, Tunc i4 UA THE WEATHER Fair today and tomorrow. Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXIII NO. 60. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1933. PRICE 5 CENTS. 1 CDIVAQIVAIN DECORATE ELLEN S IL Follow Old Tradition of the Hanging of the Greens; Women Set Custom. SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS Dinner Is Served to Major Board Members; Present Short Skits. An old Iradition. the Mann ing of the Greens, was fulfilled Wednesday evening as Ellen Sm ih Hall wns draped with the symbolic greens of Christmas. According to set custom women leaders on major boards of the campus arranged and hung the holly and other yuletide decora tions. Following the 6 o'clock buffet dinner served at Ellen Smith hall, members of the A. W. S. board. Mortar Board, Y. V. C. A. cabi net, Y. W. C. A. Big Sister board, women members of the Student council, and women faculty spon sors of each of the organizations, arranged the Christmas tree, banked the firseplace with greens, and otherwise made the rooms gleam in a true holiday spirit. Fifty-six attended the dinner during which a short skit was pre sented by Lois Rathburn. Carols were sung by six members of the vespers choir, and the group sang several Christmas songs before be ginning the "'hanging of the greens." Louise Hossack was chairman of the committee in charge of the arrangements. Helen Lutz, Marion Stamp and Lucille Reilly assisted. ONE HOUSE BODY Proposal Would Substitute Single Cramber for Present Setup. Senator Norris' proposed amendment to the Nebraska constitution providing for a unicameral state legislature is laced with a history of legisla tive opposition to the plan with the most recent expression of dis satisfaction recorded by the state senate during the last session. A bill similar to Norris' amendment providing for a one-house legisla ture was introduced in the state senate on Jan. 17 of this year and was defeated by that body after a committee hearing, 15 to 14. Berlts Presents Bill. The bill presented in the senate by Senator Boelts of Merrick as S. F. 100 suggested a one-house legislature of thirty-three mem bers with a recall for the legisla tors. The proposition included the abolition of the present house of representatives leaving the senate as the only law making body but the phraseology was later changed substituting the name "legislature" for "senate" as the name of the re maining house. A later amendment which was proposed, but failed to pass, in creased the size of the single body with a decrease of the term of of fice from four years as in the original bill to two years. After the failure of the amendment the bill was also voted down. 57,000 Signer Required. The initiative -which is to be used to place the question on the ballot at the next election will re quire about 57,000 signers of the petition distributed so as to in clude 5 percent of the voters in two-fifths of the state districts. According to the members of the political science department of the faculty interviewed Tuesday the idea meets with their approval but the policy seems doomed to failure by all indications by the action on the question as taken formerly in this state and other states. H0I1WFWILL Event Honoring Memory of Ellen H. Richard Set for Dec. 9. The annual dinner honoring the memory of Ellen H. Richard, pio neer in the field of home econom ics, will be given by the univer sity Home Economics association (Continued on Page 4.) W.A.A. To Sponsor Picnic On Sunday W. A. A. picnic will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Axis club picnic grounds. The picnic is sponsored by the W. A. A. council and the staff of the physi cal education department. Chris tobel Weaver is in charge of the arrangements. MITH HALL WlH YULEIIDE CC NORMS INITIATES PETITION ASKING SUMPTION GIVES LECTURE Dramatic Director Will Address Members of Hobby Groups. Harold "Pete" Sumption, erec tor of the University Players, will speak to the dramatics division of the hobby groups at the meeting Thursday in Ellen Smith hall at 5 o'clock. The dramatics division is one of the hobby groups spon sored by the Big Sister board, and it will meet regularly on Thurs days the rest of the year. Girls who are interested in dra matics as a hobby are invited to come any time from four to six on Thursdays. During