Besi Copy ILjr 'JL 2LJLJL Asa. 1 1 a. bit AN (4 (3 A, Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXIII ISO. 78. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1934 PRICE 5 CENTS. MIE PERMISSION IS GRANTED FOR BIRTHDAY DANCE Proceeds Will Go to Warm Springs Foundalion In Georgia. L AFFAIR IS INFORMAL Salute to President by Military Groups Be Feature. Tiinmlav nifrht. .T.Hllllll'V oU. f v "- - ' 'Will be a twelve o'clock night for nil university girls attend ing President Koosevelt's birth day ball to be held at the uni versity coliseum. Tickets for the affair, which will be strictly in formal, are selling for one dollar per couple and may be bought at the door. Both the orchestras of Leo Beck and Eddie Jungbluth will play. Arrangements are almost com pleted and the party promises to be one of the outstanding events of the winter season. Loud speakers will be installed in the coliseum in order that everyone may hear the president's talk and the radio program from 10:15 o'clock to 11:15 o'clock. Proceeds of the ball go to the foundation at Warm Springs, Ga., for the treatment of infantile paralysis. Stanley Maly. general chairman for the affair in Lincoln, urged support of the general pub lic since it is for such a worthy cause. Tickets Checked Out. Workers in the ticket drive have checked out 2.600 tickets, and al though no definite checkup has been made on the amount sold, a very favorable reception has been (Continued on Page 4.) Representatives of Campus YM and YW Comprise Deputation. ADDRESS YOUNG PEOPLE A deputation from the city campus Y. M. C. A. representing the student attitude on religion went to York Sunday to speak at young people's meeting and at church services. Those who appeared at the meet ings were: Norman Guidinger, Meredith Nelson, Morton Spence, Roberto Mario, Beverly Finkle, Harold Soderlund and Sarah Louise ; Meyer, a member of the 1. W. C. A. P. C. Wade and William Molden, soloists, sang negro spir ituals. They were accompanied by C. D. Hayes, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. The deputation visited the United Brethren, Methodist. Pres byterian, Baptist, and Congrega tional churches. "The purpose of the deputation," Mr. Hayes said, "is to give the young people of the other towns a conception of college students as .. " religious young wumeu wu men. The arrangements were in charge of Norman Guidinger. ASSOCIATION OFFERS PRIZES FOR Residents of Nebraska Are Eligible to Compete in Contest. Residents of Nebraska are again eligible to compete for $25 in prizes to be given by the Nebraska Art sjociation for the best origins-, posters advertising the forty fourth annual exhibition of the as sociation. The exhibition will be held in the art galleries of Morrill hull frnm Feb 13 to March 18. and will include paintings by well known contemporary artists. Prize I money for the annual contest is furnished from a fund set up by J. ! L. Teeters. I Nebraska people are the con ' testants for the three prizes: the t first of which is 12, the second $8. i and the third 5. According to the 'contest announcement, posters sub mitted must be 24 by 36 inche in fcize on heavy cardboard. Posters 'must show originality and there is no limitation as to the number of itolors that may be used in the de sign. ; Any style of lettering may be ised. it was explained, but the fol !owing information must be in iuoed: Neoraska Art association, forty-fourth Annual Exhibition. eb. 13 to March 18. Morrill hall. Inal date tor posters to be re Bived is Feb. 8. The board of trus ses reserves ihe right to use post 's xubmitted and such contest en anre pos'ers should be sent to e NebrasKa Art association in orrill hall Nume and address of contestant should appear only the back of tne poster. Winners J be announced Feb. 11. TALKS TO CONCORD CLUB Dr. Tfeiler Speaks in Omaha On 'Hitler Germany and Her Neighbors.' Dr. Wllhelm K. Pfelffer, assist ant! professor of Germanic lan guages, addressed the Omaha Con cord Club recently. Speaking on "Hitler, Germany and her Neigh bors," his lecture was based, in part, on observations made last summer while he was traveling through Germany, France and Spain. AS VARSITY MEETS Nebraska Contests Drake Debate Squad Over KFAB Monday. . Opening the denate activity for the second semester Irving Hill and Eugene Pester met the Drake university team in a