The Daily Nebraskan
Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska.
VOL. XXXV ISO. 116.
LI1SCOIJV, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936
PRICE 5 CENTS.
Chief Justice Goss to
Judge Junior Law Cases
CAST OF PLAYERS'
Women Select May
Queen, Mortar Board
Candidates Thursday
Around
and
About
By Sarah Louise Meyer.
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JUNIOR
LAWYERS
END MOCK TRIALS
NEXT PRODUCTION
BUSINESS CASES
flOW
COMPLETED
Of course we were far too busy
to enter into the presence of Kaga
va when he was here they say
he couldn't be heard or understood.
But we have attempted to grasp
at that something not of the earth
In the man tnat something which
will leave his name emblazoned in
the annuals of eternity. We
thought our be&t contacts might
lie in his writings.
For years Kagawa lived in
slums so sordid, foul, and desper
ate that not even the police dared
enter unless in groups. Hero he,
from the starving children, jobless
men. rented out" women, felt "the
beating pulse of the universe". And
so his "Songs from the Slums" are
at once full of an uplifted sense
of beauty and a ghastly reality.
Of all his songs, the one we
like best is " My Disciples."
Three Disciples have I
Three or four
Little shaven-headed.
Dirty-nosed
Tago
And loud-voiced
Jinko
Who will not lose me from
their sight.
Are numbers One and Two.
The Beggar's chief
Is number Three.
He did not know
How to bow
At the Christians' feast.
And so
He turned swift somersaults.
The four is Baby Dekobo.
He couldn't lisp
His father's name.
But all the day
He calls
"Tcn-tei! Ten-tei!
So love.
Twelve years old and sold . . .
For hours she cried outside my
door.
Because she had to go.
The little girl who loves me
most
Is Kivo-ko.
As Poppa skipped daintily
down the steps the other after
noon, waving us a perfunctory
farewell over one shoulder, three
little gamins chorused, "Whyn't
ya kiss her ya tightwad?" They
have been rehearsing daily this
spring since soft breezes have
transferred daylight adieus from
the vestibule to the front walk,
and give all visitors just such a
sendoff.
One for the books comes from
the lore of the sisterhood, and con
cerns those other days of wide
Merrv Widow bats with flowing
ostrich feathers etc. This young
lady lived in Chicago, and had
been invited to attend a dinner
across town. Deciding to save taxi
fare by riding the streetcar, she
set out in all her finery. En route
she had to change cars, and the
junction was in a questionable
part of town filled chiefly with
those merchants who deal in com
modities which come in kegs and
bottles. While waiting for her car,
the young lady was approached
by a Salvation Army lassie, who
queried righteously, "Sister aren't
you weary of this life?" Sensing
the situation in a trice, the young
lady cracked back, "No." and I
hope it continues indefinitely."
A certain digital dexterity has
come to be an important item in
in the equipment of several gals
of our acquaintance. One was cak
ing with a friend, who found that
he was five cents short of the
8 mount on the check. Worried not
at all, bis comely companion. Ruth
Rutledgc. went across the aisle
and matched pennies with Willie
Horchem until she had enough to
make up the difference. And then
we heard of yet another, Dorothy
Hood, who went a-calcing, got into
a penny-matching be. and came
out with a dime more than enough
to pay her check.
CIViL ENGINEERSMAKE
ST
Seniors Show Slides, Explain '
Largest Cantilever j
Structure. j
Civil engineers studied famous
Carquinez bridge at last night's
meeting of American Society of
Civil Engineers. Slides of the
bridge were shown and explained
by Emory Jonnson anu joc j
Peshek, engineering seniors.
According to Johnson and Pesh
ek, Carquinez bridge is second
largest cantilever type bridge in
the United States, fourth largest
of its tvpe In the world. It was
completed in 1927, costing $8,000.
0O0. Chief features are two main
spans of 1.100 feet, and deep pier
foundations 135 feet below water
level.
Safety measures received extra
ordinary attention during construc
tion of the bridge. Despite the
high cost. Carquinez bridge is a
private venture, the project of a
California business man. Avon J.
