THE DAILY NEB3ASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nafcraika
y OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
S UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Undar dlr.otlon of tha Student Publication Board
TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
Pnbll.h.d To.idny, Wadnaadar, Thursday, Friday,
loralni. durlna tha acadamlo yaar.
and Sunday
Editorial Offlea UnWaraitr Hall 4.
Buiinaaa OITIca Unlaralty Hall A.
Offica Honra Editorial Staff, 8:00 to ItOO azeept Friday and
Sunday. Buainaaa Staff t aftarnoona azeapt Friday and
Bunday.
141 1 Buainaiat B-B1, No.
T.lephon.i Editorial t B-e8Sl, No.
IT J Night B-6882.
Entarod aa aacond-claaa raattar at tha poitoffiea in Lincoln,
N.braaka, nd act or Cona-raaa, March 8. 1878. and at paeial
tnr in m(ii 1108. act of Oetobar 8.
n TT W I t T . ... - .
1817, authoriiad January 10, 1828.
It a year.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Single Copy 6 eanta
11.88 a aemeater
Otear Norling
Monro Keier
Gerald Griffin ,
Dorothy Nott
Kdltor-ln-CMef
" ...Manain Editor
.Ant. Managinc Editor
Atat. Managing fcditor
NEWS EDITORS
Paulina BUon
Dean Hammond
Maurice W. Konkel
Paul Nelson
W. Joyea Ayraa
Edward Dickson
Kate Goldstein
Evert Hunt
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Cliff F. Sandahl
Lyman Cass
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Maurice Konkel
Paul Nelson
Cliff Sandahl
Richard F. Vetta
Milton McGrew
William H. K earns
J. Marshall Pitier
Wmlnesa Manager
Asst. Business Manager
..Cireulation Manager
,....Cireulation Manager
A CLEAN ELECTION
Yesterday the students elected twenty of their
fellows to positions on the Student Council and the
Publication board. The seventeen hundred votes cast
constitute the largest polling that has ever taken place
on this campus.
Politicians were much in evidence, but they com
plied, for the most part, with the rules and stayed out
of the Temple, where votes were being cast. The long
lines of students waiting for their ballots proved either
that they were interested in the election, or that the
"Blue Shirts" and "Yellow Jackets" had been successful
in urging a large turn-out.
In some previous elections, there has been crook
edness in balloting. Students who knew the ropes did
not vote once, but several times. Students who did not
go near the polls until late in the day were turned away
and not permitted to cast their ballots because some
one had already used their names.
Last year the Student Council, because of charges
of corruption heaped on the elections, instituted a sys
tem of checking up on the voters in an endeavor to
clean up the voting. Two new features were adda to
this system at the election yesterday. Ballots were vali
dated when called for, not before. Another new feature
was the fact that students were not permitted to drop
their own ballots into the boxes.
Electioneering was forbidden inside the Temple,
Ballots were validated as called for. Council members
stood truard over the boxes. Under these conditions it
was difficult to use unfair methods. There probably
will be some reports of duplicate voting, or of students
giving the wrong name when asking for ballots. Cor
rupt practices, however,, were at a minimum yesterday
at the election, and the Student Council is to be con
gratulated for the way in which it handled the election.
SIMPLE SIMON GOES AFISHING
An ignorant and thoughtless act. Such was the
destruction of the engineers' exhibit and the painting
of the class numeral, 'E-'28", on the Law building
steps Monday night. That neither a law nor engineer
ing student was responsible for the action seems evi
dent. The prevailing opinion is that some student or
students committed the deed hoping that it might
arouse ill feelings between the two colleges and per
haps lead to a scrap similar to that of last year.
Fortunately, the engineers and lawyers sanely in
vestigated the situation before any outburst of feeling
resulted. As a consequence, the attempt to revive the
old lawyer-engineer feud failed utterly. In fact, it
paved the way for expression of co-operation and good
feeling between the two colleges.
That does not in any measure excuse the simple
minded individuals who applied the paint and matches
so thoughtlessly. For their foolish actions cast a re
flection on all of us. It is such stunts that cause un
favorable comment on student life and lead the outside
world to regard students as individuals who act first
and think afterward.
DO A LITTLE MORE WORK.
Just when balmy evenings and warm afternoons
are tempting students (and they don't meet much re
sistance) to neglect their studies, Dean Effinger of the
University of Michigan comes forth with some appro
priate bits of advice. His remarks follow 1
Experience has shown most of us that more stu
dents fail because they do not work than for any other
single reason. Investigation has also shown' that the
average student who satisfies minimum requirements
has time to waste. Better mental training, harder study,
less superficiality, are what young America needs. With
the present craze for college, it would seem that the
Lord has delivered this generation into our hands at
the right time if we can teach it to work, and it would
also seem that in the performance of this purely sec
ondary function we might make a humble contribution
toward the solution of America's problem. To do so
we must make it clear at the outset that hard work
is what we expect and then live up to our prospectus.
