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he Daily nebraskan Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXV NO. nr. LINCOLN, NEMIASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1936 PKICE 5 CENTS. MBSSAMUE LSON TALKS FRIDAY ON Teachers College Students Dismissed to Attend Convocation. A special Teachers college con vocation will be held in the Tem ple, Friday, when Miss Agnes Samnelson, state superintendent of schools of Iowa and nationally and Internationally known expert in rural and elementary education, will speak. AU classes in Teachers' College will be excused at 11 o'clock, the time of the convocation. The sub ject of the speech will be "Educa tional Problems In a Rural State." Miss Samnelson was an out standing speaker at the recent convention of state superintendents held In St. Louis. She was born in Shenandoah, Iowa, which is her home now, and was graduated from the State University of Iowa. Phi Beta Kappa Member. While in school the speaker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Lambda Theta and Kappa Delta sorority. At present she is a mem ber of the national council of state superintendents, serving as presi dent of the rural department. Frank E. Henzlik, dean of Teach ers' College, will introduce Miss Samnelson at the meeting. Ar rangements for the talk were made by Prof. Clara Wilson, chairman of the department of elementary English. On Saturday Miss Sam uelson is to address a convention of school superintendents. E 10 I Frankforter Will Illustrate Lecture With Sugar Demonstration. Substitution of speakers is an nounced for tonight's program of Chemical Engineer's Society at 7:30 in room J 02 of Cemistry building. C. J. Frankforter, speak ing of "Filtration," will substitute for H .T. Walter, of Johns-Mann- ville Corporation. Frankforter will discuss the filtration of various I materials, with particular atten- . tion to certain rc-agents, called ; "filter aids," which enable quicker j filtration. i The lecture will be illustrated by a demonstration of the filtra tion of sugar. Employing a filter aid called "Hyflo Supcr-Cel." the demonstration will show how fil tration is speeded up when the reagent is used. The filter aid for the demonstration is furnished by the Johns Mannville corpora tion. According to Frankforter, Hyflo Supcr-Cel is practically 10 percent Silica, making it safe for use in the filtration of food. It is used for the filtration of fruit juices and collodial material. Added features of the lecture are methods of filtering water and of filtering wax from lubricating oil. WORK OF FAMED AKT1STS IIEKE Works of Carlson, Lever In Collection. Two of the prize-winning artists In the National Academy of De sign's annual exhibition which just opened in New York, are repre sented by paintings in the perman ent collection of the Nebraska Art association. They are John F. Carl son, awarded the Altman prize of $700. and Hayley Lever, awarded the Palmer prize of $,"500. Two other artists winning prizes In the National Academy show are represented by paintings in the Nebraska Art association's 40th annual exhibition now on view at Morrill hafl, namely, Guy Fene du Bois and Maurice Sterne. Art News of last week also fea tures the one-man shows of Doris Lee. Llolly Luce, and Stephen Et nler, examples of whose paintings . are to be seen at Morrill hall un til the close of the exhibition March 30. RURAL EDUCATION Sophs, Freshmen Diminish Effectiveness of University Kohcrl 1 lutclii us Declare Higher learning llrgins Only After Second Vear in College; Students at First Confused. By Ed Murray. "The university is no place for freshmen ami sophomores and they more than anyone else are diminishing the effective ness of that institution in America," declared Chicago univer sity 's president in Lincoln last night. In the interest of the underclassmen on our campus the Daily Nebraskan reporter followed the congenial Robert M.O Hutchins to his room in the Corn busker to find out the reason. After offering his cigarettes and Bottling comfortably in an easy reported marveled at the short chair to enjoy his own. this coun-1 cropped hair cut and affable man try's youngest educational leader nor of one so high in educational said. "Well, as you know, i nave , a few theories on education." Re- Iowa Stole School Head to Speak Here From The Lincoln Journal. Miss Agnes Samnelson who will address a special Teachers college convocation Friday in the Temple building at 11 o'clock. GET STARTED WITH ELECTION THURSDAY Junior, Senior Women Vote for May Queen This Week. to Inauguration of plan.