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VOL. XXXVII, NO. 91.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY. MAKCIl 1, 193K.
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A DAY
AT THE HACK
A nebulous shape cume flout
ing out of the netherworld of
ideas, took a more concrete form
nnd, aided by a few typewriter
keys, settled down in black and
white.
The idea, In brief, was this
Suppose Clem McCarthy, the
sports announcer who gives such
vivid word pictures of the horse
races nt Hialeah park, Belmont,
nnd the Derby, should stop by the
Temple building today. And fur
ther suppose that Clem McCarthy
should get so interested In the
way the race for prom girl whs
progressing that he described it
as he woidd a horse race, hup
posing that supposition came into
being, then, the description or tne
way the votes were being cast
would go something like the fol
lowing. Before beginning, how
ever, we would like to point out
that all similarity to any persons,
living or dead, is purely coinci
dental and not done intentionally,
Derby or Not Derby.
"Here we are, folks, on the
steps of the familiar Temple
building on the day of the great
vote-casting for the Prom Girl
of 1938. It's a beautiful day,
more or less, and there are beau
tiful girls on all sides assuring
you that it will be a great per
sonal favor to them If you just
drop in a ballot for their candi
date. This is the greatest race
of the year, folks, and it brings
seven promising fillies to the
post. They all have fine records
and a long string of victories
behind them. Also behind them
are seven ardent factions and
rooters all equally confident of
victory In this, the supreme
"They're lining the fillies up at
the post in their aliped positions,
The favorite poll posit. m was ue
termincd by drawing st-aws and
there they nope, they're not off
yet, but I thought they were for
a minute.
The Entries.
"The Pi Phi entry, Geister,
has the inside rati, and going on
. out to the outer lane In order
we find the Kappa Delt colors
with Marev flyina them: the
Alpha Chi Omega entry, Bors;
the pride of the Chi Omega sta
ble. Pascoe; Benjamin, the hope
of AOPi; Burns, the Phi Mu
entry, and Hoff, who-btars the
colors of the Sigma Kappa sta
ble.
"They're all thoroughbreds and
show it as they stand cnampin
their bits. Each one is on her toes
and all the others within stamping
distance. The preparatory signal
Is given, the bell rings they're
Hoff!
"Such speed! Benjamin springs
Into the lead as she literally
Burns up the track.' Around the
first turn now, and Bors spurts
up to crowd the leaders. As they
come out on the straigntaway,
the Kappa Delt backers burst I
out with their cry of 'Faster,
for Marcy's sake.
"Fascoe bears down now and
comes up. But close on her heels
comes the Pi Phi colors In one
blur as Geister picks 'em up and
lays 'em down in rapid succession.
Now Hoff comes up with a rush
to join the leaders as does Burns
with a burst of speed inspired by
a sudden rush of Phi Mu backers
to the poll.
"And there they are, folks, all
seven fillies pounding down the
home stretch neck and neck, with
their backers crowding the rail
and pulling some male friends
along to help root their colors on
to victory.
"I don't see how they can keep
up this terrific pace folks. It's
more than flesh and blood can
stand. Every filly is pulling all
her muscles to win and every
filly's backer is pulling all the
strings she can to help her win.
"It's the last hundred yards nnd
they're still so closely bunched
that their colors look just like one
kaleidoscopic mass.
The Winnah!
"Now they're five yards one
it's overl The Judges are con
ferring on the finish down there
and It's mighty close one too,
let me tell you. So tlose that
what's that, Ed? Oh, the judges
are withholding their decision
until they see the developed
photograph. Yesslr, that's what
It was, a photograph finish, folks
and I'm afraid you'll have to
wait awhile before you can hear
how the race ended."
Nebraska Coeds
Present Bouquet
To 'liesl Tri-Dell'
"To the Best Trl-Delt of them
oil" thus read the note accom
punying a bouquet of panslcs sent
to Gen. John J. Pershing, who is
bordering near death on a hospltnl
bed in Tucson, Ariz., by the Delta
Delta Delta sorority chapter of the
University of Missouri. General
Pcrshlne was Initiated Into the SO'
rorlty us an honorary member in
1919, at the Nebraska chapter.
