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THE WEATHER
Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1933
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Yearbook Sales
MAGEE ANNOUNCES
SIX -DAY CAMPAIGN
1931 CornliusKer to Be Offered Student at lxw Cash
Price nf $1.23 or $1.50 in Installment;
Thiol Appoints Salesmen Saturday.
SATURDAY SALES DEADLINE FINAL SAYS MAGEE
Editor, Business Manager of Annual Announce Plans
For Belter Year Book; Present New Features
Anu Increase Size of Publication.
Announcement of fin intensive six day sale of the 10:54 Corn
husker to start Monday, was made yesterday by "Woodrow
Magee, editor of the year book.
"Everyone desiring to purchase the new year hook should
Jo so this week, and take advantage of the m w low cash price,
lis well as the installment system which will he used this year,"
iireed Magee. "Copies of the Comhusker will he available only
lo students who make a payment on the book."
Under present arrangements, y
one of the lowest priced annuals
in the history of the publication
will be offered university students
at $4.25 cash, and $4.50 on the
installment plan.
Th year book drive will be
carried on largely by a group of
salesmen selected by Robert Thiel,
business manager of the publica
tion, who will canvass all fraterni
ties and unaffiliated organizations
on the campus.
Women Aid Drive.
A new feature in the sales drive
for the new Comhusker, will be
the selection of women in every
sorority and organized house on
the campus to canvass their re
spective houses. In houses where
ten or more copies of the year
book are sold, a nomination for
candidate to the queen section of
the annual will be aw arded. ;
"All girls nominated by houses
having bought ten or more copies
of the Corchusker. will have their
pictures taken at Rinehart and
Marsden studio, official year book
photographers.' explained Magee.
'From among this collection six
pictures will be chosen by some
(Continued on Page 2.)
Kill IS 395
Chemistry, History Attract
Greatest Number to
Advanced Courses.
MEN OUTNUMBER WOMEN
Graduate students registered lit
the University of Nebraska num
ber 395 for the first semester of
this year, according to a report is
sued Saturday from the graduate
college. Of this group 125 are
working toward a master of arts
degree, and 85 of them are study
ing for the degree of doctor of
philosophy. For the master of
cience degree 45 have enrolled.
One student is a candidate for an
advanced dpgree in civil engineer
"ig, and one in electrical engineer
"if. Men registrants in the grad
uate college now outnumber the
omen by 245 to 150.
257 Seek Master Degrees.
From the total number of regis
tered students 257 were reported
candidates for advanced de
Pees. The remaining persons are
se who have enrolled for grad
" work as a post-graduate
way course, without applying for
Pciflc graduate degree.
darLr!e registered as candi
in the various departments,
tot . ,rg chemistry, 33 are
ZfJ0T work in history, and 14
each have enrolled in the
cbp7 and educational
cty departments.
psy-
Book Fad Influences Library
To Compile Facts in a Volume to
Be Called 'University Ephemera'
'It', a Great School" with "1,500
lled read, a clipping
about tsf T.chlcae'0 Times-Herald
HttM , i VVersitv of Nebraska
5i' Printed in con-
the tte use of U picture
H m T tnat time.
tt"e of tiCUan' this CUPPAS
"iag ttany Cresting ones
AtSn;fby tte University.
k& k . ume nearly everyone
b,n.v-one
has become too
mto an 1 UP- and It nas gone
l'wwt, C ont0 a shelf
to. has It ,f Nrt 1'brary.
Butlt will SItd itfl scrap-book.
11 h Plarirf 00 RmaU volume, for
4 flu 'VWO lar?e drawers
W. Called "University
l Kepn it
VALENTINE KLOTZ
CHOSEN QUEEN OF
F
L
Mildred Tickler Named Maid
Of Honor at Annual Ag
Fall Event.
Valentine Klontz, Lincoln, was
chosen -queri of Ah Fanners For
mal annual college of agriculture
social event, at the Student Activi
ties building Friday night. Mild
red Tickler, Inland, was selected as
Miss Klotz' maid of honor.
Miss Klotz, senior in Ag College
and Member of Mortar Board, was
elected by popular student vote In
the college. Over 150 couples at
tended the formal garbed in ging
ham dresses and overalls.
