Daily RA Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXI NO. 130. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS HE SKAN SALES OF COMIC APPROACH MARK SET LAST MONTH Early Wednesday Afternoon Check Shows But Few Copies Left. SAMPLES MAILED HIGHS State Schools Get Issues April Number to Open Story Contest. Sales of the April number of the Awgwan had reacnea approxi motAlv the, record set bv the March issue early Wednesday aft ernoon, according to Art Mitchell business manager of the publica f inn virtually no copies on hand despite the fact that over 300 additional copies weie pim this month. A good share of the extra copies printed went to high schools over the state in oraer iu lauunonm v,io-vi ohrvni students with the mag azine before entering the contest being sponsored by ine Awgwan tv, awb-wbh is offering: cash prizes for the best short story and cartoons prepareu uy ws students and sent to the Awgwan "The contest is being sponsored in an attempt to promote and un- .. oftistip nnri literarv ability among the high school students over the state," statea. aliu.ihu, "and we expect to receive a large amount of material in uua test." nrhv Continues. The Awgwan-Leiderkranz derby will continue and all those who wish to enter their selection in ine hv clinoine the I tlLC 1UOJ "J r ' V. it ballot and placing it in the ballot box provided in me AwBcm fice. The person selecting the wln nt it,. Tar will receive as the first prize a copy of the Fourth i . Isew x oncer aiduih. .Tanft Robertson Jane McLaughlin and Jane Steel were selected Dy we awBw cw to pick the winners of the derby. rm,. .. "on" will Tick the Win- ning nags by drawing the ballots (Continued on Page 4.) PLEDGE TWENTY-TWO Thursday Ceremony Formally Recognizes Successful Applicants. Twenty-two students who were recently selected as pledges of the Dramatic club after tryouts will be formally pledged at a meeting of the club to be held Thursday at 8 o'clock in the club rooms in the Temple. Marvin Schmid, president of the club, announced Wednesday. ThoBe who will be pledged are: Helen Grieve, Casper, Wyo.; Caro lyn Van Anda, Fremont; Clark Gutru, Newman Grove; Ruth Pres ton, Avoca, la.; Charles Steadman, Lincoln; Robert Ord, Lusk, Wyo.; Betty Ladd, Kewanee, 111.; Louise Perry. Lincoln; Helen Shelledy, Lincoln; Oscar Nielson, Aurora; Harry McKee, Gregory, S. D.; Frances Rymer, Lincoln; Armand Hunter, Humboldt; Marjorie Lowe, Lincoln; Lloyd Anfin. Rosalie; Peg Gurley, Lincoln; Elizabeth Betzer, Lincoln; Beverly Finkle, Lincoln; Julienne Palmer. Lincoln; Robert Yarbrough; Ruth Moss, Garden City, Kas., and Eleanor Jones, Lin coln. Pledges were selected by a try out committee consisting of the of ficers of the club, who are Marvin Schmid. president; Gay Miller, vice president; Reginald Porter, secre tary treasurer, and Ralph Spencer, chairman of the tryout committee. Applicants were selected on the basis of their showing In individual skits held during the tryouts. Be fore the Initiation of the new pledges will be held, group skits will be given, Schmid stated. DRAMATIC Number Books Checked Out During Year Shows Increase Declares Mrs. Graham in Reviewing Circulation "At present we are mainly occupied with the checking out of books for term papers and this keeps us tremendously busy." Btated Mrs. Consuelo-Stephens Graham, reference li brarian of the university, yesterday. A noticeable increase in the number of books checked out during this year is apparent. At present students are mainly J . . .4. I 1 1 1 . m i a. -i r J"l"5f,lcu uliKS on nuKO!y ""Ym2. 24.824 books were checked education and these comprise the In the three main libraries that comprise the university system, an average of 500 books are used each day. Most of these are checked out in the main desk on the first floor of the library. The Social Science reference section comes second and the reference stack room a close third. Numbers Fluctuate. On April ,11, 200 books were checked out of the main desk, 36 in Social Science and 29 from the reserve section. This, however, was an exceptionally poor day, as on April 14, 344 books were checked from the main desk, 180 from the reference desk and 221 from so cial science, a total of ,745 books for the day. During the month of March, 'BARTER' TO BE GIVEN Wesley Players to Enact Drama at Temple Thursday Eve. "Barter." a four-act religious drama, r.1ll bo presented Thursday night at 7:30 at the