THE D NEBR AILY ASKAN . Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXX NO. SO. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA. WKDNKSDAY. NOVF.MHKR 26. mo. PRICE FIVE CENTS. y. PROFESSORS CHOOSE VIRTUE I D. A. Worcester Re-Elected As Secretary and Treasurer. . FLING TELLS OF FRANCE Says War Torn Area Is All Rebuilt; Sees No Danger of War. Officers of the Nebraska univer sity chapter of the American as sociation of University Professors wer chosen at a meeting: of the group at the University club Mon day evening-. Prof. G. O. Virtue was chosen as president, and Prof. D. A. Worcester was re lected secretary-treasurer. Prof. J. E. Kirshman, retiring president, was made a member of the , executive committee; Trof. Lauriz Void was re-elected as a member of the committee, and Prof. R. D. Scott was chosen as a member. Prof. E. L. Hinman was chairman of the nominating com mittee. Frof. J. E. Weaver and Prof. Emma Anderson are the re tiring members of the executive committee. Chancellor E. A. Burnett de barred an address on conditions by which sabbatical leave may be granted professors at the Univer sity of Nebraska, who wish to travel or study at other institu tions. He said that the professors may be gone for a semester on full pay, or for a year on half pay. Not more than ten will be allowed to leave at one time, at least during the first year. Arrangements for leave of absence must be com pleted in advance. They must be in by May 1 for a first semester ab sence; and by Pec. 1, for the sec ond semester. Fling Tells of France. Dr. Fred M. Fling spoke to the group on present day France, tell ing of improvements which have been accomplished since the World war. Dr. Fling was in France in 1918 and 1919. and again in 1928, 1929 and 1930. He said that north ern France, which was left a junk heap by the war, has been com pletely built up. He 'declared that if the Germans were to pay what is asked of them, thev would not be paying as much as France has paid in building up her war torn area. "There is no J chance for communism in France hs long as more than half of the French are property holders," he J (Continued on Page 4.i j 16 HONORED AT DINNER: iates of Engineering Fraternity Are Guests At Banquet. 25 OLD GUARD ATTEND Sixteen new members of Sigma Tau, honorary engineering frater nity, were guests at the annual initiation banquet of the organiza tion, held last evening in the Chi nese room of the Lincoln hotel. Approximately twenty-five past members and alumni attended. Alan Meyer acted as toasimaster, and Dean Fergusi.n of the engi neering college. Prof. Chntburn and A. R, Dobson were principal speakers on the program. Address of welcome to the newly initiated men was given by Charles McNamara. an undergraduate en gineer. Calmar Reedy responded tor the new members. Initiates honored by the banquet were: John Steele, Richard Fergu son, O. C. Reedy, R. A. Dobson, Henry Armatis, John Hengstler, N. G Noonan, Richard Bulger, T. F. White, P. Jorgensen, J. 1. Cant rfcli. H. B. Benson, R. Tl. Rccd, Marvin VonSepgern, L. W. Mab bott and J. V. Risser. PRIZES OFFERED FOR DISCUSSIONS OF TARIFF BILL Three prizes of $100, $50 and $25 will be awarded by the Free Trade League for the best "fair, nonpartisan dissection of the new tariff" in a contest which closes on Dec. 15. Competition is open to students majoring in economics in any Am erican college. The -papers will be judged by three members of the American Economic association. Those planning to compete have beon requested to senu iheir names to the Free Trade League, room 908, 2 West Forty-fifth street. New York City. Extra Day to Get Year Book Photos Granted by Staff Since a number of students were turned away because of the electric current being dead Tuesday, picture for the Corn husker may be taken Wednes day, Nov. 26. Thla consideration, however, due to an unavoidable circum stance, does not Imply a fur ther exteniion of time, accord ing to Kenneth Gammill, editor of the book. e IN Senior Winner i I i ' I , ? ,, ' A . . . . 1 CVuriy of The Journal. Pholo bv Townntirt. MRS. JAMES LANGE HOWE. Mrs. Howe, 907 North Twenty ninth street, received the annual Pan-Hellenic prize given to the senior woman who registered the highest grade her preceding semes ter in school. Her average, the highest of any coed last year, was 94.12 percent. 