CbwwuL and CUbouL 3AILY BRA Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska The SKAN lly Sai nit VOL. XXXVI NO. m. LINCOLN, NLHUASKA, WKDNKSDAY, AIMtlL 2, 1937. PIUCE CENTS l.nuii . .i i IE ! i Tlie Perennial Springtime of Youth When nature teems, ns it were, we poor humans can but be af fected. Despite ourselves we let the fresh air in. We may even walk when we don't have to, as we did yestermorn. The crisp, moist air began to creep into our hothouse blood at the first tulip and daffodils and nyaclnths and thick green lawn we passed. It seeped in a bit far ther when a busy young man on a tricycle asked us In a comradely fashion who wo were. It advanced yet a-paco when wo watched two weary eyed girls, teetering home In after-dark attire, pause to gratefully sniff a fragrant flower ing bush. Somehow the April atmo sphere was dissipated into noth ingness when our bus caught up with us. Two women, faces lined with pettiness, gussied inces santly of nothing. A university student dead-panned at the world. An office worker peered about fretfully. But the driver wore an inerasable grin. In the business district the long faces outnumbered the bright ones, and the freshness had gone from the air. Even the florist wagon driver yawned gloomily over his spring blossom toting. But the glow was reinstated with a rush as wo peeked in at a white-haired homey pair inspecting a big. pow erful car with tremulous reckless ness playing calm resolutely. How infinitely wise is the naivety of the young in heart. Super Hostcleries. The May "Fortune"' recounts the most fantastic things about "Hits Hotels." With the simple preach ment "Give 'em waluc and you get wolume," founder Ralph Hitz turned eight white elephant hotels into decided money makers. The success story all hinges around the fact that Hitz "broke completely away from the old innkceping tra dition f passive hospitality ... in the direction of vigorous showman ship." Salesmanship' is in practically every detail of Hitz operation. In its subtler forms it is dis guised as showmanship but it is showmanship shrewdly calcu lated to feed the guest's ego, or at least to keep him from ever feeling uncomfortable. This salesmanship is in the military precision of the bellmen in the lobby who leap to your side with a mechanical lighter when you fish a cigarette from your pocket; the telephone from the hospitality clerk asking if you are comfortable; the rule of ad dressing the guest by name at every opportunity; the box of note paper, printed with guest's name and hotel address, given free to occupants of deluxe suites: the gift of inexpensive toys to children; the compli mentary hometown paper; the absence of foreign words on the menu and the waiter's care in parroting your pronunciation." Selling Service. The selling begins the instant you register. The room clerk never quotes the minimum rate unless asked. The bellboy tries to sell you the services of the hotel he gets a bonus for the most laundry and valet work. Your room is peppered with advertising matter for the hotel eating places, barbershop, masseur, florist shop, bar. "If you should be rambunc tious at the New Yorker bar a midget in a policemnn's uniform, with 'Bouncer' in gold letters on his cap. will jolly you into good behavior; anil to convert good will into sales he will serve you with a printed 'summons' to appear with witnesses' at the Terrace Room any Monday evening slack pat business in the week) free of cover charge." When you leave they offer to make reservations In the Hitz hotel town to which you are heading; if you're sailing a bon voyage wire sends you off, a wel come radiogram greets you on your return. You are written an appreciation of your patronage, asked for suggestions. If you do not return in nine months they ask what's wrong. You are peppered with birthday and anniversary greetings if you were a honeymoon guest first anniversary only. And for fre- (Continued on Page 4.) Gordon Whyle, Pontiac Program Director, Finds That It Takes All Kinds of People for a Broadcast By Wilna Sickel. T5:a lines formed to the right for all those aspiring to radio stardom including tuch talented coeds as Flora Albin, Virginia yjiderson and Doris May Brisco. The line led to room 101 of the conservatory where Gordon Whyte was hearing "acts" for the Pontiac Varsity show to be held May 16. From nine to twelve, two to five and stven to nine, the diminutive program planner granted five min