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This We ek It's Take The Title - - Swallow The Cyclones Daily Nebra HF Official Student, Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXI NO. 41. LINCOLN, MKHUASKA, .WKDNESDAY, NOVKMBEK 18, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS SKAN L APPOINT STAFF Norman Prucka and Pierce Jones Head Bizad News, Official Paper. COMPLETE GROUP NAMED New Executives Will Print Four Issues of Sheet Each Year. Pierce Jones, senior in the col lege of Business Administration, was selected to be the editor of the Bizad News, official publication of the college, according to a 'state ment made last night by Keith Lightner, president of the Bizad executive board. Norman E. Prucka, Delta Tau Delta, sophomore in the college, was selected as business manager of the publication. All staff ap pointments were made by the Bizad executive board, which is to act as general supervisor of the paper. Paul Korff, Alpha Theta Chi, and senior in the college, was selected associate editor. Melvin Adams, Sigma Phi Sigma, junior, was ap pointed managing editor. Joe Shramek, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, sophomore, and Woodrow Magee, Delta Upsilon, sophomore, were chosen to be news editors of the publication. The business staff of the Bizad News includes Carlyle Sorensen, Delta Upsilon, sophomore, Charles Skade, PI Kappa Alpha, junior, and Milton Berkowitz, Sigma Al pha Mu, senior, who will be assist ant business managers of the pub lication. Publish Four Issues Yearly. The advisory board of the Bizad News consists of Professor C. O. Swayzee, faculty adviser, Robert Lay, Herman Siefkes, and Ruth Shelburn. The students are mem bers of the Bizad executive board. The sponsors of the publication are the Commercial club, Delta Sigma PI, and Alpha Kappa Psi, professional business administra (Continued on Page 3.) A! T Swedish Writer Is Featured Guest on Theta Sigma Phi Program. 100 EXPECTED ATTEND Dr. L. Stromberg, eminent Swedish author from Oakland, Neb., will be the main speaker and honored guest at a Swedish dinner tonight, sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi, honorary women's journalistic fraternity. About 1.00 guests in cluding alumnae members of the fraternity and others interested in the program are expected to at tend. It will be held at the Swed ish Lutheran church. "The Ice Is Breaking," and "Eric the Woodcutter," which has been reprinted for the twentieth time, are two of the forty novels that Dr. Stromberg has written. Dr. J. E. Alexis, professor of romance languages, has translated "The Ice Is Breaking," and is working on the translation of Dr. Stromberg's other novels. This book was one cf Stromberg's best sellers in Sweden and the translated edition has received favorable comment in this country. Dr. Stromberg has been awarded honorary degrees and scholarships by the American-Scandinavian foundation, the Swedish Theologi cal Seminary and Nebraska Wes leyan university. He is now pastor of the Swedish Methodist . church at Oakland. Mrs. Naomi Buck, national edi tor of Matrix, Theta Sigma Phi publication, will discuss some fea tures of the organization of the (Continued on Page 3.) BJZAD EWERS OF PUBLICATION Gilman, Nebraska Graduate, Writes Tale of South Sea Wanderings in Answer to After College, What?1 From Honolulu, where he is now editing a magazine, Laselle Gilman, graduate of Nebraska in 19.'K), sends his answer to the question, "After College What?" In an article, illustrated by himself, in the Lincoln Star-Journal Sunday, he relates the story of his rovings in the South Seas since he left the university. Oilman has not earned $1,800 per year, the average earned by first year college graauates, duio from the crossroads or the Pacific tells a two year story of adventure more enticing than the life history of the average college graduate from the time he leaves school un til he throws up the sponge at the end of the hard beaten trail of con ventionality. Graduated In June, 1930, he gathered up his degree and what money he could scrape together and left for Missouri where a friend tired of the grind of a news paper office was waiting to "hit the trail" with him. The two started for the west coast. When they ran out of money, they topped, took what work they could find until they had saved TP TEAM TOJUT FROSH Nubbins to Be Given Chance Avenge Only Defeat in Saturday Tilt. Freshmen and nubbins will meet again Friday members of the coaching staff said yesterday. This will give the B team a chance to even things with the freshmen for the previous defeat of 2 to 0 handed them by the first-year men. The freshmen have been running Ames plays against the varsity for the past week and these plays will probably be used in the game with the nubbins. Pittsburgh plays will be used by the nubbins. This will give spectators a chance to see both Pittsburgh and Ames plays in action. The B team has kept its slate clean so far in all of its games with the exception of the freshman game. They have wins over Peru and Kearney normal to their credit. So they will be out to