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W'fcWM.. iHtot&i MIV.. he Daily Nebraska -THE WEATHER Ml5' tartly Cloudy Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska UN wi oovua Mat 7TW VOL. XXX11L INO. 129. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. TUESDAY. APRIL 17, mi. PRICE 5 CENTS. -4'.la i -. "a, ' T J. S. MORTON TO BE HONORED TUESDAY Sigma Delta Clii Sponsors Convocation as Tribute to Pioneer Nebraska Journalist; Occasion Is Group's Founder's Day. BIKNKTT WILL OFFICIATE AT TREE PLANTING Scholarship, Daily Nebraskan Awards to Be Announced Bv Director Walker; Initiation Ceremonies and Banquet Scheduled in Evening. Tribute will be paid to J. Sterling Morton, pioneer Ne braska journalist, and founder of Arbor Day, at a special con- Mil at i Clii i'0tessionai journalism u imr'as part of today's program silver anniversary. Evening arrangements include initiation of new student and as sociate members at 5 o'clock, and the annual Founder's Day banquet at 6:4.". A. K. Sheldon, of the state his torical society, will address the ((invocation in the morning. Speaking on "J. Sterling Morton, Arbor Day Editor," Mr. Sheldon will discuss the life of Nebraska's great journalist. Excuses from Class. School of journalism students may, on application to Director Walker of the school, be excused from their 11 o'clock classes in or der to attend the event. The con vocation is also open to all other interested students and faculty members. Announcement of Sigma Delta Chi .scholarship awards together with those for the best news and feature stories appearing in the Dailv Nebraskan during the first semester, will precede Mr. Shel don's talk. A national Sigma Delta Chi committee, of which Dr. Frank L. Mott. director of the school of journalism at Iowa university-, is chairman, is in charge of the fraternity's awards for which the high ten of the graduat ing claas in journalism are consid (Continued on Page 2.1 Relations Group Discusses Problems Reviewed at Iowa Meet. CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAY Meeting to discuss the Valley conference held at Grinnell. Iowa la.t week, five members of the lo cal International Relations Club, sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., will give their reports of the conference at a special meeting next Wednesday night at 7:30, in the Temple building. Elaine Fontein will discuss the t rour.dtablc led by D: Otto Nathan ; on "The Crisis in International Or- t ganization." Dan Williams will I talk on the discussion led by Sher- j wood Edny, and Thelma Goldstein will review "The United States and Latin America." i Burton Marvin will report the j discussion led by Clark Eichclber ger. former editor of the League of Nations Chronicle, in which he j urged American leadership in in ternational affairs. The present status of the World Court and the activity of ths United States in it will be discussed by Joe Nuquist. Six Nebraska students attending the meeting, which was held April . 7 and 8, were Selma Goldstein, Elaine Fontein. Burton Marvin, Dan Williams, Joe Nuquist, and Irwin Ryan. TODAY'S NEWS Briefly Reviewed While Omaha commuters walked to work the city council planned to introduce penalties for the Omaha and Council Bluffs street railway, whose car wheels were quiet as the result of a strike Mon day. A majority of the 535 em ployes were on strike, according to labor union figures. Strikers charged that wages were 10 per cent below the average for 400 American cities. There was no violence. Flag WavcrWirt, who charged " lew dealers with red activities, offered an apology yester day on the floor of the house or charges that his World war agitations were pro-German. Representative Bulwinkle, dem ocrat. North Carolina, was the JPologist, Wirt is a school teacher of Gary, Ind. Early adjournment of congress 's seen by Speaker of the House jiiney in a Moriday statement ihe president's legislative requests jo congress are completed, Rainey indicated, with the possible excep on of $2,200,000,000 for continu- tiai of the re-employment Cam rlgn. Pendinf lpfn-latin-, !)..