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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
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VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 6.
Lincoln, Nebraska, Wednesday, "septem bkr 2ii93B"
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University Family Pays
Official Welcome
Chancellor C. S. Boucher served
notice on the University faculty
last night that he entertained no
desires to "force" the University of
Chicago educational program upon
Nebraska. A dinner and reception
at. the Student Union afforded
Chancellor and Mrs. Boucher their
first official opportunity to meet
the faculty.
Vln answering the un-asked ques
ons of the faculty regarding his
stand on the Chicago plan which
he aided in framing, Dr. Boucher
cited two reasons for not consid
ering its adoption.
No Mystic Formulae.
"First, no educational program
can be successfully administrated
in any institution until and unless
the group most vitally concerned
with instruction the faculty Is.
in clear majority, in sympathy
with the program as a result of
a conviction of its soundness.
"Second, there are no panaceas or
mystic formulae in education ex
cept among quacks, and merely
because one program may be ad
ministered successfully by one fac
ulty with their particular student
body, is no guaranty that the same
program is the appropriate one for
another faculty with another stu
dent body in quite a different en-
vironmcnt."
Chancellor Boucher discussed the
various modern educational pro
prams that have been put into
practice during the past ten years,
but firmly said: "I am not at this
time stating my position on any of
them for the University of Ne
bia ska."
Kxcerpts from his address are
as follows:
"If there is any trait listed as
undesirable in a chancellor, upon
which 1 can give you assurance
without embarrassment because of
undue self-consciousness, it is that
of dogmatism. The more I study
this business of education, the
more I become convinced that no
one has a right to be dogmatic in
the use of sweeping generaliza
tions about any phase of the educa
tional process.
"This conclusion does not neces
sarily, or even impliedly, lead one
to be reluctant or hesitant to make
decisions in the light of the best
available evidence and tested re
sults, ll ratner points 10 me neces
sity of taking each step only in
the light of thoro study of intelli
gent experimentation; and it shows
the necessity of continuous critical
evaluation of current practices in
the light of the ever-changing con
ditions of man in society. To be
wary of dogmatism means merely
a realization that when we make
a decision on educational policy
that seems right in the light of
current conditions and available
evidence, It Is almost certain not
to be right for all time to come.
This means that the argument that
merely because certain things have
been done in the past, or have been
done in a certain manner, they
should continue to be done, and
be done in this manner, is per se
not a valid argument.
"My wariness of dogmatism has
come from actually seeing the at
tainment of most remarkable edu
cational results that many per
sons, whose Judgment I had
learned to respect, pronounced im
possible of attainment; and what
is more, these results were at
tained by the use of a combination
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Grier Recieves Credit
For Sensational Finds
Celebrities Owe Start
To Orchestra Leader
Jiinmle Grier who brings his
cali brated Movleland band to the
Student Union hop, Saturday,
Sept. 24, not only has made a
Ceat name for himself and his
orchestra but also has developed
.'"me of the outstanding personali
ses In the entertainment world of
todny.
Jimmie has given to the public
such celebrities as Pinky Tomlin,
Popular star of stage and screen,
author of "Object of My Affec
tions;" Joy Hodges, tinder con
tract to Universal Pictures; Don
""vis, popular tenor and his lat
ft find; Julie Gibson of Jue Ten
"T's radio program and vocalist
lth the Grier outfit.
Julie enjoyed a conventional
childhood complete with Campfire
Kirls and high school dramatics
ntl an ambition to be a singer,
conventional was her attempt
fin Vur thlrt,entn birthday to ful
vi ambltln by running away
ou back w'ndow of her home.
W . dldn,t niake 11 thlt time.
' two yeara later when Henry
Joantrey'i vaudeville unit was
'ul,? ' one n'8ht stand at
wL lon' I(la- ths Gibson home
Co Bne wrangled her parents'
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Social Workers
Honor Fullbrook
Lincoln Journal.
EARL H. FULLBROOK.
Dr. Earl S. Fullbrook, professor
of marketing, has been elected to
the executive committee of the
Nebraska social workers at their
conference held at Fremont, to
hold office for three years.
