AILY -N EBRASK AN Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska. PRICE FIVE CENTS vol. xxxi NO. 115. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1932 D THE PI EPSILON PI 10 HOLD NITIAIION T Marvin Schmid to Conduct Corn Cob Ceremony in Temple Theater. ANNUAL PARTY PLANNED Pep Organization Plans to Hold Spring Dinner Dance Soon. Initiation of pledges into Corn cobs, Nebraska pep organization, will take place at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon In the Temple theater. Marvin Schmid, president, will conduct the ceremony. At a meet ing held last Wednesday it was de cided that every fraternity having an eligible representative should have their pledge initiated. It was also decided that in case of schol astic Ineligibility that the frater nity should pay the initiation fee of J8 and have a pledge initiated next fall or pay a fine of $10 and lose representation for one year. A committee appointed for the annual Corncob spring party has commenced to function and the date of the party will be an nounced In the near future, accord ing to Marvin Schmid. All of the fraternities having ineligible pledges were notified. The spring party will be paid for out of proceeds derived from the initiation of the pledges. The party is to be in the form of a dinner dance and will probably be held in the Cornhusker ballroom. The following men are to be ini tiated this afternoon: Bill Weir, Acacia, Lincoln; Neil McFarland, Alpha Sigma Phi, Norfolk; Bob Pilling, Alpha Tau Omega, Omaha; Jim Crabill, Red Cloud, Alpha Theta Chi; Eyron Goulding, Beta Theta Pi, Omaha; Harold Caster, Delta Chi. Lincoln; Dan (Continued on Page 3.) Miller, Porter, Owens, Hold Offices After Thursday Election. Marvin Schmid was elected president of the Dramatic Club at the regular election held in the club rooms in the Temple Thurs day night. He succeeds Ralph Spencer, who has been president for the past term. Other officers elected at the meeting were Gay Miller, vice president; Reg Porter, secretary treasurer and Charles Owens, sargent-at-arms. In addition to his newly acquired presidency, Schmid has offices in other campus organizations. He (Continued on page 4.) 1. W. CABINETS WILL HAVE PICMC FRIDAY Croup Will Meet at Ellen Smith' Hall 1 O'clock; Miss C it inn Cucst. An Interesting evening is being planned Friday for the old and new Y. W. C. A. cabinets. They will meet at Ellen Smith hall at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon and Miss Maude Gwinn, regional stu dent secretary of the Y. W. C. A. who la visiting on the campus this week, will conduct a worship service. This will be followed by a discussion on genertl organiza tion of Y. W. C. A. work on a campus. At 0:30 the group will drive In cars for Pioneer park where they will have a picnic supper and a discussion ot the religious ana or ganizational plan of the Y. W. C. A. This Is the first time that the new cabinet will meet together. Announcement of its members will take place tt a special Vespers service Tuesday. AFTERNOON Prediction of Fair Easter Weather Means Bright Colors, New Bonnets, Rabbits and Youthful Church Goers "Friday will be fair anil warmer, the chances' arc that Easter will be fair," is the verdict of,T. A. Blair, weather man. Fair weather plus Easter plus students plus the unhoarding of a few sous, equals a sorority row that fairly reeks with colors and church pews that beam with bright youthful faces. Among the other preparations for Easter is the intense activity mat is wajnnir in uiev pharmacy zoo. The rabbits are working over time. There will be no over production this year, ac cording to Mr. Belgian Hare, who is superintendent of the egg fac tory. "These chocolate bunnies may be all light, but I can't hand them much. When. It comes to real honest to goodness egg laying, they aren't In the money. Yes, they are nice to look at, but they arc ornaments, just ornaments. Now you take one of us hard working critters, we're doing our duty. Those others haven't got a sense of responsibility. They think that if they get pneumonia and die and If their skin is made into a third rate fur for a third rate sorority girl that tney nave done their duty. 1 think that talking of philosophy la odious, simply odl oua," Belgian Hare told the press Dies in Crash. , Courtuy of the Journal. MRS. MARGARET BOWSER. Former student, 1926 Ak-Sar-Ben princess and member of Alpha Chi Omega who was killed Wednesday afternoon in an automobile accident in