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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, Fill DAY. MARCH I. 193
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Dr. Frank Flays
'Hunch Methods
of Government9
Question: "What is the favor
ite indoor pastime of the older
generation?"
Answer: "Picking the younger
generation to pieces."
Question: "What is the favorite
pastime of the younger genera
tion?" Answer: "Thumbing their collec
tive nose at the remarks made by
the older generation."
Question: "Which is in the
right?"
Answer: "It all depends. If you
are a member of the younger gen
eration you apply the thumb to
the nose frequently, the exercise
being done on three counts, the
movement being completed on the
third count when the thumb comes
clown at order arms. If you are
a member of the older generation
you shake your head and say,
"tsk, tsk" at regular intervals.
Thus an individual has the para
doxical privilege of fighting on
both sides during his lifetime.
When he is young and the impul
sive, act-before-you-think blood of
youth runs thru his veins, he uses
the thumb nose exercise. When he
passes the equator of life and
ceases to think of picnics as be
ing synonomous with spring, then
he gazes with apprehension upon
the gay antics of the younger gen
eration, murmurs "tsk, tsk, the
wastrels" and wishes he had the
privilege of wasting all over again.
So What?
Question: What is this leading
up to?
Answer: 'Practically nothing.
which is no more nor less than all
the arguments and accusations
leveled against the younger gener
ation. (Some day when somebody
wants to make himself eternally
remembered he will make up one
new word which will stand for
"younger generation," thus saving
countless energy expended by
orators and typewriter poumlcrsi.
Tonight, in the coliseum, stu
dents of the University of Nebras
ka will get a chance to do stuff
which the older generation fre
quently points out as being waste
ful. Namely, dance.
It is said" that the truly intellec
tual people do not like to dance
and cannot dance very well. It is
often pointed out that some of the
best dancers are those who rank
low in the scale of intelligence and
that, consequently, dancing is not
a really intelligent form of di
version. Gclett Burgess, author of
note, maintains that dancing is
repulsive to him because it seems
to bring out the primitive in peo
ple. Question: "What is one defense
against that argument against
dancing? '
Answer: "That intelleclualists
can't dance very well and don't
enjoy it anil so take a sour grapes
attitude toward dancing."
Question: "Supposing that reply
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Republican Foil nder's Day Speaker Tells Audience
U. S. Must Free Itself From 'Current
Disastrous Delusions.'
.Dr. Glenn Frank, former educator and now director of re
search for the republican party, came 1o the fourth Founders
day celebration here yesterday to assail "belligerent dogma
tism" and "government by hunch." Dr. Frank's address in the
coliseum last evening climaxed the two day session.
Styling his entire address after the talk which he pre
sented before the republican pro
gram committee in Chicago during
WOMEN TO ELECT
COEO COUNSELOR
BOARD
OFFICERS
Maestro Griff Williams
Ushers Out 1938 Formal
Season at Prom Tonight
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GLENN FRANK.
the early part of the week, Dr.
Frank told eager listeners that
"we must rise to the occasion. We
must disenthrall ourselves from
current delusions that have the
seeds of disaster in them. We must
face fresh problems with fresh
minds, thinking and acting anew."
Lashes Long Range Plans.
Dr. Frank lashed out against
long range programs, which, he
says, we so desperately need just
now to create new jobs for work
ers and new wealth for higher
living standards, when they know
that any day they may find the
whole basis of their calculations
changed by R surprise announce
ment of more "must" legislation
or find practices the government
urged them to adopt earlier sud
denly Indicted as reprehensible in
a press conference edict.
The former Wisconsin president
outlined ten "major drifts in na
tional policy during recent years."
"The present administration is re
sponsible for most of these drifts
of policy and has accelerated all
of them. These ten drifts of na
tional policy arc:
1. The drift from the balanced
powers of representative self gov
ernment toward the centraliza
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Victor Krause, Lincoln Man,
Sought in Eastern
California.
The only hope for the safety of
Victor Krause, Lincoln, Neb.,
graduate of 191 fi, and the other
seven persons aboard the giant
TWA transport plane which van
ished Tuesday night was that the
plane may have landed intact in
the eight feet of snow that has
blanketed the mountains east of
Fresno, Calif.
Donald Black, spokesman for
the airways, said that there was
every possibility that the plane
had landed in a snow covered
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Virginia Fleetwood, Phyllis
Chamberlain Will Vie
for Presidency.