He was instructed with the
other members of the executive
committee to decide whether
Omaha or Lincoln will be host to
the 1939 convention.
ASME Dinner
Opens Drive
Engineering Society
Meets This Evening
First dinner and smoker of the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers will be held this evening
at the Student Union building to
open the new membership drive.
Following the dinner, members and
other engineering students inter
ested in the society will meet the
faculty of the college of engineer
ing and view pictures of new oxy-
acetvlene welding processes.
The Scptemhber issue of the
Mechanical Engineering magazine,
the official organ of the national
society, will also be distributed
after the dinner. The Linde Air
Products company of Kansas City
have brought some very unusual
films on oxyacetylene welding. The
films depicted methods of using
the system, and the uses In the
home, shop, and factory.
Tickets to the dinner and smoker
costing 25 cents, must be secured
before 9 a. m. this morning, when
ticket sales will stop. Those in
charge of the reservations are Har
old Brown, W. Earton Berg, Henry
Jensen and Ellis Smith.
Freshmen intending to take me
chanical engineering are invited
to enroll in the student branch as
A. S. M. E. members. Freshmen
who have not yet made their choice
between mchanical engineering
and on of the other classes, should
only enroll in the student section
of the society, altho they will not
have the. special privileges ac
corded regular members. Upper
classmen in the college of engineer
ing will be glad to answer any
questions concerning the society
and membership that newcomers
might wish to ask.
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JULIA GIBSON.
Later, while working with Bob
xoungg orchestra in &au lbkc
v-ny, June own tarns iucmn
1035 talent search for the Ut'
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Hollywood immediately. She msde
tirnif In Inn vntt .'In
capital and, as Jimmie Grier said,
wnen you've convinceu Holly
wood, you've won 98 percent of
the battle."
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Fans to Get
Protection
In Stadium
Regler Recruits Fifty
Plain Clothesmen
For Football Games
To make sure that thousands of
football conscious Nebraska fans
will once again enjoy their fa
vorite sport at Memorial stadium
this fall, Sergeant Regler, chief of
campus police, is having fifty plain
clothes men being sworn in this
week for special difty during the
football season. Working in pairs,
they will probably politely escort
some 200 drunks to the police sta
tion and apprehend a certain num
ber of the pickpockets always at
tracted by the large football
crowds.
Nebraska, believes Sergeant
Regler, is the only sizeable uni
versity to strictly enforce drinking
laws. He said many other colleges
have written to find out how
drinking at football games here is
kept at a minimum. During the
season of 1937, 218 persons were
caught drinking, only one being
a Nebraska student.
Violators of Nebraska's liquor
laws, which states that "it shall be
unlawful for any person to con
sume liquors... on property owned
by the state," are liable to a fine
of $500, costs, and 30 days in jail.
Pickpockets flock to football
games from many of the larger
cities in the middle west. They
combine business with pleasure,
"lifting" the pocketbooks of un
suspecting spectators during the
jams at the beginning, end and
half-time of a game; enjoying the
contest between time's.
Most of the light fingered gen
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Pharmacy Group
Elects J. B. Burt
Dr. J. B. Burt of Jhe university
Pharmacy staff has been informed
that he is to serve on the Commit
tee on Educational and Member
ship Standards of the American
association of the Colleges of
Pharmacy. Notice of his appoint
ment was received from the presi
dent of the association, Dean E. R.
Series of the School of Pharmacy
of the South Dakota Agriculture
college.
Nebraska Colonel Sympathizes With German,
Italian Over-Population Predicament
Oury Sees Alaska
Ambition of Japan
When a man tites a dog, or when
a U. S. miltary man expresees
sympathy for the Germans and
Italians, it's news. Yet there wa.4
no hint of sensationalism in the
quiet and matter of fact way in
which Colonel Oury, professor of
military science at the University
of Nebraska, gave his rather sur
prising opinion of the foreif n sit
uation. Colonel Oury pointed out that
Germany lacks the size of Texas
by 70,675 square miles. At the
same time, the population of Ger
many is over ten times that of our
largest state. With this social set
up, and without colonies or raw
materials, we can sense the
thoughts of the German leaders.
