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0iaa Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 107
Lincoln, Nebraska
Thursday, March 14, 1940
8
Judging team
places 4th
at Texas
Nebraskons take firsts
on hogs, sheep in
southwest stock meet
In the largest and one of the
most keenly contested livestock
judging events ever held at Fort
Worth, Tex., the University of
Nebraska livestock judging team
placed fourth, it was learned here
yesterday. Only 14 points out of
approximately 4,200 separated the
fourth place Nebraska team from
the first place Wisconsin team,
or about one-third of one percent.
The contest was held Saturday.
The Nebraskans placed first on
hogs, first on sheep and fourth on
cattle. But according to Prof. M.
A. Alexander, coach who accom
panied the team, mules proved
to be the "submarines" that sunk
the Cornhuskers' championship
hopes.
Tegtmeier fifth.
Oscar Tegtmeier of Burchard
placed fifth individually on all
classes of tha contest. Marvin
Kruse of Loretto ranked fourth on
hogs; and Arch Trimble of Gothen
burg placed tenth on sheep. Teams
from 16 colleges and universities
were entered in the contest, mak
ing it the 4argest in the history
of the Southwest Livestock Expo
sition. Other members of the Ne
braska team were Mylan Ross of
(See JUDGING, page 3.)
Nebraska grad
works for Life
Elizabeth Kelly, '36 Hitchcock
journalism scholarship winner,
and Good Housekeeping girl of the
month, is enrout to South Amer
ica for a two months research and
vacation trip as research worker
for Life magazine.
Accompanying Miss Kelly Is her
brother Robert, who U bureau
manager of the United Press.
The Kelly itinerary includes
three days in the Canal Zone, stops
on the west coast of Colombia,
Ecuador and an extended stay in
the vicinity of Lima, Peru, where
Miss Kelly will do most of her
woik for Life.
Reporter turned . . .
Actor finds waiting for cue
harder than beating deadline
Tti author of thlf article on the Unl
vrrJIji Player haa eoverrd the dramatic
Kniup'a production lor the DAILY dur
ing the laat raaon. Hla review carried
iuispann erttk-Um aa well aa deaerved ,
praiae. However. Mr. Otcden waa cut
ta the final preaentatloa and M waa
uaabl to review it. 4.
By Hubert Ogden.
Here am I, an actor, when I
should be a reporter. If I do not
suffer acute stage-fright or trip
on the steps leading down to the
dressing room, I hope that I may
once again return to the carefree
life of a reporter. Meanwhile,
though, I'll patiently await my
entrance cue and try for the bene
fit of my curiosity to see what this
life of acting is all about
The University Players with
drama In their blood like the life
they lead, it seems. Some of them
almost take on the personality of
their stage character. This life of
an actor is strange to one who has
not been a part of it before. I
wondered why the dresnlng room
lights blinked so strangely when I
first came to the practices and
then I learned that it was Just a
signal that the next scene was
atXut to begin.
Prompter knlcks.
When the prompter knocked on
each door and shouted a number,
I again wondered. For example, he
would use the number 32. Then I
learned the "3" meant act three,
Begorra! Even
March Awgwan
is wearing green
The Awgwan will come out to
morrow, bege-rra, and what should
it's theme be but St. Patrick! The
cover is green and is covered with
pictures of the fair campus col
leens and their boy friends.
A special feature of this issue
is Editor Betty Roach's story, "St.
Patrick Was My Room-mate."
Other features will be "Michelson
Said," by Margaret Krause, and
"Metamorphosis By Education" by
George Frischer. The gore column
will include a graph rating cam
pus personalities, and Bob Hemp
hill again contributes "Platter
Chatter," campus hit parade.
The Awgwan will be sold on the
city campus in Andrews, Social
Sciences, and in the Union, and on
the ag campus in Ag halL
Popenoe to speak
at convo, forum
-How Do You Know It's Love?"
is the question Dr. Paul Popenoe,
general director of the Los An
geles Institute of Family Rela
tions, will answer in a genera
convocation Sunday afternoon at
4, in the Union ballroom. At 7
p. m. Sunday he will speak at a
forum for women on "Of Course,
Men Dont Understand Women."
Dr. Popenoe, speaking here as a
result of the Union s student opln
ing survey indicating a desire for
able lecturers in the field of do
mestic relations, is the author of
many research books on social
biology, and lectures on that sub
ject at the University of Southern
California.
Heredity expert.
In 1930 the Institute of Fajnily
Relations was established to serve
as an educational center and in
formation bureau in connection
with nroblemt of heredity. Dr. Po
penoe is the present head of that
organization.
