A1LY N EBR ASK AN H Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXI NO. 67. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932. PRICE FIVE CENTS SURVEY REVEALS BIG ENROLLMENT School Ranks Twentieth in Size Among American Universities. ATTENDANCE IS GREATER Despite Depression Figures Show More Students In College. That Nebraska stands twentieth in enrollment among American colleges and universities Is revealed in a report issued by Dean Ray mond Walters, of Swarthmore col lege in an analysis of reports from forty-four approved institutions in all parts of the country. Leading all American universi ties in full time attendance figures is the University of California with enrollment figures totaling 18,342. This total includes both the Berkeley and Los Angeles in stitutions which form the Califor nia school. Nebraska's total of full time students is listed at 5,412. Oklahoma, with a total of 4,975 students Is the only other Big Six school included in a list giving the twenty-five largest universities as computed on a basis of attendance. Attendance Greater. Dean Walters' report brings out the fact that despite the current economic depression attendance at American colleges and universities is at its highest level in history. The comparatively small gain made since last year, however, is thought to indicate that the "pla teau" predicted for collegiate en rollment may have been reached. Writing In the current issue of School and Society, Dean Walters remarks that the present enroll ment "plateau" is 12 percent higher than that of "the prosper ous period five years ago." The 444 colleges and universities included in the Walters report have an attendance of 599,125 full time students, representing an in crease of 3,721 students, or about .6 percent over last year's figures. In the face of the general ' in crease, the women's enrollment in 226 liberal arts colleges and de partments is 2,044 less than last year, or a decrease of 1.6 percent "This means," says Dean Wal ters, "that where families have felt the financial pinclsome kof them have continued their sons at col lege and have kept their daugh ters at home." Small Schools Lose. Analysis of the report shows also that, despite the total gains, the groups of large and small col leges have lost students this year. (Continued on Page 2.) cadeHIOei Green, Sophomore, Betters Shot-Put Mark With 40-Foot Heave. HURDLE TIME LOWERED William Green, a sophomore in Company F, threw the sixteen pound ball 40 feet and five inches yesterday morning in the military track meet The record established by Green exceeds by one inch the record made by Everett Mead of Company M last year. The best previous mark of this year's com petition was 38 feet inches, made by Jack Relfschnelder. Heye Lambertus oi Gothenburg and Harold Pets of Nelson tied in the low hurdles, their time being 6.3 seconds. This record shatters the old record for low hurdles by three-tenths of a second. Petz Is captain of company F, and Lam bertus is a sophomore in - the R. O. T. C. The old record, for low hurdles was tied by Dahms of Seward. His time was 6.6. Roby led in the 50 yard dash with a time of 5.9 sec ond. Altogether there are six events in the military science track meet These six events consist of low hurdles, 50 yard dash, shot put, high jump, broad Jump, and the 256-yard run. Every company participates in these events and each man's mark Is - recorded. Points are then given according to the average of the company. The company which receives the most points wins the meet and during spring competition the company which wins this track meet is awarded bars of recognition. Applicants for Daily Mebraskan Must File Applications for appointment to the following positions on the Daily Nebraskan for next semMUr will b received by the Student Puolieatlon board until i o'clock Thursday, Jan. 14. ' Editorial: Editor-in-chief, managing editors, news editors, sports editor, and women's edi tor; Business: Business manager, assistant business managers. Application blanks may- be obtained at tho offico of the school of journalism, 104 Uni versity hall. Material already on file need not bs duplicated. J. K. 8ELLECK. Secretary, Student Publication Beard. AT NEBRASKA U PICTURE DEADLINE SET Wednesday Is Final Date For: Fraternity and . Sorority Sections. The deadline on pictures for the fraternity and sorority sections of the 1932 Cornhusker has been aer initely set for Wednesday, Jan. 13, according to an announcement made by Otis Detrlck, editor of the annual. No pictures for these sec tions will be received after that date. No definite date has been set as the deadline for the Junior-senior section of the' annual, Detrlck stated. The downtown studios have taken quite a number