"If you were a German youth,
what would your attitude prob
ably be?" he asked of the reporter.
The Italian trouble arises from
the same kind of situation. "It's
Interesting to note," said the Col
onel, "that Italy has a smaller
area than New Mexico, but has
over 40 million more people." Un
der such social pressure, he said,
the Italian annexation of Ethiopia
Foreign Voice
Study Offered
Herman Litwin Teaches
French, German, Italian
Courses in French, German and
Italian will be offered for the first
time to all voice students in the
School of Music it was announced
Tuesday.
Mr. Herman Litwin, Instructor
at the university, will be in charge
of the courses, and both individual
and class instruction will be of
fered. The fee will be entirely nominal
If there are enough students regis
tered. Classes will meet at the
School of Music, the time to be
arranged. Those interested In
signing up, see the bulletin board
In the School of Music.
Chem Engineers
Elect Officers
The University of Nebraska stu
dent society of chemical engineers,
recently awarded a chapter charter
from the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers, will hold a
meeting Sept. 8. New officers
will be elected and plans for the
programa of the year will be made.
The Cornhusker Oath
As a student entering- the University of Nebraska, I
subscribe to the following:
1. RECOGNITION of an obligation to parents, friends,
schools, and state for the sacrifice made and encourage
ment offered which enabled me to enter the University of
Nebraska.
2. DESIRE to remain in the University with the firm inten
tion to advance in scholarship and to cultivate those social
activities which make for good citizenship.
3. PURPOSE to enter classes and other work fully prepared
and to give such attention as will insure satisfactory re
sults, not failure.
4. ORGANIZATION of time to be devoted to study, recrea
tion, activities, and rest, and the pursuit of this schedule
with due diligence.
5. LOYALTY to the administration, faculty, traditions, and
purposes of the University.
Finally, I will at all times censure and guide my conduct
and work toward personal advancement, and safeguard the
relation I hold to the welfare of the University and its serv
ices to the state.
Barbs Plan
New Dance
Series
Union Hops to Replace
Old Varsity Parties
Barb dances formerly held in
Grant Memorial hall will be given
every weekend again this fall in
the Student Union ballroom from
7:30 to 8:45 under the joint spon
sorship of the Barb A. W. S. and
the Barb Interclub council.
The first Barb dance will be a
week from this corning Friday
night. Admission will be 10 cents
a person. If good crowds attend
during the semester the council
hopes to reduce the admission
charge to 5 cents a person as they
are not sponsoring this series of
dances from the profit motive, ac
cording to Bob Simmons, Barb
jcouncil president.
Dean Worcester reported to the
Barb council that this arrange
ment of transferring the Barb
dances to the Student Union was
in exchange for agreeing not to
hold any of the varsity parties in
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Lincoln Journal,
could be forgiven. He continued
that Ethliopia was "the dirtiest,
filthiest hole on earth." and in
time would be cleared up by the
Huskcrs Take
Special toM.U.
New Schedules Added
For Team Followers
An additional train has been
scheduled for the Nebraska-Minnesota
football game which will
enable fans to spend more time in
Minneapolis. The added train
leaves Sunday, offering accommo
dations to all students wishing to
spend Saturday night in Minne
sota. Students not wishing to stay
may return Saturday evening as
stated before in this paper.
Through coaches for this special
roundtrlp may be attained via the
C. B. & Q. and C. G. W. railroads.
Pullmans, lounge, dining cars, and
coaches, complete the train from
Omaha. Round trip special coach
fare is $11 on through coaches.
The schedule:
Leave Lincoln 7:45 p. m.; arrive
Omaha 8:55 p. m.; leave Omaha
0:00 p. m.; arrive Minneapolis 7:40
a. m.
Leave Minneapolis 8:10 p. m.
either Saturday or Sunday; arrive
Lincoln 8:50 a. m. or 10:00 a. m.
Any other Information may be
secured in Lincoln at the Burling
ton depot or city ticket office.