Debate tourney delayed
The intramural debate tour
nament scheduled to begin to
day, has been postponed until
Tuesday, April 2, because of the
inability of the teams compet
ing to arrange for convenient
times. Prof. H. A. White, debate
coach, announced yesterday.
the "2" meant scene two. Oh. you
have to learn what the signals
mean or you're liable to sit right
through your scene.
And no matter how friendly you
are or how good your Intentions
are, you cant speak, to the
prompter during the play or even
during practice. Everyone is sup-
(See ACTING, page 4.)
Best dressed men
meet in Union
Men entered in the BDOC con
test sponsored by Hsrvey Broth'
ers and contest judges will meet
at 7 p. m. today In parlors XYZ
of the Union.
Candidates are Stanley Briden
baugh. Jack Cole, David Cramer,
Howard Drake, Merrill Englund,
Neal Felber. Floyd Hensmlre,
George Johnson, Bob Kerl, Bob
Leadley, Boyd McDougall, Lowell
Michael, Edwin Milder, William
Niehus. Roy Proffitt. Verne Ra
wait, Meredith Rennick, Harold
Rohde, Arden Scherf, Bob Sim
mons, Dale Tintsman, Guy Wil
Hams, Irving Yaffe.
" Judges are Betty Bach man,
Beth Howley, Marg Krause, Betty
Meyer, Jean Morgan, Betty Roach,
Peggy BherDurne.
AAUW fetes
400 senior
class women
Governors mansion
open for tea Saturday;
sororities provide music
Honoring approximately 400 sen
ior women of the university and
of Doane college, the Lincoln and
Crete branches of the AAUW will
hold a tea at the governor's
mansion from 3 to 5 Saturday aft
ernoon. General chairman of the
tea is Mrs. Victor Toft, who will
be assisted by Mrs. C. L. Clark.
Music will be furnished by the
university musical sororities. A Mu
Phi Epsilon duet of June Meek,
cello, and Rosalind Lefferdink,
violin and piano, will play from 3
to 3:40. A trio from Delta Omicron
composed of Marylouise Baker,
cello; Margaret Porter, violin, and
Marian Percy, piano, will play
from 3:40 to 4:20, and from 4:20
to 5:00. Sigma Alpha Iota mem
bers Harriet Meyer, celloist, Ada
Charlotte Miller, violinist, and
Betty Jo Koehler, pianist, wfll
piay.
Governor's wife receives.
In the receiving line will be:
Mrs. R. L. Cochran, Mrs. C. S.
Boucher, Mrs. George H. Rogers,
(See WOMEN, page 2.)
Judd favors
Hawaii as
49th state
Ambassador of good
will speaks on 'Pivot
of Pacific' in ballroom
Lawrence M. Judd, ex-governor
of Hawaii and now ambassador
of good will, spoke yesterday at
a convocation in the Union on life
in America's Pacific territory. His
address in Lincoln was one of his
stops on a tour which he is now
making in the United States in be
half of Hawaii. One of the pur
poses of the tour is to help have
Hawaii considered as the 49th
state In the union with representa
tion in congress and rights for its
citizens to vote in national elec
tions
Judd began his address with a
history of the government, how it
has evolved, and how the islands
became a part of the United States
under tneir own free will
Judd has been president of the
association of pineapple growers
in Hawaii, and was in a position to
describe the business conditions
there, centering around the three
leading industries there, which he
said are sugar and pineapple in
dustries and the maintenance of
army and naval bases. "Pearl
Harbor, though not yet completed,
will be one of the largest fortified
harbors In the world," he added.
In describing the University of
Hawaii, he told of its enrollment
of approximately 2,000 students,
its five colleges, including liberal
arts, engineering, education, set
ence, and a graduate school of
tropical agriculture.
"Hawaii." said Judd, "is fast
becoming the Riviera of the United
States. One of the reasons for the
Increase in tourist business is that
the temperature in Honolulu is
never above 90 or below 5Z ae
grees. The best time to visit Ha
wall," according to Judd, "is in
May and June."
Prof. Doyle to talk on
faculty lecture program
Prof. James A. Doyle of the
Law college will discuss "Admin
Istratlve Law and the TubUc" at
the faculty scholarship lecture pro
gram Monday evening. There will
be a dinner at 6:15 o'clock in the
Student Union, followed by the ad
dress. This is the last meeting of
the year, according to Dean O. J
Ferguson of the engineering col
lege, who Is chairman of the group,
Calendar says
spring only few
days in offing
By Elizabeth Clark
"Hell hath no fury like a Ne
braska wind," and combine the
wind with about a foot of snow
falling over a two inch sheet of
ice, a fifteen degree temperature,
and a cloudy sky and you have a
typical Nebraska day in March.
Saddest complaint of the year
comes from the girl3, "We sent our
fur coats home last week, and
packed our snowpants with them."
