V n KAN "Read the Nebraskan" "Be campus conscious" D N EBRAS TH V(HXXrN07l19. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAyTmARCH 31, 1935 PRICE 5 CEJrrS- KIEKHOFER TO SPEAK AT ANNUAL HONORS MEETING Wisconsin Professor Talks On 'The Econon. Outlook.' CONCLAVE IS APRIL 16 Students Receive Mention For Academic Records During Year. Dr. William II. Kkkliofer of the University of Wisconsin will be principal speaker on the program of 1he seventh annual honors convocation at the coli seum the morning of April 16. Dr. Klekhofer is a specialist in the field of economics and finance, and has been several times voted the most popular campus lecturer by Wisconsin students. His sub ject at the Nebraska convocation is "The Economic Outlook." Between 400 and 500 students will be honored for scholastic achievement during the past year at this annual convocation. Using scholastic records as a basis, stu dents will receive mention for outstanding academic attainment; and various awards and certifi cates win be granted. Dr. Kiekhofer is professor of economics at Wisconsin, and has for more than 20 years been tcacn-in- the general survey courses to stSdents in that field. . He was head of the department there from 1916 to 1931 and for two summers was visiting professor of econo mics at the University of Cali fornia. He is the author of sev eral books concerning economics. FEATURES APRIL New Issue Humor Magazine Appears on Campus Monday. Featuring the !K5." Kosmet Kluh spring chow. ''Kiss Co lumho." the April edition ot tli.- Awnvan. campus humor publication, will ro a ' MoihIhv morning, according to Jack Nicholas, business manager. Fronted bv a picture of three dancing caricatures, representing the Kosmet comedy chorus, the magazine also features pictures of leading members of the cast. In a v.ige of Kosmet Kast. the pictures of Irving Hill. Duncan Sowles, Art Bailey, Charles Steadman. and Vance Leininger, not in costume, are included. Dvnlnated by statements from r W Frantz and Miss Leva B. Walker, the department "Faculty Mind.? at Work" contains some of the allegedly clever Hayings of in structors picked up by classroom unoopers. - Campus Characters, a page of caricatures by Alan Parker In clude drawings of L. C. Wimberly. M.iry Reimers, Molly Carpenter, and Dean R. A. Lyman. "Are You .Sure?" a group of questions dc Bigned to be a university intelli gence teat, occupies a page of the pappr. , "War is He!l," a drama in one t written by Howard Dobson and Jean Gallant, concenis a my thical "Colonel Flowery." The play contain fhe' sub-caption. "What did you expect for 15 cents, a three day passion play?" Men and women's fashion pages, facing each other In the center of the magazine, describe a few of the latest trends In the fashion world, and studded with pictures of Flora Albln. Ruth DcKIotz, and Herb palmer. The usual two pages of gore ap pear, and two new contributors to the art department. Weldon Kces . and Maurice Johnson, have drawn a page of impressionistic car toons. . . . Two short atories arc included in the lxue, "Blue Moonlight.- by Meredith George, and "Invitation, by Francis Marquardt. The describes the author's experience of going to bed. hearing a cat call, and throwing a shoe at it The ncc ond depicts the conflict in a stu dents mind as to whether or not he should accept a bid to a party, and his ultimate decision to ac cept. The editorial page contains a abort discourse on tbe futility of campus activities. MAGAZIXE PVRLISI1ES SELLERS' RESEARCH IT'isr-msin History Paper Prints Booklet on Doolitlle. Dr. James L. Seller, professor of history, U the author of a pub lication on "James R. Doollttle. This was written In several parts 1at year, but has recently ben publlKhed as a booklet bv the Wis consin Magazine of Hirtory in v.hir'i it first appeared. James R. Tv.olittle. says Dr. Sellers. Is best r-nown for having written the call for the republican convention of KOSMET COMEDY AWGWAN E DITION Reporter Convicted During Blower Trial for Contempt By George Pipal. Completing the hardest fought round of the Blower vs. Nebraskan legal battle since the $100,000 stakes were announced two weeks ago. senior law court was dismissed at 4 o'clock Fri day afternoon by Judge Charles B. Nutting as the attorney for the plaintiff rested their case and the defending attorneys moved for a directed verdict. O A derentlve blow that trave Ne-1 Jud?e Nutting, suspended because braskan attorneys a temporary setback was the conviction of Rob ert Stief ler, Nebraskan reporter, at the opening