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Horatio Alger
Has Nothing
On Uni Student
If you happen to be one of those
few students who never have to
worry about money, paying the
room rent, eating the next meal,
or borrowing fifty cents for your
weekend date you won't be inter
ested in this story, but if you are
like the rest of us, who are con
tinually running over budgets, you
might like to know how Wayne
Cyphers, of Elm Creek, manages
to keep the wolf away from his
door.
Like a hero of a Horatio Alger
novel, Cyphers came to Lincoln,
got a car washing concession, and
hired other students to do the work
for him. Today, two weeks after
his arrival, he owns a business and
employs nine students to run it
while he goes to school. Five of the
students act as salesmen getting
the Jobs while the other four stu
dents do the work.
Cyphers declared that the way
business Is going it will be only a
few weeks until he will be able to
hire nine or ten more students to
help him run the first student
owned and operated business cn
terprise ever started in the history
of the university.
Trouble Arises Between
'Hove Nots' and 'Haves'
Italians. "Italians are at least mor
ally clean," he said.
Emphasizing that he was not
"pro-German" and stating that he
could see no possibility whatever
of tne United States entering wars
abroad, he said it was a case of
the "have-nots," Japan, Germany
and Italy, against the "haves,
England and France. The latter
have almost all the colonies, and
an abundance of raw materials.
The colonel thinks that the English
really have too much land, and
that a lot of it is going to waste.
They are industrialists, who can
become established only in settled
parts. Agriculturists, like Germans
and Italians, should be allowed to
open up the land.
Asked if our country was not
well protected against possible in
vasion, Colonel Oury stated that
we could be easily penetrated on
the Atlantic coast and thru south
em California. Alaska could easily
be taken, and the Colonel thinks
that this piece of land is the apple
of Japan's eye, for it has all the
resources which she needs. A look
at the map of the world shows
how easily Alaska could be reached
from the Orient by an efficient
navy, t
Kosmet Calls
For Workers
Candidates Register
In Union, Room 3C5
Students desiring to participate
in Kosmet Klub activities this year
are asked to register In room 305
in the Student Union building to
day. Don Moss, president of the
organization, in making this an
nouncement, also expressed the de
sire that at least two members
from each fraternity try out for
election to the club.
Membership Is open to sopho
mores and juniors. Any member
of these classes who wishes to try
out may do so. After tomorrow
prospective members will be asked
to report between 2 and 4 o'clock
any day except Saturday and Sun
day for assignments.
Hoick Receives
National Honor
Dr. Harold Q. O. Hoick of the
Pharmacy staff of the university
has recently received a certificate
from the American Pharmaceuti
cal association announcing his
election to membership.
Dnnocents Stag
'42 Class Meet
1 1 O'clocks Dismissed for Freshmen Who Give
Traditional Pledge to University
Freshmen of t he university will roar the Oath of the Corn
Iniskenncn acconliiiR to imdition this morninjr when thev at
tend the animal Freshman convocation nt 11 o'clock in the coli
seum, and meet such nniversitv .linitaries ns Dean T J
Thompson, Assistant Dean Klsie Ford Piper, and the members
Hello, Frosh
Lincoln Journal.
BIFF J6NES.
Group
Plans Drive
Teams of Tassels
Compete in Selling
Tassels, meeting for the first
time of the season last evening,
discussed and organized their drive
for University Flavors tickets
which will begin with the break of
day Tuesday, September 27.
Conducted annually by the girls'
pep organization, the players'
campaign will be in swing for
four days, and the group will strive
o breaV the record that has been
consistently increasing since they
took over the selling of the tickets
some years ago.
Co-chairmen of the drive will be
Virginia Nolte, president, and Har
riet Cummer, vice president of the
pep group. Six tassels from the
junior class will act as team chair
men and the other Tassels, total
ling about 50, will serve under
them.
Tassels will sell university nlav-
ers tickets to students and mem
ui-r.1 me iac uuy ai a price ot
two dollars while the campaign is
in motion, and to people uncon-
nected with the campus for three
dollars. After the drive, the pr'ces
will go up to their reeular nrice
During the meeting, the group
also made arrangements for usher
ing at the freshman convocation
at 11 o'clock today in the coliseum.
CAMPUS TRAFFIC
OFFENSES DECREASE
Campus traffic offenders are on
the decrease, according to Sgt. L.
