Aggravate Those Aggies!! nn I HE AILY AN Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXI NO. 52. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECKMHER 3, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS BAND WILL MAKE TRIP TO DENVER Westerners Co Sky High We Hope In City Called Mile High NEBRASK PERSHING TO BE IN LINCOLN MILITARY BALL General Is Here to Spend Holidays; Guest at Friday's Fete. WORK ON DECORATIONS Presentation of Honorary Colonel Will Climax Opening Formal. General John J. Pershing: will be guest at the annual Military Ball which will be held at the Univer sity coliseum Friday night, Decem ber 4. General Pershing- is in Lin coln for the holidays and has been invited by the military staff of the university to be present at the fete. A huge portrait of the general, measuring sixteen feet across the shoulders. Is being painted by Pat Gish and will be placed In the south balcony of the coliseum. Decorations Underway. Decorations of red, white, and blue are being erected, under the supervision of Captains Scott and Crissy, by the basic military science students. A huge flag, the largest In the world, is to be hung in a canopy over the entire floor. Streamers extend from the edges of the flag to the balconies fram ing the colors in a solid border of blue. The balcony is being con cealed by a red and white wall bearing the R. O. T. C insignia. Rod and white plaques portraying prominent military figures are being placed in the arches on both sides of the floor. The first complimentary ticket, given for selling tickets amounting to twenty dollars, was awarded yesterday to Archie McMasters. Officials report that 125 basic tic kets have been sold, and the pre diction is made that over 200 will be purchased before Friday night Opie Catet to Play. Opie Cates' twelve piece orches tra will furnish the music for the ball. They have been featured at numerous university parties, club dances, and national broadcasts. The orchestra comes here from a recent engagement at Show Boat (Continued on Page 4.) FOR TONI Dr. Denton Is Main Speaker At 'Ellen Richards' Banquet. One hundred twenty-five women including all home economics i alumnae are expected to be present I at third annual "Ellen Richards" j banquet, to be held at the Grand hotel at 5:45 today. It is epon- J sored by the Home Economics , association. ' Dr. Denton, assistant professor ! of home economics, will be the principal speaker. She will give 1 the first of six toasts under the theme "Good Ship Home Eco-; nomica." "The First Ship of Home ; (Continued on Page 4.) Nebraska Students Will Soon Have Chance to Exhibit Their Aquatic Ability Upon Completion of Pool By MARVIN SCHMID. Shortly and finally both men an J women tludeiiU of the Universitas Nebraskensis will have a place to display their aqua tic wares. And what a place it will be. Large, beautiful (as pools go), and ultra-modernistic. Hut it (jK)ol of course) does not tstop here. It will have water in it. The kind of water that you can write home about. Altbo studfcnts registered soro- swimming courses will not be re quired to drink the aqua to secure their credits, it will be perfectly penzilaeable. The water which by the latest and best of filters and chlorinators will be purified con tinually. The automatic vacuum pumps will at all times force water change. Purifying System. Thru this special and expensive purifying apparatus the water, many thousands of gallons, will be purer after six months in the pool than the day in which it run. fresh from tbe hydrants. If anyone doubts the validity of ha above aasersions. they may allay all dubiousness by trekking to the northern end of the coli seum on tbe day the water is run in and watching it aa the pool gradually becomes a miniature ea. Note carefully, ye all. aDd vou shall sec According to the tig ahot" to charge of its ecu-4 FEE'S CONDITION IMPROVED. WILL NOT LOSE SIGHT Condition of O. J. Fee of Sioux City who was seriously injured on Sunday when the car in which he was riding was destroyed by fire, was reported much improved yes terday. He has successfully passed the pneumonia stage and will not lose his sight as doctors had at first feared he might. Mr. Fee is the father of Gretchen Fee, senior student in the university. Sigma Delta Chi to Convene at 6 Today The local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional Journal istic