University women will go to the
polls in Kllcn Smith hall and in
Ag hall Monday to elect a new
Coed Counselor board and choose
between Phyllis Chamberlain and
Virginia Fleetwood for president
of the organization. Voting, which
is open to all women enrolled In
the university, will begin at nine
o'cock in the morning and end at
five in the afternoon. Identifica
tion cards will be necessary.
The board, whose primary pur
pose is the orientation of fresh
man girls, is composed of one-half
sorority and one-half non-affui
ated women. Six of the members
are seniors, four juniors, and two
sophomores. The office of vice
president goes to the junior candi
date with the highest number of
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E. W. Lanlz In Lead
Koper Williams Club
L orn m l his livening
Tomorrow night at 6:00 p. m.,
K. W. Lantz, associate professor
of secondary education, will eon
duct a dinner forum at the Bap
tist Student House, 5440 Que st.
The forum is sponsored by the
Roger Williams club.
At the regular meeting of the
club, Sunday at-6:00 p. m., Mrs.
Evar Andersen will inaugurate a
new series of discussions on,
"Youth and Tomorrow's Homes."
Mrs. Andersen is an instructor in
the nursery school on the agricul
tural college campus.
Befuddled Men Find
Prom goers will have advance white flowers all over. "It's got
Rag 'Brickbats'
Reap Grapefruit
From Earl E. May
By Mary Steuteville.
Oranges, juicy and tender
skinned, came addressed to the
"Editor of the Rag" yesterday
afternoon. Their coming had been
anxiously awaited by the mem
bers of the Nebraskan staff sinre
Earl F., May made known his
strange philosophy of returning
oranges for brickbats last. week.
Along with the oranges came a
three-quarter bushel sack of large
sized grapefruit, but whether they
were meant for the eye or not is
a question.
A Long Story.
Behind the citrus gift is an in
teresting story of Delta Gammas'
leaving the door ajar, Mr. May's
daughter, steak dinners, and the
Nebraskan Haunter. The Delta
Gammas found that after raving
about the faults of KM A within
the hearing distance of Mr. May's
daughter, they received a crate of
oranges and a promise of a steak
dinner to make up for what they
seemed to think were poor radio
programs. The Haunter told the
whole story in the Nebraskan and
added the gentle touch, "We don't
like Shenandoah either, Mr. May."
Then it was the Nebraskan's tiirn
to receive the note and the fruit.
Hinting at the Steak Dinner.
Mr. May seemed to think that
the Haunter was hinting at a
steak dinner, but he hoped to paci
fy him by sending a crate of
oranges to the Nebraskan staff.
By last evening, after feasting
on oranges, members were will
ing to take back whatever they
had ever said about Mr. May as
they left the office with a grape
fruit under each arm.
Gala Presentation of Prom Girl Opens Junior-Senior
Frolic to Music of Edgcwatcr Beach Band
at Ten O'clock in Coliseum.
Willi the presentation oC the lf):S Junior-Senior Prom girl
at 10 o'clock tonight in Ihe coliseum, Ihe closing dance of the
formal season will swing under way heneath the rhythm-tipped
liaton of Maestro Griff Williams and his Kdgcwatcr Beach ho
tel orchestra.
The Prom girl, chosen in a prccodi'iit-luvaking election in
which more than 1.200 students
voted, will be revealed to Prom
goers tonight in a precedent
breaking presentation, according
TO VARSITY THEATER
John Curry Speaks at Art
Association Spring Show
Famous Painter to Present
Informal Gallery Talk
Here March 13.
John Steuart Curry, rated by
American and European critics as
one of the most outstanding of
contemporary American artists,
will be guest lecturer for the Ne
braska Art association this year.
Curry will come to Lincoln for an
'afternoon gallery lecture on the
second Sunday of ihe Nebraska
Art association's annual exhibition
on March 13.
Accoroing to Mrs. Theodore
Bullock, who is in charge of the
lecture arrangements for the ex
hibition. Curry will present an in
formal talk, illustrated with slides,
icaiiiig principally with his own
work because, as he says in n let
ter accepting the lecture Invita
tlon, "I know more about my own
work than I do about anybody
rise a.
Worki Well Known.
