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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
VOL. XXXVI NO. 151.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY. MAY 21, 1937.
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FIRS! AG CAMPUS
COMMUNITY SING
Spring Brightens Old Campus
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That Precious Liltlc
Thing Temperament
Wlrephoto papers yesterday
morning carried some graphic art
on the temperamental Dizzy Dean
throwing: himself a tantrum, aided
and abetted by his "gashouse
gang" fellow Cardinals. Diz, who
had been playfully "dusting" bat
ters all afternoon, finally threw
one too many "bean balls," and the
"battle of the century" was on.
One shot shows Rookie Catcher
Mickey Owen being dragged out
of the fracas while a scared and
bewildered referee stands on the
edge of the tussle. Another pic
tures a stomping Card dashing the
ball to the ground while Dean
roars vituperation nearby.
Such antic ar! not uncommon
in the world of sports. Baseball
followers will remember how the
same redoubtable Mr, Dean
"jumped" a sports writer in a
Tampa, Florida, hotel lobby. As
sudden as the attack itself was
the assistance of 14 or so team
members, with baseball equip
ment of all sorts filling the air.
It seems that Writer Jack
Mlley had offended the irritable
pitcher with a penned panning.
All Good Sports.
The athletic world offers many
examples of expression of "per
sonality." We remember when
that old war horse and once-was,
G rover Cleveland Alexander,
pitched in the local ball park
several years ago he was reduced
to barnstorming with the House of
David nine he wore carpet slip
pers the entire game. And when
the alcoholic-dazed old man bat
ted, a lesser shot did the running.
Tennis lovers can tell many
tales of the irascible Tilden.
Even in small time Lincoln it
will be remembered that "Big
Bill" put on a good performance,
what with dashing rackets to
the ground in rage, and waiting
for complete silence before his
serves. And sports scribblers
of the vicinity found much to
barrage in the prolonged warm
ups of Miler Glenn Cunningham
when appearing in meets here.
Even more provocative of com
ment have been the showman
ship techniques of Ace Referee
Ira C. Quigley on both gridiron
and maples.
Culture, Too, Brutus.
Jn the more cultural arts, tem
perament is perhaps even more
publicized. This town, which once
aspired to be the "Athens of the
West" has had its share of
"names" in action here, with a
subsequent surplusage of revela
tion of personality. Lc GaUienne
earned no love from theater goers
here when she lip-formed dirty
words at the gallery for real and
imaginary restlessness during her
"Hcdda Gabbler." But Galli Curci
remained smiling during a shirt
tall parade through her concert,
snd for her good humor was re
warded with a gigantic bouquet of
American beauties, anonymous.
When the top-heavy house for
"Cherries Are Ripe" did not suit
co-star Rod Laltoque he insolently
turned his back on the audience,
and during the entire show gave
not a line to the thick-populated
gallery. But the packed hall that
heard Sehumann-Heink on one of
her numerous farewell appear
ances here resented their own
stifled state the less, one warmish
evening, because she jovially
mopped her brow with a large
hankie after each number.
And Actress McLaughlin.
The speech department still
remembers the red-headed tem
per of Trouper Jane McLaugh
lin, big sister to current Kappa
Helen. For her big entrance In
"Dinner At Eight" she backed
other cast member away from
a long runway, to that she
might rush Into her character
more effectively. Mr. McLaugh
lin told us once that whenever,
a a child, Jane would dispUy
anger around home, little Helen
would clasp her hand dramatic
ally to hit brow, throw back
her head, and iolemnly intone,
"Temperament! Temperament!"
Not all touchiness In these pails
la confined to performers. It is
reported that when Heavyweight
Baritone John Charles Thomas, In
response to the request of a
Wyoming-born Lincolnitc, sang
"Home On the Range" in concert
here, a pillar ot the conservatory
walked Indignantly from the hall.
The late lamented Belasco, fam
ous for his many -"finds," de
manded but two things in his
proteges: youth and temperament.
