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CbwiuicL and GbouL IpEBR ASKA Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXVI NO. 113. LINCOLN, NEBKASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1937. PKICE 5 CENTS Sm oh Limit WOMEN GO POLLS TODAY Lip jj ro PPM 'i ...Jt life,. I Ilunnv, Bunny, Who's Col the Bunny? Talk of Easter "bunnits" anil bunnies bids fair to remain con versational topic No. 1 despite the drizzle puss of Mr. Weather Man. There is a small wave of selecting live rabbits for gifts white ones with pink eyes, of course, rat Jensen's tender heart, however, is moved by the heartless practice of giving a single bunny. "Think how "lonely he'd get," she protests, "and he wouldn't live long nil by him self. I think you should give two then you could start a bunny farm." ' Skin-Deep Beauty Out. In the April "Reader's Digest" James Montgomery Flngg sets forth his criticisms of American concepts of beauty in women, and his own standards as an artist and a man. The eminent illustrator's opinions, outlined in "The Ameri can Helen," are: "Physically attractive women ; are the most plentiful thing pro i duced in America. They cluster . thickly in our shops and colleges, i and hang in luscious branches from every office bough. Yet of this bewildering crop of good looking girls there are compara tively few, in my opinion, to V whom the adjective 'beautiful' ' can be justly applied. "Quite bluntly, our national ideal of beauty is juvenile, character less, skin deep and as two dimen sional as the movie screen upon which so much of it is projected. In selecting our Queens of Beauty we have substituted the tape measure and makeup mask for the Inner light of spirit. From long professional experience with these socalled 'beauties' I have discov ered that their lives, utterances and ideals are utterly lacking in significance; externally decorative they are inwardly a bleak and ; sterile vacuum. ) "Having painted thousands of women, I do not undervalue physical beauty; but without ! N certain fundamental qualities of spirit, such beauty is a gross, cheap thing. These qualities are, i in the order named: Serenity, kindness, courage, humor ana passion. By this last I don't i mean mere sexual passion; femi nine vitality expresses it much more precisely. Endowed with this vitality women glow with an incandescent spirit that can be felt, if not actually seen. Yet this intangible quality makes it self evident in a thousarfd social and personal ways. "It confers the gift of poise or tranquility call it what you will wflich balances a woman like a lovely gyroscope in full revolution. Give' me this quality in a woman and 1 do not care whether her wrist is too thick or her mouth too large. But without it. no classic perfection can interest me, either 'as an artist or a man." Naught But Respect. The Farm House boys claim that they have a chip of lonq standing toward this hack worker, dating back to an un fortunate break during an elec tion campaign talk out there a couple of years ago. We wish to wish away the chip. For the O street strongholders we have nothing but profound admiration for their gorgeous men of muscle, and for their certain un surpassed social capacities. Gents on the city campus, the best of them, can't touch Lindell Stout In his own field. And no one could surpass Hub Alloway at his speciality of demolishing light bulbs, or Clyde White in worldlincss of countenance. So let's bury the hatchet, lads I can spit thru my teeth myself! Mystery of Identity. A dapper dark collegian asks us to put our bloodhound on a trail. We are to sleuth out the why of Nona Jane Moore's title of "Utile Miss Modesty." The attractive .Miss Moore won't talk. MAJOR WOOD TO TALK ON ARMY ENGINEERS DUTIES Civil Engineering Society "o Hear Military Speaker. f . Nebraska student branch of the American Society of Civil Engi neers will hold a special meeting In room 102 of the Mechanical Arts building nt 7:30 this evening. Mflj. W. A. Wood, speaking on "Corps of Engineers." will relate the activities and duties of engi neers in the United States army, us the principal speaker of the 'evening. Tho speaker will enumerate the opportunities open to graduate cn k gineera in the next two years as members of this corps. Although it is difficult to get into the group, it is truly a profitable field. Alfred Chase will present an il lustrated lecture on Wilson Dam at-Iuscle Shoals, with slides sent out by the national office of A. S. C. E. Al! members are urged to attend. "IN THE IMTKMAKV Tuesday. Jamet Knight, Omahr Robert Chatt, Tek.mah. Euflfne Doolittle, Anielmo Council Board Marsh, Land is Building Constitution Up For Final Vote; One Clause in Doubt. Standing foremost on the slate of issues scheduled to come hefore the all-important session of the student council this afternoon, the election of nominees to the board of managers of the student Union building stands as a new milestone in the pathway of student progress. Some of these same council members who will make nomina tions, for the board of control, sat with the body last year when the