Decorations for the Hall were
carried out in fall colors, as well
as the stage for Miss Klotz' pre
sentation. Following out the new
idea state this year, freshman men
carried jack-o lanterns to the af
fairs, while freshman women were
required to wear beads made of
corn. Arrangements for the affair
were under " the supervision of
Philip Henderson.
HOST AT SUNDAY TEA
Music School Faculty and
Unaffiliated Women Are
Guests at Event.
SORORITIES ENTERTAIN
About 150 unaffiliated women
registered in the School of Music
have been invited to attend a tea
given bv the panhellenic music
sorority, from three to five o'clock
Sunday at Kllen Smith Hall.
Women of the faculty of the
School of Music will be special
guests.
A program will be presented at
3:30 at which Sigma Alpha Iota,
Mu Phi Epsilon and Delta Omi
cron, the three musical sororities
which compose, the panhellenic
group, will be represented. Lucille
Reilly, soprano, will represent
Sigma Alpha Iota, a string trio
and Vivian Cowgill. harpist, will
contribute Delta Omicron's part of
the program and Ruth Johnson,
contralto, will represent Mu Phi
Epsilon. Katherme Simpson, pi
(Continued on Page .)
Ephemera" by the reference de
partment, into U will go programs,
addresses, manuscripts, souvenirs,
anything interesting that happens
at the University.
Will Be Huge Volume.
Growing slowly for several years,
the "Ephemera" is expected to be
come a huge scrap-book, interest
ing because it contains the record
of things and happenings usually
forgotten. Publications and books
are placed on the shelves and in
the stacks of the library. But in
the "Ephemera," just as in per
sonal scrap-books, will be momen
toes of University life.
File Features.
Among the features filed away
(Continued on Page 2.)
ARMERS FORMA
Drive Opens Monday
PROSSER
SPEAKS
10 TEACHERS AT
FINAL MEETING
Compulsory Attendance of
High School Predicted
By Educator.
NAME SCOTT PRESIDENT
3,000 in Attendance Friday
As Three-Day Session
Comes to Close.
Willi 3.000 teachers in at
tendance at the final session of
the District No. 1 convention
of the State Teachers' associa
tion, being held in 1 be coliseum,
Dr. C. A. Prosser, nationally
known Minneapolis educator,
made the prediction that with
in five years compulsory high
school enrolment, will be don
bled. Basing his prophecy on the pres
ent ecomonic trends which favor
adult labor and exclude all those
under eighteen from employment,
Prosser claimed that the logical
result of these trends will be a
state law making school attend
ance compulsory up to the age of
eighteen.
Universities and colleges could
materially aid high school authori
ties, when they become confronted
with this tremendous added bur
den, continued Prosser, if the high
er institutions would allow the
(Continued on Page 2.)
New Design to Be Revealed
For First Time With
November Issue.
Frederick Rickard, junior in the
college of arts and science, was
award?d the first prize of $7.50 in
the Nebraska Alumnus student
cover design contest and Florence
Smiley, arts and science senior,
won the second prize of $5, accord
ing to an announcement made yes
terday by Harry J. Becker, jr.,
rd'trr rf th Alumnus
Mr. Packard's design will be used
the entire year beginning with the
November issue. The exact nature
of the design chosen from sixteen
entrie3 will not be revealed until
next month's issue of Alumnus ap
pears on the campus. According
to the rules of the contest, which
closed Oct. 25. the sketches had to
be planned for black ink on white
paper and must in some way carry
out the ideals of the university and
its alumni.
Decide on 1934 Design.
Miss Smilev's design will be used
for the September, October and
November numbers of the Alum
(Continued on Page 2.)
STUDENTS TAKE
IN PRE-GAME RALLY
Crowd of Five Hundred at
Pep Meeting Friday
Evening.
Shouting the Comhusker battle
cry of "Salt the sooners, u
but pep-enthused crowd of 00
students met Friday night at the
Temple for the Oklahoma rally.
Led by the band and members
of Corn Cobs and Tassels, pep or
ganizations, the crowd marched
east to 16th, turned north up sor
ority and fraternity row as pep
sters routed students out of the
houses, and finally turned again at
Vine street to march to the east
steps of the stadium where cheer
leaders led the crowd in a series
of yells. Coach Bible addressed
.k. rmu-d and presented John
Robv co-captain for the Oklahoma
rame. wno spone uimj.
