AILY NEBRASKAN
Attend
Convocation
At Eleven
Vote At
Election
In Temple
Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
VOL. XXXVI NO. 25.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1936.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
Student Electorate Votes at Fall Election Today
Dr. J. D. Spaeth Speaks at Second Convocation
The
UNIVERSITY
HEARS TALK
ON FREEDOM
o-
Second Student Assembly
Features Address by
Uni President.
jraimnff lor r reeilom is
the subject to be discussed by
J. Duncan Spaeth, president of
the University of Kansas City,
when he appears on the Temple
convocation program this morning
at 11 a. m. Dr. Harold Stoke,
chairman of the convocations
committee, is especially enthusias
tic in his praise of the speaker
whom he has secured to occupy
the Temple roster for the second
all-school conclave of the year.
Dr. Stoke announced that the
convocations committee is plan
ning a rather extensive series of
high class lectures for the year's
program and that the response to
the first of these this morning will
indicate to the committee some
thing of the natuie of the type of
speaker the students enjoy.
According to the administration
a blanket dismissal of classes will
not be allowed in hoonr of Dr.
Spaeth's appearance, but individ
ual professors are authorized to
dismiss their classes if they so de
sire. Dr. Spaeth, before his accep
tance of the presidency of Kansas
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E
Campus Pepsters Declare
Demonstration Season's
Most Important.
Declaring the Oklahoma rally to
be "one of the most important of
the year," Ted Bradley, Innocents
rally chairman today outlined
plans for a royal sendoff for the
team when they depart for Okla
homa Kriday afternoon.
Meeting at the north end of the
east stadium at 4:13 rooters will
follow the two buses carrying the
team to the Missouri Pacific sta
tion, where the massed student
body will demonstrate its support
of the team in a rousing display
of lung-power. The band will lead
the caravan to the station.
Explaining his reason for desig
nation this years the most impor
tant rally, Bradley declared that
"Oklahoma is regarded as Nebras
ka's toughest opponent in the Big
Six race. Biff Jones has been
pointing his crew for the Nebraska
garni since Oklahoma's defeat last
year, and Nebraska will find Okla
homa at the height of its power.
If there should be n let down in
team morale following the Minne
sota and Indiana games the con
test might well result in an upset
at Nebraska's expense. An in
spiring demonstration of support
by the student body will do much
to remove this possibility, and
every student should regard it his
duty to be present."
"Students ire urged to talk and
think 'Beat Oklahoma' this week
In preparation for the rally Kri
day," Bradley declared. "A sus
tained campaign is necessary to
correct the attitude of complacency
with which Nebraska 1 prone to
regard conference opposition this
year."
BAPTIST DELEGATES
OF
lU'CINNIS LEADER OF
I1USKERS AT NORMAN
State Gathering Draws 50
Representatives from
Nebraska Churches.
Centered around the present
inter-denominational church pro
gram, "Christian Youth Building
a Better World, the state Bap
tist Youth Conference drew 5
delegates from outside districts
last weekend to discuss the prob
lems of the life of today.
The building of the better world
was a challenge to missionary
work, according to the talks given
by Dr. Frank Eden of Denver
Colo., and by Dr. Gordon S. Sea
grave, a medical missionary of
the Shans in Namkham, Burma
Dr. Seagrave, who is author of
the book "Waste Basket Surgery,'
told the conference his experiences
as a surgeon in the frontier of
Burma and China. He emphasized
the lack of equipment in the miS'
sionary field and the great oppor
tunity for youth in missionary
work.
Sunday afternoon the leaders of
the five problem groups, home and
preparation for marriage, the
church, missions and world peace,
social questions, and personal re
ligious living, presented the find
ings of the groups at a mass meet
ing open to all young people. The
leaders who presented the sum
maries were Jennie Neill, Herbert
Jackson, Fred Harms, -Eve Agec
all students of the University, and
Charles Durden, a student of the
University of Omaha.