ute interviews to Nebraska's best. Ey four o'clock he had talked to 75 aspirants. In his extra time he paid visits to the band, or chestra and glee club. He even slipped over to Professor Craw ford's creative thinking class Mon day to lecture on his interesting vocation. Gordon Whyte i the representa IMA XI NAMES DR. t H. MANTER Scientific Honorary Will Hold Initiation at Dinner May 26. Dr. W. H. Ma nter of the zool ogy department was elected presi dent of Sigma Xi, honorary sci entific fraternity; Dr. E. N. An derson of the botany faculty was Krom The Lincoln Journal DR. H. W. MANTER. named vice president; Dr. M. A. Basoco of the mathematics de partment, secretary; Dr. M. G. Gaba of the mathematics staff, treasurer, and Prof. M. H. Swenk of the entomology department, councilor. The latter two are re elections. The group voted 19 to active membership in the organization and 25 to associate membership, all elections being based upon the calibre and promise of the scientific research undertaken by these individuals. Initiation May 26. Prof. H. J. Kesner of the civil engineering department was the retiring president. Active, associ ate and senior students elected (Continued on Page 4.) PRESIDENT Waldemar Mueller Tames Shrew in True Lmit Style Amlienee Find Allilrlie 2nd Shakespearian Plav Aiiiuiii. By Sarah Louise Meyer. Once again the Shicw was tamed as "Petruchio" and "Kath erinc" stamped the boards of the Temple stage in the opening of the second in a program of three Shakespearean festival dramas. The five acts of action which brought about the transformation oi the tempestuous berome from diabolical to docile were received as grand fun by a sundry but responsive audience. I'pon Waldemar Mueller's swag gering shoulders rested not only the brunt of ths taming, but. in deed, the Shrew herself. Getting off to a restrained and colorless start, "Speed" found himself in his athletic love scene of the sec ond act, and thereafter played his role with gusto and relish in the best Luntish style. He made the utmost of Coach Herb Venue's ex eelltnt business, for several gen viinely guffaw-provoking inter ludfs, 3 rid created of his "Pe- j truehio" throughout a creature of correctly judicious abandon. Shrew Unequal to Tamer. Flora Albin as "Katherinc" was, disappointingly, a Shrew of in finitely lesser stature than her ultimate master and lord. True she thoroughly enjoyed her oppor tunities to shout and flail her arms about and stamp her foot, and brought much vigor to the part But she appreciated to a lesser degree than her erstwhile husband the infinite possibilities for zesty 4-.umor. There was a tenseness rather than a freedom and sweep in her prancir.gs. In a demand ing part, however. Miss Albin was a fitting match for her whipcrack ing mate. Undoubtedly the top pure com tive of Henry Souvaine company for the Pontiac programs. He has charge of every third pro gram with John Held, Jr., who at tends all broadcasts as master of ceremonies and comes to the scene for the last few days of prepara tion. Mr. Whyte chooses the tal ent, decides on scripts and directs rehearsals. He takes full responsi bility that nine million' listeners will be entertained and we hope, impressed. Years of all sorts of experience enrich Mr. Whyte's background for show production. A wide Nebraska audience is being encouraged by 32.000 circu lars sent to Nebraska alumni over the state. Pioneer Radio Figure. Starting life on the stac Mr. Whyte entered radio about twelve Continued on Tagc 3.) GORDON WHYTE PRAISES BANDSMEN IN TRYOUTS PONTIAC AUDITIONS CLOSE Program Accepts Glee Club, Symphony, Ivy Day Sing Winners. By Elwood Randol. "You've got a swell band, fellas, as fine a band as I've heard in many a college. But the guy to watch out for is the guy with the bass drum." Thus Gordon Whyte, representative of the Henry Sou valne company for the Pontiac program, gave his opinion of the university milltaiy band. "I don't mind your sinking your arm up to the wrist," he con tinued, addressing his remarks to the drummer, "but when you sink It in up to here (he measured off a distance past his elbow) why that will blast the microphone. But you'll hear a lot about that later when Paul Beaumont gets here." When asked by reporters for a statement concerning the material he had heard during the day Whyte replied that he had lis tened to more than 30 persons since 10 o'clock and who was going to be on the program "God only knows and