Fee Daily Nebraskan VOL XXVIII NO. 100 LINCOLN, NKBKASKA. Till HSDAY, MARCH 7, 192V. ruici: : cunts CAGE TOURNEY BEGINS TODAY NNOCENTS BACK ' NOVEL PROGRAM FOR HIGH TEAMS Society Arranges Theater Entertainment and Track Meet GAMES DO NOT CONFLICT Both Feature Events Come When Basket Courts Are Empty Nebraska high school basketball i. sins, in Lincoln 10 take part in iht nineteenth annual prep school tournament, will hae Hit opportu nity to tee Nebraska athletes on rvliibltton and an Introduction to the lornhusker athletic program. Kmlay and Saturday when they father at the Lincoln theater and ou the memorial stadium indoor track to witness the proKram ar ranged for their entertainment by die Innocents society. A program of motion pictures xnd a chance to meet scxeral stel lar llusker athletes of the past few wars, will start promptly at 10 o'clock Saturday morning a' I lie Lincoln theater. I'ictures of inter est around the Nebraska campus tosether with the 192S football pic tures, treshman convocation and lilnis of last year's tournament w ill be shown. Coach Schulte. "Chop py" Khodcs, George Farley, Coach lilark. and Dr. George Condrn will make short talks, and Elmer Holm, co-captain of last year's football team. F.u Wicr. Dan Mc.Mullen. Koiand Locke, and Slew Campbell, taptaiu of this ear's track squad, will be Introduced. Friday afternoon Coach Henry F. Srhulte'a track athletes will stage sn exhibition meet for the benefit of the basketball men. The meet ill consist of some individual com pel if ion and will include all lite cwnts of a regularly scheduled nieel. The Innocents society, senior Continued nn I'ac 2. - READY FOR BIG FAIR Program Tonight Advertises 'Col-Agri-Fun' Show And May Rodeo SPENCE HEADS WORKERS Two 'ColAgrl-Fun' stunts will be presented at the Farmers Fair and "Col Agri Fun" joint convocation at T: 15 this evening. The all-Ag meeting will then take up the si-rious business of getting the ma chinery started for the 1929 fair. Georgia Wilcox and Blenda New l.n have a song skit and Ray Maenusen's banjo quartet will pre sent a part of what they will do Fri day evening, March 15. Jim Mt-tzper, Glenn Burton and Hollis Van Kleek are the other members of the quartet. Robert Danielson, chairman of 'Col-Agri-Fun,' will give a talk about the vaudeville produc li.iii. Gramiich Will Speak Prof. 11. J. Gramiich wiil tell bow the lair looks from the faculty point of view, and will comment ou the essentials of a successful fair, liobin Spence, 1929 Fanners Fair manager, will tell about the prep a: at ion to be made and She plans already decided upon. Een the most intensive efforts of the fair board will be unavailing If every ""dent is not willing lo put his best into carrying out plans, says science. Every student in the col iece of Agriculture has a place on committee and If . he does not ork his committee is handicapped. The junior members of the fair board, unable to choose a spokes man, mill tell their story by means of a skit to be presented at the con vocation. he Hunt Broadcasts Mexican Labor in "The Mexicans will be a perma nent part of our population In west ern Nebraska. We can make them reasonable citizens by providing as many contacts with our social cus toms as possible." declared Joe Hunt in a radio adddress on "The Mexican Laborer in Western Ne braska" broadcast from the Univer sity station through KFAB yester day. Hunt told how the Mexicans first tame to the United States because of their desire for better living con ditions and working possibilities. He outlined their progress from the cotton fields of Texas and Louisi ana until they finally arrived In weitern Nebraska to work in the t fields. 2,000 in Piatt Valley There are now almost two thou od of these rteonle in the North '"'tte valley, according to Hunt; nd a prospect of more in the years j " come. And It is essential that! tbay do come for their labor In the I IMu Head Coining Here IV- . .. ' " if ".urt.'y f Tli Stt Journal. Francis V. Sliepardson, national president of Iteta Theta PI social Maternity and also national head of I'hi iteta Kappa, who will attend the initiation of pledget or the Ne braska Ueta chapter Saturday. TWO GO TO DEBATE : McNight and Hunt Argue at t Noon Today Regarding j Jury System HUSKERS TAKE NEGATIVE John P. McKnlght and Evert M. Hunt will represent the negative In a debate with Creighton