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-ETXXXV NO. 56. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER , 1935 t'MOS 5 CENTS
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VIRGINIA SELLECK
IS PRESENTED AT
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Honorary Colonel Revealed In
Colorful Ceremony at
Annual Ball.
5,000 IN ATTENDANCE
Various Historic Periods Are
Depicted Preceding
Appearance.
Miss Virginia Selleck, in n
bright colored scarlet and
cream uniform, -was revealed to
5,000 people in the coliseum
Friday evening as honorary
colonel for the twenty-seventh
annual Military Ball. The choice
of Nebraska students in a recent
campus election, Miss Selleck was
introduced in a presentation cere
mony featuring twelve periods in
American history.
Before her appearance, the cere
mony depicted the various stages
in history with a large clock as
a background, each hour repre
senting one of the periods. For
each of the first eleven hours,
costumed characters were pre
sented which were characteristic
at the time of America's discovery
In MOV th HpnHnr of .Tnmestown
and Plymouth, capture of Mon
treal, the American Revolution,
War of 1812, the Mexican War,
the Civil War, the Spanish-American
War, and the World War.
Miss Selleck Appears.
When the hour hands pointed to
midnight, Miss Selleck stepped
thru the door of the clock, and
thousands cheered the new hon
orary colonel, whose identity un
til then had been kept secret. She
appeared in a red-trimmed uni
form, white cape lined with red,
and black boots. She wore a
white shako which was topped
with a large red plume.
She was received by Cadet
Colonel Richard Rider and was
presented an arm bouquet of white
roses by Joan Scott, daughter of
Major and Mrs. Walter T. Scott
of the military department.
Grand March Follows.
The colorful grand inarch fol
lowed in which the honorary
colonel. Cadet Colonel Rider, and
his staff reviewed the 280 stu
dent officers and their dancing
partners. After the march the
cadet officers gave the girls min
iature sabers.
The Pershing Rifle crack squad
drilled preceding Miss Selleck's
introduction, and the Pershing
Rifle company marched oh the
stage and was formed.
Miss Selleck, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Martin F. Selleck
of Lincoln, is a senior in the arts
and science college. Active in stu
dent affairs, she is secretary of
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority,
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ATTEND SHOUT CLASS
Annual Course Lasts from
Monday to Saturday
At Ag College.
The annual buttermaker's short
course, beginning Monday, and end
lng Saturday, has special features
this year to broaden the course
and to show the relations of the
creamery indstry to industry at
large. The course is given an
nually at the agricultural college
for buttermakers who want to
keep up on late developments.
Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in the
dairy auditorium, two university
teams will argue the question,
"Resolved: that the AAA promises
to be of permanent benefit to ag
riculture." This debate is open
to the public. A vote of the aud
ience and an open discussion will
follow the debate. Elmer Scheele
and Byrle Schuck will argue the
affirmative side and Robert Stief
ler and Leonard Kiueger the neg
ative. Van Norman Talks.
Friday at 2 p. m. Dr. H. E.
Van Norman, of the department
of education and development of
the Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
formerly dean of the California
agricultural college, will discuss
the "Function of the Chicago Mer
cantile Exchange." This lecture
will follow his talk before Lin
coln Kiwanls at 1 p. m. on the
"Relation of City Business to Farm
Prosperity."
At 1 o'clock Friday C G. George
manager of the Nebraska Coop
erative Creameries, Inc., of Oma
ha, will discuss "Marketing Cream
ery Products Cooperatively.
Thursday afternoon at 3 Dr. L. F.
Garey. of this university, will dis
cuss "Financing Cooperatives.
In addition to these speinl Xea
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STUDENT TRIES FIRST
DRINK; ASSESSED $10
fudge Polk Scores Fear
Of Being Called
Sissy
An 18 year old university stu
dent was assessed the isual fine
of $10 and costs after ho pleaded
guilty to a drunk charge early
Saturday morning in municipal
court. The student had taken his
first drink of hard liquor Friday
night on a roomate's dare, rather
than be called a "sclssy", he told
Municipal Judge John L. Polk.
"It Is not a question of being a
"sissy", but a question of will
power to keep from doing it,"
Judge Polk advised him. "Being a
man is being able to stand on your
own hind legs and being able to
take care of yourself not to see
how much liquor you can soak up.
Weaklings and failures can do
that," he added.
PLAYERS READY
TO OPEN IN NEW
HIT, IE LAKE'
Production Opem in Temple
Theater Monday, Dec. 9
At 7:30 O'clock.
