D AILY NEBRASKAN-9 WEATHER Generally Fair. Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska H)TXrxinNO. 131. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. APR1L19, 19.11. PRICE 5 CENTS NAME 466 HONORS Nearly 1,000 Persons Hear Dr. Norman Foerster in Principal Address. E. A. BURNETT PRESIDES Schools Beginning Recognize Value of Achievement Says Speaker. Institution of an honors con vocation by the Nebraska uni versity is an cneourHjriiiH sipu that universities are beginninc to recognize the value ol quali tative aoliievcnient, was the opinion expressed by Dr. Norman Foerster. doctor of letters at Iowa State university, who addressed the. honors convocation at the coli seum yesterday. Award Medals. Following: Dr. Foerster's talk medals were awarded to students with high scholarship and general recognition was made of all those with high grades. The Pershing medal was presented to Leonard Charles Dull of Clifton, Kas., by Miss May Pershing, sister of the general who left Lincoln a short time ago. The school of music or chestra presented several numbers and Rev. W. E. Lowther of First Methodist church delivered the in vocation for the gathering of nearly 1.000 people. The convoca tion w as presided over by Chancel lor Burnett. Dr. Foerster said that scholastic achievement was .shunned rather than sought after through fear of gaining the name of a snob. He pointed out that mass production of college diplomas has failed to raise the level of American culture and even those who possess su perior qualifications strive to cover them up. Stresses Virtue, Talent. "Our state universities contain vast numbers of students who are anvthing but geniuses, who are rather, chaff or rubbish. I am less concerned about the presence of these than about the absence of a large proportion of young men and women who possess virtue and talent." He offered as explanation for the lack of interest in high nchol aftie attainment that state uni versities are suTTerm from a naive conception of democracy that has largely been abandoned in Europe. This religion is humani tarianism. ' Socialism and communism con stitute the left wing of a lareer movement, humanitarianism. His torically studied, the humanitarian movement of the past 200 years turns out to be a manifestation of materialism, a movement hostile to the inwardness of the religious and humanistic traditions. The ancient world focused attention on propor tionate living, the middle agss on the welfare of the soul, the Ren aissance on the development of personality, and all three rendered a splendid account of man's inner life, but the modern world has foeu.-cd on the body and discred ited everything else. This is why its attempt at mass production of happiness is failing. Whereas hu miinitarianism begins with so ciety, humanism begins with the (Continued on Page 4.) Public works will receive the benefits of a new half billion ap propriation decided upon by Presi dent Roosevelt and his aides. The greater share of the new sum will be used for new projects while the rest will be used to finish up all old projects. Tour airline filed legal action 'gainst Postmaster General Far Icy to force restoration of air mail contracts. Action was to set ande Farley's contract can cellation order and for damage resulting from loss of the con tracts. In the meantime the sen ate continued investigation into air mail activities of the Hoo ver administration. Omaha street car lines were threatened with defranchisement when Dan B. Butler, city finance commissioner put forth the sugges tion that since the line had failed to run cars for the past three days that they should lose their right to do so. The commissioner proposed t a city council meeting that a earth be instituted for a new method of transportation. The search for slippery outlaw Dillinger extended down into Louisiana and up into Canada as various reports concerning his whereabouts were circulated. In Louisiana the Montgomery bank was held up and officers of the institution claimed that one of the robbers resembled the no torious outlaw. At the same time O'fxers held the belief that he jnight have doubled back on his "ail after escaping in St Paul arcn being conducted on lie Canadian border. Bna Aira. Charles 2'n a Planning to leave the n ZJl ""veil- nine, o vi wiiiiam jen- pdtyBn- Acco"lln? plans j peak at lOOMV'lt "heduled to at the ceremonies. 