DAILY NEBRA
Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
VOl XXXVH, ISO. 75. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WIDNKSDAY. l-'KIMWAItY 2. V)M RYE CENTS
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GETTING A
NEW NICKEL'S WORTH
Do you have a nickel all your
own, with no mortgages or house
bills attached to it? If you don't
have, borrow one temporarily. Now
that you've borrowed one, observe
the design impressed upon the
metal. See? An American abori
gine's head on one side and a typ
ical Bos Americanus on the other.
The familiar design of the In
dian head and the buffalo, both
once roaming American plains in
abundance, the Indian head being
attached to a torso and miscel
laneous arms and legs of course.
has been part and parcel of the
United States small change sys
tem for nearly 25 years. Previous
to that design, the Liberty head
i.-kel was the official hair a
aime's worth.
Small Change Not Permission.
There is an old axiom which
runs like this: "Nothing is per
manent except change." But now
we find that even change, and
particularly small chanpe, is not
permanent. Our proof? Simply
this: The familiar Indian head
nickel is to be replaced by a
new nickel showing Thomas Jef
ferson's face on one side and his
home, Monticello, on the other.
It seems there is a law which
states that a new nickel design
can be issued by the government
once every 25 years. That period
will be up on Feb. 21, 1938. And
so once more history repeats itself
as the white man replaces the red
skin, this time on the most fami
liar of all coins. Lo, the Poor In
dian, has been dealt with fairly
and squarely by the white race
in history books, but the courts
and land hungry white men have
shunted him onto reservations and
now, by the soon-to-come mone
tary purge, into oblivion.
Practically the only chance our
grandchildren had to see an In
dian was on the nickel and soon
that will be gone as the new
nickels gradually replace the In
dian heads now in circulation.
We See His Face Before Us.
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau has decreed that
the new five cent piece must
show Jefferson's face on one side
and his famous home, Monticel
lo, on the other. The exact de
sign will be decided in a (1,000
prize contest. He does not men
tion any streamlined specifica
tions or specify surrealistic
sketches of the third president
of the United States nor was it
made plain in the news item just
who is eligible to enter the con
test. In order to keep it in the
government family, he really
should limit it to W. P. A. art
ists and architects.
By April or May a new nickel
or two onght to start flooding into
this section of the nation and Jef
ferson' benign countenance will
beam from a new, gleaming metal
lic surface. The first great demo
crat, under whose term the Louisi
ana Purchase was made, will now
enter into a lot" of purchases,
mainly candy bars, cigarets. gum,
cigars, peanuts, magazines, etc.
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ROTMNS HEAR BIZHD
DEAN SPEAK ON RUSSIA
J. E. LcEossicnol Presents
Views on Propaganda
In Soviet.
Russia is a land from which
come only garbled facts, accord
ing to rn J. E. LtRossignol of
the Bizad college, in a speech at
the Rotary club Tuesday.
The tourist is mis-led when only
viewing such show places a Mos
cow, while the news reports from
correspondent are censored. Re
turned journalists and engineers
give the only accurate tales of
the true Russia and the disillu
sionment that is in the communis
tic state. Their stories, he says,
show that the old Russia had
many of the things the soviet is
n.w ciuirtiiiiff
EXTENSION OFFIC
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ORGANIZES NIGHT
Students to Register, Pay
Fees in Social Science
February 2-10.
An evening class office will be
maintained m social science 101
during the week of Jan. 31 and
again from Feb. 7 to 10. This of
fice will be open from 7 to 9 p. m.
for information, for consultation
with instructors, and the payment
of fees, according to information
published in a recent university
extension division bulletin. Fees
may be paid during the day in the
extension office in 202, former
museum.
The university offers instruction
in the evening for the benefit of
those who are unable to attend
classes during the dny. Business
courses, fine arts, languages,
mathematics, engineering and sci
ences are a few of the courses
offered. The tuition fee is $4 a
credit hour, with a registration fee
of $1 for students not already reg
istered in the university.
The bulletin states that students
who have completed registration
and are ready for classes will not
report at the rooms assigned for
conferences with instructors dur
ing the first week as has been the
practice during previous semes
ters. The instructors will be in
social sciences 101 on the evening
for which their classes are sched
uled, during the week of Jan. 31
to Feb. 3 to meet the class and
make assignments. However, per
sons interested in Saturday classes
will meet the instructors at the
rooms assigned.
Arrangements may be made for
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DAILY NEBRASKAN CHIEF
TO ADDRESS AWS TODAY
Freshmen to Hear Pascoe
Discuss Activities
In Ellen Smith.
