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VOL. XXXVlll, NO. 7.
LINCOLN. MUKSK. THURSDAY. SKI'TKMHIK 22, 1 9.18
Dean's Tea
Opens Social
Season Today
Reception Hours Set
From 3:30 Till 5:30
In Ellen Smith Hall
Extending a cordial invitation to
all university women, freshmen in
particular, to meet the staff of the
dean of women as well as prom
inent women in campus activities,
the office of the dean of women
will hold a tea this afternoon in
Ellen Smith hall from 3:30 to 5:30.
Miss Elsie Ford Piper, assistant
dean of women, will preside in the
place of Miss Amanda Heppner,
still convalescing. She will head
the receiving line with the presi
dent of A. W. S., Helen Pascoe, as
custom decrees.
Chaperones of campus organiza
tions will preside at the tea tables.
Mrs. J. W. Bishop, president of
the chaperones' club, with Mrs.
C. P. Smith, Mrs. L. C. Wicks and
Mrs. Myra Lyons will preside dur
ing the first hour. For the second
hour, Mrs. Julius Petermichael,
Mrs. Paul Ream, Miss Louise Mun
shaw and Mrs. Frank Schrader
will be at the tables.
Thirty-two girls representative
of Tassels, A. W. S., Coed Coun
sellors. and other organizations
will assist in serving. Sixteen of
the girls will be memoers of Alpha
Lambda Delta, freshman scholas
tic honorary.
Members of Mortar Board will
also be present to welcome the
guests. Floral decoration in Ellen
Smith hall will create a garden
atmosphere for the musical pro
gram to be presented thruout the
afternoon by artists of Music Pan-
hellcmc.
400 Attend
Matinee
Hop
Union Mixers Gain
Campus Popularity
Freshmen
To Study
Activities
Law School Closes
To Honor LeaVith
Dean Harry H. Foster of the
law college announced Wednes
day afternoon that the law
school and law library will be
closed until 12 noon Thursday
In order to pay respect to the
memory of John J. Ledwith,
associate professor of the law
school.
It was further announced
that the funeral, which the sen
ior law class will attend in
body, will be held at St. Mary's
cathedral at 9:30 Thursday
morning.
Wednesday's matinee dance, held
at the Student Union ball room
was the first of a series planned
to orientate new students with the
possibilities of campus friendships.
According to Director Kenneth
Van Sant if the Student Union,
400 dancers took advantage of the
mixer matinee.
That the popularity of this Stu
dent Union facility will soon be ex
ploited by students, upper class
men as well as freshmen, was the
belief of Director Van Sant.
Saturday night when Jimmie
Crier and his orchestra swing out
. on the nations favorite dance tunes
of the day. will mark the formal!
, opening of a series of "big name"
Student Union ball room in the
nefrr future.
During his record run at the
Biltmorc bowl. Jimmie became
known as the "Musical Host of the
Coast." a tag line which has fol
lowed him thruout his 1,400 na
tionwide broadcasts ,and which la
bels him as one of the outstanding
dance and radio orchestra leaders
of the nation.
Mortar Boards Teach
At Leadership School
For Beginners Saturday
Preparations were well under
way Wednesday for the annual
Mortar Board leadership training
conference to be held Saturday in
Ellen Smith hall, Josephine Rub-
nitz, conference chairman reported.
The conference, scheduled by the
interorganization council of Mor
tar Board, is being held especially
for university women interested in
the extra curncular activity new.
Registration for the event is sched
uled to begin at 12:45 p. m. and
the conference will close at 4:30
o'clock.
"Women, especially freshmen,
who are interested in participating
in the major women's organiza
tions on the campus, will receive
valuable instruction in leadership
on Saturday," Miss Rubnitz com
mented. "It will be well worth trie
time of extra curricular activity
participants to attend the confer
ence.
Speakers, well informed on the
discussion topics, will appear at
each roundtable.