Temple theater under the auspices or tne wesiey Players women's auxiliary. Proceeds from the play, which has been secured on a year a con tract by the players, will go - to ward redecorating and renovating the Wesley Foundation parsonage. The cast includes: Reuben Hecht, Marian Higbee, Clifford Russell, Irving Walker, Margaret Huston, Wilma Dell Smith, Ray Llchenwalter, Mary Ware Morton Warren Henderson, and Ruth Buhrman. In addition to having been shown in Lincoln before, the drama has been staged at Grand Island, York, Waverly, Cortland, Friend, and Wahoo. It is also to be presented at Crete Hastings and Osceola dur ing the months of April and May, FEODE TO SPEAK FOR FAIR RALLY Manager Meredith Expects Big Crowd for Fest Thursday Eve. Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman of the home economics depart ment, and Prof. H. J. Gramlich, head of the animal husbandry dt vision, are to be the headline speakers on the farmer's fair rally being held on the College or Agri culture campus Thursday evening The rally starts at 7 o'clock. The largest crowd of the year is expected to attend the pre-fair rally, according to Manager Fred Meredith of the senior fair Board, Student interest in the fair has been steadily increasing since spring vacation and work on the fair is progressing nicely, ne sain. Both Miss Fedde and Professor Gramlich will speak about farm er's fair activities when they ap pear before the students. Miss Fedde is expected to talk rrom tne viewpoint of the home economics department while Professor Gram lich will speak for the college as a whole. The headline rally of the year is to be held a week rrom today in the student activities building, ac cording to Eva Buel who is ar ranging the rallies. Two of Lin coln's most prominent citizens have already signified their will ingness to appear on tne program, Their names have not been dis closed as yet. Individual committee meetings will be held following the rally to nieht. Manaeer Meredith urges all students to oe present, especially committee chairmen and student workers. Y.W.C.A. CONVENTION Three Students to Attend Minneapolis Conclave May 5 to 11. Th students and one faculty member, as well as the secretary nt th university Y. W. C. A., will represent Nebraska at the na tional biennial convention of that organization in Minneapolis May to 11. Student representatives whom the Y. W. C. A. cabinet voted to send are Jane Robertson, Gertrude Clarke and Helen Cassady. Miss Bernlce Miller, secretary of the campus organization, and Miss Margaret Fedde of the advisory board will also attend. A pre-conventlon discussion will held at Ellen Smith ball Friday afternoon at S o'clock. All mem bers of the cabinet are requested in attmrf. At this meeting' the cabinet will discuss and reach con clusions on the convention resolu tions which have ben sent them. out by the three libraries. During 1931, only 21,846 books were checked out during March. In Feb ruary, 1931, 21,083 books were borrowed and during February of this year, 24,155 were used. The grand total of books checked out during 1931 was 205,713 and this year's total promises to show a noticeable increase. Of the books checked out from the libraries, the majority are read or scanned while in the li brary itself. Not very many are taken home and the majority of these are from the main desk. On April 5, 1932, 352 books were checked from the main desk, 222 from the ' reference and 287 from Social Science. Of these. 169 from the main desk were checked out GRAMIICH. MISS (Continued on Page 3.) KOSMET PLAY TO I T Large Crowd Sees Curtain Fall on Extravaganza . Wednesday. YENNE C1G SUCCESS Credit Given Author, Main Character, Director of 'Jingle Belles.' LATE BULLETIN. If arrangements can be made Jingle Belles" will show again at the Temple Saturday night at 7:30, Assistant Play Manager Jackson Thompson announced late last night. The Wednesday presentation was a complete sell out, he said, with late-comers standing In the aisles. Tickets for the Saturday show will go on sale today or Friday at Long's Book Store. "Jingle Belles," Herbert Ycnne's successful two-act musical extrava ganza made its final showing on the Temple theater stage Wednes day evening. The largest crowd that witnessed the parody on col lege life was present at the closing perfoimance. To Herbert Yenne, author, di rector and leading character of the show and conductor of the ten the