1 - i TODAY'S NEWS Briefly Reviewed DURING ASSEMBLY High Scholarship Ratings Revealed in Annual Convocation. AWARD PERSHING MEDAL University Lists Fraternity And Sorority Scholastic Standings. T h e university recognized hiyh scholarship of four hurt tired and sixty-six students at the sixth annual honors convo cation in the coliseum yester day. Forty-one awards were made by societies and individuals to honor students in various colleges in ad dition to the general recognition. Leonard Charles Dull received the Pershing medal as a mark of his work in military science. Name Greek Winners. Following the usual custom, rankings of fraternities and sorori ties who were among the highest 25 percent in scholarship for the second semester 1032-33 and the first semester 1933-34 were an nounced. Ranking of the seven highest fraternities is Farm House, Sigma Alpha Mu, Zeta Beta Tau, Beta Sigma Psi, Alpha Gamma Rho, Phi Kappa Psi, and Theta Xi. The sororities which ranked highest were Zeta Tau Alpha, Sigma Del ta Tau. Sigma Kappa. Delta Zeta. and Alpha Chi Omega. 1BER OF 10 GO ON SALE P Prospective Innocents Are Featured in Issue by Managing Editors. Prospective May Queens and In nocents are among the features that will be found in the April Agwan which goes on sale at all booths Friday, April 20. The is sue which is dedicated to Ivy Day was edited by the two managing editors, Alice Beekman and Bob Pierce, with the assistance of Maurice Johnson. Among the special features of the month are a page of pencil sketches of prominent men and women on the campus, while a page of senior women and former Mav Queens for the past five years will also be outstanding. A fore cast of the coming Innocents in u-hih in-n different lists will be presented ought to prove interest ing to many and an Ivy Day poem will carry out the theme for this month. Spring hits in the movies will be described in the Theater page while the usual campus annual page will be included. The cover for this issue which will be in black and white showing the May Queen, was drawn by Bob Pierce. MOTION PICTURES OF ELROPE ON PROGRAM French Club Member to Vieic Films Taken by Faith Arnold. Motion pictures of England. France, Holland, Austria, and Italy will be shown Thursday evening at the meeting of Le Cercle Francais at Ellen Smith Hall. Faith Arnold, who ha recently returned from a six months trip through Europe ( will furnish the pictures Pictures will include r battlefields of France, Vienna, Venice, Genoa Trafalgar Square, Thames River, and also tcenes from the Island of Marken by the Zuyder Zee, which is the only place in Holland today that still upholds the old style of dress. Meeting will begin at 7:15 and a special invitation has been issued to all French students by the de partment. Tickets Placed on Sale for Harris Luncheon Speech Tic):ct went on sale last night for the World Forum luncheon to bo held Wednesday noon at the Grand hotel with Paul Harris, jr.. director of the Youth Movement for peace, as the main speaker. Mr. Harris will be in Lincoln Tuesday and Wednesday. April 24 and 25. He will speak at Y. W. C. A. vespers, Tuesday in Ellen Smith hall at 5 o'clock. At 8 o'clock, he will address a community mass meeting at the First Christian church, 16th and K sta. Paul Harris ia the director of the Youth Movement of World Recov ery, a younger peace movement encouraged by tho National Coun cil for Prevention of War. Mr. Harris has travelled abroad ex tensively, twice in the past four years. His observation and studies of world situations have been en hanced and supplemented by contacts of a very real nature with Viscount Robert Cecil, Sir Arthur Salter. Rt. Hon. the Marquie of Lothian. Lord Astor, Dr. Albert Einstein, and other. LONG TALE LIES HACK OF COMMON PLAYING CARDS "Who'll make a fourth?" is a common cry in fraternity and so rority houses, for contract bridge has a place all its own in our lei sure hours. But when we deal out a hand we don't realize all the his tory that lies back of the deck. Games with playing cards have been played in some form since 618 B. C, and cards have been printed in 22 languages. Early decks of cards in Germany named the four suits as heart, bell, leaf and acorn; while in Spain they were called sword, baton, cup and money. (Imagine bidding two ba tons! ) By 1397 playing cards had be come common in Europe. In France the common people were forbidden to play on working days. Playing cards were undoubtably introduced in America by the (Continued on Page 4.) YENNE ANNOUNCES SIX IRE KOSMET PLAY CHARACTERS Director Will Take Leading Feminine Impersonation In 'Campus Cop.' SHOW HAS CAST OF 45 Minier, Galloway, Bottorff, Epstein and Hill Are Other Members. Identity