Paul Jensen, of Omaha, presi
dent of the state Baptist youth
conference presided at the meet
ings.
CONGRESSMAN LUCKEY
TO SPEAK AT TEMPLE
Young Democrats Sponsor
Non-Political Talk
Wednesday.
Congressman Henry C. Luckey,
of the Second Nebraska district,
will give a non-political speech at
Temple theater Wednesday, Oct,
21 at 3 o'clock. All students are
invited to hear him talk on "The
Functions of Government." The
Young Democrats organization is
sponsoring the meeting.
Mr. Luckey, a resident of Lin
coin, is a graduate of the Univer
sity from which he helds several
degrees. As a student of econ
omics and government, he has oh
served conditions both in this
country and Europe. He is the
author of a thesis on "Judicial
Keform with Special Reference to
Nebraska.
In congress, he was elected to
membership on the Committee of
Tost Offices and Post Roads. He
was a member of the Prairie
States Rroup, author of the Great
Plains Experiment Station bill,
and co-author of the Freeman
Homestead bill.
REPORTER FINDS CONCLAVE
SPEAKER ENTHUSIASTIC ON
GREAT ARRAY OF SUBJECTS
BY ED MURRAY.
Last night after arriving in Lin
coln on the nine o'clock train. Dr.
J. Duncan Spaeth, new president
or Kansas i:uy s fledgling univer
Pity, was upending a pleasant eve
ning with the university's ex
change professor, Dr. Sehoene
niann. It may have been a pleas
ant time these two old friends
were spending before the campus
press interrupted, but there was
nothing mild or peaceful about it.
Great, hulky, powerful, and dy
namic Dr. Spaeth just isn't that
way. He is enthusiasm personified
when speaking on any subject
from Greek culture to the 'gener
ous words' of Mr. Roosevelt. His
fluent wisdom is broken in upon
only occassional ly by his attentions
to his huge, three-quarter turn
pipe, which Is, incidentally, in
sharp contrast with his neat cres
cent spectacles.
Besides talking about every
thing, somehow coherently, the
former literature professor at
Princeton abounds In Juicy and
appropriate comparisons. He fair
ly loves to talk, and loves to hear
what you have to say, If you hap-1
pen to have something and can
say it. rapidly enough.
After briefly remarking that he
had written an introduction for one
of Dr. Schoenemn mi's books on
Mark Twain, the 67 yeHr old edu
cator, who still retains much of the
vigor which it took to make him a
favorite rowing coach at Prince
ton, branched off to a discussion
of the new project in Kansas City,
which he took over after 30 years
of hard, but enjoyable, service at
the eastern school.
"As a great western melting
pot of the individual drifts of
culture In the west, cast, south
and north, Kansas City has great
possibilities as a community for
scholar-," thundered the former
easterner at one of the high spots
in his conversation.
"We have Rockhlll Nelson's art
gallery, Krueger's civic symphony
orchestra, a great auditorium, and
other city projects," he continued,
"our university, which is really as
yet only h liberal arts college,
with Its corps of young, energetic
and idealistic professors has a
wonderful setting In which to con
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Robust and fast, Ken McGinnis,
Husker right guard, has been
chosen to lead the Cornhuskers
this Saturday when the NebraS'
kans go south to Norman for their
annual grid
classic with Ok
lahoma.
Game Cap
tain McGinnis
hails from Ord
and posses a
major and
minor letter. He
was a reserve
in his sopho
more year and
a major letter
KENNETH M'GINNIS winner last
From State Journal year. His
weight is around the 200 pound
mark and his height is six feet
even.
Paired up with the lighter Bob
Mehring, McGinnis is one of th
most aggressive guards Coach
Bible has ever had. Few and far
between are the gains thru his
right guard berth.
''.Mr
y. IV. FINANCE DRIVE
WITH TOTAL OF $630
Maxine Durand Is Chairman
Of Campaign to Secure
New Members, Gifts.