Union building was still an ambitious hope in the minds of the most optimistic student cru saders. As they make their nominations today, it will be with an nir of achievement of a goal, long sought and fought for by student leaders. Council Questions One Clause. At the council meeting last week, when the Student Union constitution was presented by the union committee, members of the council seemed favorable toward the entire document with the single exception of one clause, re stricting membership of the board to candidates without standing de linquencies. Miss Marylu Peter sen, presenting the bill and speaking in behalf of the com mittee, recommended the charter's (Continued on Page 3.) EMS FOR ANNUAL OF Organization Will Go Thru Eli-Lilly Plant During Vacation Trip. The Pharmacy club will leave tonight for Indianapolis on their annual trip. This year the club members will go thru the Eli-Lilly plant in order to see the method used by one of the country's larg est supply houses in making phar maceutical supplies. The party, chaperoned by Dr. and Mrs. Burt will leave for the Hub City at 7:30 o'clock this evening.- Thursday they will visit the plants supply farm at Greenfield, and will inspect the main plant Friday. They hope to be back in Lincoln by Sunday. Last year the club sponsored a trip to the ParkoDavis plant in Detroit. The year before they went thru the Indianapolis sup ply house which they will visit this year. About 30 students and pharma cists will be in the party. Tt was necessary that they leave the day before vacation in order that they could he accomodated at the plant. The Eii-Lilly company will pay all of tho party's expenses while in Indianapolis. ALICE REDWOOD TO SING AT CONVOCATION TODAY Soprano Soloist to Give Varied Program for Student Audience. Alice lied wood, soprano soloist, j will appear at the Twenty-third I musical convocation Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Temple theater, presenting a varied program of vocal selections by eight different composers. Miss Redwood, a senior in the school of music, is a pupil of Maude Gutzmer. Beginning her recital with two compositions by Brahms, Miss Redwood will sing "Standchen" and "Vorschneller Schwur." Marx's "Hat Dich Die Liebc Bcruhrt" and Verdi's "Caro Nome" from the opera "Rigoletto" will com plete the first group. The other numbers that Miss Redwood has chosen to sing at the convocation are "II Neigc" by Bemberg, "Ariettc" by Gounod. "Oime Unto These Yellow Sands" by Laforge. "Charming Cholc." by German, and Canman's "Welcome! Sweet Wind" from "The Morning of the Year." Miss Mary Tolhurst will ac company the soloist at the piano. Dairy Cluh to Announce Content Winners Tonight Winners of the dairy cattle judging and the dairy products Judging awards will be announced tonight at a mass i.ieetlng at 7:15 in the Dairy building on Ag cam pus. The contests in the two divi sions were held last week. Varsity Dairy club sponsored the contests and Rodney Bertramson. president of th- organization, will make the awards. to Name Union Nominees, Hear o -O Today s Council Agenda 1. Election of nominees to the Board of Managers of Stu dent Union. 2. Final report on Corn Cobs by the judiciary committee. 3. Set date for spring elec tion. 4. Set date for opening ot filings of Ivy Day orator. 5. Set date for election of holdover members of council. 6. Presentation of petition to abolish faction names from ballot. Campus Officers Take You llis for Bothering Women's Swim Classes Following a report of frequent cases of breaking of windows and molesting of women swimmers in the pool room of the coliseum, campus police officers, in response to a call last evening, went to the coliseum and confronted two youths aged 18 and 20, fpund dis turbing women swimmers in the 8:00 to 9:00 free swimming hour. The pair were taken to the station and released subject to call. Rain Wets Magazines, Soaks Library Rafters Oft Repaired Roof of Old Building Fails to Hold Out Spring Showers. Nearly 100 library periodicals were drenched and the rafters of the 40 year old structure were thoroughly soaked when water seeped thru the roof of the build ing yesterday afternoon. No es timate of the damage has yet been made. Altho the roof of the buildin has been repaired a score of times in the last few years, water found its way to the second floor. Some students studying in the room at the time feared that the entire ceiling might crash. "When the water started thru the ceiling, it appeared as if it had been stored in the attic for some time, and only came thru when there was sufficient weight of the water," a janitor, who was in the room at the time, said. "Buckets were used for a time to catch the water as it streamed to the floor." Second Leak Over Records. After a number of buckets of water were caught another leak was also discovered in the room where the records of the library are kept. When janito.s went into the attic and on the roof they dis covered a dead pigeon clogging the drainage and causing this leak. In both places the walls were stained by the muddy water. An investigation