SIX
THE DAILY NERRASKAN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1,1 932.
DROKAW
ANNOUNCES
SESSION SPEAKERS
OT.'eal and Christcnsen Wil
Appear for Organized
Ag Program.
E. A. O'Neal of Chicago, presi
dnt of the American farm bureau
federation, and Chris C. Christen
sen, dean of the Wisconsin college
of agriculture, are to be two of the
chief speakers at th general ses
sions of Organized Agriculture to
be held on the college of agricul
ture campus during the first week
in January it was announced Wed
nesday by W. H. Brokaw, director
of the agricultural college exten
sion service.
Both O'Neal and Christensen are
well known among Nebraska far
mers. Christensen is a former
Minden resident, a graduate of the
University of Nebraska who
served as secretar of the federal
farm board before filing to Wis
consin to head the agricultural
college.
Program Available,
In announcing that O'Neal and
Christensen would appear on the
program, Brokaw indicated that
the tentative program for the an
nual Organized Agriculture meet
ings will be available within the
next few weeks. Practically every
agricultural organization in the
state will hold their sessions dur
ing e week.
Rules and regulations for the
farmer family frolic to be held
Wednesday evening, January 4,
were released from the college
this week. The frolic will feature
old time contests of various kinas.
There will be spelling bees, cipher
ing contests, rope splicing, shoe
half-soling, overall patching, car
pet beating, song contests, button
sewing and other similar contests
for the young and old.
Coeds Arrange for Costume Party
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These four members of the A. W. S. Board are in charge of
the arrangements for the annual Cornhusker Coed Costume party
which will be held Friday evening, Dec. 9, in th women's gym
nasium. Miss Bunting is chairman of the stunts. Miss Cherney is
arranging for the sponsors and for the music. Miss Dunlap is tak
ing care ef general arrangements for the party, and Miss Quigle
is in charge of favors for the affair.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN j
CCULD END DEPRESSION
Professor Irving Fisher Says
Ignorance Chief Cause
Of Crisis.
TORONTO, Can. (CNS). "We
could end the depression overnight,
if it were not for the economic il
literacy of the people who control
the political machine."
This indictment of those in con
trol of the social system was
voiced this week by Prof. Irving
Fisher, Yale university economist.
He was a guest speaker at the Uni
versity of Toronto.
"The one thing most needed in
the world is a certain amount of
inflation," he declared. "The last
campaign (in the United States)
lost a great chance for educating
the people on this subject, but the
politicians were afraid of being
misunderstood by a public which
cannot see anything but black and
white."
Freshman Frolic.
There will be a freshman girl's
Fireside Frolic at 6 o'clock Dec. 6
in F.llen Smith hall. Tickets arc
twenty-five cents and can be ob
tained at Miss Miller's office in
Ellen Smith hall.
Ag College Commission.
The subject for agricultural col
lege commission discussion this
week is "What to Wear on the
Campus." The meeting is in the
north annex of the home economics
parlors, at 12:30, Thursday.
Dramatic Club.
Regular meeting of the Univer
sity Dramatic club will be held to
night at 7:30 in the Dramatic club-
room, Temple theater. AH mem
bers and pledges please be pres
ent.
International Relations Club.
The International Relations club
will meet tonight at 7:30 p. m. in
the Y. M. C. A. rooms of the Tem
ple building. Gertrude Beers will
discuss the Lytton report.
Barb Intramurals.
All non-affiliated students who
are interested in playing in the In
ner club council basketball tourna
ment meet in Coach Vogler's of
fice at 4 o'clock today.
Ball Tickets.
Members of the ticket commit
tee will be on duty at Nebraska
hall, Friday, Dec. 2 from 8 a. in
to 6 p. m. and Saturday, Dec. 3
from 8 a. m. to 12 noon for sale of
Military Ball tickets. Unsold
tickets should be checked in by 6
p. m. runty, Dec. 2.
Kappa Phi.
The foreign missions dinner of
Kappa Phi, Methodist girls club,
will be held Thursday at 6:30
o'clock in the Lindell hotel.
pha Theta, 1927; Ruth Baker, Al
pha Phi, 1928; Maxine Mathers,
Pi Beta Phi. 1929; Sarah Pickaxd,
Pi Beta Phi, 1931; and Jean Rath-
burn, Delta Gamma, 1931.
