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NO SLIGHT CONSTERNATION
was caused in the Nebraskan of
fice Saturday when Columnist
Meyer informed the editors that a
sorority initiation would keep her
from her Journalistic duties-for
Saturday. With a front page col
umn to fill, we could think of no
better entertainment for Sunday
readers than a tour of American
campl, with reservations on the
front pages of college newspapers,
to see what is troubling the minds
of the rest of the undergraduate
world. If we pet so much as one
fan letter, the feature may be con
tinued as a permanent addition.
NO SOONER THAN the base
ball season starts, the fun be
gins. After diamond-backers at
U. C. L. A. had persuaded their
President von Kleinschmid to
threw In the first pitch of the
year, the team provided show
that must have given even the
president his ticket's worth.
The Bruins were playing the
Santa Clara Bronco's last Tues
day, and the Broncs seemed to
enjoy ribbing members of the
other team, especially one Big
John "Big Stick" 2aby, member
of the Uclan boxing squad.
The next time Zaby went on the
field, words became blows and
three Bronc players piled him. The
free-for-all that followed resulted
in Zany and a Bronc named Mo
Guire petting one-way tickets to
the showers. On the way to the
gym, they had one last round be
fore some athletic managers pulled
them apart. Yes, folks, baseball
season has begun.
NO ONE WHO SCANS the col
legiate press can overlook the fiery
red issues of the Kansas State Col
legian, which have given play-byplay
reports of the Sigma Delta
Chi sit-down encampment, pur
pose of which is to mock the state
legislature which refuses to build
the college a new science building.
If national publicity was the
purpose of this hair-brained Ag
gie venture, they got it 6,000
words on press wires in the past
two weeks. But whether they
get a new building or not is an
other matter; some of the men
in Topeka weren't exactly
pleased.
There was probably some ex
cuse for the Veterans for Future
Warn the Princeton fiasco to
satirize the bonus bill, which
brought in a few good licks for
peace-mindedness. But what good
the publicity that Kansas State, or
the Yale "Roosevelt for King" club
might accomplish is far out
weighed by negative sentiment. As
the editor of the Daily Pennsyl
vanian, commenting on the latter
affair, puts it: "Heaven help the
American college man if he can
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KIRSCH TALKS ON ART
STYLE CHANGES TODAY
Fine Arts Chairman Gives
Resume of Nebraska
Exhibitions.
"Changing Styles in Art Ex
hibitions" is the subject chosen by
Dwight Kirsch. chairman of the
fine arts department, for his gal
lery talk this afternoon at 3
o'clock. He will speak in Gallery
A of Morrill hall V-here pictures In
the exhibition of the Nebraska Art
association are being shown.
Professor Kirsch will give a
brief resume of the activities and
the kind of exhibitions sponsored
by the Nebraska Art association
since it was founded 46 years ago
and contrast them with the differ
ent styles of the future necessi
tated by the present trend to such
art work as murals and illustra
tions. Problems encountered in assem
bling the present exhibition will be
discussed by Professor Kirsch and
he will comment on those pictures
that have attracted the most at
tention. He promises to try to an
swer questions puzzling his hearers
This is the second lecture spon
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Microscopic Picture
Lid Could Serve
Inspiration,
To tell a New York stylist or a
Parisian designer of women's
gowns that his local Junk dealer's
rubbish heap would furnish him
clues for new snd striking de
signs would probably be so much
waste of breath. Absurd as it may
sound, there is a degTee of truth
in this statement, which becomes
the more convincing as tbc indi
vidual studies the above patterns
representing camera microscopic
pictures of the various kinds of
metals known to cverj-one today.
To Professor W. K. Weiland of
the mechanical engineering de
partment of the university the
microscopic photographing of met
als Is a hobby as useful as it is
Interesting.
Variety of Patterns Unfold.
"In fact, it's intriguing." says
the professor, who Is one of Lin
coln's best known amateur pho
tographers. "What an endless va
riety of patterns such a study un
folds. It is truly an artists' para
dise. The clumsy lid of the old
cast iron coal stove may offer an
rrinal suexestion for
milady ? evening wrap. A r.leel
plow share, carelessly burned be-1
VOL. XXXVI NO. KM).
THREE-ACT FARCE
'The Senator's Husband'
Opens Monday With
Rogers as Lead.
University players will open the
final piny of the current season
Monday night when they present
the first showing of "The Senator's
Husband," a new comedy written
by the Nebraska playwright, Fred
Ballard. The play will continue
through Saturday with evening
performances daily and a Satur
day matinee.