College standards have certainly been lowered in
many places to meet present conditions, and the ex
isting practice of using the class average as a passing
grade is but one sign of this fact. If each one of us
could go to our respective institutions of wrk with the
firm determination to increase the average amount of
work expected of our college students by at least 10
per cent, whatever present standards may be, I be
lieve that a certain number of our students would
thank us immediately and that a still larger number in
a short time would acknowledge the wisdom of what
had been done.
Tha Cynic Saras
"It was the first of May, but the end of me,"
mourned the defeated candidate as he viewed the
results of the election.
Our little pledge took in the election yesterday
and later on she told the girl friend all about it I
overheard the conversation and here is how it ran:
"Why, DEARie, weren't you at the elecTIONT
EVERYone was there. More good-looking BOYS. And
they were SO sociable. I didn't know ANYthing about
it, but Monday evening at DINner time Johnny TROUT
and Neal Bailey came over to OUR house. You
SHOULD have seen them. They were comPLETEly
covered with their Sigma NU robes. How did I know
them? Why, DEARie, I could tell THEIR voices in
the DARK. They brought over the CUTEST charts
made by the PHI Psis and telling how to VOTE.
"And later in the evening we had a SERenade.
ClarENCE Schultz sang verses of a song, then he would
YODel the chorus. The OTHER sororities are close by
so we got to hear it EIGHT times. The BOYS called
themselves the 'BLUE Shirts' and they promised us
acTIVities and LATE permissions and EVERYthing if
we would vote for THEIR men. So we all planned on
CUTting classes Tuesday so that we could let the
BOYS show us how to VOTE.
"It was HELD at the TEMPle. And WOULD you
beLIEVE it? I had no more started up the STEPS than
a bunch of STRANGE fellows I found out LATer
that they were SIG EPS gathered around ME to ask
ME to VOTE for some fellow named JAMES. Then I
heard SOMEone sing out MY name and LAUGH.
There was my STEADY and me with THOSE boys!
MORTified, I thought I'd DIE!
"I met the NICEST boy. His NAME was Joe
Hunt. He asked ME to vote for HIM and THREE other
Phi Pais. THEY are the group called 'YELLOW Jack
ets'. But the Sig ALPHS, Phi GAMS, and lots of other
places are HELPing them. But I knew he didn't MEAN
it. Why, he had on a BLUE shirt I
"Yes, there were some boys on the BLUE side
too. They had their men they were running placed ALL
around the BUILDing. Have you ever met BRUCE
Thomas? Well, no matter. A.T.O.'s, Alpha SIGS, Delts,
D. U.'s, Betas all those boys were there TRYing to get
acQUAINTed. Why NO, what DO you think I AM? I
don't date STRANGERS! But they were NICE enough
to help me get my BALlots. And when I came back
from the SHOW WHO did I VOTE for? Oh, I didn't
BOTHER. I would have had to WAIT so LONG and I
REALLY didn't CARE. The FELLOW t the stand
was a SENIOR, anyway. Johnny asked me to go to
the LINCOLN and so I gave my BALlots to the BOYS.
They said it didn't MATTER who MARKED them."
Notices
Wednesday, Mar 2
Gamma Alpha Chi
Gamma Alpha Chi will meet Wednesday
evening at 6 o'clock In the Advertising of
fice in Social Science.
Business Administration Ssnlort
Mr. J. B. Green of Kansas City, district
manager of the Proctor and Gamble dis
tributing company, will meet graduating
seniors this morning in Social Sciences 806.
He is particularly interested in those who
are interested in selling, although he will
be glad to meet ell seniors who wish to see
him. '
Student Council Meeting
The nM Rtudnt Council will meet again
this afternoon at 6 o'clock in Temple 204.
This will be the last meeting of tha old
Council.
ThuriaVr, May 3
Dramatic Club
Tha Dramatic Club will meet Thursday
evening at 7 o'clock. Election of officers
will ba carried rn.
Pi Lambda Theta
Tha last regular meeting of PI Lambda
Theta will be held Thursday, May 8, at
7:10 o'clock at Teachers College. Dr. Hens-
UK will give a talk.
