CbwiuuL anxL (About TP JL Daily HP JL EBRA Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska SKAN Jm Saruh Lokma Meyer Bowling Them Into the Aisles University men were being educated under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A.p via the film on syphillis, "For All Our Sakes." The boys were taking their little lesson very seriously and con cernedly. When the section de scribing the symptonj of the dread disease was shown, one lad fell off his perch on the win dow sill, and another in the back of the room went out old. f III the personal ml section of the "Saturday Keview of Litera ture" wc ran across this offer: "I will try to help anyone who is sincerely searching' for God to find Him; no charge." One of Doc Wimberly's pet crusades is against science in gen eral and the "ologies" in particu lar. He asserts that science doesn't have all the answers, doesn't know anything for sure. The greatest wonders of life are not explainable from a scientific view. Indeed he claims, blind allegiance to the great god science reduces men to "intellectual serfs." To make an important contribution to the world one must be a "free mind." Dr. Wimberly would resent be ing called a religious man, for his convictions, however firm, are unconventional.. But even less will ing to confess to any declaration of faith is "ology" Professor Dy singer. He avoids all controversy on religious matters as a plague on two grounds: One can't change another's mind on religion because their belief is a prejudice, not a conclusion. Then, too. religion is a matter of individual concern is no one else's business. Each person is entitled to and probably has, would he admit it, his own deity: be it some great power beyond human ken, or a waste basket. Why then preach angrily at your students, Dr. Wimberly? If the enquiring mind must not be taken in by science, why should it revere your disbelief in attempts to factually explain the universe? Persons steeped in piety and re ligion can also lack the imagina tion which you say the scientific attitude stifles. A living God can not be heatedly handed down from the lecture platform, be it a scientific or a literary one. The whimsical little ad had a point: one can only help someone to help himself to find God. w Somewhat sleepy were Ray Brown and Irv Yaffe when they boarded the midnight train for Lincoln in Omaha last week end. Indeed they were off for the Land of Nod almost as the train was leaving the station. Their slumber was rudely interrupted somewhere south of town when the conductor stopped the train and put them off. Soon picked up by a police car, the fellows cruised about with the law in a flashlight investigation of the by-lanes of Antelope park, and were eventually delivered at the very door of the Sammy house. They are contemplating writing (Continued on Page 2.) FARMER GIVES LAWYERS STAND DN COURT ISSUE Profession Believes in Strict Adherence to Suprem acy of Law. The law profession's strict ad herence to the doctrine of the sup remacy of the law and to the role of judiciary independence is the reason why most lawyers are op posed to President Roosevelt's pro posed court changes, said Dean L H. Foster in his address yester day noon before the Lincoln Co operative club. The law college dean impressed upon the minds uf the gathering that their arguments were presented historically. "The reason that most lawyers arc opposed to revamping the court." ho said, "is due to their ad herence to the doctrine of the supremacy of the law and to the principle of the independence of the judiciary." He firmly believes that this argument forms the crux of the lawyers' opposition to the executive's court alterations. Pointing out the various points of the barristers' contentions, Dean Foster continued by saying, "The doctrine of the supremacy of the law involves the idea that con troversies are to be determined by abstract principles; by a body of experts in law and not by a polit ically minded body on the basis of political experience." That the tiff between the court and the president is a retrospective study into the rudimentary principal of law and abstract notions against politics and passions was firmly put across to the meeting by Mr. Foster. Dr. Walcott to Talk on 'Home Building' at Sunday Night Meeting Dr. C. H. VVolcott. pastor of the First Baptist church, will speak before the young people's organization, the Roger Wiliams club, on the topic "Home Build ing" Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. Following Dr. Wolcott's talk and a group discussion of the evening's topics, the club will spend an hour in social activity. Clmton SUirde vnnt'H remission will be charge of the entertainment. Ki 1 i 4 ' . I 'rl goV',-. . 