radio debate over station KFAB Monday after noon on the atfirmative side of the proposition Resolved: That the Powers of the President of the United States should be enlarged. There was no decision. This was the first work of the year because of changes made in the schedule at the request of the opponents, according to Prof. H. A. White, debate coach Arguments with Morningside and Iowa State colleges are postponed to Feb. 7 and Feb. 8 respectively. Affirmative Against Amei. N'ebraska will have the affirma tive against Iowa State in the de bate on Feb. 7 tentatively sched uled to be held on the campus. The speakers for Nebraska will be Charles Steadman and Jack Pace. Irving Hill and Dwight Perkins will be the deoaters on the affirm ative side against Morningside on Feb. 8 in a tentatively arranged broadcast from station KFAB. Hill and Perkins will again be the affirmative speakers for Ne braska in the appearance before the Knife and Fork club on Feb. 8. arguing with representatives from Mcryville State Teachers college. List Future Debates. Later debates have been ar ranged for with Grinnell college on Feb. 23 and with the University of Denver on the 28th. The engage ment with Grinnell will be before the Forum of Lincoln high school and for the debate with Denver the arguers were invited to appear be fore the Community club, of Ith aca, Neb. Nebraska upholds the af firmative in both of these argu ments with Charles Steadman and John Stover speaking in the first and Steadman and Jack Pace in the second. TEA SET FOR SUNDAY Women With Average of 80 Percent to Be Honored By Mortar Boards. Honoring women of the sopho more, junior, and senior classes with a scholastic average of 80 percent or above, Mortar Board, senior women's honorary society, has issued 397 invitations to at tend their annual scholarship tea to be given in Ellen Smith hall Sunday afternoon. The time, originally set for 3 to 5 o'clock, has been extended to 5:30 in order that girls attending the Lincoln symphony concert on the same afternoon, may also at tend the tea. Miss Alice Geddes is general chairman of the event and Valen tine Klotz is in charge of decora tions. Martha Hershey is in charge of refreshments and Jane Boos, publicity and music. In the receiving line at the tea will be Mrs. F. D. Coleman, na tional president of the Mortar Board society, Dean Amanda Hep pner, and Willa Norris, local pres ident of the Mortar Boards. Four students will be recipients of Panhellenic awards at the tea. They are. Donna Davis, senior, Jane Boos, senior, Mary Helen Da vis, junior, and Evelyn Diamond, senior. Three Former Students Visit Campus Past V eek Among the former student visi tors thru the week at the universi ty are: Oliver T. Joy, who at tended school here in 1925 in the geology department, and who is now living in Houston, Texas; Carl W. Mengel. a graduate of the engineering college in 1910, who is now engineer examiner for the I state advisory board of the Federal j Kmergency Aiiminstrauon oi Public Works at Chapel Hill, N. C; and Waldo H. Mengel. an engineer graduate of 1922. who is with tne state bureau of roads and irriga tion. Dr. Bell Addresses Honorary Fraternity Dr. Earl H. Bell, assistant pro fessor ot anthropology, addressed the Omaha chapter of Alpha Kap pa Delta honorary sociology fra ternity, Monday. Jan. 22. Using as the topic for his discussion "The Long Road from Savagery to In sanity." Dr. Bell outlines some of the costs of civilization such as the loss of individualism develop ment of class lives, increase of mis ery among the masses, and the in creased ciime. i NO DECISION DRAKE ARGUERS Business Manager ' ! n-wrwoM. i rnni ii 1 1 iiiii in- i ,i Courtesy of The Lincoln Journal. Bernard Jennings. Lincoln, was reappointed to serve as business manager of the Daily Nebraskan during the second semester of the present school year, after having held that post during the first semester. He is a senior in the college of business administration. E Registration Drops But 168 From Fall Mark; Expect 5000 Attendance. With 3,669 students registered, but 15 less than for the same time a year ago, second semester classes at the univerity started Monday morning. The second semester fig ure showed but 168 fewer students than at the same time during the first semester. It was but half as great a lag between semesters as was felt last