4M$d IBBirfiM
realizations Plan
7Ae 2)ai&f
For Carnival Tonight
Hurry, hurry, hxirry! Last chance today to sec the carn
ival an. the presentation of the 1942 beauty queens and dance
t Lloyd Hunter all for a special cut-rate price of $1.10 per
couple, when the campus crowds flock to the weekend cele
bration of the Student Union's fourth birthday party Friday
and Saturday.
Coming of age in terms of a campus generation, the Union
this year has planned extensive but economical festivities in
step with war economies. One of the economical measures has
been to provide a combination ticket good for a couple's en
joyment of both nights. These combination tickets, called
G, T.s, have been sold thruout
and members of the Union Activities committee, and will go
off sale tonight at 8:30 p. m.
Hunter Plays
For Annual
AWS Dance
Tag sales for the Ivy Day tea
dance continued to mount yester
day as Janet Hemphill, chairman
of the ticket committee, reported
sales this year "well over aver
age." Playing for the tea dance, an
annual affair sponsored by the
AWS on the afternoon of Ivy Day,
Im Lloyd Hunter and his negro or
chestra. Hunter's orchestra has
played at various campus formal
parties here this past winter.
Chaperoning the dance sched
uled for 4-6 p. m. in the Union
ballroom, are Prof, and Mrs. K. O.
Broady and Prof, and Mrs. Har
old C. Vedelcr.
In charge of sending letters ad
vertising the dance, to all organ
ised houses was Dorothy Carna
nan. Mary Lou Holtz secured
Chaperons for the dance.
Civil Engineers
Honor College
At Banquet
The annual civil engineer's ban
quet was held in the Union at 7:30
Wednesday evening, with 25 stu
dents present.
Civen as an annual affair, the
banquet paid tribute to the col
lege's work for this year. In past
years the Engineers' Week was
held in conjunction with this ban
quet but due to the shortened
semester, the week was dropped
by the college altogether.
Main speaker for the evening
was Mr. Harry Schlidt, bridge
engineer of the state highway de
partment, who gave a short ad
dress on civilian defense and the
part played in it by civil engineers,
Professor Clark E. Mickey of
ficiated at the banquet and acted
as toast master.
Frankforter Will Speak
On War Gases, Smokes
A lecture on various war gases,
smokes and incendiaries, spon
sored Jointly by Corn Cobs and the
University of Nebraska student
chapter of American Institute of
Chemical Engineers will be held
next Wednesday evening at 7:30
im the main lecture room of Avery
lab.
Conducting the lecture will be
Col. C. J. Frankf orter. them in
structor at the university. He will
discuss the tactical uses of gas in
warfare, both against the enemy
and civilians, and some of its more
common methods of defense.
Illustrations will be shown to
familiarise the audience with the
various forms of chemical war
fare and instructions will be given
as to how to defend themselves
against them. "At the present
time, chemical warfare appears to
be very popular with the public,
and my reason for the lecture is
to acquaint people with its ef
fects," stated the colonel.
"I will also endeavor to debunk
the week by the Union office
Couples not purchasing a C. T.
will pay $1.50 to attend both
nights or 75 cents a night. Stag
tickets are also available for 40
cents per person. These tickets
will be sold at the Union office
after 8:30 tonight, or may be
bought at the door.
Variety is Music Mood.
One of the most popular bands
on the Nebraska campus, Lloyd
Hunter and his all-Negro outfit
will play for dancing tonight and
Saturday in the ballroom from 9
until 12 p. m. Imported particu
larly for the two nights from
Omaha, Lloyd Hunter brings with
him a wide selection of hot and
fast, or sweet and low, just the
way you want it, and plaved in his
inimitable Harlem downbeat
rhythms.
In parlors A, B and C, the Union
has planned an extension of the
Grill, where dancing to canned
music and drinkine genuine
(See BIRTHDAY, page 2)
Fraternities, Coed Groups
Compete for
. . . In
Melody, both sweet and swing,
will be the order of the day as nine
fraternities and thirteen coed
groups compete for awards in the
annual Ivy Day sing contest, a
feature of the day's festivities.
