i he D aily ASKA JL Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXV NO. 151. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1936. PRICE 5 CENTS. N 11 JDJDiY Honorary Plans Class to Train Activity Women Mass Meeting Called for All Campus Women to Consider Instruction in Leadership; Meet Tonight in Ellen Smith. To develop a means of meeting llie increasing demand for women activity leaders, Mortar Hoard, .senior honorary, will present its plans for leadership training classes to en in pus women today at 7 :1 ." in Ellen Smith hall. Alaire liarkes, re tiring president of Mortar Board, will address the meeting-. The interorganization council, au iihrnnimiUee of Mortar Boara composed of the highest ranking women members of the major campus activities, will organize a leadership training course for younger women. Faculty members and students, as well as students from other campuses, have de clared that Nebraska lacks a sys tem of preparing its leaders for their work. Activities Limited, "tinder the revised point system instituted this year by the intcr organization council and the A. W. S., the women are so limited in the number of activities in which they are allowed to participate that there is a much greater demand for activities leaders," declared Miss Barkes, in discussing the pro posed meeting. 'We hope this plan will work to complete the whole setup of improved women's activities," Miss Barkes continued. "Better co-operation between women's organiza tions is the desired end, so that quality of work and not quantity will be the aim of each participat ing girl." . , . The great deal 01 overlapping of activity organizations, espe cially among the freshmen groups, is another evil which the board wishes to alleviate. PKrs are be ing made for the interorganiza tion council to coordinate the work of each group when the school year opens next fall. Summer Work Outlined. Each women's organization has been requested to send delegates to the meeting who will take an active part In the discussions, and will offer suggestions to aid the (Continued on Page 3). 10 PRESENT FESTIVAL THURSDAY 150 Students Participate In Spring Recital of Choral Union. University's Choral union will present its 1936 spring festival to morrow evening at 8 o'clock, in Grant Memorial hall. Howard Kirkpatrick, director, announced. About 150 members will perform. Soloists, men's chorus, women's chorus, the Choral chorus, and a violinist will be the groups mak ing up the program. Soloists in clude Helen Junz, soprano: Elsie Mansfield, mezzo soprano: Paschal Stone, tenor; Alfred Reider, bari tone; and William Miller, bass. Assisting Prof. Kirkpatrick will be Eunice Bingham, solo violinist. Fleda Graham Ziegenbein will ac company at the piano. Starting the concert the Choral union will c'.ng six numbers, fol lowed by Miss Bingham, who will play two songs on her violin. Ex cerpts from "Carmen" will occupy the rest of the program, to be done by chorus groups and soloists. D ELIAN-UNION GOES TO CRETE FOR PICNIC Literary Society . Outing at Horhey's Park on May 23. The Delian-Union literary so ciety is holding its annual Crete picnic for its member and alumni, Saturday, May 23, at Horkey's park, near Crete. Francis Johnson is in charge of arrangements and is being as sisted by a committee of three, composed of Nancy Claire Mum ford, Bohumil Rott and Alvin Kleeb. All the alumna of the so ciety wishing to attend this af fair are asked to get in touch with Johnson, at Delian-Union hall, before Friday noon. Barb girls who have made out standing records In i. 'vities dur ing the past year wl. be recog nized for their work at a service Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock on the ag campus, Dorothy Beers, president of the barb A. W. S. League, announced. Degree Applications Should Be in May 20 All students who are candi dates for degrees in August should file their applications in the registrar's office, room 9, by May 20, If they have not dons so previously. Office hours are from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Candidates for the junior cer tificate or the teachers certifi cate, issued by the state super intendent of public instruction, should file their applications also, according to Miss Flor ence I. McGahey, registrar. n E Inter-Frat Group Settles Bitter Dispute Over Election. Bernard