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Is Not Dead
Our library seems to have an
elaborate system for keeping the
facts of life from the hoi polol. If
you want a volume on marriage
for a genetics or on sex for a
physiology class, you must show
your assignment to the librarian
before the book is released. And as
for some of the more intimate
Classics, you practically have to
command an engraved request
from the Infinite. In order to en
joy the revelations of a particu
larly juicy tone, for example, you
must contact the head librarian,
explain to his satisfaction why
you want the novel, how long you
think you require to peruse it, and
then promise that you won't let
anyone else see it.
All this came out vvhen we
found a group of five lads bend
ing red-faced and intent over the
book in the Moon. One of them
tells me that it is "mildly edu
cational," and that the major
points of interest are indexed at
the front of the volume. We no
ticed that a squabble ensued as
to who should have the work
when the boys disbanded for
classes. And that the lucky one
coon lost himself in flushed ab
sorption. There's a strong school
boy element in the best of the
pseudo sophisticates.
In reality, we suppose, t lie au
thority's preservation of the pur
ity of student rending material is
not as absurd as the surreptitious
edification of the sensation seek
ing readers themselves. For in the
list analysis the only effective cen
sorship is self censorship. And it is
probably just as well for the mo
ralp of the little boys that their
thrill seeking is vicarious, and in
the world of literature. The chil
dren will outgrow it. we suppose.
,
Grads Will Be Grads.
Helen McLaughlin and Jo
Marsden tell us that Dick Paul
told them that his father told
him that a charter member of
the local Beta chapter "passed
away quietly in the Penitentiary
last week." So We asked Old
Time Betas Meyer and Barger
about their Alpha Tau brethren,
smiled they, in the complacency
characteristic of their fraternity
"That's just propaganda, of
course. We face It every spring,
as rush season approaches." It
was admitted, however, that one
of their number died In a hos
pital for the insane in California
of delusions of grandeur, no
doubt.
To The Journal's "Jawn:"
And while we're spreading
abroad the gospel of Beta Theta
Ti, it behooves us to welcome the
friendly retaliation of Beta Bent
ley, handsome and diminutive
Journal sports editor. "Jawn" will
probably go down to posterity for
his ,irtivilies in publicizing the
"Sooiete Lillipute." From time to
time he will relate the dog-housed-neass
ol certain Lilliputians for
casting public aspersions on their
size, and their subsequent redemp
tion through elaborate apologies
and self-ebiising penalties. Anyone
who labors under the refinement
enforced by the very name of the
society can't wholeheartedly toss
the rough ab. the seeking of
which he claims we have in him,
"come to the right place." So,
cutie puss, cut out da tough stuff,
ami be your own sweet prognasti
rating self. That's the way we all
love you.
Puss Pulls a Faux Pas.
With human interest always
at a premium we report a touch
ing tale of barb boys Hendry
and Victor who occasionally go
funning of a night and cut a
caper or two that makes talk
among their buddies over a
street way. On a frolic last week
the boys took pity on a cat
which th';y caught with some
difficulty while coming up 14th.
Thinking puss might ne?d a
drop of nourishment they en
tered the Husker Inn ?nd or
dered a bowl of milk. The new
found friend Felix perched se
renely on the counter and drank
not a drop. Undaunted, the hu
manitarians took his feline high
ness home with them, bathed
him in the communal tub, and
thought to leave him in their
room during the chill spring
night. One of them took a
rather nasty scratching In the
way of gratitude.
MATH FRATERNITY NAMES
DR. CANDY LIFE MEMBER
Dr. Brenke Confers Honor at
Pi Mu Epsilon Meeting
March 16.
Dr. A. L. Candy, professor
emeritus of the university mathe
matics department, was awarded
an honorary life membership by
Pi Mu Epsolon. honorary mathe
matics society. Tuesday at a meet
ing held in his honor. Dr. Candy
celebrated his 80th birthday last
Friday.
Illustrating his lecture with
lantern slides describing the evo
lution of numbers and mathemati
cal tables. Dr. Candy addressed
the society on the "Story of the
Ten Dirits."