performances that the 1932 Kosmet Klub turned in. Mr Yenne as Mrs. Judith Barry, a tempera mental ex-actress, led a cast of ten characters and two choruses of ten men each. Ralph Ireland, Kosmet Klub alumnus, was the director of the choruses, assistant director of the show and conductor of then ten piece orchestra. Dick Devereaux president, and (Continued on Page 4.) E HISTORICAL CONCLAVE Sellers, General Chairman, Lists Arrangements for Meeting. CONVENES APRIL 28-30 Plana for the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical association, to be held in Lincoln on April 28, 29 and 30, were announced Wednesday by Dr. J. L. Scalers, associate profes sor of history. Dr. Sellers is chairman of the local committee on arrangements. Headquarters of the meeting win ne tne Lincoln notel, where most of the meetings and discus sions held by the association will De neid. Approximately one hun dred and fifty people are expected to attend the convention. The annual convention of the Nebraska History Teachers assO' elation will be held during the same period. Joint meetings of tne two organizations will be held for some of the discussions. The program of the meeting in eludes several discussions and readings of papers on various phases of American history. In structors in history and outstand ing bistorians in the Mississippi valley will attend the convention to take part in the meetings. f eatures or the convention will be a reception of the delegates given by Chancellor and Mrs. E, A. Burnett on April 28 in Morrill hall, and another reception to be given bv Governor and Mrs. unaries w. Bryan on April 29 at tne capitoi. Miss Franklin, Miss Jackson, Juniors, Give Program On Wednesday. The School of Music presented its twenty-fourth convocation of the 1931-1932 season in the Tem ple theater Wednesday afternoon. The program consisted of numbers by junior students in the school. Miss Regina Franklin, student with Laura Schuler Smith, and Miss Arly Jackson, student with Maude Fender Gutzmer, presented the following numbers, accompa nied by Marvin Bostrom. Miss Franklin is a pianist, Miss Jack son, a mezzo-soprano. 8chumann. IcrsnaKes; Franz, Evening; Franz, He Came; Mini Jackson. Bach, Prelude and Fugue, A flat roalor; Beethoven, Sonate Pathetique, Op. 13; Grave-Allegro; Id Is Franklin. Balero, Fa La Nana Bambln; Meyerbeer, Noble. Seigneur from "Lea Buxenota;" Miss Jackson. Chopin, Fantalile-Impromptu. C sharp minor: Debussy. Clair de Lune: Mosz- kowskl. The Jugglereas; Miss Franklin. Gains, The Bells of Bergen; Carpenter, The Odalisque; Bpross, Corns Down Laugh ing Streamlet; Miss Jackson. REED VISITS OMAHA AS SCHOOL EXAMINER Prof. A. A. Reed, of the univer sity extension division accom panied Dean B. E. McProud of Ne braska wesleyan, and H. F . Mar tin of Midland college, who com prise the Nebraska State Board of College Examiners, to umana Wednesday in order to visit four Omaha institutions SHOW AGAIN NEa SATURDAY NIGH Re-Elected fix Courtesy ot The Journal. DR. CHARLES FORDYCE. Dr. Charles Fordyce of the ed ucational psychology department was re-elected president of the state Y. M. C. A. at Its annual convention in Fremont yester day. He has already served three terms In this capacity. RACE QUESTION TOPIC WORLD FORUM TALK Status of. Negro in South Discussed by Colored Y.W.C.A. Worker. SCORES DISCRIMINATION Miss Celestine Smith, - national student Y. W. C. A. secretary vis iting here who addressed the World Forum Wednesday noon spoke on "What Students Can Do About the Race Question." Miss Smith is a negress, having lived in the south, and she spoke of con ditions there as she knows them, According to C. D. Hayes of the University Y. M. C. A., Miss Smith, in her treatment of the subject, spoke of some of the in justices that negroes in the south suffer. "The negro property hold ers are taxed the same as the whites, and altho they are consti tutionally allowed to vote they are by one method or another pre vented from doing so," Hayes said in summing up her speech. "Furthermore, they are deprived of their share of educational ad vantages. Segregation in the school system means that the south is under a necessity of sup plying two separate systems when it cannot really afford it. The rc suit is that after the education of the white children is provided for there is very little left for the ne gro," Miss Smith said. Educational Discrimination. In Georgia, for