After three weeks of dally prep
aration and rehearsal, the Univer
sity Players will present their new
production, "The Lake," by Dor
othy Massingham, beginning Mon
day, Dec. 9 in the Temple the
ater. The play, Massingham's lat
est dramatic hit, will run thruout
the week with the curtain rising
each evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Leads in "The Lake," which is
the first tragedy to be given this
season, are taken by Margaret
Carpenter, Lincoln veteran of last
year's hits, and Irving Hill, well
known University Player from
Lincoln. Miss Carpenter assumes
the role of "Stella Surrege," the
impressionable English girl whose
chief hindrance in her adventurous
life is her domineering mother.
Hill takes the part of "John
Clayne," Stella's lover and hus
band. Miss Christensen Cast.
Clara Christensen, graduate in
'33, and veteran University Player,
appears as Stella's mother, "Mil
dred Surrage." The supporting
cast consists of new and expe
rienced players. They include:
Portia Boynton and Don Buell, as
"Lena and Henry Surrage," aunt
and uncle of Stella; Elizabeth Bct
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STUDENTS INJURED IN
CAR CRASH SATURDAY
Jane Cleary, Mary Lou
Clover Suffer Minor
Cuts, Bruises.
Jane Cleary and Mary Lou Glo
ver, both of Grand Island, and for
mer students of the university, suf
fered fractured ankles and various
cuts about the face and legs Satur
day morning when the car in which
they were riding was involved in
a four way accident near the city
limits on highway No. 2. They
were taken to St. Elizabeth hospi
tal and attended by Dr. H. E.
Flansburg, Dr. J. E. M. Thompson
and Dr. Fred Ferciot. Both girls
are members of Kappa Alpha
Thcta.
Police said that the accident oc
curred when Neil McCullough,
driver of the automobile in which
the girls were riding, attempted to
pass a truck driven by Glen Par
ris, route 2, and collided with an
other car driven by H. L. Ander
son. William Gerdes, Valparaiso,
was unable to stop his car quickly
enough to avoid running into An
derson's machine.
Legislative Assistance in Interests
Of Agriculture Necessary Bullock
BY PROF. T. T. BULLOCK.
If our economic order is to be "kept in the balance."' some
sort of legislation in the interest of agriculture is of absolute
necessity. "While too few industrial leaders realize it, there .ire
three reasons why the farming industry requires new and spe
cial aid :
1 Agricultural industries can-O
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not, unaided, adjust themselves as
can most other industries to new
conditions of demand and produc
tion. 2 The farming industries are
few, and new ones are not develop
ing from time to time as in man
ufacturing. 3 Some sort of a prop nhould
be furnished agriculture in order
to balance the two grent props
(the tariff and anti-trust laws)
given other industries.
Sectionalism Important.
Sectionalism is not usually
thought to be in the national inter
est. Today, however, we have one
important instance where it is
and in this very section of the
country. Those who are striving
to bring back our agricultural in
dustries to their pre-war relative
position are. whatever their party
affiliations may be, not mere p ra
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Leaders in Field to Speak
on Guidance at Group
Luncheon.
Members of the Nebraska Vo
cational Guidance association will
convene next Saturday afternoon
at the Grand hotel to hear ad
dresses by men and women recog
nized as authorities in the field
of vocational education. Dr.
Charles Fordyce of the university
is 'president of the organization
and Prof. Claude Minteer, asso
ciate professor of vocational edu
cation, is secretary.
There will be a luncheon at
noon followed by an address on
"Guidance in Making a Vocational
Plan on the Secondary Level" by
Supt. M. S. Kaufman of Hanover,
Kas. At 1:30 p. m. Miss Nell
Goodblood of the national youth
administration will talk on "Ca
reer Conferences and Vocational
Clubs for Youth."
At 2 p. m. there will be a dis
cussion on personnel work by A. A.
Rosborough, personnel manager
rf oni of Lincoln's leading depart
ment stores, followed by a general
discussion openea Dy supu meo
dore Johnson of Murdock, Neb.
"Rooks and Tests AdaDted for
High Schools" will be the subject
of Miss Leona Fauor s address ai
3 p. m.
T
ivincials but true nationalists. See-
tional and national interests in this
case coincide.
The story of what has happened
to our agricultural industries since
the war is known to everyone. Of
all industries they were the most
thoroughly deflated. Unlike pro
duction in other industries, in agri
culture production did not decline
as profits vanished. In 1931 with
prices forty per cent lower than in
1929 production was some eight
per cent greater. Other industries
had cut production over forty per
cent in response to a price decline
of but eighteen per cent. In 1932
agricultural production did drop a
trifle, about four or five per cent,
but prices were now down more
than fifty per cent. "Other" in
dustries cut production to forty
per cent of the 1929 figure thus
preventing prices from going be
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0 MEET SATURDAY
SELLECK.