The afternoon's program in
cludes: 12:45 to 1:15 Registration.
1:15 to 1:30 Opening session.
1:30 to 2:15 Roundtables on
group leadership and office
training.
2:15 to 3:00 Roundtables on
salesmanship and politics.
3:30 to 3:45 Roundtables on
publications, ag campus activi
ties, and student government.
3:45 to 4:15 Closing session
and summaries of roundtables.
Phyllis Chamberlain. Mortar
Board president, will give a short
talk at the opening session in the
afternoon. Discussion group lead
ers include: Bonnie Burn, Frances
Boldnian, Pat Lahr, Ruthanna
Russell, Barbara Rosewater, Vir
ginia Nolte, Velma Ekwall.
13 Religious
Groups Fete
Collegians
Churches Hosts to Uni
Students Tomorrow
'Biff Lauds
N.U. Spirit
At Convo
j Frosh Hear Deans,
Activity Leaders
At Traditional Event
Elections, Identification
Cards, New Committees
Occupy Student Council
Freshies Inspire
Awgwan Staff
Issue Honors Wearers
Of Red Cops, Buttons
Pictorializing and commenting
chiefly upon the trials of freshman
life, the Awgwan staff is now pre
paring the September ifoue for
distribution within two weeks. Vir
ginia Geister, editor, promises a
variety of material for the tradi
tional freshman issue, with pic
tures, stories, articles, gore and
Jokes rampant.
Bruce Campbell, last year's edi
tor, has promised a story on the
history of football. "This story is
a serious work, resulting from In
tenlve research," confided the ex
editor, placinng a tongue tn his
cheek, crossing hid fingers and
lunching up his sleeve.
This month's issue, which will
be on Hale about Sept. 30, will also
contain a column of comments con
tributed by students the campus
over Miss Geister said. Anyone
may contribute their comments
on campus personalities, events, or
observations, and if the expected
results are obtained, the column
should be one of future features of
the maeazine. Comments may be
turned In at the Awgwan office In
the bnsement of the Student union
building.
Professor Wins
Dutch Government
Honors Dr. L. F. Rader
An abbreviated form of a dis
Hcrtatiun bv Dr. Lloyd K. Rader,
former University of Nebraska in
structor, will be published in the
Bulletin of the permanent inter
national Association of Road Con
gresses in German, French and
English. His composition won an
International competition for the
Prize of Belgium In a contest spon
sored bv the government or not
land. The award was made at the
associations eighth International
coneresa held at The Mngue.
Dr. Radcr's pnper described his
Investigations Into the cracking of
asphalt roads, a major problem of
road contractors, and mcinous or
Husker Unit
Stages War
Reds, Blues Mobilize
Saturday for Battle
The blues and the reds arc at
war.
Mobilization stmts next Satur
day at 9 o'clock when all mem
bers of the Cornhusker Company
are asked by Major John u.
Ayotto, company sponsor, to re
port to room 201, Nebraska Hall.
Commanders of the organization
and noncommissioned officers, will
bo announced, and plans laid for
the first battle, which will be
fought with blank ammunition.
A few applicants will be admit
ted to bring the company up to 60
members, which has been set as
the quota for this fall's work.
Practical problems will be fought
during good weather, and the
semester's work will conclude with
work on the blackboard, during
the winter.
Most of the training work of the
unit will come during the spring,
when the bulk of the freshmen
candidates will be admitted. Since
the older members will have had
thorough review, this training
should be more efficient than it
would be during the fall, the
major explained.
Spring plans of the company in
clude a trip to Fort Crook to put
on an annual demonstration for
reserve officers, and a banquet at
the expense of the military department.
Members of the unit arc entitled
to wear a red and white striped
bar with gold crossed rifles on
their uniforms.
Set aside as a closed night on
the university calendar, all univer
sity church night will hold the
campus spotlight Friday evening
when religious denominations en
tertain student gatherings at re
ceptions and parties.