fraternity, will meet on Thursday evening at the Alpha Theta Chi house at 6 o'clock, according to announcement by William McGaffln. DEVEREAUX SETS JANUARY 16 AS Authors Must Submit Work By That Date, Say Klub Officers. $50 PRIZE TO WINNER Plans for Comedy Call for Use of All-Male Cast As Feature. Two weeks after Christmas va cation. Jan. 16. is the date an nounced today by Dick Devereaux, president of Kosmet Klub, as the deadline for submission of manu scripts for the annual epring mu sical show sponsored by Kosmet Klub. The Klub each year offers a prize of $50 to the author whose comedy is accepted and presented by the Klub. Eight or nine students are al ready working on manuscripts, ac cording to Devereaux. The show this year as in most of the shows presented, will use an all male cast, with men assuming feminine roles. On only one or two occa sions has the Klub departed from this tradition to allow co-eds to participate in the show. Major Production. The spring musical show Is one of the two major productions which Kosmet Klub presents each year, the other being the annual autumn morning revue at which the Nebraska Sweetheart is pre sented. The morning revue is ordinarily presented on Thanks giving morning with the exception of years when the Nebraska foot ball team plays its Thanksgiving game away from home. The spring show is customarily a feature of the week of Ivy day. Several towns in Nebraska have (Continued on Page 2.) W.A.A. WM. Present Sales Prizes Dec. 11 Prizes to the ten highest W. A. A. salesmen who sold at the football game this year will be awarded at the annual Girls' Comhusker costume party on Dec 11 in the Armony, accord ing to the concession manager. All salesmen are asked to re port at this event, as no fur ther notice will be given the prize winners. struction, the water in the pool upon first being filled will be slightly clouded. Suspended mat ters present in all hydrant water (yes, that which you and I drink every morning before breakfast), will make bottom visibility diffi cult But, its cloudiness shall dis appear as the early morning fog in the heavens. When the water has been filtrated, chlorinated, aid purified all this suspended bacteria which first clouded the water will dUappear. It will be taken out by the ultramodern apparatus. Swallows Won't Hurt. Bo. if you wish to take a few swallows of the liquid when swim ming, wading, or bathing, you may do so and be in no immediate danger of resulting ills. However, an extra dollar may be charged by the university if students take tbe SHOW DEADLINE (Continued on Page 3-) A IE IN CREDITED HIGHER GRADES Report of California U Dean Shows All-Men Average Lower at School. BENEFIT TO STUDENTS Outside Interests Help to Fit Collegian for Later Work. BY DICK MORAN. The average grade of men stu dents participating in extracurricu lar activities was higher than the average grade of all men students in the University of California at Los Angeles, according to a sta tistical study of the relationship between extracurricular activities and scholarship, compiled by Earl J. Miller, dean of men at that in stitxition. The' purpose of the study was to determine as nearly as possible the relationship of extracurricular ac tivities to scholarship, as revealed by the scholastic records of men students. The study dealt with 4,090 men students registered in the university. The final grades of students were reported on the basis of grades ranging from A to E or from excellent to failing, and averages were computed on the basis of counting 3 points for an A grade, 2 for a B, and 1 for a C. Below that grade no points were given. The total of grade points is divided by the total of units of work attempted. A standing of 3.00 represented a perfect record of A grades, 2.00 for B. and 1.00 for C. The aver age of all men students in the uni versity was determined to be 1.20, but the average of men students engaged in activities was shown to be 1.24. Forty-three activities were considered, ranging from publica tions to athletic teams. Many in Activities. The report revealed that there (Continued on Page 2.) . ELLIS TO EXTENSION POST Carolina Demonstrator to Replace Miss Brown At Ag College. Mrs. Sarah Porter Ellis has been employed by the agricultural col lege extension service to take the place of Miss Mary Ellen Brown, who is on leave of absence for a few months. Mrs. Ellis will