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THE AILY NEBRA SKAN I i V 1 v '.. i, X' ' t Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXI NO. 133. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932. PRICE FIVE CENTS IVY DAY PLANS I OF Traditional Ceremonies of Spring on Tap Week From Thursday. OTHER EVENTS COMING Registration, Third Quarter Reports, Roundup Among Those on Calendar. Outstanding among campus events for the remainder of the se mester are the traditional Ivy day activities, which will start at 9 o'clock and continue until late in the afternoon of Thursday, May 5. The annual Interfraternity sing, sponsored by Kosmet Klub, will I begin at 9 o'clock. Entries in the contest have not been closed yet, but approximately twenty fratern ities are expected to enter the competition. Beta Theta Pi has won the sing for the last two years. Following the Interfraternity sing, the procession which opens the festival honoring the May Queen will start from the Armory at approximately 10 o'clock. Lead ing the procession will be repre sentatives from all women's houses on the campus. The identity of the May Queen, her maid of honor, attendants, and pages, will be kept secret until their appearance in the chain. The May Queen and her attendant will be chosen by popular election soon. The R. O. T. C. band will probably play during the ceremony. Following the ceremony of crowning the queen, the winner of the Ivy Day poem contest spon sored annually by Mortar Board society, will be escorted to the throne where the winning poem will be read to the queen. Ivy Planted. Af'er reading of the poem, the traditional planting of the Ivy will take place. The president of the senior class will hand the Ivy to the May Queen who will present it to the president of the junior class with instructions as to where to plant it. Opening the afternoon program will be the Intersorority sing, (Continued on Page 3.) AKE SPOTLIGHT ACTIVITIES 10 SfflYUT RALLY Farmers Fair Pep Meeting Scheduled in Ag Hall On Thursday. PLAN MANY CONTESTS With J. E. Lawrence and Ray Ramsay as the principal speakers for the farmers fair rally to be held in Ag hall on the College of Agriculture campus Thursday, the largest crowd of the year is ex pected to attend. Lawrence is edi tor of the Lincoln Star while Ram say is alumni secretary. Manager Fred Meredith said Monday that other speeches will be made by faculty members and students. Lawrence will speak about the fair as observed from a newspaper's viewpoint while Ram say will talk about the value of student spirit. Entries for the milking contest are coming in fast, according to committee members In charge of the novel event. There will be a class for men and women. As pre viously announced, the contest will be held in the arena north of the Student Activities building. Def inite rules for the contest, however, have not been drafted as yet. Prlzet for Horse Pullers, f George Harris who Is in charge of the horse pulling contest an nounced Monday night that sev eral Lancaster county farmers have signified their intention of entering teams in the contest. (Continued on Page 2.) American Disturbances Recall Those Of Other Countries' Youthful Revolts The pilgrimage of university students to Kentucky mines, the student strike at Columbia univer sity, and the delegation sent by American students to the dis armament conference at Geneva, raise the question whether Amer ican students are likely tc enter the political arenas, as students in many other nations have for years. Americans who are accustomed to smile benevolently at what they term "student pranks" would be appalled to witness student strikes such as tboseof other lands, where death and destruction are com mon results of such movements. In Latin America, for example, al most everyone of the numerous re cent revolutiona has been initiated by students with reform programs. In Havana the student move ment shows what it means to sac rifice life for a cause. The uni versity is closed as it has been cn and off for four years, because the students are in violent opposition to the dictatorship of President Macbado. Recently the president announced amnesty for political prisoners, but many university m tu'lcnts still languish in prison. At I" at the students merely AG CLUB TO HOLD PICNIC Group Picked to Arrange Annual Affair With Home Ec Committee. Committees to arrange for the annual Ag Club-Home Ec picnic will be appointed at the meeting of the Ag club Wednesday, April 27, according to Glenn LeDloyt, president of the club. The committees will arrange the program and details of the picnic, and the date and place will be se lected at the meeting, LeDloyt de