Helen Pascoe, editor of the Daily
Nebraskan, will speak to the mem
bers of Freshman A. W. S. in El
len Smith Hall, at 5 o'clock this
afternoon.
Miss Pascoe. recently appointed
to the chief position of the Ne
braskan staff, will offer sugges
tions on selection of the most in
teresting and suitable work for
the individual, and the advantages
a journalism student has in mak
ing work on the Nebraskan his ex
traeurricular activity.
Betty Chemey, A. W. S. board
member in charge of the freshman
group, asked that all members no
tice that the meetings will begin
regularly again. El ma Ruth Lall
man is in charge of the meeting
and Marian Bradatreet will act as
secretary.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Fell man Attacks Regulations
Limiting Aliens Professions
Professor Protests Laws
Against Non-Citizen
Lawyers, Brokers.
A
ing
protest against the narrow
economic opportunities open
to aliens in America, written by
Dr. David Fellman, is the leading
article in the current Minnesota
Law Review. Having recently
completed an exhaustive study of
constitutional arid statute law
bearing upon aliens. Dr. Fellman,
political scientist of the university,
cites many of the peculiar restric
tions that are placed upon the
alien who wishes to work. On the
other side of the question Fellman
shows some of the basic privileges
that are given aliens.
Altho a federal court bus de
flu red that "the cannibal of the
Fiji islands may sue here in a
personal action, tho having no
courts at home for us to resort
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Birdhead, Ponca Indian
Chief, Comes to Campus
Grizzled Red Man Leaves
Home on Niobrara to Talk
With Dr. Bell.
Birdhead, 85 year old grizzled
chief of the Ponca tribe, will bring
his medicine bundle, ceremonial
head-dress and tribal pipe of peace
from his Indian settlement along
the Niobrara to the campus this
week. This will enable Dr. E. H.
Bell of the anthropology depart
ment to write down on paper the
Ponca Indian lore which would
otherwise be lost forever with the
1 KFACIT CU B PLANS
TIllUSMY LUNCH KON
Sim one Thierry, lYcnch
Kxrliangp StiMimt.
To Spoak.
La Cercle Fiancais will hold its
first luncheon of the second se
mester in the Grand hotel, at
noon, tomorrow.
Miss Simone Thierry, exchange
student from France will speak at
the luncheon. All persons inter
ested in attending the meeting are
invited. Tickets are 35c and may
be purchased from Miss Piazza in
room 108, University Hall.
Fifteen Girls Will Get Pins
At Activities Tea
Thursday.
Barb women will receive recog
nition for participating in campus
activities at the annual Barb Rec
ognition Tea, to be held Thurs
day, Feb. 3, at Ellen Smith hall.
Fifteen girls, who have earned
50 activity points will be awarded
pins. This is the first year in which
actual awards are to be given
barbs who participated in activ
ities. Those who have earned at
least 35 activity points will re
ceive verbal recognition.
Awards will be made at the tea
which begins at 4:30.
All barb women, whether re
ceiving recognition or not, are in
vited to attend the tea.
Spt. Kepler to Address
Alpha Phi Omega Tonight
Sergeant Regler of the univer
sity police force will speak to Al
pha Phi Omega, service fraternity,
at its first meeting of the semester
tonight. Regler will discuss the
fraternity's traffic control project.
Officers will be installed. The
meeting will begin at 7 in the
Chamber of Commerce building.
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DAVID FELLMAN.
passing of the aged chieftain and
one or two of his relatives.
Birdhead, called "Baoothichan,"
in the Ponca tongue, which means
"He who stands sky high," is
proud of his clan and wishes their
folklore and symbolism to be add
ed to the accumulation of Indian
knowledge that the white man al
ready possesses. Particularly vain
is he of the great old pipe of peace
which has long been held sacred
by the Poncas. This pipe, which
has been used to smoke the peace
offering after many Indian skir
mishes, was made when the pipe
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PLAYERS
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in tor; new
Broadway Hit of Last Year
Will Run During Week
Of February 14.
'High Tor," a comedy with a
serious vein, is the show that the
University Players have picked
for their February presentation
which will open the week of the
14th. Written by Maxwell An
derson, the dramatist of the hour,
"High Tor" gained wide applause
on Broadway last year in its first
season.
The cast which has been chosen
but has not yet been approved by
Dean Thompson's office will be
announced early next week. Miss
H. Alice Howell, director of the
Players, promises that many of
the group's favorite and experi
enced performers will appear in
the new show.