Dr. W. C Brenke, chairman of j
the mathematics department, who j
presented the life membership, re- j
viewed Dr. Candy's years of serv- t
ice to the university and to the ,
community. '
Committee Limits Project to '
Journalism School to j cf? "V
Avoid Red Tape. JL
Plans for the first university
gridiron dinner, which was to bo
an all-campus affair under the
auspices of the professional jour
nalistic organizations, Theta Sig
ma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi, hit
a snag yesterday in the form of
administrative rulings.
The after-dinner program was
announced Thursday without the
required approval of the faculty
committee on all university func
tions clue to lack of forethought
on the part of the organizing com
mittees. Inquiry from Dean Hep
pner's office resulted in an inves
tigation which revealed that the
affair smacked too much of a
one-time tradition on the campus,
University Night, which was
abolished some years ago because
of excessive ridicule of campus
personalities.
Date Unchanged.
In order to avoid shifting the
original date of the dimmer from
April , committees in charge of
the arrangements, decided to avoid
the red tape of faculty approval
by limiting the affair to school
of Journalism students. Time of
the program was changed from
7 p. m. to 6 p. m. to avoid the
necessity of getting permission to
extend a function past 8:30 p. m.
on a week night.
Parts of the original plan which
survived yesterday's vissicitudes
are that the dinner will be called
"The Mock University Senate Din
ner," will be limited to those in
the department of journalism, pub-
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FICTION PARADE USE
Writings of Mrs. Sherry,
Scott Appear in Noted
Publications.
Notices of reprints of two poems
have come into the office of the
Prairie Schooner within the last
two weeks. The poems are by Win-
field Townley Scott and Ruth
Forbes Sherry. Besides the two
poems, selections from Erich Al-
brecht's "Heart Without a Coun
try," were reprinted in the Au
gusta Chronicle.
Mr. Scott's poem, "Soliliquy: The
Spool and the Lighthouse," which
first appeared in the 3936 summer
issue of the Prairie Schooner, is
included in a book of verse. "Bio
grapher for Trarran." by himself.
Other poems he includes in his
first volume first appeared in such
magazines as the Forum, the
North American Review, the Scho
lastic, Scribner's, and Signatures.
The publisher of his book is Con
vici Fritde, New York City. Mr.
Scott is now teaching English at
Brown university.
"Porpoise." by Mrs. Sherry, orig
inally printed in the summer issue
of 1935 of the Schooner, appears
in the current issue of Fiction Pa
rade. The author lives in Los An
geles, Calif. Mr. Alhrecht's essay,
from the last issue of the Schoon
er, was chosen for reprint by the
Augusta Chronicle, the south's
oldest newspaper, printed in Au
gusta, Ga.
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Junior Board Members Plan
Program for Second
Pep Meeting.
Featuring a take-off on the sen
ior Fair board as the major at
traction of the program, the sec
ond Farmers' Fair rally will be
held on Tuesday. March 23, rally
chairman. Earl Heady announced
today. The rally on Tuesday night
will be under the direction of the
members of the junior Fair board.
In addition to the takeoff the
rally prorram will include a num
ber of tint rs by a quartette com
posed of Arnold Reed, Ted John
son. Harold Schudel and Keith
Newton.
Announcement of committees
which will serve under the direc
tion of the Fair Board in arrange
ments for the spring exhibition
will be made on Tuesday evening.
Signs anJ stickers, publicizing the
fair will be distributed.
Junior members of the board
who will have charge of the pro
gram are Earl Heady, Donna Hi-
att. Earl Hedlund, Marjorie Fran
cis, Melvin Beerman and Pauline
Walters. Senior board members
include: Clyde White, manager;
Elsie Buxman. Darrell Bauder.
Eleanor 'McFadden. Frank Swo
boda and Romana Hilton.
The Weather.
Increasing cloudiness, becom
ing unsettled and somewhat
warmer today, says Weather
man Blair.
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Dr. William Van Royen, pro
fessor of geography and phisio
grapher of the university, is at
tending the international sympo
sium on early man at Philadelphia.