The first ball was held in the
Lincoln hotel, the first university
dance ever staged on the hotel's
new dance floor. The ball was
staged at the Lincoln hotel for sev
eral years but due to its growing
popularity, the military depart'
ment was forced to hold it in the
old Lincoln auditorium in order to
accommodate the dancers. The
ball was held in the auditorium
until the University Coliseum was
built.
COLLEGE WORLD
Journalistic enterprise in the
coUegeiate field last week reached
a high point with the operation of
a special dating bureau by The
Bengal, student newspaper at the
University of Idaho, southern
branch.
The Idaho Bengal date bureau,
as it was called, was formed in
connection with the annual wom
en's formal. Coeds, who would
otherwise be hesitant about inviting-
escorts, were asked to
vrrite to The Bengal, giving a list
of five preferences for escorts in
order of choice. Men students
were then invited by a special
committee, as indicated in the let
ters, and if able to accept, were
informed of the names of their
partners.
To fulfill what was said to be
an "acute" campus need, a dating
bureau this week had been estab
lished at Santa Ana junior - college.
After several months of experi
mentation, the University of Min
nesota health service this week
announced the development of
what so far appears to be an ef
fective remedy for the common
cold.
The remedy i3 administered in
the form of a harmless tablet, it
was stated, and has stopped the
progress of cold3 within 21 to 48
hours.
i'en New York City college stu
dents, who were suspended on Oc
tober 25 for participating in a pro
test riot following the dismissal of
an economics professor, this week
v re again attending: clauses.
Honorary Colonel Will Be
Known at Twenty-fourth
Military Ball Next Friday
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thy Brown, 1924; Frances McChes-
ney, 1925; Marie Bowden, 1926;
Laura Margaret Raines, Kappa AI-
Three Appointed lo Plan
Entertainment fur Party
Marian Brown, Jacqueline James
and Rowene Miller were appointed
by the A. W. S. freshman activi
ties group to arrange for a skit
to be given at the girl's Cornhus
ker party.
PHOTOGRAPHERS GRANT
ONE WEEK EXTENSION
(Continued from Page 1).
rush during the past few days has
been due, possibly, to the fact that
the matter of prices had been more
fully explained to the students.
who now understand that pictures
to be used in both the fraternity
or sorority and junior or senior
sections cost only $3.75.
A dinner for the fraternity and
sorority staffs is scheduled for
this evening from six to seven
o'clock at the Alpha Sigma Phi
hoa.se. Several such dinners are
to be held by the various staffs
for the "urpose of more efficient
organization. Spencer said.
WRITE ARTICLE.
Robert D. Void and E. Roger
Washburn are the authors of an
article appearing in the current
issue of the Journal of th3 Ameri
can Chemical Society on "A Study
of Solutions of Ethyl Alcohol in
Cyclohexane, m Water, and in Cy
clohexane and Water.' Washburn
is a member of the university's
chemistry department, while Void
is now working for his Ph. D. at
the University of California.
Several State Universities Already
Feel Practical Effects of Election
A number of state universities
thruout the country are already
feeling the practical effects of the
Nov. 8 election results in connec
tion with their own financial wel
fare and policies. In several cam
paigns issues directly involving
policies of institutions of higher j
education were under considera
tion by the voters.
In New York City, John P.
O'Brien, democratic candidate for
mayor, was overwhelmingly elect
ed. According to the Columbia
Daily Spectator, O'Brien wants
Columbia deloused of its radical
communist and socialist students
and favors the establishment of an
R. O. T. C. unit at the university.
The Zorn-MacPherson bill in
Oregon, providing for drastic re
organization of the Oregon state
educational institutions was
snowed under by popular referen
dum. The bill provided for the
combining of Oregon university
and Oregon State college on the
latter's campus, while the campus
of the former would have been
converted into a teachers college.
Washington university, which,
has long been a political football,
was again involved in the cam
paign for the governorship this
year, and Clarence D. Martin,
democrat, who ha3 promised edu
cational reforms was elected. Mr.
Martin has charged that the Uni
versity of Washington is in the
hands of its enemies.
In Wisconsin, John B. Chappie,
republican, whose campaign was
largely made up of vitriolic at
tacks on the University of . Wis
consin as a hotbed of radicalism
for both students and faculty
members, was defeated by his
democratic opponent.
Bulletin Shows Farmer Brunt of Tax
Exemption Inequalities in Nebraska
Petitions Charge That North Carolina
Faculty Condones Radical Tendencies
RALEIGH, N. C. (CNS). Al
though its presentation was greet
ed with a complete lack of en
thusiasm, a petition charging that
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill condoned "radical
tendencies" this week was being
"considered" by a special commit
tee of the university's Board of
Trustees.