In Other Columns
SPONGING THE SLATE
There is some universal germ of hopefulness in the
heart of man which comes to life with every new be
ginning, stirring the pulse to a swifter rhythm. The
invalid thrills strangely with his first breath of moun
tain air; the broken financier, fresh from the bankrupt
cy courts, feels a new confidence in himself as he opens
up another set of books. Perhaps even the retired Chi
cago gangster is touched by this inspiring sensation
of rebirth as he settles down in comparative peace and
security in Minneapolis. The cheerfulness, the renewed
vitality, th optimism which follows the slate-wiping
process is indispensable to life. Without it human his
tory would be one long tale of woe and suicide.
The termination of each school quarter sees some
thing like a perennial resurrection in the students.
Faces of a doleful length during the finals shorten up
with a smile the first day of the new quarter. The
happy consciousness that the pedagogical "black lists,"
the so-called class books, well-filled with records of
Saturday mornings spent elsewhere than in class, has
been discarded, lifts the spell of gloom. The tutelage
of a new professor who has not as yet located one's
vulnerable spots lends a strange fortitude to even the
greatest of cowards. The unmarked text with its clean
white pages rather sympolizes the student's frame of
mind. Not a scratch, not one of those helpless little
question marks in the margin, not a word underlined in
a futile attempt to impress it upon the memory.)
But as if by magic the text grows dog-eared, its
back broken, its pages scrawled and scratched with
weird arabesques; the professor becomes irksome; his
class book assumes an incriminating character; and life
becomes once more a dream a bad dream. Finals come
again to wipe the slate and renew hope, but what
comes after that? The Minnesota Daily.
on.-
Some dresses aren't so bad for the shape they are
Denison Flamingo.
UNDERGRADUATE INTERESTS
Strange as it may seem, there are undergraduates,
who, if suddenly asked what they are most interested
in would be at somewhat of a loss for a reply. Aside
from a mild sort of an interest in eventually passing
enough courses to ultimately get a diploma; and per
haps, or even perhaps not, an active interest in the
minor vices, there is nothing else in undergraduate ex
istence that they care particularly about one way or
another.
Needless to say everyone in college can't wear an
athletic letter, or travel with the Triangle club, or
contribute to the publications; nor would they all have
any desire to. But we feel that men who are interested
in something over and above passing examinations, and
in addition to the more intensive forms of social recrea
tion are especially fortunate. Individual tastes may find
the work of one of the multitudinous campus organi
zations to their liking, or if none of these are particu
larly suited, there are other things even better.
Literature in any one of its varied forms is only
one example. A critical taste for writings is always a
source of enjoyment. Everyone should have some sort
of an outlet for his excess efforts and the development
of ability in any line brings a sense of satisfaction. Let
those who are not convinced of the truth of the above
ask people who might know. The Daily Princetonian,
"Blue Shirt" Side
Wins Largest Vote
(Continued from Page 1)
when known as the "Slippery Seven",
Last year every office on the council
and publications board was won by
candidates supported by what are
now the "Blue Shirts".
Although the "Blue Shirts" elec.
ted eight t-t their eleven candidates
for the Student Council, six were
running without opposition on the
p-.-Jr.Ud iaLVo. Carl ..." 7. Olson and
Bruce II. Thomas wound up the race
for seniors-t-large in front of Joe
JJvi.t tvi Eirrrer W. Holm, for a
'Tl.rs f:';t" victory in one of the
. 1 TT.otnas Win
I . l.-;.-uas piled t?p higher
ir'-'j t :. ii'ri. 3!f Vi t,rnnnK
'.;..'., iVi.:t f3;,I Ipsa Dsv3, hose
name was the only girl's appearing
on the ballot with two to be elected
Miss Davies was easily elected al
though many ballots were cast with
out a vote for the women seniors-at
large and many names were writ
ten in.
Two of the four "Yellow Jacket"
candidates from Phi Kappa Psi were
elected. Douglas Timmerman walked
away from Frank Mockler in the
College of Business Administration
while George Ray emerged victorious
over WMlicra Mctschullat with a ons
vote margin.
Holm and Hunt Los
Failure of Elmer Holm, joint cap
tain nf the 1928 football team -with
"Eluts" Howell, to run stronger, was
one of the big surprises of the elec
tion. Holm and Hunt vere .the two
defeated members of Pbi Kappa Psi,
7 rati ei-gttly behind CIs;:n unci
with Holm trailing his fraternity
running mate. The vote from the
College of Agriculture gave Olson
and Thomas a decisive margin.
Earl Wyatt, brother of Perley
Wyatt, captain of the 1928 Husker
track team, was the other "Yellow
Jacket" elected to the Student Coun
cil. Wyatt won a clean-cut victory
over Arthur Bailey, former president
if the sophomore class.