year when there were 334 fewer students the second se mester than the first and the 1931 32 lag of 423 students. The total collegiate resident reg istration for th; first semester of this year was 5,090 and for the sec ond semester of last year it was 5,130. For the current semester the registration of graduate students, medical college students and those entering late will swell the total toward the 5,000 mark. Students May Enter Short Stories in Nationwide Competition. Dr. L. C. Wimberly, professor of English and editor of Prairie Schooner, Nebraska's internation ally recognized literary magazine, has just announced the names of the Prairie Schooner associate edi tors who will act as local judges in the nation-wide $150-prize short i story contest sponsored by the magazine, Story. Frederick L. Christensen, assist ant in the department of Englisn, Pearl Joan Cosgrave, graduate stu dent from Lincoln, and Paul Bar ron, sophomore in the Arts and and Sciences college, whose home is in Scottsbluff, will judge the contest entries from the univer sity. Open to All Students. This contest is open to all regis tered students of colleges and uni versities thruout the entire United States. The two stories declared best by the judges will be for warded to the editors of Story where they will then compete with the two best stories from other campuses for final decision. The story winning first prize na tionally will be published by Story, and its author will receive a prize of $100 cash. The author of the story taking second place will re ceive a $50 cash prize. Stories of unusual merit, even tho they are not prize-winners, will be consid ered for possible publication in Story. "Judging by the interest already shown in the contest," declares Dr. Wimberly. "we may expect some worthwhile stories." Dr. Wimberley states that all entries from Nebraska must be received in the editorial office of Prairie Schooner by Feb. 15. 1934. PATTERSON TO SPEAK AT Y.M.C.A. MEETING Group Will Discuss Support Of Christian Position on Social Issues. Dr E. H. Patterson of the de partment of I- hilosophy. will lead the discussion at the Y. M. C. A. meeting to be held at the Temple Wednesday night. Should the V. M. C. A. take a more definite stand on the campus in support uL the Christian posi tion on social it-sues." will be tbe topic for diiv-ussion. This discus-' sion a continuation of a discus- k.ll lact umaata. 1111 IT- . j All men in me university are in vited to attend the meeting whether they are members or not. ENROLLMENT R EM STER SHOWS SLIGHT DECREASE N RESIGNS POSITION; TAKES El Alexis Announces Departure Of Assistant Professor Of German Monday. IS NEBRASKA GRADUATE Former Instructor to Work In New Mexico on Soil Erosion Project. I(csijiiii1 ion of Bruno Kling er, tor two anil one-lialf years assistant professor of Germanic languages, to be effective from tbe bojiinninir of the present semester, was made known yester day by Dr. J. E. A. Alexis, chair man of the Germanic languages department. Mr. Klinger will immediately take up his duties with the govern ment as assistant director of range studies, with headquarters in Gal lup, N. M. The work is one of sev eral government projects in ero sion control. Although known on this campus through his graduate studies and his teaching in Ger manic languages, Mr. Klinger has for five summers been associated with the Alpine Laboratories, a botanical experimental station, un der the direction of Dr. F. E. Clemens of Manitou, Colo. Dr. Clemens is governmental adviser for the New Mexico project, which will attempt to determine the plants most profitable to grow for the prevention of soil erosion in that state. Graduates Take Duties. Graduate students will take over (Continued on Page 4.) INTERFRATERNITY BALL TICKETS GO Greek Council1 Will Discuss Arrangements for Annual Dance at Meeting. Tickets for the annual Interfra ternity Ball .second of the three traditional events of the winter formal season, will be checked out to members of the Interfraternity council Tuesday night and will go on sale immediately, according to an announcement made yesterday by Norman Prucka, chairman of the committee in charge of ar rangements for the ball. Rnh Thiel president of the Inter fraternity Council, has called a special meeting of the council for this evening at 7:30 in Morrill hall to facilitate