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AILY NEBRA Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska T3 VOL. XXX! f NO. 19. L1NC0IJV, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY. OCTOHMR 11. 1932. PRICE 5 CENTS D THE SKAN FILE IN LIST To Appear Before State Examining Committee After Selection. EXPECT MORE TO APPLY Candidates From Nebraska To Enter District Competition. Five men had filed for Rhodes scholarships Monday as the dead line drew near, according- to an an nnuncement Issued from the office of Dean C. H. Oldfather, chairman of the university committee on se lections, one or two more names are expected to come in, however, Derore tne filings close. Names of the men who had filed were not released. Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 13 the university committee will name five men to appear before, the state committee on selection, of which H. A. Gunderman is chairman, From these men and others from the various universities and col leges throughout the state, two will be chosen to represent Ne braska in the district competition, in which students will be entered from Minnesota, Iowa, South Da- kota, Missouri, and Kansas. Pour men will be selected from each of the eight districts in the United States to receive the thirty-two scholarships allotted to this coun try annually. In order to be eligible for these awards the candidate must be a male citizen of the United States, unmarried and between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five. In addi tion he must have at least com pleted his sophomore year in some recognized college or university in I the United States. Besides schol astic distinction the applicant must be distinguished as to personality and character. The recipient of these awards is ' entitled to three years of study at the University of Oxford. Nebraska university was not represented in the selections made in 1931 from this district, but Price Heusner of York, a student at Swathmore was one of the two men chosen from this district. John TMrie, a graduate of the university, will complete his work at Oxford this year. Ervin Schimmelpfennig, also formerly of the university, completed his course at Oxford the year before. j PUBLISH POETRY OF Work of Students Included In Anthology Recently Published. Verses written by four Univer sity of Nebraska freshmen arc con tained In an anthology which has just been published by the exten sion division of the University of Nebraska. These students are Elizabeth Bushee, Barbara Bates, Frances Brown and Lois Rathburn. Their poems were among the forty-two selected from 1.520 sub mitted by Nebraska high school students last year. The editor of the anthology is Loy E. Owen, a graduate student in "the university who formerly taught English in the Harrison, Neb., and Casper, Wyo., high schools. Dr. Louise Pound, Dr. L. C. Wimbcrly and Miss Mry Mar garet Cannell made the final selec tion of the poems. The anthology may be purchased at the University of Nebraska Ex tension Division for $1.50 per copy. MAYOR APPOINTS MUSICIANS Husker School Represented In Symphony Orchestra Placements. The Nebraska school of music is represented in the appointments made by Mayor Zehrung to the symphony orchestra board. How ard Kirkpatriek, who has been the director of the School of Music for the past twenty-five years, is to replace Fred Upson for the term expiring in February, 1934. Luther Andrews and Mark Pierce, professors in the school, will be affiliated with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra until 1936. Mrs. John C. Thompson, a grad uate of the university, will fulfill the unexpired term of Adrian Newens, Knox Burnett, son of Chancellor Burnett, Mrs. C. W. Roberts, Au gust Dietze, and Louis Babst, all of whom are prominent in local music circles, will also serve on the board. COLD WEATHER CAUSES DELAY OF BALL GAMES The first intramural Nebraska ball games scheduled for Monday, Oct. 10. were postponed because of cold weather. The games would have been played inside but there was no space available because classes were using the floor. The schedules for the rest of the week will be played as planned. The postponed games will be played at come future date. FIVE IN ME RHODES AWARD University Telephone Operators Make More Than 5,000 Connections Each Day From 7:45 a.m. to 10 p.m . Telephone operators in the fice mnko. more than 5.000 telephone connections each day. The exchange is opened at 7:45 a. m., and closed at 10. p. m. During the busiest hours, between 10 and 12 o'clock in the niornine. all lines leading out of the university come into use at the same time, about every two minutes. ATHLETIC OFFICE RECEIVES TICKETS E To Be on Sale until Friday When Special