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Nebras KAN Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXI NO. 96. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1932 PRICE FIVE CENTS El GUT STUDENTS CHOSEN TO CAST Selections Made for Leading Roles in 'Jingle Belles' After Tryouts. CHORUSES STILL WORK Final Choices Delayed for Parts in Dancing and Singing Groups. Eight students have been se lected to play character parts in "Jingle Belles," 1932 Kosmet Klub show, according to an announce ment made yesterday by Dick De vereaux, president of the Klub. AH parts were chosen after tryouts held last week. The eight chosen are: Pat Mc Donald, Carl Humphrey, Russell .Mousel, Byron Bailey, Roger Wil- kerson, Neil McFarland, Art Wolf, and Roger Wolcott. As announced last week, Herbert Yenne will play the leading character role, that of Mrs. Judith Barry, a society worn an of about fifty, with youthful ideas and fashionable dress. The final selection of members in the two choruses has not yet been made, but the group has been cut to twenty-three students, Twenty of these will be picked for the choruses as soon as possible. Rehearsals in the choruses will continue, and the character parts will begin practice immediately. Pat McDonald Has Part. The part of Helen Barry will be played by Pat McDonald, Lincoln, Sigma Chi, Business Administra tion senior, who had the role of Sheela in last year's show "High and Dry." Helen Barry is a twenty 3'ear old senior at the university and is engaged to Tom Randall, also a senior. Carl Humphrey, Mullen, Delta Sigma Phi, Arts and Science col lege junior, is Mrs. Barry's son Donald. Donald Barry is about nineteen years old and is a sopho more in the University of Ne braska. Russell Mousel, Hastings, Beta (Continued on Page 3.) I Dr. Pool Offers Vacation Courses for Credit at Camp Olympus. Camp Olympus in Estes Park, Colo., will again be the headquar ters for classes in certain courses of botany conducted by Dr. R. J. Pool, chairman of the department of botany at the University of Ne braska. The courses which are sponsored by the university begin June 13 and continue lor a six weeks' period. According to a recently pub lished bulletin which announces the continuation of the botany work in the Rocky mountains, the courses given will be of particular value to teachers of botany, biol ogy, and nature study in public schools and colleges, as well as to college students who wish to sup plement their training and broaden their knowledge of the field. Each year the university's Rocky mountain botany courses have ex perienced increased popularity since students of botany find keen enjoyment in the combined study and vacation elements offered. The mountain region presents wonder fully rich and varied natural re sources, according to the bulletin. Dr. Broady Addresses School Administrators Dr. K. O. Broady, professor of school administration, addressed a meeting of school superintendents and principals at York, Tuesday evening, where he read a paper on "Means of Affecting Economies In School Administration." Other members of the university faculty who were guests at the meeting were Dr. W. H. Morton, Dr. C. O. Weldemann, A. H. Reed, Dr. S. B. Corey, A. B. Johns, R D. Mortiz and Dr. D. A. Worcester. OF KOSMET SHOW Chief of Police Anderson Declares Youth on Upward Trend; Fraternity, Sorority Houses Not to Be Raided BY HOWARD VON HOLTZENDORFF. The fact that only three or four students of the University of Nebraska have been arrested during the past school year in comparison with some forty or fifty young men and women non-students, is enough to satisfy me that our modern youth, especially college students, is on an upward trend was brought out by Chief of Police "Walter F. Anderson of the local police department in an Interview Satur-O day. Regrets Recent Incident. "The police department have no intention of raiding fraternity or sorority houses, unless complaints come In to us. The young man or woman living in a fraternity or so ronty house is entitled by law, to all the righta of our residents of Lincoln, and as long as they use them as such, they need not fear intervention on me part of the po lice. This Jn an town parties, because I think that such proceedure is unwarranted. "It is certainly too bad that our metropolitan friends think it their DR. W ALKER VISITING IN TUCSON, ARIZONA Professor Is Honored by former Studenls of Nebraska. Dr. Elda R. Walker, associate professor of botany, who Is on sab' batical leave from the university. has been spending the first part of her leave at Tucson, Ariz., where she is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. (Isabelle Wolfe) Hemenway, and Dr. and Mrs. (Mayme Dvorak) Fasting. Dr. Hemenway Is head of the department