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. r I "5V j'WiV 'ABLY 117 "OlO A Q tin Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL XXXVII. NO. 109. L1NC0IJV, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY. MARCH 22. 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS i.v w. a sv ' KAN no H li i j if r si 5 4 !. 5. i, V. li. WEU FANCY THAT What is your reaction to bro mides? If you aren't quite sure what your reaction is, then read the following sentence and see if you wince at its over familiarity. "In the spring a young- man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." That is just about the acme in overworked and oft-repeated phrases, It is the most bromidle of all bromides. Besides it isn't always the truth. Young men's fancies, unlike great men's minds, do not always run In the same channel. We stated that as if it were a postulate, but Is was really only an hypothesis, a theory. However, we decided to give the theory a few acid tests at odd mo ments during the day and see what fancies lightly turn to. Feeling in an unusually good ex trovert mwl, we started the day off by asking a fellow passenger on a streetcar: "What does your fancy lightly turn to these days?" He glanced at us once and got off at the next corner. Falling into route step with a bebooked student in front of sosh we ventured the same question. "Make-up test In bus org,' he replied quickly and without the slightest trace of hesitation. "Aha," we chortled, "the theory she is being proven." "And how is your fancy turn ing?" was addressed to the cell mate on our left in the 9 o'clock. "In the spring a young ma " He probably finished his sen tence but we aren't sure because we gave the rest of his answer a deaf ear. Gastronomlcal Fancy. At noon, the subject of fancy turning was foisted upon a com rade in the process of vitamin inhaling. "What is your fancy turning to these spring days?" "Two hamburgers with pick le," he shouted to a waiter. Vaguely aware, then, that something had been asked of him, he turned politely around and said: "What was that?" Having already obtained an answer to the question, however, we merely asked him to pass the mustard. Sometime in the afternoon a spring-feverish boy said In re ply to the oft-propounded sub ject, quote, spring makes me think of picnics in fact I'm glad you reminded me I think I'll go on one right now unquote. "I suppose your fancy is busy turning to love?" we shot at an athlete. "Gosh, no," he said, after we changed his opening word a little bit, "give me baseball." 'Taint Necessarily So. Summer vacation, new spring suits, hour dances, ice cream and more picnics were the other answers given In reply to the topic of the day. All of which goes to show that "all young men' fancy-turning does not culminate in a four let ter word rhyming with love. On the basis of the proof herein offered, then, we demand that the old axiom be repealed as it takes too darn much for granted. Cami misitcs Shed Winter Clothing As 'Sol' Heats Up Yesterday, the advent of spring, brought the warmest day since last October s bright blue weather. The mercury climbed up and up, until students began to shed their sweaters and jarkets in 2 o'clock classes and get drowsy from the balmy weather. When they walked out of classrooms, the thermom ter read M degrees the hottest that it has been this year. What to ilo on a spring day is a problem that hHS been experi enced by all. There are the tennis courts, which some of the more energetic students inhabited yes terday. Pounding balls across the nets in shorts and hultemecks. it was evident that the sun-tan sea son had finally struck. People lounging on the grass in front of U hall seemed happy and content. The student members of Board of Managers of the Student Union took themselves out under the trees and carried on the reg ular parliamentary order in their business. The rest of the campus wandering by thought them to be a botany class out on a field trip. People licking ice cream cones as they walked down the street were few beside those sipping cool ing beverages at the campus cak ing centers. Others hurrying toward home for spring sing prac tice after spending too much time over a coke prophesied that it wouldn't be long before we shall see another Ivy Day. IMii Tau Tlicta Hears CIrrioRanjoixt Whu Played for Coolidge Rev. Ray Magnuson of Martell, banjo playing minister who has been making a special study of "The Church and the Rural Prob lem," will speak to Phi Tau Theta, Methodist fraternity, on the sub ject tonight. Magnuson was In South Dakota to play his banjo as part of the entertainment for President Calvin Coolidge when the president