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Astronomy Instructor Will
Address Honorary Club
Monday Night
Featuring an address by Carl F.
Rust, instructor of astronomy in
charge of the observatory, Sigma
Xi, national scientific honorary,
will hold its regular monthly meet
ing in Morrill hall auditorium,
Monday, March 22, at 7:30 o'clock.
In conjunction with his talk,
which is entitled "The Structure
of the Galaxy," Mr. Rust will show
a moving picture film. The movie
which will serve to illustrate sev
eral points in the address is called
"The Depth of Space."
Mr. Rust explained that the
study of the galaxy forms the
background of all modern astron
omical research. The composition
and structure of the galactic sys
tem is now the fundamental basis
for all study in astronomy, be
declared.
In addition to the film, which
shows among other things the
motion of a double star through a
period of about two decades, Mr.
Rust plans to show some of the
work that has been done with the
university's new Ross camera,
which is attached to the 12-inch
reflector of the new giant tele
scope on tho agricultural campus.
These shots were taken during the
past week and show vivid pro
jections of nebulae.
DELIANS HOLD PROGRAM
w.
P. A. to Entertain Barb
Society Tonight.
The Friday night social pro
gram of the Delian Union society
will feature the W. P. A. enter
tainers beginning at 9:30 o'clock.
The entertainers will present 45
minutes of comedy, skits, and
music.
As an added number on the
program, Richard Kerlin will play
a piano solo. Edwin D. Fischer,
president of Delian Union, invites
members of the organization and
all other unaffiliated students to
attend .
Churches Ask Students
To Breakfast on Sunday
Students of Epworth, Warren
and First Evangelical churches
will gather for a pre-Easter break
fast at the Ag college activities
building at 7 o'clock on Sunday
morning.
RUST T
DISCUSS
GALAXY
SYSTEM
BE
SIGMA XI
Life of North American Man
Has 20,000 Year-Old History
Dr. Lugn Presents Proof
of 'Early Man'. Theory
at Symposium.
More convincing proof that man
lived in North America consider
ably more than 20 000 years ago
was contained in a paper by Dr.
A. L. Lugn of the department of
geology and geologist of the Ne
braska geological survey, which
was read before an international
symposium on early man Thurs
day afternoon at Philadelphia as
a part of the observance of the
125th anniversary of the founding
of the Philadelphia academy of
natural sciences. Meetings will
continue through Saturday morn
ing. Dr. Lugn, one of the foremost
Pleistocene (ice age authorities
In the United States, who knows
every soil tone in the region com
prising western Nebraska was un
able to appear before this interna
tional congress of scientists st the
last minute, and had his paper
read by C. Bertrand Schultz of the
University of Nebraska museum
sUff. who is attending the acad
emy meetings. Schultz also read a
paper on "Pleistocene and Early
Post-Glacial Faunas of the Ne
braska Region."- Dr. E. H. Bar-
i bour, director of the university
1JNCOI.N. NKBKASKA. FHIDAY. INIAKCH 19. 1937.
Students to Pass Judgment
on Issue at General
Election April 13.
Determined that the removal of
faction names from the ballots in
the spring election will better the
campus political situation, Frank
Landis and Bill Marsh, both mem
bers of the student council in
vestigatory committee, will have
a petition with one hundred signa
tures completed today. The peti
tion, which will annul the veto
on the measure by the student
council, was begun Wednesday
evening.
Following the sanction by one
hundred students, the petition will
be presented before the council at
its next meeting, and will then
come before the student body in
the election April 13. The only
action which the council can take
on the measure is to put the issue
on the ballot. If a majority of
the students vote in favor of the
measure, the faction names will
then be eliminated from the ballot
of the regular spring election held
sometime early in May.
Vote Deferred Twice.
The issue has been hanging fire
for more than a month. At first
the investigatory committee of the
council proposed two plans gov
erning student factions, cither
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A.W.S. BOARD NAMES
IN '37 COED FOLLIES
Miss Crabill Announces
Salesmen at Meeting
On Wednesday.
