or "Read the Nebraskan" Jf N T Y EBRASKA "Be campus conscious" Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXI V NO. 137 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935. PRICE 5 CENTS. Hi SCHOLARSHIP CUP GOES FARM HOUSE 5TH TIME IN ROW Fifteen Honor Fraternities Announced at Annual Banquet Tuesday. AGEE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER Intramural Awards Made to Greek Athletic Winners By Harold Petz. Supremacy in interfraternity scholarship for the past five years is the record of which the Farm House can boast after having received the Interfra ternity Scholarship cup for placing first in this year's list of fifteen honor fraternities announced at the annual inter-fraternity banquet Tuesday evening: in the ballroom of the Hotel Cornhusker. Following the ag campus group in scholarship average are Sigma Alpha Mu, Zeta Beta Tau, Beta Sigma Psi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Chi Phi, Delta Sigma Lambda, Delta Upsilon, Phi Kappa Psi. Xi Psi Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Alpha Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Gam ma Rho, and Tau Kappa Epsilon, in the order named. Plaques were awarded the four teen high clubs by Trof. E. F. Schramm, who was introduced by Toastmaster Ray Ramsay to the banquet gathering of some 200 fraternity men as not only the "dis tributor of the hardware" but also as one of the most active faculty members in his interest in the wel fare of the campus fraternities. He is faculty sponsor of the inter fraternity council, and one of the donors of the scholarship cup with Dean T. J. Thompson and Col. C. L Frankfurter. Harold Petz, director of intra mural athletics, also came in for his annual share in the giving out of trophies when he took the in ventory of intramural contests and found that there were ten "trin kets," as Ray called them, to be awarded to winners in inter-fraternity athletic competition during the past year. John H. Agee, president of the Nebraska Alumni association, in the main talk of the evening, ex plained the workings of the associ ation and how it is part of their Job to help the university obtain from the legislature adequate ap propriations to carry on the insti tution. He deplored the situation of how few legislators there were to appeal to as supporters of larger (Continued on Page 3). 2 Traditional Festivities Start at 9 O'clock Thursday. to Ivy Jay playground bepun to lake on a festiv appearance Tue sday as workmen set about putting up bleachers and com pleting the neon's throne in preparation for the traditional event on the campus Thursday. Mortar Boards in charge of the celebration stated that activities would begin sharply at 9 o'clock Thursday morning with the inter fraternity sing when fraternity choruses will compete for the sil ver loving cup now held by Sigma Phi Epsilon. winner of last years contest. Following fra ternity competition, the queen's procession will begin with the pre sentation of the 1935 ruler of Ivy Day festivities climaxing the morning. The Ivy day poem will be read, and Jack Pace, and Don Easterday, Junior and senior class presidents will plant the ivy. Beginning the afternoon's activ ity, will be the sorority sing at 1:30. This will be followed by the masking of the new Mortar Board members and the tapping of the Innocents. The Ivy Day oration by Marvin Schmidt, law student will conclude the day's program. Little Gods Galley ALICE BEEKMAN, EDITOR OF THE AWGWAN. By Regina HunklnV The driving force of the Awgwan this year has been a smiling, good natured, blond haired young lady, Alice Beek Tnan officially, but "Becky" to the games. 'LoLi ef work today? Why, 1 love to vork on the Awgwan," she frays with a smile, and you know he must enjoy everything he does. "I've worked awfully hard on lots of the ls.njes, but the campus seems to enjoy the ones I Just sling together, perhaps because they're full of campus gore." The interview was Interrupted frequently with greetings to this one and that one who came into the Awgwan office for no reason at all, or perhaps they knew there would be someone in there who would be glad to see thm. She was talking of the value of (Continued on Page 2.) . T. CARMICIIAEL TO INTERVIEW STUDENTS Montgomery Ward and Co. Director Will Be Here Today. H. T. Carmlchael, personnel dl rector of Montgomery Ward & Co., will interview seniors and gradu