( ui can be falter said. shelved, the tob"1 price wer " the ;6b0gan at Chicago Monday at !,K of the President's an. Jr'-ed opposition to silver (Continued on Page 3.) ion and tree planting ceremony sponsored oy igma inia DELEGATES REPORT ON (WELL CONFERENCE .uerim. , m " in celebration of the fraternity s l-FINAL FOR LAW CLUBS IS Dean Foster States Trial Cases Open to All Interested. Trial cases in the semi-final com petition between the four fresh man law clubs newly organized in law college will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, it was an nounced by Dean H. H. Foster, chairman of the committee on club courts. The freshman club plan has hepr. tried before but the clubs this semester have been function ing better than previously with law students co-operating under the direction of Dean Foster. Trial cases between clubs will be based on lists of facts and judges for j each trial will include a prominent judge, a practicing attorney, and i a law school professor. Blackstone club will oppose Webster club in the trial to be held in the trial practice room with Nolte and Foster representing the Blackstone club and Hamilton and Wolf arguing for the Webster group. The results of this inter club contest will be given by Judge E. B. Perry, Bernard Gradwohl, and Prof. M. Merrill. Cardoza club represented by John C. Landis and Peterson will argue a case Tuesday evening in assembly room 101 with Jeffries club representatives. Meridith Nel son and Harry West. Judge Polk. Attorney Devoe, and Prof. Charles B. Nutting will give their opinions on the presentation of the two sides and will decide which of the clubs will take part in the finals to be held soon. Supreme court judges will take part in the final cases according to Dean Foster. Judges in selecting the clubs to enter the finals will base their de cisions primarily on the presenta ( Continued on Page 2.) ELLIoHolPPi AT AG Y.W. VESPERS Tuesday Noon Lecture Takes Place of General Convocation. A special program featuring A. J. "Dad" Elliot has been an nounced for the Y. W. C. A. ves pers meeting at Ag college Tues day. The meeting will be at 12:30 p. m, in the home economics par lors. When Elliot was scheduled to come to Ag campus, it was intend ed to have a genet aL, all-student convocation, said Ruth Carsten, who has charge of the vespers' program, but the honors convoca tion coming on the same date has made the general convocation Im possible. Y. W. C. A. members, the re port stated, have recured Elliot for a special address at the home eco nomics parlors to take the place, so far as possible, of the general convocation. Elliot has addressed the men on the campus at several special meetings this week. The committee t.'.r the Tuesday's vespers' program say that home economics students were highly pleased with Elliot s discussion on his previous visit .o the campus, end they hepe to sc a record at tendance at the meeting Tuesday noon. DR. IRWI TO ADDRESS PSYCHOLOGY MEETING Speaker Will Illustrate Talk With Motion Picture. Pai Chi, national psychological fraternity, will present Dr. Orvis C. Irw.n as its fourth annual speaker at a meeting in Social Science Auditorium, Wednesday, April 19 at 8 p. m. Dr. Irwin will speak on the sub ject, "How Infants Develop." By means of motion pictures he will show bow walking develops and first attempts at sitting and rtand- ing. AISo appearance of various other types of infant behavior. -A whole year's development is shown j in a few minutes." SCHEDULED TUESDAY AG STUDENTS 10 GET SCHOLASTIC HONORS TUESDAY New Members of Honorary, Professional Groups to Be Revealed. ALL CLASSES EXCUSED Miss Peters, Prof. Filley To Name 20 Highest Freshmen. Students on the college campus will receive recognition for outstanding achievement in scholarship or school activities at the annual honors convoca tion at 11 Tuesday morning. All classes on ag campus will be excused at 11 a. m., according to Prof. H. E. Bradford, chairman of the convocations committee. New members of all the professional or honorary organizations, members of judging teams, and the ten high freshmen in each agriculture and home economics will be announced. Prof. H. J. Gramlich, animal husbandry department, will be the official speaker of the morning. He will discuss "Personality." Girls elected to Phi Upsilon Omi cron, a professional home econom ics organization, will be announced by Lynnette Gatten. the organiza tion's president. Mary Frances Kingsley, vice president of Omi cron Nu, honorary organization, will announce the new members of that organization. New members of Alpha Zeta will be announced by Arthur Peterson, and the men elected to Gamma Sigma Delta, the highest honorary agricultural fraternity for men, will be announced by E. B. Engle of the soils department. The ten girls highest in schol arship last year will be