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Good Old Dav.'
Countless are the errors incor
porated in this column; the ones
we don't make, the printers con
tribute. And we are ready to
admit that we are frequently
wrong. But one correction we
must take issue with: The state
ment to Dr. Pool to his classes
that two biological errors ap
peared In yesterday's concoction.
Is that, my dear sir, any way
to talk about campus personali
ties? Whenever any of our old and
fading college generation gets to
gether conversation almost Inevit
ably takes the. same turn: Giff
me the good old days. We aging
and die-hard students mourn the
passing of the colorful campus
lights of the past, the thinking
and doing personages of former
times. Gone are the Wcldy Keeses,
the Mauric Johnsons, the Mary
Robinsons, the Rosalie Lammers,
the Irving Hills, the Jack Fischers,
the Ginny Scllecks. Gone, too, are
the Cunninghams, the Flings, the
Frys, the Brownclls that contrib
uted so much to student experience
as faculty members. The present
generations, too, are losers in not
having such keen, original minds
as part of our institution.
The newer era puts a high value
on conforming. Smith Davis de
cries the fact that the girls all
look alike. Instructors mourn that
their students all think alike. Col
legians complain that their pro
fessors discourage originality. Ev
erybody seems very busy being
Romans.
When J. Gunnar Back tells bud
ding journalists about the field
lor their work in radio, he warns
them that there the premium is
on mediocrity. The smash suc
cesses from a financial and popu
larity standpoint are those
sketches or continuity bits about
average persons for average per
sons. He hopes an influx of college
trained writers will raise the tone,
but audience caliber is dictator of
policies number one.
Newspapers and magazines also
deify second rate material. The
arts are likewise guilty painting,
sculpture, the stage and cinema.
Young blood, potentially original
as to contributions, is squeezed out.
Many forces in the economic sys
tem dictate these situations, but
that is small consolation to the
youth that is wailing to be served,
that must some way be served
else the order slips into reverse.
Individuals of talents and leader
ship seem in ever decreeasing min
orities, but development of the ca
pacities of the younger generation
has little fostering. Whither
Young America?
Lewie Cass is enormously
tickled at an acount of the ap
plication of Margery Wilson's
principles of Charm as is con
densed from Margaret Case
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Clyde White, Farmers' Fair
Manager, to Outline
Plans Tonight.
To arouse campus interest in
this year's Farmer's fair program,
the first of a series of mass meet
ings for ag campus students will
be held this evening at 7:15 o'clock
in room 300, Ag hall.
Asa special part of the program
planned for the meeting:. Clyde
White, manager of the 1937 Farm
er's fair, will outline plans com
pleted thus far for this year's
show, and at the same time ex
plain the responsibility which ag
students must assume in order to
make the fair a success. Junior
and senior members of the fail
board will also be introduced dur
ing the program.
Entertainment, under the super
vision of Pat Beachell, will be pre
sented in the form of a short play
by the Ag Dramatics club, and
several short skits will be offered
by students. The singing of Farm
er's fair songs, written especially
for this year's exhibition, will con
clude the evening's program.
SCABBARD, BLADE NAMES
NEW OFFICERS FOR YEAR
Chittenden, Mueller, Baker,
Alexander Elected to
Military Posts.
Everett Chittenden was elected
captain of Scabbard and Blade,
honorary military, organization, at
a meeting held Wednesday evening
at the Beta Theta Pi house. Other
officers named are Waldemar
Mueller, first lieutenant, Floyd
Eaker, second lieutenant, and Ross
Alexander first sergeuit
Plans were discussed at the
meeting for a rush smoker at
the Lincoln hotel at 7:15 o'clock,
Wednesday night, March 10.
Fifty juniors, second lieutenants
in the ROTC, will be invited. No
tices will be issued early in the
week.
Of the group members of Scab
bard and Blade will select 20 to
25 juniors for pledging. Initiation
is scheduled for April.
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AG CAMPUS STUDENTS
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VOL. XXXVI NO. 99.