example, she ex plained, the per capita expenditure for the education of white chil dren is forty-two cents per an- ( Continued on Page 3.) AND BRIDLE. AG CLUB Martin, Miller, Bishop and Hedlund Get Posts at Business Meeting. Glenn LcDioyt, Junior in the College of Agriculture from North Platte, was elected president of the Block and Bridle club this week. John Martin is the new treasurer, Vernon Miller, vice president, and Wayne Bishop is the secretary. Floyd Hedlund will manage the 1933 Junior Ak-Sar-Bcn sponsored by the club. The newly elected president of the club Is prominent In student activities upon the College of Agri culture campus. He is president nf the Ag club, a member of the intcrfraternlty council, member of the Junior livestock Judping team and a member of Alpha Zeta, hon orary scholastic fraternity. LeDi oyt is affiliated with Farm House fraternity. In business session the club again decided to sponsor the Jun ior Ak-Sar-Ben. The event has been an annual affair and was successful this year. The Ak-Sar-Ben will probably be held during the second semester of next year. Professors at New York univer sity feel that college girls do less cniseiing ' lor grades than do men. More than sixty schools in the United States now offer courses in aeronautics. CAMPUS CALENDAR Thursday. Pi Mu Epsilon, M. A 308, 7:30 oV'ock. Faculty men's dinner for Prof. O. D. Sweezer, University club, at 6:30. Friday. Glee Club, 5 o'clock, Morrill Hall. Ag College Y. W. C. A. Staff- Homo Ec parlors 5 o'clock. Committee on program staff of the Y. W. C- A. Ellen Smith hall, 5 o'clock. Y. W. C. A. cabinet pre-conven- tion discussion Ellen Smith hall, 3 o clock. ocial dancing class, Armory. Thursday. Pi Mu Epsilon, ii. A. 308, 7:30 o'clock. Faculty men's dinner for Prof. G." D. Sweezy, University club at Glee Club, 5 o'clock, Morrill hall. wmmjm r W.:1rV ... .,.4,wl EIGHT DEBATES SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY NIGHT Sixteen Teams Give Greek Arguments Good Start In First Tilts. SECOND ROUND APRIL 26 Semi-Finals Set for April 28; Tourney to End . Early in May. Fraternity "bull sessions" will be disbanded Thursday night to make way for intellectual argu mentation in the form of intra mural debates. Eight debates will be held in eight fraternity houses. Brothers of the participants will form the audiences for contests that will be decided by impartial Judges who are members of the varsity squad. Less than an hour of time will be consumed in the staging of the forensic combats. Each speaker will be allotted six minutes in main speech and four minutes in rebuttal. Two representatives from each house will comprise a tea-- Delta Sigma Lambda eliminated Kappa Sigma in a preliminary round Tuesday night. The num ber of teams that remain in the field total sixteen. The eight win ners will meet in the second round April 26. Semi-finals are sched uled for April 28 and the decisive contest will be held the first week in May. The question the Greek arguers will debate is: Resolved that com pulsory military training be abol ished on the Nebraska campus. Teams will alternate between the negative and the affirmative sides of the issue. Start at 7. Contests will get under way at (Continued on Page 3.) TALKS HERE IUESDAY Colonel Blayney Will Speak On American Citizen's Relation to World. FRANKFORTER PRAISES Colonel Lindsey Blayney, dean and chairman of the administra tive committee of Carlton college in Northfield, Minn., will speak at an open meeting to be held in the Temple theater next Tuesday eve ning. Colonel Blayney, according to Colonel C. J. Frankforter who was associated with him at Fort Snell ing, Minn., last year, is a man of exceptional ability and is scholar of prominence. Dean Blayney was invited to the university by reason of the happy balance of altruistic idealism and of sane practicality in his intel lectual makeup, according to Col onel Frankforter. He will speak on "The American Citizen and the Changing World." After eight years or travel ana residence in Europe and Africa Dean Blayney took his doctor's de gree at Heidelberg, Germany. He has served in the consular serv ice of the United States and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society of Great Britain. The owner of LL.D de grees from four American col leges, Colonel Blayney also saw two years service in the war. FORDYCE TO TALK AT A.W.S. Board Sponsors April 26 Conference for All Women