clared. Last year it was held on the same night on which the Ani mal Husbandry building burned. A report from the committee which was appointed to secure medals for the judging teams which were honored at the annual Agriculture College honor convo cation will also be beard at the meeting. Each year the club awards medals to the members of these teams. TURN IN PLAQUES Awards to Be Made Anew At Annual Banquet May 3; Tickets Sell Well. The call was issued Monday by Chalmers Graham, chairman of the interfraternity banquet com mittee, for the fifteen houses now holding the interfraternity scholar ship plaques to turn them in to the office of Prof. E. F. Schram, fac ulty advisor to the Interfraternity council, in Morrill hall at once. The plaques will be awarded anew to the houses having the highest scholarship for the second semester last year and the first se mester this year at the annual in terfraternity banquet Tueday, May 3, at the Hotel Cornhusker. Houses now holding the plaques are: Farm House Beta Sigma Psl. Alpha Gamma Rho. Alpha Theta Chi. Delta Upsilon. Delta Theta Phi. Delta Phi Gamma (Acacia) Zeta Beta Tau Beta Theta Pi Delta Sigma Delta. Delta Sigma Lambda. Lambda Chi Alpha Sigma Alpha Mu. Phi Kappa Psi. Alpha Chi Sigma. Sales Good-Schmid. Sales for the event so far indi cate a large attendance at the ban quet, Marvin Schmid, in charge of the sales, reported Monday after a checkup of members of the In terfraternity council selling the tickets. Arrangements for the banquet are practically complete, Graham indicated. .Robert M. Joyce has been selected principle speaker of the evening. Ray Ramsay, alumni secretary, will act as toastmaster. Other speakers include Chancel lor E. A. Burnett, Dean T. J. Thompson, and Norman Galleher, president of the council. Professor Schramm will award the scholarship plaques to the win ning fraternities and the scholar ship cup to the national fraternity with the highest scholastic aver age for the two semesters. Program Arranged. Leo Beck and his Antelope park orchestra will play during the banquet and the Kvam sisters trio will sing. Tickets are on sale by members of the Interfraternity council In each house at one dol lar. The council, at a special meet ing last Thursday, recommended that all houses close tables for the event. A further check on ticket sales will be made at the Inter fraternity council meeting tonight and additional tickets will be available to those representatives needing more. Student Council Meets Wednesday Afternoon The regular meeting of the Stu dent council will be held Wednes day at 5:00 o'clock in University hall. A number of Important proj ects are to be discussed. GREEKS ASKED TO IN LAST SPRING adopted resolutions and refused to attend classes. But more recently they have Inaugurated a veritable reign of terror. Students in the government high schools have joined in the movement, and as a result these secondary schools all over Cuba have been closed. In Peru an organization called the Apra, composed of students, of young men in the labor group and of young women who are going into business and professional life, is urging a fundamental reorganr ization of the nation's life. Asia, too, has its protests by students. In China the youth movement re sulted in the student strike at Peiping, which was a violent pro test against the proposal in the treaty of Versailles to hand over to Japan much of the province of Shantung. The youth movement of Europe, like that of Asia, is in one way or another in revolt against the old order, opposing materiallsnr with its massed wealth on the one hand and its awful poverty on the other. All autocracy, whether intellectual, political, industrial or racial is the object of attack. Krom tb Hyractu Pally Orn. DEBATE TOURNEY ENTERS SECOND ROUND TUESDAY Negative Teams to Be Hosts At Four Arguments cn Drill Question. SEMI-FINALS THURSDAY Last Competition Set for Sometime Next Week; Trophy Probable. LATE BULLETIN. In the only debate scheduled for Monday night, Alpha Tau Omega won from Alpha Theta Chi by a forfeit. The second round of the intram ural debate program will be run off tonight in four contests that will be held in the houses of the negative teams. Delta Sigma Lambda will take the affirmative against Phi Sigma Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi will take the affirma tive against McLean hall, the win ner of the Alpha Tau Omega-Alpha Theta Chi contest will meet Delta Upsilon who will take the negative, and Tau Kappa Epsilon will have the affirmative against Beta Theta Pi. Delta Sigma Lambda' is a vet eran of two debates, having met and defeated Kappa Sigma in a preparatory round and Phi Alpha Delta in