he Daily Nebraskan Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska Abound and About By Sarah Louise Meyer, VOL. XXXV NO. 91. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1936. PRICE 5 CENTS. We have found another reader that is, somebody who confesses to dallying among our garbled nothings. This one Is John Bent ley, conductor of an "I May Be Wrong" effort appearing daily in the Lincoln Journal. He confesses his indulgence in a little arounding and abouting by telling us, through his column, that we mis spelled Alexander Woollcott's last name. He suggests that wc shall be forced by that venerable racon teur to go sans any place to snug gle if we persist in such error. We presume that some underling in the department is responsible for the omission of one of the l's. We have spoken to the underling, and slapped said tyro soundly on both wrists several times. In passing may we suggest that Mr. Bentley take in hand his column of last week the one in which he pointed out our error and compare his spelling of "permitted" with Noah Web ster's. It's just a suggestion, sir, but we seem to remember that Webster uses two t's in it. Overheard as Ethel Barrymore Colt, direct from Aberdeen, S. D., played "Accent On Youth" for the local yokelry: (two Women's club president types) "And you wore white gloves to this!" And here's your poetry for to day, Junior: Life is Love, the poets tell us In the little books they sell us; But pray, ma'am, what's of Life the use, If Life be Love? For Love's the Deuce! Ever since we wandered into the Drug one Saturday morning in the cold gray dawn when the potato chips were being delivered, we have been in search of "the lone liest thing." We have considered the Sosh clock during vacation, the Cornhusker after a ball. Home coming decorations in a rain storm, the stadium post-Pitt, Tem ple dressing rooms after a week's run, the Awgwan office under the new deal, any sorority house on any week end. Or there are faded corsages, cigarette stubs after the bull session, a stack of player piano rolls after the foot power has headed home, blown out can dles on a birthday cake, coffee dregs in tete-a-tete cups, rumpled hair after goodnights. t But these things are not real ly lonely; loneliness vanishes in proportion to the happiness that once was. And so we say the most forlorn of all things un lovely, unwanted, unclaimed, without even a past Is a cold piece of toast. And now your Dolly Dialogue for today. Bertram: "You oughtn't to yield to temp tation." "Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd." Of all the things without which we would be infinitely happier in j these days of travail and ffreat ' care, radio's ubiauitnua Man rn the Street leads the parade by a ! is scheduled to speak on the sub good blucK and a half. This gent j jeet of "The College Girl Her meats into the outstretched ears of loutish passersby some question like "Why is a duck?" or "Do you like spinach, and what do you think of Popeye?" or "Is your mother -in-law mean to you?" The other day we heard one of these fungi on the great tree of our wonderful American civ ilization asking "What do you think is the best way for a girl to bring herself to some man's attention?" At least, it was something like that. The hay barber who had been able to jostle- himself closer to the mi crophone than the other hav barbers, giggled, probably blush ed, and blurted, "Food." The Man. not daunted, rejoined. "Well, what would you do if (Continued on Page 2). Carl Laemmle Will Select Six as Campus Queens From Pictures. Twenty-nine pictures of Uni versity of Nebraska beauty queen candidates have rcently been sub mitted to Carl Laemmle, jr., pro duction manager of Universal studios, who will select six as campus queens. Winners will not be announced until the latter part of May when the 1936 Cornhusker, disclosing the identity of the six victors, will be distributed. The photographs wb'.;ii nave been sent are full length pictures of the con testants in formal attire. Sororities and organized groups have each selected their own can didates who are: Frances Lincoln and Ruth Mary Jennings, Alpha Chi Omega; Marcia Jackson and Helen Humphrey, Alpha Omlcron Pi; Charlene Omen and Carolyn Skans, Alpha Phi; Earbara Rose water, Alpha XI Delta; Betty Widener and Rosalie Mot, Chi Neely, Delta Delta Delta; Elizabeth Broady and Katherina Fitzsimmons, Delta Gamma; Katherine Rommel, Gam ma Phi Beta; Virginia Anderson and Janice Daugherty, Kappa Al pha Theta;Lorraine Johnson, Kap pa Detta; Barbara Da me wood and Mary Jane Helnsheimer, Kappa Kappa