Daily Nebra THE SKAN HIE WEATHER Partly Cloudy, Not Much Change in Temperature , Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXIII NO. 71. ATTEND ICE Hold Wihter Affair at Oak Creek; Green Togas Win Hockey Game. ' SAUER AWARDS PRIZES Wilson Takes 100 Yard Dash; Chair Champions Are Neville, Hammond. Mxmt 800 persons attended the first all-university ice car nival held Thursday cvcninR at Oak Creek park and sponsored bv W.A.A. 'An engraved aluminum cup was presented to the Green Togas, winners of the hockey game which was played with brooms and a vol lev ball. Prizes given to the other winners were candy gold Peces; All prizes were presented by George Saucr. Wilson Wins Race. The first event to be run off was the 100 yard dash for men, which was won by Julius Wilson, first; Frank Crowe second and Baylor third. Winners of the chair race were first, Virginia Neville and Jack Hammond second, Elaine Fontein and Julius Wilson! and third, Alice Geddes and Baylor. Award Dean Thompson. The third event was the fifty vard dash for women, won by Ruth Andreson. The hockey game was the lasjt event on the program. Julius Wilson won the prize for the hardest fall and Dean Thompson, the prize for the best effort at skating. Judges for the events were Har old Petz, Chet Yager, Lincoln park commissioner and Miss Clara (Continued on Page 4.) 10 APPEAR AT GAME Gamma Lambda to Sponsor Function According To Jennings. "We hope to 7resent a small German band at the first basket ball game after the start of the new semester," stated Bernard Jennings, president of Gamma Lambda, honorary band fraternity. He stated that the band which will appear under the sponsorship of Gamma Lambda is being organ ized by William Hammond and Robert Tebo. It will consist of about six pieces. Gamma Lambda will hold a spe cial initiation for six men next Tuesday at 5 o'clock at the Tem ple. Men who could not attend the formal initiation and banquet Wed nesday, will be initiated, according to Jennings. HOLD ANNUAL CONTEST Palladians To Conduct Event; Award Prizes Tor Winners. The annual Ned. Fisher literary contest will be held at the meeting of Palladian literary society in the hall at the Temple building Friday evening. Prizes will be awarded to the winners of the contest, which is a traditional annual event in the year's program of the society. Margaret Medlar is in charge of the program for the evening. Gerald Mott. a pupil of Mrs. Mary Hall Thomas, will offer sev eral vocal selections at the meeting. 800 CARNIVAL; WAA SPONSORS EVEN! Experimental Observations Threaten To Refute Roots of Entire Study of Modern Physics Declare Scientists Experimental observations from Pasadena, Calif., physics laborato ries which threaten to tear up by the roots the entire study of mod em physics, are most likely based on spurious effects caused by pe riodic variations in the instruments used, Doctors J. B. Nielson and Diuane E. Rohrer, of the univer sity department of physics said in a joint statement issued recently. The Pasadena scientists claim to have disproved the age old Mich aelson speed of light theory. Tho it was admitted that such startling conclusions might be jus tifiable, the professors were prone to believe that experimental and technical errors, which tho slight might throw the investigations completely off balance, had been made. It was conceded, however, that the California physicists who threw a bombshell into the present science setup, are well known and reliable. Einstein Not Challenged. Conducting a brief three day in vestigation of the possibilities that the speed of light, heretofore con sidered immobile, may actually vary as the Pasadena observations are claimed to prove the university department slso stated that the new discoveries, if true, would not CLUB DISCUSSES DEBUSSY Program at Student French Club Includes Musical Compositions. A regular meeting of the student French club was held Thursday evening. The program, which was in charge, ot Evelyn Diamond, fea tured the life ot Debussey, famous French composer. i'helma Goldstein discussed the Life of Debussy, and William Hol lister explained some of the com posers compositions. Lenore Teale presented a musical program con sisting of scores written by De bussy. Several vocal selections were offered by Lester Rumbaugh. 