was taking his va cation In the Game Lodge of the Black hills area, Kalendar Offers Preview Tonight Of Coed Follies Student Council Broadcast Presents Glimpses Of Skits, Models. Presenting a bird's eye preview of the 1938 Coed Follies, the S dent Council Kampus Kalei broadcast will take radio list" above the Temple theater stage tonight for a brief glimpse of skits and models In rehearsal. The pro gram, the fourth In the weekly Kalendar scries, will go on the air at 7:15 o'clock over station KFOR. Mistress of ceremonies for the Follies, Sarah Louise Meyer will also art as announcer during the broadcast, describing costumes of various candidates for Best Dressed Girl, and chatting with Jane Barbour and Helen PAcoe, past and present presidents of the A. V. S. board, the group which produces the all-Girl show. In spite of the strict no-men-allowed rule of the Coed Follies, it is hinted that Al Moseman, Student Council president, will crash the rehearsal to interrupt the feminine course of affairs. The council publicity committee follows the same policy in this program that it has used from the first in the Kampus Kalendar broadcasts, centering the affair about the most outstanding cam pus event of the week. First of the broadcasts feature an interview with candidates for Prom Girl, the second program was devoted to the school of music, and the third presentation, put on by the University Players, was entitled "An Interview with Queen Elizabeth." March Humor Publication To Appear on Sales Stands Monday. Again, an improvement! This one, well, it's really the best ever: so declared Awgwan Editor Bruce Campbell, jr., when inter viewed yesterday concerning the new Awgwan which will peep out from stands in sosh and Andrews next Monday morning. The cover of the March edition will be symbolic of spring, and will be a pleasant new rendition of the spring spirit. Editor Camp bell reports a multiplicity of fea tures and editorials as having gone to print, chkf among which are Morris Lipp's "How to Tc!'. a student Union Building Apart Genus Nebraskansis"; and Clar ence Summers' "Pscience of Psy chometry." The new Candidrama page, ed ited and printed with pictures tak en by Candidramatist George Ros en, aided and abetted with a brace of Hank Greenberge's work, will attract attention, as will Mr. Campbell's Roamer "Boys Get Spring Fever, or Four Men on a Love-Bug" a short, short, short, etc., story. There will be full page cartoon land other short articles Some thing new, novel, different, is Aw gwans popularity contests. In fact, Mr. Campbell says its's "superfl- ous." Pacifists Must Avert War, Insure Lasting Peace, Asserts Youthful Peace Service Secretary Wilson BY ELLSWORTH STEELE. Dan Wilson, area field secretary for the Student Peace service, is visiting Lincoln for the week to recruit volunteers for the S. P. S. summer student volunteer work. to aid in raising their financial support and to consult with stu dent groups on the question of what to do if war is declared. "No person has the right to de clare himself a pacifist unless he Is willing to act right now to help prevent war," the youthful peace worker asserted. "Passive pacifists have probably done more harm than any good L'ey could accom plish." His smile flashed frequently as the blue-eyed, curly haired gradu ate of Kansas Wesleysn told of his work with the Friends Service committee which alms toward peace thru positive action. He is one of the ten field secretaries of the organization, which operates over the entire nation. His area In cludes Kansas, Nebraska, Mis souri, Oklahoma and Colorado. He stated that failure had come to pacifists in the past because they thought that all they could do was to refuse to fight Twofold Duty. "We have a twofold Job. We must avert war, and we must bring about the fundamental changes necessary to a lasting peace. The worst thing that can happen to any nation is war. Some COEDS HOLD LAST DRESS REHEARSAL OF FOLLIES ACTS Cast to Model Fashions In Exclusive Dress Shop Setting. Final dress rehearsal for the en tire cast of the 1938 Coed Follies will be held tomorrow evening preceding the presentation of the show Thursday night at 7 o'clock Models and members of the skits will convene at the Temple at 6:30 The skits wil lbe run thru in order. divided by curtain acts. Groups which will present skits include Carrie Belle Raymond, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Delta Tau, Delta Gam ma and Rosa Bouton hall. Cur tain acts will be given by Chi Omega, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Omicron Pi, Barb A. W. S. league, and Gamma Phi Beta. The fashions will be modeled in the setting of an exclusive