0 CbwancL and Obout Daily 1 Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska lly Sarah Meyer YOE. XXXVI NO. 95. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937. PRICE 5 CENTS Union Charter Receives Initial Approval r feBRASKAN I IT If Vt H H JJJF I 1 : .I 4. An En si Sil lwnig Ami a Squeaking Stand John T. Flynn certainly "packed 'cm in" Ht the convocation in the Temple Thursday morning;, to use a (rod old box office term. Not only was every seat in the audi torium filled, but there were many KtBiulinc or sittine in the aisles. Collegiate faces seemed in the ! minority among the countenances of faculty and townspeople, al though at times we could scarcely hear the speaker from our third row seat for the gliding of student pencils. When we remarked to Chan cellor Burnett that we hoped tome day they might have a meeting hall adequate for such convocation crowds he reminded ua that there are several other things which must come first, such as a library. Which is only too true. But a minor situation we must press. Couldn't something be done, powers that be, about the squeeking speak er's stand? Every time Econo mist Flynn made a weighty point about getting something to work, the stand complained feelingly. But despite such petty conspir acies to distract the minds of listeners, we found the audience highly attentive and appreciative. And paradoxically our irreverent mind was reminded of Dr. Jen ness' concepts of the why of class room achievement or lack of it. students in the first row he claims, have poor scholarship in a class because they have no one in front of them. Students in the back row get poor grades because there are too many people in front of them, and they may indulge freely their sociability. But students in the second row earn high marks: from their vant age point they get the impression of universality. The "Indian Summer" of La Parker: "In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, And change, with every passing lad, To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do; And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you!" Little by little more and more girls are admitting to attendance at and enjoyment of rassling. I3AvViaT-.a it's Ha 4Vi11 Via suspicion that your neighbors at the matches "will probably stick a knife in your back at the slightest provocation." Perhaps the animalistic proceedings in the . ring serve as an outlet for the beast that lurks below the surface of every man AND woman. At all events, numbers find the antics of the grunt and groan gents fun to behold. Any profesional athlete js a pastmaster of the art of putting I on a swell show. That'. "what the public pays to see. The trouble with too many of the burly bovs is that thev aren't smart j about picking their spots. And so the Federal Trade Commission was let in on one of the most wild-eyed cases these myoptic eyes have ever seen in print when a group of muscle makers ex hibited their wares. "Time" gives this account of the hearing: "Peeling off their shirts and undershirts in a hearing room in Washington one day, a prime collection of mighty muscled "weightlifters offered their prow ess and appearance as evidence in proceedings against Robert Collins Hoffman, a strapping York, Pa., body lover who sells male muscle in the form of les sons, bar bells and a magazine called "Strength and Health." Mr. Hoffman had been cited by the commission for unfair com petition with his rivals 'n the muscle making industry... "To justify his claims, Mr. Hoff man last week took his stable of champion strongmen to Washing ton. One strongman. . -can perform the unduplicated feat of hand bal ancing on ten Indian clubs. Once upon the clubs, he dropped them two by two until his weight rested on four clubs thru his thumbs and fingers . . . "Bob Mitchell, whose specialty is letting a Ford truck run over his stomach, did not have facili ties for that exhibition last week, but he showed Examiner Hall how to get into the crab position from flat on his back with a man on his stomach. At one point Terlazzo (Olympic world championship featherweight lifter) and Mitchell leaped on the table, kicked aside the briefs, put on a muscle dance. Mr. Hoff man, not to be outdone, stood on Ms thumbs." John Teter Scnning says the students around here have been on a "sit-down" strike for years." The National Geographic society la very proud, and justifiably so, of the many fields of scentific en deavor in which it has pioneered. It's list of "first" achievements is