NEBRASKAN DAILY A. A. JL Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXX NO. 154. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 26. 19.31. PRICE FIVE CENTS REGENTS DELAY L 10 MIT FUNDS Chancellor Declares Board Seeks Appropriations by Legislature. $1 FEE TO BE RETAINED Student Payment, Cheaper Financing Methods Are Sought. possibilities that further delay in the construction of the proposed svimming pool wera likely were seen yesterday when Chancellor E. A. Burnett declared that the board of regents of the university would take no further action on the pool until the state legislature bad passed an appropriations bill. When interviewed yesterday, the chancellor declared that the reg ents would await the meeting of the legislature in the hope of find ing a better method of financing the pool than those already pro posed. Seeks Cheaper Way. He pointed out that if the con tractor who built the pool were tc take bonds on the university's guarantee of .$5,000 per year, it would add to the expense of the structure. He said that the board believed it possible to devise some cheaper way of financing the pool. Methods previously proposed to the regents have involved a pay ment of ?1 per semester at time of registration, which would net some $4,000 to $6,000 per year. This plan would be retained. In tlie previous plans, it has been sought to have the regents guaran tee $5,000 a year on the basis of the funds to be raised thru the $1 fee and the saving of some $1,500 per year which is now paid out for rent to city pools for swimming classes and meets. To Retain Fee. "We feel that if the legislature treats the university well, we may be able to find some better means of financing the pool than to have the contractor take the bonds or any sort of promise to pay," the chancellor declared. "Under pres ent conditions, I do not see hew the board of regents can do any thing more about the matter than has already been done." The chancellor pointed out that even tho the university were to finance the pool, it would be paid for by students with the $1 fee. RECITALS NEXT WEEK Thelma Crandall and Letha Rastede to Present Senior Programs. Two students of Earnest Har rison, Miss Thelma Crandall and Miss Letha Rastede, will give their senior piano recitals within the next week. Miss Rastede will give her re cital Thursday evening in Morrill hall, gallery B, at 8:15 o'clock. Her program includes the following numbers: Prelude and Fugue, B Major, Bach; Fantasia, C Major, Haydn; Sonata, B Major, Schu bert; Masques, Debussy; Rhap sody, C Major, Dohnanyi. Recital numbers by Miss Cran dall will be given Sunday, May 31, at 2:30 in the Temple theater. Her program includes a series of pieces French Suite VI, Alle mande, Courante, Sarabande, Men uet I, Menuet II, and Gigue, all of them by Bach; Sonata, in G minor, Andantino, Scherzo, Rondo, by Schumann; Ballade by Debussy, and Sonatine, Modere, Mouv't de Menuet, Anlme, by Ravel. Both will receive the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts. Omicron Nu Banquet . To Be Held Tonight Alumnae of Omicron Nu, home economics honorary, will hold a banquet Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the University club. The actives of the organization will also be present and will have charge cf the surprise program. ACTON 'Pussy,' Near Victim of Ag Fire, Returns to Animal Husbandrymen; 'Puss,' Other Cat, Is Still Missing BY GEORGE ROUND. "Pussy," the tat has returned. "Puss," the other eat. is yet to be found. Now Pussy and Puss are Ihc two cats who were near victims in the recent fire which nearly destroyed the animal husbandry building upon the college of agriculture campus. The two cats, pride of the animal husbandry attic of the building on the ratal night that the fire drove them from their abode. Awakened from a deep slumber, the cats were frightened as the blaze danced about them. After a short conference in which no- sig nals were called, Pussy and Puss decided the best thing to do was to find a method or way of getting out of the attic. Looking below at the mob of people watching the firemen attempt to exterminate the fire. Pussy and Puss felCthat the distance was too fa.' to Jump. But looking back, they saw the blue flames dancing higher in the air each moment. Another huddle New I)eiartiueiit I lean! "-iB; "' i r A it I 1111. IMV III I .III .' PROF. W. L. DE3AUFRE. Who will succeed Prot. G. R. Chatburn as head of