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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936.
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VOL. XXXVI ISO. 11
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IN '36 CAMPAIGN
Young Partisans of Both
Major Parties Plan
Active Programs.
That grandiose battle of words,
slogans, publicity, personalities,
ideas, and propaganda which is to
gather force along a thousand
fronts In this country from now
until the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November will be
brought to the Nebraska campus
on Wednesday of this week. Al
ready the partisans have begun
their trenches.
The initial battle ground will be
social science auditorium on to
morrow afternoon. The youth
groups of both major parties have
scheduled their first meetings in
the auditorium tomorrow. Meeting
at 4 p. m. will be the young re
publicans. An hour later, with the
atmosphere undoubtedly still
sticky with Landon eulogies the
Young Democrats will take over
the rostrum and floor to recharge
the air with panegyrics to Mr.
Roosevelt.
Young Republicans Meet.
Announcement of the republican
gathering as made by acting presi
dent of the group, John B. Quinn,
was: "All members of the Young
Republican club and those inter
ested in the preservation of Ameri
can ideals are requested to meet
in the social science auditorium on
Wednesday at 4 o'clock for the
purpose of re-election of officers
and the planning of the semester's
program." Further enticement to
the devotees of the Kansan as
pirant to attend as pointed out by
Mr. Quinn is that Harry Spencer,
state president of the Young Re
publican organization, will be pres
ent at the meeting and give a short
address.
New Dealers to Gather.
Announcing for the Roosevel
tians, Edmund Holstein promised,
"All interested in keeping America
progressive and giving the youth
of the nation a square deal, meet
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WORSHIPHOURTO OPEN
AG Y.WXAACTIVITES
Margaret Deeds Announces
First Vesper Service
For Tuesday.
Y. W. activities on the Ag cam
pus are to begin with a worship
hour on Tuesday, Sept. 29. at 12:20
o'clock in the Home Kconomics
parlors, according to Margaret
Deeds, worship hour chairman.
Jane Keefer, university Y. W.
president, will speak on "Your
Place in the Y. W." Janet Hoevet
will lead devotionals with "Worlh
ful Living" used as the theme.
These services are being pre
sented to provide an' opportunity
for the Ag women students to re
ceive spiritual help as well as to
give them a period of relaxation.
All women students, especially
freshmen, are urged to attend.
Methodist Student Heads
To Plan Ieapuc Services
Student council members of
Methodist college leagues will dis
cuss plans for league devotional
services when they meet Satur
day evening at the Wesley foun
dation. The representatives, from
all the city leagues and Metho
dist organizations, will hear Miss
Ivy Myers, director of religious
education at St. Paul's church
peak on the topic "Worship."
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I BEGIN ACTION
FUTURE VETERANS TRY
NEW SATIRICAL STUNT
Student Peace Promoters of Princeton to Sell Poppy
Seeds on Poppy Day; Continue Farce of
Advance Bonus Collection.
Latest stunt of tl.s Princeton
students who founded the Vete
rans of Future Wars association
has been to sell poppy seeds on
poppy day. News of this fore
handed group was brought by Dr.
Paul M. Zeis, new member of the
political science department.
Dr. Zeis related that the stu
dent veterans ere turning their
attention to problems of world
peace. Begun as a satirical pro
test against the bonus system, the
organization keeps up the farce of
trying to collect an advance on
the bonus due them In the event of
another war, and remains the chief
heckler of the World War veter
ans. Zeis Writes Book.
Something of the same contra
dictory work that the Future Vet
erans are doing Is being done by
Dr. Zeis. He is writing a book
on "The American Shipping Po
licy," tn spJte of the fact that
T. A. Blair Predicts
Sunny Grid Weather
For Saturday's Game
With no more rain in sight
Prof. T. A. Blair, meteorolo
gist, prophecies clear weather
for Saturday's football game.
The cold will probably con
tinue tomorrow but at the
end of the week the tempera
ture is likely to ascend.
"We're liable to have frost
any time now," Professor
Blair commented. "About this
time of year we can expect
light frosts. There is none
threatening at present, how
ever." September has had mors
rain than ordinarily this year.
A total of 3.38 Inches of rain
has fallen to date. This is
more than any other month.
January also had more rain
fall than normal but did not
equal the amount of this
month.
DIRECTOR REED SETS
DATES FOR SERIES OF
Seventy Students Compose
Orchestra for Year's
Programs.
Students will have the oppor
tunity this year of hearing the
university symphony orchestra in
a series of public concerts to be
presented at the coliseum. Ray
mond R. Reed, in charge of instru
mental music in the school of
music, is the new director.
