Vol. 48 No. 142
4-H Plans Ope
House for Burr
Ag college students will hold a
"farewell" social hour for Dean
W. W. Burr Wednesday, May 19.
Burr Is retiring after thirty years
of service as Dean of the College
of Agriculture.
The University 4-H Club will
act as hosts for the occasion and is
planning an open house in the
Dean's offices. The open house will
be held between the hours of 11
and 12 a.m. and 2 and 2:30 p.m.
All faculty members, office work
ers and students are invited.
Those attending the open house
'Soil, Water
Could Reclaim
Land'-Pick
Soil and water have potentiali
ties for reclamation of some of the
Missouri Valley's and Nebraska's
most valuable land, Major General
Lewis A. Pick, Missouri river di
vision engineer told over 600 stu
dents at a convocation in the Col
lege Activities building on Ag
campus, Monday, May 17. (
He stated that water was and is
one of the biggest problems of this
area, in that the basin is too full
during some seasons, and contains
too little water in others. The
vast program now underway in the
Missouri River valley will also
include a series of dams which
will not only conserve soil and
stop floods, but impound sufficient
water to care for drouth areas if
the midwestern area again sees
a shortptfe of moisture such as the
period of drouth in the '30's.
105 Dams Asked.
General Pick, co-author of the
Pick-Sloan reclamation plan, de
scribed a series of 105 dams to
impound one hundred and ten mil
lion acre-feet of water, and to ir
rigate five million acres of newly
recovered land, and to supplement
irrigation in four million Jive
hundred thousand acres now rr
tlally irrigated.
Men Interested
In Dance Club
Asked to Meet
I..'en Interested in learning
about the men's modern da?ce
group are invited to meet with
Charles Jones, James H. Howard,
Charles House, Andrew Morrow,
and Russell Tudor at 5 p.m. Tues
day, May 18, at the Grant Me
morial hall dance studio.
Modern dance technique is so
strenuous that it is a requirement
in many universities for men who
are out for football. Majors in
physical education, speech, art,
music, anthropology, and sociology
should also find it interesting.
This group has been active
throughout the current year and
appeared in the Christmas and
spring concerts presented by
Orchesis.
Two Lincoln men. Ted Shawn
and Charles Wiedman, have
achieved international renown in
the modern dance field.
Gilbert to Head
Alpha Kappa Psi
Dick Culbert was elected presi
dent of Alpha Kappa Psi, Bizad
fraternity, at the society's bi
weekly business meeting Wednes
day evening.
Other officers . named were
Maynard Morgan, vice president;
Harold Stickney, secretary; Bill
Cline, treasurer; OrviUe Muen
chau, master of rituals.
Officers will serve for the sum
mer session and the fall semester.
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
n
will sign their names
book when they arrive
in a guest
The book
will luter be presented to Dean
Burr by the 4-H Club members.
Miss Helen Ochsner of Madison
fs chairman of the committee plan
ning the event. Other members of
the committee include: Alice Bos
well, Holdrege; Doris Eberhart,
Bassctt; Don Perry, Malcolm; Dean
Eberspacher, Seward; LaRaync
Wahlstrom, Exeter.
'49 Cornliuskcr
All organizations not repre
sented in the 1948 Cornhusker
who desire representation in the
book next year are asked to
contact Jerry Johnston at Corn
husker office, or write to 1949
Cornhusker, Student Union, be
fore May 22.
Union to Play Host to Artists
In Series of Summer Musicals
The air-conditioned Union ball
rpom will be host to a summer
artist series of four outstanding
features, including musical and
dramatic productions.
The series opens June 14 with
the presentation of Sir Arthur
Sullivan's comedy-operetta about
the housing shortage, "Cox and
Box." The New York cast, with
three starring roles, includes Art
Gallagher as Mr. Cox, Carl Nicho
las as Mr. Box, and Ellis Gilbert
as Mr. Bouncer. Music for the
play is produced by Thomas
Eanes.
Violinist To Play.
The second artist to appear on
the Union stage will be Melvin
Ritter, New York concert violinist.
The program for his June 24th
recital will be announced in the
near future.
On July 7 the Fielder Trio,
made up of three artists who
have been past soloists with the
Dallas and Kansas City Sympho
nies, will give a concert of popular
flute, cello, and piano melodies.
The final production promises
to be one of the most unique to
appear on the Nebraska campus,
a complete broadway play, with
one actress taking all parts in the
Cheer Tryouts
For Yell Squad
Occur May 19
Tryouts for the 1948-49 yell
squad will be held Wednesday at
7 p.m. in the coliseum, Dale Ball,
Student Council president, an
nounced yesterday.
