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I. MAS i-J J-.. N iAILY -EH BRASKAN THE WEATHER Unsettled U.l Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska Wf WOW MM ."V OL. XXXIII NO. 140. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934. PRICE 5 CENTS. a I w I HURSDAY HAILS I Fraternity, Sorority Sings, Honorary Recognitions Main Features. PROGRAM BEGINS AT 9 Presentation of May Queen Headlines Activities for Morning. With the inter-fratcrnity and inter-sorority sings, the pre sentation of 'the May Queen, the masking of the Mortar Hoards and the tapping of the Innocents as the main features, the annual Ivy day ceremonies, sponsored by Mortar Board, senior women's honorary society, will be held Thursday, May 3. Presentation and crowning of the May queen headline the morn ing activities while masking of new Mortar Boards and tapping of next year's Innocents are main features of the afternoon program. The Interfraternity sing, spon sored by Kosmet Klub, will start off the day's list of events prompt ly at 9. Each fraternity will sing two songs and will appear in alpha betical order. The entries are: Al pha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Phi, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Sig ma. Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Al pha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Kpsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Theta Xi. At 10:15, the Ivy day orator, William Eddy, will speak. Imme diately afterwards, the winner of the interfraternity sing will be an nounced by the judges. The Ivy and Daisy chains will start at 10:15 from Grant Me morial hall. Women who are out standing in activities in the junior class are chosen as leaders of the Daisy chain, and in the senior class as leaders of the Ivy chain. Junior women chosen to lead the Daisy chain are: Adela Tombrink, Oma ha; Cretchen Schrag, Lincoln; Mar garet Medlar. Lincoln: and Alice Beekman, Blair. Leaders in the Ivy chain are: Mildred Huff, Lin coln; Jane McLaughlin, Lincoln: Ruby Schwemlcy. Wray, Colo.; and Dorothy Cook, Chadron. All senior women are to dress n white and to join in carrying the Ivy chain. Two junior, sophomore and freshman girls from each so rority dressed in pastel shades, have been chosen to carry the daisy chain. . Girls in the Ivv and Daisy chains are to meet 9:30 Thursday morn (Continued on Page 2.) RECEWS SUED BY ISVESTMET FIRM Swk Tax Lien Forclosure On Special Paving Assessments. Foreclosure suit against the board of regents of the university was filed in district court Monday bv the Babsonian Investment com pany. The suit was to foreclose a tax Men for $1,171.07 on special assessments on paving near the Temple theater property at 12th and R. The investment company had paid taxes in 1929 on two assess ments on paving on 12th, and four assessments on paving In the alley south of the property. The univer sity had overlooked the assess ment. University regents will probably demur to the lien in which case the court may sustain the demurrer and declare the lien void. Judgment would then be ssught by the company against the city for a refund. The next legis lature will probably be asKea oy ate money to pay the city the amount or me reiuna. Figures submitted to the senate banking committee recently re veal that 600 firms trading on the New York stock exchange made average profits of $1,333,333 in the period beginning in 1928 and running thru the 1923 boom in ad dition to the meager days follow ing. These figures were compiled from questionnaires answered by almost every member of the New York stock exchange and they how the tremendous amount of profit accumulated by brokers dur ing recent years. All police activities, Including those of the federal department, were tuipended In Tuscon, Ariz., in order to facilitate negotiation for the return of June Robles, 6. Crand-daughter of a wealthy re tired cattleman. Promise has been made by her kidnapers thst she be released within two or three days upr-n the payment of 115,000 rantom money. Robles was al lured the girl Was safe and stated thai the ransom money would be Paid. Troops and police were massed In the United States and almost every country in Europe in order to cope with communist threats of (Continued on Page 2.) RADITIONAL DAY. CEREMONIES TODAY'S NEWS Briefly Reviewed 'Professor' Is Title Worthy of Respect Gass The title "professor" is an hon orable one and should be paid the proper respect, thinks Prof. S. B. Gass of the university English de partment. Not that Nebraska stu dents and Lincoln merchants need "bow and scrape" to professors; but Prof. Gass does