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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
LINCOLN, NEDKASkA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1935
PRICE 5 CENTS
VOL. XXXV INO. 61.
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EV2ARYLU PETERSEN,
KVIARSH HEAD PROM
Arts Students Elected Co-Chairmen of Junior-Senior
Prom Committee at Student Council Meeting
Held Wednesday Afternoon.
GROUP TO START WORK AFTER VACATION
Misses Bentz, Palmer, Walt, Wagenner, Clizbe and
Baker, Kennedy, Levin, White, Pipal Are
Chosen to Compose Board.
Marylu Peterson and "William Marsh, juniors in the College
of Arts ami Sciences, were elected co-chairmen of the 1936 Junior-Senior
Prom committee at th. meeting of the student coM"t:il
"Wednesday afternoon. Other members of the committee arc Dor
othy Uentz. Jeanne Palmer, Jean Walt, June "Wagenner, Eleanor
riizhe. Sidney Baker, Roy Ken-O
nedy, Arnold L.evin, vjiyae wjiilo,
nd Oeorce Pinal.
Miss Petersen is a member of
Alpha Phi, student council, Theta
Sigma Phi, and is a news editor
on the Daily Nebraskan. Marsh,
Beta Theta Phi, is managing edi
tor of the Corhusker, president of
Gamma Lambda, and a member of
student council.
Council Members Elected.
. Of those elected from the coun
cil membership Miss Walt is a
member of Kappa Kappa Gamma,
. Miss Clizbe, Chi Omega. Mr. Le-
" vin, Sigma Alpha Mu, and Mr.
White Farm House. Of the three
men and three women elected
from the student body at large,
Miss Palmer is a member of Phi
Mu, Miss Wagenner, Alpha Chi
Omega, Miss Bentz, Alpha Omi
cron Pi, Mr. Baker, Delta Upsi
lon, Mr. Kennedy, Acacia, and Mr.
Pipal, Chi Phi.
Members of the committee will
start working on the Prom, which
Is to be held March 6, immedi
ately after vacation. The elections
were held earlier this year to give
0 the committee more time in which
1 to contact the best orchestra pos
sible. Start Plan Early.
"By making preparations earlier
the work will be spread out and
will not seem like such an effort
the lant few days before the par
t ty." stated Virginia Selleck, who
was co-chairman of the committee
last year.
A report was made at the meet
ing for Marsh on the progress
made by the convocations and
forum committee. Plans are be
ing made to hold a second student
forum some time in February and
student opinion is being solicited
as to a fitting subject for discus
sion. Convention Discussed.
Irving Hill, president of the
group, told something of the na
tional student council convention
to be held in Kansas City during
Christmas vacation.
' The committee composed of
Howard Dobson, chairman, Vance
Leininger, and John Parker was
chosen to investigate the question
of student employment in cafes
and to have an impartial hearing
of both student and employer's
viewpoints. An attempt will be
made to find out if complaints
are Just and to answer criticisms
of faculty members
as well as
many students.
MISS BARKES TELLS
MORTAR BOARD AIMS
Honorary President Explains
Scholarship, Leadership,
Service Upheld.
ADDRESS A. W. S. FROSH
'Scholarship, leadership, and
service are the purposes whic
Mortar Board strives to uphold,
explained Alaire Eaikes, president i
of the women's honorary, in speak
ing before members of the fresh
man A. W. 8. group in Ellen Smith
hall. .
Beginning with the organiza
tion of Mortar Board in 1905. the
speaker continued by showing the
manner in which girls are selected
to become members of the group
and the number which may be
chosen each year. In outlining the
projects which this organization
sponsors annually at the univer
sity, Miss Barkes included such
events as the first freshman con
vocation, the Mortar Board party,
and Ivy Day. As additional fea
tures of the work of Mortar
Board, she told of the scholarship
awards granted each year.
A report on several of the out
standing t: editions at Nebraska
and the manner In which . they
originated, was an additional fea
ture of the program on Wednes
day. Dolores Bors, program chair
man, gave the review.
