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HIE DAILY NEHRASKAN THREE $150,000 MEMORIAL HOSPITAL COMPLETED AT K. U. FLETCHER SPEAKS TO SOCIETY r THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932 r Fifty couples will attend nance at me uornnusKcr Hotel Following the dinner a dance will be held in the ballroom which will be attended by three hundred couples. Dnn M'urphy and his "Musical Skippers" will play for the dancing. The chap erons will be Professor and Mrs. S. P. Senning, Professor and Mrs. Jj. Dale Coffman, Professor and Mrs. Karl M. Arndt and Mrs. Melissa Daniels, the housemother. Among the alumni returning forO the dinner dance will be Warren Chiles, Bernarr Wilson and Milton Reynolds, all of Omaha. Theta Chi Plan House Party Members of Theta Chi have planned a house party for Friday evening for which Ed Hoys and his orchestra will furnish the music. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hark ness, and Mrs. Ann Knapp will chaperone the party. Farm House Entertains At House Dance Farm bouse will entertain at a bouse dance this Friday evening which will be attended by thirty five couples. The chaperones will be Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Alexander, and Mr. and Mrs. E .C. Scheiden helm. The Golden Sernaders will play for the dancing, Beta Sigma Psl elected the fol lowing officers for the coming se mester: Herman Siefkes, '32, Be atrice, president; Harold Steck ling. '84, Bloomfield, vice presi dent: Walter Metschke, 33, Scrib- ner. secretary: Oscar Stults, '33, Vernon, Colo., treasurer; Vincent Danielson, '34, North Platte, pledge captain; William Wolsieger, '66, Snyder, house manager, and Charles DeVore, '34, Lincoln, his torian. FARM MEETINGS CLOSE TODAY ON AG CAMPUS HERE (Continued from Page 1.) Bow are members of the board of directors. An Omaha man, Robert Wals trom is heading the honey produ cers association for the coming year. Ralph Barnes of Morrill is the newly elected vice president and Don B. Whelan of the college of agriculture is secretary. Joseph H. Sharp of Malcolm is president of the farm equipment association while Paul Hoff of the Nebraska college of agriculture is secretary. Mrs. Mildred Weigley Wood, di rector of the adult education in homemaking at the Phoenix Union high school, Arizona, outlined the steps necessary in the successful management of a home at the Wednesday afternoon session of the home economics section of Or ganized Agriculture. The speaker said the needs of the family must be considered as the basic step in the management of a home. Next to resources the family must be studied, she re marked. By resources she did not mean only money but also human resources such as energy, health and ability of individual members of the family. Mrs. John Strolz, Moore field: Mrs. J. Thomas Graham, Dakota City; Mrs. Ervin E. Hartz, Roca; Mrs. John H. Cooper, Washing ton; and Mrs. H. A. Heyne, Wis ner were honored as master homemakers also at the home eco nomics sessions. Dean W. W. Burr of the agricultural college, W. H. Brokaw and Mrs. H. F. Capwell, 1930 master homemaker, gave short talks on the program. Probably the most interesting part of the crop growers associa tion program was a debate upon the advisability of reducing wheat acreage in eastern Nebraska. D. L. Gross of the agricultural college led off for the affirmative followed by Ira Kindig of Holmesville for the negative. D. S. Dalbey of Beat rice also appeared for the affirma tive and P. H. Stewart of the col lege spoke for the negative. No decision was reached. Electricity will be the largest factory in making the farm home as efficient and attractive as the city home Thome Brown, director of the midwest section of the na tional electric light association told farmers gathered at the farm pquipment association session in the agricultural engineering build ing. He said agriculture is becom ing more and more electrically minded. Hildebrand Addresses Stockmen. Dan Hildebrand of Seward told members of the livestock associa tion that low priced feeder cattle and sheep combined with financial conditions have caused more in terest in contract feeding this year than ever before. He said the prac tice allows a profit in a small way for both the feeder and the grower. The state dairymen's associa tion started their annual meeting off Wednesday