ates of the college of business ad ministration today. All students desiring to meet Mr. Carmlchael should make arrangements with ?rof. T. T. Bullock, head of the placement bureau of the college, at once. According to Mr. Bullock, Mr. Carmlchael is particularly desirous of interviewing students Interested in merchandising. PLAYS TITLE ROLE Kirkpatrick Directs Chicago Opera Company, Choral Union Offering. Barbara Darlys. dramatic so prano of ihey Chicago Grand Opera company, will sing the title role of "Aida" when it appears here on May 6, in the coliseum with the Festival Opera company of Chicago and the Uni versity Choral Union, under the direction of Howard Kirkpatrick. Miss Darlys belongs to the In teresting group of American ar tists who have naa ineir enuie musical education in this country. She made her debut with the Chi cago Grand Opera in Jan. 23, 1931, in the title role of "La Giaconda," on but a week's notice. She had been scheduled to sing the title role of Aida on Chicago's Italian day, when the Italians preferred to hear their own beloved Raisa. Ac ceding to their request, the man agement asked Darlys to sing "La Giaconda," and Mme. Raisa to sing the Aida performance. Hence, Lincoln music lovers will hear her in the role she gave up to Mme. Raisa. Witte to be "Messenger." Marcella Laux will take the part of the "High Priestess," one of the two minor roles that will be sung by local musicians, accord ing to Mr. Kirkpatrick. The tenor part of a "Messenger" will be sung bv Parvin Witte. instructor of voice and director of the glee club. Members of the university football team will be seen in the roles of guards in the production and mem bers of the band, under the direc tion of Billy Quick, will take part in the Triumphal marcn. Mr. Kirkpatrick is still on the outlook for three pickaninnies to take part in l.:e opera. There will be between 300 and 350 persons in the production, most of them university students who will make up the chorus and orchestra. This will be one of the largest, if not the largest musical show ever presented on any stage in Lincoln, according to John K. 'Selleck, director of student activi ties. A group of students of navia Waters Champe will take part in the ballet. Cramer Will Direct. Clarence E. Cramer, well known Chicago producer, will have the performance under his personal supervision, bringing from Chi cago all the necessary equipment with the Festival Opera company, including elaborate scenery, gor geous costumes for 300 people, the armor, trappings, lighting effects, and all the various paraphernalia required to stage it in a complete and elaborate manner. Relnld Werrenrath, the world famous Danish baritone, will head the cast, singing the role of "Amonasro, King of Ethiopia." John Pane-Gasser will sing the part of the tenor "Rhadames," a part which he has recently played at the Chicago Civic Opera House, the New York Hippodrome, and also the largest houses of Italy and France. Kathryn Browne, one of Ameri ca's favor-it? contraltos, will sing "Amneris." She has appeared with the Chicago Civic Opera In more than 100 performances nationwide. James Wolfe, who has just closed his twelfth season at the Metro politan, is the "Ramphia" and Teodor Lovich will play the king. a role in which he scored heavily this season at the Chicago com pany. BARBARA DARLYS AIDA MONDAY i ' - t . ' . ' . ' f vv; ' p : -- ' . 1 A y - , -, j Court tr RlBb4rt-MndM. Prof. Fling Muses Over Trip To French Fort Carcassonne By Lorraine Campbell. Prof. Wcntwortli Flint? of the French department looked thoughtfully out of his office window the other day. The green landscape and the clear blue and white sky reminded him of the scenery on a trip from Paris to Carcassonne, France several years ago. was wnwe auenaing ivkc-o ole Alsacienne, in Paris that he. with four other American students started out, convinced that "one shouldn't die without seeing Car cassonne," the famous fortified city in the south of France. They drew as straight a line as possible between the two cities and decided, because of the condition of their finances, to travel via bicy cles. "Bicycles are much better de veloped in Europe than in this country cars being too expensive for common use there," explained Mr. Fling. "My vehicle had a gear shift with three speeds, as well as a generator which provided for a bright head and tail light at night. Wore