1 VOL. XXXV I NO. 90. STAR DUST MOTIF TO FEATURE PHI U Poster's Band to Play for All-University Affair Tomorrow Night. Featuring the theme song of "Star Dust" and the music of Mel Pester and his orchestra, the an nual Phi Upsilon Omicron leap year party will be held tomorrow evening at 9 o'clock in the student activities building on the ag cam pus. The party, scheduled as one of the major events on the home ee honorary's program, is slated as an all university affair. Decorations for the party will be carried out in midnight blue and white, with a starry background providing appropriate, atmosphere for the "Star Dust theme. Nov elty favors in the form of stars wiil l)e given to those present as an additional feature of the affair. Theme songs which have been chosen for the party include: "You Are My Lucky Star," "I'm Shoot ing High." and the familiar "Star Dust." Chaperons who will be present at the event on Saturday night in clude: Major and Mrs. J. D. Ho ran. Major and Mrs. R. C. Barka low, and Miss Mary Edith Carse, faculty advisor to the organiza tion. Special guests who have been in vited to the party are: Misses Mar garet Fedde, Evelyn Metzger, Ma tilda Peters, Martha Park, Louise Leaton, Velma Davis and Mildred Nelson. Committees which have been making arrangements for the party are made up of Elinor Mc Fadden and Donna Hiatt co-chairmen; publicity, Elsie Buxman, chairman, Pauline Walter and Helen Phares; chaperons, Ruth Schobert, chairman, Eula Winter mote, and Agnes Arthand; deco rations, Emma Mauch, chairman, Kathrvn Jones, A'gncs Novacek, and Helen Wheeling. ELECTMlINGINEERS APPOINT COMMITTEES College Representatives Will Help to Prepare for May Week. Chairmen and committees for the various electrical engineering groups who will represent that department during Engineer's Week were announced Wednesday night at a meeting of the Ameri can Institute of Klectrical Engin eers by Earl Ostendorf. depart ment chairman for the event. Robert Haynes, Marion Thomas. Charles Mir.nich and Omar Heins were chosen chairmen of power laboratory, communication labora tory. Brace laboratory, and poster.- and signs respectively. Tom AndorFon. chairman of the A. I. E. E.. appointed the follow ing committee: Howard Nuern berger, chairman of the program committee to be assisted by Thur nian Sipp and Hansom Slayton; Knoland Plucknetl, chairman of the refreshment committee has .lames Kiisness and Charles Min-rik-h as assistants; Milton Mohr, chairman of the advertising com mittee, with Harry Iangston and Loren Johnson on the committee. By Arthur Jennet. Associate Professor of Psychol ogy; Special Adviter to Arti and Science Freshmen. Reading is a complicated art which requires much skill. Unless reading is done properly, it im poses grint strain on the eyes. The muscles which move the eye lalls must be active constantly and the muscles inside the eyeballs are often under tension for long pe riods of time. In orde r to avoid tre mendous strain on these, tiny mus cles, every aid should be given the eyes in order to make their work easier. Adi-quate hunting is essen tial for efficient lending. If your eyes give you trouble, have them tested and miike certain that you have proper glasses if you need them. Even when your eyes are in perfect condition and the lighting is ldeai, the muscles need a rest now and then. Previously I sug gested that you ought to rest a few minutes every hair nour or so. If you do this, allow your eyes to focus on something at a great dis tance, or at least focus them as if vnn were lookine far away. This relieves the tension in the eye mus cles. Sometimes it is aesirame 10 close your eyes comfortably. If you close tnem for very long, allow them to become adapted to the light for a moment before you con tinue your reading. Much of the efficiency of read ing depends upon the relative number of eye movement you make in reading each line of ma terial. As you read, your eye do not move steadily from tide to side. They move by jerks, ince they must remain stationary while they take in each phrase. Only when the eyes are follow ing a moving object do they move at a steady rate. If your gaze moves steadily over a sta PARTY SATURDAY 1 EFFICIENCY IN READING H 'DUST STORMS WILL CONTINUE' WEATHERMAN BLAIR PREDICTS Erosion in Dry Fields of Oklahoma, Kansas Dust Source. By Josephine Rubnitz. "Warm weather means dust, and we are going to have warm weather for another month." Mcterologist T. A. Blair smiled ruefully as he exploded this bomb shell