Scheduled for 9 a. m. Saturday,
the Interfratemity sing will in
clude Alpha Tau Omega, Beta
Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, Sig
ma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Sig
ma Chi, Phi Rho Sigma. Delta Sig
ma Pi and Delta Upsilon. Kosmet
Klub awards a cup each year to
the fraternity placing first in the
competition. Delta Upsilon won
the cup last year.
Sororities and organized houses
are competing for the cup present
ed by AWS, sponsors of the wom
en's sing. Entrants will be judged
on general excellence rather than
technical perfection. Points which
will be considered are: Selection
of song, tone quality of voices, bal
Courteny Lincoln Journal
Frankforter
. . . Speaks at Lecture Wednes
day in Avery Lab.
Vol. 41, No. 140 Lincoln, Nebraska Friday, May 1, 1942
Ivy Day Ceremonies Recall
Customs of Former Years
Tomorrow brings to the Nebras
ka campus the traditional Ivy Day,
the 41st affair of this type to be
held here. It is the day that the
Innocents are tapped and the Mor
tar Boards masque their success
ors. It is the day that the whole
campus looks forward to with
great anticipation.
The first Ivy Day, which takes
it's name from the plant which is
placed in the ground each year by
the junior and senior class presi
dents, was held on June 11, 1901.
Prior to this time it had been
called Senior Class Day.
Seniors Held Dance.
As the Daily Nebraskan report
ed in its first issue, the seniors
formed in a double column and
marched to the library building,
where the exercises were held in
those days. As was the custom, the
seniors held a dance after the
speeches, the Ivy Day oration, the
'Sing' Awards
Ivy Day Contest
ancing of parts, interpretation as
shown by style, attack and diction,
appearance and poise of group.
Program Arranged.
Order of f ppearance has been
arranged according to alphabetical
order of leader's names. Groups,
selections and leaders are as fol
lows: 1. Kappa Delta,
Helen Arnmemnan.
"Reflections,'
2. Alpha Phi, "Alpha Phi Sweet
heart Song," Roma Biba.
3. Pi Beta Phi, "Ocean to
Ocean," Beldora Cochran.
4. Delta Gamma, "Dream Girl,"
Pat Cole.
5. Delta Delta Delta. "Under the
Moon," Doris Crittenden.
6. Chi Omega, "Chi Omega, Just
for You," Ruth Greichel.
7. Alpha Chi Omega, "Dream
(See AWARDS, page 7)
some of the popular misconcep
tions the people have about the
deadly effects of gas," continued
the colonel. Such ideas as a few
planes dropping gas bombs over a
small citv and immediately de
stroying it are pur, folly, accord
ing to the colonel.
Colonel Frankforter is officially
connected with both clubs spon
soring the lecture, acting as their
faculty sponsor. He has taught at
the university for the past 34
years except two years Bpent in
the army during the last World
war. While in the army the colonel
helped in the manufacture of
gases and trained with it during
warfare.
The lecture is presented as an
annual atfair, jointly in connect
tion with the chemistry depart
ment. In previous lectures by
Colonel Frankforter, a large rep
resentation from the city of Lin
coin has been present to see him
demonstrate with numerous gases
before the audience.
planting of the Ivy, and other fes
tivities.
Ivy Day 1902 was spoiled by
rain, however, on the next one
which was held on May 1, 1903,
the Innocents, a society patterned
after such societies at Harvard
and Yale, and which had organized
on this campus that April, for the
first time tapped new members at
the event. A May Pole dance by
16 senior women was another
highlight of that Ivy Day and de
spite the varied dates of Ivy Day
Saturday's
Program
9:00 Men's Sing.
10:15 Reading of the Ivy Day
poem.
10:35 Entrance of the ivy
and daisy chains.