McKerney, freshman in the college of law, was elected president of the Interfraternity council Tuesday evening to con clude one of the most bitterly con tested elections in the history of the inter-Greek body. The council met a week ago and elected Ray nor Riggs, running under the col ors of the independent faction, to head the society for the coming year, but in the face of a protest by opposing forces the committee on committees declared the elec tion void on the contention that Beta Theta Pi does not constitute the independent faction. In annulling the election of a week ago the committee on com mittees nominated two men to be considered for each office, and it was from these nominations that the council made its final selec tions last night. McKerney, who succeeds Ralph Eldridge as presi dent, has previously served as sec retary of the group and has been especially active in council ac-y tivities. He is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Vance Leininger, junior in the Teachers college, was named as vice president and will succeed James Heldt in the post. Leinin ger is affiliated with the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. Lloyd Fried man, Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, was named to follow Burr Ross to the position of treasurer, and El mer Scheele was chosen as secre tary of the organization to con clude the evening's election and thus sound the final ring of the (Continued on Page 3). THURSDAY GATHERING Marjorie Bannister Names Additional Members Of Organization. All newly appointed coed coun selors and members of the coed counselor board will gather for a mass meeting Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall, according to Marjorie Bannister, president of the board. Miss Bannister will preside at the meeting, at which time sta tionery will be distributed to coed counselors so that letters may be written to be sent out to next semerter's lreshmen. The various committees will meet together and make plans for the coming year. New counselors, who were not announced with the rest of the group, were made known Tuesday by the organization president. They are Josephine Rubnitz, Mary Arbitman, Muriel Kiasne, Pbylis Robinson, Patricia Jensen, Sue Pickering, Hannah Sib, Elizabeth Smith, Marjorie Mish, Marilyn Spohn, Wilma Pullium, Eleanor Hessheimer. Carol Clark. Allene Williams. Jane Ettinger. Kathleen Bunce. Jerry Rasbol, Jean Hattoz, Doris Van Bcrger, Betty Williams, Enid Fritts. Evelyn Coe, Gwendo lyn Beynon, Naydene Whitnah and Elizabeth Harris. Fern Bloom has been selected to fill the coed counselor position left vacant by the resignation of Doris Weaver. A committee to take care of all work of the organization during the summer has been announced. It Is composed of Betty Magee, chairman ; Virginia Nolle and Jean Marvin. At the initiation cere mony held last Sunduy, the fol lowing members participated: Dor cas Crawford, Betty Magee, Mary Pricilla Stewart, P-owcna Swenson, Marylu Petersen. Virginia Nolte and Marjorie Bannister. Home Ec Association Sponsors Picnic for Ag Students Friday The annual All Ag picnic spon sored by the Home Economics as sociation, will be held Friday. May 22, at 6:00 on the Ag cam pus. The twenty-five cent charge in cludes supper and admittance to the dance which will be held aft erwards in the Student Activities building. BE I M KERNEY D PRESIDENT OF GREEK COUNCIL FRTZLER AD AD EX E BOARD NEXT YEAR Ailecn Marshall Is Chosen Vice President for College Council. Officers who will serve next year on the Bizad Executive Coun cil, will be headed by Kenneth Fritzler, senior in the business ad ministration college. Aileen Mar shall is the new vice president, Miriam Butler, secretary, and Boo Williams, treasurer. The officers and board members were elected Tuesday afternoon. The program committee, form ing the balance of the Council, in cludes, Bob Williams, Norman Shaw and Doris Eastman. This committee will make arrange ments for a dinner at the Lincoln hotel Friday evening, as a means of getting old and new board mem bers together. The old council, some members of which will serve on the new board are, Kenneth Fritzler, Quinn Scott, John Campbell, Farnk Gal lup, Miriam Butler, Alice Crowley, Doris Eastman, Bob Williams and Ralph Nollkamper. Six Coeds Selected for Campus Stardom by Producer