avenge the one blot on their sched ule handed them by the frosh. HONOEMTBE CONFERRED TODAY AT AG GATHERING Will Present New Members Of Three College Honoraries. NAME BEST STUDENTS Excuse Ag Classes at Noon; To Meet in Activities Building. All classes in the agricultural college are being excused at one o'clock today for the annual, hon ors convocation to be held in the student activities building. Stu dents elected to membership in Omicron Nu, Phi Epsilon Omicron and Alpha Zeta will be presented. C. C. Minteer, professor in voca tional agriculture, is to preside over the annual gathering of stu dents in the activities building. It is probable that there will be some music, according to those in charge. Omicron Nu and Phi Upsilon Omicron are national honorary home economics sororities while Alpha Zeta is the honorary men's fraternity. Thirteen men have been elected to the latier society and their identity will be disclosed at the convocation. Nine are juniors while the remaining four are sen iors. Membership is based on schol arship, character and leadership. The high ranking man -in the col lege of agriculture as a freshman last year will also be honored at the convocation as will the high ranking freshman girl. The boy will be given a medal by Alpha Zeta while the girl is to be pre sented a cup by Omicron Nu. PLAN JOINT MEETING Members of Various Clubs Will Combine in One Group Thursday. All members of student engi neering societies of the university have banded together and will meet tomorrow night, Nov. 19, in the lecture room of the Chemistry building to discuss future activi ties of the engineers and make plans for an engineer's ball, ac cording to John Adair, president of the engineering executive board. This board, with the Chemical En gineers society, is sponsoring the meeting. Col. C. J. Frankforter of the chemistry department is scheduled as the principal speaker of the meeting. He will address the group on the topic, "Lubrication." His talk will be in conjunction with a picture directly associated with the theme. The joint meeting includes mem bers of the American Society of (Continued on Page 3.) enough to start on again. Their first job was washing dishes at $40 per month and board and room. The next stopping place was at Long's Peak where they worked three months as government guides, living in a stone hut high above the timberline, recovering from the "after-college daze." On Labor day, just before the mountain winter descended on the slope, they pulled out for Califor nia. On the way they fell in with a snake collector for a zoo. After some weeks at collecting desert snakes, they reached San Fran t Continued on Page 3.) IIUSKER COEDS WIN s '"A LEA LENGER. Grace Lee of Long Pine and Lea Lenger of Beatrice, shown above, are the two members of the Ne braska girls' meat judging team who tied for first place in indi vidual honors in the meat Judging contest held in connection with the American Royal Livestock show at Kansas City. The University of Nebraska team placed first in the competition. Miss Gladys Clemens, Taylor, the third member of the champion- GIRL JUDGERS WIN Nebraska Team Takes First Honors at Kansas City Meet. MARKS THIRD VICTORY Again a University of Nebraska judging team has won first place in a national contest. This time the girls' meats judging team won first place in the contest held in Kansas City Monday in connection with the American Royal livestock show. It is the second consecutive year that the Nebraska team has won the Kansas City contest. In addition to winning first place as a team the Nebraska team had (Continued on Page 3.) TO BE FILLED Editor Detrick.. Declares Pictures Being Taken At Rapid Rate. USE NEW PROPOSITION The editor of the Cornhusker, in an interview yesterday, said that there were places for four hundred junior and senior pictures left last Friday. At the present time there are only about three hundred and twenty-five spaces left. "At the rate the pictures are be ing taken at the present time, the deadline will have been reached by Saturday. Then it will be too late for any more pictures," he said. "In round figures there are ap proximately 2,800 juniors and sen iors in school, of which number one-third will be represented in the annual. Both Hauck's and Town beinir keDt informed as to the number of pictures that can be taKen, so mac no one wm nave their nieture taken and then find that they cannot get it in the book. "It would be a good idea to make an appointment with the photog rapher before Friday if you find that you will not have time to get a sitting before then. An appoint ment counts the same as a sitting: and will insure you of getting in before me aeaanne, ne expiameu. Says Students Complain, Detrick said that a number of students have been complaining that it was not a fair proposition in limit th number of iunior and senior pictures as has been done this year, a aeaanne aaie nas al ways been set in the past, but this meant the deferring of dates, and because the students knew this they delayed the picture taking, anrf nniiaoH nn unnecessary amount of work on the part