university today at noon before the Omaha Bar association on the topic, "A substitute for the present jury sys tem should be adopted." The debate will be a feature of the monthly luncheon of the asso ciation which will he held at the Llks club. It will be a no-declslon affair, hut an open forum will be held following l he debate. McKnight debated two yeara for Auburn high school and has reprn. sented Nebraska iu debates with the University of South Dakota. State College of Iowa and Creigh ton. He is a member of Sigma Nu, Delta Sigma Kho, a major in the R. O. T. C. regiment, a member of Scabbard and Blade. Corncobs, and is an officer in the Pershing Rifles. Hunt, who has participated in sev eral 'uebates for Nebraska. ws a member of the state championship debate team of Lincoln high school while a student there. He is a mem ber of Sigma Nu, Ielta Sigr.ia Rho. the Y. M. C. A. council, and was class day orator at Nebraska in 1928. MISS WYCAL IS SPEAKER AT TEA Afternoon Affair at Ellen Smith Hall Honors Y. W. Secretary AH university women are invited to attend the tea at Ellen Smith hall this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Miss Winifred Wygal. the national secretary of the Y. W. C. A., will be the guest of honor for a short time. This was to have been Miss Wy gal's only formal appearance on the campus of the University of Nebraska, but she was secured to address the girls at the Vesper corvins Tnendav when she spoke on the subject, "The Laud of the Rising Sun." iw-.nto r this tea there will be no open house, a regular Thursday afternoon affair. KCRZ Schedules Speech iiy Marianna Cummings A talk on folk songs will be g'ven by Miss Marianna Cummings, grad uate of the School of Fine Arts, over radio station KGBZ at York, Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Cummings has talked over the radio several times as a represent live of the fine arts department of toe Seattle public library with which she has completed a three year engagement. Songs Illustrat ing her lecture will be given in ac companiment with a guitar. Address About Western Nebraska i .i.iu ahuiiliite necessary. German-Russians were used for that sort of woik at one time but that Is impossible now for the gov ernment has passed an Immigration law against that class of people. Hunt said. With the coming of the Mexicans many problems confront the Ameri can people. The key to the whole problem, however, according to Hunt, is proper education of the new race. 'Urges Training Youth "Training should be centered up on the children and younger folks. If they are forced to attend the public schools some progress will be made but it would be better If they were also gathered Into some sort of community contact. This will have to be worked out In the future." Hunt recommended the Mexicans as a race able to easily adapt itself to new conditions and with no more corruptness than there is in any other race of people. EMPEROR ONES CONTINUES WEEK RUN AT TEMPLE Ticket Sales Progress But Many Good Seats Are Not Yet Taken LERNER STARS IN PLAY Business Manager of Show Assumes Title Role of Production With a rant Including several students In the department of dra matics, faculty members and sev eral negroes in character sketches "Emperor Jones", the sixth seas onal University Players production is continuing Its week's run at the Temple theater. "The tickets sales are progres sing but plenty of good seats re main for last-minute buyers."' Zol ley Lerner. business manager of the riayers declared last night. "W'e have had success with our opening performances and expect to finish up a record week In at tendance at the remaining evening performances and the Saturday af ternoon matinee." Lerner Has Lead The production containe but two outstanding roles, taken by Mr. Ierner and Elwood Raraay, mem ber of University Players. The character work of Mr. Lerner In the leading role of "Emperor Bru tus Jones" Is supported by the sev eral negroes In the cast and the work of faculty members in trie production. To obtain the realistic scenic ef fects necessary for several of the Jungle settings. Prof. Dwlght font I mini oa Pas t. Secretary of Association of Christian Councils Comes Here Thursday Y. M. SPONSORS TALK Several talks before university classes will be given by Charles H. Corbet t. of New York, secretary of the council of Christian associa