e Daily Ne: "Be campus conscious" "Read the Nebraskan" Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXIV NO. 36. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1934. PRICE 5 CENTS. BRASKA1S1 -4 1 t HUNS CLOUD CAMPUS AS FALL ELECTIONS NEAR Students March to Polls November 13; Factions Begin Stirring. FOUR POSITIONS OPEN Action of Mortar Boards Likely Add Impetus Annual Contest. By Solon II. "While the nation ncars th end of a concerted political campaign, while candidates arc about to lay aside their cam paign banners, just as the na tional, state and county political pots are slated for less heat, elec tion activities are getting under way on Nebraska's campus. One week after public officers have been vo'.ed in or out, sealed ballot boxes in the Temple theater lobby will hold the story of annual camp us fall elections. Votes arc to be cast for four of fices. Junior and senior class presidents, Nebraska Sweetheart and Honorary Colonel posts for 1934 will be at stake Tuesday, No vember 13. Outcome of the election may be reflected in happenings of the past. But what has already happened this year is almost certain to give impetus to the race for honorary positions, those who claim knowl edge from the inside,- declare. when the Mortar Boards an nounced, some two weeks ago, that there is to be no politics among co-eds, they virtually declared open season on the two posts to be sought by university women a week from Tuesday. Alliances, rumor had it, were to control candidates. In other words, (Continued on Page 2.) I .22 Violet Cross Names Date for Annual Affair to Be Held in Armory. Annual Cornhusker costume party for all university women will be held Nov. 22 in the Armory in stead of Nov. 16 as was previously announced, according to Violet 'Cross, A. W. S. Board member in charge of arrangements. Prizes will.be awarded for the various costumes. Last year at the party held Feb. 9 Virginia Pitch ford won the prize for her old fashioned costume which was de clared the prettiest. Virginia Amos and Maxinc Butler who represent ed Micky and Minnie Mouse were selected as wearing the funniest costumes, and Hazel Baier's to mato can costume was Judged the cleverest. Entertainment will be furnished, favors will be given to all present, and refreshments will be served. The chairman's assisting com mittee selected recently is com posed of: Virginia Selleck. enter tainment; Jean Walt, social chair man of A.W. S.; Lois Rathburn, favors, and Sancha Kilbourn, pub licity. PETERSON ASSIGNED SERGEANT POSITION Sergeant Clayton A. Peterson has been assigned to the position of sergeant on the sUff of the mili tary department for the Reserve Officers' Training corps at the uni versity, it was announced yester day. "Sergeant Peterson has been t the University of Minnesota for the past four years. He will re place Staff-Sergeant J. M. Stewart. PARTY SET FOR NOV Intramurals Provide Athletics for All; Offer Plenty of Competition Among Students at the University Sports for eeryouc who cares to play is summed up at Nebraska in one word intramural. Americans have been la menting the fact lUzt schools in this country did not offer panics for the "fun of it." WeJl, here they arc, right out on the prairie in ir middle of these United Slates. It is said the terra Intramural uo combination of Latin meaning "within the walls." Anyway, the Idea is that competition takes place, not with outside schools or individuals but among university students themselves. Athletics for every man Is not new at the university, and its trial tor several years has brought the governing rules dowr to fine points, but the growth has been rapid. This year intramural events are occupying a more important place on the campus than in any other year. Harold G. Petz is see ing ti that. He is now director of this phase of athletics, and bis p'.ans for the semesters are ambi tious. Husker fans will remember Pttz as a letter man in both track and football and In of1 hours be coaches the football "B" team. InWarrmral.i. a now In opera tion at Nebraska, are divided into Worcester Writes Psychology Article For School Review An article "On the Validity of Testing" by Dr. D. A. Worcester, chairman of the university depart ment of educational psychology and measurements, was published in the September number of "The School Review." Dr. Worcester points out that the main objection to the use of the discussion test for students is hat no practice has been given them in class along that line. He believes the method of answering test questions should be brought along with the subject. Instruc tors ought to make their tests fol low the aims of their teaching, since different tests measure dif ferently, ho contends. 