Announcement was made that
at the next meeting to be held
Jan. 8, following Christmas vaca
tion Rurr Ross, vice president of
the Innocents and manager of the (
Farmers' Fair this year, is to be i
F
ERGON TALKS
10 ENGINEERS AT
IIONDI
Dean Discusses Increase in
Perspective at Sigma
Tau Banquet.
Discussing the subject "What
Increases an Engineer's Perspec
tive," Dean O. J. Ferguson of the
engineering college will appear as
principal speaker at the initiation
banquet of Sigma Tau, honorary
engineering fraternity, at 6:15
o'clock this evening at the Lin
coln hotel. Twelve pledges will be
initiated into the society.
Dean Ferguson will trace the
professional development of young
men in engineering thru their high
school days, college, and profes
sional practice. He will also point
out some of the findings of the
Engineering Council for Profes
sional Development, which is
studying the whole range of an
engineer's life and activity. Pur
pose of the council's study, Dean
Ferguson stated, Is to help the
engineer in establishing a better
conception of what he could do to
improve his profession.
Hedge Toastmaster.
Toastmaster for the evening will
be Verne Hedge, Lincoln, who is
national president of Sigma Tau.
Address of welcome to the new
members will be given by Kenneth
A. Young, president of the frater
nity, and William Hammond, pres
ident of the pledges, will give the
response. Mr. Hedge will present
the membership keys to the
pledges.
New members are Kenneth
Kratochvil, Pierce; Ivan L. Ley
master, Aurora; William H. Ham
mond, Lincoln; Lowell Newmyer,
Lincoln; Arnold W. Strobel,
Powell; . Marion E. Thomas, Lin
coln; Harold C. Hafner, Bloom
field; George Heikes, Dakota City;
Emil F. Paroulck, Lincoln; Urban
Floor, Columbus; Ward Tefft,
Weeping Water; Galen O. Hult,
Lincoln.
Membership Requirements.
Membership in Sigma Tau is
based on scholarship, practicability
and sociability, and pledges are
selected from juniors and seniors
of the engineering college who
ranked In the upper one-third of
their classes. Approval of at least
three professors in the engineer
ing college is also required.
Sigma Tau is the only honorary
cne-inceruie' fraternity on the Ne-
i braska campus and was founded
I in 1904. It is now a national or
ganization with twenty-one active
chapters. Verne Hedge and L. W.
Chase, both of Lincoln, are char
ter members In the society.
NITIA
NNER
hj Student Opinion Backs Drive
For New Union 100 Per Cent
By ELEANOR CLIZBE.
Fifty million students can't be wronir, especially when they
favor one hundred percent, the construction of a student union
building. Their Ijattle for a centralizing extra-curricular build
ing seems to be gaining in stride, and enthusiasm has taken on
added zest, since the recent action of the hoard of regents.
A bird s eye view concerning i
student attitude toward this pro
ject is shown by1 the following
optimistic comments taken at ran
dom. Elizabeth Bushee forcefully
states: "What this campus needs
is one thing that belongs to every
one alike; something in which stu
dents have a common Interest.
This la a force which makes for
real school loyalty, and I firmly
believe the student union building
would accomplish this aim.
Jean Walker's views are like
wise convincing and in tune with
recent Nebraskan editorials. She
reminisces slightly in stating that
"During past years student spirit
was roused In campaigns for
worthy projects similar to the Stu
dent Union building end the Book
Store, only to be squelched by the
powers that be. Now that this
drive has become a possibility,
every organized group and every
student must work for the realiz
OVER 2000 VOTES
POLLED IN FIRS!
Unofficial Returns Indicate
Plurality for F. D.
Roosevelt.
ELECTION IS EXTENDED
Supply of Preference Slips
Runs-Out; More Being
Printed Thursday.
Because the entire supply of
over 2,000 printed ballots was
completely exhausted in the
first day of voting, the all-university
political poll will be ex
tended thru Friday classes, ac
cording to Jack Fischer, Nebras
kan editor. Calls for additional bal
lots came from many instructors,
and several departments were not
covered at all in the opening-day.