of the staff, ana we do not lniena to nave mat happen this year," he said. "I cannot see that there is any thing wrong with the deadline number. Every student has a fair rhnnr-n in hnvn his nieture taken in time to get In, but it is up to the individual to see mat nis picture is taken in time. This is as much sl hualnesa as anvthin? else, and we are trying to run it in a busi ness like way. "Remember, the deadline will probably be reached by Saturday, and then it will be too late for any more pictures. If you want your picture In the 1932 Cornhus ker, take my advice and have your sitting before that time," Detrick urged. Kosmet Asks More Plays Be Submitted Manuscripts of plays for the Kosmet Klub spring show may be turned In at Kosmet Klub rooms at any time. The dead line will be announced in the near future. JUDGING HONORS sfcgWiK ...... I I : V : f .. . .. IIMilB4Wnirtvwl1i'iffAa Courtmy The Lincoln Star, GRACE LEE. ship group, placed fourth among all individuals in the contest. Mildred Feith of Fairbury was the alternate on the university team. All of the girls except Miss Lenger are seniors in the college of agriculture where they are special izing in home economics. Miss Lenger is a junior. Judging meat in the contest re quired the contestants to identify different cuts, explain how to pre pare them, and grade carcasses. Faulkner Schedules Meeting of Council The regular meeting of the student council will be held Wednesday at 5 p. m. in Uni versity hall, 106. All members should be present promptly on the hour. E. J. FAULKNER, Jr., President. STATE SCHOOLS OPEN Disarmament Conclave Set To Begin at 9:30 at Ellen Smith Hall. PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED Saturday and Sunday will mark the first ' Nebraska student dis armament conference to be held on the campus at Ellen Smith hall. Nebraska college students, thru the student Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. in their institutions, have been studying the problem of world peace and will attend the conference to defend the positions of a foreign country to which they have been assigned special study. Nearly every college in Ne braska will send an official diplo matic delegation to the meetings. After formerly convening, follow ing the characteristic procedure of great international conferences, a chairman will be selected and the conference will proceed with four (Continued on Page 4.) VESPERS HEARS Dl JUDD Chinese Missionary Speaks At Weekly Y. W. C. A. Services. Talking of conditions in China from his own experience, Dr. Wal ter A. Judd addressed the weekly Vespers services last evening. Dr. Judd graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1919. Since then he has been doing medi cal missionary work in central China. During his talk Dr. Judd pre sented four convictions that he has arrived at during his seven years of living in China. These were: First: The people of the world must work together; second: Hu man desires and passions are the same the world over; third: the only hope for solution of religious, economic and political problems of today lies in the contributions of men of character; and fourth: world peace can come only for a universal love of humanity on the part of the peoples of the earth. Dr. Judd cited many of his ex periences and narrow excapes dur ing life in China. Mftdred Dole, chairman of the Y. W. C. A. industrial staff, con ducted the preliminary devotion and introduced the speaker. CAMPUS CALENDAR Wednesday. University Players, Temple the ater, 7:30 p. m. A. W. S. board meeting, Ellen Smith hall, 5 p. m. Lutheran Bible league, Bible class. Temple 205, 7 p. m. Freshman council, Temple theater, 11 a. m. Pre-medic banquet, 6 p, m. at Grand hotel. Corn Cob meeting, Alpha Sigma Phi house 7:30. Sophomore commission, Ellen Smith hall, 5 o'clock. Thursday. Economics round table, Social Science building 105, 7:30 p. m. W. A. A. executive council meet ing, Armory, 12 o'clock. OutL-jr club hike, Armory, 5:30 p. m. University Players, Temple the ater, 7:30 p. m. A. W. S. freshman activities group meeting, Ellen Smith hall, 5 p. El. Sophomore commission, Ellen Smith hall, & o'clock, ACTIVITIES GO INTO SLUMP AS INTEREST DIES Observer Says Students Are Creating New Problems For Leaders. PUBLICATIONS CHANGE Old Customs Fade as Young Collegians Fail to Participate. BY THE OBSERVER. Even the most casual review of the activity situation on this cam pus shows that the problem is be coming acute. In many important channels undergraduate interest is falling off, honorary organizations are faced with the problem of a scarcity of worthy candidates rather than abundance of them as used to be the case. On publications the question is presented in a serious aspect. In the main such institutions as the Cornhusker, the Awgwan, and the Daily Nebraskan are dependent upon a few upperclassmen for their existence. No longer do the bevies of ambitious freshmen and hustling sophomores flock to pub lications offices daily to indulge in wholesome, beneficial competition for staff positions. The order ap pears to be changing. Even as recently