He won't tell. "More than half of the people I've heard," Whyte continued, "are good enough to be on the program, but this thing won't let them," he said pointing to a stop watch he held in his hand. The band, the symphony orches- C. F. MOULTON DISCUSSES BOILER, TURBINE TONIGHT Nebraska Power Man Will Address Mechanical Engineer Group. C. F. Moulton of the Nebraska Power Co. of Omaha will talk on "Practical Problems in the Instal lation of the New High Pressure Boiler and Turbine Installed in Omaha," at a meeting of Nebraska chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering to be held tonight at 7:30 in room 206 of mechanical engineering hall. All members are especially urged to be present by Roger Wallace, president of the group, since an election of officers for next year is also to be held. edy honors go to Max Gould for his "Gruniio." Eloquently por traying his witlessncss as the hap less man servant to "Petruchio," facially and physically, Maxie brightened countless scenes. His was. perhaps, the most complete characterization in the show, Velie Failed to Jell. Walter Stroud contributed a graceful stage presence in his "Lu certio." The slightly slow and disjointed opening scenes rallied gratefully around "Bianca's" ulti mately successful suitor. That young lady, in the person of Julia Velie, failed to jell as even the traditional goody-goody younger sister, to the sorrow of the Velie fans in the audience. Best bit of the show was the (Continued on Page 3.1 L HOLDS INITIATION FOR 9 Dr. W. K. Pfeilcr Discusses Germany at Annual Banquet. Nine men were initiated into Phi Lambda Upsilon. honorary men's heemistry fraternity, last night at the Lincoln hotel. A ban quet was held immediately after the ceremony at which Dr. W. K. Pfeiler of the German department was the chief speaker. Dr. Pfeiler discussed the Ger many of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, telling of that nation's rise. In order to gain a true under standing of the literature of a country', one must realize the po litical, economic and sociological forces at work in the country. Dr. Pfeiler explained He also told of the role of science in modern day Germany. Hugh Gray and William Uter mohlen. jr.. representing the active chapter and initiates gave brief talks. Tie new initiates are as follows: Gordon Robins, William Utermohlen. Kenneth Banks, James Q-jist, and Oscar Johnson, all graduate students; Robert Rundle, Robert Decker. Robert A. Olson, and John Steinhaus. Cltcinial Engineers to Diseus Plans for Annual May Festivity Discussion of progress made thus far for Engineers Night and work yet to be done will occupy a brief business meeting of the Chemical Engineering Society to night at 6:45 in room 102 of Avery laboratory. Harold Hafner, president of the society, urges that all members in cluding freshmen be present since Engineers Night is just one week and one day distant. Those who have not yet bwn assigned duties for the event will be allotted work at tonight's meeting. tra, the glee club and the winners of the Ivy day sing will be used on the program. Another act that impressed the Souvatne represent ative was the bone-a-phone solo played by Warren Templeton. This instrument Is made from the fos silized bones of a telcceros or a small sized rinorceros. "So I think," he continued, that we'll mm MM TO Earl Hedlund Urges All In terested to Enter Riding Contest. All sorority women are eligible to compete in the Inter-Sorority Riding contest for the Faulkner trophy, Friday, May 7, in the coli seum on the state fair grounds. The competition is a feature of the annual Farmers Fair Horse Show. Earl Hedlund, manager of the Horse show invites "All girls who are interested in horsemanship and wish to ride in the show are urged to enter." Elimination Trial. If a large number of women signify their intention to compete, an elimination contest will be held Friday afternoon, immediately preceding the evening show. All entrants must notify Carl Swan son, at Farm House and pay a one dollar entrance fee. Horses will be furnished by the committee in charge and drawings for mounts will be made on the day of the show. Any girl who has had riding experience may enter and the competition should prove valuable, as the judges are well known throughout the middle west. Mary Gavin, Delta Gamma, was the winner of the Faulkner trophy in 1936. TASSELS PLAN RUSH TEA Women's Pep Club to Honor Rushees Saturday. Final