KAN
AILY
Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
TRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL. XXX NO. .
LINCOLN. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1931
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NEBRAS
KOSMET SHOW TO
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S. Day, Business Manager,
Says Bookings Being
Negotiated.
FINISH TRYOUTS TODAY
Aspirants Who Desire Parts
Should Bring Music for
Voice Test.
Assurance that the Kosmrt Klub
vill tuke its latest spring musical
comedy, "High nnd Dry," on a
"tour of Nebraska towns during
spring: vacation was offered yes
terday afternoon, provided that
bookings are satisfactorily ar
ranged. Stanley Pay, business
manager of the Klub, reported last
night that negotiation! with Ne
braska towns for backing of the
spring' show ate proceeding satis
factorily. Tryouts for principal parts in
'High and Dry" will be concluded
this evening in Temple 201'.. Chorus
trials were held last right and
principals Tuesday night, but a
List minute rush is expected since
the road tour has been definitely
decided upon.
Miller Assists in Tryouts.
Lowell "Jiggs" Miller, former
Kosmct Klub member and direc
tor of "Don't He Silly," Kosmct
Klub's last road show, has been
assisting Carl Hahn, president of
the Klub, and William McCleery,
author and cr.sting director, with
tryouts. The staff reports a good
quantity of talent and man possi
bilities for cast and chorus.
In order to facilitate tryouts
this evening, those repotting for
principal parts aie requested to
bring music with ill em for a -voice
test." If possible, .they may recite
some dramatic selection to give
the casting judges an idea of their
speaking voice.
Principal Parts Cited.
Principal parts, with a brief ex
planation by t'n uithor, are listed
her. Prospective "High ami Dry"
actors are advised by the Klub to
get a general idea of the part for
which they arc applying from this
list.
Tom. the leading mnn. He is
captain of ihe ill fated yacht,
whose crew rebels and lrns the
AV
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TOUR
DURING VACATION
travelers on a tropical i.-lur.i. Heigaiet McKay. Des Moines, Iowa:
is some twcr.ty-s:x ycr.rs oiu, a
straight chaiacter.
Jp.ne, the l?aling lady. A society
girl from California, Jane is viva
cious, original iind a ji:d,e of men.
Men trying for this pait must be
less tlir.ri five feet, eight inches
tall, wiih figures which might hs
disgu'.srd as feminine. Eulh Tom
and Janj should have acceptable
voices -and should be able to
carry tunes.
Mrs. Paige, Jane's mother, is a
member of the 400 if not the SUB
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Campus Calendar
Thursday, Feb. 26.
Senior class meetinp, Social
Science auditorium, 11 o'clock.
League of Worsen Voters meet -
ing. Ellen Smith hall 4 o'clock.
Girl Reserve leadership training
course, Y. W. C. A., 7 o'clock.
Theta Sigma Phi, U hull, 10G, 0
p. m.
Friday.
confer ente
InduEtria
in Ellen
Smith hall.
Saturday.
Industrial conference in Ellen
Smith hull.
Social dancing class. Ar mory, 7
until S:SU o'cloc k.
Sunday.
Industrial conference in Ellen
Smith hall.
Botany Department Needs More
Space for Herbarium, Library,
Greenhouse, Doctor Pool States
By LEONARD L. CASTE.
l.d,(ur' Nnti-: TUI U ih mtiumI of
Mr:in dittd t.i (lie dilw-mit uni
rlty flfimrtnwulfc. 'Ihe Hia.Uilit tit
the dVpnrtmT.u. rquihil' 'r a'.talu
ttte thfm, unci Mini uihtury uill lr. ffM
ttlred In tlio urtirlcH.
Hopes of the day when the bot
any department of the university
will have a new greenhouse, new
library space, and more space for
the her barium are held by Dr. R.
J. Pool, chairman of the botany
department. At this time the do
partmeut has no greenhouse, and
library and herbarium spaces are
crowded to the maximum.