Omaha, where she lived, Mrs. Bowser was formerly Miss Margaret Carmlchael, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Car mlchael, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Carmlchael of Omaha. L BE Fifty Students Will Enter Contest Sponsored By Block and Bridle. AWARD SILVER TROPHY The grand champion livestock judge at the Nebraska college of agriculture will be determined Sat urday when the annual student judging contest is to be held. Prof. M. A. Alexander of the animal husbandry department has charge of the contest which is being sponsored by the Block and Bridle club. Nearly fifty students are ex pected to enter the contest, ac cording to Professor Alexander. The winner will receive a large silver trophy given by the Anchor Serum company and also will have his name cngroved on the plaque hanging in animal husbandry hall. Students entered in the contest will judge ten classes of stock in cluding three of beef cattle, three of swine, two of sheep and two of horses. Prof. F. W. Bell of the Kansas State Agricultural college at Manhattan will judge the show. All students in the college of ag riculture are eligible to compete in the 1932 contest except those who were members of the senior judg ing team this year. With the ad ditional trophy offered and ribbons to be awarded to the first ten place winners in each class, more stu dents than ever before are ex pected to enter. y. w. c. a. GIRL RESERVE STAFF Interested Girls 'Asked to Report at Ellen Smith Hall. A new staff will be added to the Y. W. C. A. organization this spring, its chairman serving as a cabinet member, it was announced today by Miss Bernice Miller, sec retary of the organization. This will be the girl reserve staff and will meet once a week at Ellen Smith hall where girl re serve work will be discussed with Eloisc Trestor, girl reserve city secretary. All girls interested In doing ad visory work with girl reserve groups In grade schools or junior high schools in the city are Invited to report to the Y. W. C. A. office in Ellen Smith hall and talk to Miss Miller. AH those girls who have been doing advisory work in this line are asked to report also. rnrrpsnondent. Many a lily will be wrenched from her pad. Tiger lilies, lillies of the vallev (Missouri valley), and all of the rest of them will be transplanted and will be placed In pots From pads to pots. The collegians, however, are principally Interested in new clothes. Miss Jones will get a new bonnet, the latest thing, not another like it In town, she will be seated next to Miss Smith, In the last row In church, and when sh9 turns bet head to look at Bill lii bis new Ice cream flannel, she will notice Miss Jones's new chic bonnet, not another like it In town. Bote ot them will forget the ser mon, the scheduled picnic and the economics assignment. Yes, as the narcis's said once before, it Is spring. Ain't nature gran A aaaaaL... . . , . .V , . -. . ill DEAN RELEASES SCHEDULE MAY SPRING EVENTS Alumni Round-Up To Be Held on Ivy Day; First Week of Month Busy. COMMENCEMENT JUNE 6 Baccalaureate Sermon Will Be Preached on Sunday June 5. A revised activities schedule was released from the dean of student affairs office Thursday afternoon. One of the Innovations will be the holding of alumni round-up day on Ivy day, May 5. May 2 to May 7 is the busiest week of the spring.according to the schedule. Registration as well as a number of other activities will occur dur ing this week. On Wednesday, May 4, the uni versity will hold the annual honors convocation at which time those students who have maintained a high scholastic average during the past two semesters will be award ed prizes. The speaker of the eve ning will be Dr. Guy Stanton Ford, dean of the Graduate school of the University of Minnesota. Classes will be dismissed on Thursday May 5 in celebration of Ivy day. At this time the Ivy day ceremony, the presentation of the May queen, the interfraternity and intersorority sing, and the tapping of the Innocents ana: the masking of the Mortar Boards, will take place. Alumni Round-Up. The alumni round-up will also occur on Thursday. A luncheon will be held at 12 o'clock noon at the university coliseum. A tenti tive arrangement of a dance in the coliseum that evening has also been made. Engineer's night is another (Continued on Page 2.) IHREElEiElMS E Cotner, Two Kansas U Teams Meet Nebraskans; No Decisions Given. Three University of Nebraska teams engaged in debates on one day for the