Identification Feathers. Since they had decided that each should ride at his leisure, to some spot determined upon for the night the travelers wore black berets with bright red feathers in order TO PRESENT ALL El 45 Annual Society Meeting Draws Scholars From All Nebraska. Drawing scholars and teach ers lrom au sections or me state, the Nebraska Academy of Sciences will present a pro gram in all phases and branches of science at its forty-fifth annual meeting to be held Friday and Sat urday at the university, according to Nels A. Bengston. president of the organization and chairman of the geography department here, The convention of the Academy, which is affiliated with the Amer ican Association for the Advance ment of Science, is being conducted Jointly with the Nebraska Section of the Mathematical association of America the Nebraska council of Geography Teachers, Nebraska Science Teachers association, and the Nebraska Dietetic association Including talks by prominent school faculty members, students and governmental department di rectors, the schedule of gathering will get under way Friday morn ing following registration of dele gates at 8:30 o clock in the cor ridor of Bessey hall. Meet from 9 to 11. Meetings of the various sections will hold sway from 9 until 11 o'clock that morning. At that time the first general session will gather at Morrill hall auditorium and will hear R. L. Von Treba, regional di rector of Soil Erosion Service, United States department of agri culture, speak on "Soil Erosion Control in Nebraska." Clayton Watkins. state director of Plains Shelter Belt Project, United States department of agriculture, will sshare the morning spotlight with his discussion of the Shelter Belt Project Following sectional meetings which begin at 1 o'clock in the aft ernoon and last three hours, J. B. Kincer, chief, division of climate and crop weather, United States weather bureau, will address an other general session on the sub ject, "Man and his Climate with (Continued on Page 4.) MI INSPECTION 10 TAKE PLACE MAY 8. 9 Col. McMaster and Maj. Van Vliet Preside Over Annual Event. Annual inspection of the uni versity R. O. T. C. corps will take place May 8 and 9 with Col. George H. McMaster and Maj. Van Vliet of the seventh corps area at Omaha inspecting officers, accord ing to Col. W. H. Oury, head of the university military department. The excellent rating which Ne braska baa held for the past five years Is expected to be re-attained by Col. Oury, who reports that the cadet companies appear very promising. Classes will be dismissed Thurs day at 3 p. m., when the formal parade and inspection will be called. There will be a skeleton parade Monday, May 6 at 8 p. m., with first call at 4:50 p. m. STAT ACADEMY E PHASES Sign for Senior Organization I wish to enroll as a member of the senior class, and express my willingness to eo-opcrate in organization of the senior class, and to participate in their activities. Nan ic Add ress This l a coupon to be turned located in the principal buildings on to make mire that they all stayed on the same road. "If in doubt about our way, we would ask a farmer "Have you seen a fellow with a bright red feather in his beret? He would always remember if one of us had passed." "Among the souvenirs I brought back from Europe is a small frag ment from an immense vase a homely bird suspended upon a twig. We spent the first night of our trip at Montargis in which we all slept in one room. For some un known reason, we commenced scuffling in the morning soon after awakening, and in the confusion, one of the homliest vases I have ever seen crashed to the floor from the mantel. This little souvenir is one of the more costly of my mem oirs." He recalled a lunch of red Hol ( Continued on Fage 4.) GAMMA ALPHA CH1S POSTPONE MEETING Results of Advertising Contest to Appear Thursday. Regular meeting of Gamma Alpha Chi, women's advertising sorority, has been postponed from Thursday to one week from Thurs day, according to President Vir ginia Selleck. Results of the best ad contest which is being sponsored by the sorority will be published in Thurs day's Nebraskan. Selection of the best ads appearing in Nebraska community newspapers during July will be made by Clifford Crooks, market research director of the Nebraska Farmer; Prof. Gayle C. Walker, director of the school of Journalism; and Prof. F. C. Blood, Gamma