- r - -- V r il Mil aiujl QampbsdL J$ A SV- A KT 'AILY J2L Jl iJL Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska YOU XXVII, NO. 117" LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. APRIL 7, I93 PRICE FIVE CENTS jj IBIiRlR HAVE A NICE YACATIOIS? Tsk, tsk, how tempus fupit. Here it is the clay after the day after the end of spring vacation, if you'd on'y stop a moment and real ize it. Kaetly one week ago today spring vacation wns about to be gin and suitcases were being .stuffed and classes cut with hasty abandon. Approximately 90 percent of the students about to partake of spring: vacation told nil their friends and acquaintances that, by golly, they were g'-r.ng to catch up on their studying. Did You Study? You were probably one of the 99 percent with good intentions. Well, where are you know? Right where you were before va cation began, except maybe a little sleepier. (All right, all right. So you did too study over vacation. Just remember you're the exception). One of the minor mysteries of college life is the mystery of what happened to vacation time. The first day of vacation is usually .spent luxuriously in bed. You get up at noon for breakfast, stretch the rest of the afternoon to get rid of that sleepy feeling and all of a sudden it is the next day. Tut t eiing about at one thing or another which takes up a good deal of time and seems necessary at the moment hut which you can't for the life of you remem ber just what it was now takes up two or three more days and va cation Is over. When it is over, students in variably greet each other for the next two or three days with a: "What did you do over vaca tion?" "Oh, nothing much. Got a little studying done. What did you do?" "Same thing." Social Problem. That is consistently the rou tine patter. The rare person who has really had a nice vacation or been somewhere will not wait for you to ask him or her what he or she did over vacation. He will cheerfully volunteer the in formation or make you curious by saying he wished you were along with him on his vacation. You ask him what he did and he STANLEYTOTALK BEFORE 11 XI P.B.K. ON APRIL 1 2 Princeton Chemist Speaks on Borderland of Life at Joint Session. Dr. Harold Hoick Named to Pharmacology Croup Sigma Xi has scheduled Dr. W. M. Stanley, noted Princeton bio chemist, to speak before the an nual joint convocation of the local chapters of l'hl Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi Tuesday evening nt 8:15 o'clock In the Cornhusker ball room. His address, which will be open to the public, bears the title, "The Borderlands of Life," and will be illustrated by lantern slides which the chemist has prepared for his lecture. The address in the evening will be the climaxing feature of the Sigma Xi-I'hi Beta Kappa honors activities which will get under way at 11 a. m. in the Temple with a convocation honoring new students elected to membership in both organizations. Isolated Tobacco Virus. Tr. Stanley, a member of the staff of the Rockefeller institute of medical research at Princeton, has been awarded the $1,000 award by the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Sci ence for his work in isolating the virus of the tobacco mojr-ic dis ease. His talk before the two hon orary societies will be of unusual interest to every scientist and professional man Of other uni versities and schools as well as to lay groups, most of whom already know of his brilliant discoveries resulting from his years of re search with the virus. As a result of Dr. Stanley's work, it is known now that these organisms, formerly thought to be invisible living things, are actually protein molecules of huge size. In some respects tney seem to pos (Continued on Page 8.) v. l MERCEY TRACES' 'PICTORIAL JOURNALISM' DEVELOPMENT F.S.A. Executive Addresses I discussion of the recent vogue for informative films. DR, Lincoln Journal. HAROLD G. 0. HOLCK Dr. Harold G. O. Hoick, associ ate professor of pharmacology. has just been named to member ship In the American Society of Pharmacology and Experiment a1 Therapeutics. Dr. Hoick recently attended the convention of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology at Baltimore. Special Convo, Luncheon Wednesday Noon. Speaking on documentary films! A. A. Mercey, assistant director of information of the Farm Security administiation, traced the devel opment of a new and influential motion picture industry, Wednes day morning before a special con vocation of journalism students. Documentary films were described by Prof. Gayle C. Walker, at the