the debate last Thursday. Beta Theta Pi and McLean hall won their debates by forfeit from Sigma Phi Sigma and Phi Delta Theta. Last Thursday's debates were held in the fraternity houses of the affirmative teams but Tuesday's (Continued on Page 3.) POOL DENIES PIS E Botanist Explains Work of Late Dr. Bessey in Tree-Planting. REFUTES M'CULLOUGH In a statement released Monday, Dr. R. J. Pool, chairman of the advisory department took issue with a statement made by Col. T. W. McCullough, speaker on the Nebraska City Arbor day program in which he contended that pine trees would not grow in the Ne braska sand hills. Dr. Pool, a close friend of the late Charles E. Bessey also de clared that it was not at all ironic that the Halsey nursery was named after Dr. Bessey. According to Dr. Pool, it was only because of Dr. Bessey's in tense interest in the matter that the government in 1891 sent a shipment of Jack pines to the state in the middle of winter asking that they be planted in the sand hills. Altho Dr. Bessey had no direct contact with any ranchmen in the sandhill country, he finally suc ceeded in sending, the trees to the Bruner ranch in 'the hills region near Swan, Holt county, and the experiment was so successful that Dr. Bessey advocated the govern ment undertake tree planting in the sand hills on a large scale. Reservation Founded. It was not until 1902, however, that forestry officials at Washing (Continued ou Page 4.) II High Salesmen to Get Five Dollars in Prizes Says Hecht. Prizes totalling five dollars will ho awnrrleri students in the College of Agriculture who sell the most pageant tickets lor me annual farmer's fair to be held on the pitnmia KHfnrHflv Mnv 7. Reuben Hecbt announced Monday morning. He is in general charge of the con test. Rules for the contest indicate that any student in the College of Agriculture is eligible to compete pxrpnt members of the senior and junior fair boards and members of the ticket committee. Those on the committee include Aaron Nit sum, Emmett Benson, Vv illaru v aiuo, Louis Shlck, Jesse Mason, Caro lina White. Don Pileer. Elton Ross, Vera Emerich, and Art Maucb. Tickets have already been checked out to students. They must be turned in at the farmer fair of fice before five o'clock, May 6. Winners will be announced and nrizps awarded at the final rally to be held the evening before the lair. v CAR STOLEN FROM CAMPUS NOT FOUND No trace has been found of the sport sedan stolen Friday from Jake Bogenrief, clerk in the Co Op Bookstore. The thief or thieves have made a complete "getaway with the car as far as is known. The license plates were both f-und near the Veterans hospital east of Lincoln. Seniors Urged Get Announcements Soon All senior students are urged to purchase their graduation announcements at once in a statement Issued by Harold Petz, president of the senior class Monday. He said an nouncements will be available at either book store for a short time and that a closing date on the sale will be announced'soon. OKLAHOMA MAIS WILL LECTURE THURSDAY Romance of Cow Country Subject of Address at Final Program. Dr. E. E. Dale, chairman of the department of history at the Uni versity of Oklahoma, will speak on "The Romance of the Cow Coun try" at the final all-university convocation to be held in the Tem ple theater on April 28, at 11 o'clock. Dr. Dale is himself an ex cowboy. The lecture will deal with the range cattle industry and will in clude many interesting sidelights on cowboy life. The Missouri Val ley Historical society, which is convening in Lincoln April 28-30 will include the convocation in its program. Dr. J. O. Hertzler, chairman of the faculty committee on convoca tions and public exercises, will preside. TO BE RELEASED SOON Dean Harper Will Announce Group Standings First Of Next Week. COMPUTE ALL AVERAGES Announcement of the relative scholastic rating of all undergrad uate groups for the first semester of 1931-1932 will be released prob ably about the first of next week, Dean W. C. Harper, assistant to the dean of student affairs, stated yesterday. The groups included In the re port are literary societies, profes sional fraternities, social fraterni ties, social sororities, women's dormitories, and professional sor orities. In addition, the all soror ity, all fraternity, non-sorority, non-fraternity, all men. all women, and all student averages are com puted. In determining the average grade points by which the "groups arc ranked, four grade points are awarded for each credit hour car ried with a grade of 90 or above, three grade points for each credit hour of 80-89, two points for each hour of 70-79, and one point for each hour of 60-69. Zero grade points are given