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D Sebraskan it IT in A1LY iLJL. Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska Z-408. VOL. XXXVlll, NO. 7. LINCOLN. MUKSK. THURSDAY. SKI'TKMHIK 22, 1 9.18 Dean's Tea Opens Social Season Today Reception Hours Set From 3:30 Till 5:30 In Ellen Smith Hall Extending a cordial invitation to all university women, freshmen in particular, to meet the staff of the dean of women as well as prom inent women in campus activities, the office of the dean of women will hold a tea this afternoon in Ellen Smith hall from 3:30 to 5:30. Miss Elsie Ford Piper, assistant dean of women, will preside in the place of Miss Amanda Heppner, still convalescing. She will head the receiving line with the presi dent of A. W. S., Helen Pascoe, as custom decrees. Chaperones of campus organiza tions will preside at the tea tables. Mrs. J. W. Bishop, president of the chaperones' club, with Mrs. C. P. Smith, Mrs. L. C. Wicks and Mrs. Myra Lyons will preside dur ing the first hour. For the second hour, Mrs. Julius Petermichael, Mrs. Paul Ream, Miss Louise Mun shaw and Mrs. Frank Schrader will be at the tables. Thirty-two girls representative of Tassels, A. W. S., Coed Coun sellors. and other organizations will assist in serving. Sixteen of the girls will be memoers of Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman scholas tic honorary. Members of Mortar Board will also be present to welcome the guests. Floral decoration in Ellen Smith hall will create a garden atmosphere for the musical pro gram to be presented thruout the afternoon by artists of Music Pan- hellcmc. 400 Attend Matinee Hop Union Mixers Gain Campus Popularity Freshmen To Study Activities Law School Closes To Honor LeaVith Dean Harry H. Foster of the law college announced Wednes day afternoon that the law school and law library will be closed until 12 noon Thursday In order to pay respect to the memory of John J. Ledwith, associate professor of the law school. It was further announced that the funeral, which the sen ior law class will attend in body, will be held at St. Mary's cathedral at 9:30 Thursday morning. Wednesday's matinee dance, held at the Student Union ball room was the first of a series planned to orientate new students with the possibilities of campus friendships. According to Director Kenneth Van Sant if the Student Union, 400 dancers took advantage of the mixer matinee. That the popularity of this Stu dent Union facility will soon be ex ploited by students, upper class men as well as freshmen, was the belief of Director Van Sant. Saturday night when Jimmie Crier and his orchestra swing out . on the nations favorite dance tunes of the day. will mark the formal! , opening of a series of "big name" Student Union ball room in the nefrr future. During his record run at the Biltmorc bowl. Jimmie became known as the "Musical Host of the Coast." a tag line which has fol lowed him thruout his 1,400 na tionwide broadcasts ,and which la bels him as one of the outstanding dance and radio orchestra leaders of the nation. Mortar Boards Teach At Leadership School For Beginners Saturday Preparations were well under way Wednesday for the annual Mortar Board leadership training conference to be held Saturday in Ellen Smith hall, Josephine Rub- nitz, conference chairman reported. The conference, scheduled by the interorganization council of Mor tar Board, is being held especially for university women interested in the extra curncular activity new. Registration for the event is sched uled to begin at 12:45 p. m. and the conference will close at 4:30 o'clock. "Women, especially freshmen, who are interested in participating in the major women's organiza tions on the campus, will receive valuable instruction in leadership on Saturday," Miss Rubnitz com mented. "It will be well worth trie time of extra curricular activity participants to attend the confer ence. Speakers, well informed on the discussion topics, will appear at each roundtable. The afternoon's program in cludes: 12:45 to 1:15 Registration. 1:15 to 1:30 Opening session. 1:30 to 2:15 Roundtables on group leadership and office training. 2:15 to 3:00 Roundtables on salesmanship and politics. 3:30 to 3:45 Roundtables on publications, ag campus activi ties, and student government. 3:45 to 4:15 Closing session and summaries of roundtables. Phyllis Chamberlain. Mortar Board president, will give a short talk at the opening session in the afternoon. Discussion group lead ers include: Bonnie Burn, Frances Boldnian, Pat Lahr, Ruthanna Russell, Barbara Rosewater, Vir ginia Nolte, Velma Ekwall. 