convocation's opening, as "pictor ial journalism." Mercey explained the difference between travelogues, educational pictures and documentary films. Introduced as the man who was partly responsible for the produc tion of "The River" and "The Plow that Broke the Plains," the speaker frequently referred to "Frontier of Journalism." Following the convocation, Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism organiza tions, sponsored a luncheon and round table for the visiting F.S.A. official, when Mi rcey led a brief informal talk on new frontiers of journalism. "The best qualification for se curing a government job in the field of public relations," Mercey told luncheon gu ,'sts, "is five years with the Associated Tress. There is no substitute for sound, prac tical newspaper experience." He described a day In the life of pub lic relations official and the na ture of his work. Mercey was introduced at the convocation by Paul Jordan, re gional director of information of these two feature pictures in his the farm securities administration ACCEPT PLACEMENTS .E Dr. (inshiit'K Ueeovers From Major Operation ? : : t i Mil Punches ,a piay-hy-piay dcsuituu-i Faculty-Members to Speak tion of his good time while you r ai worsmp Meetings in Morrill Hall. listen idly and think sorrowfully and enviously of your own list less vacation. This sort of thing builds up to class hatred and may be listed as one argument against having any vacations, tions. It is estimated by an eminent bureau of estimators that three out of ten (olli'tro stud'vts 'ill come brick to their clns io.,ius and pull that old chestnut that leads as follows: "Well, I'm glad vacation is over. Now I can catch up on my sleeping." That also is one argument that could be used against having va cations. Hearing that old chestnut repeated lime alter time grates on the sensitive ear and if there were no vacations there would be no chestnuts to grate against one's ears. A last minute news flash con veyed by one who reads this stuff hot off the typewriter, reveals the fact that the university li hrarv was pretty well filled by students during vacation. This would seem to refute our argu ment that very little studying was done over vacation. However, think of the thousands that went home for vacation and took no hooks with thon at all. When you get thru thinking of those stu dents, think of those that took hooks home and did nothing with them but let them lie around the house. When you have thought that over too, you may pretty f-afely come to the conclusion that the majority did not catch up on their studying. Why Spring Vacation? All in all, it was probably the average vacation. And tor some seven or eight hundred seniors, the last vacation of their under graduate days. It is still rather purzling, however, to find a logical basis for spring vaca tion. Just because it is spring, is not a flood reason. It seems as tho an Easter vacation would be more appropriate and better utilized than three days out of two ordinary weeks in March and April. Dr. C. H. Patterson, chairman of the committee in charge of the All University Lenten services, has announced the schedule of the !eVol: rs. The services will be iu hi under the unspicc of U.c Re-1 ligious Welfare council, April 11 to IS, in gallery B of Morrill hall. This year's services represent a slight departure from the usual Religious Emphasis week. Form erly, speakers were brought in from outside the university to talk. This year, however, faculty mem bers of the school will speak. Each program will consist of a 10 to 12 minute talk by one of the faculty members on a theme appropriate to the season. Then will follow the worship services, with selected scripture readings by students, and specinl music. Dr. Workmeister's recordings of sacred and other music which he brought from Germany will give an npropriate setting to the devotions. The following is the schedule of the services and speakers: Mondny, April It, II a. m.. Tnniliiy, April 1J, 10 Wwlnmriiiy, April IS, Thnrvliiv, April 14, Block, Bridle Club Sponsors Annual Stock Appraisal Competition. Annual students' judging con test sponsored by the Block and Bridle club will be held Saturday afternoon at the agricultural col lege with student participants di vided into two groups, a senior and a junior division. Open to all students in ag col lege, the competition is divided for entrants who have had expe rience in judging and have taken the course A. H. Ill and those who have not. Judging will be done in the forenoon and the reasons on the judgments