for each hour in complete, one is subtracted for each hour conditioned, and two subtracted for each hour failed or dropped in unsatisfactory stand ing. The report for the second se mester of 1930-1931 place Phi Up silon Omicron at the top with a rating of 3.127. Leading the pro fessional fraternities was Delta Sigma Pi with an average of 2.803. The leading social fraternities- were Sigma Alpha Mu, Alpha Theta Chi, Lambda Chi Alpha. Theta Xi, and Delta Upsilon. The leading social sororities were Alpha XI Delta, Lambda Gamma, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Delta Pi, and Delta Delta Delta. The all student average was 2.533. The average for all women was 2.617. The average for all fraternity men was 2.032, while the average for non-fraternity men was 2.099. The average for all men was 2.068. Shotvcase Restricts Freedom of Archie's Reincarnated Shell A one and one-half inch speci men of species 'cucaracha' cock roach to the ordinary collegian, is reposing in captivity in the Daily Nebraskan office where it was cap tured by a member of the staff. Cockroaches, let it be under stood, are a royal and ancient or der, dating at least from the Car boniferous period. They are usually nocturnal in their habits and al most any evening after 9 o'clock literally hundreds of them can be seen running across the basement floor of "U" hall. The captive cockroach, which has already been given the name of "Archy," after the famous char acter in Don Marquis' "Archy and Mehilabal," is confined in a small glass showcase, ordinarily used for displaying the Sigma Delta Chi newswriting cup. It is not expected that "Archy" will he on view very long for his diet during the first thirty-six hours of confinement has consisted of four shingle nails and one page of the Daily Nebraskan, well shredded. CAMPUS CALENDAR Tuesday. Interfraternity council, Morrill hall, 7:30. Economics Club, 7:15, 107B, So cial Sciences'. Glee Club, 7:00. Morrill Hall. Scabbard and Blade, 5:00, Ne braska hall. Pershing Rifles, 5:00, Nebraska Glee Club, 7:00, Morrill ball. Thursday. Glider Club. 7:30, M. E. 207. ' Friday. Glue Club, sm, Morrill hall. INSPECTION WILL DECIDE STANDING CADE! REGIMEN! Past In Record of Excellence No Danger States Colonel Oury. MOORMAN WILL REVIEW Omaha R.O.T.C. Colonel to Examine Thursday and Friday Maneuvers. The Nebraska R. O. T. C. unit will be attempting- to uphold the standard that it has set in the past when the annual R. O. T. C. inspec tion by the war department is held this Thursday and Friday. For several years the university has received an excellent rating, the highest given, and it is the opin ion of Colonel W. F. Oury this year's corps is better than the prize winners that have preceded it. "Whatever rating we may re ceive I feel that the corps is in better shape this year than ever before. We have an excellent qual ity of men in the advance classes and an Interest in the department is shown by the increase in the number who desire to take drill next year. There is almost a 100 percent increase in enrollments. Thirty students took the course during the last year without pay, so pecuniary compensation isn't the major consideration," Colonel Oury stated. Col. T. S. Moorman, R. O. T. C. officer of the Seventh Corps Area, stationed at Omaha will be the in specting officer for thd local unit. He will select companies to carry out the particular exercises and manoeuvcrs demanded in the in (Continued on Page 4.) ORuAlATiTSTEP ON BARB CALENDAR Constitutional Committee to Be Selected at Tuesday Meeting. CLUBS TO TAKE SHAPE Appointment of a committee to draft a constitution for barb or ganization will be the main pur pose of a meeting of the barb club representatives Tuesday .at 7:30, in room 111 of U hall, according to Edwin Faulkner, president of the Student council, which is sponsor ing the movement. Representatives of barb clubs are urged to attend the meeting by President Faulkner and bring with them the names of at least ten other students whom they are representing. The committee which will be appointed will draw up a constitution to provide for central organization of the individual clubs. Step's were taken to organize students who did not belong to fra ternities following the appoint ment of a Student council com mittee after an activity meeting of the Innocents society pointed out that lack of interest in activities was partly caused by unaffiliated students. The lack of connection on their part with the student activi ties and the unbalanced political situation were considered the main causes for the lack of interest in campus affairs. I E Dr. Fordyce and Miss Towne Scheduled to Speak for Yearly Meeting. All