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S C , 1 i nrr f .. J HE 'A1LY IMIEBRASKAN 1 Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXVII. No. 129. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY. APRIL 21. 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS OPENS MONDAY 1 "HADES LADIES" 1 V (BhUHL QainphslL PICTURES ON THE WALLS The question before the house today is a hybrid one. By that we mean that it could come under either of two headings, fine arts or sports. It is the question of murals. Yes, murals, not morals; altho morals could also come under either of the two headings as well as a few hundred others. Now murals are quite accepted s a form of fine art. A bit of pninting and color daubing upon a blank expanse of plaster makes a work of art out of a blank wall. At this point it might be wise to emphasize the fart that we are not tulking about intra-mnrals and getting a connection with sports In that fashion. Nor are we going to mention wallflowers as being decorative works of art. Now that we have definitely es tablished ' the fact that mural painting is a fine art (please, no quibbling, for if von press us as to how we definitely established, we'll reply that it is a priori), we must hasten to point out to you that mural painting is a strenuous Indoor sport. Keep Your Distance. First, start but with this ob served fact. The farther away from a mural you get, the more parts of the painting integrate and form a pleasing whole. The closer you get, the worse it looks and if bright colors are present, you would do well to take along a glass of water and an aspirin when you approach for a closeup examination. It is also hard on the eyes, unless you're blind and can't see any way, in which case it would be useless for you to read this any further. Now, if you are quick to catch on. you can sec where paint ing murals is an indoor sport re quiring endurance, good wind, strength of limb, skill of hand, and co-ordination of muscle. If you still want a little more light on the subject, here it is. The painter, armed with various pigments, ap proaches the wall with artistic in tent onrl f,icVi ef ffnt rtr t lust his fingers in lieu of a brush. I Having a clear idea of what the thing will look like when he gets thru, he begins to daub various sections with this and that. Even a layman will admit, how ever, that tt is easier to add paint than it is to take it off. It is less work. And the artist wishes to do as little work as possible, besides getting just the shading and ar tistic effect he wants, so he does the only thing he can do. He daubs a bit and then trots clear back across the room or hall to get . jn a similar capacity with the al the long range effect which he is armjes in Siberia, striving for. Noticing something The commencement speaker has which needs correction he trots ! also made an envjable name for back within three feet of the wall , himself in the business world. He and daubs some more. served as assistant to the presi- This process is kept up all dur- ent of General Motors, and also ing the painting. If a painter s , fmme(i an) became president of memory is bad and the hall is i CarI w Ackerman, inc., counsel- long, ine oesi in nig jor nun 10 uu is to make note of the desired cor rection so he won't forget it when lie gets bac k to his post. -When the work advances up the side of the wall, the burden on the leg muscles increase since the painter has to descend the ladder, trot back to the far wall, view the work critically, trot back, ascend the ladder, daub, descend the ladder, ad infinitum. A painter has to be careful (Continued on Tage 2.) MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL LEADER JISITS CAMPUS S. C. Mitchell, of Benton Harbor Extension Division Tells of New System. Supt. S. C. Mitchell of P,enton Harbor. Mich., leader in super vised correspondence Mudy, has rxen visiting the university exten sion division during the past week. Benton high school has over 300 r giitipils carrying correspondence lessons in 36 different subject, most of whic h are vocational. The type of plan for studying differ from the plan offered by the Uni versity of Nebraska extension divi sion in that the instructional ma terial accompanies each lesson, enabling the school to offer a wide variety of instruction, yet without having the subject matter be too specialized. Cowboy-Professor Slrips Romance From 'Punching' P.idcrs of the cow country the lean, brown men who rode the trails of the great plains region are no more, but