10 BEAVAILABLE Professor Cunningham and Architectural Students Prepare Estimates. ROSS HEADS COMMITTEE Selected Proposal Will Be Submitted to Board Of Regents. l)''inilc architectural plans for 1he erection oi stone pillars on the oily campus as a step in campus bcautificalion will be available for consideration by the committee on campus beau tification in about a week. Elton Ross, chairman of the committee announced Thursday evening. The plans are being prepared by Prof. Harry Cunningham and architec tural students. Plan Campus Entrance. According to Ross, not only will plans be submitted for erection of pillars on the malls but also at the campus entrance on 12th street and possibly elsewhere on the campus. Estimates of the cost of erecting the columns as provided for in the various plans will be compiled immediately after the plans are received by the commit tee, Ross declared. Refer To Councils. . Cost estimates and 4 he various schemes for erection of columns will be referred to the Interfra ternity and Panbellenic councils for action by the committee at the next meetings of those organiza tions, according to present plans. Other campus organizations may be consulted later concerning the proposal, Ross indicated. Following action by campus (Continued on Page 4.) MIXER SATURDAY NIGHT Gay Lord and Orchestra Will Play for Event on Ag Campus. The second ag mixer since Christmas vacation will be held in the Student Activities building on the Ag college campus Saturday night at 8:30. The Dairy club is sponsoring the affair. Music for the dancing will be given by Gay Lord and his ten piece orchestra, which will present a number of special vocal features during the evening. Joe Huffer, head of the Dairy club, stated Thursday that the party is being held so that the students may have an opportunity to enjoy themselves before the ex amination grind of the next two weeks. . . . Chaperones for the affair will be Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Hathaway, and Dr. and Mrs. P. A. Downs. invalidate the Einstein theory of thus t&kine- direct issue with the scientists who in a recent ly published newspaper account dioH that it would. "The gener al theory of relativity in principle admits or variations in me pu f litrht " the statement from the university department read. Reported Change is Kapia. ti lor h1 nh'sicists declared that tho no such periodic effect had Deen reponeu uwcwiun, ihwi hnc hppn some evidence pub lished during the past several years oi a very grnuuu.i, uiuu change in the speed of ligbt.occur ring over a period of many years. Some of the slight changes ob served at Pasadena however, seem to have occurred over a period of only several weeks, it was said. The professors were extremely pessimistic over the truth of the Pasadena conclusions, stating that changes to the gravitational field near the earth, might also have af fected the condition which led the California laboratories to make such drastic statements. Final opinions on the new con clusions, however, were withheld until official reports on the situa tion by physical journal have been published. NOTATION ON CAMPUS PILLARS DAIRY CLUB SPONSORS LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12. STUDENTS 10 REGISTER BY FINAL DEADLINE Impose Charge for Late Enrollment; Pay Fee On January 25. LEVY ADDITIONAL TAX. Inflict Added Penalty If Not Completed By Final Date of Jan. 13. With but two more days left for registration university stu dents are bein? urged to fill out their schedules for the sec mid spmrster- Failure to do so by noon on Saturday, January 13 will imnose a three dollar late fee upon each student who returns to school for the last nair ot me year, officials ot me university nave warned. Pay Charge Thursday. Fees for second semester regis tration are to be paid by Thursday, .Tnnnnrv 25 when class assign ment cards are filled out by the students who have oeen in scnooi Hnrincr the nresent semester. Com pletion of registration will be made in Grant Memorial Hall on the fol lowing dates: Friday, January 19, from 9 .. m. until 4 d. m.: Monday, January 22 to and including Thurs day, January 25 from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Levy Additional Fee. A throe