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VOL. XXXVI NO. 121.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, AIMUL 11, 1937
PRICE 5 CENTS
Sarah
Meyer
Nebraska's Most Beautiful Coed
Landis Ivy Day Orator.
F
Party Name A mendment
Voided in Record Poll
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MARY
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FOR
Now Is the Time
For All Good" Men
The time .when a young man
fancies is with us. The season of
ho hums and topless roadsters is
definitely here. Erstwhile students
saunter to school with a faraway
look in their eyes, and dally un
til the hour strikes outside class
buildings. Messenger boys in rolled
up shirt sleeves mop beaded brows.
The law library is sought out by
the non-legal as a "nice cool place
to study."
Windows are thrown high; in
Borne places the winter be-grimed
panes are polished off a bit.
Sprinklers are hard at it, watering
down the turf encouragement on
the historic May day site. Busy
ants crawl the waiks. Scrubby
bushes burst forth buds. Congenial
parties lounge on grassy spots;
even the austere concrete semi
circular bench by the library en
joys feminine companionship. Phys
eders tote tennis rackets unhap
pily to class, and collegians call
their usual jibe session on the red
faced, be-rompered girls.
In short it's wonderful weather.
Tra La for spring'.
"There is No Unbelief."
There comes a time in the life
of the most worthless of us when
we wonder. Usually, to be true,
it is at a time of low-ebbed
physical strength, or the depths
of an indigo mood. Few can take
honest stock of themselves when
riding high. But occasionally all
souls are o'erswept with a feel
ing of utter humility it's na
ture's antidote for expansive hat
bands.
There's something in our own
blood that makes us particularly
sensitive to the revelations of a
newspaper office others may
philosophize from the great les
sons of literature, or music, or
paintings, or sky scrapers or para
chute jumps. The medium is unim
portant. However nowhere is the
impernianence of everything so
impressed upon one as in a dis
pensary of news. What's new and
vital and all-important now may
be lost in oblivion in a few weeks,
hours, perhaps. One comes to
doubt the irreplacability of any
one or anything.
On a paper, producing copy
Is the work of the day. The
world of affairs must be mir
rored not once, in one sure pic
ture, but many times in a single
day and in a constantly chang
ing composite of a many angled
panorama. The newspaper men
spend their lives pouring out the
best resources of their minds
and hearts thru swift typing
fingers, always aware that the
masterpiece produced for the
mail edition may be junked be
fore noon, and that recognition
of its worth is highly improb
able. But the true newspaper
man wouldn't trade his job of
meager returns for anything on
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COUNCIL 10 RELEASE
15
Greek Body Enacts More
Rigid Rushing Rules
for Next Year.
Hush cards for 1937 will he re
leased Saturday May 15, Lloyd
Friedman, president of the inter
fraternity council announced after
a meeting last night. The council
discussed possible changes in rush
ing rules and enforcement of stand
ing regulations, as a means to
effect a more successful rush week
next year.
The only change made in rushing
rules pertained to filing and chang
ing of dates by the rushee. Ac
cording to the ruling enacted last
night, the rushee cannot change
dates, after filing them in the
Interfraternity council office. It
further provides that any additions
to the dates filed at the beginning
of the week, must be with fra
ternities not included in the origin
al filing.
The council also voted to enforce
standing regulations to the letter,
In the next rushing season, and to
subject any offending fraternities
to fines.
Marvin Romig gave a report on
the interfraternity ball which was
accepted by the council. The re
port showed a nominal loss on the
party, but no objections were
voiced. In submitting the report,
Romig recommended that the coun.
cil go oh record as favoring some
plan of rotation of parties, and
that it should effect some under
standing with the school to aid
in securing better orchestras.
The ball comes at an unfortunate
time now, and if it is to be con
tinued it must be planned at a
different date, Romig announced.
Sigma Delia Epsilon to
Make Scholastic Loan
Sigma Delta Epillon, gradu
ate women's acientific frater
nity, has announced that it has
funds available for one or two
mall loans to be made to wom
en who are doing graduate
work in scientific fields. Appli
cations for these scholarship
loans are to be made to Dr.
Vera Rlgdon, room 2, Former
v Museum.
Chi Omega Entrant Wins
Beauty Competition,
Chance at Films.
Mary Fislar is Hollywood bound:
Nebraskr o 1 candidate for
screen star " -ill leave for Kan
sas City it -moon, boarding
a plane Thursday morning with
the most beautiful of four other
midwestern campuses, the ship's
radio beam set for the film capital.
