FIT Daily Neb IASKA THE WEATHER Partly Cloudy and Colder Official Student Newspaper of the University " of Nebraska W1 M VOL. XXXIII NO. 101. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1931 PRICE 5 CENTS. HE N UNIOR AK SHOW T I ATI Annual Showmanship Contest To Be Feature of Ag College Event. BILL WALDO IS MANAGER Exhibition Will Be Followed By Dance in Activities Building. An alarm dock will Hug Sat urday night at 7:00 o clock sharp, the formally attired trumpeter will herald in a class of show horses, Judge W. W. Derrick will start work, and the 1934 Junior Ak-Sar-Ben will be in progress. Manager W illard Waldo announced Thursday that the Ag livestock show is all set to go, and it will introduce more new and interesting features than any previous Junior Ak-Sar-Ben. The livestock auditorium has been gaily decdrated for the oc casion, the manager said Thurs day. A huge red "N" will adorn the center of the arena. Howard White, ag junior, has organized a pet and hobby show which will be added to the six classes of live stock exhibited. A radio system has been installed over which Master of Ceremonies Charles Rochford will announce for the guests the showmanship winners of the evening. Mrs. (joairey tseut' ler. Lincoln will demonstrate the use of a sixteenth century spin ning wheel, using ag college wool. Promptly after the six-class livestock exhibition, the junior Ak-Sar-Ben ball opens at the activity building. Tlie animal husbandry faculty members, Waldo announced Thursday, will sponsor the dance. Formal invitations have been sent to Chancellor and Mrs. Burnett and Dean and Mrs.. Burr to attend the livestock show Saturday night. The show Saturday night has been announced in every school in Lincoln, Waldo said Thursday, and the number of inquiries received indicates that a large number of Lincoln school children will see the livestock exhibit The junior Ak-Sar-Ben, Waldo and Rochford explained Thursday, is a showmanship contest for stu dents. W. W. Derrick, former in structor in the animal husbandry department, will judge all classes. The students fit and exhibit their animals exactly as they would at a state fair or other exposition. But the judge selects, not the best animal, but the animal that has been fitted and shown the best. Hence the student's showmanship ability rather than the animal is the thing the judge considers. Prizes are awarded the winners of each class. The show opens with the class of horses, and are fol lowed by beef cattle, dairy cattle, hogs and sheep. A championship class in which the best showman Is selected from the winners of each of the different classes com pletes the show. A cane will be awarded to each class winner, a cup to the cnampion. ieiKues will be awarded by the Mid-West Wool Marketing association to winners in some classes. Ribbons will be awarded by the Block and Bridle club, sponsors of the show. TODAY'S NEWS Briefly Reviewed Thirty hours of labor a week is the maximum recommended at the IS'RA protest meeting now going on in Washington. This measure was recommended as the best to Increase employment. It is under stood that a ten percent reduction in hours and a ten percent increase In hourly wages is General John son's plan. This would provide for a thirty-six hour week. Request for continuation of the administration's present monetary policy at least for the remainder of the fiscal year was voiced In a message to congress yesterday by Secretary of the Treasury Morgen thau. He admitted that the present policy was an experiment and would not forecast the future of the monetary system or policies. Granting dictatorial powers to Premier Doumergue, the French parliament yesterday passed a finance measure which balanced its budget for 1934 and provided -Jt surplus of nine million francs over estimated expenses. The parlia ment gave Doumergue the powers of a dictator in effecting govern mental economies and in manipu lating tariffs to negotiate trade treaties. Bank deposits in Lincoln have Increased about sixty-five percent In the last year, according to fig ures announced yesterday. Bank ers attribute most of the increase (Continued on Page 3.) Men's Commercial Club Plans Luncheon Tuesday Members of the University Men's Commercial club will attend a luncheon at the junior chamber of commerce Tuesday noon, March 6. Bizad students wishing to attend are asked to se Harold Barnes. crtary; or Max Ninlwum. presi dent, in the club room in Social Science hall 0 OPEN TONIGH PROMPRY Tremendously Important That All Students Should Become Familiar With World, States Y. W. Official "It is tremen Jously important for students to become more fa miliar with the