13 Religious Groups Fete Collegians Churches Hosts to Uni Students Tomorrow 'Biff Lauds N.U. Spirit At Convo j Frosh Hear Deans, Activity Leaders At Traditional Event Elections, Identification Cards, New Committees Occupy Student Council Freshies Inspire Awgwan Staff Issue Honors Wearers Of Red Cops, Buttons Pictorializing and commenting chiefly upon the trials of freshman life, the Awgwan staff is now pre paring the September ifoue for distribution within two weeks. Vir ginia Geister, editor, promises a variety of material for the tradi tional freshman issue, with pic tures, stories, articles, gore and Jokes rampant. Bruce Campbell, last year's edi tor, has promised a story on the history of football. "This story is a serious work, resulting from In tenlve research," confided the ex editor, placinng a tongue tn his cheek, crossing hid fingers and lunching up his sleeve. This month's issue, which will be on Hale about Sept. 30, will also contain a column of comments con tributed by students the campus over Miss Geister said. Anyone may contribute their comments on campus personalities, events, or observations, and if the expected results are obtained, the column should be one of future features of the maeazine. Comments may be turned In at the Awgwan office In the bnsement of the Student union building. Professor Wins Dutch Government Honors Dr. L. F. Rader An abbreviated form of a dis Hcrtatiun bv Dr. Lloyd K. Rader, former University of Nebraska in structor, will be published in the Bulletin of the permanent inter national Association of Road Con gresses in German, French and English. His composition won an International competition for the Prize of Belgium In a contest spon sored bv the government or not land. The award was made at the associations eighth International coneresa held at The Mngue. Dr. Radcr's pnper described his Investigations Into the cracking of asphalt roads, a major problem of road contractors, and mcinous or Husker Unit Stages War Reds, Blues Mobilize Saturday for Battle The blues and the reds arc at war. Mobilization stmts next Satur day at 9 o'clock when all mem bers of the Cornhusker Company are asked by Major John u. Ayotto, company sponsor, to re port to room 201, Nebraska Hall. Commanders of the organization and noncommissioned officers, will bo announced, and plans laid for the first battle, which will be fought with blank ammunition. A few applicants will be admit ted to bring the company up to 60 members, which has been set as the quota for this fall's work. Practical problems will be fought during good weather, and the semester's work will conclude with work on the blackboard, during the winter. Most of the training work of the unit will come during the spring, when the bulk of the freshmen candidates will be admitted. Since the older members will have had thorough review, this training should be more efficient than it would be during the fall, the major explained. Spring plans of the company in clude a trip to Fort Crook to put on an annual demonstration for reserve officers, and a banquet at the expense of the military department. Members of the unit arc entitled to wear a red and white striped bar with gold crossed rifles on their uniforms. Set aside as a closed night on the university calendar, all univer sity church night will hold the campus spotlight Friday evening when religious denominations en tertain student gatherings at re ceptions and parties. Thirteen of the 15 denomina tions represented in Lincoln have scheduled receptions for university students who belong to or have a preference for one of the denom inations. The various denominations and places where parties will be held include: Baptist, First Baptist church, 14th and K st: Christian, First Christian church, 16th and K sts.; Congregational, First Ply mouth, 20th and D, and Vine Con gregational, 2,r)th and S.; Evangel ical, St. Taul's Kvangelical church, 13th and F sts.; Episcopal, Uni versity Episcopal church, 346 No. 13th. Calvary Evangelical, at the church, 11th and Garfield; Lu therans of the Augustana hynod. First Lutheran church, 17th and A sts.; Lutherans of the Missouri synod, parish house, 13th and H sts.; Methodist, Trinity, 16th and E, St. Paul's, 12th and M, Elm Park church, 29th and Randolph; Presbyterian, the manse, 333 No. 14th st.; Caldwell Memorial, at the church, 18th and M sts.; Catholic, XYZ parlors of Student Union.; Congregational B'nai Jes hurun, synagogue at 20th and South sts. The receptions are being held to introduce university students to the various student pa.stors on the campus. It will give students an opportunity to become acquainted with others of the same denomi nation t the university. Church night is held annually as a forerunner to all university church Sunday programs. Church Sunday has been scheduled by Lin coln denominations for Sept. 25 this year. The University of Nebraska is the best school you can attend, because everyone puis their shoul ders to the wheel, Coach Lawrence "Biff" Jones told a large freshman gathering tn the coliseum Wed nesday morning. Speaking at the annual freshman convocation spon sored by Innocents and Mortar Boards, Coach Jones called