will be given ' l the afternoon. Junior participants will submit written reasons and senior entrants will give oral reasons. The winner of the senior group will be awarded a cup by the club and have his name engraved upon the plaque in the Animal Hus bandry building. Tho three high individuals of the entire contest in both divisions will receive med als and the top ranking individu als in the different classes of live stock will be awarded ribbons. All awards will be made at the regular meeting of the Block and Bridle club th" week following the contest. The general chairman in charge of the contest is Loyal Cor- man. Dr. Schrick Enters Health Service; Sears to Head Botany Division. Two graduates of the university will go to Oberlin next year, it wns announced by the Oberlin col lege board of trustees yesterday. They arc Dr. Edna Schrick, who will act as assistant, college physi cian to Dr. R. W. Bradshaw; and Dr. Taul B. Sears of the Univer sity of Oklahoma who received his A. M. degree from Nebraska in 1915, who will be head of the Ober lin college botany department to succeed Miss Susan P. Nichols. Dr. Schrick, who is one of the leaders in the field of student health service in the United States, has for the past two years been associated with the student health service at the university and has taught physiology here. Interned at New Haven. She was graduated with the A.B. degree from Nebraska in 1930 and received her M.D. at Washington university, St. Louis, in 1934. She then served her in (Continued on Page 2.) Lincoln Journal. DR. MICHAEL S. GINSBURG. Dr. Michael S. Ginshurg of the classics department, returned to his home Wednesday from the hos pital where he had undergone a major operation. His condition was reported as being greatly im proved. Dr. Ginshurg is on a short leave of absence from the university. NOTED EDUCATOR SPEAKS APRIL 19 AT HONORS CONVO Dr Thomas Vcrnor Smith to Discuss 'Promise of U. S. Politics.' MEMBERS OF FACULTY ATTEND SCHOOL MEET -1r. W. II. Mitrtnn. r. m. Ih-an O. J. Frrcimin. a. m lr. K. J. 1'iml. II a. m. nr. Harry Ktir?. Frldny, April IS, 10 a. m. Dr. It. II. siuiu. . ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS MAKE TELEVISION TEST Prof. Norris, Two Students Record Signal Strength . of Purdue Station. To test the efficiency of the Purdue university television send ing equipment, the university elec trical engineering department last week set up a receiving set in a vacant field southeast of College View. Trof. Ferris Norris and two stu dents, Thurman Sipp, Lincoln, a senior student in the department, and Milton Staab of Leigh, a jun ior, measured the signal strength of the Purdue broadcasting station five nights last week at the re quest of the Purdue authorities. Ferguson Hears of Cousin's Plight Only 10 Days Ago Dean O. J. Ferguson, dean of the engineering college at the university, a cousin of Albeit M. Troyer, who is being held in Rus sia on a ten year prison sentence, stated yesterday that he has been unaware of his cousin's plight un til ten days ago when Mrs. Troyer appeared in his office and in formed him u'f her husbands im prison ment. Dean Ferguson says, that to his knowledge the Troyeis had not made their home in Lincoln since their graduation from the univer sity, and that he had not been in touch with them for many years. Albert Troyer moved to Ne braska in the early 80's into the vicinity of Dorchester. He re ceived his bachelor of science de gree in agriculture from the uni versity in 1S91 and in 1893 was awarded an A. M. degree. As a graduate student he was made an assistant on the agricultural col lege faculty and later continued work for his Ph. D. at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. Dran Fer- Preliminary Trials Planned for April 30, Featuring Walk, Trot, Canter. Both affiliated and non-affiliated girls are eligible to enter the Intersorority riding contest, one of the features of the Equestrian Cir rus during the Farmer's Fair on May 7. Using the eastern saddle, the contestants will he judged on rid ing ability and the way in which the horse is handled. The paces will consist of walk, trot, and canter. Last year Marie Christensen. Kappa Alpha Theta, won the blue ribbon and Nan Talbot, Delta Gamma, took second. Those interested in entering are requested to report to Marian Kidd, Kappa Alpha Theta, chair man of the university riding club, or to Clarence O'Brian, represent ative of the Farmer's Fair round up committee. The preliminary contest will be held April 30, at Shreve's Riding Academy, at which the