University, Congress Will
Discuss Supreme Court
Bill at Same Time.
Nebraska's initial student forum,
based on the controversial point of
the proposed supreme court re
form, falls on March S), a date pre
sumed to be of vital importance in
governmental circles.
For on this date the bill intend
ed to revise the head division of
the national judiciary is scheduled
to appear on the floor of Congress
after several weeks of committee
hearings.
The man who inaugurated the
plan for the court reform, Presi
dent Franklin D. Koosevelt, per
sonally gives his views on the
matter in one of his "fireside
chats" over a liiitional hookup
the evening of March 9.
With James E. Lawrence, edi
tor of the Lincoln Star, and C.
Pctrus Peterson, Lincoln attorney,
scheduled to provide the debate
from the rostrum, the student
forum promises to be one of the
outstanding convocations of the
school year. In fact, Dean H. H.
Foster plans to dismiss his law
classes so that the students can
participate in the open house dis
cussion. Other professors are also
planning to dismiss classes.
Speakers Well Qualified.
"C. Petrus Teterson, who will
oppose the court reform, has one
of the keenest analytical minds in
the state," said Leo McMahon, co
chairman of the forum commit
tee, "and is most qualified to
speak on this important topic."
According to McMahon, Editor
Lawrence will present the lay
men's view on the subject. "As
an editor," McMahon said. "Mr.
Lawrence is qualified to give an
accurate interpretation to such an
involved question as the court re
form." OBSERVANCE FRIDAY
Literary Society to Honor
Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Tomorrow Night.
Observing its 65th anniversary,
the alumni association of the Pal
ladian Literary society will stage
its annual program in Palladian
hall of the Temple building, 9:00
o'clock Friday evening. One of the
most active alumni associations of
any campus society, the Palladian
alumni group gathers once a year
for a general "good time."
The program will include both
educational and humorous num
bers. A debate on the subject, "Re
solved, that women do have some
right including voting," will be
upheld on the affirmative by Rev.
H. W. Foard and on the negative
by Mrs. Wilber Handen. Other
numbers of the program include:
Instrumental Quartet, Burton
Ellsworth, Mrs. M. C. Leonard,
Miss Gladys Swift, and Will
Reedy.
Rendition of verse, Miss Mar
garet Cannell.
Impromptu, By selection.
Bagpipe selections, James An
derson. "Modern Music," Dr. Alton Par
dee. Vocal Solo, Mrs. Aden.
Critic's report, Mrs. Grace
Hyatt.
Mrs. H. C. Filley, president pro
tem, will preside over the pro
gram. All students interested in
the program or in the Palladian
society are invited to attend the
open meeting.
n. u. enWologTsts
ATTEND CONFERENCE
Whelan, Bare, Roberts Go
To Kansas City for
Annual Meeting.
Three entomologists from the
college of agriculture left Wed
nesday to participate in the pro
gram of the annual meeting of
the north-central states entom
ology association. The meeting
will be held Thursday and Friday
in Kansas City. Prof. Don B.
Whelan, Prof. Raymond Roberts
and O. S Bare compose the trio
of entomologists.
Prof. Whelan will give two
papers. One will be the influence
of weather conditions on the
hibernation of insects and the
other wUl be the influence of
weather condition on the white
grubs and control measures. Mr.
Bare, state extension entomol
ogist, will address the convention
on effective grasshopper cam
paigns as carried on in Nebraska
by county agricultural agents.
The grasshopper situation will
be considered at the meeting.
Plans will probably be laid for
administering the proposed insect
act now in congress, which would
provide "hopper poison bait to
farmers in the spring.
INITIAL
STUDENT
FORUM FALLS ON
IMPORTANT DATE
Daily
Official
RECORD ENROLLMENT, LACK OF MINIMUM FUNDS
ARE MAKING NEBRASKA A SECOND-RATE SCHOOL
Only Legislative Action
Can Keep Us Off the
Downhill Grade.
(An Editorial.)