First program is scheduled for
Nov. 1, the second for Dec. 17, a
third on Feb. 10. the next one
March 21 and the concluding con
cert probably on May 16. The
Feb. 10 concert will be held in the
Temple theater.
Emanuel Wishnow. ot me vionn
faculty, concert master of the Lin
coln symphony orchestra, will be
soloist at the Dec. 17 musicale.
Director Reed rlans to dedicate
this program to the Christmas sea
son. The orchestra will play
favorite festival numbers ana at
the conclusion of the program the
audience will be led in the sing
ing of several of the traditional
carols.
Earnest Harrison, pianist in the
school of music, has been selected
as soloist for the Feb. 10 concert,
which comes as one of the regular
Wednesday afternoon convoca
tions. The orclrestra numbers 70 stu
dents, making it the largest in the
history of the organization. "In
strumentation is complete and the
quality of the individual members
shows considerable improvement,"
says Mr. Reed.
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DISPLAY 11 MIL OCT. 9
Reproductions from Mil
lion Dollar Collection on
Exhibit in U Hall.
Twenty six colored post cards
and nine larger colored pictures,
reproductions from the million
dollar Van Gogh collection now
being exhibited at the Art insti
tute of Chicago, will be on display
for students and faculty in the
library of the Romance Language
department in U hall until Oct. 9.
Art students, especially, will be
interested in the reproductions,
believes Miss Mengers, of the
French department.
Biographical articles on Van
Gogh have been collected and will
be available to students. "Van
Gogh" by Meier-Graefe, with 60
reproductions in blark and white,
will be loaned by Miss Mengers
for circulation.
Current novels, plays and maga
zines in French! Spanish and Ital
ian are being secured for the li
brary. he does not believe America has
ever had a shipping policy. His
book will be a searching inquiry
Into the forces behind merchant
marine legislation.
Comparing the University of
Princeton with Nebraska, Dr. Zeis
spoke of the superior Nebraska
football enthusiasm. At Princeton
only two games of the season
arouse real student spirit. These
are Yale and Harvard games. The
Tigers employ an open style of
play, making extensive use of la
teral and forward passes.
Activities are considerably les
important at the eastern university
than here, partly because fr. ler
nities and competition between
fraternity houses have been abol
ished. Eating clubs take the place
of the Greek letter organizations.
"Princfton is not a country
club," stilted Dr. Zeis. "Many of
the students come from extremely
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SYMPHONY CONCERTS
Varsity Tame Frosh
by 51-0 Score; Aim
For Cyclones Next
Ames Team Plays to Tie
In Opener; Weak on
Scoring Power.
After suffering a scoreless stale
mate with Iowa Teachers last
Saturday, Coach George Veekner's
Iowa State gridders are now in
extensive training for their Big
Six classic with the Cornhuskers
in Lincoln Oct. 3. It will be the
first conference game of the season
for both elevens.
"The Cyclones are entertaining
no championship hopes, but their
objective is to have an all-around
team that can go at top form all
season," relates Coach Veekner.
"We'll have a good line, but we're
not so sure of the backfield."
Evidence of Iowa State's weak
backfield may be offered in the
form of the score of the Iowa
Teachers-Iowa State game noth
ing to nothing. The backfield suf
fered large losses thru graduation
last spring and men such as Poole
and Birney not returning to school.
Veekner has been shifting linemen
to the backfield and vice versa in
an attempt to work out a sure
fire scoring combination.
Veekner Begins Sixth Year.
Coach Veekner is beginning his
sixth year as head football coach
at Iowa State and his fifth year
as director of athletics. Referred
to as the "miracle man" since he
jerked the Cyclones out of the Big
Six cellar into second place in 1931
after 16 consecutive grid losses,
Veekner has continued to produce
better than average teams at the
Cyclone hangout.
A graduate of Hope College,
Michigan, he coached in Batavia
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START REGISTRATION
E0RYIC1 STAFFS
Committee Leaders Schedule
First Meetings for
This Week.
Women students interested in
vnp-iotnHne for staff work in the
university Y.W.C.A. should do so
some time tni.s wecx, requentn
Jane Keefer. Y.W. president. Pre
requisites for work on these stand
ing committees state that a girl
must be of second semester fresh
man rtanding or above and have
membership in the university or
ganization. Most of the staffs will hold their
first meetings this week in Ellen
Smith hall. The conference group
will meet at 4 o'clock on Monday,
led by Katherine Hendy; cyative
leisure will meet Thursday at 4
under the direction of Betty
Cherny; the finance committee will
hnkl its meeting at 4 o'clock on
Tuesday with Maxine Durand in
charge; international relations at
11 o'clock Thursday with Winifred
Nelson leading.
