VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 119
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Sigma Xi
Nobel prize
vinner talks
on cosmic ray
All students invited to
open meeting at 8:15
o'clock in Morrill hall
Winner of a Nobel prize in 1936
for his research with the positive
electron, Dr. Carl D. Anderson, of
the California Institute of Tech
nology, will be the principal
speaker at an open meeting of
Sigma Xi, honorary science society
tonight. "Cosmic Rays and New
Elementary Particles of Matter"
will be discussed by the eminent
California scientist.
In 1929 Dr. Anderson con
structed a machine which meas
ures energies of cosmic ray elec
trons. The apparatus consists of a
spot light which shines thru a cen
tral black box into a cloud cham
ber which is inside a coil of wire
constituting a magnet.
Discovered "position."
The cloud chamber, a large, ver
(See SIGMA XI page 3.)
German movie
set for Kiva
'Winterstuerme' shows
three times tomorrow
"Wintorstuermc." a German
il showinir the trials of a
young German architect in fleeing
from an unhappy marriage, win
he shown tomorrow morning in
the Kiva theater. Screenings are
scheduled for 6:30, 8:10, and 9:50.
The unhappy architect fmds
refuge high in the Alps in the
home of Herr Favetti and his wife.
and solace in the love of Favctti's
daughter. He is welcomed into the
familv and evervbody is happy.
Reputed to exemplify the best
in Herman nhotocraDhv. the film
is completely equipped with Eng
lish subtitles for the benefit of
those who know little German.
Tickets are available at the box of
fice for 25 cents.
No more 35c dinners
Because lack of student inter
terest failed to warrant the
time and money spent, the Sun
day evening 35 cent buffet sup
pers sponsored by the Union
have been discontinued, accord
ing to Social Director Ylnger.
TV. U. transportation meet interests nation
With the transportation bill of
Congressman Clarence F. Ix;a be
ing probed in committee hearings,
and Senator Burton K. Wheeler
proposing a measure also aimed
at the regulation of transporta
tion, Nebraska's 1939 transporta
tion conference will draw the fo
cus of the national economic spot
light to the university campus
April 14.
Secretary of Commerce Harry
L. Hopkins and Senators Wheeler
of Montana end Burke of Ne
braska have all expressed a de
sire to attend the conference, and
6,000 shippers, traffic managers,
insurance men, tax special' sta and
bankers have been invited to Ne
braska for the one day affair.
Prof. Clifford M. Hicks, of. the
The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
rati stWsirati tonfls if air
hears Carl Andersbn tonight
State debate
tourney opens
today, Union
Ten class A, six B high
schools to begin meet
this morning at eleven
Ten class A and six class B high
schools will enter the annual state
debate tournament held at the
Union building today and Satur
day. t Lincoln, Omaha Tech, Omaha
Benson, Aurora, Wayne .Norfolk
Sidney, Kimball, Hastings and
Kearney are the class A schools
entering. Class B schools are Ed
gar, Walton, Wayne Prep, Lyons,
Litchfield and Edison.
Resolved that the United States
and Great Britain should form an
alliance, the national high school
debate question, will be discussed
in the debates starting at 11
o'clock. Other rounds for class A
will be 2:15. 4:45 and 8:15. Class
B rounds will be at 1:00, 3:30 and
7 o'clock.
Judges for the tournament are
from Kansas university. They are
Prof. John E. Hankins, depart
ment of English; Prof. Omer Vos3,
coach of freshman debate; Prof.
E. O. Stone, head of the political
science department; Prof. Guy V.
Keeler, assistant director of ex
tension, and Prof. Harold G. Ging
ham, director of extension division
and head of National University
Extension Association on Debate
Material.
Chairmen for the debates will be
students from our law college.
Delta Theta Phi
eliminates Beta
Victors meet S.A.M.
in l-M debate finols
Delta Theta Phi defeated Beta
Theta Pi in a semi-finals meeting
in the intramural debate tourna
ment last night. The victors upheld
the n?gative side of the question.
In the other semi-finals meeting
Wednesday night, Sigma Alpha
Mu defeated Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
This makes two defeats for both
the Betas and Sig Alpha and so
they are eliminated from the tour
ney. Final match in the debate com
petition will be held next Tuesday
evening .
blzad college is in charge of the
first annual gathering to discuss
current business problems.
Dinner discussion summarizes.
The morning session will be de
voted to problems in rate struc
ture for the railroads, inland
waterways, airlines, and trucking
systems. The afternoon meeting
will review the importance of tax
costs to each transportation me
dium and of tax income to the
state. The evening dinner and dis
cussion will attempt to summarize
the conference. . .
Fred Claussen, Horicon, Wis.,
vice president of the United States
chamber of commerce, will take
charge of the evening discussion.
Samuel O. Dunn, editor of Rail
way Age, will have posed the
, question for summation in his din
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Engineers
roundup is
tomorrow
Lincoln hotel scene
of one day meeting;
No fee for students
Trends in engineering and state
planning will be the theme of the
one day engineers roundup to be
held in the Lincoln hotel tomor
row. The morning session will be giv
en over to talks and discussions
of the planning board's program
with A. C. Tilley, state engineer
and chairman of the board, and
W. H. Mengel, planning engineer,
heading the round table discus
sions. Banquet climaxes session.
f!1imnxins' the meetinsr. J. L.
Harrington, consulting engineer of
Harrington & Cortelyou, win speaK
on the "Financial Phases of En
gineering," at a banquet which
will be attended by practicing en
gineers ana engineering siuaenis.