Laemmle Presenting the Misses Vir ginia Anderson, Barbara Dame wood, Adrienne Griffith, Mary Jane Heinsheimer, Carolyn Skans, and Florence Smorin, beauty queens of the University of Nebraska. These coeds were selected by Carl Laemmle, jr. veteran movie producer, and an nounced today in the 1936 edi tion of the Cornhusker. Pictures of 50 university girls were submitted to Mr. Laemmle, BYRLE SHUCK HEADS Alvin Kleeb, Doris Weaver Chosen to Hold Other Positions. Byrle Shuck of Edgar was elected chairman of next year's Barb Council at the group's last meeting of the semester held Tuesday afternoon. Alvin Kleeb was chosen vice-chairman, and Moris Weaver, secretary-treasurer. Complete plans were set for the staging of the series of varsity parties sponsored each year by the council for all university students, and a list was submitted to the Student Council to secure closed nights. A resolution was adopted that all council members should attend the all-barb picnic scheduled for Sunday. They are to meet at 6:30 a. m. at Ellen Smith hall. MILLS CALLS FIRST Pepsters Will Inaugurate 1936-37 Program Tonight. Scheduled in order to make plans for activities which will be inaugurated or sponsored during the coming school year, members of Corn Cobs, Including tnose re cently elected to membership in the organization will hold a meet ing this evening at 7:30 o'clock In University hall, according to Web Mills, newly elected president of the group. One of the mon-t important lea tures of the meeting this evening, according to Mills, discussion will be held concerning various amend ments to the constitution of the organization. In addition to this discussion, suggestions for new uniforms for the group will be taken up. According to the presi dent, the finance of the organiza tion will be discussed as another topic this evening. LIN(X)LN HIGH TO GIVE 'PRINCE OF P1LSE.V W. C. Tern pel Directs Luders Comic Op era; 100 Participate Gustave Luders' comic opera "The Prince of Pilsen" will be given Friday and Saturday nights of this week by music students of Lincoln high school under the direction of William G. Tempel, Instructor of voice In the univer- itv Rrhnol nf Uiwir. According to Mr. Temple about j 100 students will take part In the j production of the two-act musical comedy. The show starts at 8:15 j each night, and admission is 25 j cents. I Iul Board Considers Applicants Monday The eight member of the publications board will meet at 2 o'clock Monday, May 25 to choose 20 students from a list of 47 applicants for publications posts. The publications board, composed of Prof. Gayle C. Walker, chairman, Prof. J. E. Lawrence, Dr. Nels Beng ston, Dr. Harry Bradford, John K. Selleck, Clare Wiley, Dwight Perkins and Paul Amen, will announce their decisions Immediately after the meeting. BAKB A. W. S. LEAGUE TO 110NOK STUDENTS Women Will Receive Service Recognition At Thursday Meeting All barb women students en rolled in the University are in vited to attend the affair, which will be followed by a buffet sup per to be served on the lawn at ag campus. A varied program is being planned arranged as social entertainment for the meeting, which is scheduled to serve as a culmination of all activities of barb women far this year. Girls on the city campus who desire transportation to the agri culture campus may assemble on 14th and R. and transportation will be provided, acording to pres ent plans. and after considerable arbitra tion, he chose these six as Ne braska's most beautiful. Miss Anderson, the daughter of Mrs. Charles O. Anderson of Omaha, is an Arts and Science sophomore and a member of Kappa Alpha Thcta. She num bers imong her activities Stu dent Council and Theta Sigma Phi. Barbara Damewood, Teacher's college freshman, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dame wood of Lincoln and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Miss Griffith, Omaha, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Griffith and a sophomore in arts and sci ence. Mary Jane Heinsheimer, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Teacher's college freshman, is the daughter of Mr. D. T. Hein sheimer of Sioux Falls, S. D. Carolyn Skans. member of Al pha Phi, is the daughter of G. A. Skans of Omaha and is an arts and science freshman. Miss Smeerin is the daughter of Mr. TASSELS ENTERTAIN E Pep Organization