Nebraska in China will be at
3 Thursday with Mildred Holland;
personnel at 4 Monday under di
rectin of Katherine Winquest;
new citizenship with Marie Ko
touc at 3 Tuesday: vesper staff
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WOMEN STUDENTS TO
THIS MAN WILLIAMS--
Lived the
Crack reporter on the Denver
Post in the turbulent days of Bon
fils and Tammen, genial Wayne C.
Williams, assistant to U. S. At
torney General Cummings, spent
Monday afternoon discussing poli
tics with members of the Nebras
kan staff and talking journalistic
shop.
"You do have a newspaper at
mosphere down here." comtriented
Williams, looking about the bul
letins and typewriters in the Ne
braskan office. "What do they pay
you for it?" Given salary statis
tics, he was amused. "No one can
say you are overpaid," he re
marked. Newspaper work, according to
Williams, is the grandest profes
sion In the world, "providing you
break into it when you're 18 and
out of It before you're 35." The
uncertainty of a reporter's position
made Williams become a lawyer.
Today however, he believes that
the American Newspaper Guild is
establishing a measure of security
for journalists.
Williams has attended seven na
tional democratic conventions,
some of them as a newspaperman
and others as a delegate or na
tional officer. It was while he was
still a reporter that he met Wil-
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From Ths Sunday Journal and Star.
Les McDonald, scnor from Grand
Island and left end mainstay on
the varstiy eleven, will lead the
Husker attack against Ames next
Saturday.
VESPER CHOIR TO
HAVE ADDITION OF
12 NEW MEMBERS
Vesper choir will have 12 new
voices at th? first real practice
of the year. Thursday at 5 o'clock
in Ellen Smith hall. These girls
were chosen at the final try-out
Monday by Margaret rhillippe,
chairman of the Vesper choir.
They will sing at all vespers for
the coming year.
Following are the new additions
to the choir; Maxine Fedele, Dor
othy Bartos, Mary Ellen Osborn,
Dorothy Bogardus, Mary Janet
Manery. Mary Elizabeth Kien
holz, Bernice Hellemann, Ruth
Green, Joy Pestal. Mary Jane
Hendricks, Jean Meentz and Jean
Morrow.
"We expect both new and old
members of the choir to be pres
ent at the Thursday practice, to
prepare for next Tuesday's ves
per," stated Miss Phillippc.
Prof. C. K. Morse, assistant
director of the university exten
sion division, gave one of the
principal addresses at the na
tional prison conference held at
Chicago recently. Mr. Morse em
phasized the need for education
within the prison as a corrective
measure.
Story of 'Timberline '
TODAY!
Hear Wayne C. Williams,
journalist, biojrapher, federal
legal official speak on Ne
braska's greatert political
figure o fall time, William
Jennings Bryan, at 11 o'clock
in the Temple this morning.
liam Jennings Bryan, about whom
he later wrote the biography that
Bryan's son calls "the most ac
curate, informative, and fairest
presentation of his life that has
yet befn written."
"I did not write an impartial
book," the attorney stated. "I
didn't balance his faults against
his virtues; Bryan did not cancel
out. There was too much that
was fine, noble, creative, and con
structive in his character.'
Had Bryan lived he would have
been a supporter of the new deal,
Williams believes. Bryan's policies
as secretary of state fitted in with
the policies now advocated by the
democratic party, particularly the
neutrality and agricultural legis
lation. In recent years Bryan has re
ceived marked vindication of all
charges made against him, Wil
2,200 Fans See Yearlings
Drubbed by Constant
Air Attacks.
Amassing 51 points and holding
the frosh scoreless in 60 minutes
of fast scrimmage, Coach Dana X.
Bible's Cornhuskers put on their
initial public grid demonstration
before a crowd of 2,200 chilled
fans in Memorial stadium Monday
afternoon.
The first quarter, with the
regular varsity and number one
frosh strings opposing each other,
was by far the best lap in the
contest, even tho the Huskers
chalked up three touchdowns.
Lloyd Cardwell and Virg Yel
kin led the scoring spree for the
Huskers, each scoring twice. Sam
Francis, Ron Douglas, Dick Fisch
er and Art Ball accounted for the
remaining touchdowns. Francis
converted two out of four at
tempted placekicks. Yelkin made
one out of two, and Phelps and
Andreson both missed one out of
one.
Coach Bible's men had things
their own way in the first three
quarters, despite the fact that the
yearlings were doing their darn
dest to block the Husker scoring
parade.