that time Sylvia Schaefer, who is in charge of the group, will direct the girls in their work with one-act plays and skits. T Fourth Varsity Dance of the Year Set for Coliseum This Week-End. NEW DECORATIONS USED Frank Hodek, Billy Meyers And Orchestra Will Offer Music. With the new permanent decora tions surrounding the floor, and concealing the high rafters and ceiling, the fourth All University party of the season will be held Saturday night in the coliseum. Plans for the all-student dance were completed at the Barb Coun cil meeting Wednesday afternoon. Nightingales Will Play. Furnishing the music and enter tainment for the affair will be Frank Hodek, Billy Meyers, and their Nightingales. This is the eleven piece orchestra which played for the Ak-Sar-Ben ball at Omaha this fall, and has been fea tured in many radio programs dur ing the past few years, having played over the NBC and CBS sys tems on numerous occasions. Hodek is a famous pianist, and Meyers is soloist. Hodek .ha also been associated with Rubinoff, the well known violinist. Chaperones for the dance will be Dr. and Mrs. S. M. Corey, and Prof, and Mrs. Lawrence Lindgren. The Saturday party is the fourth of such affairs sponsored by the Barb Council this year, the others having been held on Sept. 16, Sept. 30, and Oct. 28. 10 SIGNMUPfOR JOBS Nebraska Business Firms to Send Representatives to January Convention. ' Invitations to business firms in the principal cities of Nebraska were sent yesterday by Prof. T. T. Bullock of the economics depart ment requesting that representa tives be sent to convene in Lincoln in an effort to uncover prospective positions for graduating seniors and past graduates of the Uni versity of Nebraska. The conven tion is scheduled to be held after the Christmas holidays. Applicants for positions must be graduates or graduating seniors of the university who may signify their intention to secure employ ment by filling in placement blanks now obtainable at Professor Bul lock's office in Social Science. Room 306. UNIVERSITY PARTY SCHEDULED SATURDAY Nl Christmas Spirit Must Exist Thruout The Season With Social Case Worker; Seniors in Course Getting Experience "We must not lose the Christ mas spirit," warns Miss Esther H. PowalL instructor in social case work at the university. "Though this year we are hard up," she says, "next year will be better, and by forgetting the Ideals of Christ mas we will lose something valu able that cannot be restored easily." But to the social worker. Christ mas is not "but once a year." The spirit of it must come every day it's good will which wipes out class distinctions and prejudice, it's en couragement which helps tho.e in difficulty, and even its gifts which at times are necessary to help peo ple through emergencies until they can providj for themselves. Many Unique Preblems. As field worker with the uni versity social case woik classes. Miss Powell has a chance almost daily to see the needs of those who are in trouble. "In our work," Miss Powell continues, "we find many, many problems. There are rents that are unpaid, husbands and fathers that are out of work. Some troubles are those which we all have to a greater or lesser degree, and others are quite unique. We try to handle each case as it comes. It is our aim and our job to get these people back on their feet We seek to make them self supporting. ! and so self respecting." Those nine students who aie this I year to be graduated in social case Speaks at Banquet CourtMy Lin. -Din Journal. J. E. KIRSHMAN. Who spoke on "Recovery" at the initiation banquet of Beta Gamma Sigma Wednesday evening. Mr. Kirshman is an instructor in the university finance department. FINAL CAST FOR Zimmer, Hunter and Perkins Portray Lead Roles in 'Another Language.' With Dorothy Zimmer, Armand Hunter and Dwight Perkins in the leading roles of "Another Lan guage," brilliant Broadway suc cess of last year which the Uni versity Players are presenting next week opening Monday night, the final cast was announced by Director "Pete" Sumption, on the eve o fthe dress rehearsal Wednes day night. Miss Zimmer is cast in the dif ficult role of Stella, a misunder stood wife who desires more out of life than "merely getting up in the morning and going to bed at night." Mr. Hunter portrays the role of Victor, husband of Stella