Final computations will not be
ready for publication until the
first Nebraskan issue after vaca
tion, due to extension of the poll.
Returns were to be published In
the Friday edition according to
previous plans.
Unofficial returns, computed by
the instructors from ballots cast
in several political science classes
indicated a plurality for President
Franklin D. Roosevelt as prefer
ence for the next chief executive,
with Senator Borah, Governor
Landon, and ex-President Hoover
furnishing closest competition.
Adverse sentiment was demon
strated toward several administra
tion agencies, including the AAA,
as they received no majority vote
of confidence in the preliminary
countings.
Departments which were cov
ered incompletely in Wednesday's
polling include Ag college, polit
ical science engineering, physical
education, military science, phys
ical education, romance languages,
zoology, physics, history, econo
mics, business organization, En
glish, and journalism. Complete
coverage is planned by the end of
Friday's classes.
According to the rules of the
poll, students will cast only one
ballot, which will be unsigned ex
cept for the class and year in
school. A special check is placed
on the ballot for faculty members
who wish to vote.
FOURTEEN WRITERS
DE
Ruth Bryan Owen, Rev. Erck,
Prof. Stoke Among
Authors.
Headed by Christmas greetings
to graduates from college deans
of their alma mater, the December
issue of the Nebraska Alumnus
was placed In the mails Wednes
day, and will be circulated on the
campus today.
Ruth Bryan Owen. American
minister to Denmark and former.
Nebraska student is the author of
"Fairy Tale Land," a vivid de
scription of the Scandinavian de
mocracy that is now her home.
Reverend H. Erck, university
Lutheran pastor since 1924, has
contributed the opening article of
the new issue, "A Christmas Ser
mon." Rev. Erck received his mas-
( Continued on Page 2).
ation of Nebraska's dream."
In contrast to such positive be
liefs Sara Louise Meyer feels that
student opinion as a whole has not
reached the essential boiling point,
but when it does . the matter of
raising group contributions will be
a tremendous item. However, she
feels certain that the success of
the entire drive depends upon the
students really wanting the build
ing wanting it so much that they
will be willing to raise the money
If it is not easily available.
Bill Marsh also sees the prac
tical side of the drive. His belief is:
"If various organizations will do
nate money for which they see no
immediate need, it will have a
definite Influence on the Board of
Regents when they meet in Janu
ary, showing them that the stu
dents are really behind the
project." "Since money is taken
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DAY'S BALLOTING
TEACHERS COLLEGE
ARRANGES PROGRAM
High School Students Plan
To Participate in
Concert Friday.
High school students of Teach
ers college will present their an
nual Christmas concert Friday
afternoon, Dec. 20, at 2 o'clock at
the Teachers College building. The
program which will consist of se
lections by the high school orches
tra, their chorus, boy's glee club,
a flute solo, girl's sextet, string
quartet, vocal solos, and the boy's
quartet, Is under tho flupcrvlalon
of Mrs. Harriet Piatt.-
Students teachers who are di
recting the chorus are Marcella
Laux, Evelyn Stowell, John Erick
son, and Robert Burdlck: the or
chestra is in charge of Eunice
Bingham, Ruth Hill, and Ernest
Green. Sidney Hoadley will act aa
narrator.
Two other festive occasions In
which the high school pupils and
the student teachers will take
part are the carol sing at 8:30
Friday morning, and the Christ
mas party at 8 the same evening.
E
PRIZES FOR BEST
Journalism Head Presents
Awards for News and
Feature Articles.
Awards for the best news
and feature stories appearing
in the Daily Nebraskan for the
past semester will be given at
1 Theta Siirma Phi
journalism surprise banquet Thurs
day at 6:15 0C1OCK at me umvci-
sity club. Prof. Gayle C. Walker,
head of the school of journalism,
will present the awards for the
stories which are being selected by
a-cmnnrtttee-of journalists.