The department has several
needs and iooks forward to a pro
gram of expansion some time in
the future. The pressing need of
the department is a new green
house where fresh plants can be
grown and studied in life by the
students. All of the verv best
botany schools of the country have
greenhouses in which the students
tan get experience witn living
plants. Dried rp?cimens are now
used by the i Uirients. The depart
ment plans to have a greenhoti:-?
located Ju.it couth of Bessie hall
where it will be in close acess to
the members of the department.
According to Doctor Pool, the
botany department of the univers
ity can nf.ir nope to be a real'y
great department without a f ieen
house. Library Cramped.
The department lso ner-ds
more library space if the present
rate of addition to the room is to
Prom Band Leader
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BEASLEY SMITH.
Who, with his National Broad
casting company orchestra, will
provide music for the Junior-Senior
prom.
PROM TICKET SALES
CAMPAIGN NEARS END
Corn Cobs Must Check
Reports and Money
By 5 Friday.
In
EVENT CLOSES SEASON
A final ticket, sales drive for the
Junior-Senior Prom Friday night
will get under way today, under
the direction of Corn Cobs.
Members of the organization are
planning to wear their sweaters to
classes techy, and will have tick
ets with them. A'so, a booth at
which the tickets are sold will be
maintained thrnout the day in the
corridor of Social Sciences hall.
Corn Cobs today have been re
ouected to check in their tickets at
the CornhusI:er office F'riday aft
ernoon between 2 and 5 o'clock by
Arthur Mitchell, president of the
organisation, lie declared Thurs
day that unless all tickets are
checked in between 2 and 5 Fri
day, salesmen will not receive
their free tickets to which they are
entitled upon the. tale of twelve
admi.''.sioii!t.
The Friday evening event will
close thj K'JJO-Sl loimal season.
The higlf spot of the evening wiil
be the presentation of the Prom
girl, who will be one of a group
c.f four chosen at an election two
weeks ago. Those in the group avz
Georgia Wilcox. Scottsuluff ; Mar-
Dorothy Siivis, Wagner, S. D.
Aiieo Council Fairbury.
Mucic lor tne event will be fur
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OFFICER m
Misr.es Weaver, Kelly Are
Named as Candidates
For President.
Nominations for officers of the
Women's Athletic association were
made Monday noon at a meeting
! 0f the executive council. The new
I ofticers for the coming year will
I be elected March 5.
j Lucile Kelly, Grand Island, and
, Dorothy Weaver, Falls City, are
i nominees for president; Mildred
' Gish, Lincoln; Jean Rathburn,
: Lincoln and Virginia Woolfolk,
I Lincoln, for vice-president; Helen
I Baldwin, Omaha and Dorothy
U'harleson, Lincoln; for secretary;
Berenice e Hoffman, Lincoln unan
I imou.sly nominated for treasurer.
Nominees will be voted on by
i members of the intramural repre
I sentative body, the sports board,
and the executive council March
Ifi, and will be installed at the
spr ing mass meeting of the organ
' ifcation.
be maintained. Nebraska ha3 one
of the finest botany libraries in
the country with over 30,000 vol
umes. The library was" started by
Professor Bessie came here. It
man of the department and the
man 8fter whom the hall was
named. The library is complete
with files of the important botan
ical journals of the day. If addi
tional room is riot found in the
near future the new additions to
the library will have to be placed
in other quarters.
The herbarium possesses one of
the f'nest collections of specimens
found in any school in the coun
try. A notable collection of over
400, 0U0 species of plants has been
asse cbled. This collection repre
sents specimens from virtually
every country of the world. The
herbr, liuin is filso overcrowded
and more room must be found if
I additions are to be made. Doctor
Pool believes that both the library
and herbarium could be enlarged
at a relatively small expense. A
wing is to be built on the south
side cf the hall end this will bouse
the overflow of the library and
herbarium.
Started By Bsssie.