the depart ment of applied meenanics. Pro fessor DeBaufre was at one time head of the mechanical engineer ing department. STUDENTS WILL Hi" BEN BERNIE TONIGHT Famous Orchestra to Play In Coliseum With Price Set at $1. ." PAT KENNEDY SOLOIST Tonight at 8:30 o'clock the coli seum doors will swing open and several hundred Lincoln residents and college students will dance to Ben Bernie, "the old Maestro," and his sixteen piece recording or chestra. Fresh from an engage ment at the new College Inn at the Sherman hotel in Chicago. Bernie and his boys will play at the- coli seum for their first Lincoln ap pearance. Tickets will continue to be sold at the College bookstore and Ben Simon & Sons until tonight at 6 o'clock when they will be trans ferred to the coliseum. The same prices of one dollar each will pre vail at the door. Ben .Bernie's orchestra, one of the most popular of recording and radio fame, will play in Lincoln full strength, bringing with them Pat Kennedy, soloist. Several of Bernie's new arrangements in mu sic will be given the Lincoln cus tomers. "The Ole Maestro" will be at the helm of the musical organi zation, so arranged, that the music will be heard over the entire dance floor. Checking facilities will be provided those who attend the party. No decorating is being done due to the high cost of secur ing the band and the low price of admission set by the local mana gers. At 6 o'clock Monday night sev eral hundred tickets had been sold at the two agencies with a few yet to be placed on sale during Tues day. THREE FILE FOR' EDITOR Students Seek Chief Post On Publication at Ag College. The publication board on the agricultural college campus is ex pected to meet the latter part of this week in a session to select the editor of the Cornhusker Country man, monthly magazine, for the first semester of the coming year. Prof. R. P. Crawford, head of the agricultural journalism depart ment, is chairman of the board. When the filing date for appli cations for the editorship closed last week, Crawford announced three students had applied for the position. The circulation and busi ness manager hold over until next year. HOUSE STEWARDS ELECT OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR Edwin Faytinger -was elected president of the Fraternal Co-operative Buying association for next year at a meeting held Sunday afternoon at the Delta Theta Phi house. Other new officers are Howard Mixson, vice president, and Larry McDonald, secretary. Names of members of the board of directors will be announced later. The organization is seeking a treasurer-buyer for next year. The position carries a salary. Applica tions can be mads to Faytinger at the Sigma Chi house. building, were trapped in the and they had decided to jump through the window. Part Their Ways. So through the window, Pussy and Puss went. Though they failed to find the landing as soft as it shall be In Paradise perhaps, they alighted safely without the aid of & parachute and proceeded to run from the blaze. Said one cat to the other, "1 11 go this way." Said the other cat to the other, "I'll go this way and we will meet over be hind the barn." They separated. Those in charge of tho animal (Continued on Page 2.) EDMONDS BEGINS OF Eight Months Preparation End as Annuals Go From Office. THEME IS NEW FEATURE Background of University Is Given; 100 Pages in Student Life. After eight months of prepara tion t!ie 3931 Cornhusker, thiity fourth edition of the University of Nebraska annual, is off the press and distribution will be com menced this morning, according to Ed Edmonds, business manager. Purchasers may obtain their cop ies at the Cornhusker office in university hall any time during the day and thru the remainder ot the week. It will be necessary to bring receipts along to give in exchange for the book, Edmonds has an nounced. A particular theme which pre dominates thruout the entire issue is a novel feature of the new Cornhusker. It is the first time such a plan has been followed and the theme is one 'which centers about the historic background of the university. An entirely new art makeup in the arrangement of photographs and type is al.so one of the markedly striking features of the year book. Interesting Photography. Peculiar and interesting effects in photography of campus build ings is one of the book's accom plishments. In a series of repro ductions done in brown a number of buildings are placed on the page