In practice, however, he insisted
that the luxury of a display of this
quality be confined to his stars.
Which strikes this ordinary mortal
as being sound precedent for all
of us of the mediocre multitudes.
KING HEADSJDHEM SOCIETY
Hcikcs, Adelscck, Thompson
Fill (Kher Positions.
Jay L. King will act as president
of the Nebraska branch of the
Chemical Engineering society next
semester as the result of an elec
tion held Wednesday night. Other
new officer will be George Heikes.
vice president: Charles Adelseck,
treasurer, and Clyde Thompson,
secretary.
Retiring officers are Harold
Hafner. president: Miller Sidwell,
vice president: Richard Rose,
treasurer, and Paul Lindstcdt, secretary.
Creative Activities Board
Sponsors Gathering at
7 Tonight.
A chorus of approximately 700
students and faculty members
will assemble tonight on the pag
eant grounds of the agricultural
college campus In one of the most
all-inclusive and colorful events of
the year. Patterned after the com
munity sings of radio fame and
similar affairs staged on the cam
puses of Cornell and other uni
versities, this first official ag col
lege sing has attracted wide in
terest and promises to be a highly
successful venture.
Co-operation of the weatherman
has been enlisted, and "fair and
cooler" is promised. Should the
fairness and coolness fail to ma
terialize the sing will be held in
the Student Activities building.
Pantomimes and the enactment of
several songs by the Dramatic
club are special features scheduled
in the program, which will begin
at 1 o'clock and last approximately
one hour. Ogden Riddle will lead
the community singing.
Faculty Praises.
Opinions voiced by instructors
and persons prominent in ag col
lege activities express keen en
thusiasm for the affair, which is
a culmination of many months of
planning by the Creative Activi
ties Board. Donna Hiatt, newly
chosen Mortar Board member, has
this to say about it, "I think the
Creative Activities Board is to be
congratulated in putting on this
campus sing. It's a grand idea. I
hope it will became an annual
event."
Committees planning the affair
include: Song leaders. Katherine
Jones and Ogden Riddle, with Mrs.
Altinas Tullis as accompanist;
Program planning, Ogden Riddle,
Katherine Jones, and the Creative
Activities Board: Publicity, Louise
Turner and Alfred Mathis. co
chairmen, Barbara Romine, Theola
Collins, Mary Grace McGavern,
Dayton Klingman, and Neil
Dawes: .Arrangements, Howard
Gillaspie, chairman, Gilbert Bar
rows, Elwin Diedrickson, and Ray
mond Heller; Ushers. Willard
Jones, chairman. Louise Epp,
Charles Huenefeld, Ted Johnston,
Lila Meycrcott, and Margaret
Randel.
UPSON SETS DEADLINE FOR
SCHOLARSHIPAPPLICATION
Graduates May Apply Before
Saturday Noon at
Dean's Office.
Dean Fred W. Upson, of the
graduate college .announced that
the deadline for making applica
tions for the $150 Mortar Board
scholarship is Saturday, at 12
o'clock, noon.
Those who desire to compete for
the scholarship should make their
applications at once on the appli
cation blanks that they will obtain
at the dean's office in Teachers
college. This award, known as the
Mortar Board scholarship, is
granted to a young woman gradu
ate of the University who plans to
work toward an advanced degree.
Competition is open to any woman
already registered in graduate col
lege and members of the present
graduating class.
Candidates for the scholarship
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Graduates Will Find Jobs
Plentiful Survey Reveals
Majority of Department
Heads Optimistic;
Teaching Best.
By Fern Steuteville.
Optimism pervades the ranks of
the graduating seniors this spring
for, in happy contrast to the dis
couraging situation of a year or
two ago, the business, professional,
scientific, and artistic worlds are
promptly welcoming 1037 grad
uates into their orders. Ruling the
law field, is pessimism, for the
legal profession is full to overflow
ing and the situation is steadily
getting worse.
