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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students Vol. 39, No. 120 Lincoln, Nebraska Friday, April 5, 1940 Barb Union to elect eight new officers Presidential candidates Gostas, Sloan, Alexis; create activities post New officers will be chosen in the annual election of the Barb Union at a mass meeting in the Student Union next week. Candi dates for eight positions were nominated at a business meeting held in the Barb office Tuesday night. The new office of activities chairman whose duties will involve directing barb men in extra-curricular activities was created. George Gostas is the only candi date for this post. Ellis Ruby, Gil bert Heuftle. and Sylvan Walgren were nominated for the new post of assistant social director. Bob Wilson, present social director, and unopposed for re-election, will leave school at the end of the first semester next year. Presidential candidates. Candidates for the presidency next year are ueorge uosias, Blaine Sloan, and Harold Alexis. Vying for the post of athletic di rector are Dave Marvin. Ralph Marlette, Bill Green, and Gilbert Heuftle. The race for secretary treasurers is wide open with Dave Marvin, Keith Vrana, Ellis Ruby, Boyd McDougal, Gilbert Barrows, Genis Richmond, and Blaine Sloan running. Sloan and Heuftle have also been nominated for organization. director of the city campus and Ellis Ruby and Ganis Richmond are competing for the Ag campus position. Each barb club will be accorded on? vote for every ten members in its club, according to Art Hen- rickson, president of the organiza tion. Further nominations will be made before the election if de sired. Senior gets Yale position Engineering graduate to take assistanceship Joy O. Richardson of Clinton, nenior in mechanical engineering who will graduate this June, has been notified of appointment to a graduate assistantship in the de partment of mechanical engineer ing at Yale. . Dean O. J. Ferguson of the Col lege of Engineering was notified of the appointment by Dr. Walter J. Wohlenberg, Sterling professor of engineering at Yale, who re ceived the bachelor of science de gree in mechanical engineering from Nebraska in 1910 and was awarded the doctor of engineering degree in 1937. Member of Sigma XI. Richardson was recently elected to Sigma XI, and will receive the degree of bachelor of science in mechanical engineering this year. His is the first direct appointment of a Nebraska graduate to the staff of Yale university, while Wohlenberg was the first engineer to receive a Sterling professorship at Yale. Richardson is married, and a member of Sigma Tau, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and PI Tau Sigma. Saturday's Barb dance to feature door prizes The feature of Saturday night's B.trb dance in the Union Ballroom will be the awarding of door prizes to two couples. One prize will be a pair of tickets to Jimmy Lunce ford nnd the N club dance April 29 und the other will be two Kosmct Klub show tickets. The dance lasts through 7:30 to 10:30 and there will be a photogra pher taking pictures of the danc er. The pictures will be shown at the dance next week following the Barb Union Variety show. Five get books in dcclam contest Calvin Rollins, Mary Rosbor ough, Betty Mueller, Norman Bartz, and Dorothy Krausnick re ceived bound copies of famous masterpieces of French and Span ish literature for winning the con test sponsored by Phi Delta chap ter of Phi Sigma Iota's second declamatory contest for French and Spanish students. Selections in prose and verse were presented by students. There were three divisions of French and two of Spanish, with separate prizes in each division. Those receiving honorable men tion in French were Maurice Glad and Timothy Higgins in group 1, and Baird Emmons and Audrey Koons in group 2. The Weather Reports predict fair weather today with warmer temperatures this afternoon for Lincoln and vicinity. Whoever wins elections . . . Students favor of some parts By Joe Belden Editor, 8tadnt Opinion Sarvry. AUSTIN, Texas, April 4. Whether the democrats or the re publicans win the elections in No vember, almost all college students believe that there are parts of the New Deal that should be contin ued. The Civil Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administra tion, the Works Progress Admin istration, and social security are the most popular agencies among collegians, it is pointed out by the latest national sampling conducted by the Student Opinion Surveys of America. Points to new U. S. trends College students of today will to a great extent fill the positions of importance and influence when they become established in the na tion. Most of America's moldcrs of public opinion will be college trained men and women. The Sur veys, then, may be pointing to new trends in U. S. affairs that may come to full development in a de cade or two. A chance for youth, jobs for the unemployed, security for the unfortunate Uncle Sam as the social guardian that is where college approval falls greatest. Sampling of collegians Personal interviewers asked this question of a sampling of all col legians in the country: "Regard less of which party wins the elec tions in November, what parts of the New Deal do you think should be continued?" Of the total number of times Yung says electric fence effective if proper training available Many farmers want to know if electric fences will hold livestock, and F. D. Yung, research engineer in rural electrification at the ag college answers the question. Before turning the livestock Into the fenced area they must be trained in the barnyard. The ef fectiveness of the fence depends on the controller used, and proper fence construction and mainten ance are also essential. An elec tric fence may be safe und it mny not be. The effect of electricity on an animal may be serious, and fences should be tested before us ing. "An answer to the question nbout making n fence controller at home Is 'don't do it,' " snys Yung. "Any one who is famlllnr enough with the electrical fundamentals in volved should not need to ask how to do it." Army solicits men for U. S. Air Corps Lieut. Drafts to arrive May 1 ; makes advance arrangements for exam Soliciting senior and graduate students, the U. S. army air corps advance agent, First Lieut, L. G. Drafts, will arrive May 1 to make arrangements for the examina tions. The board which will ar rive about May 5, consists of Maj. H. W. Beaton, A. C, First Lieut. C. D. Jones, A. C, and one flight surgeon. Young men between the ages of 20 and 26 will be selected for training in civil flying schools, graduates of which will take ad vance instruction at U. S. army air posis. The successful applicants will receive $75 a month during the instruction period and the gov ernment will pay all expenses while the student is in