the spirit of the west remains. Prof. Edward Ev rctt Dale of the Oklahoma uni versity history department be lieves. Professor Dale, himself a c owboy of the old west, addressed gatherings of faculty members, THE WEATHER Contiderabla cloudiness with occasional shower It the prom ise of the weatherman for to day. Picnic r out of the question It emt, but there' alway cheer In the laying, 'April shower bring May flow er.' Alto cold In the head, which leadt up to lh prediction that It will be colder today ac cording to the forecitt. Columbia U. Dean Gives Graduation Address, June 6 Carl W. Ackerman Brings World Experiences To Annual Convo. Dr. Carl W. Ackerman, dean of Columbia's university's graduate Bchool of journalism, who is rec ognizor as one of the nation's out standing writers and lecturers, has been secured to give the address at the university's 67th commence ment exercises on June 6. Chosen to deliver the baccalaure ate stirmon on Sunday, June 6, has been Dr. Robert L. Spencer, bishop of west Missouri for the Episcopal church. Formerly rector of the Gl nd Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City, he is listed among the nation's leaders in the church field. Journalist-Business Man. Dean Ackerman has held his present position at Columbia since 1931. A world famous journalist, he was a correspondent for the United Press with the central pow prs during the W'irld war, for the Saturday Evening Post in Mexico, Spain, France, and Switzerland, an() yervprj the New York Times (Continued on Page 2.) Weiland Applies 'Cigarette Test1 To Oil Samples The old method of determining peoples' preference for brands, which consisted In giving them samples identified as "A", "B", "C" and so on. is now being ap plied to the testing of oils. Prof. W. K. Weiland of the mechanical engineering department is running such a group of experiments at the present time. As a member of the research committee of the Society of Auto motive Engineers, Professor Wel Irnd is carrying on these experi ments in order to find out some thing about the structure of oil and how they stand up in engines. Each of the members of the com mittee is carrying out the experi ment by the use of hi own meth ods; the results will be sent to the organization's national offices in N w York City. The different testing methods are being used so that the society will be able to devise from them a laboratory method of testing lu bricants th.it will correlate with actual engine test. Data thus ob tained should help refiner to Im prove their lubricant by improv ing the refining processes. student and history teachers dur ing the two day conclave of the Nebraska History Teachers as sociation, held here Thursday and Friday. The average person's mental pic ture of the ranchman of the old west as a rough, unlearned cow hand is untrue, the cowboy histori an ktated in his convocation ad dress Friday morning on "Rider of the Cow Country." The ranch man of the early cattle day was a big business man, engaged in a great productive industry, who ruled his ranch a a great feudal lord. And the cowboy whom most people see either a a Sir Galahad, dashing around kavlng blonde girl or as a two gun, hot headed horn bre, quick on the trigger and wont I to ride hi horse into laloon was ! In reality just a plain, bowlegged i human, who worked hard, rode I (Continued on Tags 2.) u . Vj :,' ) . ' Lincoln Journal. C. W. ACKERMAN. STATE ECONOMIC CONCLAVE HEARS JOHN CLARK University Economics Club Sponsors Conference Friday, April 29. Dr. John D. Clark, Cheyenne. Wyo., prominent attorney and oil executive, who has been a guest instructor on the university fac ulty for several semesters, will speak at the Nebraska Economic conference, sponsored by Eco nomlca, university economics club, next Friday. International Relations and Business Cycles will be the themes of the session, which will begin at 2 o'clock in room 312, Social Sciences building. Clark and Dr. T. W. Schultz, Iowa State college professor will discuss foreign relations on the Friday afternoon program, along with Dr. Roy J. Ely of Wesleyan; Dr. L. A. Cusack of Creighton; Dr. E. A. Gllmore, jr. and Frank Miller, both of the university. The conclave will close Friday evening with a dinner at 6 in the Lincoln hotel, to be followed by two addresses, one by Dr. J. E. Kirshman of the college of busi ness administration; and another by Dr. Schultz. Dean J. E. Le Rossignol of the biz-ad college will preside at the dinner. Sessions are open to the public. LANGUAGE CONCLAVE Omaha