The botany department of the
university really started In 16S4
when Professor Eessie came to
Mebiaska from Iowa State to take
over th chairmanship. Up to that
time all the work had been done
by one man, Professor Oughy.
The department was housed oil
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ENGINEERS HOLD
INITIAL ROUNDUP
HERE YESTERDAY
Chancellor Burnett Opens
Morning Session With
Welcome Talk.
250 STATE MEN ATTEND
Banquet at Lincoln Hotel
Closes Meet; Famed
Men Speak.
With over' 250 engineers regis
tered from various points thruout
the state and from the university
school of engineering the first Ne
braska Engineer's Roundup was
formally opened Wednesday morn
ing in the Mechanical Engineering
hall with an address of welcome
by Dr. E. A. Burnett, chancellor
of the University of Nebraska.
Chancellor Burnett was introduced
by Dean O J. Ferguson of the
school of engineering, who pre
sided at the morning session.
Chancellor Burnett stressed the
importance of annual meetings
such as this year's roundup and
expressed hope that step3 could be
taken to continue the Nebraska
Engineer's Roundup as an annual
get-together of members of that
'profession, R. L. Cochran, Ne
braska state engineer, commented
briefly on the good derived from
such a meeting and from the in
terchange of ideas and develop
ment of a co-operative fraternal
feeling as would come from the an
nual meeting of engineers.
Read Five Papers.
The program during the morn
ing session consisted of the read
ing of five papers prepared ny
prominent Nebraska engineers. A
general topic, "Pioneer Engineer
ing in Nebraska" was used as the
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ARE IN COUNTRYMAN
Current Issue Ag Magazine
Goes in Mails Today;
-Has Changes;
N. H0FF DESIGNS COVER
Seven entirely new features
characterize the current issue of
The C o r n h u sker Countryman
which goes into the mails today,
it was announced by Boyd Von
Seggern, newly appointed editor.
Drastic changes in type dress
have also been made the editor
said, modernistic influences being
present on every page.
Departing from the previous
rule of placing an illustration on
the cover, the new magazine ap
pears with b.ut a simple design
from the pen of Norman Hoff, a
student in the school of fine arts,
it was stated. The editorial staff
gave as its reason for eliminating
the customary photographic re
production the opinion that such a
practice has been worked to ex
tremes in the past.
On the flyleaf, however, a full
page reproduction of Chris L.
Christensen, newly appointed dean
of the college of agriculture at
Wisconsin, appears. Christensen
graduated from the Nebraska col
lege of agriculture in 1920 and
was a member of the federal farm
board until his recent resignation.
On page six, a story entitled, "A
Nebraska Graduate Guides Wis
consin," tells of this Cornhusker's
rise to prominence in but eleven
years.
Has Fly-Leaf Editorial.
The first feature inaugurated
by the entirely new staff of the
Countryman is a fly-leaf editorial
headed. "A Magic Industry." A
l second feature, on the reverse side
of the flyleaf, is a full page of
comment designed, "The Month."
! An attempt to extremely mod
ernize the magazine is found in
the type style of the first story
I of the February publication. This
story is entitled, "A Man W ho
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Courteny of The Journal.)
Thi is the car in which Katherine Oury, Misa Patricia Sullivan and Lucille Hunter were riding
when the craish occurred which severely injured Misi Oury, and injured Miss Sullivan slightly.
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Caught Stealing Gas Out of
Cars Parked Near Uni
Coliseum.
Two university students, Karl
Mantor, 19, Lincoln, and Raymond
Kylcs, 16, Lincoln, were arrested
Tuesday night during the basket
ball game while attempting to
steal some gas from a ear which
was parked on the campus, owned
by H. E. . Sidles. Officer Reglcr
and Night Watchman Magee made
the arrests.
Mantor and Kyles were ar
raigned on charges of stealing gas,
Kyles was released this morning
but Mantor is still being held nt
the police station. University au
thorities have taken no action In
the matter as yet, according to
latest word yesterday.