training. continuation of New Deal that different agencies were named: '. S. C. wim mrntlowd. W'c !. V. A. wtM mrntlnnrd IS W. P. A. wa niMitlonrd 7 Hitrlul wrurlty wan mentioned 7 All olhim mi ntrntionrd 44 Didn't know t Only very few believe that the entire New Deal program should be discarded. Most students men tioned several agencies; approval by others covered entire fields. such as protection of natural re sources, attempts to solve unem ployment, etc. Opinion in differ ent sections of the country is re markably even, the survey shows, and approval comes from students of both republican and democratic leanings. Inquiring reporter finds . . . Many think PBKs gain less than ayerage from school By Bob Aldrich. Phi Beta Kappa last week made public the names of new members whose scholastic accom plishments have placed them in the top ranks. The words Phi Eeta Kappa are synonymous with high scholarship and the PBK is com monly thought of as one who spends many a late hour burning the midnight oil instead of both ends of the candle. Opinions of the average PBK differ considerably, depending at least to an extent upon one's own scholastic standing. Some say the PBK gets the most for his educa tion dollar. Others insist that hard studying precludes his social de velopment. If the Inquiring Reporter's sam ple is any indication, the average student believes the PBK is miss in g something. Twelve students were asked: "Do PBK's get more out of col lege generally than the average student?" Of these, seven said "No," three said "Yes," and two gave condi tional answers. Here are the re plies: Bob Wa'lin, Bizad freshman. No, not as much, because the PIjK has to work harder for his grades nnd does not have as much time for friends and contacts. John Tilgner, Arts and Sciences senior. No. The average PBK seems all the time to be working for TDK nnd nothing else. He has to neglect other parts of college life for it. He bus to spend more time study ing and loses out socially. Tom McCandless, Bizad freshman. No. He has to strain too much Congdon recovers from auto crash Making good progress following an automobile accident, Professor A. R. Congdon will not resume his class work for some time, ac cording to Mrs. Congdon. He is Cuurteiy Lincoln Journal and Star. A. R. CONGDON. recovering from a slight concus sion and a bruised shoulder and hip. Mrs. Congdon and Miss Katlv erine Hunting were also injured. Skidding on a sleet glazed pave ment two miles south of Missouri Valley, la., the car collided with a truck on March 22. The three were returning to their home in Lincoln from Onawa,, Iowa where they had attended a funeral. Mrs. Congdon received several fractured ribs, while Miss Hunt ing, their niece, received a broken right foot. Her home it at Whit ing, Iowa, and she is attending the university here. Congdon is at his home in Lin coln and Miss Hunting has re turned to her classes. over his studies and never has fun. You have to learn to have fun. The PBK doesn't know how even after he is earning money. I wouldn't mind the honor but I wouldn't think the pacrifice of working for (See REPORTER, page 6.) 1 - i f i . f : NN I I Dr. N. H. Engle . . . Advocates more research to solve economic problems More research in business as a way out of present economic dif ficulties was advocated yesterday afternoon by Dr. N. H. Engle of Washington, D. C, in an address before the College of Business Administration faculty of the uni versity. Dr. Engle, who is assistant di rector of the federal bureau "of foreign and domestic commerce, is on a tour of universities and col leges in the interests of a more closely coordinated program of business research. Distribute production "We have learned how to pro duce all we need in this country, but we haven't learned yet how to distribute equitably what we pro- uuce, ne sniu. "uniy business re search can be expected to provide this answer." Dr. Engle told the business fac ulty that economic research was only in its infancy, at least in com parison with the research pro grams in other fields. He pointod out that hia bureau Bpends only about $300,000 each year for do mestic commerce research, while the bureau of agricultural econom Insurance Prof Kulp talks today Bizad students, faculty, social workers, ec classes hear Penn man Dr. C. A. Klup, professor of in surance at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania, will address bizad students and faculty and students of the Graduate School of Social Work today. He will speak to classes in eco nomics at 11 o'clock in Social Sciences auditorium, and at 4 o'clock before the entire social work school, in 209 Social Sciences. Discusses social insurance. In his address to social work students, Dr. Kulp will discuss "Social Insurance: A New Prob lem in Public Administration." Students will be given an oppor tunity to ask questions following the talk. The visiting professor is an au thority in the field of casualty and social insurance and author of two widely read books on these subjects. He has served as a mem ber of the social security ' com mittee and social science research council, besides having been se nior economic consultant to the social security board and chair man of the Pennsylvania commis sion on workmen s compensation and insurance. Dr. Kulp recently completed a year's foreign study of European social security systems. Palladians honor women members Dedicated to the women of the Palladian literary society, the men of the group will present a pro gram this evening at 9 o'clock in Palladian hall. Three skits will be the center of interest for the evening. A dra matic production . entitled "Dra cula at Sunny Brook Farm" will be presented by the Three Musket eers. The sleuth committee shall add their bit with "Twinkle Toes" and the program will end with "A Sad Tale." A social hour with refreshments will be served. Vernon Wiebusch is in charge of arrangements. ics has a budget twenty times as great. And, he said, agriculture ranks in fifth place as an income producing industry. Need more commerce Investigation Citing the need for an enlarged program of commerce investiga tion, Engle declared "that we have been struggling now for ten years to put people and capital back to work, but that there are still many unemployed and many dollars not in use. The answer is in new ideas which will reveal the opportuni ties for new industries." Business research, he explained, will furnish the basis for these new ideas by determining the mar ket, the first step necessary in the establishment of a new enterprise. Seniors! June or August candidates for the Certificate in Social work or Teachers certificates, issued by the State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, should file their applications In registrar's office by April 12. Applications for degrees must also have been filed hy then.