tions, w hile he is In Lincoln Thurs day afternoon and Friday morning. Mr. Corbett was born and raised in China, and spent many years as a unlversi'y professor in that coun try. He will discuss its conditions and culture. At 9 ond 11 o'clock Friday morn ing Mr. Corbett will talk on Chi nese poetry before the English lit erature classes of Prof. Stuff, in Andrews hall 217. He will read a number of translations from noted poets, and tell something of the development of Chinese poetry. Will Talk on Labor At 10 o'clock he will discuss a bor conditions in China befora !ean LeRossignol's class in labor problems, meeting in Social Sci ences 3': A number of other sec tions will meet with this class o hear Mr. Corbett. At 3 o'clock Friday afternoon ha will talk on the English influence in china before Miss Reynoldson'-J class In English history, meeting in the Social Sciences Auulionum. Mr. Co-bott will also speak veiy briefly at the dinner of the Nebras ka in Ei'vpi group at the Grand no itl at 6 o'clock Thursday evening. Other class talks may be arrangej I h ron i l Iho University V. M. C. A. office in the Temple. LOCAL- BETAS EXPECT E Nebraska Chapter Secures Shepardson to Come For Initiation Francis W. Shepardson, national president of Phi Beta Kappa and Uai. Thou PI will arrive In Lin coln Saturday morning to visit the local chapter of Beta Theta Pi and to speak at a Beta banquet saiur Abw ...nlnv IWInr Rheci&rdson Is an eminent authority on fraterni ties. i ..i mrlnr twu-'or oheoardson spent a few hours in '.i :coln, dur ing which time he was in:erviewed by a Nebraskan repor.er. He ex pressed his approval oi c.:vineB in .Alio iif He will ! e iter- IH WllvftC viewed Saturday on problems con cerned with fraternities ana col leges in general. rwtn. fihmrHin Is stODDing over In Lincoln during his trip to Los Angeles, cam., wnere ne win maVs hi home. He ! vitallv Inter ested in college fraternities and has written several magazine ar ticles and books concerning tnai .ikiiMi IT 0 arveri at one lime as national secretary of the Interfrat- emity council. Students Have Chance to Advertise University at High School Tourney Intramural Election Clone at 5 O'clock n 5 uiUk today all votrs for the Intramural officers must be In the ballot box in the In tiamural office. All groups hloh nv not turned In their vote will have thli chance to do so. Sigma Delta Chi Members Act as Copyreaders And Editors DICKSON IS IN CHARGE Journalism students in the Uni versity of Nebraska will find plenty of opportunity for practical experi ence In reporting the state basket ball tournament held In the coli seum Thursday. Friday and Satur day. The entire personnel of the Jour nalism 8! class In news writing and reporting will be called Into action beside some twenty or twenty-five outsiders who will be drafted for service before the close of .the tour nament. HaadquarUrs in "U" Hill Headquarters have been estab lished in "U" ball where reporters mav write their stories and copy wili be edited. About twenty-five studenta will be engaged in copy reading and rewriting. Active mem bers and pledges of Sigma Delta Chi. honorary Journalistic frater nity, will be engaged in copy read ing. Working in three hour shifts, different men from the organiza tion will be head copy readers. The pledges will be assistant readers and rewrite men. Edward Dickson, who has charge or the University News Service will act as chief of the entire system. He Is a senior in the school of Jour nalism. Sigma Delta Chi Takes Part Active members of Sigma Delta Chi are Kenneth G. Anderson. Ly man Cass. Joyce Ayres. Frederick tM.iv Fviwaifl Dickson. Jack Elliott. Gerald Griffen. Em 1 1 Glaser. Dean Hammond. Muro .Kezer, .Maurice Konkel, Gordon Lutson. William M'nlxer, Paul Nelson, Gene Robb, ( ii f Sandahl, Arthur bchroeaer. I mucins Tlmmerman. C harles Wahlqulst. and Gayle C. Walker, faculty advisor. Vn Iniirfi'Um 83 plflSS Will . J' held Thursday morning and where necessary, students will be excused from other classes to cover games. The present system of assigning ini.miiiam students to cover the state tournament has been iq. prac tice for the last live or six er. cinrlm will he sent to all thJ weekly papers In Nebraska and will carry the student s cy line. Physical Education Group Decides to Hold Party And Contests Ti, iitnartment of physical edu cation Is sponsoring a