Francis Returns Receive.
The frosh kicked off to the var
sity and Francis returned the ball
37 yards to the frosh 46 yard line.
Douglas went thru right tackle
for 11 yards. Douglas repeated for
5 yards. An offside penalty didn't
halt the Huskers, as Howell passed
to Cardwell for 30 yards to the
10 yard stripe. Cardwell ran
around left end to score easily in
2 minutes and 40 seconds of the
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A. W. S. INVITES ALL
TO ACTIVITIES TEA
Affair Designed to Acquaint
Students With Purposes
Of Campus Groups.
Held in order to acquaint wom
en students with the organization
and leaders of major women's ac
tivities on the Nebraska campus,
the annual all-activities tea, spon
sored by the A. W. S. board will
be presented on Thursday, Oct. 1,
from 3:30 to 5:30 in Ellen Smith
hall, Dorothy Bentz, A. W. S.
board member in charge an
nounced today.
The tea, open to all women in
the university, will aid new stu
dents and others interested in ac
tivities to become acquainted with
the purpose of the various campus
groups, thus enabling them to
make their choice more easily,
when they are permitted to sign
in three weeks for the activities in
which they wish to participate.
Representatives from each
major women's activity on the
campus will be present in order to
explain the activities and projects
of the group in which they partci
pate, and special rooms have been
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liams declared, and mo.'t of
Bryar.'s ideas, that were scoffed
at during his life time, have been
adopted by the government.
In writing "The Life of William
Jennings Bryan," the ex-reporter
found his chief trouble in an over
abundance of material. "There was
matter enough for twenty books,"
the biographer declared. The one
book took him 20 years to com
plete. Knew Famous Reporters.
Harking back again and again
to his days with the Denver Post,
Williams told of the reporters who
worked with him on the paper's
staff: Damon Runyan, Arthur
Chapman, who wrote "Out Where
the West Begins," Burns Mantle
and Winifred Black. Bonfils and
Tamman had two excellent quali
ties as bosses, according to Wil
liams. They paid their writers
well and treated them as equals.
The notorious shooting of Bon
fils by Henwood, and the subse
quent trial of Henwood has been
toid in Gene Fowler's book "Tim
berline." but Williams thinks that
one of the most interesting fea
tures of the trial was omitted from
the account.
"Paul Whiteman, the famous
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Big 6 Jersey Color
Scheme AsMires an
Eveful on Gridiron
AMES, la. The well dress
ed football players of the Big
Six conference will wear any
thing In the line of jerseys
from chaste white to royal
purple for 1936, advance ar
rangements made to prevent
officials from confusing op
posing players indicate.
The schedule of jerseys re
ceived at the Iowa State ath
letic office shows that blue
will predominate in the grid
Iron color scheme of the Cy
clones and the Cornhuskers
will appear in blue and red
respectively, with the Cy
clones alternating between
cardinal and blue for the
other games.
Colors chosen by other Cy
clone opponents are Kansas,
blue; Missouri, gold; Okla
homa, white, and Kansas
State, purple.
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TRIAL ASSIGNMENTS
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Gain Temporary Beats
For Probation Period
Of Two Weeks.
Choosing from the largest crop
of reporters to turn out for news
paper work on the Daily Xebras
kan in a number of years, the
managing editors assigned tem
porary beats to 46 students fol
lowing the practice newswriting
class Saturday. The beats, which
are to hold good for a probation
period of two weeks, were made
on the merits of the work done
on the Kebiaskan so far this year
and also upon the work done in
the first two news classes.
At the practice session last Fri
day, Managing Editor George Pipal
spoke on the value of the expe
rience obtained from work on the
Nebraskan, citing several posi
tions in the Associated Press and
on the country's leading newspa
pers that are now held by former
Nebraskan staff members.
Trial Stories Written.
The class period was sptnt in
work on an experiment story and
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TWO UNIVERSITY
SENIORS RELATE
BRITISH TRAVELS
Talks by Dan and Gordon Wil
liams wili be featured at the
weekly meeting of the Y. M. C. A.
Wednesday evening at 7:15 in
Temple theater.
The two seniors, who left last
March and have just returned to
the university, will teil of their
experiences as coal trimmers on
a British freighter, while bicycling
thru England, and while attending
student conferences in England
and Geneva.
Pahio Hill will lead Negro
spirituals at the opening of the
meeting. All interested men are
invited to attend.