of bad news. "But what we have had in Lincoln are not even storms compared with the dust that has been stifling residents of eastern Nebraka for the last day or two, he protested. "In places the dust hovers so close to the ground as to make visibility ab solutely Impossible." Tho yellow dust which has been blowing over Kansas and Okla homa as well as over Nebraska, is being drawn from the flat dry fields of southwestern Kansas and Oklahoma, according to the diag nosis of Meterologist Blair. Altho tho dust . has not as yet crossed the expanses of the Missouri river, (Continued on Page 2.) Loetterle Leads Guild Meet of (iein Society G'. J. Loetterle of the conser vation and survey division con ducted the meeting of the Nebraska-Iowa Guild of the Amer ican Gem society. Feb. 16, at hotel Paxton, Omaha. The sub ject under discussion was relative hardness of different gem stones and the various methods of de termining their specific gravity. LOEFFEL 10 ADDRESS MEAT INVESTIGATION Ag- Instructor Plans Talk on Recent Studies at Mon day Session. William J. Loeffel. professor of animal husbandry at the univer sity, will he the featured speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the Sigma XI society when it meets at the College of Agriculture campus Monday, Feb. 22, at 8.00. Addressing the chapter on "Meat Thru the Microscope," Prof. Loef fel will discuss some of the recent physical, chemical and histologi cal investigations which have been made recently in order to improve the quality of meat. He contends that since meat production is one of Nebraska's principal industries, it is important that the product give satisfaction to the consumer. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the Ani mal Husbandry Hall, room 103. IMw-l! County Alumni Endorse Student Union The Phelps county alumni whole , heartedly endorsed the Student j Union building at a banquet in i Holdroge Wednesday evening. Over 90 former Nebraskans pledged their support in furnishing the building at the rally which was held at the Drake hotel. Principal speaker of the evening was Dr. R. A. Lyman, dean of the college of pharmacy, who spoke on the Student Union. He also related Pleasant remembrances of former ' days with many of the alumni. tionary object, your vision is blurred. (You can observe the jerky eye movements In reading by peering over the top of a book at a person who is reading. Some persons take in a whole line of newspaper column in two eye movements, while other may require ten or a dozen, es pecially if they go back and re peat ome of the word.) Effici ency in reading demand that you cover a passage of printed matter with as few eye move ments as you can make and still take in every word. If you read a line in units of one word, you use far too many eye move ments and you often fail to get the meanings of phrases. Sup pose, for example, that you were to look at the word "Efficiency" then at "in" and then at "read ing." Each of these words has a general meaning, but after you put them together, the meaning of the phrase is more specific and limited. If you take in the whole phrase. "Efficiency. In reading" at one glance, you save yourself not only two eye move ments, but the effort of com bining the three Ideas of con cepts Into one meaning. Have ome one watch your eye move ments as you read and If you make too many of them, begin to practice seeing as many words at once as you can. Force your self to read passages as rapidly as you can and have some one ask you questions about what you have read to make certain that you have got the meaning of the passages. I know many persons who have greatly In creased their speed, accuracy, and comprehension simply by forcing themselves to read faster than they used to. Increase Vocabulary. Another way to increase your efficiency in reading is Jo increase LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937. I fey $t?t I Krom Lincoln Journii i T. A. BLAIR. I 10 E Chancellor Will Speak on 'Youth of Nebraska' at Ag Dinner. The university will be host to members of the Nebraska Press association and their families at the university press dinner to be held tonight at the activities building of Ag college. Guests of honor at the dinner will include; W. H. Plourd. president of the as sociation and editor of the Nance County Journal; Ralph J. Kelly, field manager of the association: Dr. E. A. Burnett, chancellor of the university; Major Lawrence Jrfnes, newly selected athletic di rector at the university, and Henry Schulte, track coach and assistant football mentor. Diversified Program. Program of the evening will consist of