enviable indeed. And so we were interested mightily in its public ized "first rolored statosphere picture." Breathes there a man with soul so dead that he has never dreamed of how Mother Earth must look from wav. way up. The airplane topographical shots are always the I Dean Ferguson and Prof. Haney most bethumbed in a geography, i eft Lincoln last Tuesday and ex as are the photographs of the sur-. pert to return sometime late Sun t Continued on Tage 3 day night. MORTAR BOARDS PLAN SCHOLASTIC IE Honorary to Entertain 475 Women Students at Event Feb. 28. Approximately 475 women stu dents will be guests of Mortar Board, senior women's honorary, at their annual'soholarshlp tea to be held Sunday afternoon, Feb. 28, from 3 to 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall. Invitations to the affair were extended by the honorary to wom en who have an 80 average, are carrying 12 hours during the pres ent semester, and who have 27 hours credit for two previous se mesters. As a special feature of the aft ernoon's program, a scholarship plaque will be awarded to the se nior girl in the university who has maintained for three years a rec ord of achievement in scholarship, leadership, and service to the uni versity. At the same time, honor able mention will be awarded to two runnerups. Faculty and honorary members who will be present at the tea as special guests are: Miss Margaret Fedde, Miss Pauline Gellatly. Dr. Edna Schrick, Miss Kate Field, Miss Amanda Heppner, Miss H. Alice Howell, Miss Mabel Hays, Miss Mabel Lee, Miss Florence McGahev, Miss Marguerite Mc Phee, Miss Elsie Ford Piper. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson. Dr. Elda Walker, Mrs. Hattie Plum .Wil liams. Mrs. Fred Williams, Mrs. Ada Westover. Dr. Clare Wilson, Miss Louise Pound, Miss Eliza Gamble, Miss Lenore Alway. Miss Nellie Eastburn, Miss Matilda Shelby, Miss Frances Drake. Miss Eleanora Miller, Mrs. C. F. Ladd, Miss Olivia Pound and Miss Sarah T. Muir. TO Mrs. L. Williams to Offer Dancing Lessons in Armory. , , Oncers will again trod the i1 toi th ar"lor V w s J ?:30 henthe barb A.W.S. JJJ ul u'1' " vT" " "VT atnAnlc TTfr tnncrt U'tlrt WISH IT.. students. Mrs. Luella Williams, dance in structor, will conduct lessons dur ing part of the first hour. "Hour dances for unaffiliates are so much in demand that the board plans to continue them ulr ':,"," ?nf- ?Cf .$ Ja? iv barb "eJeJ j l the e worthwhile because of the cance l.h7 o student to meet oiner siuoems mc.Y orion- oh only on campus sidewalks." Tonight s lessons ottered Dy Mrs. Williams will merely continue the fundamental steps of ballroom dancing, but will increase in diffi cult' at each hour dance, until special steps will be introduced. Elizabeth Edison and Mary Bird, members of the board, are in charge of the hour dance. Admis sion will be ten cents. Chaperons for the social dance will be Pro fessor and Mrs. G. L. Peltier and Professor and Mrs. A. A. Luebs. 'life" stimtates public: intekest in .news rum HE "Life," it appeais. is setting an example. The weekly pic ture publication, which is being received everywhere with increasing acclaim, has stim ulated interest in pictorial journal ism. The latest result of renewed in terest is the statement by Warren Novak, student in the Municipal University of Omaha, that he would this week begin publication of a bi-monthly picture magazine, "The Kandid Keyhole." The pictorial re-view of univer sity life, inside and out" will vie for student attention with the "Gfteway," the university's week ly newspaper. When "Gateway" Editor P.uth Brehman substiutted for the gossip column, "The Keyhole." a column entitled "Around the Campus." dealing with university matters of a serious nature, Novak decided that some agency must cany on the lighter side of student life. Dean Ferguson, Haney Serve On Engineering Examining Committee Dean O. J. Ferguson and Prof. J. W. Haney, of the college of en gineering are in South Dakota this week as members on the examina tion committee of the Engineering Council for Professional Develop ment. The committee is examining the engineering college of South Da kota State university at Brook ings, and also the South Dakota School of Mines at Kspid city. A FOR SUNDAY HOURDANCETONiGHT Flynn Questions Federal Borrowing; Asks Reform of Corporate Control Economist Proposes a High Tax on "Saved Dollar" to Finance Plan. Exposing inefficiencies in our administrative system of govern ment borrowing and leveling a scalding attack on corporate ex ploitation which