believe people should at least recognize him as such and not brand him as a "coachman." A good many years ago, when Prof. Gass first took up teaching, he was told by colleagues of his school that faculty members were expected to wear tall hats and black cloaks. "To indicate rank," they ex plained. "A tall hat would give me a distinguished air," the new profes sor probably thought. Anyway, he went to a clothing store and asked for the hat. "Oh, a coachman!" said the clerk. Mr. Gass still reddens with shame and pulls down his vest with an indignant "yank" when he tells of the experience." L ASSEMBLES FOR FIRS! Fischer Will Name Standing And Special Committees For Next Year. Appointment of standing and special committees will be the main order of business when the new student council meets this afternoon for the first time since its organization two weeks ago. General discussion of old and new projects for next year will also be held. Despite the fact that the new council has been organized and the old council has in effect been dis solved, the new governing body will actually have no right to function as such until next fall, ac cording to Jack Fischer, president of the organization. "The student council constitu tion Implies that members elected in the spring are chosen to serve next year," he stated," and mem bers of the faculty committee con sulted concerning the matter hold to the idea that the new organiza tion has no actual executive and legislative power until that time. This condition, however, will not hinder the formation and active functioning of committees in pre paring for and inaugurating work on next year's projects, and the council expects to accomplish much along this line before the end of the present semester. A number of new projects w" be included on the council's pro gram for next year, Fischer indi cated, and will be revealed at this afternoon's meeting. The council which meets Wednesday will be the first since the new constitution was adopted three years ago, to have the bene fit of a period before the end of school in which to prepare for next year's work. The council will also be larger b.y virtue of four addi tional holdover members provided for in a council amendment con firmed in the spring election April 3. Both moves were made by the retiring council In an effort to In crease the efficiency of future gov erning bodies. MARY BAKER TO PRESENT CELLO RECITAL MONDAY Bettie Zabriakie presents In her recital Mary Louise Baker, cellist, who will play at the Temple Thea tre Monday evening, May 7, at 8 o'clock. She will be assisted by Marjorie Smith, 1st violin; Neva Webster, 2nd violin; Jane Welch, viola; and Margaret Baker, piano. The program will include the following selections : Bach, Admfio, from the Toccata, C Ma jor. Samtnartinl. Sonata In G Major. Allefro. Grav Vivace. Salnt-Sarna, Concerto In A Minor. Olauunow, Interludlum In Modo Antlco. Schumann. Quintet. Op. 44. Allegro Bril lante. Squire. Meditation. Granarins. Intermezzo. 6aint-Saena, Allefro A ppaulonato. Business Depends, Not on Amount of Money Possessed, But on Velocity of Circulation, Declares Harry Tregoe "Business depends, not on the amount of money people possess' emphatically declared J. Harry Tregoe,-one of the foremost authorities on commercial credits and finance, in an interview late last night, "but on the velocity of circulation. As a matter of fact, there was as much money in circulation February, lfl3.'J, as in 1929 and the same amount of . bank de posits, but the present rate oto monev exchange is much lower, Mr. Tregoe. who up until last September, was for three years special lecturer at the University of Southern California, is return ing to his home in Beverly Hills after lecturing both abroad and in the United States. He spoke Tues day night cn the psychology of fi nance and its relationship to busi ness. I have no faith in the theory of proponents of bimetallism," stated Mr. Tregoe, relating at the same time the history of the recent de valuation of the dollar, which be considers a failure. "It is impossi ble to rezulate the market ratios of gold and silver so that one will not eventually drive the other out of circulation and bring on a GREEK COUNCIL RELEASES RUSH CARDS SATURDAY Fraternities Secure Forms In Morrill Hall Only In Morning. APPROVE NEW SYSTEM Governing Body Warns of Houses Rushing Lincoln High Students. Fraternities will be' able to secure rush cards for the fall semester at the office of Prof. Schramm in Morrill hall, Sat urday morning, May 5, from 8 to 12, it was announced at the regular meeting of the Inter fraternity council Tuesday night. Fraternities