of six of the loading; character parts in Kosmet Kluh's spline- musical comedy, "The Campus Cop,'" were an nounced yesterday by Herb Yenne, author and director of the production. Yonnc himself will take one uf the leading feminine impersona tion. He will play the part of Evelyn Rice, a woman about fifty years old and an alumnae of Kap pa Theta, prominent sorority on the campus. She has been the con trolling influence in the Kappa Theta house for many years, and she is efficient at securing dona tions for various group projects. Hill as Gambler. Irving Hill, who has been fea tured in a number of productions of the University Players, will take the part of Mack Wolfe, a local gambler who tries to incapacitate the team's star, Carl Kent, played by Pernio Mastorsnn. He has bet heavily on the game and stops at nothing to be sure that he will win his bets. Charles Galloway will play the part of Al Holman. partner in crime to Mack Wolfe, the local gambler. Lewis Bottorff will im (Ccntinued on Page 4.) FOR ANNUAL AG HOP Executive Board Party Will Be Held Saturday in Activities Hall. Only a limited number of tickets are still available for the annual Ag spring party to be held in the student activities building on the ag campus, Saturday, April 21. according to announcement by William S. Donahue, publicity chairman. The dance, which is an annual function, is sponsored by the Ag Executive Board. Dean and Mrs. W. W. Burr, Pro fessor and Mr. William Loeffel, and Professor and Mrs. H. J. Gramlich will chaperone the affair. Guests will include: Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Keim. Dr. R. M. Gibbons, Miss R. E. Sperry, and Miss L. L. Leighton. Expressions on Faces of Children Well Repay Miss Gellatly for Her Work in Production of 4 Peter Pan "Xo matter how lired 1 a tions of a play .such as "IVtcr repaid w hen I sec the faees of the well 'known .Miss pnlly" dramatic art, who played the children s theater product ion. neons that you can tell at a glancf whether or not they like you." Miss Gellatly found the Satur day morning performance espe cially thrilling because almost the entire audience was made up of children. Although "Peter Pan" is a play which is interesting and en joyable to adults as well as chil dren, in its fanciful and vivid im aginative adventures, the child spectators expressed their enthusi asm in a much more audible man ner. They .traveled in their minds with Peter, Wendy and the little boys to the Never Land; they ex perienced with them their joy. ex citement, sorrow, fright and sus pense; indeed, they were a part of all the adventures of the actors. They shouted with terror, excite ment or with joy. as they were moved to do by their Imagination. This is undoubtedly the reason why they enjoyed the play so much. Especially for the children who NAMES 17 FOR INNOCENTS Eligibility Cuts Wide Swath Among 29 Favored in Tuesday Poll. REQUIRE AVERAGE OF 78 Men Not Listed May Appeal Providing Scholastic Minimum Met. Seventeen men in the junior class wore declared eligible for consideration for membership in the Innocents society, senior men's honorary, as a result of the vote of junior and senior men last Tuesday. The list of eligible candi ccnts society last night after dales was given to the Inno cents society last night after bal lots had been counted and eligibil ity checked by the faculty commit tee created as a part of the reor ganization program. Members of the faculty were in complete charge of all phases of the elec tion. Byron Goulding, president of Innocents, emphasized the fact that men whose names are not on the list for reasons other than scholastic may appeal personally to the faculty committee, or friends may make the appeal for them. He pointed out that in no case would exceptions be . made in case of scolarship. No man whose university average, fresh man year excluded, is not 78 can be admitted to the senior men's honorary. List Eligible Men. The seventeen eligible candi dates are: Fred Chambers Frank Crabill Tom Davies Jack Epstein Wilbur Erickson Frank J. Fischer William Fisher George Holyoke Owen Johnson Henry Kosman Burton Marvin Franklin Meier (Continued on Page 4.) Ag Students Appear In Home Talent Play In the role of a gang of good natured Swedes, ten Ag students will appear before an audience in the ag activities building Friday night. There appearance will be in a home-talent play called "Yimmie Yohnson's Yob." "Yimmie Yohnson," a good na tured farm hand who doesn't happen to be Irish is played by Elver Hodges, ag college senior. Other