Hanford.
Business time of the meeting
was taken up with department
plans for Engineer's Week, and
plans for inspection trips during
ih u-M-kr nf Anril 19. One trip
will go thru Nebraska, a second 1
will finish at Hot Springs, Ark. J
State Justices Goss, Paine,
Carter to Decide Final
Controversies.
Final Club Court trials of the
Junior law class will be held to
night in the State Supreme Court
room, when Chief Justice Charles
A. Goss, Justice F.dward F. Car
ter, and Justice Bayard H. Paine
act as judges in awarding the case.
Beginning promptly at 7:30 in
court room No. 2, the contest be
tween the Storey and Blackstone
clubs climaxes a long series of
mock trials, to which the element
of realism was added this year in
copying the cases after actual con
troversies. People's Bargain Chain Store vs.
Kitchen Utensil Manufacturing Co.
will be contested by George W. Pil
lers Jr., and Laverne H. Halcomb,
representing the Blackstone Club,
and J. Vernon Clemans and Theo
doro S. Cruise representing the
Storey organization.
According to Dean H. H. Foster,
"The case in dispute raises inter
esting questions in relation to
chain stores, selling commodities
below cost, and questions of un
fair business practices."
The Supreme Court judges will
render two decisions: first, on the
merits of the controversy, and sec
ond, on merits of presentation as
disclosed in briefs and oral ar
guments before the court.
The contest will be open to the
public, and university students are
given a special invitation to at
tend by Dean Foster.
NTRAMURAL DEBATE
TOURNEY WILL START
Nine Fraternity, Five Barb
Teams Enter Forensic
Competition.
Fourteen teams have entered
the intramural debate tourney,
sponsored by Delta Sigma Rho.
and will start the first round of
competition tonight. Nine frater
nity teams are entered and five
barb teams, according to a report
by Prof. H. A. White, debate
coach.
As a result of a preliminary de
bate held Tuesday evening, the D.
U. team will debate the negative
side of the question, "Resolved,
that the United States should build
the largest navy in the world."
against the Sigma Alpha Mu af
firmative team.
The remaining contestants in
the first round are: Sigma Chi.
affirmative, against Phi Alpha
Delta: Zeta Beta Tau, (affirmative,
against Beta Sigma Psi: and Pi
Kappa Alpha, affirmative, against
Delta Theta Phi.
In the first round of the barb
tourney, the Pickett club will de
bate the affirmative against the
Palladian society, and the Delian
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V.W.C.A. GROUP VISIT
PENITENTIARY FRIDAY
Two Y. W. groups led by Marie
Kotouc and Jane Holland will
hold a joint meeting Friday at 3
o'clock, when both groups visit the
state penitentiary.
The two groups which are plan
ning to make the tour through the
penitentiary are the interest group
on "Know Lincoln." led by Miss
Holland, and the citizenship staff,
which Miss Kotouc heads.
According to present plans the
visitors will be conducted through
the prison by the warden of the
penitentiary.
RRST ROUND TONIGHT
KANSAS TENNIS ACES COME
TO LINCOLN NEXT MAY FOR
DUAL, CONFERENCE GAMES
LA WHENCE, Kas., March 20.
Seven of the leading tennis play
ers of the University of Kansas
have been invited to come out for
early season practice indoors, and
as soon as the weather makes out
of doors practice feasible, a gen
eral invitation will be issued to all
interested in making the team.
Home and home matches have
been scheduled with Kansas
State and Nebraska for May,
and it is hoped to arrange for
other matches. The Kansas team
will be entered in the Big Six
tournament at Lincoln, May 22
and 23.
William Kiley. Kansas City, Mo.,
Missouri Valley singles and dou
bles champion teamed with Junior
Coen, former Jayhawker net cap
tain, will work out with a group
of freshmen, with the purpose of
scrimmaging the varsity from
time to time, and also for playing
at least two matches Also play
ing with the freshmen, because he
is ineligible 3et for varsity compe
tition, is LeRoy Butler, seeded No.