- for Ivy day activities take place Thurs day, March 23, with the election of May Queen and Mortar Board candidates, by all junior and sen ior women enrolled in the univer sity. Voter may be cast in the Home Ec building on the ag cam pus and in Ellen Smith hall from 9 to 5 o'clock on that clay. Accord ing to the usual ruling only junior and senior women will vote for May Queen, while only the senior women may nominate from 5 to 20 Mortar Board candidiates. Identity of both the May Queen and new Mortar Board members, selected by the active chapter from the list of nominees, will be disclosed on Ivy day, which is sponsored annually by Mortar Board. The girl receiving the sec ond highest number of votes in the May Queen election will act as maid of honor to the Queen on that day. Two women or each class chosen by Mortar Board will serve as the other attendants of the Queen. In order to be eligible for May Queen candidacy, a girl must have had credited to her a "B" activ ity, as listed under the old point system, must be in the group of seniors to be graduated either in Jiine or at the close of summer school, and must have a minimum of 80, with no delinquencies. To date 2 girls make up the list of candidates for whom votes may be cast on Thursday. INTERGOLLEGE MEET Telegraphic Swim Contest Planned for Saturday At 1:30. Members of Tanksteiettes, wom en's swimming organization, will compete in the national intercol legiate telegraphic swimming meet on Saturday, March 28, at 1:30 in the university pool. Those entering in the forty-yard free style are Cora Fox, Sara Casebeer, Eleanor Oldl'ather, Fran ces Steele, Vera Wilson, Dorothea Winger, Adrienne Griffith, Addis Cole and Chelys Mattley, Entrants in the forty yard back stroke are Adrienne Griffith, Fran ces Steele and Vera Wilson. En trants in the forty breast stroke are Martha Jackson and Beth Phillips. Entered in the one hun dred yard back stroke are Adri enne Griffith and Frances Steele. In the seventy-five yard relay Cora Fox will take part for 2.r yards free style; Martha Jackson the breast stroke for 25 yards; and Adrienne Griffith 25 yards back stroke The time of the high placing swimmers in each event will be telegraphed to thu national spon sor, where all the results will be tabulated and the national, region al, major and minor swimming meet results will be returned with in a few days. membering the new Chicago plan which was initiated under Hutch ins" direction five years ago. the (Continued on Page 2). KNODE TO SPEAK E L3-4 Nebraska Universities Hold Annual Meeting In Lincoln. Announcement was made Tues day of the annual conference of Nebraska universities d colleges and the regional m of the American Associatii Univer sity Professors wh! -i ! ic held here April 3 and 4 respectively. The third convention of the state schools of higher learning will be held Friday afternoon, April 3 in Morrill hail of tho University of Nebraska with Dr. S. M. Corey of teachers college presiding;. The evening dinner will be held at the University club with Chancellor Burnett in the role of toastmaster. Dr. J. C. Knodc of New Mexico general college and Dean T. J. Thompson of Nebraska will speak. Outstanding Educator. Dr. Knodc, an outstanding edu cator, will also address the after noon audience on "Modern College Personnel Practices" and repre sentatives from Dana, Kearney, Scottsbluff, Omaha and Hastings colleges will participate in a dis cussion of this subject. Dr. A. A. Reed, director of the university extension division will also speak. Dean F. E. Henzlik, teachers col lege; Prof. R. P. Crawford, of the public relations department, and Dean C. H. Oldfrfther of the arts and sciences college, are the com mittee in charge. Carlson to Speak. Principal speaker at the regional meeting of the university profes sors, according to Dr. D. A Wor cester of teachers college faculty, who is the regional representative of the association, is Prof. A. J. Carlson of Chicago university, now president of the national organi zation. Dr. J. C. Hertzler is lo cal president. Delegates will be guests at the Friday evening din ner of the Nebraska universities and colleges and are also invited to attend all the programs of the latter group. Saturday morning sessions will bo held in Social Sciences 101, other speakers in cluding Prof. Guy Dolson of Wes leyan and Prof. E. S. Allen of Iowa State. A luncheon will fol low at the University club. j Lincoln Pastor Discusses ! Subject of 'Faith' j At Vespers. 