General Pershing also received
flowers from the chapter here.
According to Trl-Delt records
when the General's recognition pin
was placed over his heart, he said,
"I feel as if I were in no man's
land."
Harris to Urge Peace Organization
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HOLDS
F
0R1 SERIES
HERE THIS WEEK
Y.M., Y.W., Will Aid in Effort
To Force National Vote
On War Question.
Paul Harris, jr., director of the
peace action service, the largest
staff of the national council for
prevention of war, will arrive in
Lincoln from Washington this
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Silken Clad Coeds Go
Date-Less on Campus
As Gophers lioyeott
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Its no date for the Minnesota
coed who appears wearing silk, if
the signers of the Japanese boy
cott petition which circulated the
Minnesota campus last week are
successful. "Wear Lisle for
Awhile" rages the slogan of the
boycotters on the campus.
The boycott committee, which
started the petition circulating,
carries the boycott of Japanese
one step further than mecrely
promising not to buy Japanese
goods. Signers must also agree to
"accept no dates with any person
who shall wear or purchase Japa
nese goods, including those articles
which are made from Japanese
silk.
How to tell Japanese silk from
any other kind of silk was a prob
lem that such amateurs in .textiles
as college students could not solve,
therefore they decided that for the
sake of utter safety, they should
abandon silk altogether, turn to
cotton and wool dresses and lisle
hose. .
MORTAR BOARDS
GIVE SENIOR CUP
TO KAY WINQUIST
PAUL HARRIS.
, . , opens a week of concen
trated peace work today.
morning at 9 a. m. He will con
duct a week's series of forums and
discussions to emphasize the im
portance of voicing neace sentl
ment at the polls and to raise
money for the foundation of the
Lincoln peace council's financial
drive.
Mr. Harris Is an authority on
the peace problem and on what
the organized peace movement is
doing about it. Educated at Ken
tucky State college and Vanderbilt
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JUDGES 10 SELECT
ADVANCE TICKET
SALES
NDICATE
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EREST
THE WEATHER
"No tun In the sky," saya the
weatherman for today. Today's
is booked for cloudy weather,
with no decided change In temperature.
Fifteen Girls Enter Race;
121 File in Style Show
Competition.
One hundred and twenty-one as
pirants for the honor of Best
Dressed Gin nnd for participation
in the style show of the 1938 Coed
Follies will parade across the stage
of Soojal Science auditorium next
Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 to
meet the critical eye of the A.W.ij
udges.
Best Dressed Girl will be chosen
from the 15 entrants by the A.W.S
board itself. A judging committee
headed by Irene Sellers, who is in
charge of the style show, will view
the 106 models nominated to show
spiing styles to the feminine canv
pus public. Members of the conv
mlttee are Katherlnc Wlnquest
June Barbour, Maxlne Durand and
Elizabeth Waugh.
"There will probably be 05 or GO
models selected to appear in the
show," said Chairman Sellers.
Itehenrsals for the models will
be held Sunday, March 20, in Soda
Science at the samo time, Miss
Nellie Euslhurn of the Physical
education department will help ar
range the presentation of the styles
In aiding the models with walk and
carriage.
Students May Earn Free
Ducats by Selling,
Says McGinnis.
Tickets to the Junior-Senior
Prom, the grand finale of the
formal season, were made available
to the general public at $1.50
apiece Friday. Any student desirous
of earning a free ticket by selling
12 prom tickets to his friends may
check out tickets from the Daily
Nebraskan or Awgwan offices.
Dick McGinnis, ticket sales
chairman, Bald that more tickets
had been sold so far than at the
same time in previous years, due
he believes, to the prom commit'
fee's choice of Griff Williams, well
known band leader from the west
coast, to furnish dance music.
Despite the business "recession,"
a prom bigger, better and more
successful than any previous affair
is anticipated for Friday. The new
system of having the Prom Girl
chosen by a vote of the entire
student body, an ambitious and
novel presentation sketch, a good
name band, and an enthusiastic
crowd of students are all expected
to contribute to the success of the
last formal of the season.