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New President Plans Drive
For Membership to
Begin Now.
ELECT OTHER OFFICERS
Frank Blair Smith, Omaha, has
been elected president of the Com
mercial club and will take imme
diate charge of a membership
drive which Is being opened by
that organization. Smith, is serv
ing his second term as president of
Delta Sigma Pi, bizad professional,
and was recently re-elected chair
man of the Bizad executive board.
He is a member of Alpha Theta
Chi fraternity.
Other selections made at the
Commercial club meeting include
Cassie Baron, who was named as
executive board representative,
Russel Andrews, treasurer, and
Milton Berkowitz, secretary. Ross
Brown and Herman Siefkes were
elected directors of the club.
Mclvin Adams was named chair
man of a membership committee
to work with Smith in the new
drive. Plans include a reorgani
zation of Commercial club activi
ties in conjunction with revisions
which may be effected in every
student department of the college
of business administration. Lynn
Galloway, president of Alpha
Kappa Psi. bizad honorary, will
play an instrumental part in the
organization of the membership
campaign.
Under present arrangements a
life membership in the Commer
cial club is granted to all business
administration students for three
dollars. This includes all club
room privileges and special con
cessions which are granted to club
members.
OF FEDERAL COUNCIL
Tells Union of Christian
Churches Why He Thinks
Drill Necessary.
ADVERSE T0PUBLICITY
Replying to a recent letter which
opposed his stand with regard to
the fact that agitation against
forced military training is being
stirrde up ny the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ, Colonel
W. H. Oury, commandant of the
university R. O. T. C. unit, has
written the following letter:
Lincoln, Feb. 25. 1931. To Mr.
Samuel McCrea Cavert, secretary
of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ. My dear Mr.
Cavert: It was with some sur
prise that I found an "open letter"
from you in the pages of the Lin
coln journal of Sunday, Feb. 22,
1931, concerning my modest little
article of recent date in the Ne
braska Alumnus, written on re
quest to meet a local situation, on
"Why This Agitation?" Just why
you should have noticed this ar
ticle I am unable to comprehend.
It was intended for the alumni
only with no notion of developing
a public controversy.
Did Not Slander.
It was not my intention to be-!
little the chur ches in the article in
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Car in Which Miss Oury Was Hurt
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Regiment Head Succumbs of
Complications After
Appendicitis.
BURIAL TO BE IN IOWA
Preliminary Services Will
Be Held in Lincoln
This Morning.
Winston Behn, twenty. Omaha,
commanding colonel of the cadet
R. O. T. C. regiment, died yester
day morning at 4:30 of peritonitis
which followed an appendicitis op
eration performed a week ago
Tuesday. Preliminary funeral serv
ices are to be held at 10:30 this
morning in the First Presbyterian
church, Seventeenth and F streets.
Final services and interment will
take place at Battle Creek. Ia.,
ltis former home, under military
escort on Friday afternoon.
Behn, a freshman law student
and member of Sigma Nu frater
nity, is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. P. Behn of Omaha,
and a sister. Aural Behn, member
of Gamma Phi Beta who is at
tending school at the present time.
His fiancee, Marjorie Freeman,
who is also a Gamma Phi Beta has
been teaching school in Ida Grove,
Ia. Before coming to the Univer
sity of Nebraska, Winston Behn
lived at Battle Creek, Ia., and at
tended high school in Sioux. City
where he graduated.,
Improves After Operation.
Although he was operated on
following a sudden attack of ap
pendicitis which had bothered him
intermittently, Behn improved
after the operation and was in
good condition for several days.
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Minister Declares Public
Mind Must Be Eduacted
To Idea of Peace.
'DRILL GLORIFIES WAR'
Declaring that no nation can
make war until the minds of the
people are completely militarized,
the Rev. Ray Hunt, the principal
speaker at the Wednesday noon
meeting of the World Forum, con
tinued that group's discussion of
war by striking sharply at those
institutions that continued to
spread the glamor and romance of
war rather than the stark horror
Df it.