world in which they live," emphatically declared Miss Stella Scurlock, National Stu dent Secretary of the Y. W, C. A., who is visiting the university Y. W., Thursday afternoon, "in order to be better citizens and to learn how to take more responsibility." "Students usually live a shelter ed life," she continued, "with no outside contacts with business or economic life to speak of, and we want them to have a chance to make these contacts and ,to form some theory or idea of life as it really is." It is on this basis or considera tion, according to Miss Scurlock, that a plan is being formulated by the Kansas City Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. to allow students to make contact with various areas of the social world in order to understand Chemistry Students Discover Hydrogen's Just a Bit Explosive A light, some air, and some hy drogen and bang!! That's all that's necessary to send a test tube or flask merrily on its way, as Glenn Jameson and Marie Pakes found out in their Chemistry 1 last Tues day. Glass hit the ceiling and some went over to a distant wall. Before trying to light a test tube of hydrogen, all the air must be gotten rid of first, and some times when the combination of air and hydrogen is ignited, it is one of the best explosives obtainable. "The next time we light a test tube of hydrogen," laughingly de clared Marie, "it will be just hy drogen." QUILL CLUB 10 OFFER Manuscripts Must Be in the Hands of Judges by 31st of March. American College ' Quill' club again is , offering the Ted Olson Quill prize of $50 to be awarded for the best original poem or group of poems submitted by an undergraduate in any American college or university. The contest will lust until midnight, March 31, 1934. The Ted Olson Quill prize for poetry is offered every two years, alternating with the Edwin M. Hopkins prize for the short story. which was awarded, for 1932-33 to Mr. John Gilchrest, of the Uni versity of Kansas, for his story, "The Circus." The judges were Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John T. Frederick, and Lowry C. Wim berly, professor of Eng'lish at the university. The manuscripts will be judged by poets of national repute or by well-known critics of poetry. The poems to be considered must in elude at least eight lines, but must possess some organic unity. The prize-winning poem or groups of poems will be published in The Parchment, the Quill magazine. Announcement of the award will be made as soon after May 1 possible. All manuscripts are to be sent to the high chronicler of the Quill, Mrs. Ethelyn M. Hartwich, 511 Broadway, Tacoma, Wash. TO Open Meeting Will -Be Held Friday Night in Temple. Palladian Literary society will be entertained at an open meeting Friday evening at the Temple building by the senior members of the society. A pantomime on "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," a burlesque, "Grind Hotel," and a one-act com edy, "Dear Old Aunt Harriett," are to be presented as units of a gen eral theme woven about the search for characters by the proprietor of a dramatic studio. Those taking part are: Henry Baur, Anne Bohlen, Elwood W. Camp, chairman; Vernon Filley, Max Halderson, Evelyn Hallstrom, Wilbur Hansen, Stanley Jameson, Helen Still. John Stover, Edward Suchy, Lois Turner and :larry West. GRADUATE 0PENS STORE Leon Frankel Starts Men's Haberdashery at 1107 0 St. Leon Frankel. graduate of the university in 1930. has opened a men's haberdashery recently at 1107 O st. Frankel, who has Just returned from the east, will pre sent a line of latest college clothes. W hile he was in school Frankel was a member of Zeta Beta Tan fraternity and the Men's Commer cial club it better. Under the sponsorship of Kansas university professors, Y. M. and Y. W. leaders, and nationally known men, a group will study for ten days or more the social and ec onomic aspects of our present day life. "There will be the requirements necessary to join this group," ex plained Miss Scurlock, "one will be a required reading list so that everyone might be well Informed on sociological subjects and have the same common background, and the other that the students agree to enter into the experiment fully, even to restricting themselves in the amount of money to be spent to $5 for the ten days. This will, of course," she further continued, smilingly, "necessitate that the boys eat in flophouses and the girls in helping hand hotels." The first three days are to be (Continued on Page 4.) PROM COMMITTEE IS AT IRK FINISHING DETAILS OF PARTY Andy Kirk Signed to Play For Season's Last Formal Event. With the orchestra which id to play for the Junior-Senior prom on Friday, March 9, in the coliseum finally selected, the Junior-Senior prom committee will set to work Friday afternoon in completing ar rangements lor the party. Previous to the naming of a band for the af fair the committee was marking time, since few arrangements could be made until the orchestra was obtained. The orch.