have effected a delusive sham of Industrial recov ery, John T. Flynn culminated his convocation address Thursday morning by proposing indefinite solution of income taxation and corporation control to rescue a de ficient democratic order from the financial decay that awaits it. In his two fold discussion of "Recovery or Delusion," the visit ing economist, journalist and au thor reflected the industrial con valescence we are experiencing to day, as viewed thru the revealing lens of the economist's microscope. Later he shifted fire to the "mon strous economic machine gun" that our legalized corporations have become, but was conveniently saved by the bell so far as any possible solution to matter was concerned. "We Have Got Recovery." "We are supposed to have recov ery, and we have got recovery," Flynn began in his distinctive east side accent. Once more we talk in terms of billions of dollars, and ENGINEERS APPOINT DEPARTMENT HEADS P. Burns. General Chairman, Announces Leaders of Exhibitions. In order that plans and every detail for Engineers Week which will be held the first week of May. appointments of those who will head various departments in ar ranging for the prominent affair were made yesterday. Pete Burns, general chairman for the week, made the appointments. Those who will head their re spective departments are as follows: Sledcr Runqnel Fi-M !... Pro it nun . . . . (Vinvomtlnn. lohn X1-Tolr . . harlfn Mlnnirk . . Hprbrrt Rrlrhrrt .1.414411 Nfniripyrr John l'arkT PnMlrltj . . . Harry l.np.lnn Window Dinplusn Krnnrth lark Trafflr ninld Kuska Tirkrt Sale Harold Hatwr ampin stnirturr Pick il-man Ribbon Nalrt I'anl i.afnlilln onti-M Manar fclrmr lausarn Selected on a basis of their par ticipation in activities both in their own departments and in Engineering college as a whole, these men will have entire charge of Engineers' Week. More specific arrangements will be announced at a later date. Another trophy, with the trophy presented to the Engineering school winning the field day (Continued on Page 4.) JUDGE B, H. PAINE SPEAKS ON 'WASHINGTON, LINCOLN' Ag Students Hear Speech by Justice of State Supreme Court. tlrguig students to make the best possible use of their educa tional possibilities. Judge Bayard H. Paine, of the Nebraska State Supreme Court, reviewed briefly the lives of Lincoln and Wash ington at an All Agricultural coll ege convocation Thursday after noon in Ag hall. Comparing and contrasting the lives of the two great American statesmen. Judge Paine, whose hobby is organizing and making speeches, challenged the students to apply their natural abilities as Abraham Lincoln did, in order to lead successful lives. "With the addition of higher education to day" Judge Paine stated." every man and woman has an equal chance to make a name for him or herself in the world. Frances Schmidt introduced the speaker of the afternoon to the gathering of 150 Agricultural college students. CHURCH TO PRESENT, THREE ACT COMEDY Methodic Student Stage 'Marrying Anne? Play This Evening. "Marrying Anne?" is the title for the three act play to be given by the student group of the Trin ity Methodist church, 18th and A, Friday evening. February 26, at 7:45 o'clock. The play which is being pro duced under the direction of Mrs. Robert B. Slaughter, is a comedy involving many humorous situa tions brought about by the attempt of an elderly gentleman to marry off his grand-daughter who insists on being too modern to let a grand-parent dictate her marriage. Proceeds from the performance are to be used for buying stage equipment. o- SALIENT POINTS OF FLYNN SPEECH 1. We have recovery but it is unwholesome. 2. Relief dollar becomes a spending dollar and eventually a non-circulating "saved" dol lar. 3. English precedent dictates the taxing of the "saved" dollar, 4. The accumulated federal debt will never be paid, 5. Unscrupulous use of the corporation as an economic ma chine gun suggests need of fed eral regulation. 