W. W. DeBernard, associate ed
itrr of th Kncineerins' News Rec
ord, will address the civil engi
neers in the afternoon, ueuernara
is recognized as one of the na
tion's leading sanitary engineers,
and ha held imDortant Dositions
with the Denver Union Water
company, the Philadelphia Water
. . . . r
Testing station, ana me u. o.
reclamation service. DeBernard
(See ROUNDUP page 3.)
Five U Barbs
attend meet
Lantz heads delegation
to Kansas convention
Five delegates represent univer
sity Barbs at the second annual
conference of the National' Inde
pendent Students association at
the University of Kansas, today
and tomorrow.
The Nebraska delegation is
headed by Prof. E. W. Lantz, who
was one of the founders of the
N. I. S. A. at Oklahoma university
last year. Other Husker repre
sentatives are Melva Kime, presi
dent of the Barb A. W. S.; Vic
toria Ekblad, Francis Woodard
and Art Henrickson. Woodard at
tended the founding conference at
Norman. Okl. last year.
Two hundred students are at
tending the two day conference.
Problems of the independents will
be the main topic of discussion.
ner address, "Is the Railroad
Problem Insoluble?"
Budd leads panel.
Ralph Budd, president of the
Burlington system, will lead the
morning discussion panel on rates.
Interstate Commerce Commission
er J. B. Eastman has consented to
assist the discussion, F. A.
Schroeder, assistant to the presi
dent of Inland Waterways Corp.,
Washington, D. C, will represent
Ms group on the panel.
J. A. Little, Nebraska state di
rector of transportation and form
erly on the staff of Eastmen when
he was federal co-oidinator of
transportation, has discussed uni
form rate structure before senate
and house committees on frelghf
rates and commerce in the lasi
few weeks, and will present his
Awgwanhits
stands with
'Love7 issue
New issue conies out
Tuesday or Wednesday;
Featured by Kiss-kwiz
Spring can go ahead and spring
next Tuesday or Wednesday when
the LOVE issue of the Awgwan
comes out, but not until, for
Spring means love, and love means
dates, and nobody should have
dates in the Spring until they have
passed the Awgwan's Kiss Kwiz,
studied its Love Graph, read its
"How to Break Dates," or con
sulted some other equally reliable
authority.
It is proper form to smear your
self with merchurochrome and
hang your arm in a sling when
you call for your date it you
want to get out of going, provid
ing you think such extremes jus
tified, according to the Awgwan,
but there are some ways of break
ing a date that are not accept
able. With its Kiss-kwiz, the Awg
wan offers an opportunity to find
out without embarrassment how
your kisses rate. There are no
people to see, no letters to write,
and no one need know the result
but yourself.
Whether current campus ro
mances are hot or cold, one sided
or mutual, Jid who the most pas
sionate lover on the campus is can
be found readily by reference to
the April Love Graph.
Summarizing the knowledge of
the ages into a few concise para
graphs which can be understood
by anyone is the analysis of men
and women all types.
Barbs go Mormon
tomorrow night
Men allowed as many
dates as they want
Following the policy of Brigham
Young, the traditional Mormon
polygamlst, university barbs will
hold a Brigham Young party in
the Union ballroom tomorrow
night from 7 to 8:30, according to
Fred Hellman, in charge of the af
fair. Each fellow is permitted to
bring as many girls as he can per
&?de to come, and admission
prices are lowered in proportion to
the ".harem" an escort can pro
duce. The charges are 10 cents for
a couple, 15 cents for a boy and
two girls, and additional girls are
admitted free.
observations on the situation to
the morning session. His discus
sion will be from the standpoint of
"Nebraska's Stake in Interstate
Rates."
R. O. Small, Chicago, traffic
manager of the Chicago North
Western Railway company, will
explain the way in which "Rail
roads Look at Their Competitors'
Rates."
Locklin speaks on I. C. C.
Philip Locklin, formerly econo
mist for the I. C. C. and now
teaching at the University of Il
linois, will describe current I. C. C.
policies and trends during the noon
luncheon, and also open the morn
ing program with a address on
"Co-ordinating and Systematizing
Transportation Rates."
"Transportation Tax Burdens"
FKIDAY, MARCH 31, 1939
Wilkinson
asks lower
traction rate
Council candidate joins
debate on intercampus
transportation cost
Additional dynamite went off
yesterday in the intercampus bus
discussion as Rees Wilkinson,
candidate for city councilman,
took up the agitation, pledging
Lincoln Journal.
REES WILKINSON
. . . ride for a nickel.
his support to a program of five
cent bus fares for all students,
both university and nigh school, in
the city of Lincoln.
"To date," the citizen sympa
(See BUS page 7.)
Choir plans :
final vesper
Sunday service centers
on Lincoln Cathedral
In its final appearance before
going or. tour to the New York
World's Fair, the Lincoln Cathed
ral choir will sing a vesper service
Sunday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock
devoted to the cathedral that is
the goal and desire of the choir.
'The Lincoln Cathedral The
Cathedral of the Future."
Kermit Hansen, senior in the
university who Sunday completes
four years of membership in the
choir, will present the address.
The service is the last of 16 ves
pers held by the choir during the
past year, each of which has used
as its theme one of the world's
(See CHOIR page 3.)
will be presented as a review of
the field by S. L. Miller, professor
of transportation at the University
of Iowa. Breakdown into problems
of special fields will follow. A. C.
Spencer, Omaha, western general
counsel of the Union Pacific rail
road, will speak on railroad taxa
tion problems, while motor truck
taxation will be outlined by John
V. Lawrence, general manager of
the American Trucking Associa
tion, inc., Washington, D. C.
The discussion panel closing the
afternoon session will be in charge
of J. C. Whitten of the First Trust
company, Lincoln.
Harry L. Hopkins, secretary of
commerce, and Senator Edward R.
Burke of Nebraska, as well as the
state's representatives in congress,
have been invited to attend.
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