Curry's appearance w'll be of
i;reut interest to Lincoln people,
or since 19112 when his now fa
mous "Baptism in Kansas," and
"Tornado," excited attention when
they were exhibited here, his work
hag appeared consistently in ail
shows sponsored by the Nebraska
Art association. It is, however, be
coming increasingly difficult to se
cure paintings by this much sought
Rtfer artist. "Baptisms in Kansas,'1
which aroused a storm of contro
versy when it first appeared, was
subsequently purchased by the
Whitney museum of New York
City, and others of his works were
quickly acquired by important art
galleries and museums thruout the
country.
The university purchased "Roud
mender's Camp" for the F. M. Hall
collection in 1934. The painting is
considered to be ono of Curry's
best, and was used by Thomas
Craven us nn illustration for his
book, "Modern Art." The painting
was borrowed from the university
by the Chicago Art Institute for
exhibition at the Chicago world's
fair. This year the art association
will exhibit one of Curry's recent
paintings, "The Stallion," which
has been chosen by the Museum
of Modem Art in New York City
to be sent to the Paris exhibition
next summer.
Born in Kansas, Curry, who Is
now but 41, did not find the road
to success in his chosen career an
easy one. His early years were
spent doing the hard work re
quired of the typical farm boy,
Much of his strongest and most
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notice as to what the modish
spring fashions will be this sea
son, for the sartorial minded will
be there in their most splendid ar
ray. The stores have been de
pleted of their lovely formals, and
the coeds are anxiously awaiting
the time when they may display
them. The masculine side, how
ever, is another question, for the
boys will wear the familiar black
and white for the last time this
season. Interest in their date's
dresses, however, makes up for
having to wear the same old tux,
and it is with avid willingness that
campus males describe them to
the curious reporter.
George Rosen, talented camera
man and Delt hopeful, has known
for weeks what Fannie Marshall
Is to wear. "It's pink," he says,
"and is fitted at the top and wide
at the bottom" this last with the
aid of armspread. "It's like one of
those, what do you call them?
hour glasses. And It's made out of
that kind of goods that you can
see through you know, chiffon."
Peach But No Fuzz,
A little more specific In his de
scription but still not so very ar
ticulate was Sigma Nu Ed Sleeves.
Betty Widener's dress, according
to Ed, is some kind of a peach
color, but with no fuzz on it, and
puff sleeves, and a collar, too.
guess."
Editor of the 1938 Cornhusker
Bill Clayton has the description of
Vee Louise Marshall's dress down
to a tee. "It's organz, or organ,
or something like that she told
me. but 1 can't remember." A
little prompting revealed that the
dress is made of organza. "At the
top it has a blue bow with strings
clear down to the bottom they
are blue, too, and she's goitig to
wear blue shoes. Oh, I almost for
got the dress has puff sleeves."
Gown Four Feet Long.
Another fashion minded Dell
is Doc Lynn Thompson. Doc. de
scribed Jane Dimery's dress as be
ing made of "that printed flower
stuff, well anyway with flowers,
well doggone, I don't know! The
girls could wear house dresses, as
far as I am concerned. I don't go
in for all that fancy stuff. But
if you ever want to know any
thing about women, just call me
I'll probably be all wet."
Bob Wadham's date, in our es
timation, merits the cat's pajamas
for having the most beautiful
dress, and Bob, the bladeless razor
for the most detailed description.
'Well, I guess it will be a!out
four feet long, about two and one
half feet wide, and has some pieces
of goods at the top to hold it up.."
Gen. Pershing Makes
Valiant Health Bally,
'Gets Spirits Back'
Gen. John J. Pershing, gaining
strength in his fight against a
damaged heart and poisoned kid
neys, was given a better chance
of convalescence and ultimate re-1
eovery according to the cheeful !
talk of friends. Sgt. Crawford C. !
Shaeffer, for 17 years Pershing's ;
personal aide, declared that the 1
77 year old general had "got his !
old spirits back."
Miss May Pershing, his sister,
and Warren Pershing, his son, re-
mained near the sick room but i
Frank Pershing has returned to !
Palm Springs, Calif.
'The Hunter of Fall' Opens
for Initial Showing at
9 O'clock.
"Per Jager Von Kali." or "The
Hunter of Fall," is the title of the i
German movie to be shown Satur
day morning at 9 and 10:30 a. m.
at the Varsity theater.