Charles Rogers, technical di
rector of the players staff, will
appear in the title role of Jesse
Smythe. an Omaha newspaper
publisher, who is the husband of
the honorable Senator Carrie B.
Smythe, of Nebraska. Carrying
the second lead as Carrie B., a
politician of long standing and
great repute, will be the Player's
versntilo actress, Margaret Car
penter. Cast of 12.
This prc-Broadway showing of
"The Senator's Husband" boasts
a cast of 12 that includes two
more members of the production
staff. Besides Mr. Rogers, Pauline
Gellatly, children's theater director,
will play the character of "Babe"
Fuller, an Omaha debutante: and
Don Buell, associate technical
director, will appear in the pro
duction in the role of Boone
Jackson.
Other members of the cast are
Richard Rider, who will be Joe
Fuller, an Omaha editor: Arthur
Ball, who plays Bradford Smythe,
the senator's son: William New
comber, as Sam Sheets: Ruth Van
filyke, as Susie McCleod: and
Robert Johnston as Quincy With
erspoon Weems. The role of
"Dixie" James will be portrayed
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WILL SPONSOR TRIP
IN SPRING VACATION
Party to Inspect Eli-Lilly
Plant at Indianapolis
On Annual Outing.
The Pharmacy club at the uni
versity is sponsoring an inspection
trip to a large supply house n
Indianapolis during the spring va
cation. The annual trip of the
club will commence Wednesday
evening, March 24. and will end
the following Sunday morning.
About 30 students and druggists
have registered for the trip which
will take them thru the Eli-Lilly
plant at Indianapolis, one of the
largest houses for pharmaceutical
supplies in the country. The trip
will be chaperoned by Dr. nd
Mrs. Joseph B. Burt of the phar
macy college.
Visit Biological Farm.
The party will leave by train
j for Indianapolis the day before the
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DAILY INKBKASKAN TO
HOLD DIMMER FRIDAY
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To Attend Dinner at
Cornhusker.
Annual banquet of the Daily
Nebraskan staff will be held at
the Cornhusker hotel, 6:30 Friday
evening, March 19. In addition to
the regular paid members of the
editorial and business staffs, those
reporters and contributors who
have done consistent and steady
work for the Daily Nebraskan will
be invited to attend the affair.
Phiscilla Wicks, Dick DeBrown
and Mary Anna Cockle are in
charge of the program which will
be announced later this week.
of Stove
as Designer
Says W. F. Weiland
yond repair by the blacksmith's
helper may lead an an exclusive
Park Avenue dress shop. Even the
designer of modern wall paper can
receive many an inspiration from
the study of these pictures, tech
nically known as photomicro
graphs. "Why travel in Persia or Egypt
for ancient and overworked de
signs, or molest the American In
dian for the stories he weaves into
his jacket? Just rummage through
the local junk dealer's rubbish
heap and you have a potential sup
ply of designs beyond the creative
possibilities or uie greaiesi sn-i
ists."
Business Requires Patii .ice.
Like anything worthwhile this
business of photographing metals!
through the microscope requires
patience and a degree of tech-:
nique. Unlike biological speci
mens, metals are not transparent;
to visible radiation, and therefore, j
must be viewed by reflected light.
Artificial light is passed through a i
condensing system into an opening!
in the mirroscopic tube Just above
the object to be photographed. A
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CHOSEN TO CLOSE
PLAYER
SEASON
Official
Prof. KirKcli to Talk on
(liiinging Sll's in Art
pcor f htifesH
From Lincoln Journal,
who will discuss the subject:
"Changing Styles in Art Exhibi
tions" this afternoon in gallery A
of Morrill hall. Mr. Kirsch, chair
man of the fine arts department,
will give the second in a series of
talks on art sponsored by the Ne
braska Art association in connec
tion with its art exhibit at the
university.
COEDS TO ELECT
A.W.S.
Misses Barbour. Cherny to
Run for Presidency
On Wednesday.
Election of A. W. S. officers and
board members for the 1937-38
term will take place on Wednes
day, March 17 from nine to five
o'clock in Ellen Smith hall and the
Ag home economics building, Bar
bara DePutron. retiring president
announced today. Heading the
ballot in the race for presidency of
the organization will be Jane Bar
bour and Betty Cherny.