as four years ago, according to Oscar Norling, who was editor of the Daily Ne braskan at that time, there used to be thirty-five or forty available reporters each afternoon. Among them were capable and dependable newshawks who competed furious ly for the best assignments. Today there is a mere handful of reporto rial material on hand and the choice assignments go to upper classmen because there is no other alternative. There are but few re liable and faithful reporters. Business Staffs Suffer. On business staffs of the various publications there are scarcely any helpful young assistants. The bur den of selling advertising and ccl (Continued on Page 3.) OR. JUDD SPEAKS AT Former Nebraskan fleveals Factors in Chinese Situation. SAYS RULERS HAVE TASK The factors responsible for China's inability to adopt the new civilization that has been thrust upon it by the rest of the world were revealed by Dr. Walter H. Judd, a University of Nebraska alumnus and for seven years a medical missionary in China, in an address before the university con vocation Tuesday morning at the Temple theater. "The people of China have been caught in a conflict between the influences of the oldest civilization in the world and the youngest," he declared. The principal difference in these two civilizations, as de fined by Dr. Judd, is found in their unit of organization. "In the case of China the family is the funda mental unit, but in the world at large it is the political system," the missionary explained. The prominence of the family in the life of the people is responsible for the lack of national co-operation in that the people subordinate national interests to their family loyalty, according to the speaker. "Such a common thing as the var iance in diet in different parts of the country disrupted a convention that was an attempt to create co operation," he related. The task confronting the leaders in China today is considered by Dr. Judd to be the greatest that any leaders of men have ever faced. He said that the people of China look to the United States as the power of the west and appreciate the at titude this country has taken toward it. HOME EC BOARD SELECTS THREE NEW OFFICIALS At a recent board meeting of the home economics association, the following new officers were elected: Margaret Thompson, a junior from V1l jetoon and member of Alpha Delta Theta, was chosen treasurer of the organization. Alice McDermot, Phi Mu from Wood River and also a junior, was elected vice president and Irma Sims, junior, Upton, Wyo., is the new junior sponsor of the fresh man auxiliary. Mousel Asks Check Of All Sales Books Russell Mousel, managing editor of the Cornhuske;, yes terday Issued a call for all Cornhusker sales books. The Tassels and Corncobs who have not turned in their sales books are urged to bring them to the Cornhusker office to check in. DATE OF BALL IS CHANGED Interfraternity Council Shifts Event to Avoid Game Conflict. The interfraternity ball which was to be held on Saturday, Feb. 6, has been shifted to Saturday, Jan. J 6, according to Marvin Von Segerern, president of the Inter fraternity council. Feb. 6, whenj the ball was first scneauiea, con flicted with a basketball game which was to be held the same night. Von Seggern said that a com mittee for the ball would be se lected within a short time, and that its work on the affair would begin shortly after. LAST HOME GAME RALLY PLANNED IN FIELD HOUSE Mitchell Urges All Attend Friday Night Pep Fest For Gridsters. DEFINITE PLANS LATER Tentative Schedule Calls For March to Hotel to Meet lowans. A giant rally, scheduled to stir up spirit for the last home game of the season, will get under way at 7:30 o'clock Friday night, it was announced Tuesday. It will be staged in the coliseum. The rally will end with a parade to the Linocln hotel, providing de finite assurance that the Iowa State Cyclones, Nebraska's Satur day opponents, will be at the hotel at 8 o'clock. "We don't want a repetition of what happened when Oklahoma's players were supposed to be there and weren't," Art Mitchell, rally chairman, said. "Unless Coach Veenker will be there, and will have his team there, there will be no parade," he de clared. He intimated, however, that it was likely that arrange ments could be made. "It will be the last home rally of the year," Mithcell said. "Plenty of spirit must be stirred up, be cause Nebraska football players will need all the spirit they can have to beat the Cyclones, who are on the trail of their first confer ence championship since the Big Six was organized." Mitchell intimated that rally plans would call for outstanding speakers, although he did not an nounce any names Tuesday. He also hinted that a demonstration might be staged at fraternity and sorority houses Thursday night at dinner time. Definite plans will be announced tomorrow. "Anyone who was at the Kansas (Continued on Page 3.) COONTHnOBE READY BK SATURDAY Miss Fedde Writes Article On Russia; Kozelka Has Feature. The November issue of the Corn husker Countryman will be ready for distribution on Saturday in all probability, according to an