of pictures for this section, he said, and if pos sible the section will be closed by next Wednesdny. "It is imperative that all stu dents who wish the pictures in the 1932 Cornhusker go to the studios immediately," declared Editor De trlch. "It is necessary that we close our sections' within the next few days, because of orders from the engravers." Lawrence Plan of Education Features Political Science Meet. DELEGATE PARTICIPATES Discussion of the plan of David Lawrence, editor of the United States Daily, for nationwide edu cation in political science and gov ernment was the feature of the an nual meeting of the American Po litical Science association in Wash ington. D. C, Dec. 28, 29 and 30, according to Dr. J. P. Senning, chairman of the department of po litical science, who attended the meeting. Dr. Senning took part in two programs while at the meeting. He led a discussion on the topic of "Government and Education" and took part in a program relating to the effects of the growth of ad ministrative law upon traditional legal theories and practices. The meeting was attended by professors and instructors in po litical science from most of the universities in the country. The purpose of the convention is to dis cuss topics of general interest to the association and to discuss problems of government David Lawrence addressed the convention, explaining his plan for promoting education in govern ment, citing the details and clari fying certain parts of the plan. A national committee consisting of former President Coolidge, New ton D. Baker,' Owen D. Young, President Hibbard of Princeton, Elihu Root and Mr. Lawrence has been selected to co-operate with forty-eight state committees in promoting education in govern ment The plan, according to Dr. Sen ning. involves a program of intro ducing the instruction of students in public, normal schools and uni versities in distinct problems of government of interest to "these students. Dr. Senning has been appointed to a national committee on 'politi cal education by the American Po litical Science association. He is also chairman of the, state. com mittee which is to co-operate with the national committee '.n promot ing the plan of education in gov ernment METHODISTSMAKE PLANS Student Council Will Meet For Devotional and Business Session. The regular meeting of the Methodist Student Couneil will be held Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Wesley Foundation parson age. The plans for the new year call for the meeting to begin with de votions in charge of Rev. W. C. Fawell. This will be based on the sermon of the Mount and Dr. E. Stanley Jones' new t-ook, "Christ on the Mount" Following this the plans for the new year will be pre sented by Norman Peters, presi dent of the council. He will also give a brief report on the Student Volunteers convention which met in Buffalo, N. Y., during the holi days. Following the meeting the coun cil will be the hosts to a student social hour. Theodore Diers, Radio Director, Tells Of Exciting Days as Broadway Actor BY CLARKE C. BRADLEY. Viewing his stage- career - of twenty-five years ago in the light of retrospection, Theodore C. Diers, radio director of the Uni versity of Nebraska, recalls leav ing the Chicago Musical School to assume a role in a Joe Weber comedy, which was to lead him to parts in the musical comedies and legitimate drama that were the Broadway hits ot the day. How he appeared in the same cast with Marie Dressier, Anna Held. James K. Hackett, Trixie Friganza and other outstanding stage luminaries of the time re turns vividly to Mr. Diers as he thumbs through his scrap book, while sitting in bis office in the University of Nebraska school of music building. - Appearances - before audiences comprised of the elite of New York and hectic road trips that involved race riots, train wrecks, mysterious deaths, frantic per formances, make shift theaters and abominable hotels mingle In ;i. REGISTER BEFORE Only 2,692 Have Signed to Take Second Semester Courses. WILL CHARGE LATE FEE Registrar Urges Completion Of Process Before Tomorrow. With only fourteen usable hours left in which to register before the deadline is reached at'l o clock to morrow, only 2,692 students had registered for second semester courses. This figure is iff s than half of the total enrollment for the current semester which amounts to 5,945 students. All students who have not completed registration by tomorrow noon will have to pay a late fee unless they plan to dis continue school. All registration must be com pleted by Saturday noon and stu dents had better complete the en rollment by Friday afternoon be cause many of the advisors do not have office hours Saturday morn ing," Miss Florence I. McGahey, registrar, stated Thursday after noon. The college of engineering re ported an enrollment of 442 Thurs day afternoon. The same college had a registration of 512 at the same time last year. The college of business adminis tration listed approximately 400 against 500 for last year. Arts and sciences college led in the number of enrollments with a total of C78 so far this week. The following is the enrollments of the colleges and schools as re- reported Thursday evening: Aril A Science. SIS lentlry. SO. Agrlrutarmi, 100. . BuolnriM Ad.. 400 .rdutc 13. ftutrmary, 37. Klne Art. 00. Nol KnlncerinK. 