of the court session on a charge of contempt of court for a news story written after Blower counsels first filed suit. Despite the plea of Stiefler's attorney, Mer rill Whitman, that conviction might amount to limiting the free dom of the press, and that the de fendant bore no malice in writing the article, Judge Nutting declared Stlefler guilty of coloring the news in an attempt to influence the jury. Twenty days in the county jail was the sentence pronounced by STATE TEACHERS OF HISTORY MEET HERE APRIL 4, 5, 6 Dr. Paul Kr.aplund Principal Speaker at Annual Conference. History teachers of Nebraska high schools and colleges will meet in Lincoln Thursday, Fri day and Saturday of this week for their twenty-third annual meeting. The university and the Lincoln city schools have cooper ated with the Nebraska History Teachers' association for the pro gram. Knaplund Main Speaker. Dr. Paul Knaplund, chairman of the department of history at the University of Wisconsin, will be the principal speaker of the ses sion. In an address to Lincoln teachers at Park school building Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock he will speak on "Gladstone: A Cham pion of Lost Causes." Dr. Knaplund, an authority on Gladstone, discusses the great statesman again before a univer sity convocation in the Temple theater at 11 o'clock Friday morn ing. Friday evening at a 6:30 din ner at the University club he speaks on "Problems of the His tory Teacher." His Saturday noon luncheon address at the University club is "Looking Forward." Dr. John D. Clark, of the col lege of business administration, re turns to Lincoln for the meeting. His address on "Indoctrination" (Continued on Page 2.1 J j Chancellor E. A. Burnett to Address Gathering April 4. Scandinavians of Lincoln will meet Thursday evening, April 4, for the annual banquet sponsored by the university Scandinavian club. Nearly 200 guests are ex pected to attend the affair which begins at 6:30 o'clock at the Grand hotel. The university group has invited all Scandinavians of the city, and Scandinavian members of the leg islature, their wives and guests to be present at the banquet. Chan celllor E. A. Burnett of the uni versity will speak on the program. Music for the occasion will be furnished by the Grieg male chorus, singing in both English and Swedish. Dr. J. E. A. Alexis, chairman of the department of Germanic lan guages at the university, is in charge of arrangements for the evening. He will be assisted by Eric Wahlgren and Dr. A. L. Lugn. TO DISCUSS RUSHING Association Will Set Dates Of Fall Rush Week at Monday Meeting. Rushing rules for the coming summer and fall rush season will he discussed and decided on at the regular meeting of the Pan Hellenic association. Monday at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith, according to Dorothy Cathera, president. The rfat of the fall rush week, and the hours of the parties, aa well as other uetaus :n connection wun both fall and summer rushing by the sororities will be voted on at this meeting, Miss Cathers an nounced. Other business to be taken up will be the report from the com mittee, composed of Erma Bauer and Loretta Murphy, assisted by an alumna member, who were o suggest two student and two alumnae members for the advisory board to the Pan Hellenic Council. Reports on the national organiza tions of Kappa Alpha Theta, Kap pa Delta, and Kappa Kappa Gam ma will also be heard. SCANDINAVIAN CLUB TO GIVE ANNUAL BANQUE Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska of "the defendant's youth and other, extenuating circumstances," and paroled to Jake Hempll, law college janitor, to whom he must report every morning at five-thirty for the duration of the sentence. The plaintiff, Representative Homer Ayre Blower again took the stand Friday to testify about his indictment for accepting a bribe in his home district and his connec tion with the Soakem Utility com pany, two charges listed in the original Nebraskan story, which appeared Feb. 22, In cross exami nation, Blower testified that it was (Continued on Page 4). BELL LEAVES fiV MAY FOR KODIAK RESEARCH Anthropologist to Spend Summer in Alaska With Dr. Hrdlicka. Dr. Earl H. Bell, assistant pro fessor of anthrology at the uni versity, will leave during May to spend the summer in field study in Alaska. Travelling for the Smith sonian institute, Dr. Bell will work in excavation and study on Kodiak Island with Ales Hrdlicka, out standing American physical an thropoligist. Show Cast Put Thru Final Rehearsals Tonight