Freshman women who will act
as ushers and ticket salesmen for
the annual Coed Follies were an
nounced at the regular meeting of
the freshman A. W. S. Wednesday
afternoon in Ellen Smith hall.
Ushers will be Betty Waugh,
Janet Lau, Isabelle Krumm, Pris
cilla Wicks, Barbara Meyer, Vir
ginia Clemans, Maxine Lake, and
Margaret Dickerson. The girls
were selected on the basis of work
done for the organization this
year.
List Ticket Salesmen.
Ticket salesmen include Evelyn
Hopkins, Kay Johnson, Pi Beta
Phi; Maxine Grant, Betty Jean
Davidson, Delta Gamma; Eliza
beth Waugh, Kappa Kappa Gam
ma; Adele Byers, Frances Van
Anda, Kappa Alpha Theta; Wil
ma Faye Sawyer, Gwendolyn Hur
ley, Caroline Clark, Charlotte
Smith, Carrie Belle Raymond;
Muriel Frank, Ruth Soebel, Sigma
Delta Tau; Maxine Lake, Mary Jo
Henn, Delta Delta Delta; Rilla
Mae Ncvin, Arlene Magnusan, Al
pha Xi Delta; Mary Jane Hen
dricks, Ellen Funder, Alpha Omi
eron Pi; Mary Frances Wilson,
Jacqueline Fuller, Alpha Phi, and
Eleanor Whitney, unaffiliated.
Additions Later.
Other names will be added to
the list of ticket salesmen at a
later date, announced Marjorie
Crabill, A. W. S. board member
in charge of the group. Tickets
were checked out Thursday noon
in Ellen Smith hall.
An informal discussion of the
year's work of the freshman A.
W. S. was conducted by Miss Cra
bill at the meeting. Ellen Funder
acted as chairman, with Mary
Jane Hendricks assisting as sec
retary. 4
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From Tne Lincoln Journal
PROF. A. L. LUGN.
museum, was to talk on the same
subject but waa unable to attend.
Van Royen Attends Program.
Nebraska was also represented
at the scientific convention by Dr.
William Van Royen. physiogra
pher of the university, who at
tended most of the programs. An
other former Nebraskan, E. IL
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Presides at Sesfion,
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Dean C. H. Oldfather, of the
Arts and Science college, will pre
side at a meeting of representa
tives from all two and four year
arts and teachers colleges in the
state, this morning.
ELECTED 10 HEAD
SIGMADELTA CHI
Murray, Wagner, Lipp Are
Named to Journalism So
ciety Offices Thursday
Willard Burney, junior in the
arts and sciences college from
Hartinglon, was elected president
of Sigma Delta Chi, professional
journalism fraternity, at a meet
ing at the Capitol hotel Thursday
noon.
Other officers elected are Ed
Murray of Lead. S. D., vice presi
dent; Don Wagner of Homer,
treasurer; and Morris Lipp of
North Platte, recrctary.
Cass Retiring President.
Outgoing officers are Lewi
Cass, president; Johnston Snipes,
vice president; George Pipal,
treasurer; and Willard Burney,
secretary. The newly elected offi
cers will take their positions im
mediately and continue until the
end of the first semester of the
1937-38 school year.
Guest at the weekly Sigma
Delta Chi meeting was Frank
Williams, managing editor of the
Lincoln Journal, who conducted a
short open floor discussion on
present day newspaper problems
and conditions.
Plans for the university grid
iron dinner on April 1, sponsored
jointly by Theta Sigma Phi and
Sigma Delta Chi, were discussed
at the meeting.
GLEE CLUBSINGS SUNDAY
Concert Features Dalton,
Harmon as Soloists.
William Tcmpel is grooming his
Men's Glee club for their concert
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in
the Coliseum. Wednesday night
the Glee club gave a half-hour pro
gram over .KFOR. assisted by
Bernard Dalton, baritone soloist,
and Duanc Harmon, trumpet
soloist, j
Sinfnnia Actives Honor
New Pledges Thursday
To introduce new pledges to the
active group, Sinfonia, national
honorary music fraternity, met for
luncheon at the Chamber of Com
merce, Thursday noon.