Calm as an experienced actress
aa she stepped behind the foot
lights, Kosmet Klub second-night-ers
cheered -her presentation last
night as Nebraska's "queen of
queens." Introduced by Klub presi
dent, Robert Shellenbcrg, Miss Fis
lar graciously thanked the audi
ence, and hoped to do her best for
the Cornhusker tradition.
Disrupts Routine.
But backstage before the pres
entation, things were far from so
calm. The all-male cast of "Bar-O
Ranch" found the attractive,
brown-haired member of Chi
Omega too much in contrast with
the football playing chorines. The
routine of production merely
stopped as they crowded around
her, throwing congratulations and
questions in the same breath.
"Who's your favorite male
star?" shouted a burly chorister,
who later confessed his pet com
bination was Clark Gable and
Mary Boland.
"Frederic March, by far," an
nounced Mary, not the least wor
ried and obviously amused at the
suggested possibility of playing op
posite the screens top Romeo
within the year.
The Argument Begins.
"And your favorite film ac
tress?" ,
"Helen Hayes, when she's play-
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WADSWORTH TELLS
OF
Professor Describes New
Plan for Placement of
Students in Class.
Accepted for publication in the
"French Review" magazine is an
article by Dr. J. R. Wadsworth,
assistant professor of Romance
languages, entitled "They Do Not
Fail."
In answer to a suggestion for
revision . in beginning French
classes published in an earlier
edition of the monthly magazine
entitled "They Must Not Fail,"
the University of Nebraska adopt
ed the plan during the first se
mester of 1936-37.
Entrance Exam.
As advocated in this article the
university administers an examin
ation at the beginning of the sec
ond year of college language study
to determine which students are
too poorly prepared to do satis
factory work. Establishment of
special review sections for these
victims of "circumstantial ignor
ance" follows:
Students who ranked in the
lower 10 percent as a result of
the Iowa placement test were
placed in a specially organized
review course known as French
3d.
Times Factor Important.
"A questionnaire answered by
the French 3d students revealed
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The VI eather.
Weatherman Blair decided
that he liked this balmy weath
er and ordered some more of
the cloudy and warmer variety
for today. He said nothing
about getting rid of this gritty
dust tho.
In the Spring a Reporter's
Thoughts Turn to Features
Composition of little Girls'
Funishes Inspiration for
Newsgatherer.
By Merrill England.
Scene Offices of The Daily Ne
braskan. Time 3 o'clock yesterday.
"Get me," thundered the Manag
ing Editor," a feature on weather
and get it d...fast! Talk to a
psychology professor, find out
why hAlmy spring breezes affect
us. talk to a zoology Instructor,
find out what spring does to ani
l.ials. then look at the audden ar
rival of spring thru the eyes of
the student and make an attempt
to paint a word picture of the
ecstasy he will soon be feeling,
quote Wordsworth or someone on
the subject of finding lessons in
nature, and get it in here by 5
o'clock!"
Wotta Life!
Oh. the life of a reporter is a
happy one indeed tra-la-la-la.
Two "hours of fruitless marching
availed the reported exactly noth
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MARY
Learn to Solve Bathtub Problem,
Choose Spring Clothes, Ridicule
Lindbergh in These 'Fun' Courses
By Wilna Sickcs.
Only seven more weeks till reg
istration again. As pipe courses
are hard to find I offer my se
mester finding to aid you.
My best course is Creative
Thinking by Crawford. The only
catches to it are that it is only
a one hour course and that you
feel sheepish signing up for it. But
you 11 find that the very best cam-pus-ites
are taking it and enjoy
ing it to the fullest. Even Card-
well. '
There is no text and, I under
stand, no exams. The only assign
ment is a notebook of creative
thoughts, the contents of which
are revealed in class.
Bath Tub Question.
The latest discussion of inter
est was the bath tub question. It
seems that altogether too many in
dividuals are injured or even killed
in bath tubs. The suggestions of
fered were to have a canvas lining
that would be removable but the
laundry bills would run too high,
to line the tub with something
other than porcelain, but 'that
would detract from the beauty ot
our modern tubs: to wear some
thing would not only slow one up
but hinder the cleansing process;
the plan for a rough surface was
met with the argument of com
fort.
