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v Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students .Vol. 40 No. 45 Lincoln Nebraska Tuesday, November, 26, 1940 Diers takes WPA music post Dec. 2 Uni radio director resigns position for job as state music supervisor Theodore C. Diers, radio direc tor and supervisor of music ex tension, has resigned from his position with the university to be come state supervisor of WPA (V:- ) v y ( National Art Week show opens With "American Art for the American Home," as the theme for National Art week, which began yesterday Lincoln artists, under the chairmanship of Miss Kady Faulkner, are sponsoring exhiibt'ons in downtown store windows, in offices of city doctors, and in the galleries of Morrill hall. "The purpose of the whole program, as exemplified on a local scale here," says Miss Faulkner, chairman for Lincoln, "is to make possible the decoration of American homes with American Art." Dwieht Kirsch, head of the university art department, is state chair man. The galleries of Morrill hall are furnished especially with room displays arranged around the paintings. Demonstrations of various art processes will be given to any group making such a request. As another feature of Art week a free sketch class will be held tomorrow evening from 7 to 10 p. m. in Morrill hall, room 307. Any one imv attend the class during which a model will pose for quick sketches. In all states. During the week exhiibtions an dother activites are taking place in ovorv sut in the nation to brincr American artists together and to acquaint the public with their work. Thru this closer cooperation it is hoped that there will be better use of American Art in every Amer ican home. Examples of paintings by Nebraska artists to be seen in the ex hibits are: "Nebraska Farm Landscape" by Mrs. Paul Royal, "Big Cot tonwood" by Dwight Kirsch and "Winter Landscape" by Miss Gladys Marie Lux. Black Larry C n n r Masques uriEi inton for party Present six most eligible bachelors; Group plans surprise feature Larry Clinton. Lincoln Journal ni Str. Prof. T. C. Diers. music projects. Chancellor Bouch er announced yesterday. Dier's resignation becomes ef fective Nov. 30, and he takes over s WPA music supervisor Dec. 2. Diers has been with the univer sity for 15 years, prior to his work here he has had an active career on the stage, and other dramatic work and was food administrator (See DIERS RESIGNS, page 2.) Aff Christmas party date set Exec board sponsors annual event Dec. 19 The ag Christmas party, out standing annual event of the ag college calendar, will be held Dec. 19 in the college activities build ing. Sponsored by the Ag Execu tive Board, the party is open to all university students and faculty members. Bob Wheeler and Betty Jean Spalding, co-chairmen of the af fair, have selected the following committee members: Entertainment-Sylvia Zooholl, Norma Jean Campbell and Keith Gil more. Decorations -Mary Belle Hau-m- , mont, Mary June Buck, Leo Cooksley, Orris Corman and Don Steele. Message from Ta' Schnlte spurs outplayed Husher team By Chris Petersen. It was the half period. 15,000 Ne braska fans sat in the stands cold and quiet, perhaps even disillu sioned, for their team, one of the the best in the nation, had been! outplayed, outscored by a fight ing Iowa State eleven, the under dog. And in the dungeon-like dress ing rooms under those stands, two coaches had a great job. one that had to be done in 15 short min utes. They were faced with the problem of putting into motion a team which seemed to be bogged down, sick, perhaps with "bowl fever." It was quiet in those dressing rooms. Men think better when ifs quiet. No one said anything as the all too short 15 minutes be came 14, IS, 12 . Link stands Then Link Lyman stood. He had a few words, just a few but words that carried enough, meaning to fill a volume. He read a message from "Pa" Schulte, the grand old man of Husker ball, who had come to the game from a sick bed. He choked as he read the (See SCHULTE, page 3.) Publicity - Betty Dale Theobald. Jo Smith and Daily reporters meet in office at 4 today A meeting of all reporters working on the OAILY will be held in the office in the base ment of the Union at 4 p. m. this afternoon. All reporters most be present for an important meeting, Edi tor Norman Harris declared. Annual sets new picture deadline for fraternities The Cornhusker staff announces Dec. 4 as a new deadline for fra ternity and sorority, junior and senior pictures, since Townsend studios will stop work for the an nual at that date. Bob Rydman. Cornhusker fraternity editor, urges all those who have not yet had their pictures taken to do so immediately. The following fraternities and sororities, previously allotted two weeks in which to have their pic tures taken, must now have that work done on or before Dec. 4. rM Ma: Ktraa Dri; Gmmm rw It; Tkta XI: nM Mm ri: ft Km lf; PM Ktrnta tw; W(m I'M Kp 4na; CM TM; Una !'