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2 DAILY NEBRA ? Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska i VOL. XXXI NO. 121. PRICE FIVE CENTS LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. SUNDAY, APRILS, 1932 HE SKAN TO BETA KAPPA WILL Announcement of Selection To Be Made at Tuesday Convocation. GROUP VARIES, IN SIZE One-Tenth to One-Sixth of Graduating Class May Be Honored. Election of new members into Phi Beta Kappa will follow a din ner at the university ciud Monday night. At that time tho active members of the honorary scholas tic fraternity will consider possible changes in the method of selecting members. The newly elected mem bers will be announced at a uni versity convocation in the Temple theater at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Contrary to the common concep tion scholarship is not the only consideration for membership in the organization, according to . Prof. C. M. Hicks, secretary or tne Nebraska Alpha chapter. Good moral character ig an added quali fication. The Nebraska chapter permits the selection of a student in any collejre who has fulfilled the group requirements of the Arts and Sci ences college and has met all qual ifications. This custom is unique to the Nebraska chapter. Forty-Six Elected Last Year. Each year from one-tenth to one-sixth of the graduating class is honored by election into Phi Beta Kappa. Last year forty-six students were awarded the honor. The highest average of 94.74 was made bv Miss Mary Margaret can' nell of Lincoln. In addition to the election of students the announce' ment of the selection of Chancellor (Continued on Page 3.) NTERSORORITY SING PLANS ME SHAPE A. W. S. Board Starts Work On Event Scheduled. For May 5. TRI-DELTS LAST VICTORS Plans for the annual Intersor ority sing which precedes the mas quing of the Motar Boards and tapping of the Innocents on Ivy day, are being made by the A. W. S. board which sponsors the con test. An effort will be made this year to have a 100 percent entry of all sororities, according to Ber eniece Hoffman, president of the A. W. S. board. Letters will be issued to each sorority Monday requesting that all those groups wishing to enter the contest file their intention be fore Friday, April 8, at 12 o'clock. Each group will be limited to two songs this year, and may dress in any costumes they choose. A majority of the group should be represented in the singing rather than an octet or quartet. Alumnae are allowed to help in the prepar ation of the songs, but they may not take an active part in the singing on Ivy day. The sing is sponsored annually by the A. W. S. board which awards a cup to the winners. The cup is permanently given to a group which wins it for three con secutive years. Delta Delta Delta is in posses sion of the cup this year having won first plfice in the contest last year. Kappa Alpha Theta took second place, and Alpha Delta Theta. third, last year. Bereniece Hoffman, president of the board will award the cup im mediately after the sing on Ivy day. Judges for the event will be announced at a later date. ELECTION BE HELD MONDAY Prof. Bullock Believes Prospects For Getting Jobs Slightly Better Chairman of Committee on Placements Says More Positions Open.. "Day by day In every way the employment situation is getting better and better, (apologies to M. Emilc Coue, eminent French psy chologist!," stated Prof. Theodore T. Bullock, chairman of the Uni versity of Nebraska committee on placements. Saturday. "That is a little better. With relatively few positions open to seniors last year, prospects for more this spring are in sight. "1 look for a larger number of personnel men to come to the uni versity than came last year," the professor continued, "when about twenty-five representatives of com panies visited the campus. About fifty interviewed Nebraska seniors in 1930. This was a peak number, and was at a time when the sever ity of the depression was not realized. "I xpect at least thirty person nel men to come to Nebraska by June. This number represents an advance over last year's quota and indicates that business i!ls are somewhat on the downward slide, I hope,", the professor stated. "As yet, things are pretty slow COLORADO DEBATES LISTED APRIL 7 AND 8 Magee and Fishbuugh Will Make Western Trip to End Season. Earl C. Fishbaugh and Woodrow Magee will complete Nebraska's current debating season April 7 and 8 with a trip to Colorado. There they will discuss the affirma tive of the government control