of botany at the university of Arizona. At a tea given in her honor re cently more than forty former students and botanists of the Uni versity of Nebraska attended. She has visited the Boyce Thompson desert gardens, cactus forests and various other places of Interest. She will soon leave for California and from '.here sail on March 12 for the Hawaiian islands. E Monday Opening Day Final Cornhusker Sales; Set Deadline Saturday. ORDER TO PRINTER SOON The spring sales drive for the 1932 Cornhusker will start Mon day, Feb. 29 and continue through Saturday, March 5, Kusseii mou sel, business manager of the an nual, announced yesterday. This is the final sales drive and it will be in charge of the Tassels, wom en s pep organization. This is the last chance mat stu dents of the university, or any others who may want one of the books, will have to purchase a copy, Following me plan usea last year for the first time, every effort is being concentrated on this drive to give all those who have not by this time placed their order with the Cornhusker staff a chance to get in before the dead line. There will be a booth in the hall at Social Science where orders will be taken any time during the week, and members of Tassels will be more than glad to fill out an order blank for you during the week, according to Mousel. "Last year, when mis same plan was used, there were many who failed to heed the warning of the Cornhusker staff, believing that they would be able to order one later, but they were mistaken and consequently disappointed, Mousel said. " Saturday Final Day. "It is hoped that the students will take advantage of this last chance to get a Cornhusker and avoid a repetition of what has happened in the past. Everyone, we believe, will have a chance to order before the final day. This plan is being backed by the publi cations board and when the final gong rings on Saturday there will be no more 1932 Cornhuskers sold. "Remember. Saturday, March 5, is the last day of the last sales drive for this year's annual, after which it will be impossible to get a copy of the book. The order will be sent to the printers immediately after the drive and only the num ber of books that have been sold will be ordered," Mousel concluded. CITE ARTICLES BY VOLD Recent Legal Reviews Refer To Writings of Law School Teacher. Articles written by Prof. Law rence Void, college of law, have re cently been cited in works appear ing at Columbia university, at the University of Chicago and at Har vard university. The article on "Trust Receipt Security in Financing of Sales,' is cited by Prof. John Hanna, Co lumbia university law school, in his recently published book, "Cred itors' Rights." The article, "Legal Preparations Tested by Success in Practice," Is cited by Prof. William L. Eagleton Chicago, university law school, in his article on "Aca demic Preparations for Admission to a Law School," which was pub lished in the Illinois Law Review. A more general reference to Professor Void's articles by Prof. K. N. Lewellyn, Columbia univer sity law school, appears in his ar ticle on "Some Realism About Realism Responding to Dean Pound," which was recently pub lished In the Harvard Law Review. duty to play up such incidents as the one which happened a Bhort time ago at a University party." he said. "However, there is one issue that they cannot dodge, and that Is that there were no Univer sity students involved In any way In the situation. This Is very dis couraging to our neighbors, so ex aggeration is the result Never theless. I believe that it Is pos sible for the student body of any college to spoil a young man or woman, by continually heaping honors, etc., upon them in some way or another. It seems to me (Continued on Page A.) MRS HERTZLER PLAYS LEAD IN A 'Mrs. Bumstead-Leigh' to Be Given at Temple Theater Mar. 9. CLUB WILL USE PROFITS Money to Be Added to Fund For Scholarships to Students. Mrs. J. O. Hertzler will play the title role in the Faculty Women ; club production which is being presented at the Temple theater the evening of March 9. Proceeds from the production will be used as a benefit for me Y. W. C. A, Mrs. Hertzler, who played Mrs, Bumstead-Leigh, a few years ago when the play was produced at tha University of Wisconsin, will be supported by a cast consisting of members of the faculty and or me Faculty Women s club. Mrs. John P. Senning heads the general committee of the faculty women in charge of the production which is being directed by Ray Ramsev, alumni secretary. Annually the Faculty Women's club offers two scholarships to women students. The play is given to make additional money for the scholarship fund. The committee has announced mat the play will (Continued on Page 3.) E Undergraduates Play Par In Deciding Policies