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yOlTXXVII, NO. 122.
the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, Tuesday, april 3, 1928.
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BLUE PRINT WILL
BE CONVENTION
HOST NEXT FALL
Eiehth Meeting of Engineering
Col'ege magazine wm oe
October 25, 26 and 27
PETITION FOR TWO YEARS
Ralph Raikes, John Clema, and
George Gillespie Are in
Charge of Plans
Eighth annual convention of En
gineering College Magazines Asso
ciated will be held at the University
of Nebraska next falV October 25,
26, and 27, according to Emerson
Mead, general manager of the Ne
braska Blue Print. A report that the
petition was accepted was received
recently. The Blue Print will be the
host to, the colleges attending the
convention. ,
A general committee composed of
Ralph Raikes, '30, Ashland, chair
man, John Clema, '29, Beatrice, and
George Gillespie, 29, Omaha, was ap
pointed by the Blue Print staff to
take charge of preparations for the
convention.
Organisation Is Extensive
Engineering College Magazines
Associated is an organization com
posed of approximately twenty-iive
of the best student engineering pub
lications in the United States. Prom
inent universities are represented in
the association including Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, Cornell
University, Michigan, Princeton, Uni
versity of Minnesota, Ohio State, and
Purdue.
The Nebraska Bule Print has been
bidding for the convention for the
past two years, but the large propor
tion of eastern schools represented
kept the conventions in the east. At
the convention last fall at Ohio State,
Columbus, Ohio, Nebraska again peti
tioned. Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and Purdue were close com
petitors for the convention and no
decision was given until a few days
ago, the convention coming to Ne
braska. .
The organization of E. C. M. A. is
the only one of its kind in the world.
It was formed to set standards for
student engineering publications, and
to provide for standardization of
page size to accommodate national
advertisers. All national advertising
is now handled through a special
agency.
PRAIRIE SCHOONER
RBGELVES ARTICLES
Contributions Come From All Parti
Of Country Magaaine Take
National Aspect
Literary contributions from all
parts of the country have been re
ceived at the editorial office of the
Prairie Schooner, literary magazine
jf the University, according to Dr.
Lowry C. Wimberly, chairman of the
board of editors.
"With these contributions coming
in," said Dr. Wimberly, "the maga
zine is widening its acquaintance
and is taking on a national aspect.
The next number which will appear
this month, will contain some of these
together with local contributions."
The Prairie Schooner was started
in January ,1927. and is now enter
ing on its second year of existence.
Four numbers are issued annually.
The Spring number is published in
April, the Summer number appears
in July, the Fall number in dctober,
and the Winter number in December.
Passion Week Service
Is Vespers Program
The annual Passion Week serv
ice will be presented nt Vetpers
tonight nt 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith
hall. This is the last service
which wiJl be planned by the Ves
pers staff which has served all
this year under the chairmanship
of Grace Midlm.
Instructors in Teachers College
Christen New Car with Grape Pop
"You auto come to my christen
ing," read the invitations placed on
all the desks of the Elndergraten and
Primary instructors.
Now what were those feminine in
fractors going to do? The whole
froth of the ctse was that one of the
members of the staff had squandered
her hard earned money on a new
car, and being human there must be
celebration on such an occasion.
(The college instructors are not the
ynics that the sweet co-cd and her
dmirar picturo them.)
If you had chance to pass Teachers
College last Saturday you would
"ave seen those serious minded (in
Younkin Will Talk on
Capitol to Engineers
William L. Younkin, architect's
representative of State Capitol
Commission, will give an illustrat
ed lecture on Nebraska's new
State Capitol to members of
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, and the general pub
lic, at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday
evening, in Mechanical Engineers'
building, room 206. The lecture
will be non-technical and of inter
est to everyone.