health car nival to be given in tne uoiiseum in i he latter nart of March. The department of physical education is putting on two contests to pro mote student health. One Is an es say contest open only to freshmen, the details will be announced in the freshmen English classes. The essays must be submitted before March 12. The other contest Is a health poster one. All University stud ents are eligible to compete. The posters should be turned In to Dwight Klrsch In Morrill Hall be fore March 20. Miss Mabel Lee, of the department of physical ed ucation, is offering a five dollar prize to the winner of each con test. The department of English and the School of Fine Arts are cooperating with the department of physical education in putting on the carnival and contests. GAMMA LAMBDA FIXES INITIATION Band Fraternity Arranges Meeting Thursday at Central Y. M. Gamma Lambda, honorary band fraternity, will initiate twenty-two pledges thla evening at the central Y. M. C. A. A dinner will follow the ceremony. Those who will be initiated are: Joe Alter, Gordon Ayers, Herman Ball, Eugene Bennett, Fred Burch ard, Glenn Church, Scott Cramer, William Fitigibbon, Lawrence Hearson, Mott Johnson. Charles Justice. Gerald Larson. Don Lout lenheiser. Bill McGaffin, Herman Miller. Carroll Pauley. Herbert Probasco. Merle Senn, Hugh Sher wood. Fay Smith. Robert Venner, and Charles Wert roan. More Than Eleven Hundred Of State'! Verj Beit in Basketball Come to Take Part in Annual Cage Fete j High school basketball players I once more Invade the university campus for the nineteenth annual State tournament. Eleven hundred players, divided Into 124 teams w ill compete for rhamplonr.hlpa on the Coliseum floor this week end. What Impression will the Univer sity of Nebraska give these youth, ful athletes? Present students will recall their visit to the campus. Whether or not they were awed by the site of the buildings, the looks of the coeds, and the magnitude of the instiutlon depended upon the town from which they came. Future Husker Players Nebraska students will be given a good opportunity to advertise championship tournament for 1929 favorably the university. It brings to Lincoln some of the best boys from the entire state, boys whom the University of Nebraska would be proud for freshmen next year, or some time In the future. Unfortunately Nebraska hasn't the most beautiful campus In the world, but the spirit of the school counts more than Its beautiful buildings, shrubbery', or lack of It. Tall, short, thin heay high school boys with black, blue. red. orange sweaters will be slowly parading the campus the next three days. Perhaps they will even attempt to cross the drill field In the mud. That will give something lo take beck honie fioiu Llit university. II high school athletes are taken by the souvenir-collecting craze they may even fake a wall out of "I"' hall to divide among the team mates. Act As Ambassadors Hasketball tournaments to which teams from all sections of the state are send is an effective means of sending word to Nebraaska homes concerning the university. Perhaps the boys will refute some of the reports that have been circulated recently concerning wild life in the jungles of Nebraska the univer sity. Perhaps they will add to the stories. LEAGUE ADVOCATES JOINT PlfER PLAN University and State House Would Get Heat From Campus Plant PETITION IS PRESENTED Officers of the Nebraska division of the Public Ownership League of America have petitioned the legis lature to pass the bill calling for construction of a joint state light and power plant for the University aud capitol on the university grounds. This action followed a reiiort that power companies are opposed to the passage of this bill. The pe tition from the municipal league officers was received in the Sen ate Wednesday. Advantages Extolled In telling of the advantages of the plant the petition reads: "The erection of said plant would be an economic enterprise for l he slate and a means of saving thousands o fdollars to the people and taxpay ers. "The construction of said plant at the present time would allow the purchase of the latest and up to date equipment and would thereby serve as a laboratory for the stu dents of the engineering college of the University of Nebraska and also as a model plant for the edu cation, aid and assistance of muni cipalities in Nebraska