morning with the usual dairy cattle judging contest. Only 56 breeders, testers and stu dents entered the contest this year. Seven teams from dairy herd im provement associations entered the contest last year while but two were entered this year. An address by Prof. E. L. Over- Hotel D'Hamburger Shotgmn Service 1141 Q $t 1718 O St ROBERT QUICK SOLOIST In concert with o Symphony Orchestra STUART THEATER Jan. 10, 2:30 The lest concert of the year. TICKETS AT SCHMOLLER & MUELLER 60c 51.50 dinner h'riuny cveninur nt b :3U o 'clock. holser of Pullman, Wash., upon thinning as a paying orchard prac tice featured the Wednesday ses sions of the horticultural society. He said in years of off bearing the necessity of thinning it not great and money returns are light. How ever, when the yields are heavy, the practice is profitable. It in creases the quality of the fruit, he concluded. ' LADIES OF THE JURY,' BY NEBRASKA GRADUATE IS KNOCKOUT AS SCREEN PRODUCTION, SAYS HOL LYWOOD PAPER. (Continued from Page 1.) February of 1931 was received with such a "big hand" that it was held over three days, playing to greater audiences each succeeding performance, altho the first show was packed almost to capacity. The cast which played the Feb ruary performance included Alice Howell, Theodore Diers, Mildred Bickley, Pauline Gellatly, De Lellis Shramek, Dorsel Jacke, Nora Os borne, Robert Reade, Harlan G. Easton, Bill McCleery, Zolley Ler ner, Leland Bennett and Dick Page. The plot of the story, which is just sufficient to hold the play to gether, centers around a wealthy society woman who is impaneled as a jury woman. She is con vinced of the innocence of the de fendant, a young girl accused of murdering her miluoDaire hus band. After the first act which takes place in the courtroom, the scenes are laid in the jury room. After two days and two nights spent in "considering the evi dence," Mrs. Crane, the role por trayed by Miss Howell, succeeds by flattery, bribery, and the use of her own charms In persuading the jury that the defendant is "not guilty." Fred Ballard while here in the university English department wrote his first play, "Eagles Nest." This was never produced, but was first read to the English depart ment club by Prof. R. D. Scott who is at present the head of the mod ern English drama department of Nebraska. It was upon the sub mission of this play that Mr. Bal lard gained admittance to Baker's class in Harvard. Before achiev ing his latest success, "Ladies of the Jury," Ballard also wrote the stage hit, "Young America." He has written several other stage successes. PLAYERS SHOW NEXT WEEK IS ELABORATE (Continued from Page 1.) scenic design class under the direction of Dwight Kirsch and Richard Paige. The work was done under the direct supervision of eight captains selected from the class. They are: Portia Boynton, Clare Hallett. Lois Picking, Rhona Smith, Jim Zook, Elizabeth Betzer, Pat MacDonald and Juliette Bar ney. With all but the first and last scenes depicting a dream, the p?ay is a satiric farce of witty comedy. The costumes and exaggerated proportions of certain objects gives a fantastic, dream-like atmosphere which is truly unique. A feature of the show is a pantomine ex ecuted in dance form iy Flavia Waters Champe and Dr. Ralph Lt;land. An unusually large cast of over fifty members rushes in and out and all about giving a hazy, "Alice-in-Wonderland" air to the entire production. SEMESTER LOOMS DULL AS SEEN IN SKETCHY REVIEW (Continued from Page l.l because it is a new situation. That they failed to carry out the threat of proposing abolition of the of fices in Student council meeting is an old, old story in campus poli tics. "Feminine interest" was per haps the greatest factor in the furore created by the law college as it attempted to have Kosmel Klub action proclaimed illegal. When the name of Miss Imogene Steinmier, law college candidate for the position of Nebraska sweetheart, was thrown from the ballot the laws were up in arms. Many changes, they indicated, would be made as soon as their case had been brought before prop er parties. Their case, it seems, was brought before several parties, and although all was proper enough nothing was done. Miss Audrey Gregory's resignation from the post of Queen Kosmet added a great deal of interest to the case but produced no particular reac