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Vol. 39, No. 26
HORflEGOEffiG DEGOQATIOD CONTEST
ENTRIES DUE T0HMAT 5
Pep groups
open sale
of yearbooks
Sherman to order
only enough annuals
( for subscriptions-
"Get your Cornhusker today"
is the new cry of Corn Cobs and
Tassels as they launch the an
nual Cornhusker sales campaign
today. Until Nov. 20. the year
books may be purchased only
through members of the pep
groups. During the campaign, the
salesmen will wear Identification
ribbons bearing the legend "Corn
Cob-Tassel Salesmen, Cornhusker
1940."
This the first year that the two
groups have worked together in
a concerted effort to sell the an
nual. Selma Hill and Ralph Reed,
presidents of the Tassels and the
Corn Cobs, say that the objective
of the present campaign is to sell
a larger number of Cornhuskers
than has been sold in any previous
year.
According to Irvin Sherman,
business manager of the 1940
yearbook, only enough copies will
be ordered to cover the subscrip
tion list.
Sherman also announced that
cash prizes will be given to the
top salesman in each organization.
The first prizes will be S10, the
. J second prizes $5, and the awards
for third places will be $3. In addi
tion to the cash prizes, a free copy
of the Cornhusker will be given
the individual with the highest
sales in the two combined groups,
The theme of this year's book
will be the end of one decade and
the starting of another. The open
ing section of the book will be
called "Memo on 1940." Included
in this section will be pictures of
the most important events of the
year and of the different types
found on the campus.
The 1940 yearbook will be
printed on ivory paper in brown
See CORNHUSKER Page 4
Extension division offers
opportunity to shut-ins
Crippled or isolated children for
the first time will have an oppor
tunity to receive elementary edu
cation at home, as the university
extension division with the educa
tion division of 'the Works Pro
gress Administration for Nebras
ka offers a complete elementary
education course beginning Nov.
1, to children in all 48 states.
This service is not limited to
Nebraska alone, altho the univer
sity Is the first to offer this new
service.
The new course was developed
by Meredith W. Darlington, direc
tor of elementary course construc
tion for the extension division,
with the assistance of Dr. K. O.
Broady of the department of
school administration, and Earl T.
Piatt, director of supervised cro
respondence. Much credit is also
due to Dr. A. A. Reed, director
of the extension division and Dr.
F. E. Henzlik, dean of the teach
ers college.
Available Nov. 1.
The new courses will not - be
available until Nov. 1, but regis
tration will be accepted immedi
ately. During the past two years
the new plans have been tested
with great success, but adminis
trators plan to keep enrollment
to a convenient size this year to
facilitate work of evaluation and
improvement on the various lev
els. Parents of children who may
benefit under this course must
consult with their local superin
tendent, who shall decide the de
sirability of the courses In spe
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Lincoln, Nebraska Tuesday, October 24, 1939
Innocents to award cups
for most appropriate
greek house displays
Entries in the 1939 Homecom
ing decorations contest must be
filed in the office of John Selleck,
athletics business manager by to
morrow afternoon. Each house en
tering the contest which will be
held before the Nov. 11 Homecom
ing game must keep an itemized
list of its display expenditures,
which must not exceed $25. This
list of expenditures must be sub
mitted before the eve o the con
test. The contest judged on the basis
of originality, effort, and general
effect will be decided by three
Innocents, a professor from the
fine arts school, and a Lincoln
artist.
Members of the Innocents com
mittee, Merrill Englund, Robert
VYaugh, and Orval Hager, expect
the contest to be the biggest and
best yet since the contest re
vived in 1934. Last year Delta
Gamma's display of "VICTORY"
spelled in ice blocks won first
among the .sixteen sororities en
tered. Sigma Nu's Tarzan swing
ing the Missouri Tiger by the tail
won first among the 18 fraterni
ties entered.
Overdue Awgwan
comes out today
"To all those who had intended
to chuckle their way thru a 9
o'clock class Monday may I ex
press my sincere regrets," stated
business manager of the Awgwan,
Leonard Friedell. "It shall never
happen again, (I hope!)"
The second issue of the humor
sheet will be on the stands today,
according to Betty Roach, editor
in chief. The feminine humorist
had "nothing else to say." It was
evident that she was under great
strain and did not wish to be ques
tioned. As a Daily reporter left
the office she mumbled to herself.
"Ever since (sob) I've been work
ing here (sob), we have yet to
meet a deadline (sob) no matter
how hard we try."
will also determine whether the
district or the parent should pay
for the course.