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FOR LONG FORENSIC
Each Contestant Allowed
8 Minutes to Discuss
Auto Insurance.
Fifteen freshmen will pit their
verbal eloquence against one an
other as they compete for the
Long Forensic Trophy which will
be presented to the best freshman
debater in the annual tourney to
be held in Andrews Hall, Thurs
day evening, Dec. 12. Each of the
contestants will be given eight
minutes to present his arguments
pro or con on the question, "Re
solved: That Nebraska should
compel every owner 6f an auto
mobile to carry insurance cover
ing personal injuries in automo
bile accidents."
The freshmen who have been
chosen to discuss the affirmative
side of the argument are: Donald
Marxsen, North Bend: Paul Bstan
dig, Hyman Polsky, Dean Worces
ter, and Eugene Phillips, all of
Lincoln; Eugene M. Woods, Hen
derson; Don Nemetz, Blair, and
Ernest Tullis, Omaha. The oppos
ing arguments will be presented
by Bertram E. Hall, Nebraska
City; Hubert Paulson, Leo Tukel
and Herbert Clark, all of Lincoln;
Ernest Wintroub and Warren Ack
erman of Omaha and Marvin Sul
livan of Norfolk.
The order of speaking will be
decided on the night of the contest
by drawing lots.
Germanic Students and
Faculty Prepare Party
Students and faculty members
of the German department are at
ivorVr Tirmarins- for the Christmas
party to be held in Morrill hall the
evening of Dec. 17. me noiiua.y
celebration will feature a Christ
mas nlav carticiDated in by the
students and under the direction of
Mathilde Steckelberg, assistant in
structor in Germanic languages.
Candidates Must File
for Degrees by Dec. 13
All students who are can
didates for degrees in Janu
ary or June must file their
applications In the Regis
trar's office, room 9, by Dec
13, 1935, unless they have
done so previously. Office
hours are com 8 a. m. to 5
p. m. every weekday except
Saturday when office hours
are from 8 a. m. to 12 noon.
Candidates for the Junior.
Certificate or the Teachers
Certificate, issued by tie
state superintendent of pub
lic instruction, should fll
their applications also.
FLORENCE I. M'GAHEY,
Registrar.
LAING TO SPEAK
AT CONVOCATION
IN POET'S HONOR
Students to Gather Dec. 19
to Commemorate Birth
of Horace.
CONCLAVE YEAR'S THIRD
Noted Latin Teacher, Writer
Talks on "Horace and the
Culture of Today."
Commemorating the 2,000 an
niversary of the birth of the
Latin poet Horace, the univer
sity will preseat Dr. Gordon J.
Laing, professor of Latin at the
University of Chicago, at the
third convocation at the Temple,
Dec. 19. Dr. Laing will speak on
"Horace and the Culture of To
day." Dr. Laing is general editor of
the Chicago University Press and
is well known as a lecturer and
author of rank. There will be a
dinner in his honor at the Uni
versity club at noon Dec. 19 for
members of the literature depart
ment.
20 Countries Participate.
According to Dr. Clarence A.
Forbes, chairman of the classics
department, twenty countries are
taking part in the celebration
Other features of the anniversary
celebration included the state and
national contests for the best
Horace translations, library dis
plays and various programs held
thruout the country.
The suggestion to celebrate
Horace's bimillenary was first
made by Prof. Roy Flickinger of
the University of Iowa, shortly
after the close of the Virgil cele
bration of 1930. He believes that
the anniversary of Horace lends
itself even more admirable to such
a commemoration.
Birthplace Undisputed.
"In the first place, "Professor
Flickinger writes, "there is no
dispute over the proper spelling of
ms name in English. In the sec
ond place, there is no doubt as
to his birthplace. Thirdly, the
actual walls of the villa on, his
Sabine farm have been identified
and finally, the fact that he lived
in Rome, studied in Athens, fought
at Phihppi, and served in Brutus
army in Asia Minor makes him a
better subject for pilgrimage than
the more or less disputed localities
associated with Virgil."
Professor Flickinger is now
chairman of the Horace bimil
lenary.
To the Romans, who reckon
tiiv.e from the year of the found
ing of Rome. Horace was born in
689 A. U. C. According to the
present calendar, however, his
birth year is 65 B. C. and the
present year is therefore the cor
rect time for his bimillenary.