the distribution of tiUotn and to discuss Dlans for the ball. Members of the committee will be called upon for reports on ; their worK in connection with the ball so far, he declared. Jimmy Joy Will Play. Announcement was made last week by the music chairman, Les lio RnnH nf the sienin? of Jimmy Joy and his orchestra to play for the Interfraternity Ball. The or chestra, which has recently played engagements in Kansas Jiiy nu Minneapolis, has attracted much favorable attention lately. Members of the Interfraternity Council will be in charge of the sale of tickets within their respec tive houses. Prucka stated. The dance is open to non-fraternity members as well, however, he add ed. Tickets will sell for $1.50, in cluding tax. ANNOUNCE NEXT AG MIXER Will Be Saturday, Feb. 3; Filley Is Chairman of Committee. Aj Ag Mixer will be held next Saturday, Feb. 3, at 8:30. in the Activities building, according to Vernon Filley. chairman of the mm m ittee in charre. Other mem bers of the committee, which is composed of Barb men, are Elver Hodges and Elmer Heyne. A Lin coln orchestra will play for the af fair. SWAP SHOP WILL BE OPEN THRUOUT WEEK Y. W. C. A swap bookshop in the Temple theater will be open every day thu week from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Tne shop sells new and old books, and also takes in used books from students who wish to sell them. Teaching Applicants Will Meet Thursday All students desiring teaching positions for the school year 1934-1935 are requested to meet in the Social Science Audito rium, Thursday, February 1st at 5 o'clock. Students who desire the as sistance of the Department of Educational Se.-viee in securing a teaching position and who have not yet registered may do to on any Monday or Thursday. This should be attended to with out delay. GOV NMENT OB ON ALE TUESDAY !ehraskan Editor v-'vr' t Courtesy of The Lincoln Journal. Bruce Nicoll, Casper, Wyoming, senior in the college of arts and sciences, and the school of journal ism, will serve as editor of the Daily Nebraskan during the sec ond semester. During the first semester he was managing editor of the publication. IS Convocation Committee Sets April 18 as Date for Annual Event. Dr. Norman Foerster, director of the school of Letters and Profes sor of English at the University of Iowa, will make tne principal ad dress at the university honors convocation April 18, according to an announcement made by the convocations committee. Dr. Foer ster has been director in the Iowa school since 1930, and is widely known for his academic and liter ary work. Among his later pub lications are: American Poetry and Prose, The Reinterpretation of American Literature, and Ameri can Critical Essays. Altho complete arrangements have not yet been made for this sixth annual honors meeting, the committee again plans to an' nounce the, names of the 10 per cent of each class who rank high' est in scholarship. At this time it has been the rule in the past to name the student organizations which are recognized for highest (Continued on Page 2.) Francis Johnson Elected New President of Delian Union. Installation of officers for the coming semester was held by the Delian-Union Literary Society at their regular business meeting Tuesday night, Jan. 23. in Delain Union hall. Formal initiation and pledging ceremonies were also hold. The newly elected officers are: Francis Johnson, Lincoln, presi dent; Angelyn Kvetensky, Omaha, vice-president; Wallace Findley, Graham, Missouri, secretary; and Leonard Westbrook, Lincoln, trea surer elected for the whole school year. Miss Joan Birknell, Lincoln; Bohumil Rott, St. Paul; Paul Lem on, Lincoln; Ruth Kuehn, Mur dock; and Eunice Bingham, Lin coln, were formally initiated as new members of the society. The society also announces the pledg ing of Helen Kunz, Elmwood; Theodore Schroedcr, Omaha; Eu gene Dalby, Omaha; Belle Graves Lincoln; Olive Seibold, Papillion; and Lillian Seibold, Papillion. The officers during the last se mester were; Alice Doll, Danne brog, president; Wilma Bute, Lin coln, vice-president; and Dorothy Gerhard. Lincoln, secretary. sevenWetcigs TO Group Is Presented by Will C. Gregg, Student In 1884. Seventeen etchings by well known contemporary American ar tists have just been presented to the department of fine arts by Will C. Gregg, who attended the university in 18S4, and