entertainment by vari ous students and faculty members of the university. The program (Continued on Page 2.1 OHIO STATK CHOI 1ST DISCUSSES GLUCOSE William Llojd Evans Talks Before Chemical Society on Wednesday. William Lloyd Evans, chairman of the Ohio State chemistry de partment spoke on "Some Prob lems iii Carbohydrate Chemistry" before an open meeting of the Nebraska section of the American Chemical society Wednesday eve ning in the lecture room of Avery laboratory. Approaching the problem of carbohydrate chemistry from a practical standpoint. Professor Evans reviewed the advances made in the knowledge of the con struction of glucose. The benefits in glucose experimentation, new uses for such common forms as corn syrup, cane sugar, milk sugar and starch were discussed. your vocabulary. Every time you skip a word whose meaning you do not know, you have left a gap in your understanding of what you have read. The only way I know by which you can improve your vocabulary is to look up every strange word and use it until you are thoroly familiar with its mean ing. Every new word you acquire makes you potentially a better reader. Repeating the word aloud helps you to renumber it. Proper distribution of time in reading a passage may contribute considerably to what you may ac complish in a given period of time. Many students tell me that if they aie assigned a chapter in a text-book, they begin with the first word and read until they have finished the chapter, repeat ing it as often as necessary. This is seldom the best method. If you have an hour in which to cover a chapter, it is usually more efficient to spend the first five or ten minutes going over it very rapidly, reading the topic sen tences in the paragraphs, noting the sub-headings and getting an idea of what the chapter i3 about. In this way you know what is coming and you are likely to get each point more quickly than if you did not know what to expect. After you know what the chapter Is about you can spend forty-five or fifty minutes reading it care fully, repeating those passages which are important, especially those which you do not under stand upon the first reading. When you have finished the chap ter, spend a few minutes in glanc ing over it as a whole, so as to make certain that you understand the relation of the different topics to each other. While this method may not be so desirable in reading some, types of litera BANQUET TONIGH HONOR STATE PRESS M MBERS PHALANX 10 OPEN ANNUAL HEREONFRIDAY 33 Men to Enter Military Honorary in Ceremony Saturday. Convening in Lincoln over the week-end for the annual national Phalanx convention, representa tives from the universities of Minnesota, Illinois, Creighton, and Nebraska will inaugurate their three days of meetings with regis tration this afternoon. Climaxing the Saturday meet ings, 33 men will be initiated for mally into the organization in the presence of national officers, Com mander Adrian Tolen, Lieutenant Commander Ben Morske, national finance officer, and Adjutant George Masters. Major C. E. Speer of the Nebraska military depart ment and national advisor of Phalanx will also be present. Three-Day Program. The three-day program for the convention follows: Friday afternoon, registration. Saturday, 9 to 12, meeting in the Hotel Lincoln. 12 o'clock luncheon with the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. 2 to 4 o'clock, meeting in the j Hotel Lincoln. 4 to 6 o'clock, entertainment. 7 o'clock, dinner dance In Ve netian ball room of the Lincoln : hotel. 9 to 12 o'clock, formal in the i Lincoln hotel. ; Sunday morning, sight-seeing j trip of Lincoln. The 33 new members to be in- t Continued on Page 2.) DR. CONDRA TO SPEAK ON SOIL F AT MOSd Director of Conservation Division Will Depart Early in June. Dr. George E. Condra, director of the conservation and survey di vision of the university, will at tend the international congress for geol gists at Moscow, U. S. S. Ft., next summer, where he will pre ent a paper on Correlation of the Permo-Pennsylvania Formations of Nebrask. The congress, which will draw leading geologists from thruout the world, will be held from July 20 to 28, with several meetings in Leningrad as well as Moscow. Dr. Condra will also be a mem ber of a party which will make two field excursions to study car boniferous formations in Russia, with one excursion preceding and one immediately following the congress, and will devote his time to a study of Bryozoa from Per mian and Pennsylvanian forma tions He is considered one of the leading authorities in the world on such formations, and has built up for the university