1 Speaking on the subject of "Faith" in connection with the I Lenten observance, Dr. R. A. Mc ! Connell, pastor of the First Ply mouth Congregational church of From Th Lincoln Journal. DR. R. A. M'CONN ELL. Lincoln, gave the third of the se ries of pre-Easter addresses sched uled by the Y. W. at the regular vesper services held yesterday aft ernoon at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith hull. Explaining that the spirit of Lent should be a quest after higher things, .Dr. MeConnell suggested that the gaining of an education was comparable to what the true spirit of Lent should be. 'Education is not an accumulation of infor mation alone." the speaker pointed out, "but rather it is the projecting up of those capacities which we have to those of which we are not quite certain." Spirit of Joy. In discussing the spirit which should prevail thruout the Lenten season, Dr. MeConnell explained that in early times emphasis was placed on the sombre side of Lent, but that today the spirit has right fully been changed to one of vic tory and joy. The pastor gave a short sum mary of the history of the observ ance of Lent in concluding his ad dress. He pointed out that the word Lent had originated from the word meaning spring season, and there fore a time of joy. Jane Keefer, president of the university Y. W., led the devotions which produced the address. The theme which she chose was in keeping with the Lenten discus sion. Jane Hopkins, pianist of the ves per choir, and the vesper choir under the direction of Margaret Phillippe offered special music for the service. AT CONFER E PRI ' I I if V s 4 s i VARSITY DEBATERS TO MEET WITH FLORIDA U Teams Argue Supreme Court Power to Declare Laws Unconstitutional, Nebraska varsity debaters will compote with the University of Florida debating team in a meet on the campus Monday evening to argue the subject, "Resolved: That congress, by two-thirds majority, should be allowed to override de cisions of the supreme court which declare laws unconstitutional." The negative team, composed of Irving Zveitcl and Carl Matschul lat, will oppose the Florida de baters. The debate will be held on the campus, probably in Social Sci ence, Prof. H. A. White, varsity debate coach stated. All students are invited to attend and there is no admission charge. ENGINEERS CONCLAVE Jensen, Heiser to Present Technical Papers in Contest. Students from eight Missouri Valley colleges, including the Uni versity of Nebraska, will hold a two day conference . in Kansas City, Mo, Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28. for the student branches of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Uni versity of Kansas student branch will be the host. Professor W. L. DeBaufre, chairman of the mechanical en gineering department here, will lecture on "Thermo Properties of Fluids," basing his talk on work which he has carried on for some time. The program will include visits to Kansas City industrial plants, addresses by faculty members of the various schools, open forum discussions of student problems, and capers to be presented by stu dents themselves, covering special studies they have made. Enter Papers. P. J. Jensen and G. H. Heiser are the two Nebraska students who have entered papers in the prize technical paper contest. Ne braska placed first in the contest at last year s convention. Median ical engineering students ha been invited to attend by Ralph Doubt, president of the local ASME. j Schools expected to send rep- i resentatives include Kansas State , College. University of Kansas, i i University of Missouri, Missouri School of Mines. North Dakota Agricultural College, University of North Dakota, South Dakota Stale College and the University of