And Monday. "With opening night two days away, directors of Kosmet Klulrs spring show, "Kiss Co lunibo," sent the east through what Director Joe Ivcrson called "the best rehearsal since practices began" late Saturday night at the Temple theatre. Dress rehearsals will be held tonight and Monday night, with full orchestra and chorus arrangements. Over twelve hundred reserva tions for the show had been made by Saturday noon, according to Henry Kosman, business manager of the Klub. Ticket offices In the Temple will be open from 9 to 5 o'clock Monday, where seats may be reserved. "There are still many good seats available," Kosman stated, "and prospects for one of the best opening nights for any Kosmet show are seen." Leading the cast in appearance in the play will be Irving Hill, in the role of "King Ferdinand," who is cutting out paper dolls as the curtain rises, it was revealed by Art Wolf, author of the produc tion. "Peters," his blonde secre tary, as portrayed by Art Bailey, followed by Bill Marsh, cast as Don Bello, the greatest swordsman in all Spain. Pete Baker, Husker cage star, will play opposite Captain Cook as "Princess Joanna" of Spain. Cook is played by Fred Graham, and the two are featured in two duets of the show's outstanding (Continued on Page 2.1 WSTlBWOF YEAR WELL ATTENDED 200 Couples Dance to Music Of Ted Harris Friday In Armory. Two hundred couples attended the last all-barb dance of the year held Friday night at the Armory, bringing the barb social calendar for the spring season to a close. The Barb Interclub council and the Barb A. W. S. league sponsored the party, and the music was furnished bv Ted Harris and his nine-piece orchestra. This was one of the largest crowds that has attended a barb party this year," stated John Stover, president of the Barb In terclub council, "and the Armory was filled to it capacity." Professor and Mrs. O. W. Rein muih and Professor and Mrs. S. M. Corey chaperoned the affair. Mem bers of the committee in cnarge were Evelyn iDiamond, William Newcomer, and John Stover. They wr :ded bv four workers from each of the sponsoring societies: Rowena Swenson. uretcnen euaa, Aletha Forrell, Sclma Goldstein, Milton Wlttman, Joe Ruzlcka. Al vln Kleeb. and CHlford Swenson. NEBRASKA TEACHERS NAMED TO POSITIONS Nebraska schools have secured ivpraltv students for teaching positions, the department or eaucauoi-Aj service om an nounced. Grant Stewart, Lincoln, will finish out the year at Waverly. Helen Duce. Lincoln, goes to West on to teach next year; and Rich bard Krebs of Lincoln will teach at Bruno. KOSMET MUSICAL COIVIEDYTO OPEN MONDAY EVENING Best Dressed Girl. 1 1 r T OT - Photo by To nend. Courtesy Lincoln Journal. Miss Muriel Hook. Sophomore in the arts and sci ence college, who was presented Friday night at the A. W. S. Coed Follies at the Temple theater as the best dressed girl on the Ne braska campus for 1935. Filley, Hendrick Attend Economics Convention Prof. H. C. Filley, chairman of the department of rural econom ics, and George E. Hendrix, univer sity assistant extension economist, were in Ames, la., recently to at tend the research conference in rural economics. APPLY FOR REGENTS' 250 Winners Determined by Series of Tests Held April 1M3. Nebraska high school seniors this year shattered previous rec ords when 1,023 of them entered competition for the 250 regents' scholarships to the university for the next school term. They repre sent 322 accredited high schools in the state. Winners of the scholarships will be determined by a series of five tests to be taken April 11 to 13 In the local high schools. On the first two days classification tests must be taken in English and algebra by all entrants. The last day three additional tests will be taken, the nature of them to de pend upon the past school work and the field the student intends to enter at the univeristy. Scholarships are available to all undergraduate colleges. Announcement of scholarship awards will be made at the grad uation exercises in the various high schools. In addition to the winners, a number of alternates will be named who may be granted scholarships If the winners do not claim the 250 awards. The grants are made for the first semester of the school year, and renewed if the student's work Justifies it. Last year 707 Nebraska stu dents competed for the regent awards. They came from 275 schools with minor or fully ac credited ratings. MISSlEDDTSPEAKS Fifty Delegates Register For State Conclave At Kearney. mi si Marcaret Fedde. chairman of the department of