an nouncement made today by George Round, editor-in-chief. The Novem ber magazine features short ar ticles on interesting students on the campus. One of the leading stories found in the Countryman is written by Mi3s Margaret Fedde, chairman of the home economics department. In the story she describes Russia as she witnessed it on her trip abroad. It is one of the most in teresting stories ever to be printed in the Countryman. Art Kozelka, afsociate editor, has another feature article in the November issue. He describes the (Continued on Page 3.) Statistics Show College Joes Have Marked Feminine Desires in Their Selection of Dainty Fountain Pens Joe College may smoke a pipe to assert his masculinity while Betty Coed puffs her cigarette but to no avail. He may wear dirty cordoroys and grow a mustache, but the truth will out! A compilation of statistics proves that the men in the University of Nebraska have sub-conscious desires that are markedly feminine. Sleuths have been working ono these figures for over a week and gathered them from the front steps of Social Science, from class rooms, fraternity houses, the li brary and, last but not least, from the very center of "The Moon." In every case the result is the same the masculine mind cries for fem inine colors. Perhaps Joe College will conceal his desire for the vivid when he chooses his suits but in socks, ties and fountain pens he forgets civilization and convention and goes true to type. Have Corner on Color. In checking the color of fountain pens used by the student body it was found that the men had a cor ner on the gaudy pens while Betty CAMPUS DIED OF BALL UNIFORMS Survey Shows Many Views On Desirability of R.O.T.C. Attire. WOMEN FAIL TO AGREE Questioning of Sorority Leaders Brings Out Variance. Student opinion on the proposi tion of all basic military students wearing their uniforms to the Military Ball on December 4 shows a great variety of ideas on the question, according to a consensus of opinion taken yesterday after noon. In a series of interviews with representative women on the cam pus and with the presidents of the various sororities, many opinions were expressed. The majority, however, seemed to be in favor of the men wearing uniforms to the military ball. By actual count, eleven groups were in favor of the idea, three expressed themselves as opposed to it, six were neutral, and two could not be reached to express their reaction to the ques tion. To explain the situation to the girls in the university, Capt. G. W. Spoerry, faculty member of the military department, sent a letter to the president of each sorority on the campus, telling them the facts of the case, and asking her to read the letter at the meeting. The following letter was sent: "May I take the liberty of ad dressing you on the matter of what will be considered forma! at the Military Ball in so far as men are concerned, hoping that you will so instruct the young ladies of your house. This, first, last, and always, is a military affair, and under the circumstances, the uniform of the cadet, be it basic or advanced course, is formal. I might add that the uniform is formal on any occasion in the regular, army, even at the presi (Continued on Page 2.) Theodore Diers Instructs Pupils Over Station KFAB. SING AT COUNTY FAIRS Through the co-operation of the university extension division, Theo dore Diers, radio director of the university, has developed a chorus of rural school students of the state, according to a bulletin is sued recently by the extension di vision. The rural school chorus plan is to have the pupils learn songs at school by singing with phonograph records. Mr. Diers broadcasts se lected songs for the 1932 chorus over KFAB every Wednesday at 4 o'clock and has initiated the teach ing of the songs for the chorus by radio. More than eighteen hundred rural boys and girls are members of the Nebraska rural school chorus. Thousands of Nebraska boys and girls have sung in the country rural school choruses at the eighth grade promotion exer cises of the various counties and at the county fairs. Pupils who have learned to sing the twelve songs of the course cor rectly are counted as members of the rural school chorus. Each rural school chorus consists of all the students above the third grade who can sing twelve selected songs accurately with the instrument The pupils of all the schools learn to sing the songs exactly the same way, and when they assemble they (Continued on Page 3. Coed struggles to make her grades with pens of somber hues. Out of a total of 371 pens which were noted it was found that 65 percent of the men used light colored pens as compared with 43 percent of the women. Only 35 percent of the masculine pens were of dark shades, while 57 percent of the girls' pens were dark. The spread of colors indicates that the masculine mind desires variety. Twenty-one different col ors were noted in fountain pens men using 17 of these colors whilt the girls were content with 14. A check-up of the prevailing styles in fountain pens shows that Joe College is more In step than (CeaUnued on Page 3.) QUESTION