Any teacher with a good scholas
tic record and good recommenda
tions will experience no difficulty
in getting a position before the
end of the season, according to
R. D. Moritr, director of the educa
tional service. In the coaching
field. In vocational Smith Hughes
agriculture, and In home econom
ics, the demand for teachers will
not only be sufficient to give all
students graduating with these
majors a position, but many calls
will go unsatisfied. Yet, while the
calls for elementary, primary, and
Junior high teachers will tax the
supply of Teachers' colllege grad
uates, students majoring In Eng
lish and Social Sciences will again
encounter trouble in obtaining
places.
Bizad Outlook Best Sine 1930.
From T. T. Bullock, head of the
bizad placement bureau, comes the
report that the outlook for the fu
ture of students of the College of
In this, the season when knight
hood and young love are in full
flower. Mother Goose does her
darndest for the Nebraska cam
pus. Everywhere green grass is
viewable thru silvery streams of
sprinklers and spirea veils crumb
ling foundations. In the spacious
crevices of the walls of U hall
birds nest, and raise their young.
Spring is truly here.
This cut of the administration
Spring Campus Blooms With
Shrubs, Flowering Plants
Dr. Barbour, M. Schnitter,
Arrange University's
Botany Displays.
By Mary Steuteville.
"Not bridal wreath, but van
houttie!" exclaimed Max Schnitter,
guardian of the campus flora,
when students unversed in botan-
nical science admired the white
blossomed shrubs encircling Uni
versity hall. Interrupted in his
work of putting Russian peanut
plants into the soil, the chief of
the greenhouses pointed out what
May has to offer the Nebraska
campus in the line of flowers.
May is the mouth for many of
the perennial plants, and many of
these are in full bloom now. Van
Houttie leads the flowering shrubs
in number on the campus, while
the only bush of bridal wreath In
sight is one small and somewhat
spindly looking clump on the north
Tho Weather
Spring is two-thirds thru,
Weatherman Blair points out,
so what (hall we have today
but spring weather. Not the
coldly damp or the torridly hot
you have been getting, but the
beautiful, balmy sort you read
about in Sarry'i column.
Jul) Situation.
Coaching, Smith-Hughes ag
riculture, home economics
more job than applicant.
Other teaching alio excest
of job.
English and social science
chance poor,
Builneis admimitratlon the
best aince 1930.
Law field crowded and get
ting wone.
Engineering all graduate
will be placed.
Dentittry opportunity fair.
Art jobs eay to find.
Music plenty of jobs and
salarie qoing up.
Agriculture moit graduates
be,,. j placed.
Business Administration Is better
than it has been since 1930. Mr.
Bullock is confident that all bizaj
graduates will be satisfactorily
placed since the demand for selling
and merchandising men is very
strong and firms are beginning to
increase their calls for accounting
graduates.
A lawyer graduating from the
University of Nebraska this spring
will find great difficulty in getting
into or opening a law office. Ac
cording to the statistics of the law
school, less than 60', of their men
will ever be practicing attorneys
which means that 17 of the class
of 42 must enter Into other fields
because there are too many
lawyers In the land.
Engineering Job Plentiful.
Dean O. 3. Ferguson of the En
gineer states that all of his men
building shows the lush greenery
of the "old campus." Here are to
be found spacious lawns of ferti
lized verdure and sundry trees to
shade weary field tripping botany
classes. There are the blossoming
bushes and planted pots. Flowers
are as "Stage" categorizes com
ing attractions, "promised and
hoped for."
The "new campus" from twelfth
side of the women's gymnasium.