Four girls from each of the
three upper classes will be elected
to serve on the board for the
coming year, with the provision
that at least one unaffiliated girl
in each class will receive a posi
tion. The girl polling the largest
vote in the senior group will auto
matically assume the office of vice
president; the one getting the larg
est vote in the junior class will
serve as secretary, and the girl
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VARSITY DAIRY CLUB
PLANS JUDGING MEET
Three Divisions to Compete
In Ag Campus Contest
Thursday.
Under the sponsorship of the
Varsity Dairy club, a dairy prod
ucts judging contest will be held
in the Dairy Industry building at 5
o'clock next Thursday afternoon.
The contest has been divided into
three parts, a junior division, a
senior division, both for men; and
a women's division for home eco
nomics students.
In order that those competing in
the contest may practice before
the meet, a session under the di
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Lower Income
City Public Opinion Canvass
Believes Government
Helping Business.
In a carefully developed poll of
Lincoln opinion on the proposed
supreme couil reorganization plan.
Dr. V. E. Walton of the psychol
ogy department and 13 students in
business psychology who conduct
ed the canvass, found that 36.4
percent of the people here whose
incomes were below $1,000 favored
the suggested change, while P0.9
percent of those whose incomes
were $4,000 or more voted nega
tively on the question.
The poll conducted here was a
pail of a nationwide study of pub
lic opinion sponsored by the Psy
chological corporation of New
York City. Dr. Walton is con
sulting psychologist for the cor
poration in Nebraska.
Votes of Lincoln people were
recorded only after the city's pop
ulation had been carefully checked
and classified according to four
diffeient wage groups, thus insur
ing a scientific evaluation or cross
section of Lincoln's attitude on
this and other subjects under
study. Concerning the supreme
court question. 46.3 percent of
those interviewed in the national
poll answered negatively the ques
tion. "Do you believe that the
United States supreme court
should have six new Judges?" The
OFFICERS
BOARD MARCH 1 7
Student Newspaper
LINCOLN NKBHASKA. SUNDAY. MARCH II. 1037.
MEN'S GLEE CLUB
TO OFFER ANNUAL
William Tcmpel to Direct
Chorus in 1937 Public
Appearance.
The University of Nebraska
men's glee club will present its
annual concert for the public in
the coliseum Sunday afternoon,
March 21. The glee club is under
the direction of William G. Tempel
of the school of music faculty. Ac
companists Ihis year are Earlc
Boyes and Taul LeBar.
The program promises to reach
a new high not only in its profes
sional quality but in its entertain
ing value for the layman and mu
sician. There will be exacting
Bach chorale numbers, Henschel's
"Morning Hymn," ensemble inter
pretations of compositions by
Gaines and Fletcher, and Wilbur
Chcnoweth's newest hit song, "Hail
Varsity," dedicated to the students
of the university.
In addition to the glee club num
bers, Mr. Tempel has arranged
presentations by a cornet trio
composed of John Shildneck. also
of the school of music staff:
Yvonne Gaylord. and Duane Har
mon. Lucile Reilly, Lincoln so
prano, will sing several numbers,
including the Musetta's valse song
from "La Boheme."
Bernard Dalton, baritone, will
be heard in several solo numbers,
as will Alfred Reider. another
baritone, and Clyde Shonerd, tenor.
Both the classical school and com
positions from the pen of semi
popular writers will be presented,
with two of Victor Herbert's ever
popular selection. "Tramp. Tramp.
Tramp." from "Naughty Marietta"
and "Romany Life." The pro
gra m :
Krrnk Forth. 0 Bpairruus I.itii. from
the "OhriFtmftS Oratorio," Bach: My
Chn..n Kmc In Christ trip l-orrt. from the
i cantata, "How Brlirhtlv Ciltums the Star,"
I
ARGUERS TO DEBATE
Y
Split Line-Up to Discuss
Wage, Hour Question
On Broadcast.
Encaging in a split debate,
something different from the usual
debate line-up. forensic represent
atives of Doane college and the
University will speak over KFOR
at three o'clock Monday after-
i noon. The teams are composed of
I Ernest Wintroub. Nebraska, first
i affirmative; Clarence Kellner.
Doane. second affirmative: and
, Howard Bourne. Doane. first nega
tive; Lenord Kreuger, Nebraska.
second negative. The subject of the
competition will be the minimum
wages and maximum hours ques
tion. Four students will also repre
sent Nebraska at the Iowa legis
lative assembly which will be held
April 23 and 24 at Ames, la., de
bate coach H'. A. White announced
yesterday. Tryouts for the quartet
that will represent Nebraska will
be held either Tuesday. March 23
or Thursday, March 25. In case the
demand for more time is requested,
however, the competitive tryouts
may be postponed until after the
Easter recess.