The final consensus was that
CHEM ENGINEERS TO HEAR
COL FRANKFURTER SPEAK
Instructor Is to Describe
Cement Plant, Water
Works Tonight.
r-nl ( .1 Frankforter. of the
chemistry department, will speak
this evening at 7:30 o'clock in
Room 102 of Avery laboratory to
members or the cnemicai engin
eering societv. He will discuss
topics in regard to the Louisville,
Neb., cement plant and tne Lincoln
water works at Ashland.
Raturrlav morning annroximate-
ly 25 members of the society will
take a field irip lo Louisville ana
Ashland and will be accompanied
hv Colonel Frankforter. All mem
bers are urged to attend the meet
ing this evening.
ing, for even professors are scarce
articles around a university when
the thermometer soars and the
open road beckons. Then, in a
text book we stumbled upon some
facts which started us thinking.
It appears that in the spring
a young man's fancy allegedly
turns to thoughts of love. The es
sential to the ripening of this emo
tion and its blossoming into a
thing of beauty which will be joy
forever is a girl. Since time im
memorial this subject has been a
fascinating one for writers and
poets alike, and many are the lit
erary works of art that have been
penned in praise of the grace and
pulchritude of womanhood in gen
eral. A New Recipe.
For example, the old master
piece about what little girls are
made of, that says something
about "Sugar and Spice and every
thing nice." These things, if they
really make up a girl, are reason
enough that she should be cher
ished. -
Chemists, scientists, and htnlog
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FISLAR.
some comfortable bumps should
be added to our smooth tubs, or
that the lady suggesting the re
form, should take a shower in
stead. Another suggestion concerned
the kindergartens. The children
get so tired sitting there hour
upon hour that the seats should be
so devised that they could be
spread like deck chairs to allow
the child to recline while listening
to his lessons.
Professor Crawford says that
some ideas which have been aired
in that class have later been de
veloped and are now selling well.
Another course that I suggest
is psychology 90, u laboratory
course. This week we spent one
hour looking at beautiful colors
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N. U. Publication Ranks With
Papers of Columbia,
Purdue, Chicago.
First Class honor rating was
awarded to the Daily Nebraskan
by the members of the Associated
Collegiate Press, according to the
word received yesterday by Editor
George Pipal.
Six other university dailies re
ceived this recognition. They are
the Columbia Daily Spectator of
Columbia college in New York
City, Daily Maroon of the Univer
sity of Chicago, the Daily Tar
Heel, University of North Carol
ina, Purdue Exponent, of Purdue
University, and the Syracuse
Daily Orange of Syracuse Univer
sity. Seven papers were honored by
being awarded the rating of "Pace
maker" which is the highest award
the Collegiate Press offers. Three
hundred and fifty-five college
newspapers, members of the A. C.
P., entered the Associated Colle
giate Press Critical Service. Each
college newspaper is classified by
type of 6chool and frequency of
issue.
PROF.lfMTALKS ON
TIND-YOURSELP PLAN
Vocational Education Forms
Basis of Campaign in
High Schools.
Prof. C. W. Scott of teachers
college opened the local high
school "find-yourself" campaign
with a talk at College View high
school Tuesday afternoon, spon
sored by the Lincoln Hl-Y. Ad
dresses are to be given today by
Prof. H. E. Bradford at Bethany,
and Mr. A. A. Rosliorough at
Jackson.
Aims of the program, acording
to Y. M. C. A.'s Ray Rice, who is
conducting the campaign, are two
fold. First, the general principles
to be considered in the selection
of a vocation will be discussed.
Second, various occupations, with
special regard to the individual's
interests and talents, are to be
considered
Following the talks, wlf-analy-sis
blanks will be filled out by
interested high school seniors, and
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Students Confirm Council
Veto of Landis-Marsh
Ballot Reform Bill.
Student voters in yesterday's
campus poll chose by a 324 vote
majority to keep faction names on
election ballots. When the final
vote was counted early last eve
ning, the measure which would
have abolished faction names after
the names of candidates, was
found to bo defeated by a voto of
588 to 264.
The death blow to the proposal,
which would have been an amend
ment to the Student Council con
stitution, came as somewhat of a
surprise to political leaders since
the Liberal party won in the Ivy
day orator competition and at the
same time were said to favor the
proposal Surprised and somewhat
downhearted over the outcome of
the amendment were Frank Lan
dis, Ivy Day orator-elect, and Bill
Marsh, president of the Innocents
society and member of the student
council. Both men had backed the
reform before the Student Council,
and when it w as defeated by one
vote, worked hard in order that the
issue could be brought before the
entire body.