do ad ministrative work with fourteen assistant county extension agents, who work on home economic proj ects with Nebraska homemakers. She wiil also supervise the work of ; six state specialists wno worK wun j women in project clubs in about forty-five Nebraska counties. Mrs. Ellis was district supervi I sor of twenty-one mountain coun ! ties in North Carolina for three j years and worked for three years previous as county home demon I st ration agent in that state. She j received her degree in home eco ' nomies from the University of Wis cons in and has taught home eco nomics in tbe Christian college at Columbia, Mo., and at Milwaukee Downer college at Milwaukee. Her home is in Illinois. Within the next few weeks Mrs. Ellis plans to visit each of the home economics extension work ers in Lancaster, Cass, Otoe, Burt, Thurston, Fillmore. Thayer, Webs ter, Phelps, Dawson, Buffalo, Cus ter and ScotUbluff counties. She will also acquaint herself as rap idly as possible with the wck of all the women's project clubs of tbe state. Miss Brown's hsalth failed about two months ago and after thirteen years of steady work for the ex tension service. She is now in Cal ifornia. Mi Brown first worked with tbe girls 4-H clubs and then with the adult women's work. She has been in charge of this part of Nebraska extension work for the pat seven years. LITERARY WILL INITIATE Delian Union Society Will Take New Members Saturday. The Delian-Union literary so ciety will bold an informal initia tion ceremony Saturday evening at 8:89 o'clock in tbe Temple, room No. 30T Tbe following will be initiated: 2rnest Foster, Einsr Dahl, Clarence Dahl, Beulah Nich olas. Ruth Bohr man and Albert Hanson. This win be a closed meeting. The committee in charge of initia tion is Christine Petert-on, AJvin Klecb and Dorothy Kepuer. Scientific-Minded Activities Coed Is Among Honorary Colonel Candidates BY ART BAILEY. Had Paul Revere been reincar nated in the form of an amoeba he would indeed be lucky to get the chance to gallop over the slide of a certain individual and be viewed through a microscope by this "lady of the scientific mind" who possesses two of those look-at-me-sumore eyes great big brown ones. When they are not looking through a microscope they are peering through the windsnield of a yellow and brown Ford sport coupe. It can't be anyone else but Gretchen Fee, one of the four candidates for honorary colonel. Gretchen came to the University of Nebraska as an ordinary fresh man, but during that year she re ceived the distinction of becoming regimental sponsor, an unusual honor for a freshman. As a soph omore she was company sponsor. She is vice president of Mortar Board and holds the same office on the A. W. S. board. She was a Tassel last year and is a member of the honorary biological organi zation. Phi Sigma. Last spring she was masked a Mortar Board. Gretchen is a member of Delta Delta Delta in the local chapter of which she holds an office. Gretchen can still stand the heat LETTERMEN ELECT TOMSON OP MUB GROUP Organization Makes Plans For More Extensive Program. Definite plans for activity dur ing the year were made by the "N" club in the first meeting of the year held Tuesday evening In the club room following a dinner served in the coliseum. Coburn Tomson of Lincoln was elected president of the organization and appointed several committees to bead the work which the cluo out lined for itself this year. A committee was appointed to take charge of tbe state high school basketball, swimming and wrestling tournaments which will be held in Lincoln during the same time in March. The swimming tournament will be held in the new university swimming pool which will be completed during the first part of December. Will Aid Dedication. The organization also will aid In (Continued on Page 4.) AG STUDENTS BANQUET Vocational Education, Home Ec Departments Hold Annual Meet. Eighty-five college of agricul ture students attended the annual vocational education home eco nomics banquet held at the War ren Methodist church Wednesdaj evening. The banquet is one of the annual feature get-togethers for students majoring in the two de partments. A. A. Rosborough, personal manager at Gold & Co., delivered tbe main address of the evening In which he stressed the importance of picking the right vocation. He also stressed the value of good teaching ability in vocational ed