For Snorts. THREE MEN ON BOARD Three undergraduate students at Dartmouth college form one-rthird of the membership of the athletic council regulating athletics at that institution, according to a letter received recently by the athletic relations committee of the Student council. The letter is a reply to a ques- tionaire sent out to more than fifty representative schools all over the country by the Student council in an attempt to secure some accurate information about the degree of student voice in uni versity athletic affairs at various institutions. The Dartmouth athletic council consists of nine members. Three are alumni of the school, three are undergraduate students, and the other threa are members of the faculty of the university. The three students on the board are elected at the last meeting of the year in the spring by the athletic council from the list of varsity and freshman athletic managers (Continued on Page 3.) Mouse in Library Observes Various Types of Students Onlv a little mouse In the main library. A hard life, you say? Not at all. Aiier sojourning in uni versity hall for a few weeks this is a paradise. Less competition and all. Let me tell you about what I see. Two minutes of 8 o'clock. Tired faces. Hurrying students. Bad tempers. Banging doors. When's that? Why none other than Mon day morning. All on account of those reserve books, you know. Eight o'clock sounds. The steady influx of students for me day be gins. Watch them come! The friv olous little girl who trips up to me desk. The graduate student who inquires for some weighty volume and settles himself for a few hours lesearch. The "College Ed" in filthy cords and slouch hat who fiercely glares at a notebook covered with trifling cartoons. Some Really Study. The studious girl in gray who slips In, dons horn-rimmed spec tacles, and proceeds to become ob livious to all except her books. The frosh who comes in laughing, opens his notebooks, watches the people coming and going, reads the first paragraph, looks out the window, sighs, reads me second paragraph, spies a frat brother in the doorway, slams his notebooks shut and disappears. Then there's me poor renow wno strides back to the catalogues, makes out a call alio, finds the book is in use and muBt be awaited for. Who then watches every book (Continued on Page 2.) CLUB WILL JNITIATE SEVEN Dramatic Club Announces Pledges Eligible for Membership. Ralph Spencer, president of the Dramatic Club, yesterday an nounced the names of those who will be initiated Into that organi zation next Thursday night. Be caue a number of this year's pledges were freshmen only a few can be Initiated under university rules, he explained. Those upperclassmen who are to be formally Initiated into the club next Thursday night are: Charles Owens, Lucille Rellly. Rhona failta, Lilleraore Taylor, Lee oung, Reginald Pcrter and Wal ter Walla. FACULTY DRAM TO INVESTIGATE ACCIDEN Wahoo Authorities Will Hold Inquest of Student's Death. An inquest in the death of Leo Skalowsky, junior, who was killed in an accident near Ashland last Wednesday night, has been ordered by County Attorney Worrall of Wahoo. At least fifteen witnesses will testify, he stated. Skalowsky and Robert Wasser- man, sophomore, were returning from Omaha late W ednesday night when the car in which they were riding crashed into a truck abandoned on the road. Wasser- man escaped with cuts about the face. Both Skalowsky and was serman are members of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. State Sheriff Michael Endres took statements from five persons who viewed the scene of the acci dent The Information he obtained will be turned over to Saunders county authorities for use in the inquest. FOR Y.W.C.A. OFFICES Committee Lists Candidates To Lead Organization Coming Year. ELECTION IS THURSDAY Jane Robertson, Beatrice, and Evelyn O'Connor, Elsie, have been nominated for the presidency of the University Y. W. C. A. for the coming year, while Catherine Wil liams, Omaha, and Dolores Dead- man, Fairbury, are vice-presidcn tial nominees, according to the an nouncement made today by the nominating committee for the as sociation. Jane Boos, Howard, S D., and Alice Brown, Omaha, are candidates for secretary and Ger trude Clarke, La Grange. 