( Fwt; Irtt I'M IMtm. Long debate contest filings close Thursday Does our jury system guarantee justiee? topie of annual frosh forsenics Coach H. A. White of debate squad issued a call today for the filing of alt freshmen who plan to compete for the Long debate tro phy. Names of entrants should be left at Andrews 111 at once, since names and drawings will be posted Thursday. Subject of debate for the trophy is "Resolved: that our jury system is the best means of guaranteeing justice to individuals. Any man of the freshman class eligible to compete in student activities un der regular university rules may take part. Each speaker will be allowed eight minutes, as in the tryout for the intercollegiate team. Three judges who have had experience in judging and in intercollegiate debate will be provided. Each con testant will be judged separately and against all others. Huskers with air training cadets Three former university stu dents, Joseph S. Grimm. Portland. Ore., Virgil Noriega. Omaha, and Horold J. Wolf are among the 266 flying cadets being trained at Ran dolph Field in Texas. These pilots were scheduled to finish their basic training about Nov. 22. Larry Clinton and his "Dipsy Doodle" orchestra will return to the Nebraska campus Dec. 13 when he will swing out for the annual Mortar Board party. Added attraction of the affair will be the presentation of the six eligible bachelors who were elected by women at the polls Nov. 12. Last year Clinton was on hand to present the Cornhusker beauty queens at the Union birthday dance but this year he will help present the "eligible kings." Clinton has frequently been called "America's No. 1 arranger." He composed such songs as "My Reverie," "The Dipsy Doodle," and "Our Love." He has done a great deal of radio work and his orches tra holds the record in attendance at the popular Glen Island Casino in Meadowbrook, N. J. Leap year theme. The party carries the leap yeat leature with women escorting the nvn and sending corsages of va rious types. Vegetable corsages ar numerous. Mortar Board members will stage some feature as yet not disclosed. Beth Howley, in charge of the orchestra for the affair stated that they were very optimistic concerning the success of the party since Dick Jurgens, who was also playing in Lincoln that night, has cancelled his engagement. She also said that students should turn out for this party because its success may determine whether name bands will be allowed for univer sity parties. Spectators will be allowed for Ine first time this ytsr it was an nounced. Stallwitz joins artillery staff Kan&an aids greatly increased enrollment Capt. George Stallwitz of the United States field artillery re serve has been added to the field artillery unit staff, according to announcement by Col. C A Thuis. Captain Stallwitz was assigned Nov. 12 to help take care of the greatly increased enrollment in field artillery about 750 com pared with 600 last year. Form erly of Wichita, Kas., he attended Wittenberg college at Springfield, Ohio. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas law school. Architecture long used as aid in war says Smith in talk By Elbert Nichol. "Architecture and War" was the subject of an address given last night by Prof. Linus B. Smith, chairman of the architecture de partment, at a faculty scholarship dinnei. He supplemented his re marks with slides demonstrating Town Hall brings Archduke Felix Democracies w ill wm war says speaker By Majorie May. "It is inconceivable to some peo ple that anyone but Hitler can straighten out the affairs of Eur ope," said Archduke Felix of Aus tria before the Town Hall audience at St. Paul Mc-thxiist church last night. "But the democracies will eventually win this war." "Great Britain now has stronger army than she has ever had before," he continued, "and for this reason I don't think Ger many will invade England. "In my opinion the war will be won by a revolution in the coun tries occupied by the Germans. ! . ' ' J, L il A - IJnroln Jouroul tni Pir. Archduke Felix. hundreds of thousands of Aus tria ns have united in a secret movement to fight Hitler. Of course Austria can do nothing alone, but with her are also Ml the (See DEMOCRACIES, page 5.) Heir to throne of Anstrialikes American way Archduke Felix of Austria, de scender of the royal house of Hapsburg. likes anong other things, American customs, and American "slanguage;" .and , he thinks that "American girts are very nice not much different from European girls." Dressed in clothes that were dis tinctly "United States: the young heir to the Austrian throne (when and if this kingdom is restored i smoked a tigaret gracefully and answered questions with an "un derstandable" accent at a press conference yesterday. His manner was aristocratic, unmistakably i (See ARCHDUKE, page 5.) "Vri Hp Jf Ag square-dance to periorm Ijinroln J'Mjrnnl and Slr. Prof. L B. Smith, examples of architecture as re lated to war. Professor Smith divided his dis (See SMITH, page 2.) group The ag square-dance demon stration group will perform in cos tume for the Organized Agricul ture Wednesday at "3:30 p. m. and will also give a demonstration for the Nebraska Education associa tion Dec. 12, in Grant Memorial. Mrs. Danielson, in charge of the square-dance group, announced that pictures which were taken during the Thursday night dance may be ordered from her this week. Worcester speaks on panel tonight Dr. D. A Worcester, head of the teachers college department of psychology and measurement, will speak on "The Problems of the Exceptional Child'' at a dinner meeting of the Lincoln Unit of the International Council for Ex ceptional Children to be held in the Union today at 6:30 p. m. The talk will be part of a panel dis cussion. Police statistics show spirits down at Cyclone game Sergeant Regler, chief of the campus police, yesterday reported that Nebraska-Iowa State game was one of the quietest in many years. Only 1$ liquor bottles were taken from fans compared to the usual run of 100.