So the dear men, for whom all the
girls dress anyway, are spared the
sight of baggy ski pants topped by
fur coats which would make even
Lana Turner look like she weighed
just three pounds less than the fat
lady in the circus. But the snow
pants are replaced by what the ad3
(See WEATHER, page 4.)
Colleges start-
relief drives
Fifty colleges in wide sections
of the country have undertaken
drives for relief funds and scholar
ships for European students who
are victims of the war and of per
secution because of race, politics,
or religion, declared Miss Cather
ine Deeny, executive secretary of
the newly-formed European Stu
dent service fund. Sponsored
jointly by the National Intercol
legiate Christian Council and In
temational Student service the
fund expects to raise 535,000 dur
ing the present semester. Its head
quarters are at 8 West 40th St.,
New York City.
In the first week of the drive
students of Smith College raised
$4,100 of which $3,000 is being
cabled to the Geneva office imme
diately. At Yale university a goal
of $5,000 has been set. Initial
amounts from other colleges are
beginning to reach th New York
office.
The weather
Partly cloudy tonight and to
morrow with rising temperature.
Postpone French film
The French motion picture to
have been presented in the Stu
dent Union today has been post
poned until April 18, it was an
nounced by the French department.
Inquiring Reporter Asks . . .
Do students feel Union funds
well spent on art works
By Marjorie Bruning.
"Do you think it is worthwhile
for the Union to spend money on
such art exhibits as the mural
which Is now being made in the
lounge?" This is the question
asked of twelve students in a
Blair sees rainy
summer ahead
"Start planning your gardens
now, for tiie possibilities are great
that this summer will be a wet
one," says T. A. Blair, weather
bureau director and professor of
meteorology.
Summoning evidence from
weather records of the years 1905
06, 1909-10, 1914-15, and 1931-32,
In which wet winters were followed
by wet summers. Professor Blair
predicts good growing weather for
1940. Moisture begets moisture in
Nebraska, he believes.
In spite of an unusually dry
fall, the winter average of pre
cipitation this year is well above
the normal, owing to the heavy
snowfall In January, February and
March. Lincoln has received to
date 4.84 Inches of moisture as
compared to 3.92 Inches, the aver
age for the period. Nov. 1 to
March 12.
Entry list
closes for
queen contest
20 candidates file for
Ail-American honor;
editor heads committee
Twenty Nebraska coeds have en
tered the local All-American Col
lege Queen contest, according to
announcement yesterday after-
noon, following
the deadline for
nomination. A
committee of
prominent male
students, head
f
ed by Dick de
Brown, DAILY
editor, and two
Lincoln movie
men, Barney
Oldfield, com
mentator for
the Sunday
Journal and
Star, and Bob
Huffman, city
r
manager for
the Lincoln
Theater corpo
Journal and Star.
Dick eBrwa.
ration, will con
sider the entry
field and narrow
the list of candidates down to ap
proximately six girls whom they
feel offer the most qualifications
as Nebraska's entry in the national
competition.
Judging committee.
Others on the committee ara
(See QUEENS, page 4.)
Young Advocates
judge law trials
Members of the recently formed
Young Advocates club of the uni
versity have been asked by senior
law students to serve as jurors for
classroom trials.
Officers of the new association
of prelaw students are Frank B.
Sloan of Geneva, sophomore in tha
college of arts and sciences, presi
dent; William KitrelL vice presi
dent; and Miss Dolores J. Carter,
secretary-treasurer, both freshmen
from Lincoln. Prof. Roy Cothran
of the department of history is
faculty sponsor, and Edward B.
McConncll of Lincoln, junior, is
chairman of the membership com
mittee. Kitrell will be In charge of
the committee on section meet
ings. survey conducted by the Inquiring
Reporter yesterday. The opinion of
the students seems to be about
half and half, though all thoso
questioned were very interested in
the mural and its construction.
One of the most prominent objec
tions to the mural was that most
students felt that the money could
be spent to greater advantage
elsewhere.
Eugene Liggett, ag sophomore:
I enjoy the pictures of the
month and the photography ex
hibits, but I think that the money
spent on this mural would be bet
ter spent somewhere else.
Florian Jaworskl, arts and sci
ences senior:
Yes, I think the money is well
spent, as the mural adds to the
atmosphere of the Union.
Pat Everts, arts and sciences
freshman:
No, I don't think the student
body as a whole appreciates the
time and the money spent on such
work. I like the mural, but I think
the students would like to have the
money spent on obtaining better
entertainments, perhaps a "name"
band.
Zoe Wilson, arts and eclenoea
freshman:
No. Ferhaps I have no artists
(See REPORTER, page 2.),
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