Leaves Says Selleck. Tickets for the Nebraska-Minne sota football game at Minneapolis Saturday have been received by John K. Sellerk and will be on sale for $2.75 at the student activi ties office until Friday evening when Husker fans will leave for the Twin Cities. According to Mr. Selleck, any unsold tickets will be taken on the special train Friday and turned over to the Minnesota officials inv mediately on arrival, making it practically impossible for Nebras Kans to oniain seats in tne re served cheering section on Satur day. All the tickets are for seats lo cated on the 50-yard line and in a section adjacent to a block re served for Nebraska alumni living in Minnesota. The Burlington rout will run i special train for the Nebraska Minnesota game leaving Lincoln at 7 o clock Frliiay evening. The train win arrive in Minneapolis Satur day morning and will begin the re turn trip Sunday noon, arriving in Lincoln 1:30 a. m. Monday. Rates win De $14.95 for Pullman, and $11.77 for day coach. Barb Clubs Elect Officers And Plan Intramurals At Meeting. Officers of the Inter-club Coun cil were elected at a meeting hell Monday evening in the Temple building. The following men were chosen by the representatives of the various barb clubs: Willard Young, president; Harry West, vice president; and Mario Smith, secretary. Plans for intra-mural activities were discussed and a committee consisting of William Donahue and L. J. Gier of the Agricultural col lege campus, and Martin Lewin, Harold Bates and Harry West of the city campus, was selected to attend to the details of intra mural organizations. Plans were suggest ed to organize a separate group within the council to be known as the athletic council and to have full charge of all athletics. PI. PLANS FOR YEAR Gibbons, Weaver, Alexis, Hertzler Will Speak at Meetings. Announcement of the Phi Beta Kappa program for the year 1932 1933 was made Monday by Clif ford M. Hicks, secretary of the or ganization. Six meetings are scheduled for the year, the last of which will be the initiation of new members. The first meeting Is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 1, at the Uni versity club, at which Dr. Rebekah Gibbons will speak on "A Tourist's Impressions of India." The second meeting, to be held Dec. 5, will feature a lecture. "The Prairie; Its Significance and Beauty." Other speakers for the year are Dr. J. E. Weaver, Dr. Joseph Alexis and Dr. J. O. Hertzler. The program for March, which is to be a joint con clave of Phi Beta Kappa and Sig ma Xi, has not been arranged as yet. About three hundred copies of the programs have been mailed out to the various members. Those who were missed and wish to re ceive a copy are requested to send their addresses to the secretary. The officers of the group for the year are Winona M. Perry, president; J. E. Weaver, vice pres ident; Clifford M. Hicks, secre tary; Harold M. Manter, treasurer, and Gertrude Moore, historian. The program committee consists of Joy Guilford, chairman; Allan R. Congdon, Chester C. Camp, Ruth Odell, Miriam Wagner, Winona M. Perry, and Clifford M. Hicks. Freshman Pledging May Re Banned at Syracuse SYRACUSE, N. Y.. Oct. 7. Possibility of banning all pledging during the freshman year as been suggested aa a remedy to illegal rushing at Syracuse university. Dates have been obtained before the appointed time, declare chap ters who claim it is impossible to get engagements from rushees. Panhellenic heads charge sorori ties violated methods used in the orientation of freshman women. MINNESOTA GAM university branch exchange of. When all these lines are bein Oused the operators' only choice ia to ten anyone who wishes to call war. -an the lines are busy." There are seventeen "trunk' lines leading Into the office which may be connected with any phone in the university, these lines are the ones used when a call Is made from outside the school, or to phone reached through the central office, which is located in down town Lincoln. More Than 300 Lines. There are more than 300 lines connected with phones within the university. Extensions on these lines make it possible to reach at least 350 phones. The great ma jority of telephone calls are from one department of the school to another. These calls are completed through the branch exchange. The telephone equipment Is owned by the Bell telephone com pany, rented to the university. The switchboard and the phones are repaired by the company's repair men. The rest of the equipment is maintained by the university at its own expense. Meredith Continues Support Of Diamond Sport for Year's Program. SAYS ENTHUSIASM GREAT Petitions to prove student sup port of baseball are being circu lated this week by P. W. Meredith of Ac collesre despite