Mary Ball Win Out
Names of more than twenty wom-
n were written i: on the ballots
for ser.ior-8.t large with Mary Ball
polling a decisive plurality for the
second elected woman. Laura M. Bu
chanan and Geraldine Heikes also
polled substantial totals. A che;k on
eligibility will be necessary before
it is definitely known who was elec
ted as senior-at-large along with
race was totally unexpected. But one
name appeared on the ballot, that
of Donald H. Porter, "Blue Shirt"
candidate. He is a member of Xi Psi
Phi, dental fraternity.
Dyer la Written In
The name of Eugene Dyer, mem
ber of Delta Sigma Delta, rival den
tal fraternity, also on the "Blue
Shirt" faction, was written in and
checked an equal number of times
to that of Porter. Unless Dyer is in
eligible, it will be up to the old Stu
dent Council to determine which will
be the representative.
Closest of the races among uni
versity co-eds was that in the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences where
Gretchen Standeven had a nine-vote
lead over Mary Morgan. Faye Wil
Hams had a safe lead in the School
of Fine Arts, piling up 39 votes to
21 for Jane Glennon. Helen Mc
Chesney also ran up a commanding
lead to win the election of a repres
entative from the Teachers college
over Edna B. Schrick and Mildred
E. Cole.
Bruce Finishes Ahead
Charles Bruce, business manager.
of the Cornhusker, was the lone pub
lications worker to win election to
the publications board. He won de
cisively from Ted James, varsity
football center. But Willard Witte,
also a varsity football letter-man,
and George Cook, promising fresh
man track candidate, won the other
two positions oh the publications
board.
Witte'a only experience with pub
lications has been his connection
with The Daily Nebraskan on assign
ment from the class in news writing.
George Cook participated in work on
student publications at Kemper mili
tary academy before coming to the
University of Nebraska.
Powell and Whit
George Powell and Ruth White
ran without opposition at the College
of Agriculture and but two names
were written in opposed to them.
Others running as the only candi-j
dates on the ballot faced more ag
gressive opposition.
Ralph Raikes, editor of the Blue
Print, was an easy winner from the
College of Engineering. However, 32
votes were cast for Donald Williams,
Yellow Jacket" candidate, who had
been declared scholastically ineligible
by the registrar. Five other votes
were also cast.
Find Little Opposition
Virgil Cannon, College of Pharm
acy, and Victor Z. Brink, Graduate
College, were both elected with but
a single opposing vote. But 8 votes
were counUd against W. Jovce
Ayres, School of Journalism. His
20 votes gave him an easy victory,
however.
From the time the polls opened at
9 o'clock in the morning until they
closed eight hours later, a steady
stream of voters kept Student Coun
cil members handling the election
busy. During the peak periods be
tween classes, the four lines of vot
ers, waiting to have their names
checked and to receive ballots filled
the Temple lobby and overflowed
down the stairs, both west and north
Many Vote Early
Two thirds of the vote was cast
before 1:30 o'clock, council mem
bers estimated. Heavy voting in the
morning almost swamped the coun
cil's election committee despite pre
parations for a more than usually
heavy vote. The same voting system
used previously this year was again
id force and little complaint was
heard from either political faction.
Although the Student Council had
no "Yellow Jackets" members this
year, representatives of that faction
were permitted to' witness counting
of the votes following the closing of
the polls at 5 o'clock. Leaders of both
factions expressed themselves as be
ing satisfied with the conduct of the
election following the counting of
the ballots.
Larger Than Last Year
Tuesday's election was almost half
again as large as last year's vote
which amazed faculty and students
who had been accustomed to see two
or three hundred students voting in
the spring elections. More than 1150
voted last year. Last year's election
was one of the three large student
elections in the history of the school.
Some 1200 students voted on two
occasions. But the more than 1700
students who packed and jammed the
Temple yesterday set a new hiirh
water mark for stuoent body elec-
Trophy Awards
Feature Banquet
(Continued from Page 1)
nities could not exist here," empha
sized Mr. Ramsey. He continued to
say that too many fraternity men
place their social fraternity life on
too high a plane of importance.
"No fraternity has a monopoly on
the good men in school," explained
the prominent Nebraska alumnus
"There are good men in very fra7
turnlt.y, and likewise there are men
in each fraternity who are not so
good." He emphasized the fact that
fraternities should not fail to "clean
house" occasionally, if conditions de
mand it, and get rid of men who are
a positive detriment to the fratern
ity and to the University as well.