Nebraska. Technical papers to be presented by students March 27 are as fol lows: "The Lubricating Qualities of Colloidal Graphite," Stuart VV. Abbott, University of North Da kota; "Freon as a Refrigerant, and Its Compressor," P. J. Jen sen, University of Nebraska; "What Is Heat?" T. S. Skinner, Kansas State College; "X-Ray Examination of Welds," Leonard Dctlor, University of Kansas; "Advantages of Diesel Engines for Aircraft Use," Donald Zuerl, Uni versity of Missouri. Saturday Program. Saturday morning's papers are as follows: "Automobile Trans missions," Kenneth Sisson, South Dakota State College; "High Com pression Automobile Engines," G. H. Heiser, University of Ne braska; "The S-Rotor and Its Ap plication," Theodore Sanford, jr., University of Kansas: "Methods of Rating Employees for Promo tion," Charles A. Wanner, Univer sity of Missouri; "Heating by the Refrigerating Cycle," Eric E. Matchetto, Kansas State College. SIXTY DELEGATES OF E Fraternity Conclave Opens At Chapter House March 27. Over sixty delegates from mid west schools will attend Midwest Regional Conclave of Acacia Fra ternity, to be held at the Nebraska chapter house, March 27-29, ac cording to Eugene Allen, chapter president. Delegates will attend from Kansas, Kansas State, Okla homa, Oklahoma State, Texas, Col orado, Iowa, Iowa State, Missouri and Nebraska. Altho there will be only two of ficial delegates from each chap ter, an average of over five will attend from each school, stated Allen. Noted delegates will be Robert C. Lewis, of Denver, Col orado, fraternity national presi dent, Herschel L. Washington, of Kansas City, Missouri, national editor, and David A. Embury, of New York City, judge advocate. Arranged by Eugene Allen and Mark Owens, chapter president and secretary, the conclave will open Friday night aand continue thru Sunday. Feature will be a series of round table discussions on fraternity problems. Climax ing the conclave, will be a banquet for delegates. About 75 Nebraska alumni will also attend. EDUCATION SETUP IS IN CONFUSION, Love of Money, Mistaken Notion of Democracy Responsible. Love of money and a mistaken notion of democracy have thrown American education into a mud dled state of confusion and all but divorced our universities from From The Lincoln Journal. ROBERT M. HUTCHIN'S. their real goal which is higher learning was the acrid indict ment hurled at education last night by the boy president of Chi cago university, smiling Robert Maynard Hutchins. Speaking at the Cornhusker ho tel on the Town Hall program of Lincoln Junior League, President Hutchins with seven revolutionary and Experimental years behind him at Chicago university, gave the capacity audience at the Corn husker ball room a pessimistic version of America's system of colleges and universities. "Schools today must get their money from students, donors, or the legislature," Hutchins stated, "and all three sources lead to ills in the educational system. The re sult is a confusion of both purpose and method." The university must be attrac tive to draw students, he stated, (Continued on Page 3). STATES HUTCHINS ' A3-. "'?' A M. " -fr-TimMtnilH i it'll h m. - "1 SiSIUDENTC SELL 200 E Charles DeFore, Manager, Says Sales Continue at Steady Pace. Business at the new student bookstore has been continuing at the pace expected, according to Charles DcKorc, manager. About 200 used books have been pur chased, while trade in new books has been the same as in the for mer Regents' store. Not until the second semester of the next year will the venture swing into run operation necause practically all used books bougi are second semester texts. Few students saved their first scmc.itc books until the opening, but this had been expected. Books Bought, 50 Percent. I Books are being bought from students at DO percent of the origi nal cost if they are to be used during the following year, and are being resold for 75 percent of the original cost. One stipulation set up in tho organization of the store is that books that are in current use and those that will be in use next year are the only ones that are being accepted at the book store. The store is the culmination of j All 1IIL'. ILIIVU UIUJ'UIII l-UIIllTU I'll by students for the last two years. Members of the student council who