"Societies and organizaitons op
posed to war have had rapid
growth since the close of the
World war,' 'said Dr. Hunt, "but
in spite of this and of the work
those organizations are doing
there is considerable anxiety ex
pressed by leading educators con
cerning the possibilities of another
World war."
More War Predicted.
Continuing his address, Dr. Hunt
stated that one of the keenest po
litical minds in Scotland predicted
another European struggle within
ten years, which other educators
have predicted a war between the
soviet and anti-soviet factions thru
out the world between soviet and
anti-soviet factions thruout the
world. That this fear is not
groundless can readily be seen
from the fact that all thru Europe
there is today an ever increasing
undercurrent of jealousy and dis
satisfaction toward other powers,
and, because of this, a feeling of
watchful waiting and prepared
ness that can but only end in an
other war if conditions are not im
proved. Quotin.; from Rabbi Silver's re
cently released "Religion in a
Chanrin? World," Dr. Hunt read
I "War is the enemy of all freedom.
There can be no war
wunoui me
I conscription of thought
and opin-
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R. 0. T. C.
CADE
ADER BEHN DIES
FROM PERIT
ONTIS
Cjulet Colonel Dies
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WINSTON BEHN.
Who died Wednesday morninrg
of peritonitis following an appen
dicitis operation.
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Doctor Notes Improvement,
But Delays Thorough
Examination.
RESTS UNDER OPIATES
Miss Katherine Oury, seventeen,
daughter of Colonel and Mrs.
W. H. Oury of the university, is
still in a highly nervous condition
following an auto accident Tues
day afternoon at Twelfth and D
streets, according to her attend
ing physician, Dr. W. W. Carveth.
The doctor added, however, thai
Miss Oury showed a slight im
provement yesterday afternoon,
and that she was resting as well
aa could be expected under opiates.
A more intensive examination is
being delayed at least forty-eight
hours until Miss Oury recovers
from her present nervous condi
tion. Dr. Carveth diagnosed her in
juries as consisting of fractures of
the right elbow, several left ribs,
the left collar bone and the pelvis,
as far as could be immediately de
termined. Miss Oury was in a
semi-conscious condition after the
accident.
Miss Patricia Sullivan, eighteen,
of St. Edwards, who was also in
the car at the time, is not in a
serious condition and will probably
be dismissed from St. Elizabeth's
hospital in a short time. Both of
the girls are now confined at the
hospital. Miss Sullivan's mother,
called from St. Edwards after the
accident, has returned home. Miss
Sullivan's injuries consisted of a
slight head concussion and a"frac
tured right hand.
Both the girls are members of
Delta Delta Delta sorority, being
freshmen at the university. A
third member of the party, Miss
Lucille Hunter, also a member of
Delta Delta Delta, was uninjured.
The three girls were driving
north on Twelfth street when their
machine collided with that being
driven by Mrs-. J. D. Lau, 1029 D
street, Lincoln. The girls' car was
badly damaged, being turned com
pletely around by the impact. Mrs.
Lau was unhurt.
OFFICERS OF PHYS ED
Virginia Woolfolk, Mildred
Gish Will Be Voted on
For Presidency.
Nominations for the four major
offices of the Physical Education
club have been completed and the
balloting will take place during
the first week of March. The
election will take place at a regu
lar meeting of the club.
Virginia Woolfolk, Lincoln, and
Mildred Gish, Lincoln, will be the
candidates for president. Lucille
Kelly, Grand Lsland, and Julienne
Deetken. Omaha, have been nom
inated for vice-president. Marian
McLaren. Lincoln, and Gertrude
Clarke, LaGrange. 111., will vie for
the office of secretary, while
Dorothy Jensen, Columbus, and
Loretta Boschult, Lincoln, are the
candidates for treasurer.