rlollsr late fee will be charged all present students who nave not completed registration uy i ti m Thnrsrlav. January 25. An additional one dollar per week will (Continued on Page 3.) WITH TRUST ACT Attorney-General Explains Corporations' Stand On Code Plan. "The public policy of law will remain in effect until De courts declare that the restraints of the Sherman Anti-trust Act are no longer void and no longer against the public interest," according to Attorney General Paul F. Good, who spoke to T. T. Bullock's class in Trust Problems, Thursday ait ernoon. Those corporations who oppose the NRA, which is a temporary substitute for the Sherman Act, believe that in giving the details of the running of their business it tends to decrease their business and success, Attorney Good said. Another opposition to the code, which has occurred in Nebraska, is the zoning of motion pictures so that the largest towns are given the right to show the picture ten days in advance of the small towns. This is unfair in that the majority of patrons have seen the show in the larger towns. Until the code is revised so that some corporations are not helped thtm others, the NRA will not be favored by the -oeople," Mr. Good said. BIGS TALKS 10 Chemist Discusses Problems Of Power Plants in Thursday Speech. Mr. R. R. Briggs, chief chemist of the Nebraska Power company in Omaha, gave a talk on "Chemical Wrnhlemfi in n Power Plant" to a group of chemical engineers Thursday nigm at t .av o ciucn iu the main lecture room of the Chemistry Building. Introduced by Colonel C. J. Frankforter, chemistry professor at the University, Mr. Briggs went on to tell about the methods of analyzing properties of coal and what determines the ratings of good and bsd coal. Giving a short but complete synopsis of the com ponents of coal Mr. Briggs next turned to the treatment of water. He presented a synopsis of the treatment of water, in which he outlined the history of methods used for the last forty years. The third important topic which he covered was the use of lubri cants for turbine generators. ISSUE DANCE TICKETS: Barbs and Fraternity Men Selling Ducats for Mid Year Frolic. Tickets for the Mid-year frobc, dance which will be held Friday niirht. January 26. have been is sued by Sigma Delta Chi. profes-! Bionai journalistic iraienmy, iutu is in charge of the affair. Both Barb and fraternity represents-j tives are selling tickets. GOOD DISCUSSES NRA CONNECTION YWCA STAFFSENDS FUNDS Nebraska In China Group Contributes To Work In Hankow. Nebraska in China staff has been able this week to send $195 to Hankow, China, to help support Y. W. C. A. work there. The Ne braska Y. W. C. A. has for years contributed to the Y. W. C. A. in China.- The fund was raised by the Chi nese bazaar, the sale of Chinese stationery, and through the distri bution of mite boxes and gifts from alumni and friends of the staff. The money will be sent to Miss Lelia Hinkley. national Y. W. C. A. secretary, who maintains a city Y. W. C. A. and works among the women in Hankow. She is the only American woman there. CORN COB SPRING PARTY PROPOSED PLANS IN DEFINITE Pep Club May Stage Student Dance in Coliseum; Help Pay on Decorations. GROUPS TO CONTRIBUTE Field House Party Not to Supplant Dinner Dance Held Each Year. With assurance that funds making toward the full pay ment of the remaining $1,500 debt on the permanent decora tions in the Coliseum would come from the Military ball, inter fraternity ball, and the Junior Senior prom, the Corn Cobs stated Thursday that if they have a party in the Colesium they will con tribute. Henry Kosman, president of the pep group, stated Thursday night that there was a strong possibility that the Corn Cobs would stage a Spring Party following tne junior Senior prom early this spring. He said that nothing definite had been decided upon by tlffi committee in conference with John Selleck, but thatthere is a strong possibility of a party. The committee of three Corn Cobs is made up of Kosman, Tom Davies, and Charles Stead man. Would Have Dinner Dance. If the Corn Cobs should stage a dance in the field house, it is definitely decided that it will not take the place of the annual Corn Cob dinner dance. The dinner dance would also be held. Several possible