All students who will be en
rolled as sophomores, juniors and
seniors next fall are eligible to
try out. The university grade re
quirement of 75 for participa
tion in extra-curricular activities
applies to the cheering squad also,
Ball stated.
The Yell Squad, which is di
rectly ur.uer the sponsorship of
the Student Council, will be se
lected by a judging committee of
six. They are: Dale Ball, Student
Council president; Lois Gillet,
Tassels president; Bob Hamilton,
Corn Cobs president; Joan Far
rar, Mortar Board president; and
Norm Leger, Innocents president.
Yell King Joe Jankovitz will act
in an advisory capacity.
From the 'student group trying
but for cheerleading positions,
eight will be selected for the
squad and four will be named as
alternates to assist at football
games and other school functions.
At a meeting of the judging com
mittee it was agreed that the
ratio of men to women on the
squad would be decided by the
ability and potentiality showo by
the students trying out.
Tuesday, May 18, 1948
14 Delegates
To Attend YW
Estes Meeting
Fourteen representatives of
Y.W.C.A. will attend the Estes
Park Y.W.-Y.M. Intercollegiate
Christian Conference, June 10-19.
Girls attending are Willistine
Clark, Analine Kano, Pat Larson,
Camilla Palmer, Audrey Rosen
baum, Kathleen Schreiber, Marcia
Tepperman, Wanda Young, Janet
Nutzman, Mildred Nutzman, Nor
ma Long, Muriel Nelson, Lois
Thorfinnson, and Lavernna Acker.
The conference includes a pro
gram of group discussions, leader
ship training, vesper services, and
recreational facilitfes. Groups from
the entire midwest will attend.
A chartered bus will carry Ne
braska, Nebraska Wesleyan, and
Kearney college representatives to
Estes Park. Only a limited number
of spaces are available and Y.W.
members who wish to attend must
leave their names with Eileen
Hepperly, reservations chairman,
immediately.
cast. Miss Maud Scheerer, famous
for her ability to portray an en
tire retinue of characters, will
produce a contemporary Broad
way play on July 27, with the aid
of special props and costumes for
each of the members of the cast
which she plays.
Season tickets for the Summer
Artists series may be obtained in
the Union office for $1.75 per per
son. Co-sponsors of the project are
the Student Union Activities com
mittee and the School of Fine
Arts.
Mexican Journey
Offered to Students
An extensive 18 day sightseeing
tour of Mexico is being offered
by Educational Tours for this
summer.
Price for the trip is $249.50
which includes round trip trans
portation, A-l hotel accomoda
tions, all meals on trip, all paid
fees, all baggage transfers, exper
ienced guides, and your own Mex
ico tourist card.
The tour leaves St. Louis June
29. Students interested should
contact Mrs. M. G. Volz, Lincoln
Representative at 1651 Otoe,
4-6898.
'Servant' Initiates
Drama Cavalcade
Don Johannes sympathetic di
rection of Charles Rann Kennedy's
"Servant in the House" Monday
night drew enthusiastic applause
of an audience which filled the
Experimental Theater, to initiate
the Actor's Lab Cavalcade of
Drama.
The play concerns a vicar, a
brilliant though weak man, who
has yielded to his wife's "selfless"
ambition for him and renounced
his brothers who had helped edu
cate him for the church but whose
low estate in life made them unfit
to associate with him. One of the
brothers, Robert, has become a
drainman, the other, Joshua, un
known to his brothers Is the fa
mous Bishop of Benares.
The latter masquerades as a ser
vant in the vicar's house in order
to help his brother rebuild his
church and his life.
The play's theme of false pride
and hypocrisy reaches its climax
with the discovery of the drainman
Education In United Nations1
Purposes Designed to Teach
Nebraskans Basis for Peace
BY JEAN FENSTER.
Nebraska will become the "guinea pig", or testing ground, for
UN work this summer, as a basis for an international educational
program about the aims, ideals and accomplishments of the United
Nations.
The program is an upshot of a meeting of Nebraskans and the
JN staff at the United Nations headquarters at Lake Success, N. Y.
Nebraska professors and educators are making an effort to correct
the common attitude that the United Nations is far removed from
us. Most of us figure it is a good Idea a way to help the countries
of the world live together in peace but that it is pretty far away,
like the Antarctic and, though interesting, there is nothing for us to
do about it.
Nebraska Will Be, Trial.
This Nebraska experiment is designed to give all of us the feel
ing that we have a vital stake in the success of the new international
organization; that world understanding begins in our own back. yard.
The program will include UN courses for school children and
college students; teaching materials for school and college instructors
and programs for communities. It will start this summer on the
University campus.