first time on record Thursday, according to Prof. H. A. White, debate coach. A practice debate with Cotner college was held Thursday evening, a debate team appeared on a program at the Knife and Fork club Thursday noon, and a debate over KFAB took place in the afternoon. Of the twenty-four scheduled debates for the year only three remain. A team composed of Albert Seeck and Donald Shirley upheld the negative side of the govern ment control question against Cot ner. A debate against the Kansas university team at the Knife and Fork club was carried on by the affirmative team of Cleo I. Lech lier and Howard Holtzendorff. Byron Cherry and Woodrow Ma gee spoke over the air in a debate with Kansas university on the gov ernment control question. The two debates with Kansas were return engagements to offset two others that were held March 10 at Atchison and Lawrence, Kas. As in most of the debates in the Missouri Valley Debate league, of which Nebraska is a member the debates were not judged. A debate with the College of the Pacific will be held in Lincoln April 2. A team will make a trip tq Colorado to compete with teams from Colorado and Denver univer sities to conclude the season. SYMPHONY TOJPLAY SUNDAY University Orchestra Will Give Omaha Concert at Jo sly n Memorial. The University of Nebraska sixty-five piece symphony orches tra will play in the Joslyn Me morial Easter Sunday, March 27, at 4 o'clock in, the afternoon. The program which will bo pre sented by the orchestra will con sist of the Egmont Overature by Beethoven; four movements of the New World Symphony, which are Adagio, Largo, Scherzo and the Finale; and the Danse Macabre by Salnt-Sacns. Dr. Paul R. Grummann, former director cf the university School of Fine Arts, is present director of the Joslyn Memorial. HOTEL DANCESEHD SEASON Lincoln Hotel Management Announces Closing of Weekend Dances. The Lincoln hotel week-end dances will close for the summer after Saturday night, the hotel management announced Thursday. The dances have proved popular with university students and will probably open again next fall, they said. Howie Chrlstensen's band, which has been playing at the Lincoln, will open at the Playmor for a series of Friday night engage ments April 1. Plans for .wmcier engagements have not been made. FORMER STUDENT IS KILLED Mrs. Margaret Bowser Dies After Auto Accident in Omaha Wednesday. Mrs. Margaret Bowser, Omaha, former student here and Ax-Sar-Ben princes in 1926, was fatally injured Wednesday afternoon in an automobile crash in Omaha. She died soon after being taken to Covenant hospital. Her car was completely demo lished when it turned over in the air and was hurled about 60 feet. None of the occupants of the other car, driven by Emidio Tirbulato, was hurt. Mrs Bowser, then Miss Carml chael, was prominent in College of Agriculture activities while in school here and was a member of Alpha Chi Omega. E AT II Williams Declares Those Responsible to Be Dealt With. LUCKEY MAY RECOVER University of Missouri authori ties Thursday were pursuing a vigorous investigation into the shooting of three engineering stu dents, one of whom is in serious condition, by a law student,, aris ing out of an inter-college feud there following the kidnapping of the queea for the engineering "St. Pat's" celebration, according to press dispatches from Columbus. Dr. Walter Williams, president of the school, announced that stu dents responsible for the affair would be "summarily dealt with." No charges other than carrying concealed weapons will be filed against Burnis Frederick, law stu dent who admitted doing the shooting, until it is known whether or not Frank Luckey, most ser iously injured of the engineers shot, will recover. Reports from the hospital Thursday described Luckey's condition as "fairly good," and it was believed he will recover. Pending the outcome of the in vestigation Frederick, who admit ted doing the shooting after he had been attacked by a group of engineering students, was at lib erty on $1,000 bond on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Jerry Cebe and Bus Love, the other students wounded, were ex pected'to recover. -The-fracas grew out of the kid napping, supposedly by law stu dents of Miss Louise Butterfield, pretty journalism coed, who was to be queen of the engineering col lege St. Fat's celebration. She was released unharmed arter tne ciay of the celebration. Frederick said he oncned fire on the engineering students after he