If local authorities approve, the
student is registered with the uni-
See SHUT-INS pace 4
'N stamps
to go on sale
Homecoming promotion
drive opens Thursday
The annual "N" stamp drive will
begin Thursday, it was announced
today by Patricia Sternberg, junior
A. W. S. board member in charge
of the drive. Purpose of the drive
is to advertise homecoming, Nov.
11, and to make students and par
ents Nebraska conscious.
Letters are being sent to all
house presidents that they may
appoint a team of two girls to
represent their organization, and
an additional girl to see that the
stamps are well distributed in the
house. Carrie Belle Raymond hall
will have two teams of three girls
each, and one girl each will be
chosen from Wilson, Howard and
Rosa Bouton halls
Some 30,000 stamps have been
Issued, and the drive will continue
until Nov. 11. The stamps are
slightly larger than an ordinary
postage stamp, white with a red N
in the center. They will sell for
one cent each, with reduced prices
for large purchases, and will be
Kosmet skit
deadline is -
today, 5 p.m.
Judging starts tonight;
'Nebraska Sweetheart'
filings due tomorrow
Skits for the Kosmet Klub an
nual revue must be in the offices
of the Klub not later than 5 o'clock
this afternoon.
Filings for "Nebraska Sweet
heart" will be accepted until 5
o'clock tomorrow. Election date of
the mythical position as sweet
heart of Nebraska has not been
officially decided.
Nineteen entries have been sub
mitted, Proffett said Monday. Fra
ternities, sororities, and 11 organ
ized houses are eligible for the
tryouts.
At 7:30 tonight the committee
of five will begin preliminary in
spection of various acts. On the
committee are Grant Thomas, John
Mason, George Frischer, Carl
Harnsburger, and Frank Coufal
The judging committee will at
tempt to aid the organizations in
getting their skits ready for the
final judging which will be held
sometime next week.
NU symphony
opens concert
series Sunday
Director Lentz to solo
as 80-piece orchestra
appears in coliseum
The university's 80-piece sym
phony orchestra, directed by Don
A. Lentz, will present its first
coliseum concert of the season
next Sunday afternoon, Oct. 29.
Tschaikowsky's "Symphony
Number Five in B Minor" has been
chosen for the first number on the
concert's program. In the opinion
of many critics this symphony is
the most satisfying of all of
Tschaikowsky's prodigous works.
Entirely free from the melancholy
and foreboding introspection which
characterize many of the compos
er's works, the E Minor symphony
vibrates with a darkly glowing
undercurrent, free from all ugli
ness and bitterness. Two of the
symphony's four movements have
been transformed by song arrang
ers into popular soing hits, "Moon
Love" and the theme song of the
movie "One Hundred Men and a
Girl."
Charles Griffes' 'Toem for Flute
and Orchestra" will be the orches
tra's second selection. Director
Lentz will fill the boIo roles in this
highly impressionistic number,
noted for its variety of rhythm.
The fir.al number Is the Berlioz
suite "The Damnation of Faust,"
a colorful selection, which includes
a minuet, march and a dance.
The symphony orchestra is es
pecially rich this year in the qual
ity and abundance of its string in
struments, having 15 violins, seven
cellos, six violas, and five string
bases.
Roosevelt talk
open to students
Students will be able to hear
"America's first lady" from a re
served section for 25 cents when
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt ap
pears as first of the season's Lin
coln junior league speakers on Fri
day, Nov. 3.
The president's wife will speak
in the university coliseum at 8
p. m. A limited number of tickets
are now available in the Union
office, to be sold to students upon
presentation ot identification card.
By Paul Svoboda.
Harold Niemann was reinstated
as editor of the DAILY NEBRAS-
KAN by the Publications Board
yesterday.
Gayle C. Walker, chairman of
Fall election
filings open
next Monday
Students to choose
prexies, Sweetheart,
Honorary Colonel
Filings for senior and junior
class presidents, Nebraska Sweet
heart and Honorary Colonel are
to be open from Oct. 30 to Nov.
3 it was announced yesterday by
Lowell Michael, chairman of the
election committee of the Student
Council.
Candidates are to file in John
K. Selleck's office in the coliseum.
When campus filings have been
completed eligibility will be
checked. Candidates will be voted
upon November 7. The Student
Council will be in charge of the
election.