members of the cast are Ruth Carsten, Mildred Tickler, Katherine Jones, Miriam Fraser, Marietta Feather. Roscoe Hill, Don Baumann, Paul Harvey, and John Loewenstein. Miss Feather, not at present enrolled in ag college, is taking the part of Aletha Forell. who was called away from school. MARIAN STAMP l MUSIC CONVOCATION Student With Harrison (tires Recital in Tent pie. Marian Stamp, student with Ear nest Harrison, appeared in the senior recital at the twenty-fifth musical convoeation, held in Tem ple theater Wednesday afternoon. The program was as follows: Bah-Lizt - Kanlame and Fufue. x minor. liel'UMv Klurte P"r le Tierrea. Iiei,iiv- l.a tinner dfnr Orenane. LiebuxKy Ce l" vu le vent d'Uueat. Dohnan) i - "aprurio, f minor. Chopin Ftude. Opoa .". No. . Chopin Etude. Opu 2.V No. 12. Rubimtein Concerto, d minor Moderato Aflmai. in after giving several presenla- l'an," I always feel more than an audienee of children," stated Gellatly, assistant instructor of rule of Peter Pan in the recent 'Their actions arc so sponta n : were interested in "Peter Pan, a color poster contest was held. The posters were given out to the chil dren at school and were collected before each performance. Six prizes, each a copy of the book "Peter Pan." were given to the two childieii at each performance who had colored their poster with the most sKill. It was very appropriate, since "Peter Pan" is a children's theater production and since there were so many Interested spectators among the audience that were children, that children should make up t least part of the cast of the play. Perhaps many of the children en joyed the play more because they had an opportunity to see their comrades act. Little Alice Ann Reade, daugh ter of the stage manager. Robert Reade. entertained everyone pres ent between acta in the role of a (Continued on Page 4.) CANDIDATES GRAMLICH SPEAKS FOR RALLY; PINCH I HITS FOU)RERLIES Late W ednesday night came news that L. C. Oberlies, Lincoln city treasurer, would not be able to appear on the Thursday night Farmer's fair rally program as scheduled. The senior board, after a shoit special session, announced Prof. H. J. Gramlich as the Oberlies pinch-hitter. Professor Gramlich, the board members said, has spoken at many a rally and can give the students a resounding pep talk. Gramlich had previously been scheduled to speak to the ag stu dents at a rally Thursday night, April 26. Oberlies said Wednesday night that he would be able to speak for Gramlich next week if Gramlich could pinch-hit for him tonight. All kinds oi preparations for the (Continued on Page 4.) ALICOTrJTO W.A.A. Head to Announce Outcome of Executive Council Project. SUBJECT NOT REVEALED Members Sports Board Will Be Introduced at 7 O'clock Session. Alice Geddes, retiring presi dent of W. A. A., will preside ' at the last mass meeting of this organization Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in the Armory. At. this time Miss Geddes M ill an-1 nounce to members of Women's j Athletic association the outcome j of an as vet unannounced project which the executive council of this I erourj has been working on since last September. j In discussing this project miss Geddes announced that it was an arrangement which would concern j everyone in school. She urged all i women to attend this event when officers and executive council for next year would be installed and new members of snorts board i would be introduced. j ! To replace Evelyn Diamond who i '. resigned from the ccuncil. Faith I i Arnold, Lincoln, has been named j nnint rhnirman. Other councillors, ! their sections, and officers follow: j Jean Brownlee. president: Hallene Haxthausen. vice president: Doris Riisness, secretary; Elizabeth Bushee, treasurer; Maxine Pack wood, assistant treasurer; Alice Beekman, activities chairman; (Continued on Page 4.) REGIMENT 10 FORM iE First Call to Be Sounded At 4:50; Assembly at 5 O'clock. Cadet regiment less basic stu-' dents except guides, and guidon bearers, will form for the second , 1 retreat parade of the year on Fri- j day afternoon. April 20. First call , i will be blown at 4 :50 and the as- j I semblv at 5:00 o'clock. I The" band will assemble on the fiirlpwalk near the west entrance of Andrews Hall and the Headquar ters Company at the southwest . comer of the tennis courts. The first battalion will be facing north i on the mall east of Nebraska Hall. 1 the second battalion neir the ; southeast corner of the tennis I I courts, and the third battalion by the south entrance of Andrews Hall. At the regiment adjutant's