442. Including .Mnalc). Teachers, (.III. Journalism, SI. The College of Agriculture" has been handicapped in registration because of meetings during the week that prevented . the advisors from seeing the students, me majority of the registration will take place Friday and Saturday. The teachers college expected about 300 more students to enroll today and tomorrow. The Law college does not expect any de crease in registratioB. About sixty more students are expected to en roll in the School of Jouralism College of Denistry expects twen ty-five more. College of Business Administration a total of 600, and the College of Pharmacy, seventy in ail. State Writer's Group Sets March 15 as Contest Deadline. Announcement of a short story contest and a poetry contest has been made by the Nebraska Writ er's Guild thru Theodore C. Diers. director of the university radio studio, who is the guild's secretary. The -two contests will close on March 15. Cash prizes, donated by Lincoln newspapers, will be awarded in the short story contest. In this contest manuscripts will be accepted from and prizes awarded to Nebraska writers only. Prizes are fifty dol lars, thirty dollars; and twent.' dol lars for first, second and third places respectively. Rules for the short story contest are as follows: All manuscripts to be typewrit ten ( double-spaced) on paper size 8 1-2 by 11, and on one side of the sheet only. Name of the author must not appear on the manuscript, but should be inclosed with the title of the story in a separate sealed envelope. Stories must be limited to 5000 words. Contestant may submit only one short story. If manuscripts are to be re turned at the close of the contest return postage must be included. In the consideration of the cash (Continued on Page 3.) Mr. Dier's memories of those years on the stage. Studied Under Ziegfeld. Mr. Diers had worked in a Sew ard, Neb., bank until after his graduation from high school, when be- made bis way to Chicago to take up musical training at the school of which Florenz Ziegfeld, sr., was the head. Following . the spilt of the famous comedy dialect team, Weber and FieHs, Joe Weber left New York with a show known as "Higgledy-Pigglety." Young Flo Ziegfeld. jr., was the business manager of the production. Upon the arrival of the show In Chicago, one of the actors resigned bis role because of the death of bis mother. Diers Takes Place. Into this breach stepped Theo dore Die it and, since the tour had ended in Chicago, Diers returned to New York with the company. He played with the show in New York that season and then went (Continued on Page 3.) STUDENTS 1 SATURDAY NOON Council Calls for Prom Applications Applications for Junior-senior prom committee must be filed in the student activities office before Saturday noon, Jan. 9. 'Applicants must be of junior standing and meet university eligibility requirements. Six men and six women will be selected. EDWIN FAULKNER, Pres. of Student Council. CONVOCATION WILL HEAR DR. HENRY EAMES. Former Lincolnite to Give Lecture, Recital Tuesday. Dr. Henry Purmort Eames, pro fessor of aesthetics and musical art at Scripps college, Ciaremont, Calif., will address an all univer sity convocation in the Temple theater at 11 o'clock, Tuesday morning, Jan. 12. His lecture re cital will be based on the theme "I Want to Be Happy, Don't You?" He will illustrate and interpret the lecture with piano music. Dr. Eames' name is familiar to many Lincoln people since at one time he was affiliated with tne school of music here. At Scripps college be has worked closely with Dr. Hartley Burr Alexander, a former Nebraska man, who was instrumental in bringing Dr. Eames to Scripps college from the Ameri can conservatory in Chicago. Internationally known as a teacher, lecturer and artist, Dr. Eames is the composer of many songs, choruses, pageants and piano selections. His light opera, "Priscilla," libretto by Dr. Alex ander, won the David Bishpam me morial prize in 1925. He received his musical training from Pader ewski. Dr. G. F. Warren Declares Prosperity Is Not Around Corner. In the feature address before the closing session of Organized Agri culture