ucation and home economics. Kenneth Reed, senior in the col lege, acted as toastmaster for the banquet. Miss Corbin of tbe home economics department introduced the critic for girls majoring in that department while Prof. C. C. Mm teer announced the men critics for boys majoring in the vocational education division. PLACE FOURTH 1 i w 0 w Counts f ol Tb Stir. Here shown are members and coach of the college of agriculture crop judging teem which placed fourth In competition at the na tional exbib:tion in Chicago. They aro Alv.n Krolik, assistant In structor in agronomy atid coach ui the squr:d. Jacop Webster of Dalton, Mclvin Hum: of Earnenton, Milan Austin, Holdrege, and Norris Kiiokrs of Ponca. 1 A ' V J he I GRETCHEN FEE Cou.tesy of The Journal. from the candles on her next birthday cake since it will have only twenty-one. Now if you should happen to look into the eyes of one who is greatly interested in the insignificant amoeba you'll know you've seen Gretchen. KAPPA PHI WILL MEET ' Blending Our Colors ' Theme for Monthly Assembly. Is "Blending Our Colors" will be the theme of the monthly dinner meeting to be held by Kappa Phi, Methodist girl's club, at the Lin dell hotel Thursday evening at 6:15 o'clock. The program will cen ter about home missions, and will be presided over by Eileen Moore, president of the organization. More than fifty persons are ex pected to attend the affair. Among tbe number will be several alum nae. Reservations should be tele phoned to Ada Mae James, secre tary, before Thursday at 1 o'clock. t; PLACES IN CONTEST Husker Squad Ranks Fourth At National Meet in Chicago. COACHED BY LOEFFEL The University of Nebraska meats judging team won fourth place in the national collegiate meats judging contest held in Chi cago this week in connection with the International livestock exposi tion. Word was received at the college of agriculture Wednesday evening from Prof. William J. Loeffel who coached the team. Members of the Comhusker team competing at Chicago in cluded Myrle White. Lavera Gen grich and George Harrison. No word was received as to how the team members placed as individ uals in the contest. Kansas won the contest Nine teams competed. Nebraska won two fourths and a tenth place In tbe collegiate judg ing at the Chicago exposition. In addition, the poultry judging team competes Saturday of this week. The livestock team was tenth while the crops and meats teams scored fourths. Prof. H. E. Alder is taking his poultry judging team to Chicago to compete Saturday. Tbose on the team include Lloyd Vance, Eagle; Walter Burleigh. Lincoln: Walter Meyers. Holbrook, and Elaines Vogel, Pilger. AT CHICAGO 1 I ..x : : CANDIDATES FOR AWARDS MEET SATURDAY Selection Committee Must Pick Two From List Of Seventeen. FIVE REPRESENT SCHOOL Successful Pair to Face Further Competition at Des Moines. Seventeen candidates for Rhodes scholarships from the state of Ne braska will meet Saturday in Lin coln to appear before a committee of selection which will choose two of the men to represent this state at a district selection sometime next week at Des Moines, Iowa. The two men who go to Des Moines will be competition with ten other candidates, two each from the states of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas and Missouri. From these twelve appli cants the district committee will choose four men as Rhodes schol ars from the Fifth district of which Nebraska is a part. There are eight such districts in the United States, each district en titled to four of the thirty-two scholars who go to Oxford every year. Five From University. Of the seventeen applicants from Nebraska, five are applicants representing the University of Ne braska. Four of tbe candidates are students at institutions out of this state and are e applying from Ne braska on tbe basis of their resi dence in this state. The institu tions which these four men are at tending are Yale, West Point, Swarthmore and Ohio. The other nine Nebraska applicants are stu dents at various institutions in this state. The committee of selections which will interview and examine the seventeen men separately is composed of four former Rhodes scholars. They include: Paul Good of Lincoln , chairman; Robert Latsch of Omaha, Ralph Wilson of Omaha, and L. E. Gunderson of Fremont. J. E. Miller, Lincoln mer ( Continued on Page 4.) ELECT F GLEE CLUB PRESIDENT Director Picks