The petition was first filed with
Gov. O. Max Gardner last Septem
ber by L. A. Tatum, retired Bel
mont, N. C, textile manufacturer,
who demanded that some action be
taken to curtail "radical tendencies
both of students and faculty ad
ministration." In addition to Ta
tum's name, the document bore the
signature of 242 other citizens of
the state.
While Governor Gardner this
week had taken no official cogniz
ance of the petition, the Board of
Trustees voted to "receive" it and
to refer it to the special committee
for consideration.
Charges.
In the meantime, campus lead
ers at the University of North
Carolina have protested vigorously
against the charges contained in
the petition. Replies to these
charges contained in the petition,
as printed in The Daily Tar Heel,
student newspaper, follow:
1. There are no courses in the
university that teach communism,
atheism, free love or the doctrines
of. "other subversive forces."
2. There has Loon no speaker
under university auspices who,
from the university's rostra, has
sought converts to these doctrines.
3. Bertrand Russell, brought
here two years ago under the aus
pices of the Student Entertainment
committee and introduced by Dr.
Archibald Henderson, spoke, as he
had been requested, on philosophy,
and did not mention free k.ve.
4. Langston Hughes, negro poet,
brought to the university by the
Y. M. C. A. and the sociology de
partment, gave a respectful, re
strained and humorous story of his
life and work. He did not read
from the university platform his
so-called objectionable poem,
"Christ in Alabama." This poem
was published in a non-student
magazine, of which he is an as
sociate editor.
5. No official university publi
cation or organization is in the
hands of socialists, communists or
any other factional grroup. These
groups, as well as the democrats
and the republicans, have their pri
vate organizations. There are two
student members in the Commun
ist Club and eight in the Socialist.
out of a student body of 3,000.
Numerous state officials, Dews
paper editors including Josephus
Daniels, secretary of navy under
President Wilson, alumnus of the
university and editor and publisher
of the Raleigh News and Observer
-and educators have come to the
defense of the university, support
ing its reputation for liberalism
and freedom of thought.
That the farm population beard
the brunt of the inequality result
ing from the exemption of utility
property from county and state
taxes was expressed in "Tax Ex
emptions in Nebraska," a booklet
recently issued by the University
of Nebraska.
It is based on researches of the
College of Business Administration
and considers the problems en
tailed by tax exemption of muni
cipally owned utilities and of state
and federal securities.
Municipally owned utilities in
Nebraska are estimated as being
worth $52,265,856, and their ex
emption from taxation, the bulletin
says, is widely felt to present the
most important aspect of the
problem.
31 Percent.
For the state as a whole," ac
cording to the bulletin, "state and
county taxes m 1931 equalled 31
percent on the tax dollar. In the
rural communities this figure was
much higher."
To compute the amount of tax
lost by the exemption of muni
cipally owned utilities, the bulletin
cuts the actual value 25 percent,
as has come to be usual in assess
ing such property, thus arriving
at a valuation of $39,274,392.
The booklet declares that there
was once a time when the doctrine
of tax exemption seemed both in
nocent and self evident, but with
enlarging functions of govern
ment, tax exemption property and
securities have assumed trenmen
dous proportions, and the result
ing inequality of benefit has be
come acute.
Other Exemptions.
The publication also deals inci
dentally with other classes of tax
exempt property, such as church
and school plants, hospitals, mis
cellaneous public and semi-public
property and that owned by fra
ternal orders and devoted exclus
ively to educational, religious or
charitable purposes.
According' to report from
County Assessor Sheffield's office,
fraternal property exempt in Lan
caster county amounts to $300,000.
It includes the Scottish Rite tem
ple, valued at $110,000, and all
other lodge property in the county.
In the list a few days ago in
which Mr. Sheffield stated that
there is $48,000,000 exempted in
state, county, city fraternal and
church property, there was $447,
500 listed as exempt real estate.
German Department to
Hold Christmas Partv
The annual Christmas party
sponsored by the German depart
ment will be held Thursday Dec.
15 from 4 to 6 o'clock in Gallery
A at Morrill hall. The program
will consist of special vocal and
instrumental numbers and group
singing by members of the classes.
Mr. Snedgen has charge of the ar
rangements. All students of Ger
man are invited.
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