in such a manner that a reactive mood is immediately created with in the mind of the reader. The student life section of thc book follows an entirely new plan of development. This section is composed of 100 pages of novel cuts and feature articles with lay outs and illustrations by James Pickering. The snapshot section fills 24 pages of the book and in the arrangements of photographic cuts in the sorority and fraternity sections a new plan has been fol lowed. This change in style and (Continued on Page 4.) DANCING CLASS WILL HO LD J-ASTJVI EETi N G Success Makes Staff Plan To Continue Project Next Year. The last social dancing hour will be held Saturday evening from 7:30 to 9 o'clock in the women's gymnasium, it was announced yes terday. These regular Saturday evening dances have been conducted by the social staff of the Y. W. C. A. and were sponsored by the physical ed ucation department. A regular charge of 10 cents has been made in order to buy a radio-phonograph combination which has been used to furnish music for the af fairs. Only a small portion of the cost of the machine remains unpaid, members of the staff said yester day. It is planned to continue the social dancing classes next year. BY Nebraska Professor Named To National Committee In World Union. Prof. N. A. Bengtson, head of the geography department of the University of Nebraska, has been appointed one of a committee of seven of the National Committee of the United States in the Interna tional Geographical Union. The appointment is an honor and credit to Professor Bengtson because the most eminent geographers of the world are in the international union. Some of the other men to be ap pointed on the committee include Professor Whittlesey. Harvard; Professor Piatt, Chicago; and Pro fessor Finch, Wisconsin. The union is an international organization with committees for each country. The members of the committee serve for four years. The committee will be In charge of and will manage the interna tional congress of the union which will hold in 1933. The site for the congress has not been chosen but it is thought that it may be held in the United States. Sigma Upsilon Will Meet Sunday IS'ight Sigma Upsilon, honorary lit erary society, will meet at 7 o'clock Sunday evening for the final time this year. The meet ing will be held at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house. -Important business will be taken up at the meeting, ac cording to officers of the group. Only initiated members will at tend the meeting. v DISTRIBUTION YEARBOOK TODAY CRAWFORD JBOOK ADOPTED Pulitzer School Journalism Uses Nebraskan's Text In Class Work. "The Magazine Article," a hook written by Prof. R. P. Crawford, assistant to the chancellor of the university, has been adopted as a text in the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia university, according to word received in Lin coln. Adoption of a book in this school is considered an unusual endorse ment, since very few books are used there, owing to the eminence of members of the faculty in va rious fields of journalism. The book was placed in use this spring in the advanced class of Prof. Walter B. Pitkin, himself an au thor of note. 100 ME PARI IN Webster, Lenger, Cox Win In Meats and Grain Competition. Jay Webster, Dalton: Lea Len ger, Beatrice, and Thomas Cox, Cedar Rapids were declared win ners in the annual student meats and grain judging contests held on the college of agriculture campus Saturday. Nearly one hundred students participated in the con tests. Lea Lenger copped high honors in the girls division of the meats judging and identification contest. Ruby Newberry of Lincoln was second, Louis Hornung of Roca, third, and Georgia Wilcox of Scottsbluff, fourth. Miss Lenger was al.so the high individual in the identification part of the contest while Georgia Wilcox won the judging decision. Miss Wilcox won both the pork and lamb car cass judging while Ruby Newber ry was the high scorer in beef carcass judging. The girls judged five carcasses of meat and identified twenty-five cuts in the contest. In addition to identifying the cuts, the girls were required to describe the table preparation for each. The Lincoln packers and branch houses co-operated in furnishing facilities for the meats contest. Cox Takes First. In the boys' division of the meats judging contest, Thomas Cox of Cedar Rapids was the high individual scorer. La Vera Gin grich of Fairfield