Central Principal Speaks During Annual Session Saturday. After attending discussions, lec tures, and meetings for the greater part of the day. members of the Modern Language Association of Nebraska adjourned their annual spring conference yesterday after noon. Some of the guest speakers ap pearing during the day were Dr. Arthur G. Bovee, Chicago univer sity faculty member, who spoke on "Modern Languages as a Cul tural Clearing House;" J. G. Mas ter, prinicpal of Omaha Central high school, delivering a speech on "Modern Language from an Ad ministrator' Viewpoint;" H. C. Mardis, Lincoln high school princi pal; Dr. V. Royce West, Municipal university at Omaha. Others., ap pearing on the programs were Dr. Harry Kurz. head of the univer sity's romance language depart ment, and Dr. Joseph Alexis, head of the German department. Participating in the final round table discussion, were Mrs. Clair Noyes, Hastings college; Dr. G. O. Fuchs, teachers' college; F. J. Klier, Kearney State Teachers' col lege; parents, teachers and other delegates to the conclave. Wimberly Gathers Cat Tales From World's Feline Folklore Professor Publishes Work After White Persian Proves Good Omen. Pages of history and literature are full of famous personages and their favorite pets cats and many are the printed stories and fairy legends In which the felines are pictured as both hero and vil lain, but it remained for Dr. Low ry C. W'lmbeily of the English department to compile and pub lish probably the most outstand ing collection of cat stories taken from the world' best known folk lore. The better known cat of every country are glorified in Dr. Wim berly' latest study, "The Famous Cat of Fairyland," and practically all of the old classic are repre sented, betide many new atoric. Dr. Wimberly, who 1 one of the university' authorities in the field of folklore, pent every moment of hi par time when hi university work wa done, gathering hi ma tetlal by going through all the available books in the Omaha and Lincoln libraries, pouring over page of material that he had pre OR. L W. LUC COCK SPEAKS TO CONVO ON FAR EAST WAR Shanghai Pastor Discusses Causes of Difficulties Monday Morning. Pr. E. W. Luccock who Is in this country on a speaking mis sion, will address a university convocation in the Temple Mon day at 11 a. m. Speaking on the present situa tion in the far east. Dr. Luc cock has been pastor of a large Engli s h speaking church in Shanghai where he is un der the employ of the Chinese " i 1 Of Churches. He has six to t . o pap nf ah. sencc and is c!e- lun-oin Journal. voting his time to interpreting the underlying causes of the dif ficulties in the Orient. The speaker has prominent friends in both China and Japan and because of his many years of residence in the Orient has first hand informa tion concerning the present crisis. He is the son of Dr. George Luccock who has been the in terim pastor at Westminster church. Sunday morning he will speak at Westminster church and in the evening at First Methodist LINCOLN STUDENT PLAYS OVER MAJOR BOWES HOUR Eunice Bingham Presents Violin Solo Thursday Nig-ht Over CBS. Eunice Bingham, a Lincoln girl, who graduated from the Univer sity of Nebraska in 1936 with a bachelor of fine arts degrees in ..'J Lincoln Journal. EUNICE BINGHAM. education and a major in violin under August Molzer. will repre sent Lincoln on ;he Major Bowes amateur progra.r. Thursday eve ning at 7 o'clock over the Colum bia network. Miss Bingham, after graduating from the university, enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music, where she is continuing her work with violin. While here she was a mem ber of Pi Kappa Lambda, honorary music fraternity, and had become well known to Lincoln and state audiences as an outstanding vio linist. Lincoln will be the honor city Thursday evening. Lincoln journal. DR. L. C. WIMBERLY. viously reviewed for hl Ph. D. thesis, writing countless letters ecuring permission to reprint cer tain tales, and then reading all the version of each legend so that he could Include the one best suited J to hi purpoge that of publlthlng h 9 v. NORTH IH CLIPS EX Roger Owen, Robert Turner Successfully Affirm Unicameral. Omaha North defeated Sidney yesterday in the finals of one of the most spectacular state debate tournaments held at the univer sity. Roger Owen and Robert Turner, Omaha speakers, upheld the affirmative of the question "resolved that the several states should adopt a system of unicam eral legislation." and Mickey Green and Eill Tevvell, represented