Thirteen of the 15 denomina
tions represented in Lincoln have
scheduled receptions for university
students who belong to or have a
preference for one of the denom
inations. The various denominations and
places where parties will be held
include: Baptist, First Baptist
church, 14th and K st: Christian,
First Christian church, 16th and K
sts.; Congregational, First Ply
mouth, 20th and D, and Vine Con
gregational, 2,r)th and S.; Evangel
ical, St. Taul's Kvangelical church,
13th and F sts.; Episcopal, Uni
versity Episcopal church, 346 No.
13th.
Calvary Evangelical, at the
church, 11th and Garfield; Lu
therans of the Augustana hynod.
First Lutheran church, 17th and
A sts.; Lutherans of the Missouri
synod, parish house, 13th and H
sts.; Methodist, Trinity, 16th and
E, St. Paul's, 12th and M, Elm
Park church, 29th and Randolph;
Presbyterian, the manse, 333 No.
14th st.; Caldwell Memorial, at
the church, 18th and M sts.;
Catholic, XYZ parlors of Student
Union.; Congregational B'nai Jes
hurun, synagogue at 20th and
South sts.
The receptions are being held to
introduce university students to
the various student pa.stors on the
campus. It will give students an
opportunity to become acquainted
with others of the same denomi
nation t the university.
Church night is held annually as
a forerunner to all university
church Sunday programs. Church
Sunday has been scheduled by Lin
coln denominations for Sept. 25
this year.
The University of Nebraska is
the best school you can attend,
because everyone puis their shoul
ders to the wheel, Coach Lawrence
"Biff" Jones told a large freshman
gathering tn the coliseum Wed
nesday morning. Speaking at the
annual freshman convocation spon
sored by Innocents and Mortar
Boards, Coach Jones called atten
tion to the fact that the Nebraska
student body is known the country
over for its fine spirit. He told the
group that this year's football
team is the youngest in the history
of the institution, and, he has been
informed that it is the heaviest in
a good many years.
Dr. T. J. Thompson, dean of stu
dent affairs, discussed proper
school attitudes, pointing out that
"most of us think too little. Each
day one should be able to sense
the development of his mental
muscles just as much as he should
feel the growth of his physical
being. If the individual is to have
brain muscles, he must be willing
to exercise them. After all," the
dean said, "there is no thrill like
the feeling that comes from know
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AWS to Hold
Activity Tea
September 29
Organizations to
Display Their
Activity, Purpose
Bengtson Praises Soulh
For 'Normal Attitude'
Rapid Progress Marks
Section, Says Uni Prof.
We in the north tend to be
come hysterical about problems
which people in the south thing
are "overdrawn, says Dr. Nels A.
Bengtson of the geography depart
ment, who recently returned from
an extensive trip thru the south
where he studied the situation to
get an accurate first hand con
ception of the present conditions
of the south.
Dr. Bengtson traveled south
thru Texas and New Orleans, east
thru Birmingham, Knoxville. At
lanta and Charleston and up to
Williamsburg, Va. The remainder
of the summer was spent at Co
lumbia university, where he taught
classes in economic geography.
He noted the rapid progress in
the last decade and a half in land
use the practice of terracing,
erosion control, and contour farm
ingall modern methods of soil
conservation are common even
among backwoods people, and are
used to better advantage than in
the north.
Recalling amusing memories, he
thought of the singing Negro boy
wheels, jogging on his way to
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NELS BENGTSON.
town, or of the youngsters gath
ering "tu'ptine" in the pine for
ests. The south, he remarked, is to be
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Riflemen to
Discuss Trip
Pershing Unit May
Enter Kansas Meet
Members of the Nebraska Per
shing Rifle unit will meet today in
Memorial hall at 5 o'clock to dis
cuss plans for their trip to the
Kansas City rifle meet. At this
same meeting, members will also
decide on a date for this year's
tryouts for this organization
The drill meet in Kansas City
is sponsored by the chamber of
commerce of that city and invita
tions are extended to all R. O. T. C.
uniU in middlewestcrn high schools
and colleges. Squad, drill, unit and
individual competition compriseJ
me iiiri-i una irom iu 10 ii units
usually attend.
