Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1932)
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932. titi? n a tf v ivrnn a ctr atvt The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nobraikt OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Publlihed Tuesday, Wdntdy, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings during tha acadtmlo yaar. i THIRTY. FIRST YEAR ' "Entered at aecond-claia matter at tha poatofflea In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act qi eonoreii, March S, 1879. and at apeclal rata of postage provided for In ecion 110J. act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 0, 19M. Under direction of tha Student Publication Board , - SUBSCRIPTION RATI t a year Slngta Copy S eanta $1.25 a semester S3 a year mailed t1.76 a semester mailed EdUorlal Office University Hall 4. Business Off Ice University Hall A. Telephones Dayi B-6891 Night i B-6882. B-333J (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. 77 nance A v- . J932 This psper is rcpraatntal far drertisiac br the Nebraska Association. EDITORIAL STAFF Arthur Wolf Edltor-lnhlef MANAGING EDITORS Howard Allaway Jk Dickson NEWS EDITORS Phillip Brownell Sii.Xrd Laurence Hall V"i",".. Joe Miller Pr" " Eveiyn Simpson A"oc . H.lV. Ruth Schlll Women-. Ed-tor Katharine Howard Society Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS. r..rM stards Ceoroe Dunn Edwin Faulkner Boyd Krewson George Round BUSINESS STAFF Jack Thompson. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Norman Calleher.... , Frank Mus-rave Bernard Jennings Personal Piffle. "With apologies to Mr. Mclntyre. There is a gentleman from Oklahoma wno dohsis mm an bo knows is what he reads in the newspapers. He" is a fortunate jr.-ntlenian for he does read the newspapers. There is a wonder in the lvinds of many as to just how many college students read anything more than the funnies and the sport page. The front page is inter esting, too. A few examples of outstanding news follow. Clan-nee Darrnw has arrived in Hawaii to take over the defense in the "honor" slaying invnhing two navy men and the mother-in-law of one of them. Mrs. Granville Roland For lijseue, her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas Hedges Mnssie, and anolhcr navy man murdered one Joseph Kahahawai, jr., because of his part in the attacking of Massie's wife. The case nt tracted world wide notice so Clarence Darrow, the grizzled veteran of many a court fight, went to defend the Americans. He has an nounced that his fight will be made on the grounds of the unwritten law. Five states have now ratified the twentieth amendment. Five legislatures have now ap proved by 1he necessary three-fourths majority of 1 he abolishment of the lame duck session of congress. The author of this bill is Nebraska's own George W. Norm, characterized by one wri'er as "the noblest Roman of them all." Senator Xorris has been battling for this bill for many years and has finally succeeded in gaining its passage. The bill will probably be in 1he constitution by next year. ' The Japanese squabble has moved off the front page. Oiher news has pushed that af fray into Ihe limbo of forgotten things and rmw it begins to appear 1hat the Japanese are nja'd and are going to stop fighting. No really pood war can ever get along without a lot of publicity and that is just what the Japanese ajid Chinese arc not getting. It would be nice nw if some one would explain just what the whole thing has accomplished. The Lindbergh baby story has still the liiiin bjrr one position in most newspapers. Negotia tions are being carried on 1o get the little one Ki ck home quite safely in the near future. It would be indeed regrettable if the affair liirned out to be another Charley Ross case. For some reason there is always a feeling that somebody knows more about the case than they are telling and that a great power is be hind the thing for no good purpose. The extreme penalty passed by congress recently fur dealing with kidnappers should deter others from a similar offense. . Chicago gangsters are quiet. There have In en no good killings in several months. The li isfii begun by liig Jim Colosimo in the early days of prohibition and carried on by Johnny Torrio and later Al Capone is still the strong fit in 1he city. The North Siders are staying ip their own territory and gun play is infre quent. The last affray of any note was the killing