Students. The spring vocational guidance conference for university women sponsored by the A. W. 5. board will begin Tuesday, April 26 at 4 with a talk by Dr. Charles u. Fordyce, according to Mary Alice Kelley who is making the arrange ments. Dr. Fordyce will address the A. W. S. freshman group in Ellen Smith hall, but anyone who is in terested is invited. He will speak on "Vocations for Women" and will also give a list of good voca tional books for women. On Wednesday at 5 in Ellen Smith ball, Miss Harriet Towne will talk to the girls. Her subject will be announced later, but she will devote a part of her time to a general discussion. IOME EC LEADER TELLS OF RUSSIAN EDUCATION PLAN At the regular meeting of Pi Lambda Theta Tuesday evening Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman of the department of home economics, poke to the group on the educa tional system in Russia. Miss Fea gave an interesting account of the development of education in that country within the last seven years and discussed the cultural background of the people and its influence upon the school children. SWEZEY TO BE HONORED Veteran Astronomer to Be Feted at Faculty Men's Club Dinner. Prof. G. D. Swezey, veteran had of the department of astronomy, will be honored at a dinner held by the Faculty Men's club at the Uni versity club at 6:30 Thursday eve ning. Professor Swezey, who is to retire at the age of eighty-one after thirty-eight years of service at the University of Nebraska, was recently given the title Emeri tus. Speakers on the program, at which Chancellor Burnett will pre side, include ol 1 friends of Profes sor Swezey on the faculty. They are Dr. F. M. Fling of the history department, Prof. Laurence Fos sler of the German department, Chancellor Emeritus Samuel Av ery, Professor Emeritus Sherman of the English department, and Dr. E. H. Barbour of the geology department and curator of the mu seum. AG COLLEGE WILL AT Honories Will Announce New Members Thursday Morning at 11. As previously announced all classes on the College of Agricul ture campus are being excused Thursday morning at 11 o'clock for the annual honors convocation when over fifty students will be honored by elections to various honorary fraternities and sorori ties. Prof. C. C. Minteer, who is in general charge of the convocation, announced Wednesday night that the convocation will be held in the Student Activities building. It is expected that he will preside over the general meeting of all stu dents. Among the organizations honor ing the students are Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Upsilon Omicron and Omicron Nu. In ad dition the various Judging team awards will be made as well as the awards by the University of Ne braska 4-H club to outstanding former club members. AG PARTY SCHEDULED SATURDAY, APRIL 23 Terry Townsend's Band Will Play; Tickets on Sale At 75 Cents. The first Ag spring party will be held Saturday, April 23, at 8:30 p. m. in the Student Activities build ing on the Agricultural college campus. Terry Townsend's twelve piece band has been secured to furnish music and entertainment for the party. Delphian Nash, in charge of entertainment and dec orations intimated that extensive preparations for the decoration of the Activities building are being made. Tickets were placed on sale the first of the week and arc selling at 75 cents per couple. Approximate ly 150 couples are expected to at tend. Chaperones and sponsors have not yet been announced by the committee. The party is being put on under the auspices of the Ag. executive board, the committee in charge consisting of Ruth Jenkins, Hazel Benson, Delphian Nash, Thomas Snipes, and Jess Livings ton. COLLEGE LEAGUE WILL MEET THURSDAY AT 1 The College League will vote on its new constitution at the meet ing Thursday, April 12, at 4 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall. Fur ther plans will be made for the annual League banquet which will be held Thursday, April 28. HONOR STUDENTS N AT ON University Has Machine for Card Sorting and Tabulating That Gives Evidence of Superhuman Faculties By LA VON LINN. The speed, accuracy and economy of the secretarial work at the University of Nebraska has been greatly enhanced by the addition of new appliances to the Hollerith card sorter and accounting machine which is being operated in the west sla dium. This machine sorts 400 cards per minute, while the mv counting and