Butterfield For Manager; Need First Tenors. Frank W. Sharp, junior in tbe college of arts and sciences, was elected president of the university glee club at its meeting Tuesday night. Sharp is a second tenor in the club and a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. William Butterfield, senior in the college of arts and sciences, was appointed business manager of the glee club by Director Harold Hollingsworth. Butterfield is a member of Phi Gamma Delta. Other officers of tbe club will be elected later, Hollingsworth an nounced. Plans for the development of a library and for a definite size for the glee club were discussed. It was decided that tbe club will con sist of twenty-four members, six to each section. Tbe group is still in need of good first tenors, accord ing to Hollingsworth, and any stu dents who wish to try out should call the school of music to get the time for an appointment. Regular rehearsals for the entire group are held on Tuesday nights at 8 o'clock and on Friday at 5 o'clock. Sectional rehearsals are held starling at 7 o'clock on Wed newday evenings. All meetings are held in Morrill hall. "I am pleased with the progress tbe club has been making." Hol lingsworth declared. "I also feel confident that tbe officers will be able to carry on the business of tbe glee club in an entirely satis factory manner." WOMEN PLAN BANQUET Big and Little Sisters Will Meet for Christmas Event Dec. 17. The annual Big and Little Sister Christmas dinner is to be given at Ellen Smith ball. Dec. 17, at 5 o'clock. All Big and Little Bis ters are to attend and all others who want to come. The purpose of the dinner is to enable freshmen and upper classmen to become ac quainted. Committees are: decoration, Ruthalee Halloway, Lois Went worth and Dolores D e a d m a n ; games. Julicne Deelken and Mar garet Upson; program, Ardetn Pierce. i 75 MEN TO LEAVE FRIDAY FOR GAME Selleok Announces H.O.T.C. Musicians to Board Train At 6:10 Tomorrow Evening; Arrive in Denver Saturday Morning at 7 O'clock ' Damatic Club Calls 7:30 Meeting Tonight All active members of the dra matic club are urged to attend an important meeting of the club tonight at 7:30 In the group's regular meeting room. The business to be discussed is very pressing. Attendance is restricted to active members. HUSKERS EXHIBIT SPIRIT IN FINAL Entire Varsity Squad Sees Action Wednesday in Scrimmage. PASSING ATTACK CLICKS Linemen Look Good in Last Workout for Aggie Tilt Saturday. Coach Dana X. Bible put every KOMitv man intn srtinn. Wednes day night in the last scrimmage of the vear. and with a revived spirit the "Huskers romped all over the frosh and nubbins with running and aerial attacks. Practice started with two teams of regulars alternating at the of fense against the freshmen and concentrating mostly on passing, r-nprh Rihlp' machine was work ing smoothly and completed passes were in aounuance. int wrmu wall was also showing up well and large holes were made through which a blind ball carrier could have been led. Team Blows Fire. Tbe first team to line up when the freshman were given the ball bad Swanson at fullback and Paul, Kreizinger, and Brown completing the backficld. In the line were Hurkee and Petz. ends: Gilbert and Rhea, tackles; Adam and Justice, guards; and Ely center. Penny alternated with Swanson at full, and this team went through several formations for pass and goal line defense. Much of the old Ne braska defensive stubbornness was evident and the frosh gains were negligible. Another varsity team with Sauer, Masterson. Eoswell, and Bauer in the backfield, and a line composed of Nesmith, and Joy, (Continued on Page 4.) Boxing Matches at Coliseum Saturday The University boxing match es will be held Saturday aft ernoon at 3 o'clock in the base ment of the coliseum. Admis sion will be 25c for the students and 50c for others. DRILL OF SEASON Sob Sister Repents When Revealing Tales Bring Horde of Angry Readers Storming Into Under-Table Hide-Out IDA H0ZEN0ZZLE. Honotly. p'ojde arc no unr'-awnabk in general. Here I am. inv whole life l''!i';itei as it were maybe not my whole lifehut a pood hliare of it oil well if vou insist an hour or so every dav week , but anyway, lure I've dedicated my one hour a" day" to makinir thin worl a cleaner, better, saner place hi which to live. I tear myself away from ffljro- books, and clauses, and general school routine, and