must pay for their cards when they obtain them. Tuesday's meeting was given over to hearing final reports on the new rushing rules prepared by a special committee which were in general approved by the coun cil. But one or two minor changes remain to be effected and these will not be brought before the council, Bob Thiel, council presi dent, stated. Preferential System Out. Outstanding in changes in this year's system is elimination of the preferential system of rushing. Rushees next fall will be allowed to pledge any time following mid night their last rush date. Other running rules which were in pffeft under the preferential are not al tered materially, however. Rushees will still not be allowed to remain in fraternity houses over night nor may fraternities communicate with them at times other than during hona fide dates the council decided Tuesday. The alumni ex ecutive council had previously recommended that both of these rules be reversed. Complaints against fraternities rushing Lincoln high school stu dents this spring in defiance of present rules against it were brought up at the meeting, with decision reached to take drastic action in future cases of infraction. Entetrainment of Lincoln students at fraternity houses or at theaters and similar places will not be toler ated, it was decided. . . . . IS 10 Editor of Lincoln Star to Speak on 'Lawyers of Tomorrow.' As a climax to a full day of hi larious activity, the law college will hold their annual banquet at the University club Friday with James E. Lawrence, editor of the Lincoln Star, addressing the group on "Lawyers of Tomorrow." The day of frolic is to start with baseball and poo! games and will wind up with the initiation of the three members recently elected to the Order of the Coif, senior law honorary. Cecil Adam. Ralph Rodgers, and James Taylor are the candidates to be initiated. Class presidents are making the arrangements for the law day fes tivities. They are: Ralph Rodg ers, senior class. Homer Wiltse, junior class, and Lawrence Ely, freshman class. The committee on general affairs which will function under the supervision of the class president is composed of Albert Wahl, Carl Humphrey, and Jack Thompson. Y.W. Cabinet Plans for May Morning Breakfast Y. W. C. A. cabinet will hold a regular meeting Wednesday even ing at 7 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall. Final plans for the May Morning breakfast and arrangements for pageant practices will be main business of the evening. monometallism." Gold has not been our buying medium, according to Mr. Tregoe, and when the president devalued the gold dollar, it did not bring about the desired rise in prices. The medium of exchange has been bank deposits and legal money. All the gold has been brought to fed eral reserve banks and the treas ury for payment of national debts. "We must bear in mind, bow ever, that the monetary unit has been changed, and will affect a change In prices," he continued, "but bow soon is difficult to fore cast." Three things will greatly influ ence the rapidity with which the depression will completely end, (Continued on Page 3.) BANQUET French Friendship Advocate Presents 'Castles in France "Feudal Castles in France," Il lustrated by slides, will be the ad dress heard by the Alliance Fran caise next Thursday May 3, in Carrie Belle Raymond hall. The address is to be given by Mr. Despechcr, president of Omaha's Alliance Francaise. Mr, Despecher is a long time resident of Omaha and known in the middle west as a promoter of friendship between France and the United States. He is very inter ested in art and will deal with the subject matter from an artistic point of view, not social. The slides were made by Mr. Despecher while he was in France. The meeting of the Alliance Francaise is open to all who speak French. This organization was be gun about two years ago to bring together those interested in the French language and culture. PMSllilE AND FEAR PLAY If) Harry Tregoe Talks Before 200 Lincoln Credit Men Tuesday. Confidence and fear and the parts they play in the management of business were analyzed by J. Harry Tregoe In the second of two speeches delivered before the Lin coln Association of Credit Men In Social Science auditorium Tuesday evening. Mr. Tregoe. special lecturer at the University of Southern Cali fornia at Los Angeles, and found er and past president of the Nation Association of Credit Men, spoke to approximately two hundred local credit men and women on "An Analysis of the Psychology of Fear and Confidence in Business, Finance and Credit Control." Two Attitudes. "In the realm of business," Mr. Tregoe