Swinging into the final day of
its drive, the finance staff of the
Y. W. C. A. reports a grand total
of $630 to date.
Maxine Durand, finance chair
man, has directed activities of the
drive which has been for the pur
pose of obtaining new members
and contributions to keep up work
of the organization for the coming
year.
Of the sorority houses on the
campus Delta Delta Delta is in the
lead with contributions totaling
$46.00 .Sigma Delta Tau is second
with a total of $32.60. Pat Jensen
heads the group of individual
workers with Delores Doll and
Alene Mullikcn tied for second
place.
In the Carrie Belle Raymond
hall section Vee Louise Marshall
is leading the subscribers. Birdean
Jensen is running a close second
for individual honors. Eleanor
Eiche working for the unaffiliated
town group holds the lead in her
section with Marizane Coger in
second position.
Final results of the drive which
began Tuesday, Oct. 13, will be
announced tomorrow at its con
elusion. A combination vesper and
recognition service for workers
and new members will be held at
5:00 in Ellen Smith hall today.
T
L SUPERVI
Honorary Gives Tea Today
For Miss Bowman at
Raymond Hall.
Mortar Board, senior women s
honorary, will honor Miss Esther
Bowman, national vice president
of Mortar Board, at a tea today
from 3 to 0 o'clock in Carrie Bell
Raymond hall. Miss Bowman is
here to visit the local chapter,
having visited groups at Boulder,
Colo., Utah, Wyoming and Mon
tana.
Guests at the tea will include
all Mortar Board alumni and rep
resentative upper class women. In
he receiving line will be Miss
Bowman, Miss Amanda Heppner,
Mrs. V. D. Coleman, national
president of the society, and Miss
can wait, president of the local
chapter.
The following Mortar Board
lumni have nsked to pour during
the afternoon: Miss Elsie Ford
iper, Mrs. Ada VVestover, Miss
Paulino Gallatly, Miss Margaret
Fcrlde.
ijafkv cum iwkltiim;
OPEN TO I KOSIIIULN
Member Judging Trams
To Hrport on Ilecrnt
(Ion tot Tri.s.
Varsity Dairy club will meet this
evening in the dairy industry build
ing on Ag campus. The meeting is
open to all freshmen Interested In
dairy work with members of the
faculty in the dairy department as
special guests.
The Judging teams who recently
returned from Dallas and Atlantic
City will report on their trips and
on tho contests. The evening's pro
gram will be devoted to these reports.
Final plans will be made for the
mixer to be sponsored by the club
November 6 at tho student activi
ties building. ,
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STUDENTS
NAM
E
CAMPUS QUEENS
AT POLLS TODAY
12 Primary Winners to Be
Announced Early in
November.
Reviving Nebraska tradition, the
entire student body will go to the
polls today to aid in the selection
of the 1937 Cornhusker Beauty
Queens. Twelve of the 33 candi
dates will be chosen in the pri
maries today to compete again in
a final election on Nov. 10.
"There will be no electioneering
on the beauty queens," Sid Baker
declared. "The students are to be
the judges of beauty in this con
test. The pictures and names of
all the contestants will be plainly
displayed to aid everyone making
the choices."
The election, held in conjunction
with the annual fall elections
sponsored by the Student Council,
will be held from 8 a. m. to 5
p. m. in Temple building on the
city campus and in the ag ac
tivities building on the ag campus
The Student Council is in charge
of the balloting and will count
the votes cast.
No Sister Shoving.
In regard to the elections, Baker
stated that "there will be no fa
voratism whatsoever. This sclec-
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ELECTION FILINGS
Senior Class President.
Floyd Baker, Independent.
Robert Hutton, Progressive.
Junior Class President.
Robert Wadhams, Progress
ive. Byrle Shuck, Independent.
Honorary Colonel.
Erma Bauer
Eleanor Clizbe
Marylu Peter
sen Jeanne Palmer
Margaret
Phillippe
Mary Yoder
Nebraska Sweetheart.