POLITiCnTllE
CONVENTION CLOSES
Dr. Senning Speaks at Final
Meeting of Nebraska
. Educators.
Political science teachers and
educators of Nebraska closed their
annual conference on political edu
cation with a luncheon Saturday
noon, Dec. 7, at the Cornhusker
hotel. Dr. J. P. Senning, chair
man of the political science de
partment at the university, acted
as presiding chairman for the con
clave.
The purpose of the convention
was to discuss the development of
civic leadership among students
of secondary schools today. Edu
cational conferences of this type
are nation-wide affairs which are
sponsored by the American Politi
cal Science Association in order
that young people may become
better trained to meet the prob
lems of the day.
Speakers who gave discussions
before the assembly included Rail
Grigsby, director of the nationally
known public forum at Des
Moines, la.. Prof G. W. Rutherford
of Iowa State college. Miss Gladys
J. Shamp, state director of the
NY A. James E. Lawrence, editor
of the Lincoln Star and associate
professor of journalism at the uni
versity. Prof. Harold F. Gosnell of
the University of Chicago and
Rowland Haynes, president of the
Omaha Municipal university.
Members of Engineering
Society Meet Wednesday
Members of the Chemical En
gineering Society will meet at 7:30
o'clock Wednesday evening, Dec.
11 in Chem hall to attend a lec
ture by Dr. Van Royen of the
geography department. Following
the address, the society will hold
a short business mceUog.
FARMERS DEFEND AG
SERUM PLANT SALES
County Bureau Supports
College at Annual
Meeting,
Supporting the agricultural col
lege serum plant against recent
criticism directed against sale of
serum by the university, the Lan
caster County Farm Bureau asso
ciation executive committee assur
ed farmers of their stand at their
annual meeting Saturday morning
In the city court house.
At a luncheon in the Grand ho
tel following the committing meet
ing, brief addresses were given by
W. H. Brokaw, director of the ex
tension division; Miss Muriel
Smith, state extension agent; N.
W. Gaines, state extension agent,
C. B. Steward, president of the
West Central Grain Market asso
ciation, and Governor Roy L.
Cochran.
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Lincoln Symphony Assists
in Annual Program
Dec. 15.
The Christmas spirit already
so prevalent will lie fanned to
a brighter flame Sunday after
noon, Dee. L"). at 1hc coliseum,
when Howard Kirkpatrick and
the university choral union present
for the first time Mendelsshon's
"Elijah." Director Kirkpatrick
has chosen to offer this great or
atorio in the place of the tradi
tional "Messiah" by Handel.
Thousands from in and about
Lincoln attended last year's "Mes
siah" program and another great
audience is anticipated next Sun
day at 3 p. m. The choral union
will be assisted by members of
the Lincoln Symphony orchestra,
Wilbur Chenoweth at the Ham
mond electric organ, and by sev
eral church choirs and choral or
ganizations from over the city. In
all there will be 275 voices.
Guest soloists this year include
Frederic Jencks, baritone of the
Chicago Grand Opera company
and one of the outstanding ora
torio and operatic soloists in the
country today, and Mildred Hult,
soprano, also of Chicago, who has
been heard in recitals thruout the
United States. Miss Kathryn
Dean and Parvin Witte, both well
known Lincoln soloists, will take
the contralto and tenor parts.
Jencks will sing the role of Elijah.
The folowing paragraphs are de
voted to highlights of the "Elijah":
During the first half of the
nineteenth century no star shone
with such brilliance on the musical
horizon as Felix Mendelsshon
Bartholdy (1S09-47). Genius, un
ited to a charming personality,
and fostered from birth by all that
favorable circumstance, individual
aptness and the love and devotion
of beloved ones could bestow, of
fers a combination of fortunate
happenings and surroundings
which seldom falls to the lot of
mortals. But "luck" did not spoil
Mendelsshon. He was ever the
true artist never satisfied with
anything but the best.
Aug. 26 "Elijah" was first heard
at the town hall. Birmingham,
Mendalsshon himself conducting.
Richard Hoffman in his book en
titled "Some Musical Recollections
of Fifty Years" (1910) describes
the production of this great ora
toria. He was then fifteen years
of age. At the rehearsals, which
he was permitted to attend, he ob
served closely Mendelsshon, whom
he portrays as "having a small
lithe figure, the head rather large,
face long and oval, eyes prom-
iContinuea on fage &.)