HonHino- the list of sneakers,
will be Bernard Jennings, who has
recently returned trom a inp
around the world. Jennings, a
graduate of the university and
former business manager of the
Daily Nebraskan, will speak on
"Vagabonding Thru the Back
Streets of the World."
Miss Marie Sandoz, winner of
the Atlantic Monthly prize in 1935
for her novel. "Old Jules," will be
the guest of honor. Special guests
will "oe Mr. ana Airs, uayie v.
Walker, and Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence Pike.
Toasts will be given by speakers
from the three major campus pub
lications. Jack Fischer will give
the toast for the Daily Nebraskan,
Howard Dobson will sneak for
the Awgwan, Bill Marsh will speak
for the editorial stair or me jorn
husker. and Gene Pester will rep
resent the business side. Sara
Louise Meyer will give the toast
for Theta Sigma Phi.
"All journalists are urged to
come," stated Virginia Chain, sec
retary or tne organization, "inis
b&nauet furnishes an oooortunitv
for all prospective writers to be
come acquainted witn eacn otner.
Jean Walker, president of the
B-roun. stated that members were
planning a surprise for the ban
quet which will mane tne arrair
one of the most outstanding the
group has ever held.
Tickets may be obtained before
noon Thursday in the school of
journalism offices or at the Daily
weorasKan neaciquariers.
PEPSTERS PLEDGE AID
E
Corn Cobs Promise $25 to
Cause; Discuss Stunts for
Basket Games.
Twenty-five dollars to the Stu
dent Union Building were pledged
by Corn Cobs, "men's pep organ
ization, at their weekly meeting
Wednesday. The money will be
paid to the Student Union commit
tee as soon as plans for construc
tion are ratified.
Between halves stunts at bas
ketball games were discussed by
the group but no definite decision
was reached. Dave Bernstein vars
ity cheer leader, was appointed
head of a committee to attempt
the organization of a card eection
at basketball games.
' The Corn Cobs discussed the
adoption of white flannel trousers
as part of their uniforms. Legisla
tion was not passed and the mat
ter was deferred to a later date.
Sigma Delta Chi Meets to
Select Members Friday
Consideration of new members
will be the main business at a
luncheon meeting of Sigma Delta
Chi. professional journalism fra
ternity at 12 o'clock Friday at the
Grand hotel. Jack Fischer, presi
dent of the organization will pre
side at the meeting, which will also
feature a discussion of plans for
the coming semester.
WALKER TO
STORIES TONIGHT
FIVE GROUPS ADD
CASH PLEDGES TO
E FOR UNI
Students Swell Total of
Fund to $390 Second
Day of Drive.
WILL REDUCE TAX COST
Purpose to Show Support;
To Contact All Clubs
Meeting This Week.
Five more pledges to the stu
dent, union fund were obtained
Wednesday, swelling the total
amount promised to $365 in the
second day of the student coun
cil drive for funds from student
organizations to be used in the
erection of the proposed building.
"We are very pleased at the Im
mediate response that we have re
ceived from campus groups,"
Frank Landis, member of the com
mittee stated yesterday afternoon.
"Every organization which has
been contacted so far has readily
pledged Its support."
First Sorority Pledge.
Mortar Board, senior women's
honorary, pledged ?100 to the
fund; $100 will be appropriated
from the profits of the 1936 Junior-Senior
Prom. Kappa Kappa
Gamma, first social organization
to pledge its support, gave a prom
ise for $50. Theta Sigma Phi,
journalistic sorority, pledged $5.
The A. W. S. board promised to
contribute $10 to the fund. Corn
Cobs pledged $25.
The purpose of the drive accord
ing to its backers, is to accumulate
a fund sufficient to convince the
regents at their next meeting in
January that solid support of the
project is an actuality in the stu
dent body.
All organizations meeting: dur-
Ing'ffie week wil)T6e asEejTo'ia i"
cuss and vote on the amount they
wish to donate. Each group, it is
hoped, will pledge as much as
they possibly can since the re
mainder of the necessary costs of
the building will be apportioned
among students. If the pledge to
tal is large, the tax will be
smaller. The entire expense of
construction will be distributed
over a number of years.