1 player at Kansas State last
year.
Arthur Voss. last year's Kansas
captain, will coach the Kansas
team, the first time in several
years that Kansas bas not had a
player-captain.
From The uncoln Journal.
Charles A. Gos.
Chief justice of the Nebraska su
preme court, who with Justices
Carter and Paine will review the
final case of the junior law class
mock trials at the state capitol
tonight.
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Members Plan for Spring
Party at Shrine
April 18.
Pledges will be initiated into
Corn Cobs pep organization on
April 15 and election of offi
cers will be held the same day,
it was decided at a meeting of
the group Tuesday evening.
Initiation fees must be paid be
fore April 10, stated Ted Brad
ley, president.
Plans were furthered at the
meeting for the Corn Cob party
scheduled for April 18 at the
Shrine country club. Red Per
kins and his band will play for
the evening party which will be
preceded by a dinner dance at
the Cornhusker hotel the same
evening.
Pennants remaining from the
sales campaign conducted by the
organization last fall were dis
tributed to the individual mem
bers to be sold as souvenirs.
President Bradley appointed a
committee composed of Bob
Hutton, Jim Buntir.g. Robert
Stiefler, and Ross Martin to
compile a bid list for the April
party.
Fl
ON USE OF REAGENTS
Chemical Engineers Hear
Discussion of Aids to
Filtration.
Filtration occupied the attention
of chemical engineers at last
night's meeting of Chemical Engi
neer's society. Speaker was C. J.
Frank forter. who substituted for
H. J. Walter, of the Johns-Mann-ville
corporation. In his lecture,
Frankforter paid particular atten
tion to the use of reagents known
as "f'lter aids" which make possi
ble quicker filtration.
Frankforter illustrated his talk
with a demonstration of the filtra
tion of suear. ehowiner how the
I process is speeded up when a f iltel
j aid is used. The reagent used was
1 Hyflo Super Cel." which was
: furnished by the Johns Mannville
j corporation.
i Hjflo Super Cel is practically
! 100 percent silica, which makes it
' safe for the filtration of food. The
filter aid is used in filtration of
! fruit juices and colloidal material,
i As added features. Frankforter
also discusned methods of filtering
water and of filtering wax from
' lubricating oil.
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Jenks, Miss Zimmer Play
Leads in 'Cyrano
De Bergerac
Hart Jenks ami Dorothy
Ziimner, veteran nrtiMs of the
Temple stage, will lend the
University Players ns they
lake to the hoards for their
final production of the season
Monday night. Mar 30. As their
concluding presentation, the Ne
braska dramatists have chosen
one of the brightest heroic ro
mances that has been written in
modern times, "Cyrano de Berg
erac," by the immortal playwright
Edmond Rostand.
The production demands one of
the largest and most select casts
that has ever been offered a Pay
ers audience in a single production.
Enacting the role of the ugly but
clever Cyrano, the production of
fers the guest artist of the per
formance whose past work on the
university stage speaks far better
than words, in judging his quali
fications for the difficult role. As
sisting Mr. Jenks will be Dorothy
Zimmer who likewise has made
her way to the top of the Temple
players thru her especially com
mendable work in past perfor
mances. The remainder of the cast that
can boast an array of talent to be
surpassed only by the most se
lect professional companies, is
strengthened by such veteran play
ers as Armand Hunter, whose re
cent work in "The Petrified For
est' as well as other past works,
assures Temple patrons of a well
done portrayal of the role of the
handsome Christian; Delford
Brummer, who likewise furthered
his already commendable record
in the last production; Lee Young,
whose past work has gained him
a wide group of admirers and fol
lowers; and Don Buell, consistent
bright spot among past Player's
casts.
Ira Lown .Allen Gatewood. Paul
Bogan, Richard Rider, Arnold
Gadeken and Waldemar Mueller,
also lend their experienced talent
to make the cast by far the
strongest that has ever entered the
Temple stage door. A few of those
who win make their first appear
ance Monday night in a Player's
cast, but whose rehearsal perfor
mance bids fare to be especially
commendable include: Bill Critten
den, George McArthur, Jim Ivans,
Herman Hauptmann. and Art Ball.