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Alice Connell, Prom Girl Candidate,
Aspires to Career of Magazine Work
By EVELYN SIMPSON
The field of literary art is des
tined to receive into its rank? an
other contender for a laurel
wreath if the aspirations of Alice
Connell, dark-haired, sunny-dis-positioned
candidate for Prom giiL
are realized. For, Miss Connell
hopes to do magazine work of some
sort upon her graduation the uni
versity scLool of journalism in
June.
Miss Connell was born in Fair
bury. Neb., about twenty-one years
ago. and following her graduation
from the grades there, entered
Duchesne high school at Omaha
where she finished in 1927. After
a year's work in Duchesne college,
she entered the ydi'iO'j-jjZ tf "e
braska in the isOi! $3 ' '
Her activities' tJUfTH? fct
here have centered ancut her ma
jor interest, journalism, and she
has done work on the editorial de
partments of both the Awgwan
and The Daily Nebraskan.
SENIORS CONSIDER
PROSPECTS FOR A
STUDENT BUILDING
Upperclass Group Meets in
Auditorium Today to
Discuss Edifice.
RAMSAY TO GIVE TALK
Gift to University, Vacancy
On Publication Board
Are Problems.
Prospects for a student union
building on tne Nebraska c&mpua
will be discussed this morning at
11 o'clock when members of the
ncnior class are scheduled to meet
in Social Science auditorium. An
exceptionally large turnout Is ex
pected, according to President
Grau, and members of the group
who wish to get seats should plan
be there on time. Dean T. J.
Thompson has announced that all
seniors will be excused from clas
ses to attend the meeting.
The kevnote of the Catherine
will center about a talk to be given
by Ray Ramsay, alumni secretary,
who will discuss student union
buildings and what they have
meant to other university
campuses. Ramsay, headlined as
Nebraska s Will Rogers, nas srua
ied the matter of a student union
hinidine' for considerable time and
ha a rarpfullv surveyed the results
of silimar projects in other schools.
At present he is running a series
of articles with pictures of union
buildings on other campuses in the
Nebraska Alumnus.
McCleery to. Talk.
William T. McCleerv. president
of the Innocents society, will fol
low Ramsay with a rew woraa in
outlining the plans which the sen
ion honorary has formulated In re
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'Unemployment, Causes and
Immediate Remedies'
Is Subject.
KARL BORDERS TO TALK
Powers Hapgood of the Colum
bia Conserve company will address
the meeting of the Industrial con
ference Saturday evening on "Un
employment, Cause and Immediate
Remedied." On Friday evening
Karl Borders, secretary of the Chi
cago office of the League for In
dustrial Democracy, will speak on
"Unemployment, Extent and Ef
fects." , . ,
Mr. Borders will be the principal
speaker at a banquet at the An
nex cafe Saturday evening. "The
Broader Aspects of Unemployment
in the United States" will be the
subject of his talk. Dean James
E. LeRossignol of the College of
Business Administration will in
troduce Mr. Borders.
An open forum discussion will
be led bv Mr. Borders on "What
Can We As Students Do About the
Present and Future Economic Di
lemmas?" Sunday morning at 9
o'clock. There formal adjourn
ment of the conference will take
place Sunday morning at 10:45. -
Powers Hapgood of Indianapolis.
Ind., is a graduate of Harvard
with a major in economics. His
father is president of the Columbia
Conserve company.
Kosmct Slum- Tryouts
To He Held Tonight
Try outs for principal char
acters of "High and Dry", Ki
met Klub spring musical com
edy, will be held in the Templt
tonight at 7:30 o'clock.
Students wishing to try out
for chorus or principal parts in
Kosmet Klub's "High and Dry,"
but who are unable to appear at
the scheduled times are re
quested to communicate th
Carl Hahn or William McCleery,
to arrange for a special hearing.
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ALICE CONNELL.
HAPGOOD 10 ADDRESS
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