Releases List New Women Elected. Twenty-six newly elected mem bers of Tassels, women's pep or ganization were entertained as guests of members who have been active during the past year, at a picnic held yesterday evening at 6 o'clock at the Shrine shelter house. Preceding the time of the picnic on Tuesday each new member had been -otified of her election tc the group, but the first announcement of the comple'.e list of new pep sters was made public by Mar garet Phillippe, president of the group, as a part of the program scheduled for the gathering last night. List of New Tassels. Those w ho are to make up the list of new members for the corn in? vear were chosen to replace girls retiring from active partici pation and tnose wno are graauai ing this fall. The girls who be rnmp new members as a result Of the eletcion include: Raymond Hall, Jean Andrews, Vee Louise Marshall and Marcaret Saxton: barbs, Eleanor Eiche and Vir ginia Nolte: Howard Hall, Evelyn Zimmer; Wilson Hall. Eirde.an Jensen: Alpha Chi Omega, De lores Bors. Sorority Members. ..Alpha Phi, Phyllis Baker and Patricia Jensen; Alpha Xi Delta, Barbara Posewater; Delta Gamma, Frances Boldman; Gamma Phi Beta. Virginia Hyatt; Kappa Al pha Theta, Virginia Fleetwood; Kappa Kappa Gamma. Harriet Cummer and Ruth Newell; Phi Mu, Bonnie Burn and Janet Hoevet; Sigma Kappa, Genevieve Hoff and Barbara Marston; Zeta Tau Al pha, Jean Gorden and iStella Lin- hart: ag representatives. Ruth Eauder. Phyllis Chamberlain. Edith Filley, and Ruthanna Rus set. Sponsors of the group who at tended the picnic yesterday eve ning were Misses Pauline Oellauy and Julienne Deatkin. Journalism Seniors Called to Meeting Senior students in the school of journalism are re quested to meet at five on Thursday. May 21, in Uni versity hall, room 106. 1. 000 YEARBOOKS AVAILABLE TODAY AT U HALL OFFICE Annual's Distribution Begins At 8 O'clock; Students To Bring Receipts. After a year of careful prepar ation, the 1936 Cornhusker today is presented to the public. Dis tribution of the university's annual will begin at 8 o'clock this morn ing, in the Cornhusker office. Only those people holding receipts is sued by the Cornhusker staff will receive their year books. One thousand copies of the red leather covered book will be avail able today. Ali those desiring books must go to the office ot the Cornhusker. The office will be open the remainder of the week to distribute the pictorial year-books. Students are urged to call for their annuals as soon as possible. The six beauty queens of Ne braska will be revealed in the Cornhusker, and student activities of the year will be reviewed. The coeds, who will be presented as the six most beautiful women on the campus, were chosen from a (Continued on Page 3). and Mrs. R. Smeerin of Wood bine, la., a Teacher's college senior, and president of Sigma Delta Tau. Besides full page photographs of the beauty queens, the book includes a complete pictorial story of life at Nebraska. Jun ior and senior class sections, honoraries, sororities and fra ternity sections, administration, and school activities are all a part of the annual. ALPHAllAl TO INITIATE FIVE IN Merrill Will ' Speak Banquet Following Initiation. at Five pledges of Alpha Kappa Psi, professional commerce fra ternity, will be initiated Wednes day afternoon preceding the an nual banquet to be held at the Cornhusker hotel. Those to be initiated are Neil Parks, Ashland; Bob Avery. Lin coln; Austin Moritz, Humboldt; Norman Ellis, Deadwood, S. D.; Paul Rapp, Omaha. Main speaker at the banquet will be Prof. R. H. Merrill of the Law college. Prof. Clifford D. Spangler will be toastmaster. Only men in the College of Bus iness Administration are taken into membership who have a good scholastic standing and have shown an interest in the problems of business activity. T Pictures of Manufacturing Process for Autos Included. In the engineering convocation Wednesday, May 20 at 7:30 in Social Science auditorium, pictures illustrating the entire process in the manufacture of automobiles will be shown. There will be two separate films run off at the con vocation, the second dealing with safety driving; The convocation is sponsored by the engineering ex ecutive board. Showing of the films will be accompanied by musical scores played by the Philadelphia sym phony concert, Ted Schroeder, ex ecutive