Thursday afternoon. Dr. G. F. Warren of Cornell university told Nebraska farm people that prosperity is not Just around the corner as many economists have been indicating. Warren, a Univer sity of Nebraska graduate spoke before the final mass meeting of all agricultural organizations in the student activities building on the college of agriculture campus. Over 600 attended the meeting. Mrs. Mildred W. Wood, director of the adult education in home making in the Pheonix, Ariz., high school, also was a leading speaker on the Thursday afternoon pro gram. She spoke of the develop ment of a livable home. Dr. Warren in his talk said, how ever, that three things may upset the prediction. Monetary changes restoring collapsed prices might bring prosperity for a time, ac cidental discovery of gold might bring it about while if many coun tries discontinue bidding for the present supply of gold, it would be come more available and tend to raise price levels. Disagrees With Hyde. In describing ways of getting a satisfactory price for farm prod ucts. Dr. Warren disagreed with statements made Tuesday by Sec retary Hyde. The Cornell man said one way is to reduce production un til prices rise or to cut tne costs. The reduction of surpluses which was advocated by Hyde will rem edy the existing situation only when it applies to one single pro duct that is out of line. The recent collapse of the world price structure is not a business cycle and not a question of over production, he maintained. That supply and demand govern price is only half true, he also said. Prices (Continued on Page 4.) WARREN, FORMER PROFESSOR HERE, SPEAKS TO CLUB G. F. Warren, professor of rural economics at Cornell university and a graduate of the University of Nebraska, spoke on "The Agri cultural Outlook" before members of the Lions club at their meeting yesterday. Professor Warren is a former Nebraikan, born on a Clay county farm near Harvard. After grad uating from the university Warren taught in Nebraska rural schools and was at one time superintend ent of the Nelson schools. Business and professional men other than the members of the club attended the Thursday meet ing to hear Professor Warren's talk. CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday! Nebraska "B" team vs Wayne Teachers college, Ag college gym. Cornhusker Editorial staff, 5 o'clock, Cornhusker office. Methodist Student Council meet ing, 7:30, Wesley Foundation Par sonage. Palladian Boy's Banquet, Corn busker hotel. Sunday. Lincoln Symphony orchestra, at Stuart theater, 3 o'clock. - Monday, Jan. 11. Fanbellenic meeting, Ellen Smith hall at 5 o'clock. BRYAN REPORTS STILL AWAITING CHARITY MONEY Nebraska's Cut From Grid Tilt Expected Daily Says Sellcck. GOVERNOR AIDS NEEDY State Drouth Areas Receive Stores of Clothing, Food, Feed. Governor Bryan has not yet re ceived the money promised for his state drouth relief fund from the Nebra'ska-Colorado Aggie charity game at Denver, Dec. 5, he re ported yesterday in response to an inquiry by the Daily Nebraskan. Altho Nebraska's share of the fifty-fifty split of the proceeds of the post-season charity game, re ported as $5,991.22, was promised shortly after Christmas, and is be ing expected every day, his office said Thursday that those in charge of the fund are still waiting. The money has not been re ceived by .university authorities here but is expected any day, a phone call from Chancellor Bur nett told the governor yesterday. The money is now in the hands of the graduate student manager at Denver, according to John K. Sel leck, business manager, and was promised a week ago. A recent letter from the Denver manager said the Nebraska check will be mailed as soon as the minor out standing bills for expenses of the affair are taken care of. Aids Needy. Meanwhile Governor Bryan is continuing his campaign for volun tary contributions to the fund thru the public pris and the radio. In addition to $7,269.92 contributed to the fund so far, between fifty and sixty carloads of food, clottiing and stock feed have been sent to the stricken areas. The need for money, food and clothing, especially stock feed, con tinues urgent, the governor's office reports, as the drouth areas can not take care of their own needs until another crop is harvested. Much stock is now starving in the northern counties of the state, those in charge of the fund say. There is insufficient feed for the farm animals and many are too poor to ship to market. In one case related, two of a farmer's three horses and half of his chick ens have starved. Such conditions prevail generally in the areas, they say. STAGED FOR DRAMA University Players Enact "Beggars on Horseback" Next Week. . By Imogene Souders. Final rehearsals for "Beggar on Horseback," to