announced by Miss Matilda Peters. Prof. H. C. FilW will announce the ten high est freshmen boys. Special awards are made to the two freshmen who made the highest grades last year. Block and Bridle club medals will be awarded to members of the meats judging team. William J. Loeffel, meats coach, will make the awards. Marsmen Come To Earth for Fine Arts Ball Men from Mars will swoop down to earth for a night's frolic when Fine Arts students hold their an nual ball in Morrill hall, May 18. The party, which is to begin at 8:00, will center around the fanci ful customs and dress which the inhabitants of the planet Mars might wear on similar occasions. Each would-be Marsman must ap pear in appropriate apparel, and even his makeup must conform with the style of the well-groomed man on Mars. Two tickets are to be awarded the person submitting the clever est design to be used on the tick ets. The only requirements are that the ticket must be four by six inches large, and that it must state the admission price. Miss Virginia Faulkner and W'il lard Humpal have charge of the ticket contest and they will an nounce the winner of free tickets as soon as the designs have been judged. PHI LAMBDA UPSILON George Coleman to Speak At Banquet Following Ceremonies. Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemical fraternity, will follow the initiation of five new members with a banquet to be held in the Comhusker hotel this evening at 6o'clock. Professor George H. Coleman of the University if Iowa, national vice president of the organization, will be the principal speaker. He will address the group on "Re search in Two European Chemical Laboratories." Professor C. W. Ackerson of the agricultural chemistry depart ment will preside as toastmaster, and C. William Berry. lc.al p evi dent, will give the welcome to ini tiates. Responding for the new members will be William Noyce. Allen Olsen is in charge of ar rangements for the affair. Those to be initiated are Darrel J. Butterbaught, William K. Noyce. Harry Rosenstein, Albert J. Schwaderer, and Alfred W. Weit kamp. ENGINEER ON MISSOURI RIVER VISITS CAMPUS Capt. J. M. Young, in charge of engineering work on the Missouri river between St. Joseph and Sioux City, was a caller at the state geo logy survey offices on the univer sity campus Monday. He wished information in regard to certain limestones along the liver in Ne braska dealing with bis work toward developing river navigation. Innocents Ask Vote Free From Polities Appeal for a truly represent ative vote, untainted by parti san politics, in the selection to day of Innocent candidates was voiced by members of the Innocent-insurgent fusion com mittee Monday evening at a joint meeting of Green Toga and Progressive faction repre sentatives. Laurence Hall opened the meeting and outlined the meth od of the election, ending with a direct entreaty to faction rep resentatives to abandon their individual political Interests in behalf of the success of the new reform. The belief was expressed by Dick Moran, Innocent, that fac tion politics would be futile and that it would be a waste of time to attempt to run them through. Byron Goulding, Innocent, stated that the culmination of the reform depended upon the vote of the student body. The honesty of the vote was up to the attitude of the factions. FRATERNITY MEN PLAN FOR ANNUAL DINNER TUESDAY Fifteen Highest Houses to Receive Scholarship Placques. A. J. WEAVER SPEAKER Intramural Prizes Will Be Awarded by Director Harold Petz. Traditional custom v ill again he observed tonight at the an nual intcrt'raternity banquet when Prof. E. F. Schramm, fac ulty advisor of the interfra ternity council, awards fifteen scholarship placques to the high est ranking fraternities. Fraternity men will gather at 6:30 p. m. in the ballroom of the Hotel Comhusker to witness this customary banquet feature and to hear a number of prominent speak ers including Arthur J. Weaver, former governor - of Nebraska: Chancellor E. A. Burnett. Dean T. J. Thompson. Claude S. Wilson, president of the interfraternity board of control, and Ray Ramsay who will preside as toastmaster. Appearing as a new feature on the banquet program tonight will be the presentation of intramural awards by Harold Petz, intramural chairman, to the winning fraterni ties in all intramural contests that have been completed. Eddie Jungbluth and his orches tra will provide musical entertain ment throughout the evening. The main address of the evening