board head stated. The music will be interpretive of the general theme of a recent Chaplin picture. All explanitory remarks will be in the form of sub-titles. Contributed by the Chevrolet Motor company, the pictures are unusual of their type because of the subordination of advertising matter. They are instructional and educational and should be of Interest to all car owners and drivers, Schroeder stated. PROF. FORBES SPEAKS ON NEW DEAL TODAY Speech, Election to Highlight Meeting of Classics Society. Prat. C A. Forbes, classics In structor, speaking on the subject, "The First New Deal and Who Dealt It," will feature the last meeting of the university classics club tonight Professor Forbes' discussion will be the highlight of a meeting which includes election of officers for next year and determining the outline of rxt years activities. The group will meet In Morrill hall, room 219, at 7:20. Newly Chosen Council Elects Officers Today Incoming Members) of Student Governing Body to Meet With Old; Hear Committee Reports; Discuss Union Building Project. Student council, newly chosen, will elect officers for next your when il meets this afternoon in University hall. It will also hear committee reports on the senior departmental organi zations plan and on 1 lie student, union building, according tt Irvinjr Hill, president. O ProDosed at the last meeting of REFORM CERTAIN IT Commentator Passes Buck To Successor With This Column. Kditnr'fl Note: The wiiwdifli of Poll tlrn move on. Today, rolitteu. VI write 80-" on hi. lust -.lory, eoneludlnK hl paMmorilrl cmmfnl on turtle year tn rampuM noUlirit. Tomorrow, lolillruft VII lake over the typewriter for hi. firt artirle, and will follow Ihni the comln year of renrRnir.atkn, rrallRTimfnt, and we hope reform. Thr line of Polltirn Included. In order, 4nek Erlrk.nn, llfford Sandahl, Howard Allnway, Iirk Mnran, Jack l-'iftrher. George ripal and next year, VYillard rSurney). By Politicus VI. When 2.300 students in a uni versity community of 5,800 vote at a general election to set a record equalling in percentage that of the American nation, that's real interest. And when the same campus wit nesses the most spectacular ex hibition of political skullduggery in that and following elections, that's really interesting. By the looks of all the press association wire stories carried on the Interfraternity Council elec tion alone, one may may be sure that if something isn't done at home, the first resolution passed by the new unicameral legislature will advise university politicians to clean up campus elections. And a cleanup is to be experted. But who is going to lift campus politics out of the mire, and how they are going to do it are two questions for which a political commentator can only suggest, and not prescribe, solutions. Don't Save the Surface. The onlv wav present conditions can be changed more than white washing: or alleviating tacuonai strife is to divorce activity plug gers, publication workers, and stu dent government represeiiun.ives, in some measure ai icasi., nwu their social fraternities. The only way to end vote trading, brotner pushing, and a hundred other methods that elect the favored over the meritorious, is to re move the influence of Greek letter societies. Is this heresy? Would mis eliminate all motive for interest in elections, cause the withdrawal of fraternity support to colorful ral lies and faction meeurgs, ana cui that record 2,300 down to an in terested few? The answer can be found in part, strange as it seems, in women's activities on the Ne braska campus. Fundamental parts of their sys tem are: The elimination oi po litical parties, factions, and alli ances between sororities, estab lishment of a point system to ex terminate the activity worker who wears an extra vest lor badges, and now, inauguration of classes to train future activities leaders. Scolf if you like, but look at the results. More women participated in ac tivities this year- than in any prev ious year in the university's his tory Sororities have lent better support to their candidates than when they were running as nomi nees of political cliques. The Inter organization council has secured strict observance of the point sys tem, bolstering every woman's or ganization by removing those who belong for membership alone. No Snap. But can such systems be ap plied