6. We must reform the demo cratic system rather than resort to communism or collectivism. heap praise on the shoulders of a great president as the wheels of production gain momentum," he de clared. As business men we recog nize this recovery in the form of j a more lucrative income, and re joice at it, "but as citizens of a 'great republic, desirous of making j it work, we want to be realistic ; about it." ! If one studies the situation j closely, he will find that one of j the fundamental requisites of re I covery is long time investments, ; the visitor informed. "When fresh funds flow into our system and ! continue to flow, we have recov- OUPONT MEETS SENIORS Personnel Manager Comes j Here for Interviews. E. F. DuPont, personnel man ager of the DuPont company in Wilmington, Delaware, spent the. entire day Wednesday in Lincoln interviewing students of the uni versity. Among the twenty or so individuals who Mr. DuPont met and talked with were graduate students who are candidates for Ph. D. degrees and Master degrees this year, seniors in chemical engineering, and seniors graduat ing with a major in chemistry. IP L Pi Lambda Theta Offers Aid to Students With High Averages. Pi Lambda Thcta loans, rar.g i ing from $2U0 to $1,000, are now I available to worthy students with !high scholastic standing and limit- ed financial resources. According to information re ceived from the national offices of the women's honorary educa tional sorority, both men and wom en may apply. Juniors, seniors, and graduate students are eligible, but preference will be shown to women graduate students. Appli cants must be studying in the gen eral field of education, but not necessarily with a major in educa tion or with teaching as their in tended profession. Applicants must be able to offer some security for the loan. Re payments on the loans are to be gin Jan. 1. following the close of the school year for which the stu dent received the final loan. In terest charges, less than 5 per cent annum, will begin from the date of the loan and will be pay able at half year intervals or monthly installments, correspond ing to the plan accepted for re payment. All inquiries relative to Pi Lambda Theta loans are to be ad dressed to Mrs. Kathryn Williams, executive secretary, Haverford Court., Haverford. Pa. MARGIE DEE HEADS FEATURE LIST OF WEEKS' PROM BAND Pretty Songstress Gives Up ' Stage for Career of Vocalizing. ' lnht-ntaiice plays a gieat part in the lives of each and every one of us. and has applied itself with j no uncertain force in the case of j Margie Dee, featured vocalist with I Anson Weeks and his orchestra ; which comes to Lincoln on March i 6 for the Junior-Senior prom. I Margie Dee inherited from her j forebearers on her mother's side I a love for music which is at least beginning to assert itself, but it was not music with which Margie, however, wanted to win for her self a place in the entertainment world. As a child, she had always wanted to be an actress and as she grew up this yearning became even stronger when she played leading roles in high school pro ductions, which won her ranking as the best high school actress in the state of Oklahoma for two successive years. It was purely by chance that she went in for singing-, and it was this chance alone that brought her to the attention of the portly Anson Weeks Shakespearean Actress. As it happened, Margie was ap pearing on the radio in a drama ! Must Make Economic Order Work to Remedy Ills of Democracy. cry. Now we have recovery in this country, but singularly, we haven't got the long credit." We create new I. O. U.'s, he declared. Uncle Sam Foots the Bill. In answer to a self directed question as to where the recovery we are enjoying today is coming from, the gray haired economist raised himself to his toes with the assistance of a creaking stand, and replied: "It is coming from long term borrowing and spend ing. But the borrowing has been done by our good old Uncle Sam." In the last four years the. federal government has assumed respon sibility for a debt of 14'2 billion dollars borrowed from commercial banks, to be used for relief pur poses. Within a short time this entire sum will have returned to the cof fers of the capitalistic few from whom it was borrowed, and we will have nothing more than a cor pulent national debt to show for present recovery. "That in my humble judgment, is not a whole some recovery. The system itself is on the dole until we can func ( Continued on Page 4.) FEATURES WORK OF THREE NEBRASKA! Writings by Instructors Albrecht, Johnson to Appear in Issue. The February issue of the Prairie Schooner, which is to make its appearance in a few days, con tains outstanding articles by three Nebraska writers. Two of the three authors are instructors in the university. One of the most unusual fea tures is an article by Erich Al brecht, instructor in the German department, entitled "A Heart Without a Country." In his letter, Mr. Albrecht deplores the lack of emotionalism in America in com parison with the open emotional ism one finds in the German peo ple. He