will be given by ex-Governor (Continued on Page 2.) Students Presented In Annual Recital Annual spring presentation if Madame de Vilmar's students will be held at the First Christian church at 8:15 p. m., Tuesday, when they will give "Gems of Music." Violins will be played by Eunice Bingham and Betty Latterstrom. cello by Garnet Mayhew and Mrs. Jessie Flood, piano. The program: "Kstudianilna." Income: tha clai.s. Twwi Thou Know" Opera "Micnon." Thomas: Ruth Mead. "in ihc Gipsy's Ufa'- 'Bohemian Girl." Balte: Ih ci&ss. "Carmena," Wilaun; Sylvia Sehaefer. Tell Me Little Gypsy," Ralph Bowtrs, Zelma Flood. "Prlncenita." Padilla; Kennetti Dallas. Serenade." Toselll. Sylvia Schaefer and eniemh Spanish Serenade" Reddick; Carl L. Schaefer. Greeting to Spring" (Blue Danube). Straus: Finale, the ensemble. fichenes from the opera. "11 Tmvator-." Verdi: "Tremble Ye Tyrants." Miserei-!.' Ruth Mead. Carl L Sihaefer. "Lady o( tht Evening," Carl L. Schae fer and girls Svivia " Speaks: Vala quartet. "Tell Me Prettv Maiden." "FloraJora " Ruth Mead. Slvia g.-haefer. Lillian Ash worth. Alma Blvthe. ZelAia Fllood. Loretta Leach, Carl L !'', Kenneth Dallas. Tonald Joy. Ralph Bowers. Burl deVere Richardson. James Stevens. At tha piano. Mrs. Jessie Flood. Violins, Eunlca Bingham. Betty Latter it rom. Cello, Garnet lfayhew. 'See a Tassel' Characterizes Girls' Pep Club as Members Observe Tenth Anniversary of Husker Spirit Raising "Sie a Tassel"' lias become a slogan around the univesity campus when organizations want 0 young ladies who will work hard on a tedious job. Through a season of investigations mid organization onstings by the student council the fifty Tas sels have passed without a single black mark. See a Tassel is the cry wheno the' athletic department wants sea son tickets sole, when the Univer sity Players want tickets sold, when Cornhuakcr yearbook editors want mn honkat Hold. When nffi- r-ials want pleasant looking ushers ! for concerts, when no one can i think of entertainment during the halves of basketball or football games it's always "See a Tassel." Starting out 10 years ago to in ject pep into the student body, the group has become one of the most active on the campus. Saturday night at their annual banquet the young ladies celebrated their tenth bh'hday as a pep organization. Their activities around the uni- i versity include spirit-raising and I publicity before -vents, well as participation and work. Donning i IS OF AIS. BOARD Bash Perkins, as Highest in Senior Class, to Be Vice-President. LARGE VOTE TURNS OUT Barbara DePutron and Mary Edith Hendricks Are Other Officers. Marion Smith, Omaha, was named president of Associated Women Students hoard yester day at one of the biggest elec tions in the history of the or ganization, t'alista Cooper. Humboldt, the defeated candidate for president, automatically be comes a senior member of the board. Polling the largest number of votes in the senior class Bash Per kins, Arnold, was elected vice president of the board. Other senior members are: Marjorie Fil ley, Lincoln: Violet Cross, Fre mont, and Roma DeBrown, Lin coln. Mary Edith Hendricks, Lincoln, becomes secretary of the organiza tion receiving the largest vote in the junior class. Evelyn Diamond. Alaire Barkes and Lois Rathburn all of Lincoln were named junior representatives of the group. Barbara DePutron, Lincoln, placed high in the sophomore class and becomes treasurer of A. W. S. Elsie Buxman, Jean Walt and Caroline Kile all of Lincoln, are other underclassmen representa tives on the executive council. The newly elected president was a member of this year's A. W. S. board, co-chairman of junior senior prom committee, and mem ber of last year's W. A. A. coun cil. Cali'ta Cooper is secretary of this year's A. W. S. board, past member of Big Sister board and has taken an active part in Y. W. C. A. activities. Mary Edith Hend ricks is secretary of Y. W. C. A., member of Tassels, and secretary of W. A. A. Barbara DePutron was recently elected a member of Big Sister board. Mortar Board Opens Ivy Day Poem Contest Opening of the Ivy Day poem contest was announced Monday by Jane Boos, publicity chairman of Mortar Board, senior women's hon orary society. An annual event, the reading of the Ivy day poem takes place just before the corona tion of the May Queen on Ivy Day. May 3. Any undergraduate is eligible to enter the contest. Theme of the poem must concern itself with Ivy Day and its traditions. Entries will be recieved