call, the regiment will form on the north road of Memorial Mall in line of battalions facing south, and will then pass in review. ; College Clergy Guests J Cooperative Club Today ! Memhers of the colleee clergy who are attending the second an nual provincial conference of the Episcopal church will be guests of the Co-operative club tooay at a noon luncheon at thP chamber of commerce. Bishop Stepbe Keeler of Minnesota will speak. Tuo Applicants to Re Chosen as Loan Deadline Descends Deadline on junior women's ap plications for Mortar Board loans went into effect yesterday, accord ing to Mrs. Ada Westover. The two loans, for $50 each, made annually by Mortar Board for the past three years to two outstanding junior women in the university who file their applica tions, are made on the basis of servica. need, scholarship, and character. Winners will receive the loans next fall, so that they may be used toward the payment of tuition fees. Loans must be repaid at four per cent Interest, within two years after the student has graduated. The successful applicants will be chosen later in the prinj. INSTALL OFFICERS AT MASS MEETING SECOND FISCHER NEW HEAD STUDENT COUNCIL Members Ke-Eleel Koma DeBrown irr-l'roitlrnt, Name Margaret Medlar. Frank Crabill, Marian Smith Officers in First Meeting. OLD GKOLT TUKNS OVER REINS GOVERNMENT Retiring President Outlines Program of Pa! Year, Committees Offer Reports as Recently Chosen Group Assumes Official Duties. Jack l-'ischcr, Valentino, junior in the c sciences, was elected president of the Student 9-io at the first meeting of the newly c!ceto day afternoon. Other officers named are Lincoln, re-elected vice president: Margaret secretary; 1-rank t.ralull, lied STUDENT COUNCIL ROLL OrTH r.R. I'rrltrnl Jttrk Fiarhrr Mrr-irrldrnt Roma DrRnmn Sufrrtitry .Marirarrt Mwllitr Treasurer Frank nihlll Chairman of Judiciary Committee .. Marlnn Smilh MKMBERS, ArtHa Tombrink irrlnla 4llrrk r.velvn Diamond Irvlnn Hill Robert Biilcrr r.llzahrth Shearer orlnne C lanin Rurr Ro Janice ( ampbell Dick Fiuhrr 1'hylll. Jean Humphrey Florence Ruman Elizabeth RuMiee Maynard Miller Elizabeth Moomaw Dnrltt Rilnc liOrralne Hitchcock Henry Whltaker Roller Tonley Alvln Kleeb Irwin Nhutt Jack Canaldy I -e Young Harold Datum Rill FlKher Hill ( rahill Tom Davlea I allta Cooper DR. UN TALKS ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT AT PSI CHI MEETING Professor Connected With Welfare Research Station. Dr. Orvis C. Irwin, research as sociate professor at the University of Iowa, spoke on "How Young Infants Develop," Wednesday eve ning in Social Science auditorium. The lecture was illustrated by the stanilimeter. an apparatus which i accurately records reactions by I means of photogiaphic devices: and a type of motion picture i known as the "time-lapse princi : pie" involving large group pictures of children taken at regular inter ! vals during the first year, to illus trate in a few minutes me cnang ing responses and reactions of the entire period. Dr. Irwin has for a number of years been connected with the Iowa child welfare research sta tion at Iowa where his interest has been in studying the appearance of (Continued on Page 4.) RA IMiOW THEME A T LUTHERAN BANQUET University Students Plan Annual Affair to Re Held April 20. Annual Lutheran Club banquet will be held Friday evening. April 20th at 6:30 o'clock at the First Lutheran Church. Rainbow theme will be carried out. and Jeanette Baker. Winifred Nelson. Bernard ReenLs. Carl Christensen, Lorin Wolf. Paul Moessner and Edmund Anderson are to give the toasts. The "Fire side Singers," a male quartette will entertain, in addition to this Geor gette Mimsey will give some whist, ling solos. Main speaker will be the Rev. Dr. H. C. Aldcn, pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church in Omaha. Dr. Alden was formerly president of Trinity College in Texas. He will speak on the sub jest "For Such a Time as This." Kenneth Rubrecht will act as toastmaster for the occasion. AG COLLEGE IS HOST TO NEBRASKA FEEDERS Students of the agricultuial college are to be hosts to more than 200 Ncbraaka feeders Friday at the twenty-second annual feed ers dav prog i am. W. S. Whitten. secretary of the ' chamber of commerce, said in a letter to those in charge that the visitors were welcomed and in vited to visit the chamber and in teresting points in the city, the state Institutions and the state capitol. GRADUMlCElS" PERU HOSPITAL POST fi Jean Hamlev. who gradu ated from the Home" Economics de partment in February 1933 and who since April 1933 bas been die titian interne In the Minneapolis General hospital, has been ap- mintssl Hiotitlan in the British- American hospital at Callao. Peru. Miss Ilamley will sail June lm for South America, llece of arts and council for 1f-'M-ooiineil Weiliios Koiua l)ellrown. Medlar, Lincoln, i.loinl, treasurer; ami .Marion Omaha, chairman of the u smith. judiciary committee. The first three are juniors in the college of arts and sciences, and Miss Smith is a junior in teachers college. At the Wednesday meeting the old council finished its business. John Gepson. retiring presid.