Assisting Miss Zimmer in the
roster of feminine players are
such experienced hands as Mar
jorte Bennister, Margaret Straub,
Virginia Amos, Gwendolyn Meyer
son, Florence Smeerin, Portia
Boynton, and Elizabeth Bull.
The production of Cyrano is the
greatest undertaking the Players
have ever attempted because of
its large cast and five changes of
scenes. However the length of
the play by no means sacrifices its
quality for thruout all five acts
there is not a dull moment.
FEATURES MISS BECK
Attentive Audience Hears
Piano Selections at
Senior Recital.
An attentive audience listened
to the four carefully prepared se
lections presented by Miss Velora
Beck, pianist, student with Her
bert Schmidt, at her senior recital
in the Temple theater Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The recital
was the twenty-second musical
convocation of the season.
' Miss Beck presi'Med first "An
dante in F" by Beethoven. This
was followed by Brahms' "Inter
mezzo. A minor. Op. 116 No. 2"
and "Cappnccio, D minor, Op. 116,
No. 1."
Third selection on the program
was Chopin's "Etude, E flat. Op.
10. No. 11," followed by his "Noc
turne, C minor, Op. 46. No. 1" and
"Scherzo. C sharp minor, Op. 29."
As the final number on the pro
gram. Liszt's "Concerto. E flat.
No. 1" was played. It included the
following movements: "Allegro
maestoso,'' "Quasi adagio," "Alle
gretto vivace" and "Allegro mar
ziale aniniato."
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Chemistry Leads Colleges
With 34 Enrolled fcr
Advanced Work.
f igures from the graduate col
lege for the second semester show
399 students doing graduate work
at. the present time. Of this num
ber, 77 are working for their doc
tor's degree. 151 for their master's,
67 for a master of science degree
and 101 who have not designated
any oegree.
Chemistry leads the list with a
total of 34 students enrolled in ad- i
vanced work, followed by the his- j
tory department where 24 etu-'
dents are registered for graduate j
Seniors Vote for Juniors
To Become Members of
Senior Honorary.
Thirty candidates for Mortar
Board, who will make up the group
from which the active chapter will
select its new members for next
year, will be elected today when
senior women enrolled in the uni
versity cast their votes, either in
Ellen Smith hall from 9 to 5
o'clock, or in the Home Ec build
ing of the ag campus, which will
be open only from 9 to 4 o'clock.
Voters may signify their choice
of any woman ranking as a junior
in the university, with the provi
sion that not less than five junior
women be listed and not more than
twenty. The thirty girls receiving
the highest number of votes will
be included in the group from
which Mortar Board will choose its
new membership.
Identity of the new members
selected by the active chapter will
not be revealed until May 7, when
they are masked at the annual
celebration of Ivy Day which is
sponsored by Mortar Board on this
campus.
Polls will be in charge of Mor
tar Board members, and votes cast
in this election will be counted by
advisors of Mortar Board, with the
assistance of members of the
active chapter. '
According to the rules set up in
university elections, identification
cards must be shown to the per
sons in charge of the polls, in order
to be eligible to vote.
SCOW GIVE TALK
Regional Secretary Here
On Semi-Annual Visit
This Week.
Miss Stella Scurlock. regional Y.
W. secretary wbo has been making
her semi-annual visit in Lincoln
during the past week, spoke be
fore members of the freshman Y.
W. cabinet and Y. W. membership
staff at a meeting held yesterday
afternoon at 4 o'clock in Ellen
Smith hall.
Basing her discussion on the
proven philosophy that "If one
door is shutin your life it i.7 be
cause a better one can be opened."
Miss Scurlock urged that one take
hold of the things which stand out
as being most creative. She ex
plained that examples have proven
that by stepping into the best
things. new life opens t;p.