April Fools Day
Is Incentive For
Many Sly Jokes
April Fools day has passed with
many on the campus completely
fooled and others apparently una
ware that it came around as usual
thi3 year. An inquiry as to the num
w nf snroritv and fraternity houses
receiving frantic telephone calls of
from the third floor
window, etc., revealed that few sucn
cranks were piayea. xiuwevci,
various members wno migm.
been so fooled may ieei a im
sheepish and not wish to relate it to
the public.
Credit for a joke that was not a
to Rhould eo to the person who
called up some fifty members of the
Tfnsmet Klub cast and asked them to
report for practice at 8 o'clock Sun
day morning. The would-be Garbos
and Gilberts, not wishing to be fooled
or perhaps just wanting a good ex
cuse to remain in bed, failed to re
port and had to be notified that the
rehearsal was no joke.
Houses On Fire
Some prankster called the Beta
Theta P ihouse and torn mem uwv
smoke was pouring from the afore
mentioned third floor window. We
understand the boys dashed out to
see the fire. The Alpha Sigs and
the Lambda Chis were the next to
be caught with the same trick. The
members of Alpha Sigma Phi were so
used to fires in the third floor of
their former house that they were
not surprised and went tearing up
stairs, as usual.
The weather must have been too
nice for the-persons interested in re
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ORTON GIVES OHIO
GRADUATION TALK
Public
Of
P... Too Large Share
Cost of Education,'
Says General
r"imK.io Ohin Reeardless of
the benefits of higher education to
the individual and the state, "the
nnw nava too laree a share of
thn cost of higher education and the
recipient pays too little," General Ed
ward Orton told the winter gradual-
ing class of Ohio State University.
"There is some danger," he said,
"of over-saturation of our popula
tion with people of the 'white collar'
class. There has. been some evidence
of overcrowding in several lines al
ready notably law and medicine.
"Faulty Distribution"
"The claim will probably be set
up in both these cases that it is a
matter of faulty distribution, not an
actual surplus. It will be shown that
in many country districts the old
practitioner is gone and no new man
comes in to take his place, and that
more service is needed and less is
available. But the fact remains that
the cities and towns are full of
struggling lawyers and doctors, and
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Faculty Women Take
Interpretative Dancing
Interpretative dancing is being en
thusiastically taken up by the women
members of the faculty. Miss Bere
nice Richardson is instructing the
dance enthusiasts in the same type
of work offered to co-ds. All worn,
en members of the faculty are cordi
ally invited to attend the classes
which meet at 7 o'clock on Monday
evenings.
the elr.ss room) instructors gaily
tripping down the steys, each with a
ribbon tied package under her arm.
After an unsuccessful. qT!st finding
nothing better a bottle of grape pop
was bought for, the christening fluid.
Ceremony at Af College
The next thing they must find a
stage setting befitting such a cere
mony. No more beautiful scenery
could be found than the Agricultural
College campun, where the mossy
green of the lawn and the trees near
ing blossom served as natures own
background. The scene here opens
with the owner of the car holding
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ENGINEERS GO
ON ANNUAL TRIP
SPRING RECESS
Upperclassmen Leave Sunday
For Eleventh Inspection j
Visit of East .
PLANS ARE EXTENSIVE
Itinerary Includes Tours
' Plants Representative of
Each Department
to
Juniors and seniors of the depart-!
ment of engineering will leave Lin
coln Sunday afternoon at 4:50
o'clock for Chicago on the eleventh
annual inspection trip of that depart
ment. The excursion will last
throughout the spring recess, the
itinerary ending Friday, April 14.
A complete itinerary has been
planned by the committee in charge,
which consists of representatives
from every department of the col
leg thafc keep the 8tudentg busy
on their round of inspection for each
of their days in Chicago and neigh
boring cities. Side trips will be
made into Indiana including trips to
Indiana Harbor, Buffington, and
Gary. Other excursions will be made
to Wisconsin, with inspection tours
through industrial plants at Kenosha
and Milwaukee.
Guests of Companies
The engineers will spend the first
day of their trip inspecting the
Western Electric plant in Chicago.