sources of reve nue have been listed, which would help in paying for the decorations, which are not as yet completely installed, although in use for three months. Decorations Are New. The decorations were used for the first time this year at the In nocents homecoming party on Nov. 11, and since then have been util ized at all-university parties, the Military ball, and the Mortar Board party. They will be used at the Interfraternity Ball, Junior Senior prom, and the all-student parties from now on, and most of the organizations sponsoring these affairs will contribute to the deco rating fund. Rational Geographic Publish s Expedition Of Nebraska Graduate In the December issue of the Na tional Georgraphic magazine ap peared a feature by James Wilson, graduate of Nebraska in the class of 1932, concerning the widely-discussed trip which he and Francis Flood, graduate of 1921, made across Africa in 1927-28. The article 'Three-Wheeling Across Africa' is accompanied by over sixty photographs taken by the two men as they rode, shoved, and slid across over 2,000 miles of jungle-covered land, desert, and swamp. Travel By Motorcycle. Never before had anyone tra versed the dark continent by mo torcycle, and British officials con ceded the two Nebraskans little chance of completing the trip. However to the surprise of their English friends, and as Wilson says, to their own surprise they one day found themselves on the shore of the Red sea Both men have gained consider able fame following the exploit, and since then have been writing, taking other trips to far corners of the world, and going on lecture tours thruout the United States. GIRLS' RIFLE FIRING PRACTICE. It has been necessary to drop the ' Thursday afternoon prac tice hours and to substitute hours on Wednesdays. The to tal practice periods, then, are as follows: Tuesday afternoons: 2:00 to 5:00 Tuesday p. m.: 2:00 to 5:00 Wednesday a. m.: 9:00 to 12:00 Wednesday p. m.: 2:00 to 5:00 Those who have no free hours coinciding with the above, see Miss Orr or Miss Tombrink for further possible adjustments. 1931. CHOOSE SIX FOR NEXT SEMESTER T Steadman, Perkins, Pester, Hill, Stover, and Pace on Squad. FIRST CONTEST JAN. 29 Powers of President Topic For Tryouts Staged Thursday Night. Six men were chosen to form the ' varsity debate squad for the second semester in the try out last night on the debate question for the year, Resolved : that the powers of the President of the United States should be en larged as a permanent policy. The debaters selected were Charles W. Steadman, Irving Hill, Dwight Perkins, Eugene Pester, and Jack Pace, all of Lincoln, and John Sto ver, Malcom. The judges for the contest were H. VV. Biederman of the Nebraska Farmer; Lloyd E. Chapman, as sistant city attorney; and Charles E. Alatson, auorney ana cnairmari of the Citizenship Committee of the Nebraska Bar Association. All are former collegiate debaters. Allow Eight Minutes. Each speaker was allowed eight minutes to be divided into con structive and rebuttal work as he chose except the first arguer who was given two speeches, one of five minutes and one of four, to give him an opportunity tor reru tation. The judges were to base their decisions on the general de bating performance of the speak ers as individuals witnoui any re (Continued on Page 4.) Y Plan to Hold Election on January 16; New Head To Appoint Cabinet. Nominees for the annual Y. W. C. A. elections will bp announced next Sunday. These candidates are being selected by a special nominating com mittee composed of two senior members from the cabinet and one member of the organization's ad visory board. Miss Bernice Miller, M-hn io o-PTiernl secretary of the Y. W. C. A. is an ex-officio mem ber of this committee. Ballotting on candidates for nrfsidpnt vice president, secretary and treasurer will be held at the Y. W. C. A. offices on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Polls will also be open nn the agricultural campus. On the agricultural campus the candi date defeated for presidency De comes the society's vice president and the group elects a secretary. Appoint Cabinet. Members of the cabinet, who head the various staffs of the or-p-nnization. will be appointed by the new president. These positions (Continued on Page 