Honeysuckle plants and the ta
marix with their blossoms resem
bling pink caterpillars are to be
found in the gardens behind Uni
versity hall. Iris of various colors
are scattered by the side of most
of the buildings, and newly set out
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University Pair
Fail to Capture
Rare Snipe Bird
There are big, long-legged birds
with shining eyes hiding in the
thick underbrush along the hills of
the Blue river. At least that is
what Eunice Camp, cashier of
Carrie Bell Raymond hall and
graduate of the university, and
Dale Holemberg, junior in the uni
versity and possessor of an average
pointing to P. B. K., thought Wed
nesday evening as they held the
sack and adjusted the lantern in
order to catch a long-sought Ne
braska snipe.
Charlie Hoff, university auditor,
was giving his annual employees
picnic. Like many Boy Scout camp
fire meetings, but unusual to a
university student picnic, the sub
ject turned to the hunting of the
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Englistli. Social Sciences,
Law Worst Fields for
Employment.
who want jobs will be placed very
soon; that already the college has
had as many calls as men but that
the college turns its attention to
fitting men into positions, not plac
ing them, and therefore a few have
no definite plans yet.
Dean G. A. Grubb of Dental col
lege says that his seniors today
are concentrating on graduating
rather than locating but that they
will probably not have a hard time
whn they do turn to the other
serious problem. While many lo
calities are crowded with dentists,
there is a deficiency in others.
All indications point to an in
creasing demand for teachers of
art and for students who are ver
satile in using their talents in
commercial and Industrial design,
according to Dwight Kirsch, chair
man of the fine arts department
Of the 31 fine arts graduates Pro
fessor Kirsch expects two to con
tinue graduate work and the nine
to easily find positions.
Cood Salaries in Music.
Unquestionably the futures of
music students are getting shades
brighter and there is an excellent
outlook for public school music
teachers, was the opinion of Direc
tor Howard Kirkpatrick, of the
school of music. Music teachers
will find that in 1937 they can
command better salaries than the
average academic instructors be
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to fourteenth, departs less from
the unobscured landscape natural
to this state of rolling prairies.
Here we find plant life bulkier
than grasses confined to building
hugging, and naught disturbs the
windy sweep of flatness or mars
the tremendous overhead of the
sky. Typical and unique that's the
setting for the more recent archi
tectural additions to the university.
ORCHESTRA GIVES
FINAL CONCERT IN
ARMORY TONIGHT
Eunice Bingham Will Play
Solo Role in Last
Program.
University symphony orchestra
will make its final appearance of
! the season tonight when it presents
a concert under the direction of
Raymond R. Reed, conductor, with
the assistance of Eunice Bingham,
soloist, at 8:15 o'clock in Grant
Memorial hall.
Incidental music that was in
spired by Goethe's famous trag
edy, "Egmont" will be the first
concert selection that the orchestra
presents, the "Egmont Overture"
composed by Beethoven. The other
offering that the orchestra will
make before intermission will be
"Concerto in E Major" by Bach,
played by the stringed sections of
the group only. During this con
certo the guest soloist, Eunice
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Don Brooks Will Speak at
Annual Banquet at
Country Club.
A record attendance is expected
at the annual Pharmacy club ban
quet and dance to be held at the
East Hills Country club this eve
ning. Nearly 125 seats at the ban
quet have been sold already ac
cording to Doyle Leeding, presi
dent of the club.
Principal speaker at the dinner,
which will begin at 6:30, is Don
Brooks of Hastings. Mr. Brooks
will probably address the embryo
druggists ori the difficulties of
passing the state board examina
tion required by all pharmacists.
Mel Pester and his orchestra
have been engaged to play for the
dance immediately following the
banquet. Last year, about 75 at
tended the banquet, while there
were about fiOO at the dance. It is
not expected that there will be
more than 500 at the dance to
night. The dinner-dance, usually
held the day after Ivy Day, was
postponed this year because Dean
Lyman had to be In Washington
on that day.
Other speakers at the festival
will be: Fred Hebbard. Bob Cham
bers. Ted Jackson, and Melvin
Hines, representing the four class
es: Dr. J. B. Burt, sponsor of the
club. Will Brookley. Guy Butler,
Loren Taylor. John Porter and Dr.