ranked second and C. W. Hickman of Moscow, Idaho, third. The boys judged nine carcasses. George Harrison of Havelock won the beef section, Howard Ratekin of Rulo the pork division and C. W. Hickman the lamb carcass judging. Prof. Wil liam J. Loeffel of the animal hus bandry department at the college had charge of both divisions of the meats judging and identifica tion contest. Jay Webster of Dalton copped the Tri-K agronomy club cup when he won high indidvidual hon ors in the identification and judg ing contest in grains. Lorenz Bredemeir was second, Norriss En ders third, Paul Lemon fourth, and Lester Prokap, ffifth. In the identification of common (Continued on Page 2.) s Home Economics Instructor Attends Chicago Meeting On Housing Methods. Miss Mary Nelson, head of the housing and equipment division of the home economics department, attended a meeting of the com mittee on "Kitchens and Other Centers," held at the Stevens hotel, Chicago, 111., last Saturday. This committee of which Miss Mason is a member, is a part of the Presi dent's Conference on Home Build ing and Home Ownership. At this meeting the committee laid plans for its work and assign ed individual phases of the work as well as committees to check on investigations already complet ed, in progress, or which may be set up and completed by Novem ber, 1931, when the final results of the committee's work are to be available. This committee is one of a large number dealing with different phases of home building and home ownership. The persons working in these groups are authorities chosen from, representative sec tions of the country. Their find ings will be brought together in the President's Conference, tho exact date of which has not yet been set. AG VESPERS TO BE HELD TODAY Ag college vespers will be helu today in the home economics par lors, with Marie Hornung in charge. Miss Berneice Miller, sec retary of the school Y. will talk on Y. W. C. A plans for the com ing year. Campus Calendar Tuesday. Methodist Student council. Tem ple, 12 o'clock. Wednesday. A. W. .S. board meeting at 12 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall. Saturday. Social dancing class from 7 un til 8.30 o'clock, at the Armory. RYCKMAN WILL BE INITIATED SIGMA DELTA CHI Pulitzer Prize Winner to Be Taken Into Local Chapter Thursday. BANQUET IS PLANNED Prominent Newspaper Men Of Lincoln and Omaha To Be Guests. Letter of acceptance to associate membership in Nebraska chapter of Sigma Delta Chi was received yesterday from Charlos S. Ryck man, editor of the Fremont Trib une, according to the president of the Nebraska chapter. Ryckman was unanimously voted into asso ciate membership following his winning of the Pulitzer editorial prize. Ryckman will be taken into the organization at a special initiation Thursday at 5 o'clock, preceding the annual Founders' day banquet in the evening. Plans are being made to have the initation con ducted entirely by alumni mem bers of Sigma Delta Chi. Follow ing the initation, Ryckman will be formally presented with creden tials and an official pin as the high spot of the Founders' banquet. Invite Prominent Men. Prominent Lincoln and Omaha newspapermen and alumni of Sig ma Delta Chi are being invited to the banquet which will be held at the Shrine country cluo. A special meeting of Sigma Delta Chi was held in The Ne braskan office late yesterday to cornpelte plans for the initiation and banquet. Elmont Waiie has been placed in charge of transportation, Art Mitchell is taking care of tickets, Gene McKim is heading the com mittee to invite Lincoln and Oma ha pressmen, and Jack Erickson has charge of publicity. Stories and pictures of the ban quet will be forwarded to leading newspaper periodicals over the country and will be carried on the principal wire services. Admission to the banquet is one dollar. M'GEACHEN ELECTED TO CAPTAIN RIFLES Succeeds Gillespie; Other Officers Are Pinkerton, Sawerbrey, Gordon. Pershing Rifles, at a special meeting held Monday afternoon at Nebraska hall elected James K. McGeachin captain of the ograni zation for next year. McGeachin will succeed Captain Claud Gilles pie who led the company in its work this year. Remaining officers elected were Arthur Pinkerton, first lieutenant, King P. Sawerbrey, second lieu tenant, and William E. Gordon, first sergeant. At five o'clock Thursday after noon, following government inspec tion, Pershing Rifles will initiate eight pledges who were selected at a recent tryout. A dinner has been arranged following the initia tion ceremony at which time the installation of the new officers will occur. 