said, "there are two psy chological attitudes which are most prominent. These are confi dence and fear. In February, 1933, we were surrounded by abundance of money yet we were all sick In bed. It was one of the most direful expressions of fear I have ever seen' and I have lived thru fifty three years of business experi ence." . He explained tjiatthe. recent, de pression was not a" panic but a mental illnes3 and it was so aggra vated that we became panicky. The country was nearer collapse that he had ever seen it. It was the result of fear. When fear becomes overemphasized it becomes panic, when confidence is stressed too much it is audacity. Both are dan gerous. Fear Short Sighted. "Fear," he said, "is short sight (Continued on Page 2.) TO P Theta Sigma Phi Sponsors Open Dinner Meeting Friday. Elmer T. Peterson, editor of Better Homes and Gardens and author of a new novel of Missis sippi Valley life. "Three Trumpets West," will speak at a dinner to be sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi, honorary ar.d profesiional womens journalism society, Friday evening, May 11, at 6:30. The dinner will b; of special in terest to all journalism students as Mr. Petersen will speak on some subject pertaining ' to the profes sion of writing. The affair is open to anyone interested, and tickets, which go on sale next week, may be procured fronj any member of Theta Sigma Phi. A definite place and price of tickets have not yet been set but will be announced the early part of next week Mr. Peterson comes to Lincoln from Des Moines to address the Lincoln Writers Guild on Satur day, and has been procured by Theta Sigma Phi to speak at the Friday dinner. TOMORROW IS IVY DAY... And the Ivy Day Edition of the Daily Nebraskan will carry a complete pro grain of Nebraska's most traditional celebration. It's really an advertising day, too. For reader inter est will be better than ever and it's a "full day vacation. L F Bee-News Sponsors Special Production for City Milk Fund. PREDICT TICKET SELLOUT Entire Cast and Orchestra Rehearsing for Last Presentation. Playing before a packed house in the Omaha Central High auditorium, "The Cam pus Cop,'' current Kosmet Klub musical comedy, will be pre sented for the last time this season Friday night. The entire cast of forty-one per sons, accompanied by Eddie Jung bluth and his orchestra, will leave Lincoln Friday afternoon in time to start th eshow there at 7:30, Frank Musgrave, Kosmet Klub president stated yesterday. The Omaha presentation of the show is being sponsored by the Omaha Bee-News which is financ ing the trip. Proceeds from the show will be given to the Bee-News free milk fund, an Omaha charity project, to furnish milk to needy children. Casting Director Herbe Yenne announced yesterday that a re hearsal of the whole production will be held tonight at 6 o'clock in the Temple theater. Both the pony and male choruses will continue unit rehearsals this week. A final rehearsal will be held at the Cen tral high auditorium Friday after noon. Klub members in charge of scenery properties and costumes will leave Lincoln early Friday morning to have everything in readiness for the presentation that night. All materials to be taken to Omaha will be shipped.up Thurs day. According to reports from the Bee-News, which is sponsoring the sale of tickets, for the show, the Central high auditorium will be sold out. A large crowd of Omaha alumni is expected to attend the show that evening. El Chemistry Group in Charge Of Erecting Rotary Cement Kiln. nianinvs have been started by the six engineering departments as a customary pari oi engines Week which started Monday, April 30. The first part of the week will be spent in preparing for open house to be held Thursday night when all buildings will be open for public inspection. An exhibit is constructed each year in front of Pharmacy Hall by one of the engineering depart ments and work was started by the chemical engineers Monday on a rotary cement kiln to show the manufacture of Portland cement. Various models, drawings and other interesting exhibits of each particular phase of engineering will be completed the first of the week for the open house. A convocation will be held Fri day morning in the Temple with Roy Green, president of the West ern Laboratories, as the principal speaker. According to Marion Scott, general chairman of the week, Mr. Green will present an optimistic view of the fields open to engineers and the types of po sitions they may be expected to fill. Athletic events between the va rious engineering departments will be the feature of field day In the afternoon at Pioneer's Park. Dr. Wilford