Issue' of Long Standing.
The issue of whether or not the
faction names should be removed
from the ballots has been a sub
ject of controversy for the past
two months. The first rumblings
of the reform came in the form of
two suggested amendments to the
council constitution. Altho the
council was given the opportunity
to adopt either amendment one to
have complete abolition of factions
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OF
Estes Park Representative
Speaks at Emphasis
Week Meeting.
SDeakins on the topic "What Is
a religious Experience?". Dr. Er
vine Inglis opened the evening ses
sions of Religious Emphasis week,
Tuesday evening at the Wesley
From The Lincoln Journal
DR. ERVINE INGLIS.
foundation. In the course of his
address. Dr. Inglis defined a re
ligious experience as any experi
ence of deep awareness of the re
lationship of a likeness between
a human being and the elements
of his environment.
The development of the talk in
cluded the application of aware
ness of close relationship between
separate individuals, the individual
and the group, the individual and
the social problem, and the indi
vidual and some great invisible
Other. The sensibility of all such
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No Pass, No Push Says Critic
In Kosmet Klub Show Review
Kermit Hanson Saves Day
With Brilliant Work
in Feminine Role.
By Oliver Howard.
Playing to a house that included
the parents and the unsuspecting
friends of present and prospective
members of Kosmet Klub. the gi
gantic collossal cast of "Bar-O-Ranch"
stumbled thru its second
performance last night. The gala
premiere was very ably covered
by Miss Eva Jane Sinclair, and
perhaps any comment we might
add would amount to a redun
dancy. The script itself is typical Kos
met Klub material, while the music
was surprisingly above the norm
of the past few seasons. As far as
we were able to ascertain, there
was absolutely no point to the
show, and two and a half hours of
slapstick "comedy" is very tire
some. It would seem that the Klub
is passing an exrrllrni. opportunity
for indulging in a little worth
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The Election
At a Glance
IVY DAY ORATOR.
Landis 398
Meyer 342
Ledwith 76
Johnston 42
Total 858
PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
No 588
Yes 264
Campus Averts Political
Dilemma as Balloting
Kills Proposal.
Politicus VIII.
Well, the cloud has blown over
and it looks like our storm that
we predicted yesterday, has dis
appeared with it. The election yes
terday ran off as smoothly as
could have been expected. More
ballots were cast than at any other
spring election we can find in the
records, and politicions will start
cleaning their guns for the main
election in May.
And, if we can judge from yes
terday's firinge some of our po
litical guns are going to need
plenty of polishing. The progres
sive faction which has, for years,
enjoyed complete control of the
political situation, took a pretty
sound beating yesterday. Altho
they didn't put up a candidate of
their own, they endorsed the can
didacy of Sarah Louise Meyer, but
even their supposed strength in
conjunction with the women's vote
wasn't strong enough to carry the
first woman that has ever run
into office.
Landis supported by the oppos
ing faction, which is as yet with
out a recognized title, found suf
ficient strength in his barb and
green constituencies to lead him
into the office. Whether the out
come of the election is a true test
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STUDENTS OF 15 HIGH
SCHOOLS 10 VISIT AG
Home Ec Department Plays
Hostess at Hospitality
Day April 17.
Students from over 75 surround
ing high schools will be the guests
of the Home Ec department Sat
urday, April 17, to take part in
High School Hospitality Day fes
tivities to he held on the Ag
campus.
The activities will begin at 9:00
in the Activities building. The aft
ernoon sessions will be held at 2
o'clock in Ag hall 306.
Features of the day will include
an address of welcome by Miss
Margaret Fedde, professor of
Home Economics, and panel dis
cussions on women's vocations.
Frances Schmidt will conducj a
discussion on food and nutrition,
Genevieve Bennett will lead the
circle on textiles and Gladys Mor
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In the
Infirmary
Tuesday.
Elizabeth Edison, Lincoln.
Louis Ball, Omaha.
Dismissed.
Lawrence Graff, Naponee.
while satire. The humor was de
pendent upon the bulges in the
costumes and the mistakes made
by the pony chorus, which were
too plentiful.
Hanson Standout.