which are engaged in the manufacturing of their own electricity and power." The senate committee on investi gation will take up the report of power company opposition to the proposed joint state light and power plant Thursday. ENGINEERS WILL CO TO MEETING Students and Instructors Are on Program Lists Of Conference Dan-ell Schneider will speak on "Employment for the Student Grad uate," at the conference of the stu dent branches or the sixth district of the American Institute of Elec trical Engineering Society to be held at the University of South Da kota, at Vermillion, March 8 and 9. Prof. F. W. Norris of the depart ment of electrical engineering of the University of Nebraska, will lead the discussion on "The Branch as a Means for Teaching Engineer ing Ethics and the Highest Type of Professional Spirit." Dean O. J. Ferguson of the Col lege of Engineering, of the Univer sity of Nebraska and vice-president or Sixth district of A. I. E. E.. will preside at all the meetings as the president will be unable to attend. Pror. O. B. Dison, of the depart ment of electrical engineering of ihe University of Nebraska, who Is secretary of the sixth district, will also attend. BASKETBALL CLASSIC OPENS AT COLISEUM Eleven Hundred High School Players, Representatives Of One Hundred and Twenty-Four Teams, Come To Battle for State Championship ALL ENTRIES ARE WINNERS IN DISTRICT MEETS Nebraska Tournament. Oldest in Hoop Sport History, Celebrates Nineteenth Anniversary; Board Divides Squads in Eight Classes Nebraska's nineteenth nnnual huh solioo Ijiisketbnll tour nnment opens in the t'olisouni this niiirnitiir. briiitfiiiK tit Lin coln eleven hundreil athletes, representine 124 liisrh H-lmols from every corner of the state. Fifteen tennis liml n jjisteml yeslor. day at f o'clock, but the heaviest rush was expect el this morn in p. First round games start on four courts at S;40 o'clock, and arc scheduled solidly for the rest of the day. with the hs: clashes staitinp at 9 o'clock toniplit. There will be brief inter missions at noon and in the evening. Second round guinea E AT Y. W. C. A. POLLS Balloting Continues Today For New Officers of Organization SENIORS TAKE CHARGE One hundred fifty-six girls had cast their ballots for officers of th? : Y. W. C. A. on the city campus at 4 io'clork Wednesday. Girls w ho did ; not vote yesterday may do so today i between the hours of 9 and 5 j o'clock. ! Voting for officers for the main organization will take place In the main corridor or i-ocial heienres hall, while thai for officers in the follece of Aericulture organization will be in the Home Economics building, r - - - - - Only Members May Vote Onlv university women who signed membership cards in the as sociation previous to March 1 are eligible to vote. Members of the College of Agriculture group may vote for both sets of officers. Charlotte Joyce and Georgia Wll cov are the candidates for presi dent for the organization on the College of Agriculture campus. There are no candidates for the vice presidency as the loser of the presidential race will take that office. For secretary, Evelyn Krotz and Helen W'eeJ have been nomi nated. Seniors Nominate Officers Sue Hall and Marian Wilkerson ate the nominees for president of the main organization, while Helen Day and Edna Schrick are those running for vice president. Lucile Led with and Minnie Nemerhek are the candidates for secretary and Leon a Lewis and Julia Rider for treasurer. Seulor members of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet are taking charge of the polls. These girls were members of the nominating committee. Spring Arrives With Marbles W Everything The campus poet wandered about In a daze, hair rumpled, tie loose, pencil In hand, sniffing the breeze. (And it was some breeze!) He gazed at the blue sky and the fleecy clouds and the puddles and sighed. Spring was here. (Tra la.) Spring had come. (Peep peep.) But the tragedy of It was, there was nothing to write poetry about. He came around the corner of Social Sciences and stopped, star ing. What was this! He adjusted his glasses, but that didn't help matters at all. For there in plain sight, unashamed, unconscious, (that's right) were three under graduates crouching on a dry is land In the sea of gray grass nd mud shooting marbles! Not craps, marbles. No snudgln. Migs. And two of the players wore plus-fours and didn't have coats. The campus poet sighed again, but this time in ecstacy; sat himself down on the walk and proceeded to write. Spring is here! Tra la. Spring has came! Oho. 