plans for the annual rush tea to be given by Tassels Satur day afternoon at the Pi Beta Phi house were made at the regular weekly meeting of that organiza tion last night in Social Science. The active chapter has invited 40 rushees for the affair which has been scheduled from 2 to 4 o'clock. Ardis Graybiel is chairman of arrangements for the tea, and is being assisted by Virginia Geister, Donna Hiatt, and Margaret Sax ton. Sipna Delta Chi to Hold Lunch at Noon Today Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, will hold its regular meeting today at noon in the Grand hotel. All members are urged to attend. Arrangements are being made to secure E. M. Von Seg gern, editor of the West Point Republican and member of the Nebraska legislature, to ad dress the meeting. Plans for the initiation of new members will be discussed. 1937 Employin Improved Survey Reveals Business, Enpineeriiijz, Teaching as Open Fields. Employment prospects of this year's college graduating classes are only a little less favorable than those of the 1929 graduates, and substantially better than the June, 193S classes experienced. This evidence of continued em ployment improvement is revealed in announcement of the results of a survey just completed by In vestors Syndicate of Minneapolis, according to the Bureau of Indus trial Service, inc. Engineers, Bizads, Teachers. Engineering, business adminis tration, teaching and general business classifications are offer ing employment in greatest vol ume. J. R. Ridgway, pesident of Investors Syndicate, revealed as a result of the study. Law. journal ism and investment banking are near the foot of the list, he said. These conclusions are based upon analysis of questionaires re turned by 218 leading colleges and universities which account for nearly half of the total enrollment of male and coeducational institu tions. In volume of recruiting among this year's griduaiea. General Electric. Du Pint, Procter A Gamble. Westinghouse and various American Telephone subsidiaries are leading. Mr. Ridgway said. Large Percentage Expected. "More than half of the June graduates of 185 institutions reply ing to the questionnaire are ex ported to be on payrolls before the end of the summer.'' Mr. Ridgway stated. "Within a few months COMPETE FAULKNER AWARD Filings Open Today for Spring Election Posts APPLY AT ACTIVITIES HALL Students File for Farmer's Fair, Coil-Agri-Fun,, Executive Boards. In conjunction with the opening of filings for Student Council and Publications board positions on the city campus, ag campus filings for 17 offices on the major student governing board will be accepted this week from 8 a. m. today until 5 p. m. Tuesday, May 4. Students may file in room 202 of the ag ac tivities building. Elections to the ag executive board, senior Farmer's Fair board, and Coll-Agri-Fun will be held on Tuesday, May 11, the same day as the city campus elections. For the ag executive board, two men from next year's junior class will be elected by the men, and two women, also from the junior class, will be elected by the wom en. Two members from next year's senior clams, one man and one woman will be elected by the stu dent body at large. Also on this board will be two student Council members, one man and one wo man elected by the entire student body. These nominees, however, must file at the city activities of fice located in the coliseum. For the senior Farmers' Fair board posts, six positions will be filled by three men and three wo men. These students will all be seniors when they take office next year. Three places are open on the (Continued on Page 2.) T OF ENGINEER PLAQUE Prize to Be Awarded for Departmental Merit on Week of May 7th. Methods to be used in judging the various engineering depart ments to ascertain the winner of the plaque for general excellence in Engineers Week activities have been announced this week by El mer Claussen, contest manager. Each department has been given a certain quota to be met in their sales of ribbons. Field day tickets, and banquet tickets for the event. For selling their quota 100 points will be given in each of these three activities. Quotas were figured by adding the number of men regis tered in each depaitment and the proportion of freshmen engineers. For every sale above their quota, each department will be given one additional point, while if less than the quota is sold, points will be given in proportion to the percent of the quota