-stra which will play for the prom is Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy. This is a colored band which has played at various places thruout the country during the past few years, notably at the Rose'and ballroom in New York city along with Glen Gray's Casa Loma orchestra for three months. While playing the en gagement at the Roseland the Kirk orchestra broadcast over a nation al radio hookup, and made many recordings. At El Torreon. Recently the twelve piece band closed a four months engagement at the El Torreon ballroom in Kan sas City. It has been featured over both the CBS and NBC radio chains during the past year. Tickets for the prom next Fri day were placed on sale a week (Continued on Page 4.) DEBATERS LEAVE FOR 101 CITY THURSDAY Delta Sigma Rho Sponsors Tourney at Hawkeye . School. Prof. H. A. White, coach, ac companied four members of the debate squad when they left on a trip Thursday morning to Iowa City to compete in a tournament on March 2 and 3. The affirmative team will also meet Iowa univer sity in an argument which will be broadcast over station KSUI at 3 o'clck on Friday afternoon Mar. 2. The teams with Professor White are an affirmative group of Dwight Perkins and Eugene Pester and a negative lineup with Jack Pace and Charles Steadman speaking. Discussion during the contest will be on the topic Resolved: That the United States government should substantially increase the powers of the president as a settled pol icy. The schools likely to send teams are the University of Iowa, Iowa State college, Iowa State Teachers college, the University of Wyom ing, Washington University of St Louis, South Dakota University, the University of Notre Dame, Denver University and the Univer sity of Nebraska. Delta Sigma Rho, honorary for ensic fraternity, sponsors the tournament for the second time this year among the colleges and universities of this district There is no prize awarded the winner. MEN'S CLUB PLEDGES FIVE Commercial Society Has Meeting Wednesday Evening. The rushees of the Men's Com mercial club were introduced to the members when the club met Wednesday evening in the club room. Max Nusbaum, president of the club, presided at the meeting, and Ralph Nollkaraper, Gerald Spurlock, Edward Severy, and Ray Brady served on the committee planning the affair. Edward tiiidner spoke Dneny to the members and welcomed the pledges into the organization. Aft er the meeting refreshments were served consisting of sandwiches, punch and pie. Following the meeting the pledges were guests of the members at a theater. The following Bizad students were oledred: Harold Alber, Clar ence Banghart, Frederick Hawks- worth, Harry Heller and Everett Kilzer. L Tl Governing Body Recognizes AWS and Ag Executive Boards Officially. RECEIVE CONSTITUTIONS Jennings Brands as Farce Action in Suspending Organizations. The A. W. S. board and Ag. executive board, two of the eight organizations that were suspended by decree of the Stu dent Council for failure to sub mit their constitutions for in vestigation, were reinstated by the council Thursday afternoon. The constitutions of the two groups were received Thursday. Presi dents of the other groups gave va ried reasons for not complying with the request of the council. The majority intend to submit their constitutions and be rein stated before the week is over. Charles Hulac, president of the university Y. M. C. A. stated that the matter was merely neglected and the importance of it not real ized. C. D. Hayes, general secre tary, said that he did not believe that suspension had been threat ened in the letter ordering the in vestigation, and thus no special at tempt was made to get it in on time. Hayes had no fear of the con stitution passing the perusal of the council. "The same constitution had functioned successfully many years before the Student Council was organized. However, we have no idea of bucking the council," he said. Their bylaws will be given to the council soon. Siy is Farce. Bernard Jennings, president of Gamma Lambda, expressed indif ference to the procedure of the council. "I think the investigation of the smaller organizations is a farce, and the council's time could be spent to a better advantage," Jennings said. "Whether our con stitution is abolished or not, we will still continue tmr organiza tion." A meeting