375 High Scholastic Women
Honored at Annual
Tea Sunday.
Three hundred nnd seventy-five
senior, junior and sophomore wom
en who finished the last school
year with an average of fcu or
above were honored Sunday after
noon at a tea
given by the ac
live chapter of
Mortar Board
The feature
of the after
noon was the
presentation of
the Mortar
Board cup to
Katherlnc Win-
quist, senior
w oman who
was judged the
most outstand
ing in her class
in lea d ership
Lincoln journal scholarship and
Knthrrlne Wlncpilsl. service. The
onorable mentions awarded for
this position went to Katherine
Kilbuck and Muriel Krasne. The
awards were presented by Marie
Kotouc and Betty Cherny.
University Hopes
To Buy Vivarium
For Public View
If present plans materialize this
spring the University of Nebraska,
through its zoology department
will have a vivarium, a glass cage
In which the better known species
of Nebraska reptile ami amphibian
will be housed for public display
At the present time Lincoln
people and school children as well
as visitors to the city have no zoo
where they may o to sec a col
lection of live snakes common to
this section of the country.
Considerable interest has already
been aroused over Dr. George i,
Hudson's program of recording
and classifying every species o
the snake, frog and lizzard found
in Nebraska, and visitors to the
city have culled many times at
the zoological laboratories at the
university to sec If they can In
spert the various specimens which
may have been obtained. When the
vivarium Is completed such an op
portunity will be provided.
CHOIR GUEST DAY DRAWS
RECORD AUDIENCE SUNDAY
700 People Attend Musical
Service in Cornhuskcr
Hotel Ballroom.
Seven Coeds
Vie for Honor
Misses Pascoe, Hoff, Benjamin, Geister, Burn, Marccy,
Bors Compete in General Student Balloting
At Temple Building-.
Guest day of the Cathedral choir
Sunday brought 700 people, the
largest number ever to attend ves
pers, to the Cornhuskcr ballroom
for the Into afternoon music serv
ice. In the audience was a large
(irotip of distinguished guests
from other cities of the state as
well as Lincoln.
Present were Mayor and Mrs.
Orin S. Copeland, Chancellor and
Mrs. E. A. Burnett, several su
preme court justices and university
regents. The Mortar Board and
Innocents societies were in at
tendance, as well as a number of
fraternities en masse.
Mrs. Addison Srcldon, former
head of the English department at
Doanc gave the meditative talk.
"The Mood of the Spirit in Poetry"
and the choir presented three anthems.
PROM
STUDENT COUNCIL
NAUGURATES NEW
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FEATURES MARCH
HUMOR MAGAZINE
Feminine Coking Discussed
In Mew Awcjwan Issue
Out Tomorrow.
Dean Heppner Receives.
In the receiving line were Dean
Amanda Heppner, Miss Elsie Ford
Piper, and the officers of Mortar
Board, Maxine Durand, Eloice Ben
jamin, Betty Cherny, Donna Hiatt,
and Jane Walcott. Alumnae and
honorary members of the organ
ization who poured at the tea
tables were Dr. Edna Schrick, Miss
Nellie Eastburn, and Miss Mar
garet Fedde, the faculty advisers,
RADIO BROADCAST
Kampus Kalendar Presents
Prom Girl Candidates
Wednesday Night.
Inaugurating a new series of
university radio programs, the
Kampus Kalendar will be heard
over the air Wednesday evening
at 7:15 from KFOR. The series,
which is being arranged by the
publicity committee of the student
and Dr. iui e Pound; and Miss i-s designed to cover the
Kate Field,
General chairman of the event
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DEPARTMENT SPONSORS
6ERMANFILM SATURDAY
'The Hunter of Fall' Comes
To Varsity Theater
March 5.
The German department of the
university announces the showing
of the German movie, "The Hun
ter of Fall," on Saturday, March fi,
at 9:00 and again at 10:30 o'clock
In the Varsity theater.