number of entries will be eliminated to about 10 or 12, I who will compete in' the finals at the fair. Miss Kidd urges all to start practicing immediately. "Blue" to Appear. Also featuring in the Ag college carnival are two jumping horses which have been procured by the board. "Blue," owned by Lowell Boomer of Lincoln, won all three jumping classes at the American Royal Livestock Show at Kansas City last October, the first horse ever to win more than one of the (Continued on Page 4.) Lecturer From Munich Will Talk on 'The Golden Age of German Art.' I!ev. Knk lo Address Lutheran Group Today Lutheran students will meet with Rev. H. Krck for the regular Bible hour at 5 o'clock Thursday in Room 203, Temple building. Subject of discussion 'Vill be "The Gift of Eternal Life." Students to llemove (loud il ions on April 12 All French and Spanish stu dent! who have received con ditions for the first semester of this school year are privileged to take a make-up examination. The general make-up examina tion will be given next Tuesday, April 12, at 3:00 o'clock. Stu dents will report to room 109 In U hall. Dr. Ludwig Waagen, lecturer on the history of European Art, from Munich, Germany, will address a puhlic gathering at the Temple theater Monday evening, April 11, on the subjert "Durer and his Contemporaries The Golden Age of German Art." Dr. J. E. A. Alexis, chairman of the depart ment of Germanic languages, met Dr. Waagen last summer during his visit to Germany. The speaker is one of the most popular and ad mired lecturers at the University of Munich where many American students go for their junior year. Dr. Waagen has lectured in all parts of the world and is particu larly known for his contributions to the American-German Quar terly of the Carl Schurz memorial f nn,i,ln t inn His ddress"here will he in Eng lish and students as well as towns people are invited to attend. In asmuch as he is considered a world authority in the field of art, students in that field as well as persons interested in art. will find Dr. Waagen's lecture here April 11 interesting and beneficial, says Dr. Alexis. Scholarship, the primary pur pose o fa university, will receive due recognition when Dr. Thomas Vernor Smith, distinguished Illi nois educator, addresses the audi ence at the annual Honors convo cation in the coliseum April 19. The convocation is a yearly pro gram at which high ranking stu dents in the different colleges are oficially honored by the institu tion. "The Promise of American Poli tics," an increasingly important subject ,is the topic of Dr. Smith's address. Dr. Smith is a' professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and an Illinois state sen ator. The sperfker was educated at the University of Texas where he. received both his bachelor of arts and masters degrees. He receivd bis Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1922 and has held the position of professor of philosophy there since 1927. Between T2 and 1792" he was a prof esse - of, English literature at Texas Chris tian and a member of the philos ophy staff at the University of Texas. Author of Several Books. The author of a number of books, Dr. Smith is well known for his "The Promise of Amer ican Politics," "The Philosophic) Way of Life," and "The Amer ican Philosophy of Equality." He has written for a number ot pe riodicals and he holds membership in the American rhilosophie as sociation and the American Polit ical Science association. In 1937 Dr. Smith received the prose award of the Chicago foundation for literature. FAIR BOARD SPONSORS NOVEL MIXER FRIDAY Ellis Smith, John Passmore Represent Nebraska Engineers' Group. Ellis G. Smith and John E. Passmore, both of Lincoln, junior and senior respectively in the me chanical engineering department of the university, have been chos- fuson said that when he was a en from a group of competing Origin of "Hades Ladies' Dales Hack to Dr. Wimbcrlv's Class in Composition Four Years As;o North Central Associatioon to Convene This Week in Chicago. Several members of the faculty are attending the 43d annual con vention of the North Central Asso ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools which is being he'. in Chi cago Wednesday thrti Saturday. Dean K. K. Jlenzlik of the teach ers college is second vjre president of the association and Dr. G. W. Itoscnlof, professor of secondary education, is secretary of the com mission on secondary schools. Other members of the university factulty attending the meetings are Dr. C. H. Oldiather, dean of the colleges of arts and sciences, Dean