the largest col lection of Bryozoan fossils of these ages to be found anywhere. Other members of the party will he Dr. Sellers, state geologist of Texas; Dr. Moore, state geologist (Continued on Page 2.) ture, it is highly efficient in deal ing with textbooks. Practice Underlining. If you own the book you are using (and you should own your text-books whenever possible), underline the important sen tences. (This will decrease the second-hand value of your book, but you won't get much for it, anyway.) At first you may not agree with your Instructor as to what is important, but prac tice in deciding what is Impor tant will Improve your ability to recognize it. Altho authori ties differ, I believe that under lining is usually preferable to writing an outline of the con tents. The latter consumes more time and effort and is usually no more useful for review than is underlining. Often notes and comr ents written on the mar gins of pages are valuable re minders to use in reviewing. If you have done the underlin ing properly, you should be able to review a book In much shorter time than if you have to read the whole book. If you find that the underlined sen tences do not recall the entire meaning of a passage, you can still read the accompanying sen tences to refresh your memory. In most cases, it is useless to try to remember verbatim what you read, or even the most im portant things. Read to get the ideas, rather than to memorize what is in the book. If you try to memorize a passage, but forget only one word, you may lose the entire meaning. If you read for the idea and get it, you are still able to express it, even though you may not use exactly the same words. One way of making certain that you will retain Ideas is to make them parts of your whole (Continued on Page 4.) CONCLAVE Juniors Propose To Open Student Publicity Bureau Y. M. DISCUSSES YEAR'S PK OGHAM AT NEXT SESSION A discussion of plans for the re mainder of the semester will con stitute the program of the Y. M. C. A. meeting set for Saturday, Feb. 20, in the Y rooms at the Temple. Following a supper in the club rooms, members will discuss sug gestions for activities to be carried out by the organization during the remainder of the year. Dan Wil liams, president, will lead the dis cussion. A charge of 25 cents has been set for the supper. Those planning to attend must notify C. D. Hayes, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. before tonight. Carnival Fans to Celebrate at Grant Memorial Tomorrow. Coed Counselor's midwinter fes tivity, the annual penny carnival, will open at 2:30 Saturday, Feb. 20, in Grant Memorial and will continue thruout the afternoon. A dozen booths prepared by sorority and organized women's houses, and dancing to a public address sys tem will afford amusement and en tertainment for the carnival goers. The climax of the carnival occurs just before its closing at 5 o'clock when a popularity cup wiil be pre sented to the group whose booth receives the largest number of votes. Every 15 cent ticket bought at the door will carry one voting privilege. General chairmen for the affair are Virginia Nolle. Dorca.i Craw ford, and Coed Counselor presi dent. Marjorie Bannister. Mary Priscilla Stuart is chairman of the food committee, Erma Bauer is in charge of the advertising, and Frances Scudder will present the cup of popularity. The committee for the carnival has announced that special care has been taken this year to make their celebration attractive to both the men and wo men students of the campus. VARSITY:FROSH RIFLE TEAMS MEET FEB. 20 15 Men to Fire for Each Team; Competition Open to Public Members of the varsity-freshman rifle teams will compete for honors at 1 o'clock Saturday aft ernoon, Feb. 20, in the basement of Andrews hall. Sergeant McGim sey announces that the match is open to the public. Fifteen men will be firing for each team with only the scores of the ten highest to be counted. Fir ing will be shoulder to shoulder with a time limit. Teams will be under the leader ship of the newly elected officers. The varsity will be directed by John Campbell, captain, and John Cattle, manager. The freshman team will be under the direction of John Folsom, captain, and B. E. Taylor, manager. The members of the varsity team are John Campbell. John Cattle, John Salyards, C. Thomp son, Bob Mowbray, Jean A. Jack, Dale Bonham, George Galloway, Jay Forrester, Fred Bodie, C. Summers, L. N. Gray, G. E. Wick. Bob Avery, Forrest Wllke, and George Eager. The freshman riflemen are John Folsom, J. Sisson, B. E. Taylor, Sterling Dobbs, G. Uhrenhold, M. E. FolHom, R. C. Fenstermack