who is now a resident of Hackensack, New Jersey. A connoisseur of art, Mr. Grejrz several years ago estab lished in the fine arts department a permanent exhibition of prints known as the Gregg collection, to which he adds from time to time. The etchings just received were selected by him from the eight eenth annual exhibition of the So ciety of American Etchers held at the National Arts club in New York City. Among them are etch ings by Gifford Beal, Albert L. Groll, Frank Benson, F. Luis Mora, and Carl Rungius. This collection is exhibited in the corridor on the third floor of Morrill halL IIA PROFESSOR ONORASSEMBLY REV. JOHNSTON TO SPEAK Will Be Heard by Students at Vespers Services This Afternoon. Rev. Paul Johnston will speak at Vesper services this afternoon at 5 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall. Rev. Johnston has spoken at Ves per services many times before and is well known to university stu dents. Elizabeth Rowans will have charge of this service, a feature of which will be special music ar ranged by the Vesper choir. RALPhTfDHNSON WILL SPEAK AT Special Convocation to Be Held in YM Rooms at 11 O'clock. K.ilnh Johnson, student lec turer and exchange student from the University of Hawaii, will speak at a special convo cation in the Y. M. C. A. rooms in the Temple at 11 o'clock to day on the subject "The World of Tomorrow From the Youth of To day." Mr. Johnson will also dis cuss the undeclared war in the Far East at a convocation at the Agri cultural college at 12:15. Mr. Johnsons' talks should be in teresting and should indicate stu dent thought in the countries of Europe and the far east which he has visited and studied, according to C. D. Hayes, university Y. M. C. A. secretary. At the close of the academic year at Hawaii Johnson visited China, Japan, Manchuria and Phillipines as a representa tive of the National Student Fed eration in the Orient. Lived With Students. He lived with the students ab sorbing their customs and thoughts and depicting to them the ideals and beliefs of the United States. He was also able to visit the uni versity in Moscow because of his connection with Voks, the Russian organization for international re lations. Similar advantages were given him in France, Germany and England. Mr. Johnson has not only had contact with student life but has had the opportunity to meet poli tical and governmental leaders in the countries he visited and thus has gained a knowledge of the in ternal problems of the various na tions. The sessions of the Four teenth Assembly of the League of Nations were opened to him and he attended both council and com mittee meetings. Student at Redlands. Mr. Johnson, a student at Red lands university, was awarded the California-Hawaii scholarship, the purpose of which is to promote bet ter understanding of the conditions confronting the nations bordering the Pacific. Monday night Johnson lectured at the University club on "The League: Dawn or Twilight." The program was sponsored by the League of Nations association, the American Association of Univer sity Women and the League of Women Voters. BARBOUR IS JUDGE IN STATE IP CONTEST Competition to Promote and Advertise Resources of Nebraska. Dr. E. H. Barbour, of the geology department has been named as a member of the official state judg ing committee of the "Know Your County" map contest which is being conducted in the primary schools of Nebraska This contest, designed to pro mote and advertise the resources of Nebraska and gather valuable information of an historical and geographical nature about the state, is one in which the students compete for prizes in digging out and recording interesting facts and points of interest to be found with in their own county and Nebraska. Eighteen Counties Entered. Schools in eighteen counties are already represented in the early entries, and the movement is rap idly attaining full momentum. Sev eral of the schools entered have listed their entire enrollment in the competition. All of tbe twenty-six students in one Sheridan county school are working on the contest. The state judges will work to gether to select the students who have contributed the most valuable material. Serving wi.h Dr. Barbour on this committee are Dr. A E. Sheldon, State Histoiical Society, Chas. Bowers, secretary of State Teachers association, Jesse F. Cor rell, Lancaster county superintend ent of schools, Mrs. G. H. Wentz, State Day originator. Dr. G. E Condra. Nebraska survey depart ment, and Harry Coffee, congres sional candidate. Alliance. Baptist Students to Hold Waffle Supper The student group of the First Baptist church is sponsoring a waffle supper to be held Thursday evening, Feb. 1. at the Student House. 