House Offices.
The new student center will
house all publications, activities
offices, and recreation and club
rooms. Plans call for a ball room,
restaurant, and other facilities
now located some distance from
the camn".
PROF. HANEY SPEAKS
ON TVA PROJECT AT
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Objectives, Cost and Size
Of Government Plan
Discussed.
Main objectives, the cost and
size of the federal government's
huge TVA project in the Tennessee
valley were discussed by rror.
J. W. Haney of the mechanical
engineering department before
members of the American hoclety
of Mechanical Engineers, Wednes
day evening.
Professor Haney outlined as oo-
jectlves: The development of
power resources of the Tennessee
valley watershed as an integrated
system; utilization of the power
resources as a yardstick in deter
mining the relative cost of public
and private power operation; dis
tribution of this power to the
greatest number of people at the
lowest possible cost, and conserva
tion of its national defense assets.
Other Proposals.
The project also proposes the
promotion of reforestation and
methods of retarding soil erosion,
conservation and utilization of the
basin's mineral and other natural
resources, co-ordination of agri
cultural and Industry along prac
tical lines, land classification, im
provement of agriculture, and
proper utilization of marginal
lands.
The TVA consists of four dams,
he related. They are Muscle Shoals
or Wilson dam, Pickwick Landing
dam. Wheeler dam and Norris
dam. Muscle Shoals, which was
under construction during the war.
was purchased by the government
for 150 million dollars. Professor
Haney estimated the cost of the
other three dams, exclusive of
power machinery, to be 22 million
for Pickwick dam. 20 million for
Wheeler dam, and 34 million for
NorrU dam. Their location and
positions in the river valley were
described.
Three reels of motion pictures
were shown by the speaker. He
also gave a short report of the na
tional A. S. M. E. convention he
attended In New York City- the
first week in December.
ON
PROFESSOR TALKS
FOR CONVOCATION
Students Gather for Third Conclave to Celebrate 2,000
Anniversary of Latin Writer's Birth at 11
Today in Temple Theater.
SPEAKER EDITOR CHICAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bimillenary Commemoration Suggested by Prof. Roy
Flickinger of Iowa University; Twenty
Countries Participate.
J n commemoration of the 2,000 anniversary of the birth of
the Latin poet Horace, students will gather for the third eon
vocation of. the year at 11 o'clock today in the Temple to hear
a speech by Gordon J. Laing, Ph.D.. Litt. D., on the subject
"Horace and the Culture of Today."
r Dr. Lninff is e-eneral editor of
NEBRASKANS 10
DISCUSS LOCAL
TOPICS AT MEET
Council Members to Attend
Federated Student
Convention.
Discussion of student problems
pertaining to Nebraska will be
impelled by representatives of the
student council who will attend the
i venth congress of the National
. - udent Federation of the United
Suates of America at Kansas City,
Dec. 27 to 31. Irving Hill and Mary
Yoder, council members, and Prof.
E. W. Lantz, faculty advisor, will
represent Nebraska.
"General student problems
which are of interest to this uni
versity wWTSe'Wsetlsjied - at th
congress," Irving Hill, student
council president, stated. "It is our
intention to submit for discussion
some of the problems which per
tain to this campus. Questions will
be asked concerning the financing
of student union buildings."
Addresses given by prominent
speakers on men and women's
student government, fraternities
and sororities, American foreign
policy, financing student govern
ment, college publications, campus
forums, national politics, compul
sory military training, and stu
dent co-operatives will be heard.
Notables who will appear on the
program include Governor Alf
Landon of Kansas, Bryce Smith,
mayor of Kansas City, John W.
Studebaker, U. S. commissioner of
education; Aubrey Williams, direc
tor of the national youth admini
stration, and Hon. Agnes Mac
Phail, member of the Canadian
parliament.