Gamma: Esther Vande burg. Phi Mu; Janet Caldwell and Helen Hewit, Pi Beta Phi: Flor ence Smcerin. Sigma Delta Tau: Jane Holland, Gretchen Wells. Meaner Lewis, and Eva Mae Thomas. Barbs: a'ld Olive Eby. Thyia Moore, nn.l Adii-nne Grif fith, Caine Belle Raymond halL CORNHUSKER SUBMITS BEAUTY QUEEN PHOTOS CLINE REFUSES TO SEEK RE-ELECTION Pressing Business Interests Will Occupy Full Time of Regents Head. Karl M. Cline, Lincoln, president of the board of regents, last night announced he would not run for re-election in the coming cam paign. Due to the fact that he from The Lincoln Journal. has served the board for twelve years, and that pressing business interests will occupy his full time he has expressed the desire that someone else be elected to the po sition. Mr. Cline has been a prominent Lincoln attorney for many years and a member of the board of re (Continued on Page 2). MISS PERIS MS IdY ON PROBLEMS OF City Y.W.C.A. Secretary to Discuss Best Use of Leisure Time. Miss Bash Perkins, Girl Reserve secretary of the city Y. W. C. A., Day" at the regular Y. W. C. A. vesper service to be held this aft ernoon at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith halL Including in her talk a discus sion of many of the problems which a college girl must meet to day. Miss Perkins plans to give a sketch of the manner in which the average college girl may use her time to the best advantage, at the same time giving a short dis- J russion cf the use of leisure time. As an additional pait of her j speech. Miss Perkins will suggest j ways of aiding a girl to get into i the work which best Euits her and will explain how to avoid getting into the wrong position. Special Music. Devotionals. in charge of Kath ryn Winquist, member of the Y. W. cabinet who heads the per sonnel staff, will precede Miss Perkins' discussion. Special music, in change of Elizabeth Neely, will serve as a prelude to the devo tionals and main discussion of the meeting. Urging that as many girls as possible take advantage of the opportunity to hear Miss Perkins. Frances Scudder, chairman of the vesper staff commented. "Since every girl should be interested in the subject of how to use one's time to the best advantage, as well as to properly choose one's career, it would be of consider able value to hear Miss Perkins speak as a competent authority on this subject." AS REGENTS HEAD I f Law College Trials Strictly Founded on Fact This Season Mock Suits Barred From School Activities This Year. The Daily Nebraskan is safe from law college practices. Fear that a mock libel suit would be brought against the student pub lication was dispelled yesterday afternoon when Prof. L. D. Coff man, of the law college, disclosed the information that all trials this year will be strictly fact and no fancy. Concern was felt last year when mock libel charges were brought against the Daily Nebraskan, but the defendants suffered only the payment of one cent damages apiece. This was later suspended. Great commotion was caused at 1 the same lime when an attempt ! was ma'ie bv the budding lawyers , 'to put real atmosphere in their j work. An attempted murder in a i classroom brought doctors from 1 POSTPONE CHARM SCHOOL MEETING UNTIL MARCH 3 Style Show Invitation Is Extended Freshmen by Hovland, Swanson. Charm school, freshman hobby group, originally scheduled to meet this Tuesday night, has been postponed until Tuesday, March 3, Jean Doty, Coed Counsellor in charge, announced. Postponement of the meeting was made when Hovland and Swanson, one of the local fashion centers, invited the members of the group to attend a style show at the store March 3. All freshman women have been invited to attend the style show, which will begin promptly at 6:45. Eight models, chosen from among the freshman girls at the univer sity, will display the latest styles in spring formals, suits, and cam pus clothes. MILITARISM IS TOPIC T Douglas, Weatherly Speak on Peace, Preparedness Problem. Due to popular request of the student body, student council will sponsor the second forum of the year, this time on "Does the Road to Security and Peace Lie in Pres ent preparedness and Military Training." The forum is sched uled for Thursday at 11, Feb. 27. in the Temple building, according to Bill Marsh, chairman of the committee in charge. Principal speakers will be Col. R. G. Douglas, upholding the af firmative side of the debate, and Rev. Arthur L. Weatherly, of the All-Souls church. Lincoln, who will argue against militarism and pre paredness. Irving Hill will open the discus sion with a short explanation of the