atten tion to the fact that the Nebraska student body is known the country over for its fine spirit. He told the group that this year's football team is the youngest in the history of the institution, and, he has been informed that it is the heaviest in a good many years. Dr. T. J. Thompson, dean of stu dent affairs, discussed proper school attitudes, pointing out that "most of us think too little. Each day one should be able to sense the development of his mental muscles just as much as he should feel the growth of his physical being. If the individual is to have brain muscles, he must be willing to exercise them. After all," the dean said, "there is no thrill like the feeling that comes from know (Continued on rage 4.) AWS to Hold Activity Tea September 29 Organizations to Display Their Activity, Purpose Bengtson Praises Soulh For 'Normal Attitude' Rapid Progress Marks Section, Says Uni Prof. We in the north tend to be come hysterical about problems which people in the south thing are "overdrawn, says Dr. Nels A. Bengtson of the geography depart ment, who recently returned from an extensive trip thru the south where he studied the situation to get an accurate first hand con ception of the present conditions of the south. Dr. Bengtson traveled south thru Texas and New Orleans, east thru Birmingham, Knoxville. At lanta and Charleston and up to Williamsburg, Va. The remainder of the summer was spent at Co lumbia university, where he taught classes in economic geography. He noted the rapid progress in the last decade and a half in land use the practice of terracing, erosion control, and contour farm ingall modern methods of soil conservation are common even among backwoods people, and are used to better advantage than in the north. Recalling amusing memories, he thought of the singing Negro boy wheels, jogging on his way to ; :pt Mfv...... 1 ? . i mi--- -?- -- ii r in i DR. Lincoln Journal. NELS BENGTSON. town, or of the youngsters gath ering "tu'ptine" in the pine for ests. The south, he remarked, is to be (Continued on Page 4.) Riflemen to Discuss Trip Pershing Unit May Enter Kansas Meet Members of the Nebraska Per shing Rifle unit will meet today in Memorial hall at 5 o'clock to dis cuss plans for their trip to the Kansas City rifle meet. At this same meeting, members will also decide on a date for this year's tryouts for this organization The drill meet in Kansas City is sponsored by the chamber of commerce of that city and invita tions are extended to all R. O. T. C. uniU in middlewestcrn high schools and colleges. Squad, drill, unit and individual competition compriseJ me iiiri-i una irom iu 10 ii units usually attend. Bob Nelson, captain of the local company, announced that if a trip is not made to Kansas City this year, the unit will attend a meet at some other city. Activity women of the campus and freshman girls interested in activities will gather in Ellen Smith hall Thursday, Sept. 29 from 3:30 to 5:30 for the annual "All Activities" tea sponsored by the A. W. S. Board. Irene Sellers is in charge this year. Although the tea is especially for Freshmen, all activity women are invited, accord ing to Helen Pascoe, A. W. S. board president. Each major ac tivity organization on the campus will be represented. The president of each organization and the mem bers of the Denn of Womens office and Mrs. Boucher will be in the re ceiving line. Sponsors of the A. W. S. Board will pour. Each organization will be given a room where they can display scrap books and other material il lustrating their activities and where one of their representatives can explain the organization and any questions arising concerning it. These representatives will be in their various rooms the duration of the tea, and signs will be posted around the building so that each room can be found easily. "The All Activities tea is the best way to find out about all the activities in a short time and at the same time become acquainted with leaders of the various activities." REGENTS O.K. GRANT Formal acceptance of the re cently announced $101,250 PWA grant . for additions and im provements at Carrie Belle Ray mond hall was made by the uni versity regents Tuesday. Regents authorized advertis ing for bids as soon as final ap proval is given to the plans. It is expected that actual con struction will start about Nov. 1. New Officers Head Groups Rifle Club to Begin ROTC Activity Sept. 28 Thor Gives 4-H Outline Explains Club Purpose To New Ag Students First meeting of the university 4-H club was held Tuesday night in agricultural hall. A short business meeting was held and president Eric Thor outlined the activities of the club for the coming year. One of the primary purposes of the club, he said, was to create a big ger bond among the students of Ag college and to provide a way for freshmen to become better ac quainted with each other and the upper-classmen. - With