reached. Scale of 100 Points. Exhibits will be rated on the scale of 100 points by a group of three faculty members, as yet un announced. Particular attention will be given to the originality of the ideas as well as the amount of work done in preparing the ex hibits according to Claussen. The winning department will be award ed a plaque bv Herbert Reichert. general manager of the Nebraska Blue Print, engineering college publication, at the engineers ban quet on May 7. cut Outlook Over Last Year after graduation, seventy per cent or more of the graduates of 16.3 institutions arc expected to be at work. Twenty-eight universities report that more than 90 per cent of their June graduates would be employed, while 13 say that they expect prompt employment of ful ly 85 per cent of the June classes. "One hundred fourteen institu tions declared that employment (Continued on Page 4.) LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT TO GIVEPLAYS APRIL 8 Spanish, French and Italian Faculty, Students Plan Productions. To culminate activities of the Romance Language department four plays will be presented by the French. Spanish and Italian faculty and stuients Saturday evening. May 8 at 7:30 p. m. in the studio theater in Temple build ing. According to Miss Augusta Nel son, who is in charge of the prep arations, the plays are highly en tertaining and should be enjoyable for other students than language alone. Members of the French faculty will present "L'Anglais Telle Qu'on Lui Parle," or "English as it is Spoken." French students will present "Caprice" by Musset. "Masque," a p'ay by Piran Dello is the contribution of the members of the Italian faculty while Span ish students shall give an episode for "Don Quioxte." Tickets will be sold at a later date. o- Posts Open for Filings. Classes designated are those of the positions as filled next year, not those of the students filing for election this week. STUDENT COUNCIL. Four seniors at large, two men and two women. Two junior men and three junior women from the Arts and Sciences college. Two junior men from En gineering college. One junior man and one junior woman from Business Administration college. One junior man and one junior woman from the College of Agriculture. One junior man and three junior women from Teachers college. One junior man from Pharm acy college. One junior man from Dentist ry college. One junior man from Law college. Two junior women at large. One man or woman from Graduate college. One sophomore member. One junior member. One senior member. AG EXECUTIVE BOARD Two junior men and two junior women. One senior man and one sen ior woman. FARMER'S FAIR BOARD. Three senior men and three senior women. COLL-AGRI-FUN BOARD. Two junior women and one junior man. FAIR FEATURES REVUE, CROWNING OF GODDESS ELSIE BUXMAN WILL REIGN Two Programs to Replace Traditional Pageant. Two of the most colorful fea tures of the Farmers Fair May S will bo the presentation of Elsie Buxman, goddess of agriculture, and the "Cotton Picker's Revue," a variety show. Miss Euxman, secretary of Mor tar Board and a senior in the Agricul t u r a 1 college, will reign as queen of the fair and will hold court in the amphi theater in the center campus Saturday after noon. Attend ing the goddess will be Althea Barada, Kath erinc Jones, Elinor McFad den, Ruth Scha- Kln Buiniftn. From State Journal. bert, Truma McClellan and Fran- Pharmacy College to Hold Sixteenth Show May 8; Name Officers. Preparations for the Pharmacy Night exhibit May 6 have al ready been begun by the Phar macy college. The 16lh annual show, which is held in conjunction with Engineer's Night, will be di rected this year by the officers of the Pharmacy Club. Instead of the usual exhibit chairman, the preparations this year will be supervised by an exec utive committee consisting of the officers of the Pharmaceutical Club and the four class presidents. They will be aided by the various members of the Pharmacy college faculty. Due to an oversight, the three upper-class presidents were not elected at the annual election last February, but were chosen at spe cial class mpctings during the past week. With the exception of the (Continued on Page 4.) We Could but See Ourselves as Others See Us-Illustrated in Safety Film 'Other Fellow9 By Marjorie Churchill. "Hey fella! What's the matter? Can't you hear? Are you short circuited between the cars?" blared the raucuous voice of Mr. John Q. Public at the