purpose of university forums, introduced by Bill Marsh, who will preside. Following the two twelve minute talks by the main speak ers, the floor will be open to stu dents, who will be allowed not only to voice their own opinions, but ask questions of the speakers. "Since nvlitarism has always been a topic of heated discussions on this campus, we feel sure the talks will be welcomed with con siderable enthusiasm," stated Marsh. "We are asking the co operation of every interested stu dent, in order that this forum may prove as successful as the initial one held last semester,'' he con cluded. Y. I All Girls Invited to Learn of Favorite Hobbies at Meetings. Y. W. C. A. interest groups em bodying many of the favorite hob bies of university women, sued as books and poetry, knitting, and even running around the town, will nod their first meetings in Ellen Smith hall this week. The groups are open to all girls whether they are raembers of the Y: W, or not. and anyone wishing to participate in the activities of one of the groups is asked to attend the first meeting at the scheduled time this week. The knitting group, under the direction of Louise Magee, will meet at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Instruction in knitting, as w-ell as practice, will be a feature of the group. Margaret Hendricks, head ing the group on the reinterpreta tion of religion, will hold the first meeting at 4 o'clock Tuesday. A group on the subject "Know Lincoln" will be directed by Jane Holland every Friday at 3 o'clock. Members of this group will be given a chance to visit places of interest in the city, as well a to learn interesting facts about the town. The books and poetry group, led by Regina Hunkins, will meet Tuesday at 11 o'clock. the Pharmacy college, reporters from the evening papers, and po lice and cruiser cars from all over the city. Hoax Discovered. After the hoax was dtYverert the reporters went back to their offices, the doctor had to content himself with reviving the woman law student who bad fainted dead away with the first shot and the perturbed police were sent a box of cigars and the apologies of the college. But those days are gone. Tne prosecuting attorney will have to do without the bloody corpse, the fingerprinted gun, and the "wom an in the case." The defense can no longer point to the fact that the defendant is a father of twelve and the sole support of his family. All cases for this semesters trials will be taken from the hook, part- ly to avoid complicated situations with lecal authorities, and partly1 because they can't think of any-! thing new. ARMAND HUNTER LEADING ROLE OF COMING PLAY Title of Players' Offering Will Be Announced This Week. Boasting a play that has ex cited the praise of' the mast severe Broadway critics, a cast that reads like an all star selection of uni versity players and settings that portray native western life, the University Players round into their final week of rehearsal for their next production, to open Monday evening. March 2, antici pating one of the biggest hits of the season. Although the name of the play is to be withheld until a later date. "Players patrons may look forward to something entire ly new and different from the usual Temple presentations." Miss H. Alice Howell, head of the dra matic department, stated. Armand Hunter, whose merits as a stage artist have well been proven beyond the slightest doubt, will assume the leading male role in the approaching production, as he takes the part of Alan Squier. Hunter, who at present is business manager of the University Play ers, 'has starred as Marc Antony in "Julius Caesar," as the deep villain in "The Dark Tower," and as the chief male in "Her Mas ter's Voice" in previous years but has been seen much too little thus far this season. Others among the leading males include: Lee Young, who will be remembered for his work in the "Road to Rome"; J. R. Lillard, previously seen as "Porgy": Rich ard Rider, whose brilliant work already this season has attracted a large following; Alan Gatewood, a relatively new find who prom ises to be one of the brighter spots of the production, and Delford (Continued on Page 2). T L T( Klub Selects Cast Eleven Leading Characters, Two Choruses. Tryouts to pick a cast of eleven principal characters, one pony chorus, a male chorus, and a mis cellaneous group for the Kosmet Klub spring show will begin to night on the second floor of the Temple, at 7:30 o'clock. The try outs will continue for three nights. All male students who are eli gible according to regular ath letic regulations may try