10 MEETINGS ON FRIDAY Delegates From Over State Expected Here to Attend Annual Convention. WILL REGISTER AT Y. M. The annual state older boy's con ference will be held in Lincoln Nov. 28, 29 and 30, it was announced Tuesday. Six hundred boys are ex pected to attend the conference this year, which is open to all boys over fifteen years of age who are representatives of a group of boys. William Thomas of Omaha is' in charge of this year's meeting. The meeting-s of the group will be held in the First Presbyterian church at Seventeenth and F street. Registration for delegates will be held from 11 to 3 o'clock Friday at the Y. M. C. A. The first session of the conference will be held at 3:30 o'clock when the dele gates will be welcomed by Gov. A. J. Weaver and by Dr. Paul Cal houn. L. C. Oberiies will also ad dress the group. Harold Soder luml will preside. Discussion Groups Planned. The conference will be divided into rune discussion groups, each of which will meet twice during the three days and each of which will be presided over by a leader in state boys work. Coburn Tomson. '32, Lincoln, will preside over the Camp Sheldon reunion at the First Presbyterian church on the evening of the first day. At the evening meal on the second day the conference will be entertained hy the chamber of commerce and will elect officers for 1931. Will Hold Service. I At 10:40 on Nov. 29, a world I brotherhood service will be held, which is in charge of the Christian World Education committee of the I university Y. M. C. A. under the leadership of Aldcrt Molenav, a student from Holland. The follow ing University of Nebraska stu dents will address the conference, Claude Gordon of Jamaica: Sugao Ouchi of Hawaii: C. H. Yow of China; Zenichiro Mikasa of Japan; Tai Chun Kim of Korea: Isabello Salva of the Phillipines; Melvin Martin of Russia; and .Hans K. Schnurpel of Germany. Each of these foreign studendts will address the boys of their own country in their native language after which each of the messoges will be translated into Engli&h. rin LUI David Fellman to Present Undergraduates' Side Of Argument. World Forum of the university Y. M. C. A. is planning a series of two meetings in the near future on the question of student govern ment at the University of Ne braska. A faculty member as yet unnamed and David Fellman are to present the two different atti tudes toward the question. On Wednesday, Dec. 3, at the regular meeting of the World Forum the faculty member will receive the unfavorable aspects of student government and give a re sume of the points against it. At the next meeting of the Forum, on Dec. 10, David Fellman, speaking from the student's view point, will give the points in favor of student government, and! the general attitude of ' he students. Fellman, while on the student council, devised the plan of pro portional representation now in use. This plan is said to have strengthened student government a great deal. Telephone Employes Study Cloth Fabrics Gladvs Winegar of the clothing and textile division at the agri cultural college, is conducting a class in clothing selection for Lin coln Ball Telephone employes and wives of the employes. The class, which meets each Tuesday evening, is studying fab rics of different type nd learn ing simple tests to use in fabric selection. L REHEARSAL FOR KLUB'S SHOW T General Admission . Tickets To Go on Sale at 1 O'clock Today. WILL START AT 8:45 Elaborate Plans Being Made For Presentation of Sweetheart. Final dress rehearsal of Kos met Klub's Thanksgiving Morning revue, for whfch general admission tickets will go on sale at 1 o'clock today, will be held in the coliseum at 7:30 tonight. Tickets for the show, which will be held in the Stuart theater on Thanksgiving morning, will be sold from the In side box office at the Stuart. Each of the eight units in the production spent, last night in practice following the rehearsal of the entire show in the coliseum on Monday night. The show has pro gressed rapidly since organized practice was begun, according to club members, and every detail will be in readiness for presenta tion Thursday morning. Will Be in Costumes. A few costumes were seen at the rehearsal Monday evening. To night every member of the show will be present in costume. Due to the extraordinary nature of some of these, it has been necessary to import them from cities outside of Lincoln. Outfits depicting every thing from oriental sultans to the southern dar'.:ies will be contained in the show, members of the club declared. Elaborate preparation is being made for presentation of the Ne braska sweetheart. James Picker ing, Lincoln artist, has been se cured to aid with the plans. He is superintending the construction of a special device, conceived by a member of the club, to be used in the presentation ceremony. Show Program. Following is the program as it will be