this thought in mind the club entertained freshmen who are former 4-H club members in a i short social hour following the Changes have been made in the sponsorship of the various honor ary military societies and other i organizations connected with Ne braska's ROTC unit. Following is the latest list of instructors and I their organizations- I Captain Cruse Cadet Officers I Assn. ( Engineers.) I Major Barkalow .... Order of the Red Guidon i Major Myers . Scabbard and Blade Major Hudson ... Cadet Officers' Ass'n. (Infantry) Major Philip Cornhusker Battery Governing Body Lays Plans for Activities To Boost University During Coming Year In its initial session of the new school year yesterday, the Stu dent Council discussed means of correcting past abuses in elections and use of identification cards, and received President Harold Benn'ss recommended appointments t o council committees. Benn stated that the council ex pects to cooperate with the com mittee on student identification to the fullest extent this year in an effort to check fraudulent use of identification cards in student elec tions and other activities In which the card figures. The committee, composed of John Selleck, Prof, E. W. Lantz, Prof. Clifford M, Hicks, chairman, and council mem hers Bob Simmons and Stanley Brewster, met during the summer and devised the new system of numbered identification cards with attached photos. Among sugges tions made by the committee to the council regarding the conduc tion of future elections are that all voters be required to register two weeks before the actual balloting day, and that the fall election be postponed one month in order to allow time for the attaching of pictures to all student identifica tion cards. New Committees. Council committee for the pres ent will be as follows, according to Bonn's recommendations: Forums: Bob Waugh, Emma Marie Schuttloffel, co-chairmen, Dirk deBrown . Publicity: Dick deBrown, chair man, Mary Anna Cockle, Merrill Englund. M i g r ations ( football expedi tions!: Iris Johnson, chairman, (Continued on Page 4.) Lentz Starts New Band U. of N. Music Eoasts Concert-Marching Units Nebraska university will have a Major Horan Pershing Rifles concert band of some 80 pieces this n-otai nipicr, winter in addition to the R. O. T. Major Shaw Pershing Rifles C- marching band of 100 to 115, (National Headquarters) j according to Wednesday's an Captain Hough . Rifle Clubs, Team annoiuicement Major Ayotte Cornhusker Field j 6m.e different The first activity U get under feLf -ov uill , hn Pifln .,,h m-hinh "- " - meets at 5 p. m.. Sept. 2S, in Ne braska hall 205. Probable business will be election of officers and selection of teams. Two army officers new to Ne braska are Maj. Hudson and Capt. Cruse who come from Richmond, Chancellor Talks Boucher Tells Chamber Of Education Advances business meeting. Other social ; v a., and Los Angeles, respectively. events sponsored by the club for! the coming year is a picnic to be j f i I A I I held at Pioneer park Oct. 2 and a! SrhOO AflnC mixer at a later date this fall. 1 IwV-M Treasurer Ed Rousik reports that there were 170 members at this first meeting and with the new members who will be initiated in a short time, 1938-39 promises to be the biggest year in the his tory of the club. Chancellor Boucher of the Uni- versity of Nebraska in his ad-! p .."" . ,L dress to the Lincoln Chamber of ' UO I ly VIUD Vec I S commerce weunesuay evciuiiK i Eldridge Bever, new president of Names Posted A's, B's for Student Directory in Temple A and B lists of the student and faculty directory will be posted for correction today in the Temple theater nnd in Ag hall, according to announcement made by Edwin Hayes, general manager of this year's publication. Students should check on their names and spell ing, addresses and phones because they will be printed as posted un less corrected. The other letters will be posted, as announced In the next few days. The faculty section Is completed and ready to go to press. The majority of the organ ized house list is In, Hayes stated, but the following have yet to re port and should do ao immediately if they wish to be Included In this classification: Alpha Chi Omega, Beta Theta PI. Didta Sigma Delta, Phi Alpha Delta, Phi Sigma Kap pa, Pellaillann, Dcltuti Union and Wilson hall. Kosmet Klub Meets In Union at 5 Today Kosmet Klub will meet today In room 305 of the Student Union building at 5 o'clock. All members are urged to be present. stated that fine buildings, large endowments, and a certain admin' istrative organization are not es- at its first meeting of the year sential to a university. Tuesday evening in the Dairy In- He emphasized the importance dustrv building on Ag campus. I of a well trained scholarly facul- Planning activities for the 193S-39 tv; professors who keep abreast ' school year constituted the main with the times