tion. On the whole the campus sit uation has been extraordinarily dull. The Student council has met regularly and from time to time has passed commendable statutes but perhaps the hardest work its members have done all semester is supervise the fall elec tion and count votes. Nothing, however, can be held against members of this august group on account of their inactivity for they have a very good excuse iu that "there simply has been nothing to do." If certain campaigns of "rejuve nation," which are now being planned by at least two significant forces within the student body, get Not a Gangster Picture rw coDV MbMir-ttoliNila ma. ADDED JUNIOR FEATURES COMEDY ACT NEWS Two Hour Show STATE Week the Alpha Thcta Chi am o. i in i.d ..- :S,M fer i-B o. lift ioo a' n v Hi I . DR. R. I. Kosnwt Plays Are Due In by Jvn. 16 All manuscripts for Kosmet Klub spring show must be sub mitted by Saturday noon, Jan. 16. KOSMET KLUB. underway next semester, students may expect a great deal of smoke along "activity" lines and possibly a little bit of fire as well. PUBLIC TO SEE NEW POOL TUESDAY NIGHT (Continued from Page 1.) cost of $35,000. Money was raised by adding $1 to the medical fee as sessed each student each semester. The pool is 35 feet by 75 feet with a depth of ten feet in the deepest part and two feet in the shallow end. It is the second largest pool in the Big Six. Schedule of free hours and class periods hai been completed and will be in force until the end of the present semester. Slight changes are expected to be made during the second term, but the object at the present time is to give the students an opportunity to. begin use of the pool immediately. Hours of from 5 to 6 o'clock have been reserved for the varsity swimming every day except Saturday. The pool will be open from eight in the morning until ten at night. Special periods have been as signed to faculty men, faculty wo men, men students and wome.j stu dents. The Growler BY HARRY FOSTER. Registration week. Students are sie-ninc un tor courses. What is the basis for the choosing of elec tives? The professor or the sub ject. Something like the lion and the mouse. Students' minds need p--ychoana lvsine. Whv do students choose certain courses instead of others? I'll have to think this out myself. Some of the most able professors in the Vnivrrsity of Nebraska are not chosen by the pursuers of knowledge. Personal unpopularity has deprived i.nem or receiving me following that their knowledge de serves. Some professors, teaching dull subjects, have drawn herds of stu dents to their class room. Stu dents like a regular fellow for a prof. They cat up what he feeds them. "Bull session" classes nre extremely popular. Other professors in a boresome monotone lull their class to sleep and Morpheua reins. The informa tion that they put out in this man ner is vastly more important than the staff digested in "Bull session" classes. Or is it? It depends on whether you go to college in order to learn bow to make a living or if you come to develop a philoso phy of life. Straddle the fence. We need both types- The one kind affords amusement and sets you a think'in. The other gives you important in formation about a subject that will help vcu culturaly or materially. Choose a professor regardless of the subject if you know that you will get some good out of him. Choose a subject regardless of tne professor if you think th;;t the sub ject is one of value to you. The other angle of the regis tration week is the fact that the enrollment fr the next term has fallen down considerable from that of former years. The aepiession took its toll! How about the rest? A decline is always shown in the second semester enrollment but this years decadence presents a problem. The university authorities? I have been told do not care par ticularly about the quantity. They are interested in the quality. The quality is helped by the quantity, however, because the more stu dents that there are the more com petition there will be. Competition breeds business. (I got that out of the Sat. Eve. Post, not my ec. class. ) We need com petition at Nebraska and we need all the good students that we can I gel. Its unfortunate that there are not more scholarships offered so I . 