Bob Nelson, captain of the local
company, announced that if a trip
is not made to Kansas City this
year, the unit will attend a meet
at some other city.
Activity women of the campus
and freshman girls interested in
activities will gather in Ellen
Smith hall Thursday, Sept. 29 from
3:30 to 5:30 for the annual "All
Activities" tea sponsored by the
A. W. S. Board. Irene Sellers is
in charge this year. Although the
tea is especially for Freshmen, all
activity women are invited, accord
ing to Helen Pascoe, A. W. S.
board president. Each major ac
tivity organization on the campus
will be represented. The president
of each organization and the mem
bers of the Denn of Womens office
and Mrs. Boucher will be in the re
ceiving line. Sponsors of the A.
W. S. Board will pour.
Each organization will be given
a room where they can display
scrap books and other material il
lustrating their activities and
where one of their representatives
can explain the organization and
any questions arising concerning
it. These representatives will be
in their various rooms the duration
of the tea, and signs will be posted
around the building so that each
room can be found easily.
"The All Activities tea is the
best way to find out about all the
activities in a short time and at
the same time become acquainted
with leaders of the various activities."
REGENTS O.K. GRANT
Formal acceptance of the re
cently announced $101,250 PWA
grant . for additions and im
provements at Carrie Belle Ray
mond hall was made by the uni
versity regents Tuesday.
Regents authorized advertis
ing for bids as soon as final ap
proval is given to the plans. It
is expected that actual con
struction will start about
Nov. 1.
New Officers
Head Groups
Rifle Club to Begin
ROTC Activity Sept. 28
Thor Gives
4-H Outline
Explains Club Purpose
To New Ag Students
First meeting of the university
4-H club was held Tuesday night in
agricultural hall. A short business
meeting was held and president
Eric Thor outlined the activities
of the club for the coming year.
One of the primary purposes of the
club, he said, was to create a big
ger bond among the students of
Ag college and to provide a way
for freshmen to become better ac
quainted with each other and the
upper-classmen. -
With this thought in mind the
club entertained freshmen who
are former 4-H club members in a
i short social hour following the
Changes have been made in the
sponsorship of the various honor
ary military societies and other
i organizations connected with Ne
braska's ROTC unit. Following is
the latest list of instructors and
I their organizations-
I Captain Cruse Cadet Officers
I Assn. ( Engineers.)
I Major Barkalow .... Order of the
Red Guidon
i Major Myers . Scabbard and Blade
Major Hudson ... Cadet Officers'
Ass'n. (Infantry)
Major Philip Cornhusker
Battery
Governing Body Lays
Plans for Activities
To Boost University
During Coming Year
In its initial session of the new
school year yesterday, the Stu
dent Council discussed means of
correcting past abuses in elections
and use of identification cards, and
received President Harold Benn'ss
recommended appointments t o
council committees.
Benn stated that the council ex
pects to cooperate with the com
mittee on student identification to
the fullest extent this year in an
effort to check fraudulent use of
identification cards in student elec
tions and other activities In which
the card figures. The committee,
composed of John Selleck, Prof,
E. W. Lantz, Prof. Clifford M,
Hicks, chairman, and council mem
hers Bob Simmons and Stanley
Brewster, met during the summer
and devised the new system of
numbered identification cards with
attached photos. Among sugges
tions made by the committee to
the council regarding the conduc
tion of future elections are that all
voters be required to register two
weeks before the actual balloting
day, and that the fall election be
postponed one month in order to
allow time for the attaching of
pictures to all student identifica
tion cards.
New Committees.
Council committee for the pres
ent will be as follows, according to
Bonn's recommendations:
Forums: Bob Waugh, Emma
Marie Schuttloffel, co-chairmen,
Dirk deBrown .