question with the University of Colorado debaters at Boulder, and in a return engagement, with the students of the University of Den ver the following day. ' The current debating schedule totals twenty-three for the season, tho longest schedule ever attempted in a single season. Two other debates were cancelled by oppo nents, one with Peru Normal col lege and one with the College of the Pacific. ' ENGINEERS PLAN ANNUAL-TOUR TO INSPECT PLANTS Upperclassmen to Visit Saint Louis April 11 Jo 16 On Excursion. Final arrangements for the an nual inspection trip of the Engin eering college were made at a meeting of all the juniors and seniors in the college expecting to make tho trip at a meeting that was held in room 206 of the Me chanical Arts building Friday aft ernoon at 5 o'clock. Instructions were given to all those attending by the committee in charge of the tiip. It is com- posed of W. F. Weiland, mecnani cal enginering; L. A. Bingham, electrical engineering; C. J. Frank furter, chemical enginering; H. J. Kesner, civil engineering and C. L. Zink. According to the instructions, railway tickets must be purchased before April 6, at the city office of the Missouri Pacific railroad. The trip will continue from April 11 to April 16. Bus transportation will be used in St. Louis, and the cost of this transportation must be paid at the university finance secre tary's office on or before April 4. Private cars will not be permitted for transportation iu St Louis. . A written request for permission to go teTSt. Louis by private auto mobile must be submitted to Dean Ferguson of the Engineering col lege before April 4. Arrangements have been made (Continued on Page 3.) RECfTAL 10 BE GIVEN Variety of Selections Will Comprise Program at Temple Theater. The first evening recital of the year, sponsored by the school of fine arts and the music depart ment will be given Tuesday eve ning at the .Temple' at 8:15 o'clock according to a music department announcement Saturday. . Features of the varied program include vocal and instrumental solos, numbers by the glee club and singing by a mixed quartet. The presentation will be climaxed by a finale by the school of music symphony orchestra under the di (Continued on Page 3.) Senior Announcements To Go on Sale Monday Invitations and announce ments for seniors will be placed on sale. Monday morning at Long's airi the Co-operative book stores, according to Har old Petz, senior class president. These are to be oh sale only for a limited time, the sale deadline to be published later. in the business world, judging by statements made in reply to the committee's invitations to send in terviewers," stated Professor Bul lock. "Many firms refer to the present chaos in business as a rea son for their not beingfin the mar ket for men. All hope, however, for a quick betterment of condi tions and state they will look to the universities for men when needed. A large number of execu tives tell us that the Nebraska U. men they have added in the past have made good, working up to re sponsible positions." Can Watch Industry. As chairman of the committee on placements, Mr. Bullock has his fingertips on the pulse of industry, so to speak. Replies to invitations to interview this year's seniors of the University of Nebraska have come from many of ths nation's leading businesses, and by the tone of acceptances and refusals, Mr. Bullock receives a fair picture of the advance being madn in fight ing the depression. "What kind of man do the ma jority of companies want," the chairman was asked, "the high scholarship type or the fair schol arship man with a personality?" (Continued on Page 4.) REORGANIZATION EOF SCHOOLFAGULTY Prof. Kirkpatrick Named Director; Personnel Not . Announced Yet. EFFECTIVE NEXT YEAR Instructors Under New Plan 1 Will Be Teachers in University Only. Prof. Howard Kirkpatrick, since last fall acting director of the Uni versity school of music, has been named director of the school, ef fective at once, and the entire fac ulty of that university depart ment is being reorganized, accord ing to an announcement made Sat urday by Chancellor E. A. Bur nett. The reorganization, recently approved by the board of regents, will become effective next school year. Under this reorganization, in structors of music and accredited teachers of applied music will be discontinued and a new faculty or ganized along regular university dines. Persons registering for credit in music in the new organization will take this work in the