presented at 8:45, Thursday morning: Ray Ramsy, master of cere monies. Musical presentation, by Leo Beck's orchestra. Act, Beta Theta Pi. Act. Sigma Nu-Pi Beta Phi . Curtain skit, Zeta Beta Tau. Act, Alpha Sigma Phi-Kappa Alpha Tbeta. Musical presentation, Harriet Cruise Kemmer-Harold Turner. J Act, by Kappa Sigma-Delta Gamma. Curtain skit, Kappa Tau i Lambda. Act, Alpha Tau Omega. Grand finale including presen tation of Nebraska sweetheart. According to present plans, dif ( Continued on Page 3.) DMllliEI Ethel Foltz Taken to Omaha For Treatment: Won't Aopear in Skit. Ethel Foltz. university co-ed. who received an injury to her left knee rn the university tennis courts late Monday afternoon and who suffered a relapse Monday evening while working in a Kos met Klub skit being presented be fore the Klub at the coliseum, was taken to an Omaha hospital Tues day morning where she is being attended by her father. Dr. C. B. Foltz. Although her knee seemed sensi tive she attempted to go through the dance with the chorus, when she collapsed. A local doctor was immediately called, and she was taken to the Lincoln General hos pital. She was removed to Omaha the following morning. The extent of the injury is not definitelv known, but it is believed that perhaps the knee is fractured. Although blie Mill be able lu re turn to school this semester it has rendered her appearance in the Kosmet Klub show impossible. Her place in the show is being filled by DeLeliis Shramek, a Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sister. OMRICON NU ALUMS HOLD DINNER MEET Alumni of Omicron Nu, home economics honorary, held a din ner meeting Monday evening at the agricultural college. Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman of the home economics department, spoke on the conference on child health and protection from which sht has just returned, held at Wash ington, D. C. VESPERS PARTY POSTPONED The Vesper choir party will be postponed until the Tuesday after vacation, those ia charge an nounced yesterday afternoon. Weather Forecast Relief from excessive wind, with fair and colder is the weather forcast made by T. A. Blair, meteorologist, for today. The minimum temperature for last night w about twenty five degrees. The fifty-one mile an rour gale which hit Lincoln yester day was the highest wind ve locity for November on record. 1 SET FOR TONIGH SCANDINAVIANS NAME OFFICERS FOR SEMESTER At the initial meeting of the Scandinavian club held thia week at the Temple, Prof. Carl HeUeen and David Bengston were elected to lead the club for the rest ot the semester. Professor Hedeen is instructor of the Swedish and Spanish lan guages at the university while Bengston is a sophomore in the college of agriculture and a mem ber of Farm House fraternity. It is planned that the Scandi navian club will serve as a meeting place for students taking courses in Swedish and those of Swedish nationality. The club has a mem bership of ninety students. A Christmas program will fea ture the next meeting of the club to be held at the First Presbyte rian church, Dec. 16. DEC. 3 New Plan of Government Will Be Taken Up After Recess. THREE BIG PROBLEMS The big fight on the proposed new constitution for the Student council was promised for the first meeting of the council following the Thanksgiving recess Dec. 3 by Ed Faulkner, chairman or me council constitution committee, fol lowing a meeting of the group yes terday. The first draft of tne new con stitution which is now being worked ;ut by the committee will be submitted to the council on that date and the three big problems facing the council in drawing up the constitution will be settled. Although there is little possibil ity of the council adopting the con stitution in its final form at the next meeting, the general outline of the document with the principle provisions will be made then. Sub sequent work will consist merely in wording the document and the formal adoption of the final draft. Discussion Over Societies. There has been considerable dis cussion as to the places which the A. W. S. board and interfraternity council will take in relation to the student council under the new con stitution. Champions of both the former bodies have declared that they will fight to the last to pre vent subordination of the author ity of their groups to that of the council. One person has stated that the interfi-aternity council will tell the student council to "go jump in the lake" when it attempts to inter fere with the Greek council s sphere of power. Those favoring centralization of the power in the council have been no less insistent