home econo mics, addressed members of the Home Economics association at tending a dinner at the state con vention of the group at Kearney Fnaey Approximately fifty delegates were registered at the conference nrhlrh hntran Fridav and Will con tinue thru Saturday. The opening day a program inciuaca a vwn v tbe state hospital and state indus trial school. Maude Willis ms of the Colorado agricultural college, President Martin of Kearney state teachers college, and Harry Burke, superin tendent of the Kearney industrial school, were other pcakera at the banquet. Mrs. Nellie Benson of the state board of control will address tne group Saturday morning and Flor ence Atwood. supervisor of nutri tion for the Nebraska emergency relief, will p-k at the afternoon m-sslnn. MiiiiiaiBiliwiiilliiiiiiiiihwMMmifliiilinnarnfiijiiiffniflaanrofiriini HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AT HOI EC MEETING S E 400 Attend Annual Spring Style Show Presented By A.W.S. Friday. LATEST FASHIONS SHOWN Program Includes Skits by Sororities No Men Admitted. When 1he curtains parted the night of the Coed Follies, Mii- riel Hook, Alpha Onucron l i, appeared from behind them as Nebraska's best dressed girl. She was selected from among six teen candidates representing the best dressed girls on the campus, by a committee of judges from the A. W. S. board, sponsors of the annual show. Her appearance cli maxed the Follies and Spring Style Show presented by the A. W. S. and attended by some 400 women, Friday, March 29, at the Temple theater. In a program consisting of mis cellaneous skits and a parade of the new spring fashions, Delta Delta Delta, with a miniature cir cus, "Only a Dime,"' opened the program. Everything that belongs to a typical circus side-show was impersonated by the Trl Delta. There was the hula-hula dancer, the mysterious woman, the woman with two heads, even a bare-back rider (another reason for ad mitting no men). Marjorie Souders Sings. The history and future of the famous quintuplets was portrayed by the Barb A. W. S. league, who prophesied twenty-five grandchil dren for the parents of the five girls. Kappa Kappa Gamma pre sented two curtain acts, featuring Marjorie Souders and Eloise Red field, with Miss Souders singing popular selections, accompanied by Miss Redfield. at one time, and Miss Redfield at the marimba phone, acocmpanled by Miss Soud ers at the piano. with "Hollvwood Mother Goose Revue," the Alpha Omicron Pi's presented Jimmie Durante, as Mother Goose, May West aa Humpty Dumpty, Zazu Pitts as Little Miss Muffet, Burns and Allen as "Jack and Jill," and Laurel and Hardy as Little Jack Horner and Little Boy Blue. The Sigma Delta Tau's presented Har riett Byron in a "Syncopation" tap dance, and Sigma Alpha Iota, pro fessional musical sorority, harmon ized and dramatized the "Spring time Parades," which included "Toyland Parade, ' "Baby Paarde," "Sweetheart Parade" and "I Love a Parade." The rushin' Pi Beta Phi s pre ( Continued on Page 4). Millikan Invited Here for Similar Occasion in 1918 After a visit postponed for sev enteen years, Dr. Robert A. Mil likan will sneak at a nublic con vocation at the university Tuesday evening. April 9. It was during the war that Dr. Millikan had ac cepted another Invitation to speak at the university, Dut ne nau to postpone that address indefinitely. This great scientist was sched uled to give the Phi Beta Kappa- Kitrma XI address oacK in lvio. Dean O. J. Ferguson of the col lege of englnecrnig recalls, ur. iu likan was a commissioned lieuten ant colonel in the signal corps of the United States army and chief of the' science and research divi sion of the signal corps. He prom ised to speax at me university un less he should be suddenly called to Washindon. Just two weeks before time ror him to speak, Dr. Millikan wired Dean Fercuson. who was chairman of the committee, that he had been called to Washington. On several occasions since that time the dean has reminded him that he still owed a visit to Nebraska. "Dr. Millikan Is a great public spirited scientist," says Dean Fer guson, "who Indicates that his studies in science rave oniy ocop ened his religious feelings. Not nn v tin hta rpsearcn meant mucn to physics, but also to our field of electrical engineering." Since the war days wnen ur.. sninKan nna planned to speak here, he haa been awarded the Nobel prize for his outstanding work in physics. After mnnv vears of studv and research he became the first man to make an accurate measurement of the electrical charge on the