Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1940)
Vol. 39, No. 100 University women to elect next year's Coed Counselors Vieing for presidential post are Mary Bullock and Ruth Clark; polls open at 9 in Ellen Smith Thursday University women will elect Coed Counselor president and board for the coming year at a general election Thursday. Candidates for president are Mary Bullock, Alpha Chi Omega, and Ruth Clark, Alpha Xi Delta. Also to be elected are six seniors, four juniors and two sophomore board members. Hair or the menr bers elected will be affiliated and half will be barb girls. Board member officiate. The election will be held In Ellen Smith from 9 until 5 on Thursday. Present board members will offi ciate. , Unaffiliated candidates for sen ior members of the board are Ruth Ann Sheldon, Jane deLatour, Beth Howley, Victoria Ekblad, Betty Schmidt, and Betty Pierce. Pris Chain, Theta and Irene Hollenback, Gamma Phi Beta, are candidates for the presi dency automatically are board members. UnafHia'v junior. Unaffiliated juniors to be voted on in the election are Ruth Gros venor, Ava Worton, Margaret For rey, and Virginia Mutts. Affiliated candidates for the junior posts .are Natalie Burns, Phi Mu, Frances Keefer, Delta Delta Delta, Harriet Talbot. Delta Gamma, and Ellen Wilkens, Kappa Delta. Unaffiliated sophomore candi dates are Shirley Kellenbarger and Jean Powell. Affiliated candidates are Dorothy Latch, Alpha Omicron Pi and Alice Louise Becker, Alpha Phi. Phi Sigma lota holds contest Date for second annual speech contest April 2 The second annual declamatory contest for university French and Spanish students will be held April 2, according to an announce ment made by Phi Sigma Iota, sponsors of the contest, Six prizes consisting of French and Spanish novels will be award ed winners in the contest. With all students eligible to compete the contest will be di vided into six groups. The first group is for French 2 and Span ish 52 students. Group 2 includes students taking courses beyond those mentioned in croup 1 and (See DECLAM on page 4) Wood claims . . . Prestige and background of Paris not essential toart Immediately capturing his audi ence with his droll manner of speech, Grant Wood addressed all University audience on "Regional Art" in the Union, Sunday after noon. "The prestige and background of Paris schooling is not necessary for a present day American artist, in order to be a success," declared Wood, as he told of his two trips to France. Wood was asked to leave a Paris art academy after making an "impressionist" paint ing which was considered the acme In radicalism at the conservative academy. Returns to America. Wood returned from France with a red beard and a headful of notions that it was a pity he must come back to "crude America" after working with the Latin op portunities and materials of his host country. However, he now feels that it was all an illuslan, and that there is a wealth of aub Jcct matter in America equal to that of any country. "Universities have had too many peakers claiming there Is no future," according to Wood who Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Lincoln, Nebraska Sloan heads ' Advocates' Kitrell, Carter named officers, with Cochran Frank B. Sloan, arts and sci ences sophomore, has been named president of the newly-formed Young Advocates club, an asso ciation of pre-law students. Other officers are William E. Kitrell, vice-president; and Dolores J. Carter, secretary-treasurer. Both are Lincoln freshmen. Prof. Roy Cochran of the department of history is faculty sponsor, and Edward B. McConncll of Lincoln, junior, is chairman of the mem bership committee. Kitrell will be in charge of the committee on section meetings. For pre-lawt The Young Advocates is a non- political, pre-professional organi zation whose membership is open to all University students in good standing and who are preparing to enter the Law college, and to all pre-legal faculty advisers. The Club's constitution was re cently approved by the Student Council. Membership numbers ap proximately 40 at present, although 80 students are expected by the time of the next meeting March 19 Klub announces chorus rryouts Tryouts for the pony chorus for the Kosmet Klub show will be Wednesday night In 201 Temple. Bob Leadley and Mary Kline arc to pick the members of the chorus Selection will be made according to size, ability to dance, etc. Rehearsal for the show starts Thursday nirht in the Studio Theater in the Temple. There will be a meeting of all interested in writing songs for the show. Wednesday at 5 p. m. in the Kosmet Klub office in the Union. Song spots and other mus ic needed will be explainea. r 1 iv' J3 7. Journal and Star. offers this as a reason for stu dents being fearful for their se curity. "There is pioneering of one type ahead, I am sure," he said, "Walt Disney has created a new form of art that was impoa (See WOOD on page 2) Students Tuesday, March 5, 1940 Move overF.D.R. Gracie for prexy, Goige, foist lady Newest possible presidential candidate, asked for in a mirthful petition being passed on the campus, was Gracie Allen. Over 200 signatures had been received early yesterday afternoon as a result of this "publicity gag" of several students. It is worded, "We, the under signed, do, by the presence of our signatures hereunto affixed, certi fy that we are in favor of Gracie Allen for presidential candidate in 1940." This petition in all its unsincerity will be sent to Gracie Allen ac cording to the students, Fred Sim mons, Dick Lindberg, and Lee Pelton, who are circulating it. Personnel director ... Will tell coeds found in employee guidance "Personnel in Business" will be the subject of the talk given by Miss Marie W'eesner, personnel and employment director of Miller division of the School of Com and Paine department store on merce, director of the Lincoln ad i 1 .1, $ - K i I Journal and Star. Thursday at 4:00 p. m. in Ellen Smith. She is the third speaker on the series of talks sponsored by the office of dean of women and the AWS board for the vocational guidance of women students in this university. Paging Ripley; it can be done! Battleship flys The Greek philosopher who said "There is nothing new under the sun," was proved wrong again yesterday by the Omaha World Herald, for according to the Oma ha paper battleships use bombs, and German planes carry crews of at least 300 persons. At least those are the facts that are garnered from a headline ap pearing on page