out ac cording to Bob Pierce, president Each fraternity and other male organizations on the campus are urged to send candidates, especi ally those with members of musi cal or actin gtalents. A list of characters follows: Louise: The soubrette. Carolyn: The heroine. Matilda Thorndike: A rich aunt Tonia: Negro maid. Chloe: A Negro mammy. Larry: The hero. Colonel Wintergreen: Southern gentleman. Jeppy: Negro stable manager.' Amos B. Kirby: Smaii-time gambler. The sheriff and his deputy. One pony chorus, one male chorus, and one group of northern guests. Those who are contributing music to the show are not re quired to appear at the tryouU. A Kosmet Klub meeting will tie held this afternoon at 5 o'clock, when further plans will be made and committee chairmen will out line their work. Workers are to be assigned to committees later in the week. PROF. E. A. GRONE SPEAKS TO ENGINEERS TONIGHT Agricultural Organization to Hear Discussion of Photography. Prof. E. A. Grone, assistant pro fessor of engineering mechanics, will address the Agricultural En gineers organization at their reg ular meeting Tuesday evening, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p. m. The meet ing will be held in room 206, Ag ricultural Engineering building. Topic for discussion will deal with the relation of photography to engineering. All members are urged to attend as a topic of this nature is rarely discussed. FRESCII LUSCUEOS DATE IS ADVANCED Miss Townsend Changes Session to Wednesday In Grand Hotel. French luncheon session will meet Wednesday noon, at the Grand hotel instead of Thursday. The day of the affair has been changed to allow more students to attend. Miss Katherine Town send, tnstrui-tor in the French de partment, is in charge of the luncheon. Tickets are 25c and are to be purchased in the dining room of the hotel. W, G. BRENKE SPEAKS AT PI MU EPSILON MEETING Mathematics Chairman Tells Of National Convention In St. Louis. Pi Mu Epsllon, honorary mathe matics fraternity, will hold its rcgualr monthly meeting on Tues day evening, Feb. 25, at 7:30 in room 308 of Mechanical Arts building. Dr. W. C. Brenke, chairman of the mathematics department, will tell of his experiences at the na tional meeting of Pi Mu Epsilon in St. Louis during the past holi days. William Leavitt will give a demonstration on the manipula tion and use of the slide rule. Everyone present will be given a cardboard slide rule in order to follow and understand the discu. sion. All members and associates are urged to be present. COED FOLLIES SKIT E Contesting Groups to Try This Week for Places On Program. Selection of skits to appear in the Coed Follies, March 27, will be made following the examination of contesting acts by the A. W. S. board judging committee this week. Judgings of the acts sub mitted by eighteen women's or ganizations begin Tuesday at 5 o'clock, when the Alpha Phi's will present their act before the A. W. S. critics. Alpha Omicron Pi is slated to appear at 5:30 Tuesday; Carrie Belle Raymond at 7 o'clock; Pi Beta Phi, 7:30; Delta Gamma, 8; Alpha Delta Theta, 8.30, and Kap pa Alpha Theta, 9 o'clock. Wednesday the committee will judge the following skits: Phi Mu, 5 o'clock: Sigma Delta Tau, 5:30; Alpha Chi Omega, 7; Delta Zeta, 7:30; Chi Omega, 8; Delta Delta Delta, 8:30, and Kappa Kappa Gamma, 9 o'clock. Alpha Xi Delta will be first on Thursday's program, at 7 o'clock; Barb A. W. S. league at 7:30; Howard and Wilson halls at 8, and Sigma Alpha Iota at 8:30. Acts which will compose the program of the annual Coed Fol lies revue will be selected from among the eighteen groups judged this week, and work on the final production will begin immediately after the winning skits are an nounced. Jean Walt, in charge of the arrangements, asked that groups confer with her if the times for their judgings are in correct. The committee which will do the judging is composed of Mary Edith Hendricks, Lois Rathburn, (Continued on Page 4). PROP. WHITE CANCELS T Insufficient Number File for Trials; Vermilion Next Husker Opponent. Debate trial scheduled for to night have been cam elled, actual ing to Prof. H. A. White, debate coach, because a sufficient number of persons did not indicate their intention to tryout. A trial may be held later if more students desire to tryout for the team. There are two teams now discussing the subject of the supreme ccurt and congress. Feb. 28. the Nebraska debaters will engage teams from the Uni versity of South Dakota at Ver million, S. D., on the subject of "Resolved that the agricultural program based on the AAA is de serving of