111., and Eleanor Dixon, Blair, for treas urer. These officers will be elected at the annual election Thursday by members of the association at ihe polls in Ellen Smith hall and in the Home Economics building at me Ag campus. Hours for voting are from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Members of the association may vote once at either place. However only members who signed membership cards during the first semester are eligible to cast a ballot. Iden tification cards must be presented. Members of the Y. W. C. A. at the Ag college will also vote upon an Ag chairman who will be a member of the cabinet and super vise the activities of the Y. W. C. A. on that campus. Nominees for this position are Helen Hengstler, Creighton, and Emma Feith, Fair- bury, both students in home ecO' nomics. Miss Robertson, a junior in home economics, has been freshman com. mission chairman during the past year. Besides this she is heading the Nebraska in China drive now in progress. She is a member of the Junior-Senior prom commit tee and is vice-president of W. A. A. Miss O'Connor, a junior in the Arts and Science college, has been head of the research staff this year and is treasurer of the Nebraska in China drive. She is a member of Tassels, of Kappa Phi, and has been a leader of sophomore com mission this year. Miss Williams, a fine arts ma jor, has been co-chairman of the International-Interracial staff this past year and attended the Y. W. C. A. regional conference in Estes park last summer. Miss Dead- man, of the Teachers college, is a member of the Big Sister board and is chairman of the student group of the Council of Religious Welfare. She and Miss Robertson attended the Quadrennial Student Volunteer convention in Buffalo last December. Both nominees for secretary have been active members of soph omore commission, of several Y. W. C. A. staffs, and have taken part in the general activities of the association. Miss Brown is a student in the Arts and Science college. Miss Boos is a fine arts major. Miss Clarke, a junior in Teacn- ers college, has been chairman of the conference staff and has at tended two Estes Park conferences. Miss Dixon, a home economics major, has been treasurer and fi nance chairman of the Y. w. c A. Both nominees for treasurer are members of the Student coun cil, Tassels and the Prom com mittee. CAMPUS CALENDAR Monday, Feb. 29. Big Sister board, Ellen Smith hall, 5 o'clock. University Players, Temple the ater, 7:30. Meeting of Tassels, 12 o clock, Ellen Smith hall. Tuesday, March 1. Glee club rehersal, Morrill hall, 7 o'clock. University Players, Temple the ater, 7:30. Wednesday, March 2. Glee club rehersal, Morrill hall, 7 o'clock. University Players, Temple the ater, 7:30. Thursday, March 3. University Players, Temple the ater, 7:30. University Y. W. C. A. election, Ellen Smith hall, 9 to 5 o'clock. Friday, Karen 4. Glee club rehersal, Morrill hall, 7 o'clock. University Players, Temple the ater, 7:30. PLAYERS BEGIN OF Hart Jenks Has Title Role As 'Death' in Disguise of Mortal Man. CAST IS EXPERIENCED Miss Howell, Theodore Diers And Zolley Lerner Have Heavy Parts. BY JOHN QUINN. The University Players in their newest production "Death Take a Holiday " begins a week s run mod day evening in the Temple audi torium at 7:30. The play is one of the most un usual and impressive or receni re leases. In the guise of a prince, Death becomes a mortal being, tastes of human emotions, and en deavors to fathom the human fear of death. The dramatic heights of the plot are reached when death falls in love with a mortal woman. Hart Jenks, who gave a remark able exhibition of dramatic abili ties as Othello in the Player's last production, plays the chief char acter, Death, in the guise of mortal Prince Sirki. Theodore Diers, Zol ley Lerner, and Miss Alice How ell, dramatic instructor, have im portant supporting parts. Miriam (Continued on Page 3.) AG SMlDS CREATE LOAN FUND Committee Decides to Use Profit for Students Needing Help. $150 MADE AVAILABLE The Coll-Agri-Fun committee has Hnrided to create a student loan fund out of the profits real ized from the annual show. Reu ben Hecht, junior in the College of Agriculture, suggested the idea to the committee. Atter the prizes and bills were naid there was an approximate total of $150 in the treasury. The rnmmittpp discussed several ways of utilizing the money, but Hecht's sure-estion of a loan fund received the unanimous approval of the facultv and student members. "I think the students will agree with me," Hecht said, "that such utilization of the money would really put some significance behind the annual presentation oi vvu Ap-ri-Fun. The loan will be con fined to Collee-e of Agriculture students and will be available to both men and women. Professors C. W. Smith and L K. Crowe, and Al Ebers. junior were selected to create the rules and qualifications for the loan. Ac cording to present plans the loan will be accessible next iau. Library Possesses Rare Manuscripts From Middle Ages rinp of the most interesting feat- nrps nf thn university library is the collection of illuminated manu scripts, which date back to the middle apes. At the request or ine lihmrv nf coneress. which is pre paring a union catalogue of all manuscripts in