They will go through the Hawthorne
plant, -and will be guests of the com
pany for lunch.
On Tuesday the party will split up,
the architectural and civil engineers
taking a side trip to Gary, Indiana,
to inspects the plant of the American
Bridge Company, while others will go
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VOCATIONAL TALK
Will BE TOMORROW
"Self-Analysis" Will Be Discussed
As Final Subject for Series
Of Guidance Topic
"Self-Analysis" is the subject of
the final talks on "What Vocation
for Me 7" and according to those in
charge it should prove to be the most
interesting of the group. The talk
will be given in the Social Sciences
building auditorium from 7 till 8
o'clock tomorrow evening1, and every
one is invited to attend.
Charles Fordyce, chairman of de
partment of educational psycology
and measurements, IL E. Bradford,
chairman of deparment of vocational
education, and C. A. Fullmer, state
director of Vocational Education,
will speak on this matter, and blanks
may be procured at this meeting that
can be filled out in the process of
self-analysis so that each individual
may view a line up of his own
worth.
Shirk Will Speak to
Chemists This Evening
Wesleyan Professor Will Discuss
Living Cell at Open Meeting
In Chemistry Hall
0
Dr. C. J. Shirk, of Nebraska Wes
leyan niversity, will speak at an
open meeting of Phi Lambda Upsi-
lon, national honorary chemical so
ciety, this evening at 8 o clock in
Chemistry halL The subject will be
"The Living Cell a Chemical Lab
oratory."
In discussing the subject Dr.
Shirk will tell of relationship of the
following: with respect to the com
position and reactions of the many
chemical compounds of cellular ac
tivity of which the bio-chemist is to
day well informed ; likewise the plant
and animal exterior physical and
chemical factors which repress or
stimulate the action of plant and
animal cells; chlorophyll, is apart
from the living cell and why it will
not function.
"Is the cholorphyll of a living
plant the same as that which Willsta
ter has investigated at such great
length?" is a question the speaker
will discuss.
Museum Exhibits 500
Various Rock Types
In anticipation of the national
meeting of Sigma Gamma Epsiloh,
geology fraternity, to be held t the
University of Nebraska in two
weeks, the museum staff is mounting'
an exhibit of over 500 specimens of
various rocks in the rock gallery in
Morrill HalL
These rocks were recently pur
chased in New York, and the collec
tion is considered to be quite inclus
ive. A rock collection is of especial
interest in a museum such as that of
the University of Nebraska, for rocks
are not too plentiful on the surface
of Nebraska.
Timmerman Is Elected
Chairman of Bizad Day
Douglas Timmerman, '30, Lin
coln, was elected chairman of the
committee for Bizad Day at a
meetnig of the Bizad Executive
Committee, held Monday after
noon. May 11 has been set as a tenta
tive date for the affair. All stu
dents of the College of Business
Administration will be excused for
the Bizad gala day. A program
of sports, including baseball and
field events is being planned. Re
freshments will be provided for
by the committee in charge. A
dance in the evening will complete;
the program for the day.
Chairmen for the various com
mittees will be selected in the
near future. Announcement of
the committee persunnel will be
made Monday, April 16.
HOOVER, SMITH
LEAD IN POLLS
Secretary of Commerce Gets
Almost Half of Votes
Cast by Students
WOMEN SCHOOLS BALLOT
Boston, April 2. Herbert Hoove
and Gov. Al Smith of New York
together polled more than three quar
ters of the total number of votes in
the country-wide university ballot,
results of which are announced today
by The Independent, a national
weekly.
The secretary of commerce alone
with 22,086 votes was awarded al
most half the undergraduate and fac
ulty total in thiry-nine colleges and
universities. Smith came only
fair second with 13,534. Reed was
runner up to the Democratic leader,
with Dawes and Lowden trailing Hoo
ver in that order.