C. Regler, the campus cop. No
burglaries or thefts have been re
ported recently on the campus
either, he is pleased to say.
In regard to parking offenses
Sergeant Regler said: "The stu
dents have shown themselves very
co-operative and most of the trou
ble is caused by the downtown
business men and other outsider!
who park as far down as R st.''
He also reports a great improve
ment in the students' habit of
Jaywalking.
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Prof. Marvin Sends
Six Children to N.U.
Rally Records Three
Grads, Three to Come
Loyal Cornhuskers lend their
support to the University of Ne
braska in many ways some by
following the team, others by gen
erous loans and grants of land
but Prof. H. H. Marvin, chairman
of the Physics department, can
.well claim the honors as the fac
ulty member most loyal to his uni
versity. Prof. Marvin has, by way of sup
port, sent three children to the
unlversitv. all of who
inent campus leaders, and begin
ning nexi year, ne win again have
children attending the university,
the youngest of whom will grad
uate in 1948.
Burton Marvin entered the unl.
verslty in 1931, and his four suc-
cessrui years on tne campus were
Climaxed With the hnnnrt nf sriltm-
of the Daily Nebraskan and mem
ber of the Innocents society. He is
ai preseni continuing nis news
paper career on the copy desk of
the Chicago Daily News.
Following In his brother's foot
steps, James Marvin entered the
university In 1932. Like his father,
his highest Interests were in the
physics and mathematics depart
ments, but he had time, neverthe-
oi me senior nonorancs, Mortar
Board and the Innocents society.
With the colorful presence and
music of the varsity band furnish
ing a patrioic Nebraska setting,
Stanley Brewster, president of In
nocents will take over his duties
as master of ceremonies and in
troduce Col. C. J. Erankforter who
will administer the Nebraska oath
to the new members of the class
of 1942. Dean of Student Affairs.
T. J. Thompson, will be presented
to the freshmen and will give them
a brief address.
Phyllis Chamberlain.
of Mortar Board, will introduce
Miss Elsie Ford Piper, acting dean
of women. As a final climax to
the convocation Coach Biff Jones
is slated to be presented to the new
class and to give them a short
inspirational talk.
Pep organizations have taken
the freshman convocation as an
opportunity to teach organized Ne
braska yells to the new students
and the varsity cheer leaders will
lead the large audience in a num
ber of the best known cheers and
Nebraska songs.
Tassels and Corn Cobs, in their
club uniforms of red and white
will usher at the convocation which
ought to be one of the most pic
turesque gatherings of the year
with Mortar Boards and Innocents
in their formal garbs, the band in
its scarlet and cream, and the
Freshman class in red caps and
1942 buttons.
The annual convocation is snon.
sored by Innocents society with the
assistance of other organizations.
Don Moss is general chairman for
the assembly.
Frosh Attend
Y.M. Meeting .
Ramsay to Address
Affair This Evening
"Making Friends" will be t h i
theme of a special meeting for all
freshman boys which will take
place this evening in the Y. M.
C. A. clubrbom in the Temple.
Ray P.amsay, secretary of the
Y. M. alumni, will speak on the
evening s program and will pro
vide freshman students with many
i valuable tips on making new
! acquaintances. The talk will give
freshmen a better understanding
; of the university and college life
in general.
"This is going to be a get
acquainted party for the boys."
says C. D. Hayes, president, who
Is making plans for the Wednes
day night meeting. Officials are
expecting a large turnout and spe
cial seating arrangements will be
used if necessary so that no one
will have to stand.
All university boys are Invited
to attend the meeting which will
get under way at 7:15. Lunch will
be served at the close of the af
fair. Anthropology Grad
Gets Alabama Post
Marian Dunlevy, who received
her master's degree in anthropol
ogy in 1935, is now in charge of
the archeological laboratory at
the University of Alabama. Mar
ian is a Tri-Delta and has been
at Chicago university for ona
year. She left for Alabama early
last summer.
Lincoln JournM.
MARVIN.
H. H.
lens, to become one of the most
prominent barb leadera on th
campus, and president of the en
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