According to tradition the iden
tity of Nebraska's sweetheart will
be revealed at the Kosmet Klub
revue Nov. 18 and the Honorary
Colonel will be introduced at the
Military ball Dec. 4. Class presi
dents will be announced imme
diately after election results are
available.
Other Student Council members
serving on the elections commit
tee are Emma Marie Schuttloffel
and Earl Heady.
10 air course
seats unfilled
30 applications receive
committee's approval
Applications for entry into the
civilian pilot instruction course,
now offered by the university thru
arrangement with the civil aero
nautics authority, may still be
filed, according to an announce
ment posted yesterday by Dean
O. J. Ferguson, of the college of
engineering.
Thirty applications have been
approved by the committee, and
eight still remain to be passed on.
Unless nine or ten more applica
tions are accepted only three in
structional units of ten students
will be organized. The arrange
ments with the civil aeronautics
allow for the organization of four
units.
Applications may be filed in
Mechanical Arts 204 during the
next few days. Positions in the
course are still open for both men
and women.
Grad college committee asks
papers, public aid in project
An appeal to the public and to
newspapers for printed materials
concerning the present European
war was issued by a university
committee which is undertaking to
Union board
to pick books
Helen Claybaugh heads
new service committee
Appointment of a student com
mittee to select new books for the
Book Nook is announced today by
Helen Claybaugh, member of the
Student Union board of managers.
Members are Helen Claybaugh,
chairman; Doris DeLong, junior;
Eleanor Crawford, freshman; Don
Schulz, junior board member; and
Timothy Higgins, sophomore.
With the help of student sugges
tions and the university librarian,
Robert A. Miller, the committee
will draw up a list of books, fiction
and non-fiction, published in 1938
or 1939 as a basis for selection of
further purchases. "The Book
Nook is intended as a reading
room for students, not as a study
room, but as a place where new
books will be available," stated
Miss Claybaugh. A box where stu
dents may drop their suggestions
for new book purchases is now
located in the Student Union lobby.
the board, speaking officially for
the governing body said, "The Stu
dent Publications Board, consider
ing the case of Harold Niemann,
editor of the DAILY, reinstates
him to his duties as editor. Offi
cially the board desires to say Mr.
Niemann's suspension was occa
sioned by a breach of confidence
in the publishing of a news story
and further by an attitude re
flected in an editorial expression-
Mr. Niemann having indicated a
satisfactory attitude to the board
is hereby reinstated.
Breach of confidence.
Editor Niemann was called b-
World-Herald.
Harold Niemann.
fore the board after he had wrote
and published a story concerning
action of the university senate.
The details of the action were to
be released simultaneously on Sun
day by local and other state pa
pers. The information was to come
from the editorial and publicity
department of the university who
had sent to all newspapers who
published a Sunday edition, a copy
of the story. Niemann who had not
received the information from
that office published the story on
Friday thus scooping all other
papers.
Niemann was first probationed.
Immediately following, the Stu
dent Publications Board met and
reprimanded as well as proba
tioned Niemann for his action
which was termed as a "breach of
confidence."
Speaking editorially the next
day, Niemann expressed, as rep
resentative of the entire staff, the
resolved intent to protect the free
dom of the paper and to safeguard
its independent service. Niemann
was protesting that the university
publicity department had closed
news sources to reporters of the
DAILY. He also alleged that the
NEBRASKAN as the official news
organ of the university had prior
right to the news.
The Publications board con
vened the following day and sus
pended Niemann for the attitude
reflected in his editorial.
See NIEMANN page 2
collect for present and future use
all available printed records which
will show the effect of the present
European war upon the United
States.
Composing this committee are
Dean Harald W. Stoke, of the
graduate college, and Profs. H. G.
Deming, department of chemistry;
E. A. Gilmore, economics; Norman
Hill, political science; J. M. Rein
hardt, sociology, and R. A. Win
nacher, history.
The data collected will be pre
served and indexed for students
interested in the events associated
with the present emergency. AH
material should be sent to the
university, Social Sciences 215, in.
care of the committee.
Foreign propaganda desired.
Especially desired is propaganda
received from foreign countries;
records describing the effect of
the war upon the attitude of polit
ical groups from incipient fascist
organizations on the right to the
communists on the left; material
telling of changes in the regular
routine in the administration ot
churches, newspapers, radio sta
tions, industrial and commercial
establishments; and abstracts of
any speeches, relating in some way
to the war, given before fraternal
or cultural organizations in th
state.
"The advisability of such an un
dertaking is obvious to anyone ac
quainted with the difficulties faced
See rUOJECT pace 4
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