of other aged campus structures found other leaks. The basement of Univer- SAM. 10 MET PAD. Kappa Sigma Eliminated In Semi-Final on Tuesday. Sigma Alpha Mu will compete in the finals of the interfraternity debates againsi Phi Alpha Delta by virtue of a win over Kappa Sigma Tuesday evening in the si-mi-final. Debating successfully the nega tive of the question "Resolved that there should be compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes," Leo Eisenstatt and Leo Turkel of Sigma Alpha Mu will meet Frank Landis and Otto Wcllensick of Phi Alpha Delta next week. Kappa Sigma was represented by Robert Klory and Dean Kcrl. The debate was Judged by three varsity debaters. Tho decision was two to one. The winner of the debate final will be awarded the Delta Sigma Rho silver gavel, which is pre sented eveiy year to the forensic champion. JUNIORS TALKON RELIGION Robinson, Horstman Speak At Y.M.C.A. Meeting. Don Robinson and Elmer Horst man, both juniors in the college of arts and sciences, will speak to University Y. M. C. A. members tonight at 7:15 on the subject "What Religion lleans to Me. closing a aeries of four meetings on that topic. Following the talks, Horstman will lead a dis cussion on the points brought out on the topic and also on some points arising from the Friday noon Bible study group. Petition Election Dates of Hold-Over, New Council Members Make Balance of Issues. Standing defeated before a nar row vote of the student council last week on its proposal to scratch faction names from election bal lots, the investigatory committee of the student council has used the last resource within its grasp, bv circulating a petition attempting to overrule the council vote. Today that petition will be presented to the student council, and altho no definite action can be taken it will reopen the discussion of the pro posal. The petition to be thrown in the face of the council which treated the proposal adversely in its last session, carries the names of 100 students as required by constitu tional provision to overrule a coun cil vote. In accepting the petition, the council will place the proposal on the ballots at the next election and final ruling will be left in the hands of the student body as a whole. Set Election Dates. Probably the next most impor ( Continued on Page 4.) sity hall was flooded in one section after water had trickled thru the foundation under the sill of the south door. Where the water had soaked thru the crumbling cement of the stone steps on the outside of the building, a pool of water was formed so that all would flow into the building when a door was opened. Even in the administration building a leak was reported. The hallway of creaking boards in the engineering building was soaked when the swinging doors were constantly held open by the wind. No leaks were found in the roof, however. The eaves of the elec trical engineering building proved themselves to be better strainers than gutters for carrying away the water. y VESPER CHOIR GIVES E Bernice Nellemann Leads Devotions in Annual Program. With the entire program con sisting of Eastern hymns and readings, Vesper choir presented the traditional candle light serv ice at yesterday afternoon's Ves pers at Ellen Smith hall. Bernice Nellemann, accompan ist, was in charge of the prepara tions. She played the prelude, "Rosary" and gave the Easter Scripture, the benediction, and a poem as part of the devotionals. As an additional feature of the program, Frances Burnham read "The Christus." This play is the story of a Belgian who played Christ in the original "Passion Play" and who In 1917 was drafted as a sentry in the Prus sian army. When a Eclgian monk was sen tenced to be nailed to the door of a German cathedral on the charge that he plotted the mur (Continued on Page 2.1 MAN WHO NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL ATTENDS CLASS "Oh, 1 am sorry. Was this your sent?" The strangely-clad visitor looked confusedly about ns a stream of students poured into the classroom, pausing for rather curious glances at the old man in worn overalls, who had slipped quietly inlo a class of linguistic history. Seating himself inob trusively in the rear of the room, he listened ahsorbedly, from time to time directing interested glances at the books lining the walls of the room. Presently he arose and. in a noticeably ac cented voice, hurriedly thanked the professor and students and departed. Further questioning concerning the incident, which occurred about a week ago in a class conducted by Prof. Joseph Alexis, revealed an interesting story. The strange visitor. Joseph Pipal by name, a Czech was a friend of Dr. Alexis, and had come to Lincoln for the day from his home in Thurston, Nebraska. He had never been able to go to a university, and he had wanted for many years to attend a college class. And so he had come "Just to look around" and hi able to say that he had j once attended a university class, i STUDENT TALENT REGISTERS AID TO PONTIAC PROGRAM Committee Requests Artists, Script Writers for NBC Broadcast. Six soloists inaugurated the drive for