that Nebraska can never have true student government until the su preme authority i' vested in a single body. The question of the proportion of jnen and women on the new coun cil, or whether there shall be any provision relative to this, and the question of raising the scholastic requirement for council members are the other two principal points of dissention facing the makers of the new constitution. Faulkner Outlines Path. Faulkner also outlined the long trail the new constitution will have to travel even after being adopted by the council before it goes into effect as the organ of university student government. After adoption by the council the constitution will require rati fication by a vote of the entire student body. The document will then go to the faculty commit tee on student affairs through recommendation of its subcom mittee on the Student council, which is headed by Prof. E. S. Full brook. If the faculty committee on (Continued on Pae 3.) AT M. E. BANQUETS Browne. Charley Black Are Principal Speeders at Annual Affairs. Coach W. H. Browne, freshman coach at the University of Ne braska, was the principal speaker at the St. Paul M. E. church father and son banquet Monday evening. Coach Charles T. Black of the university was the chief speaker at Epworth M. E. church the same evening at a similar function. Nearly 250 fathers and sons at tended the two affairs. Dr. Walter Aitken, pastor of St Paul's, and Edwin Van Home, president of the brotherhood, each spoke briefly at the first function. C. D. Hays, secretary of the uni versity Y. M. C. A., addressed the Epworth group after which they were led in community singing by Roy H. Meek. Campus Calendar Wednesday, Nov. 26. Student council meeting post poned. A. W. S. meeting at Ellen Smith hall at 12 o'clock. Thursday, Nov. 27. Tfosmet Klub, Morning Revue, Stuart theater, 8:45 a. m. Friday, Nov. 28. Cosmopolitan club meeting, Temple 203. 1.700 TICKETS FOR BALL BEING SOLD BY CADETS Lyons Says Indications Point To Largest Crowd in School's History. MAY BROADCAST MUSIC Novel Decorations Planned; Survey Shows Admission Price Not High. "Indications point to a record crowd for the twenty-second an nual Military Ball, Friday. Dec. 5," Captain H. Y. Lyons, declared last night. "We are expecting the biggest turnout in Military ball history for the season's opening formal because of the many fea tures included on the program." Approximately 1.700 tickets have been checked out to senior and junior officers to their sub ordinate officers during the week with a tickets sale plan that will cover the entire campus. Effort is being made to interest every stu dent In the Military ball, accord ing to the military department, as every university student is eligi ble to attend. Formal wear is ex pected of every male attendant with the exception of members of the regiment who will wear full uniform. Novel Decoration Planned. Plans for a novel and historical means of decoration are being completed by a committee under the direction of Captain Lehman and will be announced sometime next week. According to Col. W. H. Oury, students can expect their $3 worth in George E. Lee and his Brunswick recording or chestra, the decorations, favors, refreshments and entertainment. Checking facilities, heretofore declared inadequate by attending students, will be enlarged to ac comodate a crowd of 2,000. Plenty of Programs. Programs have been obtained this year for all those who at tend. "The supply last year did not meet the requirements of the crowd. Tentative plans for broad casting the music and presentation of the honorary colonel are being considered. Ticket sales will continue until Friday when all cadets must check in money and tickets to the de Dartmenl. After a study of the price of tickets for the annual Military ball at numerous universities, Captain Lyons last night stated that as far as he knew, Nebraska students were able to procure their tickets at a nominal price, the pasteboards costing students at other colleges frdom $3 to S20 each. FATHER OF STUDENT KILLED IN SMASHUP Dr. J. S. Pierce, Lincoln, Succumbs Following Auto Crash. Di. James S. Pierce, father o James, jr., student of the univer sity, member of Beta Theta Phi fraternity and business manager of University Players, suffered fatal injuries at 7 p. m. Monday when the car in which he and his wife were riding collided with an other machine on a narrow bridge six. miles north of Sterling. Neb. Mrs. Pierce, who was slightly in jured in the accident, wt.s taken to the Bailey sanitorium where she is under the care of physicians. Sustaining a severe