sit me down to grind out cheerful stereotyped phrases that never fail to put sickly grins on the faces of my readers (?). and murder in their hearts. I philosophize, and general ize, and specialize, and monopolize all the available space I can. I advise, and surmise, and revise all tbe material I can get in my hands, and all the people I dare approach without fear of the homicidal in tent in their eyes. In fact, out side of not getting someplace in school, the hearts of my country men, and the wide world in gen eral. I have bees feeling quite self-satisfied, and complacent of late. Have been. . .there'! where the rub begins. Hrnestry, people are tu unrea sonable. Would you believe it If I told you that four men, three boys, and twenty-seven college students took my recounting of the string - RECEIPTS PAY EXPENSES Give Preference to Older, Men in Drawing Up List Quota. Nebraska will take a seventy-fiv4 piece R. O. T. C. band to Denver Saturday for the charity game be tween "the Cornhusker and th Colorado Aggies, John K. Selleck, student activities manager, sua nounced yesterday. The band will make the west era trip on the Burlington route, leaving Lincoln at 6:10 Friday night. Tbe train will arrive la Denver at 7 o'clock Saturday morning and leave for Lincoln at 11:30 Saturday night, giving those who make the trip a full day in Denver. The band will arrive back in Lincoln at 1:20 Sunday after noon. Receipts Defray Expense. Part of the expenses for the trip will come out of tbe gate receipts of the game and part from tbe general fund, Mr. Selleck said. Business men of Denver will fur nish meals for the band member in Denver Saturday, he added. The following men will make the trip Director "Billy" Quick an nounced at rehearsal yesterday: Howard All&wiy Gtorpe Attn Oorge Bautr P.onf Baum&nn Kdwsrd Bloom William Cams William Carroll Oxro Dean John Dutktr Glenn twins Benjamin Grimm GeorKe Harrington Warren HendroB Herbert Holmes Bernard Jennings William Keitel Donald IdcGaffey Kenneth Millet Arthur NeTieehelc Edward Pancoaat Kennlt Pell Frank Plpa! Melvin Rassa Robert firhlca: Verner Srhomaker Flhrioge Scrlveo Victor Sloan George fiaus P.oben Venner Krick Stoesser reroy Askwlr Douglas Bardo Barton BaunuLna Ben Bennett Daie Cameron Donald Carla Leon Carroll Willis Delnes WllKua Kberljr Carl Goth Rnbert Harper - -Lowell Keanery Norman Hoff Maurice Hollmaa Clarenr Johnson Max KlesselbacA Ted Masters Delphian Nash Aaron Niebaum Oliver Patten Emory Patersoo Jarlc PlamoQdoa Ted Sawyer Alex Schneider Willard Scott Lester Bellentla Delmas ftrollh Charles Bturdevust Herbert Wlrkmaa fcugene Aklrtca (Continued on Page 4.) LUTHERAN CLUB TO MEET Student Group Flans Varied Program for Friday Party. t At th monthly meetins: of the I Lutheran sturlpnt club. FridaV CVB j ninkg at 6:30, members will dia ! cuss plans for sending a delegate to the Stuueni volunteer coovm. tion to be held in Buffalo, N. some time in December The meet ing will be held in room 205 at the Temple building. A program baa been planned which will prove to be of great In terest to those present, according; to the chairmwan of the entertain ment committee. Ki";ert A. Fisch er, an amateur mat; from Om aha will entertain the audience ; with his tiicks and a male trio also from Omaha will aing and read. Prof. G. D. Swezey, bead of the atronomy department will give ! a Khort talk on astronomy. i Those responsible for the enter tainment are Kenneth Broman, I chairman of the decoration com ; mittee and Stella Jeperson in charge of the refreshments. bean tie episode as a personal af front T I knew you wouldn't, and It Will be even harder to realize that 105 sorority presidents, three Kosmet Klub members, and sixty five would-be lawyers resented 1 turn: the individualistic shoe treat ise, the gum chewing statistical survey, and tbe long-eared brief case observations. I have beard rampant profa threaten, and fond parents entreat, People are so unreasonable. ... and cringing student implore for relief from the anparent delving into their affairs. Big business men and political bosses have resorted to tears lest my Idle chatter chat ter their standing and repuutionav Positions, and names, ant. furuly trees are as nothing before the ruthlessness of my pea .... People are so unreasonable. Sad experience having taught me its bitter lesson, I turned over a new (CotaUnued on Page 2.) 7