Rufus A. Lyman.
In the
Infirmar)
Floyd Mecham, Grand Idand
William Quinn, Hyanni.
John Hutchison. Humboldt.
Caroline Clark. Farragut.
Thursday.
Dismissed.
Oarrell Bauder, Clenville.
SIXTY-FOUR FILE
PUBLICATION
STAFF POSITIONS
Board Members Will Make
Final Appointments
. Next Week.
Sixty-four students made appli
cation for staff positions of the
Daily Nebraska n, Cornhusker and
Awgwan for the ensuing year as
filings closed at noon yesterday.
The publications board will meet
some time next week to consider
applicants and make final selec
tion of next semester's staff mem
bers. The Daily Nebraskan news edi
tor race promises to be the tough
est of the lot as 23 students ap
plied for the six positions to be
filled. Seven filed for managing
editor and two for the editorship
to complete the list of applications
for editorial posts. Eight filed for
assistant managerships and two
for business manager on the other
side of the daily. Three assistants
and one manager will be selected.
Eight File for Awgwan.
In the humor publication compe
tition, three have filed for the edi
tor's chair, one for managing edi
tor, two for business manager and
two for assistant business mana
ger. One editor, one managing edi
tor, one business manager and two
assistants will be named.
Fourteen students applied for
work on the 1938 Cornhusker
where six positions will be filled.
Three filed for the editorship, four
for managing editor, two for busi
ness manager, and five for assist
ant business manager.
The publications board is made
up of five faculty members: Prof.
James Lawrence, Prof. N. A.
Bengston, John S e 1 1 e c k, Prof.
Gaylc C. Walker, and Prof. R. E.
Bradford; and three student mem
bers: Elmer Schcele, Austin Mo
ritz and Frank Kudrna.
Lcmer Presents
Comedy Based on
II usher Frat Life
By Morris Lipp.
A comedy of the growing pains
of adolescence, or perhaps one
should say young manhood, is W.
Zollcy Lerner's "These Four
Years" which made its hugely suc
cessful premier at the Resident
Theater in Kansas City this week.
Followers of the University
plnvr will remember Zollcv Lcr-
ner as the suave "lead" in many
, i iO'Cl
productions Deiween ivto aiiu i
during which time he was an un
dergraduate at the university.
A ft.. Uia frraHiiatirtn h tflllp'ht for
mLVl llt.T lltULl.-w." o
five years in the Nebraska dra
matics department and continued
working with the Players, receiv
ing his M. A. degree during this
time. He has been Resident Thea
ter director for three years.
Nebraska Frat House Scene.
But to revert to "These Four
Years." Scene of the collegiate
nnmnH.r a fratrrnltV hOUSe On
the campus of a middlewestern
university, namely, me umversi
VohrooUo Thn nlnt renters on
ui . . . i . u j . . - - f - -
the "eternal triangle," one of the
oldest, yet most sure lire, inn vi
plot structure known to the play
wrights. Lerncr peoples his plot with a
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Reporter Finds Progress
on New Union Engrossing
Concrete Pouring Next on
Building Program as
Structure Grows.
Concrete should be poured on
the ground floor of the west wing
in the new student union building
by Saturday and floor senders re
ceive! for their labors some $1.25
per hour-the highest wages paid!
Such facts represent just a little
of what may be garnered by an
inquiring observer who patiently
prowls around this latest addition
to the campus.
The wooden framework tower
which shoot up to a height of 60
or 70 feet is the shaft wherein two
elevators will later hoist up men
and materials to the upper floors
by means of much huffing and
puffing from the nearby steam
engine, better known as a "don
key." The service steam tunnel
which will supply heat and power
for the union building will enter
at the northwest coiner of the
center section of the ground floor.
Workers Work Proareively.
