College of Engin
eering and the chemistry, physics,
and geology departments will be
thrown open to the public for in
spection and! demonstrations. Stu
dents will conduct experiments and
present displays for the purpose of
acquainting visitors with their work.
The department of electrical en
gineering will demonstrate a high
voltage transformer, capable of pro
ducing 150,000 volts, an oscillograph
in operation, a mercury arc rectifier,
and a complete dicplay of laboratory
equipment. There will also be dis
plays in the radio laboratory, the
communication laboratory and in the
lecture room.
The department of civil engineer
ing will have its display in Mechanic
Arts building. They will demon
strate instruments and equipment, a
model of a railroad lifting bridge,
and materials testing.
The department of architectural
engineering will conduct its display
in room 106 of Mechanics Arts build
ing. Displays of architectural draw
ings and models of some large build
ings will be shown.
Mechanical Devices
The department of mechanical en
gineering will have displays and de
monstrations in the power labora
tory, the machine shop, foundry lab
oratory, fuels and lubricants labor
atory, pattern nianing laboratory and
in the metallury laboratory. One of
the most interesting demonstrations
presented wm be the pouring of a
ton of moulten lead.
The department of agricultural
engineering will conduct its demon
stration in the Mechanical Engineer
ing building, room 104 where pic
tures of drainage projects will be
shown. A Kohler farm lighting
plant will be displayed between the
Electrical Engineering building and
University halL
The department of geology will
have its display in Morrill hall
Guides will be posted to show the ex
hibits to visitors. There will be an
art display, and a laboratory exhibit
in addition to the general demonstra
tion.
The department of chemistry will
have its exhibit in the Chemistry
building. Professor Frankfurter will
give a lecture and demonstration on
The Thermite Process," and the
laboratories will be open to the pub
lic. Souvenirs will be given to all
visitors.
The department of physics will
hold its demonstration in Brace lab
oratory. Demonstrations will be
made of high frequency and Thomp
son test coils.
The university power plant will
also be open to the public for inspection.
Activities of the week will end
with the banquet at the Lincoln hb
tel Friday night. Sigma Tau schol
arship awards will be made at that
time and the picture presentation
will be held. Civil engineering scho
larship awards will also be made.
The "Sledge" official scandal sheet
of the College of Engineering, will
he distributed at the banquet.
Tickets for the banquet, field day
and engineers tags will be sold by
representatives on the campus Mon
day morning.
School Will Receive
Indianapolis Guests
(Continued from Page 1)
Brown will be available for confer
ences Monday afternoon and Tues
day in the art galleries of Morrill
hall.
Tickets for the dinner may be se
cured from Edna Merriman, or from
the First Christian church office
Reservations may be phoned to
B-2718. Plates for the dinner arc
twenty-five cents.
Banquet Plans Are
- Nearly Completed
(Continued from Page 1)
All fraternities on the Nebraska
campus are closing their tables on
the evening of the banquet and many
of them are refunding money to en
courage attendance at the Interfra-
ternity affair. It is hoped that this
system will make the attendance at
the banquet large as well as repre
sentative of all the Greek-letter or
ganizations. 1
Harriet Cruise Kemmer, popular
Lincoln song artist, will entertain
during the dinner. Beck's orches
tra will play throughout the banquet
hour. The Interfraternity banquet
will be short, for the committee
hopes to have a dinner that will ap
peal to all fraternity men.
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New Scholarship
Rating System
(Continued fro- Page 1)
are subtracted for ch failed or
dropped in unsatisfi tory standing.
Ratings will be the same or prac
tically the same under the one sys
tem as the other. One slight change
made this year is that hours incom
plete are given a grade point of zero
instead of minus one as they have
formerly been accredited.
Four is the highest possible grade
point average that a group can get.
To make an average of four it would
be necessary for the group to have
all credit hours carried with grades
of ninety or more, -with no incom
pletes or delinquencies.
The Interfraternity Council awards
scholarship plaques on the percent
age of delinquencies, conditions, fail
ures, and hours dropped in unsatis
factory standing. In the university
scholarship rating fraternities and
sororities as well as other groups are
ranked on a purely scholastic basis,
There is usually considerable differ
ence in the two ratings, it being pos
sible for a fraternity to rank first
in the Interfraternity Council rating
and still stand rather low in the
scholarship rating.
The scholastic rating will be made
public Tuesday evening and will be
published in The Daily Nebraska,,
Wednesday. 1
'May Day Banquet
Is Coming Affair
(Continued from Page 1)
her master's degree in Encrlli.
Columbia in 1923. She is now pres.
ident of Phi Omega Pi sorority. At
the University of Kansas she was
member of the Mortar Board and
Theta Sigma Phi, and was president
of both during her senior year.
1 Guest at Tea
While in the city Mrs. KifrU.
be the guest of Mrs. Will Fleming
viucgo it sorority win en
tertain at a tea Wednesdav "
noon in her honor.
The revenlinw 1 . .
- o ige Slab
with the names of the twenty-one
sororities listed in order of their
Hcnomswc standing wm be one of the
most exciting features of the eve-
nino. TriA fVmw aniA!f?A .:i.v
wan the
highest average will be awarded a
o-n.eiienic Doard.
A chorus composed of one momU.
of each of the twentv
will sing some selections. The Al-
pha XI Delta quartet will sing the
Pan-Hellenic song. Mr. O. B. Wil
son composed the music for the song
and the words were written hv Mi..
Walter White and Mrs. C. L. Clark!
The banquet, which is
by the Pan-Hellenic board each year,
creates good fellowship among the
sororities and promotes high scholarship.
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VARSITY
CLEANERS AND EVERS
Conferences Furnish
v Material for Report
Prof. C. A. Sjogren of the depart
ment of mechanical engineering, has
published a report of a second series
of conferences for foremen of the
Burlington railroad in the shops at
Havelock. The conferences were
conducted by the Havelock nuhlip
schools in cooperation with the state
board for vocational education, and
dealt with material handling and
tools in the various departments of
the railroad shops. Professor Sjo
gren was leader of the conferences.
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for your Mother's Gift hundreds
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Weddings
Yes, it's Wedding Time and Mat
tnt: Time the Frat boys have
"hung their pins" and Wedding
Invitations, Announcements and
Stationery, are important items.
Sea the many new Styles on dis
play at George's.
Parties
galore. Small Parties, Big Parties,
May Parties. Here you will find
tho right Favors, Tallies, Place
Cards. Remember "we create and
make the things that take" in
Party Favors.
THIS AFTERNOON!
TAKE AN AEROPLANE RIDE AT THE FLYING FIELD
ON SOUTH 14TH ST.
Lincoln School of Aviation
Term Paper Covers
Covert made cf an attractive brown rippled
paper, which is heavy and durable.
10c
Al
use our Hammermill Bond, white, 3 hole paper
to type your term paper on. It fits the covers.
Order your cap and gown it the Co-Op.
Co-Op Book Store
just east of Temple