of Jake Lingle. Gangland's very authentic finger pointed to Jack Zuta as the sJaycr and snuffed him out for performing 1he deed. The machine gun tactics, the bombings, the cold blooded and business like killings liuve had no counterpart in the history of the -florid. It will be interesting to see what his torians fifty years hence will have to say aTaout it. "Wets are marshalling their forces in con gress and are preparing for a fight to 1he death. They have forced all of the wets and drys out into the. open and the fence straddlers are lost. One interesting feature of the next campaign will be to note whether or not the wets will be returned to congress. Do the American people want the country to he legally wet or illegally wet? Newspapers are interesting. Try reading them. They are better than any book and the following of a news story from day to day is far n ore interesting than the best serial story. Take a look some day. Debating Dope. Frospects for establishing intramural debate appear good. "What is needed now is some pushing on the part of the fraternities and other organized groups until the program be comes established. Delia Sigma Rho has devoted considerable time and energy 1o the working out of a prae 1icid program. They have not tried to make . 1 : l I ! ttMtml Press Don Lsnirar William Holmes Art Koxelka .dullness Manager does it the program too scholarly or too complicated. They are suggesting that speeches be short, that the subjects to be debated be ones not only of general campus interest but ones which will not require too much study. It is clear that college students cannot take a lot of time to look up material, and subjects which would need such study would scare men away rather than attract them to participation in these debates. Compulsory military training and abolition of campus factions are suggested as topics. Many others of similar nature can be thought of which will require not too much preparation and yet will provide interesting discussion for the participants and auditors alike. But the main feature of the program which makes it worthy of support is the fact that experience in organizing and delivering speeches is one of the best and most practical forms of training which a university student could have. Ability in speaking as in other things comes from practice. Many students desire and need this practice. The facilities for getting it have been lacking. This program of intramural debating supplies it. Once the program becomes established there should be little trouble in making it go. Former high school debaters who haven't, the time, nor perhaps the ability to try out for the regular team should welcome the oppor tunity to keep in practice. In fact every stu dent who really desires a little experience in speaking and developing a certain amount of sef confidence should welcome this oppor tunity. But in spite of all these advantages, the establishment of the program is going to take some work. Until it is in full operation and becomes n regular feature of Ihe intramural program it may be difficult to get men to par ticipate. Often people who would really like to do a think lack the initiative to start the ball rolling. Others may bo too timid and backward to attempt the job. But if fraternity upperclassinen, and the di rectors of the intramural activities of the vari ous fraternities will get behind the project and push for a while, we predict that debating will become one of the most popular of intra mural activities. Might as Well Live. Dorothy Parker has a knack of hitting nails on 1be head. In the accompanying verse she again. Razors pain you; Rivers are dump; Acids stain you ; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. MORNING MAIL Gypped I TO THE EDITOR: I've been cheated! After four years in this place called college I have just found out that my professors have robbed me, so to speak, of my rightful heritage, sound education. (Ddoe anyone know the meaning of those words?. It has taken nie fully eight semesters to realize that fifty percent of the courses for which 1 was made to register at the insistence of someone have been nothing but a means for perdantic professors to disseminate drivel and propaganda of impractical and unreliable significance! Does that sound cynical? It isn't. It's a !. I and calculating analysis of my stock in trade realized from a four-year in vestment of time and energy. Lest