public support." An other debate with the University of South Dakota team will be held in Onowa. Ia., Feb. 29. March 6 and 7 the Nebraska debaters will participate in the tournament at Iowa City, in which nine other schools will be represented. Reporter, Caught in Blazing Apartment, Gets His Story Lewis Cass Gives First Hand Account of Disastrous Blackstone Fire. BY LEWIS CASS. The Blackstone apartment fire that occurred early Sunday morn ing costing the life of one woman and Injuring eight others was one Daily Nebraskan reportorial as signment on which I did not stop to take notes. I had to get from the third floor to the ground out side before I could start thinking what a good story the blaze was going to make for the papers. A muffled report, much like a firecracker exploding under a large wooden box, shook the build ing. Glass crashed. Heavy smoke belched under the door filling the apartment. omen screamed hys 1 trirnllv A man vnlltH rAnpalklli' from Am.-uhere in the Wrr hart ! ,.t .h- K..ii,ii t-;- ,..k,.,. 1 lout. Fire, everybody out." HUSKERS CONNECT IN SECOND HALF TO ROMP ON SOONERS MIXER SERIES FRIDAY Organizations Sponsor First All-Student Party in Memorial Hall. Opening the series of mixers scheduled for the second scmes trc, an all-student barb mixer will be held next Friday evening, Feb. 28, in Grant Memorial hall, under the sponsorship of the Barb Inter club council and the A. W. S. Barb council. The party will be open to all, according to announcement made by Victor Schwai ting, chair man in charge of general arrange ments, and will inaugurate the se ries of better barb parties which are being planned for the second semester. Bob Storie and his orchestra, one of Lincoln's best known bands, has been obtained to furnish music for dancing on Friday evening. "Promisig to be one of the best parties of the year, since more effort and more time has been spent in preparation than for any previous mixer, the committee in charge is hoping that a large num ber of the students on the campus will attend the party," stated Dor othy Beers, president of the A. W. S. barb league. Students planning to attend the mixer may obtain tickets at 20c for women and 25c for men. In charge of advertising for the affair are: Robert Beasley, chair man; Paul Raider, Dorothea Wing er and Bill Newcomber. E FRESHMEN OF '36 Required Examinations Include Psychological Test This Year. to Regents of the university have provided 250 scholarships tor freshmen entering the university in the fall of 193G. Scholarships will be available for all colleges. These are to be awarded on the basis of examinations in five aca demic subjects, English, Mathe matics. Foreign Languages, Nat ural Sciences and Social Sciences, the combination depending on the college the student expects to enter and on the student's rating in a Dsvchological test to be given at the same time. This is the first year a psychological test has been required. To date approximately 600 stu dents have availed themselves cf the privileges offered by regents' scholarships. This will be the fifth year that awards have been made to the graduates of Nebraska high schools. Students Eligible. Each fully aCU edited m boo! anu each minor accredited school as listed in the official report of June 5, 1935 may enter any students in the upper fourth of the graduating class who will have completed on graduation twelve units, including at least eight of the nine academic units necessary for full admission to the college they expect to enter. Announcements of awards will be made in time for use at the graduation exercises in the home high school. At this time the stu dent will receive a scholarship. These scholarships must be form ally accepted by the student before Sept. 1, or the award will be given to the next ranking candidate, re gardless of school. This wil make the third succes sive year that 250 scholarships have been offered. Two years previous to that the number was 150. An attempt to get out of the building by the front stairs was useless; hot gaseous smoke struck you in the face. Vision was im possible. I returned to tr ; apart ment and hurried down a back stairway. This brought me to the ground and past the open door of the caretakers apartment. It was Mr. Gropp, the caretaker, who ex tinguished the flaming clothes of two women who had rushed through the flames into his apart ment. An elderly woman lay on the bed clad in nightclothes, an ugly searing burn on her leg. A man was excitedly yelling into a telephone. Another woman with a frantic expression was crying. "What will we do; what