John K. Sel- leck's statement last week end that the diamond snort could not be added to Nebraska's varsity ath letic nrojrram this year. "I believe that student enthusi asm over baseball is too great to allow the athletic department to droD the came from the list oi Nebraska sports. Fifty petitions are out now and we expect to have them ready for the chancellor's ap proval in about a week," Mereditn said Monday. Selleck stated Saturday that in view of the small attendance at the Iowa-Nebraska game and the probable 40 percent decrease in gate receipts for the season, he saw no way in which baseDaii could be continued. The interfraternity council ap proved of the plan and voted favor ably at its last meeting, but took no other action. It was Meredith's hope that the body would appoint a committee to look into the situa tion and help put the campaign over. Elton Ross presented the proposition to the council. Petitions for reinstating base ball have been put in most frater nity houses on the campus and Meredith and Ross plan to carry the campaign to completion this week by personally visiting the houses, getting signatures and cir culating more petitions. It is pos sible that women students in the university will be given the oppor tunity also to sign the petitions. Several students on' both cam puses are helping with the base ball plan and are busy circulating petitions at the present time. For mer varsity lettermen and present lettermcn in other sports, partic ularly, are in favor of the plan. 10 GETCARS TESTED Officer Regler Says All Motorists Required to Check Autos. 'A city-wide order issued from the office of Mayor F. C. Zehrung was carried into effect Monday morning when a free brakes, lights and wheel alignment service was opened by the city. The service, of which it is required that all Lin coln motorists avail themselves, is located on 9th street along avenues Q and R. Officer L. C. Regler stated that in an respects the idea was a good one, and that all students, whether residents of Lincoln or not, would be required to have their cars tested. "It shouldn't take more than a half hour to have your car tested, regardless of when you take it down." he stated, "and it wiil save you a lot of trouble. I took my car down and found that it was without a tail-light and that the head-lights were blinding every one I drove against," he said. MIMSTER TO DISCUSS PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE First of Intellectual Series Begins at Vine Church. "T h e Intellectually Adequate Philosophy of Life," will be the subject of a series of discussions presented at vespers by Rev. Erv ine Inglis of the Vine Congrega tional church of Lincoln. The first of the three to be held will be on Tuesday evening. The meeting will be led by Cath arine Williams, vice president and chairman of the interracial com mittee of the Y. W. C A., and spe cial music will be furnished by the vespers choir. STUDENTS ARE CHAIRMAN MAKES LOCAL POLITICAL E Holtzendorff Publishes Open Letter Throwing Glove To John Gepson. WOULD START INTEREST Republican Says. Rules to Be Arranged by Agreement Of Both Parties. Challenging republican club op nonents to an ODen Dolitical de- bate, Howard Holtzendorff, chair man of the student young people's democratic club, Monday published an open letter throwing down the gauntlet to John Gepson, chair man of the university republican club. Stimulation of student interest in politics is the avowed purpose of the challenger, who proposes . a public debate to discuss either the principles or the presi dential candidates of the two or ganizations." Holtzendorff calls attention to the fact that with the coming presidential election only twenty' nine days away, student interest in the national campaign Is still at too low an ebb. "It is the purpose of this open letter to arouse student interest," he declares, "and to aid our fellow students in selecting the best can didate for the greatest executive position in the land." To Decide Rules. Rules for the contest, including exact wording of the question, and setting the time and place are to be decided by mutual agreement. Debate Coach H. A. White is sug gested as a suitable chairman for the debate. Announcing that he has chosen Donald Shirly as his colleague in argumentation, the challenger sug gests that Gepson also "select a (Continued on Page 2.) PANHELLENIC VOTES If Decide to Abandon Home coming Decorations For Houses. At a special meeting held Mon day evening at Ellen Smith hall, the delegates to Panhellenic coun cil voted to co-operate with ths Innocents in their plans to aban don homecoming decorations. Pan hellenic had discussed the advisa bility of such a plan at the meet ing held last week, but had ar