Payne, professor of philosophy at Omaha university, is the main speaker for the ban quet Friday evening at the Lin coln Hotel. Graduates of the en gineering college and members of the Lincoln Engineer's club will be (Continued on Page 2.) KLUB ML SHOW MUSICAL COMEDY N OMAHA DAY OPEN HOUSE DISPLAYS University Greenhouse Plants Range From Hawaiian Marchantia to Bamboo One Room 'Little Tropics' With Jungle Orchids, Great Vines. The university greenhouse is a veritable garden of plants ranging from the tiniest Marchantia plants broujht here from Hawaii to the great bam Loos. There are several kinds of fruit trees, an orange tree with a great many small green oranges on it, and several varieties of fig trees. There is a banana. Please don't cail it a banana tree nor a banana bush, for it it merely a banana. Botanists call the banana a bo tonical curiosity. In one room are tall graceful, green palms that stretch to the roof of the house and are bent back in their efforts to grow high er and push on through. On room is truly a "little trop ics" all In itseir with orchid plants. Psilotum from the jungles of South Pharmacy Annual Reveals Secrets College Members Prepared by a special committee of the Pharmaceutical club, the Pharmacy College Annual will be distributed at the college banquet to be held next Friday evening at 6 o'clock in the Cornhusker hotel under the sponsorship of the club. The annual contains the banquet program as well as news and scan dal of the pharmacy classes. Mem bers of the publication committee are Irvin Maag, Katherlne Rom mel, Nina Goldstein, and Leonard Fleishcher. Featured on the toast list at the banquet are Mr, Rudolph Vertiska of Humboldt, and Mr. Charles W. Lesh of Omaha. Mr. Vertiska will relate his experiences as a retail druggist, and Mr. Lesh will discuss from the pharmasict's viewpoint the problems of a federal prohibi tion agent. Col. W. H. Oury, Chancellor Samuel Avery, Dean Lyman, several graduates of the college and Lincoln men will ap pear on the program. Raymond H. Schoening, senior in pharmacy college will act as toastmaster. Officers of the Pharmaceutical club, which has charge of the af fair, are Maurice C. Patterson, president; Charles F. Werner, vice president: Katherine M. Rommel, secretary, and Nina I. Goldstein, treasurer. SIX UNIVERSITY IN LISTED AS SPEAKERS AT MEMKN. MEET Professors to Tell of Work And Research Done in Their Fields. During the three days of the twelfth Midwest regional meeting of the American Chemical Society which begins Thursday in Kansas City, Mo., Nebraska will be well represented, according to program received hire Tuesday. Listed to act as chairman or speakers on the program are six university profes sors of chemistry. Dr. H. C. Deming will act as the chairman over the sections dis cussing inorganic and physical chemistry. Dr. B. Clifford Hend richs. Dr. H. Armin Pagel and Dr. E.-Roger WasnbuW have , parts op the Thursday afternoon and Fri day morning programs in the same sections. Dr. Hendricks appears again on the Friday morning pro gram of the chemical education meeting. Before the section devoted to organic and biological chemistry, Dr. Cliff S. Hamilton will present the results of two studies. Also on the Friday afternoon program is Dr. Fred W, Upson, chairman of the chemistry department at the university. These men, all holding Ph. D. de grees, will describe work and re search done in their various fields of chemistry. CURTIS WILSON OF DOANE HEADS GEOGRAPHY GROUP Officers of the Nebraska Coun cil of Geography Teachers for the coming year were elected at the semi-annual meeting Saturday at Dcane College, Crete. Curtis Wil son of Doane was elected presi dent, Miss Mattie Mumford, Whit tier Junior High school, vice presi dent; and Mildred Krouch, Jack son High, secretary-treasurer. Dr. Esther S. Anderson, instructor in geography at the university, was elected state director. The council publishes a geogra phy teacher's bulletin five times each year that has a nation-wide circulation. Dr. Rose B. Clark of Wesleyan is editor of the publica tion. I'i Mu Epsilon Sets Annual Tests May 9 Pi Mu Epsilon , national honor ary mathematics society, is sche duled to sponsor its annual calcu lus and analytical geometry tests Wednesday, May 9. Prizes are given to winners of each of these tests. America, end great vines hanging from the roof. An unusual vine is the Cissus which has long aerial roots that grow down from the ceiling until they have found their way into the water or the earth. This Cissus vine, which has been growing for five or six years, has spread into four different rooms of the greenhouse, and