When Rex Carr paid his fees
last fall to become first semester
registrant number 6,536, he
broke the all-time record for the
total of undergraduates enrolled
at Nebraska. Never since the
boom era of 1929, year of the
previous record, was the Uni
versity forced to accommodate
so many students in its class
rooms. But more important than any
new records, this rapidly-Increasing
enrollment threatens to
break down the school's educa
tional standards, if no provision
"is Trade in the financial budget
for the additional students.
Beginning in 1933, freshman
enrollment has climbed steadily
as the accompanying graph
shows. Today, we have reached
a new peak, with every indica
tion that the rise will continue.
Nebraska now ranks fifteenth in
the nation in size. Only three
schools west of the Mississippi
California, Texas and Washing
ton, have larger student bodies
than Nebraska.
There are now 2,018 first year
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Miss Barbour Schedules
Style Show Tryouts
For Sunday.
Model tryouts for entrance in
the 1937 Coed Follies will be held
at 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon
in Social Science auditorium, Jane
Barbour,. A. W. S. board member
and chairman of the tryouts
announced today. Nineteen or
ganized women's groups have
submitted style show candidates
for participation in the all coed
show to be given on April 8.
The list of candidates as sub
mitted to date includes: Alpha
Chi Omega, DcLoris Bors, Doro
thy Green, Ruth Minor, Louise
Rischc, Louisa Schncckloth, and
Katherine Turner; Alpha Omicron
Pi, Dorothy Archer, Marjorie Ban
nister, Eloise Benjamin, Inez
Heaney, Jean Meents, and Wilma
Pulliam; Alpha Xi Delta, Lois
Cooper, Arlene Orcutt, Barbara
Rosewater, Fern Steuteville, Mary
Steuteville, and Evelyn Taylor.
Alpha Phi, Marie Eggers, Helen
(Continued on Page 2.)
burnsWsIarsTens
to engineers week post
McCormick to Investigate
Chances of Holding
Spring Ball.
Charles Carstens has been ap
pointed as Engineers Week chair
man for the applied mechanics de
partment according to an an
nouncement by Pete Burns, general
chairman for the event which will
occur the first week in May. Car
stens' name was inadvertently
omitted from the list of depart
ment chairmen issued last Friday.
Weldun McCormick has been ap
pointed chairman in charge of in
vestigating the possibilities of hold
ing an engineers ball. Altho no
definite progress in the matter has
yet been made, it is understood
that if such a ball is presented,
it wil be necessary to finance it
by an advance ticket sale.
Bill
MODEL NOMINEE
EO FOLLIES
REFERENCE ROOM OFFERS VAST AID
TO THOSE WHO KNOW ITS SECRETS
Librarian Advises Study
Of Unusual Volumes,
New Books.
BY CLARA L. CRAIG
Head of Reference Department,
University of Nebraska Library.
(Editors not-Following apears th
urcond of a nens of thrfe articles on
the proper methods and technique in the
use of the University library and its
books.
"ALL IS LOST SAVE HONOR.
The original of this, as Bartlett
says was 'not quite so laconic:' 'De
toutes chosea ne m'est demeure
que l'honneur et la vie qui est
sauve.' Perhaps the form from
which the English translation was
made was the Spanish: 'Thoto se
ha perdido sino es la honra.' At
any rate, it was Francis 1 of
France who said it in a letter to
his mother. And, in the delightful
words of H. G. Wells, 'The salvage
of honor was but temporary,' in
asmuch as he proceeded to break
the tScaty he had just signed."
Thus A. H. Holt, in his "Phrase
Origins." New York. 1936. deals
with the history of this well
Student Newspaper
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THUBSDAY, MARCH 0937.
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COMPARISON OF TAX INCOME AND ENROLLMENT
1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1
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5.100
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Graph Prepared by 1'nlvpriilty
SCHUAMM LECTURES
GEOLOGISTS TONIGHT
Department Chairman to
Give Ilustratcd Talk
In Morrill Hall.
Prof. E. F. Schramm, chairman
of the department of geology, will
present an illustrated lecture on
scenic Mexico to members and
guests of Sigma Gamma Epsilon,
geology honorary fraternity, at an
open house meeting in room 9
of Morrill hall at 7:30 this
evening.