F. W. Upson of the graduate college, Dr. A. A. Reed, director of the extension division, and Dean T. J. Thompson. When the curtiin rises at the Temple theater tin Monday eve ning, April 2,r, Kosmet Klub show-goers will see the concrete result of an inspiration had by John Edwards feur years ago last January. That Hades' Ladies is distinctly a nai ve university pro duct may be deduced from the fact that Edwirds first conceived the idea of h hw in Doctor Wimberly's En 211 advanced composition course. In 1934 ioctor Wimherly told his class tha np would like to see some of tli members try their hand at writing one-act plays. Ed wards aeco d'ne'.v woiked up a script entitled "Get Theo Behind Me, Satan' dealing with a hen pecked husband who fell asleep and dreaned that he was in Hades, ".iades' Ladies" is an elaboration of that same idea, but it did not evolve over night. S,s Short Subject. Not lonf fter Edwards handed in nls pjiy to Doctor Wimberly, he saw a short subject In the movies called "The Unemployed Ghost" which had been written by Marc Connolly, noted LroadWH.v producer. In it tho spirit world was represented as experiencing labor difficulties mucb the same as their earthly brethren. The idea was novel and amusing and Edwards thought immediately of its adaptability to his own script. in April of 1934 on a rush date Edwards was taken to see the Kosmet Klub show of that spring "The Campus Cop." He decided to try his own lurk at submitting a script to the Klub anil during the next year worked up "Hades Ladles." He didn't have time to finish it, however, before the dead line for filing in 1935. During the next two years, busy with other matters. Edwards did little, with the play, working on it only now an'! then. This year, however, he decided to give it one more try and took it. still uncom (Continued on Page 4.) 1 1 minima ni inv uin ' n- roomed with Troyer while the lat ter was a graduate student. The dean is one of th several cousins and relatives of Troyer who live in the slate. CAMPUSITES CONTRIBUTE $130 TO ASTERN YOUTH Tag Day Receipts go to Swell National Fund for Aid of Orientals. One hundred and thirty dollars was sent to national headquarters of Student Youth Movements to aid destitute far eastern students as a result of the campus tag day, March 30. Some 2,000 tags which were not sold have been offered to the re gional office. According to C. D. Haves. Y. M. C. A. secretary, it is hoped that colleges thruout the state may sponsor similar tag days to add to Nebraska's con tribution for the national goal set at $2.r,000. "On the whole," said Mr. Hayes, "the sale was quite encouraging. The 1,400 who gave is a good in dication of the willingness to give to other students." That it is difficult to contact effectively many people on a cam pus of this size In one day was observed by Mr. Hayes; $140 was the actual amount taken in, but $10 was used to cover expenses. Appreciation was expressed by the Council on Keligious Wel fare to the workers on the city and agricultural campus who made the sale possible. Dr. Scnning to Address Fairlmry C of V. Meeting Dr. John P. penning, chairman of the department of political sci ence, will address a Fairbury chamber of commerce meeting April 12 on Nebraska's unicameral. student engineers to represent Ne braska in an engineering essay contest sponsored by the district student branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The contest will be held in Omaha April 15 and 16 during the annual convention of the group and will be attended bv student engineers and their sponsors from Nebraska, South Dakota state col lege. Kansas State college, Mis souri School of Mines, North Da kota agricultural college, Wash ington university at St. Louis, University of Kansas, University of Missouri, and University of North Dakota. Four prizes will be awarded totaling $S5. Smith wil read a paper dealing with "X-P.ay Weld Inspection on High Pressure Lines." and Tassmore a paper on "The Use of Aluminum Foil as an Insulation." Russell Parsed of Lin coln, and Harry Brown of Da kota City were named alternates. membersTfTaculty ATTENDJSCHOOL MEETj North Central Association to Convene This Week in Chicago. Several members of the faculty are attending the forty-third an nual convention of the North Cen tral Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools which is being held in Chicago Wednesday through Saturday. Dean F. E. Henzlik of the teachers college is second vice president of the asso ciation and Dr. G. W. Roserilof, professor of secondary