and another law. student naa Deen waylaid as an aftermath or me fpud erowlne- out of the kidnap ping. Following the shooting he was severely beaten ana was re ported by the universal service Thnrsdav as beiner in a "state of mental derangement." STUDENT RECITAL HELD Thirteenth Student Weekly Program Was Thursday Afternoon. The thirteenth student weekly nf thn Rrhonl nf Music Was held in the recital hall of the music building, Thursday after noon, under the direction of Miss T.nm Srhnlnr Smith, head of the activity. Students presenting num bers in the student reciuu re rhnnpn fnr thfl wceklv public re citals held Wednesday afternoons in the Temple tneater. Thn pmKram: Bach. KiiKue, from Chromatic hantama; Bach, Fuxue In D minor; Ardeth 1'lerce, piano; (Mr. Harrlnon). Blzt. Ji din que Hen ne mpouvantf: Mrn. Loren Paughlin, voice; (Mm. Gutz- mer). Thomai, Cannalu lu le pays. from "Mltinon..; Ri'glna Franklin, piano; (Mr. Gutzmerj. D...k 7inHn Pfincrin in fl minor: n ale, alli-'cro energuo; Valletta Hill, violin; ,Mr. BtecKeinerts). s-hubert, My Sweet Repose; Lllliatt Blerry, voice; (Mliw Robhtnio. I)eby, The Fourth Prelude; Ievllelty, Waltz Caorice: Marian Miller, piano; (Mr. Harrlinn). Htalner, God so Lavea me worm, iram "The Crucifixion"; Protheroe, Ixt In London Town; Gerald Mott, flrat tenor; Victory McAlllnter, aecond tenor; Howard f UH1 huritnn.- I HlKF TttimhaUth. banc voice quartette; (Mra. Thoman.). Lierserjou, aobkio irom rtiinu -mii.rii, Bernice Rundln, violin; (Mr. BteckelberK;. Hay Kamsey Expected To Ileturn on Saturday Ray Ramsey will return Satur day from a several day trip out over the state visiting a number of towns in connection with the work of the alumni office. He left Wednesday. Bulldog Liable to Be a Candidate for Denison May Queen Woogs, a bulldog, Is a possible candidate for queen of May at Denison university. Denison'a fairest, coed must be queen according to tradition, but 150 insurgent male students say she is not to be found on the list of seven candidates. The revoltera say that the com mittee of 20 girls and 12 men gave to much consideration to campus prominence and not enough - to beauty and hence the candidacy of Woogs. Woogs, while having no claim to beauty, has unquestion able social standing as mascot of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The announcement that Woog's name would appear on the ballot unless more coed candidates were permitted has postponed the elec tion so far. The election was to have been held li rch 2? DIRECTOR LAUDS PLAY BY YELNNE ON MD WEST Miss Howell Declares Next Players Production Full of Action. TANG OF SOUTHWEST '3 Suns West' Built Around Colorful Character of 'Billy the Kid.' "3 Suns West," the last play of the season for the University Players which opens at the Temple theater next Monday for a week's run is characterized by Miss Alice Howell, head of the dramatics de partment and director of the play ers as a play "containing lots of movement and life with plenty of suspense." "The play is full of atmosphere of the southwest in the time of cowboys," declared Miss Howell. "It revolves around the colorful character of the famous Billy the Kid, whose activities have made him almost 'an American Robin Hood." The play which was written by Herbert Yenne, instructor in the dramatics department, has never been produced .before. Mr. Yenne spends each summer in the district where Billy made his reputation and has gathered a great deal of atmosphere of the old southwest from his annual sojourns there, ac cording to Miss Howell. He wrote the play last summer. With one exception, this is the first time the University Players have produced an original play be fore it has been copyrighted or produced elsewhere. Seven or eight years ago, Miss Howell said, the players offered a prize for an original drama and the prize win ning play "The Red Cockatoo" by (Continued on page 4.) FOR FULL REHEARSAL 'Jingle' Belles' Cast With Choruses and Orchestra Booked March 29. The first rehearsal of the entire "Jingle Belles" cast, including choruses and orchestra, will be held by the Kosmet Klub in the coliseum Tuesday night at 7:45. Herbert Yenne, author of the mu sical comedy and the leading char acter, will direct the rehearsal. Ralph Ireland will supervise the dances of the pony and male chor uses. The orchestra has not been en tirely selected. It is hoped by the Kosmet Klub that a ten or twelve piece orchestra will accompany the musical comedy on the road trip