Margaret
Blaufuss
Louise Magee
Betty
Van Horn
Music School Representative.
Alice Balnum
Richardson
Dougall
Margaret
Harvey
CAMPUS TO
NAME GLASS
PRESIDENTS
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IS
PERSHING RIFLES TO
Lois Allen, Earl Hedland
Named as Co-Chairman
Of Ag Affair.
Committees for the 11th annual
Farmers' Formal were announced
today by Vincent Jacobson, presi
dent of the ag executive board.
The gala affair will be held in the
student activities building on Fri
day, Oct. 30, when overalls and
aprons will be in style for the
Holdrege street lads and lassies.
The party will be climaxed with
the presentation of the farmer's
formal queen, to be chosen from
the prominent girls on Ag campus.
Lois Allen and AI Moseman, co-
chairmen of the affair, ask that
all Ag college students begin pre
paring for the affair. New stu
dents especially are urged to at
tend, and entertainment is promis
ed for all.
Co-chairmen of the decoration
committee, Al Moseman, Lois Al
len and Karl Hedlund, are assisted
by the following members of the
committee: Althea Barada, Elsie
Buxman, Phyllis Chamberlain,
Phyllis Robinson, Lois Lichliter,
Thomas Aitkcn, Ester Weichert,
Carl Swanson, Wallace Chaloupka,
Ann Gersib, Leroy Hultquist,
Wayne Domingo and Frank Ship-
man.
Ticket committee co-chairmen
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AT HUSKER-PITT TILT
Unit Will Fire Salute to
Governor of State at
Football Game.
New uniforms will be worn by
the Pershing Rifles when they
fire a salute to the governor of
the state at the Nebraska-Pitt
game Nov. 14. Appearance at
the Pitt game will mark the first
time that the unit has worn
separate uniforms.
The pants and the coat of the
new uniform are of white cotton
gaberdine. A high cadet type
collar, on the coat, fits snugly
about the neck. Shoulder straps
and the belt are of infantry blue,
while brass buttons and an over
seas cap of white trimmed in blue
complete the outfit.
Officers in the organization
will wear the same uniform ex
cept that a black sam brown belt
will be substituted for the basic
infantry blue, and a blue garisson
cap with white top and black visor
will be worn instead of the white
over-seas cap of the basics.
COUNCIL PLANS ALL BARB
PARTY IN ARMORY FRIDAY
All Unaffiliated Students
Urged to Attend First
Free Dance.
To aid unaffiliated students in
making acquaintances, an all barb
dance will be held in the armory
Friday evening, Oct. 23, from 7:30
to 8:30.
Austin Moritz, president of the(
barb interclub council, urges all
students to attend this get-to
gether as there will be no charge.
Thru the co-operation of the
barb A. W. S. league and the inter
club council, an all barb picnic
will be held Sunday morning, Oct.
25, at Antelope park. Rides will be
available from Ellen Smith hall at
6 a. m. Breakfast will cost 15
cents.
Pledge Allegiance
rito;itKssivK.s
Time has proved that a body in
rdcr to exist must have a defin
ite constructive purpose. Tho past
three years have proved the valid
ity of this statement so far as
campus politics at this university
are concerned. Today the Pro
gressive faction remains without
opposition from any organized
campus political party. This is ad-
itted by the very opposition it
self in filing candidates as independents.
During the pHst three years the
Progressive faction has proved its
ortn and merit on the campus of
this school. Through Its member
ship on the student council and Its
lass officers, elected last fall. It
has sponsored and carried through
many new plans for the belter'
ment of the student body.
This year the Progressive party
again advances candidates who are
pledged to continue the wide
spread innovations and reforms
that will bring Nebraska students
the facilities and privileges they
deserve as members of a stato sup
ported institution.
With our candidates we present
our platform reasserting the prin
ciples and projects that progressive
leadership has so successfully ad
ministered, and inaugurating Dew
proposals for the coming year.