Alpha Chi spon sor. Preliminary selection was made by committee members from the sorority. ENGllCTEEK Convocation, Banquet, Field Day, Open House Feature Two-Day Program. Hounding out the finishing touches on the engineers' week plans today, engineers' week committccm .i arc preparing for one of the university s old est traditions. With its history re lating back to charter day over forty-one years ago. engineer's week will commence its activities Thursday evening, May 2, and will follow for a full day on Friday, May 3. In order to take part in and at tend the program, engineering stu dents of the university will be dis missed from classes on Thursday, and those after eleven o'clock on Friday. Classes up to eleven Fri day and all those on Saturday are to be attended, according to Dean O. J. Ferguson of the engineering college. Four principal events feature the two day program with open house on Thursday evening, engi neers convocation Friday morning, field day in the afternoon and the engineers banquet in the evening. Open House Thursday. Open house commences at seven o'clock Thursday evening with the presentation of a large number of exhibits and demonstrations by the various departments of the engi neering college. Convocation at eleven Friday morning will present Erick Floor, engineer on the Loup river public power and irrigation project at Columbus. He will ad dress the engineers in Temple on the Loup valley propect and will use illustrated drawings in connec tion. Field day follows at 12 o'clock with a picnic at Pioneers park. After a box lunch, a sport program will be commenced with the fea ture event of the afternoon being baseball games between teams from the various departments. A professor's "fib-telling" contest also stands out as an interesting event on the program. Cochran to Speak. Climaxing the day with an engi neer's banquet at 6:30, Gov. Roy L. Cochran will give the principal address of the evening. Governor Cochran is a graduate of the engi neering college and a former state (Continued on Page 2.) in at one of the ballot boxes the campus. COUNCIL ROUNDS OUT FINAL PLANS E T Harold Sumption Cast Title Role of Last 1935 Drama. in PLAY CLOSES SATURDAY Shakespearean Star Show Director; to Act Part of 'Brutus.' Ticket prices will be reduced for the University Players' post-season production, "Julius Caesar," which will open in the Temple theater this evening for a four-davs run, from 50 to 75 cents, to 35 and 50 cents, according to Charles Steadman, Players busi ness manager. Hart Jenks, famous Shakespearean actor, is directing the play and is cast in one of the leading roles. Mr. Jenks has piayea in -juiius Caesar" with the Chicago Civic Shakespeare society both in the roles of "Marcus Brutus" and of 'Julius Caesar" and will play "Marcus Brutus" in this produc tion. He is also directing the per formance. Harold Sumption, a member of the speech department, will play "Julius Caesar, and the two out standing feminine roles will be filled by Mary Kay Throop Mc Donald and Dorothy Zimmer. They will play "Portia," "Brutus' " wife and "Calpurnia," "Caesar's" wife, respectively. Hill in "Cassius" Role. Irving Hill is cast in the part of "Cassius," and Armand Hunter is to play "Mark Antony." Margaret Straub will be seen in the part of the boy "Lucius," a page. Dwight Loder will play "Flavius," Claire Wolfe. "Marullus," and Roy Squire, a soothsayer. Those who will appear in the play as senators, commoners, guards, attendants, etc., are the following: Elsa Swift. Elizabeth Betzer, Genevieve Dalling. Veron ica Villnave, Molly Carpenter, Leila Irwin, Blanche Carr, Gwen dolyn Meyerson, Irene Barry, Flor ence Smeerin, Harriet Leeson. Mary Dean, Sid Baker, Albert Nore, Dwight Perkins, Allen Gate wood, Paul Bogen, Gregg Howard, Smith Davifi, Milan Wisen, Rich ard Rider, Henry Kelpe, Don Buell, Waldeman Mueller, Delford Brum mer, Don Boehn, Elwood Randal, Lucile Todd, Charles Fair, and Ar nold Gadeken. Y.M., Y.W. STAFFS TO SERVE ICE CREAM AT T Social Will Begin Promptly At 8 O'clock North of Library. Tonight on the lawn north of li brary hall students and faculty members will meet at one of the most unusual parties of the year, an ice cream social, sponsored by the Y. W. and V. M. social staffs, according to Evelyn Diamond, general chairman In charge of ar rangements. The affair will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. Japanese