?r;n, thp nther co-captain for
iYl ill W . -
Saturday, failed to make his ap
pearance at the rally.
"We were not entirely satisfied
with the attendance at the rally."
Llovd Loomis, chairman of the
rally, stated Saturday. "The stu
dent body seems to be getting
overconfident, and all I have to
say is that we must have better
turnouts for the remaining pep
demonstrations this year.
R CKARD
NAMED
ALUMNUS
CONTEST WINNER
Speaks at Luncheon
Courtny of Lincoln Journal,
GUY CHAMBERS.
President of the University
Alumni association who addressed
350 dads and mothers at the an
nual Dad's Day luncheon held at
the Comhusker hotel Saturday. In
his talk he scored the legislative
inefficiency in handling our educa
tional institutions.
MCA. FINANCE
E OPENS AT
T
Team Captains Give Workers
Final Instructions for
Campaign.
Worker for the Y. W. C. A. fi
nance drive will meet for a dinner,
which will officially open the cam
paign, at Ellen Smith Hall Tues
day, Oct. 31. at 6:30. Martha
Hershey. toastmistress, will call on
Miss Margaret Fedde nnd Mrs.
Roy Green for short talks. Bash
Perkins. Elaine Fontein, Virginia
Amos, Martha Hershey, Ann Pick
et and Lois Rathburn vill give a
short playlet. Following the pro
gram class executive will explain
the drive in detail to their work
ers. Class workers and captains are:
Krenhmen: Bnrhar PcPut.-oti, mptrtin:
Jnn Doty, Msrylu rptprwon, JoiiIh Dtrk-
( Continued on Page 3).
REVISED THIS YEAR
Instruction Is Given by
Nebraska League in
Lip Reading.
BELL COMPILES STUDY
Several new and revised corre
spondence courses are being offer
ed this year by the extension de
partment of the university ot .Ne
braska it was announced Saturday
Among them is "Life and History
of the American Indian," a study
prepared and compiled by Dr. E.
H. Bell, assistant professor of an
tropology at the university. It deals
with the history, customs and the
mythology of the American Indian
north of Mexico.
Lip Reading Course.
Offered this year by the Nebras
ka league for the hard of hearing,
and given under the auspices of the
extension division of the university
will be a home study course in lip
reading. Mrs. W. H. Barkley of
(Continued on Page 3).
Lj!D
Meeting Is Open to
Faculty Members of
University.
All
Prof. J. E. Weaver, professor of
plant ecology at the university, will
address the first scholarship lec
ture of the year to be held at the
University Club, Tuesday.
Professor Weaver's subject will
be "Studies in Plant Ecology," The
meeting will be the first of a series
of four to be held during the year,
and are open to faculty members
of the university. Reservations for
the affair may be made by calling
the graduate office.
The faculty scholarship meeting
are an annual affair on the cam
pus. Prof. G. O. Virtue is the chair
man in charge of the lectures, and
Prof. J. L. Sellers is secretary of
the organization.
Y i.
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UESDAY DINNER
50
GATHER
DAD'S LUNCHEON
AT
Guy Chambers Speaks on the
Inadequate Provisions
For Education.
GEPS0N GIVES WELCOME
Condra Conducts Initiation
For Dads and Mothers
Into Organizations.
Over 350 dads, mothers, sons
and daughters of university
students gathered at tables
placed in the form of a giant
"X" for the annual Dad's Day
luncheon, sponsored by Inno
cents society, senior mens hon
orary, at the Comhusker hotel,
Saturday noon.
Guy Chambers, president of the
alumni association and principal
speaker for the occasion, scored
the inadequate provisions which
state and federal legislators have
made for educational institutions.
Force Behind School.
''We, the dads, are the driving
force behind our institutions of
learning," he declared. "It is our
duty to provide every possible edu
cational opportunity for them.
Such being our task, we should not
stand idly by and see inadequate
legislative provision for their edu
cation at a time like this, when
billions are being spent for high
(Continued on Page 2.)
AT MORRILL HALL
Feature Talk Is Illustrated
By Travel Films; Ress
Delivers Lecture.
For its second Sundav afternoon
program of the season, the Univer
sity of Nehraska museum in Mor
rill hall will present today at 3:30
p. m., Fred Ress of Lincoln. Mr.
Ress will speak on "A Trip to Ger
many," and will show travel films
of his entire trip from Lincoln to
Germany and return.