-nt. outlined the program which has been carried out this year, and the old organization officially gave way to the new group. A council totalling thirty-three in number was inducted into office. Twenty-five of the new council were elected at the spring election two weeks ago, and eight members were named as holdover members by the old council three weeks ago. a' complete list of members of the 1934-1935 council is included else where in the Thursday Daily Ne braskan. The hold-over members are Bill Fisher, Tom Davies, Flor ence Buxman, Maynard Miller, Marion Smith, Roma DeBrown, Bill Crabill, and Calista Cooper. Outlines Tentative Program. In his preliminary speech to the new council Fischer outlined proj ects which the council might con sider next year. Included in nis program were further stimulation and co-ordination of student ac tivities by further study and ap proval of constitutions of organi zations, completing establishment of the student activities tax, cam paigning for more all-university convocations and forums, further effort to obtain funds for a stu dent union building, and further development of a student used book exchange. Complete reports of committees which have been more or less ac tive throughout the year were made to John Gepson. retiring president, before the old council adjourned. Jyron Goulding, head of the stu dent activities tax committc,-, stated that a complete report ha I been prepared by the committee, and will be presented to the board of regents in June. He read tho description of the plan which will be presented to the regents, and summarized the plan as voted for by the student body last semester. "According to Roma DeBrown. chairman of the organizations committee, twenty out of twenty three organizations written lo have submitted constitutions for approval, and two ef tilt; other three have asked for late leave in presenting their documents. Bill Fisher, co-chairman of the junior-senior prom committee re ported the fact that profits from the party will total about $150 after ail bills have U-en paid. These profits will be placed in the per i Continued on Page 4.1 Artistic Capacity Noted in Children Early, Says Walton "Ceitam aesthetic qualities or principals as indites to artistic capacity can be detected in chil dren as early as the second year." stated Dr. W. E. Walton, instruc tor in the department of psychol ogy, yesterday, "while others such as co'lor harmony and unity do not appear until a much later time." Dr. Walton, who spent last year working in connection with Nor man C. Meier of the University of Iowa psychology depaitmeiit tin the psychology of art is now con cluding a study of emphatic re sponses of children connected with this ftudy. This research into the study of the psychology of art at the Uni versity of Iowa bcean seven years i ago under the sponsorship of th ! Carnegie Foundation tor me Ad vancement of Teaching and th , Spclnian funds in child welfare. They have been advised and aided in their work by artists from New York to Carmel-Montercy. Calif., and from a number of professional art organizations. "Once we have learned what these aesthetic principles are and at what age they appear," con tinued Dr. Walton, "we will be able to construct test enabling ua to separate school children into two groups, one, in which special art instruction if given for thosj who show artistic promise, and two. those who should be taught how to appreciate art rather than arti.-ilic teachings." Eight different groups of experi ments were given to children to discover the different, principles which separate artistic and nun artistic children. One of the first aesthetic principles to apper U rnmnosit.onal balance which ia found in pre-school groups. Two groups OI DlOCKS Wfl pmwevi uc- fore a child, one balanced and the other not. Next to balance, rhythm may be regarded as one of the old- est lie ' known ana accrpieu i"uu art. appearing both in natura Continued on Page 4.)