was t be held, on Thursday night to decide whether or not the constitution should be submitted. Fred Nicklas, president of the Dramatic club, felt sure of the re instatement of the club In a short time. Their constitution will e given to the council this week. Nicklas believed that the club will pass the Investigation with but a few minor changes. President Mary Louise Clark of the Girl's Commercial' Club stated, "a recent election of officers has been held and there was no record of a letter being received from the council." This constitution was sent to the council immediately. Coeds Wonder About A. ITS. Rules After Council Suspension A dillar a dollar The 12:30 scholar Why are you late tonight ? "The A. W. S. is no more And so it's my right!" This rhyme is dedicated to the girls of the school who were won dering if they were "living by rules." The Associated Women's Stu dent board as temporarily non existent since the Student Council suspended eight campus organiza tions Wednesday for failing to file their constitutions. - The A. W. S. makes the rules and punishes the offenders, the board was officially non-exiat ent therefore the rules of the sus pended group must be suspended too. This was the optimistic view that coeds were venturing to take since the announcement was made yesterday. No one knows who started the idea, but it spread over the campus. Members of the A. W. S board, when interviewed on the matter, merely smile. They won't express their opinion, but weir al titude seems to say, "It's a good theory but just try to do it!" Miss Ada Westuver. assistant to Dean Heppner, when asked what she thought of the feeling brewing on the campus, very wisely remained silent She did admit that it was a "humorous situation" and that "no board no rules" idea was an angle to the question that she had not thought of. (It's the coed who has to be in at 12:30 who thinks of those things.) Miss Westover fears that when the idea has spread, she'll be beseeched with 'phone calls 3,800 of 'em In fact for there are 3,800 students in the uni versity. Main Street Given !'eic Definition by Dean Roscoe Pound According to an Associated press dispatch. Dean Roscoe Pound, for mer dean of the university law college, now affiliated with the Harvard law college, has a new definition for Main Street "Main Street is nothing more than a dis inclination to cooperate," he told a Western Reserve university mass meeting Wednesday night The statement came as part of a speech on current legal trends. STUDENT O r! REINSTATES TWO GROUPS BAY Pioneers Who Made First Grants To University Little Dreamed of Great Change to Come in Future The pioneers who made the first grants of money and land to found the university little dreamed that the single building which housed all of the students, teachers, and all the other deparments necessary in a university would grow to an insti tution valued at $12,000,000 giving instruction to 5,0!)0 collcgi- ates in by major buildings or w-o- struction and using 32 other build lngs for activities and purposes other than for class instruction as the Library and the Administra tion building. In the first year that the univer sity opened In University hall there were but 10 students that could be strictly callea collegiate. There were 120 going to the Latin school and for this reason the first class is spoken of as a class of 130 stu dents. The original campus was a plot of 11.9 acres of ground which lay between the 10th and 12th and between R street and T street. Now the city campus alone covers a plot of ground 55 acres in extent. MUSGRAVE SELECTS FOR ANNUAL SHOW, Cast Members to Be Named Soon by Director Yenne. . Frank Musgrave, president of Kosmet Klub, Thursday announced committees in charge of the Klub's annual spring production. Workers on these committees will be an nounced as soon as the eligibility of the men can be checked, it was further announced. Frank Musgrave, chairman, and Byron Goulding will be in charge of general plans for production. Business will be handled by John Gespson, chairman; Henry Kos- man, and Art Bailey, woodrow Magee will handle commercial af fairs for the show. Tom Davies and Charles Flansburg have been named co-chairmen in charge of scenery. Arrangements for costumes and make-up will be made by Owen Johnson and Frank Crabill who are acting as co-chairmen. Neil McFarland will have charge of properties and Dale Taylor will arrange for music. Dick Moran has been named publicity chairman and George Jlolyoke will, have charge of directing the chorus. "The campus cop,' oy wern Yenne was chosen for this year's show and is being directed by its author. Tryouts are