GUEST SOLOISTS
AND
PRESENT
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Service as Citizen and Scientist
Wins Dr. Barbour Kiwanis Medal
Distinguished service as a scientist, teacher, and citizen was
recognized in the record of Dr. Knvin H. Barbour, head of the
department of geology and director of the ''".vemty "J"',
who was presented the Kiwanis club medal lor at a lunch-
con in his honor at the chamber
r.nv. and Mrs. R. U uocnran.y
Frank Edgecomb of Geneva, and
A. r.. ouciuuii, r -- -
recipients of the medal, attended
with more than 200 other guests.
The presentation address was
given by Lloyd J. Marti, retiring
president of the club.
Praises Morrill.
In accepting the honor. Dr. Bar
bo jr expressed his great appreci
ation and declared it was one of
the happiest moments of his en
tire life. He closed with an eulogy
to his friend, the late Charles
Morrill, who lives today, he as
serted, thru his work in paleon
tology. Speakers besides President
Marti and Dr. Barbour were H. H.
Wilson, who spoke on Dr. Bar
bour's career as a teacher and
scientist, and M. C. Lefler. super
intendent of schools, who char
acterized him as a citizen. Rev.
Leslie R. Smith, pastor ot the
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MORTAR
BOARD
SOCIETY SELECTS
Fl
Annual Leap Year Dance Has
Nationally Famous
Orchestra.
DATE IS FRIDAY, DEC. 13
Director Arrives Here From
Louisville, Ky., Hotel .
Engagement.
Carleton Coon, Jr., featured
RKO entertainer and nationally
known orchestra leader, with,
his fourteen-pieee band has
been selected to furnish the mu
sic for the 1935 Mortar Board
party scheduled for Friday eve
ning, Dec. 13, at the coliseum.
As the son of the famed Carle
ton Coon of Coon-Sanders Night
hawk orchestra, Carleton Coon,
jr., has carried on the traditions
of his family as a band leader
supreme. When he arrives at Ne
braska he will come from engage
ments at such well known places
as the Kentucky hotel in Louis
ville, Ky., the Trianon ballroom in
Cleveland, and the Grcystone at
Cincinnati.
Tickets On Sale.
Sale of tickets for the coming
party was inaugurated last week
by members of Tassels, and tickets
may be secured trom any mem
ber of this group or irom morxar
Board members.
"Girls are urged to purchase
their tickets early and to plan on
ottonHine' this event in order that
the leap year party may be made
one of the most successful of its
kind ever staged, commented
Alaire Barkes, presiacni 01 mo
Mortar Board.
Committees Announced.
Pnmmittees which hnvc been
named to take charge of the ar
rangements for the event are:
Orchestra, Virginia Selleck, chair
man Alaire Rarkes and Faitil
Arnold; tickets, Phyllis Jean Hum
phrey and Gladys Kiopp: cnap
erones, Lois Rathburn and Eliza
beth Shearer; publicity, Elizabeth
Bushce and Mary Edith Hen
dricks; general arrangement,
Elizabeth Moomaw, chairman, Lor
raine Hitchcock and Anne Pickett.
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Schedule Play Opens Tues
day; Horney Asks Quints
Be on Time.
Seventeen barb basketball clubs
will swing into action this week
on the first lap of the extensive
maples race devised by the intra
mural department. Competition
among the three four-team and
one five-team league will open
Tuesday evening, vUth the sched
ules arranged to complete the first
tournament before the Christmas
holidays.
Bill Horney, assistant intramu
ral director, in an open letter to
the club athletic representative,
counselled the teams to "be sure
to be on the scheduled time to
play your games. We have ar
ranged the time of play in such a
manner that each team should be
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of commerce ruu.ij.
Tabernacle Christian church, gave
the invocation, and Prof. August
Molzer presented a group of violin
solos accompanied by Victor Mol
rcr. Pershings Congratulated.
Letters and telegrams of con
gratulation from Gen. John J.
Pershing. Miss Mae Pershing, Am
herst college. Harry a Lewis, sec
retary of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Sci
ence; Mr. and Mrs. C Bertram
Schultx, John Zimmer Edwin Col
bert and Morris Skinner, former
students and associates of Dr. Bar-
bour now at the American museum
of natural history in New York
City; Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Abbor,
Nebraska City; W. B. Scott.
Princeton. N. J.; Ralph W. Chaney
of Berkeley. Calif.: Lawrence V.
Coleman, Washington, D. C di
rector of the American Associa
tion of Museums: Walter Granger,
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MUSIC
R PARTY
BARB CAGE TEAMS
NG INTO ACTION IN