I be accused of everything from heresy to mutiny let me offer a solution to overcome the present exigencies of pedagogy as prac ticed at good old Si wash (university of Ne braskensis) : 1. Make all professors submit in writing plan of their exact program for the oncoming semester. Let the Board of Regents authorize the appointment of an individual whose soIp duty will be to sit in on class-roorn lectures and discussion in order to check up on the instructor to insure 1he I'act that the sludent is deriving the maximum benefit from class attend ance checks ami balances, you see!). .'5. Revise the present program in the sev eral schools and-eradicate those courses which constantly repeat subject matter previously studied. Sincerely soberlv. AMPHIOXIUS. College Editors Say Oh My! Are men to steal women's thunder" For generations the feminine sex has had the perogative to dreRS as it pleased, satisfying every whim and fancy that happened to at tract the eye, while the male has been content to lead his existence in dull blues, greys, blacks and browns. What an exciting array of color that isl A man must surely be inspired to rush joyfully 1o Work on a gloomy morning clad in a doleful black suit. This spring it is said that tailors are plan ning to make men more gay in matters of dress. They a"1? experimenting with the psy chological effects of color in masculine garb. Signs that there might be some breaking away from conventions were seen this winter in the green hats and suits which a number of men adopted with enthusiasm. The depression is enough of an excuse for men to rebel against the drabness of their dress, if nothing else. There is no doubt of the exhilarating feeling a woman acquires when she dons a brilliant red or a flashing yellow dress. Why should this same vitaliz ing feeling that all is well with the world be deniedxto men? Men, perhaps, are the weaker sex, for, after all, summer after summer unprotesting, they bake in their heavy suits, and winter after M'inter they match the drab weather with their equally dull clothing. Let the man have an equal right to brighten the landscnpe and plciise hi sego as much as a woman. Univer sity Daily Kama a. PI EPSILON PI INITIATES THIRTY-THREE FRIDAY Groups Must Pay Fine if Representatives Not Initiated. Names of pledges initiated in to Corncobs at the Temple theater last Friday afternoon were re leased Monday. Marvin Schmid, president of the Nebraska chapter of Pi Epailon Pi. took charge of the ceremony. Thirty-three men were initiated. A ruling was passed in a meeting held last week that all groups failing to have a representative initiated must eithej pay the Initiation fee and initiate a man next fall or pay a fine and lose representation in the organ ization. Arrangements for the annual Corncob dinner dance are pro gressing under the supervision of president Schmid. The initiation brought in enough money to as sure the club of having the an nual party. The following men were initia ted: Byron Goulding, Beta Theta Pi, Omaha; Lawrence Hall, Lam bda Chi Alpha, Lincoln; Floyd Schetbv, non fraternity, Rising City; Henry Larsen, Sigma Phi Sigma, Darinebrog; Bob Pilling, Alpha Tau Omega, Omaha; Carlyle Sorenson, Delta Upsilon, Omaha; Bill Ralston, Alpha Gamma Rho, Holdrege; Cameron Isaacson, Theta Xi, Norfolk; Dan Easterday, Delta Sigma Lambda, Lincoln; Alex Stoddard, Phi Sigma Kappa, Lincoln ; Glen Gage, Theta Chi, Au burn; Bob Wassermann, Zeta Beta Tau, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Lee Young, Kappa Sigma, Parsons Kansas; Reg Porter. Sigma Phi Epsilon, Lincoln; Neil McFarland, Alpha Sigma Phi, Norfolk; Fred Sher man, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sioux City, Iowa; Dick Moran, Alpha Theta Chi, Omaha; Joe Schramek, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, David City; Bob Theil, Acacia, Lincoln; Lester Pro kap. Delta Chi, Hay Springs; Mar tin Lewin, non fraternity, Arcadia; Jack Copeland, non . fraternity, Lincoln; Glen Hampton, Delta Tau Delta, Gothenburg; Norman Jef fery, Sigma Nu, Lexington; Harold Winquest, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Holdrege; Gilbert Beach, non fra ternity, Lincoln; Byron Cherry, Delta Theta Phi, Cortland; Dale Taylor, Phi Gamma Delta, Fargo, N. D.; Jens Peterson, non fratern ity, Blair; Elton Ross. Farm House, Gibbon; John Gepson. Phi Kappa Psi, Omaha; Virgil Wiltse, Falls City; Lynn Leonard, Alpha Sigma