lanterns will light the scene and the guests will be served ice cream and cake for a nominal fee at small tables placed thruout the grounds. The colonial aspect of the party 'will be re-enforced by a small band playing old fashioned tunes. v Members of the Y. ' W. social staff will play the part of wait resses. They are Evelyn Diamond, Nora DeCory, Dorcas Crawford, Dorothy Beers, Iris Knox, Hazel Bier, Lillian Seibold, Eleanor Bell, Edna Lee, Alice Tcrrill, and Ruth Longstreet. Prof, and Mrs. O. W. Reinmuth, and Miss Bernice Miller will chap eron the affair, it was revealed Tuesday. Definite committees working on arrangements are Nora DeCory, arrangement of the grounds; El eanor Bell, orchestra; Hazel Bier and Lillian Seibold. supplies; and Dorcas Crawford, Dorothy Beers, and Iris Knox, refreshments. Banquet Speaker j0t t X V e PLAYERS DC K T PRICE FOR JULIUS CAESAR CwrtT Uncala Journal. John H. Age. PERSHING RIFLES TO HOLD MEETING TODAY Group to Decide Whether Delegation Will Be Sent to Meet. Pershing Rifles will hold a spe cial meeting at 6 o'clock Wednes day in Nebraska hall to make final decision as to whether or not the Nebraska chapter will send dele gates to the competitive drill held in Iowa City Saturday afternoon, Captain Elon Standevan stated when the group convened Tuesday at 5 o'clock. . If the Nebraska chapter enters the contest, It will send three squads which will leave Lincoln Friday afternoon. Pledges taken in during the past years wno nave missed otner mi tiation services and who have ful filled their probation duties by May 7 will be installed as active members on that date. The cere mony will follow a regular 5 o'clock meeting at which election of officers for the coming year will be elected. Rallyinq Farmers to Tour Downtown Lincoln on Hayracks. ART GUILD WILL DISPLAY 'Goddess of Agriculture' To Be Presented Friday. Climaxing their year's work in a big demonstration week, students of ag college will pre face the Farmer's Fair, which includes the pageant, two dances, exibits from every depart ment of the college, a baseball game, a livestock parade, the snorpheus show, and other minor events, with an advertising stunt in the form of a hayride rally Wed nesday night. May 1. "Every student in the college is on a committee and the co-operation towards the betterment of the fair this year has been splendid," stated Katherine Jones, co-promoter of the affair, "and I for one am willing to reiterate the proverbial, 'it will be a bigger and better fair than ever before'." "Si and Mirandy." Garbed in the traditional aprons and overalls of the more traditional Mirandy and SI, the ag students will mount their hay toting chari ots shortly before midnight on Wednesday evening for the Fair rally. The group will proceed from the Holdrege campus to Antelope park for a brief period of dancing and then travel via the primitive method to the down town section of Lincoln. The return trip will in clude the city campus and sorority row. With the gala ag college dance event at which the Goddess of Agriculture will be presented sche' duled for Thursday evening. May 2, and the first performance of "American Panorama," the his torical pageant of the develop ment of the country from its dis covery down to the present, to be given on Friday, the ag campus (Continued on Page 2.1 RUSHING DISCUSSED AT TASSEL MEETING Pepsters Gather Tuesday; Report on Phi Sigma Chi Convention. Tassels, women's pep society, discussed rushing parties for the organization when members met Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall. Elizabeth Shearer, Tassels president, stated that nothing definitely was decided because ag representatives were unable to be present at the meet ing. Further discussions will be held at further meetings. A report was made at the meet ing of the convention of Phi Sigma Chi, women's national pep group which was held in Lincoln last weekend. The report Included an nouncement that Elizabeth Shearer was elected secretary-treasurer of the national organization. STUDENT COUNCIL POSTS. Student Council. Four seniors-at-large, two men and two women. Two Junior men and three funior women from Arts and Science college. Two Junior men from Engi neering college. One Junior man and one junior woman from Business Administration college. One junior man and one junior woman from College of Agriculture. One junior man and