Official University
Rinps Willi Seal Are
General Campus Fad
Official university rings with the
seal seem to be the new campus
fad, not only here but at many
other schools. Heretofore students
have regarded the college ring an
expensive luxury, to be possessed
only by the idle rich. But now the
Parker Pen company is offering
one to each student at the price
of twenty-five cents and the top
from a carton of their quick-drying
ink. Parker Quink.
The ring is a certified $2 value,
and any retailer selling Parker
Quink can advise as to the size
needed.
RESERVE SHELF BOOKS
PERUSED VERY LITTLE
Professors Hold Volumes Which Student Don't
Read, Reports Sho. 71 Percent of Checked
Issues Scanned Infrequently.
Interesting sidelights on what
happens to books placed on the
"reserve shelf" of the University
of Nebraska library is told in a
study completed under the direc
tion of Dr. D. A. Worcester of
the teachers college faculty, with
the assistance of Gilbert Doane,
librarian, and Mis Consuelo Gra
ham of the circulation department.
For the second semester a year
ago, a total of 6,1M books were
placed on reserve, to be used by
students ae supplementary mater
ial for classroom reading. For
some reason or other, l,fS7 or 32
percent of these books were not
usad at all (luring the semester,
while the number of reserved
books used no more than nine
times during this period amounted
to 4,594 or 74 percent of the total
number.
Mr. Doane says a book not used
more than nine times a semester
does not justify a position on the
reserve shelf, which in the light of
CUMMINGS' AIDE
ON CONVOCATION
WAT 11:00
Wayne C. Williams Opens
Temple Series This
Morning.
Highlights in the life story of
Williams Jennings Bryan, Ne
braska's Great Commoner, is the
topic to be discussed by Assistant
Attorney General ayne C. Wil
liams at the university's first con
vocation of the year scheduled for
11 o'clock this morning at Temple
theater.
Williams, declared by leadirg
critics to be the latest and ths
best biographer of William Jen
nings Bryan, outstanding Ne
braska statesman, is assistant
attorney general of the United
States, a nationally known lawyer,
and an author of some note. His
latest and probably his best work
is a story of the life of Bryan.
Assistant attorney general Wil
liams arrived in the city Sunday
night and expects to be a guest in
the city for a few days. He was
formerly attorney general of
Colorado, and spent much time
lecturing on legal and business
problems at the University of
Denver. Since 1933 he has served
as a special assistant in the de
partment of justice at Washing
ton. Noted Speakers on Schedule.
Dr. Harold W. Stoke, associate
professor of political science and
chairman of the university con
vocation committee, declared that
Williams will be only the first in
a series of internationally famous
speakers and artists who will be
brought to the campus this year.
"A convocation every month, is
the aim of the committee." as
serted Stoke. He added that "the
committee is also planning to in
clude addresses on art and litera
ture, instead of discussions of
public affairs only as has beca
the habit in the past."
This year's convocation commit
tee is composed of Dr. StoVc,
chairman; Miss Florence M -Gahey.
registrar; Prof. Karl Arn;t
of business administration school;
Porf. K. O. Brady, teachers cc -legc;
Howard Kirkpatrick. schoy!
of music: and Prof. Harry Kurz ( :
the romance language department.
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Plan to Make Arrangements
For Sponsoring New
Societies.
Meeting to crystallize the tenta
tive arrangements for new barb
clubs that. were, made at the barb
mass meeting last week, the Intcr
club Council will assemble this
evening at 7:30 in room eight of
U hall. Is is imperative that all
club representatives be present in
order that the machinery for barb
activities receive thp final sanc
tion of the council, Wilbur Beezley,
president of the organization, an
nounced. First business on the agendum
will be the matter of membership
in the newly formed clubs. That
this problem receive the proper
attention it is necessary for club
representatives to bring to the
meeting lists of their club mem
bers, including such information
as names, addresses and phone
numbers.
Men who plan to organize clubs,
but have not yet. got under way
are also asked to attend by Beez
ley. His Intention is that the touch
football schedule be arranged, that
plans for hour dances and other
social functions be discussed.
the recent survey, means that 74
percent of all the books reserve:!
the second semester last year
should not have been there.
According to the report, one fac
ulty member asked the library n
reserve for his classes a total of
f,48 individual books. Of thetse
220 were not taken off the shelves
during this period. Another in
srtuctor requested a total of 4j.'
volumes reserved. In this case
onlv three of 4:.r copies were used
more than six times. In some in
stances a book was used several
times, but always by the same per
son. In the opinion of Dr. Worces
ter. It would probably have been
better if the book could have been
loaned for two weeks. Many of
the reserved books were used for
a week or two at the beginning of
the semester, before students had
purchased their text book.
The above facts are not Intended
to imply in any way that the li
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