Forty-five Colleges Vote
Of the seventy publications invited
by The Independent to represent
their colleges in conducting the poll,
approximately forty-five accepted,
And of this number thirty-nine have
reported final results with the rest
delayed because of vacations and ex
amination periods.
Ten men, five Democrats and five
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W. A. A. INSTALLS
OFFICERS TONIGHT
Election of Sports Leaders
Installation of Officials
Are Features
and
Installation of officers and elec
tion of sports leaders will be fea
tures of the general meeting of the
Womans' Athletic Association sched
uled for this evening at 7:15 o'clock
in Armory room 101. New social,
publicity and concession managers
will be appointed by the new pres
ident Clarice McDonald.
Nominees for the positions of
sports managers are as. follows:
Hockey, Edna Schrick and Ruth Dia
mond; Soccer, Bregitta Koerting and
Louise Westover; rifling, Helene
Gille and Frieda Curtis; basketball,
Edna Bergstraesser and Dorothy
Zimmerman; hiking, Genevieve Clay
ton and Cornelia Weave; convention
delegate, Clarice McDonald.
All members of the organization
are urged to be present and vote for
the new leaders. The date was
changed from Wednesday until Tues
day to avoid a conflict with Orchesis
guest night which will be held Wed
nesday evening.
Mural Artist Will Be
Hostess at Luncheon
Miss Elizabeth Dolan, mural artist
for the University museum, will l2
hostess to seven guests at an infor
mal luncheon in Elephant Hall of
the museum Wednesday afternoon.
The guests, all of whom were stu
dents undej Miss Sarah Hayden, for
more art instructor in the University
of Nebraska, are Mrs. Irene Con--
ney Green, Miss Helen Wilson. Miss
Louise Mundy, Miss Lillie Yont, Mrs.
Freda Tikson Klose, Mrs. Greta War
ner Filley, and Miss Martha Turner,
The afternoon will be spent infor
mally and in viewing the murals re
cently completed by Miss Dolan.
I McMullen Plays Truant
And Is Dropped by Dean
Dan McMullen, varsity juard
for the past two yers on the Hus
ker football team, has b?en. ex
cused from school, according- to
announcement made Monday af
ternoon by the executive dean's
office. t
Erratic attendance at classes
and failure to pay registration
fees were the reasons stated for
the action taken.
KOSMETKLUB
STARTS SALE OF
TICKETS TODAY
Lincoln Presentation Will Be
Held on April 13 and 14
At Playhouse
SCHEDULE THREE TOWNS
'Love Hater Cast of Fifty Men
Presents Show to Inmates
Of Penitentiary
Tickets for "The Love Hater,"
1928 Kosmet Klub show, go on sale
at the Playhouse box office at 10
o'clock this morning. The show will
be presented in Lincoln at the Play
houie April 13 and 14. One dollar
and fifty cents is being charged for
the first ten rows of seats down
stairs, $1.00 for the remainder, and
fifty cents for any seat in the bal
cony.
The all-male cast of fifty Univer
sity men presented "The Love Hater"
to inmates at the state penitentiary
Sunday afternoon. A member of
the cast commented that, "nobody
was shot trying to sneak out." Pre
sented in it3 entirety the production
was found to be a trifle too long;
certain scenes will be shortened and
the action concentrated, making
"The Love Hater" more lively than
ever.
The first scheduled presentation of
the show is in Hastings Monday April
9. The Kosmet Klub has its special
pullman for transportation from
town to town. ' After playing in the
City auditorium at Hastings the Kos
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DEAN LYMAN WILL
LECTURE AT KANSAS
Oklahoma and Coloradp Are Other
Universities on Itinerary
Of Pharmacist
Dr. Rufus A. Lyman, dean of the
College of Pharmacy, has been asked
to speak before the annual meeting
of the Kansas Pharmaceutical asso
ciation at Witchita, Monday, April
9. Following this address, Dr. Ly
man will make a tour of the schools
and colleges of pharmacy at two of
the western universities.