The setting of the play is laid
on the peak of the mountain. Tor,
where, underlying the comedy, is
shown the struggle between ad
vancing civilization and the poetic
appeal of the mountain.
C. B. SCHULTZ LEAVES
Museum's Senior Field Man
To Continue Research
On Oreodont.
C. Bertrand Schultz, senior field
man for the University museum,
left Monday with Mrs. Schultz for
New York City, where he will con
tinue his researches in the Frick
Laboratories of the American Mu
seum of National History.
Schultz has studied at least once
a year since 1932 at the American
Museum, and is now engaged in
working out the Creodont se
quence. A vast amount of the ma
terial he is using in his work has
been gathered from western Ne
braska fossil fields.
The Nebraska professor is work
ing in co-operation with Charles
Falkenbach of the Frick staff. The
two men expect to publish a re
port of their several years' work
in the near future.
The Oredont, a small animal, is
interesting to scientists not only
because it a commonly found ani
mal, but because it has shown
considerable change thruout the
various ages.
The Schultzes expect to return
lale in the spring in tune to ac
I company the first University west
I ern Nebraska field trip.
(!oiindl Hear IVom,
Ioinl Sy-lrm Hrports
The ttudent council will hear
report from the prom commit
tee and the committee on the
men's point syttem at a meet
ing today in U. hall at 5 o'clock.
Also, new committees will be
appointed.
GIVE
COMEDY-DRAMA
Y. M. TO INSTALL
NEWLY ELECTED
ET TONIGHT
Current Staff Members
Plan Coming Year
For Club.
Newly elected officers and cab
inet members of the university
Y. M. C. A. will be installed at a
special meeting in the Temple club
rooms tonight at 8 o'clock. Retir
ing President Dan Williams will
conduct the installation ceremonies
and Prof D. D. Whitney, member
of the faculty advisory board, will
give a talk, outlining the aims and
purposes of the organization.
Heading the "Y" work for the
next two semesters are Jerry Wil
liams, president; Aulton Roland,
vice president; and Lynn Land
gren, secretary. Committee chair
men appointed to the cabinet in
clude Reuben Denning, Bible
study; Robert Schricker, Kstes
conference; Erie Constable, fi
nance; Warren I-wis, meetings.
Dean Worcester anil Kile Con
stable, editor and business man
ager of the "N" book; Stan Klein,
personal relations: Fred Harms,
publicity; Forrest Wilke and Man
ley Hawks, religious welfare coun
cil: Don Dobbins and Clair John
son, retreats.
Bill Carey will have charge of
the boys' club work while Dan
Williams heads the committee who
are to plan for the organization
of a eo-opcrativ house. Because
of the greater emphasis placed
upon freshman work during the
coming year the whole cabinet is
to be made responsible for that
phase of the program.
Ground Hog Day
Offers Promise
Of Early Spring
Spring is on its way at last:
Ample evidence for the support of
this seemingly too positive state
ment is to be found in the display
windows of all the women's ready
to wear shops, with gay new
prints and crisp straw hats adorn
ing the wide-eyed models.
This concrete evidence, and it is
concrete evidence, for the Parisian
designers never make mistakes in
predicting the season's trends, is
further supplemented by the fact
that tomorrow is ground hog day.
and ground hog day alone is a
magic phrase to weather fore
casters and hopefuls for spring
alike.
Cts on the Rodent.
Twiiioi'row tl.C weather fo!i-cl-ers
the country 'round will be up
bright and early to keep exper
ienced eyes on Apollo, and zo-Vki-gists
and picnic-longing students
will keep theirs on Mr. Ground
Hog. It seems that there is an
age-old legend which runs to the
effect that if the ground hog sees
his shadow, that is. if the sun
is shining on ground hog day, old
man winter will be with us for
six more dreary weeks. But! and a
gleam of optimism should enter
everyone's eyes at this point, if
our little rodent fails to observe
his most speculated-about silhou
ette on this day of days, spring
will immediately be upon us.
The weather man is with us this
year, for the forecast promises a
clouded sky and rain or snow
for February 2. the sort of
weather in which even the most
far-sighted ground hog will bmk
for shadows in vain.
lihrary Open Srrir
Of i'liilit. I)iplay
Origin of Alphalx-l
"Origin of the Alphabet." fust
of a series of exhibits on the
"Story of the Alphnlx-t." is the
, display in the second floor hall of
the University library,
j The display includes pictures of
i the Send inscription of about
i H. C, earliest known wr itten rec
; ord, and other early forms of wilt
ing. Other exhibits of the series wUl
j be "Hook Malenals," "Form f
the Book," and "Writing Imple
t menu."
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