An interesting fact which the
speaker emphasized by example
was. "If you can't find a job, give
yourself to something important
and a new door will be opened to
you."
Miss Scurlock concluded her dis
cussion by answering questions
which members of the freshman
group asked her, and declaring,
"If you do the highest good thst
you "know the abundant good of
God will come to you."
Jane Ostenberg, member of the
freshman cabinet, gave a discus
sion of current events at the meet
ing and Pat Lahr, also a cabinet
member was in charge of devo
tionals. Miss Caroline Kile, vice-president
of the university Y. W. is the
leader of the freshman cabinet
and Jeanne Palmer. Y. W. staff
member heads the membership
staff.
STUDENTS, FACULTY GO
TO A.S.M.E. CONCLAVE
Nine Engineers Represent
University at Regional
Convention.
Seven students and two faculty
members will atend the annual
student branch meeting of the
northfrn unit of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers,
scheduled to meK in Kansas City
March 27 and 28.
Two Nebraska engineer stu
dents. Peter J. Jensen and George
H. Heiser. have made entries in
the prize technical paper contest,
which was won last year by Ed
ward Beachler of the university.
The contestants will present
their papers orally before the
group attending the technical ses
sions held Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning. Jensen will
address the meeting on "Freon as
a Refrigerant." The titie of Heis
er's paper is "High Compression
Automobile Engines."
Three eminent Kansas City en
gineers will choose the winners
of the contest The Judges are
F. J. Holzbour, chief engineer of
the Standard Oil company; Albert
Maillard. consulting engineer for
the Kansas City Light and Power
company; and Capt. C. J. Peters,
captain in the United States Na
val reserve aviation base in Kan
sas City.
The organization has prepared
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Senning Surveys County
Governments of State
From The Lincoln Journal.
Dr. John P. Senning. chairman
of the political science department
and his assistants, are now making
a study of county governments in
Douglas, Seward, Gage, Hall and
Madison counties, he reported
Wednesday.
Plans call for similar surveys to
begin this week in Saline and Fill
more counties and in Lancaster by
April 15. Dr. Senning is in charge
of this university sponsored proj
ect. BARBS ORGANIZE
WORK OX CAMPUS
Discuss Banquet Plans,
Election at Meeting.
Increased organization of barbs
on the campus is the main issue to
be considered at the Barb Interclub
council meeting scheduled for
Thursday evening at 7:15, accord
ing to William Newcomer, presi
dent of the council.
President Newcomer urges all
council members to be present at
this meeting as he believes it will
be one of the most important
meetings of the year.
Commutes and plans for the All
Barb banquet will be made at the
meeting. This banquet is one of
the largest of the functions spon
sored by the barb council. It is
held in connection with the barb
A. W. S. league. Medals for intra
mural sport and debate tourna
ments are awarded at this annual
banquet.
Plans and preparations will also
be made for barb activities in the
coming spring elections.
SPEAKS AT MEETING
Kuska Discusses Importance,
Value of Streamlining
Tuesday Might.
Donald E. Kuska, engineering
junior, discussed the relative value
and importance of streamlining at
the regular meeting of the Amer
ican Society of Agricultural Engi
neers Tuesday evening, March 24.
Several changes were made in the
national constitution during the
business meeting following the
talk.
Kuska stated that streamlining
greatly reduces the amount of
horsepower necessary to move a
vehicle at high speeds, and that In
some inrtances required horse
power has been cut down to one
eighth. Streamlining overcomes a
large part of the air turbulence
caused by bodies moving at high
speed, he declared.
Plans were made for a scheduled
tour for members attending the
organization's national convention.
The possibility of inviting other
branches to accompany the local
group was also considered. The
committee chosen to arrange the
tour consists of Pete Burns, chair
man: Le Roy Uirardot. and Thom
as Long.
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HART JENKS ANTICIPATES
PLAYING CYRANO ON STAGE
FROM W HENCE HE STARTED
"J have played in almost every major metropolis of tLe
easl hut it is always my greatest pleasure to come back and
play before llie university from which I started," declares Hart
Jenks. the Nebraska stage aspirant who went to New York to
become nationally famous as a Shakesperian actor. Mr. Jenki
French romance to be presented
In the Temple theater next week.