1. Having secured the student
book store, the progressive party
now advocates the installation of
student representation on the board
of control of this same project.
Z. Tho progressive party rec
ommends the payment of all stu
dent union pledges In order that
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;hi:i:k council
We, the Greek Council Faction,
endorse the Independent candi
dates, feeling that there are con
ditions cxislant upon the Univer
sity of Nebraska campus which
are diametrically opposed to fur
thering the best Interest. of the
student body, that the student
government is at present nearing
the point of stagnation, and re
alizing that class leaders are
needed who can achieve the ends
to which they are pledged, have
taken stops to eliminate such od
orons conditions by supporting the
candidate whom we feel will best
represent the interests of the stu
dent body in general.
In so doing, we hereby pledge
our support to the leader of the
Greek organizations for the po
sition of senior class president
and to tho leader of the unaffili
ated students for tho position of
Junior class president. To achieve
these ends, this faction and the
candidates whom we support do
advocate this platform as a per
manent program which will be
followed during our administra
tion in the bettering of these prac
tices and conditions:
1. Protection of barb interests:
In view of the fact that the
interests of the barb students have
been well reflected when supported
by the progressive faction, and,
since their interests have not been
well represented, and since they
offer & candidate for the Junior
class presidency whose merits far
outweigh, those of his competitor.
we feel that we are protecting
general campus welfare by plcdg-
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ARTICLE IN ALUMNUS
October Issue Appears on
Stands Today; Begin
Series Articles.
Featuring the first of a series
of articles by Miss Nellie Jane
Compton, former librarian, on her
recollections of 40 years service
in the library, the October issue of
the Nebraska Alumnus makes its
appearance on the campus today.
"We'll Yell When We Feel Like
It," deals with the timely ques
tion of why the cheering section
fails to respond to the pleas and
yells of the cheer leaders. Other
articles holding special interest for
the students are "Campus Cycle,"
by Mlxine Jones: "We Study tfie
Freshmen," by Dewey B. Stuit,
and the reply to Merril Englund's
letter home by his father.
Prof. Gayle C. Walker briefly
describes the interesting sidelights
of his recent trip to the south in
his article "Tennessee Tour." Ar
ticles dedicated to the memories of
Prof. Herbert Brownell and Dr.
Charles Fordyce also appear in the
issue.
Embodying the spirit of the old
and the new by combining a draw
ing or tne old university gate with
a picture of one of the stunts of
the new cheering section, the cover
of the new issue was attractively
designed by Dwight Kirsh, director
of the fine arts school.
Students may secure this issue
of the Alumnus for 25 cents at
the offices of the Alumni associa
tion in the Temple building.
Students Also to Vote
Honorary Colonel,
Sweetheart.
for
Fighting for political su
premncy, ne faction, two inde
pendent candidates, and eleven
sororities, will await the ver
dict of the student body when
it goes to the polls today. Win
ners of five positions junior and
senior class presidencies, Honorary
Colonel, Nebraska Sweetheart, and
Student Council representative
from school of music will be de
cided between the opening of the
polls at 8 this morning and the
closing at 5 this evening.
Expecting one of the largest
ballotings in the history of the
university because of this year's
all time record enrollment, Arnold
Levin, Student Council president,
declared that "it is the duty of
every student on the campus to
vote. You owe it to the university
to take an active part in its ac
tivities." "Vote carefully," Levin advised.
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.C.A. TO
Installation Vesper Service
Led by Caroline Kile
In Ellen Smith.
New members of the University
Y. W. C. A. will be recognized
in a white candle lighting service
at the Tuesday afternoon vesper
service in Ellen Smith hall at 5
o'clock. Caroline Kile, who is to
lead the devotions, is also in charge
of the installation service.