electron, fjitr h became better known to physicists for his confirmation of Einstein a pnoio-eiecmc equauon. Within the last ten years he baa been studying cosmic rays. From 1899 to lvzi ur. Miiuxan held the chair of physics at the University of Chicago. Since that Mm ha has been director of the Norman Bridge laboratory of physics, and chairman or me ex ecutive council of the California Institute of Technology at Pasa dena. Cooper to Survey New Sites for Excavations Taul Cooper, graduate student in the university department of anthropology, will make a survey of the eastern tier of Nebraska counties during nxt summer. He hopes to find and map new sites In order to make a plan for ex cavation work in the region. HOOK WNS N BEST DR ED WOMAN CONTEST ATOiEME!ST TOPIC OF PATTERSOS TALK Philosophy Instructor to Speak at Vesper Tuesday. Charles Patterson, professor of philosophy, will speak at the ves per service Tuesday at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith, on "The Meaning of the Atonement." His talk will con sist of a philosophical interpreta tion of why Christ had to die. The Tuesday vespers will be the fourth of the series of weekly Lenten services. Meditation music before the serv ice begins will be played by Velora Beck, at the piano. Barbara De Putron will preside at the meeting and lead the devotlonals, and the vesper choir, under the direction of Margaret Phillippl, will sing the processional. HONORARY CLUBS E AT Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi Announcements Follow Boucher's Talk. New members of Phi Beta KaDDa and Sigma XI will be an nounced .Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock at the public convocation to be held in the Temple theater. Tho Mat. nf new members will be read by the secretaries of the two honor societies ai me ciose oi tho nmeram. following" an ad dress by Dean C. F. Boucher of the university or nicago. The Chicago acan win spcaa on "WViaf Should he Emrjhasized in a College Education," which will be the main aaciress oi me morn ing convocation. During his stay in Lincoln ne win aiso mane air other nHdrpsa when Tuesday eve ning he speaks at the joint banquet nf Phi Rpta KaDDa and Slema XI nt the University club on "The . - . i i i . Elements or me cnicago pmn . Selections to membership in Phi Rptn Kanna are made on a basis of scholastic standing. Primarily only those seniors in the upper nna.civth to one-tenth ranee of students who have completed the Arts ana science group iequic ments are eligible for membership, nithn thev need not necessarily be enrolled in the Arts and Science college. , On occasions membership is riven to mose otuer iuu wi lio- tiiHpnts. 'f , , Rarely is mere a scnumaut Qvsrmn nf a member of that ornnn hoinw 88. In the past five year period an average of forty- seven mcmDers nave uw auutu oorh vpnr with the lowest scholas tic average during this time con sisting of 87.73, ana me nignesi record made being 95.45. During thfa flvp vpar neriod the high for each year averages 94.48, while the corresponding low mar i fifliQ Spipetinp the membership from the range of one-sixth to one-tenth enables me nonoraiy scholastic society to be selective in a hnirpa nf npw members. Sigma XI membership, in addi tion to scholarship, places specim emnhasis upon mieresi in i"u pendent research. Y.M.. Y.W. CROUPS HOLD ESTES REUSIOS Movies, Slides Shoun to Those Attending Picnic. Students who have attended the Y. M.-Y. W. Estes conference will hold a picnic reunion Sunday af ternoon. Meeting at the Temple at 3:30, they will ride to Pioneer Park, where they will spend the afternoon. Entertainment in the form of movies and slides taken at Estes conferences will be provided, and horses for riding will be avail able. Those students who have never attended the conference, but are interested in attending next summer, will be guests at the pic nic. Miss Bernice Miller, Y. W. secretary, announced. NAM MEMBERS CONVOCATION College Students Refuse To Appear Foolish April 1 By Regina Hunklns. Nj one Mollis tu know for certain just how th custom urin inated, so one theory is as good as nnother. One miht guess that mankind, being "of an impartial nature and having set aside a day for mothers, and one fur fathers, and a Tveek for better n.iisi.. nnd another for lietter cheese, set aside a day for all manxtna, anu caueu it no v The idea was that on this day pvprvhodv should trv to make ev erybody else look as foolish as pos sible, nobody being able to tell by the results who was supposea to i.vr,lr(nr fonllah