The subiects that will be dis
RECITAL MARCH 21
cussed at the legislature have been ; Dean O. J. Ferguson of the col
announced as the sales tax and j epe 0 engineering and Prof. Jiles
the state minimum wage laws, as j Hanev of the mechanical engineer
pertaining to Iowa. Students try- j mg faculty are among the mem
ing out will be allowed to speak I bers of a national committee from
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Groups Favor
Court Reform, Poll Reveals
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From Tne uncuin Journal
investigation did not Include peo
ple on farms.
Designate Wage Groups.
Wage groups are designated by
the letters A. B. C. and D listed at
the top of the following tables.
"A" group includes those whos
incomes were J4.000 or more: "B"
group, Incomes of 2.onn to f 4.000:
"C" group, incomes of 1,000 to
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of the University of
Room Shortage Compels
Shift of Frosh Classes
To Afternoons, Saturday
Turning Out Froslinu'ii Woifl
Solve Uni Classroom Problem
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UNIVERSITY HALL.
(An Editorial)
Termed bv officials as "the
in"- news story announces the decision of the university senate ,
schedule all freshman classes after the noon hour or on odd
days Of the week.
For at least twenty per cent of the next freshman class, :
this decision means a tram ride back home. According to regis
tration questionnaires, thirty per cent of women students and I
fifty-five per cent of the men were employed in part-time work
this year, to enable them to bear the expense of a university j
education. Most of this part-time work, due to conditions en
tirely out of the university's control, falls on Saturday or the
afternoon hours.
For Nebraska youth who have been taught since birth that
this is a land of opportunity with emphasis on educational op- j
portunity this decision will be a bitter pin. ine Diame uucsu -
lie on them for wanting- an education, nor does the blame lie
VerySoyut e UniVCrSity'S hand "S
But this action does not begin to settle the university's j
classroom problems,
sented by the above picture: . .
That photograph a mass of light wires, slipping joists,
sancinff walls was taken in the hallway of a classroom build
in University hall. Built in 1871, it has been condemned by
architects and fire inspectors, bolted together, partially demol
ished Yet it still houses two complete departments witn about
850 students attending its classrooms daily. It is a menace to
the safety of every student and instructor who enters it, but it
is "the only way out." , . . ,,
Perhaps this crowding and limitation of registration isn t
the only way out. Students, at least, have hopes that the state
SstitSon building measure, legislative bill 334, will find a fa
vorable reception on the floor of the senate as it , did in .com
mittee. It would seem more democratic, this plan that builds
for the future, than telling freshmen: "You can t enroll Here.
Sorry, but it's the only way out."
FERGUSON. HANKY
mke Torn wmi
NATIONAL BOARD
Lincoln People With Incomes
Over $4,000 Opposed to
Packing,' Strikes.
$2,000. and "D" group included
individuals whose incomes were
below $1,000. Among the ques
tions asked were the following,
the numbers of the questions cor
responding with the numbers on
the tables:
1. Do you believe that travel
by airplane is safer today than
a year ago?
2. In general, do big compa
nies or small companies treat
their workers better?
3. Do you believe that sit
down strikes are right or
wrong ?
4. Do you think that religion
is losing or gaining influence
in the United States? Neither.
5. Do you think religion
should have more influence in
the United States?
6. Do you believe that the
United States is on the way to
communism?
7. Da vou believe that the
United Stat" supreme court
' should have six new judges?
8. Do you believe the present
, government is helping or hurt
ing business?
j Table of Votes.
The votes of those who had not
1 made up their -ninds were also re
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Nebraska
only way out," the accompany-
For instance, consider tne prooiem pre-
! sional Development who will in
i spect the engineering curricula of
the University of Idaho. Washing
ton State college, the University
of Washington, and Oregon State
college.
The examination of these schools
is a part of a nation-wide inspec
tion of engineering setups for the
purpose of accrediting the curri
cula of eneli school Hccnrding to
a national standard. The Nebraska
educators, whose expenses on the
trip are paid by the national or
ganization, will leave here Sunday.
The trip will furnish them with an
i opportunity to observe methods
land practices in other institutions
j and to compare them with the pro
gram here at Nebraska.