Using slides as illustrations,
Schramm will discuss the scenery
around Mexico City and that
along the international hikhway
which connects the city with the
United States.
E
Winners Lead Sophomore
Architects; Romigh
Takes Third.
Robert Mullins. '39. Lincoln, and
Miss Winifred Henke, '39, Wray.
Colorado, again led the sophomore
class in a recent judgment by be
ing awarded first and second
places, respectively, for their
drawings of a "Frontispiece'' for
a book. Mr. Philip Romigh, '30.
North Platte, was third.
Students of architecture are al
ways given specific data in their
problems. For the "Frontispiece"
it was assumed that "After the
death of a very famous sculptor,
Jose Mestrov ("l 882-1936)," a So
ciety of Architects decided to pub
lish a monograph of his work. He
was noted for his free standing
figures and for his execution of
ornamental details for buildings.
The problem confronting the stu
dents was to design a Frontispiece
for the volume of photographs and
drawings of his sculpture.
All of the drawings were mono
chromatic, containing several
shades of the same color: and were
done in tempora, pastel, or water
color.
The drawings will remain on
display several days in the depart
ment of architecture, ground floor,
Temple building.
known phrase. You will find this
book and about twelve hundred
other volumes in the reference
room which is the northwest room
on the main floor of the library.
Read New Books.
The reference room and the
reading room are now the only
rooms in the library where
students may select the books they
want from the shelves. It has
been many years since all the
students could be given the privi
lege of roaming through the
stacks. As partial compensation
for this loss, there have been
placed on the home reading
shelves, by the plliar in front of
the loan desk, a few of the new
and most Interesting books for
general reading. Make It a habit
to look these over every week
when new titles are brought out.
Also glance at the book jackets of
the new books which the library
has received. You will enjoy read
ing some books that are not pre
scribed. Reference books in the strict
sense are compendiums of facts
books not to be read through but
to be consulted. They are essen-
tial to the working library be
Kbraskan
of the University of
Nrwa and Feature (Service.
TO SPEAK ON ART
Nebraska Art Association
Brings George Biddle
Of Philadelphia.
George Biddle. of Philadelphia,
prominent mural artist, author,
and lecturer, will outline the "Con
temporary Tendencies in Ameri
can Art" in Temple theater at
three o'clock Sunday afternoon.
March 7. The lecture is sponsored
by the Nebraska Art association
which is holding its 47th annual
art exhibit in Morrill hall at the
present time.
Dwight Kirsch, University pro
fessor of fine arts, urged that all
students interested in art take ad
vantage of this "very unusual op
portunity of hearing a man who
has such a profound knowledge
of modern art and who has such a
great influence upon present-day
art."
"This lecture should be truly
outstanding," Kirsch advised. "Bid
continued on Page 2.)
SIGMA TAU TO INSTALL
NEW OFFICERS TONIGHT
Louis Lundstrom Will Take
Over Executive Duties
For Ensuing Term.
Installation of new officers will
be held at a meeting of Sigma Tau,
men's honorary engineering fra
ternity, tonight at 6:30 at the
Y. M. C. A. New officers will serve
from now until next year at the
same time.
The new officers are Ixmis
Lundstrom, president; Harry
Brown, vice president; John Par
ker, recording secretary: Thurman
Sipp, treasurer; Conrad Carlson,
corresponding secretary; and G. R.
Jameson, historian.
Retiring officers are John Mos
trom, president; Lowell Newmycr,
vice president; Harold Hafner,
treasurer: Wilbur Schultz, record
ing secretary; Roger Wallace, his
torian; and Urban Floor, corre
sponding secretary.
cause they enable one to find in
a moment, information that other
wise could be had only by ex
tended research. Many of these
books represent years of scholarly
research in their respective fields.
The New English Dictionary, the
most monumental of the diction
aries in the English language was
fifty years in the making. The
encyckpedias also represent years
of careful selecting and editing.