driver occu pying the center of the road ahead. The driver turned an irate countenance and our friend Mr. Public found himself staring at an exact replica of himse1'. In this incident we see the theme of the film. "The Other Fellow," presented to the public last night in Social Science audi torium in the interest of safety and the prevention of accidents. The movie was sponsored by Dr. W. E. Walton of the psychology department and made possible by the Chevrolet Motor company. Important features of the film JUDICIARY TO O.K. NOMINEE Student Council, Pub Board Nominations to Remain Open Until May 4. Filings for the first spring olcc tion for which the Student Coun cil judiciary committee will exer cist its power of passing upon de sirability of candidates will open at 8 o'clock this morning in the coliseum student activities office. Students will be able to file for posts until 5 p. m. Tuesday, May 4th. Election of 25 students to posi tions in the Student Council and to 3 positions on the publication board will be held under direction of the council on Tuesday, May 11, the first Tuesday following Ivy day. Reason for the earlier filing dates this year than in the past were outlined as two-fold by Council President Arnold Levin. "Because of the greatly increased agitation lor cleaning up men's politics on the campus this year, the judiciaty committee will in stitute its form of review of can didates," Levin stated. Reject' Unfit Nominees. "All nominees whom we feel for definite reasons are not fitted or do not have the time to satis factorily fill the positions will be stricken from the lists. Any poli tical faction which has a candi date so removed, will be allowed to submit another name." He further pointed out that the intcr (Continued on Page 4.) ces Schmidt, who have been out standing in campus activities dur ing their college careers. Foreign Folk Dances. Honoring the goddess and rep- ! resenting the nationalities of Nc- braska, 200 men and women stu I dents will appear in appropriate costumes and give .Swedish, Bo hemian, German, Spanish and English folk dances on the green. The dancers will be accompanied by choral singing by the Ag chorus under the direction of Mrs. A. Tulliss. A maypole dance will conclude the program and Miss Buxman will lead her entourage across campus, to close the color ful festival. "Little Black S;imbo" will act as master of ceremonies for the first Farmers Fair variety show, labeled "Cotton Picker's Revue." and according to Donna Hiatt, member of the Fair board, "It is a novel, humorous innovation in the Fair program, prepared to en tertain and not to instruct, and should prove so amusing that the afternoon audience will conic again to sec it at night." Taking care that the show gets off to a "swinging" start, IS comely Farmerettes will do a chorus number, followed by sev eral tap and toe-tap specialty rou tines by Holdregc street dancers. Old Fashioned "Drammer." The "drammer" will be repre sented by the time old story of Columbus, enacted and surprising ly changed to a short takpoff on the worries of Chris Columbus called "What Price America ?" "Home on the Range." another skit, will feature cowboy melodies by a quartet and Ogden Riddle, chairman of the show committee, (Continued on Page 2.) (!ol)s to ."Meet Tonight Plan Parly. Initiate Five Members of Corn Cob society will meet tonight at 7:30 In Social Science, room 107B for the regular weekly meeting. President Web Mills has an nounced. Final selection of an orches tra for the annual Corn Cob dinner dance May 21 at Broad view Country club will be made and plans for the affair will be discussed. Five pledges who were un able to attend last week's Initi ation will be inducted at to night's meeting. emphasized the fact that all of us are "the other fellow" to someone else, and we will not be o quick to Judge the other fellow's actions when we can sec ourselves re flected in the other person. Wo can keep out of trouble only by letting him know our intentions thru the proper use of the right hand signals. "Just a Spark." portraying graphically the destruction which may come from the careless drop ping of a single match, made up another important feature of the picture. Actual photographs of the ravages of fire in the forests of our western mountains pre sented wordlessly the plea for pro tection of this our heritage from Individual cnrelessnetis and the ravages of that greatest f.f all enemies fire. k . 4