which will be made during spring vacation. Business negotiations are still hanging fire, according to Edwin J. Faulkner, business manager of Kosmet Klub, and the results of the dickering will not be known until early next week. Omaha and Hastings have booked "jingie Belles." It has been necessary to handle publicity dealing with the show through Nebraska alumni in the towns being considered oc- causc of a university ruling. Alum ni in the various towns have co operated by turning over publicity to newspapers. To Complete Costumes. Costumes for the characters and for the snowflake number of the chorus are being completed and (Continued on Page 2.) COED JWRMLISTS MEET Informal Dinner Is Given By Theta Sigma Phi Thursday Night. An informal dinner was held at the University club Thursday at 6 o'clock by members of Theta Sig ma Phi, honorary journalistic so rority. Rosaline Pizer, president of the organization, introduced the speaker, Mrs. Dorothy Howard Zeigcnbein, editor of the Ashland Gazette, who spoke on "The Joys and Trials of a Country Newspa per." Mrs. Zelgenbein was an ac tive member of the organization on the campus last year. Invited guests to tne meeting were Margaret Kgerton, Frances Morgan, Elizabeth Rose, Caroline VanAnda and Rosalie Lamme. Jean Spelser was in charge of ar rangements for the affair. MARRIAGE LAWS DISCUSSED Rules of Different States Perused by League of Women Voters. Marriage laws In Nebraska were explained by Elizabeth Barber at the regular meeting of the League of Womeu voters Thursday arter noon. Gladvb Williams reported on the marriage laws of Iowa and Gretchen Schrag, those of Ne vada. General discussion was led bv Louis j Wallace, president. Next week the marriage laws of Illinois, New York and California will be discussed and contrasted to those reported on this week. A. W. S. President. r- V if j 1 JANE AXTELL. Courteiv o The Journal. Who was elected president of the Associated Women Students by an all-women vote Thursday. Miss Axtel!, whose home is in Omaha, is a member of Alpha Chi Omega. E S Journalism Professor Says Voters Are Developing New Thoughts. CHARACTERIZES HOOVER American voters are developing a new thought, theory and idea in the choice of president of the United States, J. E. Lawrence, Lincoln newspaper editor and as sociate professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska told members of the Lincoln Lions club Thursday noon at the chamber of commerce. "Once and for all." he declared, "we have exploded the theory that anyone successful in business can likewise be successful in handling governmental affairs." When Mr. Lawrence pointed out how the theory of continental busi ness never has been the theory of America and that President Hoov er's business experience has been traditionally foreign and not American, a voice in the audience asked: "In what respect?" The speaker replied that Presi dent Hoover has found that poli cies employed by him during his. work in Europe and those applica ble to American industry to be en tirely different. Although he disagreed with former Senator James Reed of Missouri, who, he said, during the 1928 campaign told American vot ers not to elect Herbert Hoover be cause he was an Englishman, Mr. Lawrence said there is "wide spread discontent today against tne greatest engineer or the world, (Continued on Page 3.) Fi Little Church Around the Corner to Be Scene Of Meeting. The last words of Christ on the Cross, will be the subject of the sermon given at the Good Friday services Friday, March 25, from 12:30 to 3 o'clock in the Little Church Around the Corner. This service is the last of a series of Holy week services given for the students of the University of Nebraska. A three hour wor ship was held Thursdiiy, Marc h 24, from five to eight, in the Little Church Around the Corner. The university Y. W. C. A. choir pre sented special music. There will be a vesper worship service for the old and new cab inet members of the university Y. W. C. A. Friday, March 25, at Ellen Smith Hall. All the Lincoln churches will give special Easter services Sun day. Fred Ballard Gives Of the Jury' to Historical Society; Author Former University Student The Slate Historical society lias received a presentation copy of the play, "Ladies of 1 lie University of .Nebraska student who has since lus graduation in 90." achieved considerable prominence as playwright. The nlav was presented bv the University Players last season and has recently been