The books in this room are
mainly encyclopodedias, diction
aries, handbooks of facts, allusions,
quotations, statistical yearbooks
and such other compilations as
are most useful in answering quick
reference questions.
Aids For Term Papers.
No student escapes term papers.
A good plan to follow in preparing
them is to start with the encyclo
pedia articles on your subject. The
articles in these encyclopedias give
good brief statements of the sub
jects, usually followed by refer
ences to other books in which ad
ditional material may be found.
The next logical step is to go to
the catalog to see whether or not
these references are in this library
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FAMOUS
PAINTER
CHANGES SUNDAY
Nebraska
tudents enrolled in the Univer
sity, with a total of 6,546 under
graduates. If we include gradu
ate college, night school, and
other subdivisions without dupli
cations, the University offered
courses last year to an aggre
gate of 10,958 students.
The administration has ex
hausted the general reserve
fund, with which it met the first
emergency by employing addi
tional instructors. With these
funds gone, it is faced with a
reduction in the present teach
ing staff to fit its "poverty
budget." IT WILL TAKE AN
INCREASE of $230,000 in the
appropriation for this biennium
to retain the instructors we now
have.
Every student owes a certain
unselfish. interest to his univer
sity. Any institution paying a
large share of the student edu
cational expense, as do state
universities, should find under
graduates rallying to its support
with all the enthusiasm found
during a conference gridiron
crisis. LEARN THE FACTS
about the financial condition of
your university, then TELL
YOUR LEGISLATOR THAT
WE NEED HELP!
Purse Stolen Tuesday
Returned to Owner by
Mail Late Wednesday
A purse which was stolen from
Claudine Burt in Bessey hall Tues
day afternoon was returned to her
by mail Wednesday morning. With
the exception of $1.85, the purse's
contents, which included a foun
tain pen and Sigma Chi crested
compace, were not disturbed.
This is the third purse which
has been taken on the campus and
returned by mail.
Films Trace Steps From Oil
Well to Distillery at
Meeting Tonight.
Motion pictures on the refining
of crude petroleum will be shown
at a meeting of the Chemical En
gineering society tonight at 8
o clock in the main lecture room
of the Averv labortory of chem
istry. Discussion of plans for
Engineers' Week and the field trip
to be made this spring will also
be held.
The motion picture film was
made in co-operation with the Gulf
Refinine: comnanv. and traces
crude petroleum from the oil well
to the refinery and through the
process of disl illation. Products
obtained by refining petroleum
and their use in everyday life will
also be shown, along with the
cracking process, refining of lubri
cated fractions, and the manufac
turing chemicals used in the rcfin
ing process.
Show Treatment of Gasoline.
The chemical treatment of raw
gasoline and the types of gaso
line storage tanks will he shown,
and the preparation of wax for
market including the separation of
wax from paraffin base crudes.
Refining of lubricating distillate
and laboratory tests employed to
control the intricate refining pro
cess will also be demonstrated.
The latter will include illustrations
of safety, first aid. and fire fight
ing methods and equipment. Fin
ally the film will show the build
ing of refinery appartus and the
shipment of refinery products to
the consumer.
Discuss Field Trip.
The field trip which will be dis
cussed is that which must be made
by all seniors in chemical engi
neering before graduating. Juniors
may also make the trip and many
students do so. This year the
question will be whether to take
a week end trip to Kansas City to
inspect such plants as that of the
Proctor & Gamble Soap company,
or whether to take a one day trip
to Louisville, Neb., to go through
a cement plan there and another
short trip to Omaha to inspect a
smelter plant and gas works in
cluding a stop at Ashland to go
through the Lincoln water works
there.
Roekie Gets Appointment
To Pacific Iand Position
W. A. Rockie, formerly gradu
ate assistant in geography, now
conservator of the northwestern
soil conservation district of the
United States with headquarters
at Spokane, Wash., has been ap
pointed to membership on the
American national committee on
land classification and utilization
In the Pacific.