America, inesB val uable works were sent to Wash ington -laj;t summer to be examined and identified by Seymour de Ricci of Paris, who is an international authority on manuscripts. Undoubtedly the finest manu script belonging to the library is the Horae beatae aianae Virginia, which is now on display in the rau located In the hallwav of the main library. It is a book of hours, in which the layman's devotions for each hour of the day are set out. and was orooablv written in some French monastery during the late Iiiteentn century, ine iii-ty-two vellum leaves are beauti fnllv ornate with cold leaf and precious colors. The gold leaf was in some way paaaea wun ciay ana then burnished with agate, but the art has been lost with the decline of monasticism. In 1835 it was bound in French olive green mor occo. Thin manuRcriDt carries the mod ern bookplate of James Watt, to whom it was apparently given Dy V Coutan of Paris in 1862. The university library, obtained it in April, 1923. The colection Includes a second Horae or book of hours, which was (Continued on Page l.) WRITES TWO BOOK REVIEWS Miss Esther 's. Anderson of Geography Department Recognized. Miss Esther S. Anderson of the geography department, is the au thor of two book reviews and ab stracts In the publication, Eco nomic eGography, for February. One presents a summary or tne history, development and spread of culture among primitive peoples aa "hren In "The Evolution of Cul ture," by Julius Llpyert "The American eYarbook A Record of Event and Progress for the Year 1929," by Albert Hart, is reviewed In the second article. RUN MONDAY UNUSUAL DRAMA FERRIS TO TALK ON FIRE HAZARDS TODAY Sneaker Will Illustrate Talk With Two Reels Special Film. "Fire Hazards In the Home" will be the subject on which Mr. Ar dath Ferris, city fire Inspector, will speak on the Sunday after noon Nebraska State museum pro gram at 4:15 o'clock this after noon in Morrill hall. Inspector Ferris will illustrate his talk with two reels of special film that is being imported from the east. The film will present a dramatization of fire hazards and means for prevention. At 2:30 the children will see three reels of film. One is entitled "Fire." another is called "Fire Prevention," and the third bears the title "Carrying American Pro ducts to Foreign Lands." Miss Marjorie Shanafelt, curator of vis ual education, will direct both pro grams. BIZAD BOARD PLANS RRST SPRING PARTY College Activity Group Will Sponsor All University Social Event. TO BE AN ANNUAL AFFAIR Initiating the spring party sea son, the Bizad Executive Board announces plans for an all univer sity party to be held at the Corn husker hotel ball room March 11. Eddie Jungbluth's orchestra has been secured to play for the event and Harriet Cruise Kemmer will entertain. The party is the first such event to be sponsored bly the Bizad Board, and according to Pierce Jones, president of the Board, it is hoped to make the arrair an an nual one, ushering in the spring social season each year. The pur pose of the party, according to Jones, is to organize and promote interest and activity in the Busi ness Administration college. Members of the Bizad Execu tive Board are in charge of the promotion of the party. Norman Prucka is in charge of ticket sales, Chalmers Graham is In charge of publicity and Maxine Wullbrandt will secure chaperones for the party. Tickets $1.00 Per Couple. Tickets, which will go on sale next week, are $1 a couple. Any money wrich is made from the nartv will be used to support vari ous activities in the Business Ad ministration college. It is the intention of the Board to supplant the annual Bizad day with this spring party. Bizad day has formerly been an annual aiiair in the spring sponsored for stu dents and faculty members of the Business Administration college only. The spring party, on the other hand, will be an all student affair. Other members of the Bizad Board, besides the committee chairmen are: Ona Heapy, Tressie Fitzgerald, Glays Williams, Dwight Coale, Albft Lucke, and Charles Shields. STUDY SHORTHAND PLANS Method Invented by Miss Beers Is Found to Be Best System. The Journal of Educational Psy chology has published an article by Mildred Clark, M. A., Univer sity of Nebraska and now instruc tor of shorthand in Detroit high school of commerce, and Dr. D. A. Worcester, professor of educa tional psychology, on "A Compar ison of the Results from Teaching Shorthand by the Word Unit Method and the Sentence Unit Method." A composite study of a new shorthand method employing the sentence unit system, originated by Miss Gertrude Beers, Univer sity of Nebraska instructor in commercial arts, has been made by the authors. Tests were made in eleven high schools, six using Miss Beers' method and five em ploying