Nebraska's representatives will
give a report of the congress at
the First Council meeting follow
ing vacation. Nebraska la not to
be allowed to vote at the meeting
aa this university is not a member
of the organization.
CONTESTANTS TRY FOR
DEBATE1TAMS TODAY
Two Squads Selected Argue
On Right to Change
Constitution.
Selection of two teams to de
bate this season on a proposed
change in the constitution to per
mit congress to over-ride decis
ions of the supreme court will
be made Thursday evening at
7:30 o'clock in University hall.
Trials will be conducted with
each contestant speaking eight
minutes, either in defense of the
question or in attack of the pro
posal. Each applicant has been
assigned alternately to the af
firmative and negative side of
the question for debate, accord-
ing to rroi h. a. w nuc, ucimw
coach".
Five men are to uphold the
measure. They include Edwin
Carlson, Ervine Green, Aaron
Finkelstein, James E. Murray,
and Carl Alexis. Attacking the
proposed constitutional amend
ment will be Edwin E. Getscher,
Irving Zveitel, Mark Richards,
Carl W. Matschullat, and Gene
Pester.
Union Fund
Innocents Society
Mortar Board
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Theta Sigma Phi
A. W. S. Board
1936 Prom Committee
Corn Cobs
Total
the Chicago University Press and
professor of Latin at the Univer
sity of Chicago. He appears fre
quently as a lecturer in the fields
of education and literature and aa
an after-dinner speaker at conven
tions of lawyers, doctors, and
educators. He has been dean of the
division of humanities in the Uni
versity of Chicago from 1923 to
1935, and is vice president of the
American Institute of Archaeol
ogy, and annual professor in the
American academy at Rome.
Lecturer at Bryn Mawr.
The speaker is a graduate of
Johns Hopkins university and the
University of Toronto. He has
been a lecturer at Bryn Mawr col
lege and associated with the Uni
versity of California.
The suggestion to celebrate
Horace's bimillenary was first
made by Prof. Roy Flickinger of
the University of Iowa, shortly
after the close of the Virgil cele
bration of 1930. Ho believes that
the anniversary of Horace lends
itself even more admirably to such
a commemoration. Prof. Flicking
er is now chairman of the Horace '
bimillenary.
Twenty Countries Celebrate.
Twenty countries are taking
part in the celebration, according
to Dr. Clarence A Forbes, chair
man of the classics department.
Other features of the anniversary
celebration include the state anj
national contests for the best
Horace translations, library dis
plays and various programs held
thruout the country.
The lecture which Dr. Laine will
present was delivered by him at
the University or Iowa. He spoKe
here several years ago at an hon
ors convocation and his speech was
considered one of the best lectures
ever rendered at the university,
according to Prof. O. J. Hertzler,
faculty chairman of the .convoca
tion committee.
CLASS SECTIONS IN
CORNHUSKER CLOSE
Robinson Sketches New Set
Fraternity House
Drawings.
TO HAVE NEW FEATURES
Junior and senior students who
are planning to have pictures
taken for the 1930 Cornhusker,
should do so preceding the Christ
mas holiday, if possible, in order
that they may appear in the regu
lar class sections of the yearbook,
according to 1 aith Arnold, editor
of the publication.
"Because we feel that it is im
portant that every member of the
Junior and senior classes have his
picture in the Cornhusker, if pos
sible, we have held these sections
open longer than those of tho
fraternities and sororities, giving
each person ample time to attend
to this. VVc are anxious that this
be accomplished before Christmas
vacation," commented Miss Ar
nold. Features of the book which art
being completed at this time in
clude a new set of drawings of
the fraternity and sorority houses
on the campus. These are being
sketched by Marvin Robinson.
Photographs of all student events
are being taken by Bill Clayton,
staff photographer, and are to
furnish some of the interesting
candid camera shots for the fea
ture section of the 1936 Corn
husker. Second installments for the pur
chase of the book are due at this
time and students buying the
Cornhusker on this plan are asked
to attend to this matter at once
by Gene Pester, business manager
of the publication.
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