er. C. F. Dus, H. T. Williams, R. Grant. M. H. Rohrbaugh, G. R. Jameson, C. H. Kleaper, G. P. Mu eller, John Daris, and Jack Rath bone. LUNDSTROM WILL HEAD ENGINEERING HONORARY Sigma Tau Elects Officers; to Hold Installation March 4 th. LouU Lundstrom. mechanical engineering student from Teka mah, was elected president of Sig ma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, at s meeting Thursday night. Other officers are Harry Brown, M. E.. vice president: John Parker, Chem. E.. secretary: Thurman Sipp, E. E., treasurer; Carl Carl son. M. E., corresponding secre tary, and Glen Jamieson, M. E., historian. Installation will take place March 4. John Mostrom is the re tiring president. COUNSELRS OPEN WINTER PENNY BAZAAR SATURDAY PRICE 5 CENTS Class Organization Gets Under Way as Board Shape Plans. Junior class organization, the lack of which has long tickled the palate of publicity hungry copy line crusader3, seemed a step nearer realization after a meeting of the recently appointed commit tee on class organization Thurs day night. Although a request for suggestions as to possible functions of an organized junior class made at the last meeting of the student council, by Presi dent Wadhams yielded no results, the committee of thirteen outlined a tentative program to be fol lowed for the remainder of the school year. Burney Investigates. Willard Burney was appointed chairman of a committee to in vestigate possibilities of establish ing a student publicity bureau in conjunction with the administra tive News and Feature Service. The bureau which is intended to function as an agency carrying news of the university to com munity newspapers throughout tho state would be handled by mem bers of the junior class function ing throughout the year through a committee on committees.. Pub licity would supposedly be cir culated under the auspices of the established university news serv ice, carrying the byline of student representatives of the particular locality covered. Robert Wadhams, junior class president, voiced enthusiasm in the proposed agency and ex pressed his hopes "that such an agency would tend to eliminate the antagonism with which out state citizens view the university, and would effect a feeling be tween school and populace that would eventually prove beneficial to both alike." Burney stated late Thursday night that arrangements had been made to go before the State Press Association convention Saturday morning to discuss the proposed publicity service with editors (Continued on Page 2. i A. W. S. LEAGUE HONORS ACTIVE GIRLS Unaffiliated Women Laud Outstanding Work On Campus. Going steadily forward in its role of uniting barb women inter ested in broader campus life, the Barb AWS League honored 17 underclasswomen at a tea held yesterday in Ellen Smith hall. Over 60 barb women and special guests attended the affair. Rosa Bouton hall, the freshman co-operative house, claims four of the seven women who were given corsages in recognition of their outstanding achievements in ac tivities. Those honored were: Dorothy Anderson. Eleanor Bell, Lillian Blaskovec, Ruth Green, Joy Pestal and Patricia Pope. Of the ten women who received regular recognition, the active Rosa Bouton hall girls claimed three. Roses were given to Libby Blaskovec, Marijane Eager, Irene Eden, Helen Danner, June Hughes, Marion Kaths, Marie Knickrehm. Latha Shannon, Irma Uchling and Molly Wyland. Girls attending the tea were told by board members the aims and plans for the present semes ter for thL'm. Special guests were Miss Elsie Ford Piper, Miss Mil dred Green. Mrs. Ada Westovcr, Miss Nora Dc Cory and Miss Eve lyn Diamond, former members of the Barb AWS board. R. 0. T. C. BAND PLAYS Junior Chamber Sponsors Broadcast by Reserve Officers. As a feature of National De fense Week the University R. O. T. C. band broadcast a series of numbers over the reserve officers program Wednesday eve ning from station KFOlt from 9:30 to 10 o'clock. J. Edgar Boschult. assistant purchasing agent for the Univer sity, introduced the band and its director, William Quick. Between numbers by the band Fred Eastci -day, Jr., radio program chairman for the Lincoln Junior of Com merce, talked on the national de fense program of the count ry. On the program which was en titled "The Good Will Hour" the band played the following num bers: His Honor March by Fill more, Le Reine de Saba by Gounody, Hail Varsity by Chen oweth. Semper Fidells March by Sousa and the Star Spangled Banner. As a feature of the pro gram Dwane Harmon played a merce sponsored the program, cornet solo. Sounds of the Hudson, by Clark. 1 I i