Phi, Bassett. ANNUAL AD-NITE WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY (Continued from Page 1.) manager of the Lincoln Letter Service, former advertising man ager of Miller and Paine, former president of the Lincoln Advertis ing club, and former director of the Direct Mail association. Nebraska Alumnus. Mr. Dirks Is a graduate from the School of Fine Arts, active in musical work at the university, and is manager of KFAB and makes all the consumer contacts. Mr. McKelvie is the publisher of the Nebraska Farmer, director of the Advertising Federation of Amor! und former member of the federal farm board. Mr. Ott is sales manager of Woodruff Printing company, past district governor of the Advertising Clubs of America, past president of the Lincoln Advertising club, and pat ron of Gamma Alpha Chi. Mr. Trestor of Omaha attended the University of Nebraska. He has served as state director for the American Red Cross, Junior nea Cross, councillor in the United States chamber of commerce, pres ident of the Outdoor Advertising association of Nebraska. At pres ent he is a director of the Outdoor Advertising Association of Amer ica and a director in the Omaha Advertising Selling league. Mr. Black is cartoonist of the Nebraska State Journal, member of Sigma Delta Chi and Lincoln a i-.,.rtiinr Hub. and a former student at the university. Mr. Motter is publicity director qi me Lincoln Telephone company, past president of the Lincoln Advertis ing club, chairman of the Public Relations committee of the Na tional American Legion, former local commander of the American Legion, former county commander of the American Legion, former director of the Kansas State Board of Rotary, and former president of Lincoln Advertising club. Miss Weesner is advertising manager of Miller and Paine, mem hr of Delta Gamma Alumnae Board, honorary member of Gam ma Alpha Chi, ana memoer oi me advertising club, and Wooden Spoon. Organized tn 1931. The alumnae chapter which was organised in October 1931, is made up of members of Epsilon chapter who are now engaged tn advertis ing or in related lines. Included are Leona Rhlmas Daland, presi dent, now editor of the Norden Laboratories publications; Marie Weesner, advertising manager of Miller and Paine; Lorma Hawkins Gillespie, buving staff of Gold & Co.; Ruth Schad Pike. University Extension department; Virginia Randall Imm, Nebraska State Journal; Norma Carpenter, for merly of Miller and Paine; Kath erlne McWbinnie, advertising man ager of Magee'a; and Alberta Johnson, Nebraska Farmer. Members of the '"'ve chapter who are assisting .a Ad-Nlte plana are Lydia Low Smith, presi dent, Harriett Neskadek, Margaret Reynolds, Eleanor Ple&k, Kath erlne Aten. and Tobie Goldstein. Mrs. A. F. Donald, president of the alumnae chapter will preside at Ad-Nite and will introduce the guest speakers. ' JINGLE BELLES" . WILL PLAY HEBE AFBIL 22 AND 23 (Continued from Page 1.) the music well In hand for the dress rehearsals. Scenery for the show is over half completed and is being painted under the supervision of Norman Hoff. who is assisted by Frank Musgravo. Since the play takes place within one room in the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Barry only one set is required. A balcony, fire mace, tmllt In seats, Auguan Business Staff Meets Tuesday A meeting of the business staff of the Awgwan has been called for Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Business Manager Art Mitchell. He urges the en tire staff to be present. rails and French doors are being built for the rustic modernistic set. Costumes for the characters and for the snowflake chorus number are being sewed by Mrs. Packer. The pony and male choruses have already been selected. The pony chorus has already made a public appearance as it was a unit on a program given by the in mates of the state penitentiary. The coliseum will be used for rehearsals this week and next week the Temple theater has been secured for the practices. Herbert Yenne has been holding individual practices with members of the cast for the last week. Ralph Ireland, assisted by Don Easterday, has been coaching the choruses. Hastings and Omaha have been secured as Btops tn the annual road trip that will take place during spring vacation. The Omaha ap pearance is April 16 and "Jingle Belles" will be presented in Hast ings, April 13. Negotiations are still being car ried on with a number of towns that have signified