student talent for Nebraska's Pontiac program, when they filed registration blanks at the Nebras kan office Monday and Tuesday for auditions. Those six. and others who regis ter during the next few weeks will receive scheduled auditions from Gordon Whyte, program director, who will select the cast for the na tionwide NBC broadcast. Want Script Writers. Members of the student program committee indicated that they were sure of receiving a sufficient num ber of applications from musical groups and soloists, but urged those who wished to write contin uity or script for skits to enlist. "We wish to encourage writers, and artists as well, to report for the sketches between musical se lections. We have a number of themes now ready for preparation, and will assign them to any stu dent who wishes to gain experi ence in radio work," a member stated. For a working example, stu dents may listen to the broadcast of the varsity show Friday from Denver university, over the NBC red network at 9:30. PEP RALLY TUESDAY Robert Pelkey Presides Senior Members Give Humorous Skit. as Junior Fair Board members of ficiated at the second Farmers Fair rally attended by four hun dred Agricultural college students in Ag hall Tuesday evening. Bob Pelkey presided as master of ceremonies. The program in cluded songs by the Ag college quartet composed of Arnold Reed, Ted Johnson, Howard Wright and Keith Newton. A take-off on the senior Fair Board was presented with Elsie Buxman and Darrell Bauder playing the leading roles. The skit included a mock cow milking contest which was won handily by Miss Buxman. Committees including every student enrolled on the Agricul tural college, to work on the Farmers Fair were announced. Placards advertising the fair were handed out to the audience, to posted in the home towns of all the students. Junior Board members sponsor ing the rally were: Marjorie Fran cis, Donna Hiatt, Pauline Walters, Melvin Beerman, Earl Heady and Earl Hcdlund. Senior Board members are: Clpde White, Elsie Buxman, Elea nor McFaddcn, Ramona Hilton, Darrell Bauder and Frank Svo boda. The next Fair rally will be held April 15. . Davs Ieft to Inspect Art Kvl.il.it in .Morrill Five days remain to view the Nebraska Art association exhibi tion. Beginning Wednesday morn ing and continuing thru the week the galleries in Morrill hall will be open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. The hours on Sunday are from 2 to 5 p. m. Student admission is free and general admission is 5 cents. How You Read' Determined In Teachers College Labs Dr. Stuit Conducts Tests To Discover Faults in Comprehension. Ey Francis Brandt. Next to the all important ques tion of 'what do you read?' conies the one 'How do you read?' A scientific investigation into read ing methods is the logical out growth of modern mass education ; according to Dr. Dewey B. Stuit1 of Teachers college. As a result of general deficiency in reading and a low index of comprehension on the part of many students. Teachers j college is t-xperl' entlng with methods of impi ving student reading. Super ised labatory periods are now being conducted in conjunc tion with Education 30, Dr Stuit declared. Many Poor Readers. "The large number of poor readers among freshmen students is surprising, but unfortunately this poorly developed fundamental f - roccsi Is not altogether confined Prof. llertzler Files for Lincoln Education Board From Lincoln Journal PROF. J. O. HERT2LER. Prof. J. O. Hertzler, chairman of the university sociology de partment, filed as a candidate for election as a member of the city board of education. Prof. Hertz ler has been professor of sociology since 1923 and head of the de partment since 1928. Presidents of Upper Classes Outline Activities on Publicity Program. Featuring two songs from Kos met Klub's annual spring show to be staged in April, the Student Council publicity committee will present its second broadcast over KFAB at 5 p. m. Thursday after noon, March 25. Wilbur Cheneweth, composer of the new university song, "Hail Varsity," will play his composition on the piano, and Robert Wadhams and Floyd Baker, presidents of the junior and senior classes respec tively, will present a summary of their plans for class organization and activities to complete the 15 minute program. Two Original Songs. Don Boehm, who plays the role of Spud, the hero of Oar-Nothing Ranch," will sing '.he first of two original songs included in the broadcast, "Arizona." The second musical number, "Night for Love," will be sung by the show chorus composed of Everett Degen, Adna Dobson, Bill Strong, Kermit Han sen, Bill Pugsley, and Thurston Phelps. Irving Kuklin, known in the mu sical comedy as "Lil," a Mexican dancer, has been included on the program to do a tap dance. Portia Boynton will accompany the chor us and Kuklin, while Chenoweth (Continued on Page 4.) TONI TAYL0RT0 SPEAK McCaUs Homemaking Editor To Talk Today at 5. Miss Toni Taylor, hostess editor and director of modern homemak ing of McCall's magazine, will be tho guest speaker at a general women's meeting Wednesday aft ernoon at five o'clock