Joseph E. A. Alexis is sponsor
ing the film which is the third of
a series of pictures shown here to
give students the opportunity to
hear German as It is spoken by
natives of that country. The show
ing of the films is part of the edu
cational plan of instructing stu
dents in the German language and
aiding them in understanding it.
Ludwig Gangoter, popular Ger
man writer, is the author of the
novel from which the film was
adapted. Gangofer made a study
of peasant life in the Bavarian
hills, and from this the plot is laid.
This particular tale is very gra
phic and descriptive, and its deli
cate situations are handled well.
William Weirsheuser, German
instructor who twice visited the
Bavarian Alps, recommends the
film very highly.
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Hev. Szmydt of Peru
to Address Newman
Cluh Meeting Sunday
The Rev. Adam Szmydt, direc
tor of the Newman club at the
Peru State Teacher's College, will
address the local chapter on
some phase of religion Sunday
afternoon at f o'clock in room
203. Temple building.
Reverend Szmydt will brinir a
delegation of students from Peru
with him. Reverend Joseph Przud
zik. Newman club director here
at the university, asks all the
local members to attend to wel
come the visitors.
YEARBOOK ASKS FOR LAST
ORGANIZATION CONTRACTS
All organization contracts
should be handed In to the
Cornhusker office and all re
maining group pictures should
be scheduled to be taken im
mediately, announced Howard
Lynch, Cornhusker business
manager. For picture arrange
ments, organization sponsors
and members should get in
touch with Virginia Clemens or
Ralph Reed, studio editors.
GRIFF WILLIAMS.
to Edmund Steeves, co-chairman
of the Prom committee.
Broadcast Over KFOR.
Whether Eloise Benjamin, De
bris Bors, Bonnie Burn, Virginia
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R. a. mIleTaddresses
PHI BETAJCAPPA MONDAY
Members of Honorary Hear
Review of 'A Future
in Libraries.'
Dr. R, A. Miller, head librarian,
will deliver a paper "A Future in
Libraries." to members of the Ne
braska chapter of Thi Beta Kappa
at the organization's last monthly
meeting of the year, at the Uni
versity club, Monday evening at
6:15. '
Mr. M. Akristoffersen, assistant
city librarian, will comment upon
Dr. Miller's paper.
Phi Beta Kappa's last meeting
of the yenr will be in the form of
!a joint dinner and business ses
sion with Sigma Xi, to be held on
April 12.
Review Section Rebuilds
Poor French Foundations
Wadsworth Reports Course
of Last Year Merits
Continuance.
A trial experiment last year,
featuring the establishment by
Universilas Boat Builders
Claim Gulliver'sAllenlion
Ncbraskansis Visitor Sees
Student Preparation
for Sea Voyage.
By Lemeul Gulliver.
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In Ihr i.rlr trllliif 1,1 OnHlvrl". lvi.TI
furrM nuil dltmviTliMi in I nlvrmllHw e
brUNMiuiKiii, mi lulNtf-4 Inlund of ruimn.)
After learning about the Traf
fic Problem which had first
aroused my curiosity on this
curious Island of Universitas Ne-
braskansis, I spent a few days be
coming better acquainted with the
inhabitants and learning more
about their strange customs.
On my wanderings about the
island, 1 noticed that most of the
people, strangely enough, were
quite young. Thinking that per
haps they had discovered the long
sought after elixir of youth. I
questioned my friend, Lieut. Hal
them, and received an astonish
ing explanation. Me told me that
children are sent to the island by
their parents, usually at the ages
of IB or 17, and after a certain
number of years these young
people arc given a rowboat and
oars made by themselves out of
materials furnished by the com
munity, and then they are shoved
out into the surrounding ocean to
make their way to land as best
they can.
1 couldn't help but exclaim at
this barbarous custom. "Are not
many of these Inexperienced sai
lors overwhelmed by the ele
ments?" Eleventh Hour Sailors.
"Not so many aa you seem to
think. Wa furnish the best ma
terials available for their boats.
What they do with these materials
Is entirely up to them. Some tu
dents, however, are lost on the
ocean. Their boata may he well
constructed but a midden, unex
pected storm catches them una-
wrres. By far the majority of
those who arc drowned, however.
set to sea In leaky, poorly built j
vessdls. These short-sighted ones
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Tassels Usher Sunday
al Orchestra Concert
All Tassels are to usher at
the orchestra concert Sunday
afternoon and are to be at the
Coliseum at 2:15 In uniform,
according to Martha Morrow,
Tassels' president.