The single exception to the gen
eral incompetence of the cast was
Kermit Hanson, who played the
part of Mrs. Van Fleet. This is the
part played by Yenne in the origi
nal production several years ago,
and may we note in passing that
Hanson is definitely superior to
Yenne in the part. Hanson carried
the whole show on his shoulders
and without his excellent per
formance, the whole thing would
have collapsed of its own weighL
Were it not for the fact that
the Klub most ungraciously re
fused us the common courtesy of a
complimentary ticket to the "en
tertainment" we should not be
able to complain on the ground of
having been somewhat "gypped."
speaking financially. But as we
contributed a fifty cent rhip to
the effers of the organization, we
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POLITICUS VIEWS
ORATOR
ELECTION
AS SMOKE CLEARS
Miss Meyer, First Woman
Ever to Enter Race,
Runs Close Second.
Frank Landis, law college senior
from Seward, was elected Ivy day
orator in a record smashing cam
pus poll Tuesday. Landis emerged
victorious from a field of four
candidates Sarah Louise Meyer,
Charles Ledwith and Miles John
ston, completing the list.
The election was a record
smashing affair, with no less than
four precedents being laid away.
In the first place, a total of 858
cast their ballots for the Ivy day
speaker, which is the largest vot
ever recorded in the early spring
election. For the first time in his
tory a woman's name appeared on
the ballot for Ivy day orator. For
the first time since the origin of
the office a candidate outside of
the college of law filed for tho
post. Of the four candidates who
filed, not one officially represented
a campus political faction.
Balloting Close.
The vote was not only the larg
est but one of the closest in his
tory. Of the 858 ballots cast, 398
went to Landi3, 342 to Meyer, 76
to Ledwith and 42 to Johnston.
If the votes had been divided
among any three of the candidates
the outcome might have been dif
ferent. As Landis addresses Ivy day lis
teners next May he will be herald
ing the climax of one of the most
colorful careers this campus has
seen. For seven years, he has been
a leader in campus politics and
campus activities. He served on
the student bookstore committee
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TASSEL DELEGATES
LEAVE FOR KANSAS
F
Group to Attend Kansas
Relays in Lawrence on
April 17.
Two carloads of Tassels will
leave Friday afternoon for the
annual Phi Sigma Chi convention
to be held this year in Lawrence,
Kas., on April 17. it was decided
last night at Tassel meeting.
Delegates to the convention will
include Martha Marrow. Eloise
Benjamin, Virginia Nolte, Erma
Bauer, and Jane Walcott, in one
car, and Elizabeth Edison Betty
Clements. Ardis Graybiel. and
Beatrice Ekblad in the second car.
The group will be entertained
while in Lawrence by the Jay
Janes, the Lawrence chapter of
Phi Sigma Chi. Following a busi
ness meeting Saturday morning,
the Tassel delegates will be hon
ored at a convention luncheon tf.id
will then be guests at the Kansas
Relays in the afternoon. A special
section has been reserved for them
in the stadium at Lawrence.
At the business meeting last
night in Social Science building,
plans were discussed for the an
nual rush tea for prospective Tas
sel pledges and it was decided to
send out letters to various of the
organied women's houses.
Alumni Swell
Fund for Mew
Student Union
"Everything is right on sched
ule" said Alumni Secretary Ray
Ramsay in commenting on th
drive to raise $75,000, to furnish
the Student Union building.
The Alumnus Association hopca
to have the sum ready by July 1.
The alumni have responded very
graciously toward requests for do
nations, and have expressed their
hope that the venture would b
successful. Many of the alumni,
and even people who never at
tended the university, sent their
checks without bcirig asked for
what they considered "a "worthy
cause."
Ray Ramsay will 'ave to
morrow for the east where he will
explain the project to alumni. He
will address former Nebraskans in
Chicago, Detroit. New York,
Boston. New Haven, West Point,
and Washington D. C. After re
turning he will make another sim
ilar trip through western Ne
braska. Y. M. SPONSORS LUNCHEON
Discussion Meeting Friday
to Center on Belief.
"What Shall We Eelieve Avxul
Jesua?" has been cho. ;n as
topic of dijeussion meeting for
university men to be held Friday
noon in Room 6 of the Former Mu
seum. This is the third of a series
of luncheon meetings centered
about discussions of events in the
life and teaching of Jesua.
A charge of ten cents has been
set for the luncheon. Alvln Nel
non. in charge of the meeting, asks
that nil who Wan to attend notify
r- . ri 1 1 W . T"
i pie office before Thursday night.