three junior women from Teacher college. On Junior man from Phar macy college. On Junior man from Dentis try college. On junior man from Law college. Two junior women-at-larg. On man or woman from Graduate college. Publication Board. On sophomor member. On junior member. On stnlar member. DEMONSTRATION WEEK PRECEDES ANNUAL AG Al SPRING ELECTION CANDIDATES MAY FILE WEDNESDAY 25 Student Council Posts To Be Filled at May Vote. FILINGS CLOSE MAY 10 Three Publications Board Members to Be Elected. Filings for the twenty-five student council positions and the three publication board positions will begin at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning in t lio Student Activities' office in the coliseum. Jack Fischer, student council president announced that filings would last until Friday, May 10, at 5 o'clock. Council positions are open to two senior men-at-large and two senior women-at-large. Of the ten positions to be filled by Junior men. two will be selected from the arts and science college, two from en gineering, one from ag, one from dentistry, one from teachers, one from pharmacy, one from law, and one from business administration. Then ten junior women are also selected according to colleges. Three are taken from teachers, three from arts and science, one from ag, one from business admin istration, and two are elected at large. One graduate student, either man or woman, is also to be elected. The three members of the publication board are selected ac cording to colleges, one member from the sophomore class, one junior and one senior. Eligibility Outlined. Eligibility for membership In the student council is based on the fol lowing requirements: The candi date must be a member of the col lege or class he represents. Regu lar university rules govern the candidate's college, school, or class. Each candidate must have a scholastic average of at least 7 percent for all preceding semes ters, and shall have no standing delinquencies. Class designations apply to next year. "Students and factions filing for council positions ' should consider the qualifications of the prospec tive candidates in regard to in clination, ability, and time. One of the greatest faults to be found with those aspiring to membership on the student council is that they don't have time to competently fill the positions," Jack Fisher state I when announcing the filings. FRESHMAN CABINET CONVENES TUESDAY Group Discusses Plans For May Morning Breakfast. Members of the freshman cabi net of the Y. W. C. A. met Tues day evening at 7 o'clock in Ellon Smith hall to make plans for the May morning breakfast which will be held Sunday, May 12 at 8 o'clock on the lawn of the Chi Omega house. The cabinet has charge of dec orations and the menu, and the group decided Tuesday night that a color scheme would be worked out in pastel shades. The breakfast is an annual af fair of the Y. W. C. A. attended by both active and alumna members of the organization. Copy Briefs by FRED NICKLAS. SHARE the Wealth Huey Long isn't going to get his share of federal PWA money. Not if Sec retary Iokes has anything to say about it Long, who believes in some sort of a "dividing-up" scheme, but wants no such treat ment of the iay-so, has irked the secretary of interior. It all (started when the blus tery Louisiana senator persuad ed his state legislature to place in his hands administration of PWA funds designated for his constituency. Henceforth the cabinet member scratched his adversary's state from the loan and grant list. Thereupon Long hastened back to Washington to take a few pokes at Secretary Ickes. And the pokes came from both directions. But the two combatants, like rubber balls, bounce back at each other each time a blow Is dealt. Extremely amusing and unrestrained verbiage characterizes their continued con flict MEANWHILE Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, has bee.i firing a few shots at Roosevelt and the new deal. He too, la a likely loser. At least he's lost well over $200,000 federal money. And Sec retary Ickea waa responsible for that, too. Talmadge, one riust re member, was not long ago, re elected after a strenuous anti-new deal campaign. m m But Secretary Ickes has the advantage. He'a one of the three who get to spend the 4 billion dollar wtf k-relief fund, and he'a head maa of the PWA treasury, and he's a member of the presi .(Conunued on Fag 4.)