Publicity: Dick deBrown, chair
man, Mary Anna Cockle, Merrill
Englund.
M i g r ations ( football expedi
tions!: Iris Johnson, chairman,
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Lentz Starts
New Band
U. of N. Music Eoasts
Concert-Marching
Units
Nebraska university will have a
Major Horan Pershing Rifles concert band of some 80 pieces this
n-otai nipicr, winter in addition to the R. O. T.
Major Shaw Pershing Rifles C- marching band of 100 to 115,
(National Headquarters) j according to Wednesday's an
Captain Hough . Rifle Clubs, Team annoiuicement
Major Ayotte Cornhusker Field j 6m.e different
The first activity U get under feLf
-ov uill , hn Pifln .,,h m-hinh "- " -
meets at 5 p. m.. Sept. 2S, in Ne
braska hall 205. Probable business
will be election of officers and
selection of teams.
Two army officers new to Ne
braska are Maj. Hudson and Capt.
Cruse who come from Richmond,
Chancellor Talks
Boucher Tells Chamber
Of Education Advances
business meeting. Other social ; v a., and Los Angeles, respectively.
events sponsored by the club for!
the coming year is a picnic to be j f i I A I I
held at Pioneer park Oct. 2 and a! SrhOO AflnC
mixer at a later date this fall. 1 IwV-M
Treasurer Ed Rousik reports
that there were 170 members at
this first meeting and with the
new members who will be initiated
in a short time, 1938-39 promises
to be the biggest year in the his
tory of the club.
Chancellor Boucher of the Uni-
versity of Nebraska in his ad-! p .."" . ,L
dress to the Lincoln Chamber of ' UO I ly VIUD Vec I S
commerce weunesuay evciuiiK i
Eldridge Bever, new president of
Names Posted
A's, B's for Student
Directory in Temple
A and B lists of the student and
faculty directory will be posted
for correction today in the Temple
theater nnd in Ag hall, according
to announcement made by Edwin
Hayes, general manager of this
year's publication. Students should
check on their names and spell
ing, addresses and phones because
they will be printed as posted un
less corrected. The other letters
will be posted, as announced In the
next few days. The faculty section
Is completed and ready to go to
press. The majority of the organ
ized house list is In, Hayes stated,
but the following have yet to re
port and should do ao immediately
if they wish to be Included In this
classification: Alpha Chi Omega,
Beta Theta PI. Didta Sigma Delta,
Phi Alpha Delta, Phi Sigma Kap
pa, Pellaillann, Dcltuti Union and
Wilson hall.
Kosmet Klub Meets
In Union at 5 Today
Kosmet Klub will meet today
In room 305 of the Student
Union building at 5 o'clock. All
members are urged to be present.
stated that fine buildings, large
endowments, and a certain admin'
istrative organization are not es- at its first meeting of the year
sential to a university. Tuesday evening in the Dairy In-
He emphasized the importance dustrv building on Ag campus.
I of a well trained scholarly facul- Planning activities for the 193S-39
tv; professors who keep abreast ' school year constituted the main
with the times and who are gen- J business of the evening.
Photo Course
ulnely interested in teaching. If
every scholar will search for the
truth, Chancellor Boucher- feels
that educational advancement will
be endless.
Nebraskan Reporter Inlcrvidws Noted
Cinemarlisls on 'Boys' Town9 Set
Tracy, Rooney Find
Sun 'Uncomfortable'
By Charlotte Snyder.
Hollywood, tha; glamour city
known to the majority of the
theater goers as the home of their
screen idols, moved bag nnd bag
gage to Ncbras ca this summer to
make the epl :e picture, "Boys'
Town." Spcnrer Tracy, Mickey
Rooney, Bobs Watson, along with
the director, Norman Taurog, all
moved into Omaha to film the
story of a simple priest who
started the greatest "refuge" for
homeless boys in the country.