fracture of the skull and ether injuries, the doctor and his wife were given i first aid attention by Dr. J. W. j Turner, Sterling, and then brought . by ambulance to the sanitarium where Dr. pierce died without re- In Nebraska 50 Years. j Dr. Pierce, who for twenty-two I years practiced dentistry in Liri' coin, has spent nearly the fifty years of his life in Nebraska ex cept for the time he was in the Spanish-American war and the time spent attending Northwest ern school of der.tistrj'. Chicago, from which he received his D. D. S. degree in 1903. It was learned through relatives ot the doctor that, he was not driv ing at a rate that exceeded thirty miles per hour when the accident occurred. According to Mrs. Pierce they had no warning that the bridge on which the accident oc curred was narrow. Home at Pawnee City. Although born at Wyoming, 111., Dr. Pierce's family home was at Pawnee City where he grew to manhood, attending both elemen tary and high school there. He was a member of the Lincoln Country r'"h. Lincoln Chamber of Commerti d the Presbyterian church at Pawnee City. Known to his friends as a clever comedian, he took part in various local shows and was active in musical circles, playing in the Elks band and the Lincoln symphony orchestra. Dr. Pierce ia survived by two sons. Charles. Dea Moines, ia.. and James, jr., student here, and one ister, Mrs. F. C. Calhoun, Pawnee. Soph Commission to , Meet After Vacation The meeting of Sophomore commission scheduled for Tues day afternoon at 3 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall, will be post poned until after Thanksgiving vacation. Junior Winner ' "fx Councny of Th Journal. 1'hotn tv rotvn'rna. HELEN CASSAOY. Miss Cassady, whose home is at Denison, la., yesterday was given the annual Pan-Hellenic award for having the highest average of any junior woman her preceding se mester in school. Miss Cassady's, average was 92.75 percent. LECTURE BY COUSINS, IRISH POET, PLANNED 'Education for Liberation" Will Be Subject of Visitor. CONVOCATION IS CALLED Dr. James H. Cousins, Irish poet and artist, will give an ad dress at a university convocation in the Temple theater, at 11 o'clock Thursday, Dec. 11. His subject will be "Education for Liberation." He will exhibit 100 modern Indian paintings in tempera and water color. The object of the exhibit will be to further international understanding through art. Dr. Cousins has achieved renoun as a poet, an educator and an orienta list. Born in Ireland in 1873, he pub lished his first book of poetry be fore he was twenty, and has gone steadily on to his twentieth vol ume. He became associated with W. B. Yeats and George Russell in the origination of the Irish liter ary and dramatic revival of thirty years ago. Some of its earliest dramas were from his pen. Critics have placed Dr. Cousin the poet as "second only to the two leaders of his school." Has Been Professor. Dr. Cousins has been imereisted in education since his youth. He early became an advocate of new ways in geographical teaching, and was a demonstrator in teach ers' courses in the Royal college of science in Ireland. He prepared entrants for Dublin university in in civil service and English liter ature. Moving to India in 1915, he became professor of English and afterwards principal in a college of Hindu boys affiliated with the University of Madras, and was a member of that university acade mic council. He founded and directed for six years the Brahmavidya Ashrama at Madras, a school for the study of world culture, drawing students and lectures from all parts of the globe. He is a post graduate lec l rer in the universities of Benares Calcutta, Madras, and Mysore, and visiting lecture at Dr. Rabin dranth Tagore's Internationa uni versity in Bengal and Mahatma Ghandi's school at Ahmedabad. He acted for a year as special pro fessor of English poetry at the Keiokijuku uniiversity in Tokyo, and was the first foreigner on (Continued on Page 3.t FACKA, SIEFER TO GO TO student Here Is President of National Agricultural Council. Don Facka, senior in the college of agriculture, will attend a meet ing of the National Agricultural council ot wtuch he is president, at Chicago. Dec. 1-2. He was elected i to the head of the council last year. Fred Siefer, junior in the agri cultural college, also will attend the meeting of the council. He will represent the Ag club at the Chi cago meeting. Both Facka and Siefer are members of Farm House fraternity. All agricultural colleges in the United States send representatives to the meeting held in Chicago an nually. Topics pertaining to col lege