in the draw ing room at Ellen Smith hall. She will speak on the subject "Man ners for Moderns." The meeting which is open to all women students interested in the speaker's subject is being spon sored jointly by the Freshmen A. W. S. and Coed Counselor's Charm School. Marjorie Crabill and Jean Doty will have charge of the meeting. All women students are invited to teend. to freshmen," Dr. Stuit said. "Too many upper classmen read slowly and have a low comprehensive average." Those who wish to know the reasons why they arc poor readers may find the answer in Pressey's Reading Manual: (1) The reader's eyes stop too many timet in getting across the printed page. (2) The reader says each word to himself ac he reads. (3) Finally, the reader may have been taught to read every "and," "if," and "but" on the page. To help those ambitious fresh men who read all of the "and's" und "but'a" this Manual prescribes exercises in which all the words which are not needed to make sense are taken out; however, the students may fill in the blank spaces if it is necessary in order to complete the meaning of these W ' y KFAB BROADCAST FEATURES SONGS OF KOSMETSHOvv broken sentences. I Lip Reading Faulty. Students who read every wordl to themselvrs. which is evidenced Continued on Taje 2.) I 1 VOTERS BALLOT Fl Only Junior, Senior Coeds Eligible for Voting; 18 Queen Candidates. Eighteen senior women make up the candidacy list from which the 1937 May Queen will be chosen in an election to be held from 9 to S o'clock today in Ellen Smith hall and in Dean Burr's office in Ag hall. Thirty Mortar Board candi dates, who will make up the group from which the active chapter will select its new members, will also be named in the poll. Only junior and senior women enrolled in the university will be eligible to vote. Names of the senior women eli gible for May Queen honors will be published on posters at the polls. In order to be considered as a candidate in the election a girl must be of senior standing in the university, must had carried 27 hours of academic work satisfac torily during the preceding year, must be taking 12 hours during the current semester, must have a weighted average of 80, must have attended Nebraska for at least three years, must have one B ac tivity as based on the A. W. S. point system, and must have no outstanding delinquencies. Will Reign Over Ivy Day. The girl receiving the highest number of votes in the May Queen election will reign over the 1937 Ivy Day activities, and the senior woman gaining second high in the ballot will act as maid of honor at the ceremonies. Identity of both winners will remain secret until Ivy Day which is scheduled for May 6. In the election of Mortar Board candidates, junior and senior women may cast their ballot for not less than five eligible junior women and not more than 20. In order to be eligible for Mortar Board candidacy a girl must have the same qualifications as set up for May Queen except that the girl must be of junior standing. Candidates must also have an out standing record of leadership, scholarship, and service at the university. The 30 girls receiving the highest number of votes will compose the group from which (Continued on Page 3.) Murphy, Jenkins. Rader Submit Best Plans to Department. Mr. C. Howard Murphy, Le banon, Mr. Dcane Jenkins, Hol drege, and Mr. Paul Rader. Fair bury, have each been awarded a First Mention place by the De partment of Architecture for their drawings of "A Country Estate." The estate drawn was that of an imaginary cx-govcrnor. It was to include a garage, stables, green house, formal garden, and living quarters for his family and four servants. Drawings submitted were hung and judged by a jury of fac ulty members and local architects. After the judging the competitors assembled for a critique of the good and bad points of the draw ings. Mr. Murphy's plans provide for the stables, garage and servant's quarters grouped together a short distance from the house. Mr. Jen kins' drawing shows a roof deck on one side of the house and a small balcony on the other, , with a formal garden on two sides of the dwelling. Mr. Rader's plans in clude an extensive formal garden, and servant quarters over a four car garage, with a connecting passage to the house. The drawings were done in monochromatic water color, Mr. Murphy's and Mr. Ra ( Continued on Page 2.) KOSMET KLU8 WORKERS WILL ASSEMBLE TODAY Tickets for Spring Review, 'Bar-Nothing Ranch,' Go On Sale April 2. A meeting for all Kosmet Klub workers will be held today at i o'clock in U. hall. Bob Shelln berg, Kosmet Klub president assures that there will be work for anyone wanting it. At a Kosmet Klub meeting Tuesday, it was decided that ducats for the spring show will be released April 2. with tickets going on reservation a week be fore Uie show starts. The chow, "Ear-Nothing Rfnch." is ached uled to begin April 12. The Weather Forecaster Blair decided that hit guess of rain for yetterday was still good for thit morn ing. He taid it would be erne what colder too. )R AMY QUEEN MORTAR BOARD. V -; '.V JJ. ; f M . sr. 5 r r; I nr..