1 Ik ie C4trESCAt Deecroz. that deserving students could stay in school. ( Tow heads, red heads, black heads, square heads, block heads and round heads have worn the fa mous "brown derby." Another type of head is wearing it now. Dean Foster, the owl of the law owlettes has come thru with a wise crack. The famous, I mean notorious, law derby replaces the Dean's custo mary Homberg. We were talking about heads. I got ahead of my story. The classi cal brow now ends in a classy derb. Too bad that it isn't hasn't a feather. I'd look just like a Eu genie. All things come to him who waits. After a L. L. D. comes the brown derby. It would embarrass somebody if we printed the sub stance of the unfortunate remark. It might even be censored. We'll have to close by saying that when the roll is called up younder there'll be no lav-yers there. (This includes professors.) STUDENTS HEAR GEOGRAPHER IN TALK YESTERDAY (Continued from Page 1.) pend upon an increase in popula tion. Land Requirement Unchanged. In dealing vith per capita con sumption it appears from Dr. Baker's lecture that the net land requirements per person, assuming a stationary production per ace, are about the same now as thirty years ago. Aggregate consumption of farm products in the United States continues to increase more or less directly with the population. This tends to show that no relief can be expected from this source. The export of American agricul tural exports since 1926 has been definitely established. The reasons given by Dr. Baker for this, are: The reduction in the purchasing power of European peoples, owing to the dimunition of American credit and other factors, the in crease in European tariff on agri cultural products and American tariffs on manufactured goods, the decline in the value of silver, which has affected the purchasing power of Oriental peoples, and many other facors have exerted an in fluence. Dr. Baker, believes that some of these adverse influences will improve with recovery from the business depression, but that exports of farm products will again exceed or even equal the post war peak or the ear'.V- peak at thp beginning of th cm ury is not certain in view of uc .Inclining birth rate in Europe and the low purchasing power of the peoples of Asia. In a summary of this question, Dr. Baker pointed out tnar agri cultural production in the future, as in the past, undoubtedly will not and should not increase faster than the nation's population, un less exports increase greatly. Will Need Increase. The question of how much farm land is likely to be needed to pro vide food and fibers for an in crease of 15 to 20 percent greater population that may be expected a third of a century hence was taken up. This is the maximum increase expected, unless a drastic change occurs in the number of births or immigrants. It is expected that this nation's maximum population will be reached in about thirty years, and to take care of this in crease, it is probable that the in creased need for farm products will be about 8 percent f3n years from now. In tracing the agricultural pro duction per acre at the present time, and from the period since the World war, Dr. Baker showed that the agricultural production per acre of productive land has been increased in at least five ways. These are: By the substitution of gasoline for horse and mule feed: the increase in animal products (other than power) has been about 23 percent, whereas crop feed available has increased not more than 10 percent, a shift from the less productive crops per acre to the more productive, as for ex ample from corn to cotton in the south, likewise, there has been a shift from beef cattle toward dairy cattle, hogs, and chickens, which produce much more food than beef cattle per unit of feed consumed, and finally there has been an in M t.il...aatfJr.l. Operating crease in acre yields of certain crops. Erosion Complicates Problem. Still another factor enters into the problem, according to Dr. Baker. That is the loss by soil ero sion, notably in the south and the ' sputhwest. The progress of erosion ! win reaui'i lucvuauic uieae irum-, hi sums in lanu uuiikhuuii Other an influence, according to Dr. Baker. Mechanization of agricul ture is responsible for an increased crop acreage. Dr. Baker in concluding his ad dress declared that the rapidly de clining birth rate and the rigid re striction of immigration has made former land policies as obsolete as the hoe and