the conventional word plan. It was found, according to Doctor Worcester, that the sen tence unit method was more satisfactory. University Library With 260,000 Volumes Is Largest Collection Of Books in State of Nebraska BY JANE BOOS. Scarcely any students or professors escape the University of Nebraska without coining in contact with the main library. Yet few people realize its value and worth to the university snd to the state. It contains 1 he larpest and by far the most valuable collection of books in the state of Nebraska, and good material upon practically every subject may be found there. The growth of the library irom a very few books to a collection of 260,000 volumes has only been par alleled by me growth of me uni versity itself. The statute providing for the founding of the University of Nebraska also provided for the establishment of a library thru the appropriation for that purpose of certain university fees. The amount, tho small in the beginning, was constant, and with the growth of the university it haa become the chief source of library income tho from time to time the regent have made extra appropriations for it At first one room, later two, on TELLS OF TASKS VHICH Oriental Leader Discusses Problems at Forum Dinner. OUTLINES DEVELOPMENT Progress Has Been Notable In Government Since 1 91 1 He Says. Recognizing the existence of four fundamental tasks which the Chinese people must accomplish before all the stumbling blocks in the path leading to a unified demo, cracy are surmounted, Dr. T. Z. Koo, World Chirstian leader of China, opened his address to an audience of 200 people attending the Forum luncheon in the Grand hotel Saturday noon. Dr. Koo, speaking in connection with the Y. W. C. A. Nebraska in Shanghai movement which for three years has supported Lyman Hoover, assistant to Dr. Koo, in China, has visited the Nebraska campus on several other occasions. He has but recently come from China and is making a series of talks thruout the United States on conditions in his native country. The underlying tasks which the Chinese are setting themselves about to accomplish, according to Dr. Koo, are political reconstruct jj tion, education of the people as to' the real position of government in their lives, material reconstruction, and adjustment of international relationships. Has Been Politically Reconstructed China, said Dr. Koo, having been monarchy for approximately 2,000 years, has been undergoing a process of political reconstruc tion since the stablishment of the republic in 1911. The period of years since 1911 falls into three minor eras: lhat of 1911 to l26 in which there remained to the new republic a vast legacy, as Dr. Koo (Continued on Page 3.) GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS Lincoln Panhellenic Group Announces Awards to Sorority Girls. The Lincoln Panhellenic associa tion announced three scholarship awards of $50.00 each to senior university women for use during the second semester. Those re ceiving the awards are: Paula East wood, Franklin; Sybil Winegar, Atwood, Kansas, and Esther Ab bott, Sargent. Miss Eastwood is a senior in Teachers college and fine arts. She is president of Kappa Delta and has also served as president of Delta Omicron, musical honorary. She is member of Tassels, Pi Lambda Theta and formerly be longed to the student couucil. Miss Winegar is a voice major in Fine Arts college. She is a mem ber of Zeta Tau Alpha and Sigma Alpha lota, musical sorority. Miss Abbott, registered in Teachers college, is majoring in physical education. She is a mem ber of Tassels, Big Sister board and the physical education club. The Lincoln Panhellenic associa ion makes these awards annually to deserving senior women. ICTUHES OF BKEEDE DONATED TO MUSEUM Two pictures of the late Adam Breede have been presented to the Nebraska State Museum by his brother, David Breede. One picture shows him on an African expedi tion. The other was posed by Breede among his trophies col lected from various part of the world. Breede was a former publisher of the Hastings Tribune and was a well known sportsman and big game hunter. He has donated a number of stuffed animal exhibits to the Nebraska university mu seum. the second floor of University halL housed the original library. In the rail of 1899 the library moved into its present location, the new li brary building, mo it occupied only the second floor. It was planned to give the entire building over to the library, but it was not until Morrill hall was built that the library was given the use of tha third floor and part of the base ment. Committee Directed Library.' The administration of the library divides itself into two distinct pe riods, that preceding and that fol (Continued on Page 2.) K00 CONFRONT CHINA I, I I v