girls interested in hearing a vocational guidance discussion are invited to attend the meetings of th A. W. S. freshman groups this week. A vocational guidance con ference is being sponsored by the A. W. S. board and speakers will appear before these groups. Tuesday at 4 o'clock Dr. Charles D. Fordyce, professor of educa tional psychology, will address the group with a talk on "Aptitudes." He will also give a list of voca tional books for women to read. Harriet Towne will talk Wed nesday at 5 o'clock on "Diversi fied Field of Women's Vocations." Miss Towne will close her talk with an open forum. Both meetings will be held at Ellen Smith ball. Youngsters Give Recital At Music School Monday A program was presented Mon day evening by two ten year old students. Miss Betty Toothaker and Everett James. Their piano In structor, Ruth Dreamer of the staff of the school of music, spon sored their recital in recital hall, music building. Evangelic To HolT The Nebraska EHjrellcan so ciety will hold a picnic Friday eve ning, April 29, at 6:30. at VanDorn park. The young people's' leagues of Salem, Calvary and East Lin coln Evangelical church, mill be guests of the club. COMMENCES TUESDAY RIFLES PLM TRYOUTS Drill Honorary Will Hold Tests Wednesday and Thursday. Tryouts for membership in Pershing Rifles, honorary basic military fraternity, will be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 27 and 28, at 5 o'clock, it was an nounced yesterday by James K. McGeachln, captain of the com pany. If he weather nermits. the trv- outs will be held on the main walk in front of the coliseum, ir condi tions prevent this, the tryouts will be held on the second floor of Ne braska hall. The tryouts will start promptly at 6 o'clock, McGeachin stated. All mm n the hasic R. O. T.C. course are eligible to try out and must ap pear in lull unnorm. rtesuus oi me tryouts will be announced in the near future. BEFORE REGENTS NEXT SATURDAY Student Request for Voice In Athletic Control to Be Presented. Presentation of the Student council petition for student mem bership on the athletic board of control will be made at the meet ing of the board of regents on Sat urday. April 30, it was announced yesterday by Art Wolf, chairman of the committee is charge of the petition. With the petition will be pre sented the material gathered by the questionnaire sent out by the committee to fifty-three represent ative schools in all parts of the country relative to student repre sentation on their respective ath letic boards, and also the result of the student referendum, which was overwhelmingly in favor of such representation. The great majority of the schools which replied to the questionnaire replied they did have some form of student representation on their athletic controlling units. Some indicated complete control of ath letics by students. Committee Named. The committee of the Student council in charge of the writing and-presentatlon of the petition is composed of Art Wolf, chairman, Gretchen Fee, Howard Allaway, Walter Huber, Lucille Hendricks, and Robert Kinkead. Following is the petition to be presented to the board of regents: 1. The students of the Uni versity of Nebraska, through their elective representatives, the Student council, request two student members on the Athletic Board of Control. 2. These two shall be: (1) a junior man. and (2) a senior man, the junior member to be selected each year by the Stu -dent council and to hold over for two years, becoming the senior member during the second year of his term. 3. Both members shall not be members of the same political faction. 4. Student members of the Athletic Board of Control shall not be members of the Student council, but ehall be directly re sponsible to that body. 5. The student members shall have full membership on the Athletic Board of Control with a full vote. 6. They shall be subject to the usual eligibility rules of the Student council constitution. 7. The junior member shall be elected at the last meeting of the Student council each year. FIFTY GIRLS TO BECOME WORKERS FOR Y. W. GROUP Installation of Sophomore com mission is to be held Thursday at 5 p. m. at Ellen Smith hall. There have been fifty invitations issued to freshmen girls who have been active the past year in Freshman commission. These same girls are expected to be active in Sophomore commission along with the new members. PETITION COMES Overalls and Ambition Characterize Students Small Arkansas 4Seminarf Overalls are the common cos tume in the classrooms of Com monwealth college, ten miles from Mena and four miles from the Oklahoma line in the state of Arkansas. Under the guidance of Lucien Koch, from 30 to 60 students, half