life and its relation to agri culture are discussed in the meet ings. Facka and Siefer are expected to return to Lincoln Dec. 5. Sigma Lambda Hold-. Meeting Tuesday Night Sigma Lambda, professional arts sorority, held a meeting Tues day nigbt in the China Painting room of Morrill hall. The event was the monthly craft meeting, which alternates every two weeks with a business meeting, and the artistic efforts of members were discussed. Gregg Sends Etchings. A set of etchings by Will Gregg has Just been received the scbool of fine arts for C by its collection in the corridors of Mor rill hall. Gregg gives specimens of his work to the collection from time to time. iff J -v - - J la)itwwi''-'"'"'' THREE STUDENTS L Mrs. J. Lange Howe Makes Hiqhest Average in Fourth Year Class. GET PAN-HELLENIC PINS Iowa Girls Turn in Best Marks in Junior, Sonh Groups. Pan-hellcnic awards given to the senior, junior and sophomore women who made the highest scholastic average in their classes last year at the University of Ne braska were announced at the fine arts band convocation In the Tem ple theater Tuesday morning by Dr. Elda R. Walker, chairman of the local pan-hellenic association. Mrs. Jane Lange Howe, whose home is at f07 North Twenty-ninth street, Lincoln, won the junior award with an average of 94.12 percent, the highest of all averages made last year. Mrs. Howe is now a senior in the college of arts and sciences. As she was enrolled in thirty-one hours of university work last year her weighed average ia boosted to 94.62 percent. Iowa Girl Wins. Miss Helen Cassaday of Denni son, Ia., won the sophomore award with an average of 92.75 percent ia thirty-three hours of school work. Her weighted average is 94.25 per cent. She is a junior in the college of arts and sciences this year and is a member of Sigma Kappa so rority. Miss Lois Gittins of Griswold, Ia., was the winner of the fresh man award. Her average was 91.52 percent in thirty-four hours of registered courses carried last year. Computing her average on the weighted sca!e boosts it to 93.52 percent. Miss Gittins is a sophomore in the school of fine arts this year. Weighted average is figured by adding one-half of 1 percent to th total average for every hour over fifteen a semester carried by the student, or by subtracting one-half of 1 percent from the total for every hour under fifteen a se mester. The three students honored this morning were given the official Pan-Hellenic pin. emblematic of highest average during the year in their respective classer. HOLD CONCLAVE HERE Phi Tau Theta National Meeting to Open On Thanksgiving. WILL LAST THREE DAYS Nebraska's campus will be the scene of a national conclave over the Thanksgiving vacation, when members from six midwest uni versities gather for the annual Phi Tau Theta national conclave Nov. 27, 28 and 29. There will be delegates from three Iowa universities, and others from Minnesota and South Dakota, as well as the delegation from Ne braska. Each of the schools will send a half dozen or more dele gates, while the chapter in Cali fornia probably will not be repre sented. The program for the affair has been outlined by Beta chapter of Nebraska under the direction of Henry Rinker, president, and the Rev. W. C. Fawell, who is national sponsor also. Among the high spots on the program will be the appearance of a distinguished Chicago scholar who is interested in the growing student movement in the church. Dr. Charles F. Boss. jr. Dr. Charles Fordyce, vocational guidance ex pert of the University of Nebras ka, and Dr. Stuff of the English department, also will appear on the program. Methodist pasiors of the city ( Continued on Page 3. i EAST AND WEST TRIPS PLANNED FOR DEBATERS Two debate trips are being planned by Prof. H. A. White, coach of debate, for the coming season, he announced yesterday, one to the west where the team will meet Denver university and the University of Colorado, and the other to the. east which will include debates with schools in and about Chicago. The first trip will start some time in January and the second the latter part of MfrV- or the first of April. No date has been set for tryouts to determine who will represent Nebraska on these tours. Vacation to Start Tomorrow and End On Monday Morning Thanksgiving vacation this year will officially begin Wed nesday evening and ends Mon day morning, Dee. 1, at t o'clock. No university classes will be held during vacation. Christmas vacation will begin at 12 o'c'ock Saturday, tc 20. and will come to a close en Monday, January 5, at o'clock a. m. RECEIVE ANNUA SCHOLAR AWARDS i t. n v 6 .? ' .1