until 5 o'clock, Wednesday, April 25. at Mrs. Westoer's desk in Ellen Smith hall. A faculty committee to be chos en later will be in charge of select ing the winning poem. Honorable mention will be given the poem judged second best in the contest. W.A.A. HEADS TAKE OFFICE THURSDAY yieu- Sport$ Board to Re Introduced at Last Meeting. New officers of the W. A. A. board will tie installed at the last meeting of the year Thursday night at 7 o'clock In the Armory, according to an announcement from Alice Geddes, retiring presi ent of the group. Jean Brownlee is the incoming president and Hallene Haxthuasen will serve as vice president. Doris Riisnees is "to be the new secre tary airj Elizabeth Bushee will fill the post as treasurer. A second feature of the evening will be the introduction of the new sports board. of scarlet and cream costumes by the Tassels on football days has become nearly as traditional as the Kinging of the "Comhusker." Those colored splashes on the campus have come to automatic' 1!y I9 student spirit a notch ir in anticipation of a red-letter day. In 1924 Mortar Board, senior women's honorary society at the University, sponsored the begin- j ning of the Tassels. Members are j selected each year. Sororities send eligible freshman girls to a rush tea which the organization holds. and two are chosen from each so-. rority. In the tame manner five are chosen from the college Jf ag riculture, and as many other mem bers are elected as the group (Continued on Page 2.) j MARIAN SMITH NAMED NEW HEAD CANDIDATES TODAY All Male Student of Tliird Year or Above to Hiillut On Men of Junior Class for Membership In Senior Honorary Society. LIST OF ELIUULES TO Announce Facility Committee in Charge of Election And Appeals Composed of Thompson, Rurr. Lantz, Schramm, and Scott. Twenty-live candidates for membership in the Innocents society, nienV: senior honorary, for the coming year will be chosen by popular vote at the polls today. All male students of junior standing or above will ballot on the members of the junior class for membership in the society. Op;ach student must vote for five y IS PLANS FOR IVy DAY Committees Named to Have Charge of Various Events. Plans for the traditional Ivy Dap program, sponsored by Mor tar Board, senior women's hon orary organization, have been started and are under way with the announcement today of the Ivy Day poem contest and the selec tion of committees. The date of the affair this year will be May 3. Anne Bunting is head of the committee in charge of the ivy and daisy chains: Margaret Buol and Martha Hershey are in charge of the masking of new Mortar Boards: Jane Boos is head of the committee in charge of the poem contest and the sorority sing, and Lucille Reilly is in charge of the luncheon held by the Mortar Boards on Ivy day. The intersorority sing, annual Ivy Day feature, sponsored by the A.'w. S. board, precedes the mask ing of the Mortar Boards and tap ping of Innocents. A cup is award ed the winning group, and the group winning for three consecu tive years keeps the cup perma nently. Alpha Chi Omega won the cup last year. Any sorority may enter tho sing, according to jane Boos, in charge. Entries must be in at Mrs. West over's desk in Ellen Smith hall by 5 o'clock this afternoon. Two songs must be sung by each group entering. These may be accompan ied or not as the group chooses, and the manner of dress is also left up to the individual group Sir.rnritips &rp called urjon aloha- betically and must appear in turn or be out of the sing. PHALANX INITIATES 24 CADET OFFICERS: , . . ! Military Honorary Society. Holds First Meeting Monday Afternoon. Twenty-four newly initiated members of Phalanx, national ad vanced honorary military society, discussed plans for the rest of the school year at the first meeting of the chapter yesterday after noon. Cadets who were initiated at the ceremonies Saturday afternoon by George Krauch. national adjutant, and assistants from Creighton uni versity were: Henry Keller, jr., Lincoln: A. Elmer Anderson, Lin coln: Jack D. Potter, Lincoln: i David E. Fowler, Lincoln: Ronald , M. Anderson, Lincoln; Doyt M. i Naden. Franklin; Richard Giesler, Lincoln: John A. Stobe. Omaha; B'irkitt Reynolds, Lincoln. Walter L. Moller. Grant, Nebr.: John P. Miller. Lincoln: Robert Lee Trout, Omaha; Ray C. Hack man, Lincoln: Robert Woolfolk. Lincoln; C. Merrill Moeller. Lin coln; Don J. Quinn, Lincoln: Tom Naughtin, Omiha; Charles W. Steadman. Leo Hill, Lincoln: Wil liam W. Bruening. Leigh, Nebr.: George W. Pillars, jr., Lincoln: El wood Camp, Lincoln; Walter Bur leigh, Lincoln, -and Sam Fleish man, Omaha - Newly-elected officers of the .