the flail. The farmers of the United States must realize that a great change has occurred in the ideals of the American peo ple, which is altering the composi tion of the population and, unless a reconsideration occurs, will reverse the trend of national dtrvelopment K. R. B., CHI O'S WIN SEMI-FINALS IN PADDLE TENNIS The semifinals of the paddle ten nis tournament were completed Wednesday night. Laura McAllis ter and Helen Eby, K. B. B de feated their Pi Beta Phi opponents, Anne Bunting and Bettie Willson, 4-6, 8-6, 6-3. Jeanne Russell and Agnes Grover, Chi Omega, won from the Alpha Phi team. Betty 88 DRESSES . .This assortment of attractive frocks includes pure dye silk crepes, the favored sheer woolens, chiffons and smart satins. There are splendid buys in this half-price group. Former) Si Size i Siie I Size Size Size Size Size Size Price 14 16 18 20 38 40 42 44 46 $25 j I 'i I i ! ! $29.75 2 2 1 1 1 j I I $35 j 1 1IJ! I I I 1 I ' I $39.75 2 3 5 3 3 1 2 3 j $49.75 1 3 6 7 4661 j $59T 3 " 3 2 2 j $65 i 1 j I I I 4 4 j $69.75 9 Polo Coats $995 Smartly sstyled coats, clever collars, the new belted modes. In sizes 14 to 20. 6 Furred Coats $1975 $39.75 to $65 Coats in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 38 and 42. in cluding such furs as Rac coon, Fitch, and Fox. SPECIAL PRICE ON Van R&alte Singlettes Discontinued numbers of our $2 garment. Sizes 30, S2, 38 and 40, now $p9 Van Raalte Woolly Wyns The new silk and wool pull-on bloomer Silk and vt'ool vest $1.00 $1.00 THIRD FLOOR. Memorial Hospital it ii. room CAMPUS CALENDAR Thursday, Jan. 7. League of Women Voters, o'clock, Ellen Smith hall. and Evelyn West. Finals of the tournament will be played the latter part of this week. Over 300 girls signed up lor the elimination tourney in intramural paddle tennis. The players were put in four divisions and played for a championship of their indi vidual sections. After the winners had claimed their respective cham pionships they were paired to play for the title, the winners of which will be announced later. IIOKUFS CONDITION CONTINUES IMPROVE Steve Hokuf, Nebraska athlete who was injured in an automobile accident Monday mj.ning, was somewhat improved Wednesday evening but is still confined to the Lincoln General hospital. Sodat Sundaes Lunches Sandwiches Salads GET A BOOTH AT Rector's Pharmacy B39S2 13 A P Sts. C. E. Buchholz, Mgr. OUR NEW SPRING JANET WALKERS IN THE SMART ROUGH CREPES Trt WHICH PROMISE POPULARITY 4 1 U.J U Hosiery Our regular $1 Service weight and chiffon, now lUC Our regular $1.65 A A chiffon, now J1.UU Our regular chiffon hose, special at.... $2.50 sheer $1.29 Sale of Gloves This $2.95 kid one clasp st vie, Fizes (0 OC 5i3 to 72 p.4iJ $3.50 4 button slip on suede, sizes 6-7, black, grey, white and 9 QC beige. FIRST FLOOR. Overproduction Not Cause For Depression, Says A.S.A.E. Head. L. J. Fletcher, national president, of the American Society of Agri cultural Engineers addressed a joint mooting of t nglncering groups on the campus last night in room 200, M. E. building, on tlvj subject: "Engineering, a:id its Iso lation to Agriculture." Mr. Fletcher, who is chief engin eer of the Caterpillar Trn'l.ir company scored thase who say tho present depression Is due to over production. Ho declared that in stead of overproduction theie 1m in reality an underproduction." "American industries slmuM strive for cheaper method o pro duction," . asserted Mr. .'lettlie.-. In order to bring this aboil-.. American industries ir.u.'t build more of the machines which they use in manutaciurmg tneir ow.i products." Referring to i.nit oi knowieii-i on the pun of the puhllc as re- i.irds agricultural engineering, th-j ipe.-ker stated that it whs dui to the fact that this branch of engin eering h.;R developed or'y in thi last twenty-five years. According U. Mr. Fletcher, ther-i Is a grent future in agricultural engineering wltn the field just be ginning to open up. He told the group to forget tlu depression, bo cause in a year or two soine on. would b? railing for their .services. Mr. Fletcher, a giaduate of Iowa State college ,!p.nt a year in Soviet Russia assisting that gov ernment with its agricultural en gineering problems. "Your Drug Store" Call, ua when ymi need drugs qutcic. Also snappy lunches or a rral bus of chocolutei. 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