The institutions included in Dr.
Lyman's itinerary are the University
of Kansas at Lawrence, University of
Colorado at Boulder, and University
of Oklahoma at Norman. The pur
pose of these visits is to make a
study of the various branches of the
National Pharmaceutical association.
A. S. A. E. Will Play
Host to All Engineers
National Society Will Be Sponsors
Of Informal Dinners Students
Will Be Speakers
Engineers will be entertained
Thursday evening with a program
and refreshments given by the Amer
ican Society of Agricultural Engin
eers. I he reed begins at o o clocK
in the forge shop of the Agricultural
Engineering building, after which
informal talks will be given by stu
dents. The speakers will tell of their ex
periences last summer as employee?
of various large manufacturing
plants, and will discuss the many
phases of summer employment in
such concerns as the John Deere
Tractor company, and the J. I. Case
Implement company.
Engineers' Textbooks
Sell Best to Students
Engineering textbooks are in most
demand at the llegcnts Book Store,
maintained by the University on the
campus, according to Jack Whalen,
manager.
English and business administra
tion books are next highest in vol
ume of sales. The highest priced
book in the store is one on architec
tural design which sells for $17.50,
and the lowest is a series of pocket
classics which sell for 45 cents.
Girls Begin Practice
In Serving Correctly
Home Economics girls who are
taking the course in Food Study,
Home Economics 42, under Miss Ma
tilda Peters, have begun their prac
tice work in meal bcrving.
Each group of two . tudente is re
quired to serve a luncheon or infor
mal dinner to six geusts. The euests
include one instructor from the
foods department and others invited
by the hostesses.
The girls aie responsible for the
planning, marketing, and preparation
of the food as well as the serving of
the meaL This work gives the girls
practical experience along this line
of homrmaking.
'Comtesse de Clarienne'
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Howard Payne, '28, Red Oak,
Iowa, portrays "Comtesse de Clari
enne," a leading female character in
the 1928 Kosmet Klub production,
"The Love Hater." April 13 and 14
the musical comedy will appear in
Lincoln and will be presented at the
Playhouse. A cast of fifty-five male
students is used in the production.
INTERFRATERNITY
MEET WILL BE SOON
Fraternities Are Advised to Organize
For Annual Track and Field
Event on April 24
Annual interfraternity outdoor
track and field meet will be held on
Tuesday, April 24, according to an
announcement from the athletic of
fice yesterday. Fraternities are be
ing advised of the meet early in or
der that they may organize their!
teams for the events. The track
meet is a major event on the intra
muarl program.
Entries for the baseball tourney
can be turned in at once, James C.
Lewis said last evening, as the plan?
for the conducting of this sport have
practically been completed. Several
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Coed Athletes Plan
For Final Tourneys
Cloeftins- and Volley Hall seasons
End With Contests to Be
Run Off This Week
Clogging and volleyball seasons
will end with the contests and tour
naments to be run off this week un
der the auspices of the Womans'
Athletic Association. This will clear
the co-ed sport calendar for tennis
practice which starts this week.
Thirty-nine girls will receive points
in clogging if they successfully pass
the tests to be given Tuesday and
Thursday of this week during the
regular clogging hours. Additional
points will be awarded to those who
present original clogging steps in
costume. Miss Ballance will judge
the dances.
Championship and consolation inter-class
volleyball matches will be
played in the womans' gymnasium
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Class
teams have been chosen on the basis
of scholarship, ability and sportsman
ship. Two matches will be played
simultaneously and will be refereed
by Miss Wagner assisted by the
Physical Education 118 class.
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;OId Buck9 Is Nerve Wrecker in Lives
Of Riflemen Firing for Coveted 'N's
"Cease firing" has been "bawled"
out for the sergeant in charge of the
rifle range for the last time this year.