46 FOR MILITARY BALL Phyllis Humphrey Named To Foremost Honorary Position. Forty-six sponsors for com panies and battalions in the Re serve Officers' Training Corps were announced Saturday by the military department. Those women will be presented at the military ball in the coliseum Dec. 7. Phyllis Jean Humphrey. Mullen, will be the regimental sponsor. Betty Christensen, Lincoln, has been chosen sponsor of the first battalion: Muriel Hook, Logan, la., sponsor of the second battal ion: Marian Fleetwood, Lincoln, third battalion sponsor, and Lucille Hunter. St. Edward, Provisional Battalion sponsor. Company sponsors include Mar ian Louise Steen, Lincoln, and Ruth Sears, Omaha, company "A"; Louise -McMurren, Oxford; Lor raine Hitchcock, Lincoln, and Ruth Mallory, Alliance, company "B"; Elizabeth Glover, Grand Is land; Elizabeth Shearer, Omaha, and Jeanne Palmer, Ulysses, com pany "C". Sponsors ot company u are Ruth DeKlotz, Lincoln; Helen Kropf, Arapahoe, and Dorothy Lee Hartzler, Superior. Lois White, Dallas. Tex.; Helen Lawrence, Lin coln, and Jane Butler, Norfolk, are sponsors of company "E". Company sponsors are Penelonc Cocmas. Omaha; Betty Hall, Omaha, and Mary V. Kean Lincoln. Jean Browniee, umana Faith Arnold. Lincoln, and Elaine Wilson, North Platte, are sponsors of comnanv "G". Company "H" is sponsored by Elaine Cruise, Lin coln; Mary Reimers, Grand Is land, and Katheryn Garrett, Lin coln. Marilou Williams. Ft. Morgan, Colo.: Dorothy Kenner. Seward, and Jean Walt. Lincoln, will spon- cor romnanv "r . Company K. sponsors are Dorothea DeKay, Lincoln, and Virginia Erickson, Lincoln. Mildred Peppmiller, Her man, and Alice King. Lincoln, are sponsors for company "L-l". Mary Ruth Reddish, Alliance, and Mary Ouijrley, Valentine, will sponsor romnanv "L-2", Snonsors of company "M" are in TemDle. Lincoln; Maxine Packwood, Riverton, and Cathleen Lone. Nebraska City. Marjorie (Continued on Page 4.) YOVSG C1TIZESS TAKE FISAL TEST J.V OMAHA Instructors Give Exams Wednesday to 26 Candidates. Dr. A. A. Reed of the university extension division. Dr. Charles Fordvce of the department of edu cational measurements, R. G. Clapp, professor of men's physical education, and Marjorie Easta brook and Clar Rausch of the women's physical education de partment were in umana Wednes day. They were giving the final tPFtm in the Young: Citizens con test to choose 5 boys and 5 girls who were outstanding in the state. Each of the 13 American Legion districts sent two candidates for the final competition. three different types of participa tion. In the first, fraternities com pete against each other as groups. For these games an all year point system is maintained, and although a champion is announced at the end of the year, winning is not alone important. To score high a fraternity must have a good rec ord of participation. Points ar given which depend upon the num ber of men entered In competition, and also depend upon the number of events entered. The unaffiliated men on the campus have organized into clubs which compete to form a second class of intramural groupings. Ten of these clubs have been started, with twenty-five members to the club. As a third kind of competi tion there are the individual games which are open to anyone enrolled in the university. (Continued on Page 3.) NEW DIRECTORY WILL BE PLACED Students May Secure Copies 1934-35 Edition in Social Science. SPECIAL SECTIONS ADDED Limited Number of Books Available This Year Says Funk. Advance copies of the 1 9;J4 35 Student Directory will be off the press late Monday, and sale will start Tuesday morning. according to Robert Funk, cdi tor and business manager o the publication. Stands for the sale of the books will be lo cated at the entrance of Socia Science and in the Studen Activities building. on the Ag campus. Two-color covers and a special "where-to-buy-it" section are fea tured in the new directory. The new advertising section classifies the advertisers and their product; in addition to the display ads. Fraternity and sorority mem bers will be listed in special sec tions, in addition to the regular classification of students which in eludes, names, addresses, phone numbers, class year, and fraternal affiliation of every student which includes names, addresses, phone numbers, class year, and fraternal affiliation of every student regis tered in the university. The faculty section gives names, addresses, and degrees of all