2. NEBRASKA GRADUATE ON BELLEVUE STAFF Chauncey Hager Appointed To Post at Famous Institution. Dr. Chauncey A. Hager, Uni versity of Nebraska graduate in 1932, has been appointed on surg ery in the Bellevue hospital in New York City for two years, beginning July 1, this summer, it was learned in Lincoln today. The Bellevue in stitution is said to be one of the largest hospitals in the world and entrance examinations are ex tremely difficult. Twelve vacancies were available in the hospital for the coming two years. More than 100 doctors from the east, including many Harvard graduates, competed in the tests. Hager was the second high man in the examinations. Now Dr. Hager is interning in the SL Francis hospital in New Jersey. While in school, however, at Lincoln he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon. In Omaha while attending the medical col lege, he belonged to Nu Sigma Nu and was made a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, henorary medical fraternity. Entertains Staff Members. Ruth Cherney, adviser of the freshman cabinet. entertained members of ber staff at a fireside ta Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall, fche reviewed the book "Let's Be Nor mal" by Fritz KunkcL DEBATING AM NAME NOMINEES FOR OFFICES TI WEEK-END STUDENTS PRESENT RECITAL Pupils of Instructors Give Selections at Seventh Regular Musical. The seventh of the University School of Music's recitals was pre sented Thursday afternoon by stu dents of the school, at 4 o'clock in the Temple theater. Winifred Wilson, Vance Leinin ger, students of Mr. Schmidt, Wil liam Gant, Marian Miller, students of Mr. Harrison, Velma James, Therlo Reckmeyrr, Howard Stark, students of Mr. Kirkpatrick, Wil liam Miller, student of Mr. Tem pel, and Helen Luhrs, student of Mr. Wishnow, took part in the re cital. RIFLlTPRACfiCE STARTS; REPORT LAROASSES Prepare for Telegraphic Meet to Be Held With Sixteen Colleges. MAY CONTEST CREIGHT0N University Women Eligible To Shoot in Basement Of Andrews Hall. Women's rifle team practice started this week with the largest registration in some time, in prep aration for the telegraphic meets to be held with sixteen colleges this season. "There are about twice as many out as I expected and they all seem very enthusiastic," declared Serge ant De Vaughn, who is in charge of instruction. More hours will be opened for practice on Monday s and Wednesdays from 2 to 5 in ad dition to the regular hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Contest Creighton. "There is a possibility that we will be able to have a snouiaer io shoulder meet with the women's team from Creighton university Morfh ?.i " stfitpd Adele Tom- brink, who is in charge of women's rifle practice. ah imivArsitv n'fimpn are eligible to come and shoot in the basement nf iniirra9 hall. After about three weeks of instruction by Sergeant De vaugnn, signed ana storea uu-P-Pts will he handed in. The fifteen women with the highest score in the week preceeaing tne meei. wiu mnirp nn thp tpsm for that contest. This gives more persons a chance to actually compete. Membership Open. Tnivprcitv nf Nebraska Rifle club, recently formed by Sergeant (Continued on Page 2.) B1ZAD SOCIETY MEETS Fred Stone Addresses Club On Subject of "New Salesmanship." Fred Stone, vice president of the First National bank of Lincoln, snnirp before a etouo of twenty- five members of Delta Sigma Pi, professional Business .amimsLra tion organization, at the regular monthly banquet held Wednesday evening in Hotel linaeu. wis bud ject was "New Salesmanship." Harold Winquest, president of the fraternity, presided as toast master at the dinner. GIVES TALK ULIl 1UU Geography Head Discusses "Life and Customs In Central America." Dr. Nels A. Gengston, head of the department of geography, will address the Yankee Hill Commu nity Club at Burnham, Nebraska, next Friday night on the subject. "Life and Customs in Central America." Production "The Green Pastures" Has Novel Features; Pay Fund of $20,000 for 3Iechanism Employed One of the most interesting and novel features of the presentation of "The Green Pastures," the Marc Connelly classic coming to the Liberty January 15th, is the mechanical effect that enables Richard B. Harrison as "de Lawd to walk the earth