who -can't quite keep the same out look on life that he had when he was married to her. Perkins in Difficult Role. But the most dificult role and the one with the greatest possibili ties is assigned to Dwight Perkins latest "find" of the players. He plays tin part of Jerry, a juvenile who is of much the same tempera ment as Stella. The action of the play centers around this ever-present conflict between the artistic mind of Stella, and her desire that Jerry shall es cape from the fate that seems to be holding her in check, and the materialistic mind of the Hallam family. Mrs. Hallam, given to con venient fainting spells and to mock heroics demanding so much of her sons and so jealous of their wives, adds a touch of combined comedy-tragedy. This difficult role is plaved by Clara Christiansen, who played the lead in "The Late Christopher Bean." Produced in Films. Robert Montgomery and Helen Hayes played the leading roles in the play when it was produced in a somewhat cut version by motion pictures last year. The motion pic ture, however, according to "Pete" Sumption, does not do fully jus tice to the plot and drama of the vehicle. The final cast for the production is as follows: trior Hitllam .....Armand Huntrr Jrrry llulliuii IImikIh rVrkinit NtHU Helium Ilornthy y.immt-r (rrr Hitllitm Adela Tomnrink Ualti-r Hallam Irvln, Hill Helm Halam Mary kay 'IhrvMin Paul Hallam Harold Fiumptmn Harry Hallam Boll HmOr l-t1 Hallam .Nora Oolxirnr Mr. Hallam Roy lxUlrr Mn. Hallam Ura liriMlanu-n work have as one requirement of their course that they complete, each week, eight clock hours of field work. In cioing this, they must contact and attempt to solve vari ous types of social problems which have always bothered the citizens of any state, and which are par ticularly numerous during a de pression. Their laboratory is the outside world, with its men and women who are sometimes tempo rarily depressed, and into whom it is their duty to instill new spirit. Nebraska Came First. The University of Nebraska in 1909 established the first social work training course in any state university m the country, when Dr. George E. Howard invited Dr. Lu cile Eaves, one of the graduate students of Stanford, to come and give work in applied sociology. Dr. Howard believed that social work was coming to be a profession. In 1915 Dr. Eaves went to Boston, and Dr. Hattie Plum Williams took her place in charge of training for such work. Dr Howard's idea has spread until now many state uni versities, especially in the middle west and far west, have placed such courses in their curricula. So successful has training for social work been at Nebraska that every graduate of the class of last year is now employed, and all ex cept one in this field Dr. Williams believes that the federal relief laws (Continued on Page 4.) SUMPTION NAMES PRODUCTION DEATH TAKES DR. THATCHER, I, IN Ei Former Nebraskan Stricken While Working in Laboratory. HAD RETIRED 1932 Alumnus Occupied Prominent Place as Agriculture Instructor. lh Kuscoe Wil I'm! Thatcher, former president of" Massachu setts State ColKcre. graduate and former assistant chemist at the Nebraska experiment sta tion, died Wednesday morning at Amherst. Mass. His death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage, which occurred while he was work in the college laboratory. Dr. Thatcher, following his graduation from the university In 1898. became assistant chemist at the experiment station, and held that position until 1901. He was a charter member of Alpha Theta Chi, which became the Nebraska chapter of Chi Phi last year. Held Many Positions. During his career as a chemist. Dr. Thatcher served as professor of agricultural chemistry and head of the department of agricul ture at Washington State college, dean of the department of agricul ture at the University of Minne sota, and director cf the state ag ricultural experiment station of New York. In 1927, he became president of the Massachusetts State college, which was known as the Massachusetts Agricultural college at the time he accepted the post, and held the position until his retirement in 1932. He was working as a research chemist in the college at the time of his death. Wrote Chemistry Books. Dr. Thatcher served as the presi dent of the American Society of Agronomy, as member of Presi dent Coolidges agricultural com missi, and former editor of the Journal of the American Society of Agronomy. He was author of the test. "Chemistry of Plant Life." pubUshea n 1921,- and of fifty agricultural bulletins. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and several honorary scientific socie ties. E T E Sigma Tau Initiates Ten Men; Honor Affiliates At Banquet. Ten men were taken into Sigma Tau. honorary engineering society at the semi-annual initiation of the organization Wednesday night in the Mechanical Engineering build ing. An initiatory banquet will be held in honor of the new members Thursday night at 7:30 at the Lin coln hotel. The new members are Gordon Colborn, Hardy: Walker Cordner, Lincoln; Sol Fellman. Omaha; Lyle Haack, Lincoln: Lester Hicks, Meadow Grove; Robert Joyce. Lin coln: Marvin Nuernberger. Wake field; Richard Rice. Tekamah; George Rogers, Fremont; and Ken neth Young, Humboldt. Col. C. J. Frankforter of the chemistry department will be the speaker of the evening on a topic which has not yet been announced. Stanley Jameson will give the ad dress of welcome to the new initi ates with a response coming from one of the new men. Richard Bul ger, president of the honorary, will preside at the banquet reedWseHTsly Director Recuperating Morrow Hospital at Seward. in Professor A. A. Reed of the ex-UT'-in division is recovering ra iy in the Morrow hospital in Seward from cuts received Tues day morning in an automobile ac cident according to reports re ceived by the university. Rr. Reed is not expected to return to bis duties for an indefinite time tho he plans to return to his home soon. Dean B. E. McProud of Wesley an university whom Prcf. Reed waa riding with at the time of the collision sustained minor cuts and bruises, returned to Lincoln Tuesday afternoon. Dan Mc Proud V car was completely wreck ed in the accident when it crashed into a truck. An X-ray examination of Prof. Reed Tuesday afternoon disclosed no serious injuries but he suffered from shock and cuts by flying glass. He did not regain con sciousness until Tuesday noon. WEDNESDAY NGINEERS ADMI NEWM IERST0 HONORARY GROUP Chemist Dies tj yjjr a Cnur.esy ot Lincoln Journal. Dr. Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher. Who was graduated from this university in '98 and acted as an assistant at the experiment sta- j tion until 1901 died at Amherst, j Mass. Wednesday morning. Dr. , Thatcher was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and several scientific fraternities. IE Robinson Draws Cartoons For Humor Magazine; Includes Stories. Awsjwan sajes "ill he contin ued today at booths in Social Science, Andrews, and Mechan ic Arts linll according: to Car lyle Sorenson, business man ager of the publication. He stated that sales were exceptionally good for the Christmas issue of the hu mor publication that went on sale Wednesday. "Christmas Greetings." "Straw berry Slappers," and "No Christ mas Gift," are among the short stnries appearing m"thi: ismie and that help carry out the theme of the magazine. "The Urge to Fashion." by Mar tha Deweese. and "The Stylists Ob serve." by Charles Burshik. fash ion section of the magazine are among the features of the Decem ber Awgwan. Other features in cluding "Campus Annals," a shap shot section and a theater section also appear in this issue. The cover design, portraying Santa Clans, confronted with the problem of going down a modern chimney was drawn by Robert Pierce, managing editor of the Marvin Robinson, are also among the features of the magazine. Present Musical Recital at Temple Theater on Wednesday. A recital by juvenile students of the school ot music was held Wed nesday at 4 o'clock at the Temple theater. Students of Miss Wilson, Mrs. Policy, Mr. Schmidt. Miss Owen. Miss Dreamer, Miss Callen, Mr. Steckelberg and Mrs. Smith took part in the program which is the ninth musical convocation. The program: Canzonetta, Schutt, Gilbert Keelev. Angels O'er the Fields. Old French, solo, Dorothy Maly. Noel. Old Polish, solo. Mary Margaret Maly. The Camel's Hump G'-iman: singing class: Patricia Cooper. Mary Margaret Maly, Dorothy Jean Bryan, Dorothy Maly, Rose mary McKelvie. Dorothy Eloise Carlson, and Elaine Carlson. Album Leaf, Debussv. and Song of the East, Scott. Phyllis Ann Thompson. Nocturne, Op. 72, Chopin, Hazel