Sid ney on the negative. A silver loving cup with the schools name engraved on it was awarded to the champions. Cer tificates were awarded to all four of the speakers in the finals. "Responsibility should be placed upon the members, there should be a definite check, money should not be wasted, and elimination of com plexity," were the arguments with which Omaha battled Sidney to receive the decision. Oratory-Mispronunciation. C. E. Lyon, speech department head, Herman Trachsel, head of the political science department, A. E. Meai, director of ethics, H. Hanna, and Everett Schreck, all of the University of North Dakota were the judges for the tourna ment. Mr. Hanna stated that Tru del Donner, Lincoln debater and the only girl speaker of the tourna ment presented the master piece of oratory in the tournament in her final rebuttal speech. All judges agreed that this was one of the finest tournaments they had ever judged. The most outstanding thing which they especially noticed was that there were no poor losers. One judge said that he was sur prised at the grammatical errors and mispronunciation. The third round eliminated Grand Island, Kimball, and Ben (Continued on Page 4.) Director of Chicago Social, Security Board to Give Lecture April 25. The Lincoln council of social agencies and the graduate school of social work will sponsor a lec ture in Lincoln by H. L. McCarthy of Chicago, director or region six of the social security board on Monday, April 25, at the chamber of commerce. The meeling will be a dinner meeting and will begin at 6:15 o'clock. The public is in vited to attend. McCarthy will talk on "Labor's Responsibility for Public Welfare." He is well qualified to discuss this subject since he has for many years been a member of the ma chinist's union and has served as regional director for the national labor relations board. Arbitrated Wisconsin Strike. In the fall of 1936. he was called to Racine, Wis., to arbitrate in the J. I. Case Farm Implement com pany strike and was able to bring about a settlement satisfactory both to the men and to the com pany. He also served as regional director for the national recovery administration. Book Brings Together Earl Of Cattenborough's Cat, Slyboots, Grimalkin. a boon that would be apprt.:. 1 by fcoth juveniles and adults. Cat Interest Universal. Dr. Wimberly is not alone In his interest in cats. Many of the world's outstanding citizens have shown a queer interest in them. The late -Vachel Lindsay, one of America's better known poets, was particularly fond of cats as was Andrew Lang, Erihsh poet and folklnri.st, and Lafcadlo Hearn, one of Britain's important literary fig ures. Kipling, too, particularly loved his cat and dedicated a poem to its memory, not to mention the other famous characters through the ages whose lives have been "touched" by friendly members of the cat family. The university author confesses that he had long thought of pub lishing such a collection of tales, but kept putting it off, until one cold winter day, upon returning from a class, he found curled upon his dictionary a friendly, long haired white cat. He took It home (Continued on Page 4.) SIDNEY TO ANN FOREN IC ROPHf Kosmet Musical Carries All-Male Cast of Over 40 BLOCK AND BRIDLE E Group to Honor Livestock Breeder for Service To Program. Honoring Samuel McKelvie for his outstanding work as a Nebras ka livestock breeder, the Block and Bridle club will sponsor a banquet in the home economics building on ag campus at 6:30 Monday eve ning. The banquet, the first of its kind to be held by the club, will be made an annual affair, accord ing to club members. Mr. McKelvie, a pioneer live stock breeder and farmer, has lived in the state 75 vears. In recognition of his service in im proving the state livestock pro gram, the Block and Bridle group will unveil a picture of McKelvie which will later be hung in the Animal Husbandry building. Speakers at the banquet include S. R. McKelvie, son of the honor guest, owner of the Nebraska Farmer, and former governor of the state: C. W. Thompson, auc tioneer; H. J. Gramlick, chairman of the Animal Husbandry depart ment, and H. P. Brown. Reservations for the dinner will be made in advance. Tickets can be obtained from Block and Bridle members or the Animal Husbandry department. The price of the banquet is 65c to students and $1.00 to outsiders. L. Ag College Expects Record Crowd of More Than 2,000 Persons. Feeders Day, the big meeting of the season for- Nebraska farm ers, is scheduled for next Friday, and plans