President Bill Miller presided.
New pledges are Herbert Cecil,
Duane Harmon, Jack Elson and
Thomas McManus. Tentative plans
were discussed for a spring
musical.
Nebraska Geologist Offers
Findings at Philadelphia
Conference.
Colbert, assistant curator of verte
brate paleontology of the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History in
New York, who was Dr. Lugn's
first graduate student, read a pa
per deaFre" yith ice age mammals.
Schultz has been in charge of mu
seum field excavations in western
Nebraska for the past several
years and together with Dr. Lugn
and Dr. Barbour has been able to
work out the stratigraphy of the
pleistocene in this state.
Two years ago at the annual
meeting of the Geological Society
of America in Rochester, Dr. Lugn
astounded the scientific world with
his announcement that man-made
implements (artifacts) were found
in direct association with extinct
animals of the ice age period. Dur
ing th summer of 1935 and 1936,
Schultz and his party uncovered
significant additional information
which proved the existence of
early man in Nebraska.
Nebraska is Rich Field.
Savs Dr. Lugn in his paper:
"Western Nebraska as an area'
has yielded the richest results to '
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HARD
BURNEY
Prep Schools to
Ask Change in
Entrance Units
IGHT
All-Campus Event Features
Dancing, Games as Main
Attractions.
Varied sports and ballroom
dancing will be the main attrac
tions nt the Sports night for men
and women students being spon
sored by the W. A. A. tonight.
Arrangements are being made
to accommodate a record crowd
and it is urged that many students
will take advantage of this mixed
sport afiair.
One section of the floor Is be
ing resolved for the dancing, while
shufflcboard, deck tennis, and
ping pong will be carried on in
other parts of the gymnasium. A
rotation of events will be worked
out so that each one will be able
to participate in all activities.
No admission is being charged
for this party which will close
with light refreshments. Begin
ning at 7:30 the affair is being
held at Grant Memorial hall.
SENATOR H. E. GANTZ
PRAISES UNICAMERAL
AT
"Only System for Efficient
Government"' Declares
Guest Speaker.
Lauding the Nebraska unicam
eral legislature as the 'only system
for efficient government," Sen
ator Harry E. Gantz of Alliance,
addressed a bizad convocation
in Social sci
e n c e auditor
ium Thursday
morning. In his
appraisal of the
J. 1 experiment in
Vjf one house legis-
JdUUIl, ill'Ji-
o r e d speaker
compared the
new body to
the bicameral
system as em
ployed in other
states.
M r . Gantz
delved into the
cmirtwiy JmirnM.f unctj0nS and
lurry k. .anu. mechanisms of
the unicameral body and out
lined its procedure by tracing a
bill's progress from the time it is
presented until its final approval
or disapproval by the vote of the
body. As he explained its opera
tions the speaker continually re
ferred back to the old plan and
showed how much faster the pres
ent body works.
Although as a non-political
body the legislature is to be com
mended, there are times when even
this situation is a disadvantage,
the speaker announced. In illus
tration he cited the discussion over
the gas tax as a time when the
definite divisions caused by party
affiliations would have made easier
the work of the body.
The success of the new experi
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PADJOiETlAI
E
Sigma Nu, Delta Theta Phi
Lose to Affirmative
Teams Thursday.
Phi Alpha Delta will meet Sigma
Alpha Mu in the finals of the
intci fraternity debate tournament,
by virtue of victories in the semi
finals held Thursday evening .
The Phi Alpha Delta team com
posed of Frank Landis and Otto
Wellensick argued against the
Delta Theta Phi twosome of John
Allen and Roland Gleason. Charles
Reilly judged the debate. Leo
Turkel and Leo Eisenstatt won
over Sigma Nu's Frank Svoboda
and Harold Atherton.
The finals will be held next week.
Winners of the intel fraternity con
test will meet the winners of the
Barb competition to decide the
campus debate championship.