will we do." The caretaker stated the next morning that when the second woman rushed into his apartment her hair was a mass of flames. Hysterically she put her hands to her head, turninc them. She was (Continued on Page 3) Wahlquist and Parsons Lead Brownemen in 55-28 Walkaway Win. Nebraska blasted her 50 point jinx and mired herself permanent ly in at least second place con ference mud by walloping the Oklahoma Sooners 55-28 Monday night on the Husker rectangle. Giving an impression baseball score with only a 15-12 lead in the first half, the Brownemen be gan dropping in points consist ently in the second canto with much rapidity and from no par ticular angle on the court. George Wahlquist and Bob Parsons netted 30 points between them. The beginning of the game, which the Huskers needed in order to retain their second place stand, took on the appearance of a low scoring melee, but the second half chapter contained a different plot Within eight minutes of the sec ond period playing time the home boys had doubled their score while the Sooners had sacked only one goal from the field. While the Huskers were inspired by the seemingly magic potion, the McDcrmott lads took a turn in the opposite direction with only center Nelson upholding Okla homa's offensive standards in the second half. This was the first occasion on which Nebraska has enjoyed a score over the half cen tury mark, altho on three otner dates she has stubbed her toe with only one bucket to go. Amen, a substitute, was responsible for the fiftieth counter with a neat setup. The 16 markers scored by Wahlquist gives him a safe lead in the Big Six scoring annals so far as points go, but in percentage Ebling of Kansas is still tops. One Sided Results. Though most commentators were pointing to Nebraska all last week over the Sooner clan, none expected such one sided results, just as the Oklahomans probably did not expect such a mastered quick break. Parsons opened the scoring within two minutes of action, but Livingston was not long in bring ing the local fans to the realiza tion that the Sooners were out for Husker sca'ps as he laid" in a one hander. Wahlquist retaliated, but Nelson, the high pointer for the in vaders, gave his mates a one point lead that rode on the books for several minutes. Whitakcr tied the score at 4-4 just before Wahl quist went scoring crazy to pot eleven points to the Sooners col laberated efforts of eight. Just before the half-time shot rang out Nebraska gave a spectacular ex hibit of floor work but missed seven straight setups under the basket. Close Margin. Following the intermission, Liv ingston whittled another piece off the margin separating the two teams and bringing the statistics to a 15-14 stand. At this point the crowd lulled back into listless whispering and it was not until Parsons let a long fly from the near center region that was dead that they renewed their interest in the fray before them. Wahlquist came thru with a similar uncon scious jump turn attempt that wrought lorth enthusiasm in beil ers. While Oklahoma was still content with the lone basket by Livingston, yhn-i(rbt WhttHlor jru Parsons dumped in points continu ally until the board rear C3-14. After twelve micutes of play Martin, a Sooner guard, gave impetus to a MecDermotUmn rally. Livingston cashing in a mo ment later only to have his effort thwarted by Parsons with three straight and beautiful field tallies. In the second half. Parsons didn't have to account for the ones that got away, for he made god on ap- (Continucd on Page 4). RALLY DANCE SET FOR Committee Finds Diffculty In Securing Orchestra Through Union. Difficulties in securing a dance orchestra through the union and administration opposition will pre vent the carrying out of plans for a dance in connection with the rally for the Kansas game Thurs day evening, according to Fred Chambers, president of the rally committee. The rally dance on the evening preceding the Kansas-Nebraska game was to be a new feature this year, but announcement was made that the regular rally will be held at 7:30 in the coliseum as previ ously announced. "This gome is one which re quired the spirit of the entire cam pus," said Ted Bradley, Corn Cob president, who asked that a large percentage of the student body turn out to show their loyalty to the university. The Student Rally committee will handle all arrangements for the affair. If an orchestra can be procured the committee feels it can secure sufficient administra tion backing to have a 10:30 night set and stage the dance, accord ing to Arnold Levin, committee Uicmber.