two of the state edition. The head read: German Plane Is Bombed By British Liner 108 Die in "Mistaken Identity" Attack 193 Survive Blasts. The weather The weatherman says that this spring weather will continue for another day at least as he predicts a few clouds and no substantial change in temperature for Lincoln, Daily editor issues call for reporters All members of the DAILY staff will meet In the NE BRASKAN office for a staff meeting Thursday at 5 p. m. Students wishing to become reporters are asked to attend the meeting. New bets will be asslgneJ to re port en Daily aids in selection of all-American coed Attendance at a glamorous motion picture world premiere with all expenses paid as well as the opportunity to win a free trip to Holly wood and possible film fame is offered to Nebraska coeds this spring according to word received by the DAILY from Paramount Pictures. The DAILY NEBRASKAN has Dewey to speak Journal and Star. Thomas E. Dewey, republican presidential hopeful, will speak in the Coliseum Wednesday night at 8:30. The New York racketbuster will outline his views on the agri cultural problem over the NBC blue network. of problems Miss Weesner has more than 500 employes under her direction. She is the director of the women's vertising and a member of the Lin coln Community Chest board. N U alumna. An alumna of the university, she has assisted many Nebraska stu dents preparing for personnel work in advising them and helping them to get the necessary back ground which would make possible their entrance in this field. Miss Wiesner will hold Individ ual conferences in the office of the dean of women between 3 and 4 and girls are urged to sign up im mediately. Harmony hour plays Schubert Schubert's Symphony No. 7 in C major will be played during the Sinfoma Harmony hour today at 4 p. m. in the faculty lounge of the Union. Considered Schubert's greatest work in the symphony. When it was first performed musicians had only contempt for it. The symphony was completed early in the last year of Schu bert's life, 1828, and is the last symphony which he composed. Suite No. 2 in B minor by Bach, played by the Adolf Busch Cham bers players, is the other compo sition featured on the Harmony hour. Sigma Delta Chi to hold rush luncheon today Members of Sigma Delta Chi will be hosts to all men interested in journalism at a luncheon to be held this noon at 12:00 in the rac ulty dining room of the Union. All men interested in the frater nity are invited to attend. J o !.(' i i Sextet highlights . . . Fine Arts recital by musical groups in Temple auditorium Sunday afternoon the School of "The Chase," performed by a horn Fine Arts presented a recital by quintet, exploited a combination Mu Phi Epsllon and Phi Mu Al- not often used. The tenor aria pha Slnfonla in the auditorium at "M'Apparl," from the opera the Temple. "Martha," was presented by Dick . ... ..... - Koupal whose voice is remarkably HIwgllL0l ln8 ,Prf0""ance well adapted to this style of sing were Mu Phi Epsilon's sextet ac- lng ..Interludium," presented by a companied by a string trio, and the strlng quartet, was one of the Phi Mu Alpha Slnfonla chorus. nlcest parts 0f the entire program. The trio presented a number by Mozart. The girls' Sextet pre sented two numbers, one by Franz and one by Douty. The well per formed cello solo by Miss June Meek demonstrated alacrity in technique. Horn quintet unusual. The second section of the pro- gram was equal to the first in in- terest, talent, and approprlatness. been selected by the studio as one of the country's leading college newspapers to participate in a nation-wide contest to select an ail American College Queen in con junction with the premiere show ing of "Those Were the Days," Paramount's production of the famous "Old Siwash" college stories, at Knox College, Gales burg, Illinois, on May 21. For the next week and up until 5 p. m. Wednesday, March 13, the DAILY will receive nominations for selection of Nebraska's candi date for the all-American College Queen title. A committee composed of representative campus men and local motion picture represen tatives then will consider all nomi nees (who must include photo graphs with their filings) and se lect a limited number of those coeds showing the most screen, possibilities to be voted upon by the student body. Ballots published. Beginning today and continuing for two weeks the DAILY will publish ballots which students may use in voting for their fa vorite candidates. The DAILY then will send the photograph of the local contest winner to Para mount officials by April 3. A group of prominent New York artists will decide upon the 48 state winners from photographs sent by all participating colleges, and pictures of the winners will be published in Movie and Radio Guide magazine in the issues of May 3, 10, and 17. Readers of the magazine will vote on the state winners to determine which shall be the 12 national winners, ballot ing to end by May 13. The 12 winning college girls, as well as the editors of the 12 col lege papers originally sponsoring them, will be awarded round trips to Galesburg, Illinois with all ex penses paid, to attend the world premiere of "Those Were the Days' on May 21. Paramount (See COED on page 4) Quiz contest entries due Preliminaries for Greek affair runoff next week Questions for the Interfraternity quiz must be submitted at the Union by March 10 in order to be judged and used. For the best question in each of the seven cate gories, a cash prize of one dollar will be given to the contributor. The questions may be on general information, campus information, biographies, music, literature, quo tations, or thought. Preliminaries for the Interfra ternity quiz will be run off next week. All fraternities and sorori ties who have not submitted their three man team should do so at once at the Union office. Finals for the quiz will be on Sunday, March 31, at 4 p. m. in the Union ballroom. Grand prize will be 15 dollars and a cup. Each of the three runner-up houses will receive five dol lars. Several .hundred questions are needed to conduct the quizzes and students are urged to submit their ideas. The finale three songs by the Sinfonia chorus was the appro priate climax and highlight of the program. The members of the chorus, under the direction of Richard White, president of the group, sang the close-harmonled selections with enthusiasm. Mr. Cleve Genzllnger, soloist with the group, showed that he was worthy of the honor of being aololst.