rived at no decision. The figure which had been set to cover the expenses of downtown parties was increased from $130 to 5131 to provide adequate funds for the printing of uniform bids for the use of all sororities. Of this sum rorty dollars pays for the rental of the ballroom and eighty five pays for the orchestra. A further economy mtoAure was the agreement of the delegates to give no corsages to housemothers or chaperons at formal parties, and to recommend to escorts that they send no corsages to their dates. Elizabeth Barber, president of the council, appointed a committee to review the rushing rules in force this past season, and to recom mend any changes thought desir able. Lucile Hitchcock will serve as chairman of this committee, and ill be assisted by Mildred Root, Shirley Hosberg, Marv Frances McReynolds and Betty Everett. Englishman Is Guest of Professor Weaver Dr. W. S. Roeers of the East Mailing Research Station, East Mailing. Kent, England, was a guest of Professor J. E. Weaver on Sunday and Monday. Dr. Rogers is visiting the University in ordsr to study the methods developed at the school for the excavation of root systems. Election Candidates Must File Wednesday Candidates for office in the fall election to be held Tues day, Oct 18, must file in per son at the Student Activities office not later than 5 o'clock on Wednesday, Oct. 12. The offices of honorary colonel president of the junior class and president of the senior! class are to be filled. candidates for office mustl meet the following eligibility requirements: 1. All candidates must have completed twenty-seven hours in the past two semesters, atl least twelve of which must have been completed In thel previous semester. All candidates must be car rying at least twelve hour During the present semester. 3. No candidates may nave any standing delinquecles. 4. Candidates for junior class! president must have not less than fifty-three nor more than eighty-eight credit hours. 5. Candidates for senior! class president and for honor ary colonel must have no less! than eighty-nine hours of uni versity credit President Student Council. CLUB ALLEN Sadhu J. Nelson Christananda Here On Lecture Tour Praises Gandhi and Criticizes Our Educational System K "Independence nnd fair play is India's greatest need," de clared Sadli u J. Nelson ('hnstananda, an East Indian, in a spe cial interview Monday. Mr. Christananda is traveling in the United States lecturing on "Christianity in India" and ad dressed a meeting in the University Episcopal church Monday evening. Asked as to his opinion of Ma-0 , hatma Gandhi, he stated: "Gandhi is a wonderful man. He is one of the world's greatest characters, a very selfless individual living not for himself but for others. He is Christ conscious, but not Christ filled. There has not been an other Individual in any other na tion who influences the individual of the masses thru the sympathy of his life in India. His work will go on forever, even after he is deceased. As & non-CLi latiaii he interpreted very loosely the teach ings and principles of the Law of Jesus Christ. I personally believe that he might at least In secrecy die as a Christian." Mr. Christananda declined to discuss the needs of the individuals of India, saying, "It is very diffi cult to say in one sentence the needs of 150 million people." In discussing the educational system of India Mr. Christananda stated he believed the British sys tem used in India is superior to the American system. "The educa tional system," he said, 'is all (Continued on Page 3.) RESIDENTS OF HALL EXPECT 250 GUESTS Invitations Are Issued to Representatives of Organizations. BURNETT HELPS RECEIVE Sunday afternoon, Oct. 16, from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock, the residents of Carrie Belle Raymond hall will give their first formal recepition. About two hundred and fifty guests are expected to attend. Invitations have been issued to the h-use mother, president and one other representative of each sorority and fraternity, to the residents of How ard hall, and to the members of the Barb council. In the receiving line with Chan cellor and Mrs. E. A. Burnett will be Miss Amanda Heppner, dean of women; Miss Elsie Ford Piper, as sistant dean of women; Dr. Eliza beth Williamson, social director of Raymond ball and assistant dean of women, and La Verle Herman, Miriam Kissenger and Dolores Deadman. In the dining room the following girls will be hostesses: Elaine Woodruff, Leontine Larson, Cath erine Borran, Margaret Johnson, Margaret Oleson, Genevieve Olsan, Ruth Haggman and Grace Shaw. LAFAYETTE LETTER TO Professor Ginsburg Turns Autograph Over to University. Prof. Michael Ginsburg, of the classics department, has presented to