instructors. Errors will be reduced to minimum this year, according to Funk, since all listings were com (Continued on Page 4.) FRIENDSHIP BANQUET n Affair Held Friday Evening In Honor of Foreign Students. DR. POOL GIVES WELCOME Featuring Dr. Wilhelm Pauck, professor of church history at the Chicago Theological Seminary, as the main speaker, the Internation al Friendship Banquet 'was held Friday evening at the Frist Chris tian church. Two hundred attend ed the dinner, which is an annual affair held in honor of the foreign students of the campus and spon sored by the student group of the religious welfare council. In the address of welcome. Dr. R. J. Pool ot the botany depart ment told of hit. experiences dur ing recent travels in Europe. He described the scenes of several bat' tlefields of the World war as ex amples of the need for friendship between nations. He cited the bat tlefield of Verdun, where the re mains of 600,000 soldiers are still present in a building called the bone-bouse as well as the ground, as the worst example of the hor rors of the last war. Indeborge Oesterlin, a German girl making her first speechin English, gave the response for the fifteen foreign students who were the guests of honor. Miss Oesterlin expressed her desire to do ber part toward bringing about an under standing between all nations and especially between her own people and those of the United States. Dr. Pauck, prominent religious thinker who has been making a se ries of lectures In Lincoln during the last few days, was himself an exchange student to the United States in 1923. He began his talk by relating the story . of his own experiences from the time he first entered the University of Chicago. He traced the different attitudes toward foreign customs and ideas (Continued on Page 4.) 150 ClPLESlTTENO FIRST ALL-BARB PARTY Dance Given by Interclub Council-A.W.S. Named Success. Exceeding expectations, ISO cou ples gathered in Grant Memorial hall Friday night for the first All- Barb party of the school year. The party was considered a decided success by its sponsors, the men's Barb Interclub council and the Barb A. W. S. League according to John Stover and Evelyn Dia mond who were in charge of the event. The Five Melody Makers sup plied the music for the dancers and refreshments served later in the evening brought the party to a close. The sponsors were Prof, and Mrs. E. W. Lantz and Prof, and Mrs. Stephen Corey. "Two more similar parties are planned for the first psrt of aJn uary and the latter part of March, Stover announced Saturday. ON SALE TUESDAY Filings for Coming Election Due Nov. 9 Candidates for offices of Jun ior and senior class president, honorary colonel and Nebraska sweetheart, In the election set for Tuesday, Nov. 13, must file In person at the Student Activ ities office in the coliseum not later than 5 o'clock, Friday, Nov. 9. Candidates must meet the fol lowing eligibility requirements: 1. All candidates must have completed twenty-seven hours during the past two semesters, at least twelve of which were carried in the preceding semes ter. 2. All candidates must be carrying at least twelve hours at the present time. 3. No candidates may have any standing delinquencies. 4. Candidates for senior president and honorary colonel must have no less than eighty nine hours of university credit. 5. Candidates for junior president must have not less than fifty-three or more than eighty-nine credit hours. 6. Nebraska Sweetheart can didates must have less than eighty-five credit hours and must have completed at least twenty-seven hours. E STAGE TORCH PARADE Political Rally Will Be Conducted Through City Streets. COCHRAN WILL SPEAK Red flares, sounding1 brass and dinning cymbals will lend Young Democrats in an old-fashioned po litical parade and rally on the eve of an election significant in indi cating the drift of public feeling in regard to tne new deal and its policies. Monday evening at 6:30 Young Democrats on the campus will as semble with other members of the party at 12th and R and headed by two groups of university band- men will start on an itinerary which will cover the city. Start ing with a grand march down town, the array of party follow ers will tour south thru the city and will visit College View when a short demonstrations will be staged. Roy Cochran, democratic candi date for. governor, will speak at the Gospel tabernacle at 17th and Summer when the parade reaches that point. University students interested in the coming election and in seeing how old time rallies are staged should be sure to turn out for the