writes that Americans are emotionally starved. Maurice Johnson, instructor in English, surveys th accomplish ments of the Prairie Schooner for the past ten years. The paper is a general survey of the Prairie Schooner covering outstanding (Continued on Page 4.) TRACTOR SENDS COMPANY SUPERVISOR j CroM ell of Peoria Firm I To Interview M. E. Seniors. J. P. Crowell, supervisor of plant training at the Caterpillar Tractor company in Peoria, 111., will be at the university Tuesday. March 2, to interview mechanical engineer ing students who might be inter ested in obtaining work with this company. The corporation is offering a two year graduate apprenticeship course covering assembly lines, laboratories, heat treatment, foun dry, pattern ship, offices, and test forms. All students interested should make appointments at once in Prof. Haney's office in me chanical engineering hall room 203. tized version of one of Shake speare's works, and the production manager finding that the skit ran short about three minutes, mo tioned to Margie to do something. ! Since Margie had just learned the words to a new popular song, she j hurriedly motioned to the staff pianist to sit down at the piano I and play the song while she I sang it. By a further coincidence Anson Weeks, who happened to be tour ing in the vicinity of Oklahoma City, had his radio tuned in to the same station and upon hearing Margie's voice ring out clearly thru the ether waves, decided to investigate her for the possibility of singing with his orchestra. Makes Debut at Home. The investigation proving suc cessful. Margie made her song stylist debut right in her own back yard as it were, at Spring Lake in Oklahoma City, where Weeks played a limited engagement last summer. Since then, her popular ity has skyrocketed to a great height and her appearance with Anson Weeks' orchestra is incen tive enough to travel miles to see and hear the popular songstress. Also featured in the Weeks or chestra is the diminutive Frankie Sanuto. guitarist and novelty en- jtertainer de luxe, who standi in j (Continued on Page 4.) Ifp ; If r MARGIE DEE Featured Vocalist With Anson Weeks and Bis Orchestra JACK ELSON 10 PLAY AT R.O.T.C. E Cadet Officers to Attend Affair as Special Guests. Music of Jack Elson and his or chestra will be featured on Sat urday afternoon, Feb. 27. when members of the R. O. T. C. spon sors organization honor officers of the Nebraska cadet corps at a tea dance-from 3 to 5:30 o'clock at the Cornhusker hotel. According to plans revealed by Mary Yoder, honorary colonel and president of the sponsors' organi zation, presidents and social chair men of organized women's houses and sponsors of last year's military units will also attend the affair as special guests. In addition to these, approximately 100 women recognized as leaders in campus activities will be present. Expressing her hope that cadet officers and sponsors will make definite plans to attend the tea dance, Miss Yoder commented, Tlans for the dance are complete and from present indications we are hoping to make this year's afair unusually successful. Because of this we are anxious that those invited make a special effort to attend the event on Saturday aft ernoon." Committees which have been working on arrangements for the affair include: General committee, Marian Holland, chairman: Betty Van Horn, June Butler and Vir ginia Foster; room committee, Jean Doty, chairman: Eetty How land and Muriel Krasne; food com mitee Marjorie Bannister, chair man: Betty Widener and Pet Lahr; orchestra, Ruth Thygeson. chair man; Irene Sellers and Dorothy Chapelow; invitations, Virginia Anderson, chairman; Jane Brack ett and Jane Walcott. L Nebraska Dean Publishes First Issue of Drug Quarterly. Dr. Kufus A. Lyman. kaa of the college of pharmacy, as editor of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. re cently published the first issue of his magazine. It is a journal of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and is pub lished every three months by that organization. At the last meeting held at Dallas Tex., the society decided to publish quarterly a journal of its activities and selected Doctor Ly man as the editor of it. Doctor Lyman is also a member of the executive committee of the associ ation of which 55 institutions are members. Included in the first number of th journal were the reports of the national convention, an article in memory of the late Dr. Theodore Bradley who was president of the association at the time of lus death, as well as num erous other articles dealing with questions of cuirent interest in the field of pharmaceutical education. Student Interested in Theological Work May Meet W ilh Leslie Dr. Elmer A Leslie, professor of Hebrew, and Old Testament at the Boston University School of The ology, is to be on the .Nebraska campus March 6 and 7 to confer with students that are planning for a ministerial career or for any other branch of full time church work. Conferences with Dr. Leslie may be arranged with Rev. P-obert E. Drey at snv time during the com ing Wet-k for the hours that the visiting ecclesiastic is not engaged in addressing young people's groups. 