nnri who was SUP- posed to be making them look fooll.h. So Apru Koora uay dm, ii lava cnn novt. heen ouite a success, all humanity intentionally or non-lntentionany panicipaunK; And as me uay oi me raiuuun (jargon) starts this week off with a bang, students are anxiously Bunlttnir Ihn unusual. T'hlch Will make April Fool's Day all the more successful, as tne unusual win no doubt forget to happen, leaving everybody fooled. Might Put Grspenuts In Bd. Of course the young fraternity pledges will pull some fast one like tripping the actives on their way down to breakfast, or .scatter ing grapenuta in tne Dcas, mu me actives will be expecting it so thy MINNESOTA BOOK STORE DESCRIBED BY MISS SELLECK Student Council Committee Offers Third Plan To Students. SCHOOL HAS TWO STORES Campus Organizations Run Businesses on Profit Sharing Basis. As a third examnle of a suc cessfully worked out plan for a university second hand dooic si ore. Vircinia Selleck, chair man of the special book store campaign committee ot me oiu ripnt Council, selected the Univer sity of Minnesota from among the some fifty outlined plans sne naa received from universities thruout the country, in an attempt to find, and put into effect, a plan which would work successiuny at ne- The report on the experience of Minnesota university with second hand book stores, as received by the committee, shows that the uni versity now has two such stores. Neither of them are run Dy ws stndpnt bodv. but both are run by campus organizations. The first is a dook eiore ruu uy the Women's Self Government Or ganization. It is run by a student manager selected by the Dean of Women and tne stuaeni wuncu. Th tnnnae'pr is naid 45 cents an hour, and the assistants get 30 cents an hour. Tne siuaems can ask three-fourths the original price r.t thp hnnk. and if the book is sold, 10 percent is deducted for a 4 running expenses. n.uy " curred is turned over to a scholar ship fund. The secona oi Minnesota s sec ond hand book stores is a true tlve enterorise in the en gineering school. Here a salaried manager runs tne auup. oiuuima become bondholders by paying five dollars and at the end of the year are refunded 16 percent of the amount spent in the store that year. When they leave school or graduate they are refunded the original deposit of five dollars. This survey carried on by the committee, composed of Lorraine Hitchcock, Irving Hill, and Dick Fischer, headed by Virginia Sel leck, is intended to give the stu dent body a chance to see how the book store project can be carried out, and to determine which of these plans would be most suitable for Nebraska. Reports will soon be released giving lists of all universities and colleges having second hand book stores with outlined data as to how they are managed and as to what procedure Is used. Information is also being com piled concerning schools which do not have bookstores. Whether or not these schools are trying to get such a store and reasons are the main interests of the survey. "We have discovered," Lorraine Hitch cock, committee member stated, "that a number of the universities who do not have bookstores have many of the same problems with which to contend that we have. Over 50 percent of the schools who do not have them Indicated that they would like to. METHODIST CLUB TO L IT I ATE FOUR MES Phi Tau Theta Inducts Setc Members at Cere mony April 2. Phi Tau Theta, Methodist frater nity, will hold initiation at Wes leyan Foundation Tuesday evening April 2 at 7 o'clock. Those who will be Initiated are Richard Becker, Lincoln; Max McCamlcy. Springfield: Lloyd Raher, Lincoln and Donald Banks, Imperial. John Liming and Marvin Ed mlson are in charge of arrange ments. won't be fooled at all. And maybe even some of the new initiates will attempt the newer and more dig nified "You dropped something.' (gag.) But these things are too near the everyday occurrence to rightly celebrate the day. Th only things mat wouia rejiy fool one would be to hear every body at wer roll call in class: to see everybody with a prepared les son; to see no one under the clock at Sosh or over at the Moon: to hear no one complain that it U either too hot or too cold; to ba greeted in the morning with a Ne braskan with no mistakes; to read through the Awgwan without see ing a Joke one had heard before and be able to laugh all the way through. One can't well Imagine such things happening, and so It can logically be concluded that o far as this year ana me uiuvernny goes. All Fool s Day ia doomed to failure. I V 1 . 1