the aerial root have grown Into the pots of many other plants. Nearly orty or fifty varieties of cactus ara thriving in the sunlight. They range in size from tiny plants the size of your little finger to the long "rat tail" cactus, and other varieties as thick as a tree. In the goli fish pond several va rieties of water lilies are bloom ing. Covering one side of a wall ia a "Chain of Love" vine brought from the Philippines. There are century plants, all kinds of ferns, Spanish moss, and countless numbers of other plants that make a visit to the green house very worthwhile. E NOT TO ORGANIZE O.D.K. THIS YEAR Statement Follows Decision To Refer Petition to Student Council. REVISIONS BY INNOCENTS Provision Made for Naming Of Senior Men to Society. Omienni Delta Kappa will not be established on the Ne braska campus this spring. Announcement to that effect was made Tuesday by the so called "insurgents." backers of the move to establish a chapter of the national leaders' honorary here, who said that no further effort in behalf of O. D. K. will he made this year by them. The statement by O. D. K. lead ers closely followed a decision by the faculty committee on student affairs to refer the petition of the national honorary group to the student council for consideration before passing on the application itself. The new student council, however, can take no action on the petition due to a constitutional pro vision which implies that they possess no real governing power until next year. Under Article TV, Section II, of the council constitution, "The regu lar student council election shall be held not earlier than April 1st and not later than May 15 of the school year preceding that in which the members are to serve." The "pre ceding that in which they are to serve" clause has been construed by faculty committee members as preventing any executive action by the new group until next year. The old council alone, it was de cided, would have the power to pass upon the petition, but it would not be called to reconvene unless a special appeal for consideration were forthcoming from O. .D. K. backers. O. D. K. men aid no such action would be taken. , The faculty committee alao ac cepted four points of further re vision in the organization of the Innocent society which were sub mitted for approval at its meeting. Outstanding--in- tha additional re vision of the senior .men's honiyary were provision for senior member ship, provision for fluctuating (Continued on page 2.) RUTHWOLFE TO HEAD Pill UPSILOS OMICROS Home Economics Society Initiates Group of Six Girls. At a recent election meeting of the Phi Upsilon Omlcron, national professional home economic soror ity, Ruth Wolfe was chosen presi dent for the coming year. Miss Wolfe, who comes from Denton, takes an active part in student ac tivities. Other officers selected were: Florence Buxman, vice president; Gertrude Her, secretary; Lcona Geiger, historian: Arline Stoltenberg, treasurer; Elinor Price, editor; and Melba Smith, chaplain. The following girls were re cently initiated into the society: Helen Staffensmeyer, Lincoln; Gertrude Iher, Gothenburg; Melba Smith, Lexington; Arline Stolten berg, Omaha; Barbara Barber, Lincoln; and Elinor Price, Denv-r. Croud Gathers as Laborers Unload Mounted Buffalo A truck drove up and stopped, men got out and began unloading a large animal with brown fuzzy hair. Very soon children came run ning up, and cars stopped near by. A North American buffalo, nearly six feet high, from the agricultural experimental station at North Platte, was moved into Morrill hall Tuesday morning. It looked very agressive and real. A few boys feeling bold even ventured to touch it, but quickly drew their hand away wun an awed expression. The commotion made it difficult for the perspiring men to move the huge animal. It was finally loged however, in its future resting place, on the south side of the basement, and prepared for ob servation. A glass wall seems to make lit tle difference in regard to the ob servers it receives. Children are still asking questions of passers-by and exclaiming. Even men and women are enjoying the new and different sight. ... LILLIAN KOUDEL 6IVES . ' SENIOR RECITAL TODAY Lillian Koudel, oiano student with Laura Schuler Smith, will give a senior recital Wednesday, May 2. in the Temple at 4 o'clock. She will play the following program: Brahm. Ballade In g minor; Brama, Intermezzo, E flat; Bach, Fantasy, c minor. Beethoven. Sonata Patbetique; Grave Allegro molto; Adagio cen tabile; Rondo. Schubert Liszt, Soiree de VI er.ne. No. fi. Chopin. Prelude, B flat Major; Chopin, Scherzo, b flat minor. BACKERS DECID