under way now and members of the Klub plan to announce those having parts in the cast as soon as selec tion is made. INTO CLUB COURTS Outstanding Group Will Be Decided Near End of Semester. Members of the freshman law class have been placed into four groups, known ks club courts, for the purpose of debating law cases. Monday the first of the series will begin with i tort case. Each of the four clubs nas a senior law student sponsor, who with justices appoint- j ed to hear the pleadings will hand ' down the decisions. Judicial decisions will be Judged on a basis of law involved in the cases and the manner of presenta tion. Lawyer will not be permit ted to use evidence. Officers and names of the clubs are: Cardoza club. Jack Minor, Chief Justice; John Landis, clerk; Otto Kotouc, bailiff: Herbert Ron in, Sponsor: Webster Club, Justin Wolf, Chief Justice; Claude Cum mings, clerk; Lawrence Ely, Bail iff; J. Ernest Deming, Sponsor: Jeffreys Club, Meredith K. Nelson, Chief Justice; Harry L. West, Clerk; Dan Easterday, bailiff; Merlyn Modig, sponsor; Blackstone Club, Elwood Thompson, Chief Justice; Harry Foster, clerk; Mary Quigley, bailiff; John Sullivan, sponsor. The outstanding group of the four will be decided near the end of the semester by an interclub contest. It was learned that simi lar courts are held in Harvard, Ok lahoma university and in several other law colleges throughout the country. Th'S is the first time such a court has been established at Nebraska. IOWA GRADUATES PLACED Division of Agriculture at Ames Finds Positions For Fifty-Eight. AMES, la. Fifty-eight gradu ates of the division of agriculture at Iowa State college in the last three months have obtained posi tions, according to R. M. Vifquain. personnel director. The number includes a few alumni who have changed positions. Departmental placements are: Agricultural economics 4. animal husbandry 23, farm crops and soils 4, forestry 1. horticulture 3. land scape architecture 3. technical journalism 5, and vocational edu cation 15. The university has expanded to include 10 separate units located all over the state. The center of this group and oy far the largest is the city campus; the college of agriculture and the university farm, which was formerly called the model farm; the Agronomy farm whicn is located near Have lock; the experimental fruit farm near Union; the College of Medi cine, in Omaha; the school of agri culture at Curtis; and three sub stations located in the central and western part of the state, one near North Platte, one at Scottsbluff, and the other near Valentine. The (Continued on Page 4.) Ginger, CWA Worher, Dies While Working On Campus Thursday Perhaps they should have hitched old Dobbin to a sled instead of a wagon because it would have made the pulling easier, but it is too late now as Dobbin is no more uoDDin, or Ginger as he is known to his owner, R. W. Crumb, a worker on the university grounds, was a familiar sight on me campus lor about three years. Ginger was engaged in CWA work inursaay anernoon pulling a heavy load when, tiring of the work, he lay down and died. Old Ginger had previously slipped on the sidewalk. Interment will be in the happy nunung ground lor horses. TICKETS FOR SHAWN ON SALE MARCH 16 Chairman Names Committees To Make Arrangements For Affair. Committees to arrange for pub licity arid "tickets for the perform ance of the Ted Shawn dancers to be given March 28 were appointed at the regular meeting of W. A. A. Thursday noon at Grant Memorial hall. Alice Geddes. general chairman for the affair, announced that tickets would go on sale March 16. Evelyn Diamond will have charge of publicity for the event. Serving unaer her on sub-committees will be Alice Beekman and Halleene Haxthausen, newspapers; Caroline Van Anda, placards, and Christobel Weaver, miscellaneous. Jean Alden is chairman of the ticket committee. Jean Brownlee and Christobel Weaver will have charge of distribution to salesmen and Elaine Fontein will arrange for ticket distribution to stores and offices. IS Former Physics Assistant Here Receives New Appointment. Henry Mergenau. former assist ant in the physics department, was recently made co-editor of a new publication called The Philosophy of Science. The magazine, which is a quar terly, was first published in Janu ary. It is connected with Johns Hopkins university and is publish ed in Boston. Mr. Mergenau came to the uni versity in 1924 and left in 1927 to attend Yale where he received his doctor's degree and was awarded a scholarship in Germany. Process of Finding Out Grades Ordeal To Greek Freshmen Slowly, with fluttering heart and faltering step a nervous looking in