Based on the book by the
eminent novelist Ludwig Gangofer,
the film is laid In the Bavarian
Alps. The story centers about the
romance between a forest ranger
and a simple country girl, who has
been betrayed by a villainous
poacher. Picturesque Alpine cos
tumes and the grandeur of the
scenery help to make the picture
one of the most attraijivc to he
brought here by the department
this year.
most important events of the cam
pus each week
On the initial program the seven
candidates for the position of Prom
Girl will be interviewed in a unique
plan in which the scene will be
changed from the Temple to the
broadcasting station and to va
rious buildings on the campus.
The program, which will reg
ularly start with the words "The
Kandid Kamera of the Student
Council presents." will be infor
mal hut not impromptu. With three
detailed rehearsals for each cven
ning's 15 minute period, the coun
cil hopes to make the broadcast
equal to national, hookup enter
tainment. The council aims to make the
program present the most import
ant events of the weeks and within
the time of the semester to cover
all phases of university activity.
The broadcast will be given week
ly altho a scheduled time for the
rest of the semester has not been
decided upon.
PHI MU EPSILONTO HEAR
TALK BY R. W.
Students will au to Hip Temple theater tda to east llioir
luillots for llieir i'.-ivoritc in Prom (Jirl c;inliil;ites ;il tlie first
KHir-riil election of (iieeiL for t lit Junior-Senior prom. With
the linllot yiviiifr the names of the seven Prom (lirl e;iinlil;i1cs
which voters will receive fit Hie polls Mill lie n iniestionnjiire
drawn up by the Daily Nebraskan
on various campus problems.
Vicing for the place of Prom
Girl are Genevieve Hoff, Sigma
Kappa; Virginia Geister, Pi Beta
Phi; Peggy Fascoe, Chi 0:nega;
Kloise Benjamin, Alpha Omicron
Pi; Bonnie Burn, Phi Mu: LaVcrno
Marccy, Kappa Delta, and De
Loris Bors, Alpha Chi Omega. Also
new in prom election rules this
year is the clause allowing juniors
to enter the competition.
Members of the Student Coun
cil will preside at the polls, which
will be open between the hours
of 8 and 5 o'clock. The election
will be supervised by Prof E. W,
Lantz and the baliots will be.
counted by a committee selected
by him.
The prom girl-elect will remain
unknown until the night of the
junior-senior prom, March 4, when
her identity will be made known
during a unique presentation con
structed by Carrol Garey.
The Daily Nebraskan question
naire which will be filled out at
the same time as the Prom Gilr
is chosen will include five ques
tions which many on the campus
have requested to be asked. The
queries compiled by the Nebraskan
staff include:
1. Would you take a compulsory
Wasserman test it it were installed
as a part of the university health
examination?
2. Do you favor the affiliation
of the Great Cathedral choir with
the university?
3. Do you feel that the present
health service of the university is
adequate ?
4. Do you approve of graduate
assistants as classroom profess
ors ?
5. (Men only) Do you favor a
men's extracurricular point system?.
Awgwan's March issue, dedi
cated to the Junior-Senior Prom,
lias been sent to press and will go
on sale at the newstands in Social
Science and Andrews halls tomor
row for only 15 cents or a sub
scription card.
According to Editor Bruce
Campbell, the price for the mag
azine in Canada has been raised
to 25 cents and for South Sea
Islanders, the price has been hiked
to one-half a dollar, as a result of
tariff and shipping expenses.
Bolker Explains Culture.
Features of the March issue will
be Norman Bolker's article dealing
with the cultivation of culture, or
how a person may become an in
tellect in ten easy lessons, which
Editor Campbell states is an
abridged four year college course.
"The Feminine Habit of Cok
ing" is the caption of another Aw
gwan feature. Stuff About People
will be included in the issue, as
will a full page of cartoons, a
Candid Camera page, a Fashions
page, a short, short, short Roamer
Boys story, and a multiplicity of
jokes.
The cover of the magazine is
bedecked in a motif inspired by
the Junior-Senior prom.