University school of music, the Chancellor ex plained. Advanced credit will be accepted from other music schools of standing on the same basis as academic credit is now accepted from other standard institutions. (Continued on Page 4.) L IBE Instructor in Ceramics to Speak at Morrill Hall This Afternoon. A talk on "How Pottery is Made" by Dr. Raymond Henry Williams will be given Sunday aft ernoon, April 3, at 3 o'clock in room 300 in Morrill hall. Dr. Wil liams is instructor in Ceramics in the. University of Nebraska school of fine arts. Before coming to the University of Nebraska Dr. Williams was in structor in the art department of the University of Wisconsin. Ex amples of his work in ceramics, and some of his paintings have been shown in several western ex hibitions. Much of the data concerning early civilizations has been de rived solely from ceramics of these periods, according to Dr. Williams. He says: "Many people do not realize how much of the history of the world has been re constructed for us by archeologists and anthropologists who, in some cases, have had little more than odd bits of pottery here and there from which to learn about. the peo ple who made them. In our own university, the department of an thropology is conducting investi gations to find out about the prim itive tribes who lived in Nebraska centuries ago. The remains of the pottery which they made, help greatly to throw light on the kind of culture they had." Dr. Earl H. Bell, of the depart ment of anthropolgy of the uni ( Continued on Page 4.) MAD 1 C FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN SELECTING A VOCATION First- Prize Essay in the Chancellor's Contest By ORVILLE L. PIERSON 1 "You couldn't get me to enter that vocation. Don't you know there Is no money in it?" Such statements have reached their present popularity within the past few decades. Formerly a per son selected a vocation because the work held some attraction for him or, more likely, because it had been the occupation of his ances tors. The advance of industrialism effected several changes. A larger number of fields were open to a person selecting a vocation. More important, factory made goods ap peared on the market. Custom soon labeled some of these as necessities. They became essential for the happiness of a person but could not be obtained without -money. So the money a person migm earn came to De tne primary measure' of his happiness and the major factor to be considered in the selection of a vocation. It is unfortunate that money and happiness have come to be syn onymous in this respect. Their in terchangeability has placed the primary emphasis upon the wages paid in a vocation. People have come to select a particular voca tion as their occupation almost solely because it has the reputation to them of paying high wages. And If anyone ventures to suggest such a basis of selection is wrong, be is met with the rejoinder, 'Money talks.' Select Best Paid Work. Such a philosophy apparently makes the selection of a vocation easy. One need only cast about un til he discovers the field in which the largest wages are paid and in which he has some degree of abil ity. That done his problem is A Jingle Belle (, ' f - BYRON "BUD" BAILEY. Who takes the part of Mary Lou and shows up the villain in Kosmet Klub's spring show "Jin gle Belles" which will play in Lin coln and several other cities in the state. The picture above shows Bailey as he appeard in the lead role of "High and Dry," Kosmet's 1931 show. NEWS STAFF CHANGED ON DAILY NEBRASKAN Temporary Shift Caused By Absence of Regular Assistants. A temporary revision in the Daily Nebraskan staff, necessi tated by the severe illness of Jack Erickson, managing editor, and the departure of three senior members of the staff for a two weeks' field assignment on papers of the state, was announced Saturday. '. Laurence Hall, news editor, Lincoln, will take Erickson's place as managing editor until the latter is able to return to school. Wom en's editor, replacing Ruth Schill for this week and the two days of school next week, is'Irma Randall, Omaha, junior. Harry Foster, Lincoln, junior, and Dick Moran, Omaha, sophomore, will be acting news editors until April 16. They will do the work of Oliver DeWolf and Virginia Pollard, news editors who are leaving today for their two weeks field work. The remainder of the staff re mains unchanged as follows: Art Wolf, editor; Howard Allaway, managing editor; Phil Brownell, news editor; Joe Miller, sports