'TRI P AG CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS Miss Lydiellen Mnnsell of Lincoln Heads Farm Campus Group The Tri F club of the College of Arrlculture held election or of fl eers Tuesday evening. They are: Lydiellen Munsell, '30, Lincoln, nrenlrlent: Melva Dickinson. '31. Omaha, vice president; Gladys Hutchinson, "30, uincoin, secieiary trea surer. Miss Munsell was formerly secretary-treasurer of the club. The Tri F club is a home economics club organization whose purpose is the promoting of enthusiasm on the Ag college campus. Retiring officers are: Marjorie Brlnton. Georgia Wil cox and Lydiellen Munsell. will be played Friday uutil shortly after noon; semi-finals are booked for Friday evening: championships will be decided Saturday evening. Teauis have been divided Into eight cla-sses, classifications, beint: based on each team's record for the season, the size of the city or town in which the Hchool Is located, the. number of boys in school, numbiT of experienced players on the team, previous tournament experience, and the results of district tourna ments. All entries in the state championships are either winners or runners-up in their classes one of the twenty-four district' tournrt lueiiLs. Fine Trophies Provided Suitable trophiCR will be awarded the winning team ni each class. Htttiners-tip will receive the ball used In the championship game. Four floors, the varsity court, the freshman court, the playing space on the stage and in tho basement, will be under the direction of H. D. Gisli, director of athletics at the University. In addition, there is an executive committee, composed of members of the board of control In the Various districts of the Mich school athletic association. Black Heads Umpires Umpires and referees have, been selected and assigned to games un der the direit supervision of Charles T. Black, varsity basket ball coach, and H. F. (lakes, assis tant football coach. Other officials, selected carefully, wlil work under the managers of floors to which they an- assigned. Nebraska's tournament this year Is notably smaller than it. has been for several years past. The chance baa been brought about by a re turn to the system of district elim inations, conducted in local tourna-(ontinni-.! on Pain .1 Prof. Hattie Williams Says Worship Important in Civilized World FORUM HEARS ADDRESS That there is no substitute for religion was the keynote of the talk by Prof. Hattie Plumb Wil liams, chairman of the department of sociology, at World Iorum luncheon yesterday noon. Mrs. Wil liams discussed religion from the viewpoint of a sociologist, classify ing is as one of the dominant so cial forces. "Sociology Includes religion be cause religion itself is a social product, she continued. rhere has never been a civilization so low that it had no form of religion. Primitive man attempted to explaia everything by belief in the super natural. Religion was his attempt to explain the universe. Influences Are Varying "Religion operates as a unifying force, as well as a disintegrating force. Ancestor worship is a good example of this. Through this form of religion, the family was made into a unified group, bound to gether by a tie stronger than any other except that of blood relation ship. 'Religion also operates as a con serving force. It's effect in this' re spect is to keep things as they are. It tends to form a static civiliza tion. Some people say we could get along very well without "religion. but I do not think so. While in this respect 'it has certain undeniable disadvantages, in my opinion it is the first essential of any civiliza tion." Speaker Shows Surprise Prof. Williams expressed sur prise at the hopeless, bored, cyni cal attitude by many or the young people of today. Religion, In her opinion, provides group morale, and fights the tendency ror lis . to be come cynical as we grow older. "The future of religion, as viewed by the sociologist," she concluded. is not one to cause us alarm. Re ligion has been called by a sociolo gist 'a substitute In the rational world for instinct in the irrational world'. No matter in what light we I regard religion, we have never been able to find a substitute for it."