10:45 Processional of May
Queen and attendants.
11:00 Planting of the ivy.
11:15 Recessional.
1:15 Women's Sing.
2:30 Masking of Mortar
Boards.
3:30 Tapping of Innocents.
4:00 AWS dance, Student
Union.
Military Group
Elects Arnold
New Captain
Scabbard and Blade elected four
new officers to officiate next
year, at the final meeting of the
club held last night in the Unon,
Richard Arnold, of the field ar
tillery, was elected captain; Rob
ert Barlow, field artillery, first
lieutenant: Tom Woods, field artil
lery, second lieutenant; and
Charles Hauptman, infantry, first
sergeant.
The new officers were immedi
ately installed and will be in
charge of the club's business for
the remainder of the semester. It
is planned to have a rush picnic
sometime next week for the new
students chosen for advanced drill
next fall. The picnic will be held
at the national guard camp at
Ashland, where the club will camp
over night.
Lieut. Colonels Luks Zeck and
Walter A. Gardner will conduct a
tactical problem for the group and
will also discuss the activities of
the club to the rushees.
Former UN Student
Dick Heinz Fights in Singapore.
Sees Java Fall, Gets Malaria
By Shirley Kushner.
A whiff of salty sea air and the
briny breezes were almost felt yes
terday when Dick Heinz appeared
on the campus in his nautical uni
form except Heinz, a former NU
fine arts student, hasn't been on
an ocean-going vessel in all of his
ten months of service. He is an
"air sailor," rot a "sea sailor."
Working in the Naval Air Corps
as photographer and machine gun
ner, he has literally covered Haiti,
Panama, New Guinea, Sumatra,
Singapore and other important
places where history has and is
being made.
While in Java. Heinz and two
this dance was feature for many
years on the green south of U.
Hall.
Black Masques Mask.
"The Order of the Black
Masque," an organization for the
women first masked its members
at the Ivy Day ceremonies in 1905.
Today this organization is known
as the Mortar Boards and selec
tion of its new memoers each now
equals the intrigue of the tapping
of the Innocents.
It has been customary for Ivy
Day to be held on Friday and for
all classes to be dismissed since
1908. This year, however, due to
the telescoped schedule and early
dismissal of classes festivities will
be held on Saturday beginning at
9:00 in the morning. Saturday
classes will not convene. Previous
to 1908 classes were held on Ivy
Day.
Bryan Donates 'Ricksha.
The first May Queen was pre
sented in a poppy cover jinrikisha
drawn by a member of the Black
Masque in the caps and gowns.
T ouise Barr, now Mrs. Lewis A.
(See YEARS, page 7)
Rain Ci
arnns
Cadets' Style
In Parade
With belts all shined, buckles
polished, and sharp creases in
every cadet's trousers, the brigade
was finally reared for its crack
performance. And then what every
cadet hoped all morning would
would happen, happened about a
half hour too late. Even the tradi
tional parade flag got a thorough
drenching.
So, with that lomething extra
special added for the cleaners and
laundries, the cadets marched
through the parade and presented
themselves for the officers sub
par excellent in appearance and
plenty the worse in temperament
Goes Off Smoothly.
Aside from the adverse weather
conditions, the parade went off
smoothly as per schedule. Due
to the rain, a hurried inspection
was given by the officers.
All that remains now is one
more day of inspection and an
extra large laundry bill for all
participants.
others contracted the malaria
germ, but all continued fighting
until Java fell. Before this, he
witnessed the fall of Singapore.
The three malaria sufferers were
sent to a Brooklyn naval hospital
and finally sent home on "sick
leave."
Heinz, who has studied Balinese
art at the Chicago Art Institute,
spent most of his off moments in
Bali, buying carvings and making
pen and ink sketches of Balinese
natives, which he later hopes to
reproduce in water colors.
According to the flyer, all of
the fellows at the front believe in
(See MALARIA, page 6)
T'