education, is secretary of the commission on seu.mdary schools. Other members of the university faculty attending the meetings are Dr. C. H. Oldfather. dean of the college of arts and sciences, Dean F. W. Upson of the graduate col lege, Dr. A. A. Reed, director of the extension division, and Dean T. J. Thompson. Male Chorus Appears in Six Towns, Sincjs 72 Numbers on Spring Trip. Thirty-six members of the Uni versity Men's Glee club returned Tuesday night from their spring tour, on which they appeared in six towns and sang some 2 se lections. The group is directed by William G. Tempel. The group, selected from the 48 members of the choral unit, sang at Geneva Saturday night at the district music contest, and performed in Wvmore, Beatrice, Tecumsch, Auburn, and Weeping Water. Besides selections by the glee club, audiences at each stop heard solos by Baritone Dale da nr.. Ten or Nate Holnian, and Trumpeter Dunne Harmon, who are included in the membership of the organi zation, one of the finest to rep resent the university. Because of the fact that advance booking for the tour was not be gun until rather late, and that numerous such groups had already toured the state, this year's trip was rut to a minimum. Plans lor JjjlLBilly Dance Scheduled to Arouse Interest in Coming Fete. To arouse student interest in the Farmers' Fair, the Junior Fair board will sponsor a hillbilly mixer in in the Activities building on Ag campus Friday night. Dubbed the "Dog Patch Hoe Down," the mixer takes its theme from the Kentucky mountaineers, and Bob Burnish accents, tattered straw hats, corncob pipes and Dznrkian atmosphere will be the order of the evening. "Put on your shoes just for one night and quit your feuding," the Junior Board advises ag students, "and come on over for an evening of old time fun." Decorations will carry out th hillbilly scheme. Prices are set at a new low for mixers, with 20 cents for coeds and 30 cents for men. Russ Gibson and his orchesi tra will plav for the affair. The mixer is one of a series of rallies, mixers, and other activities planned bv the Farmers J-air boards to' stir up campus enthu siasm for the Farmers' Fair. The Fair itself is scheduled for the week of May 7. University Receives Gift of Washinrton Letters to lVEstaing On exhibition in the Romance Language department library' 's a book of the correspondence be tween George Washington and D'Estaing which the general con sul of France in Chicago has re cently presented the University of Nebraska. The correspondence, which has remained until now unpublished, whs sent by Senatcur Andre Hon norat. The book also contains several pictures of the French In- a statewide tour for next year , ternatlonal nouse at me lhc -have already begun. versita ire of Paris. Democracy's Cornerstone May Be Education, bill Professional Salary Scale Fails to Show It The cornerstone of democracy is i education. Yet an inquiry into the average salaries of puhlic school teachers, supervisors and principals who build American democracy thru education which was made by the school life reveals an average sal ary in 1P36 of $1,283 for the na tion, $772 for Nebraska. From the peak of $1,420 per an num paid in 1929-30, salaries fell to $1,227 in 19311 to pinch the pedagogical pocketbook. Salaries woe again ut the 1024 level. Be tween 1H34 ind lfCK, 29 percent of the cuts had been restored, with the trend upward continuing. The amounts paid in different states varied greHtly from $504 in Arkansas to $2,414 in New York. Only five states paid higher av erage salaries in 19"5 than in 1930 and in 43 states the salaries were lower. Nebraska ranked twelfth in the 13 states which paid more than $200 less in 1D36 than in 1930; her reduction was S30, Approaching the problem from the rural-urban and Negro-whit angle interesting facts are again revealed. The nation's average urban sal ary was $1.S18, Nebraska's $1,296, the highest was in New York, $2,780, ihe lowest in Arkansas, $768. The rural areas paid lower wages, for the nation. $827, for Nebraska, $f15; the highest was in Conn., $1,594; the lowest was in Arkansas, $430. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia reported salaries separately for While and Negro teachers. Delaware and Missouri showed a higher average for Ne groes, due to the fact that in those states the Negroes live largely in cities' where salaries are higher than in rural areas. In the Dis trict of Columbia no distinction U , made but in the rst the disparity was very definite. Florida pays white teachers, $1,130, Negro , teachers, $493. v