modern dress shop, beginning with morn ing clothes, sport, spectator sport and street dresses, afternoon and date dresses and the candidates for Best Dressed Girl dressed for mally. Presentation of the silver cup to be awarded to the best act of the Follies as determined by ap plause and the decision of the judges will be made at the close of the skits. The Best Dressed Girl will be revealed at the clim actic end of the style show. .1 Women Entering Graduate School Eligible for $150 ' Scholarship. Filings for the $150 scholarship being offered by Mortar Board, senior women's honorary, will close April 1, according to Maxine Durand, Mortar Board president. Any woman student who plants to take graduate work at the uni versity next fall is eligible. The scholarship, presented last year for the first timi, is awarded on the basis of scholastic record, financial need, and general ability. Comprising the committee of judges who will select the scholar ship winner are Dean Amanda Heppner, Dr. E. R. Walker, Dean Frederick Upson and Maxine Du rand. File In Dean Upson's Office. Applications for the scholarship must be in Dean Upson's office on or before April 1, and the win ner will be determined by the committee in a special meeting the following week. - "The award offers a great op purnity to coeds who want to con tinue their studies as graduate I students this fall," Miss Durand declared. "We hope that a num ber of girls will apply." Kathryn King, who is doing graduate work in the English de partment, was winner of last year's award. say that fascism would be worse, but war would bring facism. The Industrial mobilization bill would establish such a system In the United States if war comes. The president, according to the bill, would have power to retain his dictatorial position six months after he declared the emergency over." Wilson described the work of the summer 'olunteers for peace. Frances Scudder, Eunice Werner and Harold Watkins of Nebraska university have worked for the Student Peace service, going to a two weeks' raining institute in Naperville, III., and then to smaller towns to work in teams, usually of four, for peace. Interesting Work. The 3S5 students who have worked during the past two years were carefully selected to train for two weeks under such men as T. Z. Koo of China, William T. Stone of the Foreign Policy as sociation, Harold Rugg of Colum bia university, Gerald P. Nye of the United States senate and Henry Goddard Leach, editor of the Forum magazine. While in Lincoln Wilson will meet with the Y. M, C. A., the Y. W. C. A. and other Interested organizations. Wednesday at 7 p. m. he meets the Y. W. C. A. in Ellen Smith hall. The tentative date for speaking to the Y. M. C. A. is Tuesday at 6 p. m. 'Cohort--Or MJuil Shoving' y i ... t m h PundAv Journal and Stur. The painting above, labeled "Quit Shoving" by one art student, is the reproduction of "Cohort," by Giorgio di Chirico which has aroused more attention than probably any other painting in the Ne braska Art association's annual exhibit now being shown in Mor rill hall. De Chirico is an Italian painter who has had considerable in fluence on the Surrealists and Neo-Romanticists. Annual Spring Party Set For Friday Evening In Activities Hall. Rain will be the theme of the annual Ag Spring party which is to be held this Friday night in the Student Activities building. The "rain" atmosphere will be provided by colored lighting, cel lophone strung from the ceiling and huge umbrellas hanging high overhead and standing about the floor. Totted plants will add to the spring effect. Climax of the party will be the presentation of the Goddess of Agriculture who has been elected by the vote of all Home Economic students. Her Identity and that of her six attendants will be revealed Friday m Sternie Sternburg and his eleven piece band provide the music Ray Cruise and Lois Giles, co chairmen of this event, which is sponsored by the ag executive (Continued on Page 4.) SURVEY OF STUDENT OPINION SPONSORED BY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD INSTRUCTIONS Check all statements of which you approve. Clip ballot and leave at Daily XebrasJctn office in U Hall, Daily Nebraskan booth in social sciences building or Daily Nebraskan booth in ag hall. QUESTIONS 1. I favor adoption of American policies in the Far East of (a) Application of a popular Consumer's Boycott against Japan. (b) Withdrawal of all American forces In China ici Application of the Neutrality Act (i) Declaring Japan an aggressor and stopping all relations with her. (e) Collective action with Great Britain and Russia to stop Japanese aggression in China. (f ) Repeal of the