Used Old Melodeon.
As a musical event of the after
noon the Thomas male quartet will
sing. They will be accompanied by
Mrs. Thomas, who will use as an
instrument the melodeon upon
which Mrs. Carrie Belle Raymond
learned her first Bach studies.
Through the appreciation of Ed
ward J. Walt this melodeon has
been purchased by the museum
and will be on the stage Sunday, to
afterward be placed in the case of
musical instruments on the lower
floor of the museum.
Mrs. Carrie Belle Raymond, who
(Continued on Page 2.)
PARTY SATURDAY NITE
450 Couples Dance to Music
Of Harold Haynes at
Dad's Day Affair.
An estimated crowd of 450
couples attended the Dads Day
nartv Saturday evening in tne
coliseum. The party terminated
the Oklahoma-Nebraska football
game Dad's Day celebration. Many
graduates and dads attended the
affair. This was the first football
celebrat!on dance of the year, the
second one being the Homecoming
party which is to be held following
the Kansas-Nebraska game on
Nov. 11.
Chicago Band Plays.
Music for the dance was fur
nished by Harold Haynes and his
Commanders, and was given fine
reception by the crowd. This
eleven piece band came direct from
a fifteen weeks engagement at the
Oak Ridge ballroom in Chicago,
and has been featured over the
Columbia Broadcasting system
both in the south and midwest. It
played over the Dixie network
while it was engaged at the Miami
Casino in Florida. A number of
novelty numbers and specialties
were also offered by the orches
tra. Chaperons for the party were
Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Keim. Dr. and
Mrs. E. G. Condra. and Prof, and
Mrs. E. W. Lantz.
CORNHUSKER
MUSEUM GIVES ITS
SECOND PROGRAM
HANG UP
m SLOW CONTEST
Sooner Mar Nebraska Itecorri of Unerosjeil (toal Line
He fore Dad's. Day Croud; Holli Team (ttiilty
Of Manv I u iti I lo- and Penalties.
WIN KN THKNCIIKS It I III.
Hoh ell
To
Takes
Seore
Advantage
I iist
Millet
Ah
o
Nebraska I'linibali stuck soared a liltlu hiirluT Saturday
afternoon when the llusker eleven Iriunned Oklahoma lti 1o 7
on the Memorial stadium field, but ihe Sooner hurdle roed
to be a rather difficult one 1o clear. l!y scoring a touchdon u
in the first few seconds of play the liildeinen pit off in a roo'i
start, but. found that they couldn't merely selllc back and de
fend that margin. It was a galaxy of fumbling and penalties.
NO DECISION AS
E
Radio Question Discussed
Before Teachers and
Over Air Friday.
Varsity affirmative and nega
tive debate teams engaged teams
from Kansas State College in the
first debate of the year Friday be
fore the debate section of the Ne
braska State Teachers association
and in a similar contest broadcast
over ladio station KFAB. Nebras
ka affirmative team was Harvey
H. Hillman and A. Elmer. Ander-
. tS 4. 1
S?" EiEJI, "L:
ative side. No decisions were to be
made.
The question for the year's work
is: Resolved that the federal gov
ernment should adopt the essential
features of the British system of
radio control and operation.
Teams Meet Again Nov. 9-10.
University of Nebraska debaters I
will compete with teams from Kan
sas State College on Nov. 9 and 10, ,
before three high schools in Kan-)
sas. At Concordia and Marysvillej
on the evenings of the two days
teams of two men each will debate
(Continued on Page 2i.
ATTEND KANSAS MEET:
;
MeetinQ Of the SOCiety fOfi
3 .
PrOmOtlOn Engineering
r i..i:.n 1
tuUCailOn. i
!
CONCLAVE AT LAWRENCE
Kighteen University of Nebras
ka professors from the engineer
ing departments attended the an-
nual meeting of the Kansas - Ne -
k...P., caf.tu,n r,f th. anriftv for
DEBATERS
A
MANHATTAN PAIR
, i from th prize ot larmel year? al
the promotion of engineering edu- j thg tudents tn own onP of
cation at the University oi Kan-
sas at Lawrence Friday and Sat-
urday. Others attending repre
sented the University of Kansas,
and the Kansas State college. The
program for the meeting consists
of addresses by professors of the
various schools, entertainment by
the fine arts department of the
University of Kansas, a dinner,
and golfing for the members.