According to Campbell, the staff
had to "work pretty doggoned
hard to put out a better issue than
the last one, but we did It.
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Student Abroad Approves
Hitlers Political Regime
Stobbc Tells Impressions IKS, SnX
Gathered in German
Travels.
"I pushed my way thru the
crowd which milled about on the
wet, slippery streets. I told the
officer I was an American and
reluctantly ho let nio thru. There
on the speaker's stand I saw a
rather small, lithe man, garbed in
an old raincoat and wrinkled boots
who, when he spoke, exhibited
the strange power which has made
him the idol of the German peo
ple. This was my first view of
Adolph Hitler."
Thus Carl Stobbe, arts and sci
ence junior, describes his first
meeting with the German dictator
whose drastic measures within the
past few weeks have set the world
agape. Stobbe returned last fall
after a year spent In Germany,
me he attended
rlin and Heidelberg
and toured the points of Interest
thruout the country.
U. S. Newspapers Biased.
"Every American newspaper has
played up in blackest print the
doings of tho fuehrer, said Stobbe,
"with tho result that he, and the
German people as a whole, are
grossly misunderstood. The Ger
man people are almost 100 percent
in favor of Hitler, even tho some
of them do not favor the national
socialist doctrine. Hitler has put
the German country people back
on their feet, has given the coun
try self respect and new hope;'
"On the first Sunday of every
month," Stobbe related, "every
German family serves one meal
a large stew and gives the money
saved to the winter relief fund.
Overworked mothers are sent to
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Pershing Rifles
Telegraph Roses
To Gen. Pershing
As u recognition of the work
that he has done for them, nnd us
an expression of sympathy to his
sister, the Nebraska chapter of
Pershing Klfles lust week sent a
bouquet of American Beauty roses
to Gen. John .1. Pershing, who is
critically ill at his Tuscon, Ariz.
home.
Received yesterday from Miss
May Pershing, sister of General
Pershing, was the following mes
sage:
The National Officers of the
Pershing Rifles
Care Col. William H. Oury, Unl.
of Nebr., Lincoln, Neb.
Greatly appreciate your lovely
flowers and the kindly interest
you show.
MAY PERSHING.
Coming to Nebraska university
In 1S00, the then Lieutenant Per
shing organized Compuny "A" In
1892. In the spiing of 1893 the or
ganization took the name of Var
sity Rifles, and when General Per
shing left the university In 1894
tho name was changed to Pershing
Rifles.
Under tho leadership of Col. W.
H. Oury, who is ut the present
tlmo commandant at the univer
sity, and who was a Pershing
Rifleman under General Pershing,
the organization grew until it had
expanded from two companies in
1927 to Its present total of 27 companies.
Altho he has been Inactive in
Pershing Rifle work for many
years, General Pershing has shown
a sincere tnd lively interest in its
activities. Every year at the Regi
mental compet he awards to the
most outstanding rnlor In the
R. O. T. C. unit the Pershing
medal
Math Instructor Discusses
Use of 'Boolean Algebra'
Tomorrow Night.
R. W. Hamming, instructor In
the mathematics department, will
speak on the subject of "Boolean
Algebra" at a monthly meeting of
the Nebraska chapter of Pi Mu
Kpsilon, honorary mathematics so
ciety, tomorrow evening.
The meeting will be held in room
101 of social sciences hall begin-
i.ing nt 7:l'fl. It will be open to any
one interested in attending, but :ie
tive members of the organization
are particularly urged to be pres
ent, since there is to be an impor
tant business meeting following
Mr. Hamming's talk, according to i fore May 1.
Ideas on Emotional-Mental
Relationships in Youth
Due on May 1.
Prizes will again bo awarded
Ky the George Davis Riven founda
tion for papers submitted by un
dertradu.ite and giaduate stu
dents of the Univeisity of Ne
Inaska on some phase of the rela
tionship of emotion to the mental
health of the child. Dr. D. A.
Worcester, teachers college, is
chairman of the committee in
charge, assisted by Dr. D. W.