Fricke. Scenes from Childhood, About Strange Lands and People, Curious Story, Contentedness. The Knight of the Hobby-horse, Chopin. Romu lo Soldevilla. Meditation, from "Thais." Mas senet, Helen Rumcl. Jubal's Lyre. Handel, and Music Box, Liadoff. Dorothy Carlson. Study 28, Fiorillo-Muzin. Thom as McManus. Theme and Variations (Nil cor piu non mi sentol Beethoven, Janet Steckelberg. PEACE COMMITTEE MEETS Members Will Give Reports on Own Communities; Have Honor Guest. Thae Nebra'xa peace committee will meet tonight at the Alpha Phi house at 8:30. Reports of the work of the committee members in their own communities during Thanksgiving vacation will lea ture the informal divuK;on. St:!a Scot lock regional secretary for the V W.C.A., will e a guesL Bieta Peterson will preside. i. 3 ;, f- v ,.'..'- ..:;.' aj- fSj - "inmiiii P ; ivy- CONTINUE SALE OF AM CARRIES CHRISTMASTH ARGUERS STAGE DEBATE Nebraska Squad Competes With Creighton on Radio Control. Neljiiska's affirmative iehnt; tpam nf A. Elmer AnUcr.sun and Walter Wick will uphold the nf firmative side ot thu contention that the United States should adopt the British system of kkJio control and operation in two de butes against Creighton university in Omaha today. One debate at 3:30 in the after noon will be at Omaha Cent nil high school and the other will be braodi ast over station KOIL at 0 o'clock. These debates will com plete the .schedule of debate ac tivity for tins semester. New teams will be chosen at a later date for lurther work during the second semester. AT BETA Eleven Bizad Students Taken; Into Honorary Group Wednesday Night. RECOVERY TOPIC OF TALK Professor Believes Artifical Lifting of Prices Is Unsatisfactory. Dr. J. K. Kirshman of. the university finance department addressed the initiation meet ing of Beta Gauiuia Sigma, na tional scholastic honorary for students in colleges of business ad minstration. Wednesday eveniEg on the subject of "Recovery." "Recovery is a process of in creasing the demand for goods and services." according to Pro fessor Kirshman. "Recovery will proceed in direct proportion to the increase in demand provided the causes of increase are such as in spire a belief in the continuation of the process." Demand from Several Sources. Increased demand may e,omej. from consumers, from industry at ; large for repairs, replacements, cr for extensions and new promo tions: it may also come from the farmin? class or from foreign trade. In the past it has come from any one or a combination of these sources. Emplovment has never failed to increase as demand for goods and services increased. Measures designed to aid the normal processes of recovery must contribute to the increase in de mand and give cause for considering- this increase as permanent. Tested by these principles, in creases in wages would aid recov ery provided prices could be heM in check so that the volum- de mand for goods could increase. But if values of goods rise faster than payrolls, volume demand would recede. Artificial Stimulus Undesirable. Artificial lifting cf prices of commodities and raising of the cost of living would almost cer tainly decrease the demand lor goods since consumer purchasing power would certainly not exceed the increased prices. The program of public works will temporarily inciea.-e the de mand for goods and employment would pick up in proportion. But this is likely to prove only a tem porary expedient and to be rf per mancnt value must be followed by increased demand fiom ether sources. Relief Measures Best Service. The best service of the govern ment will consist largely in its re lief measures designed to aid the needv. to stay the forces of liquida tion.' and support all credit institu tions found to be essentially sound The people should be assured that the banking system is sound so that hoarding will be stopped. Ef fective supervision and examina tion of banks should be provided by the government. To this should be added the guarantee of de posits. Uncertainties Block Recovery. Uncertainties in the money and banking fields now obstruct the normal processes of recovery. Every effort should be made to re move this uncertainty in order to restore confidence in the future (Continued on Page 4.1 OF GRANT FOR LIBRARY Desire to Make Application To CWA for Loan to Use In Mal'inn Repairs. The