editor; Katherine Howard, society editor. CAMPUS CALENDAR Tuesday. Council of Religious Welfare meeting at 12 o'clock at Grand ho tel. A. W. S. freshman activities group meeting at 4 o'clock in El len Smith hall. Wednesday. A. W. S. board, new and old, meeting at 12 o'clock in A. W. S. office. solved, provided he can secure a satisfactory position in -that field. If not, he may turn to the next best vocation without seriously damaging his happiness. To the thoughtful person, how ever, the selection of a life work is not such a simple procedure. He knows it is one requiring the proper balancing and co-ordination of a number of factors before the correct vocation may be deter minded. He has as his ideal voca tion that one in which he can ac complish the greatest permanent good for the largest number of people. Such a criterion realizes that the zenith of life's happiness is not to be attained solely thru material possession but only by the full development of one's apti tudes thru the rendition of sub stantial services to others. It is interesting to follow the develop ment of such reasoning as applied to the selection of a 'vocation. The first step would be the se lection of a field in which the per son has some special ability. Such a selection is essential if he is to find any pleasure in the work. It cannot reasonably be expected that the momentary pleasure of a week ly pay check can offset the dis tasteful features of a daily task in which the person has no inter est. It. is well established that a person cannot long find a work in teresting if he has no capacity for that work. So it is that inherent ability must be taken as a primary guide,' even if only to insure hap piness of the individual while at work. Right Selection Essential. Selection of a vocation in keep ing with one's abilities is, however, NEWLY SELECTED AGENTS OF BARI GROUPS TO MEET Representatives Called Begin Organization Tuesday Night. to SEVENTEEN ARE PICKED Exoect to Form Permanent Group; Student Council Must Approve. Representatives from seventeen groups of barb students will be called to meet Tuesday night to continue steps in the process of forming the uncufillated students on the campus into orgamzeu oo dles for political and social pur poses. The representatives were elected Thursday evening when a selected list of rooming houses in which five or more barb students are staying were canvassed by speakers appointed by the faction realignment committee. The plan for organizing barb students was presented to the stu dents at the various rooming houses and one member of each group was named to serve as rep resentative from his house in for mulating plans for organizing the unaffiliated students. These rep resentatives will be notified of the meeting by phone, before Tuesday, according to Edwin Faulkner, president of the Student council (Continued on Page 4.) ELECTION DATE SET FOR HOI EC CLUB Ag College Group Will Name New Heads on Monday And Tuesday. Election of Home Economics as sociation officers for the coming year is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, April 4, and 5, from 10 to 5 o'clock in the Home Economic parlqrs on, the Ag col lege campus. Nominees are: President: Loretta Borzy, Ma rlon Lynn. Vice president: Margaret Thompson, Teresa Libershal. Secretary: Muriel Moffitt, Val entine Klotz. Treasurer: Leona Geiger, Ar lene Bors. Marion Lynn, a junior from Minden, has served as social chair man of the Home Ec board during the last year. She is a member of Phi Upsilon Omicron, Home Ec honorary and on the junior board of the Farmers' fair. Loretta Borzych is also a junior whose home is st Farwell. She is lecturer of the Newman club, and takes part in Orchesis. Margurite Thompson, Winne toon, Alpha Delta Theta, is also a member of Kappa Phi, and is pres ent treasurer of the Home Ec as sociation. Teresa Libershal, Plattsmouth. is a member of Phi Upsilon Omi cron, and serves on the Home Ec board and the Ag college Y. W. C. A. board. Muriel Moffitt, Lincoln, is ac tive in 4-H club work. She is a (Continued on Page 4.) desirable from a purely social view point. It has been pointed out that happiness will be found only in such a vocation. A happy person is not only a valuable asset to society but he also tends to be a very ef ficient one. These conditions make it imperative that the. vocation se lected be within the range of one's abilities if he is to make his max imum contribution to society. Complications usually arise when it is discovered that a