This committee is one of the
most important western commit
tees of the national research coun
cil. An appointment to the com
mittee comes as a recognition of
the work which Mr. Rockie has
done in that field during the past
several years.
l'MCE 5 CENTS
COUNCIL REFERS
F
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Wadhams Submits Plan for
Junior Class Board
Organization.
Both of the proposed reforms to
either modify or abolish campus
political factions met with a crops
current of decisions when the Stu
dent Council held its regular meet
ing late yesterday afternoon.
Scheduled to vote on one or both
of the measures at the meeting.
the council found that the only
action it could take would be to re
fer the amendments to the judic
iary committee.
Proving itself to be the largest.
snag in preventing a council vote
was the issue in the present, con
stitution stipulating that "election
of members to the Student Coun
cil shall be by proportional repre
sentation." Members of the council
pointed out that proportional rep
resentation cannot be eliminated
as long as the barbs remain with
a political faction. At present mere
is no unaffiliated student on the
council.
Dissenters Win Out.
Under the aegis of Dave Bern
stein, council member, the dissen
ters to a council vote finally won
out. Bernstein argued that the is
sues should be thrown to the
judiciary committee of the coun
cil because representatives or stu
dent factions had not been heard
and consequently their sentiment
not known.
Fighting valiantly for the re
form which he proposed at the
last council meeting, Frank Landis
of the investigatory committee
maintained that the issues should
come to a vote immediately so as
to affect the spring election. If any
interested factions or parties
would have anything to say about
the reforms they would have said
it before this, Landis maintained.
But again Bernstein suggested
that the questions should go before
the judiciary committee. Landis
finally conceded and made the mo
tion that placed the reforms where
they will lay until a special meet
ing next Wednesday afternoon.
Propose Junior Class Board.
The second major proposal be
fore the council was the junior
class organization plan presented
by Robert Wadhams, junior class
president. Acting on the authority
granted him by the council at the
last meeting, Wadhams and a com
mittee of juniors drew up a tenta
tive plan for reorganization- and
presented it before the student
group. The council decided to take
the measure into consideration
thru committee.
The main organization plan in
cluded: That a junior class execu
tive body will be established and
will be known as the junior class
""(Continued on Page 2.)
ARTICOY NUTTING
Four Freshmen With High
Scholarship Work on
Newspaper Staff.
"The Enrolled Bill and the Val
idity of Legislation" by Charles
B. Nutting, associate professor of
law, will he the feature article of
the next issue of the law bulletin
which will be published the first
of next week.
Working on the staff this timn
were, four law freshmen who earn
ed the privilege by receiving thu
highest scholastic rating in their
class. They are Charles S. Burdell,
Frederick's. Berry, Bret a B. Pe
terson, and George F. Hirmon.
Those on the Bullet in staff from
last year are James A. Doyle, edi-tor-inchief.
Harry P. lotion, stu
dent editor-in-chief. Russell M.
Struthers. and Loren G. Olsson.
associate editors, and Benjamin J.
Anderson, J. Vernon Clemens,
Jack S. Doyle, Bert R. Durkee.
P. M. Everson jr., Lewis H. Hen
derson, B. Palmer King, and Clyde
E. Langacre.
This staff is holding a luncheon
at the Lincoln hotel this noon.
busineIsTSnIeTates
concepto of religion
M. A. Hyde Addresses YMCA
At Regular Meeting
Wednesday Night.
The definition and value of reli
gion from the standpoint of a busi
ness man was described to mem
bers of the Y. M. C. A. last nipit
at their regular meeting in tha
Temple theater when M. A. Hyde,
vim nresirlent of the Security Mu
tual Life Insurance company, ad
dressed tne organization on uij
topic, "What My Religion Means
to Me."
The strongest proof of a God.
according to Mr. Hyde, is that
from the earliest times people
have always believed in one. They
believe In a God, he said, because
faith in an Almighty Being is nec
essary for any sort of confident. 2
in life.
This address was the first of a
series of four talks that are to be
centered around the meaning of
religion as interpreted by a busi
ness man, a university professor,
and a university student.
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