be presented by the University Players beginning Monday evening, are being held in the Temple theater. Rehearsals are strictly private, and the ushers ars the only outsiders allowed even a peek at the play. "The Beggar on Horseback' was classed by Burns Man tle, dramatic critic, as one of the ten best plays of 1923 1924. It was written by those masters of satiric comedy, George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. The preUnse and affection that are so common and so pitiful a part of the exhibition given by the new rich are a favorite target with them. Alexander Woolcott has written in the preface to the published version of the play that, "Beggar on Horseback" represents the dis taste that can be inspired by the viewpoint, the complacency and the very idiom of Rotarlan Amer ica. It is a small and facetious dis turbance in the rear of the Church of the Compel of Success." Much interest in the play has been evidenced among the students on the campus. The unusual and grotesque scenes, the unique situa tions ,and the fact that Ray Ram say is to play the lead are just a few of the many reasons why everyone should see the play. Handball, Learned Is Recreation A game be learned as a boy in Spain when he and his compan ions used to bounce a ball against the side of a church still furnishes a form of recreation for Hilario ; Saens, Ph. D., assistant pro fessor in the de partment of ro mance lan guages at the Univ erslty of Nebraska. Tbe game is handball, altho different as played in this country from the manner in U which tne Spanish play it Hitorto Hi. Pro( ssor -ronrtT Saenz was just an average player as a youth on the continent where tbe game, as be first knew n "l BURNETT OFFERS PRIZES Chancellor Initiates Essay Contest on Selection Of Vocation. Chancellor E. A. Burnett Is of fering $100 in prizes to under graduate students of the univer sity for writing the best 1,000 word articles on the subject, "What Should be Considered in Choosing a Vocation," it was announced yesterday. Seven prizes will be given. The winner of the first prize will re ceive $10; second, $25; third, $15, and te remaining four, $5 each. Articles entered for the contest must be deposited in the Chancel lor's office, Administration hall, room 101, by 12 o'clock, Feb. 20, and awards will be announced about April 1. 1932. The chancellor in telling why he selected the above topic, said that he believed the "proper choice of a vocation is one of the most im portant steps in the life of a young man or woman." threeITDdeWare Brownell and Galleher Return to Classes in Few Days. to HOKUF LEAVES HOSPITAL Three prominent Nebraska stu dents on the sick and injured list were all reported much improved yesterday. One has returned to school and the other two will prob ably be back next week or In the near future. Phil Brownell, Lincoln, junior in the college of arts and sciences, president of the junior class and member of Delta Upsilon frater nity, was very much better, his family reported Thursday. Altho the physician did not know just when Brownell will be able to re turn to school, it is thought he will return soon. He has been confinea to bed since early in the Christmas holiday period with a severe case of influenza. Steve Hokuf, Husker three sport athlete and past president of his class, has left Ihe hospital fol lowing bruises and cuts received in an automobile accident early Mon day. Hokuf was on the campus Thursday. Hokuf's injury lies mainly in what was first thought to be a comparatively serious bruise at the base of his spine but bis recovery was rapid. The accident in which he was hurt occurred when the car in which he was riding collided with a machine driven by Leonard Leudtke. 1314 No. 24th. George Sauer, sophomore class president, was riding with Hokuf when the accident occurred along with Robert Raugh, former foot ball squad member, but both es caped uninjured. Norman Galleher, Delta Tau Delta, president of the Blue Shirt political faction and recently ap pointed chairman of the Interfra ternity ball committee, whose ankle was broken in an automo bile accident early this week, is able to be about on crutches and will probably return to school next week. Galleher was downtown for a short time Thursday afternoon. It was his first experience on crutches but he experienced little difficulty in manipulating them. TRI-K CLUBJLECTS FIVE Agronomy Honorary Chooses New Members to Be Initiated Jan. 14. Five college of agriculture stu dents and four graduates students have been elected to membership in the Tri-K club, honorary ag ronomy club, according to an an nouncement made from tbe college this morning. The newly elected aien include William Allington, Murray Braw ner, Jesse Livingston, Kenneth