adapted for a Mr. Ballard s play is quite cn-o titled to a place in the annals oi the historical society, the society believes, for his ancestors and he himself nave been residents of Ne braske for many years. While in university, Mr. Ballard majored in dramatics, and after graduating, he took bis masters degree in the same department. His father, Dr. C. F. Ballard, was first mayor of Havelock, while nls grandfather was one of the first settlers in Fillmore county, and a member of the Nebraska legislature in 1SS7 and 1889. After working a year as a stage hand in a Ciicago theater follow ing completion of his work at Ne braska university. Mr. Ballard spent some time on a sheep ranch in Colorado where his experiences at sheep shearing and other odd jobs furnished the basis for his very successful prouueuon, ae JANE AXTELL IS CHOSEN HEAD OF NEBRASKA COEDS Omaha Junior of Alpha Chi Omega New President Of A. W. S. Board. OVER 600 BALLOTS CAST Misses Deadman, Norris and Perkins Also Elected To Offices. Jane Axtell was elected presi dent of the A. W. S. board for the comine year at the election by all university women Thursday. Other officers chosen were: Deloris Dead- man, vice president; Willa Norris, secretary; and Bash Perkins, treas urer. Over 600 votes were cast Thursday, making this the largest election that has been held this year. Helen Baldwin, who was a can didate for president, automatically becomes a senior member of the board. Other senior members chosen are Eleanor Dixon, Mar garet Upson and Gertrude Clarke. Junior members of the board will be Margaret Buol, Lucille Reilly, and Jane Boos. Sopho more members are Leah Carlsen, Smith and Calista Cooper. The position of vice president goes to the senior candidate poll ing the highest number of votes, while the highest junior is secre tary and the highest sophomore is treasurer. Former Board Members. Miss Axtell, Omaha, is a mem ber of Alpha Chi Omega. She served as secretary of the A. W. S. board this year. She is a Tassel, p. member of the Physical Educa tion club. Miss Baldwin, Omaha, is a member of Alpha Phi. She was a junior member of the A. W. a. board. She is treasurer and concession manager of W. A. A. (Continued on Page 3.) JOHN H. BROADY DIES I Nebraska Student Engineer Fails to Recover from Recent Operation. John H. Broady, twenty-one, University of Nebraska student died Thursday afternoon following an illness of four weeks. Ap parently recovering after an ap pendicitus operation, peritonitis suddenly set in causing the youth's death. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. John was a junior in the college of engineering, and made his home in Lincoln. He was the son of Dis trict Judge and Mrs. J. H. Broady. Surviving, besides his parents are (Continued on page 4.) BA PTIST STUDENTS WILL HOLD SERVICE Musical Program Will Be Presented by Senior Choir Sunday. The senior choir of the First F.apti.st church will present the Easter vesper service of the church Sunday at 5 o'clock. Solos by Mr. Wheeler and Miss Woods, of the choir, and by Mr. Hinkin ,of the Lincoln city mission .will be in cluded in the musical. A special quartette will sing several numbers, according to Miss Jaige Crawford, director of the choir. Following the vesper service a young people's social hour will be held at six followed at 6:45 by the young people's evening service. The topic will be Easter Medita tions, or the Significance of Eas ter. Special numbers will be a vocal duet by Misses Evalyn Whitnah and Marjorie Compton, and or chestra elections. Speakers will be Grace Young. Joe Dennison. Mary McCall and Bill Richardson. Ray Brady will preside. Copy of 'Ladies Jury," by Fred Jiallard, lormcr moving picture production lieve Me Xantippe." This play was written uunng the second year at Harvard where ho was studying drama under Prof. George Pierce Baker. The play dealt with a c ime committed by a man wnose attempt io re main incognito was unsuccessful because of his habit of exclaiming Believe Me Xantippe." The naoit resulted in his recognition. The play won for Mr. taiiara the Craig prize of $500. It waa very successful in its New York presentation, so successful in act that the next play written by Mr. Ballard, "Young America' achieved a sell-out In New York, eight weeks before the play opened. Both plays have been presented a number of times In various Nobraska towns, and have been particularly adapted for high (Continued on Page 3.) i. C ( H- '.' 1 V r'.' .V.