were instrumental in success fully concluding the campaign arc: Virginia Sclleck and Frank Landis, co-chairman: Lorraine Hitchcock, Arnold Levin, Irving Hill, Jean . Walt, Mary Yoder, Vance leff. Lcininger and Don Shurt-1 I FIFTEEN STUDENTS WILL MAKE KANSAS CITY TRIP Home Economics Girls Go on Inspection Tour of Food Plants. Fifteen members of the institu tional management class of the home economics department leave Wednesday morning In cars and on the Zephyr for Kansas City for a three day stay. Miss Martha Park, head of institutional admin istration and director of the cafe teria, and Miss Hortense Allen of Raymond Hall, instructors, will accompany the group. Plans are made to visit several large food manufacturing plants, dining rooms and cafeterias. Ger trude Brarnmer, Mrs. Dorothy Ziegenbusch Greenawalt, and Alice Ritchie, former graduates as insti tutional majors, have been em ployed by dining rooms, cafeterias, and hotels in Kansas City. Until this year the classes have made an annual two day trip to Omaha. It Is hoped that in the fu ture, trips can be mHde alternately to Omaha and Kansas City. DR. WASHBURN SPEAKS AT SIGIM XI MEETING Professor Tells of Soap Molecule's Dimensions In Lecture, Highlight of last night's Sigma XI meeting was Dr. E. R. Wash burn, who spoke on "The Dimen sions of a Molecule of Soap." In his lecture, Dr. Washburn dis cussed a simple but novel method of determining molecular dimen sions based upon measurements of surface tension of dilute aqueous solutions. According to Dr. Washburn, the work involved in developing this method was carried on under his direction of Dr. G. W. Berry. The work has received favorable com ment from Dr. P. Lecomte du Nouy, director of the Pasteur In stitute in Paris. The lecture, was extended by the use of slides showing apparatus, methods of calculation, and the curves used in plotting. AG EXECUTIVE GROUP L PARTY DANCE PLANS Lyle DeMoss With Poster's Orchestra to Provide Entertainment. With only three days remaining before the Ag Spring party, and I presentation of the Ag Goddess, j the executive council in charge is making final preparation for the I most prominent dance paity of the year to be held m the stuaeni ac tivities building Friday, March 27. Lyle DeMoss with Mel Pester and nis eleven piece orchestra have been signed to provide the music. The Goddess of Agriculture was elected by the girls on Ag college campus from a group of 24 senior girls and will be revealed to the student body by a unique and colorful procedure Friday eve ning. "We are exerting every ettori toward a delightful and success ful party," says -Vincent Jacobson manager of the affair. AU student organizations on the campus will be honored at the party by large penants bearing their colors and insignia cleverly displayed in the center of the ball room. Good Sale. Dean and Mrs. W. W Professor and Mrs. L. K. Burr, Crowe and Miss Louise Tcaton will chap eron the rarlv. Miss Fedde and Miss Sperry. of the Home nomics department, have Eco- also been invited to attend. ! Advance ticket sales indicate ' unusual interest and enthusiasm j in uie puny, uiuoiuinn w Jamie;, Campbell, chairman ol the ticKet committee. Those eligible lor the honored position of Goddess of Agriculture are: Margaret Blomenkamp, Ruth Bosserman, Clarice Bloom, Janice Campbell, Alice Culbcrtson, Mar garet Deeds. Mary F.tta Dodrill. Mrs. Anne Dunn, Miriam Fraser, Doris Fcldman, Elsie Goth, Ruth I Henderson, Viola Johnson, Irene 1 Leech, Jean Nelson. Elva Plum, 1 Ruth Riee, Clara Ridder, Gladys 1 Schlichtman. Mariorie Scott, Mrs. Viola Staley, ami Dorothy Stod dart. JOHNSON, PESHEK TO SHOW BRIDGE SLIDES Engineering Students Give Program at Society Meeting. Emery Johnson and Joe IYshck, (.iip-ini-ei-inL' eollece seniors, will n ' " - ry ' show slid auinez St ait bridge '0 ut the meeting tonight of the 1 American Society of Civil Engi- j neers. j Cnmnlcted in UI27 at a cost of I $8,000,000, ('arquiiicz is a bridge of the cantilever type with two main spans of 1.100 feet. It is the second largest bridge of its type in the United States and the fourth largest in the world. It! deep pier foundations 135 feet be its low water level are also unique Much consideration was given to possible protective details in the (Continued on Page 3). Designer Friedly Struggles With Cyrano de Bergerac Sets ( ompliratid Slac FurnMiiiifrs for Cominp Majors Production Giue Iona; Work Hours for Uiicf and Four Aids. Jt is v. itli a Irvitijr climax, indeed, Ihnt Don Kriedly, will con elude his second vear ns chief set designer for the Uniirsity Players. Kight liow Don is laboring day and night with his three or four assistants to make ready the five different sets needed for the production of Cyrano dc Dergerac which will open in ine lempic unc, -i.