Teamwork predominates in foot
ball, basketball, and baseball, but in
dividuality is supreme in rifle shoot
ing. While the rifleman is preparing
to fire for record, "Old Buck" keeps
saying, "I am going to get you, I
am going to get you, I am ;oing to
get you." ClaJ in a shooting jacket,
and bubbling over with iron nerves,
he goes to his designated firing
point. ,
The command "Commence firing"
is given by some hard-boiled officer.
PHI BETA KAPPA
ANNOUNCEMENT
WILL BE TODAY
New Members of Scholastic
Society Will Be Named
At Convocation
MUSICAL PROGRAM GIVEN
Forty-nine Were Admitted Last
Year; Lowest Average of
Group Was 88.94
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Annual announcement of the new
ly elected members of Phi Beta Kap
pa, honorary scholastic fraternity of
the Arts and Science college, will be
made at convocation this morning at
11 o'clock in the Temple theater. A
musical program will precede the
reading of the announcement.
Thevnames of the successful candi
dates will be withheld until the an
nouncement is made at the convoca
tion. Professor Clifford M. Hicks,
secretary of Nebraska Alpha, will
read the names.
Identity Unknown
The members of Phi Beta Kappa
who do the voting do not know the
names of the persons they are con
sidering. They decide upon two de
tails before the voting actually takes
place, first, the number to be elected,
and second, the lowest average gTade
that will secure the coveted honor.
Last year forty-nine persons were
elected to the fraternity. The low
est average of this group was 88.94
per cent, while the highest was 93.42
per cent. Students graduating last
July, August, January, or the coming
June are eligible for election. About
three or four hundred of the grad
uating clas3 are eligible.
The following rules govern elec
tion to the fraternity.
1. Candidates for graduation from
any college in the University of Ne
braska are ligible providing the
group requirements for graduation
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WESLEY PLAYERS
ACHIEVE AMBITION
'The Rock' Is Presented 12 Times
During Season to Eastern
Nebraska Audiences
Wesley Players, Methodist dramat
ic organization, achieved their goal
of having presented "The Rock," a
three act religious play, to eastern
Nebraska audiences an even dozen
times during $he present season.
They performed Sunday night at
First Methodist church, Omaha.
The play has been given earlier
in the year at St. Paul's, Lincoln;
Milford; Eagle; Aurora; Dorchester;
Central City; Seward; Silver Creek;
Columbus; Plattsmouth, and Ashland.
Next Sunday, Easter, the players
will present this drama at Grace
Methodist, and the Sunday follow
ing at Trinity Methodist, both Lin
coln churches.
Portrays Simon Peter
"The Rock" is a character relinea
tion of Simon Peter, the disciple of
Jesus. The conflict between the
tempestous, vacillating characterist
ics of the fisherman and the under
lying faithfulness and loyalty of his
nature are vividly and dramatically
portrayed. The play, since its events
center around the time of the cruci
fixion of Christ, is particularily ap
propriate for the Easter season.
The Tlayers have two separate
casts that are used in the production
of the play. At Omaha, Milo Price,
Curtis, played the part of Simon Pet
er. Adina, his wife, was played by
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Y. M. Advisory Board
Will Discuss Future
A meeting of the advisory board of
the University Y. M. C. A. will be
held at 12 o'clock today at the Grand
hotel. The purpose of this meeting
is to discuss plans of the organiza
tion for the immediate future. These
plans will be presented to the board
by Gordon Hager, the new president
of the group.
Just as he gets ready to pull the
trigger, "Old Buck" appears and
says, "You can't hold that rifle still.
!f you miss the bull's eye, what will
Che coach say? You must beat these
other fellows." He shoots and
makes an eight instead of a ten.
Coach instructs
When he gets ready to fire the sec
ond shot, two "BuJks" appear, and
a nine is m?.de. "Forgot 'Buck,
your time, squeeze the trigger, hcIJl
the bull's eye on the front eight, hull
your breath," shouts the coach.
The shooter, about ready to s "r,
yells back to him, "I j-ra dob;
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