'The United Nations," Dr. Olavy Paas-Grunt, UN Educational
officer, said recently, "is particularly interested in stimulating the
program planned by the University of Nebraska. Nebraska is the
only state outside of the United Nations Headquarters area that is
considering an educational program of this scope. Only through this
type of cooperation can the United Nations be properly understood
in all the nations of the world."
Sorenson Began Project.
The UN-Nebraska program started this way. Last winter Dr.
Frank E. Sorenson, assistant dean of the University Summer School,
wanted to obtain for the coming summer school a well-rounded
teacher training program, covering the aims and operations of the
United Nations. He wanted not only UN materials, but UN lecturers
to come to the campus and work with the university's summer work
shop seminars. UN agreed to help but asked Nebraska, in return, to
give aid to the planning and development of an international educa
tion program.
The Nebraska campus will also be the site of the Materials
center for the UN, under the direction of James Taylor. It will in
clude a complete stock of films, slides, books, recordings, posters,
pamphlets and other printed materials about the UN. They will be
available at low cost to school and community groups not only in
Nebraska but throughout the entire midwtst. The famed "UN Dis
play" featuring pictorial information about UN and all member na
tions will be housed in Love Memorial library during the summer
months. Heretofore it has been shown only in a few eastern sea
broad cities.
Program Divided.
The University's summer program will be a twofold affair: (1)
Four special United Nations clinics; (2) A special workshop seminar
at which public school teachers from all over Nebraska will develop
an educational program.
The UN clinics, Dr. Sorenson explains, will be held June 14-15,
June 28-29, July 12-13 and July 26-27. A prominent member of th
UN headquarters staff will speak at each session. Two have already
been selected: Dr. W. Bryant Mumford, Director of the Division of
Special Services, and Dr. Henry Simon Bloch of the UN Educational
office. Two others will be announced by UN later.
The experts will appear before seminars, regular classes and a
public lecture audience. The clinics are designed to answer these
four questions about UN: What is it? What are its achievements?
How can ilt be strengthened? How can Nebraska contribute to it?
Prep Schools Flan Seminars.
The workshop seminar, directed by Dr. Royce Knapp and Dr.
Sorenson of the University, will be concerned with developing courses
of instruction for the UN on the elementary and high school level.
Additional community-wide programs will be worked out for
use next fall and winter in cooperation with the University of Omaha,
the state teachers colleges at Peru, Chadron, Wayne and Kearney, the
state superintendent of public instruction's office, the Nebraska Edu
cation association and other private schools in the state.
Universly States Hopes.
The University hopes to develop through this program these
things: (1) the kind of UN material needed by schools and commu
nities in Nebraska and the middle west; (2) the kind of informational
material UN should compile to meet American and foreign school
needs; (3) establishment of a teacher training course for representa
tives of 54 UN member nations.
"We want to make Nebraska citizens the best informed people
in the world about the ways of the United Nations," Wayne O. Reed,
State Superintendent, said.
See U.N., Pace 2
Johannes Directs
brother that the "smell" which is
ruining the church and the vicar
age as well is caused by a huge
grave under the church.
Robert's determination to risk
his life to clean out the grave gives
the vicar courage to pursue his
determination to clean out the lies,
false pride and ambition from his
own life, and a reconciliation of
the three brothers is effected.
Outstanding in the compara
tively minor role of tha Lord
Bishop of Lancashire, who ex
emplifies snobbery and hypocrisy,
was Kenneth Frohardt who made
his first appearance in the Uni
versity Theater. Clare Denton
made the role c". the page boy
amusing.
Pat Boyd was lively and
SQarkling as the vicar's niece,
Robert's daughter, who had
been taken from him by the
vicar's wife but is finally re
united with her father. Betty
See Experiment, Page
Filings for positions on the
Daily Nebraskan will close Fri
day noon, May 21. Positions
open are editor, business man
ager, two managing editors, five
news editors, three assistant
business managers, sports
editor, Ag news editor and spe
cial feature editor.
Tea Will Honor
Home Ec Seniors
The senior-recognition tea hon
qring home economics senior and
graduate students will be Satur
day, May 22, at the home of the
department chairman, Margaret
Fedde, 3848 Dudley.
Hostesses for the tea are the
home economics staff. In charge
of arrangements is the following
committee: Bess Steele, chairman;
Evelyn Metzger, Mary Hosier,
Anna Shively, Florence Smith,
Josephine Brooks, Mrs. Edith Sol
omon, Mrs. Rhea Keeler, Mar
garet Cannell, Thelma McMillan
Marie Harris, Lucille Backemey
er, Mabel Doremus, Ruth Meir
henry, Ruth Maynard, Joan
Plummer, Carolyn Ruby and Lil
lian Schmidt