question of a possible federal grant of money to the university library is reopened by the vote of the Lincoln library board at its meeting Tuesday to send an ap plication to the" CWA asking for S5.314JM to be used in repairing the Lincoln main library building and its branches There much agitation at the time that the req uert for a new armory on the campus was being discussed that the bnard of regents sho-.ild also consider an application to tfie federal government for a loan either to repair or replace the yreftent univerMty library. KIRSHMAN SPEAKS GAMMA SIGMA INITIATION QUESTION STUDENT L E FIGHT Representatives of Other Groups to Assist in Campaign. ASK REGENTS' APPROVAL Orchestra Booking Office Will Be Organized by Special Committee. lienew iii-j their endeavor to secure a blanket activities tax ior tlie I rnvcrsiiv ol .ehraska. the stu-ieiit council vn oanesuay in i special iiicctim: liiadu pliiiis to 1 1 1 -1 : ' lorth an organ ized ea.iipa iuh in tin effort to present the entire student body's opinion to the Board of Resents. Representatives tiom each of the organizations on the campus will be chosen to work in cooper ation with the student council committee. One representative from the Fan-hellenic council and one from the Innocents Society, one from the Mortar boards, one from the Pan-heiienic council and one from each of the other student organizations will be chosen. Secure Student Opinion. "The idea is to get the views of as large a number of the student body as possible o that the facts on both sides of the question can be presented to the Eoard of Regents." John Gepson. president of the council pointed out. A re port of answers received last spring when questionnaires were the library which was given to the American School of Classical Stu dies by Dr. Joannes Gennadius. (Continued on Page 2.) E Former Professor Here Talks About His Experiences in City of Athens. Dr. C. G. Lowe, former chairman of the classics department at the university, was the guest speaker at the Faculty Men's Dinner club meeting Wednesday evening at the University club. Dr. Lowe who is director of the Gennadeion library in Athens, Greece, described his experiences in Athens during the past two years, and related some personal observations concerning the country of Greece. In his informal discussion of the nation of Greece Doctor Lowe pre sented some descriptions of Athens, the people, their ideas, and cus toms, and discussed some humor ous incidents which he has ob served during his stay there. He described a brief revolution in Greece where there was much shooting, one man being acciden tally killed. Greeks Like Politics. According to Doctor Lowe the Greeks have a great national pride, a love of the aesthetic, and are individualists. They are vitally interested in politics, and keep well posted on national affairs thru the newspapers. Doctor and Mrs. Lowe left the United States two years ago lor Athens, where he took charge of (Continued on Page 2.) PL CONTESTjJFFER PRIZE Community Players Sponsor Competition to Finish December 31. i The Cedar Rapids Community Players under ice managemcui FriwarH Sheehv are holding a one- act play writing contest in the mid dle west during the month of De cember, officially ending uec. a, lt'33. The play must deal with some phase or characteristic of middieweKtern life but it may be treated in any manner: Ironic, tragic, comic, farcial, or meio riramatie. A prize of fifty dollars is offered for the best play. List Requirements. All communications should be aJdressed to Edward Sheehv, manager or tne miciciiewesi piy writing contest. 2001 Linden drive S. E.. Cedar Rapids, la. However the final decision on the inert of the plays rests with Waita Pritchard Eaton, in the department of drama, Yale university. Further details of the contest ia regard to form or writing, method of judging, mailing, and length of play are found in Andrews hall, outside of Professor Wimberly s office. Kir-eli Acldrcfrs-eu Maqu And Vi CIul at Fremont "Stage Design" was the topic Dwight Kirsch. chairman of the department of fine arta presented tn the Masque and Wig club Tues day evnirg at Fremont high school. Th diM-ussinn was illus trated wilh natural colored photo Kiai.h of Mttings for pioduction used by the University Player, CI wLL 1 FOR ACTIVITY TAX