Miss Margaret Fedde, of the Ag
home economics division, will wel
come the new girls into the Y. W.,
and explain the advantages and
privileges of belonging to the or
ganization. The gifts donated in each of the
three groups of the finance drive:
Sorority, dormitory, and town
girls, will be dedicated by the high
point girls in each of the divisions.
DIL WILLIAMSON TO
DISCUSS KTIQUKTTK
Discussing problems of etiquette.
Dr. Klizabcth Williamson, social
director of Raymond hall and an
assistant dean of women, will ad
dress the members of riil Tau
Thcta at the Wesley Foundation
Tuesday evening.
ENROLLS 185 IM STUDY
CENTERS OVER STATE
University Conducts Relief
Project in High School,
College Courses.
Enrollment in the 20 relief study
centers conducted thruout the state
by the university extension de
partment has now reached ISj
students. This figure docs not,
however, include work done in
study centers conducted on a non
relief basis or the work being car
ried on in CCC camps.
Subjects are offered for both
high school and college courses,
depending on the individual's prep
aration. The most popular college
subjects are: Farm accounts,
teaching reading, introduction to
teaching, school management, ed
ucation of women, English com
position, geography of Nebraska,
American history, history of Ne
braska, advanced algebra, elemen
tary psychology, personal hygiene,
and physiology. Considerable in
terest was also shown in German.
Swedish and French. High school
subjects most in demand are
typing and shorthand.
The largest centers according
to the number of students enrolled
in each are Plattsmouth, Stroms
burg, Butte, Albion, O'Neill, Spald
ing and Lincoln. In number of
hours for which students are reg
istered the following towns lead:
Butte, Stromsburg, Plattsmouth,
O'Neill, Albion, Spalding and Lin
coln. The study centers are conducted
by the university extension divis
ion with the co-operation of the
WPA and local high schools where
unemployed persons 16 years of
age and over may carry full time
educational work. Any person
above the compulsory Nebraska
school age who has not been en
rolled in a school during the fall
of 1936 may register for work pro
vided that ihey will agree to spend
a minimum of five hours a day for
five days a week in the study
center.
KNOX COMES TO LINCOLN; HITS
SPENDING OF ADMINISTRATION:
THEN OI T AGAIN ON CAMPAIGN
BY HAROLD NIEMANN.
He has come, contributed and
gone away.
Col. Frank Knox, that stocky,
rotound republican candidate for
Ihe vice president Is now undoubt
edly far from Lincoln, again at
tacking the spending and inde
finltcness of the present Het of
government.
While in Lincoln Colonel Knox
played his important role to per
fection. Speaking to a big crowd
of sun flower lapclled citizens,
who filled more than three-fourths
of the university coliseum and to
a probably much larger audience
over the air, this hard hitting
Chicago editor thundered out hln
words of attack on the democra
tic administration.
As Mr. Knox entered the stage
his gray suit matching his sandy
gray hair and contrasting with
Mrs. Knox's black dress and red
flowered hat, the audience cheered
and yelled. H seated himself and
was immediately introduced by
Harry Spencer, state chairman of
the young republican organization.
As Mr. Knox began his speech
the audience became tense, won
dering Just what this man would
say. His words came smoothly
and regularly. After he went thru
the formalities that every speaker
must include, his words became
more caustic, his sentences con
noted his wide knowledge of gov
ernment affairs. "The new deal
campaign ' has reeked of propa
ganda and false argument. The
issues have been befogged by ir
relevant discussion and buried
under glittering generalities," he
thundered. The audience broke its
silence. Mrs. Knox from he chair
applauded enthusiastically for her
husband.
"It was Secretary Wallac who
suggested that the constitution bo
scrapped, bloodlessly If postlble. It
was Mr. Tugwell who urged the
farmers and workers to seize com
mand and take over the govern
ment under Mr. Roosevelt. It was
Mr. Roosevelt himself who said
that he was giving the businesa
men a little breathing spell. It
was Mr. Wallace who said that a
supreme court decision was a
steal." Again the applause was
great.
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