person is na turally fitted for several vocations. It then becomes necessary to de cide which of these vocations af fords the greatest opportunity for the rendition of real and perman ent service to mankind. Such a de cision is not readily made and will, of course, veary with the opinion of the individual. The dfficulty of deciding correctly becomes more apparent when itjis remembered that those fields dealing with amusements and luxuries are not excluded. It is often possible to make a real and permanent contribution to society thru work in one of these callings. A certain amount of rec creatlon and luxury have become necessary for the most effective functioning of human beings. So it is that work in this field, while apparently concerned with transi ent things, may be of great assis tance In enabling others to render services that are directly valuable. Should Consider Service. The problem is perhaps some what simplified if' an attempt is made to choose the vocation in which service may be rendered to the greatest number of people. This addition to the vocational (Continued on Page 4.) MAY 2-6 ANNOUNCED FOR PHARMACY WEEK Annual Open House Is Omitted From List of Events This Year. The date for Pharmacy week has been set tentatively for the week of May 2, according to Charles Bryant, president of the Pharma ceutical club. Final arrangements are being delayed until definite word has been received from Dean Haverhill of Kansas Stato univer sity who is to speak at the ban quet, Bryant stated. According to present plans the annua! picnic is scheduled for Fri day, May 5, and the banquet Is set for the evening of May 6. Although plans for the picnic and banquet are being carried out, it was decided by a unanimous vote at a Pharmacy convocation to drop open house night this year on ac count of the small number of stu dents registered in the college. N CHANCELLOR'S ESSAY- CONTEST Seven Cash Prizes Awarded; Orville Pierson Gets First Place. Orvilli I.. Piprsnn of Omaha, a senior in the mechanical engineer- . i i ing department, nas Deen awaraeu the first prize of $40 in Chancellor v. A. Rnmptt a fourth essav nrize contest held annually at the state university, according to an nnnnppmpnt made Saturday. The essays this year were written on the subject, "What Should be Con sidered in Choosing a Vocation?" Marie Macumber of Lincoln, a In thi Trarhprs colleee. was awarded the second prize of $25, wnue tjnris r uios oi umam, a. st-u- ior in the College of Arts and bci- ences, received the third prize of $15. Four prizes of $5 each were awarded to Helen M. Jorgenscn, Sorum, S. D., Arts and Sciences freshman; Carlyle Hodgkin, Lin coln, College of Agriculture junior; Howard Holtzendorff, Lincoln, jun ior in the College of Arts and Sci ences, and Mrs. Helen Tysell, Lin coln, Teachers college senior. Judges who considered the mer its of the forty-five essays were Ray E. Ramsay, secretary of the University Alumni association, and Ernest W. Lundeen, librarian at Cotner college. AI1N WILL APPEAR soon AFeveii Contributors Requested to Turn in Copy Before Spring Recess. According to present plans of the April number of the Awgwan will make its appearance on the campus shortly after spring vaca tion. Editor Marvin Robinson an nounced yesterday. "There remains but a little time for contributions to come in and they should be in by the beginning of spring vaca tion," Robinson said. A rge amount of material has been received at the present time and the indications are for another successful issue. The cover this month is being drawn by Norman Hansen and the nature of the drawing has not been revealed. A (Continued on Page 3.) Engineer Chairmen to Meet Monday for Plans There will be an important meeting of the chairmen of the general and departmental com mittees for Engineer's Week on Monday at 5 o'clock in the study of the Mechanics Arts building. WINNER POKED Moving Pictures Are oi Utmost Value In Education Claims Miss Shanafelt Children Are Particularly Influenced by Films Says Expert. "Educational movies are of the utmost value to the American peo ple," said Miss Marjorie Shanafelt, curator of visual education, in a recent interview. Today, moving pictures are constantly being "put on the spot" and punctured by siz zling criticism, but the educational Importance cannot be disregarded or neglected. "As far as the amusement pic ture is concerned I have no state ment to make, but educational pic-, tures used for instructional pur poses are excellent. Looking at