1 STUDENT BOARD STAMPS FAVOR ON CONSTITUTION Faculty, Regents, Alumni Association to View New Document. Coincident with the beginning of excavation for Nebraska's em bryonic Student Union building this week, members of the special student council committee met. yesterday afternoon to discuss the provisions of the first tentative drsft of the building's constitu tion. Before the document can be sub mitted to the student council for approval, it must be considered and accepted by representatives of the faculty, the Alumni associa tion, and the Board of Regents. When it has received the recom mendation of these three bodies, it will be returned to the commit tee and submitted to the council. Liberal Document. Altho provisions of the constitu- tion have been withheld until it is in final form for submission to the council, Marylu Petersen, commit tee chairman, declared that it was a liberal document and should meet with the entire approval of the student body. Miss Petersen and Arnold Le (ConUnued on Page 2.) statearTsociety opens 47th exhibit Show Paintings by Leading j Prize Winning Artists ! of Country. ' Following a custom that is in its ! . - .. - 4U VhrQcVa Art UI ,--rtI, l'1 . , v .... - - - - association will open its annual art exhibit Sunday afternoon in the galleries of Morrill hall with a program that is especially ar ranged for the members. Monday, however, will begin a period of four weeks during which the public will be privileged to view the exhibit, the most important art showing of the year in Lincoln. Two galleries of paintings have been chosen by the association that represent the works of the lead ing and prize-winning artists of the country as well as many diff erent schools of thought, kinds of views, and types of paintings. Among the canvases that th asociation has secured by consid erable effort to please its patrons are "My Mother and Father" by John Stuart Curry, which was re produced in color in the first issue of "Life;" "Miners Resting," by Paul Sample, an artist who was greatly appreciated at last year's exhibit: and works of both Thomas Benton and Grand Wood. Other artists that will be repre sented in this collection will be Lauren Ford, by her "Little Boy Blue:" Maurice Pendergast, a ( Continued on Page 4.) II. RIDER TO PLAY ON tRONE-0-PIIONE FOR I) ELI AN UNION t Henry P.icier. who earns his bread and butter putting together pieces of prehistoric animals in the base ment of Morrill Hall, has con structed a unique musical instru ment which he has dubbed a "bone-o-phone." This instrument, constructed out of odds and ends of bones left over from dinosaurs and armarillas, will accompany Mr. Rider on a jaunt up to Room S03, Temple building Friday night, Feb. 26. at 9 o'clock, where the pair will entertain members of the Delian Union Literary society with a nov el recital. An aded feature will be an il lustrated lecture on Carlsbad cav ern, to be given by Assistant Pro fessor Edwin A. Grone, of the de partment of electrical engineering. All unaffiliated students are cordiallv invited to attend. Y. M. C. A. DISCUSSION GROUP TOJIEET AT NOON Topic, 'Qualifications for Discipleship,' Stresses Life of Christ. ! All university men interested in a discussion of important features I in the life of Jesus and the rela tion of these characteristics to problems of modern life will meet today at a luncheon to be held in room 6 of Grant Memorial hall. Secretary C. D. Hayes of the campus Y. M. C. A., who is ia charge of the entire series of pre Easttr discussion meetings, states that the subject of the meetiiig this noon will be "Qualificationa for Discipleship." with emphasis placed on a study of the absolute commitment required of those who follow Jesus. Elmer Horstman, junior in arts and sciences college, has been apointed chairman of the committee in charge of the e maining meeting. ft? 5 . 5 ? -" t-