1440 Q st The committee in charge is Miss Clair Rhodes and Mr. Vincent Broady. Students anl their friends will be served be tween 5:30 and 8 p. in. MEETING TODAY GRANT UNIVERSITY DEGREES TO CLASS OF 136 SATURDAY No Commencement Exercises As Mid-Year Graduates Receive Diplomas. 10 LESS THAN YEAR AGO Miss Catherine M. Lieneman, Miss Vera E. Rigdon Take Ph.D. One hundred thirty-six de grees were conferred by the university Saturday at the close of the first semester's work. The group included L'l differ ent degrees, including two persons who received the Doctor of Philos ophy degree. No special com mencement exercises are held for those who graduate from the uni versity at mid-year, they having the privilege of taking part in the June commencement exercises. Last January 146 degrees were granted. Included in the graduates were two. Miss Catherine M. Lieneman of Greensboro, North Carolina, and Miss Vera E. Rigdon, of Lincoln, who received the Ph. D. degree. Miss Lieneman took her graduate work in botany and Miss Rigdon took her work in geography. Following is a complete list of those who received degreesand certificates: GRADL'ATL COLIJ-.GE. Master ot Art. Kosario Tolrntino Agllam. Lincoll. Lester Miller Beals, Lincoln. Carlos Alfred Klkins. Rushvilie. Elmer Julius Hartmnnn, Lincoln. Claire Bella Hicks. Seward. Paul Christian Jensen. Linou.n. Louis Henry Lukert. Lincoln. Mabel Marearet McGlnnis. Stella. Russell John Mellberc. Dalton. Ernest Ljie Miller, Kidder, Mo. (Continued on Page 2.) NEWlFFPOlONS Magee Asks Students Make Applications to Him During Week. ANNOUNCEMENT SUNDAY A number of new positions on the staff of the Cornhusker, uni versity annual, are now available. All students who are interested in doing this kind of work are urged to apply any time this week, un til 3 o'clock, Friday, Feb. 2. Be tween ten and fifteen new posi tions have been created with the beginning of the new semester, an J between five and ten vacancies will also be filled at this time. "There is an opportunity fcr freshmen, who have made a high scholastic average the first se mester, to gain valuable experience so that they may get better posi tions next year.'' according to Woodrow Magee, editor of the pub lication. "Also there is a need for sophomore men to fill positions as assistant managing editors, ani sorority girls wanting activity points may find work at the Corn husker office." The new positions will be an nounced next Sunday. All appli cations should be made personally to the editor. Select Grop Editors. Men and women organization editors, along with several assis tants will be selected. These will have charge of getting write-ups of the various organizations. Also assistant studio editors are needed, to help schedule the pictures of the various organizations. Assistant managing eriitois will be selected from among the sopho more men. Girls interested in working for W. A. A. may apply for positions as women athletic editors. As there will be several chosen to fill each position, every one applying will probably find a position of some sort. Students having snap shots of well-known people on the campus, or pictures taken around the vari ous fraternity houses are urged to bring them to the Cornhusker of fice as soon as possible, for use in the year book. The feature section has always been a most popular one. and the staff tries to get pictures of as many activities represented as possible. However, if all organizations are to be rep resented it must be with coopera tion of the student body as a whole. Hence all pictures will be consid ered in the make-up of thi3 section. biSp -agx.ainoUhek YJ.C.A. E Polls Will Be Open . From Eight Thirty Till Five O'clock. The city campus Y. M. C. A. elections will be held Wednesday, Jan. 31, at the Y. M. rooms in the Temple. Those nominated arc: Charles Hulac. for president; Joseph Nu quist for vice president: and Wil liam Newcomer and George Wie busoh for secretary. The polls will be open trora 8:30 to 12, and from 12.45 to 5.