their interest in briDging the musical comedy to their city. Fremont, Nebraska City, Norfolk and Sioux City, la., are still being corresponded with by club officials. Advertising for the program is being solicited under the supervi sion of Bill Devereaux. The pub licity committee, directed by Bill McGaffin has sent information about the show to the towns throughout the state. RURAL CHILDREN LEARN TO SING FROM RADIO LESSONS BROADCAST BY MR. DENS. (Continued from Page 1.) little girls ended their letters " and I'm going to the University of Nebraska when I'm big." "This makes the work doubly valuable," stated Mr. Diers, "in spiring these children to sing and sing correctly is a service any man is glad to render, and inspiring them to come to the University of Nebraska when ready for college is a service to the university and to the state." "I was enabled to hear some of my radio pupils sing last fall at the state fair," Mr. Diers went on, "when the children's chorus was a feature of the fair. Of a group of some 500 children, fully half of them were my radio pupils. I have had letters from superintend ents of various county fairs in Nebraska stating the school chil dren's singing to be the highlight of the fairs. This in part may be traced to 'That Every Child May Sing' broadcasts." Stimulates Rural Life. One of the nice features or this radio singing work is that it tends to stimu?ate rural lite in the state, Mr. Diers related. He has received letters telling of the children's en tertaining at Parent-Teacher asso ciation meetings and various civic groups, and the praising state ments of the listeners and the great satisfaction cf parents. Prof. Charles A. Fullerton, head of the department of music of the State Teachers college at Cedar Falls, la., has drawn upon Mr. Diers for valuable suggestions and ideas on the work. Professor Ful lerton is a leader in teaching the rural school child, and enthusiasti cally adopts Mr. Diers' methods and is instrumental in the spread ing of them in the United States. A foremost phonograph company is co-operating in making special broadcast records for the work, these records carrying the twelve numbers taught the children each year. Taylor Co-operates. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Taylor is co-operating with the undertaking by offering an award to rural children fulfill ing certain quotas in this work A system of grading and accom plishment has been devised toward this end and many children are now proud possessors of this badge of accomplishment. "Schools using this weekly voice instruction are widely scattered over the eastern and central por tions of Nebraska," Mr. Diers con tinued. "North Platte marking the western extremity. It is hoped we may later extend beyond this point as wc want to help all the boys and girls we can." Mr. Diers, by the way, is an old timer in the announcing field. He is now on his seventh year of ac tive broadcasting, being the origi nal announcer for the university and keeping by his post each year with no more than six days vaca tion in any one year. At present his periods of broadcast each day are many and he says he "gets a thrill with each." Mr. Diers was the Lincoln remote control an nouncer of station KFKX when it was located at Hastings years ago. It will be remembered KFKX was the world's first rebroadcastlng unit and pioneered in the radio field. Y. W. C. A. CABINET TO BE INSTALLED TUESDAY (Continued from Page 1.) Lucile Hendricks; world forum, Ruth Bernstein; vesper choir, Win ifred Shallcross; race and national relations, Catherine Williams and Ruth Cherney. Church relations. Belle Marie Hershner; freshman commission, Loraine Lovgren; sophomore com mission, Alice Brown; upperclass commission, Elizabeth Barber; Ne braska in China, Jean Alden; com mittee on program, Helen Irwin; posters, Constance Kizer; girl re serve, Alice Quigle; agricultural campus representative, Helen Hengstler. Officers to be Installed are: Jane Robertson, president; Catherine Williams, vice president; Jane Boos, secretary and Eleanor Dixon, treasurer. ONLY 26 MILES TO KIND'S CAFE CRETE Kondicichct 59 varictirt FRED H. E. KIND DELTA CHI CELEBRATE Robert W. Devoe, President Lincoln Alumni, Presides At Saturday Fete. Active and alumni members of Delta Chi social fraternity, Satur day evening observed the twenty third anniversary v of its founding here. Organized In 1909 at Ne braska as a legal