them, in this aspect, especially In the instruction of children, they are of genuine importance, she declared. , "Talking sequences to pictures are not essentials to the under standing of a child." she contin ued. "The picture alone is enough to convey an idea to the mind. Children comprehend pictures more rapidly than reading material, for a picture registers a thought the moment it is flashed on the screen. It has been my experience to find that a child scrutinizes a picture more closely and often his inspec DEBATE NOW HAS ITS PLACE ON LIST Decision Made to Include Forensics in Program Of Activities. PAIRINGS BEING DRAWN Seventeen Fraternities So Far Will Participate In Tournament. Debate was firmly established as a part of the intramural activities program as the result of a meet ing of Delta Sigma Run, honorary forensic fraternity, that was held last Friday. Rudolf Vogclnr, chair man of tho intramurals, is pairing the seventefn fratrrnities that have thus far signified their ac ceptance of the proposed pro gram. The plan that was originally drawn up by the committee that was appointed to investigate in tramural ' debate, was accepted with but one exception. There will be only one judge under the pres ent code. Professor H. A. White, debate coach, will be in charge of selecting judges to officiate. The question for debate has not been picked as the backers of the program are anxious to get a wide awake issue that will interest the students. Of the two sample ques tions that were proposed by Delta Sigma Klio in tne rorum letter mai was mailed last week the issue of the abolition of compulsory mili tary training aroused the most favor. May Still Enter. There is still an opportunity for organizations that are interested in the round robin debate to sign up for participation. This may be Hnnp hv BDnlvine at the intramural sports office in the Coliseum. r-iolfo Qlo-mn Rhn hODeS that all itiw J ft of the fraternities that have agreed to enter the program will co-operate and assist in putting the plan over. It was the surmise of the de bate honorary that there were at lAoot twr mnn in PVprV house that would be interested in a round (Continued on rage 4.) DEAOulSEfl IVY DAY POETRYCONTEST Mortar Boards Request That Poems Be Submitted Before April 23. IDENTITY KEPT SECRET Poems for the Ivy Day poetry contest sponsored annually by Mortar Board, senior women s honorary organization, should be submitted to the judges before April 23. The identity of the Ivy day poet will be concealed until the winner reads the poem on the morning of Ivy day, May 5. Every student in the university Is eligible to submit a poem in the contest. No requirement as to the length or subject is set. but it is understood that the poem which is finally chosen will have a theme suitable for Ivy day. The Ivy day a emio-ht sinrp the noem ap pears on the Ivy day program and is read to tne assemmeu u"u -fore the crowning of the May Queen. , . Waitie Thuiiow of Auburn. Uu Omega, was Ivy day poet last year or. roori hor nnpm at the tradi tional ceremonies. Evelyn West is in charge of the contest mis yem . Dr. L. B. Walker Asked To Exhilnt at Cornell Dr. L. B. Walker, department of botany, has been asked to make exhibits on her research in Endo gone and Ascoidea for the Inter national Congress of Genetics which convenes in August at Cor nell university. tion includes minute details that even an adult fails to notice," she said. . , . If the old adage "seeing is be lieving" has any virtue, education al movies are very lnnuenuai. au old Chinese proverb entertains the idea that one still picture equals 12,000 words in printed matter and if this is true moving pictures are worthy of high appraisal Miss Shanafelt says that not only are movies significant t6 children but they are instructive in study for adults. Distant places of interest that an individual would not otherwise see are presented to him through this medium, in addi tion to clarifying indefinite ob jects. Movies have aided in the prog ress of education, according to Miss Shanafelt. and are not lack ing in our institutions of learning. She believes that movies should play a more Important part in every phase of study but should not be depended upon or used en tirely. "This means should supple ment the regular., reading work. "Despite the constant criticism and numerous Indictments, the moving picture industry has its at tributes and these should be con sidered in its importance to . the American people. OF INTRA1RALS i i i ,