the university library an auto graphed letter in the handwriting of Marquis LaFayette. It was writ ten during the month of June, 1824, some forty years after the Revolutionary war. This, according to Librarian Gil bert Doane, is the first auto graphed letter of an important his torical figure to be presented to the University of Nebraska with the exception of a typewritten let ter s'gned by President Wilson when he was a professor at Princeton university. Professor Ginsburg acquired the letter during a visit to Paris last August. The document, although written over a hundred years ago, is still well preserved and easy to read. EXTEND ENROLLMENT DATES V Reed Announces Night Class Registration Is Open Until Oct. 15. Registration dates for evening classes offered by the University of Nebraska have been extended another week to Oct. 15 in order to accommodate all persons of Lin coln and surrounding territory who wish to take university work but who are unable to attend during the day, according to A. A. Reed, director pf the extension division. Although official tabulations are not available, registration is ex pected to be aa large as usual. Fif ty-three courses, the largest nun tier in the sixteen years night classes have been offered, are available In fifteen different de partments of study. Under night class arrangements, according to Director Reed, it is possible for nearly any person within convenient distance to ob tain university credit Miss Howell Judge of Playwriters Contest Miss H. Alice Howell, director of the school of dramatics at the University of Nebraska, was a judge at the recent Prairie Play- makers prize contest. ANNUAL SELECTS EY FOR ART EDITOR Position Is New Addition to Cornhusker Staff for Portrait Work. Marjorie Quivey, Alpha Phi, has been selected for the position of arts editor for the 1933 Cornhusk er, the editor announced yesterday. She will do some twenty-five por traits for the division pages of the new book. Placing all of the art work for these pages in the hands of the art editor is an entirely new idea, as this part of the book has never before been done by mem- Ders or uie start. Miss Quivcy's work is well known to the students at Ne braska, for she has lnng been a contributor to the Awgwan. Herbert Meyers, snapshot editor, Is taking pictures this week of typical campus scenes for the fea ture section. Several shots of the rally Friday night and of a num ber of house parties were taken for this part of the annual. A rep resentatives of the Cornhusker staff, the editor said, is to cover the Minnesota and Kansas games to get some good snaps for the book. Stress Picture Importance. The yearbook editor again stressed the importance of having pictures taken at once. He pointed (Continued on Page 2.) TO HELP LITTLE SISTERS Contacts Between Board Members and Proteges To Be Personal. Deloris Deadman. president of the Big Sister Board has appointed a pnmmittee witn Kutn cnerry as chairman to assign to the new girls on the campus who have re onested it. a Bier Sister. Other members of the committee are Alice Quigle and Alice Geddes, also members of the board. Names of freshman women were obtained through the office of the University registrar. Many of these girls were personally invited to visit the Big Sister room at the all-activities tea held Thursday, September 29. Here the girls made application for a Big Sister. Big Sisters are going to assist non-sorority women in regard to their living conditions. This year the University of Nebraska is in a position to offer better living ac commodations than ever before with the opening of Carrie Belle Raymond Hall and the organiza tion of the Howard Hall at 1620 "R." The Big Sisters will discuss with the girls the advantages of fered by these two residence halls. The Big Sisters will help the girls in making out their schedules to organize their hours so they may have more time for recrea tion. Church Relationship will be furthered bv helping the new girls to find churches of their choice. Social life will be discussed as well. The freshmen will be told about the dancing class sponsored by the Y. W. C. A., as well as the all-university parties and Ag mix ers. The activities offered for fresh men women will be explained, es pecially the Hobbv Clubs spon sored by the Rig Sister Board, the A. W. S. freshman discussion group, and the freshmen commis sion groups. Each girl is to be dealt with per sonally, since it is the opinion of the Board that it can in this way do more good for the new women. After the Little Sisters and Big Sisters have become well acquain ted a dinner will be held for them. NAME CO-CHAIRMEN OF FARMERS FORMAL Members Home Ec Club Plans To Assist in For FioUc. The Home Economics associa