Oriental Exclusion Act. 2. I favor adoption of policies with regard to R, O. T. C. of (a) Making it optional in all non-military schools and colleges. (b) Making it compulsory in State land grant colleges. (c Abolishing it entirely from non-military schools and colleges. S. I favor adoption of policies for keeping the United States at peace of (a) Unqualified neutrality in all foreign wars, lb) Participation in economic sanctions against aggressor nations. (c) Positive collective action with Great Britain, France and Russia to maintain peace by any means, military sanctions included If necessary. (d) Complete isolation. (e) Entrance into a revised League of Nations with provisions for peaceful change and revision of treaties greatly strengthened. (f) Discontinuance of Neutrality in favor of Spanish Loyalists. (g) Discontinuance of Neutrality In favor of Spanish Rebels. 4. I will fight (a) If continental United States is invaded. (b) In defense of American rights abroad. (c) In any war the Government may declare. (d) In no war the Government may declare. 8. I favor a military and naval policy of (a) Reduction In naval expenditures. (b) Passage of the present billion dollar naval appropriations bill. (c) Progressive disarmament in cooperation with other powers. (d) Reduction of the navy, but an Increase in the army for defense of continental America. (e) Stabilization of the army and navy at their present level. Class In college (a 4 Jm Y E OF Week-End Session Attracts Large Nebraska Group To Peru Meet. Thirty-four members of the lo cal Y.M.C.A. and Y.V.C.A. were present last week end at Peru where they took part in the Nebraska student training confer ence of the Student Christian Movement of the Rocky Moun tain Region. Attending the three day meeting were approximately 150 persons from the following schools: Peru, Kearney, W'ayne, Chadron, Wesleyan, Doane, York, Midland, Nebraska Central, and University of Nebraska city and Ag campus groups. Principal speaker of the con ference was Dr. Harold Bosley, j head of religious work at Iowa j State Teachers college. Dr. Bosley particularly emphasized the need I for the student to have a historical perspective when dealing with problems of Christian life, j he principal theme, "Who Is a Chris (Continued on Page 4.) Yes No iS4 & d n n n n n n n Nebraskan Polls Student Opinion On Peace Today SERVICES NELLIE COMPTON Dr. Luccock Conducts Rites For Former Nebraska Library Head. Funeral rites for Miss Nellie Jane Compton, retired librarian of the University, were held yester day morning at 10:30 in the fu neral parlors of Castle. Roper, and Matthews. Dr. George Luc cock, pastor in terim of the W e s t m inster P r e s byterian church, was in charge of the services. W i 1 bur C h e n n o weth, music in structor at the U n i v e r s i ty, played the or gan. Approxi mately 135 fHrnds find rl- ZJ stives crowded rur nipt.n. the small funeral chapel. Miss Compton, who for 40 years served the university library, died in her home at 1735 Sumner early Friday morning following an ill ness of nearly two years. After retirement from the li brary staff, Miss Compton was given the rank of assistant li brarian emeritus. She was a mem ber of Chi Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa and the Nebraska Librarian (Continued on Page 4.) I Group Features 'Water Boy,' Pictures From Life,' 'Circle Dance.' Rhythmic expression of the movements of a southern cham gang accompanied by Negro spir ituals will be one of the most striking dances in the repertoire of Orchesis, modem dance group, when it presents its annual spring recital next Saturday. William Miller, baritone, will sing a group of colored folk songs ! while members of the cast depict the gripping moods of "Water Boy." Requests from spectators last year, according to Miss Claudia Moore, have resulted in the repeti tion of several numbers in this year's recital. Most popularly re ceived were the "Circle'' riHnce and "Pictures from Life." The latter dance, by use of motion, gesture and pantomime, portrays the vil lage flirt, gossip and sewing cir cle in the abstract, the director said. Nineteen dancers will take part in the presentation which is srhed- i uled to be held in Grant Memorial ' hall beginning at 8 p. m. THE WEATHER "Cloudy and rain," says the Weatherman for today's fore cast. And we'll wager he's probably right. iDAilN R Missing Philadelphia Professor Neither Lost Nor Stolen, Just Strayed Into Wrong Classroom PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (ACP). i This is the case of a missing pro I fessor. By 9:15 a recent Friday morn I ing, Dr. Frederick H. Lund's class j in social psychology at