Should Not Be Narrow
William Ramsey concluded his talk
to the fraternity men by saying that
they should not be predjudiced
against non-fraternity men. "The
University of Nebraska is supported
by citizens of the state, and is a der
mocratic institution," stated the
principal speaker. "Therefore one
cannot consider himself better than
his fellow student merely because he
is affiliated with a fraternity while
the other is a 'barb'."
He added that in the race of life
a fraternity man may rub elbows
with more non-fraternity than fra
ternity men, and that many of these
will forge ahead more effectively,
perhaps, than himself. Mr. Ramsey
read a letter from Mr. Harvey New-
branch, former Nebraska student
and present editor of the Omaha
World-Herald, to the Interfraternity
gathering.
Mayor Hedge Talks
Mayor Hedge of Lincoln, talked
very briefly with the fraternity men.
"I have grown old enough to enjoy
youth," he stated, continuing to say
that he could appreciate, even though
he could not sanction, some of the
antics of fraternities.
Chancellor E. A. Burnett ad
dressed the group for the first time
as chancellor of the University of the beautiful, noble, refined T'd lnt
MoKronVn TTa rirnucht out A rmm- turpi! wnmnn ' cul-
ber of pertinent facts concerning the I
OWL LUNCHES
ANY KIND ANYWHERE
ANY TIME
Owl Drug
SAWYER'S
S
Be Prepared
Have a Sawyer's Frog Brand
Slicker on hand and the rain
won't bother you.
Sawyer's genuine Oiled Slick
ers are guaranteed waterproof.
Get your slicker before the dealer't
, stock runs low
HM SAWYER S on.
E. Cambridge. Massachusetts,
objects of university life
Professor Schramm, chairman of
the Interfraternity Council, present
ed the Hainer cup and the placques.
He complimented Frederick Daly,
George Holt, and Gordon Hedges for
their work in managing the Interfra
ternity banquet,
their existence in the maintenn
of high ideals and hish Z !"a.nce
which develons th - """ft
tured woman.
"The real mission of fraternity'
is to promote these paramount ass?
Alpha Xi Delta
Makes Highest Average
(Continued from Page 1)
The program opened with Harriet
Cruise Kemmer leading the singing
of "There Is No Place Like Ne
braska." "The Panhellenic Sky" was sung
by a chorus composed of one mem
ber from each sorority, who' carried
their large Greek-letter pins. They
were accompanied by the Alpha Xi
Delta string quartet.
Mra. Kiatler Speaks
Mrs. J. J. Kistler, national presi
dent of Phi Omega Pi, of Lawrence,
Kans., gave the address in which
she stated that the Greek letter or
ganizations justified and sanctified
is a great one." aha utnto . ...
i . .. -vsu, out tna
velous its rewards, if We
shoulder our responsibilities
nities need no defense if they 5
but take advantage of their great
portunity to justify themselves." 0P"
The banquet which is sponsored by
the city Panhellenic board each yeJ
aims to create good fellowship 1
promote high scho?arship amon, Z
sororities. 8 we
i.iiitnuiinp yaw BitmnwfTimiiiBMB4fl.,T"rr'Mi
rzljalgpF
LADIES' AND MENS' POCKET AND
STRAP WATCHES
ATTRACTIVE PRICES
. FEATURED BY
Fenton B. Flemine
B-3421 JEWELER mj
$250
JDDOCK
HARROW SHIRT
is made of fine Broadcloth with
an ARROW COLLAR attached.
PADDOCKS are STYLE-and,
at the price, they are VALUE.
Your Dealer has the PADDOCK
CLUETT, PEABOOY tc CO., INC.
ARROW SHIRTS COLLARS UNDERWEAR HANDKERCHIEFS
WM illllllliW
li
11 JLi Jl Jl A
Shop Our
Windows
ALL THIS WEEK
Corner
10th and 0
A Mid-Season Clearance Sale
D-R-E-S-S-E-S
Coats
Ensembles
All Sizes For Misses and Women
Suits
nomas cn the ctty campus vote, A tie in the College of Dentistry itions on the Nebraska campus.
at 1-4 1-3 1-2 off
Regular Marked Prices
SELECTED FROM OUR STOCK DRASTICALLY REDUCED FOR
QUICK AND COMPLETE CLEARANCE ENABLING YOU TO BUY
HIGH CLASS, FASHIONABLE AND UP TO THE MINUTE STYLES.
DRESSES . . .
SUITS
COATS ....
ENSEMBLES . .
as low as
as low as
as low
03
a
as low as
. $9.75
$14.75
$16.75
$19.75
THIRD FLOOR.