in an effort to straighten out his wayward "chil lun." Present Application New. The idea is old, dating h "k to the thundsring chariot n je in "Ben Hur." of happy memory, but its present application is new. And strangely enough, it had its genesis in a furious dancing num ber of nautical comedy staged by Arthur Hammert-tein and known as "Good Eoy." A small army of girls dancing'in wild exultation on a floor speeding from under their feet proved a sensation. So did the cost seme $20,000 for the mech anism, with correspondingly heavy maintenance charges, and more charges ot many kinds when it be came necessa-y to move the sbow. After the New York presentation just one such effort was made in Bom on and then "Good Boy" be came "Good Bye " PRICE 5 CENTS. HERS SOUTH TODAY ON TWO-GAME JAUNT Meet Tiger Cagers Saturday And Wildcats Monday In Big Six Tilts. TRIP IS CRUCIAL TEST Stopovers in Kansas City Scheduled to Break Long Auto Ride. Determined to maintain their po sition at the head of the Big Six basketball standings tor me iwoi ennenn Pnarh Browne's aCCTeSSive Nebraska hoopsters again take the road for a two game inp curing tthirh thev will meet the highly touted Missouri Bengals and the husky Kansas Aggies. This will be tne bcanci oa.sKei flipper's crucial test as to whether they are on their road back to a successful year on the maples. As those tilts will be the third and fourth games of the season against conference nvais, we siaius oi me c!i-lpt rne-estprs will be greatly influenced by the results achieved in the battles. Select Nine for Trip, virip mpmhers of the sauad have been picked to make the trek south this week end, according to Coach Browne's Thursday announcement. The Cornhuskers invade Missouri for their Saturday game and then prime hnrk to Manhattan for their Monday night game with Kansas State. The nine members of the Corn husker party will be Kenneth Lun ney, York; Hubert Boswell, Ra venna; Dwight Loder, Waverly; Leland Copple, Rosalie; Norman Sorensen, Hardy, centers; Rollin Parsons, Lincoln; Harvey Wiaman, (Continued on Page 4.) PRESENTS REPORT Gives Detailed Outline of Nebraska Pine Ridge Country. Mr. V. Calvon McKim, graduate student of geography, presented the detailed outline of his pro posed report on "Geography of the Nebraska fine fuage country u fore the graduate geographical seminar Tuesday nignu Tn nrpnarinc his reoort for a de gree, Mr. McKim won state-wide recognition by chartering an air plane to make extensive photo graphs of the region, rie sptm iue last summer and fall in this fieid tt'nrk and nlans to have his report ready for publication by next sum mer. COMPLETE PLANS FOR ANNUALBIZAD PARTY Men's and Girl's Commercial Club Arrange for Joint Affair at Lindell. Arrangements for Men's and Girl's commercial club joint party to be held at the Lindeii hotei Sat urday evening, January 13. were completed when chaperones were announced. Dean and Mrs. J. E. LeRossignol and Professor and Mrs. E. B. Schmidt will sponsor the party. Members of both clubs will meet in the Commercial Club room, So cial Science 307, at 6:30 and will go from there to the party in a body. Guests at the party will in clude a number of rushees and friends of club membeis. There was little or no thought of presenting "The Green Pas tures" anywhere tave in New York when it was staged, so it seemed a perfectly logical thing to buy the ponderous treadmills that hd worked so successfully for the dancing number, slow down their operation to the dignified gait of "de Lawd" and consider a big problem solved. It would have been but for one circumstance that de veloped after the treadmills had been installed The designer had forgotten to include a silencer and the great millb rattled and banged like a berserk threshing machine. This had been true of ail such de Vices in the past but had not been noticed under the thunder of rac ing borsea' hoofs or the concerted tap of many dancers' feet Follow Experiment. A start ha1 been made', and ex perimentation followed. The elec tricians, a carpenter and a machin ist finally alter days of futile en de or achieved the result that no. nableti. cometim1 as many as seventy people, &fi in the thrill ing Exodus cne. to march in noiseless uniformity on the treals. GRADUATE STUDENT