'Best Dressed9 Aspirants
Find Selves 'On ihe Spot 9
AWS Board to Make Choice
After Next Weck'B
Observations.
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the university romance languages
department of a five-hour review
section for those students whose
foreign language background was
faulty, has proved so successful
that educators believe it justifies
a permanent place in the depart
ment curriculum.
During the first semester of
1936-37 the university gave an ex
amination to all students regis
tered for the second year of
French. According to Dr. James
R. Wadsworth. a member of the
f department, the results offered
we do mean I convincing proof of the reliability
of the testing method as an indi
cation of the student's tirohnhle
from top to toe shall be your aim, scrss or fHnure jn his second
and this includes the way you ilis- year of work. The results revealed
Dressed Girls, and
pluy it while walking about
the I that those placing at the bottom of
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Fifteen coeds will get more than ' either to fail, or if passing, to do
their share of watching next work of poor quality. In follow
week, for the A. W. S. board is out ing out the experiment, the stu
to pick the very best dressed on I dents who ranked in the lowest
the campus. Beginning Sunday 1 10 percent registered for a special
afternoon when they will parade ! review course which called for five
across the stage of social science ! hours of class work Instead of
auditorium in review, the candi-1 three snd for three hours of
Arm In arm, the eeven candidates for prom girl step out flayly across the' campus. Which one
of these coeds will step out on the coliseum stage at the Junior-senior annual frollo tonight? Will
It be Peggy Pascoe, Bonnie Burn, LaVerne Marcey, Genevieve Hoff, Eloise Benjamin, Virginia
Gelster, or DeLorlt BorsT
Chosen in a special election Tuesday In whloh more than 1,200 ballots were cast, the 1938 prom
queen will remain an unknown quantity to the campus until the presentation at 10 o'clock tonight,
when she will officially take her place as the newest In the Illustrious house of prom royalty, suc
cessor to tht honor held last year by Adrienne Griffith,
dates will be closely observed. The
hoard members will vote for their
choice on one day next week un
known to the contestsnts, and the
name of the winner will be kept
secret until her presentation on
March 24 as the climax of the Fol
lies style show.
The candidates are Theora Nye,
Alpha Ohl Omega; Margaret
Smith, Alpha Phi; Inez Heaney,
Alpha Omicron Pi: Arlenc Orrutt,
Alpha Xi Delta; Frances Knudt
zon, Delta Delta Di'lla; Natalie
Rehlander, Delta Gumma; Henri
etta Wilson, Gamma Phi Beta;
Virginia A. Smith, Kuppa Alpha
Theta; Alice Nemec, Kappa Delta;
Dorothy Campbell, Knppa Kuppa
Gamma: June Capps, Phi Mu;
Muriel Krasne, Sigma Delta Tau;
Emma Marie Schutloffel, Sigma
Kappa; Doris Weaver. Carrie Belle
Raymond Hall; and Mildred Hill,
Chi Omega.
Aspirants for style Bhow models
will also be Judged on Sunday
afternoon from 'l to 5. From the
106 girls entered, the Judging com
mittee will decide upon 50 or 60
to display spring fashions before
the university's feminine public.
Sarah Louise Meyer will lend
her usual line of patter, well
known to Daily Nebraskan read
ers, to the part of mistress of cere
monies, as she did last year.
credit.
Never Obliged to Work.
The time factor was In most
cases the principal reason for the
low test scores, many of them
not having resumed their study of
French for a period of from one
to six years. Several students ad
mitted that they had never really
been obliged to work. The follow
ing are typical statements ob
tained by Dr. Wadsworth: "I had
a poor foundation, as I was not
made to work by learning the Inn
gunge, and yet received a high
grade; and "This high school
teacher never nwle us study. I
doubt if any student In that clnss
opened his book over ten times."
While there was some grum
bling when the five hour class pe
riod was organized at the univer
sity, in a few weeks the majority
were of the opinion, that It was
distinctly beneficial. As ono etu
dent said after having; taken the
review course. "I have learned It
(French! more thoroughly than I
did In high school. In high school
It was rather easy to get by with
little knowledge, but I found
college quite different. I like It
better this way." Even students
whose test scores would have en
abled them to (ake the regular
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