Engineers May Apply
for ISlue Print Jobs
Students of the College of
Engineering who wish to be
considered for appointment to
the staff of the Nebraska Blue
Print, monthly publication of
the college, are requested to call
at room 109 in Nebraska hall
for a conference with Prof. M. I.
Evinger, faculty adviser.
About six students are wanted
to begin work immediately,
according to Prof. Evinger.
Several top positions will be
open next year, including the
jobs of editor and business
manager.
CENTS
Representatives Convene
to Discuss Severity
of Requirements.
Charging that the present uni
versity entrance requirements, es
pecially in mathematics, work a
hardship on the smaller schools,
representatives of some 20 Ne
braska high schools will seek the
revision of the university and col
lege entrance requirements this
morning at 10 o'clock, when tho
representatives of all two and four
years arts and teachers college
groups from over the state con
vene at the Cornhusker.
With Dean C. H. Oldfather of
the College of Arts and Sciences
presiding, the group will discuss
the problem that the present en
trance requirements tend to "fix"'
the curriculum and allegedly pre
vent the smaller schools from pro
viding students with subjects
which will educate them for life.
Now Require 12 Units.
Under entrance requirements
now in force, graduates of accred
ited high schools in the state may
have full admission to freshman
standing in the university and in
the colleges on 12 entrance units.
English and mathematics are re
quirements for entrance into all
colleges, but under a proposal rec
ommended by the committee of
15, composed of school officials
and representatives of the colleges
and the university entrance re
quirements would be reduced to a
total of six academic units for un
conditional college entrance. Con
cerning the committee's recom
mendation, two of the six units
would be in English, the other four
to be left up to the student to
choose from in the fields of for
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AG STUDENTS HEAR
LAWREf
COOPERATIVE PEANS
Extension Agent Explains
European Countries'
Systems.
James F. Lawrence described
the cooperative systems of Den
mark, Sweden. Finland and Eng
land to an audience of agricultural
students, Thursday afternoon in
Ag hall. Mr. Lawrence illustrated
his lecture with pictures which ho
collected in his tour of coopera
tive countries last summer.
"Denmark employs the coopera
tive system in every phase of farm
life, stated the marketing exten
sion agent, "and it has worked
almost faultlessly, with every per
son making a living wage."
Three Differences.
There are three chief differences
between the corporation system
and the cooperative system. In
the corporation system, individuals
receive one vote per share and in
the cooperative system every per
sons receives one vote, regardless
of his share holdings. Capital cams
in the capitalistic setup and the
cooperatorH sf.y that money is
only a tool. The third distinction
deals with distribution of wealth.
Mr. Lawrence complimented the
Finns not only for payment of
their war debts but for the suc
cessful inception of an experi
ment of lowering the price levels
of all commodities in the country.
The Finns chose this method of
working out the cooperative
system.
Sweden Joins Move.
Sweden is engaged in a move
ment toward cooperatives. Pro
gress is impeded by the battle it
is necessary to wage against
monopolies.
Mr. Lawrence showed the pic
tures of his tour immediately after
the lecture.
Althea Barrada and Vincent
Jacobsen were in charge of the
meeting which was sponsored by
the Ag executive board.
FRENCH MOTION PICTURE
FEATURESMODERN PLOT
Movie Slated by Romance
Language Department
For Saturday.
Willi a modern plot involvin?
tangled love affairs and force!
marriages, Georges Ohnet's "Lo
Maitre Dc Forges" will be pre
sented in motion picture Saturday.
March 20 at the Varsity theater
at 10 a. m.
Included in Saturday's movie ts
a short feature entitled "Un Petit
Village du Ciel." This fantasy and
play comes to Lincoln following a
successful engagement at Har
vard. Both features will last less than
two hours, according to Miss Au
gusta Nelson who Is In charge of
ticket sales. She urges all lang
uage students to attend.
Tickets may be purchased from
Miss Katherine Piazza in the ro
mance language library in Uni
versity hall for twenty-five cents.
Any student selling twenty admis
sions will receive a complimentary
UckeL
PRICE
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