, 'Vocational Carpetbaggers
'Cafeteria Scholarship" Cause
Confusion in Higher Education
With an article charging a de
cline in the realm of higher edu
cation and enumerating the under
lying causes of that decline, J. C.
Long appears as a spokesman for
that growing school of American
educators, led by Doctor Hutchins
of Chicago university, who have
undertaken a defense of a lilieral
education, in the latest edition of
Scribner's magazine.
Mr. Long asserts that too much
stress has been luid on the mone
tary significance of higher educa
tion ami that, if the trend is not
turned the next few years, the
label of an institution or of a
specific degree will be no assur
ance of an education of any deter
minable sort. Education in America
has been put on a competitive
basis, writes the author, and al
though "the spectacle of academic
ians pulling at each other's robes
and of various teaching groups
struggling for dominance might be
amusing" it has a more question
able "effect on the lives of the
young people who look to the
schools for-enlightenment."
"The decline of authoritative
teaching in this country had its
beginning some sixty years ago.
PHICK 5 CENTS
Senate Takes Emergency
Measures to Relieve
Overcrowding.
The University senate in session
Thursday passed 8 resolution pro
viding that all freshman three
hour classes which meet three
times a week must be scheduled
after the 12 o'clock hour, or must
' be held on Tuesday. Thursday and
Saturday morning. This new rul
ing which will go into effect next
fall, was deemed "the only way
out" in view of the increasing per
plexity of the classroom problem
on the citv campus. The adopted
proposal will not affect the college
j of agriculture.
While considerable objection will
. be raised over the necessity m
many cases of holding classes on
Sntnrdav inornirfes which cuts in
Ion the research and study time of
i both the faculty and the student
body, the committee, which worked
out the plan, composed of Dean
F. E. Henzlik, teachers college,
chairman: Dr. F. W. Upson, grad
uate college; Dean T. J. Thompson,
tean of men; and Miss Florencn
McGahey, registrar, felt that some
such proposal was needed in order
to relieve the classroom congestion
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
mornings.
In spite of this new ruling,
which may be only a temporary
measure, overcrowded conditions
in many departments of the Uni
versity present a serious problem.
So that more classrooms might be
added, departmental libraries have
recently been eliminated, reading
and study rooms removed and
offices ma"de smaller. Still limited
facilities will necessitate the
scheduling of many classes in attic
lanci basement rooms unfit for such
purposes.
ofZ IZTcZl
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. w , Qrjers Close
Annual Meet; Reelect
aj Officers.
"There is no indication from pe
riodic readings of water levels in
wells throughout the state that
the supply of ground water is fail
ing materially."
Thus O. J. Schercr of the uni
versity water survey division an
swered the omnipresent question
"is Nebraska's ground water fail
ing." at the annual convention of
the Nebraska Well Drillers asso
ciation which ended Friday.
Enough for 266.500 Years.
That there was on an average
of approximately 53 feet of solid
underground water in the state
was Scherer's contention. He esti
mated that there is now about 2.
665,448,000 acre feet of ground
water in Nebraska, and that if all
this supply would be available, it
would last the city of Lincoln,
which uses approximately lO.oon
acre feet of water annually,
around 266,500 years.
The deepest sheet of solid water
in the state is probably in Grant
county where Dr. George Condra,
dean and director of the conserva
tion and survey division, and his
geologists huve figured that there
is more than 300 feet of water
available at the present time.
Drouth Limits Reservoirs.
"In other words." Scherer stat
ed. "Nebraska's ground water, for
the state as a whole, is not fail
ing. In times of drouth, however,
the following counties find their
reservoir supply limited, particu
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when Charles W. Eliot. President
of Harvard, introduced his elective
system," Long writes. "Eliot nad
the theory that the pursuit of
learning through the boy's natural
interests was better than learnin;
through compulsion. In practice,
however, this may have some
strange results. Doubtless there
are some mature undergraduate
for whom the elective method is
good." but with the averace prep
hool graduate, this "cafet-M
scholarship' is highly questionabl'
Entrance Requirements Lowered.
Immediately after the inaugura
tion of this system of self-stylci
curriculum, the rrgument for fixed
requirements fir entrance met tne
fire of educational revolutionists,
and as a result even our most stal
wart colleges have been forced to
give ground, under the pica that
they must relax educa-tionuJ re
quirements to mf-et conipe'itiom
"Thus," contines the writer "the
Eliot plan of surrendering educa
tional authority to the undergrad
uate has gradually yielded place
to the dominance of college policy
bv the sub-freshman."
'"As the arts faculties have re
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