-y dflv. March 30. if you can imagine yourself try ing to give a barren theater stage the air of a 1640 French pastry shop, a street in Pans, a Garden of a Convent, of a raging battle field, you can possibly appreciate at least a part of the Don's worries. TASSELS ELECT S T Erma Bauer, Betty Magee, Martha Morrow Hold Other Offices. Margaret Phillippe, junior in Arts and Science college, will serve as president of Tassels, girls pep organization, 89 a result of the election of officers held Tuesday evening. Other officers elected were: Erma Bauer, vice-president; Martha Marrow, secretary; Betty Magee, treasurer; Louise Magee, publicity chairman and Jean Mar vin, notification chairman. Instal lation of officers will be held at the next regular meeting of Tas sels, Tuesday, March 21, at Ellen Smith hall. Miss rhillippe, president-elert of the pep group is a member of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet, director ' of the vesper choir; member of student council; sergeant-at-arms of Sigma Alpha lota, member of the Groat Cathedral choir and of Alpha Omicron Pi. Candidates. Erma Bauer, junior in Teachers college, new vice president has served as treasurer of Tassels for the past vear. She is a senior of the Big Sister Board, Y. W. C. A. member, Vestals of the Lamp, Cornhusker staff and a member of Delta Delta Delta. Martha Morrow, sophomore in Teachers college, secretary-elect is a member of the Big Sister board, Y. W. C. A. and Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman scholastic honor ary. Betty Magee, treasurer, is a sophomore in Arts and Science college, vice president of the Big Sister board and a member of the Y. W. C. A. Elizabeth Shearer presided at the meeting. The next meeting will be held Tuesday March 31, at Ellen Smith hall. ;!D. U. BEATS A. T. 0., GOES Delta Sigma Rho Holds Only Preliminary Match of Tourney. By ekeing out a narrow decision Ainha Ton n-noirn nrp-u ... era in Uie only preliminary match of the Delta Sigma Rho interfra ternity debate tourney, the Delta Upsilon spell-binders advanced in to the first round Tuesday night. The match was scheduled because of an uneven number of entrants for the tourney and to prevent any team from drawing a bye thru the first round. The winning squad upheld the ! affirmative side of the argument Resolved: That the Uniteu otatc3 should have the largest navy in the world. Speaking in behalf of D. U. were Jack Roberts and George Grey, while Alpha Tan Omega was represented by Bob Leadly and Howard Drew. Stage Fist Round Thursday. First round matches of the an nual inter-group meet will be staged Thursday night when Delta XTpsilon will meet Sigma Alpha Mu, with last nights victor uphold ing the negative. Other contests Thursday will be staged between Sigma Chi who take the affirma tive against Phi Alpha Delta, Zcta Beta Tau with the alfirm.Ulve vn. Beta Sigma Psi, and Pi Kappa Al- I nha with the affirmative siae j efinst the Delta Theta Phi de- All fraternity debates are to be held in one of the respective chap ter houses. The contests are being Judged by members of the varsity forensic squad. Barb competition will open Thursday evening when members of the Pickett clut meet Palladian-Delian representatives. Drawing for the second round debates will not be announced un til all first round match results have been submitted to the de bate office, John Stover, presi dent of the professional debate so ciety announced. . c,irrent scene production is set in the Grana Hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in which the stage, boxes, and pit will give the set the true appear ance of a seventeenth century theater. It is in this setting that Cyrona makes his appearance 19 iCoatinued on Page 2)- Ml PRESDEN DEBATE SQUAD i