are going forward at the College of Agriculture to en tertain a record crowd of some 2,000 farm and city people. A true cross section of Nebras ka people is expected to be on the campus for the day. Farmers, editors, farm and city women, bankers, and others have indicated that they will be there. As evi dence of outstate interest in the gathering, the Norfolk chamber of commerce is bringing a delegation (Continued on Page 4.) SPANISH CLUB TO HOLD NATIVE STYLE DINNER Meal Honors Pan-American Day Wednesday Night In Campus Inn. In typical native style, a Mexi can chef of the Bull Head inn will prepare a dinner for Spanish devotees in honor of Pan-American day. The dinner will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 flt the inn. All students studying Spanish are Invited to be present, as well as faculty members teaching Spanish. Several South American men now staying in Lincoln will be guests. Tickets will be told in the Spanish classes for 60 cents. Scribe Finds Debaters Champions at Doane, Midland. and in the Omaha city tourna ment, Roger Owen and Robert Turner, Omaha North high school debaters, topped off one of the most successful North debate years in the history of the school by taking a 5-0 decision from Sid ney orators in the finals of the state high schooi tournament yes terday. Chatting with the pair one finds them unassuming, modest, and deeply imbued vAlh a sense of re spect for opponent and friend. Neither boy has any of those "big head" characteristics which some times accompany a champion squad. A Pair of Champs. Owen, short and stocky, cap tained the North football team last fall, playing a center position with great ability, despite hi lack of TO FETE M'KELVI WITH AG BANQUET Phelps, Bushman, Dobson, Deger, Howalf, Gund, To Appear. Devils and bad men will take over the Temple theater stage this week as the Kosmet Klub presents its new spring show, "Hades' La- 2$ H ' " ' i niciTiin if iTrr' ADNA DOBSON. , . . Portrays Johnathon O'Hara Appletree. dies." opening tomorrow night at 8. Described as a "musical fantasy in two acts and eleven scenes," the show was written by John Edwards and features an all male cast of over 40 students headed by Thurston Phelps, Ixuis Bush man, Fred Gund. jr., Everett De ger, Don Kellogg, Charles Reilly. Johnny Howell, Adna Dobson and Don Carlson. Action of "Hades' Indies" r; -volves about Elmer Smithers. a henpecked husband portrayed by Fred Gund. One day his wife. Ivy. played by Bob Burrusg, tells him that as far as she is concerned, he can go to Hades; so Flotsam and Jetsam, two wandering spir its (Thurs'on Phelps and Louis Bushman) decide to take him there to get comparative peace and happiness. Deger as Satan. Satan, king of the Nether World, portrayed by Everett "Duke" De ger. befriends Elmer and aids him in the many adventures he expe riences in ihe underworld. Other characters include Robert Ronnc as Junior Smithers; Lewis Ander son as Charon, ferryman on the (Continued on Tage l.i Workmen Install Grill Room Chairs In Union Building Protected from an inquiniv campus hy numerous "no admit tance" signs plastered on the Stu dent Union building doors, work men spent, yesterday tfternoon emptying moving vans of furni ture into the new student center. Latest additions to the building's decorations are a numhe-r of chairs for the grill room, of modernistic: design with leather seats of elec tric blue and slender canary col ored metal irgs. Kitchen Equipped. Kitchen equipment was installed early in the w.-c-k, and stove ar. l roasting and broiling ovens are ready for use in the biiiMu.g base ment. Furniture for the loimc and the offices will not be moved until Tuesday or later. Kenneth F. Van Sant, union director, revealed. The furniture has all been brought from Omaha. Most of it was chosen by Ray Ramsay, alumni secretary, and a staff of interior decorators. High School 'Unassuming I avoirdupois he bus been a, member of the high school student council for three years, is its prcs (Continued on Page 2. i Sipna Delta Clii Plan Gridiron Stunt, Elect Officers WcdiHwlav Members of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, will meet Wednesday noon at the Lincoln hotel to elect new officer for the coming year. Following the election, the pnvrram committee will present an outline of the Grid iron Dinner, which will be pre sented in the new Student Union building on Friday, May 13. New committees on arrangements for the Gridiron dinn?r will also be ap pointed at thi meeting, and other plant will be discussed. .