one scheduled for Monday night, Lester Prokop, leader of campus democrats, urged. Scientists Meet Next Week To Commemorate Work Of Prof. Bessey. Dr. R. J. Pool, chairman of the department of Botany will speak at Iowa State college at Ames next week. He is on the program of a two-day meeting to celebrate six decades of the modern era In botanical science." and his sub ject is "Evolution and Differentia tion of Laboratory Teaching in the Botanical Sciences. Here a large group of well known scientists will commemo rate the work started by Prof. C. E. Bessey at Iowa State college more than sixty years ago. In 1884 Professor Bessey came to the Uni versitv of Nebraska, where he taught until bis death in 1915, and for whom the building housing the botany depattment is named. Graduates or the botany depart ment who have been invited to speak on this program are: Ernst A. Bessey, heaa or tne Dotany De partment at Michigan State col lege: Dr. H. L. Sbantz, president of the University of Arizona: Dr. M. Alkman, professor of botany at Iowa State college, and Dr. E. W. Lindstrom, professor of gene tics at Iowa State. Henry Wallace, United States secretary of agriculture, will be present and speak during the meetings on "Six Decades of Corn Improvement and the Future Out look." Some of the schools repre sented on the program are: Co lumbia. University of Wisconsin, Ohio State, University of Iowa, University of Missouri, niversity of Illinois, Colorado State, and Grinnell. Rust Describes Form of Galaxy To Physics Club Speaking on the structure of the galaxy, popularly but erroneously refened to as the milky way, C. F. Rust addressed the mw Fbyica club at its first regular meeting held Friday evening in Grace Lab oratory. Bruce Heater, club presi dent, president over the Informal discussion that followed the lec ture. Mr. Rust, who is a graduate of the Real Gymnasium in Germany, is an instructor and research worker at the university. He and L. Roth are sponsors of the new club. In explaining tbe milky way, Mr. Rust outlined its construction (Continued ou Page 4.; TWELVE SKITS SELECTED FOR T E Final Elimination Judgings Reveal Groups for Fall Show. COMPETITION IS KEEN Two Klub Members Will Aid In Directing Each , Act. Twelve skits were selected for presentation at the annual Kosniet Klub fall revue, to be given on Nov. 2o at the Stuart theater, after final elimination Judgings held last Thursday. Se lection was made by the Klub from nineteen acts, entered by twenty six campus groups, according to Tom Davies, president of the or ganization. Entries which were accepted for the show are: Gamma Phi Beta. Alpha Phi. Phi Kappa Psi-Sigma Chi. Alpha Tau Omega-Kappa Kappa Gamma. Carrie Belle Raymond. Pershing Rifles. Chi Phi-Alpha Chi Omega. Kappa Alpha Theta-Sigma Al pha Epsilon. Pi Beta Phi. Delta Upsilon-Delta Gamma. Beta Theta Pi. Sigma Alpha lota. In addition to these acts, a dance number from the Alpha Sigma Phi-Chi Omega entry will be pre sented as a curtain act. Davies expressed the Klub's ap preciation of fraternity and soro rity interest in the show this year (Continued on Page 2.) Nebraska Faculty Members Serve on Committees At Convention. E. E. BRACKETT PRESIDES Some twenty-six professors and faculty members as well as sev eral students from the college of engineering spent Friday and Sat urday at Manhattan, Kas., where they attended the annual meeting of the Kansas-Nebraska section of the Society -for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Prof. E. E. Brackett, of the agri culture engineering department. presided over the convention, and Professors Mickey, Luebs and Bingham were on the program committee. On Friday a general session and group meetings were held, with reports of committees election of officers and addresses of professors from Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State and Nebraska following on Saturday. Group meetings held Friday which were presided over by uni versity professors were: Shop prac tice with Prof. C. A. Sjorgen, chairman; drawing and descriptive geometry. Prof. T. T. Aakus, chair man; and civil engineering with Prof. H. J. Kesner in charge. Attending from Nebraska were: Electrical engineering department, L. A. Bingham, C. E. Edison. V. L. Hollister and F. W. Norris; me chanical engineering, J. L. Booth, A. E. Bunting, J. W. Haney, A. A. Luebs, C. A. Sjorgen and W. F. Wetland. Representatives from the agri cultural engineering department were: E. E. Brackett, M. P. Bru nig. E. B. Lewis and C. W. Smith; civil engineering, M. I. Evinger, D. H. Harkness, H. J. Kesner