Reed and Byron Thorp. The grad uate stuients are Ira Clark, Boyd Faulkner. Elvin Frolik and Law rence Newell. Inialion of the newly elected men is expected to take place Thursday, Jan. 14. Until that time the pledges are being required to carry an ear of corn each day. Fol lowing the initiation a program of short talks by several members of the agronomy staff and a feed will furnish the evening's entertain ment. in Spain, Still of Professor Saenz it, was played with the bare hand in contrast to the mitt used in the United States today. The game it self is very popular in certain parts of Europe, having as big a following there as tennis has in this country. Leaving Spain, Professor Saens first went to South America and af;er working several years there came to tbe United States nearly fifteen years ago and prepared himself to enter Indiana univer sity. At the Hoosier school he founl the American version of the game much to bis liking and during tbe years 1920-23 won the handball championship of tbe university in both singles and doubles divisions. Frequently Professor Baenx is to be found on tbe coliseum handball courts and the tricks and tech nique he first learned a score of years ago still aid him in polishing off many young Husker athletes in his favorite game. COEDS DECLARE NEBRASKA MEN L Poll Taken by Nebraskan Reveals Justification Of Charge. CAREFUL CHECK-UP MADE Reporters Cite Instances Of Male Discourtesy To Women. Editor' notf: On provocation of will rlent opinion letter In Thursday's Nehras kBn. naff members undertook an Investlca tlon on the courtesy question. Recognition In hereby paid the efforta of Coeds Jean Marshall and Ann Bunting In making ob servations and securing opinions. BY HOWARD ALLAWAY. Nebraska men are discourteous to their coeds! This charge, hurled in a student letter appearing in the Morning Mail column of The Daily Nebras kan Thursday, was supported by observations made by members of the Nebraskan staff on the cam pus yesterday. Poll of a representative group of women students chosen at random on the justification of the charges was largely inconclusive with a small majority affirming it. Soror itf house mothers and women fac ulty heads in general denied the charge or were non-committal in their answers. "G. B." In the student opinion which provoked the Nebraskan in vestigation laments the passing of the practice of men shaving cour tesy to women, takinjhls exam ples from university students. Show Little Respect. "The hat-tipping age is over,' says the letter. "Few men any' more show their respect to women in that manner. Because such a custom has been discarded is no reason that all others should be. A women not long ago was heard to say she was even surprised if a college man held a door open for her as she entered a building." In another place it states that, "It is such situations as these that cause some observers to term the college students a rude, careless, unmanerly crowd." Since the letter mentioned the between-classes situation in front of social sciences, the Nebraskan observations on courtesy were taken there in periods between three classes Thursday. The re sults supported the charges made in the letter. During the entire time only eight men paused to hold the door open and let a coed precede them into the entrance. Of thirty-eight couples of college men and women waiting between classes, in only (Continued on Page 3. ) .10 APPEAR NEXT WEK Humor Magazine to Feature Fraternity, Sorority 'Scandal.' NOVEL COVER DESIGNED Tho .Tnnunrv edition of the Aw- gwan. railed the Fraternity and Sorority number, will be ready tor distribution some time next week, according to an announcement made yesterday by Marvin Robin son oditnr of the publication. The magazine will be made up largely of material about Greek organiza tions. The Awgwan will contain many foafurpn on the subiect of frater nity and sorority members, Robin tod. Ladine- contributors to this issue are Francis Cunningham. J. T. (jonee, jick jvioran. noger Wilkerson, Marjorie Qulvey. Rol and Miller, ana irma nauaau. The cover, printed in black and white, will be modeled after the faahinn of a modern book lacket. A feature of the magazine will be a page by rrancis junnir.gnam, named "Thrifty Greeks," sur rounded bv a border of fraternity and sororitv party bids. Roland Miller has contributed an article on hew to identify a fra ternity man, giving five nur marks of such a man. J. i. t-oi-fee has written an article a la Milt Gross, entitled "Wan Day It Culled Oppon Us." If you are economi cally minded, you will be watching the sale advertisements. PAGE TWO Hovland-Swanson Modern Cleaners PAGE FOUR: r ( Miller & Paine - ACK COURTESY JANUARY AWGWAN t I i ? m I. i t, 5t r i J1 f i