F. W. Norris, associate profes
sor of electrical engineering at the
University of Nebraska, is secre
tary of the organization; D. H.
Harkness, Nebraska instructor in
civil engineering, represented the
state on the program committee:
(Continued on Page 2).
Max Schnitterf Greenhouse Custodian,
Brands Youth 'Mushy Condemns War,
Favors Compulsory Military Training
BY SARAH
MEYER.
now days axe
"Young people
smarter than in my time at wise
cracking yes," grinned Max Schnit
ter, sturdy, grey mustached keeper
of the campus greenhouse, which
produced the beautiful greenery
used to decorate the coliseum for
the teachers' convention. "And you
know better than we did now to
stay out nights and how to go to
mushy plays."
Max. who. he says is the person
"after which the Emperor Maxmil
lan of Mexico was named without
the million." has a son and daugh
ter in college now. Moreover, be
has seen Nebraska university gen
erations come and go for many
years, having lived in Lincoln ever
since he came to America at the
16 - 7
KM KM IN HKi SIX l.KAl)
Hreak on Opening kicknlT
Scarlet Marker; Saner and
Contribute to S'oriiifi.
'Approximately 20.000 fan.s watclK.1
the Huskers win.
The Dad's day battle was
fought between ;wo teams which
were leading the Rig Six race, the
Scarlet having a record at the
tart of the game of two wins and
no defeats, and the Norman crew
having downed Iowa State in
I their only previous conference
j fray. Now Nebraska rides the
! crest of the Missouri valley wave.
Masterson, Sauer, Boswell, and
Miller contributed to the scoring,
and the main participants in the
fumbling column were Boswell,
Sauer, Masterson. and LaNoue.
Dunlap and Long hung up the
Sooner tallies, with Bill Panze
j starring in the fumbling depart
ment. The contest was almost a
comedy of errors, and except for
a few breaks and heads-up plays,
would have been a tragedy of mis
takes for Husker fans.
First Score Against Huskers.
For the first time this season
the Husker line allowed the opposi
tion to score, or even to penetrate
! any further than the 15-yard line,
j Except for their eighty yard drive
to a touchdown in the second canto
Nebraska . presented an attack
which' was exceedingly ragged
(Continued on Page J.
SALE OP DIRECTORIES
Early Edition of 175 New
Books Is Sold Rapidly
Friday Morning.
MORE OUT ON MONDAY
The sale of a limited number of
i
copies of the new siucieni airee-
for 3 933-34 Friday morning
ndicated a great demand for the
books, according to Bernard Je-i-
nines, business manager of the
publication.
Announcement r,i the h- was
rnio in tho Fiidav mornine issue
of th Daily Nenfaskan. when it
was stated that onlv one hundred
copies would be available An ad-
ditional seventv-five copies, how-
ever, made it possinie 10 supp.v
more oi the. books than was ex
petted. The entire supply was ex
hausted between eight and twelve
Fridav morning in the hooths pro
vided in Social Science and Ag
I ha'l
(
A
Reduce Price.
reduction of fifteen
etuis
tne djret-tories for thirty-five cents,
j The price of the book has been as
hith as one dollar, the business
manager pointed out.
Sales will be made in the down
town district, with Alice Wiedman
and Bob Funk in charge. The
price for the books down-town will
be fifty cents.
Resume Sale Monday.
Tomorrow morning the sale of
the books will be resumed and con
tinued until the supply is ex
hausted. "The results of the first
day's sale indicate that the demand
will exceed the supply of books"
Jennings pointed out. He urged
that students get their copies
(Continued on Page 2. i
age of ten. And with a twinkle in
the observant eyes, which he him
self describes as "very blue." Max,
over his sweeping, continued to
condemn us as a mushy genera
tion. Csmpus Affairs Mush.'
"Are j'our eyes open when you're
walking around the campus What
do vou see ? Well, isn't that mush ?
No"it isn't love they're doing that
for fun. it doesn't mean anything.
But (tactfully noticing our redden
ing visage) everything is like that,
movies, magazines. Even high class
magazines like the Ladies Home
Journal and the Saturday Evening
Post have nothing but slippery,
juicy stories. They're mush or they
are murders, blood and thunder."
iContinued on Page 2 )