and who are gen- J business of the evening. Photo Course ulnely interested in teaching. If every scholar will search for the truth, Chancellor Boucher- feels that educational advancement will be endless. Nebraskan Reporter Inlcrvidws Noted Cinemarlisls on 'Boys' Town9 Set Tracy, Rooney Find Sun 'Uncomfortable' By Charlotte Snyder. Hollywood, tha; glamour city known to the majority of the theater goers as the home of their screen idols, moved bag nnd bag gage to Ncbras ca this summer to make the epl :e picture, "Boys' Town." Spcnrer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, along with the director, Norman Taurog, all moved into Omaha to film the story of a simple priest who started the greatest "refuge" for homeless boys in the country. After the first day the set waa closed to visitors, but a boy from the home managed to let your re porter into the set. Inside a huge room where the thermometer reg istered 125 degrees were a hun dred or so boys who patiently stood motionless while shot after shot of the choir scene was taken. Huge arc lights illumined their faces as the camera moved In to catch the close-up shots. The unit (Continued on Page 2.). They Star in 'Boys' Town' Mr. Paul, Instructor, Former A. P. News Photographer For the first time in the history of the university courses in both the varsity dairy club, presided basic and advanced photography will be offered students it was an nounced this week. In charge of these courses will be Mr. K. H. Paul, new Instructor at the univer sity. Mr. Paul was formerly em ployed by the Associated Press as a news photographer. Last year he Introduced photography as a course at the University of Ohio and reports it was enthusiastically received. According to Mr. Taul the course will be divided into three sections; news photography for journalism students, commercial photography, and "straight" photography. Classes will meet Wednesday eve nings for three hours. Those In terested In signing up should see Mr. Paul in Room 300 of Morrill hall. Other officers who will serve the organization this year are Alvin Rippen, vice president; David Mc Gill, secretary-treasurer, and Win fred Jacobcon, reporter. ; v :l ; iMiL J ganization. Both bands will be under the direction of Don A. Lentz, conductor, and will wear the traditional scarlet and cream uni forms. Unde r the direction of Lentz and Jack Spurlock, drill master, the R. O. T. C. marching musicians will appear at all military func tions. They will also appear at parados, football games, and other occasions of note. Lentz will work; out all formations. With Conductor Lentz at the helm, the 80 piece concert band will present several concerts in Lincoln and other Nebraska citieg as has been done in the past years. In general it will be the symphonic band of the university. Pacifists to Meet Tonight Group Secures Unity At Unitarian Church Lincoln Journal. SPENCER. TRACY. Lincoln JourntL MICKEY ROONEY, . Persons Interested In peace will hold a party tonight at the Uni tarian church at 12th and H to give the group a feeling of unity. Games under the direction of a city recreation leader, war ora tions by Phylis Olson, and George Mueller, platforms and replies to hecklers by Kenneth Lamble, Otto Woerner and Ellsworth Steele, a newspaper dressing contest, a whispering campaign and radio music for dancing will furnish the entertainment. The party begins at 7:30 and Is open to all who arc Interested In mingling with a group which Is I concerned with maintaining peace. Refreshments will be served and the cost will be a dime. German Choir Meets Tonight Prof. De Grasse to Train Young People's Group Twenty-five to thirty German speaking young people, Including many University of Nebraska stu dents, will meet this evening at 8 o'clock for the first practice of tha Lincoln Singer choir. It Is an nounced that . Prof. Herrold de Grasse will give them professional training in vocal choir work. ith rehearsals to 1 held in Morrill hall, until further notice, the choir group meets once a week. Fifty cents In dues are assessed members. Dues are used to pay Instructors, and the pianist. Last year the entire choir was taken to Chicago for concerts. Students who can read note music are especially needed, pre paration being under way for a concert the first week in December. Y. Heors Ramsay Large Frosh Turnout Attends First Session A large group of freshmen greeted Y. M C. A. officials at a special "get acquainted" meeting held in the Temple last night Ray Ramsay, alumni secretary, spoke on the evenlng'a program, centering his talk on the topic of "Making Friends." "To make a friend, you've got to be a friend," was the advice given to freshmen by Mr. Ram suy. Following his informal tallt with the group, a round table dis cussion of the art of making friends was held. Refreshment! were served by the "Y" at the close of the session I t i "-- ; I. 4 m