and C. E. Mickey; engineering draw ing, T. T. Aakus and E. J. Marmo; applied mechanics, J. P. Colbert, W. L. DeBaufre and E. D. Crone; architecture, L. B. Smith, and Dean O. J. Ferguson and L. W. Hurlbut, graduate assistant. PLEDGES TEN WOMEN Girls Formally Join Gamma Alpha Chi Saturday Morning. Gamma Alpha Chi, honorary advrtising sorority, held formal pledge service Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall for ten girls. Virginia Selleck, presided, and Catherine Stoddart, vice president; took charge cf the pledges. The following girls were pledged: Patricia Vettcr, Eunice Camp, Josephine Ferguson, Eula Mae Hastle, De Maries Hilliard. Mary Ellen Long, Yleen Relsland. Ruth Anderson, Rowers Miller ana Esther Compton. A short business meeting fol lowed the service. Th next meet ing will be held Thursday eve ning at 7:30 o'clock at Ellen Smith hall. All members were asked to meet at 5 o'clock Monday at the campus studio to have their pic tures taken. KOI V Condra Releases Paper on State's Land Problems Dr. G. E. Condra of the conser vation and survey division has Just written a paper tor tne new ie' braska Blue Book. He discusses three subjects: Land Use in Ne braska; Erosion Investigation and Control in this State; and Ground Water Resources of Nebraska. In this work Dr. oCndra notes that nearly 3,000,000 of Nebraska's 49,000,000 acres of land are used for public purposes. His figures show that the university owns 5.666 acres of this. Within corpor ate limits in the state are some 296 square miles of land. Half of Ne braska's acres are still in native pasture land, while much of the rest is in cultivation, according to Dr. oCndra. FOR QUEEN SECTION ARE STILL LACKING Raymond Hall Only Organized Group Purchasing 15 Annuals. Entering the second and final week of Cornhusker sales activity, Corn Cobs, men's pep organization, announced Saturday that as yet no sorority is eligible to nominate a candidate for the Queen section of the 1935 yearbook. Results of a checkup reveal that Carrie Belle Raymond hall is th only organized group to date that has purchased the required number of fifteen an nuals necessary before a group may submit an applicant's name. Ted Bradley, Don Shurtleff and Gene Pester, for the first week of the sales campaign ending Satur day, are the three high salesmen it was revealed by Maynard Miller, business manager of the annual, Saturday. These men have led the field for the past week and will re ceive prizes it was indicated by Miller. "Three additional prizes will be given to those Corn Cobs selling the most annuals during the second week of the drive," Miller stated, "and final awards will be made members of the pep club possess ing the largest totals for the entire campaign." Emphasizing that the book is primarily for future reference, Mil ler stressed the value of the annual as a means of obtaining a complete record of school life. "People, ac tivities and all social life are com pletely represented in both copy and pictures, and every conceiv able phase of school from athletic effort to religious functions is in cluded between its covers," Miller stated. "Speaking of covers," Miller added, "an entirely new padded type, considered by many to be the most beautiful yearbook cover on any annual throughout the na tion, will be embodied in the 1935 Cornhusker. The cover consists of heavy boards on the inside with felt padding placed between the boards and th eembossed covering making a combination that is strong and duiable. The embossed cover lends the book a pleasing effect. With last year's Cornhusker re ceiving All-American rating, the highest honor that may be be- (Continued on Page 4.) ELGESE HilMOS TO ADDRESS EGIEERS College Holds Convocation Friday Afternoon Sot: 9. Eugene E. Halmos, New York engineer connected with the Suth erland project, will speak at a con vocation of tbe college of engin eering this week. The event has been scheduled for 4 o clock Fri day afternoon. Nov. 9, in the social sciences auditorium. Mr. Halmos represent Parsons, Klapp, Brinrkerhoff and Douglas of New York at the Sutherli nd project. He is an engineer of wide experience, highly recommended by Dr. J. A. L. Waddellwho is him self the best known bridge en gineer living and w ho has received an honorary degree from the uni versity. 