DysingiT, psychology: K. 11.
Lewis, bacteriology; Dr. J. M.
Kelnlmrdt, sociology; Dr. Ruth
Staples, home economics, and
Alice Taylor, school of
work. For papers submitted by
graduate students the fiist prize
is $10 nnd for the second $'J.",
while undeigradiiate awards will
be $25 nnd $11). Tapers must he
submitted to the committee he-
Awards arc made
IM ESSAY CONTEST
ON FOTI STRIFE
Writers Club Offers Prizes
For Best Treatments
Of Spanish War.
F. R. Meyer, president.
about June 1.
Infirmary Inmates Laud
Benefits of Sanctuary
Good Food, Pretty Nurses
Renovate Run-Down
Collegians.
They don't "take up their beds
and walk" because the beds are
university property und rather
difficult to curry out undetected.
But out of tho student infirmary
go a stream of ex-patlents, mir
aculously cured and shouting the
praises of the hospital as a place
of peace and quiet where students
may get acquainted with the
nurses and bone up on exams in
seclusion and comfort.
For excluslveness, good food,
and exhilarating atmosphere there
Is no campus hang-out so un
qualifiedly recommended by pa
trons as the red brick sanctuary
at 13th and R. Fortbsll stars re
eloquent in lauding its virtues. The
"last word" entries inscribed in
the infirmary's record book con
tains choice missives from these
and other campus satellites who
have taken the "rest cure" within
its confines.
Good Night Kisses?
Lowell English remembers the
"grand food," and for Lloyd Grimm
the "pretty nurses" mark the real
highlight of his stay. Robert Shu
lcr, our own science instructor at
Bessey hall, was taken a little off
guard and confided to the records
that he "couldn't sleep day or
night" because he was "afraid he'd
miss a chance to hear the sweet
voices an see the tender glances
of the nurses " "Honestly, tho," he
says, you guys are a sweu Duncn
and I hope to see you again when
I'm top-side."
Probably the choicest bit is the
one from "Better Left Unsigned"
who "was never in a hospital be
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The League of American Writ
ers is offering $1,000 in prizes la
student writers preparing papers
on the subject "The antifascist
struggle in Spain today and its
relation to the general welfare of
the American citizens of tomor
row." Entrance is open to all under
graduate students in either Amer
ican or Canadian universities, col
leges, or secondary schools during
the academic year 1937-S. Manu
scripts should be in on ov before
Independence day, July i, 193.
Manuscripts and inquiries should
be addressed to Kllen Kinkcad,
Z:',r,i. Clay St., San Francisco,
Calif. The first prize will be $-V10
and other prizes will be $'2.')0, Ji2j,
$75 anil $r0.
Titles Not Restricted.
The above statement of the sub
ject mutter is not to be construed
social lis restricting the student in tho
selection of a title for the story
he submits. No particular method
of treatment is lequired: cither
Imaginative or critical material
may lie submitted. The writer may
send in cither poetry, prose, film
or radio script, fiction, drama or
essay. Neither are limits set as to
length, altho candidates are re
minded that a decent sense of pro
portion constitutes one tndispens
lble quality of good writing.
Ultimate selection of the prize
winners will be made by a jury
containing the following Judges:
F.lliot Paul, Donald Ogden Stew
art, Jean Starr Untermeyer. H. V,
Kaltenborn, Robert Morse Lovett,
and Clifford Odets.
Return postage should bo pro
vided with all manuscripts. The
manuscripts should not be marked
with the candidate's name, but tho
name, address, college or school
affiliation and class should accom
pany the manuscript In a scaled
envelope. The title of the student's
manuscript and tho category in
which It belongs (poetry, prose,
etc.) should be indicated on the
outside of this envelope.
Two Girls Admit Thefts
From Grant Memorial
Two girls, one a sophomore In
the university, yesterday admitted
after questioning by Sgt. L. C
Regler to several thefts of jewelry
and money from Grant Memorial
hall. Miss Mabel Lee, director of
woman's physical education, ap
prehended the two pilferers and
notified university police.
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