16 TO TRY BARBERRY 14 Cornhuskers Listed As Summer Workers On Problem. Fourteen University of Nebraska students and two other state col lege boys will work over the state as field agents in barberry eradi cation this summer, according to an announcement made Wednes day evening from the agricultural college by M. E. Yount, assistant leader of barberry eradication in Nebraska. Men selected for the summer work include Gale Klingman, Har lan Bollman, Phil Taylor, Law rence Rohrbaugh, Keene Ludden, Albert Ebers. Glen Feather, Perry Rainey, Sam Stewart, Ralph Bush, Chris Mathis, Jesse Livingston, Ray Hile, Grcth Dunn, Arthur Peterson and Walter Marshall. All are from Nebraska except Taylor and Rohrbaugh. Have Four Groups. The field agents will be divided into groups of four as in previous ars, Yount says. Lawrence iiohrbaugh. Glen Feather, Ralph Bush and Ray Hllo will be squad leaders. Work on barberry eradication (Continued on Page 3.) Senior Invitations To Re Distributed Senior Invitations and an nouncements of graduation ae now ready for distribution, it wat announced yesterday by Fred Gran, senior president. The announcements are being distributed at tho Co-Op book ttore. It will cost six cents to mail either type of announce ment, Qrau said. Two cents postage will carry the Invitations. Accepts Honor niitrv dr thf Journal. Charles S. Ryckman. Fremont Editor who won the Pulitzer prize for the best newspa per editorial written in 1930. He has accepted the invitation of Sigma Delta Chi to become an honorary member of the organiza tion. Elaborate plans arc being made for the occasion. 1 NER TO E Well Balanced Contents of Articles. Essays and Poems Feature. GILBERT DOANE WRITES The Spring issue of the Prajrie Schooner magazine which is about ready to come from the press, con tains an exceptionally well bal anced .contents, including short stories,' articles, features, essays, and poems. Among the stories are "Portiait in a Metronomic Mood." by Arista E. Fisher; "Easy Virtue," by Grace Stone Coates; Kel.--ey Kitch cl's "The Inca Road;" "The Meet ing," from the pen of George Al bee, and Albert Halper's contribu tion, "The Oldest Brother." A poem "Small Town" is by Phyllis B. Morden while "Wisdom of Sorts" has been written by Billy B. Cooper. Loren C. Eiseley, a student in the university, has contributed "For a Lost Home" while "Love Song" was composed by Barbara Hcllis. "Bootblack In a Barber Shop" is by Herbert Henegan. Roza Z. Marinoni is rep resented by two poems. Doane Writes. "Election Night 1S85" comes from the pen of Elizabeth W. Cos grove, while Gilbert H. Doane is represented in this issue of the magazine by an article on "Driv ing Home from the Office." Li brarian Doane has also contributed his "Bibliana" which is a regular feature in the Prairie Schooner. Another "two timer" is Prof. L. C. Wimberly who has written "Men Without "Books" and al.so, as edi tor, has contributed the "Ox Cart." Paul E. Pendleton traveled to the West Virginia mountains for material for his "Wood Hick Lingo." Another sketch is "A Pio neer Woman" from the pen of Russell L. Jackson. The "Cross roads" is the Schooner's challenge to the world that a magazine of the type it is can print poems of worth even if they are not paid for. the editor said. William F. Thompson is the au thor of his regular feature "The Dog in the Manger." MISS VERA RIG DON ACCEPTS POSITION IN DELTA COLLEGE Miss Vera Rigdon, graduate stu dent working toward !i?r Ph. D. degree in the department of geog raphy, has accepted a position as chairman of the geography depart ment at the Delta Teachers college of Cleveland, Miss. She will begin her new work Sept. 1. During the summer vacation she will tearh at the University of Nebraska after which she will conduct a group of advanced geography students on a study tour thru western Europe. PHI U. O. HONORS SENIORS AT MAY BREAKFAST FETE The annual May Morning break fast was given Sunday morning as a farewell to the seniors of Phi Upsilon Omricon at the home of Miss Christine Carlson, 3147 South Fortieth. The twenty-four who at tended the affair were seated at one long table on the lawn. Gar den flowers were used to decorate the table. After the breakfast the time was spent informally. ft; Zyt c4 Bancroft Suffers Second