46 Year Old Curbstone on 18th and 0 Reveals Tracks of Lizard-Like Animal Which Lived Ages Ago Near Colorado In a 40 year old curbstone on O street are the tracks of a:i animal which must have lived don't believe it well, go and A few weeks ago a man campus photographer, and told him there were animal trad in a curbstone downtown, llufnngle didn't have any idea wh:. I they might be. but he went downO and snapped the picture On tne north aide or O, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets this stone has been standing for years. Along the side, not the top, of the curbstone are the impres sions of feet that plodded with short steps some- 223.000.000 years before the automobiles were built that park against it. Now the city engineers office has offered It to the university for its museum. It will be moved shortly. The ancient animal was probably like a giant salamander, with the appearance of a huge lizard. Be cause the curbing is made of Colo rado sandstone, university geolo gists have been able to describe in general the type of animal that lived back in the ages when that stone formation was soft It was. they think, of the amphibian class, i FIVE MEN CHOSEN CANDIDATES 0 (TEST Burdette, Crabill, Johnscn, West, and Whitman Elected. WINNER ENTERS OXFORD Student Named to Compete Before the State Committee. Five university men were yesterday chosen p;inli!:ites for tlie Iiliodcs scholarships, and will appear before tho state committee for the rirht. to represent Nebraska in district competition. Thoy are Franklin L. Burdette. Lincoln: Frank W. Cra bill. Red Cloud; Maurice Johnson, Norfolk; Harry L. West. Syracuse; and W. Merrill Whitman, Aurora. Burdette received his A. B. de gree from Marshall college last June, and is attending the univer sity this year where he is serving as a student assistant in political science. He is working toward tho degree of master of arts. At Mai shall college he was elected perma nent alumni secretary of his grad uating class. For three years he was a member of the intercollegi ate debate team there. He belongs to Kappa Delta Pi, honorary edu cational fraternity. Crabill has studied three years in the college of arts and sciences here. He is editor of the Corn husker yearbook, vice president of the Innocents society, and treas urer of the student council. He was one of the four freshmen who received Pentathalon scholarships given by the board of regents in 1931. He is a member of Chi Phi social fraternity. Johnson is a senior in the uni versity. He is affiliated with the Delta Upsilon social fraternity and (Continued on Page 4.) F Engineering Faculty Grorp May Revise Schedule as Result of Work. With the idea of revising sched ules and courses the course ci study committee of the college (if engineering has been holding meet ings each Tuesday, faculty mem bers from other schools or depart ments have been invited to listen to statements of general objectives and methods of studies and courses common to different engineering groups. They hope to bring out any items that suggest revision of courses due to overlapping with other studies or omi:;.sion ot essen tial parts in the requirements for teaching engineers. J. W. Hancy, chairman of the department of me chanical engineering, heads the committee. Dean Ferguson says, "The scries will bring about a reconsideration of all requirements of the groups. Work will be done rather delib erately, and we hope to cover not only the technical department courses, but also subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry. English, and economics." KOSCOE POUND NAMED NEW EDITION WEBSTEK The second abridged edition of the New Webster International Dictionary contains the picture of Dr. Roscoe Pound. Dean of Har vard I-aw School and alumnus of the University of Nebraska, as a contributing editor. Dr. Pound supervised the use of the law terms. The name of Dr. Louise pound, of the English department of Ne braska university, is also men tioned mh a consultant in pronun ciation for the new dictionary. n quarter billion years ogo. Vo.i sec thcni for yourself. came to see Jfiehanl llul'iialc, most primitive of the four-footed land animals, which lived even earlier than the giant dinosaurs. Millions of years ago, before tha stone had hardened, this prehis toric animal left more than 20 im pressions of ltd feet ou vslmt is now a Lincoln curb. Most of these im pressions are very clear and dis tinct, showing tho four toes of tha animal. After Hufnagle took the picture of the curbstone, it was more or less laughed Into the files, where it lay for several month. Last week it was discovered in Hufnagle s al bum, and an attempt made to trace it. But everyone laughed at tho idea. It became the joke of "the cat that walked In the cement side walk." Hufnagle thought Dr. G. E. Con (CouUjiued cm Page 4.). I 6f 3