-o-ciety are Leo Hill, commander: Charles Sieadman, historian, and Tom Naughton, finance officer. Nebraska Epsilon Morea chap ter of Phalanx is the fifth chap ter to be extablished since the founding of the organization at Illinois university in 1920. Other chapters are located at Ohio State. Minnesota. Creighton and Illinois. National headquarters with the commander and adjutant are lo cated at Minnesota. Scabbard and Blade to Initiate Twenty-Three Officers of Scabbard and Blade will initiate twenty-three new members at ceremonies to take place at the Lindell hotel Wednesday at 5 p. m. At a banquet following the initia tion Col. W. H. Oury. Col. C. J. Frankforter, and Capt. G. W. Spoerry will speak. BE POSTED AT POLES outstanding juniors, and the twenty-five with the highest number of votes will automatically become candidates, and the new membets will be chosen from that list. This popular election of the eligi ble candidates, from which this year's society must pick its mem bers for the coming year, is a part of the recently announced plan of reorganization of the Innocents society along lines of more demo cratic selection of members. Lists at Polls. Lists of all junior men students will be posted at the polls in the Temple building and at Ag college for the information of voting stu dents. The results of the balloting will be counted as soon as possible and announced immediately after ward in the Daily Nebraskan. The faculty committee in charge of the election and supervision of the voting, will be in charge of the election and the counting of the ballots. They will announce the re sults and consider appeals regard ing outstanding juniors who do not place among the high twenty five. Committee Members. Members of the committee (Continued on Tago 2.i are: E ENTRIES DUE APRIL 27 Annual Song Contest First Event on Ivy Day Program. WINNER RECEIVES CUP Friday, April 27, is the deadline for applications for the annual In terfraternity Sing, first event nn the program for Ivy Day. acconi- ing to an announcement yesterday : from the olfice of Kosmct Klub, i sponsors of this affair. Announcements of the plans and rules for the sing and the deadline have been sent to all fraternities on the campus, and the Klub is anticipating an un- suallv large number of entries in this year's sing. A number of fraternities have been working on songs for some time and quite a number have taken an active in- terest in the event. me judges tor tne sing wui ne announced later in the Daily Ne braskan. the announcement said. They will not be men who are training contestants, and their judgement will be based upon gen eral excellence of the participant's efforts rather than upon technical perfection. A silver loving cup. now in pos session of Delta Upsilon, winner of the sing last year, will be awarded to the winner of the event this year. Recognition of second and third place and honorable mention will also be made. Survey Shous 22 ebraska Graduates To Harvard School Where do students of the uni versity go after completing their courses at Nebraska ? Many of them secure jobs, while others con tinue their education. Of this lat ter group a recent check up shows that twenty-two Nebraska gradu ates have journeyed to Boston, Mass.. to attend the Harvard Grad uate School of Business Adminis tration. Of the Nebraska men who have taken courses- at the- 'Haivatd Graduate School, nine received Master's degrees in Business Ad ministration, ten were at the school for a year only, and three are in attendance today. Tlia school, which is well known for its specialized instruction in busi ness training, reorganized the sec ond year program for the Mas ter's degree in 1925, and since that time a much higher percentage of firt ysr student- have returned for the second year, than came be fore the improved organization. Edgar W. Holyoke. who gradu ated from the university in 1923 with a degree in business admin istration, was the first Nebraska graduate to receive a Master' de gree from the business schoi it Boston. At the present time Mr. Holyoke is affiliated with ibe Guardian Manufacturing and Sup ply Corporation in New Tork City. Milo Fl Bwlc who is now a-v ciated with the Transfer Depart ment of tfc Bankers Trust Com- I pany of "w vora. receive, ma J tConUsued on Page 2.)