After the first day the set waa
closed to visitors, but a boy from
the home managed to let your re
porter into the set. Inside a huge
room where the thermometer reg
istered 125 degrees were a hun
dred or so boys who patiently
stood motionless while shot after
shot of the choir scene was taken.
Huge arc lights illumined their
faces as the camera moved In to
catch the close-up shots. The unit
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They Star in 'Boys' Town'
Mr. Paul, Instructor,
Former A. P. News
Photographer
For the first time in the history
of the university courses in both
the varsity dairy club, presided basic and advanced photography
will be offered students it was an
nounced this week. In charge of
these courses will be Mr. K. H.
Paul, new Instructor at the univer
sity. Mr. Paul was formerly em
ployed by the Associated Press
as a news photographer. Last year
he Introduced photography as a
course at the University of Ohio
and reports it was enthusiastically
received.
According to Mr. Taul the course
will be divided into three sections;
news photography for journalism
students, commercial photography,
and "straight" photography.
Classes will meet Wednesday eve
nings for three hours. Those In
terested In signing up should see
Mr. Paul in Room 300 of Morrill
hall.
Other officers who will serve the
organization this year are Alvin
Rippen, vice president; David Mc
Gill, secretary-treasurer, and Win
fred Jacobcon, reporter.
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ganization. Both bands will be
under the direction of Don A.
Lentz, conductor, and will wear the
traditional scarlet and cream uni
forms. Unde r the direction of Lentz and
Jack Spurlock, drill master, the
R. O. T. C. marching musicians
will appear at all military func
tions. They will also appear at
parados, football games, and other
occasions of note. Lentz will work;
out all formations.
With Conductor Lentz at the
helm, the 80 piece concert band
will present several concerts in
Lincoln and other Nebraska citieg
as has been done in the past years.
In general it will be the symphonic
band of the university.
Pacifists to
Meet Tonight
Group Secures Unity
At Unitarian Church
Lincoln Journal.
SPENCER. TRACY.
Lincoln JourntL
MICKEY ROONEY, .
Persons Interested In peace will
hold a party tonight at the Uni
tarian church at 12th and H to
give the group a feeling of unity.
Games under the direction of a
city recreation leader, war ora
tions by Phylis Olson, and George
Mueller, platforms and replies to
hecklers by Kenneth Lamble, Otto
Woerner and Ellsworth Steele, a
newspaper dressing contest, a
whispering campaign and radio
music for dancing will furnish the
entertainment.
The party begins at 7:30 and Is
open to all who arc Interested In
mingling with a group which Is
I concerned with maintaining peace.
Refreshments will be served and
the cost will be a dime.
German Choir
Meets Tonight
Prof. De Grasse to Train
Young People's Group
Twenty-five to thirty German
speaking young people, Including
many University of Nebraska stu
dents, will meet this evening at 8
o'clock for the first practice of tha
Lincoln Singer choir. It Is an
nounced that . Prof. Herrold de
Grasse will give them professional
training in vocal choir work.
ith rehearsals to 1 held in
Morrill hall, until further notice,
the choir group meets once a
week.
Fifty cents In dues are assessed
members. Dues are used to pay
Instructors, and the pianist. Last
year the entire choir was taken to
Chicago for concerts.
Students who can read note
music are especially needed, pre
paration being under way for a
concert the first week in December.
Y. Heors Ramsay
Large Frosh Turnout
Attends First Session
A large group of freshmen
greeted Y. M C. A. officials at a
special "get acquainted" meeting
held in the Temple last night
Ray Ramsay, alumni secretary,
spoke on the evenlng'a program,
centering his talk on the topic of
"Making Friends."
"To make a friend, you've got
to be a friend," was the advice
given to freshmen by Mr. Ram
suy. Following his informal tallt
with the group, a round table dis
cussion of the art of making
friends was held. Refreshment!
were served by the "Y" at the
close of the session
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