of whom are women, study the so cial sciences, discuss sex and so cialism, hoe beans, and read poetry and Kant. Early to Rite. Their program is a busy one. It begins at 6:15 a, m. when every person on the little settlement turns out for breakfast and ends about 10 p. m. unless some philo sophic discussion delays the hour of retiring. Five classes are held in the morning and the afternoon is given over to work in the woods, the fields, or the laundry. Eve nings are usually devoted to study and poetry club meetings. Enter tainment also plays a part in the program, however. Sometimes it's dancing; at other times dramatic or only conversation. .Cuba, Canada, and European CITIZENSHIP TO FURNISH KEY TO TUESDAY SPEECH Den Lindsey Blayney From Carlton College Will . Talk at Temple. PRAISED BY LOCAL MEN Frankforter, Thompson and Oury Say Minnesotan Able Speaker. Dean' Lindsey Blayney, dean of Carlton college, Minn., will speak at an open meeting at the Tem ple theater at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening. Dean Blayney, who is a lieutenant colonel, will speak on "The American Citizen and the Changing World." The Minnesota educator was in duced to come to Lincoln by the military department and by his friend Prof. C. J. Frankforter of the chemistry department, who served with him at Fort Snelling, Minn., last summer. The Innocents society is also sponsoring the lec ture. "I served with Colonel Blayney last summer and we became good friends. I can't say anything too good about him. Besides being a scholar of note he is what is called a 'regular fellow," Colonel Frank forter stated. Dean T. J. Thompson, dean of student affairs, attended a na tional meeting of college execu tives where Dean Blayney was one of the speakers on the program, "I was more than favorably im pressed with Dean Blayney, he is an excellent speaker and a promi nent scholar. He has traveled ex tensively and is a man of experi ence. I am looking forward to his address as one of the best of the year." Colonel Praised. "Colonel Blayney is a nationally known scholar and lecturer. The university is indeed fortunate in having a man of Dean Blayney's reputation come to Nebraska. He isn't a militarist in any sense of the word and he has shown that he is willing to bear his part in the defense of institutions during the last war as an unusual record ia born out by the fact that be re ceived six citations for the Amer (Continued on Page 2.) FOR MEER WEEK Special Committees to Care For Traffic, Campus Development. WILL HELP IN DISPLAY Two new committees have been added to the various groups of en gineering students who have con trol over the arrangements for en gineers week. They are a traffic committee and a campus develop ment committee. The traffic committee, of which Dale Parks is the chairman, was installed this year to handle the crowds during open house night. Last year it was felt that many people did not see all the exhibits of the college, because they did not know where all of them were located. In order that all people attend ing the open house may inspect all buildings and the work of every one of the several departments, members of the student body have been selected to be stationed at different places on the engineering campus and direct the people to every department of the college and aid in preventing conges tion. The purpose of the campus de velopment committee is to adver tise the week on the campus sep arate from the campus structure, which will be erected by the me chanical engineers this year. Elmer Lohr is the chairman of this committee. The policy of having weeks and days during which the various col (Continued on Page 4.) countries are represented in the enrollment of Commonwealth col lege. The total expense for twelve weeks is $40 or $120 for nine months. The school grants no de grees or certificates. Its classes comprise 5 or 10 students and are held in the cottages which mem bers of the settlement have built. Student Evince Ambition. Education of young workers for service in the labor movement and in various activities which aim to better the condition of the com mon people is the purpose of the college. Students are serious in their object, as evidenced by the zoal with which they grow the food and gather the fuel that is their tuition. A man of thirty came to Com-, monwealth with a wife and child. Although he had never been inside a high school, after only a year there he was recommended to the graduate school of a leading state university. A year later he re ceived a master's degree, complet ing nine years' work in only two. His ambition is typical of that of every student nauoonwealtb, s; V t V . si I- i A : ; b ! j