fraternity, Delta Chi was changed to a social group in 1913. Robert W. Devoe, president of the Lincoln alumni association, presided at the banquet and John E. Curtiss acted as toastmaster. The principal toast was given by C. S. Deroin of Kansas City, na tional treasurer. Out of town alumni who attend ed the affair were John Barton and Tim Sullivan of Omaha; Ed Kubot, Friend; E. F. Klein, Crete; E. S. Schiefelbein, Wahoo; Ralph Kryger, Neligh; Robert Arm strong, Auburn; Judge Leslie No ble, Beatrice; Bob Hasting, Crete. Robert Devoe was general chair man of the committee in charge with Curtiss as assistant general chairman. District Judge E. B. Chappell, O. B. Clark, Fred John son, Lester Dunn and Dr. R. M. Chamberlain comprised the ban quet committee. Other committees were: Curtiss, Harold Porterfield and Harry Ankeny, speakers; Dr. Floyd Rymen, J. A. McEachen, William Wright, E. B. Schielfel bein and John Barton, entertain ment; William Wright, Curtiss, C. Petrus Peterson, E. F. Klein and Tim Sullivan, invitations. FORDYCE SAYS CORRECT PRACTICE WILL MAKE READING MORE RAPID, EFFICIENT. (Continued from Page 1.) provement in rate has to do with increasing the eye span to take In large units, three to five words, at each movement. As the eye movement is increased in span, the span In Interpretation is at the same time improved for we Inter pret In sentences or in complete thoughts rather than in portions of sentences which must be united before comprehended. By means of this method Dr. Fordyce finds that his students are able to grasp words of four letters and phrases of two words each more easily and just about as rapidly as the grasp letters of the alphabet placed in a column. "By such exercises the eye falls into new motor habits of a regu lar, rythmical nature enabling the student to read in large, rather than small units," declared Dr. Fordyce. When ability to read simple selections has been acquired, the practice should extend to more asd more difficult reading." "In teaching reading In primary grades, correct motor eye habits should be Inculcated from the out set. To this end, the child should be taught to deal with phrases and sentences rather than with words," concluded Dr. Fordyce. "Care should be used in selecting texts with proper line length, whose let 23RD MILESTONE HER If a girl expects to get anywhere socially or geographically fche'll get there more quickly in FLORSHEIM SHOES Just when you can't resist "stepping out Florsheim introduces such glorious new footwear, with a comfort as brac ing as the Spring air. Such charming styles at such a moderate price ters are deep black in clear sharp outline." FACULTY FAVOR JOINT USE OF THE SWIMMING POOL (Continued from Page 1.) sity parties," declared Miss Hcpp ner. "As far as administrative details of the arrangement are concerned, I think there are no real obstacles," she continued. She indicated that the scheduling of hours for joint use of the pool could probably be easily made. "I would like to see coeduca tional swimming started at Ne braska," said Mr. Vogeler. Tho plan is used at the University o( Southern California, according to the swimming coach, and has been very successful there. "If it workn successfully there, I don't see why it could not be done here," he con tinued. Miss Lee said Saturday that she felt it would provide a good social mo.iinm as well as a worthwhile way for men and women to spend extra time, one uetiareu, uuw ever, that women so far have ex-ni-PsspH nn demand for the Idea. Mr. Vogeler, however, reports a great many requests ior me open tag of the pool to joint use from men students. The only practical difficulty in connection with arranging for the iAnt n nt fhn nool that hsi aa yet been brought to the attention of the Nebraskan is in regard to the nrovision of suits for men swimmer and the laundering of them. The women have provisions for this and a small charge is made for using the regulation suits which are provided. "Avoid falling in love as long as possible," a Syracuse dean advises members of the freshman class. "To promote more Intimate so cial contacts" a special telephone service has been installed between the men's and Women's dormitories at Antioch college. Hotel D'Hamburga Shotfim Berrioe 1141 St. 171t o tt YOUR CLOTHES Deserve the Best of Care Have Them Modern Cleaned. They Will Always Look Like New MODERN CLEANERS Soukup & Westever THE OLD RELIABLE CALL F2377