tion announces the following com mittees which will act with the Ag club committees previously an nounced In preparing for the 1932 Farmers Formal. Decorations: Helen Steffensmeyer, co-chairman, assisted by by Helen Lutz, Zola Monia, Ruth Wolfe, and Lu ella Pierson; ticket sales, Alma Freehling, co-chairman, as3i ;ted by Thelnaa Sterkel. Florence Eux man and Arlene Bors; queen pre sentation, Beatrice Donaldson, co chairman, assisted by Cleo Butler, Leona Geiger and Helen Smrha; refreshroenta, Muriel Moffitt, co chairman assisted by Catherine Agnew, Dora Wood and Helen Newberg, and dating arrange ments, Lorraine Brake, co-chairman, assisted by Mae Svoboda, Doris Erickson, and Evelyn Coe. MARJORIE QUIV CAS 1 AM BALLOT FOR PRESIDENT Daily Nebraskan to Conduct Poll Oct. 26; Observe Official Rules. TO LIST ALL NOMINEES Will Compile Results With Student Votes in Other Schools. A presidential poll will be con ducted by the Daily Nebraskan on Wednesday, Oct. 26. Voting booths will be established either in the Daily Nebraskan office or in So cial Science hall. This straw vote is open to all students in the uni versity and upon presentation of their identification cards they will be given a printed ballot including all the presidential nominees that will appear on the regular ballot in November. The results of the poll will be published in the Thursday, Oct. 27 issue of the Daily Nebraskan and will probably be sent to the Daily Princetonian, the student tmblica- iion or trinceton university, where similar results from approximately fifty schools oveij the country wiil be compiled and the final result reported back to the various schools. Arrangements are as yet incomplete for this. This report of the sum and total of all these col legiate presidential polls will then be published in the Daily Nebras kan on Friday, Oct. 28. The main purpose of these polls Is to create an interest in national politics as well as to measure the sentiments of college students, many of whom will cast their bal lots in the November election, and whose votes may have some defi nite influence in the final results. Another interesting aspect of these polls is to see whether or' not the vote of university students will co incide with the general public's views on national politics. These junior polls will help ac quaint young people with the meth ods of voting. Some students have participated in national elections before, others will go to the polls for the first time, and still others have not as yet reached the voting . age but will make their debut into the ranks of the voting class by the next presidential election. The ballots to be used will be like the official ones and the procedure of marking them will be also the same as for anyone voting at the general election. All students are eligible to vote in this poll. Identification cards must be presented. AG COLLEGE MAGAZINE WILL APPEAR OCT. 17 First Husker Countryman Contains Stories by Ralston, Hodgkin. Stories and articles by Bill Ral ston and Carlyle Hodgkin will be featured in the first issue of the Cornhusker Countryman. Agricul tural college publication, wnicn will appear on the campus Oct. 17, according to Art Kozelka. editor. The magazine, ordinarily a twenty-four page publication, has been reduced in size because of the withdrawal of all national adver tisers upon which the magazine was largely dependent. Applications for tne eauoriai and business staffs have been re ceived and the selections will be announced within a few days. APPRECIATE J1ALLY TURNOUT William Devereaux Declares Pep Meeting Largest Ever Held. ADDreciation for student co-op eration at the Friday night rally last week was expressed Monday by William Devereaux, Innocent in charge of rallies. "The rally was pernaps ine larg est ever held," Devereaux said. "and I certainly appreciate tne student co-ordination and spirit which made it possible. "The band, Tassels ana om Cobs are to be especially com mended for their part in thi rally. Without the 100 percent turnout of these pep organizations, and their willingness to put the rally over, spirit would have been at a low ebb. "Thanks, Cornhuskers!" STUDENTS MEW FIRST SNOW OF SEASON MONDAY Students making an 8 o'clock Monday morning class were forced to don their winter heavies, as the sidewalks were dunted with the year's first snowfall and the air was uncomfortably cool. While attaining a depth of only one-tenth of an inch, the snow has the dis tinction of being the first ever re corded here this early in the sea son. Snow began falling here shortly after midnight and continued in termittently until dawn. The minimum temperature here wad 32 above at 6 a. m., but students a. Montana Uni. awakened ill the icy chill of 15 below."