to men's activities? Both the point system and faction elimin ation would be difficult to eslab- Continued on Page 2). Interclub Council Elects Tom Peterson, Social Chairman. Plans for a picnic for all barb students to be held Sunday. May 24, at 6:30. were made at the barb interclub council meeting, Tuesday evening in room 8. University halL Tl i picnic will be sponsored jointly by the barbs. A. W. S. league and the barb interclub coun cil. All those who wish to attend will meet at Ellen Smith ball at 5:30. Transportation will be pro vided. Tom Peterson was elected social chairman to replace Byrle Shuck. Shuck was forced to resign after he was elected president of the barb council. AS REALGNNO AYS ramus the council by James Marvin and George Pipal, senior and junior class presidents, the plan of de partmental organization would em power the present heads of execu tive boards in each college to act together in senior class projects. Included m those proposed in the constitution of the group are plans for a student-alumni relations bureau to lobby and contact for larger legislative appropriations for the university in each uni cameral district, to distribute senior announcements, and to exe cute plans for class organization. Still Hope for Funds. Regarding student union funds Hill stated, "President Roosevelt issued a statement two days ago declaring that PWA in which we are interested would continue in a modified form. The WPA has not yet reached the senate but there seems to be an even chance that it will pass. There are those two sources possible." Should the WPA fail to pass and PWA funds be insufficient to in clude the Nebraska project, atten tion will be turned to state financ ing. Sites for the building have been considered the last week by stu dent and laculty committees, ac cording to Virginia Selleck, who is on the student council committee. An L or box shaped structure is proposed for the location occupied by Ellen Smith hall with a library to be built in the future between that building and Social Sciences hall. Another site suggested is that now used for university tennis courts. 10 SELECT OFFICERS Unaffiliated Students Name Candidates for Board Membership. All Barb A. W. S. women will meet at 5 o'clock tonight in El len Smith hall to nominate the women who will compose next years officers and board members, according to an announcement by Dorothy Beers, president of Barb A. W. S. The mass meeting of all unaf filiated women will determine can didates for membership on the board and its officers. Twelve of fices will be filled from the nomi nations received in Thursday's election. This mass meeting is held to assure that all desired candi dates will be placed on the ballot. Nominees named by the board are as follows: Elinor Eiche. Ber dean Jensen. Lo.s Lichliter, Idella Iverson, Mary Tree, Marie Willey, Carol Clark. Dorothe French, Zel da Ekwall, Beatrice Ekblad, Ele nor Jones, Gretchen Thornton, Ad rienne Griffith, Dora Larson and Edith Filley. Six hold over members of the board have been chosen. They are as follows: Jane Holland, Elizabeth Edison. Fern Bloom. Dorothy Crawford, Rowena Swenson and Esther Wiechert. Membership on the board is to be determined by an all campus poll of unaffiliated women. This is the first time that the offices have been so filled. The polls will be open from 9 until 5 on Thursday at Ellen Smith hall on the down town cam pus and in the Home Ec building at Ag college. Board members will be in charge of the election. Iden tification card? are necessary to enable the women to vote. Ardis Graybeil. Barb senior member of the A. W. B. board, for both affiliated and unaffiliated g'rls will be president of the Barb A. W. S. board for next year. The girl In this capacity is automat ically chosen to be president. All other offices will be filled by Thursday's election. Activity Women Will Hold Mass Meeting Representative activity women from the leading wom en's organizations on the cam pus will meet at a ms meet ing being held on Wednesday evening. May 20, from 7:45 to 8 o'clock In Ellen Smith hall, under the sponsorship of Mor tar Board. Leader from the following groups are asked to attend the meeting on Wednesday: A. W. S., Agricultural college. Barb A. W. S., Barbs. Coed Coun selors, Publications, Student Council. Tatse!, W. A. A., srvo V. W. C. A. V: a.