dividual walks up to a window marked "A-K." He fumbles lor something in his pocket and fi nally extracts a small card and presents it to the lady at the win dow. She glances at it unconcern edly, then makes a hasty search of the rows of envelopes in front of her and after what seems to him an age. she hands him one of the little mani la-colored envelopes. He opens it quickly and glances at the little white cards within. His brow clouds and clears suc cessively as he takes in the mes sage contained in those various cards. Then, dubiously he reaches tot a pencil pnd begins to scribble industriously. Deep furrows appear in his forehead as he multiplies and adds rows upon rows of fig ures. At long last he makes a di vision. His face suddenly lights up and with a broad grin he shouts. "I made it:" Yes. you've guessed it Just a little freshman who has succeeded in making his 72 average and now he ran be initialed with the res, of the pleUge IU STARS AS HUSKER C P LAST CAGE GAME Sophomore Guard Sinks Six Goals as Ncbraskans Win 29-25. PARSONS OPENS SCORING Mason and Lunney Compete In Last Tilt for Scarlet. Stepping out to n 4 to 0 lend in the first minute of phiy, Coach Browne's llu.sker capers played through to a 20 to 2 victory over St. Louis univc. sity Thursday evening in the roli seum. Henry Whitaker played sen sational heads-up ball to ioad the Scarlet live to a win in its final game of the season, the diminutive St. Joseph, Mo., guard sinking six field goals to lead the scorers for the evening. The count at the half was 20 to 14 Nebraska. Immediately after the first tip off Bud Parsons sunk a shot from back of the foul circle to start tha tilt off with a bang. After a short passing exchange following the next toss-up Ken Lunney tallied from close in. Both of those scores came within the first minute. Huskers Lead 12 to 4. At the end of ten minutes of play the Huskers led by a 12 to 4 score. Parsons having swished an other long shot. Whitaker having sunk a pair of goals, and Sorenson with a brace of free shots to his credit. Fash. Billiken pivot man had sunk two gift efforts, and Cochran had counted an underbas ket flip. After the Huskers held the eight point advantage, the visitors start ed a rush of scoring coming up to within two points of Nebraska, with a 13 to 11 count, within three minutes. With one minute left to play in the first half Nebraska was in the lead by a 16 to 14 count. Whitaker came thru with a long shot, and just as the gun cracked (Continued on Page 3.) FI Impromptu Program Is Given By Students and Faculty. Forty-six students and faculty members attended a meeting spon sored by the Pharmaceutical club in Pharmacy hall Wednesday eve ning. The program of the evening was impromptu, presented by the faculty and students of the club. In a "powder paper filling con test George Hauschild. represent ing the junior class, won from the senior conlestint, Charles Mc- Cracken, with a margin of seven seconds. In the capsule filling contest which followed Hauschild also won, filling 54 capsules in 5 minutes, exceeding McCracken by eleven. He was awarded the jun ior championship in this division by his class but McCracken was made a champion by the seniors in the "Art of Compounding." In tne student division of the speed race in compounding an emulsion Vean Cowell placed first with a time of 3 minutes and 45 seconds. The facultv contest was taken by Prof. Joseph Burt with a time of 1 minute. Gevald Keim, a freshman, took the prize of the capsule swallow ing contest, gulping down five capsules in 2 1-2 seconds. George Bauer, a senior, officiated at the meet as master of ceremonies. TO INSTALL YM OFFICERS Informal Discussion Will Be Held Following Ceremonies. The new officers and cabinet of the university Y. M. will be in stalled following a supper at the Hi-Y building at 6 o'clock this eve ning. An informal discussion will be held to consider various phases of the Y. M. C. A. work. Reservations can be made at the campus office of the Y in the Temple building. All university students are invited to attend and members especially are requested to be present. School of Music to Play Inventions of Student Miss Elizabeth Titrney of the schiHil of music announce that some of the inventions which have been written in the counterpoint classes will be played for the first time next week. They are to be played in Morrill hall 217 on Tues day, March 6, at 4 p. m. Students and instructor are welcome. A.W.S. and Ag Boards Submit Constitutions The A. W. S. board and the Ag. Executive board have sub mitted their constitutions to the student council according to an announceemnt made Thursday afternoon. r