Thi business of pouring con
crete seems to be dependent upon
the speedy arrival of the steel
framework. The first of June
should not only bring examina
tions but the pouring of concrete
on the first lloor. A progressive
scheme will be followed in building
the student union in which a
group of workers will graduate
from the east wing to the center
Yearbook Features Thunder
Bird Theme; Dedicated
to Unicameral.
Conceived ot the Nebraska
Thunder Bird and dedicated to the
initial unicameral legislature, the
1937 Cornhusker yearbook will go
on the distributing stands at eight
o'clock Saturday morning. With
460 pages of camera shots, car
toons, and sketches, the current
annual presents a picturesque re
view of Cornhusker activities dur
ing the passing year.
The theme of the new annual
follows the flight of the symbolic
Thunder Bird that adorns the walls
of the senate chambers in the cap
ital building. In keeping with the
editorial policy to "acclaim the
activities of tbe present rather
than repeat those of the past."
the book has been dedicated to
the experimental unicameral legis
lature that adjourned its first
session last Saturday.
New Personal Index.
As an entirely new feature of
the 31st volume of the Cornhusker
the editors have introduced a per
sonal index containing the names
of every student registered in the
university during the year with
page numbers on which they may
be found. The section will b
eighteen pages in length and will
contain the names of 6.S0O
students.
A "Forecast of Campus Events,"
another new section, in the book,
brings original cartoons to the
book lampooning campus societies
and organizations. The drawings
were done by Ed Steeves and the
section outlines the activities of
every group on the campus.
Large airviews of the campus,
both downtown and at ag, form
the inside covers. Names of build
ings have been superimposed in
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PLAN COSTUME BALL
Delta Phi Delta Sponsors
6th Annual Fiesta in
Morrill Saturday.
With Morrill hall galleries as
background and bizarrely cos
tumed dancers providing line and
color, the picturesque Fine Arts
Costume Ball will open the an
nual exhibit of superior student
art work for the year at 8 o'clock
Saturday night.
Delta Phi Delta, fine arts hon
orary sponsoring the affair for
the sixth year, has made plans for
unprecedented hilarity. The grand
march, beginning at 8:30 o'clock
will be followed by presentation of
prizes to the most originally at
tired man and woman. Water col
ors, one made by Kady Faulkner
and the other by Morris Gordon,
will be the awards.
Ray Ramsay's auctioning of student-made
faculty portraits and
the Orchesis floor show "Art in
One Easy Lesson" will alternate
with dancing in both galleries to
Vein Rawolf'a orchestra. Provi
sions have also been made for play
ing games.
Sponsors for the affair are Prof,
and Mrs. Dwight Kirsch, Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Williams, snd Miss
Kady Faulkner.
Altho a costume affair, people In
conventional dress will be admit
ted. Tickets may be purchased
from members of Delta Phi Delta
or anyone in the fine arts depart
ment for 35 cents.
to the west wing and then back
to t he east wing for the next atep
and so on. In this way workers
will not render rr.utual interference
and the building may go forward
with greater facility and speed.
And speed is the keynote of the
whole business as full steam i
applied in an effort to complete the
huge project by the first of the
year. This will allow the university
a month to move in and get es
tablished by the opening of the
second semester.
Cover Sub-Baement.
Right now a covering is being
laid over the sub basement In the
west wing where multitudinous
and multifarious pipes can be la 'J
out of sight but within easy reach
in case of complications. On the
ground floor above will be the
kitchen and sbove that the cafe
teria. And if anyone ha any
qualms as to whether strengJl
is being sacrificed to speed in Oie
union building, let him cast an eya
on the 17 inch thick walls made
up of five layers of brick !
At present about 25 men are
employed at tbe building, but as
work progresses more than twice
that number mill be Involved. It
seem that there is quite a ahort
age of skilled labor, incidentally.
As ha already been stated th
highest wages go to the floor
sanders at 11.23 per hour. Next
come structural ateel workers at
$1 20 an hour and derrick awingers
(no connection with ballroom
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