tabulating nlachinc is capable of a maximum of 10U cards per minute. At the present time use of the machine is contemplated in help ing Ray Ramsay, secretary of the Alumni association, arrange the alumni cards, which are being sorted and filed in connection with the publication of the Alumni Di rectory. These cards, printed in code, have eighty columns of sta tistics and data and the machine will sort them according to any predetermined grouping. Formerly used by the registrar's office, the machines have now been made more complete with the ad dition of new apparatus and are more or less used for all university research, secretarial and account ing work. So great is the field of work which this machine will accomplish thst it is really a combination atlas of the world, dictionary, RAMSAY SECURED AS TOASIA STER FOR GREEK FETE Alumni Secretary Scheduled Talk at Interfraternity Banquet May 3. TICKETS OUT THURSDAY Special Council Meeting on Tap for Issuing of 750 Ducats. Ray Ramsay, alumni secretary and popular university speaker, was secured Wednesday as toast- master for the annual interfra ternity banquet in the Cornhuskcr hotel Tuesday, May 3. Seven hundred fifty tickets for the banquet will be checl-.ed out to members of the Interfraternity council at a special meeting of the Greek legislators in Morrill hall at 7:30 Thursday. Tickets will go on sale at once with Marvin Schmid in charge. The banquet committee, headed by Chalmers Graham, will recom mend that all fraternity house tables be closed for the event at Wednesday's meeting to permit the largest possible attendance of the fraternity men at the banquet. Last year 510 attended. Leo Beck and his Antelope park orchestra with the Kvam sisters singing will entertain at the ban quet. Chancellor E. A. ' Burnett, DeanT. J. Thompson ana iNorman Galleher, president of the council. will sDeak briefly. The mam speaker of the evening has not yet been named. Prof. E. F. Schramm, faculty adviser to the council, will award the fifteen Scholarship plaques to the fraternities having the highest scholastic averages for the second semester last year and the first semester this year. The Haincr scholarship cup will go to the na tional fraternity with the highest scholarship. JUNIOR LEAGUE TO GIVE CHILD'S SHOW 'Sleeping Beauty' Planned For Saturday Program At Temple. "Sleeping Beauty," the last of the series of children's plays given under the auspices of the Junior League, will be presented Satur day afternoon at Temple theater. Miss H. Alice Howell and Misn Pauline Gcllatly are directing the play, which was written by two members of the Seattle Junior League. Members of the cast are as fol lows: King Hclmas, Wayne Allen; Queen Melior, Mirian Kissinger; Princess Briar Rose, Mae Posey: Sir Bumble Puff, Francis Brandt; Janicot, as a child, Norman Walt, Jr. Janicot, Joe di Natale; Yvetk'. Evelyn Gritzka; Mclnsene, Blanche Carr; nurse, Mrs. Cella Brown; King Philibcrt, John Chapman; Queen Heloise, Lucile Cypreansen; Prince Perion. Lee Voung; Prin cess Rosalia. Jessie Keeshan; Prin cess Isold, Marguerite Hollenbeck; Princess Blanchefleure, Mary Crary. Puck, Frances Rhymer; Tilalna, Clara Christensen; Horrockin, Anne Kavich; Strisskau. Marjorio Dean; good fairies, Betty Brown, Georgia Walker, Patsy Oxley, , Betty Ixiu Wertz, Anne Kinder, Jean Hoppe, Virginia Lee, Sylvi.i Wtlf, Alice Louise, Gladys Mason and Betty Trailer; dragon flies, Carl Rohman, Stuart Goldberg, Dorothy Card. Helen Hewitt, Shir ley Grossman, Marylouise Neal, Ghita Hill. Lois Opper, Margaret towlcr, Mary Jean Wegner; maids in waiting, Martha Whelan, Elaine Holcomb, Dorethea Fulton, Helen Severa and Carolyn Davis. check writer, psychoanalyst,' book keeper and accountant Machines of this type are in uso in the census bureaus of seventy eight countries of the world, and have been used in the United States census bureau since before the World war. It is declared by census experts to be the swiftest and most accurate known way of recording and filing vital statistics. It is Indeed amusing to see the machine set to sort cards accord ing to a certain standard, and to watch the cards being tossed hither and yon into various pigeonholes, and at the end of the process to see the corKKt number of cards dispensed en the receiving counter. The machine seems to possess superhuman understanding and in telligence. . It is called upon to sort (Continued on Page 3.) .V ,' V K