While yet an undergraduate of
the university 1'art gained a large
following I admirers thrv his
work on the Players' stage. He
assumed the leading role in many
of the Players' mort successful
productions and was recognized
by many as one who had a big
career ahead of him.
After his graduation, the stage
artist remained with the Univer
sity for a time, acting as an aa-
Girls in Two Upper Classes
Elect Senior to Preside at
Ivy Ceremonies.
With a group of 35 girls com
posing the list of candidates, jun
ior and senior women of the uni
versity will select the girl to pre
side over Ivy day activities aa
May Queen, when they vote today
at polls located in Ellen Smith
hall and the Home Ec building on
the ag campus. Polls on the city
campus will remain open from 9 to
5 o'clock, while votes in the Home
Ec building may be cast only from
9 to 4 o'clock.
In signifying their choice for
May queen, junior and senior wom
en are allowed to vote for only ona
person, and the girl receiving tha
highest number of votes will ba
disclosed on Ivy day when she pre
sides over the ceremonies on May
7th.
The girl receiving the second
highest number of votes in this
election will automatict'.ly becoma
maid of honor for the Ivy day
celebration, and two women of
each class chosen by Mortar Board
will serve as the other attendants
of the queen.
Eligible Candidates.
Candidates who are eligible for
the honor of May Queen, have
credited to them a "B" activity, as
listed in the old point system, ara
to be in the group of seniors to be
graduated either in June or at the
close of summer school, and have
a minimum 80 average, with no
delinquencies.
The complete list cf candi
dates for the election today In
cludes: Lorene Adelseck, Has
tings; Elizabeth Anderson, Lin
coln; Faith Arnold, Lincoln;
llene Atkins, Kimball; Alaire
Barket, Lincoln; Betty Barrows,
Lincoln; Dorothy Beers, Syra-
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TO AG SPRING PARTY
Executive Council Plans
Affair for Friday,
March 27.
Students who attend the Ag
Spring Party in the student ac
tivities building Friday, March 27,
will dance to the music of Lyle
DeMoss with Mel Pester s orches
tra in a ballroom decorated to fit
the occasion.
The ballroom will take the form
of a garden surrounded by a picket
fence artistically woven among
ferns and palms. Entrances
through flowered archways, tiue
streamers from all corners of the
room concentrated in the center of
the hall, and a unique display of
pennants of the various organi
zations on the campus are special
decoration features.
Broadcast Over KFAB.
The orchestra, seated on the
floor will broadcast over KFAB
from 9:45 to 10:15 and the Asso
rMQtod Tr will he on hand to
photograph the presentation of the
Goddess ot Agriculture.
"It is the effort of the Ag Exec
utive rvmnrii to sDonsor a party
that will be enjoyed by all," says
Vincent Jacobson, manager oi me
affair.
Dean and Mrs. W. W. Burr, Pro
fessor and Mrs. L. K. Crowe ar.d
T ,pt on will chaperon the par
ty. Professor and Mrs. Chaunccy
Smith. Miss l-eaae, ur. ana jnrs.
C. E. P-osenquist, Miss Sperry. and
Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Gooding have
also ben invited to attend.
Alumni of Classics
Club Give Program
For Student Group
Student mem bers of the Classics
club will hear a program presented
by the graduate members of the
organization, tonight, at 7:30 in
Teachers college, room 21. All
persons who are interested in the
classics are cordially invited to at
tend the meeting.
mf-nt and Dlavirir with the Univer
sity Players. During this time he
enacted the roles of Hamlet, Mac
Beth. Brutus. Julius Caesar, and
other leading Shakesperian part
as well as the leads in inumerable
modern productions.
Mr. Jenks finally departed from
the university for a time and went
to New York where he gained
wide repute. It was during thia
time that he first became ac
quainted with the play "Cyrano
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