Attack Of Rare Fungus Infection Which He Contracted in Research Work OMAHA. Paul M. Hancroft, '20, instructor in the University of Nebraska medical school, is gravely ill in the university hos pital with the second attack of a strange malady, contracted while he Mas doing research work. The disensft is known as granuloma coccidioides, and gen ei allv is fatal. Bancroft was first taken ill with the disease four years ago when he waa working kt the University cf Pennsylvania, He recovered at that time, his re covery being the first in history. The disease, which is very rare, is caused by a fungus, the cocci dioides immitis. It waa while working with this fungus that Bancroft first contracted the dis ease. Bancroft is the son of the Rev. FACULTY UPHOLDS El Approves Disqualification of Non-Greeks for Hand Bill Distribution. FAVORS REPRESENTATION Holds Party Is Entitled to Two Council Members by Proportion Rule. Action of the Student council election committee in throwing out the entire Barb faction slate fol lowing the circulation of printed handbills at the recent spring elec tion contrary to election rules, was upheld yesterday afternoon by the faculty committee on student af fairs. The committee tonk unanimous action in upholding the stand taken by the student group. How ever, the committee expressed the opinion that the Barb faction was entitled to representation on the Student council in accordance with the vote polled by the Barb group. For that reason, they voted that the faction be given two rep resentatives on the council, to be picked by the Barb council. The committee resolution specified that the representatives to be picked must be persons other than the disqualified candidates. Resolutions Passed. The resolutions as passed by the committee: Motion 1. The committee re olves that approval be given the action of the election board of the Student council. Motion 2: Believing that the non-fraternity students have a right to representation on the Student council in accordance with the vote cast and believing that the present candidates were disqualified by the action of a small group who violated the University senate rules on elec tions, the committee on student organizations recommends that the vacancies so created be filled by others than the disqualified candidates, and that this be done by the Barb faction in accord ance with Article 7 of the Stu dent council constitution.", Car ried. Hear McGaffin. The committee also heard Wil liam McGaffin, as representative of the Student council, present a request for a change in eligibility rules for activities. The committee tabled the discussion until next fall, feeling that, further investiga tion was necessary. Members of the faculty commit tee are: Prof. E. F. Schramm, rep resentative of the Interfraternity council; Prof. L. E. AylswortB, representative of the Barb council; John K. Selleck, director of stu dent activities; T. J. Thompson, dean of student affairs; Miss Elsie Ford Piper, dean of women; Prof. Earl W. Lantz, representative of the Student council; Prof. E. H. Barbour, Prof. Frank E. Henzlik, Prof. Earl S. Fullbrook, Prof. H. P. Davis, Dr. Elda Walker, rep resentative of the PanHellenic council; and Mrs. J. F. Thompson, representative of the A. W. S. board 4-H CLUB TO BE HOST TO Harlan Bollman Announces Plans for Entertaining 400 Visitors. The University of Nebraska 4-H club is planning on helping to en tertain the 400 Nebraska club I members who gather at the agri i cultural college next week for the 'annual club week. Harlan Boll i roan announced preliminary plans i for the program this morning. I Bollman says the university club will entertain th rural visitors on Mnnrtnv pveninc in the student as- tivities building. A program con sisting of music, stunts and games is being planned. In addition L. C Obirlies of Lincoln will appear on the evening program. There Is also a possibility that the Perkins family of radio fame at the college may appear as a feature skit of the program. Bollman was con ferring with Extension Editor Lux Hbout the Perkins family stunt on Monday evening. and Mrs. William D. Bancroft of Lincoln, who said yesterday that his son's present illness la alight as compared with that of four years ago. The Rev. Mr. Bancroft predicted that his son would be up and well within a few days. The Rev. Mr. Bancroft live at 1137 North Thirty-third street He Is Baptist pastor. 1 COUNCIL D 1 OUSTING n