Temple university was ready to begin its I work. The latecomers had slipped i in and there was a mixed air of resignation and eagerness that precedes roll call. There whs, how ever, no professor. By 9:20 the Inte-comers had slipped out and there was a mixed air of "shall we go?" or "shall we stay?" which precedes an exodus from classrooms. But before the general emigra tion took place, an enterprising member of the class returned with the news Dr, Lund was not lost Just misplaced. He had forgotten his own calss, and was teaching a Psychology I group! With any other professor you might pass it off as Just absent mindedness, but when a psycholog ist forgets his class, you immedi ately look for a "motive." Dr. Lund's own explanation negates any elaborate explana tions. "It was a case of absentmlnded ness." he confessed. "I was so In terested in arranging for an ex periment in a general psychology Campus to Register Views On U. S. Policy in Orient, At Home. The Daily Nebraskan is taking part in a nationwide poll of stu dent opinion on peace questions today. The poll which is printed in the paper can be left in the Ne braskan office, at the Nebraskan stand in Social Science or in the finance office in Ag hall. The poll has been prepare! anrl sponsored hy the Brown Daily Herald of Province, R. I. Over one million college students over the country will be contacted as 753 college publications present bal lots to their readers. The questions deal with the American policies in the far cast, the naval program, measures to be. taken to insure peace, when should men fight and the R. O. T. C. The Daily Herald sees that "Eu rope, and Asia alike are the scenes of aggressions as vicious as any in history. Students leaving coliege today will enter a world of strife and dissention which presents the most discouraging outlook since the' World war." As a means of crystalizing campus opinion on these problems the Herald offers to the country its second Survey of Public Opinion on Teace during the week of March 22-26. The Herald launched its first survey five years ago in reply to the challenge of Dr. Nicholas Mur ray Butler, president of Colum bia university, "College students should take the responsibility for (Continued on Page 3.) CAST A.W.S. Unaffiliated 'Girls to Elect 3 Seniors, 4 Sophomore, Junior Members. Bai h women will cast their bal lots Wednesday for members of the Barb A. W. S. board for the coming year. Polls will be open from 9 to 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall and in the Home Economics building on the ag campus. Rui.i.ing tor senior positions, of which three members will be chos en, are Irene Eden, Beatrice Ek blad. Lela Curry. Edith Filley, Marian McAllister, and Ehnor Nelson. The fourth senior member will be Velma Ekwall. one of the two senior barb members of the A. W. S. board, who automatically becomes president of the barb board. Entered in the race for junior members, of which four will be (Continued on Page 2.1 FKENCH CUR SHOWS MOVIE ON MARCH 26 'Lc Gondrc dc MoiiMCur Poirirr lo Appear At Varsity. Sponsored by Le Cercle Francais, the French movie "Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier." will be shown on Saturday morning, March 26 at the Varsity theater. As a well-known comedv, the play was read by the Frei.ch 3 'classes last semester. Tickets may ' be bought for 25 cents in Miss : Piazza's office in U hall. Any student who sells 20 tickets will be ' given one free. group, that I forgot my own class in social psychology." But depend on a psychologi.st to put a new twist in it: Dr. Lund's case, apparently was "atypical." It would have been more excusable if he had gone to classes on a holi day. That would have been a typ ical case of absent-mindedness. "Because," Dr. Lund explains, "it is more usual to go to a class when it isn't scheduled to meet at its regular time, than it is to for g''t the regular meeting of class. Individuals, being creatures of habit, are more likely to follow their usual routine and to forget any possible changes." Dr. Lund elaborated the absent mindedness of professors and as cribed its chief cause to profes sors' "power of concentration." "This ability to concentrate is not an unmixed blessing. It often leads to amusing things and makes professors feel pretty silly," he said. "Another reason for absent mindedness in teachers Is that they are constantly dealing with ideas, and are usuaily reacting verbally. The engineer who deals with physical objects is less likely to be absent-mlndd." The inability of the mind to give attention to more than one thing at a time is a third ceuse of absent-mindedness, according to Dr. Lund, i r 4 I , V